Photos: Wagtail

*SS Empire Wagtail - Photographs* **One of the Merchant Ships Sunk in Convoy ONS154**
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Tower Hill Memorial, 1939-1945 Panel 47 (Empire Wagtail). (Photo: N. Eng, ©2000).		ss Empire Wagtail (Photo courtesy of Ron Tovey)
Tower Hill Memorial	Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Master Mariner Gabriel ALMOND Panel 47	Able Seaman William Edward MASON Panel 64, Column 2.		Able Seaman Maurice Richard ALLINGTON Panel 63, Column 1.

Gabriel Almond was the Master of the Empire Wagtail. Gabriel was born in South Shields on 14th June 1890, and came from a seafaring family. This photograph of him in his uniform as a Master Mariner was taken sometime after the start of WW II. Photograph provided by his nephew Colin Campbell.	William Edward (Ted) Mason, with his wife Doris Annie Mason. Ted was one of the DEMS gunners assigned to the Empire Wagtail. He had previously served on the Athlone Castle and Stalowa Wola (a Polish ship). Photograph provided by his grandson Glyn Mason		Maurice Allington was a gunner on board Empire Wagtail. He had tried to join the navy before he was old enough without his parents' knowledge or consent. He later trained as a DEMS gunner at HMS President III. Photograph supplied by his niece Joy Fuger.

SS Empire Wagtail - Photographs