MISSING MAN RETURNS.
PRISONER IN TURKEY,
LONDON, Dec. 20. Batchelor, a first-class stoker, who wa s believed to have been drowned on the HjM.S. Creasy on September 22, 1914, has returned to his home at West Croydon. His appearance gave his pensioned mother such a shock that she be Game critically ill. Batdheior arrived in the neighbourhood nine weeks ago, and collapsed in the street. He was treated at an infirmary, tout wias unable to give a connected account oi his Wanderings. He now declaims that a ship, believed to be Turkish, picked him,up after the disaster. Imprisoned in a castle, he was coinpel led to work a.t odd jobsi. and came across nobody able to'speak English, until recently an official put him aboard a steamer which landed him at Newcastle.
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Shannon News, 4 January 1924, Page 3
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131MISSING MAN RETURNS. Shannon News, 4 January 1924, Page 3
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