Private Huey B Tweedy
Private Huey B Tweedy

Private Huey B Tweedy

RAMC member | General Duties Medical Officers-59

4.2.1882
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Biography

NAME: Huey B. Tweedy
AGE: 34
NATIONALITY: British
RELIGION: Protestant
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Mirren Williams
OCCUPATION: RAMC Member / Former Poultry Farmer
RANK: Private (RAMC)
BOARDING AT: Southampton

“NO CHICKEN ESCAPES FROM TWEEDY'S FARM!”

BIO & PERSONALITY:
Private Huey Brent Tweedy (or simply known as Mr. Tweedy only), a strict egg farmer, was born on the 4th of February, 1882, in Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as the only son of Brent Tweedy (b.1847) and Rebecca Tweedy, née Goddhard (b.1854).

He was born and raised into a long, proud line of egg farmers. Just like his father, and his father, and all their fathers, he grew up working the unforgiving Tweedy farm, mastering the grueling routine of poultry farming. Huey did go to school as well, but left it when he was 14 according to some records. He eventually married to a lady named Mirren Williams (b.1883) on the 15th of April 1912, intending to live a quiet life managing the family farm. And within three years, in 1915, their only son, Willard, was born.

But then a year later, in 1916, everything changed with the British Conscription Act. Because of his age and marital status, Huey was called up to serve. Due to his physical strength from years of farm labor and his practical experience treating sick livestock, the military assigned him to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) as a hospital orderly aboard the HMHS Britannic, the sister ship of the RMS Olympic, and the famous RMS Titanic, which sank 4 years earlier in 1912. Before its departure in November of that year, Huey wrote a letter to Mirren that he’ll be okay and that he'll be home by Christmas.

As for his personality, Mr. Tweedy is a stern, hyper-organized man, who treats the ship’s hospital staff very strictly, just like he does on his farm as learned from his father. He is deeply quiet sometimes but very observant. Due to the stress of the Great War, combined with his vigilance, he is convinced that the Germans were up to something, to the point where he believes that they are behind his back. He keeps an eye on everything and every single person he sees on the way, never trusting a single second of a quiet moment.