Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.

Detail :

The British steamship CAMBRIC SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles W. of Cape Shershel, Algeria, on October 31st, 1917 when on route from Tunis for England, with a cargo of iron ore. The captain and 23 of the crew were killed. Four men were taken prisoner by the submarine. ref. used:www.uboat.net See more at: Wrecksite EU.

Masonic :

Edward was an initiate of Corinthian Lodge No. 1382 in 1902 when he is listed as a 26 year old Engineer of Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. He resigned from Cornithian in 1909, but went on to join De la Pole Lodge No. 1605 at Hull, 13th August, 1909. The contribution record of Corinithian shows that he "Drowned Dec/17."

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley