Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

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

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

M.2968 Sick Berth Steward 2nd Class Arthur Maurice Spurgeon, Royal Navy. Died of pneumonia following influenza in the 7th British Hospital, Port Said.

He enlisted 10th April, 1911 and spent his early career training at HMS Pembroke and Victory I before taking his first posting at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar. In addition to training and shore based establishments he served on HMS Albion, HMS Ganges (Harwich), HMS Implacable, HMS Egmont and HMS Duke, the latter of which were part of the Royal Naval Division at Port Said.

Masonic :

Listed as a 24 year old Steward, Royal Navy, resident at Plumstead in 1916 at the time of initiation. War Service is recorded in the contribution register, followed by "Died 12.11.18."

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