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Sailor Morgan Eavis

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Military service

Age: 25
Rank: Sailor
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division: Schooner SV Douglas Haig (Canada)
Birth: April 11, 1891 Ramea, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: February 1, 1917

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His full name is Morgan Kenneth Eavis.

Son of Robert Eavis and Louisa Janes, of Ramea, Newfoundland.

Nephew of Thomas F. Janes, of Ramea.

His brother, Seaman Thomas Eavis, and his cousin, Seaman Alfred Eavis, also lost their lives when the schooner sank.

The Douglas Haig sailed from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Alicante, Spain, and was reported missing on February 1, 1917. Neither the ship nor the five crew members were seen again. No German warship has claimed to have sunk her.

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Page 25 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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