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Chef William Jonathan Williams

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Military service

Age: 65
Rank: Chef
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: HMT Royal Edward (Toronto, Ontario) (125656)
Birth: January 1, 1850 Monmouth
Death: August 13, 1915 Aegean Sea

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of William and Mary Williams. Husband of Annie Mary Ryan of 27, Cowper Street, Bootle, Lancashire, England.

Requisitioned by the British Admiralty, SS Royal Edward became HMT Royal Edward and was converted into a troop transport. While en route to Gallipoli, Turkey, with about 1,335 British troops, she was torpedoed by UB-14 6 miles (9.5 km) west of the Aegean Island of Kandeloussa and sank with 866 men, position 36°31'N/25°51'E.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 74 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Edward Peroni
Fireman
Canadian Merchant Navy
Edward Richard Fogg
4th Engineer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Edward Sandys
Able Seaman
Canadian Merchant Navy
Elijah Barnsley
Chief Engineer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Eliza Kennedy
Stewardess
Canadian Merchant Navy
Emannuelle Depares
Fireman and Trimmer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Eric Thomas Jones
Engineer’s Steward
Canadian Merchant Navy
Ernest Albert Foster
First Mate
Canadian Merchant Navy
Ernest Arthur Matthew Bannister
2nd Engineer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Ernest Bamford
Assistant Steward
Canadian Merchant Navy
Ernest Rochester MacLeod
Fireman and Trimmer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Ernest Tétreault
Assistant Foreman Horseman
Canadian Merchant Navy
Felix Erball
Fireman
Canadian Merchant Navy
Fideli Zammit
Fireman and Trimmer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Francesco William Barral
Steward
Canadian Merchant Navy
Francis Daniel Simmons
Waiter
Canadian Merchant Navy
Francis Sewell Stebbing
Pantryman
Canadian Merchant Navy
Frank Boyd
Fireman
Canadian Merchant Navy
Frank Erwin Spoor
Third Mate
Canadian Merchant Navy
Frank Gifford
Second Engineer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Frank Pearson
Fireman
Canadian Merchant Navy

 

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