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Master Peter Millman Wotton

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Military service

Age: 38
Rank: Master
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: HMT Royal Edward (Toronto, Ontario) (125656)
Birth: December 5, 1876 Plymouth, England
Death: August 13, 1915 Aegean Sea

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of Andrew Rogers Wotton and Mary Ann Atvill of 28, Quirezy Park Road, Peverecca, Plymouth, England. Husband of Maria Helena Melling from Gobowen, Shropshire, England, Father of Frederick Peter Wooton.

Peter was appointed as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve on 4 July 1906, then lieutenant-commander of this Reserve, regimental number 01171.

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 75 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.

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