Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 6402120

Reference: ADM188

Title: Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1919

Description: The Royal Navy Seamen records contain the complete service histories of 373,000 ratings who joined the service between 1899 and 1919.

UPP: GBM/ADM188/151976

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 8717915

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Bearsted33934

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/1025257

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 8797944

Name: HMS "King Edward VII" Wikipedia record

Title: HMS "King Edward VII" Wikipedia record

Description: HMS "King Edward VII" struck a mine off Cape Wrath,3 destroyers took off the crew with the loss of only one life (a man fell between the battleship and one of the rescue vessels).

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_King_Edward_VII
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ID: 8797956

Name: RG13; Piece: 767; Folio: 34; Page: 8

Title: 1901 census Maidstone, Kent

Description: 1901 census ref for Herbert Solman with parents at 55 Thornhill Place, Maidstone, Kent

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URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9FG-NZR
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ID: 8858500

Name: ADM 188; Piece: 687

Title: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1853-1928 for Herbert Solman

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URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/60522/43343_687_0-00089?pid=106063&backurl=http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DJMG15414%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26gss%3Dangs-c%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3Dherbert%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dsolman%26gsln_x%3D0%26msbdy%3D1896%26msbpn__ftp%3DKent,%2520England%26msbpn%3D5270%26msbpn_PInfo%3D7-%257C0%257C0%257C3257%257C3251%257C0%257C0%257C0%257C5270%257C0%257C0%257C0%257C%26cpxt%3D1%26cp%3D11%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dr75%26pcat%3D39%26h%3D106063%26recoff%3D4%25205%26dbid%3D60522%26indiv%3D1%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=JMG15414&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true
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