Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 7860943

Reference: BT351

Title: Merchant Navy Seamen: 1914-1918

Description: These records consist of over 157,000 index cards recording the issue of the British War Medal and the Mercantile Marine Medal to merchant seamen and officers in the First World War.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7994160
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UPP: GBM/BT351/118260

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9565479

Reference: bmd_maritime_deaths

Title: British armed forces and overseas deaths and burials Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/MARITIME/306433

Additional: Matches names and initials

Source information

ID: 9565501

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Seaforth, Merseyside

Description: "Seaforth is a district in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is north of Liverpool, between Bootle and Waterloo."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaforth,_Merseyside
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Additional: Matches place of birth.

Source information

ID: 9565523

Name: Tower Hill Memorial

Title: CWGC

Description: Master COLGAN, WILLIAM JAMES ETHELBERT Died 19/11/1939 Aged 49 S.S. Darino (Liverpool) Merchant Navy

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2799085/colgan,-william-james-ethelbert/
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Additional: Matches full name, years of birth and death, service in the Merchant Navy.

Source information

ID: 9569136

Title: Tower Hill Memorial

Description: CWGC Memorial. Own photograph dated 25/2/2019.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Source information

ID: 9569142

Name: 31 May 1940

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "The s.s. " Darino " was torpedoed by the enemy off the north-west coast of Spain on 19th November, 1939."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34862/page/3277/data.pdf
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Additional: Matches date and place of death.

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