Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 7883142

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/D7971920
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UPP: GBM/BT351/140500

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9550787

Name: Tower Hill Memorial

Title: CWGC

Description: Dayman ARTHUR, ALFRED EMMANUEL Died 29/02/1944 Aged 46 S.S. Ascot (London) Merchant Navy

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2780842/arthur,-alfred-emmanuel/
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Additional: Matches full name, date of birth and service in the Merchant Navy.

Source information

ID: 9550835

Name: Catalogue number Documents.12739

Title: Private Papers of W. Crowther

Description: "Wordprocessed edited transcript (85pp) of the letters written by a Merchant Navy officer to his wife in Hull during the Second World War." and "copies of various official reports relating to the sinking of the ASCOT by the Japanese submarine I-37 in the Indian Ocean on 29 February 1944 when most of her crew, including Crowther, were killed in the water by the submarine in a war crime which never came to court after the war."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030012852
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Additional: "the sinking of the ASCOT by the Japanese submarine I-37 in the Indian Ocean on 29 February 1944 "

Source information

ID: 9550847

Reference: bmd_maritime_deaths

Title: British armed forces and overseas deaths and burials Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/MARITIME/568522

Additional: Matches full name, year of birth, year and place of death.

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