Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 7888272

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/D7966742
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UPP: GBM/BT351/145654

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9557374

Reference: bmd_maritime_deaths

Title: British armed forces and overseas deaths and burials Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/MARITIME/550609

Additional: Matches full name and approximate year of birth.

Source information

ID: 9557383

Name: Tower Hill Memorial

Title: CWGC

Description: Chief Engineer Officer REID, ALEXANDER SELLAR Died 15/02/1942 Aged 48 M.V. Empire Spring (Greenock) Merchant Navy

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803824/reid,-alexander-sellar/
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Additional: Matches full name, year of birth, date of death and service in the Merchant Navy.

Source information

ID: 9557402

Name: U Boats net

Title: Empire Spring

Description: Details of U Boat Attack of the 14th February 1942.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1330.html
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Additional: Matches date and place of death.

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