Royal Edward Troop ship

[ernest james]

I followed up PRC comments

If you look at the 1915 "Mechanician" crewlist  James Gale has a number 832905 listed which corresponds to his discharge number.

Findmypast has four records for this man born 30 Aug 1882 in Bristol. (1918-41 merchant seamen records)

There is a CR10 card with a passport style photo covering the period 1918-21 with a different discharge number 601313

There are three CR1 cards,

1922 appears to be copied from an original 1915 CR1 card.Liverpool Merchant Marine Office (MMO)

1924 Bristol MMO, ex Motagoa? banana boat?

1937 Bristol MMO, ex Bayano? banana boat?

It appear he was still at sea in 1937

best wishes

ernestjames

[Guest]

I believe that Sgt. Edward William Roberts, RAMC, was drowned in this loss. Do you have any more details?

[Kath]

Yes he is in the Times list.

CWGC

Serjeant ROBERTS, ERNEST WILLIAM
Service Number 71

Died 13/08/1915

Aged 35

54th (1st/1st East Anglian) Casualty Clearing Station
Royal Army Medical Corps

Son of Charles King Roberts and Emma Roberts, of 249, Foxhall Rd., Ipswich; husband of Ethel Rose Roberts, of Urchfont, Devizes, Wilts.

[GrenPen]

 

On 29/01/2014 at 19:29, rothweb said:

My Great Uncle George Warren served as a Private with the 2nd. Battalion South Wales Borderers (Reg. No. 24825) in Gallipoli. According to his Medal Roll Index Card he arrived in area 2b Gallipoli 26th August 1915. According to the 2nd. B SWB War Diary 1Sgt. and 10 OR arrived in Suvla 8.30 pm the remains of a draft of 83 who came out on the Royal Edward, which was torpedoed and sank 13th. August on ist way from Alexandria to Lemnos. The Name of the Sergeant was most likely Thomas Charles Hadley, Reg. No. 12232 since his medal roll index Card also says he arrived 26th. August in Gallipoli.

 

I have found there were eight men on the 1914 Star roll for the South Wales Borderers who were among the fatalities. Four of them were pre-war enlistments under Regular Army terms of service. Two more enlisted after the outbreak of war (Beck, Hales). The remaining two were pre-war enlistees in the Special Reserve (Hayes, Salter).
 

8174	Albert	Smith	1884	Guildford, Surrey
8927	Stephen	Bennett	1884	Southwark, London
10435	Richard	Morgan	1891	Llanover, Abergavenny, Montgomeryshire
10967	John	Hurley	1895	Merthyr, Glamorganshire
11657	Edwin James	Beck	1885	Swansea, Glamorganshire
13153	Albert Edward	Hales	1882	Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
3/10112	Harry	Salter	1880	Llansantfraid, Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire
3/11088	Harry	Hayes	1894	Marylebone, London

There are some extra details for these men which can be accessed via the following:
 

Landing page

 

or

UKWA snapshots/scrapes of site

[GrenPen]

I've been sent an e-mail about two other men who perished, 10789 Willie Harries and 10179 Walter Nunn. Many of their oppos in the 2nd Battalion, with whom they have served in China, had participated in the landings on 25 April 1915. For whatever reasons they had stayed back in England, and were duly sent out as part of the batch of reinforcements aboard the Royal Edward that departed on 28 July 1915. 

My gratitude and appreciation to Pegasus Medals for sharing this discovery.