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First Name: | Samuel | Last Name: | HARRISON |
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| Date of Death: | 31/10/1914 | Lived/Born In: | Walthamstow | |
| Rank: | Private | Unit: | HMS Hermes RMLI | |
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Current Information:Age-38 119, St. John's Road, Walthamstow Born-Camberwell Camberwell Old Cemetery
HMS Hermes was a cruiser, built in the 1890s and modified in 1913 as a seaplane carrier. In 1914 she was used to ferry equipment to France. Leaving Dunkirk on 31st October 1914 she was spotted and torpedoed by the German submarine U-27 and sank in the Straits of Dover with the loss of 44 men, one of whom was Samuel Harrison.
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