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First Name: | Edwin George | Last Name: | BIGGS |
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| Date of Death: | 02/05/1917 | Lived/Born In: | Plumstead | |
| Rank: | Stoker1 | Unit: | HMS Derwent | |
| Memorial Site: | Chatham Naval Memorial | |||
Current Information:Age-21 53, Princes Road, Plumstead
HMS Derwent was a Royal Naval destroyer and part of the First Destroyer Flotilla stationed at Portsmouth. She was equipped with depth charges for use in anti-submarine patrols, escorting merchant ships and defending the Dover Barrage. On 2nd May, 1917 she hit a mine laid by the German submarine, UC-26 when off the coast near Le Havre in France and sank with the loss of 58 lives. One of these was Edwin Biggs. |
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