Merchant Navy

Merchant Navy Red Ensign – ‘The Red Duster’

PHOTO Spaull and ANOther Marine Certs – Ancestry

SS Royal Edward

Chief Mate Mercantile Marine Barnard C Spaull, SS Royal Edward. Lost at Sea 13 August 1915, Tower Hill Memorial.

SS Mariston

John Stubbs, Master Mercantile Marine – SS Mariston. Died at sea 10 July 1917, Tower Hill Memorial

North Atlantic routes  – SS Royal Edward or sister ship SS Royal George on the Atlantic routes.

Private 6496 Harry Halford. until July 1914, working on Cunard liner RMS Aquitania sailing the Liverpool – New York route, possibly employed as a steward