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Stkr. Walter Edgcombe
Royal Navy HMS Amphion
from:Devonport
(d.5th August 1914)
My grandfather, Walter Edgcombe, joined the Army in 1907 and served until he bought out in 1911. Later in 1913 he returned to Saltash, Cornwall where his family lived,and promptly joined the Royal Navy. He did his traning at Devonport in HNS Vivid. He was sent to join HMS Amphionin early 1914 as a Stoker second class. He was lost with his shipmates early on the fifth of August 1914