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Signal Boy. Edward Arthur Merchant
Royal Naval Reserve HM Trawler Evangel
from:Leicester
(d.25th March 1917)
Edward Arthur Merchant was killed in action on the 25th of March 1917, aged 17. He was a signal boy on the HMS Evangel, sunk off Milford Haven by U Boat UC48. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth and also on the Milford Haven Memorial. Edward was the son of George and Lilly Merchant of Rudkin St, Leicester .