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Stoker 1st class David Joseph Williams
Royal Navy HMS Contest
from:Llanelly Wales
(d.18th Sep 1917)
My Great Uncle was one of the crew who was killed on this night. The Contest was torpedoed on the 18th September at midnight.
in the North Atlantic in the South Western Approaches to the English Channel - torpedoed by German U-boat. Possibly one of the ships transferred to Devonport and on convoy escort or patrol duties. Her wartime crew was around 77. Fifty men were picked up