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1st Stwd. John Farmer

Royal Navy HMS Anchusa

from:Devon

(d.16th July 1918)

Jack Farmer was born in November 1890 in Plymouth, Devon. He had an elder brother - Frederick, who later married Esther Pearce. He also had a younger brother, Claude Melnott, and two sisters, Maggie, and Emily (and Winifred?). He married Olive, and they had a son called Donald.

HMS Anchusa was torpedoed by a German submarine off the north coast of Ireland on 16th July, 1918. The majority of the eighty officers, men and boys were lost. Jack is remembered on the War Memorial on Plymouth Hoe, and also on the Exminster War Memorial.



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