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ERA2. Ank George Lynham
Royal Navy HMS C31
from:Homestead, Templecombe, Somerset
(d.7th January 1915)
Ank Lynham was born Twerton Bath in 1886, educated at Templecombe School under Miss Pask. At the age of fifteen began a five year engineering apprenticeship at Somerset and Dorset Locomotive Works Highbridge under a Mr A Whittaker.
He qualified, joined the Royal Navy as an engine room artificer and served on HMS Foresight, HMS Attentive, and HMS Cheerful. Fifteen months before his death he voluntarily transferred to the submarine service. His name appears in The Western Gazette Roll of Honour, 22nd of January 1915