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Isaac Batchelor
Royal Navy
HMS Au Fait Royal Naval Reserve
from:Lowestoft, Suffolk
Isaac Batchelor was my great-grandfather, born in Lound, Suffolk in 1878.
He was a fisherman on smacks out of Lowestoft and joined the RNR in 1914. He crewed an Admiralty drifter laying submarine nets off the Belgian coast. On 24th of April 1916, his vessel, the steam-driven screw ketch Au Fait (Admiralty No. 763), was sunk by German e-boats off Zeebrugge. He and his crew-mates were captured and taken to the port, processed, and sent as POWs to Giessen in Germany. He returned home early in 1919 and died in 1940.