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Staff Paymaster Joseph Theodore Gedge
Royal Navy HMS Amphion
(d.6th Aug 1914)
Staff Paymaster J T Gedge was the first British Officer of all the fighting services to be killed in the 1914/18 war. He lost his life on the 6th of August 1914 when HMS Amphion struck a mine off the Thames Estuary.