Information from the Roll of Honour
Parish
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Surname
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Initials
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Award
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Rank
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Ship or Regiment
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Place of Death
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Date of Death
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Plymouth
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Colwill
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S.
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Ch. Shipwt.
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S.S. Malaya
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|
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An asterisk * in the Place of Death indicates an hospital death
A double asterisk ** in the Place of Death indicates the record is annotated with Missing
Further Information from Contributors
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RoH Ref.
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6710
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Forename
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Samuel
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Surname
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Colwill
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Rank or Rating
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Service Number(s)
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175985
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Father
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Charles William Colwill
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Mother
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Rachael Maria (nee Pleass)
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Wife
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Ann (nee Keech)
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Date of Birth
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18
February
1871
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Where Born
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Plymouth, Devonshire
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Date Baptised
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Ship or Regiment
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Royal Navy, S.S. Maloja
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Date of Death
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27
February
1916
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Place of Death
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S.S. Maloja struck two mines and sunk when transitting the Straits of Dover on route to Bombay India from Tilbury
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Grave or Memorial
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Remarks
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Contributor
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PB, Peter Towey