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Edward Salway
(1850-1919)
Sarah Holman
(1848-1910)
Robert Lucas
Christopher Ernest Salway
(1882-1965)
Elizabeth Mary Jane Lucas
(1886-)
Edward Albert Salway
(1906-1941)

 

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Edward Albert Salway

  • Born: 14 Feb 1906, Poole, Dorset, England
  • Died: 24 Nov 1941, Atlantic Ocean aged 35
  • Buried: 24 Nov 1941, Atlantic Ocean
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bullet  General Notes:

1911 Census: Age 5, Living: 31 Sea View Sudbrook, Nr Chepstow, Monmouthshire, England.
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The National Archives: Name - Salway, Edward Albert. Number - 21862, Division - Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth. Enlisted - 12 Nov 1923. Date of Birth - 14 Feb 1906.
Uk Naval Medal and Award Rolls: Salway Edward Albert, Number PO21862, Rank - MME ?, Ship - Dolphin. Awarded - 17 Feb 1939. Medal - RN Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
UK Brithish Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records: Salway, Edward Albert. Number -PO/21862. Ship - HMS Dunedin. Birth date - 14.2.1906. Birth Place - Cold Ash, Newbury, Berkshire?. Death Date 24.11.1941. Cause of death - 2 (not sure what this means). Died at Sea.
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HMS Dunedin - She was launched in Newcastle 19th Nov 1919. Commissioned on the 13th Sep 1919.

HMS Dunedin was in the Central Atlantic Ocean, just East of the St. Paul's Rocks, North East of Recife, Brazil, when on 24 November 1941, at 15:26 hrs, 2 torpedoes from the German submarine U-124 sank her.
Only 4 officers and 63 men survived out of 486.

Commemorated at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 59, Column 2.

Age 35 at the time at of his death.




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