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Re: Industry
Posted by: Bill Oliver ()
Date: August 19, 2007 10:49AM

I don't know if this listing is still open but the following may be of interest.

Woodford Times, Friday November 22nd, 1918
ROLL OF HONOUR
CAPT. W. NORMAN, R.N.R.

It is with deep regret that we have to record the death on active service of Capt. Wm. Norman, R.N.R., elder son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Norman of Dunbeath House, Buckhurst Hill.
Capt. Norman on the outbreak of war offered his services to the government. He was given a commission in the Navy, taking part in the Gallipoli campaign. Subsequently he was given command of one of HM Auxiliary ships in home waters, and in this dangerous work, rendered much valuable service. He was complimented by the Admiralty upon the seamanship he had displayed in surmounting perilous difficulties on three occasions. His ship was torpedoed on 18th October, there being only four survivors.
Capt. Norman was apprenticed to the sea when quite a boy, and in this capacity was one of the 16 survivors from the wreck of the large ship, “Kapunda” which was run down in the Pacific several years ago. In due course he obtained his Captain's certificate. He had been all over the world, and was a genial, loveable and thorough sailor. He leaves a wife and four children, and will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends.

Lieut. William Norman, R.N.R. lost his life when his ship was torpedoed in the Irish Sea on Fri. 18th Oct. 1918, and having no known grave he is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hants. William, a son of William and Elizabeth Norman of Princes Road, Buckhurst Hill, is remembered by a tablet on his family grave in St. John’s churchyard, Buckhurst Hill.
William was a merchant seaman who enlisted into the Royal Navy on Aug. 9th 1915 while serving as a Sub Lieut. (Temp), on the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Bacchus. The Admiralty - “ Expressed appreciation of his behaviour on the occasions in which he and his crew went to action stations”

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