Able Seaman OLIVER WARD
Service Number: Bristol Z/4587
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. "Champagne."
Date of Death
Died 09 October 1917
Age 21 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of John Thomas and Fanny Ward. of Allestree, Derby. The Admiralty found that this rating. after the order to abandon ship had been given, volunteered to remain on board and man one of the guns, and continued firing on the submarine while his own was actually sinking.
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