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Beard, Edmund E.

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Title Petty Officer Stoker (RNCVR)
Official Number VR-1731
 
Birth (nk) Death 06/12/1917
Place (nk) Place Halifax
Area (nk) Area NS
Country (nk) Country Canada
 
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Honours AM (Bronze).
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Military Service
He was appointed as a Stoker Petty Officer (RNCVR). He served in HMCS Niobe (depot ship) 1917. (He was killed on 06/12/1917 while serving in a steam pinnace from HMCS Niobe to attempt to give aid to the burning vessel Mont Blanc which subsequently exploded killing the crew of the pinnace.)
 
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References
http://www.naval-history.net/; http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=1858.0; https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/4021418/ernest-edmund-beard/ (website viewed 28/05/2023);
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