Navy

National Archives website is rubbish, can't understand it at all, I'd be better off just booking an appointment to go there.

Briefly, what I have discovered so far with only J. Rogers to go on...

John Alfred Rogers, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy, MV Eurymedon, Age 44, died 25/o9/1940, Inscribed on Tower Hill Memorial, Log book found.

Sunk by U-29 torpedo on route from Singapore to Liverpool.

Location of Wreckage; Lat 53'34'OX''N, Long 020'23'OX''W system WGS84 Division 1'=60''

(roughly 300 miles west of Ireland).

Now I'm going to go on a portrait hunt but I know that there weren't many pictures of my family in this era and a majority of photos have been destroyed in a fire when my Mum was little. But I'm optimistic, my Mum's dad was a waiter on a long voyage ship travelling to Singapore, New York, Australia and New Zealand, I think a wedding photo survived...I'm pretty damn sure I've seen it and they looks like my Uncle and sister...