Engineman John Waddell

Engineman John MurdochWaddell, Royal Naval Reserve. He died  from illness in the R.N. Hospital in H.M.S. “Vivid” on 29th September 1918 aged 46. He had been born in Eyemouth and was the son of Alice and the late Robert Waddell of Glens Buildings, Eyemouth and is buried in Eyemouth Kirkyard.  H.M.S. Vivid  was a Devonport shore based training establishment for the R.N.R. He had enlisted in April 1915 and was serving on the hired trawler ” Wallington” which was operating as a boom defence vessel. He became ill in August 1918 and was transferred to ” Vivid” and died there from a gastric ulcer.

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