Able Seaman George Somerville

Able Seaman George Somerville, Royal Navy.  He died from T.B. in a nursing home in Edinburgh, aged 21, on the 15th June 1918. He had been born in Carstairs in 1897 and was the son of William and Rachel Somerville of Carstairs and Eccles Tofts, Greenlaw. He had been educated at the Berwickshire High School and was in farming at Elwartlaw, Greenlaw when he enlisted in December 1916. He served aboard the dreadnought battleship H.M.S. “Dreadnought” from March to September 1917 before being discharged from the Navy due to illness in October 1917

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