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First Name: | Frank | Last Name: | RUDGE |
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| Date of Death: | 31/12/1917 | Lived/Born In: | Earlsfield | |
| Rank: | Sapper | Unit: | Royal Engineers 98th Light Railway Operating Company | |
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Current Information:Born-Wandsworth Alexandria (Chatby) Military & War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
In December, 1917, HM Troopship Osmanieh was taking troops to Egypt to participate in the Palestine campaign and on 31st December, 1917, was approaching the port of Alexandria in Egypt. Unbeknown to anyone she was in an area where a German submarine had laid mines a few days earlier and when she hit one of these mines she sank within seven minutes in the same place that HMT Aragon had been torpedoed the previous day. One hundred and ninety-nine people aboard HM Troopship Osmanieh lost their lives. Including Frank Rudge of the Royal Engineers. |
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