220162 Sgt. Frederick Walter Nunn British Army 2nd Btn. South Wales Borderers from:Tottenham (d.13th Aug 1915) I was brought up in the same house that had been occupied by my grand parents and their family of 4 sons and a daughter.
One of them was my father Percy Nunn who was a Sgt in the Royal Fusiliers in the 1914-18 war.
His three brothers, Ernest a private in the AIF, Albert a Corporal in the Grenadier Guards, and Frederick Nunn, a Sgt. in the South Wales Borderers were all killed in the Gallipoli Campaign.
Frederick is listed in a book "Fastest to Canada" the story of how the ship HMT Royal Edward became the first troop ship to be torpedoed in the Aegean Sea. It had on board 53 men of the South Wales Borderers and it is told in our family history that Fred saved four men before drowning himself. The ship had 1600 on board and 600 were lost at sea.
It was ironic that my father was also at Avonmouth Docks on the same morning as brother Fred, but they did not meet and boarded separate ships.
That was on 29th July and The Royal Edward was struck on the 13th August 1915.
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