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Capt. Edwin Heman Price

Merchant Navy

from:Tywern Avenue, Cardiff

(d.16th March 1939)

My late Great Uncle, Edwin Heman Price, was born Feb 14th 1897 and died 16th March 1939. I have a copy of a newspaper clipping. This is what it said:

Defied Franco, Killed in Accident.

Captain EH Price, Master of the Alresford, who was killed through falling off the bridge of the vessel during a storm in the Mediterranean, was a native of Cardiff and lived at Tywern Avenue, Cardiff.

For nearly two years before his last voyage CaptainPrice was engaged on vessels carrying food to ports in Republicans Spain, and was master of the 10,000-ton British steamer African Mariner, which was bombed by German aeroplanes and sunk at Barcelona three days before Franco's troops entered the City.

Captain Price accepted the command of the Alresford, and on the day he left Cardiff to join the ship he told the Daily Herald that he was sailing under sealed orders.

Edwin Heman Price taken at sea April 1930

28th July 1918 Edwin Heman Price in Halifax.

Taken at sea. Edwin Heman Price holding dog.



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