'Royal Edward' was a passenger ship belonging to the Canadian Northern Steamship Company that was sunk during the First World War with a large loss of life while transporting Commonwealth troops. She was launched in 1907 as RMS 'Cairo' for a British mail service to Egypt. 'Royal Edward', serving as a troopship, had departed from Avonmouth, Gloucestershire, heading to Gallipoli, Turkey, when she was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Aegean Sea on 13 Aug 1915.
Military Service-
Rank: Steward
Age: 44
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. 'Royal Edward' (Toronto)
Son of Francesco and Charlotte Barral of East Ham, London, England.
Steward Francesco William Barral is commemorated on Page 11 of Canada's Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
'Royal Edward' was a passenger ship belonging to the Canadian Northern Steamship Company that was sunk during the First World War with a large loss of life while transporting Commonwealth troops. She was launched in 1907 as RMS 'Cairo' for a British mail service to Egypt. 'Royal Edward', serving as a troopship, had departed from Avonmouth, Gloucestershire, heading to Gallipoli, Turkey, when she was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Aegean Sea on 13 Aug 1915.
Military Service-
Rank: Steward
Age: 44
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. 'Royal Edward' (Toronto)
Son of Francesco and Charlotte Barral of East Ham, London, England.
Steward Francesco William Barral is commemorated on Page 11 of Canada's Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
1914 - 1918
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE HONOUR OF TWELVE THOUSAND OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS WHO HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA
ROYAL EDWARD
TORONTO
BARRAL E. W.
