Samuel Isaac Marjoram

An Engineman with H.M. Trawler Eros. Samuel died on 5th of September 1917 at the age of 31. 

Samuel was born at Kessingland on 20 September 1885, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Marjoram. He was baptised at Saint Edmund's Church, Kessingland, on 29 November 1885. In 1891 His family lived at Church Road, Kessingland, and by 1901 at Prospect Cottages, Kessingland, and Samuel was a shoemaker. 

On 23 September 1909 Samuel married Emily Martha Utting at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland. Samuel was a shoemaker and they both lived at Kessingland. In 1911 they loved at Market Place, Kessingland, and Samuel was a drifter fisherman. By 1916 they were living at Coronation Stores, Kessingland, and later Emily lived at 2 Jubilee Place, Kessingland.

Samuel joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 23 October 1916. On 15 March 1917 he joined the trawler Eros. On 5 September 1917 the Eros was sailing south-east of Aldeburgh, off Felixstowe, and was blown up by a mine. Three men were wounded, and Samuel was killed.