Gordon Edward Marjoram

An Able Seaman of the trawler Quiet Waters, Gordon died on the 4th of January 1940 aged 25.

Gordon was born at Kessingland in 1915, a son of Edward W J and Florence Lilian Marjoram. In 1921 his family lived at 2 Zulu Cottages, Kessingland. Later his family lived at 1 Zeederburgh Cottages, Whites Lane, Kessingland. 

A report in the Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, 6 January 1940, page 3, described the details of Gordon's death:

When Gordon Edward Marjoram (25), son of a trawler captain of Kessingland, near Lowestoft, fell into the harbour in the black-out at a South Coast port, he shouted for help and signalled with his electric torch. The torch was still shining when rescuers grasped Marjoram but he was dead. Moored a few yards away was his father's boat, the Quiet Waters.

Gordon died at Weymouth, Dorset, and probate records state that he was 'on active service' when he died. He was buried at Saint Edmund’s Churchyard, Kessingland, on 10 January 1940.