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ERIC FAULDS

Possibly – only one on the Glasgow WW2 Roll of Honour and on SNWM

Thomas Eric Ayton Faulds – age 20 – Second Radio Officer, S.S. Scottish Trader (London) Merchant Navy.

The “Scottish Trader” was sailing from Philadelphia to Liverpool when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-131 in mid-Atlantic. (Source: uboat.net)

Born 1921 at Hurlford or at Riccarton, Ayrshire. (Source: GRoS – Birth Registers for both. SNWM has Kilmarnock)

Son of James Faulds of 73 Newington Street, Carntyne, Glasgow E2

(Source: UK Merchant Seamen Deaths and Glasgow WW2 Roll of Honour)

Killed by enemy action/Lost at Sea on 6 December 1941.

Commonwealth War Grave – Tower Hill Memorial, London.