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<span class=prefix>Lieut</span> Edward Terence Doyne Finch
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Lieut Edward Terence Doyne Finch Veteran

Birth
Chennai, Chennai District, Tamil Nadu, India
Death
26 Nov 1914 (aged 27)
At Sea
Monument
Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England Add to Map
Plot
Final resting place unknown. Name listed on Panel 1.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
FINCH, EDWARD TERENCE DOYNE, Torpedo Lieutenant, Royal Navy, elder son of Arthur Edward Finch, by his wife, Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. Philip Walter Doyne; b. Madras, India, 6 Nov. 1887; educated Connaught House, Weymouth, and H.M.S. Britannia (1902-3); entered the Navy as a cadet, 15 Sept. 1903; became Midshipman, 15 Oct. following; Sub-Lieutenant, 15 Dec. 1906; Lieutenant, 15 June, 1908, and served in H.M. ships Hannibal, Prince George, Cornwall and Suffolk. He then commanded in turn H.M.T.B. 85 and H.M.T.B. 078, and afterwards H.M.T.B.D. Dasher and H.M.T.B.D. Brazen. He left this last destroyer in order to qualify as a Torpedo Lieutenant in H.M.S. Vernon, and on obtaining this qualification he was appointed to the Bulwark, 13 Aug 1913, and was killed when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unmarried.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
FINCH, EDWARD TERENCE DOYNE, Torpedo Lieutenant, Royal Navy, elder son of Arthur Edward Finch, by his wife, Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. Philip Walter Doyne; b. Madras, India, 6 Nov. 1887; educated Connaught House, Weymouth, and H.M.S. Britannia (1902-3); entered the Navy as a cadet, 15 Sept. 1903; became Midshipman, 15 Oct. following; Sub-Lieutenant, 15 Dec. 1906; Lieutenant, 15 June, 1908, and served in H.M. ships Hannibal, Prince George, Cornwall and Suffolk. He then commanded in turn H.M.T.B. 85 and H.M.T.B. 078, and afterwards H.M.T.B.D. Dasher and H.M.T.B.D. Brazen. He left this last destroyer in order to qualify as a Torpedo Lieutenant in H.M.S. Vernon, and on obtaining this qualification he was appointed to the Bulwark, 13 Aug 1913, and was killed when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unmarried.

Gravesite Details

Lieutenant, Royal Navy. Age: Unknown.


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