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Sailors on the ship Drot ca 1915 FR2_011

Crew on the ship Drot from Bergen, Norway. Taken between December 1911 and November 1916. The two brothers of my father's mother, Erik Julius Persson (nr 6 from left) and Johan Hjalmar (nr 11 from left) enlisted as sailors in Gothenburg 1911-12-08. They were from Fägre, Skaraborg, Sweden. Julius died when the Swedish freight ship D/S Faunus was sunk by a German mine off Flamborough Head, England 1916-11-21.

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Uploaded on September 5, 2014
Taken circa 1913