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Daniel Ferguson (known as Taylor after his stepfather, James Taylor, for a while when growing up), my grandfather who was apprentice on Brixham fishing smack trawler Provident BM291 when he was 16. On 1st January, 1915 HMS Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by a German U Boat. The crew of Provident rescued 71 sailors from Formidable.
Provident itself was captured by submarine and sunk by bombs on 28 November 1916, 24 miles South West of Portland Bill. After this Daniel joined the Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section, serving from 1917 to 1919 - though he was in Section Y before that.
He is in this composite photo with his older half brother, John Miller (no father named on birth certificate) who was in the Royal Field Artillery. John was a Signaller (Gunner) who died of wounds on 24 September 1918 and is buried in Brie Cemetary in France. I don't know what date the individual photos were taken or when they were put together but it must have been after 1917 when Daniel was 19 (in the February) and John was 26 (27 in the September) - though probably some time in 1918.
This photograph apparently hung on my Great Grandmother's wall in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland (Agnes McMillan Miller), marked 'brothers' on the back - I got this scanned copy from the USA where it ended up after Daniel's sister Helen Ferguson (John's half sister) and some of their later half brothers and sisters (the Taylors) emigrated there.
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Title: L.L. Lewis and John Miller photograph
Date: 1939
Description: Photograph of L.L. Lewis and John Miller at the WOI radio station.
Image ID: 5-6-LL lewis and John Miller 1939
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