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Bodies from torpedoed ship wash up on Cornish beaches

July 13, 2017 by Susan Roberts Leave a Comment

He drowned saving a  man in distress - CopyA report in The Cornishman in April 1915 describing how bodies from a torpedoed ship, the Falaba, washed up on Cornish beaches. Scouts attended the funeral in St Agnes of a Mr H J Willis, one of the passengers who sadly drowned.

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