T. C. Cavalier
Service no. 468539
Able Seaman, Mercantile Marine Reserve, RFA Reliance
Died age 27 on 20 January 1918
Son of Mrs E. Cavalier, of 14 Irving Grove, Stockwell
Remembered at Plymouth Naval Memorial
Thomas Cavalier was killed on HMS Louvain after it was attacked by a U-boat (UC22) in the Eastern Mediterranean. The ship was employed in examination duties at sea to enforce a blockade. There is some information she was being used as a leave ship when torpedoed. Of the 151 on board only 10 survived.