Commander JOHN SHARPEY SCHAFER
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Gaillardia."
Date of Death
Died 22 March 1918
Age 36 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer, F.R.S., and Maud Schafer, of North Berwick; husband of Ruth Bateman-Champain (formerly Schafer) of Greystones, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Served in H.M.S. King George V. for the greater part of the war, was at Jutland, and was specially lent for the surveying operations for the North Sea minefield.
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