Follet, Edwin
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Follet, Lieutenant Edwin
 
Active Service
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Edwin Follet served aboard H.M.S. Proserpine.
Address
Wimborne Road, Poole

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Place of Service
HMS Proserpine was a cruiser that served in the Channel, at Gibraltar, in the Suez Canal and in support of the British intervention in Mesopotamia during the First World War. At the start of the war, she was attached to the Eighth Battle Squadron of the Channel Fleet. She took part in the operation that transported three Marine battalions to Ostend. She was then sent out to form part of the Gibraltar patrol, before in November she was ordered to Egypt.

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Wartime Organisation
Royal Navy
Subdivision
- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Rank
Lieutenant
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