WALTER FRANK VESEY My great uncle Walter Frank VESEY, 2345, Private, and his brother in law Horace Cooper, 2346, Private, were two of hundreds who lost their life Friday, the 13th of August, 1915 when The Royal Edward was torpedoed by the German submarine UB 14 in the Mediterranean. They were en route to Gallipoli, for the second landing there. They enlisted at Ipswich, Suffolk, The 3rd./1st.(East Anglian) Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. If it is possible to make a tragic story more tragic, Walter Frank married Mildred Maud Told in a double ceremony with Mildred's sister Ruth and her fiancée, Horace Cooper, just weeks before the two grooms shipped out. Marriages registered in Woodbridge district SFK 1915 Q3 (4a 3024): Maud M. TOLD m. Walter F. VESEY Ruth L. TOLD m. Horace COOPER Walter Frank Vesey's family descended from the Suffolk Manorial Veseys of Hintlesham. Linda B.C. Canada