Edwin Oesterlein

Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Edwin George Oesterlein was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the First World War.
He was born on 26 May 1888,Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies. in Wandsworth, the son of German-born baker Frederick Gottlieb and Martha Jane Oesterlein (née Rutter), of London.
Oesterlein, who entered the navy in 1909, died on 31 May 1916, during the Battle of Jutland, when the battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary exploded after being twice hit by shells from the German warship Derfflinger, with the loss of 1,266 crew.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Oesterlein, Edwin George, cwgc.org. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
Category:1888 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Category:Engine Room Artificers