Eduardo Tolra

Able Seaman Eduardo (or 'Edward') Tolra was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the First World War.
He was born on 11 May 1897,Jack Marshall, comp.. Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. the son of Spanish-born Eduardo Roman, a teacher of his native language, and Ada Elizabeth Tolra (née Daniel), of London. The younger Tolra was placed in the Stockwell Orphanage for Fatherless Boys and Girls in 1907, remaining until 1911.Spurgeons, spurgeons.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
Before enlisting on 8 August 1914, Tolra had been employed by H. de Pinns & John Venn, of Gresham House. Two weeks after joining, Tolra was assigned to the Drake Battalion, of the Royal Naval Division, and served with it in the defence of Antwerp. The RND maintained a presence in Antwerp until being ordered to abandon the port on 8 October 1914. Fortuitously, the Drake Battalion left the city early, avoiding the fate of the division's battalions that retreated to the Netherlands and were interned for the duration of the war.ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION 1914-1919, nhcra-online.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
Tolra later served in the Gallipoli Campaign and was present at the Battle of Jutland. He was killed on 23 April 1918, in the Zeebrugge Raid, while serving aboard the protected cruiser HMS Vindictive.
He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Tolra, Eduardo, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
Category:1897 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of Spanish descent
Category:Buried in England
Category:Able Seamen