Edward Eriksen

Ordinary Seaman Edward Anders Eriksen was a Welsh sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1914, in Llanelly, the son of Norwegian-born Erik Haakon, a mason at the time of the 1911 Census, and Sarah Annie Eriksen (née Griffiths).
Aged 28, Eriksen died on 5 April 1942, when Japanese bombers sunk the heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire in the Indian Ocean, with the loss of 234 crew. He had married, in 1939, to Doris Williams.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Eriksen, Edward Anders, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
Category:1914 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of Norwegian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Plymouth Naval Memorial
Category:Ordinary Seamen