On Tower Hill Memorial is the name of Chief Officer Vivian Llewelyn Edwards serving on S.S. Empire Lancer (Greenock) with the Merchant Navy who died 16/08/1944.

The son of Emlyn and Elizabeth Ann Edwards, of Westbury Park, Bristol.

In Holy Trinity Churchyard is a family headstone for Edwards containing the words:

Also their second son Vivian Llewellyn (Billa); 1st Officer MN killed at sea 16th Aug. 1944 aged 34.

S.S. Empire Lancer was a hopper barge of 7037 tons which was sunk by a torpedo on 16th August 1944 at 15 S 45 E. British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-45 ISBN 0 85-59 267 4 HMSO Reprinted Patrick Stephens Ltd.

Vivian Llewellyn Edwards is remembered at Hartlepool on H115.16, at West Hartlepool on W111.055 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.