You can find out here

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors/

A fellow Tapper was there :thumbsup:


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Thomas Tapper aged 21 born in Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
Ship: HMS Orion
Rank/Rating: Ordinary Seaman
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More details here :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4110478.stm

Anyone else have some relatives there, and of what age ? People that served ranged from 8 - 68 apparently....

Cool link mate.
I've a common surname & there's 7 pages of us on there
Warriors through and through!
I know my Grandad (paternal) was at Gallipolli, Uncle at Dunkirk, Dad at Normandy, another unc in RAF (bomber)

So got a fair military background.

I was in the air cadets for a year :hihi:

yes, thomas tyrrell, hms africa, able seaman

spooky thing is his birth date was/ is ,13 of september, the same day as mine.............