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Augustson, Sven August

Seaman
Hartlepool
0/0/1908

Sven August Augustson, "Gus", was of Swedish descent. One of his brothers served as Chief Engineer on the RMS Queen Mary, while another brother owned a plantation.

Gus joined the Merchant Navy before the war, serving on a number of timber boats, ships working in the Baltic timber trade, and reaching the rank of Bosun.

Gus met and married a Hartlepool Headland girl, Hannah Jane Horsley, at St. Hilda's Churchin December 1933 or 1934. They had three children, two girls and a boy.

During the Second World War, Gus took two Gunnery Training Courses at Sunderland, and was topedoed twice. He eventually returned to Hartlepool and went to work as a Rigger at Richardson and Westgarth's, "Richies".


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