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Alfred Charles Sandy – Mercantile Marine, H.M.S. Arlanza

Fireman Alfred Charles Sandy – Mercantile Marine, H.M.S. Arlanza Alfred Charles Sandy was born in 1893 in Swansea , the son of Charles Sandy and Eliza Jane Gowman . His early years were spent in the busy streets around High Street, where dock labour, lodging houses, and multigenerational families formed the fabric of Edwardian Swansea’s maritime community. Family Life 1911 Census The 1911 Census records the Sandy household at 2 Union Court, High Street, Swansea , where Mr. Charles Sandy , aged 46 and born in Plymouth, worked as a Dock Labourer , and his wife, Mrs. Eliza Sandy , also 46, assisted in the home. Their daughters Annice , 25, and Lizzie , 25, were likewise assisting at home, while Alfred , aged 19, was employed as a Dock Labourer . Also present were their grandson Charlie Burgess , aged 5, and a lodger, Owen Williams , aged 63. The census portrays a close‑knit household rooted in Swansea’s dockside labouring life. In 1914 , Alfred married Margaret Ann Givlin , establishin...

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