Three: Able Seaman E. W. Carver, Royal Navy, who was drowned when H.M.S. Opal ran around and sank on 12 January 1918
1914-15 Star (J.29711, E. E. [sic] Carver. A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.29711 E. E. [sic] Carver. A.B. R.N.) very fine

Three: Private E. Carver, Royal Marine Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (PO.13252, Pte. E. Carver, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PO.13252 Pte. E. Carver. R.M.L.I.) very fine (6) £100-£140

Eric Woodward Carver, a Wood Carver from Nottingham, was born on 22 December 1897. He attested as a Boy into the Royal Navy on 8 October 1915. Advanced Able Seaman in November 1915, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Royal Arthur, H.M.S. Attentive, and later in the submarine depot ships H.M.S. Vernon and H.M.S. Diligence, the later from which he was posted to H.M.S. Opal, in which he was drowned when she ran aground during a storm off South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, on 12 January 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Edgar Carver, a Groom and Gardener, was born on 4 January 1886 in Copwell Butler, Nottingham. He attested into the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 19 December 1903 and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Antrim and H.M.S. Canada. He transferred into the Plymouth Division on 29 July 1923, and later died in Nottingham, aged 42, in January 1927.