Robert Methven Deadman
Wireless Operator Merchant Navy

 Division 3

Robert Methven^* Deadman was the son of Ernest Bezant and Helen Deadman, 28 Manchester Road. Reading.

 He was attached to the S. S. “Romeo” (Hull). On 3^rd March 1918 the vessel was torpedoed by a German submarine and broke in two, Robert drowned,  it was his first trip and he was 17 years old.  His name can be found on a family headstone in Division 3 of the Reading Cemetery but the small scroll stone bears no other indication of how he died or that he was killed during the war. 

Robert Methven Deadman is commemorated officially on the Towerhill Memorial, London along with other Mercantile Marine casualties.  He had been a Senior pupil of the Wokingham Road Senior School, now Alfred Sutton Primary School, and his name appears on the War memorial in the Junior Hall.

^{*This name has also been spelt Mithven}