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THE excitement of the outbreak of the Second World War led many teenagers to sign up to fight. Reginald Earnshaw lied about his age so that he could join the Merchant Navy at the age of just 14. "Reggie" was killed just five months later.
Today, it was confirmed that the blond cabin boy from Granton, Edinburgh, was Britain's youngest known service casualty of the war. Reggie died on 6 July 1941 when German aircraft bombarded the SS North Devon off Norfolk as it was en route from Ipswich to the Tyne.
The full story can be read in
The Scotsman!
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