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The Bristol Grammar School website provides his service and death details and this biographical information: 'Son of the late William Farmer, and Clara Farmer, widow, of 115 Cotham Brow. Younger brother of Kathleen Jos, and older brother of Aubrey George.
Farmer was born on 27/06/1888, and attended the School from 1900-1903. He served as a Lieutenant in the Navy, with the Royal Australian Naval Reserve. H.M.S. "Torrens". Farmer sadly lost his life on 09/10/1918, as a result of the War. [The ship's history states that the Torrens was in Messina completing a refit: it also adds that Farmer was the ship's navigating officer and contracted influenza].
Farmer is buried in Messina Town Cemetery, Italy, Plot 5. Row 2. Gr. 12.'