Personnel Profile
Edwin Unwin
Chief boatswain
Edwin Unwin served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during first world war. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with exceptional bravery in hazardous operational conditions. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Edwin Unwin belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.