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Captain William Power Carne was born in 1898 in Falmouth, Cornwall. He was the son of George Newby Carne and Annie Emily le Poer Carne (nee Power) and the brother of James Power CarneVC. At the outbreak of the First World War he served initially as a cadet on HMS Sapho before becoming a midshipman on HMS New Zealand, on which he served at the battle of Dogger Bank and the Battle of Jutland.