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Lynn

Lynn Report 28 Nov 2007 22:10

am searching for Bryan Moore born in Queensland Australia, to Thomas Boniface Moore and Mary Josephone Moore nee Gallagher. Born after 1924 and any other siblings. Thomas Moore served in the Australian forces but after he sailed from Liverpool no further news of him at all. If any one can help I would be grateful

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 28 Nov 2007 22:23

Just clarifying a bit -- it's Thomas, the father, who served, in WWII, and then was not heard of?

Is there any chance he was one of the people lost on the SS Rotorua?


Casualty Details
Name: MOORE, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Greaser
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Rotorua (Plymouth)
Age: 57
Date of Death: 11/12/1940
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 88.
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

(no next of kin details in that record)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/65/a5883465.shtml

LOSS OF THE SS ROTORUA - 11 Dec 1940
(SS ROTORUA - New Zealand Shipping Company - 10,980 tons)
Earlier in the year, the SS Rotorua had originally departed for Australia but had been subject to repeated torpedo attacks on the outward voyage, which although surviving, had required her to put into Panama for repair . She then continued to Auckland, New Zealand to discharge her passengers before being put into dry dock to be made watertight at Port Chalmers. She subsequently made her way back through the Panama Canal and returned via the port of Lyttleton, Halifax as part of convoy HX-92 with the convoy Commodore on board.
... Homeward bound with a cargo of food and meat, SS Rotorua was hit by her second torpedo on 11th December 1940 at 1o' clock in the afternoon. The torpedo struck us amidships flooding the engine room, and we sank in 15 minutes with many lives lost. ...

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Valerie

Valerie Report 29 Nov 2007 00:54

Hi Lynn, You may like to contact the QLD State Library -they have an 'Ask Us' Librarian service (query form on-line). They will check their records including electoral rolls/ newspaper death notices (possibly some bdms). Also - Brisbane Council cemeteries site is on-line -Valerie (WA)