Honouring the Men who gave their lives whilst serving in the Merchant Navy
and whose names are on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
and whose names are on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
S.S. UMBALLA (Glasgow)
WW 1
WW 1
S.S. Umballa was sunk on 25 December 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine UB-49 - approximately 8 nautical miles South-West by West of Cape Scala, Gulf of Policastro. She was en route from Karachi and Syracuse to Naples with a cargo of barley.
4th Engineer Officer Henry William Frederick TATE
Born: Ba, Fiji Mercantile Marine Killed in Action 25-12-1917 aged 27years Son of Mary Eveline Tate (nee Smith), of Hillcrest St., Marrickville, N.S.W., & the late Eugene Henry Tate. Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England Honoured Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll |