Ernest Henry MEDLAND

MEDLAND, Ernest Henry

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Not yet discovered
Last Unit: Merchant Navy
Born: Woodford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered
Home Town: Prospect, Prospect, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Mercantile Marine
Died: Killed In Action, 2 October 1918, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Tower Hill Memorial, London, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Adelaide Commissioner of Public Works Roll of Honour, Adelaide National War Memorial, Prospect Roll of Honour A-G WWI Board, Tower Hill Memorial
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World War 1 Service

2 Oct 1918: Involvement Merchant Navy

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Arca [Official Number-135147] was a 4,839 GRT steam tanker completed  in December 1912 at a cost of £63,500 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow for Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd. Launched: 30 August 1912 and entered service in December 1917. She was one of a group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty December 1917 to augment the ships of the Royal Fleet Auxilliary.  She was sunk in the Atlantic on 2 October 1918 by a torpedo from German submarine U-118  approximately 40 nautical miles North-West by West of Torry Island. She was en route from Philadelphia to Portishead with a cargo of benzine. She had survived an earlier attack by UC-75 on 6 January 1918 while on passage from Southampton to Devonport about 10 miles SW of Start Point but arrived at Devonport safely.

He was 44 and the husband of Lily Medland (nee Dellow), of "Lindisfarne," Chevalier St., Prospect, South Australia.

 

He was born at Woodford, then in Essex; Woodford births were at that time recorded in West Ham.

Births Sep 1873   Medland Ernest Henry W. Ham 4a 95

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