S.S. AGUILA  (Liverpool)  -  WW2

Aguila was on route from Liverpool for Gibraltar and Lisbon in Convoy OG-71 on 19 August 1941, carrying a cargo of 400 bags of mail, when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-201 and sunk. The Aguila was the ship of the convoy commodore Vice-Admiral Patrick E. Parker, DSO, RN, and sank within 90 seconds, with the loss of 152 lives.

Surgeon Trevor Matthias Owen WILLIAMS
Merchant Navy
Died 19-8-1941, aged 58years
Son of Dr. Trevor Owen Williams, M.D., and Emily Williams
Husband of Sarah Williams, of Devonport, Tasmania.
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 4
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll