Honouring the Men who gave their lives whilst serving in the Merchant Navy
and whose names are on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll

S.S. AUSTRALBUSH  (Adelaide)  -  WW1

Australbush was a 4,398 GRT steam cargo ship completed in 1907 by William Hamilton & Co. Ltd. as Strathgarry for Strathgarry Steamship Co. Ltd. and in 1916 renamed Australbush and transferred to Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers. She was sunk on 13 November 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine UC-31 approximately 7 nautical miles from Eddystone lighthouse. She was enroute from Le Havre to Barry in ballast.  - benjidog.co.uk

The West Australian (Perth)  6-12-1917
LEWIS.—Somewhere at sea, about November 20, Griffith David, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Lewis, of 19 Blencowe-street, West Lee-derville, brother of Walter and Mary Lewis, and Mrs. D. W. Keay.