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. EMPIRE CARIBOU (London)  -  WW2

On the 10th May 1941 when on route from London - Loch Ewe - Boston, Massachusetts carrying a cargo of 2,020 tons of chalk and in Convoy OB-318 she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-556 and sunk about 465 miles southwest of Reykjanes.

Master Bernard Edwin DUFFIELD
Merchant Navy
Died 10-5-1941, aged 44years
Son of Edwin and Emily Duffield
Husband of Elizabeth Duffield, of Perth, Western Australia.
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 38
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll