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. GAROET (Netherlands)  -  WW2

S.S. Garoet was a 7,133 GRT steam cargo ship that was sunk on 19 June 1944 by torpedoes fired by German submarine U-181 

Second Radio Officer Ronald Jeffery JACKA
Merchant Navy
Died 19-6-1944, at sea aged 21years
Son of Jesse Richard & Edith Jane Jacka, of West Preston, Melbourne, Victoria.
Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 51
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll