Honouring the Men who gave their lives whilst serving in the Merchant Navy
and whose names are on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
M.V. OPAWA (Plymouth) - WW2
Opawa was completed in 1931 and sunk in the North Atlantic in February 1942 by a torpedo and gunfire from a German submarine. The survivors faced extreme hardship and all but fifteen of them perished - many in lifeboats that never made it to safety.
Assistant Steward Reginald Patrick CASEY
Born: Townsville, Queensland
Merchant Navy
Date of Engagement 18-12-1941 - Brisbane, Queensland
Died 6-2-1942, aged 24years
Son of Dennis and Mary Brosner Casey, of Townsville, Queensland
Husband of E. M. Casey, of Moorooka, Queensland.
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 76
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
Second Radio Officer George James EDWARDS
Merchant Navy
Died 6-2-1942, aged 29years
Son of George and Mary Edwards, of Maitland, New South Wales
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 76
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
Greaser Neil MacKINNON
Merchant Navy
Died 6-2-1942, aged 17years
Son of Michael and Emma MacKinnon, of Hirston, Brisbane, Queensland
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 76
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
6th Engineer Ralph Frederick TAYLOR
Born: Katoomba, N.S.W.
Merchant Navy
Died 6-2-1942, At sea (off coast of New York), aged 22years
Son of Frederick Fuller Taylor and Doris Jane Taylor, of Ballarat, Victoria
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England - Panel 76
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
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