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. SOW WELL (London)  - WW1

S.S. Sowwell was sunk on 19 April 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine U-35 approximately 170 nautical miles West by South of Gibraltar. She was enroute from Sagunto to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore.

21 crew were lost

3rd Engineer Alexander Neil McKAY
Born: Melbourne, Victoria
Mercantile Marine
Killed in Action 19-4-1917 aged 21years
Son of Alexander & Matilda McKay (nee Hansen), 41, Sixth Avenue, Maylands, Perth, Western Australia
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England
Honoured Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll