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. STROMBUS (London)  -  WW1

S.S. Strombus was damaged on 4 June 1918 by torpedo fired by German submarine UC-20. She was en route from Marseille to Port Said with a cargo of boxwood, war material and empty drums.  The vessel made it to port and was repaired. Later she was converted into a whaling factory ship and was beached after striking a mine in 1940.

Fifth Engineer Officer Lionel James McMILLAN

Born: Redfern, Sydney, N.S.W.
Mercantile Marine
Killed in Action 4-6-1918 aged 28years
Son of Archibald Henry and Clusha McMillan (nee Bereman), of South St., Granville, Cumberland, N.S.W.
Honoured: Tower Hill Memorial, London, England
Honoured Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
 
 

The Sydney Morning Herald (N.S.W.)  24-8-1918
McMILLAN.-Lionel J. McMillan, dearly beloved only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McMillan, Granville, engineer, lost his life, being torpedoed in the Mediterranean, June 4, 1918