In Memory Of

PRETORIUS, RUDOLF WILLIAM JACOBUS

Service Details
Age:
 26
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Sailor
Unit:
 S.S. Fircrest (London)
Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
 1940-08-25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, FIRCREST SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 5,394 tons built in 1907. On the 25th August 1940 when on route from Wabana, Conception Bay - Halifax - Middlesbrough in Convoy HX-65A carrying a cargo of 7,900 tons of iron ore she was torpedoed by German submarine U-124 23 miles north of the Butt of Lewis, Hebrides and sunk. There were no survivors from the FIRCREST (Master Russell Helton Tuckett Obe), the master and 38 crew members were lost
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 49.
Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 London
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Mrs. Pretorius, of 138 Brighton Road, Jacobs Durban Hotel, Durban. Born Keetmanshoop. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-1945