In Memory Of

RODEN, RONALD

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 6852995
Rank:
 Rifleman
Unit:
 1st Bn.
Regiment:
 King's Royal Rifle Corps
Date of Death:
 1943-06-17
Cause of Death:
 Lost in S.S. Yoma (Glasgow), Passenger/Cargo liner of 8,131 tons of the British and Burmese Steam Navigation Co., serving in the Mediterranean as an auxiliary transport. She was in convoy with the ships SS Amarapoora, Pegu, Kemmendine and Sagaing en route from Sfax to Alexandria when she was sunk by the U-81 near Derna. On board were 1,670 troops of which 451 were lost. Capt. George Patterson and 32 crew members also perished.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 13. Column 2.
Cemetery:
 BROOKWOOD 1939-1945 MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Surrey
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
On the Southern Rhodesia Roll of Honour. Commemorated on the Matabeleland War Memorial in Bulawayo.