In Memory Of

FERNAU, RODERICK LEWIS

Service Details
Age:
 35
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 161043
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 attd. Royal Engineers
Regiment:
 Royal Army Service 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 15. Column 2.
Cemetery:
 BROOKWOOD 1939-1945 MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Surrey
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Edmond Bernard and Ethel Elizabeth Camille Fernau; husband of Barbara Eva Fernau, of Rolvenden Layne, Kent. On Knysna War Memorial