In Memory Of

VAN DER LINDE, LOUIS JOHANNES

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 6856746
Rank:
 Corporal
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
Son of Barend Christoffel and Christina Jacomina Van Der Linde; husband of Emilina Van Der Linde (nee Mynhardt), of Mutambara, Southern Rhodesia. On the Melsetter, Rhodesia War Memorial