Commandos who died on the Montevideo Maru

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Patrick Bourke

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According to the Australian War Memorial's and Defence Department's records the following members of the 1st Independent Company died on the MS Montevideo Maru on 1st July 1942:

Queensland: D R Ainsbury; R Brown-Bishop; R E Dwyer; W J Fagan; W E Flood; R Harrison; C Highland; F A Irvine; C Jackson; C J Olsen; H J Petersen; H V Sherwin; J B Squire; W H Thompson; H P Turnbull

Victoria: B Andrew; C W Bleasby; C W Boyd; R H Bromilow; D C Burrell; A Carr; A L C Davis; T G Godfrey; R A Harman; F R Hughes; G R Lamble; R Lees; M S Lyons; C G McAliece; D McDougall; J E Metcalfe; N J Murray; R E Norton; W S Patterson; A E Philpott; F M Pollock; R Potter; G B Reed; L G Reidell; K J Sampson; H P Smith; W E Taylor; S G Uhlman

New South Wales: F J Attwood; R W Barrett; V Bexton; P T L Browne; P J Byrne; J J Carter; E H Cook; W T Cracknell; R G Curtis; J W Day; L C Evans; W L Everingham; A B Franks; R A Fraser; A J George; K V Geyer; E K Ghiggioli; R C Glasson; H A Gulliford; J D Hannay; R E Hellman; J K Henry; A J Hogan; F E Hopkins; E S Hottes; J R Hyatt; J L Jarrett;  B G Kelly; D A Laird; L A Lambert; W G Lambourn; D J Little; W J Lowe; A McDiarmid; G S McKeown; J S McKeown; S W McNamara; H E Miller; A E Moffat; W E Morton; J C Munro; S L Nicholson; B G Patterson; J N Pearce; N T F Pemble; W J Pickford; F M Rae; K M Ramsay; S J G Reeve; S L Roberts; F H Sadler; H F Schiffmann; L L Seater; L S Sibraa; B J Slaven; E D Smith; F W Smith; E C Stanton; A G Starkey; L W Stewart; J A Thomson; J Thornton; J F M Tole; D G Turner; D J Turner; S S Turner; W S J Turner; L R Willding; C J Woodward; F S Woolley; R H Yerbury (D G Turner, D J Turner and SS Turner were brothers)

South Australia: C R Harvey; H Hobbs; A P Noonan; R L Paine; R S Roberts; M R Searcy; T A Shaw; W A Tippetts; W H Walker

Western Australia: W E Armstrong; E J Brown; W E R Dennis; G R Densley; C F Henson; K J Mansfield; C Nolan; C A Sauer; T J Watson

New Ireland (PNG): J F Morell 

On 21 June 2010, in the Australian Parliament, Statements of Condolences were made to the families who lost loved ones when the Montevideo Maru was sunk on 1 July 1942.

The condolences included these 133 commandos. Also, on 21 June 2010, three Australian commandos were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. 

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