Ernest George LINDSAY [29653]

  General Notes:

Ernest is recorded below with a death date of 9 March but his neice Kathy Lindsay says that was when the survivors of the Yarra were picked up, by that time Ernest had died and was probably buried at sea.
Ref: <https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/yarra/loss>

9 March 1942
Timor Sea
Ernest George Lindsay
Rank Ordinary Artificer 1st Class
Unit HMAS Yarra II
Service RAN
Conflict 1939-1945 WW2
Date of Death (Yarra sunk by Japanese In the Timor Sea - died of burns In life boat before he could be picked up by Dutch ship) 9 March 1942

Ernest George Lindsay
Age 41
Birth Date abt 1901
Death Date 9 Mar 1942
Cemetery Naval Memorials In The United Kingdom Plymouth Part Vi
Burial Country England
Father Ernest Edwin Lindsay
Mother Jessie Caroline Lindsay
Regimental Number 13764
Region or Memorial Memorial Register

Ernest married Dorothy Rosa THURLOW [29600] [MRIN: 10475], daughter of Edward William David Ah POO [17883] and Beatrice Rosa HORTIN [17884]. (Dorothy Rosa THURLOW [29600] was born on 8 Aug 1906 in Morningside Victoria and died on 7 Jan 1997.)