The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Able Seaman (AB) Alfred Jillard holding his daughter Lois on his final leave in Melbourne. AB Jillard, a member of the RAN Reserve, was assigned in August 1942 to the Shaw Savill liner SS Ceramic as a DEMS Gunner (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship). On the evening of 6 December 1942 the Ceramic was west of the Azores in the North Atlantic unescorted and bound for Australia carrying 280 seaman and 380 passengers, including 100 women and children, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-515. Before lifeboats could be lowered the old liner capsized and sank. The Ceramic's three RAN DEMS Gunners, C.H. Bruce, A.J. Jillard and G.W. Levitzke, were all lost. The sole survivor, a sapper in the Royal Engineers, was picked up by the submarine and taken to Germany as a prisoner of war.
Mrs Rita Jillard and her three children, from the left, John, Lois and Neill, stand at the Shrine of Remembrance one Anzac Day in the early 1950s. Mrs Jillard is holding three small Union Jack flags i
Studio portrait of S5973 Able Seaman (AB) Neil Roberts, of Sydney, NSW. AB Roberts was on board HMAS Kuttabul on the night of 31 May 1942 when the converted ferry was sunk in Sydney Harbour from a tor
Street portrait of S3014 Able Seaman (AB) Walter Frederick Sainty, Royal Australian Navy. AB Sainty was posted to the destroyer HMAS Vendetta in October 1941, where he ran supplies to Australian units
Group portrait of members of the winners of the "Millions Club Cup" on board HMAS Sydney. Left to right, back row: Able Seaman (AB) Savill, AB Ellison, AB HAtter, AB Stevens, AB Day. Middle row: AB Ba
Fremantle, WA. Left or port side view of the transport Ceramic which during World War 1 was requisitioned by the Commonwealth for use as a transport and was part of the first convoy transporting the f
Pre-enlistment studio portrait of S4343 Able Seaman (AB) Ronald George ('Bill') Chapman, of Watsons Bay, NSW. AB Chapman, a clerk prior to enlistment, was killed in action on 12 November 1942, aged 26
