
First Engineer Herbert Leonard Raffray
Mercantile Marine. S.S. "Echunga"
(Port Adelaide)
05/09/1917
Son of Durell Ph. and Jane M. Raffray (nee Le Breton),
of 24, Commercial Buildings, Jersey. Born at Grouville,
Jersey.
Lost at sea, aged 34 years
S.S. "Echunga" (Port Adelaide), 6,285 tons,
defensively-armed, 5 September 1917, 40 miles N by E
from Ushant, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine,
9 lives lost.
Commemorated on Grouville Parish Memorial, Jersey
and on Jersey Mercantile Marine Memorial at Jersey Maritime
Museum
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record