DRAKE, Ernest Alan
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Fireman |
| Last Unit: | SS Boorara |
| Born: | Tasmania, Australia, 1885 |
| Home Town: | New Town, Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Torpedo struck ship, At Sea - approximately 2.5 nautical miles South-East of Beachy Head. , 20 March 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Southampton (Hollybrook) Cemetery B. 5. 54 (Coll.) |
| Memorials: | Campbell Australian Merchant Seamen Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Fireman, SS Boorara |
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Son of Annie Drake, of 18, Pirie St., New Town, Tasmania, and the late Samuel Drake.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
Daily Post (Hobart, Tasmania) 30-3-1918
LATE FIREMAN DRAKE.
In reference to the regrettable death of Fireman Drake. Mr. F. Drake was informed of his son's death in consequence of a letter from the district naval officer for Tasmania, who requested Captain D. Baker to convey the sad intelligence to the next of kin, together with a sincere expression of the sympathy of the Minister and of the Naval Board. The circumstances prevent us from publication of details, but the whole community will grieve at the accidental death of this very promising and gallant son of a well known Tasmanian citizen. Fireman Drake was many years in the service of the Union Steamship Company. Mr. Drake, it may be mentioned, has two other sons at the front.
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