Ralph Harvey Darroch

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Ralph Harvey AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Darroch AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

R.H. Darrock AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

1917

Public - Matt - Researcher - 13 May 2025 - BDM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Harvey Douglas Darroch (father), Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Merchant Navy AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Merchant Navy AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

First Radio Officer (MN)/Military AWMM
Merchant Navy, SS Amicus AWMM

Matenga

19 Dec 1940 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Tower Hill Memorial, Trinity Square, London, England AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Takapuna War Memorial, The Strand, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Takapuna War Memorial, (ex RSA Roll, on a boulder), The Strand, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• 1939-1945 Roll of Honour, Takapuna Rugby Football Club, Onewa Domain, Takapuna AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• New Zealand History online. Roll of Honour - the Merchant Navy
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-merchant-navy/roll-of-honour
  Sources Used
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Takapuna War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/takapuna-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Tower Hill Memorial a privately compiled website
  http://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower%20Hill/index.html
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• British merchant vessels lost or damaged by enemy action during Second World War, 3rd September 1939 to 2nd September 1945
• Tennent, A. (2001). British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines 1939-45. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing.
• New Zealand Deaths Register - Merchant Navy, Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R160611)
• Atkinson, N. (2005). Hell or high water : New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war. HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.