Incident 6 - 17/11/39 SS Sirdhana

This website:

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?105177

records the following information:
" The steamship Sirdhana SS, Capt. P. Fairbairn, was leaving Singapore harbour on Monday, November 13th, 1939, with a large number of passengers on board, of whom 137 were Chinese deportees, when she struck a mine some three miles offshore and sank in 20 minutes. Twenty Asiatic deck passengers were killed."

CWGC records 2 deaths, the son and daughter of Assistant Warder Kaurat Singh.