More about Horatio Herbert John Jack

For reasons unknown this man is not listed in the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Dundee Y.M.C.A. Roll of Honour.

On April 2nd, 1917, the British steel cargo ship BENLARIG, left Fremantle for Colombo with a cargo of wheat in bags and went missing. She was not heard of again.

Horatio H Jack, born in Grimsby, was the son of Mr Robert Jack and Mrs Marion Macintosh Jack (nee Murray) of 15 William Street, Dundee. The Leith registered cargo ship Benlarig sailed from She sailed from the UK in December, 1916 bound for Australia. She departed Fremantle, in Western Australia, on 2 April 1917 bound for Columbo with a cargo of bagged wheat but was not seen again. Twelve of the crew, including Horatio H J Jack are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial and eighteen Chinese crew are commemorated on the Chinese Memorial in Hong Kong.