We wish to provide a Headstone for a lad murdered 98 years ago. Ordinary Seaman George Ritchie joined the Royal Australian Navy at age 16, on the 19th of July 1922 when he joined the Training Ship HMAS Tingira anchored in Rose Bay Sydney as a Boy Seaman 2nd Class. He was onboard Tingira until 2nd Oct 1923 progressing through the ranks to Boy Seaman 1st Class & Ordinary Seaman and he was posted (sent) to the Light Cruiser HMAS Brisbane (I) for further training. Where just over 6 months later he was brutally murdered while asleep in his hammock. Another sailor on the ship was found to have hanged himself and is suspected of being responsible for George's murder. George was buried in the Catholic Naval Section of Rookwood Cemetery Sydney, he was not sent home to Melbourne. It was deemed he did not die in the line of duty and so he was not provided with a headstone. He was 17, three months short of his 18th birthday/ His family (his farther and 5 siblings) could not afford to provide one for him. The Naval Graves Project seeks your help to request the Government to provide a headstone so that by the 100th Anniversary of his death in two years he will finally have a headstone.