Identity
Person No.
14662
Service No.
N/53693
Last Name
First Name
William
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Drowned, on S. S. Nirpura. At 23.22 hours on 3 Mar, 1943, U-160 made her first attack on the convoy DN-21 about 40 miles south of Port St.Johns, South Africa, sank the Harvey W. Scott and Nirpura and damaged the Tibia. 38 men from the Nirpura (Master Thomas George Hodgkinson) were lost and 88 (including the master) were picked up by the SAAF crash launch R-8 and landed at Durban
Grave Reference
Location
Additional Information
Notes
Son of Mamothos and Mamohlago Makgopa, of Pietersburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project