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Identity
Person No.
15860
Service No.
37219
Last Name
First Name
Victor
Initials
V
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
Unknown
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
Locality
Unknown
Additional Information
Notes

Son of Mr. P. McClean. Born Belfast, Ireland

Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project

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