Identity
Person No.
2008
Service No.
N/50403
Last Name
First Name
Hendrik
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
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 Katherina Bobesa, of Boshof, Orange Free State, South Africa.
Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project