Roll of Honour: Person Info
Personal Details
| Service No: | N/44627 |
| Rank: | Private |
| Last Name: | ZWANE |
| First Name: | ALFRED |
| Initials: | A |
| Born: | Unknown |
Death Details
| Date of Death: | 1943-03-03 |
| Age at 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. |
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