5370Captain Copernicus Kepler De Meillon, Intelligence Staff (5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)), aged 35.Killed in action, at Garub.
1915
25672Lieutenant George Herbert Tweedy, 4th Regt. (South African Mounted Rifles), aged 41.Committed suicide, self inflicted gun shot wound.
1916
41008Labourer John Lengo, 30497, Railway Section (South African Native Labour Corps), aged 25.Died of phthisis, at Kimberley.
1917
3524Private Vincent Frank Catlett, 181, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry).Killed in action.
1917
5048Driver Jacob Davids, 17026, South African Native Labour Bureau.Kitambi.
1917
8880Labourer William Guaquaza, 7701, South African Native Labour Bureau.Died on active service.
1917
9996Labourer Sengani Hlongwane, 13785, South African Native Labour Bureau.Died of pneumonia, at Dar es Salaam.
1917
10530Driver Albert Hunt, MT/1653, M.t. (South African Service Corps).Died of blackwater fever.
1917
18372Private Albert Nceka, 5975, 3rd Bn. (South African Native Labour Corps).Died of alcohol poisoning, at No. 4 Stationary Hospital, Arques.
1917
22728Equine Driver Hlongwane Senzani, 13785, Equine Transport (South African Native Labour Bureau).Died of pneumonia, at Dar Es Salaam.
1917
25022Driver William Thipe, 12903, African Transport (South African Native Labour Bureau).Died of dysentery and malaria, at Duthumi.
1918
10924Private Jacob Jacobsohn, 14096, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of wounds.
1918
12090Private Jack Kesianye, 24129, 41st Bn. (South African Native Labour Corps).Died of pericardiac.
1918
15368Private Klaas Mashirane, 10588, 17th Coy. (South African Native Labour Corps).Died of tuberculosis of the lungs.
1918
16594Second Lieutenant George North Middleton, 18th Training Sqdn. (Royal Flying Corps), aged 26.Killed whilst flying, at Montrose.
1919
1408Sapper George Beck, 1430, Divisional Signal Coy. (South African Signal Service), aged 43.Died of blackwater fever.
1919
4459Private Johannes Cooper, 16801, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of broncho pneumonia due to exposure.
1919
10667Driver Clement Cataldus Inggs, MT/7475, M.t. (South African Service Corps), aged 33.Died of appendicitis and dysentery, at Roberts Heights.
1919
27230Rifleman Harold John Venables, R/15384, 3rd Bn. (King's Royal Rifle Corps), aged 43.Died on active service.
1920
8073Driver Bernardus Lambertus Geyser, 980, M.t. (South African Service Corps), aged 40.Died of nephritis.
1941
987Private Fred Joseph Hildebrand Ball, 4362, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 24.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
1312Private Arthur Batten, 144751, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 30.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
1635Private Clive Gerald Berlyn, 4480, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 19.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
1975Sergeant Robert Herman Frederick Ernest Blomeyer, 4367, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 26.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
2141Private Reginald Joseph Borien, 14395, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces).Killed in action.
1941
4338Private Peter Courtney Comrie, 144756, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 22.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
4457Private Herbert William Cooper, 4382, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 20.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
4513Lance Corporal Hamilton Hope Cornish, 2329337, 7th Armd. Div. Sigs. (Royal Corps of Signals), aged 28.Died on active service.
1941
4569Private John Arthur Cowan, 4384, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 21.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
5804Flight Sergeant John William Dixon, 47248, 11 Sqdn. (South African Air Force).Killed in action, shot down, in Fairey Battle Mk I #926. Managed to bale out. He was taken prisoner and an Italian officer ordered a native NCO to escort him to headquarters. On the way Dixon apparently boasted of having taking part in recent raids on Mogadishu, where a lot of locals had been killed. His guard of locally recruited colonial troops at once sentenced him to death and shot him.
1941
8425Private Ian Alexander Gordon, 4411, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 22.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
9213Corporal Sydney Harle, 14642, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces).Killed in action.
1941
9512Private Irwin Alexander Hayes, 14643, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces).Killed in action.
1941
10264Private Brian Melville Hornby, 4481, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 22.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
13732Private Frederick William Parker Lock, 18638, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces).Killed in action.
1941
15901Private Donovan Bertram McCullough, 4433, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 18.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
16419Private Frederick Joseph Merry, 55727, 2nd (South African Reserve Mechanical Transport), aged 37.Killed in action.
1941
16660Private John Anthony Miller, 75121, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces), aged 17.Killed in action.
1941
17916Private John Harold Muir, 4536, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 21.Died of wounds. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
18039Private Raymond George Munnik, 75154, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces).Killed in action.
1941
21675Lance Corporal Hallowes Addison Robinson, 4445, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 29.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
21690Corporal Roy Brown Robinson, 4446, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 22.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
21786Private Daniel Christian Roodt, 78868, 3rd Bn. (Transvaal Scottish, S.A. Forces), aged 20.Died at Mega, Abyssinia.
1941
22000Lieutenant Jack Rudd, 14234, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces), aged 32.Killed in action.
1941
23299Lieutenant Ivan William Gillespie Slabber, 102861, 5th Wing (South African Air Force), aged 22.Died in Aircraft Accident, stalled in turn crashed Elsburg, in De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth #504.
1941
27198Private Herbert Rex Boyd Varty, 4497, 1st (Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces), aged 21.Killed in action. Elements of "C" Coy, while on patrol near Gelib, Somaliland, were approached by an Italian officer under a white flag, apparently with the intention of surrendering. The Patrol Commander went forward to arrange matters but while this was underway, they were surrounded by Italian Native troops who opened fire on them from under cover.
1941
28497Lance Corporal Mervyn Williams, 107632, 1st (Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces).Died of wounds.
1942
1072Private Conley David Barclay, 242121, 1st Bn. (Transvaal Scottish, S.A. Forces), aged 20.Died of wounds.
1942
5204First Radio Officer Edward Jodrell Day, M.V. Kars (London) (Merchant Navy), aged 49.Presumed drowned, through loss of ship.
1942
11388Air Corporal Jonck, 314136, South African Air Force, aged 32.Died on active service.
1942
16730Lieutenant Dallas Walter Clarence Milton, 103476, 1 Air School (South African Air Force), aged 24.Died in Aircraft Accident, failed to clear rising ground SE of Baragwanath, in DH82A Tiger Moth #1495.
1942
19052Private John Ntishane, N/11367, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces.Died of pulmonary tuberculosis.
1942
20534Air Mechanic Frederik Johannes Potgieter, 101276, South African Air Force, aged 23.Died of gun shot wound, in Potgietersrust Hospital.
1942
29011Air Mechanic Aubrey Tennyson Young, 208394, South African Air Force, aged 25.Died in accident, near Amriya.
1943
8269Air Mechanic Karel Frederik Gottlieb Gnade, 326313, South African Air Force.Died of myocardial degeneration.
1943
14664Private George Makgoro, N/13266, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces.Died of fractured skull, received in motor accident.
1943
18758Lieutenant Gerald Hope John Nicholson, 206378, 2 Adu Raf (South African Air Force).Died on active service.
1944
1068Lieutenant John Barbour, 96022V, 48 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 29.Died in Aircraft Accident, crew of a Hudson bomber of the South African Air Force and their two R.A.F. passengers, were killed when their aircraft failed to clear the 1820 metres eastern wall of the Serra da Estrela at the Penta da Gato.
1944
3713Private Chigwadi, 2213, Rhodesian African Rifles.Died on active service.
1944
3889Lieutenant Clive Harcourt Clark, 328718V, 16 Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 22.Killed in action, flew into sea on sweep 40 miles S of Zante, in Bristol Beaufighter #LZ337.
1944
5699Private Chola Dickson, NRA/17764, 6th Bn (Northern Rhodesia Regiment).Died on active service.
1944
6905Private Fanyana, 2241, Rhodesian African Rifles.Died on active service.
1944
9874Captain Robert Taverner Hildick, 205812V, 48 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 21.Died in Aircraft Accident, crew of a Hudson bomber of the South African Air Force and their two R.A.F. passengers, were killed when their aircraft failed to clear the 1820 metres eastern wall of the Serra da Estrela at the Penta da Gato.
1944
9992Private Hlome, 2242, Rhodesian African Rifles.Died on active service.
1944
11184Corporal Johannes Jewell, C/13016, Cape Corps, S.A. Forces.Died on active service.
1944
23578Lieutenant Neville Arthur Smith, 206342V, 16 Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 24.Killed in action, flew into sea on sweep 40 miles S of Zante, in Bristol Beaufighter #LZ337.
1944
25038Lieutenant John Patie Thom, 102267V, 48 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 25.Died in Aircraft Accident, crew of a Hudson bomber of the South African Air Force and their two R.A.F. passengers, were killed when their aircraft failed to clear the 1820 metres eastern wall of the Serra da Estrela at the Penta da Gato.
1944
27674Lieutenant Daniel De Waal Walters, 542244V, 48 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 29.Died in Aircraft Accident, crew of a Hudson bomber of the South African Air Force and their two R.A.F. passengers, were killed when their aircraft failed to clear the 1820 metres eastern wall of the Serra da Estrela at the Penta da Gato.
1944
28266Second Lieutenant Bernard Andrew Whittet, 329080V, 71 Operational Training Unit RAF (South African Air Force), aged 21.Died at Ismailia Air Station, Egypt.
1945
5458Private Ruiter De Wee, C/319102V, Cape Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 30.Died of injuries, received in motor car accident.
1945
9881Lieutenant Alan George Hill, 328621V, 183 Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 20.Killed in action, crashed in flames after being hit by flak. Would have been flying a Hawker Typhoon and based out of Gilze Rijen, Southern Netherlands at the time and flying in support of US offensive in the Ardennes.
1945
13330Captain Anton Lens, 206321, 183 Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 23.Killed in action, crashed in flames after being hit by flak. Would have been flying a Hawker Typhoon and based out of Gilze Rijen, Southern Netherlands at the time and flying in support of US offensive in the Ardennes.
1945
14768Private Masheto Malekani, NRA/14470, Northern Rhodesia Regiment.Died on active service.
1945
18155Private Wilson Muskoana, N/17661, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces.Presumed died, whilst a POW, in Germany.
1945
18671Private Wellington Ngcobo, N/3470, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 37.Died of shock and haemorrhage.
1945
23481Private Edward James Smith, 591850V, Q Service Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 19.Died on active service.
1946
120Private Dennis Peter Adams, C/289367, Cape Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 21.Died of stab wound to chest and heart, after discharge.
1946
23015Air Corporal Jack Shrock, 19481, South African Air Force, aged 26.Died of pulmonary tuberculosis.
1946
28922Private Wucherpfennig, 279091, South African Medical Corps, aged 22.Died on active service.
1947
17006Private Mogashoa, N/1221, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces.Died on active service.
1956
344292nd Class Sergeant Stephanus J D De Lange, 13980, 40 Dist (Krugersdorp) Tvl Div (South African Police), aged 46.Killed by natives while destroying dagga in the Upper Tugela location.
1956
34732Constable Henry Gabela, 136162, Kwazulu Natal (South African Police), aged 37.Killed by natives while destroying dagga in the Upper Tugela location.
1956
35255Lance Sergeant Willem Johannes Koorts, 24820, Gauteng (South African Police), aged 30.Killed by natives while destroying dagga in the Upper Tugela location.
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