Identity
Person No.
12214
Service No.
P/2068
Last Name
First Name
John William
Initials
J W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
50
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,203
Drowned
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
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer Class I
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of John and Kathleen Killeen; husband of Agnes Mary Killeen, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Research notes
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Veterinary Corps" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
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