Identity
Person No.
14543
Service No.
N/50889
Last Name
First Name
Tozamile
Initials
T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
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
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of Meshack and Lizzie Mahlahla, of Peelton, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Lizzie Mahlahla.
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