Identity
Person No.
16284
Service No.
N/51497
Last Name
First Name
Alpheus
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
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
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Coordinates
Additional Information
Notes
Son of Abel and Golia Mdletshe, of Mapumulo.
Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project