Identity
Person No.
17882
Service No.
N/41982
Last Name
First Name
Simon
Initials
S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,190
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
Grave Reference
Location
Notes
Son of Stephan and Dina Mtshali, of Mooi River, Natal, South Africa.
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