Identity
Person No.
18867
Service No.
N/43354
Last Name
First Name
Danster
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,197
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
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of Paul Mphela and Nakaphala Mphela, of Magnet Heights, Lydenburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories
No stories have been added yet.
Dedications
No dedications have been added yet.