Identity
Person No.
19830
Service No.
72867
Last Name
First Name
Hubert Harold (jock)
Initials
H H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
46
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,204
Drowned
Cause of Death
Drowned at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Military Service
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Locality
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Arthur R. Payne and Amelia E. Payne; husband of Johanna Campbell Payne, of Umzinto Rail, Natal. Born in Pietermaritzburg. Previous service during WW1 in South West Africa, Egypt and France. A Field Worker in the Sugar industry by profession
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