Identity
Person No.
2671
Service No.
99156
Last Name
First Name
Francis Wesley
Initials
F W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
47
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost 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
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 141.
Notes
Son of Thomas and Sarah Brokensha; husband of May C. Brokensha, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Awarded the Royal Humane Society's Medal. Commemoration stone in Dundee Cemetery
Citations
From RHS - Brokensha, W. Case 38660 - At 11 a.m. on the 21st July, 1911, J.C. Burton was bathing in the sea at Amanzimtoti, Natal, and got into difficulty. W. Brokensha went to his help but could not save him, and was himself washed ashore half an hour after.
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