Identity
Person No.
29029
Service No.
37282
Last Name
First Name
Reuben Stanley
Initials
R S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
46
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
Additional Information
Notes
Son of William and Mary A. Young, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Annie Florence Young, of Johannesburg. Born Johannesburg. A municipal tram conductor
Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project