South Africa War Graves Project

Cemetery	SA War Dead #	SA serving in Non-SA units War Dead #	Rhodesia War Dead (includes Non-Rhodesia Units) #	Total	Status - Complete, Underway, Part Done	Volunteer
Hargeisa Memorial	.	.	41	41	.	.
Hargeisa War Cemetery	13	.	5	18	Part Done (3 of 18)	Eric Taylor
Mogadishu African War Cemetery	2	.	3	5	.	.
Country Total	64

Hargeisa lies 204 kilometres from the chief port of Berbera. The Memorial stands in Hargeisa War Cemetery which is 8 kilometres from the airport on the banks of the river and less than half a kilometre from Government House. The Hargeisa Memorial and the Berbera Memorial will also be found in the cemetery. At the outbreak of the Second World War, British Somaliland lay along the coast of the north-eastern horn of the African continent, on the Gulf of Aden. It stretched from Ras Jibuti to Bender Ziada, with French Somaliland and Ethiopia to the west and Somalia (formerly Italian Somaliland) to the south and east. With the Vichy Government in control of French Somaliland, and the rest of the adjoining territory in Italian hands, the position of British Somaliland and its small garrison was precarious when Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940. After a sharp but brief engagement against much larger numbers in difficult terrain, the garrison withdrew. The Italians occupied British Somaliland from August 1940, until it was retaken in March 1941. Hargeisa was the capital of British Somaliland from the setting up of the British Military Administration there in May 1941, until July 1960, when Somalia and the former British Somaliland Protectorate were united to form the Somali Republic. HARGEISA MILITARY CEMETERY contains 115 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War (two of them unidentified), mostly made from the military hospital at Hargeisa. There are also two burials from the First World War, 11 non-war burials and three war graves of other nationalities. The HARGEISA MEMORIAL which stands within the cemetery commemorates those who died during the actions of 1940 and 1941 and who have no known graves. It also commemorates men of British Somaliland domicile who died on service in that country during the period September 1939 to December 1947, whose graves are so situated that maintenance is impossible. The cemetery also contains the BERBERA MEMORIAL, moved here from Berbera in 1962, which commemorates more than 100 men who died in operations in British Somalia during the First World War and whose graves are not known.

AMBAYAMBA JAILOBO, Private, NRA/5235. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mambwe tribe. Panel 4.

ANDISENI ZANDONDA, Private, NRA/466. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mgoni tribe. Panel 4.

BOYLE, Serjeant, WILLIAM, 40017. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 12th August 1940. Age 26. Son of Inspector Richard Henry Boyle, D.M.P. and Elizabeth Boyle, of Dalkey, Co. Dublin, Irish Republic. M.Sc., B.A. (Dublin): Trinity College. Panel 3.

BWALYA PILA, Private, NRA/493. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

BWEZANI JUMA BWEZANI, Private, NRA/1044. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Nyanja tribe. Panel 4.

CHANDA MAKUMA, Private, NRA/472. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

CHANDA ROBERT, Private, NRA/808. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

CHEDULANI LAZARO, Private, NRA/788. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwisa tribe. Panel 4.

CHIBILITI MASOMBWE, Serjeant, NRA/72. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 3.

CHIKASU, Private, SAMUEL, NRA/5052. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mchewa tribe. Panel 4.

CHITAMBA TENTABUNGA, Corporal, NRA/320. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mashakalumbwe tribe. Panel 4.

FOLE MESALIAS, Private, NRA/559. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mchiwa tribe. Panel 4.

KABANDA CHILESNYA, Serjeant, NRA/426. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 3.

KABUKA MUTALI, Private, NRA/966. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

KABWE BWEMBIA, Private, NRA/746. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

KABWE CHIBAYA, Private, NRA/921. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 30th August 1940. Of Mulungu tribe. Panel 4.

KALENGA MUTALI, Corporal, NRA/374. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

KAWALE GENI, Private, NRA/5160. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mchewa tribe. Panel 4.

KEZIAS BAILA, Private, NRA/5128. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 9th August 1940. Of Mchewa tribe. Panel 4.

LAMEK CHIKAMBA, Private, NRA/517. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 4.

MASILELE MWILULU, Private, NRA/5070. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mrosi tribe. Panel 4.

MISHEKE BWALE, Private, NRA/941. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwamba tribe. Panel 4.

MUDENDA MALAO, Private, NRA/899. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Tonga tribe. Panel 4.

MULENGA KAPITI, Private, NRA/697. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

MUZUWA SHINTUBA, Private, NRA/5056. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 4.

MWANAMWLA SHIMONJILA, Private, NRA/723. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 4.

MWILA KAPAYA, Private, NRA/776. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

PATULANI KAMBWEMBA, Private, NRA/5147. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mchewa tribe. Panel 4.

SAMPA TOMPWE, Private, NRA/411. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 16th August 1940. Of Mwemba tribe. Panel 4.

SHABATI CHANDA, Private, NRA/5168. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 16th August 1940. Of Mulenge tribe. Panel 4.

SHIKASAKO KALOMBWE, Lance Corporal, NRA/249. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 16th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 4.

SHIKAUNDU KAMBANGU, Lance Corporal, NRA/308. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 16th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 4.

SHIMUBA MUSEVU, Private, NRA/748. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 4.

SHIMUNZA MWANANYUMBU, Private, NRA/747. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mulumba tribe. Panel 4.

SHIMUNZA MWENGA, Serjeant, NRA/300. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 16th August 1940. Of Mwila tribe. Panel 3.

SIMONI MULUMBI, Private, NRA/979. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mwaushi tribe. Panel 4.

SMITH, Second Lieutenant, GEORGE BRIAN, Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 18th August 1940. Panel 3.

TABLE ALOBENI, Private, NRA/5158. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 15th August 1940. Of Mchewa tribe. Panel 4.

THOMAS, Private, ALEXANDER MORGAN, Mentioned in Despatches, 2763790. 2nd Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). 17th August 1940. Age 26. Son of Morgan Charles and Emily Thomas; husband of Eileen Thomas, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Panel 1.

WAPAMESA KAPE, Private, NRA/977. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 16th August 1940. Of Mwaushi tribe. Panel 4.

WELUZANI ZUINGIALI, Private, NRA/594. 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 11th - 18th August 1940. Of Mukunda tribe. Panel 5.

ANDERSON, Private, WALTER SCOTT, 215288. 1 Dock Operating Coy. South African Railways and Harbours Brigade. 9th October 1941. Age 21. Son of Charles W. and Maria E. Anderson, of Unified, Transvaal, South Africa C. 26

GIRDLESTONE, Lieutenant, JAMES NELSON, 104225. South African Reserve Mechanical Transport. 11th August 1941. B. 16

JAMESON, Sapper, GEORGE FREDERICK, 216963. 41 Harbour Constr. Coy. South African Engineer Corps. 2nd June 1941. D. 39

JUMAT, Private, GOLIATH, C/168982. Cape Corps, S.A. Forces. 16th January 1942. Age 25. Son of Elizabeth Jumat, of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa B. 26

KLOPPER, Captain, G P, 223535. South African Reserve Mechanical Transport. 19th September 1941. Age 33. Son of Gerhardus P. J. and Wilhelmina C. C. Klopper, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Alice Klopper, of Pretoria B. 13

OLANDER, Corporal, HAROLD ANDREW JOSEPH, 216928. 41 Harbour Constr. Coy. South African Engineer Corps. 14th August 1941. D. 41

RHODA, Private, NOBLE, M/12461. Indian and Malay Corps, S.A. Forces. 20th March 1942. C. 30

ROBERTS, Sapper, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, 190251. 34 Constr. Coy. South African Engineer Corps. 9th June 1941. D. 42

RUSSELL, Lance Corporal, WILLIAM ALFRED, 125540. 1 Field Butchery Coy. Q Service Corps, S.A. Forces. 23rd May 1941. Age 33. Son of Thomas and Charlotte Russell, of Brades Village, Oldbury, Worcestershire D. 43

SPEEK, Private, JACOB, C/169064. Cape Corps, S.A. Forces. 2nd February 1942. B. 28

STEPHENS, Captain, WILLIAM HENRY, 213551. South African Railways and Harbours Brigade. 1st October 1941. B. 11

SWART, Driver, CORNELIUS JACOBUS, 186450. South African Reserve Mechanical Transport. 31st July 1941. Age 25. Son of Hendrik A. and Beatrix H. Swart, of Heidelberg, Cape Province, South Africa B. 18

VAN SCHALKWYK, Private, C, C/168349. Cape Corps, S.A. Forces. 21st September 1941. D. 46

HARGEISA WAR CEMETERY JOHNSTON G J J Lieutenant 32nd Lancers 17-May-15 0 C. 22. . ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918

CROMPTON, Captain, HERBERT WOODARD, Southern Rhodesia Forces attd. Somaliland Scouts. 30th August 1944. Age 35. Son of Wilfred and Hilda Beryl Crompton, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. B. 9.

DODGSON, Second Lieutenant, RAYMOND AUSTEN, 1st Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 18th August 1940. C. 28.

STORE MULUMBA, Private, NRA/15143. 5th Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 8th January 1944. C. 6.

THAL, Lance Corporal, BASIL JACK, 2763791. 2nd Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). 17th August 1940. Age 23. Son of Maurice and Cecilia Thal, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. D. 45.

Mogadishu African War Cemetey is 2 kilometres north-east of the town, 2 kilometres from the sea, beyond the Maritime Military Hospital.

SIMONS, Private, ISMC, M/12477. Indian and Malay Corps, S.A. Forces. 9th June 1941. Husband of D. Simons, of Durbanville, Cape Province, South Africa 2. 36

VAN NIEKERK, Private, CAREL, M/13020. Indian and Malay Corps, S.A. Forces. 18th March 1941. 3. 30

DANIEL BWEMBYA, Corporal, AC/21805. 4th Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 9th March 1944. 2. 5.

KAMZIMBE SAMILANI, Private, NRA/10400. 2nd Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 17th June 1941. 2. 35.

LANTENTI KASESE, Private, NRA/10541. 5th Bn. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 5th December 1941. 1. 12.