Service Details
Name:
 KILLEEN
Given Name:
 JOHN WILLIAM
Initials:
 J W
Service No:
 P/2068
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
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Regiment:
 South African Veterinary Corps
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Date of Death:
 1943-03-03
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Age:
 50
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.
Additional
Information:
Son of John and Kathleen Killeen; husband of Agnes Mary Killeen, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Myanmar
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Cemetery:
 RANGOON MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Face 19.

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