Service Details
Name:
 MDLETSHE
Given Name:
 ALPHEUS
Initials:
 A
Service No:
 N/51497
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1943-03-03
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Age:
 28
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 Abel and Golia Mdletshe, of Mapumulo.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Kwazulu Natal
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Cemetery:
 DURBAN (HILLARY) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot R. Grave 34.

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