Name: |
BONGOZA |
Given Name: |
FRANK |
Initials: |
F |
Service No: |
N/65883 |
Rank: |
PrivateOther Casualties of this Rank |
Regiment: |
Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces |
Date of Death: |
1943-03-03Other Casualties on this
Date |
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 Sonti; husband of Nothusile Bongoza, of Idutywa, Cape Province, South Africa. |