In Memory Of
HOWIE, ADRIAN MORRISON
Service Details
Age:
53
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
P/130639
Rank:
Major
Regiment:
South African Veterinary Corps
Date of Death:
1943-03-03
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Face 19.
Cemetery:
RANGOON MEMORIAL
Country:
Myanmar
Additional Information
Decorations:
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Citations:
LG Sup 7 February 1919
Son of Thomas J. and Mary M. Howie; husband of Agnes M. N. Howie, of Plumstead, Cape Town, South Africa. M.R.C.V.S. Howie's Military Medals, including his O.B.E., are housed in the Museum at the Castle in Cape Town
