In Memory Of

KILLEEN, JOHN WILLIAM

Service Details
Age:
 50
Service No:
 P/2068
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
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
Son of John and Kathleen Killeen; husband of Agnes Mary Killeen, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.