In Memory Of

MDLETSHE, ALPHEUS

Service Details
Age:
 28
Service No:
 N/51497
Rank:
 Private
Regiment:
 Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces
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:
 Plot R. Grave 34.
Cemetery:
 DURBAN (HILLARY) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Kwazulu Natal
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Abel and Golia Mdletshe, of Mapumulo.