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yarpiebrit · 6 years
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There is a very big elephant in the room when it comes to the South African Naval fraternity’s commemoration and remembrance undertakings.  Very often in veteran fraternity and South African Navy circles there’s a raging argument – why does the South African Navy and SANDF only commemorate the sinking of the SS Mendi during World War 1 when scant attention is given to the sinking of the SAS President Kruger?  It’s ‘political’ is the universal chant of disbelief and failed honour, a travesty of the African National Congress’ (ANC) rhetoric of constantly vanquishing the ‘old’ navy and SADF statutory forces.
But they are ignoring a very big ‘elephant’, something that began as a travesty long before the ANC came to power in 1994.  It’s an elephant that sits squarely at the door of the old Apartheid Nationalist government and is entirely their doing.  When they came to power they began vanquishing anyone who supported ‘Britain’ during World War 2 as some sort of traitor, made worse because the South African Navy was so intrinsically tied to the Royal Navy via the Simonstown agreement that they never really instituted memorials or commemorations to them.  To the old Afrikaner nationalists this was ‘Britain’s problem’ to remember them.
As a result the scope of our World War 2 sacrifice barely gets a mention in the ‘Mendi vs. President Kruger’ argument.   In fact the scope, the size of this sacrifice will come as a surprise to many South Africans – including our Naval veterans fraternity and current Navy personnel.
The ‘elephant’ of sacrifice 
To give you an idea of just how BIG this ‘elephant in the room is, lets cover the Honour Roll – it far outstrips any South African Naval sacrifice in the post world war era.  Yet the South African Navy and the current government gives absolutely no attention to it, not at all – not one single official South African Navy (SAN) parade or ceremony.  Not even a dedicated Naval memorial is given to these men.
We start with South Africa’s own ship’s lost in World War 2, all of them minesweepers. (Note on the honour roll when reading it SANF means the member was part of the ‘South African Naval Forces’ and MPK means ‘Missing Presumed Killed’).
The first South African ship lost in the Mediterranean near Tobruk was the HMSAS Southern Floe with its remarkable tale of a single survivor (see this link for a full story – click here: The HMSAS Southern Floe was the SA Navy’s first ship loss & it carries with it a remarkable tale of survival.).
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HMSAS Southern Floe
The Honour Roll of sacrifice on the HMSAS Southern Floe as follows:
ANDERS, John, Steward, 69637 (SANF), MPK BOWER, Robert, Stoker 1c, 69935 (SANF), MPK BRAND, Leslie A, Able Seaman, 69828 (SANF), MPK CAULFIELD, Patrick, Steward, 69802 (SANF), MPK CHANDLER, Charles R D, Cook (S), 69613 (SANF), MPK CHENOWETH, Richard, Stoker 1c, 67420 (SANF), MPK FAIRLEY, Alexander E, Sub Lieutenant SANF, MPK FRIEDLANDER, Cecil A, Able Seaman, 114703 (SANF), MPK GARDINER, Elliott, Able Seaman, 67260 (SANF), MPK GREENACRE, John H, Leading Seaman, 69677 (SANF), MPK HEASMAN, Gratwicke E E, Engine Room Artificer 4c, 69784 (SANF), MPK HOGG, Roy S, Sub Lieutenant, SANF, MPK INNES, Ian Mck, Sub Lieutenant, SANF, MPK LEWIS, John Edward Joseph, :Lieutenant, 70019 (SANF), MPK MARSH, Reginald H Y, Able Seaman, 69911 (SANF), MPK MITCHELL, William N, Able Seaman, 69787 (SANF), MPK NEL, Eloff R, Able Seaman, 69635 (SANF), MPK NICHOLSON, Douglas O, Able Seaman, 66833 (SANF), MPK PUGH, John R, Able Seaman, 66877 (SANF), MPK RYALL, David R, Able Seaman, 69999 (SANF), MPK SHIMMIN, William, Leading Stoker, 69661 (SANF), MPK SIENI, Joseph F, Able Seaman, 69788 (SANF), MPK SNELL, Harold W, Leading Telegraphist, 69827 (SANF), MPK STANLEY, Gordon J, Able Seaman, 66963 (SANF), MPK WALTON, Dudley N, Sub Lieutenant, SANF, MPK
The second ship lost was the HMSAS Parktown, which went down fighting during the Fall of Tobruk in Libya, with the HMSAS Bever fighting at her side out the port (see this link for a full story – click here: The feisty South African minesweeper that went down fighting – HMSAS Parktown).
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HMSAS Parktown
The Honour Roll of sacrifice when the HMSAS Parktown sank on 21 June 1942 as follows:
BROCKLEHURST, Peter S, Able Seaman, 70457 (SANF), MPK COOK, John A, Stoker 1c, 70256 (SANF), MPK JAGGER, Leslie J, Lieutenant SANF, 70016 (SANF), MPK MCEWAN, William A, Steward, 69686 (SANF), MPK TREAMER, Arthur P, Petty Officer, 71109 (SANF), MPK
The third ship to be lost was the HMSAS Parktown’s sister ship, the HMSAS Bever which went down later in the war during the liberation of Greece when it struck a mine, and carries with its story a tale of miraculous survivors (see this link for a full story – click here“Under a hail of shells”; Recounting the bravery and loss of HMSAS Bever).
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HMSAS Bever
The Honour Roll of sacrifice on 30 November 1944 when the HMSAS Bever sank as follows:
ARMERANTIS, Sideris, Stoker 1c, 282953 V (SANF), MPK DE PACE, Luigi S, Petty Officer, 66539 V (SANF), MPK DE REUCK, Leslie B, Telegraphist, 75320 V (SANF), MPK DREYER, Peter, Leading Cook (S), 585236 V (SANF), MPK HIGGS, George E, Stoker 1c, 562712 V (SANF), MPK HUSBAND, Charles A, Stoker 1c, 280098 V (SANF), MPK KETTLES, John D, Engine Room Artificer 3c, 562458 (SANF), MPK LAWLOR, Robert J, Act/Chief Motor Mechanic 4c, P/KX 127225, MPK LINDE, Carl M, Able Seaman, 71194 V (SANF), MPK LYALL, John D R, Stoker 1c, 562179 V (SANF), MPK MATTHEWS, William R, Leading Wireman, 562794 V (SANF), killed PHILLIPSON, Joseph H, Signalman, 181160 V (SANF), MPK RODDA, Harold J, Stoker 1c, 70451 V (SANF), (served as Harold J Andresen), MPK SCRIMGEOUR, Quintin, Petty Officer, 69691 (SANF), MPK TRUSCOTT, E (initial only) W, Able Seaman, 585184 V (SANF), MPK WHITE, Claude, Leading Seaman, 586420 V (SANF), MPK WILLIAMS, Desmond, Able Seaman, 70433 V (SANF), killed
The final minesweeper to be lost was the HMSAS Treern, it was tragically lost right at the end of the war with only one single survivor, and it remains the last South African vessel to be lost in action, even to this day, yet hardly anyone is aware of her history (see this link for a full story – click hereThe last South African Navy ship to be lost in action; HMSAS Treern).
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HMSAS Treern
The Honour Roll of sacrifice on the 12 January 1945 when HMSAS Treern sank follows:
ANDERSON, Robert D, Engine Room Artificer 2c, 71067 V (SANF), MPK BARKER, Ronald E, Sub Lieutenant, SANF, MPK BLAKE, Robert E, Petty Officer, P 6572 (SANF), MPK BROWN, Ian H, Able Seaman, 71719 V (SANF), MPK BYRNE, Patrick, Lieutenant, SANF, MPK DAVIE, William, Stoker 1c, 70681 V (SANF), MPK ENGELBEEN, Leslie C, Able Seaman, 562235 V (SANF), MPK JACOBZ, Frank H, Stoker 1c, 70374 V (SANF), MPK MATTHEWS, George A, Stoker 1c, 70728 V (SANF), MPK MCINTYRE, William G, Cook (S), 585360 (SANF), MPK MCLARTY, William D, Leading Stoker, 562246 V (SANF), MPK MCLEAN, Godfrey, Able Seaman, 562455 V (SANF), MPK NILAND, St John E, Able Seaman, 209905 (SANF), MPK PERRY, Desmond A, Petty Officer, 71211 (SANF), MPK REID, Kenneth H, Signalman, 562143 V (SANF), MPK SALCOMBE, Francis R, Stoker 1c, 58589 V (SANF), MPK STAPELBERG, Willem J, Steward, 562221 V (SANF), MPK SUTTON, Donald A, Able Seaman, 70426 (SANF), MPK SUTTON, George A M, Leading Seaman, 586403 V (SANF), MPK TRAFFORD, William O, Able Seaman, 71222 V (SANF), MPK VILJOEN, Dennis A, Telegraphist, 70984 V (SANF), MPK WHITE, Charles W, Petty Officer, 562200 V (SANF), MPK WULFF, Emil F, Leading Seaman, 562466 V (SANF), MPK
Then there is the loss of Rear Admiral Guy Hallifax, the most senior South African Naval Officer to be lost during World War 2, he counts himself as one of the founders of the modern South African Navy and yet he is hardly remembered at all. (see this link for a full story Guy Hallifax, the most senior African Naval officer lost during WW2).  He is recorded here:
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Director of South African Forces
HALLIFAX, Guy W, Rear Admiral, SANF, air accident, killed
Then, consider these South African Naval Force casualties on other South Africa ships and in other South African operations during the war:
LUCAS, E W R, Chief Engineman, 66756 (SANF), died 4 October 1939 NICOLSON, Andrew, Cook, 63827 (SANF), died 13 October 1939 BESTER, A T, Leading Stoker, 6640 (SANF), died on the HMSAS Africana HUGHES, T J, Stoker, 71383 (SANF), died 10 May 1941 CASSON, William, Able Seaman, 252935 V (SANF), died on the HMSAS Tordonn HOLT, Albert E, Telegraphist, 69576 (SANF), killed on the HMSAS Southern Maid VAN NOIE, Norman, Able Seaman, CN/72134 (SANF), died 20 September 1941 ST CLAIR-WHICKER, Willie H, Able Seaman, 67292 (SANF), died on 21 September 1941 SMITH, P, Able Seaman, CN/72263 (SANF), died 7 April 1942 RUITERS, Walter, Stoker, CN/72081 (SANF), died 21 July 1942 MURPHY, J, Able Seaman, CN/72256 (SANF), died 16 August 1942 FROST, M L, Able Seaman, CN/71804 (SANF), died on the HMSAS Receiffe PETERSON, W J, Able Seaman, CN/72184 (SANF), died 4 September 1942 REHR, Cecil, Able Seaman, 69877 (SANF), died on the HMSAS Roodepoort CARLELSE, Frederick, Able Seaman, CN/72004 (SANF), died on the HMSAS Soetvlei PETERS, Norman, Leading Stoker, 66847 (SANF), died 3 January 1943 DELL, Rodney, Able Seaman, 68866 (SANF), killed 24 March 1943 HENDERSON, Alexander P, Chief Engine Room Artificer, 562099 (SANF), killed at Benghazi, Libya JAMES, H, Steward, CN/72252 (SANF), died 9 May 1943 ORGILL, C B, Able Seaman, CN/71947 (SANF), died 14 May 1943 LA CHARD, Edwin, Lieutenant Commander, SANF, died 20 May 1943 LUCAS, A W, Able Seaman, 152875 (SANF), died 28 May 1943 BATEMAN, T, Chief Engine Room Artificer, 71627 (SANF), died 30 June 1943 ROBBERTS, Kaspar, Petty Officer, P/5285 (SANF), died 1 July 1943 BOSHOFF, Christofel J, Able Seaman, 70339 (SANF), killed on HMSAS Blaauwberg LENZ, William, Able Seaman, 69544 (SANF), died on 29 August 1943 BESTEL, Emmanuel A N M, Lieutenant, SANF, died on 21 September 1943 HARLE, Paul A, Petty Officer, 71796 (SANF), died on 3 October 1943 STEELE, Ewen, Able Seaman, 71272 V (SANF), killed on HMSAS Southern Sea BETTS, Robert, Able Seaman, 68900 (SANF), died 18 November 1943 PAGE, Robert, Sub Lieutenant, SANF, died 29 November 1943 MCLEAN, Richard, Stoker, 562567 (SANF), died 29 November 1943 HARRIS, R H, Telegraphist, 330488 (SANF), died 16 December 1943 NICHOLLS, John, Yeoman of Signals, 66824 V (SANF), died 19 December 1943 FLORENCE, John, Stoker, CN/71982 V (SANF), died 18 January 1944 DANIELS, Adam, Stoker, 72034 (SANF), died 28 January 1944 RAVENS, Albert, Able Seaman, CN/72213 V (SANF), died 31 March 1944 DE KLERK, John, Ordinary Seaman, 585868 V (SANF), died 4 May 1944 BOTHA, Herkulas, Cook, 562093 V (SANF), died 8 May 1944 BISSETT, Alexander, Lieutenant, SANF, died 16 June 1944 JENKINS, Edward G, Engine Room Artificer, 66720 V (SANF), died 14 September 1944 KEMP, Thomas, Able Seaman, CN/71015 V (SANF), died 20 September 1944 WATSON, George, Lieutenant, SANF, died 15 October 1944 BOSWELL, Louis F W, Chief Engine Room Artificer, 69756V (SANF), MPK on the 14 November 1944 on the HMSAS Treern ABRAHAMS, Henry, Able Seaman, CN/719204 (SANF), died 19 November 1944 BERMAN, Nicholas, Ordinary Seaman, 616728V (SANF), died 22 November 1944 DIXON, Robert, Able Seaman, CN/584276 (SANF), died on 11 January 1945 TREISMAN, Gerald, Steward, 584730 V (SANF), died on 10 February 1945 LAMONT, J, Steward, 71402 (SANF), died 24 February 1945 HORNE, P D, Chief Petty Officer, 66661 V (SANF), died 31 March 1945 POVEY, Leonard, Able Seaman, 71182 V (SANF), died 31 March 1945 PFAFF, C E, Petty Officer Stoker, 562721 V (SANF), died 20 April 1945 CHRISTIAN, J W, Able Seaman, CN/71965 (SANF), died 5 May 1945 SIMON, Frederick, Stoker, CN/72046 V (SANF), died 8 May 1945 VAN AARDT, S, Stoker, CN/721490 (SANF), died 22 May 1945 CLARE, Frederick W, Chief Petty Officer, 69599 V (SANF), died 3 June 1945 KEOWN, R J, Able Seaman, CN/71845 (SANF), died 9 June 1945 WELCOME, J J, Able Seaman, CN/72270 (SANF), died 19 July 1945 VAN WYNGAARDT, F A, Able Seaman, 585610 V (SANF), died 21 July 1945 HEARD, George A, Lieutenant, SANF, died on the HMSAS Good Hope COOK, W, Leading Stoker, 70527 V (SANF), died 8 August 1945
As if the above loss of South African Navy personnel is not large enough and the lack of recognition by the Navy not bad enough, there is an even bigger ‘elephant in the room’, a key factor completely overlooked by the South African Naval fraternity and the navy itself, and that’s the South African Navy personnel seconded to the British Royal Navy and lost in the Royal Navy’s ships and shore facilities during the Second World War.
South African Naval personnel were lost on the following significant British vessel losses. Consider this very big ‘elephant in the room’ for a minute, because its getting BIGGER.  The losses of these Royal Navy ships carries long lists of South African sacrifice.
We start with all the ships containing South African Naval Forces personnel sunk during the Imperial Japanese Air Force ‘Easter Sunday’ raid on the British fleet in Colombo (this is regarded as the British ‘Peal Harbour’ just off modern day Sri Lanka) and it’s the darkest hour in terms of losses for South African Navy, yet it is neither recognised as such nor is it remembered.  (See this link for more depth:  The South African Navy’s ‘darkest hour’ is not recognised and not commemorated)
During this attack Japanese airman flying Japanese  D3A-1 ‘VAL’ dive bombers flying from the Japanese Imperial fleet, dropped their bombs on the HMS Dorsetshire, who had a very large contingent of South African Naval personnel, she simply blew up when a  detonated an ammunition magazine and contributed to her rapid sinking.  Click here for a full Observation Post report on her sinking: “They machine gunned us in the water”; Recounting South African Sacrifice on the HMS Dorsetshire
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HMS Dorsetshire
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 5 April 1942 when HMS Dorsetshire sank follows:
BELL, Douglas S, Ty/Act/Leading Stoker, 67243 (SANF), MPK BRUCE, Alexander M, Stoker 2c, 67907 (SANF), MPK CONCANON, Harold Bernard, Surgeon Lieutenant (Doctor) EVENPOEL, Albert, Stoker 2c, 67909 (SANF), MPK GEFFEN, Sender, Stoker 1c, 68035 (SANF), MPK HOWE, Horace G, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 68680 (SANF), MPK KENDRICK, George, Stoker 2c, 67910 (SANF), MPK MCINTYRE, Norman G, Able Seaman, 67446 (SANF), MPK MCLELLAN, Robert, Ordinary Telegraphist, 67897 (SANF), MPK MILNE, Lawrence Victor, Able Seaman MORROW, Douglas E, Able Seaman, 67989 (SANF), MPK ORTON, Charles P, Able Seaman, 68009 (SANF), MPK REDMAN, Roland A, Leading Stoker, 67406 (SANF), MPK SCOTT, William J, Able Seaman, 68007 (SANF), MPK SEVEL, Harry, Stoker 1c, 68100 (SANF), MPK VAN ZYL, David Isak Stephanus, Stoker 1st Class WILLETT, Amos A S, Stoker 1c, 67240 (SANF), MPK WILLIAMSON, Walter N, Able Seaman, 67803 (SANF), MPK
The second British ship in this particular Japanese air attack, on the same day and within range of one another was the HMS Cornwall, also stuffed full of South African Naval personnel seconded to her. The HMS Cornwall was hit eight times by the same dive bombers who sank the Dorsetshire and sank bow first in about ten minutes.
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HMS Cornwall
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 5 April 1942 when HMS Cornwall  sank follows:
BESWETHERICK, Hedley C, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 86671 (SANF), MPK BOTES, John S, Stoker 2c RNVR, 68924 (SANF), MPK COMMERFORD, Noel P, Able Seaman RNVR, 66493 (SANF), MPK CRAWFORD, Cecil E, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c RNVR, 67922 (SANF), MPK DU PREEZ, Charles P H, Able Seaman, 68175 (SANF), MPK DUTTON, Charles C, Stoker 2c RNVR, 68949 (SANF), MPK HANSLO, Raymond F, Able Seaman RNVR, 68295 (SANF), MPK KEITH, Kenneth I B, Able Seaman RNVR, 66742 (SANF), MPK KENYON, Graeme A B, Able Seaman RNVR, 68002 (SANF), MPK KIRSTEN, Monty G W, Able Seaman RNVR, 68917 (SANF), MPK LAW, Edward, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c RNVR, 66760 (SANF), MPK MCDAVID, William K, Stoker 2c RNVR, 69138 (SANF), MPK MITCHELL, William A, Stoker 1c RNVR, 68796 (SANF), MPK PALMER, Walter A, Able Seaman RNVR, 68344 (SANF), (rescued, aboard HMS Enterprise), Died of Wounds SPENCE, Noel W, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 68732 (SANF), MPK SQUIRES, John E, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 68728 (SANF), MPK STEPHEN, Eric B, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 68861 (SANF), MPK SWANN, Lawrence T, Stoker 1c RNVR, 68710 (SANF), MPK THORPE, Maurice, Stoker 2c RNVR, 69140 (SANF), MPK VERSFELD, Peter H S, Able Seaman RNVR, 68859 (SANF), MPK VINK, Benjamin F, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 68860 (SANF), MPK WILLSON, Gerald F, Stoker 2c RNVR, 69006 (SANF), MPK WRIGHT, Thomas H, Able Seaman RNVR, 68039 (SANF), MPK
In earlier incidents on HMS Cornwall two South Africans lost their lives they are also remembered here:
AINSLIE, Roy, Petty Officer, 66382 (SANF), died on 5 September 1940 HAWKINS, Reginald D, Able Seaman, 66700 (SANF), died of illness 4 March 1942
The Easter Raid later offered a great prize for the Japanese, an aircraft carrier, the HMS Hermes, this massive aircraft carrier was sunk a week later by the Japanese near Colombo (now Sri Lanka), the pride of the British Pacific fleet became an inferno after it was dived bombed a number of times.  It too had a long association with South Africa and a very big contingent of South African Naval Personnel. (see this link for a in-depth article on the South African Navy sacrifice abound her “Dante’s Inferno”; Recounting South African sacrifice on the HMS Hermes).
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HMS Hermes
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 9 April 1942 when HMS Hermes  sank follows:
BRIGGS, Anthony Herbert Lindsay Sub-Lieutenant (Engineer) Royal Navy (South African national), MPK BRYSON, Neil W, Ordinary Telegraphist, 69147 (SANF), MPK BURNIE, Ian A, Able Seaman, 67786 (SANF), MPK CLAYTON, Frederick H, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c, 68102 (SANF), MPK DE CASTRO, Alfred T, Stoker 1c, 67914 (SANF), MPK KEENEY, Frederick W, Able Seaman, 67748 (SANF), MPK KEYTEL, Roy, Able Seaman, 67296 (SANF), MPK KIMBLE, Dennis C, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c, 67600 (SANF), MPK KRAUSE, Frederick E, Able Seaman, 68321 (SANF), MPK RAPHAEL, Philip R, Able Seaman, 67841 (SANF), MPK RICHARDSON, Ronald P, Able Seaman, 67494 (SANF), MPK RILEY. Harry Air Mechanic 2nd Class, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy (South African national), MPK TOMS, Ivanhoe S, Able Seaman, 67709 (SANF), MPK VICKERS, Colin P, Able Seaman, 68296 (SANF), MPK VORSTER, Jack P, Able Seaman, 67755 (SANF), MPK WHITE, Edward G, Stoker, 68026 (SANF), MPK WIBLIN, Eric R, Able Seaman, 67717 (SANF), MPK YATES, Philip R, Supply Assistant, 67570 (SANF), MPK
Included is also a South African who served with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm on the HMS Hermes.
RILEY, H, Air Mechanic, Fleet Air Arm, HMS Hermes, died 9 April 1942
Next on the list of ships lost during the Easter Raid which contained a high number of South African Naval personnel on board was HMS Hollyhock, sunk on the same day as the HMS Hermes by the same Japanese Dive Bombers on the 9th of April. Click here for a full Observation Post report on her sinking  “She immediately blew up”; Recounting South African sacrifice on the HMS Hollyhock
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HMS Hollyhock
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 9 April 1942 when HMS Hollyhock sank follows:
ANDERSON, Henry G, Able Seaman, 67501 (SANF), MPK BASTON, Douglas T, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c, 68600 (SANF), MPK BUITENDACH, James M, Stoker 2c, 69223 (SANF), MPK JUBY, Kenneth J, Ordinary Seaman, 69211 (SANF), MPK LEACH, Peter A D H, Stoker 2c, 69225 (SANF), MPK
It was not just the Japanese Imperial Fleet, the German Navy also took its toll on the Royal Navy, and once again we find South African Naval Personnel seconded to serve on these famous ships sunk during the war.
We start with the HMS Gloucester lost on the 22 May 1941 during action off Crete. They HMS Gloucester, along with HMS Greyhound and HMS Fiji were attacked by German “Stuka” Dive Bombers. The Greyhound was sunk and Gloucester was attacked and sunk while they attempted to rescue Greyhounds survivors in the water (see this link for a full story – click here A “grievous error”; Recounting South African Sacrifice on the HMS Gloucester).
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HMS Gloucester
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 22 May 1941 when HMS Gloucester sank follows:
ANGEL, Walter J H, Able Seaman, 67351 (SANF), MPK AUSTIN-SMITH, John R, Ordinary Seaman, 67336 (SANF), MPK BAGSHAW-SMITH, Philip R, Ordinary Seaman, 67337 (SANF), MPK BAGSHAWE-SMITH, Sydney Q, Able Seaman, 68454 (SANF), MPK BARBER, Edgar F, Able Seaman, 67302 (SANF), MPK BRUCE, John, Able Seaman, 67355 (SANF), MPK CARTER, Frederick G, Able Seaman, 67345 (SANF), MPK CHILTON, Ronald H D, Ordinary Seaman, 67335 (SANF), MPK EDWARDS, Ronald E, Ordinary Seaman, 67384 (SANF), MPK ELLIOT, Edward R, Leading Seaman, 66584 (SANF), MPK GERAGHTY, Herbert C, Able Seaman, 67338 (SANF), MPK GROGAN, Graham B, Able Seaman, 67343 (SANF), MPK JAMES, Victor F, Ordinary Seaman, 67303 (SANF), MPK JENSEN, Niels P, Able Seaman, 67347 (SANF), MPK MCCARTHY, Henry F, Ordinary Seaman, 67223 (SANF), MPK MOORE, Albert, Able Seaman, 67416 (SANF), MPK SLATER, Bryan M, Able Seaman, 67358 (SANF), MPK SMITH, Matthew S, Able Seaman, 67359 (SANF), MPK SONDERUP, Arthur W, Able Seaman, 67356 (SANF), MPK STADLANDER, Rowland C, Stoker 1c, 67400 (SANF), MPK STOKOE, Cyril A M, Act/Leading Seaman, 67264 V (SANF), MPK SYMONS, Maurice M, Able Seaman, 68245 (SANF), MPK THOMPSON, Walter E H, Able Seaman, 67360 (SANF), MPK VAN DYK, Cecil H, Able Seaman, 67404 (SANF), MPK WEBBER, Reginald, Able Seaman, 67361 (SANF), MPK WILLIAMS, Dastrey S, Leading Seaman, 67047 (SANF), MPK WRIGHT, Gerald V, Act/Ordnance Artificer 4, 67375 (SANF), MPK
The HMS Gloucester was involved in earlier combat on the 8 July 1940 when it was bombed, the South African casualties are remembered here:
ALLISON, Oswald H, Able Seaman RNVR, 67349 (SANF), killed NOWLAN, Francis C, Able Seaman RNVR, 67409 (SANF), DOW
Tragedy struck the South African Naval Forces seconded to the HMS Barham when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-331,  Three torpedoes hit HMS Barham’s port side causing it to list heavily and spread fire towards the ammunition storages. Only 2 and a half minutes passed from the torpedo impact until the ship rolled onto its side and capsized as the aft magazine exploded in an almighty explosion (see this link for a full story – click here “She blew sky high”; Recounting South African sacrifice on the HMS Barham!)
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HMS Barham
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 25 November 1941 when HMS Barham sank follows:
BAKER, Dennis E W, Ordinary Seaman, 68617 (SANF) GLENN, Paul V, Ordinary Seaman, 68906 (SANF) HAYES, Richard T, Ordinary Seaman, 68499 (SANF) MORRIS, Cyril D, Ordinary Seaman, 68932 (SANF) UNSWORTH, Owen P (also known as R K Jevon), Ordinary Seaman, 69089 (SANF) WHYMARK, Vivian G, Ordinary Seaman, 69024 (SANF)
The Italians also took a toll of British shipping, again with ships with a South African contingent and this is brought to home on the 19 December 1941, when the HMS Neptune, struck four mines, part of a newly laid Italian minefield. Neptune quickly capsized (see this link for a full story – click here South African sacrifice on the HMS Neptune).
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HMS Neptune
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 19 December 1941 when HMS Neptune sank follows:
ADAMS, Thomas A, Able Seaman, 67953 (SANF), MPK CALDER, Frank T, Ordinary Seaman, 67971 (SANF), MPK CAMPBELL, Roy M, Able Seaman, 67318 (SANF), MPK DIXON, Serfas, Able Seaman, 67743 (SANF), MPK FEW, Jim, Able Seaman, 67744 (SANF), MPK HAINES, Eric G, Able Seaman, 67697 (SANF), MPK HOOK, Aubrey C, Able Seaman, 67862 (SANF), MPK HOWARD, Harold D, Signalman, 67289 (SANF), MPK HUBBARD, Wallace S, Able Seaman, 67960 (SANF), MPK KEMACK, Brian N, Signalman, 67883 (SANF), MPK MERRYWEATHER, John, Able Seaman, 67952 (SANF), MPK MEYRICK, Walter, Ordinary Signalman, 68155 (SANF), MPK MORRIS, Rodney, Ordinary Signalman, 68596 (SANF), MPK RANKIN, Cecil R, Signalman, 67879 (SANF), MPK THORP, Edward C, Signalman, 67852 (SANF), MPK THORPE, Francis D, Able Seaman, 67462 (SANF), MPK WILD, Ernest A, Able Seaman, 67929 (SANF), MPK
Other South Africans who had enlisted into the Royal Navy were also lost on HMS Neptune, these include (and by no means is this list definitive) the following:
OOSTERBERG, Leslie W, Stoker 1c, D/KX 96383, MPK TOWNSEND, Henry C, Stoker 1c, D/KX 95146, MPK
On the 30 April 1942, on her return leg from Murmansk, the HMS Edinburgh was escorting Convoy QP 11 when a German Submarine U-456  torpedoed into her. The Edinburgh was carrying gold in payment by the Soviets for war equipment and she is the subject of a remarkable gold salvage after the war.  Again, she had a compliment of South African Naval Personnel (see this link for a full story – click here “Gold may shine; but it has no true light” South African sacrifice on the HMS Edinburgh).
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HMS Edinburgh
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 30 April 1942 when HMS Edinburgh sank follows:
DRUMMOND, Valentine W, Able Seaman, 68043 (South African Naval Forces), Missing Presumed Killed VAN DORDRECHT, William H, Able Seaman, 67851 (South African Naval Forces), Missing Presumed Killed
On the 12 November 1942, the HMS Hecla was torpedoed by a German submarine, U-515 hitting her in the engine room. The U-boat then hit the ship with three coups de grâce sinking the vessel west of Gibraltar.  Again there is South African Naval casualty list (see this link for a full story – click here “Every man for himself” … South African sacrifice and the sinking of HMS Hecla).
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HMS Helca
The Honour Roll of South African Naval sacrifice on the 12 November1942 when HMS Helca sank follows:
BENNETT, John F, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c, 330351 (SANF), MPK LLOYD, George H, Act/Engine Room Artificer 4c, 330353 (SANF), MPK PEERS, Charles V, Able Seaman, 562653 (SANF), MPK SMITH, Ian R, Electrical Artificer 4c, 68478 (SANF), MPK
And there’s more ,,,,, many South Africans served on a variety of Royal Navy ships and many were lost, here’s an indication which just captures South African Naval Forces personnel alone, let alone those who volunteered directly for the Royal Navy, the Honour Roll follows:
ANDERSON, Richard W N, Able Seaman, 86082 (SANF), killed 21 May 1941 on HMS Syvern WESTON, Grant E, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 68498 (SANF), killed 27 August 1941 on HMS Phoebe RASMUSSEN, Victor J S, Leading Telegraphist, 66920 (SANF), MPK 24 November 1941 on HMS Dunedin ADAMSON, William D, Ordinary Seaman RNVR, 69001 (SANF), MPK 10 December 1941 on HMS Repulse  BECKER, Stanley H, Able Seaman, 67474 (SANF), road accident, killed 5 January 1942 on HMS Carnarvon Castle DRURY, Frederick, Ordinary Seaman, 68315 (SANF), MPK 29 January 1942 on HMS Sotra SCOTT, Clifford, Ordinary Telegraphist, 66973 (SANF), MPK 26 March 1942 on HMS Jaguar BUCHANAN, Alexander, Able Seaman, 67934 (SANF), died 20 April 1942 on HMS Birmingham COMMERFORD, Terence, Ordinary Seaman, 330258 (SANF), died 21 June 1942 on HMS Express PRICE, David, Able Seaman RNVR, P/68529 (SANF), MP 6 July 1942 on HMS Niger TROUT, A (initial only) N, Able Seaman, CN/72133 (SANF), died 4 August 1942 on HMS Stork JOHNSTONE, Henry N, Lieutenant Commander (E), SANF, 66727, died 18 August 1942 on HMS Birmingham BAWDEN, Wilfred R, Stoker 2c RNVR, 330425 (SANF), DOWS 16 September 1942 HMS Orion NIGHTSCALES, Norman, Writer, 68148 (SANF), MPK 30 December 1942 on HMS Fidelity GITTINS, Victor L, Ordinary Seaman, 69325 (SANF), died 27 January 1943 on HMS Assegai (training base) PLATT, Ronald M, Petty Officer, 67160 V (SANF), accident, killed 26 February 1943 on HMS President III (shore establishment) CROSSLEY, Alfred H, Sub Lieutenant, SANF, MPK 7 March 194 on HMS Saunders DE KOCK, Victor P De C, Ty/Lieutenant, SANF, MPK7 March 194 on HMS Saunders LOUW, Joseph, Stoker, CN 72175 (SANF), illness, died 2 December 1943 on HMS Stork ATKIN, William B, Lieutenant SANF, illness, died 26 January 1944 on HMS Northern Duke SHIELDS, Eric E M, Lieutenant, SANF, died 12 April 1944 on HMS Pembroke IV HOWDEN, Russell K, Ty/Sub Lieutenant, SANF, MPK 4 January 1945 HMS ML 1163, Harbour Defence Motor Launch CLARKE, Reginald E, Ty/Lieutenant Commander, SANF, air crash, MPK 24 July 1945 on HMS Adamant LIDDLE, John, Lieutenant, SANF, MPK 8 August 1945 on HMS Barbrake
Then lets consider the South African Naval Personnel serving in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm (the Royal Navy’s own Air Force separate to the Royal Air Force), and here the following South Africans are on the FAA Honour Roll (excluding Air Mechanic Riley from the Fleet Air Arm, recorded on the HMS Hermes loss).  For a full story of these South Africans lost in the FAA see this link – click here South African sacrifice in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm
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BOSTOCK, R S, Lieutenant, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm 800 Squadron, HMS Ark Royal, died 13 June 1940 BROKENSHA, G W, Lieutenant, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm 888 Squadron, HMS Formidable, died 11 August 1942 CHRISTELIS, C, Sub/Lieutenant, Royal Navy Reserve FAA 803 Squadron, HMS Formidable, died 1 August 1942 JUDD, F E C, Lieutenant Cmdr, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm 880 Squadron, HMS Indomitable, died 12 August 1942 LA GRANGE, Antony M, Sub Lieutenant (A), SANF, Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy)1772 Sqn HMS Indefatigable, air operations, MPK 28 July 1945 MACWHIRTER, Cecil J, Ty/Sub Lieutenant (A), Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) 851 Squadron HMS Shah, air crash, SANF, MPK 14 April 1944 O’BRYEN, W S, Sub/Lt Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm 762 Squadron, HMS Heron, died 26 November 1942 WAKE, Vivian H, Ty/Lieutenant (A), FAA Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) 815 Squadron HMS Landrail, air crash, SANF, MPK 28 March 1945
Finally there are South African Naval personnel found in the Merchant Navy, to which they were also seconded and again the Honour Roll lists:
SS Tunisia, ship loss ADAMS, Douglas E H, Act/Able Seaman RNVR, 66378 (SANF), (President III, O/P), MPKST La Carriere, ship loss DORE, Frank B, Act/Able Seaman RNVR, 67218 (SANF), (President III, O/P), MPKSS Laconia, ship loss ROSS, Robert, Stoker 2c, 69119 (SANF), (Victory, O/P), DOWS SS Llandilo, ship loss CRAGG, Ronald F, Able Seaman (DEMS), 66488 (SANF), (President III, O/P), MPK SS Ceramic, ship loss MOSCOS, John G, Leading Writer, 66786 (SANF), (SANF, O/P), MPK SS Empress of Canada, ship loss COCHRANE, Joseph, Engine Room Artificer 3c, P 68947 (SANF), (Pembroke, O/P), MPK SS Empire Lake, ship loss FLINT, John M, Act/Able Seaman (DEMS), P 562749 (SANF), (President III, O/P), MPK
More names…
Now consider this, we have not even begun to scratch properly at the honour roll, this above list is still highly inaccurate with many names missing.  We have no real idea of the thousands of South Africas who volunteered and died whilst serving in The Royal Navy Reserve and the Royal Navy itself, in fact we’ve barely got our heads around it.  Fortunately a handful of South Africans are working on it, almost daily, but it’s a mammoth task as these names are found on Royal Navy honour rolls and it’s a matter of investigating the birthplace of each and every British casualty.  The records of South African volunteers joining the Royal Navy lost to time really.
In conclusion
The only other ship the South African Navy has lost since the HMSAS Treern at the end of the Second World War in a more modern epoch was the SAS President Kruger, and unlike the Treern, whose loss was in combat, the Kruger’s loss was due to a tragic accident at sea (see “Out of the Storm came Courage” … the tragedy of the PK).
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These combat losses were one thing, however the same erasing of history is currently happening with the accidental loss in more recent times of SAS President Kruger (the PK), the ‘old’ SADF were very embarrassed by the loss (in effect by tragedy and circumstance we sank our own flagship) and the SADF never really got around to undertake a National Parade to commemorate and remember it.  Also in comparison to the bigger picture the loss of 16 South African Navy personnel on the PK is very small indeed, however no less important – and here’s the inconvenient truth, they were ‘swept under the rug’ by the old SADF and remain conveniently swept under the rug by the new SANDF.
On the World War 2 losses, the incoming ANC government from 1994 have fared no better than the old Nat government – they have merely lumped all the wartime combat losses of the HMSAS Southern Floe, the HMSAS Parktown, the HMSAS Bever and the HMSAS Treern into a ‘colonial’ issue not of their history or time, and as for the SAS President Kruger that was part of the ‘Apartheid’ forces in their minds, and as such to be vanquished.
The net result is the South African Navy simply does not have any national parades to commemorate or recognise any of its major losses at sea.  The South African Army at least has the Delville Wood Parade (the South African Army’s biggest singular combat loss, a WW1 incident), the South African Air Force has the Apline 44 Memorial Parade (the SAAF’s biggest tragedy, a WW2 incident), the South African Navy …. nothing!
Instead the South African Navy (SAN) focuses on the loss of the Mendi as a SAN Maritime loss, even though the Mendi was under commission to the Royal Navy, and rather inconveniently the South Africa Navy did not really exist in World War 1, it was only really created just before World War 2.  Then again, the SS Mendi was also carrying South African Army troops in the form of the South African Labour Corps, not South African Navy personnel (the SAN didn’t exist in any event).
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The Mendi is a both a wartime and political tragedy,  The silence and subsequence recognition is a National healing one (see Let us die like brothers … the silent voices of the SS Mendi finally heard ).  As such it’s now a National Memorial Parade, part of ‘Armed Forces Day’ and one for the entire SANDF to commemorate and remember – and rightly so.  But is it a SA Navy specific commemoration – not really – no.
In all this the Navy still dogmatically refuses to host its own National Commemoration to its own naval actions and tragedies, it’s just too politically inconvenient, and wouldn’t it be nice if South African Navy can see past it and see its Naval sacrifice on its own ships, and those of SAN personnel on Royal Navy ships and finally just institute an ‘All at Sea’ Naval Memorial Parade in Remembrance or erect a full Naval memorial (similar to the erected by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth)?
Very small ‘All at Sea’ commemorations are done by the odd South Africa Legion branch and off MOTH Shellhole, on a very local basis – driven by a tiny group of individuals.  Nobel in their undertakings no doubt, but these remain very small private initiatives attended by only a handful and is it really enough?
As demonstrated, The South African Navy’s honour roll for World War 2 is a staggering and very long list – it’s an elephant, a very big one at that and it’s a growing elephant, even to this day.  It’s well time we seriously look at ourselves, examine our values as to what constitutes sacrifice for the greater good of man and acknowledge it properly.
Written and Researched by Peter Dickens.  The honour roll extracted from ‘Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies, World War 2’ by Don Kindell.  Additional names gleaned from honour rolls published by Col Graham Du Toit (retired).
  The South African Navy’s ‘elephant in the room’ There is a very big elephant in the room when it comes to the South African Naval fraternity's commemoration and remembrance undertakings.  
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Complex Blueprint: Elliott Wilson
Been In This Shit Since ’92.
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