DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

SOUTH AFRICAN ROLL OF HONOUR

HMS CORNWALL / HMS DORSETSHIRE

Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sunk to the west of Ceylon on the 5th April 1942 by bombs from Japanese aircrafts.

Many South Africans served on board and 39 of them lost their lives during this inextricable engagement.

They are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial.

HMS CORNWALL

Ordinary Seaman

Hedley Crossman

BESWETHERICK

Stoker 2nd Class

John Stephen

BOTES

Able Seaman

Noel Patrick

COMMERFORD

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class

Cecil Edmund

CRAWFORD

Able Seaman

Charles Patrick Henegan

DU PREEZ

Stoker 2nd Class

Charles Cecil William Peter

DUTTON

Able Seaman

Raymond Frederick

HANSLO

Able Seaman

Kenneth Ian Blair

KEITH

Able Seaman

Graeme Alexander Bruce

KENYON

Able Seaman

Monty George Walter

KIRSTEN

Eletrical Artificer 4th Class

Edward Verdun

LAW

Stoker 2nd Class

William Kenneth

McDAVID

Stoker 1st Class

William Archibald

MITCHELL

Able Seaman

Walter Alan

PALMER

Ordinary Seaman

Noel William

SPENCE

Ordinary Seaman

John Eric

SQUIRES

Ordinary Seaman

Eric Berkeley

STEPHEN

Stoker 1st Class

Lawrence T.

SWANN

Stoker 2nd Class

Maurice

THORPE

Able Seaman

Peter Henry Swift

VERSFELD

Ordinary Seaman

Benjamin François

VINK

Stoker 2nd Class

Gerald Francis

WILLSON

Able Seaman

Thomas Henry

WRIGHT

HMS DORSETSHIRE

Stoker 1st Class

Douglas Stewart

BELL

Stoker 2nd Class

Alexander Morrison

BRUCE

Stoker 1st Class

Albert

EVENEPOEL

Stoker 1st Class

Sender

GEFFEN

Ordinary Seaman

Horace George

HOWE

Stoker 1st Class

George

KENDRICK

Able Seaman

Norman Glen

McINTYRE

Ordinary Telegraphist

Robert

McLELLAN

Able Seaman

Laurence Victor

MILNE

Able Seaman

Douglas Edward

MORROW

Able Seaman

Charles Percy

ORTON

Leading Stoker

Roland Aylmer

REDMAN

Able Seaman

William John

SCOTT

Stoker 1st Class

Harry

SEVEL

Stoker 1st Class

Amos Alfred Sidney

WILLETT

Able Seaman

Walter Noel

WILLIAMSON