DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

Home

History page

Visit of Delville Wood

Contacts

Lance Corporal

Job MASEGO, M.M.

(. . . .-1952)

Native Military Corps

Military Medal (MM) - Tobruk (Libya) - 21st July 1942.

When the War broke out, he volunteered for service with the Native Military Corps and served in North Africa with the 2^nd South African Division. Maseko became a prisoner of war at Tobruk on 21st June 1942. He made a bomb with a small tin filled with gunpowder from cartridges. On 21st July, while being employed by the Germans unloading a ship, he hid it among petrol drums, then laid the fuse. He lit the fuse as he left the ship. The ship blew up in the harbour and sank that night. A few days later Lance Corporal Maseko, with a comrade, escaped and walked for 23 days before reaching the British lines.