HMT Mendi Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour for the Mendi is a very difficult one to reproduce, there are numerous anomalies in the list due to how many African names are written, pronounced, spelt and used. CWGC redid the plaques at Hollybrook in 2007 to address many of these anomalies, but there are still the inevitable errors in them. This version of the ROH came from the current CWGC listing, because quite a few typos and duplications crept into my original, even more so when I moved it to the WordPress platform. However do not accept this list as being the proper/only/official ROH, at this point even I doubt its accuracy. Special thanks to Terry Cawood who spent some time pointing out some of the errors, although according to him there are 175 differences between what CWGC has, and the official records. The problem is: how accurate were the official records? I have linked all the entries in my ROH to the individual pages at SAWGP for better future reference and am marking some anomalies by means of a (*number). This list below is based on the CWGC lists of deaths for 21/02/1917, South African Forces. The crew list is gleaned from the official wreck report of 2 October 1917 

Out of curiosity, the home provinces of some of the casualties – Transvaal (287), Eastern Cape (139), Natal (87), Northern Cape (27), OFS (26), Basutoland (26), Bechuanaland (8), Western cape (5), Rhodesia (1) and SWA (1) so not all were from the Eastern Cape. There are 647 names on this list of which 30 are crew, 646 are identified and 1 is unidentified. 

 

 

Corrections and amendments: (Feb/2017)
(*1) Should read Bokleni Dokoda
(*2) Name reversed on Hollybrook Memorial
(*3) Surname incorrect on Hollybrook Memorial (should read Bhay not Bhayi)
(*4) Name incorrect on Hollybrook Memorial (should read Danki not Dankie)
(*5) Surname spelt incorrectly on Hollybrook Memorial
(*6) Name incorrect on Hollybrook Memorial (should read Gcina not Geina)
(*7) Name incorrect on gravestone (should read Homelane not Tlhomelang)
(*8) Name reversed on Hollybrook Memorial
(*9) Name may be reversed
(*10) May be 8872
(*11) Name may be reversed
(*12) No further information on names
(*13) Name incorrect on Hollybrook Memorial (should read Kakela not Kakele)
(*14) Name incorrect on Hollybrook (should read Kaskane not Raskane)
(*15) Name may be Tladi and not Kladi
(*16) May be Khoanamutsi
(*17) Names should be Cholofelo not Steven Lucas, service number is 3274 not 3174
(*18) Initials on headstone KK, 
(*19) Name on headstone incorrect (LETOATOA not LETWATWA)
(*20) Name on record is (MITCHELL not MICHELE)
(*21) Correct name for Memorial, (Not Masiane but Maaiaane)
(*22) May be MABURUBURU
(*23) May be MARIYANA instead of MAREYAMA
(*24) Should read MTNYEDWA not MNTUYEDWA
(*25) May be MAGANGAMELA
(*26) Name incorrect on Hollybrook (should be MAKOATEDI not MAKWATEDI)
(*27) May be MOKOENA instead of  MAKWENA 
(*28) Name should be MAMUNYANE not MONONYANE
(*29) Name should be MANJEZI not MANGCAS
(*30) Name should be MANGOLOANE not MANGOLWANE 
(*31) Name should be MATYALA not MATJALA,
(*32) Name should be MGOTOYE (MGOTOYI)  not MGOYOYE,
(*33) Name should be MOKOENA not MGWENA 
(*34) Name should be MALAGWANA (MALANGWANA) not MABAGWANA
(*35) Name should be MAIFADI not MAFADI
(*36) Name should be  MOGALOBUTHA (MOJALABUTHA)not MAGALOBUTHA
(*37) Name should be WILLIAM not VELLUM
(*38) Name should be MOHAU not MOHOWE 
(*39)Name should be MOLIFE, not MOLIDE
(*40) Name should be MTITIMANA  not NTIKIMANA
(*41) Name should be MONAMATUNYU not MONAMATUGA,
(*42) Name should be MUKOSANA not MAKOSANA
(*43) Name should be MUTANJWA not MUTINJUWA
(*44) Name should be NAKEDI not NATEDI
(*45) Name may be reversed (ie: LITYE, NCOTELE, 9862) and number may be 9062
(*46) Names may be NDAMISE not NDANISE, BALLEN (*46) 
(*47) Name is PANZI not PANTSI
(*48) Name is KONISAROS not KONISARS
(*49) Name may be NKWAMBENE or NKWAMBENI
(*50) Name may be NODOLO or DODOLO
(*51) Last name may be AUPA
(*52) Name should be RAMPUNYE not RAMPUNVE
(*53) Name should be RESIMALI (RESAMALI) not RESINALI, PICANNIN 9625 (*53)
(*54) Name should be SEKAKAILA not SEKAKAILE
(*55) Name should be SEKAOALEBA not SIKAWULEB
(*56) Correct names are: SEOPELA, GEORGE STEPHANO, 9413 (*56)
(*57) Correct names are: SEPOSO (SIPOSO) not SIPOSA, WILLIE 9392 
(*58) name should be SIBALABALA, not SIBALABULA
(*59) Names reversed and spelt wrong should read SILOSENI, JONAS,  not JONAS SALUSENI 9244
(*60) Name should be SITLAKO not  SITLARO
(*61) Names were reversed. SMITH, ROADWAY not ROADWAY, SMITH 9656
(*62) Name should be SNELE, KOPAUL not KOPANE, SNELE 9666
(*63) Name should read TANKOBONG not TANKABONG
(*64) Name should read TETANI, STYLE 9920 not SETANI, 
(*65) Name should read  TSHOMULOKAE not TSHOMOLOKSHE
(*66) Name should read SOLOMON not SOLOMAN
(*67) Name should read WAUCHOPE, ISAAC WILLIAMS Not  DYOBHA, ISAAC WAUCHOPE 3276
(*68) Should read YINGWANA not ZINGWANA, JOHANNES 9640
(*69) Name order incorrect. Should be  MPINI, MABANE 9393 
(*70) Name should be MANGWANE not MANDWANE HLATSHWAYO 11101 
(*71) Name should be NDHLOVU not NDLOVU, ISAAC 9529 
(*72) Name should read JANTOLE not YANTOLE, JOSEPH 8900
(*73) Name should be POTO not, PAYO, JACOB 9667 
(*74) Name should be  KUMALO,  LIGEGEDHLA ZACHARIAH 9556 not  SIGEDEDHLA, ZACHARIAH 9556
(*75) KUNENE (GUNENI) not GUMENI, CHARLIE 9685 (*75)

 

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