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Tag Archives: Darro
Remember the Mendi
HMT Mendi (21/02/1917) On 21 February 1917, South Africa lost some 607 African volunteers en route to the battlefields of France when their troopship; HMT Mendi, was in a collision with the SS Darro off St Catherine’s Point on the … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery, CWGC, Hampshire, Heritage, Memorials and Monuments, Military, Personal, Retrospective, Ships, South Africa, Southampton, United Kingdom, War Memorial, World War 1
Tagged Collision, Darro, HMT Mendi, Hollybrook Cemetery, NMC, Southampton, World War One
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Remembering the Mendi 2017
Every year around this time I commemorate the lives lost in the sinking of the troopship Mendi on the 21st of February 1917. This year is no different and each year I know more about it. Earlier this month I … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery, Hampshire, Heritage, Hobbies and Interests, Memorials and Monuments, Military, Personal, Portsmouth and Gosport, South Africa, Southampton, United Kingdom, War Grave, War Memorial, World War 1
Tagged Collision, Darro, disaster, HMT Mendi, Hollybrook Cemetery, Milton Cemetery, SANLC, sinking, South Africa, Southampton
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