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We Die Like Brothers - The sinking of the SS Mendi (Hardcover)
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We Die Like Brothers - The sinking of the SS Mendi (Hardcover)
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The SS Mendi is a wreck site off the Isle of Wight under the
protection of Historic England. Nearly 650 men, mostly from the
South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC), lost their lives in
February 1917 following a collision in fog as they travelled to
serve as labourers on the Western Front, in one of the largest
single losses of life during the conflict. The loss of theSS Mendi
occupies a special place in South African military history.
Prevented from being trained as fighting troops by their own
Government, the men of the SANLC hoped that their contribution to
the war effort would lead to greater civil rights and economic
opportunities in the new white-ruled nation of South African after
the war. These hopes proved unfounded, and the SS Mendi became a
focus of black resistance before and during the Apartheid era in
South Africa. One hundred years on, the wreck of the SS Mendi is a
physical symbol of black South Africans' long fight for social and
political justice and equality and is one of a very select group of
historic shipwrecks from which contemporary political and social
meaning can be drawn, and whose loss has rippled forward in time to
influence later events; a loss that is now an important part of the
story of a new 'rainbow nation'. The wreck of the SS Mendi is now
recognised as one of England's most important First World War
heritage assets and the wreck site is listed under the Protection
of Military Remains Act. New archaeological investigation has
provided real and direct information about the wreck for the first
time. The loss of the Mendi is used to highlight the story of the
SANLC and other labour corps as well as the wider treatment of
British imperial subjects in wartime.
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