Lieutenant Johannes Marius Scholtz was a South African officer of the Royal Naval Reserve who died during the First World War.
He was born on 11 April 1879, in Somerset, Cape Colony, the son of Jacobus and Elizabeth Scholtz. Scholtz entered the Union-Castle Line in 1904 and was second officer aboard the Edinburgh Castle on the outbreak of war.[1] In 1914, he married Lucy Jolliffe, of the port of Southampton.
Scholtz died on 31 May 1916, during the Battle of Jutland, when the battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary exploded, with the loss of all but 20 of the ship's 1,284 crew.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Notes[]
- ↑ Johannes Marais Scholtz, unioncastlestaffregister.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
References[]
- Scholtz, Johannes Marais, cwgc.org. Retrieved 20 November 2012.