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Identity
Person No.
12316
Service No.
6807
Last Name
Kirkbride 1
First Name
James
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1910 (±1 yr) 308
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
07 June 1942 139
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing in action 784
Missing, Death Presumed
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Later renamed Durban Light Infantry (1961)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 123. 17
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 OSM
Memorial
Roll of Honour of the Royal Durban Light Infantry, 1939-1945 (panel 2 of 2) Source: kznpr.co.za (KZN: A Photographic Historical Record)
Names on WWII Roll of Honour
Memorial
Durban Light Infantry Chapel (Chapel of St Michael & St George)
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
5 DLI Avenue, Durban, South Africa
Coordinates
-29.84722, 31.01583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
WWII Roll of Honour
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Alamein Memorial (Missing)
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 123.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of James and Annie J. Kirkbride, of Durban, Natal, South Africa; husband of Kathleen Kirkbride, of Durban, Natal.

Research notes


K.M. Jordan, Royal Durban Light Infantry WWII Roll of Honour ("working document", Aug 2026 draft; email to John & Bobby, 4 Sep 2026, marked "not 100% correct"): KIRKBRIDE, James (Son of James & Annie Jane Kirkbride, of 23 Acacia Road, Glenwood, Durban; husband of Kathleen Sheila (nee Hastings) Kirkbride, of Durban.) 6807 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Boksburg, Transvaal 12/5/1910; baptised St Michael’s Church, Boksburg 19/6/1910; a plasterer by profession; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; missing in action at Gazala; presumed dead. (Body never recovered.) Alamein Memorial to the Missing, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials & on “B” Company, RDLI WWII Memorial, - originally at Pennington, now housed at the DLI HQ.) 07/06/1942 L611-TFJ 32

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