Identity
Person No.
13145
Service No.
2085
Last Name
First Name
William Johannes
Initials
W J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Later renamed
Durban Light Infantry
(1961)
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes
Son of Stephanus J. le Roux and Martha J. S. le Roux, of Montclair, Natal, South Africa.
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"): LE ROUX, William Johannes (Son of Stephanus & Martha le Roux, of Montclair, Natal.) 2085 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action near Alamein by a bomb during a night raid. Hadra War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials.) 03/09/1941 31
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