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Identity
Person No.
13827
Service No.
1862
Last Name
First Name
Charles Ormond
Initials
C O
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing, Death Presumed
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
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 William C. and Agnes Loos, of Durban North, Natal, South Africa. B.A., LL.B. Educated at Hilton College, 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") (ServiceNo in this draft, 1862, differs from this record's own 1862 -- not resolved, matched instead by surname + exact DateDeath 1942-06-07).: LOOS, Charles Ormond (Son of Agnes Loos of 7 Berkeley Crescent, Durban North.) (Hilton College) (B.A., LL.B.) 1862 Lance Corporal Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Utrecht, Natal 25/9/1902; an advocate by profession; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action at Gazala, Libya. (Body never recovered) (Also, on “B” Company, RDLI WWII Memorial, - originally at Pennington, now housed at the DLI HQ.) Alamein Memorial to the Missing, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Hilton College; St Martins in the Field Church, Durban North; the Royal Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials & on family commemoration stone in Stellawood Crematorium, Durban.) 07/06/1942 G1VB-RNM 39

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