Identity
Person No.
14384
Service No.
93164
Last Name
First Name
Edward Fredrick Anton
Initials
E F A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Later renamed
Durban Light Infantry
(1961)
Unit
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes
Son of Walter J. and Frederica S. Maddocks, of Lehlonono, Matatiele, Cape Province, 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"): MADDOCKS, Edward Frederick Anton (Son of Walter J. & Frederica S. Maddocks, of Lehlonono, Matatiele, Cape Province.) 93164 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born 22/6/1920; served with the 2nd Battalion RDLI in North Africa; WIA at Bir el Siweiyat; died of wounds. Not on Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry WWII Memorial.) 14/12/1941 21
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