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Identity
Person No.
166
Service No.
7241
Last Name
Adams 87
First Name
Norman Cecil
Initials
N C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1900 (±1 yr) 315
Age at Death
42
Death Record
Date of Death
28 November 1942 240
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost at sea 567
Lost at sea on S. S. Nova Scotia, torpedoed and sunk by U-177. En route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. Carrying 6 passengers, 11 military and naval personnel, 134 South African guards and 765 Italian civil internees
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,342
Unit
2nd Bn. 451
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 122. 10
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 122.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of James and Isabella Adams; husband of Marie Grace Caroline Adams, of Durban, Natal, South Africa. Born Scotland. A bus driver by trade

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"): ADAMS, Norman Cecil (Son of James & Isabella Adams; husband of Marie Grace Caroline (born Edwards) Adams, of Flat #3 Highbury, Bartle Road, Durban.) 7241 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Scotland 15/8/1900; a bus driver before enlistment; served with the 2nd Battalion RDLI in North Africa; drowned at sea, when German submarine U-177 torpedoed and sank S. S. NOVA SCOTIA off the coast of Zululand. He had 2 daughters and 3 sons. (Body never recovered.) Alamein Memorial to the Missing, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry; the Durban Cenotaph & the Durban Corporation in the Durban City Hall WWII Memorials.) 29/11/1942 G26L-4N7 42
CONFLICT vs Jordan RDLI WWII draft (not resolved, ROH value kept): DateDeath: Jordan 29/11/1942 vs ROH 1942-11-28.

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