Identity
Person No.
17632
Service No.
6653
Last Name
First Name
Etienne E
Initials
E E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
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
Cemetery
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 Herbert A. and Petronella H. S. Mostert; husband of Elizabeth B. Mostert, of Durban, 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"): MOSTERT, Etienne Eugene (Husband of Elizabeth Mostert, of Durban.) 6653 Lance Corporal Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Basutoland 1914; a despatch clerk before enlistment; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action at Bardia, Libya. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials.) 16/12/1941 27
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