Identity
Person No.
18956
Service No.
2108
Last Name
First Name
Charles Reginald Percival
Initials
C R P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
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
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
IV. E. 24.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes
No additional information known at this time
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"): NORRIS, Charles Reginald Percival (St. Charles Marist College, PMB.) 2108 Captain Royal Durban Light Infantry Served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action in the Alamein area, North Africa. Not on Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry WWII Memorial, DLI HQ, Durban.) 15/09/1942
Citations
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