Son of Henry and Madge Petzer; husband of Madge Bessie (nee Scott) Petzer, of Sea View, Durban. A rail worker by trade
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"): PETZER, Jacobus Hendrik (Son of William Henry & Madeline Edith (nee Dell) Petzer; husband of Madge Edith (nee Scott) Petzer, of Sea View, Durban; they had 3 young children.) 93200 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born East London December 1908; a skilled rail worker with the SAR&H by trade; served with the 2nd Battalion RDLI in North Africa; missing in action, presumed dead at the Commonwealth Keep outside Tobruk. (Body never recovered.) Alamein Memorial to the Missing, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, the “Seaview and South Coast Junction”; the Royal Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials and on the SAR&H WWII ROH in the book “We Fought the Miles.”) 28/05/1942 G8V5-659 28
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