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Identity
Person No.
20113
Service No.
93200
Last Name
First Name
Jacobus Hendrik
Initials
J H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing, Death Presumed
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
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 Henry and Madge Petzer; husband of Madge Bessie (nee Scott) Petzer, of Sea View, Durban. A rail worker 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"): 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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