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Identity
Person No.
2077
Service No.
2382
Last Name
Booker 1
First Name
Reginald Brereton
Initials
R B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1919 (±1 yr) 581
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
25 November 1942 152
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died as POW 169
Died whilst a POW
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Later renamed Durban Light Infantry (1961)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
2nd Bn. 451
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
BARI WAR CEMETERY 166
Grave Reference
II. E. 19. 1
Coordinates
41.06481, 16.8947 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
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of Ernest Cyril Clayton and Maud Iris Booker, of Lusikisiki, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Lusikisiki, Cape Province.

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"): BOOKER, Reginald Brereton (Son of Ernest Cyril Clayton & Iris Maud Booker (born Brereton – Todd), of Lusikisiki, Cape Province.) 2382 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Lusikisiki, Pondoland 13/6/1920; a Durban resident; served with the 2nd Battalion RDLI in North Africa; captured at Tobruk 20/6/1942; died whilst a POW in Italy. Bari War Cemetery, Italy. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry & Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials.) 25/11/1942 LYP3-CVB 23

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