Identity
Person No.
21734
Service No.
252122
Last Name
First Name
Niklass J
Initials
N J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
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 Johannes H. and Elizabeth K. J. Roets, of Sea View, 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"): ROETS, Nicolas Jacobus (Son of Johannes & Elizabeth Roets, of 558 Sarnia Road, Sea View, Natal.) 252122 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Dordrecht, Cape Province; a clerk for the SAR&H before enlistment; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action, during an attack at Bardia. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials.) 16/12/1941 20
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