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Identity
Person No.
2435
Service No.
93030
Last Name
Boyley 2
First Name
Vernon Charles
Initials
V C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1923 (±1 yr) 540
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
07 June 1942 139
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Missing in action 784
Missing, Death Presumed
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
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 122. 10
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 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
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Alamein Memorial (Missing)
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 122.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of Charles Andrew Edward Boyley, of Pietermaritzburg. Born Pietermaritzburg. Worked at a rubber factory

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"): BOYLEY, Vernon Charles (Son of Charles Andrew Edward Boyley of PMB; mother Mary Anne (nee Franklin) Boyley, deceased.) 93030 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born PMB; employed at a rubber factory before enlistment; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action, during an attack on enemy lines at Gazala, Libya. (Grave lost / body never found.) Not on Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial. Alamein Memorial to the Missing, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry WWII Memorial & on “B” Company, RDLI WWII Memorial, - originally at Pennington, now housed at the DLI HQ.) 07/06/1942 G15W-VXF 19

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