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Identity
Person No.
24575
Service No.
590415
Last Name
Swart 82
First Name
Daniel Andries
Initials
D A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1922 (±1 yr) 602
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
26 May 1944 101
Cause code
DROW 1,204
Drowned
Cause of Death
Drowned 1,086
Drowned
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Later renamed Durban Light Infantry (1961)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
CASSINO MEMORIAL 15
Grave Reference
Panel 16. 12
Coordinates
41.47763, 13.82609 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 Daniel Andries and Anna Dorothea Swart, of Sesfontein, P.O. Petit via Benoni, Transvaal. Born Pretoria.

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"): SWART, Daniel Andries (Son of Daniel Andries & Anna Dorothea Swart, of Sesfontein, P.O. Petit via Benoni, Transvaal.) 590415 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Pretoria, Transvaal; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in Italy; drowned in the Sangro River, Italy. (Body never recovered.) Cassino Memorial to the Missing, Italy. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry WWII Memorial.) Not on Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial. 26/05/1944 22

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