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Identity
Person No.
2682
Service No.
2291
Last Name
First Name
Johannes Christian Jacob
Initials
J C J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Accidentally killed
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
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

Husband of Mrs. Barbara Bronkhorst, of Durban. ***CWGC has an Australian Rising Sun badge on headstone.

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"): BRONKHORST, Johannes Christian Jacob (Husband of Barbara Bronkhorst, of 224 Kenilworth Road, Sydenham, Durban.) 2291 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Melmoth, Zululand, Natal 2/10/1907; a striker with the SAR&H before enlistment; served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in a motor accident in the Nile Delta area. Not on Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial. Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Ismailia, Egypt. Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry Memorial; on the SAR&H WWII ROH in the book “We Fought the Miles” & on “B” Company, RDLI WWII Memorial, - originally at Pennington, now housed at the DLI HQ.) 05/10/1941 P99Y-BGX 34

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