Whittal , Clifford Gerald (C G)

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") (matched by exact ServiceNo 6884 and exact DateDeath 28 Nov 1942; Regiment filled as South African Engineer Corps and Age as 43, both blank -- also commemorated on the RDLI WWII Memorial per this source, despite not serving in it; his brother Ernest Stanford/Stafford Whittal (spelling varies between sources) died in WWI, PersonNumber 28260, already on record): WHITTAL, Clifford Gerald (Son of James & Susanah Alecia (nee Selby) Whitta of Queenstownl; husband of Alice (nee Burr) Whittal of Railway Cottages, Durban; they had a young daughter.) (His brother Ernest Stafford Whittal died in WWI.) 6884 Sapper South African Engineer Corps Born KWT 23/1/1899; married Durban 11/9/1926; a leading shunter with the SAR&H before enlistment; served in North Africa; lost at sea when German submarine U-177 torpedoed and sank S. S. NOVA SCOTIA whilst en route from Aden to Durban, South Africa. (Body never recovered.) Alamein Memorial to the Missing, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. (Also, on the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial; on the SAR&H WWII ROH in the book “We Fought the Miles.” & on commemorated on his wife's gravestone in Stellawood Cemetery, Durban, KZN, South Africa.) 28/11/1942 GQF2-J8P 43