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Identity
Person No.
3010
Service No.
2150
Last Name
First Name
George Louis Scafe
Initials
G L S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of enteric fever
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
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
Part of
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of William and Edith Hannah Burden. Husband of Elizabeth Ann Burden, of Durban. Born Durban. A printer. Attended Glenwood High School, Durban

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"): BURDEN, George Louis Seafe (George Lewis Scafe Burden on death certificate) (Son of William & Edith Hannah (born Clark) Burden – both deceased; husband of Elizabeth Ann (born Graham) Burden of 37 Boshoff Street, PMB.) (Mansfield Primary; DTHS / Glenwood 1919 -22) 2150 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Durban 1/7/1905; a printer by trade; died during training of enteric fever in Premier Mine Military Hospital, Transvaal, South Africa. He had 3 young children. Stellawood Cemetery, Durban, KZN, South Africa. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry; the Glenwood High School & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials.) 21/07/1940 GLQ3-342 35

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