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Identity
Person No.
7206
Service No.
38906
Last Name
Fitzgerald 9
First Name
Gerald Henry
Initials
G H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1918 (±1 yr) 641
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
13 July 1942 123
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service 6,447
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Royal Durban Light Infantry 161
Later renamed Durban Light Infantry (1961)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
1st Bn. 625
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
IV. D. 12. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 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 Grave
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
Grave
On the panel
IV. D. 12.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of Henry G. and Mary F. Fitzgerald, of Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa.

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"): FITZGERALD, Gerald Henry (Son of Henry G. & Mary F. Fitzgerald, of Kimberley, Cape Province.) 38906 Lieutenant Royal Durban Light Infantry Served with the 1st Battalion RDLI in North Africa; killed in action at El Alamein, Egypt. 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.) Not on Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorial. 13/07/1942 24

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