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Identity
Person No.
932
Service No.
93112
Last Name
First Name
Thomas Gold
Initials
T G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
50
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died in England, during repatriation from Germany to Africa
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
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
"Royal" dropped 1961 on Republic formation.
Notes

Son of John and Elizabeth Baird; husband of Jean Campbell Baird, of Durban, Natal, 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"): BAIRD, Thomas Gold (Son of John & Elizabeth Baird; husband of Jean Campbell Baird (born Rollo) of #1 Gainsborough Court, Broad Street, Esplanade, Durban.) 93112 Private Royal Durban Light Infantry Born Scotland 21/12/1893; an operator in a sugar mill at South Coast Junction; served with the 2nd Battalion RDLI in North Africa; captured at Tobruk June 1942; repatriated to the UK 15/9/1944; died of natural causes, in England. Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England. (Also, on the Royal Durban Light Infantry; the South Coast Junction & Sea View & the Durban Cenotaph WWII Memorials.) 25/10/1944 GTRD-QGP 50

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