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Identity
Person No.
38838
Service No.
9283
Last Name
Whitehead-Wilson 1
First Name
Vaughan
Initials
V
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1956 (±1 yr) 375
Age at Death
23
Military Service
Rank
Lance Section Officer
Regiment
British South Africa Police 641
Unit
Support Unit 180
Secondary Unit
Police
Death Record
Date of Death
04 June 1979 107
Cause of Death
Killed in action 9,874
Killed in action, on the road between Shamrock Mine and Karoi. A contact with a Support Unit call sign developed with the call sign requesting back up. Vaughan and others trucked in further call signs and it was at this time that he was shot and killed. It was to be his last day before he returned to HQ to be demobbed
Grave Reference
Buried at Ft Victoria 1
Location
Country
Zimbabwe 2,787
Locality
Bulawayo 647
Cemetery
BULAWAYO AREA CEMETERY 38
Additional Information
Notes

On Plumtree School Roll of Honour. ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood). Amendments from "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.

Citation

***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project

southafricawargraves.org — record #38838