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Identity
Person No.
38865
Service No.
725132
Last Name
First Name
Ronald Eugene
Initials
R E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Military Service
Rank
Corporal
Secondary Unit
2 Commando
Death Record
Cause of Death
Killed in action, gunshot wounds in Mozambique during a combined Rhodesian Light Infantry/SAS attack on a ZANLA camp at Rambanayi. The camp, also housing a platoon of Tanzanian troops, was defended by a complex of trenches and bunkers covered by large logs and soil, and it was when Butch jumped into the command bunker occupied by the enemy, that he was shot and killed
Grave Reference
Additional Information
Notes

Educated at Churchill High School. 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

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