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
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
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
Military Service
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
2 Commando
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Educated at Churchill High School. Amendments from Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981, by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.
Research notes
Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour).
Citations
***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file
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