Identity
Person No.
38874
Service No.
PR65886
Last Name
First Name
Leonidas
Initials
L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in the Repulse area while assisting a 3 Commando Fire Force action. He was part of a group doing protection duty at the nearby Buchwa Mine
Military Service
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Rhodesia Regiment 487
Formerly
Royal Rhodesia Regiment
(1970)
Unit
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
Awards
Bronze Cross of Rhodesia (BCR)
Rhodesia · awarded 1978-03-28
Posthumously awarded the Bronze Cross of Rhodesia (BCR) for bravery on 28 March 1978. Corporal Leonidas Androliakos, C Company 9th Battalion Rhodesia Regiment, was killed with Hancock, Boschin and Mtandwa while assisting a 3 Commando RLI Fire Force contact in the Op Repulse area (map TM 119599). Named as the BCR recipient for this action in the Geldenhuys Rhodesian War Casualties narrative on Boschin PN 38968.
Notes
Amendments from Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981, by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.
Citations
***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file
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