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Identity
Person No.
38968
Service No.
700707
Last Name
Boschin 1
First Name
Ugo
Initials
U
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1945 (±1 yr) 160
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
28 March 1978 149
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, about forty minutes flying time by chopper directly south of Shabani and not far to the west of Buchwa Mine (map ref TM 119599) in the Op Repulse area. Elements of C Coy 9RR, on protection duty at a nearby mine, were called in to assist with a 3 Cdo RLI fire force action. Contact was made with 8 ZIPRA CTs; 4 were killed and two captured, but not before 4 members of the SF were killed. Androliakos (who was posthumously awarded the BCR for bravery in this action), Hancock, Boschin and Mtandwa were all killed in this engagement
Military Service
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Rhodesia Regiment 487
Unit
9th Bn. 44
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Zimbabwe 2,787
Locality
Bulawayo 647
Cemetery
BULAWAYO (ATHLONE) CEMETERY 114
Grave Reference
Unknown
Coordinates
-20.12167, 28.59161 OSM
Unit History
Part of
Rhodesian Army - Infantry
Notes

Husband of Edna Boschin. Father of Jason and Anthony Boschin. 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.

Research notes

Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour).
7 Sep 2026: GraveRef ("Cremated, ashes placed in brother's grave") is identical across 16 consecutive PersonNumbers with unrelated surnames and different actual cemeteries already on file -- cannot literally be true for 16 different people. Same forward-fill contamination pattern as the Mapai Puma 164 crash-site text (fixed 6 Sep 2026). Cleared rather than guessed; the real GraveRef value is unknown.

Citations

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

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