Bouch, Robert Albert

Identity

Person No.

38974

Service No.

21196

Last Name

Bouch 1

First Name

Robert Albert

Initials

R A

Date of Birth

Unknown

Est. Birth Year

1933 (±1 yr) 65

Age at Death

33

Death Record

Date of Death

12 October 1966 329

Cause code

ACC 1,585

Accident

Cause of Death

Died in an accidental explosion 4

Died in an accidental explosion, while loading unsafe gelignite into canoe's on the Zambesi River, near Chirundu, for transport to a safe place for destruction

Military Service

Rank

Warrant Officer Class II

Regiment

Special Air Service 52

Unit

"C" Squadron 59

Secondary Unit

"Q" Cars

Defence Force

RSF 2,789

Rhodesian Security Forces

Location

Country

Zimbabwe 2,787

Locality

Harare (Salisbury) 1,462

Cemetery

HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CEMETERY 279

Grave Reference

Unknown

Unit History

Part of

Rhodesian Army - Special Forces

Notes

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

External References

South African War Graves Project open source ↗

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Bouch , Robert Albert (R A)