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Identity
Person No.
38980
Service No.
4099
Last Name
Brading 1
First Name
Anthony John
Initials
A J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1949 (±1 yr) 199
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
22 January 1970 89
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, contact with ZAPU insurgents, Ntondongwe fly gate area, just north of the boundary of the Doma Safari area, Sipolilo district, in Op Birch. With a JOC established at Mangula, elements of 1 Commando followed spoor for three days, eventually making contact on the 21st. Early the following morning, contact was again made, and in an ensuing firefight, Tony was shot and killed. All three terrorist insurgents were killed
Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Rhodesian Light Infantry 155
Unit
1st Battalion 459
Secondary Unit
1 Commando
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 - Infantry
Notes

Born 1949 in Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Jameson High School. 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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