Identity
Person No.
39259
Service No.
V5047
Last Name
First Name
Andrew Jameson
Initials
A J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, bullet wound in a contact in the Inyanga area, Op Thrasher. Various sticks had been deployed in the commercial wattle plantations in the area. Gus' stick had gone into a plantation workers' compound when they came under mortar and small arms fire from the nearby forest. As Gus was running across the edge of the forest in a clearing that carried electricity pylons, he was fatally wounded. He died during the helicopter casevac flight to hospital
Military Service
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Secondary Unit
1 Commando
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Intake 163. A Prince Edward School old boy. ref. "Rhodesian African Rifles Roll of Honour" by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.
Research notes
Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour).
Geldenhuys scrape duplicate PersonNumber 49259 deleted 27 Aug 2026 (LastName Lieutenant; RAR 3 Indep Coy 27 Dec 1979 is Du Toit, Andrew Jameson.)
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Geldenhuys — Rhodesian War Casualties
open source ↗
Rhodesia: Roll of Honour (chronological)
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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