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Identity
Person No.
39279
Service No.
729803
Last Name
Dwyer 5
First Name
Stephen Michael
Initials
S M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1952 (±1 yr) 288
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
16 July 1979 206
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,435
Died of wounds, received in action near Buffalo Range, Op Repulse, trying to save Hugh John McCall, a fellow American
Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Rhodesian Light Infantry 155
Unit
1st Battalion 459
Secondary Unit
3 Commando, 11 Troop
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
United States of America 13
Locality
Massachusetts 1
Cemetery
JAMAICA PLAIN (FOREST HILL) CEMETERY 1
Grave Reference
Section 42, Grave 159 1
Unit History
Part of
Rhodesian Army - Infantry
Notes

American Citizen was born and raised in Jamaica Plain (Boston) Massachusetts, the youngest son of a large Irish American Catholic family. He enlisted in the USMC after high school and was stationed in Korea. Stephen at the age of 26 joined the Rhodesian Army in 1978. 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).
Geldenhuys scrape duplicate PersonNumber 49218 deleted 27 Aug 2026 (Nemachewa/Shusha INTAF mashup; date/rank/unit are Dwyer, Stephen Michael, RLI 3 Cdo, 16 Jul 1979.)

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