Identity
Person No.
39290
Service No.
PR75387
Last Name
First Name
Brian John
Initials
B J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in a vehicle ambush, on the Fort Victoria-Beit Bridge road
Military Service
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Rhodesia Regiment 487
Formerly
Royal Rhodesia Regiment
(1970)
Unit
Secondary Unit
"A" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
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).
Geldenhuys scrape duplicate PersonNumber 49073 deleted 27 Aug 2026 (LastName Rifleman; nameless RR vehicle-ambush fragment for 17 May 1976 (Edwards KIA; da Silva-Chalheiros DOW already on the roll).)
Citations
***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
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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