Identity
Person No.
39643
Service No.
131997
Last Name
First Name
Gray Viereck Merrilees
Initials
G V M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during Op Tepid. This was a combined SAS, RLI and RhAF attack on a ZIPRA base near Chirundu, Op Hurricane
Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Special Air Service 52
Later renamed
Rhodesian Special Air Service
(1961)
Unit
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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.
Citations
***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file
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