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Identity
Person No.
40373
Service No.
PR63399
Last Name
Smith 325
First Name
Malcom H
Initials
M H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1954 (±1 yr) 318
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
11 March 1977 155
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, in a contact in the North East Operational Area, near St Barbara's Mission, enemy group was moving in the opposite direction on the same path system (probably going back to Mozambique via Honde Valley), when they bumped into one another. A burst of automatc fire at close range caught Malcom in the face killing him instantly. The man behind him, Petrus Botha, was hit in the throat and died
Military Service
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Rhodesia Regiment 487
Formerly Royal Rhodesia Regiment (1970)
Unit
1st Battalion 459
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Zimbabwe 2,787
Locality
Harare (Salisbury) 1,462
Cemetery
UNKNOWN CEMETERY 3,272
Grave Reference
Unknown
Unit History
Part of
Rhodesian Army - Infantry
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).
6 Sep 2026: GraveRef was corrupted with the Mapai Puma 164 crash-site text ("Body not recovered - crash site coordinates are: S22 06' 48.2\" E31 39' 12.1\"") -- discovered while fixing that text's encoding on the genuine 17 Puma 164 casualties. This record's own DateDeath has nothing to do with that 6 Sep 1979 incident; the crash-site text does not belong here. Cleared rather than guessed -- the real GraveRef value is unknown. This record's own Cemetery/CemeteryLat/CemeteryLong were not affected and are unchanged.

Citations

***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

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