ECHOES OF AN
AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List -5 January 2001
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS AN MS-WORD Version
(ignore password demands)
NAME
AMENDMENT
ALEXANDER, Ronald Eugene
KIA 16.12.76. Ex-pupil of Churchill School
1 RLI
Source :
Churchill School Roll of Honour submitted by
Tristan Martin email tjmartin@btingernet.com 12/11/00
ANNANDALE, D. Flt.Lt.
Name spelt
incorrectly on Roll as “Annadale”.
Source : Ron Annandale
ASHBY, Gavin Warwick Sapper
Killed in action 20th March, 1978. Name spelled
Rhod,. Corp. of Engineers
incorrectly on
Roll of Honour as “Asby”.
BARNABAS, Richard Pte
Private not Rifleman. Served with 1
RDR (Rhodesia
114368
Defence
Regiment. Was 33 years old at date of death.
BARNETT, Nigel William. Sapper
Killed in ambush on the vehicle in which he was
travelling.
Source : Alan Gullan email gullanal@sequent.com
dated 30.08.00
BATTAGLIA, F (3 Commando)
Citizen of the United States of America
Tpr
Source : Mike Kelso 3 Cdo
Email : kelsom1@aol.com
dated 29.10.00
BICKNELL, Kevin Howard
Killed 10th April, 1978. Was
killed by one of his own
Sgt.
men who went
berserk. Four or five others may have
NOT ON ROLL
died in the same scene. Listed amongst
Prince Edward
School war dead.
BITIRINYI, Zuzeyo
KIA 23 Oct 1978
in landmine clearing incident.15-20
F/R BSAP
km from
Headlands Police Station in farming area.
Killed along with F/R MAGIRAZI Waison who was
flung 25 m into the bush and who died of his wounds
the same day. The
driver of the vehicle was unharmed.
BOLTON, Derek J.
Killed on active
service. Contracted cerebral malaria
Vedette Snr W/Officer
while on a
training camp in the Shamva area 02.06.79.
NOT ON
ROLL
Member of
Internal Affairs Department, and appears on
Internal Affairs statistical list.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
BOTHMA, Kevin Peter
Killed in action
4th June, 1979
Rifleman
BOUCH, R.A.
WO II
The accidental
explosion that killed him was as a result
of unsafe weeping gelignite, which he and two others
were transporting to a safe place for detonation.
Source : Iain Palmer.
BROOK-MEE, M.
1979.Appears
listed amongst Prince Edward School war dead
NOT ON ROLL
BROOKS, Matthew C T
Killed in action
in ambush near Fort Victoria in June,
PATU (NOT
ON ROLL)
1977.
BROWN, Ian Keith
KIA 26.6.77. Churchill School Roll of Honour.
2nd
(Indep) RR
Source : Tristan Martin.
BROWN, Kevin
Robert
KIA 20.11.73. Churchill School Roll of Honour
2 Sig Sqdn
Source : Tristan Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00
BROWN, William Compton
KIA 4th May, 1977.
RhAF
Source :
Churchill School Roll of Honour submitted by
Tristan Martin.
CAHILL, Michael Patrick
The accidental
explosion that killed him was a result of
Col/Sgt
SAS
MCM
unsafe weeping
gelignite, which he and two others
were transporting to a safe place for detonation.
Source: Iain Palmer.
Killed on active duty 12.10.66.
Source : Churchill School Roll of Honour
Tristan Martin email tjmartin@byinternet.com
dated 12.11.00
CALDER, Basil
Killed in same
incident as Frank GOUGH (R.F.), and
Field Reservist BSAP
was therefore
killed in action by a landmine on 8/1/77.
Source: Steve Calder (son) email 10.11.00
steve.calder@admiralplc.com
CAMACHO, A
Tpr
KOAS. Shooting
accident.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
CARY, James Bernard
KIA 29/1/69.
Churchill School Roll of Honour
1 RLI
Source : Tristan
Martin.
COLEMAN. Andrew Roy P/O
BSAP - PATU. Killed in an ambush whilst on active
Appears as
Coleman, A. BSAP service
in the Sinoia region on 21 June, 1977.
COTTON, Christopher Reginald
Killed in action 27th January, 1979
Neville
S/O BSAP
Source : Widow -
Anita Cotton
COURTNEY, D
KIA 1978. Appears listed amongst Prince Edward
NOT ON ROLL
School war dead.
CROUCH, Gaetano
KIA 7.3.77.
Churchill School Roll of Honour.
9 RR
Source: Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
CROW, Jeremy Mark
Incorrectly
listed as “Jeremy Mario”. KIA at Mapai
during Op URIC on 6th September, 1979. The
helicopter he was in was hit by a RPG7.
DE COURPALAY, D
KIA - was a
member of this unit at time of death in
3 Indep. Co,. RR
action. See
Intake 147 C Coy as a web site linked
(NOT ON ROLL)
to RWW. KIA June 1978.
Source : George Parker zanyika@netscapeonline.co.uk
dated 18.08.00
De Courpalay was from Macheke and went to school
at Marandellas High School. His father was i.c, BSAP
Macheke. His death was the result of 3 sticks being
given incorrect map references and the resulting blue on
blue was a disaster with a number shot dead and many
wounded.
Source : High Bomford email hbomford@clear.net.nz
DELPORT, Barry Maurice
KIA 3rd June, 1975. Churchill School Roll of Honour.
RH AF
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00
DICKER, Michael Ian
KIA 3rd
September, 1978. Churchill School Roll of Honour.
BSA Police
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
DODD, D
KIA 1977. Appears listed amongst Prince Edward
NOT ON
ROLL
School war dead.
DONEGAN, Kevin Anthony
KIA 18th March, 1973. Churchill School Roll of Honour.
1 RLI
Source :Tristan
Martin.
ELLIS, M
Tpr
1 Cdo RLI
FAIRBANKS, Peter Hendrik
KIA 02.09.78 2nd
Platoon, 5 Ind.Coy. RR
110590 L/Cpl
FALZOI, F.G.
1 Cdo RLI.
FARAI, Cpl.
Killed in January, 1980, during an attack on the DC’s
NOT ON ROLL
camp at Mudzi - was returning fire from the side of his
married quarters when a RPG rocket hit and exploded
inside his home. Wife
and children were safe inside the
bunker in the front of the house. Several witnesses
report that FARAI invited fire to his house by loading
only tracer rounds in his magazines. He was warned
several times during the attack not to do so. On
inspection it was found that the remaining mags
contained only tracer rounds.
FLEMING, Ian
See entry for
Henry JARVIE.
FRASER, Iain Lovat
Should read
“Iain” and not “Ian”.
GARDEN, Peter John
KIA 17th
January, 1972. Church School Roll of Honour.
Rh AF
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00/
GILDENHUYS, R.
KIA 1979. Appears listed amongst those on the Prince
NOT ON
ROLL.
Edward School war dead.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
GRANLUND, Allen Cpl
Mentioned in
Roll of Honour as being killed 14 October,
2 Indep Coy RR
1978. Source mentions this man was a classmate
and
a fellow medic. The Sunday the Viscount was shot down
(i.e. the day that the public heard the announcement on
the news at 7.45 p.m.) was two weeks before. The obit
in the Sunday paper was two weeks later and source
attended the funeral that week, when he was on R & R.
Killed in September, 1978, and not October, 1978.
HAHN, Manfred
P/R (Bright
Lights) - killed in error by another P/R
NOT ON
ROLL
while guarding
farmhouse. HAHN was a German
National who knew Trevor STEER through the Salisbury
Gliding Club. HAHN was guarding a farm
house with another P/R because the farmer was away.
They thought they were under attack. HAHN went
outside to recce while the other P/R took the
farmer’s
wife and children to a bedroom for safety. The other
P/R saw an armed figure outside the house, opened fire
and killed HAHN.
HALLETT, Eric
KOAS. P/R
(Bright Lights) - killed when passenger in vehicle accident. The vehicle in which he was a
passenger hit the parapet of a bridge when a newspaper
on the seat next to the driver blew into the driver’s
face.
NOT ON
ROLL
HARDY, Anthony John
KIA 14th
October, 1976. Churchill School Roll of
3 (Indep) Coy RR
Honour. Source : Tristan Martin email
tjmartin@btinternet.com dated 12/11/00
HECKLER, R
L/Cpl
Killed when
ambushed travelling on the Vic Falls Road.
Mechanic 1 Indep Coy RR
A Zipra operative managed to hit the vehicle with an
RPG7 - quite a feat knowing the speeds Heckler used
to travel when he drove a vehicle.
Source : Kevin Grant email Kevin.Grant@health.gov.au
dated 04.12.00
HODES, Ernest Geoffrey Cpl
Killed in car accident while on duty, returning
Born Byo 27/08/32
Salisbury to
Bulawayo on 3rd July, 1977. Was a corporal
NOT ON
ROLL
in army
intelligence.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
HOLSHAUSEN, Jannie
Killed in action
near Mozambique border. While on a
mine-clearing patrol, stepped on an Anti-Personnel
mine, and was killed. Source : Andre du Plessis.
HUTCHESSON, Sean Richard
KIA 16th March, 1978. Churchill School Roll of
2 Eng Sqdn
Honour. Source : Tristan Martin
email
tjmartin@btinternet.com dated 12/11/00
JARVIE, Henry.
Flt Sgt
Killed in action
12th January, 1978, together with
Ian Fleming, a helicopter technician, while flying an
Alouette III in action.
Source :-
Nick Tslentis cyclonet@ath.forthnet.gr email dated
12th December, 1998.
(2) JARVIE was a Flight Sergeant, not Flt Lt, and was
killed in same contact as FLEMING but at different
times. FLEMING
was the engineer in a K car and
was shot when the contact was initiated and JARVIE
was the engineer in a G car and was shot during the
follow up.
Source :-
Trevor Vine at email trevine@micropower.co.za
dated 14.03.00.
JENNINGS, Clive Leslie
Fatally wounded while trying to lift a landmine off the
Sapper
railway line at
Bannockburn late on the evening of
19th July, 1979, and died in the early hours of
20th July, 1979.
Source : Alan Gullan email gullal@sequent.com
dated 30.08.00
JOHNSON, N
KIA 1968. Appears listed amongst the Prince Edward
NOT ON
ROLL
School war dead.
KING, S.E.
1 Cdo RLI.
KINGSLEY-JONES, Derek John
KIA 16th June, 1977. Churchill
School Roll of Honour.
4 Indep Coy
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
KRUGER, David
KIA 22nd
July, 1977. Churchill School Roll of Honour.
7 (Indep) Coy RR
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
LANG, C.F.
1 Cdo RLI.
LESTER, Jeremy Oliver
KOAS. 12.10.77. Reg. No 9314, PO.. Killed by an AK47 mounted on the rear of a BSAP
Landrover parked in the Sipolilo Police Station.
Roll of Honour entry :-
It was accidentally fired by a colleague during
Killed in action Oct. 1977.
the morning vehicle maintenance check. Official
BSAP
records show - died in service - accidental shooting
LOVIE, Alan Gray
KIA 14th
October, 1976. Churchill School Roll of
4 (Indep) Coy RR
Honour. Source : Tristan Martin email
tjmartin@btinternet.com dated 12/11/00
McLAURIN, D.J.
L/Cpl
SAS
KIA. 19.10.79 in ZIPRA ambush. Mentioned in “The Elite” - page 432 Roll
of Honour
MacDONALD, E.
KIA 1977. Listed
amongst those on the Prince Edward
NOT ON
ROLL
School war dead.
MacDONALD, Peter
KIA - in ambush
in Lubimbi TTL, near Gwaai River
BSAP National Serviceman
in September
either 1977 or 1978. Resident of Wankie,
(NOT ON ROLL)
and pupil of St
Stephens College, Balla Balla
Source : Alan Gullan email gullanal@sequent.com
dated 30.08.00
MAGIRAZI, Waison
Died of his
wounds 23 Oct 1978 incurred during a
F/R BSAP
landmine
clearing incident 15-20 km from Headlands
Police Station. F/R BITIRINYI killed instantly and
driver of vehicle escaped unharmed.
MATTHEWS, Grant Stuart
Rfn. 4 Brigade. Died of wounds received in action on
9th December, 1979. Appears as Matthews, Grant
Stanley.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
MICHELL, Kenneth Michael
(Cpl)
Rhodesian Intelligence Corps. Wounded in action while
clearing contour ridges, shot at close quarters by an
insurgent who stood up under cover of a ridge.
25th June, 1978. (Medal Society had date as
26.08.78)
MICHELL was actually wounded in action in the same
year - this could be the confusion and duplication from
the Medal Society). He was killed in landmine
incident, not on the contour ridges.
Source :-
Trevor Vine (cousin) at email
trevine@micropower.co.za dated 14.03.00.
MIRAMS, David
Killed by
landmine only fifty yards from his front gate,
District Commissioner
on 2.01.79.at
his DC’s residence in Mrewa. He had just been promoted to Regional Commissioner and
was due to commence duties the week after he was killed. Three thousand locals attended his funeral.
MORGAN, Christopher John
KIA April 1977. Accidentally killed by a shotgun blast
9380 BSAP P/O
from a Police
Reservist, when mistaken for the enemy
Marked as “killed in action” in
during a sweep through a maize field after a reported
Roll of Honour.
sighting of
terrorists.
MORRIS, Michael John
KIA 31st
January, 1974. Churchill School Roll of
SAS
Honour. Source : Tristan Martin email
tjmartin@btinternet.com dated 12/11/00.
MUIR, D.S.
1 Cdo RLI, not 3
Cdo.
MURDOCH, D.
KIA 1977. Listed amongst the Prince Edward
NOT ON
ROLL
School war dead.
MUSHURE, Anderson
KIA 26th
October, 1979.
DSA
Source : Dave
Morley - Ground Coverage BSAP.
NEL, E.F.
1 Cdo RLI.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
PHILIPS, Dennis
Was formerly a
Patrol Officer in the BSAP. Left the
Junior Commandant, Guard Force
Police to join Rhodesia Railways as a Safety Officer in
N.B. Roll of
Honour states
Matabeleland. He was conscripted into
the Guard Force
date of death as
15/4/79.
(Intake GFR/3)
and subsequently underwent the first
Guard Force Officer Cadet training course. He served
in
various operational areas :- Chipings, Chiredzi, Honde
Valley, Mt Darwin and Gwelo. In 1979, while riding in
an unprotected Landrover near Gwelo he was ambushed
by a group of CTs and sustained fatal injuries, from
which he died on 19th April, 1979.
POSTHUMUS, G
(N.S.)
KOAS. Keep Commander Guard Force. Killed by his own men whilst in a PV. Seemingly
he confiscated cards from the Guards as they were gambling - they promptly shot him. Sept. 1978.
POVEY, Roger
He was injured
critically in a landmine explosion while
driving a Landrover and was casevaced in a Trojan.
When the pilot arrived at the landing strip it was dark
and the unit had no flares to light up the runway, so they
parked two Landrovers at he beginning with their
headlights pointed down the runway. Unfortunately one
of the Trojan’s wheels clipped one of the Landrovers
and flipped the plane into the ground killing Povey, the
pilot and the medic (Air Lt. Murdoch and Cpl Parker).
Source : Kevin Grant email Kevin.Grant@health.gov.au
dated 04.12.00
PRICE, Francis Gavin Cpl
Killed in action. Op Hurricane, north
of Mt Darwin
NOT ON
ROLL
PROSSER, D.R.
1 Cdo RLI.
REID, James
Shot and killed
near Siya Dam, Bikita TTL on
Field Reservist BSAP
24.08.77, in
same action in which Jim Cross, Rhodesian
(NOT ON ROLL)
Intelligence
Corps, lost his life.
Source : Detective Section Officer: Brian Walthew
Email : walthebh@aramco.com.sa
dated 25.10.00
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
RICE, P.O.
RhAMC attached
to 1 Cdo RLI.
ROBERTSHAW, James Kendall
KIA - landmine. Very fine friend of local populace.
Intaf, N.S.
16 Sep 1978.
ROBEY, John Dorrel Egleton
Killed in ambush on a river crossing near Dett - was on
P/O BSAP
his way to
investigate a mortar attack on a farmhouse
at 2100 hours. He
was firing over the top of the
Landrover when he was hit by three rounds of RPD fire.
Date : January, 1978.
ROUGHHEAD, Alexander Gilbert
KIA 16th November, 1977. Churchill
Roll of Honour.
Rh AF
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00
RUKARA, Martin Rudo
Was attached to
the DC’s office at Bikita, but spent
DSA
much of his time
at Ground Coverage Base in Matsai TTL, south of Bikita, as the Senior Intaf member there
and was a good, loyal and courageous man. When the DC at Chiredzi asked for temporary
reinforcements in
October, 1979, the Bikita DC sent RUKARA. Most
DC s, when asked for reinforcements, sent their worst
members to get them out of the way for a while. Not so
DC Parkinson - he said he didn’t want the Bikita
District held in low esteem by other areas, so he sent the
best. Cpl
RUKARA was killed when his Puma vehicle
was hit by 9 RPG-7 rockets, down south of Chiredzi.
There were not many survivors. Combined Ops spread
out the casualty list over a few weeks.
SEYMOUR, Steve
Killed in action
22nd December, 1976. Was a native
of
C Sqdn SAS
Tpr
Jersey, in the
Channel Islands.
SHALOVSKY, Mike
KOAS. November,
1979. Asst. District Commissioner at Mudzi. Was travelling in a Puma after nightfall, and
hit another Puma that had been in a previous landmine explosion.
He was driving the vehicle and was killed on impact.
Others in the vehicle were :- Mike Knowles,
Reg Goddard, Phil von Memerty, Brian Leftbridge and
one other (name u/k).
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
SMITH, Nicholas John
KIA 22nd
August, 1967. Churchill School Roll of
1 RAR
Honour. Source : Tristan Martin email
tjmartin@btinternet.com dated 12/11/00.
Was killed with WO 2
TIMITIYA.
Source: Sister of Nicholas SMITH (Mrs Cherry
Bessant).
SPARKES, David
Col/Sgt Grey
Scouts. Appears as Sparkes, D.
SPARKS, M.
KIA 1966. Listed amongst those on the Prince Edward
NOT ON
ROLL
School war dead.
SPINK, Simon Alexander
KIA 26thj
November, 1977. Churchill Roll of Honour.
6 (Indep) Coy RR
Source ; Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
STACEY, M.
KIA 1973. Listed amongst those on the Prince Edward
NOT ON
ROLL
School war dead.
STEVENS, H.W.H. Flt Lt
Killed in action
1st September, 1976 while flying a Lynx
in the Inyanga area.
STEYL, Johann Willem
KIA 14th
June, 1978. Church School Roll of Honour
BSA Police (Support Unit)
Source : Tristan Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
STOCKHILL-GILL, R.V. Tpr
Killed on active service. He drowned when the RL he
1 Batt RLI
was driving fell
into a dam while he was crossing a very low bridge that was nearly under water. His foot
got trapped under the accelerator pedal.
VERBEEK, Arrie Mannix
Killed on active
service 22nd April, 1978 at Kariba.
District Commissioner
by mistake by an
army unit.
WARWICK, Edgar
Stephen
KIA 9th April, 1977. Churchill
School Roll of Honour.
1 RLI
Source : Tristan Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
WATTS. Trevor George Rfn
Killed in a mortar pit at Vila Salazar 23.01.78, when a
9 Batt RR
mortar round
from Malvernia landed in the pit. Several
others were involved in this incident, including Sgt.
Ian Wood.
Source: Kevin Grant email Kevin.Grant@health.gov.au
dated 04.12.00
WELLS, Michael Broad
KIA 15th
June, 1973. Churchill Roll of Honour.
Rh AF
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
WHITE, Deon McAlllister
KIA 30th
October, 1976. Churchill School Roll of
10RR
Honour. Source :
Tristan Martin email
tjmartin@btinternet.com dated 12/11/00.
WICKENDEN, John Supt.
Killed on duty 12th October, 1966, in same incident
BSAP 3990
involving
Col/Sgt M P Cahill, MCM. Noted W/O
NOT ON
ROLL
BOUCH, CAHILL
and WRIGHT died the same day.
The group was loading canoes on the Zambezi River
when there was an accidental explosion.
WRIGHT, J.
Col/Sgt
The accidental
explosion which killed him was a result
of unsafe weeping gelignite, which he and two others
were transporting to a safe place for detonation.
Source : Iain Palmer.
WRIGHT, Victor William
KIA 8th June, 1975. Churchill
School Roll of Honour.
1 RLI
Source : Tristan
Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
ECHOES OF AN AFRICAN WAR
Amendments to
Roll of Honour List
NAME
AMENDMENT
YOUROUKELIS,
Steven Peter
Cpl.
.
.
Killed in action in a vehicle ambush on 18th May, 1976.
3 Indep.Coy RR
Name on Roll
spelt incorrectly. Should have only
one ‘l’ in name.
Churchill School Roll of Honour. Source :-
Tristan Martin email tjmartin@btinternet.com
dated 12/11/00.
ZIETSMAN, A.
1 Cdo RLI.