Service Details
Name:
 BAKER
Given Name:
 BRUCE MACLEY
Initials:
 B M
Service No:
 9182
Rank:
 Patrol Officer
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Regiment:
 British South Africa Police
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Date of Death:
 1976-02-08
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Date of Birth:
 1952-05-31
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, multiple gunshot wounds, in an ambush in the Ngarwe Tribal Trust Lands in the Nyamapanda area, Op Hurricane
Additional
Information:
Son of Lionel Desmond and Julia Ann Baker. Had two sisters, Sherril and Lorraine. Born Umtali, Manicaland, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Guinea Fowl School near Gwelo. Employed with a tobacco company in Salisbury after leaving school. He did his national service with the Rhodesian Army and a few months after completing this joined BSA Police April 1974. 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.
Commemoration
Country:
 Zimbabwe
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Locality:
 Harare (Salisbury)
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Cemetery:
 HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CREMATORIUM
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