Service Details
Name:
 CARSHALTON
Given Name:
 DAVID ASTON
Initials:
 D A
Service No:
 PR66139
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Grey Scouts
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Unit:
 "B" Troop
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Date of Death:
 1976-08-27
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in a contact in the Chiredzi area, Op Repulse, gun shot wound to head. While tracking about 70 terrorists, they were ambushed and he was killed in the initial firefight
Additional
Information:
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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Cemetery:
 CHIPINGE CEMETERY
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