Service Details
Name:
 CLARKE
Given Name:
 GEORGE WILLIAM
Initials:
 G W
Service No:
 728197
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Unit:
 Support Commando, 1st Battalion
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Unit 2:
 Army
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Date of Death:
 1977-05-15
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in a contact near Rogogo Airfield, between Mrewa and Inyanga. He died of his wounds while being casavaced by helicopter to Mtoko.
Additional
Information:
George was from California and quite Californian in style and manner always smiling. He was a Vietnam veteran having served in the U.S. Marine Corps. George was in the battle of Hue city. George was in RLI Intake 156. Ref 'Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr JRT Wood). Ref Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981, by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.
Commemoration
Country:
 Zimbabwe
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Cemetery:
 UNKNOWN CEMETERY
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