Service Details
Name:
 DWYER
Given Name:
 STEPHEN MICHAEL
Initials:
 S M
Service No:
 729803
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Battalion
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Unit 2:
 3 Commando, 11 Troop
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Date of Death:
 1979-07-16
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Date of Birth:
 1952-02-19
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in action near Buffalo Range, Op Repulse, trying to save Hugh John McCall, a fellow American.
Additional
Information:
American Citizen was born and raised in Jamaica Plain (Boston) Massachusetts, the youngest son of a large Irish American Catholic family. He enlisted in the USMC after high school and was stationed in Korea. Stephen at the age of 26 joined the Rhodesian Army in 1978. 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:
 United States of America
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Locality:
 Massachusetts
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Cemetery:
 JAMAICA PLAIN (FOREST HILL) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Section 42, Grave 159

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