Service Details
Name:
 MORIARTY
Given Name:
 LEONARD JAMES
Initials:
 L J
Service No:
 99260
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Corps of Engineers
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Date of Death:
 1979-01-05
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Cause of Death:
 Died in accidental explosion, at the Victoria Falls (Op Tangent) rifle range. While loading crates of anti-personnel mines onto a truck, there was an explosion, killing 7 men of the detail.
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:
 UNKNOWN CEMETERY
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