Service Details
Name:
 POWELL
Given Name:
 NEVILLE ALAISTER
Initials:
 N A
Service No:
 780573
Rank:
 Major
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Battalion
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Former Regiment:
 Officer Commanding of the Base Group when he died
Date of Death:
 1979-02-12
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, as a passenger on the second Viscount civilian airliner shot down by ZIPRA terrorists using a SAM 7.
Decorations:
 M B E, WB WKhm(G)
Additional
Information:
Major N.A. "Spike" Powell MBE WB WKhm(G) was 3 Commando's 2 IC during Operation Cauldron in 1968. Major Powell's last appointment was Officer Commanding RLI Base Group. 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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