In Memory Of

DWYER, STEPHEN MICHAEL

Service Details
Age:
 27
Date of Birth:
 1952-02-19
Service No:
 729803
Rank:
 Trooper
Unit:
 1st Battalion
Unit 2:
 3 Commando, 11 Troop
Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
Date of Death:
 1979-07-16
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in action near Buffalo Range, Op Repulse, trying to save Hugh John McCall, a fellow American.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Section 42, Grave 159
Cemetery:
 JAMAICA PLAIN (FOREST HILL) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Massachusetts
Country:
 United States of America
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.