In Memory Of

POWELL, NEVILLE ALAISTER

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 780573
Rank:
 Major
Unit:
 1st Battalion
Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
Former Regiment:
 Officer Commanding of the Base Group when he died
Date of Death:
 1979-02-12
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, as a passenger on the second Viscount civilian airliner shot down by ZIPRA terrorists using a SAM 7.
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 UNKNOWN CEMETERY
Country:
 Zimbabwe
Additional Information
Decorations:
 M B E, WB WKhm(G)
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.