Service Details
Name:
 GILLESPIE
Given Name:
 MALCOM FRANK
Initials:
 M F
Service No:
 9363
Rank:
 Patrol Officer
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Regiment:
 British South Africa Police
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Unit:
 Duty Uniform Branch
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Date of Death:
 1978-09-03
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Died in the first Viscount crash, passenger on the plane shot down in the Urungwe district. Most of the survivors were murdered by ZIPRA terrorists
Additional
Information:
Attested 25 February 1975. 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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