Service Details
Name:
 WHITEHEAD-WILSON
Given Name:
 VAUGHAN
Initials:
 V
Service No:
 9283
Rank:
 Lance Section Officer
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Regiment:
 British South Africa Police
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Unit:
 Support Unit
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Date of Death:
 1979-06-04
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, on the road between Shamrock Mine and Karoi. A contact with a Support Unit call sign developed with the call sign requesting back up. Vaughan and others trucked in further call signs and it was at this time that he was shot and killed. It was to be his last day before he returned to HQ to be demobbed.
Additional
Information:
On Plumtree School Roll of Honour. 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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Locality:
 Bulawayo
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Cemetery:
 BULAWAYO AREA CEMETERY ?
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