Service Details
Name:
 BATES
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS IAN BIGNALL
Initials:
 D I B
Service No:
 PR73533
Rank:
 Sapper
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Corps of Engineers
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Unit:
 3 Squadron
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Date of Death:
 1976-06-15
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in a vehicle ambush while clearing roads in the Honde Valley during Op Thresher, gun shot wound to head
Additional
Information:
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:
 Harare (Salisbury)
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Cemetery:
 HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CREMATORIUM
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Grave Reference:
 Cremated

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