Service Details
Name:
 COOK
Given Name:
 RICHARD GEORGE
Initials:
 R G
Service No:
 71083
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 Selous Scouts
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Date of Death:
 1978-02-05
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, convoy ambush by ZANLA, in the Nyajena Tribal Trust Land, near Fort Victoria, Op Repulse area. (5 members of the unit died in this engagement) They were on their way to fetch the wife of a fellow soldier
Additional
Information:
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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