Service Details
Name:
 NEL
Given Name:
 JAN ANDRIES
Initials:
 J A
Service No:
 724447
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class II
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Regiment:
 Selous Scouts
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Unit:
 4 Troop
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Date of Death:
 1976-06-26
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in a contact, gunshot wound while trying to clear a double storey house at Mapai, during Operation Long John
Decorations:
 Member of the Order of the Legion of Merit (Posthumous)
Citations:
 Medal awarded 17 December 1976
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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Locality:
 Harare (Salisbury)
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Cemetery:
 HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CREMATORIUM
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