Service Details
Name:
 SMITH
Given Name:
 MALCOM H
Initials:
 M H
Service No:
 PR63399
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Rhodesia Regiment
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Unit:
 1st Battalion
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1977-03-11
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in a contact in the North East Operational Area, near St Barbara's Mission, enemy group was moving in the opposite direction on the same path system (probably going back to Mozambique via Honde Valley), when they bumped into one another. A burst of automatc fire at close range caught Malcom in the face killing him instantly. The man behind him, Petrus Botha, was hit in the throat and died
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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