Service Details
Name:
 MOYO
Given Name:
 JELE CHRISTOPHER AARON
Initials:
 J C A
Service No:
 645736
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 Selous Scouts
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Unit:
 3 Group
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Date of Death:
 1979-04-16
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Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in action, Op Petal, Botswana, Op Tangent
Decorations:
 Bronze Cross of Rhodesia (Posthumous)
Citations:
 Medal awarded 25 May 1979 - "His patrol encountered a group of six CTs, capturing four. Another was shot and killed. The remaining one tried to throw a grenade at the Scouts and Jele, with no regard for his own safety, tackled the CT and stabbed him to death with his bayonet"
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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