In Memory Of
WHITEHEAD-WILSON, VAUGHAN
Service Details
Age:
23
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
9283
Rank:
Lance Section Officer
Unit:
Support Unit
Regiment:
British South Africa Police
Date of Death:
1979-06-04
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, on the road between Shamrock Mine and Karoi. A contact with a Support Unit call sign developed with the call sign requesting back up. Vaughan and others trucked in further call signs and it was at this time that he was shot and killed. It was to be his last day before he returned to HQ to be demobbed.
Commemoration
Cemetery:
BULAWAYO AREA CEMETERY ?
Localitly:
Bulawayo
Country:
Zimbabwe
Additional Information
On Plumtree School Roll of Honour. 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.