In Memory Of
COOK, RICHARD GEORGE
Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
71083
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Regiment:
Selous Scouts
Date of Death:
1978-02-05
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
Commemoration
Cemetery:
UNKNOWN CEMETERY
Country:
Zimbabwe
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.