In Memory Of

DU TOIT, ANDREW JAMESON

Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
V5047
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
3 Independent Company
Regiment:
Rhodesian African Rifles
Date of Death:
1979-12-27
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, bullet wound in a contact in the Inyanga area, Op Thrasher. Various sticks had been deployed in the commercial wattle plantations in the area. Gus' stick had gone into a plantation workers' compound when they came under mortar and small arms fire from the nearby forest. As Gus was running across the edge of the forest in a clearing that carried electricity pylons, he was fatally wounded. He died during the helicopter casevac flight to hospital
Commemoration
Cemetery:
UNKNOWN CEMETERY
Country:
Zimbabwe
Additional Information
Intake 163. A Prince Edward School old boy. ref. "Rhodesian African Rifles Roll of Honour" by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.