In Memory Of
NEL, JAN ANDRIES
Service Details
Age:
30
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
724447
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Unit:
4 Troop
Regiment:
Selous Scouts
Date of Death:
1976-06-26
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in a contact, gunshot wound while trying to clear a double storey house at Mapai, during Operation Long John
Commemoration
Cemetery:
HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CREMATORIUM
Localitly:
Harare (Salisbury)
Country:
Zimbabwe
Additional Information
Decorations:
Member of the Order of the Legion of Merit (Posthumous)
Citations:
Medal awarded 17 December 1976
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.