In Memory Of

MOYO, JELE CHRISTOPHER AARON

Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
645736
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit:
3 Group
Regiment:
Selous Scouts
Date of Death:
1979-04-16
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, received in action, Op Petal, Botswana, Op Tangent
Commemoration
Cemetery:
UNKNOWN CEMETERY
Country:
Zimbabwe
Additional Information
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"
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.