Service Details
Name:
 YOUNG
Given Name:
 DAWN MARY
Initials:
 D M
Service No:
 WP366
Rank:
 Woman Patrol Officer
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Regiment:
 British South Africa Police
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Date of Death:
 1978-09-03
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Date of Birth:
 1958-12-12
Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Died in the first Viscount crash, passenger on the plane shot down in the Urungwe district. Most of the survivors were murdered by ZIPRA terrorists
Additional
Information:
Born Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Nettleton School and then Roosevelt Girls High School in Salisbury. 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.
Commemoration
Country:
 Zimbabwe
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Locality:
 Harare (Salisbury)
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Cemetery:
 HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Believed buried in Warren Hills

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