Service Details
Name:
 GARNETT
Given Name:
 PETER MARTIN (PETE)
Initials:
 P M
Service No:
 726869
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Battalion
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Unit 2:
 3 Commando, 11 Troop
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Date of Death:
 1977-10-04
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Op Thrasher, walking ahead of his stick, following terrorists' tracks. There was a single shot and minutes later he was found resting against a tree, quite dead. The single bullet had ruptured his femoral artery and he bled to death within minutes
Decorations:
 Military Forces Commendation (Ops)
Citations:
 Awarded for 15 November 1976 in the battle of "Hill 31" in the Honde Valley against a gang of 40 terrorists of which 32 were accounted for
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.
Commemoration
Country:
 Zimbabwe
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Cemetery:
 UNKNOWN CEMETERY
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