In Memory Of

BAKER, BRUCE MACLEY

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 1952-05-31
Service No:
 9182
Rank:
 Patrol Officer
Regiment:
 British South Africa Police
Date of Death:
 1976-02-08
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, multiple gunshot wounds, in an ambush in the Ngarwe Tribal Trust Lands in the Nyamapanda area, Op Hurricane
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CREMATORIUM
Localitly:
 Harare (Salisbury)
Country:
 Zimbabwe
Additional Information
Son of Lionel Desmond and Julia Ann Baker. Had two sisters, Sherril and Lorraine. Born Umtali, Manicaland, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Guinea Fowl School near Gwelo. Employed with a tobacco company in Salisbury after leaving school. He did his national service with the Rhodesian Army and a few months after completing this joined BSA Police April 1974. 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.