In Memory Of

ALEXANDER, RONALD EUGENE

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 725132
Rank:
 Corporal
Unit:
 1st Battalion
Unit 2:
 2 Commando
Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
Date of Death:
 1976-12-16
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, gunshot wounds in Mozambique during a combined Rhodesian Light Infantry/SAS attack on a ZANLA camp at Rambanayi. The camp, also housing a platoon of Tanzanian troops, was defended by a complex of trenches and bunkers covered by large logs and soil, and it was when Butch jumped into the command bunker occupied by the enemy, that he was shot and killed
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 HARARE (WARREN HILLS) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Harare (Salisbury)
Country:
 Zimbabwe
Additional Information
Educated at Churchill High School. Amendments from Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981, by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.