In Memory Of

GARNETT, PETER MARTIN (PETE)

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 726869
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
Unit:
 1st Battalion
Unit 2:
 3 Commando, 11 Troop
Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
Date of Death:
 1977-10-04
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
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 UNKNOWN CEMETERY
Country:
 Zimbabwe
Additional Information
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
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.