Service Details
Name:
 ALEXANDER
Given Name:
 RONALD EUGENE
Initials:
 R E
Service No:
 725132
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Battalion
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Unit 2:
 2 Commando
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Date of Death:
 1976-12-16
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Age:
 24
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
Additional
Information:
Educated at Churchill High School. 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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