Rhodesian Despatches volume 1 – Gerry van Tonder

Description

Rhodesian Despatches: A military anthology of Rhodesia 1890-1980 – volume 1 (2021)

IN THIS VOLUME
1890s

• Colonel John Anthony “Jack” Spreckley CMG
• Trooper Herbert Stephen Henderson VC
• Fort Umlugulu Cemetery, Matopos
• Battle of Bembezi, Matabeleland, 1893
• Rare Allan Wilson Letter
• Commander Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe, RN
• BSAP Line of First Defence
• The White Brothers
• GuBulawayo October–November 1893

REBELLIONS

• Johan Colenbrander CB
• Trooper Frank William Baxter VC (Post)
• The Africander Corps Roll of Honour

SECOND BOER WAR

• Captain Frank James Smitheman DSO
• Plumer Defends Rhodesia
• Elands River Garden of Rest

WORLD WAR ONE

• Colonel John Banks Brady DSO, OBE, ED
• Menin Gate Memorial
• Colour Sergeant George Green DCM
• Rhodesian Chief Native Commissioner Charles William Bullock CMG
• “A Most Unsavoury Place”, Mzima and 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, 1915
• Rhodesians in World War One
• 154 Black Rhodesian Soldiers Lost in East Africa Finally Acknowledged
• Rhodesian Rhodes Scholars Killed in World War One
• Rhodesia Native Regiment, Songea, East Africa, 1916
• Captain Harold Charles de Courcy Evans, MC and Bar, DCM
• Former BSAP Trooper Remains Found 106 Years After Killed in Action

WORLD WAR TWO

• Fighter Pilot Captain Keith Coster Shot Down
• Lieutenant Gerald Keogh MC
• CWGC Cemetery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• “Dracula” Christopher Lee in Rhodesia
• Coloureds in Uniform
• Flight Lieutenant David Millar Allan DFC
• 289th (Rhodesian) Anti-tank Battery
• 289th (Rhodesian) Anti-tank Battery Gallantry Awards
• Rhodesians in El Alamein Military Cemetery, Egypt
• Pilot Officer Grimwood Choke Cooke DFC, DFM
• Acting Major Oliver Hamilton Newton MC and 2 Bars
• Kranji War Memorial and Cemetery, Singapore
• The Fight for British Somaliland

1946–65

• Rhodesian African Rifles, Malayan Emergency

COUNTER-INSURGENCY WAR 1966–79

• • Rhodesian Corps of Engineers Fatal Explosion
  • Staggered Press Releases
  • Temporary Sergeant T.O. Nel BCR
  • Battle of Masoso, July 19, 1975
  • Hidden Casualties
  • Air Marshal Archibald Oliver Garfield “Archie” Wilson ICD, OBE, DFC (US)
  • British South Africa Police Support Unit
  • Landmine Kills Four in Intaf Aircraft
  • Forgotten Grave Corporal Gordon Higgins, RLI
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Wyatt “Charlie” Aust MLM
  • Operation Aztec, 1977
  • Second-Lieutenant Mike Stobart-Vallaro SCR
  • CIA and Rhodesia 1976
  • Security Force Auxiliaries 1978–79

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