RHODESIA Wilmot, Frank Leslie

Do or Die
By S.E. Lee
Dak To
By Edward F. Murphy

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Wilmot
  • FORENAME
Frank Leslie
  • UNIT
SAS
  • RANK
Acting Sergeant
  • NUMBER
724547
  • DATE OF DEATH
19th January 1973
  • AGE
29
  • GRAVESITE
Harare (Warren Hills) Crematorium, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Killed on a night drop into Mozambique in Rhodesia's first airborne Op since 'C' Squadron SAS had operated in Malaya. Both his main and reserve parachutes failed to open. The target was the Musengezi River in Mozambique trying to track down the abducted Rhodesian Gerald Hawksworth.
 
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