RHODESIA Alexander, Ronald Eugene

[Craig Robertson]

• SURNAME

Alexander​

• FORENAME

Ronald Eugene ("Butch")​

• UNIT

2 Commando​

• RANK

Corporal​

• NUMBER

725132​

• DATE OF DEATH

16th December 1976​

• AGE

24​

• GRAVESITE

Harare (Warren Hills) Cemetery, Harare, Zimbabwe​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1952, Zimbabwe​

educated Churchill High School​

KIA Mozambique​

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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.​

Source : South Africa War Graves​