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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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