shortages in the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Rhodesian Bush War. It is estimated that between 800 and 2,000 foreign volunteers enlisted. The issue attracted...
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The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military forces of the Rhodesian government. The Rhodesian Security Forces consisted of a ground force (the Rhodesian...
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Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts Rhodesian Light Infantry (initially all-Rhodesian, this unit became the "Foreign Legion" of the Rhodesian Army)...
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Peter McAleese (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
and mercenary. McAleese served in the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service (SAS), the Rhodesian Special Air Service and British...
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Christian civilization. American volunteers in the Rhodesian Bush War Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab...
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Mathew Charles Lamb (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
introduce majority rule. Like most of the foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian forces, Lamb was assigned to the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), an all-white...
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in the Winter War Mahal (Israel) Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces Foreign fighters in the...
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The Rhodesian Brushstroke is a brushstroke-type camouflage pattern used by the Rhodesian Security Forces from 1965 until its replacement by a vertical...
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7 Independent Company (Rhodesia) (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
francophone volunteers in the Rhodesian Army during the Rhodesian Bush War. Numbering about 200 men at its peak, it was unique in the history of the Rhodesian Army...
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soldiers who had seen combat in Vietnam joined the Rhodesian Security Forces. The Rhodesian government created advertising campaigns in order to attract soldiers...
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Yves Debay (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
specialising in military issues for war enthusiasts. In the late 1970s, Debay served in the Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment during the Rhodesian Bush War...
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Neall Ellis (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
Raised in Bulawayo, he joined the South African Air Force after a brief stint in the Rhodesian Army. As a helicopter pilot he was awarded the Honoris...
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Bob Denard (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
operations in Rhodesia from 1977 to 1978 as part of the Rhodesian Army's short-lived French-speaking unit, 7 Independent Company. With the support of the Rhodesian...
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Harold Hawkins (RRAF officer) (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
diplomat. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force between 1941 and 1945. He enlisted in what became the Royal Rhodesian Air Force in 1947, and was its...
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number of American volunteers in the Rhodesian Bush War who fought with the Rhodesian Security Forces. These men were nick-named the Crippled Eagles by...
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1965, the RLI became one of the country's main counter-insurgency units during the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the government's security forces against...
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The Rhodesian Special Air Service or Rhodesian SAS was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army. It comprised: C Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment...
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independence. During the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1960s and 1970s, the Rhodesian Security Forces enlisted volunteers from overseas on the same pay and conditions...
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Willem Ratte (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
former member of the elite Rhodesian Special Air Service of the Rhodesian Army, and former lieutenant colonel in the 32 Battalion of the South African Defence...
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Selous Scouts (redirect from Rhodesian Selous Scouts)
The Selous Scouts /səˈluː/ was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution...
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Jules Sylvester (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
catching at age 16. He served in the Rhodesia Regiment during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973-1974. He has appeared in numerous television shows including...
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Chris Schulenburg (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
birth, he joined the Rhodesian Army and became a sergeant in the Rhodesian Light Infantry, who were then fighting in the Rhodesian Bush War against militant...
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Hugh Hind (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
into Zambia, against ZANU and ZAPU targets during the Rhodesian Bush War. Taffy and Hind were assisted in Zambia by a white Zambian farmer, Ian Robert Bruce...
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positions in the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Bush War of the 1970s. One former member of C Squadron named Ronald Reid-Daly went on to found the Selous...
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The special forces of Rhodesia were elite units that formed part of the Rhodesian Army during the Rhodesian Bush War. From 1977 they reported directly...
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The Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) was an air force based in Salisbury (now Harare) which represented several entities under various names between 1935 and...
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Keith Coster (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
African army officer who rose to command the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972. Coster was born on 19 April 1920 in Eshowe, Natal, Union of South Africa....
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Mike Campbell (farmer) (category Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces)
During the early 1970s, Campbell, a SADF captain, was involved in the Rhodesian Bush War that pitted Rhodesia's predominantly white government against...
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served in the Rhodesian Bush War as part of the Rhodesian Security Forces between 1964 and 1979, under the unrecognised government of Rhodesia following...
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