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maddogmcewan posted in the group Selous Scouts
Op Petal, this is a photo taken on the 29th of March 1979, of 3 Group operators posing with ZIPRA Chief Intelligence Officer Elliot Sibanda’s Land Rover, who they had just ambushed and captured on the Grove Road in Botswana.
left to right: Lt Piet van der Riet MLM BCR (op commander), Sgt Wally Insch, WO2 Pete McNeilage SCR, Cpl Stuart Hogson and two unnamed African Scouts. Other team members not in the shot were 2Lt Duff Gifford, L Cpl Jim Fletcher and C Sgt Adlington (Medic).
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