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Rhodesian Light Infantery

Barry Stranack
Rhodesian Light Infantery, Selous Scouts

Barry Stranack

Barry Stranack was born in Durban, South Africa in 1945, and grew up in the then Rhodesia. Barry served with the Rhodesian Light Infantry, the renowned 5 Command 'Wild Geese' of the Congo, the Rhodesian Regiment and the counter insurgency Special Forces Rhodesian...

British South Africa Police, Rhodesian Light Infantery

Chris Cocks

Chris was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1957 and joined the Rhodesian Army in 1976 and served with 3 Commando in the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) for 3 years. He was then offered a farming job in the country’s Lowveld; however, the army refused to countenance a...

John Alan Coey
Rhodesian Light Infantery, SAS C Squadron

John Alan Coey

John Alan Coey (November 12, 1950 – July 19, 1975) was a U.S. Marine who served in the Rhodesian Army as one of "the Crippled Eagles", a loosely organised group of U.S. expatriates fighting for the unrecognized government of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) during that...

Vietnam and Rhodesian veteran Ken Gaudet, seen here after joining South Africa's 44 Parachute Brigade, Pathfinder unit, during a break in Angola circa 1981
Rhodesian Light Infantery

Ken Gaudet

Ken Gaudet knows a thing or two about living a life of adventure. He served in the 173rd in Vietnam before traveling to Rhodesia where he participated in cross border combat jumps with the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Then he served with an assortment of foreigners in...

Rhodesian Light Infantery

Russell Phillips

On 29 September 1977, Temporary Corporal Phillips and his RLI "Fireforce" stick were called-out to support "A" Company, 1st Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles. Upon their arrival, they discovered that the company was pinned down by intense enemy fire coming from a...

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