Selous Scouts 3 Group operators en route to deploy for Op Petal, an external operation against ZIPRA in Botswana, 24 March 1979. In the photo from left-to-right: WO2 Wally Insch, Cpl Stu Hodgson, Lt Piet van der Riet MLM BCR (op commander), WO2 Pete McNeilage SCR, L-Cpl Jim Fletcher.

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…Read More

Member of the Selous Scouts special forces of the Rhodesian Security Forces: camouflaged in the rural bushland of Rhodesia, during the bush war against Zimbabwean communist insurgent forces, c. 1970s

Lt. Timothy George Bax of the Selous Scouts

Selous Scouts flying a FRELIMO flag on a cross border raid

Derek Andrews whilst serving with the Selous Scouts, aboard a French manufactured Aérospatiale Alouette helicopter returning from a successful operation in the Hot Springs region of south-east Rhodesia.

Selous Scout Reconnaissance team in Mozambique

Chris Schulenburg takes off for an external reconnaissance operation.

Selous Scouts on patrol during the Bush War, 1970’s.

Selous Scouts tracking guerrillas in the bush