RHODESIA Wilmot, Frank Leslie

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Wilmot​

• FORENAME

Frank Leslie​

• UNIT

SAS ​

• RANK

Acting Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

724547​

• DATE OF DEATH

19th January 1973 ​

• AGE

29​

• GRAVESITE

Harare (Warren Hills) Crematorium, Harare, Zimbabwe​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Killed on a night drop into Mozambique in Rhodesia's first airborne Op since 'C' Squadron SAS had operated in Malaya. Both his main and reserve parachutes failed to open. The target was the Musengezi River in Mozambique trying to track down the abducted Rhodesian Gerald Hawksworth.​

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