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PVT Stephen Michael Dwyer

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PVT Stephen Michael Dwyer

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
16 Jul 1979 (aged 27)
Zimbabwe
Burial
Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 42, Grave 159
Memorial ID
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Died of wounds, received in action near Buffalo Range, Op Repulse, trying to save Hugh John McCall, a fellow American.

American Citizen was born and raised in Jamaica Plain (Boston) Massachusetts, the youngest son of a large Irish American Catholic family. He enlisted in the USMC after high school and was stationed in Korea. Stephen at the age of 26 joined the Rhodesian Army in 1978. ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood). Amendments from "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.
Died of wounds, received in action near Buffalo Range, Op Repulse, trying to save Hugh John McCall, a fellow American.

American Citizen was born and raised in Jamaica Plain (Boston) Massachusetts, the youngest son of a large Irish American Catholic family. He enlisted in the USMC after high school and was stationed in Korea. Stephen at the age of 26 joined the Rhodesian Army in 1978. ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood). Amendments from "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.

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