The Rhodesia Regiment
From Boer War to Bush War 1899-1980
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Alberton, South Africa
Illustrations and maps
color illustrations
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The Rhodesia Regiment fought gallantly in the Bush War achieving much success against their terrorist enemies by inflicting heavy casualties on them, although they paid their own price in blood, losing more than 300 men during the course of the war. This time they fought for the survival of Rhodesia, their homeland without the benefit of allies.
Sociologically these losses were a heavy price to pay for a small white population of some 300,000, when compared to the British Army which over much the same period lost some 380 men from a population of 55 million during the Afghanistan campaign. Alexandra Binda was bom in Beira, Mozambique, in 1945. He attested into the Rhodesian Army in 1965 and joined the Pay Corps, but gained considerable operational combat experience between 1968 and 1972 as a Portuguese inteprreter with the Rhodesian Light Infantry and Special Air Service combat-tracker teams in support of the Portuguese Army in Mozambique's Tete Province. He was awarded a Military Forces Commen-dation (the Rhodesian equivalent of a Mention in Dispatches) for his operational work. During his 15 years service he was Paymaster for the RL1 and later the Selous Scouts. He was commissioned on 23 June 1979, but resigned in August 1980 following the advent of the Mugabe takeover.
