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 RHODESIA LIGHT INFANTRY HALLMARKED SILVER OFFICERS CAP BADGE-WORN 1972-1980- 2 LUGS -REUTELER MAKERS NAME ON THE BACK

 RHODESIA LIGHT INFANTRY OFFICERS-HALLMARKED SILVER BERET BADGE 1961-1970- ONE LUG  

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Buy Fireforce: One Mans War In The Rhodesia Light Infantry - Chris Cocks for R260.00

Fireforce is the compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwes bitter civil war of the 70sa war that came to be known almost innocuously as the bush war.  Fireforce, a tactic of total airborne envelopment, was developed and perfected by the RLI, together with the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian Air Force. Fireforce became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the overwhelming tide of the Communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. The combat strain on a fighting soldier was almost unbelievable, for the Rhodesians, who were always desperately short of ground troops, were sometimes obliged to parachute the same men into action into as many as three enemy contacts a day. While estimates of enemy casualties vary, there seems little doubt that the RLI accounted for at least 12,000 ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillasbut not without cost. Fireforce is not for the squeamish. Although it has been written with unforgettable pathos and humour, it tells of face-to-face combat in the bush and death at point-blank range. It is a book which does nothing to glorify or glamorize war, for as Chris Cocks found at such a young age, war is merely a catalogue of suffering, destruction and death. Fireforce has been described by critics as being to the Rhodesian War what All Quiet On The Western Front was to World War I and Dispatches was to Vietnam. Read it it will be an experience you never forget. PAPERBACK, 368 PAGES WITH 160 COLOUR & B/W PHOTOS, SKETCHES & MAPS  Published: 2007

RHODESIA BSAC  - ADMIRALS   1923 Issue   Die III  Perf.15  10d Ultramarine and carmine-red. SACC 316 White paper Very nice lightly mounted mint. Light gum toning on top.Scarce stamp.                  All items are described as accurately as possible with the illustration being an integral part.     SHIPPING RATES • Domestic Standard Mail (at buyers risk)                         R 10.00 • Domestic Registered Mail. (Recommended)                   R 30.00   INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: please contact me for mailing options.   NB: If any lot is found to be incorrectly described it may be returned for a refund (at your own cost). Please note that the scans form an integral part of the description.  

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PLEASE NOTE ONE OR TWO WITHOUT GU, AND ONE OR TWO WITH LIGHT HINGE REMAINS

As per scans below. Remarkably good condition for a Specimen set. Five values are MNH including the 7s6d, 10s and Pound; the 3s and 5s appear MNH with some slight gum disturbance; the balance are very fine mint or fine mint. Some light offset with the 1 1/2d having some paper adhesion. SACC value is R50,000 for mounted mint with a 100% premium to be added for MNH. Apparently only about 400 sets made available, and made more rare as a full set due to the 1 1/2d value being issued separately in 1917.

Sold as is as per scans below.  SACC 91 and 94 have very light hinge marks.    

From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa, this is the story of one man's fight against terror, and his conscience. Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time - the Selous Scouts. These men were highly trained and disciplined, with skills to rival the SAS, Navy Seals and the US Marines, although their dress and appearance were wildly unconventional: civilian clothing with blackened, hairy faces to resemble the very people they were fighting against. Twice decorated - with the Member of the Legion of Merit (MLM) and the Military Forces' Commendation (MFC) - Andrew Balaam was a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and later the Selous Scouts, for a period spanning twelve years. This is his honest and insightful account of his time as a pseudo operator. His story is brutally truthful, frightening, sometimes humorous and often sad. In later years, after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, he was involved with a number of other former Selous Scouts in the attempted coups in the Ciskei, a South African homeland, and Lesotho, an independent nation, whose only crimes were supporting the African National Congress. Training terrorists, or as they preferred to be called, 'liberation armies', to conduct a war of terror on innocent civilians, was the very thing he had spent the last ten years in Rhodesia fighting against. This is the true, untold story of these failed attempts at governmental overthrows This book is imported on demand and dispatched within 15 working days depending on supplier Specifications Author: Andrew Balaam Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781909982772 ISBN: 1909982776 Label: Helion and Company Manufacturer: Helion and Company Number Of Pages: 288 PublicationDate: 2014-11-19 Publisher: Helion and Company Studio: Helion and Company    

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The War History of Southern Rhodesia Vol. 1 1939 - 1945 By: J. F. MacDonald A reprint edition hardcover published by Books of Rhodesia in 1976 Grey cover boards with silver writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, light foxing to front & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete, light rub to spine ends Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI was an all-white unit made up of South Africans and men from the UK, Europe and US. It was a key weapon in independent Rhodesia's struggle against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army during the bloody Rhodesian Bush War. This comprehensive study explores the unit's dramatic history, revealing the RLI's fearsome airborne and combat capacity, which gave the unit, at times, near total tactical superiority against its opponents. Publication Date: 20 Nov 2015, 64 pages  

2015 paperback with 64 pages in very good condition. R60 postage in SA. The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI was an all-white unit made up of South Africans and men from the UK, Europe and US. It was a key weapon in independent Rhodesia's struggle against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army during the bloody Rhodesian Bush War. This comprehensive study explores the unit's dramatic history, revealing the RLI's fearsome airborne and combat capacity, which gave the unit, at times, near total tactical superiority against its opponents.