Wally Insch – Selous Scouts

Jake, John Gartner, Butch Atkins, Noel Robey and Chris Schulenburg (in civilian clothing on the right)

John Gartner and Steven Mpofu about to deploy on a recce task. Both men appear to be wearing Portuguese Lizard Stripe camouflage which would indicate this operation was in Mozambique.

Selous Scouts Tim Callow and Aaron Mlambo, reconnaissance team extraordinaire! Note the suppressor on the AKM that Aaron carries. Both men are dressed in green fatigues which indicate this operation would be into Zambia. The green fatigues were to mislead observers should they be spotted, buying enough time to escape the area. The Zambian National…Read More

C Squadron Rhodesian SAS

A Company 2RAR ‘Heavies’ ready for action!

P Troop BSAP Support Unit

Fire Force gunner Beaver Shaw performing a pre-flight check in an Alouette K-Car gunship.

Superintendent Bob Mansel PATU BSAP

RLI troopies from 1 Commando

Support Commando 1 RLI elements assemble at Ruda, Honde valley, on the Mozambican border for Operation Miracle

Operation Dingo Zulu 1: Alouette’s refuelling at the admin base inside Mozambique.

Inspector Alan Stock (crouching), Patrol Officer Alan Murray, Constable David and Section Officer Dave Lawson on PATU duties at Karanda in the northeast, 1973

Freefall paratroops deploy from a C-47 Dakota

Operation Cheese proved conclusively that the RLI could operate behind enemy lines as well as the SAS.

A PATU stick, Centenary East, 1975.

RLI, National Parks and BSAP personnel display captured Russian weaponry, Zambezi valley, 1966.

Member of the Rhodesian Grey’s Scouts during the Rhodesian Bush War

Mapai. C Sqn 2IC Grahame W.

Grand Reef. G Cars returning from a contact.

Rhodesian SAS with their Land Rover technical

Members of 11 Troop, 3 Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry, circa. 1973.

RAR troops boarding Alouette III

FireForce teams ready to go

Rhodesian SAS

Rhodesian Lynx

2 Rhodesian K-Cars

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

Two key SB members attached to the Selous Scouts, DSO Ed Bird (left) and Supt Winston Hart (right). The likes of Winston and Ed played a crucial role in the extremely hazardous task of turning captured terrorists into trustworthy and formidable Selous Scouts pseudo operators

Rhodesian SAS operator George Galloway

RLI troops getting ready for jump

Fireforce paras dropping in

Rhodesian Bell UH-1 Iroquois locally nicknamed “Cheetahs”. These were former Israeli helicopters that the RAF obtained, allegedly through intermediaries to evade sanctions.

Rhodesian Alouette III’s Rolling Start Take Off

Rhodesian Claymore Laying Drill Cards

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Rhodesian Security Forces soldiers photographed inside helicopter

July 1979 A Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment Soldier with a member of the Pfhumo Rhevanu (“Spear of the People”) – they were turned terrs who decided for whatever reason to side with the government. Many had been captured (in some cases liberated from the PF) by the Selous Scouts or other Rhodesian Security Forces.

Rhodesian K-Car (Kill Car)

Rhodesian Air Force Lynx

Rhodesian Hunter

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

C U Shortly

BSAP in the Bush War

Selous Scouts flying a FRELIMO flag on a cross border raid

Eland 90 during Operation Miracle