In Memoriam

Phyllis Coey Interviewed by Kevin Gallagher Time Out Productions
June 3, 2022
The Writings of John Alan Coey: The Myth of American Anti-Communism in the Rhodesian War of Independence (1965 – 1979)
July 1, 2022
Phyllis Coey Interviewed by Kevin Gallagher Time Out Productions
June 3, 2022
The Writings of John Alan Coey: The Myth of American Anti-Communism in the Rhodesian War of Independence (1965 – 1979)
July 1, 2022

In Memoriam

St. Emmanuel’s Lutheran Chapel and cemetery Hide Away Hills, Ohio framed in the Jacarandas of Salisbury, Rhodesia.  Rhodesian Services Association
www.rhodesianservices.org

July blooms of the aloes in the Ingyangya Highlands

African eagle of the Zambezi Valley

The first memorial in America for the seven Americans in the Rhodesian Security Forces of the 1RLI and SAS ‘C’ Rhodesia Sqn killed in action
held at St. Emmanuel’s July 19 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

Cpl John Alan Coey. 1 RLI, 2 Cdo, doc.
19 July 1975

Tpr George William Clarke. 1RLI, Support Cdo.
15 May, 1977.

Tpr Frank Battaglia. 1RLI, 3 Cdo, 14 Troop.
6 March, 1978.

Tpr Joseph Patrick Byrne. 1RLI, 3 Cdo.
26, October, 1978.

Tpr Stephen Michael Dwyer. 1RLI 3 Cdo.
16, July 1979.

Sgt Hugh McCall. 1 RLI, 3 Cdo.
16 July, 1979.

 

 

 

Sgt Richard L. Biederman SAS ‘C’ Rhodesia Sqn 6 December, 1977

SAS Memorial, Flame Lily Park in Durban, Kwazulu Natal-Province, South Africa

Tpr George William Clarke funeral with military honours near Salisbury, Rhodesia

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA38J08489LFWCBBLQ9OJWVL0D5-RHODESIA-FUNERAL-HELD-NEAR-SALISBURY-OF-AMERICAN-MEMBER-OF

“To you, his comrades-in-arms, John would say: ‘Write these words upon your hearts: ‘The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid’.”

G. Edward Coey.

 

“Eulogy for his brother John Alan Coey” on behalf of his parents.
A Martyr Speaks: Journal of the Late John Alan Coey.  (p.233)
New Puritan Library

 

 

“The Sentinel” of the Rhodesian Services Association April 2022

https://www.rhodesianservices.org/user/image/publication08-2008.pdf

This issue features the ‘Crippled Eagles’ which is the informal name for the US expatriates who fought in Rhodesia as well as biographies of the Americans KIA from the Roll of Honour of the Rhodesian Forces Archives Project.

Sources: Alan Balson, Captain Russell Fulton and
Mike Norton: “Fighting Men of Rhodesia ,Episode 37,
March 22, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vj_Rpm89YM

Chimanimani Eastern Highlands of Rhodesia

 

The Rhodesian Services Association Inc.
“Newsletter” August 2008
Memorial Service, Ohio, USA (p. 10)
Rich Byrne’s feature on the memorial service held July 19, 2008 to honour the Americans KIA in Rhodesia. (Hide Away Hills, Ohio)  He is the nephew of Trooper Joseph Patrick Byrne 1RLI,, 3 Cdo. KIA 26 Oct. 1978.
http://www.rhodesianservices.org/user/image/publication08-2008.pdf

 

“The Saints: Sacrificial Lambs of these
United States” by Nancy Hitt.

“God bless the Rhodesian Light Infantry
(1961 – 1980) and all ‘The Saints’.

https://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1551

 

 

 

 

 

The Rhodesian Services Association Inc.
“Contact! Contact’ July 2013
Dateline Rhodesia 1890 – 1980 by Gerry van Tonder
“Masoso: 19 July, 1975” (p. 4)
This is van Tonder’s account of the Masoso Contact in which Cpl John Alan Coey was KIA.
https://www.rhodesianservices.org/user/image/publication07-2013.pdf

 

Military History: An American Adventure and Sacrifice in Rhodesia by SOFREP.
August 1, 2020
https://sofrep.com/news/an-american-odyssey-in-rhodesia-part-one/

A Warrior-Scholar’s Fight for Rhodesia.
March 12, 2018
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2018/03/a-warrior-scholars-fight-for-rhodesia/

Rhodesian Light Infantry
Capt. Joseph Columbus Smith. Ret. 1st Bn., Rhodesian African Rifles (Abn/ 1976 – 79) Portland, Oregon
https://sadf.info/Rhodesia.html

 

Lake Kariba, Rhodesia

 

Phyllis Coey

Chris Gerner : the light of day radio show with Phyllis Coey
August 5, 2016
Open Here

Time Out : Phyllis Coey ( 2013 – 09 -13
Kevin Gallagher
Sept 14 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDgjfcNJMjg
Time Out productions presents long time political activist Phyllis Coey. She is 86 years old ( 2013) and has been politically active making people aware of the New World order since the 1940s.

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Eastern Highlands of Rhodesia

 

Bvumba Sunrise