"The Selous Scouts"
I used to sit by the water's edge and watch the campfire glow and I'd listen to the night-birds cry and feel the breezes blow. My belly full of the meat I'd shot, I'd sit for hours and muse As the moon came up and the shadows changed to many different hues.
I used to roam through this country wide in search of game so fleet and I'd listen to the lions roar as they too searched for meat. I'd make my camp on the grassy plain or in the mountains tall and I'd friends at every farm & store & every native kraal.
But now when I near a river's edge or roam this country wide I've a lot of men to back me, and I think of them with pride. They're a scruffy lot to look at, but they've a tracker's skill; They're damned fine men in a follow-up, and damned good at a kill.
The Scouts they're called, and well-named, too, for the man whose name they bear Was the greatest hunter in this land, and these men fear no dare! For the game they hunt is vermin that would pillage, plunder and maim. and they do their job efficiently, with never thought of fame!
AWARDS AND RECIPIENTS :
GRAND CROSS OF VALOR: Capt C.F. Schulenburg SCR .
COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE LEGION OF MERIT: Maj R.F. Reid-Daly DMM, MBE.
SILVER CROSS OF RHODESIA: 2/Lt C.D. Collett MFC, Cpl Chikondo M., Sgt FranklinA.P., Sgt Mpofu S., Cpl Pilate T.M. ,Sgt Piringondo E., Pte Rangarirayi H. , Capt R.S.S. Warraker , Cpl Wuranda H.
OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF THE LEGION OF MERIT: Sgt Fitzsimmons B.P.D., Lt C.J. Gough, Lt M.K. Hardy , Maj C.J.1. Kriel, Maj A.G. Sachse, Maj M.J. Swart , Capt J.A.C. White BCR, DMM
MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF THE LEGION OF MERIT: Lt T.G. Bax, W02 Balaam A.J. MFC , C/Sgt Chiyaka L. , Maj F.J. Duncan, C/Sgt Jenkinson R.G. , Sgt Lafferty J.W. , Capt A.M. Lindner, W02 Ne J.A. , Sgt Rabie A.P. , W02 van der Riet W.F. , Lt P.J. van der Riet BCR
BRONZE CROSS OF RHODESIA: L/CpI Boyi D. , L/Cpl Chabata C. , L/CpI Chigudu F. , Cpl ChiyakaL., L/Cpl Gayon G. , L/Cpl Jele C. , WO2 KrauseC.E. , Pte Mugandani F., L/Cpl Madhiridza N. , Cpl Mzinda B. , L/Cpl Ndhlovu D. , L/Cpl Ndhlovu D., Cpl Ndhlovu O.M. , CpI Maposa R. , Sgt Rangarirayi.H. SCR, L/Cpl Robins C.K. , L/CpI Ruwuyu K. , W02 van der Riet P.J. , WO2 White J.A.C. , Sgt Wuranda H. SCR, Sgt Wuranda P., Sgt Chidembo J.
MERITORIOUS CONDUCT MEDAL: Sgt BowerE.A., Sgt Clemence P.C. , L/CpI Khama R., F/Lt B.S. Moss MFC
DEFENSE FORCES MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE: Capt J.W.Ley, WO 1 Mavengere S., WO 1 Pretorius J.A. ESM , Capt D.J.Steyn, W0 2 J.A.C. White BCR
MILITARY FORCES COMMENDATION: Sgt Balaam A.J., Sgt Boshoff H., Sgt Bromwich M.C., Sgt ChiguduF.BCR, Lt C.D. Collett SCR, Sgt Gwatimba K. , Cpl Kanve E. , Tpr Kapungu E.T. , C/Sgt Khama R. MCM, WO2 Laing B.M.M., Sgt Lewis T.W.L., Tpr Mabwe D.F., L/Cpl Madewe J., C/Sgt Maskell B.A.T., Cpl Mawedzere K. , Tpr Morgan B.M., F/Lt B. Moss, C/Sgt Nimmo N.P.
MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE : WO2 Link C.
COMMANDER OF THE ARMY’S COMMENDATION: S/Sgt Hamilton A.R.
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