Alan Gingles
On graduating from Sandhurst on 8 April 1977, Gingles was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment.[1]
Gingles was promoted to Lieutenant on 8 April 1979.[2]
Gingles was placed on the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 6 September 1979.[3]
According to regimental magazine, The Cheetah, Gingles served in F Troop of 1 Commando in the Rhodesian Light Infantry.[4] By October 1980, he had become second in Command of 1 Commando.[5]
Gingles was killed in 1981, while serving in 5 Recce of the South African Defence Forces. He died while attempting to sabotage a railway line near Beira in Mozambique, when his bomb exploded prematurely.[6]
Gingles was removed from the UK's regular army reserve of officers as of 8 April 1985.[7]
- ↑ Issue 47227, Page 6972, London Gazette, 31 May 1977.
- ↑ Issue 47830, page 5672, London Gazette, 1 may 1979,
- ↑ Issue 47991, Page 13568, London Gazette, 30 October 1979.
- ↑ The Cheetah, October 1980, p.28.
- ↑ The Cheetah, October 1980, p.26.
- ↑ Volume Two: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, page 94.
- ↑ Issue 50218, Page 7050, London Gazette, 21 May 1985.
