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| Affiliation | Conservative |
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| Name | Richard Cecil |
| Address |
, England , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
January 26, 1948 |
| Died |
April 20, 1978
(30 years) |
| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Nov 04, 2021 09:06pm |
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| Info | Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil was a British soldier, Conservative politician and freelance journalist who was killed in Rhodesia whilst covering the country's Bush War. The second son of the 6th Marquess of Salisbury, Cecil was in Rhodesia with a freelance film-maker, Nick Downie, recording material for a television documentary about the war. Carrying a rifle and wearing a Rhodesian Army uniform, he was shot dead at close range by a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army. The Rhodesian government reported that Cecil had been "killed in action"; his body was returned to the United Kingdom for burial.
The Cecil family had long-standing connections with Rhodesia. The death of Cecil was one of a number of events during 1978 that brought Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) to an abrupt end; it was the identity of the deceased, and the nature of his loss, that affected UDI's supporters.
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