Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant P. O. Ellman-Brown, 11th Battalion (The Queen’s Westminsters), Kings Royal Rifle Corps, later Rhodesian Police Reserve, who was murdered in Zimbabwe by ‘dissidents’ in August 1982

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Zimbabwe Independence 1980 (19716); Rhodesia, General Service Medal (7052P F/R Ellman-Brown P.O.); Police Reserve Long Service Medal (7052P. F/R P.O. Ellman-Brown), with Police Reserve cloth insignia, generally good very fine (6) £200-£240

Phillip Owen Ellman-Brown was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia in August 1922. He was educated at the Diocesan College Rhondebosch, Cape Town. Ellman-Brown was commissioned Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion (The Queen’s Westminsters), Kings Royal Rifle Corps in 1943, and he served with this motorised unit in Italy and Greece. After the war he was employed by the Rhodesian Police Reserve, and subsequently lived as a farmer at U’Guizan Ranch.

Ellman-Brown was murdered, 8 August 1982, and extracts from an article that appeared in the New York Times give the following:

‘A white farmer was reported today to have been killed in western Zimbabwe by those officially termed ‘dissidents’. The event, a killing in cold blood on an empty, remote road, was not the kind of thing to raise too many eyebrows. This southern African nation, once called Rhodesia and run by its white minority, has known violence and war for the last eight years.

Yet to some who doubt Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s ability to construct a final peace, the death of Phillip Ellman-Brown, 50 miles north of the city of Bulawayo, coincided with other portents that have eroded the hopefulness that surrounded the nation at independence in 1980.

Mr Ellman-Brown was killed close to an area where more than 2,000 soldiers and policemen have been hunting in vain for the last 16 days for a group of ‘dissidents’ holding hostage six foreign tourists, two of them American, to enforce demands for the release of detained comrades....’

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