Robin Rhoderick-Jones

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Robin Rhoderick-Jones joined the Queen’ s Royal Irish Hussars in 1962 and soon saw active service in the Borneo campaign. In 1967 he flew army helicopters for The Queen’ s Own Hussars in Aden during its last six months as a British colony. He commanded the Irish Hussars from 1979 to 1981 during which he led a multinational component of the Commonwealth Monitoring Force which supervised Rhodesia’ s first full elections which led to the creation of Zimbabwe.