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Apr 19, 1920 Died on 05 Jun 2012 (aged 92)
Rhodesian Army general
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- Lieutenant General Keith Robert Coster ID OBE SSAS (19 April 1920 – 5 June 2012) was a South African army officer who rose to command the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972. Keith Robert Coster was born on 19 April 1920 in Eshowe, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa.
- He was educated at Maritzburg College, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- After his matriculation at the school in 1936, he enlisted in the Special Service Battalion of the Union Defence Force (UDF) (of South Africa), and was commissioned into the South African Air Force (SAAF) on 6 September 1939.
- While flying a Mohawk V with 5 Squadron SAAF, he was shot down over North Africa by a Luftwaffe fighter plane, a Bf109, on 11 July 1942 and was a prisoner of war until 4 May 1945.
