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Statue of The Trooper, Hatfield House Also popularly known as 'The Troopie', 'The Trooper' is a repatriated Rhodesian statue and war memorial situated in the grounds of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. The statue and memorial is dedicated to the Rhodesian Light Infantry. The Trooper statue was originally erected in Salisbury, Rhodesia (today Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1979, during the period of white minority rule. It was subsequently smuggled out of the country to apartheid South Africa, and later entered the collections of the now-dissolved British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol. The statue was erected in its current place in 2008. The history, memory and symbolism of white-minority ruled Rhodesia has frequently been idolised and drawn upon by white supremacists in the twenty-first century. In 2015, the Charleston Church attacker, who killed nine African Americans in a white supremacist terror attack, was pictured wearing a Rhodesia flag patch on his jacket, and registered his own personal website under the title "The Last Rhodesian". In another white supremacist terror attack in 2023, a white shooter, again wearing a Rhodesian flag patch, killed three African Americans in Jacksonville, Florida.