200105 Ninian THORPE, MC, X Company Scots Guards attached 3 Irish Guards & 1 Welsh Guards

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    Personal Number: 200105
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Name: Ninian THORPE
    Unit: X Company Scots Guards attached 3 Irish Guards & 1 Welsh Guards

    London Gazette : 19 August 1941
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35250/supplement/4798/data.pdf
    The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 2nd Aug. 1941: —
    FOOT GUARDS.
    S. G'ds
    Ninian THORPE (200105).

    London Gazette : 21 December 1944
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36850/supplement/5855/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe: —
    The Military Cross.
    Lieutenant Ninian Thorpe (200105), Scots Guards (Wentworth, Surrey) (since killed in action).
     
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    Casualty
    Lieutenant THORPE, NINIAN
    Service Number: 200105
    Died 09/09/1944
    Aged 22
    Scots Guards
    M C
    Son of Major-General Gervase Thorpe, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and Margaret Murray Thorpe (nee Burt-Marshall).
    INSCRIPTION: KILLED IN ACTION
    Buried at LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Limburg (Belgium), Belgium
    Cemetery/memorial reference: I. A. 1.
    See cemetery plan
     
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    The Scotsman, Thursday, September 27, 1945

    LIST OF AWARDS PRESENTED
    His Majesty the King held the first of two investitures at the Palace of Holyroodhouse yesterday forenoon......

    The list of presentations to next of kin was as follows:-

    MILITARY CROSS
    Major-General Thorpe received the Military Cross conferred on his son, the late Lieutenant Ninian Thorpe, Scots Guards.

    Evening Express, Moday, 2 October, 1944
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    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14040058
     
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