320937 (2702098) James Arthur Grey DUBERLY, Scots Guards

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    Casualty
    Second Lieutenant DUBERLY, JAMES ARTHUR GREY
    Service Number 320937
    Died 18/06/1944
    Aged 18
    Scots Guards
    Son of Maj. Montagu Richard William Duberly O.B.E., and of Lady Eileen Duberly (nee Stopford), of Buckden.
    INSCRIPTION: KILLED BY A FLYING BOMB WHILST ON DUTY AT WELLINGTON BARRACKS
    Buried at GREAT STAUGHTON (ST. ANDREW) CHURCHYARD
    Location: Huntingdonshire, United Kingdom
    Number of casualties: 1
     
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    From The Scots Guards 1919-1955, David Erskine, pg 58:

    It was during Colonel Wynne Finch's term of command that the Regimental Headquarters suffered its greatest blow. At a quarter past eleven on the morning of Sunday 18th June 1944 a jet-propelled flying bomb (the German V.1) dived onto the Guards Chapel when it was full of worshippers. By great good fortune the congregation on the Sunday was the smallest it had been for many months, but nevertheless the Regiment suffered sad losses. Lieutenant-Colonel J.M. Cobbold, Lieutenant H.W. Dods, Second-Lieutenant J.A.G. Duberly and two other ranks were among those killed.

     
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