Personal Number: 90815 Rank: Captain Name: Richard Cecil TWINING Unit: 3 Welsh Guards London Gazette : 6 June 1939 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34632/page/3784/data.pdf GENERAL LIST. UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES. Richard Cecil TWINING to be 2nd Lt. 5th June 1939. London Gazette : 28 January 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35056/supplement/539/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. W. G'ds. The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lts. 1st Jan. 1941: — R. C. Twining (90815). London Gazette : 25 January 1946 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37445/page/696/data.pdf Notices under Trustee Act Name: TWINING, Richard Cecil Addres: 922, Nell Gwynn House, Sloane Avenue, London, S.W.3, Description: Captain, Welsh Guards DOD: 9th April, 1943.
Casualty Captain TWINING, RICHARD CECIL Service Number 90815 Died 09/04/1943 Aged 27 3rd Bn. Welsh Guards Son of Richard Haynes Twining and Ellen Irene Rosalind Twining, of South Kensington, London; husband of Loma Althea Twining. B.A. (Oxon.). INSCRIPTION: IN TREASURED MEMORY OF DICKIE "LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM, O LORD." R.I.P. Buried at ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY Location: Tunisia Number of casualties: 1466 Cemetery/memorial reference: II. B. 17. See cemetery plan
It appears as a result of his death his wife became twice a war widow and then, having married for the third time, she herself died in1948. Captain Richard Cecil Twining | Christ Church, Oxford University In March 1943, he married Lorna Althea Holt nee Ravenhill, the widow of Pilot Officer G.C.A. Holt who had been killed on 15 October 1942. Richard Cecil Twining was killed, days later, on 9 April 1943 in the final days of the war in North Africa. He is buried in Enfidaville War Cemetery Plot II. B. 17. Lorna Twining married Desmond Clive Chichester in 1946 and died in 1948 having just given birth to a son.
