British aristocracy losses in WW2

Typing 'Viscount' into the 'Including' box on Geoff's search engine turns up a fair few scions, along with a senior aristo or two:

Search results for: + viscount. records found: 37
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001 BAIRD RAG 70789 115 SQDN 14/07/1943 ROYAL AIR FORCE
002 BENN MJW 103589 21 SQDN 23/06/1944 ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
003 BERRY JD 124533 3RD BN 10/10/1944 GRENADIER GUARDS
004 BROOKE HA 259934 A SQN 10TH ROYAL HUSSARS 17/04/1945 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
005 BYNG G - HMS KONGONI 15/07/1944 ROYAL NAVY
006 CAIRNS HWJ 38311 CDG 7TH MOTOR BDE GROUP 03/07/1942 GENERAL STAFF
007 CECIL RHV 1602912 - 12/08/1944 ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
008 CLEGG-HILL FR 40864 4TH BN 13/04/1945 KING'S SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
009 COLVILLE CA - HMS HESPERIDES 14/03/1945 ROYAL NAVY
010 COVENTRY GWRV 7903 7TH BN 27/05/1940 WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
011 CRICHTON JHG 38699 ATTD 12TH ROYAL LANCERS 23/05/1940 ROYAL HORSE GUARDS
012 CROSS RG 210856 578 FIELD COY 13/05/1944 ROYAL ENGINEERS
013 DAWSON-DAMER GLS - 600 SQDN 17/04/1944 ROYAL AIR FORCE (AUXILIARY AIR FORCE)
014 DUNDAS RMSM 79150 1ST LOTHIANS AND BORDER HORSE 05/06/1940 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
015 FAIRWEATHER M - - 04/08/1944 AIR TRANSPORT AUXILIARY
016 FINCASTLE EDM 37535 4TH BN 05/06/1940 QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS
017 FINDLAY CDC 122485 - 28/08/1942 ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
018 FURNESS C 53422 1ST BN 24/05/1940 WELSH GUARDS
019 GORT JSSPV - AND COMMANDS AND STAFF 31/03/1946 GRENADIER GUARDS
020 GUINNESS AOE 53827 218 BTY, 55 THE SUFFOLK YEOMANRY ANTI TANK REGT 08/02/1945 ROYAL ARTILLERY
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021 HAMILTON-RUSSELL AGL 22389 1ST BN 26/05/1940 RIFLE BRIGADE
022 HAMILTON-RUSSELL DC 94896 1ST ROYAL DRAGOONS 19/04/1943 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
023 HAMILTON-RUSSELL J 52641 1ST THE ROYAL DRAGOONS 19/08/1943 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
024 HAMILTON-RUSSELL GL 41136 - 02/06/1940 GRENADIER GUARDS
025 HERBERT MH 86326 157 SQDN 23/03/1943 ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
026 LONG WRB 77543 2 HAA REGT 26/04/1941 - - 27/04/1941 ROYAL ARTILLERY
027 LONG WFD 50864 5TH BN 23/09/1944 COLDSTREAM GUARDS
028 LOWTHER JA - HMS PRESIDENT 25/08/1942 ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
029 MAITLAND ICJM 94405 2ND LOTHIANS AND BORDER HORSE 18/01/1943 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
030 MOLESWORTH JVC 73137 ATTD 77TH INDIAN INF BDE 07/06/1943 DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY
031 PORTMAN ECB 42507 - 14/07/1942 LIFE GUARDS
032 PRESTON SET 228338 1ST BN 30/01/1944 IRISH GUARDS
033 PRESTON JWR 107447 2/4TH BN 09/06/1940 KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
034 SOUTHWELL JM - HMS LANDRAIL 22/12/1944 ROYAL NAVY
035 STUART DAN 232729 11TH HUSSARS 10/11/1942 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
036 STUART RJO 311623 B SQN, 9TH QUEEN'S ROYAL LANCERS, 17/09/1944 ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
037 TRENCHARD H 186879 6TH BN 17/03/1943 GRENADIER GUARDS


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Other ranks/honours are harder, (Duke, Earl, Baron, etc.) due to their appearance in unit fields etc. No doubt someone has a list somewhere

 

the Marquess of Lansdowne and his brother,


Dbf & myself have posted some info & photos of them on this forum.

 

Owen,thank you for the information;I think both were killed in Italy .

One in Italy , other in Normandy.


http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-cemeteries-war-memorial-research/19221-war-memorial-bowood-house.html


see post #40 onwards on this thread

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/unit-documents/13742-irish-guards-3-bn-war-diary-june-1944-a.html#post141203

 

Freddy Lewin, Countess Roberts' son, killed on Chobry when she was bombed Norway, 1940. An account posted under my 1bn Irish Guards thread.
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Lieutenant FREDERICK ROBERTS ALEXANDER LEWIN 67054, 1st Bn., Irish Guards who died age 25 on 15 May 1940
Son of Brigadier-General Henry Frederick Elliott Lewin, C.B., C.M.G., D.L., J.P., and of Ada Edwina Stewart Lewin, Countess Roberts, O.B.E., of Ascot, Berkshire.
Remembered with honour BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL

From The Times, May 25, 1940:

Obituary - FALLEN OFFICERS
MR. F.R.A. LEWIN

Mr. J.H. Morgan, K.C., writes:-
Freddy Lewin was greatly loved by all who knew him and he will be deeply mourned not only by the friends of his family, whose hearts go out to his sorrowing parents so sorely stricken, but by many humble folk in the neighbourhood of his beautiful home on the Wiltshire Downs and by many Indians of all classes and of every creed.X The last time I saw him was when, in 1937, I spent a day with him and his batter in Meerut, and the eager welcome he had received in India as the heir to the great name of "Bobs Bahadur" had done nothing to spoil a nature which was utterly unaffected and instinctively modest.X

The son of a distinguished soldier, the grandson of one Field-Marshal and the godson of another, he had gone into the Army as one dedicated to it and predestine although by no means robust, and, as is so often the case with shy and sensitive spirits, nervous and highly strung.

He was not only a gallant soldier but a man of intellectual gifts, and he had looked forward, before the shadows of war began to deepen, to exchanging the Army in due course for a political career, for which he had every qualification, and it is tragic to recall that he confided to a friend in those days, now so incredibly remote, his apprehension that his ultimate succession to the peerage would close the door of the House of Commons to his public-spirited hopes and ambitions.

When the call to arms came he obeyed it cheerfully with "the frolic welcome" with which he always took the thunder no less than sunshine, and it was characteristic of his intrepid spirit that, having been temporarily invalided with a devastating attack of influenza, he rejoined his regiment to face the rigours of service when he was still far from well.X

Strikingly handsome, with a frank, open countenance, and a most winning charm of manner, Freddy Lewin was one of those whom the gods love.

 

LJ,
If you google "burke's peerage, killed in second world war" there are quite a few 'hits'; worth cross referencing with your list ...
Regards,
D


thePeerage.com - Index to WW2 Combatants

 

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The Hon. JOHN DOUGLAS BERRY
Son of James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, and Lady Gomer Berry, of Dropmore, Buckinghamshire.

Killed whilst serving in 3 GG in Italy in 1944

 

6th Baron BRABOURNE,
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Killed Italy in 1943 serving 6th Gren Gds

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KNATCHBULL, Sir NORTON CECIL MICHAEL
6th Baron Brabourne of Brabourne. Son of Michael Herbert Rudolph Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., M.C., and of Lady Brabourne (nee Browne), Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.), Dame of Grace, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Westminster, London


From The Times, Jun 08, 1945:

Lieut. Lord Brabourne, Grenadier Guards, who was reported missing in March, 1943, is now known to have been shot by the Germans.

On September 15, 1943, he was in north Italy in a prison train from which he made his escape. Shortly after getting away he was recaptured and the Germans shot him the same day. The Right Hon. Sir Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, Bt., sixth Baron Brabourne, Kent, in the peerage of the United Kingdom and fifteenth baronet (England) of Mersham Hatch, was born on February 11 1933, and was educated at Eton. He was the elder son of the fifth Lord Brabourne, Governor first of Bombay and then of Bengal, whose career was cut short by his death at Government House, Calcutta, in February, 1939, at the age of 43. Lieutenant Lord Brabourne's younger brother, Lieutenant the Hon. John Ulick Knatchbull, Coldstream Guards, was born on November 9, 1934.

 

3rd Gren Gds , Tunisia
BRAYBROOKE, 8th Baron
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NEVILLE, RICHARD HENRY CORNWALLIS

8th Baron Braybrooke. Elder son of Henry Neville, 7th Baron Braybrooke, M.A., D.L., J.P., and of Dorothy, Lady Braybrooke, of Saffron Walden, Essex. B.A. (Cantab.): Magdalene College. His brother George Robert Latimer Neville also fell.
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NEVILLE, The Hon. GEORGE ROBERT LATIMER
Younger son of Henry Neville, 7th Baron Braybrooke, M.A., D.L., J.P., and of Dorothy Lady Braybrooke, of Saffron Walden, Essex.
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Rank Ordinary Seaman !!!!!
H.M.S. Picotee
In memory of the Flower Class Corvette - HMS Picotee (K63).

 

Killed serving with 5th Gren Gds in Italy.
CANNING, VICTOR STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE
the Hon.. Son of Leopold Ernest Stratford George Canning, D.L., J.P., 4th Baron Garvagh, and of Lady Garvagh (nee Parker), of Keswick, Cumberland.

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killed with 2nd Gren Gds in Normandy.
CORBETT, The Hon. JOHN POLSON
Son of Lt.-Col. Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, M.C., T.D., D.L. (formerly of The Royal Scots Fusiliers), and Lady Rowallan, of Rowallan, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
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Killed with 4th Gren Gds in Normandy
FITZROY, Lord CHARLES OLIVER EDWARD
Son of Capt. Charles Alfred Euston Fitzroy, J.P., D.L., 10th Duke of Grafton, and the Duchess of Grafton, of Thetford, Norfolk.
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Killed serving with 2nd Gren Gds in Belgium , 1944
FRANK, Sir HOWARD FREDERICK
2nd Bt. Son of Sir Howard Frank, G.B.E., K.C.B., F.S.I., 1st Bt., and of Lady Frank, of Kensington, London.

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