Personal Number: 253898 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Oliver Michael SAINSBURY Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 29 January 1943 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35880/supplement/531/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts.: — 4th Dec. 1942:— Oliver Michael SAINSBURY (253898), with precedence next below 2nd Lt., J. G. Marshall-Cornwall (255169). London Gazette : 1 June 1943 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36037/supplement/2521/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. Cadet Oliver Michael SAINSBURY (253898) to be 2nd Lt. 4th Dec. 1942 with precedence next below 2nd Lt. B. Henshaw (253897). (Substituted for notifn. in Gazette (Supplement) dated 29th Jan. 1943.
Casualty Details | CWGC LIEUTENANT OLIVER MICHAEL SAINSBURY Service Number: 253898 Regiment & Unit: Grenadier Guards, 6th Bn. Date of Death: Died 30 January 1944 Buried or commemorated at MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: V, D, 10. Location: Italy Additional Info: Son of Alfred and Violette Dorothy Sainsbury, of Raydon, Suffolk. Personal Inscription: IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF OUR SON MICHAEL
From The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945, by Nigel Nicolson and Patrick Forbes. v.2. Page 535 Page 375, Wounded Page 383, Killed