186890 Christopher Nigel GRAZEBROOK, 6 Grenadier Guards: 17/03/1943

Personal Number: 186890
Rank: Lieutenant
Name: Christopher Nigel GRAZEBROOK
Unit: Grenadier Guards


London Gazette : 30 May 1941
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35175/supplement/3081/data.pdf
The undermentioned Cadets, from O.C.T.U.'s, to be 2nd Lts.
17th May 1941.
FOOT GUARDS.
Gren. G'ds
Christopher Nigel GRAZEBROOK (186890).

 

Casualty Details | CWGC
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER NIGEL GRAZEBROOK
Service Number: 186890
Regiment & Unit: Grenadier Guards, 6th Bn.
Date of Death: Died 17 March 1943
Age 22 years old
Buried or commemorated at SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: II. AA. 7.
Location: Tunisia
Additional Info: Son of George William Ward Grazebrook and Eleanor Blanche Grazebrook, of Sharpthorne, Sussex.
Personal Inscription: "THINK ONLY THIS OF ME: THAT THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"

 

From The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945, by Nigel Nicolson and Patrick Forbes. v.2.

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See also:

• https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/george-william-ward-grazebrook-24-221wpwk
• War Diary: 6th Motor Battalion GRENADIER GUARDS, Jan - Dec 1943

His brothers:

• 28524 Edward William GRAZEBROOK, Warwickshire Yeomanry
  
• 75823 Michael Ward GRAZEBROOK, MC, 6 Grenadier Guards