278558 Lieutenant Count Henry Noel BENTINCK, Coldstream Guards: PoW

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  1. dbf

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    Personal Number: 278558
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Name: Count Henry Noel BENTINCK, 11th Earl of Portland
    Unit: Coldstream Guards


    London Gazette : 30 July 1943
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36112/supplement/3432/data.pdf
    The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 4th June 1943:—
    FOOT GUARDS,
    C. G'ds.
    Count Henry Noel BENTINCK (278558)

    London Gazette : 1 December 1950
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39080/supplement/5999/data.pdf
    C. G'ds.
    Lt. Count Henry Noel BENTINCK (278558) from Emerg. Commn., to be Lt., 2nd Dec. 1950.
     
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    See also:
    "He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, but left after only a term amidst press headlines – "Count missing from Sandhurst". He worked as a cowboy in California for a year, returning to England in 1939 and marrying Pauline Ursula Mellowes in 1940. He registered as a conscientious objector, but after the death of a close friend he joined the Coldstream Guards, as a private soldier. He was soon commissioned as an officer and served with distinction in Italy at Camino. He was wounded twice, and then was a prisoner of war until 1945, when he was able to rejoin his regiment in Trieste."

    His uncle:
     
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    From The Coldstream Guards, 1920-1946, Howard & Sparrow:
    Pg 468

    NAME : Count Henry Noel BENTINCK

    PROMOTIONS :
    2nd Lieutenant - 04/06/1943
    Lieutenant - 04/12 /1943
    Captain - 01/09/1915


    SERVICES :
    5th Bn from 10/08/1943
    3rd Bn 11/12/1940
    Wounded Italy 02/07/1944
    2nd Bn 01/03/1945
    Prisoner of War Italy 06/04/1945
     
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    The Citizen 5th June 1940
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    The Tatler 6th August 1947
     

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