30663 Brigadier Sir Walter de Stopham BARTTELOT, DSO, MiD, Coldstream Guards: 16/08/1944

Personal Number: 30663
Rank: Brigadier
Name: Sir Walter De Stopham BARTTELOT, DSO, MiD
Unit: Coldstream Guards ; General Staff ; 6 Guards Tank Brigade

Date of Birth: 27 October 1904
Date of Death: 16 August 1944


London Gazette : 29 August 1924
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32969/page/6498/data.pdf
The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be 2nd Lts. :—
Dated 27th Aug., 1924.
FOOT GUARDS
C. G'ds.—
Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot, Bt.

London Gazette : 3 February 1931
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33686/page/746/data.pdf
FOOT GUARDS.
C. G'ds.—
Lt. Sir Walter de S. Barttelot, Bt., to be Adjt., vice Capt. N. W. Gwatkin. 3rd Feb. 1931.

London Gazette : 20 December 1940
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7200/data.pdf
The names of the undermentioned have been brought to notice in recognition of distinguished services in connection with operations in Norway.
NORTH WESTERN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. COMMANDS AND STAFF.
BARTTELOT, Captain Sir W. de S., Bt., Coldstream Guards.

London Gazette : 21 December 1944
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36850/supplement/5853/data.pdf
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe: —
The Distinguished Service Order.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot, Bt. (30663), Coldstream Guards (Pulborough) (since killed in action) (to be dated 15th August, 1944).

 

From The Coldstream Guards, 1920-1946, Howard & Sparrow:
Appendix 3; Pgs 467
NAME : Sir Walter de Stopham BARTTELOT, Bt., DSO, MiD
COMMISSION : Regular

PROMOTIONS :
2nd Lieutenant - 27/08/1924
Lieutenant - 27/08/1926
Captain - 01/02/1934
Major - 23/05/1940
Lieutenant-Colonel - 21/11/1941

SERVICES :
Serving (Captain) Training Bn
BM 24 INFANTRY BRIGADE from 15/02/1940
BODOFORCE (Norway) from 23/05/1940
BM 1 GUARDS BRIGADE from 05/07/1940
GSO1, HQ Scottish Command from 21/11/1941
1st Bn (2nd i/c) from 03/03/1942
Commanding Officer 6th Bn from 14/09/1942
Commanding Officer 4th Bn from 26/07/1943
Commanding (Brigadier) 6 GUARDS TANK BRIGADE from 04/08/1944
Killed in Action, North West Europe 16/08/1944

AWARDED :
Distinguished Service Order
Mention in Despatches

 

London Gazette : 20 December 1940
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7200/data.pdf

 

Recommendation for Award for Barttelot, Sir Walter de Stopham Rank: Major... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 373/49/524
Name Barttelot, Sir Walter de Stopham
Rank: Major Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
Service No: 30663
Regiment: 4 Tank Battalion Coldstream Guards
Theatre of Combat or Operation: North West Europe 1944-45
Award: Distinguished Service Order
Date of announcement in London Gazette: 21 December 1944

 

From The Coldstream Guards, Howard & Sparrow
Pg 308
"Hardly was the fighting over when the Brigade and the Battalion, settling down to rest, received the most severe blow of the campaign. On 16 August Brigadier Sir Walter Barttelot was killed. He was on his way to Divisional Headquarters when his car ran over a mine and both he and his driver died at once. The battle of Caumont had largely been his personal triumph; he had inspired the battalion [4CG] while he was with it, and his death, even after his departure, was still the battalion's loss. Colonel Douglas Greenacre, second-in-command of 5th Guards Armoured Brigade, came to succeed him and to command 6th Guards Tank Brigade until the end of the war."

 

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BRIGADIER Sir WALTER De STOPHAM BARTTELOT
Service Number: 30663
Regiment & Unit: Coldstream Guards, General Staff Cdg. 6th Guards Tank Bde.
Date of Death: 16 August 1944
Age 39 years old
Buried or commemorated at ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: XI. A. 12.
Location: France
Awards: Distinguished Service Order
Additional Info: 4th Bart. Son of Lt.-Col. Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, D.S.O., 3rd Bt., Coldstream Guards, and of Lady Barttelot (nee Angrove); husband of Lady Barttelot (nee Ravenscroft), of Stopham, Sussex.
Personal Inscription: VALIANT IN LEADERSHIP AND IN SERVICE

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• Biography of Brigadier Walter de Stopham Barttelot (1904 – 1944), Great Britain
  
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• "TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF / SIR WALTER DE STOPHAM BARTTELOT D.S.O./ 4TH BARONET OF STOPHAM/ MAJOR, TEMPORARY LT. COLONEL, ACTING BRIGADIER COLDSTREAM GUARDS./ BORN OCTOBER 27TH 1904. JOINED THE 2ND BATT COLDSTREAM GUARDS IN 1923./ SERVED IN CHINA 1927. ADJUTANT 1ST BATTALION EGYPT 1931-1934/ EGYPT AND PALESTINE WITH 3RD BATTALION 1937. PASSED STAFF COLLEGE 1939./ IN APRIL 1940 PROCEEDED TO NORWAY AS BRIGADE MAJOR 24TH GUARDS BRIGADE./ MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES./ BRIGADE MAJOR 1ST GUARDS BRIGADE JULY 1940-NOV 1941. SECOND IN / COMMAND 1ST ARMOURED BATTALION , GUARDS ARMOURED DIVISION FEB 1942/ COMMANDED 6TH BATTALION OCTOBER 1942-JULY 1943. COMMANDED 4TH/ TANK BATTALION COLDSTREAM GUARDS JULY 1943 - AUGUST 1944,/ IN WHICH COMMAND HE WAS AWARDED THE D.S.O. FOR / HIS SKILL AND BRAVERY AT THE BATTLE OF CAUMONT./ HE WAS KILLED IN NORMANDY ON AUGUST 16TH 1944, WHILE/ COMMANDING THE 6TH GUARDS TANK BRIGADE/ LEAVING HIS WIFE, TWO SONS AND HIS MOTHER/ TO MOURN THEIR LOSS./"
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• Coldstream Hill Memorial (Hill 309)
  
• "COLDSTREAM HILL
  1944 - 1994
  50e ANNIVERSAIR DE LA
  BATAILLE DE NORMANDIE
  COTE 309
  A LA MEMOIRE
  DU BRIGADIER
  SIR WALTER DE STOPHAM BARTTELOT BED.S.O.
  COMMANDANT LE 4e BATAILLON
  DES COLDSTREAM GUARDS
  
  LE 30 JUILLET
  AVEC LES CHARS CHURCHILL DE SON BATAILLON
  IL S'EMPARAIT DE CE POINT STRATEGIQUE
  SANS INFANTERIE
  
  FORTEMENT TENU PAR LENNEMI
  
  TUE AU COMBAT LE 16 AOUT 1944
  A
  TRUTTEMER LE GRAND
  
  REPOSE AU CIMETIERE BRITANNIQUE
  DE
  ST CHARLES DE PERCY
  WE WILL REMEMBER HIM"
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• https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/Stopham.html

 

His brother: Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Geoffrey Nelson BARTTELOT, Royal Engineers

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Their father: Major Sir Walter Balfour BARTTELOT, Coldstream Guards

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MAJOR Sir WALTER BALFOUR BARTTELOT
Regiment & Unit: Coldstream Guards, serving as Military Attache, Tehran.
Date of Death
Died 23 October 1918
Age 38 years old
Buried or commemorated at TEHRAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: I. E. 6.
Location: Iran
Awards: Distinguished Service Order, Four times Mentioned in Despatches
Additional Info: 3rd Bart. Croix de Guerre avec palms (France). Son of Sir Walter George Barttelot, 2nd Bart, and Georgiana Mary, his wife; husband of Gladys St. Aubyn Barttelot, of Stopham House, Pulborough, Sussex.​

Their uncle: Lieutenant-Commander Nigel Kenneth Walter BARTTELOT, Royal Navy

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LIEUT-COMMANDER NIGEL KENNETH WALTER BARTTELOT
Regiment & Unit/Ship: Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Liberty."
Date of Death: 28 August 1914
Buried or commemorated at STOPHAM (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
Grave Reference: Due West of East gate.
Location: United Kingdom​

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