British aristocracy losses in WW2

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    Major Baron JOHN FREDERICK FOLEY DE RUTZEN 72466, 3rd Bn., Welsh Guards who died age 36 on 11 October 1944
    Son of Lt. Alan Frederick James, Baron de Rutzen, Pembrokeshire Yeomanry (killed in action, 1916), and Eleanor Etna Audley, Baroness de Rutzen, of Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire; husband of Sheila Victoria Katrin, Baroness de Rutzen, of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire. J.P., D.L.
    Remembered with honour SANTERNO VALLEY WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: II, C, 7.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1715571

    His father:
    Lieutenant Baron ALAN FREDERICK JAMES DE RUTZEN 1st/1st Bn., Pembroke Yeomanry attd. 6th Coy., Imperial Camel Corps who died age 40 on 07 August 1916
    Son of Sir Albert de Rutzen; husband of Eleanor E. de Rutzen.
    Remembered with honour KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: E. 53.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=474527

    From Ensign in Italy, Brutton:

    11 October:
    The Welsh Guards relieved the Grenadiers in and around the castle. Sixteen men were placed within the keep. Like Cassino, they were surrounded not only by the immensely thick walls but also by the detritus of destruction and death which had resulted from two weeks of bombardment and assault. On a clear day - and there were not many when we were there - the Bologna-Rimini road, along which no vehicles passed in daytime, could be seen, also the great plains of the Po valley and, beyond, the Alps.

    12 October: 'John de Rutzen killed'
    John was commanding Support Company. He was caught while driving his jeep by the shrapnel of a stray shell which had missed its mountain-top target and descended to hit the backbone of a mule and exploded. Dai Pugh and Tony Wrigley were wounded. So, too, was Dicky Sharples and his soldier servant while visiting Andrew Gibson-Watt's platoon, when they were inadvertently shot by the Bren gun of a suddenly awakened sentry.
     
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    Gawthorpe Hall -- Legacy of the Shuttleworths

    The Shuttleworth's seem to have had a bad time of it in the two wars.

    For all Ughtred's seeming good fortune up to time of the royal visit, the following years saw great tragedy for the Shuttleworth family. In 1917, both of Ughtred's sons were killed in action during the First World War, with each leaving behind a young family. Following these two tragedies, Ughtred retired to his estate in Barbon, where he died -- blind and bedridden -- at the age of 95 in 1939. Barely a year after becoming the 2nd Lord Shuttleworth, Ughtred's eldest grandson Richard was killed in the Second World War. He was succeeded by his younger brother, but he too died in the war in 1942. The title then passed to a cousin, Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, who became the 4th Lord Shuttleworth and came to live at Gawthorpe Hall following the end of the war. Lord Charles had been badly injured in the war, suffering the loss of one leg and the paralyzation of another, and, after marrying in 1947, it was decided that the house was not a practical environment considering his disabilities. The family moved to Leck Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria and left Gawthorpe Hall in the care of Lord Charles' aunt, the Honorable Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth. The daughter of Ughtred, Rachel was born in 1886 and had lived most of her life at Gawthorpe. She was also the last member of the family to live at the Hall and it seems appropriate that she also died there in 1967. Just five years later, Lord Charles passed ownership of Gawthorpe and the surrounding lands to the National Trust and Leck Hall officially became the Shuttleworth family seat.

    In Memory of
    Flying Officer RICHARD UGHTRED PAUL KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH

    70356, 145 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    who died age 27
    on 08 August 1940
    (Served as SHUTTLEWORTH. R.U.P.). 2nd Baron Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe. Son of Capt. the Hon. Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, R.F.A., J.P., and of the Hon. Mrs. Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, of South Kensington, London.J.P. His brother Ronald Orlando Lawrence, 3rd Baron Shuttleworth, also fell.
    Remembered with honour
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    In Memory of
    Captain RONALD ORLANDO LAWRENCE KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH

    96912, 138 Field Regt., Royal Artillery
    who died age 25
    on 17 November 1942
    (Served as SHUTTLEWORTH. R.O.L.). 3rd Baron Shuttlewoth of Gawthorpe. Son of Capt. the Hon. Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, R.F.A., J.P., and of the Hon. Mrs. Kay-Shuttleworth (nee Bridgeman), of South Kensington, London. B.A. (Oxon.): Balliol College. His brother Richard Ughtred Paul, 2nd Baron Shuttleworth, also fell.
    Remembered with honour
    TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
     
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    Lieutenant GEOFFREY NORRIS EVANS 200115, Welsh Guards who died age 22 on 21 June 1944
    Son of Sir Rowland Evans, Kt., and Lady Evans, of Fulham, London.
    Remembered with honour ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII, G, 6.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2048666

    From Ensign in Italy, Brutton:

    Meanwhile, shelling and mortaring of San Marco continued for two more dayas and Geoffrey 'Glob' Evans, the Intelligence Officer, was badly hit and died of his wounds.

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    'Glob' Evans was the Intelligence Officer and had been wounded by shrapnel at San Marco.
     
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    Lieutenant Colonel JOHN ERNEST FASS 49851, Cdg. 1st Bn., Welsh Guards who died age 33 on 30 June 1944
    Son of Sir Ernest Fass, K.C.M.G., C.B., O.B.E., and of Lady Fass (nee Neame), of Inkpen, Berkshire; husband of Elizabeth Mary Fass, of Sonning, Berkshire.
    Remembered with honour ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
    Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 9.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2061047

    From Welsh Guards at War, Ellis:

    The element of chance in warfare was never more clearly illustrated than on their first evening there [Carpiquet airfield]. The companies were hardly in position and the men of Battalion Headquarters were still digging-in in their field when they were heavily mortared. The Commanding Officer, the Second-in-Command, the Anti-tank Gun Officer, the Signals Officer, a Company Sergeant-Major and a number of Guardsmen were wounded and had to be evacuated to England. And this was not the end of their misfortune. Major J.E. Fass, who took command, was killed on the following evening almost in the same place and in the same way. In Lieutenant-Colonel G.W. Browning, Major M.E.C. Smart and Major Fasss the Battalion thus lost its three senior officers before they ever saw the enemy. Major C.H. Heber-Percy, M.C., was now promoted to command the Battalion.


    From A Soldier's Story, J.O.E. Vandeleur:
    The Welsh Guards took up positions covering CheuX and my battalion [3IG] took up positions between them and the Canadians on the edge of Carpiquet aerodrome, which was in the hands of the Germans. The 5th Coldstream Guards protected our right flank and rear. The 15th Scottish Division, supported by and Armoured Brigade, then began to trickle through Cheux. The Germans bombarded Cheux with everything they'd got, and started to counter-attack with armour. The Jocks had a very nasty approach march and we shared some of the dirt that was being thrown at them.

    The Welsh Guards had their Commanding Officer and second-in-command wounded immediately. A very great friend of mine, Johnny Fass, took over their command. He sent me a message saying that he had some great news. I went over to see him, getting thoroughly shelled on the way. I found him in a slit trench with his soldier servant. He showed me a telegram from his wife, saying that he had a son. He asked me to be the godfather. His soldier servant, he, and I then drank mugs of tea, mixed with whisky. I got out of the trench and started to walk home. I had not walked more than a few yards when a mortar bomb landed right in the trench, killing Johnny and his servant. About a year later I met his wife and asssured her that he had received the telegram.
     
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    I would like to thank all the members who had given information in this topic . I am sure that relatives of the victims will be very gratefull .
     
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    Captain GLYN DAVID RHYS-WILLIAMS Mentioned in Despatches 180546, Adjutant, 3rd Bn., Welsh Guards who died age 21 on 09 April 1943
    Son of Lt.-Col. Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, D.S.O., K.C., 1st Bt., and of Lady Rhys-Williams, D.B.E. (nee Glyn), of Llantrisant, Glamorgan.
    Remembered with honour ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 19.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2229858

    From Welsh Guards at War, Ellis:

    Fondouk
    Lance-Sergeant K.G. Summers was in charge of the 3-inch mortars in a wadie near No. 1 Company. "I was told to fire all along the ridge and to keep the enemy occupied till Captain Rhys-Williams reached the foot of the ridge and to keep the enemy occupied till Captain Rhys-Williams reached the foot of the ridge with the Company. They had to cross very open ground for about six hundred yards which all the time was being raked by small-arms and mortar fire. I could see Captain Rhys-Williams dashing from one section to another encouraging them on to their objective. He never seemed to tire although he was covering twice as much ground as anyone else by dashing about from one to another. On reaching the bottom of the hill they paused for a few moments and then went on to the final assault. The whole way up the hill I could see Captain Rhys-Williams in the lead." The company, which might well have faltered after all they had already done, responded nobly. Sergeant Garrison was one of the gallant party. "I heard Captain Rhys-Williams all the way on the advance shouting out to his men, "Keep your distance, "Not too fast," and "Come on boys; we can do it." It went like that till we reached the top of the hill, and then I was ordered to take a section out to the left and that was the last I saw of him."

    Sergeant W. Davies from Maesteg, who also went up the [Razorback] hill with him, saw the action which crowned his effort. "On the ascent to the top of the objective Captain Rhys-Williams was still in the lead ... having reached the top we were met with a stream of hand grenades which began to cause heavy casualties. Captain Rhys-Williams called to the men near him and immediately went over the top. The stream of grenades ceased and later we found him kneeling in the act of reloading his rifle." He had been shot by a sniper when he crossed over the spine of jagged rock which, sticking up like a wall along the skyline, had sheltered the grenad throwers till he scattered them. So he died, giving his life to ensure a victory which already owed so much to his quick understanding of what was needed, his unhesitating acceptance of responsibility, and his selfless devotion to duty.
     
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    Second Lieutenant PHILIP ROWLAND SPERLING 115739, Welsh Guards who died age 29 on 11 March 1940
    Son of Sir Rowland Arthur Charles Sperling, K.C.M.G., C.B. and of Lady Sperling (nee Kingsmill), of Kingsclere. B.A. (Oxon.).
    Remembered with honour KINGSCLERE (ST. MARY) CHURCH CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: West part. Grave 1.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2438903
     
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    Lieutenant RICHARD GEOFFREY WHISKARD 156093, Welsh Guards who died age 24 on 02 August 1944
    Son of Sir Geoffrey Whiskard, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.A., and of Lady Whiskard (nee Reeves), of Mildenhall, Suffolk.
    Remembered with honour ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: I. G. 14.
    http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2062937

    From Welsh Guards at War, Ellis:

    No. 3 Squadron had shown great enterprise. After reaching St. Charles de Percy they found that Courteil was strongly held as well as Montchamp. Undeterred by this threat to their line of advance, they by-passed both places and pushed on to their objective. There were pockets of enemy well behind them when they reached the country south of La Marvindiere and patrols found that Estry was strongly held. But they develop on the high ground and were able to keep a considerable range of country under observation. Later the other two squadrons came up to occupy ground near Cavignaux and north-east of La Marvindiere. This was August the 2nd and they remained there for forty-eight hours. They had no infantry to support them; they were in enemy territory and they were attacked by infantry and constantly sniped, shelled and mortared. During that night a German patrol armed with a bazooka got within a few yards of one troop and destroyed a tank. Sergeant Thomas Canavan took four men and, leading them through the orchard where the squadron was harboured, dispersed the Germans, killing two and capturing their bazooka. But another tank was hit during that night and the wireless operator very severely wounded ....

    They patrolled aggressively by day and closed in for self-protection at night. They lost several tanks and had some sad casualties. Captain J.C.R. Homfray was killed and Lieutenant R.G. Whiskard and Lieutenant R.D. Stevens; and therew were five others killed and twenty wounded.
     
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    Name: BRODRICK, The Hon. MICHAEL VICTOR Initials: M V Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Major Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards Unit Text: 3rd Bn. Secondary Unit Text: 201st Guards Motor Brigade. Age: 23 Date of Death: 10/09/1943 Service No: 76559 Awards: M C Additional information: Son of the Rt. Hon. William St. John Brodrick, K.P., P.C., 1st Earl of Midleton, and of the Countess of Midleton (nee Stanley), of Tilford, Surrey. (His brother, Maj. The Hon. Stewart-Mackenzie also died on service). Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: V. F. 34. Cemetery: SALERNO WAR CEMETERY

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    From The Coldstream Guards, Howard & Sparrow:
    Pg151/2
    It was clear that the Germans were going to fight hard - 56th Division in particular had to contend with 16 S.S. Panzer Division which had recently gained renown at Stalingrad; and early the next day 201st Guards Brigade was sent forward with the other Brigades on either flank to take the Division's original objectives. The 6th Bn of the Grenadiers on the right made for Battipaglia; the 3rd Coldstream were to take Monte Corvino airfield, three miles nearer Salerno; and in the centre the 2nd Bn Scots Guards had as its objective a large tobacco factory on the road from Salerno to Battipaglia. Early in the morning a Coldstream carrier patrol had skirted the airfield and drawn a little wild spandau fire, but when the battalion arrived in the afternoon the Germans had gone. The companies met no opposition as they cautiously advanced up the lanes which ran unhedged through flat tobacco fields; but from the hills three miles away the German gunners could see what went on, and very soon their shells began to fall among the advancing platoons. 2 Coy HQ was hit, Major Brodrick with three guardsmen was killed, and Captain Davidson took over command of the company. On the Coldstream front there wre no Germans to be seen; but on the right the Scots Guards were held up in front of the tobacco factory.
     
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    Name: BARTTELOT, Sir WALTER DE STOPHAM Initials: W D S Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Brigadier Regiment/Service: General Staff Unit Text: Cdg. 6th Guards Tank Bde. Secondary Regiment: Coldstream Guards Secondary Unit Text: and Age: 39 Date of Death: 16/08/1944 Service No: 30663 Awards: D S O Additional information: 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. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: XI. A. 12. Cemetery: ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
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    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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    Ranulph Fiennes was on BBC Breakfast talking about his father this morning, details below. I am going to Naples next year, so will pay him a visit.

    Name: FIENNES, Sir RANULPH
    Initials: R
    Nationality: United Kingdom
    Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
    Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
    Unit Text: Cdg. Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
    Age: 41
    Date of Death: 24/11/1943
    Service No: 26041
    Awards: D S O
    Additional information: 2nd Bt. Son of Lt.-Col. the Hon. Sir Eustace Fiennes, 1st Bt., J.P., and Lady Fiennes, O.B.E., of Sunningdale Rise, Berkshire; husband of Lady Audrey Joan Fiennes, of Park Lane, London. A.D.C. to Governor General of Canada, 1930. Also served in the Royal Flying Corps.
    Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
    Grave/Memorial Reference: II. J. 10.
    Cemetery: NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
     
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    Fiennes had been wounded during the desert war .
    Patrick O'Rourke, A Royal Scots Grey 1917-1996

    The Commanding Officer, Colonel Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, had gone home by this time, badly wounded and Tim Readman had taken over as C.O.

    Was back in charge for Italy,

    This war in Italy was so different from the one in the desert. Apart from the weather - a not very pleasant Italian winter - there were many casualties. The worst news was the death of the Commanding Officer. On this particular day in November we went to a place called Fontanella Fredda, when I say "we" there was Colonel Fiennes, Major Peter Borwick and myself in a Scout Car (Dingo). At Fontanellla Fredda the Colonel left the car and stepped onto the verge on to some trip wire and set off some mines which threw him up into the air. Major Peter Borwick went over to help him, but he too went up on some mines. I managed to get them back on to the road, this alerted the Germans who ,let us have a few shots of shellfire. Although I managed to get the car started it would not move. I got out to see what the trouble was and found that an unexploded shell was jamming the back wheel. The Colonel was shouting at me to get a move on (or words to that effect!). I took the shovel out of the car and prised the shell clear. At last we were able to move and set off for the Regiment. I radioed the Regiment and told them I had 2 wounded officers. On the way I met the Brigadier and told him what had happened. He told me to take them both to the hospital, but the Colonel had different ideas, he told me he wanted to go back to the Regiment as soon as possible. We arrived back and they were both taken to hospital in Naples. We learned later that the Brigadier's Dingo went up on a mine on the same road that I travelled on and his driver lost both of his legs. We heard later that the C.O. died on the 25th November. Indeed a great loss to the Regiment. This more or less was the end of operations with the C.O. out of action. For a short time I was sent to R.H.Q. to operate the rear link to the Brigade. While I was there I actually took the message that the C.O. had died. I was very surprised as I saw him in hospital the previous day. The Colonel was walking about. Peter Borwick was in bed not looking very well.
     
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    Captain THE HON. PATRICK JAMES BOYLE 124470, 2nd Bn., Scots Guards who died on 04 May 1946
    Son of Captain Patrick James Boyle, R.N., D.S.O., Mentioned in Despatches, D.L., 8th Earl of Glasgow, and the Countess of Glasgow, of Fairlie.
    Remembered with honour LARGS CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference:Lord Glasgow's Private Burial Ground.
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    Captain Hon. Patrick James Boyle was born on 23 May 1917. He was the son of Captain Patrick James Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow and Hyacynthe Mary Bell. He died on 4 May 1946 at age 28 at Burma, as the result of an internal illness contracted while on active service.

    Captain Hon. Patrick James Boyle was educated at Eton College, Eton ,Berkshire, England. He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Scots Guards. He fought in the Second World War.


    He served with the 2nd Battalion SG, in Africa in 1941. Seems to have had an interesting story alluded to in The Scots Guards, Erskine:

    November 1941

    We assembled by midday the 24th and had a preliminary roll call, which revealed 136 other ranks and Jimmy Boyle unaccounted for. Never again do I want to be wished into someone else's battle, nor do I want to take a tank attack naked on the ground. A grenade and a tommy-gun seem most inadequate weapons for such an occasion.

    Most of the missing were from Left Flank (Major J.D.B. Drury-Lowe). This company had been sent forward again to its original position, where it was surrounded and pinned down. But by the efforts of Major Drury-Lowe, who walked nonchalantly from truck to truck, a move was made at last light, when, led by Captain Crichton-Stuart Left flank drove off through the midst of the German vehicles - whose infantry were already too far ahad to interfere; the next day they rejoined the 4th Armoured Brigade. It was at this stage that Lieutenant the Hon. P.J. Boyle got separated, and drove into a German leaguer thinking it to be friendly; eventually he escaped from Italy into Switzerland.
     
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    Lieutenant COLIN CAMPBELL 311832, 3rd Bn., Scots Guards who died age 20 on 17 February 1945
Son of Sir George Riddoch Campbell, Kt., K.C.I.E., and of Lady Campbell (nee Berry), of Pyrford, Surrey. Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Remembered with honour JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: 22. F. 8.
    CWGC :: Casualty Details

    From The Scots Guards, Erskine, pg 402:
    Op Veritable
    The Army plan, as far as it affected the Battalion, was as follows. On the left, over what on the map was marked as marshlands but which in fact was a vast expanse of flood water, two Canadian Divisions were to attack between the Cleve road and the Rhine. On the right the 46th Highland Brigade supported by the 4th Coldstream were to seize the heights of the Reichswald Forest, while, in between, the 227th Highland Brigade with the Scots Guards would push straight down the main road to capture Kranenburg by the evening of the 8th February.

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    By five o'clock the infantry had consolidated all their objectives and had sent back 500 prisoners. Although many tanks were so badly bogged that they were never recovered, the Battalion's only other tank destroyed was that commanded by Lieutenant C. Campbell, of Left Flank, which blew up after striking what was thought to be a mine attached to a dug-in aerial bomb; Lieutenant Campbell was fatally wounded.
     
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    110300 John Murray (Ivan) COBBOLD, Scots Guards

    Lieutenant Colonel JOHN MURRAY COBBOLD 110300, Scots Guards who died age 47 on 18 June 1944
Son of John Dupuis Cobbold, D.L., and of Lady Evelyn Cobbold (nee Murray); husband of Lady Blanche Cobbold (nee Cavendish). of Glemham Hall, Suffolk. D.L., J.P., Sherriff of Suffolk.

    Remembered with honour GOLDERS GREEN CREMATORIUM
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 1.
    CWGC :: Casualty Details

    From The Scots Guards, Erskine, pg 58:

    It was during Colonel Wynne Finch's term of command that the Regimental Headquarters suffered its greatest blow. At a quarter past eleven on the morning of Sunday 18th June 1944 a jet-propelled flying bomb (the German V.1) dived onto the Guards Chapel when it was full of worshippers. By great good fortune the congregation on the Sunday was the smallest it had been for many months, but nevertheless the Regiment suffered sad losses. Lieutenant-Colonel J.M. Cobbold, Lieutenant H.W. Dods, Second-Lieutenant J.A.G. Duberly and two other ranks were among those killed.

    From information compiled by Jan Gore:
    Guards Chapel

    Lieutenant Colonel John Murray Cobbold, service number 110300, Scots Guards, aged 47. Son of John Dupuis Cobbold, D.L., and of Lady Evelyn Cobbold (nee Murray); husband of Lady Blanche Cobbold (nee Cavendish). of Glemham Hall, Suffolk. D.L., J.P., Sherriff of Suffolk. He was born in the March quarter of 1897 at Ipswich, and was always known as Ivan, a nickname given him by his nurse.

    He married Lady Blanche Cavendish, second daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, in the Guards Chapel in the June quarter of 1919; she was the sister-in law of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Ivan was a Captain in the Scots Guards during the First World War and served in France, where he was injured. Later he joined the family brewing business, Tolley Cobbold, and became chairman after his father’s death in 1929. He also was President of Ipswich Town FC. At the time of his death he was the Commanding Officer of the Scots Guards. He is commemorated on Panel 1 at Golders Green Crematorium, and on the Rannoch War Memorial on the east bank of Loch Rannoch.


    From The Times, June 27, 1944

    PERSONAL TRIBUTE
    LIEUT.-COLONEL J.M. COBBOLD

    Lord Cranworth writes:-
    Ivan Cobbold was a man of many talents, great abilities, and infinite charm. Moreover, he was a patriot with every fibre of his being. At an early age he succeeded to many possessions and with them great responsibilities, and it was his worthy pride to know the one intimately and to undertake the latter with a full and particular care. There was no one on his estate or in his business with whom he was not fully acquainted and with whose welfare he was not concerned.

    As a sportsman Ivan was most distinguished. A good cricketer in the Eton XI and a fine player of all ball games, he will be best remembered as a great shot - indeed he had good claims to rank as the best of his contemporaries. When a well-known paper called for the names of the 12 best shots, his name was included in every list and usually at the top. He was an almost equally good fisherman. Moreover, he was equally interested in the sport of others. Thus, he spent much time, money and an infinity of pains in launching the Ipswich football team on what bade fair to be a most prosperous career.

    In his busy life he never neglected public work in his country and when he undertook a job one knew that it would be done and well done.
    Leaving school while young he joined the Scots Guards and saw service in France, where he was wounded. He rejoined his old regiment at the outbreak of the present war and when killed was employed with the American forces in a post of supreme importance for which he was ideally qualified. In that position, he will be hard indeed to replace.

    As a host he was at his very best. His aim was the happiness of each of his many guest. His home life was perfect. He was adored by his family. Their happinesss was his happiness and their sorrows and disappointments his.

    Such was the life Ivan Cobbold lived, and his manner of living it brought him much esteem and hosts of friends. But there was another Ivan of which the world knew less. This was the man who went about quietly doing kindnesses to those in trouble, whether monetary or otherwise. His heart, his hand, and his pocket were ever ready with the one proviso, "No one is to know." He was a man of true generousity and intense loyalty and these characteristics will stand in the memory of his friends as a monument more enduring than brass.
     
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    Captain The Hon. ANTHONY EDMUND WINN 88146, 11th (1st Bn. The Queen's Westminsters) Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps who died age 33 on 26 October 1942
    Son of Rowland George Winn, 3rd Baron St. Oswald, and of Lady St. Oswald (nee Greene), of Billingshurst, Sussex.
    Remembered with honour EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: X. E. 9.
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    Captain The Hon. BRIAN ARTHUR O'NEILL 49895, 1st Bn., Irish Guards who died on 14 May 1940
    Remembered with honour BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 8. Column 2.

    Captain O'Neill, like Freddy Lewin (post no. 8), was a victim of the bombing of The Chobry, in Norwegian campaign.

    From The Times, June 4, 1940:

    Captain the Hon. Brian O'Neill, Irish Guards, writes a correspondent, met his death under conditions that he would have chosen himself. He was deeply interested in science of soldiering, and active service under Colonel Faulkner - for whom his admiration was unbounded - was to him an enthralling and fascinating experience. His interest in whatever he was doing was one of his greatest charms. He enjoyed to the full such varieties of things as sailing, soldiering, reading, or listening to music, and loved to discuss them afterwards, but perhaps what his friends enjoyed most of all was his sense of humour.

    His death will leave a big gap in the lives of those who knew him well, but his memory will always be an encouragement and a help to those who survive him. All who can claim to have done so will be proud to have called him their friend.

    His brother:
    Lieutenant Colonel SHANE EDWARD ROBERT O'NEILL 36738, North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps who died age 37 on 24 October 1944
3rd Baron O'Neill. Son of Capt. the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill, M.P., and Lady Annabel O'Neill, of South Kensington, London; husband of Lady O'Neill, of Shane's Castle, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Lord Lieutenant of Co. Antrim.
Remembered with honour CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY
    Grave/Memorial Reference: XVII, A, 1.
    CWGC :: Casualty Details


    From The Times, November 7, 1944:

    Lieutenant-Colonel Lord O'Neill, North Irish Horse, has been killed in action in Italy.

    The Right Hon. Shane Edward Robert O'Neill, third Baron O'Neill, of Shane's Castle, County Antrim, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, was born on February 6, 1907, eldest son of Captain the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill, M.P., 2nd Life Guards, who was killed in action in the last war on November 6, 1914. His mother, eldest daughter of the Marquess of Crewe, is now Lady Annabel Dodds, having married secondly in 1922, Major J.H.H. Dodds.

    Lord O'Neill was educated at Eton, and succeeded his grandfather as third baron in 1928. At one time he held a commission in the 8th Hussars. In 1929 he joined Gillett Brothers Discount Company as a director, and was a popular member of the discount market. He married, in 1932, Ann Geraldine Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris, second son of the eleventh Early of Wemyss, and had a son and a daughter. The son, the Hon. Raymond Arthur Clanaboy O'Neill, was born in 1933.

    Lord O'Neill's younger brother, Captain the Hon. Brian Arthur O'Neill, Irish Guards, was killed in action in May, 1940.

    From The Times, November 23, 1944:

    PERSONAL TRIBUTES
    LIEUT.-COLONEL LORD O'NEILL

    R.R. writes:-
    The death in action of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord O'Neill in its family circumstances bears a tragic resemblance to that of his brother officer in the North Irish Horse, Lord Erne. Each had succeed to the family title at an earlier age than is usual through the death in action of their fathers, and each is succeeded by a young son, who will in time, I trust, fill the place which their fathers so worthily held in their native province.

    Shane O'Neill joined the North Irish Horse in the autumn of 1939, when the regiment was re-raised as part of the Royal Armoured Corps; he threw himself into his duties with enthusiasm, and his experience as a regular officer was invaluable at that time. He had seen much service in this war, from the hard days of the early battles after the North African landing up till his death. For a long time he fulfilled the thankless duties of a second-in-command to the regiment, and when he succeeded to command there never was any instance of an office who had earned that position better, and, as his second-in-command writes: "You could not have had a better C.O."

    He had both charm and a great capacity for affairs and already held the high position of his Majesty's Lieutenant for the County of Antrim. His loss, both to his native province of Ulster and to his regiment, is irreparable.

    From The Times, December 1, 1944:

    OBITUARY
    LIEUT.-COLONEL LORD O'NEILL

    V.C. writes:-
    Like his father, Shane O'Neill died in action. Intelligent, charming, 32 years old when the war began, Shane might have persuaded himself that he could serve his country effectively in other capacities as well as that of regimental soldiering. But from the beginning his course was clear to him. He joined the North Irish Horse, accepted the long monotonous years of training without complaint, distinguished himself in the Tunisian campaign, and took command of his regiment in Italy. There in warfare waged across the cruel beauty of high hills, twisting roads, and deep valleys, he gave his life and now lies buried at Mercato.

    His death has not only caused sadness to his friends but to those who recognized the high qualities of character which set him apart from the common run. Both in peace and war Shane commanded a degree of respect remarkable in so young a man. This respect was based upon the knowledge that he could always be relied upon to follow the principles which would not alter with personal prejudice; although often critical and exacting of others, he maintained an even more rigorous standard for himself. Never deceived by worldly values, Shane's perspective was drawn in firm, practical lines, illuminated by a quiet, cynical sense of humour and an understanding of human frailty which gave him a wisdom beyond his years. The strength he communicated to those around him was invariably the result of a deep inner struggle, for he was modest, reserved, and often tortured by a sense of inadequacy; he faced these struggles silently and alone presenting the world with quiet reliability.

    A great nation and the character of its people are indivisible: each is enriched by the other. Shane took the fineness his country had to offer and gave his finest back. Of men like this, brave men, kind men, just men, who died on the field of battle, one speaks with humility; the debt is too large to be repaid.

    their father
    Captain The Hon. ARTHUR EDWARD BRUCE O'NEILL "A" Sqdn., 2nd Life Guards who died age 38 on 06 November 1914
Member of Parliament for Mid-Antrim and the first M.P. to be killed during the Great War. Son of 2nd Baron O'Neill and Lady O'Neill, of Shanes Castle, Antrim, Ireland; husband of Lady Annabel O'Neill (now Lady Annabel Dodds).
Remembered with honour YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 3.
    CWGC :: Casualty Details

    From The Times, November 10, 1914:

    THE FIRST M.P. TO FALL.

    CAPTAIN THE HON. ARTHUR O'NEILL KILLED.

    Intimation has been given that Captain the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill, eldest son and heir of Lord O''Neill, and M.P. for Mid-Antrim, was killed in action on November 4. He is the first member of Parliament to fall in the war.

    Captain O'Neill was born in 1876. He was educated at Eton, and was gazetted to the 2nd Life Guards from the Militia in 1897, receiving his step in the following year. He served in the earlier part of the South African War, taking part in the relief of Kimberley, the operations at Paardeberg, and the action at Colesberg. He was promoted captain in 1902. He had repesented Mid-Antrim since the General Election of January, 1910, and recently took an active part in the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force. He rejoined his regiment only three weeks ago.

    Captain O'Neill married in 1902 the eldest daughter of Lord Crewe, Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes, by whom he had two sons.

    From The Irish Times, November 14, 1914:

    MANY WELL KNOWN PEOPLE LOST

    HON. ARTHUR E.B. O'NEILL, M.P. FOR MID-ANTRIM.

    Information was received in Ballymena on Monday that Captain the Hon. Arthur O'Neill, M.P. for Mid-Antrim, was killed in action on the 4th inst.

    The Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill was the elder son and heir of the second Baron O'Neill, and was a captain in the 2nd Life Guards. He was born on 19th September, 1876. Educated at Eton, he entered the Army in 1897, and obtained his captaincy in 1902. He served in the South African War between 1899 and 1900, and was present at the relief of Kimberley. Hew as also in the Orange Free State at the operations at Paardeberg and the action at Dreifontein. He afterwards served in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, and took part in several actions, including those at Colesburg. He obtained the Queen's Medal with three clasps.

    On the 21st of January, 1902, Captain O'Neill married Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Crew.

    In January, 1910, he was elected member of Parliament for the Mid-Antrim Division, and continued to represent the constituency up to the time of his death. He resided at Shane's Castle, County Antrim. Captain O'Neill rejoined his regiment only three weeks ago.
     

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    Name: PERCY, HENRY GEORGE ALAN
    Initials: H G A
    Nationality: United Kingdom
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Regiment/Service: Grenadier Guards
    Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
    Age: 27
    Date of Death: 21/05/1940
    Service No: 51289
    Additional information: 9th Duke of Northumberland. Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Privy Seal, 1935. Son of the late Alan Ian Percy, K.G., C.B.E., M.V.O., 8th Duke of Northumberland, and of Helen Magdalen, Duchess of Northumberland.
    Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
    Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. B. 7.
    Cemetery: ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY
     
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