Major The Hon. JOHN HAMILTON-RUSSELL
Service Number: 52641
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Armoured Corps
1st The Royal Dragoons
Date of Death
Died 19 August 1943
Age 32 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Gustavus William Hamilton-Russell, J.P., D.L., ninth Viscount Boyne, and of Margaret, Viscountess Boyne, C.B.E., of Bridgnorth, Shropshire; husband of Lady Diana Hamilton-Russell, of Wolverhampton. His brothers Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell and Desmond Claud Hamilton-Russell also fell.
- Personal Inscription KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY
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