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Lieutenant Colonel Sir WILLIAM RICHARD De B. DES VOEUX

Service Number: 52952
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

Date of Death

Died 20 September 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

6. C. 10.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Cdg. 156th Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info 9th Baronet. Son of Lt.-Col. Henry John Des Voeux, O.B.E., and Dorothy Gladys Des Voeux; husband of Lady Des Voeux (nee Elkington), of Adbury Holt, Newbury, Berkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "ALTIORA IN VOTIS" HIGHER THINGS ARE AMONG OUR WISHES
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