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Major WILLIAM JOHN ROBERT CAVENDISH

Service Number: 90720
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 September 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

IV. B. 13.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info (Served as The Marquis of HARTINGTON). Son of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, K.G., 10th Duke of Devonshire, and the Duchess of Devonshire, of Chatsworth, Derbyshire; husband of Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington, of Westminster, London.
  • Personal Inscription HE BEING MADE PERFECT IN A SHORT TIME FULFILLED A LONG TIME, FOR HIS SOUL PLEASED THE LORD
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