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Captain The Hon. DESMOND CLAUD HAMILTON-RUSSELL

Service Number: 94896
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st Royal Dragoons

Date of Death

Died 19 April 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

IV. L. 5.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gustavus William Hamilton-Russell, J.P., D.L., 9th Viscount Boyne, and of the Viscountess Boyne, C.B.E. (nee Lascelles), of Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
  • Personal Inscription SERVED WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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