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
- 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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