SOE Dufferin and Ava, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood,4th Marquess of

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Dufferin and Ava
  • FORENAME
Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood,4th Marquess of
  • UNIT
Force 136 SOE
  • RANK
Captain
  • NUMBER
141136
  • DATE OF DEATH
25th March 1945
  • AGE
35
  • GRAVESITE
Rangoon Memorial,Myanmar Face 1
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Horse Guards
born 6.4.1909
son of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood,3rd Marquess and Brenda (nee Woodhouse),Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava of Clandeboye,Co.Antrim,Northern Ireland
husband of Maureen Constance (nee Guinness),Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
married 3.7.1930 Westminster,London (died 1998)
educated Eton College
educated Balliol College,Oxford
politician 1931-40
commissioned Royal Horse Guards July 1940
released from Army 1941
Director of the Empire Division,Ministry of Information 1941-42
rejoined Army 1944
SOE Staff Officer in Burma (Indian Field Broadcasting Unit)
KIA Burma
 

DATE OF DEATH:

25-Mar-1945
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