RM CDOS de Stacpoole, Derick Roderick

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

de Stacpoole ​

• FORENAME

Derick Roderick ​

• UNIT

48 Commando (Y Troop) ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

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• DATE OF DEATH

1st November 1944 ​

• AGE

25 ​

• GRAVESITE

Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands 6.B.2 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 12.02.1919​

son of George, 5th Duke de Stacpoole and Duchess (nee Palmer), Tobertynan, Enfield,Co. Meath, Rep.of Ireland​

"D.R.W. de Stacpoole" in one source​

"A gallant, handsome Irish gentleman and most admirable soldier, we owed much to the standards he had set" (Lt-Col J.L.Moulton)​

WIA 6.6.1944 Normandy​

awarded MID​

KIA Walcheren​

London Gazette 36979, 9th March 1945, Page 1386​

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