LRDG Gurdon, Robert Brampton (the Hon.) (Robin)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Gurdon ​

• FORENAME

Robert Brampton (the Hon.) (Robin) ​

• UNIT

LRDG G2 Patrol ​

• RANK

Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

99183 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

13th July 1942 ​

• AGE

38 ​

• GRAVESITE

Alamein Memorial, Egypt Column 51 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 3 Bn Coldstream Guards​

born 21.6.1904 London​

resided Hertfordshire​

son of Sir Bertram Francis Gurdon, KG, MC, 2nd Baron Cranworth of Letton & Cranworth and Lady(CBE) Cranworth (Vera Emily Ridley), Grundisburgh, Suffolk​

educated Eton​

educated Magdalene College, Cambridge​

husband the hon Daisy Yoskyl Consuelo (nee Pearson) Gurdon, Cotswold Park, Gloucestershire (married 20.1.1932)​

(3 children (son Charles Harold Gurdon (1936-1945))​

B.A. (Cantab)​

1939 commissioned Coldstream Guards​

joined LRDG February 1942​

DOW received 12.7.1942 from enemy aircraft west of El Alamein ​