ARMY CDOS Keyes, Geoffrey Charles Tasker

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Keyes ​

• FORENAME

Geoffrey Charles Tasker ​

• UNIT

11 Commando (C.O.) and Middle East Commando (3 Troop)​

• RANK

Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

71081 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

18th November 1941 ​

• AGE

24 ​

• GRAVESITE

Benghazi War Cemetery,Libya 7.D.5 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys),R.A.C.​

born 18.5.1917 Aberdour,Fife​

son of Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow,GCB,KCVO,CMG,DSO,​

ADC,1st Baron and Lady (nee Bowlby) Keyes,Buckingham,Bucks​

11 Commando (C.O.) (disbanded 1941)​

Middle East Commando (3 Troop C.O.) October 1941​

awards V.C.,M.C.,Croix de Guerre (Fr)​

biography :- "Geoffrey Keyes" E.Keyes (1956)​

KIA Beda Littoria,Libya (Op.Flipper) ​

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