Captain John Buxton Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester

Service Number 165042


Campaign:

World War 2


Died:

21.2.1944

Aged 31
Buried at Stanmer Churchyard, United Kingdom
8th Earl of Chichester. Son of Jocelyn Brudenell Pelham, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., 6th Earl of Chichester, and of Ruth, Countess of Chichester (nee Buxton); husband of Ursula, Countess of Chichester (nee de Pannwitz), of Falmer.
Pelham was the younger son of Jocelyn Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester, and Ruth Buxton, daughter of Francis Buxton. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford.[1]
He succeeded in the earldom at age fourteen in 1926 on the early death of his elder brother. A diplomat in the 1930s, he served as Honorary Attaché to Warsaw in 1931 and Washington in 1933, as Honorary Private Secretary to British High Commissioner to Canada from December 1933 to July 1934, and as 3rd Secretary and Press Attaché at The Hague in 1939.[1] He fought in the Second World War, gaining the rank of Captain in the Scots Guards. He died on 21 February 1944 at age 31, killed in a road accident, while on active service

Memorial(s):

Country Location Name of Memorial Campaign Names Date(s)
England Eton College In the Cloisters Eton SL6 6DB England Eton College War Memorial World War 1
World War 2
 John Chichester 21-2-1944 View

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