Captain Count Richard Dudley Melchior Gurowski

Service Number 47565


Campaign:

World War 2


Died:

2.6.1940

KIA Aged 30 at Dunkirk, France
Buried at Woolhampton (St Peter) Churchyard, United Kingdom. Grave 1008
Scots Guards Training Battalion. Commander of Y Company in the 5th Battalion (Ski) Scots Guards which trained at Chamonix.
Count Richard Dudley Melchior Gurowski was born on 9 January 1910. He was the the son of Count Dudley Melchior Beaumont Gurowski and Caroline Baronin von Essen. He married Angela Mary Haig-Thomas, daughter of Peter Haig-Thomas and Lady Alexandra Henrietta Alice Agar of Amesbury Wiltshire on 27 April 1938.
He lived at Woolhampton Park, Berkshire, England.

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
 Richard Gurowski 2-6-1940 View
England Woolhampton Hill, Upper Woolhampton, Reading RG7 5TB St Peter's Church Woolhampton World War 2
 Richard Gurowski 2-6-1940 View
England St Peter's Churchyard Woolhampton Hill Upper Woolhampton Reading RG7 5TB Woolhampton War Memorial World War 2
 Richard Gurowski 2-6-1940 View

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