MARCH-PHILLIPPS, Gustavus Henry
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Known as:
Gus
Rank:
Major
Unit / Base:
'Small Scale Raiding Force'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
39184
Honours & Awards:
Died :
Saturday, September 12, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
34
Cemetery/Memorial:
Commanding Officer 62 Commando (Small Scale Raiding Force).
Killed in action Operation Aquatint. Posthumous Mention in Despatches.
Son of Lisle and Isabel Forbes March-Phillipps; husband of Marjorie Frances Esclairmonde March-Phillipps, of Chelsea, London. Author of numerous published works.
Sources
CWGC.
MBE - London Gazette 34893, page 4250 dated 9 July 1940.
DSO - London Gazette 35645, page 3293 dated 24 July 1942.
MiD - London Gazette 35879, page 526.dated 26 January 1943.
MiD - London Gazette 35879, page 526.dated 26 January 1943.
National Archives file WO373/93/1437.
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