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Capt Algernon Robert Augustus Dorrien-Smith

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Capt Algernon Robert Augustus Dorrien-Smith Veteran

Birth
Death
20 May 1940
Burial
Lapugnoy, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
Plot 12. Row A. Grave 10.
Memorial ID
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Casualty of WWII, Algernon was a Captain with the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps~Service No:44981.

He was 30 and left a widow, Rosemarie Helen Dorrien-Smith, of Nether Wallop, Hampshire.

His brothers also fell; one on the same day in a different theatre of the war.

Pilot Officer Lionel Roger Dorrien-Smith
He was also killed 20th May 1940 aged 21. He served with 79 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve~Service No:72501. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL~Panel 8.

Major Francis Arthur Dorrien-Smith
He served with the 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade; Service No:186294. He was killed, aged 22 on 20th June 1944 and is interred in BAYEUX EASTERN CEMETERY~Grave Reference:Plot 9, grave 3.

They were sons of Major Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith D.S.O., D.L., J.P., and Eleanor Salvin Dorrien-Smith of Tresco, Isles of Scilly, and nephews of Lord Trenchard, the founding father of the RAF.
Casualty of WWII, Algernon was a Captain with the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps~Service No:44981.

He was 30 and left a widow, Rosemarie Helen Dorrien-Smith, of Nether Wallop, Hampshire.

His brothers also fell; one on the same day in a different theatre of the war.

Pilot Officer Lionel Roger Dorrien-Smith
He was also killed 20th May 1940 aged 21. He served with 79 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve~Service No:72501. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL~Panel 8.

Major Francis Arthur Dorrien-Smith
He served with the 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade; Service No:186294. He was killed, aged 22 on 20th June 1944 and is interred in BAYEUX EASTERN CEMETERY~Grave Reference:Plot 9, grave 3.

They were sons of Major Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith D.S.O., D.L., J.P., and Eleanor Salvin Dorrien-Smith of Tresco, Isles of Scilly, and nephews of Lord Trenchard, the founding father of the RAF.

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