PHANTOM Edgcumbe, Piers Richard

John Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Edgcumbe
  • FORENAME
Piers Richard
  • UNIT
No 11 Military Mission (Phantom)
  • RANK
Second Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
87192
  • DATE OF DEATH
27th May 1940
  • AGE
25​
  • GRAVESITE
Esquelbecq Military Cemetery, Esquelbecq, France. Plot 2.H.28
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 12th Royal Lancers, R.A.C.
born 22.10.1914, Hatfield, Herefordshire, UK
resided Hertfordshire
1928-1933 attended Eton College
degree Engineering at Cambridge University
employed as Electrical Engineer prior commissioning
03.1939 enlisted 12th Royal Lancers
killed by tank opening fire during Dunkirk evacuation
originally on Dunkirk Memorial, but grave located and rededicated, May 2022
 
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