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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 227" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Edgcumbe </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Piers Richard </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>No 11 Military Mission (Phantom) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Second Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>87192 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>27th May 1940 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">25</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Esquelbecq Military Cemetery, Esquelbecq, France. Plot 2.H.28 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 12th Royal Lancers, R.A.C.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 22.10.1914, Hatfield, Herefordshire, UK</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Hertfordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1928-1933 attended Eton College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>degree Engineering at Cambridge University</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed as Electrical Engineer prior commissioning</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>03.1939 enlisted 12th Royal Lancers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>killed by tank opening fire during Dunkirk evacuation</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>originally on Dunkirk Memorial, but grave located and rededicated, May 2022</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-edgcumbe.37620/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37620-38b4aee4334c2269061553647c0afe73.jpg?1664360978" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-edgcumbe-grave.37619/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37619-abd3c104862a15c7696a4338967b22c0.jpg?1664360976" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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