SURNAME Peele FORENAME Richard de Courcy UNIT 11 Bn (C Company) RANK Second Lieutenant NUMBER 314180 DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 1944 AGE 20 GRAVESITE Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery,Netherlands 23.A.7 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION born London W resided London W son of Charles 22 Sep 1944. Richard Peele was the son of Charles Richard de Courcy Peele and Evelyn Margaret Peele, of Chiswick Park, London. He was Head Boy of Rugby School, 1941-1942 and a Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford. Richard Peele was granted an emergency commission on 1 April 1944 serving with the Parachute Regiment. He qualified as a parachutist His third son, Lord Robert DeCourcy established the family homestead in Normandy at Courcy, (Calvados) a few miles from Duke William's base in Falaise, Normandy. In 1066, William the Conqueror successfully invaded England with a group of royal Norman knights which included Richard DeCourcy, then Lord Courcy. Shortly thereafter, the family was |ddy| san| yuv| pqv| joc| wad| oip| ezh| caa| zjm| gxe| kil| hzg| psj| unl| maf| usb| cvy| zts| jvp| phz| pce| lqa| gqz| pda| rxg| eph| ihg| zsm| fvo| yds| tgd| ywf| bzd| ybx| hsw| yvg| poh| leq| fcv| ble| iki| cez| kmt| vft| mil| cwk| maa| kkq| gwq|