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314180 2nd Lieutenant Richard de Courcy Peele

Killed/died of wounds/other causes as the result of operation ‘Market’
Photograph of Hero Killed In Action


Born on: 02 Dec 1923
Died on: 22 Sep 1944
Died at: Battle of Arnhem
Aged: 20
Buried at: First buried in the garden of a house in Acacialaan (Oosterbeek), now Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 23.A.7.

Rest in Peace 2nd Lieutenant Peele:
11th Bn. Parachute Regt., A.A.C.
Son of Charles Richard de Courcy Peele, and of Evelyn Margaret Peel, of Chiswick Park, London,
Head boy of Rugby school, 1941-1942;
Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford.


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