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About Norton Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Knatchbull,_6th_Baron_Brabourne
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21559605
http://www.thepeerage.com/p870.htm#i8700
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2817137/
Captured by Germans in North Africa 16/17 Mar 1943. http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/31692-war-diary-6th-motor-battalion...
From The Times, Jun 08, 1945:
Lieut. Lord Brabourne, Grenadier Guards, who was reported missing in March, 1943, is now known to have been shot by the Germans.
On September 15, 1943, he was in north Italy in a prison train from which he made his escape. Shortly after getting away he was recaptured and the Germans shot him the same day. The Right Hon. Sir Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, Bt., sixth Baron Brabourne, Kent, in the peerage of the United Kingdom and fifteenth baronet (England) of Mersham Hatch, was born on February 11 1933, and was educated at Eton. He was the elder son of the fifth Lord Brabourne, Governor first of Bombay and then of Bengal, whose career was cut short by his death at Government House, Calcutta, in February, 1939, at the age of 43. Lieutenant Lord Brabourne's younger brother, Lieutenant the Hon. John Ulick Knatchbull, Coldstream Guards, was born on November 9, 1934.
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Norton Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne's Timeline
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February 11, 1922
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London, England
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| 1943 |
September 15, 1943
Age 21
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Branzoll, Bozen, Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol, Italy
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Plot: I. A. 1. Padua War Cemetery, Padua, Provincia di Padova, Veneto, Italy
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