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About Raymond Meyrick Bussell
Known as "Meyrick"
No birth record on FreeBMD.org.uk so born outside UK
Educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton and at Sandhurst
Commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in August 1937
Service Nr 73147
Fought with the 2nd Dorsets in Belgium before evacuating through Dunkirk
May have married Mary E Tate in 1942 in Bournemouth
Acting Captain by 1944, attached to the Airborne Forces
At Arnhem (Market Garden) commanded 1 Platoon in A Company of the 3rd Parachute Battalion
Sunday 17 Sept or Monday 18 wounded in the arm and ended up as a wounded POW at St Joseph Hospital in Apeldoorn
Escaped from train to Germany together with Lt Cambier; recaptured and brought to Sichersheitsdienst HQ in Vorden.
10 October 1944 Lt Bussell and Lt Cambier were executed at SD HQ Vorden.
9 June 1945 reinterred at Vorden Cemetery, Grave 16
Sources: https://eehe.org.uk/?p=40856#BussellRM https://paradata.org.uk/people/raymond-m-bussell http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/order_1st.htm https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34430/page/5443/data.pdf https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results/?cemetery=VORDEN%20... https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2648314/bussell,-raymon... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Begraafplaats_Vorden_-_Brit...
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Raymond Meyrick Bussell's Timeline
| 1917 |
September 1, 1917
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Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
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| 1944 |
October 10, 1944
Age 27
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Vorden, Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Vorden, Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Netherlands
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