Service Details
Name:
 GUEST
Given Name:
 JOHN DESMOND THOMAS
Initials:
 J D T
Service No:
 137267
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Unit:
 1st Bn.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1941-11-21
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, enfilade fire from German anti-tank guns, while leading a platoon of "A" Company in a frontal assault across a landing-ground
Additional
Information:
Son of Colonel the Hon. Sir Ernest Lucas Guest, K.B.E., C.M.G., C.V.O., and Lady Edith May Guest, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Was granted a Rhodes Scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford. On Ruzawi Preparatory School War Memorial, near Marandellas, Rhodesia. Remembered on Diocesan College Roll of Honour. He attended Diocesan College 1933-37. His uncle (WW1) and twin brother (WW2) also died in service
Commemoration
Country:
 Libya
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Cemetery:
 KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
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Grave Reference:
 10. G. 9.

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