Norton Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne
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Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne (11 February 1922 – 15 September 1943), was a British peer and soldier, the son of The 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bengal.
Early life
[edit]Knatchbull was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served briefly as a soldier in The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment) in 1940 before being commissioned into the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War.
Capture and death
[edit]Lord Brabourne was wounded and captured by the Germans in Italy in 1943. On his way to captivity in Germany he tried to escape from the prison train at Bronzolo, a village in South Tyrol, together with Arnold Guy Vivian, a fellow officer in the 6th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Both were recaptured and executed by the SS in Bronzolo on 15 September 1943.[1]
Brabourne was buried in the Padua War Cemetery in Italy. He died unmarried, and his titles passed to his younger brother, John Knatchbull.
References
[edit]- ^ "Storia diplomatica della questione dell'Alto Adige", pp 236–237, by Mario Toscano, published by Laterza, Bari, 1967.
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- 1922 births
- 1943 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- Barons Brabourne
- Knatchbull family
- Grenadier Guards officers
- British people executed by Nazi Germany
- Deaths by firearm in Italy
- World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
- British Army personnel killed in World War II
- People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm
- Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) soldiers
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