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Gordon Dudley Jephson

 Gordon Dudley Jephson

Person details

Forename(s) Gordon Dudley
Surname Jephson
Rank Major
Regiment Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Age 30
Death Killed in action
Place of Death Western Europe > Germany
Date of Death 17/02/1945
Year of Entry 1929
House Letter C
School Notes -
Comments
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit
Prefect -
Military Decorations MC
Album Number
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery Germany > Reichswald
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Sandhurst; Married
Prep School
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary June 17 1945. Killed in action in February. 1945. in Western Europe. Gordon Dudley Jephson. M.C., Major, Oxford and Bucks L.I (Heilard's. 1929-31). He left Radley young to go as a day-boy to another school. Later he entered Sandhurst, and was commissioned in 1936. He was twice wounded, in I940 and 1944. and was promoted Captain 1943, Major 1944. As a boy he gave promise of being a useful all-round member of his Social. We were sorry that he did not stay his full time here.
Service Number 66149
Place of Birth