St Mary Magdalene, Tingewick, Buckinghamshire WW2 (No data)
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John Gibbins
on February 14, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Found to be commemorated at Tingewick. Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, VC, MC (18 May 1917 – 18 November 1941) posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, at the time he was the youngest acting lieutenant colonel in the British Army. Killed during Operation Flipper November 1941, the raid in North Africa to kill Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. On Rommel’s orders, Keyes was buried with full military honours in a local cemetery. Later being reburied at the CWGC cemetery at Benghazi. The grave marker / cross is of German construction. Photographs are available.
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Found to be commemorated at Tingewick. Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, VC, MC (18 May 1917 – 18 November 1941) posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, at the time he was the youngest acting lieutenant colonel in the British Army. Killed during Operation Flipper November 1941, the raid in North Africa to kill Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. On Rommel’s orders, Keyes was buried with full military honours in a local cemetery. Later being reburied at the CWGC cemetery at Benghazi. The grave marker / cross is of German construction. Photographs are available.