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Rank : Captain

Army Number : 220618

Unit : 2nd Bn

Biography :

Educated at Cranleigh School, Douglass Chudleigh was serving in Palestine in 1939 in The Royal Yorkshire Hussars. He was commissioned into The Leicestershire Regiment on 19.10.1941 and served 2nd Bn in Libya, and at Tobruk, Ceylon, and India. Selected for service in Force 133 (SOE), he returned to the Middle East. He parachuted into Yugoslavia to join the forces of General Mihailovitch and after 10 months behind German lines he returned and parachuted into Northern Italy during the occupation. He next parachuted into Norway for a specific operation which he completed in a month. While on leave in England on his return he proceeded in a glider with 6th Airborne Division for the Rhine Crossing. He was in Austria on a special mission in May 1945 and after VE Day he proceeded to Ceylon where he was waiting to be dropped into Japanese-occupied territory when VJ Day occurred. Returning to Europe he was soon detailed by the War Office for intelligence and counter-espionage work in Germany. He died in an accident in Germany on 26.8.1946, aged 26 Years. He is buried at Muenster War Cemetery, Germany. He was the elder son of Lt Col A C L Chudleigh MBE of the Regiment.

This web page was last updated by MKG on 26.2.2019.

Date of Birth : 3.3.1920

Date of Death : 26.8.1946

Place of Death : Germany

Period of Service : 1939-46

Conflicts : WW2

Places Served : Libya, Ceylon, India, Yigoslavia, Italy, Norway, Germany, Austria