Second Lieutenant RONALD DOUGLAS ELMER SPEED
Service Number: 85594
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Coldstream Guards
2nd Bn.
Date of Death
Died 01 June 1940
Age 21 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Colonel Douglas Charles Leyland Speed, O.B.E., J.P. and Myrtle Speed, of Knowlton, Kent.
- Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY GONE TOO SOON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
- N.B. Recent research has shown that Second Lieutenant Ronald Douglas Elmer Speed is buried here. Currently the grave is marked with a headstone to an Unknown Second Lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards, but a new headstone bearing his details is now on order. Please contact the Commission for further details.
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