Person    | Male  Born 18/6/1907  Died 25/9/1944

Lord Arundell of Wardour

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Worked at the Stock Exchange and died in WW2.

John Francis Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour, only son of Gerald Arthur Arundell, 15th Baron. After Oxford, he became a member of the London Stock Exchange, and succeeded to the barony upon the death of his father in 1939. Served in the Territorial Army, rising to the rank of captain in the 2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment. He was part of the British Expeditionary Force and in 1940 was taken prisoner-of-war by the Germans.

He escaped but was recaptured and was transferred to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. There he had a habit of exercising in the snow and perhaps as a result contracted tuberculosis. In accordance with the Geneva Convention, he was repatriated and died in hospital in Chester. He was buried in the Chapel of Wardour Castle. He was unmarried. The barony became extinct upon his death.

The photo shows him in 1925.

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