Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EARL C. SAUERHAMMER...
...Over hoary Alnwick Castle on the once embattled Scottish border, a blue and gold ducal standard flew at half-mast announcing that Henry George Alan Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been killed in action. Head of the famous fighting Percy clan, which has battled in & out of England for over 800 years, the 27-year-old Duke died trying to stem the Nazi advance through Flanders. His brother and successor, Lord Hugh Algernon, is in active service with the Northumberland Hussars...
Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
...Handsome Irish Major John Henry George Crichton, 8th Earl of Erne and Lord-in-Waiting to the King, whose father died in France in 1914, was killed fighting a new generation of the same foe. The earldom descended to his son, aged...
16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel, Premier Duke & Earl of England, turned up in a French hospital south of the Somme, having been wounded at Boulogne. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, Viscount Cowdray, grandson of multimillionaire Engineer Sir Weetman Pearson and non-playing captain of the British polo team that played in the U. S. in 1939, returned badly wounded from Flanders to have his left arm amputated in Durham Hospital. Upon hearing the news, his wife gave birth to a premature daughter...