ED 250 05 04
Reference code
ED 250 05 04
Title
Papers of Robert Chichester Durnford, 1895 - 1918
Level
Sub-series
Administrative / Biographical history
Youngest son and fifth child of Richard and Beatrice Durnford, he was at Eton from January 1910 to July 1914, starting in an Oppidan house for one half then becoming a King's Scholar. In 1914 he was in the Newcastle Select and he represented College at the Wall, at cricket and in the Field. Although awarded a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, he joined the Hampshire Regiment, in which he rose to the rank of Captain and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the DSO. Posted to India and then Mesopotamia, he was killed in action at Resht, Persia on 21 June 1918, where he is buried.
Date
1915 - 1921
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- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letters to his mother, ED 250 05 04 01-22, (1915 - 1917)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letters to sister, ED 250 05 04 23-26, (c.1915 - 1917)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letters to uncle, ED 250 05 04 27, ([1917])
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letter to aunt, ED 250 05 04 28, (5 August [1917])
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letter to 'Melbourne', ED 250 05 04 29, (16 May [1918])
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Copy of citation, ED 250 05 04 30, (n.d.)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letters to Mrs Durnford, ED 250 05 04 31, (1918)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letter to Mrs Durnford, ED 250 05 04 32, (28 June 1918)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Copies and extracts, ED 250 05 04 33, (1917 - 1918)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Order of service, ED 250 05 04 34, (1 April 1921)
- Robert Chichester Durnford: Letter, ED 250 05 04 35, (n.d.)