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Richard Douglas Sutcliffe

Key Facts

Occupation/Rank: 49705, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel, 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment

Date of Death: 16 April 1941

Place of Death: Victoria Barracks

Age: 50

Lieutenant-Colonel Sutcliffe was killed at Victoria Barracks during the Easter Tuesday Raid.

He is buried at Amersham Consecrated Cemetery, Buckinghamshire.

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