1920 - 1945 (24 years)
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| Name |
Cecil Francis Burney Rolt |
| Title |
Captain |
| Nickname |
Nick |
| Birth |
22 Jun 1920 |
South Africa  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Apr 1945 |
Germany |
| Notes |
- Killed in action aged 24
Buried at Becklingen War cemetery Plot 10 Row J Grave 10
Cecil Francis Burney Rolt was born in South Africa on the 22nd of June 1920 the youngest son of the Very Reverend Cecil Henry Rolt, Dean of Cape Town in South Africa, and Mary (nee Foxley-Norris) Rolt of Terling in Essex.
He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from September 1933 to July 1937. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1937 and was appointed as a Prefect the same year.
He went on to Grenoble University.
He was known by the nickname of Nick
He attended the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps on the 7th of December 1940.
The 23rd Hussars landed in Normandy equipped with Sherman tanks but in January 1945 they re-equipped with Comet (95mm gunned) Cromwell tanks.
According to records they lost two tanks in early April when both were hit in their engine compartments around morning teatime
He married Hon Lavinia Mary Yolande (nee Lyttleton) on the 15th of February 1945. Following his death she remarried, in 1949, to Major John Edward Dennys MC.
He is commemorated on the memorial at the Royal Military College Sandhurst.
Burial place :- Heidekreis, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) Germany.
Probate : - Llandudno 12 Jan 1945 to Lavinia Mary Yoland Rolt widow.
Effects £430 4s.
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| Person ID |
I929 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
23 Jan 2018 |
| Father |
Very Rev. Cecil Henry Rolt, b. 1865, Limpsfield, Surrey d. 14 Sep 1926, Romford, Essex (Age 61 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Foxley Norris, b. 5 Apr 1886, Medway, Kent d. 16 May 1959, Braintree, Essex (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Aug 1910 |
St John the Baptist, Calderdale, Halifax, Yorkshire |
| Family ID |
F1167 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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