Service Details
Name:
 DRAGE
Given Name:
 LOVELL QUENTIN
Initials:
 L Q
Service No:
 165453
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Royal Horse Artillery
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Unit:
 11 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Bty.
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Date of Death:
 1944-09-20
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Date of Birth:
 1920-06-26
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, with all his tank crew (leading Squadron), before San Ermete
Decorations:
 M C
Citations:
 LG 23 September 1943
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert Lovell Drage and Kathleen Mary Drage, of Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Born Hatfield, Hertfordshire. In June 1933, Lovell arrived at Southampton from Cape Town with his mother and his sister Diana Margaret. The manifest states that their last permanent residence was in Southern Rhodesia. Presumably, he was being brought back to England to go to school. Educated Wellington College and matriculated in 1938. At the outbreak of war, he left Christ Church and joined the Royal Horse Artillery. He served throughout the North African Campaign. On Ruzawi Preparatory School War Memorial, near Marandellas, Rhodesia. Commemorated on Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford War Memorial. Commemorated on wall plaque at St Etheldreda?s Church, Hatfield.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 VIII, E, 12.

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