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Major Algernon Guy DISNEY-ROEBUCK (40370)
Royal Artillery attached to the 51st (Gold Coast) Light Battery, West African Artillery Date of birth: 20th December 1908 Date of death: 9th April 1941 Died of wounds aged 32 Buried at Nairobi War Cemetery Plot 2 Row G Grave 30
Algernon Guy Disney-Roebuck was born at Chelsea in London on the 20th of December 1908 the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Claude Delaval Disney-Roebuck, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), and Margaret Wordsworth (nee Charrington) Disney-Roebuck, of "Stanleys", Liss in Hampshire. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Sandersons House from September 1922 to December 1926. He was a Sergeant in the Officer Training Corps achieving Certificate A in 1926. He gained his School Certificate in 1925 and was appointed as a House Captain in 1926. On leaving school he went on to the Royal Military Academy Woolwich and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 30th of August 1928. He was a member of the M.C.C. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of September 1931 and to Captain on the 1st of August 1938. He was seconded for service with the 51st (Gold Coast) Light Battery, West African Artillery under the Colonial Office on the 21st of December 1938 and he sailed from Liverpool for Accra the same day on board the MV "Abosso". He was promoted to Acting Major on the 26th of August 1939 and was their Commanding Officer. On the outbreak of war the Battery was based at Accra. In March 1941 the Battery was in action against the Italians near Neghelli in Southern Ethiopia. He was Mentioned by the King “in recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East for the period February 1941 to July 1941” which appeared in the London Gazette of the 30th of December 1941. His younger brother, Sub Lieutenant Michael Wyndham Disney-Roebuck RN HMS Diamond, was killed in action on the 27th of April 1941. He is commemorated on the Liss war memorial in Hampshire and on the memorial at St Alban's Church at Hindhead. He is also commemorated on the M.C.C. memorial at Lord's Cricket Ground.

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