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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Capt Moore-Gwyn. Welsh Guards - died 20/9/1947 and buried at Dyffryn (St Matthew) Churchyard. Service No 65428
The private memorial marking the grave of Capt Gwyn-Moore no longer provides adequate commemoration. The commission are in the process of producing a new headstone to mark his grave.
Information on FIND A GRAVE
Son of Major Joseph Gwyn Moore-Gwyn and Mrs. J. G. Moore-Gwyn; husband of the Hon. Anne Rachel Pearl Moore-Gwyn (daughter of John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu and Alice Pearl Crake ), of Knutsford, Cheshire. B.A. (Oxon).
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51044417/howel-joseph-moore-gwyn
Sandra
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Memorial Hospital New York
Sandra
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Howel J Moore-gwyn - Howel Joseph Moore-Gwyn
Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar - 1946 - Registration District Westminster Middlesex.
Spouse Anne R P Douglas Scott-montagu
Volume Number 1a Page Number 872
Sandra
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Hon Anne Rachel Pearl Douglas - Scott - Montagu married Sir Edward John Chichester 11th Baron Chichester 23 September 1950 New Forest Hampshire.
Anne R P M Gwyn - 7/1950 - Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep -New Forest Hampshire - Spouse - Chichester - Volume Number6b - Page number 875
Sandra
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There was a birth of a son - David John Howel Moore-Gwyn - Apr-May-June 1947 - Chelsea. Greater London. Mother's Maiden Name Douglas-scott Montagu. Married in 1974.
David John Gwyn - died 13 June 1991 - probate 19 August 1991 - Llandaff.
Wife still living.
https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-45243/version/2
There should be 3 children born 1975/1978/1987 - possibly all living on London.
Sandra
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pm sent to ancestry tree owner. 34,260 people - may not suggest close relative ???
Sandra
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Doesn't appear in the index to LF Ellis' history of the Welsh Guards in WW2. Presumably he was wounded in WW2 and that contributed significantly to his death after the war...
Bernard
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I thought I had heard of every hospital in New York City, but I had never heard of Memorial Hospital. It looks like it's Memorial Sloan Kettering today. https://www.mskcc.org/about/history-milestones They treat cancer there. It looks like Howell and his wife traveled to New York to go to that hospital 11 days before his death. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-994V-TV93?i=440&cc=1923888&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A245L-4HG
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He was the son of my great grandmother's sister, so I am related although not a direct descendant. There's an outside chance that my mum might know some of the descenadants...
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Further to the above, Joseph's son, David, works for Sothebys in London. His work e-mail address is on their website.
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Pretty certain he was in Gibraltar in 1939 or 1940 with the 1st Welsh Guards. He was detached from that battalion to help form the 2 Welsh Guards back in the UK, I think.
Appears (briefly) in my forthcoming bio of Henry Coombe-Tennant...
Bernard