Personal Number: 165006 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Hugh Alexander VERNEY Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 14 January 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35040/supplement/251/data.pdf The undermentioned Cadets, from Sandhurst and 162nd O.C.T.U.s, to be 2nd Lts., except as otherwise stated. 21st Dec. 1940: FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. Hugh Alexander VERNEY (165006). London Gazette : 19 June 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37134/supplement/3174/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. War Subs. Lt. H. A. VERNEY (165006) relinquishes his commn. on account of disability, 20th June 1945, and is granted the hon. rank of Lt.
From The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945, by Nigel Nicolson and Patrick Forbes. v.2. Page 535 Wounded 9 August 1944 at Estry, 4th Tank Battalion Grenadier Guards
See also: Person Page Hugh Alexander Verney (1920-2004) - Find A Grave... 4th tank battalion 1943 hrh princess elizabeth #14750121 His brothers: 134094 Sir Ralph Bruce VERNEY, KBE, Royal Artillery 324647 (ME/714500038) Stephen Edmund VERNEY, MBE, Intelligence Corps 302280 (2624125) Sir Lawrence John VERNEY, TD, DL, Grenadier Guards .
