Personal Number: 299488 Army Number: 295978 Rank: Captain Name: Richard LUFF Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 30 November 1943 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36265/supplement/5233/data.pdf The undermentioned cadets to be 2nd Lts:— FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. 31st Oct. 1943:— 295978 Richard LUFF (299488). London Gazette : 21 October 1949 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38740/supplement/5012/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren.G'ds. Lt. Richard LUFF (299488) from Emerg. Commn., to be Lt., 1st Jan. 1949, and is granted the hon. rank of Capt.
From The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945, by Nigel Nicolson and Patrick Forbes. v.1. Page 145