95218 Major The Honourable Simon Nevill ASTLEY, MiD, 7 Queen's Own Hussars: 16/03/1946

Personal Number: 95218
Rank: Major
Name: The Honourable Simon Nevill ASTLEY, MiD
Unit: 7 Queen's Own Hussars


London Gazette : 4 July 1939
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34642/page/4568/data.pdf
The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be 2nd Lts. ist July 1939:—
CAVALRY.
7th H—
Hon. Simon Nevill ASTLEY.

London Gazette : 18 February 1941
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35077/supplement/954/data.pdf
ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS.
The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lts.:—
1st Jan. 1941: —
7th H.
Hon. S. N. Astley (95218).

London Gazette : 8 July 1941
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35209/supplement/3885/data.pdf
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned for distinguished services in the Middle East during the period December, 1940, to February, 1941: —
ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS.
Hussars.
Astley, Lt. the Hon. S. N. (95218).

 

London Gazette : 8 July 1941
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35209/supplement/3885/data.pdf

 

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2178020/simon-nevill-astley/
MAJOR SIMON NEVILL ASTLEY
Service Number: 95218
Regiment & Unit: 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Date of Death: 16 March 1946
Buried or commemorated at KARACHI WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: 2. B. 9.
Location: Pakistan

 

See also:

• Person Page
  
• Hon. Simon Nevill Astley - National Portrait Gallery
• "Hon. Simon Nevill Astley (1919-1946),12 September 1936, Major, son of 21st Baron Hastings" Image not currently available.
• S N Astley Tablet
  
• Norfolk, Melton Constable
  
• Simon Nevill Astley, Major 7th Queens Own Hussars, younger son of Delaval Lord Hastings & Marguerite his wife. Born 1919, killed in an accident at Quetta, India March 1946 and buried in the military cemetery there. - Melton Constable church, Norfolk
  
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His brother:

• 62448 Sir Edward Delaval Henry ASTLEY, 22nd Lord Hastings, Coldstream Guards

His Father-in-law:

• 6749 Field Marshall Archibald Percival WAVELL, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, KStJ, PC, Black Watch

His brother-in-law:

• 67159 Major Archibald John Arthur WAVELL, MC, Black Watch: 24/12/1953