Personal Number: 99387 Rank: Major Name: John Perceval Townshend BOSCAWEN, MBE Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 30 September 1939 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34698/supplement/6649/data.pdf The undermentioned to be granted emergency commissions as 2nd Lts.:— FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. 18th Sept. 1939. John Perceval Townshend BOSCAWEN (99387). London Gazette : 11 October 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37302/supplement/4992/data.pdf The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of gallant and distinguished services hi North-West Europe:— To be Additional Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order: — Major (Temporary) John Percival Townsend BOSCAWEN (99387), Grenadier Guards (Boxley, Kent).
Recommendation for Award for Boscawen, John Percival Townsend Rank: Temporary... | The National Archives Reference: WO 373/85/179 Name Boscawen, John Percival Townsend Rank: Temporary Major Service No: 99357 Regiment: Grenadier Guards Theatre of Combat or Operation: North-West Europe 1944-1945 Award: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Date of announcement in London Gazette: 11 October 1945
See also Person Page His distant cousin (both descended from sons of George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth ) 243807 Robert Thomas BOSCAWEN, MC, 1 Coldstream Guards