Jasper Fitzhardinge Kingscote (16 June 1917 – 29 May 1940) was a British aristocrat and military Lance corporal who served in the early stages of World War II. Kingscote was born in

Rochester, Kent Rochester ( ) is a town in the unitary authority of Medway, in Kent, England. It is at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway, about from London. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rainham, Strood and Gillin ...

, the son of the Australian Commander Robert Pringle Kingscote and Violet Anderton Greenwood from Fulham, London. His great-grandfather was Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote, whose sons were Robert Kingscote and

Thomas Kingscote Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote CVO (16 January 1845 – 21 September 1935) was a British courtier. Family Kingscote came from a family that had held the manor of Kingscote, Gloucestershire since the 11th century. He was the son of Colo ...

. He attended Rugby School and was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 1 October 1936. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1939. During World War II, Kingscote was a Lance corporal of the Corps of Military Police. He was killed in action on 29 May 1940. His name is on the Dunkirk memorial, column 147, Dunquerque, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He has also a war memorial inside the Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, Ante-Chapel west wall.

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