John Francis Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour JP TD (18 June 1907 – 25 September 1944) was a British soldier. He was the only son of Gerald Arthur Arundell, 15th

Baron Arundell of Wardour Baron Arundell of Wardour, in the County of Wiltshire, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1605 for Thomas Arundell, known as "Thomas the Valiant", son of Sir Matthew Arundell (died 1598) and grandson of Sir Thomas Arund ...

by his marriage to Ivy Florence Mary Segrave, daughter of Captain W. F. Segrave. He was educated at

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and New College,

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, where graduated BA. After Oxford, he became a member of the

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, and succeeded to the barony upon the death of his father in 1939. Arundell served in the Territorial Army, rising to the rank of

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in the 2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment. He was part of the British Expeditionary Force and in 1940, during the

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, was taken prisoner-of-war by the Germans. He escaped, but was recaptured and was transferred to

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. There he had a habit of exercising in the snow and, perhaps as a result, contracted

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. In accordance with the

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, he was repatriated and died in hospital in

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. He was buried in the Chapel of

Wardour Castle Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Salisbury. The castle was built in the 1390s, came into th ...

. He was unmarried. The

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became extinct upon his death.

External links

* 'ARUNDELL of Wardour', in ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 5 Jan 2011
* http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2710500 {{DEFAULTSORT:Arundell of Wardour, John Arundell, 16th Baron 1907 births 1944 deaths Wiltshire Regiment officers Prisoners of war held at Colditz Castle People educated at Stonyhurst College Alumni of New College, Oxford John, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 16 British Army personnel killed in World War II British World War II prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Germany Tuberculosis deaths in England British escapees Escapees from German detention

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