Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Patrick Gilbert Crofton, 7th Baron Crofton (17 June 1951 – 25 November 2007) was a member of the

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and

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officer. He was commissioned into the 9th/12th Royal Lancers and served as a lieutenant-colonel and defence attaché to the British Embassy in

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. He died, of leukaemia, in November 2007 aged 56.

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