53827 Major The Viscount Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden of 218 Bty., 55 (The Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Artillery

Rank	Major
Name & Decorations	Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden
Service	British Army
Unit	218 Bty., 55 (The Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Artillery
Attached To
Operation
Date of Death	08 February 1945
Place of Death	(Officers’ Mess at) Deest, near Nijmegen, Holland
Circumstances	Killed on active service when a V2 rocket hit the Officers’ Mess at Deest NW of Nijmegen, killing him and 2 other men, including his batman Gunner John Stiles.
Age	32
Buried or Commemorated at	Jonkerbos British War Cemetery
Grave or Memorial Number	Section 21: Row B: Grave 7

Viscount Elveden. Son of Captain Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, C.B., C.M.G., D.L., R.N.V.R. 2nd Earl of Iveagh, and of the Countess of Iveagh, C.B.E., of Elveden, Suffolk; husband of Elizabeth, Viscountess Elveden, of Regents Park, London.

He was educated at Eton College, Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and was styled as Viscount Elveden after the death in infancy of his elder brother. He gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Artillery.

He married Lady Elizabeth Cecilia Hare, daughter of Richard Granville Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel and Hon. Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, on 22 July 1936.

He fought in the Second World War, and was killed on active service in The Netherlands when a V-2 rocket hit the officers mess in Deest ( a few miles NW of Nijmegen). One of the other two men killed was Gunner John Stiles, his batman, who is named on the Elveden WW2 memorial plaque in the Elveden Church..

Major The Viscount Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden