William John Robert CAVENDISHAge: 261917–1944
- Name
- William John Robert CAVENDISH
- Given names
- William John Robert “Billy”
- Surname
- CAVENDISH
| Birth | 10 December 1917 London, England |
| Marriage | Kathleen Agnes KENNEDY - View family 6 May 1944 (Age 26) London, England |
| Relationship 16-20 | William CAVENDISH, Marquess of Hartington is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's great aunt's 1st husband.
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Citation details: 18 connections Text: Shortest in-law relationship
You →Ruth ALTER COHEN your mother →Frieda DRUKARSH ALTER her mother →Raizel (Galia) BARANSKI DRUKARSH her mother →Avraham (Tzvi) Hersh BARANSKI her father →Szymon BARANSKI his brother →Hinda KLEJNMINTZ BARANSKI his wife →Tauba (Tybie) DRUCZJAN KLEJNMINTZ her mother →Liba DRACZANA SPIEGEL her sister →Chana Sura SPIEGEL CIESIELSKA her daughter →Jack CIESELSKI CHELSKY her son →Dr. Morris Bernard CHELSKY his son →<private> CHELSKY MCKEAN his daughter →<private> MCKEAN her son →Maeve KENNEDY MCKEAN his wife →Kathleen KENNEDY TOWNSEND her mother Robert F. KENNEDY, U.S. Attorney General her father →Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington his sister →William CAVENDISH, Marquess of Hartington her husband |
| Death | 10 September 1944 (Age 26) Heppen, Flanders County, Belgium
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Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: Casualty of WWII, William served as The Marquis of Hartington [Lord Hartington]in the 5th Bn. Coldstream Guards, Guards Armoured Division.Service No:90720. He was killed in action by a sniper in Belgium while his company was trying to capture the town of Heppen, which was being held by troops of the German SS.In the weeks before he died, his battalion had been engaged in heavy fighting in Northern France. In early September, they crossed the Somme and pushed east towards Brussels, where his unit was one of the first to liberate the city. Of the townsfolk and villagers who turned out and cheered the Allies, and in some cases decorated their tanks, William wrote to his wife of feeling "so unworthy of it all living as I have in reasonable safety and comfort during these years..... I have a permanent lump in my throat and long for you to be here as it is an experience which few can have and which I would love to share with you." Awards: Mentioned in Despatches He was 26 and the eldest son of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, K.G., 10th Duke of Devonshire and Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil,the Duchess of Devonshire of Chatsworth, Derbyshire. He left a widow,Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington,of Westminster, London,the sister of 35th US President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy.They were married on 6 May 1944 at the Register Office in Chelsea Town Hall on King's Road in London, England.The bride, second daughter of Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald was given away by her eldest brother,Lieutenant Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. [She was subsequently killed on 13 May 1948 in an air crash at Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, Rhône-Alpes, France.] William's place in the order of succession was taken by his younger brother, Lord Andrew Cavendish — later 11th Duke of Devonshire. He had stood as the official Conservative Party candidate of the Wartime Coalition in the 18 February 1944 by-election for Derbyshire West but was defeated by the Independent Charles White who had resigned from the Labour Party to challenge Hartington in contravention of the war-time Coalition's truce on partisan campaigning. William John Robert “Billy” CAVENDISH (1917–1944) |
| Burial | after 9 September 1944 (Age 26) Leopoldsburg, Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Arrondissement Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
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Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: Major William John Robert “Billy” Cavendish Birth 10 Dec 1917 London, City of London, Greater London, England Death 9 Sep 1944 (aged 26) Heppen, Arrondissement Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium Burial Leopoldsburg War Cemetery Leopoldsburg, Arrondissement Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium Plot IV.B.13. Family Members Parents Edward Cavendish 1895–1950 Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil Cavendish 1895–1988 Siblings Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish 1920–2004 Mary Cavendish 1922–1922 Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish 1926–2018 Anne Evelyn Beatrice Cavendish Tree 1927–2010 Spouse Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish 1920–1948 (m. 1944) Maintained by: Shane Originally Created by: International Wargraves Photography Project Added: 22 Apr 2006 Find a Grave Memorial 14039483 William John Robert CAVENDISH (1917–1944) |
| Reference number | K5 |
| Last change | 4 November 2022 - 06:33:13 by: Site Admin |
| Family with Kathleen Agnes KENNEDY - View family |
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Birth 10 December 1917 London, England Reference number K5 Death 10 September 1944 (Age 26) Heppen, Flanders County, Belgium |
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Birth 20 February 1920 Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Reference number K6 Death 13 May 1948 (Age 28) Saint-bauzile, Ardèche, France |
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Marriage: 6 May 1944 — London, England |
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