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3 unusual facts about Congreve baronets


Billy Congreve

His younger brother, Geoffrey, first of the Congreve baronets of Congreve, Staffordshire, was a distinguished sailor, awarded the DSO for a raid on Norway and killed in 1941 during a raid on the French coast.

Operation Chess

Sir Geoffrey Congreve Bt DSO died of his wounds received during the raid.

Walter Norris Congreve

His younger son Geoffrey Cecil Congreve was created a baronet, of Congreve in the County of Stafford, in July 1927 (see Congreve baronets).



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