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unusual facts about Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly


Jack Reiter

They included Brigadier ‘Rudolf’ Vaughan, Lieutenant-Colonel John Combe (John Frederick Boyce Combe), Brigadier ‘Ted’ Todhunter, (Edward Joseph Todhunter), Captain Guy Ruggles-Brise (Guy E Ruggles-Brise) and Lieutenant, ‘Dan’ Ranfurly, (Thomas Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly).


Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly

Following the end of World War II, Lord Ranfurly worked briefly in insurance at Lloyd's of London, not long after being appointed Governor of the Bahamas by Winston Churchill.

He and his wife met in 1937 when he was an aide-de-camp to Lord Gowrie, the Governor-General of Australia, an appointment Ranfurly held from 1936 to 1938.

He, together with Rudolph Vaughan, John Combe, Ted Todhunter and Guy E Ruggles-Brise (who was an old school-friend) from Vincigliata, an American pilot Jack Reiter (who had been shot down over Italy. He escaped from a military hospital to join the partisans) together with John Kerin and Irish Sapper, who they had picked up along the way, managed to reach the coast.

Riccardo Fedel

These included: Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame, General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Boyce Combe, Brigadier Edward Joseph Todhunter, Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, Second Lieutenant, Lord (Dan) Ranfurly Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly, Brigadier Douglas Arnold Stirling, Brigadier Edward William Drummond Vaughan.


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