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3 unusual facts about Gris Davies-Scourfield


Gris Davies-Scourfield

In 1973 he retired to Medstead, Hampshire where he and his wife remained until shortly before Gris's death.

They made contact with the Polish underground movement in Warsaw but, after the other two officers had moved on, Davies-Scourfield was recaptured in March 1942.

Following capture he was moved between transit camps until reaching Oflag VII-C, Laufen.


Rhyniognatha

It was later donated by D.J. Scourfield to the Natural History Museum in London where it is currently displayed on a microscope slide.

William Henry Scourfield

Scourfield was a Tory by political leaning and had supported Lords Milford and Kensington in their elections as well as Lord Cowder's son in his 1812 campaign to win the county seat of Carmarthen.


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