Person    | Male  Born 2/7/1944  Died 19/9/1997

Lieutenant Colonel David Waring Eustace, MBE.

Categories: Armed Forces, Tragedy

Lieutenant Colonel David Waring Eustace, MBE.

David Waring Eustace was born on 2 July 1944 in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, a son of Colonel Frank Albert Eustace, OBE, Royal Marines, (1908-1976) and Rosemary Anne Eustace née King (1917-1978). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1944 in the Weston registration district, Somerset.

He served in the Light Infantry and in the 1991 New Year Honour List he was shown as a Major when he was made an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE). 

As a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Army at Shrivenham in Oxfordshire, he died, aged 53 years, on 19 September 1997 when travelling in the second carriage, Coach G, in the Southall rail crash.

He was buried in the St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Church Street, Wingrave, Aylesbury, HP22 4PF.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk and Andrew Behan.

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