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Knatchbull was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War.
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Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull
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He was wounded and captured by the Germans in Italy in 1943. On his way to captivity in Germany he tried to escape from the prison train at Bronzolo, a village in South Tyrol, together with Arnold Guy Vivian, a fellow officer in the 6th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Both were recaptured and executed by the Steamship in Bronzolo on 15 September 1943.
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United Kingdom