Prince George, Duke of Kent

Royal Navy admiral (1902–1942), member of the House of Windsor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prince George, Duke of Kent
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Prince George, Duke of Kent, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, ADC (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI.

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Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and then briefly as a civil servant. He became Duke of Kent in 1934. In the late 1930s he served as an RAF officer, initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector General's Staff. He was killed in a military air-crash on 25 August 1942.

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