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Duke of Kent (more) | |||||
Born | Prince George of Wales 20 December 1902 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England | ||||
Died | 25 August 1942 Morven, Caithness, Scotland | (aged 39)||||
Cause of death | Dunbeath air crash | ||||
Burial | 29 August 1942 | ||||
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Father | George V | ||||
Mother | Mary of Teck | ||||
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Allegiance | United Kingdom | ||||
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Years of active service | 1916–1942 | ||||
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Prince George, Duke of Kent (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. 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 among fourteen of the fifteen crew and passengers killed in the Dunbeath air crash on 25 August 1942.