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Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Giles Samuel Bertram Romilly (19 September 1916 – 2 August 1967) was a British communist journalist, Second World War POW, brother of Esmond Romilly, and nephew of Winston Churchill through his wife Clementine Churchill.
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He was the only child of John Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly and the former Violet Edith Grey-Egerton.. Of Huguenot ancestry from Montpellier, [1] his paternal grandparents were William Romilly, 2nd Baron Romilly and, his first wife, the former Emily Idonea Sophia Le Marchant (eldest daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant). [2]
The Romilly family is an English family of French Huguenot descent, descended from Étienne Romilly of Montpellier. Pages in category "Romilly family" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Baron Romilly, of Barry in the County of Glamorgan, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 3 January 1866 for Sir John Romilly, the Master of the Rolls and former Solicitor General and Attorney General. He was the second son of the legal reformer Sir Samuel Romilly. The Romilly family were of French Huguenot ...
From 260 to 274, the Roman Empire suffered the secession of two vast territorial areas, which however allowed its survival. In the west, the usurpers of the Gallic Empire, such as Postumus (260–268), [15] Laelian (268), Marcus Aurelius Marius (268–269), Victorinus (269–271), Domitian II (271) and Tetricus I (271–274), managed to defend the borders of the provinces of Britain, Gaul and ...
British and French aircraft and long-range guns reached well behind the front line, where trench-digging and other work meant that troops returned to the line exhausted. [57] Despite the strategic predicament of the German army, it survived the battle, withstood the pressure of the Brusilov Offensive and conquered almost all of Romania.