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Guy du Maurier. Guy Louis Busson du Maurier DSO (18 May 1865, London, England – 9 March 1915, Kemmel, Flanders, Belgium) was an English army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and the actor Gerald du Maurier .
Guy was the uncle of the famous writer Daphne du Maurier.Du Maurier went to school at Marlborough College and then went on to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was a keen rugby player and was a member of Rosslyn Park Football Club. He was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment as a lieutenant in 1885 and went ...
1915. awards Distinguished Service Order (DSO) British Award/Decoration Source:7002117 1915. marriage Gwendolen du Maurier Source:7002117. service British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Fusiliers Source:1074359. service British Army Royal Fusiliers Source:7002117.
The writer Guy du Maurier was a regular officer in the British Army, who had seen active service during the South African War and who was to be killed in France in 1915. It first played at Wyndham's Theatre on 27 January and went on to be a long-running success.
7 feb 2023 · Abstract. British pre-First World War culture has often been described as militaristic. An Englishman’s Home, Guy du Maurier’s 1909 play about a German invasion of Britain, forms part of this picture.
Guy Louis Busson du Maurier DSO was an English army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and the actor Gerald du Maurier.
Her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby. Her paternal uncle Guy du Maurier was a playwright. Her mother was a paternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer Comyns Beaumont. [4]
