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Name: PEMBROKE, Richard Walter Byng 'Dicky' OBE (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 18.12.1904 Epsom, Surrey
Death Date: 7 Dec 1967 Westminster [?Upham]
First Date: 1935
Profession: Brigade Major, Military Dept., KAR in 1939, appointed 1935
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Westminster 1950 Hetty Margaret Regina Pakenham née Hebeler b. 21 Dec 1905 Guildford, d. 12 Mar 1988 Petersfield (prev. m. Dermot Pakenham)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Mischief, Hut, Temptress
War Service: 2nd Lt. Coldstream Gds. 1924
School: Malvern; Sandhurst
General Information:
Polished and his courtesy made him popular and respected.
Mischief - in Kenya on duty - he had fallen in love with the wife of a brother officer in the Coldstream Guards, and regimental etiquette had demanded that he apply for a transfer. ...[he became a Brigade-Major in the KAR] He too, fell in love with Diana Delves-Broughton. She thought him the dullest man she had ever met. Lover of Alice de Trafford, succeeding Lezard.
Temptress - Alice {de Janze}'s lover in 1940-41. Testified in court that Alice had been with him on the night of Lord Erroll's murder. Carried Alice's letters with him in the desert campaign against the Afrika Korps in North Africa. In March 1943 Pembroke's battalion entered Medenine in Tunisia and won a decisive victory against Rommel. He returned to England and was made a full colonel in 1951. He married Mrs Dermot Pakenham in 1950, left the army and embarked on a career in the bill broker business. He died in Upham, Hampshire in 1967.
Hut has partner with Alice de Trafford