Walter Guinness
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Born | 29 March 1880 |
Died | 6 November 1944 (Age 64) |
Cause of death | gunshot |
Nationality | British, Irish |
Member of | The Other Club |
Victim of | • assassination • Zionism |
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, DSO & Bar, PC was an Anglo-Irish politician and businessman.
Assassination
On 6 November 1944, Eliyahu Bet-Zuri and Eliyahu Hakim of the Jewish militant group Lehi waited for Moyne near his home in Cairo. Following a carefully prepared and practised plan of action, they shot Lord Moyne and his driver Lance Corporal Arthur Fuller, both of whom died at the scene.