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MacDonald,
George Smith
"Pat"
Elder son of George Smith Macdonald, of Port
Colborne.
Married (23.06.1945, Holy Trinity Church, Welland)
Dora Cardwell, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Erwin Cardwell. |
28.10.1918
Port Colborne, Ontario,
Canada
-
23.08.2008
Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada |
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-
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22.10.1943
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No. A-11
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
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22.10.1943
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-
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06.03.1944
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No. A-21
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
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06.03.1944
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-
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No. A-34
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
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Canloan
scheme: CDN/177
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, 3 Platoon (A Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [captured])
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09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 91197) in German captivity (Stammlager XIIA) |
02.06.1945
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-
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21.07.1945
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No. 2
District Depot
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21.07.1945
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-
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?
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No.
A-22 Canadian Army Medical Corps Training Centre, as Army Counsellor
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Published: The memoirs of Capt. G. Smith
'Pat' Macdonald (Ret.): (soldier, lawyer, politician) (by Port Colborne
Historical and Marine Museum, 2006).
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MacDonald,
John James
"Scotty"
Married Theresa (predeceased him); four children. |
22.04.1919
Sydney, NS, Canada
-
10.03.2008
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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Prov. 2nd
Lt.
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25.02.1944
[F.54912]
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Lt.
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?
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A/Capt.
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?
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Capt.
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01.10.1945
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MM
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?
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?
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?
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-
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03.03.1944
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Cadet, No.
O-1 Officer Training Centre, Brockville Ont.
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25.02.1944
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commissioned
into the Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission]
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03.03.1944
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-
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No.
A-13
Training Centre (Prov. Reinforcements) CIC
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Canloan
scheme: CDN/637
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(09.1944)
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Supernumerary
Officer, B Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded,
POW])
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09.1944
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-
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04.04.1945
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POW
in German captivity (at Oflag IX A/H at Spangenberg)
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(10.1945)
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60
CI (B) Training Centre
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MacDonnell,
Charles James
Son of Henry George Woodman (1888-1930),
and Florence Young.
Changed surname by deed poll of 03.06.1942 from Woodman to MacDonnell.
Married Patricia Ada Cecilia Woodman (06.10.1929 - 04.01.2017); two daughters,
two sons.
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15.03.1921
Bedminster, Somersetshire
-
17.04.1990
Ynys Mon district, Gwynedd, Wales |
Sgt. |
? [5189367] |
2nd Lt. |
07.09.1943 [294983] |
WS/Lt. |
07.03.1944 (reld
> 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
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Worked in a hotel.
31.04.1940 |
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enlisted, Reconnaissance Corps |
07.09.1943 |
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commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission] |
(09.1944) |
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Officer
Commanding, No. 1 Medium Machine Gun Platoon (Support
Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded &
captured 26.09.1944]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 2173) in German captivity (26.09.1944-05.10.1944 hospital Apeldoorn;
08.10.1944-10.10.1944 Stalag XI-B, Fallingbostel; 12.10.1944-29.03.1945 Oflag IX-A/Z, Rothenburg an der Fulda, Hessen) |
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Macduff-Duncan,
Colin Edmund
"Bobby"
Son (with one brother and one sister) of
Charles Macduff-Duncan (1874-1939), and Mabel Barry Whitehead (1878-1945).
Married (28.06.1950, St George's Church, Nenyuki,
Kenya) Mary Katherine "Kitty" Hickson (1928 - 10.2021), daughter of Lt.Col. Lionel Henry Hickson, DSO, and Sibyl Hattie Hermione Graham; two sons.
|
25.01.1918
Eastcraigs, Corstorphine district, Edinburgh City,
Scotland
-
24.09.2000
Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
26.01.1939
[85601] |
Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
A/Capt. |
10.09.1941-09.12.1941 |
T/Capt. |
10.12.1941-27.10.1942,
04.01.1943-03.12.1943,
17.09.1944-... |
WS/Capt. |
01.12.1945 |
Capt. |
01.07.1946 |
T/Maj. |
01.12.1945 |
Maj. |
26.01.1952
(retd 09.05.1954) |
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Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
26.01.1939 |
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commissioned, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) |
1944? |
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7th
Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers |
(09.1944) |
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Junior
Liaison Officer 1st Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [evacuated]) |
(1950) |
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attached,
3rd Battalion The King's African Rifles (Nanyuki, Kenya) |
09.05.1954 |
- |
25.01.1968 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers |
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MacFadden,
John Terence Moore
Son (with two sisters and three brothers) of Dr. Arthur William James MacFadden,
C.B., M.B. (1869-1933), and Alice Bristow Spence (1882-1944)..
|
26.01.1916
Hampstead district, London
-
04.10.1944
(as a POW) [age 28]
[Hanover War Cemetery, 15.F.6] |
Cadet
|
?
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2nd Lt.
|
19.11.1939 [105619]
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WS/Lt.
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19.05.1941
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19.11.1939
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commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
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24.09.1943
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transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, 9 Platoon (T Company), 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured])
|
22.09.1944 |
- |
04.10.1944 |
POW (No. 2115) in German captivity (Stalag IX-A Ziegenhain) (died)
|
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Macfarlane,
Philip
Son of Conrad Coulsting Macfarlane (1886-1945), and Helen Kathleen Maddison
(1886-1969).
|
06.06.1915
Weston-super-Mere
-
26.09.1999
Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
20.06.1942 [235819] |
WS/Lt. |
20.12.1942 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
20.06.1942 |
|
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commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
(09.1944) |
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Officer
Commanding, B Troop,
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, RA [attached 2nd Parachute Battalion]
(Arnhem [captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 575) in German captivity (Oflag 79,
Braunschweig, Niedersachsen) |
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MacInnes,
William
Son of ... MacInnes, and ... Macintyre. |
01.01.1914
Kilmore and Kilbride district, Oban, Scotland
-
? |
BSM
|
? [780157]
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2nd Lt.
|
16.09.1943 [301766]
|
WS/Lt.
|
16.03.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
?
|
2nd Clasp to the Efficiency Medal (Territorial),
12.08.1949.
|
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served
in the ranks
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16.09.1943
|
|
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commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [immediate emergency commission]
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(09.1944)
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Liaison
Officer, 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA (Arnhem [POW])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No.
2208) in German captivity (Oflag 79,
Braunschweig, Niedersachsen) |
|
Mackay,
Eric MacLachlan
Son of Ian MacLachlan Mackay and Violet Aimée
ScottSmith. Married 1st (1954) Ruth Thérèse Roth (died 1985); one son. Married
2nd (1994) Margaret Hadcock (née Shepherd).
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26.12.1921
India
-
16.11.1995
Yeovil, Somerset
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
12.10.1941
[210907]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
Lt.
|
19.01.1946,
seniority 26.06.1944
|
A/Capt.
|
20.05.1943-19.08.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
20.08.1943-06.04.1946
|
WS/Capt.
|
07.04.1946
|
Capt.
|
26.12.1948
|
A/Maj.
|
20.09.1944-22.11.1944,
11.03.1946-06.04.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
07.04.1946-25.12.1955
|
Maj.
|
26.12.1955
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
18.02.1963-05.11.1963
|
Lt.Col.
|
06.11.1963
[supernumerary 06.11.1966]
|
Col.
|
30.06.1968
|
Brig.
|
31.12.1969,
seniority 30.06.1969
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
08.09.1973
|
Maj.Gen.
|
02.11.1973,
seniority 02.05.1973 (retd 29.01.1977)
|
CEng 1976; MICE 1976
|
Education: Fettes College, Edinburgh; Staff College
(1951); jssc (1960)
1940
|
|
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served in
the ranks of The Royal Scots Fusiliers for 270 days
|
12.10.1941
|
|
|
commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 18.01.1946]
|
1941
|
-
|
1945
|
1st
Parachute Squadron RE (North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Arnhem, Norway):
|
(09.1944)
|
|
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Officer
Commanding, A Troop, 1st Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [POW, escaped])
|
1945
|
-
|
1946
|
Officer
Commanding, Field Company, 20th Indian Division (French Indo-China)
|
1946
|
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Second-in-Command,
23rd Indian Divisional Engineerrs (Java)
|
1947
|
|
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Officer
Commanding, 35th Indian Field Company (Malaya)
|
1948
|
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Supplementary
Engineering Course, SME
|
01.09.1949
|
-
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12.05.1950
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Staff
Officer RE 2nd grade (Intelligence), Army Incr., Joint Intelligence Bureau
|
11.01.1952
|
-
|
17.01.1954
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GSO
2 (Organization and Equipment), HQ, Allied Land Forces Central Europe
|
05.05.1954
|
-
|
05.03.1956
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Senior
Instructor (GSO2 Tactics), SME
|
1956
|
-
|
1958
|
Officer
Commanding, 33rd Field Squadron RE (Cyprus, Suez)
|
03.03.1958
|
-
|
04.06.1960
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GSO
2 (Weapons), War Office
|
1961
|
-
|
1962
|
Second-in-Command,
2nd Divisional Engineers
|
18.02.1963
|
-
|
15.09.1963
|
specially
employed, Federation of Malaya
|
04.04.1963
|
-
|
10.08.1965
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Chief
Engineer, Malaysian Army (Borneo/Malaya)
|
1966
|
-
|
1967
|
GSO
1 (Coordination), Master-General of
the Ordnance
|
1968
|
-
|
1969
|
Colonel
General Staff, RSME
|
1970
|
-
|
1971
|
Chief
Engineer (Brig.), Army Strategic Command
|
1972
|
|
|
Chief
Engineer (Brig.), UK Land Forces
|
08.09.1973
|
-
|
01.11.1976
|
Chief
Engineer, British Army of the Rhine
|
Managing Director: Cementation Sico Oman Ltd,
1977; Galadari Cementation Pte Ltd, Dubai, 1978-83; Forum Develt Pte Ltd,
Singapore, 1983-85; Regional Director Iraq, Engineering Services International, 1981-82;
Chairman, Amorshield Security Products, 1986-90. |
MacKenzie,
Alexander
"Sandy"
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.09.1943 [292965]
|
WS/Lt.
|
11.03.1944 (reld
11.01.1950)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
11.01.1950
|
|
11.09.1943
|
|
|
commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
|
Mackenzie,
Charles Baillie
Son of Theodore Charles Mackenzie, and M. Wilson.
Married Nancy Veronica Dalziel (12.02.1917 - 09.1962); two daughters, one son.
|
29.12.1909
Invereness, Scotland
-
14.06.1991
Inverness, Scotland |
Cadet |
? |
2nd
Lt. |
30.01.1930 [44938] |
Lt. |
30.01.1933 |
Capt. |
01.08.1938 |
A/Maj. |
20.09.1940-19.12.1940 |
T/Maj. |
20.12.1940-05.11.1942 |
WS/Maj. |
06.11.1942 |
Maj. |
01.07.1946 |
Lt.Col. (Brev.) |
01.07.1951 |
A/Lt.Col. |
06.08.1942-05.11.1942 |
T/Lt.Col. |
06.11.1942-09.08.1952 |
Lt.Col. |
10.08.1952 |
Emp. List 1 |
01.10.1953 |
T/Col. |
02.10.1952-01.06.1954 |
Col. |
02.06.1954 |
T/Brig. |
03.09.1954 |
Brig. |
02.06.1958 (retd
31.05.1959) |
Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp |
Education: Royal Military College; Joint Services Staff College.
30.01.1930 |
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commissioned, The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders |
05.05.1933 |
- |
01.04.1935 |
employed with King's
African Rifles |
01.06.1940 |
- |
07.06.1940 |
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), 1st Army |
08.06.1940 |
- |
14.09.1940 |
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), ... Corps HQ |
20.09.1940 |
- |
13.10.1941 |
Brigade
Major, ... |
15.10.1941 |
- |
18.07.1942 |
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ HF |
1942 |
- |
1943 |
Commanding
Officer, 5th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion (7th Camerons) |
10.12.1943 |
- |
19.08.1944 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 21st Army Group |
20.08.1944 |
- |
10.10.1945 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Operations), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem
[evacuated];
Norway) |
18.10.1945 |
- |
24.08.1947 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), War Office |
11.04.1948 |
- |
31.03.1950 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), BMM Greece |
01.04.1950 |
- |
13.10.1950 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Training) |
02.10.1952 |
- |
21.07.1954 |
Assistant
Adjutant General (Col.), War Office |
03.09.1954 |
- |
(02.1957) |
Commander,
154th (Highland) Infantry Brigade, Scottish Command |
Secretary, Territorial & Auxiliary Forces
Association, Glasgow, Scotland
Published: It was like this! (1954). |
Mackenzie,
P
|
?
-
2004/05
|
Initials unclear.
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned,
... [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 7 Platoon (B Company), 10th
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
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Mackey,
Patrick Wallace Alexander
"Pat" / "Paddy"
Son (with two brothers) of Frank Alexander
Mackey (1890-1942), and Ethel Finlay Wallace (1897-1993), of Farnham, Surrey.
|
15.01.1920
British Guiana
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Ede General Cemetery H.21] |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.04.1940 [129461]
|
WS/Lt.
|
20.10.1941
|
|
Education: Felsted School (1934-1937).
20.04.1940
|
|
|
commissioned, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) [emergency commission]
|
06.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Highland Light Infantry
|
01.02.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1943)
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Officer
Commanding, 4 Platoon (A Company), 10th Parachute Battalion (Italy; Arnhem [killed in
action])
|
|
MacLaine
[25th of Lochbuie],
Gillean Robert
Son of Maj. Kenneth Douglas Lorne MacLaine, 24th of
Lochbuie, MC and two bars (1880-1935), and Olive Marguerite Stewart-Richardson
(1888-1959).
Married (22.04.1943, Surbiton, Surrey) Noreen Olive
Beadon (1924? - 1987?), daughter of Col. Vernon Beadon, MC, 9th Gurkhas; one son.
|
03.01.1921
London
-
05.05.1970
Durban, South Africa |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
01.08.1942
[240684] |
WS/Lt. |
01.02.1943 (reld
25.11.1953) |
T/Capt. |
01.08.1945-(10.1945) |
A/Lt.Col. ? |
1945 ? |
Hon. Capt. |
25.11.1953 |
|
Education: Clayesmore; Royal Military College,
Sandhurst.
1940 |
- |
1942 |
Fleet Air Arm |
01.08.1942 |
|
|
commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission] |
01.08.1942 |
|
|
transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment
- Army Air Corps |
|
|
|
attached to Popski's Private Army for
glider training (North Africa) |
07.1943 |
|
|
Sicily landings |
06.1944 |
|
|
Normandy landings |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Section
Commander, F Squadron (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem) |
01.1946 |
|
|
transferred, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) |
Member, Blairgowrie Town Council, 1947-1950.
Emigrated to South Africa, 1950. Sales manager, Seagrams Whisky (Overseas Sales)
Ltd., South Africa & Managing director, Highland Bonding Property Company Ltd.,
Durban, 1964-1969. Officer, South African Defence Foce, 1964. Export sales
manager, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries Ltd., 1969-1970. Director, Scotia
Investments (SA) Ltd., 1969-1970. Fellow, Institute of Directors, 1958. Member,
Institute of Export, 1966. |
Macleod,
Norman
|
13.08.1914
Scotland
-
10.1992 ??
North Uist, Inverness, Scotland ?? |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.09.1940 [148308]
|
WS/Lt.
|
07.03.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
10.07.1943
|
|
24.04.1943
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Battery
Captain "G",
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, RA (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 140226) in German captivity (Stalag
VIIA, Moosburg.) |
|
Madden,
David John
"Tiny"
Eldest son (with two
brothers) of Maj. John Grevile Madden (1889-1950), DSO, research scientist,
Woolwich Arsenal, and of
Airlie Hynes (1892-1982), of Alverstoke, Hampshire. His brother, Lt. Keith Mansfield
Madden, MC, also died on service (03.03.1943).
|
01.10.1919
Greenwich, London
-
21.09.1944
Arnhem
(KIA) [age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 2.B.14] |
2nd Lt. |
01.07.1939 [94285] |
Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
WS/Capt. |
13.05.1943 |
T/Maj. |
13.05.1943-21.09.1944 |
|
Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (The Benson Memorial Prize,
1939).
01.07.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery |
(09.1944) |
- |
21.09.1944 |
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Air), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [killed in
action]) |
|
Maguire,
Hugh Pownall
Only son (with one sister) of William Robert Maguire
(1875-1949), and
Kate Rhodes Pownall (1882-1956), of Chepstow Mansions, London W2.
Married 1st (16.12.1936, St Mark's, North Audley Street, Westminster district,
London) Elizabeth Marion Robertson, only daughter of Mr & Mrs David Robertson,
of Chew Magna, Somerset.
Married 2nd ((03?).1948, St Marylebone district, London) Marjorie Anne Lees (Mrs
Kenneth Harwood-Smith) (24.06.1916 - 06.2005); two sons. |
29.11.1911
Crosserlough, Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
02.03.1961
The Royal Masonic Hospital, Hammersmith,
London W6 (formerly of Rottingdean, Sussex) |
Cadet |
? |
2nd
Lt. |
25.05.1940
[130962] |
WS/Capt. |
12.06.1943 (reld
< 04.1946) |
T/Maj. |
12.06.1943 |
Hon. Maj. |
< 04.1946 |
Lt. |
07.02.1952 |
Capt. |
23.05.1952 (reld
07.02.1960) |
|
Education: Clifton College (1923.1-1929.3; Hartnell's
House & Watson's House; forms I-VI; XV (rugby football), boxing representative).
25.05.1940 |
|
|
commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission] |
(09.1944) |
|
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Intelligence), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem
[wounded & captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No.
642) in
German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern & Oflag XIIB, Hadamar) |
|
|
|
served
Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army |
07.02.1952 |
- |
07.02.1957 |
served
Royal Ulster Rifles - Regular Army [short service commision] |
07.02.1957 |
- |
07.02.1960 |
served
Royal Ulster Rifles - Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
Stock exchange. |
Maker,
Alfred Bertie
Son (with two brothers) of Thomas Henry Maker
(1872-1938), and Maria Mitchell (1877-1909). |
23.11.1905
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
(06?).1971
Surrey Northern district, Surrey |
WS/GQMS |
? |
Lt. QM |
03.09.1942 [246989] (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks, Royal Fusiliers |
03.09.1942 |
|
|
commissioned,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission] |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Quartermaster,
No. 2 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem) |
|
Mallett,
William John
"Bill"
Son (with one sister) of William Charles Mallett (1892-1970), and
Ella Mary Grayston (1895-1979).
Married ((12?).1946, Rochford district, Essex) Patricia Mary Barnes
(09.11.1923 - 21.10.2012). |
03.11.1922
Billericay, Essex
-
14.06.2003
Uttlesdord, Essex |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
24.10.1942
[249340]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.04.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
Student.
31.07.1941 |
|
|
enlisted |
24.10.1942
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
No. 1
Forward Observation Unit RA [attached 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron]
(Arnhem [captured 26.09.1944])
|
26.09.1944 |
- |
23.04.1945 |
POW (No. 598) in German captivity (02.10.1944-05.10.1944 Oflag XII-A, Limburg;
05.10.1944-16.10.1944 Oflag XII-B, Hadamar;
20.10.1944-23.04.1945 Oflag 79, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen) (POW
card) |
Fruit grower of Ashdon. |
Maltby,
Ralph Alexander
Son of Capt. Francis Brough Maltby, and Enid Rosamond
Alexander (1893-1978).
Married (1943) Jean Felicity Beath (26.12.1921 - 16.02.1979), daughter of Dr R.
Maitland Beath, of Oxford.
|
03.10.1917
Thakeham district, Sussex
-
17.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 3.C.18] |
2nd Lt. |
26.08.1937
[73034] |
WS/Lt. |
26.08.1940 |
T/Capt. |
16.12.1941 |
|
MID |
09.07.1942 |
air
operations RAF |
Order of the Patriotic War (USSR), 11.04.1944
|
Education: Wellington College (1931.1-1935).; Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich (1936-1937).
26.08.1937 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery |
(01.1939) |
|
|
2nd
Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lichfield) |
1939 |
- |
1940 |
served with
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) (France) |
1943 |
|
|
seconded,
Glider Pilot Regiment |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, No. 2 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed in action]) |
|
Manley,
Bernard Vincent
Son (with three brothers and one sister) of William John
Manley (1861-1942), and Julia Mary Purkis (1870-1963).
Married (11.06.1936, St Patrick's, Plumstead, London) Annie Marie Elizabeth
Burton (26.11.1909 - 31.07.2006), daughter (with two sisters and two brothers)
of Richard Burton (1886-1915), and Annie Amelia Wall (1886-1974); two daughters,
one son. |
26.09.1910
East Plumstead, Woolwich district, London
-
04.08.2005
Yateley, Surrey |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
19.12.1942
[256220]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.06.1943
|
Lt.
|
24.05.1947,
seniority 26.09.1935
|
A/Capt.
|
02.05.1944-01.08.1944
|
T/Capt.
|
02.08.1944-09.10.1945
|
WS/Capt.
|
?
|
Capt.
|
24.05.1947,
seniority 26.09.1941
|
A/Maj.
|
10.07.1945-09.10.1945
|
T/Maj.
|
10.10.1945-25.09.1948.
|
Maj.
|
26.09.1948 (retd
17.05.1965)
|
|
Local government officer.
28.11.1940
|
|
|
enlisted (served in
the ranks for 2 years 169 days)
|
19.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Administrative Branch [emergency
commission to 23.05.1947]
|
(09.1944)
|
-
|
20.09.1944
|
Second-in-Command,
Divisional Ordnance Field Park Company, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [wounded
& captured 20.09.1944])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No.
532) in German captivity (09.1944-01.1945 Oflag XII-B, Hadamar; 01.1945-04.1945
Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt); 04.1945 Oflag VII-A, Moosberg) |
24.05.1947
|
|
|
permanent
commission
|
17.05.1965
|
-
|
05.07.1966
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
|
Manning,
Geoffrey
"Geoff"
From Leicester.
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.04.1943
[270542]
|
WS/Lt.
|
20.10.1943
(reld > 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
26.05.1945
|
|
20.04.1943
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Wireless Communication Section, 1st Airborne Divisional Workshops
REME (Arnhem)
|
|
Mansfield,
Peter Geoffrey Alan
Son of ... Mansfield, and ... Moon.
Married ((09?).1951, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Caroline E. Dingle. |
16.03.1919
Stapleton, Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
28.02.1990
Bournemouth, Hampshire |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.06.1940
[134320]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
01.04.1941 &
18.07.1945
|
|
22.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
|
07.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command, R Company, 1st Parachute Battalion
(Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No.
2138) in German captivity (Oflag IXA/H, Spangenburg) |
|
Markwick,
Eric John
Son (with one sister and one brother) of James Markwick (1875-1936), and May Catherine Liversage
(1876-1956), of
Wallasey, Cheshire.
Married ((12?).1943, Yarmouth district, Norfolk) Dorothy Durden, of Wallasey.
|
(03?).1918
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
22.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 3.C.4]
|
Cadet
|
?
[2929995]
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.09.1943
[293609]
|
WS/Lt.
|
1944?
|
|
25.09.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
|
22.10.1943
|
|
|
transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment -
Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
Marquand,
Wilfred James
"Bill"
Son of Henry Edward Marquand, and Alice Maud Upson. |
24.05.1917
St Peter Port, Guernsey
-
15.05.1995
St Peter Port, Guernsey |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
15.03.1941
[177205]
|
WS/Lt.
|
15.09.1942 (retd
26.10.1946;
disability)
|
T/Capt.
|
25.11.1943
|
Hon. Capt.
|
26.10.1946
|
|
19.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Signals
Officer, 1st Parachute Brigade [J Section (No. 2 Company), 1st Airborne
Divisional Signals] (Arnhem)
|
Served as District Officer, British Solomon
Islands Protectorate from 1946 and High Commissioner, Fiji, 1950-1953. He held
the post of Assistant Secretary, Uganda from 1953 and was appointed Senior
Assistant Secretary in 1961.
|
Marrable,
Arthur Trevor
Son of Harold Trevor Marrable (1881-1965), and Constance
Edith Clarke (1881-).
Married ((12?).1945, Croydon district, London) Ragna Wilhelmina Bulic-Medin
(20.02.1910 - 29.11.2000).
|
12.10.1909
Yezd, Persia
-
22.02.1954
Aldershot, Hampshire
[Sandhurst
Royal Military Academy Cemetery] |
T/Lt. |
02.02.1936
[67301] |
Lt |
23.04.1936,
seniority 27.10.193 |
Capt. |
23.04.1937,
seniority 27.10.1936
[short service commission] |
Capt. |
23.04.1941,
seniority 27.10.1936
[permanent commission] |
A/Maj. |
07.07..1943-06.10.1943 |
T/Maj. |
07.10.1943-21.08.1944 |
WS/Maj. |
22.08.1944 |
Maj. |
27.10.1945 |
A/Lt.Col. |
22.05.1944-21.08.1944 |
T/Lt.Col. |
22.08.1944-14.06.1945,
20.06.1945-15.02.1950 |
Lt.Col. |
16.02.1950 |
A/Col. |
30.07.1947 |
T/Col. |
01.11.1947-04.11.1947 |
NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Medal & Clasp; Palestine
1936-39 Medal & Clasp; Palestine 1947-48 Clasp; 1939-1945 Star; France
& Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal; Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
Medal 1953 |
Education: MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond (1935).
02.02.1936 |
- |
22.04.1936 |
commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [temporary commission] |
23.04.1936 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission] |
1936 |
- |
1940 |
served
Egypt & Palestine (1936), India (1937-1940) |
23.04.1941 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [permanent commission] |
|
|
|
served
North Africa (1943) |
(04.1944) |
|
|
RAMC
Training Establishment |
1944 |
- |
(09.1944) |
Commanding Officer,
181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Arnhem [captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
1945? |
POW in German captivity |
1945 |
|
|
Commanding Officer,
181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Norway) |
1945 |
- |
1946 |
Chief
Instructor, Depot & Training Establishment RAMC |
1947 |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 224th Parachute Field Ambulance (Middle East Land Forces [MELF]) |
1947 |
|
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, GHQ Middle East Land Forces |
1947 |
- |
1948 |
Commanding
Officer, 16th Parachute Field Ambulance (MELF) |
1948 |
- |
1949 |
Commanding
Officer, 23rd Parachute Field Ambulance (British Army of the Rhine) |
1950 |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 35th Field Ambulance (MELF) |
1950 |
- |
1951 |
Commanding
Officer, British Military Hospital Tripoli (MELF) |
1951 |
- |
1953 |
ADMS
HQ Cyprus District (MELF) [& CO BMH Cyprus, 1952-1953] |
1953 |
- |
1954 |
Senior
Medical Officer, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Hospital |
|
Marshall,
George Christopher
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
? [854746]
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.04.1944 [314634]
|
WS/Lt.
|
05.10.1944
|
|
05.04.1944
|
|
|
commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Signals
Officer, HQ RA, 1st Airborne Division [F Section (No. 2 Company), 1st Airborne Divisional
Signals] (Arnhem [evacuated])
|
|
Marshall,
John Wilson
Son of ... Marshall, and ... Wilson. |
27.10.1919
Bolton, Lancashire
-
08.1997
Deben, Suffolk |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
19.09.1942 [245234]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.03.1943 (retd
12.03.1946;
disability)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
12.03.1946
|
|
MID
|
24.08.1944
|
Italy
09-11.1943
|
|
Medical student, ... College, Oxford.
19.09.1942
|
|
|
commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 10 Section (D Troop), 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron (Arnhem)
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 2141) in German captivity (Oflag IXA/H Burg Spangenberg) |
|
Martin,
Victor David Randall
"Morph"
Son of Robert J.V. Martin, MA, BD (St. And.), Church of Scotland minister.
Married 1st (1946, Edinburgh, Scotland) Ray Harkness.
Married 2nd ((09?).1980, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent) Gertrude M. Gunn. |
19.03.1919
Alvah, by Banff, Scotland
-
29.09.2001
Tunbridge Wells, Kent |
Lt. |
27.02.1943 [260584] |
WS/Capt. |
27.02.1944 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
MID |
20.09.1945 |
Arnhem
09.1944 |
|
Education: University of Aberdeen; MB, ChB 1942; DPH
(Edin.) 1947.
House physician & surgical posts in London, 1942.
27.02.1943 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Regimental Medical
Officer, 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA (Arnhem [captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW in
German captivity (Stalag IX-C Mühlhausen, Hessen) |
Assistant Medical Officer of Health & Medical
Officer, Infectious Diseases, Dunfermline, 1948. Medical Officer of Health,
Alton Rural & Urban Districts, and acting county Medical Officer, Hampshire,
1952. Senior Medical Officer, Hampshire County Council, 1956-1959. Medical
Officer of Health, Doncaster, 1960. |
Mason,
Peter Brown
Married Birdie Grobb (?-1996); two sons. |
05.05.1921
Belgian Congo
-
26.11.2008
Paris, Ontario, Canada |
Prov. 2nd Lt. |
11.12.1943
[B.150251] |
Lt. |
22.01.1944 |
|
Education: elementary education in New Jersey &
Toronto; Toronto Oakwood Collegiate Institute; University of Toronto (BASc,
chemical engineering; 1947).
1943 |
|
|
joined
Canadian Army |
|
- |
11.12.1943 |
cadet, No.
O1 Officer Training Centre (CIC) |
11.12.1943 |
|
|
commissioned, Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission] (Officer Training
Centre, Brockville, Ont.) |
17.12.1943 |
- |
07.03.1944 |
No. A-10
Canadian Infantry Training Centre, Camp Borden, Ont. |
07.03.1944 |
- |
|
No. A-34
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC |
|
|
|
Canloan
scheme: CDN/176 |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 16 Platoon (D Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW in German captivity
(Oflag 64, Schubin, Poland from 11.1944) |
17.07.1945 |
- |
07.09.1945 |
No. 2
District Depot (from Canadian Army Overseas) (struck off strength) |
Joined B.F. Goodrich Canada Ltd. in 1947, and
climbed up from compounder to President and Chief Executive Officer, since
01.09.1969. Retired 1976. |
Matthews,
Harold Theodore Bernhardt
|
08.10.1918
South Africa
-
19.10.2003
Somerset Oaks, Somerset Weat, South Africa |
Sgt.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.02.1941 [270443]
|
WS/Lt.
|
? (reld 26.08.1945)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
26.08.1945
|
|
01.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
General List, Infantry, African Colonial Forces Section
|
10.04.1943
|
|
|
transferred, Parachute Regiment, African Colonial Forces Section
|
(09.1944) |
|
|
Liaison
Officer 156th Parachute Battalion with 4th Parachute Brigade (Arnhem [captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 91220) in German captivity (Oflag 79, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen &
Oflag XIIA, Hadamar) |
|
Mawson,
Stuart Radcliffe
Son of late Alec Robert Mawson, Chief Officer,
Parks Dept, LCC, and Ena (née Grossmith), daughter
of George Grossmith Jr, Actor Manager. Married (1948) June Irene, daughter of
George Percival; two sons, two daughters.
|
04.03.1918
London
-
20.02.2008 |
Lt.
|
14.08.1943 [291107]
|
WS/Capt.
|
14.08.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
MRCS, LRCP 1943; MB, BChir Cantab 1946; FRCS 1947;
DLO 1948
|
Education: Canford School; Trinity College,
Cambridge; St Thomas's Hospital, London. BA Cantab 1940, MA 1976.
House
Surgeon, St. Thomas's Hospital, 1943.
14.08.1943
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
|
1943 |
- |
09.1944 |
Regimental
Medical Officer, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 1676) in German captivity (Stalag IV-G, Oschatz, Sachsen) |
Chief Assistant, ENT Department, St Thomas's Hospital, 1950;
Consultant ENT Surgeon: King's College Hospital, 1951; Belgrave Hospital for Children,
1951; Consultant Surgeon, Ear Nose and Throat Department, King's College
Hospital, London, 1951-1979, Head of Department, 1973-1979, Hon. Consultant,
1979. Recognized Teacher of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University of London, 1958. Chm.,
KCH Med. Cttee and Dist Management Team, 1977-1979. FRSocMed (Pres. Section of
Otology, 1974-1975); Liveryman, Apothecaries' Soc.; former Mem. Council, Brit.
Assoc. of Otolaryngologists.
Published:
Diseases of the Ear (1963, 5th edn 1988); (jtly) Essentials of
Otolaryngology (1967); (contrib.) ScottBrown's Diseases of the Ear,
Nose and Throat (4th edn 1979); (contrib.) Modern Trends in Diseases of
the Ear, Nose and Throat (1972); Arnhem
Doctor, 1981; numerous papers in scientific journals
|
McCardie,
William Derek Hessin
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of
William Joseph McCardie, MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP (1866-1939), and Esther Maye Porter Collins (1884-1973);
of Edgbaston.
Married ((03?).1955, West Cheshire) Diana Valerie Smith (14.02.1930 -
09.03.2019), daughter (with two brothers and two sisters) of William Harold
Smith (1886-1948), and Sophie Barbara Bercher (1893-1952); two daughters.
|
15.08.1912
Kingshead, King's Norton district, Worcestershire
-
03.04.1977
Mews, Suffolk Square, Cheltenham district,
Gloucestershire |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
27.01.1934 [62214] |
Lt. |
27.01.1937 |
T/Capt. |
10.04.1940 |
T/Maj. |
1942? |
WS/Maj. |
06.07.1943 |
T/Lt.Col. |
06.07.1943 |
Lt.Col. |
01.05.1947
(removed 06.06.1957; on conviction by the Civil Power) |
A/Col. |
12.06.1945 |
|
TD |
10.10.1947 |
- |
|
Education: Repton School (09.1926-07.1930; Orchard
House).
|
|
|
late
Cadet Corporal, Repton School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training
Corps |
27.01.1934 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army |
27.01.1934 |
- |
28.02.1939 |
48th
(South Midland) Divisional RASC |
28.02.1939 |
|
|
transfrerred
to The South Staffordshire Regiment - Territorial Army (6th
Battalion TA) |
24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized |
(08.1942) |
- |
08.04.1943 |
Officer
Commanding, D Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment |
08.04.1943 |
- |
(09.1944) |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicly; Arnhem [wounded,
captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 5977) in German captivity (Dulag Luft 1 Barth) |
1946 |
|
|
Commanding Officer, 17th Parachute Battalion (Palestine) |
01.05.1947 |
- |
late
1949 |
Commanding
Officer, 5th Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment |
01.05.1950 |
- |
06.06.1957 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers |
General manager, Whitley Hotels Group. MHCI. Company director, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. |
|
McCartney,
John Stewart Granville
Son (with three sisters) of William
McCartney (1887-1948), and Mary Hamilton MacQueen (1889-1974).
Married ((03?).1944, Basingstoke district, Hampshire) Ruth J. Caudwell
(04.03.1919 - 05.2002); two sons.
|
17.06.1919
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
14.01.1995
Southampton, Hampshire |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.08.1940 [143723]
|
WS/Lt.
|
15.02.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
26.12.1944
|
|
17.08.1940
|
|
|
commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding 13 Platoon (B Company), 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Sicily)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 2 Medium Machine Gun Platoon (Support Company), 1st Battalion The Border Regiment
(Arnhem [evacuated])
|
|
|
McCombe,
David McCulloch
Son of Peter McCombe (1863-1953), and Mary McCulloch (1874-1946).
Married 1st (1927, Blythswood district, Scotland) Margaret Dickson McKee (1904 -
24.08.1934); two daughters.
Married 2nd (01.1943?) Doris Roberts.
|
26.02.1906
Alexandria, Bonhill district, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
-
1972
Harare, Rhodesia |
2nd Lt.
|
07.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
05.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
10.1941 (reld
03.05.1946)
|
local A/Maj.
|
08.1943-08.1943
(for one week)
|
|
Accountant. Came to South Africa for the Empire
Exhibition (1936), and remained there. Working for the Board of Executors Trust,
he became an estate agent.
1939
|
|
|
joined the
Union Defence Force (in a civilian capacity)
|
10.06.1940
|
|
|
joined the
South African Air Force (Johannesburg)
|
07.1940
|
-
|
02.1941
|
commissioned,
Radio Signals Company (Pretoria)
|
02.1941
|
-
|
(03/04?).1941
|
SAAF Signal
Training School (Tempe, Bloemfontein)
|
(03/04?).1941
|
-
|
?
|
Air Force
Station, Kimberley
|
26.07.1942
|
-
|
26.01.1943
|
detached
for Special Duties to the United Kingdom Forces
[to investigate the viability of
establishing an airborne force in South Africa, resulting in his 'Report on
British Airborne Troops with Special Reference to Training and Equipment of
Parachute Troops and Air Landing Troops', dated 15.12.1942; he had embarked on
the SS Stratheard 26.07.1942; in the meantime qualified as a parachutist at
the RAF Central Landing Establishment in Ringway, Manchester & received
glider training]
|
02.1943
|
-
|
04.1944
|
staff
duties (explored the possibility to train South African paratroopers in the
Middle East 08.1943; emplaned to Cairo 04.04.1944)
|
14.04.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to the General Service Corps (Volunteer), and at the same time seconded to the
British Army for duty with Headquarters, Airborne Forces
|
22.06.1944
|
-
|
26.09.1944
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3) (Air), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [wounded
& evacuated])
|
30.09.1944
|
-
|
18.11.1944
|
hospitalized
|
20.12.1944
|
|
|
posted back
to the MAF Depot in Voortrekkerhoogte (arrived back in Pretoria 03.01.1945 and
spent the rest of his time until demobilisation in 1946 in and out of
hospitals)
|
Returned to the Board of Executors (for the last
period of his life in Rhodesia). |
McCooke,
John Brewster
|
25.05.1915
Belfast, Ireland
-
02.01.1992
Stourbridge, West Midlands |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
03.08.1940
[140490]
|
WS/Lt.
|
03.02.1942
(reld < 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
18.12.1942
|
|
Local government officer.
27.10.1939 |
|
|
enlisted |
03.08.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
A Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [captured
19.09.1944])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 91006) in German captivity (20.09.1944-21.09.1944 Enschede;
24.09.1944-26.09.1944 Dulag Luft, Oberursel; 26.09.1944-04.10.1944 Stalag XII-A Limburg an der Lahn;
04.10.1944-16.10.1944 Oflag XII-B, Hadamar; 20.10.1944-12.04.1945 Oflag 79,
Braunschweig) |
|
McCourt,
James Frederick
"Freddie"
Son (with one sister) of Edmund Frederick McCourt
(1884-1942), and Ida Byrne (1886-1941).
Married Carolyn Pickel; two daughters, one son. |
05.08.1918
Montreal, Que., Canada
-
18.11.2004
Ste. Anne's Veterans Hospital, Montreal,
Que., Canada |
|
Security bonds.
08.1940 |
|
|
enlisted |
|
-
|
01.03.1944
|
RRC
|
01.03.1944
|
-
|
|
No. A-34
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
|
|
|
|
Canloan
scheme: CDN/465
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
A Company,
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [captured 20.09.1944])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW in
German captivity (Oflag XII-A, Limberg; Oflag XII-B, Hadamar; Oflag VII-B,
Eichstätt; Oflag VII-A, Moosberg) |
|
-
|
05.09.1945
|
No. 4
District Depot (struck off strength and placed on Reserve Active Officers,
General List)
|
|
McDermont,
Andrew Johnston
"Jack"
Only son of Mr & Mrs James T McDermont, Tredinnock,
Stirling.
Married ((03?).1943, Brentford district,
Middlesex) Beatrice P.H. Cripps (1920 - ); one son.
|
1919
Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
-
22.09.1944
(KIA)
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 6.D.7] |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.03.1943 [268968]
|
WS/Lt.
|
27.09.1943
|
|
30.03.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [emergency commission]
|
02.04.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 3 Platoon (A Company), 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in
action])
|
|
McGowan,
the Reverend Daniel
"Dan"
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of George McGowan (1882-1964), and
Frances Fanny Kenny (1882-1952).
Married ((06?).1947, Clader district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Mabel Cheetham.
From Friern Barnet.
|
12.02.1913
Highgate, St Pancras, London
-
08.07.1981
Brighouse, Claro district, North Yorkshire |
Capt. |
17.08.1943 [287572]
=
Chaplain to the Forces 4th cl. |
|
17.08.1943 |
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission] -
Roman Catholic |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Chaplain,
16th Parachute Field Ambulance (Arnhem [captured) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW (No. 382) in German captivity (Auswertestelle West Oberursel) |
Parish of Brighouse. Left the clergy, 10.1945.
Married and became a parole officer. Struck by polio & rheumatism. |
|
McKenna,
James Lloyd
"Jim"
Son (with six sisters and three brothers) of Cornelius "Con" McKenna
(1870-1947), and Elizabeth McGrath (1879-1947), of
Grand Pabos, Gaspe County, Province of Quebec, Canada.
|
12.08.1918
Chandler, Co. Gaspe, Quebec
-
22.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 6.A.9] |
2nd Lt. |
08.10.1941 |
Lt. |
13.05.1942 |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Fr&G
St |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
CVSM |
08.04.1943 |
& clasp 15.08.1944 |
|
Education: 3 years high school; special M.C.C. civil
service course (diploma of merit equal to junior matriculation).
Clerk in lumber camps & assistant foreman (2 years). Sales manager British
American Oil (2 years). Estates officer, The Royal Trust Co. Ltd., Quebec, Que.
(2 years).
09.10.1940 |
- |
09.11.1940 |
enrolled,
Royal Regiment of Canada - Non-Permament Active Militia of Canada (No. 50
Course, NPAM Training Centre) |
08.10.1941 |
- |
09.10.1941 |
enlisted, District Depot,
Military District
#5, Quebec City (Reinforcements, 20th Quota, Royal Canadian Artillery) |
10.10.1941 |
- |
13.03.1942 |
Officer Training
Centre, Brockville, Ontario
[19.01.1942-05.02.1942 sick with mumps at
Brockville Military Hospital] |
14.03.1942 |
- |
27.07.1942 |
(A-1) Canadian Army Training
Centre, Petawawa, Ontario
[06.07.1942-20.07.1942 leave of absence] |
28.07.1942 |
- |
31.07.1942 |
District
Depot, Military District #3, Ottawa (Miscellaneous Wing) |
01.08.1942 |
- |
15.09.1942 |
2nd
Canadian Parachute Battalion
[qualified
as Lt. in paratroops at Montana, USA 15.08.1942] |
16.09.1942 |
- |
22.09.1942 |
District
Depot, Military District #13 |
23.09.1942 |
- |
04.04.1943 |
troop
officer, A-1 (Royal Canadian Artillery) Army Training Centre, Petawawa, Ontario
[25.09.1942-24.10.1942 sick with duodenal
ulcer at Hospital Petawawa, Military Ward 1] |
05.04.1943 |
- |
16.09.1943 |
Orderly
Officer, Camp Headquarters, Petawawa Military Camp
[01.07.1943-05.07.1943 &
12.08.1943-16.08.1943 & 17.08.1943-23.08.1943 leave of absence] |
16.09.1943 |
- |
28.12.1943 |
A-1 Canadian Army Training
Centre
[completed refresher course 11.1943]
[18.12.1943-28.12.1943 leave of absence] |
29.12.1943 |
- |
06.04.1944 |
A-3
Canadian Army Training Centre, Shilo, Manitoba
[completed
Self-Propelled Artillery course (25 pounder Sexton) & qualified driver in charge
class III (wheel and track) 29.01.1944] |
07.04.1944 |
- |
08.06.1944 |
Officers Training
Centre, Brockville, Ontario
[for special infantry course to British Army]
[31.05.1944-08.06.1944 sick leave] |
09.06.1944 |
- |
16.06.1944 |
A-34
Special Officers' Training Centre, Sussex Military Camp, Sussex, New Brunswick |
17.06.1944 |
|
|
Canloan
List CDN/639 |
17.06.1944 |
- |
24.06.1944 |
embarked
Canada, disembarked UK |
25.06.1944 |
- |
07.07.1944 |
X (IV) List
21 Army Group (103 Reinforcement Group) |
08.07.1944 |
- |
22.09.1944 |
Second-in-Command,
Mortar Platoon (Support Company), 11th Parachute Battalion (UK, emplained
18.09.1944 for Arnhem [killed in
action]) |
|
McLaren,
Robert Leonard
Son of Pte. Peter Melvin McLaren, The
Bedfordshire Regt. (1864-died of wounds in Belgium, 24th October, 1917), and of
Jessie Margaret King (1884-1964).
Married (01.10.1938, St Paul's Church, Harringay, Midddlesex) Violet Brereton
(22.03.1911 - 01.1970), of Eastwood, Essex; one daughter, one son.
|
04.06.1914
London
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Groesbeek Memorial, panel 1]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.12.1941
[220547]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
|
|
|
|
formerly of
the Royal Army Medical Corps
|
20.12.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, F Troop, 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA (Arnhem [killed in
action])
[glider did not arrive]
|
|
McLean,
Duncan
Son of Mr & Mrs A. McLean, of 4, St George's
Terrace, York. |
14.10.1917
Eaglesfield, Dumfries, Scotland
-
? |
2nd Lt. |
24.06.1939
[94824] |
WS/Lt. |
08.12.1940 |
T/Capt. |
08.12.1940-(01.1943),
28.06.1945-(04.1946) |
WS/Capt. |
16.04.1946 |
T/Maj. |
16.04.1946-(04.1947) |
Hon.
Maj. |
1947? |
|
TD |
? |
- |
|
EM |
24.10.1947 |
[cancelled 21.09.1951 due to being awarded TD] |
|
Education: St Peter's School, York (1929-1935; St
Olave's, the Grove & the Rise).
Engineering trainee, Yorkshire Copper Company.
|
|
|
late
Cadet Serjt., St. Peter's School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training
Corps |
24.06.1939 |
|
|
commissioned,
5th Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) -
Territorial Army |
24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized TA |
20.01.1943 |
|
|
transferred,
Royal Armoured Corps |
19.07.1943 |
|
|
transferred,
The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps |
07.1943 |
- |
09.1944 |
served
2nd Parachute Battalion |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Adjutant,
2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured 21.09.1944]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 616) in German captivity (01.10.1944-04.10.1944 Oflag XII-A, Limberg;
04.10.1944-16.10.1944 Oflag XII-B, Hadamar; 20.10.1944-12.04.1945 Oflag 79,
Braunschweig) |
Published:
History of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment : from its formation to the
Battle of Arnhem (1946). |
McMillen,
Christopher John Salter
Son of William John McMillen, and Lettice Sall.
Married ((12?).1940, Crosby district, Lancashire) Margaret Clark; ... children
(one son?).
|
24.06.1916
Namirembe Kampala, Uganda Protectorates
-
22.05.1989
Norton, Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
[St Andrew Churchyard
Norton, Suffolk] |
2nd Lt. TA |
24.08.1935
[65826] |
2nd Lt. |
29.01.1938 |
Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
A/Capt. |
08.01.1941-07.04.1941 |
T/Capt. |
04.10.1940-28.01.1946 |
Capt. |
29.01.1946 |
A/Maj. |
01.03.1946-31.05.1946 |
T/Maj. |
01.06.1946-14.05.1948,
04.06.1949-28.01.1951 |
Maj. |
29.01.1951 (retd
28.04.1960) |
A/Lt.Col. |
26.04.1947-14.07.1947 |
* date of Dutch Royal Decree 31.07.1945 |
24.08.1935 |
|
|
commissioned,
6th Battalion The Essex Regiment - Territorial Army (West Ham) |
29.01.1938 |
|
|
commissioned, The Essex Regiment - Regular Army |
(09.1944) |
|
|
No. 1
Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne) [attached 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ] (Arnhem [evacuated]) |
28.04.1960 |
- |
24.06.1966 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officer [attained age limit] |
|
McNabb
*,
Trevor Victor Patrick
Son (with one brother and three sisters) of
Lt.Cdr. Thomas Benbow McNabb, DSC, RNVR (1881-1955), and Gladys Mary
Edwards (1884-1972), of Kensington, London.
* Army List has (erroneously): McNab
|
28.03.1922
Wimbledon, Kingston district, Surrey
-
27.09.1944
Enschede (DOW sustained while being a POW)
[age 22]
[Enschede Eastern General Cemetery, 195] |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
19.09.1942 [245232] |
WS/Lt. |
19.03.1943 |
|
MID |
24.08.1944 |
Italy
09-11.1943 |
|
Education: St Benedict's School, London.
19.09.1942 |
|
|
commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission] |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron (Arnhem [died as POW]) |
|
McNaught,
Eustace Arthur
|
18.02.1922
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
-
12.10.1992
Yeovil, Somerset |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.01.1943 [259961]
|
WS/Lt.
|
30.07.1943
(reld 15.02.1948)
|
Hon.
Capt.
|
15.02.1948
|
Lt.
(Hon. Capt.) RARO
|
01.01.1949
|
|
30.01.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Assistant
Command Post Officer, 2nd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem)
[glider
did not arrive]
|
30.11.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to the Special Air Service Regiment
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
01.01.1949
|
-
|
?
|
Intelligence
Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Meakin,
Reginald
Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Sidney
John Halsall Meakin (1880-1962), and Minnie Frances Lines (1887-1978). |
14.01.1920
Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
23.02.2001
Liverpool, Lancashire |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.04.1944
[314146]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1944
|
Capt.
|
03.10.1950 (reld
19.10.1964)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
19.10.1964
|
Efficiency Medal (Territorial), 13.12.1949.
|
Clerk, stock exchange.
10.01.1938 |
|
|
enlisted |
01.04.1944
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Glider Pilot Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem
[captured 21.09.1944])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 61756) in German captivity (01.10.1944-05.10.1944 Stalag XII-B, Limburg;
16.10.1944-01.05.1945 Stalag Luft 1, Barth) |
|
|
|
transferred
to The King's Regiment [short service commission]
|
15.05.1954
|
-
|
05.10.1964
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Military Police
|
|
Meikle,
Ian Ormiston
Son of Ormiston and Phyllis Alma Meikle
(née Adams), of
Hornchurch, Essex.
|
16.08.1920
Upminster, Romford district, Essex
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 2.B.11] |
Cadet |
? |
2nd
Lt. |
21.06.1941
[193470] |
WS/Lt. |
01.10.1942 |
|
Education: Wycliffe College (School House,
1933-1938); Open English Scholarship, St John's College, Cambridge (BA).
21.06.1941 |
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
|
|
|
served in
North Africa & Italy |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Gun
Position Officer, B Troop, 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [killed in
action]) |
|
Menzies,
the Reverend
Alastair Charles Vass
Son (with two sisters) of Charles William
Rowe Menzies (1885-1968), local government official, and Edith Evershed Vass
(1885-1976).
Married (03.04.1948, St Mark's Church, Reigate, Surrey South Eastern district,
Surrey) Jean Mary Liell (29.12.1926 - 09.03.2006), daughter (with one brother
and one sister) of Kingsley Liell (195-1980), chartered surveyor, and Iris Mary
Gray (1901-1972); one daughter, three sons.
|
20.09.1916
South East Ham, West Ham district, London
-
17.03.2005
Clare Cottage, Neacroft, Christchurch, Dorset |
Capt.
= Chaplain to the Forces 4th Cl. |
30.10.1941
[205975] (retd 03.01.1946) |
Maj. TA =
Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Cl. |
?
|
|
TD |
15.03.1966 |
- |
|
Education: Woolmore St. School; Coopers Foundation
School; Associate of King's College, London (AKC), 1938; Lichfield Theological
College 10.1938-06.1939; University of London (BA, 2nd cl. History 1952).
Deacon 24.09.1939. Priest 29.09.1940 Lichfield. Curate of Christ Church,
Stafford and Assistant Chaplain to HM Prisons, 24.09.1939-1941.
30.10.1941 |
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission] - Church of
England |
1941 |
- |
1942 |
Chaplain,
70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion The Royal West Kent Regiment & 265th Field
Park Company, RE (UK) |
1942 |
- |
1943 |
Chaplain,
3rd Parachute Battalion (Tunisia) |
(09.)1943 |
- |
20.09.1944 |
Chaplain,
156th Parachute Battalion (Italy, UK, Arnhem [captured]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 90860) in German captivity
(Oflag 79, Braunschweig & Stalag XIIA Limburg) |
(1945) |
|
|
Chaplain,
Grenadier Guards |
? |
- |
12.11.1953 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers |
12.11.1953 |
- |
01.04.1967 |
served
in the Territorial Army (The Royal Fusiliers 1953, The Green Jackets till
1956, 44th Indian Parachute Brigade till 1959, Royal Army Service Corps till
1967) |
01.04.1967 |
- |
? |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers |
Chaplain & Assistant Master, Epsom College and
Licentiate to Officiate Diocese of Guildford 1946-1977. |
|
Michell,
Charles Herbert David
Son of ... Michell, and ... Sainsbury.
Married ((06?).1941, Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset) Pamela R. Dolphin. |
(09?).1918
Devizes district, Wiltshire
-
09.11.1958
The Swan Hotel, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire |
2nd Lt. |
26.06.1937
[72247] |
WS/Lt. |
26.06.1940 |
|
|
|
|
late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Monkton Combe School Contingent,
Junior Division, Officer Training Corps |
26.06.1937 |
|
|
commissioned,
4th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army |
? |
|
|
transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery |
24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized
TA |
03.11.1942 |
|
|
transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment
- Army Air Corps |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Section
Commander, A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem) |
|
Millar,
Gerrard Roland
"Dusty"
|
03.09.1916
Buttevant, Cork, Ireland
-
26.09.1999 |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.03.1941
[176150]
|
WS/Lt.
|
25.08.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
01.03.1945
|
Lt.
|
01.12.1946,
seniority 25.08.1941
|
Capt.
|
? (reld
01.12.1953; disability)
|
Hon. Maj.
|
01.12.1953
|
|
MID
|
08.11.1945
|
services
in the field
|
|
01.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
19.09.1942
|
|
|
transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment
- Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
01.12.1946
|
-
|
01.12.1953
|
short
service commission
|
|
Miller,
Cecil Ralph
|
13.11.1917
Brighton, Steyning, Sussex
-
19.02.2011
Edinburgh, Scotland |
2nd Lt.
|
27.05.1936 [67820]
|
Lt.
|
27.05.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
02.12.1939
|
Capt.
TA
|
01.05.1947
17.02.1948 substituted for 11.04.1945
|
A/Maj.
TA
|
23.03.1949
|
Maj.
TA
|
12.04.1953,
seniority 23.03.1949
|
|
TD
|
?
|
?
|
|
TD
|
20.06.1950
|
?
|
|
Education: Harrow School (1931.3-1935.2); Trinity
College, Cambridge.
|
|
|
late
Cadet, Harrow School Contingent, Junior division, Officer Training Corps
|
27.05.1936
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Army (7th Battalion)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
27.01.1943
|
|
|
transferred, Parachute Regiment
- Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3) (Air), 1st Parachute Brigade (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 52798) in German captivity (Stalag IXC, Bad Sulza) |
?
|
-
|
03.10.1955
|
served
Territorial Army
|
12.04.1950
|
-
|
?
|
seconded
for service on the Staff
|
03.10.1955
|
-
|
?
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Miller,
Joseph Esmond
Son of Col. John Francis Xavier Miller, OBE.
Married
(1946)
Kathleen Veronica LochéeBayne; one son. |
22.09.1914
Darlington
-
03.02.1990
Salisbury, Wiltshire |
Lt.
|
19.12.1940,
seniority 01.09.1940 [163133]
|
A/Capt.
|
14.03.1941-13.06.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
14.06.1941-18.12.1941
|
Capt.
|
19.12.1941,
seniority 01.09.1941
|
A/Maj.
|
03.11.1943-02.02.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
03.02.1944-31.08.1948
|
Maj.
|
01.09.1948
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
27.01.1951-07.11.1958
|
Lt.Col.
|
08.11.1958
|
Col.
|
01.09.1963
|
Brig.
|
01.03.1971
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
04.12.1973
|
Maj.Gen.
|
01.01.1974 (retd
21.01.1976)
|
1939-1945 Star; Italy Star; France & Germany
Star; DM; WM; GSM & clasp Arabian Peninsula; QEII Coronation Medal (1953) |
Education: St George's College, Weybridge; London
University (St Bartholomew's Hospital). MRCS, LRCP; MRCGP; MFCM; MBIM.
Qualified, July 1940. Fellow RoySocMed; Mem., BMA; psc (1948)
19.12.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
|
1940
|
-
|
1942
|
RAMC Depot
|
1942
|
-
|
1945
|
Airborne
Forces (N Africa, Sicily, Italy, Holland, Germany):
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Regimental
Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicily)
|
03.11.1943
|
-
|
25.09.1944
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 52985) in German captivity (Stalag IXC, Mühlhausen, Hessen) |
01.09.1945
|
|
|
from
short service commission
|
1945
|
-
|
1947
|
RAMC
Depot
|
18.02.1949
|
-
|
04.08.1950
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS),
HQ Middle East Land Forces (Egypt)
|
16.10.1950
|
-
|
23.11.1950
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS),
... Infantry Division (Middle East)
|
1950
|
-
|
1954
|
Commanding
Officer, 35 Field Ambulance (Tripoli & Egypt)
|
1954
|
-
|
1957
|
Senior
Medical Officer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
|
1957
|
-
|
1959
|
Commanding
Officer, 4 Field Ambulance (Germany)
|
1959
|
-
|
1961
|
Commanding
Officer, 10 Brigade Group Medical Company (Aden)
|
17.03.1961
|
-
|
01.10.1961
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services (ADMS),
HQ Middle East Command (Aden)
|
01.12.1961
|
-
|
1965
|
Officer-in-Charge
& Chief Instructor, Field Training Centre & HQ AER RAMC
|
1965
|
-
|
1968
|
Commanding
Officer, British Military Hospital Hong Kong
|
1968
|
-
|
1969
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services (ADMS),
4th Division (Germany)
|
1969
|
-
|
1971
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services (DDMS),
HQ British Army of the Rhine
|
1971
|
-
|
1972
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services (DDMS),
HQ Scotland (Army)
|
1972
|
-
|
1973
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services (DDMS),
HQ UK Land Forces
|
04.12.1973
|
-
|
24.12.1975
|
Director
of Medical Services (DMS),
HQ UK Land Forces
|
Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, 1973-21.01.1976. OStJ 1964, CStJ 1975.
|
Miller,
Terence George
Only son of late George Frederick Miller,
Cambridge, and late Marion Johnston, Port William, Wigtownshire.
Married (1944) Inga Catriona, 3rd daughter of Austin Priestman, MD,
Folkestone, Kent; one son, three daughters.
|
16.01.1918
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
-
17.01.2015
Hunstanton, Norfolk |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.06.1940
[134055]
|
WS/Lt.
|
15.12.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
06.06.1943-...,
12.10.1945-...
|
WS/Capt.
|
?
|
Capt. TA
|
03.02.1949,
seniority 24.04.1946
|
A/Maj. TA
|
06.05.1950
|
Maj. TA
|
16.01.1952,
seniority 06.05.1950
|
Lt.Col. AERO
|
26.07.1965,
seniority 02.07.1964
|
|
TD
|
17.03.1961
|
?
|
|
Education: Perse (foundn schol.); Jesus College,
Cambridge (schol.; Nat. Sci. Tripos, pt 1 cl. 1, pt 2 cl. 1); MA (Cantab)
Wiltshire Prizeman, 1939.
15.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
10.10.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 3 Flight (B Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem
[captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 6177) in German captivity (Stalag Luft 1, Barth) |
03.02.1949
|
-
|
12.05.1953
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers (Unattached List) - Territorial Army
|
13.05.1953
|
-
|
31.03.1967
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
|
01.04.1967
|
-
|
14.10.1967
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve (Category
II)
|
15.10.1967
|
|
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers - Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)
|
Harkness Scholar, 1948; Research
Fellow, Jesus College, 1949-1954.
University Demonstrator, 1948; Lecturer in Geology, University of
Keele, 1953; Senior Lecturer, 1963, Professor of Geography, University of
Reading, 1965-1967; Principal, University College of Rhodesia, 1967-1969; Visiting
Professor, Reading University, 1969-1971. Director,
Polytechnic of North London, 1971-1980.
Published: Geology (1950); Geology and Scenery in Britain (1953);
scientific papers in various journals.
|
Miller,
Thomas Visger
Son of Thomas Miller, and Frances Joyce G. O'Dwyer
(formerly Mrs John S. Harrison) (1890-).
Married; ... children (one daughter?). |
26.01.1921
Bath, Somerset
-
02.11.1997
Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London |
Cadet L/Cpl. |
? |
2nd Lt. |
22.04.1939
[89654] |
WS/Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
T/Capt. |
1944? |
Lt. |
31.08.1946,
seniority 26.07.1943 |
Capt. |
26.01.1948 (retd
25.07.1952) |
|
|
|
|
late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Charterhouse School Contingent, Officer Training Corps |
22.04.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers |
24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized |
(09.1944) |
|
|
No. 1
Forward Observation Unit RA [attached 4th Parachute Brigade HQ] (Arnhem [wounded
& captured 19.09.1944]) |
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 608) in German captivity (20.09.1944-27.09.1944 hospital Siegburg;
29.09.1944-05.10.1944 Oflag XII-A, Limburg; 05.10.1944-16.10.1944 Oflag XII-B,
Hadmar; 20.10.1944-04.1945 Oflag 79, Braunschweig) |
31.08.1946 |
- |
25.07.1952 |
permanent
[short service?] commission |
|
Mills,
Gordon Thomas
Son of Trevor Wallace Mills (1890--1968), and Rose Lena Pitt
Rees (1889-1952).
Married ((06?).1940, East Glamorgan) Sybil Llewellyn, of Whitchurch, Glamorgan;
one daughter.
|
(12?).1916
Cardiff, Glamorganshire
-
28.09.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[Rhenen General Cemetery, 27.A.1] |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.11.1941 [220201]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
MID
|
11.04.1946
|
Arnhem
09.1944
|
|
27.11.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
25.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 11 Flight (E Squadron, No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Mills,
Kenneth Stanley
"Ken"
Son (with one sister) of Stanley Charles Mills (1888-1974), and Hilda Mary Mills
(1893-1956), of
Bristol.
|
14.03.1923
India
-
23.09.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[Enschede Eastern General Cemetery, 199] |
2nd Lt.
|
05.12.1942 [255204]
|
WS/Lt.
|
05.06.1943
|
|
05.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
|
26.11.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, D Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
Milo,
Peter Middleton
Elder son of Middleton Frank Augustine Milo
(1891-1951), and Millicent Alford (1890-).
Married Pauline Rachel Bromwell (08.07.1929 - 19.01.2007). |
16.12.1919
Croydon, Surrey
-
12.12.1986
Chichester, West Sussex |
2nd
Lt.
|
18.05.1940
[130630]
|
WS/Lt.
|
18.11.1941
|
Lt.
|
15.12.1945,
seniority 16.06.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
01.07.1943-30.09.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
01.10.1943-21.08.1944
|
WS/Capt.
|
22.08.1944
|
Capt.
|
16.12.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
22.05.1944-21.08.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
22.08.1944-09.06.1945,
13.12.1946-31.03.1948,
17.04.1953-15.12.1953
|
Maj.
|
16.12.1953
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
18.10.1960-15.04.1962
|
Lt.Col.
|
16.04.1962
(supernumerary 16.04.1965)
(retd 16.03.1968)
|
local
Col.
|
27.10.1964
|
|
Education: Tonbridge School (1933-1937; Parkside); psc
|
|
|
served
in the ranks for 264 days (Rifleman, 2nd Queen Victoria's Rifles)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
(TA)
|
1939 |
- |
1940 |
168 & 170 Officer
Cadet Training Units |
18.05.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission to 14.12.1945]
|
12.06.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, C Company, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 52947) in German captivity (Stalag IXC, Bad Sulza) |
15.12.1945
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Cheshire Regiment [permanent commission]
|
08.02.1950
|
-
|
08.02.1951
|
Staff
Captain "A", HQ BTB
|
17.04.1953
09.01.1954
|
-
-
|
29.12.1953
11.03.1954
|
Brigade
Major, ... Infantry Brigade
|
12.04.1954
|
-
|
21.04.1956
|
Instructor,
Joint School for Chemical Warfare
|
18.06.1956
|
-
|
29.06.1958
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2),
Gibraltar (10.09.1956-29.06.1956 MA Rabat)
|
18.10.1960
|
-
|
13.03.1962
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2),
British Joint Staff Mission, Washington
|
16.04.1962
|
-
|
21.04.1964
|
Deputy
Commandant, Mercian Brigade Depot
|
27.10.1964
|
-
|
(02.1967)
|
Military
Attaché (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) Stockholm
|
|
Mobbs,
Gerald Aubrey
"Gerry"
Married Elizabeth Lanchester; at least one
son (Sir Nigel Mobbs).
|
21.03.1911
Northampton, Northamptonshire
-
06.08.1976
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire |
Lt.
|
22.09.1939 [100118]
|
WS/Capt.
|
01.06.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
01.06.1940
|
WS/Maj.
|
11.02.1943 (retd
08.12.1945;
disability)
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
11.02.1943
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
08.12.1945
|
|
22.09.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Administrative Branch [emergency commission]
|
30.07.1940
|
-
|
(04.1941)
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, ...
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Assistant
Director of Ordnance Services, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [wounded,
captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 140266) in German captivity (Stalag VIIA, Moosburg) |
Re-joined Slough Estates in 1945, a company of which he had been made a director during
1944. He served as a director of Slough Estates until his retirement in March 1976, his 65th birthday. Successively he was an executive director, chief
executive and managing director, and from 1971 to 1976 chairman. He also held at one time a non-executive directorship of Horlicks. He was High Sheriff
of the county of Buckinghamshire in 1962/3 and subsequently was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county until his death. |
Monsell,
John Humphrey Arnold [de la Poer]
"Johnny"
|
18.08.1916
Kensington, London
-
11.1989
Barnstaple, Devon |
2nd Lt.
|
31.12.1939 [112889]
|
Lt.
|
01.07.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
03.12.1941-02.03.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
03.03.1942-...,
11.11.1945-...
|
Capt.
|
09.05.1946 (retd
17.09.1947)
|
Lt.
|
02.09.1952,
seniority 25.02.1947
|
Capt.
|
02.09.1952,
seniority 16.12.1950
|
|
09.1937
|
|
|
served
in the ranks for 3 years, 108 days
|
31.12.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Medium Machine Gun Platoon (Support Company), 2nd Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 562) in German captivity (30.09.1944-05.10.1944 Dulag XII-B, Hadamar;
05.10.1944-12.04.1945 Oflag 79, Braunschweig) |
02.09.1952
|
-
|
25.09.1955
|
short
service commission
|
26.09.1955
|
-
|
?
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Montgomery,
Hector
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Victor
Edward Montgomery (1894-), and Marjorie Mabel Maud Miller (1894-1986)..
Married ((03?).1944, Hammersmith district, London) Katherine Anne Field
(1914 - 2007); two sons.
|
29.04.1917
Paddington district, Greater London /
London / Middlesex
-
14.01.2012
Alton, Hampshire |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
22.10.1939 [105125] |
WS/Lt. |
22.04.1941 (reld
16.02.1946;
disability) |
T/Capt. |
04.06.1943 |
Hon. Capt. |
16.02.1946 |
Efficiency Medal (Territorial), 28.01.1949. |
22.10.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) [emergency
commission] |
01.11.1942 |
|
|
transferred, Parachute Regiment
- Army Air Corps |
(1942) |
|
|
151st
Parachute Battalion (India) |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Second-in-Command,
B Company, 156th Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem) |
Sales manager, Woking, Surrey. |
|
Montgomery,
Thomas Everard
Son of Thomas Alexander and Gladys Montgomery;
husband of Lavender Montgomery, of Kilshannig, Co. Cork, Irish Republic.
|
04.01.1908
Fiji
-
21.11.1944
(DOW) [age 36]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Spec. Mem.]
Buried at the time in Lingen Cemetery, Germany, but whose grave is now lost. |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
14.12.1940 [160794]
|
WS/Capt.
|
10.10.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
10.10.1943
|
|
14.12.1940
|
|
|
commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, A Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
21.11.1944 |
POW
in German captivity (M. Stammlager VI/C Bathorn) [died of wounds] |
|
Moore,
Francis Pepys Durie
"Frank"
Married ((12?).1946, Kensington district,
London) Barbara G. Pusey; two sons, one daughter.
|
24.02.1924
-
16.12.2014
Petworth, West Sussex |
Cadet |
? |
2nd Lt. |
24.04.1943 [271510] |
WS/Lt. |
24.10.1943 |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
It
St |
- |
- |
|
Fr&G
St |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
GenSM |
- |
- |
? |
? |
- |
- |
|
24.04.1943 |
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
1943 |
- |
1944 |
1st Airlanding Light
Regiment RA (UK, Italy) |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Troop
Leader, F Troop, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery, 1st Airlanding Light
Regiment RA (Arnhem [evacuated]) |
08.10.1945 |
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment (cancelled 07.01.1947) |
Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural
Engineers (FIAgrE) since 1954. Designer of the innovative Moore Mower. |
Moorwood,
Stanley James Duffield
|
01.09.1918
Sheffield, Yorkshire
-
05.02.1985
Andover, Hampshire |
Cadet L/Cpl.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
03.06.1939
[89110]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
16.05.1945
|
|
03.06.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, The York and Lancaster Regiment (Hallamshire Battalion) - Territorial
Army (late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Oakham School Contingent, Junior Division,
Officer Training Corps)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
08.11.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, D Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
Solicitor, Shamley Green, Surrey. |
Morley,
Wilfred David Clarence
"Wilf"
|
07.05.1920
Edmonton, Oxfordshire
-
31.03.1995
Bromley, Kent |
Cadet
|
? [T/76292]
|
2nd Lt.
|
03.09.1943 [292711]
|
WS/Lt.
|
03.03.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
03.09.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Parachute Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 1 Provost Section with 1st Parachute Brigade (Arnhem)
|
|
Morris,
?
|
?
-
|
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned
into ? [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
APO (Army
Postal Officer?), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)
|
|
Morrison,
the Reverend James
Gilbert
Youngest of five children of
the Rev.
James Horne Morrison, MA, minister of the United Free Church.
Married (24.05.1944, Ulverston, Lancashire) Jean Calderbank, daughter of James
Calderbank, of Ulverston; three sons.
|
23.11.1915
Falkland, Fife, Scotland
-
12.11.2008
Cambridge (formerly of Rhonehouse and
Kirkpatrick Durham) |
Capt.
|
27.02.1942 = Chaplain to the
Forces 4th Cl. [225398] [emergency commission]
|
Capt.
|
01.07.1946 = Chaplain to the
Forces 4th Cl. [permanent commission]
|
zA/Maj.
|
01.07.1945-30.09.1945
= A/Chaplain to the
Forces 3rd Cl.
|
T/Maj.
|
01.10.1945-30.04.1950
= T/Chaplain to the
Forces 3rd Cl.
|
Maj.
|
01.05.1950 = Chaplain to the
Forces 3rd Cl.
|
Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1960 = Chaplain to the
Forces 2nd Cl. (retd 23.11.1970)
|
|
MBE
|
14.06.1980
|
HM's
birthday 1980: for seervices to the British community in Rotterdam
|
|
MID
|
23.05.1958
|
Malaya
08-12.1957
|
|
Education: University of Aberdeen, MA (1937).
On staff of Church of Scotland Huts & Canteens Commission, 1940-1942.
27.02.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission to 30.06.1946] - Church of
Scotland
|
14.01.1943
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Chaplain, 7th
Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 93304) in German captivity (Stalag XIIA, Limburg) |
01.07.1946
|
|
|
permanent
commision (served Cyprus, France, Aden, Malaysia, Germany & UK)
|
08.11.1948
|
-
|
03.01.1952
|
Staff
Chaplain, British Army of the Rhine
|
25.01.1952
|
-
|
18.07.1955
|
Senior
Chaplain to the Forces, Aldershot District
|
08.01.1960
|
-
|
21.08.1960
|
Senior
Chaplain to the Forces, BFAP (1st Bn Royal highland Fusiliers)
|
1970
|
-
|
1970
|
Chaplain,
Cyprus
|
Minister, The Scots Church (Presbyterian) at
Rotterdam (Neth.), 1972-1981. |
Morrison,
John Alexander
Son of ... Morrison, and Dorothy H. ... (1894-). |
20.02.1919
Karachi, India
-
26.01.2001 ?
South Africa |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.06.1939
[88880]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
18.01.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
31.03.1943-...,
19.08.1945-... (retd 1946)
|
Maj TA
|
?
|
|
TD
|
12.12.1950
|
?
|
|
Education: Perth Academy; Skerry’s College,
Edinburgh.
Insurance clerk.
|
|
|
served in
the Honourable Artillery Company
|
07.06.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - Territorial Army
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
20.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 5 Flight (D Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [captured 19.09.1944])
|
09.1944 |
- |
05.1945 |
POW
(No. 5979) in German captivity (24.09.1944-30.09.1944 Dulag Luft, Frankfurt;
02.10.1944-01.05.1945 Stalag Luft 1, Barth) |
Management position within a major South African company.
Published: Silent invader : a glider pilot's story of the invasion of
Europe in World War II (1999) |
Morrissey,
Dennis Richard Lawrence
|
04.07.1910
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
(03?).1975
Dover district, Kent |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
18.05.1940 [130361]
|
WS/Capt.
|
15.02.1942 (retd
04.07.1947;
disability)
|
T/Maj.
|
10.07.1943
|
Hon. Maj.
|
04.07.1947
|
|
18.05.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) [emergency commission]
|
15.05.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
27.02.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, HQ Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem; wounded [captured])
|
09.1944
|
-
|
(04?).1945
|
POW
(No. 140228) in German captivity (Stalag VII-A at Moosburg an der Isar, Bayern)
|
|
Mortlock,
Douglas Gerald
"Digby"
|
24.12.1920
Fulham district, Greater London
-
02.1990 still alive
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.10.1941
[212936]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
Lt.
|
01.02.1947,
seniority 24.06.1943
|
A/Capt.
|
23.04.1943-22.07.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
23.07.1943-08.07.1945,
28.08.1945-29.09.1946
|
WS/Capt.
|
30.09.1946
|
Capt.
|
24.12.1947
|
A/Maj.
|
30.06.1946-29.09.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
30.09.1946-23.04.1950,
25.01.1951-23.12.1954
|
Maj.
|
24.12.1954
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
02.04.1962-10.07.1962
|
Lt.Col.
|
11.07.1962
(supernumerary 11.07.1965) (retd 01.12.1967)
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks for 219 days
|
11.10.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission to 31.01.1947]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Brigade
RASC Officer, 1st Parachute Brigade (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 76774) in German captivity (Stalag XIIA, Limburg) |
15.07.1965
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
Morton,
Richard Elwin
"Dicky"
Son of ... Morton, and ... Taylor. |
04.05.1917
Newton Abbot district, Devon
-
08.1997
Yeovil, Somerset |
2nd Lt.
|
22.02.1941
[174530]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.08.1942
|
Lt.
|
19.07.1947,
seniority 04.11.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
11.03.1943-10.06.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
11.06.1943-15.01.1944,
16.03.1944-18.07.1947
|
Capt.
|
19.07.1947,
seniority 01.07.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
01.04.1952-06.05.1952,
09.05.1952-27.08.1952
|
Maj.
|
04.05.1953
|
Lt.Col.
|
31.08.1960 (retd
02.12.1962)
|
|
MID
|
07.01.1949
|
Palestine
09.47-03.1948
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks 1 year 38 days
|
22.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency
commission to 18.07.1947]
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command, C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem
[captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 91816) in German captivity (Stalag XIIA, Limburg) |
19.07.1947
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [permanent commission]
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
|
Moy-Thomas,
Edward Alfred
Son of Alan and Gertrude Moy-Thomas, of Monte Carlo.
Married (29.04.1936, St George's, Bloomsbury, Holborn district, London) Wilma Mary
Marsden (20.08.1914 - 02.2006) [she remarried to Frederick Laws], of Highgate, Middlesex, daughter of
Mr & Mrs Wilfred Marsden, Keeper of Printed Books of the British Museum;
two children.
His brother F/Lt. James Alan Moy-Thomas RAFVR was killed in a road accident
(29.02.1944).
|
09.03.1910
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
20.09.1944
(KIA) [age 34]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 16.B.15] |
2nd Lt.
|
07.09.1940 [148593]
|
WS/Lt.
|
07.03.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
Education: Eton (R.A. Young's); Christ Church.
Worked for Messrs. France, Fenwick, shipowners.
08.1939
|
|
|
volunteered
for service in an anti-aircraft battery of the Honourable Artillery Company
|
|
|
|
Officer
Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
|
07.09.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency
commission]
|
|
|
|
took part
in the airborne invasion of Sicily, then Taranto & Foggia
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Staff
Captain, 1st Airlanding Brigade (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Muir,
Iain
Colquhoun
Son of William Clark Muir and Margaret Welsh Muir (née Miller), of Muswell Hill, Middlesex.
|
15.02.1922
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
25.09.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 3.C.15]
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.02.1941 [172724]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.08.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
MID
|
22.03.1945
|
NW
Europe (Normandy)
|
|
22.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
05.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 22 Flight (D Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Munford,
Dennis Stewart
Son of ... Munford, and ... Burton.
Married Audrey Grace (née ...) (died 26.01.2007,
aged 85).
|
16.09.1912
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
27.02.2002
Waveney, Suffolk
[age 89] |
Gnr.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
08.06.1940 [134902]
|
WS/Lt.
|
08.12.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
09.11.1942
|
WS/Capt.
|
26.01.1944 (retd
29.08.1951)
|
A/Maj.
|
1944?
|
Hon. Maj.
|
29.08.1951
|
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
It
St |
- |
- |
|
Fr&G
St |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
EM |
28.03.1989 |
- |
|
BSM |
? |
? |
|
BL |
08.11.1945 |
Arnhem
09.1944 * [date of Dutch Royal Decree
09.02.46] |
|
08.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [captured])
|
09.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW
(No. 76239) in German captivity (Oflag XIIB, Hadamar) |
Retired Colonial Service official, Southwold,
Suffolk. |
Murdoch,
Barry
|
15.10.1917
-
01.11.2001
Southamton, Hampshire |
2nd Lt.
|
26.08.1937
[73111]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.05.1940
|
Lt.
|
26.08.1940
|
A/Capt.
|
01.02.1940-30.04.1940
|
T/Capt.
|
01.05.1940-02.11.1942,
06.03.1943-25.07.1945
|
WS/Capt.
|
26.07.1945
|
Capt.
|
26.08.1945
|
A/Maj.
|
26.04.1945-25.07.1945
|
T/Maj.
|
26.07.1945-02.11.1947,
15.09.1949-25.08.1950
|
Maj.
|
26.08.1950 (retd
15.10.1972)
|
local Lt.Col.
|
15.06.1956-25.05.1958
|
|
26.08.1937
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Lincolnshire Regiment
|
21.04.1939
|
-
|
?
|
temporary
Adjutant, 4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
|
06.03.1943
|
-
|
13.04.1943
|
Adjutant,
...
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 8 Flight (D Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem)
|
03.02.1948
|
|
|
transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
Murray,
Alexander Donald Milles
Elder son of Brig. Cyril Alexander 'Alick' George Octavius Murray (1887-1960),
formerly of The KOSB, and Marjorie Lilias Milles (died 1965), of Philipburn, Selkirk.
|
06.04.1925
Kensington district, London
-
18.09.1944
Oosterbeek
(KIA) [age 19]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 16.C.18] |
Cadet
|
? [14425786]
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.02.1944 [311345]
|
WS/Lt.
|
1944?
|
|
Prefect and
Head of House (Bramston's), Winchester College, 1943.
25.02.1944
|
|
|
commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 5 Platoon (B Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Murray,
Douglas Campbell
Son of Jack Murray, and Emma Wilks, of Fleetwood,
Lancashire.
Married Hilda Parkinson; one son.
|
17.04.1913
Fleetwood, Fylde district, Lancashire
-
22.01.2005
Battle Hospital, Reading, Berkshire |
2nd Lt.
|
29.09.1939,
seniority 13.08.1939 [106883]
|
WS/Lt.
|
13.02.1941
|
WS/Capt.
|
19.03.1943 (reld
08.1945)
|
A/Maj. ?
|
12.1942?-03.1943?
|
T/Maj.
|
19.03.1943-(09.1944)
|
|
Chartered civil engineer. AMICE.
13.08.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Corps of Engineers - Supplementary Reserve
of Officers
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
08.1939
|
|
|
attached,
107th Army Troops Company RE (summer camp)
|
10.1939
|
-
|
11.1939
|
attached,
50th Divisional Engineers (UK)
|
11.1939
|
-
|
01.1940
|
48th
Divisional Engineers (UK
|
01.1940
|
-
|
11.1941
|
Section
Officer, 253rd Field Company RE (France & Belgium 01.1940-06.1940, then
UK)
|
11.1941
|
-
|
01.1942
|
Section
Officer, 103rd Army Troops Company RE (Marine Division)
|
01.1942
|
-
|
09.1944
|
1st Parachute Squadron RE
(Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, UK & Arnhem [captured 22.09.1944])
|
01.1942
|
-
|
12.1942
|
Second-in-Command
|
12.1942
|
-
|
09.1944
|
Officer
Commanding
|
09.1944
|
-
|
04.1945
|
POW
(No. 607) in
German captivity (02.10.1944-04.10.1944 Oflag XI-B, Limburg;
04.10.1944-16.10.1944 Oflag XII-B, Hadamar; Oflag 79, Braunschweig
22.10.1944-24.04.1945) (another
POW card)
|
Post-war he became Chief Engineer for Reading, Berkshire.
|
Murray,
Francis Anthony Stoddard
"Tony"
Son of ... Murray, and ... Cameron.
|
28.09.1918
Hillhead district, Scotland
-
16.02.1965
Tain district, Scotland |
2nd Lt. |
26.01.1939
[85686] |
WS/Lt. |
25.12.1940 |
Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
A/Capt. |
18.09.1940-28.10.1940,
04.11.1940-24.12.1940 |
T/Capt. |
25.12.1940-05.03.1941,
07.06.1941-25.06.1942, 14.04.1943-15.09.1943 |
WS/Capt. |
16.09.1943 |
Capt. |
01.07.1946 |
A/Maj. |
16.06.1943-15.09.1943 |
T/Maj. |
16.09.1943-19.02.1947 |
WS/Maj. |
20.02.1947 |
Maj. |
26.01.1952 |
A/Lt.Col. |
20.11.1946-19.02.1947 |
T/Lt.Col. |
20.02.1947-28.01.1949 |
|
MC |
09.11.1944 |
Arnhem
09.1944 |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Afr
St |
- |
& clasp 1st Army |
|
Bur
St |
- |
- |
|
It
St |
- |
- |
|
Fr&G
St |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
Gen SM |
- |
& clasp Malaya & clasp Palestine 1945-48 |
|
MID |
27.04.1951 |
? |
|
26.01.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry |
|
|
|
attached
Army Air Corps |
(09.1944) |
|
|
Officer
Commanding, F Squadron (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem) |
|
Murray,
Iain Arthur
Only son of Lt.Col. Sir Malcolm
Donald Murray (1867-1938), and Lady
Hilda Joanna Gwendoline Finch
(1872-1931).
Married 1st (15.12.1932; divorced 1946) Angela
Houssemayne Du Boulay (17.10.1912 - 27.09.2001), daughter of Lt.Col.
Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay; two daughters.
Married 2nd (16.01.1947; divorced 1959) Anne Drummond
(30.06.1911 - 1985), daughter of Hon. Rupert
Drummond.
|
17.09.1904
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
23.01.1986
Maidstone district, Kent
[age 81] |
2nd Lt.
|
18.09.1939
[99246]
|
WS/Lt.
|
10.08.1940
|
T/Capt.
|
10.08.1940
|
WS/Maj.
|
02.06.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
02.06.1943
|
Hon.
Lt.Col.
|
1945/46
(retd)
|
|
Education: Eton College.
Page of Honour to HM George V, 1917-1921.
18.09.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
|
13.05.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
No. 1 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|
|
Myers,
Edmund Charles Wolf
"Eddie"
Of Jewish descent.
Elder son of late Dr Charles Samuel Myers, CBE,
FRS and Edith Seligman.
Married (12.10.1943) Louisa Mary Hay (died 1995), elder
daughter of late Aldred Bickham SweetEscott; one daughter.
From Minehead, Somerset.
|
12.10.1906
Kensington, London
-
06.12.1997
Stow-on-the- Wold, Gloucestershire |
2nd Lt.
|
30.08.1926
[36717]
|
Lt.
|
30.08.1929
|
Capt.
|
30.08.1937
|
A/Maj.
|
08.02.1940-07.05.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
08.05.1940-05.04.1942
|
WS/Maj.
|
06.04.1942
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
10.02.1941-08.03.1941,
02.02.1942-05.04.1942
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
06.04.1942-01.07.1943
|
WS/Lt.Col.
|
02.07.1943
|
A/Col.
|
03.08.1942-30.09.1942,
01.03.1943-01.07.1943
|
T/Col.
|
02.07.1943-09.02.1944,
23.07.1945-31.03.1946
|
Col.
|
12.12.1949
[supernumerary 12.12.1955]
|
A/Brig.
|
01.03.1943-31.08.1943
|
T/Brig.
|
01.09.1943-09.02.1944,
28.02.1944-14.08.1944
|
Brig.
|
07.02.1955
(retd 01.07.1959)
|
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp; Africa Star; Italy Star; France &
Germany Star
|
Education: Haileybury; Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich; Caius College, Cambridge (BA, CEng, MICE); psc, fs
30.08.1926
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Corps of Royal Engineers
|
1936
|
|
|
served
Palestine
|
08.02.1940
|
-
|
15.03.1940
|
Staff
Officer Royal Engineers, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
|
12.03.1941
|
-
|
17.01.1942
|
GSO2, ...
[part of 7th Armoured Division?]
|
02.02.1942
|
-
|
02.08.1942
|
GOS1, ...
[part of 7th Armoured Division?]
|
03.08.1942
|
-
|
30.09.1942
|
Deputy
Director ME
|
01.10.1942
|
-
|
28.02.1943
|
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Field Staff (Commander, British Military Mission to Greek Resistance Forces,
SOE)
|
01.03.1943
|
-
|
09.02.1944
|
Director
Special Operations (MO4)
|
28.02.1944
|
-
|
14.08.1944
|
MO1 UK
|
(09.1944)
|
-
|
(1945)
|
Commander
Royal Engineers, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [evacuated]; Norway)
|
23.07.1945
|
-
|
28.02.1946
|
Colonel
General Staff, South East Asia Command
|
01.04.1946
|
-
|
13.10.1948
|
SO1,
Joint Iintelligence Board,
Ministry of Defence
|
12.12.1949
|
-
|
16.05.1951
|
Colonel
General Staff (GSO1), War Office
|
1951
|
-
|
1952
|
served
Korea (1st Commonwealth Division)
|
12.12.1952
|
-
|
10.12.1954
|
Colonel
General Staff, RAF Staff College
|
07.02.1955
|
-
|
03.02.1956
|
Chief
Engineer (Brigadier), HQ British Troops in Egypt
|
30.04.1956
|
-
|
1959
|
Deputy
Director Personnel Administration, War
Office
|
Secretary, Royal Engineers Flying Club, 1934-1935.
Chief Civil Engineer Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. Ltd, 1959-1964.
Construction Manager, Power Gas Corp. Ltd, Davy-Ashmore Group, 1964-1967.
Regional Sec., British Field Sports Soc., 1968-1971.
Published: Greek entanglement (1955). |