Officers of the British Army 1939-1945 -- A

British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Akerman,
William Philip Jopp
W.P.J. Akerman

Son (with two brothers and four sisters) of William Savage Akerman (1850-1937), and Katherine Antoinette Jopp (1856-1935), of the Mount, Burnham, Somerset.
Married 1st (30.07.1920, Holy Trinity, Brompton) Olga Phyllis Steevens ((03?).1896 - 27.12.1922), only daughter of Maj.Gen. Sir John Steevens, KCB, and Alice Kate Blackburn; one daughter.
Married 2nd (25.10.1925) Annie Alexander (21.05.1904 - 08.1998), elder daughter of late Maj.Gen. Ernest Wright Alexander, VC, CB, CMG (1870-1934), and Rose Newcome (1883-1935); one son, two daughters.

16.01.1888
Wembdon, Somerset
-
22.02.1971
Churt, near Farnham, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.07.1908 [4237]
Lt.	29.07.1911
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj. TF	14.03.1917-21.03.1918
Maj.	22.03.1918
A/Lt.Col. TF	05.11.1918-04.12.1918
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1928
Col.	16.10.1934, seniority 01.07.1931
local Maj.Gen.	29.08.1939-01.10.1939
Maj.Gen.	02.10.1939, seniority 19.06.1938 (retd 05.07.1942)

CB	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41
DSO	01.01.1918	?
DSO	01.01.1919	?
MC	17.04.1916	?
MID	05.04.1916	? (twice mentioned)
MID	13.07.1916	?
MID	14.12.1917	?
MID	23.12.1918	?

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal

Education: Oundle School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; idc, psc.

29.07.1908			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1908	-	1914	served in India
01.11.1914	-	24.08.1915	served in Mesopotamia (wounded three times)
13.03.1917	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium
10.05.1919	-	22.01.1922	Major Instructor in Gunnery, School of Instruction for Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery
1922	-	1923	Staff College, Camberley
23.03.1924	-	18.02.1926	Brigade Major, RA (Aldershot Command)
25.02.1926	-	22.03.1928	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Rhine Army
01.01.1929	-	31.12.1931	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
1933			Imperial Defence College
16.10.1934	-	12.03.1936	Assistant Director of Artillery, War Office (London)
13.03.1936	-	15.10.1938	Assistant Master-General of the Ordnance, War Office (London)
29.08.1939	-	1942	Major-General Royal Artillery, Army HQ, India

Akers-Douglas,
Anthony George
A.G. Akers-Douglas

Son of Hon. George Alexander Akers-Douglas [brother of 2nd Viscount Chilston], and Doris Christopherson.
Married (09.08.1941) Dorothy Louise Gage (born 29.09.1917), daughter of Lt.Col. Moreton Foley Gage; two sons, one daughter.

21.12.1914
Reigate district, Surrey
-
04.1991
Haywards Heath district, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	21.12.1935 [56835]
Lt.	21.12.1938
A/Capt.	06.12.1940-05.03.1941
T/Capt.	06.03.1941-20.12.1943
Capt.	21.12.1943 (retd 14.10.1947)
A/Maj.	27.12.1941-03.03.1942, 27.04.1945-19.05.1945
T/Maj.	20.05.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	14.10.1947

Education: Eton

			from Supplementary Reserve of Officers
21.12.1935			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - Royal Armoured Corps
(06.1944)			Squadron Officer, "C" Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

Alanbrooke,
Viscount

see:

Brooke,
Sir Alan Francis

Alban,
Clifton Edward Rawdon Grant
"Teddy"
C.E.R.G. Alban

Married ((03?).1917, Bedford district, Bedfordshire) Evelyn C.M. Gompertz.

04.12.1889
India
-
06.11.1964
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.04.1910 [5189]
Lt.	26.02.1913
T/Capt.	19.05.1915-18.08.1915
Capt.	19.08.1915
A/Maj.	17.02.1917-07.05.1917, 11.04.1919-06.05.1919
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1918
Maj.	30.09.1927
A/Lt.Col.	08.05.1917-10.08.1918, 07.05.1919-31.07.1919
T/Lt.Col.	11.08.1918-10.04.1919, 01.08.1919-19.10.1919
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1930
Lt.Col.	17.02.1936
Col.	16.01.1939, seniority 01.07.1933 (supernumerary 31.12.1942) (retd 26.02.1945)
A/Brig.	24.01.1941-24.07.1941
T/Brig.	24.07.1941-01.10.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	02.10.1943-01.10.1944
T/Maj.Gen.	02.10.1944-...
Hon. Maj.Gen.	26.02.1945

CBE	02.06.1943	HM's brithday
DSO	18.07.1917	*
DSO	15.02.1919	?
DSO	02.04.1919	?
MID	04.07.1916	?
MID	14.12.1917	?
MID	23.05.1918	?
MID	08.07.1919	?

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When assembly trenches were ordered to be dug he reconnoitred the position, placed the tape, and superintended the digging of the trench. On a later date he carried out a daring reconnaissance of the enemy wire, and rendered most valuable reports.

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (22.01.1921-10.02.1923; psc).

20.04.1910			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
04.07.1913	-	03.07.1916	Adjutant, ... (service in Mohmands and Swatis, 04.1915 & 08.1915-10.1915)
16.01.1917 19.07.1918	- -	16.04.1918 11.11.1918	served France & Belgium (wounded)
08.05.1917	-	10.08.1918	Lieutenant-Colonel, South Staffordshire Regiment
11.08.1918	-	03.04.1919	Commanding Officer, 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (NW Frontier, India)
05.04.1919 07.05.1919	- -	10.04.1919 19.10.1919	Commanding Officer, 52nd Battalion Liverpool Regiment
11.04.1919	-	06.05.1919	52nd Battalion Liverpool Regiment
12.03.1923	-	27.01.1924	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
28.01.1924	-	23.06.1924	Brigade Major, ... (Aldershot Command)
20.12.1925	-	14.01.1929	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 44th (Home Counties) Division (Eastern Command)
01.10.1932	-	03.02.1936	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), War Office (London, UK)
17.02.1936	-	15.01.1939	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Regiment
16.01.1939	-	(01.1940)	an Assistant Adjutant-General to the Director of Organisation, Adjutant-General's Branch, Army HQ, India
24.01.1940	-	(04.1941)	Area Commander, India
27.09.1940	-	(04.)1944	ADC to the King
26.02.1945	-	04.12.1947	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Colonel, The King's Regiment, 24.10.1940-01.04.1947. CStJ, 29.12.1949.

Albert,
Aubrey John Fenwick
A.J.F. Albert

Son of John Grosvenor Albert (1877-1947), and Winifred Evelyn Fenwick (1880-), of Esher.
Married 1st (16.08.1930, Kensington, London; divorced 1948) Margaret Helen Bassingthwaighte, daughter of Edward James Bassingthwaighte, of Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex; one daughter, one son.
Married 2nd (07.12.1950, Chilliwack, British Columbia) Madeline Joyce Davie (earlier married L.J.E. Hajenius & E. Baker) (08.01.1910 - 14.04.2002); one daughter, one son.

08.09.1906
Vega Cottage, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
-
06.01.1972
Kootenay Lake General Hospital, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Lt.	02.09.1939 [99878]
T/Maj.	10.05.1943-22.12.1944
WS/Maj.	23.12.1944 (demobilized 12.1946) (reld 25.10.1950)
T/Lt.Col.	23.12.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	12.1946

Education: Westminster School (25.09.1919-Easter 1924; Rigaud's House).
Called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn 02.05.1928. Admitted a solicitor 1938. Practised at Wells, Somerset.

			late Cadet, Westminster School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.09.1938			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
(1943)			Judge Advocate-General's staff
			served Burma & India

Emigrated to Canada, 1947.

Albrecht,
Henry John Charles
J.H. Aldam

Oldest son of John Louis Albrecht, of Broom Hill, Saham Toney, Norfolk.
Married 1st (12.02.1919, Richmond district, Surrey) Catherine Louise Albrecht (1898? - 07.05.1928), youngest daughter of Charles John Albrecht..
Married 2nd ((09?).1932, Kensington district, London) Margaret Allan Williams.

10.01.1891
Swaffham district, Norfolk
-
22.03.1950
Trimmers Hospital, Farnham, Surrey South Western district, Surrey (formerly of Ewshot, Hampshire)

Lt.	16.08.1917
2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [98042]
WS/Lt.	02.12.1939
A/Capt.	07.07.1942-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	02.12.1939-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 01.03.1946; disability)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	01.03.1946

Hkn

19.03.1948

Portugese Order of Avis, 4th class.

Education: Brightlands (1898-1904; Dulwich College (23.07.1904-04.1908).
Naumann, Gepp & Co. Ltd., Santos, Brazil, 1911-1915 & 1919. Baburizza & Co. Ltd., London EC3, 1922.

WW I			served Machine Gun Corps, Infantry (mentioned in despatches; wounded, POW)
			Army Officers Emergency Reserve
02.09.1939			commissioned, Special List - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
07.07.1942	-	(04.1944)	Field Security Officer, HQ Scottish Command (Edinburgh)

Alcock,
Ivor William Guest
I.W.G. Alcock

Son of Sidney Walter Alcock, and Agnes Nan Warrior.
His brother 2nd Lt. Montague Charles Guest Alcock, 8th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment, died 15.12.1942, aged 29.
Married 1st ((09?).1936, Hammersmith district, London) Barbara H. Hamilton.
Married 2nd ((03?).1948, Ealing district, Middlesex) Ada V. Pike.
Married 3rd ((03?).1961, Willesden district, Middlesex) Kathleen M. Cooper.

17.02.1916
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
09.2002
Hereford district, Herefordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1941 [203356]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Hon. Capt.	?
RINVR:
T/Lt.	06.05.1944

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	10.07.1945	Operations Arakan coast 11.44-03.45
EM	04.03.1952	-

30.08.1941			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
1944?			transferred, Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve
06.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMIS Hamla (HQ, Landing Craft Wing, Versova)
(1944)	-	(1945)	2nd LCA Flotilla (landing craft, assault) (despatches)
(04.1946)			HMIS Feroze *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Aldam,
Jeffery Heaton
J.H. Aldam

Son of William and Clara Ellen Aldam.
Married (1950) Editha Hilary Mary (née Preece); two sons, two daughters.

11.11.1922
-
30.10.1993
Winchester, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.08.1943 [292660]
WS/Lt.	29.02.1944 (reld 12.12.1945)
Hon. Lt.	12.12.1945

	CBE	14.06.1980	County Education Officer, Hampshire
	MC	24.01.1946	NW Europe

Education: Chesterfield Grammar School; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA); Harvard University (AM)

29.08.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
1943 (06.1944)	-	1945	13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) Officer Commanding, 2 Troop, "B" Squadron

Admininstrative Assistant, Assistant Education Officer, then Seneior Assistant Education Officer, Norfolk CC, 1949-56; Deputy County Education Officer, NR Yorks CC, 1957-62; Chief Education Officer, East Suffolk CC, 1962-71; County Education Officer, (former) Hampshire CC, 1972-73. County Education Officer, Hampshire, 1973-83.
Member, Court and Council, University of Southampton, 1972-1993.

Alden *,
Charles Thomas
C.T. Alden (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Alden)

Son of Thomas Aldin, farm servant, and Jeannie Howitt, domestic servant.
Married (20.09.1945, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France) Monique Vasseur; ... children (one son?).
* Officially Aldin, but in Army records shown as Alden

07.09.1909
Muir of Turtory, Rothiemay, Banff, Banffshire, Scotland
-
06.12.1960
Dyce, Aberdeen, Scotland

Gnr.	31.11.1931 [816636]
L/Bdr.	25.03.1935 (unpaid) 31.05.1936 (paid)
Bdr.	29.07.1938
A/L/Sgt.	13.06.1939
L/Sgt.	01.09.1939
A/Sgt.	24.01.1940
WS/Sgt.	24.04.1940
Lt.	10.11.1940 [159513] (reld 26.01.1946)
T/Capt.	05.06.1943-(10.1944), 09.10.1944-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	26.01.1946

Gen SM	-	& clasp Palestine 36-39
Ind Gen SM	-	& clasp NW Frontier 36-39
39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Farm labourer, later railway porter.

30.11.1931	-	02.12.1931	enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Queen's Barracks, Perth) (UK)
03.12.1931	-	23.03.1932	2nd Training Brigade RA (UK)
24.03.1932	-	20.01.1933	2nd Medium Brigade RA (UK)
21.01.1933	-	14.10.1935	Heavy Gibraltar RA (Gibraltar) [01.04.1935-02.10.1935 non-commissioned officer in charge of [Out?] Fort Battery]
14.10.1935	-	06.09.1938	2nd Medium Brigade RA (Egypt, from 02.02.1936 Palestine, from 30.09.1936 UK) [30.10.1935-12.01.1936 jr. masters clerk during reinforcements Alexandria; 06.1938-08.1938 pay accountant]
07.09.1938	-	19.07.1939	6th Medium Regiment RA (India)
20.07.1939	-	1941	Waziristan Medium Section RA (India)
10.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1941	-	1942	Officer Commanding, Waziristan Medium Section (23/24 Batteries) RA (Razmak, India)
1942	-	13.08.1944	served India
14.08.1944	-	16.04.1945	served UK
17.04.1945	-	07.06.1945	served Belgium
07.06.1945	-	21.09.1945	served France

Alderson,
Ian Stuart
I.S. Alderson (Photo courstesy of Mr Albert Hurst)

18.07.1912
-
01.1999
South Shields, Tyne and Wear

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.09.1932 [53616]
Lt.	01.09.1935
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-31.08.1940
Capt.	01.09.1940
A/Maj.	07.11.1940-06.02.1941
T/Maj.	07.02.1941-05.11.1944, 12.12.1944-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	28.11.1945-09.01.1946, 11.08.1947-23.09.1947
T/Lt.Col.	03.12.1951-31.03.1954
Lt.Col.	01.04.1954 (supernumerary 01.04.1957)
T/Col.	05.08.1955-11.10.1957
Col.	12.10.1957 (retd 20.02.1963)

	CBE	31.12.1960	New Year 61
	MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

Indian General Service Medal 1936-1939 with the bar North West Frontier 1937-39; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star with 1st Army bar; Italy Star; War/Defence Medals

Education: Royal Military Academy; jssc; psc

01.09.1932			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
(06.1933)	-	(01.1937)	5th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (Jhansi, later Rawalpindi, India)
(01.1939)			Aide-de-Camp of the Commander, Rawalpindi District, Northern Command, India
05.05.1940	-	06.11.1940	Adjutant, ...
13.08.1944	-	05.09.1944	Brigade Major, 1st Infantry Division
21.04.1945	-	26.07.1945	Staff Officer, 2nd grade (SO2), AF [= Allied Forces?]
27.07.1945	-	27.11.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ 13th Corps
28.11.1945	-	09.01.1946	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
10.01.1946	-	23.01.1946	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
24.01.1946	-	10.08.1947	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Central Mediterranean Forces
11.08.1947	-	22.09.1947	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), AFHQ
23.09.1947	-	10.03.1948	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ BETFOR
15.01.1950	-	05.04.1951	Brigade Major, 86 Army Group Royal Artillery (AGRA)
03.12.1951	-	26.05.1954	Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (AA&QMG), War Office
05.08.1955	-	(02.1957)	Colonel A/Q, Commander-in-Chief's TAS, GHQ Pakistan

Alderson,
John
J. Alderson

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of the Rev. John Henry Alderson (1874-1954), and Dorothy Mogg Stockwell (1881-1971).
Married ((09?).1939, London City) Diana Mary Burgin (30.11.1916 - 25.03.2009), of Harpenden, Hertfordshire; one daughter.

24.12.1915
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
-
08.04.1945
(KIA) [age 29]
[Rheinberg War Cemetery, 13.B.1]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113655]
WS/Lt.	14.07.1941
T/Capt.	1944?

31.08.1944

Normandy

14.01.1940			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			attached No. 3 Commando (Normandy)
08.04.1945			died of wounds received in action (Germany)

Alderton,
Harry Haddon
H.H. Alderton

Son of James H. Alderton, and Elizabeth M. Mann, of Thornbury, Shortlands, Kent.
Married (20.01.1945, St Mary Abbot's, Kensington district, London) Pauline Shepherd, Subaltern ATS, FANY, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Henry Shepherd, of Seend, Wiltshire.

06.11.1916
Bromley district, Surrey / Kent
-
22.03.1996
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

Cadet	? [6289411]
2nd Lt.	11.12.1943 [303091]
WS/Lt.	11.06.1944

Education: Dulwich College (1930-1933).

11.12.1943

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Aldous,
James Robert Travers
J.R.T. Aldous

Son of Hugh Graham Aldous and Catherine May Inez Travers. Married (31.10.1925) Nancy Corona Morse; one son, two daughters.

05.10.1898
Kensington, Greater London
-
11.07.1985
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.02.1916 [13510]
Lt.	19.08.1917
Capt.	01.10.1925
Maj.	24.09.1934
A/Lt.Col.	13.06.1940-12.09.1940
T/Lt.Col.	13.09.1940-22.07.1941
Lt.Col.	23.07.1941
A/Col.	18.10.1941-17.04.1942
T/Col.	18.04.1942-09.01.1943, 23.09.1943-12.07.1944
Col.	13.07.1944
A/Brig.	18.10.1941-17.04.1942
T/Brig.	18.04.1942-...
Brig.	07.12.1948 (retd 06.04.1950)

	CBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46
	MC	15.10.1918	*

British War Medal; Victory Medal; NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp; King Haakon VII Liberty Cross (Norway; 25.03.1949)
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During important operations this officer led his party forward immediately after the objective had been reached, to wire in a strong point some 200 yards from the front line posts. He was heavily and continuously shelled for five hours until he withdrew when he had successfully accomplished his task.. His fine example inspired his men with the greatest confidence under very trying conditions.

Education: Royal Military Academy; Staff College (psc)

19.02.1916			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers
23.10.1917	-	11.11.1918	served in France
06.09.1922	-	14.12.1928	employed under the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries (Ordnance Survey)
08.01.1935	-	18.01.1937	Staff Captain, School of Military Engineering (UK)
19.01.1937	-	13.03.1938	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Southern Command (UK)
14.03.1938	-	29.03.1939	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Senior Officers' School (UK)
01.06.1939	-	26.05.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Home Forces (UK)
27.05.1940	-	05.06.1940	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), British Expeditionery Force (France)
13.06.1940	-	17.10.1941	Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), ...
18.10.1941	-	31.07.1942	Commander, 5th Infantry Brigade (UK, India)
01.08.1942	-	22.09.1943	Brigadier General Staff, ...
?	-	23.07.1944	Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Engineers
23.09.1943	-	14.10.1944	Commandant, 140 (Royal Engineers) Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU), North Midland District (UK)
15.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	Brigadier General Staff, Northern Command (York, UK)
06.04.1950	-	05.10.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Suffolk, 05.08.1964. Sheriff, Suffolk, 1966-1969.

Aldridge,
Albert Edward
A.E. Aldridge

?
-
?

CSM (A/RSM)	?
Lt.	29.11.1939 [105469] (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	26.05.1941-(12.1941), 31.12.1941-(04.1946)

			Infantry Training Centre, Welch Regiment
29.11.1939			commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
01.12.1941	-	(10.1945)	Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)

Aldrdige,
David Frank
D.F. Aldridge

Son of ... Aldridge, and ... Hyde.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

(06?).1923
Lambeth district, London
-

Cadet	? [14401832]
2nd Lt.	28.11.1943 [302360]
WS/Lt.	28.05.1944 (reld > 04.1947)
Lt.	16.03.1954, seniority 10.12.1949

1943			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
28.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transferred, The King's Own Scottish Borderers
			7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers [on Home Detail, Reserve Company, for Operation Market Garden (Arnhem 09.1944)]
			served Norway & Austria
29.01.1946			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
16.03.1954	-	22.03.1956	commissioned, Somerset Light Infantry - Territorial Army
22.03.1956	-	17.02.1960	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers

Aldrdige,
David Joseph
D.J. Aldridge

Son of William Aldridge, and May Jones, of Penytrechwyth, Swansea, South Wales.

(09?).1925
Swansea district, Glamorgan
-
08.05.1949
Petersfield district, Hampshire
[age 23]

Cadet	? [14676325]
2nd Lt.	21.01.1945 [343096]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1945 (reld 27.05.1949; disability)
Hon. Lt.	27.05.1949

21.01.1945

commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]

Mr Russell Evans writes: "He attended the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun before joining the Advanced Jungle Training Battalion there. In 1944 he was posted as a Lieutenant to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles. After the Burma campaign he served with them in Thailand, Malaya and Madras, India. Unfortunately he contracted Tuberculosis while serving in Madras and was evacuated to South Africa where he spent eighteen months recovering. However the illness reoccurred and he spent time in various dedicated T.B. hospitals in the UK before being transferred to Hindhead Military Hospital in Surrey. After spending a further eighteen months in Hindhead he sadly died on 8th May 1949."

Aldrdige,
Horace Augustus
H.A. Aldridge

Guardian, grandfather A.N. Fleuret, of London SE.

16.02.1897
-
11.1994
Brighton district, Sussex

Pte.	? [6683]
T/Lt.	? (reld 01.09.1921; retaining rank of Lt.)
A/Capt.	24.01.1919-07.05.1919
Lt.	22.08.1940 [154181]
WS/Capt.	22.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	22.11.1940-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

1915 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Government School, Stanley, Falkland Islands; Dulwich College (19.09.1912-12.1914).

			19th Royal Fusiliers (served in France from 14.11.1915)
24.01.1919	-	07.05.1919	Battalion Equipment Officer (Tank Corps, Equipment Branch)
22.08.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
22.08.1940	-	(04.1944)	employed Record Office, Leicester

Aldrdige,
Lewis Cornwell
L.C. Aldridge

Son of Ernest Alfred Aldridge, employed at Hambro's Bank, of London SW17.
Married ((06?).1938, Hampstead district, London) Dorothy M. Still; ... children (one daughter?).

27.07.1908
Lewisham district, London
-
21.12.1981
Little Bentley, Colchester district, Essex

SSM	?
2nd Lt.	17.06.1939 [88417]
WS/Lt.	15.12.1939
T/Capt.	15.12.1939-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	14.11.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Capt.	11.04.1945
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

01.07.1949

Education: Balham Modern School (1914-1917); Dulwich College Prparatory School (1918-1921); Dulwich College (16.09.1921-07.1925; Marlow (athletic house)).
Royal Exchange Assurance, 13.01.1926.

			late Cadet, Dulwich Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
17.06.1939			commissioned, 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) - Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army (wounded)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	16.05.1959	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Alexander,
Fulco Peter
F.P. Alexander

Youngest son of Lt.Col. C.H. Alexander, and Donna Lyta Alexander, of Bolton House, Fulham Road, London.
Married 1st (11.01.1934, Alderbury, Salisbury district, Wiltshire) Hilda Winifred "Bunty" Harding, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Harding, of Witerhington, Downton, Wiltshire.
Married 2nd ((12?).1947, Kensington district, London) Margot Bruecken.

04.12.1909
-
died between 1967 and 1985

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.01.1930 [44806]
Lt.	30.01.1933
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	01.12.1940-28.02.1941
T/Maj.	01.03.1941-02.02.1945, 23.01.1945-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 18.05.1947)
T/Lt.Col.	1946/47?
Hon. Lt.Col.	18.05.1947

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; certificate of the long survey course at the School of Artillery

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)			3rd Field Brigade RA (Woolwich)
(06.1933)			1st Survey Company RA (Larkhill)
06.1937			qualified as interpreter 1st class in Italian
(01.1939)			supernumerary
...	-	...	...
1945	-	1947	Commanding Officer, 922 Military Government Detachment (Hagen, Germany)
18.05.1947	-	04.12.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Alexander,
Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George;
1st Earl of Tunis (14.03.1952);
1st Viscount of Tunis, and of Errigal (1946);
1st Baron Rideau of Ottawa and of Castle Derg in Co. Tyrone (14.03.1952)
H.R.L.G. Alexander

3rd son of 4th Earl of Caledon and Lady Elizabeth Graham Toler, daughter of 3rd Earl of Norbury. Married (1931) Lady Margaret Diana Bingham, GBE created 1954,
DStJ, younger daughter of 5th Earl of Lucan, PC, GCVO, KBE, CB; two sons, one daughter (and one adopted daughter).

10.12.1891
London
-
16.06.1969
Wexham Park Hospital, Slough

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.09.1911 [17884]
Lt.	05.12.1912
T/Capt.	15.11.1914-06.02.1915
Capt.	07.02.1915
T/Maj.	22.10.1915-01.11.1915
A/Maj.	10.12.1916-02.03.1917
Maj.	01.08.1917
A/Lt.Col.	03.03.1917-22.05.1917, 15.10.1917-19.12.1918
T/Lt.Col.	01.07.1919-08.06.1920
Lt.Col.	14.05.1922 (half-pay 22.12.1927-01.02.1928)
Col.	01.02.1928, seniority 14.05.1926 (half-pay 20.12.1930-16.01.1931)
T/Brig.	13.10.1934-15.10.1937
Maj.Gen.	16.10.1937 (half-pay 15.01.1938-16.02.1938)
A/Lt.Gen.	08.06.1940-30.06.1940
Lt.Gen.	01.07.1940, seniority 13.07.1938
Gen.	17.01.1942
Field Marshal	04.06.1944 (retd 05.04.1946)

KG	03.12.1946	?
OM	01.01.1959	New Year 59
GCB	11.11.1942	?
KCB	1942
CB	1938	?
GCMG	1946	?
CSI	07.02.1936	Loe-Agra operations 23.02-13.04.35
DSO	1916	?
MC	?	?
MC	14.01.1916	?
MID	04.01.1917	France
MID	27.12.1918	?
MID	08.07.1919	?
MID	03.02.1920	?
MID	07.02.1936	India
MID	08.05.1936	India
MID	20.12.1940	operations in the field 03-06.40
MID	28.10.1942	Burma 12.41-05.42
LM	10.08.1943	?

PC (1952), PC (Can.) (1952)
WWI: Legion of Honour 5th class; Order of St Anne, 2nd Class, with swords, Russia; 1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; India: NW Frontier of India Medal and Clasp; WWII: Order of Suvorov, 1st Class (USSR) (29.02.1944); Grand Cross, Order of King George 1st, Hellenes (Greece) (20.06.1944); Polish Order of Virtuti Militari, Vth Class (07.12.1944); Distinguished Service Medal (US) (02.08.1945)

Education: Harrow; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1926-1927; psc); Imperial Defence College (1930-1930; idc); DCL, LLD

23.09.1911			commissioned into the Irish Guards
1914	-	1918	served European War (France & Belgium, 12.08.1914-04.11.1914 & 16.08.1915-07.07.1917 & 09.1917-11.11.1918) (wounded twice)
10.12.1916 23.05.1917	- -	02.03.1917 14.10.1917	Major at Battalion HQ, Irish Guards
03.03.1917 15.10.1917	- -	22.05.1917 23.10.1918	Commanding Officer of a Battalion, Irish Guards
24.10.1918	-	19.12.1918	Commandant, Corps, Infantry School
01.07.1919	-	08.06.1920	specially employed (Poland & Baltic States)
1920	-	1922	Second-in-Command, .. Battalion Irish Guards (UK)
14.05.1922	-	20.01.1926	Commanding Officer, .. Battalion Irish Guards (Turkey, Gibraltar, UK)
21.01.1926	-	1927	student, Staff College, Camberley
31.03.1928	-	13.01.1930	Officer Commanding, Regiment and Regimental District of the Irish Guards
14.01.1930	-	19.12.1930	student, Imperial Defence College
17.01.1931	-	29.02.1932	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London) (temp.)
01.03.1932	-	13.04.1934	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Northern Command, East Indies (India)
13.10.1934	-	14.01.1938	Commander, Nowshera Brigade, Northern Command, East Indies (India)
1935			LoeAgra Operations, NW Frontier (India) (despatches 7.2.1936 & 8.5.1936, CSI, Medal and Clasp) & Mohmand Operations (India) (despatches)
17.02.1938	-	07.06.1940	General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division (UK, France & Belgium, UK) [except for 31.5-3.6.1940]
08.06.1940	-	14.12.1940	General Officer Commanding, I Corps (France) (despatches)
15.12.1940	-	26.02.1942	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command (UK)
05.03.1942	-	06.08.1942	General Officer Commanding, Burma (Burma)
07.08.1942	-	18.02.1943	Commander-in-Chief, Middle East (GCB, despatches)
19.02.1943	-	16.01.1944	Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces in North Africa, also:
19.02.1943	-	14.05.1943	Commander-in-Chief, 18th Army Group (Tunisia)
10.07.1943	-	16.01.1944	Commander-in-Chief, 15th Army Group (Italy)
17.01.1944	-	01.03.1944	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Allied Central Mediterranean Force
02.03.1944	-	11.12.1944	Commander-in-Chief, Allied Armies in Italy
12.12.1944	-	29.09.1945	Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre

Governor-General of Canada, 04.1946-28.01.1952. Minister of Defence, UK, 03.1952-10.1954. Governor, Securicor Ltd, 1968-1969.
Aide-de-Camp to the King, 07.03.1936-15.10.1937. Aide-de-Camp General to the King, 20.07.1944-04.04.1946. HM Lieutenant, Greater London, 01.04.1965-27.12.1966. HM Lieutenant, County of London, 17.05.1957-31.03.1965. Constable, HM Tower of London,
01.08.1960-31.07.1965
Colonel, 3rd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment, 02.07.1937. Colonel, Irish Guards, 28.08.1946-16.06.1969. Honorary Colonel, London Irish Rifles (TA), 10.11.1949. Honorary Colonel, Oxford University Contingent, University Training Corps, 10.07.1951-09.07.1959.
Grand Master of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1960-1967 (Chancellor, 1956-1960).
Freeman of cities of: London, Belfast, Londonderry, Manchester, Edinburgh, Crosby, and Bologna; Hon. Freedom and Livery of Haberdashers' Company; Hon. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn; Hon. Freedom of Grocers' Company, Painters, Stainers' Company and Mercers' Company; Hon. MICE; Hon. Fellow Roy. Coll. of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; Hon. Member Canadian, Bar Association; Governor of Harrow School, 1952-1962.
Published: official despatches (London Gazette, 5 & 12 February 1948, 12 June 1950); The Alexander memoirs, 1940-1945 (ed. by John North) (1962)
Literature: Norman Hillson, Alexander of Tunis : a biographical portrait (1952); W.G.F. Jackson, Alexander of Tunis as military commander (1971); Nigel Nicolson, Alex : the life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1973)

Alexander,
Ian Stafford
I.S. Alexander

Second son of Dr. John Budge Alexander, MD, DPH (1881-1961), and Hilda W. Bailey.
Brother of F/Lt. David James Alexander, RAFVR.
Married (05.05.1953) Marygold Elizabeth Congreve (14.08.1926 - 27.05.2007), daughter of Lt.Cdr. Sir Geoffrey Cecil Congreve, 1st Bt. (1897-1941), and Helena Madeleine Mary Allhusen (1897-1982); one daughter (who married Maj. Raymond Alexander Carnegie).

01.10.1918
West Ham district, London
-
08.03.2003
Peterhead district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.08.1938 [77693]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	11.06.1941-27.01.1941, 01.01.1944-13.02.1944
T/Capt.	14.02.1944-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	25.08.1951 (retd 01.03.1958)

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

25.08.1938			commissioned, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
?	-	?	?
04.06.1949	-	28.11.1951	seconded, Sudan Defence Force

Alexander,
Peter
P. Alexander (Photo courtesy of Mr Jon Alexander)

Son of Frederick Wilfred Alexander (1886-1958), and Amy Pearce (1888-1977).
Brother of W/Cdr. John Alexander, DFC, RAFVR.
Married (1937, India) Alice Shepley (12.09.1911 - (12?).1977), daughter (with one sister) of John William Woffenden Shepley (1882-1923), and Alice Moseley Bramwell (1877-1960); two sons.

11.10.1912
Cardiff district, Glamorgan, Wales
-
1997
Nassau, Bahamas

2nd Lt.	09.05.1931 [50310]
Lt.	09.05.1934 (resigned commission 10.05.1935)
2nd Lt.	01.12.1941
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Capt.	02.07.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	02.07.1943-(08.1946)

Education: Shrewsbury School (summer term 1926-1930; Ridgemount House).
Engineer sales, Fursland and Pressdee, Swansea. Chief engineer, Lewis and Tylor Ltd., Cardiff. Engineering assistant, Binny and Co., Madras.

			late Cadet, Shrewsbury School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
09.05.1931	-	10.05.1935	commissioned, 5th Battalion The Manchester Regiment - Territorial Army
01.12.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			commanded a Port Construction Company RE (Middle East [Basra, Iraq] & Far East [Burma])
08.1946			returned to UK

Alison,
Douglas
D. Alison

Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

27.01.1920
-
02.2007
North Surrey district, Surrey

Tpr.	?
2nd Lt.	20.04.1940 [129704]
WS/Lt.	20.10.1941 (reld 11.08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	11.07.1946

1938			enlisted, Westminster Dragoons - Territorial Army
08.1939			mobilized TA
			102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
20.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

His daughter writes: "I know he was captured in Greece and was a POW."

Alkan,
Walter [Jakob]
W. Alkan

Son (with two sisters) of Leopold and Adele Alkan.
Married (1935) Miriam Neuburg (1912-1978), sculptor & author; three sons.

12.05.1911
Berlin, Germany
-
08.1997
Israel

Lt.	14.08.1942 [250317]
WS/Capt.	14.08.1943
WS/Maj.	09.03.1945 (reld 13.09.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	09.03.1945-13.09.1946

Education: in Prague (MD, 1935); London (DTM & H).
Went to Israel in 1935.

14.08.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Palestinian Section [emergency commission]
			served in Palestine, Egypt, Lybia, Italy and Greece:
			No. 19 General Hospital (Middle East Forces)
			149th Field Ambulance RAMC (Middle East Forces)
			8th Malaria Field Laboratory (Middle East Forces)
			No. 23 General Hospital
			No. 16 (Combined) General Hospital (Middle East Forces)

Served with Israel Defence Foce, 1948-1949. Deputy Director, Assaf Harofe Hospital, Zrifin (Director, Internal Department, 1949-1977).

Allbeury,
William
W. Allbeury

Son (with at least one brother and one sister) of Edward Allbeury (1863-1951), chartered accountant, and Jane Tabinor (1871?-1923), of Forest Hill.
Married (04.08.1923, Lewisham district, Kent) Ada Frances Mary Lance (22.08.1903 - 10.1984), daughter of Frederick William Lance (1865-1916), surveyor, and Ada Florence Prescott (1867-1947).

23.04.1897
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
28.02.1992
Marlborough, Wiltshire

Pte.	?
T/2nd Lt.	02.04.1917 [41495]
T/Lt.	10.1918 (reld 26.11.1919; retaining rank of Lt.)
2nd Lt.	11.02.1929
Lt.	11.02.1932
Capt.	23.05.1933 (reld 22.06.1948; exceeded age limit)
T/Maj.	06.01.1946-(04.1947)
Hon. Maj.	22.06.1948

MC	15.10.1918	?
TD	25.07.1947	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
CdeG	04.09.1919	?

Education: Catford Collegiate School (1902-1910); Dulwich College (12.04.1910-12.1913).
Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co., chartered accountants, 1914.

01.1916			28th Battalion (Artists' Rifles) London Regiment
04.1917			18th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry (served in France from 02.04.1917; Arras & final advance)
11.02.1929			6th City of London Regiment - Territorial Army
29.12.1934	-	22.06.1946	Territoral Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
15.12.1935			transferred, General List, Infantry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
04.06.1940			transferred, The Buffs - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
25.05.1941			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Allen,
Alec William Lawrence Chard
A.W.L.C. Allen

Son (with two sisters) of William James Allen (1877-1940), and Gertrude May Carroll (1883-1962).
Married 1st ((12?).1934, Paddington district, London) Marie Louise Ruth Jones (26.10.1912 - 05.05.1958), daughter (with one brother) of John Lewis Jones (1878-1950), and Elizabeth Tunstall (1882-1962); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (30.09.1950, St Marylebone district, London) Sophie Claire [= Sophie "Zosha" Clara Maria] Gräfin Mailáth de Székhelyi (19.04.1918 - 02.02.1993), daughter (with three sisters) of Georg "György" Ferdinand Stefan Edmund Valentin Graf Mailáth de Székhelyi (1883-1953), and Georgina "Georgette" Gûn Almásy de Zsadány et Török-Szent-Miklós (1890-1953); two sons.

02.06.1903
Simla, Bengal, India
-
02.03.1983
Lambeth district, London

Air force:
P/O	12.09.1925 (reld 27.06.1927)
Army:
Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	06.04.1940 [126641]
WS/Lt.	13.03.1941
T/Capt.	10.07.1943-19.10.1945
WS/Capt.	20.10.1945 (reld 29.10.1947)
T/Maj.	20.10.1945-29.10.1947
Hon. Maj.	29.10.1947

09.01.1947

12.09.1925	-	27.06.1927	commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
06.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1943)			264th Battery, 58th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
			served with Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Allen,
Alexander John
A.J. Allen (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Marsh)

Married ((09?).1931, Camberwell district, London) Eleanor Alice Levett; no children.

31.12.1901
Hampton, Kingston district, Middlesex
-
(12?).1979
Richmond upon Thames district, Surrey

RSM	?
2nd Lt.	21.05.1941 [185887]
WS/Lt.	21.05.1941 (reld < 10.1945)
T/Capt.	01.10.1943-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

MID

24.08.1944

Italy

			served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery
21.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Allen,
Algernon Anderson Johnston
A.A.J. Allen

02.11.1894
Staffordshire
-
29.04.1981
Newbury, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	04.11.1917, seniority 12.12.1915
...	...
Lt.Col.	31.07.1942 (supernumerary 31.07.1945) (retd 27.11.1946)
A/Col.	30.10.1942-29.04.1943
T/Col.	30.04.1943-06.07.1944, 15.08.1944-18.04.1945, 08.06.1945-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	23.07.1943-22.01.1944
T/Brig.	23.10.1944-06.07.1944
Hon. Brig.	27.11.1946

MID

12.01.1920

04.11.1917			commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers
...			...
31.10.1942	-	22.07.1943	Sub-Area Commander, Middle East
23.07.1943	-	06.07.1944	Area Commander, Middle East

Allen,
Basil George
B.G. Allen

26.03.1893
district Islington
-
11.10.1970
Paignton, Torbay district, Devonshire

2nd Lt.	17.04.1915
...	...
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 09.08.1947)
T/Lt.Col.	21.04.1942
A/Col.	30.07.1942-30.09.1942
A/Brig.	30.07.1942-30.09.1942
Hon. Lt.Col.	09.08.1947

17.04.1915			commissioned into The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
26.10.1934	-	25.03.1938	Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
?			?

Allen,
Charles Hubert
C.H. Allen (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

11.09.1910
-
07.1987
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47520]
...	...
A/Lt.Col.	30.06.1944-22.07.1944
...	...
Lt.Col.	27.06.1953 (retd 06.09.1957)

21.10.1941

28.08.1930			commissioned, The Welch Regiment
...	-	...	...
07.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...

Allen,
Fernley Frederick Edmund
"Freddie"
F.F.E. Allen

Married (1936) Dorothy Maltzahn, the daughter of a German father and a Scottish mother; one son.
From Sunnydale.

30.12.1912
London
-
15.06.2005
Rye, New York

Spr.	?
2nd Lt.	26.04.1939 [87057]
WS/Lt.	15.10.1940
T/Capt.	15.10.1940
WS/Capt.	20.11.1941
T/Maj.	20.11.1941
WS/Maj.	17.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	17.01.1945
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 04.1946

	DSO	12.04.1945	NW Europe (Ardennes)
	DSO	19.04.1945	NW Europe (Reichswald)

Education: Brighton College
Worked with CE Heath, insurance brokers, who sent him to Berlin and then to Paris.

			late Cadet, Brighton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks in the 32nd (7th City of London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers
26.04.1939			commissioned The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			transferred to the Suffolk Regiment
(06.1944)	-	11.1944	Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment (Normandy, France, Belgium, Holland [temporary CO])
11.1944	-	(05.1945)	CO 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (Ardennes, Reichswald)
09.03.1945	-	17.03.1945	acting Commander, 158th Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)
1945	-	1946	Military Governor of Brunswick and then joined the finance division of the British Military Government
?	-	26.09.1950	served The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
27.09.1950	-	13.02.1963	transferred to The East Lancashire Regiment - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

In 1946 he returned to the insurance industry. He joined the Stewart Smith Group as a director two years later and became managing director in 1955, retiring in 1976.

Allen,
Frank William Alexander
F.W.A. Allen

Son of Francis Radcliffe Allen (1874-), and Alice Mary Alexander (1881-).
Married ((09?).1937, Crosby district, Merseyside) Madeleine Tordoff Armitage (25.05.1906-24.04.2004), daughter of Arthur Armitage and Martha Harriett Sutcliffe; one son.

01.05.1910
Waterloo, Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
21.03.1983
Witney, Oxford district, Oxfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.10.1941 [214520]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	01.06.1943-30.04.1944
WS/Capt.	01.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	01.05.1944-(04.1946)

14.05.1948

25.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.02.1944			Officer Commanding, No. 2 "J" Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (attached HQ I Canadian Corps, Italy)
			Officer Commanding, "A" Detachment, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (attached HQ Fifth Army, Italy)
			Second-in-Command, then Commanding Officer, 2 GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")

Allen,
J
J. Allen (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen)

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	?
WS/Lt.	?

11.02.1940			commissioned, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			Junior Liaison Officer, HQ 1st Airborne Division

Allen,
John Frederick Whitacre
J.F.W. Allen

26.03.1890
Wellingborough?
-
26.03.1976
Tenterden, Kent?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.09.1909 [4365]
Lt.	16.09.1911
T/Capt.	28.04.1915-28.05.1915
Capt.	29.05.1915
Maj.	01.06.1927
Lt.Col.	27.04.1935
Bt. Col.	02.10.1938, seniority 27.04.1938
Col.	25.10.1938, seniority 27.04.1938 (supernumerary 30.06.1944) (retd 13.07.1946)
A/Brig.	31.05.1940-29.11.1940
T/Brig.	30.11.1940-01.11.1942, 10.02.1944-02.04.1945
Hon. Brig.	13.07.1946

MC	02.06.1916	?
MID	31.05.1916	?
MID	20.12.1940	Norway 04.40

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College (psc)

18.09.1909			commissioned into The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
25.02.1914 21.02.1917	- -	12.06.1916 17.06.1918	employed with West African Frontier Force (Kamerun and Nigeria 28.09.1914-19.02.1916; British, German and Portugese East Africa, Nyassaland and Northern Rhodesia 11.09.1917-11.12.1917) (wounded twice)
14.01.1919	-	03.12.1919	Assistant Instructor, Officers' Instructional School
01.04.1925	-	23.01.1927	Staff Captain, ... (Eastern Command)
24.01.1927	-	05.01.1928	Staff Captain, Shanghai Defence Force and Northern China (temporary)
06.01.1928	-	02.05.1929	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), ... (Southern China)
01.02.1931	-	31.03.1933	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 44th (Home Counties) Division (Woolwich, Eastern Command)
01.04.1933	-	31.01.1935	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), Home Counties Area (Eastern Command)
27.04.1935	-	01.10.1938	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Buffs (Lucknow)
02.10.1938	-	08.12.1939	Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), HQ The British Troops in Egypt (Egypt)
31.12.1939	-	30.05.1940	Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (AA&QMG), ... (UK) & of the Land Forces in Narvik [North Western Expeditionary Force] (Norway)
31.05.1940	-	01.11.1942	Deputy Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (DA&QMG), ...
02.11.1942	-	09.02.1944	Colonel in charge of Administration, ...

Deputy Lieutenant, County of Kent, 28.04.1958-...

Allen,
John Robert
J.R. Allen

02.05.1893
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
01.06.1971
Ashington, Chanctonbury district, Sussex

2nd Lt.	09.11.1920, seniority 01.07.1917
Capt.	19.10.1925, seniority 01.04.1925
Maj.	20.10.1937
A/Lt.Col.	14.02.1940-13.05.1940
T/Lt.Col.	14.05.1940-25.09.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	26.09.1942
Lt.Col.	02.10.1942 (supernumerary 02.10.1945) (retd 31.07.1946)
A/Col.	26.03.1942-25.09.1942
T/Col.	26.09.1942-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	18.10.1942-17.04.1943
T/Brig.	18.04.1943-07.06.1944, 13.10.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	31.07.1946

OBE	18.02.1943	?
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	15.12.1942	?

09.11.1920			commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps
...			...
(01.1939)			served at Colchester (UK)
18.10.1939	-	11.02.1940	Deputy Assistant Director of Transport, British Expeditionery Force
13.02.1940	-	25.03.1942	Commander RASC, ...
26.03.1942	-	20.08.1942	Deputy Director of Supplies & Transport, ... (Middle East)
21.08.1942	-	17.10.1942	Commandant, ... (Middle East)
18.10.1942	-	09.11.1943	Deputy Director of Supplies & Transport, ...

Allen,
Peter James
P.J. Allen (Photo courtesy of Mr Phil Harvey)

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.04.1940 [129554]
WS/Lt.	20.10.1941
A/Capt.	22.04.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	1944/45? [possibly even T/Maj.]

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	29.11.1945	Italy
EM	22.07.1952	-

?	-	20.04.1940	either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th, or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
20.04.1940			commissioned, The Manchester [emergency commission]
01.08.1941			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company)
06.06.1944			transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Allen,
Robert Hall
R.H. Allen

11.06.1886
-
20.09.1981

2nd Lt.	20.12.1905
Lt.	10.12.1908
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj.	01.12.1916-28.12.1916
Maj.	29.12.1916
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1929
Lt.Col.	01.06.1934
Col.	29.05.1937, seniority 01.07.1932
T/Brig.	27.09.1938-(01.1940)
Maj.Gen.	10.01.1940, seniority 12.07.1938 (retd 12.11.1942)

	CB	1942	?
	MC	?	?

20.12.1905			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
29.05.1937	-	26.09.1938	Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (AA&QMG), Aldershot Command
27.09.1938	-	(01.1940)	Commander, 46th Anti-Aircraft Group (Bristol)
1940	-	1941	General Officer Commanding, 5th Anti-Aircraft Division (Reading, UK)
1941	-	1942	General Officer Commanding, 8th Anti-Aircraft Division

Allen,
Robert Willoughby John
R.W.J. Allen

Son of R. Willoughby Allen, and Constance Mary Josephine Allen (née ...).
Married (06.04.1948, San Martin De Tours, Buenos Aires) Joan Leslie.

30.12.1914
Argentine ?
-
27.02.2008
Cranleigh, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	11.02.1940 [117899]
WS/Lt.	11.08.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

17.03.1992

?	-	10.02.1940	167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
11.02.1940			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	26.05.1940	Officer Commanding, 9 Platoon, C Company, 7th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (captured at Calais)
26.05.1940	-	1945?	POW (No. 1291) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)

Allen,
Ronald Lewis
"Ronnie"
R.W.J. Allen

Eldest son of councillor William John Allen, and Mary Blodwen Lewis, later of Tabor Court, Cheam, Surrey.
Married 1st (17.03.1945, Egypt; divorced 1951) Jirina Georgette Valachova (? - 07.2000), of Czech origin; one daughter. Georgette Allen remarried (1951) then Capt. (later Maj.) Christopher Albert Edward Babbage, RA.
Married 2nd (07.01.1956, St Columba's Church, Pont Street, London SW1) Christine Maude Scott, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs E. Terence Scott, of Crestway, Denham, Buckinghamshire; one daughter, one son.

02.04.1916
Swansea district, Glamorgan
-
19.06.1986
North Aston, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	28.03.1940 [125545]
A/Capt.	19.12.1940-18.03.1941
T/Capt.	19.03.1941-26.04.1941, 03.05.1941-27.09.1942
WS/Capt.	28.09.1942
A/Maj.	28.06.1942-27.09.1942
T/Maj.	28.09.1942-05.11.1947
A/Lt.Col.	09.08.1945-02.10.1945
Lt.	07.06.1947, seniority 02.04.1939
Capt.	07.06.1947, seniority 28.03.1946
T/Maj.	24.07.1950-01.04.1952
Maj.	02.04.1952
T/Lt.Col.	01.03.1954-10.09.1958
Lt.Col.	11.09.1958
Col.	24.07.1962
T/Brig.	22.06.1966-30.12.1966
Brig.	31.12.1966 (retd 02.04.1971)

CBE	01.01.1970	New Year 70
OBE	31.05.1956	HM's birthday 56
MID	13.01.1944	Middle East
Cmdn	07.02.1964	non-combatant gallantry

Education: Privately; University of South Wales; University of Monmouthshire; BSc Hons London 1939.
Scientist, Safety in Mines Research Board; Birmingham University, 1939; Imperial Chemical Industries, 1939.

28.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission to 06.06.1947]
1940	-	1942	served in the UK
10.08.1942	-	28.08.1944	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), General Headquarters, Middle East Forces
29.08.1944	-	02.10.1945	Director of Ordnance Services (DOS), General Headquarters, Middle East Forces
07.06.1947			permanent commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
01.05.1947	-	22.09.1948	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), War Office
1949	-	1950	served in Egypt
23.01.1950	-	01.04.1950	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), War Office
02.10.1950	-	06.11.1951	Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2), Royal Air Establishment, Ministry of Supply
1951	-	1952	served in the USA
16.08.1957	-	06.01.1959	Chief Instructor (School of Armament), Royal Army Ordnance Corps
02.07.1960	-	15.04.1961	Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS), Headquarters, Middle East Land Forces (Cyprus)
19.06.1961	-	25.01.1962	Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS), Headquarters Rhine Area (British Army of the Rhine)
01.03.1962	-	22.03.1966	Principal Ammunition Technical Officer (PATO), Headquarters Ammunition Organisation, RAOC
22.06.1966	-	1967	Chief Inspector Land Services Ammunition (CILSA) & Deputy Commander Headquarters Base Organisation, RAOC
1967	-	1971	Deputy Commander Headquarters Base Organisation, RAOC & Head of Inventory Systems Development

Member, Acceptable Risk Working Party, Council for Science and Society, 1977. Member, East Hertfordshire District Council, 1973-83 (Chairman: A & R Committee; Computer WP; Organisational WP). FRIC 1962 (ARIC 1939); MBIM 1967; Fellow, British Computer Society 1969. General Manager, Building Societies' Staff College, Ware, 1971-81.

Allen,
Sidney Joe
S.J. Allen (Photo courtesy of Dr,. Traudi Allen)

5th child of Gabriel Herbert Whiting Allen, and Nellie Allen (née Thompson).
Married (11.1946, Bleiburg, Austria) Waltraude Magnet (born 18.01.1922); one daughter, two sons.

01.05.1919
Northampton
-
06.08.2004
Caloundra, Qld., Australia

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.09.1941 [203872]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 1946)
T/Capt.	24.06.1943-(04.1944), 02.12.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj.	03.01.1944-(05.1944)

			served War of 1939-1945 in England, Ireland, South Africa, Madagascar (contracted malaria), India (1941), Persia, Palestine, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Italy, Austria:
06.09.1941			commissioned, The Northamptonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			5th Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment [not clear whether he served with this unit for most of the war, but Allen wrote somewhere that he "resumed command of B Company" of the Battalion]
(01.1944)	-	(05.1944)	seconded as Instructor Gas School, Middle East Training Centre
1945	-	1946	Town Major of Bleiburg, Austria

Allen,
Sir Stephen Shepherd
S.S. Allen

Seventh of ten children of late William Shepherd Allen, MP, and Elizabeth Penelope Candlish.
Married (11.06.1918) Mary Isabel Hay (died 1946), daughter of A.L. Foster, Auckland, NZ; three sons (two of them died as infants, one died on active service [Lt. Peter Russell Hay Allen, RN]), one daughter.

02.08.1882
Cheadle, Staffordshire
-
04.11.1964
near Maramarua, New Zealand
(motor accident after suffering from a heart attack)

Maj.	1914 [989]
Lt.Col.	15.01.1917
Col.	?
2nd Lt.	04.09.1939 [103817] (reld 07.02.1942)
A/Capt. ?	?

KBE	1933	?
CMG	1919	?
DSO	01.1918	?
DSO	06.1918	?
VD	?	?
MID	WW I	?
MID	WW I	?
MID	WW I	?
MID	WW I	?
MID	30.06.1942	Middle East 07.41-10.41

Education: Privately; Pembroke College, Cambridge (1901-1905; MA, LLB; also served Cambridge University Volunteer Reserve Corps)
After being admitted to the Bar in New Zealand in 1906, he opened a solicitor's office in Morrinsville in January 1907; he was involved in setting up the Hamilton District Law Society in 1912. From 1908 to 1913 he was the first chairman of the Morrinsville Town Board, and was also a Methodist lay preacher.

1911			commissioned, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment - Territorial Force
03.1915	-	1918	served European War in the New Zealand Expeditionery Force: 09.1915 Auckland Battalion at Gallipoli; Second-in-Command, then from 15.01.1917 Commanidng Officer, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment (France; wounded 04.10.1917, re-joined 01.1918) (DSO and bar, CMG)
1920	-	1924	Commander 1st (NZ) Infantry Brigade
1926	-	1928	Commanding Officer, Hauraki Regiment
1925	-	1928	Honorary ADC to the Governor-General for New Zealand
27.04.1927	-	03.1928	Mayor of Morrinsville
03.1928	-	04.04.1931	Administrator of Western Samoa
1932	-	1934	member of Central Transport Licensing Authority, New Zealand
1933	-	1937	Commander 1st (NZ) Infantry Brigade
1935	-	1937	Chairman Transport Co-ordination Board
04.09.1939			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
1939	-	1940	Staff Captain, Salisbury Plain Area
06.03.1940	-	12.07.1941	Assistant Military Secretary, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionery Force (Mediterranean)
1942	-	12.1942	employed at Ministry of Home Security, Birmingham

Justice of the Peace (JP). Grand Master of the Freemasons N.Z.C., 1948–50.
Published: Early Morrinsville (1959); contributed papers to the Kipling Journal

Allen,
William Maurice
W.M. Allen

Son of David Allen (1864?-), linen buyer, and Isabella Allen (née ...) (1872?-), of London SW17.

16.04.1908
Upper Tooting, Wandsworth district, London
-
26.05.1988
Dover district, Kent

Sigm.	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [161025]
A/Lt.	28.12.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	01.04.1943
T/Maj.	01.04.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	12.08.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	12.08.1944?-...
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

Education: Streatham Grammar School; Dulwich College (04.05.1922-07.1925); London School of Economics.

			served in the ranks, Royal Corps of Signals
28.12.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

Assistant Director of Research, International Monetary Fund, 1947-49; Adviser, Bank of England, 1950-64; Executive Director, Bank of England, 1964-70. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1931-48; Visiting Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford, 1954-62. Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics, 1963. Governor, London School of Economics, 1951.

Allfrey,
Sir Charles Walter
C.W. Allfrey

Son of late Captain Henry Allfrey, 60th Rifles, Hemingford, Warwickshire, and Kathleen Hankey. Married (1935) Geraldine Clare, elder daughter of late Col Lucas-Scudamore and of Mrs Lucas-Scudamore, Kentchurch Court, Hereford; one son, one daughter.

24.10.1895
Southam, Northamptonshire
-
02.11.1964
[Bristol ?]

2nd Lt.	12.08.1914 [5697]
Lt.	09.06.1915
A/Capt.	05.01.1917-02.11.1917
Capt.	03.11.1917
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1931
A/Maj.	17.12.1917-08.01.1919, 10.01.1919-17.02.1919
Maj.	10.08.1933
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1935
Col.	06.08.1939, seniority 01.01.1938
A/Brig.	27.02.1940-26.08.1940
T/Brig.	27.08.1940-18.07.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	09.07.1940-18.07.1941
T/Maj.Gen.	19.07.1941-08.03.1943
WS/Maj.Gen.	09.03.1943
Maj.Gen.	06.11.1943, seniority 07.06.1943
A/Lt.Gen.	09.03.1942-08.03.1943
T/Lt.Gen.	09.03.1943-08.08.1944, 16.11.1944-22.11.1946
Lt.Gen.	23.11.1946, seniority 14.12.1944 (retd 17.06.1948)

KBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46
CB	05.08.1943	Tunisia
DSO	06.10.1933	North Kurdistan, Iraq
MC	01.01.1918	New Year 18
MC	16.09.1918	*
LM	10.08.1943	?

1914 Star and Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Iraq Medal; Kurdistan Medal and Clasp
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of a battery. Although his right flank was uncovered, and he was subjected to direct machine-gun and artillery fire from his right, front and flank, he kept his battery in action for over two hours until ordered to withdraw. He kept up a steady rate of fire with a proportion of his guns on the barrage, and with the remainder run out of their pits engaged the attacking infantry with open sights. The fact that he was ultimately able to withdraw all his guns without loss reflects the greatest credit on his fine skill and example. On many subsequent occasions he has occupied positions with the greatest skill, and has set a fine example to all under his command.

Education: Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

12.08.1914			commissioned, Royal Artillery (31.10.1914-1.11.1918 France & Belgium) (wounded twice)
05.01.1917	-	02.11.1917	Second-in-Command, ... Battery
10.01.1919	-	17.02.1919	Officer Commanding, ... Battery
13.11.1925	-	12.11.1928	Adjutant, Equitation School
29.11.1930	-	02.10.1932	employed with Iraq Army (operations in North Kurdistan, Iraq) (under the Colonial Office)
03.10.1932	-	21.12.1933	employed British Military Mission attached as Inspector Artillery to Iraq Army (Iraq)
21.01.1936	-	20.01.1939	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley (UK)
06.08.1939	-	25.02.1940	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Home Forces & British Expeditionary Force (UK, France & Belgium)
27.02.1940	-	07.06.1940	Corps Commander Royal Artillery (CCRA), II Corps (UK)
08.06.1940	-	18.07.1940	Corps Commander Royal Artillery (CCRA), IV Corps (UK)
19.07.1940	-	23.02.1941	Area Commander, Southwestern Area, Home Forces (UK)
24.02.1941	-	27.02.1941	General Officer Commanding, Devon and Cornwall County Division (UK)
28.02.1941	-	08.03.1942	General Officer Commanding, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (UK)
09.03.1942	-	08.08.1944	General Officer Commanding 5th Corps (Tunisia, Italy)
16.11.1944	-	1948	General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt
18.06.1948	-	24.10.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1947-1957. Colonel Commandant, Royal Horse Artillery, 16.08.1949-01.01.1957.
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), 26.02.1953. Justice of the Peace (JP).

Allibone,
David
D. Allibone

Son (with a twin brother and an older brother) of Bernard Charles Allibone (1896-1976), and Annie M. Bolland.
Married (1957) Jill Spencer Rigden (26.04.1932 - 03.02.1998), art historian and doyenne of the Victorian Society, daughter of Horace Walter Rigden; three daughters.

12.03.1925
Lewisham district, London
-
31.12.2007
(formerly of Benenden, Kent)

Cadet	? [2602743]
2nd Lt.	25.07.1945 [352342]
WS/Lt.	25.01.1946
A/Capt.	1947?

Education: Dulwich College (1939-1943; played in cricket XI); Worcester College, Oxford (1943-1945? & 1947-1950).

25.07.1945			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals[emergency commission]
			served mostly in India

Solicitor, City of London. Following articles with a Mr Thompson, Allibone joined Mr Coleman in Coleman and Allibone, which became Allibone’s and grew into a successful legal practice. Head of litigation, Cameron Kemm Norden (from 1980 Cameron Markby), 1972-1990.

Allison,
Andrew Archibald
W.W. Allison

?
-

2nd Lt.

01.12.1943 [298835]

01.12.1943

01.03.1946

2nd Lieutenant, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List (for service with the Army Cadet Force - City of Glasgow)

Allison,
Harry Edwin
H.E. Allison

Son (with one sister) of Herbert Arnold Allison (1890-1954), and Frances Mildred Porter (1889-1973).
Married ((06?).1947, Birmingham, Warwickshire) Dorothy Jones; one son, one daughter.

04.09.1919
West Bromwich district, Staffordshire
-
13.02.1998
Grantham district, Lincolnshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.08.1942 [242896]
WS/Lt.	02.02.1943 (reld 09.1946)
T/Capt.	16.04.1944-(04.1946)
T/Maj.	(1946)
Hon. Maj.	09.1946

02.08.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served with 91st & 92nd Field Companies Indian Engineers

Allison,
William Wigram
"Toby"
W.W. Allison (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

02.06.1895
Louth, Lincolnshire
-
03.02.1984
Dunbeg, Philleigh, Truro, Cornwall

T/2nd Lt.	12.11.1914-01.08.1915
T/Lt.	02.08.1915-01.03.1917
A/Capt.	08.12.1916-20.02.1917 (reld 02.03.1917)
2nd Lt.	25.01.1918, seniority 12.08.1915 [14446]
Maj.	25.11.1936
A/Lt.Col.	19.07.1940-18.10.1940
T/Lt.Col.	19.10.1940-15.05.1943
Lt.Col.	24.05.1943 (retd 18.04.1947)
A/Col.	15.08.1943-14.02.1944
T/Col.	15.02.1944
A/Brig.	15.08.1943-14.02.1944
T/Brig.	15.02.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	18.04.1947

	CBE	10.04.1945	?
	MID	05.06.1919	?

British War Medal; Victory Medal

Education: psc, fs

			temporarily commissioned into the The Royal Sussex Regiment - 12th Battalion (2nd South Down) (France & Belgium 02.03.1916-03.1917)
25.01.1918			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
05.1918	-	04.11.1918	served in Italy
04.10.1922	-	04.04.1926	Adjutant, ... - Territorial Army
09.03.1933	-	14.02.1935	Staff Officer Royal Artillery (General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)), ... (Southern Command)
15.02.1935	-	30.04.1936	employed for Air Staff duties RAF
04.06.1937	-	30.12.1938	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (Egypt) (temporary)
04.1939	-	12.1939	Battery Commander (Officer Commanding), 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Coleraine, Northern Ireland & Grangemouth, Scotland)
21.12.1939	-	18.07.1940	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (DAA&QMG), Home Forces
19.07.1940	-	29.09.1941	Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (AA&QMG), Home Forces
15.08.1943	-	30.08.1944	Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General (DAQMG), Home Forces
01.03.1945	-	26.05.1945	Commander, 307th Infantry Brigade (UK, NW Europe)

Allman Smith,
Edward Percival
E.P. Allman Smith

Married Alexandra Lucy O'Brien (born 01/02.1887), an Army nurse, whom he metat the Battle of Galipoli; ... children.

03.11.1886
Balbriggan, Dublin
-
17.11.1969
Islington district, Greater London

Lt.	26.01.1912
Capt.	30.03.1915
A/Maj.	04.01.1918-11.12.1918
Maj.	26.01.1924
Lt.Col.	01.07.1934
Col.	01.08.1939, seniority 01.07.1937 (supernumerary 01.08.1943) (retd 22.04.1947)
A/Brig.	09.03.1941-08.09.1941
T/Brig.	09.09.1941-27.04.1942
Hon. Brig.	22.04.1947

OBE	03.06.1919	?
MC	25.08.1917	?
MID	15.08.1917	?
MID	05.06.1919	?
1914 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: MB, BCh, BAO and LM Rot 1910 (TC Dub)

26.01.1912			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps
26.01.1912	-	25.01.1913	seconded, Royal City of Dublin Hospital
1913	-	1916	served in India
05.04.1916	-	31.10.1918	served in Mesopotamia (& 1918-1920)
1922	-	1923	served in Constantinople
1923	-	1927	served in India
02.1927	-	09.1927	served in Shanghai
1931	-	1935	served in Moascar, Egypt
1935	-	1936	Senior Medical Officer, Bordon Area
1936	-	(01.)1937	Commanding Officer, 3rd Casualty Clearing Station (Palestine)
1937	-	1938	Senior Medical Officer, Bordon Area
1938	-	1940	Commanding Officer, British Military Hospital, Mhow (India)
1940			Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS), HQ 2nd Armoured Division (India)
09.03.1941	-	27.04.1942	Deputy Director of Medical Services (DDMS), HQ British Forces in Palestine & Trans-Jordan (Middle East)
1942	-	1946	Commanding Officer, Military Hospital, Catterick (UK)
1946	-	1947	President, Standing Medical Board
22.04.1947	-	15.07.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Played field hockey for Dublin University Hockey Club and Ireland (London Olympics 1908).

Allott,
Richard Knowles Brian
"Tramp" / "Ken"
R.K.B. Allott

Son of ... Allott, and ... Knowles.
From Lymington.

08.08.1918
Leighton Buzzard district, Bedfordshire / Buckinghamshire
-
05.10.1995
Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	25.08.1938 [77673]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	20.01.1942-19.04.1942
T/Capt.	20.04.1942-08.07.1945, 06.12.1945-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	25.08.1951 (retd 21.04.1960)

05.11.1942

Middle East 42

25.09.1938			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment
			2nd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
			1 Special Boat Squadron, attached L Detachment SAS (captured at Operation Bigamy, 09.1942)

Almonds,
John Edward
"[Gentleman] Jim"
J.E. Almonds

Son of George Almonds, a Lincolnshire smallholder.
Married (1939) Iris May Lock (died 1996); one son, two daughters.

06.08.1914
Stixwould, Lincolnshire
-
20.08.2005
Stixwould, Lincolnshire

Sgt.	? [2655648]
Sqn. QMS	?
2nd Lt.	10.09.1944 [333683]
WS/Lt.	10.09.1944
T/Capt.	02.07.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	04.11.1946, seniority 10.09.1944
Capt.	12.03.1951 (reld 31.12.1960)
Hon. Maj.	31.12.1960

MM	26.11.1942	Middle East (special operations & escapes)
MM	27.04.1944	?
CdeG	?	Operation Gain

1932	-	1936	enlisted service, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards (duty at Tower of London)
Served with the Bristol Police, 1936-1939.
1939?	-	1940	served in the ranks, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards
1940	-	09.1941	seconded, No. 8 Commando
09.1941	-	09.1942	seconded, L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade (North Africa; captured)
09.1942	-	10.1943	POW in Italian captivity (Campo 51 (Altamura), Campo 65 (Gravina) & Campo 70 (Monturano); escaped twice)
10.1943	-	02.1944	in charge of security at Chequers
02.1944	-	09.09.1944	seconded, 1st Special Air Service Regiment (Darvel, Scotland; parachuted into France as Squadron Sergeant-Major of "D" Squadron [Operation Gain])
10.09.1944			commissioned, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps [immediate emergency commission] (served in Norway early 1945)
16.11.1945			transferred, The Gloucestershire Regiment
04.11.1946	-	31.12.1960	short service commission (served with the British Military Mission to Ethiopia and with the Eritrean Field Force; he rejoined the SAS when it was reconstituted, and commanded "B" Squadron 1st SAS, clearing terrorists from the Malayan jungle in 1953; he finally resigned his commission after four years in Ghana)

On 1st April 1962 , Mr John Edward Almonds became an employee of the Bardney Sugar Factory. Jim worked as a Spare man, then went on to the Carbs, Evaporators, Vacuum Pans and eventually progressed to become an Instrument Mechanic, until he left in February 1973.
Literature: Lorna Almonds, Gentleman Jim : the wartime story of a founder of the SAS (2001).

Alms,
George Frederick Hill
G.F.H. Alms

Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Edward Theodore Alms (1858-1933), and Elizabeth Dorothea Villiers Langley (1869-1953).
Married (23.10.1920, Japan) Naka "Kimi" Kubo (08.12.1900 - 21.12.1990); one daughter, two sons.

29.03.1895
Taunton, Somerset
-
14.09.1973
Lambeth district, Greater London

2nd Lt.	16.09.1914
...	...
Lt.Col.	17.01.1938
A/Col.	15.07.1940-14.01.1941
T/Col.	15.01.1941-06.11.1942
Col.	07.11.1942, seniority 17.01.1941 (retd 27.06.1949)
A/Brig.	06.10.1940-05.04.1941
T/Brig.	06.04.1941-16.07.1943, 04.07.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	27.06.1949

CBE	16.04.1942	?
OBE	03.09.1940	?
MID	26.07.1940	?
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	30.12.1941	?

16.09.1914			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers
...			...
15.07.1940	-	05.10.1940	Somerset Sub-Area Commander, Home Forces
06.10.1940	-	25.02.1942	Chief Engineer, British Troops in the Sudan

Alston,
Cedric Rowland

Eldest son (with two brothers and one sister) of Rowland Alston (1857-1927), tea importer, and Alice Maud Powell (1868-1957).
Brother of Cdr. Aubrey Rowland Alston, RN, and Cdr. D.R. Alston, RN.
Married (02.01.1917, St Stephen's Church, South Dulwich, London) Margery Lilian Stewart (26.12.1896 - 06.1989), daughter (with two brothers and two sisters) of Hugh Milton Stewart, MA, MD (1868-1942), physician and surgeon, and Lillian Mabel Shipley (1870?-); two children.

22.04.1893
Wandsworth, London, Surrey
-
24.03.1963
Hernewood, Sevenoaks, Kent

T/2nd Lt.	29.08.1914 [79431]
T/Lt.	01.07.1917 (unemployed list 01.05.1919)
A/Capt.	(1919)
T/Capt.	11.06.1918
Maj.	01.03.1939 (retd 01.09.1948; exceeded age limit)
T/Lt.Col.	01.05.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.09.1948

	OBE	?	?
	TD	01.08.1946	-

Education: Streete Court School, Westgate, Kent; Dulwich College (10.04.1906-07.1912; Blew House; 2nd XI 1912). Jesus College, Cambridge University (1912-1915; Exhibitioner; BA 1915).
Handley Page Ltd., 1919. Publicity man, William Beardmore & Co. Ltd., 1919.

29.08.1914			commissioned, South Lancashire Regiment (6th Battalion) (served in the Dardanelles 1915)
(1917)	-	(1918)	attached, Royal Flying Corps, then Royal Air Force (Flying Officer, then Flight Lieutenant; served in France; wounded 1917)
27.02.1917			transferred, General List
11.06.1918			specially employed, Air Ministry
01.03.1939			commissioned, 72nd Searchlight Regiment RA - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Managing director, later chairman of Manica Trading Co. Ltd.; Chairman Beira Boating Co. Ltd., and Beira Engineering Co.

Alston,
Edward Rowland Milles
E.R.M. Alston

Only son of Alexander Rowland Alston , FRGS (1863-1945), and Muriel Marion Beatrice Blundell (1866-1941), of The Tofte, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire.
Married 1st (03.10.1924, St Martin district, London) Sylvia Doreen Isabel Bevan, daughter of Walter Laurence Bevan (18.01.1903 - 04.03.1989); ... children (one daughter?).
Married 2nd ((06?).1965, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Rosemary Isabel Bevan (29.04.1917 - 06.09.1994).

05.09.1902
Halsall, Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
02.01.1967
Clinica Juaneda, Palma, Mallorca, Spain (formerly of Capdepera, Mallorca, Spain)

2nd Lt. (prob)	27.10.1921 [23155]
2nd Lt.	26.07.1922
Lt.	11.09.1926, seniority 01.02.1926
WS/Capt.	19.08.1941
T/Maj.	?
Capt.	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	05.09.1952

MBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

Education: Eton College (1916.2-1919.2).
Stockbroker.

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
27.10.1921	-	11.09.1926	commissioned, Scots Guards - Special Reserve of Officers
11.09.1926	-	05.09.1952	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class II) [attained age limit]

Alston,
Llewilyn Arthur Augustus
L.A.A. Alston

21.12.1890
-
18.03.1968

2nd Lt.	04.12.1912 [1739]
Lt.	10.03.1914
T/Capt.	24.12.1914-12.03.1915
Capt.	08.10.1915
A/Maj.	30.11.1916-05.11.1918, 10.12.1918-09.02.1919
Maj.	17.07.1928
A/Lt.Col.	06.11.1918-09.12.1918
Lt.Col.	18.05.1937
Col.	17.07.1939 (supernumerary 21.12.1945) (retd 24.03.1946)
T/Brig.	17.07.1939-14.12.1941
Hon. Brig.	24.03.1946

CBE	20.09.1945	?
DSO	1919	?
MC	1918	?

			served in the Special Reserve
04.12.1912			commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers
17.07.1939	-	27.07.1941	Commander, 113th Infantry Brigade (UK)
28.07.1941	-	01.10.1943	Commander, East Central Area, Sheffield Sub-District, 211 Sub-Area
22.10.1943	-	26.10.1944	Garrison Commander

Colonel, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1947-1948.

Alston-Roberts-West,
[Sir] Michael Montgomerie
[also known as:
Sir Michael M.A.R. West]
M.M. Alston-Roberts-West

Son of Capt. Harry Charles John AlstonRobertsWest, RN, and Olive Molyneux- Montgomerie. Married (24.08.1935) Christine Sybil Oppenheim; one daughter. From Newbury.

27.10.1905
-
14.05.1978
[Bembridge, Isle of Wight ?]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.09.1925 [33582]
Lt.	03.09.1927
Capt.	01.05.1936
A/Maj.	14.05.1940-13.08.1940
T/Maj.	14.08.1940-15.11.1941
WS/Maj.	16.11.1941
Maj.	03.09.1942
A/Lt.Col.	16.08.1941-15.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.	16.11.1941-06.12.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	07.12.1943
A/Col.	07.06.1943-06.12.1943
T/Col.	07.12.1943-02.02.1949
Col.	03.02.1949
A/Brig.	16.05.1944-15.11.1944
T/Brig.	16.11.1944-30.07.1950
T/Maj.Gen.	31.07.1950-09.05.1951
Maj.Gen.	10.05.1951
Lt.Gen.	20.03.1958
Gen.	23.06.1962 (retd 21.09.1965)

GCB	13.06.1964	HM's birthday
KCB	01.01.1959	New Year 59
CB	07.06.1951	HM's birthday
DSO	24.05.1945	Burma
DSO	28.06.1945	Burma
DSO	08.12.1953	Korea 01.07-27.07.53
MID	08.12.1953	Korea 01-06.53
LM	10.08.1954	Korea

Education: Uppingham; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; idc

03.09.1925			commissioned into the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1935	-	1940	India
20.02.1936	-	19.02.1939	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
12.08.1940	-	05.08.1941	Brigade Major, 165th Infantry Brigade
1942			Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (Madagascar)
07.06.1943	-	15.05.1944	Second-in-Command, 72nd Indian Infantry Brigade
16.05.1944	-	1945 [28.06.'45?]	Commander, 5th Infantry Brigade (Burma, India) [except for 22.08-14.09.1944 & 30.09-01.10.1944]
15.08.1944	-	23.08.1944	acting General Officer Commanding, 2nd Infantry Division (Burma)
12.10.1945	-	31.08.1948	Commandant, School of Infantry
15.10.1948	-	30.07.1950	Deputy Director of Manpower Planning Office, War Office
31.07.1950	-	22.07.1952	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Troops, Austria
07.09.1952	-	11.10.1953	Commander, Commonwealth Division, Korea
10.03.1955	-	10.02.1958	Director, Territorial Army, Cadets & Home Guard, War Office
20.03.1958	-	07.03.1960	General Officer Commanding, 1st British Corps, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), West Germany
1960	-	31.05.1962	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command
07.07.1962	-	1965	Chairman, British Defence Staff, Washington DC, USA, and UK Representative on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Standing Group
21.09.1965	-	27.10.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

ADC (General) to the Queen, ...-21.09.1965.

Althorp,
Viscount;
Spencer, Edward John;
8th Earl Spencer;
Baron and Viscount Spencer
Viscount Althorp (E.J. Spencer)

Only son of 7th Earl Spencer, TD, and Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton, DCVO, OBE (died 1972), daughter of 3rd Duke of Abercorn. Succeeded father, 1975.
Married 1st (1954) Hon. Frances Ruth Burke Roche (marr. diss. 1969), younger daughter of 4th Baron Fermoy; one son, three
daughters [one of which is Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales] (and one son deceased).
Married 2nd (1976) Raine, daughter of late Alexander George McCorquodale and of Dame Barbara Cartland, DBE, and former wife of 9th Earl of Dartmouth.

24.01.1924
London
-
29.03.1992
Westminster, London

Cadet	? [14401749]
2nd Lt.	09.01.1944 [304667]
WS/Lt.	09.07.1944
2nd Lt.	15.12.1945, seniority 24.01.1945
Lt.	24.07.1946
Capt.	19.05.1951 (retd 20.05.1954)

	MVO	24.05.1954	?
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Education: Eton; OCTU, Sandhurst and RAC, Cirencester.

1943	-	1944	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
09.01.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 14.12.1945]
			served Royal Scots Greys
15.12.1945			permanent commission

ADC to Governor of South Australia, 1947-50; Equerry to the Queen, 1952-54 (to King George VI, 1950-52). Honorary Colonel. The Northamptonshire Regiment (Territorials), T&AVR, 1967-71; a Deputy Honorary Colonel, The Royal Anglian Regiment, 1971-79. Chairman: SGBI, 1962-; The Nene Foundation, 1978-. Trustee: King George's Jubilee Trust; Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal; Member UK Council European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. CC Northants, 1952-81; High Sheriff of Northants, 1959; DL Northants, 1961; JP Norfolk, 1970. President, Northamptonshire Association of Boys' Clubs; Deputy President, National Association of Boys' Clubs, since 1980 (Chairman, 1962-80).
Published: Photographs for The Spencers on Spas, by Countess Spencer, 1983; Japan and the East (book of photographs), 1986.

Alton-Nagel,
Derek André
[also: Derec Andre]
D.A. Alton-Nagel

Son of Frederick Alton-Nagel (of Tennessee) and Alice (Studdert) Alton-Nagel.
Married ((09?).1960, Bedford district, Bedfordshire) Thea Bode.

24.04.1920
Wandsworth district, Greater London
-
12.05.1983

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [97584]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
A/Capt.	08.02.1944-07.05.1944
T/Capt.	08.05.1944-17.11.1944, 11.04.1946-28.11.1947
Lt.	29.11.1947, seniority 24.10.1942
Capt.	29.11.1947, seniority 24.04.1947
Maj.	24.04.1954 (retd 01.09.1968)

	MBE	13.06.1959	HM's birthday 59
	TD	21.04.1950	?

?	-	02.09.1939	served in the ranks (as a Private), Artists Rifles
02.09.1939			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
29.11.1947			permanent regular army commission - Royal Regiment of Artillery

Amesbury,
Raleigh Cornwallis
R.C. Amesbury

Son (with two sisters) of George Cornwallis Amesbury (1874-1930), and Muriel Emma May Hodgkinson (1888-1934).
Married (12.05.1941) Barbara Lilian Bowen (1918 - 03.03.2010), daughter of Col. John Alexander Barclay Penn Bowen, and Florence Violet Erskine Cole; four sons, one daughter.

19.10.1917
Boma, Goa, India
-
25.07.1986
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.01.1937 [70025]
WS/Lt.	15.09.1940
T/Capt.	20.12.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	13.05.1945
Capt.	01.01.1949
T/Maj.	13.05.1945-(04.1946)
Maj.	20.11.1958

02.01.1937			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
31.12.1938			transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class II)
24.08.1939			mobilized RARO
01.02.1941			transferred, 25th Dragoons - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.01.1944			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
(04.1944)			Armoured Fighting Vehicles School, India
20.11.1958			commissioned, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Territorial Army
14.11.1960			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Amond,
Frank William
B.A. Amswych

Married ((09?).1935, Norwich district, Norfolk) Olive Ellen Leamon (06.03.1911 - 14.01.1986); two sons, one daughter.

28.10.1910
Norwich district, Norfolk
-
25.01.1988
Abingdon, Oxford district, Oxfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.06.1942 [237592]
WS/Lt.	27.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

27.06.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Amor,
Horace Charles
H.C. Amor

Son (with four sisters and four brothers) of Arthur Edward Amor (1872-1944), and Eliza Charlotte Lee (1876-1957).
Married 1st ((12?).1937, Gosport district, Hampshire) Violet Mabel Hammond (06.12.1913 - 06.10.2004), daughter (with one brother) of William Charles Hammond (1885-), and Annie Gertrude Nash (1885-).
Married 2nd ((09?).1977, Petersfield district, Hampshire) Ethel Nellie Gillson (03.10.1918 - 17.12.1988).

29.12.1903
Hackney, London
-
01.09.1990
Ruskington, Grantham district, Lincolnshire

L/Bdr.	(1927)
Wt.Offr. cl. III	?
Lt.	23.12.1939 [109643]
T/Capt.	28.02.1941-23.07.1943
WS/Capt.	24.07.1943 (reld < 04.1949)
A/Maj.	24.04.1943-27.04.1944
T/Maj.	28.04.1944-(04.1947)

LSGCM

16.01.1948

(1927)			16th Regiment, Royal Artillery (Muttra)
23.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
22.09.1947	-	(1949?)	Temporary Captain with the Royal Artillery Records Office at Foots Gray, Sidcup, Kent

Amswych,
Basil Asher
B.A. Amswych

Married ((12?).1939, Hendon district, Middlesex) Elise S. Franses.

15.01.1914
-
04.1998
Harrow district

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [165621]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942
A/Capt.	22.08.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	20.07.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946

?	-	28.12.1940	either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.12.1940			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers [emergency commission]
15.07.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
(09.1945)			BAOR Regiment (Regimental HQ, "A", "L" Squadrons), GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (British Army of the Rhine, Germany)

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