Henry Martin
Son of Henry Gadsby (1890-1962), and Sheila Stewart (1899-1987).
Married ((09?).1956, Chichester district) Patricia M.A. Crick; ... children.
-
14.12.2008
(aged 83)
Burpham, Arundel, West Sussex
| Cadet |
? [2702058] |
|
2nd Lt. |
06.08.1944 [326830] |
| WS/Lt.
|
06.02.1945 (reld
1947) |
| 06.08.1944 |
commissioned,
Scots Guards [emergency commission] |
||
| (1944) |
- |
(1945) |
NW
Europe campaign |
| 01.01.1949 |
|
|
short
service commission [?] |
Kenneth Alwyn
Son of Thomas Gadsby (1887-), and Minnie E. Ryder (1889-).
Married Joan Edith Streeter (27.09.1928 - 29.12.2007); two daughters, one son.
Bolton, Manchester
-
20.08.1982
Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
| Cadet | ? [1440632] |
| 2nd Lt. | 22.08.1943 [300511] |
| WS/Lt. | 22.02.1944 |
| Lt. | 07.12.1948, seniority 06.09.1944 |
| Capt. | 01.07.1949 |
| 2nd Lt. | 30.07.1964, seniority 22.04.1945 |
| Lt.. | 30.07.1964, seniority 22.04.1947 |
| Capt. | 30.07.1964, seniority 22.04.1951(retd 31.08.1969) |
 |
TEM | 14.04.1950 | - |
| ? | - | 22.08.1943 | 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow |
| 22.08.1943 | commissioned, The Manchester Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| (05.1944) | 10 Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment (Battle for Kohima) | ||
| 07.12.1948 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.04.1950 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Regular Army [short service commission] | ||
| 30.01.1952 | transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Regular Army [short service commission] | ||
| 30.07.1964 | limited service regular commission |
Peter Henry
From Bognor Regis.
Son of Arthur Henry Gadsdon (1883-1997), and Catherine Fuller.
Married 1st (1947, Hereford) Lesley Delia Bolt; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1977, Westminster) Elizabeth Thompson.
Married 3rd (11.01.1997, Lewes, Sussex) Dorothy Doughty.
interview at IWM [listen at sample]
Westhampnett, Sussex
-
17.09.2017
Seaford, East Sussex
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
03.08.1940
[140653] |
| WS/Lt. |
31.01.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
17.02.1942-... |
| T/Maj. |
(1945) |
|
MBE |
28.06.1945 |
Burma |
|
MC |
12.07.1945 |
Burma |
|
MID |
05.04.1945 |
Burma
/ Eastern Frontier of India |
| ? |
- |
03.08.1940 |
163rd
Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 03.08.1940 |
commissioned,
The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission] |
||
| 1942 |
- |
1945 |
served
with 4/14th Battalion Punjab Regiment (Arakan, Burma and India) |
George Frederick
-
[16.02.1913 ??
-
04.2006
Plymouth district, Devon ??]
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
21.05.1943 [276755] |
| WS/Lt. |
21.11.1943 (reld
> 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. |
01.11.1945-(04.1946) |
| 21.05.1943 |
commissioned,
Pioneer Corps [emergency commission] |
James
-
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
26.02.1943 [264442] |
| WS/Lt. |
26.02.1943 (reld
> 04.1946) |
| A/Capt. |
28.12.1943-27.03.1944 |
| T/Capt. |
28.03.1944-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. |
> 04.1946 |
|
LSGCM |
27.08.1948 |
- |
| 26.02.1943 |
commissioned,
Pioneer Corps [emergency commission] |
||
| 01.01.1949 |
- |
10.02.1962 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Alan Peter
Son (with one brother) of Thomas Alan Gainsford (1880-1949), and Elsie Bedford (1891-1985).
Married ((06?).1954, Plymouth district, Devon)Pamela Margaret Davis (31.03.1931 - 27.09.2004); three children.
Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
29.07.1980
Yelverton, Tavistock district, Somerset
| Dvr. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 05.10.1939 [105642] |
| WS/Lt. | 29.05.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 07.09.1941-02.02.1946 |
| WS/Capt. | 03.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
 |
CdeG | 03.04.1945 | commanding Forward Ammunition Point of 29th Armoured Brigade throughout the campaign in France |
| 05.10.1939 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| (1944/45) | 171st Company RASC (Croix de Guerre) | ||
| 19.05.1951 | Corps of Royal Engineers - Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
Published: (edited by Tim Gainsford) My war diary : from Normandy into Hitler's Reich (2015).
Sir Richard Nelson
"Windy"
![R.N. Gale (Source: http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/c_gale [containing more photos])](http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/img/gale.jpg)
![R.N. Gale (Source: hhttp://www.ornebridgehead.org/richard_gale.htm [containing much more photos])](http://www.ornebridgehead.org/Biog/Nigel_Poett_8.jpg)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wandsworth, London
-
29.07.1982
London
|
2nd Lt. |
22.12.1915 |
| .. |
.. |
| T/Maj.Gen. |
07.05.1944-03.12.1946 |
| ... |
... |
| Gen. |
06.06.1952 (retd
1957) (retd 19.11.1960) |
|
GCB |
1954 |
? |
|
|
KCB |
1953 |
? |
|
|
CB |
02.08.1945 |
? |
|
|
KBE |
1950 |
? |
|
|
OBE |
1940 |
? |
|
DSO |
31.08.1944 |
? |
|
|
MC |
1918 |
? |
|
|
MID |
22.03.1945 |
? |
|
|
MID |
07.01.1949 |
? |
|
LM |
16.01.1948 |
? |
|
|
LM |
20.06.1944 |
? |
|
LegH |
28.12.1956 |
? |
|
|
CdeG |
28.12.1956 |
? |
British War Medal; Victory Medal; Grand Officier de la Couronne (Belgium)
| 22.12.1915 |
commissioned,
The Worcestershire Regiment |
||
| 1916 |
- |
1922 |
Machine Gun Corps (WWI Western Front; won MC) (from 1918 India) |
| 11.01.1923 |
- |
31.01.1927 |
Instructor
(Class C), Machine Gun School India |
| 1927 |
- |
1930 |
served in India |
| 26.02.1930 |
transferred
to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry |
||
| 20.02.1932 |
- |
31.12.1933 |
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India) |
| 01.01.1934 |
- |
19.02.1936 |
Brigade
Major, ... (India) |
| 01.02.1937 |
- |
24.10.1939 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO), ... |
| 13.10.1937 |
transferred
to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
||
| 12.1938 |
Staff Duties (Planning), General Staff, War Office (London) |
||
| 25.10.1939 |
- |
11.12.1940 |
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... |
| 12.1940 |
- |
07.1941 |
Commanding Officer, 2/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment |
| 05.09.1941 |
- |
17.04.1942 |
Commander, 1st Parachute Brigade (UK) |
| 18.04.1942 |
- |
15.06.1942 |
Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Air), War Office (London) |
| 16.06.1942 |
- |
11.12.1942 |
Directorate of Air, War Office (London) |
| 12.12.1942 |
- |
06.05.1943 |
Deputy
Director of Air, War Office (London) |
| 07.05.1943 |
- |
23.05.1945 |
General Officer Commanding, 6th Airborne Division (UK, NW Europe [Normandy], UK) |
| 08.12.1944 |
also:
Deputy Commander, 1st Allied Airborne Army |
||
| 24.05.1945 |
- |
31.10.1945 |
General Officer Commanding, 1st British Airborne Corps |
| 18.01.1946 |
- |
10.12.1947 |
General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division |
| 01.01.1948 |
- |
16.01.1949 |
General Officer Commanding, British Troops, Egypt and Mediterranean
Command |
| 07.02.1949 |
- |
14.05.1952 |
Director-General of Military Training, War Office (London) |
| 24.09.1952 |
- |
31.12.1956 |
Commander-in-Chief, Northern Army Group, Allied Land Forces Europe &
British Army of the Rhine |
| 1958 |
- |
1960 |
re-employed NATO: Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe |
Published: With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy (1948); Call to arms (1968); Great battles of Biblical history (1969); The Worcestershire Regiment (1970); Kings at arms (1971)
Edward Joseph
Greater London / Kent / London ?
-
| 2nd Lt. |
03.04.1943 [269085] |
| WS/Lt.
|
03.10.1943 |
| 21.01.1943 |
- |
02.04.1943 |
36th
course, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps |
| 03.04.1943 |
commissioned, Royal
Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission] |
Horace Cornelius William
"Mike"
Son of Frederick William Hector Galliford (1887-1953), and Charlotte Mary Owens (1890?-1965).
Married 1st (09.08.1941, St John's Church, Radcliffe, Lancashire; divorced) June Wakeling Taylor; one son. She remarried ((03?).1947, Brighton district, Sussex) Colin G.M. Payne.
Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Hull district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Sister Isabella Abigail Anderson, QAIMNS (25.08.1919 - 29.05.1994); three sons, one daughter.
Brighton, East Sussex
-
14.12.1983
Brandon, Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 22.03.1941 [179479] |
| WS/Lt. | 22.09.1942 (reld < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 24.04.1945-(04.1946) |
| T/Maj. ? | ? |
|
39-45 St | - | - |
|
|
Afr St | - | & clasp 1st Army |
|
|
It St | - | - |
 |
Def M | - | - |
 |
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| ? | - | 22.03.1941 | either 121st, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 22.03.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 03.01.1942 | transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers | ||
| served with the Royal Engineers in North Africa with the First Army, and then served in Italy and lastly Greece |
Eric
-
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
15.03.1941
[177623] |
| WS/Lt. |
15.09.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
04.08.1944-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. |
01.01.1949 |
| ? |
- |
14.03.1941 |
151st or
152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 15.03.1941 |
commissioned, The
Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission] |
||
| 06.05.1943 |
- |
30.06.1944 |
2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment ( NW Europe) |
| 01.07.1944 |
- |
(09.1944) |
Officer
Commanding, HQ Company, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment ( NW Europe) |
| 03.12.1945 |
|
transferred,
Army Educational Corps |
|
| 01.01.1949 |
|
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers |
Sir James Andrew Harcourt
Eldest son of late Sir Sydney J. Gammell, Countesswells,
Aberdeenshire.
Married 1st (1919) Gertrude
(died 1960), eldest daughter of late Gilbert W. Don; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1964) Mrs Mary Kirkwood, widow of Comdr.
David Kirkwood, RN.
|
|
[Scotland ?]
-
01.08.1975
[Alrick, Glenisla, by Alyth, Perthshire?]
|
2nd Lt. |
05.08.1914,
seniority 19.12.1912 [8402] |
| Maj. |
1927 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. |
1931 |
| Lt.Col. |
1935 |
| Col. |
1938 |
| T/Brig. |
19.12.1938-06.05.1941 |
| A/Maj.Gen. |
24.07.1940-06.05.1941 |
| Maj.Gen. |
07.05.1941,
seniority 30.11.1940 |
| A/Lt.Gen. |
25.12.1941-24.12.1942 |
| T/Lt.Gen. |
25.12.1942-28.09.1944 |
| Lt.Gen.
|
29.09.1944,
seniority 01.07.1944 (retd 09.05.1946) |
KCB 1944 (CB 27.09.1940); DSO 1917; MC; DL
| 05.08.1914 |
commissioned,
Royal Field Artillery |
||
| served
European War, 1914-1918 (despatches 7 times, DSO, MC) |
|||
| 1927 |
transferred
to Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders |
||
| 1930 |
- |
1933 |
Instructor
Staff College, Camberley |
| 05.05.1935 |
- |
1938 |
Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders |
| 19.12.1938 |
- |
06.02.1940 |
Commander,
4th Infantry Brigade (Aldershot Command, UK & BEF, France) |
| 07.02.1940 |
- |
21.06.1940 |
Brigadier
General Staff, British Expeditionary Force (France) |
| 22.06.1940 |
- |
23.07.1940 |
Commander,
15th Infantry Brigade (Scottish Command) |
| 24.07.1940 |
- |
24.12.1941 |
General
Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (UK) |
| 25.12.1941 |
- |
06.09.1942 |
General
Officer Commanding, ... Corps (UK) |
| 07.09.1942 |
- |
03.01.1944 |
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command (UK) |
| 04.01.1944 |
- |
17.12.1944 |
Chief
of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre |
| 1945 |
Representative
of British Chiefs of Staff with USSR and Head of British Military Mission in
Moscow |
Richard John
-
23.07.1967
New Delhi, India (formerly of Bassett, Southampton)
| 2nd Lt. | 02.09.1939 [100039] |
| WS/Lt. | 02.03.1941 |
| A/Capt. | 06.09.1945-05.12.1945 |
| T/Capt. | 06.12.1945-30.06.1946 |
| Lt. | 03.08.1946, seniority 03.03.1941 |
| Capt. | 03.08.1946, seniority 01.07.1946 |
| A/Maj. | 05.05.1946-04.08.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 05.08.1946-26.12.1946, 01.08.1947-15.01.1948, 01.08.1951-01.09.1952 |
| Maj. | 02.09.1952 (retd 26.09.1958) |
| local Lt.Col. | 01.02.1954 |
|
|
MC | 09.08.1945 | possibly Greece |
|
|
MID | 23.03.1944 | Sicily 07.43 |
|
|
MID | 07.01.1949 | Palestine 03-09.46 |
 |
TD | 21.04.1950 | ? |
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| 02.09.1939 | commissioned, 5th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) - Territorial Army | ||
| 01.08.1942 | transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps | ||
| 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment (designed the Gammon bomb, the hand grenade (no. 82) used primarily by British airborne forces) | |||
| served Special Operations Executive (SOE) | |||
| (09.1944) | Raiding Support Regiment (Greece) | ||
| 03.08.1946 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [permanent commission] | ||
| 26.09.1958 | - | 18.09.1966 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Frank Cecil
Son of Frank Belson Gange and Nellie Gange; husband of Maud Gange.
Shanghai, China
-
09.06.1943
Bairagarh, nr. Bhopal, India
(railway accident)
[Kirkee War Cemetery, India, 8.D.6]
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
10.05.1941
[186779] |
| WS/Lt. |
10.05.1942 |
| Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
|||
| 10.05.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
||
| (1943) |
4th Field
Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery (Poona, India) |
Jack Rose Compton *
* Initially shown as: Jack Compton Rose Gannon.
Son of John Gannon, of St John's College, Cambridge.
Married ((09?).1910, St Marylebone district, London) Dorothy Mary Robertson (17.10.1883 - 28.03.1971), daughter of George Robertson, of Melbourne; one daughter.
|
|
Ireland
-
25.04.1980
King Edward VIIIth Hospital, Midhurst, Chichester district, West Sussex
| 2nd Lt. | 22.10.1902 [1838] |
| Lt. | 09.01.1906 19.06.1906, seniority 01.01.1906 04.10.1906, seniority 22.01.1905 |
| Capt. | 22.10.1911 |
| Maj. | 22.10.1917 |
| T/Lt.Col. | ...-16.09.1919 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. | 01.07.1925 |
| Lt.Col. | 22.10.1928 (Unemployed List 01.11.1932) (retd 07.09.1933) |
| Lt.Col. | 16.10.1939 [3790] |
| A/Brig. | 19.04.1945-(04.1946) (reverted to retd 1946) |
|
|
CBE | 01.02.1945 | NW Europe |
|
|
OBE | 11.06.1942 | HM's birthday 42 |
 |
MVO | 11.03.1922 | Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, India |
|
|
MID | 10.06.1921 | Waziristan |
|
|
MID | 09.08.1945 | NW Europe |
|
|
MID | 04.04.1946 | NW Europe |
|
|
LegH | 1944 | liberation of France |
|
|
CdeG | ? | ? |
 |
LM | ? | ? |
 |
OON | 08.11.1945 | liberation of the Netherlands |
| 22.10.1902 | - | 1906 | commissioned, South Staffordshire Regiment |
| 04.10.1906 | 23rd Cavalry (Frontier Force) - Indian Army | ||
| served in the Great War 1914-1918, Afghan War 1919, and in operations against the Mahsuds 1919-1920 (despatches twice) | |||
| 01.09.1916 | - | 07.11.1916 | Adjutant, S.A.D. [Small Arms Depot?] - Royal Flying Corps |
| 1917 | Maj., P.A.V.O. Cavalry (11th Frontier Force) | ||
| ? | - | 16.09.1919 | Assistant Director of Remounts |
| 03.10.1919 | - | 31.05.1920 | Assistant Director of Remounts, Waziristan Field Force |
| 1920 | - | 1925 | Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, India (MVO) |
| 1927 | - | 1932 | Commanding Officer, Sam Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force) |
| 07.09.1933 | - | 01.11.1937 | Indian Regular Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
| Special List (retired officers re-employed): | |||
| 16.10.1939 | - | 10.10.1940 | specially employed as Assistant Military Secretary, GHQ British Expeditionary Force in France |
| 11.10.1940 | - | 21.07.1943 | specially employed as Assistant Military Secretary, GHQ Home Forces (OBE) |
| 22.07.1943 | - | (04.)1946 | specially employed as Deputy Military Secretary 21st Army Group, from 1945 British Army of the Rhine (NW Europe) (CBE, despatches twice) |
John Anthony [Murphy]
Son of ... Gannon, and ... Murphy.
Married 1st ((03?).1944, Edmonton district, Hertfordshire / Middlesex / Essex) Elisabeth Allen; ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd ((09?).1966, Kensington district, London) Jacqueline O. Gannon.
Warrington district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
13.07.2005
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
| 2nd Lt. | 18.12.1937 [73736] |
| WS/Lt. | 25.12.1939 |
| WS/Capt. | 13.01.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| A/Maj. | 01.01.1942-(04.1943) |
| T/Maj. | ? |
| Hon. Maj. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
|
|
TD | 02.12.2003 | - |
| Officer Cadet, Liverpool University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| 18.12.1937 | commissioned, 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| 1939 | - | 1940 | with British Expeditionary Force (France) |
| 1940 | - | 1944 | attached, Royal Indian Army Service Corps - Indian Army |
| 01.01.1942 | - | (04.)1943 |
Instructor, Royal Indian Army Service Corps School (Kakul/Chaklala) [Indian Army List shows from 10.03.1941 with rank of T/Capt.] |
| 1944 | invalided to UK | ||
| 01.01.1945 | - | (04.)1946 | General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Training Branch, Military Section, Combined Operations Headquarters |
Glyn Warren
Son of Thomas and Millicent Garbett, of Crynant, Glamorgan.
Crynant, Glamorgan
-
29.04.1945
(KIA) [age 25]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, 20.F.23]
| Cadet |
? [7358174] |
|
2nd Lt. |
28.04.1944 [315743] |
| WS/Lt. |
28.10.1944 |
| A/Capt. |
? |
| Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
|||
| 28.04.1944 |
commissioned,
South Wales Borderers [emergency commission] |
||
| ? |
- |
29.04.1945 |
6th
Battalion South Wales Borderers (Burma) |
Edwin Lover
Hackney district, London
-
14.07.1972
Weston Favell, Brixworth district, Northamptonshire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 18.07.1940 [141516] |
| WS/Lt. | 27.07.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945) |
| T/Capt. |
27.04.1941-(07.1942), 13.08.1942-(07.1945) |
| 18.07.1940 | commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| 13.01.1943 | - | (07.)1945 | Adjutant, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering) |
Percy Alec
Married; one daughter, one son.
Last residence: Scalby, Scarbourough, Yorkshire.
Stapleford, Nottinghamshire
-
29.10.2008
St Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough, Yorkshire
| QMS | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 05.11.1942 [251256] |
| WS/Lt. | 05.05.1943 |
| T/Capt. | 28.06.1945-(04.1946) |
|
|
MC | 03.05.1945 | NW Europe 44-45 (for actions at Zetten the Netherlands, 45) |
| 15.11.1939 | - | 1942 | enlisted, The Sherwood Foresters |
| 05.11.1942 | commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| (04.1944) | special appointment | ||
| (1944) | - | (1945) | 1st Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment (NW Europe) |
Walter Hunter
Son of ... Gardiner, and ... Hunter.
Tain district, Scotland
-
1992
Haymarket district, Scotland
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 20.04.1940 [129488] |
| WS/Lt. | 20.10.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 05.04.1943-(04.1946) |
| ? | - | 20.04.1940 | either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 20.04.1940 | commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission] | ||
| 09.08.1941 | transferred, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) |
David Maitland
Only son of John James Maitland Gardner (died 1945), and Alice Morley.
Married (05.10.1946) Barbara Helen Dundas (01.02.1922 - ), daughter of David John Wauchope Dundas (1886-1938), and Winifred Hersey MacKenzie (?-1946).
Glasgow, Scotland
-
21.03.1995
Crieff Cottage Hospital (formerly of Culdees Castle, Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland)
| 2nd Lt. | 23.01.1937 [70065] |
| WS/Lt. | 03.12.1939 |
| T/Capt. | 03.12.1939-26.12.1942 |
| WS/Capt. | 27.11.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 27.11.1942-(01.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. | > 01.1946, < 04.1946 |
|
|
MBE | 19.04.1945 | Italy [recommendation available upon request] |
|
|
TD | 21.04.1950 | & 1st clasp |
|
|
MID | 11.11.1943 | North Africa |
| late
Cadet Lance-Corporal, Charterhouse School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps |
|||
| 23.01.1937 | commissioned, 80th (Lowland) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| (1945) | General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), HQ 57 Area, Central Mediterranean Forces (responsible for "G" staff work) (MBE) | ||
| ? | - | 03.04.1964 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Richard Norman Thomas
-
26.01.1989
Yeovil, Somerset
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
22.08.1943
[292184] |
| WS/Lt.
|
22.02.1944
(reld > 04.1946) |
|
|
MID |
22.03.1945 |
NW
Europe |
| 22.08.1943 |
commissioned,
Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] |
||
| (06.1944) |
Officer
Commanding, 4 Troop, "A"
Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France) |
Henry Houghton
"Harry"
Son (with one sister) of Horace Garner (1883-1962), and Ethel May Bosomworth (1881-1956).
Married ((03?).1951, Chatham district, Kent) Catherine Ryan; three daughters.
Loughborough district, Leicestershire
-
01.06.2003
Frinton-on-Sea, Colchester district, Essex
| 2nd Lt. | 04.03.1940 [122939] |
| A/Lt. | 18.09.1940-(04.1941) |
| WS/Lt. | 04.09.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 20.07.1942-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. | 03.11.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 03.11.1946-(04.1947) |
| 04.03.1940 | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission] |
Thomas Denis
Son of ... Garner, and ... Lea.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
Huyton, Prescot district, Lancashire
-
30.05.1983
Ipswich district, Suffolk
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 08.02.1941 [170950] |
| WS/Lt. | 08.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 06.04.1945-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 04.1946, < 04.1947 (deprived of the honorary rank on conviction by the civil power 05.06.1963) |
| ? | - | 08.02.1941 | either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training unit |
| 08.02.1941 | commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] |
Thomas Houghton
"Tom"
Son of ... Garner, and ... Waite.
Married Helen (née ...) (predeceased him); one daughter.
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
28.06.2008
Aldershot ?
| 2nd Lt. | 12.12.1942 [255691] |
| ... | ... |
| T/Maj. | 19.05.1945-02.06.1946 |
| ... | ... |
| Brig. | 31.12.1966 (retd 31.03.1973) |
|
|
MBE | 30.09.1958 | ? |
| 12.12.1942 |
commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission to 30.09.1946] | ||
| 01.10.1946 | permanent commission |
Leonard Harry
Bernard Percy
Son (with one sister and one brother) of William Charles Garnish (1877-1961), and Edith Eliza Tooke (1874-1957).
Married ((03?).1945, Greenwich district, London) Margaret Josephine Beedle (01.03.1920 - 24.06.2014); ... children (one daughter?).
Catford, Lewisham district, London
-
18.10.1987
Lewisham, Gravesend district, Kent
| Cadet | ? [14319894] |
| 2nd Lt. | 21.01.1945 [339485] |
| WS/Lt. | 21.07.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| 1944 | - | 20.01.1945 | Officer Cadet Training Unit, Newark |
|
21.01.1945 |
commissioned, Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section) [emergency commission] | ||
| 04.1945 | - | 1946 | served in Singapore |
Ronald Ernest
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
09.01.1984
Bristol, Gloucestershire
| Sgt. |
?
[10558222] |
| 2nd
Lt. |
28.12.1944
[336954] |
| WS/Lt.
|
28.06.1945 |
| Lt. |
01.08.1947,
seniority 28.06.1945 |
| WS/Capt. |
?
(removed from the Army on conviction by the Civil Power 13.04.1950) |
| A/Maj.
? |
(1947) |
| 28.12.1944
|
commissioned,
Army Catering Corps [immediate emergency commission] |
||
| (1947) |
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona) |
||
| 01.08.1947 |
- |
13.04.1950 |
short
service commission |
Lawrence Francis
Headington
-
06.06.1967
Plaxtol, nr Sevenoaks, Maidstone district, Kent
| 2nd
Lt. |
18.07.1913
[5172] |
| Lt. |
09.06.1915 |
| A/Capt. |
11.03.1917-25.04.1917 |
| Capt. |
18.07.1917 |
| A/Maj. |
26.04.1917-25.12.1918 |
| Maj. |
04.07.1932 |
| Lt.Col.
|
01.08.1939
(retd 29.03.1947) |
|
|
DSO |
03.06.1919 |
Italy |
|
|
MC |
01.01.1917 |
? |
|
|
MID |
15.06.1916 |
? |
|
|
MID |
05.06.1919 |
? |
|
|
MID |
11.10.1945 |
for gallant and distinguished services in the field |
 |
14|15 St | ? | ? |
 |
BWM 14|20 | ? | ? |
 |
VM | ? | ? |
Belgium Order of the Crown (WW I) ?
| 18.07.1913 |
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery |
| served
World War I (France & Belgium 08.02.1915-17.05.1915 &
20.08.1915-18.11.1917; in Italy 19.11.1917-04.11.1918) |
|||
| 17.01.1916 |
- |
28.02.1917 |
Adjutant,
105th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery |
| 13.08.1919 |
- |
15.12.1922 |
Adjutant,
... |
| 01.10.1926 |
- |
21.09.1930 |
Adjutant,
... (Territoral Army) |
| (06.1933) |
8th
Field Brigade RA (Mhow) |
||
| (01.1937) |
8th
Field Brigade RA (Mhow, for Lucknow, Cawnpore & Fyzabad) |
||
| (01.1939) |
7th
Field Regiment RA (Catterick Camp) |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
Richard Strang
|
|
-
29.07.2008
| Sapper |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
21.06.1939 |
| WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941 |
| A/Capt. ? | ? |
|
|
late Cadet Lance-Corporal,
Bradfield College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps |
||
| served
in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers |
|||
| 21.06.1939 |
commissioned,
8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
- Territorial Army |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| (1940) |
served
in Norway |
||
| ? | - | 28.02.1943 | captured during Operation Torch (invasion of Tunesia) |
| 1943 | - | 1945 | POW in Italian & German captivity |
George
-
[02.2007 still alive]
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
16.01.1943
[261015] |
| WS/Lt.
|
16.07.1943
(reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| Hon.
Capt. |
<
04.1946 |
|
|
MID |
04.04.1946 |
NW
Europe |
| 1939 |
- |
1943 |
enlisted
& served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps (UK) |
| 16.01.1943 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] (UK & NW Europe) |
Patrick Bannister
Son of Capt. Richard Hart Garstin, CBE, RIN, and Mary Amelia Bannister.
Husband of Susan Nicola Garstin, of Canterbury.
India
-
09.08.1944
(executed) [age 25]
[Marissel French National Cemetery, grave 325]
| 2nd
Lt. |
01.07.1939
[95531] |
|
Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. |
08.09.1943-(04.1944) |
|
|
MC |
11.07.1940 |
France |
| 01.07.1939 |
commissioned,
The Royal Ulster Rifles |
||
| 2nd
Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles |
|||
| ? |
- |
04.07.1944 |
attached
"D" Squadron 1st Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps [captured on Operation Gain 04.07.1944 and subsequently executed in the wood near Beauvais, France] |
Arnold
From Oldham.
Rochdale district, Greater Manchester, Lancashire
-
03.05.1953
Winchester, Hampshire
| Lt.
(Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.) |
01.07.1939
[90454] (reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt.
(T/OME 3rd cl.) |
08.06.1940-(04.1941) |
| T/Capt. |
29.07.1942-(04.1944) |
| WS/Capt. | 05.07.1945 |
| Hon.
Capt. |
<
04.1946 |
| Capt. |
01.05.1947,
seniority 05.07.1945 |
| Maj. |
01.09.1950 |
|
|
MBE |
28.06.1945 |
Italy |
|
|
TD |
21.04.1950 |
? |
| 01.07.1939 |
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army |
| 24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized
TA |
| 01.10.1942 |
|
|
transferred,
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Patrick Brendan
Son of Dr. Patrick Joseph Garvey, MB, ChB (1878-), and Anne Cassandra Colston.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
Wolstanton district, Staffordshire
-
25.06.1973
Northallerton district, North Riding of Yorkshire
| 2nd Lt. | 21.11.1934 (reld 11.12.1935) |
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 29.06.1940 [138895] |
| WS/Lt. | 29.12.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 16.08.1943-(04.1946) |
| A/Maj. ? | ? |
| 21.11.1934 | commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | ||
| ? | - | 29.06.1940 | either 161st or 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 29.06.1940 | commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) [emergency commission] |
Douglas Wilder
Son (with one sister) of Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Gascoigne (1893-1970), and Sylvia Wilder (1887-1938).
Maidenhead, Berkshire
-
06.08.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[St Charles de Percy War Cemetery, France, II.A.3]
[commemorated at Aberford War Memorial]
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 23.03.1940 [149126] |
| WS/Lt. | 23.09.1941 |
| A/Capt. | 08.06.1943-07.06.1943 |
| T/Capt. | 08.09.1943-06.08.1944 |
| 1939 | - | 22.03.1940 | Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 23.03.1940 | commissioned, Coldstream Guards [emergency commission] | ||
| 14.10.1940 | - | 06.08.1944 | 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards (killed in action at Lassy when a shell hit his tank) |
Ivan Henry
Son of James Gash, and Henrietta Syme Whitworth.
Married ((06?).1941, Wilton district, Wiltshire) Margaret E. Millar.
Lincoln district, Lincolnshire
-
08.01.1979
Dover district, Kent
| 2nd Lt. | 30.01.1936 [67140] |
| Lt. | 30.01.1939 |
| A/Capt. |
21.09.1939-20.10.1939, 10.04.1940-14.06.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 15.06.1940-07.06.1941 |
| WS/Capt. | 08.06.1941 |
| Capt. | 30.01.1944 |
| A/Maj. | 08.03.1941-07.06.1941 |
| T/Maj. |
08.06.1941-16.12.1942, 12.12.1944-30.06.1945 |
| WS/Maj. | 01.07.1945 |
| Maj. | 30.01.1949 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 01.04.1945-30.06.1945 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 01.07.1945-30.05.1947 (retd 01.03.1958) |
|
|
MID | 23.05.1946 | Mediterranean |
| 30.01.1936 | commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment | ||
| (01.1937) | 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Egypt, for Holywood) | ||
| (01.1938) | - | (01.1939) | 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Holywood) |
| 1945 | - | 1945 | Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Palestine Regiment (Jewish Infantry Brigade Group) |
| 01.03.1958 | - | 26.12.1965 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
John Stuart Bengough
"Jack"
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Maj.Gen. Sir Herbert Stuart Gaskell, KCB, DSO and Bar (1882-1957), and Sybil Ann Louise Hudson (1880-1965).
Married ((06?).1952, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Diana M. Beer-Roberts
Poonah, Bombay, India
-
03.1996
Hay-on-Wye district, Powys, Wales
| 2nd Lt. | 30.01.1930 [44884] |
| Lt. | 30.01.1933 |
| Capt. | 13.05.1938 |
| A/Maj. | 10.10.1940-09.01.1941 |
| T/Maj. |
10.01.1941-13.10.1941, 16.10.1941-30.06.1946 |
| Maj. | 01.07.1946 (retd 21.08.1953) |
| 30.01.1930 | commissioned, The Welch Regiment | ||
| 28.03.1940 | - | 09.10.1940 | Adjutant, ... |
| 03.06.1943 | - | 23.09.1943 | training course, Staff College, Camberley |
John
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
-
08.12.1970
Uckfield district, Sussex (formerly of Petersfield, Hampshire)
| Rifleman | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 29.11.1941 [219241] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld 30.09.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 10.05.1944-30.09.1946 |
| 08.08.1941 | - | 28.11.1941 | Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst (Infantry) |
| 29.11.1941 | commissioned, Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission] | ||
| 29.11.1941 | - | 23.03.1945 |
1st Battalion London Irish
Rifles [served Iraq, Sicily and Italy; wounded Anzio 08.02.1944; wounded Gothic Line 06.09.1944] |
| 24.03.1945 | transferred, Royal Corps of Signals |
Ronald Henry Charles
-
08.03.1993
Bracknell, Berkshire
| 2nd
Lt. |
16.07.1942
[237307] |
| WS/Lt. |
16.01.1943 |
| T/Capt.
|
07.09.1944-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. |
?
(reld 10.04.1948) |
| Hon.
Capt. |
10.04.1948 |
| Capt. |
18.01.1955,
seniority 21.11.1951 |
| Maj. |
01.11.1956
(retd 25.08.1961) |
|
|
MC |
15.11.1945 |
? |
| 16.07.1942 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
||
| Combined
Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 9 (Far East) |
|||
| 01.01.1949 |
- |
18.01.1955 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers |
| 18.01.1955 |
- |
25.08.1961 |
Territorial
Army |
D B
-
?
| 2nd Lt. | ? |
| WS/Lt. | ? |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| ? | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| ... | - | ... | ... |
| (1944) | Combined Operations Bombardment Unit | ||
| ... | - | ... | ... |
Ronald
From Swaffham.
-
| Gnr. |
? |
| Wt.Off.
II |
? |
|
Lt. |
01.02.1941
[168494] |
| WS/Capt. | 07.11.1943
(reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. |
07.11.1943-(04.1944) |
| Hon.
Maj. |
<
04.1946 |
|
|
DSO |
29.03.1945 |
NW
Europe |
| served in the ranks, Royal
Regiment of Artillery |
|||
| 01.02.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
John Bernard
Eldest son of late John H. Gawthorpe, Roundhay, Leeds.
Married (1915) Clarice Turner (died 1956), Roundhay; one daughter.
Ossett, Yorkshire
-
20.08.1979
| 2nd
Lt. |
28.07.1911
[6876] |
| Lt. |
1913 |
| T/Capt. |
? |
| Capt. |
16.08.1915,
seniority 20.06.1915 |
| A/Maj. |
01.06.1917-20.10.1917, 19.02.1918-... |
| T/Maj. |
16.02.1918-20.06.1921 |
| Bt. Maj. |
11.11.1919
* |
| Maj. |
25.09.1931
(retd 25.09.1931) |
| Maj.
RARO |
25.09.1931, seniortiy 04.01.1928 |
| Lt.Col.
TA |
16.02.1934 |
| Bt.
Col. TA |
16.02.1938 |
| Col.
TA |
16.02.1938
(supernumerary 11.04.1945) (ceases to draw pay from Army Funds
27.01.1945) (retd 12.11.1948; age limit) |
| T/Brig.
TA
|
25.08.1939-10.08.1940 |
| Hon.
Brig. |
27.01.1945 |
|
|
CBE |
02.01.1939 |
New
Year 39 |
|
|
MID |
20.12.1940 |
BEF
39-40 |
|
|
TD |
19.08.1943 |
? |
| 28.07.1911 |
commissioned,
7th & 8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalions West Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Army |
||
| served
European War, France and Belgium, 1915, 1917, 1918 (wounded); North Russia, 1919 |
|||
| 29.05.1916 |
seconded,
Machine Gun Corps |
||
| 14.10.1916 |
- |
20.11.1916 |
Assistant
Instructor, Training Centre, Machine
Gun Corps |
| 20.11.1916 |
- |
? |
Instructor,
Training Centre, Machine
Gun Corps |
| 04.05.1917 |
transferred
from Territorial Force to Regular Forces |
||
| 01.06.1917 |
- |
20.10.1917 |
Assistant
Instructor, Machine Gun Corps |
| 19.02.1918 |
- |
06.04.1918 |
Company
Commander, Machine Gun Corps |
| 07.04.1918 |
- |
1918 |
Second-in-Command
of a Battalion, Machine Gun Corps |
| 08.11.1918 |
- |
30.11.1918 |
Instructor
(Class EE), Machine Gun Corps |
| 12.12.1919 |
- |
05.1921 |
Assistant
Instructor, Machine
Gun School |
| 01.11.1921 |
- |
01.10.1924 |
Officer
in charge of Technical Duties (Class EE), Machine Gun School |
| 28.03.1925 |
restored
to the establishment of the regiment |
||
| 01.11.1926 |
- |
01.11.1930 |
Adjutant,
5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment |
| 25.09.1931 |
- |
12.01.1946 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
| 16.02.1934 |
- |
16.02.1938 |
Commanding Officer,
7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Army |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| 25.08.1939 |
- |
10.08.1940 |
Commander, 137th
Infantry Brigade (UK, France, UK) [except for 21.06-05.07.1940] |
| 05.06.1940 |
- |
05.07.1940 |
acting General
Officer Commanding, 46th Infantry Division (France & Belgium, UK) |
| 18.10.1940 | - | (04.1941) | Commander Home Guard, Cambridge Area |
| 1943 |
- |
1944 |
Commander, Cambridge
Sub Area |
John Charles Thomas
Son of Charles Edgar Gayton, and Doris M. Thomas.
North Bierley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
19.12.1993
Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
21.01.1940
[113791] |
| WS/Lt.
|
21.07.1940
(reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| WW
II |
served in Africa and Burma: |
||
| served
in the ranks, King's Royal Rifle Corps |
|||
| ? |
- |
21.01.1940 |
Officer
Cadet Training Unit Sandhurst |
| 21.01.1940 |
commissioned,
Royal Scots Fusiliers [emergency commission] |
||
| 26.02.1944 |
transferred,
Royal Corps of Signals |
John Duncan Watherston
Son of Henry Leslie Geare (1886-1965), and Marjory Violet Watherston (1882-1969).
Married Mary F. (née ...); ... children (one son, one daughter?)
Berkhampstead district, Buckinghamshire / Hertfordshire
-
16.06.2011
New Zealand
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
16.12.1939
[109916] |
| WS/Lt. |
16.06.1941 |
| T/Capt. |
21.02.1942-(04.1944) |
| WS/Capt. |
06.09.1944
(reld 26.10.1946) |
| T/Maj. |
06.09.1944-(04.1946) |
| Hon.
Maj. |
26.10.1946 |
| served in the ranks, Royal
Regiment of Artillery |
|||
| ? |
- |
16.12.1939 |
either
131st or 132nd Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 16.12.1939 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
||
| instructor
in gunnery (anti-aircraft), qualified at a War Gunnery Course |
Frederick Edward
Brighton, Sussex
-
02.08.1959
Brighton district, Sussex
| L/Cpl. |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
07.07.1915 |
| Lt. |
? |
| T/Capt. |
26.12.1918-14.07.1919 |
| Capt. |
05.11.1919
(reld 30.09.1921) |
| Capt. |
31.01.1940
[101214] |
| T/Maj. |
21.06.1940-(04.1941) |
| WS/Maj. |
15.09.1943
(retd 21.08.1945) |
| T/Lt.Col.
|
15.09.1943-(04.1944) |
| Hon.
Lt.Col. |
21.08.1945 |
|
|
TD |
1944/45? |
- |
| 6th
(Cyclist) Battlaion, Royal Sussex Regiment |
|||
| 07.07.1915 |
commissioned,
15th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own
Civil Service Rifles) - Territorial Force Reserve (Infantry) |
||
| 26.12.1918 |
- |
14.07.1919 |
commanding
Co. Demobilization Camp |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| 02.09.1939 |
commissioned,
Royal Sussex Regiment |
||
| 31.01.1940 |
transferred,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (General List) |
John Percy
Son (with three sisters) of Harry Percy Gee (1874-1962), and Augustine Flora Paget (1879-1919).
Married (01.10.1938, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Rachel Thornton Tyler (06.04.1918 - 10.1990) [who remarried (1972) Edward H. Burton]; two daughters, one son.
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
27.12.1969
Midhurst district, Sussex
[Terwick Churchyard, Sussex]
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 05.10.1940 [151150] |
| WS/Lt. | 05.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1948) |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| Hon. Capt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| either 122nd, 123rd, 125th, or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 05.10.1940 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
William Eric
-
10.1968
Isle of Man
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 21.08.1943 [289668] |
| WS/Lt. | 21.02.1944 (reld 28.02.1951) |
| Sgt. | ? [22549880] |
| Lt. | 26.05.1953 [289668] |
| Capt. | 03.08.1956 |
| 21.08.1943 | commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission] | ||
| (1945) | 1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe) | ||
| 28.02.1951 | relinquished commission on enlistment in the ranks | ||
| 26.05.1953 | - | 26.05.1963 | Royal Army Ordnance Corps [short service commission] |
| 26.05.1963 | - | 13.12.1963 | Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army |
Clayton Henry
Married Elsie Olding Knight (12.07.1909 - 01.10.2002); one daughter.
Crampton, Ontario, Canada
-
25.10.1998
London, Ontario, Canada
| Lt. | 21.06.1935, seniority 21.06.1934 [65888] |
| Capt. | 21.06.1936, seniority 21.06.1935 |
| A/Maj. | 13.02.1940-12.05.1940 |
| T/Maj. | 13.05.1940-20.06.1944 |
| WS/Maj. | 21.06.1944 (retd 26.10.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. | 26.10.1946 |
|
|
MC | 18.02.1943 | Middle East (Egypt & Libya) [recommendation available upon request] |
| 21.06.1935 | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission] | ||
| (09.1935) | - | (10.1935) | Royal Army Medical College |
| (01.1937) | - | (01.1939) | served Shanghai |
| served BEF (Dunkirk), North Africa [2 Motor Ambulance Convoy (earning MC)] & Italy | |||
| 26.10.1946 | - | 21.06.1952 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Edwin Laurence
Son (with three sisters and seven brothers) of William Frank George (1887-1951), and Ella Susannah Hillier (1891-1945), of Warminster, Wiltshire.
Chitterne All Saints, Warminster district, Wiltshire
-
10.07.1944
[age 27]
[Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, Calvados, France, XII.A.9]
| Cadet | ? [5569527] |
| 2nd Lt. | 17.07.1943 [285236] |
| WS/Lt. | 17.01.1944 |
| 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 17.07.1943 | commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 10.07.1944 |
5th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment [05.07.1944, 02:00 hrs. Lt. E.L. George took out a recce patrol which moved through corn towards Hill 112. He reported that soft vehicles were heard moving and also what was possibly a tank. Killed in action 10.07.1944 during Operation "Jupiter" to capture the villages of Baron-sur-Odon, Fontaine-Étoupefour, Chateau de Fontaine and to recapture Hill 112.] |
Ronald Francis
Married (16.05.1942); ... children (one daughter?).
St Albans, Hertfordshire
-
15.07.1987
St Albans, Hertfordshire
|
Lt. & Paym. |
09.08.1939
[95745] |
| WS/Capt.
& Paym. |
01.11.1943
(reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Maj.
& Staff Paym. 2nd cl. |
01.11.1943-(04.1944) |
| Hon.
Maj. |
<
04.1946 |
|
|
MID |
09.08.1945 |
NW
Europe |
|
|
TD |
19.02.1952 |
- |
|
late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major,
St. Albans School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps |
|||
| 09.08.1939 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Pay Corps - Territorial Army |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| ? |
- |
15.10.1962 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Bernard Joseph Dudley
Son of Maj.Gen. J.J. Gerrard, CB, CMG.
Married (02.01.1941, St Austin's Church, Nairobi, Kenya) Pamela Margaret De Villiers, widow of Lt.Cdr. Lindsay De Villiers, RN; one son, one daughter.
Steyning district, Sussex
-
07.01.1965
Central Middlesex Hospital
| 2nd Lt. | 23.12.1921 [6884] |
| Lt. | 23.12.1923 |
| Capt. | 07.05.1935 |
| Maj. | 23.12.1938 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 15.11.1940-14.02.1941 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
15.02.1941-18.11.1944, 05.03.1945-09.12.1945 |
| Lt.Col. | 10.12.1945 |
| A/Col. |
01.01.1942-13.02.1942, 10.08.1943-18.09.1943 |
| A/Brig. |
11.01.1942-13.02.1942, 10.08.1943-18.09.1943 |
| Brig. | 01.07.1952 (retd 31.12.1954) |
|
|
DSO | 30.12.1941 | Middle East (East Africa & Madagascar) |
|
|
MID | 30.12.1941 | Middle East |
| 23.12.1921 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders | ||
| 12.11.1927 | - | 25.02.1934 | employed under Colonial Office (Royal West African Frontier Force) |
| 23.09.1936 | - | 31.08.1940 | employed under Colonial Office (Royal West African Frontier Force) |
| (1941) | 1st Nigeria Regiment | ||
| 06.01.1942 | - | 14.02.1942 | acting Commander, 1st West Africa Infantry Brigade Group (West Africa) |
| 16.04.1943 | - | 21.09.1943 | acting Commander, 1st West Africa Infantry Brigade Group (West Africa) |
Robert Withers Jacomb
Cuckfield district, Sussex
-
25.01.1956
Colchester district, Essex
| 2nd
Lt. |
?
[97803] |
| Lt.
|
?
(reld 01.04.1920) |
| Capt. |
01.09.1939 |
| T/Maj.
|
? |
| Hon.
Maj. |
? |
|
|
MC |
01.01.1919 |
? |
| ? |
commissioned,
Royal Field Artillery - Special Reserve |
||
| (1918) |
attached Signal Sub-Section, Royal
Engineers, 5th Artillery Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| 12.1939 |
- |
09.1940 |
Battery
Commander (Officer Commanding), 6th Light
Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Scotland) (medically unfit) |
| (04.1944) |
- |
(04.1946) |
Unemployed
List - Territorial Army |
| ? |
- |
20.02.1952 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
William Alexander Achard
Only son of Col. William Ernest Gibbons, OBE, JP, and Alma Juliet Pauline Gibbons, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
14.06.1944
died from wounds and dysentery in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp
[Rangoon War Cemetery, Burma, 5.B.5]
| 2nd Lt. | 07.11.1942 [269296] |
| WS/Lt. | 07.05.1943 |
| 07.11.1942 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | ||
| 04.1942 | - | 02.1944 | attached, 24th R.B. Sappers and Miners, Royal Indian Engineers (wounded in Arakan; reported killed, but picked up by the Japanese and made POW) |
Denis Charles Parkins
Son (with one brother) of Charles A. Gibbs, and Alice H. Parkins.
Married ((12?).1941, Banbury district, Oxfordshire) Eileen Mary Jane Doolan (31.07.1922 - 01.02.2002); two sons, one daughter.
Wandsworth district, London
-
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 15.02.1941 [170663] |
| WS/Lt. | 15.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| Hon. Lt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| either 151st or 152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 15.02.1941 | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission] | ||
| 101 Line Section, Royal Signals (Southern Command) |
Eric Philip
Son of Ernest Gibbs (1877-1934), and Constance Mary Shelmerdine (1880-1961).
Married ((12?).1944, Upton district, Worcestershire) Zoe M. Holderness; two sons, one daughter.
Upton district, Worcestershire
-
07.2001
Banbury district, Oxfordshire
| 2nd Lt. | 28.12.1939 [101379] |
| WS/Lt. | 28.06.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 07.09.1944-(04.1946) |
| 2nd Lt. | 20.09.1947 |
| Lt. | 20.09.1947, seniority 20.09.1946 |
| Hon. Capt. | 01.04.1950 |
| Hon. Lt.Col. | 11.09.1968 |
|
|
MID | 29.06.1944 | gallant & distinguished services in the field |
| 28.12.1939 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 20.09.1947 | - | 11.09.1968 | commissioned, Bloxham School Contingent - Junior Training Corps - General List - Territorial Army |
| 01.04.1950 | Intelligence Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
Frank Peter Russell
-
06.11.1990
Poole, Dorset
| 2nd
Lt. |
13.06.1942
[235553] |
|
WS/Lt.
|
13.12.1942
(reld > 04.1946) |
| 1941 |
- |
13.06.1942 |
No.
31 Class, 141 Officer Cadet Training Unit (Aldershot) |
| 13.06.1942 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Edwin Charles
Son of ... Gibson, and ... Smith.
Married (09.05.1955, St Pancras, London) Betty Bryan Roots (06.10.1918 - 27.07.1997), earlier married (with two daughters) to Frank Stuart Boxall, and daughter of Oscar John Roots (1885-1981), and Doris Gertrude Bryan (1890-1936); one son, one daughter.
Gillingham. Medway district, Kent
-
28.06.1974
Rochester, Chatham district, Kent
| Lt. | 03.06.1944 [322458] |
| WS/Capt. | 03.06.1945 (reld 03.1947) |
| 03.06.1944 | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| seconded, 2nd/4th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment (Italy & Greece) |
John Hayworth
Married 1st Kathleen Nancy ... (08.08.1919 - 11.2002). She remarried (1947) Daniel M. O'Connell.
Married 2nd (05.06.1954, Westminster Hall, Westminster, London) Valerie Jean Bayntun Welch (10.11.1927 - 07.11.2009).
-
02.02.1974
St Marylebone district, London
| Gnr. | 10.12.1940 |
| Cadet | 30.12.1942 |
| 2nd Lt. | 09.09.1943 [293339] |
| WS/Lt. | 09.03.1944 (reld 12.07.1946) (relinquished commission 01.07.1959) |
| A?/Capt. | 26.03.1945 |
| T?/Maj. | 09.07.1945 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 22.10.1945 |
| Hon. Maj. | 12.07.1946 |
|
|
39-45 St | - | - |
|
|
Bur St | - | - |
|
|
Def M | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 10.12.1940 | enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery | ||
| 19.12.1940 | - | 12.01.1942 | 86th Battery, 111th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA |
| 13.01.1942 | - | 29.12.1942 | 118th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA |
| 30.12.1942 | - | 08.09.1943 | 13th Officer Cadet Training RA |
| 09.09.1943 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 11.12.1943 | - | 03.12.1944 | 205th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (10.02.1944 attached, Indian Army) |
| 04.12.1944 | - | 12.07.1946 | 14th Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RIA |
Robert John
-
24.03.2011
Birmingham, West Midlands
| 2nd Lt. | 18.02.1942 [227359] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 23.11.1944-(04.1946) |
| Lt. | 21.11.1947, seniority 26.08.1943 |
| Capt. | 01.10.1949 |
| A/Maj. | 19.02.1953 |
| Maj. | 26.08.1954, seniority 19.02.1953 |
| A/Lt.Col. | ? |
| Lt.Col. | 26.08.1958, seniority 02.10.1956 |
|
|
OBE | 08.06.1968 | HM's birthday 68 |
|
|
TD | 18.03.1960 | - |
|
|
TD | 15.07.1966 | - |
| 18.02.1942 | commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.10.1942 | transferred, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | ||
| 21.11.1947 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Territorial Army | ||
| Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve | |||
| 01.10.1969 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III) | ||
| 04.07.1973 | - | 04.07.1978 | Honorary Colonel, Birmingham University, Officer Training Corps, T.A.V.R. |
James Duncan
Only child of Frederick Giddings.
Married 1st ...; one daughter.
Married 2nd Ella Anna Pfaff; one daughter.
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
27.06.1973
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| Lt. | ? [74938] |
| local Lt. | 23.04.1937, seniority 11.03.1931 |
| local Capt. | 01.01.1939 |
| A/Capt. | 1941? |
| WS/Capt. | 1943?, seniority 23.04.1937 (reld > 04.1947) |
|
|
MID | 11.02.1941 | Somaliland |
| WW I | Lance-Corporal & Acting Staff Quartermaster Sergeant, Army Ordnance Corps | ||
| 01.04.1933 | - | (04.1941) | Northern Rhodesia Regiment |
| 23.04.1937 | commissioned, General List - Regular Army Reserve of Officers | ||
| (04.1944) | employed, King's African Rifles |
Norman Cyril
Son (with one sister) of Cyril Percy Giddings (1894-1962), and Iris Victoria Finniss (1903-1987).
Married 1st ((03?).1951, Southend-on-Sea district, Essex) Joyce M. Clark.
Married 2nd (31.03.1967, Toronto, Canada) Mrs Doreen I. Brill (née Payne)
Prittlewell, Rochford district, Essex
-
23.01.2018
London, Ontario, Canada
| Cadet | ? [14490312] |
| 2nd Lt. | 23.06.1945 [349589] |
| WS/Lt. | 23.12.1945 (reld 12.1947) |
| early 1944 | joined the Army, quickly made it to L/Cpl.; then officer training in Wales | ||
| 23.06.1945 |
commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) [emergency commission] | ||
| 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters | |||
| Junior Liaison Officer 3, 3rd Infantry Brigade | |||
| Camp Commandant, 3rd Infantry Brigade | |||
| Hirings and Disposals, North Palestine District | |||
| Staff of Transit Depot Port Fouad Egypt | |||
| ? | - | 12.1947 | hospitalized in Fayed Suez Canal Zone with emergency surgery on appendix (later) gangrene |
Sir George James
Son of George Campbell Giffard, Englefield Green.
Married (1915) Evelyn Norah (died 1964), daughter of Richard Margerison, Winchester; one daughter.
|
|
Englefield Green, Surrey
-
17.11.1964
Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester
| 2nd
Lt. |
24.01.1906
[3408] |
| ... | ... |
| Lt.Gen. |
01.07.1939,
seniority 04.07.1938 |
| Gen. |
12.12.1941
(retd 17.08.1946) |
|
|
GCB |
01.01.1944 |
New
Year 44 |
|
|
KCB |
01.01.1941 |
New
Year 41 |
|
|
CB |
01.01.1938 |
New
Year 38 |
|
|
DSO |
04.06.1917 |
distinguished
service in the field |
|
|
MID |
01.04.1941 |
Middle
East 08.39-11.40 |
|
|
MID |
26.10.1944 |
Burma
& Eastern Frontier of India |
| 24.01.1906 |
|
commissioned,
The Queen's Regiment |
|
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
| 01.07.1939 |
- |
04.02.1940 |
Military
Secretary to Secretary of State for War, War Office |
| 21.02.1940 |
- |
25.06.1940 |
General
Officer Commanding, Palestine & Trans-Jordan |
| 26.06.1940 |
- |
11.07.1941 |
General
Officer Commanding, West Africa |
| 1943 |
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army, India |
||
| 15.10.1943 |
- |
11.11.1944 |
Commander-in-Chief,
11th Army Group (South East Asia) |
| 18.10.1943 |
- |
? |
also:
ADC General to the King |
Douglas Kenneth Manwaring
From London.
-
01.1999
Eastbourne, Sussex
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd
Lt. |
18.01.1941
[166665] |
| WS/Lt. |
18.07.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 08.05.1943-(04.1944) |
| WS/Capt. |
25.12.1944
(reld > 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. |
25.12.1944-(04.1946) |
|
|
DSO |
23.08.1945 |
Italy |
|
|
MID |
19.07.1945 |
Italy |
| Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
|||
| 18.01.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
Edward Theodore
Changed surname from Goldblatt to Gilbert, 23.10.1939.
Married Helen Mary Don "Hebe" Fox (15.08.1912 - 15.12.1995); one daughter.
Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland
-
19.09.1988
| Lt. |
12.11.1939
[108109] |
| WS/Capt. | 12.11.1940
(reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. |
? |
| Hon.
Maj. |
<
04.1946 |
|
|
DSO |
22.07.1943 |
gallant
& distinguished services in the field |
|
|
OBE |
20.04.1943 |
gallant
& distinguished services in the field
|
| 12.11.1939 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] |
||
| 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters |
Henry John
-
| 2nd Lt. | 31.07.1942 [237312] |
| WS/Lt. | 3101.1943 (reld 10.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 12.07.1945-(08.1946) |
| A/Maj.? | 1946 ? |
| 31.07.1942 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Maurice Lionel
-
1993 ?
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 01.02.1941 [174025] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.08.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 01.05.1943-04.05.1944 |
| WS/Capt. | 05.05.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. | ? |
| Hon. Maj. | > 01.1946, < 04.1946 |
| Capt. | 08.08.1951 |
|
|
39-45 St | - | - |
|
|
Afr St | - | - |
|
|
It St | - | - |
|
|
Def M | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 01.02.1941 | commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 07.1941 | attached, The Scinde Light Horse - Indian Army (left for training centre 04.1942, rejoined regiment 07.1942; served in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon) | ||
| 08.08.1951 | - | 19.02.1962 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [reached age limit] |
Arthur Hutchinson
From New Southgate.
Married ((03?).1941, Westminster district, London) ... Gerrard.
-
(12?).1957
Westminster district, London
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 27.07.1940 [140039] |
| WS/Lt. | 27.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 1945? |
| Hon. Capt. | < 04.1946 |
| Lt. | 18.10.1950, seniority 27.01.1942 |
| Capt. | 21.04.1951 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 27.11.1953) |
|
|
MC | 31.08.1944 | Normandy [citation available upon request] |
| ? | - | 27.07.1940 | 162nd or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 27.07.1940 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission] | ||
| (06.1944) | 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Normandy; severely wounded) (MC) | ||
| 18.10.1950 | - | 27.11.1953 | short service commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps |
Bruce Talbot
Son of Frederick William Giles and Margaret Mary Maud Palin Giles (née Evans), of Gordons, Almondsbury, near Bristol.
Brother of Capt. John F. Giles, The Gloucestershire Regiment, and of Sq.Ldr. David Giles, RAF.
Abbots Leigh, Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
20.03.1994
Taunton Deane district, Somerset
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
04.07.1940 [138338] |
| Lt. |
04.01.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
23.06.1945-(04.1946) |
| ? |
- |
03.07.1940 |
Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
| 04.07.1940 |
commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment
[emergency commission] |
||
| (12.1941) |
No.
3 Commando (?) (took part in the Vaagso raid in which his brother was killed
12.1941) |
||
| 11.03.1943 |
- |
(04.1946) |
seconded,
The King's African Rifles |
Edward Henry
"Ned"
From Wickford, Essex.
-
05.2000 ??
Colchester, Essex ??
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
29.06.1940
[138837] |
| WS/Lt. |
29.12.1941 |
| WS/Capt. |
04.07.1945 |
| T/Maj. |
04.07.1945-...
(reld > 04.1946) |
|
|
MC |
15.06.1943 |
North
Africa |
|
|
MC |
07.12.1944 |
Italy |
| 161st
(or 162nd) Officer Cadet Training Unit |
|||
| 29.06.1940 |
commissioned,
The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission] |
John Frederick
Son of Frederick William Giles and Margaret Mary Maud Palin Giles (née Evans), of Gordons, Almondsbury, near Bristol.
Brother of Capt. Bruce T. Giles, The Gloucestershire Regiment, and of Sq.Ldr. David Giles, RAF.
|
|
Abbots Leigh, Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
27.12.1941
(KIA) [age 23]
[Brookwood Memorial, Bagshot, Surrey, panel 1, column 3]
|
2nd Lt. |
27.07.1936 [68678] |
| Lt. |
27.07.1939 |
| T/Capt.
|
09.12.1940-(04.1941) |
|
late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, Kelly College
Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps |
|||
| 27.07.1936 |
- |
(01.)1939 |
commissioned,
6th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army (Bristol) |
| <
07.1939 |
transferred,
Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| summer1940 |
- |
27.12.1941 |
No.
3 Commando (Lofoten raid & Vaagso raid [killed in action as Troop Officer
of No. 3 Troop]) |
the Lord;
Meade, John Charles Edmund Carson;
6th Earl of Clanwilliam (succ. 23.01.1953);
4th Baron Clanwilliam, of co. Tipperary;
6th Baron Gillford, of the Manor of Gillford, co. Down;
6th Viscount Clanwilliam, of co. Tipperary;
9th Baronet Meade, of Ballintubber, co. Cork
Only son (with two sisters) of Arthur Vesey Meade, 5th Earl of Clanwilliam (1873-1953), and Muriel Mary Temple Stephenson (1876-1952).
Married (01.12.1948, St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, London) Catherine Lloyd (1923 - 22.01.2014), youngest daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Arthur Thomas Lloyd (1882-1944), of Lockinge, Wantage, Berkshire; six daughters.
Chelsea district, London
-
30.03.1989
Oare, Marlborough, Devizes district, Wiltshire
| 2nd Lt. | 01.02.1934 [62576] |
| Lt. | 01.02.1937 |
| A/Capt. |
28.11.1939-09.01.1940, 05.03.1940-21.04.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 22.04.1940-31.01.1942 |
| Capt. | 01.02.1942 |
| A/Maj. | 20.10.1942-19.01.1943 |
| T/Maj. |
20.01.1943-06.10.1943, 30.12.1943-(04.1946) |
| Maj. | 01.02.1947 (retd 23.06.1948) |
|
|
MID | 30.06.1942 | Middle East 07.41-10.41 |
|
|
MID | 06.04.1944 | Middle East |
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & clasp
| 01.02.1934 | commissioned, Coldstream Guards | ||
| 11.06.1939 | - | 10.06.1942 | Adjutant, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards (Middle East) |
| 06.1942 | - | 10.1942 | Staff College Middle East, Haifa |
| 20.10.1942 | - | 08.11.1942 | HQ 30 Corps (Middle East) |
| 09.11.1942 | - | 29.12.1943 | Brigade Major, 201st Guards Motor Brigade (Middle East) |
| 30.12.1943 | - | 15.07.1945 | Brigade Major, 6th Guards Tank Brigade, from 02.02.1945 6th Guards Armoured Brigade (UK, NW Europe) |
| 16.07.1945 | - | 1945 | Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards |
| 1945 | Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, USA | ||
| 23.06.1948 | - | 06.06.1964 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Brian
Son (with one brother) of Herbert Edward Hopper Gill (1883-1961), and Beatrice Victoria Andrews (1887-1963).
Married ((06?).1958, Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey) Rosalys Alfreda Berry (03.10.1921 - 02.2005); one son.
Thanet district, Kent
-
08.07.1977
Caterham, South East Surrey
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 22.04.1943 [273133] |
| WS/Lt. | 22.10.1943 |
| T/Capt. | 12.07.1945-21.11.1945 |
| WS/Capt. | 22.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 22.11.1945-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| Capt. | 01.05.1947, seniority 24.11.1945 |
| A/Maj. | 01.05.1947-02.06.1950 |
| Maj. | 03.06.1950, seniority 01.05.1947 |
| Lt.Col. | 01.05.1960 |
|
|
TD | 06.02.1953 | - |
|
|
TEM | 14.06.1949 | - [1953 cancelled due to being awarded TD] |
| 22.04.1943 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 26.06.1944 | transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) | ||
| 01.05.1947 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 30.04.1961 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
George Tough
-
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 28.06.1941 [194778] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| A/Maj. | 21.09.1943-(04.1944) |
| WS/Maj. | 21.11.1944 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 21.11.1944-(04.1947) |
| 28.06.1941 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] |
Ian Gordon
Son of late Brig. Gordon Harry Gill, CMG, DSO and Mrs Doris Gill, Rochester, Kent.
Married (1963) Elizabeth Vivian Rohr, MD, MRCP (died 1990), only daughter of late A.F. Rohr; no children.
|
|
|
|
Rochester, Kent
-
23.11.2006
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
| 2nd Lt. | 24.08.1939 [79107] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| Lt. | 17.01.1945, seniority 09.05.1942 |
| A/Capt. | 01.12.1940-28.02.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 01.03.1941-05.09.1941 |
| WS/Capt. | 06.09.1941 |
| Capt. | 09.11.1946 |
| A/Maj. | 06.06.1941-05.09.1941 |
| T/Maj. | 06.09.1941-08.11.1953 |
| Maj. | 09.11.1953 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 01.03.1957-23.08.1957 |
| Lt.Col. | 24.08.1957 (supernumerary 24.08.1960) |
| local Col. | 08.01.1963-21.04.1963 |
| Col. | 05.02.1964, seniority 22.04.1963 |
| T/Brig. | 05.02.1964-30.12.1966 |
| Brig. | 31.12.1966 |
| Maj.Gen. | 09.08.1968, seniority 02.05.1968 (retd 16.12.1972) |
|
|
CB | 01.01.1972 | New Year 72 |
|
|
OBE | 13.06.1959 | HM's birthday 59 |
|
|
MBE | 07.01.1949 | New Year 49 |
|
|
MC | 20.12.1940 | France & Flanders |
|
|
MC | 12.04.1945 | NW Europe (Dutch-German border) |
|
|
MID | 23.08.1945 | NW Europe |
|
late Cadet Under-Officer, Repton School Contingent, Officer Training Corps |
|||
| 07.12.1938 | commissioned, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (Supplementary Reserve of Officers) | ||
| 24.08.1939 | - | 15.08.1948 | served 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards |
| 1939 | - | 1940 | Officer Commanding 3 Troop, C Squadron, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France & Belgium) |
| 1944 | - | 1945 | Officer Commanding HQ Squadron, later C Squadron, later A Squadron, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (British Liberation Army, NW Europe) |
| 17.01.1945 | transferred to Royal Armoured Corps | ||
| 09.11.1946 | transferred to 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards | ||
| 1946 | - | 15.08.1948 | Second-in-Command, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (Palestine) |
| 16.08.1948 | - | 27.05.1950 | Instructor, Tactical Wing, Royal Armoured Corps Centre (Lulworth) |
| 1951 | - | 1952 | 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (Tripolitania) |
| 09.03.1953 | - | 06.02.1955 | Brigade Major, HQ 61st Lorried Infantry Brigade |
| 1957 | - | 1959 | Commanding Officer, 4th/7th Battalion Royal Dragoon Guards (British Army of the Rhine) |
| 10.10.1959 | - | 11.08.1961 | Assistant Military Secretary, HQ, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) |
| 29.09.1961 | - | 20.12.1962 | College Commandant, Victory College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
| 05.02.1964 | - | 18.01.1966 | Commander, 7th Armoured Brigade (British Army of the Rhine) |
| 17.02.1966 | - | 1968 | Deputy Military Secretary 1, Ministry of Defence (Army) |
| 1968 | - | 1970 | Head, British Defence Liaison Staff, Department of Defence, Canberra |
| 1970 | - | 1972 | Assistant Chief of General Staff (Operational Requirements) |
John Hamilton
Son of Kenneth Hume Gillan (1883?-1940), late Sarawak Government Service, and Anne Campbell Christie, of Blackhall, Edinburgh.
Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo
-
11.01.1944
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lauro Military Cemetery, 19.02.1945 reburied at Minturno War Cemetery, Italy, VII.C.4]
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 17.07.1942 [239416] |
| WS/Lt. | 17.01.1943 |
|
|
MC | 21.10.1943 | Primosole bridgehead, Sicily 16.07.1943 [recommendation available upon request] |
| 17.07.1940 | - | 02.05.1941 | enlisted service, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [6099829] |
| 17.07.1942 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission] | ||
| (08.1942) | - | 11.01.1944 | 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk, later Sicly & Italy) |
J
-
| WS/Lt. | ? |
| ? | commissioned or transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| (06.1944) | 3rd Parachute Battalion |
[Sir] Peter Bernard
Son of Bernard George Gillett, OBE, Milford on Sea, Hants.
Married (1952) Pamela Graham (died 10.01.2007, aged 95), widow of Col. Rhodri J. Lloyd Price and daughter of Col. Spencer Graham Walker, Winsley, Wilts.
-
04.07.1989
Windsor, Berkshire
|
2nd Lt. |
01.02.1934 |
| ... |
... |
| T/Maj. |
01.12.1941-15.02.1943, 08.03.1943-31.01.1947 |
| ... |
... |
| Maj.Gen. |
28.12.1962 (retd
31.05.1968) |
|
|
KCVO |
1979 |
? |
|
|
CVO |
1973 |
? |
|
|
CB |
1966 |
? |
|
|
OBE |
19.07.1955 |
? |
| 01.02.1934 |
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery |
||
| 06.03.1940 |
- |
30.07.1942 |
Instructor
(Class B), School of Artillery, India |
| 31.07.1942 |
- |
29.01.1943 |
Brigade
Major, ... Indian Division |
| 30.01.1943 |
- |
27.11.1943 |
Instructor
(Class A), Armoured Fighting Vehicle School, India |
| 29.03.1944 |
- |
26.08.1944 |
Brigade
Major, ... Indian Division |
| 21.09.1944 |
- |
14.03.1945 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office |
| 1945 |
appointed
to Royal Horse Artillery |
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| 1945 |
- |
1946 |
British
Liberation Army/British Army of the Rhine |
| 17.09.1946 |
- |
17.12.1948 |
Instructor
(GSO2), Staff College, Camberley |
| 1949 |
- |
1955 |
staff
appointments in UK and East Africa |
| 1955 |
Commanding
Officer, 5th Royal Horse Artillery |
||
| 1958 |
SHAPE |
||
| 28.12.1959 |
15.12.1961 |
Commander
Royal Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division |
|
| 1962 |
Imperial
Defence College |
||
| 28.12.1962 |
- |
19.03.1965 |
Chief
of Staff, HQ Eastern Command |
| 10.04.1965 |
- |
1968 |
General
Officer Commanding, 48th Division TA & West Midland District |
Philip George
Son of ... Gilling, and ... Tipton.
Married ((09?).1947, Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset) Barbara R. Bonning; ... children (one daughter?).
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
12.10.1983
Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset
| Cadet | ? [14436219] |
| 2nd Lt. | 19.11.1944 [334954] |
| WS/Lt. | 19.05.1945 (reld > 04.1947) |
| 19.11.1944 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Burma |
John Herbert
Married Cecil Catherine Gillington (née ...) (died 26.02.2007; one son, one daughter.
-
20.04.1970
Devizes district, Wiltshire
| 2nd Lt. |
28.08.1930 |
| ... |
... |
| T/Maj. |
31.08.1941-08.02.1942, 12.02.1942-06.12.1945 |
| ... |
... |
| Col. |
29.01.1957 (retd
04.09.1959) |
|
|
OBE |
10.06.1948 |
? |
|
|
MBE |
05.12.1946 |
? |
|
|
MC |
01.03.1945 |
? |
| 28.08.1930 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers |
||
| 24.10.1937 |
- |
17.12.1940 |
Adjutant,
... (Territorial Army) |
| 18.12.1940 |
- |
30.05.1941 |
Staff
Captain, War Office |
| 31.05.1941 |
- |
21.09.1941 |
Deputy
Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), G7, War Office |
| 22.09.1941 |
- |
08.02.1942 |
Staff
Officer, 2nd grade (SO2), ... |
| 25.01.1945 |
- |
20.08.1945 |
Assistant
Quartermaster-General (AQMG), South East Asia Command |
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
Allan Webster
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Alfred John Gillis (1893-1966), and Sarah May Irvine (1893-1959).
Married (23.12.1950) Daisy Henry (01.08.1921 - 06.09.2013), daughter (with one sister and two brothers) of Alexander Henry (1882-1965), and Isabella Ann Coutts (1896-1957); one daughter, two sons.
Waterbury, Connecticutt, United States of America
-
15.03.1989
Hartford, Vale Royal district, Cheshire
| 2nd Lt. | 23.12.1941 [222431] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld 01.11.1946) |
| A/Capt. | 01.07.1946-31.09.1946 |
| T/Capt. | 01.10.1946-01.11.1946 |
| 15.11.1940 | - | 19.07.1941 | Gunner, 6th Field Training Regiment RA (Dalry) |
| 20.07.1941 | - | 23.12.1941 | Anti-Aircraft Troop, 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit RA (Shrivenham) |
| 23.12.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 12.1941 | - | 28.08.1942 |
87th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Swindon) (seriously
injured) [03.03.1942 course at 8th Anti-Aircraft Divisional School] |
| 28.08.1942 | - | 28.09.1942 | sick leave |
| 29.09.1942 | - | 11.11.1942 |
116th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (SW England) [sick leave 16.10.1942-02.1943] |
| 12.11.1942 | - | 21.03.1943 | Depot RA (Woolwich) (while on sick leave; was treated in several hospitals) |
| 22.03.1943 | - | 06.05.1943 | 122nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA |
| 07.05.1943 | - | 27.07.1943 |
temporarily unfit for general service [14.06-24.06.1943 course at Anti-Aircraft School RA] |
| 29.07.1943 | - | 25.08.1943 | Scottish Command Vehicle Maintenance School |
| 15.10.1943 | - | 05.03.1944 | 6th Anti-Aircraft Group RA |
| 06.03.1944 | - | 08.07.1944 | permanently unfit for general service (few days hopsital) |
| 09.07.1944 | - | 08.1944 |
287th Independent Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA [31.07-06.08.1944 course S.T.9] |
| 08.1944 | - | 11.1944 | 633rd Independent Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA |
| 11.1944 | - | 05.1945 |
180th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA [31.01-05.02.1945 course specialist technical inspector] |
| 11.05.1945 | - | 07.06.1945 | Depot RA (Woolwich) (for embarkation to British Liberation Army) |
| 08.06.1945 | - | 10.1945 | No. 7 Enemy Ammunition Depot Control Unit |
| 10.1945 | - | 14.04.1946 |
Depot & Holding Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Donnington) [31.11.1945-15.01.1936 31st Inspecting Ordnance Officer course] |
| 15.04.1946 | - | 09.1946 | No. 27 Ammunition Sub-Depot RAOC (Shefford) |
Walter James
Son of John Herbert Gilmore, and Lily Emily Butcher.
Married ((03?).1940, Basingstoke district, Hampshire) Irene Pope, of Martham, Norfolk.
Farnham district, Surrey / Sussex
-
08.04.1943
Pichon, Tunisia
[Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia, III.F.16]
| 2nd Lt. | 16.07.1939 [96122] |
| WS/Lt. | 16.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 13.05.1942-08.04.1943 |
| 16.07.1939 | commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| ? | - | 08.04.1943 | 2/4th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment |
John Henry Hutton
Only son of Reginald John Gladstone (1865-1946), Doctor of Medicine, and Ida Millicent Field (1877-1968), of Dulwich.
Married (22.04.1939, Catholic Church, Hythe, Elham district, Kent) Kathleen Mary Cavey (06.03.1914 - 11.1998), younger daughter of Arthur Oliver Cavey (1881-1974), and Ethel Maud Quadling (1881-1962), of Riversdale, Hythe; two sons, one daughter.
St Pancras district, London
-
27.10.2003
Kent
| 2nd Lt. |
12.07.1934 [63045] 31.08.1935, seniority 01.02.1934 |
| Mediterranean | 01.02.1937 |
| A/Capt. | 08.12.1939-07.03.1940 |
| T/Capt. |
08.03.1940-15.04.1940, 14.05.1940-13.01.1944 |
| WS/Capt. | 14.01.1944 |
| Capt. | 01.02.1944 |
| A/Maj. | 14.10.1943-13.01.1944 |
| T/Maj. |
14.01.1944-12.05.1944, 09.07.1945-17.04.1947, 23.04.1947-31.01.1948 |
| Maj. | 01.02.1948 (retd 16.04.1963) |
| T/Lt.Col. | 03.10.1949-16.04.1963 |
| Hon. Lt.Col. | 16.04.1963 |
|
|
MID | 23.05.1946 | Mediterranean |
| 12.07.1934 | commissioned, General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army | ||
| 31.08.1935 | transferred, The North Staffordshire Regiment - Regular Army | ||
| 25.01.1938 | transferred, Army Educational Corps (from 28.11.1946 Royal Army Educational Corps) | ||
| ? | - | ? | ? |
?
-
?
| 2nd Lt. | ? |
| Lt. | ? |
| (04.1945) | 14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment |
Maurice Basil
Son (with two brothers and two sons) of Reginald Bowerman Glassborow (1886-1961), and Mabel Vera Tomlinson (1893-1970).
Married ((09?).1941, Fulham district, London) Beatrice Joan Swainston (10.02.1916 - 22.12.1979); three children.
Wanstead, West Ham district, Essex
-
18.01.2008
Gilling West, Richmond, North Yorkshire
| Gnr. | ? [841529] |
| 2nd Lt. | 25.09.1942 [245419] |
| WS/Lt. | 25.03.1943 (reld 27.11.1945; disability) |
| Hon. Lt. | 27.11.1945 |
| (1939) | served in the ranks, 31 Battery, Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA | ||
| 25.09.1942 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
Walter Glencairn
Son of Charles John Francis Campbell, and of Zoe Florence Bradshaw.
Married (04.09.1939, Glasgow [civil] & 02.02.1940 Holy Trinity, Brompton, London [religious]) Charmian Cecil de Vere Brinton (03.05.1919 - 28.03.1962), of Kensington, London, daughter of Cecil Charles Brinton (1883-1970), and Kathleen Cecil Maude (1881-1954); one daughter, one son. Charmian Glencairn-Campbell remarried (24.04.1947) Sir Robert Henry Muir Mackenzie, 6th Bt.
* Changed surname from Campbell to Glencairn-Campbell by deed poll of 15.07.1939.
Kensington, London
-
21.10.1944
[age 55] (following an operation)
[Belbroughton (Holy Trinity) Churchyard Extension, Worcestershire, grave 144]
| 2nd Lt. | 18.09.1909 [4416] |
| Lt. | 24.02.1912 |
| T/Capt. | 21.10.1914-21.01.1915 |
| Capt. | 22.01.1915 |
| T/Maj. | 28.10.1915-01.05.1920 |
| Bt. Maj. | 01.01.1918 |
| Maj. | 01.04.1928 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. | 20.12.1932 |
| Lt.Col. | 01.12.1936 |
| Bt. Col. | 28.09.1938, seniority 20.12.1935 |
| T/Col. | 12.12.1934-15.03.1935 |
| Col. | 16.10.1938, seniority 20.12.1935 (supernumerary 31.12.1942) |
| A/Brig. | 12.11.1940-11.05.1941 |
| T/Brig. |
12.05.1941-(01.1942), 21.08.1942-(04.1944) |
|
|
OBE | 13.03.1925 | Waziristan 23/24 |
|
|
14|15 St | ? | ? |
|
|
BWM 14|20 | ? | ? |
|
|
VM | ? | ? |
|
|
MID | 01.01.1916 | ? |
|
|
MID | 15.05.1917 | ? |
|
|
MID | 11.12.1917 | ? |
|
|
MID | 01.04.1941 | ? |
Burma 1930-32. Despatches 20.12.1932. CIasp.
Palestine 1936-39. Despatches 15.09.1939. Medal and CIasp.
| 18.09.1909 | commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) | ||
| 11.03.1915 | - | 11.02.1918 | served in France & Belgium: |
| 11.05.1915 | - | 02.09.1915 | Adjutant, 10th (S.) Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders |
| 28.10.1915 | - | 09.12.1915 | acting Commanding Officer, 10th (S.) Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders |
| 01.09.1916 | - | 06.01.1917 | Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), ... (France) |
| 07.01.1917 | - | 13.02.1918 | Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), ... (France) |
| 14.02.1918 | - | 01.05.1920 | Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), Western Command (temp.) |
| 16.02.1922 | - | 14.12.1923 | Brigade Major, ... (India) |
| 18.12.1923 | - | 17.02.1925 | Brigade Major, ... (India) |
| 06.05.1928 | - | 05.05.1932 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Burma Independent District (India) |
| (06.1933) | 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Edinburgh) | ||
| 15.09.1933 | - | 30.11.1936 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 50th (Nothumbrian) Division (Northern Command), of which: |
| 12.12.1934 | - | 15.03.1935 | Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), International Force Saar Territory |
| 01.12.1936 | transferred, The Royal Norfolk Regiment | ||
| 01.12.1936 | - | 28.09.1938 | Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Aldershot, then Gibraltar) |
| 28.09.1938 | - | 19.11.1939 | Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), HQ 7th Division (Jerusalem)(temporary) |
| 20.11.1929 | - | 26.10.1940 | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... |
| 06.03.1941 | - | ? | Commander, North Highland Area (Scottish Command) |
| 1941 | Commander, Glasgow Area |
John Bedford Arthur
"Jack"
-
06.03.1994
Exeter, Devon
| 2nd Lt. |
30.08.1934 |
| ... |
... |
| T/Lt.Col. |
07.07.1943-07.03.1945, 26.03.1945-15.10.1947, 14.07.1952-14.08.1953, 31.08.1953-13.06.1956 |
| ... |
... |
| Brig. |
18.06.1964 (retd
08.08.1969) |
|
|
CBE |
? |
? |
|
|
DSO |
24.12.1944 |
? |
|
|
MID |
11.02.1941 |
? |
| 30.08.1934 |
commissioned,
Royal Sussex Regiment |
||
| 16.07.1940 |
- |
10.09.1940 |
GSO3,
Somaliland Force |
| 11.09.1940 |
- |
03.10.1941 |
GSO3,
HQ British Troops in Egypt |
| 04.10.1941 |
- |
21.11.1941 |
GSO3
(Instructor), METS |
| 22.11.1941 |
- |
01.02.1942 |
GSO2
(Instructor) |
| 02.02.1942 |
- |
12.09.1942 |
GSO2
(Instructor), Junior Staff School |
| 13.09.1942 |
- |
19.12.1942 |
DAQMG,
HQ Troops in Sudan |
| 12.06.1944 |
- |
24.11.1944 |
GSO1
(Chief Instructor), Junior Staff School Middle East |
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
Leslie
Son of David Glieberman (1888-1971), and Sarah Greenstone (1892-1968).
Changed surname by deed poll to Glenville 16.01.1948.
Coventry district, Warwickshire
-
03.1999
Coventry district, West Midlands
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 05.04.1941 [180544] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| WS/Capt. | 20.12.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 20.12.1944? |
| 05.04.1941 | commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| (1943) | 7th Rajput Regiment |
HRH the Duke of;
Prince Henry William Frederick Albert;
Earl of Ulster
|
|
|
|
York Cottage, Sandringham
-
10.06.1974
Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire
| 2nd Lt. |
30.08.1934
[11891] |
| ... |
... |
| Maj.Gen. |
01.01.1937 |
| Lt.Gen. |
17.09.1941
(supernumerary) |
| Gen. |
27.10.1944
(supernumerary) |
KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO
MID 20.12.1940
| 16.07.1919 |
commissioned,
The King's Royal Rifle Corps |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
| 02.08.1929 |
Personal
ADC to the King |
||
| 04.09.1939 |
- |
08.08.1940 |
Chief
Liaison Officer, British Expeditionery Force |
| 09.08.1940 |
- |
17.10.1942 |
Chief
Liaison Officer, GHQ Home Forces |
Miss Anna Reaveley
Daughter (with three sisters and two brothers) of Terrot Reaveley Glover, MA (1869-1943), Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Alice Emily Cornelia Few (1875-1955).
Married (06.08.1940, London City) Brig. Ernest Wentworth Wade, DSO, MBE, MD, RAMC (14.10.1889 - 04.12.1970).
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
-
18.02.1971
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
| Lt. (Medical Officer with relative rank) | 28.11.1939 [110673] |
| A/Maj. (Medical Officer with relative rank) | 09.07.1940-25.09.1940 |
Assistant Anaesthesist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Clinical Assistant, Department for Nervous Diseases, St Mary's Hospital, 1928. Resident Anaesthesist, King's Lynn Hospital, 1929. Resident House Surgeon, Birmingham Eye Hospital, 1929. Assistant in general practice, 1930. Senior Resident Officer and Anaesthesist, St Mary's Hospital, 1931. Civil Service appointment as Deputy Medical Officer, HM Prison, Holloway, 1932-1939 (seconded to Broadmoor for 2 months 1936).
| 28.11.1939 | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 09.07.1940 | - | 25.09.1940 | a Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), Eastern Command |
Cedric Howard
Son (with one brother) of John Howard Glover (1860-1947), and Ella Howard Gwyther (1867-1948).
Married (24.06.1920, Kendal, Cumbria) Winifred Mary Crewdson (15.03.1895 - ), daughter (with two brothers and two sisters) of Francis William Crewdson (1853-1941), and Annie Whitwell Wilson (1867-1947); two sons (Maj. Jocelyn Howard Glover, Royal Welch Fusiliers), one daughter.
Hampstead, London
-
22.07.1970
Middlesex Hospital, St Marylebone district, London
| 2nd Lt. | 25.10.1939 [106764] |
| T/Capt. | 25.01.1940-... |
| WS/Capt. | 11.02.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945) |
| A/Maj. | 11.11.1940-10.02.1941 |
| T/Maj. | 11.02.1941-(07.1945) |
| Hon. Maj. | > 07.1945, < 10.1945 |
|
|
MID | 28.12.1918 | ? |
Partner in Glover Brothers (later Director of Glover Brothers Ltd) - ship brokers of London, 1913-1939.
| 1915 | - | 1919 | Service Battalions (Territorial Force), The Middlesex Regiment [temporary commission; T/2nd Lt., T/Lt., T/Capt.] |
| 25.10.1939 | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | ||
| 25.10.1939 | - | 10.11.1940 | a General Staff Officer, 3rd grade, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office |
| 11.11.1940 | - | (07.)1945 | a General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, Directorate of Public Relations, Department of the Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for War, The War Office |
| 01.07.1942 | transferred, Intelligence Corps |
Published: The Term's Music, 1925; Dr. Charles Burney's Continental Travels, 1927.
Colin Merriam
Eldest son (with three brothers) of Dr. James Alison Glover, CBE (1876-1963), and Katherine Merriam (1888-1978).
Brother of Maj. Michael Alison Glover, Sherwood Foresters, and Sg.Capt. Eric Charles Glover, RNR.
Married 1st (03.06.1936, All Souls', St Marylebone district, London) Adelaide Elizabeth Angela Whelpdale (25.11.1912 - 07.01.1986), only daughter of Arthur Whelpdale; three sons.
Married 2nd (1975, Westminster district, London) Lee Thomas Huffman (? - 23.10.1987).
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Highbury, Islington district, London
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08.12.1992
Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea district, London
| 2nd Lt. | 19.05.1938 [75857] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 20.04.1941-05.11.1942 |
| WS/Capt | 06.11.1942 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 01.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 06.11.1942-(10.1945) |
| Hon. Maj. | > 10.1945, < 01.1946 |
| Maj. | 01.05.1947 |
| Lt.Col. | 01.05.1954 |
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MID | 22.03.1945 | NW Europe |
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TD | 30.12.1949 | - |
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TD | 15.05.1959 | 1st clasp |
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TD | 15.05.1959 | 2nd clasp |
Worked at British Xylonite of Brantham, Suffolk (a firm founded by his maternal grandfather and great grandfather).
| 19.05.1938 |
commissioned,
58th Medium (Suffolk) Brigade [from 1939 Regiment], Royal Artillery - Territorial Army |
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| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA (see IWM interview for details of service with BEF) | ||
| 12.10.1941 | - | (04.)1943 | Instructor in Gunnery, Gunnery Wing, School of Artillery, Larkhill |
| 01.08.1943 | - | (10.)1943 | Instructor in Gunnery, Gunnery Wing, School of Artillery, Larkhill |
| ? | - | 01.05.1954 | Second-in-Command, 358th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Regiment RA (TA) |
| 01.05.1954 | - | 01.01.1956 | Officer Commanding, 358th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Regiment RA (TA) |
| 01.01.1956 | Unattached List, TA | ||
| 22.03.1960 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
Edward Robert Kenneth
"Ted"
Son of Kenneth Septimus Glover (1879-1959), and Jessie Mabel Little (1880-1945), of Stourport.
Married (03?).1938, Cardiff district, Glamorganshire, Wales) Everilda Marie Hennessey Turnbull (25.10.1908 - 09.1990), daughter (with six brothers and one sister) of Philip Bernard Turnbull (1874-1930), and Annie Mary Hennessy Oates (1879-1942); one son.
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Worcester, Worcestershire
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23.03.1967
Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales
| Gnr. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 21.06.1939 [91487] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.01.1941 (demobilized > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 09.04.1943-(01.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 01.1946, < 04.1946 |
| Maj. | 01.05.1947 |
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TD | 16.03.1951 | - |
Insurance broker. Played cricket for Glamorgan (1932-1938).
| late Cadet, Sherborne School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| 21.06.1939 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| 15.04.1948 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
Sir Guy de Courcy
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30.04.1967
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2nd Lt. |
29.08.1906 [1336] |
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... |
... |
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Maj.Gen. |
01.08.1939,
seniority 23.06.1938 (supernumerary 27.07.1944) (retd 24.04.1946) |
KBE, 1944; CB 1941; DSO 1918
| 29.08.1906 |
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commissioned,
South Staffordshire Regiment |
| ... |
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...
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| 01.08.1939 |
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30.03.1940 |
Bombay
District Commander, India |
| 06.04.1940 |
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08.06.1940 |
Director
of Recruiting & Organization, War Office |
| 09.06.1940 |
- |
12.09.1940 |
Deputy
Adjutant-General, War Office |
| 13.09.1940 |
- |
10.02.1941 |
Director
of Organization, War Office |
| 1941 |
- |
1946 |
Deputy
Adjutant-General (B), War Office |
Ian
Son (with one brother) of Norman Glover (1884-1950), and Irene Gladys Gorrill (1886-1978).
Married ((12?).1949, Belper district, Derbyshire) Joyce Mary Wilmot (02.10.1926 - 08.01.2006); two sons.
Market Harborough district, Northamptonshire
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| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 09.09.1943 [269824] |
| WS/Lt. | 09.03.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 14.02.1945-(08.1946) |
| 09.09.1943 | commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission] |
Ivor
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| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 26.04.1941 [184629] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | (1945) |
| Lt. | 01.05.1947, seniority 01.10.1942 |
| Capt. | 12.07.1948 |
| Maj. | 01.05.1956 |
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MID | 29.11.1945 | Italy |
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TD | 13.07.1951 | - |
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TD | 30.12.1958 | 1st clasp |
| 26.04.1941 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission] | ||
| (08.1942) | 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk) | ||
| 01.05.1947 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army | ||
| 18.09.1950 | seconded for services on the staff | ||
| 28.11.1961 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
Jack
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| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 06.12.1941 [219861] |
| WS/Lt. | 06.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 1945? |
| Hon. Capt. | < 04.1946 |
| Lt. | 01.01.1952, seniority 04.11.1949 |
| Capt. | 04.11.1953 (reld 01.01.1960) |
| 1934 | L/Sgt., 7th Queen's Own Hussars | ||
| 06.12.1941 | commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Burma (11th Sikh Regiment, 5th Indian Division) | |||
| 01.01.1952 | - | 01.01.1959 | short service commission (attached to No 2 Basic Training battalion REME in Honiton, Devon) |
| 01.01.1959 | - | 01.01.1960 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
Jocelyn Howard
Elder son (with one brother and one sister) of Maj. Cedric Howard Glover (1892-1970), General List & Intelligence Corps, and Winifred Mary Crewdson (1895 - ).
Married 1st (26.07.1945, Oxford, Oxfordshire) Marian Elizabeth Stark (04.07.1924 - 26.12.1961), daughter of George Heppell Stark, and Emma Goodchild; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (07.04.1962, St Marylebone district, London) Elizabeth Wyndham Pugh.
St Marylebone district, London
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21.07.1987
Bradford, Yorkshire
| Cadet | ? [6108307] |
| 2nd Lt. | 24.03.1944 [314016] |
| WS/Lt. | 24.09.1944 |
| A/Capt. | 23.12.1945-22.02.1946 |
| T/Capt. | 23.02.1946-30.10.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 31.10.1946-(04.1947) |
| 02.12.1942 | - | 23.03.1944 | enlisted service, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. |
| 24.03.1944 | commissioned, Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission] | ||
| 1945 | Captain, Personnel Selection |
Michael Alison
Son (with three brothers) of Dr. James Alison Glover, CBE (1876-1963), and Katherine Merriam (1888-1978).
Brother of Col. Colin Merriam Glover, Royal Artillery, and Sg.Capt. Eric Charles Glover, RNR.
Married (01.09.1945, Holy Trinity, Brompton) Daphne Joy Bowring (28.11.1921 - 21.08.1997), youngest daughter of Noel H. Bowring; one daughter.
Hampstead, London
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25.09.1990
Lynch, Gloucestershire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 22.05.1940 [233945] |
| WS/Lt. | 22.02.1943 |
| T/Capt. | 16.08.1944-(12.1946) |
| Lt. | 01.10.1948, seniority 20.05.1945 |
| Capt. | 01.04.1952 |
| T/Maj. | 18.08.1955 |
| Maj. | 20.05.1956, seniority 18.08.1955 |
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TD | 09.07.1963 | - |
degree before joining up); BA 1947; Ma 1949).
| 22.05.1940 | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.12.1943 | transferred, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | ||
| 23.09.1944 | - | 1945 | captured in Italy after crossing the River Rubicon on a reconnaissance mission & subsequently POW (No. 139423) in German captivity (Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Isar) |
| 01.10.1948 | commissioned, Rifle Brigade - Territorial Army | ||
| 11.12.1950 | - | 01.02.1952 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
| 01.02.1952 | - | 23.04.1963 | on active list again |
| 23.04.1963 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
Published: Wellington's Peninsular victories (1963); Wellington as military commander (1968); Britannia sickens : Sir Arthur Wellesley and the Convention of Cintra (1970); Legacy of glory (1971); 1815 - the armies at Waterloo (1973; with U. Pericoli); An assemblage of Indian Army soldiers and uniforms (1973); The Peninsular War : a concise history (1974); Rorke's Drift : a Victorian epic (1975); General Burgoyne in Canada and America : scapegoat for a system (1976); Wellington's army (1977); A very slippery fellow : Sir Robert Wilson (1978); The Napoleonic Wars : an illustrated history, 1792-1815 (1979); Warfare in the age of Bonaparte (1980); The fight for the Channel Ports : Calais to Brest 1940 : a study in confusion (1985). Contributor to: History Today; Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research.
[Sir] John Bagot
"Jack";
[known as Abu Hunaik; called Glubb Pasha]
Only son and younger child of late Maj.Gen. Sir Frederic Manley Glubb, KCMG, CB, DSO, and Frances Letitia Bagot.
Engaged (1934) Mary Dorothy "Molly" Turner, only daughter of Mr H.A. Turner, Director of Customs, Transjordan.
Married (1938) Muriel Rosemary Forbes, daughter of Dr James Graham Forbes; one son, and one son, two daughters adopted.
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Preston, Lancashire
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17.03.1986
Mayfield, Sussex
[memorial window in the parish church of Mayfield, Sussex]
| 2nd Lt. |
20.04.1915 [1427] |
| A/Capt. |
26.08.1916-...., 12.08.1918-20.08.1918, ...-07.02.1919 |
| T/Capt. |
01.04.1922-13.11.1922 |
| Capt. |
14.11.1922 (half-pay
17.09.1926) (retd 17.09.1927; receiving a gratuity) |
| Capt. RARO |
17.09.1927,
seniority 21.05.1920 |
| local Maj. |
01.11.1930-(04.1946) |
| local Col. |
(1941) |
| A/Brig.
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30.08.1944-(04.1946) |
| Lt.Gen. |
? |
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KCB |
06.03.1956 |
? |
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CMG |
13.06.1946 |
HM's
birthday 46: Colonial Administrative Service, Officer Commanding Arab
Legion, Palestine |
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DSO |
21.10.1941 |
Middle
East * |
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OBE |
03.06.1924 |
HM's
birthday 24 |
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MC |
01.01.1918 |
Arras
(France) |
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KPM |
02.01.1939 |
as
Second-in-Command, Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan |
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MID |
21.10.1941 |
Middle
East |
| - | Ntce | 15.03.1929 | brought
to notice: for distinguished services rendered in connection with the
operations against the Akhwan in the Southern Desert, Iraq 11.27-05.28 |
| 20.04.1915 |
commissioned, Corps
of Royal Engineers |
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| 04.1915 |
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11.1915 |
RE
Depot, Chatham |
| 11.1915 |
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11.1918 |
7th
Field Company RE (France; wounded thrice, MC) |
| 02.1919 |
- |
? |
School
of Military Engineering (Chatham) |
| 09.1920 |
to
Iraq as Lieutenant RE |
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| 01.04.1922 |
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09.06.1922 |
employed
with the RAF (Iraq) |
| 10.06.1922 |
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30.09.1922 |
Special
Service Officer (Class FF) with the RAF (Iraq) |
| 01.10.1922 |
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17.09.1926 |
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Intelligence) with the RAF (Iraq) [under the
Air Ministry] |
| 17.09.1927 |
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? |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers |
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Became
Administrative Inspector, Iraq Government, 1926; transferred
Transjordan, 1930 [up till 15.05.1948 under Colonial Administrative Service,
from then employed by the Government of Transjordan]. |
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| 1932 |
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1939 |
Officer
Commanding Desert Area |
| 1939 |
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1956 |
Chief
of General Staff, the Arab Legion, Amman, Jordan |
Published: Story of the Arab Legion, 1948; A Soldier with the Arabs, 1957; Britain and the Arabs, 1959; War in the Desert, 1960; The Great Arab Conquests, 1963; The Empire of the Arabs, 1963; The Course of Empire, 1965; The Lost Centuries, 1967; The Middle East Crisis-A Personal Interpretation, 1967; Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, 1967; A Short History of The Arab Peoples, 1969; The Life and Times of Muhammad, 1970; Peace in the Holy Land, 1971; Soldiers of Fortune, 1973; The Way of Love, 1974; Haroon al Rasheed, 1976; Into Battle: a soldier's diary of the Great War, 1977; Arabian Adventures, 1978; A Purpose for Living, 1979; The Changing Scenes of Life (autobiography), 1983.
Literature: Benny Morris, The road to Jerusalem : Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews (2002).