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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Goddard,
Arnold
A. Goddard

?
-
1978

Cadet	? [T/221764]
2nd Lt.	09.10.1943 [296038]
WS/Lt.	09.04.1944 (reld 1946)

09.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
1944?			transferred, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
			probably served in France & Burma

Goddard,
Kenneth Maurice
K.M. Goddard

Son of ... Goddard, and ... Ballard.
Married ((06?).1948, Surrey North Western district) Mary Cannon (predeceased him); one daughter.

(09?).1917
Wandsworth district, London
-
11.01.2010

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941 [184287]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	01.04.1945-(04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	?

	MID	19.09.1946	Burma
	EM	26.06.1990	-

26.04.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Godfrey,
Geoffrey Ernest
G.E. Godfrey

02.11.1910
Staines district, Middlesex
-
03.1988
Chiltern & South Buckinghamshire district, Buckinghamshire

Cadet	? [2358439]
2nd Lt.	18.02.1945 [346084]
WS/Lt.	18.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

18.02.1945			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served in Singapore & Burma

Godley,
William
W. Godley (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Godley)

Married (07.05.1946, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh) Gladys Jones (07.04.1921 Yorkshire, England - 03.05.1992 Lenzie, Scotland), serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service; three sons.

11.01.1919
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
10.01.2006
Glasgow, Scotland

Gunner	31.03.1938
A/Bombardier	16.09.1940
Bombardier	19.01.1942
A/Sergeant	21.11.1941
Cadet	20.02.1942
2nd Lt.	08.10.1942 [247617]
WS/Lt.	08.04.1943 (reld 09.07.1946)
A/Capt.	19.08.1945
T/Capt.	19.11.1945
Hon. Capt.	09.07.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: Holy Cross Academy, Edinburgh; St Anthony's Intermediate School, Edinburgh.

31.03.1938			enlisted, 292nd Battery, 94th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army (Edinburgh)
26.09.1938	-	08.10.1938	called out for military service
19.08.1939			called out for military service
02.09.1939			mobilized TA
08.10.1940			transferred, 227th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (UK; an RA demonstraion unit))
20.02.1942	-	07.10.1942	133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
20.09.1943			posted to Coventry
17.11.1943	-	30.03.1946	posted to an Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (India)

Worked for the South of Scotland Electricity Board and eventually became head of their Agricultural Advisory Engineering Department.

Godwin-Austen,
[Sir] Alfred Reade
A.R. Godwin-Austen

Second son of Lt.Col. Alfred Godwin GodwinAusten (1844-),
24th and 89th Regiments, and Sara Matilda Orred.
Remained unmarried.

17.04.1889
Frensham, near Farnham, Surrey
-
20.03.1963
Maidenhead Hospital, St Luke's Road, Maidenhead

2nd Lt.	06.11.1909 [6446]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	23.08.1939, seniority 14.07.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	18.09.1941-08.02.1942, 20.01.1945-(01.1946)
local Lt.Gen.	16.01.1945-19.01.1945
T/Lt.Gen.	...-28.03.1946
Lt.Gen.	29.03.1946, seniority 05.01.1943
Gen.	01.05.1946 (retd 06.03.1947)

KCSI, 13.06.1946; CB 30.05.1941; OBE; MC
MID 15.09.1939, 26.07.1940, 11.02.1941, 15.12.1942

Education: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

06.11.1909			commissioned, South Wales Borderers
...	-	...	...
23.08.1939	-	28.02.1940	General Officer Commanding, 8th Infantry Division (Palestine & Trans-Jordan)
29.02.1940	-	11.09.1940	General Officer Commanding, .. Division (British Somaliland)
12.09.1940	-	23.11.1940	General Officer Commanding, 2nd (African) Infantry Division (East Africa), redesignated:
24.11.1940	-	17.09.1941	General Officer Commanding, 12th (African) Infantry Division (East Africa, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia)
18.09.1941	-	08.02.1942	General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps (Libya)
1942	-	1942	Commandant, Staff College, Camberley
16.11.1942	-	21.10.1943	Director of Tactical Investigation, War Office (London)
22.10.1943	-	1945	Vice Quartermaster-General, War Office (London)
07.09.1945	-	1945	special appointment: Quartermester-General, India Command (New Delhi)
1945	-	(04.1946)	special appointment: Principal Administrative Officer, India Command (New Delhi)

Goff,
Alfred James
A.J. Goff

Married (04.04.1931) Kathleen May Sargent; three daughters, one son. Lived in Woodcote.

22.11.1903
[Whitchurch?], Bradfield, Berkshire
-
(06?).1983
Woodcote, Reading & Wokingham district, Berkshire

Pte.	09.05.1921 [5330613]
Dvr.	1922
L/Bdr.	?
Bdr.	1927
Sgt.	(1929/30?)
BQMS (IG)	1931
BSM (AIG)	01.11.1935
Lt. (DOIG)	10.04.1940 [125753]
WS/Capt. (DOIG)	10.04.1943
A/Maj. (DOIG)	1945
T/Maj. (DOIG)	?
Capt. (DOIG)	14.12.1948, seniority 01.11.1947
Capt. (DO)	01.11.1949, seniority 10.04.1943
Maj. (DO)	19.12.1949 (reld 02.11.1955; own request)
Hon. Maj. (DO)	02.11.1955

MBE

01.01.1949

New Year 49

Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (10.1939)

Education: Army Ceritificates of Education: 3rd Class (15.05.1923, Bareilly), 2nd Class (28.09.1923, Bareilly); 1st Class (13.10.1926, Jubblepore)
Labourer.

09.05.1921			enlisted, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Reading, Berkshire)
(1921)			2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Portobello Barracks, Dublin, Ireland)
11.02.1922	-	17.04.1929	served in India:
1922	-	1922	1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India)
1922	-	1929	transferred to Royal Field Artillery: 71st Field Battery (India) [serving as Driver, Lance-Bombardier & Bombardier; 1926-1927 Jubblepore; 19.09-08.10.1927 Gunnery Course School of Artillery Kakul; 1928 Saugor practice camp]
1929?	-	1930?	26th Field Brigade (Bulford Camp)
22.09.1930	-	27.09.1931	23rd Gunnery Staff Course, Okehampton Camp
1931	-	1940	with the Territorial Army (TA) Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) School of Artillery & Instructor at the Military College of Science
1931			Battery Quartermaster Sergeant (Instructor in Gunnery) (BQMS (IG)) [passed NCO's PS TA Course, School of Artillery, Larkhill, 16.10.1933-04.11.1933]
01.11.1935	-	09.04.1940	Battery Sergeant-Major (Assistant Instructor in Gunnery) (BSM (IG)) [passed Anti-Aircraft Unit Instructor's Course, 20.09-31.10.1936]
10.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] as District Officer-Instructor in Gunnery (DOIG) (qualified in anti-aircraft gunnery)
19.04.1940 1940 1940	-	1945	Instructor in Gunnery, School of Anti-Aircraft Defence [later: School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery] (Manorbier, South Wales) 9th LAA Practice Camp Cartmel/Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire MT10 War Office teaching & training men/units in AA
1945	-	1949	Technical Advisor to the Brigadier RA & Governor of Gibraltar on defence of the Fortress relating to AA & Field
01.11.1949	-	02.11.1955	short service commission: Quartermaster of various male & mixed AA units

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 1955-1972; CPS Chemical Co., 1972-(1982?).

Goldhawk,
Roland John
R.J. Goldhawk (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Jennings)

Son of Roland Macalpine Goldhawk, and Letitia Larsen.
Married ...; two sons, one daughter.

12.12.1915
Uitenhaege, Eastern Province, South Africa
-
24.06.1996
Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.02.1943 [264207]
WS/Lt.	20.08.1943 (reld 17.07.1945; on appointment to Southern Rhodesian Forces)

20.02.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served with the Chindits (Burma)

Served in Rhodesian Army as Officer Commanding of the Royal Rhodesian Engineers, 1 Squadron.

Goldie,
Hugh Desmond Barré
H.D.B. Goldie

Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Col. Barré Algernon Highmore Goldie, CBE, TD (1870-1949), and Bertha Hollis (?-1938), of Old Rectory, Brampton, Huntingdon.
Married 1st (07.1933, Abingdon district, Berkshire) Helen Sydenham Rowell (02.02.1908 - 04.1985), daughter of Maj. R.S. Rowell, TD, of Appleton, Berkshire.
Married 2nd (01.1986, Wallingford, Berkshire) Audrey Vivienne Massereene Going Kennedy (01.03.1910 - 01.2005), earlier married to John Archibald Goldie .

19.07.1907
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
12.1994
Wallingford, Berkshire

2nd Lt. TA	20.04.1926
2nd Lt.	01.09.1928 [35416]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	25.10.1940-24.01.1941
T/Maj.	25.01.1941-14.12.1943, 02.03.1944-29.05.1944, 22.06.1944-31.08.1945
Maj.	01.09.1945 (retd 10.09.1951)
A/Lt.Col.	06.07.1945-05.10.1945
T/Lt.Col.	06.10.1945-(04.1946)
T/Col.	?
Hon. Col.	10.09.1951
2nd Lt.	26.08.1952
Capt.	26.08.1952 (reld 31.03.1956)

OBE	02.01.1950	New Year 50
MC	11.07.1940	BEF 39-40 [citation available upon request]
CFM	01.1969	-

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp. Order of Independence, 2nd class [Order of El Istiqlal] (Jordan), 18.10.1949.

Education: Shrewsbury.

20.04.1926	-	01.09.1928	commissioned, 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA - Territorial Army
01.09.1928			commissioned, The West Yorkshire Regiment
08.06.1929	-	10.09.1951	transferred, The Royal Scots Fusiliers (served France, India, Persia, Syria & Egypt)
(05.1940)			Officer Commanding, 17th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company
1947	-	1949	Commander, 1st Mechanized Brigade of the Arab Legion
10.09.1951	-	13.08.1958	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
26.08.1952	-	31.03.1956	commissioned, General List - Territorial Army

County Commandant (Lt.), Oxfordshire Army Cadet Force 31.10.1956-31.08.1969. County Honorary Secretary, Forces Help Society, Oxfordshire.Deputy Lieutenant (DL), 04.06.1965 & Justice of the Peace (JP), 1967, Oxfordshire.

Golding,
Ardale Vautier
A.V. Golding

Only son of Arthur Vautier Golding (1864-1936), and Annie Violet Norrie, of Sancote, Scarborough.
Married 1st (25.06.1932, St Margaret's, Lee) Betty Evelyn Rowsell, only daughter of Eustace F. Rowsell (of Ceylon,), and Mrs Rowsell, of Blackheath; ... children (two sons?).
Married 2nd Anna Fletcher Snow.

26.12.1902
Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
26.05.1992
Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

Sgt.	?
2nd Lt. TA	01.08.1925 [33027]
2nd Lt.	31.01.1927
Lt.	31.01.1930
Capt.	01.03.1937
A/Maj.	01.09.1939-30.11.1939
T/Maj.	01.12.1939-30.11.1942
WS/Maj.	01.12.1942
Maj.	31.01.1944
local Lt.Col.	04.10.1940-16.09.1941
A/Lt.Col.	01.09.1942-30.11.1942
T/Lt.Col.	01.12.1942-(04.1946)
Col.	01.04.1953 (retd 04.08.1956)

MBE

Education: University College School (played cricket 1921); BSc, Mechnical Engineering; passed final examination of the Advanced Class, Military College of Science (pac).

			late Cadet Under Officer, University College School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.08.1925			commissioned, 23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps - Territorial Army
31.01.1927			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [from 1939 Royal Tank Regiment] [supposedly "the only officer in the history of the RTR never to take up a regimental posting"]
1928	-	1931	Military College of Science
16.04.1931	-	12.09.1932	specially employed, War Office (MI1?)
13.09.1932	-	31.12.1937	2nd Assistant Superintendent (Class FF to 12.09.1934, then Class CC), Design Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
01.01.1938	-	01.09.1939	specially employed (Class CC to 31.07.1938): attached to British Military Attaché, Berlin; co-authored technical handbook for field troops
02.1940	-	19.06.1940	was in France as a Liaison Officer with the French Ministry of Defence; left Bordeaux on the tramp ship Broompark; he and the Earl of Suffolk (a civilian) were instrumental in saving 600 tons of machine tools, the French supply of heavy water and £2 million pounds worth of cut diamonds; arrived at Falmouth 21.06.1940
(1941)			Assistant Military Attaché, Washington, DC, USA
1949	-	1956	served at Fort Halstead, Kent
04.08.1956	-	26.12.1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

MIMechE. Diplomatic capacity Armaments Control Agency of Western European Union based in Paris.

Goldsmith,
Oliver
O. Goldsmith

02.07.1911
-
24.01.1944
[age 32]
[Brookwood Memorial, panel 13, column 2]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1931 [52630]
Lt.	27.08.1934
Capt.	27.08.1939

RHS Br

19.08.1930

lifesaving at Wicklow *

* At about 3pm on 19 August 1930 John F Goldsmith (51), a retired Engineer Commander, went into the sea at Ballinacarrig, Co. Wicklow, in an attempt to assist his son who apparently in danger. Having swam out some 50 to 60 yards fully clothed, he got into difficulties. Miss Amy K Goldsmith then swam out to assist him and kept him up until Oliver Goldsmith (19) swam out to them and took his uncle to shore. Unfortunately, Commander Goldsmith did not recover. Oliver Goldsmith then went back into the sea and assisted his aunt back to shore. The rescue was brought to the attention of the RHS by Lt Colonel F E Whitton, from West Byfleet, and the Society approved the award of its bronze medal to Oliver Goldsmith and a testimonial on Vellum to Amy Goldsmith at its committee meeting on 13 January 1931. The Society despatched the awards by post to Lt.Col. Whitton on 2 February 1931 for him to organise their presentation. RHS case no. 50653.

Education: Royal Military College, Woolwich

27.08.1931			commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Singapore)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Bangalore, India)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Catterick Camp)
			30th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment
?	-	24.01.1944	seconded 2nd/4th Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Gomersall,
Harry Tolson
H.T. Gomersall

Son (with three sisters) of Harry Gomersall (1872-), and Annie Coldwell.
Married (07.01.1939, Lower Agbrigg, West Riding of Yorkshire) Marian Baldwin; ... children.

14.06.1910
Cahir, Tipperary, Ireland
-
05.1995
Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lt.	20.06.1940 [137745]
A/Capt.	27.01.1941-26.04.1941
T/Capt.	27.04.1941-19.12.1941
A/Maj.	20.09.1941-19.12.1941
T/Maj.	20.12.1941-25.03.1943
WS/Maj.	26.03.1943
A/Lt.Col.	26.12.1942-25.03.1943
T/Lt.Col.	26.03.1943-17.03.1944, 09.09.1945-02.04.1946
Lt.	02.01.1946, seniority 01.08.1938
Capt.	02.01.1946, seniority 14.06.1941
Maj.	01.07.1946
T/Lt.Col.	01.07.1954-27.08.1954
Lt.Col.	28.08.1954 (retd 01.03.1957)

	OBE	01.01.1957	New Year 57
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.

			served in the ranks for 8 years, 3 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class II for 3 years, 263 days
20.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 01.01.1946]
01.04.1942	-	25.12.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Middle East Land Forces
02.01.1946			permanent commission
23.10.1947	-	12.08.1948	Instructor Gunnery, Coast Artillery School
13.08.1948	-	12.12.1949	Secretary, Coast & Seaward Defence Centre

Good,
Wilfred Geoffrey
W.G. Good

Son of John Duncan Good, and Beatrice Emma Wells.
Married ((09?).1937, Windsor district, Berkshire / Surrey) Gladys Evelyn Webb.
Residence: (1944) Datchet, Buckinghamshire.

(09?).1913
Slough, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
11.09.1944
[age 31]
[Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium, I.D.2]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.03.1942 [229056]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	1944?

Education: Slough Secondary School.

21.03.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	11.09.1944	55th (The West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (killed during the attack on the bridge at Lommel)

Goodchild,
John Hovenden
J.H. Goodchild

From Sidcup.

18.12.1912
West Norwood, South-East London
-
29.11.2006

2nd Lt.	05.10.1940 [151326]
WS/Lt.	05.04.1942 (reld 1945)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	1945

	MC	24.09.1942	Middle East
	MC	17.06.1943	Middle East

05.10.1940

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Goode,
Francis David
F.D. Goode

Son of ... Goode, and ... Kelley.
Married ((06?).1940, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) ... Walker.

25.06.1917
Reigate district, Surrey / Kent
-
08.2000
East Devon district, Devonshire

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71105]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	03.06.1940-02.09.1940
T/Capt.	03.09.1940-02.07.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945 (resigned commission 20.07.1946)
A/Maj.	18.09.1942-17.12.1942
T/Maj.	18.12.1942-13.09.1943, 22.11.1943-19.07.1946
Hon. Maj.	20.07.1946
Capt.	02.02.1947, seniority 18.12.1942
Lt.	08.11.1947, seniority 25.06.1938
Capt.	08.11.1947, seniority 25.06.1946
T/Maj.	08.11.1948-24.06.1951
Maj.	25.06.1951 (retd 01.01.1958)

Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College (psc; 1942).

28.01.1937			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment (2nd Battalion)
05.11.1938	-	20.05.1939	Camp Commandant, 8th Division (temporarily) (Palestine) (under Maj.Gen. B.L. Montgomery)
(12.1939)			Second-in-Command, "A" Company, 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (France)
03.06.1940	-	30.11.1940	Adjutant
01.12.1940	-	1942	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Staff Duties, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
(06.1944)			Officer Commanding, "D" Company, 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (NW Europe)
22.02.1945	-	(04.1946)	a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Directorate of Personal Services, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, War Office
02.02.1947	-	07.11.1947	short service commission
08.11.1947			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [permanent commission]

Published: The War Office General Staff 1940 to 1942 : a worm's eye view. In: RUSI Journal (Vol. 138, No. 1, Feb. 1993).

Goodman,
Eric Whitlock
E.W. Goodman (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Archer)

Married (25.09.1929, Cheltenham) Norah Dorothy Stacpoole (25.04.1895 - 07.03.1986), only daughter of Richard John Stacpoole, DL, JP, of Edenvale, Co. Clare, Ireland, and his wife Geraldine Norah Isabella (née Crowe).

12.02.1893
Merton, Surrey
-
08.12.1981

2nd Lt.	18.07.1913
Lt.	09.06.1915
A/Capt.	22.09.1916-28.10.1916, 22.11.1916-30.01.1917
Capt.	18.07.1917
A/Maj.	31.01.1917-26.02.1919
Maj.	20.06.1932
Lt.Col.	28.07.1939
A/Col.	01.09.1940-28.02.1941
T/Col.	01.03.1941-28.06.1941, 01.07.1941-(01.1946)
Col.	19.06.1946, seniority 28.07.1942 (retd 19.07.1948)
A/Brig.	01.02.1941-28.06.1941, 01.07.1941-03.08.1941
T/Brig.	04.08.1941-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	19.07.1948

DSO	1938?	NW Frontier
MC	01.01.1918	France/Belgium
MID	01.01.1916	France/Belgium
MID	18.02.1938	NW Frontier
MID	20.06.1941	?

1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Iraq Operations 1919-20 Medal & Clasp; NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp

Education: Wellington.

18.07.1913			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			served in France & Belgium (15.02.1915-11.11.1918)
02.1915?	-	11.1915?	121st Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
14.11.1915	-	16.09.1916	Adjutant, 9th Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery
30.01.1917	-	1918	Officer Commanding, 119th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
08.01.1930	-	19.06.1932	Captain Instructor in Gunnery (Artillery), School of Artillery
1936	-	1937	Officer Commanding, 5th Bombay Mountain Battery RA (Waziristan)
03.01.1937			course, Senior Officers' School, Belgaum
1939	-	1940	Commanding Officer, 21st Mountain Regiment RA (served Ahmedzai Salient)
01.09.1940	-	31.01.1941	Commander Royal Artillery, ... (India)
01.02.1941	-	30.06.1941	Brigadier Royal Artillery, Western Command (India)
01.07.1941	-	15.02.1942	Commander Royal Artillery, 9th Indian Division (Malaya; captured)
1942	-	1945	POW in Japanese captivity (Singapore, Formosa & Manchuria)

Gordon,
Cyril Vyvian Eagleson
C.V.E. Gordon

01.05.1922
Lahore, India
-
09.01.2007

2nd Lt.	12.10.1941
WS/Lt.	01.05.1943
A/Capt.	01.12.1943-29.02.1944
T/Capt.	01.03.1944-27.07.1945
Lt.	28.04.1945, seniority 01.02.1945
T/Capt.	20.08.1945-30.04.1949
Capt.	01.05.1949
T/Maj.	15.12.1955-30.04.1956
Maj.	01.05.1956 (retd 31.05.1977)

	MC	16.12.1943	Burma
	MC	26.04.1945	Burma

Education: Wellington; Cambridge; Staff College (psc)

			served in the ranks for 202 days
12.10.1941	-	27.04.1945	commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			posted to King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers (India)
28.04.1945			permanent commission

Gordon,
Robert Maltman
R.M. Gordon

?
-

Cadet	? [1913214]
2nd Lt.	10.05.1942 [233366]
WS/Lt.	10.11.1942 (reld 15.12.1953)
T/Capt.	1940/50s?
Hon. Capt.	15.12.1953

1939?	-	1942	served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
10.05.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Gordon,
Ronald Ernest Jocelyn
R.E.J. Gordon (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.07.1942 [239423]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1943

17.07.1942			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942)			1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)

Gordon-Watson,
David Michael Lindsay
D.M.L. Gordon-Watson

23.02.1913
London
-
20.05.2002
Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	31.08.1935, seniority 01.02.1934
Capt.	01.02.1942
T/Maj.	14.08.1940-30.06.1946
Brig.	24.11.1961 (retd 22.03.1963)

OBE	07.01.1949	?
MC	1939?	Palestine
MC	27.09.1940	?
MC	15.06.1944	?

Education: nadc, psc

31.08.1935			commissioned, Irish Guards
...			...
(09.1944)			Second-in-Command, 2nd (Armoured) Battalion The Irish Guards (NW Europe)
18.09.1945	-	25.03.1946	Brigade Major, ...
26.03.1946	-	30.01.1947	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards
07.04.1951	-	27.10.1952	Military Attaché (GSO1), Washington
...			...

Stud manager/farmer, Dorsetshire.

Gore Graham,
Peter Alastair John
P.A.J. Gore Graham

09.08.1912
-
27.01.2007
[Old Cemetery, Blewbury, Oxfordshire]

2nd Lt.	01.09.1932 [53631]
...	...
T/Maj.	13.06.1942-30.06.1946
...	...
Brig.	01.01.1965 (retd 09.08.1967)

Education: ptsc

01.09.1932			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
30.11.1939	-	31.03.1940	Chief Instructor, OCW
21.08.1940	-	12.03.1942	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
13.03.1942	-	07.10.1946	DAD (A1), Ministry of Supply

Gorman,
[Sir] John Reginald

Son of Major J.K. Gorman, MC. Married (1948) Heather, daughter of George Caruth, solicitor, Ballymena; two sons, two daughters.

01.02.1923
Omagh
-

Killyleagh, Co. Down

2nd Lt.	05.12.1942
WS/Lt.	05.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	1944?

Kt	1998	?
CVO	1961	?
CBE	1974	?
MBE	1959	?
MC	1944	?

Education: Rockport, Haileybury and ISC; Portora; Glasgow University; Harvard Business Sch. FCIT, FIPM; MIH

05.12.1942			commissioned into the Irish Guards
1941	-	1946	Irish Guards (Normandy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)

Chairman, Risk Management International (NI), since 1995.
Royal Ulster Constabulary, 1946-1960; Chief of Security, BOAC, 1960-1963 (incl. Royal Tour of India, 1961); Personnel Dir and Mem. Bd of Management, BOAC, 1964-1969; British Airways: Regional Man., Canada, 1969-1975; Regional Man., India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, 1975-1979; ViceChm. and Chief Exec., NI Housing Exec., 1979-1985; Dir, Inst. of Dirs, NI, 1986-1995. Dir, NI Airports Bd, 1985-1992; Mem., NI Bd, Nationwide Building Soc., 1986-1991. Pres., British Canadian Trade Assoc., 1972-1974; ViceChm., Federated Appeal of Montreal, 1973-1974. Chm., Bd of Airline Representatives, India, 1977-1979; Chm., Inst. of Housing (NI), 1984. Bd Mem., Cooperation North, 1987-; Chm., NI Forum for Political Dialogue, 1996-. DL, 1982, High Sheriff, 1987-1988, Co. Down.
Published: The times of my life (2003; autobiography)

Gormley,
Charles Henry
C.H. Gormley

Younger son of Mr & Mrs Thomas Gormley, and stepson of Mrs M.M. Gormley, of Walmer, Kent.
Married (1930) Eileen Beatrice Sherborne, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs John Sherborne, of Reddish Manor, Kidmore, Oxfordshire; one son, one daughter.

12.1904
Eastry district, Kent
-
20.11.1969
Malta
[age 64]

2nd Lt.	17.04.1941 [230139]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	?, seniority 03.01.1941 (reld > 04.1947)
A/Col.	03.07.1943-19.09.1945
T/Col.	20.09.1945-(04.1947)
local Brig.	20.10.1945-26.02.1946
A/Brig.	27.02.1946-(04.1947)

OBE

01.01.1941

New Year 41

Education: Dover County School for Boys (early 1920s); Reading University; Cambridge University (BA (hons)).
Served Colonial Administrative Service: Administrative Officer under the African Civil Service, at Lindi Tanganyika Territory (Cadet, 1927; Assistant District Officer, 1929). Assistant District Officer, Somaliland, 1936-(1940).

			Governor's Commission, African Colonial Forces
17.04.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
11.05.1945			transferred, General List - African Colonial Forces Section (with effect from 17.04.1941)

Chief Administrator for the Dodecanese Islands, 10.1945-1946. Deputy Provincial Commissioner, Kenya, 1947. Administrative Secretary, Kenya, 1948-1949.

Gort,
6th Viscount (Ireland, cr. 1816; UK, cr. 1945);
Baron Kiltarton (1810);
Vereker, John Standish Surtees Prendergast
Lord Gort (J.S.S.P. Vereker)

Son of 5th Viscount and Eleanor (died 1933), daughter and coheiress of R.S. Surtees of Hamsterley
Hall, Co. Durham [she married 2nd, 1908, Col S. M. Benson].
Succeeded father, 1902.
Married (1911) Corinne (whom he divorced,
1925), daughter of George Medlicott Vereker; one daughter.

10.07.1886
St George Hanover Square, London
-
31.03.1946
Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London
[buried at Penshurst Place, Kent]

2nd Lt.	16.08.1905
...	...
T/Brig.	14.11.1932-24.11.1935
Maj.Gen.	25.11.1935
local Lt.Gen.	24.09.1937-05.12.1937
Gen.	06.12.1937
Field Marshal	01.01.1943

VC 1918; GCB, created 04.06.1940; KCB, created 1938; CB 1937; CBE 1928; DSO 1917; MVO 1910; MC 1915

16.08.1905			commissioned, Grenadier Guards
...			...
14.11.1932	-	02.03.1936	Director of Military Training, Army HQ, India
26.03.1936	-	23.09.1937	Commandant, Staff College, Camberley (as Maj.Gen. General Staff)
24.09.1937	-	05.12.1937	Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War
06.12.1937	-	03.09.1939	Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
04.09.1939	-	19.07.1940	Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force, France
20.07.1940	-	13.05.1941	Inspector-General of the Forces for Training and Inspector-General, Home Guard
14.05.1941	-	06.05.1942	Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar
07.05.1942	-	24.09.1944	Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta
31.10.1944	-	20.11.1945	High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine & High Commissioner, Trans-Jordan
20.07.1940	-	19.07.1944	also: ADC to HM the King George VI

Gott,
William Henry Ewart
"Strafer"
W.H.E. Gott

Eldest son of late LtCol William Henry Gott, and Anne Rosamund Gott, of Armley House, Leeds. Married (1934) Pamela Frances Mary, younger
daughter of late Brig.Gen. Walpole Kays, CMG; two daughters.
From Fleet, Hampshire.

13.08.1897
district Scarborough, Yorkshire
-
07.08.1942
killed in an air crash
[El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt, XXXIII.D.21]

2nd Lt.	17.02.1915 [1798]
Lt.	25.08.1916
Capt.	22.01.1921
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1934
Maj.	21.07.1934
Lt.Col.	30.10.1938 (supernumerary 30.10.1941-09.12.1941)
A/Col.	16.02.1940-15.08.1940
T/Col.	16.08.1940-20.10.1941
Col.	21.10.1941
A/Brig.	16.02.1940-15.08.1940
T/Brig.	16.08.1940-.05.09.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	06.09.1941-08.02.1942
A/Lt.Gen.	09.02.1942-07.08.1942

CB	06.08.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
CBE	08.07.1941	Middle East 12.40-02.41
DSO	01.04.1941	Middle East 08.39-11.40
DSO	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
MC	30.01.1920	?
MID	24.06.1943	Middle East

British War Medal; Victory Medal

Education: Harrow; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1930-1931)

17.02.1915			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
1916	-	1918	served European War: France & Belgium 28.08.1916-10.07.1917 (wounded, MC; 1917 prisoner)
19.09.1925	-	17.10.1928	Adjutant, 13th London Regiment, TA
01.01.1934	-	11.02.1936	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
12.02.1936	-	31.12.1937	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Baluchistan District (India)
1938	-	1939	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Egypt)
1939	-	1940	General Staff Officer 1 (GSO1), 7th Armoured Division (Egypt)
31.01.1940	-	02.09.1941	Commander, 7th Support Group (Egypt, Libya, Egypt) [from 31.01-16.02.1940 acting]
08.04.1941	-	16.04.1941	Commander, 2nd Support Group (Libya)
06.09.1941	-	06.02.1942	General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (Egypt, Libya, Egypt)
09.02.1942	-	07.08.1942	General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps (N Africa)

Literature: "Strafer" Gott : tribute to Lt.Gen. William Henry Ewart "Strafer" Gott, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.M. and Bar, M.C. (ed. H.R.W. Vernon; 1984)

Gottelier,
Lawrence Victor
"Lawrie"
L.V. Gottelier

Son of Henry Edward Gottelier, and Florence May Laundy.
Married 1st ((06?).1941, Surrey South Western district) Joan Temple Gosman (19.09.1918 - 17.11.1988); two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (05.1991, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent) Eunice L.A. "Toni" Botterill.

05.1918
Beckenham, Bromley district, Kent
-
06.01.2008
Goudhurst

2nd Lt.	05.10.1940 [151441]
WS/Lt.	04.09.1941
T/Capt.	04.09.1941-14.11.1945
WS/Capt.	15.11.1945
T/Maj.	15.11.1945-(04.1946)

12.08.1947

Education: prep school, Bath; St Benedict's, Ealing (1935).

1938			enlisted, Territorial Army
?	-	05.10.1940	151st Officer Cadet Training unit
05.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
12.1943	-	?	2 Air Support Signals Unit (NW Europe)

After the war his career developed in various roles in the property market and by his retirement in the early ‘80s he had become a partner in Levens, estate agents, and was based in their office in Hayes near Bromley.

Gough,
Kenneth Roy
K.R. Gough

(03?).1905
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-

2nd Lt.	04.01.1940 [112215]
WS/Lt.	04.07.1941 (reld 07.09.1945; disability)
Hon. Lt.	10.07.1945

04.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			led a party of his men from Metz to Switzerland between 10 & 23 June 1940

Goulburn,
Edward Henry
E.H. Goulburn

Son of late Brig.Gen. C.E. Goulburn, DSO, and of Grace Ethel, daughter of late W.H. Foster, Apley Park,
Bridgnorth, Salop.
From Bletchworth.

27.05.1903
St George Hanover Square, London
-
15.02.1980
Betchworth, Surrey

2nd Lt.	31.01.1924 [28083]
Lt.	31.01.1926
Capt.	09.04.1932
A/Maj.	29.06.1940-28.09.1940
T/Maj.	29.09.1940-30.01.1941
Maj.	31.01.1941
A/Lt.Col.	20.03.1942-19.06.1942
T/Lt.Col.	20.06.1942-26.04.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	27.04.1945
A/Col.	27.10.1944-26.04.1945
T/Col.	27.04.1945
Col.	08.05.1948, seniority 09.07.1947 (retd 15.09.1951)
A/Brig.	27.10.1944-26.04.1945
T/Brig.	27.04.1945-(01.1946)
A/Maj.Gen.	09.07.1946
Hon. Maj.Gen.	15.09.1951

DSO	21.12.1944	NW Europe
DSO	01.03.1945	NW Europe
ON	18.07.1947	liberation Netherlands

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

31.01.1924			commissioned, Grenadier Guards
19.08.1931	-	18.08.1934	Adjutant, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
03.02.1938	-	03.09.1939	specially employed (Adjutant)
04.09.1939	-	11.10.1940	Adjutant, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
1942	-	10.1944	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards (UK, France, Belgium and Holland)
27.10.1944	-	11.07.1945	Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade (Holland and Germany)
17.07.1945	-	21.08.1945	Commander, 5th Guards Brigade (NW Europe)
1945	-	1946	Commander, 1st Guards Brigade (Palestine)
1946	-	1947	MajorGeneral Commanding Allied Military Mission to Italian Army
1948	-	1950	LieutenantColonel Commanding Grenadier Guards
15.09.1951	-	27.05.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Surrey, 1962. Landowner & farmer.

Gould,
Arthur Frederick
"Ted"
A.F. Gould

14.10.1914
-
06.1989
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	02.01.1943 [258203]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1943 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 10.01.1953)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	10.01.1953

1939			enlisted service (BEF, France)
02.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served Westminster Dragoons (NW Europe 1944-45)

Goulden,
Francis Richard
F.R. Goulden

Married; one son, one daughter.

18.10.1916
Ashton Under Lyne district, Cheshire, Lancashire
-
03.1994
West Somerset

Cadet	? [14274065]
2nd Lt.	19.09.1943 [293702]
WS/Lt.	19.03.1944
T/Capt.	04.08.1945-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt. RARO	01.01.1949
Capt. TA	03.02.1961, seniority 14.10.1957
Maj. TA	01.07.1963 (reld 01.01.1964)
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949 & 01.01.1964

19.09.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
post-war			transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
01.01.1949	-	02.02.1961	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
03.02.1961	-	01.01.1964	Territorial Army

Goulder,
Claud
C. Goulder (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)

02.04.1896
Swaffham district, Norfolk
-
18.03.1956
Castleacre, nr King's Lynn, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	10.02.1915 [268750]
...	...
Lt.Col.	21.08.1942 (supernumerary 21.08.1945)
Col.	11.05.1945
T/Brig.	11.12.1942-(04.1947)

CBE	?	?
DSO	30.12.1941	?
MC	WW I	?
MID	30.12.1941	?

10.02.1915			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
15.03.1942	-	19.09.1942	Commander Royal Artillery, 23rd Indian Infantry Division
20.09.1942	-	08.07.1944	Commander Royal Artillery, 19th Indian Infantry Division
08.07.1944	-	05.08.1944	acting General Officer Commanding, 21st Indian Infantry Division
(1947)			HQ Southern Command, India

Gow,
Stanley George
S.G. Gow

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of John Lacey Gow (1875-1930), and Bessie Maud Finch (1878-1923).
Married ((03?).1936, Chelsea district, London) Dorothy Bulger (09.12.1903 - (03?).1975); one daughter.

18.02.1905
St George in the East, London
-
29.07.1975
Chelsea district, London

CSM	?
2nd Lt.	30.04.1941 [185002]
WS/Lt.	30.04.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	25.10.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

MID

06.04.1944

Middle East

30.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
01.01.1949	-	18.02.1955	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Gow,
William Younger
"Willie"
E. Gowlland

c. 1896
Perthshire
-
?
?

T/2nd Lt.	?
T/Lt.	? (reld 01.09.1921; retaining rank of Lt.)
2nd Lt.	03.04.1940 [125419]
A/Capt.	24.10.1940
WS/Capt.	07.01.1943
T/Maj.	07.01.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	1944?, seniority 09.07.1943
A/Lt.Col.	09.04.1943-(04.1944)

03.06.1919

WW I medals

?			commissioned, Royal Warwickshire Regiment [temporary commission]
			attached, 1st/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Force
03.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			possibly on the 8th Army staff of Gen. Neil Ritchie and later stationed with PI Force in Persia/Iraq

Gowlland,
Eric
E. Gowlland

Son of Richard Gowlland, commercial traveller, and Ethel Eliza Pottinger Gowlland, formerly Fulton.

17.05.1904
Leeds, Yorkshire
-
07.1999
Huntingdonshire

2nd Lt.	25.03.1943 [268750]
WS/Lt.	25.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

06.02.1947

25.03.1943

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Gowlland,
Geoffrey Cathcart

Fifth child and second son of Richard Sankey Gowlland and Jessie Katherine Gowlland (née Lake).
Married (20.11.1912, Downton, Wiltshire) Vera Rosa Marriott Smith, daughter of Col. Walter William Marriott Smith, RA (retd); one daughter.

27.05.1885
Ealing, Brentford, Middlesex
-
09.10.1980

2nd Lt.	20.12.1905 [3400]
Lt.	25.06.1908
Capt.	30.10.1914 (half-pay 27.04.1920-27.08.1920)
T/Maj.	01.04.1921-14.12.1922
Maj.	06.01.1923
Lt.Col.	09.08.1930
local Col.	27.08.1926-23.08.1929
Bt. Col.	01.04.1932, seniority 01.04.1931
Col.	09.08.1934, seniority 01.04.1931 (retd 03.08.1940; retaining appointment) (reverted to retd 17.12.1941)
A/Brig.	27.12.1940-(04.1941)
T/Brig.	....1941-....1941
Hon. Brig.	17.12.1941

MID	17.02.1915	France
MID	25.10.1916	Sudan 14-16
MID	05.12.1918	Sudan 17-18
Nile	29.08.1917	valuable services rendered to Egypt
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
SM	-	& Sudan 1917-18 Clasp

Education: Fettes College, Edinburgh; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

20.12.1905			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
15.12.1910	-	14.12.1912	employed with Egyptian Army (passage from Liverpool to Port Said on SS "Crosby Hall")
17.02.1913	-	04.08.1914	Assistant Instructor, School of Military Engineering
05.08.1914	-	28.11.1914	served in France & Belgium
28.06.1915	-	13.01.1916	Assistant Instructor, School of Military Engineering (temporary)
14.01.1916	-	14.06.1918	employed with Egyptian Army: Assistant Director at the Military Works Department (till 18.03.1916 in Egypt, then till 15.05.1918 Egyptian Expeditionary Force)
27.04.1920	-	27.08.1920	sick leave ‘on account of ill-health caused by wounds’
20.12.1920	-	31.03.1921	Adjutant, ...
01.04.1921	-	14.12.1922	attached, Royal Tank Corps
10.01.1923	-	26.08.1926	Chief Instructor in Workshops (Class Y), School of Military Engineering
27.08.1926	-	23.08.1929	Chief Engineer, Iraq
(03.1931)			Staff Officer, Royal Engineers (Electrical & Mechanical), HQ Aldershot Command (UK)
01.04.1932	-	18.12.1933	Chief Inspector, Royal Engineer Stores, Inspection Department (Woolwich) [in that capacity also Associate Member of the Royal Engineer Board & Military Member of the Experimental Sub-Committee of the Wireless Telegrpahy Board]
10.04.1934	-	14.04.1937	Deputy Engineer-in-Chief (Electircal & Mechanical), Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India
28.04.1937	-	10.06.1940	Chief Engineer, The British Troops in China (Hong Kong) (from 1938 also the Officer Commanding British Troops in Hong Kong, and in that capacity a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council)
1941?	-	1941?	Chief Engineer, Northern Ireland District *
03.08.1940	-	27.05.1943	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

MIMechE. Commanding Officer, 6th Dorset (Wimborne) Battalion Home Guard, 1942-1945. Played rugby football for Scotland.
* April 1941 is showing in that appointment Col. V.E.G. Guinness (from 27.10.1940), so perhaps Gowlland took over from him later in the year.

Gowlland,
Richard John
R.J. Gowlland

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

1919
-
11.2008 still alive

2nd Lt.	15.12.1939 [109035]
WS/Lt.	15.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

15.12.1939

commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Grace,
Eileen
(Mrs)
Mrs. E. Grace (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carol Vincent)

?
-

2nd Sub.	26.02.1942 [227930]
WS/Sub.	02.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Jun.Comdr.	31.08.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Jun.Comdr.	< 04.1946

26.02.1942			commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service
21.10.1943	-	(04.1944)	a Staff Captain (A), Adjutant General's Branch, HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)

Grafton,
James Douglas
"Jimmy"
J.D. Grafton

Son of James Hawkins Grafton and Ethel Marion Brannan. Has a twin brother.

19.05.1916
-
06.1986
Chichester, Sussex

2nd Lt.	02.06.1939, seniority 02.12.1937 [91666]
WS/Lt.	01.03.1941
T/Capt.	01.03.1941
WS/Capt.	15.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	04.04.1945
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

13.07.1951

			late Officer Cadet CSM, London Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.06.1939			commissioned, General List (University Candidates, Officer Training Corps) (University of London Contingent, Senior Division) - Territorial Army (for service with the infantry unit of the contingent)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
11.12.1939			transferred to The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
(09.1944)			Officer Commanding, A Company, 4th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (NW Europe)
?	-	19.05.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

TV script writer, company director, Strutton Ground, London. Co-wrote some of the famous sketches in The Goon Show, a radio series.

Graham,
Douglas Alexander Henry
D.A.H. Graham

26.03.1893
-
28.09.1971
[Brechin, Angus ?]

2nd Lt.	17.09.1913 [8265]
Lt.	03.11.1914
Capt.	18.06.1916
Maj.	16.12.1930
Lt.Col.	27.06.1937
Col.	05.04.1940
A/Brig.	05.04.1940-04.10.1940
T/Brig.	05.10.1940-14.05.1944
A/Maj.Gen.	05.05.1943-09.01.1944, 20.01.1944-14.05.1944
T/Maj.Gen.	15.05.1944-05.10.1944
Maj.Gen.	06.10.1944, seniority 01.02.1944 (retd 06.02.1947)

CB	24.08.1944	Italy
CBE	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42
DSO	14.01.1943	Middle East
DSO	08.07.1943	Middle East
MC	01.01.1918	New Year 18
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	13.01.1944	Middle East
MID	28.09.1944	Normandy
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
LM	16.01.1947	?
LegH	1945?	France 44?
CdeG	1945?	France 44?
CdeG	15.12.1919	?
StOlav	23.05.1947	Norway 45

1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: London School of Economics

17.09.1913			commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
1914	-	1918	served European War in France (13.08.1914- 22.10.1914, 10.09.1916-11.11.1918) (wounded, despatches, MC, French Croix de Guerre)
30.04.1917	-	07.06.1919	Brigade Major, ...
06.04.1920	-	29.10.1920	Assistant Military Secretary, India
19.02.1928	-	30.12.1930	Staff Captain, Scottish Command
31.12.1930	-	18.02.1932	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (DAA&QMG), Lowland Area, Scottish Command
01.05.1932	-	30.04.1935	Officer Commanding, Regimental Depot, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (Hamilton, UK)
1936	-	1937	2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (Palestine & UK)
27.06.1937	-	04.04.1940	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (UK)
05.04.1940	-	07.08.1940	Commander, 27th Infantry Brigade (UK), redesignated:
07.08.1940	-	28.04.1943	Commander, 153rd Infantry Brigade (UK, Egypt, North Africa)
07.05.1943	-	10.10.1943	General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Infantry Division (North Africa, Libya, Italy; wounded at Salerno)
19.01.1944	-	17.10.1944	General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (UK, North-West Europe)
27.11.1944	-	1945	General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (North-West Europe, UK, Norway)
(12.)1945			General Officer Commanding, British Land Forces Norway

Colonel, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 22.08.1954-26.03.1958.

Graham,
Harry Dick McGibbon
P.L. Graham

?
-

2nd Lt.	11.10.1941 [210938]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

19.09.1952

11.10.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]

Graham
John Andrew
J.A. Graham

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.10.1942 [249184]
WS/Lt.	17.07.1943 (reld 16.08.1946)

17.02.1942

commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]

Graham,
Patrick Ludovic
P.L. Graham

Son of Donald Noble Graham, CIE (1844-1901), and Gertrude Lawrence Clara Dunsterville (died 1932).
Married (28.09.1926) Barbara Jury, only daughter of Col. Edward Cotton Jury, CMG, MC, late 18th Royal Hussars; two sons.

02.04.1898
Airthrey
-
14.07.1958
Baghdad

2nd Lt.	19.02.1916
Lt.Col.	30.06.1944 (retd 03.03.1949)
Hon. Col.	03.03.1949

Education: Winchester; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; psc

19.02.1916			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
27.02.1940	-	04.06.1940	DAQMG
05.06.1940	-	04.11.1940	GSO2
01.08.1942	-	25.05.1943	GSO1
194X			Commanding Officer, 97th Anti-Tank Regiment RA

Graham,
Stuart Douglas
S.D. Graham

Son of Maj. Wiliam Bannatyne Graham, and Mary Beatrice Hansell.

18.02.1890
India
-
1980

2nd Lt.	23.07.1910 [6836]
Lt.	23.07.1913
T/Capt.	13.03.1916-22.07.1916
Capt.	23.07.1916
A/Maj.	30.12.1916-05.11.1918
Maj.	01.05.1927
Lt.Col.	01.01.1937
local Col.	20.06.1938-08.01.1939
Col.	09.01.1939 (supernumerary 30.06.1944) (retd 24.05.1946)
T/Brig.	14.08.1939-26.10.1940, 08.05.1941-29.06.1941
Hon. Brig.	24.05.1946

MC	14.01.1916	?
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
MID	01.01.1916	?
MID	21.05.1918	?

Education: Staff College (psc).

23.07.1910			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			served France & Belgium 17.01.1915-16.11.1915, Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and Islands of the Aegean Sea 17.11.1915-12.02.1916, France and Belgium 10.11.1916-11.11.1918
14.12.1914	-	06.02.1915	Adjutant, 146th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
22.05.1915	-	10.02.1916	Adjutant
06.11.1918	-	07.06.1919	Brigade Major, RA (France)
22.05.1920	-	30.10.1921	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (Aldershot Command) (temporarily)
24.01.1923	-	20.01.1924	Brigade Major, RA (Egypt) (temporarily)
30.04.1926	-	27.05.1928	Staff Captain, War Office (London)
28.05.1928	-	30.09.1930	Brigade Major, RA (Aldershot Command)
(03.1931)			13th Field Brigade RA (Aldershot)
(06.1933)			8th Field Brigade RA (Mhow)
14.05.1934	-	(01.1937)	Brigade Major, Mhow Brigade Area, Bombay District, Southern Command, East Indies
20.06.1938	-	08.01.1939	specially employed (India)
09.01.1939	-	13.08.1939	instructor, Senior Officers' School (Belgaum)
14.08.1939	-	26.10.1940	Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA), ...
08.05.1941	-	29.06.1941	specially employed
16.08.1941	-	30.06.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office (London)
24.05.1946	-	18.02.1948	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Grant,
Eneas Henry George
E.H.G. Grant

Son of late Col H.G. Grant, CB, late Seaforth Highlanders and Isabel, daughter of Eneas Mackintosh, Balnespick, Invernessshire. Married (1926) Lilian Marion (died 1978), daughter of late S. O'Neill, Cumberstown House, Co. Westmeath; one son (and elder son, Lieut Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action, Korea, 1951).
From Tomatin, Inverness.

14.08.1901
-
05.02.1994
[Tomatin, Invernessshire ?]

2nd Lt.	24.12.1920 [18829]
Lt.	24.12.1922
Capt.	17.04.1929
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	14.02.1942-13.05.1942
T/Lt.Col.	14.05.1942-10.06.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	11.06.1945
Lt.Col.	02.09.1946
A/Col.	11.12.1944-10.06.1945
T/Col.	11/06/1945-(01.1946)
Col.	26.08.1948, seniority 11.06.1948
A/Brig.	11.12.1944-10.06.1945
T/Brig.	11.06.1945-(01.1946)
Brig.	01.07.1952 (supernumerary 26.08.1954) (retd 06.09.1955)

CBE	07.06.1951	HM's birthday 51
DSO	19.10.1944	NW Europe
DSO	11.10.1945	NW Europe
MC	06.11.1936	Palestine
MID	23.07.1937	Palestine

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Wellington College, Berks; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

24.12.1920			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
01.08.1928	-	30.11.1932	Adjutant, Lovat Scouts (Territrial Army)
1936			1st Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Palestine)
1940			France
1944?			Commanding Officer, 7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (NW Europe)
11.12.1944	-	15.01.1945	Commander, 185th Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)
26.01.1945	-	24.07.1945	Commander, 157th (Highland Light Infantry) Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)
1945	-	1949	Brigade Commander (NW Europe & ...)
1949	-	1952	Commader, Gold Coast District
1952	-	1955	Deputy Commander, Northumbrian District

Colonel Commandant, Gold Coast Regiment, 1949-1952. JP Invernessshire, 1957-91; DL Invernessshire, 28.05.1958-80. Chairman Invernessshire TA and Air Force Association, 1961-65.

Grant
James
J. Grant

?
-

2nd Lt.	17.02.1942 [225198]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	10.02.1944-(04.1946)

17.02.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Possibly same as:
James (Jim) Lieutenant Colonel RE, died peacefully at home on 14 February 2007, aged 86. Husband of the late Florence, father, grandfather, and great grandfather.

Grant-Suttie,
Hubert Francis
H.F. Grant-Suttie

Eldest son of late Robert GrantSuttie and Hon. Edith Mary Dawnay, daughter of 7th Viscount Downe. Married (1920) Torfrida Alianore (died 1971), elder daughter of Sir Wroth Lethbridge, 5th Bt, and Hon. Mrs Walter YardeBuller of Marchington Hall, Staffs; one son, one daughter.

15.12.1884
-
03.06.1973

2nd Lt.	29.07.1904
Lt.Col.	1933
Col.	05.04.1936, seniority 01.07.1934 (retd 01.08.1939)

CBE	20.08.1940	for distinguished services in the field
DSO	01.01.1918	for distinguished services in the field
MC	14.01.1916	?

Education: psc, ns

29.07.1904			commissioned, Royal Artillery
			served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches four times, DSO, MC)
05.04.1936	-	1939	Assistant-Quartermaster-General, War Office
14.09.1939		10.02.1940	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (CBE)
1943	-	1947	Command Welfare Officer, Scotland

CStJ, 1953 (OStJ, 1948). Member Royal Co. of Archers, Queen's Body Guard in Scotland.

Grant Watson,
Robert De Merve [Low]
R.D.M. Grant Watson

Son of Herbert A. Grant Watson, and of Anna C. Grant Watson (née Low), of Kensington, London.

18.01.1910
Brazil
-
27.03.1942
(KIA) [age 32]
[Kinghtsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya, 10.C.18]

2nd Lt. TA	14.11.1933
2nd Lt.	14.03.1934, seniority 01.09.1932 [56997]
Lt.	01.09.1935
Capt.	01.09.1940

MID

30.06.1942

Middle East (posthumously)

14.11.1933			commissioned, University Candiates (General List - Territorial Army)
14.03.1934			commissioned, Scots Guards
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion Scots Guards (Aldershot)
18.05.1937	-	07.04.1938	specially emplyed, War Office
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion Scots Guards (Egypt)
?	-	27.03.1942	Special Boat Service, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps [drowned when canoe capsized on operation to capture German pilot who crash-landed on an island near Gazala Point, Libya]

Grasett,
Sir Arthur Edward
A.E. Grasett

20.10.1888
-
04.12.1971

2nd Lt.	24.06.1909 [6855]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	27.09.1938, seniority 09.01.1938 (retd 02.07.1947)
A/Lt.Gen.	07.11.1941-06.11.1942
T/Lt.Gen.	07.11.1942-24.08.1945
local Lt.Gen.	25.08.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.	02.07.1947

KBE 1945; CB 1940; DSO 1919; MC 1915

24.06.1909			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
...	-	...	...
04.11.1938	-	27.08.1941	General Officer Commanding, British Troops in China
1941	-	1941	General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong
08.10.1941	-	06.11.1941	General Officer Commanding, 48th Infantry Division
07.11.1941	-	14.01.1943	General Officer Commanding, VIII Corps District (UK)
1943	-	1944	Chief Liaison Officer to Allied Forces in the United Kingdom
1944	-	1945	Head Civil Affairs Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
25.08.1945	-	1954	Lieutenant-Governor & General Officer Commanding Troops, Jersey

Gray,
Donald Marshall
D.M. Gray

Son of the late Dr John William Gray, Medical Superintendant of Grassington Sanatorium and later Wolsingham Sanatorium, County Durham, and Mary Anderson Fallas.

15.10.1919
Grassington, Skipton district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
03.02.1949
Canongate district, Edinburgh City, Scotland

2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [132522]
WS/Lt.	25.11.1941
T/Capt.	20.01.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	12.04.1945
T/Maj.	12.04.1945-(04.1946)

12.07.1945

NW Europe

25.05.1940			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [emergency commission]
19.07.1941			transferred, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(07.1943)			"B" Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (Sicily; wounded)
(1944)	-	(1945)	Officer Commandng, "A" Company, 6th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers

Gray,
John Herbert
"Jack"
J.H. Gray (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Clark(

Married Marie Phillips.

05.12.1912
-
09.08.2005
St Alban's district, Hertfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.04.1941 [180949]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

06.03.1947

03.1939			joined 53rd (City of London) Mobile Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment -Territorial Army
?	-	12.04.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Published: Jack's war (2002)

Gray,
John Willoughby
J.W. Gray

Married Felicity Gray, choreographer.
Residence: (1946) London.

05.11.1916
London
-
13.02.1993
Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	24.02.1940 [121291]
WS/Lt.	27.01.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	17.09.1944-(04.1946)

	MBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe
	MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe

24.02.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(09.1944)	-	(05.1945)	Officer Commanding, No. 9 Patrol, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom"), attached to the 11th Armoured Division

Actor.

Gray,
Oliver John
O.J. Gray

01.03.1923 ??
-
06.2003 ??
Mid Warwickshire ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.06.1943 [284443]
WS/Lt.	26.12.1943 (reld 15.03.1952)
Hon. Lt.	15.03.1952

26.06.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
19.02.1945			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (parachute trained at Kabrit Parachute School)
			served in Palestine post-war

Grazebrook,
Tom Neville
T.N. Grazebrook (Photo courtesy of Mr Sheldon A. Goldberg)

Son of Tom Grazebrook, of Pedmore, Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
Married (26.08.1937, Great Burstead Parish Church, Essex) Marion Betty Asplin, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Charles Asplin, of Burghsted Lodge, Billericay, Essex; one son, two daughters.

12.07.1904
Bromsgrove district, Hereford and Worcester / Shropshire / Staffordshire / Worcestershire
-
24.08.1967
Hammersmith Hospital [lately of Sheepscombe, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1924 [30680]
Lt.	27.08.1926
Capt.	15.04.1935
A/Maj.	02.07.1940-01.10.1940
T/Maj.	02.10.1940-26.08.1941
Maj.	27.08.1941
A/Lt.Col.	14.11.1941-13.02.1942
T/Lt.Col.	14.02.1942-16.06.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	17.06.1944
A/Col.	17.12.1943-16.06.1944
T/Col.	17.06.1944-10.02.1948
Col.	24.06.1948, seniority 17.06.1947 (Supernumerary 24.06.1954)
A/Brig.	28.03.1945-27.09.1945
T/Brig.	28.09.1945-10.02.1948, 14.08.1949-31.12.1952
Brig.	01.01.1953 (retd 30.06.1958)

CBE	02.08.1945	NW Europe
DSO	18.11.1943	Sicily
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	23.09.1943	North Africa
MID	08.04.1949	Malaya
LM	08.11.1945	SHAEF?

Education: Shrewsbury School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Quetta & Camberley (psc; 1938-1939).

27.08.1924			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment
1928			Adjutant, Regimental Depot The Gloucestershire Regiment
24.02.1932	-	09.03.1934	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force
01.12.1934	-	20.02.1937	Adjutant, The Gloucestershire Regiment (Mhow)
			served in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, NW Europe:
02.09.1939	-	13.01.1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), GHQ British Expeditionary Force (France)
14.01.1940	-	27.06.1940	Brigade Major, 5th Infantry Brigade (France [Dunkirk])
02.07.1940	-	25.05.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), S.D., War Office
14.11.1941	-	11.03.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), S.D., War Office
1943	-	1943	Second-in-Command, 11th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment
1943	-	1943	Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (North Africa, Italy, Sicily)
17.12.1943	-	27.03.1945	Colonel General Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (chief of the SHAEF Post Hostilities Planning Sub-section)
28.03.1945	-	28.06.1945	Brigadier General Staff, Plans G3 Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
29.06.1945	-	21.05.1947	Deputy Secretary, Control Commission for Germany
25.06.1947	-	30.12.1947	Commander, 25th Infantry Brigade (Malaya)
09.01.1948	-	10.02.1948	Brigadier General Staff (Intelligence), Far East Land Forces
11.02.1948	-	28.05.1949	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (Malaya)
14.08.1949	-	09.07.1952	Deputy Director of Manpower Planning (A), War Office
18.08.1952	-	12.06.1955	Commander, 159th Infantry Brigade TA
15.06.1955	-	1958	Brigadier A/Q, HQ Western Command

Deputy Lieutenant, Gloucestershire, 1965.

Green,
George Lewis [Gerald]
G.L. Green

08.06.1915
-
10.03.2007
Bahrain

2nd Lt.	22.06.1941
WS/Capt.	03.12.1944
T/Maj.	03.12.1944-(04.1946)
...	...
Maj.Gen.	?

22.06.1941

commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission]

Gerald Green came to Bahrain in 1956 after a distinguished career in the Durham Light Infantry. He saw war service in France, Sudan, Libya, Malta and Egypt. After the war he served in Greece and Northern Ireland. His first job in Bahrain was to establish the Military Wing of Public Security. In 1963, he became Private Secretary to HH the Amir Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. In 1999, he was appointed Counsellor to HH the Amir. In 2001, he was promoted to Major General (Ret'd). Gerald Green was decorated by many nations, which included the Order of Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Commander of the British Empire (CBE), Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory (Vatican), War Cross for Valour (Greece), Jerusalem Cross for Services to the Anglican Church in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East and Warden Emeritus at St Christopher's Cathedral in Bahrain.

Green,
Peter John Philip
P.J.P. Green (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of Capt. C. Green, and ... Compton.
Married Susan ...; one son.

25.06.1918
Richmond district, Surrey
-
15.02.2008
New Forest Nursing Home (formerly of Lyndhurst, Hampshire)

2nd Lt.	22.05.1937 [71918]
WS/Lt.	22.05.1940 (reld 23.05.1945; disability)
Hon. Lt.	23.05.1945

13.09.1945

gallant & distinguished services in the field

Education: Imperial Service College (1932.2-1936.2).

			late Cadet, Imperial Service College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.05.1937			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
?	-	05.1940	Second-in-Command, "C" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (severely wounded at Dunkirk; captured)
1940	-	1944	POW in German captivity (Oflag IX-A, Spangenberg); repatriated

Consular staff, 1945-1950.

Green,
Ralph Kent
R.K. Green (Photo courtesy of Mrs Barbara Lawrence)

Son of Mrs Muriel Green, of London NW6, later of Frome, Somerset.

28.05.1914
Great Barrow, Chelmsford district, Essex
-
31.05.1977
Winsley Hospital, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire
(of chronic emphysema and TB)

Pte. ?	12.09.1939
Cadet	02.10.1939
2nd Lt.	29.10.1939 [105204]
WS/Lt.	29.04.1941
A/Capt.	28.04.1943-(07.)1944
WS/Capt.	24.12.1945 (reld 31.01.1946)
A/Maj.	23.09.1945-23.11.1945
Hon. Capt.	31.01.1946

Education: Mill Hill School, London (09.1928-07.1932); British College of Accountancy.

12.09.1939	-	10.1939	enlisted service (Gloucester)
02.10.1939	-	28.10.1939	Cadet, No. 1 RASC Training Centre (Aldershot)
29.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
29.10.1939	-	13.11.1939	1st Mixed Training Battalion RASC (Aldershot)
14.11.1939	-	04.01.1940	48th Divisional Petrol Company RASC (Hungerford) [10-23.12.1939 course of instruction at Army Gas School, Winterbourne]
05.01.1940	-	04.06.1940	517th Petrol Company RASC (France)
05.06.1940	-	02.07.1940	48th Divisional Petrol Company RASC (France & from 25.06.1940 UK)
03.07.1940	-	18.03.1941	48th Divisional Ammuntion Company RASC (UK)
19.03.1941	-	19.04.1943	73rd Independent Infantry Brigade (for duty with Brigade RASC Officer) (UK)
29.04.1943	-	25.05.1943	1st Airborne Division (for duty with Commander RASC) (UK)
26.05.1943	-	04.10.1943	BNBFG (?), British North African Forces (North Africa) & Central Mediterranean Forces (Italy)
12.10.1943	-	31.03.1944	6th Airborne Division (for duty with HQ RASC) [actually joined 13.11.1943]
01.04.1944	-	22.09.1945	Chief Instructor, RASC Air Training Centre [29.10.1944-14.12.1944 posted for temporary duty with South East Asia Command, India & 04.??.1945-24.04.1945 posted for duty with Officer Commanding, RASC Kensington]
23.09.1945	-	23.11.1945	Officer Commanding, RASC Air Training Centre

Green,
Rhodri Grahame Mortimer
"Rod"
R.G.M. Green

Son of ... Green, and ... Steele.

16.02.1918
Guildford district, Surrey
-
07.1998
Petersfield district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	27.01.1938 [74671]
WS/Lt.	12.11.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	12.08.1940-11.11.1940
T/Capt.	12.11.1940-20.09.1943
WS/Capt.	21.09.1943
Capt.	27.01.1946
A/Maj.	21.06.1943-20.09.1943
T/Maj.	21.09.1943-30.04.1944, 27.09.1944-02.01.1947, 23.08.1949-26.01.1951
Maj.	27.01.1951
Lt.Col.	01.02.1960 (supernumerary 01.02.1963) (retd 30.03.1968)

22.10.1940

BEF France

27.01.1938			commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters
(1940)			2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (BEF) (MC)
01.04.1958	-	02.03.1959	specially employed, Nigerian Military Forces
			seconded to the Trucial States in the Arabian desert (later a military adviser in Oman & converting to Islam)

Green,
Samuel [Robert]
S. Green (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Green)

21.12.1897
-
(09?).1975 ?
York district, Greater Manchester ?

Lt. (OME 4th cl.)	16.07.1932 [53333]
Maj.	11.09.1936
Lt.Col.	09.05.1939
Lt.Col. (OME 1st cl.)	11.08.1942, seniority 09.05.1939
Lt.Col. (EME 1st cl.)	01.10.1942, seniority 09.08.1939
A/Col.	30.10.1942-29.04.1943
T/Col.	30.04.1943-(04.1944)
Col.	11.04.1945

	TD	30.08.1945	-
	TD	09.03.1956	2nd clasp

AMInstCE.

16.07.1932			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
16.07.1932	-	(10.1935)	56th (1st London) Divisional RAOC (Chelsea)
(01.1937)			Officer Commanding, 56th (1st London) Divisional RAOC (Chelsea)
(01.1938)	-	(01.1939)	Officer Commanding, No. 3 (London) Ordnance Field Park RAOC (Chelsea)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
13.02.1951	-	11.03.1955	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Green,
William
W. Green

01.08.1882
-
1947

2nd Lt.	11.08.1900
...	...
Maj.Gen.	01.03.1935

	CB	?	?
	DSO	?	?

11.08.1900			commissioned, The Black Watch
...	-	...	...
03.01.1938	-	1940	Area Commander

Green,
Sir William Wyndham
W.W. Green

15.05.1887
-
12.11.1979

2nd Lt.	18.12.1907 [690]
...	...
T/Brig.	22.04.1938-11.06.1940, 14.06.1940-06.02.1941
Maj.Gen.	07.02.1941, seniority 16.07.1938 (supernumerary 15.04.1944) (retd 04.07.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.	16.04.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.	04.07.1946

KBE 10.04.1945; CB 1942; DSO 1918; MC 1916 and bar 1917

18.12.1907			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
22.04.1938	-	11.06.1940	Commandant Military College of Science (Woolwich)
14.06.1940	-	03.03.1941	Brigadier RA, Northern Command (UK)
04.03.1941	-	07.11.1941	Deputy Governor Gibraltar
07.01.1942	-	30.09.1942	General Officer Commanding, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (Home Forces)
01.10.1942	-	?	5th Anti-Aircraft Group Commander (Home Forces)
?	-	07.03.1945	6th Anti-Aircraft Group Commander (Home Forces)
16.04.1945	-	(01.)1946	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Anti-Aircraft Command

Greenacre,
Walter Douglas Campbell
W.D.C. Greenacre

20.03.1900 Durban, South Africa
-
15.08.1978

2nd Lt.	23.06.1920, seniority 26.08.1919
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	01.04.1941-30.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.	01.07.1941-07.09.1941, 30.10.1941-25.01.1944
Lt.Col.	26.01.1944
A/Col.	15.12.1943-14.06.1944
T/Col.	15.06.1944-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	04.08.1944-12.08.1944, 17.08.1944-07.02.1945
T/Brig.	08.02.1945-(01.1946)
Brig.	01.03.1951 (retd 31.05.1952)

CB	1953	?
DSO	07.06.1945	?
MVO	1927	?
MID	10.05.1945

23.06.1920			commissioned, Welsh Guards
15.01.1936	-	30.11.1936	Staff Captain, London District (temporary)
26.10.1938	-	07.09.1939	Brigade Major, Home Forces
1941	-	1941	Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards (raised the unit)
1941	-	1943	Commanding Officer, 2nd (Armoured) Battalion Welsh Guards
1943	-	1944	Second-in-Command, 5th Guards Armoured Brigade
18.08.1944	-	02.02.1945	Commander, 6th Guards Tank Brigade (NW Europe), redesignated:
02.02.1945	-	17.06.1945	Commander, 6th Guards Armoured Brigade (NW Europe), redesignated:
17.06.1945	-	1947	Commander, 6th Guards Brigade (NW Europe)
1947	-	1948	Commander, Schleswig Holstein Sub Area, British Army of the Rhine
1948	-	1949	Commander, 128th Infantry Brigade, TA
1950	-	1952	Commander, 17th Infantry Brigade & District, Middle East Land Forces

Extra Equerry to the King, 21.07.1936-10.12.1936 & 01.03.1937--1952. Extra Equerry to the Queen, 1952-(1968).

Greenall,
Peter Michael Benson
P.M.B. Greenall (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Only son of James Benson Greenall (1890-1971), and Gwendolyn Elsie "Gwen" Jones (1888-), of Chaplin's Farm, Langham Moor, Colchester & Arlington House, London SW1.

26.04.1925
15a St Peter's Square, Hammersmith district, London W
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 19]
[Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 22.G.3]

Cadet	? [2624321]
2nd Lt.	28.01.1944 [307862]
WS/Lt.	28.07.1944

28.01.1944			commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
?	-	21.09.1944	1st Battalion Grenadier Guards [After heavy fighting around the Valkhof at Nijmegen, Lt. Greenall with some ten men stormed the Belvédère Tower at the Valkhof and managed to drive back the Germans. When the British cautiously moved towards the bridge they were surprised by a German motorcycle and sidecar that tried to escape northwards across the bridge in a desperate attempt. While passing, the passenger in the sidecar gave off a salvo with his automatic weapon, killing Lt. Greenall.]

Greenbank,
Geoffrey Francis
G.F. Greenbank (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Greenbank)

Son of Francis Greenbank (1876-1950), and Florence Mary Ayers (1882-1949).
Married (1940) Mabel Greenbank (died 1997); two sons, one daughter.
Lived at Clayton Heights, Bradford, from 1953 Wellfield, Bradford, from 1959 Speeton Avenue, Bradford.

04.10.1915
Mutford district, Suffolk
-
02.1999
Bradford, Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	20.09.1941 [207849]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	02.07.1943-(04.1944), 10.11.1944-(04.1946) (retd 01.05.1947)
Capt. TA	01.05.1947

Education: King Alfred’s College, Winchester, Hampshire.

20.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served Normandy (1944), was wounded and returned to France
			ended the war running a PoW camp of Japanese soldiers in Burma [was presented with a Japanese officer's sword]
01.05.1947			transferred, Territorial Army
22.07.1948			transferred,Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Tory candidate for Bradford South in General Election, 10.1951.

Greenfield,
Donald Eric
D.E. Greenfield

Married ((03?).1947, Bradford district, West Yorkshire) Irene J. Clough.

08.09.1914
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
01.1987
Birmingham district, West Midlands

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.05.1942 [233655]
WS/Lt.	09.11.1942 (reld 29.11.1950)
T/Capt.	27.01.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	29.11.1950

Education: University of Birmingham.
Solicitor.

(06.1940)			Dunkirk evacuation
09.05.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch [emergency commission]
			served in India

Greenway,
the Hon. Charles Paul;
3rd Baron Greenway (cr. 1927):
Baronet (cr. 1919)
C.P. Greenway

Son of 2nd Baron Greenway and Eileen (died 1963), daughter of late Maj.Gen. Sir Harry Triscott Brooking, KCB, KCSI, KCMG.
Succeeded father, 30.04.1963.
Married (1939) Cordelia Mary, daughter of late Major Humfrey Campbell Stephen, late Northumberland Fusiliers; three sons.

31.01.1917
-
14.09.1975
[London ?]

2nd Lt.	26.10.1940 [153843]
WS/Lt.	26.04.1942
T/Capt.	06.02.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	08.09.1945
T/Maj.	08.09.1945-(04.1946)

Education: Winchester; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1938; MA, 1942)

			Private, Royal Hampshire Regiment
26.10.1940			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
11.07.1944			transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps [with effect from 08.06.1943]
1942 1943 (06.1944)	-	1946	9th Parachute Battalion (wounded) Assistant Adjutant (UK) Second-in-Command, B Company (Merville, France) (India, Palestine)

Insurance Broker and Underwriter, Lloyd's, London. Citizen and Vintner Freeman of the City of London, 1938. Bailli délégué, Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs de la Grande Bretagne.

Greenwood,
Henry
H. Greenwood (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Greenwood)

Son (with one brother) of Herbert Greenwood (1886-1956), and Blanche Plucknett (1883-1965).
Married Audrey Joyce Cossens (24.09.1920 - 11.03.2009), daughter of Francis Joseph Cossens (1894-1971), and Violet May Cox (1894?-1965); two sons.

02.04.1917
Radstock, Somerset
-
20.01.1969
Kingsdon, Bridgwater district, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.10.1941 [212904]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	22.05.1943-(04.1944), 25.06.1944-(10.1944), 17.06.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946
Lt.	01.01.1952, seniority 06.11.1944
Capt.	01.01.1952, seniority 06.11.1948

18.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.01.1952	-	01.01.1957	commissioned, Royal Army Educational Corps [short service commission]
01.0.1957			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

His son Mr Christopher F.K. Greenwood, MBE, writes: "He joined the 8th Army in Egypt and served throughout the Desert Campaign. After the invasion of Italy he was appointed Adjutant of the Regiment and in December 1944 joined HQRA 10 Corps as Temporary Staff Captain. In February 1945 joined the 8th Indian Division as as A/LORA and was appointed WO in June 1945 and returned to UK with them to prepare for the invasion of Japan. He took and passed the Intelligence Course on Japanese Warfare during this period. Following on the defeat of Japan he went to Germany. In October 1945 as LORA to the 11th Armoured Division where he was responsible for security in a large zone of Schleswig Holstein. He appears to have been Acting Brigade Major for a period and directed the administration of Displaced Persons camps in the region under NOIC. Post-war he went on to Graduate in Classics at Bristol University. A subject which he taught until 1952 when he took a short term commission with the RAEC, becoming Divisional Education Officer South West. He bought a Prep School in Somerset in 1957. My mother joined the F.A.N.Y and was recruited for Special Operations Executive (SOE) and based at Grendon Underwood with the Royal Signals Regiment during WW2. She was awarded the B.E.M."

Greenwood,
James Eric
J.E. Greenwood

Married Marureen ...; one son, one daughter.

1919 ?
-
10.07.2012

2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124827]
WS/Lt.	09.09.1941 (reld 08.03.1946; disability)
T/Capt.	01.07.1942-08.03.1946
Hon. Capt.	08.03.1946

OBE

01.01.1982

New Year 82: Principal Professional and Technology Officer, Department of the Environment.

			Cadet, 40th Survey Regiment RA
09.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Grey,
John Victor Charles
J.V.C. Grey

08.05.1915
-
04.2002
Norwich district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.12.1940 [160732]
WS/Lt.	07.06.1942
T/Capt.	31.10.1942-(04.1946)

?	-	07.12.1940	either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Units
07.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			148th Regiment RAC

Grice,
James Dickenson

Son of ... Grice, and ... Perry.

18.09.1915
Dewsbury district, Yorkshire - West Riding / West Yorkshire
-
(09?).1975
Claro district, North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	18.12.1935 [66629]
Lt.	18.12.1938
A/Capt.	26.09.1941-20.10.1941, 25.01.1942-31.03.1942
T/Capt.	01.04.1942-30.06.1946
Lt.	17.01.1945, seniority 24.02.1941 06.02.1951, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	18.09.1951
Lt.Col.	04.10.1959 (retd 20.03.1962)

MBE	01.06.1953	HM's coronation: Korea
MID	20.12.1940	?
ERD	04.06.1954	-

Education: Staff College (psc)

18.12.1935			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (106th (West Riding) Army Troops Company RE (Doncaster))
24.08.1939			mobilized
(1942)			[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East)
17.01.1945			permanent commission

Grieve,
James Alexander
J.A. Grieve

1903
Glasgow, Scotland
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.02.1943 [259708]
WS/Lt.	26.08.1943 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court-Martial 05.05.1948)

26.02.1943

commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]

Griffin,
[Sir] Arthur John Stewart

Son of Arthur Wilfrid Michael Stewart Griffin and Florence May Griffin.
Married (1962) Henrietta
MontaguDouglasScott (1934-20.02.2008), daughter of Brigadier Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott and his wife Lady Victoria, daughter of Field Marshal Earl Haig; two sons.

20.02.1924
Claygate, Surrey
-
01.04.2009
Teddington, Middlesex

2nd Lt.	07.05.1944 [320191]
WS/Lt.	07.11.1944
Lt.	19.04.1947, seniority 20.08.1946
T/Capt.	05.05.1948-19.02.1951
Capt.	20.02.1951 (retd 28.02.1959; receiving a gratuity)
T/Maj.	21.12.1954-(01.1957)
Hon. Maj.	28.02.1959

KCVO	16.06.1990	HM's birthday 90
CVO	01.01.1974	New Year 74
MVO	10.06.1967	HM's birthday 67

Education: Harrow School.

11.1942	-	07.05.1944	enlisted service in the ranks for 1 year, 185 days
07.05.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured corps [emergency commission to 18.04.1947]
1944	-	1944	24th Lancers (NW Europe; wounded)
1944	-	1945	seconded, The Queen's Bays (Italy)
			ADC to General Sir Ivor Thomas, GOC Anti-Aircraft Command
19.04.1947	-	28.02.1959	permanent commission, The Queen's Bays
			served in Germany as regimental adjutant; as a staff captain at the headquarters of the 7th Armoured Division, Verden; and as the commander of C Squadron, The Queen’s Bays, in Jordan and Libya

Press Secretary to HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1956-1991.

Griffin,
John Arnold Atkinson
J.A.A. Griffin

Son of Cdr. John Griffin, RN.
Married 1st (1915) Marjorie Annie Williams (died 1968), daughter of Rev. Alan Williams; one son, one daughter
Married 2nd (1970) Astri Stanton, widow of I.R.L. Stanton.

05.10.1891
-
25.03.1972

2nd Lt.	04.03.1911 [4605]
...	...
Col.	07.04.1939, seniority 01.06.1938 (retd 04.06.1945)
A/Brig.	24.10.1939-23.04.1940
T/Brig.	24.04.1940-03.05.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	04.05.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	1944
Hon. Maj.Gen.	04.06.1945

DSO

1918

Education: Sherborne; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

04.03.1911			commissioned, Lincolnshire Regiment
...	-	...	...
1939	-	1940	Base Commandant, British Expeditionary Force (France)
1940			General Officer Commanding, Cambridge Area
			served in Hong Kong & India
1943	-	1944	Commander, 11th Indian Brigade (Italy)

Colonel, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, 1948-1958.

Griffith,
Robert Jacob
R.J. Griffith

03.09.1918
-
07.1994
Bromley district, Kent

2nd Lt.	01.06.1940 [134399]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1941
A/Capt.	25.05.1942-24.08.1942
T/Capt.	25.08.1942-15.11.1943
WS/Capt.	16.11.1943
Capt.	17.07.1946, seniority 16.11.1943
A/Maj.	16.08.1943-15.11.1943
T/Maj.	16.11.1943-15.07.1946, 12.02.1947-08.02.1950
Lt.	21.06.1947, seniority 26.08.1941
Capt.	21.06.1947, seniority 01.07.1946
T/Maj.	03.08.1950-25.02.1953
Maj.	26.02.1953
Lt.Col.	27.09.1962 (Empl. List 1) (retd 01.10.1964)

MBE	30.12.1978	New Year 79: for service at Foreign & Commonwealth Office
MC	22.04.1943	North Africa (Algeria, Tunesia) *
MC	24.08.1944	Italy **
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 1st Army
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: Staff College, Camberley (psc).

			served in the ranks for 192 days
?	-	01.06.1940	102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.06.1940			commissioned, North Irish Horse - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve [emergency commission to 16.07.1946]
17.07.1946			short service commission
21.06.1947			permanent commision, 10th Hussars

Served Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

* On 20 February [1943] part of ‘A’ Squadron were returning to take up their position at first light in the area 3247 (Tunisia, Sheet 4) when the Squadron Leader’s tank was knocked out and Major W.H. Ketchell wounded. Capt. Griffith, who had been delayed on the way owing to a broken down vehicle, arrived shortly afterwards and very coolly and competently organised the defense of this vital area. He remained in command of this area until 5th March and during this period was responsible for holding the position by day and by night. On the morning of 1 March six enemy tanks were subjected to artillery fire; one was immobilised and all abandoned by their crews. Captain Griffith went out on foot and entered one of these tanks. He brought back a German wallet containing valuable material for identification and from the information which he supplied an operation for the complete destruction of the tanks was organised and successfully carried out. During these six days Captain Griffith displayed marked powers of leadership and initiative. The position was frequently under fire and Capt. Griffith went out many times on foot to locate the enemy guns and to secure valuable information of enemy tank and infantry movements. I consider that Captain Griffith played a very valuable part in the stopping of the tank thrust on Beja. He comes from Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Recommended by Lt.Col. David Dawnay, Commanding Officer North Irish Horse, endorsed by Lt.Col. P. Scott, Acting Commander 128th Infantry Brigade, Maj.Gen. H.A. Freeman-Attwood, Commanding 46th Division, Lt.Gen. C. Allfrey, Commander 5 Corps, approved by Lt.Gen. K.A.N. Anderson, General Officer Commander-in-Chief 1st Army.
** 0600 hours 23 May 1944 – 1000 hrs 24 May 1944. Adolf Hitler Line, Italy. In the action against the Hitler Line Major Griffith’s squadron supported the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, a battalion of the 2 Canadian Infantry Brigade. 600 yards from the Start Line his squadron was held up by the obstacles and an extensive enemy minefield. Visibility was 10 yards and the squadron came under very heavy enemy shelling and mortaring which continued incessantly for 28 hours. Touch was lost with the infantry and a battle commenced with the powerful anti-tank defences. Major Griffith controlled this battle on foot despite the heavy enemy fire and besides accounting for several snipers himself, his tank destroyed two Mark V tanks (Panthers), two 75 m.m. anti-tank guns, one 88 m.m. anti-tank gun and inflicted severe casualties on the enemy infantry. Four of his Churchill tanks were destroyed in this action. As it was found impossible to by-pass the minefield and all attempts at gapping were unsuccessful, Major Griffith decided to consolidate his gains. To do this, he left the safety of his tank and for many hours on foot and under intense fire, directed the forming of a strong point. He helped considerably in the re-organization of the infantry and directed the clearance of casualties. He held this position against constant enemy actions throughout one day and one night and would only leave the area when ordered to do so during the following morning when the battle had been won. His clear appreciation of the situation, his complete disregard for his personal safety, his coolness and daring were an inspiration to all the troops in the area and there is no doubt that his action in pinning down powerful elements of the enemy defenses helped considerably in the forcing of the Hitler Line.
Recommended 28.05.1944 by Lt.Col. E.V. Strickland, Commanding Officer North Irish Horse, endorsed by Brig. J.L. Tetley, Commander 25th Army Tank Brigade, Brig. T.G. Gibson, Commander 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade, Lt.Gen. E.L.M. Burns, General Officer Commanding 1st Canadian Corps, Lt.Gen. O.W.H. Leese, General Officer Commanding Eighth Army, approved by General H.R.L.G. Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Central Mediterranean Force.

Griffiths,
Arthur Vivian
A.V. Griffiths

Married (14.05.1942, Poona, India) Sister Sarah Ann Marr, TANS (1907-1981); ... children.

06.09.1903
Llantrissant, Glamorgan
-
01.09.1983
Martock, Somersetshire

Prob. Sg.Lt. RNVR	15.11.1934?
Sg.Lt. RNVR	07.09.1936, seniority 15.11.1934
2nd Lt.	30.09.1939 [103137]
WS/Capt.	30.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Capt.	01.05.1947, seniority 30.09.1940
Maj.	27.02.1949
Hon. Maj.	06.09.1959

Education: MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1934.

14.05.1936	-	(08.1936)	HMS Guardian (netlayer)
30.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(1942)			served in India
01.05.1947	-	19.09.1951	commissioned, Territorial Army
19.09.1951	-	06.09.1959	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Had a medical practice just after the war at Abersychan, Monmouthshire. then opened another surgery in Pontypool. Factory doctor for the Bognor Regis district, Sussex, 25.07.1959. Surgeon, St John's Ambulance Brigade. Medical Officer, Shaftesbury Society. Late Casualty Surgeon Officer, Birkenhead General Hospital. Reserve Medical Officer, Municial Hospital, Birkenhead,

Griffiths,
Richard Lewis
"Dick"
R.L. Griffiths (Photo courtesy of Mr David Peter Griffiths)

Son of ... Griffiths, and ... Lewis.
Married (1952, Uruguay) Judith Vecino (1927? - ); two sons.

11.11.1915
Pontypridd, South Wales
-

2nd Lt.	21.09.1940 [149327]
WS/Lt.	21.03.1942
T/Capt.	03.06.1942-(04.1946)
Lt.	03.10.1947, seniority 21.03.1942
Capt.	06.06.1948 (reld 24.08.1949)
Hon. Capt.	24.08.1949

39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
EM	?	-

			either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.09.1940			commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	served NW Europe
03.10.1947	-	24.08.1949	commissioned, Territorial Army

Worked with the Vestys Group.

Griffiths,
Robert
"Roy"
R. Griffiths (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)

12.04.1920
-
04.05.1997
Ashstead, Mid Surrey district

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.06.1943 [287838]
WS/Lt.	13.12.1943
T/Capt.	27.07.1944-30.06.1946
WS/Capt.	01.07.1946
T/Maj.	01.07.1946-(04.1947)
Capt.	01.10.1946, seniority 01.07.1946
Hon. Maj.	01.10.1953

MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
MID	?	?
EM	22.07.1952	-

			served in the ranks (North Africa)
13.06.1943			commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
07.1943	-	10.1946	9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (Sicily, then temporarily liaison officer with naval HQ Messina for the attack on the toe of Italy, then UK, NW Europe) (Officer Commanding 'D' Company during Operation Blackcock)
01.10.1946			short service commission
			Staff Officer at HQ NAQ [participating in the War Crimes Court at Bad Lippspringe and acting as mandatory witness at Hameln Prison]
			member of the Inter-Services Team for the Empire Press Tour (Normany to the Baltic)
			Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, HQ Army Air Transport Organisation (Wunsdorf) [Berlin air lift]
			Staff Officer, HQ 21 Army Group (Bad Oeynhausen)
01.10.1953			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Grimble,
Rudolf
"Rolf"
R. Grimble

Younger son of the late A.R. Grimble, of Beckenham, Kent, and Mrs J. Grimble, of Surbiton, Surrey.
Married ((06?).1945, Westminster district, London) Janet Eleanor Easton, daughter of Mr & Mrs George W. Easton, of Bo'ness, West Lothian..

13.04.1914
-
11.1985
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

Sub-Conductor	?
2nd Lt.	06.04.1940 [126536]
WS/Lt.	14.04.1941
T/Capt.	14.04.1941-07.01.1942
WS/Capt.	08.01.1942
T/Maj.	08.01.1942-10.05.1944
WS/Maj.	11.05.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	11.05.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946
Maj.	23.01.1951, seniority 23.04.1948
Lt.Col.	13.04.1952

MBE	18.10.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
MID	30.12.1941	Middle East
MID	23.03.1944	Sicily
EM	12.08.1949	-
ERD	10.09.1954	-

?	-	06.04.1940	Royal Army Ordnance Corps (No. 2 Officer Cadet Training Wing)
06.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
23.01.1951			commissioned, Supplementary Reserve of Officers

Accountant.

Grimley,
Leslie Herbert
L.H. Grimley

Son of Henry Grimley, and Georgina Alice Grimley.

06.10.1903
Camberwell, Southwark district, London
-
1980
Canberra, Australia

2nd Lt.	27.01.1941 [175633]
WS/Lt.	27.01.1941
T/Capt.	30.12.1942
WS/Capt.	07.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

27.01.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (Transportation Section) [emergency commission]
22.07.1941			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps
(04.1946)			Unemployed List

Groome,
Cyril Arthur
C.A. Groome

Son of William Henry Groome, and Clara Elizabeth Lester.
Married ((12?).1936, Paddington district, London) Eileen L. O'Brien ((06.).1917 -), daughter of ... O'Brien, and ... Mills.

17.08.1914
West Ham district, London
-
02.2005
Mendip district, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.06.1942 [235374]
WS/Lt.	06.12.1942 (reld 02.1946)

1939			enlisted service
06.06.1942			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission]
			known to have served in the The East Lancashire Regiment, Royal Engineers and Intelligence Corps (both at Medmenham with Central Interpretation Unit and Camouflage development and Training Centre at Farnham Castle); demobilized from Cairo/Alexandria, Egypt

Groundsell,
Leo Douglas
L.D. Groundsell

Married ((12?).1935, Northampton & Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire) Lilian R. Poole.

(12?).1910
Wisbech district, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk
-
1973
Surrey

Wt.Offr. Class II	?
2nd Lt.	08.08.1941 [199135]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	02.10.1942
Capt.	01.07.1949, seniority 02.10.1942 (Empl.List 4)
T/Maj.	08.09.1945-(04.1947)
Maj.	08.08.1954 (reld 01.07.1961)
Hon. Maj.	01.07.1961

LSGCM

02.03.1948

08.08.1941			commissioned, The Northamptonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
1941?	-	1945?	2nd Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment
01.07.1949			short service commission

Groundwater,
Ivor Sinclair
I.S. Groundwater

20.06.1917
-

Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.)	19.05.1942 [231966]
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.)	01.10.1942, seniority 19.05.1942 (reld 22.11.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	22.11.1946

Education: DRC Glas; MIMechE, AMIMktgSM.

19.05.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
			served with 5th Indian Division

With Courtaulds Ltd; Imperial Chemicals Ltd; Hall Thermotank Ltd. Director & Manager, The Thermal Engineering Division, Johnson & FIetcher Ltd, 1961.
Published: Solar radiation in air conditioning (1967).

Gubbins,
[Sir] Colin McVean
C.McV. Gubbins

Younger son and third child of John Harington Gubbins, CMG (1852-1929), Oriental Secretary at the British Legation, and Helen Brodie McVean (1869-1922).
Married 1st (22.10.1919, Bedford district, Bedfordshire; divorced 1944) Norah Creina Somerville Warren (02.08.1895 - 23.01.1975), second daughter of Sg.Cdr. Philip Somerville Warren (1845-1909); two sons (Capt. John Michael McVean Gubbins was killed in action in Italy 1944).
Married 2nd (25.09.1950, Kensington district, London) Anna Elise "Tulla" Jensen (15.01.1915 - 18.08.2007), widow of Lt. Rolf Thorbjørn Tradin (28.04.1913 - 30.05.1943), Royal Norwegian Air Force, Oslo, and daughter of Hans Didrik Jensen of Tromsø, Norway. .

02.07.1896
Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
-
11.02.1976
Stornoway, Hebrides

2nd Lt.	16.09.1914 [14618]
Lt.	09.06.1915
A/Capt.	26.08.1916-31.10.1917
A/Maj.	01.11.1917-27.12.1917
A/Capt.	02.01.1918-11.02.1918
Capt.	12.02.1918 (regimental seniority 03.11.1917)
Bt. Maj.	01.07.1933
Maj.	24.02.1934
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1938
WS/Lt.Col.	20.10.1940
Lt.Col.	01.10.1941
A/Col.	20.04.1940-19.10.1940
T/Col.	20.10.1940-04.12.1941
Col.	05.12.1941, seniority 01.07.1941 (retd 27.04.1946)
A/Brig.	25.05.1940-16.06.1940, 18.11.1940-25.04.1941
T/Brig.	26.04.1941-20.12.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	21.12.1942-20.12.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	21.12.1943-26.04.1946
Hon. Maj.Gen.	27.04.1946

KCMG	01.01.1946	New Year 46
CMG	01.01.1944	New Year 44
DSO	06.08.1940	Norway
MC	22.09.1916	*
MID	31.01.1941	?
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Officier Légion d'Honneur (France); Grand Officier Order of Leopold (Belgium); Croix de Guerre (Belgium); Order of Dannebrog, 1st cl. (Denmark); Commander, Royal Order of St Olav, with star (Norway; 26.02.1954); Grand Officer Order of Orange Nassau (the Netherlands); Polonia Restituta (Poland); Commander Legion of Merit (USA; 14.05.1948). Comdr Order of White Lion.

* For conspicuous gallantry. When one of his guns and its detachment were blown up by a heavy shell, he organised a rescue party and personally helped to dig out the wounded while shells were falling all round.

Education: Normanton Grammar School, Yorkshire; Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc).

1914			joined Royal Field Artillery
09.11.1914	-	17.04.1918	served in France & Belgium (wounded)
22.03.1919	-	05.10.1919	Aide-de-Camp to General Officer Commanding, Archangel Force, Russia
28.11.1921	-	20.01.1922	Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Irish Command (temporarily)
28.02.1922	-	30.09.1922	Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Irish Command (temporarily)
14.01.1925	-	13.08.1925	Adjutant, ...
21.04.1926	-	15.02.1928	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Army Headquarters, India
1928	-	1929	Staff College
01.02.1931	-	07.04.1933	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
08.04.1933	-	31.01.1935	Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Eastern Command
1939	-	1945	World War II in France, Norway, North Africa, Italy and Far East
01.10.1935	-	19.04.1940	General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office (Military Intelligence Department, examining methods of guerrilla warfare 1939)
1939			Chief of Staff, Maj.Gen. Adrian Carton de Wiart's abortive military mission to Poland
1939	-	1940	Head of Military Intelligence mission to Poles and Czechs in Paris, France
20.04.1940	-	24.05.1940	Commander, Independent Companies (NW Expeditionary Force), Norway (DSO)
25.05.1940	-	16.06.1940	acting Commander, 24th Infantry Brigade (Guards) (Norway)
1940	-	1940	raised and commanded Auxiliary Units for special duties under General Headquarters, Home Forces
1940	-	1946	Director of Operations and Training, Special Operations Executive (Executive Head of Special Operations Executive 1943) (KCMG & CMG)
27.04.1946	-	02.07.1954	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Managing director of a large firm of carpet and textile manufacturers (Gray's Carpets & Textiles). Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Islands Area of the Western Isles, 29.12.1975.
Published: (joint author) The fourth dimension of warfare (1968).
Literature: Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley, Gubbins and SOE (1993).

Gubbins,
John Michael McVean
J.M.McV. Gubbins

Son of Maj.Gen. Sir Colin McVean Gubbins, KCMG, DSO, MC, and Lady Gubbins (Norah Creina Somerville Warren), of Mayfair, London.

11.07.1921
St Marylebone district, London
-
06.02.1944
[age 22]
[Cassino Memorial Italy, panel 11]

2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [172404]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942
T/Capt.	24.11.1942-06.02.1944

Education: Cheltenham College.

?	-	15.02.1941	either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]
1941			served Special Operations Executive (SOE) (Instructor at Arisaig)
?	-	06.02.1944	5th Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Guest,
Reginald Edwin
"Freddie"

Son of John Guest, and Josephine H. Guest.

(03?).1896
Highbury, Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
(12?).1962
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

Pte.	? [740082]
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.08.1918 [80433]
Lt.	19.02.1920 (reld 30.09.1921)
Lt. RARO	06.12.1931, seniority 23.02.1930 (reld 02.08.1946)
T/Capt. RARO	10.01.1941-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	02.08.1946

	VM	-	-
	BWM 14\|20	-	-

Temporary Assistant Postman, 1913.

			served in the ranks, 25th Battalion London Regiment
			served with 8th Cavalry Regiment - Indian Army (North West Frontier, India from 03.1917)
?	-	19.08.1918	Officer Cadet Unit
19.08.1918			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - Territorial Army
?	-	30.09.1921	9th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - Territorial Army
06.12.1931	-	02.08.1946	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
?	-	12.1941	attached to Royal Artillery on HQ Staff, Hong Kong (escaped)
			instructor, Officer Cadet School, Bangalore

Published: Escape from the bloodied sun (1956); Indian cavalryman : reminiscences (1959); Fifteen : the advanced game of contract bridge (1960)

Guest,
William
W. Guest (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Lowther)

20.10.1903
Hemsworth
-
09.06.1991
Wakefield

2nd Lt.	20.06.1940 [135720]
WS/Lt.	12.08.1941
T/Capt.	12.08.1941-(1946)
WS/Capt.	1946? (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
Capt.	01.05.1947, seniority 29.03.1946
Maj.	01.10.1947 (retd 23.04.1954)
Hon. Maj.	23.04.1954
Lt. (A/Maj.)	07.07.1954 (reld 01.05.1979)
Hon. Maj.	01.05.1979

MBE	01.01.1971	New Year 71: County Sports Officer, West Riding ACF 54-70 *
TD	31.03.1953	-
CFM	30.05.1967	-
CFM	29.05.1979	1st clasp

20.06.1940			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
			served with 1st Army (North Africa & Italy)
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE) (Middle East & Far East)
01.05.1947			commissioned, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
07.07.1954	-	01.05.1979	commissioned, Army Cadet Force (York (West Riding)) (MBE) [exceeded age limit]

Rugby player & manufacturing confectioners agent.

* Major Guest joined the Gordon Highlanders early in the war, was commissioned and served with 1st Army in North Africa and Italy, then with SOE Forces in the Middle and Far East. When the Territorial Army was reformed after the war he joined the 4^th Bn KOYLI (TA). He was serving as a Company Commander in 1954 when he was asked by the West Riding ACF County Commandant (his old TA Commanding Officer) to become his Sports Officer. At that time interest in sport in the West Riding was rather desultory. Although a busy man in his civilian occupation, and with not much knowledge of any sport other than Rugger (he had played full back for Yorkshire) Major Guest quickly settled down to organising sport in the County. The strength of the County is about 1800 Cadets, the biggest in the UK with 81 Detachments, equivalent to about 4 normal sized Counties. The sports in which the County participates are Athletics, Cross Country, Swimming, Boxing, Pentathlon and Soccer. Working almost every weekend in the year (his only free time) he is either at home drawing up programmes, working out transport arrangements, checking ages, and in fact planning all the background organisation of each event, or he is away in all weathers with the County teams at County, Command and National events. These events in themselves take up 15 weekends in the year. He has mastered the intricacies of the regulations for all Sports and, in addition to organising the County events, as West Riding is central in Northern Command he has had a very considerable hand in organising and running Command events, and three National events which require much planning and organisation. He has never missed a fortnight’s Annual Camp, where, in addition to his Sporting activities, he gives considerable and valuable assistance on the military training side. Now, aged about 65, he is as tireless in his work for ACF Sport as he was 16 years ago. It may seem that the job of Sports Officer is a part-time one. In a County of this size to achieve the results he has it is a full-time task. Major Guest has certainly given loyal and efficient service beyond the usual call of ACF duty.

Gundry,
Gerald Ashton
G.A. Gundry (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Cundick)

16.08.1911
Dorchester district, Dorset
-
12.1990
Chippenham district, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	24.10.1931 [52854]
Lt.	01.09.1936 (reld 11.04.1938)
WS/Capt.	15.11.1940
WS/Maj.	15.08.1944
A/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Maj.	?
Maj.	01.01.1949

DSO (19.04.1945, Italy)

Education: Eton.

24.10.1931			commissioned, 10th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
03.08.1932	-	11.04.1938	16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
11.04.1938	-	10.03.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
06.01.1942			North Irish Horse (from 12.01.1942 Officer Commanding, "C" Squadron)
1944?	-	1944?	Commanding Officer, 16th/5th Lancers (Italy) (DSO)

Gunner,
Harry
H. Gunner

02.11.1900
-
05.1986
Surrey South Western district

Lt. QM	12.12.1944, seniority 03.10.1944 [336283]
Capt. QM	14.09.1946, seniority 06.07.1946
Maj. QM	14.09.1952 (retd 02.11.1955; age)

			served in the ranks for 13 years, 132 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 3 years, 134 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 1 for 7 years, 296 days
12.12.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps

Gurney,
Jocelyn Eustace
J.E. Gurney

Second son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Sir Eustace Gurney (1876-1927), of Sprowston Hall and Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, and Ann Agatha Lee-Warner (1882-1966).
Married 1st (16.04.1941; divorced 1948), Lady Katherine Mary Veronica Paget (08.10.1922 - ), 5th (twin) daughter of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, GCVO, DL (1885-1947), and Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners (1883-1946); one daughter. Katherine Gurney remarried (1949) Maj. Charles Farrell.
Married 2nd (26.05.1949) Susan Esterel Elwes (23.04.1915 - ), widow of Capt. Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright, RA, and eldest daughter of Robert Hamond Arthur Elwes, JP (1887-1955), and Esterel Edith Philippa Louise Tillard (?-1925), of Congham Hall, Norfolk; three daughters.

24.02.1910
Belgravia, London
-
22.05.1973
Tacolneston Hall, Norwich, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	29.08.1931, seniority 30.01.1930 [50088]
Lt.	30.01.1933
Capt.	21.01.1938
A/Maj.	25.05.1940-24.08.1940
T/Maj.	25.08.1940-07.09.1944
WS/Maj.	08.09.1944
Maj.	01.07.1946 (half-pay 24.01.1947; disability) (retd 04.10.1947; disability)
T/Lt.Col.	08.09.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	04.10.1947

DSO	28.06.1945	Italy [citation available upon request]
MC	05.07.1940	BEF France 39-40 [citation available upon request]
MC	22.10.1940	BEF France 39-40 [citation available upon request]

Education: Eton College; New College, Oxford (MA).

			General List - Territorial Army
29.08.1931			commissioned, Welsh Guards
20.12.1936	-	12.09.1938	Adjutant, Guards Depot
17.09.1938	-	24.05.1940	Adjutant, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (BEF, France)
24.05.1940	-	?	Company Commander, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (BEF, France) (MC & Bar)
06.1944	-	12.04.1945	Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards (Italy) (DSO)
1945?	-	(04.1946)	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Plans, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
02.03.1955	-	26.07.1955	Lieutenant, Norfolk Army Cadet Force

Of Tacolneston Hall, Norfolk; farmed at Tacolneston Hall and Sprowston Hall, Norfolk; Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Norfolk 02.07.1971; County Councillor, Norfolk and Chairman Depwade Rural District Council.

Gurrey,
Donald Boswell
D.B. Gurrey

15.12.1919
Epsom district, Surrey
-
10.2005
East Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [162161]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942
T/Capt.	25.03.1943
WS/Capt.	13.08.1943
T/Maj.	13.08.1943
Lt. RARO	01.01.1949
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

OBE

03.06.1972

HM's birthday 72

			[121st or 133rd] Officer Cadet Traning Unit
28.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served as a gunnery officer in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy
(1943)	-	(1945)	specially employed; served as a counter-intelligence officer in Italy and was involved in the negotiations when the Germans surrendered
1946	-	1949	served in Germany
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Served post-war with the Foreign (& Commonwealth) Office (France, 1949-1950; Poland 1954-1957; Singapore, 1957-1959; Dominican Republic, 1960-1962). Retired 1970s.
Published: Across the lines : an account of Axis intelligence and sabotage in Italy 1943-45 (1994)

Guy,
Frederick William Ernest

Married ((09?).1953, Totnes district, Devon) Lucy R. Adams.

(09?).1903
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
(06?).1966
Totnes district, Devonshire

2nd Lt.	03.04.1943 [269146]
WS/Lt.	03.10.1943 (reld 28.07.1947; disability)
Hon. Lt.	28.07.1947

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]

Gwinnett,
the Reverend John
J. Gwinnett

Son of John Gwinnett.
From Cheltenham.
Married (06.04.1948) Lady Doreen Stella Lowry-Corry (29.07.1916 - 15.07.2002), daughter of Maj. Adrian Lowry-Corry and Geraldine Hartcup; one son.

09.01.1916
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
-
(03?).1977
Northampton district, Northamptonshire

Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (ranking as Capt.)	28.11.1942 [248389]
A/Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (ranking as Maj.)	24.09.1945-23.12.1945
T/Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (ranking as Maj.)	24.12.1945-21.01.1947 (Unemployed List 03.01.1947-30.06.1952)
Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (ranking as Capt.)	29.03.1955, seniority 20.05.1953
Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (ranking as Maj.)	01.04.1961 (retd 09.01.1970)

11.10.1945

NW Europe

Education: BA

28.11.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission to 02.01.1947]
(1944)	-	(1945)	padre, 9th (Home Counties) Parachute Battalion
01.07.1952	-	28.03.1955	short service commission
29.03.1955	-	09.01.1970	permanent commission

Gwynn,
Sir Charles William
C.W. Gwynn

3rd son of Rev. John Gwynn, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity, Trinity College, Dublin, and Lucy Josephine, daughter of William Smith O'Brien, Cahirmoyle, Co. Limerick. Married (1904) Mary (died 1951), widow of Lieut. Lowry Armstrong, RN.

04.02.1870
Ramelton, County Donegal
-
12.02.1963

2nd Lt.	15.02.1889
Lt.	1891
Capt.	15.02.1900
Bt. Maj.	16.02.1900
Maj.	01.10.1908
T/Lt.Col.	20.01.1911-1914(?), 21.07.1915-09.12.1915
Bt. Lt.Col.	03.06.1916
Bt. Col.	01.01.1917
Col.	18.04.1920 (half-pay 18.04.1924)
T/Brig.Gen.	10.12.1915-20.09.1919, ?-01.01.1921
Maj.Gen.	01.01.1925 (retd 08.01.1931)

KCB	03.06.1931	?
CB	1918	?
CMG	09.11.1903	for services in demarcation of SudanAbyssinian Frontier
DSO	1894	Sofa Expedition
MID	1894?	Sofa Expedition
MID	WW I	?
LegH	11.03.1919	WW I
CdeG	15.04.1918	WW I

RGS Peake Fund Medal, 1909.

Education: St Columba's College, Rathfarnham, Dublin; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley

1889			commissioned, Royal Engineers
1893	-	1894	Sofa expedition, Sierra Leone (W Africa; wounded; despatches, DSO, Bt. Maj.)
1899	-	1901	demarcation survey of Sudan-Abyssinian frontier
?	-	27.06.1901	Staff Captain, Headquarters
20.01.1911	-	1914	Director Military Art, Royal Military College Duntroon, Australia (as General Staff Odficer, 2nd grade (GSO2))
1914	-	1918	served European War (despatches; Bt. Lt.Col. & Bt. Col., CB, Croix de Guerre):
24.01.1915	-	03.07.1915	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 57th Division, 'C' Force, Home Defence
21.07.1915	-	10.12.1915	2nd Australian Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1))
10.12.1915	-	29.02.1916	Commander, 6 Australian Infantry Brigade
29.02.1916	-	1919	Brigadier-General, General Staff, 1 Australian and New Zealand Corps, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and British Armies in France
18.03.1919	-	20.09.1919	Commander, ... Brigade
18.11.1919	-	1920	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 1st Division, Aldershot Command
1920	-	01.01.1921	Brigadier-General, General Staff, Eastern Command
01.01.1921	-	18.04.1924	temporary Colonel on the Staff
03.01.1923	-	01.01.1925	ADC to the King
01.05.1926	-	08.01.1931	Commandant Staff College, Camberley
08.01.1931	-	04.02.1937	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
1939	-	1945	journalist, military critic & publicist

Published: Imperial policing (1934); joint editor with Sir John Alexander Hammerton, The second Great War : a standard history (1939-1946)

Gwynne,
John Nevile Wake
J.N.W. Gwynne

Son (with three sisters) of Nevile Gwyn Gwynne, CBE (1868-1951), and Isabel Violet Wake, of Deans, Piddinghoe, Sussex.
Married (07.01.1941, Chelsea Old Church, London; marriage dissolved 1956 [she remarried (1968) Henry Barclay]) Patricia Louisa Morrison-Bell (1919-1994), second daughter (with one sister) of Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell (1871-1956), 1st Bt., and Lilah Katharine Julia Wingfield (1888-1981); one son, one daughter.
Lived at Knights Mill, Quenington, Fairford, Gloucestershire.

20.06.1905
Broxbourn, Hertfordshire
-
19.02.1981
Quenington, Fairford, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	? [37916]
Lt.	11.03.1930
A/Capt.	13.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	01.07.1942
Capt.	01.01.1949
T/Maj.	01.07.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	11.04.1956

Education: Outward Bound school; Eton; Christ Church College, Oxford (BA).
Solicitor.

			late Officer Cadet, Oxford University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
11.03.1927			commissioned, 98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
17.06.1933	-	11.04.1956	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
13.07.1940	-	(04.1941)	special appointment
1939	-	1945	served in France [wounded], then worked in forming & training units in operations behind enemy lines, then joined Special Operations Executive (SOE) & served in Greece, then Officer in Charge of Religious Affairs on the Control Commission of Germany

Gwyther,
Robert Wilton
R.W. Gwyther

Only son of Henry Wilton Gwyther (1879-1954), dental surgeon, and Ruth C. Harris (1881-1956), of Cricklewood, London.
Married 1st (10.09.1938, Holy Trinity Church, Cliftonville, Thanet district, Kent) Denise Eve Dixon, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Murton Dixon, of Cliftonville, Kent.
Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Westminster district, London) Maria J.S. Phillips; ... children (one son?).

19.07.1911
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
09.09.1962
Plympton St Maurice, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138689]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1942
T/Capt.	02.12.1942-06.04.1944
WS/Capt.	07.04.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	07.04.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Education: Aldenham School (09.1926-12.1929; Paull's House; Scholar; Cricket XI 1928-29; Football XI 1927-29).
Solicitor. With Messrs. Corner & Co., London.

?	-	04.07.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			served in Abyssinia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Cyrenaica Tripolitania
?	-	09.1943	12th Division S.D.F. [= deception title given to the 1st Sudan Defence Force Brigade]
09.1943	-	09.1944	served Special Operations Executive (SOE): MO 4 (General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, Cairo) [= SOE Middle East Branch], initially B1 Section, then Force 133, then Advanced Force 133

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