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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Jackson, D.R.
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Judges, R.P.

D.R. Jackson to R.P. Judges

Jackson,
Derek Raymond
D.R. Jackson

21.03.1908
Hendon district,
London
-
04.1991
Aylesbury Vale
district,
Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.10.1940 [155249]
WS/Lt.	30.05.1942 (reld < 01.1946)
T/Capt.	24.05.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	< 01.1946

?	-	30.10.1940	either 122nd, 123rd or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Jackson,
Frederick Bleasdale
F.B. Jackson

Son of Frederick and Janet Jackson.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

04.05.1907
Manchester, Prestwich district, Lancashire
-

2nd Lt.	01.02.1942 [224924]
WS/Lt.	15.07.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	15.07.1942-(01.1946)

Took up a post in Calcutta, heading an Indian office for his engineering company.

			Officers' Training College, Quetta
01.02.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Jackson,
George Graham
G.G. Jackson

13.09.1892
Eastbourne district, Sussex
-

2nd Lt.	14.02.1915
T/Lt.	?
Capt.	28.03.1917, seniority 03.01.1917 (reld 30.09.1921)
Lt.	30.07.1940 [128904]
WS/Capt.	11.12.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
A/Maj.	11.09.1943-10.12.1943
T/Maj.	11.12.1943-(07.1944)
Hon. Maj.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

14.02.1915			commissioned, 7th (City of London) Battalion The London Regiment - Territorial Force
10.12.1918	-	17.04.1919	special appointment (Class GG)
30.10.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

Jackson,
William Martin
W.M. Jackson (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

From Fortview, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.

(06?).1918
Coleraine
-

2nd Lt.	01.04.1939 [89643]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
WS/Capt.	01.06.1943
T/Maj.	01.06.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Maj.	?
A/Lt.Col.	< 04.1946
Maj. RARO	21.05.1949, seniority 01.04.1949
Hon. Lt.Col.	21.05.1949

MBE	25.11.1943	Middle East * [citation available upon request]
MC	20.01.1942	Middle East ** [citation available upon request]
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Education: junior staff course (jsc).

			late Cadet Corporal, Sedburgh School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
01.04.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve
24.08.1939			mobilized
?	-	?	Z Troop, 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (MC)
(1943)			HQ 30 Corps (MBE)
?	-	21.05.1949	Supplementary Reserve of Officers
21.05.1949	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

* Recommendation for the appointment as Member of the Order of the British Empire of Maj. W.M. Jackson: Major Jackson has, for the past six months, been responsible for equipping this Corps with arms and vehicles and for the very complex moves of transporter columns. Both problems presented great and constantly recurring difficulties. It has been entirely due to Major Jackson's unswerving determination that the many problems have been successfully dealt with. The hours of work be has put in have been prodigious and are the more remarkable because of the cramped and noisy conditions under which he has worked. I value Major Jackson's efforts very highly and consider he played a most important part in the maintenance of the Corps as an efficient fighting machine during the advance to Sfax and beyond.
[Recommended 13.07.1943 by Lt.Gen. Sir O.W.H. Leese Bt, commanding 30 Corps.]
** Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to Lt. W.M. Jackson: Between the 21st and 25th Nov. 1941, the 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery was an example to the Column advancing on Jialo for cool courage and discipline. On the 25th November Lieut. Jackson who was escorting a small detached column of the force, seeing the infantry and armoured cars come under concealed and very heavy 2 pounder fire from the enemy entrenched in Jekhera, on his own initiative pushed his anti-aircraft gun forward and knocked out the enemy gun. I have no doubt that but for his gallant and spirited action the attack of the infantry and armoured cars would have failed or would have suffered very severe casualties. His coolness and presence of mind were of a very high order.
[Recommended 03.12.1941 by Brig. D.W. Reid, commanding 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, approved 07.12.1941 by Lt.Gen. N.M. Ritchie, commanding 8th Army, and 08.12.1941 by Gen. C.J.E. Auchinleck, commanding Middle East Forces.]

Jacob,
Sir Claud William
C.W. Jacob

21.11.1863
Mehidpore, Bombay, India
-
02.06.1948
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London

...	...
Field Marshal	30.11.1926

GCB (1926); GCSI (1930); KCB (1917); KCSI (1924); KCMG (1919); CB (1915)

...	-	...	...
			no active WW II service known, but carried on in the Army List

Constable Tower of London, 19.02.1938-18.03.1943. Colonel, 2/10 Baluchstan Regiment, 14.12.1928.

Jacobs,
Carlo Lionel
C.L. Jacobs

Son of ... Jacobs, and ... Grusmark.

(06?).1921
Willesden district, Middlesex
-

2nd Lt.	14.06.1941 [190793]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	13.10.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	19.06.1945-(04.1946)

14.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	Adjutant, 18th Medium Regiment RA

Jacobs,
Julius
J. Jacobs

?
-

Lt.	09.01.1943 [257887]
WS/Capt.	09.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	01.10.1945

Education: MB.

09.01.1943

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Jacobs,
Robert Thomas Edward
R.T.E. Jacobs

Son of William George Jacobs, and Mary Lizzie Graveson.

(06?).1916
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
10.02.1945
(KIA) [age 28]
[Venray War Cemetery, Netherlands, II.D.10]

Cadet	? [14612314]
2nd Lt.	15.07.1944 [324297]
WS/Lt.	?

Served Metropolitan Police (London).

15.07.1944			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	10.02.1945	attached 4/5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers

James,
Eric Bramwell
E.B. James

08.06.1914
St Pancras district, Greater London / London
-
03.1990
Southwark district, London

2nd Lt.	01.03.1941 [174919]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1942
T/Capt.	19.04.1944-(04.1946)
Lt. TA	01.05.1947, seniority 01.09.1942
Capt. TA	09.05.1947

01.03.1941			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
01.05.1947	-	03.07.1951	Territorial Army
03.07.1951	-	08.06.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

James,
Frederic Gordon *
F.G. James

Son of ... James, and ... Shaw.
* In London Gazette shown as: Frederick Gordon.

27.04.1912
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
30.11.2003
Rochester, Medway district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156239]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942
T/Capt.	22.11.1942-30.11.1944
WS/Capt.	01.12.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	012.12.1944-(01.1946)

	MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
	EM	01.04.1949	-

?	-	02.11.1940	either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
			5th Battalion The King's Regiment

James,
Henry Herbert Humphrey
"Jimmy"
H.H.H. James

Son of ... James, and ... Humphreys.
Married ((06?).1939, Lambeth district, London) Gladys E. Ashley.
Married 2nd ((09?).1947, Lambeth district, London) Zena E. Cursetjee; one daughter, one son.

10.05.1915
Lambeth district, London
-
02.07.2011
Woking, Surrey

2nd Lt.	19.12.1942 [256431]
WS/Lt.	?
A/Capt.	31.05.1945-30.08.1945
T/Capt.	31.08.1945-05.05.1946
WS/Capt.	06.05.1946
A/Maj.	06.02.1946-05.05.1946
T/Maj.	06.05.1946-16.09.1947
Lt.	22.04.1947, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt.	22.02.1947, seniority 10.05.1946
T/Maj.	07.12.1949-31.05.1950
Maj.	10.05.1951 (retd 07.02.1958)

			served in the ranks for 2 years, 182 days
19.12.1942			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission to 21.02.1947]
			1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment (03.09.1944 wounded in France [battle accident; leg injury due to mortar fire]
22.04.1947			permanent commission
18.12.1953	-	(02.1957)	specially employed, Military Forces of Malaya

Freeman of the City of London.

James,
Manley Angell
M.A. James

Son of Dr John Angell James and Emily Cormell James.
Married (1928) Noreen Cooper, Bristol; one son.

12.07.1896
Odiham, Hampshire
-
23.09.1975
Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
[cremated at Canford Cemetery]

T/2nd Lt.	01.12.1914-27.06.1915 [9531]
T/Lt.	28.06.1915-21.02.1917
T/Capt.	22.02.1917-10.12.1920 (demobilized 28.10.1919)
Lt.	11.12.1920, seniority 01.07.1917
Capt.	27.05.1925
Maj.	25.12.1936
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1938
Lt.Col.	10.01.1939
A/Col.	22.03.1940-21.09.1940
T/Col.	22.09.1940-11.12.1941
Col.	12.12.1941, seniority 01.07.1941
A/Brig.	19.07.1940-18.01.1941
T/Brig.	19.01.1941-06.07.1944, 27.07.1944-30.06.1948
Brig.	01.07.1948 (retd 01.03.1951)

VC	28.06.1918	Velu Wood, Northern France 21.03.18
DSO	05.08.1943	Beja, Tunisia
MBE	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58
MC	14.09.1917	Messines Ridge
MID	22.05.1917	?

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star & Clasp (8th Army); Italy Star; Defence Medal 39-45; War Medal 39-45; King George VI Coronation Medal (1937); Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953); Civil Defence Long Service Medal

Education: Bristol Grammar School; Staff College, Camberley (1931-1932)

1915	-	1918	served with the 8th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment in France & Belgium [07.1915-03.07.1916 & 01.1917-23.03.1918]; wounded three times; missing in action, POW in Poland
11.12.1920			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment
11.12.1920			permanent commission
12.12.1925	-	14.12.1928	Adjutant, ...
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (Catterick)
21.11.1934	-	08.12.1936	General Staff Officer for Weapon Trainng (Class CC), Aldershot Command
09.12.1936	-	09.01.1939	Brigade Major, 13th Infantry Brigade, Northern Command (Catterick Camp)
10.01.1939			transferred, The Royal Sussex Regiment
10.01.1939	-	21.03.1940	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment
22.03.1940	-	17.07.1940	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 54th Infantry Division
19.07.1940	-	18.02.1941	Brigadier General Staff, VIII Corps
20.02.1941	-	20.09.1943	Commander, 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade (UK, North Africa, Italy) [except for 21.5-10.6.1943] (wounded)
1943	-	1944	Brigadier Infantry, Middle East
1944	-	1945	Brigadier General Staff (Training), Home Forces
24.07.1945	-	10.1945	Commander, 140th Infantry Brigade (UK)
1945	-	1948	CRO Air HQ British Air Forces Occupation (Germany)
1948	-	1950	Director of Ground Defence at the Air Ministry

Played for Clifton Football Club. Employed as Works Defence Officer, Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1951-1961. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Gloucestershire 1957. DL, Avon, 1974. AFICD.

James,
Peter Godfrey
P.G. James

Son of ... James. and ... Thomas.
Married ((12?).1948, Tonbridge district, Kent) Renée A.S. Van Loo (died 1999); one daughter, one son.

04.09.1919
St Pancras district, London
-
22.06.2002
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.08.1941 [200886]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A?/Capt.?	?
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

09.08.1941			commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
			attached, Indian Army (Burma)

James,
Stuart Thomas
S.T. James (Photo courtesy of Mrs Fenella Dobson)

Married (24.08.1937, Worthing, Sussex) Sylvia B. Greene (03.04.1914 - 01.12.2010), daughter of a tea planter from Darjeeling, India; two daughters, one son.

18.11.1898
Newbury district, Berkshire
-
01.07.1972
Sussex

T/2nd Lt.	26.04.1917-25.10.1918 [20572]
T/Lt.	26.10.1918-19.03.1920 (reld 20.03.1920)
2nd Lt.	14.07.1921, seniority 26.03.1918
Lt.	14.07.1921, seniority 26.09.1919
Capt.	02.06.1931
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 02.08.1948)
A/Lt.Col.	10.01.1941-09.04.1941
T/Lt.Col.	10.04.1941-02.08.1948
A/Brig.	06.03.1946
Hon. Lt.Col.	02.08.1948

DSO	22.10.1940	BEF * [citation available upon request]
MBE	11.05.1937	HM's coronation: Palestine
MID	23.07.1937	Palestine

British War Medal; Victory Medal; Syrian Order of Merit (11.04.1946)

22.02.1913	-	24.09.1915	served Territorial Army
24.09.1915	-	25.04.1917	served in the ranks; mobilized Territorial Force, for 1 year, 214 days
19.06.1917	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium
14.07.1921			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment
08.11.1930	-	07.11.1934	Adjutant, Auxiliary Force, India
(09.1935)	-	(10.1935)	1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (Catterick Camp)
08.06.1936	-	07.06.1939	Staff Captain, 16th Infantry Brigade (Palestine and Trans-Jordan) (temporarily)
(1939)	-	(1940)	1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (BEF, France) (DSO)

* Recommendation for the award of the Distinguished Service Order to Maj. S.J. James: Major James commanded "D" Company throughout the period 18 May to 2nd June 1940. Major James at Tournai held the important bridge at the South end of the town for 3 days. So skilfully were his sections posted and so vigilant were his men that I never had a moment's anxiety about this part of the line. No German was allowed to appear in sight of this bridge & live. A German staff car with 6 occupants were among his victims. On 24 May, at Roesbrugge-Haringe, Major James held a position as a sharp salient in the Brigade line. The enemy attacked the Company on his right rear, and the right Company of the Battalion on his left withdrew. Major James maintained his isolated position until the Brigade was ordered to withdraw at 0200 hrs on 30 May. On the canal de Bergues on 31 May, Major James beat off an enemy attack on the bridge for which he was responsible. His plan for the extrication of wounded from a very exposed section post near the bridge was well conceived and successfully carried out in the early hours of 1 June, 1940. Throughout the operations I have had the greatest confidence in Major James and his Company. He never gave up one inch of the ground, was imperturbable in the face of the most alarming reports of situations on his flanks and communicated to everyone of his command his own cool determination and confidence.
[Recommended by Brig. E.G. Miles, commanding 126th Infantry Brigade, approved by Maj.Gen. W.G. Holmes, commanding 42nd Infantry Division.]

Jay,
Reginald Branwhite
R.B. Jay

Married ((09?).1911, Holborn district, London) Cynthia Whiteway-Wilkinson.

(12?).1885
Norwich district, Norfolk
-
c. 1964
Waihi, New Zealand

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	04.01.1913 [142397]
Capt.	(1919)
A/Maj.	(1919)
Maj.	17.01.1922
A/Lt.Col.	?
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	16.09.1949

MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
CdeG	04.09.1919	?
LeoII	15.08.1946	?

04.01.1913			commissioned, Home Counties Divisional Company (Headquarters), Home Counties Divisional Transport and Supply Column, Army Service Corps - Territorial Force [till 01.05.1913 supernumerary]
			served WW I (hidden by Edith Cavell during WW1 and escaped back to British lines)
(1919)			36th Divisional Train, RASC
1921?	-	16.09.1949	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Jaye,
George Leslie
G.L. Jaye

Son of ... Jaye, and ... Clark.
Residence: (1946) Isle of Wight.

20.10.1916
Hackney district, London
-
10.1993
Surrey Southwestern district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.09.1940 [145972]
WS/Lt.	07.03.1942
T/Capt.	22.06.1943-01.03.1945
WS/Capt.	02.03.1945
T/Maj.	02.03.1945-(04.1946)

	MBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe
	MID	19.07.1945	Italy?

05.09.1939			joined up from Territorial Army Camp, Isle of Wight
?	-	07.09.1940	either 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			served at Arromanches (France)

Jeffery,
John Reginald
J.R. Jeffery (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

Cadet	? [2623151]
2nd Lt.	19.02.1944 [308435]
WS/Lt.	19.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

Education: Wokingham County Grammer School for Boys.
Bank clerk.

19.02.1944			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
(1945)			1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe) [Carried the battalion colours through Berlin as part of the 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats) which were flown out from Guildford Cathedral for the occasion.]

Jeffery,
Marcel Walter
M>W. Jeffery

Son of Walter Knight Jeffery (1882-1973), and Jeanne Eugenie Varin (1880-1950).
Married (24.06.1939, St Judes, Peckham, Camberwell district, Surrey) Gladys May DeVine (22.12.1914 - 27.07.1987), daughter of Albert Henry DeVine (1884-1943), and Nellie Lorenz (1890-1973); one son, three daughters.

22.04.1914
Constantinople, Turkey
-
29.09.1979
Bedford district, Bedfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1941 [193958]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	18.02.1943-23.02.1945
WS/Capt.	24.02.1945
A/Maj.	(1944)
T/Maj.	24.02.1945-(04.1946)

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

Education: Woodbridge Public School, Suffolk; University College, London (2.1 Hons).

?	-	21.06.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Jeffries,
Philip Waterman
"Phil"
P.W. Jeffries

Son of ... Jeffries, and ... Taylor.
Married Kay Harvey (predeceased him), of Rickmansworth and formerly Walsall; children (three sons, two dauthers?).

20.02.1914
Walsall district, Staffordshire
-
23.12.2006
[age 92]
Watford district, Hertfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.06.1940 [134688]
WS/Lt.	15.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	06.06.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	?
Hon Capt.	< 04.1946

MID

23.09.1943

North Africa

?	-	15.06.1940	170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.06.1940			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission]
04.08.1941			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
21.08.1943			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps

Jelf,
Richard William
W.R. Jelf

Son of late Sir Ernest Jelf, King's Remembrancer and Master of the Supreme Court, and Rose Frances, 2nd daughter of R. W. C. Reeves; married 1928, Nowell, daughter of Major SampsonWay, RM, Manor House, Henbury; three sons one daughter.

16.06.1904
Hendon, Greater London
-
22.01.1994
Horsham, Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.01.1924
Maj.	30.01.1941
A/Lt.Col.	23.04.1941-22.07.1941
T/Lt.Col.	23.07.1941-20.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	21.10.1945
Maj.Gen.	04.02.1957 (retd 11.05.1957)

	CBE	1948	?
	OBE	01.02.1945	?

Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; idc, psc.

30.01.1924			commissioned, Royal Artillery
1934			served NorthWest Frontier, India (Loe Agra)
1936			Staff College, Quetta
1944	-	1945	Commanding Officer, 102nd Anti-Tank Regiment RA
1946			Deputy Director Staff Duties, War Office
1948			Imperial Defence College
1949			CRA 2nd Division
1951			Dep. Chief, Organization and Training Div., SHAPE
1953			Comdr 99 AA Bde (TA)
1956			Chief of Staff, Eastern Command
1957	-	1963	Commandant, Police Coll., Bramshill
1963	-	1968	Dir of Civil Defence, Southern Region

ADC to the Queen, 1954. Hon. Sec., Lyme Regis RNLI, 1972-84.

Jellicoe,
George Patrick John Rushworth;
2nd Earl Jellicoe (cr. 1925); Viscount Brocas of Southampton (cr. 1925); Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (cr. 1918)
The Earl Jellicoe (G.P.J.R. Jellicoe)

Only son of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Earl Jellicoe and late Florence Gwendoline, daughter of Sir Charles
Cayzer, 1st Bt; godson of King George V.
Succeeded father, 1935.
Married 1st (1944) Patricia Christine (marriage dissolved, 1966), only daughter of Jeremiah O'Kane, Vancouver, Canada; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1966) Philippa, only daughter of late Philip Dunne; one son, two daughters.

04.04.1918
Hatfield district, Hertfordshire
-
22.02.2007
[Tidcombe, near Marlborough, Wiltshire ?]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.03.1940 [124546]
WS/Lt.	23.09.1941
A/Capt.	22.05.1942-...
WS/Capt.	29.03.1943
A/Maj.	22.12.1942-28.03.1943
T/Maj.	29.03.1943-08.01.1945
WS/Maj.	09.01.1945
A/Lt.Col.	09.10.1944-03.01.1945

KBE	1986	?
DSO	05.11.1942	Middle East
MC	23.03.1944	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East
MID	02.03.1944	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MID	?	?
LegH	?	?
CdeG	?	?
GrkWC	?	?

Education: Winchester; Trinity College, Cambridge (Exhibitioner).

23.03.1940			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards [emergency commission]
06.08.1940	-	17.07.1941	8 Commando
18.07.1941	-	22.01.1942	3rd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (wounded)
20.10.1942	-	18.03.1943	1st Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment
19.03.1943	-	08.10.1944	Special Boat Squadron (SBS)
09.10.1944	-	03.01.1945	Combined Operations
04.01.1945			Staff College, Camberley

PC, 1963. FRS, 1990.
Hon. Page to King George VI; Entered HM Foreign Service, 1947; served as 1st Sec. in Washington, Brussels, Baghdad (Deputy Sec. General Baghdad Pact). Lord-in-Waiting, 01-06.1961; Jt Parly. Sec., Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1961-1962; Minister of State, Home Office, 1962-1963; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1963-1964; Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy, 04-10.1964; Deputy Leader of the Opposition, House of Lords, 1967-1970; Lord Privy Seal and Minister in Charge, Civil Service Department, 1970-1973; Leader of the House of Lords, 1970-1973. Chairman: Brit. Adv. Cttee on Oil Pollution of the Sea, 1968-1970; 3rd Int. Conf. on Oil Pollution of the Sea, 1968. Chm., MRC, 1982-1990. Chairman: Tate & Lyle, 1978-1983 (Dir, 1974-1993); Davy Corp., 1985-1990; Booker Tate, 1988-1991; Director: Sotheby's, 1973-1985; Smiths Industries, 1973-1986; Morgan Crucible, 1973-1987; S. G. Warburg, 1973-1988; Chm., European Capital Ltd, 1991-1995. Chm., BOTB, 1983-1986; President: London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1979-1982; E European Trade Council, 1990-1995 (Chm., 1986-1990); Chm., 1978-1986, Patron, 1986-, AngloHellenic League. A Governor, Centre for Environmental Studies, 1967-1970; President: National Federation of Housing Societies, 1965-1970; Parly and Scientific Cttee, 1980-1983; Review of Prevention of Terrorism Act, 1983. Pres., BHF, 1990-1995. Chm. of Council, KCL, 1977-1986; Chancellor, Southampton Univ., 1984-1995. FKC 1979. Hon. LLD: Southampton, 1985; Long Island Univ., 1987. Grand Comdr, Order of Honour (Greece), 1992. President: Royal Geographical Society, since 1993; SAS Association, since 1996.
Literature: Lorna Almonds Windmill, A British Achilles : George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, FRS : 20th century soldier, politician, statesman (2006)

Jenkins,
Horatius Dinsmore *
"Horace"
H.D. Jenkins

From Hull & Cairnduna, Burghead.
* First names shown at death registration as: Horatio Densmore.

13.07.1913
-
1977
Beverley district, Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	31.05.1939 [89097]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
WS/Capt.	14.10.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	14.10.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946
Capt.	03.03.1949, seniority 01.09.1948 24.05.1949, seniority 04.01.1946
Maj.	15.07.1950

	MC	24.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
	TD	20.06.1950	& 1st clasp

Education: Merchiston Castle School (Boarder, 3rd term 1926, left 1928).

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Merchiston Castle School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
31.05.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1942)			523rd Company RASC (Middle East)
03.03.1949	-	24.05.1949	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.05.1949	-	18.03.1952	Territorial Army
18.03.1952	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Jennens,
Paul Kerr
P.K. Jennens

Son of Lionel Kerr Jennens, and Beatrice Jefferis.
Married (13.07.1940, St Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington) Alison Mary Castleman (died 29.07.2009, aged 90), daughter of Mr & Mrs A. Louttit Castleman, of London W8; ... children (two daughters, one son?).

26.09.1913
Hampstead district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
04.2001
Norwich district, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	15.07.1939 [92643]
WS/Lt.	15.01.1941
Lt.	11.04.1945
WS/Capt.	05.05.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	05.05.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

15.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	19.10.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Master of The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers & Coach Harness Makers of London, 1973. Director, British Industry Week, 1960s. Director, Heywood Temple.

Jennings,
Harold Alfred John
H.A.J. Jennings (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Jennings)

Son of John Jennings, and Eleanor R, Cattermole.
Married ((12?).1940, Hendon district, Middlesex) Margaret Hilda Passmore; two sons.

22.08.1915
Halresden, Willesden district, Middlesex
-
29.04.1967
Northern Transvaal, South Africa (at the Adams Apple Motel, whilst driving back to Bulawayo in the then Rhodesia from holiday)
[has a chair dedicated to him in Middlesex Chapel in St Paul’s Cathedral]

Pte.	09.1933 [6201286]
CF L/Cpl.	10.1935
Fd L/Cpl	12.1936
Cpl.	10.1937
L/Sgt.	12.1938
T/Sgt.	05.1939
Lt.	27.07.1940 [140050] (reld 14.11.1947)
T/Capt.	08.02.1941-(04.1944), 22.11.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	14.11.1947

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

09.1933			enlisted, The Middlesex Regiment
1934			2nd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Colchester, then BEF 1939-40)
27.07.1940			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]
1940	-	1947?	2/8th [later renumbered 1/8th] Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
(06.1944)	-	(1945)	Second-in-Command, B Company, 1/8th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (NW Europe)

Went to South Africa (Durban, then Johannesburg) and later took an executive position with a large manufacturing firm in Rhodesia.

Jennings,
Michael Turberville Nevill
M.T.N. Jennings

Son of Lt.Col. Frank Nevill Jennings, CBE, MC, DL, JP (1881-1956), and Dora Waghorn.
Married 1st (1945?) Sister Jessie Jane MacLeod, QAIMNSR; three sons.
Married 2nd ((03?).1982, Isle of Wight) Sheila M. Drummond.

23.02.1916
Kensington district, London
-
(09?).1982
Isle of Wight

2nd Lt.	27.08.1938, seniority 28.01.1937
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	29.11.1939-28.02.1940
T/Capt.	29.02.1940-11.11.1942
WS/Capt.	12.11.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945
A/Maj.	12.08.1942-11.11.1942
T/Maj.	12.11.1942-31.07.1943, 07.01.1944-27.01.1950
Maj.	28.01.1950
local Lt.Col.	27.11.1944-21.12.1946
T/Lt.Col.	01.04.1953-26.02.1956 (Employed List (1))
Lt.Col.	27.02.1956 (supernumerary 27.02.1959)
T/Col.	01.03.1961-31.12.1961
Col.	01.01.1962 (retd 17.01.1973)

CBE	?	?
MID	01.04.1941	?
MID	08.07.1941	?
MID	26.04.1945	?

Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp.

Education: Uppingham School (The Lodge; 1929.3-1935.2; SP, XV, XI, F.IV (Capt.), Capt. of Games); Clare College, Cambridge (BA; University Fives IV 1937); psc, psc(a).

			General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
27.08.1938			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment [from 24.04.1957 Queens, from 14.10.1959 Queens Surreys]
04.09.1940	-	31.10.1941	Adjutant, ...
01.11.1941	-	11.08.1942	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Operations), 70th Division
12.08.1942	-	30.07.1943	Brigade Major, ... Infantry Brigade
16.11.1944	-	17.01.1947	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Quetta (India)
17.02.1949	-	01.02.1950	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
24.05.1950	-	13.06.1951	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
01.04.1953	-	07.04.1955	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Portugese Staff College, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe
01.05.1958	-	26.01.1961	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Defence Force, Hong Kong
01.03.1961	-	31.03.1964	Brigade Colonel, Home Counties Brigade
18.06.1964	-	28.02.1965	Colonel General Staff, Ministry of Defence
01.03.1965	-	(02.1967)	Colonel General Staff, Ministry of Defence

Jennings,
Richard Edward Christopher;
Jennings of Gelli-Dêg
R.E.C. Jennings

Son of Lt.Col. Edward Charles Jennings, CBE, DL (1877-1955), and Ethel Anita Dawes Whithurst.
Married (1937) Margaret Mabel Gladys Allan, daughter of James Alexander Allan of Towerwood, Renfrewshire; one son.

08.06.1911
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire / Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-

Lt. (OME 4th cl.)	27.05.1940 [131403]
WS/Capt. (OME 3rd cl.)	?
WS/Capt. (EME 3rd cl.)	01.10.1942, seniority ?
WS/Maj.	20.12.1943
T/Lt.Col.	20.12.1943-(04.1946)

MBE

08.07.1941

Middle East (Egypt and Libya)

Education: Repton.
Served with Riley (Coventry) Ltd, 1931-37. Joined Temple Press as Midland Editor of The Motor, 1937-39.

1940	-	1945	served Western Desert, Greece, Crete, Syria and NW Europe:
27.05.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
(1941)			64th Medium Regiment RA (Middle East)
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
(04.1944)			Training Establishment REME

High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1957. D.L Carmartenshire (1960).
Editor of The Motor, 1946-60.
General Commissioner of Income Tax, 1965-80; Member, Dyfed-Carmarthen Advisory Committee for General Commissioners of Income Tax, 1974-. Director: Trust Houses Ltd, 1960-68; Buckley's Brewery Ltd, 1961-77; British Automatic Co. Ltd, 1962-68; Teddington Bellows Ltd, 1965-72. President RNLI, Bury Port.

Jennison,
Henry David
H.D. Jennison

Son of John Jennison, and of Lilianena Jennison (née Mould), of Upton, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

(06?).1923
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
01.09.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, France, 13.G.15]
[commemorated at War Memorial, Prestbury, Cheshire]

2nd Lt.	05.06.1943 [278672]
WS/Lt.	05.12.1943

21.12.1944

NW Europe

05.06.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	01.09.1944	Officer Commanding, 3 Troop, "A" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France [killed in action])

Jensen,
Jens Paul
"Marokko-Jensen"
J.P. Jensen

21.10.1919
-
30.11.1996

2nd Lt.	11.03.1943 [266637]
WS/Lt.	1944? * (reld 22.09.1946)
Hon. Lt.	22.09.1946

* Receives pay and allowances from Army Funds, 30.09.1944.

Was in the UK when the occupation of Denmark began on 09.04.1940. He tried to join up with the British armed forces, but was rejected. Joined the Merchant Navy in stead, being interned in Casablanca in 1941, but escaped to Gibraltar.

01.1942			served Special Operations Executive (SOE) [Was dropped into Denmark with three others 11.03.1943. Became chief organizer in northern Jutland, being very active with sabotage activities. Fierce battle between 12 resistance fighters and German forces after a weapons dropping at Rold Skov 18.08.1943. Blew up German "Ortskommandantura" in Ålborg by lowering explosives down the chimney 14.10.1943. Returned to the UK 14.01.1944.]
11.03.1943			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
18.11.1944			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps
summer 1944			1st Special Air Service Regiment (operations in the Ardennes, at the Rhine crossing and later in northern Germany)

Joined Danish Army post-war as an expert in reconnaissance, retiring as a Major.
Literature: Flemming B. Muus, Marokko-Jensen. In: Mange er kaldede : nogle få udvalgte beretninger fra besættelsestiden (1966), p. 27-48.

Johannessen,
Poul Herman Johannes
P.H.J. Johannessen

Son of Johannes Johannessen, merchant, and Marzanne Krasnevsky, of Russian descent.
Married (11.1934) Edith Eline Margaret Lamprecht, of Copenhagen, Denmark.

25.10.1910
Smørum
-
05.09.1942
[age 31]
[Copenhagen (Bronshoj) Cemetery, Denmark, VIII.13.5]
[commemmorative plaque at the Rådhusbiblioteket at Copenhagen]

2nd Lt.

1941? [225695]

Served Danish Merchant Navy. When Germany occupied Denmark he escaped aboard SS Lillian, via the French harbour of Rouen to the UK, where he joined the British Merchant Navy.

1941?			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE) [Sent to Denmark as radio telegraphist 04.1941. Was taken by surprise in at 8 Vinkelager, Vanløse, Copenhagen during a radio transmission 09.1941. He resisted capture, but had to surrender. Not wanting to fall into enemy hands alive he poisoned himself and finally died in the Copenhagen police station.]

Johansen,
Hans Robert Filip
H.R.P. Johansen

Son of August and Nelly Johansen, of Copenhagen, Denmark.

16.07.1921
-
25.07.1944
[age 23]
[Copenhagen (Hellerup) Mindelunden Memorial Park, Denmark, plot 56]

2nd Lt.	? [274876]
Lt.	?

Served Danish Merchant Navy.

?			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE) [Trained as a parachutist, he was dropped in Denmark 05.1943, where he organized a sabotage organisation in Copenhagen and Odense. Was taken by surprise by German soldiers in an appartment in Nyhavn, and immediately took his suicide capsule to avoid breaking under German interrogation.]

John,
David Nathaniel
D.N. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)

Son (with two brothers and one sister)of William John (1873-1956), and Amy John (1875-1964), of Llantrisant, South Wales.
Brother of Capt. Thomas John, Army Dental Corps.
Married (02.07.1940, Doncaster, Yorkshire) Freda Muriel Digby ((03?).1920 - 21.01.2007), daughter of Thomas William Digby (1892-1970), and Martha Sybil Barlow (1891-1975); three sons.

29.01.1914
Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales
-
07.06.1997
Newport, Gwent

Lt.	21.12.1939 [120150]
WS/Capt.	21.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

Education: St Mary's; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond (29.10.1937).

21.12.1939

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

John,
Thomas
T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)

Son (with two brothers and one sister)of William John (1873-1956), and Amy John (1875-1964), of Llantrisant, South Wales.
Brother of Capt. David Nathaniel John, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Married (21.06.1943, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar) Third Officer Cathering Jane Gibb Bruce, WRNS (1915-1991); two daughters, two sons.

23.11.1911
Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales
-
06.08.1979
Stroud, Gloucestershire

Lt.	08.07.1940 [136939]
WS/Capt.	08.07.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

08.07.1940			commissioned, The Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]
(04.1946)			Unemployed List

Johns,
Cyril Allen
C.A. Johns

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.09.1940 [149578]
WS/Lt.	21.03.1942
T/Capt.	23.10.1945-(04.1946)

			either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.09.1940			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade [emergency commission]
28.06.1943			transferred, Pioneer Corps

Johns,
William Edward Field
W.E.F. Johns (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Etherton)

Son of Francis Philip Johns, and Eveline Maude Barry, of Eltham, London.

(03?).1914
Lewisham district, London
-
09.03.1945
(KIA) [age 31]
[Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, 34.D.4]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.10.1942 [241202]
WS/Lt.	27.04.1943
T/Capt.	19.04.1944-09.03.1945

27.09.1945

Arakan * [citation available upon request]

ARIBA (Lond.).

27.10.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
?	-	09.03.1945	2 Special Boat Section attached Combined Operations Pilotage Party 3 (2) [Naval Party 775] (killed in action during a reconnaissance of Phuket)

* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to Capt. W.E.F. Johns: Courage and determination in hazardous operations. In the operation on Myebon Peninsula Captain Johns was in charge of the canoes setting explosives on the stakes. The work was done on mud flats 100 yards from a heavily defended beach occupied by the enemy. In all two hours were spent on the beach and throughout he displayed a high degree of courage and initiative, all the stakes in his section being destroyed. The successful opposed and unopposed landings carried out could not have been achieved had it not been for the preliminary operations carried out by the C.O.P.P. teams. This act of approaching and exploding the protective stakes guarding the selected beach on the morning of D Dayand under the nose of the enemy is strongly commended for recognition.
[Recommended 13.01.1944 by Lt. A. Hughes, RNR, commanding COPP 3, approved by Lt.Cdr. P.W. Clark, RN, commanding COPP.]

Johnson,
Dudley Graham
D.G. Johnson

13.02.1884
Stow On The Wold district, Gloucestershire / Worcestershire
-
21.12.1975

...	...
Maj.Gen.	1938 (retd 1944)

VC	1919	?
CB	1939	?
DSO	1914	?
MC	1918	?

...	-	...	...
1938	-	1940	General Officer Commanding, 4th Division
1940			General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command
1941			Inspector of Infantry

Johnson,
James Shaw
J.S. Johnson

Son of James and Beatrice Emily Johnson; nephew of Mrs. M. B. Hackforth, of Highgate, Middlesex.
From Blackpool.

1922 ?
-
20.07.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Bayeux Memorial, France, panel 17, column 1]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.03.1943 [265735]
WS/Lt.	06.09.1943

06.03.1943			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
?	-	20.07.1944	1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (France) (killed in action)

Johnson,
[Sir] John Paley
"Jack";
6th Baronet, 1755

Son of Capt. Robert Warren Johnson, RN (1868-1914; killed in action), and Grace Isobel Pasely (1884-).
Succeeded cousin, Sir Edward Gordon Johnson, 5th Bt, 1957.
Married 1st (1929; divorced 1939) Carol Haas (1906-),
daughter of Edmund L. Haas (?-1946), and Helene Guggenheim (1886-1962), of New York, USA; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (02.10.1940; divorced 1947) Jasmine Lydia Bligh (20.05.1913 - 21.07.1991), daughter of Lt.Col. Hon. Noel Gervase Bligh, DSO (1888-1984), and Mary Jack Frost (?-1940); one daughter. Jasmine Bligh remarried (1948) Frank Hugh Shirley Fox, and (1954) Howard Marshall.
Married 3rd (1949) Rosemary Cohen, daughter of late Arthur Cohen, and widow of Maj. Dick Thornton (died 1944).

12.06.1907
Plymouth district, Devon
-
14.12.1975
Dartford, Kent

2nd Lt.	1927 (reld 1930)
Lt. RARO	12.09.1938
Lt.	17.07.1939 [37079]
T/Capt.	(1940)
WS/Capt.	06.07.1940
T/Maj.	06.07.1940-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	12.04.1945
T/Lt.Col.	22.07.1945-(04.1947)

MBE

13.12.1945

Italy

Education: Wellington College, Berkshire; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Member of London Stock Exchange, 1930-1933.

1927			commissioned, Royal Artillery
1930	-	1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
17.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			13th Anti-Tank Regiment RA (Burma, Middle East & Italy) (MBE)

Chief Land Instructor (Colonel), Turkish Staff College, 1945-1949. Master of Foxhouds, West Kent Foxhounds, 1958-1961. Member, Kent County Council, 1965-1974.

Johnson,
Norman Charles
N.C. Johnson

?
-

2nd Lt.	21.09.1940 [149296]
WS/Lt.	21.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

09.12.1943

for gallant and distinguished services in the field

21.09.1940			commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
25.11.1942			captured in Tunisia; POW camp at Bologna; escaped

Johnson,
Oliver Denn

Son of Reginald Oliver Denn Johnson and Marjorie Morgan Johnson, of Barrow, Suffolk.
From Bury St. Edmunds.

(06?).1919
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
-
03.10.1944
[age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, The Netherlands, 9.C.15]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.08.1943 [292012]
WS/Lt.	?

21.12.1944

NW Europe

21.08.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
11.12.1943			transferred, The Suffolk Regiment
?	-	08.1944?	11th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
21.08.1944	-	03.10.1944	Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Johnson,
Richard Seymour

From Ashford, Barnstaple.

(12?).1907 ?
Bideford district, Devon ?
-

2nd Lt.	27.11.1939 [107921]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	27.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	27.03.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Maj.	19.08.1947

	MC	24.08.1944	Italy
	MID	18.10.1945	Italy

27.11.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1943	-	1945	Officer Commanding, 383rd Battery, 142nd (The Royal Devon Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (Sicily, Italy)
19.08.1947			commissioned, Territorial Army
12.04.1948			commissioned, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Johnson,
William Arthur Clifford
W.A.C. Johnson

Son of ... Johnson, and ... Clark.

19.09.1916
Keynesham district, Gloucestershire
-
08.1997
Bristol district, Gloucestershire

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1939 [90232]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	31.03.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	25.12.1944
T/Maj.	25.12.1944-(04.1946)

MID

19.09.1946

Burma

			late Cadet Sergeant, Worksop College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
21.06.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Johnston,
Thomas Charles Smyth

Son (with three sisters) of Rev. Charles Smyth Johnston (1844-1910), and Harriette Mary Hunter Rodwell (?-1899), of Bradfield Hall, Cockfield, Bury St Edmunds.
Married (1912) Janet Elinor Lawford (1878 - 11.1946), daughter of P. Lawford, of Borthwnog, Dolgellau; no children.

02.05.1886
-
19.06.1972
Hafod Fach, Llanclltyd, Dolgellau, Merioneth

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	1911 [195522]
Lt.	14.08.1913
T/Capt.	03.02.1915
Capt.	? (reld 15.12.1918; ill-health) (reld 30.09.1921)
Lt.	11.03.1941 (without Army pay and allowances) (reld 30.09.1949)
Hon. Lt.Col.	30.09.1949

OBE

1964

Education: Harrow School (2nd term 1900-2nd term 1902; Harrow's House); South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye.
Land agent.

30.04.1911	-	15.12.1918	7th (Merioneth and Montgomery) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Territorial Army
12.01.1916	-	15.12.1918	attached as Adjutant, 23rd (Provisional) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1939			County Army Welfare Officer, Merioneth
11.03.1941	-	30.09.1921	commissioned, General List

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Merionethshire, 17.05.1943. Honorary County Secretary, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families' Association.

Johnston,
Vivian Robert [William] *

* Upon death registered as Vivian William Robert Johnston.
Married Betty ...; ond son.

06.05.1921
-
21.10.2005
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey (formerly of Cairo)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [188142]
WS/Lt.	15.09.1942
T/Capt.	01.10.1943-31.08.1944
WS/Capt.	01.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	01.09.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	04.04.1951

15.03.1945

gallant and distinguished services in the field

15.03.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE): Officer Commanding Mission Envelope (Emilia region) and Indelible (Liguria region) of No. 1 Special Force (Italy, 1944-1945)
04.04.1951			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Jones,
Albert William
A.W. Jones

Married; at least one son (Lt. (A) Maurice William Stanley Jones, RNVR).

22.05.1890
-
16.10.1971

T/2nd Lt.	WW I ?
T/Lt.	WW I?
Lt.	27.02.1940 [120808] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?

			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps
27.02.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(08.1941)			was in Iceland during the Atlantic Charter negotiations between Roosevelt & Churchill
27.12.1941			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch)
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
(05.1945)			"D" Battalion, No 12 Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Training Centre (Harihar, Mysore State, India)

Jones,
Cenydd Richards
"Cen"
C.R. Jones

19.01.1921
Caerphilly
-
27.10.2006

Lt.	28.10.1944 [333835]
WS/Capt.	28.10.1945 (reld 1947?)

CBE	08.06.1968	HM's birthday 68: lately Permanent Secretary and Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Federation of South Arabia
OBE	12.06.1965	HM's birthday 65: Permanent Secretary and Director of Health Services, Federation of South Arabia
MBE	02.01.1956	New Year 56: Amerindian Medical Officer, British Guiana

Education: Tywyn primary school, Caerphilly; Pontypridd Grammar School; Welsh National School of Medicine (1938-1944; MB); BCh

28.10.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1944	-	1947	Regimental Medical Officer (RMO), 2/1st Battalion, The King's African Rifles (Nyasaland) (in Kenya and Uganda)

Expert in tropical medicine.

Jones,
[Sir] Charles Phibbs
C.P. Jones

Son of late Hume Riversdale Jones and Elizabeth Anne (née Phibbs).
Married (1934) Ouida Margaret Wallace; two sons.

29.06.1906
-
04.01.1988
Amesbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	02.02.1926, seniority 03.09.1925 [34845]
Lt.	03.09.1927
Capt.	03.09.1936
A/Maj.	26.06.1940-25.09.1940
T/Maj.	26.09.1940-26.01.1942
WS/Maj.	27.01.1942
Maj.	03.09.1942
A/Lt.Col.	27.10.1941-26.01.1942
T/Lt.Col.	27.01.1942-18.11.1942, 27.01.1943-22.07.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	23.07.1945
A/Col.	23.01.1945-22.07.1945
T/Col.	23.07.1945-30.12.1949
Col.	31.12.1949
A/Brig.	23.01.1945-22.07.1945
T/Brig.	23.07.1945-30.04.1951
Brig.	12.11.1951
T/Maj.Gen.	01.05.1951-06.12.1951
Maj.Gen.	07.12.1951
T/Lt.Gen.	01.01.1959
Gen.	05.08.1963 (retd 09.01.1967)

GCB	12.06.1965	HM's birthday 65
KCB	01.01.1960	New Year 60
CB	05.06.1952	HM's birthday 52
CBE	11.10.1945	NW Europe
MC	22.10.1940	in recognition of gallant conduct in action with the enemy
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
LeoII	23.05.1947	?
CdeG	23.05.1947	?

Education: Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, N Ireland; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Staff College, Camberley (1939; psc); Imperial Defence College (1947; idc)

02.02.1926			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1928	-	1934	service with Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners (India)
24.11.1934	-	06.01.1939	Adjutant, 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Engineers (Territorial Army)
30.10.1939	-	13.02.1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
14.02.1940	-	25.06.1940	Brigade-Major, 127th Infantry Brigade (BEF; France & Belgium)
29.06.1940	-	26.10.1941	Instructor (as General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Camberley
27.10.1941	-	18.11.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), General Headquarters (GHQ) Home Forces
1943	-	1944	Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), Guards Armoured Division (UK, NW Europe)
09.10.1944	-	22.01.1945	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
23.01.1945	-	1945	Brigadier General Staff, XXX Corps (NW Europe)
1945	-	23.04.1946	Brigadier General Staff (Chief of Staff), Malaya Command
06.05.1946	-	01.01.1947	Brigadier General Staff, HQ Western Command
07.01.1948	-	31.10.1950	Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade (Palestine)
14.12.1950	-	26.04.1951	Director of Plans, War Office
01.05.1951	-	30.11.1953	General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (British Army of the Rhine)
08.01.1954	-	31.12.1956	Commandant, Staff College, Camberley
01.03.1957	-	15.09.1958	Vice Adjutant-General, War Office
01.01.1959	-	01.01.1960	Director, Combined Military Planning, Central Treaty Organization
08.03.1960	-	26.03.1962	General Officer Commanding, 1st Corps
01.06.1962	-	18.04.1963	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command
06.05.1963	-	12.12.1966	Master General of the Ordnance
1965	-	1967	also: ADC General to the Queen
09.01.1967	-	29.06.1968	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Governor of Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1969-75; Chief Royal Engineer, 1967-72. A Governor, Corps of Commissionaires, 1969-. National President, Royal British Legion, 1970-81.
Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 20.08.1961-1972. Honorary Colonel, Royal Engineers, Army Emergency Reserve, 01.11.1961. Honorary Colonel, Engineer and Railway Staffs Corps, RE, T&AVR, 1970-22.07.1977.

Jones,
Gordon William
G.W. Jones

Only child of William Jones, and Lillian Price (1891-1980).
Married (1950) Jean Ruth Stuckey; three sons, two daughters.

31.08.1921
-
01.1980
Cardiff

2nd Lt.	22.04.1943 [273066]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

29.06.1951

22.04.1943

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Worked for the coal board before & after his army service.

Jones,
Hugh Glydon
H.G. Jones

?
-

2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219333]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	01.12.1944-28.02.1945
T/Capt.	01.03.1945-12.08.1946

Appointed clerical class, Board of Education, 05.1936.

02.08.1940	-	14.08.1941	Royal Army Pay Corps (Leicester)
15.08.1941	-	28.11.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
29.11.1941	-	12.04.1943	533rd (Orkney) Coast Artillery Regiment RA (TA)
13.04.1943	-	04.07.1943	512th (East Riding) Coast Artillery Regiment RA (TA)
07.07.1943	-	15.01.1944	RA Depot (Woolwich)
16.01.1944	-	28.11.1944	566th Coast Artillery Regiment RA (Plymouth)
29.11.1944	-	30.11.1945	HQ Eastern Command
01.12.1945	-	04.01.1946	School of Artillery (Larkhill)
05.01.1946	-	12.08.1946	No. 12 Special Radar Unit (India)

Jones,
Matheys Johannes Uys
M.J.U. Jones

?
-

Pte. ?	? [316]
2nd Lt.	01.06.1942 [317891]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	12.03.1945 (reld 16.11.1945)
T/Maj.	12.03.1945-16.11.1945
Hon. Maj.	16.11.1945

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
EM	-	& Kenya suspender

pre-war			served in the Kenya Regiment
01.06.1942			commissioned, Pioneer Corps (African Colonial Section) [emergency commission]

Jones,
Percy Hugh
P.H. Jones

Married (1922) Violet Helen Mary Hughes ((12?).1895 - 05.12.1964); two daughters.
Surname also used as: Hugh-Jones.

04.12.1892
Bedwellty district, Monmouthshire
-
25.09.1948
214 Hamlet Gardens, Hammersmith district, London W6

2nd Lt. (prob)	15.08.1914 [11596]
Lt.	15.05.1915
Capt. Res.of Offrs.	31.12.1929, seniority 09.04.1927
Capt.	06.06.1927 (retd 31.12.1929)
Bt. Maj.	27.12.1941
T/Maj.	16.07.1940-(04.1944)

15.08.1914			commissioned, Royal Garrison Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers
15.05.1915			permanent commission - Regular Forces
?			transferred, Royal Tank Corps
31.12.1929	-	28.08.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized RARO
1944	-	1945	Town Major, Calais (France)

Jones,
William Robert
W.R. Jones

?
-

Cadet	? [14270843]
2nd Lt.	28.11.1943 [303302]
WS/Lt.	28.05.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

28.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps

Joss,
Cecil Alexander
C.A. Joss

Elder son (with two sisters) of Alexander Rule Joss (1884-1934), and Enid Mary King (1881-), of Tunbridge Wells.
Married 1st (23.04.1941, Surrey North Western district) Deborah "Jill" Standring ((12?).1922 - ), younger daughter of the late Lt.Cdr. John Walter Willie Mellor Standring, RN (1893-1932), and Elaine Pilling (later Mrs Guy Wilson), of Roundwood, Windlesham; one daughter. Jill Joss remarried (1955) Frederick Morgan David "Derek" Falcke.
Married 2nd (27.04.1950, Kensington district, London) Joan Madeleine Easton, daughter of Mr & Mrs R.A. Easton, of Durban, South Africa.
Residence: (1945) Windlesham, Surrey, later Johannesburg, South Africa.

07.07.1914
Warlingham, Godstone district, Surrey
-
09.1991
Yeovil district, Somerset

Tpr.	?
2nd Lt.	06.07.1939 [93648]
WS/Lt.	06.01.1941
T/Capt.	09.12.1941-12.10.1942
WS/Capt.	13.10.1942 (demobilized < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	13.10.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Maj.	16.09.1949
Lt.Col.	10.01.1953
Col.	10.01.1956

	MC	23.08.1945	Italy *
	TD	21.04.1950	-

Education: Lancing (Sandersons House, 05.1928-04.1932).

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Lancing College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
06.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
15.10.1941	-	(10.1942)	Adjutant, ...
(1945)			48th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (North Africa & Italy)
			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
16.09.1949			commissioned, Inns of Court Regiment - Territorial Army (Commanding Officer, 1953-1956)
01.01.1957			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Sales manager. Resident Egypt and Sudan, 1946- 49. Gained civil aviator's certificate (No. 22418) 24.02.1947 as being a qualified pilot. Partner, Grieve & Irwin Ltd. Lloyd's Brokers. Director Munich Re-insurance Co. of SA Ltd.; Commenced insurance career 1932.

* Recommendation for the award of an immediate Military Cross to T/Maj. C.A. Joss: [Only page 2 avalaible] ... being successfully effected, two S.P.s [self-propelled vehicles] and a Tiger opened up on the tanks from behind a high bank about 800 yards away. Eleven tanks were knocked out, Major Joss's being among them. with superb courage and coolness he entered another, rallied the remainder of the Squadron and continued to provide invaluable and essential support right on the objective. Throughout these long and tinring actions Major Joss remained calm and completely in control of his Squadron. He was an example to all those around him, both infantry and tank personnel. It was due entirely to his leadership and tirelessness that two strange units finished up with such a complete understanding of each other and obtained such brilliant results against determined opposition.
[Recommended by by Lt.Col. [P.W.D. Hardy??], commanding 48th RTR, approved by Brig. D. Dawnay, commanding 21st Tank Brigade, and finally by Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Allied Force HQ.] (Citation kindly provided by Sim Morrison)

Joyce,
Thomas
T. Joyce

?
-

RQMS	?
Lt. QM	30.12.1939 [106113]
WS/Capt. QM	30.12.1942
Capt. QM	20.08.1946, seniority 30.12.1945

26.05.1950

3rd clasp

30.12.1939			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]
20.08.1946			transferred, Territorial Army

Judd,
Frederick Albert
F.A. Judd

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.03.1941 [194607]
WS/Lt.	30.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

30.03.1941			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission]
06.1941			escaped from Crete aboard an abandoned landing craft; taken POW by the Italian submarine Adua which intercepted the landing craft

Judges,
Robert Popham
"Bob"
R.P. Judges

Son of ... Judges, and ... Thompson.
Married ((03?).1948, North Buckinghamshire) Nancy M. "Nan" Colgrove ((09?).1921 - 04.06.2011); ... children (four daughters, one son?).

(09?).1922
Durham district, Co. Durham
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Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.04.1943 [269635]
WS/Lt.	03.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt. ?	1944?
A/Maj. ?	02.1946?

03.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1946)	9th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment [from 02.1946 Second-in-Command]

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