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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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E.I. Pocock to E.P. Pynn

Pocock,
Eric Innes
E.I. Pocock (Photo courtesy of Mrs Celia Coleman)

Youngest of four children of Col.
Herbert Innes Pocock, CMG (1861-
1947), medical officer, and Edith
Shepard Platts (1871-1949).
Brother of Lt.Col. Nicholas Estlin
Innes Pocock.
Married Irene Carbis; two sons, one
daughter.

20.05.1912
Murree, British India
-
12.12.1974
Gwelo, Rhodesia

2nd Lt.	28.06.1930 [47120]
Lt.	28.06.1933 (struck of unit strength 17.09.1946) (reld 31.12.1946)

	39\|45 St	-	-
	Pac St	-	-

Education: Newton College, Newton Abbot (member of Bisley Team 1928-1929; played rugby football (1927-1929);
Officer Training Corps 1926-1929); Camborne School of Mines.

			late Cadet, Newton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
28.06.1930			commissioned, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
28.06.1930	-	30.09.1932	165th Heavy Battery, Cornwall Heavy Brigade RA (TA) (Redruth)
01.10.1932	-	08.01.1935	165th (Cornwall) Battery, 56th (Cornwall) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (TA) (Redruth)
16.09.1933	-	30.09.1933	attached 1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (under paragraph 447.2a regulations & obtained a satisfactory report)
09.01.1935	-	21.12.1962	transferred, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized TA (but not actively called up?)
29.12.1941	-	15.02.1942	posted to Coast Artillery, Malaya (captured)
15.02.1942	-	1945	prisoner of war in Japanese captivity (worked on Burma railway) [on 20.09.1945 casualty list reported as "now not POW"; disembarked 06.01.1946 in the UK]
15.01.1946			Depot, Royal Artillery

Pocock,
Nicholas Estlin Innes
N.E.I. Pocock (Photo courtesy of Mrs Celia Coleman)

Third of four children of Col. Herbert Innes Pocock, CMG (1861-1947), medical officer, and Edith Shepard Platts (1871-1949).
Brother of Lt. Eric Innes Pocock.
Married 1st ((09?).1937, Paddington district, London) Wynne Agnes Baird; one son.
Married 2nd (20.03.1946, Calcutta, India) Eileen Patricia Bonner (10.08.1920-1996); one son.

03.05.1908
Farnham district, Hampshire
-
08.1995
Dacorum district, Hertfordshire

2nd Lt.	02.02.1928 [39191]
Lt.	02.02.1931
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	30.10.1940-29.01.1941
T/Maj.	30.01.1941-15.04.1942
WS/Maj.	16.04.1942
Maj.	02.02.1945 (retd 05.07.1949)
A/Lt.Col.	16.01.1942-15.04.1942
T/Lt.Col.	16.04.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	05.07.1949

02.02.1928			commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals
...	-	...	....

Pocock,
Richard Sladen
R.S. Pocock

Only son (with one sister) of Capt. Herbert Cheyney Pocock, OBE, RN (1869-1966), and Isabel Katherine Sladen (1871-1955), of Bognor Regis.
Married (17.02.1940, Warwick, Warwickshire) Mollie Allen [Mrs Charles D.W. Allen] (née Davis) (13.07.1914 - 13.07.1977), only daughter (with one brother) of Arthur Bertram Davis (1885-1957), and Gertrude Pickering (1884-1947), of Moseley, Birmingham; three sons.

22.05.1911
Westhampnett district, Sussex
-
10.03.1964
Tunbridge Wells, Kent (formerly of Goring-on-Sea)

2nd Lt.	29.01.1931 [49932]
Lt.	29.01.1934
Capt.	29.01.1939
A/Maj.	21.07.1940-20.10.1940
T/Maj.	21.10.1940-03.05.1942, 06.05.1942-05.09.1945
WS/Maj.	06.09.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	06.06.1945-05.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.	06.09.1945-28.03.1947, 01.05.1947-19.08.1951, 26.09.1951-23.07.1953
Lt.Col. (Empl. List (1))	24.07.1953 (supernumerary 24.07.1956)
T/Col.	06.05.1954-02.07.1955
Col.	18.03.1958 (retd 08.02.1960)

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	19.09.1946	Burma
GenSM	-	& clasp SE Asia 45-46
MID	26.06.1947	Netherlands East Indies (prior to 30.11.46)

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

29.01.1931			commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Egypt (for Poona))
(09.1935)	-	(01.1937)	1st Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Poona) (qualified as Instructor at the Army Signal School in Poona 12.1935)
(01.1938)			1st Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Fyzabad)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Aldershot)
02.12.1943	-	04.02.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General HQ, Allied Land Forces South East Asia
11.02.1945	-	05.06.1945	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), HQ 25th Indian Division
06.06.1945	-	17.02.1946	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), ...
18.02.1946	-	24.09.1946	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), 26th Indian Division
27.03.1947	-	07.11.1948	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), War Office
08.11.1948	-	11.09.1949	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), Western Europe Commander-in-Chief's Committee
12.09.1949	-	20.07.1950	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
08.11.1950	-	09.06.1951	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Plans), General HQ Middle East Land Forces
26.09.1951	-	15.04.1954	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ East Anglian District
06.05.1954	-	22.04.1955	Colonel General Staff, S.D.-Command, General HQ Enclave Middle East Land Forces
12.01.1956	-	(02.1957)	General Staff Officer (GSO), S.D., HQ Southern Command

Poett,
[Sir] Joseph Howard Nigel
J.H.N. Poett

Son of late Maj.Gen. Joseph Howard Poett, CB, CMG, CBE, and Julia Baldwin, daughter of Edward Thompson Caswell, USA.
Married (26.05.1937, Wellington, NZ) Julia *, daughter of Edward Jasper Herrick, Hawkes Bay, NZ; two sons, one daughter.

* sister of:
F/O B.H. Herrick, RAF
P/O D.T. Herrick, RNZAF
Sq.Ldr. M.J. Herrick, RAF
Cdr. L.E. Herrick, RN
Capt. T.D. Herrick, RN

20.08.1907
Winterbourne St Martin, near Dorchester, Dorset
-
29.10.1991
Great Durnford, Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	01.09.1927 [38346]
Lt.	01.09.1930
Capt.	30.06.1937
A/Maj.	25.11.1939-24.02.1940
T/Maj.	25.02.1940-01.07.1940, 05.07.1940-16.06.1941
WS/Maj.	17.06.1941
Maj.	01.09.1944
A/Lt.Col.	17.03.1941-16.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.	17.06.1941-30.04.1942, 22.07.1942-04.01.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	05.01.1944
Lt.Col.	25.03.1949
A/Col.	05.07.1943-04.01.1944
T/Col.	05.01.1944-30.12.1949
Col.	31.12.1949
A/Brig.	05.07.1943-04.01.1944
T/Brig.	05.01.1944-23.07.1950
T/Maj.Gen.	24.07.1950-13.05.1951
Maj.Gen.	14.05.1951
T/Lt.Gen.	01.11.1958-27.11.1958
Lt.Gen.	28.11.1958, seniority 01.11.1958
Gen.	28.08.1962 (retd 05.08.1963)

KCB	13.06.1959	HM's birthday 59
CB	01.01.1952	New Year 52
DSO	29.03.1945	NW Europe
DSO	21.06.1945	NW Europe
SSM	20.06.1944	NW Europe

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp.

Education: Downside; RMC Sandhurst; idc (1948), psc.

01.09.1927			commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry
1930	-	1931	operations, NW Frontier
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (Lebong)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (Barrackpore and Lebong)
01.10.1934	-	30.09.1937	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (01.1937 location Bombay, for Sudan)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (Woking, Surrey)
23.10.1939	-	24.11.1939	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
25.11.1939	-	01.07.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
05.07.1940	-	16.03.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 2nd Infantry Division
17.03.1941	-	30.04.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
1942	-	05.1943	Commanding Officer, 11th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
05.07.1943	-	24.02.1946	Commander, 5th Parachute Brigade (NW Europe & Far East)
04.04.1946	-	11.01.1948	Director of Plans, War Office
03.12.1948	-	13.04.1949	specially employed
25.04.1949	-	13.06.1950	Deputy Commander, British Military Mission, Greece
24.07.1950	-	06.04.1952	Chief of Staff, Far East Land Forces
02.05.1952	-	31.03.1954	General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division, Middle East Land Forces
03.06.1954	-	30.11.1956	Director of Military Operations, War Office
01.01.1957	-	11.09.1958	Commandant, Staff College, Camberley
01.11.1958	-	01.05.1961	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command
1961	-	10.04.1963	Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces

Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry, 01.07.1956-1965. Director, British Productivity Council, 1966-71.
Published: Pure Poett (1991; autobiography).

Pogson-Smith,
John Edward
J.E. Pogson-Smith

Married 1st (29.09.1924, Chichester, Sussex) Marion Josephine Crawley (1890? - (12?).1953).
Married 2nd ((09?).1960, Surrey South Western district, Surrey) Aileen M. Collyer-Bristow, of Beechcroft, Beechlawn, Guildford.

15.12.1894
Oxford, Oxfordshire
-
03.10.1978
Birtley House Nursing Home, Surrey South Western district, Surrey

T/2nd Lt.	07.01.1915
Lt.	29.07.1940 [142266] (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt.	07.04.1941-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

29.07.1940			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
18.11.1940	-	(07.)1945	Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)

Polglase,
Edward Basil Julyan
"Ted" / "Polly"

Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of George Francis Julyan Polglase (1868-1946), and Lavinia Susan Cottrill Downing (1879-1954), of Perran-ar-worthal, Truro, Cornwall.
Brother of Maj. George Anthony Polglase, Royal Signals, and W/Cdr. Patrick Julyan Polglase, RAF.
Married (14.12.1950, Beirut, Lebanon) Beth Anne Featherstone (14.10.1914 - 01.1994), daughter (with two sisters and three brothers) of Alfred George Featherstone (1877-1944), and Annie Louise Buzzo (1880-1944); two daughters.

17.08.1905
Falmouth, Cornwall
-
13.11.1976
nursing home, Hove district, East Sussex (formerly of Eagles, Rottingdean)

2nd Lt.	26.10.1941
WS/Lt.	04.04.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	04.04.1942-(08.1946)
A/Maj. ?	?

Education: St Peter's College, Radley (1920.3-1924.2).

26.10.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			served with Burma Rifles

Manager, Steel Brothers & Co., Chesterfield House, London EC3.

Polglase,
George Anthony
"Tony"

Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of George Francis Julyan Polglase (1868-1946), and Lavinia Susan Cottrill Downing (1879-1954), of Perran-ar-worthal, Truro, Cornwall.
Brother of W/Cdr. Patrick Julyan Polglase, RAF.
Married ((12?).1960, Truro district, Cornwall) Meriel Ricardo; two sons.

23.05.1918
Falmouth district, Cornwall
-
12.1996
Westminster district, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.03.1941 [179686]
WS/Lt.	05.09.1942
T/Capt.	20.03.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	14.02.1950, seniority 08.03.1947
A/Maj.	14.02.1950-22.05.1952
Maj.	23.05.1952, seniority 14.02.1950

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
05.03.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served in Iraq, Syria, Italy and NW Europe
14.02.1950			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
25.11.1952			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Pollock,
Alexander
"Alec"

Son of David Pollock and Jeannie McKinney ?
Married May ...; seven daughters, two sons ?

12.02.1917 ?
Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland ?
-
08.09.2009 ?
Langley, British Columbia, Canada ?

Lt.	09.04.1943 [270022]
WS/Capt.	09.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

Qualified as veterinarian 17.12.1942, Dublin.

09.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Veterinary Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Pollock,
James
J. Pollock (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Houghton)

Son of Alexander Pollock, and Jemima Fraser Paul, of Glasgow.
Husband of Agnes Elizabeth Pollock, of Glasgow.

1913 ?
-
22.01.1945
(KIA) [age 32]
[Sittard War Cemetery, the Netherlands, C.3]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.05.1943 [277540]
WS/Lt.	22.11.1943

22.05.1943			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
(10.1944)	-	22.01.1945	5th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (embarked with the Battalion for NW Europe on 15.10.1944; wounded in action on South Beveland, the Netherlands 27.10.1944; killed in action in Operation Blackcock during the capture of Laffeld in the Roer Triangle)

Pollock,
Robert William Mackey
R.W.M. Pollock (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

Married ((06?).1948, Bromley district, Kent) Mary M.D. Perkins.

?
-

2nd Lt.	01.04.1939 [89763]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld < 04.1944; invalided?)
A/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	02.07.1949

ERD

17.04.1973

01.04.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
24.08.1939			mobilized
?	-	?	X Troop, 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR)
?	-	02.07.1949	Supplementary Reserve of Officers

Pond,
Hubert Charles
"Hugh"
H.C. Pond

Son of ... Pond, and ... Buck.

(03?).1923
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
06.2014 still alive

2nd Lt.	05.12.1942 [255225]
WS/Lt.	05.06.1943
A/Capt.	?
Lt.	30.01.1946, seniority 22.08.1945
T/Capt.	09.10.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	21.05.1951, seniority 02.06.1945
Capt.	15.08.1952
T/Maj.	?

	MC	19.10.1944	NW Europe: attack on Merville Battery, Salanelles 06.44 [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	08.12.1953	Korea 01-06.53

05.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
20.05.1943			transferred, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
1943	-	1946	9th Parachute Battalion [UK 1943-1944, NW Europe 1944-1945 (Platoon Commander, A Company during the capture of the Merville battery), Palestine 1945-1946]
30.01.1946	-	20.05.1951	permanent commission, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
21.05.1951	-	20.05.1959	short service commission, The Middlesex Regiment
21.05.1959	-	01.07.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)

Ponsonby,
[Sir] Ashley Charles Gibbs;
2nd Bt., cr. 1956
A.C.G. Ponsonby

Only son of Col.Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, 1st Bt, TD, and Hon. Winifred (died 1984), daughter of 1st Baron Hunsdon.
Succeeded father, 1976.
Married (1950) Lady Martha Butler, younger daughter of 6th Marquess of Ormonde, CVO, MC; four sons.

21.02.1921
-
15.06.2010
Oxfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.09.1941 [207666]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	20.08.1944-19.11.1944
T/Capt.	20.11.1944-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

	KCVO	1993	-
	MC	13.12.1945	Italy

Education: Eton; Balliol College, Oxford.

			commissioned, Coldstream Guards
19.04.1942	-	20.12.1942	5th Battalion Coldstream Guards
21.12.1942	-	19.02.1944	2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards (North Africa & Italy; wounded)
1945	-	1946	on staff Bermuda Garrison
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Director, J. Henry Schroder, Wagg & Co. Ltd, 1962-1980; LordLieutenant of Oxfordshire, 1980-1996. A Church Commissioner, 1963-1980; Member, Council of Duchy of Lancaster, 1977-1992. DL Oxon, 1974-1980. DArts Oxford Brookes, 1995; Hon. MA Oxon, 1996.

Pool,
Edward Gordon
E.G. Pool

Son of ... Pool, and ... Burrows.
Married Dame Elisabeth Jane Frink (1930-1993), sculptress (marriage dissolved 1974).

(03?).1923
St Marylebone district, Greater London / London
-

2nd Lt.	02.01.1943 [288331]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1943 (reld 31.03.1953)
Trooper TA	31.03.1953 [22834584]
Lt. TA	22.01.1954, seniority 24.04.1944 [288331]
Hon. Capt.	16.06.1955

31.08.1944

Normandy 06.44 *

* Lieutenant Pool's platoon was required to hold an outpost on the western bridgehead held by the airborne troops over the Caen Canal at Benouville. He held this outpost for 21 hours on 6th June 44, during which time he was almost continuously attacked by superior forces. Lieutenant Pool's personal example, cheerfulness and bravery were an inspiration to all who served under him. In addition he led numerous offensive patrols which played a material part in the successful action of his battalion.

			served in the ranks, The Middlesex Regiment
02.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Irish Fusiliers [emergency commission]
1943?			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
?	-	06.1944	No.5 Platoon, "B" Company, 7th Parachute Battalion (Normandy; wounded)
22.01.1954	-	16.06.1955	commissioned, Special Air Service Regiment - Territorial Army
16.06.1955	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Pope,
?
Pope

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	?
...	...
Maj.	?

(04.1945)

14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment

Pope *,
Charles Denniss Tobin
C.D.T. Pope

* from c. 1950 known as C.D.T. Wynn-Pope
Married ((09?).1931, Ringwood district, Hampshire) ... Darling.

02.08.1904
-
(06?).1981
Lambeth district, Greater London

2nd Lt.	03.09.1925 [33359]
Lt.	03.09.1927
Capt.	20.04.1937
A/Maj.	05.09.1940-04.12.1940
T/Maj.	05.12.1940-02.09.1942
Maj.	03.09.1942
A/Lt.Col.	21.07.1942-20.10.1942
T/Lt.Col.	21.10.1942-18.08.1943, 23.08.1944-02.01.1949
Lt.Col.	03.01.1949 (supernumerary 03.01.1952)
local Col.	10.01.1950-09.07.1951
T/Col.	?
Col.	04.07.1952
local Brig.	11.06.1952-09.01.1956
T/Brig.	25.03.1956-19.06.1956
Brig.	20.06.1956 (retd 01.02.1958)

OBE	01.01.1952	New Year 52
MID	09.08.1945	?
LeoII	25.09.1947	?
CdeG	25.09.1947	?

03.09.1925			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.1936			qualified as interpreter 1st class in Russian
01.04.1936	-	28.02.1939	Adjutant, ...
...	-	...	Commanding Officer, 143rd Field Regiment RA (Kent Yeomanry)
25.03.1946	-	30.09.1946	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1)
01.10.1946	-	10.06.1948	Staff Officer, grade 1 (SO1)
05.03.1949	-	09.01.1950	Assistant Military Attaché (GSO1), Moscow
10.01.195	-	09.07.1951	Military Attaché (GSO1)
04.07.1952	-	09.01.1956	Military Attaché, Buenos Aires
25.03.1956	-	(02.1957)	Head (Brigadier) BRIXMIS Berlin
01.02.1958	-	02.08.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Company director & finance broker.

Pope,
John Edward Buckingham
J.E.B. Pope

Only son (with five[?] sisters) of Maj. Maurice Edward Weston Pope (1879-1945), and Dorothy Alice Warre (1884-1961), of Ashwicke Hall, Marshfield, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Married (17.07.1936, London) Elizabeth Burges Watson, daughter of R.Adm. F. Burges Watson, CBE, DSO, of Bosham, Sussex; four sons.

07.08.1909
Marshfield, Chippenham, Wiltshire
-
12.10.1978
Tetbury, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	22.10.1930
Lt.	29.01.1935
A/Capt.	02.09.1939-01.12.1939
T/Capt.	02.12.1939-28.01.1940
Capt.	29.01.1940
A/Maj.	15.09.1941-14.12.1941
T/Maj.	15.12.1941-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 15.05.1947)

Education: Eton (...-1928); Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

			Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.10.1930			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
29.01.1932			permanent commission, The Coldstream Guards
?	-	03.09.1939	Camp Adjutant, Pirbright
04.09.1939	-	13.10.1940	1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards
14.10.1940	-	27.05.1944	4th Battalion The Coldstream Guards
28.05.1944	-	07.11.1944	3rd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
08.11.1944	-	28.02.1945	Second-in-Command, 2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
01.03.1945	-	06.07.1945	Infantry Reinforcement Training Depot
07.07.1945	-	19.07.1945	2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
20.07.1945			Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards

High Sheriff, Gloucestershire, 1955.

Pope,
Philip William Gladstone
P.W.G. Pope

Son of ... Pope, and ... Roissier.
Married; at least one daughter.

25.04.1913
Exeter district, Devon
-
07.2002
Warminster district, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58002]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	07.10.1939-06.01.1940
T/Capt.	07.01.1940-04.03.1940, 20.11.1940-01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	11.11.1941-10.02.1942
T/Maj.	11.02.1942-09.02.1944, 05.03.1944-30.06.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1952
local Lt.Col.	14.12.1944-24.11.1946
A/Lt.Col.	16.09.1947-31.10.1947
T/Lt.Col.	01.11.1947-05.12.1948, 19.03.1951-31.03.1954
Lt.Col.	01.04.1954
Col.	12.12.1956, seniority 07.04.1956 (supernumerary 12.12.1962)
T/Brig.	03.12.1958-31.12.1960
Brig.	01.01.1961 (retd 25.04.1968)

DSO	23.04.1942	Middle East (Egypt / Libya)
MC	21.10.1941	Middle East (Syria / Iraq / Iran)
MID	23.04.1942	?
MID	24.05.1966	?

Education: jssc; psc; psc(a).

02.02.1933			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
23.01.1940	-	19.11.1940	instructor, Signals School, Middle East
15.09.1942	-	03.09.1943	chief instructor, School of Artillery, Middle East
05.03.1944	-	13.12.1944	Brigade Major, ...
14.12.1944	-	24.11.1946	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College
16.09.1947	-	27.10.1948	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
19.03.1951	-	27.03.1954	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), ... Infantry Division
07.1954	-	10.1956	Commanding Officer, 2nd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
12.12.1956	-	06.11.1958	Colonel General Staff, RAF Staff College
03.12.1958	-	29.11.1961	Commander, ... Infantry Brigade (British Army of the Rhine)
24.01.1962	-	19.11.1964	Commandant, Mons OCS
02.04.1964	-	(02.1967)	also: Army ADC to the Queen
13.12.1964	-	03.12.1966	Corps Commander Royal Artillery (CCRA), HQ (British) Corps
12.01.1967	-	1968	Commander, Woolwich Garrison & Depot, Royal Artillery

Porteous,
Kenneth St Clare
"Ken"
K.St.C. Porteous

Son (with five siblings) of Ernest George Porteous (1881-1923), and Jane Louisa Ann Le Vesconte (1886-1952), of Sarnares.
Married (21.09.1935, St Clement, Jersey) Florence Clarice "Poppy" Thomson (02.08.1910 - 22.01.1994); one child.

13.05.1912
Dover, Kent
-
11.08.1945
[St Clement Graveyard, Jersey, grave 100; photos of burial]

Pte.	11.09.1939 [7593222]
Armt. S/Sgt.	02.1940?
Armt. QMS	10.1940?
Armt. Sgt-Maj.	10.11.1941
2nd Lt.	28.04.1942 [230818]
WS/Lt.	05.12.1942
T/Capt.	05.12.1942-06.04.1944
WS/Capt.	07.04.1944
A/Maj.	07.01.1944-06.04.1944
T/Maj.	07.04.1944-11.08.1945

39\|45 St	-	-
F&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe

Education: Jersey School for Boys, 1918-1924; Jersey Modern School, 1924-1926; States of Jersey Technical School, 1926-1930.
Mechanical engineer.

08.1939	-	02.1940	Armament Artificers Equipment Course, Military College of Science, Woolwich
11.09.1939			enlisted, Armament Artificer Staff Sergeant
02.1940	-	06.1940	7th Army Field Workshops (BEF, France)
06.1940	-	09.1940	"B" Recovery Section 42nd Division Workshops (Home Forces)
09.1940	-	early 1942	11th Armoured Brigade Workshops RAOC (Home Forces)
11.09.1941	-	06.11.1941	Armament Artificers Armured Fighting Vehicle Course, AFV School Arborfield
early 1942	-	27.04.1942	officer training
28.04.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Mechanical Maintenance Branch) [emergency commission]
08.1942	-	01.1944	Adjutant REME, HQ 79th Armoured Division
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
01.1944	-	(04.1944)	Brigade Electrical and Mechanical Engineer (BEME), HQ 30th Armoured Brigade

Porter,
Brian Stewart
B.S. Porter

?
-

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	24.06.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	05.06.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	13.01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

			late Cadet, Hurstpierpoint College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.06.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	"D" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA

Porter,
Michael
M. Porter (Photo courtesy of Mr Joe Porter)

Second oldest of six brothers and one sister.
Never married.

12.02.1917
Bridgetoun, Glasgow, Scotland
-
14.07.1991
Gartnaval General, Glasgow, Scotland
[St Peter's Cemetery (Dalbeth) Glasgow]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.04.1943 [273504]
WS/Lt.	28.10.1943 (reld 29.10.1952)
Hon. Lt.	29.10.1952

28.04.1943

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Pott,
Richard Holliday
R.H. Pott

Younger son (with one sister and one brother) of William John Hallings Pott (1874-1924), and Emily Elsie Andrews (1873-1946), of Seaford.
Married (05.08.1939, St Columba's Church, Pont Street, Chelsea district, London) Catherine Sylvia Mary Shaw (27.02.1918 - 02.1994), youngest daughter of W.T. Shaw, MP for Angus, and Mrs Shaw, of Killiecrankie & London; ... children (one son?).

02.1910
Streatham, Wandsworth district, London
-
06.02.1968
Soberton, Droxford district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	23.09.1935 [65976]
Lt.	25.07.1939
A/Capt.	01.01.1941-(01.1942)
WS/Capt.	01.02.1942
Maj.	1941
T/Maj.	01.02.1942-14.04.1945
WS/Maj.	15.04.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Col.	1944?
T/Lt.Col.	15.04.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col..	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

	OBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46: employed in a Department of the Foreign Office
	MID	02.08.1945	NW Europe

Education: Tonbridge School (Parkside House, 1924.3-1929; School Praeses 1929); St John's College, Cambridge (2nd cl. Natural Sciences Tripos (Part I), 933; BA 1933, MA 1937).
Assistant master, Bradfield College, 1934-1936. Assistant master (tutor biology), Stowe School, 1936.3-1940.2.

			late Cadet C.S.M., Tonbridge School Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps
23.09.1935			commissioned, Officers Training Corps - Territorial Army (for service with Bradfield College Contingent, Junior Division)
?			transferred, Stowe School Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
25.07.1940			transferred, Corps of Royal Signals - Territorial Army
1940	-	1943	served UK (Adjutant 01.01.1941-(01.1942))
1943	-	1944	served Middle East Forces
1944	-	1945	served British Liberation Army (NW Europe) (despatches)
?	-	23.07.1960	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Member of Stock Exchange since 1945.

Potter,
Victor Cecil James
V.C.J. Potter

Son of ... Potter, and ... Saunders.
Married 1st ((09?).1939, Ipswich district, Suffolk) Melba M. Eliaerts.
Married 2nd ((06?).1946, Swansea district, Glamorgan) Fay C. Phillips.

23.08.1915
Headington district, Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
-
25.04.1982
Bewdley, Kidderminster district, Hereford and Worcester

Gnr.	? [2576254]
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164175]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

MID

20.12.1940

distinguished services in connection with operations in the field 03-06.40

?	-	21.12.1940	either 122nd or 123rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Stationer.

Powell,
Atherton George ffolliott
A.G. ff Powell

Son of Lt.Col. Richmond ffolliott Powell (1880-?), and Alice Katherine Beatrix Shedden.
Brother of Gp.Capt. George [Shedden] ffolliott Powell-Shedden, RAF.
Married Jaqueline Miranda Mary Grant (died 11.02.2006).

22.08.1912
Sheffield district, Yorkshire
-
(12?).1981
Kensington & Chelsea district, London

2nd Lt.	01.09.1932 [53714]
Lt.	07.09.1935 (resigned 30.04.1938)
Lt.	02.09.1937, seniority 04.01.1937
A/Capt.	12.11.1939-11.02.1940
T/Capt.	12.02.1940-11.05.1941
WS/Capt.	12.05.1941
A/Maj.	12.02.1941-11.05.1941
T/Maj.	12.05.1941-30.11.1942
WS/Maj.	01.12.1942
A/Lt.Col.	01.09.1942-30.11.1942
T/Lt.Col.	01.12.1942-24.11.1943, 21.05.1945-29.08.1950
Lt.	28.09.1946, seniority 01.08.1938
Capt.	28.09.1946, seniority 27.11.1941
Maj.	27.12.1946
T/Lt.Col.	10.03.1951-07.01.1956
Lt.Col. (Employed List 1)	08.01.1956 (retd 25.12.1958)

MID

20.12.1940

Education: jssc, psc.

01.09.1932			commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Tidworth)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Woking)
02.09.1939	-	27.09.1946	Reserve of Officers
12.02.1941	-	11.03.1942	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Oxford
20.07.1942	-	31.08.1942	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, War Office
01.09.1942	-	09.07.1943	Assistant Quartermaster-General, 1st Army
12.01.1945	-	17.05.1945	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Middle East MC Pool
18.05.1945	-	29.11.1945	Assistant Quartermaster-General, Middle East Forces
30.11.1945	-	20.5.1946	Assistant Quartermaster-General, General HQ
09.06.1946	-	31.12.1947	Assistant Quartermaster-General, Australia
01.04.1948	-	31.12.1950	Assistant Quartermaster-General, Eastern Command
18.12.1952	-	03.10.1955	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 16th Airborne Division
11.10.1955	-	(02.1957)	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) & Deputy Senior Army Liaison Officer (UKLS(A)), Canada

Powell,
Henry William Russell
H.W.R. Powell

12.09.1912 ?
-
1971 ?

Cadet	? [2569752]
2nd Lt.	23.10.1943 [307839]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	09.11.1945 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	09.11.1945-(04.1946)

23.10.1943			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]
(09.1944)			Officer Commanding, 77 Section, 247 Provost Company, Corps of Military Police (participated in Operation Market, possibly at Nijmegen)

Powell,
[Rt.Hon.] John Enoch
J.E. Powell

Son of Albert Enoch Powell, and Ellen Mary Breese.
Married (1952) Margaret Pamela, daughter of Lt.Col. L.E. Wilson, IA; two daughters.
Residence: (1943) Seaford.

16.06.1912
Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
08.02.1998
Westminster, London

Pte.	1939
L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	18.05.1940 [130411]
WS/Lt.	13.10.1940
T/Capt.	13.10.1940-(04.1941)
A/Maj.	1941
T/Maj.	1942?
WS/Maj.	02.12.1942
A/Lt.Col.	...-01.12.1942
T/Lt.Col.	02.12.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Lt.Col.	03.05.1945
T/Col	03.05.1945-(04.1946)
T/Brig.	03.05.1945-(04.1946)

MBE

18.02.1943

Middle East 05-10.42

Education: King Edwards, Birmingham; Trinity College, Cambridge (Craven Scholar, 1931; First Chancellor's Classical Medallist; Porson Prizeman; Browne Medallist, 1932; BA; Craven Travelling Student, 1933; MA 1937)
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1934-1938; Professor of Greek in the University of Sydney, NSW, 1937-1939.

1939	-	1940	Private and Lance-Corporal, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1940	-	1946	on General Staff duty:
18.05.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps
21.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
09.10.1941			transferred, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
03.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	Member, Re-organisation Committee, HQ Staff of the Army in India

PC, 1960. Diploma in Oriental and African Studies. Contested (UU) South Down, 1987. MP: (C) Wolverhampton SW, 1950-Feb. 1974; (UU) Down South Oct. 1974-1983, South Down, 1983-1987 (resigned seat Dec. 1985 in protest against AngloIrish Agreement; reelected Jan. 1986). Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Dec. 1955-Jan. 1957; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1957-1958; Minister of Health, July 1960-Oct. 1963.
Published: The Rendel Harris Papyri, 1936; First Poems, 1937; A Lexicon to Herodotus, 1938; The History of Herodotus, 1939; Castingoff, and other poems, 1939; Herodotus, Book VIII, 1939; Llyfr Blegywryd, 1942; Thucydidis Historia, 1942; Herodotus (translation), 1949; Dancer's End and The Wedding Gift (poems), 1951; The Social Services; Needs and Means, 1952; (jointly) One Nation, 1950; Change is our Ally, 1954; Biography of a Nation (with Angus Maude), 1955, 2nd edn 1970; Great Parliamentary Occasions, 1960; Saving in a Free Society, 1960; A Nation not Afraid, 1965; Medicine and Politics, 1966, rev. edn 1976; The House of Lords in the Middle Ages (with Keith Wallis), 1968; Freedom and Reality, 1969; Common Market: the case against, 1971; Still to Decide, 1972; Common Market: renegotiate or come out, 1973; No Easy Answers, 1973; Wrestling with the Angel, 1977; Joseph Chamberlain, 1977; A Nation or No Nation (ed R. Ritchie), 1978; Enoch Powell on 1992 (ed R. Ritchie), 1989; Collected Poems, 1990; The Evolution of the Gospel, 1994; numerous political pamphlets.
Literature: Simon Heffer, Like the Roman : the life of Enoch Powell (1998).

Powell,
Peter Llewellyn
P.L. Powell

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of W/Cdr. Frank James Bickley Powell, MBE, RAF (1885-1959), and Susanne Burns.
Brother of Lt. Brian L. Powell, Indian Army, P/O David E.F. Powell, RAF, and Flight Offr. Brenda M. Powell, WAAF.

14.11.1919
Winchester district, Hampshire
-
11.2002
Hereford district, Herefordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156545]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942
A/Capt.	08.06.1942-07.09.1942
T/Capt.	08.09.1942-13.09.1942, 23.09.1943-08.08.1945
A/Maj.	01.06.1944-29.07.1944, 09.07.1945-08.08.1945
T/Maj.	09.08.1945-11.02.1946
Capt.	11.11.1946, seniority 09.08.1945
Lt.	12.01.1952, seniority 14.05.1942
Capt.	12.01.1952, seniority 14.11.1946
T/Maj.	13.09.1952-13.11.1953
Maj.	14.11.1953 (retd 12.06.1958)

28.11.1947

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 62 days
?	-	02.11.1940	either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940			commissioned, The South Satffordshire Regiment [emergency commission to 10.11.1946]
29.07.1946	-	10.11.1946	Unemployed List (Release Regulations 1945)
11.11.1946			short service commission, Northumberland Fusiliers
12.01.1952			permanent commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Powell,
Robert Lundie
R.L. Powell

Son of Thomas Gonner George Powell, and Jane Fairlie Powell.
Married Minny Grant Maxwell Mackelvie (17.01.1918 - 1990?); one daughter, one son.

09.01.1911
Prenton, Wirral district, Cheshire
-
04.1969
Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland

2nd Lt.	21.06.1939 [90242]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Capt.	01.05.1947
Maj.	01.11.1948

	MC	11.10.1945	in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field
	TD	21.04.1950	-

Education: Loretto School (summer term 1924-1930; Prefect; VI; Prizeman; XV; Hockey); Caius College, Cambridge (BA).
General manager, J. & P. Coats, Patons and Baldwins Ltd., Alloa.

			late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, Loretto School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
21.06.1939	-	1940	commissioned, 7th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Territorial Army (France; captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 959) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)
22.01.1951	-	09.09.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

His daughter writes: "He was taken POW at Mons Boubert 1940 (for which he was awarded MC), and then was in Biberach (1940?), Laufen (1940-41?), ?? 1942, and Eichstätt (1943-45) from where I think he was liberated."

Power,
Bernard Francis

13.10.1916 ?
-
04.2002 ?
Chichester district, Sussex ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	31.10.1942 [249783]
WS/Lt.	01.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	16.08.1944-(04.1946)

31.10.1942			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
21.08.1944	-	(09.1944)	Officer Commanding, 3 Platoon, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Pownall,
Sir Henry Royds
H.R. Pownall

Second son of late Charles Assheton Whately Pownall, and Dora Bourne Royds, of Blackheath, London.
Married (10.12.1918) Lucy Louttit Gray (died 1950), youngest daughter of late William Henderson, Aberdeen and widow of Capt. John Gray; one son.

19.11.1887
London
-
09.06.1961
London

2nd Lt.	20.12.1906 [3553]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	26.03.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	04.09.1939-03.09.1940
T/Lt.Gen.	04.09.1940-16.01.1942
Lt.Gen.	17.01.1942 (retd 08.09.1945)

KCB	01.01.1945	New Year 45
CB	23.06.1936	HM's birthday 36
KBE	11.07.1940	France & Belgium
DSO	01.01.1918	France & Belgium
DSO	06.05.1932	NW Frontier of India
MC	01.01.1917	France & Belgium
MID	18.05.1917	?
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	06.05.1932	?
MID	03.12.1942	SW Pacific
OON	15.01.1943	services in the cause of the Allies

20.12.1906			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
26.03.1938	-	1939	Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, War Office
1939	-	1940	Chief of General Staff, BEF
1940	-	1940	Inspector-General of Home Guard
1940	-	1941	commanded British Troops in Northern Ireland
1941	-	1941	Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff, War Office
12.1941	-	01.1942	Commander-in-Chief, Far East
01.1942		02.1942	Chief of Staff "ABDA" Command, Far East
03.1942	-	03.1943	General Officer Commanding, Ceylon
1943	-	1943	Commander-in-Chief, Persia-Iraq
1943	-	1944	Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia Command
08.09.1945	-	19.11.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Colonel Commandant RA, 1942-03.12.1952.
Published: Chief of staff: the diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, ed. B. Bond, 2 vols. (1972–4).

Powney,
Samuel Ernest

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Samuel F Powney (1895-1943), and Ethel Florence Davies (1898-1987).
Married ((09?).1942, Dudley, Staffordshire) Florence Irene Flavell (03.1923 - 27.02.2018); one daughter, one son.

03.04.1921
Dudley, Staffordshire
-
18.05.1998
Dudley, West Midlands

Cadet	? [11250939]
2nd Lt.	01.04.1944 [314212]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1944 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)

01.04.1944

commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Powys-Lybbe,
Antony

Only son (with one sister) of Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe (1881-1930), and Lilian Frances Gillett Trotter (1887-1951).
Married (27.11.1937, St Mary's, Woolhampton, Berkshire) Rosemary Priscilla Ferrand (30.08.1912 - 19.07.1987), daughter of Guy Ferrand Ferrand (born Busfeild) (1881-1946), and Muriel Halifax (1883-1966); three sons, two daughters.

29.06.1909
Streatley, Berkshire
-
10.05.2004
Hyde Heath, Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	29.08.1929 [44124] (reld 17.02.1932)
2nd Lt.	29.10.1938 31.11.1939, seniority 01.08.1939
WS/Lt.	17.03.1940
A/Capt.	07.10.1940-06.01.1941
T/Capt.	07.01.1941-12.10.1942
WS/Capt.	13.10.1942
A/Maj.	13.07.1942-12.10.1942
T/Maj.	13.10.1942-25.05.1943
WS/Maj.	26.05.1943 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
Maj.	01.01.1949
T/Lt.Col.	26.05.1943-(10.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

21.04.1950

Education: Ladycross; Downside (1922-1927); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Piano tuner. Motor racing driver.

29.08.1929	-	17.02.1932	commission, Royal Corps of Signals
29.10.1938	-	07.10.1959	commissioned, London Corps of Signals, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
07.10.1940	-	(01.1942)	Staff Officer, Royal Signals, ...
12.03.1942	-	(01.1943)	Staff Officer, Royal Signals, ...

AMIEE.

Poynton,
Desmond Robert
D.R. Poynton

Married ((12?).1940, North East Cheshire) Nancy Eva; ... children (two sons?).

27.03.1919
-
06.1987
Woodford, Stockport district, Cheshire

2nd Lt.	04.05.1938 [75213]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	01.11.1941-(01.1945)
WS/Capt.	01.03.1943 [= probably 01.03.1945, or, promotion in 1945 with seniority back to 1943]
Capt.	27.03.1946
Maj.	18.02.1955
Lt.Col.	01.03.1959 (retd 18.03.1962)

TD	25.05.1951	& 1st Clasp
TD	28.06.1955	2nd Clasp
TD	15.11.1960	3rd Clasp

Education: Manchester University.

			late Officer Cadet, Manchester University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
04.05.1938			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army (42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Troops RASC)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
21.08.1940			transferred to Royal Tank Regiment (Royal Armoured Corps) - Territorial Army
?			transferred to The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (Dragoons) RAC
06.05.1953			transferred to Royal Tank Regiment
02.11.1956			transferred to 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment
18.03.1962	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Pratt,
Douglas Henry
D.H. Pratt (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Pratt)

Son of Charles Henry Pratt, and Elizabeth Pratt.
Married (29.09.1915, All Saints', Eastbourne) Agnes Frances Docksey ((06?).1886 - 03.02.1963), daughter of T. Docksey, of Birkdale, Lancashire; one son (Maj. Norman Hugh Douglas Pratt).

07.10.1892
Jaunpur, India
-
14.05.1958
Frimley and Camberley District Hospital, Frimley, Surrey (formerly of Camberley, Surrey)

2nd Lt.	20.09.1911 [4584]
Lt.	15.04.1914
T/Capt.	20.01.1915-30.09.1915
Capt.	01.10.1915
T/Maj. MGC	01.03.1917-27.07.1917
A/Lt.Col. TC	26.03.1918-20.05.1918
T/Maj.	08.08.1918-19.10.1918
T/Lt.Col. TC	26.10.1918-28.05.1920
T/Maj. TC	29.05.1920-21.01.1923 (seniority 17.10.1914)
Capt.	29.09.1923
Maj.	01.10.1925
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1932
Lt.Col.	21.03.1936
Col.	21.01.1938, seniority 01.01.1935 (supernumerary 31.12.1945) (retd 14.08.1946)
A/Brig.	22.10.1939-21.04.1940
T/Brig.	22.04.1940-31.12.1941
local Maj.Gen.	06.11.1940-31.12.1940
A/Maj.Gen.	01.01.1941-31.12.1941
T/Maj.Gen.	01.01.1942-14.08.1946
Hon. Maj.Gen.	14.08.1946

CB	01.01.1944	New Year 44
DSO	18.02.1918	?
MC	WW I	?
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
MID	22.06.1915	?
MID	25.05.1918	?
LM	15.08.1946	?

Education: Dover College (St Martin's House, 1906C-1910B; Hockey XI; Running Team); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1910-1911).

20.09.1911			commissioned, Royal Irish Regiment
1911	-	1914	1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment (India)
1914	-	1918	European War (France & Belgium 19.12.1914-09.1915, 21.08.1917-08.1918) (DSO, MC, despatches twice)
09.10.1916	-	27.07.1917	seconded, Machine Gun Corps
28.07.1917	-	28.09.1923	seconded, Tank Corps (commanding 8th & 26th Battalions; Ireland 1919-1922)
08.08.1918	-	19.10.1918	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Tactical School, Camberley
29.09.1923			transferred, Royal Tank Corps
1923	-	1924	Staff College, Camberley (psc)
25.01.1925	-	10.02.1926	Staff Captain, .... (Aldershot Command)
11.02.1926	-	05.02.1929	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 42nd Infantry Division (East Lancashire) (Western Command)
07.12.1929	-	16.01.1933	Director of Military Art (GSO2), Royal Military College of Australia (Duntroon) (as Exchange Officer)
1933			6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Cairo)
13.04.1934	-	30.09.1935	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
21.03.1936	-	20.01.1938	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps
21.01.1938	-	21.10.1939	Assistant Director of Mechanization, War Office
22.10.1939		19.07.1940	Commander, 1st Army Tank Brigade (UK, France & Belgium 1940, Dunkirk 05.1940, UK)
20.07.1940	-	10.07.1941	specially employed (Ministry of Supply)
11.07.1941	-	27.06.1943	Major-General Armoured Fighting Vehicles, British Army Delegation to Washington, DC (USA)
28.06.1943	-	(04.)1946	Deputy Director-General, British Ministry of Supply Mission, Washington, DC (USA)
11.07.1944	-	14.08.1946	also: ADC to the King

Pratt,
Norman Hugh Douglas
T.W. Pratt

Son of Maj.Gen. Douglas Henry Pratt, CB, DSO, MC (1892-1958), and Agnes Frances Docksey (1886-1963).

30.03.1917
Weymouth district, Wiltshire
-
11.1995
Surrey North-Western district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [144940]
Lt.	28.04.1939
A/Capt.	01.08.1942-31.10.1942
T/Capt.	23.02.1943-27.01.1945
Capt.	28.01.1945
A/Maj.	27.01.1945-26.04.1945
T/Maj.	27.04.1945-22.04.1946, 24.04.1947-30.06.1947, 19.07.1947-27.01.1950
Maj.	28.01.1950 (retd 03.11.1962)

MID

07.01.1949

Palestine 09.47-03.48

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1935-1936); Staff College (psc).

28.01.1937			commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
04.05.1938			commissioned, Indian Army (Guides Cavalry)
13.07.1940			transferred, Royal Tank Regiment
04.01.1941			transferred, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
16.11.1946			transferred, 3rd The King's Own Hussars [later Queen's Own Hussars]
03.11.1962	-	30.03.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Pratt,
Thomas William
T.W. Pratt

?
-

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941 [184601]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	22.09.1945-(04.1946)

26.04.1941

commissioned, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]

Pratt-Johnson,
Donald Wilfred
D.W. Pratt-Johnson (Photo courtesy of Chris Pratt-Johnson)

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Joseph George Pratt-Johnson (1884-1974), and Lilian Mary Philomena Thompson (1890-1968).
Married (28.12.1944, Jerusalem) Constance Ellen Bird (29.06.1920 - 10.02.1984), daughter of Alfred George Bird (1896-1942), and Maisey ...; two sons.

06.10.1917
Lahore, Pakistan
-
26.09.1983
Leicestershire Central district, Leicestershire

Spr.	08.09.1939 [2192071]
2nd Lt.	30.03.1940 [126390]
WS/Lt.	30.09.1941
A/Capt.	15.11.1941-14.02.1942
T/Capt.	15.02.1942-16.04.1944
WS/Capt.	17.04.1944
A/Maj.	17.01.1944-16.04.1944
T/Maj.	17.04.1944-29.11.1945
WS/Maj.	30.11.1945 (demobilized 28.06.1946) (reld 28.11.1953)
A/Lt.Col.	09.11.1944-06.12.1944, 27.08.1945-29.10.1945
T/Lt.Col.	30.10.1945
Hon. Lt.Col.	28.11.1953

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

08.09.1939			enlisted, Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
11.10.1939			embodied, Royal Engineers
11.10.1939	-	30.03.1940	141st Officer Cadet Training Unit, RE (Shorncliffe)
30.03.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
31.03.1940	-	27.12.1940	1st Field Squadron RE (from 11.05.1940-11.06.1940 with BEF, France)
21.06.1941	-	30.03.1945	King George V's Own Royal Bengal Sappers & Miners Group, Indian Engineers
1941	-	1941	31st Field Squadron King George V's Own Bengal Sappers & Miners
1941	-	1944	31st Field Squadron, Indian Engineers (Middle East, Paiforce)
30.03.1945	-	26.04.1945	attached, 401st Field Squadron Indian Engineers
26.04.1945	-	27.08.1945	King George V's Own Royal Bengal Sappers & Miners Group, Indian Engineers
27.08.1945	-	28.06.1946	Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers & Miners Group, Indian Engineers

Preece,
John Anthony Richard Adney
J.A.R.A. Preece

Son of Adney Richard Preece (1892-), and Mary F. Taylor.
Married ((03?).1953, Kensington district, Middlesex) Jacqueline Newnham.

23.02.1920
Wellington district, Shropshire
-
09.1986
Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	08.07.1939 [92406]
WS/Lt.	08.01.1941
A/Capt.	14.10.1941-13.01.1942
T/Capt.	14.01.1942-13.01.1944, 09.05.1944-16.06.1945, 08.01.1946-22.02.1947
Lt.	10.08.1946, seniority 23.08.1942
Capt.	23.02.1947
Maj.	07.12.1954, seniority 23.02.1954 (retd 01.05.1974)

MC	24.01.1946	NW Europe 44-45
MID	20.12.1940	operations in the field 03-06.40
TD	24.10.1947	-

			late Cadet, Bedford Modern School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
08.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939	-	09.08.1946	mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	"D" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA
(1944)	-	(1945)	126th Field Regiment RA (NW Europe)
10.08.1946			permanent commission

Prescott,
Richard Stanley
"Dick"
R.S. Prescott

Younger son (with four sisters and one brother) of John Stanley Prescott (1873-1964), and Helen Kyle (1882-1947), of San Isidro, Argentina.
Married (20.12.1941, Cairns Church, Lanark, Scotland) Sarah Aitchison "Sadie" Shand (11.04.1919 - 11.05.2010), daughter (with two sisters) of Peter Shand (1891-1952), and Sarah Aitchison Bridges (1894-1975), of St Catherine's, Lanark; two daughters, one son.

15.02.1909
Buenos Aires, Argentina
-
09.09.1987
Tres Arroyos, Argentina

2nd Lt.	02.08.1941 [200638]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 18.03.1946)
T/Capt.	01.11.1944-18.03.1946
Hon. Capt.	18.03.1946

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.01.1941			commissioned, 22nd Dragoons - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
04.07.1943			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section)
			Anglo-Argentine Railway Staff

Prestoe,
Gordon Percy
G.P. Prestoe

Son (with one sibling) of Arthur Leonard Prestoe (1882-1959), and May Elsie Knapman (1889-1977).
Married (28.05.1933, St Paul's Church, Egham Hythe, Windsor district, Berkshire) Alice Ethel Stevens (04.07.1911 - 08.1986); two daughters, two sons.

25.03.1909
Staines district, Middlesex
-
25.12.1974
Hounslow district, Greater London

2nd Lt.	16.12.1936 [69921]
WS/Lt.	16.12.1939
T/Capt.	28.11.1941-03.06.1944
WS/Capt.	04.06.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	04.06.1944-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

16.12.1936			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (Category B)
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
08.03.1947	-	25.03.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Preston,
John Halkerston
J.H. Preston

Elder son of Maj. Frederick A.H. Preston, and Florence A. Tossell, of Farnborough, Hampshire.
Married ((12?).1941, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Angela Mary Graham, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs A.J. Graham, of Langley, Buckinghamshire; ... children (one daughter?).

03.12.1919
Medway district, Kent
-
(03?).1976
Worthing district, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	16.11.1940 [155769]
WS/Lt.	16.05.1942
Lt.	17.01.1945, seniority 03.06.1942
Capt.	03.12.1946
Maj.	03.12.1953
Lt.Col.	23.06.1962 (retd 31.10.1965)

	OBE	01.01.1966	New Year 66 [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	19.09.1946	Burma

			served in the ranks for 4 years, 306 days
16.11.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 16.01.1945]
			served with RE units in India & SE Asia
17.01.1945			permanent commission

Preston,
Robert Stoddart
R.S. Preston (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Preston, via Mr John Preston)

Elder son of R.S. Preston, and S. Graham.
Married ((06?).1943, Liverpool South district, Lancashire) Maeve Eileen Smith; one son.

06.01.1922
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
24.03.1945
(KIA) [age 23]
[Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 35.A.1]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.10.1942 [249188]
WS/Lt.	17.04.1943

Education: Liverpool Institute.

17.10.1942			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
?	-	24.03.1945	attached 2nd (Airborne) Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Operaton Varsity, glider landings on Hamminkeln [killed in action])

Price,
Anthony Frederick
"Tony"
A.F. Price, 1931.

Son of Stephen Alfred Price, and Lilian Maude Craddock, of Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire.

(06?).1910
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
28.11.1943
(KIA) [age 33]
[Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy, XI.E.34]

2nd Lt.	20.04.1940 [129422]
WS/Lt.	06.03.1941
T/Capt.	06.03.1941-(04.1941)

Chartered accountant.

20.04.1940			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
?	-	28.11.1943	served in Italy (killed in action)

Price,
Charles Wilfrid Hilton
C.W.W. Price, 1927.

Elder son of Mr. Wilfrid George Hilton Price, of Rowden House, Bromyard, and grandson of Frederick George Hilton Price, banker.
Married (24.05.1927, Burford, Tenbury district, Worcestershire) Rosemary Crofton McLaughlin (1901-1959), only daughter of the Rev. Crofton McLaughlin and Mrs McLaughlin, of Burford Rectory, Salop.

09.10.1900
Kensington, Greater London, Middlesex
-
(03.)1983
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	24.10.1939 [108016]
WS/Lt.	18.04.1941
A/Capt.	10.01.1941-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	24.04.1944
T/Maj.	24.04.1944-(04.1946)

24.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(> 04.1941)			transferred to the Intelligence Corps
24.01.1944	-	(04.1946)	a Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General with the Director of Freight Movement, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office

Price,
Keith Maelor
K.M. Price

Son of ... Price, and ... Hutchinson.
Married (25.03.1942, Northumberland North Second dictrict) Sheila Grace Trevor-Roper (born 1912); two sons.

(09?).1917
Rotherham district, Derbyshire / Yorkshire
-
05.02.2007
Bibury
[aged 89]

2nd Lt.	08.05.1939 [90309]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	16.07.1943-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.05.1947, seniority 17.12.1944
A/Maj.	01.05.1947-16.07.1951
Maj.	17.07.1951, seniority 01.05.1947 (retd 01.02.1956)

20.06.1950

			late Cadet, Wellingborough School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
08.05.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.02.1956	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Price,
Melville Crawfurd
M.C. Price

Son (with one brother) of Walter Harrington Crawfurd Price (1881-1967), and Margaret Allan (1880-1938).
Married 1st ((06?).1940, Epping, Essex) Dorothy M. Warren.
Married 2nd ((12?).1946, Colchester district, Essex) Joan L. Howell (née Bruce) (? - 10.01.1978).

13.01.1910
Hightown, West Derby, Lancashire
-
23.06.1984
Colchester, Essex

2nd Lt.	19.07.1929 13.01.1931, seniority 12.01.1930 (reld 03.07.1935)
2nd Lt.	31.12.1939 [42359]
WS/Lt.	01.07.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	05.08.1941-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946
Lt.	15.10.1951, seniority 30.09.1947
Capt.	15.10.1951, seniority 01.11.1947

MID

22.03.1945

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) *

* This officer was lent to the ship as Bombardment Liaison Officer. An immense enthusiast and with a most profound knowledge of his job he drilled the bombardment 'team' so that everything worked with smoothness and precision when the ship was in action. His efforts were largely responsible for some of the remarkably good shooting carried out by the ship.

Education: Uppingham School (01.1924-04.1927).

			late Cadet, Uppingham School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
19.07.1929			commissioned, 53rd (London) Medium Brigade RA - Territorial Army
13.01.1931			transferred, 2nd City of London Regiment
31.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
(06.1944)			Bombardment Liaison Officer, HMS Frobisher (Hawkins class cruiser) (despatches)
...	-	...	...
15.10.1951	-	09.11.1954	short service commission
10.11.1954	-	15.10.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Emp. List 4)

Price,
Rees Alfred
R.A. Price (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Jervis)

Son of Ernest Henry Price, and Beatrice Pawley.
Husband of Irene Betty Price, of Hove.

(06?).1915
Cardiff district, Glamorgan
-
05.01.1944
[age 29]
[Hove Old Cemetery, plor G.D., grave 189]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.02.1942 [226538]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

08.02.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?			attached, Indian Army
23.03.1942	-	02.05.1942	Officers' Light Anti-Aircraft course serial No. 18, Anti-Aircraft School (Deolali, India)
?	-	05.01.1944	131st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA

Price,
Robert Caradoc Rose
R.C.R. Price

Son of Brig. Thomas Rose Price, and ... Verey.
Married (06.04.1946) Maureen Maude Tower Butler (12.06.1919 - 12.01.2007), daughter of FitzWalter George Probyn Butler, 17th/27th Baron Dunboyne and Isolde Butler Tower; children.
From London.

31.05.1912
Wokingham district, Berkshire
-
28.05.1988
Bracknell, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	28.01.1932 [50915]
Lt.	28.01.1935
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-29.11.1939
Capt.	28.01.1940
A/Maj.	16.10.1941-15.01.1942
T/Maj.	16.01.1942-05.03.1945
WS/Maj.	06.03.1945
A/Lt.Col.	07.12.1944-05.03.1945
T/Lt.Col.	06.03.1945-12.10.1945
local Lt.Col.	13.10.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	01.05.1951 (retd 08.10.1953)

DSO	08.07.1943	North Africa (Algeria / Tunesia)
OBE	01.01.1951	New Year 51
MID	23.09.1943	North Africa (Algeria / Tunesia)

Education; jssc; psc.

28.01.1932			commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
11.06.1938			transferred, The Welsh Guards
19.05.1939	-	17.11.1940	Adjutant, ...

Price,
William
W. Price

14.02.1894
-
02.1967 still alive

Lt. (QM)	18.11.1931 [52984]
Capt. (QM)	01.08.1938
A/Maj. (QM)	1940?
T/Maj. (QM)	01.04.1940-(04.1941)
Bt. Maj. (QM)	01.07.1942
Maj. (QM)	18.11.1943
T/Lt.Col.	26.05.1941-(04.1946)
Lt.Col. (QM)	20.11.1946 (retd 14.03.1950)

MBE	11.07.1940	?
MM	?	?
14\|15 St	?	?
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?

1912?	-	1920	served in the ranks for 8 years, 260 days
09.09.1914	-	27.05.1915	served in France & Belgium
24.08.1915	-	16.10.1918	served in France & Belgium (wounded)
1920	-	1931	Warrant Officer Class II for 11 years, 17 days
18.11.1931			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps
01.06.1933			Extra Regimentally Employed List
(01.1937)			War Office, London
26.02.1941	-	(04.1941)	an Assistant Director to the Deputy Director General of Mechanization at the Ministry of Supply
03.09.1941	-	(04.1946)	Assistant Director to Director-General Fighting Vehicles at the Ministry of Supply

Price,
William [England]
W. Price (Photo courtesy of Mrs Judith Appleby)

05.12.1881
West Derby, Lancashire
-
died between 02.1957 and 02.1967 ?

RSM	?
Lt. (QM)	14.05.1923 [26131]
Capt. (QM)	14.05.1931 (retd 05.12.1936; age limit)
Bt. Maj. (QM) (retd)	26.08.1939
Maj. (QM) (retd)	? (reverted to retd < 04.1944)

MBE	01.01.1944	New Year 44
MC	?	?
DCM	?	?

14.05.1923			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	Quartermaster, Regimental Depot, The East Lancashire Regiment
26.08.1939	-	(04.1941)	Camp Commandant, ...

Prichard-Jones,
Sir John;
2nd Baronet (cr. 1910)
J. Prichard-Jones

Son of Sir John PrichardJones, 1st Bt, and Marie Ethel, youngest daughter of late Charles Read, solicitor.
Succeeded father, 17.10.1917.
Married 1st (31.07.1937, Parish Church, Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath) Heather Nugent (from whom he obtained a divorce, 1950), elder daughter of late Sir Walter
Nugent, 4th Bt; one son.
Married 2nd (02.1959) Helen Marie Thérèse, eldest daughter of J.F. Liddy, dental surgeon, 20 Laurence Street, Drogheda; one daughter.

20.01.1913
-
02.07.2007
Lucan, Co. Dublin

2nd Lt.	23.08.1939 [96410]
WS/Lt.	23.02.1941
T/Capt.	15.08.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt. RARO	20.01.1948, seniority 23.02.1941

Education: Eton; Christ Church, Oxford (BA Hons; MA).
Called to Bar, Gray's Inn, 1936.

23.08.1939			commissioned, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
(04.1944)			seconded
20.01.1948	-	20.01.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Barrister; farmer and bloodstock breeder

Primavesi,
Fedele Alfred Thomas George Hubert
"John"
F.A.T.G.H. Primavesi

Married ((03?).1941, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Irene Mary Fordsmith (02.06.1910 - 01.1999); one son.

06.08.1909
-
02.06.1980
Bath, Avon

2nd Lt.	05.12.1936 [69618]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	28.12.1943
T/Maj.	28.12.1943-(04.1944), 28.08.1944-(04.1945)

19.02.1952

Education: Wycliffe College (1919-1925; day boy).

05.12.1936			commissioned, 95th (Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
01.11.1937			transferred, 94th (Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	04.11.1959	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

His son writes: "My father was injured near Nijmegen in the Second World War. Took some shrapnel in his left knee. Was disabled all his life with this. Prior to this played cricket for Gloucester!"
Times obituary: "Major John Primavesi, TD, who died in Bath, had for 25 years been prominent in Bristol and West Country ports in the grain and feed trade. Born 70 years ago, he was a member of a Glamorgan family owning ships trading with Italy and which had also given its name to china making. Educated' at Wycliffe College his early training was with Elder & Fyffes, and after the war he worked for the West African Marketing Board. While serving with the 43rd Wessex Division Field Artillery (TA) he was severely wounded in the drive for Arnhem in 1944. He joined the Bristol Grain Importers Defence Association 23 years ago just after the grain and feed trade had emerged from 14 years of Government control due to wartime and post-war conditions. It was then considered essential to have a general manager who could co-ordinate importers' clams in respect of damaged cargo arriving in West Country ports. In the course of time Primavesi became secretary of the Bristol Corn and Feed Association, the Corn Trade Guild and latterly, regional secretary to the United Kingdom Agricultural Trade Association. His expert knowledge of shipping technicalities, his persistence and gentle caring personality brought him high regard and success. He is survived by his widow Mary, and his son."

Prince,
Ancliffe Richard
A.R. Prince (Photo courtesy of Mr Jon Marshall)

29.04.1907
Epsom district, Surrey
-
19.09.1994
Cheam, Surrey

2nd Lt.	05.03.1940 [120756]
WS/Lt.	12.12.1940
T/Capt.	12.12.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	01.11.1942
T/Maj.	01.11.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	06.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Lt.Col.	06.08.1945-(04.1946)

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

05.03.1940			commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
30.01.1941	-	(04.1941)	Adjutant, 5th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
08.07.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps [effective from 22.01.1941]
			Squadron Commander, 5th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
			Chief Liaison Officer AMGOTT (Trieste)

Published: (ed.) Wheeled odyssey : the story of the Fifth Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (1946)

Prince-Smith,
Donald Walter Stuart
D.W.S. Prince-Smith

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

24.04.1917
Dublin, Ireland
-
21.05.2006

2nd Lt.	18.01.1941 [170203]
WS/Lt.	15.01.1942
T/Capt.	11.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

MID

19.07.1945

Italy

Education: Downside College.

18.01.1941

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Pringle,
Arthur Michael
A.M. Pringle

Second son of John Pringle, MD, and Dorothy Beney, of Whalley, Range, Manchester.
Married (17.05.1941, Chelmsford district, Essex) Ruth Margaret Townend (05.07.1913 - 27.09.1995), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Alfred Bernard Stair (Barney) Townend (1882-1959), and Grace Carina Bevington (1888-1978); two daughters.

11.02.1914
Manchester
-
03.02.2000
Chelmsford, Hastings and Rother district, East Essex

2nd Lt.	06.05.1936 [67560]
Lt.	06.05.1939
WS/Capt.	30.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	30.10.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

	TD	18.09.1951	& 1st clasp
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Education: Rugby School (Cotton House, 1928.1-1932.2).
Buyer with White, Child & Beney Ltd., Engineers and Merchants, London. Gained civil aviator's licence (No. 15524) 09.10.1937, taken on Avro 631 - Genet Major, 140, at Lancashire Aero Club.

			late Cadet Corporal, Rugby School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
06.05.1936			commissioned, 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional RASC, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Company director, 1954-1961. Farmer.
His daughter writes: "I know he was evacuated from Dunkirk, and then his unit reformed and trained until June 1944 in various locations around England, i.e. in Essex in 1941 - where he met my mother, and then in Northamptonshire and Yorkshire from late 1941 for several years. He went to France on D-Day+3 and was organising supplies to the tanks in Normandy for several weeks/months, and then pushed on through France into Germany. I do not think he saw any front line action."

Pringle,
John Kenneth McKenzie
J.K.M. Pringle

Son of Kenneth McKenzie Mallet Pringle (1879-), and Carmen Ouida DeLisser (1901-1962).
Married (1948; divorced) Isobel Ann "Liz" Benn; one daughter.

04.10.1925
Claremont, Jamaica
-
12.12.2006

2nd Lt.	05.07.1943
WS/Lt.	05.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

CBE

12.06.1965

HM's birthday 65: for public services

05.07.1943

commissioned, General List, Infantry - Carribean Section [emergency commission]

Hotelier & director of tourism, Jamaica.

Prittie,
Hon. Henry Desmond Graham;
6th Baron Dunalley (cr. 1800 (Ire.)), of Kilboy, Tipperary
H.D.G. Prittie

Elder son (with one brother) of Henry Cornelius O'Callaghan Prittie, 5th Baron Dunalley, DSO (1877-1948), and Beatrix Evelyn Graham (1878-1967).
Succeeded father 03.05.1948.
Married (23.04.1947, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, Westminster district, London) Mary Philippa Cary (31.03.1922 - 11.11.2014), only daughter of Maj. Hon. Philip Cary; two sons, one daughter.

14.10.1912
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
26.06.1992
Swerford, Banbury district, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58206]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	01.12.1939-28.02.1940
T/Capt.	01.03.1940-01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	01.08.1941-31.10.1941
T/Maj.	01.11.1941-13.06.1943, 10.07.1943-18.12.1943, 29.06.1944-(01.1946)
WS/Maj.	29.11.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 08.02.1953)
A/Lt.Col.	29.08.1945-28.11.1945
T/Lt.Col.	29.11.1945-08.02.1953
Hon. Lt.Col.	08.02.1953

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 8th Army
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: Stowe (1926.3-1931.2); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (28.08.19131-1932 ;Prize Cadetship).

02.02.1933			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
1933			2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade (UK & depot)
1934	-	1936	1st Battalion The Rifle Brigade (UK)
30.01.1937	-	31.08.1939	employed under Colonial Office (4th Battalion King's African Rifles (Adjutant 1938-1939))
1940	-	1941	General Staff Officer, grade 3 (Operations) (GSO3 (Ops)), 1st Africa Division (Ethiopia)
1941	-	1941	student, Middle East Staff College (Haifa)
1941	-	1942	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ... (Cairo & Haifa)
1942	-	1942	2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Western Desert)
1942	-	1943	instructor, Middle East Tactical School
1943	-	1943	1st Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Italy)
1943	-	1945	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), Staff College, Camberley
1945	-	1945	student, US Command and General Staff School (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
1945	-	1946	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), Allied Land Forces South East Asia
1946	-	1948	Brigade Major (Territorial Army) (London)
1949	-	1950	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), War Office (London)
1950	-	1952	2nd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Germany)
1952	-	1953	specially employed, War Office (London)
08.02.1953	-	03.11.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Privett,
Kenneth
K. Privett

Son of Charles Arthur Privett, and Alice Edith Good.
Married ((09?).1938, Petersfield district, Hampshire) Joyce M. Windsor; one son, two daughters.

30.07.1913
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
(12?).1977
Horndean, Petersfield district, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.03.1940 [119861]
WS/Lt.	01.04.1941
T/Capt.	01.04.1941-24.05.1944
WS/Capt.	25.05.1944
T/Maj.	25.05.1944-(04.1946)

Education: BA.

05.03.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(05.1941)			Second-in-Command, No. 25 Bomb Disposal Company, RE

Procter,
John Raymond
J.R. Procter

Only son of Christopher John Procter (1879-), and Irene Macfarlane, of East Molesey, Surrey.
Married (09.12.1944, St Andrew's Church, Totteridge, Barnet district, Hertfordshire) First Officer Winifred Emily Nash, WRNS.

07.1911
Wandsworth district, London
-
1988
Surrey South Western district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.07.1943 [284973]
WS/Lt.	02.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

02.07.1943

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Prothero,
Eric Royston
E.R. Prothero

Married 1st ((06?0.1932, Poole district, Dorset) Nellie G. Dickinson.
Married 2nd ...

25.07.1905
Merthyr Tydfil district, Breconshire / Glamorgan / Mid Glamorgan
-
03.1984
Hammersmith district, London

2nd Lt.	20.04.1941 [182588]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.	10.02.1947, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt.	18.07.1948 (reld 09.02.1950)

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
EM	04.11.1949	-

1939			enlisted service
20.04.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
10.02.1947			short service commission

Proudlock,
Arthur George
A.G. Proudlock (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Proudlock)

Youngest son of Robert Lewis Proudlock (1862-1948), of Bedford, late of Jersey, formerly Arboricultural Adviser to the government of Bengal, and Rosetta Lewis (1868-1941).
Brother of Brig. John Lewis Proudlock, DSO, and Lt.Col. Robert Victor Proudlock.
Uncle of Capt. Robert Donald Proudlock.
Married 1st (1936) Wenonah Elizabeth Young (died 01.1975), only daughter of Mr & Mrs J. Haydn Young, of Vancouver, British Columbia; one son [Capt. Martin Proudlock, MC, artillery officer 02.08.1963-30.06.1975], two daughters.
Married 2nd (1976) Berenice Macintyre.
Residence: (1966) Hendre, Ruthin, Denbigh, North Wales; (1971) Numidia, Ruthin, North Wales, then Cape Town, South Africa.

21.08.1907
Ootacummund, South India
-
05.08.2002
Cape Town, South Africa

2nd Lt.	01.09.1927 [38421]
Lt.	01.09.1930
Capt.	15.04.1938
A/Maj.	14.09.1940-13.12.1940
T/Maj.	14.12.1940-13.06.1942
WS/Maj.	14.06.1942
Maj.	01.09.1944
A/Lt.Col.	14.03.1942-13.06.1942
Maj.	01.09.1944
A/Lt.Col.	14.03.1942-13.06.1942
T/Lt.Col.	14.06.1942-27.04.1943, 26.11.1944-08.12.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	09.12.1945
Lt.Col.	01.04.1950 (supernumerary 01.04.1953)
A/Col.	09.06.1945-08.12.1945
T/Col.	09.12.1945-18.04.1947, 26.07.1951-31.12.1952
Col.	01.01.1953 (retd 04.06.1957)
T/Brig.	01.12.1953-04.06.1957
Hon. Brig.	04.06.1957

DSO	22.03.1945	NW Europe 44-45 [recommendation available upon request]
OBE	01.01.1948	New Year 48 [recommendation available upon request]
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe 44-45

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc).

01.09.1927			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)			6th Field Brigade RA (Bordon)
08.04.1931	-	06.04.1937	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force (06.1933 showing as Company Officer, 5th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment at Zaria (for Maiduguri); 01.1937 showing as Adjutant, 5th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment at Zaria from 12.05.1934)
01.10.1938	-	14.05.1940	Adjutant, 17th Field Regiment RA (Woolwich)
14.09.1940	-	15.02.1941	Brigade Major, ...
27.02.1941	-	13.03.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Intelligence), ...
14.03.1942	-	06.04.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Intelligence), ...
(1944)	-	11.1944	Commanding Officer, 191st Field Regiment RA (NW Europe; DSO, despatches)
11.11.1944	-	06.06.1945	Commanding Officer, 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA (NW Europe) [196th Anti-Tank Battery RA was responsible for the capture of Heinrich Himmler]
09.06.1945	-	14.04.1946	Colonel (General Staff) (Intelligence), 30 Corps (British Army of the Rhine)
12.06.1946	-	18.04.1947	Director Organisation & Personnel Intelligence Division, Control Commission for Germany (OBE)
01.07.1950	-	25.07.1951	Chief Instructor, Officer Cadet School
26.07.1951	-	19.11.1953	Commandant, Mons Officer Cadet School
01.12.1953	-	(02.1957)	Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA), ... Infantry Division (Territorial Army)
04.06.1957	-	21.08.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of Flint, 10.1966. Territorial Army Secretary for Denbighshire and Flintshire in N. Wales, 1957. In 1968 following cuts in the TA he became Deputy Secretary for Wales, retiring 21.08.1972. Moved to South Africa.

Proudlock,
John Dales
J.D. Proudlock

Son of Edmund Arcangelo Proudlock and Emily Proudlock.
Husband of Charlotte Thurlow Proudlock, of Roundhay, Leeds, Yorkshire.

1912 ?
-
18.05.1940
(died at sea) [age 28]
[Reykjavik (Fossvogur) Cemetery, Iceland, C3.2]

2nd Lt.	25.05.1938 [75624]
T/Capt.	?

Associate of the Institute of Bankers (AIB).

25.05.1938			commissioned, 5th Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939	-	18.05.1940	mobilized, 1/5th Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment

Proudlock,
John Lewis
J.L. Proudlock (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Proudlock)

Son of Robert Lewis Proudlock (1862-1948), of Bedford, late of Jersey, formerly Arboricultural Adviser to the government of Bengal, and Rosetta Lewis (1868-1941).
Brother of Brig. Arthur George Proudlock, DSO, OBE, and Lt.Col. Robert Victor Proudlock.
Uncle of Capt. Robert Donald Proudlock.
Married ((09?).1939, Aldershot, Hampshire) Alison Doreen "Bunty" Stewart (30.07.1915 - 30.11.1983); three sons.

29.12.1905
Ootacummund, South India
-
26.08.1978
Edinburgh, Scotland

2nd Lt.	03.02.1926 [34546]
Lt.	03.02.1929
T/Capt.	01.04.1936-14.11.1937
Capt.	15.11.1937
A/Maj.	26.01.1940-25.04.1940
T/Maj.	26.04.1940-04.06.1941, 15.10.1941-02.02.1943
Maj.	03.02.1943
A/Lt.Col.	09.12.1942-08.03.1943
T/Lt.Col.	09.03.1943-11.04.1949
Lt.Col.	12.04.1949
T/Col.	11.10.1950-26.02.1952 (supernumerary 12.04.1952)
Col.	16.05.1952
T/Brig.	27.02.1952-12.04.1956
Brig.	13.04.1956 (supernumerary 16.05.1958) (retd 13.05.1959)

	DSO	11.10.1945	NW Europe 44-45
	Hkn	25.03.1949	?

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc).

03.02.1926			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	2nd Light Brigade RA (Egypt)
01.11.1933	-	20.09.1937	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force (01.1937 showing as Company Commander, 2nd Battalion The Nigeria Regiment at Kano) [obtained his aviator's licence No. 15132 at 17.07.1937 taken on a B.A. Swallow - Cirrus 80 at Cinque Ports Flying Club]
06.05.1938	-	31.10.1940	Adjutant, 24th Field Regiment RA (Aldershot)
05.10.1941	-	13.07.1942	Brigade Major, ...
09.12.1942	-	03.08.1945	Commanding Officer, 186th Field Regiment RA (NW Europe; DSO)
04.08.1945	-	14.12.1945	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
28.01.1946	-	08.06.1946	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
10.09.1949	-	10.10.1950	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), Western Command
11.10.1950	-	28.01.1952	Colonel Administration and Quartering (Col A/Q), Western Command
27.02.1952	-	03.09.1952	Commander, Army Group Royal Artillery (Territorial Army)
22.09.1952	-	31.08.1955	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), ... Division (Territorial Army)
01.10.1955	-	(02.1957)	Deputy Director Cadets (Brigadier), War Office (London)
13.05.1959	-	29.12.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Proudlock,
Robert Donald
"Bob"
R.D. Proudlock (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert D. Proudlock)

Only son of Lt.Col. Robert Victor Proudlock, late Indian Army, and Kathleen Helen Bryham Peck, of Bedford.
Nephew of Brig. Arthur George Proudlock, DSO, OBE and Brig. John Lewis Proudlock, DSO.
Married ((12?).1953, Paddington district, London) Grace Marie F. "Wynne" Yorke (08.04.1925 - 29.04.2010), only daughter of Dr F.C. Yorke and B. Yorke, of Edgworthstown, Co. Longford, Eire.

13.12.1924
Bedford, Bedfordshire
-
06.2010 still alive at Laguna Beach, California, USA

Cadet	? [14418817]
2nd Lt.	27.05.1944 [321208]
WS/Lt.	27.11.1944
2nd Lt.	16.11.1946, seniority 13.12.1945
Lt.	13.06.1947
Capt.	13.12.1951 (retd 20.02.1955; receiving a gratuity)

MID

08.04.1949

Malaya 07-12.48

An assault squad of 26th Field Regiment, numbering 20 men, battled with a Communist terrorist force in the Sungei Buloh Forest Reserve, some ten miles outside Kuala Lumpur, at 21.08.1948. In the 47 minutes of fighting - the only really opposed fighting encounter of the entire war - seven of the enemy were killed and eleven captured, with an own loss of one man.

07.1942			enlisted service, Suffolk Regiment
1943			attended the very first course at the Highland Fieldcraft Training Center (HFTC) in Glenfeshie, Scotland
			Anti-Tank Officer Cadet Training Unit in Ilkley, Yorkshire
27.05.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
05.1944	-	06.1947	1st Indian Armoured Division & 4th Mahratta Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery (Middle East & India)
16.11.1946			permanent commission
10.1947	-	1951	Adjutant, 26th Field Regiment, RA (Tampin, Malaya)
1954	-	1955?	served in Malaya

Proudlock,
Robert Victor
R.V. Proudlock

Eldest son of Robert Lewis Proudlock (1862-1948), of Bedford, late of Jersey, formerly Arboricultural Adviser to the government of Bengal, and Rosetta Lewis (1868-1941).
Brother of Brig. Arthur George Proudlock, DSO, OBE and Brig. John Lewis Proudlock, DSO.
Married ((09?).1920, Bedford, Bedfordshire) Kathleen Helen Bryham Peck, fourth daughter of th late Oswald Peck, of Wigan, and Mrs Peck, of Bedford; ... children (one son?: Capt. Robert Donald Proudlock, RA).

19.05.1897
Ootacummund, South India ?
-
(03?).1974
Ashford district, Kent

2nd Lt.	1915?
A/Capt.	01.03.1918
Capt.	29.06.1920 (retd 22.09.1922)
Capt. TA	01.01.1925, seniority 29.12.1921 [31858] (reld 29.12.1928)
Hon. Lt.Col.	06.06.1953 (on ceasing to be employed)

?			commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
03.07.1916			commissioned, Indian Army (attached 72nd Punjabis)
			69th Punjabis
01.03.1918			attached, 92nd Punjabis (Adjutant)
01.01.1925	-	29.12.1928	Captain, Officer Training Corps - Territorial Army (for service with Bedford School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps)
25.03.1940	-	(04.1941)	retired officer, temporarily re-employed with the Royal Corps of Signals (sometime attached to HQ Northern Ireland District)
1946	-	1949	served with various signal corps units in India and Afghanistan erecting cables

MIEE.

Prout,
William Alfred
W.A. Prout (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Prout)

Son of William F. Prout, and Bessie Parish.
Married ((06?).1946, Anglesey West district) Hilda Lloyd, widow of Owen Henry Williams (1916-1940); one daughter, two sons.

21.10.1917
Plymouth, Devonport district, Devon
-
20.03.2013
Plymouth, Devon

Cadet	? [4129541]
2nd Lt.	12.05.1945 [346711]
WS/Lt.	13.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

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

			served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy
?	-	12.05.1945	No. 4 Company, Officer Cadet Training Unit Alton Towers
12.05.1945			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]

Pryce-Jones,
Alan Payan
A.P. Pryce-Jones

Son of late Col. Henry Morris PryceJones, CB, and Marion Vere Dawnay.
Married 1st (28.12.1934) Thérèse (died 1953), daughter of late Baron FouldSpringer and of Mrs Frank Wooster, Paris; one son.
Married 2nd (1968) Mrs Mary Jean Kempner Thorne (died 1969), daughter of late Daniel Kempner.

18.11.1908
London
-
22.01.2000
Newport, Rhode Island, USA

2nd Lt.	01.09.1939 [133352]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1939
T/Capt.	04.03.1941
A/Maj.	09.06.1942
WS/Maj.	21.07.1945
T/Lt.Col.	21.07.1945 (reld 1946)
Maj.	01.01.1949
Hon. Lt.Col.	18.11.1958

	TD	21.04.1950	-
	EM	18.09.1951	-

Education: Eton; Magdalen College, Oxford.
Formerly Asst Editor, The London Mercury, 1928-1932; subsequently Times Literary Supplement.

01.09.1939	-	18.11.1958	served Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (mobilized 1939-1946)
01.09.1939			commissioned onto the Special List - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
1939	-	1940	served as Capt., 4th Hussars (UK & France)
15.07.1940			transferred to Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class I)
1940	-	1945	MI 14 (London, UK) [03.11.1941-(04.1944) General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)]
1945	-	1946	Italy, Austria

Book critic, author and journalist.
Editor, Times Literary Supplement, 1948-1959; Book critic: New York Herald Tribune, 1963-1966; World Journal Tribune, 1967-1968; Newsday, 1969-1971; Theatre Critic, Theatre Arts, 1963-. Trustee, National Portrait Gallery, 1950-1961; Director, Old Vic Trust, 1950-1961; Member Council, Royal College of Music, 1956-1961; Program Associate, The
Humanities and Arts Program, Ford Foundation, NY, 1961-1963.
Published: The Spring Journey, 1931; People in the South, 1932; Beethoven, 1933; 27 Poems, 1935; Private Opinion, 1936; Nelson, an opera, 1954; Vanity Fair, a musical play (with Robin Miller and Julian Slade), 1962; The Bonus of Laughter (autobiog.), 1987.

Pryor,
William Ernest
W.E. Pryor

Married (10.1939, Hove, Sussex) Pat Pryor (1913-1995); two sons.

10.09.1911
Wareham district, Dorset
-
11.1993
Hove district, Sussex

2nd Lt.	25.10.1941 [214111]
WS/Lt.	27.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	16.07.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

MID

09.08.1945

NW Europe

25.10.1941			commissioned, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
(05.1945)			Officer Commanding, Defence Platoon, HQ 159th Infantry Brigade [capture of Adm. Dönitz]

Pugh,
Eric Vincent
E.V. Pugh

Son of Vincent Pugh, High Sheriff, and Margaret E. Ashburner.
Married ((09?).1936, Worcester, Worcestershire) Yvonne Jessie "Eve" Marichal (05.09.1909 - 09.2001), survivor of the sinking of the "Lusitania", daughter of Joseph Marichal; one daughter.

(10?).1912
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
10.06.1944
(KIA) [age 32]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, France, XI.F.7] (formerly of Worcester)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.03.1940 [126219]
WS/Lt.	23.09.1941
T/Capt.	19.12.1942-10.06.1944

?	-	23.03.1940	121st or 125th Officer Cadet Training Unit RA
23.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery[emergency commission]
?	-	10.06.1944	51st Heavy Regiment RA, attached 652 (Air Observation Post) Squadron Royal Air Force

Pugh,
Ifor Wyn
I.W. Pugh

Married Joan ...; one son, two daughters.

05.1910
Bala district, Merionethshire
-
10.06.2008
Tunbridge Wells, Kent

2nd Lt.	23.06.1937
WS/Lt.	23.06.1940
WS/Capt.	10.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	10.03.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

CBE

01.01.1958

New Year 58: formerly Director of Public Works

23.06.1937			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (105th (West Lancashire) Electrical and Mechanical Company RE (Liverpool))
24.08.1939			mobilized
(04.1944)			seconded Indian Army

FICE.

Pulford,
Francis Harvey Douglas
F.H.D. Pulford (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

14.07.1911
-
12.02.1978

2nd Lt.	28.01.1932 [50816]
...	...
T/Maj.	23.12.1940-03.01.1944, 26.10.1944-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 03.03.1959)

28.01.1932			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
20.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...

Pullan,
Richard Howard

03.11.1923
-
19.09.2008

Cadet	? [16000951]
2nd Lt.	15.01.1944 [307221]
WS/Lt.	15.07.1944

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

15.01.1944

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Pullman,
Cecil Frank
I.W. Pugh

Son (with one sister) of Frank Cecil Pullman (1880-1951), manufacturer, and Ysabel Ernestine Rosario Hunter (1883-1967).
Married (18.08.1945, Bideford, Devon) Hilda Desiree Hardman (19.11.1917 - 25.11.1998), daughter (with one brother) of Lt.Col. Reginald Stanley Hardman DSO (1870-1936), and Mildred Alice Thornton (1878-1951); one daughter, one son.

10.06.1908
Milford, Hambledon district, Surrey
-
15.05.1989
Effingham, Leatherhead, Surrey South Western district

2nd Lt.	01.05.1928 [40024]
Lt.	01.05.1931
Capt.	07.02.1936, seniority 28.05.1934 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	1945?
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Education: Dover College (Junior School 1919b; Leamington House 1922c-1926a).
Worked for Bank of England from 1928 until retirement.

			late Cadet Corporal, Dover College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.05.1928			commissioned, 6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
16.01.1944			travelling on the SS Falmouth from Port of Spain, Trinidad; 15-day transit visa issued in Georgetown British Guyana
1946?	-	09.07.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Purdy,
Robert Arthur Norton
F.H.D. Pulford (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son of Robert John Purdy, and Ida Dorothy Dubber.
Married ((09?.1961, Abingdon district, Berkshire) Jean Keates; two daughters, two sons.

05.08.1916
West Ham district, Essex
-
22.03.1994
Boars Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire
[Wootton (Saint Peter) Churchyard, Boars Hill]

2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [165809]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

28.12.1940			commissioned, The Essex Regiment
			1st Battalion The Essex Regiment (Chindits, 3rd Indian Division)

Purvis,
Frank William
F.W. Purvis (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jill Watson)

Son of Frederick Purvis, and Mary Fairman.
Married ((06?).1936, Surrey North Eastern district) Violet I. Rogers.

03.05.1912
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
(09?).1979
Eastbourne district, East Sussex

Rfmn.	05.09.1939
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113629]
A/Capt.	14.11.1940-23.02.1941
WS/Lt.	24.02.1941
T/Capt.	24.02.1941-19.08.1943
WS/Capt.	20.08.1943 (dispersal 22.01.1946) (reld 30.06.1946)
T/Maj.	20.08.1943-22.01.1946
A/Lt.Col.	05.12.1944-15.07.1945
Hon. Maj.	30.06.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 1st Army
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	23.04.1946	Mediterranean
BSM	20.03.1947	?

05.09.1939			enlisted, The Rifle Brigade - Territorial Army
15.09.1939	-	13.01.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [emergency commission]
			Infantry Training Centre 29.01.1940, embarked for British Expeditionary Force (France) 05.02.1940, No. 1 Infantry Base Depot (France) 08.02.1940, returned to UK 03.06.1940
29.06.1940			1st Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
07.09.1940			Anti-Tank Company, 12th Infantry Brigade
14.11.1940			6th Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
14.01.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
01.1941?			4th Battalion Reconnaissance Corps
12.02.1943	-	12.1944?	Adjutant (embarked for overseas 13.03.1943, disembarked North Africa 23.02.1943, from British North Africa Force to Middle East Force 15.12.1943, from Middle East Force to British North Africa Force 28.02.1944)
05.12.1944	-	15.07.1945	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (Malaria) (DAAG), 10th Indian Division
23.07.1945			65 Transit Camp (on disembarkation)

Purvis-Russell- Montgomery,
Henry Keith
H.K. Purvis-Russell-Montgomery

Younger son of Sir Henry James [Purvis-Russell-] Montgomery (1859-1947), 7th Bt, and heirpresident to 7th Bt, and Mary Maude Purvis-Russell (1862-1947).
Married (23.04.1930, St Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland) Cynthia Louisa Winifred Maconochie-Welwood (09.04.1900 - 02.01.1996); one son, one daughter.
Lived at Kinross House, Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland.

31.07.1896
Orwell district, Kinross, Scotland
-
01.10.1954
Scotland

2nd Lt.	? [13734]
Lt.	? (half pay 12.03.1919) (full pay 01.11.1919)
Capt.	01.12.1924 (retd 01.01.1937)
Maj. TA	21.06.1939 (retd 01.09.1948)
T/Lt.Col. TA	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	07.05.1948

OBE

08.06.1944

HM's birthday 44

Education: Rugby; Jesus College, Cambridge University; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

22.12.1915			commissioned into The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [wounded at Saloniki]
?	-	19.01.1922	special appointment, Class HH
08.01.1935	-	01.01.1937	Adjutant, 6th/7th Battalion The Black Watch
01.01.1937	-	07.05.1948	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
21.06.1939	-	01.09.1948	Territorial Army
21.06.1939	-	?	6th/7th Battalion The Black Watch - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			Commanding Officer, 10th Battalion The Black Watch

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Co. of Kinross, 28.05.1937. Lord Lieutenant of Kinrossshire, 19.10.1944. Director of Kinross Estate Company.

Pusey,
William George
W.G. Pusey

Son of ... Pusey, and ... Oliver.

10.03.1912
New Forest district, Hampshire / Wiltshire
-
(06?).1983
New Forest district, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.12.1941 [228769]
WS/Lt.	?, seniority 09.12.1941
Lt.	01.09.1946, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt.	01.11.1947
Maj.	09.12.1954
Hon. Maj.	10.03.1967

MID

01.03.1945

distinguished services in the field (escape & evasion)

09.12.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 31.08.1946]
?	-	1942	[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East)
01.09.1946	-	01.09.1956	short service commission
01.09.1956	-	10.03.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Pusinelli,
Frederick Nigel Molière
F.N.M. Pusinelli

28.04.1919
-
17.07.2010
Pinewood Nursing Home, Chidham, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	31.12.1939
WS/Lt.	06.04.1941
T/Capt.	06.04.1941-(07.1942)
WS/Capt.	23.11.1942
T/Maj.	23.11.1942-(04.1946)

CMG	11.06.1966	HM's birthday 66: Director of Establishments and Assistant High Commissioner (Supernumerary), Aden
OBE	01.01.1963	New Year 63: Deputy Financial Secretary, Aden
MC	27.08.1940	BEF 39-40

Education: Aldenham School; Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA Hons in Law).

31.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in the British Expeditionary Force (1940), as Adjutant (11.04.1941-(07.1942)), and in India and Burma (1942-1945)

Entered the Staff College in Quetta, Pakistan 1945, and in 1946 went to work as an Administrative Officer on Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In 1958 he was transferred to Aden where he worked as: Deputy Financial Secretary and (frequently) Acting Financial Secretary (1958-1962); Director of Establishments (1962-1968), and Assistant High Commissioner of Aden and Federation of South Arabia (1963-1968). From 1968-1970 he was Salaries Commissioner for various territories in the West Indies.

Puttnam,
Leonard Arthur
L.A. Puttnam

Married ((09?).1933, Stoke Newington district, London) Mary Beatrix Goldman; at least one son (film producer Sir David Terence Puttnam).

24.07.1907
Hackney district, Greater London, Middlesex
-
(12?).1981
Enfield district, Greater London

2nd Lt.	21.05.1941 [205052] (reld 15.09.1945)
A/Capt.	22.09.1942-(04.1944)

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

21.05.1941			commissioned, General List (without pay and allowances from Army Funds)
			served as an official war photographer
(04.1944)			Royal Army Service Corps (for service with Expeditionary Force Institues) (without pay and allowances from Army Funds) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pyke,
John Leslie
J.L. Pyke

1910 ?
Cheshire
-
24.05.2007 ?
Parkgate, South Wirral ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.07.1941 [194382]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	04.08.1943-03.11.1943
T/Capt.	04.11.1943-04.09.1945
WS/Capt.	05.09.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

	MID	02.03.1944	gallant and distinguished services in the field
	MID	04.05.1944	gallant and distinguished services in the field

Greek Commemorative War Medal (1998).

?	-	05.07.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
05.07.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Pynn,
Edward Patuca
"Peter"
E.P. Pynn

Son of Herbert John Pynn, and Annie Lenney.
Married 1st ((09?).1939, Woolwich district, Kent) Margaret A. Heasman [who remarried 1946 Peter Holt]; one daughter.
Married 2nd (01.04.1946) Lida Heutink (23.10.1921 - 15.07.1996); one daughter.

01.04.1916
Erith, Woolwich district, Kent
-
28.05.1977
Enschede, the Netherlands

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.08.1941 [200560]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (demobilised > 08.1946, < 12.1946) (reld 24.03.1954)
T/Capt.	07.06.1945-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	24.03.1954

Temporary postman-messenger with the Post Office, 1932. Mail sorter at London Post Office, 1934.

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

His daughter writes: "My was with the Royal Artillery of the British Army in WWII and fought from Algeria to Egypt. After that he did a pilot training in Cambridge [No. 36 Air OP course] and joined the Air Observation Post units."

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