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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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RHOD

RICE
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ROBS

ROCH
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RYPE

H.M. Rice to L.J. Robson

Rice,
Hugh Macan
H.M. Rice (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Younger son (with one sister and one brother) of Dr David Rice (1871-), and Evelyn Grace Stenning (1875-1948), of London SW11.
Married (26.07.1947, Royal Military Academy Chapel, Woolwich, Kent) Cheryl Joan Austin Smith (02.12.1919 - 02.2006), elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Austin E. Smith, of Bickley, Kent.

30.08.1915
Hellesdon, St Faith's district, Norfolk
-
03.2006
Oxfordshire

Lt. SRO	22.02.1939 [85929]
Lt.	01.09.1939
WS/Capt.	22.02.1940
Capt.	01.09.1940
A/Maj.	13.12.1944
T/Maj.	13.03.1945
Maj.	01.09.1947 (retd 19.03.1949)

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

Education:MRCS Eng LRCP Lond 1938; MB BS Lond 1939; MD Lond (Westminster Hospital) 1947.

22.02.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
01.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
1939	-	1940	British Expeditionary Force (France)
1941	-	1946	India (graded pathologist 1943; specialist in pathology 1944)
			Officer in Charge, 9th Indian Field Laboratory RAMC
01.09.1944			permanent commission
1946	-	1947	Officer in Charge, District Laboratory Woolwich
1948	-	1949	Demonstrator in Pathology, Royal Army Medical College

House Surgeon Westminster Hospital & Walsall General Hospital. Director Department of Pathology, General Hospital Nottingham; Pathologist in Charge, Children's Hospital & Highbury Hospital Nottingham & Newark General Hospital.

Rice,
the Rev. Robert James
R.J. Rice

Married ...; one son, one daughter.

27.08.1903
-
?

Chapl. to the Forces 4th cl. (Capt.)

04.05.1944 [313502] (reld 27.12.1946)

04.05.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (United Board Chaplain) [emergency commission]
03.1945	-	(05.1945)	Chaplain, 11th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (NW Europe [the Netherlands, Germany])

Rice-Evans,
James Alverstone Mackworth
J.A.M. Rice-Evans

Married ((06?).1944, Westminster district, London) Elisabeth I. Bennett; two daughters, one son.

08.12.1907
Neath, Breconshire
-
04.06.1980
Dan-y-Castell, Crickhowell, Brecknock district, Powys, Wales

2nd Lt.	02.02.1928 [39447]
Lt.	02.02.1931
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	07.07.1940-06.10.1940
T/Maj.	07.10.1940-26.12.1941
WS/Maj.	27.12.1941
Maj.	02.02.1945
A/Lt.Col.	27.09.1941-26.12.1941
T/Lt.Col.	27.12.1941-16.07.1948
Lt.Col.	17.07.1948 (supernumerary 17.07.1951) (retd 14.04.1957)
T/Col.	21.04.1952-13.04.1957
local Brig.	24.02.1954-13.04.1957
Hon. Col.	14.04.1957

02.02.1928			commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Tidworth, UK)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Gibraltar)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Hong Kong)
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Blackdown, UK)
23.12.1939	-	30.07.1940	Adjutant, ...
27.09.1941	-	07.1944	Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (UK, NW Europe)
15.11.1944	-	04.01.1945	Deputy President, War Office Selection Board
21.04.1952	-	22.02.1954	President, War Office Selection Board (OCS)
1954?	-	1957?	Garrison Commander, Prospect Garrison Bermuda
14.04.1957	-	08.12.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Rich,
Charles Arthur
J.E.M. Richard

?
-

Cadet	? [901441]
2nd Lt.	02.10.1943 [295306]
WS/Lt.	02.04.1944
T/Capt.	01.12.1945-(04.1946) (reld < 04.1947)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1947

11.06.1948

02.10.1943

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Richard,
John Ernest Miller
J.E.M. Richard

Son of Walter Miller Richard (1853-1938), and Margaret Cree (1855-1929).
Married ((09?).1931, St George Hanover Square district, London) Gaynor Richards Woosnam (17.08.1900 - 19.04.1933), daughter of Ven. Charles "Maxwell" Woosnam (1856-1930), and Mary Sealy Philipson (1865-1949); one son. Inherited the estate of Kailzie, Peebleshire.

26.10.1894
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
-
1984

2nd Lt.	15.08.1914 [5782]
Lt.	21.04.1915
Capt.	20.01.1917
Maj.	22.09.1933 (retd 24.09.1938)
Lt.Col. TA	30.06.1939

	OBE	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 45
	TD	?	-

15.08.1914			commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
09.04.1916	-	10.07.1916	ADC, ...
24.09.1938	-	24.08.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
30.06.1939	-	14.05.1942	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots
?	-	05.09.1951	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Honorary Colonel, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots, 06.08.1956-01.03.1961. Deputy Lieutenant, Peebles, 09.09.1942.

Richards,
Albert Edward
A.E. Richards (Photo courtesy of Chris Richards)

Married ((09?).1940, York, East Riding of Yorkshire) Mary Smithson; two daughters, four soins.

20.12.1909
Royston, West Yorkshire
-
10.02.1974
Stoke, Coventry, Warwickshire

Cadet	?
Lt.	18.05.1940 [130610]
T/Capt.	07.10.1941-16.08.1943
WS/Capt.	17.08.1943
T/Maj.	17.08.1943-(04.1947)

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

			enlisted service, West Yorkshire Regiment
			either 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.05.1940			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]

A son writes: "He was zone commandant Allied command British sector Austria."

Richards *,
Arthur Leon
A.L. Richards

Married ...; ... children (one son?).
* Family name was Richard, but Army reocrds show him as Richards.

04.07.1905
Paddington, Islington district, London
-
?

2nd Lt.	31.08.1943 [274417]
WS/Lt.	29.02.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)

31.08.1943

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

His son writes: "Seconded as a Civil Engineer and then sent to France with British Liberation Army after Mulberry Harbour completed."

Richards,
Cecil Harvey
C.H. Richards

24.01.1907
Illoggan, Redruth district, Cornwall
-
(12?).1974
Battle district, Sussex

2nd Lt.	08.08.1942 [316522]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	23.07.1945 (reld 22.03.1952)
T/Maj.	23.07.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	22.03.1952

08.08.1942

commissioned, African Colonial Force, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Richards,
Cecil Edgar
C.E. Richards

?
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1941 [193365]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	1946?
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

19.09.1946

Burma

21.06.1941

commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Richards,
Charles Eric
"Dickie"
C.E. Richards

1908
-
1964

Cadet	? [14291828]
2nd Lt.	22.04.1944 [315124]
WS/Lt.	07.09.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) *
T/Capt.	07.09.1944-(08.1946)
A/Maj.	?
Hon. Capt.	> 08.1946, < 12.1946

* Letter of release dated 29.09.1946

22.04.1944			commissioned, The Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Burma
(1946)			HQ Land Forces, Hong Kong

Richards,
Cuthbert Henry
C.H. Richards

16.09.1917
Lichfield district, Staffordshire
-
(06?).1969
Salford district, Lancashire

2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [165377]
WS/Lt.	15.12.1941
T/Capt.	15.12.1941-(04.1944)

MID

08.06.1943

Iraq, Syria & Persia

?	-	28.12.1940	142nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.12.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Richards,
Charles Henry
C.H. Richards

?
-

WS/RQMS	?
Lt. (QM)	09.10.1942 [248921] (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946
Lt. & Paym.	24.05.1949
Capt. & Paym.	18.05.1952 (reld 01.06.1954; disabilty)
Hon. Capt.	01.06.1954

09.10.1942			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
24.05.1949			transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps [short service commission]

Richards,
David John Bentley
D.J.B. Richards (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Cundick)

From Hampton Bishop, nr. Hereford.

22.03.1914
-
(06?).1983
Macclesfield district, Cheshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.02.1941 [170603]
WS/Lt.	01.08.1942
T/Capt.	10.02.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	21.09.1945
T/Maj.	21.09.1945-(04.1946)

	DSO	19.04.1945	NW Europe 44/45
	MC	01.03.1945	NW Europe 44/45

?	-	01.02.1941	either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.02.1941			commissioned, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Richards,
Leslie Kenneth
L.K. Richards

08.07.1915 ?
-
04.1986 ?
Barnstaple district, Devon ?

2nd Lt.	11.05.1940
WS/Lt.	12.02.1941
T/Capt.	12.02.1941-(04.1944)
T/Maj. ?	?

11.05.1940			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission]
			served with the 8th Gurkhas, Indian Army

Richards,
Malcolm John
L.K. Richards

Son of George Edward Richards, and Edith Mary Richardson, of Wimborne, Dorset.

19.02.1897
Wimborne, Dorset
-
10.1976
Wimborne, Dorset
[buried Colehill]

2nd Lt.	22.04.1915 [11461]
Lt.	01.07.1917
T/Capt.	30.04.1917-07.03.1919, 17.11.1920-31.03.1922
Capt.	10.05.1926
T/Maj.	08.03.1919-19.09.1920
Maj.	03.10.1935
A/Lt.Col.	10.07.1940-09.10.1940
T/Lt.Col.	10.10.1940-27.07.1942
Lt.Col.	28.07.1942 (supernumerary 28.07.1945) (retd 27.10.1948)
A/Col.	06.12.1943-05.06.1944
T/Col.	06.06.1944-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	06.12.1943-05.06.1944
T/Brig.	06.06.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	27.10.1948

CBE	24.08.1944	Italy
OBE	1919	?
MID	20.05.1918	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
MID	13.01.1944	?
MID	29.11.1945	?
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
LM	23.05.1947	?
LegH	?	?

Education: Marlborough (09.1910-10.1914); Staff College (psc).

22.04.1915			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery (served in France & Belgium 09.03.1916-11.11.1918)
30.04.1917	-	07.03.1919	Staff Captain, ... (France)
08.03.1919	-	19.09.1920	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, ... (France)
17.11.1920	-	31.03.1922	Staff Captain, War Office
11.04.1924	-	14.11.1924	specially employed, War Office
08.10.1928	-	07.10.1931	Adjutant, ...
01.02.1936	-	05.02.1938	Air Liaison Officer (General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)), Southern Command
06.02.1938	-	29.04.1940	Staff Officer, Royal Artillery (General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)) & Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, ... (Home Forces)
30.04.1940	-	09.07.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Senior Officers' School
1940?	-	1942?	Commanding Officer, 146th Field Regiment RA
27.09.1942	-	05.06.1943	Assistant Adjutant General, ... (Middle East)

Richards,
William Derick
W.D. Richards

Married Pat ...

09.01.1916
-
18.02.1987
Chichester, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [96946]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
Lt.	11.04.1945
T/Capt.	18.04.1943-24.09.1945
WS/Capt.	25.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	25.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

			late Cadet, Wrekin College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
02.09.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment - Territorial Army
01.11.1941			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...
?	-	26.01.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Richardson,
[Sir] Charles Leslie
C.L. Richardson

Son of late Lt.Col. C.W. Richardson, RA, and Mrs Richardson. Married (1947) Audrey Styles (née Jorgensen); one son, one daughter and one step daughter.
Lived at Burrington, nr. Bristol, later at Epsom (1943).

11.08.1908
-
07.02.1994
Betchworth, Surrey

2nd Lt.	30.08.1928 [40407]
Lt.	30.08.1931
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	27.04.1940-26.07.1940
T/Maj.	27.07.1940-03.08.1940, 19.08.1940-26.12.1941
WS/Maj.	27.12.1941
Maj.	30.08.1945
A/Lt.Col.	27.09.1941-26.12.1941
T/Lt.Col.	27.12.1941-31.10.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	01.11.1943
A/Col.	01.05.1943-31.10.1943
T/Col.	01.11.1943-06.07.1947, 06.05.1948-10.08.1949
Col.	11.08.1949 [supernumerary 11.08.1955]
A/Brig.	01.05.1943-31.10.1943
T/Brig.	01.11.1943-06.07.1947, 06.05.1948-31.12.1954
Brig.	01.01.1955
T/Maj.Gen.	18.05.1955-23.04.1956
Maj.Gen.	24.04.1956
Lt.Gen.	27.02.1961
local Gen.	20.01.1965-20.09.1965
Gen.	21.09.1965 (retd 06.04.1971)

GCB	01.01.1967	New Year 67
KCB	01.01.1962	New Year 62
CB	13.06.1957	HM's birthday 57
CBE	21.06.1945	NW Europe
OBE	18.02.1943	Middle East 05.42-10.42
DSO	01.06.1943	Middle East
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
LM	15.03.1945	distinguished services in the cause of the Allies

NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (King's Medal); Cambridge University (Exhibitioner, Clare College, Cambridge, 1930; 1st Cl. Hons Mech Sciences Tripos; BA; Staff College, Camberley (psc); Imperial Defence College (idc).

30.08.1928			commissioned, Royal Engineers
(03.1931)			served at Cambridge
(06.1933)			served in India
(01.1937)			served in India
(01.1939)			served at Chatham
02.09.1939	-	28.11.1939	Adjutant, ...
1939	-	1940	France & Belgium (Dunkirk)
27.04.1940	-	02.08.1940	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), ...
27.09.1941	-	1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (Palestine)
1942	-	30.04.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Plans), HQ Eighth Army (N Africa)
01.05.1943	-	31.03.1944	Brigadier General Staff (BGS), Eighth Army (N Africa, Sicily, Italy)
1943			[also?] Deputy Chief of Staff, Fifth US Army
01.04.1944	-	21.05.1944	Chief Liaison Officer, ...
22.05.1944	-	27.08.1945	Brigadier General Staff (BGS) (Plans), 21st Army Group (NW Europe)
28.08.1945	-	23.12.1945	Deputy Chief of Staff, ...
24.12.1945	-	07.05.1946	Chief of Military Division (Brig.), British Control Commission (Berlin, Germany)
08.08.1946	-	27.05.1947	specially employed
28.05.1947	-	05.05.1948	British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
06.05.1948	-	22.11.1950	Brigadier General Staff (SD), Middle East Land Forces (Egypt)
1950	-	1952	staff appointments, UK
31.01.1952	-	17.04.1953	Brigadier AQ, HQ Western Command
18.06.1953	-	15.05.1955	Commander, 61st Lorried Infantry Brigade
18.05.1955	-	09.02.1958	Commandant, Royal Military College of Science
29.03.1958	-	17.02.1960	General Officer Commanding, Singapore [Base] District
07.07.1960	-	09.02.1961	Director of Combat Development, War Office
27.02.1961	-	10.04.1963	Director-General of Military Training, War Office
18.04.1963	-	30.11.1964	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command
20.01.1965	-	25.09.1966	Quartermaster General to the Forces, Ministry of Defence & Member of the Army Board
12.12.1966	-	09.03.1971	Master-General of the Ordnance, Ministry of Defence & Member of the Army Board
09.01.1967	-	1970	ADC (General) to the Queen

Chief Royal Engineer, 01.07.1972-14.11.1977. Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 11.07.1962-... Colonel Commandant, RAOC, 01.01.1967-71.
Consultant, International Computers Ltd, 1971-76. Treasurer, Kitchener National Memorial Fund, 1971-81; Chairman, Gordon Boy's School, 1977-87.
Published: Flashback : a soldier's story (1985; autobiography); Send for Freddie : the story of Monty's Chief of Staff, Major General Sir Francis De Guingand (1987); From Churchill's secret circle to the BBC : the biography of Gen. Sir Ian Jacob (1991); contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

Richardson,
Dermot Lindesay
D.L. Richardson

Younger son of Rev. Chancellor W.A. Richardson, and Mrs Richardson, of Ennisnag, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland.
Married ((06?).1949, Bilston district, West Midlands) Frances Margaret Swanson, only daughter of Mr & Mrs J.L. Swanson, of Wergs Hall, nr Wolverhampton. She remarried ((06?).1956, Epping district, Essex) Capt. David Frederick Manley Archibald, RA (10.07.1927-).

06.07.1911
-
1949
Rinteln, Germany

2nd Lt.	27.08.1931 [52706]
Lt.	27.08.1934
Capt.	27.08.1939
A/Maj.	15.09.1940-14.12.1940
T/Maj.	15.12.1940-23.12.1943
WS/Maj.	24.12.1943
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	24.09.1943-23.12.1943
T/Lt.Col.	24.12.1943-(04.1947)

MBE

26.06.1947

Netherlands East Indies 46

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

27.08.1931			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
(061933)			2nd Battalion The King's Regiment (Aldershot)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The King's Regiment (Devonport)
08.01.1938	-	(01.1939)	Adjutant, Depot, The King's Regiment (Seaforth (Liverpool))
15.09.1940	-	(04.1941)	Brigade Major, HQ Mersey Garrison, West Lancashire Area (Western Command)
24.09.1943	-	(04.1944)	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) Plans, Combined Operations Advice, Combined Operations HQ

Richardson,
Sidney Verdun Henry
S.V.H. Richardson (Photo courtesy of Mr Joe Fowler)

11.06.1916
-
?

Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	12.03.1941 [175603]
WS/Lt.	12.09.1942
T/Maj.	?

12.03.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
(1945?)			Ordnance Branch, HQ Southern Army, India

Ricketts,
Abdy Henry Gough
A.H.G. Ricketts

Son of Lt.Col. P.E. Ricketts, DSO, MVO, and L.C. Ricketts (née Morant).
Married (1932) Joan Warre,
daughter of E.T. Close, Camberley; one son, one daughter.

08.12.1905
-
16.01.1993
[Shepton Mallet, Somerset?]

2nd Lt.	03.09.1925 [33748]
Lt.	03.09.1927
Capt.	05.06.1937
A/Maj.	27.07.1940-26.10.1940
T/Maj.	27.10.1940-12.07.1942
WS/Maj.	13.07.1942
Maj.	03.09.1942
local Lt.Col.	26.05.1941-12.04.1942
A/Lt.Col.	13.04.1942-12.07.1942
T/Lt.Col.	13.07.1942-18.12.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	09.09.1944
Lt.Col.	14.12.1948
A/Col.	09.03.1944-08.09.1944
T/Col.	09.09.1944-24.03.1949
Col.	25.03.1949 (supernumerary 25.03.1955)
A/Brig.	20.10.1944-19.04.1945
T/Brig.	20.04.1945-15.12.1949, 01.10.1951-14.02.1953, 23.02.1953-07.12.1953
Brig.	08.12.1953 (retd 30.06.1957)
T/Maj.Gen.	21.09.1955-10.10.1955, 20.10.1955-11.01.1957
Hon. Maj.Gen.	30.06.1957

CBE	04.04.1952	Malaya 07-12.51
DSO	17.01.1946	Burma
MID	26.04.1945	Burma
LM	30.10.1953	Korea

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp

Education: Winchester; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1924); psc

03.09.1925			commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry
1927			Shanghai Defence Force
1930			NW Frontier, India (medal and clasp)
06.11.1934	-	05.11.1938	Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
13.01.1940	-	25.06.1940	Staff Captain, ...
01.07.1940	-	02.09.1940	Brigade Major, ...
03.09.1940	-	25.05.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
26.05.1941	-	26.07.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Instructor), ...
27.07.1941	-	14.10.1941	Brigade Major, ...
15.10.1941	-	12.04.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
13.04.1942	-	18.12.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
09.03.1944	-	19.10.1944	Second-in-Command, 3rd (West African) Infantry Brigade (2nd Chindit Expedition)
20.10.1944	-	14.08.1945	Commander, 4th (West Africa) Infantry Brigade (Chindit Expedition)
15.08.1945	-	31.07.1946	Commander, ... Brigade
01.01.1947	-	06.11.1949	Commander, ... Brigade
15.12.1949	-	09.09.1951	Colonel, General Staff (Operations & Staff Duties), Far Eastern Land Forces (Malaya)
09.10.1951	-	17.02.1952	Commander, 29th Infantry Brigade (Korea)
23.05.1952	-	28.11.1952	Commander, [29th?] Infantry Brigade (Korea)
23.02.1953	-	21.01.1955	Assistant Commandant, School of Land/Air Warfare
18.03.1955	-	20.09.1955	General Officer Commanding, Cyprus District
21.09.1955	-	10.10.1955	Director of Security, Cyprus
20.10.1955	-	18.10.1956	General Officer Commanding, Cyprus District
30.06.1957	-	08.12.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Colonel, Durham Light Infantry, 1965-68; Deputy Colonel, The Light Infantry (Durham), 1968-70. DL Somerset, 1968-90.

Rickwood,
John Edward Welsh
"Rickie"
J.E.W. Rickwood

Son of William Edward Rickwood (1886-?), and Cordelia Edith Welsh (1888-?).

12.02.1917
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
09.1974
North Carolina, USA

2nd Lt.	23.11.1938 [78779]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	18.01.1941-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	03.03.1943
Capt. RARO	23.11.1948
Hon. Maj.	23.11.1948

			late Cadet, Hurstpierpoint College Contingent, Offier Training Corps
23.11.1938			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve
24.08.1939			mobilized
?	-	1945?	No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army") (Italy & Austria) [from 01.09.1945 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Operations)]
23.11.1948	-	29.12.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [on appointment to Canadian military forces]

Riddel,
William Lauder
W.L. Riddel

Son of Robert and Phyllis Mary Riddel, of Edinburgh.

1921 ?
-
27.05.1945
(KIA) [age 24]
[Delhi War Cemetery, India, 2.K.13]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.09.1941 [207822]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
[A/?]Capt.	?

MID

05.04.1945

Burma

27.09.1941			commissioned, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
?	-	27.05.1945	attached, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment

Riddell-Webster,
Sir Thomas Sheridan
T.S. Riddell-Webster

Son of late John RiddellWebster and Mrs RiddellWebster of Priorsgate, St Andrews.
Married (1920) Harriet Hill, daughter of Colonel Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet; two sons.

papers

12.02.1886
[Priorsgate, St Andrews ?]
-
25.05.1974
[Lintrose, CouparAngus, Perthshire ?]

2nd Lt.	16.08.1905 [1505]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	01.04.1938, seniority 21.12.1937
local Lt.Gen.	07.01.1941-09.03.1941
A/Lt.Gen.	10.03.1941-14.04.1941
Lt.Gen.	15.04.1941
Gen.	01.11.1942 (retd 27.04.1946)

GCB	01.01.1946	New Year 46
KCB	01.01.1942	New Year 42
CB	08.06.1939	HM's birthday 39
DSO	18.02.1915	?
MID	24.06.1943	?

16.08.1905			commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
...	-	...	...
01.04.1938	-	28.08.1939	Director of Movements and Quartering, The War Office
29.08.1939	-	06.01.1941	Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office (London)
10.03.1941	-	15.10.1941	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, India
16.10.1941	-	19.07.1942	Lieutenant-General in charge of Administration, Middle East
14.03.1942	-	(01.1946)	Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office (London)

Rigby,
Henry
H. Rigby

Son of Boyd and Mary Elizabeth Rigby; husband of Ethel Rigby, of Londonderry, Northallerton.

1909 ?
-
18.06.1944
air raid casualty, London (while on leave) [age 35]
[Leeming (St John the Baptist) Churchyard, grave G.1]]

Cadet	? [T/44799]
2nd Lt.	18.12.1943 [303774]
WS/Lt.	18.12.1943

1928			joined Royal Army Service Corps as a Private
			saw service in Germany, Palestine, Dunkirk, Ceylon, was involved in advance on Tobruk 1940 with General Wavell's Army
18.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Rigby,
Thomas
T. Rigby

Only son of George Henry Rigby (?-1946), solicitor, and Caroline Florence Male, of London W1.
Married (1925) Ruth Ramsay Brown, daughter of Rev. G.E. Brown, of Sydney, Australia; one son, one daughter.
Residence: (1944) Frinton-on-Sea.

11.11.1897
Wallgrave, Berkshire
-
27.07.1969
Long Melford, Sudbury, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	27.10.1915 [13451]
Lt.	01.07.1917
A/Capt.	03.09.1918-08.09.1918, 19.09.1918-08.05.1919
Capt.	27.10.1928
Maj.	21.01.1937
A/Lt.Col.	10.05.1940-09.08.1940
T/Lt.Col.	10.08.1940-23.01.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	24.01.1942
Lt.Col.	01.02.1944
A/Col.	24.07.1941-23.01.1942
T/Col.	24.01.1942-30.12.1944
Col.	31.12.1944 (retd 15.07.1949)
A/Brig.	24.07.1941-23.01.1942
T/Brig.	24.01.1942-15.07.1949
Hon. Brig.	15.07.1949

CB	09.06.1949	HM's birthday 49 [recommendation available upon request]
DSO	24.08.1944	Italy [recommendation available upon request]
MC	01.01.1919	France & Flanders
MID	23.09.1943	N Africa

Education: Sandroyd; Winchester College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

27.10.1915			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
18.04.1916	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium (wounded) (MC)
1918	-	1919	served in Germany
1919	-	1928	Lt “L” Battery Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)
1932	-	1933	Staff College, Camberley (psc)
20.12.1935	-	08.07.1937	General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3), Northern Command, India
09.07.1937	-	31.07.1939	Staff Officer Royal Artillery, India
01.09.1939	-	09.05.1940	Instructor (General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2)), Senior Officers' School
10.05.1940	-	02.08.1940	Assistant Quartermaster General (AQMG), General Headquarters (GHQ), British Expeditionary Force (BEF) & 10 Corps
03.08.1940	-	23.07.1941	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), 38th Infantry Division
24.07.1941	-	31.07.1942	Deputy Director Military Operations (Home), War Office
1942?	-	1942?	Commanding Officer, 30th Field Regiment RA
1942	-	1944	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 46th (North Midland) Infantry Division (North Africa, Italy) (DSO, despatches)
16.10.1944	-	(01.)1946	Deputy Director (Operations), Royal Artillery (DDRA), Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
03.1946	-	07.1949	Brigadier Royal Artillery (BRA), General Headquarters (GHQ), Middle East Land Forces (MELF) (CB)
15.07.1949	-	11.11.1955	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Fruit grower since 1949. OStJ, 1951.

Rigden,
Leonard Fownes
L.F. Rigden

Son of Percy Fownes Rigden, and Lucy Jane Maguire.
Married (24.03.1949, Liverpool, Lancashire) Elsie Village (06.10.1910 - 05.1991), daughter of John Village (1888-1964), and Lillie Florence Marten (1889-1966); one son, one daughter.

28.04.1917
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
11.1987
Bromley district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.01.1941 [166122]
WS/Lt.	18.07.1942
Lt.	01.05.1947, seniority 18.07.1942
Capt.	12.12.1949
Maj.	01.01.1953
Lt.Col.	?

TD	14.09.1956	-
TD	15.11.1960	1st clasp
TD	15.07.1966	2nd clasp

?	-	18.01.1941	either 151st of 152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
01.05.1947			Territorial Army
18.07.1966			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Riggs,
John Sydney
J.S. Riggs

01.03.1920
Ilford, Essex
-
08.12.2021
Appleton Lodge Care Facility, Aylesford, Kent

2nd Lt.	17.12.1939 [109503]
WS/Lt.	17.06.1941
T/Capt.	11.06.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

17.12.1939			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
1939	-	1944	served with 1st Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in Palestine, Greece, North Africa and India
1944	-	1944	served with 16 Column, 1st Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, 14th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Indian Infantry Division during Second Chindit Expedition in Burma

Businessman. Joined Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd in 1954, and worked in the company's offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo, as well as for Jardine Waugh Ltd, Singapore. He retired in 1970.

Riley,
John Cecil
J.C. Riley

Married Mary ...; one son.

04.02.1915
-
02.05.2008
Chislehurst, Greater London

2nd Lt. TA	01.09.1934
2nd Lt.	30.01.1937 [631209]
...	...
Capt.	30.01.1945
...	...
Maj.	30.01.1950 (retd 21.06.1958)

Education: Rossall School

01.09.1934			commissioned, 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry - Territorial Army
30.01.1937			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment
...	-	...	...

Riley,
John Francis
J.F. Riley

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Capt. Gerard Brook Riley, OBE, RN (1881-1943), and Margery Ethel Polwhele (1890-1965).
Brother of Capt. Paul Brook Riley, RAMC.

22.08.1916
Hendon district
-
30.06.1940
[age 23]
[Ashtead (St Giles) Churchyard, Surrey, grave 1043]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1936 [69052]
Lt.	27.08.1939
A?/T?/Capt.	?

27.08.1936			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(01.1937)			Young Officers' Course, Larkhill
(01.1939)	-	30.06.1940	24th Field Regiment RA (Aldershot, then France & Belgium) (died of wounds sustained in action in Belgium)

Riley,
Kenneth Adrian
K.A. Riley

Son of ... Riley, and ... Drew.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

13.03.1921
Islington district, London
-
03.2015 still alive

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.11.1941 [219592]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 22.04.1953)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	22.04.1953
Lt.	06.01.1958 (reld 01.09.1975)
A/Maj.	(1970)
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.09.1975

CFM

31.03.1970

21.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
06.01.1958	-	01.09.1975	Lt., Stamford School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial Army

His son writes: "Saw service in Germany (Belsen) and India. He then served in the colonial service in Tanganyika."

Riley,
Kenneth Ronald Joseph
K.R.J. Riley

Son of George Baker Riley (1893-), and Emily Catherine Holland, of Lenham Heath, Kent.

22.01.1919
Camberwell district, London
-
20.04.1945
(KIA) [age 26]
[Naples War Cemetery, Italy, IV.G.14]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.08.1942 [259335]
WS/Lt.	16.02.1943
A/Capt.	13.10.1943-(04.1944)

16.08.1942			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(04.1944)	-	20.04.1945	seconded for service with Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Italy

Riley,
Paul Brook
P.B. Riley

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Capt. Gerard Brook Riley, OBE, RN (1881-1943), and Margery Ethel Polwhele (1890-1965).
Brother of Capt. John Francis Riley, RA.
Married (10.11.1943, Selkirk, Scotland) Esther Georgina Martin, younger daughter of William Martin, and Mrs. Martin, of Hutlerburn, Selkirk; ... children (one son, one daughter?).

(09?).1915
Brentford district, Middlesex
-

Lt.	22.09.1939 [101260]
WS/Capt.	22.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

Education: St Thomas's Hospital; MB, BS Lond 1942, MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1939.

22.09.1939

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Factory doctor for the District of Frodingham, Lincolnshire, 1965. Late hospital physician Royal Hospital Bristol. Registrat Britsol Maternity Hospital. General practitioner, Langhurst, Hawick, Roxburghshire (Haddon, Macalister & Riley).

Rimbault,
Geoffrey [Acworth]
G. Rimbault

Son of late Arthur Henry Rimbault, London.
Married (1933) Joan (died 1991), daughter of late Thomas HalletFry, Beckenham, Kent; one son.

17.04.1908
Braxted Park, Streatham, London
-
20.10.1991
Bovey Tracey, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.02.1930
Lt.	01.02.1933
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	27.07.1940-16.09.1940, 19.09.1940-27.10.1940
T/Maj.	28.10.1940-12.07.1942, 21.07.1942-22.05.1944
WS/Maj.	23.05.1944
Maj.	01.07.1946
Brev. Lt.Col.	01.07.1951
A/Lt.Col.	23.02.1944-22.05.1944
T/Lt.Col.	23.05.1944-29.02.1952
Lt.Col.	06.08.1952 (Emp. List (1) 15.04.1954)
A/Col.	22.05.1945-17.08.1945
T/Col.	01.03.1952-05.06.1954
Col.	06.06.1954
A/Brig.	22.05.1945-17.08.1945
T/Brig.	13.08.1954-05.06.1958
Brig.	06.06.1958 (retd 21.07.1961)

CBE	10.06.1954	East Africa
DSO	28.06.1945	?
MC	1936	night patrol Palestine

Palestine 1936-39 Medal and Clasp

Education: Dulwich College

			entered the Regular Army from the Territorial Army, having served in the Cavalry Squadron of the Inns of Court Regiment and also the 12th London Regiment (The Rangers)
01.02.1930			commissioned, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
1931	-	1936	served with the 1st Battalion (Cawnpore, Calcutta & Waziristan [India])
13.09.1936	-	08.01.1937	Staff Captain, 1st Battalion (Palestine & Trans-Jordan) (temporary)
23.05.1938	-	(01.)1939	Assistant Instructor (Class GG to 31.07.1938), Small Arms School (Hythe Wing)
1939	-	30.04.1940	Assistant Instructor (Class GG to 31.07.1938), Staff College, Camberley
1940	-	1946	served North Africa, Anzio, Italy and Palestine:
01.05.1940	-	16.09.1940	Brigade Major, 54th Infantry Brigade
19.09.1940	-	11.03.1941	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, HQ Gibraltar Command
12.03.1941	-	12.02.1942	Brigade Major, ...
13.02.1942	-	12.07.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Gibraltar Command
21.07.1942	-	17.07.1943	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 1st Corps District HQ
1943	-	1944?	Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Loyal Regiment (Anzio, Italy)
1944?	-	1945?	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Loyal Regiment (Italy)
22.05.1945	-	17.08.1945	acting Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade (Palestine, Syria, Palestine, Syria)
1947	-	1948	Commander, Lancastrian Brigade ITC
15.03.1948	-	20.11.1949	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office (concerned with military training)
16.12.1949	-	07.02.1952	Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)), Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
01.03.1952	-	30.11.1953	Chief of Staff (Col.), HQ East Africa Command
01.12.1953	-	20.06.1954	Deputy Chief of Staff, East Africa
13.08.1954	-	1957	Commander, 131st (Surrey & Sussex) Infantry Brigade (TA)
1958	-	1961	Deputy Commander, Aldershot Garrison

Director, Army Sport Control Board, 1961-1973. Played first-class cricket, 1934/35-1938.
Colonel, The Loyal Regiment, 14.02.1959-25.03.1970. Life Vice-President, Surrey County Cricket Club (President, 1982-83). Liveryman, Mercers' Co., 1961, Master, 1970-71. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Surrey, 1971.

Rimmer,
Harold
H. Rimmer

1908
-

Cadet	? [14649983]
2nd Lt.	08.10.1944 [331332]
WS/Lt.	08.04.1945 (reld > 04.1947)

08.10.1944

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section) [emergency commission]

Rishworth,
John Hugh
J.H. Rishworth

30.09.1894
Bradford, North Bierley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
19.12.1950
Holderness district, East Riding of Yorkshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.01.1918 [21487]
Lt.	30.07.1919
Capt.	?
Maj.	19.10.1930 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
A/Lt.Col.	28.08.1940-(10.1944)
T/Lt.Col.	1945?
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

28.01.1943

?	-	30.01.1918	Officer Cadet Unit
30.01.1918			commissioned, 4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Force
15.11.1922			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army (50th (Northampton) Divisional Train RASC)
?	-	22.05.1939	General List, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
22.05.1939			Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1945?	-	19.04.1950	Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Ritchie,
Donald Beaton

see:

Indian Army officers' section

Ritchie,
George Lee
G.L. Ritchie (Photo courtesy of Jo Mai)

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Surgeon Captain George Lee Ritchie, MC, RN (1889-1973), and Lavinia Eveline Browse (1892-1976).
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

30.08.1914
London
-
10.1998
Mendip, Somerset

Lt.	28.09.1939 [107964]
WS/Capt.	10.02.1940
Capt.	28.09.1940
A/Maj.	10.11.1939-09.02.1940
T/Maj.	10.02.1940-11.08.1941, 04.03.1942-05.02.1945
WS/Maj.	06.02.1945
Maj.	28.09.1947
A/Lt.Col.	06.11.1944-05.02.1945
T/Lt.Col.	06.02.1945-17.03.1946, 08.10.1956-13.08.1957
Lt.Col.	14.08.1957 (retd 03.04.1961)

OBE	01.01.1959	New Year 1959
39-45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
GenSM	-	& clasp Malaya

Education: MB, ChB (Aberdeen, 1937); DPH (1939); DTM&H Eng (1954); DIH (1955; London & Soc Apoth).

28.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [from emergency commission, now short service commission]
1941	-	1943	Middle East Forces
1943	-	1944	Malta & Central Mediterranean Forces
28.09.1944			permanent commission
1944	-	1946	Assistant Director of Hygiene, HQ 1 and 2 District (Central Mediterranean Forces)
01.04.1947	-	31.03.1949	seconded to Ministry of Food (East Africa)
1951	-	1954	Far East Land Forces
1956	-	1958	Army School of Health
1958	-	1960	Assistant Director of Army Health, HQ 17th Gurkha Division/Overseas Commonwealth Land Forces (Far East)
1960	-	1961	Assistant Professor of Army Health, Royal Army Medical College (specialist in hygiene/army health)

Ritchie,
Sir Neil Methuen
N.M. Ritchie

2nd son of late Dugald MacDugald and Anna Catherine (Leggatt) Ritchie of Restholme, Liss, Hants. Married (04.12.1937) Catherine Taylor, daughter of James A. Minnes, Kingston, Ontario; one son, one daughter.

29.07.1897
Essequibo, nr.
Georgetown, British Guyana
-
11.12.1983 Toronto, Canada

2nd Lt.	16.12.1914 [9334]
Lt.	02.10.1915
T/Capt.	02.03.1916-21.04.1916
A/Capt.	22.04.1916-18.11.1917
Capt.	19.11.1917
Bt. Maj.	01.07.1933
Maj.	02.06.1934
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1936
Lt.Col.	03.01.1938
Col.	26.08.1939, seniority 01.01.1939
A/Brig.	22.12.1939-21.06.1940
T/Brig.	22.06.1940-27.10.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	28.10.1940-27.10.1941
T/Maj.Gen.	28.10.1941-13.07.1942, 11.09.1942-02.04.1944
WS/Maj.Gen.	03.04.1944
Maj.Gen.	18.05.1944, seniority 25.12.1943
A/Lt.Gen.	27.11.1941-13.07.1942, 19.11.1943-02.04.1944
T/Lt.Gen.	03.04.1944-29.10.1945
Lt.Gen.	30.10.1945, seniority 21.12.1944
Gen.	23.04.1947, seniority 05.10.1946 (retd 29.08.1951)

GBE	07.06.1951	HM's birthday 51
KBE	05.07.1945	NW Europe
CBE	11.07.1940	services in the field
KCB	12.06.1947	HM's birthday 47
CB	01.01.1944	New Year 44
DSO	25.08.1917	Mesopotamia
MC	15.02.1919	Egypt *
MID	26.07.1940	operations in the field
MID	30.06.1942	Middle East 07.41-10.41
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe

Virtuti Militari, 5th cl. (Poland) (15.05.1942); Commander Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre (France) (1945); Knight Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau (Holland) (1945; LG 17.10.1946); Commander, Order of Merit (USA) (1945; LG 16.01.1948); Commander (02.08.1960), Knight (02.07.1963) of Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
* During the action against the Turkish Tabsor position on September 19th, 1918, and during the subsequent advance, he was invariably to the fore and set a fine example of coolness, courage and utter disregard of danger. When the regiment occupied the El Medjel position on the evening of September 19th, 1918, Capt. Ritchie carried a Lewis gun up part of the way as its carrier was exhausted, and thereby materially assisted in driving off an enemy picquet which was holding up the attack on top of the hill. His services throughout the two attacks, and the subequent trying marches, were of inestimable value to the regiment.

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

16.12.1914			commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
1914	-	1919	served European War (1st Battalion The Black Watch, France 1915 (wounded at Loos); 2nd Battalion The Black Watch, Mesopotamia 1916-17, Palestine 1918; despatches, DSO, MC)
05.01.1917	-	28.02.1921	Adjutant, ...
18.07.1923	-	30.09.1927	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office (temporary)
1929	-	1930	Staff College, Camberley
02.04.1933	-	01.04.1937	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Northern Command, India
03.01.1938			transferred to the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
03.01.1938	-	1939	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (Palestine (despatches))
26.08.1939	-	21.12.1939	Instructor (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)), Senior Officers' School, Sheerness
22.12.1939	-	25.06.1940	Brigadier General Staff, II Corps (France)
26.06.1940	-	27.10.1940	Brigadier General Staff, Southern Command (UK)
28.10.1940	-	14.06.1941	General Officer Commanding, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (UK)
15.06.1941	-	26.11.1941	Deputy Chief of General Staff, Middle East Command
27.11.1941	-	13.07.1942	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 8th Army (Libya, Middle East)
11.09.1942	-	18.11.1943	General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (UK)
1943	-	1945	Commander, XII Corps (NW Europe)
16.06.1945	-	1947	General Officer CommandinginChief, Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle
02.1947	-	03.10.1949	CommanderinChief, Far East Land Forces
22.03.1950	-	01.08.1951	Commander, British Army Staff, Washington, and Military Member of the Joint Services Mission, Washington
29.08.1951	-	29.07.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

ADC General to the King, 15.11.1948-29.08.1951. Colonel, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 24.05.1950-19.06.1952. Honorary Colonel, 5 King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), 01.04.1948-01.04.1958. Honorary Colonel, 59 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lanark & Renfrew Scottish), 1950-1959. Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers), 1946.
Insurance executive, Canada (President & Director, The Mercantile & General Reinsurance Co. of Canada Ltd. since 1954; Director, Tanqueray Gordon & Co. (Can.) Ltd.), 1951-. Played first class cricket, 1931-1932.

Ritchie,
Stewart John
"Jack"
S.J. Ritchie

Son of Maj. Robert Ritchie, Royal Artillery, and Eva Ritchie.
Married (1927) Doris Margaretta McLaughlin; one son (who had as offspring the well-known film director Guy [Stewart] Ritchie).

20.01.1899
Woolwich, Greater London
-
12.06.1940
St Valery, France
(KIA) [age 42]
[Dunkirk Memorial, column 123]

2nd Lt.	21.12.1917 [15386]
Lt.	21.06.1919
Capt.	04.04.1929
Maj.	11.02.1939

	MC	15.02.1919	Belgium 09.1918 *
	MID	23.07.1937	Palestine

British War Medal; Victory Medal
* For gallantry and initiative in leading his platoon on September 28th, 1918, in the attack on the Broodseinde Ridge. He displayed the greatest coolness on October 2nd, 1918, when his company was ordered to withdraw slightly, handled his men with great skill under very heavy machine-gun fire, and successfully rallied them on the objective.

21.12.1917			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
21.03.1918	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium (1st Battalion, but attached to 7th Battalion)
(03.1931) (06.1933) (01.1937) (01.1939)	-	(01.1939)	1st Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders: Dover (for Palestine) Egypt (for Hong Kong) Shanghai (temporary)
?	-	12.06.1940	2nd Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (UK, France)

Rivers-Bulkeley,
Robert Arthur Henry
R.A.H. Rivers-Bulkeley

Son of Capt. Thomas Henry Rivers-Bulkeley, CMG, MVO (1876-1914), and Evelyn Pelly.
Married 1st (01.06.1937) Anne Charmian Fane (13.03.1916-15.02.1990) (divorced 1949); one daughter.
Married 2nd Elisabeth Charlotte Marie Neustadl (30.04.1924 - 19.12.2006), stockbroker.

16.01.1914
-
(03?).2007
Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1935
Lt.	30.08.1938
A/Capt.	06.04.1941-05.07.1941
T/Capt.	06.07.1941-29.08.1943
Capt.	30.08.1943
A/Maj.	12.08.1943-11.11.1943
T/Maj.	12.11.1943-21.02.1944, 20.03.1945-(01.1946)
Maj.	30.08.1948 (retd 06.07.1949)

MID

30.06.1942

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

			from Supplementary List Reserve of Officers
30.06.1935			commissioned, Scots Guards
...	-	...	...

Rivett-Carnac,
John Claude Thurlow
J.C.T. Rivett-Carnac

Son of John Thurlow Rivett-Carnac (1856-1948), late Imp. Indian Police, and Edith Emily Brownlow (died 1950).
Married 1st (1923) Ola Jane (died 09.02.1953), daughter of S. Wilson, of Maine, USA; one daughter.
Married 2nd (06.06.1953), Hon. Evelyn (died 26.04.1967) (who married 1930, Gp.Capt. Eustace Jack Linton Hope, AFC, killed in action 1941; two sons, 1 daughter), 2nd daughter of 1st Baron Riverdale; one son.
Residence: Bildeston, Suffolk.

14.06.1888
-
(09?).1975
Eastbourne district

Capt. IA	1918
2nd Lt.	14.01.1944 [306801]
WS/Maj.	14.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

	MC	02.04.1919	*
	KPM	1922	?

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 24th October, 1918. He pushed forward with great determination to reconnoitre the Zab river, which he succeeded in crossing. He then established his patrol in some old enemy trenches overlooking the river, and with their assistance, captured one officer and several men and horses. As hostile patrols were eventually working round his flanks, he was forced to withdraw, bringing back his prisoners and rendering a valuable report as to the enemy's dispositions, and the crossing over the river.

Education: Eastbourne College
Joined Indian Police 1909, retired 1928.

WW I			commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers
			served in Great War 1914-18 with 13 Lancers and 35 Scinde Horse Indian Army (Mesopotamia)
14.01.1944			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			Lt.Col. Military government (North Africa, Italy, France and Germany), Chief of Public Safety, Southern France with the American 6th Army and Senior Public Safety Officer Aachen region, Germany with 21st Army Group

Chief constable Isle of Ely 1931-57, of Huntingdonshire 1928-57.

Rivett-Carnac,
John Templeton
J.T. Rivett-Carnac

21.04.1906
Plomesgate district, Suffolk
-

2nd Lt.	04.02.1926 [34599]
Lt.	04.02.1929
Capt.	01.04.1937
A/Maj.	25.03.1941-24.06.1941
T/Maj.	25.06.1941-03.02.1943
Maj.	04.02.1943 (reld 30.04.1948)

NW Frontier of India (Loe Agra) 1935 Medal & Clasp

04.02.1926			commissioned, The Duke of Wellngton's Regiment (West Riding)
...	-	...	...

Riviere,
Daniel Claude Briton
D.C.B. Riviere

Son of Bernard Beryl and Veronica Riviere.

18.11.1923
-
16.02.1974
Holt, North Walshma district, Norfolk
[Wiveton War Memorial, Norfolk]

Cadet	? [6480533]
2nd Lt.	31.10.1943 [299455]
WS/Lt.	01.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. TA	20.09.1948
A/Capt. TA	30.10.1950-17.11.1950
Capt. TA	18.11.1950, seniority 30.10.1950
Lt. TA	05.03.1953, seniority 18.11.1946 (reverted at own request)
Hon. Capt.	14.07.1954

31.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.)1944			Officer Commanding, 1 Troop, "C" Squadron 13th/18th Hussars (Normandy / NW Europe)
20.09.1948			transferred to Inns of Court Regiment - Territorial Army
14.07.1954			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Land agent (chartered surveyor) & naturalist.

Rixon,
Arthur John
A.J. Rixon

13.08.1914
Poole, Dorset
-
11.12.1971

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.08.1942 [242166]
WS/Lt.	10.02.1943
WS/Capt.	04.1945 (initially released 14.09.1946, but obviously stayed on or re-enlisted and finally relinquished his commission 18.11.1953)
A/Maj.	02.1946
T/Maj.	1946
Hon. Maj.	18.11.1953

MID

19.09.1946

Burma

10.08.1942			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
11.02.1943			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Transportation Section)

Rixon,
John Alan
J.A. Rixon

?
-

2nd Lt.	19.12.1942 [255543]
WS/Lt.	19.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

19.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Roach,
Geoffrey
G. Roach

Son of Charles Ernest Roach.
Married Dora Bevan (28.09.1916 - 16.03.1972), daughter of Max Bevan; one daughter.

06.09.1911
-
1977

2nd Lt.	29.05.1935 [65387]
Lt.	29.05.1938
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
Inspector of Motor Transport	(07.)1941-(04.)1942
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-(10.1940), 07.03.1941-09.02.1943
WS/Capt.	10.02.1943-(04.1947)
A/Maj.	04.03.1942-(07.)1942
T/Maj.	10.02.1943-(04.1944)

Joined Great Western Railways (Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Department) - Swindon Station, 06.09.1928 ([apprentice] fitter & turner, then fitter, then draughtsman, then working staff, then weekly staff).

29.05.1935			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
(11.1939)	-	(07.1944)	Employed List (Category B)
(10.1943)	-	(07.1944)	seconded
(10.1944)	-	(04.1946)	Unemployed List (Category B)
12.03.1947	-	06.09.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

His grandchild writes: "Trained at Aldershot, joined as Captain went to North Africa as a Major, then to Palestine as Colonel and ended up as head of transport police in Palestine then finally joined an oil company still attached to the war department according to diary kept by my departed grandmother."

Robb,
Andrew George
A.G. Robb

Married Antonina (née ...).

20.03.1901
Dunedin, New Zealand
-
12.1974

2nd Lt.	14.05.1945 [348222]
WS/Lt.	14.08.1945
T/Capt.	14.08.1945-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 26.05.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	26.05.1946

Employed by the Colonial Service, living in Malaya.

1932	-	1938	Johore Volunteer Engineers
1939	-	1942	1st Perak Battalion, Federation of Malay States Volunteers
06.04.1942	-	02.02.1944	Lieutenant, G Branch, Land Headquarters, Australian Intelligence Corps (Service Number - V147996)
14.05.1945			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]

Surveyor. Retired to Christchurch New Zealand with his wife.

Robbins,
Antony Baron
A.B. Robbins

Son (with one brother and one half-sister) of Walter Robbins (1879-), and Phyllis Baron Reed (1887-1950).
Married (02.09.1950, Surrey North Eastern district) Sheila Kathleen Croucher; four children.

25.02.1916
-
04.11.1976
Kingston district, London

2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [165559]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942
T/Capt.	25.04.1944-26.05.1946
WS/Capt.	27.05.1946 (reld > 04.1947)

?	-	28.12.1940	Officer Producing Centre, Royal Army Service Corps
28.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

His son writes: "He was a German speaker and worked in Military Intelligence. He served in Greece, where he helped run the port of Patras. He worked with a Greek Commando called Yanni. Post-war he worked for the John Lewis Partnership. Eventually he became a partner at stockbrokers Simon and Coates, London Wall, EC3. "

Roberton,
William Harold Texereau
W.H.T. Roberton

07.11.1907
Reading, Berkshire
-
25.04.1984
Teignmouth, Newton Abbot district, Devon

2nd Lt.	24.10.1934 [63734]
Lt.	05.10.1940
T/Capt.	11.10.1942-(07.1945)
...	...
Lt.Col.	?

OBE

11.06.1960

HM's birthday 1960

			late Cadet C.S.M., Reading School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.10.1934			commissioned, Officer Training Corps - General List - Territorial Army (for service with St Dunstan's College Contingent, Junior Division)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
05.10.1940			transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
11.10.1942	-	(04.)1945	Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)

Roberton,
William Richard Stewart
W.R.S. Roberton (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Epps)

Married Isobel ...; one daughter.

22.01.1899
-
21.11.1960
Haslemere

2nd Lt.	21.12.1917
...	...
Capt.	09.03.1929 (half-pay 14.11.1933) (retd 26.05.1934)

21.12.1917			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
?	-	?	?

Roberts,
Emrys Owen
E.O. Roberts

Married ...; ... children.

18.10.1911
-
(03?).1978
Northampton district, Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	06.02.1940 [118242]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

12.1939			enlisted
06.02.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers(Transportation) [emergency commission]
			served in India
(10.1941)	-	(04.1946)	Unemployed List

Worked for London Scottish Midland Railways.

Roberts,
Ernest John James
E.J.J. Roberts

Married ((06?).1946, Basford district, Nottinghamshire) Flora Daphne Pauline Magness (30.06.1923 - ), daughter of Thomas Magness (1872-1944), and Flora Mason (1884-); two daughters, two sons.

04.07.1920
Tooting, Wandsworth district, London
-
08.12.1979
Marondera, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe

A/SQMS	?
Lt. (QM)	16.05.1943 [294111] (reld 26.08.1946)
T/Capt. (QM)	06.04.1945-26.08.1946
Hon. Capt. (QM)	26.08.1946

23.05.1947

16.05.1943

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Roberts,
George Philip Bradley
"Pip"
G.P.B. Roberts

Son of Lt.Col. Wiliam Bradley Roberts, DSO.
Married 1st (1936) Désirée (died 1979), daughter of Major A.B. Godfray, Jersey; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1980) Annie Cornelia, daughter of LtCol F.E.W. Toussieng, Kt of Dannebrog, and widow of Brig. J. K. Greenwood, OBE.

Residence indicated as: Durban, S Africa (1942/43), then London (1943).

05.11.1906
-
05.11.1997
East Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.02.1926 [34890]
Lt.	04.02.1929
Capt.	30.09.1936
A/Maj.	16.03.1940-15.06.1940
T/Maj.	16.06.1940-19.07.1940, 17.10.1940-03.01.1942
WS/Maj.	04.01.1942
Maj.	04.02.1943
A/Lt.Col.	04.10.1941-03.01.1942
T/Lt.Col.	04.01.1942-25.01.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	26.01.1943
A/Col.	23.07.1942-14.08.1942, 21.08.1942-25.01.1943
T/Col.	26.01.1943-05.12.1944
WS/Col.	06.12.1944
A/Brig.	23.07.1942-14.08.1942, 21.08.1942-25.01.1943
T/Brig.	26.01.1943-05.12.1944
A/Maj.Gen.	06.12.1943-05.12.1944
T/Maj.Gen.	06.12.1944-17.06.1947
Maj.Gen.	18.06.1947, seniority 24.03.1945 (retd 11.09.1949)

CB	01.02.1945	NW Europe
DSO	13.08.1942	Middle East
DSO	28.01.1943	Middle East
DSO	08.07.1943	North Africa
MC	08.07.1941	Middle East 12.40-02.41
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe
LegH	?	?
CdeG	?	?

Education: Marlborough; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

04.02.1926			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (initially stationed at Lydd)
1928	-	(03.)1931	served, 3rd Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps (Egypt)
1931	-	1933	served ... (Egypt)
21.01.1933	-	20.01.1937	Assistant Instructor, Tank Driving & Maintenance School (Bovington, Dorset, UK)
01.1937	-	06.12.1938	served, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt)
07.12.1938	-	15.03.1940	Adjutant, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt)
16.03.1940	-	12.1940	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, 7th Armoured Division (N Africa)
12.1940			Brigade Major, 4th Armoured Brigade (N Africa)
03.1941			General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), 7th Armoured Division (N Africa)
04.10.1941	-	03.01.1942	Assistant Quartermaster-General, XXX Corps (N Africa)
04.01.1942			Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (N Africa)
23.07.1942	-	17.09.1942	Commander, 22nd Armoured Brigade Group (Egypt), redesignated:
17.09.1942	-	20.01.1943	Commander, 22nd Armoured Brigade (Egypt, Libya)
20.01.1943	-	25.01.1943	acting General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (Lybia)
26.01.1943	-	12.03.1943	...
13.03.1943	-	19.06.1943	Commander, 26th Armoured Brigade (N Africa)
20.07.1943	-	06.12.1943	Commander, 30th Armoured Brigade (UK)
06.12.1943	-	1946	General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division (UK, NW Europe)
1947	-	1948	General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division
1948			General Officer Commanding Hanover District, Germany
1948	-	1949	Director, Royal Armoured Corps, War Office (London)
11.09.1949	-	05.11.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Unsuccessfully contested Wimbledon (C), 07.1945. Director of Scribbans-Kemp, biscuit, cake and sweet manufacturers, 1949-1964. Honorary Colonel, Kent and County of London Yeomanry Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry Regiment, T&AVR, 01.05.1962-31.07.1970. Justice of the Peace, County of Kent, 1960-1970.
Published: From the Desert to the Baltic (1987; memoirs)

Roberts,
Howard Gordon
H.G. Roberts

06.01.1914
-
09.1989
Oswestry district, Shropshire

L/Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	22.03.1941 [178994]
WS/Lt.	20.11.1941
T/Capt.	29.03.1943-22.02.1945
WS/Capt.	23.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	23.02.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

			151st Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.03.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Mechanical Maintenance Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
29.03.1943	-	(04.)1944	instructor, Training Establishment, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Arborfield)

Roberts,
James William
J.W. Roberts

16.06.1920
?
-
01.1990
?

2nd Lt.	?
WS/Lt.	?
T/Capt.	?

commissioned, ? [emergency commission]

Roberts,
John James
J.J. Roberts

Son of Charles Vernon Roberts and Margaret Roberts; husband of Dorothy C. Roberts, of Dundas, Ontario, Canada.

1922 ?
-
15.02.1945
(DOW) [age 23]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, 27.E.17]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.04.1944 [321959]
Lt.	?

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

22.04.1944			commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission]
?	-	14.04.1945	attached, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment

Roberts,
Kenneth Sydney
K.S. Roberts

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.11.1941 [217516]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946 & 01.03.1967

06.05.1949

23.11.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Roberts,
Kenneth William Lund
K.W.L. Roberts (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

Son of William Duncan Lund Roberts (1880-1954), and Ruth M. Hart (1889-).
Married 1st (04.1940) Mary Antoinette Josephine Rose; five children.
Married 2nd ((03?).1963, Surrey South Eastern district) Patricia E.T. Nicholson (23.06.1923 - ), daughter (with one sister) of Alfred Parker (1877-1952), and May Eugene Tudor-Parker (1890-1979).

03.01.1915
Lewisham district, London
-
1982
Wellington, New Zealand

2nd Lt.	29.08.1935 [66017]
Lt.	29.08.1938
A/Capt.	19.06.1940-18.09.1940
T/Capt.	19.09.1940-09.06.1941
WS/Capt.	10.06.1941
Capt.	29.08.1943
A/Maj.	10.03.1941-09.06.1941
T/Maj.	10.06.1941-24.09.1943
WS/Maj.	25.09.1943
Maj.	29.08.1948 (retd 21.10.1955)
A/Lt.Col.	25.06.1943-24.09.1943
T/Lt.Col.	25.09.1943-04.01.1944
Hon. Lt.Col.	21.10.1955

	MBE	14.10.1943	Middle East *
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East

* Major KWL ROBERTS has performed consistent good work with AA Formations in ME area. As GSO.II (Ops) to AA & CD Branch from June 10 1942 to the present date he has been intimately concerned with all matters of Organisation, Dilution and Planning and in addition to these normal duties has given very great help to other Branches and contributed greatly to the successful AA fulfilment of both the AA & CD Branch Planning in the recent operations of Eighth Army. His experience gained during the siege of TOBRUK (where he was BM to 4 AA Bde and set a cheerful inspiring example) proved of considerable value.

Education: Stowe (1928.3-1933.2; Chandos House; Prefect, Sixth, XV 1932); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1933-1935).

29.08.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(09.1935)	-	(12.1935)	Young Officers' Course, Larkhill
(03.1936)	-	(01.1938)	4th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Portsmouth)
(01.1939)			4th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Egypt)
(04.1941)	-	(11.1941)	Brigade Major, 4th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (despatches)
11.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
10.06.1942	-	(04.1943)	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Operations), AA & CD Branch, Anti-Aircraft Group HQ, Eastern Mediterranean (MBE)
...	-	...	...

Director of Russell Constructions and Strato - Flo companies. Deputy managing director of the Lede Group board of directors, 1963. Emigrated to New Zealand, 1981.

Roberts,
Richard Power
R.P. Roberts

Son of ... Roberts, and ... Power.
Married; ... children (one son ?).

29.11.1912
Cardiff, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire
-
08.2000
Cardiff, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.10.1940 [151038]
WS/Lt.	05.04.1942
T/Capt.	01.06.1943-04.04.1944
WS/Capt.	05.04.1944 (reld 12.1945)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	12.1945

CBE

01.01.1974

New Year 74: Transport Cons.Cttee.

05.08.1939			joined Royal Artillery at Monorbier Camp Pembrokeshire & served in the ranks
?	-	04.10.1940	either 122nd, 123rd, 125th, or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
05.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in South and North Africa, Egypt, Iraq, Persia, Bahrain, Syria and Palestine

Chairman, Central Transport Consultative Committee for Great Britain (1970s?). Honorary Consul of Belgium at Cardiff for the counties of Brecknock, Monmouth, Radnor and the eastern part of Glamorgan, 08.02.1972.

Robertson,
Sir Brian Hubert;
Baronet of Welbourn (cr. 1919);
1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge (cr. 29.06.1961)
B.H. Robertson

Eldest son of late FM Sir William Robert Robertson, Bt, GCB, GCMG, GCVO. Succeeded father, 1933. Married (1926) Edith, daughter of late J.B. Macindoe, Glasgow; one son, two daughters.

22.07.1896
London
-
29.04.1974
London

2nd Lt.	17.11.1914 [179806 / 8936]
Lt.	23.12.1915
T/Capt.	07.02.1916-02.11.1917
Capt.	03.11.1917
Bt. Maj.	13.03.1925
Maj.	11.01.1930 (retd 01.01.1934)
Maj. RARO	01.01.1934?, seniority 29.05.1925
WS/Lt.Col. RARO	?
WS/Col.	28.01.1944
A/Brig. RARO	?
T/Brig. RARO	?
A/Maj.Gen. RARO	28.01.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	28.01.1944
Maj.Gen.	30.10.1945, seniority 17.11.1941
A/Lt.Gen.	16.12.1944
T/Lt.Gen.	30.10.1945?
Lt.Gen.	01.05.1946, seniority 12.09.1944
Gen.	17.11.1947, seniority 03.10.1946 (retd 10.11.1953)

GBE	09.06.1949	HM's birthday 49
CBE	09.09.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
GCB	01.01.1952	New Year 52
CB	26.02.1943	capture of Tripoli
KCMG	1947	?
KCVO	1944	?
DSO	03.06.1919	HM's birthday 19
MC	01.01.1918	New Year 18
MID	01.01.1916	?
MID	15.05.1917	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
MID	30.05.1924	?
MID	13.03.1925	?
MID	30.12.1941	?
MID	24.05.1943	?

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Waziristan 1921-24 Medal & Clasp; Cavalier, Order of the Crown of Italy (12.09.1918)

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

17.11.1914			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1914	-	1919	served European War (despatches, DSO, MC)
03.05.1915	-	1915	ADC to Chief of the General Staff, France
07.02.1916	-	17.08.1916	ADC to Commander-in-Chief, France [position filled by his father]
16.01.1917	-	14.03.1918	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France till 26.11.1917 & Italy 27.11.1917-04.03.1918)
28.07.1918	-	02.02.1919	Brigade Major, ... (France 04.07.1918-11.11.1918)
1922	-	1923	Waziristan Expedition, NW Frontier India (despatches, Bt Major)
24.06.1928	-	03.12.1929	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
04.12.1929	-	25.09.1932	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
06.1933			junior member of the military mission to the disarmament conference at Geneva
01.10.1934	-	1940	RE Reserve of Officers
1935			Managing Director, Dunlop South Africa Ltd
1939			South African Forces (East African campaign)
1941	-	1943	served Middle East (CBE, CB)
1942?	-	1943?	Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DA&QMG), 8th Army
			General Officer in Command of the base at Tripolitana
1944	-	1945	Chief Administrative Officer to General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief Italy (KCVO)
08.1945	-	05.1946	Chief of Staff, British Zone in Germany & Deputy British Representative on the Control Council
10.1945			restored to the active list
05.1946	-	1947	Deputy Military Governor, Control Commission Germany
01.11.1947	-	21.09.1949	Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine & Military Governor, Germany
01.06.1949	-	1950	UK High Commissioner, Allied High Commission, Germany
25.07.1950	-	04.1953	Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces
1949	-	06.1952	ADC General to the King [from 02.1952: the Queen]

Chairman: British Transport Commission, 1953-1961; ITA General Advisory Council, 1965-1968. Director, Dunlop Co. Ltd, 1961-1969; VicePres., International Sleeping Car Co. President: Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops until 1974; Regular Forces Employment Association; AngloGerman Assoc.; VicePresident, Gloucester Association of Boys' Clubs. Colonel Commandant RE, 11.10.1950-1960. REME, 04.02.1951-1961; Hon. Col RE (Army Emergency Reserve, Tranportation Section), 06.08.1956-1966; Hon. Col Engr and Ry Staff Corps, RE (TA), 1961-1970. DL Gloucestershire, 1965; Master, Salters' Company, 1965. Hon. FIMechE, 1971; Hon. LLD Cambridge; CStJ, 01.1960; Comdr Legion of Honour; Comdr US Legion of Merit.
Literature: David Williamson, A most diplomatic general : the life of Lord Robertson of Oakridge (1996)

Robertson,
Bruce Gordon William
B.G.W. Robertson (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son of William T. Robertson, and Dora Frances Dick (1892-).
Married ((06?).1942, Woolwich district, Kent) Pauline O. Cooper, of Shooter's Hill, London.

(12?).1917
Rochford district, Essex
-
09.09.1944
[age 26]
[Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy, XIX.F.10]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [137923]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1942
T/Capt.	12.02.1943-(04.1944)

04.07.1940			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942)	-	09.09.1944	1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk, then Italy)

Robertson,
Donald Ian

20.11.1909
-
23.01.1974
Star and Garter Home, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey

2nd Lt.	29.08.1929 [44147]
...	...
local Lt.Col.	19.07.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	01.04.1952 (retd 12.12.1959)

OBE	09.06.1949	HM's birthday 49
MC	15.06.1943	North Africa
MID	10.05.1945	?

29.08.1929			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Robertson,
Edward
"Ted"
E. Robertson

Married Jean ... (predeceased him); one son, one daughter.

13.02.1924
Dalry and Gorgie district, Stirlingshire, Scotland
-
18.05.2020

Cadet	? [14297311]
2nd Lt.	16.01.1944 [307322]
WS/Lt.	16.07.1944
T/Capt.	17.06.1946-(04.1947)
WS/Capt.	1947?
Lt.	05.02.1949, seniority 12.02.1947
A/Capt.	05.02.1949
Capt.	01.09.1951, seniority 12.02.1951
Maj.	12.10.1959, seniority 12.02.1958

ERD

30.12.1955

1943	-	1944	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
16.01.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
05.02.1949	-	14.07.1950	Corps of Royal Military Police - Territorial Army
15.07.1950	-	27.01.1962	Corps of Royal Military Police - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (renamed: Army Emergency Reserve of Officers)

A daughter-in-law writes: "Ted was from Gargunnoch, Scotland, became a police cadet and went to Sandhurst and came out an officer to enter the Second World War, Greece, Italy, with a Gurkha regiment (?) took a surrender at Changhi, after the war was one of four Provost marshals at Suez."

Robertson,
Francis
F. Robertson (Photo courtesy of Frances Robertson)

From Aberdeen, Scotland

?
-

WS/Sub-Conductor

04.03.1943

Regimental Warrant Officer, Class 1 - Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Robertson,
Hector Leslie
H.L. Robertson

?
-

Sgt.	? [2878334]
2nd Lt.	24.03.1944 [318848]
WS/Lt.	24.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	22.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	?

21.01.1949

			served in the ranks, London Scottish
24.03.1944			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [immediate emergency commission]
(05.1944)			Wireless Telegraphy School, Middle East Training Centre

Robertson,
Henry
H. Robertson

?
-
1974

Pte.	1940 [7667792]
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.10.1942 [247756]
WS/Lt.	08.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	1946?
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

MBE

10.06.1967

HM's birthday 67: Chief Internal Auditor, Electricity Corporation, Nigeria

1940			enlisted service, Royal Army Pay Corps
08.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1943			HQ 58th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA
1944			Anti-Aircraft Intelligence Officer
1945	-	1946	served in India (as General Staff Officer & Intelligence Officer)
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Robertson (of Brackla),
Ian Argyll
I.A. Robertson

17.07.1913
Richmond, Surrey
-
10.01.2010
Inverness

2nd Lt.	01.02.1936, seniority 30.08.1934 [62986]
Lt.	30.08.1937
A/Capt.	01.09.1939-30.11.1939
T/Capt.	01.12.1939-09.05.1941
WS/Capt.	10.05.1941
Capt.	30.08.1942
A/Maj.	10.02.1941-09.05.1941
T/Maj.	10.05.1941-(01.1946)
local Lt.Col.	20.07.1944-18.07.1945
A/Lt.Col.	21.07.1945-(01.1946)
...	....
Maj.Gen.	01.05.1964 (retd 26.10.1968)

CB, MBE 26.06.1947, MA; MID 22.03.1945 & 08.04.1949

			from General List TA - University Candidates
01.02.1936			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders
01.09.1939	-	06.02.1941	Adjutant, ...
05.04.1943	-	15.08.1943	Brigade Major, 152nd (Seaforth and Cameron) Infantry Brigade
21.01.1944	-	19.07.1944	Brigade Major, 231st (Malta) Infantry Brigade
20.07.1944	-	19.07.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
16.08.1945	-	16.08.1946	Assistant Adjutant General, Indian Corps
...	-	...	...

Robertson,
John
J. Robertson

Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of Alexander Robertson (1877-1965), and Janet Macdonald (1873-1959).
Married (27.12.1951, Edinburgh, Scotland) Margaret Elizabeth Macbeath (14.08.1918 - 09.04.1980), daughter of Donald Macbeath (1886-), and Margaret Hillhouse Kennedy (1890-1955); two sons.

11.12.1915
Moorlands, Breakish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Sotland
-
14.04.1999
Broadford, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Sotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219239]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
A/Capt.	28.08.1945-27.11.1945
T/Capt.	28.11.1945-(08.1946)

			Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.11.1941			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]
28.08.1945	-	(04.1946)	a Staff Captain, Claims Commission, Department of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, The War Office

His son writes: "He attended Sandhurst for officer training, was sent to North Africa, returned to UK with malaria, subsequently sent to Italy and ended his war-time at the War Office."

Robertson,
John Bruce
J.B. Robertson

Married (02.08.1930, St Bartholomew, Haslemere, Surrey) Evelyn Windeler; ... children (one daughter?).

10.02.1903
Kingston district, Surrey
-
29.07.1973
Midhurst district, Sussex (formerly of Haslemere, Surrey)

2nd Lt.	01.02.1923 [23888]
Lt.	01.02.1925
Lt.	01.12.1931, seniority 01.02.1925
Maj.	?

MBE

01.01.1946

New Year 1946

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

01.02.1923			commissioned, Gordon Highlanders
01.12.1931	-	10.02.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
?	-	01.09.1948	Supplementary Reserve of Officers

His daughter writes: "Gordon Highlanders Feb 1923 - Dec 1931 London Scottish July 1939 - March 1941 DAQMG 8 Corps March 1941 - Jan 1943 DAQMG SW District Jan 1943 - July 1945."

Robertson,
Michael Forbes
M.F. Robertson (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of ... Robertson, and ...Mcmurry.

05.05.1916
Wirral district, Cheshire
-
07.1998
Poole district, Dorset

2nd Lt.	28.01.1939, seniority 26.08.1937 [77177]
Lt.	26.08.1940
Capt.	26.08.1945 (reld 31.03.1946)

Education: BA.

			from General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
28.01.1939			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
?	-	05.1940	Officer Commanding, 10 Platoon, "B" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 708) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)

Robertson,
William Gray
W.G. Robertson

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

28.10.1918
-
04.1989
Birmingham district, Warwickshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.06.1942 [235539]
WS/Lt.	13.12.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
A/Capt. ?	?

13.06.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served with Indian Army (Punjab, India)

Chartered Civil Engineer working for Coventry City Council and lived in Knowle, Solihull, West Midlands, England.

Robertson-Brown,
Andrew William
A.W. Robertson-Brown

Initially named A.W. Brown, adding Robertson (his wife's maiden name) in the late 1930s.

28.06.1899
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
18.09.1948
Glasgow, Scotland

2nd Lt.	25.07.1929 [42301]
Lt.	11.07.1932
Capt.	13.05.1936
T/Maj.	29.11.1940-02.04.1941 (reld 02.04.1941; ill-health)
2nd Lt. ACF	10.10.1944

25.07.1929			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
25.07.1929	-	06.1940	52nd (Lowland) Divisional Signals (Glasgow) (wounded at Dunkirk)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
10.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	served with Army Cadet Force, City of Glasgow (Special List, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers)

Robertson-Browne,
Brian

see:

Bro wne,
Brian Robertson

Robinson,
Anthony Aspden
"Tony"
A.A. Robinson (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley J. Lindsay)

Son of John William Schofield Robinson, and Maggie Aspden, of Bournemouth.

01.09.1913
Chester district, Cheshire
-
05.03.1987
Mid Warwickshire district, Warwickshire

2nd Lt.	01.02.1934 [62607]
...	...
T/Maj.	30.08.1942-20.09.1942, 03.05.1943-26.10.1943, 06.05.1944-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.02.1947 (retd 09.06.1948; receiving a gratuity)
Maj.	15.08.1948, seniority 01.09.1947
A/Lt.Col.	01.05.1951
Lt.Col.	01.09.1951, seniority 01.05.1951

MID

30.12.1941

Education: Cheltenham College (Lower3J 01.1926-Lower6Military 07.1932; Junior House & Christowe; cricket XI 1932); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1932).

01.02.1934			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment
...	-	...	...
27.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...
15.08.1948			Territorial Army
			Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment - Territorial Army
01.10.1953			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Hotel manager, Richmond, Surrey.

Robinson,
Bramwell Clifford
B.C. Robinson

Son of ... Robinson, and ... Howles.
Married ((09?).1935, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Alice I. Green.

07.11.1912
Barnsley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
07.2001
Leicester district, Leicestershire

Pte. (A/Wt.Offr. Cl. II (A/SQMS))	? [148332]
2nd Lt.	15.08.1944
WS/Lt.	15.02.1945 (reld 13.05.1946)
2nd Lt.	06.09.1946, seniority 26.03.1946

15.08.1944

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps (for service with Expeditionary Force Institutes) [emergency commission] (without pay and allowances from Army Funds)

Robinson,
Denys
D. Robinson

(03?).1920
Woolwich district, London
-
1971

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.01.1940 [117239]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1941 (half pay 02.02.1945; disability)
A/Capt.	13.05.1943-(04.1944)
Capt.	19.01.1948

			from Inns of Court Regiment (Cadet, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst)
21.01.1940			commissioned, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
19.01.1948	-	12.08.1948	3rd County of London Yeomanry - Territorial Army
12.08.1948	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Robinson,
Jacob Walter

Son (with four sisters and one brother) of Jacob William Robinson (1875-), and Patience Eunice Norman (1881-1931).
From Gillingham, Kent.
Married ((03?).1947, Chatham district, Kent).Ethel Else (née Howland) (1902 - )

26.09.1902
Bermuda, West Indies
-
(03?).1968
Chatham, Kent

Wt.Offr. Cl. II	?
Lt.	20.01.1940 [117033]
WS/Capt.	15.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	15.05.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MBE

26.04.1945

Burma [recommendation available upon request] *

			served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
20.01.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			2nd Field Company RE, attached to HQ 3rd Indian Infantry Division (Special Force)
(02.1944)			Staff Officer RE, grade II (SORE II), 16th Infantry Brigade (Chindits; Operation Thursday) (MBE)

* Recommendation for the appointment as Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) (MBE) of Lt. (WS/Capt.) (T/Maj.) J.W. Robinson: "During the month of February 1944, the whole of 16 Infantry Brigade, comprising some 4,000 men and over 600 animals, marched from TAGAP GA on the LEDO Road to the River CHINDWIN through the NAGA Hills. The track had for the most part never before been used by animals and was largely overgrown. No reliable information was available, and parts of the route had not previously been traversed by a European. Major Robinson was given two weeks’ start, and 200 men to find and prepare the way. Conditions could hardly have been worse. The rote involved steep climbs and descents of thousands of feet, and torrential rain was practically continuous. In the first 35 miles alone, there was not a single stretch of level going so much as a hundred yards in length, and the gradient was often 1 in 3. A track was made, involving much cutting, the building of innumerable traverses, the blasting of many fallen trees, boulders and outcrops of rock. Although when the columns started on their march, progress was exceedingly slow, averaging only 4 miles a day, had it not been for Major Robinson's efforts this historic march would have taken two or three times as long as it did, and the Brigade would have reached the projected area of operations too late to play a profitable part in the campaign. His devotion to duty, his untiring energy, his technical resourcefulness, and his ability to win the enthusiasm of weary men and to draw from them the highest qualities of endurance deserve the highest praise."
[Recommended 02.06.1944 by Brig. B.E. Fergusson, commanding 16th Infantry Brigade, approved 15.09.1944 by Maj.Gen.W.D.A. Lentaigne, commanding 3rd Indian Division, and 31.10.1944 by Gen. G.J. Giffard, commanding 11 Army Group.]

Robinson,
John Little
J.L. Robinson

06.11.1913
Stranraer, Scotland
-
07.12.1982
Glasgow, Scotland

Cadet	? [T/14748963]
2nd Lt.	24.03.1945 [343616]
WS/Lt.	24.09.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	10.02.1946-(04.1947)

24.03.1945

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Robinson,
Peter Ian Maurice
P.I.M. Robinson

20.10.1921
-
(03?).1983
Worthing district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.12.1941 [222491]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	19.08.1948, seniority 20.10.1944
Hon. Capt.	07.11.1948

24.10.1939			enlisted Army at Exeter
23.12.1941			commissioned, Regiment of Royal Artillery [emergency commission]
			served Queen's Royal Regiment ?
12.04.1945	-	14.09.1945	Blitz Patrol, No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army")
08.1945			Army Liaison Officer, HQ 5 Corps
19.08.1948	-	07.11.1948	commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps - Territorial Army
07.11.1948	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Robinson,
Thomas Lloyd
T.L. Robinson (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son of Thomas Rosser Robinson and Rebe Francis-Watkins.
Married (1939) Pamela Rosemary Foster; one son, two daughters.

21.12.1912
Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
-
02.08.1996
Westminster district, London

2nd Lt.	03.06.1939 [91500]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	20.11.1942
T/Maj.	20.11.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	?

Education: Wycliffe College.

03.06.1939			commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Army
			61st Division, and SHAEF
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Honorary President, The Dickinson Robinson Group Ltd, 1988- 92 (Chairman, 1974-77, Deputy Chairman, 1968); Director, E. S. & A. Robinson Ltd, 1952; Joint Managing Director, 1958; Deputy Chairman, E. S. & A. Robinson (Holdings) Ltd, 1963; Director: Bristol Waterworks Co. , 1978-84; Van Leer Groep, Holland, 1977-81; Legal & General Assurance Society (later Legal & General Group plc), 1970-83 (Vice-Chairman, 1978- 83); Chairman, Legal & General South and Western Advisory Board, 1972-84. Chairman, Council of Governors, Wycliffe College, 1970-83, Pres. , 1988-; Member Council, University of Bristol, 1977-94, Pro-Chancellor, 1983-94. Master. Society of Merchant Venturers, Bristol, 1977-78. High Sheriff, Avon, 1979-80. President: Glos CCC, 1980-83; Warwicks Old County Cricketers Association, 1989. Hon. LLD Bristol, 1985.

Robjohn,
Leslie Henry
L.H. Robjohn

From Stanmore.
Married twice (Molly & Ursula); three sons, one daughter.

28.12.1915
Porlock, Somerset
-
17.03.2007
St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey

2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [179719]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942
T/Capt.	01.03.1943-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946)

MBE

14.10.1943

Middle East

29.03.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Robson,
Leslie John
L.J. Robson

?
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.01.1943 [258472]
WS/Lt.	10.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	29.12.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

23.05.1946

Mediterranean

10.01.1943

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

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