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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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J.C.T. Willis to R. Wynn

Willis,
John Christopher Temple
J.C.T. Willis

Son of Paymaster Captain
G.H.A. Willis and Adela Willis
(née Frere).
Married (1927) Ursula
Frances Galpin; one son,
one daughter.

14.05.1900
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
12.10.1969

2nd Lt.	17.07.1919 [19240]
Lt.	17.07.1921
Capt.	17.07.1930
Maj.	01.08.1938
local Lt.Col.	22.08.1939-20.11.1940
A/Lt.Col.	21.11.1940-20.02.1941
T/Lt.Col.	21.02.1941-26.04.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	27.04.1944
Lt.Col.	27.06.1945
A/Col.	27.10.1943-26.04.1944
T/Col.	27.04.1944-31.03.1947
Col.	01.04.1947 (supernumerary 01.04.1953)
T/Brig.	01.06.1949-04.04.1952
Brig.	05.04.1952
T/Maj.Gen.	24.07.1953-20.08.1953
Maj.Gen.	21.08.1953 (retd 29.06.1957)

	CB	1956	?
	CBE	1953	?

Education: Uppingham; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

17.07.1919			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1923	-	1926	Malayan Survey Section, RE
21.01.1927	-	20.01.1931	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
21.01.1931	-	04.02.1935	Ordnance Survey (employed under Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries [Adjutant 06.09.1931])
05.02.1935	-	24.10.1937	Assistant Instructor in Survey (Class DD), School of Military Engineering, Chatham
1937	-	1939	Jamaican Survey Section, RE
14.02.1939	-	21.08.1939	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
22.08.1939	-	20.11.1940	specially employed as Assistant Director of Intelligence (Maps), Air Ministry
21.11.1940	-	26.10.1943	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Directorate of Military Operations and Plans, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
27.10.1943	-	14.10.1945	Deputy Director of Military Survey, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
15.10.1945	-	19.03.1948	Director of Survey, South East Asia Command
13.07.1948	-	31.05.1949	Deputy Director of Ordnance Survey, War Office
01.06.1949	-	22.05.1953	Director of Military Survey, War Office
24.07.1953	-	1957	Director-General of Ordnance Survey, War Office

Justice of the Peace (JP), 1957. RI, RSMA.

Willis Fleming,
Richard Hugh
P.W. Jeffries

Son of ... Fleming, and ... Charrington.
Married Sonia (née ...); two step-daughters.

20.01.1921
Isle of Wight
-
28.12.2006
[Gillingham, Dorset ?]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	31.12.1939 [112860]
Lt.	01.07.1941
A/Capt.	12.08.1942-11.11.1942
T/Capt.	12.11.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	01.07.1946 (reld 13.05.1948)
A/Maj.	23.12.1944-(01.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	?

			served in the ranks for 120 days
			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
31.12.1939			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps

Willmott,
Leonard Richard Douglas
"Len"
L.R.D. Willmott

Son of Arthur, former Sgt.Maj. RASC and Georgette Willmott.
Married (22.04.1944) Connie Crossland.
From Chipping Sodbury, Hertfordshire.

23.06.1921
Battersea, Greater London
-
24.05.1993

Signalman	01.07.1936 [2325304]
L/Cpl.	?
Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	11.08.1944 [328521]
WS/Lt.	1945?
Lt.	07.09.1946, seniority 23.12.1943
A/Capt.	21.05.1946-20.08.1946
T/Capt.	21.08.1946-22.06.1948
Capt.	23.06.1948 (retd 16.01.1962)
T/Maj.	06.04.1954-22.09.1954, 14.10.1954-(02.1957)
Hon. Maj.	16.01.1962

MM	03.02.1944	Middle East (Special Operations)
BEM	14.10.1943	Middle East (Special Operations)
CdeG	1945?	?
BL	23.05.1947 05.09.1946	Arnhem 09.44 [second date of Royal Dutch Decree]
VHK	31.10.1986	-

01.07.1936			entered the Army as a boy signaller (Royal Corps of Signals) [served in the ranks for 8 years, 41 days]
			seconded to Special Operations Executive & Special Air Service Regiment:
1939			served in Poland
1941?			served in Greece
11.08.1944			commissioned, General List [immediate emergency commission to 06.09.1946]
1944			parachuted into Britanny (France) as wireless operator for the French resistance (Croix de Guerre)
17.09.1944			wireless operator on a Jedburgh Team at Hellendoorn, Overijssel, The Netherlands (codename "Edward")
18.12.1945			transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
1945			liberation of Belsen concentration camp
			brought refugees out of East Germany
07.09.1946			permanent commission
			involved in Greek Civil War
1951			served Malaysia ("Malayan Emergency")

Literature: John Simpson & Mark Adkin, The quiet operator : Special Forces signaller extraordinary : the story of Major L.R.D. Willmott (1993)

Willmott,
Miss Mary
M. Willmott (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)

?
-

2/Sub.	12.02.1943 [263920]
WS/Sub.	12.08.1943
T/Jun.Comd.	01.05.1945-(04.1946)

MBE

12.02.1943			commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service
19.11.1943	-	(04.1946)	Assistant to Chief Principal Matron, Directorate of Medical Services, Adjuntant-General's Branch, HQ India
(1947)			HQ Southern Command, India

Wills,
Walter Edward
W.E. Wills

Son of John Henry and Henrietta Wills.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

20.02.1901
Kingswinford, Stourbridge district, Staffordshire
-
23.05.1985
Brent district, Middlesex

2nd Lt.	19.08.1940 [142559]
WS/Lt.	19.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	17.03.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

19.08.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			seconded, Indian Army
01.10.1944			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Willson,
Trevor Grover
T.G. Willson, 1946 (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy Willson)

Married (09.1946) Machteld Heleen Joan Fromberg (a member of the Dutch underground from Arnhem*); three sons.

* She was captured by the Gestapo and sentenced
to death by firing squad at Lunteren (de Wormshof) but was liberated by the advancing Canadians. She was then part of the provisional Dutch governing authority but resigned, for reasons of her own.

24.10.1921
Wallington, nr Croydon, Surrey
-

2nd Lt.	28.06.1941 [193767]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt.	1944

28.06.1941			commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
28.06.1941	-	1942	9th Battalion The Border Regiment
1942	-	1943?	seconded to 7th/11th Sikh Regiment (Razmak, India [NW Frontier, later Quetta])
1943?	-	1945	seconded to the Indian Army Ordnance Corps (Cheokka, near Allahabad)
1945	-	1946	returned to the UK and posted to a Royal Army Ordnance Corps vehicle unit (Deelen, near Arnhem, The Netherlands)
09.01.1946			transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Took a position in the Guildhall, City of London Corporation and remained there until his retirement as the assistant Town Clerk.

Wilmot,
Gordon Darwin
G.D. Wilmot (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Second son of Capt. Sacheverel Darwin Wilmot, RA, of Farnham, Surrey.
Married (1941).

30.03.1918
Ranikhet, India
-

2nd Lt.	25.08.1938
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	20.10.1941-19.01.1942
T/Capt.	20.01.1942-11.02.1943, 06.04.1943-19.12.1944
WS/Capt.	20.12.1944
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	20.09.1944-19.12.1944
T/Maj.	20.12.1944-03.01.1945, 01.06.1945-24.08.1951
Maj.	25.08.1951 (retd 30.05.1959)

Education: Rugby (1931.3-1935.2; Stanley House; R. VIII 1934); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1937-1938).

25.08.1938			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
?	-	05.1940	Officer Commanding, 15 Platoon "C" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (wounded & evacuated)
1943	-	1945	glider battalion, 1st Airborne Division (in command of 2nd Seaborne Element of 1st Airlanding Brigade for the Arnhem operation 09.1944)

Social Services Department, West Sussex County Council.

Wilmot,
Reginald Thomas Dorrien
"Tom"
R.T.D. Wilmot

Son of ... Wilmot, Army doctor, and ... Dorrien.
Married; two (?) sons.

11.03.1915
Elham district, Kent
-
15.02.2007
London

2nd Lt.	22.10.1939 [105357]
WS/Lt.	22.04.1941
T/Capt.	23.08.1941-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	?

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

Education: Tonbridge (1928-1933)

1936			Inns of Court Regiment (3rd Cavalry Officer Cadet Training Wing) [personal number 55284?]
22.10.1939			commissioned, Leicestershire Yeomanry [emergency commission]
15.02.1940			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			spent most of the war in North Africa, including Alamein, the Middle East and Italy; in 1944 he volunteered to act as liaison with the partisans and during street fighting in Florence was wounded when the partisan leader he was assigned to was killed; he ended the war in Germany, back with the Leicester Yeomanry as part of the Guards Armoured Division

Chief executive of the British Insurance Association [later: Association of British Insurers] (from 1946 to 1971) who set up the World Fire Statistics Centre.

Wilson,
Alexander John Cope
A.J.C. Wilson

Son of John Mcgregor Wilson (1864-1942), and Martha Cope (1871-1906).
Married ((12?).1926, Birkenhead, Cheshire) Dorothy Drury (11.03.1903 - 08.1987), daughter of George Alfred Drury (1878-), and Elizabeth ... (1877-); one daughter, one son.

07.05.1903
Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales
-
01.02.1990
Darlington, Co. Durham

2nd Lt.	13.12.1922
Lt.	13.12.1924 (reld 29.01.1927)
Lt.	16.08.1939 [24059]
T/Capt.	04.02.1940-(07.1941)
WS/Capt.	07.10.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Maj.	07.10.1941-(07.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

13.12.1922			commissioned, 2nd Cheshire Field Squadron - Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	07.09.1942	Officer Commanding, 21 Field Squadron RE
09.09.1942	-	?	Officer Commanding, RE Base Depot Company
?	-	17.06.1953	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

A grandchild writes: "Stationed Alexandria, spent time in Palestine. Not a career soldier. Mech. or structural engineer specialising in bridges."

Wilson,
Andrew Colville
A.C. Wilson

Son (with one sister) of Andrew Colville Wilson (1886-1934), and Elizabeth Key M. Farquharson (1887-1975).
Married Leila Isobel Pope (17.07.1923 - 21.04.2012), daughter (with two sisters) of James Pope (Jr.) (1889-1956), and May Stephen (1892–1947); one daughter, one son.

29.08.1915
Paisley
-
15.12.1988
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.04.1943 [271182]
WS/Lt.	18.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	29.02.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

CdeG

1944?

Le Havre 09.1944

18.04.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1944)			617th Assault Squadron, 42nd Assault Regiment RE (UK, NW Europe) (Croix de Guerre)

Wilson,
Dudley Norman
D.N. Wilson

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Ernest Cyril Wilson (1878-), and Isabella Florence Cook (1884-1960).
Married ((03?).1941, Gravesend district, Kent) Evelyn Rose Rayner (18.11.1922 - 13.06.2007); four daughters, one son.

10.05.1915
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
-
15.07.1988
Rustington, Worthing district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186338]
WS/Lt.	27.05.1941
T/Capt.	21.03.1942-23.09.1943
WS/Capt.	24.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	24.09.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

05.04.1945

Burma / Eastern Front of India

			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
10.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wilson,
Eric Charles Twelves
G. Wilson

Son of Rev. Cecil Caradoc Carus Wilson, and ... Twelves.
Married 1st (1943) Ann (from whom he obtained a divorce, 1953), daughter of Maj. Humphrey PleydellBouverie, MBE; two sons.
Married 2nd (1953) Angela Joy, daughter of Lt.Col. J.McK. Gordon, MC; one son.

02.10.1912
Sandown, Isle of Wight
-
23.12.2008
Leeds
[St Peter & St Paul Churchyard, Stowell, Near Sherbourne, Somerset]

2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58138]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	01.11.1939-31.01.1940
T/Capt.	01.02.1940-01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	26.08.1941-25.11.1941
T/Maj.	26.11.1941-19.05.1942, 07.08.1942-16.04.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 18.08.1949)
A/Lt.Col.	30.06.1945-(01.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	18.08.1949

14.10.1940

Somaliland

Education: Marlborough; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

02.02.1933			commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment
08.07.1937	-	31.08.1939	seconded to King's African Rifles (2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion) (employed under Colonial Office)
09.1939	-	08.1940	seconded to Somaliland Camel Corps (VC; wounded & captured)
08.1940	-	04.1941	POW in Italian captivity
1941	-	1942	Long Range Desert Group
1944			Second-in-Command of a Battlaion of the King's African Rifles (Burma)
1946			seconded to Northern Rhodesia Regiment
18.08.1949	-	03.11.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Administrative Officer, HM Overseas Civil Service, Tanganyika, 1949-1961; Deputy Warden, London House, 1962, Warden, 1966-1977. Honorary Secretary, Anglo-Somali Society, 1972-1977 and 1988-1990.
Published: Stowell in the Blackmore Vale, 1986

Wilson,
George
G. Wilson

17.06.1895
-

...	...
Lt.Col.	01.09.1939

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Wilson,
George
G. Wilson

19.03.1894
-

Ordnance Executive Officer (OEO) 3rd class & Lt.	01.04.1936 [67587]
A/OEO 2nd class & A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/OEO 2nd class & T/Capt.	03.12.1939-27.02.1940
OEO 2nd class & Capt.	28.02.1940
A/Maj.	01.11.1943-31.01.1944
T/Maj.	01.02.1944-(01.1946)
OEO 1st class & Maj.	04.03.1946 (retd 02.09.1948; disability)

14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

20.01.1915	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium
1922?	-	1926?	served in the ranks for 3 years, 255 days
1926?	-	1928?	Warrant Officer Class 2 for 2 years, 224 days
1928?	-	31.03.1936	Warrant Officer Class 1 for 7 years, 266 days
01.04.1936			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
?	-	?	?

Wilson,
Geoffrey
G. Wilson

?
-

Lt.	01.08.1940 [141796]
WS/Capt.	01.08.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

01.08.1940

commissioned, The Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

Lt.	10.10.1940
WS/Capt.	10.10.1941

10.10.1940

commissioned, The Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]

Wilson,
Gordon
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [162481]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
T/Capt.	31.03.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	02.12.1944
A/Maj.	(09.1944)

21.12.1940			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission]
15.07.1944	-	25.09.1944	Second-in-Command, British Liaison Group to 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade (Arnhem)

Wilson,
[Sir] Gordon
G. Wilson

01.02.1887
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
17.07.1971
London

Lt.	27.01.1911
...	...
Col.	01.05.1938, seniority 01.07.1936
A/Brig.	17.07.1940-16.01.1941
T/Brig.	17.01.1941-28.10.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	13.10.1941-28.10.1941
Maj.Gen.	29.10.1941 (retd 20.06.1946)
local Lt.Gen.	01.06.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.	20.06.1946

KCSI	13.06.1946	HM's birthfay 46
CB	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
CBE	11.07.1940	British Expeditionary Force
OBE	04.06.1928	HM's birthday 28
MC	WW I	?
MID	26.07.1940	?

Education: MB, ChB, DPH

27.01.1911			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps
1939	-	1940	Commandant Dieppe Sub-Area (BEF)
17.07.1940	-	22.09.1941	Deputy Director of Medical Services, X Corps
1941	-	1943	Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Army, India
1943	-	1946	Director of Medical Services, India
13.10.1941	-	1946	also: Honorary Surgeon to the King (KHS)

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	31.05.1941
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

31.05.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	24.06.1940
WS/Lt.	24.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

24.06.1940

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	08.07.1939
WS/Capt.	14.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

08.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	25.03.1944
WS/Lt.	25.09.1944

25.03.1944

commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	17.06.1943
WS/Lt.	17.02.1944
T/Capt.	24.07.1944-(04.1946)

17.06.1943

commissioned, The South Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

Lt. QM

17.11.1945

17.06.1943

commissioned, The South Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.07.1939
WS/Capt.	15.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

15.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Supplementary Reserve (Category B)
24.08.1939			mobilized

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.

25.09.1926

commissioned, General List - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	02.03.1940
WS/Lt.	02.09.1941
T/Capt.	15.12.1943-(04.1946)

02.03.1940

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

Lt.	22.01.1940
WS/Capt.	21.12.1942
T/Maj.	21.12.1942-(04.1946)

22.01.1940

commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941
WS/Capt.	28.03.1943
T/Maj.	17.11.1945-(04.1946)

26.04.1941

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

Lt.	14.11.1939
WS/Capt.	14.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

14.11.1939

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	01.08.1942
WS/Lt.	01.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

01.08.1942

commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

Wilson,
G
G. Wilson

?
-

2nd Lt.	17.06.1944
WS/ Lt.	17.12.1944

17.06.1944

commissioned, The Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps [emergency commission]

Wilson,
George Herbert *
G.H. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian G. Wilson)

Son of George Wilson, chimney sweep, and Therese Williams.
Married (31.10.1953) Mary Hill (née Harmer); one son.
* Name at birth: Herbert George Wilson.

21.06.1909
Maidenhead, Berkshire
-
04.03.1961
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, Sussex

Pte.	12.01.1925 (Trumpeter 19.12.1925)
Gnr.	21.06.1927
L/Bdr.	20.02.1930 (unpaid) 28.03.1931 (paid)
Bdr.	01.05.1933 (reld 21.08.1934)
Gnr.	12.01.1939
L/Bdr.	02.05.1939 (unpaid)
A/Bdr.	06.12.1939
WS/Bdr.	06.12.1939
A/Sgt.	24.01.1940
WS/Sgt.	24.04.1940
Lt.	25.01.1941 [166790]
T/Capt.	12.06.1943-27.03.1944
WS/Capt.	28.03.1944 (reld to reserve 05.01.1946)
A/Maj.	28.12.1943?
T/Maj.	28.03.1944
Capt.	12.05.1947 (reld 02.12.1955)
A/Maj.	07.08.1948-15.11.1948
Hon. Maj.	02.12.1955

MBE	13.12.1945	Italy
39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	11.01.1945	Italy

Clerk.

12.01.1925			enlisted, Royal Artillery
02.11.1925			posted to Hong Kong
15.01.1926	-	31.03.1927	99/20th Brigade RA
01.04.1927	-	01.05.1927	3rd Heavy Brigade RA
02.05.1927	-	01.07.1927	HQ 1st Heavy Brigade RA
02.07.1927	-	22.08.1928	28/1st Brigade RA
23.08.1928	-	27.09.1929	85/11th Field Brigade RA
28.09.1929	-	01.11.1929	Heavy Artillery Hong Kong
02.11.1929	-	01.05.1932	12th Heavy Battery RA (returned from Hong Kong 31.03.1932)
02.05.1932	-	02.02.1934	27th Heavy Battery RA (Gibraltar)
03.02.1934	-	18.02.1934	Depot Brigade RA (Woolwich)
19.02.1934	-	21.08.1934	2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA
13.01.1939	-	16.01.1939	Depot Regiment RA (Woolwich)
17.01.1939	-	17.03.1939	1st Training Regiment RA
18.03.1939	-	04.10.1940	1/1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (British Expeditionary Force 13.09.1939-02.06.1940)
05.10.1940	-	24.01.1941	133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit (Shrivenham)
25.01.1941	-	22.04.1943	8th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (13.01.1943-23.02.1943 Coast Training Centre)
23.04.1943	-	20.09.1943	1st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
21.09.1943	-	27.12.1943	76th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
28.12.1943	-	28.01.1944	55th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
29.01.1944	-	02.12.1944	73rd Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
03.12.1944	-	02.08.1945	55th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
03.08.1945	-	05.01.1946	71st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
12.05.1947			short service commission
13.05.1947	-	22.08.1947	Depot RA (Woolwich)
23.08.1947	-	10.11.1947	1st Ceylon Coast Regiment (South East Asia Land Forces)
11.11.1947	-	11.01.1948	HQ Ceylon Garrison (SEALF)
12.01.1948	-	06.08.1948	attached to Officer Commanding Troops Echelon Barracks Colombo (SEALF)
07.08.1948	-	17.03.1949	1st Ceylon Artillery Regiment (SEALF, from 11.11.1948 Far East Asia Land Forces)
18.03.1949	-	18.04.1949	Depot RA (Woolwich)
19.04.1949	-	30.06.1955	Adjutant, 463rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA - Territorial Army
01.07.1955	-	02.12.1955	Depot RA (Woolwich)

General Manager, Brighton Aquarium.

Wilson,
Henry James *
"Harry" / "Jock"
H.J. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

* also [erroneously] shown as: Henry John
Son of Sgt. James Wilson, of Macduff.
Married ((06?).1930, Lewisham district, Kent) Anita Gertrude Kathleen Petley (08.10.1907 - 06.1989); three sons.

10.06.1904
London
-
26.03.1985
Tunbridge Wells, Kent (formerly of Caldbec Hill, Battle, East Sussex)

Pte.	1923
L/Cpl.	1924
Cpl.	1924
Transport Sgt.	1925
2nd Lt.	18.04.1931 [50167]
Lt.	18.04.1934
Capt.	07.03.1936
WS/Maj.	22.11.1941
A/Lt.Col.	22.08.1941-21.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.	22.11.1941-21.05.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	22.05.1945
Lt.Col.	01.09.1946, seniority 22.05.1945 [dated 02.05.1947]
A/Col.	22.11.1944-10.10.1945
T/Col	18.07.1947-29.09.1949 (supernumerary 29.09.1949, seniority 01.10.1945)
Hon. Col.	29.09.1949

CBE	01.01.1963	New Year 63: Deputy President National Farmers' Union
OBE	05.08.1943	Persia/Iraq [recommendation available upon request]
TD	20.01.1944	-
TD	29.06.1956	2nd clasp

Education: Mercers' School.
Served with London County and Westminster Bank, 1921-1939.

1923			enlisted, London Scottish (served with the Transport Section)
18.04.1931			commissioned, 14th London Regiment (London Scottish) - The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
12.1934	-	02.1940	Officer Commanding, D Company
02.1940	-	1940?	Officer Commanding, Recruit Training Company
1940?	-	01.1941	Officer Commanding, C Company
01.1941	-	21.08.1941	Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The London Scottish (UK)
22.08.1941	-	01.1944	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The London Scottish (UK, 08.1942 overseas, from 10.1942 Iraq, then Palestine, from 07.1943 Sicily, from 10.1943 Italy) (OBE)
03.1943	-	05.1943	Senior Officers' Course at the Middle East Training Centre
26.10.1943	-	13.11.1943	ill with malaria
09.02.1944	-	29.09.1949	Army Welfare Services (Italy, Middle East, UK)
09.02.1944	-	04.05.1944	Assistant Director of Army Welfare Services (ADAWS), 3 District, Central Mediterranean Forces
05.02.1944	-	21.11.1944	Assistant Director of Army Welfare Services (ADAWS), 8th Army HQ
22.11.1944	-	24.12.1944	Deputy Director of Army Welfare Services (DDAWS), Allied Armies in Italy
25.12.1944	-	10.10.1945	Deputy Director of Army Welfare Services (DDAWS), Central Mediterranean Forces
04.10.1945	-	17.07.1947	an Assistant Director of Army Welfare Services, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office (Broadcasting)
18.07.1947	-	29.09.1949	Deputy Director of Army Welfare Services, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office
01.10.1945	-	29.09.1949	short service commission - Regular Army
29.09.1949	-	01.09.1954	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
29.09.1949	-	18.11.1954	Territorial Army
19.11.1954	-	16.12.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Farmer since 1949. Joined National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, 1949 (Council Member 1954, Vice-President 1958, Deputy President 1959-1962, Honorary Treasurer 1971-1981). Chairman, Bacon Consultative Council, 1957-1964. Chairman, Industry Panel, Bacon Market Council, 1964-1972.

Wilson,
Sir Henry Maitland
"Jumbo";
1st Baron (cr. 1946) of Libya and Stowlangtoft
H.M. Wilson

Son of late Arthur Maitland Wilson, OBE, Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk.
Married (1914) Hester Mary,
daughter of Philip James Digby Wykeham, Tythrop House, Oxon; one son, one daughter.

art

05.09.1881
London
-
31.12.1964
Chilton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	10.03.1900
...	...
Lt.Gen.	15.06.1939, seniority 26.06.1938
Gen.	31.05.1941, seniority 06.05.1941 (supernumerary 05.09.1941)
Field Marshal	29.12.1944

GCB	1944	?
GBE	04.03.1941	?
KCB	1940	?
CB	1937	?
DSO	1917	?
MID	01.04.1941	?
MID	24.06.1943	?
LM	04.04.1946	?

Greek Military Cross 1st class 10.04.1942
Polish Order of Vituti Militari V Class 07.12.1944
WWI medals

10.03.1900			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade
...	-	...	....
15.06.1939	-	04.02.1941	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Troops in Egypt
05.02.1941	-	27.02.1941	Military Governor and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Cyrenaica
28.02.1941	-	05.05.1941	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Forces in Greece
06.05.1941	-	19.10.1941	General Officer Commanding, Palestine and Trans-Jordan
20.10.1941	-	14.09.1942	Commander, 9th Army
24.11.1941			also: ADC General to the King
15.09.1942	-	18.02.1943	Commander-in-Chief, Persia-Iraq Command
19.02.1943	-	07.01.1944	Commander-in-Chief, Middle East
08.01.1944	-	11.12.1944	Supreme Allied commander, Mediterranean Theatre
13.01.1945	-	1947	Head of British Delegation Joint Staff Mission, Washington

Wilson,
Ian Urquhart
I.U. Wilson

Son (with one brother) of Dr John Johnston Wilson (1867-1949), and Christina Smith Cook (1871-1950).
Married (14.08.1940, Dutch Church, Galle, Ceylon; marriage dissolved) Bridget "Biddy" Dixon-Spain (21.06.1917 - 23.08.2002), daughter of Harry Selwyn Dixon-Spain (1883?-1963), and Alice Burnett Thompson (1882-1976), of King's Lynn, Norfolk; one son. Biddy Wilson remarried (1952) Lt.Col. Christopher George Chetwynd-Stapylton.

1903
Anstruther, Fife, Scotland
-
08.02.1991
Elie, Fife, Scotland

2nd Lt.	26.03.1942 [231294]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Capt.	23.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

26.03.1942

commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

Wilson,
John
J. Wilson

24.04.1908
-
04.1997
Merton district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	02.09.1942 [250590]
WS/Lt.	02.09.1942
A/Capt.	31.05.1943-30.08.1943
T/Capt.	31.08.1943-31.07.1946
Lt.	01.08.1946, seniority 02.09.1942
Lt. QM	27.11.1947
Capt. QM	27.11.1947
Maj. QM	01.06.1953 (retd 01.05.1959)

	MBE	13.12.1945	Italy
	MID	13.01.1944	Middle East

			served in the ranks for 12 years, 321 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 2 years, 325 days
02.09.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 31.07.1946]
(1944?)	-	(1945?)	seconded, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) (Algeria & Italy)
01.08.1946	-	26.11.1947	short service commission
27.11.1947	-	01.05.1959	permanent commission, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) - Royal Armoured Corps
01.05.1959	-	24.04.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Wilson,
Peter Ralph Hewett
P.R.H. Wilson

Son of Ralph Sidney Wilson, and Mabel G. Hewett (1893-1980).
Married 1st (06.09.1948, Darlington district, Durham) Frances Mary Graham.
Married 2nd ((09?).1959, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Helen Emma Lock; one daughter.

(06?).1920
Clacton-on-Sea, Tendring district, Essex
-
02.04.2006
Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Guernsey

2nd Lt.	06.09.1941 [203837]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

06.09.1941			commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(1943)			Hyderabad Regiment (Bombay, India) (served possibly with the Chindits in Burma)

Planter in Burma.

Wilson,
Peter Werden
P.W. Wilson

Son (with four sisters and four brothers) of Capt. William Werden Wilson, RN (1877-1950), and Sophie Irene Whittemore (1886-1934).
Brother of Second Officer Margaret Helen Werden Wilson, WRNS.
Married (23.10.1948, Wiltshire) Hazel June Barrington Chance (03.06.1926 - ); four daughters, two sons.

18.02.1920
Plympton St Mary district, Cornwall / Devon
-
02.10.1971
Clyffe Pypard Manor, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	19.07.1941 [198362]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	04.03.1945-(04.1946)

19.07.1941			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
			11th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps

Wilson,
Robert
"Tug"
G. Wilson

Married (17.11.1939) Marjorie Georgina Thompson (29.06.1911 - 23.01.1986), of Clifton, Bristol.

04.11.1911
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
04.2002
West Berkshire

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	24.08.1939 [97240]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
A/Capt.	21.08.1941-20.11.1941
T/Capt.	21.11.1941-23.06.1945, 31.07.1945-18.01.1946, 01.05.1946-31.07.1946
A/Maj.	01.05.1946-31.07.1946
T/Maj.	01.08.1946-03.11.1947
Lt.	19.10.1946, seniority 01.08.1938
Capt.	19.10.1946, seniority 04.11.1942
Maj.	04.11.1947
T/Lt.Col.	29.03.1956-13.05.1957
Lt.Col.	30.04.1957, seniority 01.04.1956 (retd 01.04.1958)

DSO	24.02.1942	Middle East (Egypt, Libya): six raids between 10.06 and 17.12.41 [citation available upon request]
DSO	20.12.1945	folbot attack on enemy ship in Itaian harbour of Crotone 05.09.42 [investiture 26.02.46] [citation available upon request]
MID	24.02.1942	Middle East
MID	24.04.1953	Korea
TD	21.04.1950	-
EM	02.05.1947	- [21.09.51 cancelled due to being awarded TD]

Draughtsman , Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1938.

24.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (5th Survey Regiment RA (Gloucestershire))
24.08.1939			mobilized TA (to 18.10.1946)
03.1940			3rd Survey Regiment RA (BEF; Dunkirk)
11.1940			Folbot Section, No. 8 (Scottish) Commando
04.1941			founder member of Special Boat Section, Middle East (previously known as the Folbot Section) with Roger Courtney (DSO, Bar to DSO)
09.1942			Taken POW in Italy, escaped, recaptured, sent to Germany in Sept 1943, escaped at Modena Station and recaptured in Rome 08.01.1944. Taken to Stalag IVB (POW 270133). Moved to Oflag VIIIF at Marisch-Trubau in Czechslovakia. On the 28th April 1944 sent to Oflag 79 at Brunswick. Liberated by US troops 12th April 1945.
02.1946	-	09.1947	Battery Commander, 66th Airborne Anti-Tank Regiment RA (Palestine)
19.10.1946			permanent commission
1947			returned to UK and served as Battery Commander in Heavy Anti-Aircraft and Light Anti-Aircraft and then Staff Officer Royal Artillery at the Army Air Transport Development Centre
10.1951	-	02.1953	Battery Commander,14th Field Regiment RA (Korea & Japan)
06.1953	-	03.1956	Second-in-Command, 38th Training Regiment RA (North Wales)
1956	-	03.1957	Commanding Officer, 37th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Malta)

Army Careers Officer for Warwickshire, 1957-02.1973. Field officer with Country Landowners Association (Warwickshire Area), 1973-1976.
Literature: Rex Woods, Special Commando : the wartime adventures of Lt-Col Robert Wilson, DSO and Bar (1985).

Wilson,
Roy Wilfred
R.W. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Christine Bassett)

Son of William Wilson (1858-1949), and Emily Bloomfield (1869-1915).
Married 1st (10.07.1936, Westminster, London) Gilda Amy Josephine Avico (08.11.1908 - 11.11.2001); two daughters.
Married 2nd (27.07.1950, London) Evelyn Threlfall (15.07.1920 - 14.08.1991).

16.09.1913
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
-
13.03.2001
Bexleyheath, Kent

2nd Lt.	08.03.1941 [176955]
WS/Lt.	08.09.1942
T/Capt.	22.05.1944-(04.1946)
T/Maj.	1946?

07.11.1946

special operations in South East Asia

Commercial Art Executive, Shell. Fireman.

08.03.1941			commissioned, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) [emergency commission]
1941			6th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (spent 6 weeks in Northern Ireland)
1941			instructor, 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit (Douglas, Isle of Man)
			volunteered for service with Special Operations Executive (SOE) and served in Burma (Force 136)

Graphic designer.

Wilson,
[Sir] Thomas Douglas;
4th Baronet (cr. 1906)
T.D. Wilson

Son of Thomas Douglas Wilson (son of 1st Bt), 2nd Lt. 7th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (born 1890, killed in action, 1917), and Kathleen Elise, daughter of Henry Edward Gray.
Succeeded uncle, 22.10.1968.
Married (1947) Pamela Aileen, 2nd daughter of Sir Edward Hanmer, 7th Bt, and late Aileen Mary, elder daughter of Captain J.E.
Rogerson; one son, three daughters.

10.06.1917
-
12.11.1984
North Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71087]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	01.12.1940-28.02.1941
T/Capt.	01.03.1941-03.02.1942, 15.05.1942-21.08.1942, 28.12.1942-06.09.1944
WS/Capt.	07.09.1944
Capt.	28.01.1945 (half-pay list 11.09.1947; disability) (retd 01.04.1948; disability)
A/Maj.	07.06.1944-06.09.1944
T/Maj.	07.09.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	01.04.1948

MC	18.10.1940	for gallant and distinguished services in the field (France) *
39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-

Education: Marlborough; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

28.01.1937			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps
28.01.1937	-	1948?	15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
1939	-	1945	served UK, France 1939/40, Western Desert 1942/43:
(1939?)	-	(1940)	seconded as Signal Officer, HQ 2nd Armoured Reconnaissance Brigade, as part of Adamforce (France)
12.1940	-	12.1940	seconded as Signal Officer, 23rd Hussars (for two weeks)
12.1940	-	?	seconded as Second-in-Command, C Squadron, 23rd Hussars
05.10.1942	-	31.08.1943	Adjutant

Contested (Conservative) Dudley and Stourbridge, 1955.

* [Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to Lt. T.D. Wilson] For the operation in the vicinity of Nieuport 28-30 May, I placed him in command of an improvised Light Tank Troop. He was constantly with his troop from about 1600 hrs. 28 May until nightfall 29 May and his handling of his troop played an important part in holding up the German advance during these critical hours. In addition he kept me well supplied with important information throughout the period he was in action. The infantry in the sub-sector from inclu[sive] Nieuport - the sea were constantly subjected to heavy S.A. [small arms] and mortar fire and Lt. Wilson displayed great enterprise and activity in locating and subduing M.G. [machine gun] posts. His activity was largely instrumental in checking the many attempts made by the Germans to cross the canal, particularly during the night 28-29. This was especially commendable as tanks work under considerable disadvantage in darkness. A source of some anxiety was the presence of enemy tanks just over an intact bridge in Nieuport and Lt. Wilson handled his light tanks (in fact, ineffective against these German tanks) in a manner which undoubtedly helped to deter the enemy tanks from advanding and when one of his tanks broke down he assisted, at great personal risk, in placing it to augment a road block already in position. From 1600 hrs. until nightfall 29 May he carried out some valuable reconnaissance and fine action in the Wulpen areaduring the initial time when the Germans were making great efforts to effect a crossing over the canal. His troop by this time was reduced to 1 light tank and 1 armoured car but these drew heavy artillery fire. This however, did not deter Lt. Wilson from maintaining his position in support of the infantry for 3 or 4 hours.
Signed. Brigadier [A.J. Clifton] Commanding 2nd Armoured Reconnaissance Brigade and Sector Nieuport-Wulpen in operations referred to. [Courtesy of Mr Vincent Billiet]

Wilson,
William Andrew Dougal
W.A.D. Wilson

Son of William Wilson, of Canniesburn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.
Married (14.06.1939, Parish Church, St Philip, Cheam Common, Surrey) Winifred Mercy Allen (1912? - ), daughter of Arthur Charles Allen, manager.

1908
-
1963

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.10.1942 [245763]
WS/Lt.	07.04.1942
A/Capt.	13.04.1944-(07.1944)
WS/Capt.	31.08.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	31.08.1944-(08.1946)

Bank clerk (later bank manager), The National Bank of Scotland Ltd.

07.10.1942

commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]

Wimberley,
Douglas Neil
D.N. Wimberley

Son of late Colonel C.N. Campbell Wimberley, CMG, Inverness, and Lesmoir Gordon Wimberley.
Married (1925) E. Myrtle L., daughter of late Capt. F.L.
Campbell, RN, Achalader, Perthshire, and Lady Dobell; one son, one daughter.

15.08.1896
Inverness
-
26.08.1983
Coupar Angus

2nd Lt.	12.05.1915 [10800]
Lt.	17.03.1916
A/Capt.	12.02.1917-13.08.1917
Capt.	14.08.1917
A/Maj.	19.02.1918-13.10.1919
T/Maj.	1919
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1933
Maj.	03.01.1934
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1936
Lt.Col.	19.12.1938
A/Col.	16.03.1940-15.09.1940
T/Col.	16.09.1940-16.10.1940
Col.	17.10.1940, seniority 01.01.1939
A/Brig.	20.07.1940-19.01.1941
T/Brig.	20.01.1941-20.05.1942
A/Maj.Gen.	21.05.1941-20.05.1942
T/Maj.Gen.	21.05.1942-30.07.1944
Maj.Gen.	31.07.1944, seniority 24.12.1943 (retd 08.10.1946)

CB	05.08.1943	?
DSO	31.12.1942	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
MC	1918	?
MID	24.06.1943	?

WWI medals

Education: Alton Burn, Nairn; Wellington; Emmanuel College, Cambridge (06.11.1924-26.06.1925); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1927); Staff College (psc)

12.05.1915			commissioned, The Cameron Highlanders
02.10.1915 13.07.1917	- -	19.10.1916 26.02.1918	served European War as Regimental Officer, [Machine Gun Corps, 23.01.1916-16.12.1919], France and Belgium, 1st and 51st Highland Divisions (wounded, MC), including battles of Loos, Somme, Ypres, Cambrai and St Quentin
20.05.1919	-	12.10.1919	North Russia, with Machine Gun Corps
22.10.1921	-	21.10.1924	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Cameron Highlanders
19.02.1929	-	25.11.1932	Brigade Major, 1st (Ghurkha) Infantry Brigade (operations NW Frontier Province, India, 1930)
05.02.1934	-	16.01.1936	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office (London)
17.01.1936	-	04.02.1938	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Military Training, War Office (London)
1938	-	1939	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Cameron Highlanders (UK, France)
28.12.1939	-	08.01.1940	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) & Chief Instructor, Senior Officers' School (Sheerness)
09.01.1940	-	17.01.1940	Brigade Commander
16.03.1940	-	19.07.1940	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Tactical School
19.07.1940	-	12.09.1940	Commander, 13th Infantry Brigade (UK)
13.09.1940	-	17.05.1941	Commander, 152nd (Seaforth and Cameron) Infantry Brigade (UK)
22.05.1941	-	11.06.1941	General Officer Commanding, 46th Infantry Division (UK)
11.06.1941	-	21.08.1943	General Officer Commanding, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (UK Egypt, Libya, N Africa, Sicily) (despatches, slightly wounded, DSO, CB)
02.09.1943	-	14.12.1944	Commandant, Staff College (Camberley)
15.12.1944	-	1946	Director of Infantry, War Office (London)

Principal of University College, Dundee, in the University of St. Andrews, 1946-1954. Governor, Dundee Colleges of Art and Technology, 1946-1954. Founder Governor, Scottish Horticultural Research Institute, 1952-1962. Member Royal Company of Archers, Queen's Body Guard for Scotland. Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod in the Order of the Bath, 1948-1954. Registrar and Secretary, 1954-1964. Honorary Colonel, St. Andrews University Officers Training Corps, 25.01.1951-1963. Colonel, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 02.09.1951-1961. Chief, Gaelic Society, Inverness, 1947-1948. President, Royal Celtic Society, 1971-1974. Life Member, British Legion (Scotland), 1950. Honorary President, Angus and Perthshire British Legion, 1976. Deputy Lieutenant, Dundee, 1947-1975. Deputy Lieutenant, Perthshire, 1975. Hon. LLD Aberdeen, 1948, Dundee, 1967.

Wimbush,
Anthony Charles Gordon
"Tim"
A.C.G. Wimbush

11.05.1911
Barnet district, Greater London
-
08.2005
Stafford, Staffordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.01.1931 [49965]
Lt.	29.01.1934
Capt.	29.01.1939
A/Maj.	01.06.1941-31.08.1941
T/Maj.	01.09.1941-12.12.1944, 27.04.1945-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 07.01.1958)
T/Lt.Col.	16.04.1951-15.11.1954
local Lt.Col.	11.09.1955-02.10.1955
Hon. Lt.Col.	07.01.1958
RAF:
F/O (temp)	20.01.1936 [25051]
F/Lt. (temp)	20.01.1939
Sq.Ldr. (temp)	01.03.1940

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

29.01.1931			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [later renamed: Royal Tank Regiment]
(03.1931)			Depot Royal Tank Corps (Woolwich)
(06.1933)			3rd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Lydd)
20.01.1936	-	13.01.1941	seconded for duty with the Royal Air Force [temporary commission]
			was attached to American Forces & spent time in USA as Tank Gunnery Instructor
07.01.1958	-	21.03.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Wimsett,
Gilbert Roland

Son of Thomas Roland Wimsett, and Caroline Elizabeth Wimsett.
Married (03.11.1939) Muriel Dixon; two sons, one daughter.

24.01.1918
Streatham, Surrey
-
22.10.1979
Frenchay
Hospital, Frenchay, Bristol

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219158]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	27.04.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt. ?	? (reld 21.03.1947)
A/Maj.	04.1946
T/Maj.	(1946?)
Hon. Maj.	21.03.1947

Education: The Bec Grammer School, Tooting; LCC Junior County Scholarship Honour Certiifcate (1930); University of London
Worked for the LCC Housing, 1936-1939.

1939	-	1941	served in the ranks, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1941	-	11.1941	"C" Company, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
29.11.1941			commissioned, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [emergency commission]
			served at Tidworth, Farnham and on the East Coast, lecturing & training in the UK, later Belgium & Italy
20.09.1948	-	1951/52	assigned to Control Commission for Germany (Essen, Müllheim and then Düsseldorf) (operated under General Bishop in intelligence areas)

Assessor, Tax Department, 1952. Commissioner, National Savings in The West of England, 1973. Retired as Senior Executive Officer, Civil Service, 1977.

Windeler *,
David Alister
D.A. Windeler

Son (with five siblings) of Albert Windeler (1876-), and Alice Sophie Baldwin (1885-).
Married (02.04.1949, Horsham district, Sussex) Nerina Jessie Aitchison (23.02.1924 - 09.03.2000), daughter (with one brother) of George Staveley Aitchison (1894-1925), and Lilian Catherine Rae (1893-1987); three daughters.
* Later used as last name: Aitchison-Windeler.

17.07.1920
-
01.11.2011
New Zealand

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.03.1940 [123553]
Lt.	02.09.1941
A/Capt.	14.12.1942-26.01.1943, 04.06.1943-20.07.1943
T/Capt.	21.07.1943-29.09.1943, 01.10.1943-02.07.1945
WS/Capt.	03.07.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946 (retd 15.09.1952; receiving a gratuity)
A/Maj.	03.04.1945-02.07.1945
T/Maj.	03.07.1945-15.09.1952
Hon. Maj.	15.09.1952
Maj.	26.06.1959, seniority 31.12.1958
RAF:
F/Lt.	18.09.1956 [504907]

MC	23.07.1948	Palestine (North Galilee 20.12.1947)
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 8th Army
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean
GenSM	-	& clasps Cyprus & Palestine 1945-48

			served in the ranks for 5 years, 54 days
1939	-	1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
02.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
			6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
(1947)			seconded, Mechanized Regiment, Trans Jordan Frontier Force (MC)
15.09.1952	-	19.11.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
19.11.1953	-	14.06.1956	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
14.06.1956	-	18.09.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
18.09.1956	-	08.07.1958	commissioned, Royal Air Force Regiment [short service commission]
08.07.1958	-	16.09.1958	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
16.09.1958	-	18.07.1961	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
18.07.1961	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Published: Part Pom part Kiwi part Fella:h (2000).

Winder,
Alexander John Henry
A.J.H. Winder

Son of Alexander Stuart Monck Winder (1883-1969), and Helen Mary Swayne (1895-1985).
Married ((06?).1959, Uckfield district, Sussex) Shirlie "Cherry" Lewis; two sons, two daughters.

23.10.1921
Chelsea district,
London
-
30.12.2020
Godalming, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.11.1941 [217320]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 04.11.1953)
A/Capt.	09.06.1945-08.09.1945
T/Capt.	09.09.1945-(12.1946) (demobilized > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
Hon. Capt.	04.11.1953

LegH

03.2020

Education: Shrewsbury School (School House, Kingsland); New College, University of Oxford (MA).

15.11.1941

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Chartered Civil Engineer (water supply, dams and reservoirs), in charge of the design and build of Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire, and Scammonden Dam, Yorkshire, before becoming Chief Resident Engineer at Rutland Water. Senior engineer, Binnie and Partners, 1953-1966. Senior engineer, Rofe Kennard and Lapworth, 1966-1970. Senior engineer, T. and C. Hawksley, 1970-1974. Partner, Watson Hawksley from 1974. FICE, FIWES.
A son writes: "He was active 1941 in Iraq (Kirkuk), Libya, Egypt, Sicily landings, D-Day (50th Division, (landed in 1st wave 6th June 08.30hrs), battle for Normandy through to Brussels liberation, NL, and Germany at end of war and into 1946 based in Itzahoe northern Germany."

Windle,
Gerald Edward Fitzgerald
G.E.F. Windle (Photo courtesy of Mr James Windle)

Son (with one sister) of James Fitzgerald (originally James Joseph McCarthy) Windle (1870-1914), civil engineer, and Mary Raphael "May" McGuire (1879-1959).
Married ((06?).1945, Westminster, London) Kathleen Margaret Waldron (04.03.1914 - 05.05.1980), daughter of James Joseph Byrne Waldron (1879-1957), and Catherine Daisy Jones (1876-1940); three children.

11.05.1910
Tipperary Town, Ireland
-
26.05.1965
Wandsworth, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164148]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
T/Capt.	26.05.1944-(12.1946)
WS/Capt.	1946? (reld 07.02.1947)
T/Maj.	1946?
Hon. Maj.	07.02.1947

Chartered accountant.

1940	-	21.12.1940	Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Windsor,
HRH the Duke of;
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David [Edward VIII]
HRH the Duke of Windsor

23.06.1894
Richmond Park
-
28.05.1972
Paris, France

...	...
Field Marshal	21.01.1936

KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, ISO, MC

...	-	...	...
07.08.1940	-	27.07.1945	Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bahamas

Published: A King's story : the memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor (1951)

Wingate,
George Nigel Fancourt
G.N.F. Wingate

Son, of Col. George Wingate, CIE (1852-1936), an officer in the Indian army, and Mary Ethel Stanley Orde-Browne (1867-1943), of Summerhill, Godalming.
Brother of Maj.Gen. Orde Charles Wingate, and Maj. William Granville Wingate.
Married ((06?).1950, Leicester Central district, Leicestershire) Rosamond Mary Berridge (04.05.1917 - 12.1999), only daughter of Canon and Mrs Edward Berridge, of Oadby, Leicester; no children.

08.04.1908
Woolwich district, London
-
25.09.1982
Cockermouth, Cumberland

2nd Lt.	08.10.1939 [115162]
WS/Capt.	28.12.1940
T/Maj.	28.12.1940-09.08.1943
WS/Maj.	10.08.1943 (reld > 04.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	10.05.1943-(04.1944)

OBE

13.06.1970

HM's birthday 70: as Chairman, Cumberland and Westmorland Association of Boys' Clubs

Education: Cambridge.

08.10.1939

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Director and General Manager of The Distington Engineering Co. Ltd., 1956-1968. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Cumberland, 13.04.1966. High Sheriff of Cumbria, 1974.

Wingate,
Orde Charles

Third child, and eldest son, of Col. George Wingate, CIE (1852-1936), an officer in the Indian army, and Mary Ethel Stanley Orde-Browne (1867-1943), of Summerhill, Godalming.
Brother of Lt.Col. George Nigel Fancourt Wingate.
Married (24.01.1935, Chelsea Old Church) Lorna Elizabeth Margaret Paterson (? - 1990), only child of Walter Moncrieff Paterson, of Tilliefoure, Aberdeenshire; one son. Lorna Wingate remarried (05.01.1954) John R.R. Smith.

26.02.1903
Naini Tal, United Provinces, India
-
24.03.1944
near Thilon Village, Manipur, India
[buried in the U.S. Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC]

2nd Lt.	29.08.1923 [27013]
Lt.	29.08.1925
local Capt.	16.04.1930-01.04.1933
Capt.	16.05.1936
Maj.	29.08.1940
T/Lt.Col.	24.04.1941-24.03.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	?
local Col.	14.02.1941-24.03.1944
A/Col.	10.06.1942-09.12.1942
T/Col.	10.12.1942-24.03.1944
T/Brig.	10.12.1942-24.03.1944
A/Maj.Gen.	18.09.1943-...
T/Maj.Gen.	?

DSO	13.09.1938	Palestine
DSO	30.12.1941	Middle East
DSO	05.08.1943	Burma
MID	25.04.1939	Palestine
MID	01.04.1941	Middle East

Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal of the Royal Central Asian Society

Education: private; Hillside; Charterhouse School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

29.08.1923			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
02.04.1928	-	01.04.1933	attached to Sudan Defence Force (qualified as interpreter 1st class in Arabic 06.1929)
(06.1933)	-	(10.1935)	9th Field Brigade RA (Bulford)
13.12.1935	-	07.09.1936	Adjutant, 73rd (West Riding) Field Brigade RA (Territorial Army)
14.09.1936	-	12.06.1939	special appointment (Class FF to 31.07.1938) as Intelligence Officer to Force Headquarters British Gorces in Palestine and TransJordan (DSO, despatches) [keen supporter of zionism; see this page]
13.06.1939	-	(01.)1940	Brigade Major, 56th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA
22.10.1940	-	07.1941	posted to Khartoum (as staff officer for patriot activities (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), 101 Mission) to help organize Abyssinian guerrilla against the Italians ("Gideon Force") (Bar to DSO, despatches)
07.1941	-	02.1942	sick leave
03.1942	-	24.03.1944	posted to India to organize long-range penetration raids behind Japanese lines in Burma ("Chindits", special force with cover name "3rd Indian Division") (Second Bar to DSO) [flying from Imphal to Lalaghat, the US B-25 Mitchell plane in which he was flying crashed into jungle-covered hills]

Published: In search of Zerzura In: RGS Magazine (April 1934).
Literature: C. Sykes, Orde Wingate: a biography (1959); J. Bierman and C. Smith, Fire in the night (2000); P. Mead, Orde Wingate and the historians (1987); T. Royle, Orde Wingate: irregular soldier (1995).

Wingate,
Reginald Eric Lennard
R.E.L. Wingate (Photo courtesy of Mr David Wingate)

Son (with one sister) of Maj. Reginald Ramsay Wingate, DCLI (1890-1938), and Mildred Cutler (1887-1969), of Bude, Cornwall.
Married (1951) Auriol June Rintoul (28.06.1922 - ), widow of David Edwards Rintoul (1913-1949), and younger daughter of James Munro Palmer Landon (1890-1947), and Penelope Minna Conybeare (1892-1942), formerly of Slim River, Malaya; one son, one daughter.

19.01.1921
Chittagong, India
-
28.11.1989
Dartmouth, Newton Abbot district, Devon

Cadet	1939 [90056]
2nd Lt.	05.06.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	31.11.1941-30.01.1942
T/Capt.	31.01.1942-17.09.1945
WS/Capt.	18.12.1945 (reld < 12.1946)
A/Maj.	18.09.1945-1946
T/Maj.	1946
Hon. Maj.	< 12.1946

CBE	15.06.1974	HM's birthday 74: for services to British interests and the British community in Singapore
MBE	26.06.1947	Netherlands East Indies
39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
GenSM	-	& clasp SE Asia 45/46
TD	28.08.1990	-

Education: St. Petroc's School, Bude, Cornwall; St. Edward's, Oxford (1934.3-1938.2; Macnamara's House).

05.06.1939			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			Intelligence Officer, 8th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
05.06.1942			Intelligence Officer, HQ 134th Infantry Brigade
15.02.1944			General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Intelligence), HQ 45th Infantry Division [05.08.1944 embarked for NW Europe]
29.07.1945			disembarked Maripur, India for South East Asia Command (served then as Intelligence Officer (Air), Colombo, Ceylon)
28.09.1945			Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (Movements) with General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Air), Allied Land Forces South East Asia Command, Netherlands East Indies (MBE)
20.08.1946	-	06.04.1971	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Joined Mansfield & Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1946 (eventually Chairman). Chairman Straits Steamship Group of Co, Singapore. Chairman Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, 1973. Chairman, Missions To Seamen, Singapore Branch. Town and District Councilor and Mayor elect, Dartmouth, Devon.

Wingate,
[His Honour Judge] William Granville
W.G. Wingate

Son, of Col. George Wingate, CIE (1852-1936), an officer in the Indian army, and Mary Ethel Stanley Orde-Browne (1867-1943), of Summerhill, Godalming.
Brother of Maj.Gen. Orde Charles Wingate, and Lt.Col. George Nigel Fancourt Wingate.
Married (12.04.1960, Maldon district, Essex) Judith Rosemary Evatt, daughter of Lt.Col. J.H.B. Evatt, RA; one son, one daughter.

28.05.1911
Reigate district, Surrey
-
26.07.1990
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186583]
WS/Capt.	14.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	14.01.1943-(04.1946)

Education: Brighton College; Lincoln College, Oxford (BA).
Barrister, Inner Temple (Western Circuit), 1933.

?	-	10.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Member Bar Council, 1961-1965 & 1966-1967. QC 1963. A county court & circuit judge (Circuit 41, Clerkenwell) 1967-1986. Deputy Chairman Essex quarter sessions, 1965-1971. Member, County Court Rule Committee, 1971-1980. Member, Lord Chanceloor's Legal Aid Advisory Committee, 1971-1977. Member, Lord Chancellor's Law Reform Committee, 1974-1987. Chairman, Brighton College Council, 1978-1986.

Winstanley,
James William
J.W. Winstanley (Photo courtesy of Mr John Winstanley)

Son of Thomas Winstanley (1878-1954), engine man at colliery, and Annie Smith (1881-1967).
Married (07.08.1937, St Michael and All Angel, Wigan, Lancashire) Jenny Platt (10.08.1912 - 05.05.1982), daughter (with one brother and three sisters) of James Platt (1883-1966), and Ellen Rothwell (1883-1963); two sons.

02.02.1909
Winstanley, Billinge sub-district, Wigan district, Lancashire
-
02.09.1960
Tottington (on the way to Bury General Hospital), Ramsbottom sub-district, Heywood district, Lancashire (formerly of Greenmount, Tottington)

2nd Lt.	20.03.1942 [230512]
WS/Lt.	31.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	09.09.1943-(04.1946)

Education: University of Liverpool (MSc).
Schoolmaster.

20.03.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch) [emergency commission] (as Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th class)
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (as Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th class)
(05.1945)			23th AA W/S Coy REME (Brayton)

Research physicist.

Winterborn,
Thomas Hugh

Son of Rev. Benjamin Thomas Winterborn (1844-1913), and Sylvia Maud Trousdale (1883-1964).
Married (1937) Helene Beichmann, daughter of Lt.Col. E.M. Beichmann.

09.12.1909
Withyam, East Grinstead district, Sussex
-
08.1985
Uckfield district, Sussex

2nd Lt.	29.08.1929 [44188]
Lt.	29.08.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	23.05.1941-22.08.1941
T/Maj.	23.08.1941-03.01.1944
WS/Maj.	04.01.1944
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 01.01.1950)
A/Lt.Col.	04.10.1943-03.01.1944
T/Lt.Col.	04.01.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.01.1950

	CBE	12.06.1965	HM's birthday 65: attached Ministry of Defence
	OBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46

Education: Haileybury (Thomason House; 1923.3-1924.3); Stonyhurst (1924-1927); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1927-1929; Fencing Blue).

29.08.1929			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
11.1938			qualified a interpreter 1st lass in Japanese
(1942)			served Auxiliary Units

Civil assistant, War Office, retiring in 1969. Master, Wax Chandlers Company, 1962-1964.

Winterbottom,
Walter Carton
W.C. Winterbottom

Married (25.07.1936, Paddington, London) Rowna Fletcher; one son, one daughter.

20.09.1906
Oldham district, Lancashire
-
31.03.1969
Northampton district, Northamptonshire

Lt.	27.01.1940 [119932]
WS/Capt.	27.01.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

MID?

Education: St Mary's Hospital; LMSSA Lond 24.04.1935.

27.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1945			at concentration camp Bergen-Belsen after liberation

General practitioner (Winterbottom & Round), Olney, Buckinghamshire. Appt. Factory Doctor (Examining Surgeon), Olney District, Buckinghamshire, 10.05.1946. Late House Surgeon St Mary's Hospital. Assistant Medical Officer St Andrew's Hospital Bow (LCC).
His son writes: "May 1940: Broadstairs or Margate, Kent receiving Dunkirk casualties. During Battle of Britain: Chatham, Kent hospital treating B of B casualties. Then School of Tropical Medicine, London. Posted to Ibadan, Nigeria, arrived 14 May 1941 (unofficially helped with anaesthetics with native doctors) - he was an anaesthetist. Early 1943 ill with malaria, out of hospital 16 February 1943. Returned to England spring 1943 then fought shingles. Then posted to Stannington nr. Newcastle on Tyne and was also at Inverary, Scotland treating casualties from pre D-Day training. Pre D-Day at Camberley. Normandy Landings: definitely not D1 but could have been D2 or 3. Antwerp, then Bergen op Zoom, Holland. Crossed the Rhine at Nimegen. Relief unit RAMC Bergen Belsen [see more details]. By June 1945 on coast near Copenhagen."

Wise,
George Walter Bentley

(09.)1911
St Pancras, Greater London
-
14.02.2007
Biddestone nr Chippingham
[aged 95]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.11.1944 [335007]
WS/Lt.	18.05.1945
T/Capt.	30.12.1945
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	01.02.1949, seniority 23.06.1947
Maj.	?

MBE

18.11.1944			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission to 31.01.1949]
01.02.1949			short service commission

Wiss,
Cyril Benno Leslie

Born as C.B.L. Weiss as son of Benno George Weiss, and Maisie Ruby Eileen Joyce Mitchell.
Married ((12?).1933, St Marylebone district, London; divorced 1937) Gertrude Maude Castle.
Changed last name to Wiss by deed poll of 21.11.1942.
Residence: (1932) Morspur Park, Surrey; (1958) Covent Garden, Lnodon.

13.04.1910
Stockwell, London
-
1968 still alive

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.06.1942 [235897]
WS/Lt.	20.12.1943
WS/Capt.	1944/45? (cashiered by sentence of a General Court-Martial 01.02.1945)

Company director. Gained his aviator's licence (No. 10420) flying a Gipsy Moth 85 hp at Brooklands School of Flying, 19.03.1932.

20.06.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Withers,
Francis Cyril
F.C. Withers

Son of Alfred Edgar Withers, and Minnie Lovekin.
Married ((03?).1936, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Winifred M. Lewis.

20.10.1912
Birmingham district, Warwickshire
-
08.1996
Colchester district, Essex

Dvr.	?
2nd Lt.	11.02.1941 [171289]
WS/Lt.	11.08.1942
T/Capt.	30.06.1943-(04.1947)
Lt.	01.01.1949, seniority 11.08.1942
Capt.	01.01.1949, seniority 01.11.1947
Maj.	11.02.1954 (reld 01.01.1963)
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1963

MBE

12.06.1958

HM's birthday 58

			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps
11.02.1941			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
13.02.1946	-	(04.1947)	a Staff Captain of the Directorate Selection of Personnel, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office
01.01.1949	-	01.01.1963	short service commission

Witts,
Frank Hole

4th son of late Rev. Canon Francis Edward Broome Witts, and Margaret Bourne, of Upper Slaughter, Gloucester.
Married (07.08.1919) Ruth
Leonide Brocklebank, 2nd daughter of late Harold Brocklebank of Grizedale Hall, Lancs.

22.02.1887
Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire
-
09.05.1941
[Glasgow ?]
[Buchanan Churchyard Extension, 2.J.1]

2nd Lt.	08.1914? [9376]
Lt.	17.02.1916, seniority 07.06.1915
Capt.	19.08.1916
Maj.	14.03.1926
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1928
Lt.Col.	15.03.1933
Col.	08.11.1935, seniority 01.07.1931
T/Brig.	01.10.1937-09.05.1941

DSO	02.06.1919	?
MC	01.11.1917	?
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
14 St	-	& clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Radley; Trinity College, Oxford (1906); Staff College (psc, 1924)

08.1914	-	16.02.1916	mobilized, Irish Guards - Special Reserve of Officers (for 1 year, 189 days)
17.02.1916			commissioned, Irish Guards
			served in France (05.11.1914-26.01.1915, 05.1915-27.05.1918 & 11.07.1918-11.11.1918) with 1st and 2nd Battalions and afterwards on the Staff during the European War (DSO, MC, despatches thrice; three times wounded 25.12.1914, 10.1917, 25.05.1918)
26.08.1917	-	28.03.1918	Staff Captain, ... (France)
29.03.1918	-	27.05.1918	Brigade Major, ... (France)
13.07.1918	-	08.07.1919	Brigade Major, ... (France)
09.07.1919	-	28.11.1919	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Portsmouth Garrison
08.08.1925	-	31.01.1926	Staff Captain, London District (UK)
01.02.1926	-	07.08.1929	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), London District (UK)
10.07.1930	-	14.11.1933	Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Royal Military College, Sandhurst (UK)
15.11.1933	-	1935	transferred & Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
08.11.1935	-	30.09.1937	Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), HQ Aldershot Command (Aldershot, UK)
01.10.1937	-	21.02.1940	Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade (UK, France & Belgium)
17.06.1940	-	09.05.1941	Area Commander, Glasgow Area (Scottish Command) (UK)
11.11.1938	-	09.05.1941	also: Army ADC to the King

Wolfe,
Edward Hastings
E.H. Wolfe (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

12.05.1919
-
27.01.1972

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186315]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	31.04.1943-(04.1946)

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
10.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wolfe,
John Frank Claud

Son of ... Wolfe, and ... Stutchbury.

05.04.1914
St Pancras district, London
-
26.07.1994
Fetcham, Leatherhead, Surrey Mid-Eastern district

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [172190]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942
T/Capt.	01.09.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	12.07.1945?
Hon. Maj.	> 04. 1946, < 08.1946

Bank clerk.

			either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941			commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
			attached Indian Army:
(1943)			7th Rajput Regiment
12.02.1945	-	11.07.1945	General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3) (Operations), HQ Northwestern Army (Rawalpindi)
12.07.1945	-	(10.1945)	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Military Operations), HQ Northwestern Army (Rawalpindi)

Wolfson,
Victor Henry
V.H. Wolfson (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Wolfson)

Only child of Andrew Cecil Wolfson (1890-1978), and Doris Marguerite Henrotin (1894-1971).
Married (30.05.1947, Westminster, London) Elizabeth Carol Staveacre (19.12.1913 - 29.09.1999), daughter (with three brothers and one sister) of Wilson Bayley Staveacre (1875-1950), and Dora Ward (1880-1949); two sons.

25.04.1915
Kensington, London
-
19.03.2004
Bath, Somerset

2nd Lt.	02.08.1939 [97606]
Lt.	? (reld 02.08.1949)
A/Capt.	27.05.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	(1944)
Hon. Capt.	02.08.1949

MID

24.08.1944

Italy

Education: Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA 1937).

			late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Officer Training Corps
02.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO

A son writes: "I know he served in North Africa in 1941 and 1942, and subsequently in Italy and Germany. He was at Tobruk in 1941 and in Berlin for the Victory Parade."

Wood,
David James

Married (1969) Alice Bingloss; no children.

23.02.1923
Corsham, Wiltshire
-
12.03.2009
hospital, formerly of Cullompton, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.03.1942 [228639]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	26.09.1945-25.12.1945
T/Capt.	26.12.1945-04.05.1949
Lt.	17.08.1946, seniority 23.08.1945
Capt.	23.02.1950
Maj.	23.02.1957
T/Lt.Col.	31.08.1966-30.12.1966
Lt.Col.	31.12.1966
Col.	30.06.1970 (retd 23.02.1978)

MBE	10.06.1961	HM's birthday 61
39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
GenSM	-	& 3 clasps
CampSM	-	& 2 clasps
MID	?	?
Jub M	-	-
LegH	1994	for his work on behalf of the Normandy Veterans’ Association

Education: Mokton Combe; Joint Services Staff College (US; jssc); Staff College (psc).

			served in the ranks for 163 days
14.03.1942			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission to 16.08.1946]
(06.1944)			Officer Commanding, 24 Platoon, 2nd (Airlanding) Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Pegasus Bridge, Normandy [wounded])
17.08.1945			permanent commission
04.01.1956	-	04.08.1956	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), HQ, .. Corps
13.08.1956	-	01.02.1957	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), HQ. .. Corps
07.11.1958			transferred, 1st Battalion Green Jackets (01.01.1966 Royal Green Jackets)
27.03.1959	-	14.01.1961	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General, HQ, 39th Independent Infantry Brigade (Northern Ireland)
23.08.1963	-	30.06.1966	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) to Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine
31.08.1966	-	(02.1967)	Assistant Military Secretary, HQ Middle East Land Forces

Wood,
E H
E.H. Wood (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

?
-
?

Cadet

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
			most likely not commissioned

Wood,
Hon. Francis Hugh Peter Courtenay
F.H.P.C. Wood

Second son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, OM, GCSI, GCIE (1881-1959), and Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow (1885-1976).

05.10.1916
Chelsea district, London
-
26.10.1942
(MIA) [age 26]
[Alamein Memorial, column 29 & memorial tablet in Kirby Underdale Church, Yorkshire]

2nd Lt.	09.11.1935 [66333]
Lt.	03.01.1940
A/Capt.	22.09.1940-(04.1941)
A/Maj.	?

Education: Eton College, Berkshire; Christ Church College, Oxford University (BA 1938).
Became a partner in the firm of G. Langley-Taylor and Partners, architects of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and of Hare Court, Temple, London EC.

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
09.11.1935			commissioned, The Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen's Own)
24.10.1939			mobilized TA
1939	-	1942	served in Middle East 1940-42 (Palestine, Syria, Western Desert):
?	-	26.10.1942	Officer Commanding, "D" Squadron, The Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen's Own)

Wood,
Godfrey Cecil
G.C. Wood (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

17.11.1918
-
01.02.1991

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186335]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
10.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wood,
Gordon Edward
G.E. Wood

Son of ... Wood, and ... Shingles.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

04.08.1912
Norwich district, Norfolk
-
02.2003
Huntingdon district, Huntingdonshire

Sub-Conductor	?
Lt.	16.01.1941 [168142]
T/Capt.	25.11.1941-27.02.1944
WS/Capt.	28.02.1944
T/Maj.	20.09.1944-28.10.1945
WS/Maj.	29.10.1945 (reld 01.09.1946; disability)
T/Lt.Col.	29.10.1945-01.09.1946
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.09.1946
Maj.	17.01.1951 03.10.1952, seniority 30.11.1951
Lt.Col.	?

16.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
			served with West Africa Regiment; captured & POW in Japanese captivity in Burma
17.01.1951	-	02.10.1952	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
03.10.1952	-	28.06.1961	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers

Wood,
J S

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	1943?
...	...

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

1943?

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wood,
Llewellyn Campion

Son of Percy Thornton Wood and Lucy Florence Wood, of Lawrence Weston, Gloucestershire.

biography at Clifton Rugby Football Club website

(03?).1914
Wandsworth district, Greater London
-
29.11.1943
(KIA) [age 29]
[Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy, XI.E.25]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.04.1941 [201134]
WS/Lt.	?

MID

30.12.1941

Middle East

Junior partner in Glover’s Advertising, Bristol.

(1939)	-	(1940)	served in the ranks, North Somerset Yeomanry (served overseas)
27.04.1941			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
			fought in the Syrian campaign (was captured, but escaped)
?	-	29.11.1943	1st Battalion The Royal Fusiliers (killed in action, Italy)

Wood,
Philip
P. Wood

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.06.1941 [190745]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	01.07.1942
T/Capt.	22.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

07.06.1941

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Wood,
Philip
P. Wood

?
-

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	29.04.1915
Lt.	?
F/O (Obs.) RFC	10.07.1917, seniority 14.05.1917
Lt.	19.10.1940 [152630]
T/Capt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

			served in the ranks in the Derbyshire Yeomanry
29.04.1915			commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery - Territorial Force
			served as a Captain [TA?, Reserve?}
19.10.1940			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Wood,
P
P. Wood

?
-

Lt.	20.06.1941 [?] = Ordnance Executive Officer, 3rd class
T/Capt.	13.03.1942
WS/Capt.	20.06.1944 = Ordnance Executive Officer, 2nd class (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.	13.05.1943
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

20.06.1941

commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]

Wood,
Peter
P. Wood

?
-

2nd Lt.

01.03.1943 [280749]

01.03.1943

commissioned into the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers - Special List (for service with the Army Cadet Force - County of Middlesex)

Wood,
Peter
P. Wood

?
-

Cadet	? [2882409]
2nd Lt.	24.10.1943 [307702]
WS/Lt.	24.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

24.10.1943

commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Wood,
Peter Alexander
P.A. Wood

?
-

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	27.04.1940 [129189]
WS/Lt.	27.10.1941
A/Capt.	06.06.1943
T/Capt.	22.04.1944
WS/Capt.	29.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	28.06.1945

27.04.1940			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
06.06.1943	-	(04.1944)	Military Experimental Officer Class IV, Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton
?	-	(04.1946)	General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Military Intelligence, War Offce

Wood,
Philip Anthony
P.A. Wood

05.09.1908
-
12.1990
Exeter, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	31.01.1929 [41207]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
T/Maj.	26.08.1941-23.06.1945
Col.	01.02.1954 (retd 03.11.1960)
Hon. Brig.	03.11.1960

Education: BA; psc

31.01.1929			commissioned into the Royal Engineers
06.11.1937	-	04.12.1939	Adjutant, Territorial Army
26.03.1940			transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery
26.03.1940			Adjutant, ...
27.11.1940	-	22.01.1941	General Staff Officer (Operations), Eastern Command
16.06.1942	-	25.09.1942	GSO2, War Office

Wood,
Peter Bruce
P.B. Wood

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219300]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

29.11.1941

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Wood,
Peter Campbell
P.C. Wood

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.02.1940 [100431]
WS/Lt.	03.08.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	21.09.1941

03.02.1940

commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Wood,
Philip Edward
P.E. Wood

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.07.1933 [56249]
Lt.	19.07.1936
Capt.	15.07.1939
T/Maj.	01.05.1943
Maj.	? (reld ?)

19.07.1933			commissioned into the Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	214th (2 East Riding) Battery, 54th (Durham & West Riding) Medium Brigade RA [later: 51st (Midland) Medium Regiment RA]
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
02.02.1941			transferred to the Royal Engineers
?	-	25.06.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Wood,
Philip Edward
P.E. Wood

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.01.1931 [49575]
Lt.	17.01.1934 (reld 05.03.1960)
Hon. Capt.	05.03.1960

			late Cadet, Dover College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
17.01.1931			commissioned into the Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	No. 2 (AASL) Company, Cinque Ports Fortress Engineers
(11.1939)			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Class I - Royal Engineers
24.08.1939			mobilized TARO
19.08.1940	-	05.03.1960	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Class I - Royal Artillery

Wood,
Philip Gerald
P.G. Wood

?
-

Cadet	? [13047077]
2nd Lt.	25.09.1943 [307415]
WS/Lt.	25.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

25.09.1943

commissioned into the Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]

Wood,
Percy George Edward
P.G.E. Wood

(06?).1910
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.02.1940 [117072]
WS/Lt.	25.04.1941
T/Capt.	25.04.1941
WS/Capt.	21.01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

10.02.1940			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
13.07.1943	-	(04.1944)	Captain RE, Survey, Southern Command

Wood,
Paul Hamilton
P.H. Wood

Son of Richard Boardman Wood, BA, ICS. Married (1934) Elizabeth Josephine, daughter of late John
Guthrie, MS, FRCS, Christchurch, New Zealand; two sons, one daughter.

Obituary at Blackwell Synergy

1907
India
-
13.07.1962

Lt.	21.02.1942 [225763]
WS/Capt.	22.06.1942
T/Maj.	22.06.1942
A/Lt.Col.	28.08.1942
A/Col.	21.12.1945
local Brig.	21.12.1945

	OBE	1946	?
	MID	11.01.1945	Italy

FRCP

Education: MD

21.02.1942			commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1942	-	1945	LtCol, Officer i/c Med. Div., RAMC (despatches); served with First Army in N. Africa and Italy
1945	-	1946	Brigadier, Consulting Physician, Central Mediterranean Force

Cardiologist.

Wood,
Philip Henry
P.H. Wood

?
-

Lt.	26.09.1942 [246808]
WS/Capt.	26.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

26.09.1942

commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Wood,
Philip Joseph
P.J. Wood

?
-

OME 4th Cl.	?
Lt.	11.12.1939 [110939]
T/Capt.	05.01.1943
WS/Capt.	? (reld 04.09.1945; disability)
Hon. Capt.	04.09.1945

11.12.1939

commissioned into the Royal and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Wood,
Peter Ley
P.L. Wood

11.04.1912
-
10.1994
Wolverhampton, West Midlands

2nd Lt.	01.09.1940 [145294]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	09.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	25.04.1944

01.09.1940

commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wood,
Philip Lawrence Eric
P.L.E. Wood

From Nottingham.

Private papers at LHCMA

19.11.1909
Bareilly, India
-
01.1994
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

Lt.	25.10.1934 [65535]
Capt.	22.04.1936, seniority 25.10.1935
A/Maj.	20.05.1940-19.08.1940
T/Maj.	20.08.1940-11.01.1942, 14.04.1942-13.08.1943
WS/Maj.	14.08.1943
Maj.	25.10.1944
A/Lt.Col.	14.05.1943-13.08.1943
T/Lt.Col.	14.08.1943-06.10.1947
Lt.Col.	05.03.1949
Col.	04.09.1958 (retd 01.12.1961)

DSO	15.06.1944	Italy
MBE	08.07.1941	Middle East 12.40-02.41
MID	29.11.1945	Italy

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star & Clasp 1st Army; Italy Star; War Medal; Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct 2 (04.05.1957) *

* For volunteering to be lowered from a helicopter into a boat in rough weather with the object of attending a dangerously ill soldier on board a ship at sea. Lieutenant-Colonel Wood reached the sick man and treated him successfully.

Education: MRCS Eng LRCP Lond (1934); MRCP Ed (1947); FRCP Ed (1961); Graded Physician (1947); Senior Specialist in Medicine (1948)

25.10.1934			commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
25.10.1934	-	21.04.1935	seconded to ...
1935	-	1936	Malta
1936			Palestine
1937	-	1939	Egypt
1939	-	1941	Middle East Forces
22.04.1940			permanent Regular Army commission
1941	-	1942	North Africa
1943	-	1945	CO 3rd Field Ambulance RAMC (British North Africa Force / Central Mediterranean Force)
1945	-	1945	CO 171st Field Ambulance RAMC (NW Europe)
1945	-	1946	CO 19th Guards Field Ambulance RAMC (NW Europe)
1947	-	1951	Middle East Land Forces
1951	-	1953	CO Military Hospital Colchester
07.02.1953	-	1955	Command Adviser in Medicine, British Medical Hospital, Klagenfurt (Austria)
1955	-	1958	Hong Kong
1959	-	1961	CO Cambridge Hospital Aldershot

Serving Brother, Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 13.09.1973.

Wood,
Mrs Phyllis May
P.M. Wood

?
-

2nd Sub.	15.01.1942 [223857]
WS/Sub.	12.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Jun.Cdr.	18.09.1943

15.01.1942

commissioned into the Auxiliary Territorial Service

Wood,
Philip Maxwell
P.M. Wood

?
-

Lt.	10.10.1942 [248086]
WS/Capt.	10.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: MB

10.10.1942

commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Wood,
Peter Mattison
P.M. Wood

Son of Alfred and Frances M. Wood, of North Rigton, Yorkshire.

1915 ?
-
11.05.1944
(KIA) [age 29]
[Kohima War Cemetery, Burma, 8.H.8]

Cadet	? [7905161]
2nd Lt.	12.08.1943 [299831]
WS/Lt.	12.04.1944

12.08.1943			commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	11.05.1944	149th (7th Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) Regiment

Wood,
Mrs Priscilla Nancie
P.N. Wood

02.04.1920
-
04.2003
East Surrey

2nd Sub.	10.07.1942 [239611]
WS/Sub.	12.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. J/Cdr.	< 04.1946

10.07.1942			commissioned into the Auxiliary Territorial Service
18.02.1944	-	(04.1944)	Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Military Intelligence, War Office

Wood,
Peter Russell
P.R. Wood

?
-

[perhaps:
19.04.1918
-
09.1993
Westminster, London]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.11.1940 [158918]
WS/Capt.	28.06.1943
T/Maj.	28.06.1943
Capt. RARO	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

23.11.1940			commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	(04.1944)	Fighting Vehicle School, India
01.01.1949	-	02.07.1968	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Wood,
Peard Thornton
P.T. Wood

From Northampton.

(06?).1907
Wandsworth, London
-

2nd Lt.	29.08.1931 [52470]
Lt.	29.08.1934
Capt.	03.04.1937
T/Maj.	11.02.1941
WS/Maj.	12.05.1945
T/Lt.Col.	12.05.1945
Lt.Col.	01.05.1947
Col. TARO	01.05.1951, seniority 01.05.1950 (retd 27.05.1965)

DSO	01.03.1945	NW Europe
MC	?	?
TD	26.09.1946	?
TD	?	?
TD	16.02.1951	?

AMIEE

29.08.1931			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army (54th (East Anglian) Divisional Engineers)
24.08.1939		30.04.1951	mobilized TA
11.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	a Staff Officer, Royal Engineers, Western Command
01.05.1951	-	27.05.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
05.01.1954	-	05.01.1964	ADC (Additional) to the Queen

Wood,
P W
P.W. Wood

?
-

2nd Lt.	05.10.1940 [] 1396d
WS/Lt.	05.04.1942
T/Capt.	04.03.1943

05.10.1940			commissioned into ? [emergency commission]
			transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment

Wood,
Patrick Haselden
P.H. Wood

22.09.1925
-

2nd Lt.	10.12.1944
WS/Lt.	10.06.1945
Capt.	22.09.1952
Maj.	01.02.1960, seniority 22.09.1959

10.12.1944

commissioned into the 11th Hussars [emergency commission to 29.08.1947]

Wood,
Robert Basil Percival
R.B.P. Wood

25.05.1904
-
01.1995
Dacorum, Hertfordshire

2nd Lt.	07.04.1926, seniority 25.05.1925
Lt.	25.05.1928, seniority 25.05.1927
Capt.	19.04.1936
A/Maj.	01.11.1939-31.01.1940
T/Maj.	01.02.1940-11.09.1940, 09.01.1941-24.05.1942
Maj.	25.05.1942
local Lt.Col.	14.10.1941-16.12.1942
A/Lt.Col.	23.03.1943-22.06.1943
T/Lt.Col.	23.06.1943-28.07.1947
Lt.Col.	29.07.1947 [supernumerary 29.07.1950]
T/Col.	17.11.1948-30.12.1950
Col.	31.12.1950 [supernumerary 31.12.1956]
T/Brig.	25.07.1951-20.07.1954
Brig.	21.07.1954

DSO

23.08.1945

Education: psc

			from the General List, Territorial Army
07.04.1926			commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps, later Royal Tank Regiment
29.01.1936	-	08.01.1941	Instructor, ...
09.01.1941	-	13.10.1941	Brigade Major, ...
14.10.1941	-	16.12.1942	GSO2, ...
15.07.1944	-	25.01.1945	Chief Instructor, ...
02.02.1948	-	06.11.1948	GSO1 (Tact. Sch.), ...
17.11.1948	-	24.07.1951	Commandant, Officer Cadet School
25.07.1951	-	25.07.1954	Commander, Indian Armoured Brigade (TA)
03.10.1954	-	(02.1957)	Vice President (Brigadier), Regulations Commissions Board

Wood,
Robert Ingham
R.I. Wood

Son of ... Wood, and ... Bradley.
Married ...; ... children.

13.12.1919
Halifax district, Yorkshire
-
07.2004
Calderdale, West Yorkshire

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	12.07.1939 [92948]
WS/Lt.	12.01.1941 (demobilized 1946) (reld 17.01.1951)

			late Cadet C.S.M., Wrekin College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	15.02.1942	122 Army Field Regiment RA (captured at Singapore)

Wood,
Robert Thomas Darby
R.T.D. Wood (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Wood)

Son of Samuel Robert Wood, and Mary Maria Hair Roper.
Married ((06?).1928, Headington district, Oxfordshire) Ida Diddams.

04.1901
Handsworth, West Bromwich district, Staffordshire
-
01.1984
Norwich district, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	13.02.1940 [119055]
WS/Lt.	13.08.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt.	20.12.1943-(07.1945)

13.02.1940

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

His son writes: "He volunteered for military service at the outbreak of war and went from England around the Cape by troopship and up the Red Sea to Egypt. He served in the North African Campagne, then to Sicily, up Italy to Rome and finally Yugoslavia. While serving in North Africa, he wrote a handbook on practical navigation in the desert using a prismatic compass, watch and the mileage reading of the speedometer of the vehicle. My father worked for what was Morris Motors, Cowley, as a service representative. He had no military experience and at 36 or 37 was too old for active service. He survived the war in poor condition and something of a nervous wreck."

Wood,
William George

21.11.1921
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.12.1940 [162095]
WS/Lt.	14.06.1942
A/Capt.	10.06.1944-09.09.1944
T/Capt.	10.09.1944-20.04.1946
A/Maj.	21.01.1946-20.04.1946
Lt.	02.02.1946, seniority 21.05.1944
WS/Capt.	21.04.1946
Capt.	21.11.1948
T/Maj.	21.04.1946-27.10.1946, 30.11.1949-14.04.1953, 30.04.1953-17.05.1955
Maj.	21.11.1955 (Employed List 1)
Lt.Col.	16.09.1963 (supernumerary 16.09.1966) (retd 21.11.1976)

OBE	01.01.1970	New Year 70
MC	24.01.1946	NW Europe
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
MID	14.06.1960	?

Education: psc

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 104 days
29.03.1941			commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission to 01.02.1946]
10.01.1944	-	09.07.1944	2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (UK & NW Europe)
10.07.1944	-	(09.1944)	Second-in-Command, "D" Company, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment ( NW Europe)
02.02.1946			permanent commission, The Devonshire Regiment [from 17.05.1958 The Devonshire & Doreset Regiment]
30.04.1946	-	28.09.1946	Chief Instructor, Infantry Division School
04.12.1947	-	03.12.1951	specially employed
30.04.1953	-	30.03.1955	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), School of Infantry
30.05.1957	-	20.11.1960	specially employed, Military Forces Malaya
01.01.1963	-	30.06.1963	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
10.10.1966	-	(02.1967)	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

Wood,
William Wallace
W.W. Wood (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carol Vincent)

?
-

CSM	? [2652436]
Lt.	16.04.1941 [181323]
T/Capt.	28.03.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	08.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	08.07.1945-(04.1946)

			served in the ranks (Warrant Officer Class II), The Coldstream Guards
16.04.1941			commissioned, The West Yorkshire Regiment [emergency commission]
20.01.1943			transferred, Royal Armoured Corps
08.05.1943	-	(04.1944)	a Staff Captain (Q), Quartermaster-General's Branch, HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)

Woodgate,
John Thornicraft
P.H. Wood

?
-

2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156618]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942
T/Capt.	15.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	05.07.1945
T/Maj.	05.07.1945-(04.1946)

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe

02.11.1940			commissioned, The Essex Regiment [emergency commission]
			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
(06.1944)			staff officer with 3rd Parachute Brigade HQ on D-Day

Woods,
Everard Albert
E.A. Woods

Son of ... and Eva Woods.
Married ((09?).1948, Hailsham district, Sussex) Barbara Veronica McI. Paddon (18.02.1917 - 08.1998); ... children (one daughter?).

06.01.1917
Bordeaux, France
-
1982?

Pte.	?
A/Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	23.12.1939 [109341]
WS/Lt.	23.06.1941
WS/Capt.	? (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	?

12.01.1935			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
23.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
16.10.1941?		15.02.1942	attached, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (Officer Commanding, 45th Brigade Transport Company RIASC, 17th Indian Division) (captured Singapore)
15.02.1942	-	08.1945	POW in Japanese captivity [17.02.1942-22.06.1942 Changi, Singapore; 22.06.1942-11.1942 Ban-Pong, Thailand; 11.1942-03.1943 Chownkhai, Thailand; 03.1943-03.1944 203 Camp, Thailand; 03.1944-08.1945 Officers' Camp, Kanbari, Thailand]

Woods,
Felix Martin
K.A. Woods

Second son (with two brothers and one sister) of Albert M.O. Woods and Eve Woods, of Chelsea, London.

23.12.1917
-
30.10.1943
(accidentally killed) [age 24]
[Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata, India, plot L, grave 97]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [165853]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942

21.01.1949

- [posthumously]

			served in the ranks, London Scottish
			either 164th, 165th, or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.12.1940			commissioned, King's Shropshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
?	-	30.10.1943	attached 6th Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry

Woods,
Kenneth Alfred
K.A. Woods

Son of ... Woods, and ... Hatwell.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

19.05.1923
Meriden district, Warwickshire
-
02.2000
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.05.1943 [273688]
WS/Lt.	01.11.1943 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)

01.05.1943

commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]

Woods,
Tom Pickering Salisbury
T.P.S. Woods (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive)

Only son of R. Salisbury Woods, FRCS and Chief Commander L.C. Pickering, ATS.
Married ((03?).1955, North Cotswold district, Gloucestershire) Patricia Lindsay Horton (1927-), daughter of Lt.Col. Gerard Thomas Scofield Horton, MC, and Evelyn Lindsay Walker; two sons, one daughter.

03.12.1918
St Marylebone district, London
-
(12?).1978
North Dorset district, Dorset

2nd Lt.	26.01.1939 [85532]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	31.01.1941-30.04.1941
T/Capt.	01.05.1941-30.01.1942, 06.06.1942-(01.1946)
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	09.06.1945-18.07.1945
Maj.	26.01.1952 (retd 13.12.1955; receiving a gratuity)

MBE

01.06.1953

Coronation 53 [recommendation available upon request]

26.01.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
06.1942			reported missing in Libya
(06.1944)			Second-in-Command, No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne)
02.1951	-	(01.1953)	Brigade Major RA, HQ 5 Army Group Royal Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) (British Army of the Rhine, Oldenburg) (MBE)

Woodward,
Allan George Vivian
A.G.V. Woodward (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Thomas)

?
New Zealand
-

2nd Lt.	20.07.1941 [198939]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 29.10.1946)
T/Capt.	1946?
Hon. Capt.	29.10.1946

			Officer Training School, Belgaum (India)
20.07.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Woodward,
Peter John
P.J. Woodward

Son of ... Woodward, and ... Madge.

18.10.1919
Lewisham district, Greater London / Kent / London
-
11.2001
South & West Dorset district, Dorset

2nd Lt.	24.08.1939 [78205]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Lt.	16.06.1945, seniority 18.04.1942
A/Capt.	26.06.1942-25.09.1942
T/Capt.	26.09.1942-13.08.1944, 01.12.1944-06.01.1946
WS/Capt.	07.01.1946
Capt.	18.10.1946
A/Maj.	07.10.1945-06.01.1946
T/Maj.	07.01.1946-07.04.1949, 01.08.1952-17.10.1953
Maj.	18.10.1953
T/Lt.Col.	15.06.1965-30.12.1966
Lt.Col.	31.12.1966 (retd 01.12.1967)

	MID	30.12.1941	?
	TD	?	?

Education: psc, psc(n)

24.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			61st Seaborne Army Liaison Group attached to 1850 Squadron FAA
01.12.1944	-	06.10.1945	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), CBAL Section
16.06.1945			permanent commission
07.10.1945	-	21.01.1948	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade GSO2)
02.07.1949	-	12.09.1949	Staff Captain, HQ East Anglian District
13.09.1949	-	21.04.1950	HQ Infantry Division, Far East
01.08.1952	-	20.08.1954	Brigade Major, HQ Anti-Aircraft Brigade
21.01.1957	-	25.05.1958	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, HQ Cyrenaica District
25.05.1958	-	15.01.1959	HQ Tripolitania District
20.03.1961	-	11.04.1963	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), AHQ Canada
14.06.1963	-	31.03.1964	War Office
01.04.1964	-	26.05.1965	Ministry of Defence
15.06.1965	-	(02.1967)	General Staff Officer, 1st grae (GSO1), LIC Bahrein

Wooldridge,
Arthur John
A.J. Wooldridge (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

?
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.05.1941 [190515]
WS/Lt.	20.04.1942
T/Capt.	20.04.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	?

	EM	28.11.1947	-
	MID	10.01.1946	?

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
17.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wooler,
Herbert Charles

(06?).1922
North Bierley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
10.06.2014
Hereford, Herefordshire

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned

Woollcombe,
Michael John
M.J. Woollcombe (Photo courtesy of Mrs Karyl Whelan)

Married (30.12.1939, The Parish Church, Tavistock, Devon) Ruth Mary Clark; two daughters, one son.

Residence: (1942) Cardiff.

28.07.1909
Plympton St Mary, Devon
-
19.08.1957
[Parish Church of Wareham Cemetery, Lady St Mary, Dorset]

2nd Lt.	29.08.1929 [44213]
Lt.	29.08.1932
Capt.	17.03.1938
A/Maj.	29.01.1940-28.04.1940
T/Maj.	29.04.1940-25.06.1940, 23.07.1940-20.02.1942, 18.11.1942-14.10.1943
WS/Maj.	15.10.1943
A/Lt.Col.	15.07.1943-14.10.1943
T/Lt.Col.	15.10.1943-23.12.1943
Lt.Col.	12.10.1951 05.02.1952, seniority 29.09.1951 (Employed List (1) 01.12.1953) (retd 17.02.1955; ill-health)
Hon. Col.	17.02.1955

DSO	24.02.1942	Western Desert campaign
OBE	10.06.1948	Control Commission Germany
MID	16.08.1938	NW Frontier of India

NW Frontier of India Medal & Clasp

Education: Sherborne; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

29.08.1929			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [directed to join Depot at Wool (Dorset) on or before 23.09.1929]
1930s			transferred to Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
21.10.1939	-	05.11.1939	Adjutant, ...
?	-	(11.)1941	Officer Commanding, B Squadron, 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Western Desert campaign) [received a bad leg wound, which prevented him from active service for quite some time]
(05?).1945			Control Commission, Germany
1948?			Commanding Officer, 7th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Bovington Camp & Hong Kong)
1955?	-	1957?	Officer-in-Charge of Royal Armoured Corps Records (Bovington Camp)

Woolley,
Denis John
D.J. Woolley

Son of William Benjamin Woolley, and Clara Frederica Baines.
Married ((06?).1941, Surrey North Western district) Florence C. Reynolds; ... children (one daughter?).

21.11.1915
Edmonton district
-
11.01.2001
Guildford, West Surrey

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	12.01.1940 [113699]
WS/Lt.	12.07.1941
T/Capt.	08.11.1941-03.04.1944
WS/Capt.	04.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Maj.	04.01.1944-03.04.1944
T/Maj.	04.04.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

12.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
(06.1944)			Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer (SBLO) with Force J (Operation Neptune, Normandy)
...	-	...	...

Woolner,
Christopher Geoffrey
"Kit"
C.G. Woolner

Married (1923) Anne, daughter of Sydney
Pitt; two daughters.

18.10.1893
Kensington district, Greater London
-
10.01.1984
Ashford district, Kent

2nd Lt.	21.12.1912
Lt.	04.12.1914
A/Capt.	18.08.1916-29.11.1916
A/Maj.	30.11.1916-02.07.1918
T/Maj.	03.07.1918-27.03.1919
Capt.	03.11.1917
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1919
Maj.	16.11.1928
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1933
Lt.Col.	22.09.1936
Col.	16.08.1939, seniority 01.01.1936
A/Brig.	22.02.1940-21.08.1940
T/Brig.	16.08.1939-01.09.1939, 22.08.1940-30.09.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	30.11.1940-30.09.1941
Maj.Gen.	01.10.1941 (retd 18.11.1947)

CB	1942	?
MC	?	?
MC	?	?
MC	23.07.1918	?
MID	01.01.1917	?
MID	07.07.1919	?
MID	26.07.1940	?
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	05.04.1945	?

Edcuation: Marlborough; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (1927-1928; psc)

1914	-	1918	Served European War [France & Belgium 18.08.1914-19.01.1915 & 11.05.1915-11.11.1918] (wounded, despatches twice, Bt Major, MC and two Bars)
(10.1917)			Officer Commanding, 64th Field Company, Royal Engineers
03.07.1918	-	27.03.1919	Staff Officer (Class BB) to Engineer-in-Chief, France
01.09.1919	-	11.02.1920	Staff Officer to Chief Engineer Home Forces
12.02.1920	-	18.03.1920	Adjutant, ...
05.05.1920	-	19.09.1923	Survey Duty, Gold Coast
30.01.1924	-	20.01.1927	Officer Company of Gentlemen Cadets (Class A), Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
14.05.1930	-	31.03.1932	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), India
01.04.1932	-	13.05.1934	Brigade Major, India
(01.1937)			served at Chatham
(01.1939)			served at Chatham
16.08.1939	-	01.09.1939	Deputy Inspector and Deputy Commandant, School of Military Engineering (temporary)
02.09.1939	-	21.02.1940	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), British Expeditionery Force
22.02.1940	-	08.11.1940	Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade (BEF & Home Forces)
30.11.1940			Commander, ...
1941	-	1943	General Officer Commanding, Sierra Leone & Gambia
03.03.1943	-	04.08.1943	General Officer Commanding, 81st (West Africa) Division (West Africa)
1944	-	1945	General Officer Commanding, West Midlands District
01.01.1947	-	08.1947	District Officer Commanding, MidWest District and General Officer Commanding, 53 (Welsh) Infantry Division TA

Woosnam,
Richard Neville
A.J. Worboys

Son of Richard L. Woosnam, and Gertrude E. Parker.
Married ((09.).1953, Romford district, Essex) Jean M. Shirley.

06.03.1917
Bramley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
10.1997
Macclesfield district, Cheshire

Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th class)	03.01.1940 [111275]
T/Capt. (OME 3rd cl.)	23.11.1940
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th class)	01.10.1942, seniority 03.01.1940
WS/Capt.	30.11.1942
T/Maj.	10.01.1943-(04.1946)
Capt.	11.10.1948, seniority 06.03.1944
A/Maj.	11.10.1948-...
Maj.	06.03.1951, seniority 11.10.1948
Hon. Lt.Col.	06.10.1951

MBE

13.12.1945

Italy

03.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
(1945)			16 Base Workshop Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers (MBE)
11.10.1948			commissioned, REME - Territorial Army
06.10.1951			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Woozley,
Anthony Douglas
A.D. Woozley

14.08.1912
-
06.04.2008

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [189818]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942
T/Capt.	28.08.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt. RARO	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

?	-	23.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.05.1941			commissioned, 1st King's Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949	-	14.08.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Worboys,
Arnold John
A.J. Worboys

Married ((06?).1931, Luton district, Bedfordshire) Doris L. Parsons.

04.10.1906
Luton district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
(09?).1983
Bedford district, Bedfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.07.1942 [237219]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	22.12.1945-(04.1946)

01.07.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Worley,
Cuthbert Joseph *
P.H. Wood

* used post-war reversed order of first names: Joseph Cuthbert

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.09.1940 [151348]
WS/Lt.	05.04.1942
T/Capt.	19.05.1943-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	08.08.1950, seniority 08.01.1948
Lt.	20.08.1951, seniority 30.06.1947
Capt.	20.08.1951, seniority 01.11.1947

25.06.1954

?	-	28.09.1940	121st Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
18.01.1944	-	(05.1944)	Instructor, Middle East Camouflage School
23.06.1945	-	(04.1946)	Adjutant, School of Electric Lighting (Gosport)
08.08.1950	-	20.08.1951	Territorial Army
20.08.1951			short service commission

Wormald,
Alan Guy
A.G. Wormald (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Morison)

Younger son (with one brother) of Capt. Guy Wormald (1883-1916), The Lancashire Fusiliers, and Doris Eleanor Kindersley (1886-1973) [later Mrs T.E. Winslow], of Weymouth, Dorsetshire.
Brother of Maj. Peter John Wormald, Indian Medcial Service.

16.09.1915
Kensington, London
-
27.08.1942
(died of pneumonia in the hospital at Haifa)
[Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Palestine, A.H.4]

2nd Lt.	15.11.1938 [78833]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	1942?

Education: Eton College; Cambridge University (BA).

			Cadet Under-Officer, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps
15.11.1938			commissioned, General List, Officers Training Corps - Territorial Army (for service with Eton College Contingent) (while serving as Assistant Master at Eton College)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
24.06.1940			transferred, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
?	-	27.08.1942	2nd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps

Wormald,
Derrick Bruce
D.B. Wormald

2nd son of late Arthur and Veronica Wormald.
Married (1953) Betty Craddock (died 1993); two daughters.

28.04.1916
-
27.03.1994
Wickham Bishops, Essex

2nd Lt.	30.01.1936 [67087]
Lt.	30.01.1939
A/Capt.	06.12.1940-05.03.1941
T/Capt.	06.03.1941-08.09.1942
WS/Capt.	09.09.1942
Capt.	30.01.1944
A/Maj.	09.06.1942-08.09.1942
T/Maj.	09.09.1942-28.06.1945
WS/Maj.	24.09.1945
Maj.	30.01.1949
A/Lt.Col.	24.06.1945-23.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.	24.09.1945-09.03.1948, 09.10.1955-15.04.1956
Brev. Lt.Col.	01.07.1954
Lt.Col.	16.04.1956 (superunmerary 16.04.1959)
T/Col.	01.04.1953-08.10.1955, 07.01.1959-14.03.1959
Col.	15.03.1959 (supernumerary 15.03.1965)
local Brig.	08.02.1962-28.02.1962
T/Brig.	16.05.1959-07.02.1962, 01.03.1962-31.12.1963
Brig.	01.01.1964
Maj.Gen.	07.11.1966, seniority 19.06.1966 (retd 15.01.1971)

DSO	31.08.1944	?
MC	20.08.1940	?
MC	07.06.1945	?

Order of Al Istiglal, Jordan (09.11.1954)

Education: Bryanston School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Quetta (1947; psc); Joint Services Staff College (1955; jssc)

30.01.1936			commissioned, 13th/18th Hussars (Queen Mary's Own), Royal Armoured Corps
1936	-	1938	served in India
1939	-	1940	British Expeditionary Force (France & Belgium)
(06.)1944	-	1945	Officer Commanding, "A" Squadron 13th/18th Hussars (Normandy / NW Europe)
1945	-	1947	Commanding Officer, 25th Dragoons (India)
10.03.1948	-	14.10.1950	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
1951	-	1952	Commanding Officer, 1st Armoured Car Regiment of Arab Legion
01.04.1953	-	02.12.1954	Commander (Col.), Arab Legion Armoured Corps
25.10.1955	-	23.03.1956	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 11th Armoured Division, British Army of the Rhine
1956			Commanding Officer, 3rd The King's Own Hussars
03.11.1958			Commanding Officer, The Queen's Own Hussars
07.01.1959	-	05.12.1961	Commander Aden Protectorate Levies
01.03.1962	-	30.05.1965	Commander HQ Salisbury Plain Sub-District
28.06.1965	-	11.10.1966	Brigadier General Staff (Mobility), Ministry of Defence
07.11.1966	-	18.12.1970	Director-General of Fighting Vehicles & Engineer Equipment

Colonel, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, 11.05.1974-11.05.1979.

Wormald,
William
W. Wormald

From York.

?
-

2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [180465]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

31.08.1944

Normandy 44

29.03.1941			commissioned, 13th/18th Hussars (Queen Mary's Own), Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.)1944			Squadron HQ, "B" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (Normandy)

Worthington,
Godfrey Francis Puget
"Frank"
G.D.P. Worthington

Son of John Robert and Minnie Worthington.
Husband of Dorothy Isabel Worthington, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; at least one son (F/Lt. Godfrey David Puget Worthington, RAF).

(06?).1894
West Bromwich
-
23.08.1943
[age 49]
[Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria, VIII.C.16]

2nd Lt.	05.08.1915 [45816]
T/Capt.	...-21.02.1920
Capt.	17.08.1921, seniority 02.07.1919 (reld 11.01.1923)
Capt.	11.01.1928, seniority 30.11.1925
T/Maj.	01.01.1941-23.08.1943

16.09.1918

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the enemy broke through the line this officer, with a portion of his company, was surrounded, but he succeeded in fighting his way out. On the following day, during a rearguard action, he superintended the withdrawal of his men under heavy shell fire with coolness and skill.

			2nd Lt., Reserve of Officers (Officer Training Corps)
05.08.1915			commissioned, The West India Regiment
(1918)			seconded, Middlesex Regiment
?	-	21.02.1920	served with a Service Battalion of The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
17.08.1921			Captain, The West India Regiment - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
11.01.1923			relinquished his commission & rank from the General List on enlistment in the Territorial Army
11.01.1928			re-instated as Captain, The Green Howards - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized from Reserve of Officers
?	-	23.08.1943	1st Battalion The Green Howards (North Africa)

Wray,
Robert
R. Wray (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

?
-

2nd Lt.	20.02.1939 [87310]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
WS/Capt.	09.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	09.06.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Capt. RARO	14.05.1949, seniority 23.09.1948
Hon. Maj.	14.05.1949

ERD

03.11.1953

			late Cadet Corporal, Portora Royal School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
20.02.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve
24.08.1939			mobilized
?	-	?	Y Troop, 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR)
?	-	14.05.1949	Supplementary Reserve of Officers
14.05.1949	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Wren,
John
"Paddy"
J. Wren

Married Rosalie Wren (née ...) (died 10.02.2007, aged 104).

04.06.1896
-
23.02.1958

Lt.	01.08.1921
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	01.03.1942-(01.1946)
...	...
Maj.Gen.	05.03.1951 (retd 02.04.1955)

CB, CBE, FDS

01.08.1921			commissioned, [Royal] Army Dental Corps
...	-	...	....

Wright,
Archibald McNaughton
A.M. Wright

1891 ?
Old Kilpatrick district, Dunbarton, Scotland ?
-

2nd Lt. TA	01.06.1927
Lt. TA	08.11.1932 (reld 04.07.1936)
2nd Lt.	23.01.1940 [38168]
WS/Lt.	23.07.1941
T/Capt.	14.11.1942-03.06.1944
WS/Capt.	04.06.1944 (cashiered by sentence of a general court-martial 21.01.1948)
T/Maj.	04.06.1944-(04.1946)

01.06.1927	-	04.07.1936	commissioned, 9th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - Territorial Army (Dumbarton)
23.01.1940			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			specially employed

Wright,
Charles
C. Wright

?
-

Cadet	? [10539641]
2nd Lt.	10.03.1945 [383837]
WS/Lt.	10.09.1945
T/Capt.	09.12.1945-(04.1946)

10.03.1945

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch [emergency commission]

Wright,
Frank
F. Wright

From Rugby.

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.08.1943 [289802]
WS/Lt.	22.02.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)

	MC	13.12.1945	Italy
	MID	29.11.1945	Italy

22.08.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1945)			558th Army Field Company RE (Italy) (MC)

Wright,
Herbert
H. Wright

?
-

Spr.	?
2nd Lt.	01.12.1928 [40829]
Lt.	01.12.1931
Capt.	07.05.1938 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

	MID	06.04.1944	Middle East
	TD	21.10.1943	?

Education: MSc (Eng), AMIEE

01.12.1928			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
01.12.1928	-	(01.1939)	27th (London Electrical Engineers) Anti-Aircraft [Searchlight] Battalion (London)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			instructor in searchlights, qualified at a War Searchlight Course
01.08.1940			transferred from Anti-Aircraft Battalion RE to Royal Regiment of Artillery
08.05.1944			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Wright,
Kenneth Burns McKenzie
K.B.McK. Wright

Son of Edwin Jeffrey Wright, and Emma Agnes Clover, of Denham, Buckinghamshire.

(03?).1916
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
27.09.1944
(KIA) [age 28]
[Gradara War Cemetery, Italy, I.D.32]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [187903]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	?

?	-	24.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	27.09.1944	15th Field Regiment RA (Italy)

Wright,
Royce
R. Wright

Son of John H. Wright and May Wright, of Hull.

1923 ?
-
17.08.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, 7.G.18]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	31.05.1941 [189181]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
31.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
18.01.1942			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?	-	17.08.1944	attached, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment

Wright,
Sidney Gordon Malcolm
S.M.G. Wright (Photo courtesy of Mrs Veronica Parker)

Son of Staff Sgt. Malcolm Peter Alexander Wright (1887-1918), and Jessie Elizabeth Holohan (1894-1970).
Married (1946) Josephine Agnes Smith (1925-1947), daughter of Adam Smith; one daughter.

12.05.1914
Newington, North London
-
2005
Ottawa, Ont., Canada

2nd Lt.	04.03.1933 (reld 16.05.1934)
A/Sgt.	?
Lt.	18.05.1940 [132134]
T/Capt.	24.09.1940-(04.1944), 27.08.1945-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.11.1947 (reld 01.08.1953)
Hon. Capt.	01.08.1953

Education: Wellington School

			late Cadet, Wellington School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
04.03.1933	-	16.05.1934	commissioned, Hampshire Regiment (Supplementary Reserve of Officers)
16.05.1934	-	17.05.1940	enlisted to serve in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps [Regular Army] (overseas service during this period included Egypt and Palestine)
?	-	17.05.1940	Officer Producing Centre
18.05.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission to 31.07.1946]
25.05.1940			901 Company RASC
30.12.1940	-	28.04.1941	disembarked Egypt, 3rd Armoured Brigade Company, RASC (captured)
28.04.1941	-	19.05.1945	POW in Italian, later German captivity
01.08.1946	-	01.08.1953	short service commission

Wroe,
Benjamin
B. Wroe

Son of John and Ethel Grace Wroe (née Argyle); nephew of Mr. G. Wroe, of Wrenthorpe, Yorkshire.

(03?).1923
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
12.09.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[Geel War Cemetery, Belgium, IV.C.4]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.04.1943 [271922]
WS/Lt.	18.01.1944

Education: Silcoates School, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield (1932-1941)

17.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
23.01.1944			transferred, Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)

Wyatt,
Arthur Geoffrey
A.G. Wyatt

Son of the late Geoffrey Allington Wyatt.
Married Joan Lindsay (died 06.02.2007; aged 93), daughter of Brig.Gen. Bruce Lindsay Eddis.

02.10.1900
-
(09?).1960
Ipswich district

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.07.1920 [6267]
T/Col.	03.03.1943-...
Col.	31.12.1948 (retd 16.06.1950)
A/Brig.	23.03.1944-22.09.1944
T/Brig.	23.09.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	16.06.1950

CBE	05.08.1943	?
MID	08.09.1933	?
MID	20.12.1940	?
LM	12.04.1945	?

Education: Sherborne

16.07.1920			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1939	-	1945	served in France, North Africa, Sicily & Italy
(1944)			Deputy Chief Engineer (Air), Allied Armies in Italy

Wylie,
Alexander Buchan
A.B. Wylie (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

1913
Nyasaland
-
2001

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186317]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Capt.	08.09.1944

MBE

11.01.1945

Italy

Education: George Watson's College, Edinburgh; School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (1930-1935); Rome Scholar in Architecture, 1938-1939.

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
10.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Wyndham,
Peter Jocelyn Charles
P.J.C. Wyndham

1925 ?
-
22.07.1966
[age 41]
Kensington, Greater London

Cadet	? [14543997]
2nd Lt.	09.10.1943 [295507]
WS/Lt.	09.04.1944
Capt. TA	27.05.1957 (retd 15.01.1961)

09.10.1943			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission]
1945?	-	1948?	1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Italy, Palestine)
27.05.1957	-	15.01.1961	Territorial Army
15.01.1961	-	22.07.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Wynn,
Frederick Knight
F.K. Wynn (Photo courtesy of T.M. Wynn)

Son (with two sisters) of Howard Seymour Wynn (1870-1935), and Linda Margarita Knight (1872-1955).
Married (13.04.1929, St Mary Magdalene with St Mathias, Richmond, Surrey) Dorothy Rosa Betts (22.09.1905 - 04.11.1974), daughter of William George Betts (1876-), and Rose Elizabeth Betts (1876-); three children. Dorothy Wynn remarried (1945) Kenneth L. Price.

11.06.1906
Birmingham, King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
31.01.1945
(from a coronary thrombosis in 97 (British) General Hospital Athens) (formerly of Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire)
[Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece, 17.A.15]

2nd Lt.	15.04.1940 [127454]
WS/Lt.	22.08.1941
A/Capt.	22.05.1941-21.08.1941
T/Capt,	22.08.1941-09.02.1944
WS/Capt.	10.02.1944
A/Maj.	10.11.1943-09.02.1944
T/Maj.	10.02.1944-31.01.1945

MID

21.06.1945

Mediterranean [posthumously]

Director/manager, paper making company (Messrs.Smith, Stone and Knight, Ltd.). Director/manager, garment makers. Director, tool pressings company.

15.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
early 1941			served in Egypt
late 1944			served in Italy (Central Mediterranean Forces)
			583rd Ordnance [Field Park Company?] (Greece)

A grandchild writes: "Also served in the British Embassy in Turkey 1944."

Wynn,
Reginald
R. Wynn

?
-

Sgt.	? [6088800]
2nd Lt.	19.10.1940 [153060]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	30.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	30.07.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

DCM

11.07.1940

France

			served in the ranks, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
(05.1940)			1st/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (UK, France, UK) (DCM)
19.10.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
?	-	07.1944	Second-in-Command, 2nd/7th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment
07.1944	-	?	deployment with Middle East Forces

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