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Waugh, A.E.St.J.
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A.E.St.J. Waugh   to   G.A. Woollam
Waugh,
Arthur Evelyn St John
A.E.St.J. Waugh A.E.St.J. Waugh
Second son of Arthur Waugh (1866-1943), and Catherine Charlotte Raban (1870-1954).
Married 1st (27.06.1928, St Paul's Church, Portman Square, London) Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner (1903-1994), daughter of Lord and Lady Burghclere.
Married 2nd (17.04.1937) Laura Letitia Gwendolen Evelyn Herbert (1916-1973), youngest daughter of late Col. Hon. Aubrey Herbert, MP; three sons, three daughters.
28.10.1903
West Hampstead, London
-
10.04.1966
Combe Florey, Somerset
T/2nd Lt. 07.12.1939
T/Lt. 07.06.1940
T/A/Capt. 02.04.1940-(02.1941)
Army:  
2nd Lt. 09.05.1942 [159788]
WS/Lt. 09.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 08.09.1942-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
Education: Lancing; Hertford College, Oxford.
1939     commissioned, Royal Marines
? - (04.)1940 Chatham Division RM
(10.)1940 - (02.)1941 Platoon Commander, then Intelligence Officer, 1st Battalion, 101st RM Brigade (UK, Dakar 08/09.1940)
11.1940 - (07.1941) seconded, No. 8 Commando (Layforce) (02-07.1941 Mediterranean)
1941 - 1941 12 RM land defence force at Hayling Island
1941 - (12.1941) 5th Battalion, 101st RM Brigade
09.05.1942     transferred, Royal Horse Guards (UK with Commandos, half year leave 01-06.1944, then military mission to Yugoslavia with Randolph Churchill)
Author.
Published: Rossetti, 1928; Decline and Fall, 1928; Vile Bodies, 1930;  Labels, 1930; Remote People, 1932; Black Mischief, 1932; Ninetytwo Days, 1934; Handful of Dust, 1934; Edmund Campion, 1935 (Hawthornden Prize, 1936); Waugh in Abyssinia, 1936; Scoop, 1938; Put Out More Flags, 1942; Work Suspended, 1943; Brideshead Revisited, 1945; Scott­King's Modern Europe; When the Going was Good, 1946; The Loved One, 1948; Helena, 1950; Men at Arms, (James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize), 1952; The Holy Places, 1953; Love Among the Ruins, 1953; Officers and Gentlemen, 1955; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 1957; The Life of Ronald Knox, 1959; A Tourist in Africa, 1960; Unconditional Surrender, 1961; Basil Seal Rides Again, 1963; A Little Learning, 1964.
Wildey,
Charles Edwin Ernest
C.E.E. Wildey
Married ((06?).1929, Eastry district, Kent) Glady L. May.


25.08.1900
Medway district, Kent
-
05.1984
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
Sgt.Maj.
30.04.1938 [22389]
Staff Sgt.Maj.
01.10.1939
Lt. (QM)
17.09.1940
A/Capt. (QM)
27.06.1943-16.09.1943
Capt. (QM)
17.09.1943 (retd 25.08.1951)
27.09.1918
-
1938
enlisted, Royal Marine Light Infantry - Chatham Division [served in the ranks for 19 years, 215 days]
1938
-
16.09.1940
served as Warrant Officer for 2 years, 140 days
(06.1938)
-
(02.)1941
Chatham Division RM
30.04.1941
-
(08.1942)
Company Officer, Royal Naval School of Music (Scarborough)
(02.1943)
-
(12.1943)
40 RM Commando
?
-
(04.)1944
A Company, Home Base Ledger Office RM (Deal)
(06.)1944
-
(01.)1945
Chatham Division RM
30.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
14.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Landswell (Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base 1, Cochin)
(07.1948)
-
(05.1950)
RM Depot (Deal)
Willock,
Colin Denniston
C.D. Willock
(03?).1919 ?
Barnet district, Greater London /
Hertfordshire / Middlesex ?
-
T/Lt.
22.08.1941
A/T/Capt.
02.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(12.1941)
-
(07.1945)
25th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization 2, from about early 1944 5th RM Anti-Aircraft Brigade)
Wilson,
Henry Rex Beamish
C.D. Willock
Son (with one sister) of Felix Beamish Wilson (1896-1980), and Gladys Frances White (1894-1980).
Married Marjory Gearing (23.01.1921 - 25.12.2001), daughter (with one brother) of Herbert Ernest Gearing (1878-1957), and Gladys Stokes (?-1985); one daughter, three sons.
09.07.1919
Dublin, Ireland
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12.01.2009
St James, Cape Town, South Africa
T/2nd Lt. 15.03.1941
T/Lt. 15.09.1941
A/T/Capt. 15.03.1945-30.06.1945
T/S.Lt. SANF(V) 07.02.1945, seniority 15.03.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Dublin University; University of Cape Town (1951); MB, ChB.
15.03.1941 - (04.)1944 RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (as Troop Officer, "H" Battery, 4th RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment, from early 1943 3rd RM Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment)
(04?).1944 - 30.04.1944 HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training estblishment, Poole)
01.05.1944 - 24.06.1944 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent)
25.06.1944 - 15.08.1944 RM Training Group Wales
16.08.1944 - 12.09.1944 Chatham Division RM (not to join)
13.09.1944 - 06.02.1945 HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (for leave)
07.02.1945 - 13.02.1945 Chatham Division RM
14.02.1945 - 14.03.1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
15.03.1945 - 31.05.1945 Reinforcement Holdung Unit RM (No. 2 Sub Unit)
01.06.1945 - 29.06.1945 RM Training Group Devon (for Commanding Officer, Reinforcement Holding Unit)
30.06.1945 - 18.07.1945 Portsmouth Division RM
14.07.1945 - ? HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)
(07.1945) -   HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) *
(10.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
General practitioner, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
* Navy List of July 1945 shows him at HMS Copra from 15.03.1945. Official service record gives other details.
** indexed, but not listed as such
Wilson,
Maurice Finlay Alexander
M.F.A. Wilson
Son of ... Wilson, and ... Fraser.
21.10.1924
Wareham district, Dorset
-
12.1991
Poole district, Dorset
T/2nd Lt.
03.09.1943
T/Lt.
03.03.1944
2nd Lt.
19.08.1946 [366796]
WS/Lt.
19.08.1946
Lt.
19.07.1947, seniority 21.04.1947
T/Capt.
19.12.1949-20.10.1951
Capt.
21.10.1951
T/Maj.
31.01.1958-01.11.1958
Maj.
02.11.1958, seniority 21.10.1958
Lt.Col.
08.04.1966
Col.
30.06.1973 (retd 01.02.1976)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1969
New Year 69
Education: Joint Services Staff Course (jssc); Staff College (psc)
03.09.1943
-
(10.1943)
RM Training Group Dalditch
(12.1943)
-
(04.)1946
42nd RM Commando
19.08.1946


commissioned, The [Royal] Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission to 18.01.1947]
19.07.1947


permanent commission
31.01.1958
-
14.01.1960
Brigade Major, HQ Infantry Brigade (TA)
(1962)


served in British Guiana
28.10.1963
-
19.02.1966
Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), HQ British Army of the Rhine
1966
-
1969
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Royal Hampshire Regiment
Woollam,
George Arthur
G.A. Woollam
Son of Henry and Jane E. Woollam, of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
1924 ?
-
07.06.1945
(DOW) [age 21]
[Fort William (Glen Navis) Cemetery, C.68]

T/2nd Lt.
05.02.1943
T/Lt.
05.08.1943
05.02.1943
-
(06.)1943
102nd RM Brigade
08.1943
-
07.06.1945
46th RM Commando [died of wounds following an explosion]
       
 
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