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The service number of each person is (when known) given after the date of commissioning. Most officers had only a wartime career, but when no indication is given about a Territorial Army commission or an emergency commission, the officer involved served as a Regular Army officer, with in most cases an active army career before and after the war. For explanations & abbreviations you can look at the help page.

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Naylor, John Denis Son of ... Naylor, and ... Foster.	08.05.1916 Wandsworth district, London - 05.06.1983 Newbury district, Berkshire	2nd Lt. 26.09.1942 WS/Lt. 26.03.1943 T/Capt. 1944?	26.09.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (09.1944)     Adjutant Royal Army Service Corps, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)
Neale, Francis John Thomson Only son of Capt. Alan Skeffington Neale (1891-1960), and Eileen Monica Hicks, of Grantham. Married (18.12.1943, St Michael and All Angels, Cosby, Blaby district, Leicestershire) Sheena Mary Martin Gimson ((09?).1919 - 25.12.2009), of Cosby, Leicestershire, later of Horley, Surrey, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Martin Gimson; one daughter. Sheena Neale remarried (09.01.1947, St Michael's Church, Cosby, Blaby district, Leicestershire) Robert Douglas Brice Robathan (1917-2000).	13.10.1919 Leicester district, Leicestershire - 26.09.1944 (KIA) [age 24] [Amerongen (Holleweg) General Cemetery, grave 2]	2nd Lt. 11.12.1937 [73653] WS/Lt. 11.12.1940 T/Capt. 13.11.1942-26.09.1944 MID 20.06.1946 services in the field (Arnhem)	11.12.1937     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army 24.08.1939     mobilized TA 17.09.1942     transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944)     Officer Commanding, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem; drowned whilst trying to cross the Lower Rhine during the evacuation)
Neill, William "Jock" Son (wuth three brothers and two sisters) of Jhn Neill (1878-), and Helen Short Stewart Fleming (1888-). Married Morag ...; one daughter, three sons.	08.10.1913 - 04.09.1985 Hobart, Tasmania	2nd Lt. 09.08.1941 [200852] WS/Lt. 09.08.1941 T/Capt. 02.01.1943 WS/Capt. 03.06.1944 T/Maj. ? Hon. Maj. 1945/46 (retd) DSO 09.11.1944 Arnhem 09.1944	09.08.1941     commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission] (09.1944)     Officer Commanding, C Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem [evacuated]) Served with the African police. Emigrated to Tasmania.
Newby, Edgar Gordon Married ((03?).1941, Dartford district, Kent) Edna M. Draper.	27.09.1916 - 01.11.1995 Stone Dartford, Gravesend district, Kent	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 03.10.1942 [247382] WS/Lt. 03.04.1943 T/Capt. 21.08.1943	03.10.1942     commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission] (09.1944)     Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Officer, 1st Airlanding Brigade (Arnhem [?]) Chief officer of Licensing Department, London.
Newport, Edward Selwyn "Ted" Son of H. Newport, and ... Littlefour. Married (12.04.1943, Tanfield, Gateshead district, Durham) Marjorie Waistell.	13.08.1921 Stockport district, Cheshire / Lancashire -	2nd Lt. 24.08.1939 [96393] WS/Lt. 02.03.1941 Lt. 31.08.1946, seniority 13.02.1944 A/Capt. 03.01.1946-02.04.1946 T/Capt. 03.04.1946-06.02.1947 WS/Capt. 07.02.1947 Capt. 13.08.1948 A/Maj. 07.11.1946-06.02.1947 T/Maj. 07.02.1947-19.04.1949, 28.07.1952-15.11.1952 Maj. 13.08.1955 Lt.Col. 07.04.1964 Col. 31.12.1969, seniority 30.06.1969 (retd 03.04.1974) TD ? ?	Education: Durham Cathedral Chorister School; Beaconsfield School, Low Fell. Worked in insurance. 11.1938     enlisted 24.08.1939     commissioned into The Durham Light Infantry - Territorial Army 24.08.1939 - 30.08.1946 mobilized TA: (09.1944)     Officer Commanding, 1 Anti-Tank Platoon (Support Company), 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem [wounded, captured 26.09.1944]) 09.1944 - 04.1945 POW in German captivity (03.10.1944-13.10.1944 Dulag XII-B, Hadamar; 20.10.1944-12.04.1945 Oflag 79, Braunschweig) 31.08.1946     transferred to The Border Regiment [from 01.10.1959 The King's Own Border Regiment] 27.04.1949 - 30.04.1950 Instructor, All Arms Wing, School of Signals 28.03.1953 - 30.01.1954 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office 18.02.1954 - 14.04.1955 Staff Captain, War Office
Newton Dunn, Owen Frank Son (with two brothers) of Thomas William Newton Dunn (1880-1966), and Frances Lucy Owen (1882-1972). Married ((09?).1939, Aldershot district, Hampshire) Barbara Mary Brooke (26.01.1916 - 30.06.1995), daughter of Francis Ralph Russell Brooke (1884-1960), and Mary Henrietta Leigh-Mallory (1885-1980); ... children (one son?).	28.12.1911 Bath district, Somerset - 10.01.1995 Greywell, Basingstoke district, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 27.08.1931 [52613] Lt. 27.08.1934 Capt. 27.08.1939 A/Maj. 02.06.1941-01.09.1941 T/Maj. 02.09.1941-30.06.1946 Maj. 01.07.1946 A/Lt.Col. 28.02.1946-16.05.1946 T/Lt.Col. 15.01.1948-15.04.1951 Lt.Col. 30.06.1955 (Emp. List (1)) (retd 04.02.1961) OBE 11.06.1960 HM's birthday 1960 [recommendation available upon request]	Education: Staff College, Camberley (psc). 27.08.1931 - 22.07.1939 commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (1st & 2nd Battalions) 23.07.1939 - 03.09.1939 Instructor 21.02.1944 - 13.11.1944 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Operations), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem) 01.12.1944 - 24.07.1945 Instructor, Canadian Staff College 01.09.1945 - 30.11.1945 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), CTC (M) 01.12.1945 - 15.01.1946 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), CTC Dundonald 20.12.1947 - 14.01.1948 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), High Commissioner Office, Secretariat, Vienna 15.01.1948 - 15.01.1949 General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Sec. ACA 16.01.1949 - 24.03.1949 Staff Officer 1st grade (SO1), Sec. ACA  25.03.1949 - 31.03.1950 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), BTA 17.04.1950 - 15.04.1951 General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), HQ School of Infantry 13.07.1953 - 27.05.1956 General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Royal Hong Kong Defence Force 07.1958 - 07.1960 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), HQ Berlin Infantry Brigade Group (OBE)
Nicholson, John Robert	15.06.1923 - 10.1996 Canterbury district, Kent	Cadet ? [5576999] 2nd Lt. 01.04.1944 [314211] WS/Lt. 01.10.1944 A/Capt. 01.06.1946-31.08.1946 T/Capt. 01.09.1946-09.08.1947 (Unemployed List 10.08.1947-30.04.1955) Lt. 01.05.1955, seniority 21.06.1951 Capt. 26.06.1955 2nd Lt. 03.05.1958, seniority 20.11.1950 Lt. 03.05.1958, seniority 20.11.1952 Capt. 03.05.1958, seniority 20.11.1956 Maj. 20.11.1963 Lt.Col. 31.12.1970, seniority 30.06.1970 (Special List 15.06.1973) (retd 15.12.1976) OBE 01.01.1973 New Year 1973 MBE 02.07.1957 Cyprus 01-06.1957	served in the ranks for 2 years, 63 days 01.04.1944     commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission to 17.05.1953] (09.1944)     Officer Commanding, 2 Platoon (A Company), 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured]) 09.1944 - 04.1945 POW (No. 2158) in German captivity (Oflag 9A/H, Spangenburg) 18.05.1953     Territorial Army commission 01.05.1955     short service commission, Royal Army Educational Corps 03.05.1958     permanent commission, Intelligence Corps
Noble, Charles Bruce Son (with one brother) of James Bruce Noble, a mining engineer, and Shelagh McLean, a school teacher. Married ((03?).1949, Rowley Regis district, Staffordshire) Violet E.T. "Lysbeth" Plant, the daughter of an English country doctor from the Midlands near Wolverhampton; three daughters, two sons.	07.10.1919 Blantyre, Scotland - 21.12.1997 New Zealand	Lt. 10.07.1943 [279738] WS/Capt. 10.07.1944 (reld 09.11.1956; on appointment to a TA commission in New Zealand Army)	Education: medical school, University of Glasgow (MB, ChB Glasg, 06.11.1942); FRCS (Eng, 1951). 10.07.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] (09.1944)     Section Officer J, 133rd Parachute Field Ambulance (Arnhem [captured 19.09.1944, escaped & recaptured; was hidden by resistance member W.A. Lensvelt]) 09.1944 - 04.1945 POW (No. 1781) in German captivity (21.02.1945-01.03.1945 Stalag XIB, Fallingbostel; 01.03.1945-09.04.1945 Arbeitskommando Hallendorf) (liberation report) 1945 - 1946? served in Palestine (bullet wound while shooting at a rabbit) He carried out his specialist training in London and Manchester, immediately post-demobilisation, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1952 he emigrated to New Zealand, taking up the position of consulting surgeon at Wanganui Hospital, where he remained until his retirement, also running a busy private practice. His son writes: "One of his more amusing anecdotes (black humour) described how he dropped by parachute during darkness into a tree. When daylight came he found his feet were only inches above the ground. Gunfire was all around him. He heard running footsteps and a German soldier came into view, took careful aim and missed with his first shot. Meanwhile, Charles was urgently undoing his tunic to draw his Walther automatic wrapped in a scarf inside his tunic. As the German took careful aim for his second shot, Charles fumbled and dropped his Walther onto the ground. The German - for reasons unknown, then ran off. He was hidden for a long period by the Dutch underground in underground 'hides' in a pine forest, along with US air force personnel and some Jewish families."
Noble, Jeffrey Fraser "Jeff"   Son of Percy G. Noble, and Mabel Fraser. Married ((09?).1945, Ilford district, Essex) Lilian Rebecca Robinson; one son, two daughters.	15.10.1923 Romford district, Essex - 04.06.2020 Liphook, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 15.05.1943 [276375] 2nd Lt. 23.03.1946, seniority 15.10.1944 [permanent commission] WS/Lt. 15.11.1943 Lt. 15.04.1946 A/Capt. 12.03.1946-11.06.1946 T/Capt. 12.06.1946-30.08.1948, 11.09.1949-31.07.1950 Capt. 15.10.1950 (retd 01.07.1957) T/Maj. 07.10.1953-01.11.1956 Hon. Maj. 01.07.1957 MBE 17.06.1995 HM's birthday 1995: for services to the Royal British Legion, Geneva Chevalier, Ordre National du Mérite (France) (24.05.1994).	Clerk. 14.05.1942     served in the ranks for 1 year, 2 days 15.05.1943     commissioned, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission to 22.03.1946] (09.1944)     Officer Commanding, Medium Machine gun Platoon (Support Company), 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured 20.09.1944]) 09.1944 - 04?.1945 POW (No. 91017) in German captivity (27.09.1944-07.10.1944 Stalag XII-A, Limburg; 07.10.1944-16.10.1944 Stalag XI-B, Hadamar; 20.10.1944-04.1945 Oflag 79, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen) 23.03.1946 - 01.07.1957 permanent commission, The Royal Fusiliers Personnel director, Sussex (early 1970s). Vice-President, ITTE Brussels.
Norman-Walker, Arthur Fairfax Son of Col. Jack Norman Walker, CIE, Indian Medical Service, of Streatley, Berkshire. His father changed the surname of Walker to Norman-Walker by deed poll of 05.08.1936.	04.08.1912 Nainital, India - 22.09.1944 (KIA) [age 32] [Groesbeek Memorial, panel 1]	2nd Lt. 01.09.1932 [53633] Lt. 01.09.1935 A/Capt. 03.09.1939 Capt. 01.09.1940 T/Maj. 13.07.1942 MID 23.09.1943 North Africa	Education: Sherborne (1926.2-1930); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 01.09.1932 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery (06.1933) 24th Field Brigade RA (Newcastle) (01.1937) 1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Lichfield) (01.1939) 4th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Egypt) (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [killed in action])
Norton, Harold Martin Rex Son (with one brother) of Henry Hudson Norton (1885-1954), and Emily Gertrude Laws (1883-1951), of Elm, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Engaged (08.1944) Margaret V. Sandall ((12?).1921 - ), only child of Alderman John Edward Sandall, JP (1889-1964), and Violet Ethel Walker (1895-1990), of Clarkson Avenue, Wisbech. Margaret eventually married (1947) Capt. John Derrick Bunkall (1921-1999), The Cambridgeshire Regiment.	06.12.1921 Kings Lynn district, Norfolk - 24.03.1945 (KIA) [age 23] [Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 37.B.9]	2nd Lt. 02.05.1942 [233268] WS/Lt. 02.11.1942 T/Capt. 1945?	02.05.1942     commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission] 14.12.1942     transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944)     Section Commander, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem) (1945) - 24.03.1945 Rhine Crossing [killed in action]
Norwood, Carlisle "Carl" Son of Carlisle Norwood III (1873-1954), and May E Cowperthwaite (1887-1953). Married three times (1934, 1945, 1977).	04.01.1909 Paris, France - 11.07.2005 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	2nd Lt. ? Lt. ?	? commissioned into the Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission] - 08.06.1944 21st Anti-Aircraft Regiment RCA 08.06.1944 - No. A-34 Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC Canloan scheme: CDN/645 (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 13 Platoon (B Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded, POW]) 08.06.1945 - 05.10.1945 No. 4 District Depot (from Canadian Army Overseas) (struck off strength)

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