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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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A. Archdale to M.F. Azzopardi

Archdale,
Alfred
A. Archdale

10.08.1910
Freebridge Lynn district, Noroflk
-
01.2002
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47503]
Lt.	28.08.1933
Capt.	28.08.1938
A/Maj.	23.01.1941-22.04.1941
T/Maj.	23.04.1941-13.04.1945
WS/Maj.	14.04.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	14.01.1945-13.04.1945
T/Lt.Col.	14.04.1945-14.01.1946 09.05.1949-30.05.1952
Lt.Col.	31.05.1952 (supernumerary 31.05.1955) (retd 13.10.1958)

Education: Royal Military Academy

28.08.1930			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			?
01.06.1946	-	02.09.1947	Instructor
03.03.1949	-	08.05.1949	Instructor in Gunnery, Western Command
09.05.1949	-	07.08.1952	Senior Instructor (HAA), Western Command
?	-	31.05.1955	Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel
12.09.1955	-	(02.1957)	MCO & ME Officer (Class 1), P & E Establishment Shoeburyness
13.10.1958	-	10.08.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (age limit)

Archdale,
Arthur Joseph
A.J. Archdale

18.11.1923
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
19.03.1999
New Forest district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	08.05.1943 [273778]
WS/Lt.	08.11.1943

08.05.1943

(04.1946)

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] (Africa, Italy and Palestine)

Headmaster of York House School, (Preparatory School), Rickmansworth 1963-84. MCC member. CoE. PCC member and sometime Churchwarden Brockenhurst Parish Council.

Archdale,
Arthur Somerville
A.S. Archdale

Son of late F. Archdale, Baldock, Herts.
Married (1907) Mildred Barbara Funnell.

08.09.1882
Baldock, Hertfordshire
-
30.03.1948
Camberley, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1901 [6906]
Lt.	21.12.1904
Capt.	1914
Maj.	14.02.1916
Lt.Col.	31.01.1931 (half-pay 31.01.1935)
Col.	31.01.1935
T/Brig.	24.11.1937 (retd 09.09.1939)
Hon. Brig.	09.09.1939 (re-granted 12.02.1942)

	DSO	04.06.1917	?
	CdeG	17.12.1917	?

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

21.12.1901			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
02.02.1909	-	02.02.1913	an Officer of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets (Class B.) [31.01.1912 augmented to Class A], Royal Military Academy (seconded for service on the Staff) (restored to the establishment)
			served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches four times, DSO, Croix de Guerre)
06.05.1915	-	?	Adjutant, North Midland (Howitzer) Brigade
20.02.1917	-	14.06.1918	Brigade Major, ...
14.06.1918		?	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General Staff
12.02.1919	-	09.11.1919	Brigade Major, ... (restored to the establishment)
?	-	22.12.1920	... (restored to the establishment)
10.04.1922	-	16.05.1923	Staff Officer RA, Western Command (restored to the establishment [13.07.1923 notification cancelled])
?	-	01.08.1924	Brigade Major, ...
01.08.1924	-	21.05.1927	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
1931	-	31.01.1935	Commander, 9th Field Brigade RA (Bulford)
			Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Artillery)
01.10.1935	-	(11.)1939	Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA), 42nd (East Lancs) Division, TA
(11?.)1939	-	23.05.1942	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Artillery) (reverted to retired list 12.02.1942) (ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers (age limit) 23.05.1942)

Played cricket for the Army (1st class, 1920-1921).

Archdale,
Audley Montgomery
A.M. Archdale

Son of Col. Osmund Audley Archdale and Emily Vita Thorneycroft.
Married (29.06.1960, Kloosterzande, Netherlands) Anna Adolphine Henriette barones Collot d'Escury (born 02.08.1937), daughter of Hendrik Adolf André baron Collot d'Escury; one daughter.

23.08.1920
Blue Room, Plean House, Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland
-
08.09.2016
Edinburgh, Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [165039]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

?	-	21.12.1940	168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940	-	(04.1946)	commissioned into the Scots Guards [emergency commission]
01.01.1949	-		Scots Guards - Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Archdale,
Audley Quintin
A.Q. Archdale (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Archdale.)

3rd son of Edward Mervyn Archdale, 1st Bt., and Alicia Bland Fleming and brother of Nicholas Edward and Humphrys Archdale (both RN). Married (22.03.1922, St George Hanover Square district, Middlesex) Mary Edith Haigh Bury, daughter of Oliver Bury; three daughters.

03.04.1886
Ballinamellard, Ireland
-
(03?).1978
Ross district, Hereford & Worcester

2nd Lt.	20.12.1906
Lt.	20.12.1909
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj.	18.05.1917, seniority 26.01.1917
Maj.	?, seniority 08.04.1917
Brev. Lt.Col.	01.01.1933
Lt.Col.	01.04.1935 (half pay 01.04.1939) (retd 01.10.1939)

MID

16.03.1919

for gallant and distinguished services in the field

Education: Winchester College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1905-1906)

20.12.1906			commissioned, Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery
			51st Battery Royal Field Artillery at Shorncliffe, part of 39th Bde RFA
1909			Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh
1913			sailed with his Regiment from Southampton 21 Nov 1913 on the MHT Dongola, arriving in Karachi, India 13 Dec 1913; wounded 1916
(12.1916)			M Battery Royal Regiment of Artillery (Risalpur, India)
08.1917			ordered back to England after four years service overseas
1918	-	1919	16th Brigade RHA (Germany)
1921			part of the Inter-Allied Commission of Control
31.10.1921	-	01.04.1922	Brigade Major, Divisional RA, 53rd Welsh Division (seconded for service on the Staff with the TA) (01.04.1922 restored to the establishment)
13.11.1922	-	27.09.1924	Adjutant, 81st (Welsh) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (seconded for service with the TA)
01.01.1925			restored to the establishment
23.06.1927	-	1929?	Major Instructor in Gunnery (Artillery), School of Artillery (seconded) (01.01.1929 restored to the establishment)
(03.1931)			1st Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (UK)
(06.1933)			1st Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (Egypt)
1935?	-	01.04.1939	Regimental Lt-Col of Royal Regiment of Artillery (Field Branch):
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Bulford)
01.10.1939	-	13.01.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Regiment of Artillery, Class II) (released because of age limit)
1939?	-	1945?	Commanding Officer, Pre-Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU), Wrotham

Archdale,
Charles Lindsell
C.L. Archdale

06.09.1904
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
(03?).1978
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1924 [31252]
Lt.	30.08.1926
Capt.	04.04.1935
A/Maj.	22.05.1940-20.06.1940 13.07.1940-19.07.1940
Maj.	14.09.1941, seniority 30.08.1941
Lt.Col.	30.03.1946 (retd 29.04.1955)
A/Col.	05.02.1945

	MID	20.12.1940	?
	TD	26.01.1968	?

Education: Royal Military College

30.08.1924			commissioned into The Manchester Regiment
?			?
?	-	30.03.1949	Commanding Officer, ...
?	-	01.09.1969	served Army Cadet Force (Norfolk), Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve as a Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel)

Archdale,
Edward Hugh Montgomery
E.H.M. Archdale

Married ((09?0.1931, Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Doris E. Carnell.

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.03.1943 [284036]
WS/Lt.	14.03.1943

14.03.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
01.09.1944	-	(04.1946)	transferred, Indian Army

Archdale,
Fulbert Audley
F.A. Archdale

Married M. Archdale; at least one son (Lt. Michael Mervyn Lyon Archdale). From Southbourne, Hants.

08.08.1890
Horfield, Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
16.07.1953
Bournemouth district, Hampshire

Lt.	?
A/Capt.	09.04.1918
Capt.	05.03.1919
Lt.	22.05.1940 [131209]
T/Capt.	22.08.1940
WS/Capt.	19.06.1942
T/Maj.	12.10.1942
WS/Maj.	16.01.1945 (reld 1945/46)
A/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	1945/46?

	MBE	23.03.1944	Sicily
	MID	WW I	?

1906			joined HMS Worcester
			attended a Merchant Navy Training School and was apprenticed on barque Inverlyon in which he circumnavigated the world three times by sail; joined Hoogli Pilot Service, Calcutta in 1911
			served World War I with 130th Baluchis (despatches)
?	-	01.05.1922	Indian Army Reserve of Officers:
09.04.1918	-	?	Company Commander
1924	-	1929	Commanded the Karachi Corps Auxiliary Force
26.03.1934			Consul of Greece at Karachi
1939			joined Movement Control
22.05.1940			commissioned onto the General List [emergency commission]
(04.1941)			specially employed
03.08.1941			transferred to the Pioneer Corps

Published: Elementary radiesthesia and the use of the pendulum (1950)

Archdale,
Geoffrey Arthur Frederick
G.A.F. Archdale

Married ((03?).1946, Bury district, Suffolk) Sybil Hunter.

18.11.1908
-
(06?).1954
Anglesey West district, Wales

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1928 [40350] (half-pay 30.03.1930; ill-health) (restored 13.12.1930)
Lt.	30.08.1931
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	21.05.1940-20.08.1940
T/Maj.	21.08.1940-29.08.1945
Maj.	30.08.1945
A/Lt.Col.	30.05.1940-12.07.1940
Lt.Col.	01.04.1951 01.02.1952, seniority 01.03.1951 (retd 01.04.1953; disability)

Education: Royal Military Academy

30.08.1928			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
17.11.1939	-	29.05.1940	Adjutant, ...

Archdale,
Michael Mervyn Lyon
M.M.L. Archdale

Son of Lt.-Col. Fulbert Audley Archdale and Mrs. M. Archdale, of Southbourne, Bournemouth, Hampshire.

06.03.1921
Bideford district, Devon / Cornwall / Seilly
-
25.06.1944
(MIA) [age 23]
[Bayeux Memorial, panel 17, column 3]

2nd Lt.	19.11.1939 [105616]
WS/Lt.	19.05.1941

19.11.1939			commissioned into The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
?	-	25.06.1944	1st (Airborne) Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles [6th Airborne Division] (missing in action while on patrol, Normandy)

'Archdale Close' in Bournemouth named after him in the 1960's/70's as part of a programme of commemoration of those killed in WWII.

Archdale,
Nicholas Montgomery
N.M. Archdale

Son of Maj. Richard Montgomery Archdale and Phyllis Katheren Wake. Married (10.11.1953) Patricia Thomas, daughter of Herbert William Thomas.

05.02.1924
Rhodesia
-

2nd Lt.	22.05.1943 [277406]
WS/Lt.	22.11.1943
T/Capt.	(1945/46?)

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

22.05.1943			commissioned into The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
25.08.1943	-	(04.1946)	transferred to the Parachute Regiment (served in the 7th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, part of 6th Airborne Division)

High Sheriff for Clwyd, Wales, 1991.

Archdale,
Osmund Audley
"Om"
O.A. Archdale

Second son of George Montgomery Archdale (who served in the French Army during WW1 and received the CdeG) and Lucy Glynn. Brother of Maj. Richard Montgomery Archadale, and Capt. Patrick Mervyn Archdale RN.
Married (14.06.1919, St. Paul's, Knightsbirdge, London) Emily Vita Thorneycroft (02.05.1897 - 12.1989), daughter of Wallace Thorneycroft; one son (Audley Montgomery Archdale), two daughters.

14.06.1895
Osmington, Dorset
-
10.09.1968
Dorchester, Dorset

2nd Lt.	12.08.1914 [9695] (retd 1918; invalided)
Lt.	? (half-pay 23.07.1916; ill-health) (restored to the establishment 17.03.1917)
Capt.	07.03.1917, seniority 01.01.1917 (half-pay 13.12.1919; ill-health caused by wounds) (retd 13.12.1924)
Capt.	24.08.1939
T/Maj.	14.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	15.07.1941
T/Lt.Col.	15.07.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Lt.Col.	? (retd 07.08.1946; age limit)
Hon. Col.	07.08.1946 ?, seniority 14.08.1945

MBE	11.07.1940	?
MID	02.08.1945	NW Europe
LegH	1945	?
CdeG	1945	?

Education: Eton (1908.3-1911.2); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Under Officer, Sword of Honour)

12.08.1914		commissioned into the Rifle Brigade
WW I		seriously wounded in the hip and spent 2 years in hospital recovering, though he limped for the rest of his life
01.01.1918		graded for purposes of pay as Staff Lieutenant 1st Class
16.04.1918	-	ADC to General Sir Hugh Ellis, Royal Tank Corps (seconded)
Stockbroker with Williams de Broë and opened their Paris office in 1920. He moved to London as a partner in the firm in 1938 with his family.
24.08.1939		mobilized Intelligence Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
		joined the Mission of Maj.Gen. Edward L. Spears, which consisted of 12 nominated persons to liaise with the French Army and later became the nominated messenger between Churchill and De Gaulle
05.07.1940		specially employed

Stockbroker.

Archdale,
Richard Montgomery
R.M. Archdale

Eldest son of George Montgomery Archdale (who served in the French Army during WW1 and received the CdeG) and Lucy Glynn. Brother of Col. Osmund Audley Archdale, and Capt. Patrick Mervyn Archdale RN. Married (23.04.1919, Courteenhall, Northants) Phyllis Katheren Wake, daughter of Sir Hereward Wake, 12th Bt.; one son (Capt. Nicholas Montgomery Archdale), one daughter, one son (Nicholas Montgomery Archdale).

29.12.1892
Dorchester district, Dorset
-
15.12.1965

T/2nd Lt.	(1916) [108031]
T/Lt.	13.05.1918, seniority 01.07.1917 (reld 09.09.1919; retains the rank of Lt.)
T/Capt.	20.04.1916
Lt.	04.12.1939
T/Capt.	16.03.1940
WS/Capt.	03.05.1942
T/Maj.	03.05.1942

MBE	21.06.1945	Mediterranean Theatre
MC	18.01.1918	*
	?	Greek Military Medal of Merit

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His platoon held the most intricate portion of the line, and suffered many casualties. He personally reconnoitred and fixed the exact situation of a most dangerous and active hostile strong point, and though wounded, refused to leave his platoon, remaining in command of it till the battalion was relieved. He undertook the personal supervision of the relief, the successful completion of which was due to his courageous efforts. [According to his nephew Audley Montgomery Archdale, his MC was for storming a German machine-gun post on a horse and killing them all.]

WW I			19th Hussars (Military Cross):
20.04.1916	-	?	Staff Captain
04.12.1939	-	(04.1946)	2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Territorial Army [emergency commission]
04.12.1939	-	?	Intelligence Officer, HQ 22nd Heavy Armoured Brigade (posted)

Archdale,
Ronald John
R.J. Archdale

Married 1st ((12?).1941, Wayland district, Norfolk) Caroline Anne Garnier (04.04.1920 - (06?).1978).
Married 2nd ((09?).1978, Wayland district, Norfolk) Betty M. Kingsley.

11.06.1917
-
01.2003
Breccles Hall. Attleborough, Norwich district, Norfolk]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71026]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	11.07.1940-10.10.1940
T/Capt.	11.10.1940-31.08.1941
WS/Capt.	01.09.1941
Capt.	28.01.1945
A/Maj.	01.06.141-31.08.1941
T/Maj.	01.09.1941-08.01.1946 13.02.1948-27.01.1950
Maj.	28.01.1950 (retd 26.06.1958)

MID

12.09.1946

while POW

Education: Royal Military Academy; Staff College, Camberley

28.01.1937			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			? (POW)

Archdale,
William Martin
W.M. Archdale

20.01.1912
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
10.2003
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1932 [50969]
Lt.	28.01.1935
Capt.	28.01.1940
A/Maj.	12.06.1943-11.09.1943
T/Maj.	12.09.1943-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 07.07.1957)

MID

23.05.1946

Education: Royal Military College

28.01.1932			commissioned into The Manchester Regiment
20.04.1939	-	21.09.1939	Adjutant, ... (TA) (temporary)
07.07.1957	-	20.01.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Kings) (age limit)

Archer,
Bertram Stuart Trevelyan
B.S.T. Archer

Son of Bertram George Reine Archer (who was an electrical engineer and owned his own business), and Francis Maud Archer (nee Hatfield).
Mrried (1939) Kathleen Matilda "Kit" Hatt; one son, Ian Stuart Trevelyan Archer, ARIBA, AADip,(Hons), and two daughters, Deidre Marjorie Strowger and Melanie Patricia Archer.

03.02.1915
Hampstead, London
-

2nd Lt.	30.03.1940 [126305]
A/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	10.11.1943
T/Maj.	10.08.1943
Hon. Maj.	? (retd)

OBE	10.06.1961
GC	30.09.1941	most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner *
TD	20.03.1947	?
ERD		Army Emergency Reserve Decorations & 2 bars

* Lieutenant Archer had been employed on bomb disposal since June 1940 and had dealt with over 200 bombs. He had enjoyed unbelievable immunity from death and shown sustained nerve and courage of the highest order. On 2nd September 1940 he was called out with his section to deal with a whole stick of unexploded bombs which had fallen in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's refinery at Llandarcy, near Swansea. Several tanks of oil were on fire, which added greatly to the danger and difficulty of the work. Whilst tackling the most dangerous of the bombs two of the others exploded and it was obvious that the one on which they were working might do likewise at any moment. They continued working on it, however, for several hours until Lieutenant Archer had removed the fuse and rendered the bomb harmless.

07.1936			qualified as an ARIBA at the youngest age permitted as an Architect, at 21
1936	-	1995	worked in Grays Inn, with Ingram Son and Archer (Archer name added to firm after BSTA qualified). Archer continued working with this partnership all his working life apart from the time he spent in the Army
			served with the Honourable Artillery Company
30.03.1940			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers
1940	-		CO No. 104 Bomb Disposal Section deployed in South Wales
			served on in bomb disposal units
10.08.1943	-	(04.1944)	Staff Officer Royal Engineers, Southern Command
	-	1945	CO No. 12 Bomb Disposal Company, RE
1950			re-joined the Army Emergency Reserve and later served with 137th Bomb Disposal Regiment, RE (AER)
1953			CO No. 142 Bomb Disposal Regiment

Honorary Colonel Bomb Disposal Regiments, 1963. Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1970. Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal, 1977. Chairman of the VC and GC Association since August 1994.

Archibald,
R
R. Archibald

?
-

2nd Lt.	04.06.1943
WS/Lt.	04.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

04.06.1943			commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
(06.1944)			3rd Parachute Battalion

Arkwright,
Albert Seymour Bertram
A.S.B. Arkwright (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of Bertram Harry Godfrey Arkwright (1879-1949), and Grace Emma Julia Hurt (1876-1950).
Brother of Maj.Gen. Robert Harry Bertram Arkwright, CB, DSO*, Lt.Col. Francis Godfrey Bertram Arkwright, DSO, MC, and Lt.Col. William Peter Bertram Arkwright, DSO.
Married (12.07.1939) Jean Hargraves Thorburn Brown (31.10.1899 - 24.03.1988), widow of William Hugh Muir, and daughter of Adam Thorburn Brown (1856-1928), and Agnes Halliday Boog-Scott (1870-1945), of Torquhan, Midlothian.
Of Stow, Midlothian.

16.11.1907
Datchet, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
1990
Galashiels district, Selkirk, Scotland

2nd Lt.	01.09.1927 [38333]
Lt.	23.12.1930, seniority 01.09.1930
Capt.	01.01.1938 (half-pay 23.12.1943; ill-health) (retd 23.12.1948)
A/Maj.	01.10.1939-31.12.1939
T/Maj.	01.01.1940-07.11.1942, 16.07.1943-24.11.1943
Hon. Maj.	23.12.1948

	MC	07.01.1943	escape & evasion [citation available upon request]
	MID	07.01.1943	France & Flanders 40

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

01.09.1927			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
?	-	05.1940	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (captured)
1940	-	08.1942	POW in German captivity (Oflag VI-B); escaped & evaded (via Comet Line)

Published: Return journey : escape from Oflag VI-B (1948).

Arkwright,
Francis Godfrey Bertram
F.G.B. Arkwright

Son of Bertram Harry Godfrey Arkwright (1879-1949), and Grace Emma Julia Hurt (1876-1950).
Brother of Maj.Gen. Robert Harry Bertram Arkwright, CB, DSO*, 12th Royal Lancers, Maj. Albert Seymour Bertram Arkwright, MC, and Lt.Col. William Peter Bertram Arkwright, DSO.
Married (27.04.1929) Joyce Nancy Evelyn (who remarried 19.02.1944, Lt.Col. William Wainman, DSO, MC, and 31.08.1955 Maj. Edward Frederic Gosling), only daughter of Col. Walter Pepys, DSO, of Monks Bridge, Butlers Marston (Warks); two sons.

30.01.1905
-
01.07.1942
Acromain, Libya
(KIA)

2nd Lt.	29.01.1925 [31864]
Lt.	29.01.1927
Capt.	15.06.1934
A/Maj.	27.07.1940-26.10.1940
T/Maj.	27.10.1940-11.03.1941
WS/Maj.	12.03.1941
Maj.	29.01.1942
local Lt.Col.	28.08.1940-11.12.1940
A/Lt.Col.	12.12.1940-11.03.1941
T/Lt.Col.	12.03.1941-01.07.1942

	DSO	13.08.1942	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
	MC	18.10.1940	?

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Professional cricketer for Hampshire, Lancs and Yorks c 1923.

29.01.1925			commissioned, 12th Royal Lancers
1930s			Commanding No 1 Motor Machine Gun Battery of Sudan Defence Force (Bimbashi)
1934			occupation Ain Muir at Jebel Uweinat
?	-	01.07.1942	Commanding Officer, 4th County of London Yeomanry

Arkwright,
Robert Harry Bertram
R.H.B. Arkwright

Eldest son of Bertram Harry Godfrey Arkwright (1879-1949), and Grace Emma Julia Hurt (1876-1950).
Brother of Maj. Albert Seymour Bertram Arkwright, MC, Lt.Col. Francis Godfrey Bertram Arkwright, DSO, MC, and Lt.Col. William Peter Bertram Arkwright, DSO.
Married (13.07.1927) Kathleen Gladys Hanbury, daughter of late Major E.E. Hanbury, Scots Guards; one son, one daughter (and one son deceased).

30.07.1903
-
14.11.1971
[Poulton, Cirencester, Glos. ?]

2nd Lt.	31.01.1924 [28043]
local Maj.	01.05.1936-13.07.1936
T/Col.	06.03.1943-...
A/Brig.	06.09.1942-05.03.1943
T/Brig.	06.03.1943-...
Maj.Gen.	02.05.1947, seniority 21.12.1946 (retd 08.09.1951)

CB	26.01.1945	?
DSO	29.07.1943	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
DSO	13.01.1944	Italy

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

31.01.1924			commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers
1934	-	1935	Staff College, Camberley
01.05.1936	-	13.07.1936	specially employed
27.10.1936	-	14.06.1939	Brigade Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot Command
06.1939	-	12.1939	GSO2, War Office
1940			Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), 1st Armoured Division (France)
1940	-	1942	GSO1, 8th Armoured Division
1942	-	1943	Brigadier Armoured Fighting Vehicles, 8th Army
23.07.1943	-	1946	Commander, 23rd Armoured Brigade [till 8.1944 Independent Armoured Brigade Group; 8.1944-1.1945 Infantry Brigade Group, known as Force 140, from 2.9-19.10.1944 known as ARKFORCE; from 1.1945 Armoured Brigade Group] (Sicily, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Egypt, Greece) (DSO and Bar, CB) [except for 4.12.1944-8.1.1945 & 1-22.4.1945]
1946			Commander, 2nd Infantry Division
1947	-	1948	Director RAC, War Office
1948	-	1949	General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Armoured Division TA
1949	-	1951	General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division

Arkwright,
William Peter Bertram
W.P.B. Arkwright

Son of Bertram Harry Godfrey Arkwright (1879-1949), and Grace Emma Julia Hurt (1876-1950).
Brother of Maj.Gen. Robert Harry Bertram Arkwright, CB, DSO*, Maj. Albert Seymour Bertram Arkwright, MC, and Lt.Col. William Peter Bertram Arkwright, DSO.
Married (18.10.1941) Isabel Constance Marion O'Neil (1906 - 1984), elder daughter of Lt.Col. Charles Douglas Roe, DSO, OBE; one son, one daughter.

10.11.1910
-
26.01.1962
(accident)

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47516]
Lt.	28.08.1933
Capt.	28.03.1938
A/Maj.	25.07.1942-24.10.1942
T/Maj.	25.10.1942-18.04.1943, 19.09.1943-02.06.1945
WS/Maj.	03.06.1945
A/Lt.Col.	03.03.1945-02.06.1945
T/Lt.Col.	03.06.1945-02.11.1946, 05.01.1949-04.01.1953
Lt.Col.	05.01.1953 (supernumerary 05.01.1956) (retd 05.06.1958)

	DSO	17.01.1946	Burma
	MID	30.12.1941	?

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

28.08.1930			commissioned, Royal Scots Fusiliers
27.07.1938	-	11.05.1941	specially employed
25.07.1942	-	19.04.1943	Commandant, West Africa Tactical School
02.01.1953	-	01.01.1956	Commandant, Training Centre Far East Land Forces

He inherited Coton House (Warwickshire) from his uncle Francis Arkwright in 1915. He lived at Frith, Stalbridge (Dorset) and later at Pen-y-Bryn Hall, Churchstoke (Montgomeryshire).

Armitage,
Edward John
E.J. Armitage (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

?
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186319]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	26.01.1944-(04.1946)

MID

04.04.19146

NW Europe

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

Armitage,
Norman Abercromby
R.W. Armstrong

Eldest son of Mr & Mrs Norman Armitage, of Colombo, Ceylon.
Married 1st (28.12.1933, St Peter's Church, Fort Colombo, Ceylon) Marion Devereux Knowles (killed in a motor accident 1935), daughter of Mr & Mrs J. Devereux Knowles, of Singapore.
Married 2nd ((09?).1939, Penzance district, Cornwall) Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Jefferies (? - 01.06.1952), elder daughter of the Rev. A.C. & Mrs Jefferies, of The Vicarage, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire.

20.10.1904
-
05.04.1952
Daytona, Kandy, Ceylon

2nd Lt.	26.08.1924 [30503]
Lt.	26.08.1926
Capt.	26.08.1935
A/Maj.	16.04.1940-15.07.1940
T/Maj.	16.07.1940-31.07.1941
WS/Maj.	01.08.1941
Maj.	26.08.1941
A/Lt.Col.	01.05.1941-31.07.1941
T/Lt.Col.	01.08.1941-11.01.1942, 06.06.1942-16.10.1943, 07.01.1944-09.06.1944, 07.08.1944-08.02.1945, 16.02.1945-(04.1947)

	OBE	14.10.1943	Middle East
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.

26.08.1924			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(03.1931)			served in Malaya
(06.1933)			served at Bulford
(09.1935)	-	(01.1937)	served in Egypt
(01.1938)	-	(01.1939)	served in Malaya
?	-	?	?
29.04.1946	-	(04.1947)	an Assistant Director to the Director of Engineer Stores, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office

Armitstead,
Robert Charles Henry

04.02.1913
-
02.11.1995

2nd Lt.	31.08.1935, seniority 01.02.1934 [63090]
Lt.	01.02.1937
A/Capt.	01.03.1940-31.05.1940
T/Capt.	01.06.1940-28.04.1941
WS/Capt.	29.04.1941
Capt.	01.02.1942
A/Maj.	29.01.1941-28.04.1941
T/Maj.	29.04.1941-(01.1946)
...	...
Lt.Col.	03.04.1953 (retd 01.06.1956)

31.08.1935			commissioned, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Armstrong,
Ernest William
E.W. Armstrong

Son (with three brothers and three sisters) of Arthur Taylor Armstrong (1869-1939), and Hannah Denton (1873-1914).
Married Molly ...; two sons.

26.12.1909
Gateshead, Durham
-
29.08.1944
(KIA) [age 34]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, France, V.C.15]

2nd Lt.	24.12.1942 [258053]
WS/Lt.	24.12.1942
A/Capt.	21.03.1944-29.08.1944

24.12.1942

commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) [emergency commission]

Armstrong,
John Ferdinand
J.F. Armstrong

Son (with two brothers) of John James Victor Armstrong (1890-1953), and Berthe Henriette Marie Larre (1890-1968).
Married 1st ((09?).1943, Liverpool district, Lancashire) Elizabeth Olwen Llewellyn (14.08.1925 - 21.05.1978); one son.
Married 2nd (30.08.1952, Kensington, London) Charlotte Gilberte Boyer (1927 - 21.06.2005); one daughter, one son.

19.02.1919
West Derby, Lancashire
-
09.08.1985
Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France

2nd Lt.	18.05.1940 [130092]
WS/Lt.	18.11.1941 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 15.05.1950; on enlistment in the ranks TA)
T/Capt.	22.11.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946
Lt.	04.12.1950, seniority 20.02.1944 (reld 15.08.1953)

		either 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.05.1940		commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
04.12.1950	15.08.1953	Special Air Service Regiment - Territorial Army

Armstrong,
Robert William
R.W. Armstrong

Son of Robert William and Louisa Blanche Armstrong.
Husband of Catherine Doris Armstrong, of Berwick-on-Tweed.

1906 ?
-
25.05.1940
(KIA) [age 34]
[Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France, plot 2, row 6, grave 32]

2nd Lt.	11.12.1935 [66509]
Lt.	11.12.1938
A/Capt.	1940?

11.12.1935

25.05.1940

commissioned, 9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army (killed in action, Dunkirk)

Armstrong,
Sidney George
S.G. Armstrong

Son of George and Mary Ann Armstrong, of Weybridge, Surrey.
Husband of Helen Armstrong, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.

(12?).1906
Windsor district, Surrey
-
07.12.1941
(KIA) [age 35]
[Tobruk War Cemetery, Libya, 8.N.11]

Cadet	?
Lt.	29.12.1940 [189082]

Education: Woking County Grammar School for Boys, Surrey.

			served (in the ranks?), Royal Army Medical Corps
?	-	28.12.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.12.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
?	-	07.12.1941	2nd Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Armstrong,
William Edward Iredale
"Bill"
W.E.I. Armstrong

Son of ... Armstrong, and ... Walker.
Married ((12?).1956, Horwich district, Lancashire) Louise Parker Blackley ((09?).1922 - 15.11.2012), daughter of ... Blackley, and ... Parker; two daughters.

06.06.1920
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
13.12.2012

2nd Lt.	22.05.1942 [234712]
WS/Lt.	22.11.1942
A/Maj.	?
Capt.	06.06.1947, seniority 01.05.1947
Maj.	06.06.1954, seniority 01.05.1947
A/Lt.Col.	01.11.1956
Lt.Col.	06.06.1958, seniority 01.11.1956
A/Col.	20.07.1964
Col.	01.01.1965, seniority 20.07.1964

OBE	10.06.1961	HM's birthday 61
TD	04.06.1954	-
TD	11.09.1959	1st clasp
TD	15.11.1966	2nd clasp

M.Eng. (Liverpool), AMIMechE.

22.05.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
06.06.1947			transferred, Territorial Army
?			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
20.07.1964			Territorial Army
01.04.1967			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Honorary Colonel, R.E.M.E., 42 (Lancs) Div. T.A., 01.03.1964-01.04.1967. Honorary Colonel, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Volunteers) West T.A.V.R., 01.04.1967-01.04.1978. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County Palatine of Lancaster, 15.06.1970. Director, Mears Bros (Contractors) Ltd, 1965.

Arnell,
Oliver Marston Rex
O.M.R. Arnell

Son of Oliver Roach Arnell (1888-), and Harriett Marguerite Hood Barrs (1886-1960).
Married ((03?).1950, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Daisy Todd (née Graham); two sons, one daughter.

26.03.1917
Lambeth district, London
-
01.1992
Truro district, Cornwall

2nd Lt.	18.10.1939 [100709]
WS/Lt.	18.04.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	21.12.1942-(04.1946)

Education: Pembroke School, Kitale, Kenya; Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire; Cambridge (BA, 1939).

18.10.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in India

Arno,
Joseph Robert
J.R. Arno (Photo courtesy of Anita Bowden)

Son (with five brothers and two sisters)of Charles George Arno (1872-1931), and Margaret Rogers (1876-1937).
Married (14.04.1928, Sliema, Malta) Dorothy Camilleri (20.01.1905 - 22.07.1975), daughter (with one sister) of Anthony Roger Camilleri (1874-), and Maria Dolores Zammit (1880-1938); two sons, one daughter.
Residence: West Derby, Liverpool.

10.05.1902
Shoreditch district, London
-
01.11.1946
[Udine War Cemetery, Italy, III.G.8]

S/Sgt.	?
Lt. QM	13.10.1941 [205943]
WS/Capt. QM	13.10.1944

1920s	-	12.10.1941	served in the ranks, Royal Army Medical Corps
13.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	01.11.1946	served under HQ Allied Military Government, Venezia Giulia

Arnold,
Allan Cholmondeley
A.C. Arnold

Son of Lt-Col Arthur Seymour Arnold, late Indian Army, and Ruby Burnett. Married Dorothy Hamilton, only daughter of Arthur Webster-Wedderburn, Deputy Inspector-General Police, Jamaica; no children.

23.05.1893
-
29.01.1962
[Bayford, nr Wincanton, Somerset ?]

2nd Lt.	04.09.1912 [4934]
Lt.	11.08.1914
Capt.	07.12.1915
T/Maj.	14.12.1918-05.10.1919
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1919
Maj.	29.09.1930
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1935
Col.	15.08.1939, seniority 01.07.1938 (retd 16.03.1946)
local Brig.	09.11.1939-06.11.1940
A/Brig.	07.11.1940-06.05.1941
T/Brig.	07.05.1941-02.02.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	03.02.1942-02.02.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	03.02.1943-...
Hon. Maj.Gen.	16.03.1946

CIE	1947	?
CBE	30.12.1941	?
MC	WW I	?
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	15.05.1917	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
MID	03.02.1920	N Russia
MID	06.04.1944	?

1914 Star and Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Waziristan Medal & 2 Clasps (1919-1921 & 1921-1924); Order of the Phoenix, Cross of Grand Officer with swords (24.09.1943)

Education: Wellington College, Berks; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

04.09.1912			commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment
1914	-	1918	World War I (France & Belgium 11.08.1914-08.08.1817 & 01.06.1918-11.11.1918)
29.12.1914	-	25.06.1916	A. Sig. Serv.
26.06.1916	-	26.07.1917	Staff Captain, ... (France)
27.07.1917 12.06.1918	- -	07.08.1917 13.12.1918	Brigade Major, ... (France)
14.12.1918	-	30.05.1919	Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General (DAQMG), ... (France)
31.05.1919	-	05.10.1919	Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General (DAQMG), ... (North Russia; wounded)
01.04.1921 09.04.1922	- -	25.03.1922 06.04.1925	Brigade Major, ... (India)
09.05.1927	-	21.12.1930	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Scottish Command
29.09.1930			transferred to the Royal Fusiliers
01.10.1933	-	30.09.1937	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (UK)
15.08.1939	-	(01.1946)	Military Attaché to Turkey (Ankara) (GSO1 to 06.11.1940)

Food Department, Government of India 1946-1947. Ministry of Food 1949-1954.

Arnold,
Alan Edward
A.E. Arnold

24.11.1920
-
(03?).1982
Brighton

2nd Lt.	11.10.1939
WS/Lt.	11.04.1941
A/Capt.	02.03.1943-01.06.1942
T/Capt.	02.06.1942-15.06.1945
WS/Capt.	16.06.1945
A/Maj.	16.03.1945-15.06.1945
T/Maj.	16.06.1945-23.05.1953
Lt.	04.08.1945, seniority 24.11.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	24.05.1953
T/Lt.Col.	31.01.1961-12.10.1961
Lt.Col.	13.10.1961 (supernumerary 13.10.1964)
Col.	18.07.1966
Brig.	1969? (retd 1976?)

OBE

13.12.1966

Education: BSc (Eng); Staff College, Camberley (psc)

11.10.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 03.08.1945]
06.11.1944	-	15.03.1945	Staff Officer, 3rd grade (SO3), RE HQ, AAI [= Allied Armies in Italy?]
16.03.1945	-	31.07.1945	Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ ... Army Group
(01.1946)			Officer Commanding, 59 Commando Squadron RE
02.12.1946	-	06.10.1947	Sn.Comd. [= Squadron Commander?]
29.09.1949	-	05.09.1951	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), HQ HCD
16.01.1956	-	12.02.1956	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Plans), HQ BTE [= British Troops in Egypt?]
13.02.1956	-	04.06.1958	General HQ, Middle East Land Forces (MELF)
31.01.1961	-	08.02.1963	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Planner) Intelligence/Cartography, HQ South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO)
12.04.1963	-	20.04.1965	Chief Instructor, Tactical School, Royal School of Military Engineering
15.07.1966	-	(02.1967)	Colonel (General Staff), Ministry of Defence
1969	-	1972	Commander, Engineer Support Group

Arnold,
Bonar Nelson
B.N. Arnold

Son (with three siblings) of James Nelson Arnold (1899-1975), and Emelie Marcelline Henriette Roger (1899-1975).
Married ((06?).1950, Netwon Abbot district, Devon) Josephine Ann Carter (09.12.1927 - ); ... children (two sons, two daughters?).

03.07.1925
-
30.05.1994
Cambridge, New Zealand
[Leamington Cemetery, Hamilton, Hamilton City, Waikato, New Zealand]

Cadet	? [14497888]
2nd Lt.	17.06.1945 [346480]
WS/Lt.	17.12.1945 (reld > 04.1947)

17.06.1945			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Arnold,
Harold
H. Arnold

?
-

2nd Lt.	22.03.1944 [313705]
WS/Capt.	11.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	11.04.1945-(04.1946)

Served Exeter Police Force.

22.03.1944			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			may have served with Civil Affairs (NW Europe)

Arnold,
John Henry
J.H. Arnold

?
-

S.Sgt.	?
Lt. (AIA)	18.06.1943 [279466]
WS/Capt. (AIA)	?
Capt. (AIA)	29.11.1946, seniority 18.06.1946
Maj. (AIA)	11.06.1954 (reld 01.09.1956)
Hon. Maj. (AIA)	01.09.1956

			served in the ranks, Royal Armoured Corps
18.06.1943			commissioned, Assistant Inspector of Armourers, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (with rank of Lieutenant) [emergency commission to 28.11.1946]
29.11.1946	-	01.09.1956	short service commission

Arnold,
Leonard Roy
L.R. Arnold

(12?).1907 ?
Edmonton district ?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.08.1941 [201399]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	01.09.1942-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

?	-	16.08.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.08.1941			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			spent the war years in India (Jubblepore, Lahore & Bombay), then Rangoon, Burma and finally Japan (after 1945)

Arnold,
Richard Andrew Humfrey
R.A.H. Arnold

Son of Richard Howard Arnold (1891-1966), average adjuster, of Dinas Powis, and Gwen Humfrey (1887-).
Married (03.04.1948) Mary Margaret Hunter, daugter of Ellis Dudgeon Hunter, brewer, of Dunbar, East Lothian.

17.10.1920
Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales
-
26.10.2002
Leatherhead, Surrey

2nd Lt.	24.08.1940 [145702]
WS/Lt.	24.02.1942
T/Capt.	23.11.1942-13.07.1944
WS/Capt.	14.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Maj.	14.04.1944-13.07.1944
T/Maj.	14.07.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

Education: Westminster School (05.1934-04.1938).

24.08.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Officer Commanding, "A" Troop, No. 1 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit:
(06.1944)			Staff Officer Bombardment (SOB) with HQ 3rd Infantry Division (Operation Neptune, Normandy)
...	-	...	...

Association of Average Adjusters 1955-84, chairman 1970-1; Liveryman Worshipful Company of Shipwrights 1957, Court of Assistants 1979, Warden 1987, Prime Warden 1989.

Arnold-Baker,
Richard [Werner] Gaunt
R.G. Arnold-Baker

Changed his name from Werner Gaunt von Blumenthal by deed poll of 27.09.1938.

Eldest son of Prof. Baron Albrecht Werner von Blumenthal (1889-1945), and Alice Wilhelmine Hainsworth (1883-1978); adopted surname of mother's second husband, Percival Richard Arnold Baker (1875-1944), 1938.
Brother of Capt. Wolfgang Charles Werner Arnold-Baker.
Married 1st ((12?).1940, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Mary G. Norris ((03?).1914 - 10.07.1961), daughter of ... Norris, and ... Salmon; ... children (two sons?).
Married (12.01.1962, Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, Westminster district, London) 2nd Edna Honor Lawson ((06?).1913 - 05.01.1965), daughter of Henry Mayors Lawson, and Ethel Ono Willing, and widow of Lt.Col. Donald James Gordon-Dickson.
Married 3rd Athena Seitanides (died at Athens, Greece).
Residence: (1940s) Pipits Hill, Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey, (1960s) Harrogate.

26.07.1914
Berlin, Germany
-
07.2003
Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156821]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	01.01.1944
Capt.	? (reld 01.01.1949)
T/Maj.	01.01.1944
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

BSM

23.07.1948

German student, who became a naturalized British citizen, 12.01.1932.

1940	-	1946	served World War II (UK, North Africa, on attachment of US Army, Switzerland):
02.11.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
(04.1941)			Intelligence Officer, Intelligence Section, HQ Scottish Command (Edinburgh) (interrogated Rudolf Hess, who had flown to Scotland)
			served with MI6:
			was in charge of the Visa Department of the British Consul -General in Zurich (Switzerland) [having a staff of 4 SIS men]
			Section V (Counter-Espionage) representative at Bern (Switzerland)
(04.1944)			specially employed
01.01.1949	-	01.01.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Arnold-Baker,
Wolfgang Charles Werner
W.C.W. Arnold-Baker

Changed his name from Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal by deed poll of 27.09.1938

Second son of Prof. Baron Albrecht Werner von Blumenthal (1889-1945), and Alice Wilhelmine Hainsworth (1883-1978); adopted surname of mother's second husband, Percival Richard Arnold Baker (1875-1944), 1938.
Brother of Maj. Richard Gaunt Arnold-Baker.
Married (02.01.1943, St Jude's Church, Kensington, London) Edith May "Fanny" Woods (? - 25.11.2010), daughter of Ernest Henry & Edith Woods, of Liverpool; one son, one daughter.
Residence: (1940s) Pipits Hill, Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey.

25.06.1918
Berlin, Germany
-
06.06.2009
St Thomas' Hospital, London

Pte.	1940
L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	25.02.1941 [175843]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1942
T/Capt.	1943? (reld 1946)

	OBE	01.01.1966	Secretary, Nat. Assoc. of Local [Parish] Councils
	Hkn	19.03.1948	service in Norway

German student, who became a naturalized British citizen, 15.01.1932.
Education: Winchester College (Sergeant's (Culver Lea), 1932.3-1937.2)); Magdalen College, Oxford University (1937-1940; BA 1939, 3 Hist 1940). V. Herbert Smith Prize, German Speech, Ed. Wyk.

1941	-	1946	served World War II (UK, NW Europe Belgium 1944 & Norway 1945):
1940			served in the ranks, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
25.02.1941			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			commanded Prime Minister Winston Churchill's bodyguard
			transferred to Intelligence Corps
			served with MI6 (arrested Deputy Commandant of Auschwitz in Norway)

Barrister, academic & historian. Called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1948. Admty Bar, 1948-1952; Secretary, National Association of Local Councils, 1953-1978; Deputy Eastern Traffic Commissioner, 1978-1990. Editor, Road Law, 1992-1996. Member, Royal Commission on Common Lands, 1955-1958; Member European Committee, International Union of Local Authorities, 1960-1978; a Delegate to European Local Government Assembly, Strasbourg, 1960-1978. Gwylim Gibbons Award, Nuffield Coll., Oxford, 1959. Consultant Lecturer, since 1978, and Visiting Professor, since 1985, City University; occasional broadcaster.
Published: Norway (pamphlet), 1946; Everyman's Dictionary of Dates, 1954; Parish Administration, 1958; New Law and Practice of Parish Administration, 1966; The 5000 and the Power Tangle, 1967; The Local Government Act 1972, 1973; Local Council Administration, 1975, 4th edn 1993; The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, 1981; Practical Law for Arts Administrators, 1983, 3rd edn 1992; The Five Thousand and the Living Constitution, 1986; The Companion to British History, 1996; For He is an Englishman: Memoirs of a Prussian Nobleman (2007); many contributions to British and European local government and legal journals.

Arnold-Edwards,
Cuthbert
C. Arnold-Edwards (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberely J. Lindsay)

Son (with one brother) of John Arnold-Edwards, MD (1869-1947), and Helene Edith Pfeninger (1871-1964), of Spire Hollen, Godalming, Surrey.
Married (1938, Cairo, Egypt) Norah Gabbett Mulhallen (29.06.1908 - 28.04.1992), daughter of of Marshall Gabbett Mulhallen (1862-1943), and Martha Kelly (1876-1956), of Torquay, Devon; one son, one daughter.

27.04.1907
Manchester, Lancashire
-
23.05.1995
West Vancouver Care Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2nd Lt.	30.08.1926
Lt.	30.08.1929
RAOC Ordn.Offr. 4th cl.	30.09.1933-29.09.1936
Capt.	12.02.1936
Capt. & Ordn.Offr. 4th cl.	30.09.1936, seniority 30.09.1933
Maj. (& Ordn.Offr. 3rd cl. to 20.04.1944)	06.06.1939
A/Lt.Col. & Ordn.Offr. 2nd cl.	01.09.1940-30.11.1940
T/Lt.Col. & Ordn.Offr. 2nd cl.	01.12.1940-01.02.1942, 01.06.1942-09.02.1943
WS/Lt.Col. (& Ordn.Offr. 2nd cl. to 20.04.1944)	10.02.1943
A/Col. (& Ordn.Offr. 1st cl. to 20.04.1944)	10.08.1942-09.02.1943
T/Col. (& Ordn.Offr. 1st cl. to 20.04.1944)	10.02.1943-22.06.1943, 16.08.1943-22.08.1949, 14.09.1950-18.05.1951
Col.	19.05.1951
T/Brig.	20.02.1953-31.12.1956
Brig.	01.01.1957 (retd 16.01.1958)

OBE	16.04.1942	?
MID	01.04.1941	?
LM	10.07.1951	action date 02-12.42 [Department of the Army: General Orders No. 18 (April 4, 1951)]

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.

Education: Sedbergh; King William's College IOM (09.1920-12.1924); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1925-1926); MBIM (MIIA), jssc (1948), psc (1942).

30.08.1926			commissioned, The King's Regiment
1932	-	1933	Military College of Science
30.09.1936			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
12.05.1940	-	31.08.1940	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), ...
01.09.1940	-	31.07.1942	Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS), ...
02.02.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
01.08.1942	-	09.08.1942	Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ...
10.08.1942	-	30.04.1943	Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (DDOS), ...
16.08.1943	-	19.01.1945	Inspector, Ryal Army Ordnance Corps
20.01.1945	-	31.01.1946	Deputy Director of Clothing and Stores (DDCS), War Office
16.05.1946	-	25.08.1946	Commandant, ...
08.04.1948	-	05.12.1948	Commandant, ...
01.02.1949	-	21.08.1949	Commandant, ...
23.08.1949	-	03.09.1950	Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ...
14.09.1950	-	12.11.1951	Commandant, 3rd Brigade Aid Detachment
13.11.1951	-	03.02.1953	Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (DDOS), HQ 1 (GB) Corps, British Army of the Rhine
20.02.1953	-	17.02.1954	Commander, HQ Ammunition Organisation RAOC
01.03.1954	-	29.08.1956	Commander RAOC Training Centre
10.09.1956	-	(01.1957)	Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (DDOS), HQ Northern Command

Special representative in British Columbia of Montreal Trust Co., 1959. Director London Properties Ltd.

Arnsby,
Albert Edward
"Ted"
A.E. Arnsby (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen)

Son (with two sisters and three brothers) of Edmund "Ned" Arnsby (1867-1939), and Margaret Tamar Coughlan (1868-1910).

21.08.1902
Galway district, Ireland
-
28.01.1982
Napsbury Hospital, St Albans, Hertfordshire

SMI	?
2nd Lt.	03.07.1941 [195110]
WS/Lt.	03.07.1941
T/Capt.	05.03.1944-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.08.1949, seniority 11.02.1947
Maj.	03.07.1954 (reld 01.08.1956)

Hkn

19.03.1948

service in Norway

			joined the Irish Guards in 1916 at the age of 14; served till 1927 then transferred to serve in the ranks, Army Physical Training Corps
03.07.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
13.03.1943			transferred, Army Physical Training Corps
(06.1944)			Physical Training Officer, HQ 1st Airborne Division
01.08.1949	-	01.08.1956	short service commission

Arrowsmith,
Robert Langford
"Bob"
R.L. Arrowsmith

(06?).1906
Canterbury district, Kent
-
1988
West Sussex

2nd Lt.

01.10.1939 [101847] (reld 31.07.1945)

Education: Charterhouse School; Oxford University (1932).

			late Cadet, Charterhouse School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
01.10.1939			commissioned, General List - Junior Training Corps - Charterhouse School Contingent - Territorial Army

Schoolmaster.
Published: Butterflies Cricket Club, 1862-1962 (with others; 1962); Charterhouse register, June 1769-May 1872 (ed.; 1964); Kent (1972); The History Of The I Zingari (with Julian Warren Hill; 1982); A Charterhouse miscellany (1982).

Arter,
Sidney Cuthbert
S.C. Arter

Son (with two sisters) of Ivo Montague Arter (1880-1955), and Eleanor Sophia Cuthbert (1886-1980).
Married ((06?).1938, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Aline F. Fogwill (1907 - 1996); ... children (one son?).

29.04.1909
Harrow, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
(12?).1983
London

2nd Lt.	10.11.1939 [107130]
WS/Lt.	15.02.1940
T/Capt.	15.02.1940-16.12.1940
WS/Capt.	17.12.1940
T/Maj.	17.12.1940-21.10.1943
WS/Maj.	22.10.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Col.	22.07.1943-21.10.1943
T/Lt.Col.	22.10.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

OBE

01.02.1945

NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]

10.11.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	Assistant Director of Engineering Services (ADES), HQ 21st Army Group Works Directorate (NW Europe) (OBE)
25.08.1945	-	02.11.1945	Chief Engineer, HQ British Army of the Rhine

Arthur,
Alfred
A. Arthur (Photo courtesy of Mr James Harvey)

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	25.11.1942 [280164]
WS/Lt.	06.02.1943 (reld 01.03.1945)

14-15 St	-	-
VM	-	-
BWM	-	-
MID	1917	?
Def M	-	-

WW I			CQMS 15147 7th Battalion The Bedfordshire Regiment until 04.01.1918 where he was MiD in 1917; No. 5 Officer Training Battalion 04.01.1918-28.05.1918; 2nd Lt.; 28.05.1918-20.08.1918 3rd Battalion East Surrey Regiment; 21.08.1918-20.03.1919 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
25.11.1942			commissioned, Surrey Comm., Special List - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (for service with the Army Cadet Force)

Ascoli,
George Myles
G.M. Ascoli

Son (with one sister) of George Hugo Daniel Ascoli (1889-1924), and Muriel Phyllis Mandleberg (later Mrs Carroll-Marx) (1897-1986).
Married (13.11.1948, Denmark) Kirsten Helene Kruse, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs Kruse, of Gentofte, Denmark; three daughters.

04.06.1924
Hampstead district, London
-
01.12.1959
Middlesex Hospital, St Marylebone district, London W1 (formerly of Sevenoaks, Kent)
[Tunbridge Wells Crematorium]

2nd Lt.	26.10.1943 [298323]
2nd Lt.	01.04.1950, seniority 26.10.1943
Lt.	23.11.1950 (reld 01.12.1952)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; Admiralty No. 1869; 01.01.1938-(01.1939); did not complete training and thus not commissioned as a naval officer).

26.10.1943			commissioned, Special List (for service with Army Cadet Force) - County of London Comm. - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.04.1950			commissioned, General List - Territorial Army (Army Cadet Force, County of London)

Architect. ARIBA.

Ashburnham,
[Sir] Denny Reginald;
12th Baronet (cr. 1661), of Bromham, Sussex
D.R. Ashburnham

Only surviving son of Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 11th Bt, and Elfrida, daughter of late James Kirkley, JP, Cleadon Park, Co. Durham. Succeeded father 05.03.1953. Married (22.06.1946) Mary Frances, daughter of Major Robert Pascoe Mair, Wick, Udimore, Sussex; two daughters (one son deceased).

24.03.1916
-
21.06.1999
Guestling, Hastings, East Sussex

2nd Lt.	07.09.1940 [148577]
WS/Lt.	07.03.1942
T/Capt.	09.06.1944

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne

07.09.1940			commissioned into The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(07.1943)			Signals Officer, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicily)
(09.1944)			Motor Transport Officer (HQ Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (seaborne echelon for Arnhem)

Ashby,
Richard Thompson
R.T. Ashby (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Ashby)

Married (02.11.1945, Canterbury, Kent) Elizabeth Stuttard Sagar ((09?.1923 - ), daughter of Frank B. Sagar, and Lilian I. Stuttard; two daughters, two sons.

15.01.1909
York district, Yorkshire
-
15.09.1983
West Yorkshire

2nd Lt. TA	19.10.1931
2nd Lt.	30.01.1932, seniority 28.08.1930 [52881]
Lt.	28.08.1933
Capt.	28.08.1938
A/Maj.	22.12.1939-21.03.1940
T/Maj.	22.03.1940-08.03.1942, 21.09.1942-12.03.1944, 07.06.1944-16.02.1945, 11.05.1945-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 29.04.1952)

39-45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39-45	-	-
MID	08.07.1943	East Africa & Madgascar

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp

Education: Greshams; St. John's College, Cambridge (MA 1930; MA 1956); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

			served the Northwest Frontier of India, Ceylon, Africa, India, Australia, Normandy, Germany followed by various postings post-war in the UK:
19.10.1931			commissioned, General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
30.01.1932			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(06.1933)			5th Medium Brigade RA (Ambala)
(09.1935)	-	(10.1935)	6th Heavy Brigade RA (Lichfield)
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	20th Mountain Brigade (later: Regiment) RA (Kohat, then Quetta)
05.1939			obtained special certificate at the Army Signal School, Poona
21.06.1942	-	09.08.1942	Adjutant, ...
29.04.1952	-	15.01.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Bursar at Wycliffe College until 1972.

Ashby,
William
W. Ashby (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Ashby)

03.03.1910
-

A/Sgt.	03.03.1933 [3385034]
L/Cpl.	29.03.19334
Cpl.	08.03.1937
2nd Lt.	18.02.1940 [121418]
WS/Lt.	18.02.1940 (reld 24.02.1945; disability)
A/Capt.	06.11.1943-05.02.1944
T/Capt.	06.02.1944-25.09.1944
A/Maj.	25.06.1944-28.06.1944
Hon. Capt.	24.02.1945

39-45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39-45	-	-

03.03.1933			enlisted, The East Lancashire Regiment (London)
29.03.1934			1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment
21.12.1934	-	27.02.1935	served S.A.A.R.
09.01.1936	-	02.01.1937	served Egypte
20.10.1939	-	17.02.1940	168th Officer Cadet Training Unit (Bulford)
18.02.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
02.03.1940			Initial Training Company, The Queen's Royal Regiment
09.11.1940			seconded, HQ Auxiliary Units, Home Forces
10.11.1940			Scout Section Officer, The Queen's Royal Regiment
20.04.1943			13th (H) Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment
06.11.1943	-	19.06.1944	seconded as Adjutant, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment (Hallams; embarked for NW Europe 09.06.1944)
29.06.1944			70 HI Battalion Infantry Depot

Ashenhurst,
Charles Geoffrey
C.G. Ashenhurst

Married ...; two daughters, one son.

?
-
15.11.2007
Beechfield Manor Nursing Home, Shankill, Co. Dublin (formerly of
Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin)

2nd Lt.	23.07.1941 [195847]
WS/Lt.	10.07.1942
T/Capt.	10.07.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 27.06.1953)
Hon. Maj.	27.06.1953

23.07.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Ashton,
Frank Peter
F.P. Ashton

Son of George Francis Ashton (1891-1918), and Hilda Lavinia Josephine Caroline Mair (1894-1974).
Married (06.09.1939, Saint James, Muswell Hill, Haringey) Olive Mary Bigsby (04.11.1917 - 24.09.2002); two daughters.

28.02.1917
West Ham. Essex
-
23.02.1992
Great Mongeham, Deal, Kent

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	12.07.1939 [93120]
WS/Lt.	12.01.1941
A/Capt.	16.08.1941-15.11.1941
T/Capt.	16.11.1941-31.10.1943
WS/Capt.	01.11.1943
A/Maj.	01.08.1941-31.10.1943
T/Maj.	01.11.1943-(01.1946)
Lt.	16.06.1946, seniority 24.02.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946 (retd 29.10.1949; receiving a gratuity)
Maj.	04.04.1951
Hon. Maj.	29.10.1949 & 28.02.1967

MID

17.02.1944

services in the field

			served in the ranks, Honourable Artillery Company
12.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939	-	15.06.1945	mobilized TA
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
(06.1944)			Staff Officer Bombardment (SOB) with US 5th Corps (Operation Neptune, Normandy)
16.06.1945	-	29.10.1949	permanent commission
...	-	...	...
22.09.1953	-	28.02.1967	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Ashton,
Samuel Edgar
S.E. Ashton (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

(06?).1888
Manchester, Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
1967

Lt.Col.

01.11.1939 [25751]

OBE, TD

			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class II)
(1941)			8th (HD) Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment

Ashwell,
Bernard John
B.J. Ashwell

Married (12.06.1937) Eileen Mitchell Young (20.06.1908 - ), daughter of Charles Alexander Young (1882-1957), and Jeannie Mitchell (1879-1960).

04.10.1908
Chingford, Epping district, Essex
-
23.08.1988
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	19.02.1940 [118984]
WS/Lt.	05.12.1940
T/Capt.	05.12.1940-23.06.1941
WS/Capt.	24.06.1941
T/Maj.	24.06.1941-11.08.1944
WS/Maj.	12.08.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	12.08.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

	MC	29.11.1940	demolition party St Malo 17-20.06.1940 (British Expeditionary Force) [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

ARIBA.

19.02.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1940)			582 (Kent) Army Field Company, Royal Engineers (France) (MC)
05.09.1940	-	(04.1941)	a Staff Officer, Royal Engineers, HQ Eastern Command
07.11.1953	-	04.10.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Ashworth,
Henry Ingham
H.I. Ashworth

Son of Charles Hanley Ashworth (1880?-), and Edith Jane ...
Married (25.07.1931, Macclesfield district, Cheshire) Ella Needham (1905? - 24.02.2005); three daughters.

20.02.1907
Manchester, Lancashire
-
26.11.1991
Sydney, NSW, Australia

2nd Lt.	31.12.1941 [216482]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	24.01.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	07.02.1945-(04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	07.02.1945-(01.1946)

OBE	01.01.1962	New Year 62: as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, State of New South Wales
MID	05.04.1945	Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
MID	09.05.1946	Burma

Education: Manchester Grammar School (1921-1923); Manchester University (MA BArch).
Architect. FRIBA, PP, FRAIA, Hon. FRAIC, MAPI. Partner in firm Scarlett & Ashworth.

31.12.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Subsequently, he accepted the Chair of Architectural Design and History at the University of Sydney where he later became Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. In 1964, he joined the University of New South Wales from which he retired as emeritus professor in 1972. Ashworth was appointed to the Sydney Opera House Executive Committee in 1956 and became chairman of its Technical Advisory Committee. He was also chairman of the committee who assessed entries to an international competition for a design for the proposed opera house, thus giving him a leading role in choosing the winner.

Ashworth,
John Blackwood

Son of Lt.Col Hugh Stirling Ashworth (killed in action, 1917), Royal Sussex Regt, and Frances Lily Ashworth (later Mrs E.M. Ashworth).
Married (1944) Eileen Patricia, daughter of late
Major H.L. Gifford (Royal Ulster Rifles) and of Lady Gooch; one daughter.

07.12.1910
Horsham, Sussex
-
03.04.1994
Ilkley, West Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	15.04.1942-16.07.1943, 04.07.1944-24.02.1952
...	...
Brig.	13.04.1959 (retd 15.01.1965)

CBE	1962	?
DSO	21.12.1944	?
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	24.08.1944	?

Grand Officer, Order of House of Orange (1967) (The Netherlands)

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

28.08.1930			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment
...	-	...	...
18.12.1938	-	11.10.1941	Instructor, Royal Military College
12.10.1941	-	14.01.1942	Commandant JL School
17.07.1943	-	03.07.1944	Brigade Major
04.07.1944	-	10.1944?	Commanding Officer, 1st/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (wounded, DSO)
23.10.1944	-	17.10.1945	GSO1, War Office
			OC 4/5 Royal Sussex, 1945; OC 1st Royal Sussex, 1946; GSO1, Brit. Middle East Office, 1947; Assistant Military Secretary, War Office, 1948; OC 1st Royal Sussex, 1951; Commandant Joint School of Chemical Warfare, 1954; Commander 133rd Infantry Brigade (TA), 1957; Director of Military Training, War Office, 1959-62; Inspector of Boys' Training, War Office, 1962-65. ADC to the Queen, 1961-65.

Colonel, The Royal Sussex Regiment, 1963-1966; Dep. Col, The Queen's Regt (Royal Sussex), 1967-68. DL Sussex 1972-83. OStJ 1950.

Ashworth,
William
W. Ashworth (Photo courtesy of Pat Gariepy)

?
-

Suptdg.Clk.	?
Lt. QM	31.05.1940 [137601]
WS/Capt. QM	31.05.1943
Maj. QM	01.11.1947

	MBE	01.01.1948	New Year 48
	LSGCM	28.11.1947	-

31.05.1940

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Aslett,
Alfred Rimbault
A.R. Aslett

14.01.1901
-
15.05.1980
Cowfold

2nd Lt.	24.12.1920 [15528]
Lt.	24.12.1922
Capt.	01.04.1935
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	06.02.1942-02.06.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	23.08.1943
Lt.Col.	26.08.1945 (retd 09.02.1946)
A/Col.	03.06.1942-30.06.1942, 22.03.1943-22.08.1943
T/Col.	23.08.1943-08.02.1946
A/Brig.	03.06.1942-30.06.1942, 22.03.1943-22.08.1943
T/Brig.	23.08.1943-15.06.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	21.05.1945-15.06.1945
Hon. Brig.	09.02.1946

DSO	22.03.1945	?
MID	27.05.1941	?
MID	05.04.1945	?

24.12.1920			commissioned into the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
05.02.1926	-	03.02.1930	Adjutant, ...
03.02.1931	-	02.02.1935	Officer Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
21.10.1938	-	03.08.1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
24.10.1940	-	14.11.1941	Brigade Major, ... (specially employed)
03.06.1942 17.12.1942	- -	30.06.1942 05.01.1943	acting Commander, 16th Infantry Brigade (Ceylon)
21.05.1945	-	15.06.1945	acting General Officer Commanding, 36th Infantry Division (India)
29.07.1945	-	(31.8.1945)	Commander, 72nd Infantry Brigade (India)

Played rugby for England, 1926 & 1929.

Asprey,
James Frederick Courtney
J.F.C. Asprey

28.06.1920
-
10.1995
Henley, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	04.01.1942 [220946]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 30.11.1945; disability)
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	30.11.1945
RAF:
Wt.Offr.	01.02.1954 [4093458]
P/O	06.12.1956
F/O	?
F/Lt.	06.12.1959
Sq.Ldr.	01.01.1965 (retd 02.04.1966; own request)

04.01.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served with the Chindits in Burma
?	-	01.03.1951	Territorial Army (active list)
01.03.1951	-	27.02.1952	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
27.02.1952	-	05.12.1956	enlisted service in RAF
06.12.1956	-	02.04.1966	commissioned service in the RAF (Airfield Construction Branch) [1961 CO 5004 Airfield Construction Squadron, Aden]

Asquith,
Richard Warren
R.W.O. Asquith

20.07.1914
Halifax, Yorkshire
-
09.1988
Halifax, Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	13.07.1935 [65579]
Lt.	13.07.1938
Capt.	17.07.1939
T/Maj.	11.12.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	22.11.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.	01.05.1947
Maj.	20.07.1948, seniority 01.05.1947
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

	MC	> 04.1944 < 04.1946	?
	TD	12.12.1950	with 1st clasp

			late Cadet, Rydal School Contingent., Junior Division,. Officer Training Corps
13.07.1935			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - Territorial Army
13.07.1935	-	(01.1939)	4th Battalion (Territorial) The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Halifax)
< 11.1939			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
08.01.1951	-	20.07.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Asquith,
Robert Wills
R.W.O. Asquith

Last residence given as both Halifax, Yorkshire & London.

?
-
08.10.1963

2nd Lt.

18.06.1935

18.06.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
18.06.1935	-	(01.1937)	278th (5th West Riding) Battery, 70th (West Riding) Field Brigade RA (Halifax)
< 01.1939	-	(04.1946)	transferred, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class II)

Machine tool engineer.

Assael,
Samuel Sidney
G.W. Aston

?
-

2nd Lt.	01.02.1941 [317594]
WS/Capt.	01.12.1943 (reld 31.03.1946; on appointment to Southern Rhodesian Forces)
T/Maj.	03.07.1944-31.03.1946

01.02.1941

commissioned, Pioneer Corps - African Colonial Forces [emergency commission]

Assiter,
Bernard George
B.G. Assiter (Photo courtesy of Mr David S.C. Wilson)

Son of Harry Assiter, and Millicent Lovett.
Married ((09?).1948, Harrow district, Middlesex) Pamela L. Farquharson-Keith; one daughter.

24.02.1921
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
03.1993
West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire

Cadet	? [2880823]
2nd Lt.	22.08.1943 [300512]
WS/Lt.	22.02.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

?	-	22.08.1943	'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow
22.08.1943			commissioned, The Manchester Regiment [emergency commission]

Astell,
George Henry
G.H. Astell

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.04.1941 [189598]
WS/Lt.	25.10.1941
WS/Capt.	(1944?) (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	(1944)

04.01.1945

Burma

?	-	27.04.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.04.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
(1944)			seconded, Burma Rifles (Chindit force, Burma)
			possibly also served with airborne forces of the Indian Atmy

Aston,
Benjamin Gwilliam
"Baggy"
G.W. Aston

Son (with one brother and one sister) of James Edward Aston (1859-1919), and Lydia Gwilliam (1865-1917).
Married Mary Cummings (1912-); one son, one daughter.

05.05.1902
Broadwell, Lane End, Five Acres, Gloucestershire
-
1991
Glasgow, Scotland

2nd Lt.	11.01.1926 [34393]
Lt.	11.01.1929
Capt.	25.09.1936
T/Maj.	17.06.1942-10.04.1945
Maj.	11.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

19.08.1943

Staff, Glasgow Academy, 1925-... (Glasgow Academy Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps, 11.01.1926-...).

11.01.1926			commissioned, Officers Training Corps, General List - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
05.10.1940			transferred, The Devonshire Regiment - Territorial Army
1940	-	1945	home service:
05.10.1940	-	?	Infantry Training Centre, The Devonshire Regiment
?	-	?	instructor, 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
?	-	03.08.1941	instructor, 165th Officer Cadet Training Unit
1941	-	1944	8th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (posting initially deferred; ordered to join when fit)
1944	-	1944	Officer Commanding, Devonshire Boy [Company?], No. 14 Infantry Training Centre (Northampton) [posting cancelled and to remain with 8th Bn Dorsets]
1944	-	1944	6th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
1944	-	1945	No. 14 Infantry Training Centre (Northampton)
1946?	-	16.05.1953	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Aston,
Gerald William
G.W. Aston

Son of ... Aston, and ... Cox.
Married ((06?).1948, Sutton Coldfield district, Warwickshire) Barbara J. Ashdown; ... children (one daughter?).

16.07.1922
Tamworth district, Staffordshire
-
04.1985
Birmingham district, Warwickshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.04.1943 [271333]
WS/Lt.	10.10.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	06.06.1944-(04.1946)

MID

23.06.1945

Italy

10.04.1943

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Aston,
Michael

07.07.1923
-
(03?).1980
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.02.1943 [264646]
WS/Lt.	20.08.1943
A/Capt.	09.08.1946-14.09.1946, 16.11.1946-16.02.1947
T/Capt.	17.02.1947-09.05.1947, 03.07.1947-06.07.1950
Lt.	14.02.1948, seniority 07.01.1946
Capt.	07.07.1950
T/Maj.	15.08.1956-06.01.957
Maj.	07.07.1957 (retd 14.09.1972; disability)

Education: Repton; Staff College, Cambridge (psc)

05.1942			joined, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; served in the ranks for 283 days (chosen for training at a Officer Cadet Training Unit)
20.02.1943			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission to 13.02.1948]
			Platoon Commander, 4th Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Woodhall Spa)
05.1943 06.1944 09.1944 12.1944	- - -	09.1944 12.1944 05.1945	2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (UK [Bulford]) No.15 Platoon, B Company (Normandy; wounded) UK Ardennes & Germany
14.02.1948			transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery [permanent commission]
19.03.1958			transferred to the Intelligence Corps

Astor,
Hon. [Sir] John Jacob
"Jakie"
J.J. Astor

Youngest son (with three brothers and one sister) of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952), and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964), the first woman MP.
Brother of Capt. the Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor.
Married 1st (23.10.1944) Ana Inez "Chiquital" Carcano (marriage dissolved 1972; she died 1992), younger daughter of late Señor Dr Don Miguel Carcano, KCMG, KBE. and Stella de Morra; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1976) Susan Sheppard Eveleigh (marriage dissolved 1985), daughter of late Maj. Michael Eveleigh.
Married 3rd (1988) Marcia de Savary.

29.08.1918
Cliveden
-
10.09.2000
London

2nd Lt.	01.03.1939 [86211]
A/Lt.	04.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	30.11.1942
T/Maj.	30.11.1942-(04.1946)
Capt. RARO	01.03.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.03.1949

Kt	03.06.1978	HM's birthday 78: Chairman, Agricultural Research Council
MBE	01.02.1945	NW Europe
ERD	30.05.1989	-
LegH	?	?
CdeG	?	?

Education: Eton; New College, Oxford.

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Officer Training Corps
01.03.1939			commissioned, The Life Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
1940			joined GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")
?	-	(09.1945)	Officer Commanding, "J" Squadron, later "F" Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (attached SAS Brigade)
01.03.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Farmer and horserace breeder. Contested (C) Sutton Division of Plymouth, 1950; Member of Parliament (MP) (C) Sutton Divisinio of Plymouth, 1951-Sept. 1959. Parliamentary Private Secretary to Financial Secretary of Treasury, 1951-1952. Chairman: Governing Body of National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 1963-1968; Agricultural Research Council, 1968-1978; NEDC for Agricultural Industry, 1978-1983. Member: Horserace Totalisator Board, 1962-1968; Horserace Betting Levy Board, 1976-1980. Steward of Jockey Club, 1968-1971 and 1983-1985. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) 1962, Justice of the Peace (JP), Cambridgeshire, 1960-1974.

Astor,
Hon. Michael Langhorne
M.L. Astor

Third son (with three brothers and one sister) of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952), and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964), the first woman MP.
Brother of Maj. the Hon. John Jacob Astor, MBE.
Married 1st (28.11.1942, Westminster district, Middlesex) Barbara Mary Colonsay McNeill (marriage dissolved, 11.1961; she married 1962, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley, PC), only daughter of late Capt. Ronald Fitzroy Rous McNeill; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (12.07.1961, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Mrs Patricia David Pandora Jones (marriage dissolved 1968), daughter of late Sir Bede Clifford, GCMG, CB, MVO.
Married 3rd ((03?).1970, Chipping Norton district, Oxfordshire) Judith Caroline Traill Innes, daughter of Paul Innes; one son, one daughter.

10.04.1916
London
-
28.02.1980
Chipping Norton district, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	05.07.1937 [72230]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Lt.	11.04.1945
T/Capt.	02.01.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	?

Education: Eton; New College, Oxford.

05.07.1937			commissioned, General List - University Candidates - Territorial Army
17.05.1939			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (Berkshire Yeomanry)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	06.1945	GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")
(04.1946)			Unemployed List
?	-	10.04.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

MP (C) Eastern Division of Surrey, 1945-1951. Chairman, The London Library; Member, Arts Council, 1968-1971. Member Executive, National Trust, 1978-.
Published: Tribal feeling (1963; autobiography); Brand (1967; novel).

Atcherley,
[Sir] Harold Winter
H.W. Atcherley

Son of Lewis William Richard Winter Atcherley (1884-1970), and Maude Lester Nash (1885-1949), of Kingswood, Surrey.
Married 1st (20.07.1946, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London; marriage dissolved 1990) Anita Helen Leslie ((03?).1921 - ), youngest daughter of Ronald Leslie, and Marjorie Sybil Hall, of London SW1 & Whitchurch, Pangbourne, and widow of S.Lt. William Donald Heath Eves, RN (1920-1942); one son, two daughters. Anita Atcherley remarried (1990) Maj. Richard Francis Layard Dowbiggin.
Married 2nd (1990) Mrs Elke Jessett Langbehn (died 11.10.2004), daughter of late Dr Carl Langbehn.
Married 3rd (2005) Mrs Sarah Mordant.

30.08.1918
-

2nd Lt.	21.09.1940
WS/Lt.	12.07.1941 Reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	12.07.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

1977

Empress Leopoldina Medal (Brazil), 1958

Education: Gresham's School; Heidelberg University; Geneva University.
Joined Royal Dutch Shell Group, 1937.

1939			joined Queen's Westminster Rifles
21.09.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
1940?	-	1942	served 18th Infantry Division (Singapore) (captured)
1942	-	1945	POW in Japanese captivity

Rejoined Royal Dutch Shell Group, 1946: served Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Argentina, Brazil, 1946-1959. Personnel Coordinator, Royal Dutch Shell Group, 1964-1970, retired. Recruitment Advisor to Ministry of Defence, 1970-1971. Chairman, Tyzack & Partners, 1979-1985; Director, British Home Stores Ltd, 1973-1987. Chairman: Armed Forces Pay Review Body, 1971-1982; Police Negotiating Board, 1983-1986 (Depury Chairman, 1982); Member: Top Salaries Review Body, 1971-1987; National Staff Committee for Nurses and Midwives, 1973-1977; Committee of Inquiry into Pay and Related Conditions of Service of Nurses, 1974; Committee of Inquiry into Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities, 1977. Vice-Chairman, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, 1987-1990; Member Management Committee, Suffolk Rural Housing Association, 1984-. Chairman: Suffolk and North Essex Branch, European Movement, since 1995; Aldeburgh Foundation, 1989-1994 (Deputy Chairman, 1988-1989); Toynbee Hall, 1985-1990 (Member, Management Committee, 1979-1990).

Atherton,
R V
R.V. Atherton

?
-
?

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

?			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...

Atkinson,
Bernard Tryfan
B.T. Atkinson

Son of John Asplin, and Dorothy Stephenson.
Changed surname by deed poll of 06.04.1946 from Asplin to Atkinson [Army service under surname Atkinson].
Married (04.1949, St Lawrence Anglican Church, Brundall, Acle district, Norfolk) Vera Margaret Edwards; ... children (one daughter?).

12.12.1921
Carnarvon district, Merionethshire
-
28.11.2009
Ilkeston, Erewash district, Derbyshire

2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [201996]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
A/Capt.	?

			served in the ranks, The King's Rifles
			Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.08.1941			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry [emergency commission]
			served in India & Burma

Atkinson,
James Edward Macartney
"Jimmie"
R.H. Atkinson

Son of ... Atkinson, and ... Macartney.
Married (30.05.1945, Royal Hospital Chapel, Chelsea, London) Heather Anne Young.

(09?).1912
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
1997
Edinburgh, Scotland

2nd Lt.	12.06.1939 [92677]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Education: Loretto (Summer Term 1926-July 1930; VI, Prizeman, Shooting, Sgt. OTC).
Paper manufacturer. Industrial Safety Officer, J.A. Weir Ltd., Alloa.

			late Cadet Serjeant, Loretto School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.06.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1940	-	1945?	captured; POW (No. 977) in German captivity (Oflag VII-C, Laufen, Bayern (1940), later Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern) [Devised Scottish dance "The Reel of the 51st Division", originally called "The 51st Country Dance (Laufen Reel)" during the winter of 1940 with Lt.Col. T.H. Hunter, RASC & Lt. A.P.H. Oliver, Seaforth Highlanders. Original tune was composed by Lt. J.H. Ross, Seaforth Highlanders.]
?	-	29.09.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] (Hon. Lt.)

Atkinson,
Leonard
L. Atkinson

Son of Maj. John Edward Atkinson (1879-), formerly of 3rd The King's Own Hussars, RAC, and of Elizabeth Joyce Alexander, of Kemerton, Worcestershire.
His brothers Lt. Robert Norman Atkinson, Parachute Regiment, and Capt. John Surtees Atkinson, Indian Army, also fell.

(06?).1923
Hexham district, Northumberland
-
08.11.1944
[age 21]
[Meldola War Cemetery, Italy, I.E.10]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.06.1943 [281810]
WS/Lt.	?

08.03.1945

Italy

26.06.1943

commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]

Atkinson,
Richard Henry
R.H. Atkinson

?
-

2nd Lt.	17.07.1943 [288169]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

17.07.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
02.07.1944			transferred, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

Atkinson,
Robert Hemingway
R.H. Atkinson

Son of Robert and Sara Ann Atkinson.

29.12.1893
Scarborough district, Yorkshire
-
(06?).1974
Scarborough district, North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	05.07.1940 [139183]
WS/Lt.	16.08.1941
WS/Maj.	?
Maj.	01.10.1948, seniority 08.07.1946 (reld 01.04.1957)
T/Col.	(1947)
Hon. Col.	01.04.1957

05.07.1940			commissioned, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
05.03.1941			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch)
(1947)			HQ Southern Command (Poona, India)
01.10.1948	-	01.04.1951	short service commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
01.04.1951	-	01.04.1957	transferred, General List

Atkinson,
Robert Hughes
R.H. Atkinson

?
-

2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [179940]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

29.03.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Atkinson,
Robert Norman
R.N. Atkinson

Son of Maj. John Edward Atkinson (1879-), formerly of 3rd The King's Own Hussars, RAC, and of Elizabeth Joyce Alexander, of Kemerton, Worcestershire.
His brothers Lt. Leonard Atkinson, South Wales Borderers, and Capt. John Surtees Atkinson, Indian Army, also fell.

(09?).1921
Hexham district, Northumberland
-
07.07.1944
[age 23]
[Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France, IIIA.L.1]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.03.1942 [228433]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

Education: BA.

07.03.1942			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry [emergency commission]
23.10.1943			transferred, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
?	-	07.07.1944	7th Battalion The Parachute Regiment

Atkinson,
Rodham Home
R.H. Atkinson

Son of ... Atkinson, and ... Cook.

09.04.1913
Bucklow district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
(12?).1971
Southwark district, London

SQMS	?
2nd Lt.	18.11.1940 [154778]
WS/Lt.	18.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	18.02.1942-(04.1946)

			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps
18.11.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
22.03.1941			transferred, Army Catering Corps

Attewell,
John Herbert
J.H. Attewell

Son of ... Attewell, and ... Templeman.

13.04.1917
Basford district, Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire
-
10.1997
Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire

2nd Lt.	29.12.1937 [73828]
WS/Lt.	01.04.1940
T/Capt.	22.03.1945
Capt.	?

	TD	21.04.1950	-
	BK	24.04.1946	*

* date of Dutch Royal Decree

29.12.1937			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
29.12.1937	-	(01.1939)	240th (Nottinghamshire Royal Horse Artillery) Battery, 60th (North Midland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) (Nottingham)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.05.1957	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Aubrey,
Herbert Arthur Reginald
H.A.R. Aubrey

Son of J.B. and F.G. Aubrey.
Married ((03?).1920, Steyning district, Sussex) Marion Houghton, daughter of late J. Brooke Houghton; one daughter.

30.07.1883
-
22.11.1954
[Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk ?]

2nd Lt.	20.10.1902 [864]
Maj.	?
Lt.Col.	11.02.1930 (half-pay ...)
Col.	11.02.1934 (retd 05.04.1938) (recalled 1940?) (reverted to retd 12.08.1943)
T/Brig.	24.11.1937-...
Hon. Brig.	05.04.1938
A/Brig.	07.10.1940-...

	OBE	1919	?
	MC	1915	?

Education: privately; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

20.10.1902			commissioned into The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
01.05.1919		29.12.1919	Staff Officer, 1st Class (Air), Air Ministry [as Squadron Leader]
30.12.1919	-	?	Staff Officer, 2nd Class (Q), Air Ministry [as Squadron Leader]
1930	-	1934	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
05.04.1934	-	05.04.1938	Commander, 146th (1st West Riding) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army
05.04.1938		12.08.1943	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
07.10.1940	-	13.05.1941	Commander, 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) (UK)
1941	-	1945	Commander North West London SubDistrict

Auchinleck,
Sir Claude John Eyre

see:

Indian Army

Auger,
Frank Lewis
F.L. Auger

Son of ... Auger, and ... Houghton.
Married ((12?).1946, Wokingham district, Berkshire / Wiltshire) ... Williams.

(06?).1912
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
2007

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [170679]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942
A/Capt.	?

15.02.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

August,
Robert George
R.G. August

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Charles Sydney August (1879-1945), and Selina Keene (1883-1968).
Married ((12?).1932, Amesbury district, Wiltshire) Lilian Smith (08.02.1914 - 01.03.1987); three daughters.

08.05.1905
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
17.07.1991
Doncaster district, South Yorkshire

CQMS	?
Lt. (Technical Maintenance Officer)	25.09.1941 [211749]
WS/Capt. (TMO)	25.09.1944
Capt. QM	19.08.1946, seniority 25.09.1944
Maj. QM	24.05.1952 (reld 19.08.1958)
Hon. Maj. QM	19.08.1958

25.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
19.08.1946			short service commission

Austen,
Amyas Francis Allan
F.L. Auger

Married Betty Martin.

11.12.1917
-
05.03.2007
Grassington North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	30.06.1939, seniority 27.01.1938 [96385]
...	....
T/Maj.	11.08.1944-06.06.1949, 10.01.1951-26.01.1951
Maj.	27.01.1951 (retd 11.12.1974)

13.12.1945

Education: BA.

30.06.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps

Austin,
Henry Christopher Wentworth
"Kit"
H.C.W. Austin (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Austin)

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Robert Gordon Lefroy Austin (1871-1958), and Marie Kathleen O'Connor (1882-1975).
Married 1st (1947; divorced 1951) Eve Stewart (née Drunsfield) (1910 - 1987); one daughter. Eve Austin remarried James Hollingshead, who had emigrated from Britain in 1950.
Married 2nd (1953; divorced 1966) Joan Gertrude Stucke (1926 - 2014); two daughters, one son.

02.04.1913
Pretoria, South Africa
-
01.06.1982
Cape Town, South Africa

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.08.1940 [140974]
WS/Lt.	03.02.1942 (reld 03.03.1946)
Hon. Lt.	03.03.1946

Educated at his father's school, PTS and Michael House.
Worked in the mines.

			141st Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Engineers
03.08.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in London, East Africa, India and Sri Lanka

Farmed at Dwarsriviershoek in Stellenbosch from 1955. Moved after second divorce to Cape Town.

Austin,
James
J. Austin (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Austin)

Married Betty Austin; two sons, one daughter.

1911
-
1969

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.09.1941 [204862]
WS/Lt.	25.09.1942
T/Capt.	25.09.1942-31.01.1944
WS/Capt.	01.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Maj.	01.11.1943-31.01.1944
T/Maj.	01.02.1944-(04.1946)

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

13.09.1941

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Austin,
William Thomas Frederick
W.T.F. Austin (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

01.02.1920
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186309]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 21.04.1944; ill-health)
Maj.	09.04.1974
Lt.Col.	09.07.1981

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

Avison,
John Trafford
"Jack"
J.T. Avison

Son of Matthew Avison (1850-1914), railway official, and Emma Ann Trafford (1857-1915).
Married (14.02.1916, Christ Church, Holborn, Middlesex) Eva Winifred Mary Gill (27.12.1888 - (09?).1960), daughter of John Hamblet Gill, antique dealer; one child?.

12.08.1888
Kingston upon Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
16.07.1963
Hellingly Hospital, Sussex (formerly of Byfleet, Surrey)

2nd Lt.	01.05.1911 [16606]
Lt.	01.10.1912
Capt.	21.01.1916 (reld 24.04.1922)
Hon. Maj.	24.04.1922
Lt.	26.08.1939
WS/Capt.	01.12.1939
T/Maj.	01.12.1939-18.12.1942
WS/Maj.	19.12.1942 (reld 21.08.1945)
A/Lt.Col.	19.09.1942-18.12.1942
T/Lt.Col.	19.12.1942-(07.1944)
local Col.	01.02.1944-(07.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.	21.08.1945

	OBE	26.12.1922	military operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles
	BSM	23.07.1948	liaison with US forces

01.05.1911			commissioned, 8th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) - Territorial Army
26.08.1939			Special List - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
19.09.1942	-	04.1944	British Liaison and Security Officer, office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (Intelligence), European Theater of Operations

Awdry,
John
J. Awdry

Son of Walter Robert Awdry (who was the son of the Rev. Charles Roston Eridge Awdry, author of the Thomas the Tank Engine book series), and Mabel L. Thring.

24.12.1918
-
[1990 still alive]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.08.1938 [77675]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	01.06.1940-31.08.1940
T/Capt.	01.09.1940-31.03.1941, 01.11.1941-11.03.1943, 11.09.1943-01.10.1945
WS/Capt.	02.10.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	02.07.1945-01.10.1945
T/Maj.	02.10.1945-24.08.1951
Maj.	25.08.1951
local Lt.Col.	04.10.1953-20.05.1955, 01.08.1956-(02.1957)
Lt.Col.	11.05.1959 (retd 01.12.1962)

MID

07.01.1949

Palestine 47

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

25.08.1938			commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Catterick Camp)
...	-	...	...
(1947)			6th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Palestine)
22.11.1958			transferred, The Parachute Regiment
1950s			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment

Aylmer,
John Anthony
"Tony"
J.A. Aylmer

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Maj. John Wyndham Aylmer, MC, Irish Dragoon Guards (1889-1953), and Edith Margaret Loder (1893-1964), of Courtown House, Co. Kildare..
Married (16.09.1961) Shaunagh Christine Guinness ((06?).1934 - 12.08.2010), daughter of Richard Smyth Guinness, and Esme Patricia Chapman; one son, two daughters.

07.10.1925
Dublin, Ireland
-
25.01.2022
Isle of Wight

2nd Lt.	21.07.1944 [324878]
WS/Lt.	21.01.1945
2nd Lt.	25.10.1946, seniority 07.10.1946
Lt.	01.11.1947
T/Capt.	11.09.1947-06.10.1952
Capt.	07.10.1952
T/Maj.	14.08.1954-06.10.1959
Maj.	07.10.1959
Lt.Col.	07.02.1966
Col.	30.06.1972 (retd 07.10.1980)

Education: Wellington College (1938.3-1942.2; Dormitory Prefect, Talbot); jssc (US) (1962), nadc (1972), psc (1957).

09.1943			served in the ranks, Irish Guards (for 316 days)
			Mons Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.07.1944			commissioned, Irish Guards [emergency commission to 24.10.1946]
02.1945	-	1945	3rd Battalion Irish Guards (Germany)
			Staff Officer, HQ 32nd Infantry Brigade
25.10.1946			permanent commission
			instructor, Pirbright
1947	-	1948	company officer, 1st Battalion Irish Guards (Palestine)
19.02.1950	-	07.05.1951	ADC to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command (Lt.Gen. Sir Gerald Templer)
			Adjutant, 1st Battalion Irish Guards (BAOR)
01.03.1957	-	23.02.1959	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), HQ ... Infantry Division
04.01.1960	-	21.01.1962	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), Regimental HQ, Irish Guards
14.05.1964	-	16.07.1965	Military Assistant to the Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten of Burma
17.07.1965	-	13.01.1966	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ...
1966			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Irish Guards (Aden)
23.01.1969	-	11.06.1972	Officer Commanding Regiment, Regimental District Irish Guards
21.03.1973	-	14.06.1975	Deputy Chief, Executive Branch, Operations Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE)
16.07.1975	-	07.12.1976	Colonel, Army HQ, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)

Worked in Treasury Department, Conservative Central Office in London, 1980-1992. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for the Isle of Wight, 1994-2000.

Ayton,
Philip Atterbury
P.A. Ayton

Son of Sydney Harry Ayton, and Elsie Alice Foster, of Eastbourne, Sussex.

(09?).1921
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
26.12.1943
(DOW) [age 22]
[Dartmouth (Longcross) Cemetery, Devon, G.136]

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941 [184637]
WS/Lt.	?
T/Capt.	?

	MID	03.08.1944	gallant & distinguished services in the field [posthumously]
?	CdeG?	?	? [posthumously]

26.04.1941			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
			No. 2 Special Boat Squadron (died of wounds received during the raid on Petit Port, Sark, Channel Islands (Operation Hardtack 28))

Azzopardi,
Michael F
M.F. Azzopardi

?
-
1944 ?
Warwick district, Warwickshire ?
[age 54 ?]

2nd Lt.

02.01.1942

commissioned, The King's Own Malta Regiment - Malta Territorial Force

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