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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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A.H.G. Barton to J.K. Best

Barton,
Anthony Hamilton Gerald
"Tony"
A.H.G. Barton

Son of Lt.Col. Richard Lionel Barton, DSO (1875-1942), and Isobel Violet Leonore Gardiner (born 1895).
Brother of Cdr. Denys Evelyn Barton, MVO, DSC, RN.
Married (19.09.1949) Stella Villiers-Stuart (born 25.03.1918), widow of Sq.Ldr. Donald Maitland Wellings, DFC, RAF; one son, one daughter.
Residence (1945): Sheringham, Norfolk.

24.02.1916
-
02.2003
Chichester, Sussex

2nd Lt.	30.01.1936 [67041]
Lt.	30.01.1939
A/Capt.	30.10.1939-29.01.1940
T/Capt.	30.01.1940-14.11.1940
WS/Capt.	15.11.1940
Capt.	30.10.1944
A/Maj.	15.08.1940-14.11.1940
T/Maj.	15.11.1940-20.01.1941, 30.09.1942-19.01.1947, 03.02.1947-29.01.1949
Maj.	30.01.1949
Lt.Col.	30.11.1957, seniority 29.04.1957 (supernumerary 29.04.1960) (retd 17.09.1962)

12.07.1945

Burma *

* From a forward post Major Barton controlled the fire of the whole Corps artillery group during the Irrawaddy crossing, and it was largely due to his skill that repeated counterattacks were repulsed.

Education: Elstree School; Harrow School

30.01.1936			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
30.01.1936	-	(1945)	10th Field Brigade RA, from c. 1938: 10th Field Regiment RA (pre-war at Deepcut, Surrey; served in Burma)
13.02.1940	-	28.07.1940	Adjutant
(04.1944)			Battery Commander

Barton,
John Henry Edward *

* Otherwise known as: Barton, Henry John Edward.
Son of ... Barton, and ... Wright.
Married ((03?).1946, Chanctonbury district, Sussex) Freda M. Hills.

(09?).1924
Brighton district, Sussex
-

Cadet	? [14381955]
2nd Lt.	16.01.1944 [307311]
WS/Lt.	16.07.1944 (reld > 04.1947)

16.01.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry

Barton,
R T

?
?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.10.1943
WS/Lt.	06.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

06.10.1943

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Barton,
Robert Treherne

Son of Tom Treherne Barton (1873-1950), and Elsie Dorothy Bell.
Married ((12?).1938, Wandsworth district, London) Jean Kathleen Burton, of Battersea, London.

(06?).1912
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
29.05.1940
(KIA) [age 28]
[De Panne Communal Cemetery, Belgium, plot 2, row A, grave 20]

2nd Lt.	09.10.1935 [65985]
Lt.	09.10.1938

MID

1940

09.10.1935			commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
?	-	29.05.1940	1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment

Barttelot,
Sir Walter de Stopham;
4th Baronet
W. de S. Barttelot

Son of Lt.Col. Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, DSO, 3rd Bt., Coldstream Guards, and of Lady Bamelot (nee Angrove).
Married Sarah Patricia Barttelot (née Ravenscroft) (11.09.1914 - 14.01.1998), of Stopham, Sussex, daughter of Lt.Col. Herbert Valentine Ravenscroft (1868-1952), and Helen Maclean, of Storrington, Sussex; two sons. Lady Barttelot remarried (1965) Lt.Cdr. Nigel James Walter Barttelot, RN (1911-2002).

27.10.1904
-
16.08.1944
(KIA) [age 39]
[St. Charles de Percy War Cemetery, Calvados, France, XI.A.12]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1924 [30663]
Lt.	27.08.1926
Capt.	01.02.1934
T/Maj.	23.05.1940
Maj.	27.08.1941
Lt.Col.	21.11.1941
A/Brig.	04.08.1944

	DSO	21.12.1944	?
	MID	?	?

Education: psc

27.08.1924			commissioned, Coldstream Guards
03.02.1931	-	02.02.1934	Adjutant, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
(1937)			Captain, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards
15.02.1940			Brigade Major, 24th Infantry Brigade
23.05.1940			General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Bodoforce (Norway)
05.07.1940			Brigade Major, 1st Guards Brigade
21.11.1941			General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ Scottish Command
03.03.1942			Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
14.09.1942			Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion Coldstream Guards
26.07.1943	-	03.08.1944	Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards
03.08.1944	-	16.08.1944	Commander, 6th Guards Tank Brigade (killed in action, France)

Bashford,
Arthur Oliver

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

17.04.1903
Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
(12?).1981
Ashford district, Kent

A/Garrison Sgt.Maj.	?
Lt. QM	12.08.1942 [241295] (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
A/Capt. QM	02.10.1943-01.01.1944
T/Capt. QM	02.01.1944-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

12.08.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
02.10.1943	-	(07.1945)	a General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) on the staff of the Director, Royal Armoured Corps, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office

Bass,
George

Son of ... Bass, and ... Withey.

01.12.1923
Bethnal Green district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
12.2005
Tower Hamlets district, London

Cadet	? [T/207110]
2nd Lt.	27.11.1943 [302415] (reld > 04.1946)

27.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transferred, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
26.06.1944	-	(09.1944)	Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Bass,
George Edward
G.E. Bass

Son of ... Bass, and ... Berry.
Married (01.08.1938, Parish Church, South Farnborough, Southampton) Ellen Louisa Beacham (divorced); one son.

03.03.1912
Bromley district, London
-
02.1993
Birkenhead district, Cheshire

L/Cpl.	?
WS/RQMS	?
Lt. (QM)	23.12.1942 [279607]
WS/Capt. (QM)	23.12.1945
Capt.	01.11.1946, seniority 23.12.1945
T/Maj.	?
Maj.	23.12.1955 (reld 03.03.1957)

LSGCM

15.04.1949

[qualification date 10.09.1947]

(1936)	-	(1939)	served in the ranks, 2nd Battalion The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (Blenheim Barracks, Marlborough Lines, then Palestine)
23.12.1942			commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission to 01.11.1946]
01.11.1946			short service commission
late 1940s			served at Cyprus
01.11.1956	-	03.03.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Class III (Employed List 4)

Bastable,
John Daniel Langford
J.D.L. Bastable

Son of John Daniel Bastable, and Amy Augusta Haxby.

04.06.1916
Carliisle district, Cumbria
-
05.1993
Richmond district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	01.01.1938 [73866]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld 24.01.1942)
RAFVR:
P/O (prob)	21.02.1942 [117669]
(WS) F/O	21.02.1943
(WS) F/Lt.	21.02.1944

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, St. Bees School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.01.1938			commissioned, 5th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1940)			9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)
21.02.1942			commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

Solicitor (removed from Roll of Solicitors, 1990).

Bastin,
George Edward Restalic
G.E.R. Bastin

14.10.1902
St Thomas, Devon
-
02.08.1960
Fleet, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	29.08.1923 [26948]
Maj.	29.08.1940
WS/Lt.Col.	14.12.1944
T/Brig.	09.07.1945-09.12.1945, ...
Maj.Gen.	16.04.1954

CBE	01.01.1955	New Year 55
OBE	18.02.1943	?
MID	30.12.1941	?
MID	05.04.1945	?
MID	09.05.1946	?

Education: idc, psc

29.08.1923			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
09.01.1945	-	08.06.1945	Commander, .. Brigade
09.06.1945	-	24.07.1945	Commander, 29th Infantry Brigade (India)
25.07.1945	-	24.08.1945	Brigadier General Staff, 14th Army
25.01.1946	-	14.01.1948	Brigadier in charge of Administration, Italy
10.06.1954	-	19.06.1956	Major-General in charge of Administration, GHQ, Middle East Land Forces
09.09.1956	-	(02.1957)	DWD, War Office
11.1959	-	02.08.1960	Assistant MasterGeneral of the Ordnance (deceased)

Bastyan,
Sir Edric Montague
E.M. Bastyan

05.04.1903
West Derby, Lancashire
-
06.10.1980
North Adelaide, South Australia

2nd Lt.	30.08.1923 [27151]
Maj.	30.08.1940
WS/Lt.Col.	13.11.1942
Col.	19.07.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	03.12.1944-02.12.1945
Maj.Gen.	26.01.1948, seniority 13.04.1946
Lt.Gen.	05.06.1957 (retd 30.08.1960)

KCMG	1962	?
KCVO	1963	?
KBE	1957	?
CB	31.08.1944	?
CBE	06.01.1944	?
OBE	09.09.1942	?
MID	01.04.1941	?

30.08.1923			commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters
			Capt, West Yorkshire Regt 1935; Staff College, Camberley 1936-1937; Royal Irish Fusiliers 1937; served in Palestine 1938-1939
11.11.1939	-	17.02.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Palestine & Trans-Jordan
19.02.1940	-	28.06.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) [Instructor], Middle East
09.07.1941	-	12.05.1942	Assistant Quarter-Master General (Q) (P), Middle East
13.05.1942	-	05.10.1942	Deputy Director Higher Commander's Course
05.10.1942	-	08.01.1944	Brigadier "Q", Middle East
09.01.1944	-	02.12.1944	Deputy Adjutant & Quarter-Master General, 8th Army (North Africa and Italy)
03.12.1944	-	28.02.1946	Major-General in charge of Administration (MGA), Allied Land Forces, South East Asia (ALFSEA)
1946			Imperial Defence College
1946	-	1948	in charge of British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany
			Committee on Army's Administration services
1949			War Office
1949	-	1950	Chief of Staff, Eastern Command
1950	-	1952	Director of Staff Duties, War Office
1952	-	1955	Commander 53 (Welsh) Infantry Div (Territorial Army) and Mid West District
1955	-	1957	Vice Adjutant General, War Office
1957	-	1960	Commander, British Forces, Hong Kong

Governor of South Australia 1961-1968; Governor of Tasmania 1968-1974.

Bates,
[Sir] Geoffrey Voltelin;
5th Baronet (cr. 1880)
G.V. Bates

Son of Major Cecil Robert Bates, DSO, MC (3rd son of 2nd Bt) and Hylda, daughter of Sir James Heath,
1st Bt. Succeeded uncle, 16.10.1946. Married 1st (1945) Kitty Kendall Lane (died 1956); two sons. Married 2nd (1957) Olivia Gwyneth Zoë (died 1969) daughter of Capt. Hon. R.O. FitzRoy (later 2nd Viscount Daventry); one daughter (and one daughter deceased). Married 3rd (1971) Mrs Juliet Eleanor Hugolyn WhitelockeWinter, widow of Edward Colin Winter and daughter of late Comdr G.C.A. Whitelocke, RN retd, and Mrs S.H. Whitelocke.

02.10.1921
Tattenhall, Cheshire
-
13.02.2005
Gyrn Castle, Holywell, Clwyd

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.10.1941 [214510]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt. TA	20.09.1950, seniority 20.10.1944
Capt. TA	10.04.1953
Maj. TA	01.03.1956

05.11.1942

operations at Hemlimat, Egypt

Education: Radley School

25.10.1941			commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
1941	-	1944?	8th King's Royal Irish Hussars (Western Desert, NW Europe)
1944?	-	02.07.1945	ADC to General Sir Neil Ritchie, Commander of 12th Corps
02.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	ADC to Lt.Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command (Edinburgh)
20.09.1950	-	12.07.1957	transferred to the Cheshire Yeomanry - Territorial Army
12.07.1957	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

After demobilisation, he took up a partnership with the ship owners Edward Bates & Sons, but following the death, in 1957, of another uncle, he moved, with his family, to Gyrn Castle, Holywell, Clwyd, where he succeeded in developing the farming, fishing and shooting potential of an estate much reduced in size by death duties. He also held a number of directorships, including that of the Globe Insurance Company. High Sheriff, Flintshire, 1969.

Bates,
Ralph Hilary
R.H. Bates

12.01.1914
-
(09?).1969
Luton district, Bedfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.04.1941 [184402]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

?	-	19.04.1941	Officer and Cadet Training Centre, RASC
19.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			seconded, Royal Indian Army Service Corps

Bates,
Ronald
R. Bates

Married; ... children (one daughter?).

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [177726]
WS/Lt.	15.09.1942
A/Maj. ?	? (reld 1947)

15.03.1941			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission]
			probably attached to the Indian Army at Jansi (8th Punjab Regiment?)

Batley,
Robert
R. Batley (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Williams)

17.04.1902
Hingham, Forehoe district, Norfolk
-
(06?).1970
Norwich district, Norfolk

Wt.Offr. Class II	?
Lt.	12.03.1941 [175992]
T/Capt.	27.10.1942-04.10.1945
WS/Capt.	05.10.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	05.10.1945-(08.1946)

			3rd (Horse[d]) Cavalry Training Regiment
12.03.1941			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]

Battams,
Reginald Clare

see:

Indian Army officers' section

Batten,
John Henry Beardmore
J.H.B. Batten

Only son of Lt.Col. John Beardmore Batten, DSO, of Avonsleigh, Pennington, Lymington.
Married 1st (27.07.1939, Brompton Oratory, Kensington district, London) Hope Madden (08.10.1914 - 09.2001), third daughter of Adm. of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Madden, 1st Bt., GCB, OM, and Constance Winifred Cayzer, of Broadstone, Forest Row; one son.
Married 2nd (18.12.1947, Westminster district, London) Elizabeth Anne Stirling Stuart.
Married 3rd ((03?).1963, Maldon district, Essex) Chiquita G. Stewart.

07.04.1913
-
09.1990
Chelmsford district, Essex

2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58093]
Lt.	02.02.1936 (reld 20.11.1937)
Lt.	02.09.1939, seniority 15.11.1937
WS/Capt.	23.01.1942
Capt.	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	?

MID

20.12.1940

Education: Cheltenham College (01.1927-07.1931; Newick House); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1931-1933).

02.02.1933	-	20.11.1937	commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers
02.09.1939			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
			2nd Battalion The Royal Fusiliers
			19th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers, reformed as: 98th Anti-Tank Regiment RA
01.05.1943			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			88th Anti-Tank Regiment RA
			several staff appointments

Battersby,
Terence Esmond Maxwell
T.E.M. Battersby

29.10.1893
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
-
10.01.1972
Goring Heath, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	05.02.1913 [1753]
Col.	31.07.1937, seniority 31.07.1936 (retd 01.10.1943)
A/Brig.	01.11.1940-01.07.1941
Hon. Brig.	01.10.1943

05.02.1913			commissioned into The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
19.01.1939	-	(01.1940)	Officer in charge of Infantry Record & Pay Office, Exeter (UK)
01.11.1940	-	01.07.1941	Commander, 216th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) (UK)
01.10.1943	-	29.10.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Played first-class cricket, 1923/24-1926.

Batty,
Donald Gordon
D.G. Batty

Married ((12?).1940, Manchester district, Lancashire) ... Dunwell.

04.01.1917
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
29.03.1982
Epsom, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [164230]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942
T/Capt.	06.11.1943-(04.1946) (reld < 04.1946)

MID

19.09.1946

Burma

?	-	28.12.1940	152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Bank official.

Baxter,
Campbell John
C.J. Baxter

Married 1st ((12?).1931, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Mary J. Roberts; one daughter.
Married 2nd ((03?).1940, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Mary E. Bettinson; one son.

20.10.1903
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
(09?).1952
Leicester district, Leicestershire

2nd Lt.	04.12.1924 [31290]
Lt.	04.12.1926
T/Capt.	21.01.1944-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	?

Education: Shrewsbury School (Michaelmas term 1917-1919; Ingram's House).

			late Cadet, Shrewsbury School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
04.12.1924			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment - Territorial Army
13.08.1933			transferred, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
10.12.1936			transferred, 44th (Leicester Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
27.01.1940			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class I)

Baxter,
George Farquharson
G.F. Baxter

?
-

2nd Lt.	17.03.1943 [267398]
WS/Lt.	17.09.1943 (reld 12.04.1950)
T/Capt.	15.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	12.04.1950

12.10.1948

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal; War Medal

17.03.1943

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Baxter,
John Lawson
J.L. Baxter (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

Married Enid Maud Taggart; at least one son.

?
-
2005 still alive ??

Lt.	01.04.1939 [87455]
WS/Capt.	19.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	04.06.1949
Capt. RARO	04.06.1949, seniority 01.11.1947

	MID	06.04.1944	Middle East
	ERD	10.01.1958	?

01.04.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve
24.08.1939			mobilized
			6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR)
1943			seconded to the Judge Advocate General's Office, acting as prosecutor at Cairo & Palestine
04.06.1949	-	22.05.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Solicitor.

Bayley,
John Malpas
J.M. Bayley

From Fleet, Hampshire.
Married Brenda Lucy Lyall Grant (died 14.02.2007, aged 96).

24.10.1909
-
(09?).1971
Bath district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	29.08.1929 [44009]
...	....
Lt.Col.	09.01.1952 (retd 07.09.1957)

01.03.1945

NW Europe

29.08.1929			commissioned , Royal Horse Artillery
...	-	...	...

Baynes,
David Christopher
D.C. Baynes

From Faversham.

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.07.1939 [92460]
WS/Maj.	25.12.1943 (retd < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	25.12.1943
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

DSO	15.06.1944	Italy
MC	20.12.1940	BEF
TD	?	-
TD	20.06.1950	-

15.07.1939			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
20.03.1944	-	24.03.1944	acting Commander, 169th (London) Infantry Brigade (Italy)
?	-	16.04.1957	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Bazeley,
Henry Charles
H.C. Bazeley

Son of Henry Russell Bazeley solicitor of Bideford in Devon.
Married (1934) Eileen ...; two daughters, two sons.
From Amesbury.

03.06.1907
Bideford, Devon
-
(09?).1955
Central Leicestershire district

2nd Lt.	29.01.1927 [37039]
Lt.	29.01.1930
Capt.	21.01.1938
A/Maj.	26.09.1941-25.12.1941
T/Maj.	26.12.1941-28.01.1944
Maj.	29.01.1944 (retd 23.07.1948)
A/Lt.Col.	11.01.1944-10.04.1944
T/Lt.Col.	11.04.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	23.07.1948

DSO	23.09.1943	North Africa
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
DSC(US)	17.10.1946	distinguished services in the cause of the Allies

25.02.1931	-	02.02.1933	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force
15.09.1935	-	04.06.1941	specially employed with the RAF for artillery observation (Army Co-operation Pilot, then Officer Commanding D Flight RAF, then Commanding Officer, 651 Squadron RAF)
26.01.1944	-	01.01.1945	Commanding Officer, 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
23.07.1948	-	01.04.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.04.1949	-	31.01.1950	Territorial Army

Beadon,
Derek Vernon
D.V. Beadon

Son of Col. Vernon Beadon, 9th Gurkha Rifles, and Beryl Martin.
Brother of W/Cdr. Clive Vernon Beadon, RAF.
Married 1st ((09?).1949, Maidstone district, Kent) Florence C. Wingate (formerly Mrs Kenneth D. Small).
Married 2nd ((12?).1970, Maidenhead district, Berkshire) Verena M. Hildebrand; two daughters, two sons.

27.07.1920
Bexhill-on-Sea, Battle district, Hampshire
-
01.1999
Slough district, Berkshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.07.1941 [197277]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 28.04.1946)
RAF:
P/O	1944? [54844]
(WS) F/O	20.11.1944

12.07.1941			commissioned, York and Lancaster Regiment [emergency commission]
1944?			seconded, Royal Air Force (General Duties Branch)
(1945)			Aircraft Design & Planning Engineer, RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire [29.05.1945 granted aviators' certificate No. 20424 taken on a DH82A, Gipsy Major, 130 hp, at 28 Elementary Flying Training School, Wolverhampton]

Beale,
Reginald George Arthur
R.G.A. Beale

Son (with one brother) of George Beale (1884-1963), and May Florence Horton (1888-1957).
Married (12.09.1934, Shirley Parish Church, Shirley, Birmingham) Gwendolyn Helen Davis (27.08.1911 - 30.12.2004); two sons. Gwendolyn Beale remarried Albert Victor Howarth (1918-1985).

17.09.1911
Sparkhill, Birmingham
-
10.06.1946
Sherwood, Nottingham

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.10.1940 [153997]
WS/Lt.	13.11.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
A/Capt.	(1944?)
Hon. Lt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

15.06.1944

Anzio bridgehead

Education: Hockley Grammar School.
Joined Grenadier Guards, aged 18, and later Nottingham Police Force. Heavy-weight boxing champion of the Midlands. "Rugger" player for Moseley.

			Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
26.10.1940			commissioned, Sherwood Foresters [emergency commission]
14.11.1943			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps
(1944)			1st Reconnaissance Regiment (was slightly wounded in Tunisian campaign and again in Oct. 1944 at San Marta, north of Florence; earned MC at Anzio)

Beales,
Tolmino
T. Beales

26.10.1915
-
02.1993
Swindon, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.07.1943 [285274]
WS/Lt.	03.01.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

Fish caterer.

03.07.1943

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Beamish,
Richard Ludlow
R.L. Beamish

Only son of Maj. Richard de Beaumont Beamish (1877-1970), and Edith Elizabeth Payne (died 1966).
Married (25.08.1951, Dorchester) Heather Margaret Ensor Lock (11.08.1926 - 07.05.2001), daughter of Maj. Henry Osmond Lock; two sons, two daughters.

05.04.1922
Passage West, Ireland
-
11.05.2008
Whipps Cross Hospital (formerly of Woodford Green, Essex)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.12.1942 [255828]
WS/Lt.	12.06.1943
Lt.	19.01.1946, seniority 05.10.1944
T/Capt.	16.03.1949-04.04.1949
Capt.	05.04.1949
T/Maj.	20.08.1954-25.12.1955
Maj.	05.04.1956 (retd 29.05.1958)

Education: Aldenham School, Elstree; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

1941	-	1942	served in the ranks for 1 year, 57 days
12.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 18.01.1946]
			served 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars (East Africa 1943-45; India and South East Asia Command 1945-46, British Somaliland 1947-8)
19.01.1946			permanent commission
16.08.1947			transferred, 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars

Pensions Manager for Thorn Electrical Industries, Ltd. Retired 1987.

Beamish,
Tufton Victor Hamilton;
Baron Chelwood of Lewes (created 1974, Life Peer)
T.V.H. Beamish

Only surviving son of late R.Adm. Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish, CB, DL (1874-1951), and Margaret Antonia Simon.
Married 1st (15.12.1950) Janet Stevenson (1921-1975), daughter of Andrew Stevenson (marriage dissolved 1973); two daughters.
Married 2nd (02.05.1975) Mrs Pia McHenry (née von Roretz).

27.01.1917
-
06.04.1989
Sussex

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	22.04.1940-21.07.1940
T/Capt.	22.07.1940-21.08.1942
WS/Capt.	22.08.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945
A/Maj.	22.05.1942-21.08.1942
T/Maj.	22.08.1942-24.06.1945 (Unemployed List 25.06.1945)

Kt	1961	?
MC	20.12.1940	?
MID	19.07.1945	?

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.
Honorary Freeman, Lewes, 1970.
Golden Cross of Merit, 1944.
Polonia Restituta, Poland
Commander, Order of the Phoenix, Greece, 1949.
Order of the Cedar, Lebanon, 1969.

Education: Stowe School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1945)

28.01.1937			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
1938	-	1939	served in Palestine
			War of 1939-45 (wounded twice, despatches, MC)
(1940)			Company Commander, 9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France & Belgium)
1942			Malaya
1942	-	1943	India & Burma
1943	-	1944	North Africa & Italy

Honorary Colonel, 411 Sussex Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army (TA), 1951-57. Member Church of England Council on Inter-Church Relations, 1950-60. Member of Parliament (MP) (C) Lewes Division of East Sussex, 1945-February 1974. Delegate to Council of Europe and Chairman Assembly Committee, 1951-54; Vice-Chairman: British Group IPU, 1952-54; 1922 Committee, 1958-74; Chairman Conservative Foreign Affairs Committee, 1960-64; an Opposition defence spokesman, 1965-67; Chairman, Conservative Group for Europe, 1970-73; Joint Deputy Leader, British Delegation to European Parliament, 1973-74. President, Conservative Middle East Council, 1980-. President, Lewes Conservative Association, 1977-85; Vice-President, ACC, 1986-87. Vice-President, Officers Pension Society, 1980-. Member: Monnet Action Committee for United States of Europe, 1971-76; Council, RSPB, 1948-61 (President, 1967-70; Vice-President, 1976-, Gold Medal, 1984); Vice-President: Society for Promotion of Nature Conservation, 1976-84; Nature Conservancy Council, 1978-84; BVA Animal Welfare Association, 1988-. President: Sussex
Trust for Nature Conservation, 1968-78; Society of Sussex Downsmen, 1975-81; Sussex Ornithological Society., 1989-. Governor, Stowe School, 1966-79; President, Old Stoic Society, 1983. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) East Sussex, 1970-. Member of the Society of Authors.
Published: Must Night Fall?, an account of Soviet seizure of power in Eastern Europe, 1950; Battle Royal, a new account for the 700th Anniversary of Simon de Montfort's struggle against Henry III, 1965; Half Marx: a warning that democracy in Britain is threatened by a Marxinfluenced Labour Party, 1971; (with Guy Hadley) The Kremlin's Dilemma: the struggle for human rights in Eastern Europe, 1979.

Bean,
Donald Edward Patrick
D.E.P. Bean

Son of ... Bean, and ... Hunt.
Married ((09?).1947, Tonbridge district, Kent) Barbara Ethel J. Munns (24.04.1923 - 01.1992); one son, one daughter.

17.03.1925
Devizes district, Cheshire
-
03.1995
Oxford district, Oxfordshire

Cadet	? [2666530]
2nd Lt.	12.05.1945 [346874]
WS/Lt.	12.11.1945 (reld > 04.1947)

12.05.1945			commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			served in India

Bank manager.

Bearne,
Sydney
S. Bearne

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Lt.Col. Lewis Collingwood Bearne, DSO, AM (1878-1940), Indian Army, and Violet Hette Rogers Gibbs (1881-1972).
Brother of Air Vice Marshal Guy Bearne, RAF.
Married (1931) Freda Mary Frankish(07.1903 - 30.12.2012), only child of Dr & Mrs Frankish, of Woodchurch, Kent; two sons, one daughter.

19.06.1906
Farnborough, Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
(03?).1978
Stevenage district, Hertfordshire

2nd Lt.	30.08.1926 [36291]
Lt.	30.08.1929
Capt.	25.11.1936
Maj.	30.08.1943 (retd 18.01.1957)

MID

11.10.1945

gallant and distinguished services in the field

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

30.08.1926			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [later: Royal Tank Regiment] - Royal Armoured Corps
14.09.1936	-	13.09.1939	Adjutant, ... - Territorial Army
1940	-	1945	POW in German captivity (Eichstätt, Bayern)
20.08.1964	-	21.03.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Beath,
David Ion Leslie
D.I.L. Beath

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of David Leslie Beath (1873-1954), and Hilda Rosalie Gertrude Lawrence (1871-1956).
Married (01.06.1927, Corston, Somerset) Rosalie Alma Isobel Peters (18.02.1906 - 06.04.1980); two sons, two daughters, one adopted daughter.

09.03.1904
Bath, Somerset
-
13.05.1997
Church Stretton, Shropshire

2nd Lt.	13.06.1923 [26760]
Lt.	13.06.1925
Capt.	24.10.1928
Maj.	16.08.1939
T/Lt.Col.	21.05.1943-(04.1944)
Lt.Col.	13.06.1945
Lt. (A/Col.) ACF	30.01.1956 (reld 27.05.1967)
Hon. Col.	27.05.1967

CBE	10.06.1967	HM's birthday 67: Shropshire Army Cadet Force
TD	28.01.1943	-
TD	13.11.1956	1st clasp
TD	13.11.1956	2nd clasp
TD	13.11.1956	3rd clasp

			late Cadet L/Cpl., Clifton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
13.06.1923			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) - Territorial Army (Bath)
16.08.1939			transferred, 6th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Italy) (commandant of a POW camp in Italy)
(04.1944)			specially employed
?			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
30.01.1956	-	27.05.1967	Army Cadet Force - Shropshire

Beaton,
George
G. Beaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Goerge Beaton Jnr.)

Second son (with one brother and ons sister) of William Elephender Beaton (1874-1929), and Annie Currie (1884-1931).
Married (1949, Germany) Erna Elizabeth Gopfert (1931 - 1993); one daughter.

03?.04.1912
Glasgow, Scotland
-
17.02.1963
Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

2nd Lt.	04.10.1942 [259446]
WS/Lt.	04.04.1943
T/Capt.	23.06.1943-16.04.1944
WS/Capt.	17.04.1944
T/Maj.	17.04.1944-15.04.1945
WS/Maj.	16.04.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	16.04.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946
Maj.	19.10.1948, seniority 04.09.1946

	MID	13.01.1944	Middle East
	MID	23.03.1944	Sicily

04.10.1942			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
30.11.1944			transferred, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
19.10.1948	-	01.02.1950	Territorial Army
02.02.1950	-	12.02.1951	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (relinquished commission on appointment to New Zealand Army)

Beattie,
Joseph Hamilton
J.H. Beattie (Photo courtesy of Mr Stewart Makeig-Jones)

Fourth son of Malcolm Hamilton Beattie (1862-1941), and Maria Isabel Beattie (1865-1949), of Burntwood, Eastbourne, Sussex.
Married (20.08.1938, Ottery St Mary, Devon) Margaret Antonia Makeig-Jones (22.08.1914 - 02.03.2001), elder daughter (with one sister and three brothers) of John Reeder Makeig-Jones, CBE (1884-1977), and Agnes Yvonnette Dundee-Hooper (1892-1979), of Southerton House, Devon; four sons (one deceased), three daughters.

29.09.1903
Calcutta, India
-
04.02.1985
San Anard, Malta (formerly of Woodland, nr Ashburton, South Devon)

2nd Lt.	30.01.1924 [27892]
Lt.	30.01.1926
Capt.	07.10.1936
A/Maj.	29.09.1939-28.12.1939
T/Maj.	29.12.1939-21.01.1941
Maj.	30.01.1941
A/Lt.Col.	04.06.1942-03.09.1942
T/Lt.Col.	04.09.1942-10.11.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	11.11.1945
Lt.Col.	01.01.1948
Col.	31.12.1948, seniority 11.11.1948
T/Brig.	11.11.1945-(04.1947)
Brig.	01.01.1953 (supernumerary 31.12.1954) (retd 07.04.1956)

CBE	06.06.1946	Burma [recommendation available upon request]
DSO	29.03.1945	NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]
MID	20.12.1940	BEF France
MID	19.09.1946	Burma

NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1935 Medal & Clasp.

Education: Rugby (Bradley House; 1917.3-1921.3); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

30.01.1924			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
05.05.1933	-	11.06.1935	Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Viceroy of India
19.05.1937	-	18.10.1939	Adjutant, ... - Territorial Army
1939	-	1945	served France, Belgium, Holland, Germany & Burma:
1943	-	1944	Commanding Officer, 79th (Scottish Horse) Medium Regiment RA (DSO)
1945			Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 19th Indian (Dagger) Division
			Officer Commanding Troops, Plymouth
			Commandant HQ, CATC
1948	-	1951	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 51st Highland Division
1952	-	1953	Brigadier Royal Artillery (BRA), N.A.G. (= Northern Army Group?)
1954	-	1956	Inspector Coast Artillery (Home) & Commandant, Coast Artillery School
07.04.1956	-	29.09.1961	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Beattie,
Thomas Leonard
T.L. Beattie

Son of William Beattie (1861-1914), and Beatrice Laura Coles (1863-1935).
Brother of Sq.Ldr. William Beattie, RAFVR, and Sq.Ldr. Hedley Beattie, RAF.
Married (03?).1923, Amesbury district, Wiltshire) Violet Dorothy Belben (18.05.1896 - 07.1986); one son.

13.11.1896
Alverstoke district, Hampshire
-
01.1965
Kidbrooke, Blackheath

Bdr.	? [RGA 35898]
BSM	?
RSM	?
Lt. QM	01.04.1938 [75977]
WS/Capt. QM	01.11.1942
Capt. QM	01.04.1944
Maj. QM	01.07.1946
Lt.Col. QM	31.10.1949 (retd 02.12.1953; exceeded age limit)

MBE	11.07.1940	BEF 39-40
MM	11.10.1916	bravery in the field
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Waziristan 1921-24 Medal & Clasp

1911	-	1924?	served in the ranks for 12 years, 269 days (served France & Belgium 15.09.1915-11.11.1918; with the 35th Siege Battery RGA at Ypres and Somme) (MM)
1924?	-	1932?	served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 8 years, 5 days (Egypt & NW Frontier of India)
1932?	-	31.03.1938	served as Warrant Officer, Class 1 for 5 years, 293 days (RSM, Woolwich)
01.04.1938			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(1940)			Quartermaster, 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (British Expeditionary Force, France [Dunkirk]) (MBE)
1940/41?	-	1942	captured in Java after blowing the oilfields in Sumatra
1942	-	09.1945	POW in Japanese captivity (Fukuoka Camp No 1)
?	-	1953	Lt.Col. QM RA Depot Woolwich

Beattie,
Walter Albert
W.A. Beattie (Photo courtesy of Mr JH Beattie)

Second son, and eighth of nine children, of John Beattie (1851-1920) and Sarah Beattie (née McCartney) (1853-1927), Governor's Office, Kilmainham Goal, Dublin.
Married (16.04.1925, St. Thomas-a-Becket, Portsmouth) Doreen 'Dodie' Margaret Hester Bayley (10.10.1904 Naini Tal, India - 13.12.1977 Cirencester Memorial Hospital, Glos.), daughter of Capt. Charles Humphrey Bayley, South Lancashire Regiment (who died of wounds at Passchendale, 07.1917); one daughter (Noreen Joan, born 1926), one son (Lt. John Humphrey Beattie, RN, born 1928).

15.05.1893
Dublin, Ireland
-
17.11.1950
Fairford Cottage Hospital, Gloucestershire

T/2nd Lt.	18.09.1914-18.11.1914
T/Lt.	19.11.1914-01.11.1916
T/Capt.	02.11.1916-22.01.1920 (relinquished commission 23.01.1920)
Lt.	18.12.1920, seniority 02.07.1916 [1671]
Capt.	04.07.1921
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 30.05.1945)
A/Lt.Col.	05.10.1940-06.11.1940

26.07.1918

Wadi El Jib, North of Jerusalem *

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Africa Star; France & Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while attacking a strong enemy position. Though two platoons were forced "back", he took the position with the remaining two under very heavy machine-gun fire and held on to it. He showed fine courage and powers of command.

Education: McGuire's College, Dublin (2nd Lt. in Public School Cadet Corps (Royal Irish Fusiliers), 1913)).

18.09.1914	-	23.01.1920	temporary commission, Royal Irish Fusiliers (5th Battalion)
1915	-	1918	served First Great War with the 5th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, Territorial Force (wounded twice):
11.07.1915	-	23.08.1915	served at Gallipoli (embarked Devonport for Egyptian Expeditionary Force; wounded 11.07.1915 at Suvla Landing in the right thigh)
16.02.1916	-	27.09.1917	served in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria (Struma Valley 1916; contracted malaria), European Turkey and the Islands of the Ægean Sea
01.10.1917	-	17.05.1918	served in Egypt & Palestine (wounded 10.03.1918 north of Jerusalem by machine gun bullet in head)
01.06.1918	-	13.10.1918	served in France
27.03.1919			posted to 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment in France upon disbandment of 5th Bn RIF
01.09.1919	-	20.12.1919	served in the Black Sea area
18.12.1920			commissioned, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers
10.01.1922	-	11.06.1922	Staff Captain, Southern Palestine Brigade (temporary)
(03.1931)	-	(05.1945)	1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire), renamed 1938: The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
			served in the UK (Catterick, then Plymouth [1933], then Dover [1936])
09.1939	-	?	Regimental Depot at Warrington
05.10.1940	-	06.11.1940	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (East Grinstead) (temporary)
1940?	-	05.1941	Second-in-Command, RAOC Depot at Chilwell
05.1941	-	12.1941	served in Africa
12.1941	-	05.1945	served in the UK
1944	-	1945	in charge of the Infantry Replacement Unit at Kelveden, Essex [went to Brussels on several visits regarding replacement matters]

* Declared over age for command of a field unit, but was recommended for a Lt.Col.'s appointment.

Beauman,
Archibald Bentley
A.B. Beauman

Eldest son of Bentley Martin Beauman.
Married 1st (1923) Eva Dorothy (died 1949), daughter of Albert E. Pullar Durn, Perth; one daughter, one son deceased.
Married 2nd (1952) Barbara Arnold.

30.11.1888
-
22.03.1977

2nd Lt.	22.02.1908 [4119]
...	....
Col.	10.03.1932, seniority 01.01.1922 (retd 16.10.1938) (reverted to retd 17.10.1944)
Hon. Brig.Gen.	16.10.1938
T/Brig.	1940
A/Maj.Gen.	27.05.1940-21.07.1940

CBE	11.05.1937	Palestine
DSO	1916	?
MID	20.12.1940	operations in the field 03-06.40

Education: Malvern College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

			Joined 2nd South Staffs. Regt, 1908; served South Africa and England prior to War; landed in France, August 1914, with original Expeditionary Force; invalided home November 1914; rejoined in France, January 1915; served as Staff Capt., DAA and QMG, and acting Lt.Col 1st battalion South Staffordshire Regiment; Brig.Gen., 26 May 1918, and commanded 69th Infantry Brigade in Italy until 6 April 1919; Bt Lt.Col January 1919 (DSO and bar, Bt Major, despatches six times, Italian Silver Medal for Valour and Italian Croce di Guerra); Staff College, Camberley, 1920; General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Baluchistan District, India, 1921-1925; Chief Instructor Royal Military Academy Woolwich, 1926-1927; commanded 1st Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment 1928-1932; Assistant Commandant, and Chief Instructor, Netheravon Wing, Small Arms School, 1932-1934; Commander 15th Infantry Brigade 1934-1938; ADC to the King, 1938.
16.10.1938	-	30.11.1946	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
?	-	26.05.1940	in charge of North District, Lines of Communication (France)
27.05.1940	-	21.07.1940	commanded an ad-hoc force, being called the "Beauman Division" (France) (despatches twice)
1943			Commander North Riding District

Vice-Chairman, Racehorse Owners' Association, 1959.
Published: Common mistakes in the solution of tactical problems : a short outline of modern tactics, 1939; Then a soldier, 1960.

Beaumont,
Eric Waite
E.W. Beaumont

Son of George A. Beaumont, and Annie Waite.
Married ((09?).1939, Lancaster district, Lancashire) Margaret McMullen.

12.06.1915
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
(09?).1972
Blackpool district, Lancashire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1942 [233359]
WS/Lt.	10.11.1942
WS/Capt.	?
Lt.	19.08.1948, seniority 10.11.1942
Capt.	01.03.1949
Maj.	01.01.1952 (retd 14.09.1963; exceeded age limit)
Maj.	01.04.1970, seniority 19.07.1958

	MID	19.09.1946	Burma
	TD	29.06.1956	-

10.05.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			probably served in bomb disposal; also at India & Malaya
19.08.1948			commissioned, North Irish Horse - Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army
01.04.1970			commissioned, Ulster Defence Regiment

Architect (as Houston & Beaumont, from late 1940s).

Beaumont,
Ivan
I. Beaumont (Photo courtesy of Mr Gordon Beaumont)

Son of Ernest Alfred Beaumont, and Eleanor Louisa R. Westley.
Married ((09?).1939, Hendon district, Middlesex) Violet B. Perfect; ... children (one son?).

03.05.1914
Fulham district, London
-
(12?).1978
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.01.1943 [258195]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	10.08.1944-(04.1946)

02.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
26.02.1944			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch

Beaumont,
Kenneth Mowbray
K.M. Beaumont

Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

04.11.1919
-
03.09.1997
Australia

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.11.1942 [251349]
WS/Lt.	07.05.1943 (reld 01.09.1948; on appointment to RAF)
RAF:
F/Lt.	01.09.1948 [500154]
Sq.Ldr.	01.03.1956 (retd 01.02.1958; own request)

Education: St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge (BA 1946; MA 1948).

07.11.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
22.09.1944			transferred, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
01.09.1948			commissioned, RAF (Education Branch)

Beazley,
Harold Derek
H.D. Beazley

Son (with one sister) of Lt. Harold Gilroy Beazley, Royal Field Artillery (1891-1966?), and Edith Birkmyre Langlands (1893-1989).
Married ((12?).1958, Chelsea district, London) Hester Cynthia Barnes (12.07.1933 - 02.1994); ... children (two sons?).

04.10.1915
Monahruah, Heswall, Wirral district, Cheshire
-
(06?).1981
Liverpool district, Merseyside

2nd Lt.	30.01.1937 [70180]
WS/Lt.	30.01.1940
T/Capt.	29.11.1940-(04.1944)
Capt.	11.04.1945
A/Maj.	01.05.1947
Maj.	04.10.1949, seniority 01.05.1947
Lt.Col.	01.11.1955

	TD	20.06.1950	& 1st clasp
	TD	30.12.1958	2nd clasp

Education: Marlborough College (09.1929-03.1933; Preshute House).

			late Cadet, Marlborough College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
30.01.1937			commissioned, 59th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.10.1956	-	30.09.1957	Unattached List - TA
30.09.1957	-	01.11.1959	Royal Regiment of Artillery - TA
01.11.1959	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Beazley,
Simon Robert
S.R. Beazley

Son of ... Beazley, and ... Williams.

(03?).1922
Wirral district, Cheshire
-
05.01.2007
[age 84]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.10.1943 [299103]
WS/Lt.	27.04.1944
T/Capt.	28.08.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	22.05.1952
Maj. TA	?
Lt.Col. TA	? (retd 30.04.1963)

27.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served in Burma
22.05.1952			served Territorial Army
			Commanding Officer, The Middlesex Yeomanry
30.04.1963			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Becher,
Alexander Reginald Lionel Reed
A.R.L.R. Becher

Son of Capt. Lionel Bernard Alexander Becher(1886-1961), and Bertha Lemon (1878-1920).
Married (19.12.1935, Hereford district, Herefordshire) Joyce Andrews (06.03.1913 - 10.2001); ... children.

21.06.1910
Mauritius
-

2nd Lt.	30.01.1930 [44799]
Lt.	30.01.1933
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	13.09.1942-12.11.1942, 27.03.1943-24.04.1943
T/Maj.	25.04.1943-20.04.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946
local Lt.Col.	15.06.1950-14.08.1950
T/Lt.Col.	03.05.1954-30.01.1956
Lt.Col.	31.01.1956 (Empl List 1) (retd 01.03.1958)

MID

10.01.1946

Burma

Education: Hereford Cathedral School (1924-1928); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (08.1928-01.1930); Technical Staff Course at The Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) (ptsc).

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [permanent commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	Battery Commander, 56th Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiment RA (Burma) (despatches)
01.03.1958	-	21.06.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Beckett,
Clifford Thomason
C.T. Beckett

Eldest son of late Brig.Gen. William Thomas Clifford Beckett, CBE, DSO (1862-1956), and Bessie Drummond, daughter of General C.S. Thomason, RE, Benga.
Brother of Capt. W.N.T. Beckett, MVO, DSC, RN.
Married ((12?).1915, Wincanton district, Dorset / Somerset) Winifred Mary Ackerly Chichester (20.07.1888 - 12.06.1960), daughter of Charles Ackerly Winifred Chichester (1848-1902), and Mary Constance Porter (1859-1941); one son, two daughters.

09.11.1891
Tonbridge, Kent
-
08.07.1972
King Edward VII Hospital, London W1

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.07.1911 [10920]
Lt.	20.07.1914
T/Capt.	19.11.1915-07.08.1916
Capt.	08.08.1916
A/Maj.	27.04.1917-03.05.1918, 24.05.1918-16.03.1918
Maj.	06.04.1929
A/Lt.Col. TF	24.07.1917-25.07.1917
A/Lt.Col.	04.05.1918-23.05.1918
Lt.Col.	07.03.1938
A/Col.	26.06.1940-25.12.1940
T/Col.	26.12.1940-13.03.1941
Col.	14.03.1941, seniority 07.03.1841
A/Brig.	26.06.1940-25.12.1940
T/Brig.	26.12.1940-13.07.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	14.07.1942-13.07.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	14.07.1943-... (retd 24.05.1946)
Hon. Maj.Gen.	24.05.1946

CB	10.04.1945	in recognition of meritorious services
CBE	18.02.1943	Middle East 05-10.42
MC	01.01.1918	Palestine
MID	20.12.1940	operations in the field 03-06.40
LegH	1951	?

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Iraq Medal & Clasp

Education: Tonbridge School (1902-1909; Day Boy and Manor House; School Praeses 1909); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1910-1911).

20.07.1911			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Field Artillery)
1914	-	1918	served European War (Gallipoli (25.04.1915-04.06.1915), France (25.12.1915-04.06.1916, 13.05.1918-11.11.1918), Salonika (27.04.1917-12.06.1917), Palestine (17.06.1917-03.05.1918); wounded)
24.07.1919	-	11.02.1923	Adjutant, ... (Iraq Rebellion (1919-1921), Persia, Egypt, Turkey (1922))
01.04.1923	-	03.06.1926	Adjutant, Royal Devon Yeomanry Artillery (Territorial Army)
07.06.1926	-	31.03.1930	Staff Captain, Directorate of Artillery, War Office (Special Award War Office Committee on Awards to Inventors, 1929)
1930	-	1931	attached to Intelligence Branch, War Office
1929	&	1931	travelled in Afghanistan and Australia. Employed on Strategic Reconnaissances in Western Europe
(03.1931)			23rd Gunnery Staff Course, The Military College of Science (Woolwich)
(06.1933)			28th Field Brigade RA (Lahore)
1935	-	1936	served in Lahore (suppressed riots; organised Military Jubilee Tattoo)
(01.1937)			1st Training Brigade, Depot, RA (Woolwich)
1937			Gold Staff Officer at Coronation
			served frequently with French Army and in 1937 with German Army
07.03.1938	-	(01.)1939	Commanding Officer, 12th Field Regiment, RA (Dunbar)
1939	-	1940	Commanding Officer, 1st Survey Regiment, RA (Flanders campaign, 1939-1940 (despatches))
26.06.1940	-	14.05.1941	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 15th Scottish Division
15.05.1941	-	13.07.1942	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), Malta
14.07.1942	-	04.08.1942	acting Officer Commanding Troops Malta
05.08.1942	-	28.12.1942	Major-General Royal Artillery & Commander Anti-Aircraft Defences Malta
1943	-	1945	commanded 4th Anti-Aircraft Groups RA (UK)
1945	-	1946	commanded 5th Anti-Aircraft Groups RA

Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Somerset, 1952-1967. Honorary Fellow and President Emeritus, Huguenot Society of London (President 1949-1952 and subseq., a Vice-President). Director, French Hospital of La Providence; President SSAFA, Somerset, 1949-1958; Executive Committee, Squash Rackets Association, 1928-1931. Judged at Rhône and Delhi Horse Shows. Hereditary Keeper, Inchgaw Castle, Fife.
Published: The Yeomanry of Devon (with Comdr W. Benson Freeman); numerous contributions to military jls and Jl of Huguenot Soc. of London.

Beckett,
Denis Arthur
D.A. Beckett (Photo couirtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen)

Only son of late Archibald Edward Beckett (1887-), and Margery M. Robinson, of Woodford Green, Essex.
Married 1st (25.05.1946, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, Westminster district, London; marriage dissolved 1974) Elizabeth Edwards, elder daughter of Col. Guy Edwards, DSO, MC, of Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire; one son.
Married 2nd (1978) Nancy Ann Hitt.

19.05.1917
West Ham district, London
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113508]
Lt.	31.08.1946, seniority 08.05.1941
A/Capt.	18.04.1942-13.07.1942
T/Capt.	14.07.1942-01.09.1943
WS/Capt.	02.09.1943
Capt.	31.08.1946, seniority 01.07.1946
A/Maj.	02.06.1943-01.09.1943
T/Maj.	02.09.1943-14.09.1943, 08.12.1943-24.04.1945, 08.06.1945-20.12.1950, 24.11.1951-07.11.1952
Maj.	08.11.1952
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1956
local Lt.Col.	15.09.1953-15.03.1956
Lt.Col.	01.04.1958 (Empl. List 1) (supernumerary 01.04.1961)
Col.	09.12.1961, seniority 01.02.1961
T/Brig.	08.12.1961-31.12.1964
Brig.	01.01.1965
Maj.Gen.	25.11.1966 (retd 01.06.1971)

CB	01.01.1971	New Year 71
DSO	20.07.1944	Italy (Cassino 19.03.44) [recommendation available upon request]
OBE	11.06.1960	HM's birthday 60 [recommendation available upon request]

Education: Forest School; Chard School; idc (1964), jssc, psc.

			served in the ranks for 135 days in the Honourable Artillery Company (mobilized TA 24.08.1939)
?	-	14.10.1940	162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940			commissioned, The Essex Regiment [emergency commission to 30.08.1946]
			served with 1/4th Battalion The Essex Regiment in W Africa, Middle East, Italy (DSO) and Greece
08.06.1945	-	31.12.1946	Instructor, School of Infantry
05.01.1948	-	30.06.1948	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ... Parachute Brigade
01.07.1948	-	15.11.1949	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ... Independent Parachute Brigade Group
16.11.1949	-	21.10.1950	Brigade Major, ... Independent Brigade Group
21.12.1950	-	01.08.1953	Instructor, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
15.09.1953	-	16.03.1956	Instructor, Staff College, Camberley
1956	-	1958	Second-in-Command, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment
31.05.1958			transferred, The Parachute Regiment
1958	-	1960	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment
04.06.1960	-	10.11.1961	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (DS), Joint Services Staff College
08.12.1961	-	04.12.1963	Commander, 19th Infantry Brigade Group
01.02.1965	-	10.10.1966	Deputy Adjutant General, HQ British Army of the Rhine
25.11.1966	-	1968	Chief of Staff, HQ Far East Land Forces
1968	-	1971	Director of Personal Services (Army)

Trustee: Nehru Memorial Centre Trust, 1975-; Airborne Forces Museum, 1985-1994; Governor, Forest School, 1986-1995. Liveryman, Coopers' Company, 1962-.

Beckett,
John Kenneth
J.K. Beckett

02.06.1901
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
04.1984
Sutton district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	05.12.1922, seniority 14.07.1922 (retd 31.08.1923)
Lt.	18.12.1939 [111732]
WS/Capt.	27.07.1940
T/Maj.	27.07.1940-(04.1941)
A/Lt.Col. ?	1941?
WS/Capt.	15.01.1943

05.12.1922	-	31.08.1923	commissioned, Indian Army (3rd Roy Bn, 3rd Sikh Pioneers)
18.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
15.01.1943			transferred, Indian Army Ordnance Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission]

Beckett,
Sir Martyn Gervase;
2nd Baronet (cr. 1921), of Kirkdale
M.G. Beckett

Son of Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Bt, and Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva Beckett (née Greville) (died 1964), elder daughter of 5th Earl of Warwick. Succeeded father, 24.08.1937. Married (1941) Hon. Priscilla Léonie Helen Brett, youngest daughter of 3rd Viscount Esher, GBE; two sons, one daughter.

06.11.1918
-
05.08.2001
Kensington & Chelsea, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138646]
WS/Lt.	04.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	26.11.1944

21.06.1945

NW Europe

Education: Eton; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA; 1940); RIBA

1939			enlisted in The Green Howards
04.07.1940			commissioned into The Welsh Guards [emergency commission]

Architect. DipArch 1951, ARIBA 1952. Built or reconstructed several country houses and housing estates, hotels, libraries etc; works to over 100 listed buildings and for National Trust. Architect to King's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1960- (internal alterations and renovations to the Chapel, 1968); Consulting Architect to: Gordonstoun, 1954-1958; Savoy Hotel Gp, 1981-1994; Temple Bar Trust, 1983-1993; Charterhouse, 1983; Ampleforth College, 1984-; Eton Coll., 1986-1992; Rank Labs, 1987-; BRCS, 1994-. Exhibited: RA, London, provinces; one man exhibitions: Clarges Gall., 1980 and 1983; Soar Gall., 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995. Trustee: The Wallace Collection, 1972-1992 (Chm. 1976-1992); British Museum, 1978-1988; CPRE Trust, 1983-1990; Chm., Yorkshire Regional Committee, National Trust, 1980-1985; Member: N York Moor Nat. Park Committee, 1972-1978; Council of Management, Chatsworth House Trust, 1981-; President: Ryedale Br., CPRE, 1964-; Friends of York Art Gall., 1970-1983. Member Council, RSPB, 1985-1987. Trustee, D'Oyly Carte Charity Trust, 1988-. FRSA 1982; FAMS 1955. Freeman, City of London, 1986.

Beckhoff,
Harry
H. Beckhoff

Changed last name by deed poll of 27.10.1949 to Beckhough.

(03?).1914
Bristol, Avon
-

Marlborough

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.09.1941 [207846]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	01.11.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
T/Maj.	?
A/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

39\|45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
Bur St	?	?
Def M	?	?

Education: Bristol University (philology); exchange student at Freiburg University, 1933.

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
20.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in the artillery (India)
1941/42			taken over by Bletchley Park as code breaker
			served as code breaker with 8th Army (Western Desert) & 14th Army (India/Burma)
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

S.O.I. (Senior Officer) with Foreign Office with the remit to resuscitate the Rhineland Universities of Cologne and Bonn, 1946-1950.
Published: Secret communications : the hidden source of information through the ages, from the Sumerians to the Cold War (1995); In the beginning (2002)

Beckley,
Leslie Cecil
L.C. Beckley

Son of Arthur T. and Annie L. Beckley.
Married ((09?).1936, Sevenoaks district, Kent) Doris E. Fullagar, of Langley, Maidstone, Kent; ... children (one daughter?).

(12?).1897
Lambeth, London
-
23.02.1945
Umballa, India
(brain haemorrhage) [age 47]
[Delhi War Cemetery, India, 3.E.7]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.10.1940 [152590]
WS/Lt.	02.02.1942
A?/Capt.	1945?

23.10.1940

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Beckwith-Smith,
Merton Beckwith
"Becky"
M.B. Beckwith-Smith

Only son of late Beckwith BeckwithSmith (1849-1926), and Georgina Butler Moore (died 1942), of Aberarder.
Married (14.03.1918, London) Honor Dorothy, only child of late John Blundell Leigh; two sons, two daughters.

11.07.1890
Chelsea district, Greater London
[baptized at Cuckfield]
-
11.11.1942
in a PoW camp in the Far East
[Sai Wan War Cemetery, Hong Kong, V.H.1]

2nd Lt. (prob)	03.08.1910 [18095]
2nd Lt.	01.08.1912
T/Lt.	03.11.1914-17.12.1914
Lt.	18.12.1914
T/Capt.	10.06.1915-26.09.1915
Capt.	23.02.1916
T/Maj.	27.08.1917-08.08.1920
Maj.	30.11.1925
local Lt.Col.	15.10.1926-14.10.1930
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1930
Lt.Col.	01.10.1932
Col.	01.10.1934, seniority 01.07.1933
T/Brig.	12.12.1938-13.07.1940
A/Maj.Gen.	14.07.1940
Maj.Gen.	02.08.1940, dated 14.07.1940, seniority 04.08.1938

	DSO	1914	?
	MC	04.06.1917	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?
	MID	01.08.1946	Malaya 42 [posthumously]
-	Ntce	20.12.1940	"name brought to notice" in recognition of distinguished services in connection with operations in the field 03-06.40
	CdeG	25.09.1917	?
	14\|15 St	?	& Clasp
	14\|20 BWM	?	?
	VM	?	?

Royal Humane Society's Certificate, 1909.

Education: Eton; Christ Church, Oxford University (Hon. MA); Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

03.08.1910			joined, Coldstream Guards
01.08.1912			commissioned, Coldstream Guards
			served European War, 1914-1918: France & Belgium (13.08.1914-09.10.1914 & 11.03.1915-11.11.1918) (wounded; despatches four times [?; only one confirmed], DSO, MC, Croix de Guerre)
15.03.1915	-	26.08.1915	Adjutant, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
27.08.1915	-	03.07.1916	Staff Captain, ... (France)
04.07.1916	-	26.08.1917	Brigade Major, 1st Guards Brigade (France)
27.08.1917	-	01.1918	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Guards Division (France)
01.1918	-	11.1918	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), General Headquarters, France
11.1918	-	02.04.1919	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (France)
03.04.1919	-	08.08.1920	Brigade Major, 2nd Guards Brigade (UK)
01.10.1923	-	23.10.1924	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office (London)
15.10.1926	-	14.10.1930	Commanding Officer, Oxford University Contingent, Officer Training Corps
14.10.1930			transferred, Welsh Guards
01.10.1932	-	1934?	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (Windsor, for Wellington Barracks)
01.10.1934	-	25.01.1938	Officer Commanding the Regiment and Regimental District of the Welsh Guards (142nd (6th London) Infantry Brigade)
12.12.1938	-	28.06.1939	Commander Lahore Brigade Area (India)
03.07.1939	-	13.07.1940	Commander, 1st Infantry Brigade (Guards) (UK, France & Belgium) [except for 31.05-03.06.1940], also:
31.05.1940	-	03.06.1940	acting General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division (France & Belgium)
09.06.1940	-	13.06.1940	acting General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division (UK)
14.07.1940	-	15.02.1942	General Officer Commanding, 18th Infantry Division (UK, India, Malaya) [captured]
15.02.1942	-	11.11.1942	POW in Japanese captivity

Beddall,
Basil Spencer
B.S. Beddall (Photo courtesy of Mrs Linda Murphy)

Son of ... Beddall, and ... Watson.
Married ((03?).1947, Kensington district, London) Felicity Parsons.

04.11.1921
Truro district, Somerset
-
01.2001
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

L/Cpl.	? [2664473]
2nd Lt.	16.08.1942 [242798]
WS/Lt.	16.02.1943
Lt.	08.09.1945, seniority 04.05.1944
A/Capt.	28.09.1945-02.11.1945, 04.02.1946-30.03.1946
T/Capt.	31.03.1946-03.11.1948
Capt.	04.11.1948
T/Maj.	15.04.1952-03.11.1955
Maj.	04.11.1955
T/Lt.Col.	12.04.1963-31.08.1963
Lt.Col.	01.09.1963 (supernumerary 01.09.1966) (retd 05.04.1973)

OBE	01.01.1967	New Year 67
MC	08.07.1943	North Africa
MID	01.01.1955	?

			served in the ranks, The Coldstream Guards (for 1 year, 137 days)
16.08.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1943)			751st Field Company RE (North Africa) (MC)
08.09.1945			permanent commission
02.06.1947	-	20.05.1948	SORE3, War Office
21.05.1948	-	24.11.1949	GSO3, War Office
25.11.1949	-	19.08.1951	Adjutant Field Engineer Regiment (TA)
07.01.1957	-	08.02.1959	TSO2 (MCS), IFV
09.02.1959	-	17.01.1960	TSO2, FVRDE
12.04.1962	-	14.03.1963	TSO2, AWRE
12.04.1963	-	15.06.1966	TSO1, RARDE
15.07.1966	-	(02.1967)	TSO1 (DSNW), RMCS

AMI NucE MBIM.

Beddington,
Keith Lionel
K.L. Beddington

23.05.1902
Paddington, London
-
08.1987
Surrey North-Western district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	31.01.1923 [23633]
Lt.	31.01.1925
Capt.	31.01.1936
Maj.	31.01.1940 (retd 02.09.1949)
A/Lt.Col.	24.07.1941-23.10.1941
T/Lt.Col.	24.10.1941-31.12.1942, 19.06.1943-(01.1946)
A/Col.	(1947)
Hon. Col.	02.09.1949

	CBE	01.01.1964	New Year 64: for political services in Woking
	OBE	01.01.1948	New Year 48

Education: Staff College, Camberley (1939; psc)

31.01.1923			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)			24th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (Lucknow)
(06.1933)			2nd Training Brigade, Riding Establishment, Royal Artillery, Woolwich
(01.1937)			31st Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (Egypt)
14.12.1935	-	31.10.1936	Adjutant, ...
16.05.1939	-	01.09.1939	Staff Officer, Royal Artillery (General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)), ...
194X			Commanding Officer, 97th Anti-Tank Regiment RA
02.09.1949	-	10.09.1952	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Justice of the Peace (JP).

Beddington-Behrens,
[Sir] Edward

see:

Behrens,
[Sir] Edward Beddington

Bedford,
Walter Edmund
W.E. Bedford (Photo courtesy of Mr Kenneth Birbeck)

Third son of eight children of Frederick Charles Bedford (1874-1957), and Frances Mary Austen (1873-1949).
Married ((09?).1929, Edmonton district) Olive Vera Perry (22.08.1907 - (06?).1974); one son, one daughter.

15.12.1903
Islington district, London
-
(09?).1968
Surrey South Western district

2nd Lt.	20.06.1940 [135285]
WS/Lt.	20.12.1941
WS/Capt.	01.10.1943
T/Maj.	01.10.1943-(04.1947)

20.06.1940			commissioned, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
			served with Indian Army (Indian Army Ordnance Corps?)

His father was managing director of a shoe & boot factory in London, and Walter became production manager there after WW2 until about 1950. Went to Australia alone for a few years, returning to family life in Surrey, and living the last years of his life in an old people's home in Bramley, still working as an accountant in Guildford.

Beeney,
Raymond Arthur Lewis
R.A.L. Beeney

Son of Capt. Herbert Beeney and Clara Beeney, of Southsea, Hampshire.

(03?).1911
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
10.02.1943
(KIA) [age 32]
[La Reunion War Cemetery, Algeria, 5.A.14]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.03.1942 [225685]
A/Maj. ?	1943?

Education: Woking County Grammar School for Boys, Surrey. B.Sc. Eng. (Hons.), A.M.I.C.E.

27.03.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Beer,
Albert Cecil
A.C. Beer (Photo courtesy of Mr Alan Beer)

Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of Alfred Beer (1878-1952), and Annie Jane Butler (1884-1962).
Married (02.09.1939, Barnstaple, North Devon) Muriel Potts (10.02.1919 - 24.10.2016), daughter of Wilfred Potts (1879-), and Rose Mammett; one daughter.

23.01.1913
Barnstaple, Devon
-
04.2003
North Devon district, Devon

WS/SSM	?
Lt. QM *	25.09.1943 [294757]
T/Capt. QM	25.12.1945-24.09.1946
WS/Capt. QM	25.09.1946 (reld > 12.1947)

MBE

01.01.1945

New Year 1945

* Without pay and allowances

			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps
25.09.1943			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]

Assistant to Chief Staff Officer (Salary Scale of Class), Ministry of Defence (1949).
A grandchild writes: "I have some of his records including attachments to the War Rooms and going on the war conferences as a private Secretary to General Ismay."

Beer,
Peter Francis Snell
P.F.S. Beer

Son of John T. Beer, and Winifred L.M. Snell.

(06?).1918
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
(06?).1962
Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	09.11.1940 [155726]
WS/Lt.	09.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

09.11.1940			commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) [emergency commission]
			posted to Lochailort in Scotland in 1941, Highworth, Wiltshire in late 1941 and then posted to Burma from 1942-43; after that he was sent to Cape town from Deolali in India having dysentery, malaria and tuberculosis

Beer,
Thomas Alfred
T.A. Beer (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Beer)

Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Percy Thomas Beer (1887-1944), and Annie Elizabeth Cordell (1887-1975).
Married (17.03.1940, South Western Essex district) Gladys Shuttleworth (02.03.1918 - 12.02.2006), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Arthur Henry Shuttleworth (1879-1958), and Sarah Louisa Rice (1879-); one son.

08.11.1918
West Ham district, London
-
03.04.2000
New Ash Green, Gravesend district, Kent

Cadet	? [1506708]
2nd Lt.	07.12.1943 [299572]
WS/Lt.	04.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	10.01.1946-(04.1946)

23.04.1943	-	03.11.1943	133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit, Searchlight Wing, Royal Artillery (Anti-Aircraft), Oswestry, Shropshire
07.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

His son writes: "I know he volunteered in June 1939, and was attached in the early part of the war to the Lancashire Fusiliers. Served in France after D-Day, Belgium and Germany, discharged in early 1946."

Begbey,
David Charles
D.C. Begbey

21.01.1918
-
02.1996
Lewes, Sussex

2nd Lt.	13.06.1942 [235527]
WS/Lt.	13.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

1941	-	13.06.1942	No. 31 Class, 141 Officer Cadet Training Unit (Aldershot)
13.06.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Begbie,
Robert Martin
"Bob"
R.M. Begbie

Married (22.02.1947, St George's, Venice, Italy) Ann Hersh, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Medical Nursing Service.

11.05.1920
-
16.06.2008
Countess of Brecknock Hospice, Andover

Cadet	? [866048]
2nd Lt.	16.01.1944 [314464]
WS/Lt.	16.07.1944
A/Capt.	29.05.1946-28.08.1946
T/Capt.	29.08.1946-23.06.1948
Lt.	03.05.1947, seniority 24.12.1943
Capt.	24.06.1948
Maj.	24.06.1955, seniority 09.11.1954
Lt.Col.	20.07.1962
Col.	30.06.1968 (retd 13.07.1975)

	AirM	30.10.1953	attached 1903 Ind AOP (F/Lt. RAF)
	EM	20.03.1947	?

			served in the ranks (mobilized TA) for 4 years, 136 days
16.01.1944	-	02.05.1947	commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served as Air Observation Post officer
29.06.1948	-	03.1950	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Army Air Liaison Group
15.11.1957	-	08.09.1958	Flight Commander, Army Air Corps Centre
19.12.1959			transferred to Army Air Corps
1961	-	1965	Commanding Officer, 656 Squadron (Kluang, Borneo)
01.06.1965	-	(02.1967)	General Staff Officer, 1st class (GSO1), Army Air Corps JWE
			Commandant, Middle Wallop

MRAeS, FBIM

Bégué,
Georges Pierre André

see:

Noble,
George Robert

Behrens,
[Sir] Edward Beddington *
E. Beddington-Behrens

* Known as: Beddington-Behrens, Sir Edward.
Son of late Walter Behrens, President
British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and Evelyn Kate Beddington (?-1910), daughter of late S.H. Beddington, and widow of J.M. Davis.
His twin brother 2nd Lt. Walter Louis Behrens, Royal Field Artillery, was killed in action 10.07.1917.
Married 1st (1931; marriage dissolved) Barbara Jessie Burton ((03?).1910 - 09.1993), daughter of Sir Montague Burton; one daughter. Barbara remarried (1943) Maj. David Karmel.
Married 2nd (09.08.1944, private chapel, Russian House, London SW7; marriage dissolved, 1957) Princess Irena Obolensky (14.09.1917 -), daughter of Prince and Princess Serge Obolensky, of London; one son, one daughter. Irina remarried (1958) George Morton.
Married 3rd (06.1958, Switzerland) Mrs Irene Adela "Renée" Kane (03.11.1906 - 28.05.1989).

07.02.1897
Paris, France
-
28.11.1968
Chesham Place, London SW1
[St James Churchyard, plot 318]

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	15.09.1915 [45951]
Lt.	? (reld 18.02.1919)
A/Capt.	17.10.1918-10.01.1919
Lt. SRO	18.02.1919, seniority 26.11.1917
Lt. RARO	16.06.1920, seniority 26.11.1917
Maj.	10.05.1939 (retd 01.09.1948; exceeded age limit)

Kt	13.06.1957	HM's birthday 57: for services to the European Movement [investiture 16.07.57]
CMG	01.06.1953	HM's coronation: for services to the Economic League for European Co-operation
MC	16.08.1917	*
MC	22.06.1918	**

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During a very heavy bombardment of his battery he showed the greatest courage and promptitude in extinguishing fires amongst camouflage and ammunition. He also brought under cover a sergeant who was badly wounded. His energy prevented the destruction of much ammunition and material.
** For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Whilst acting as forward observation officer he maintained his communications for four hours under a heavy barrage, and sent back much useful information. On the infantry being forced to withdraw, he manned a trench with his observation post party, in addition to which he maintained communication with his battery, which was thus able to do great execution in the enemy ranks. On the following day, although all communication was cut, he succeeded in keeping a line in working order for a period of ten hours, thus enabling artillery fire to be brought to bear on hostile attacks. His fearlessness and determination were magnificent and his energy unremitting.

Education: Charterhouse; RMA, Woolwich U(nderOfficer); Christ Church, Oxford (blue, athletics); London University (Ph.D Econ.).

			served in the ranks, Inns of Court Officers Training Corps
15.09.1915			commissioned, East Anglian Brigade - Royal Field Artillery - Territorial Force
			Served European War, 1915-1918 (despatches, MC and bar)
17.10.1918	-	10.01.1919	Second-in-Command of a Battery
18.02.1919	-	16.06.1920	Special Reserve of Officers
16.06.1920	-	09.05.1939	General Reserve of Officers (renamed: Regular Army Reserve of Officers)
10.05.1939			commissioned, Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1939	-	1940	regimental officer Belgian Campaign and Dunkirk
02.07.1940	-	(04.1941)	General Staff Officer (GSO) with GHQ, British Expeditionary Force
			served, Auxiliary Units
(04.1944)	-	(04.1946)	unemployed list

Permanent Secretariat of League of Nations (ILO), 1921-1924; representing League of Nations at numerous International conferences; occasional lecturer London School of Economics; instrumental in forming National Housing Committee, 1934, and Army League, 1937; Vice-President European League for Economic Cooperation; Chairman Central and Eastern European Commission, 1952; Vice-Chairman and one of founder members of European Movement; Chief Organiser Commonwealth Conference of European League for Economic Cooperation, 1951, and Central and Eastern European Conference, 1952, Chairman: European Industrial Conference, 1958; Political and Economic Conference of the Seven, 1960; Conference on Central and Eastern Europe. Brussels, 1963; Conference on European Co-operation in Advanced Technology, 1965; European Telecommunications Conference, 1967. Former President, Army League; President of the European Atlantic Group. Chairman: Jeremiah Ambler Ltd; Ocean Trust Co. Ltd; Bedco Ltd.
Published: Look back, look forward (1963); Why Britain must join Europe (1966); numerous articles on political and economic questions.

Belgeonne,
Xavier Peter Edward
X.P.E. Belgeonne (Photo courtesy of Nicolette Talbot, née Belgeonne)

Son of Oscar Victor Henri Belgeonne (1877-1935), and Gabrielle Gysels (1889-1974).
Married 1st (1937, Antwerp, Belgium; divorced 1948) Marie-Terese Joseph Antonia "Terry" Verellen (16.04.1918 - 12.04.2001), daughter of Eugenius Antonius Paulinus Theophilus Verellen (1893-1953), and Lucie Leonie Louisa Ghislaine Marie Georlette (1891-1979); two daughters, two sons. Terry Belgeonne remarried (1948) Horace Nigel Marriott Baird (1918-2016).
Married 2nd (16.07.1948, London) Berenice Ellen Lumb (06.02.1917 - 23.09.1977); one son, one daughter.
Married 3rd ((12?).1977, Westminster, London) Annick Marie Laroche (06.1938 - ).

07.12.1915
Elham district, Kent
-
19.10.1993
Ballycronigan, Kilrane, Co. Wexford, Eire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.02.1943 [262622]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	12.03.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

Crwn

17.09.1948

25.02.1943			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE)
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Bell,
Edwin Alexander
E.A. Bell (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Brack)

Son of ... Bell, and ... Marsden.

27.05.1912
Doncaster district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire / Yorkshire - West Riding
-
22.06.1986
Northallerton district, Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	21.08.1935 [65878]
Lt.	21.08.1938 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	23.06.1940-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-

21.08.1935			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
1939?	-	1942	[Second-in-Command?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (served in France 10.09.1939-24.06.1940, then UK, then Middle East, being captured at Tobruk)
1942	-	1945	POW (No. 2725) in Italian/German captivity (Stalag Va, Ludwigsburg)
28.05.1949	-	27.05.1967	transferred, Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Bell,
Hubert Graham
H.G. Bell (Photo courtesy of Mrs Rosemary Hodge)

Son of Harry Graham Bell (1888-1950), and Supt. Grace [Ellen Effingham] Laughton, WRNS (1889-1975).
From Bristol.
Married (11.07.1945) Monica Shirley Mitchell (21.10.1919 - 28.02.2001), daughter of Shirley Charles Cameron Mitchell (1879?-), and Jane Ann Glasier (1879-); five children.

18.12.1919
Hereford district, Herefordshire / Monmouthshire
-

2nd Lt.	01.07.1939 [95075]
WS/Lt.	02.12.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	02.09.1940-01.12.1940
T/Capt.	02.12.1940-24.02.1945
WS/Capt.	25.02.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	14.07.1941-06.09.1941. 20.01.1945-24.02.1945
T/Maj.	25.02.1945-30.06.1952
Maj.	01.07.1952 (retd 01.07.1960)

	MBE	28.06.1945	Italy
	MID	31.05.1955	?

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; MA; Staff College (psc).

01.07.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(1944)			instructor at a bridging school that had been moved from North Africa to Capua, thirty odd kilometres north of Naples; then Adjutant to the Bengal Sappers and Miners of 8th Indian Division in the middle of the Battle of Cassino
01.1945			Staff Officer at HQ Eighth Army

Bell,
John Hogan
J.H. Bell

Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

29.12.1915
Hong Kong
-
02.2001
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	11.02.1940 [121167]
WS/Lt.	11.08.1941 (reld > 04.1945, < 07.1945)

			164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
11.02.1940			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [emergency commission]
03.08.1941			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.08.1943			transferred, Indian Army (Royal Indian Army Service Corps, attached Royal Artillery)

Bell,
Leonard Charles
L.C. Bell

Married ...; ... children.

28.12.1891
Epping district, Essex
-
26.12.1976
Hastings, East Sussex

2nd Lt.	17.02.1917, seniority 05.06.1916 [14316]
Lt.	05.12.1917
A/Capt. Indian Army	09.07.1918-20.03.1919, 06.05.1919-14.09.1919
Capt.	26.05.1927 (regimental seniority 28.06.1920)
Bt. Maj.	01.07.1935
Maj.	26.05.1936
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1938
Col.	30.08.1939 (retd 20.01.1943)
A/Brig.	04.11.1941-(01.1942)
T/Brig.	04.02.1942?-...
Hon. Brig.	20.01.1943

	MC	01.01.1918	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?

1915	-	04.09.1915	served in the ranks & mobilized Territorial Force (for 90 days)
05.09.1915	-	16.02.1917	mobilized, Special Reserve of Officers (for 1 year, 165 days) [from 10.01.1916 with Army Signal Service] (04.1916-28.04.1916 & 28.05.1916-13.10.1917 France & Belgium)
17.02.1917			commissioned, The Black Watch
17.05.1919	-	20.05.1922	served with Indian Signal Service
21.05.1922	-	03.11.1922	served with Corps of Royal Signals
04.01.1922			transferred, Corps of Royal Signals
11.12.1924	-	10.12.1928	Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
10.01.1933	-	12.03.1936	Staff Captain, War Office
13.03.1936	-	31.03.1938	Deputy Assistant Director (Signals), War Office
01.04.1938	-	11.12.1938	specially employed, War Office
12.12.1938	-	29.08.1939	Assistant Chief Signal Officer (Territorial Army)
30.08.1939	-	03.11.1941	specially employed (Assistant Director)
20.01.1943	-	28.12.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers - General List [attained age limit]

Bell,
Leslie James
L.J. Bell

08.03.1915 ?
-

2nd Lt.	29.05.1937 [71819]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	11.12.1939 (reld from active service < 04.1946)
Capt.	29.05.1945
T/Maj.	11.12.1939-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Maj.	01.05.1947
Lt.Col.	11.10.1951
Bt. Col.	12.10.1955

MID	11.01.1945	Italy
TD	16.02.1951	& 1st clasp
TD	25.10.1955	2nd clasp
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 8th Army
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-
Cor M	-	-

29.05.1937			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (4th Survey Company)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(05.1944)			Officer Commanding, 46th Survey Battery RA (3rd Survey Regiment RA) (Cassino)
			possibly staff officer, 6th Army Group Royal Artillery
31.10.1956	-	08.03.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Bell,
Michael Purcell
M.P. Bell

Son of Theodore Bell (1889-1974), and Helen Purcell (1884-1970).
Married Doris Helen Anspach (03.02.1917-20.06.1991).

22.07.1916
Harrogate, Yorkshire
-
04.1981
Vallejo, CA (USA)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164523]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942 (reld 17.05.1946)
T/Capt.	22.04.1942-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?	?
Hon. Capt.	17.05.1946

Bur St

[ 1939	-	1940	served Black Watch ?] (evacuated from Dunkirk, 06.1940)
			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
21.12.1940			commissioned, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) [emergency commission]
20.09.1942	-	(04.1944)	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), staff, Eastern Army (India)

Bell,
Roger Francis
R.F. Bell

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.08.1940 [143202]
WS/Lt.	10.02.1942
T/Capt.	13.11.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	03.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	03.06.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946

	MC	31.08.1944	Normandy
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

?	-	10.08.1940	102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.08.1940			commissioned, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.12.1940			transferred, 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons), Royal Armoured Corps

Bellamy,
Lionel Gale
"Bill"
L.G. Bellamy

Only son of Capt. Ronald Vincent Bellamy, salesman, and Olive Helen Gale, dress designer, of Shaldon, Devon.
Married 1st (14.09.1950, The Church of Our Lady and St Patrick, Teignmouth, Devon) Ann Gillian Winter Burbury (17.10.1928 - 07.2001), elder daughter of Dr & Mrs D.R.W. Burbury, of Luchana, Teignmouth, Devon; four sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (2007) Felicity Sidders.
Residence: (1945) Kettering.

01.12.1923
Northampton, Northamptonshire
-
18.03.2009
Barnstaple, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.03.1943 [267985]
WS/Lt.	20.09.1943
T/Capt.	27.08.1945-18.01.1946
2nd Lt.	19.01.1946, seniority 01.12.1944
Lt.	01.06.1946
Capt.	01.12.1950 (retd 31.12.1954; receiving a gratuity)

01.03.1945

NW Europe: for his bravery during the battle for the hamlet of Doornhoek, near St. Joost in Holland 22.10.44 [presented by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery 05.03.45]

Education: Hawthorn Community Primary School, Kettering; Blackfriars (Dominican) boarding school, Laxton.

12.1941			enlisted
			training, Bovington Camp, Dorset
1942?	-	20.03.1943	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
20.03.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 18.01.1946]
1943	-	(1945)	8th King's Royal Irish Hussars (UK, North Africa, UK, NW Europe)
19.01.1946			permanent commission
16.08.1947			transferred, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars (Adjutant for some time)
			Adjutant, Northamptonshire Regiment

Became a successful businessman in the Northampton area, a director of the footwear manufacturer Phipps and Son and, after a merger, a board member of Chamberlain Phipps. Retired 1983 to Great Brington.
Published: Troop leader : a tank commander's story (2005).

Bellhouse,
John Leader
J.L. Bellhouse (Photo courtesy of Chirs Bellhouse)

Fourth child & youngest son of Rev. James Hugh Bellhouse (1874-1956), and Florence Cathinka de Rougemont (1876-1968).
Married (30.06.1937, Christ Church, Dickoya, Colombo, Ceylon) Betty Constance Fawkes (05.07.1912 - 27.07.2001), daughter (with two sisters) of Rupert Edward Francis Fawkes, CBE (1879-1967), and Mary Theodora Adams (1880-1973); one son, one daughter.

29.04.1910
Parkside East, Stratton, Winchester district, Hampshire
-
07.08.1999
Amesbury, Salisbury district, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.07.1942 [240793]
WS/Lt.	05.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A?/Capt.	?

Tea & rubber planter in Ceylon.

			served in the ranks in the Ceylon Mounted Rifles
1942			cadet course, School of Artillery, Deqlali
05.07.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Benham,
Jack Armstrong
J.A. Benham

Son (with at least two brothers) of Ernest Benham, and Gladys E. Armstrong.

(12?).1919
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
08.10.1941
(KIA) [age 22]
[Tehran War Cemetery, Iran, 6.B.9]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.11.1940 [158201]

Education: Woking County Grammar School for Boys, Surrey.

?	-	22.11.1940	142nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.11.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (Transportation Branch) [emergency commission]

Benjamin,
Eric Isaac
E.I. Benjamin (Photo courtesy of Mrs Suzy Cohn)

Married ((12?).1939, Stepney district, London) Rachel Lily Greenspan; ... children (one daughter?).

12.04.1916
Mile End district, London
-
01.10.1964
Middlesex Hospital, St Marylebone, London (formerly of Wembley Park, Middlesex)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.05.1943 [276020]
WS/Lt.	08.02.1944 (reld 05.07.1944)

08.05.1943

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Certified accountant.

Benjamin,
Ernest Frank
"Benjie"
E.F. Benjamin

Son of Frank David Benjamin (1866?-1937), and Rachael Levy, of London.
Married (27.09.1928, West London Synagogue, Upper Berkeley Street, London) Noël Rosemary Crole Wyndham (24.12.1898 - 03.01.1988) (formerly Mrs Cyril N. Wilson), daughter of Col. Walter George Crole Wyndham (1857-1948), CB, and Evelyn Mary Stewart (1871-1958), of Camberley, Surrey; two sons, one daughter.

05.02.1900
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
-
14.03.1969
Odiham Hospital, Aldershot district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	17.07.1919 [18035]
Lt.	17.07.1921
Capt.	17.07.1930
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	29.01.1941-28.04.1941
T/Lt.Col.	29.04.1941-01.12.1941, 27.12.1941-04.09.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	05.09.1944
Lt.Col.	13.05.1945 (supernumerary 13.05.1948) (retd 04.09.1950)
A/Col.	05.03.1944-04.09.1944
T/Col.	05.09.1944-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	19.05.1944-18.11.1944
T/Brig.	19.11.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	04.09.1950

	CBE	13.12.1945	Italy
	MID	08.07.1943	Middle East (East Africa, Madagascar)

Education: Clifton College (1913.3-1918.1; Polack's House); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1918-1919); Staff College, Camberley (06.1933-1934; psc).

17.07.1919			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1920			served in Turkey, Malaya and Madagascar
03.10.1922	-	22.09.1923	Adjutant, Royal Engineers, Kilia (Chanak)
24.05.1927	-	22.11.1931	Adjutant, 49th (West Riding) Divisional Engineers (Territorial Army) (Sheffield)
(09.1935)	-	(10.1935)	served in India
10.01.1936	-	10.01.1939	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Malaya Command (Singapore)
13.02.1940	-	04.06.1940	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), V Corps (Home Forces)
05.06.1940	-	18.06.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), V Corps (Home Forces)
19.06.1940	-	30.11.1941	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), V Corps (Home Forces)
27.12.1941	-	13.05.1942	Commander Royal Engineers, ... (Madagascar)
14.05.1942	-	29.12.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
15.02.1943	-	18.11.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (Middle East)
19.11.1943	-	04.03.1944	Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ... (Middle East)
05.03.1944	-	18.05.1944	Deputy Director of Military Training (DDMT), ... (Middle East)
19.05.1944	-	09.10.1944	Commandant, Combined Training Centre (Middle East and Italy)
20.10.1944	-	1946	Commander, Jewish Brigade Group (North Africa, Italy, NW Europe)
1946			Commanding Officer, No. 1 Training Battalion RE
1947			Colonel Commandant, RE Depot
1948			VIII Corps (British Army of the Rhine)
1949			Chief Engineer, Hong Kong

Benn,
Robin Victor Mackenzie
R.V.M. Benn

Son (with two brothers) of Percival Edward Benn (1882-1919), and Annie Florence "Zoe" Carpenter (1889-1976).
Married (26.03.1940, Beaulieu Abbey, New Forest district, Hampshire) Naomi Edith Warton (04.02.1917 - 15.12.1992), daughter of Robert Baker Warton (1882-1965), and Lizzie Emma Hulme Thwaites (1878-1968); four sons.

28.12.1918
Millstreet, Co. Cork, Ireland
-
13.06.1993
Banbury, Oxfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138116]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1942
A/Capt.	05.10.1942-04.01.1943
T/Capt.	05.01.1943-06.01.1944, 19.10.1944-02.03.1945, 24.05.1945-16.07.1946
Lt.	01.09.1950, seniority 15.05.1942 20.06.1951, seniority 11.11.1941
Capt.	01.09.1950, seniority 01.07.1947 20.06.1951, seniority 01.07.1946
Maj.	11.05.1954
T/Lt.Col.	29,08,1960-02.10.1963
Lt.Col.	03.10.1963
Brig.	30.06.1972 (retd 13.02.1975)

OBE

01.01.1967

New Year 67 [recommendation available upon request]

Education: Exeter College, Oxford University (MA; Ashworth Parkinson Scholar).

			served in the ranks for 203 days
04.07.1940			commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission to 16.07.1946]
15.05.1942			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			seconded, No. 2 Commando:
26.06.1944			Intelligence Officer
04.09.1944			parachute training course
19.10.1944			Officer Commanding, No. 1 Troop
17.07.1946	-	31.08.1950	Unemployed List (Release Regulations 1945)
17.07.1946			commissioned, General List - Territorial Army (Bedford School Contingent, Junior Training Corps. Training Corps)
01.09.1950			short service commission, Royal Army Educational Corps
20.06.1951			permanent commission, Royal Army Educational Corps
01.03.1952	-	24.02.1953	Staff Officer, 2nd grade (Education), HQ British Army of the Rhine
28.05.1953	-	14.08.1956	Headmaster, Slim School Cameron Highlanders
29.08.1960	-	(02.1967)	Headmaster (& from 01.1966 Commandant), Duke of York's Royal Military School (Dover) (OBE)

Bennett,
Charles Vere
C.V. Bennett

Second son of Lt.Col. Alfred Charles Bennett, DSO, West Yorkshire Regiment (died 1915), and E. Charlotte Vere-Hopgood, of Ardleigh Park, Colchester.

24.12.1892
Sturminster district, Dorset
-
28.11.1964
Tewkesbury Hospital (formerly of Dunshill Farm, Corse Lawn, Gloucester)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt. (prob)	18.05.1912 [4882]
2nd Lt.	03.12.1914, seniority 14.08.1914
T/Lt.	01.05.1915-14.09.1915
Lt.	15.09.1915
T/Capt.	01.02.1916-28.11.1917
Capt.	29.11.1917
A/Maj.	11.02.1920-11.01.1921
local Maj.	01.04.1933-24.04.1935
Maj.	25.10.1935
local Lt.Col.	25.04.1935
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1936
A/Lt.Col.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Lt.Col.	03.12.1939-05.02.1941
WS/Lt.Col.	06.02.1941
Lt.Col.	18.04.1941
A/Col.	29.02.1940-31.03.1940, 09.09.1940-05.02.1941
T/Col.	06.02.1941-22.06.1941
Col.	23.06.1941, seniority 01.07.1939 (supernumerary 31.07.1945) (retd 31.10.1946)
A/Brig.	15.09.1941-14.03.1942
T/Brig.	15.03.1942-15.12.1943, 14.02.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Brig.	31.10.1946

OBE	23.06.1936	HM's birthday 36: Somaliland Camel Corps
MID	15.06.1916	?
MID	30.12.1941	?
14\|15 St	-	& clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
IndGSM	-	& clasp Waziristan 19-21
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Jub M	-	-
Cor M 37	-	-

Education: Army School, Stratford-on-Avon; AMIMechE.

18.05.1912	-	02.12.1914	commissioned, 3rd Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) - Special Reserve of Officers (mobilized to 02.12.1914 for 120 days)
03.12.1914			commissioned, Army Service Corps (later Royal Army Service Corps)
22.09.1914	-	12.1914	served in France/Flanders
08.1915	-	11.11.1918	served in France/Flanders
			served in India
01.05.1928	-	21.01.1930	instructor, Army Technical School (Boys) (Chepstow, Monmouthshire)
22.01.1930	-	30.04.1930	Administrative Officer, Army Technical School (Boys) (Chepstow, Monmouthshire)
14.01.1932	-	07.01.1938	employed with King's African Rifles:
01.04.1933	-	24.04.1935	Second-in-Command, Somaliland Camel Corps
25.04.1935	-	(01.1937)	Commanding Officer, Somaliland Camel Corps
(01.1939)			Commander, Royal Army Service Corps (CRASC), 1st Division (Aldershot)
29.02.1940	-	31.03.1940	Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, ...
09.09.1940	-	15.12.1943	Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport, East Africa
14.02.1944	-	(04.1946)	Director of Salvage, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office

In Jan 1939, Nov 1939 & Apr 1941 also shown as Member of the General Committee of the Army Motor Cycling Control Board, later Army Motor Cycling Association.

Bennett,
Clifford George Stanley
C.G.S. Bennett (Photo courtesy of Norma-Lynne Bennett)

Married ...; three daughters.

22.06.1915
-
26.02.1996
Fulham district, London

2nd Lt.	13.03.1943 [277999]
A/Capt.	20.11.1943-19.02.1944
T/Capt.	20.02.1944-08.04.1949
Lt.	01.10.1946, seniority 13.09.1943 09.04.1949, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt.	09.04.1949, seniority 22.06.1946
T/Maj.	03.05.1950-21.06.1951
Maj.	22.06.1951
T/Lt.Col.	17.11.1956-02.04.1959
Lt.Col.	03.04.1959
T/Col.	18.06.1964-27.08.1964
Col.	28.08.1964 (retd 06.07.1967)

			served in the ranks for 4 years, 107 days
13.03.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission to 30.09.1946]
01.10.1946			short service commission
09.04.1949			permanent commission
16.08.1954	-	06.11.1956	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), War Office
17.11.1956	-	26.09.1959	C.P. & W.S.O., Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester
(1961)			Commander, RAOC, Malta
19.11.1962	-	07.06.1964	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), War Office
18.06.1964	-	(01.1967)	Commandant, 15 Advance Base Ordnance Depot, British Army of the Rhine

AMBIM, later MBIM.

Bennett,
Douglas Prest
D.P. Bennett (Photo courtesy of Jacky Prior)

Son (with one sister) of Ernest Grant Bennett (1883-1925), and Ida May Cullen (1885-1966).
Brother of Sister [later Col.] Phyllis Grant Bennett, CBE, RRC, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
Married 1st (28.10.1939, Saffron Walden district, Essex) Phyllis May Reeves (31.05.1921 - 30.10.1968); two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (26.07.1969, Saffron Walden district, Essex) Margaret Grace Dupont (06.09.1926 - 14.03.2016).

17.06.1911
Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire
-
09.02.1995
Lincoln district, Lincolnshire

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	26.05.1939 [91645]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	12.09.1942-08.03.1944
WS/Capt.	09.03.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	1945?
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

			served in the ranks, Royal Artillery
26.05.1939			commissioned, The Essex Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			seconded, Nigeria Regiment - Royal West Africa Frontier Force
1946?	-	17.01.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Bennett,
Edmund Harley
"Ted"
E.H. Bennett (Photo courtesy of Mr John Paule)

Son of Frank R. Bennett, and Ethel D. Plank.
Married Julia, from West Virginia, USA; one son, one daughter.

10.05.1919
Manchester, Stockport district, Lancashire
-
1987
Leicestershire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.05.1940 [130662]
WS/Lt.	18.11.1941
A/Capt.	06.11.1943-05.02.1944
T/Capt.	06.02.1944-(04.1946)
Lt.	12.02.1952
Capt.	01.02.1954

18.05.1940

either 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit

18.05.1940

commissioned, The Manchester Regiment [emergency commission]

machine gunner in the Battle of El Alamein (wounded in the stomach)

12.1943

1945?

worked for Military Attaché, Washington (USA)

worked for Special Operations Executive (SOE), being selected to execute the assassination of Hitler (Operation Foxley)

From: Operation Foxley : the British plan to kill Hitler (1998)

12.02.1952

commissioned, The Manchester Regiment - Territorial Army

12.01.1957

transferred, The Manchester Regiment - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Manager of the family textile company, later worked as a writer of instruction manuals for the nuclear power industry.

Bennett,
Graham Townsend
K. Bennett

Son of Charles G.S. Bennett (1868?-), and Rose E. Bennett (1866?-).
Married ((06?).1923, Brentford district, Middlesex) Alice Muriel Hitching (1896-); two sons, one daughter.

30.10.1895
Pelsall, Walsall district, Staffordshire
-
28.11.1955
Thame, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt. (prob)	?
2nd Lt.	30.03.1915, seniority ?
Lt.	? (reld)
Lt.	16.01.1940 [115839]
WS/Capt.	30.03.1940
WS/Maj.	21.02.1941 (reld 03.07.1941; ill-health)
A/Lt.Col.	21.11.1940-20.02.1941
T/Lt.Col.	21.02.1941-03.07.1941
2nd Lt.	28.05.1942
WS/Maj.	23.03.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Lt.Col.	23.03.1943-(07.1945)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945
Maj.	26.02.1949

	OBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe 44-45
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe [+ 3 other despatches ?]

Education: Merchant Venturer's School, Bristol; University of Bristol (...-1919; BSc); AMInstCE (1922), MInstCE (1945), MIMunE.

?	-	1919	commissioned, 6th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment - Special Reserve of Officers
Apprenticed as a Junior Assistant to Messrs A. P. Cotterell & Sons, consulting engineers in waterworks and sewerage, 1920-1925. Engineering Assistant with the Oxfordshire County Council, 1925-1927. County Surveyor of Oxfordshire, 1927-1948.
16.01.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
21.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), ...
28.05.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
26.02.1949			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army

County Surveyor of Buckinghamshire, 1948-1955.

Bennett,
Kenneth
K. Bennett

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.10.1941 [210402]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 17.01.1947; disability)
Hon. Lt.	17.01.1947

04.10.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Bennett,
Ralph Francis
R.F. Bennett

Son of Ralph Bennett, a veterinarian, and Constance Amelia Elkington.
Married ((03?).1939, Cambridge) Daphne Harries Meyler, a royal biographer (06.10.1912 - 04.1996); two sons.

18.10.1911
Romford district, Essex
-
05.08.2002
Richmond upon Thames district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [162717]
WS/Lt.	1941?
WS/Capt.	25.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	25.01.1943-(04.1946)

Education: Royal Liberty School, Romford, Essex; Magdalene College, Cambridge University (Hulsean Prize for Church History); Munich University (1935).

?	-	21.12.1940	Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
02.1941	-	1945	Government Code & Cypher School, Bletchley Park (Hut 3, the intelligence section)
(10?).1942	-	03.1943	manned an outstation in a flora and fauna museum at Cairo

Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1938-2002, formerly President and Tutor of Magdalene College, University Lecturer in History, 1947-79, Senior Proctor, 1963-64.
Published: The early Dominicans (1937; thesis); First class answers in history (1974; ed.); Ultra in the West : the Normandy campaign 1944-45 (1979); Ultra and Mediterranean strategy (1989); Behind the battle : intelligence in the war with Germany, 1939-45 (1994); Intelligence investigations : how Ultra changed history (1996).

Bennett,
S
S. Bennett

?
-

WS/Lt.

?			commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			3rd Parachute Battalion

Bennison,
Harry
H. Bennison (Photo courtesy of Mr Kenneth H. Bennison)

Son of William and Clara Bennison.
Married ...; ... children.

02.11.1906
Prescott, Lancashire
-
03.03.1965
Aldershot, Hampshire (formerly of Farnborough, Hampshire)

Fus.	06.07.1925 [3441905]
L/Cpl.	22.03.1930
Cpl.	01.02.1933
Sgt.	13.07.1939
Pl.Sgt.Maj.	02.04.1940
Wt.Offr. cl. II	18.06.1940
Coy.Sgt.Maj.	18.09.1940
Lt. (QM)	16.06.1943 [297660]
A/Capt. (QM)	01.04.1945-30.08.1945
T/Capt. (QM)	31.08.1945-14.12.1945 (reld 14.12.1945)

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Cor M 37	-	-

06.07.1925			enlisted service, The Lancashire Fusiliers
24.01.1926			1st Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers
06.12.1927			2nd Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers (to Wellington, India; 1931 Amritsar; 28.12.1934 Haifa, Palestine; 10.03.1936 Colchester, UK)
06.02.1933			Assistant Instructor, The Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar
16.01.1940			7th HB
18.06.1940			50th HB, then 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers (25.03-10.07.1941 Scotland, Peterhead, Fraserburgh & Glasgow; 11.07.1941 embarked for Malta)
16.06.1943			commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers
26.06.1943			Middle East
10.08.1943			3rd Mechanised Regiment Arab Legion
24.10.1943			HQ Force 133 (Bari, Italy)
02.10.1944			Central Mediterranean Forces
29.08.1945			disembarked in UK

Benson,
Ian James Wishaw
J.L. Berry

Son of John Robinson Benson (1869-), and Enid Wishaw.
Married ((03?).1941, Samford district, Suffolk) Joan Benson; ... children (one son, one daughter?).
Lived at Carrigane Lodge, Ballyduff, County Waterford, Ireland,

(06?).1920
Devizes district, Wiltshire
-

2nd Lt.	23.07.1938 [76425]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld 12.03.1945; disability)
T/Capt.	06.08.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	12.03.1945

23.07.1938			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) - Territorial Army (Trowbridge)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1939?			Adjutant's Assistant, Regimental Depot The Wiltshire Regiment (Devizes)
1940?			Adjutant, Regimental Depot The Wiltshire Regiment (Devizes)
07.1942			Intelligence Officer, Sussex - Auxiliary Units
1943			Auxiliary Training Officer, covering all areas from Orkney Isles Southward
1944	-	1945	Camp Commandant at GHQ Coleshill

Benson,
Leo Orton
L.O. Benson

Son (with two sisters) of Nathan Benson (1880-1917), and Alice Orton (1880-1918).
Married ((06?).1942, Bridgend district, Kent) Rene Joye Woolf (28.06.1919 - 26.08.2008), daughter (with four brothers and one sister) of Alfred Isaac Woolf (1894-1959), and Catherine Violet Morris (1895-1958); two daughters, one son.

01.06.1911
Spennymoor, Auckland district, Durham
-
30.12.2005
Alliston, Simcoe, Ontario,Canada

2nd Lt.	03.01.1942 [220904]
WS/Lt.	03.01.1942
T/Capt.	12.05.1942-(10.1945) (reld <> 10.1945, 01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

03.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...

Bentham,
Derrick John
D.J. Bentham

(09?).1919
Edmonton district, Oxfordshire
-
26.06.1966
Enfield district, London

2nd Lt.	21.09.1940 [149202]
WS/Lt.	21.03.1942
T/Capt.	11.11.1944-(04.1946)

21.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Fusiliers [emergency commission]
01.08.1942			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			3rd Parachute Battalion

Beresford-Peirse,
Sir Noel Monson de la Poer
N.M. de la P. Beresford-Peirse

Son of late Col. William John de la Poer BeresfordPeirse and Mary, daughter of Thomas Chambers of Aberfoyle, Co. Derry.
Married 1st (12.1912, Chelsea) Hazel Marjorie (whom he divorced, 1924), daughter of late J.A. Cochrane, Riverina, Australia.
Married 2nd (22.12.1925, Kensington, Greater London) Jean (died 1926), only child of late SurgeonCaptain R.D. Jameson, CMG, RN.
Married 3rd (27.07.1929), Katharine Camilla, daughter of late Col J.M.C. Colvin, VC.

22.12.1887
-
14.01.1953

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.12.1907 [4085]
Lt.	18.12.1910
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj.	01.07.1917-04.12.1917
Maj.	05.12.1917
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1929
Lt.Col.	16.11.1935
Col.	14.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1932
T/Brig.	09.01.1939-30.08.1940
A/Maj.Gen.	05.08.1940-30.08.1940
Maj.Gen.	31.08.1940, seniority 25.06.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	14.04.1941-03.04.1942, 09.04.1942-18.04.1942
T/Lt.Gen.	19.04.1942-16.11.1942
Lt.Gen.	17.11.1942 (retd 13.06.1947)

KBE	04.03.1941	Middle East
CB	01.01.1943	New Year 43
DSO	01.01.1918	Mesopotamia
MID	12.03.1918	Mesopotamia
MID	01.04.1941	Middle East 08.39-11.40
MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Wellington College, Berkshire; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (psc).

18.12.1907			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.08.1913	-	30.06.1916	Adjutant, 3rd Home Counties (Cinque Ports) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force
01.07.1917	-	28.11.1918	? (14-24.11.1914 Egypt, 18.5.1916-24.12.1917 Mesopotamia, 9.1-20.3.1918 Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 4-11.1918 France & Belgium)
29.11.1918	-	11.04.1919	Brigade Major, Royal Artillery (France)
09.03.1920	-	08.03.1923	Adjutant, ...
13.07.1927	-	20.06.1929	Brigade-Major, Royal Artillery, Eastern Command (UK)
21.06.1929	-	30.09.1931	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (UK)
04.01.1934	-	15.11.1935	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Southern Command (UK)
08.03.1937	-	13.10.1937	specially employed (India) (local Col.)
14.10.1937	-	08.01.1939	Instructor, Senior Officers' School (Belgaum, India)
09.01.1939	-	04.08.1940	Brigadier, Royal Artillery (India, Middle East)
05.08.1940	-	13.04.1941	General Officer Commanding 4th Indian Division (Ethiopia, North Africa)
14.04.1941	-	18.09.1941	General Officer Commanding, Western Desert [Force]
04.10.1941	-	03.04.1942	General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Sudan & Commandant, Sudan Defence Force
09.04.1942	-	09.06.1942	General Officer Commanding, XV Indian Corps (India)
1942	-	1945	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, India
15.04.1945	-	1947	Welfare General, India
1947	-	22.12.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

ADC to the King, 01.08.1939-30.08.1940. Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, 07.10.1944.

Berey,
Brian

Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Cecil William Berey (1878-1945), and Lilian Beatrice Dashper (1883-1957).
Married (1937, Foulden district, Scotland) Gwendoline Helen "Gwen" Hogarth; three daughters.
Residence: Lydford, Okehampton, Devon, later Ecclefechan, Dumfries.

07.07.1912
Wirral district, Cheshire
-
04.2000
Perth, Scotland

2nd Lt.	17.05.1939 [87951]
WS/Lt.	15.05.1940
T/Capt.	21.01.1942-10.05.1944
WS/Capt.	11.05.1944
T/Maj.	11.05.1944-09.07.1945
WS/Maj.	10.07.1945 (> 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	10.07.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

08.05.1953

Education: Clifton College (04.1926-09.1929; School House).

			late Cadet Corporal, Clifton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
17.05.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley
?	-	28.09.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Agricultural agent.

Berney,
Adolph[us] Leonard
A.L. Berney

11.04.1920
-
07.03.2016

Spr.	?
2nd Lt.	23.09.1938
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	28.12.1941-17.08.1942
WS/Capt.	18.08.1942
T/Maj.	18.08.1942-30.06.1946
WS/Maj.	01.07.1946
T/Lt.Col.	01.07.1946-(12.1946)

23.09.1938			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Berridge,
Clifford Thomas
C.T. Berridge (Photo courtesy of Mary Berridge)

Son of John Albert Berridge (1872-), and Winifred Mary Barber (1870-).
Married 1st ((06?).1932, Maidstone district, Kent) Constance M. Robinson.
Married 2nd (05.04.1947, Westminster district, London) Giovanna M. Crostarosa.

28.03.1904
Bittesby, Lutterworth district, Leicestershire
-
25.06.1983
Eastbourne district, East Sussex

2nd Lt.	27.02.1940 [120450]
WS/Lt.	27.08.1941
T/Capt.	25.02.1942-21.10.1943
WS/Capt.	22.10.1943
T/Maj.	22.10.1943-20.01.1945
WS/Maj.	21.01.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
Maj.	04.04.1947, seniority 01.09.1946
T/Lt.Col.	21.01.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	27.05.1960

OBE

20.09.1945

Italy

27.02.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(1942)	-	(1944)	Officer Commanding, 359 Pack Transport Company RASC (Gibraltar, from 1943 Algeria & Tunisia, from 1944 Italy)
(1945)			HQ 21 Italian Pack Group (OBE)
04.04.1947	-	27.05.1960	short service commission

Berry,
Edward Dean Graham
E.D.G. Berry

Son of ... Berry, and ... Thompson.
Married 1st ((03?).1942, Hastings district, Sussex) Margaret L.G. Mills.
Married 2nd ((09?).1955, Kensington district, London) Lorna M. Palmer.

11.09.1913
Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge district, Kent
-
(03?).1973
Mansfield district, Nottinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.04.1943 [273162]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

22.04.1943

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Berry,
George David
G.D. Berry

From Kettering.

?
-

L/Cpl.	(1940)
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.05.1943 [276765]
WS/Lt.	15.11.1943
T/Capt.	01.03.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	23.12.1944
T/Lt.Col.	17.08.1945-(04.1946) (reld 1946)

	MBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe
	MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe

(06.1940)			was at Dunkirk
15.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
			possibly service with HQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")

Berry,
George Gilbert
G.G. Berry

Son of Francis Lawrence Berry, and Amy Marie Berry, of Wimbledon, Surrey.

13.03.1906
Wandsworth district, London
-
27.11.1941
Fort Capuzzo, Libya
(KIA) [age 35]
[Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt, 5.F.10]

2nd Lt.	30.03.1940 [120541]
WS/Lt.	07.05.1941
T/Capt.	07.05.1941-27.11.1941

Education: Oxford University (BA).

30.03.1940

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Berry,
Harold
H. Berry

Home town (1945): Sheffield.

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.09.1939 [161444]
WS/Lt.	14.03.1941
WS/Capt.	14.06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

DSO

28.06.1945

Burma

Education: Firth Park Grammar School.

14.09.1939			commissioned, General List, Infantry (African Colonial Forces Section) [emergency commission]
(1945)			4th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment (DSO)

Berry,
Hubert John
H.J. Berry

?
-

WS/RSM	?
2nd Lt.	20.04.1941 [188573]
Lt. (QM)	?, seniority 20.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. (QM)	22.07.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. (QM)	20.04.1944
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

20.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			specially employed

Berry,
John Law
J.L. Berry

Son of David Rintoul Gregor Berry.

04.01.1922
Camlachie, Glasgow
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.08.1941 [200964]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	15.04.1945-(04.1946)

Worked for the Norwich Union, Edinburgh.

09.08.1941			commissioned, The York and Lancaster Regiment [emergency commission]
			served in Bridlington (beach defence) before heading out to India and The North west Frontier

Berry,
Louis Donald
L.D. Berry

Married ((03?).1931, Plymouth district, Devon) Nora Wilhelmina Dorothy Harris (14.04.1907 - 15.06.1969); one son.

24.03.1903
Southampton, Hampshire
-
29.05.1990
Southampton, Hampshire

S/Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	29.10.1934 [63701]
Lt.	29.10.1937
Capt.	28.01.1939 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Maj.	14.07.1941-(07.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

30.08.1945

29.10.1934			commissioned, 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1945?	-	24.03.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Best,
Albert Frank
A.F. Best (Photo courtesy of Mr Yael Driver)

Son of Albert Malcolm Best, and Lizzie Jane Marner.

09.12.1890
Harrow, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
09.1985
Chichester district, Sussex

T/2nd Lt.	07.12.1914 [26688]
T/Lt.	18.11.1916
T/Capt.	10.06.1917 (reld 04.09.1920)
2nd Lt.	17.12.1920, seniority 20.05.1917
Capt.	08.03.1925 (retd 04.04.1935)
Capt. RARO	04.04.1935, seniority 08.12.1921
Bt. Maj.	01.02.1940
WS/Maj.	05.12.1942
T/Lt.Col.	05.12.1942-(04.1944)
RAFO:
F/Lt.	08.12.1938 (reld 01.02.1940)

03.06.1918

07.12.1914			commissioned, Service Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
08.06.1918	-	04.09.1920	Machine Gun Corps
07.10.1920			The East Lancashire Regiment [permanent commission]
06.08.1931			seconded for service as an Adjutant, Auxiliary Force, India
04.04.1935			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
08.12.1938	-	01.02.1940	commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (Equipment Branch)
1943	-	1943	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Palestine Regiment (Jewish Infantry Brigade Group)
(04.1944)			employed with Cheshire Regiment
04.08.1944			transferred, Pioneer Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
04.07.1945			transferred, The East Lancashire Regiment - Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Best,
Reverend John Kenneth
J.K. Best (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Arnold)

Brother of Dr Margaret Best.

26.12.1887
-
19.04.1981
St Cecilia's Nursing Home, Exeter district, Devon
[buried at Budleigh Salterton]

Chaplain to the Forces 4th class [Capt.]	14.10.1914 (reld 18.12.1926)
Hon. Chaplain to the Forces 3rd class [Maj.]	25.02.1925
Chaplain to the Forces 4th class [Capt.]	17.09.1941 [19338] (reld 26.12.1947)
Hon. Chaplain to the Forces 4th class [Capt.]	26.12.1947

OM	?	?
MC	01.01.1918	?
MID	29.05.1917	?
MID	02.08.1945	NW Europe
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Queen's College, Cambridge (MA, BD).

14.10.1914			commissioned, Chaplains Department of the Territorial Force (Church of England)
17.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission]

The Imperial War Museum hold a collection of letters, diaries, photographs and other material covering his service as a Territorial Force Army Chaplain in the First World War while attached to the 1/3rd East Lancashire Brigade RFA (42nd Division) in Egypt (September 1914 - April 1915) and at Gallipoli (May - September 1915), and then on the Western Front with the 13th and 14th Battalions, York and Lancaster Regiment (94th Infantry Brigade, 31st Division), June 1916 - September 1917, at 94th Brigade Headquarters, September - December 1917, and with the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards (4th Guards Brigade, 31st Division), March 1918 - March 1919, containing much detail about his work as a padre, especially conducting funerals, and with many excellent references to Army life in the front line, civilian conditions in Egypt, Frae and Germany (1919) and harrowing descriptions of the sights and sensations of the fighting on the Suez Canal, at Gallipoli and in France, with specific reference to the Third Battle of Krithia (June 1915), the Battle of the Somme (1916) and the German offensive on the Lys (April 1918); also papers relating to his service as a chaplain during the Second World War, principally while attached to SHAEF (November 1944 - June 1945) at Versailles, France and, from May 1945, in Frankfurt, Germany, with details of civilian conditions and VE Day thanksgiving services.

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