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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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DIXO

DOBB
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B.A.M. Daborn to S.E. Dawson

Daborn,
Brian Alwyne Marston

Son of Alwyne Victor Daborn (1891-
1969), and Emily Margaret Newill
(1892-).

11.07.1920
Kingston district,
Middlesex / Surrey
-
25.01.1983
Camden district,
Greater London (formerly of Shrewsbury)

Dvr.	?
2nd Lt.	06.04.1940 [126560]
WS/Lt.	06.10.1941
T/Capt.	21.08.1943-13.09.1945
WS/Capt.	14.09.1945 (reld 01.09.1946)
T/Maj.	14.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	01.08.1946
Capt.	06.10.1951

OBE

12.06.1976

HM's birthday 76: for services to the British community in Western India

?	-	06.04.1940	RASC (Officer Producing Centre)
06.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
06.10.1951			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Executive in oil/gas processing industry (India, Kenya, etc.).

d'Abreu,
Alphonsus Liguori *
"Pon"

Son of Dr John Francis
d'Abreu (1863-1911), and
Teresa Mary Gertrude
Noonan (1860-1948).
Married (08.01.1935)
Elizabeth Ursula Arienwen
Throckmorton (10.10.1906 -
1970); three daughters.
Residence: (1944) Llandaff,
Cardiff.

* also used as first name:
Alphonso

05.08.1906
West Bromwich
district, Shropshire /
Staffordshire /
Warwickshire /
Worcestershire
-
19.04.1976
Coughton, near
Alcester, Warwickshire

Lt.	15.07.1939 [94581]
WS/Capt.	20.01.1940
T/Maj.	20.01.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	16.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	16.05.1942-(1945)
A/Col.	21.07.1945-...
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946
Maj. RARO	15.07.1949

CBE	08.06.1968	HM's birthday 68: Prof. of Surgery, Birmingham
OBE	24.08.1944	Italy
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

Education: Stonyhurst College; University of Birmingham. MB ChB Birmingham 1930; MRCS, LRCP 1930; FRCS
1932; ChM Birmingham 1936; FRCP 1968 House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar, General Hospital, Birmingham;
Junior Assistant, Surgical Unit, Cardiff Royal Infirmary, University of Wales, 1930-1933, Assistant Director, 1933-1939;
Acting Professor of Surgery, 1945-1946.

15.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
			served in North Africa and subsequently with Eighth Army in Italy (Officer-in-Command of the Surgical Division of a British General Hospital with the Central Mediterranean Forces)
15.07.1949	-	20.04.1951	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Surgeon, United Birmingham Hospitals since 1946; Dean of Medical School 1959-1963, Professor of Surgery,
1963-1971 (of Cardiac Surgery, 1960-1963), University of Birmingham, Emeritus Professor, 1971; Member, Central
Health Services Council, 1964-1971; Member, Medical Sub-Committee of University Grants Committee, since 1964.
Retired Honorary Consultant in Thoracic Surgery to the Army, 1964-1973. Vice-President, RCS, 1973- (Member
Council, 1963-1974; Hunterian Prof., RCS, 1939 and 1946, Member Court of Examiners, 1957-1963). Visiting
Lecturer in Surgery, Medical School, Harvard University, USA, 1951; John Alexander Lecturer, University of Michigan,
1965; McLauchlin Gallie Visiting Professor, Canada, 1966; Visiting Professor, Boston City Hospital (Harvard Unit),
1967. FRSocMed 1946-1971 (Pres., Sect. of Surgery, 1966-1967); President: Soc. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular
Surgeons, 1969-1970; Thoracic Soc., 1969-1970. Honorary Colonel, RAMC (48th Division TA, West Midland District,
01.11.1963-31.03.1967). Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Warwickshire, 28.09.1967.
Published: (with Prof. Lambert Rogers) Everyday Surgery, 1938; A Practice of Thoracic Surgery, 1st edn 1953, 3rd
edn 1971; Intrathoracic Crises (with A. Brian Taylor and David B. Clarke), 1968; edited and contributed Thoracic
Surgery, (Butterworth's) Clinical Surgery, Contributions to medical journals.

Dagg,
Sidney John
S.J. Dagg

Son of Claude John Augustus Dagg (1870-1926), and Eva Margaret Walmsley (1881-1965).

27.06.1911
Alderley Edge, Macclesfield
-
11.10.1988
Chiltern and South Buckinghamshire district

2nd Lt.	04.02.1933
Capt.	27.08.1934
Capt.	27.08.1939
A/Maj.	01.02.1941-30.04.1941
T/Maj.	25.06.1941-10.01.1943
WS/Maj.	11.01.1943
A/Lt.Col.	11.10.1942-10.01.1943
T/Lt.Col.	11.01.1943-11.07.1944, 25.06.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	21.04.1953 (retd 01.04.1958)

MBE

11.07.1940

BA.

			from General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
04.02.1933			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
03.01.1938	-	02.01.1941	General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3), ...
03.01.1941	-	10.05.1941	GSO2 (G.S. Br. ) G.H.Q. (1)
09.1941	-	10.10.1942	GSO2 G.H.Q. (1)
11.10.1942	-	20.01.1943	GSO1
09.06.1944	-	29.11.1944	(Offrs. Pool) S.T.C. (British)
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Dakin,
John Ronald
J.R. Dakin

10.01.1909
Bradford district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
05.04.1996
Bradwell, Newcastle under Lyme district, Staffordshire

2nd Lt.	10.06.1939 [89542]
WS/Lt.	14.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	14.01.1941-(04.1941), 31.07.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt.	27.11.1951, seniority 28.03.1944
Capt.	27.11.1951

24.10.1952

			late Cadet-Sergeant, Bradford Grammar School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
10.06.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1940)			9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)
?	-	27.11.1951	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
27.11.1951	-	21.04.1955	commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
21.04.1955	-	07.02.1959	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Dalby,
Frank Robert

Son of George Harry and Mara Dalby (née Putsey).
Husband of Monica Dalby (née Moulding), of Grantham, Lincolnshire.

12.04.1916
Willesden, Wandsworth district, London
-
18.01.1945
Dieteren, The Netherlands
(KIA) [age 28]
[Nederweert War Cemetery, The Netherlands, III.G.5]

Cadet	? [7604875]
2nd Lt.	22.04.1944 [315203]
WS/Lt.	?

22.04.1944			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
21.08.1944	-	18.01.1945	Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Dalby,
Robert Skaife

Son of Mr & Mrs B. Dalby, of Thorner, Leeds.

12.07.1900
Wetherby district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
28.03.1948
Connaught Military Hospital, Hindhead, Petersfield district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	16.07.1920 [550]
Lt.	16.07.1922
Capt.	16.07.1931
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	10.06.1940-09.09.1940
T/Lt.Col.	10.09.1940-26.09.1940, 27.11.1940-(01.1946)
WS/Lt.Col.	1946?
Lt.Col.	01.07.1946
A/Col.	04.06.1945-(04.1946)

OBE	03.07.1934	Upper Mohmands operations 33
MID	03.07.1934	Upper Mohmands operations 33
MID	18.02.1938	NW Frontier of India 36-37
MID	20.06.1941	?

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp. NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1933 Clasp. NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp. NW Frontier of India 1937-39.

16.07.1920			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
21.12.1942	-	(04.1944)	Staff Officer Royal Engineers, 1st grade (SORE1), Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, India HQ Staff

Dale,
James Alfred

Son of Alfred James Dale (1879-1936), and Henrietta Burgess (1881-1940).
Married ((06?).1947, Sutton Coldfield district, Warwickshire) Dorothy Hartland (15.02.1925 - 12.2002); two sons.

06.01.1921
Bloxwich, Walsall district, Staffordshire
-
10.07.1971
Walsall, Staffordshire

Cadet	? [4917047 ]
2nd Lt.	30.07.1944 [331637]
WS/Lt.	30.01.1945
Lt.	11.06.1952, seniority 09.11.1948
Capt.	01.04.1953
Maj.	21.06.1961

	TD	18.09.1964	-
	EM	14.05.1948	[cancelled due to being awarded TD]

30.07.1944			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
11.06.1952	-	20.06.1961	Territorial Army
21.06.1961	-	04.07.1969	Territorial & Army Volunteer Reserve
05.07.1969	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

His son writes: "Served Indian Signals, attached American Army, air supply liaison with Canadian RCAF transport squadrons. Former Sergeant Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1938-1940 based in India (Munitions Inspector). Commissioned Poona."

Dale,
John Edward
J.E. Dale

1907/08 ?
-
1974 ?

2nd Lt.	24.08.1932 [53560]
Lt.	24.08.1935
A/Capt.	22.07.1940-10.04.1941
WS/Capt.	11.04.1941
T/Maj.	11.04.1941-(01.1944), 03.04.1945-(10.1945)
Capt.	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946 & 18.03.1961

08.02.1945

in recognition of conspicuous gallantry after an explosion following an outbreak of fire at the Bombay Docks 04.44 *

* As a result of an explosion the complete stern of a ship was blown into a main road hi the docks area and fell against a building which was already on fire. This pile of steel, weighing about 20 tons, contained the ship's magazine with live shells and ammunition inside. It became urgently necessary to remove the shells to make the road safe for traffic and this officer working with an oxy-acetylene cutter, successfully accomplished this hazardous task, although several shells exploded within a few feet of him and the whole magazine might have exploded at any time from the heat of the fire underneath. The work continued for eight days under exceedingly dangerous and adverse conditions and throughout the operation this officer's coolness, courage and devotion to duty were outstanding.

24.08.1932			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
28.07.1940	-	18.03.1961	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
22.07.1940	-	(04.1941)	Staff Officer, Royal Engineers, 3rd grade (SORE3), Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, India Headquarters Staff

AMIEE.

Dale,
Leslie Maurice
L.M. Dale

Family name changed from Cohen to Dale by deed poll of 01.09.1938.

Home town (1944): Caversham.

02.07.1914
-
15.10.1988
Edenbridge, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

2nd Lt.	08.03.1941 [176810]
WS/Lt.	08.09.1942
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	10.10.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
A/Maj.	?
Capt. RARO	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

	DSO	15.06.1944	Italy
	MC	13.01.1944	Italy

?	-	08.03.1941	161st or 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.03.1941			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
(1943)	-	(1945)	9th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers (Italy)
01.01.1949	-	21.04.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Dalgleish,
John Walter Brind

15.09.1914
-
30.09.1991
Mayford, Woking, Surrey

2nd Lt.	23.03.1940 [124497]
...	...
WS/Capt.	29.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

23.03.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Dalton,
Benjamin
B. Dalton

From London (NW6).

20.03.1915
-
02.1996
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	22.10.1939 [105089]
WS/Lt.	?
Lt.	17.08.1946, seniority 03.03.1941
A/Capt.	22.11.1941-21.02.1942
T/Capt.	22.02.1942-01.09.1943
WS/Capt.	02.09.1943
Capt.	17.08.1946, seniority 20.03.1946
A/Maj.	02.06.1943-01.09.1943
T/Maj.	02.09.1943-19.03.1951
Maj.	20.03.1951
local Lt.Col.	27.03.1954-06.04.1954
T/Lt.Col.	07.04.1954-20.09.1957 (Employed List 1)
Lt.Col.	15.05.1958 (supernumerary 15.05.1961)
T/Col.	12.09.1960-30.05.1961
Col.	31.05.1961 (retd 02.04.1970)

DSO	20.07.1944	Italy
OBE	01.01.1958	New Year 58: until recently on loan to the Government of Ghana
MID	06.04.1944	Middle East

Education: Staff College (psc).

			served in the ranks for 50 days
22.10.1939			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission to 16.08.1946]
(1944)			1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Italy) [DSO]
17.08.1946			permanent commission
01.12.1947	-	26.01.1950	GSO2, HQ S.P. District
25.05.1950	-	09.04.1952	DAAG, HQ Eastern Command
07.04.1954	-	29.06.1956	AAG, HQ W.A. Command
01.07.1956	-	12.10.1956	AA&QMG, HQ GCMF
13.10.1956	-	16.07.1957	AAG, HQ GMF
29.11.1958	-	12.08.1960	GSO1 (L), HQ 1 (BR) Corps
12.09.1960	-	27.03.1963	Military Adviser to British High Commissioner, Cyprus
31.05.1963	-	31.03.1964	Colonel General Staff, War Office
01.04.1964	-	17.04.1966	Ministry of Defence

Daly,
George Laurence
G.L. Daly

08.12.1913
Dublin South district, Ireland
-
1984

Lt.	02.10.1940 [146954]
WS/Capt.	02.10.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Maj.	29.12.1943-(05.1944)

Education: Trinity College, Dublin (MB, BCh, BAO 1936); MA, MD Dubl 1952. FRCOO 1959 (Member 1947).

02.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
29.12.1943	-	(05.1944)	Medical Officer & Instructor, Middle East Training Centre

Danby,
Cecil Charles
C.C. Danby

From Lymington.

27.07.1904
-
11.03.1989
Newbury district, Berkshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.09.1925 (regimental seniority 29.01.1925) [34243]
Lt.	03.09.1927 (regimental seniority 29.01.1927)
Capt.	03.09.1936
A/Maj.	01.11.1939-31.01.1940
T/Maj.	01.02.1940-22.11.1940
WS/Maj.	23.11.1940
Maj.	03.09.1942
A/Lt.Col.	23.08.1940-22.11.1940
T/Lt.Col.	23.11.1940-03.03.1942, 03.05.1942-24.03.1946
Lt.Col.	25.03.1946 (retd 15.08.1953)
Hon. Col.	15.08.1953

OBE	28.06.1945	Italy
MBE	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42
MID	11.01.1945	Italy
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& 8th Army clasp
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
GenSM	-	& Palestine 45-48 clasp
CorM 53	-	-

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

03.09.1925			commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals
17.07.1929	-	10.05.1935	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force
20.11.1936	-	31.10.1939	Adjutant, 49th (West Riding) Divisional Signals (Territorial Army) (Leeds)
(1945?)			School of Signals (Italy)

Danby,
Clinton Brian
C.B. Danby

Elder son of V.Adm. Sir Clinton Francis Samuel Danby, KBE, CB, and Phyllis Mary Danby, née Antill Pockley of Sydney.
Husband of the late Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Danby, née Davies; two daughters, one son.

14.05.1918
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
25.05.2009
Sorrento, Vict., Australia
[aged 91]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1939 [100245]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 26.05.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	26.05.1946

Education: Repton School; Pembroke College, Cambridge.

28.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			Unemployed List

From his obituary: "He left England in November 1940, in the RMS Narkunda, bound for Penang. On arrival in Malaya Brian was assigned to the Labour Department, for which he had to learn Tamil. For this he was sent to Nagapatam in India, now Nagapattinam, where he managed the Malayan Government’s Emigration Depot, thus avoiding the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942. After its fall he was recalled for military service in India to establish a new training centre in the Central Provinces. In 1943 he was appointed Assistant Malayan Representative in India, based in Bangalore. His job was to contact dependants of South Indian workers trapped by the war in Malaya. By the end of the war he could read and write Tamil fluently."

Danckwerts,
Richard Evelyn
"Dick"
P.V. Danckwerts

Son of V.Adm. Victor Hilary Danckwerts, RN (1890-1944), and Joyce Middleton.

16.04.1918
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
15.07.2013
Hartest, Suffolk

Lt.	21.11.1942 [254106]
WS/Capt.	21.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: studied medicine (MB)

21.11.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Daniell,
Anthony Piers de Tabley
A.P. de T. Daniell

Son of ... Daniell, and ... Griffith-Phibbs.
From Llangfni, Anglesey.

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19.06.1913
Epsom district, Surrey
-
17.11.2011
Church Stretton, Shropshire

2nd Lt.	08.05.1939 [79819]
WS/Lt.	26.11.1940
T/Capt.	26.11.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	25.10.1942
T/Maj.	25.10.1942-(04.1944) (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Maj. TA	19.06.1947, seniority 01.05.1947
A/Lt.Col. TA	01.05.1951
Lt.Cdol. TA	19.06.1951, seniority 01.05.1951
Col. TA	01.11.1956

OBE	02.01.1956	New Year 56
MC	21.09.1944	Italy
MID	27.01.1944	North Africa
TD	?	?
TD	12.01.1951	?

Education: MA, AMInstCE

08.05.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army (from TA Reserve of Officers (General List, RE))
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
26.08.1940	-	(04.1941)	Adjutant, ...
(1944)			59 Field Company RE (Italy)
31.12.1955	-	01.11.1956	transferred to Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.11.1956	-	15.01.1960	restored to the Active List
15.01.1960			transferred to Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Daniell,
John Henry

Son (with one sister) of Capt. Henry Charles Nugent Daniell (1869-1925), and Agnes Mary Lloyd (1873-1954).
Married (24.06.1933, Harlington, Bedfordshire) Pamela Mary Tabor (29.10.1909 - 03.04.1994), daughter (with one brother) of Maj. Sidney Tabor (1876-1948), and Gertrude Mary Green (née Cumberland) (1874-1976); three daughters. Pamela Daniell remarried Jack Allen Hilton (?-1964).
Residence: (1943) Harlington Manor, near Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

10.10.1909
North Mimms, Hertfordshire
-
10.09.1943
(died on active service) [age 33]
[Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar, face 18]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1941 [204075]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	01.04.1942-30.06.1942
T/Capt.	01.07.1942-20.09.1943

Education: Wellington College (1923.1-1927; The Orange).
Went on to study in Germany for several months before he joined the London Stock Exchange. Special Constable in Hertfordshire, 09.1939-11.1939.

11.1939			enlisted
03.1940	-	06.1940	served with British Expeditionary Force (France; evacuated from Dunkirk)
			Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(01.1943)	-	20.09.1943	serving with Indian Army
?	-	20.09.1943	attached H.Q. 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade, Royal Indian Army Service Corps [died in consequence of a motor accident that took place when he was driving back from a duty visit to a neighbouring company]

Darbyshire,
Ian Nance
I.N. Darbyshire

Married Elizabeth (née ...); two sons.

16.06.1918
Southport, Lancashire
-
24.12.2006
Frimley Park Hospital
[age 88]
[Aldershot Crematorium]

Lt.	13.03.1943 [266423]
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	05.1945, seniority 13.03.1944
A/Maj.	15.08.1946-14.11.1946
T/Maj.	15.11.1946-20.12.1950
Maj.	13.03.1951
T/Lt.Col.	21.12.1950-26.11.1952, 16.01.1956-14.05.1960
Lt.Col.	15.05.1960 (retd 16.09.1968)

1939-1945 Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal; War Medal; General Service Medal with clasps Palestine & Malaya

Education: MB BChir (1942); MRCS Eng LRCP Lond (1942); Staff College (psc) (1955)

13.03.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1943	-	1944	British North Africa Force
1944	-	1945	Central Mediterranean Force
05.1945			short service commission
1945	-	1946	Middle East Forces
13.03.1948			permanent commission
03.01.1947	-	20.07.1949	Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), HQ Western Command
21.07.1949	-	31.07.1950	Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), HQ ... Infantry Division (Far East Land Forces)
14.09.1950	-	21.12.1950	Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), HQ, Malaya
1950	-	1952	Commanding Officer, 16th Field Ambulance RAMC (Far East Land Forces)
27.12.1952	-	14.03.1954	Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), HQ ... Infantry Division (TA) (Northern Command)
1956	-	1957	Commanding Officer, 14th Field Ambulance (British Army of the Rhine)
1958	-	1958	Commanding Officer, British Military Hospital Nicosia (Middle East Land Forces)
1958	-	1959	Commanding Officer, British Military Hospital Benghazi (Middle East Land Forces)
1959	-	1960	Commanding Officer, 2nd Field Ambulance (Middle East Land Forces)
1961	-	1961	Commanding Officer, 7th Field Ambulance (British Army of the Rhine)
01.10.1962	-	01.11.1964	Chief Instructor Depot & Training Establishment & HQ, AER, RAMC
13.04.1966	-	1968	Deputy Assistant Director-General (DADG) (Army Medical Department 1), Army Medical Services, Ministry of Defence

Darling,
Douglas Lyall
D.L. Darling (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

03.10.1914
-
28.12.1978

2nd Lt.	30.08.1934 [63638]
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	07.03.1943-30.06.1948
...	...
Maj.Gen.	09.12.1963, seniority 30.11.1963 (retd 18.05.1968)

CB	1968	?
DSO	19.08.1943	?
DSO	23.08.1945	?
MC	08.07.1941	?
MC	13.08.1942	?
MID	19.07.1945	?

30.08.1934			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade
...	-	...	...
30.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
1942	-	1945	Commanding Officer, 7th Battalion The Rifle Brigade
...	-	...	...

Darling,
Thomas Dale
T. Fairbairn

24.10.1918
-
01.10.1978
Bamburgh, Northumberland

2nd Lt.	10.06.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

			late Cadet Serjeant, Fettes College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
10.06.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1940)			9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)

D'Arts,
Ian Douglas
I.D. D'Arts

Son of 2nd Lieut. William Darts (1881-1917; KIA Diyala River, Mesopotamia), 66th Batt. Royal Field Artillery and Kathleen Mary Imray (née Walsh) (1881-1970)
Married (30.05.1940, Deepcut, Frimley, Surrey North Western district, Surrey) Joan Anne Ashfield (17.12.1920 - 07.11.1985); three sons, three daughters..

13.03.1913
Dinapore, India
-
23.10.1985
Tenterden, Kent

L/Bombr. (A.C.)	?
2nd Lt.	02.12.1939 [105815]
WS/Lt.	05.07.1940
T/Capt.	16.10.1942-31.12.1943
WS/Capt.	01.01.1944
T/Maj.	01.01.1944-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.03.1947, seniority 01.01.1944
Maj.	02.12.1952 (reld 01.01.1958)
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1958

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

02.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.03.1947			short service commission
20.08.1953			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers - Movement Control Section

His son writes: "Served in Orkney, staff college in UK, India and Burma, Palestine, Greece, Egypt, Korea, Malta. Joined RE at some time and was Movement Control."

Dashwood,
Arthur Leslie
"Jerry"
A.L. Dashwood

Son of Frank Hammond Dashwood (1881-1943), and Edith Lilian Hartley (1886-1978).
Married (17.09.1938, Trowbridge district, Wiltshire) Inez Maud Perry (01.08.1917 - 03.1998), daughter of Coryndon Augustus Perry (1884-1961), and Florence M. Treadgold; one son, one daughter.

22.06.1910
Swindon district, Wiltshire
-
10.06.2011
Bayford House
Rookwood, Newbury, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	01.04.1936 [67270]
Lt.	01.04.1939
T/Capt.	15.12.1939-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	23.09.1942
Capt.	11.04.1945 09.12.1947, seniority 23.09.1942
T/Maj.	23.09.1942-(04.1946)
Maj.	?
Lt.Col.	01.11.1953

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
TD	30.12.1949	& 1st clasp
TD	29.06.1956	2nd clasp
EM	20.03.1947	[cancelled due to being awarded TD]

Clerk, Swindon CME's Office, Great Western Railways, 1927-1934. Clerk, District Cashier's (Secretary) Office, Westbury, Great Western Railways,1934-...

01.04.1936			commissioned, 217th Battery, 55th (Wessex) Field Brigade (from 1938 112th (Wessex) Field Regiment), Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1939	-	1941	command instructor in gunnery, Southern Command
1941			Middle East School of Artillery
			School of Artillery, Constantine, Algeria, then Eboli, Italy (where he helped direct the guns during the battle of Monte Cassino)
1943	-	1945?	Deputy Assistant of Artillery, Ministry of Supply
1947	-	1953	Second-in-Command, 103rd CB Staff Troops RA (TA)
1953	-	1956	Commanding Officer, 103rd CB Staff Troops RA (TA)
01.08.1956			Unattached List
08.08.1957	-	22.06.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Worked as company secretary for the National Farmers Union and for Agricultural Central Trading.

Dashwood,
Robert Burrard Armand Lewes
R.B.A.L. Dashwood

Son (with three sisters) of Maj. Claude Lewes Burrard Dashwood (1872-1916), and Letitia Le Sueur (1881-1963).
Married (23.07.1938, Bournemouth district, Hampshire) Peggy Violet Reeves (29.12.1916 - 21.08.1963); one daughter, one son.

22.04.1916
Elham district, Kent
-
14.03.1986
Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset

Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	23.12.1940 [161859]
WS/Lt.	29.08.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	29.08.1941-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

Hotel receptionist.

			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps
23.12.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
22.03.1941			transferred, Army Catering Corps

Daunt,
Brian
B. Daunt

Son of Dr William Daunt, Parade House, Hastings.
Mmarried (1938) Millicent Margaret, daughter of Capt.
A.S. Balfour, Allermuir House, Colinton, Edinburgh; two daughters (one son deceased).
Home town (1944): London W.1.

16.03.1900
Holborn, London, Middlesex
-
18.03.1996
Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.07.1920 [17649]
Lt.	15.07.1922
Capt.	15.07.1933
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	21.10.1941-20.01.1942
T/Lt.Col.	21.01.1942-06.03.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	07.03.1945
Lt.Col.	25.02.1946
A/Col.	07.09.1944-06.03.1945
T/Col.	07.03.1945
Col.	01.05.1948, seniority 07.03.1948
A/Brig.	07.09.1944-06.03.1945
T/Brig.	07.03.1945-30.06.1952
Brig.	01.07.1952 (supernumerary 01.05.1954)
T/Maj.Gen.	26.11.1953-28.11.1954
Maj.Gen.	29.11.1954 (retd 23.01.1957)

CB	02.01.1956	New Year 56
CBE	01.06.1953	HM's coronation
DSO	24.02.1944	Italy (Volturno crossing 13.10.43)
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp

Education: Tonbridge; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

15.07.1920			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1929	-	1930	served NW Frontier, India
(03.1931)			23rd Indian Mountain Brigade RA (Peshawar, India)
(06.1933)			22nd Field Brigade RA (Shorncliffe)
30.09.1933	-	29.09.1936	Adjutant, ...
(01.1937)			22nd Field Brigade RA (Shorncliffe)
20.12.1937	-	14.11.1939	Adjutant, 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment RA (Territorial Army) (Aberdeen)
1940			Second-in-Command, ... Regiment RA (France)
1941			Commanding Officer, ... Anti-Tank Regiment RA
(10.1943)	-	(05.)1944	Commanding Officer, 142nd (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (Italy [Volturno, Cassino])
1944	-	1944	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 1st Armoured Division
1944			Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 46th (North Midland) Infantry Division
1946			Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 10th Indian Division
			various Brigadier's appointments
1950	-	1953	Commandant, Coast Artillery School and Inspector of Coast Artillery
26.11.1953	-	27.11.1956	General Officer Commanding Troops, Malta
23.01.1957	-	16.03.1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 03.01.1960-03.01.1965.
Controller, Home Department, British Red Cross Society, 1957-1966. CStJ 08.1965.

Davenport,
Rodney Frederic
R.F. Davenport (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

13.09.1922
-
16.10.2007
Highland Park, Ontario, Canada

Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	17.07.1942 [239420]

17.07.1942			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942)			1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)

Lt.Col., Canadian Army. KStJ, CD.

Davey,
Francis Hugh Ranson
F.H.R. Davey

Married ((06?).1923, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Hilda Moss (? - 09.02.1980); two sons (Lt. Peter Francis Davey, KRRC), three daughters.

11.08.1897
-
25.01.1978
Castle Combe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

T/Lt.	01.04.1924-23.08.1926 [28079]
Lt.	24.08.1926, seniority 01.04.1924
Capt.	01.10.1927
Maj.	01.10.1935
A/Lt.Col.	05.12.1941-04.03.1942
T/Lt.Col.	05.03.1942-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	13.01.1948, seniority 16.12.1947
Col.	13.01.1951 (retd 11.08.1954)

OBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46
MID	27.01.1920	?
BWM 14\|20	06.10.1920	-
VM	-	-

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 363 days (mobilized Territorial Force to 04.03.1919) [served France & Belgium 09.06.1917-16.08.1917]
Qualified as dentist, 01.11.1924. LDS, RCS Eng 1924.
24.08.1926			commissioned, [Royal] Army Dental Corps
?	-	?	?
(1952)			General HQ, Far East Land Forces (Singapore)

Davey,
Peter Francis
P.F. Davey (Photo courtesy of Ranson Davey)

Son of Col. Francis Hugh Ranson Davey, RADC (1897-1978), and Hilda Moss (?-1980).
Married (20.09.1947) Elizabeth Mary Jennings; ... children.

10.04.1925
Farnham district, Hampshire / Surrey / Sussex
-
30.11.2011
Bronllys Hospital, Powys

Cadet	? [14668206]
2nd Lt.	23.09.1944 [330961]
WS/Lt.	23.03.1945 (reld > 04.1947)

23.09.1944

commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]

Davidson,
Alexander George
A.G. Davidson

Son of Col. F.M. Davidson, RA, and Mrs Davidson, of The Grange, Yattendon, Berkshire.
Married (11.10.1922, Yattendon Parish Church, Berkshire) Emily Dorothy Lett, daughter of Mrs & Mrs B.A.W. Lett, of Cullentra, Wexford; one daughter.

23.04.1900
-
27.03.1958
Thrushelton, Polsloe Road, Exeter

2nd Lt.	16.07.1919 [18852]
Lt.	16.07.1921
Capt.	05.03.1936
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 20.10.1948)
A/Lt.Col.	02.12.1942-01.03.1943
T/Lt.Col.	02.03.1943-08.09.1943, 25.10.1943-(04.1946), 14.11.1946-(04.1947)
Hon. Lt.Col.	20.10.1948

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Marlborough College (09.1914-03.1918; Preshute House; prefect; XV 1917); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

16.07.1919			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment
07.1919	-	(06.1933)	1st Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (South Raglan Barracks, Devonport, from 06.1920 Waterford, Ireland [probably with C Company in Wexford], from 02.1922 Devonport again, from 1923 Ama Barracks, Blackdown, from early 1927 China, from 10.1927 Malta, from 10.1929 India [Razmak, Calcutta, Lucknow & Quetta])
(09.1935)	-	07.1941	2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (Dover, then from 1938 Malta)
11.06.1937	-	10.06.1940	Adjutant
10.06.1940	-	07.1941	Officer Commanding, Headquarters Company
07.1941	-	09.06.1943	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion The King's Own Royal Regiment (acting) (Malta)
09.06.1943			evacuated sick to Egypt (where he probably remained for the rest of the war)
31.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Training Section, Western Command (Chester)
20.10.1948	-	29.11.1950	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Honorary Member, The King's Own Regimental Association, 08.1945.

Davidson,
Basil Risbridger *
B.R. Davidson

Born as Basil C. Risbridger, but changed his name when his father died and his mother remarried.

09.11.1914
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
09.07.2010

Lt.	? [70332 ??]
Capt.	?
T/Maj.	?
T/Lt.Col.	(1945)

MC	04.10.1945	special operations Mediterranean
MID	06.04.1944	Middle East
MID	22.02.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field
BSM	14.11.1947	?

Journalist, historian.

			commissioned, General List [emergency commission] [not shown in Army List]
			From December 1939, he was a Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) / MI-6 D Section (sabotage) officer sent to Budapest to establish a news service as cover. In April 1941, with the Nazi invasion, he fled to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In May, he was captured by Italian forces and was later released as part of a prisoner exchange. From late 1942 to mid-1943, he was chief of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Yugoslav Section in Cairo, Egypt, where he was James Klugmann's supervisor. From January 1945 he was liaison officer with partisans in Liguria, Italy (No. 1 Special Force, Central Mediterranean Forces).

Davidson,
Francis Henry Norman
F.H.N. Davidson

Eldest son (with two brothers and one sister) of Sir Leybourne Francis Watson Davidson (1859-1934), and Jane Rosalind Brown.
Married 1st (20.12.1923, St Mary's, Quetta, India) Edna Mildred Counsel, daughter of J.G. Counsel, of Bombay; two sons.
Married 2nd ((09?).1947, Chelsea district, London) Mrs Barbara Radcliffe, widow of Lt.Col. F.G.W. Radcliffe, MC, and daughter of Col. A.M. Balfour, DSO, and Mrs Balfour, of London SW1.

01.04.1892
-
15.01.1973
Chelsea, London

2nd Lt.	23.12.1911 [20272]
Lt.	23.12.1914
T/Capt.	24.12.1915-07.08.1916
Capt.	08.08.1916
A/Maj.	27.11.1916-14.01.1917, 10.08.1917-16.09.1918
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1929
Maj.	01.05.1929
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1933
Col.	12.01.1938, seniority 01.01.1936
A/Brig.	02.09.1939-01.03.1940
T/Brig.	02.03.1940-10.10.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	16.12.1940-10.10.1941
Maj.Gen.	11.10.1941 (retd 11.02.1946)

CB	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42
DSO	1919	?
MC	1914	?
MC	1917	?
MID	20.12.1940	?

1914 Star & Clasp, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Order of White Lion 2nd class and War Cross (Czechoslovakia, 16.01.1947); Order of Polonia Restituta 2nd class (Poland, 08.10.1943); Commander, Legion of Merit (USA) (16.01.1948).

Education: Marlborough (09.1906-07.1910); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

23.12.1911			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1914	-	1919	served European War (wounded, despatches four times 17.02.1915, 04.01.1917, 18.05.1917 & 20.12.1918, MC and bar, DSO): France & Belgium 05.08.1914-20.10.1914, 10.07.1916-01.11.1916 & 25.07.1917-11.11.1918, Gallipoli 25.04.1915-31.12.1915, Egypt 06.01.1916-18.03.1916, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 19.03.1916-20.06.1916
17.09.1918	-	01.04.1919	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France)
02.04.1919	-	07.09.1919	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (Rhine Army)
27.11.1925	-	28.05.1927	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Army HQ India
29.05.1927	-	26.11.1929	Brigade Major, 12th Indian Infantry Brigade (India)
01.09.1930	-	31.08.1934	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
1935	-	1936	Imperial Defence College course
01.01.1937	-	11.01.1938	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
12.01.1938	-	04.08.1939	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 2nd Division (Aldershot Command)
02.09.1939	-	18.06.1940	Corps Commander Royal Artillery (CCRA), 1st Corps, British Expeditionary Force (despatches)
20.06.1940	-	15.12.1940	Brigadier General Staff, X Corps (Home Forces)
16.12.1940	-	09.03.1944	Director of Military Intelligence, War Office
1944	-	1946	Major-General General Staff, British Army Staff, Washington, USA
11.02.1946	-	01.04.1952	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Colonel Commandant, Intelligence Corps, 04.10.1952-1960. Honorary Colonel, RA (TA), 18.07.1947-24.10.1951 (ill-health).

Davie,
Maurice Mervyn
M.M. Davie

Son (with one brother) of Mervyn Bowcher Davie (1876-1951), and Evelyn Constance Warren (1883-).
Married (13.11.1933, Bombay, India) Phyllis Gertrude Somers Liscombe (11.08.1909 - 06.11.1964), daughter (with two sisters) of Frank Reginald Liscombe (1878-1915), and Hilda Elsie Baker (1881-1971); two daughters.

15.02.1908
Kingston district, Surrey
-
11.04.1987
Kenilworth, Cape town, South Africa

2nd Lt. TA	09.08.1929
2nd Lt.	30.08.1930, seniority 31.01.1929 [42385]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	28.08.1940-27.11.1940
T/Maj.	28.11.1940-30.01.1946
Maj.	31.01.1946
A/Lt.Col.	30.11.1945-07.01.1946
T/Lt.Col.	27.09.1950-31.03.1952
Lt.Col. (Emp.List 1)	01.04.1952 (supernumerary 01.04.1955) (retd 22.05.1957)

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1935 Medal & clasp

Education: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1927; BA, 1930).

09.08.1929			commissioned, General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army
30.08.1930			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
(03.1931)			attached, 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Aldershot)
(06.1933)	-	(01.1937)	2nd Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Kamptee, then Nowshera)
01.10.1937	-	28.10.1939	Adjutant, 6th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment - Territorial Army (Skipton-in-Craven)
(1943)	-	08.1944	Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Anzio, Italy)
26.08.1944	-	29.11.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
30.11.1945	-	07.01.1946	Commander, ...
08.01.1946	-	26.08.1949	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
27.07.1949	-	14.05.1950	Commander, ....
04.03.1954	-	(02.1957)	Commandant, All Arms Training Centre, British Army of the Rhine
22.05.1957	-	15.02.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Retired to Jamaica, West Indies.

Davies,
the Rev. [Canon] Arthur Leonard Millett
A.L.M. Davies

Son of Arthur John Davies, MM.
Married ...; one son, one daughter.

16.12.1910
Abertillery, Bedwellty district, Monmouthshire
-
21.09.1979
Wythenshawe Hospital, Wythenshawe, Manchester, Lancashire (formerly of Gatley, Stockport, Manchester)

Chaplain to the Forces 4th class [Capt.]	07.11.1940 [154982]
Hon. Chaplain to the Forces	1946

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

Education: St David's College, Lampeter (BA, 1932); St Michael College, Llandaff (1933).
Deacon 1934, priest 1935. St Asaph Curate of Wrexham, 1934-1938. Winshill, 1938-1940.

07.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department
1940	-	1946	served with the Cheshire Regiment in India, Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Sicily, Italy & NW Europe

Vicar of Pilsley, 1946-1949. Christ Church, Bacup, 1949-1952. Rector of St Thomas Heaton Norris, 1952-1964. Vicar of St Paul, Sale, Diocese of Cheshire, 1964-1975. Warburton, Lymm, Cheshire, 1975-...

Davies,
Brinsley Haywood
B.H. Davies

Son of Henry and Alice Davies.
Married ((12?).1934. Cardiff, Glamorgan) Winifred J. Senington.
Residence: (1943) Royston, Hertfordshire.

(06?).1910
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
1970
South Africa

2nd Lt.	18.01.1939 [79530]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	17.09.1941-05.11.1943
WS/Capt.	06.11.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	06.11.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

	MBE	18.02.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya) [citation available upon request]
	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe

18.01.1939			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1942)			2 Army Air Support Control (Cyrenaica & Egypt) (MBE)
12.1943	-	?	2 Air Support Signals Unit (NW Europe)
?	-	09.11.1960	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Director, South Witbank Coal, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Davies,
Bruce
B. Davies

Home town (1945): Rickmansworth.

29.09.1910
-
27.10.2000
Watford, Hertfordshire

2nd Lt.	29.11.1930 [47904]
Lt.	29.11.1933
Capt.	30.10.1936
Maj.	09.07.1939
Lt.Col.	?

	DSO	08.11.1945	services in the field
	TD	?	?

29.11.1930			commissioned, 11th London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) - Territorial Army
29.11.1930	-	15.12.1935	11th London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) (Pentonville, London)
15.12.1935			transferred to Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
15.12.1935	-	27.06.1938	Battery Officer, 171st Anti-Aircraft Battery [61st (Finsbury Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Brigade] (Pentonville, London)
27.06.1938	-	(01.1939)	Officer Commanding 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery [12th (Finsbury Rifles) Light Anti-Aircaft Brigade] (Pentonvlille, London)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
25.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	Adjutant, ...
01.08.1950	-	29.09.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Davies,
Charles Ernest
C.E. Davies

?
-
?

Lt.	?
2nd Lt.	17.08.1940 [127300]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1942
T/Capt.	18.03.1944-(04.1947)
WS/Capt.	1947? (reld 10.04.1948; disability)
T/Maj.	1947?
Hon. Maj.	10.04.1948

28.10.1941

in recognition of conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner

17.08.1940

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Davies,
Charles Gordon
C.G. Davies

Son of ... Davies, and ... Jenkins.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

06.02.1918
Neath district, Monmouthsire
-
13.06.2008

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.07.1942 [256808]
WS/Lt.	14.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	23.06.1944-(04.1946)

14.07.1942

commissioned, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [emergency commission]

His daughter writes: "Joined North Somerset Yeomanry in 1939, then Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Served with Green Howards until wounded in Sicily."

Davies,
Charles Henry
C.H. Davies

Married Joyce Moore; ... children (two sons?).

07.04.1914
-
02.10.2003
West Surrey district (formerly of Fleet, Hampshire)

Lt.	15.10.1934 [165404]
A/Capt.	06.04.1942-05.07.1942
T/Capt.	06.07.1942-06.12.1945
Capt.	01.01.1948, seniority 07.12.1945
A/Maj.	07.09.1945-06.12.1945
T/Maj.	07.12.1945-31.01.1947
WS/Maj.	01.02.1947
A/Lt.Col.	01.11.1946-31.01.1947
T/Lt.Col.	01.02.1947-08.01.1957
Lt.	13.11.1948, seniority 07.04.1940
Capt.	13.11.1948, seniority 01.07.1946
Maj.	07.04.1951
T/Lt.Col.	03.09.1958-30.07.1962
Lt.Col.	31.07.1962 (retd 08.07.1968)

			served in the ranks for 6 years, 74 days
15.10.1934			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 31.12.1947]
23.05.1945	-	06.09.1945	Staff Officer (Education), Middle East Land Forces
07.09.1945	-	23.02.1946	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Indian Education Pool, Middle East Land Forces
24.02.1946	-	31.10.1946	Staff Officer 2nd grade (SO2) (Education), HQ Alexandria District
01.11.1946	-	05.11.1947	Staff Officer 1st grade (SO1) (Education), British Troops in Palestine & Transjordan
01.01.1948			short service commission
19.02.1948	-	14.06.1952	Staff Officer 1st grade (SO1) (Education), HQ Highland District
13.11.1948			permanent commission, Royal Army Educational Corps
18.06.1952	-	03.10.1954	Staff Officer 1st grade (SO1), HQ Northern Command
14.10.1954	-	08.01.1957	Staff Officer 1st grade (SO1), HQ (BR) Corps, British Army of the Rhine
30.09.1957	-	22.07.1958	Chief Education Officer, Gibraltar
03.09.1958	-	03.04.1960	Regn. Offr. R.I. Panel, War Office
06.04.1960	-	30.01.1963	Chief Education Officer, Northern Ireland Command
23.02.1963	-	12.10.1965	Staff Officer 1st grade (SO1) (Education), HQ Cyprus District

Davies,
Daniel
D. Davies

From Rhondda.

?
-

Wt.Offr. Cl. I	?
2nd Lt.	29.04.1942 [244334]
WS/Lt.	29.04.1942
A/Capt.	10.07.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	?
WS/Capt.	27.07.1945
T/Maj.	27.07.1945-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.11.1947, seniority 27.07.1945 (reld 01.11.1954)
Hon. Maj.	01.11.1954

	MBE	01.01.1954	New Year 54 [citation available upon request]
	MC	07.12.1944	Italy [citation available upon request]

29.04.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			2nd Royal Horse Artillery (Italy) (MC)
01.11.1947			short service commission

Davies,
David Emrys
D.E. Davies

30.10.1923
-
11.08.1991
Swansea district, West Glamorgan, Wales

Cadet	? [5193528]
2nd Lt.	12.05.1945 [346813]
WS/Lt.	12.11.1945
Lt.	01.07.1949, seniority 30.10.1946
Capt.	01.01.1951

12.05.1945			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
01.07.1949			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
17.12.1953			Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
25.09.1960			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Davies,
David Thomas
D.T. Davies (Photo courtesy of Ann Thomas-Green)

18.08.1905
London
-
17.10.1980
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Staff Sgt.	? [10350940]
2nd Lt.	26.03.1945 [345199]
WS/Lt.	26.09.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

26.03.1945

commissioned, Intelligence Corps [immediate emergency commission from the ranks]

Davies,
Henry Rodolph Hugh
H.R.H. Davies

Elder son (with one brother and one sister) of Gen. Sir Francis John Davies, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, JP (1864-1948), and Magdalen Augusta Lavinia Scott (1867-1961).
Married (18.07.1940, Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks) Helen Margaret Greg (11.03.1907 - 02.07.1960), daughter of Maj. John Greg, CBE, of Escowbeck, Cayton, Lancashire; no children.

18.07.1903
Kensington, London
-
13.11.1982
Pershore, Worcestershire

2nd Lt.	27.08.1924 [30672]
Lt.	27.08.1926
Capt.	22.06.1932
A/Maj.	04.03.1940-15.06.1940, 26.10.1940-13.11.1940
T/Maj.	14.11.1940-26.08.1941
Maj.	27.08.1941
A/Lt.Col.	11.08.1942-10.11.1942
T/Lt.Col.	11.11.1942-08.01.1945, 13.03.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	22.08.1947 (retd 29.10.1954)

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

27.08.1924			commissioned, The Grenadier Guards
...	-	...	...
04.02.1934	-	03.02.1937	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Grenadier Guards
...	-	...	...
17.02.1938	-	22.05.1939	Brigade Major, 1st London (T.A.) Brigade
17.02.1938	-	10.03.1940	Regimental Adjutant
1940	-	1940	served with British Expeditionary Force (France)
11.08.1942	-	06.11.1944	Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Grenadier Guards (UK, NW Europe)
1944?	-	1945?	served in Italy
1946	-	1947	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Grenadier Guards
1947	-	1948	Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion The Grenadier Guards (Palestine 1947-1948)
1948	-	1950	Assistant Adjutant-General (AAG) (W), London District
1950	-	1954	Commandant, LAC

Davies,
Hugh Abbinett
H.A. Davies

Son of Maj. John Hall Mark Davies, OBE, TD, and Amelia Davies (née Griffith), of Hoole, Chester.
Brother of Lt.Col. Robert M.W. Davies.

(12?).1917
Liverpool district, Lancashire
-
16.02.1943
[age 25]
[Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany, 3.C.8]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.03.1940 [121724]
WS/Lt.	?

Education: Oxford University (BA)

?	-	02.03.1940	123rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (captured)
?	-	16.02.1943	POW in German captivity (Oflag VIIB; probably died from appendicitis)

Davies,
the Rev. [later Canon, later Venerable] Ivor Gordon
I.G. Davies

Son of ... Davies, and ... Gardner.
Married (26.06.1946, Garrison Church, Poona, India) Sister Kristine Margaret Wiley, QAIMNSR, second daughter of Mr & Mrs G. Cozens Wiley, of Little Plumstead, Norwich; one son, two daughters.

21.07.1917
Pontypridd district, Wales
-
27.06.1992
Felixstowe, Ipswich district, Suffolk

Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (Capt.)

03.06.1944 [313434] (reld 1947)

Education: University of Wales (BA, 2nd cl. Gr., 1939); St Stephen's House, Oxford (1939); University of London (BD, 1951).
Deacon 1941, priest 1942, Llandaff. Curate of St Paul, Grangetown, Cardiff, 1941-1944.

03.06.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (Church of England) [emergency commission]
			2nd Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment

Curate of St John the Baptist, Felixstowe, 1947-1949. Perpetual Curate of St Thomas, Ipswich, 1949-1957. Canon Resident of Southwark Cathedral and Diocesan Missioner, 1957-1972. Archdeacon Lewisham, Southwark, 1972-1985. Retired 1985.

Davies,
John Brynmor
J.B. Davies

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

20.11.1912 *
-
04.1990
South Glamorgan, Wales

* year of birth in army records: 1911

Cadet.	?
Lt.	30.03.1941 [194591]
A/Capt.	28.09.1942-27.12.1942
T/Capt.	28.12.1942-17.09.1945
Capt.	01.09.1946, seniority 18.09.1945
A/Maj.	18.06.1945-17.09.1945
T/Maj.	18.09.1945-12.12.1950
Lt.	13.12.1950, seniority 01.08.1938
Capt.	13.12.1950, seniority 20.11.1942
Maj.	13.12.1950, seniority 20.11.1947
Lt.Col.	20.04.1954 (supernumerary 20.04.1957) (retd 01.11.1958)

OBE

13.06.1957

HM's birthday 1957 [recommendation available upon request]

			served in the ranks for 10 years, 335 days
30.03.1941			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission to 31.08.1946]
26.06.1943	-	30.06.1943	Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal (DAPM), Palestine and Transjordan
01.07.1943	-	17.06.1945	Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal (DAPM), Middle East Land Forces
18.06.1945	-	22.12.1946	Assistant Provost Marshal (APM), Middle East Land Forces
01.09.1946			short service commission
06.09.1950	-	27.04.1951	Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (DADST), General Headquarters, Middle East Land Forces
13.12.1950			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps [permanent commission]
08.09.1953	-	28.03.1954	Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (DADST), Headquarters, Northern Command
13.01.1956	-	15.12.1956	HQ RASC Paderborn (OBE)

Davies,
John Harold
J.H. Davies

?
-

Cadet.	?
2nd Lt.	26.09.1942 [247263]
WS/Lt.	26.03.1943
T/Capt.	1945?
Capt.	?
Maj.	01.02.1950

MID

09.08.1945

NW Europe

26.09.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
?			Territorial Army
19.03.1954			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Davies,
the Rev. John Samuel Marcus
J.S.M. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Davies)

(06?).1905
Llandilofawr district, Carmarthenshire
-
26.09.1970
Llanstephan , Carms
[buried in Llangorwen Churchyard]

Chapl. to the Forces 4th cl. (Capt.)	14.01.1941 [163852] (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Chapl. to the Forces 4th cl. (Capt.)	< 04.1946

Education: BA

14.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (Church of England) [emergency commission]
			Chaplain, 1st Battalion ... (Italy & Palestine)

Moved from the Parish of Llangorwen to St Paul’s Parish Llanelli in 1955 and then in 1964 to the Parish of Llansteffan where he died in office.

Davies,
the Rev. Leslie Lobbett John
L.L.J. Davies

From Llwynhendy/Llanelli.
Married (21.02.1935, London) Iris Regina Rothman Park (04.04.1901 - 29.09.2002); one daughter.

06.06.1907
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire
-
25.04.1992
[his ashes were interred in the churchyard at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Chaplain to the Forces 4th class [Capt.]	23.07.1938 [69686]
T/Chaplain to the Forces 3rd class [Maj.]	20.04.1945 (reld 1945)

18.02.1943

Middle East 05-10.42

Education: Christ College, Brecon; Keble College Oxford (where he read History and won his Rugby blue in 1927-8; Wells Theological College (1934-1935) (BA, later MA).
Teacher at public schools in South Africa, first in Capetown and then at St John's in Johannesburg, 1930s. Minor Canon at Brecon Cathedral in Wales, 1936.

23.07.1928			commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class AA (ii))
18.12.1936	-	22.07.1938	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
23.07.1938			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department - Territorial Army (Church of England)
(01.1939)			attached to Welsh Division
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
09.1939	-	07/08.1941	attached to the South Wales Borderers
1941?	-	1942?	8th Army (Middle East)
1943?	-	1945?	attached to the 31st Field Regiment RA (Italy & Greece))
?	-	06.06.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Vicar of St David's, Llanfaes, Brecon, and then in 1954 of St. Katherine's Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. He was made a Canon of St David's Cathedral in 1964. In 1968 he became Vicar of St. Mary's Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire and he retired on reaching the age of 70 in June 1977.

Davies,
Ralph Gwyn
R.G. Davies

From Bleadon, Somerset.
Married Peggy (predeceased him); two daughters.

03.05.1918
-
18.09.2009
Bradpole, Bridport

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1941 [193370]
WS/Lt.	?
Lt.	17.11.1945, seniority 28.01.1942
A/Capt.	21.04.1944-20.07.1944
T/Capt.	21.07.1944-20.01.1945
WS/Capt.	21.01.1945
Capt.	28.07.1946
A/Maj.	21.10.1944-20.01.1945
T/Maj.	21.01.1945-12.06.1946, 14.07.1953-27.07.1953
Maj.	28.07.1953
T/Lt.Col.	20.09.1963-26.03.1964
Lt.Col.	27.03.1964 (retd 03.05.1973)

OBE	01.01.1972	New Year 72
MC	08.02.1945	Burma
MID	19.05.1950	Malaya 07.49-12.49
EM	08.10.1948	-

			served in the ranks, Territorial Army for 1 year, 292 days (24.08.1939 mobilized TA)
21.06.1941			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission to 16.11.1945]
(1945)			1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Burma)
17.11.1945			permanent commission
18.01.1952	-	13.07.1953	Staff Captain, Provost Highland District
14.07.1953	-	03.08.1955	Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal, Provost Company
04.06.1955			transferred, Corps of Royal Military Police
08.04.1959	-	30.11.1961	Deputy Assistant Provost Mashal, HQ (British) Corps
06.01.1962	-	04.09.1963	Deputy Assistant Provost Mashal, HQ ... Division
20.09.1963	-	(02.1967)	Assistant Provost Marshal, HQ Southern Command

Davies,
Robert
R. Davies

Son of John Sampson Davies (1866-1938), of St Erth, and Annie Vingoe (1871-1938).
Married 1st (24.03.1920, Lincoln, Ont., Canada; divorced 1947) Isabella Malcolm Coupland (29.05.1897-c.1970), daughter of Robert John Coupland, and Sarah Scott Graham; two sons, two daughters.
Marreid 2nd (1947, Newcastle) June Draper; two children.

03.10.1900
Newlyn, Cornwall
-
27.09.1975
Sydney, NSW, Australia
[buried North Rhyde, Sydney, NSW]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.03.1940 [122933]
T/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	? (cashiered by sentence of a general court-martial 01.06.1942)

GC	30.09.1940	bomb disposal St Paul's, London 12.09.40 [investiture 02.1942] *
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

* Lieutenant Davies was the officer in charge of the party detailed to recover.the bomb which fell in the vicinity of St. Paul's Cathedral. So conscious was this officer of the imminent danger to the Cathedral that regardless of personal risk he spared neither himself nor his men in their efforts to locate the bomb. After unremitting effort, during which all ranks knew that an explosion might occur at any moment, the bomb was successfully extricated. In order to shield his men from further danger, Lieutenant Davies himself drove the vehicle in which the bomb was removed and personally carried out its disposal.

Education: BA.
Emigrated to Canada during WWI and joined the Canadian Army on 11.01. 1918. He returned to Cornwall in the 1930s.

06.03.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1940)			bomb disposal (UK)
?	-	1942	served in the Middle East
01.06.1942			cashiered from the Army and sentenced to two years' imprisonment [remitted 6 months] for fraudulent behaviour (improper use of government materials & manpower, personal enrichment)

Emigrated to Australia, 1950.

Davies,
Robert Michael Wynne
R.M.W. Davies

Son of Maj. John Hall Mark Davies, OBE, TD, and Amelia Davies (née Griffith), of Hoole, Chester.
Brother of Lt. Hugh A. Davies.
From Birkdale, Lancashire.
Married; ... children.

10.10.1920
Liverpool district, Lancashire
-
04.1985
Bangor district, Caernarvonshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.10.1941 [210375]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	10.04.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt. RARO	01.04.1950
Hon. Maj.	01.04.1950
Hon. Lt.Col.	31.10.1970

	MC	17.06.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
	TD	15.05.1962	-

Education: Brasenose College, Oxford University

04.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Signals (North Africa, Scilly, Italy & Nijmegen (the Netherlands))
01.04.1950			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.11.1949	-	31.10.1970	Lieutenant, Highgate School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (from 01.11.1949 also A/Capt., later A/Lt.Col.)

Davies,
Thomas
T. Davies

Married ((03?).1946, Cardiff district, Glamorgan) Sarah Elizabeth Watkins; ... children (one daughter?).

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.12.1941 [226921]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946 (removed from the Army on conviction by the Civil Power 24.11.1951)

14.12.1941

commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]

Davies,
Thomas Keith Walters
T.K.W. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Alistair Davies)

Son of the Rev. Daniel Davies, rector of Tredegar Parish, and Frances Alice Walters.
Married Virginia Fay Bruce; one daughter, one son.

05.02.1919
Penygraig in the Rhonda Valley, Bedwellty district, Wales
-
23.11.2000
Great Bookham, Surrey Northern district, Surrey

Gnr.	?
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.02.1940 [121283]
WS/Lt.	24.08.1941 (reld late 1946)
T/Capt.	21.02.1943-(04.1946)
Lt. TA	12.06.1952, seniority 04.06.1945
Capt. TA	11.12.1952

39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Education: scholarships to Denstone School (Head of School) and to Jesus College,
Cambridge University in 1939

?	-	24.02.1940	121st Officer Cadet Training Unit (Aldershot)
24.02.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
24.02.1940	-	1945	110th Field Regiment RA
24.02.1940	-	22.06.1940	66th Infantry Division UK
10.07.1940	-	31.08.1944	59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division UK, from 27.06.1944 France
01.09.1944	-	01.1945	Army Group Troops, 21st Army Group (for disposal & attachment to units under command) NW Europe
09.1944	-	10.1944?	attached 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division Operation Market-Garden (airborne operations, Eindhoven / Nijmegen / Arnhem)
mid 10.1944	-	11.1944	attached 2nd Canadian Corps, from 03.11.1944-06.11.1944 9th Army Group Royal Artillery Operation Infatuate I (assault on Flushing, Walcheren) [probably served as Forward Observation Officer (FOO) attached to 4th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers]
03.1945			attached 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division Operation Plunder (Rhine crossing) [served as Forward Observation Officer (FOO)]
1945			Flak Disarmament Staff, HQ 56th Infantry Brigade (British Army of the Rhine)
			assigned to command a German POW camp
12.06.1952	-	19.04.1954	commissioned, Territorial Army
?	-	11.12.1952	307th Field Regiment RA
20.04.1954	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Returned to Cambridge, Graduated Double First in History and Political Philosophy, 1948. Joined Boots the Chemist, 1948, retiring as Director in 1980.

Davies,
Walton Ifor
W.I. Davies

Son of ... Davies, and ... Lewis.
Married ((12?).1934, Bromley district, Kent) Daisy E.E. Hall.

10.08.1911
Bridport district, Dorset
-
(09?).1974
Canterbury district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.08.1941 [198694]
WS/Lt.	14.06.1942
T/Capt.	14.06.1942-30.10.1943
WS/Capt.	01.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	01.11.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

?	-	02.08.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			seconded Indian Army

Davies-Scourfield,
Edward Grismond Beaumont
"Gris"
E.G.B. Davies-Scourfield

4th son of Henry George DaviesScourfield, and Helen Newton.
Married (1945) Diana Lilias Davidson (died 15.08.2009); one son, one daughter.

02.08.1918
Patching, Sussex
-
20.11.2006
Alton, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.08.1938 [77674]
Lt.	01.01.194
A/Capt.	22.08.1945-14.09.1945, 13.10.1945-18.12.1945
T/Capt.	19.12.1945-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	20.02.1947-19.05.1947
T/Maj.	20.05.1947-24.08.1951
Maj.	25.08.1951
Lt.Col.	01.07.1960 (supernumerary 01.07.1963)
T/Col.	01.08.1962-30.05.1963
Col.	31.05.1963
local Brig.	06.02.1964-12.02.1964
T/Brig.	13.02.1964-18.05.1966
local Brig.	19.05.1966-05.06.1966
T/Brig.	06.06.1966-30.12.1966
Brig.	31.12.1966 (retd 02.08.1973)

CBE	11.06.1966	HM's birthday 66 (Joint Services Team, Ghana)
MBE	27.04.1951	Malaya
MC	20.09.1945	Calais 40
MID	14.11.1946	prisoner of war

Education: Winchester College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (King's Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword); Staff College, Camberley (psc),

25.08.1938			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
			served War of 1939-1945 (despatches 1945)
?	-	05.1940	Platoon Commander, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (France (defence of Calais) [captured])
05.1940	-	04.1945	prisoner of war in German captivity (several escape attempts, of Colditz fame)
13.10.1945	-	26.09.1946	Staff Captain, War Office
07.04.1949	-	01.02.1951	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Intelligence), HQ Malaya District
26.11.1953	-	13.10.1955	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (Operationa), Northern Army Group
03.10.1957	-	11.05.1960	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
01.07.1960			transferred to the Rifle Brigade
01.07.1960	-	1962	Commanding Officer, Rifle Brigade (from 02.02.1962 3rd Green Jackets)
01.08.1962	-	06.02.1964	Brigade Colonel, Green Jackets Brigade
13.02.1964	-	18.03.1966	Head of British Joint Training Mission to Ghana
23.08.1966	-	1969	Deputy Commander, Cyprus District & Commander, Troops Malta
1970	-	1973	Commander, Salisbury Plain Area

General Secretary, National Association of Boys Clubs, 1973-1982.
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire, 1984.
Published: In presence of my foes (1991; memoirs)

D'Avigdor-Goldsmid,
Sir Henry Joseph;
2nd Baronet
J.S. Dawes

Brother of Maj.Gen. Sir James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid.

10.06.1909
-
11.12.1976

2nd Lt.	12.06.1938 [75791]
WS/Capt.	19.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	30.10.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

DSO	21.06.1945	NW Europe
MC	01.03.1945	NW Europe
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
MID	?	?

12.06.1938			commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			53rd Reconnaissance Regiment RAC

D'Avigdor-Goldsmid,
[Sir] James Arthur;
3rd Baronet
J.S. Dawes

Brother of Maj. Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid.

19.12.1912
-
06.09.1987

2nd Lt.	01.09.1932 [53668]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	31.10.1962, seniority 06.04.1962

CB	?	?
OBE	01.01.1955	New Year 55
MC	31.08.1944	NW Europe

01.09.1932

commissioned, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

Davis,
Michael [de Lancey Summersell]
M. Davis (Photo courtesy of Jessica West)

Married (09.08.1952, Greenwich district, Kent) Janet L. Harding; two daughters.

24.02.1922
-

2nd Lt.	20.05.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	16.07.1942-04.09.1945
WS/Capt.	05.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 04.1947

20.05.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Davis,
Philip Howard
P.H. Davis

Son of ... Davis, and ... Flower.
Married Elizabeth Christina Morgan, daughter of Edward Alfred Morgan (1868-1949), and Mary Whyte (1870-1956).

09.10.1921
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
16.04.2002
Bristol district, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941 [184520]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 13.10.1951)
Hon. Lt.	13.10.1951

26.04.1941

commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]

Teacher, vice-principal & finally principal, King's College, Lagos, Nigeria, 1950-1968. Principal, Federal Government College, Warri, Nigeria, 1968-1981.

Davis,
Thomas Valentine
T.V. Davis

Son of ... Davis, and ... Cocke.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

21.08.1920
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
15.11.1976

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.07.1941 [198180]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	25.06.1944-(01.1946), 27.01.1946-(08.1946)
Lt.	01.09.1951, seniority 01.09.1945
Capt.	01.01.1952
A/Maj.	04.11.1953
Maj.	21.08.1954

26.07.1941			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
			served Punjab Regiment
01.09.1951	-	24.08.1959	South Lancashire Regiment - Territorial Army
25.08.1959	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Davison,
Charles Frederick
C.F. Davison

Son (with one sister) of Charles Johnson Davison (1886-1962), and Maria Helena Poole (1888-1970).
Married (05.05.1945, St. Vincent's RC Church, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire) Mary Nita Iggleden (22.06.1919 - 07.12.1990), daughter of Ernest Henry Iggleden (1889-1952), and Ethel Ascough (1889-1973); three sons.

21.06.1920
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
-
22.06.1972
Record Ridgeways Factory, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire

Cadet	? [7601710]
2nd Lt.	15.10.1944 [341349]
WS/Lt.	15.10.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

15.10.1944

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Davison,
Wilfred
"Wilf"
W. Davison

Married Phyllis ... (predeceased him).

20.04.1920
-
06.03.2016
Avonmead Care Home, Devizes, Wiltshire

Sgt.	? [5726387]
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.07.1944 [324280]
WS/Lt.	15.01.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	27.06.1945-(08.1946)

EM	14.03.2000	-
Leo II	25.09.1947	Ardennes (Bure 02/03.01.1945) [recommendation available upon request]
CdeG	25.09.1947	Ardennes (Bure 02/03.01.1945) [recommendation available upon request]

29.08.1939			mobilized TA
1939	-	1942	4th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (UK & France)
1942	-	1944	volunteered for parachute training & joined 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (North Africa & Sicily)
15.07.1944			commissioned, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
1944	-	1946	13th (Lancashire) Battalion The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (NW Europe [Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine], India [Bombay], Singapore & Java)
04.04.1950			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Davy,
George Mark Oswald
G.M.O. Davy

Son of late Capt. George Charles Hague Davy, and Mrs Davy, of Cample Haye, Tavistock.
Married ((09?).1932, Hertford district, Hertfordshire) Isabel Gwendolen "Den" Hay (17.05.1907 - 14.10.1970), elder daughter of late Edward Alan Hay, of Bengeo House, Hertford; one son.

22.09.1898
Doncaster district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire / West Riding of Yorkshire
-
16.06.1983
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (formerly of Alyth, Blairgowrie, Perthshire)

2nd Lt.	25.01.1918 [15589]
Lt.	25.07.1919
Capt.	25.01.1931
local Maj.	06.01.1937-30.06.1938
Bt. Maj.	01.07.1938
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	19.03.1940-18.06.1940
T/Lt.Col.	19.06.1940-07.07.1940, 20.03.1941-25.01.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	26.01.1942
Lt.Col.	30.01.1944
A/Col.	26.07.1941-25.01.1942
T/Col.	26.01.1942-30.12.1944
Col.	31.12.1944 (retd 12.01.1948)
A/Brig.	26.07.1941-25.01.1942
T/Brig.	26.01.1942-24.08.1945
Hon. Brig.	12.01.1948

CB	05.07.1945	Italy
CBE	18.02.1943	Middle East
DSO	20.01.1942	Middle East
MID	30.12.1941	Middle East
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East
MID	06.04.1944	Middle East
LM	18.07.1947	?

BWM 14|20, VM
Gold Cross of Merit with Swords, Poland.

Education: Charterhouse; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; psc, ns

25.01.1918			commissioned, Royal Field Artillery
07.02.1918	-	25.04.1918	served France & Belgium (captured; POW)
1919	-	1919	Gunnery course, School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness
1919	-	1920	service in 130th Brigade RFA (28th Division) (Anatolia)
1920			service with RFA, India
			ADC to the High Commissioner in Egypt, then Intelligence Officer, HQ British Troops in Egypt
29.11.1930	-	12.05.1931	special appointment (Class FF), Egypt
28.03.1931			transferred, 3rd King's Own Hussars (India)
1932	-	1933	staff course, Staff College, Camberley (psc)
01.04.1935	-	05.01.1937	Brigade Major, 150th Infantry Brigade (Northern Command)
06.01.1937	-	08.01.1939	Company Commander (General Staff Officer) (Class CC to 31.07.1938), Royal Military College, Sandhurst
1939	-	1939	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich (ns)
02.09.1939	-	18.03.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (specially employed France 05.09.1939-18.03.1940) [Chief Staff Officer, British Mission to French Gen Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Paris, France, led by Maj Gen Sir Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse]
19.03.1940	-	15.05.1940	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)
16.05.1940	-	30.05.1940	specially employed: Head of War Office Mission to King Leopold, Belgium
31.05.1940	-	30.05.1941	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), British Troops Headquarters, Greece (for evacuation of British forces from Greece 04.1941) *
02.06.1941	-	18.07.1941	acting Commander, 3rd Armoured Brigade (Egypt, Libya)
26.07.1941	-	08.12.1941	Commander, 7th Armoured Brigade (7th Armoured Division) (Egypt, Libya, Egypt)
09.12.1941	-	24.03.1942	Brigadier General Staff (Middle East)
28.03.1942	-	09.01.1944	Director of Military Operations, General HQ Middle East
10.01.1944	-	07.06.1944	Brigadier General Staff (Operations), Allied Force HQ Algiers
1944	-	1945	commanded Land Forces Adriatic, southern Italy
1945	-	1947	War Office representative with the Polish Forces
12.01.1948	-	22.09.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
1956	-	01.03.1959	recommissioned for special duties, Middle East

Became professional painter (of horses in oils and of landscapes and seascapes in watercolours) and sculptor. VicePresident, Chelsea Art Society; Associate Member, National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers.
Published: The Seventh and three enemies : the story of World War II and the 7th Queen's Own Hussars (1953).
* other source: Second-in-Command, 3rd Hussars (7th Armoured Brigade, Western Desert), 1940-1941

Davy,
James Sydney
J.S. Davy

Son of Joseph Davy, and Annie Amelia Percival.

30.01.1914
Woolwich district, London
-
06.1983
Auckland, New Zealand

WS/Sgt.	?
Lt. (Technical Maintenance Officer)	29.08.1943 [309176]
Lt. (Technical Officer Telecommunications)	16.04.1952, seniority 26.09.1949
Capt. (TOT)	26.09.1955
Maj. (TOT)	26.09.1961

29.08.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			1st Airborne Division
16.04.1952			Supplementary Reserve of Officers, renamed as Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
16.11.1962			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Dawe,
Ernest Benjamin
E.B. Dawe

Married three times; four sons, one daughter.

01.08.1917
-
02.1991
Lewes district, Sussex

Lt.	31.10.1942 [250658]
WS/Capt.	31.10.1943
T/Maj.	22.02.1945-23.01.1946
WS/Maj.	24.01.1946 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	?

Education: Guy's Hospital (MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 15.01.1941).

31.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	?	Assistant Director of Medical Services, Allied Land Forces South East Asia

Late Registrar, Department of Child Health, Guy's Hospital. Appointed Factory Doctor, Ventnor district, Southampton, 1950s. Examr. Med. Off. Attendance Allowance/Mobility Allowance Bd. DHSS.

Dawes,
John Sandys
J.S. Dawes

(09?).1924
Faversham district, Surrey / Kent
-
22.10.2004
[age 80]
Perth and Kinross district, Scotland

Cadet	? [14218470]
2nd Lt.	09.01.1944 [304670]
WS/Lt.	09.07.1944
2nd Lt.	08.12.1945, seniority 12.06.1945
Lt.	12.12.1946
Capt.	12.06.1951 (retd 11.10.1955)

MC	24.01.1946	NW Europe
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe

Education: Stowe School (...-1942)

09.01.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 07.12.1945]
			served The Royal Scots Greys (NW Europe)
08.12.1945			permanent commission
16.08.1947			transferred to The Royal Scots Greys

Dawes,
Leslie Fraser Spearman
L.F.S. Dawes

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Francis Spearman Dawes (1866-1933), and Sophia Ursula Raper (1868–1952), of Ealing W5.
Married (01.09.1923, St Faith's, Overbury, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire) Catherine Seymour "Kitty" Allen (30.07.1897 - 28.03.1967), daughter of Col. F. Seymour Allen, of Overbury, nr Tewkesbury; two sons..

14.02.1897
Eastbourne, Sussex
-
16.09.1967
Kemerton, Worcestershire

2nd Lt.	27.10.1915 [13360]
Lt.	01.07.1917
Capt.	22.11.1924
Maj.	01.01.1934 (retd 17.06.1936; own request [illness of spouse, multiple sclerose])
Maj.	17.11.1938, seniority 01.01.1934
Lt.Col.	15.05.1939
A/Col.	16.03.1940-15.09.1940
T/Col.	16.09.1940-(10.1945)
T/Brig.	29.08.1944-(10.1945) (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

MBE	09.09.1921	Mesopotamia
TD	21.04.1950	-
ON3	14.05.1948	help to the Netherlands
LegM	10.07.1951	for exceptionally meritious conduct in the performance of outstanding services (British Supply Mission in USA)

Education: Bedford School (1910-1913); City & Guilds College, University of London (1914-1915; Officer Training Corps); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1915).

27.10.1915			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
30.05.1916	-	?	served in France
1919	-	1921	served in Mesopotamia (No. 2 Bridging Train, 1st King George's Own Bengal Sappers Sappers and Miners; Arab Rebellion) (MBE)
			supplementary course at Chatham & a year at Selwyn College, Cambridge University
1924?	-	(03.1931)	served seven years in India
27.09.1924			Assistant Executive Engineer, RE; transferred from the North Western Railway to the Central Indian Coalfields Railway Construction
1927			Military Works in Quetta
01.1928			Staff College, Quetta (psc)
18.04.1932	-	27.04.1934	a Staff Captain, Adjutant-General's and Quarter-Master-General's Staff, Eastern Command
28.04.1934	-	18.04.1936	a General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3), Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, War Office
17.06.1936	-	24.05.1947	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
17.11.1938			commissioned, 32nd (7th City of London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion - Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
Company Secretary of the Southern Railway Company, 06.1936.
24.08.1939			mobilized as Commanding Officer of an Anti-Aircraft Battalion RE (TA)
08.1942	-	05.1944	British Supply Mission in Washington, DC, USA (Director of the Assignments and Requirements Branch, British Army Staff & UK Member of the Munitions Assignments Board) (Officer, Legion of Honor)
29.08.1944	-	11.03.1945	Deputy Director of Army Requirements, Department of the Quarter-Master-General to the Forces, The War Office (London)
12.03.1945	-	(10.1945)	Director of Economics, Directorate of Civil Affairs, Department of the Under-Secretaries of State for War, The War Office (London) (organized a great fly-in of blankets and other necessities for the destitute people of the Netherlands) (Commandeur, Orde van Oranje-Nassau)
1947?	-	28.05.1952	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Returned to his duties at Southern Railway Company, 17.06.1946-10.06.1949 (company was nationalised). Appointed to establish new Engineering Equipment Users Association, incorporated in Feb 1950; he was Secretary and Director, 1949-1959 (when he suffered a heart attack). Director Swedish Match Company.

Dawson,
Stuart Edgar
S.E. Dawson

Son of Edgar Surell Dawson, and Sophia Elizabeth Dawson.
Married (15.07.1950) Alicia Dorothea ...; ... children (one daughter?)

07.10.1911
Orange Free State, South Africa
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.02.1941 [170519]
WS/Lt.	24.08.1942 (reld 28.02.1946)
Hon. Lt.	28.02.1946

Education: University of London (BSc).

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.02.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in Burma (captured)
1941?	-	1945	POW in Japanese captivity (Mitsushima POW Camp)

Returned to South Africa 01.1946. ACGI, MSAICE, MICE. Civil engineer in South Africa. Director of numerous companies in the construction field (The M.G.M. Construction Co. (Pty.) Ltd., Dawson & Johansson Holdings (Pty.)., etc.). Inventor of several important processes in the same field.

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