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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Dobbie,
William George Shedden
W.G.S. Dobbie

Son of late W.H. Dobbie, CIE.
Married (1904) Sybil (died 1962),
youngest daughter of Capt. Orde
Browne, RA; one son, one daughter
(and one son killed in action).

12.07.1879
Madras
-
03.10.1964
Kensington, London

2nd Lt.	06.08.1899
Maj.Gen.	19.11.1932 (retd 25.08.1939)

GCMG 1942 (CMG 1919); KCB 1941 (CB 1930); DSO 1916; Hon. LLD (Leeds,
Royal Malta).

Education: Charterhouse (Classical Scholar); RMA Woolwich; passed through School of Military Engineering,
Chatham.

1928	-	1932	Brigade Commander, Egypt
1933	-	1935	Inspector of the Royal Engineers, Commander of the Chatham Area, Commandant School of Military Engineering, and OC, RE Depôt, Chatham
1935	-	1939	General Officer Commanding Malaya
04.1940	-	07.05.1942	Governor of Malta

Served S. Africa (medal 5 clasps); served abroad and in Ireland; passed into Staff College, Camberley, 1911; served
European War, 1914-1918 (Legion of Honour, despatches seven times, DSO, Brevet LieutColonel, Mons ribbon,
CMG, Officer d'Ordre Léopold, Croix de Guerre, Belgian, Croix de Guerre avec palme, French); Brevet Colonel, 1922;
LieutColonel, 1925; Colonel, 1926; MajorGeneral, 1932; temp. LieutGeneral, 1940; General Staff Officer, 1st
grade, War Office, 1926-1928; Western Command, 1928.
Colonel Commandant RE, 1940-1947.
Published: A Very Present Help, 1945; Active Service with Christ, 1948; a few articles in military magazines

Dobbin,
Stafford
S. Dobbin

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

30.10.1914
Belfast
-
27.05.1995

Lt.	27.09.1939 [103397]
WS/Capt.	27.09.1940 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Education: MB, BCh, BAO Belfast 08.07.1938; DA England 1946.

27.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			seconded, The Somerset Light Infantry (wounded at Monte Cassino)

General practitioner (Arthur & Dobbin), Ballynahinch, Co. Down, later Hillsborough, Co. Down, later Bradford, Yorkshire (McCavana, Dobbin, Glover & Fieldhouse, later Dobbin, Grover & Michie). Clinical assistant, Westwood Hospital, Bradford.

Doble,
Roderick Lawrence
R.L. Doble

First son of Rev. Robert Doble (1883-1961), and Edith Lillie Knott, of Great Chesterford, Essex.
Married ((09?).1938, Rochford district, Essex) Kathleen J. Preedy.

24.09.1912
Capetown, South Africa
-
19.01.2004
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.11.1940 [158946]
WS/Lt.	21.10.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	21.10.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

	MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
	EM	21.03.1995	-

Education: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University (BA 1932, MA 1937).

?	-	30.11.1940	either 151st or 152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
12.1943	-	?	2 Air Support Signals Unit (NW Europe)

Dobree,
Thomas Saumarez
T.S. Dobree

Married Betty Dobree.

09.08.1895
-
12.10.1983
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	23.11.1916 [1394]
Lt.	23.05.1918
Capt.	23.11.1929
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	24.09.1940-23.12.1940
T/Lt.Col.	24.12.1940-16.10.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	17.10.1942
A/Col.	17.04.1942-16.10.1942
T/Col.	17.10.1942-21.06.1945
Col.	22.06.1945 (retd 21.05.1949)
A/Brig.	17.04.1942-16.10.1942
T/Brig.	17.10.1942-25.09.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	18.02.1945-12.03.1945, 03.06.1945-18.06.1945
Hon. Brig.	21.05.1949

CBE	20.09.1945	Italy
DSO	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
DSO	26.10.1944	Italy
MC	26.09.1917	*
MC	16.09.1918	**
MID	30.12.1941	Middle East
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East

WWI: British War Medal; Victory Medal; Iraq: Iraq Medal and Clasp
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as forward observing officer. Whilst reconnoitring for a suitable position from which to observe, he captured, single-handed, thirteen of the enemy in a house, threatening them with his revolver. He was accompanied by one unarmed signaller only at the moment, and by his cool and determined action was able to hand over his prisoners to the nearest infantry unit.
** For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty with his battery in a very exposed position, when the enemy was attacking in echelon down slopes 800 yards away. Heavy fire was opened on. the battery, one detachment being wiped out, and the gun put out of action, but this officer, by his courage and coolness in sticking to it, enabled the battery to do great execution among the massed enemy.

23.11.1916			commissioned, Royal Artillery
			served War of 1914-1918 (France & Belgium 12.1916-11.11.1918) (wounded twice)
1919	-	1920	Iraq Operations
16.04.1935-	-	15.01.1939	Adjutant, 87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Territorial Army (UK)
(03.1941)	-	(11.1941)	Commanding Officer, 1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Eritrea, Western Desert)
17.04.1942	-	26.02.1943	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 8th Indian Division (India)
21.02.1943	-	14.01.1945	Commander, 19th Indian Infantry Brigade (India, Italy)
09.02.1945	-	17.02.1945	Brigade Commander (India)
18.02.1945	-	12.03.1945	Divisional Commander (India)

Dobson,
?
Dobson

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	?
Lt.	?

(04.1945)

14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment

Dobson,
James Richard Easton
"Dick"
J.R.E. Dobson

Married Rona McDougall Dobson, writer and art critic (predeceased him); children.

(12?).1919
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
04.05.2008

2nd Lt.	05.10.1940 [151318]
WS/Lt.	05.04.1942
T/Capt.	23.07.1943-(04.1946)
Lt. TA	20.09.1948, seniority 05.12.1942

	OBE	?	?
	MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

05.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
20.09.1948			transferred, Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army

Control Commission for Germany 1946-1949; International Authority for the Ruhr, Düsseldorf, 1949-1951; Nato International Staff, Paris and Brussels, 1951-1984.

Dobson,
James Samuel
J.S. Dobson

From Aberdeen, Scotland.

?
[possibly: 1892?]
-

2nd Lt.	05.12.1942 [253327]
WS/Lt.	05.06.1943
A/Capt.	(1944)
T/Capt.	01.06.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	21.11.1951 (retd 03.05.1956)

MC	23.08.1945	Italy
MID	29.11.1945	Italy
EM	19.05.1953	& 1st clasp

05.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
21.11.1951	-	03.05.1956	Territorial Army
03.05.1956	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Dobson,
John Sandford
J.S. Dobson

?
-

Lt.	?
2nd Lt.	05.05.1941 [188901]
WS/Lt.	05.05.1941
T/Capt.	05.08.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	01.05.1945

05.05.1941			commissioned, General List, Infantry [emergency commission]
(05.1945)			Officer Commanding, 65th Field Security Section
(04.1946)			Unemployed List

Dobson,
Kenneth Bradbury
K.B. Dobson

Son of ... Dobson, and ... Addison.
Married ((12?).1949, Burnley district, Lancashire) Dorothy Joy Pile; two daughters, one son.

25.12.1919
South Shields district, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear
-
30.01.2008
Bray, Berkshire ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186533]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	08.03.1946-07.06.1946
T/Capt.	08.06.1946-14.02.1947
A/Maj.	17.06.1946-13.08.1946
Lt.	28.06.1947, seniority 03.09.1942
Capt.	28.06.1947, seniority 03.03.1947
T/Maj.	01.11.1951-02.03.1954
Maj.	03.03.1954, seniority 10.01.1954
local Lt.Col.	07.05.1959-11.06.1959
T/Lt.Col.	12.06.1959-16.10.1963
Lt.Col. (Emp List 1)	17.10.1963 (supernumerary 17.10.1966) (retd 26.04.1969)

			served in the ranks for 251 days
10.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 27.06.1947]
28.06.1947			permanent commission
25.05.1950	-	06.10.1952	Instructor in Gunnery, School of Artillery
13.01.1955	-	08.10.1956	Technical Staff Officer 2nd grade (TSO2), ...
12.05.1959	-	22.08.1962	Technical Staff Officer 1st grade (TSO1), Res. Staff, USA
04.10.1962	-	11.03.1965	Technical Staff Officer 1st grade (TSO1), War Office

Dockrell,
Thomas Hayes
T.H. Dockrell

Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Henry Morgan Dockrell (1880-1955), and Alice Evelyn Hayes (1883-1969).
Married 1st ((09?).1940, Kettering district, Northamptonshire) Ena Claire Newton ((03?).1914 - 12.06.1964); three daughters.
Married 2nd ((12?).1965, Northampton, Northamptonshire) Janet Megan Miller (20.11.1933 - ), daughter of Alexander Miller (1901-1993), and Millicent Alice Smart (1901-1951).

16.03.1907
Dublin, Ireland
-
04.01.1970
Northampton, Northamptonshire

Capt.	23.10.1936 [66208]
WS/Maj.	29.09.1945 (reld < 04.1945)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.945
T/Lt.Col.	(1946)
Maj.	29.12.1950, seniority 25.01.1950
A/Lt.Col.	29.12.1952-08.07.1954
Lt.Col.	09.07.1954, seniority 29.12.1952
A/Col.	25.01.1956-12.09.1957
Col.	13.09.1957, seniority 25.01.1956 (reld 31.10.1961)

	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe
	TD	03.11.1950	& 1st clasp

Education: St. Andrew's College, Dublin; Lycée Lakanal, Paris; Trinity College, Dublin; MD (MB, BCh, BAO 1930), FRCSI 1935.
Member of Irish men's water polo team at the Olympic Games 1928, Amsterdam.

23.10.1936			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			based for a while at Aldershot, served in West Africa, returned to the UK and was part of the D-Day landings, then the Nijmegen assault; He moved up with troops, and ran a mobile operating theatre behind the front to treat the wounded as quickly as possible; he assisted in the liberation of at least one concentration camp
?	-	28.12.1952	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
29.12.1952	-	31.10.1961	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers

After holding the posts of house-surgeon at the Victoria Hospital, Blackpool and Dr. Steevens's Hospital, Dublin, he came to Northampton in 1933 as house surgeon to Mr. Wilson Stuart at the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital where, apart from the war years, he had an unbroken record of service. During the second world war served as a Territorial Officer with the Army in West Africa and France, being mentioned in dispatches and eventually attaining the rank of colonel. After demobilization he was appointed surgeon to the Manfield Orthopaedic and Northampton General Hospitals in 1946. He soon became a well-known figure because of his interest in local politics, which resulted in his becoming mayor of Northampton. Many will remember him on the occasion of the B.M.A. Clinical Meeting in Northampton in April 1964 when he carried out the duties of Branch president with distinction. He was involved in the Masons.

Dod,
Geoffrey Francis

31.07.1921
-
(03?).1971

Sapper Cadet

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

not commissioned

Dodd,
George Ernest
G.E. Dodd (Photo courtesy of Mr Alan Yates)

Married Joan ... (predeceased him); one daughter.

08.04.1919
-
12.04.2010
King's Lynn, Norfolk (formerly of Southwell, Nottinghamshire)

2nd Lt.	26.01.1939 [85661]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	17.03.1941-16.06.1941
T/Capt.	17.06.1941-16.10.1942, 12.01.1944-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	26.01.1952 (retd 04.1974)
local Lt.Col.	17.06.1959-31.01.1960

39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
GenSM	-	& clasp Malaya

Education: Christ's Hospital.

26.01.1939			commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters
1939	-	1944	8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Ireland & UK)
1944	-	1945	5th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment
1945	-	?	2nd Battalion King's African Rifles (Uganda, from 04.1945 India)
?	-	1948	GHQ Middle East Land Forces
1948	-	1954	1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
1954	-	1956	War Office (London)
1956	-	1959	1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
1959	-	1960	Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
1960	-	1962	Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
1962	-	1965	Jungle Training Centre (Australia)

Regimental Secretary and Curator of Regimental Museum, Nottingham. Custodianship of Foresters War Memorial, Crich, Derbyshire. Treasurer of Southwell Civic Society. Secretary of PROBUS, Southwell.

Dodson,
Denis Alfred

27.06.1909
Islington district, London
-
1999?
Guelph, Ontario, Canada

2nd Lt.	15.07.1940 [139496]
...	...
WS/Maj.	13.02.1945
T/Lt.Col.	13.02.1945-(04.1946)

15.07.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Doelberg,
Julian Frederic
J.F. Doelberg

Second son (with two brothers) of Hermann Diedrich Arnold Doelberg (1861-1948), a mantle manufacturer, and Nellie Agnes Maltby (1867-1941).
Married (06.08.1927, St. Mary's Church, Bathwick Hill, Bath, Somerset) Leslie Edith Havers (24.06.1903 - 15.04.1954), daughter of Maj. Henry Leslie Havers (1873-1932), and Katherine Evelyn Wallis (1878-1963); one daughter.

16.11.1901
Lewisham, London
-
29.04.1941
[Proastion Civil Cemetery, Kalamai, H.9832, reburied 27.04.1945 Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece, 14.C.2]
(formerly of Oxshott, Surrey)
[remembered on Oxshott Church wall War Memorial, and on the memorial on Oxshott Heath]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.12.1921 [18318]
Lt.	22.12.1923
Capt.	22.12.1932
Maj.	22.12.1938

Education: Eastbourne College (09.1915-12.1919; Gonville, 1916 Crosby; School Prefect & Head of House; 2nd XV and shooting colours; Company Quartermaster-Sergeant, Officer Training Corps); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1919-1921); School of Military Engineering..
Associate Member, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1939.

22.12.1921			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1924			course at School of Electric Lighting (Gosport)
1925			officer in charge of workshops, 1st Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battalion
1928			Advanced Motor Transport Course, Military College of Science
10.10.1928	-	09.10.1932	a Staff Captain, Directorate of Mechanization, Department of the Master-General of the Ordnance, War Office
1932	-	1935	E & M course (served his apprenticeship with Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft, Messrs. Petters, and other firms, and also continued his technical studies)
(09.)1935	-	1936	garrison engineer for the Western Defences of Malaya (Singapore)
09.10.1936	-	06.12.1939	a Staff Captain, Directorate of Fortifications and Works, Department of the Quarter-Master-General to the Forces, War Office (temporary)
			attached, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
?	-	29.0.1941	eventually posted to Greece with a reduction in rank to captain for a special mission. This is understood, but not proven, to be the demolition of bridges and other installations to delay the advance of the German forces during the Allied evacuation. Allied soldiers hired a Greek ship, loaded with hay, to evacuate to Crete. As they were trying to repair the engine, around 10:00 a.m. on April 29, 1941, two German aircrafts arrived and bombed the ship. Most soldiers jumped in the sea. Major Doelberg, along with six other soldiers, died and was buried by the villagers of Proastion (in southern Peloponnese) on the Kaminia (also called Delfinia) beach. The ship was completely burned and it sank.

Doig,
George William Lawson *
G.W.L. Doig

Son of William Lowson Doig, and Jessie Ann Thom, of Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
Husband of May D Doig, of Forfar.

* third Christian name also found as: Lowson

1908
Forfar district, Angus, Scotland
-
22.11.1942
Kwazulu, Natal, South Africa
[age 34]
[Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery, South Africa, F.289]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.11.1941 [214650]
WS/Lt.	1942?

01.11.1941			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
?	-	22.11.1942	1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry

Dolphin,
John Robert Vernon
J.R.V. Dolphin

Son of Harold Evelyn Dolphin, and Dorothy Rachel Burton, of Christleton, Chester.
Married (1966) Mary Evelyn Fisher.

01.10.1905
Christleton, Chester
-
02.05.1973
Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	27.04.1928 [39713]
Lt.	27.04.1931
T/Capt.	01.12.1939-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	03.07.1942
T/Lt.Col.	03.07.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946 & 12.11.1960
Maj.	01.01.1949

	CBE	31.05.1956	HM's birthday 56
	TD	?	-

Education: Marlborough College; Loughborough Engineering College (DLC)
Student Apprentice, Hydraulic Engineering Co., Chester, 1926-1928; Inspector, Selection Trust Ltd, 1929-1930; Manager, Austin Hoy and Co. Ltd, 1930-1934; Sales Manager and Engineer, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd; John Dolphin Ltd, Consultants, 1938.

			late Cadet, Marlborough College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
27.04.1928			commissioned, 4th/5th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment - Territorial Army
15.07.1931	-	12.11.1960	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			Commanding Officer Inter-Services Research Station, Welwyn, Hertfordshire (SOE Station IX)
01.06.1943			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechnical Engineers

Managing Director, Corgi Motor Cycle Co. Ltd, Dolphin Industrial Developments Ltd, and Hydraulic Developments Ltd, 1946-1950; Chief Engineer, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, 1951-1957; Engineer-in-Chief, Research Group, UKAEA, 1957-1959; Joint Managing Director, Lansing Bagnall Ltd and J. E. Shay Ltd, 1959-1964. Director, TI (Group Services) Ltd, 1964-1968. FInstF 1939. Inventions include: Welman Oneman Submarine; Welbike Parachutists' Motorcycle; Corgi Motorcycle; Harrier Folding Jeep; Hoy Double Box Coal Cutter Chain; LinaLoda Freight Handling Machine; Turret (3way reach) Truck.

Donaghy,
A G

?
-
?

Sapper Cadet

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

not commissioned ?

Donald,
William Ellis
W.E. Donald

Son of Thomas McQueen Donald (1848-1886), and Agnes Whitelaw Anderson (1853-1884).
Married (c. 1936) Antonia Adolphina Strijp

18.04.1884
Glasgow, Scotland
-
1975
Glasgow, Scotland

T/2nd Lt.	?
T/Lt.	30.07.1919 (reld 16.02.1921)
Lt.	27.03.1940 [125992]
T/Capt.	26.05.1940-(04.1947)

Education: Alan Glen's School, Glasgow; Edinburgh University (chemistry graduate).

WW I			temporary commission, Corps of Royal Engineers (served in Mons and Ypres)
1930s			fought in the Spanish Civil War
27.03.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps

Donkersley,
Frank Ewart
F.E. Donkersley

Son of William E. Donkersley (1881-1956), and Mary A. Waddington.
Married ((06?).1937, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Mary Teresa Sadler (15.09.1916 - (06?).1972), daughter (with two sisters and two brothers) of Henry Norman Sadler (1889-1967), and Eleanor Gertrude Devlin; three daughters, six sons.

23.02.1912
Halifax district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
04.1990
Solihull South West district, West Midlands

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	23.07.1938 [76509]
WS/Lt.	29.06.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	15.03.1943-(10.1943)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946
Lt. RARO	01.11.1947, seniority 01.01.1941
Capt. TA	31.12.1952 (reld 29.08.1962)

			late Officer Cadet, Birmingham University Contingent, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, 1st (City of London Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
23.07.1938			commissioned, The Duke 0f Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
...	-	...	...
01.11.1947	-	31.12.1952	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
31.12.1952	-	01.07.1959	Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
01.07.1959	-	29.08.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Donnellan,
J
J. Donnellan

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	?
Capt.	(03.1945)

?			commissioned, ? [emergency commission?]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Doresa,
Eric Constantine
E.C. Doresa

11.06.1904
Wandsworth, London
-
06.02.1991
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

2nd Lt.

10.06.1939 [89403] (reld 26.02.1941; ill-health)

			late Cadet Serjeant, Charterhouse School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
10.06.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	"A" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA

Dorman-Smith *,
Eric Edward
"Chink"
E.E. Dorman-Smith

The first of the three sons of Edward Dorman-Smith (1870–1947), justice of the peace, and his wife, Amy (1874–1961), daughter of Edith and William Patterson of Liverpool.
Married 1st (1927) Estelle Dawson (born 1903) (marriage dissolved 1948).
Married 2nd (17.05.1949) Eve Nott (née Harben); one son, one daughter.

* changed in 1949 last name by deed poll to:
Dorman-O'Gowan

24.07.1895
Bellamont Forest, Cootehill, Co. Cavan
-
11.05.1969
Lisdarne Hospital, co. Cavan
[buried at the church of St John the Evangelist, Dartry, co. Monaghan, Ireland]

2nd Lt.	25.02.1914 [8427]
T/Lt.	15.11.1914-27.12.1914
Lt.	02.01.1915 27.04.1915, seniority 28.12.1914
T/Capt.	28.06.1915-25.08.1916
Capt.	26.08.1916
A/Maj.	16.10.1917-03.11.1917
T/Maj.	07.07.1918-27.01.1919
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1931
Maj.	23.11.1933
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1934
Lt.Col.	26.04.1937 (half-pay/full-pay 10.05.1938-01.07.1938)
Bt. Col.	10.05.1938, seniority 10.05.1937
Col.	01.07.1938, seniority 10.05.1937 (retd 14.12.1944)
T/Brig.	10.05.1938-(04.1941), 17.09.1942-(04.1944)
A/Maj.Gen.	16.06.1942-06.08.1942
Hon. Brig.	14.12.1944

MC	1916	?
MID	01.01.1916	?
MID	30.05.1918	?
MID	09.01.1919	?
MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
MID	24.06.1943	Middle East 05.42-10.42
14\|15 St	-	& clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: at home, Lambrooke preparatory school & Uppingham School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1912-1914); Staff College (21.01.1927-...; psc)

25.02.1914			commissioned, Northumberland Fusiliers
World War I			served in France & Belgium (13.08.1914-02.09.1914, 28.10.1914-20.12.1914, 05.02.1915-03.08.1915, 20.01.1916-01.05.1916 & 25.07.1917-25.11.1917) and Italy (26.11.1917-04.11.1918) (wounded three times)
16.10.1917	-	03.11.1917	Second-in-Command, 10th Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers
09.04.1918	-	06.07.1918	Adjutant, 12th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
07.07.1918	-	27.01.1919	Second-in-Command, 12th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
28.01.1919	-	31.08.1919	Assistant Military Landing Officer (Class FF), HQ for Embarkation Duties, Italy
12.06.1921	-	11.06.1924	Adjutant, The Northumberland Fusiliers (served in Ireland, 1920-1922 & Germany)
28.08.1924	-	20.01.1927	Officer of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
15.01.1929	-	10.07.1931	General Staff Officer (Instructor in Tactics) (Class CC), School of Military Engineering (Chatham)
11.07.1931	-	14.01.1933	Brigade Major, 6th (Experimental) Infantry Brigade (Aldershot Command) (Blackdown)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers (York)
16.01.1934	-	31.12.1935	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London)
01.01.1936	-	25.04.1937	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College (Camberley)
26.04.1937	-	09.05.1938	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers (Egypt)
10.05.1938	-	(01.)1940	Director of Military Training, Army HQ, India
1940	-	1940	Commandant Staff College Haifa, Palestine
19.09.1940	-	12.1941	Chief Staff Officer to Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor [capture of Bardia, Jan 1941; First battle of Cyrenaica, Mar 1941; Operation Battleaxe to relieve Tobruk, Jun 1941; Operation Crusader, 8 Army operations in the Western Desert, Nov-Dec 1941]
05.1942	-	06.08.1942	Deputy Chief of General Staff to Gen. Sir Claude J.E. Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief Middle East & General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 8th Army [Second battle of Cyrenaica, Jan 1942; First battle of El Alamein, Jul 1942; sacked by Sir Winston Churchill]
17.09.1942	-	22.11.1943	Commander, 160th (South Wales) Infantry Brigade (UK)
11.1943	-	04.1944	unemployed
27.04.1944	-	14.08.1944	Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade (Anzio, Italy)

Military Advisor to Irish Republican Army (IRA) Border Campaign, Northern Ireland 1950-1954.
Literature: Lavinia Greacen, Chink, biography (1989)

Douch,
William George
W.G. Douch

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1939 [111696]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1941
T/Capt.	20.07.1943-(04.1946)

28.12.1939

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Douglas,
Francis William Radford
"Frank"
F.W.R. Douglas (Photo courtesy of Mr William Ashby)

Son of Maj. William James Douglas, and Ada Allan Grant, of 184, Queen's Gate, London SW7.
Married (13.07.1929, Dunbarney Church, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire) Gladys Rhoda Pullar (1906/07 - 04.12.1964), only daughter of Mr & Mrs Herbert S. Pullar, of Dunbarnie, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire; two sons (died both in a road accident), one daughter.

11.12.1897
Epping, Essex
-
04.11.1971
Paddington, London

2nd Lt.	19.02.1916 [46955]
Lt.	03.10.1919, seniority 19.08.1917 (reld 03.10.1919)
T/Capt.	01.12.1939-(04.1941)
WS/Lt.Col.	15.11.1943
T/Col.	15.11.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Col.	?

	BWM 14\|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

19.02.1916	-	03.10.1919	commissioned, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery (blown up during WW1 and buried for some hours under the ground which left him with insomnia for the rest of his life)
Captained Richmond and Kent in rugby football in the 1920s and played for the Barbarians.
03.10.1919	-	28.01.1948	Royal Regiment of Artillery - Regular Army Reserve of Officers (late RH & RFA, Class II) [exceeded age limit]
01.09.1939	-	(04.1941)	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) to Inspector of the Royal Artillery (Field Branch), Inspectorate-General to the Forces for Training
1942?	-	07.1944	Commander, Auxiliary Units

Senior partner of Fielding, Newson-Smith & Co., stockbrokers. Chairman of the company Allied Industrial Services. Chairman or director on the boards of half a dozen of other concerns in a wide variety of industries. Member of the Royal Yacht Squadron and owner of MY Lochan. Was for 17 years Grand Director of Ceremonies with the Freemasons, the last thee years of his life Assistant Grand Master.

Dow,
Arthur Edward
A.E. Dow

Son of ... Dow, and ... Weller.

13.09.1912
St Germans district, Cornwall
-
10.1994
Newbury district, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	18.10.1941 [212912]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	29.09.1943-01.03.1944
WS/Capt.	02.03.1944 (reld < 04.1947)
A/Maj.	02.12.1943-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	11.04.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1947

07.07.1950

18.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	served with 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (NW Europe)
1946	-	1952	served with Control Commission, Berlin

Dow,
James Alexander Mellis
J.A.M. Dow

19.12.1915
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [172908]
WS/Lt.	28.11.1941
T/Capt.	28.11.1941-(04.1946)

?	-	15.02.1941	Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Dowling,
Geoffrey Frederick Walter
G.F.W. Dowling

Son of ... Dowling, and ... Urquhart.
Married ((06?).1948, Wharfedale district, West Riding of Yorkshire)Kathryn M. "Kit" Garner; two daughters, one son.

31.03.1920
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
23.05.2011

Cadet	? [7666601]
2nd Lt.	05.05.1944 [315928]
WS/Lt.	05.11.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	08.01.1946-(08.1946)

MBE

30.04.1940			enlisted service
05.05.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
14.11.1944			transferred, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

Justice of the Peace (JP), County of Buckingham.

Downie,
Vivian James
V.J. Downie

Home town: (1944) London SW1.

(06?).1913
King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-

Lt.	22.02.1939 [85900]
WS/Capt.	22.02.1940
T/Maj.	25.02.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	15.12.1944
T/Lt.Col.	15.12.1944-(04.1946)

DSO	26.10.1944	Italy
OBE	28.06.1945	Italy
MC	29.06.1944	Italy
MID	?	?

Education: MB

22.02.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - General List, Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			served Field Ambulances in North Africa & Italy

Surgeon.
Published: A doctor of sorts : in peace and in war (1992)

Downton,
Henry John
H.J. Downton (Photo courtesy of Mr Nigel Duncan)

(12?.)1914
Wandsworth district, Greater London / Surrey
-
19.06.2004
Elgin district, Morayshire, Scotland
[aged 89]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.03.1941 [176004]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1942
T/Capt.	24.12.1943-(05.1946)
A/Maj.	(1945?)
Lt. ACF	16.09.1958, seniority 02.05.1947 (reld 17.10.1975)
A/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	17.10.1975

OBE	01.01.1976	New Year 76
CFM	29.01.1960	-
CFM	28.09.1971	1st clasp

?	-	01.03.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.03.1941			commissioned, The Royal Norfolk Regiment [emergency commission]
			Company Commander, 4th Gurkha Rifles
(1945)			"E" company, United Services Pre-Cadet College, Belgaum
16.09.1958	-	31.08.1961	Lieutenant, Moray district, Army Cadet Force, Territorial Army
01.09.1961	-	17.10.1975	Gordonstoun School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial Army (later Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve)

The son of a clergyman, John Downton came to Queens' College (Cambridge) from St. John's School, Leatherhead, before undertaking further religious studies at Lincoln Theological College, 1933. However in 1937 he entered the probation service. In 1940 he was called up and joined the Royal Norfolk Regiment. He was soon seconded to help set up a new bat tle unit named the Highland Fieldcraft Training Centre (HFTC). John's performance during the arduous and hazardous training was impressive and he was promoted to company commander. In 1944 he was appointed to the School of Infantry and posted to India where he joined a similar training operation called Kitchener College. Kurt Hahn, who was moving Gordonstoun back to Scotland in 1946 from its wartime residence in Wales, had heard about John's HFTC experience and, after a meeting, invited him to come at once to join the staff of the School. He thus began his teaching career in May 1947. He was an assistant housemaster at Meissner House until he became the founding housemaster of Laverockbank House in 1949 and eventually took charge of Hopeman Lodge in 1960. Though also called upon to teach some scripture and chemistry, his main subject was mathematics which he taught with vigour and alertness, reflecting his own enthusiasm for the subject, and imbuing his students with confidence in themselves. He created the School Combined Cadet Force unit. In 1976 he was given an OBE for services with cadets. Hahn was less than enthusiastic about the school's commitment to the CCF which was disbanded on Downton's retirement in 1976. Remembered with affection by former colleagues and generations of pupils, an exacting timekeeper at athletic events, John also founded the Gordonstoun Concert Society and provided some wonderfully breezy outings of the sailing club in Findhorn Bay. In 'retirement' he became a most distinguished and much-loved member of the staff of Forres Academy for four years. He held passionately firm to his religious beliefs throughout his life and was a member of Holy Trinity Church, Elgin, delighting in organising the annual fund-raising walk along the coastal paths of Moray. Invariably courteous and charming, devoted to bringing out the best in his pupils with kind words and encouragement, John is remembered as a very special teacher.

Draffin,
David Alexander
D.A. Draffin

Son (with five brothers and four sisters) of Alexander Draffin (1862-1951), and Sarah Ann McBurney (1880-1965).
Married (12.07.1948, Jesmond PArish Church, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Margaret R. Lyle.

31.08.1915
Monaghan, Castleblayney district, Ireland
-
30.03.1967
West Kensington, Fulham district, London

Lt.	26.12.1939 [114820]
WS/Capt.	26.12.1940 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

King's Medal for Loyal Service

Education: Belfast University (MB, BCh, BAO 1939); DLO Eng 1948.

26.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	17.05.1940	served with British Expeditionary Force (France & Belgium) (captured)
05.1940	-	1945?	POW (No. 3628) in German captivity (Oflag IV-C, Colditz, Sachsen 18.08.1943-01.09.1944)

Consultant ENT Surgeon, Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, Manor Hospital, Nuneaton & George Elliot Hospital, Nuneaton. Member, British Medical Association. Late Senior Registrar ENT South East Kent Hospital Group. Clinical Assistant Instructor Laryngology & Otolaryngology.
Published several medical articles in Journal of Laryngology & Otolaryngology.

Drake,
Frederick John
F.J. Drake

?
-

WS/CQMS	?
Lt. QM	20.06.1942 [254214]
WS/Capt. QM	20.06.1945 (reld 24.10.1953)
Hon. Capt. (TOT * )	24.10.1953

MID

14.10.1943

Malta

20.06.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission] - Inspector of Permanent Communications

* TOT = Technical Officer Telecommunications

Drake-Brockman,
Guy Percy Lumsden
G.P.L. Drake-Brockman

Married Vera Harrison-Topham; ... children (one daughter?).

25.10.1894
South Africa
-
22.04.1952
[Greytown Cemetery, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa]

2nd Lt.	08.08.1914 [5336]
Lt.	29.10.1914
T/Capt.	17.12.1915-31.12.1916
Capt.	01.01.1917
Maj.	16.10.1927
Lt.Col.	01.04.1937 (supernumerary 01.04.1940) (dismissed the Service by sentence of a Gen. Court-Martial 13.11.1940)
A/Brig.	02.09.1939-01.03.1940
T/Brig.	02.03.1940-26.09.1940

DSO	11.11.1919	Murmansk, N Russia
MC	29.06.1915	?
MID	22.06.1915	?
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	03.02.1920	?
MID	06.05.1932	NW Frontier of India

WWI: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; DSO; MC
NW Frontier of India 1930-31. Medal and Clasp

Education: Sandringham; Staff College (psc).

08.08.1914			commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
			served in France & Belgium 24.11.1914-30.03.1915 & 18.11.1915-02.1918:
12.06.1916	-	27.05.1917	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France)
28.05.1917	-	03.03.1918	Brigade Major, ... (France)
03.03.1918	-	09.1918	Brigade Major, Milford Haven Garrison
09.1918	-	25.10.1919	British Military Mission to Russia
13.01.1920	-	31.05.1920	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Irish Command (temporary)
07.09.1920	-	07.08.121	Adjutant, ...
01.03.1922	-	31.03.1922	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
01.04.1922	-	20.10.1923	Staff Captain, Royal Tank Corps Centre
29.09.1923			transferred, Royal Tank Corps [later Royal Tank Regiment]
01.03.1932	-	27.06.1933	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
28.06.1933	-	19.06.1935	Brigade Major, ... (India)
(1939?)			Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
03.09.1939	-	26.09.1940	Commander, 21st Army Tank Brigade

Drew,
Bertie George Frederick
B.G.F. Drew

Son of Henry and Mary Drew.

16.09.1887 *
Bury St Edmunds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
-
05.10.1961
Sutton, Surrey

* birth year in Army records 1888

Pte.	1904
L/Cpl.	1906
Cpl.	1908
L/Sgt.	1911
Sgt.	1912
A/CSM	1916
CSM	1916
RQMS	1921
RSM	1922
Lt. QM	30.07.1926 [35582]
Capt. QM	30.07.1934
Maj. QM	01.08.1938 (retd 21.08.1942)

14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

1904	-	1916?	served in the ranks for 9 years, 167 days [served in France & Belgium 16.01.1915-14.02.1915 & 30.05.1915-07.10.1915; wounded]
1916?	-	1922	served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 6 years, 99 days
1922	-	1926	served as Warrant Officer Class 1 for 4 years, 51 days
30.07.1926			commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment (31.12.1926 embarked Gibraltar arriving in Hong Kong per SS Achilles 04.02.1927, then to Shanghai 22.02.1927)
20.01.1941			transferred, Extra Regimentally Employed List
?	-	1942	gas school in Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire
21.08.1942	-	30.10.1948	Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Clerk.

B.G.F. Drew served respectively at: 1904 Bury St. Edmunds; Colchester; Woolwich 1905 Woolwich; Colaba Depot, Bombay, India; Karachi, India; Fort St George, Madras, India; Woolwich 1907 Floriana/Fort Mansel, Malta; Imtarfa; St Andrews; 1909 Mustapha, Alexandria, Egypt 1910 Citadel, Cairo, Egypt 1913 Khartoum, Sudan; Ras-el-Tin, Alexandria, Egypt; Cyprus 1914 Lichfield, Staffordshire; Felixstowe; ... Park, Winchester 1915 Ypres salient, Belgium (wounded; casino, nr Paris); Loughborough; Felixstowe; Aldershot; Armentières, France; Loos, France (wounded; convent); Felixstowe 1917 Fleet, Hampshire 1918 demobilized; Bury St Edmunds; Sudbury; Ruzely; Colchester; Bury St Edmunds; Colchester; W Ireland (Boyle); E Ireland (Curragh); N Ireland (Belfast) 1926 Gibraltar; embarked for Shanghai 1927 Port Sweetenham; Kuala Lumpur, Malay; Singapore; Hong Kong; Shanghai 1929 [Irimulgherry?], Deccan, India; Wellington, Bangalore 1934 Madras; Blackdown, Hampshire 1935 Crownhill, Plymouth, Devon 1937 St Georges, Malta 1938 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1939 militia, mobilization, Home Guard 1940 Winterbourne Gunner, Salisbury, Wiltshire 1942 retired

Drew,
Henry Dinham
H.D. Drew

Son (with two sisters) of Henry Alban Drew (1863-1946), and Bertha Elizabeth King (1864-1935), of Exeter, Devonshire.
Married (09.05.1919, Tonbridge district, Kent) Rose Cordelia Snell ((09?).1896 - 27.08.1966); one daughter, two sons.

14.04.1895
Exeter district, Devonshire
-
18.08.1975
Exeter, Devonshire

T/2nd Lt.	09.09.1914-25.09.1915 [5813]
T/Lt.	26.09.1915-28.03.1918
A/Capt. MGC	30.11.1916-28.02.1918
T/Capt. MGC	28.01.1919-31.03.1921
A/Maj. MGC	01.03.1918-31.03.1919
2nd Lt.	29.03.1918, seniority 09.06.1915
Lt.	29.03.1918, seniority 24.04.1917
Capt.	25.08.1924
Maj.	01.12.1936
A/Lt.Col.	06.04.1940-05.07.1940
T/Lt.Col.	06.07.1940-01.10.1942
Lt.Col.	02.10.1942 (retd 28.04.1946)
A/Col.	29.09.1942-28.03.1943
T/Col.	29.04.1943-29.12.1943, 15.03.1944-04.05.1944, 18.07.1944-(04.1946)
A/Brig.	29.09.1942-28.03.1943
T/Brig.	29.03.1943-29.12.1943
Hon. Brig.	28.04.1946

OBE	17.10.1939	Waziristan 38
MC	01.01.1918	while serving with with 215 Company Machine Gun Corps
MID	17.10.1939	NW Frontier of India
MID	15.12.1942	Persia & Iraq
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
CdeG	1944	preparations invasion of France [recommendation available upon request]

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp.

25.07.1916	-	04.11.1916	served in France & Belgium
17.03.1917	-	15.08.1918	served in France & Belgium (wounded twice)
29.03.1918			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment
24.02.1915	-	31.03.1921	served Machine Gun Corps
01.04.1921	-	31.08.1923	served Tank Corps
01.09.1923			transferred, Royal Tank Corps [later: Royal Tank Regiment]
01.09.1928	-	31.10.1932	Adjutant, 25th (Northamptonshire Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company - Territorial Army (Northampton)
(06.1933)			5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Perham Down)
(01.1937)			1st Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps (Razmak, for Peshawar)
(01.1939)			5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Perham Down)
1940	-	1941	Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (France, UK, North Africa)
08.04.1941	-	02.06.1941	acting Commander, 3rd Armoured Brigade (North Africa)
1941			Commander, 1st Armoured Brigade (North Africa)
29.09.1942	-	10.12.1943	Brigadier Armoured Fighting Vehicles, Persia & Iraq Command (despatches)
early 1944			in charge of "E" (Trials) Wing, Norfolk of 79th Armoured Division (preparations for the invasion of France) (Croix de Guerre)
15.03.1944	-	04.05.1944	Commandant Divisional School
07.1944	-	1945?	Second-in-Command, HQ 31st Tank Brigade, from 02.02.1945 HQ 31st Armoured Brigade
28.04.1946	-	22.11.1950	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Drewett,
David George Grantham
E.A. Dring

Son of ... Drewett, and ... Lunnon.
Married 1st (15.10.1946, Sunderland district, Durham) Sister Vivien Scott, QAIMNSR (29.11.1910 - 19.01.1967); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((12?).1971, Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire) Wendy M. Hatchett.

07.10.1919
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
06.2000
Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.04.1943 [273348]
WS/Lt.	24.10.1943
Capt.	01.05.1947
A/Maj.	01.05.1950
Maj.	07.10.1953, seniority 01.05.1950

25.02.1955

24.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.05.1947			Territorial Army
20.06.1958			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Dring,
Eric Arthur
E.A. Dring

Son of ... Dring, and ... Allen.
Married ((09?).1946, Boston district, Lincolnshire) Mary M. Cockrill.

14.08.1920
Boston district, Lincolnshire
-
08.2000
Boston district, Lincolnshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.08.1940 [145096]
WS/Lt.	17.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

?	-	17.08.1940	either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.08.1940			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			served Auxiliary Units
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Driscoll,
David Daniel
D.D. Driscoll

Married ...; one daughter, one son.

04.05.1913
Pontypridd district, Glamorgan
-
01.1997
Lewisham district, London

Sgt.	?
Lt.	04.04.1941 [181374]
T/Capt.	01.07.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	01.07.1946
T/Maj.	01.07.1946-(04.1947)
Capt.	01.11.1947, seniority 01.07.1946
Hon. Maj.	25.05.1963

04.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served with 82nd West African Division (Burma)
01.11.1947	-	11.12.1948	Territorial Army
11.12.1948	-	25.05.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Drobig,
Ronald Albert Casper
R.A.C. Drobig

Son of Albert Conrad Drobig, and Marguerite Waterson.

(03?).1915
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
08.2009 still alive at Cranleigh, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.12.1942 [255399]
WS/Lt.	03.06.1943
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	19.01.1946-(04.1946)

03.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Drought,
George Richard Smerger
G.R.S. Drought (Photo courtesy of Mrs Adrienne Brown)

Son of Maj. George Thomas Acton Drought, Royal Artillery, and Louise Drought (later Mrs Nugent Palmer, of Ash Priors, Cheltenham).
Married (15.04.1937, St Andrew's, Donhead, Wiltshire) Rosemary ('Romey') Beatrix ffolliott Powell, daughter of Lt.Col. R. ffolliott Powell, DSO, Royal Artillery, and Mrs Powell, of Donhead, Shaftesbury ; two sons, one daughter.
Residence: (1943) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

04.08.1910
Amesbury district, Wiltshire
-
10.07.1943
(KIA) [age 32]
[Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily, III.F.9]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.01.1931 [49817]
Lt.	29.01.1934
Capt.	29.01.1939
A/Maj.	28.10.1940-(04.1941)
T/Maj.	?

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Competed as a heavy-weight boxer for the Army, 1934/36.

29.01.1931			commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Glasgow)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Glasgow, for Bordon)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Bordon)
01.04.1937	-	02.10.1939	Supervising Officer for Physical Training (Class GG to 31.07.1938), Aldershot Command
?	-	10.07.1943	Officer Commanding, D Company, 2nd Battalion The Cameronians (killed in action by a machine-gunner trying to capture Floridia, Sicily)

Druce,
Henry Carey
H.C. Druce

Married (1942) Mary Docker; one son, two daughters.

20.05.1921
The Hague, The Netherlands
-
04.01.2007

2nd Lt.	11.02.1940 [120055]
Lt.	11.08.1941
A/Capt.	23.11.1943-22.02.1944
T/Capt.	23.02.1944-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946 (retd 09.01.1949)
Hon. Maj.	09.01.1949 & 15.08.1952
Lt. TA	13.11.1950, seniority 20.05.1944
Capt. TA	29.03.1951
A/Maj. TA	20.06.1951-14.08.1952

DSO	29.03.1945	?
CdeG	?	French resistance
OON	?	Indonesia

Education: Sherburne; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

			served in the ranks for 163 days
11.02.1940			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
			Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
			21st Independent Parachute Company
			seconded to MI6 (for secret operation in Holland)
			2nd Special Air Service Regiment
13.11.1950	-	15.08.1952	commissioned, Special Air Service Regiment - Territorial Army
15.08.1952			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Drury,
Maurice O'Connor
"Con"
M.O'C. Drury

Son of Henry D'Olier Drury (1849-1931), and Ann Elizabeth Reilly (1868-).
Married ((03?).1951, Dublin South district, Ireland) Eileen Herbert.

(09?).1907
Marlborough, Wiltshire
-
25.12.1976

Lt.	20.09.1939 [101287]
WS/Capt.	20.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

Education: BA Camb 1930, MD Dubl 1946 (Trinity College, Dublin), MB BCh BAO (stip cond) 1939; DPM RCPSI 1949.

20.09.1939

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Senior Assistant Physician, St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin. Member BMA & Royal Medical-Psychiatrists Association. Late House Physician Taunton & Somerset Hospital.

Drury,
Robert Esmond Hill
R.E.H. Drury

Residence: (1943) Edinburgh.
Married Katie Shirlaw.

16.09.1910
Newcastle upon Tyne, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
08.05.1988
Spilsby, Lincolnshire

2nd Lt.	19.04.1939 [87001]
WS/Lt.	12.03.1940
T/Capt.	12.03.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	?
A/Maj.	?
T/Maj.	(1943)
WS/Maj.	28.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Col.	(1943)
T/Lt.Col.	28.03.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

DSO	22.07.1943	Middle East
MC	24.09.1942	Middle East
TD	16.05.1961	?

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Monkton Combe School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
19.04.1939			commissioned 44th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(07.1942)			Squadron Commander, 44th Royal Tank Regiment (Middle East)
1943?	-	1944?	Commanding Officer, 1st Scorpion Regiment
15.06.1957	-	14.01.1961	transferred to the North Somerset Yeomanry/44th Royal Tanks - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Keen fisherman.

Dryland,
Geoffrey Hubert Bailey
G.H.B. Dryland (Photo courtesy of Mr Pat Gariepy)

Son (with two brothers) of James William Dryland (1879-1952), and Lily Piercy (1884-1966).
Married 1st ((09?).1947, Buckrose district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Jean Pandora Watson (21.08.1920 - (03?).1979).
Married 2nd ((12?).1970, Chester district, Cheshire) Joyce G. Roberts.

18.10.1918
Chester district, Cheshire
-
22.10.2003
Heswall, Wirral, Birkenhead district, Cheshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.05.1943 [288929]
WS/Lt.	16.11.1943 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	01.01.1946-(04.1947)

	EM	04.03.1949	-
	EM	04.03.1949	1st clasp

16.05.1943

commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Du Boulay,
[Prof.] Francis Robin Houssemayne
F.R.H. Du Boulay

Elder son of late Philip Houssemayne Du Boulay, an Egyptian civil servant, and Mercy Tyrrell (née Friend).
Married (28.12.1948) Cecilia
Burnell Matthews; two sons, one daughter.

19.12.1920
Chislehurst, Greater London, Kent
-
02.01.2008
[Basingstoke ? / Bath ?]

2nd Lt.	11.09.1943 [293101]
WS/Lt.	11.03.1944
T/Capt.	22.11.1945-(04.1946)

Education: Christ's Hospital; Phillip's Academy, Andover, Mass., USA; Balliol College, Oxford Univesity (1939-40 & 1945-47; MA).

1940	-	1942	Friends' Ambulance Unit
26.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Emeritus Professor of Mediæval History in the University of London, 1982. FBA, 1980. Williams Exhibitioner at Balliol College, 1939; Assistant Lecturer at Bedford Coll., 1947, Lecturer, 1949; Reader in Mediæval History, in University of London, 1955, Prof., 1960-1982. Hon. Sec., RHistS, 1961-1965. Mem. Court, Univ. of Hull, 1992-1995.
Published: The Register of Archbishop Bourgchier, 2 vols, 1953-1955; Medieval Bexley, 1961, 2nd edn 1994; Documents Illustrative of Medieval Kentish Society, 1964; The Lordship of Canterbury, 1966; An Age of Ambition, 1970; (ed jtly) The Reign of Richard II, 1972; Germany in the later Middle Ages, 1983; Legion, and other poems, 1983; The England of Piers Plowman, 1991; various essays and papers on late medieval subjects, English and German, in specialist journals and general symposia.

Du Boulay,
Michael Hardinge Houssemayne
M.H.H. Du Boulay

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay (1868-1945), and Freda Elais Butts Howell (1874-1957).
Married (29.04.1938) Eleanor Jean Drysdale Henderson, daughter of John Henderson; four sons.
From East Meon.

21.09.1912
-
05.08.1984

2nd Lt. TA	07.08.1933 [55993]
2nd Lt.	01.09.1934, seniority 02.02.1933
Lt.	11.04.1936, seniority 02.05.1935 07.12.1938, with regimental seniority 02.02.1936
A/Capt.	12.02.1940-01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	01.01.1941-31.03.1941
T/Maj.	01.04.1941-23.09.1941, 25.10.1942-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946
Lt.Col.	01.12.1953 (supernumerary 01.12.1956) (retd 01.01.1957)

	MC	14.10.1943	Middle East
	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe

Education: Winchester College; Magdalene College, Cambridge University (1931-1934; MA 1949); Staff College (psc)

07.08.1933			commissioned, General List, Territorial Army (University Candidates)
01.09.1934			commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
11.04.1936			commissioned, Indian Army (Ghawali Rifles)
07.12.1938			transferred, The Gordon Highlanders
29.06.1940	-	02.08.1940	Adjutant, ...

Du Boulay,
Noel Edmund Houssemayne
N.E.H. Du Boulay

Son of Thomas William Houssemayne Du Boulay (1875-1921), and Lilian Julia Charlotte Askew (1885-1957).
Brother of Maj. Thomas Patrick Houssemayne Du Boulay.
Married (19.09.1939) Henrietta Francis Spedding (26.07.1912 - 31.03.2005).

12.01.1909
Carlisle district, Cumbria
-
23.12.1987
[St Andrew Churchyard, Greystoke, Eden district, Cumbria]

2nd Lt.	26.01.1942 [236523]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

26.01.1942

commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission]

Du Boulay,
Nevile Houssemayne
N.H. Du Boulay

Son of Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay (1880-1918), and Blanche Laura Hornung (c. 1885-c. 1982).
Married 1st (17.02.1934, Lisbon) D. Maria Isabel Bleck de Lancestre (09.05.1913-); two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd ... Saunders; one son.

12.06.1910
Kensington, Greater London
-
09.1991
Canterbury district, Kent

2nd Lt. TA	16.04.1930 (reld 06.10.1939)
2nd Lt.	06.10.1939 [107341]
WS/Lt.	06.04.1941
WS/Capt.	26.09.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

Education: Sandhurst

16.04.1930	-	06.10.1939	commissioned, 98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry) Field Brigde RA (Territorial Army)
06.10.1939			commissioned, Irish Guards [emergency commission]

Worked for Senna Sugar in Lisbon, Portugal.

Du Boulay,
Thomas Houssemayne
T.H. Du Boulay

Son of Col. Woodforde George Houssemayne du Boulay (1848-1923), and Rose Hawkins (1854-1932).
Brother of Capt. Ernest George Houssemayne Du Boulay, RN and Capt. Charles John Houssemayne Du Boulay, RN.
Residence: (1901-1904) Sandown, Isle of Wight; (1905-?) Cheltenham; (1970s) Alford, Cranleigh, Surrey.

11.01.1901
Sandown, Isle of Wight
-
26.03.1977
Royal Surrey County Hospital

2nd Lt.	13.07.1921
Capt.	13.07.1934 (retd 18.09.1936)
Maj. TA	26.11.1938 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col. TA	07.06.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt. Col. TA	< 04.1946

Education: Cheltenham College (09.1909-?)

13.07.1921			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
26.11.1938			12th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Territorial Army)
...	-	...	...

Member of Stock Exchange. Farmer, Cranleigh.

Du Boulay,
Thomas Patrick Houssemayne
T.P.H. Du Boulay

Son of Thomas William Houssemayne Du Boulay (1875-1921), and Lilian Julia Charlotte Askew (1878-?).
Brother of Lt. Noel Edmund Houssemayne Du Boulay.
Married (04.06.1940) Cynthia Sanford; one daughter.

17.03.1910
Carlisle district, Cumbria
-
09.1998
Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	27.08.1931 [52607]
Lt.	27.08.1934
Capt.	17.03.1939 (retd 11.05.1946)
A/Maj.	06.08.1942-05.11.1942
T/Maj.	06.11.1942-02.02.1944, 28.08.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	11.05.1946

Apprentice Westwood Works.

			served in the ranks for 3 years, 104 days
27.08.1931			commissioned, The Border Regiment
26.09.1934	-	31.08.1940	employed under Colonial Office (Royal West African Frontier Force)
...	-	...	...

Duff,
Colin Holmes
C.H. Duff (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son of ... Duff, and ... Campbell ?

(03?).1920 ?
Malling district, Surrey ?
-
2005 still alive

A/Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	17.07.1942 [239414]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1943 (reld 21.02.1946; disability)
Hon. Lt.	21.02.1946

12.11.1948

17.02.1942		commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
02.1942	-	1st Battalion The London Scottish [Higham, Suffolk, then voyage round the Cape (South Africa, India, Iraq, Persia, Middle East, Sicily. Seriously wounded & missing in action during the battalion's first attack at Primosole Bridge, 16-18.07.1943. Escaped with Pte. D.D. Dalrymple from a German hospital in Messina, and rejoined the battalion in mid-August, but still suffering from the effects of their wounds and their ordeal in enemy hands, were evacuated for further medical treatment. Rejoined the battalion in Italy from hospital 13.02.1944. Took command of D Company 18.02.1944, which was reformed with the arrival of reinforcements. Was wounded again a few days later 21.02.1944 during operations in the Anzio beachhead.]
09.08.1945		transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps

Duff,
J C [James Clement ?]

03.09.1924 ?
Newcastle upon Tyne district ?
-
11.1985 ?
Gateshead district, Tyne and Wear ?

Sapper Cadet

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

not commissioned

Duffield,
Leslie Francis
L.F. Duffield (Photo courtesy of Mr David Long)

Son of Hector Leslie Duffield (1881-1922), and Frances Emily Tuckey (1885-).
Married (1939) ...; ... children.

10.11.1912
Thornton Heath, Croydon district, London
-
02.05.2011
Southport, Merseyside

2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [201819]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	27.12.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj.	?

23.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in Burma (with the 56th, the 55th, and finally with the 111th Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiments RA)

Duffy,
the Rev. Aidan Morris
A.M. Duffy

?
-

Chapl. to the Forces 4th cl. (Capt.)

02.03.1943 [260918] (reld > 04.1946)

02.03.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (Roman Catholic) [emergency commission]
(1945)			Chaplain, 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment (NW Europe & British Army of the Rhine)

Dugdale,
Nigel
N. Dugdale (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Bendall)

Second son (with one brother and one sister) of Maj. James Gordon Dugdale, DSO, MVO, MC (1874-1955), and Ellen Mabel Turner (1875-1958), of The Abbey, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Married (27.08.1934, The Old Church, Chelsea) Penelope Elton Cunard (28.01.1909 - 03.1995), fourth daughter of Cyril Grant Cunard (1867-1914), and Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs (1870-1945), of Notgrove Manor, Gloucestershire; two daughters, one son. Penelope Dugdale remarried (1967) George Arthur Loveday.

16.01.1908
Kensington, London
-
06.09.1955
Greenhill Weymouth Bay, Weymouth, Dorset
(accident while bathing *)
(formerly of Bushton Manor, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire & 5 Bywater Street, London SW3)

* fractured his spine and died when he dived from a raft in shallow water at Weymouth during his holiday

2nd Lt.	31.01.1930 [41750]
Lt.	31.01.1933
Capt.	? 11.10.1938, seniority 03.06.1938
A/Maj.	29.05.1940-28.08.1940
T/Maj.	29.08.1940-02.03.1943, 18.09.1943-11.04.1945
WS/Maj.	12.04.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	12.01.1945-11.04.1945
T/Lt.Col.	12.04.1945-(01.1946)
WS/Lt.Col.	17.03.1946
Lt.Col.	23.05.1952 (Empl List (1))
T/Col.	17.03.1946-(04.1947)
Col.	1953
T/Brig.	01.06.1952-06.09.1955

	CBE	01.01.1948	New Year 48
	MID	23.09.1943	North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia) [recommendation available upon request]

Education: Eton (...-1926); Christ Church, Oxford.

09.07.1928	-	10.05.1929	commissioned, General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army
11.05.1929	-	30.01.1930	commissioned, 17th/21st Lancers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
31.01.1930			commissioned, 17th/21st Lancers [permanent commission] [played polo; in 1939 captain of the Pandas who won the Hurlingham Champion Cup and the Ranelagh Open Cup in 1939]
			saw service with 17th/21st Lancers (latterly as Second-in-Command) in North Africa, Italy & Greece [wounded; prevented from continuing to serve in the tanks]
			conducting officer for war correspondent, No. 2 Public Relations Service, First Army (despatches) [directing press arrangements for 6 different landings in Italy]
1945	-	1947	in charge of Public Relations for both the Army & Control Commission in Austria (CBE)
(1948)			Public Relations (News), Directorate of Public Relations, Department of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, War Office
1949	-	1952	Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Supply
01.06.1952	-	06.09.1955	Director of Public Relations, Department of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, War Office

Published: The public relations of the Army (1955?).

Dugdale,
[Sir] William Stratford;
2nd Baronet (cr. 1936)
W.S. Dugdale

Elder son of Sir William Francis Stratford Dugdale, 1st Bt, and Margaret, 2nd daughter of Sir Robert
Gordon Gilmour, 1st Bt, of Liberton and Craigmillar.
Succeeded father, 1965.
Married 1st (1952) Lady Belinda PleydellBouverie (died 1961), 2nd daughter of 6th Earl of Radnor; one son, three daughters.
Married 2nd (1967) Cecilia Mary Mount, eldest daughter of Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Bt; one son, one daughter.

29.03.1922
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.09.1941 [207638]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	25.04.1944-(04.1946)

CBE	1982	?
MC	23.09.1943	North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia)
MID	19.07.1945	Italy

Education: Eton; Balliol College, Oxford (HT & TT 1940).

1940			served in the ranks, The Berkshire Regiment
27.09.1941			commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
(1943)			3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards (MC)

Admitted as Solicitor, 1949. Director and Chairman, General Utilities PLC, since 1988. Director: Phoenix Assurance Co., 1968-1985; Lee Valley Water Co., 1989-1990; North Surrey Water Co., 1989-; Chairman: Severn Trent Water Authority, 1974-1983; National Water Council, 1982-1983; Birmingham Diocesan Board of Finance, 1979-1992. Steward, Jockey Club, 1985-1987. Chairman, Wolverhampton Racecourse PLC, 1965-1991. Chairman, Aston Villa Football Club, 1974-1980. Governor, Lady Katherine Leveson's Hospital, Temple Balsall. Member, Warwickshire County Council, 1964-1976; High Steward, Stratford upon Avon, 1977. JP 1951, DL 1955, High Sheriff 1971, Warwickshire.

Duke,
[Sir] Gerald William
G.W. Duke (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley J. Lindsay)

Eldest son of Lt.Col. Arthur Alexander George Duke, Indian Army (1880-1954), and Alice Irene Colbeck (1883-1983).
Married (1946) Mary Elizabeth (died 1979), elder daughter of late E.M. Burn, Church Stretton; one son, one daughter.

12.11.1910
-
30.04.1992
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

2nd Lt.	27.08.1931 [52586]
...	...
T/Brig.	09.07.1944-19.01.1945, 24.11.1945-03.08.1946, 14.01.1947-31.10.1947
...	...
Maj.Gen.	26.11.1959 (retd 27.08.1965)

KBE	1966	?
CB	1962	?
CBE	21.06.1945	NW Europe
OBE	06.01.1944	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
DSO	12.07.1945	NW Europe
MID	23.03.1944	?
MID	24.08.1944	?
MID	22.03.1945	?
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe

Education: Dover College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Jesus College, Cambridge.

27.08.1931			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1936	-	1939	served Egypt and Palestine
1939	-	1945	in Western Desert and Italy; BGS Eighth Army, 1944; North West Europe, Brig. Q (Movements), 21st Army Group, 1944; CRE 49th Div., 1945:
27.09.1940	-	19.05.1941	DAQMG, Middle East
18.01.1942	-	06.11.1942	GSO2 (RE), Middle East Staff School
07.11.1942	-	21.06.1943	GSO1, CTC
22.06.1943	-	24.08.1943	GSO1 (Plans), 8th Army
25.08.1943	-	08.01.1944	GSO1 (Operations), 8th Army
09.01.1944	-	29.03.1944	Brigadier General Staff, 8th Army
30.03.1944	-	23.12.1944	Brigadier "Q" (Movements), HQ 21st Army Group
01.07.1945	-	23.11.1945	DCE Combined Operations India
1946	-	1965	Chief Engineer, Malaya Command, 1946; idc 1948; Military Attaché, Cairo, 19.11.1952-15.07.1954; Commandant School of Military Engineering, 15.09.1956-59; Director of Personal Services, War Office, 1959-62; Engineer-in-Chief (Army), 1963-65; retired

Colonel Commandant, RE, 1966-75; Commodore Royal Engineer Yacht Club, 1957-60. Chairman, SS&AFA, Kent, 1973-85; President, Scout Association, Kent, 1974-86; Vice-President, Hockey Association, 1965-. Governor of Dover Coll. FICE. DL Kent, 1970.

Dunbabin,
Thomas James
"Tom"
T.J. Dunbabin

Only son of Thomas Charles Dunbabin (1883-1973), MA, journalist, and Beatrice Isabel Needham.
Married (1937) Adelaide Doreen Delacour, daughter of late Bishop P.F.D. de Labilliere; one son, one daughter.

12.04.1911
Tasmania, Australia
-
31.03.1955
Oxford, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	13.06.1940 [137479]
WS/Lt.	14.02.1941
T/Capt.	14.02.1941-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	19.09.1943
T/Maj.	19.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	27.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

	DSO	15.10.1942	Middle East Special Operations and Escapes
	Phnx	1947	?

Education: Sydney Church of England Grammar School; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Derby Scholar, 1933

			served War of 1939-1945, England, Middle East and Mediterranean:
13.06.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
14.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
1944	-	1945	SOE Field Commander on Crete

Classicist and archaeologist. Reader in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford, since 1945; a Fellow of All Souls College, since 1937; Domestic Bursar, since 1950. Assistant Director, British School of Archaeology, Athens, 1936-45. Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1952.
Published: Ed. Perachora, I, by H. Payne and others, 1940; The Western Greeks, 1948; articles in learned journals

Dunbar,
Charles Whish
C.W. Dunbar

Son of late Dr J. Dunbar, FRCS, Auchterarder,
Scotland.
Married (1941) Jean Elinor Kerr Morton; two sons, one daughter.

02.06.1919
-
28.07.1981
Auchterarder, Perthshire

2nd Lt.	11.02.1940 [121519]
...	...
T/Maj.	04.03.1943-13.02.1944
...	...
Maj.Gen.	17.05.1968, seniority 01.05.1968 (retd 19.10.1973)

	CBE	1968	?
	MBE	13.06.1957	?

Education: Glasgow High School (1927-1937); Glasgow University

11.02.1940			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission to 01.06.1945]
1940	-	1943	served with Maritime RA:
04.05.1940	-	05.05.1941	Army Liaison Officer with Royal Navy
1944	-	1948	served with the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
02.06.1945			permanent commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...

Transferred to Highland Light Infantry, 1946; Company Commander with a Parachute Battalion and DAA&QMG and Brigade Major, Parachute Brigade Palestine, 1945-48; Staff College, 1949; Company Commander with HLI, N Africa, Malta and Egypt, 1951-53; Brigade Major, Para. Brigade, Cyprus; Suez, 1956; 2 i/c Parachute Battalion, 1957; Jordan, 1958; comd Depot RHF, 1958-59; comd 1 RHF in Aden, Malta and Libya, 1960-62; comd Infantry Brigade Group, Germany, 1962-65; IDC, 1966; Brigadier General Staff, HQ, Middle East Land Forces, Aden, 1967; General Officer Commanding, North West District, 1968-21.05.1970; Director of Infantry, 21.09.1970-21.09.1973, retired 1973; Colonel, Royal Highland Fusiliers, 1969-78. Vice-President, ACF Association (Scotland), 1976-78. Director, British Red Cross Society, Perth and Kinross, 1977-. Member, Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Body Guard for Scotland).

Duncan,
Murdo MacLeod
M.M. Duncan (Photo courtesy of Mr Murdo Duncan)

Married ...; three children.

01.07.1918
Partick district, Scotland
-
05.04.2002
Edinburgh, Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.02.1940 [117688]
WS/Lt.	10.08.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	10.01.1946-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946
Lt.	11.02.1955 (reld 01.01.1974)
A/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1974

CFM	30.07.1968	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: University of St Andrews (Officer Training Corps).

06.1939	-	10.1939	Depot, The Black Watch (Perth)
10.1939	-	02.1940	166th Officer Cadet Training Unit (Colchester)
10.02.1940			commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
02.1940	-	03.1941	4th Battalion The Welch Regiment (Banbridge, County Down & Keady, County Armagh)
03.1941	-	05?.1943	2nd Battalion The Welch Regiment (Cardiff, from 05.1941 Bombay, India, from 10.1941 Baird Barracks, Bangalore [embarked for & returned before the fall of Rangoon], from 07.1942 Conjeeveram)
05?.1943	-	10.1943	1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Ahmednagar)
10.1943	-	15.04.1944	2nd Battalion The Suffolk Regiment (Madras & Chittagong & Arakan & Imphal) [wounded]
04.1944	-	05.1945	with an Anglo-Indian Bn at the east coast port of Vizagapatam
11.02.1955	-	01.01.1974	Lt., Army Cadet Force - Wigtown Contingent (later Dumfries and Galloway Contingent) - Territorial Army

Returned to St Andrews University to finish off his MA and thereafter taught Geography first at Earlston High School, then Stranraer Academy where he was Captain of the local Army Cadet Force and finally at James Gillespie's in Edinburgh until he retired in the early 1980's. As there was no position for him in the Army Cadet Force in Edinburgh, he was obliged to resign with the honorary rank of Major.

Dundas,
William Fawdington
W.F. Dundas

Only son (out of thee children) of William Dundas (born 1855), minister of the Church of Scotland, and Harriet Mary Croxall (died 1914).
Residence: (1945) Penicuik.

15.05.1898
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985

2nd Lt.	01.05.1917 [15276]
Lt.	01.11.1918
Capt.	02.06.1930
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 25.11.1948)
A/Lt.Col.	16.10.1945-(01.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	25.11.1948

	DSO	11.10.1945	in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field
	MID	29.08.1946	in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field

World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal

01.05.1917			commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
07.10.1917	-	14.12.1917	served in France & Belgium
24.041.1918	-	21.05.1918	served in France & Belgium
20.10.1918	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium (wonded)
01.12.1921	-	18.01.1922	special appointment (Class HH), Irish Command (temporary)
(03.1931)			1st Battalion The Black Watch (Meerut)
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Black Watch (Meerut)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Black Watch (Sudan)
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The Black Watch (Dover)
?	-	12.06.1940	Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Black Watch (France; captured at St Valery-en-Caux)
12.06.1940	-	1945	POW in German captivity
16.10.1945	-	26.06.1946	Commanding Officer, 7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

Dundas of Dundas,
Adam Duncan
"Jock";
29th Chief of Dundas
A.D. Dundas of Dundas

Eldest son (with two brothers and threee sisters) of Adm. Sir Charles Hope Dundas of Dundas, KCMG, RN (28th Chief of Dundas) (1859-1924), and Helen Burgess Watson (1878-).
Brother of Cdr. James Hamilton Dundas, RN.
Married (05.07.1928, Church of St John the Evangelist, Southwick Crescent, Paddington district, London) Effie Isobel Nind (08.05.1905 - 03.03.1983), only daughter of Thomas Guy Nind (1876-1957), and Eleanor Alice Entwistle (1877-1975); three daughters.

28.07.1903
South Queensferry Naval Barracks, Linlithgow, Scotland
-
07.05.1951
Rumbling Bridge, Kinross-shire, Scotland

2nd Lt.	02.04.1938 [74820]
Capt.	01.04.1939 (reld 1947?)
T/Maj.	15.07.1940-(04.1947)
Hon. Maj.	1947?

TD	21.04.1950	-
TD	21.04.1950	1st clasp
EM	09.01.1947	- [replaced by TD in 1950]

Education: Tonbridge School (1918-1920; Parkside).
Director of an export firm in Paris, 1925-1927.

			late Cadet, Tonbridge School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.04.1938			commissioned, 228th Battery, 71st Anti-Aircraft Brigade - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (Edinburgh)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1940	-	1945	Officer Commanding, 228th Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (served overseas at Gibraltar 1941-1943)
1945	-	1947	staff appointment

Dunlop,
James Kirkwood
J.K. Dunlop (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert J.K. Dunlop)

Son of James Kirkwood Dunlop, MA, MB, ChB, and Chrissie Jane Hyslop.
Married (1956, Dunoon district, Scotland) Margaret W.B. Jones; one son.

26.11.1921
Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
-
26.03.1998
Kilmun, Argyllshire, Scotland

Cadet	? [7939623]
2nd Lt.	10.12.1944 [339894]
WS/Lt.	10.06.1945 (dispersal 06.09.1946) (reld 08.01.1947)
Hon. Lt.	08.01.1947

22.10.1944

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

His son writes: "I know father was seconded to the Indian Army during WWII. I think he served with the Chin Hills Battalion - I have a cap badge with crossed kukris and the letters C and H on it. I even have my father's old map case with a map of Burma in it."

Dunlop,
Roger Anketell
R.A. Dunlop (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

22.10.1919
-
29.08.1976

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186321]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Lt. (EME 4th cl.)	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	03.01.1944-(04.1946)

MID

19.09.1946

Burma

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
10.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Dunn,
Philip
P. Dunn

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

17.08.1909
-
?

Lt.	10.12.1938 [51926]
T/Capt.	29.04.1940-11.10.1940
WS/Capt.	12.10.1940
A/Maj.	12.07.1940-11.10.1940
T/Maj.	12.10.1940-15.04.1944
WS/Maj.	16.04.1944 (reld 31.05.1950)
T/Lt.Col.	16.04.1944-(04.1945)
A/Col.	19.01.1946-(04.1947)
Hon. Col.	31.05.1950

	MBE	06.06.1946	Burma [recommendation available upon request]
	AERD	30.12.1955	-

			Royal Corps of Signals - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
10.12.1938			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (Postal Section) - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (Category C)
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
			Army Postal Service, HQ Fourteenth Army (MBE)

Dunn,
Wilfred Frank
W.F. Dunn

Son of Wilfred M. Dunn, and Emily B. Caspell.
Married ((09?).1940, Taunton district, Somerset) Jean L. Symons.

28.05.1917
Dover district, Kent
-
09.2001
Thanet (with Dover) district, Kent

Lt.	20.05.1940 [128050]
WS/Capt.	20.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

Education: trained as a dentist at Guys.

20.05.1940

commissioned, The Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]

Dunne,
Francis Richard
F.R. Dunne

Married; at least one son.

(06?).1912 ??
Edmonton ??
-
2002 ??
Devon ??

Cadet	? [6103450]
2nd Lt.	18.12.1943 [303443]
WS/Lt.	18.06.1944

Education: degree in psychology

			served in the ranks, 8 Platoon, B Company, The Queen's Royal Regiment
18.12.1943			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			spent much of the rest of the war assessing others for battle shock

Dunningham,
Stanley Charles
S.C. Dunningham

Married ((06?).1938, Scarborough district, Yorkshire) Lucy Davison; ... children (one son?).

05.02.1902
Fulham district, London
-
20.07.1984
Windsor & Maidenhead district, Berkshire

Superintending Clerk	?
Lt. (QM)	03.04.1940 [125952]
WS/Capt. (QM)	03.04.1943
T/Maj. (QM)	16.02.1946-(04.1947)

03.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
01.11.1945	-	(04.1947)	Staff Officer, School of Signals (Catterick Camp)

Duns,
Robert John George
R.J.G. Duns (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Married ((12?).1937, Kensington district, London) Mary Barbara J. MacLucas; three sons.

1911 ?
-
08.12.1966
Westhumble, Dorking, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.08.1942 [240399]
WS/Lt.	01.02.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	07.01.1945-(04.1946)

01.08.1942			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
03.01.1945			transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
(1945)			1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)

Dunstan,
William
W. Dunstan

Son of William Dunstan.

05.05.1920
Prahran, Vict., Australia
-

Lt. (Austr. Army)	? [VX14436]
2nd Lt.	14.01.1944
WS/Lt.	14.01.1944 (reld 03.08.1946)
T/Capt.	03.01.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	03.08.1946

07.05.1940			enlisted, Australian Army at Toorak, Vict.
?	-	13.01.1944	16th Army Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
14.01.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Durnford-Slater,
John Frederick
J.F. Durnford-Slater

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Capt. Leonard Slater (1875-1914), and Constance Dorothy Pridham (1877-1943).
Married (05.02.1935, Cathedral, Bombay, India) Ethel Gladys Farquharson (née Ferdinando) (18.07.1897-25.08.1982), widow of Alan Farquharson, and daughter of George Samuel Ferdinando (1869-1949), and Elizabeth (Eliza) Diane Overs (1870-1897); one daughter.

24.01.1909
Instow, Barnstaple district, Devon
-
05.02.1972
Cuckfield, Sussex

2nd Lt.	31.01.1929 [41090]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
WS/Maj.	28.09.1940
Maj.	31.01.1946 (retd 09.02.1946)
Maj. TA	01.05.1947, seniority 24.01.1943
A/Lt.Col.	28.06.1940-27.09.1940
T/Lt.Col.	28.09.1940-09.12.1940, 05.03.1941-14.03.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	15.03.1944
A/Col.	15.09.1943-14.03.1944
T/Col.	15.03.1944-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	15.09.1943-14.03.1944
T/Brig.	15.03.1944-23.03.1946
Hon. Brig.	09.02.1946

DSO	03.04.1942	combined operations Vaagsö and Maaloy
DSO	21.10.1943	Operation Husky (Sicily)
MID	27.05.1941	services in the field: Lofoten

31.01.1929			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
12.09.1938			seconded for service with Territorial Army
07.11.1939	-	27.06.1940	Adjutant, ...
28.06.1940	-	08.1943	Commanding Officer, No. 3 (Army) Commando
07.1940			raid on Guernsey (Operation Ambassadot)
03.1941			raid on Lofoten Islands (Operation Claymore) (Senior Military Officer, Stamsund) (despatches)
12.1941			raid on Vaagsö (Operation Archery) (DSO)
08.1942			raid on Dieppe
15.09.1943	-	?	Commander, 2nd Commando Brigade
(02.1944)	-	(07.1945)	Deputy Commander, Special Service Group [from 12.1944 Commando Group [RM]]
09.02.1946	-	24.01.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
01.05.1947	-	11.08.1948	commissioned, Territorial Army

Published: Commando (1953).

Dutfield,
Edward George
E.G. Dutfield

Son of Henry Thomas Dutfield, of Kensington, London.

30.03.1910
Woolford, West Ham district, London
-
11.1997
Honiton district, Devon

2nd Lt.	29.04.1933 [58818]
...	...
Capt.	01.11.1938
Maj.	1940
T/Lt.Col.	1941
WS/Lt.Col.	10.09.1944
Lt.Col.	01.05.1947, seniority 10.09.1944
A/Col.	10.03.1944-09.09.1944
T/Col.	10.09.1944-(01.1946)
Col.	12.05.1948
Hon. Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

	TD	27.05.1947	& 2 clasps
	MID	19.07.1945	Burma

Education: Cheltenham College (09.1923-07.1927; Clauss and Newick House).
Trained as accounbtant. Joined family transport firm, H. & G. Dutfield Ltd., ultimately becoming a Director.

			late Cadet Corporal, Cheltenham College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Cops
29.04.1933			commissioned, 3rd City of London Regiment - Territorial Army
?			transferred, 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (69th Searchlight Regiment)
?			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1941			Commanding Officer, 76th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
(03.1945)			Second-in-Command, HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade
1948			Commanded 604th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA on re-formation of TA

Member, Institute of Transport. Director, Transport, Coachbuilding and Motor Trade Companies. Chairman, West Surrey TA, 1949.NI.INST.T. Managing Director, Dutfield Motors Ltd., Godalming. Freeman and Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Vintners— Worshipful Company of Carmen. Member of three section Committees S.M.M. &.T. Is a Director of Wittand Vincent Ltd., H. Markham Ltd., and Longford Manufacturing and Coachbuilding Co. Ltd.

Dutton,
Edward George
E.G. Dutton

Married (marriage dissolved); at least one son.

01.03.1909
Romford, Essex
-

2nd Lt.	22.01.1938 [74042]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
WS/Capt.	08.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	08.06.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Capt. RARO	22.01.1948

22.01.1938			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers, Category B
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			served RASC (North Africa & NW Europe)
22.01.1948	-	01.03.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Dykes,
Herbert Charles
H.C. Dykes (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy Vanautgaerden)

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Charles Henry Dykes (1870-1921), and Emmeline Grimwood (1873-1915).
Married (24.12.1923, Ipswich district, Suffolk) Evelyn Gertrude Parsons (28.08.1901 - 26.10.1982); no children.

09.08.1902
Ipswich, Suffolk
-
04.09.1964
Long Melford, Sudbury district, Suffolk

Spr.	25.08.1919 [1859187]
Cpl.	07.01.1926
L/Sgt.	18.08.1929
Sgt.	21.09.1932
CSM Instr.	1939
QM Sgt. Instr.	1940
Lt.	17.01.1941 [167764]
T/Capt.	14.10.1941-24.07.1942
WS/Capt.	25.07.1942 (reld 08.10.1945)
A/Maj.	25.04.1942-24.07.1942
T/Maj.	25.07.1942-07.10.1945
Hon. Maj.	08.10.1945

39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
LSGCM	-	-

17.01.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
17.01.1941	-	13.07.1941	HQ 3rd Divisional Engineers (Blandford, UK), being attached to 256th Field Company RE with 210th Infantry Brigade
14.07.1941	-	08.1945	15th Field Park Company RE (3rd Infantry Division) (from 25.04.1942(?) in command) (despatches)

Civil servant.

Dynes,
Melville Hope McLaren
M.H.M. Dynes

Married ((12?).1959, Chelsea district, Middlesex) 2nd Officer Betty Angell Money, WRNS, widow of F/Lt. Desmond Victor Varian, RAFVR (killed in action 1942), divorced spouse of F/Lt. Jack Hubert Stigner, RAFVR, and only child of Cdr. Norman Angell Kyrle Money, OBE, DSC, RN, and Gladys Granshore.

02.12.1913
Billericay district, Essex
-
09.1995
Plymouth district, Devon

2nd Lt. SRO	12.04.1933 [58789]
2nd Lt.	01.02.1935
Lt.	01.02.1938
A/Capt.	09.01.1940-08.04.1940
T/Capt.	09.04.1940-21.05.1942
WS/Capt.	22.05.1942
Capt.	01.02.1943
A/Maj.	22.02.1942-21.05.1942
T/Maj.	22.05.1942-17.06.1942, 06.08.1942-24.12.1942, 23.04.1943-31.01.1948
Maj.	01.02.1948 (retd 22.02.1958)

MID

23.05.1946

12.04.1933			commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
01.02.1935			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
12.09.1939	-	01.02.1942	Adjutant, ...

Dyson,
Arthur Norman
A.N. Dyson

Son of Abraham Hugh Dyson, and Margaret McGuirk.
Married; ... children.

10.04.1914
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
29.09.1975
Liverpool district

2nd Lt.	19.07.1941 [197072]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	08.09.1944-(04.1946) (reld < 04.1947)
A/Maj. ?	?

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

1939			enlisted, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps (Catterick Camp, Chester)
1941	-	19.07.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
19.07.1941			commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Berwick upon Tweed (Scotland), and perhaps even Newcastle
09.02.1943			transferred, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
mid 1944	-	09.1946	served in India (Calcutta) & Burma

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