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Hackett,
James Henry
J.H. Hackett

Son of James Edward Hackett, and
Edith Audrey Gates.
Married ((06?).1937, Worthing district,
Sussex) Molly Horne, of Goring-by-
Sea, Sussex.

16.03.1916
Steyning district,
Sussex
-
24.03.1943
(KIA) [age 27]
[Medjez-El-Bab
Memorial, face 6]

2nd Lt.	01.06.1940 [134375]
Lt.	01.12.1941
A/Capt.	?

(1939)			served in the ranks, 113th Field Regiment RA
?	-	01.06.1940	Honourable Artillery Company (121st and 125th Officer Cadet Training Units, RA)
01.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	24.03.1943	212th Battery, 111th Field Regiment RA

Hacking,
Richard Graham

Son (with one brother) of Arthur Hacking (1878-1954), and Irene Mary Whitlock (1879-1936).
Married ((09?).1948, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire) Elizabeth Priestley, daughter of A.E. Priestley, of Sandy, Bedfordshire; four sons, one daughter.

08.06.1916
St Marylebone district, London
-
?
South Africa

2nd Lt.	01.01.1938 [90995]
...	...
WS/Capt.	29.08.1944
T/Maj.	29.08.1944-(04.1946)

Education: Marlborough College (05.1930-03.1935; Littlefield House Prefect; VIII 1933-1934 (Capt.)); Clare College, Cambridge University (BA 1938, MA 1942).
Admitted to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1939.

			late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.01.1938			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley (psc)
			served Central Mediterranean Forces (despatches)

In business, Sec Lion Match Coy.

Haggie,
Peter Frazer Sinclair see: Clifford,
Peter Frazer Sinclair

Haig *,
Hugo Roland
H.R. Haig

Son of Brig.Gen. Roland Charles Haig, of Pen-Ithon (1873-1953), and Geraldine Dorothy Kerr-Pearse (died 1956).
Married (14.01.1966) Mrs Helen Neva MacDonald (née Dean); four step-sons, one step-daughter.

* Haig of Drumalan [recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms and matric arms at LO 13.03.1972]
Used as last name: MacDonald-Haig

10.11.1912
St Andrew's district, Fife, Scotland
-
26.04.2011
Drumalan, Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58198]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	11.11.1940-10.02.1941
T/Maj.	11.02.1941-18.05.1941, 20.05.1946-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 29.10.1960)

30.12.1941

Middle East (East Africa & Madagascar) 02.41-07.41

Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

02.02.1933			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
(1933)	-	(1941)	2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Aldershot [at 06.1933], Palestine [1936], Egypt [at 01.1937], Ahmednagar, India [at 01.1939], Western Desert [1939-1940], Middle East [1941] [captured])
1941/42?	-	1945?	POW in Italian & German captivity (made several escape attempts)
30.04.1955	-	(1956)	Second-in-Command, Highland District Records Office (Perth) [also President of the Mess Committee, Highland Brigade HQ]
29.10.1960	-	10.11.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Haig,
Peter Graham
P.G. Haig

Third son (with two brothers) of Sir Harry Graham Haig, KCSI, CIE, ICS (1881-1956), and Violet May Deas (1882-1967).
Married (29.11.1952, Eton, Buckinghamshire) Jennifer Mary Eleanor Morton (12.02.1929 - 26.12.2014), daughter of Bernard L. Morton, OBE, and Judith Mathias, of Taplow; two sons.

01.01.1920
-
25.08.2008
Nelson, New Zealand

Cadet	1940
2nd Lt.	01.02.1941 [170565]
WS/Lt.	01.08.1942 (demobilized > 08.1946, < 012.1946) (reld 28.02.1951)
T/Capt.	28.08.1945-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	28.02.1951

Education: Winchester College (1933.1-1938.2; D); New College, Oxford (1938; History 1940; MA 1958).

1939	-	1940	enlisted service, Royal Armoured Corps
1940	-	1941	102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
02.1941	-	09.1941	60th Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
09.1941	-	04.1942	Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
04.1942	-	06.1945	146th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (India, from 10.1944-02.1945 Burma)
06.1945	-	03.1946	HQ 50th Indian Tank Brigade (India, Malaya & Java)

India Office, 1946. Dipl. Inst. of Educ. 1948. Malayan Education Service 1948-1959. (Senior Educational Officer and H.M. of Malay College, Kuala Lumpur). 3 Law Society finals and John Mackrell Prize. Solicitor 1963 (private practice, Cullompton and Crediton, Devon). Moved to Hobart, Tasmania, 1994.

Hailey,
John Malcolm
J.M. Hailey

16.03.1905
-
31.01.1981
East Ashling, Chichester district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.02.1926, seniority 03.09.1925 [34437]
...	...
A/Lt.Col.	16.08.1941-15.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.	16.11.1941-08.05.1942, 26.06.1942-29.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	30.10.1945
...	...
Brig.	26.12.1955 (retd 12.11.1957)

DSO

19.10.1944

Education: psc

01.02.1926			commissioned, Royal Artillery
01.09.1939	-	18.02.1940	Deputy Assistant Military Secretary, War Office (London)
10.04.1940	-	26.09.1940	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
31.12.1940	-	15.08.1941	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
16.08.1941	-	08.05.1942	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ...
00.00.194X	-	00.00.194X	Commanding Officer, 131st Field Regiment RA
14.01.1945	-	18.04.1945	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
18.04.1945	-	29.04.1945	GSO1 ???
30.04.1945	-	16.02.1946	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA)

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Hakewill Smith,
[Sir] Edmund

17.03.1896 Kimberley, South Africa
-
15.04.1986
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

2nd Lt.	16.06.1915 [13349]
Lt.	02.08.1916
A/Capt.	07.01.1918-26.02.1918, 16.10.1918-25.01.1920
Capt.	08.09.1923
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1936
Maj.	01.08.1938
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1939
A/Lt.Col.	06.05.1940-05.08.1940
T/Lt.Col.	06.08.1940-29.09.1941
WS/Lt.Col.	30.09.1941
A/Col.	30.03.1941-29.09.1941
T/Col.	30.09.1941-30.12.1942
Col.	31.12.1942, seniority 01.07.1942
A/Brig.	30.03.1941-29.09.1941
T/Brig.	30.09.1941-25.12.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	25.03.1942-15.02.1943, 19.11.1943-25.12.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	26.12.1943-30.04.1946
Maj.Gen.	01.05.1946, seniority 21.08.1944 (retd 10.03.1949)

KCVO	10.06.1967	HM's birthday 67
CB	05.07.1945	NW Europe
CBE	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
MC	01.02.1919	*
DSO	11.02.1943	?
MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Commander with Star of the Royal Order of St Olav (Norway) (19.03.1948); Grand Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) (14.11.1947)
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during the nine miles' advance east of Ypres on 28th, -29th and 30th September, 1918. On the 28th he successfully filled a gap in the front line at a critical moment. On the 29th, when he was the only platoon officer left in his company, he took command of two platoons, and showed admirable coolness and determination in dealing with machine-gun neste, which were holding up the company on his right.

Education: Diocesan College, South Africa; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

16.06.1915			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
01.10.1915	-	11.11.1918	served European War (France & Belgium 01.10.1915-03.07.1916, 14.12.1917-31.03.1918, 12.09.1918-11.11.1918; wounded twice, MC)
1920			British Military Mission, South Russia
1921	-	1922	Aide de Camp to Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, Governor of Bengal (India)
20.09.1927	-	19.09.1930	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
15.02.1931	-	20.02.1931	restored to the establishment
20.02.1931	-	08.11.1933	seconded as student at Staff College, Quetta (India)
08.11.1933	-	02.01.1934	restored to the establishment
02.01.1934	-	01.01.1936	Staff Captain, War Office (UK)
02.01.1936	-	14.01.1937	employed on Air Staff Duties, Royal Air Force (UK)
05.02.1938	-	05.05.1940	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office (UK)
06.05.1940	-	06.1940	Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (UK)
09.1940	-	29.03.1941	Commanding Officer, 4/5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (UK)
30.03.1941	-	24.03.1942	Commander, 157th Infantry Brigade (UK)
25.03.1942	-	15.02.1943	Director of Organisation, War Office (UK)
16.02.1943	-	18.11.1943	Commander, 155th Infantry Brigade (UK)
11.11.1943	-	18.11.1943	General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (acting) (UK)
19.11.1943	-	1946	General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (UK, NW Europe)
1946	-	1949	Commander, Lowland District, Scotland (UK)
10.03.1949	-	17.03.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

President of Military Court for War Crimes trial of German FM Albert von Kesselring, Venice, Italy, 05.1947. Colonel, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, 01.05.1946-24.12.1957. Berkshire County Commandant (Lt.), Army Cadet Force, 04.04.1952-15.09.1957. Governor, Military Knights of Windsor, 13.03.1951-1978. Deputy Constable and LieutenantGovernor of Windsor Castle, 04.09.1964-31.12.1972. Justice of the Peace (JP).

Hales,
Sidney William Manville
"Bill"
S.W.M. Hales

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Walter Manille Hales (1868-1943), and Julie Hortense Pairaudeau (1872-1956).
Married 1st ((09?).1932, St Marylebone district, London; divorced) Katherine G. Johnstone. Katherine Hales remarried (1948) Guy M. Barker.
Married 2nd ((09?).1948, Berkhamsted district, Hertfordshire) Heather Barbara Stevens (earlier married to John T. De Fraine) (01.07.1912 - 01.1995), daughter of Reginald K. Stevens (1876-1955), and Clara May Niclin Rice (1882-1963); ... children (one son?).
Residence: (1943) Portscatho, Cornwall.

28.11.1906
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
16.12.1989
Midhurst, Chichester district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.10.1941 [214490]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	11.07.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	20.10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	20.10.1944-...
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

21.10.1943

Sicily * [citation available upon request]

25.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1943)			44th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Sicily) (MC)

* Recommendation for the award of an immediate Military Cross to Lt. S.W.M. Hales: At first light on the 19th July 1943, 'B' Squadron 44 Royal Tank Regiment were in counter-attack reserve in the area 8969. Lt. Hales was moving out on patrol with his troop when information was received that 2 Inniskillings were being counter-attacked by German tanks and infantry in the area of the bridge at 878698. Without waiting for the support of the rest of the Squadron he engaged 4 Mk. III Specials, knocking out one and driving the other three away. His own tank was knocked out by an anti-tank gun and so he changed over to another tank and proceeded to machine-gun the German infantry who were driven back. His second tank being knocked out, Lt. Hales changed into a third and with one other tank, supported 'C' Company 2 Cameronians on their objective. On the way forward he knocked out at least one anti-tank gun. Lt. Hales, although under heavy and continuous mortar-fire, remained with the forward infantry until it was possible to relieve him, seven and a half hours after the action had started. During all this time Lt. Hales showed an offensive spirit and complete disregard for his personal safety and was primarily responsible for increasing and maintaining the western end of the bridgehead.
[Recommended 26.07.1943 by Maj. J.R. Lindsay, commanding 44th Bn RTR, approved 28.07.1943 by Brig. J.C. Currie, commanding 4th Armoured Brigade, 05.08.1943 by Lt.Gen. M.C. Dempsey, commanding 13 Corps, 10.08.1943 by Gen. B.L. Montgomery, commanding Eighth Army, and finally 10.09.1943 by Gen. H.R.L.G. Alexander, commanding 15 Army Group.]

Hall,
Andrew Davidson
A.D. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mr William Bruce Danskine)

Son of Thomas and Jane Hall.
Husband of Helena L. Hall, of Kirn, Argyllshire.

1900
Edrom district, Berwick, Scotland
-
between 27.05.1940
and
02.06.1940
(MIA) [age 39]
[Dunkirk Memorial, column 7]

QMS	?
Lt. QM	21.06.1939 [90459]

			served in the ranks, 8th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (India & Egypt)
21.06.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	27.05.1940	58th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA

Hall,
Arthur Alfred William
A.A.W. Hall

Son of ... Hall, and ... Tinton.
Married ((12?).1940, Hollingbourne district, Kent) Edith C. Groom; ... children (one daughter?).

14.06.1916
Woolwich district, London
-
03.1997
North Somerset district, Somerset

Armt. QMS	?
2nd Lt.	21.05.1941 [188195]
A/Capt.	28.01.1942-27.04.1942
T/Capt.	28.04.1942-01.05.1945
WS/Capt.	02.05.1945
A/Maj.	02.02.1945-01.05.1945
T/Maj.	02.05.1945-01.12.1950
Capt.	01.11.1946, seniority14.05.1945
Lt.	12.07.1947, seniority 02.12.1937
Capt.	12.07.1947, seniority 14.06.1945
Maj.	02.12.1950
T/Lt.Col.	01.01.1957-31.03.1960
Lt.Col.	01.04.1960 (retd 14.06.1971)

OBE	08.06.1968	HM's birthday 68
MID	30.05.1945	NW Europe
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

			served in the ranks for 9 years, 34 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 2 (Acting & War Substantive) for 1 year, 132 days
21.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission to 31.10.1946]
28.01.1942	-	10.05.1943	Acting Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering (A/ADME), HQ South Eastern Command
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
1944	-	1949	Officer Commanding various workshops 2nd Army, 21st Army, 7th Armoured Division
01.11.1946			short service commission
12.07.1947			permanent commission
14.09.1953	-	13.09.1954	Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering (DADME), HQ British Commonwealth Force Korea (BCFK)
20.12.1958	-	31.03.1962	Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering (ADME), HQ H.C. District

AMBIM.

Hall,
Frederick Benjamin
F.B. Hall

Son of John Frederick Hall (1883-1976), and Harriet Priscilla Lee (1883-1978).
Married ((06?).1946, Oakham, Rutland) Gladys Muriel Westmoreland (17.07.1923 - 13.05.2003), daughter (with four brothers) of Ernest Herbert Westmoreland (1893-1983), and Gladys Margaret Pinch (1893-1980); one son, two daughters.

18.08.1920
Oakham, Rutland
-
04.12.2012
Oakham, Rutland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.11.1942 [253677]
WS/Lt.	28.05.1943
T/Capt.	19.09.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	05.12.1951, seniority 31.08.1946
Hon. Capt.	05.05.1953

Education: Oakham School, Rutland.

			served in the ranks, The Leicestershire Regiment
?	-	28.11.1942	Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.11.1942			commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			2nd/6th Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment
29.06.1944			seconded, 11th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (NW Europe)
12.08.1944			104 Corps Reception Camp (Allied Expeditionary Force, North West Europe (British Element))
05.12.1951			Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
05.05.1953			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Hall,
George John Hird Landale
G.J.H.L. Hall

Married Mary Kelso McKillop (predeceased him); two daughters.

10.02.1912
Pontefract district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
04.07.2008
Kilmacolm

Lt.	04.05.1939 [88208]
Capt.	04.05.1940, seniority 04.11.1938
WS/Maj.	09.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

Education: MB

			Officer Cadet, Glasgow University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
04.05.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	31.03.1967	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Retired consultant physician (geriatrics), formerly of Banstead, Surrey.

Hall,
Harold
H. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Nicholls)

12.08.1913
Burton-on-Trent
-
16.02.1981
Thornton Heath, Surrey

2nd Lt.	13.09.1941 [204390]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	11.04.1944-10.07.1944
T/Capt.	11.07.1944-(08.1946)
Capt.	15.04.1948, seniority 01.10.1945
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	15.12.1949

MC	07.11.1946	special operations SE Asia
MID	30.08.1945	gallant and distinguished services in the field
CdeG	?	?

13.09.1941			commissioned, Sherwood Foresters [emergency commission]
01.05.1942			transferred, 27th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
07.1943	-	1946	served Special Operations Executive (SOE): led Jedburgh team ‘Loch’ in France in August 1944, for which he was MID and awarded the Croix de Guerre. From France, Hall volunteered for service in the Far East. He was parachuted into Burma in April 1945 where he won his Military Cross
15.04.1948	-	15.12.1949	commissioned, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps - Territorial Army
15.12.1949	-	04.12.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

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Hall,
Kenneth Reginald Lewis
K.R.L. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mr Les Nicoll)

Only son (with two sisters) of Maj.Gen. Douglas Keith Elphinstone Hall, CMG, DSO (1869-1929), and of Katharine Isabel Lewis, of Cattistock, Dorsetshire.

03.02.1912
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
29.06.1941
(DOW) [age 29]
[Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon, 4.F.8]

2nd Lt.	28.01.1932 [50803]
Lt.	28.01.1935
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-(01.1940)
Capt.	28.01.1940
A/Maj.	(1941)

MC	25.04.1941	Middle East (Egypt & Libya): courage and initiative in action near Sidi Barrani 10.12.40
GenSM	?	& clasp Palestine
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	01.04.1941	Middle East 08.39-11.40

Education: Wellington College (Lynedoch House, 1925.3-1930.2); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (XV 1931).

28.01.1932			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(06.1933)	-	(10.1935)	2nd Field Brigade RA (Larkhill, then Bordon)
15.01.1936	-	27.01.1938	employed with Administrative Detachment RA (Shoeburyness)
(01.1939)			7th Medium Regiment RA (India)
1940?			1st Field Regiment RA (Egypt/Middle East, Eritrea, Syria)
01.1941?	-	29.06.1941	Officer Commanding, 11th Battery [In June 1941 the 1st Field Regiment RA, then forming part of the 5th Indian Infantry Brigade, 4th Indian Division, began the invasion of Syria against the Vichy French. It was during an advanced reconnaissance that the vehicle in which Major Hall was travelling, ran into a forward German machine gun position supported by tanks and was severely wounded in the ensuing fire-fight. His badly mauled party were obliged to surrender and Major Hall was removed to a nearby German Field Hospital, where despite great care provided by his captors, his wounds necessitated the amputation of his right arm. He sadly did not survive the ordeal and died of his wounds on the 29th June 1941. The incident is graphically described in a letter written to Major Hall's sister, by his commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel T.S. Dobree: “On the day he was wounded your brother had gone forward in his car to a village to reconnoitre. All was quite at the edge of the village, which it was known had shortly before contained some enemy and in which also some of our own infantry had advanced. He was sending back a message on the wireless to his battery when suddenly machine gun fire opened on his party. They took cover behind the car but fire became heavier when some tanks appeared. Your brother decided to get his party across the road to better cover. In doing so he was hit three times in the right shoulder and arm and in the left hand. The car in front was set on fire and one of the men rather burned. As they were under the car, more tanks appeared and they eventually had to surrender to them. They were taken to hospital and I am told, were treated very well indeed by the enemy doctors and received every attention. The shoulder wound was bad and one night a very serious haemorrhage began. Every effort was made to stop it by amputation but your brother died as a result of it....”]

Hall,
Maurice Clinton
M.C. Hall

Married Eva (née ...); children.

22.10.1916
-
18.05.2008
Sussex

2nd Lt.	28.07.1936 [69004]
...	...
Brig.	18.10.1964 (retd 01.02.1968)

24.02.1942

Middle East (Egypt and Libya)

28.07.1936			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(1942?)			116/118th Field Battery RA (Middle East)

Hall,
Michael
M.C. Hall

1917
-
1984

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.02.1941 [170601]
WS/Lt.	01.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	28.08.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

18.04.1947

			either Sandhurst or and 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.02.1941			commissioned, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			seconed, C Squadron, Royal Scots Greys

His son writes: "Fought at El Alamein and partook in Salerno landings. His tank - Grant - was the first to reach Benghazi (photo in Egypt Times). Started the war with 4/7th Dragoon Guards - evacuated through Boulogne. Ended the war in France/Germany."

Hall,
Norman Alfred
N.A. Hall

?
-

Cadet	? [7671461]
2nd Lt.	15.11.1941 [216621]
WS/Lt.	?
Lt. & Paym.	15.05.1943

?	-	14.11.1941	Officer Training Unit (RAPC)
15.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Allahabad (India)

Hall,
Reginald Miller
R.M. Hall

Son (with four brothers and three sisters) of Alfred Miller Hall (1866-1912), and Gertrude Mary Sly (1868-).
Married (28.04.1920, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kingston, Jamaica) Daisy Eloise Connolley (05.01.1898 - 09.08.1983), daughter (with one brother and four sisters) of William Thomas Connolley (1858-1930), and Eliza Mariana Ferguson (1858-1925); two sons.

28.02.1894
Purley, Croydon, Surrey
-
17.10.1992
Verwood, Dorset

Capt.	WW I
Lt.	22.08.1940 [169635]
WS/Capt.	25.04.1941 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	25.04.1941-(04.1946)

			served WW I
22.08.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
02.10.1943			transferred, The Cheshire Regiment

Hall,
Samuel Robert
S.R. Hall

Son of Arthur James Hall.
Married ...; four sons, two daughters.

22.04.1909
London
-
07.1991

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.10.1941 [212039]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	05.09.1945-(04.1946)

04.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			180th General Transport Company RASC (8th Army) (North Africa & Italy)
(1945)			served in Hamburg, Germany (possibly as Deputy Director of Transport)

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Hallett,
Clarence Harry
"Chris"
C.H. Hallett (Photo courtesy of Sim Morrison)

Son of Stanley Mead Hallett (1886-1961), and Ethel Millicent Peters (1888-1952).
Married (18.06.1938, Bristol, Gloucestershire) Joan B. Norris (1916-), daughter of ... Hallett, and ... Delaney; four daughters.

24.08.1916
Cowes, Isle of Wight
-
11.06.1994
Cannington, Bridgwater, Taunton Deane district, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.03.1943 [267990]
WS/Lt.	20.09.1943
T/Capt.	23.09.1945-(04.1947)
Lt.	01.01.1949, seniority 20.09.1943
Capt.	20.03.1949
Maj.	20.03.1956 (reld 16.04.1963)
Hon. Maj.	16.04.1963

	MBE	01.01.1958	New Year 58
	MC	23.08.1945	Italy

20.03.1943			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
			17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps (MC) (North Africa, Italy)
01.01.1949	-	16.04.1963	short service commission

Hallett,
Victor George Henry
"Vic"
V.G.H. Hallett

Son of ... Hallett, and ... Smith.

02.1921
Lewisham district, Greater London / Kent / London
-
18.11.2014
Glastonbury, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [177841]
WS/Lt.	15.03.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

23.05.1946

Mediterranean

?	-	15.03.1941	either from 162nd, 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.03.1941			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
13.07.1944	-	02.01.1945	HQ, No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army") (spent most of his time as Liaison Officer at Army HQ)

Social security commissioner & national insurance commissioner (from 03.05.1976).
Published: Hallett's conveyancing precedents : with practical notes including tax and estate duty saving (1965); (with Nicholas Warren) Settlements, wills, and capital transfer tax (1979)

Halliwell,
Max
M. Halliwell (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Halliwell)

Son (with three sisters) of John Halliwell, cotton yarn salesman, and Mary Backhouse Hall.
Married ((09?).1929, Oldham district, Lancashire) Alice Wild; one son.

06.09.1905
Shaw, Oldham district, Lancashire
-
28.12.1989
Wallasey, Birkenhead district, Cheshire

Cadet	? [14538556]
2nd Lt.	31.03.1944 [314726]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

02.1943			enlisted at Sheffield
31.03.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served probably 33/10th Indian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA

Halpin,
John Bernard
J.B. Halpin

Son of ... Halpin, and ... Holdbrooke.

10.03.1916
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
14.03.1990
Seaford, Lewes district, East Sussex

Lt.	01.12.1940 [176584] (reld 18.04.1945; disability)

01.12.1940

commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]

Halsted,
John Gregson
"Greg"
J.G. Halsted

Son of John Halsted, of Bathurst, NSW.
Married (18.06.1919, St Peter, Eaton Square, Middlesex) Gwendolen Marjorie Tripp ((12?).1888 - 15.05.1941), daughter of C. Howard Tripp, of Derby; one son.

16.08.1890
Bathurst, NSW, Australia
-
08.05.1980
Horsham district, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	20.04.1910 [5185]
Lt.	26.02.1913
T/Capt.	09.02.1915-30.09.1915
Capt.	01.10.1915
T/Maj.	20.10.1917-30.03.1919
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1919
Maj.	06.11.1928
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1931
Lt.Col.	19.07.1935
T/Col.	08.06.1936-22.09.1937
Col.	01.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1934
A/Brig.	01.09.1939-29.02.1940
T/Brig.	01.03.1940-06.02.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	21.01.1941-06.02.1941
Maj.Gen.	07.02.1941, seniority 29.10.1940 (retd 19.07.1946)

CB	11.07.1940	France
OBE	11.05.1937	Palestine
MC	04.06.1917	France

Education: Stubbington; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1923-1924; psc).

20.04.1910			commissioned, The Loyal Regiment
1914	-	1918	served European War: France & Belgium 12.08.1914-14.09.1914, 05.01.1915-28.01.1915, 12.08.1915-14.02.1917, 03.09.1917-11.11.1918; wounded twice; despatches L.G. 04.01.1917 & 05.07.1919; Brev. of Maj.; Order of Merit, Agriculture 5th Class; 1914 S. and CI.; B.W.M.; V.M.; M.C.
12.08.1915	-	19.01.1917	Assistant Provost Marshal (Staff Captain), France
20.10.1917	-	30.03.1919	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, France
31.03.1919	-	23.09.1919	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Rhine Army
22.10.1919	-	01.03.1920	Staff Captain, Eastern Command (temporary)
01.04.1920	-	06.01.1921	Staff Captain, Eastern Command
07.01.1921	-	22.01.1922	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Irish Command (temporary)
23.01.1922	-	23.01.1923	Staff Captain, Eastern Command
03.02.1926	-	29.02.1928	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Southern Command
01.03.1928	-	02.02.1930	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, War Office
21.03.1931	-	30.11.1931	specially employed, War Office
21.01.1932	-	20.01.1935	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, Staff College (psc)
1935	-	1936	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Loyal Regiment (Palestine)
08.06.1936	-	14.09.1936	Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Palestine (temporary)
15.09.1936	-	12.01.1937	Assistant Quartermaster-General, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (temporary)
13.01.1937	-	22.09.1937	Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (temporary) (despatches L.G. 23.07.1937, Palestine Medal & Clasp, OBE)
01.10.1937	-	01.09.1939	Assistant Quartermaster-General, Aldershot Command
02.09.1939	-	20.01.1941	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Britsh Expeditionary Force & Home Forces
21.01.1941	-	14.04.1942	Major-General in charge of Administration, South Eastern Command (Home Forces)
1942	-	1945	spells on the staffs of various home commands
16.01.1945	-	15.05.1946	Vice Quartermaster-General, War Office

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Hambro,
Everard Bingham
"Evy"
E.B. Hambro

Son of Maj.Gen. Sir Percival Otway Hambro (1870-1931), and Marjorie Henrietta Bingham (1890-1965).
Married (22.02.1944, St Mark's, North Audley Street, Westminster district, London) Mary Charlotte Lyon (08.09.1915 - 16.02.2011), daughter of Maj. Charles George Lyon (1881-1938), and Anna Dorothy Scott (1892-1984); two sons.

16.09.1916
Kingsclere district, Hampshire
-
25.03.1971
Durrington House, Harlow, Essex

2nd Lt.	16.06.1937 [72237]
WS/Lt.	16.06.1940
T/Capt.	18.02.1941-19.02.1943
WS/Capt.	20.02.1943
T/Maj.	20.02.1943-22.01.1946
WS/Maj.	23.01.1946 (reld < 04.1947)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1947
Capt. RARO	01.11.1947, seniority 16.06.1947
Maj. RARO	18.07.1950, seniority 01.11.1947

	MBE	24.08.1944	Italy [citation available upon request]
	MID	23.03.1944	Sicily

Education: Eton College.

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
16.06.1937			commissioned, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
(1943)			Deputy Assistant-Adjutant & Quartermaster General, 4th Armoured Brigade (MBE)
01.11.1947	-	16.09.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Merchant banker. Director of Samuel Montague and Co. Ltd.

Hamer,
James Anthony
J.A. Hamer

Son of ... Hamer, and ... Fletcher; ... children (one daughter?).

03.10.1920
Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
08.02.2000
St. Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	25.10.1941 [214305]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

MID

21.06.1945

Mediterranean

25.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in Italy & Greece

Hamer,
John Richard
J.R. Hamer

Son of ... Hamer, and ... Peirse.

19.12.1920
Hendon district, Oxfordshire
-
16.08.2011
Hunstanton, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.04.1942 [232518]
WS/Lt.	18.10.1942
A/Capt.	15.02.1944-14.05.1944
T/Capt.	15.05.1944-04.01.1947
WS/Capt.	05.01.1947
A/Maj.	05.10.1946-04.01.1947
T/Maj.	05.01.1947-05.09.1947
Lt.	18.06.1949, seniority 17.08.1943
Capt.	18.06.1949
T/Maj.	01.03.1954-16.02.1955
Maj.	29.03.1955, seniority 17.02.1955
T/Lt.Col.	01.02.1964-10.08.1964
Lt.Col.	11.08.1964 (retd 01.11.1968)

Education: Oundle (1934-1937); Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA); psc.

			served in the ranks for 271 days
18.04.1942			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission to 17.06.1949]
06.09.1947	-	30.12.1947	Unemployed List
18.06.1949			permanent commission
01.05.1954	-	25.03.1956	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
01.05.1958	-	12.09.1961	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Planning Wing, School of Signals
11.07.1966	-	(01.1967)	Chief (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)), Defence Signals Staff, Washington

Hamer,
Llewelyn Clifford
L.C. Hamer

Son of Edward Davies Hamer (1861-), and Fanny Elizabeth Hamer (1866-).
Married ((06?).1945, Newport district, Monmouthshire / Shropshire) Violet Florence Farmer (23.03.1902 - (03?).1974).

20.04.1894
Middlesborough, Yorkshire
-
(09?).1965
Merton district, Greater London

2nd Lt.	09.01.1940 [118524]
WS/Lt.	09.07.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	04.03.1942-(04.1944)
A/Maj.	1945?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

09.01.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			22nd Squadron RE (part of the BEF and evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk; then went on to serve in Africa, Italy and Germany)

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Hamer,
Richard John Alexander
R.J.A. Hamer (Photo courtesy of Mr Chris Hamer)

Elder son (with one sister and one brother) of Lt.Col. Frederick Alexander Hamer, RM (1886-1972), and Gladys Pansy Jane [Hewitt] Hack (1888-1974), of Cadland, Fawley, Hampshire.
Brother of Cdr. John A.H. Hamer, CVO, OBE, DSC, RN.
Married 1st (29.06.1937, Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey North Western district, Surrey; divorced 1946) Elaine de Chair (07.04.1907 - 27.12.1996), only daughter of Adm. Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (1864-1958), and Enid Struben (1879-), of Podenhale, Wentworth, Surrey; one daughter. Elaine Hamer remarried (23.06.1950) Donald Barrington Houton Hudson.
Married 2nd ((12?).1947, Kensington district, London) Thora Mearns Purcell Gibbon (née MacLagan) (30.11.1910 - 29.07.2007). Thora Hamer remarried (1967) Edward B. Ellis.

25.10.1911
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
18.11.1960
Reading, Wokingham district, Berkshire
[Henley Road Crematorium, Caversham, Berkshire]

2nd Lt.	09.12.1933 [62079]
Lt.	08.12.1936 (reld 25.10.1946)

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Brighton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
09.12.1933			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
< 1936			transferred, The South Wales Borderers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
21.06.1938			gained civil aviator's licence (No. 15952) taken on a D.H. 60 Moth, Gipsy 1 - 85 h.p.
1939?	-	1941?	joined up on the start of war but was then arrested under regulation 18B in his army camp and interned for sympathy with the British Union of Fascists; he had volunteered for several dangerous missions and was finally released after 18 months’ detention; claimed damages from Home Secretary
(04.1944)	-	(04.1946)	Unemployed List

Hamilton,
Archibald Robert
A.R. Hamilton (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Epps)

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Capt. Archibald Robert Hamilton, A.S.C. (1869-1946), and Lilian Mary Stace Hemming (1876-1962).
Married (19.01.1933, Allahabad, Bengal, India) Pamela Alice Woodfield Dawson (20.06.1911 - 14.07.2004), daughter of William Oxford Charles Dawson, and Kathleen Stewart; ... children (one son?).

29.01.1900
Kensington district, London
-
22.03.1975
Southampton district, Hampshire (formerly of Newbury, Berkshire)

2nd Lt.	20.12.1918
Lt.	15.05.1921
Capt.	14.11.1943
Capt. & Paym.	02.11.1936, seniority 02.11.1934
Maj. & Paym.	16.03.1939
A/Staff Paym. 2nd cl.	07.02.1940-06.05.1940
T/Staff Paym. 2nd cl.	07.05.1940-21.06.1942, 25.08.1942-19.01.1943
WS/Staff Paym. 2nd cl.	20.01.1943
A/Lt.Col. & Staff Paym. 1st cl.	01.04.1942-21.06.1942, 11.01.1943-19.01.1943
T/Lt.Col. & Staff Paym. 1st cl.	20.01.1943-03.09.1951
Lt.Col. & Staff Paym. 1st cl.	04.09.1951 (retd 25.06.1958)

Education: Imperial Service College (09.1916-12.1917; "C" House; 2nd XV 1916); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1918).

20.12.1918			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
17.01.1925	-	16.01.1929	seconded to RAF (employed under Air Ministry)
02.11.1934	-	01.11.1936	seconded, Royal Army Pay Corps
02.11.1936			transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps
			served in France, West Africa and UK Commands:
30.10.1940	-	10.01.1943	Command Paymaster, West Africa
11.01.1943	-	07.06.1950	Assistant Command Paymaster, ....
08.06.1950	-	28.06.1953	Staff Paymaster, General HQ, Far Eastern Land Forces
01.03.1956	-	...	Command Paymaster, Gibraltar

Hamilton,
John Aloysius
"Jack"
J.A. Hamilton

Married ((09?).1936, Cork, Ireland) Evelyn Santry.

04.08.1909
Cork district, Ireland
-

Prob. Lt.	23.04.1936 [67838]
Lt.	15.09.1936, seniority 29.01.1936
Capt.	23.04.1937, seniority 29.01.1937
A/Maj.	04.05.1941-03.08.1941
T/Maj.	04.08.1941-13.10.1941
WS/Maj.	09.09.1945 (retd 11.02.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	09.06.1945-08.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.	09.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	11.02.1947

Education: Clongowes Wood College; Trinity College, Dublin (MB); [Royal Military College?], Sandhurst.

23.04.1936			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
			served in Poona, India
			served in India, Iraq, Italy and the UK (8th Army)
1946			returned to India
11.02.1947	-	23.04.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Went into private medical practice in India, where thereafter he was always called 'the Colonel'.

Hamilton,
John d'Henin;
3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell

Succeeded uncle, 1952.

01.05.1911
-
31.01.1990
Bramley, Guildford, Surrey

2nd Lt.	29.01.1931 [46870]
Lt.	29.01.1934 (reld 12.09.1937)
A/Capt.	14.10.1940
T/Capt.	23.10.1942
WS/Capt.	30.12.1944
Capt.	01.01.1949
A/Maj.	24.11.1942
T/Maj.	30.12.1944-(07.1945)

GCVO	1987	?
KCVO	1981	?
MC	12.07.1945	NW Europe

Education: Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

29.01.1930			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards
12.09.1937			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.09.1939	-	13.10.1940	mobilized, (Light) Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards
14.10.1940	-	24.07.1942	4th Battalion The Coldstream Guards
25.07.1942	-	22.10.1942	Staff School
23.10.1942	-	25.11.1942	6th Battalion The Coldstream Guards
26.11.1942	-	14.11.1943	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Staff College, Camberley
15.11.1943	-	18.07.1944	5th Battalion The Coldstream Guards (wounded)

Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, 12.03.1973-02.05.1986.

Hamilton,
John Pakenham
J.P. Hamilton

Son of Edward Pakenham Hamilton (1892-), and Gladys Tremaine (1889-), of Oswestry, Shropshire.
Resided in Nottinghamshire.

10.05.1920
Ashbourne district, Derbyshire
-
02.03.1945
[age 24]
[Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, 46.B.4]

Cadet	? [7917918]
2nd Lt.	30.05.1943

Education: Ashford Grammar School (1930-1934).
Articled Clerk Land Agents Surveyors, Valuers, Auctioneers.

30.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	02.03.1945	44th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment

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Hamilton,
Noel Fenwick Vicars
"Nick"
N.F.V. Hamilton

19.12.1897
-
03.04.1972
Marlborough, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	07.04.1916
Lt.	29.06.1917
Capt.	03.10.1927
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 11.11.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	08.01.1941-07.04.1941
T/Lt.Col.	08.04.1941-07.05.1942, 16.11.1942-05.08.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	06.08.1945
A/Col.	06.02.1945-05.08.1945
T/Col.	06.08.1945
Hon. Col.	11.11.1947

British War Medal; Victory Medal

07.04.1916			commissioned, Leinster Regiment
1916	-	1918	served in France & Belgium [from 19.07.1916-10.09.1916 & 01.01.1917-09.06.1917 & 06.04.1918-18.06.1918] (wounded twice)
04.10.1922			transferred to The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
15.02.1937	-	20.02.1940	Adjutant, Auxiliary Force (India)
08.01.1941	-	1941	Commanding Officer, 56th (London) [Divisional] Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps

Hamilton,
Ronald [Ian]
R. Hamilton

Second son (with one brother and one sister) of Arthur Augustus Hamilton, and Jessie McGill.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

04.03.1913
Liverpool district, Lancashire
-
11.1994
Western Australia

L/Sgt.	?
Lt.	10.11.1940 [159378] (reld 16.03.1946)
T/Capt.	06.05.1945-16.03.1946
Hon.Capt.	16.03.1946

10.11.1940

commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]

His son writes: "I believe he was in India and Burma and was in the Kings 4th Regiment. He first went to India around 1930 as a bands boy but served in active duty in Burma during the war."

Hamilton,
William
W. Hamilton

Son of William Hamilton (1866-), and Annie Barrie (1872-).
Married (24.02.1939, St Cuthbert's, Edingburgh) Amy Constance Forbes (22.11.1913 - 10.06.2009), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of David Forbes (1874-1963), and Amy Wright Maclennan (1874-); ... children (one daughter?)..

18.08.1904
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
-
03.01.1994
Inverness, Scotland

Lt.	17.11.1939 [106440]
T/Maj.	08.11.1940-01.12.1941
WS/Maj.	02.12.1941
T/Lt.Col.	11.08.1942-04.09.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	05.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Col.	15.04.1945-(04.1946)
T/Col. ?	1945?
A/Brig. ?	1946?
Hon. Col.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

	OBE	21.12.1944	Italy [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	24.08.1944	Italy

17.11.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
16.04.1942	-	(07.1942)	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, ...
(1944)			Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, HQ Eighth Army (Italy) (OBE)

Hammond,
Gordon Arthur
G.A. Hammond

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

10.01.1914
-
18.11.2005

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.08.1941 [201551]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	06.05.1943-(04.1946)
Hon.Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Hamnett,
John Lahaye see: RINVR officers' section

Hamond,
Robert
R. Hamond

Son of Maj. Philip Hamond, DSO and Bar, MC, JP (1883-1953), and Rita Gladys Ethel Hammond (1884?-1926), of Scaldbeck, Morston, Blakeney, Suffolk.
Married (24.08.1946, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Elizabeth Marion "Betty" Longhurst, widow of Maj. Kenneth Evan "Bill" Meredith, The Dorsetshire Regiment, and younger daughter of F.H. Longhurst, MICE, and Mrs Longhurst; two step-daughters.

28.07.1917
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
-
02.1996
Yeovil, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.08.1937 [73110]
Lt.	26.08.1940
A/Capt.	18.07.1940-17.10.1940
T/Capt.	18.10.1940-23.12.1940, 12.06.1941-25.08.1945
Capt.	26.08.1945
A/Maj.	09.07.1946-08.10.1946
T/Maj.	09.10.1946-09.07.1947, 26.07.1950-25.08.1950
Maj.	26.08.1950 (retd 26.04.1958)

Education: Repton School (04.1931-12.1935; Orchard House); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (31.01.1936-1937).

26.08.1937			commissioned, Royal Norfolk Regiment
12.1937	-	?	1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment (Delhi)
?	-	15.02.1942	5th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment (captured at fall of Singapore)
15.02.1942	-	08.1945	POW in Japanese captivity (02.1942-03.1943 Changi, Singapore, 04.1943-02.1944 Takanun area, Siam, 02.1944-03.1945 Chungkai, 03.1945-07.1945 Kamburi, 07.1945-08.1945 Nakhon Nayok)
26.04.1958	-	28.07.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Published: A fearful freedom : the story of one man's survival behind the lines in Japanese occupied Malaya 1942-1945 (1984); The flame of freedom : Corporal RAS Pagani's escape from the Railway of Death (1988); History of the MacGregor Memorial Medals 1889-1989 (1994).

Hampton,
Kenneth Brian
K.B. Hampton (Photo courtesy of Dorothy Bixley)

Only child of Eric James Hampton, MC (1893-1931), and Louisa Irene Margaret White (1901-1994).
Married (16.03.1951, Wartling, Hailsham district, Sussex) Kathleen Ann G. Murray; no children.

13.03.1926
Isle of Wight
-
11.08.2016

Cadet	? [14494941]
2nd Lt.	23.06.1945 [349492]
WS/Lt.	23.12.1945 (reld 20.06.1948)
T/Capt.	1947?

23.06.1945

commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]

A relative writes: "Inter-Services Russian Course: Grade 1 1946. Attached to Control Commission as Interpreter in Berlin, 1946-48. In civilian life his Senior appointment was Managing Director & International Chief Executive at PA Management Consultants from 1979 up till retirement."

From Brig. (Retd) M.A..B. Johnston, DSO, MC. Telephone Trunks Sub 48, Extn. 44 Your Reference Our Reference HQ/4799188AG	Interpreters' Group, Zonal Executive Offices, CONTROL COMMISSION FOR GERMANY (BRITISH ELEMENT), BAD PYRMONT, 68 HQ CCG, BAOR 15.
	9th September, 1948.
Testimonial in respect of Temp/Captain K.B. HAMPTON, Ox & Bucks
Captain Hampton served under me for one and three quarter years to 20th June, 1948, when he was released from the Army. His work was that of a Russian speaking Interpreter and Translator in the Control Commission for Germany, principally that of Translator in the Building, Berlin, and dealing with the Control Council and Co-ordinating Committee meetings of the Military Governors and their deputies. Considering the fact that Captain Hampton's Russian was learnt in a six months' course at Cambridge University he reached a high standard and his work throughout was entirely satisfactory. Captain Hampton's conduct and bearing were in every way exemplary and he was a credit to the British Army and to the Control Commission for Germany. I formed a high opinion of Captain Hampton's good qualities and I recommend him very strongly for employment either in a Government Department or in a civilian concern, as I am confident that he would give entire satisfaction.
Brigadier (Retd). Director, INTERPRETERS' GROUP. (M.A.B. Johnston).

Hanbury-Brown,
Hassall
H. Hanbury-Brown

Married; children.

15.08.1920
Turner’s Hill, East Grinstead, West Sussex
-
14.10.2007
Forest Holme Hospice, Poole

Cadet	1938
2nd Lt.	18.02.1940 [118404]
WS/Lt.	09.07.1941
Lt.	18.08.1941
A/Capt.	09.04.1941-08.07.1941
T/Capt.	09.07.1941-16.07.1945
WS/Capt.	17.07.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	17.04.1945-16.07.1945
T/Maj.	17.07.1945-17.02.1953
Maj.	18.02.1953 (retd 15.04.1960)

MID

05.04.1945

Burma / Eastern Frontier of India

General Service Medal with Cyprus clasp

Education: Brighton College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1938-39); technical staff course, Military College of Science (ptsc); long electrical and mechanical engineering course, School of Military Engineering (EM).

18.02.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
26.10.1953	-	(08.1955)	Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2), Admiralty Gunnery Establishment (Portland)

AMIMechE

Hancock,
Malcolm Ernest
M.E. Hancock (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Ashby)

Elder son of Alfred Ernest Hancock, and Miriam Pratt, of Ilmington, St Albans, later of Stow-on-the-Wold.
Married 1st ((09?).1925, Lincoln district, Lincolnshire) Gladys Irene Dyke ((06?).1895 - ), elder daughter of Mr & Mrs A.G. Dyke, of Norwood, Lincoln; two sons.
Married 2nd (25.03.1955) Elizabeth Pauline Allison (07.07.1918 - ), divorced wife of Maj. John Henry Fitzhugh Cox, and eldest daughter of Capt. Hubert Allison, and Mildred Clark Thompson, of Pewsey; one son.

15.04.1897
Thornton Heath, Croydon district, Surrey
-
05.1989
North Dorset district

2nd Lt.	17.04.1915
Lt.	? (reld 01.09.1921)
Lt.	30.06.1940 [136997]
A/Capt.	02.05.1941-...
WS/Capt.	23.02.1944
A/Maj.	23.11.1943-22.02.1944
T/Maj.	23.02.1944-18.07.1945
WS/Maj.	19.07.1945 (reld 15.08.1945)
A/Lt.Col.	19.04.1945-15.08.1945
Hon. Maj.	15.08.1945

03.06.1916

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Wellingborough Grammar School Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps
17.04.1915			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment - Territorial Force
30.06.1940			commissioned, Coldstream Guards [emergency commission]
02.05.1941			Coats Mission
22.06.1942			Holding Battalion Coldstream Guards
24.08.1943			General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), General Headquarters, Home Forces
23.11.1943			Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, ...
19.04.1945			Assistant Director Army Welfare Services, Headquarters Berlin District

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Hanley,
[Sir] Michael Bowen
M.B. Hanley

Son of late Prof. James Alec Hanley, PhD, ARCS (1886-1960), and Una Bowen.
Married (1957) Hon. Lorna Margaret Dorothy, daughter of late Hon. Claude HopeMorley.

24.02.1918
Leeds
-
01.01.2001
Salisbury District Hospital

2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [164032]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942
T/Capt.	15.05.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 24.10.1953)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	24.10.1953

KCB

1974

Education: Sedbergh School (1931-1937); Queen's College, Oxford (MA)

28.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
15.04.1944	-	(04.1946)	instructor, Searchlight Wing, School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery
1946			Assistant Military Attaché, Budapest

Joined Security Service, 1948. Deputy Director-General (1971-1972), then Director-General (1972-1978) of the Security Service (MI5).

Hanlin,
Reginald Kirk
"Reggie"
R.K. Hanlin

Married (01.06.1939, Glenurquhart Parish Church, Drumnadrochit, Urquhart district, Inverness, Scotland) Jane Campbell "Jenny" Manson; four sons.

22.03.1899
Clydebank, Old or West Kilpatrick district, Scotland
-
17.02.1982
Nairn, Scotland

2nd Lt.	12.11.1930 [47788]
Lt.	14.11.1933
Capt.	11.01.1938 01.10.1940, seniority 01.05.1934
T/Maj.	12.11.1940-22.08.1941
WS/.Maj.	23.08.1941
Maj.	11.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	23.08.1941-(01.1943), 05.02.1943-24.11.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	25.11.1945
A/Col.	25.05.1945-24.11.1945
T/Col.	25.11.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Col.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

TD	13.12.1945	-
TD	10.06.1969	1st clasp
TD	10.06.1969	2nd clasp

Education: Clydebank High School; University of Glasgow; MB, ChB Glas 1924.

12.11.1930	-	(01.)1939	commissioned, 4th Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders - Territorial Army
1939	-	31.12.1939	5th Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (24.08.1939 mobilized TA)
01.01.1940			transferred, Royal Army Medical Corps (General List)
			Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS), Middle East Forces
1946?	-	22.03.1954	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

General practitioner, Nairn, 1925-1976. House surgeon, Glasgow Western Infirmary. Medical examiner, Territorial Army.

Hannah,
Douglas George
D.G. Hannah

?
-

2nd Lt.	13.05.1939 [89509]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	05.08.1942-(04.1946)
Capt. RARO	13.05.1949 (reld 21.03.1951)

			late Cadet, Charterhouse School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
13.05.1939			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
(06.1944)			Second-in-Command, HQ Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) (Normandy)
13.05.1949			transferred to Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Hannay,
Patrick Wyattville
"Pat"
P.W. Hannay

15.11.1914
-
02.09.2006
Dunkeld, Perthshire

Lt.	27.12.1939 [128799]
WS/Capt.	27.12.1940
WS/Maj.	09.04.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	09.04.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

Education: University of Edinburgh; MB, ChB Ed, 22.07.1937; MRCP Ed, 1948; FRCP Ed, 1957.

27.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Physician, Skin Department, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. Lecturer, Department of Dermatology, University of Edinburgh. Late House Physician and Clinical Tutor, Skin Department, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh.
Published: several scientific articles on dermatology.

Hannen,
Lancelot Guy Michael
D.G. Hannah

Son of Gordon Hannen.
Married (07.05.1949) Brigid April Gibbs (born 27.04.1927), daughter of Major Bryam Northam Gibbs and Lady Rosamond Kathleen Margaret Butler; one daughter, one son.

c. 1924 ?
-

Finchampstead, Wokingham

Cadet	? [14412755]
2nd Lt.	09.04.1944 [314972]
WS/Lt.	09.10.1944
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

10.05.1945

Italy

09.04.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			9th Queen's Royal Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Managing Director, later Deputy Chairman, Christies International Ltd., art auctioneers. President, Finchampstead Cricket Club, 1982-1997.

Hannigan,
Aidan James St John
A.St.J.J. Hannigan

?
-

Cadet	? [14411358]
2nd Lt.	17.06.1944 [323349]
WS/Lt.	17.12.1944 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
Lt.	16.07.1948, seniority 24.07.1946

Education: Trinity College, Dublin (MA, LL.B., 1948).

			may have served in Royal Ulster Rifles (before being commissioned?) and in 1st & 4th Battalions The Parachute Regiment (France, Germany & Palestine):
			Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.06.1944			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince of Consort's Own) [emergency commission]
16.07.1948			commissioned, The Green Howards - Territorial Army
01.09.1949			transferred, The Rifle Brigade - Territorial Army
18.07.1952			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Barrister-at-law. Senior lecturer, Legal Studies, University of Melbourne, 1960s.

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Hansen,
Percy Howard
P.H. Hansen

Son of late Viggo Julius Hansen, and Elsa Been. This Danish couple settled first in South Africa, then after the turn of the century in London, becoming British citizens (naturalized 13.12.1910).
Married Marie Rose, daughter of G. Emsell; one daughter.

26.10.1890
Dresden, Germany (where his parents were taking a cure)
-
12.02.1951
Kensington, London
[Garnisons Kirkegård, København]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.03.1911 [6724]
Lt.	03.08.1912
T/Capt.	04.09.1914-01.02.1915
Capt.	02.02.1915
T/Maj.	11.08.1915-07.06.1916, 04.08.1917-31.01.1919 (half-pay 25.11.1921; restored on full establishment 23.01.1922)
Brev. Maj.	01.01.1919 *
Maj.	15.11.1927
Brev. Lt.Col.	01.07.1932
Lt.Col.	09.09.1937
Col.	05.09.1939, seniority 01.07.1935 (supernumerary 30.06.1944)
A/Brig.	28.01.1941-27.07.1941
T/Brig.	28.07.1941 (retd 19.01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	19.01.1946

VC	01.10.1915	**
DSO	16.09.1918	***
MC	29.10.1915	****
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	?	?
MID	?	?
MID	?	?
CdeG	?	?
LM	14.11.1947	?
StOlav	?	?
14\|15 St	?	?
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
Gen SM	?	with clasp Palestine
Fr&G St	?	?
Def M	?	?
BWM 39\|45	?	?

* Special promotion in recognition of war service.
** For most conspicuous bravery on 9th August, 1915, at Yilghin Burnu, Gallipoli Peninsula. After the second capture of the "Green Knoll" his Battalion was forced to retire, leaving some wounded behind, owing to the intense heat from the scrub which had been set on fire. When the retirement was effected Captain Hansen, with three or four volunteers, on his own initiative, dashed forward several times some 300 to 400 yards over open ground into the scrub under a terrific fire, and succeeded in rescuing from inevitable death by burning no less than six wounded men.
*** For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He volunteered to carry out a reconnaissance, and brought back valuable information obtained under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, which had been unprocurable from other sources. Throughout he did fine work.
**** For conspicuous gallantry at Suvla Bay on 9th September, 1915. He made a reconnaissance of the coast, stripping himself and carrying only a revolver and a blanket for disguise. He swam and "scrambled over rocks, which severely cut and bruised him, and obtained some valuable information and located a gun which was causing much damage. The undertaking was hazardous. On one occasion he met a patrol of 12 Turks who did not see him, and later a single Turk whom he lulled. He returned to our lines in a state of great exhaustion.

Education: prepatory schools in Hazelwood, Limpsfield, Surrey & Oxted, Surrey; Eton (20.09.1904-...); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (29.07.1908-04.03.1911); Staff College, Camberley (psc, 1919)

04.03.1911			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment
04.09.1914	-	10.08.1915	Adjutant, 6th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (Gallipoli, 18.07.1915-10.08.1915)
11.08.1915	-	07.06.1916	6th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (Gallipoli, 10.08.1915-23.09.1915; Egypt, 26.09.1915-26.10.1915)
08.06.1916	-	16.09.1916	Brigade-Major, Halton Park Camp
17.09.1916	-	03.08.1917	Brigade-Major, ... (Home Forces & France, 25.12.1916-01.11.1918)
04.08.1917	-	03.11.1918	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (France)
04.11.1918	-	31.01.1919	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Tactical School, Camberley
02.02.1920	-	22.06.1920	Brigade-Major, 8th Infantry Brigade (Southern Command)
09.02.1922	-	05.07.1923	Brigade-Major, 12th Infantry Brigade (Eastern Command)
10.02.1925	-	09.02.1929	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 55th (West Lancashire) Division (Western Command)
31.03.1931	-	26.02.1934	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Jamaica
27.02.1934	-	31.03.1935	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), Western Command
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment
09.09.1937	-	1939	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment
02.09.1939	-	27.01.1941	AA&QMG, 55th Division (Home Forces)
28.01.1941	-	23.02.1942	DA&QMG, 12th Corps (Home Forces)
24.02.1942	-	14.05.1943	Area Commander, Belfast Area (Home Forces)
15.05.1943	-	25.08.1943	Sub-District Commander, Ashford (Home Forces)
08.1943	-	1945	SHAEF Mission to Norway (Head of Civil Affairs)
19.01.1946	-	26.10.1948	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Hanson,
Arthur Winston
A.W. Hanson

Son of ... Hanson, and ... Laycock.

25.09.1917
Sheffield district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-

Sgnm.	02.04.1940 [2337537]
2nd Lt.	24.12.1944 [337660]
WS/Lt.	24.06.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

02.04.1940			enlisted, Royal Corps of Signals
			served in North Africa & Italy
24.12.1944			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

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Harden,
James Richard Edwards
J.R.E. Harden

Son of late Major J.E. Harden, DL, JP, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and L.G.C. Harden.
Married (1948) Ursula Joyce (died 31.01.2007, age 90), youngest daughter of G.M. Strutt, Newhouse, Terling, Chelmsford, Essex; one son, two daughters.
Residence: (1945) Tandragee, Northern Ireland.

12.12.1916
-
10.2000
Bangor, Caernarvonshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71219]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-13.10.1942
WS/Capt.	14.10.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945 (retd 08.09.1947; on agricultural release)
A/Maj.	14.07.1942-13.10.1942
T/Maj.	14.10.1942-21.03.1944, 17.05.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	08.09.1947
Capt. TA	08.09.1947, seniority 12.12.1943
A/Maj. TA	08.09.1947-11.12.1950
Maj. TA	12.12.1950, seniority 08.09.1947 (reld 07.10.1952)

OBE	11.06.1983	HM's birthday 83: for services to land drainage in Wales
DSO	11.10.1945	NW Europe
MC	21.12.1944	NW Europe
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East

Education: Oriel House, St Asaph; Bedford School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

28.01.1937			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
			served in the Middle East & NW Europe
08.09.1947	-	12.12.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
08.09.1947	-	07.10.1952	commissioned, Royal Irish Fusiliers - Territorial Army

Farmer. Member of Parliament (MP) (Ulster Unionists) for County Armagh, 1948-1954. Justive of the Peace (JP), County Armagh, 1956, Cærnarvonshire, later Gwynedd, 1971-1982; Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Co. Armagh, 1946, Cærnarvonshire, later Gwynedd, 1968; High Sheriff, Cærnarvonshire, 1971-1972.

Harding,
Ronald Howard [Victor]
R.H.V. Harding (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Henstridge)

Mother's maiden name Harding.

19.07.1917
Wilton, Wiltshire
-
21.04.2000
Ashford, Kent

Sgt.	? [2657023]
2nd Lt.	31.05.1941 [189185]
WS/Lt.	31.05.1941 (reld 04.1946)
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	19.10.1945-04.1946

Gen SM	-	with clasp Palestine
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

24.05.1935			served in the ranks, Coldstream Guards (L/Sgt., No. 4 Company, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards) (Egypt & Palestine)
26.10.1940			aboard the "Empress of Britain" when it was attacked & sunk
31.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			also served with 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment & the King's Own Holding Battalion

Harding-Newman,
Rupert Norton
R.N. Harding-Newman

05.12.1907
Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
-
22.10.2007
Wyvis House, Dingwall

2nd Lt.	02.02.1928 [39335]
Lt.	02.02.1930
Capt.	21.05.1937
A/Maj.	07.03.1941-06.06.1941
T/Maj.	07.06.1941-21.09.1942
WS/Maj.	22.09.1942
Maj.	02.02.1945
A/Lt.Col.	22.06.1942-21.09.1942
T/Lt.Col.	22.09.1942-22.01.1946
WS/Lt.Col.	23.01.1946
Lt.Col.	02.12.1949 (supernumerary 02.12.1952)
A/Col.	23.07.1945-22.01.1946
T/Col.	23.01.1946-19.04.1946, 08.12.1946-30.04.1948, 25.12.1948-03.09.1950
local Col.	20.04.1946-12.09.1946
Col.	24.12.1952
Brig.	18.05.1958 (retd 28.02.1961)

	MC	13.08.1942	Middle East
	MID	23.05.1946	?

Education: jssc; psc

02.02.1928			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps
1928	-	1930	5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
1930	-	1935	5th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps & 6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Egypt)
1935			2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
1936	-	1937	1st Light Battalion Royal Tank Corps & 6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Egypt)
01.08.1937	-	01.11.1940	Assistant Instructor (Class FF to 31.07.1938) with Egyptian Army in Egypt (specially employed)
1940	-	1941	one of the founding members of the Long Range Desert Group
07.03.1941	-	10.05.1941	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, ...
11.05.1941	-	18.04.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
19.04.1942	-	21.06.1942	Brigade Major, ...
06.12.1942	-	01.02.1944	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
02.02.1944	-	22.08.1944	Chief Instructor, Camberley
23.07.1945	-	04.03.1946	Commandant, ...
...	-	...	....

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Hardstaff,
Philip Leverton
P.L. Hardstaff

Son (with three brothers and one sister) of
Col. John Richard Hardstaff (1865-1938), and Ellen Elizabeth Hewitt (1872-1968), of Skegness, formerly of Nottingham.
Married 1st (20.06.1931, St Peter's Church, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire) Phyllis Mary Hole ((03?).1905 - (06?).1968), second daughter (with three sisters and two brothers) of John Beeston Hole (1872-1958), and Mary Jane "Minnie" Rea (1868-1947), of Mansfield; two daughters.
Married 2nd (14.05.1953, St Marylebone district, London) Charlotte Maureen Stewart, daughter of Samuel Henry Stewart; one son.

05.02.1904
Beeston, Basford district, Nottinghamshire
-
03.10.2000
West Bridgford, Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire

2nd Lt.	22.04.1924 [28487]
Lt.	22.04.1927?
WS/Capt.	01.01.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Maj.	01.01.1942-(07.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

	TD	13.01.1976	-
	TD	13.01.1976	1st clasp

22.04.1924			commissioned, 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters - Territorial Army
20.08.1927			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
10.12.1936			transferred, General List, Infantry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
17.11.1939			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Special List - Territorial Army
1941			raised 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA in India (Malir- Pakistan) as part of 1st Indian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
?	-	12.02.1955	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Company director.

Hardy,
Bernard Tresham
B.T. Hardy (Photo courtesy of P.A. McKay)

Only child of Harold Edward Hardy (1881-1969), and Beatrice Caroline Sills (1875-1959), of Gundrada, Lewes, Suffolk, later Bury St Edmunds.
Married (07.09.1941, Kensington district, London) Vivien Mary Fenton Archer (20.08.1911 - 02.11.1994), daughter of Charles Douglas W. Archer, and Alicia Maud M. Leake, of West Acton, Middlesex; one daughter.

04.11.1913
Market Harborough district, Leicestershire / Northamptonshire
-
10.06.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Hermanville War Cemetery, France, 3.C.2]

Cadet	? [2589489]
2nd Lt.	12.07.1941 [197989]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

27.08.1940

for gallant and distinguished services in action in connection with recent operations

Education: Oakham School (1928-1931; Wharflands); Selwyn College, Cambridge (1932-...).

			served in the ranks (L/Cpl.) with the Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
			Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.07.1941			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	10.06.1944	13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) (Normandy) [killed in action at Benouville in support of 7th & 11th Parachute Battalions with the object of effecting a junction with 3rd Parachute Brigade; enemy anti-tank guns opened up from Breville woods, destroying two Stuart and four Sherman tanks; nine men were killed, three wounded]

Hardy,
Ronald
R. Hardy (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carolyn Hughes)

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Thomas Hardy (1883-1974), and Christian Dewar Sharp (1883-1958).
Married (08.1940, St Marylebone district, London) Cecily Woodhead (09.09.1911 - 17.11.1990), daughter (with four sisters) of Arthur Woodhead (1886-1961), and Millicent Alice Gale (1883-1945); two daughters.

10.06.1914
Southport, Lancashire
-
06.10.1989
Richmond, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.02.1943 [261509]
WS/Lt.	07.08.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	06.08.1945-(12.1946)
T/Maj.	?

	MBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46
	MID	10.01.1946	Burma

Education: Liverpool University, School of Architecture.

07.02.1943

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Architect.

Hargreaves,
Erik Alexander
E.B.L. Hart

Married Sylvie Monica Suares (09.06.1921 - 11.01.1998); one son.

09.10.1906
Barnet district, Middlesex
-
06.07.1984
Aylesbury district, Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	25.11.1936 [69654]
A/Capt.	15.03.1940-14.06.1940
T/Capt.	15.06.1940-21.06.1941
WS/Capt.	22.06.1941
A/Maj.	22.03.1941-21.06.1941
T/Maj.	22.06.1941-10.11.1945
A/Lt.Col.	11.08.1945-10.11.1945
T/Lt.Col.	11.11.1945-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.04.1947, seniority 11.11.1945
Lt.	20.11.1948, seniority 01.08.1938
Capt.	20.11.1948, seniority 09.10.1939
Maj.	20.11.1948, seniority 01.07.1946
Lt.Col.	02.02.1949
T/Col.	31.06.1951-02.06.1953
Col.	03.06.1954 (retd 09.10.1961)

ERD

Education: City of London School; University College, London (Class III, Classics; BA).
Entered Sudan Political Service, Khartoum, 1929.

25.11.1936			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
15.03.1940	-	23.09.1940	Staff Captain, ...
01.10.1940	-	01.09.1941	Adjutant, ...
06.10.1942	-	19.11.1943	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ...
15.05.1944	-	19.08.1944	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ...
30.10.1944	-	26.04.1946	Staff Officer, grade 2 (SO2), ...
14.06.1946	-	30.06.1946	Staff Officer, grade 1 (SO1), ...
01.07.1946	-	01.10.1949	Staff Officer, grade 2 (SO2), ...
01.04.1947			short service commission, Royal Army Educational Corps
20.11.1948			permanent commission, Royal Army Educational Corps
03.10.1949	-	30.05.1951	Staff Officer, grade 1 (SO1) (Education), HQ Scottish Command
31.05.1951	-	10.05.1953	Chief Education Officer, HQ Western Command
21.05.1953	-	14.01.1955	Commandant (A.S.E.D.), Southern Command
07.02.1955	-	(01.1957)	Chief Education Officer, General HQ, Middle East Land Forces
09.10.1961	-	09.10.1954	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Hargroves,
[Sir] Robert Louis
R.L. Hargroves

Son of William Robert and Mabel Mary Hargroves (née Lalonde).
Married (1940) Eileen Elizabeth Anderson; four daughters.

10.12.1917
-

2nd Lt.	10.12.1938 [69493]
WS/Lt.	28.07.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	28.04.1940-27.07.1940
T/Capt.	28.07.1940-12.08.1942
WS/Capt.	13.08.1942
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	13.05.1942-12.08.1942
T/Maj.	13.08.1942-15.06.1944, 20.09.1944-01.08.1946, 10.01.1947-12.03.1947, 12.01.1948-09.12.1951
Maj.	10.12.1951
Lt.Col.	24.06.1959 (supernumerary 26.06.1962)
Col.	19.02.1964, seniority 21.05.1963
T/Brig.	10.02.1964-30.12.1966
Brig.	31.12.1966 (retd 10.12.1972)

	Kt	31.12.1986	for political service
	CBE	27.04.1965	Radfan Area of Southern Arabia

Education: St John's College, Southsea; Joint Services Staff College (jssc); Staff College (psc)

			Supplementary Reserve of Officers
1012.1938			commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment (from 31.01.1959 The Staffordshire Regiment)
(1941)	-	(1942)	Training Officer, later Officer Commanding, R Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment
(1943)			Officer Commanding, S Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicily)
1943	-	1944	Intensive Training Instructor, Hardwick Hall
(1945)			Officer Commanding, A Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Norway)
12.01.1948	-	31.08.1948	Assistant Chief Instructor, School of Administration, British Army of the Rhine
01.09.1948	-	28.12.1949	Instructor, TC, British Army of the Rhine
10.01.1951	-	15.01.1953	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General, ... Infantry Brigade
08.09.1955	-	19.09.1957	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
11.12.1957	-	13.12.1958	Instructor, School of Infantry
1959	-	1961	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment
05.03.1962	-	22.12.1963	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Training), Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
19.02.1964	-	31.07.1965	Commander, HQ Aden Garrison
01.08.1965	-	06.02.1966	Commander, Aden Brigade
31.03.1966	-	1969	Brigadier (Quartermaster), Ministry of Defence
1969	-	1972	Northern Command

Colonel, The Staffordshire Regiment, 20.08.1971-10.12.1977. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Staffordshire, 1974.

Harington,
[Sir] Charles Henry Pepys
C.H.P. Harington

05.05.1910
Tonbridge district, Kent / Sussex
-
13.02.2007

2nd Lt.	30.01.1930
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	23.11.1943-25.01.1944, 11.03.1944-22.09.1945, 13.06.1948-06.11.1952
...	...
Gen.	01.07.1967 (retd 06.02.1971)

GCB	1969	?
KCB	1964	?
CB	1961	?
CBE	08.03.1957	?
OBE	1953	?
DSO	01.02.1945	?
MC	20.08.1940	?
MID	04.04.1946	?
OON	18.07.1947	?

30.01.1930			commissioned, 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment
1939	-	1940	2nd Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (France & Belgium)
11.10.1940	-	15.01.1941	Brigade Major, ...
26.08.1941	-	03.10.1941	Brigade Major, ...
04.10.1941	-	09.03.1942	specially employed (GSO2)
10.03.1942	-	30.12.1942	DAMS, War Office
17.05.1943	-	22.08.1943	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
23.08.1943	-	25.01.1944	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
1944	-	14.09.1944	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment (NW Europe)
15.09.1944	-	23.05.1945	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 53rd (Welch) Infantry Divsion (NW Europe)
...	-	...	...

Harington,
John

Son of Col. Henry Harington, and ... Urquhart, of Kelston, Folkestone, Kent.
Married (1943) Nancy Allen, daughter of Stanley Allen, of Denne Hill, Canterbury; one son.

07.11.1912
Lichfield district, Staffordshire
-
28.03.1989
Andover district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58011]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	25.11.1939-24.02.1940
T/Capt.	25.02.1940-31.01.1941
WS/Capt.	01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	01.11.1940-31.01.1941
T/Maj.	01.02.1941-22.10.1941, 28.02.1942-08.06.1945
WS/Maj.	09.06.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946
local Lt.Col.	17.12.1942-24.02.1944
A/Lt.Col.	09.03.1945-08.06.1945
T/Lt.Col.	09.06.1945-17.05.1948, 24.10.1950-12.02.1953, 25.02.1954-31.03.1954
Lt.Col.	01.04.1954 (supernumerary 01.04.1957)
local Col.	27.01.1958 (1 day only)
Col.	28.01.1958 (supernumerary 28.01.1964)
T/Brig.	14.09.1959-27.01.1962
Brig.	28.01.1962
Maj.Gen.	10.01.1965, seniority 09.12.1964 (retd 12.11.1967)

CB	02.06.1967	HM's birthday 67
OBE	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58 [recommendation available upon request]
SSM	20.03.1947	NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]
MID	10.05.1945	?

Education: Lambrook, Bracknell; Aldenham School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Joint Services Staff College (jssc); Staff College (psc).

02.02.1933			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1939	-	1940	served British Expeditionary Force
28.02.1942	-	16.12.1942	Brigade Major, Armoured Division Support Group
17.12.1942	-	28.02.1944	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
(1944)			13th Medium Regiment RA (NW Europe) (Silver Star Medal)
09.03.1945	-	18.05.1945	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), HQ 1st British Airborne Corps
26.06.1945	-	02.09.1945	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), HQ 1st Airborne Corps (Lt.)
11.09.1945	-	17.07.1947	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), HQ British and Indian Division (Japan, South East Asia Command)
24.10.1950	-	15.12.1952	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (Instructor), Canadian Staff College
1954	-	1955	Commanding Officer, 18th Regiment RA
01.1955	-	12.1957	College Commander, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (OBE)
28.01.1958	-	19.07.1959	Head of Defence Secretariat Middle East (Co.)
14.09.1959	-	19.07.1961	Commander, Army Group Royal Artillery
16.08.1961	-	18.12.1962	Brigadier Royal Artillery (BRA), General HQ Far East Land Forces
19.12.1962	-	31.12.1964	Deputy Military Secretary (B), War Office
10.01.1965	-	(02.)1967	Chief of Staff, to Commander-in-Chief Far East

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Harker,
Arthur William Allen
O.A. Harker

Younger son (out of two sons and three daughters) of late Professor J. Allen Harker (1870-1923), and Ada Richardson.
Married (1919) Mabel Violet, daughter of late Maj.Gen.
C.G. Jeans, CB; no children.

07.09.1890
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire / Wiltshire
-
23.01.1960

2nd Lt.	23.07.1910 [12263]
Lt.	23.07.1913
Capt.	23.07.1916
A/Maj.	13.04.1918-05.11.1919
T/RAOC Ordn.Offr. 4th cl.	21.02.1921-14.11.1922
RAOC Ordn.Offr. 4th cl.	15.11.1922-20.02.1924
Capt. & Ordn.Offr. 4th cl.	21.02.1924, seniority 21.02.1921
Maj. & Ordn.Offr. 3rd cl.	26.08.1931
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1935
Lt.Col. & Ordn.Offr. 2nd cl.	15.12.1938 (retd 03.06.1947)
local Col.	04.05.1938-30.06.1939
Bt. Col.	01.07.1939
A/Brig.	12.10.1939-11.04.1940
T/Brig.	12.04.1940-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	03.06.1947

CBE	01.01.1941	New Year 41
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Cheltenham College; RMA, Woolwich

23.07.1910			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.10.1916	-	03.07.1917	served Egyptian Expeditonary Force:
24.01.1917	-	03.06.1917	Staff Officer 3rd class (Staff Captain), Royal Flying Corps Military Wing, Egyptian Expeditonary Force
03.03.1918	-	11.11.1918	served France & Belgium
21.02.1924			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
11.09.1924	-	10.09.1928	Assistant Inspector (Class CC), Inspection Department
(03.1931)			Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, Jamaica
01.12.1931	-	30.06.1936	Instructor, RAOC School of Instruction
13.07.1936	-	16.11.1936	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), War Office
17.11.1936	-	30.09.1937	Deputy Assistant Director of Progress, Munitions Production Department, War Office
01.10.1937	-	03.05.1938	Assistant Director of Progress, Munitions Production Department, War Office
04.05.1938	-	11.10.1939	Assistant Director of Munitions Production, War Office
12.10.1939	-	(04.1941)	Director of Component Stores, Ministry of Supply
(04.1941)			also: Associate Member (ex officio), Ordnance Board (Representative of Director of Ordnance Services)
04.12.1942	-	(04.1946)	Military Adviser to Ministry of Supply Representative, British Ministry of Supply Mission
03.06.1947	-	11.11.1950	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Harker,
John MacPherson
J.M. Harker

Son of Edward Harker, and Annie Milne Harker.
Unmarried.
Residence: (1945) Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

(09?).1905
Pinner, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
25.01.1966
Hastings, Sussex

Lt.	08.09.1939 [99408]
WS/Capt.	08.09.1940 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	30.09.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

	MBE	21.06.1945	NW Europe [citation available upon request]
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Education: Berkhamsted Boys' School; London Hospital (MB, BS Lond 1931); MRCP Lond 1933; MRCS Eng., LRCP Lond 1929.

08.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	Medical Specialist, Second-in-Command & Resuscitation Officer, 81 (British) General Hospital (NW Europe) (MBE, despatches)

House surgeon and registrar, London Hospital. Consultant physician in general medicine, Hastings Group Hospitals. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine.

Harker,
Oswald Allen
"Jasper"
O.A. Harker

Elder son (with one brother) of Prof. James Allen Harker (1847-1894), and Lizzie Watson (1863-1933).
Married (26.10.1920, St Mark's, North Audley Street, St George Hanover Square district, London) Margaret Dorothy Russell-Cooke (03.04.1894 - 04.10.1947).

09.02.1886
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire
-
20.01.1968
nursing home, Lambeth district, London (formerly of 19, Hyde Park Place, London W2)

2nd Lt.	30.08.1939 [108221]
WS/Lt.	03.03.1941 (reld 01.01.1946)
local Lt.Col.	03.09.1939-13.06.1940
local Brig.	14.06.1940-01.01.1946
Hon. Lt.	01.01.1946

CBE

11.05.1937

Foreign Office work

India Police Department (joined 17.11.1905, posted to Bombay; superintendent of police and deputy commissioner of police, Bombay from 12.1915; received King's Police Medal 01.1916; retired 07.1923). Administrative Assistant, Foreign Office (1930s).

30.08.1939			commissioned, Special List - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
14.06.1940	-	1941	acting Director-General of the Security Service (MI 5)
1941	-	01.01.1946	Deputy Director-General of the Security Service (MI 5)

Harker,
George Ross Willmott
J.M. Harker

Son of Charles Willmott Harker.
Married ((03?).1947, St Marylebone district, London) Sheila F. Staveacre; ... children (one daughter?).

20.09.1907
Kensington district, London
-
01.1997
Plymouth district, Devon

2nd Lt.	07.01.1940 [113430]
WS/Lt.	01.03.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	01.03.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

04.11.1949

07.01.1940

commissioned, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

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Harland,
Stanley Frederick
S.F. Harland

Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of William John Harland (1872-1917), and Alice Sarah Relf (1876-1950).
Married (13.11.1937, Battersea district, London) Rhoda Beatrice Parfitt (04.10.1915 - 27.02.1996), daughter (with one sibling) of Herbert Parfitt (1880-1942), and Jessie Hill Smith (1892-1961); one son.

03.04.1911
Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire
-
02.1981
Croydon, Surrey

Cadet	? [7955258]
2nd Lt.	22.04.1944 [315212]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
Lt.	30.12.1949, seniority 19.02.1949
Capt.	21.09.1955, seniority 29.01.1953
Hon. Capt.	04.04.1962

Assistant secretary of National Poultry Council.

22.04.1944			commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
30.12.1949			commissioned, Corps of Royal Military Police - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
27.08.1959	-	04.04.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

His son writes: "He fought in the desert with the 8th army in 1942. Later he fought in Germany probably 1944/5 where he was wounded in April 1945."

Harley,
Richard Mount Stephen
"Charles"
R.M.S. Harley

Youngest son of Dr Richard Harley, and Mrs Harley, of Millhill, Inchture, Perthshire.
Engagement to Phyllis Marian Armstrong broken off (02.1943).
Married ((06?).1944, Surrey South Eastern district) Rose Elizabeth Jackson, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Frank Jackson, of Highways, Woldingham, Surrey; ... children (one son?).

14.03.1912
Peebles district, Peebles, Scotland
-
12.1989
Westminster district, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1932 [50833]
Lt.	28.01.1935
A/Capt.	23.01.1940-27.01.1940
Capt.	28.01.1940
A/Maj.	04.03.1941-03.06.1941
T/Maj.	04.06.1941-14.05.1942, 27.05.1942-17.11.1942, 08.06.1943-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 14.03.1952)

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

28.01.1932			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?	-	?	?

Harling,
Harold Percy Somme
"Harry"
H.P.S. Harling

16.09.1918
-
06.1994
Southampton district, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.12.1941 [228771]
WS/Lt.	?, seniority 09.12.1941
Lt.	01.10.1946, seniority 09.12.1941
A/Capt.	27.05.1946-28.06.1946, 11.11.1946-07.01.1947
T/Capt.	08.01.1947-08.12.1947
Capt.	09.12.1947
Maj.	09.12.1954
Lt. (QM)	01.08.1961
Capt. (QM)	01.08.1961
Maj. (QM)	01.08.1961 (retd 28.01.1969)

MID

15.06.1944

distinguished services in the field

Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp

1932?	-	08.12.1941	served in the ranks for 8 years, 220 days
09.12.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 30.09.1946]
?	-	1942	[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East)
01.10.1946	-	31.07.1961	short service commission
01.08.1961	-	28.01.1969	permanent commission

Harman,
[Sir] Jack Wentworth
J.W. Harman

Only son of late Lt.Gen. Sir Antony Ernest Wentworth Harman, KCB, DSO (1872-1961), and late Dorothy Ricardo (died 1957).
Married 1st (29.11.1947, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Westminster district, London) Gwladys May Murphy (15.05.1912 - 11.1996), daughter of Sir Idwal Lloyd and widow of Lt.Col. R.J. Murphy; one daughter and two step daughters.
Married 2nd (05.2001, Salisbury district, Wiltshire) Sheila Florence Perkins, née Gurdon, widow of Maj. Christopher Perkins.

20.07.1920
Farnham distrct, Surrey / Kent
-
28.12.2009
Dinton, nr Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	02.03.1940 [123536]
Lt.	02.09.1941
A/Capt.	02.05.1942-01.08.1942
T/Capt.	02.08.1942-13.05.1943
WS/Capt.	14.05.1943
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	03.12.1942-01.02.1943, 14.04.1943-13.05.1943
T/Maj.	14.05.1943-08.06.1943, 09.07.1944-01.06.1946, 29.03.1947-16.02.1948, 05.04.1948-01.03.1953
Maj.	02.03.1953
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1958
Lt.Col.	01.01.1960 (supernumerary 01.01.1963)
Col.	22.01.1965, seniority 07.05.1963
T/Brig.	22.01.1965-30.12.1966
Brig.	31.12.1966
Gen.	15.07.1976, seniority 25.03.1976 (retd 07.05.1981)

GCB	01.01.1978	New Year 78
KCB	01.01.1974	New Year 74
OBE	02.06.1962	HM's birthday 62
MC	19.08.1943	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)

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

02.03.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) - Royal Armoured Corps (from 01.01.1959 Queen's Dragoon Guards)
			served Western Desert & Italy
1944	-	autumn 1944	seconded, 24th Lancers (NW Europe)
autumn 1944	-	1945	The Queen's Bays (Italy)
03.03.1946	-	01.06.1946	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Central Mediterranean Forces
02.06.1946	-	14.01.1947	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... Armoured Brigade
09.02.1950	-	30.01.1952	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... Infantry Division (Territorial Army)
26.07.1954	-	18.03.1956	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), ... Armoured Brigade
1960	-	1962	Commanding Officer, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
01.01.1963	-	17.01.1965	General Staff Officer & Chief Instructor, AAB Group Division, School of Infantry, Southern Command
22.01.1965	-	09.12.1966	Commander, 11th Infantry Brigade Group
1967			attended Imperial Defence College
18.01.1968	-	31.03.1968	Brigadier General Staff, HQ Southern Command
01.04.1968	-	30.12.1969	Brigadier General Staff, HQ Army Strategic Command
06.01.1970	-	05.01.1972	General Officer Commanding, 1st Division
02.02.1972	-	29.11.1973	Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
24.01.1974	-	05.04.1976	General Officer Commanding, 1st (British) Corps
25.06.1976	-	01.09.1978	Adjutant-General to the Forces
27.12.1977	-	1980	also: ADC General to the Queen
02.11.1978	-	09.04.1981	Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Colonel, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, 01.11.1975-1980; Colonel Commandant, Royal Armoured Corps, 01.04.1977-1980. Director, Wilsons Hogg Robinson (formerly Wilsons (Insurance Brokers)), 1982-1988. Vice-Chairman: National Army Museum, 1980-1987; Automobile Association, 1986-1989 (Member Committee, 1981-1985).

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Harold,
Dionysius [John]
D. Harold (Photo courtesy of Rachel Harold)

Married; two children.

23.01.1920
-
31.12.1999
Penrith, Cumberland

2nd Lt.	23.01.1943 [259939]
WS/Lt.	23.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

23.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			Officer Commanding, 1 Troop, "B" Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

Harper,
John Neill
J.N. Harper (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom Pearson-Chisman)

Son of Kenneth John & Ruth Harper, of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire & Ballacolla, Co. Leix, Ireland.

1917
-
19.11.1941
Libya
(KIA) [age 24]
[Alamein Memorial, Egypt, column 24]

2nd Lt.	16.09.1936 [68817]
WS/Lt.	16.09.1939
T/Capt.	17.01.1940-19.11.1941

Education: Malvern College (House 4; 1931.2-1936; School Prefect; F.XI; Ledbury Cap; Athletic Cols.).

			late Cadet Serjeant, Malvern College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
16.09.1936			commissioned, 21st (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Armoured Car Company - Royal Tank Corps - Territorial Army
(1939)	-	11.06.1940	2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
11.06.1940	-	28.11.1940	posted, 2nd Armoured Division
28.11.1940	-	19.11.1941	2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (lastly G Squadron)

Harper Gow,
[Sir] Leonard Maxwell
"Max"
L.M. Harper Gow

Son (with three sisters and one brother) of Leonard Harper Gow (1891-1965), and Eleanor Amalie Salvesen (1894-1980), of Kinnell, Howwood, Renfrewshire.
Married (14.03.1944, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London) Lillan Margaret Kiaer ((12?).1921 - 2001), daughter of of Aage Juel Kiaer (1880?-1931), merchant banker, and Karen Margrethe Sophia Sonne (1888-1972), of London & Copenhagen, and sister of Lt. Leslie Herbert Sonne Kiaer and Lt. Eric Arnold Kiaer; two sons, one daughter.

13.06.1918
Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
-
01.01.1996

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.04.1940 [130210]
WS/Lt.	30.10.1941
T/Capt.	28.10.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	03.04.1945
T/Maj.	03.04.1945-(04.1946)

	Kt	15.06.1985	HM's birthday 85: as Deputy Chairman, Christian Salvesen Ltd.
	MBE	01.02.1945	NW Europe

Commander, Order of St Olav, Norway.

Education: Cargilfield; Rugby; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Univ. (BA 1939).

?	-	30.04.1940	125th Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.04.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
08.04.1942			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1944	-	1945	Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), 1st Special Service Brigade (from 12.1944 1st Commando Brigade) (NW Europe) (MBE)

CIMgt (FBIM 1976). 3 seasons with Antarctic Whaling Fleet, 1946-1947, 1948-1949 and 1952-1953. Director, 1952-1987, Chairman, 1964-1981, Vice-Chairman, 1981-1987, Christian Salvesen PLC.Director: Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society, 1964-1985 (Chairman, 1972-1975); Royal Bank of Scotland plc, 1965-1987; Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, 1978-1987; DFM Holdings Ltd, 1985-1989 (Chairman, 1985-1989); Radio Forth Ltd, 1973-1989 (Chairman, 1977-1987). Member Council: Inst. of Directors, 1983-1988; Scottish Council of Development and Industry, 1972- (Vice President, 1985-1988; elected Founder Fellow, 1987). Member, Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers. Liveryman, Royal Company of Shipwrights. Honorary Consul for Norway in Edinburgh/Leith, 1949-1988.

Harries,
Charles Norman
C.N. Harries (Photo courtesy of Mrs Meg Wilson)

Son (with three siblings) of Edgar Phillips Harries, and Rose A. Moore.
Married 1st (21.08.1943, St Saviour's Church, Suez) Sister Gwenllian Howells, QAIMNSR; one son, three daughters.
Married 2nd ((03?).1967, Claro district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Alice Stoffel.
Married 3rd ((12?).1974, Battle district, Sussex) Minnie Grant.

20.02.1916
-
(09?).1978
Hastings & Rother district, Sussex

Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	06.04.1940 [126539]
WS/Capt.	27.08.1943 (reld 17.01.1951)
T/Maj.	27.08.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	17.01.1951

	MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
	MID	13.01.1944	Middle East

1939			mobilized as a stretcherbearer, 132nd Field Ambulance RAMC
?	-	06.04.1940	Royal Army Ordnance Corps (No. 2 Officer Cadet Training Wing)
06.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
			port ordnance officer at Suez (1942/43?) & in Normandy (Mulbbery harbours) & Antwerp (1944/45?)

Harrington,
Frederick Arthur
F.A. Harrington

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.12.1942 [255415]
WS/Lt.	03.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

03.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Harris,
Anthony John George
A.J.G. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son of George Gale Harris, and Violet Marshall, of Ilton Court, Ilminster, Somerset, then St John's Wood, London.

04.09.1925
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
25.09.1944
(DOW) [age 19]
[Castiglione South African Cemetery, Italy, III.A.14]

Cadet	? [2624233]
2nd Lt.	28.01.1944 [307904]
WS/Lt.	28.07.1944

28.01.1944			commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
?	-	25.09.1944	5th Battalion Grenadier Guards

Harris,
Arthur Leslie
J.A. Harris

Son (with one brother) of Arthur James Harris (1868-1953), and Mary Chamberlain (1863-).
Married ((06?).1921, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Olga Kathleen Hopkins (12.03.1901 - 03.1989); ... children.

28.09.1892
Leicester, Leicestershire
-
(06?).1952
Leicester, Leicestershire

T/2nd Lt.	07.09.1915-30.06.1917
T/Lt.	01.07.1917-31.12.1919
A/Capt.	10.07.1917-11.02.1919
A/Maj.	06.04.1919-05.12.1919 (reld. 01.01.1920)
Capt.	30.11.1920, seniority 28.06.1920 (regimental seniority 13.07.1919) [11404]
Maj.	20.05.1929
Lt.Col.	01.10.1935
Col.	25.11.1939, seniority 01.10.1938 (supernumerary 31.12.1944) (retd 21.09.1945)
local Brig.	22.04.1942-20.09.1944
T/Brig.	21.09.1944-21.09.1945
Hon. Brig.	21.09.1945

17.09.1917

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in charge of wireless communications. He re-established communications at a critical moment by personally carrying up a new set of instruments under heavy enfilade fire, displaying great coolness and complete disregard for his personal safety. Throughout operations his energy and devotion enabled communications to be continuously maintained with forward stations, though the line was repeatedly cut by shell fire.

1914	-	06.09.1915	served in the ranks, mobilized Territorial Force (for 1 year, 33 days)
WW I			served in France & Belgium (01.11.1914-01.01.1915, 03.01.1916-14.07.1916, 26.10.1916-01.12.1917), Italy (02.12.1917-05.11.1918) (despatches 10.07.1919; 1914 Star & clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Military Cross)
30.11.1920			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
03.03.1925	-	02.03.1929	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
01.12.1933	-	30.09.1935	Inspector (Class Z), Royal Engineers Stores
			served in Palestine (Palestine 1936-39 Medal & clasp)
(04.1941)			a General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Directorate of Signals, War Office
21.09.1945	-	28.09.1950	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

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Harris,
Charles Henry Hector
C.H.H. Harris

02.12.1911
-
02.1984
Cockermouth district, Cumberland

Cadet	? [6475484]
2nd Lt.	16.01.1944 [307315]
WS/Lt.	16.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

16.01.1944

commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Harris,
Frank Herbert
F.H. Harris (Photo courtesy of Christopher Harris)

Son of Frank Herbert Harris (1887-), and Ethel Falkinder (1890-).
Married ((12.)1939, Bradford district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Daisy May Brown (04.05.1917 - ); ... children (one son?).

22.07.1911
Birmingham
-
15.04.1991
Whitley Bay, North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	28.11.1942 [253498]
WS/Lt.	28.11.1942 (reld > 10,1945, < 01.1946)
Hon Lt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

24.01.1946

NW Europe

			enlisted into The Leicestershire Regiment on 26.8.1927 as Private 4854585. Served in 2nd Bn in Konigstein in Germany 9.11.1927 until 23.9.1929, and in Catterick and Londonderry from 24.9.1929 until 3.10.1932 when he left for 1st Bn in India, serving there until 18.3.1938 when he left the Army and became a policeman
			rejoining the Army at the outbreak of hostilities in 1939. After service as a WO2 in 2/5th Bn in the BEF and officer training at an OCTU in Dunbar,
28.11.1942			commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	Officer Commanding Pioneer Platoon, 1st Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment (MC)
			posted to Iserlohn in Germany where he had command over two major hospitals

Post-war again became a policeman, and was awarded a Long Service medal in the 1960s. In 1950, he was noted for attending the International Convention of Magicians at Harrogate, Yorkshire, where - as "the Great Sinclair" - he performed a bullet catching trick. He retired to the Orkney Islands.

Harris,
Gilbert
G. Harris

?
-
?

QMS (FofS)	?
Lt. (IPC) *	30.03.1942 [231896]
A/Capt. (IPC)	11.01.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. (IPC)	30.03.1945
Capt. (TOT)	01.11.1947 (reld 1950)
T/Maj. (IPC)	01.08.1945-(04.1946)

* Inspector of Permanent Communcations

1909			joined Army
(1914)			1st Division Signals
			served West Africa & Gibraltar signal stations
30.03.1942			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
11.01.1944	-	(04.1944)	Assistant Inspector, Equipment Branch, Electrical and Mechanical Equipment Inspection Department
01.05.1945	-	(04.1946)	Deputy Inspector, CIEME District Office Bicester, Electrical and Mechanical Equipment Inspection Department

Harris,
Henry Redvers
H.R. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Milton Harris (1873-1955), and Beatrice Emily Taylor (1875-1961).
Married (23.11.1924, Corton, Norfolk) Evelyn Mary Soame Ireland (16.01.1894 - 01.10.1979).

18.09.1900
Haseley, Oxfordshire
-
28.09.1979
Swardeston, Norwich district, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	? [20631]
Lt.	?
Capt.	17.03.1929
Maj.	16.05.1931
T/Lt.Col.	13.03.1941-(07.1945)
A/Col.	13.04.1945-(07.1945)
A/Brig.	13.04.1945-01.07.1945

OBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
TD	03.04.1942	-
BSM	17.10.1946	NW Europe

1920s?			commissioned, 84th (East Anglian) Field Brigade - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1945)	-	13.04.1945	Commanding Officer, 116th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
13.04.1945	-	01.07.1945	Commander, 39th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA
?	-	14.10.1953	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Harris,
James Albert
J.A. Harris

Married ((06?).1944, Windsor district, Berkshire) Ena M. Elliott; ... children (one son?).

01.04.1920
-
14.11.1975
Sunderland district

Cadet	? [5336119]
2nd Lt.	11.01.1945 [339195]
WS/Lt.	08.05.1945
A/Capt. ?	?

11.01.1945

commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) [emergency commission]

Harris,
Maurice William
M.W. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Duncan Harris)

Married; .. children (one son ?).

20.11.1916
-
12.1996
Mid Warwickshire district, Warwickshire

Cadet	? [14603958]
2nd Lt.	01.07.1944 [323865]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt. ?	?

01.07.1944			commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(1945?)			served in India (34th Indian Cor Provost Unit)

Harris,
St George Eyre
"Tiny"
St.G.E. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Alan Reilly)

Married 1st Louisa Maud M. ...; one daughter.
Married 2nd (20.06.1942, Church of St James, West Malvern, Upton district, Worcestershire) Principal Matron Mary Kathleen Barclay, CBE, QAIMNS (19.06.1885 - 25.08.1968).

1877 ?
Dublin, Ireland
-
27.05.1945
2, King's Court, Alexandra Road, Farnborough, Hampshire
[age 68]
[Aldershot Military Cemetery, A.A.57]

T/Lt.	01.10.1915 [38760]
T/Capt.	?
A/Maj.	17.05.1919
T/Maj.	01.12.1926
Lt.	27.08.1941
WS/Capt.	27.08.1941 (reld 12.06.1945 [deceased by then])
Hon. Maj.	12.06.1945

OBE

03.06.1933

HM's birthday 33

Education: MD 1902, BA 1897, BS 1899 (Trinity College, Dublin); registered 01.07.1902.

01.10.1915			temporary commission, Royal Army Medical Corps (for 29½ years)
(1933)			Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot (OBE)
27.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Harris,
Thomas Malcolm
T.M. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom Halvor H. Lilleholt)

Son of John Harris (1880?-1980?), and Catheryn Davies (1896-).
Married Laila Sterk-Hansen (1930-); two daughters.

18.01.1919
Newport district, Monmouthshire
-
02.2007
Cardiff district, Glamorgan

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.03.1943 [281369]
WS/Lt.	07.09.1943 (reld < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	24.07.1944-(08.1946)
A/Maj.	(10.1945)

07.03.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
09.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	a Staff Officer, 3rd grade (SO3) [later SO2], Signals Branch, HQ North Western Army, India

Harris,
William Leslie
W.L. Harris

?
-

2nd Lt.	03.03.1937
WS/Lt.	03.03.1940
T/Capt.	06.08.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	07.11.1945
A/Maj. ?	1942/43 ?
T/Maj.	07.11.1945-(04.1946)

Education: Daniel Stewart's College, Edinburgh

			late Cadet CSM, Daniel Stewart's College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
03.03.1937			commissioned, Royal Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
1939	-	(1940)	21st Anti-Tank Regiment (British Expeditionary Force, France; evacuated from Dunkirk 02.06.1940)
			seconded to the War Office to work on Military Operations

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Harrison,
Reginald Frederick Lakin
"Dick"
R.F.L. Harrison (Photo courtesy of Anne-Marie Harrison-Mills)

Son of Cdr. (E) Cuthbert Alfred Lakin Harrison, OBE, RCNVR (1881-1971), and Yvonne Constance Barker.
Married 1st ((06?).1941, Hailsham district, Sussex) Moira E. Parker; two daughters.
Married 2nd ((09?).1966, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Jean M. Wilcox; one son.

04.02.1912
Malo-les-Bains, France
-
09.07.1972
Guy's Hospital, London (formerly of Chislehurst, Kent)

2nd Lt.	08.01.1938 [73875]
WS/Lt.	08.10.1940
T/Capt.	08.10.1940-30.03.1943
WS/Capt.	31.03.1943
Capt.	08.01.1946
T/Maj.	31.03.1943-22.10.1945
WS/Maj.	23.10.1945
Lt.	01.10.1947
Capt.	01.10.1947
Maj.	03.05.1949
T/Lt.Col.	23.10.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	15.04.1953

OBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46: employed in a Department of the Foreign Office
TD	21.04.1950	-
LegH	07.11.1945	?
CdeG	07.11.1945	?
BSM	14.05.1948	?

Education: Lycée Lakanal Paris; Sorbonne; Université de Strasbourg; Oxford University.

08.01.1938			commissioned, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
06.10.1943			transferred, Intelligence Corps
01.10.1947			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps
15.04.1953	-	17.03.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Foreign Office (OBE). Joined the family business J & C Harrison Ltd and Harrisons (London) Ltd in 1935, becoming a joint managing director in 1960. Freeman of the City of London.

Harrison Stanton,
Richard Gordon
R.G. Harrison Stanton

Youngest son of Mr & Mrs Philip John Harrison Stanton, of Skipton Bridge, Thisrk, Yorkshire.
Married (17.02.1947, St Michael's, Westminster district, London) Rosemary S.O. Sandberg ((03?).1926 - ), daughter of Oscar Fridolf Alexander Sandberg, OBE, MInstCE (1879?-1940), and Audrey Maude Edward Furber (1900-1980), of Chelsea, London; one son, one daughter.

11.12.1915
-
12.12.1971
Guildford, Surrey South Western district

2nd Lt.	29.01.1938 [62939]
Lt.	01.01.1941
Capt.	29.01.1946
A/Maj.	16.02.1946-15.505.1946
T/Maj.	16.05.1946-18.10.1948, 29.04.1949-28.01.1951
Maj.	29.01.1951 (retd 30.05.1958)

			from Territorial Army
29.01.1938			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment
?	-	?	2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
			POW (No. 279) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)
30.05.1958	-	11.12.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Harston,
Wilfred Welchman
W.W. Harston

Son of Perceval Hanbury Harston (1850-1921), bank manager, and Emily Elizabeth Welchman, of Stafford, later of Cheltenham.
Married (05.04.1929, Hampstead Parish Church, London) Janet Lucy Bond (16.08.1898 - 05.2000), elder daughter of Dr & Mrs W.E. Bond, of London SW17.

02.04.1899
Stafford, Staffordshire
-
24.12.1970
Sway, New Forest district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	? [49250]
Lt.	21.02.1920 (reld 25.02.1922)
WS/Capt.	12.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	12.06.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

	BWM 14\|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

Education: Sherborne (1913.3-1917; School House; vi; xi [cricket]); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

			The Dorsetshire Regiment
13.05.1919	-	?	North Russian Relief Force
25.02.1922	-	02.04.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class II) [attained age limit]
`Headmaster, Cranleigh School. Headmaster, Aldwick Grange School, Boarshead, nr. Tunbridge Wells.`
			Staff Officer, GHQ Auxiliary Units (Coleshill House)

Published: Great Britain, the Commonwealth and our Neighbours, etc. (1955)

Hart,
Ernest Benjamin Lomas
E.B.L. Hart

Son of Col. E.J. Hart, OBE, and Mrs. Hart.
Husband of Beatrice (Peggy) Hart, of Pewsey, Wiltshire.

(12?).1906
Belford district, Durham / Northumberland
-
24.05.1940
(KIA) [age 33]
[Dunkirk Memorial, column 39]

2nd Lt.	22.01.1930 [44687]
Lt.	22.01.1933 (reld 25.04.1934) (re-activated 02.09.1939)
A/Capt.	1940?

			late Cadet, Glenalmond (Trinity) College Contingent., Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.01.1930			commissioned, 7th Battalion Nortumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
02.09.1939	-	24.05.1940	'X' Company Commander, 9th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (killed in action)

Hart,
Ernest Dudley
E.D. Hart

Son of Ernest Cecil Hart (1871-1955), and Mary Gertrude Eagleton (1876-1964?).
Married ((03?).1934, Kingston district, Surrey) Joan Beatrice Lindfield (18.01.1911 - 2002), daughter of Bernard Lindfield (1879-1931), and Agnes Elizabeth Rider (1876-1924); one daughter.

12.06.1901
Richmond, Surrey
-
03.02.1986
Oxford, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	14.05.1940 [131493]
WS/Lt.	26.07.1941
T/Capt.	26.07.1941-20.11.1942
WS/Capt.	21.11.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	04.09.1944-(08.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 08.1946, < 12.1946

Sales engineer milk carton machinery.

14.05.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps
19.10.1960	-	12.06.1966	Lieutenant, Sussex Contingent, Army Cadet Force

Hartill,
Clement Augustus
C.A. Hartill

Son of Walter Hartill, and Jessie Louise Clark.
Married Florence Margarita Ford (18.12.1911 - 12.1989); one son, one daughter.

22.10.1914
West Bromwich district, Shropshire
-
02.05.2001
Shifnal, Bridgnorth district, Shropshire

2nd Lt.	05.12.1942 [254724]
WS/Lt.	05.06.1943
Paym. & Lt.	05.06.1944
Paym. & T/Capt.	22.01.1946-08.05.1946 (reld 08.05.1946)

?	-	05.12.1942	Officer Training Unit (Royal Army Pay Corps)
05.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	03.1946	XXX Corps HQ (Berlin)

Bank manager.

Hartill,
Hugh Bevan
H.B. Hartill

(12?).1908
Solihull district, Warwickshire / West Midlands / Worcestershire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.06.1941 [190042]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

13.06.1950

			served in the ranks (Colour Sergeant) - Territorial Army (in India)
?	-	07.06.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Hartley,
Douglas Arthur

(03?).1923
Wakefield district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
27.09.2007
Norwich, Norfolk

Cadet	? [1929765]
2nd Lt.	22.04.1944 [324407]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1944

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

22.04.1944

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Hartley,
Harold William Laird
H.W.L. Hartley

Son (with two brothers) of Harold Hartley (1873-1952), and Janet Laird.
Married ((06?).1948, St Mary, Castle Church, Staffordshire) Joan Amy Taylor.

27.12.1918
Wolstanton dsitrict, Staffordshire
-
07.2000
St Austell, Cornwall

2nd Lt.	28.12.1939 [100502]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1941
T/Capt.	30.06.1942-13.07.1944
WS/Capt.	14.07.1944
T/Maj.	14.07.1944-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

Education: Eton College (?-1937); Merton College (1937-1939; MA).

28.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...

Hartley,
James Stanley
J.S. Hartley (Photo courtesy of Mrs Julia Hallingby)

Son of James Brenane Hartley, and Sarah Welsh.
Married ((09?).1930, Manchester North district, Lancashire) Kathleen Henshall; one son, one daughter.

10.06.1903
Manchester, Lancashire
-
02.11.1993
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

2nd Lt.	05.08.1941 [195635]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	07.05.1943-02.11.1943
WS/Capt.	03.11.1943 (reld 05.07.1946; disability)
T/Maj.	03.11.1943-05.07.1946
Hon. Maj.	05.07.1946

05.08.1941

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Harvey,
Anthony Stean
"Tich"
A.S. Harvey

Married (1960) Rosemary Hatcher; three sons, one daughter.

23.05.1922
Plymouth, Hampshire
-
15.02.2005
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.12.1941 [219836]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	01.02.1943-30.04.1943
T/Capt.	01.05.1943-22.11.1943, 23.09.1944-31.10.1947
Lt.	19.10.1946, seniority 23.11.1944
Capt.	23.05.1949
T/Maj.	01.11.1947-31.03.1949, 03.05.1949-08.01.1950, 23.11.1950-22.05.1956
Maj.	23.05.1956
local Lt.Col.	06.10.1963-27.10.1963
Lt.Col.	28.10.1963 (supernumerary 28.10.1966) (Special List 23.05.1972) (retd 23.05.1977)

OBE	13.12.1966	Borneo
MC	13.12.1945	Italy
MC	30.10.1956	Malaya *

* Major Harvey has commanded his Company in anti-terrorist operations since December, 1955, and has displayed great zeal and drive in dealing with the armed enemy and in winning over the local people to the Government. He has always been to the forefront in jungle operations and has been present at three actions in the past six months, in which Communist Terrorists were killed. His personal courage in action and his skill in planning have won the admiration of the whole Battalion.

Education: Totnes Grammar School; psc, fsc (US), psc(n)
Worked for an insurance company.

			enlisted in the Army and served with the 70th Glosters' Young Soldiers' Battalion (in the ranks for 1 year, 158 days)
06.12.1941			commissioned into the Devonshire Regiment (9th Battalion) [emergency commission to 18.10.1946]
			volunteered for the Indian Army's Gurkha Brigade and served with the 1st Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles (Dharamsala in the Himalayan foothills) [Company Commander, 01.05.1943-22.11.1943]
12.1943			Divisional Reinforcement Camp (Taranto, Italy)
12.1943			joined 1st Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, eventually commanding each company in turn
(12.1943?)			Officer Commanding, B Company (Cassino)
(12.1944)			Officer Commanding, A Company (Italy)
(04.1945)			Officer Commanding, D Company (Italy)
(05.1945?)			Officer Commanding, C Company (Abbottabad, close to the North West Frontier, India)
19.10.1946			permanent commission
1948	-	1956	apart from a spell in Hong Kong and a year at Staff College, involved in operations against the Communist terrorists, either as a regimental officer or on the brigade staff
16.08.1950			transferred to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles (Malaya)
16.02.1953	-	16.02.1955	DAA&QMG, HQ Gurkha Infantry Brigade
1956?	-	1957	US Staff College
28.09.1957	-	20.08.1959	DAQMG (Maintenance), HQ British Army of the Rhine
30.06.1962	-	11.09.1963	Brigade Major, HQ (East Lancashire) Infantry Brigade (TA)
1963	-	1966	Commanding Officer, 2nd/6th Queen's Own Gurkhas (Borneo)
26.08.1966	-	(02.1967)	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), BLO, BAS, Washington

Overseer of Army training camps in the south of England.
Published: A solider's life for me

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Harwood,
Frank Edwin
F.E. Harwood

From Dover.

10.05.1908
Market Harborough district, Leicestershire / Northamptonshire
-
06.1993
Banbury district, Oxfordshire

Wt.Offr. II (Bty.Sgt.Maj.)	22.01.1930 [1059441]
Wt.Offr. I (WS/Rgt.Sgt.Maj.)	?
Lt. (QM)	31.03.1944 [318010] (reld < 04.1946)

	DCM	24.02.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
	MID	06.04.1944	Middle East

1924			enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery (at age 16)
(1930)			Bombardier, 6th Field Brigade RA
(1942)	-	(1945)	149th Anti-Tank Regiment RA

Haselden,
John Edward
J.E. Haselden in Arabic outfit (photo courtesy of Mr Gerald E. Haselden)

Eldest of the four children of Henry Ernest Haselden (English by birth but born in
Alexandria Egypt) and Maria Ester Angela (née Cazzani - Italian born in Milan). Married Nadia Ida Marie Szymonski- Lubicz (killed in a car accident 02.03.1936), the eldest daughter of Leo Szymonski-Lubicz (a Polish citizen born in Baghdad) and Marie Therese Lupis (an Italian citizen); one son.

10.08.1903
Ramleh, Alexandria, Egypt
-
14.09.1942
Tobruk
(KIA) [aged 39]
[Alamein Memorial, column 85]

2nd Lt.	13.07.1940 [147097]
WS/Lt.	?
T/Capt.	?
T/Lt.Col.	1941?

MC	12.02.1942	Middle East [citation]
MC	1942?	Middle East [citation]
MID	20.06.1946	gallant & distinguished services in the field (posthumously)

Education: Kings School Canterbury, Kent
When 19 his father died, while playing tennis at Alexandria, as a result of being stung by a hornet. John followed his father in the cotton contracting business. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was working for Anderson, Clayton & Co. as the manager of their cotton mill at Mineh, Upper Egypt.

13.07.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
15.07.1940			transferred to the Intelligence Corps
			volunteered for military service and, as he spoke Arabic, Italian and French, he soon found himself in the Intelligence Corps; he spent much of his time behind enemy lines dressed as an Arab and keeping company with the many Arabs that he knew so well

Haslam,
Harry Talbot
H.T. Haslam

30.10.1899
Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
08.1986
Shepway district, Kent

2nd Lt.	?
2nd Lt.	19.06.1940 [136174]
WS/Capt.	07.03.1943
T/Maj.	07.03.1943-(04.1947) (reld ± 12.1947)

39\|45 St	-	-
F&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe
Gen SM	-	& clasp Palestine 45-48

19.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(02.1941)			HQ 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division (Helmsley, North Yorkshire) Education:

Hassall,
Michael John Lister
M.J.L. Hassall

Son of ... Hassall, and ... Scott.
Married 1st (20.02.1943, St Marylebone district, London) Hilda Mary Robinson (26.11.1918 - 31.07.1985); one son.
Married 2nd (04.1991, Marlborough district, Wiltshire) Thelma I. McKears.

25.10.1917
Darlington district, Co. Durham / North Riding of Yorkshire
-
12.02.1998
Marlborough district, Wiltshire

Lt.	29.01.1944 [306329]
WS/Capt.	29.01.1945 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)

Education: Middlesex Hospital; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1943; DObstRCOG 1948.

29.01.1944

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Late Resident Obstetric Officer, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Resident Medical Officer, Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester. Assistant Obstetrician Savernake Hospital, Marlborough.

Hastilow,
Michael Alexander

(12?).1923
-
06.05.2016

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned

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Hatch,
Ronald George John

Son of George E. Hatch, and Clara Lucy Beney.

17.07.1917
Hastings district, Sussex
-
05.1996
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex

2nd Lt.	03.04.1943 [269086]
WS/Lt.	03.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

21.01.1943	-	02.04.1943	36th course, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
03.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Hatton,
George Seton
G.S. Hatton (Photo courtesy of Mr Ken Osborne)

Son of late Dr. Edwin Fullarton Hatton and late Marion Isobella (née Seton Browne).
Married (19.04.1949) Hilda Mary Arthur (widow), OBE 1955; no own children (one step-daughter).

13.02.1899
Grenada, British West Indies
-
24.03.1974
Liss, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	22.08.1917 [11688]
Lt.	22.02.1919
T/Capt.	24.11.1920-18.07.1923
Capt.	22.08.1928
Maj.	22.08.1937
A/Lt.Col.	29.08.1940-18.09.1940, 11.11.1940-19.01.1941
T/Lt.Col.	20.01.1941-24.07.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	25.07.1942
Lt.Col.	08.08.1943
A/Col.	25.01.1942-24.07.1942
T/Col.	25.07.1942-27.11.1945
Col.	25.07.1945
A/Brig.	25.03.1942-24.09.1942
T/Brig.	25.09.1942-28.02.1945, 10.04.1945-28.01.1949
Brig.	29.10.1949
A/Maj.Gen.	23.01.1945-15.02.1945
T/Maj.Gen.	26.06.1949-17.02.1950
Maj.Gen.	18.02.1950 (retd 29.01.1955)

CB	08.06.1950	HM's birthday 50
DSO	09.09.1942	*
OBE	30.12.1941	**
MID	01.04.1941	Middle East
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

British War Medal; Victory medal; 1939/45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence medal; War medal M.I.D. oak leaf; 1953 Coronation medal.

* Throughout the operations of 7 Armd. Div. and in this capacity was not only responsible for the maintenance, recovery and evacuation for three Armoured Brigades, Support Group and numerous Div Troops but also for the considerable number of other formations and units who were from time to time put under the Div. The initial planning and actual administrative execution lay entirely in his hands and in the ups and downs of a prolonged battle owed much to his initiative and determination. Although large enemy Armored forces at one time cut the communications he never failed to maintain the Division. Always wireless he kept himself well in the picture and thus his foresight and resource enabled the Division to be maintained in a battle which took them 400 miles in 40 days.
** This Officer joined Alex. Area H.Q. Staff on its formation and became responsible for its organization from its inception. During the period in which he has served as A.A. Q.M.G. and Senior Staff officer at this H.Q. vast problems have had to be dealt with, including the accommodation and evacuation of 120,000 Prisoners of War; the embarkation of 63,000 Officers and men and 10,000 vehicles for Greece; the accommodation and evacuation of 12,500 Officers and men evacuated from Greece, and 12,000 Officers and men from Crete in circumstances of considerable difficulty. His untiring success of these operations. He has at all time shown himself to be unsparing in his efforts, has displayed marked ability and his services have contributed considerably to the successful solution of many and diverse problems connected with the prosecution of the War.

Education: Grove School, Lakefield, Ont.; Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ont. (1910-1916); Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ont. (1916-1917); London University (1919); Trinity College, Cambridge University (1923-1924);School of Military Engineering (1924-1925); Staff College, Camberley (1934-1935; psc)

22.08.1917			commissioned, Royal Engineers
1917	-	1919	served 2nd Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, and 2nd Cavalry Division (France & Belgium, 15.07.1918- 11.11.1918)
01.05.1920	-	31.07.1920	special appointment (Class HH)
01.08.1920	-	1920	special appointment (Class GG)
24.11.1920	-	18.07.1923	special appointment (Class FF) (Black Sea & Turkey) (temporary)
1924	-	1934	regimental duty with RE (Egypt & UK)
23.02.1929	-	22.02.1932	Adjutant, ... (Aldershot, UK)
(06.1933)			served at Aldershot (UK)
1936	-	1939	staff duty (India)
01.10.1937	-	08.11.1938	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)
09.11.1938	-	14.02.1940	Brigade Major, 11th (Ahmednagar) Indian Infantry Brigade (India; accompanied brigade to Middle East)
15.02.1940	-	28.08.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Middle East Staff School
29.08.1940	-	18.09.1940	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Middle East Staff School
19.09.1940	-	10.11.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Middle East Staff School
11.11.1940	-	15.09.1941	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), ... [7th Armoured Division?] (Egypt)
16.09.1941	-	24.01.1942	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), 7th Armoured Division (Middle East)
25.01.1942	-	24.03.1942	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), ... (Palestine & Trans-Jordan)
25.03.1942	-	02.10.1942	Brigadier General Staff (BGS), 30 Corps (Middle East)
1942	-	1944	staff services in Middle East (also senior administrative appointments with Ninth Army and GHQ (despatches))
1945	-	1945	on Staff SHAEF and 21 Army Group and in command as Brigadier (NW Europe) (despatches)
1946	-	1946	Deputy Commander Line of Communications, Low Countries
1946	-	1947	Commander of British troops in the Low Countries
1947	-	1949	Brigadier Administration & Quartering (A/Q), Southern Command (UK)
26.06.1949	-	15.10.1951	Chief of Staff, HQ Southern Command, Salisbury (UK)
29.11.1951	-	1954	Major-General in charge of Administration, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
29.01.1955	-	13.02.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Returned to Canada. Deputy Federal Civil Defence Coordinator for Canada, 1954-1957 & Head, 1957-1959.

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Hattrell,
John Philip Raynsford
J.P.R. Hattrell

Only son of Lt.Col. John Alexander Hattrell, and Dorothy Davies (later Mrs A.S. Cannon).
Husband of Hazel Mary Foster-King, of Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire; two daughters, one son.

15.09.1919
Warwick district, Warwickshire
-
24.03.1947
Haifa
[age 26]
[Khayat Beach War Cemetery, D.B.7]

2nd Lt.	17.12.1939 [109411]
WS/Lt.	17.06.1941 (dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court-Martial 12.02.1945; notification cancelled 08.03.1946)
T/Capt.	12.09.1942-24.03.1947

			from Artists Rifles (Cadet, 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit)
17.12.1939			commisioned, The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	24.03.1947	attached, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps

Haugh,
David Harvey
D.H. Haugh

17.11.1897
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985

2nd Lt.	15.02.1922, seniority 01.07.1917 [2304]
...	...
A/Lt.Col.	26.06.1940-25.09.1940
T/Lt.Col.	26.09.1940-11.06.1943
Col.	02.09.1946, seniority 12.06.1946 (retd 27.09.1950)
A/Brig.	12.12.1942-11.06.1943
T/Brig.	12.06.1943-27.06.1944, 10.09.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	27.09.1950

03.06.1918

Education: psc

15.02.1922			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders
...			...
19.11.1932	-	25.08.1934	Staff Captain, Auxiliary & Territorial Force, India
26.08.1934	-	18.11.1936	Brigade Major, India
14.01.1938	-	25.06.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
26.06.1940	-	1942?	Commanding Offier, 7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders
14.02.1942	-	11.12.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
12.12.1942	-	10.05.1943	Brigadier General Staff, British Troops Northern Ireland
11.05.1943	-	12.12.1943	Commander, 71st Infantry Brigade (UK)
12.12.1943	-	27.06.1944	Commander, 152nd (Seaforth and Cameron) Infantry Brigade (UK, NW Europe)
10.09.1944	-	30.09.1944	Commander, 7th Infantry Brigade (UK), redesignated:
30.09.1944	-	1945?	Commander, 7th Reserve Brigade (UK)
27.09.1950	-	17.11.1955	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Haugh,
Frank William
F.W. Haugh (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)

Married 1st ((03?).1949, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire) Margaret Kirton.
Married 2nd ((06?).1959, Chelsea district, London) Kathleen M. Ward.

01.05.1913
Walney Isle, Barrown-in-Furness
-
12.1997
Hounslow district, London

Lt.	22.12.1940 [189060]
WS/Capt.	28.08.1942
T/Maj.	08.04.1944-(04.1947)
Capt. RARO	13.02.1952
Hon. Maj.	13.02.1952

22.12.1940			commissioned, 3rd The King's Own Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served North Africa
09.06.1943	-	(04.1946)	regimental officer, Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
13.02.1952	-	01.05.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Hawes,
Edwin Roy
E.R. Hawes

Son (with five sisters and one brother) of Edwin Charles Hawes (1874-), and Florence Mary Thyng (1881-).
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

14.09.1915
Headington district, Oxfordshire
-
01.2007
Torbay district, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.08.1942 [242332]
WS/Lt.	08.02.1943
Lt.	03.07.1946, seniority 08.02.1943 (reld 25.08.1947)
T/Capt.	1947?
Hon. Capt.	25.08.1947

04.08.1981

08.08.1942			commisioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
09.01.1943	-	?	3rd County of London Yeomanry (3rd Sharpshooters) [from 16.03.1943 D Squadron]
03.07.1946			short service commission

Hawes,
Roderick Travers
"Roddy"
V.C. Hawley

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Alexander Travers Hawes (1851-1924), and Ada Lucy Court, of Nizels, Chislehurst, Kent.
Married (24.06.1932, Chislehurst, Bromley district, Kent) Julie E. Spicer (11.12.1910 - ).

04.04.1905
Chislehurst, Bromley district, Kent
-
30.05.1980
Walmer, Dover district, Kent

2nd Lt.	17.11.1937 [90668]
Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	07.04.1941
T/Maj.	01.04.1942-16.07.1945
WS/Maj.	17.07.1945 (reld < 10.1945)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 10.1945

CBE	16.06.1979	HM's birthday 79: lately Chairman, Royal Humane Society
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
EM	06.03.1947	-
EM	24.08.1951	1st clasp ?
TD	21.04.1950	-
CdeG	?	?
OON	16.01.1948	?

Education: Eton (1918.3-1922.2); Trinity College, Oxford University (BA; 3rd class history honours).
Insurance broker. Underwriting member, Lloyds of London.

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
17.11.1937			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1944)			Officer Commanding, 216 Civil Affairs Detachment
?	-	07.04.1956	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Chairman, Price Forbes and Company, retiring in 1966. Chairman, Royal Humane Society, 1966-1977. Chairman, Lloyds Insurance Brokers Association, 1964.

* Recommendation for the award of the French Croix de Guerre with vermilion star to WS/Capt. (T/Maj.) R.T. Hawes: Major HAWES was the officer commanding 216 Civil Affairs Detachment, which operated with Second Army in Normandy. From 17-19 August [1944] he waited with the forward troops during the battle round THIRY HARCOURT, so that he might enter the town and assist the civil population at the earliest opportunity. He went in with the leading reconnaissance units and gave immediate assistance to the remaining civilians, two of whom were wounded. He repeated similar courageous performances on many other occasions. His work has been outstandingand a splendid example to all ranks.
[Recommended 12.01.1945 by Brig. R.M.H. Lewis, SCAO Second Army, approved 18.01.1945 by Lt.Gen. M.C. Dempsey, commanding Second Army.] [Citation kindly provided by Mr Ben Scott Thomas]

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Hawker,
Patrick Cavigan

25.11.1922
-
10.2006

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned ?

Hawkes,
John Cecil

09.08.1921 ?
-
06.2006 ?

2nd Lt.	26.12.1942 [257611]
WS/Lt.	26.06.1943
T/Capt.	10.06.1945-(01.1946)

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

26.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Hawkins,
Stanbury John
S.J. Hawkins

Son of ... Hawkins, and ... Salisbury.
Residence: (1944) Southsea, Hampshire.

(12?).1911
Farnham district, Hampshire / Surrey / Sussex
-
13.04.1955
Ploughley & Bullingdon district, Oxfordshire
[age 43]
[Tidworth Military Cemetery, Wiltshire]

Cadet	?
Lt.	18.04.1941 [201128]
T/Capt.	19.06.1942-05.04.1943
WS/Capt.	06.04.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	06.04.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946
Capt.	01.06.1947, seniority 06.04.1943
Maj.	30.05.1954

MC	23.03.1944	Sicily
MC	06.04.1944	Italy
MID	24.06.1943	Middle East 05.42-10.42
LSGCM	02.03.1948	-

18.04.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1944)			252nd Field Company RE (Sicily, Italy) (MC & Bar)
01.06.1947			short service commission

Hawkshaw-Burn,
William St George Conway
W.St.G.C. Hawkshaw-Burn (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)

Son of Lt. Charles Alfred William Hawkshaw, Norfolk Regiment, and Theresa Hawkshaw (née Conway). His mother remarried Walter Burn, resulting in the use of his stepfather's surname for a while in the 1920s, and later the addition of Burn to the surname.
Married 1st (24.02.1936) Violet Pater (died 08.07.1943); one daughter.
Married 2nd (23.12.1944) Glory Pater; two sons, one daughter.

23.04.1908
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
-
10.10.1975
Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey

2nd Lt.	12.07.1941 [197164]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Capt.	03.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Capt.	24.06.1946, seniority 03.02.1944
T/Maj.	03.02.1944-03.10.1945
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
WS/Maj.	26.03.1951
Maj.	18.12.1954 (reld 23.03.1959)
A/Lt.Col.	21.06.1947-20.09.1947
T/Lt.Col.	21.09.1947-25.03.1951
Hon. Lt.Col.	23.03.1959

MBE

01.01.1954

New Year 54

Education: Lawrence Military School at Sanawar; TAC School Poona 09.11.1942-19.12.1942; 5th Short Course Staff College Quetta 10.03.1944-01.04.1944; Wellington Staff College 01.1950

26.10.1939			enlisted into Corps of Military Police at Sutton & posted to Belfast
12.07.1941			commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
			initially intended to be posted to Singapore, but after it had been occupied by the Japanese in 02.1942 re-routed to India
09.04.1942			seconded, 5/10 Baluchistan Regiment (Armoured Brigade)
20.06.1942			Camp Commandant 19th Divisional HQ
22.05.1943			Adjutant, 5/10 Baluchistan Regiment
06.04.1944			General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), SD GHR (1) [= staff duties ?, General HQ ?]
24.06.1946	-	23.03.1959	short service commission (Employed List 3)
09.1946	-	05.01.1951	served in India:
29.09.1946			General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO 2), SD, HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
21.06.1947			General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), SD, HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
(1950)			8th Battalion The Madras Regiment
1951	-	1954	Colchester Barracks
1954	-	1956	Moascar Garrison, Ismalia, Egypt
1956	-	1959	HQ 10th Infantry Brigade (British Army of the Rhine) (Luneburg, West Germany)

Hawley,
Valentine Collingwood
V.C. Hawley

(03?).1905
Stafford district, Staffordshire
-

2nd Lt.	26.04.1924 [29948] 03.06.1924, seniority 20.07.1923
Lt.	20.07.1925
Capt.	19.11.1928
Maj.	01.11.1932

02.10.1942

			late Cadet, Ampleforth College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
26.04.1924			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
			61st (North Midland) Field Brigade RA (TA)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			61st (North Midland) Field Regiment RA

Haxby,
Gerard Twistelon
G.T. Haxby

Married Mary Irene (née ...) (20.02.1914- 01.05.2005); one son, one daughter.

12.06.1908
Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire
-
10.2002
Leicester district, Leicestershire

Spr.	?
2nd Lt.	10.09.1939 [104396]
WS/Lt.	22.01.1941
T/Capt.	22.01.1941-(04.1941), 01.02.1943-(04.1944), 31.03.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

Education: Uppingham School; Magdalene College, Cambirge University (1926)

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Uppingham School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
10.09.1939			commisioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

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Haxby,
Philip John Twistleton
P.J.T. Haxby

03.02.1911
Caistor district, Lincolnshire
-
(03?).1972
Lincoln district, Lincolnshire

2nd Lt.	06.02.1937 [70258]
WS/Lt.	06.02.1940
T/Capt.	23.04.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	29.03.1941
Capt.	11.04.1945
A/Maj.	29.12.1940-28.03.1941
T/Maj.	29.03.1941-(04.1947)
Hon. Maj.	?

			late Cadet, St Eward's School (Oxford) Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
06.02.1937			commisioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.08.1940			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?	-	22.07.1961	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Haxby,
Thomas Henry
T.H. Haxby

Son of Henry Haxby, and Juanita Rose C. Ritchie.

(06?).1916
East Retford district, Nottinghamshire
-

Cadet	? [7955259]
2nd Lt.	03.06.1945 [352257]
WS/Lt.	03.12.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

03.06.1945

commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]

Hayden,
Roger Keith
R.K. Hayden

Son (with two brothers) of Arthur Falconer Hayden (1877-1940), Indian Medical Service, and Ruth Campbell Lacey (1889-1979).
Married (24.08.1943, St Mary's, Hendon, Middlesex) Lorna Phyllis Howard; one daughter, one son.

13.09.1917
Paddington, London
-
12.06.1953
Broomfield, Essex
[St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Broomfield, Chelmsford Borough, Essex]

Lt.	05.08.1944 [328025]
WS/Capt.	05.08.1945 (reld 21.02.1947; disability)
Hon. Capt.	21.02.1947

Education: Merchant Taylors' School (1931-1935); Cambridge University (BA 1938). MRCS, LRCP, 1943.

05.08.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			served in West Africa

Hayden-Hinsley,
Thomas Roy
T.R. Hayden-Hinsley

Son of ... Hayden-Hinsley, and ... Johnson.

(12?).1912
Axbridge district, Somerset
-

Cadet	? [808649]
2nd Lt.	04.12.1943 [292043]
WS/Lt.	04.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt.	12.09.1946, seniority 04.12.1943
Capt.	19.06.1950 (reld 01.06.1953)
Hon. Capt.	01.06.1953

04.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
12.09.1946	-	01.06.1953	short service commission

Post-war active in dramaturgy in Canada.

Haydon,
Cecil William
C.W. Haydon

Son of Edgar and Edith Haydon.
Husband of Evelyn Kay Haydon, of Camberley, Surrey.

23.02.1896
Newton Abbot, Devon
-
01.06.1942
(KIA) [age 46]
[Alamein Memorial, column 1]

2nd Lt.	01.10.1914
Lt.	15.03.1915
T/Capt.	08.07.1916-24.04.1917
Capt.	25.04.1917
local Maj.	12.09.1931-17.01.1936
Maj.	11.10.1937
local Lt.Col.	18.01.1936
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1939
A/Lt.Col.	02.09.1939
Lt.Col.	22.08.1941
A/Brig.	?

DSO	11.07.1940	for gallant and distinguished services in action in connection with recent operations
MC	02.12.1918	*
MID	05.07.1919	?

1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He carried out two valuable reconnaissances, obtained important information, and succeeded in clearing up a very obscure situation. His skilful work was of great value at a time when information was urgently required.

Education: Imperial Service College

01.10.1914			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
			served in France & Belgium: 17.10.1914-16.06.1915 & 17.05.1916-11.11.1918 (wounded twice)
15.11.1917	-	08.05.1918	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France)
09.05.1918	-	16.04.1919	Brigade Major, 167th (1st London) Brigade
17.04.1919	-	10.05.1919	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (Rhine Army)
11.05.1919	-	20.11.1919	Brigade Major, ... (Rhine Army)
17.08.1920	-	20.01.1922	Brigade Major, ... (Irish Command) (temporary)
(03.1931)			1st Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Colchester)
17.06.1931	-	16.06.1937	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Gosport)
09.1939	-	04.1940	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
26.04.1940	-	01.06.1942	Commander, 150th Infantry Brigade (France/Belgium, UK, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Egypt, Libya)

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Haydon,
Joseph Charles
J.C. Haydon

Son of Frank Knowles Haydon (1871-1907).
Married (1926) Florence Chicha Belfort Keogh (31.10.1901 - (09?).1957), daughter of John Stephen Keogh, Chicago, USA; one daughter.

18.04.1899
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-
08.11.1970
Westminster district, London SW1

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1917 [13865]
Lt.	21.06.1919
Capt.	15.04.1929
Maj.	06.09.1934
Lt.Col.	18.05.1939
A/Col.	09.10.1940-08.04.1941
T/Col.	09.04.1941-13.06.1942
Col.	14.06.1942, seniority 18.05.1942
A/Brig.	09.10.1940-08.04.1941
T/Brig.	09.04.1941-27.03.1943, 02.02.1944-05.11.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	28.03.1942-27.03.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	28.03.1943-19.12.1943, 06.11.1945-(01.1946)
Maj.Gen.	29.3.1946, seniority 31.07.1944 (retd 09.02.1951)

CB	01.01.1948	New Year 48
DSO	22.10.1940	action with the enemy
DSO	03.04.1942	combined operations Vaagso & Maaloy
OBE	08.06.1939	HM's birthday 39
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
MID	08.07.1919	?
MID	27.05.1941	?
LegH	?	?
LM	14.05.1948	?

Education: Downside; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1917); Staff College, Camberley (1937; psc)

21.12.1917			commissioned, Irish Guards
1917	-	1919	served European War (France & Belgium 19.04.1918-11.11.1918) (despatches)
01.01.1931	-	31.12.1934	General Staff Officer for Weapon Training (Class CC), London District
30.01.1938	-	10.04.1938	Company Commander (GSO Class CC), Royal Military College
11.04.1938	-	14.07.1939	Military Assistant (Class CC to 31.07.1938) to Secretary of State for War, War Office (London) (temporary)
15.07.1939	-	08.10.1940	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards (Netherlands [Hook of Holland], France [Boulogne])
09.10.1940	-	1942	Commander, Special Service Brigade (Commandos)
01.03.1942	-	27.03.1942	specially employed (military adviser)
28.03.1942	-	19.12.1943	Vice Chief of Combined Operations Staff
03.02.1944	-	29.07.1944	Commander, 1st Infantry Brigade (Guards) (Italy)
1944	-	1945	British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC (USA)
1946	-	1947	British Army Representative, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Australia
1948	-	18.12.1950	Chief Intelligence Division, Control Commission for Germany

Foreign Office, 1951-1958. F.G. Miles Ltd and Beagle Aircraft Ltd at ShorehambySea, Sussex, 1958-1968.

Haynes,
John Maurice

Son of ... Haynes, and ... Atkinson.

18.03.1921
Epsom district, Surrey
-
09.1992
Brimingham district, Warwickshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [180183]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

29.03.1941			commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission]
11.06.1944	-	(09.1944)	Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Hayward,
John
J. Hayward

?
-

2nd Lt.	18.11.1940 [169240]
WS/Lt.	18.05.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	28.04.1946-(12.1946)

AMIMechE.

18.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Hayward,
John Brandon
J.B. Hayward

Son of ... Hayward, and ... Blick.

16.05.1922
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
26.11.2006
London ?

2nd Lt.	17.01.1943 [271435]
WS/Lt.	17.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

17.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
27.11.1944			transferred, Lancashire Fusiliers
16.02.1946			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery

Hazelgrove,
Patrick William
"Pat"
P.W. Hazelgrove (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive)

Married; three children.

18.10.1913
-
07.1997
Mendip district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	31.08.1933
Lt.	31.08.1936
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-07.10.1939, 02.03.1940-21.04.1940, 22.09.1940-28.09.1940
T/Capt.	29.09.1940-30.08.1941
Capt.	31.08.1941
A/Maj.	01.11.1941-31.01.1942
T/Maj.	01.02.1942-23.02.1942, 25.09.1942-23.07.1943, 25.09.1943-07.02.1944
Maj.	31.08.1946 (retd 19.10.1956)

09.03.1944

Italy (attack on San Salvo 27/28.10.43) [recommendation available upon request]

31.08.1933			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(1943)			17th Field Regiment RA (Italy) (MC)
(06.1944)			No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne)

Hazelwood-Smith,
Eric John
E.J. Hazelwood-Smith

Married Randi Sem (01.04.1915 - 30.08.1991), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Fredrik Sem, and Ingrid Mürer.

20.10.1915
-
04.04.1977
Charlton Marshall, Blandford Forum, North Dorset district, Dorset

2nd Lt.	22.02.1941 [172630]
WS/Lt.	08.04.1942
T/Capt.	02.09.1943-15.10.1945
WS/Capt.	16.10.1945
Capt.	01.03.1947, seniority 16.12.1945
T/Maj.	16.10.1945-(08.1946)
Maj.	22.02.1954 (reld 30.07.1967)

			either 121st, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.03.1947			short service commission

Hazlerigg,
Thomas Heron

17.01.1914
St George Hanover district, London
-
31.07.1998
Norwich district, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	06.05.1939 [86777]
...	...
WS/Capt.	07.06.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	07.06.1942-(01.1946)

Education: Eton; Trinity College.

			Reserve of Air Force Officers
06.05.1939			commissioned, Leicestershire Yeomanry, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

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Head,
Michael William Henry
M.W.H. Head

Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Octavius Head, DSO, RHA (1869-1952), and Alice Margaret Threfall.
Married (14.11.1942) Joan Cecily Marie Phillips, daughter of R.Adm. Owen William Phillips CBE.

05.09.1912
-
died before 02.1985

2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58030]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	15.09.1939-23.10.1939, 29.02.1940-20.04.1940
T/Capt.	21.04.1940-09.12.1940
WS/Capt.	10.12.1940
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	10.09.1940-09.12.1940
T/Maj.	10.12.1940-25.05.1944, 26.07.1944-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946
T/Lt.Col.	18.06.1951-03.07.1954 (Employed List (1))
Lt.Col.	04.07.1954 (supernumerary 04.07.1957)
T/Col.	08.06.1955-14.08.1957
Col.	15.08.1957
local Brig.	24.06.1955-20.07.1955
Brig.	15.08.1961 (retd 18.04.1964)

	CBE	02.06.1962	HM's birthday 62
	OBE	01.01.1955	New Year 55

Education: Wellington; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Technical Staff Course, Military College of Science (ptsc)

02.02.1933			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(06.1933)			young officers' course, Larkhill
(01.1937)			20th (Army) Field Regiment RA (Catterick Camp)
(01.1939)			20th Anti-Tank Regiment RA (Catterick Camp)
26.07.1944	-	08.09.1945	Deputy Assistant Director, Armoured Fighting Vehicles (Technical), Ministry of Supply
09.09.1945	-	31.12.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
04.02.1946	-	31.03.1948	Deputy Assistant Director, Fighting Vehicles, Ministry of Supply
01.04.1948	-	31.10.1948	Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2), ...
14.02.1949	-	28.08.1950	Assistant Military Attaché (Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2)), Stockholm
29.08.1950	-	10.06.1951	Assistant Military Attaché (Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2)), Stockholm & Helsinki
18.06.1951	-	07.06.1955	Technical Staff Officer, 1st grade (TSO1), Ministry of Supply
08.06.1955	-	(02.1957)	Assistant Director of Fighting Vehicles (Co-Ordination), Fighting Vehicle Division

Healey,
Denis Winston;
Baron created 1992 (Life Peer), of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire

Son (with one sibling) of William Healey, engineer, and Winifred M. Powell, of Keighley, Yorkshire.
Married ((12?).1945, St Marylebone district, London) Edna May Edmunds; one
son, two daughters.

30.08.1917
Mottingham, Bromley district, Kent
-
03.10.2015
Alfriston, Sussex

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	18.04.1941 [181946]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	01.05.1943-31.07.1944
WS/Capt.	01.08.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	01.04.1944-(07.1945)

	CH	12.06.1979	?
	MBE	13.12.1945	Italy [recommendation available upon request]
-	PC	1964	?
	MID	11.01.1945	Italy

Education: Bradford Grammar School; Balliol College, Oxford (Hon. Fellow, 1979). First Cl. Hons Mods 1938; Jenkyns Exhibitioner 1939; Harmsworth Sen. Scholar, First Cl. Lit. Hum., BA 1940; MA 1945.

1940			enlisted, Royal Artillery
18.04.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
01.11.1942			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section)
			served in North Africa, then as a Movements Staff Officer in Sicilian & Italian campaigns (first as Assistant Military Landing Officer (AMLO), then as MLO for the British assault brigade at Anzio, then as Staff Captain, later Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General with HQ 5 Army, 8 Army and Allied Armies in Italy)
(10.1945)	-	(01.1946)	Unemployed List

Contested (Labour) Pudsey and Otley Division, 1945; Secretary, International Department, Labour Party, 1945-1952. Member of Parliament (MP) (Labour) South Eest Leeds, February 1952-1955, Leeds East, 1955-1992; Shadow Cabinet, 1959-1964, 1970-1974, 1979-1987; Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-1979; opposition spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1980-1987; Deputy Leader of Labour Party, 1980-1983. Member British Delegation to Commonwealth Relations Conference, Canada, 1949; British Delegate to: Consultative Assembly, Council of Europe, 1952-1954; Inter Parliamentary Union Conference, Washington, 1953; Western European Union and Council of Europe, 1953-1955. Chairman, IMF Interim Committee, 1977-1979. Member Executive Fabian Society, 1954-1961. Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee, 1970-1975. Councillor: RIIA, 1948-1960; Institute of Strategic Studies, 1958-1961. President, Birkbeck College, 1993-. Freeman, City of Leeds, 1992. FRSL 1993. Hon. Fellow, Leeds Polytechnic, 1987. Hon. DLitt Bradford, 1983; Hon. LLD Sussex, 1991. Grand Cross of Order of Merit, Germany, 1979.
Publications: The Curtain Falls, 1951; New Fabian Essays, 1952; Neutralism, 1955; Fabian International Essays, 1956; A Neutral Belt in Europe, 1958; NATO and American Security, 1959; The Race Against the H Bomb, 1960; Labour Britain and the World, 1963; Healey's Eye, 1980; Labour and a World Society, 1985; Beyond Nuclear Deterrence, 1986; The Time of My Life (autobiography), 1989; When Shrimps Learn to Whistle (essays), 1990; My Secret Planet, 1992; Denis Healey's Yorkshire Dales, 1995.

Healey *,
Gerald Joseph

* Initially shown as: Healy.
Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Patrick J. Healy (1867-1946), and Annie Downing Taylor (1872-1940).
Married ((06?).1932, Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire) Theresa Farrell (04.10.1908 - 04.04.1981); one son, one daughter.

04.03.1903
Gibraltar
-
10.1992
Hitchin district, Hertfordshire

BQMS	? [1041895]
Lt. QM	06.01.1942 [234250]
WS/Capt. QM	06.01.1945
Capt. QM	30.12.1946, seniority 06.01.1945
Maj. QM	27.12.1951 (reld 07.03.1956; disability)
Hon. Maj. QM	07.03.1956

	MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

			served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery
06.01.1942			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
30.12.1946	-	07.03.1956	short service commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery

Heap,
Harry

From Salford.

?
-

Cadet	? [3457645]
2nd Lt.	21.07.1943 [296979]
WS/Lt.	21.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt.	?

31.08.1944

Normandy

21.07.1943			commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission]
10.09.1943	-	10.09.1944	2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (UK & NW Europe)
11.08.1944	-	(09.1944)	Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Heard,
George Henry Glen
G.H.G. Heard

Son of George Henry Heard (1873-), and Ann Dewar (1874-).
Married (06?).1935, Lewisham district, London) Ruby M. Harris; ... children (one son?).

12.08.1907
East Stonehouse, Devon
-
(09?).1975
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

Wt.Offr. Cl. III	?
Lt.	20.12.1939 [109297]
T/Capt.	27.08.1943-(12.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	01.03.1947, seniority 06.09.1946
Maj.	20.12.1952 (Empl. List 4) (reld 01.03.1956)
Hon. Maj.	01.03.1956

			served in the ranks, Royal Artillery
20.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...
01.03.1947	-	01.03.1956	short service commission
(1947)			Assistant Provost Marshal, North Midland District

Hearn,
John Neill Whitcombe
J.N.W. Hearn

Married; two sons.

01.08.1913
-
03.05.2008
Belmore Lodge, Lymington

2nd Lt.	31.08.1933 [56581]
...	...
T/Maj.	16.06.1941-29.05.1943, 06.07.1943-06.02.1944, 14.11.1945-30.08.1946
...	...
Lt.Col.	30.06.1955 (retd 10.05.1960)

	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02-07.41
	MID	13.01.1944	Middle East

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; psc, ptsc

31.08.1933			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
06.07.1943	-	06.02.1944	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Larkhill
...	-	...	...

Heasman,
Richard William
R.W. Heasman

02.05.1917 ?
-
31.12..1987 ?
Exeter district, Devon ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.01.1943 [271726]
WS/Lt.	05.07.1943

05.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Heath,
[Rt. Hon. Sir] Edward Richard George
"Ted"
E.R.G. Heath

Son of late William
George and Edith Anne Heath. From Sutton.

09.07.1916
Broadstairs, Kent
-
17.07.2005
Salisbury

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.03.1941 [179215]
WS/Lt.	25.04.1942
WS/Capt.	14.04.1945
T/Maj.	14.04.1945
Lt.Col. TA	01.05.1947

KG	23.04.1992	?
MBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe
MID	?	?

Education: Chatham House School, Ramsgate; Balliol College, Oxford (Scholar;
Hon. Fellow, 1969). Scholar, Gray's Inn, 1938 (Hon. Bencher, 1972)
President Oxford University Conservative Association, 1937; Chairman Federation of University Conservative Associations, 1938; President Oxford Union, 1939; Oxford Union debating tour of American Universities 1939-1940; President Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1959-1977, Hon. Life Patron, 1977.

			served War of 1939-1945 (despatches, MBE); in Army, 1940-1946, in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany:
1940			gunner, Royal Artillery
22.03.1941			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.05.1947	-	01.09.1951	CO 2nd Regiment Honourable Artillery Company, TA
01.09.1951	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Master Gunner within the Tower of London, 1951-1954. Administrative Civil Service, 1946-1947 resigning to become prospective candidate for Bexley. Assistant Conservative Whip, 02.1951; Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 11.1951, and Joint Deputy Government Chief Whip, 1952, and Deputy Government Chief Whip, 1953-1955; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, and Government Chief Whip, 12.1955-10.1959; Minister of Labour, 10.1959-07.1960; Lord Privy Seal, with Foreign Office responsibilities, 1960-1963; Secretary of State for Industry, Trade, Regional Development and President of the Board of Trade, 10.1963-10.1964; Leader of the Opposition, 1965-1970; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 09.06.1970-06.03.1974; Leader of the Opposition, 1974-1975. Chairman, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 1970-1974. PC, 1955. MP (C) Old Bexley and Sidcup, since 1983 (Bexley, 1950-1974; Bexley, Sidcup, 1974-1983); Member, Public Review Board, Arthur Andersen & Co., since 1978.
Member, Independent Commission on International Development Issues, 1977-1979. Member Council, Royal College of Music, 1961-1970; Chairman, London Symphony Orchestra Trust, 1963-1970; Vice-President, Bach Choir, 1970-; President, European Community Youth Orchestra, 1977-1980; Hon. Mem., LSO, 1974-; has made orchestral recordings. SmithMundt Fellowship, USA, 1953; Vis. Fellow, Nuffield Coll., Oxford, 1962-1970, Hon. Fellow, 1970; Chubb Fellow, Yale, 1975; Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth Coll., 1980. Lectures: Cyril Foster Meml, Oxford, 1965; Godkin, Harvard, 1966; Montagu Burton, Leeds, 1976; Edge, Princeton, 1976; Romanes, Oxford, 1976; Ishizaka, Japan, 1979; Felix Neubergh, Gothenburg, 1979, 10th STC Communication, London, 1980, Noel Buxton, Univ. of Essex, 1980; Alastair Buchan Meml, London, 1980; Hoover, Univ. of Strathclyde, 1980; Stanton Griffis Disting., Cornell Univ., 1981; Edwin Stevens, RSM, 1981; William Temple, York, 1981; City of London, Chartered Insce Inst., 1982; John Findley Green, Westminster Coll., Missouri, 1982; Mizuno, Tokyo, 1982; ITT European, Brussels, 1982; Bruce Meml, Keele Univ., 1982; Gaitskell, Univ. of Nottingham, 1983; Trinity Univ., San Antonio, 1983; lect. to mark opening Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, NZ, 1983; Bridge Meml, Guildhall, 1984; David R. Calhoun Jr Meml, Washington Univ., St Louis, 1984; Corbishley Meml, RSA, 1984; John Rogers Meml, Llandudno, 1985; George Woodcock, Univ. of Leicester, 1985; RIIA, 1985; John F. Kennedy Meml, Oxford, 1986; Edward Boyle Meml, RSA, 1988. Deroy Prof., Univ. of Michigan, 1990. Liveryman, Goldsmiths' Co., 1966; Hon. Freeman, Musicians' Co., 1973. Hon. FRCM; Hon. FRCO; Hon. Fellow, Royal Canadian Coll. of Organists. Hon. DCL: Oxon, 1971; Kent, 1985; Hon. DTech Bradford, 1971; Hon. LLD Westminster Coll., Salt Lake City, 1975; Dr hc Univ. of Paris, Sorbonne, 1976; Hon. Dr of Public Admin, Wesleyan Coll., Macon, Ga, 1981; Hon. DL Westminster Coll., Fulton, Missouri, 1982; Hon. HLD Bellarmine Coll., Kentucky, 1994; DUniv Open, 1997. Charlemagne Prize, 1963; Estes J. Kefauver Prize 1971; Stresseman Gold Medal, 1971; Freiherr Von Stein Foundn Prize, 1972; Gold Medal of City of Paris, 1978; World Humanity Award, 1980; Gold Medal, European Parlt, 1981; Gold Medal, Fondation du Mérite
Européen, 1994. Grand Cross, Order of Merit (Germany), 1993; Grand Cross, Order of Liberty and Unity (Latin America), 1994; Order of the Aztec Eagle (Mexico), 1994. Winner, Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race, 1969; Captain: Britain's Admiral's Cup Team, 1971, 1979; Britain's Sardinia Cup Team, 1980.
Published: (joint) One Nation-a Tory approach to social problems, 1950; Old World, New Horizons (Godkin Lectures), 1970; Sailing : a course of my life, 1975; Music : a joy for life, 1976, 2nd edn 1996; Travels : people and places in my life, 1977; Carols : the joy of Christmas, 1977.

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Heath,
Sir Lewis Macclesfield see: Indian Army

Heath,
William Percy George
W.P.G. Heath (Photo courtesy of Roalie Callway)

Son of Albert John Heath (1885-1927), and Lavinia Killminster (1885-).
Married ((09?).1941, Surrey North Eastern district) Evelyn Constance Wilde (10.02.1916 - 14.07.1991); two children.

29.09.1915
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
14.06.1982
Crowborough, Uckfield district, East Sussex

2nd Lt.	01.08.1942
WS/Lt.	01.02.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	11.01.1946-(08.1946)

Education: University of Bristol (1936, B.Sc.).

01.08.1942

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Heathcock,
Neville Charles

09.08.1922
-
01.1997

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned ?

Heaton,
John Arthur
J.A. Heaton (Photo courtesy of Mr John E. Heaton)

Second child of John A. and Emily Heaton.
Married (29.05.1943) Jacqueline Somerville, daughter of Edward Somerville, and A. Daubresse;... children (one son?).

26.04.1917
Athlone, Ireland
-
22.04.1990
Limerick, Ireland

Cadet	? [14425910]
2nd Lt.	18.03.1944 [312385]
WS/Lt.	18.09.1944 (demobilized > 12.1946, < 04.1947) (reld 09.02.1952)
T/Capt.	17.05.1946-(12.1946)
Hon. Capt.	09.02.1952

Education: Trinity College, Dublin (...-1938; LLB).
Heaton Bros. Ltd., 1942.

18.03.1944

commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]

Returned to Heaton Bros. Ltd., Managing Director, Crescent Clothing Co. Ltd., Limerick.
His son writes: "From what I can trace, he first joined a tank regiment and never liked it. To his delight he was transferred to Farnborough to be trained as an officer. He was there six months and was then transferred to 'Royal Ulster Rifles' He was transferred from Limavady to Lancaster and then out to the Middle East."

Heddon,
John Sampson
J.S. Heddon

Son (with one brother) of John William Heddon, solicitor, and Helena Sampson, of Masham, Yorkshire.

(06?).1920
Bedale district, North Riding of Yorkshire
-
23.05.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Cassino War Cemetery, Italy, II.K.6]

2nd Lt.	29.05.1943 [277895]
WS/Lt.	29.11.1943

MID

19.07.1945

Italy [posthumously]

29.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	23.05.1944	51st (The Leeds Rifles) Battalion Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps

Hedges,
Killingworth Michael Fentham
K.M.F. Hedges (Photo courtesy of LucyAnn Curling)

Only son of Killingworth Richard Hedges (1849-1903), solicitor, and Emily Margaret Bourne Royds (1865-1945), of 54 Montagu Square, London W1.
Married (01.10.1930, Church of the Annunciation, Bryanston Street, St Marylebone district, London) Lucy Dorothy Curling (1893?-1962), elder daughter of Charles Napier Curling, JP, late of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.

29.09.1890
St Marylebone district, London
-
27.05.1969
Devizes, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	03.02.1911 [1138]
Maj. (Res. of Offrs.)	16.11.1927, seniority 11.05.1923
Maj. (Army)	16.11.1927 (retd 16.11.1927) (22.10.1939 retired pay temporarily suspended) (reverted to retd 13.11.1945)
A/Lt.Col.	1939
T/Lt.Col.	22.01.1940-27.05.1941
WS/Lt.Col.	28.05.1941
A/Col.	28.11.1940-27.05.1941
T/Col.	28.05.1941-(04.1944)
T/Brig.	24.08.1942-13.11.1945
Hon. Brig.	13.11.1945

CBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46
DSO	04.06.1917	?
OBE	28.12.1922	?

Education: Charterhouse (1903-1908); Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1911, MA 1916); FIMechE.

			from Unattached List Territorial Force (University candidates)
03.02.1911			commissioned, [Royal] Army Service Corps
			served Great War (France, 08.1914 to end of the war (DSO, despatches thrice)
07.07.1922	-	1927	served with Egyptian Army & Sudan Defence Force
Director of Mechanical Transport, Sudan Government Railways and Steamers, 1927. Assistant General Manager, sudan Government Railways, 1927-1932.
16.11.1927	-	13.11.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
22.10.1939	-	(04.1941)	an Assistant Director to Deputy Director General of Mechanization, Ministry of Supply
24.02.1942	-	13.11.1945	Director of Mechanization (T.T.2), Ministry of Supply

Justice of the Peace (JP); County Councillor (CC), Wiltshire, 1937.

Hedley,
Charles [Frederick]
"Charlie"
C. Hedley

?
-

RSM	?
Lt. QM	22.06.1940 [169570]
WS/Capt. QM	22.06.1943
Capt. QM	01.11.1947 01.02.1949, seniority 22.06.1943
Maj. QM	17.04.1949
Capt.	08.03.1954 (reld 08.04.1957)
Hon. Maj. QM	25.02.1954 & 08.04.1957

MBE	01.01.1951	New Year 51
MID	01.04.1941	Middle East 08.39-11.40
MID	08.07.1941	Middle East 12.40-02.41

22.06.1940			commissioned, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.02.1949	-	25.02.1954	short service commission, Royal Armoured Corps
08.04.1954	-	08.04.1957	commissioned, City of London Yeomanry - Rifle Brigade - Territorial Army

Heisch,
John Kenneth
J.K. Heisch (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of John W. Heisch (1848-1926), and ... Brodie.

22.12.1912
Sussex
-
1988
Auckland, New Zealand

2nd Lt.	01.09.1932 [53710]
Lt.	01.09.1935
A/Capt.	01.10.1939-31.12.1939
T/Capt.	01.01.1940-31.08.1940
Capt.	01.09.1940
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 03.06.1949)

MID

23.07.1937

Palestine

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & clasp.

01.09.1932			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(05.1940)			Officer Commanding, "B" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 710) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)
03.06.1949	-	22.12.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [reached age limt]

Heitman,
Benjamin John
"Johnnie"
B.J. Heitman (Photo courtesy of Mr John Heitman)

Son of ... Heitman, and ... Tebb.
Married ((03?).1941, Dartford district, Kent) Amy Read; ... children (one son?).

(06?).1920
Woolwich district, London
-
1967
Kent

Cadet	? [6352288]
2nd Lt.	16.01.1944 [307302]
WS/Lt.	16.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Capt.	1946?

26.07.1940	-	1943	enlisted service, 9th Battalion Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
1943	-	15.01.1944	Royal Armoured Corps Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
16.01.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
15.01.1944	-	1945	HQ Squadron, 61st Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
1945	-	1946?	Deputy Assistant Controller, Kiel within the Military Government of the Schleswig Holstein Region
(1946)	-	(1947)	53rd Reconnaissance Regiment RAC

Helson,
George
G. Helson

Son of George and Juliet Helson.

27.02.1896
Plymouth district, Devon
-
(03?).1974
Bridgwater district, Somerset

T/2nd Lt.	03.04.1915
Lt.	03.01.1917
A/Capt.	06.09.1919-...
Capt.	03.01.1920 (retd 22.09.1922)
Lt.	04.06.1941 [188875]
Capt.	23.10.1941, seniority 04.06.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	01.10.1942-(04.1944)

BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
Ind GSM	-	& clasp Iraq

03.04.1915			commissioned, East Lancashire Regiment - Regular Force (served from 06.1916 in France)
20.02.1917			transferred, The Somerset Light Infantry
13.10.1918			transferred, Indian Army
06.09.1919	-	?	Company Commander, 2/123rd Outram's Rifles
04.06.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [retired officer re-employed]

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Hemelryk,
Edward Valentine
G. Hemelryk

Fourth son (with six brothers and five sisters)of Paulus Eduard Josephus (or: Paul Edward Joseph) Hemelryk, JP, KCSG (1840-1919), and Caroline Bertha Hampshire (1853-1930), of Liverpool.
Brother of Lt.Col. George Edward Hemelryk.
Married (01.02.1912, Birkenhead district, Cheshire) Norah Frances Maccabe (? - 10.02.1951); one son, one daughter.

09.09.1885
Wavertree Lane, Liverpool, Lancashire
-
05.05.1941
[age 55]
[Belfast City Cemetery, Northern Ireland, Glenalina Extension, Section C.S., Grave 87]

2nd Lt.	1908? [22423]
Lt.Col.	?
Bt. Col.	?
Maj.	30.07.1940 (reverted in rank at own request)

	DSO	?	?
	TD	?	-

Education: The Sacred Heart Jesuit College, Wimbledom; The Oratory School, Edgbaston; School of Commerce, Rolle, near Geneva; School of Commerce, Cologne.
After studying, went abroad for four years. In 1905 entered the firm of Hornby, Hemelryk and Co., Cotton Brokers, Liverpool ; in 1910 was admitted into partnership. At present on Foreign Service in France. Has received the King George Coronation Medal. Notes : Joined Volunteer Force in 1907 (4th Lancs. R.G.A.), which was subsequently transferred into 4th West Lancs. Brigade, R.F.A. On outbreak of war appointed Staff Capt., R.A., to West Lancs.
Division. Also enrolled during 1912 as Permanent Special Constable.

1908?			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
04.12.1924	-	22.06.1925	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
22.06.1925	-	30.08.1931	Commanding 87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Brigade RA - Territorial Army
?	-	05.05.1941	Officer Commanding, 173rd Pioneer Company

Hemelryk,
George
G. Hemelryk

Son (with one brother and five sisters) of Lt.Col. George Edward Hemelryk, OBE, JP (1881-1967), and Elizabeth Mary Smith (?-1943), of Dyserth, Flintshire, Wales.
Brother of Maj. Joseph Hemelryk, Canadian Infantry Corps, Sen.Comdr. Mary Margaret Hemelryk, ATS, Jun.Comdr. Mary Bertha Hemelryk, ATSand Flt.Offr. Mary Elizabeth Hemelryk, WAAF
Married (1949) Davida Margaret Angus (24.10.1926 - 29.01.1988), daughter of ... Angus, and Margaret Smith.

24.09.1910
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
13.12.1987
Whitehaven district, Cumberland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.11.1936 [69525]
Lt.	01.03.1941
A/Capt.	28.09.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	11.10.1945
T/Maj.	11.10.1945-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	24.09.1965

			late Cadet, Stonyhurst College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
25.11.1936			commissioned, 5th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers - Territorial Army
30.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [temporary short service commission]
30.08.1942	-	24.09.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
28.09.1942	-	10.07.1945	Instructor, Royal Artillery Mechanical Traction School (Rhyl)
11.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	Senior Instructor, Royal Artillery Mechanical Traction School (Rhyl)

Hemelryk,
George Edward
G.E. Hemelryk (Photo courtesy of Mr Ben Scott Thomas)

Son (with six brothers and five sisters)of Paulus Eduard Josephus (or: Paul Edward Joseph) Hemelryk, JP, KCSG (1840-1919), and Caroline Bertha Hampshire (1853-1930), of Liverpool.
Brother of Maj. Edward Valentine Hemelryk.
Married (1905) Elizabeth Mary Smith, daughter of William Smith, of Broughton, Preston; two sons (Maj. Joseph Hemelryk, Canadian Infantry Corps and Maj. George Hemelryk, RA) five daughters (Mary Bertha Hemelryk, Mary Margaret Hemelryk, Flt.Offr. Mary Elizabeth Hemelryk, WAAF, and Mary Hilda Bertha Hemelryk who married Lt.Cdr. William Scott Thomas, RN).

12.10.1881
-
(03?).1967
Wrexham district, Denbighshire

2nd Lt.	20.12.1902
Lt.Col.	?
2nd Lt.	12.01.1943 [280014]
WS/Lt.	12.01.1943 (reld 30.07.1947)

	OBE	11.05.1937	HM's coronation 37: for political and public services in Flintshire
	MSM	?	?

Education: Stonyhurst; Royal Agricultural College.

20.12.1902			commissioned, 1st Volunteer Battalion The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
WW I			served France & Belgium (Mons Star & MSM 1914)
05.1940	-	07.1942	Lt.Col. commanding 3 Flint Home Guard
10.1942	-	06.1943	Second-in-Command Zone (Home Guard)
12.01.1943	-	30.07.1947	commissioned, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers - Special List (for service with Army Cadet Force, Denbigh and Flint Comm.)

Justice of the Peace (JP). Chairman and past chairman of several agricultural societies. Past chairman, Management Committee, Flintshire Conservative Association. Past G.K. Holywell KSC Councillor.

Hemelryk,
Gerard Edmund see: 1st Airborne Division officers' section

Hemelryk,
Mary Bertha
(Miss)
M.B. Hemelryk

30.11.1907
Lethbridge, Canada
-
(06?).1970
St Asaph district, Denighshire, Wales

2nd Sub.	30.05.1941, seniority 13.06.1940 [196070]
WS/Sub.	23.07.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Jun.Comdr.	02.06.1944-(10.1945)
Hon. Jun.Comdr.	< 04.1946

29.06.1951

30.05.1941			commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service [emergency commission]
21.02.1945	-	(10.1945)	Messing Officer, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers School (Arborfield)

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Hemelryk,
Mary Margaret
"Peggy"
(Miss)
M.M. Hemelryk

Daughter (with two brothers and four sisters) of Lt.Col. George Edward Hemelryk, OBE, JP (1881-1967), and Elizabeth Mary Smith (?-1943), of Dyserth, Flintshire, Wales.
Sister of Maj. Joseph Hemelryk, Canadian Infantry Corps, Maj. George Hemelryk, Flt.Offr. Mary Elizabeth Hemelryk, WAAF, and Jun.Comdr. Mary Bertha Hemelryk, ATS.
Married 1st (08.04.1942, St Asaph district, Denbighshire, North Wales) Dr. Alan Percy Platt, PhD (1915 - 20.03.1945), biochemist, of St Helens, Lancashire; two sons.
Married 2nd (12.02.1949, Pantasaph, Holywell district, Flintshire) Capt. John Anthony Hoggarth, RA (17.01.1920 - 26.04.1997); three daughters, one son.

25.03.1915
Holywell district, Flintshire
-
11.07.1987
Trelawnyd, North Wales

2nd Sub.	30.05.1941, seniority 04.09.1939 [196043]
WS/Sub.	30.05.1941, seniority 24.04.1941
T/Jun.Comdr.	31.10.1941-08.01.1942
WS/Jun.Comdr.	09.01.1942 (reld 18.09.1942)
A/Sen.Comdr.	09.10.1941-08.01.1942
T/Sen.Comdr.	09.01.1942

30.05.1941

commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service [emergency commission]

Hemelryk,
Richard Astley
R.A. Hemelryk (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Hemelryk)

Second son of Col. Paul Henry Hemelryk, TD, JP (1876-1955) [who was a brother of Lt.Col. George Edward Hemelryk], and Dorothy Counsellor (1882-1963), of Newmarket, Flintshire, later of West Mount, Chester.
Brother of Lt. Gerard Edmund Hemelryk, Royal Signals, and Lt. Anthony Hemelryk, RN.
Married ((09?).1936, Surrey South Western district) Unity Holden (25.02.1915 - 12.1997), eldest daughter of Andrew Holden, Egyptian Civil Service, and Mrs Holden, of Longdown, Guildford; two daughters, two sons.

08.03.1906
Prescot district, Lancashire
-
23.12.1986
Gloucester district, Gloucestershire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.08.1927 [38391]
Lt.	15.08.1930
WS/Capt.	31.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	31.01.1941-(04.1944)
Capt.	11.04.1945
Lt.Col.	01.05.1947

	TD	31.01.1946	-
	CdeG	1944	liberation of France *

Education: Downside School (1916-1924); Cambridge University.

			late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
15.08.1927			commissioned, 87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Brigade Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
14.02.1933			transferred, 59th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Brigade RA - Territorial Army
03.03.1937			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
26.04.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1944)			73rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA (NW Europe)
01.06.1954	-	22.11.1961	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

* Recommendation for the award of the French Croix de Guerre with vermilion star to T/Maj. R.A. Hemelryk: This officer landed at La Rivière, NORMANDY, on 6th June 1944 and was given the task of controlling and co-ordinating the deployment of the two Self-Propelled batteries of this regiment which landed on 'D' Day. In the course of landing operations, his raft struck a mine and he was wounded in the leg. Appreciating that his responsibilities were of paramount importance, and that there was nobody available who could replace him, he refused medical attention. Although in considerable pain for the next three days, he controlled the batteries and carried out all the necessary reconnaissance in person often under heavy fire. Whenever there were unconfirmed reports of enemy thanks in the vicinity, and there were many, in great personal danger he visited the areas in question and covered them in detail to determine the enemy's dispositions. His complete indifference to his own safety was remarkable, and his bravery whilst suffering considerable pain from his [wounds/leg?] was an admirable example to all ranks.
[Recommended by Lt.Col. A.G. Proudlock, commanding 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA, approved by Brig. S.B. Rawlins, commanding 30 Corps Artillery, and by Maj.Gen. G.I. Thomas, commanding 30 Corps.] [Citation kindly provided by Mr Ben Scott Thomas]

Hemmings,
Benjamin Woodhead
B.W. Hemmings

Son of John Hemmings, and Mabel Woodhead.
Married (05.10.1944) ...; ... children (one daughter?).

10.12.1916
Rochdale district, Lancashire
-

CQMS	?
2nd Lt.	05.05.1942 [244363]
WS/Lt.	05.11.1942
A/Capt.	16.11.1942-(07.1943)
WS/Capt.	14.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	14.09.1943-(04.1946)

			served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
05.05.1942			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			served in Cairo, Egypt

Henderson,
Frank Alexander
F.A. Henderson (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	17.07.1942 [239417]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	01.10.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	07.10.1947, seniority 11.02.1943
Capt.	11.10.1948

MID

23.05.1946

Mediterranean

17.07.1942			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942)			1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)
07.10.1947			commissioned, The London Scottish - Territorial Army
13.11.1952			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Henderson,
John Adrian

Son (with one brother) of Lt.Col. Edward Elers Delaval Henderson, VC (1878-1917), and Madeline Fish (1882-1963).

16.06.1914
Chelsea district, London
-
17.10.1966
Paddington, London

2nd Lt.	01.02.1934 [62650]
Lt.	01.02.1937
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.11.1939, 30.12.1939-28.01.1940
T/Capt.	29.01.1940-09.03.1940, 13.06.1940-08.11.1941
Capt.	01.02.1942
A/Maj.	09.08.1941-08.11.1941
T/Maj.	09.11.1941-05.08.1942, 26.11.1942-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.02.1947 (dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court Martial 15.04.1954)

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

01.02.1934			commissioned, The North Staffordshire Regiment
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Henderson,
the Hon. Michael Thomas
M.T. Henderson

Second son of Lt.Col. the Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson, CVO, MP (1875-1922), and lady Violet Charlotte Dalzell (1879-1956).
Brother of 2nd Baron Faringdon.
Granted rank of a Baron's son, 24.12.1934.
Married 1st (14.01.1929, Chelsea, London; divorced 1948) Oonagh Evelyn Brassey (17.02.1908 - 15.05.1988), daughter of Lt.Col. Harold Ernest Brassey (1877-1916), and lady Norah Hely Hutchinson (1880-1964); two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (09.06.1948) Esther Isabelle Coleman, daughter of Alfred Edward Coleman.

02.01.1906
Faringdon, Berkshire
-
19.11.1953
Westminster district, London

2nd Lt.	03.09.1925 [33704]
Lt.	03.09.1927
Capt.	21.06.1934 (retd 29.09.1936; receiving a gratuity)
A/Maj.	....1940-01.03.1941
T/Maj.	01.03.1941-(04.1941), 02.08.1942-(01.1943)
WS/Maj.	15.06.1943
T/Lt.Col.	15.06.1943-(01.1945)
Maj.	01.01.1949
Hon. Lt.Col.	?

Education: Harrow (1920.1-1923.3; West Acre House); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

03.09.1925			commissioned, 16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
01.12.1933	-	1935	Adjutant, 16th/5th Lancers
1936?	-	1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized RARO
1940			served BEF (France)
02.07.1940	-	(10.)1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
01.12.1940	-	(07.)1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General HQ Home Forces
06.08.1942	-	14.03.1943	a General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Military Training, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
15.03.1943	-	(07.)1944	a General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Directorate of Military Training, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office

Member London Stock Exchange. Chairman of Seager Evans and Company, distillers.

Henderson,
Peter Reynolds
P.R. Henderson

Eldest son of the Very Rev. Edward Lowry Henderson (1873-1947), MA, Dean of Salisbury, and Sibyl Marjory Reynolds (1885-1972), of Fritham Lodge, nr Lyndhurst, Hampshire.
Married (11.08.1938, All Saints' Parish Church, Crowborough, Uckfield district, Sussex) Janet Mary Dunn-Pattison (05.08.1911 - 09.1970), eldest daughter (with one sister) of Capt. Richard Phillipson Dunn-Pattison (1874-1916), Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, and Mary Winifred Wilkes, of Braunton, Devon; one daughter, one step-son.
Residence: (1945) St Albans.

21.12.1907
Derby, Derbyshire
-
15.10.1970
Littleton, nr Winchester, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.02.1928 [39171]
Lt.	02.02.1931
Capt.	01.07.1938
A/Maj.	16.03.1941-15.06.1941
T/Maj.	16.06.1941-26.03.1943
WS/Maj.	04.02.1944
Maj.	02.02.1945
A/Lt.Col.	04.11.1943-03.02.1944
T/Lt.Col.	04.02.1944-04.03.1944, 04.07.1944-02.01.1949, 28.02.1950-03.07.1950
Lt.Col.	04.07.1950
T/Col.	03.01.1949-27.02.1950, 01.11.1951-30.12.1952
Col.	31.12.1952
T/Brig.	04.10.1954-13.05.1958
Brig.	14.05.1958 (retd 09.06.1960)

DSO	29.03.1945	NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]
MID	24.04.1953	Korea
LM	30.10.1953	Korea

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp

Education: St Peter's College, Radley (1921.3-1926,2); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; psc.

02.02.1928			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.09.1939	-	29.08.1940	Adjutant, ...
30.08.1940	-	23.04.1941	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
01.05.1941	-	31.10.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
19.05.1942	-	27.03.1943	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
24.05.1943	-	04.11.1943	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Air 1), War Office
05.11.1943	-	06.03.1944	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... War Office
(1944)			Commanding Officer, 97th Anti-Tank Regiment RA (DSO)
01.01.1945	-	10.05.1945	Commanding Officer, 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
10.11.1947	-	02.01.1949	Chief Instructor, School of Artillery
03.01.1949	-	27.02.1950	Colonel (General Staff), HQ Combined Operations
28.02.1950	-	30.09.1951	Assistant Adjutant-General (AAG), General HQ, Middle East Land Forces
01.11.1951	-	10.12.1952	Colonel A/Q, BCF Korea
01.05.1953	-	29.09.1954	Assistant Chief Instructor, School of Land/Air Warfare
04.10.1954	-	(02.1957)	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), HQ (H) Infiantry Division
17.08.1956	-	12.10.1956	Corps Commander Royal Artillery (CCRA), HQ 1st (BR) Corps (temporary)
09.06.1960	-	21.12.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

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Henderson,
Ronald George
R.G. Henderson

?
-

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	02.07.1939 [95938]
WS/Lt.	02.01.1941
T/Capt.	16.12.1942-(04.1944) (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe (attached 21st Army Group)
	TD	21.04.1950	-

02.07.1939			commissioned, 5th/7th Battalion The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	02.12.1961	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Henley,
John Leonard *
J.L. Henley

* in the Army registered as Jack Leonard Henley

(03?).1906 ?
Maidstone, Kent ?
-
1998 ?
Warwickshire ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	11.03.1943 [277963]
WS/Lt.	11.09.1943

24.04.1984

11.03.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served mainly in Italy

Hennell,
John Douglas
J.D. Hennell

Son of ... Hennell, and .. Harris.

23.01.1914
Epping district, Essex
-
02.02.2007

2nd Lt.	29.08.1936, seniority 31.01.1935 [68715]
Lt.	31.01.1938
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-23.01.1941
WS/Capt.	24.01.1941
Capt.	31.01.1943
A/Maj.	24.10.1940-23.01.1941
T/Maj.	24.01.1941-14.11.1941, 24.09.1942-30.01.1948
Maj.	31.01.1948
T/Lt.Col.	30.05.1956-(02.1957)
Lt.Col.	?, seniority 01.04.1956 (retd 03.09.1958)

Education: ... University; psc

			University Candidate
29.08.1936			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps
10.09.1939	-	30.11.1939	Adjutant, ...
12.03.1940	-	23.10.1940	Adjutant, ...

Hennessy,
James Noel
J.N. Hennessy

10.01.1911
Co. Cork, Ireland
-
30.09.1973
Bradford, West Yorkshire

Lt.	03.01.1941 [163718]
WS/Capt.	03.01.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)

Education: University College, Cork (14.10.1931-...); MB, BCh, BAO NUI 1936..

03.01.1941

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

A granddaughter writes: "He was a doctor & spent most of the war in POW camps - I think Burma. We have lots of thank you gifts carved out of wood / metal from prisoners. I don't know whether he was in a POW camp because he was captured, or that was his deployment - or anything else like that. I think he was away 1941/2 til the end of WW2."

Henney,
Gordon Leslie Kyle
G.L.K. Henney (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Cleland)

09.05.1912
Fylde district, Lancashire
-
06.1981
Wolverhampton district, West Midlands

2nd Lt.	31.05.1941 [189299]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	09.01.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

31.05.1941			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission]
19.01.1942			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(07.1945)			Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force/Air (Rear)

Henriques,
Robert David Quixano
R.D.Q. Henriques

Son of late Julian Quixano Henriques, and Margaret Beddington.
Married (11.10.1928, West London Synagogue, St Marylebone district, London) Vivien Doris Levy, daughter of Maj. W.H. and Hon. Mrs Levy; two sons, two daughters.
Of Jewish descent.

11.12.1905
Paddington district, London
-
22.01.1967
London

2nd Lt.	03.09.1927, seniority 11.06.1926 [38714]
Lt.	11.06.1929 (retd 1933)
Capt.	11.05.1934
T/Maj.	...-08.02.1943
WS/Maj.	09.02.1943
A/Lt.Col.	...-08.02.1943
T/Lt.Col.	09.02.1943-23.03.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	24.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Col.	01.05.1947, seniority 24.03.1944 (supernumerary 01.05.1950)
A/Col.	24.09.1943-(04.1944)
T/Col.	?
Hon. Col.	< 04.1946
Col. (supern.)	01.05.1950, seniority 29.10.1945

MBE	02.06.1943	HM's birthday 43
MID	03.04.1942	?
TD	23.12.1947	-
SSM	?	?
BSM	17.09.1948	?

Education: Lockers Park; Rugby; New College, Oxford (BA).

1926			General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army
03.09.1927			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery (served in Egypt and Sudan)
(03.1931)			1st Light Brigade RA (Ewshott)
(06.1933)			Depot Brigade, Depot RA (Woolwich)
1933	-	09.11.1935	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
1934	-	1953	Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
24.08.1939	-	?	Brigade Major, ..., RA
(1942)			served in Commandos (HQ Special Service Brigade)
24.09.1943	-	(04.1944)	Chief Military Planner, Planning Branch, Combined Operations HQ
01.05.1953	-	11.12.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Farmer & writer. Cavendish Lecturer, 1961.
Published: Death by Moonlight, 1938; No Arms No Armour, 1939 (British Empire prize and International prize for literature); Capt. Smith and Company, 1943; The Journey Home, 1944; Through the Valley (James Tait Black Memorial prize), 1950; The Cotswolds, 1950; A Stranger Here, 1953; Red over Green, 1955; 100 Hours to Suez, 1957; Marcus Samuel, First Viscount Bearsted, 1960; Sir Robert Waley Cohen, 1966.

Henry,
Prince see: Gloucester,
the Duke of

Henstridge,
Peter Gilbert
P.G. Henstridge

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of William Henry Henstridge (1882-1957), and Marion Elizabeth Clara Websdale (1894-1940).
Married ((12?).1944, Chatham district, Kent) Mary Kathleen Dengate (07.08.1923 - 04.02.2011); one son.

21.05.1918
Wandsworth district, London
-
03.1984
Westminster district, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.04.1941 [182757]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

19.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transferred, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Heppard,
Miss Kathleen L'Estrange
K.L'E. Heppard

Daughter of John L'Estrange Heppard (1880-), and Ethel Louisa Grimshaw (1880-).
Married ((09?).1953, Taunton district, Somerset) Lt.Col. Frank Essex Moorcroft, TD, RA.

16.02.1911
Blackburn district, Lancashire
-
01.1984
Wrexham Maelor district, Clwyd, Wales

2nd Sub.	20.04.1941, seniority 03.09.1939 [196029]
WS/Sub.	20.04.1941, seniority 03.09.1939
T/Jun.Comd.	27.03.1944-(04.1946)
Jun.Comd.	01.03.1949, seniority 24.07.1947
Sub. [Lt.]	22.02.1950, seniority 16.02.1936
Jun. Comd. [Capt.]	22.02.1950, seniority 16.02.1940
Sen.Comd. [Maj.]	22.02.1950, seniority 16.02.1947 (retd 01.03.1958)

	TD	13.07.1951	-
	EM	06.03.1947	[cancelled due to being awarded TD]

20.05.1941			commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service [emergency commission to 28.02.1949]
01.03.1949			commssioned, Women's Royal Army Corps [short service commission]
22.02.1950			commissioned, Women's Royal Army Corps [permanent commission]

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Hepworth,
John Valentine
J.V. Hepworth (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

Cadet	? [14215875]
2nd Lt.	12.02.1944 [308206]
WS/Lt.	12.08.1944 (reld > 04.1947)

12.02.1944			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
(1945)			1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)

Herbert,
[Sir] Edwin Otway
E.O. Herbert

Son of late Gustavus Otway Herbert. Married (1925) Muriel Irlam Barlow; one daughter.

18.11.1901
-
04.04.1984
Glyndwr, Clwyd

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.12.1921 [18477]
Lt.	22.12.1923
Capt.	22.12.1934
Maj.	22.12.1938
A/Lt.Col.	24.04.1940-20.07.1940, 15.02.1941-16.02.1941
T/Lt.Col.	17.02.1941-14.02.1943, 12.03.1943-22.11.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	23.11.1943
A/Col.	23.05.1943-22.11.1943
T/Col.	23.11.1943-13.09.1945
Col.	22.12.1946, seniority 23.11.1946
A/Brig.	23.05.1943-22.11.1943
T/Brig.	23.11.1943-13.09.1945, 08.12.1945-31.10.1947
...	...
Lt.Gen.	16.04.1954 (retd 13.04.1960)

KBE	1955	?
CBE	28.09.1944	?
CB	24.01.1946	?
DSO	11.07.1940	?
DSO	11.02.1943	?
MID	29.04.1941	?
MID	09.08.1945	?
MID	08.11.1945	?

Officer of Legion of Merit (USA) (15.03.1945); Knight Commander Order of Orange Nassau with Swords (Netherlands) (17.10.1946); Commander of Leopold II (Belgium) (17.08.1948).

Education: Felsted School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; psc

22.12.1921			commissioned Royal Artillery
16.12.1935	-	17.11.1939	Brigade Major, ...
19.11.1939	-	23.04.1940	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), British Expeditionery Forces (BEF) (France and Belgium) (despatches, DSO)
24.04.1940	-	20.07.1940	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), ...
22.07.1940	-	23.09.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
13.01.1941	-	14.02.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
15.02.1941	-	05.08.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
194X			Commanding Officer, 181st Field Regiment RA
1942	-	1943	1st Army, 78 Div., North Africa (bar to DSO)
12.03.1943	-	22.05.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
23.05.1943	-	13.07.1945	Brigadier General Staff, 21 Army Group (despatches, CBE, CB)
08.12.1945	-	26.05.1947	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), ...
27.05.1947	-	22.01.1949	General Officer Commanding, British Troops, Berlin, and British Commandant, Berlin
25.01.1949	-	29.02.1952	Director, Territorial Army and Cadets, War Office
10.03.1952	-	12.12.1953	General Officer Commanding, 44 (Home Counties) Division and District
14.12.1953	-	29.06.1956	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, West Africa Command
07.01.1957	-	1960	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command

Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery 1956-66. High Sheriff of Anglesey, 1964-65.

Hesford,
Robert Taylor
R.T. Hesford

Son of ... Hesford, and ... Taylor.
Married ((09?).1939, Blackpool district, Lancashire) Marjorie Gregson.

13.04.1916
Bolton district, Lancashire
-
13.06.1982
Leveleys, Blackpool and Fylde district, Lancashire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.07.1941 [194869]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	(03.1945)
T/Capt.	21.11.1945-(04.1946)

05.07.1941			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Hetherington,
J G
J.G. Hetherington

?
-
?

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

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

Heveningham,
Andrew George
A.G. Heveningham

Son of George John Heveningham, and Margaret Mary Fenigan.
Married Eileen (Pops) Heveningham (died 02.2007, aged 93).

02.03.1897
East Preston, Sussex
-
died between 1967 and 1990

Lt.	15.09.1926 [31037]
Capt.	15.03.1930
local Maj.	30.06.1935-14.09.1938
Maj.	15.09.1938
A/Lt.Col.	28.04.1945-10.07.1945
T/Lt.Col.	10.02.1946-(04.1947)
Lt.Col.	30.07.1949
Col.	01.03.1950
Brig.	29.03.1951 (retd 21.04.1955)

CBE	01.06.1953	HM's coronation
OBE	10.06.1948	HM's birthday 48
MID	24.12.1917	?
MSM	1918	-
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

1914	-	12.03.1920	served in the ranks (mobilized Territorial Force) for 5 years, 108 days (France & Belgium 17.04.1915-11.11.1918)
			commissioned, General List - Territorial Army
15.09.1926			commissioned, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
02.12.1927	-	02.05.1931	attached to Sudan Defence Force
(06.1933)			served in Egypt
30.06.1935	-	(04.1946)	specially employed, Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
01.04.1940	-	(04.1946)	Senior Veterinary Officer, Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
1951	-	1955	Director Army Veterinary and Remount Services

MRCVS

Hewitt,
Maurice Richard
M.R. Hewitt

18.03.1921
-
02.1990 still alive

2nd Lt.	15.06.1940 [136030]
Lt.	15.12.1941
A/Capt.	06.08.1942-05.11.1942
T/Capt.	06.11.1942-22.06.1945, 01.11.1945-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
T/Maj.	11.05.1951-14.06.1953
Maj.	15.06.1953 (retd 18.03.1976)

			served in the ranks for 288 days
15.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
06.08.1942	-	23.01.1944	Adjutant, ...
(09.1944)			Royal Signals [attached HQ 1st Airborne Corps ?] ("Market-Garden")

Hewitt,
Philip John
C.A. Heydeman

Son of Wilfrid Hewitt, and Emma Wheelock.
Married 1st ((03?).1953, Birmingham district, Warwickshire / West Midlands) Frances Jane Nealey (26.09.1919 - 07.1999); ... children (one son, two daughters?)
Married 2nd Anne ...; two steps-sons ?

(03?).1918
Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire
-
10.03.2011

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [189786]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	11.06.1944-(01.1945), 19.03.1945-(12.1946)

Education: Bromsgrove School (Lupton House, 1931-1939).

24.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1946)			RAC School

Director of Cadbury's. Had long associations with many sports clubs, including Bournville Cricket and Hockey Clubs, and was also a life member of Worcestershire Cricket Club.

Hewitt *,
Woolsey
W. Hewitt

Son (with four brothers and one half-brother) of Lt.Col. Arthur Cyril Marmaduke Alington (1872-1930), and Gladys Evelyn Hamilton (1883-1971).
Married ((09?).1948, Kensington, London) Vera Victoria May de Faye (Mrs J.H.S. Hunt) (16.03.1914 - 21.12.2007), daughter (with one brother) of Edward Thomas de Faye (1888-1966), and Nellie Chase (1887-1981); two daughters, one son.
* Born as George d'Argentine Alington. Adopted c. 1927 by Copley de Lisle Hewitt (1871-1941), and Alice Bradford Woolsey (1876-1947), and renamed Woolsey Hewitt.

22.06.1919
Stafford, Staffordshire
-
10.08.2007
Horton Kirby, Dartford, Kent

2nd Lt.	01.07.1939 [94726]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	26.12.1940-25.03.1941
T/Capt.	26.03.1941-29.03.1943
WS/Capt.	30.03.1943
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	30.12.1942-29.03.1943
T/Maj.	30.03.1943-05.10.1944
WS/Maj.	06.10.1944
Maj.	01.07.1952 (retd 28.07.1958)
A/Lt.Col.	06.07.1944-05.10.1944
T/Lt.Col.	06.10.1944-23.08.1947
Hon. Lt.Col.	28.07.1958

	MC	09.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
	MID	25.03.1943	in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field

Education: Eton College (1935-1937).

01.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
04.04.1944			Officer Commanding, No. 4 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit:
(06.1944)			Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer (SBLO), Force S (attached 3rd Infantry Division) (Normandy) (MC)
...	-	...	...

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Heydeman,
Cecil Albert
C.A. Heydeman

Son of late Lt.Col. Henry Ernest Heydeman (1854-1951), and Rose Henriette de Grancour Ligneau (1861-1939).
Married 1st (09.03.1914, The Register Office, St Marylebone, London; divorced) Lily Edith Williams (née Offer) (1891-); no children.
Married 2nd (06.11.1940, St Andrews Church, Calcutta, India) Constance Leona Whitney (? - 04.03.1949), eldest daughter of Capt. A. Whitney, Wenderholm, Sarisbury, Hampshire, and of Australia.

16.08.1889
Tromville British Parcentage, France
-
02.11.1967
Villa Carna, Falron Superieur, Nice, France

2nd Lt.	27.01.1909 [11880]
Lt.	15.12.1909
T/Capt.	15.11.1914-20.01.1916
Capt.	21.01.1916
Maj.	25.05.1919
Lt.Col.	24.09.1928 (half-pay 24.09.1932)
Col.	24.09.1932, seniority 24.09.1931 (full-pay 24.05.1933)
T/Brig.	04.10.1935-17.05.1939
local Maj.Gen.	19.05.1939-31.07.1939
Maj.Gen.	01.08.1939, seniority 21.06.1938 (retd 29.09.1946)

CB	01.07.1941	HM's birthday
MC	01.01.1919	?
MID	19.10.1914	?
MID	11.01.1945	Italy
MID	29.11.1945	Italy
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

Education: Temple Grove; Harrow; psc

27.01.1909			commissioned into The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
			served European War, 1914-1919 (despatches, MC, Legion of Honour)
...	-	...	...
1915	-	1916	Assistant Instructor, Machine Gun Corps Training Centre
1916			Instructor, Machine Gun Corps Training Centre
1916	-	1918	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), France
1918	-	1919	Brigade Major, France and Rhine Army
1923	-	1924	Staff Captain, War Office
01.02.1924	-	31.05.1925	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), War Office
24.05.1933	-	03.10.1935	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), 1st Division (Aldershot Command)
04.10.1935	-	17.05.1939	Commander, 2nd Cavalry Brigade (Southern Command)
19.05.1939	-	31.07.1939	specially employed, India
01.08.1939	-	14.09.1941	Commander Presidency and Assam District, Calcutta (India)
12.1941	-	12.1941	General Officer Commanding, 2nd Indian Armoured Division
01.01.1942	-	03.04.1943	General Officer Commanding, 32nd Indian Armoured Division
1943	-	(05?).1945	Commander, No. 1 District, Central Mediterranean Force
29.09.1946	-	16.08.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Heygate,
Cyril Peter
C.P. Heygate, 1939 (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Heygate)

Son of Cyril Beaconsfield Heygate, and Gertrude Downing Heygate.
Married Hilda May Wasson (died 1967); two sons, two daughters.

03.03.1918
Fleton, Peterborough
-
(09?).1975
Windsor district

Pte.	27.09.1939 [6464348]
2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124132]
WS/Lt.	09.09.1941 (reld 18.07.1946)
A/Capt.	11.11.1941-10.02.1942
T/Capt.	11.02.1942-30.04.1942, 20.07.1942-02.11.1943, 18.05.1944-31.12.1944
A/Maj.	01.01.1945-23.03.1945
Hon. Capt.	01.07.1959

39-45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
F&G St	?	?
It St	?	?
Def M	?	?
39-45 BWM	?	?

Education: Harrow; Aldro School; Brighton College.

27.09.1939			enlisted, Royal Fusiliers
10.11.1939			164 Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.03.1940			commissioned, The King's Regiment [emergency commission]
23.03.1940	-	21.10.1940	Infantry Training Centre, Formby
21.10.1940	-	28.06.1941	70th Battalion, The King's Regiment (Wilmslow)
28.06.1941	-	13.05.1942	8th Battalion, The King's Regiment (Banbury)
13.05.1942	-	22.05.1942	7th Battalion, The King's Regiment (Lowestoft)
22.05.1942	-	06.03.1943	8th Battalion, The King's Regiment
06.03.1943			transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps (served UK, North Africa, Greece, Italy & Palestine)
06.03.1943 06.08.1943	-	18.05.1944	4th Parachute Battalion Adjutant (UK [embarked 23.04.1943], North Africa [disembarked 23.04.1943], UK [Airborne Forces Depot 09.12.1943 - 24.03.1944], North Africa [embarked 25.03.1944])
18.05.1944	-	15.08.1944	Staff Captain, HQ 2nd Parachute Brigade
15.08.1944	-	23.03.1945	emplaned, 7th (US) Army, Central Mediterranean Force
23.03.1945	-		Staff Captain, HQ 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group (disembarked UK 26.06.1945; embarked for Middle East 11.10.1945)

Worked for the family company of Heygate & Son, property developer, estate agent in Middlesex, left and became a farmer.

Heywood,
Anthony Garnett
"Tony"
A.G. Heywood

Married (1952) Shirley Walton; one son, one daughter.

17.01.1919
Chiselhurst, Kent
-
[10/11?].2006
Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	20.04.1940 [129452]
...	...
A/Maj.	30.08.1945-29.11.1945
...	...
Brig.	31.12.1968, seniority 30.06.1968 (retd 15.05.1974)

CBE	?	?
MVO	?	?
MC	13.12.1949	?
MID	04.04.1946	?

Education: Eton; Clare College, Cambridge

20.04.1940			commissioned, The Grenadier Guards [emergency commission to 14.06.1946]
06.08.1942	-	07.06.1943	Staff Captain, ... Armoured Brigade
(1944)	-	(1945)	2nd Battalion The Grenadier Guards (NW Europe)
30.08.1945	-	09.01.1947	DAA&QMG, Guards Brigade
...	-	...	...

Heywood,
Geoffrey Beresford
"Tim"
G.B. Heywood

12.07.1914
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Nourthumberland / Tyne and Wear
-
15.06.2006

2nd Lt.	12.07.1939 [92342]
WS/Lt.	12.01.1941
T/Capt.	18.04.1942-06.03.1944
WS/Capt.	07.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	07.03.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946

MBE

09.09.1942

Middle East 11.41-04.42

Education: Eton.

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1940	-	1941	Longe Range Desert Group
08.1941	-	1945?	Chief Signals Officer, Longe Range Desert Group
?	-	12.07.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Deputy Lieutenant, Gloucestershire, 19.09.1983.

Heywood,
Henry Frank
G.B. Heywood

Son of Courtney Heywood (1858-1941), and Marie Madelaine Fernande Jane Reymond Robellaz (1858-).
Married ((03?).1921, London) Rosalind Ida Hedley (01.04.1895 - 27.06.1980); two sons.

18.08.1890
-
27.03.1977
Merton, London

2nd Lt. (prob.)	25.08.1909 [4671]
2nd Lt.	01.1911, seniority 25.08.1909
...	...
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1919
Maj.	01.05.1929 (retd 01.03.1931)
Maj. (Res. of Offrs.)	01.03.1931, seniority 14.01.1927
WS/Lt.Col.	17.12.1941
local Col.	?

MC	?	?
MID	28.11.1917	?
CdeG	26.11.1919	?
LegH	05.11.1920	?
Leo	17.09.1948	?

Medaille d'Honneur avec Glaives en Vermeil (France), 21.07.1919.

25.08.1909			commissioned, Royal Garrison Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary List - Special Reserve of Officers
Commercial Secretary, Second Grade, HM's Legation, Berne (Switzerland), 01.03.1931; Washington, DC (USA), 28.01.1935.
01.03.1931	-	13.09.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

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