Geoffrey
Married 1st (25.04.1923, Holy Trinity
Church, Brompton; divorced 1930)
Mary Dorothea Rochfort Turnly; two
sons.
Married 2nd (16.01.1950, Salisbury,
Wiltshire) Kathleen Vida Annan (1900
- 16.12.1960), of Idmiston Grange,
Salisbury, daughter of Mr & Mrs R.T.
Annan, and widow of Col. Robert
Hillhouse Maclaren, OBE, MC, RE.
Dewsbury, Yorkshire
-
08.05.1977
Winterbourne Earls,
Salisbury, Wiltshire
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
07.04.1916 [9298] |
| Lt. | 07.10.1917 |
| Capt. |
01.11.1927 |
| Maj. |
01.08.1938 (retd
26.10.1948) |
| A/Lt.Col. |
18.11.1940-29.12.1940 |
|
MBE |
25.07.1921 |
for an action he planned and took a prominent role in on 03.05.21 in Ireland
[gazetted 28.09.21] |
|
BWM
14|20 |
? |
? |
|
VM |
? |
? |
| 07.04.1916 |
commissioned,
The Border Regiment |
||
| 10.1916 |
- |
02.1918 |
served
the region of Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the
Islands of the AEgean Sea |
| 01.1918 |
- |
31.10.1918 |
served
Egyptian Expeditionary Force (wounded) |
| 08.08.1918 |
- |
01.06.1919 |
employed
under the Air Ministry |
| (1921) |
Platoon
Commander, 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment (Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, in the West of Ireland)
[seriously injured in action with the South Mayo Brigade IRA. 03.05.1921] |
||
| (1921?) |
- |
14.01.1929 |
5th (Cumberland) Battalion The Border Regiment (Territorial Army) |
| 15.01.1929 |
- |
14.01.1933 |
Adjutant,
5th (Cumberland) Battalion The Border Regiment (Territorial Army) (Workington) |
| (06.1933) |
1st
Battalion The Border Regiment (Holywood) |
||
| (01.1937) |
2nd
Battalion The Border Regiment (Ferozep) |
||
| (01.1939) |
2nd
Battalion The Border Regiment (Calcutta) |
||
| (09.1939) |
2nd
Battalion The Border Regiment (India) |
||
| (04.1944) |
specially
employed |
Denis James
Ian Hamilton
St George district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
2001
Edinburgh district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
|
2nd Lt. |
08.06.1938
[75833] |
| WS/Lt. |
01.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. |
17.05.1942-(04.1944) |
| WS/Capt. |
06.12.1945 |
| T/Maj. |
06.12.1945-(04.1946) |
| Hon.
Maj. |
1946? |
|
TD |
25.02.1955 |
- |
| Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps |
|||
| 08.06.1938 |
commissioned,
7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) - Territorial Army |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| (09.1939) |
- |
(10.1939) |
"B"
Company 7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots |
| 14.01.1941 |
|
|
transferred,
Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps |
Harry
Son (with one brother) of Saul Infeld (1856-1923), diamond broker, and Minnie Infeld (1865-1907), of Austrian origin, naturalized UK citizens 1897.
Changed surname from Infeld to Infield by deed poll of 13.03.1924.
Married ((09?).1920, Hampstead district, Middlesex) Ethel Henriette Phillips (1898-1981); two sons (Capt. Gerard Maurice Infield, The King's Royal Rifle Corps), one daughter.
|
|
Hackney district, London
-
(06?).1970
St Marylebone district, London
| 2nd Lt. | 26.08.1914 [16551] |
| T/Lt. | 15.02.1915-... |
| T/Capt. | 01.05.1916-... |
| Capt. | ? |
| A/Maj. | (1918) |
| Maj. | 27.10.1926 (reld 14.08.1946) |
 |
MC | 01.01.1919 | ? |
|
|
TD | 25.01.1945 | - |
| 26.08.1914 | commissioned, 12th Battalion London Regiment - Territorial Force | ||
| 11.09.1915 | seconded | ||
| 01.05.1916 | employed with Special Brigade R.E. ("Q" Special Company) | ||
| 27.10.1926 | - | 14.08.1946 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] (transferred, The King's Royal Rifle Corps at some point) |
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TARO | ||
| 01.02.1941 | transferred, Pioneer Corps |
Gordon Edwin Horricks
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Peter Cameron Inglis (1877-1945), and Elizabeth Rosamond Lawrence (1879-1928).
Married ((03?).1941, Lewisham district, London) Joyce Margaret Johnson (09.04.1923 - 08.2006), of Penge, Kent; one daughter.
India
-
30.04.1944
[age 26]
[Imphal War Cemetery, India]
| 2nd Lt. | 22.11.1941 [217781] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| 22.11.1941 | commissioned, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment | ||
| ? | - | 30.04.1944 | 4th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment |
[Sir] John Drummond
|
|
-
07.01.1985
| 2nd Lt. |
12.08.1914 [5689] |
| Col. |
26.02.1940 (retd
19.10.1945) |
| A/Brig. |
26.11.1940-(04.1941) |
| T/Brig. |
...-29.04.1943 |
| A/Maj.Gen. |
13.04.1942-13.04.1943 |
| T/Maj.Gen. | 13.04.1943-19.10.1945 |
| Hon. Maj.Gen. |
19.10.1945 |
KBE (05.07.1945; NW Europe), CB (01.01.1944), OBE (1939), MC (1916);
Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau
with Swords (The Netherlands) (16.01.1948)
| 12.08.1914 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
| 1941 |
- |
1942 |
Chief
Engineer, I Corps (Home Forces) |
| 1942 |
- |
1943 |
Chief
Engineer, Home Forces |
| 1943 |
- |
1945 |
Chief
Engineer, 21st Army Group (NW Europe) |
Norman Edward
Son of ... Ingpen, and ... Wood.
Christchurch district, Hampshire
-
(03?).1961
Hailsham district
| Gnr. |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
13.04.1940
[129331] |
| WS/Lt. | 13.10.1941 |
| T/Capt.
|
12.03.1943-(04.1944), 16.12.1944-(04.1946) |
| ? |
- | 13.04.1940 | Cadet,
122nd or 123rd Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 13.04.1940 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
||
| Squadron
Captain, 664 (Air Observation Post) Squadron RCAF |
|||
| served with
2nd Infantry Division (NW Europe) |
Charles Meredith
"Mere"
Son of Eng.Cdr. Charles John Inigo-Jones, Royal Indian Marine.
Married (06.08.1948, Westminster district, London) Helen Mary de Courcy O'Grady(03.02.1912; predeceased him), of Montreal, Canada, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs F.C. de Courcy O'Grady; no children.
Glasgow, Scotland
-
17.12.2009
| 2nd Lt. | 31.07.1935 [51831] |
| Lt. | 31.07.1938 |
| A/Capt. | 26.01.1940-25.04.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 26.04.1940-01.06.1941 |
| WS/Capt. | 03.01.1942 |
| Capt. | 31.07.1943 |
| A/Maj. | 03.10.1941-02.01.1942 |
| T/Maj. | 03.01.1942-20.06.1943, 21.10.1943-17.09.1945 |
| WS/Maj. | 18.09.1945 |
| Maj. | 31.07.1948 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 18.06.1945-17.09.1945 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
18.09.1945-06.07.1946, 29.01.1953-25.03.1956, 10.08.1956-(01.1957) |
| WS/Lt.Col. | 07.07.1946-01.12.1947 |
| local Lt.Col. | 15.09.1948-28.01.1951 |
| Lt.Col. | 26.08.1956 (retd 29.06.1961) |
| A/Col. | 07.01.1946-06.07.1946 |
| T/Col. | 07.07.1946-02.08.1947 |
| Hon. Col. | 29.06.1961 |
 |
MID | 23.07.1937 | Palestine |
| 23.12.1931 | - | 30.07.1935 | commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers |
| 31.07.1935 | commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | ||
| 1935 | - | 1936 | served in Palestine |
| (01.1937) | - | (01.1939) | 2nd Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Gravesend) |
| 10.07.1939 | - | 01.06.1941 | Instructor |
| 26.01.1940 | - | (04.1941) | Instructor, Wireless Wing, School of Anti-Aircraft Defence |
| 26.06.1940 | transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery | ||
| 1944 | - | 1947 | served in India |
| 18.06.1945 | - | (04.1946) | Assistant Master-General Supply, Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, Quartermaster General's Branch, India HQ Staff |
| 1948 | - | 1951 | served in Washington, DC (USA) |
| 29.06.1961 | - | 12.12.1967 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Robert Charles
-
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
17.10.1942
[249231] |
| WS/Lt. | 17.04.1943 (reld
02.02.1952) |
| Hon. Capt. |
02.02.1952 |
| 17.10.1942 |
commissioned,
The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission] |
[Sir] Gerald Howard Boteler;
10th Baronet Irby, of Whapload and Boston, co. Lincoln;
9th Baron Boston, of Boston, co. Lincoln
Son of Lt.-Col. Leonard Paul Irby, OBE (great-grandson of 2nd Baron) (1871-1936), and Ethel Maud Boteler (1869-1957), daughter of Capt. William John Casberd Boteler, RN (1843-1907).
Succeeded cousin 12.10.1972.
Married 1st (14.08.1926) Katherine Gertrude Edwards, daughter of Captain C.M.H. Edwards (divorced 1931); one daughter.
Married, 2nd (08.02.1936) Erica Nelly Hill (13.08.1899-05.1990), daughter of T.H. Hill; one son.
-
17.02.1978
Esher, Surrey
| T/2nd Lt. |
29.08.1915 |
| T/Lt. |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
27.09.1939
[100873] |
| WS/Capt. | 01.09.1940 |
| T/Maj.
|
01.09.1940-(04.1946) |
|
MBE |
1918 |
? |
| 1915 |
- |
1918 |
commissioned,
The King's
Royal Rifle Corps [temporary commission] |
| 27.09.1939 |
commissioned,
Royal Army
Service Corps [emergency commission] |
Marguerite
"Brigit"
(Miss)
Only daughter of Col. G. Ireland, and Mrs Ireland, of Greenways, Normandy, Surrey.
Married (01.01.1946, Catholic Church, Ash, Surrey South Western district) Capt. Frederick Benjamin Suter, Indian Army (20.04.1920 - 13.06.2013); one son, three daughters.
Southsea
-
10.06.2009
Surrey
| 2nd Subaltern | 26.03.1943 [270245] |
| WS/Subaltern | 26.09.1943 |
| T/Junior Commander | 01.11.1945-25.08.1946 (reld 25.08.1946) |
| Hon. Jun.Cdr. | 25.08.1946 |
 |
EM | 06.03.1947 | - |
| 26.03.1943 | commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service |
Hugo Craster Wakeford
|
|
Thrapston, Northamptonshire
-
03.10.2008
Frimley Park Hospital
| 2nd Lt. |
25.08.1938
[77706] |
| Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| A/Capt.
|
12.08.1945-11.11.1945 |
| ... |
... |
| Brig. |
01.12.1966 (retd
13.04.1968) |
|
|
OBE |
01.01.1955 |
New
Year 55 |
| 25.08.1938 |
commissioned,
Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps |
||
| ? |
- |
25.03.1940 |
3rd
Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (France since 20.05.1940; captured) |
| 25.03.1940 |
- |
04.1945 |
POW in
German captivity (escaped from Oflag VII B at Eichstätt, Bavaria, was caught
again and spent the rest of the war at Oflag IV C at Colditz) |
| 12.08.1945 |
- |
13.04.1946 |
Staff
Captain Q (AE), 21st Army Group |
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
the Lord Ironside, Sir William Edmund;
1st Baron (cr. 1941) Ironside of Archangel and of Ironside
Son of Surg.Maj. William Ironside, RHA, of Ironside, Aberdeenshire.
Married (1915) Mariot Ysobel, daughter of Charles Cheyne; one son, one daughter.
|
|
|
|
|
|
South Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
22.09.1959
Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London
| 2nd Lt. |
25.06.1899 |
| Lt. |
16.02.1901 |
| Capt. |
18.02.1908 |
| Maj. |
30.10.1914 |
| Bt.
Lt.Col. |
03.06.1916 |
| Bt.
Col. |
01.01.1919 |
| Col. |
02.06.1919 |
| Maj.Gen. |
11.11.1919 |
| Lt.Gen. |
01.03.1931 |
| Gen. |
30.06.1935
(retd 19.07.1940) |
| Field
Marshal |
20.07.1940 |
| - | Baron |
01.01.1941 |
- |
|
GCB |
09.06.1938 |
HM's
birthday 38 |
|
|
KCB |
01.08.1919 |
North
Russia |
|
CMG |
01.01.1918 |
for services rendered in
connection with Military Operations in the Field |
|
DSO |
23.06.1915 |
for
distinguished service in the field [with effect from 03.06.1915] |
S. Africa: MiD (10.9.1901); Queen's South African Medal (clasps Cape
Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal); King's South African Medal (clasps
South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902); France, Russia: MiD (04.12.1914,
22.06.1915, 15.06.1916, 15.05.1917, 11.12.1917, 20.12.1918, 21.05.1920); 1914
Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; KCB; CMG; DSO; Croix de Guerre avec
Palme, 2nd Class; Order St Vladimir; Croix d'Officier de la Légion d'Honneur;
Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class (Japan) (06.02.1922);
Iraq: North-West Persia Medal and Clasp; others: Grand Croix de
la Légion d'Honneur (1946)
| 25.06.1899 |
commissioned
Royal Artillery; section commander, 44th Battery (2.1900-5.1902) (1899-1902
South African War) |
||
| 26.09.1908 |
- |
01.06.1909 |
Staff
Captain (South Africa) |
| 02.06.1909 |
- |
25.09.1912 |
Brigade-Major
(South Africa) |
| 05.08.1914 |
- |
28.10.1914 |
Staff
Captain (France) |
| 29.10.1914 |
- |
16.02.1915 |
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), 6th Division (France) |
| 17.02.1915 |
- |
29.02.1916 |
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), 6th Division (France) |
| 03.03.1916 |
- |
06.01.1918 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 4th Canadian Division (Home Forces &
France) (T/Lt.Col.) |
| 07.01.1918 |
- |
26.03.1918 |
Commandant
(General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1)), Small Arms School [or: Machine Gun
Corps School] (Camiers, France) (T/Col.) |
| 27.03.1918 |
- |
19.09.1918 |
Commander,
99th Infantry Brigade (France) (T/Brig.Gen.) |
| 20.09.1918 |
- |
16.11.1918 |
Brigadier-General
General Staff (T/Brig.Gen.) (Russia) |
| 17.11.1918 |
- |
03.03.1919 |
General
Officer Commanding, Archangel (Russia) (T/Maj.Gen.) |
| 04.03.1919 |
- |
14.11.1919 |
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Archangel (Russia) (T/Maj.Gen. to 10.11.1919) |
| 01.03.1920 |
- |
16.05.1920 |
Chief,
British Military Mission to Eastern Hungary |
| 04.07.1920 |
- |
22.08.1920 |
Commander,
Ismid Force (Iraq) |
| 23.08.1920 |
- |
07.07.1921 |
Commander,
Northern Persian Force (Mesopotamia Expeditionery Force) |
| 01.05.1922 |
- |
30.04.1926 |
Commandant
(Major-General General Staff), Staff College (Camberley, UK) |
| 01.10.1926 |
- |
25.10.1928 |
General
Officer Commanding, 2nd Division (Aldershot Command, UK) |
| 21.11.1928 |
- |
31.05.1931 |
General
Officer Commanding, Meerut District (India) |
| 01.06.1931 |
- |
19.09.1933 |
Lieutenant,
Tower of London (UK) |
| 04.10.1933 |
- |
15.03.1936 |
Quartermaster-General
India (India) |
| 12.04.1936 |
- |
26.09.1938 |
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command (UK) |
| 27.09.1938 |
- |
14.10.1938 |
specially
employed |
| 05.11.1938 |
- |
30.06.1939 |
Governor
& Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar (Gibraltar) |
| 01.07.1939 |
- |
03.09.1939 |
Inspector-General,
Overseas Forces (UK) |
| 04.09.1939 |
- |
26.05.1940 |
Chief,
Imperial General Staff, War Office (UK) |
| 27.05.1940 |
- |
19.07.1940 |
Commander-in-Chief,
Home Forces |
| 12.10.1937 |
- |
19.07.1940 |
also: ADC
General to the King |
Published: Tannenberg : the first thirty days in East Prussia (1925), Archangel, 1918-1919 (1953)
Literature: James Eastwood, General Ironside (London : Pilot Press, [1940]); Andrew Soutar, With Ironside in north Russia (London : Hutchinson, [1940]); Roderick Macleod & Denis Kelly (ed.), The Ironside diaries, 1937-1940 (London : Constable, 1962); Lord Ironside (ed.), High road to command : the diaries of Major-General Sir Edmund Ironside, 1920-1922 (London : Leo Cooper, 1972)
Leonard George
Bombay, India
-
27.04.1973
Bridge, Canterbury, Kent
| Lt. |
27.07.1933
[56537] |
| Capt. |
04.09.1934,
seniority 27.07.1934 |
| A/Maj. |
12.01.1940-11.04.1940 |
| T/Maj. |
12.04.1940-04.11.1942 |
| WS/Maj. |
05.11.1942 |
| Maj. |
27.07.1943 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
05.08.1942-04.11.1942 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
05.11.1942-23.12.1945 |
| WS/Lt.Col. |
24.12.1945 |
| Lt.Col. |
21.06.1948 |
| A/Col. |
24.06.1945-23.12.1945 |
| T/Col. |
24.12.1945-08.07.1946, 04.04.1953-15.01.1957, 24.05.1957-13.08.1957 |
| Col. |
14.08.1957 (retd
04.09.1962) |
| A/Brig. |
11.10.1945-13.11.1945 |
|
|
MID |
11.01.1945 |
? |
|
GSM |
- |
&
clasp Palestine & clasp Cyprus |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Afr
St |
- |
&
clasp 1st Army |
|
It St |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
Served Cambridge & London Hospitals.
| 27.07.1933 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps |
||
| 27.07.1933 |
- |
03.9.1933 |
seconded |
| 1934 |
- |
1936 |
Egypt |
| 1936 |
- |
(01.)1937 |
Palestine |
| 1937 |
- |
1939 |
Egypt
(01.1939 at Gebeit) |
| 1940 |
British
Expeditionary Force (France) |
||
| 1942 |
- |
1944 |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Field Ambulance RAMC (from 1943 British North Africa Force) |
| 1944 |
- |
1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 1st Mobile Military Hospital (Central Mediterranean Force) |
| 1945 |
- |
1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 11th Convalescent Depot RAMC (Central Mediterranean Force) |
| 24.06.1945 |
- |
10.10.1945 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ 56th Infantry Division (Central Mediterranean
Force) |
| 11.10.1945 |
- |
13.10.1946 |
Deputy
Director of Medical Services, HQ XIII Corps (Central Mediterranean Force) |
| 14.10.1946 |
- |
1946 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ 56th Infantry Division (Central Mediterranean
Force) |
| 1946 |
- |
31.03.1948 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Eastern Command (UK) |
| 28.05.1948 |
- |
15.07.1951 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ British Troops in Sudan & Commanding
Officer, Station Hospital (Middle East Land Forces) |
| 1951 |
- |
1953 |
Commanding
Officer, Military Hospital Wheatley Oxford (Home Forces) |
| 04.04.1953 |
- |
15.11.1956 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ 7th Armoured Division (British Army of the
Rhine) |
| 1957 |
- |
1958 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Middle East Land Foces |
| 1958 |
- |
1959 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Cyprus District (Middle East Land Forces) |
| 1959 |
- |
1961 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Salisbury Plain District (Home Forces) |
| 1961 |
- |
1962 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Home Counties District (Home Forces) |
| 04.09.1962 |
- |
11.01.1964 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Thomas Alexander
From Motherwell.
-
| 2nd Lt. |
02.05.1932
[53100] |
| Lt. |
02.05.1935 |
| Capt. |
08.06.1937 |
| Maj. |
01.09.1939 (reld
from active service < 04.1946) |
| T/Lt.Col.
|
10.10.1942-(08.1945) |
| Hon. Lt.Col. |
< 04.1946 |
| Lt.Col. |
01.05.1947 (retd
02.05.1948) |
| Hon. Col. |
22.08.1962 |
|
|
DSO |
21.06.1945 |
Burma |
|
|
TD |
14.03.1946 |
? |
|
|
TD |
23.11.1951 |
1st
clasp |
| 02.05.1932 |
commissioned,
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - Territorial Army |
||
| 02.05.1932 |
- |
(09.1939) |
6th
(Lanarkshire) Battalion The Cameronians (Hamilton, Scotland) |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| 02.1945 |
- |
08.1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 7th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment |
| 02.05.1948 |
- |
22.08.1962 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Charles Leighton
-
10.2001
Taunton district, Somerset
| 2nd Lt. |
13.10.1939
[69556] |
| Lt. |
13.04.1941 |
| A/Capt.
|
22.04.1940-05.07.1945 |
| Capt. |
01.07.1946
(half-pay 26.12.1947) (retd 27.05.1950) |
| late
Cadet Corporal, Felsted School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training
Corps |
|||
| 25.11.1936 |
- |
09.09.1938 |
commissioned,
5th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army |
| 10.09.1938 |
- | 12.10.1939 | commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
- Supplementary Reserve of Officers |
| 13.10.1939 |
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps |
| 1940? | transferred,
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers |
||
| (1940) |
|
|
9th
Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France) |
Noel Mackintosh Stuart
Eldest son of William Stuart Irwin of Motihari, Bihar and Orissa, India.
Married 1st (1918) Margaret Maud (died 1963), daughter of late B. Bavin; one son.
Married 2nd (1966) Mrs Elizabeth Collier (née Fröhlich).
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India
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21.12.1972
Holford, near Bridgewater, Somerset
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2nd Lt. |
04.08.1912 [4987] |
| Lt. |
24.09.1914 |
| T/Capt. |
09.05.1915-06.11.1915 |
| Capt. |
07.11.1915 |
| A/Maj. |
10.03.1917-22.08.1917 |
| Bt. Maj. |
03.06.1919 |
| Maj. |
13.07.1927 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
27.04.1917-31.05.1917, 23.08.1917-19.02.1918 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
06.04.1918-30.04.1919 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. |
01.07.1931 |
| T/Col. |
01.05.1919-27.01.1920 |
| Col. |
02.03.1937,
seniority 01.07.1934 |
| T/Brig. |
15.03.1939-29.03.1941 |
| A/Maj.Gen. |
20.05.1940-29.03.1941 |
| Maj.Gen. |
30.03.1941,
seniority 22.11.1940 |
| A/Lt.Gen. |
01.04.1942-22.11.1942 |
| T/Lt.Gen.
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23.11.1942-26.08.1943, 12.05.1945-15.06.1945 |
| Lt.Gen. |
13.06.1947,
seniority 30.06.1944 (retd 20.12.1948) |
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CB |
11.07.1940 |
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DSO |
01.01.1918 |
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DSO |
24.09.1918 |
* |
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DSO |
1919 |
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MC |
03.07.1915 |
Ypres
02.05.15 ** |
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MID |
01.01.1916 |
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MID |
22.05.1917 |
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MID |
21.12.1917 |
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MID |
28.12.1918 |
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NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the whole of his battalion front was heavily attacked and all communications with his forward companies were cut, this officer personally organised his headquarters and stragglers, and formed a defensive flank so as to obtain touch with the brigade on the right. This flank he held for eight hours against all attacks, organising two counter-attacks against the enemy during this period, thus averting a critical situation. It was greatly due to his able conduct that the holding of their battle position by his brigade was possible throughout the day. His courage, energy and quick decision inspired the greatest confidence in his men.
** On 2nd May, 1915, east of Ypres, when in reserve trenches with his company, seeing that the men in the front trenches were overcome by gas and were retiring, with great initiative and courage and under heavy fire, he at once advanced with his company and seized the front trenches before the Germans could occupy them, and drove back the enemy's attack. On 13th May in the counter-attack he handled his company with great skill and determination.
| 04.08.1912 |
commissioned, The Essex Regiment |
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| 08.1914 |
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1919 |
served European War: France 22.08.1914-13.10.1914, 17.12.1914-01.03.1916,
05.09.1916-11.11.1918 (DSO and two Bars, MC, Croix de Guerre, 1914 Star, despatches five times): |
| 1914 |
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21.09.1916 |
2nd Battalion
The Essex Regiment (France) |
| 22.09.1916 |
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09.03.1917 |
Adjutant, 2nd Battalion
The Essex Regiment (France) |
| 23.08.1917 |
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19.02.1918 |
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (France) |
| 06.04.1918 |
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30.06.1918 |
Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (France) |
| 01.07.1918 |
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30.04.1919 |
Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (France) |
| 01.05.1919 |
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10.12.1919 |
Commander
(Class X),
Abbeville District (France) |
| 28.01.1920 |
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29.01.1924 |
Officer,
Company
of Gentleman Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
| 10.03.1926 |
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09.03.1928 |
Brigade
Major, Rhine Army |
| 13.07.1927 |
transferred, The Border Regiment |
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| 01.04.1929 |
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01.04.1933 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2), Northern Command, India |
| 30.11.1933 |
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18.11.1935 |
Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Royal Military College (Sandhurst) |
| 02.03.1937 |
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10.03.1939 |
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), British Troops in China |
| 15.03.1939 |
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19.05.1940 |
Commander, 6th Infantry Brigade (UK, France & Belgium) |
| 20.05.1940 |
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12.08.1940 |
General Officer Commanding, 2nd Infantry Division (France, UK) |
| 13.08.1940 |
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27.10.1940 |
specially employed: Commandant of British Army element in Dakar expedition ("Operation
Menace") |
| 28.10.1940 |
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06.11.1941 |
General Officer Commanding, 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division (UK) |
| 07.11.1941 |
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15.03.1942 |
General Officer Commanding, XI Corps (UK) |
| 01.04.1942 |
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31.07.1942 |
General Officer Commanding, IV Indian Corps (Burma) |
| 01.08.1942 |
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20.05.1943 |
General Officer Commanding, Eastern Army, India |
| 1944 |
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1945 |
General
Officer Commanding, East Scotland District |
| 1946 |
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1948 |
General Officer Commanding, West Africa Command |
| 20.12.1948 |
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24.12.1954 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Published: Infantry officer, 1914-1918 : the record of service as a young officer in the First World War (1942)
Claude Francis Wilfred
Son (with two brothers) of
Francis 'Frank' Lewis Isaac (1873-1943), and Gladys Daisy Moss (1884-1956).
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
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08.1999
Lambeth district, London
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 12.06.1941 [187759] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 13.08.1945-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. | 17.08.1946 (reld 06.08.1947) |
| T/Maj. | 17.08.1946-06.08.1947 |
| Hon. Maj. | 06.08.1947 |
| Capt. | 08.11.1950 |
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39|45 St | - | - |
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Fr&G St | - | - |
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Def M | - | - |
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WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 12.06.1941 | commissioned, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers [emergency commission] | ||
| 08.11.1950 | - | 31.12.1960 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |
Gilbert Barton
Son (with three sisters and two brothers) of Arthur James Isherwood (1873-1908), and Bessy Merryweather (1873-1957).
Married ((03?).1940, Luton district, Bedfordshire) Winifred Nellie Cumner (14.02.1912 - 10.1998).
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire
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(09?).1981
Luton district, Bedfordshire
| 2nd Lt. | 12.06.1943 [278358] |
| WS/Lt. | 12.06.1943 |
| T/Capt. | 12.02.1945-19.12.1945 |
| WS/Capt. | 20.12.1945 |
| T/Maj. | 20.12.1945-(04.1946) |
| 12.06.1943 | commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission] |
Donald Edward
Son of Harold and Kathleen Isles.
Married (1948) Sheila Mary Stephens (formerly Thorpe); three sons, one daughter.
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Leeds
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12.11.2008
Denton, Lincolnshire
| 2nd Lt. |
31.12.1943
[304096] |
| WS/Lt. |
01.07.1944 |
| ... | ... |
| Maj.Gen. |
04.07.1974 (retd
02.10.1978) |
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CB |
03.06.1978 |
HM's
birthday 78 |
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OBE |
08.06.1968 |
HM's
birthday 68 |
| served in
the ranks for 198 days |
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| 31.12.1943 |
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commissioned,
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment [emergency commission to 18.04.1947] |
| 1944 |
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1947 |
1st
Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Italian
campaign, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Syria) |
| 15.07.1963 |
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20.03.1965 |
Assistant
Military
Attaché, Paris |
| 1965 |
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1967 |
Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (BAOR & UN Forces
in Cyprus) |
| 1968 |
Assistant Military Secretary,
Ministry of Defence |
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| 1968 |
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1971 |
Colonel
General Staff, Ministry of Defence |
| 1972 |
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1975 |
Director
of Munitions,
British
Defence Staff Washington |
| 1975 |
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1978 |
Director-General
Weapons (Army) |
Sir Hastings Lionel
John William
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| QM Lt. |
15.03.1939 |
| ... | ... |
| T/Maj. |
12.09.1942 |
| 15.03.1939 |
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps |
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