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Jackson,
Denis Warburton
"Jacko"
D.W. Jackson (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) D.W. Jackson
D.W. Jackson D.W. Jackson
D.W. Jackson D.W. Jackson

Son (with two sisters) of Charles Warburton Jackson (1888-1966), and Sarah Phoebe Mary Harrison (1891-1973).
Married (14.04.1941. St Paul's Cathedral, Valetta, Malta) Catherine Elizabeth "Betty" Smithwick ((09?).1921 - ). daughter of Cdr. W.F.G. Smithwick, RN; three daughters, one son.
 
07.07.1914
Basford, Nottinghamshire
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22.04.2001
Oxford, Oxfordshire
[St Mary Churchyard
Buckland, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire]
2nd Lt. 27.01.1938 [74678]
Lt. 01.01.1941
A/Capt. 09.01.1941-08.04.1941
T/Capt. 09.04.1941-06.01.1942
WS/Capt. 28.08.1942
Capt. 07.05.1944
A/Maj. 28.05.1942-27.08.1942
T/Maj. 28.08.1942-20.10.1942,
28.10.1942-31.01.1944,
27.07.1944-10.11.1944
WS/Maj. 11.11.1944
Maj. 07.05.1949
A/Lt.Col. 11.08.1944-10.11.1944
T/Lt.Col. 11.11.1944-04.11.1945,
16.07.1946-07.10.1946,
04.06.1951-12,03.1955
local Lt.Col. 31.12.1947-14.12.1949
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1953 (Emp. List (1))
Lt.Col. 13.03.1955
Col. 20.10.1956, seniority 28.05.1956
Brig. 01.01.1962 (retd 10.10.1964)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE 13.06.1964 HM's birthday 1964
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 1954
Education: Bruton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1936-1938; Anson Memorial Sword; 1st in Order of Merit 1937); psc, idc.
      served in the ranks for 3 years, 163 days, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
27.01.1938     commissioned, Royal West Kent Regiment (Palestine counter insurgency operations 1939)
 1938? - 1941 2nd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment (Palestine counter insurgency operations 1939), Siege of Malta 1940-1941)
09.01.1941 - 06.01.1942 General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3), ...
06.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa Staff College)
28.05.1942 - 20.10.1942 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ...
1942     infantry company commander, Western Desert including Alamein
1943     internal security North Iraq
1943     Italy
1944     wounded and evacuated St. Hugh's, Oxford
24.07.1944 - 10.08.1944 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Directorate of Military Training, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
11.08.1944 - 12.08.1945 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), Directorate of Military Training, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
1945 - 1947 India & Malaya (Second-in-Command & Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment 1946)
01.02.1947 - 09.10.1947 Brigade-Major, ... Infantry Brigade (emergency Operations Burma, and anti-terrorist operations Johore)
31.12.1947 - 14.02.1949 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
1950 - 1951 Second-in-Command & Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment (including anti-terrorist operations Suez)
08.02.1952 - 28.05.1954 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG) (Plans), HQ British Troops in Egypt (OBE)
1954 - 1955 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment (including 1955 counter insurgency operations Cyprus)
20.10.1955 - 1958 (Col.) Deputy Director of Plans, War Office
1959 - 1961 Commander, 19th Infantry Brigade Group (including emergency Kenya)
1962     graduated Imperial Defence College
1963 - 1964 Chief of Staff, East Africa (including operations to suppress East African mutiny 1964)
(01.1964)     Chief of Staff, British Land Forces Kenya (CBE)
Domestic Bursar of Balliol College, 1967-1981. Fellow of Balliol College (1991 Emeritus Fellow).
Jackson,
Derek Raymond
D.R. Jackson
21.03.1908
Hendon district,
London

-
29.04.1991
South Heath, Great Missenden, Aylesbury Vale
district,
Buckinghamshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 30.10.1940 [155249]
WS/Lt. 30.05.1942 (reld < 01.1946)
T/Capt. 24.05.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt. < 01.1946
? - 30.10.1940 either 122nd, 123rd or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.10.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Jackson,
Frederick Bleasdale
F.B. Jackson
Son of Frederick Jackson (1881-), and Janet Jackson (1883-).
Married Alice Clare (04.11.1903 - 10.1997); ... children (one daughter?).
04.05.1907
Manchester, Prestwich district, Lancashire
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(03?).1983
Ynys Môn, Anglesey, Wales
2nd Lt. 01.02.1942 [224924]
WS/Lt. 15.07.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 15.07.1942-(01.1946)
Took up a post in Calcutta, heading an Indian office for his engineering company.
      Officers' Training College, Quetta
01.02.1942     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Jackson,
George Graham
G.G. Jackson

Son (with eight brothers and four sisters) of George Frederick Jackson (1868-1906), and Emily Elizabeth Handley (1865-1954).
Married 1st (20.10.1913, St Martin, London) Olga Langbart (1886 - 05.05.1958); one son.
Married 2nd (25.11.1939, Paddington, London) Kathleen Parke (08.11.1901 - ).
13.09.1892
Willingdon, Eastbourne district, Sussex
-
10.05.1955
Kensington, London
2nd Lt. 14.02.1915
T/Lt. ?
Capt. 28.03.1917, seniority 03.01.1917 (reld 30.09.1921)
Lt. 30.07.1940 [128904]
WS/Capt. 11.12.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
A/Maj. 11.09.1943-10.12.1943
T/Maj. 11.12.1943-(07.1944)
Hon. Maj. > 07.1945, < 10.1945
14.02.1915     commissioned, 7th (City of London) Battalion The London Regiment - Territorial Force
10.12.1918 - 17.04.1919 special appointment (Class GG)
30.10.1940     commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
Jackson,
Reginald
R. Jackson R. Jackson
R. Jackson R. Jackson
R. Jackson R. Jackson
R. Jackson R. Jackson
From Leeds.
?
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1994
Harrogate
L/Cpl. ? [2661762]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 18.07.1943 [289725]
WS/Lt. 18.01.1944 (reld 03.1946)
Hon. Lt. 03.1946
Military Cross MC 21.06.1945 Badbergen/Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany 04.45 [recommendation available upon request]
      served in the ranks, Coldstream Guards
      Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
18.07.1943     commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944/45)     2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry (NW Europe) (MC)
* Recommendation for the immediate award of the Military Cross to WS/Lt. R. Jackson: This officer commanded the assault troop of 'A' Squadron and on 11 Apr 45 he showed a high degree of courage and leadership. After the bridge on the proposed Corps axis EAST of BADBERGEN 1648 had been found blown, Lieut Jackson, on his own initiative, led his troop for some two miles to the EAST along the road until he made contact with the enemy. After engaging them vigorously, he was able to reach an important vantage point from which he could secure valuable information as to the condition of three more bridges on the route, thereby enabling the work of developing the Corps axis to be put in hand without delay. Again on 13 Apr 45 in the area just NE of VECHTA 3759 his troop was reconnoitring a group of farms when a neighbouring troop found itself surrounded by the enemy and pinned to the ground. By skilful direction of his own troop, Lieut Jackson troop succeeded in extricating the other troop and no time was wasted in the continuance of their mission. On both these occasions this officer did much valuable work in mine lifting and by his knowledge and example has brought his troop to a high state of efficiency in their work which results in the minimum of delay being caused when they are covering the advance of the Division.
[Recommended 25.04.1945 by Lt.Col. W. Pearce-Serocold, commanding 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, approved 25.04.1945 by Maj.Gen. G.H.A. MacMillan, commanding 51st (Highland) Division, approved 05.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. B.G. Horrocks, commanding 30 Corps, approved 09.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. M.C. Demspey, commanding Second Army, approved by Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery, commanding 21 Army Group.]
Jackson,
William Martin
W.M. Jackson (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble) W.M. Jackson (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)
W.M. Jackson (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)
From Fortview, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
(06?).1918
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
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2nd Lt. 01.04.1939 [89643]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
WS/Capt. 01.06.1943
T/Maj. 01.06.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Maj. ?
A/Lt.Col. < 04.1946
Maj. RARO 21.05.1949, seniority 01.04.1949
Hon. Lt.Col. 21.05.1949
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 25.11.1943 Middle East * [recommendation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 20.01.1942 Middle East ** [recommendation available upon request]
Mentioned in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
Education: junior staff course (jsc).
      late Cadet Corporal, Sedburgh School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
01.04.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve
24.08.1939     mobilized
? - ? Z Troop, 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (MC)
(1943)     HQ 30 Corps (MBE)
? - 21.05.1949 Supplementary Reserve of Officers
21.05.1949 - ? Regular Army Reserve of Officers
* Recommendation for the appointment as Member of the Order of the British Empire of Maj. W.M. Jackson: Major Jackson has, for the past six months, been responsible for equipping this Corps with arms and vehicles and for the very complex moves of transporter columns. Both problems presented great and constantly recurring difficulties. It has been entirely due to Major Jackson's unswerving determination that the many problems have been successfully dealt with. The hours of work be has put in have been prodigious and are the more remarkable because of the cramped and noisy conditions under which he has worked. I value Major Jackson's efforts very highly and consider he played a most important part in the maintenance of the Corps as an efficient fighting machine during the advance to Sfax and beyond.
[Recommended 13.07.1943 by Lt.Gen. Sir O.W.H. Leese Bt, commanding 30 Corps.]
** Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to Lt. W.M. Jackson: Between the 21st and 25th Nov. 1941, the 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery was an example to the Column advancing on Jialo for cool courage and discipline. On the 25th November Lieut. Jackson who was escorting a small detached column of the force, seeing the infantry and armoured cars come under concealed and very heavy 2 pounder fire from the enemy entrenched in Jekhera, on his own initiative pushed his anti-aircraft gun forward and knocked out the enemy gun. I have no doubt that but for his gallant and spirited action the attack of the infantry and armoured cars would have failed or would have suffered very severe casualties. His coolness and presence of mind were of a very high order.
[Recommended 03.12.1941 by Brig. D.W. Reid, commanding 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, approved 07.12.1941 by Lt.Gen. N.M. Ritchie, commanding 8th Army, and 08.12.1941 by Gen. C.J.E. Auchinleck, commanding Middle East Forces.]
Jacob,
Sir Claud William
C.W. Jacob
21.11.1863
Mehidpore, Bombay, India
-
02.06.1948
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London
...
...
Field Marshal
30.11.1926

GCB (1926); GCSI (1930); KCB (1917); KCSI (1924); KCMG (1919); CB (1915)

...
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...
...



no active WW II service known, but carried on in the Army List
Constable Tower of London, 19.02.1938-18.03.1943. Colonel, 2/10 Baluchstan Regiment, 14.12.1928.
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Jacobs,
Carlo Lionel
C.L. Jacobs

Son (with one brother) of Abraham Levi Jacobs (1876-1951), and Clara Grusmark (1887-1980).
Married (08.05.1947, St Marylebone district, London) Rosalind Rose (09.02.1922 - 15.07.2002), daughter (with two brothers and two sisters) of William Rose (1893-1941), and Annie Ogus (1893-1973); three sons.
15.05.1921
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
10.07.2019
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
2nd Lt.
14.06.1941 [190793]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
A/Capt.
13.10.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.
19.06.1945-(04.1946)
14.06.1941


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1944
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1945
Adjutant, 18th Medium Regiment RA
Jacobs,
Julius [John Allan]
J. Jacobs

Son of Julius and Leonie Jacobs.
14.03.1918
Kelvin district, Scotland
-
18.05.2008
Leven, Fife, Scotland
Lt.
09.01.1943 [257887]
WS/Capt.
09.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.
01.10.1945
Military Cross MC 06.06.1946 Burma
Mentioned in Despatches MID 20.09.1945 Burma
Education: MB, ChB, Glasgow, 1941.
09.01.1943


commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1944 - 1945 Regimental Medical Officer, 3rd Battalion Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force (Burma) (MC, despatches)
Jacobs,
Robert Thomas Edward
R.T.E. Jacobs

Son of William George Jacobs, and Mary Lizzie Graveson.
02.04.1916
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
10.02.1945
(KIA) [age 28]
[Venray War Cemetery, Netherlands, II.D.10]
Cadet
? [14612314]
2nd Lt.
15.07.1944 [324297]
WS/Lt.
?
Police constable, Metropolitan Police (London).
15.07.1944


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?
-
10.02.1945
attached 4/5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
Jago,
Cyril John
C.J. Jago
Son of ... Jago, and ... Alford.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
10.11.1920
Mutford district, Suffolk
-
09.10.1995
Chichester, West Sussex
2nd Lt. 16.12.1939 [109381]
Lt. 16.06.1941
A/Capt. 01.03.1942-31.05.1942
T/Capt. 01.06.1942-16.11.1944,
05.03.1945-30.06.1946
Capt. 01.07.1946
A/Maj. 18.02.1947-21.04.1947
T/Maj. 27.08.1950-15.12.1952
Maj. 16.12.1952 (retd 03.03.1958)
      served in the ranks for 106 days
      (ex-Gentlemen Cadet, Royal Military Academy), either 131st or 132nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.12.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
      23rd Field Regiment RA
James,
Eric Bramwell
E.B. James
08.06.1914
St Pancras district, Greater London / London
-
03.1990
Southwark district, London
2nd Lt.
01.03.1941 [174919]
WS/Lt.
01.09.1942
T/Capt.
19.04.1944-(04.1946)
Lt. TA
01.05.1947, seniority 01.09.1942
Capt. TA
09.05.1947
01.03.1941


commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
01.05.1947
-
03.07.1951
Territorial Army
03.07.1951
-
08.06.1964
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
James,
Frederic Gordon *
F.G. James
Son of ... James, and ... Shaw.
* In London Gazette shown as: Frederick Gordon.
27.04.1912
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
30.11.2003
Rochester, Medway district, Kent
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 02.11.1940 [156239]
WS/Lt. 02.05.1942
T/Capt. 22.11.1942-30.11.1944
WS/Capt. 01.12.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 012.12.1944-(01.1946)
Mentioned in Despatches MID 08.11.1945 NW Europe
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 01.04.1949 -
? - 02.11.1940 either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940     commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
      5th Battalion The King's Regiment
James,
Henry Herbert Humphrey
"Jimmy"
H.H.H. James
Son of ... James, and ... Humphreys.
Married ((06?).1939, Lambeth district, London) Gladys E. Ashley.
Married 2nd ((09?).1947, Lambeth district, London) Zena E. Cursetjee; one daughter, one son.
10.05.1915
Lambeth district, London
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02.07.2011
Woking, Surrey
2nd Lt. 19.12.1942 [256431]
WS/Lt. ?
A/Capt. 31.05.1945-30.08.1945
T/Capt. 31.08.1945-05.05.1946
WS/Capt. 06.05.1946
A/Maj. 06.02.1946-05.05.1946
T/Maj. 06.05.1946-16.09.1947
Lt. 22.04.1947, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt. 22.02.1947, seniority 10.05.1946
T/Maj. 07.12.1949-31.05.1950
Maj. 10.05.1951 (retd 07.02.1958)
      served in the ranks for 2 years, 182 days
19.12.1942     commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission to 21.02.1947]
      1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment (03.09.1944 wounded in France [battle accident; leg injury due to mortar fire]
22.04.1947     permanent commission
18.12.1953 - (02.1957) specially employed, Military Forces of Malaya
Freeman of the City of London.
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James,
Manley Angell
M.A. James

Son of Dr John Angell James and Emily Cormell James.
Married (1928) Noreen Cooper, Bristol; one son.

12.07.1896
Odiham, Hampshire
-
23.09.1975
Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
[cremated at Canford Cemetery]
T/2nd Lt.
01.12.1914-27.06.1915 [9531]
T/Lt.
28.06.1915-21.02.1917
T/Capt.
22.02.1917-10.12.1920 (demobilized 28.10.1919)
Lt.
11.12.1920, seniority 01.07.1917
Capt.
27.05.1925
Maj.
25.12.1936
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1938
Lt.Col.
10.01.1939
A/Col.
22.03.1940-21.09.1940
T/Col.
22.09.1940-11.12.1941
Col.
12.12.1941, seniority 01.07.1941
A/Brig.
19.07.1940-18.01.1941
T/Brig.
19.01.1941-06.07.1944,
27.07.1944-30.06.1948
Brig.
01.07.1948 (retd 01.03.1951)
Victoria Cross VC 28.06.1918 Velu Wood, Northern France 21.03.18
Distinguished Service Order DSO 05.08.1943 Beja, Tunisia
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 58
Military Cross MC 14.09.1917 Messines Ridge
Mentioned in Despatches MID 22.05.1917 ?
1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star & Clasp (8th Army); Italy Star; Defence Medal 39-45; War Medal 39-45; King George VI Coronation Medal (1937); Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953); Civil Defence Long Service Medal
Education: Bristol Grammar School; Staff College, Camberley (1931-1932)
1915
-
1918
served with the 8th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment in France & Belgium [07.1915-03.07.1916 & 01.1917-23.03.1918]; wounded three times; missing in action, POW in Poland
11.12.1920


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment 
11.12.1920


permanent commission
12.12.1925
-
14.12.1928
Adjutant, ...
(06.1933)     2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (Catterick)
21.11.1934
-
08.12.1936
General Staff Officer for Weapon Trainng (Class CC), Aldershot Command
09.12.1936
-
09.01.1939
Brigade Major, 13th Infantry Brigade, Northern Command (Catterick Camp)
10.01.1939


transferred, The Royal Sussex Regiment
10.01.1939
-
21.03.1940
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment
22.03.1940
-
17.07.1940
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 54th Infantry Division
19.07.1940
-
18.02.1941
Brigadier General Staff, VIII Corps
20.02.1941
-
20.09.1943
Commander, 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade (UK, North Africa, Italy) [except for 21.5-10.6.1943] (wounded)
1943
-
1944
Brigadier Infantry, Middle East
1944
-
1945
Brigadier General Staff (Training), Home Forces
24.07.1945
-
10.1945
Commander, 140th Infantry Brigade (UK)
1945
-
1948
CRO Air HQ British Air Forces Occupation (Germany)
1948
-
1950
Director of Ground Defence at the Air Ministry
Played for Clifton Football Club. Employed as Works Defence Officer, Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1951-1961. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Gloucestershire 1957. DL, Avon, 1974. AFICD.
James,
Peter Charles
P.C. James (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury) P.C. James

Son of Lt.Col. Charles Ashton James and Evelyn Lilian James, of Carlisle.
20.08.1916
-
12.08.1944
(died after a protracted illness in a London hospital)[age 27]
[Golders Green Crematorium, panel 2]
2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 [71192]
Lt. 28.01.1940
A/Capt. 05.09.1940-03.12.1940,
21.01.1941
T/Capt. 22.01.1941-28.03.1941,
18.04.1941-07.09.1942
WS/Capt. 08.09.1942
T/Maj. ?
Military Cross MC 24.09.1942 Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp
Education: Eton College (Mr Kerry's House; 1929-1935); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
28.01.1937     commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
      2nd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Palestine)
      1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Burma, then Egypt 1938)
(1942)     9th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (MC)
01.1943 - 06.1943 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), School of Infantry
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
09.1943? - 12.08.1944 Brigade Major, ... Infantry Brigade
[shown at Commonwealth War Graves Commission as 10th (2nd Battalion The Rangers) Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps]
James,
Peter Godfrey
P.G. James
Son of ... James. and ... Thomas.
Married ((12?).1948, Tonbridge district, Kent) Renée A.S. Van Loo (died 1999); one daughter, one son.
04.09.1919
St Pancras district, London
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22.06.2002
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.08.1941 [200886]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A?/Capt.? ?
Hon. Lt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
09.08.1941     commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
      attached, Indian Army (Burma)
James,
Stuart Thomas
S.T. James (Photo courtesy of Mrs Fenella Dobson)
Married (24.08.1937, Worthing, Sussex) Sylvia B. Greene (03.04.1914 - 01.12.2010), daughter of a tea planter from Darjeeling, India; two daughters, one son.
18.11.1898
Newbury district, Berkshire
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01.07.1972
Sussex
T/2nd Lt. 26.04.1917-25.10.1918 [20572]
T/Lt. 26.10.1918-19.03.1920 (reld 20.03.1920)
2nd Lt. 14.07.1921, seniority 26.03.1918
Lt. 14.07.1921, seniority 26.09.1919
Capt. 02.06.1931
Maj. 01.08.1938 (retd 02.08.1948)
A/Lt.Col. 10.01.1941-09.04.1941
T/Lt.Col. 10.04.1941-02.08.1948
A/Brig. 06.03.1946
Hon. Lt.Col. 02.08.1948
Distinguished Service Order DSO 22.10.1940 BEF * [citation available upon request]
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE 11.05.1937 HM's coronation: Palestine
Mentioned in Despatches MID 23.07.1937 Palestine
British War Medal; Victory Medal; Syrian Order of Merit (11.04.1946)
22.02.1913 - 24.09.1915 served Territorial Army
24.09.1915 - 25.04.1917 served in the ranks; mobilized Territorial Force, for 1 year, 214 days
19.06.1917 - 11.11.1918 served in France & Belgium
14.07.1921     commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment
08.11.1930 - 07.11.1934 Adjutant, Auxiliary Force, India
(09.1935) - (10.1935) 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (Catterick Camp)
08.06.1936 - 07.06.1939 Staff Captain, 16th Infantry Brigade (Palestine and Trans-Jordan) (temporarily)
(1939) - (1940) 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (BEF, France) (DSO)
* Recommendation for the award of the Distinguished Service Order to Maj. S.J. James: Major James commanded "D" Company throughout the period 18 May to 2nd June 1940. Major James at Tournai held the important bridge at the South end of the town for 3 days. So skilfully were his sections posted and so vigilant were his men that I never had a moment's anxiety about this part of the line. No German was allowed to appear in sight of this bridge & live. A German staff car with 6 occupants were among his victims. On 24 May, at Roesbrugge-Haringe, Major James held a position as a sharp salient in the Brigade line. The enemy attacked the Company on his right rear, and the right Company of the Battalion on his left withdrew. Major James maintained his isolated position until the Brigade was ordered to withdraw at 0200 hrs on 30 May. On the canal de Bergues on 31 May, Major James beat off an enemy attack on the bridge for which he was responsible. His plan for the extrication of wounded from a very exposed section post near the bridge was well conceived and successfully carried out in the early hours of 1 June, 1940. Throughout the operations I have had the greatest confidence in Major James and his Company. He never gave up one inch of the ground, was imperturbable in the face of the most alarming reports of situations on his flanks and communicated to everyone of his command his own cool determination and confidence.
[Recommended by Brig. E.G. Miles, commanding 126th Infantry Brigade, approved by Maj.Gen. W.G. Holmes, commanding 42nd Infantry Division.]
Jamieson,
John Gordon Hillhouse
J.G.H. Jamieson (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Jamieson) J.G.H. Jamieson (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Jamieson)
J.G.H. Jamieson (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Jamieson)
Son of Robert Hillhouse Jamieson, MD (1884?-1941), and Ruby Swanston Taylor, of Sutton, Surrey.
Married (19.06.1937, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Diane Margaret Dixon (14.01.1912 - 06.1998), daughter of Rowland Edward Dixon, of Leeds; one son.
16.05.1912
Epsom district, Surrey
-
22.01.1984
Merton district, Surrey (formerly of Wimbledon Common, London)
Gnr. ?
2nd Lt. 09.02.1938 [74164]
WS/Lt. 28.09.1940
T/Capt. 28.09.1940-24.12.1941
WS/Capt. 25.12.1941
Capt. 04.07.1945
T/Maj. 22.12.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
Education: Westminster School (29.04.1926-04.1930; Grant's House); Jesus College, Cambridge (matriculated Michaelmas 1931)
Commercial assistant with I.C.I..
      late Cadet, Westminster School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
 1935 - 1938 served in the ranks, 66th (South Midland) Field Brigade RA
09.02.1938     commissioned, 3rd Survey Company (later Regiment), Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
20.10.1939 - (04.1941) Adjutant, ... (3rd Survey Regiment RA?)
1946? - 12.12.1962 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Divisional manager.
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Jay,
Reginald Branwhite
R.B. Jay
Married ((09?).1911, Holborn district, London) Cynthia Whiteway-Wilkinson.
03.11.1885
Norwich district, Norfolk
-
1964
Waihi, New Zealand
Pte.
?
2nd Lt.
04.01.1913 [142397]
Capt.
(1919)
A/Maj.
(1919)
Maj.
17.01.1922
A/Lt.Col.
?
T/Lt.Col.
?
Hon. Lt.Col.
16.09.1949
Mentioned in Despatches MID
15.12.1942
Middle East 11.41-04.42
Croix de Guerre (Belgium) CdeG
04.09.1919
?
Officer, Order of Leopold II (Belgium) LeoII
15.08.1946
?
04.01.1913


commissioned, Home Counties Divisional Company (Headquarters), Home Counties Divisional Transport and Supply Column, Army Service Corps - Territorial Force [till 01.05.1913 supernumerary]



served WW I (hidden by Edith Cavell during WW1 and escaped back to British lines)
(1919)
 
 
36th Divisional Train, RASC
1921?
-
16.09.1949
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
24.08.1939
 
 
mobilized TA
Jaye,
George Leslie
G.L. Jaye
Son of ... Jaye, and ... Clark.
Residence: (1946) Isle of Wight.
20.10.1916
Hackney district, London
-
19.10.1993
Farnham, Surrey Southwestern district, Surrey
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 07.09.1940 [145972]
WS/Lt. 07.03.1942
T/Capt. 22.06.1943-01.03.1945
WS/Capt. 02.03.1945
T/Maj. 02.03.1945-(04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 24.01.1946 NW Europe
Mentioned in Despatches MID 19.07.1945 Italy?
05.09.1939     joined up from Territorial Army Camp, Isle of Wight
? - 07.09.1940 either 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.09.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)     served at Arromanches (France)
Jeans,
John Godfrey
J.G. Jeans (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley J. Lindsay) J.G. Jeans (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley J. Lindsay)

Son of Maj. T.K. Jeans, MC, and ... Stevens.
07.11.1915
Wilton district, Wiltshire
-
27.02.1995
Salisbury, Wiltshire
2nd Lt. 30.01.1936 [67042]
... ...
Maj. 30.01.1949 (retd 23.03.1954)
T/Lt.Col. 25.09.1943-30.05.1944
Hon. Lt.Col. 23.03.1954
Mentioned in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 ?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG 1941 awarded by General Catroux for services in Syria
Education: Sherborne School (1929.3-1934; The Green; VI); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
30.01.1936     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
... - ... ...
12.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
High Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1985.
Jeans,
Kenneth Parker
K.P. Jeans (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Jeans)
Son of James Charles Jeans (1877-1963), clerk, and Marguerite Estelle Mary Piper (1882-1976).
Married ((03?).1947, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Joan Pamela Fraser (27.07.1921 - 12.08.2007), daughter (with two siblings) of Joseph P. Fraser (1891-), and Anna M. Taylor (1891-); three sons, one daughter.
26.09.1909
Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
07.09.1990
Enfield, Greater London
L/Cpl. ?
2nd Lt. 06.04.1940 [126729]
WS/Lt. 06.10.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj. 1945?
Hon. Maj. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 25.06.1954 -
      served in the ranks, Territorial Army
      133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Artillery
06.04.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(01.1943) - (10.1945) attached, Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Jebb,
David Gladwyn
D.G. Jebb (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley J. Lindsay)

Son of Brig.Gen. Gladwyn Dundas Jebb, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (?-1947).
Married (19.05.1943, Alexandria, Egypt) Stephanie Dagmar Workman, daughter of William Service Workman, of Glasgow.
18.12.1912
-
22.06.1989
2nd Lt. 01.09.1932
Lt. 01.09.1935
A/Capt. 03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt. 03.12.1939-31.08.1940
Capt. 01.09.1940
A/Maj. 18.09.1941-17.12.1941
T/Maj. 18.12.1941-23.01.1942,
18.06.1942-06.07.1943
WS/Maj. 07.07.1943
Maj. 01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col. 07.04.1943-06.07.1943
T/Lt.Col. 07.07.1943-20.12.1945,
10.10.1948-31.12.1953
WS/Lt.Col. 21.12.1945-01.03.1948
Brev. Lt.Col. 01.07.1951
Lt.Col. (Emp. List (1)) 12.02.1955
A/Col. 21.06.1945-20.12.1945
T/Col. 21.12.1945-03.11.1946
... ...
Brig. 21.08.1962 (retd 11.02.1965)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE 1965 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO 21.10.1943 ?
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 21.06.1945 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 15.12.1942 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 13.01.1944 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 10.05.1945 ?
Education: Charterhouse; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; jssc, psc.
01.09.1932     commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
... - ... ...
16.02.1939 - 22.11.1940 Adjutant, ...
... - ... ...
09.02.1941 - 08.05.1941 General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3) (L), .... (Middle East)
09.05.1941 - 17.09.1941 Staff Captain, ... Brigade HQ
18.09.1941 - 16.01.1942 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), HQ 8th Army
17.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
18.06.1942 - 26.11.1942 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), General HQ, Middle East
27.11.1942 - 06.04.1943 Brigade Major, ...
... - ... ...
21.08.1943 - 21.04.1944 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), 50th Infanrtry Division HQ (Home Forces)
... - ... ...
16.05.1944 - 20.06.1945 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (Ops., Trg. & Inf.), HQ 21st Army Group
21.06.1945 - 20.10.1946 Colonel General Staff
... - ... ...
10.04.1948 - 21.12.1949 GSO1, War Office
... - ... ...
10.08.1950 - 20.12.1950 .AQMG
08.01.1951 - 29.04.1951 GSO1, ... Division HQ
... - ... ...
05.09.1951 - 28.11.1951 GSO!, Middle East Land Forces
29.11.1951 - 03.11.1953 AQMG (Plans & Ops.), General HQ, Middle East Land Forces
... - ... ...
Jefferson,
Alfred Charles
A.C. Jefferson (Photo courtesy of Mr Joe Fowler)
29.08.1915
-
17.03.1992
2nd Lt. 13.03.1943 [267097]
WS/Lt. ?
T/Capt. ?
13.03.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
(1945?)     Ordnance Branch, HQ Southern Army, India
Jeffery,
John Reginald
J.R. Jeffery (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)
25.09.1923 ?
-
08.2002 ?
Portsmouth district, Hampshire ?
Cadet ? [2623151]
2nd Lt. 19.02.1944 [308435]
WS/Lt. 19.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
Education: Wokingham County Grammar School for Boys.
Bank clerk.
19.02.1944     commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
(1945)     1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)
[Carried the battalion colours through Berlin as part of the 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats) which were flown out from Guildford Cathedral for the occasion.]
Jeffery,
Marcel Walter
M>W. Jeffery
Son of Walter Knight Jeffery (1882-1973), and Jeanne Eugenie Varin (1880-1950).
Married (24.06.1939, St Judes, Peckham, Camberwell district, Surrey) Gladys May DeVine (22.12.1914 - 27.07.1987), daughter of Albert Henry DeVine (1884-1943), and Nellie Lorenz (1890-1973); one son, three daughters.
22.04.1914
Constantinople, Turkey
-
29.09.1979
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 21.06.1941 [193958]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 18.02.1943-23.02.1945
WS/Capt. 24.02.1945
A/Maj. (1944)
T/Maj. 24.02.1945-(04.1946)
Mentioned in Despatches MID 11.01.1945 Italy
Education: Woodbridge Public School, Suffolk; University College, London (2.1 Hons).
? - 21.06.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.06.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
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Jeffries,
Philip Waterman
"Phil"
P.W. Jeffries (Photo courtesy of Mr Mike Jeffries)
Son of ... Jeffries, and ... Taylor.
Married ((09?).1947, Walsall district, Staffordshire) Kathleen M. "Kay" Harvey (predeceased him), of Rickmansworth and formerly Walsall; one son, one daughter.
20.02.1914
Walsall district, Staffordshire
-
23.12.2006

Watford district, Hertfordshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.06.1940 [134688]
WS/Lt. 15.12.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
A/Capt. 06.06.1943-26.08.1943
T/Capt. 27.08.1943-(01.1946)
Hon Capt. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Mentioned in Despatches MID 23.09.1943 North Africa
? - 15.06.1940 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.06.1940     commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission]
04.08.1941     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
21.08.1943     transferred, Royal Army Service Corps
Architect.
Jelf,
Richard William
W.R. Jelf

Son of late Sir Ernest Jelf, King's Remembrancer and Master of the Supreme Court, and Rose Frances, 2nd daughter of R. W. C. Reeves; married 1928, Nowell, daughter of Major Sampson­Way, RM, Manor House, Henbury; three sons one daughter.
16.06.1904
Hendon, Greater London
-
22.01.1994
Horsham, Sussex
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
30.01.1924
Maj.
30.01.1941
A/Lt.Col.
23.04.1941-22.07.1941
T/Lt.Col.
23.07.1941-20.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
21.10.1945
Maj.Gen.
04.02.1957 (retd 11.05.1957)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
1948
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.02.1945
?
Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; idc, psc.
30.01.1924


commissioned, Royal Artillery
1934


served North­West Frontier, India (Loe Agra)
1936


Staff College, Quetta
1944
-
1945
Commanding Officer, 102nd Anti-Tank Regiment RA
1946


Deputy Director Staff Duties, War Office
1948


Imperial Defence College
1949


CRA 2nd Division
1951


Dep. Chief, Organization and Training Div., SHAPE
1953


Comdr 99 AA Bde (TA)
1956


Chief of Staff, Eastern Command
1957
-
1963
Commandant, Police Coll., Bramshill
1963
-
1968
Dir of Civil Defence, Southern Region
ADC to the Queen, 1954. Hon. Sec., Lyme Regis RNLI, 1972-84.
Jellicoe,
George Patrick John Rushworth;
2nd Earl Jellicoe (cr. 1925); Viscount Brocas of Southampton (cr. 1925); Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (cr. 1918)
The Earl Jellicoe (G.P.J.R. Jellicoe) The Earl Jellicoe (G.P.J.R. Jellicoe)
The Earl Jellicoe (G.P.J.R. Jellicoe) The Earl Jellicoe (G.P.J.R. Jellicoe)
Only son of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Earl Jellicoe and late Florence Gwendoline, daughter of Sir Charles
Cayzer, 1st Bt; godson of King George V.
Succeeded father, 1935.
Married 1st (1944) Patricia Christine (marriage dissolved, 1966), only daughter of Jeremiah O'Kane, Vancouver, Canada; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1966) Philippa, only daughter of late Philip Dunne; one son, two daughters.

04.04.1918
Hatfield district, Hertfordshire
-
22.02.2007
[Tidcombe, near Marlborough, Wiltshire ?]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
23.03.1940 [124546]
WS/Lt.
23.09.1941
A/Capt.
22.05.1942-...
WS/Capt.
29.03.1943
A/Maj.
22.12.1942-28.03.1943
T/Maj.
29.03.1943-08.01.1945
WS/Maj.
09.01.1945
A/Lt.Col.
09.10.1944-03.01.1945
Knigh Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
1986
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
05.11.1942
Middle East
Military Cross MC
23.03.1944
gallant & distinguished services in the field
Mentioned in Despatches MID
15.12.1942
Middle East
Mentioned in Despatches MID
02.03.1944
gallant & distinguished services in the field
Mentioned in Despatches MID
?
?
Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
?
?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
?
?
Greek War Cross GrkWC
?
?
Education: Winchester; Trinity College, Cambridge (Exhibitioner).
23.03.1940


commissioned, The Coldstream Guards [emergency commission]
06.08.1940
-
17.07.1941
8 Commando
18.07.1941
-
22.01.1942
3rd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (wounded)
20.10.1942
-
18.03.1943
1st Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment
19.03.1943
-
08.10.1944
Special Boat Squadron (SBS)
09.10.1944
-
03.01.1945
Combined Operations
04.01.1945


Staff College, Camberley
PC, 1963. FRS, 1990.
Hon. Page to King George VI;  Entered HM Foreign Service, 1947; served as 1st Sec. in Washington, Brussels, Baghdad (Deputy Sec. General Baghdad Pact). Lord-in-Waiting, 01-06.1961; Jt Parly. Sec., Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1961-1962; Minister of State, Home Office, 1962-1963; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1963-1964; Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy, 04-10.1964; Deputy Leader of the Opposition, House of Lords, 1967-1970; Lord Privy Seal and Minister in Charge, Civil Service Department, 1970-1973; Leader of the House of Lords, 1970-1973. Chairman: Brit. Adv. Cttee on Oil Pollution of the Sea, 1968-1970; 3rd Int. Conf. on Oil Pollution of the Sea, 1968. Chm., MRC, 1982-1990. Chairman: Tate & Lyle, 1978-1983 (Dir, 1974-1993); Davy Corp., 1985-1990; Booker Tate, 1988-1991; Director: Sotheby's, 1973-1985; Smiths Industries, 1973-1986; Morgan Crucible, 1973-1987; S. G. Warburg, 1973-1988; Chm., European Capital Ltd, 1991-1995. Chm., BOTB, 1983-1986; President: London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1979-1982; E European Trade Council, 1990-1995 (Chm., 1986-1990); Chm., 1978-1986, Patron, 1986-, Anglo­Hellenic League. A Governor, Centre for Environmental Studies, 1967-1970; President: National Federation of Housing Societies, 1965-1970; Parly and Scientific Cttee, 1980-1983; Review of Prevention of Terrorism Act, 1983. Pres., BHF, 1990-1995. Chm. of Council, KCL, 1977-1986; Chancellor, Southampton Univ., 1984-1995. FKC 1979. Hon. LLD: Southampton, 1985; Long Island Univ., 1987. Grand Comdr, Order of Honour (Greece), 1992. President: Royal Geographical Society, since 1993; SAS Association, since 1996.
Literature: Lorna Almonds Windmill, A British Achilles : George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, FRS : 20th century soldier, politician, statesman (2006)
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Jenkins,
Horatius Dinsmore *
"Horace"
H.D. Jenkins
From Hull & Cairnduna, Burghead.
* First names shown at death registration as: Horatio Densmore.
13.07.1913
-

21.06.1977
Welton, North Humberside
2nd Lt. 31.05.1939 [89097]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
WS/Capt. 14.10.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 14.10.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Capt. 03.03.1949, seniority 01.09.1948
24.05.1949, seniority 04.01.1946
Maj. 15.07.1950
Military Cross MC 24.09.1942 Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 20.06.1950 & 1st clasp
Education: Merchiston Castle School (Boarder, 3rd term 1926, left 1928).
      late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Merchiston Castle School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
31.05.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(1942)     523rd Company RASC (Middle East)
03.03.1949 - 24.05.1949 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.05.1949 - 18.03.1952 Territorial Army
18.03.1952 - ? Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Jenkins,
Morgan
M. Jenkins (Photo courtesy of Mr David Tait) M. Jenkins (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Copland)
M. Jenkins (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Copland) M. Jenkins (Photo courtesy of Mr David Tait)
Son (with six siblings) of Morgan and Mary Jenkins.
Married ((09?).1940, Edmonton district) Doris Edna Pooley (1916? - 1966?), of Tottenham, London. Edna Jenkins remarried ((09?).1945, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Patick J. Kennedy.

1915
-
28.03.1942
(KIA) [age 26]
[Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, panel 12, column 2]
Sgt. ?
2nd Lt. 05.12.1940 [157336]
Education: Brecon Boy's County Grammar School.
05.12.1940     commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
? - 28.03.1942 seconded, No. 2 Commando (killed in the raid at St Nazaire)
Jennens,
Paul Kerr
P.K. Jennens

Son of Lionel Kerr Jennens, and Beatrice Jefferis.
Married (13.07.1940, St Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington) Alison Mary Castleman (died 29.07.2009, aged 90), daughter of Mr & Mrs A. Louttit Castleman, of London W8; ... children (two daughters, one son?).
26.09.1913
Hampstead district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-

04.03.2001
Norwich, Norfolk (formerly of Bungay, Suffolk)
2nd Lt.
15.07.1939 [92643]
WS/Lt.
15.01.1941
Lt.
11.04.1945
WS/Capt.
05.05.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
05.05.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
15.07.1939


commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
?
-
19.10.1963
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Master of The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers & Coach Harness Makers of London, 1973. Director, British Industry Week, 1960s. Director, Heywood Temple.
Jennings,
Harold Alfred John
H.A.J. Jennings (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Jennings) H.A.J. Jennings (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Jennings)
Son of John Jennings, and Eleanor R, Cattermole.
Married ((12?).1940, Hendon district, Middlesex) Margaret Hilda Passmore; two sons.
22.08.1915
Halresden, Willesden district, Middlesex
-
29.04.1967
Northern Transvaal, South Africa (at the Adams Apple Motel, whilst driving back to Bulawayo in the then Rhodesia from holiday)
[has a chair dedicated to him in Middlesex Chapel in St Paul’s Cathedral]
Pte. 09.1933 [6201286]
CF L/Cpl. 10.1935
Fd L/Cpl 12.1936
Cpl. 10.1937
L/Sgt. 12.1938
T/Sgt. 05.1939
Lt. 27.07.1940 [140050] (reld 14.11.1947)
T/Capt. 08.02.1941-(04.1944),
22.11.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. 14.11.1947
Mentioned in Despatches MID 08.11.1945 NW Europe
09.1933     enlisted, The Middlesex Regiment
1934     2nd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Colchester, then BEF 1939-40)
27.07.1940

commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]
1940 - 1947? 2/8th [later renumbered 1/8th] Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
(06.1944) - (1945) Second-in-Command, B Company, 1/8th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (NW Europe)
Went to South Africa (Durban, then Johannesburg) and later took an executive position with a large manufacturing firm in Rhodesia.
Jennings,
Michael Turberville Nevill
M.T.N. Jennings
Son of Lt.Col. Frank Nevill Jennings, CBE, MC, DL, JP (1881-1956), and Dora Waghorn.
Married 1st (1945?) Sister Jessie Jane MacLeod, QAIMNSR; three sons.
Married 2nd ((03?).1982, Isle of Wight) Sheila M. Drummond.
23.02.1916
Kensington district, London
-
01.08.1982
Longs Wharf, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
2nd Lt. 27.08.1938, seniority 28.01.1937
Lt. 28.01.1940
A/Capt. 29.11.1939-28.02.1940
T/Capt. 29.02.1940-11.11.1942
WS/Capt. 12.11.1942
Capt. 28.01.1945
A/Maj. 12.08.1942-11.11.1942
T/Maj. 12.11.1942-31.07.1943,
07.01.1944-27.01.1950
Maj. 28.01.1950
local Lt.Col. 27.11.1944-21.12.1946
T/Lt.Col. 01.04.1953-26.02.1956 (Employed List (1))
Lt.Col. 27.02.1956 (supernumerary 27.02.1959)
T/Col. 01.03.1961-31.12.1961
Col. 01.01.1962 (retd 17.01.1973)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE ? ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 01.04.1941 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 08.07.1941 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 26.04.1945 ?
Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp.
Education: Uppingham School (The Lodge; 1929.3-1935.2; SP, XV, XI, F.IV (Capt.), Capt. of Games); Clare College, Cambridge (BA; University Fives IV 1937); psc, psc(a).
      General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
27.08.1938     commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment [from 24.04.1957 Queens, from 14.10.1959 Queens Surreys]
04.09.1940 - 31.10.1941 Adjutant, ...
01.11.1941 - 11.08.1942 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Operations), 70th Division
12.08.1942 - 30.07.1943 Brigade Major, ... Infantry Brigade
16.11.1944 - 17.01.1947 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Quetta (India)
17.02.1949 - 01.02.1950 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
24.05.1950 - 13.06.1951 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
01.04.1953 - 07.04.1955 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Portugese Staff College, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe
01.05.1958 - 26.01.1961 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Defence Force, Hong Kong
01.03.1961 - 31.03.1964 Brigade Colonel, Home Counties Brigade
18.06.1964 - 28.02.1965 Colonel General Staff, Ministry of Defence
01.03.1965 - (02.1967) Colonel General Staff, Ministry of Defence
 
Jennings,
Richard Edward Christopher;
Jennings of Gelli-Dêg
R.E.C. Jennings
Son of Lt.Col. Edward Charles Jennings, CBE, DL (1877-1955), and Ethel Anita Dawes Whithurst.
Married (1937) Margaret Mabel Gladys Allan, daughter of James Alexander Allan of Towerwood, Renfrewshire; one son.
08.06.1911
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire / Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-

25.07.1982
Kidwelly, Dyfed
Lt. (OME 4th cl.)
27.05.1940 [131403]
WS/Capt. (OME 3rd cl.)
?
WS/Capt. (EME 3rd cl.)
01.10.1942, seniority ?
WS/Maj.
20.12.1943
T/Lt.Col.
20.12.1943-(04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
08.07.1941
Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Education: Repton.
Served with Riley (Coventry) Ltd, 1931-37. Joined Temple Press as Midland Editor of The Motor, 1937-39. 
1940
-
1945
served Western Desert, Greece, Crete, Syria and NW Europe:
27.05.1940





commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
(1941)
 
 
64th Medium Regiment RA (Middle East)
01.10.1942


transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
(04.1944)
 
 
Training Establishment REME
High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1957. D.L Carmartenshire (1960).
Editor of The Motor, 1946-60.
General Commissioner of Income Tax, 1965-80; Member, Dyfed-Carmarthen Advisory Committee for General Commissioners of Income Tax, 1974-. Director: Trust Houses Ltd, 1960-68; Buckley's Brewery Ltd, 1961-77; British Automatic Co. Ltd, 1962-68; Teddington Bellows Ltd, 1965-72. President RNLI, Bury Port.
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Jennison,
Henry David
H.D. Jennison
Son of John Jennison, and of Lilianena Jennison (née Mould), of Upton, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
(06?).1923
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
01.09.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, France, 13.G.15]
[commemorated at War Memorial, Prestbury, Cheshire]
2nd Lt.
05.06.1943 [278672]
WS/Lt.
05.12.1943
Military Cross MC
21.12.1944
NW Europe
05.06.1943





commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)
-
01.09.1944
Officer Commanding, 3 Troop, "A" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France [killed in action])
 
Jensen,
Jens Paul
"Marokko-Jensen"
J.P. Jensen
21.10.1919
-
30.11.1996
2nd Lt. 11.03.1943 [266637]
WS/Lt. 1944? * (reld 22.09.1946)
Hon. Lt. 22.09.1946

* Receives pay and allowances from Army Funds, 30.09.1944.

Was in the UK when the occupation of Denmark began on 09.04.1940. He tried to join up with the British armed forces, but was rejected. Joined the Merchant Navy in stead, being interned in Casablanca in 1941, but escaped to Gibraltar.
01.1942     served Special Operations Executive (SOE)
[Was dropped into Denmark with three others 11.03.1943. Became chief organizer in northern Jutland, being very active with sabotage activities. Fierce battle between 12 resistance fighters and German forces after a weapons dropping at Rold Skov 18.08.1943. Blew up German "Ortskommandantura" in Ålborg by lowering explosives down the chimney 14.10.1943. Returned to the UK 14.01.1944.]
11.03.1943     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
18.11.1944     transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps
summer 1944     1st Special Air Service Regiment (operations in the Ardennes, at the Rhine crossing and later in northern Germany)
Joined Danish Army post-war as an expert in reconnaissance, retiring as a Major.
Literature: Flemming B. Muus, Marokko-Jensen. In: Mange er kaldede : nogle få udvalgte beretninger fra besættelsestiden (1966), p. 27-48.
Joffe,
Harry
H. Joffe
Son of Meyer Joffe (1870-), and Bessie (Basse) Kotsyn Joffe (1870-1962).
Married (10.06.1934, South Africa) Ann Galgut Joffe (1911? - 07.04.2002).

28.08.1911
Povenez, Lihuania
-
17.03.1985
Cape Town, South Africa
2nd Lt. 07.11.1939 [141142]
A/Capt. 16.11.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt. 18.11.1941 (reld 22.12.1945)
T/Maj. 18.11.1941-22.12.1945
Hon. Maj. 22.12.1945
07.11.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
      462 Company RASC
Johannessen,
Poul Herman Johannes
P.H.J. Johannessen
Son of Johannes Johannessen, merchant, and Marzanne Krasnevsky, of Russian descent.
Married (11.1934) Edith Eline Margaret Lamprecht, of Copenhagen, Denmark.
25.10.1910
Smørum
-
05.09.1942
[age 31]
[Copenhagen (Bronshoj) Cemetery, Denmark, VIII.13.5]
[commemmorative plaque at the Rådhusbiblioteket at Copenhagen]
2nd Lt. 1941? [225695]
Served Danish Merchant Navy. When Germany occupied Denmark he escaped aboard SS Lillian, via the French harbour of Rouen to the UK, where he joined the British Merchant Navy.
1941?     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
      served Special Operations Executive (SOE)
[Sent to Denmark as radio telegraphist 04.1941. Was taken by surprise in at 8 Vinkelager, Vanløse, Copenhagen during a radio transmission 09.1941. He resisted capture, but had to surrender. Not wanting to fall into enemy hands alive he poisoned himself and finally died in the Copenhagen police station.]
Johansen,
Hans Robert Filip
H.R.P. Johansen
Son of August and Nelly Johansen, of Copenhagen, Denmark.
16.07.1921
-
25.07.1944
[age 23]
[Copenhagen (Hellerup) Mindelunden Memorial Park, Denmark, plot 56]
2nd Lt. ? [274876]
Lt. ?
Served Danish Merchant Navy.
?     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
      served Special Operations Executive (SOE)
[Trained as a parachutist, he was dropped in Denmark 05.1943, where he organized a sabotage organisation in Copenhagen and Odense. Was taken by surprise by German soldiers in an appartment in Nyhavn, and immediately took his suicide capsule to avoid breaking under German interrogation.]
John,
David Nathaniel
D.N. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John) D.N. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)
D.N. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)
Son (with two brothers and one sister)of William John (1873-1956), and Amy John (1875-1964), of Llantrisant, South Wales.
Brother of Capt. Thomas John, Army Dental Corps.
Married (02.07.1940, Doncaster, Yorkshire) Freda Muriel Digby ((03?).1920 - 21.01.2007), daughter of Thomas William Digby (1892-1970), and Martha Sybil Barlow (1891-1975); three sons.
29.01.1914
Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales
-
07.06.1997
Newport, Gwent
Lt. 21.12.1939 [120150]
WS/Capt. 21.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
Education: St Mary's; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond (29.10.1937).
21.12.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
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John,
Thomas
T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John) T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)
T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John) T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)
T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John) T. John (Photo courtesy of Miss Rosalind John)
Son (with two brothers and one sister)of William John (1873-1956), and Amy John (1875-1964), of Llantrisant, South Wales.
Brother of Capt. David Nathaniel John, Royal Army Medical Corps.

Married (21.06.1943, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar) Third Officer Cathering Jane Gibb Bruce, WRNS (1915-1991); two daughters, two sons.
23.11.1911
Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales
-
06.08.1979
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Lt. 08.07.1940 [136939]
WS/Capt. 08.07.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
08.07.1940     commissioned, The Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]
(04.1946)     Unemployed List
Johns,
Cyril Allen
C.A. Johns
?
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.09.1940 [149578]
WS/Lt.
21.03.1942
T/Capt.
23.10.1945-(04.1946)



either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
 21.09.1940


commissioned, The Rifle Brigade [emergency commission]
28.06.1943
 
 
transferred, Pioneer Corps
Johns,
William Edward Field
W.E.F. Johns (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Etherton) W.E.F. Johns
Son of Francis Philip Johns, and Eveline Maude Barry, of Eltham, London.
22.01.1914
Lewisham district, London
-
09.03.1945
(KIA) [age 31]
[Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, 34.D.4]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.10.1942 [241202]
WS/Lt. 27.04.1943
T/Capt. 19.04.1944-09.03.1945
Military Cross MC 27.09.1945 Arakan * [citation available upon request]
ARIBA (Lond.).
27.10.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
? - 09.03.1945 2 Special Boat Section attached Combined Operations Pilotage Party 3 (2) [Naval Party 775] (killed in action during a reconnaissance of Phuket)
* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to Capt. W.E.F. Johns: Courage and determination in hazardous operations. In the operation on Myebon Peninsula Captain Johns was in charge of the canoes setting explosives on the stakes. The work was done on mud flats 100 yards from a heavily defended beach occupied by the enemy. In all two hours were spent on the beach and throughout he displayed a high degree of courage and initiative, all the stakes in his section being destroyed. The successful opposed and unopposed landings carried out could not have been achieved had it not been for the preliminary operations carried out by the C.O.P.P. teams. This act of approaching and exploding the protective stakes guarding the selected beach on the morning of D Dayand under the nose of the enemy is strongly commended for recognition.
[Recommended 13.01.1944 by Lt. A. Hughes, RNR, commanding COPP 3, approved by Lt.Cdr. P.W. Clark, RN, commanding COPP.]
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Johnson,
Dudley Graham
D.G. Johnson D.G. Johnson
13.02.1884
Stow On The Wold district, Gloucestershire / Worcestershire
-
21.12.1975
...
...
Maj.Gen.
1938 (retd 1944)
Victoria Cross VC
1919
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1939
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
1914
?
Military Cross MC
1918
?
...
-
...
...
1938
-
1940
General Officer Commanding, 4th Division
1940


General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command
1941


Inspector of Infantry
Johnson,
James Shaw
J.S. Johnson
Son of James and Beatrice Emily Johnson; nephew of Mrs. M. B. Hackforth, of Highgate, Middlesex.
From Blackpool.
1922 ?
-
20.07.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Bayeux Memorial, France, panel 17, column 1]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
06.03.1943 [265735]
WS/Lt.
06.09.1943
06.03.1943





commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
?
-
20.07.1944
1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (France) (killed in action)
Johnson,
[Sir] John Paley
"Jack";
6th Baronet, 1755
J.P. Johnson
Son of Capt. Robert Warren Johnson, RN (1868-1914; killed in action), and Grace Isobel Pasely (1884-).
Succeeded cousin, Sir Edward Gordon Johnson, 5th Bt, 1957.
Married 1st (1929; divorced 1939) Carol Haas (1906-),
daughter of Edmund L. Haas (?-1946), and Helene Guggenheim (1886-1962), of New York, USA; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (02.10.1940; divorced 1947) Jasmine Lydia Bligh (20.05.1913 - 21.07.1991), daughter of Lt.Col. Hon. Noel Gervase Bligh, DSO (1888-1984), and Mary Jack Frost (?-1940); one daughter. Jasmine Bligh remarried (1948) Frank Hugh Shirley Fox, and (1954) Howard Marshall.
Married 3rd (1949) Rosemary Cohen, daughter of late Arthur Cohen, and widow of Maj. Dick Thornton (died 1944).
12.06.1907
Plymouth district, Devon

-
14.12.1975
Dartford, Kent
2nd Lt. 1927 (reld 1930)
Lt. RARO 12.09.1938
Lt. 17.07.1939 [37079]
T/Capt. (1940)
WS/Capt. 06.07.1940
T/Maj. 06.07.1940-(04.1944)
WS/Maj. 12.04.1945
T/Lt.Col. 22.07.1945-(04.1947)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 13.12.1945 Italy
Education: Wellington College, Berkshire; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Member of London Stock Exchange, 1930-1933.
1927     commissioned, Royal Artillery
1930 - 1960 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
17.07.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
      13th Anti-Tank Regiment RA (Burma, Middle East & Italy) (MBE)
Chief Land Instructor (Colonel), Turkish Staff College, 1945-1949. Master of Foxhouds, West Kent Foxhounds, 1958-1961. Member, Kent County Council, 1965-1974.
Johnson,
Norman Charles
N.C. Johnson
?
-
2nd Lt.
21.09.1940 [149296]
WS/Lt.
21.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.
?
Hon. Capt.
< 04.1946
Military Cross MC
09.12.1943
for gallant and distinguished services in the field
21.09.1940





commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
25.11.1942


captured in Tunisia; POW camp at Bologna; escaped
Johnson,
Oliver Denn
O.D. Johnson
Son of Reginald Oliver Denn Johnson and Marjorie Morgan Johnson, of Barrow, Suffolk.
From Bury St. Edmunds.
(06?).1919
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk

-
03.10.1944
[age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, The Netherlands, 9.C.15]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.08.1943 [292012]
WS/Lt.
?
Military Cross MC
21.12.1944
NW Europe
21.08.1943


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
11.12.1943
 
 
transferred, The Suffolk Regiment
?
-
08.1944?
11th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
21.08.1944
-
03.10.1944
Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)
Johnson *,
Richard Seymour
R.S. Johnson
Son (with one sister) of Rev. Herbert Mark Johnson (1868-1959), and Jane Isabella Fort (1866-1957).
Married Marie Blanche Catherine Angela ...; one son, one daughter.

From Ashford, Barnstaple, Devon.
* Name change by deed poll of 23.12.1953 to Fort, Richard Seymour.
12.10.1907
Bideford, Devon
-
?
2nd Lt. 27.11.1939 [107921]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 27.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 27.03.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
Maj. 19.08.1947
Military Cross MC 24.08.1944 Italy
Mentioned in Despatches MID 18.10.1945 Italy
27.11.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1943 - 1945 Officer Commanding, 383rd Battery, 142nd (The Royal Devon Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (Sicily, Italy)
19.08.1947     commissioned, Territorial Army
12.04.1948     commissioned, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Fishery officer.
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Johnson,
William Arthur Clifford
W.A.C. Johnson
Son of ... Johnson, and ... Clark.
19.09.1916
Keynesham district, Gloucestershire
-
08.1997
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
Pte. ?
2nd Lt. 21.06.1939 [90232]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
T/Capt. 31.03.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. 25.12.1944
T/Maj. 25.12.1944-(04.1946)
Mentioned in Despatches MID 19.09.1946 Burma
     

late Cadet Sergeant, Worksop College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps

21.06.1939     commissioned, 7th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
 
Johnston,
Robert Arnold Frank
"Robin"
R.A.F. Johnston
Son of Ernest Johnston, and ... Hepburn.
Married (06.02.1941) Dorothy Vernon (? - 20.07.1958), daughter of Reginald Thornycroft Vernon (1892-1977), and Margarita Grace Constantine (?-1989).
11.10.1918
Wokingham district, Wiltshire / Berkshire
-
12.01.1976
Plaxtol, Sevenoaks, Maidstone district, Kent
2nd Lt. 19.01.1938 [73990]
WS/Lt. 28.02.1941
T/Capt. 17.08.1942-(04.1946)
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 11.10.1945
19.01.1938     commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) - Territorial Army
(03.1945)     HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade
20.10.1948     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Johnston,
Robert Hugh Bathgate
R.H.B. Johnston (Photo courtesy of Mr Gert-Jan de Rooij) R.H.B. Johnston (Photo courtesy of Mr Gert-Jan de Rooij)
R.H.B. Johnston
Son (with two sisters) of Robert Bathgate Johnston (1872-1959), and Gertrude Grace Painter (1887-).
Married (1941) Mary Catherine "Marykate" Wallace (31.12.1916 - 12.10.1990), daughter of David Wallace (1871-1947), and Mary Wallace; three sons.
14.08.1913
Penrith district, Cumberland
-
09.02.1973
Salisbury, Rhodesia
2nd Lt. 10.02.1937, seniority 10.08.1935[70308]

Lt.

10.08.1938

WS/Capt. 21.09.1943
T/Maj. 21.09.1943-(04.1944),
24.09.1945-(04.1946)
Maj. 19.08.1947, seniority 01.05.1947 (reld 01.11.1948; retaining rank of Maj.)
Mention in Despatches MID 08.11.1945 NW Europe
Member, Order of the Legion of Merit (Rhodesia) MLM ? ?
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 & 1st clasp
Bronzen Leeuw (= Bronze Lion) (The Netherlands) BL 18.07.1947 liberation of Middelburg 06.11.44 [Dutch Royal decree No. 29 of 24.04.46] [recommendation available upon request]
Education: Edinburgh University (MB, ChB, 1948).
      late Officer Cadet, Edinburgh University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
10.02.1937     commissioned, 7th/9th (Highlanders) Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(07.1944) - (11.1944) Officer Commanding, "A" Company, 7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots [Walcheren, The Netherlands; 06.11.1944 accepted surrender of the town of Middelburg]
Went to Rhodesia 1952 and joined the Southern Rhodesia Staff Corps as a Capt. Promoted Maj. 1954 and promoted Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, by 1959 Assistant Director of Medical Services, Central Africa Command, Rhodesia & Nyasaland Medical Corps, then Deputy Director of Medical Services, and finally Director of Medical Services, Rhodesian Army Medical Corps, HQ Rhodesian Army (in the rank of Col.).
Published: 7th/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, Middleburg. In: The Thistle (July, 1946, p. 93-96)
Johnston,
Thomas Charles Smyth
V.R. Johnston
Son (with three sisters) of Rev. Charles Smyth Johnston (1844-1910), and Harriette Mary Hunter Rodwell (?-1899), of Bradfield Hall, Cockfield, Bury St Edmunds.
Married (1912) Janet Elinor Lawford (1878 - 11.1946), daughter of P. Lawford, of Borthwnog, Dolgellau; no children.
02.05.1886
-
19.06.1972
Hafod Fach, Llanclltyd, Dolgellau, Merioneth
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 1911 [195522]
Lt. 14.08.1913
T/Capt. 03.02.1915
Capt. ? (reld 15.12.1918; ill-health) (reld 30.09.1921)
Lt. 11.03.1941 (without Army pay and allowances) (reld 30.09.1949)
Hon. Lt.Col. 30.09.1949
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 1964 ?
Education: Harrow School (2nd term 1900-2nd term 1902; Harrow's House); South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye.
Land agent.
30.04.1911 - 15.12.1918 7th (Merioneth and Montgomery) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Territorial Army
12.01.1916 - 15.12.1918 attached as Adjutant, 23rd (Provisional) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1939     County Army Welfare Officer, Merioneth
11.03.1941 - 30.09.1921 commissioned, General List
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Merionethshire, 17.05.1943. Honorary County Secretary, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families' Association.
Johnston,
Vivian Robert [William] *
V.R. Johnston
* Upon death registered as Vivian William Robert Johnston.
Married Betty ...; ond son.
06.05.1921
-
21.10.2005
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey (formerly of Cairo)
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.03.1941 [188142]
WS/Lt. 15.09.1942
T/Capt. 01.10.1943-31.08.1944
WS/Capt. 01.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj. 01.09.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. 04.04.1951
Military Cross MC 15.03.1945 gallant and distinguished services in the field
15.03.1941     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
      served Special Operations Executive (SOE): Officer Commanding Mission Envelope (Emilia region) and Indelible (Liguria region) of No. 1 Special Force (Italy, 1944-1945)
04.04.1951     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Johnstone,
F L
F.L. Johnstone (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
?
-
?
Sapper Cadet ?
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
?     ? [possibly same as F.L. Johnston, REME?]
Jolley *,
Peter William Raby
P.W.R. Jolley (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown) P.W.R. Jolley
P.W.R. Jollley

Son (with two brothers) of Frederick Raby Jolley (1891-1961), and Gladys Marguerita Howe (1896-1983)..
Married ((06?).1951, Alec district, Denbighshire) Christine Watson Mills (13.12.1926 - 27.03.2020), daughter (with one brother) of Sidney John Orlando Mills (1885-1951), and Marjorie Adibe Rihan (1894-1986); two sons, one daughter.
* Surname as shown on photo is Jolty.
15.07.1923
Macclesfield district, Cheshire

-
04.11.2013
North Rode, Stockport, Cheshire
Sapper Cadet ? [2602548]
2nd Lt. 22.12.1943 [303748]
WS/Lt. 22.06.1944
Lt. 23.03.1953, seniority 11.01.1949
Capt. 18.07.1954, seniority 23.03.1953
Maj. 15.07.1957
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe); BSc Indust. Ferm. (W.D.R.), 1947.
22.12.1943     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
23.03.1953     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
20.03.1958     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Brewer, Hewitt Bros, Ltd., Grimsby.
Jones,
?
Jones
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ?
... ...
Capt. ?
(04.1945)     14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment
Jones,
?
Jones
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ?
Lt. ?
(04.1945)     14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment
Jones,
Alan Stockwell
D.T. Jones
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
19.08.1922
-
04.05.2014
2nd Lt. 25.04.1943 [271767]
WS/Lt. 25.10.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
25.04.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
His son writes: "Possibly 2nd Field Company. Served in North Africa 1943, and in Burma 1944 with Chindits (16 Infantry Brigade commanded by Brig Bernard Fergusson, DSO)."

 
Jones,
Albert William
A.W. Jones A.W. Jones
Married; at least one son (Lt. (A) Maurice William Stanley Jones, RNVR).
22.05.1890
-
16.10.1971
T/2nd Lt.
WW I ?
T/Lt.
WW I?
Lt.
27.02.1940 [120808] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
?



commissioned, Royal Tank Corps
27.02.1940





commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(08.1941)


was in Iceland during the Atlantic Charter negotiations between Roosevelt & Churchill
27.12.1941


transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch)
01.10.1942


transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
(05.1945)


"D" Battalion, No 12 Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Training Centre (Harihar, Mysore State, India)
Jones,
Cenydd Richards
"Cen"
C.R. Jones

19.01.1921
Caerphilly
-
27.10.2006

Lt.
28.10.1944 [333835]
WS/Capt.
28.10.1945 (reld 1947?)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)
CBE
08.06.1968

HM's birthday 68: lately Permanent Secretary and Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Federation of South Arabia

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE
12.06.1965
HM's birthday 65: Permanent Secretary and Director of Health Services, Federation of South Arabia
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
02.01.1956
New Year 56: Amerindian Medical Officer, British Guiana
Education: Tywyn primary school, Caerphilly; Pontypridd Grammar School; Welsh National School of Medicine (1938-1944; MB); BCh
28.10.1944





commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1944
-
1947
Regimental Medical Officer (RMO), 2/1st Battalion, The King's African Rifles (Nyasaland) (in Kenya and Uganda)
Expert in tropical medicine.
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Jones,
[Sir] Charles Phibbs
C.P. Jones
Son of late Hume Riversdale Jones and Elizabeth Anne (née Phibbs).
Married (1934) Ouida Margaret Wallace; two sons.
29.06.1906
-
04.01.1988
Amesbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2nd Lt.
02.02.1926, seniority 03.09.1925 [34845]
Lt.
03.09.1927
Capt.
03.09.1936
A/Maj.
26.06.1940-25.09.1940
T/Maj.
26.09.1940-26.01.1942
WS/Maj.
27.01.1942
Maj.
03.09.1942
A/Lt.Col.
27.10.1941-26.01.1942
T/Lt.Col.
27.01.1942-18.11.1942,
27.01.1943-22.07.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
23.07.1945
A/Col.
23.01.1945-22.07.1945
T/Col.
23.07.1945-30.12.1949
Col.
31.12.1949
A/Brig.
23.01.1945-22.07.1945
T/Brig.
23.07.1945-30.04.1951
Brig.
12.11.1951
T/Maj.Gen.
01.05.1951-06.12.1951
Maj.Gen.
07.12.1951
T/Lt.Gen.
01.01.1959
Gen.
05.08.1963 (retd 09.01.1967)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
12.06.1965
HM's birthday 65
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1960
New Year 60
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
05.06.1952
HM's birthday 52
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
11.10.1945
NW Europe
Military Cross MC
22.10.1940
in recognition of gallant conduct in action with the enemy
Mentioned in Despatches MID
10.05.1945
NW Europe
Commander, Order of Leopold II (Belgium) LeoII
23.05.1947
?
Croix de Guerre (Belgium) CdeG
23.05.1947
?
Education: Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, N Ireland; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Staff College, Camberley (1939; psc); Imperial Defence College (1947; idc)
02.02.1926


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1928
-
1934
service with Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners (India)
24.11.1934
-
06.01.1939
Adjutant, 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Engineers (Territorial Army)
30.10.1939
-
13.02.1940
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
14.02.1940
-
25.06.1940
Brigade-Major, 127th Infantry Brigade (BEF; France & Belgium)
29.06.1940
-
26.10.1941
Instructor (as General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Camberley
27.10.1941
-
18.11.1942
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), General Headquarters (GHQ) Home Forces
1943
-
1944
Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), Guards Armoured Division (UK, NW Europe)
09.10.1944
-
22.01.1945
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
23.01.1945
-
1945
Brigadier General Staff, XXX Corps (NW Europe)
1945
-
23.04.1946
Brigadier General Staff (Chief of Staff), Malaya Command
06.05.1946
-
01.01.1947
Brigadier General Staff, HQ Western Command
07.01.1948
-
31.10.1950
Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade (Palestine)
14.12.1950
-
26.04.1951
Director of Plans, War Office
01.05.1951
-
30.11.1953
General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (British Army of the Rhine)
08.01.1954
-
31.12.1956
Commandant, Staff College, Camberley
01.03.1957
-
15.09.1958
Vice Adjutant-General, War Office
01.01.1959
-
01.01.1960
Director, Combined Military Planning, Central Treaty Organization
08.03.1960
-
26.03.1962
General Officer Commanding, 1st Corps
01.06.1962
-
18.04.1963
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command
06.05.1963
-
12.12.1966
Master General of the Ordnance
1965
-
1967
also: ADC General to the Queen
09.01.1967
-
29.06.1968
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Governor of Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1969-75; Chief Royal Engineer, 1967-72. A Governor, Corps of Commissionaires, 1969-. National President, Royal British Legion, 1970-81. 
Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 20.08.1961-1972. Honorary Colonel, Royal Engineers, Army Emergency Reserve, 01.11.1961. Honorary Colonel, Engineer and Railway Staffs Corps, RE, T&AVR, 1970-22.07.1977.
Jones,
David Tudor
D.T. Jones
1889/90 ?
-
T/2nd Lt. ?
A/Capt. ?
Lt. 12.08.1939 [94591]
A/Capt. 27.12.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt. 20.12.1941
T/Maj. 20.12.1941-(04.1944),
21.01.1945-(04.1946)
Military Cross MC WW I ?
WW I     served Machine Gun Corps (MC)
 ? - 22.06.1949 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
12.08.1939     commissioned, National Defence Companies
24.08.1939     The Royal Welch Fusiliers - Territorial Army
 
Jones,
Frederick Leonard
F.L. Jones
13.11.1908
-
06.01.1980
Highcliffe, Christchurch, Bournemouth district, Dorset
WS/Sgt. ?
Lt. (Technical Maintenance Officer) 20.03.1943 [270428] (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
Hon. Lt. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
20.03.1943     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
 
Jones,
Gordon William
G.W. Jones
Only child of William Jones,  and Lillian Price (1891-1980).
Married (1950) Jean Ruth Stuckey; three sons, two daughters.
31.08.1921
-
31.12.1979
Heath, Cardiff
2nd Lt.
22.04.1943 [273066]
WS/Lt.
22.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM
29.06.1951
?
22.04.1943





commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Worked for the coal board before & after his army service.
Jones,
Hugh Glydon
H.G. Jones
Son (with one sister and one brother) of William Glydon Jones (1884-1947), and Minnie Day (1887-1972).
Married ((12?).1946, Llanaber, Merionethshire, Wales) Evelyn Burroughs (née Dingley).
13.12.1918
Oldbury, Worcestershire
-
03.2008
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales
2nd Lt. 29.11.1941 [219333]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
A/Capt. 01.12.1944-28.02.1945
T/Capt. 01.03.1945-12.08.1946
Appointed clerical class, Board of Education, 05.1936.
02.08.1940 - 14.08.1941 Royal Army Pay Corps (Leicester)
15.08.1941 - 28.11.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.11.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
29.11.1941 - 12.04.1943 533rd (Orkney) Coast Artillery Regiment RA (TA)
13.04.1943 - 04.07.1943 512th (East Riding) Coast Artillery Regiment RA (TA)
07.07.1943 - 15.01.1944 RA Depot (Woolwich)
16.01.1944 - 28.11.1944 566th Coast Artillery Regiment RA (Plymouth)
29.11.1944 - 30.11.1945 HQ Eastern Command
01.12.1945 - 04.01.1946 School of Artillery (Larkhill)
05.01.1946 - 12.08.1946 No. 12 Special Radar Unit (India)
Jones,
James Ronald
J.R. Jones

Son of James Thomas Jones and Gladys Gwendoline Jones, of Llanfrechfa, Monmouthshire.
1922 ?
-
02.11.1945
[age 23]
[Ranchi War Cemetery, India, 8.C.2]
Tpr. ?
2nd Lt. 15.11.1942
WS/Lt. 15.05.1943
WS/Lt. 01.10.1945, seniority 15.05.1943 [355394]
T/Capt. 25.06.1944-(10.1945)
T/Maj. 1945?

King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, 09.07.1946 (posthumously)

15.11.1942     commissioned, Indian Army
01.10.1945     transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
02.11.1945     killed when a fire broke out in an ammunition depot in Panagarh, West Bengal, India
 
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Jones,
Matheys Johannes Uys
"Stompie"
M.J.U. Jones
15.07.1909
Johannesburg, South Africa
-
?
Eldoret
Pte. ? ? [316]
2nd Lt. 01.06.1942 [317891]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 12.03.1945 (reld 16.11.1945)
T/Maj. 12.03.1945-16.11.1945
Hon. Maj. 16.11.1945
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM - & Kenya suspender
pre-war     served in the Kenya Regiment
01.06.1942


commissioned, Pioneer Corps (African Colonial Section) [emergency commission]
Jones,
Percy Hugh
P.H. Jones
Married (1922) Violet Helen Mary Hughes ((12?).1895 - 05.12.1964); two daughters.
Surname also used as: Hugh-Jones.
04.12.1892
Bedwellty district, Monmouthshire
-
25.09.1948
214 Hamlet Gardens, Hammersmith district, London W6
2nd Lt. (prob) 15.08.1914 [11596]
Lt. 15.05.1915
Capt. Res.of Offrs. 31.12.1929, seniority 09.04.1927
Capt. 06.06.1927 (retd 31.12.1929)
Bt. Maj. 27.12.1941
T/Maj. 16.07.1940-(04.1944)
15.08.1914     commissioned, Royal Garrison Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers
15.05.1915     permanent commission - Regular Forces
?     transferred, Royal Tank Corps
31.12.1929 - 28.08.1945 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
24.08.1939     mobilized RARO
1944 - 1945 Town Major, Calais (France)
Jones,
Richard Edward Frederick Roynon
R.E.F.R. Jones
17.11.1905
-
20.12.1981
Kensington and Chelsea district, London
2nd Lt. 29.01.1925 [31995]
... ...
Maj. 29.01.1942 (retd 01.04.1955)
T/Lt.Col. 01.11.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. 01.04.1955
29.01.1925     commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
(04.1945)     Commanding Officer, 14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment

1923-24 Sandhurst, 1924-33 UK and overseas, 1933-37 Officer Commanding 6th Nigeria Regiment Enugu, Nigeria 1940-41 Zaria and Officer Commanding 2 SL Regt, 1942-46 Commanding Officer 14th Bn Nigeria Regiment Kaduna - in Gold Coast, Zaria and Ibadan

Jones,
Richard Keith
R.K. Jones (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen) R.K. Jones
R.K. Jones R.K. Jones
R.K. Jones R.K. Jones
R.K. Jones R.K. Jones
Later known as: Keith-Jones, Richard.
Only son of late Brig. Frederick Theodore Jones, CIE, MVO, VD, and 1st wife, May Saunders.

Married (1938) Margaret Ridley "Peggy" Harrison; three daughters.
06.12.1913
Dehra Dun, India
-
26.05.1992
Brockley, Backwell, Bristol
2nd Lt. 01.02.1934 [62519]
Lt. 01.02.1937
A/Capt. 16.03.1940-15.06.1940
T/Capt. 16.06.1940-04.06.1941
WS/Capt. 19.12.1941
Capt. 01.02.1942
A/Maj. 03.08.1940-29.08.1940,
16.10.1941-18.12.1941
T/Maj. 19.12.1941-31.01.1947
Maj. 01.02.1947
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1958
local Lt.Col. 19.09.1949-29.12.1951
T/Lt.Col. 21.01.1952-30.04.1955
Lt.Col. 01.05.1955
Col. 20.12.1957, seniority 31.03.1957 (supernumerary 21.11.1963)
local Brig. 30.04.1959-29.05.1959
T/Brig. 30.05.1959-30.03.1961
Brig. 31.03.1961
Maj.Gen. 23.03.1964 (retd 08.03.1969)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1968 New Year 68
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 47 [recommendation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 06.04.1944 Italy [recommendation available upon request]
Education: Clifton College (09.1927-04.1932; Brown's House; 4/2-VI; Prefect; XV (Capt. 1931); XI); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (XV, XI; Sword of Honour).
Played for Royal Artillery XV (Capt., 1937-38, 1938-39, 1945-46); Army Rugby Trials 1935-36; RA XI & M.C.C.
01.02.1934     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1934 - 1939 9th Field Brigade RA (UK)
01.04.1940 - 02.08.1940 Adjutant, Catterick Officer Cadet Training Unit (UK)
16.10.1941 - 18.10.1942 Brigade Major Royal Artillery, 54th Infantry Division (UK)
19.10.1942 - 09.08.1943 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), School of Artillery, Larkhill & GSO2, HQ 2nd Corps (UK)
1943 - 1944 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA (1st Airborne Division) (North Africa, Italy) (MC)
22.04.1944 - 27.04.1947 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Ministry of Information, War Office (UK) (MBE)
1947 - 1949 Second-in-Command, 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (Palestine & Egypt)
19.09.1949 - 30.12.1951 Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Camberley (UK)
21.01.1952 - 01.03.1953 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ Allied Land Forces South East (ALFSE) (Italy)
06.05.1953 - 30.04.1955 Military Attaché (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) to Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe), SHAPE (Paris, France)
1955 - 1957 Commanding Officer, 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
20.12.1957 - 11.03.1959 Senior Army Instructor, Joint Services Staff College (UK)
30.05.1959 - 11.04.1961 Deputy Commander and Commander Royal Artillery, HQ 17th Gurkha Division, OCLF (Malaya)
12.04.1961 - 26.07.1961 Birgadier Royal Artillery (BRA), General HQ, Far East Land Forces (FARELF)
1962 - 1963 student, Imperial Defence College (UK)
18.03.1963 - 05.03.1964 Military Adviser to High Commissioner in Canada (Senior UK Liaison Officer, Canada) (Canada)
26.03.1964 - 14.07.1966 General Officer Commanding, Northumbrian District & 50th Infantry Division (TA) (UK)
06.09.1966 - 1968 Commandant, Joint Warfare Establishement (Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire) (CB)
Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1970-1978. Honorary Colonel, 266th (Glos. Vol. Art.) Battery RA, T&AVR, 1975-1983. Manager, Management Development, Mardon Packaging International Ltd, 1969-1975.
Jones,
Robert Frederick Stanton
R.F.S. Jones
Son (with two sisters) of Robert Walter Jones (1890-1955), and Muriel Joyce Gare.
(06?).1917
Camberwell district, London
-
10.01.1980
Shortlands, Bromley, Kent
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 24.01.1942 [222326]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 19.02.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Mentioned in Despatches MID 09.08.1945 NW Europe
24.01.1942     commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment [emergency commission]
Jones,
Sidney Elliott

S.E. Jones
02.05.1920
-
23.03.2008
Teignmouth district, Devon
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 08.08.1943 [289317]
WS/Lt. 08.02.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 19.05.1945-(07.1945)
Lt. 11.11.1946, seniority 08.02.1944 (reld 28.09.1949)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 28.05.1948 -
08.08.1943     commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
19.02.1945 - (07.)1945 Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)
(10.1945) - (08.1946) Unemployed List
11.11.1946     short service commission
Jones,
William Robert
W.R. Jones
?
-
Cadet ? [14270843]
2nd Lt. 28.11.1943 [303302]
WS/Lt. 28.05.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
28.11.1943     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.04.1944     transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
Jordan,
Ferdinand Peter
F.P. Jordan
Son (with two sisters) of Ferdinand Walter Jordan (1885-1933), and Annie Selina Stone (1881-1976).
Married 1st ((09?).1945, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Jean Olive Benbow (1920 - ); two sons, one daughter.
Married 2md ((03?).1972, Weston super Mare district, Somerset) Joan L. Peacock.
02.07.1914
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
14.03.1986
Congresbury, Weston super Mare district, Somerset
2nd Lt. 19.10.1941 [220630]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
19.10.1941     commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
? - 06.06.1942 50th Battalion Reconnaissance Corps [captured at Battle of Gazala at Bir Hacheim]
06.1942 - 04.1945 POW (No. 1606) in Italian (PG 47, PG 49) & German captivity  (Oflag VIIIF, Oflag 79 (Braunschweig, Niedersachsen))
Joss,
Cecil Alexander
C.A. Joss
Elder son (with two sisters) of Alexander Rule Joss (1884-1934), and Enid Mary King (1881-), of Tunbridge Wells.
Married 1st (23.04.1941, Surrey North Western district) Deborah "Jill" Standring ((12?).1922 - ), younger daughter of the late Lt.Cdr. John Walter Willie Mellor Standring, RN (1893-1932), and Elaine Pilling (later Mrs Guy Wilson), of Roundwood, Windlesham; one daughter. Jill Joss remarried (1955) Frederick Morgan David "Derek" Falcke.
Married 2nd (27.04.1950, Kensington district, London) Joan Madeleine Easton, daughter of Mr & Mrs R.A. Easton, of Durban, South Africa.
Residence: (1945) Windlesham, Surrey, later Johannesburg, South Africa.
07.07.1914
Warlingham, Godstone district, Surrey
-
09.1991
Yeovil district, Somerset
Tpr. ?
2nd Lt. 06.07.1939 [93648]
WS/Lt. 06.01.1941
T/Capt. 09.12.1941-12.10.1942
WS/Capt. 13.10.1942 (demobilized < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 13.10.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
Maj. 16.09.1949
Lt.Col. 10.01.1953
Col. 10.01.1956
Military Cross MC 23.08.1945 Italy *
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 -
Education: Lancing (Sandersons House, 05.1928-04.1932).
      late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Lancing College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
06.07.1939     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
15.10.1941 - (10.1942) Adjutant, ...
(1945)     48th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (North Africa & Italy)
      Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
16.09.1949     commissioned, Inns of Court Regiment - Territorial Army (Commanding Officer, 1953-1956)
01.01.1957     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Sales manager. Resident Egypt and Sudan, 1946- 49. Gained civil aviator's certificate (No. 22418) 24.02.1947 as being a qualified pilot. Partner, Grieve & Irwin Ltd. Lloyd's Brokers. Director Munich Re-insurance Co. of SA Ltd.; Commenced insurance career 1932.
* Recommendation for the award of an immediate Military Cross to T/Maj. C.A. Joss: [Only page 2 avalaible] ... being successfully effected, two S.P.s [self-propelled vehicles] and a Tiger opened up on the tanks from behind a high bank about 800 yards away. Eleven tanks were knocked out, Major Joss's being among them. with superb courage and coolness he entered another, rallied the remainder of the Squadron and continued to provide invaluable and essential support right on the objective. Throughout these long and tinring actions Major Joss remained calm and completely in control of his Squadron. He was an example to all those around him, both infantry and tank personnel. It was due entirely to his leadership and tirelessness that two strange units finished up with such a complete understanding of each other and obtained such brilliant results against determined opposition.
[Recommended by by Lt.Col. [P.W.D. Hardy??], commanding 48th RTR, approved by Brig. D. Dawnay, commanding 21st Tank Brigade, and finally by Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Allied Force HQ.]
(Citation kindly provided by Sim Morrison)
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Joy,
Frank Bernard
F.B. Joy

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of William Joy (1879-1965), and Clara Paysden (1881-1953).
Married (06.06.1928, Sheerness, Sheppey district, Kent) Ann Elizabeth Record (02.06.1905 - 16.02.1988); two daughters, one son.
29.01.1905
Herne Bay, Blean district, Kent
-
02.06.1961
The Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge district, Kent
Lt. (AOME) 15.07.1941 [202242]
A/Capt. 13.05.1942-12.08.1942
T/Capt. 13.08.1942-14.07.1944
A/Maj. 17.08.1944-16.11.1944
T/Maj. 17.11.1944-30.06.1946,
01.10.1946-09.12.1952
Capt. (EMAE) 01.08.1946, seniority 15.07.1944
Lt. (EMAE) 01.06.1947
Capt. (EMAE) 01.06.1947
Maj. (EMAE) 10.12.1952
      served in the ranks for 13 years, 287 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class II for 2 years, 247 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class I for 1 year, 313 days
15.07.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission to 31.07.1946]
01.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
01.08.1946     short service commission
01.06.1947     permanent commission
Joy,
Michael Gerard Laurie
M.G.L. Joy

Son (with one sister) of Frank Douglas Howarth Joy (1880-1966), and Mona Constance Amabel Anderson (1883-1971), of Bentley, Hampshire.
Married (05.11.1951, Saigon, Vietnam) Ann Félise Jacomb (28.02.1927 - ), daughter of Hilary William Jacomb (1882-1964), and Violet Félise Chapman (1890-1969); three daughters, one son.
27.10.1916
Paddington district, London
-
13.03.1993
Farnham, Alton district, Hampshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 07.06.1941 [190655] (reld 22.10.1952)
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 21.03.1943-(07.1945),
08.08.1945-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt. 22.10.1952
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG 01.01.1965 Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Stockholm
Military Cross MC 10.05.1945 NW Europe (Reichswald Forest 12.02.45)
Education: Winchester College (1929.3-1935.2; Exhibitioner. 1930, English Literature Prize, Lords XI, Ed. Wyk); New College, Oxford (2 Nat. Sci.).
      121st Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.06.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1944/45)     83rd Field Regiment RA (NW Europe) (MC; wounded)
Foreign Office, 1947; Private Secretary to Permanent Under Secretary of State, 1948- 50; Saigon, 1950-53; Washington, 1953-55; IOC, 1956; Foreign Office, 1957-59; Counsellor, 1959; Addis Ababa, 1959-62; Stockholm, 1962-64; seconded to Cabinet Office, 1964-66; Foreign Office, 1966-68.
Joyce,
Thomas
T. Joyce
?
-
RQMS ?
Lt. QM 30.12.1939 [106113]
WS/Capt. QM 30.12.1942
Capt. QM 20.08.1946, seniority 30.12.1945
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 26.05.1950 3rd clasp
30.12.1939     commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]
20.08.1946     transferred, Territorial Army
Judd,
Frederick Albert
F.A. Judd
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 30.03.1941 [194607]
WS/Lt. 30.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
30.03.1941     commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission]
06.1941     escaped from Crete aboard an abandoned landing craft; taken POW by the Italian submarine Adua which intercepted the landing craft
Judges,
Robert Popham
"Bob"
R.P. Judges
Son of ... Judges, and ... Thompson.
Married ((03?).1948, North Buckinghamshire) Nancy M. "Nan" Colgrove ((09?).1921 - 04.06.2011); ... children (four daughters, one son?).
16.09.1922
Durham district, Co. Durham
-
15.01.2006
Aylesbury/V, Buckinghamshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 03.04.1943 [269635]
WS/Lt. 03.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt. ? 1944?
A/Maj. ? 02.1946?
03.04.1943     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944) - (1946) 9th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment [from 02.1946 Second-in-Command]
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