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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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PENT

PEPP
to
PLOW

POCO
to
PYNN

G.R. Pack to E.S.D. Pentreath

Pack,
Geoffrey Rowland
G.R. Pack

Son of William Pack, and Susan
Berwick.
Married ((09?).1940, Bedford district,
Bedfordshire) Margaret Ellingworth
Matkin (18.04.1917 - (12?).1976),
daughter of Joseph W. Matkin, and
Katie Ellingworth; ... children (two
sons, two daughters?).

19.12.1915
Bedford district,
Cambridgeshire
-
05.2003
East Surrey district,
Surrey

2nd Lt.	12.10.1938 [77953]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	23.07.1943-08.11.1944
WS/Capt.	09.11.1944
T/Maj.	09.11.1944-(04.1945), 13.04.1945-(04.1946)

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

			late Cadet C.S.M., Bedford School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.10.1938			commissioned, General List (King's School (Rochester) Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
05.10.1940			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
(1944)	-	(1945)	5th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (NW Europe) (Officer Commanding "C" Company, later "B" Company)
?	-	19.12.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
09.05.1952	-	30.08.1955	Lieutenant, County of London Contingent, Army Cadet Force - Territorial Army
31.08.1955	-	05.10.1967	Lieutenant, Battersea Grammar School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force - Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve

Published: (with Maj. G.R. Hartwell & Maj. M.A. Edwards) The story of the 5th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment,
23rd June, 1944 to 5th May, 1945 (1945).

Packer,
Frederick Dudley
F.D. Packer (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

08.06.1900
Wandsworth district,
London
-
(12?).1977
Chichester district,
West Sussex

RSM	?
Lt. (QM)	31.05.1940 [133813]
WS/Capt. (QM)	31.05.1943
Capt. (QM)	01.11.1947 (reld 01.08.1948; disability)
Hon. Capt. (QM)	01.08.1948

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

			served in the ranks, The Hampshire Regiment
31.05.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
(1945)			1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)

Page,
Anthony Herbert Cannon
A.H.C. Page

Son of Brig. Edmund Robertson Page, Indian Army, and Christabel Mary Cannon.
Brother of Lt. Gerald Edmund Christopher Page, Coldstream Guards,

02.09.1922
Richmond district, Surrey
-
08.2002
Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	07.11.1942 [251346]
WS/Lt.	07.05.1943
Lt.	19.01.1946, seniority 02.03.1945
Capt.	02.09.1949 (retd 14.09.1952; receiving a gratuity)

07.11.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
19.01.1946			permanent commission
16.08.1947			transferred, 8th Hussars
14.09.1952	-	27.03.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (ceased to belong to RARO due to enlistment in the RCAF)

Page,
Gerald Edmund Christopher
G.E.C. Page

Son of Brig. Edmund Robertson Page, Indian Army, and Christabel Mary Cannon.
Brother of Capt. Anthony Herbert Cannon Page, Royal Armoured Corps.

1924 ?
-
25.05.1945
[age 20]
[Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India, 1.L.2]

Cadet	? [2666275]
2nd Lt.	28.01.1944 [307858]
WS/Lt.	28.07.1944

28.01.1944			commissioned, Coldstream Guards [emergency commission]
14.08.1944	-	25.05.1945	2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards (Italy) (29.03.1945 evacuated to India (sick), 25.05.1945 died on active service (India))

Page,
Wilfrid Leslie Walters
W.L.W. Page (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Jervis)

Son of Ernest W. Page, and Winifred Farrar.

09.11.1917
Headington district, Buckinghamshire
-
08.2006
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.09.1941 [203647]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	08.10.1943-..., 10.03.1945-06.12.1945
WS/Capt.	07.12.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
A/Maj.	(10.1946)

06.09.1941			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
23.01.1942			attached, Royal Indian Army Service Corps

Paget,
Sir Bernard Charles Tolver
B.C.T. Paget

3rd son of late Francis Paget, Bishop
of Oxford, and Helen Beatrice,
daughter of late Very Rev. R.W.
Church, Dean of St Paul's.
Married (1918) Winifred Nora,
daughter of Sir John Paget, 2nd Bt;
one son (and younger son died of
wounds, 1945).

15.09.1887
Oxford, Oxfordshire
-
16.02.1961
Petersfield, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	13.11.1907 [4112]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	22.01.1938, seniority 29.12.1937
A/Lt.Gen.	05.06.1940-04.06.1941
T/Lt.Gen.	05.06.1941-04.09.1941
Lt.Gen.	05.09.1941, seniority 05.08.1941
A/Gen.	25.12.1941-24.12.1942
T/Gen.	25.12.1942-04.05.1943
Gen.	05.05.1943 (retd 14.10.1946)

GCB	01.01.1946	New Year 46
KCB	01.01.1942	New Year 42
CB	11.07.1940	distinguished service in the field
DSO	01.01.1918	distinguished service in the field
MID	20.12.1940	?

Grand Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta (07.12.1944)

13.11.1907			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
...	-	...	....
22.01.1938	-	29.11.1939	Commandant (Major-General General Staff), Staff College
30.11.1939	-	18.04.1940	General Officer Commanding, ... Division (Eastern Command)
19.04.1940	-	30.05.1940	Force Commander, Norway
31.05.1940	-	04.06.1940	Major-General General Staff, Home Forces
05.06.1940	-	14.02.1941	Chief of General Staff, Home Forces
15.02.1941	-	24.12.1941	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southeastern Command
25.12.1941	-	28.07.1943	Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces
06.01.1944	-	1946	Commander-in-Chief, Middle East
13.10.1944			also: ADC General to the King (Extra)

Paine,
Thomas Walter
T.W. Paine

?
-

Sgt.Maj. (AC)	?
Lt. QM	12.08.1940 [143643]
T/Capt. QM	06.08.1941-11.06.1943
WS/Capt. QM	12.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
06.05.1941	-	(04.1946)	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade, Directorate of Royal Artillery, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office

Painter,
Gordon Whistler Arnaud
G.W.A. Painter

Son of late BrigadierGeneral Arnaud C. Painter, CMG; married Kathleen Hay Lannoy, eldest surv. daughter of Colonel J.L. Tweedie, DSO; one son two daughters.

24.02.1893
-
28.09.1960
[Farnborough, Hampshire ?]

2nd Lt.	19.12.1913 [8353]
Lt.	09.06.1915
Capt.	03.11.1917
A/Maj.	22.10.1916-18.07.1919
Maj.	01.01.1933
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1935
Col.	01.08.1939, seniority 01.07.1938 (retd 23.02.1948)
A/Brig.	25.09.1940-24.03.1941
T/Brig.	25.03.1941
Hon. Brig.	23.02.1948

DSO	1917	?
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	23.07.1917	?
MID	23.12.1918	?
MID	07.07.1919	?
MID	01.08.1946	Malaya 42

1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal

Education: Malvern College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (21.01.1927-...)

19.12.1913			commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery [later: Royal Regiment of Artillery]
10.01.1916	-	21.10.1916	Adjutant, ... (served France & Belgium, 08.03.1915-11.11.1918)
22.10.1916	-	18.07.1919	Battery Commander
30.10.1916			restored to the establishment of the Royal Garrison Artillery (supernumerary)
22.11.1920	-	30.04.1921	Staff Captain, ... (India)
08.08.1922	-	05.10.1925	Adjutant, ...
(1928)			attached to 4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
01.01.1929			restored to the establishment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
18.02.1930	-	30.11.1931	Staff Captain, ... (India)
01.12.1931	-	31.03.1934	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
04.02.1936	-	30.09.1937	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), War Office
01.10.1937	-	09.02.1939	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
10.02.1939	-	31.07.1939	specially employed (local Colonel)
01.08.1939	-	24.09.1940	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Rawalpindi District (India)
25.09.1940	-	01.02.1942	Commander, 22nd Indian Infantry Brigade (India & Malaya)
1942	-	1945	prisoner of war (Japan)
31.12.1945	-	23.02.1948	retained on the Active List (supernumerary)
23.02.1948	-	24.02.1953	transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers (terminated due to age limit)

Pakenham-Walsh,
Ridley Pakenham
R.P. Pakenham-Walsh

29.04.1888
-
03.11.1966

2nd Lt.	18.12.1908 [4284]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	30.06.1939, seniority 20.06.1938 (supernumerary 29.04.1945) (retd 28.08.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.	07.06.1941-17.11.1941

CB 1940; MC

18.12.1908			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
...	-	...	...
04.09.1939	-	30.06.1940	Engineer-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force
07.1940	-	07.1940	mission to USA
14.07.1940	-	06.06.1941	General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland District
07.06.1941	-	17.11.1941	Commander, IX Corps (Home Forces)
15.12.1941	-	22.02.1943	Commander, Salisbury Plain District (Home Forces)
1943	-	1946	Controller General, Army Provision (Eastern Group)

Palairet,
John Hamilton
J.H. Palairet

Married (05.05.1951) Anne Marjorie Bibby; three daughters.

23.01.1917
-
27.11.1969
Ledbury, Herefordshire

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71077]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	14.05.1940-13.08.1940
T/Capt.	14.08.1940-30.10.1940, 01.02.1941-12.11.1942
WS/Capt.	13.11.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945
A/Maj.	13.08.1942-12.11.1942
T/Maj.	13.11.1942, 07.03.1943-03.11.1943, 18.10.1944-07.03.1945, 28.09.1945-29.01.1948, 09.10.1948-27.01.1950
Maj.	28.01.1950 (retd 01.03.1959)

28.01.1937			commissioned, 3rd Dragoon Guards
...	-	...	...

Palamountain,
Edgar William Irwin
E.W.I. Palamountain

Son of William Bennett and Eveleigh Mary Palamountain. Married (1948) Eleanor, daughter of Maj.Gen.
Sir Richard Lewis, KCMG, CB, CBE; one son, two daughters.

24.12.1917
-
05.06.1990
London City, London

2nd Lt.	18.01.1941 [166318]
WS/Lt.	18.07.1942
T/Capt.	?
WS/Capt.	19.10.1945 (reld 26.01.1949)
T/Maj.	19.10.1945
A/Lt.Col.	1946
Hon. Maj.	26.01.1949
Capt. RARO	26.01.1949, seniority 01.01.1949

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

Education: Charterhouse; St John's College, Oxford (MA).

18.01.1941			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			Royal Horse Artillery
1944	-	1945	operations staff, HQ 11th Armoured Division (NW Europe)
1945	-	1947	Allied Commission for Austria
26.01.1949	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., London and Tehran, 1948-51; Total Ltd, 1952-56; M & G Group, 1957-79: Executive Director, 1962; Managing Director, 1968; Chairman, 1977. Director of various companies. Chairman, Wider Share Ownership Council, since 1971. Chairman: Unit Trust Assoc., 1977-79; Institutional Shareholders Committee, 1978-79; President, Money Management Council, 1987- (Chairman, 1985-87). Trustee: National Association of Almshouses, 1963-80; Esmée Fairbairn Trust, 1966-80, 1988- (Director, 1980-88); Thames Help Trust, 1980; Social Affairs Unit, 1982-; Prospect Trust, 1988-. Patron, Inst. of Economic Affairs, 1972-; Governor: NIESR, 1981-; Ditchley Foundation, 1986-; Member of the Board, Adam Smith Inst., 1982-; Member Council, University of Buckingham (formerly UC, Buckingham), 1975-(Chairman, 1979-84). Member Committee, London Voluntary Service Council, 1969-. FRSA 1984. DUniv Buckingham, 1985.
Published: Taurus Pursuant : a history of the Eleventh Armoured Division (1945)

Palliser,
[Sir] Arthur Michael
A.M. Palliser

Son of Adm. Sir Arthur Francis Eric Palliser, RN.

09.04.1922
-
19.06.2012

2nd Lt.	21.11.1942
WS/Lt.	21.05.1943
T/Capt.	16.01.1945-(04.1946)

21.11.1942

commissioned, Coldstream Guards [emergency commission]

Palmer,
Frederick John
F.J. Palmer

20.04.1904
Maidstone barracks
-
10.01.1965
Catford, London

2nd Lt.	26.03.1940 [125722]
WS/Lt.	26.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

Pre-war a Marconi operator for Cable and Wireless.

26.03.1940

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Palmer,
Godfrey Nugent
G.N. Palmer

29.05.1919
-

2nd Lt.	03.07.1939 [94902]
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	20.09.1941-19.12.1941
T/Capt.	20.12.1941-21.12.1941, 13.12.1943-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
T/Maj.	01.01.1950-17.09.1950, 09.06.1951-15.02.1952
Maj.	03.07.1952 (retd 21.07.1959)

03.07.1939			commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
(1942)			1st Battalion The Cameronians (Burma; wounded)

Palmer,
Henry Dorney
H.D. Palmer

Son (with three sisters and one brother) of Col. Charles Henry Dayrell Palmer (1873-1939), The Leicestershire Regiment, and Eileen Louise Moriarty (1886-1973).
Married (20.06.1961, All Saints, Wrington, Weston super Mare district, Avon / Somerset) Rachel Diana Hutchings ((09?).1922 - 17.06.2014), daughter of William Edward C. Hutchings, and Winifred Daisie Fitzsimons.
Residence: (1945) Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire.

(03?).1921
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.05.1942 [235216]
WS/Lt.	23.11.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

	MC	23.08.1945	Italy (capture of Consandolo 18.04.45) [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	19.07.1945	Italy

23.05.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1945)			48th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (MC)

Palmer,
John Baird Clayton
"Oscar"
J.B.C. Palmer

14.05.1920
-
22.12.2011

2nd Lt.	03.07.1939 [95575]
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	14.05.1940-21.11.1942
T/Capt.	22.11.1942-15.11.1944, 27.11.1944-28.01.1946
WS/Capt.	29.01.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	29.10.1945-28.01.1946
T/Maj.	29.01.1946-16.06.1947
Maj.	03.07.1952
T/Lt.Col.	22.06.1966-30.12.1966
Lt.Col.	31.12.1966 (retd 05.06.1971)

28.05.1957

Education: Staff College (psc).

03.07.1939			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [14.10.1959 redesignated Queens Surreys, from 31.12.1966 Queens]
01.10.1947	-	10.08.1949	Staff Captain, GHQ, Far East Land Forces
30.01.1953	-	23.08.1954	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Malaya
16.08.1957	-	19.08.1959	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), HQ H District
14.05.1962	-	14.10.1963	Deputy Assistant Military Secretary (DAMS), GHQ, Far East Land Forces
14.02.1964	-	23.12.1965	Military Assistant to Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Ministry of Defence)
15.06.1966	-	(02.1967)	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Ministry of Defence

Palmer,
Rodney Howell
R.H. Palmer

Married 1st Frances Pauline Ainsworth, née Gordon-Duff; at least one son.
Married 2nd Nancy Isobel Hurt (died 03.03.2007).

24.11.1907
Basingstoke, Berkshire
-
04.1987
Newbury, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	29.08.1931, seniority 30.01.1930
...	...
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 26.07.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	07.09.1943-16.10.1944, 21.07.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	26.07.1946

17.06.1943

29.08.1931			commissioned, 12th Lancers
...	-	...	...

Park,
John Kendall
J.K. Park

06.12.1907
Knighton district, Radnorshire
-
(09?).1969
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	28.05.1930 [45406]
Lt.	28.05.1933
Capt.	16.04.1939
Maj.	01.05.1939 (reld < 04.1946)

20.06.1946

			late Cadet Serjeant, Bromsgrove School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, Honourable Artillery Company, Infantry
28.05.1930			commissioned, 5th Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) - Territorial Army
?	-	?	?
?	-	18.01.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Parker,
Charles Frank
C.F. Parker

Son (with one brother) of Frank James Parker (1874-1937), and Emma Allen (1872-).
Married (31.03.1932, Plumstead, Woolwich district, London) Violet Preston (31.12.1906 - 03.1993); two sons, one daughter.

01.03.1904
Bitterne, South Stoneham district, Hampshire
-
(03?).1989
Torquay, Torbay district, Devon

Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th class)	02.12.1940 [159419]
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th class)	01.10.1942, seniority 02.12.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Capt.	08.05.1942-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

Education: BSc; AMIMechE.

02.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Parker,
Hugh Love
H.L. Parker

1887 ?
Scotland
-
12.05.1960
Surrey

T/2nd Lt.	27.06.1917
Lt.	?
A/Capt.	?
2nd Lt.	23.09.1939 [108583]
WS/Lt.	06.11.1939
A/Maj.	01.06.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	28.06.1941

MBE	03.06.1919	HM's birthday 19 [20.03.20 investiture by British High Commissioner in Cairo]
MID	01.04.1941	Middle East 08.39-11.40
MID	08.07.1941	Middle East 12.40-02.41
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
RHS - S	?	-

27.06.1917			commissioned, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
			served 3rd Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
23.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(04.1944)	-	(06.1946)	Unemployed List

Parker,
James George
J.G. Parker (Photo courtesy of Mr Phil Parker)

21.02.1906
Fulham, London
-
14.02.1961
Hounslow, Middlesex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.09.1941 [212293]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1941 (reld 11.12.1945)
A/Capt.	02.06.1944
T/Capt.	1945?
Hon. Capt.	11.12.1945

			served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the 1st Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders
13.09.1939			attached to No. 1 Transportation Company Pioneer Corps (France; returned to UK 17.06.194)
29.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
06.1942			posted to Egypt
02.08.1942			1819th Pioneer Company

Parker,
Joseph Cyril Featherston
J.C.F. Parker

Son of Septimus Parker (1892-1971), and Mary Christina Hickey (1894-1984).
Married ((09?).1949, Surrey North Western district) Marie Chandler.

25.10.1919
Shildon, Co. Durham
-
23.06.2002
Hexham, Northumberland West district, Northumberland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.03.1942 [229534]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
WS/Capt.	18.07.1946
T/Maj.	18.07.1946-(04.1947)
Capt.	01.06.1947, seniority 18.07.1946
Maj.	23.03.1955 (reld 16.08.1961)
Hon. Maj.	16.08.1961

23.03.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in Burma
01.06.1947			short service commission
26.04.1965	-	25.10.1974	Royal Army Educational Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Parker,
Robert Henry
R.H. Parker (Photo courtesy Mr Robert H. Parker, via Mr Gerald Mason)

08.1913
-
[09.2008 still alive at Bangor, Co. Down.
N. Ireland, aged 95]

Cadet	? [2580689]
2nd Lt.	02.10.1943 [295749]
WS/Lt.	02.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

			served in the ranks, Divisional Signals, 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			served in the Royal West African Frontier Force
02.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
07.02.1945			transferred, Royal Welch Fusiliers

Parker,
Ronald Arthur
R.A. Parker

Son of ... Parker, and ... Topham.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

30.07.1919
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
10.2004
Mid Warwickshire district

Wt.Offr. cl. II	? [7625591]
2nd Lt.	07.05.1945 [348888]
WS/Lt.	19.10.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

07.05.1945

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [immediate emergency commission]

Parker,
Roy Belfield
R.B. Parker

Son of ... Parker, and ... Dunham.

28.08.1912
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
10.1989
Dacorum district, Hertfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.07.1941 [197694]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
EM	12.01.1951	-

12.07.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Parker,
William Leslie
W.L. Parker

Son (with two sisters and two brothers)of Richard Parker (1872-1936), and Clara Maud Preen (1881-1963), of Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Married (15.09.1924, military station, Roorkee, Punjab, India; divorced 21.07.1952) Lydia Emily Knight (20.05.1903 - 06.1981), daughter of John Knight (1859-). and Lydia Robinson (1878-); ... children (three sons, five daughters?).

28.03.1903
Eastney
-
06.06.1957
Wallington, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey

Wt.Offr. cl. I (Master Gunner 1st Class)	? [1412876]
Lt. (Quartermaster)	01.12.1942 [257241]
Lt. (District Officer)	22.01.1944, seniority 01.12.1942
WS/Capt. (DO)	01.12.1945
Capt. (DO)	01.06.1947, seniority 01.12.1945 (retd 12.06.1951)

MBE

11.06.1942

HM's birthday 42

01.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.06.1947			short service commission
27.11.1947			permanent commission

Parkinson,
Archibald Thomas
A.T. Parkinson

Son of Archibald Elliot Parkinson (1887-), and Florence Constance Valentine Fenn (1888-).
Married (06.1940, Galashiels, Scotland) Marion Averil May Levi (19.09.1907 - 08.12.1996), daughter of David Thomas Levi (1870-1967), and Caroline Elizabeth May (1880-1962); one son, one daughter.

04.02.1914
Sheerness, Sheppey district, Kent
-
02.08.1965
Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales

2nd Lt.	26.01.1939 [85620]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	01.07.1940-30.09.1940
T/Capt.	01.10.1940-29.03.1944
WS/Capt.	30.03.1944
Capt.	03.04.1944
A/Maj.	30.12.1943-29.03.1944
T/Maj.	30.03.1944-24.11.1946, 31.12.1946-02.04.1949
Maj.	03.04.1949
A/Lt.Col.	04.05.1946-17.07.1946
Lt.Col.	15.09.1958

MC	24.01.1946	NW Europe: attack on railway junction Buchen 01.05.45 [recommendation available upon request]
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Half Blue for Rugby Football).

			served in the ranks for 5 years, 232 days (Y Cadet)
26.01.1939			commissioned, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
1939	-	1945/46?	1st Battalion The Green Howards (UK, France (BEF), Norway, UK, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany)
1948	-	1951	Royal West African Frontier Force (Commandant West African School of Infantry and Education, 1949-1951)
1951	-	1953	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (S.D.), HQ Salisbury Plain District
1953	-	1956	Suez and Cyprus operations (medal & clasp)
1963	-	1965	Army Recruiting Officer (I.C.) Swansea

Parkinson,
David Fortune
D.F. Parkinson

Son of ... Parkinson, and ... Fortune.

(09?).1921
Halifax district, Yorkshire - West Riding / West Yorkshire
-
27.02.1945
(KIA)
[Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, 48.G.7]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.10.1942 [249220]
WS/Lt.	17.04.1943

17.10.1942			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	27.02.1945	.. Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (NW Europe)

Parkinson,
Raymond
"Ray"
R. Parkinson (Photo courtesy of Mr Mike Rastatter at ancestry.co.uk)

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Arthur Parkinson (1877-1958), wholesale clothier, and Lilian Elizabeth Mary Hutchinson (1880-1952).
Married (18.09.1944, St Annes Roman Catholic Church, Crumpsall, Manchester, Lancashire) Mary Gabrielle "Gay" Moss ((03?).1921 - 19.07.2016), daughter of George Suggitt, and Hilda Moss; three sons, three daughters.

12.11.1920
Blackley, Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
19.04.2015
St Annes-on-Sea since 2002 (formerly of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester)

Cadet	? [2597727]
2nd Lt.	10.11.1943 [299927]
WS/Lt.	10.05.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

Student.

10.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served Special Operations Burma

Teacher, St Bede’s College, Manchester.

Parminter,
Reginald Horace Roger
R.H.R. Parminter

Son of Maj. William George Parminter and Leila M.E. Heyn.
Married (1919) Muriel Davis; one son.

28.03.1893
-
07.05.1967
Burwash, Sussex

2nd Lt.	05.02.1913 [1207]
T/Lt.	31.08.1914-14.09.1914
Lt.	15.09.1914
T/Capt.	01.08.1915-30.09.1915
Capt.	01.10.1915
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1919
Maj.	06.10.1926
Lt.Col.	05.11.1933
Bt. Col.	07.04.1935, seniority 07.04.1934
Col.	05.11.1937, seniority 07.04.1934 (supernumerary 31.12.1945) (retd 20.04.1948)
A/Brig.	07.03.1940-20.07.1940, 29.10.1940-15.12.1940
T/Brig.	16.12.1940-25.10.1941, 04.11.1941-07.06.1942, 11.07.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	20.04.1948

CBE	11.07.1940	for distinguished services in the field
DSO	03.06.1917	for distinguished service in the field in Mesopotamia
MC	< 03.1917	?
MID	22.06.1915	?
MID	19.10.1916	?
MID	15.08.1917	?
MID	05.06.1919	?
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

1914 Star; British War Medal; Vicotry Medal; Kurdistan & Iraq Medals & Clasps

Education: Dover College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Royal Air Force Staff College

05.02.1913			commissioned, The Manchester Regiment
			served European War (DSO, MC): France & Belgium (26.09.1914-26.04.1915, 01.08.1915-11.12.1915), Mesopotamia (05.01.1916-31.10.1918)
23.10.1915	-	03.03.1917	Adjutant, ... The Manchester Regiment
04.03.1917	-	22.12.1917	Staff Captain I.E.F. "D" & Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
14.08.1918	-	23.03.1921	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
19.11.1921	-	31.03.1922	Brigade Major, ... (Western Command)
14.04.1922			restored to the esablishment, The Manchester Regiment
30.08.1923	-	09.08.1924	Officer Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
10.08.1924	-	31.08.1927	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
(03.1931)			1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment (Shorncliffe)
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment (Gosport, for West Indies)
05.11.1933	-	06.04.1935	CO 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment
07.04.1935	-	06.04.1939	Commandant Royal Military School of Music and Inspector of Army Bands (Kneller Hall, Twickenham) (Class Y to 31.07.1938)
01.09.1939	-	06.03.1940	Assistant-Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), British Expeditionary Force
07.03.1940	-	20.07.1940	Deputy Quartermaster-General (DQMG), British Expeditionary Force
27.07.1940	-	26.10.1940	Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ... (Home Forces)
29.10.1940	-	25.10.1941	Brigadier in charge of Administration, Gibraltar
04.11.1941	-	27.02.1942	Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DA&QMG), ... (Home Forces)
28.02.1942	-	07.06.1942	Brigadier in charge of Administration, ... (Home Forces)
18.06.1942	-	23.06.1942	Colonel in charge of Administration, ... (Home Forces)
1942	-	1944	Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster- General, ... (in charge of Administration)
1944	-	1945	commanded Area in France and Belgium
29.01.1943	-	1948	ADC to the King
1946	-	1947	Chief of UNRRA Mission to Austria
20.08.1948	-	28.03.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Member UN Secretariat, New York, 1948-1954.

Parr,
William Stephen John
W.S.J. Parr

Married 1st ((03?).1916, Reading district, Berkshire) Alice Humphries.
Married 2nd ((09?).1943, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Emily E. Snow.

21.07.1891
Crediton district, Devon
-
02.1990
Abingdon district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire

Lt. (QM)	16.03.1939 [86473]
WS/Capt. (QM)	01.11.1942 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 31.08.1948; exceeded age limit)
T/Maj. (QM)	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

16.02.1951

16.03.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Parrott,
Robert Frederick
R.F. Parrott

Son of Charles Parrott (1880-), and Margaret Buckham (1889-).
Married ...; ... children.
Residence: (1944) Harrow.

12.05.1917
Keighley district, Yorkshire
-
07.1987
Basingstoke district, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.11.1940 [158304]
WS/Lt.	30.05.1942 (dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court-Martial 14.09.1948)

	MC	13.09.1945	?
	MC	01.11.1945	escape and evasion

			either 122nd, 123rd or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	27.05.1941	31st Field Regiment RA (4th Indian Division) (captured at Halfaya Pass)
27.05.1941	-	15.09.1943	POW in Italian captivity (from 08.1941 Camp 41, Montalbo, Italy, after a betrayed escape attempt from early 1942 Camp 5, Gavi, Italy, later to Picenza, Italy; escaped)
15.09.1943	-	21.11.1943	partisan actions in Northern Italy/Yugoslavia (captured)
21.11.1943	-	12.04.1945	POW in German captivity (Oflag VIII, later Oflag 79; several escape attempts)

Parry,
D E

?
-
?

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned ?

Parry-Smith,
David [Patrick]
D. Parry-Smith

18.04.1918
-
06.2004
Exetrer district, Devon

Cadet	? [2045780]
2nd Lt.	20.02.1944 [326268]
WS/Lt.	20.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

29.06.1951

20.02.1944

commissioned, Royal Fusiliers [emergency commission]

Parsons,
Geoffry Howard
G.H. Parsons

Son (with two sisters) of Arthur Dunning Parsons (1884-1969), and Mabel Beatrice Collier (1881-1922).
Married ((09?).1955, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Brenda E. Lewis; two sons, two daughters.

17.06.1917
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
28.12.1981
Bristol, Avon

2nd Lt.	25.02.1940 [121320]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1941
T/Capt.	30.11.1942-12.202.1945
WS/Capt.	13.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	09.04.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

			served in the ranks, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
1939	-	1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
25.02.1940			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]

Parsons,
Jack Frank
J.F. Parsons

Son of ... Parsons, and ... Merritt.
Married ((12?).1948, Chatham district, Kent) Olwen P. Read (predeceased him); one daughter.

(06?).1917
Strood district, Kent
-
17.02.2012
[Cranbrook?]

Cadet	? [1444852]
2nd Lt.	25.06.1944 [327926]
WS/Lt.	24.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

25.06.1944

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Parsons,
Stanley Frederick
S.F. Parsons

?
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [189817]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	04.12.1942-(07.1945)

24.05.1941			commissioned, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars [emergency commission]
18.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)

Parsons,
William Walter
W.W. Parsons

03.11.1887
-
(09?).1963
Plymouth district, Devon

Lt. QM	25.09.1929
Capt. QM	25.09.1937
Maj. QM	10.01.1940 (retd 22.09.1946)

			served in the ranks for 16 years, 201 days
			Warrant Officer Class 2 for 5 years, 344 days
			Warrant Officer Class 1 for 5 years, 116 days
25.09.1929			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
12.1941	-	1945	captured at Hong Kong & POW in Japanese captivity

Partridge,
Raymond John Bruce

Son of Percival John Partridge (1895-1961), and Gertrude Gullick (1897-1919).
Married (16.08.1941, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Annie Grace Darch (20.05.1916 - 04.12.2012), daughter of Albert Edward Darch (1886-1969), and Annie Peacock (1887- 1982); ... children (one daughter, one son?).

13.11.1916
Pontypool district, Glamorganshire
-
06.09.2004
Loughton, Epping Forest district, Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.10.1942 [247824]
WS/Lt.	14.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	20.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

14.10.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Pate,
G R
G.R. Pate

?
-
?

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

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

Paton,
Arthur William
A.W. Paton

Son of British consul to Korea. Married (1955) Jane Cooper; three sons, one daughter.

08.04.1916
Korea
-
08.02.2005

2nd Lt.	20.07.1940 [140780]
WS/Lt.	20.01.1942
Lt.	? (reld 26.11.1952)
T/Capt.	17.09.1942
WS/Capt.	23.12.1943
T/Maj.	23.12.1943
Hon. Maj.	26.11.1952

24.02.1942

Middle East

Education: St Edward's, Oxford; Christ Church, Oxford
Worked for several months on the Humber production line in Coventry, before joining Burmah Oil.

20.07.1940			commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps - 11th Hussars (North Africa) [emergency commission]
1942			served Special Operations Executive (SOE) to supply the Greek resistance movement
1945?			Ceylon

Served a spell at the Foreign Office, before a fishing business took him to Kenya for four years. Joined the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (Bangkok). Returned to the UK in 1965, living in Sussex.

Paton,
Kenneth Maclaren

Son of Alfred Henry Paton, and Alice Paton.

20.07.1903
Woking, Guildford district, Surrey
-
(03?).1979
Wandsworth district, London

2nd Lt.	23.06.1940 [27429]
WS/Lt.	03.04.1941
T/Capt.	03.02.1942-16.11.1943
WS/Capt.	17.11.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
A/Maj.	1943?
T/Maj.	17.11.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946
Capt. TA	13.11.1947, seniority 17.11.1943
Maj. TA	01.10.1948

MBE	13.12.1945	Italy * [citation available upon request]
MC	04.05.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya) ** [citation available upon request]
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	23.03.1944	Sicily
MID	19.07.1945	Italy

23.06.1940			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(1942)			1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Middle East) (MC)
26.11.1943	-	04.1945	Camp Commandant of the 8th Army’s rear echelon (MBE)
13.11.1947	-	01.01.1950	Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
01.01.1950	-	16.03.1955	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

* Recommendation for the award of a periodic MBE to Maj. K.M. Paton: Major Paton has carried out the duties of Camp Commandant Rear Eighth Army since 26 November 1943. Throughout this period he has consistently carried out his duties in an exemplary manner and has by his never failing cheerfulness, hard work and ability oared for the needs of the personnel at Rear Army in a most praiseworthy manner. The moves of Rear Eighth Army are complicated and difficult but this officer has never failed to organize them so well that they have been carried out to programme which has ensured the least dislocation of effort inevitable in a move of a Headquarters. By the confidence with which he inspires all with whom he comes in contact his tactfulness in dealing with senior officers and his care of the personnel at Rear Army he has made a very real contribution to the smooth running of the administration of Eighth Army particularly during the final advance in April 1945.
[Recommended by Brig. ..., DA&QMG Eighth Army, approved by Lt.Gen. R.L. McCreery, commanding Eighth Army.]
** Recommendation for the award of an immediate Military Cross to Capt. K.M. Paton: On the night of 24/25 Oct 1942 at the battle of Alamein, Captain Paton, as Second-in-Command 'D' Company, 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders, was ordered at 0300 hours to take a patrol of one platoon up to a position 1,000 yards forward which adjoined the position held by the Rifle Brigade. Captain Paton set off with No. 18 Platoon under Lieutenant Midgley. The objective was reached, whereupon, as soon as dawn broke, he and his men were subjected to heavy and accurate enemy small arms and mortar fire. It was impossible to reach the position in daylight and despite a number of casualties, Captain Paton kept up morale on an extremely high level and maintained control of his men; in fact he proved himself complete master of the situation. For 48 hours they remained in this exposed position, maintaining their hold on the ridge during which time a tank battle raged over their heads. Captain Paton's determination and wise leadership were entirely responsible for the few casualties that were sustained, in addition to which he was constantly keeping Battalion H.Q. up to date with vital information.
[Recommended 04.02.1943 by Lt.Col. A.H.F. Faussett-Farquhar, commanding 1st Bn The Gordon Highlanders, approved 05.02.1943 by Brig. D.A.H. Graham, commanding 153rd Infantry Brigade, 10.03.1943 by Maj.Gen. D.N. Wimberley, commanding 51st Infantry Division, by Lt.Gen. O.W.H. Leese, commanding 30 Corps, and finally 17.03.1943 by Gen. H.R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Middle East Forces.]

Patrick,
Francis Wheatly
F.W. Patrick

Son of Patrick Rodger Patrick (1875-1932), and Hilda Gertrude Wheatly (1881-).
Married Isabel Spencer (21.04.1913 - 26.07.2006); one son.

06.05.1909
Garnocklea, Hamilton, Scotland
-
04.12.1996
Edinburgh, Scotland

2nd Lt.	01.01.1928 [39528]
Lt.	16.02.1936?
Capt.	16.02.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.	1943?
T/Maj.	21.09.1943-(04.1944)
A/Lt.Col.	1950s
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

OBE	13.06.1957	HM's birthday 57
TD	20.04.1944	-
TD	15.07.1952	1st clasp
TD	15.07.1952	2nd clasp

			late Cadet, Bromsgrove School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.01.1928			commissioned, 6th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
25.11.1953	-	06.01.1958	Lieutenant, City of Glasgow Contingent - Army Cadet Force - Territorial Army (OBE)
?	-	29.07.1959	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Solicitor.

Patrick-Smith,
Roy
R. Patrick-Smith

Married (divorced); one son.

?
-
1985
Morocco

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.08.1940 [145802]
WS/Capt.	22.01.1942
T/Maj.	22.01.1942-28.09.1944
WS/Maj.	29.07.1944
T/Lt.Col.	29.07.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	?

28.01.1949

?	-	17.08.1940	133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.08.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served Western Desert & Greece; was part of delegation to Beirut; later served in the Balkans and on the Allied Commission in Hungary (initially Artillery, then political officer, then intelligence duties)
post-war ?			Territorial Army ?

Sometime ADC to Duke of Gloucester.

Patterson,
Leslie Franklyn
W.W. Parsons

Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Horace Franklin Patterson (1875-1948), and Georgina Lizzie Annie Slade (1880-1961).
Married 1st ((09?).1927, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Daisy Ellen Fishlock ((06?).1906 - (09?).1964); one daughter, one son.
Married 2nd ((12?).1964, Kettering district, Northamptonshire) Cecilie M. Rowlett.

19.11.1900
Rochford district, Essex
-
10.1985
Kettering district, Northamptonshire

RSM	?
Lt. QM	01.12.1939 [108729]
WS/Capt. QM	01.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon Capt.	< 04.1946

01.12.1939

commissioned, 16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Patterson,
Richard William Bowater
R.W.B. Patterson

Son (with one brother) of Bernard William Patterson (1882-1961), and Florence Gertrude Bowater (1889-1962).
Married ((03?).1941, Solihull, Warwickshire) Muriel Couch (28.11.1916 - 05.2006), daughter (with one brother) of Walter Conroy Couch (1888-1959), and Elsie Couch (1891-1962); one son.

01.07.1918
Kings Newnham, Warwickshire
-
21.03.2002
Chichester, Sussex

2nd Lt.	15.07.1939
WS/Lt.	15.01.1941
T/Capt.	27.10.1942-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

			late Cadet Corporal, Canford School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
15.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...

Paul,
Charles Robert
C.R. Paul

29.12.1901
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-

2nd Lt.	13.02.1921
Lt.	13.07.1923
Capt.	13.07.1934
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	22.09.1942-21.12.1942
T/Lt.Col.	22.12.1942-31.03.1944, 30.01.1945-(01.1946)

NW Frontier of India 1930-1931 Medal & Clasp

13.07.1921			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.04.1938	-	01.09.1939	Adjutant, ...
?	-	?	?

Paul,
C P
C.P. Paul

?
-

Col.

UNKNOWN; perhaps Lt.Col. C.R. Paul ?

(1943)

Combined Operations HQ

Pavey,
John Douglas

Son of Ernest William Pavey, and Elizabeth Lucy Macfarlane.
Married ((12?).1942, Wandsworth district, London) Nancy M. Gadd ((09?).1919 -), daughter of James Gadd, and Laura Mercer.

12.09.1915
Rochford district, Essex
-
04.1996
Sheffield district, Yorkshire

Cadet	? [2880383]
2nd Lt.	22.02.1945 [341637]
WS/Lt.	29.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

25.09.1951

22.02.1945			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
01.01.1949			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Pavitt,
Richard [Gordon] Hastings
R.H. Parvitt (Photo courtesy of Mr David Barlow)

His father served in WW1 (New Zealand army attached to a British unit) and was Mentioned in Despatches at the end of the war by Field Marshal Haig.

16.09.1920
Masterton, New Zealand
-
07.2009 still alive

Gnr.	1938 [064165]
2nd Lt.	19.11.1944 [348803]
WS/Lt.	08.04.1945 (reld 24.01.1947; on medical grounds (malarai))
T/Capt.	12.11.1945-24.01.1947
Hon. Capt.	24.01.1947

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
NZWSM	-	-
GenSM	-	& bar SE Asia 1945/46
EM	26.04.1949	& bar New Zealand
EM	28.11.1958	*

* Curiously enough, Pavitt wrote to the War Office on the 30th June, 1958, claiming the award of the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) and, most surprisingly and probably because they were unaware of his previous award of the New Zealand Efficiency Medal, this award was gazetted on the 28th November, 1958.

1938			enlisted in the New Zealand Territorial Force and served in the Field Artillery
08.1943			attested for the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force and posted to the 6th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery (Italy)
04.1944			selected for a course at an Officer Cadet Training Unit as an officer candidate for the British Army
19.11.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1944	-	1946	attached to the 4th Field Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery (Burma [advance on Rangoon], surrender ceremony at Singapore as part of the British delegation with Lord Mountbatten (09.1945), then Java [Indonesia] (with 5th Field Regiment?))

Payn,
Richard Frederick

Son of Frederick William Beak Payn (1876-1920), and Margaret Kate Orton (1880-1956).
Married ((12?).1937, Uxbridge district, Middlesex) Eva "Evelyn" Gladys Hunn (née Hayward) (20.01.1909 - 06.1988), earlier (1931) married to Victor William Hunn (1905-1936), and daughter of Arthur George Hayward (1877-1946); two daughters, one son.

13.12.1912
Paddington, Lodon
-
(09?).1967
Chapel-en-le-Frith district, Derbyshire

Cadet	? [14406491]
2nd Lt.	02.10.1943 [295738]
WS/Lt.	02.04.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

02.10.1943

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Payne,
Arthur Dudley
A.D. Payne (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Married ((06?).1948, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Helen N. Mitchell; one son, one daughter.

27.03.1916
Durban
-
02.08.2006
Pembrokeshire

Lt.	12.09.1942 [246199]
WS/Capt.	12.09.1943
Capt.	13.12.1947, seniority 12.09.1943 (reld 31.03.1967)

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe 44-45

Education: Leys School; Christ's College, Cambridge (MA 1942; MB, BCh Camb 06.07.1940); MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1943 (St Bartholomew's Hospital).

12.09.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			Regimental Medical Officer, Royal Norfolk Regiment (NW Europe)
(1945)			Regimental Medical Officer, 1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)
13.12.1947			commissioned, Territorial Army

General practitioner, Hythe, Kent, until retirement in 1966. Senior House Surgeon St Bartholomew's Hospital. Reserve Surgical Officer Royal Masonic Hospital.

Payne,
Charles Ainsworth
C.A. Payne

15.06.1919
-

2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [170655]
WS/Lt.	01.07.1942
T/Capt.	01.07.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	31.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	31.10.1944-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	01.05.1947, seniority 15.06.1946 (reld 29.06.1948)
Hon. Maj.	29.06.1948

15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
01.05.1947	-	29.06.1948	Territorial Army
22.08.1951			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Payne,
Harold
H. Payne

?
-

2nd Lt.	02.10.1943 [295282]
WS/Lt.	?, seniority 02.10.1943
T/Capt.	11.10.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Maj.	1946?

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

02.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in NW Europe (Caen) and possibly in the in the Trans Jordan Frontier Force

Payne,
Joseph
J. Payne

?
-
?

Lt.	15.06.1940 [111968]
WS/Capt.	30.11.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Maj.	30.11.1941-(07.1944), 05.07.1944-(07.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

MID

24.06.1943

Middle East

15.06.1940

commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]

Payne,
Michael Shears
M.S. Payne

Son of Rawdon Shears Payne, and Sylvia Harvey.
From Colne Engaine.
Married (15.05.1953) Hon. Joan Spring-Rice; one son, one daughter.

?
-

2nd Lt.	21.03.1942 [229261]
Lt.	03.07.1944 (reld 02.01.1948)
T/Capt.	01.08.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	02.01.1948

	MC	12.04.1945	NW Europe
	MID	24.08.1944	Italy

21.03.1942			commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
(1944/45?)			short service commission, Royal Armoured Corps
(1945)			served, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
16.08.1947			transferred, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

Payne,
Sidney
"Peter"
S. PAyne (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive)

Son of Sidney Payne (1884-1948), and Elizabeth Maud Smith.
Married (26.10.1945, Dunira, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland) Fiona Macbeth (20.08.1926 - 1968), daughter of William Macbeth, and Winnifred Morrice; four daughters.

04.11.1918
North Southsea, Hampshire
-
2000
Cherbourg Hospital, Normandy, France

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.07.1941 [194932]
Lt.	28.04.1945, seniority 04.03.1942
A/Capt.	21.02.1945-20.05.1945
T/Capt.	21.05.1945-03.09.1946
Capt.	04.09.1946
T/Maj.	19.10.1952-03.09.1953
Maj.	04.09.1953 (retd 21.04.1958)

			served in the ranks (mobilized TA) for 1 year, 307 days
05.07.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne)
28.04.1945			permanent commission

Peacock,
Percy
P. Peacock

03.01.1905
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
(06?).1983
Chiltern and Beaconsfield district, Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.04.1943
WS/Lt.	23.10.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	30.07.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

23.04.1943

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Peacop,
Archie William
A.W. Peacop

Married (02.09.1944) Second Officer Rhona Cynthia Martin Power, WRNS (23.12.1914 - 08.07.2008); two daughters.

11.03.1917
Calcutta, India
-
27.02.1992

2nd Lt.	03.09.1939 [322289]
WS/Lt.	03.03.1941
WS/Capt.	28.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	28.12.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

03.09.1939			commissioned, General List, Infantry - African Colonial Forces Section [emergency commission]
			served Kenya Regiment

Peake,
Archibald Ernest [Jim]

Son of Daniel Peake, and Rosamund Kennedy.
Married ((09?).1939, Canterbury district, Kent) Mary E. McCormack.

10.03.1914
Rugby, Warwickshire
-
11.12.1983
Auckland, New Zealand

Sgt.	? [1869564]
2nd Lt.	11.01.1944 [305210]
WS/Lt.	11.01.1944
T/Capt.	?
Lt.	01.08.1949, seniority 11.01.1944
Capt.	11.01.1950 (reld 07.08.1956)

LSGCM

03.06.1949

[date of qualification 13.01.1947]

			served in the ranks
11.01.194			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [immediate emergency commission]
01.08.1949	-	07.08.1956	short service commission
07.08.1956	-	10.03.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Pearce,
A W

?
-
?

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned ?

Pearce,
Cecil Brynmor

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of John Albert Pearce (1889-1938), and Elizabeth Mary John (1890-1971).
Married ((09?).1943, Fulham district, London) Beryl M. Drew; ... children.

09.07.1919
Kensington district, London
-
05.2001
Andover district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	25.09.1943 [294644]
WS/Lt.	25.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

25.09.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps (Non-Medical Section) [emergency commission]
			served with 141st Field Hospital

Pearce,
Frederick Charles

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

16.05.1911
-
09.11.1976
Hastings district, East Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.02.1943 [262860]
WS/Lt.	12.08.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	07.05.1945-(08.1946)

			124th Officer Cadet Training Unit (Llandrindod Wells)
12.02.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Chartered surveyor.
His son writes: "Latterly in France and Low Countries in Claims and Hirings."

Pearce,
Hedley Frederick

Son of ... Pearce, and ... Martin.

(06?).1917
Tavistock district, Devon
-

Cadet	? [14316310]
2nd Lt.	23.10.1943 [296867]
WS/Lt.	23.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

23.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
11.12.1943			transferred, The Devonshire Regiment
11.12.1943	-	(09.1944)	Officer Commanding 5 Platoon, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Pearce,
Henry Hayes

Son of ... Pearce, and ... Buckley.

04.07.1920
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
10.2009 still alive

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.07.1943 [288754]
WS/Lt.	30.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

30.07.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in India (may have served as Deputy Provost Marshal, Military Police Calcutta, Eastern Command)

Pearson,
Alastair Stevenson

Eldest son of Alexander Stevenson Pearson, of Glasgow.
Married (09.09.1944, Marden, Devizes) Mrs Joan Margaret Morgan-WeldSmith (died 07.06.1993), widow of W/Cdr. Reginald Gilbert Squarey Morgan-Weld-Smith, RAF, and daughter of Mr & Mrs Charles H. Niven, of Marden Grange, Devizes, Wiltshire; one daughter, two step daughters.

see: www.ornebridgehead.org

01.06.1915
Glasgow, Scotland
-
29.03.1996
Gartocharn, by Alexandria, Dunbartonshire

2nd Lt.	? [62792]
Lt.	02.05.1937
Capt.	16.02.1939
WS/Maj.	23.02.1943
T/Lt.Col.	1942?-1943?, 02.12.1943-(04.1946)
Lt.Col.	01.05.1947
Col.	11.11.1953, seniority 01.05.1950
A/Brig.	?

	CB	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58
	DSO	04.05.1943	North Africa
	DSO	18.05.1943	North Africa
	DSO	23.12.1943	Sicily
	DSO	01.02.1945	NW Europe
	OBE	1953	?
	MC	23.09.1943	North Africa
	TD	?	?
	TD	13.07.1951	?
	TD	?	?
	TD	17.03.1959	?
-	CFM	05.1981	Cadet Forces Medal

Education: Kelvinside Academy; Sedbergh.
Company Director, 1936-1939.

02.05.1934			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) - Territorial Army
02.05.1934	-	01.08.1942	6th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry, Territorial Army (Glasgow)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.08.1942			transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
1942	-	1945	Commanding Officer, 1st and 8th Parachute Battalions
1947	-	1953	Commanding Officer, 15th (Scottish) Battalion The Parachute Regiment (TA)
1953	-	1959	Deputy Commander, 46th Parachute Brigade (TA)
10.01.1962	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Commander Scotland Army Cadet Force, Brigadier, 26.10.1967-1981. ADC (TA) to the Queen, 16.05.1956-16.05.1961. Honoray Colonel, 15th (Scottish) Bn The Parachute Regiment (TA), 30.12.1963-01.04.1977 and 01.04.1983-1990. Honorary Sheriff, Dunbarton, 1991. DL Glasgow, 1951, Dunbartonshire, 1975. KStJ 1980. Farmer; Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire, 20.06.1979-1990; Keeper of Dumbarton Castle, since 1981.
Literature: Julian James, A fierce quality : the fighting life of Alastair Pearson DSO & Three Bars, MC (1989)

Pearson,
Barclay Andrew

Son of ... Pearosn, and ... Bowden-Smith.
From Bridge of Allan.

13.01.1912
Dorchester district, Dorset
-
02.1990 still alive

2nd Lt.	01.02.1936, seniority 30.08.1934 [66254]
Lt.	30.08.1937
A/Capt.	06.11.1939-05.02.1940
T/Capt.	06.02.1940-29.08.1942
Capt.	30.08.1942
A/Maj.	19.11.1942-18.02.1943
T/Maj.	19.02.1943-13.02.1945
WS/Maj.	14.02.1945
Maj.	30.08.1947
A/Lt.Col.	19.08.1943-10.09.1943, 08.12.1944-13.02.1945
T/Lt.Col.	14.02.1945-29.08.1946, 27.04.1948-25.07.1951, 20.02.1954-11.03.1954
Lt.Col.	12.03.1954
T/Col.	26.07.1951-19.02.1954
local Col.	27.04.1948-02.05.1950
Col.	16.06.1957 (retd 14.04.1960)
Hon. Brig.	14.04.1960

DSO	10.05.1945	NW Europe
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
MID	25.11.1943	Middle East

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: West Downs School, Winchester (1921-...); BA; psc

			from the General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
01.02.1936			commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
06.11.1939	-	26.07.1940	Instructor, Middle East Weapon Training School
07.07.1940	-	18.11.1942	Adjutant, ...
19.11.1942	-	01.09.1944	Deputy Assistant Quatermater-General (DAQMG), HQ 30 Corps
(8.12.44?)	-	(1945?)	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots
05.09.1945	-	29.05.1946	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), HQ 51st (Highland) Infantry Division
...			...
12.03.1954	-	28.02.1957	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
...			...

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), 12.04.1965.

Pearson,
Frank Addison
F.A. Pearson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ruth Arber née Pearson)

Son of Aubrey Thomas Pearson, and Ethel Beare.
Married; .. children (one daughter?).

06.08.1923
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
-
07.10.2006
Newton Abbot, Teignbridge district, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.10.1942 [247004]
WS/Lt.	03.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt.	(1944)

	MC ?	?	Sicily
	CdeG	1944	France

Education: Allhallows School, Budleigh Salterton; Edinburgh University.

1942	-	1945	served in North Africa, Sicily, France and Belgium:
03.10.1942			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
05.04.1943	-	09.06.1944	2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (UK & NW Europe)
10.06.1944	-	(09..1944)	Officer Commanding, 6 Platoon, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)
03.05.1946			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (served with 2nd Parachute Battalion)

Pearson,
George Campbell
"Algy"

Younger son (with two sisters and one brother) of James Rae Pearson, CIE (1871-1951), and Grace Carleton Crouchley Pitcher (1881-1953), of Briencliff Laxey, Isel of Mann.
Married ((03?).1942, Westminster district, London) Katherine Maureen Ferguson, daughter of Mr & Mrs H. Gordon Ferguson, of Weans, Hunstanton, Norfolk.

18.08.1915
India
-
28.03.1944
Burma
[age 28]
[Imphal War Cemetery, India, 8.C.9]

2nd Lt.	29.08.1935 [66015]
Lt..	29.08.1938
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-06.07.1941
WS/Capt.	07.07.1941
Capt.	29.08.1943
A/Maj.	04.05.1940-11.07.1940, 14.06.1941-06.07.1941
T/Maj.	07.07.1941-28.03.1944

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

29.08.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			served 151st or 152nd (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA
?	-	28.03.1944	attached Headquarters 23rd Indian Division (a Brigade Major RA)

Pearson,
James Herbert Acheson *
J.H.A. Pearson (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)

* also known as: Herbert James Pearson

12.07.1916
-
04.03.2002
Steyning, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	11.01.1941 [165957]
WS/Lt.	11.07.1942
A/Capt.	24.07.1944-23.10.1944
T/Capt.	24.10.1944-05.10.1946
WS/Capt.	06.10.1946
A/Maj.	10.01.1946-13.02.1946, 11.08.1946-05.10.1946
T/Maj.	06.10.1946-05.03.1948
Lt.	22.03.1947, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt.	22.03.1947 seniority 01.07.1946
T/Maj.	26.04.1951-11.07.1952
Maj.	12.07.1952 (retd 26.07.1958)
A/Lt.Col.	06.03.1948-11.06.1950
Hon. Lt.Col.	26.07.1958

			served in the ranks (mobilized TA) for 1 year, 139 days
?	-	11.10.1941	170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
11.01.1941			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission to 21.03.1947]
22.03.1947			permanent commission
(1947)			HQ Southern Command (Poona, India)

Pearson,
Kenneth Noble
K.N. Pearson

Son of Alfred Pearson (1848-1909), and Caroline Doncaster Noble (1859-1925).
Married (1923) Margaret Aley Vincent Goode (12.09.1897-1975); three sons, two daughters.

14.08.1889
Brighton, Sussex
-
27.01.1961
Ealing, Middlesex

2nd Lt.	22.09.1906
T/2nd Lt.	?
T/Capt.	30.07.1916 (Unemployed List 15.10.1919) (retd)
Lt.	19.10.1940 [152245] (reld < 04.1946)

20.10.1916

* For conspicuous gallantry and skill. With one other pilot he attacked ten hostile aeroplanes. The other pilot had his controls cut and had to return, but Captain Pearson fought on till all the enemy aeroplanes were dispersed. On another occasion he bombed trains from a low altitude. He has done other fine work.

22.09.1906	-	31.03.1908	commissioned, 2nd Volunteer Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment
01.04.1908			transferred, 5th Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment
03.11.1915			appointed, Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) (as Flying Officer) [personal number 962] (and to be transferred from the Royal Engineers to the General List)
30.07.1916			promoted to Flight Commander, RFC
19.10.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

AMInstCE.

Pearson,
[Sir] Thomas Cecil Hook
T.C.H. Pearson (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

01.07.1914
Queenstown, Ireland
-

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47520]
...	...
T/Col.	08.12.1944-13.06.1945
...	...
Maj.Gen.	04.11.1961, seniority 10.02.1961
...	...
Gen.	07.01.1972 (retd 27.12.1974)

KCB	1967	?
CB	1964	?
CBE	1959	?
DSO	09.05.1941	?
DSO	19.08.1943	?
OBE	30.10.1953	?
MID	26.07.1940	?

30.08.1934			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade
...	-	...	...
31.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...

Peasegood,
James Arthur
"Jim"
J.A. Peasegood

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Walter Garton Peasegood (1865-1934), and Edith Walley Brough (1879-1950).
Married ((03?).1939, Stoke upon Trent district, Staffordshire) Winifred Kendrick (17.11.1909 - 05.1991), daugher of Joseph Ernest Kendrick (1878-1961), and Winifred Unwin (1880-1959); one son, one daughter.

18.02.1906
Lycett, Madeley, Newcastle under Lyne district, Staffordshire
-
(12?).1976
North Walsham district, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	13.07.1932 [53322]
Lt.	13.07.1935
WS/Capt.	08.05.1942
Capt.	11.04.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	10.11.1942-(04.)1944
Hon. Maj.	?

12.12.1950

& 1st clasp

13.07.1932			commissioned, 54th (West Riding & Stafford) Medium Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
17.10.1932			transferred, 51st (Midland) Medium Brigade RA
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			went to France with British Expeditionary Force; later with 8th Army in Egypt and then in NW Europe after D-Day

Inspector of Mines.

Peasley,
John Thomas
J.T. Peasley (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

Cadet	? [6083568]
2nd Lt.	15.08.1943 [300188]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	30.06.1945 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	30.06.1945-(04.1946)

10.02.1944

Italy

15.08.1943			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
(1945)			1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Italy, NW Europe)

Peatt,
Ernest Snowden Wallace
E.S.W. Peatt

16.03.1895
-
13.12.1957

Capt.	18.11.1917
...	...
T/Brig.	13.08.1944-(01.1946)

OBE	?	?
MID	01.04.1941	?
MID	30.12.1941	?
MID	06.04.1944	?

18.11.1917			commissioned, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
13.02.1944	-	(04.1947)	Director of Veterinary Services, India

Pedder,
Richard Robert Newsham
"Dick"
R.R.N. Pedder

Son of Brig.Gen. Ernest Newsham Pedder, and Mary Aloisa Pedder.
Husband of Pamela Anne Pedder.
Residence: Stirlingshire.

20.07.1904
Southampton, South Stoneham district, Hampshire
-
09.06.1941
(KIA) [age 36]
[Sidon War Cemetery, Lebanese Republic, 3.G.1]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1924 [31724]
Lt.	27.08.1926
Capt.	18.12.1936
WS/Maj.	22.10.1940
T/Lt.Col.	1941?

27.08.1924			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Cawnpore)
30.12.1931	-	12.11.1936	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Fort George)
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Fort George) (on the strength of the depot)
(01.1941)	-	09.06.1941	Commanding Officer, No. 11 (Scottish) Commando [which was "C" Battalion of Layforce] (killed in action, Litani River, Syria)

Pedley,
Norman
N. Pedley (Photo courtesy of Mr Pat Gariepy)

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [170722]
WS/Lt.	20.02.1942
T/Capt.	20.02.1942-21.09.1945
WS/Capt.	22.09.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	1945?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

?	-	14.02.1941	124th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
autumn 1945			308th Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)

Pedretti,
Louis
L. Pedretti

[= Pedretti, Louis Marino, born (09?).1902 , Westminster, London ??]

?
-

2nd Lt.	16.10.1939 [144882]
WS/Capt.	13.09.1940
A/Maj.	13.06.1940-12.09.1940
T/Maj.	13.09.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	08.06.1942
T/Lt.Col.	08.06.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Lt.Col.	06.12.1944 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 13.12.1946)
A/Col.	06.06.1944-05.12.1944
T/Col.	06.12.1944-(04.1946)

	OBE	06.01.1944	Middle East *
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02-07.41

* 11.04.1950 cancelled and annulled, and his name erased from the Register, in consequence of his having been cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial

16.10.1939			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
13.06.1940	-	(04.1941)	Deputy Assistant Director of Hirings, ...

Pedrick,
Charles
C. Pedrick

?
-

CSM	?
Cadet	? [5615558]
2nd Lt.	21.05.1944 [327185]
WS/Lt.	21.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

			served in the ranks, Devonshire Regiment
21.05.1944			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry(Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]

Peebles,
George Frederick [Robert]
G.F. Peebles (Photo courtesy of Ronald Peebles)

Married Yvonne Antoinette... (died 1989).

09.07.1900
Durban, South Africa
-
20.01.1955
Little Brickhill, North Buckinghamshire

S/Sgt.	?
Lt. (Ordnance Executive Officer, 3rd class)	01.06.1942 [234803]
WS/Capt. (Ordn. Exec. Offr., 2nd class)	01.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	20.12.1943-(04.1946)

1929	-	1934?	served in Egypt
20.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
			Officer-in-Charge, Camp Abassia, Egypt ?

Peel,
David Arthur [George]
D.A. Peel

Son of the Rev. the Hon. Maurice Berkeley Peel (1873-1917), MC and Bar, BA, Chaplain to the Forces, grandson of Prime Minister Robert Peel, and the Hon. Mrs. Emily Peel (née Alington) (1879-), of Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Married (14.04.1936) the Hon. Sara Carola Vanneck (25.09.1913-09.2001), daughter of William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield of Heveningham Hall and Margaret Eleanor Crosby; three sons, one daughter.
Residence: Neatishead, Norfolk, later Lacock, Wiltshire.

04.10.1910
Bromley district, Kent
-
12.09.1944
(DOW)
[Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium, VI.C.3]

2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [132247]
WS/Lt.	25.11.1941
T/Capt.	15.12.1941-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	:?

01.03.1945

NW Europe [posthumously] *

* On the evening of 10 Sep 44, during the advance to the ESCAUT CANAL, Major PEEL was in command of No. 1 Squadron, 2 Armoured Bn Irish Guards. Major PEEL was ordered to capture the bridge over the canal at DE GROOTE BARRIER; this bridge was known to be prepared for demolition, although it was believed to be still intact. As soon as the first tank exposed itself, the enemy opened fire with an anti-tank gun. Major PEEL at once directed the fire of his Squadron on to the bridge, while he himself went on foot to reconnoitre the German position. The bridge was found to be held by three 88mm guns and a large number of infantry. Major PEEL immediately ordered a troop to charge the bridge at speed under the covering fire of the remainder of the Squadron. He himself crossed the bridge with the leading troop. The speed and energy with which this attack was conducted resulted in complete success; the bridge was captured intact in spite of the obvious enemy intention to deny it to us at all costs. The success of this operation was very largely due to Major PEEL’s courage and determination to close with the enemy. Throughout the action he displayed a complete disregard for personal safety. The consistently high standard of leadership and gallantry displayed by this officer have been a constant source of inspiration to his Squadron. 11 Sep 44.

Education: Oxford University (BA).

25.05.1940			commissioned, Irish Guards [emergency commission]
21.04.1943	-	(04.)1944	Adjutant, ...
1944	-	12.09.1944	Officer Commanding, No. 1 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured) Battalion The Irish Guards

Pelham,
Robert Henry
R.H. Pelham (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

20.03.1921
-
12.2000
Carlisle, Cumberland

2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [155285]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	01.04.1943-(04.1946)

02.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	?	X Troop, later D Troop, 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR)

Pemberton,
Alan Patrick Gale
A.P.G. Pemberton

Son of Christopher Gale Pemberton (1892-), and Marie L. Eckstein.
Married ((12?).1944, Wallingford district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire) Mary O. Morrell ((12?).1921 - ), daughter of George M. Morrell, and Edith O. Nind; ... children (one son?).

17.05.1914
Steyning district, Sussex
-
1977
West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [165110]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
T/Capt.	06.09.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	05.03.1945 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	05.03.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. RARO	01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

?	-	21.12.1940	either Sandhurst or 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	Government Code and Cypher School (Bletchley Park)
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Pemberton,
[Ngaire] Antony Boyd
N.A.B. Pemberton

Son of Thomas James Pemberton, and of Jessie Helen Pemberton (nee Pope), of Redland, Bristol.

(09?).1922
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
-
13.04.1945
(DOW) [age 22]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, 20.C.2]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.09.1941 [207599]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

20.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?			transferred, The Gloucestershire Regiment
?	-	13.04.1945	attached, 7th Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment

Pemberton,
Trevor Hamilton
T.H. Pemberton (Photo courtesy of Mr James McConnan)

Son of ... Pemberton, and ... Benison.
Married 1st ...; one son, three daughters.
Married 2nd ((03?).1953, St Marylebone district, London) Section Officer Janet Goscombe Fildes, WAAF ((03?).1921 - ) (she was earlier married to Lt.Cdr. (S) Charles Kenneth McConnan, RNVR).

30.03.1918
Farnham district, Kent
-
(03?).1979
Halton district, Cheshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [162450]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

?	-	21.12.1940	either 162nd, 163rd, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
01.03.1941			transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
10.02.1945			transferred, Army Catering Corps

Pendlebury,
James Willie
J.W. Pendlebury

Married (31.07.1916) Dorothy Best; their son 2nd Lt. Michael Kenny Pendlebury of the 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment was killed on April 16 1945 aged 19 years.

04.06.1891
Lancashire
-
died between 1967 and 1985

2nd Lt. SR (prob)	16.03.1912
Lt. SR	?
Capt. SR	01.04.1916
Lt.	07.05.1921, seniority 01.10.1915 [4978]
Capt.	17.08.1921
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1931
Maj.	21.06.1933
Lt.Col.	03.07.1939 (supernumerary 03.07.1942)
Col.	31.12.1942, seniority 03.07.1942 (retd 18.12.1945)
A/Brig.	24.10.1940-23.04.1941
T/Brig.	24.04.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Brig.	18.12.1945

DSO	22.10.1940	gallant conduct in action with the enemy
MC	1916?	?
MID	22.06.1915	?
14\|15 St	?	?
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?

			Cadet Lance Serjeant, Manchester University Contingent, Officers Training Corps
16.03.1912			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment - Special Reserve of Officers
1914	-	24.05.1920	mobilized, Special Reserve (for 5 years, 294 days)
18.09.1914	-	28.06.1915	served France & Belgium (wounded twice)
(1916)			3rd Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment
28.09.1916	-	?	.. Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
07.05.1921			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment
16.04.1928	-	02.05.1929	Adjutant, Territorial Force, India
03.05.1929	-	15.04.1932	Staff Captain, Allahabad Brigade Area (India)
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Catterick)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Egypt (for Holywood))
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (Holywood)
03.07.1939	-	1940	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (France)
25.01.1940	-	05.02.1940	acting Commander, 127th (Manchester) Infantry Brigade (UK)
14.11.1940	-	03.11.1941	Commander, 225th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) (UK)
03.11.1941	-	12.04.1943	Commander, 140th (London) Infantry Brigade (UK)

Colonel, The East Lancashire Regiment, 01.01.1946-01.01.1956.

Peniakoff,
Vladimir
"Popski"
V. Peniakoff

Son of late Dmitri Peniakoff, of Russian origin.
Naturalized British citizen, 11.1946.
Married 1st (10.11.1928, Nag Hamadi, Egypt) Josèphe Louise Colette "Josette" Ceysens (born 1909) (marriage dissolved 1942); she remarried (1946) George Delcoigne); two daughters.
Married 2nd (02.04.1948, London) Junior Commander Pamela Hope Firth, ATS (05.12.1917 - 05.12.2005; she went on to marry Thomas Stanley "Tom" Matthews (08.10.1964), former Managing Director of Time magazine).
Last residence: Cliveden Place, Belgravia, London.

30.03.1897
Huy, Belgium
-
15.05.1951
National Hospital, Holborn, London
(brain tumour)
[buried at Wixoe, Suffolk]

2nd Lt.	04.10.1940 [159661]
WS/Capt.	01.07.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	01.07.1941-(04.1944)
A/Lt.Col. ? or T/Lt.Col. ?	1945 ?

DSO	26.04.1945	Italy
MC	26.11.1942	Middle East Special Operations & escapes
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Cour	12.04.1947	?
CdeG(B)	12.04.1947	?

Education: St John's College, Cambridge University
Served as a private in the French artillery in World War I. Emigrated to Egypt, working as an engineer for a sugar manufacturer, 1924.

04.10.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
			served in the Libyan Arab Force
10.1942	-	12.1942	formation of a small raiding unit
10.12.1942	-	14.09.1945	Commanding Officer, No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army") (Western Desert [Libya & Tunisia], Italy & Austria) [lost a finger on a raid in Barce (Africa), later he lost his left hand on a raid in Italy (11/12/1944)]

FRGS, 10.1937. Writer.
Published: Private Army (1950)
Literature: John Willett, Popski : a life of Vladimir Peniakoff (1954)

Penman,
Derek Victor
D.V. Penman (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	03.06.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	14.04.1941-(04.1944)

Education: Haileybury College.

03.06.1939			commissioned, The Lonon Scottish - The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
(08.1942)			1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)

Penna,
Albert William
A.W. Penna (Photo courtesy of Doris M. Grant)

Son of Willam Penna, a Private in the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) (died 16.08.1917 at 2nd Battle of Ypres), and Florence Newman.
Married (06.1923, Athens, Greece) Efimia Angela Clady (22.05.1903 - 1992); one son, two daughters.

22.04.1902
Holborn, London, Middlesex
-
1989
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2nd Lt.	03.06.1941 [195935]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	23.03.1943
T/Maj.	23.03.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	16.07.1945
T/Lt.Col.	16.07.1945-(04.1946)
Maj.	01.10.1946, seniority 16.07.1945 (reld 01.10.1954)
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.10.1954

	OBE	01.01.1955	New Year 55
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41

fall of 1919			enlisted service [paperwork signed by his stepfather as he was still underaged]
03.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission to 30.09.1946]
01.10.1946	-	01.10.1954	short service commission
late '40s	-	early '50s	ordnance depot at Tel-el-Kabir, Egypt

Emigrated 1954 to Canada, and became a civil servant with the Canadian government in Ottawa.

Penney,
[Sir] William Ronald Campbell
W.R.C. Penney

2nd son of J. Campbell Penney, Accountant of Court for Scotland.
Married 1st (1925) Shirley Mary (died 1960), daughter of V.Adm. V.G. Gurner; two daughters.
Married 2nd (1963) Stella, widow of Lt.Cdr. Robert Michael Marshall, RNVR, and daughter of late Rev. P.M. Daubeny and of Mrs Daubeny, Old House Farm, Cublington, Bucks.

16.05.1896
-
03.12.1964
Berwick-on- Tweed?

2nd Lt.	17.11.1914 [3029]
Lt.	23.12.1915
A/Capt.	22.01.1917-02.11.1917
Capt.	03.11.1917
Maj.	08.06.1927
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1934
Lt.Col.	01.04.1935
local Col.	04.11.193-17.11.1939
Col.	18.11.1939, seniority 01.07.1937
A/Brig.	18.11.1939-17.05.1940
T/Brig.	18.05.1940-17.11.1940, 19.12.1940-09.10.1942
A/Maj.Gen.	10.10.1941-09.10.1942
T/Maj.Gen.	10.10.1942-25.06.1943
Maj.Gen.	26.06.1943, seniority 17.11.1941 (retd 12.10.1949)

KBE	1958	?
CBE	18.02.1943	Middle East 05-10.42
OBE	02.01.1933	New Year 33
CB	23.03.1944	Sicily
DSO	21.12.1937	Waziristan 37
MC	WW I	?
MID	18.05.1917	?
MID	18.02.1938	NW Frontier, India
LM	17.09.1948	distinguished services in the cause of the Allies

CzechoSlovak Order of the White Lion, Class III (14.11.1947)
British War Medal; Victory Medal; NW Frontier of India Medal & Clasp

Education: Wellington; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (1928; psc); Imperial Defence College (idc)

17.11.1914			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers
1914	-	1918	served European War, France and Belgium (24.01.1916-11.11.1918) (despatches, MC, French Croix de Guerre 22.11.1918, Belgian Croix de Guerre 04.09.1919)
13.03.1919	-	13.06.1921	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Signal Service Training Centre (temporary)
11.05.1921			transferred to the Corps of Royal Signals
1921	-	1926	served in India
01.03.1922	-	28.02.1926	Assistant to Signal Officer-in-Chief, India
22.03.1926	-	20.01.1927	Instructor (Class CC), School of Signals
14.04.1929	-	15.01.1931	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
16.01.1931	-	26.03.1933	Brigade Major, Shanghai Area (temporary)
1935	-	1939	served in India (NW Frontier, 1937 (despatches, DSO))
01.04.1939	-	01.10.1939	specially employed, Imperial Defence College
			served World War II (wounded)
18.11.1939	-	17.11.1940	Deputy Director of Military Intelligence, War Office
19.12.1940	-	09.10.1941	Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade (UK)
10.10.1941	-	29.01.1943	Signal Officer-in-Chief, Middle East
14.10.1943	-	24.07.1944	General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division (N Africa, Italy) [except for 18-22.02.1944 & 04.05-13.06.1944]
1944	-	1945	Director of Intelligence, HQ Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia
1946	-	1949	Assistant Controller of Supplies (Munitions), Ministry of Supply
12.10.1949	-	16.05.1956	Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Colonel Commandant Royal Signals, 22.12.1947-22.12.1957. Employed in London Communications Security Agency, Foreign Office, 1953-1957.

Pennison,
Clifford Francis
C.F. Pennison

Son of Henry Pennison, and Alice Taylor.
Married ((03?).1940, Lewisham district, London) Joan Margaret Hopkins; three daughters.

28.06.1913
Lewisham district, London
-
29.12.1995
Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham district, Warwickshire

Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	27.11.1942 [252811]
WS/Lt.	27.05.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	28.08.1944-(08.1946)

CBE

01.01.1977

Consultant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome.

Education: Taunton School; Bristol University (BA, 1st Cl. Hons., History).
Appointed senior management trainee, Unilever Ltd, 1938.

27.11.1942			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
			served as Field Security Officer

Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, 1951. Principal, Home Civil Service, 1946; Assistant Secretary, and Director of Organisation and Methods, Ministry of Food, 1949; Ministry of Agriculture: Director of Stalistics Division, 1953; Director of Public Relations Division, 1958; Director of External Relations Division, 1961; Food & Agricultural Organisation: Permanent UK representative, 1963-66; Director, Economic Analysis Division, 1966-67; Assistant Director-General, Administration and Finance, 1967-74; Consultant, EEC/FAO relations, 1974-76; retired 1976. Diplôme, Lettres Modemes, and Diplôme, Langue allemande, University of Nice, 1977-81; Final examination (French), Inst. of Linguists, 1984.

Pentreath,
Edwin Sandys Dorchester
"Dorch"
E.S.D. Pentreath

Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Arthur Godolphin Pentreath (1866-1925), and Helen Guy Carleton (1878-1965).
Lived at Malta for some time.

26.10.1904
Curragh Camp, Cork, Ireland
-
20.08.1986
Bognor Regis, Chichester district, Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.08.1924 [30911]
Lt.	27.08.1926
Capt.	01.11.1935
A/Maj.	27.05.1940-26.08.1940
T/Maj.	27.08.1940-26.08.1941
Maj.	27.08.1941 14.03.1947, seniority 29.08.1942 (retd 26.10.1950)
A/Lt.Col.	06.04.1942-05.07.1942
T/Lt.Col.	06.07.1942-07.09.1942
Hon. Lt.Col.	26.10.1950

11.07.1940

gallant and distinguished services in connection with recent operations

Education Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

27.08.1924			commissioned, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
?	-	04.1927	served in India
(03.1931)			1st Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Bareilly)
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Bareilly)
01.11.1935	-	31.10.1938	Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (01.1937 at Dinapore, India)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Shorncliffe) [on the strength of the depot (Bodmin)]
29.11.1939	-	08.03.1940	Adjutant, ...
06.04.1942	-	07.09.1942	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
(1943/44?)			Second-in-Command (& for some period acting Commanding Officer), 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

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