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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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E.C. Pepper to P.A. Plowman

Pepper,
Ernest Cecil
E.C. Pepper

Son of W.E. Pepper, The Manor
House, Nocton, Lincs.
Married (1929) Margaret, daughter of
A.W. Allan, MD, Seacroft, Lincs; two
sons.

03.10.1899
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
-
03.08.1981
Hindhead, Surrey?

2nd Lt.	21.08.1918
Lt.	21.02.1920
Capt.	01.08.1931
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	31.07.1940-30.10.1940
T/Lt.Col.	31.10.1940-22.01.1941, 01.02.1941-08.03.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	09.03.1943
Lt.Col.	26.02.1945 (retd 02.01.1946; own request)
local Col.	19.02.1942-08.09.1942
A/Col.	09.09.1942-08.03.1943
T/Col.	09.03.1943
A/Brig.	09.09.1942-08.03.1943
T/Brig.	09.03.1943-02.01.1946
Hon. Brig.	02.01.1946

CMG	1967	?
CBE	05.08.1943	?
OBE	11.07.1940	?
DSO	21.12.1944	?

Education: Royal Miliyary College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1935-1936; psc)

21.08.1918			commissioned, Worcestershire Regiment
13.12.1925	-	15.05.1928	ADC to District Commander (India)
16.05.1928	-	09.09.1929	ADC to the Governor of the United Provinces (India)
1928?			served in China
01.08.1931			transferred, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment
09.01.1933	-	25.01.1935	Adjutant, ...
28.11.1937	-	03.02.1940	General Staff Officer (Class CC to 31.07.1938) [Brigade Major, Chatham, 1937-1939]
04.02.1940	-	28.07.1940	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (France)
31.07.1940	-	22.01.1941	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), War Office
1941	-	1942	Battalion Commander
19.02.1942	-	08.09.1942	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), ...
09.09.1942	-	12.06.1943	Brigadier General Staff (BGS), ... (Africa)
10.07.1943	-	25.02.1944	Brigadier General Staff (BGS), ... (Washington)
27.02.1944	-	02.07.1944	Commander, 56th Infantry Brigade (UK, NW Europe [Normandy])
02.07.1944	-	02.10.1944	Commander, 131st (Surrey) Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)
1945			Commandant, School of Infantry

Warden, Dominion Students Hall Trust, 1945-70. Board of Governors: Church of England Children's Society (Waifs
and Strays); Victoria League. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of London, later Greater London, 1948-76.
Published: A place to remember : the history of London House, William Goodenough House and The Burn (1972;
under the name of Peter Pepper).

Pepper,
Thomas Joseph
T.J. Pepper

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

02.06.1905
Northampton, Northamptonshire
-
03.1987
Haywards Heath district, West Sussex

Cadet	? [6460536]
2nd Lt.	10.02.1940 [117963]
WS/Lt.	13.04.1941
A/Capt.	21.02.1943-(01.1944)
WS/Capt.	06.03.1944 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) (removed from the Army on conviction by the Civil Power 02.10.1952)
A/Maj.	16.08.1943-(01.1944)
T/Maj.	06.03.1944-(12.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 12.1946, < 04.1947

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 1st Army
It St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
EM	21.01.1949	-

			168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.02.1940			commissioned, The Northamptonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
17.12.1945			2nd Battalion The East Surrey Regiment

Percival,
Arthur Ernest
A.E. Percival

Younger son of Alfred Reginald Percival (1856-1948), land agent, and Edith Miller (1858-1941), of Aspenden Lodge, Aspenden, Hertfordshire.
Married (27.07.1927, Kensington district, London) Margaret Elizabeth "Betty" MacGregor Greer (22.10.1897 - 05.10.1953), daughter of Thomas MacGregor Greer (1869-1941), and Dorinda Florence Greer (?-1930), of Tullylagan Manor, Co. Tyrone, Ireland; one son, one daughter.

26.12.1887
Aspenden, near Buntingford, north Hertfordshire
-
31.01.1966
King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, Westminster, London

T/2nd Lt.	03.09.1914-15.10.1914 [8785]
T/Lt.	16.10.1914-31.10.1914
T/Capt.	01.11.1914-15.10.1916
Capt.	16.10.1916, seniority 01.10.1916
T/Maj.	04.02.1917-15.01.1918
T/Lt.Col.	16.01.1918-18.04.1919
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1919
A/Maj.	22.04.1919-30.11.1919
Maj.	20.09.1924
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1929
Lt.Col.	14.07.1932
Col.	05.03.1936, seniority 01.01.1932 (half-pay 14.03.1938) (full-pay 01.04.1938)
T/Brig.	01.04.1938-04.02.1940
Maj.Gen.	05.02.1940, seniority 29.06.1938 (supernumerary 26.12.1944) (retd 31.08.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.	29.04.1941-07.10.1945, seniority 05.04.1941
Hon. Lt.Gen.	31.08.1946

CB	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41
DSO	16.09.1918	France *
DSO	21.01.1920	North Russia 08.19 **
OBE	17.01.1921	?
MC	14.11.1916	France ***
MID	21.12.1917	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	11.06.1920	?

1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during recent operations. He
handled his battalion cleverly, showing power of command and knowledge of tactics. He set a fine example during several critical periods.
** He commanded the Gorodok column on the 9th-10th August, 1919, with great gallantry and skill, and owing to the success of this column the forces on the right bank of the Dvina were able to capture all its objectives. During the enemy counter-attack from Selmenga on Gorodok he handled his men excellently. The enemy were repulsed with great loss, leaving 400 prisoners in our hands.
*** For conspicuous gallantry in action. During the advance he showed fine leadership and determination under heavy shell and machine-gun fire. He worked unceasingly, with absolute disregard of danger, in completing every detail in the consolidation of the captured position.

Education: Rugby School; idc (1935), psc (1923-1924), ns (1930).
Office clerk in the City of London.

03.09.1914			commissioned, The Bedfordshire Regiment [temporary commission]
16.10.1916			commissioned, The Essex Regiment [permanent commission]
03.09.1914	-	18.04.1919	7th (Service) Battalion The Bedfordshire Regiment (20.6.1917-04.07.1917 & from 16.01.1918 as Commanding Officer [from 29.10.1917-28.11.1917 employed as Brigade Major]) (UK, France & Belgium 26.07.1915-28.09.1916 [09.1916-04.1917 wounded, hospitalized UK] & 10.04.1917-11.11.1918) (DSO, MC, Croix de Guerre, MID twice)
22.04.1919	-	30.11.1919	seconded as Second-in-Command, 45th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (North Russia 31.05.1919-08.10.1919) (Bar to DSO)
1920	-	1922	The Essex Regiment (counter-insurgency operations, Co. Cork) (OBE)
1923	-	1924	Staff College, Camberley
20.09.1924			transferred, The Cheshire Regiment
15.04.1925	-	31.01.1929	employed with the Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) 15.04.1925-30.08.1927)
1930			RN College, Greenwich
19.01.1931	-	13.07.1932	instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Camberley
1932	-	1934	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Cheshire Regiment
1935			Imperial Defence College
05.03.1936	-	13.03.1938	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Malaya
01.04.1938	-	04.02.1940	Brigadier General Staff, Aldershot Command & I Corps (British Expeditionary Force)
05.02.1940	-	21.04.1940	General Officer Commandng, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (Home Forces)
22.04.1940	-	01.07.1940	Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
02.07.1940	-	08.04.1941	General Officer Commanding, 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division (Home Forces)
29.04.1941	-	15.02.1942	General Officer Commanding, Malaya (captured)
02.1942	-	08.1945	POW in Japanese captivity (held prisoner at Changi, then in Taiwan and Manchuria)
31.08.1946	-	26.12.1947	Regular Army Reserve of Army Officers [attained age limit]

President, National Federation of Far Eastern Prisoner-of-War Clubs; County Director, The Red Cross, Herts., 1948-1964. Honorary Colonel, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 17.05.1949-... Colonel, The Cheshire Regiment, ...-26.12.1955. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hertfodshire, 13.12.1951.
Published: The war in Malaya (1949).
Literature: John Smyth, Percival and the tragedy of Singapore (1971); Clifford Kinvig, Scapegoat: General Percival of Singapore (1996).

Pereira,
Barnard de Haan
"Tom"
B. de H. Pereira

05.05.1900
-
11.1995
Surrey South-Western district, Surrey

RAF:
2nd Lt. ?	?
Army:
2nd Lt.	02.03.1928 [39692]
Lt.	02.03.1931
A/Capt.	01.1940?
WS/Capt	?
T/Maj.	...-29.11.1942
WS/Maj.	30.11.1942
T/Lt.Col.	30.11.1942-22.07.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	23.07.1945
T/Col.	23.07.1945-(04.1946)
Maj.	01.01.1949 (retd 21.03.1951)
Hon. Col.	21.03.1951

	TD	01.04.1952	& 1st Clasp
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
	MID	28.10.1942	Burma 12.41-05.42
	MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
?	MoH	30.04.1943	Medal of Honour (China): Burma

			served Royal Air Force
02.03.1928			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
02.03.1928	-	01.10.1932	337th (Essex) Battery, 85th (East Anglian) Field Brigade RA (Stratford)
01.10.1932	-	27.05.1933	transferred, 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA
27.05..1933	-	21.03.1951	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			Essex Yeomanry, initially into 413th Batterty of 147th Regiment
01.1940			Battery Captain, 339th Battery, 104th Regiment RA
1941			Battery Captain, 414 Battery (special mission with 7th Armoured Brigade Group)
			Commanding Officer, 14th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
			held Staff Appointments in the Middle East including a period on the Judge Advocate General's Office
			Deputy Head of the Legal Division of the Control Commission for Germany
			Deputy Judge Advocate General in Singapore and Cyprus, and later again in Germany

Assistant Judge Advocate General (London Office) [08.1955 serving as such; civil capacity]. Retired 1966.

Perkins,
Philip
P. Perkins

Son of Charles and Constance H. Perkins, of Harborne, Birmingham.
Husband of Gladys Marjorie Perkins, of Birmingham.

1917 ?
-
01.06.1945
[age 28]
[Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh, 3.G.12]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.02.1943 [264791]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1943

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.02.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	01.06.1945	attached, 4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery

Perkins,
Philip Harold
P.H. Perkins

(06?).1891
Dudley district, Worcestershire
-
1955
drowned in the River Nene, Huntingdonshire

T/2nd Lt.	10.06.1915 [49152]
T/Lt.	(1918) (reld 22.10.1919)
A/Capt.	06.08.1917-03.03.1918, 15.11.1918-03.03.1919
[Hon.?] Capt.	22.10.1919
Capt. RARO	03.12.1921, seniority 19.01.1921 (dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court-Martial 22.04.1942)
T/Maj. RARO	10.02.1940-(04.1941)

Education: Dudley School.
Admitted as a male learner, Dudley Post Office, 07.1907.

04.08.1914			enlisted service
10.06.1915			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment
07.11.1916			transferred to Service Battalion
06.08.1917	-	03.03.1918	company commander of a German Prisoners of War Company
15.11.1918	-	03.03.1919	company commander 43rd Garrison Battalion Royal Fusiliers
1919			Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal
03.12.1921			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Joined Colonial Office in the Clerical Class (Men), 10.1921.
24.08.1939			mobilized, RARO

Director of Lucas Electrics.

Perowne,
Lancelot Edgar Connop Mervyn
"Lance"
L.E.C.M. Perowne

Second and only surviving son of late Col. Woolrych Perowne.
Married (1927) Gertrude Jenny Johanna Stein, Cologne, Germany; one daughter.

11.06.1902
Kensington, Greater London
-
24.03.1982
Cobham, Surrey

2nd Lt.	31.01.1923 [23654]
Lt.	31.01.1925
Capt.	31.01.1934
Maj.	31.01.1940
A/Lt.Col.	27.05.1940-20.07.1940, 21.10.1941-25.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.	26.11.1941-18.11.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	19.11.1942
A/Col.	19.05.1942-18.11.1942
T/Col.	19.11.1942-30.07.1945
Col.	31.07.1945
A/Brig.	19.05.1942-18.11.1942
T/Brig.	19.11.1942-(01.1946)
Brig.	13.06.1951
T/Maj.Gen.	22.05.1951
Maj.Gen.	01.01.1952 (retd 07.08.1955)

CB	01.01.1953	New Year 53
CBE	08.02.1945	Burma / Estern Frontier of India
MID	20.12.1940	operations in the field 03-06.40

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

31.01.1923			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
01.06.1929	-	31.10.1933	Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
04.12.1936	-	31.03.1940	Instructor (Class DD to 31.07.1938), ...
(04?).1940	-	(06?).1940	served France (despatches)
05.10.1940	-	11.05.1942	Instructor, ...
19.05.1942	-	1943	Commander, 69th Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Anti-Aircraft Command
?	-	03.11.1943	Commander, 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Anti-Aircraft Command
18.11.1943	-	30.06.1945	Commander, 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade (India, Burma) (despatches, CBE)
01.11.1945	-	12.03.1946	Commander, Penang SubArea and 74th Indian Infantry Brigade, SE Asia (despatches)
1946	-	1947	72nd Infantry Brigade, India
1947	-	1948	Commandant School of Combined Operations
1949	-	1951	commanded 151 Northumberland and Durham Infantry Brigade TA
22.05.1951	-	1952	Commander British Military Mission to Greece
07.05.1952	-	06.05.1955	General Officer Commanding, South Malaya District & 17th Gurkha Division (despatches) (simultaneously: Major-General, The Brigade of Gurkhas)

Colonel, The Gurkha Engineers, 1957-04.11.1966. CEng; (A)MIEE; CStJ, 20.11.1937; KJStJ 1945; Star of Nepal (2nd Class), 1954.
Company Director, retired.

Perrott *,
John Frederick Mayo
"Jack"
J.F.M. Perrott

* Changed name (04.1945) to:
Mayo-Perrott, John Frederick
Married ((03?).1945, Chelsea district, London) Joan Helen Pirie Thomson.
Residence: (1943) Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

28.04.1908
-
27.10.1990
Littlebourne, Canterbury, Kent

2nd Lt.	01.11.1927 [38925]
Lt.	01.11.1930
Capt.	23.05.1938
T/Maj.	10.05.1941-10.04.1945
Maj.	11.04.1945

	MC	28.01.1943	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
	TD	20.04.1944	-

			late Cadet Under-Officer, St. Edward's School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.11.1927			commissioned, 2nd (Cheshire) Field Squadron RE (2nd Cavalry Division) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	28.04.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Perry,
Christopher Hugh

24.12.1914
-
08.1986
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire

Spr.	?
2nd Lt.	22.07.1939 [93162]
Lt.	11.04.1945
WS/Capt.	06.11.1942
Capt.	01.05.1947, seniority 06.11.1942
T/Maj.	06.11.1942-(04.1946)
Maj.	24.12.1948, seniority 01.11.1947 (retd 17.12.1952)

22.09.1950

			late Cadet Serjeant, St. Peter's School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, Royal Engineers
22.07.1939			commissioned, 5th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

NW Ordination Course 1973. Deacon 1974 Repton for Derby Priest 1975 Derby Curate of Wingerworth, Diocese Derby from 1974.

Perry,
Geoffrey Howard
G.H. Perry

Born as Horst Pinschewer, being sent to the UK to escape the persecution of the Jews, he took the name of Geoffrey Perry.

11.04.1922
Berlin
-

Cadet	? [13804863]
2nd Lt.	09.10.1943 [295150]
WS/Lt.	09.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

09.10.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
			248th & 93rd Companies, Pioneer Corps
1944?	-	1945?	intelligence officer with T Force (NW Europe) [captured, together with Capt. "Bertie" Lickorish, German war propagandist "Lord Haw Haw" (William Joyce). See story.]

Magazine publisher.
Published: When life become history (memoirs; 2002)

Perry,
Harold Francis John
H.F.J. Perry (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Bryant)

Son of Alfred John Perry and Sarah Perry (née Wright), of Parkstone, Dorsetshire.

(09?).1915
Parkstone, nr Poole, Dorset
-
16.06.1945
[age 29]
[Caserta War Cemetery, Italy, V.B.20]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156547]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942
T/Capt.	...-16.06.1945

Education: East Sheen Grammar School for Boys

			either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940			commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Perry,
Kenneth Cecil
J.R. Pestell

25.03.1923
-
10.08.2013

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.11.1942 [251053]
WS/Lt.	15.05.1943
Lt.	24.11.1945, seniority 25.09.1945
A/Capt.	03.04.1946-04.07.1946
T/Capt.	05.07.1946-24.03.1950
Capt.	25.03.1950
T/Maj.	06.01.1956-24.03.1957
Maj.	25.03.1957 (retd 25.09.1967)
Hon. Lt.Col.	30.07.1983

29.03.1943

Sicily [recommendation available upon request]

Education: Magdalene College, Cambridge University (BA 1951, MA 1958).

			served in the ranks for 292 days
15.11.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1943)			276th Field Company RE (MC)
24.11.1945			permanent commission
09.12.1967			Trinity College Glenalmond Contingent, Combined Cadet Force - Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (reverting to rank of Lt.)
?	-	30.07.1983	Epsom College Contingent, Combined Cadet Force - Territorial Army

Person,
Enoch Hugh
E.H. Person

Son of Enoch Emil Person (1876-1941), and Constance Robertson (1891-1980).
Married ((03?).1941, Fylde district, Lancashire) Eunice Mary Patricia Hinds, of Verwood, Dorsetshire; no children.

01.04.1913
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
07.06.1944
(KIA) [age 31]
[Hermanville War Cemetery, 1.D.17]

Cadet	?
Lt.	13.07.1940 [140364]
WS/Capt.	28.04.1941
T/Maj.	28.04.1941-07.06.1944

1931			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps (Training Company 1931, Depot Company 1932, "H" Company 1932, embarked for Shanghai 1933)
?	-	12.07.1940	Officer Producing Centre RASC
13.07.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
?	-	07.06.1944	Officer Commanding, 299 General Transport Company RASC (killed by a direct hit on the DUKW Control Point during an air raid at approx. 23:30 hrs)

Pestell,
[Sir] John Richard
J.R. Pestell

Son of late LtComdr Frank Lionel Pestell, RN, and Winifred Alice Pestell.
Married (1951) Betty
Pestell (née Parish); three daughters.

21.11.1916
-
05.07.2005
Yeovil, Somerset

2nd Lt.	28.07.1945 [358685]
WS/Lt.	28.01.1946
A/Maj. ??	?

KCVO

1969

Education: Portsmouth Northern Secondary School

28.07.1945			commissioned, General List - Egypt Section [emergency commission]
1945	-	1947	Cyrenaica Defence Force

Joined British South Africa Police, Southern Rhodesia, 1939; retired, 1965, with rank of Assistant Commissioner. Secretary/Controller to Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Rt Hon. Sir H.V. Gibbs, 1965-1969. An Adjudicator, Immigration Appeals, Harmondsworth, 1970-1987.

Petch,
Allan John
A.J. Petch

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Charles Henry Petch (1875-), and Alicia Mary Gladys Petch (1885-1966) (from 1930 Mrs John G. Borresen, from 1931 Mrs William R. Shugrue).
Married ((09?).1934, Surrey South Eastern district) Elsa M. Hutchinson.

07.06.1907
Mirfield, Dewsbury district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
09.1984
Brunswick, North Carolina, USA

2nd Lt.	04.04.1940 [127256]
WS/Capt.	10.12.1942
T/Maj.	1012.1942
WS/Maj.	12.05.1944
T/Lt.Col.	12.05.1944

	BSM	16.01.1947	services to Norway [recommendation available upon request]
	Hkn	19.03.1948	Norway 45

04.04.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
01.1944	-	08.05.1945	Head, Psychological Warfare Group, Allied Land Forces, Norway (BSM)

Peters,
Harold Sydney
H.S. Peters

Married Janet McClean (predeceased him); one daughter.

1924 ?
-
19.02.2007
Spain
[aged 83]

2nd Lt.	05.08.1944
WS/Lt.	05.02.1945
Capt.	?

CBE

05.08.1944

commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]

Formerly Colonial Service, Govt. of Malawi, Chamber of Mines, RSA.

Peters,
Sidney Jack
H.S. Peters

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Henry Peters, and Annie Dear.
Married ((12?).1942, Doncaster district, Yorkshire) Eileen May Cosgrove (30.05.1918 - 08.2000), daughter (with six sisters and one brother) of Henry Cosgrove (1884-1969), and Clara A Steele (1890-1964); one son, one daughter.

27.02.1918
Luton district, Bedfordshire
-
05.2000
Luton district, Bedfordshire

2nd Lt.	28.11.1942 [253844]
WS/Lt.	28.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	08.02.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj.	1946?
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

14.07.1987

05.08.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			served with 21st Army Group

His son writes: "Dad told me he was a liaison/armaments officer for Canadian forces. Went ashore at Arromanches 6th August 1944 and was in Germany when demobbed in 1946."

Pethick,
Ralph Alfred Richard

Son of ... Pethick, and ... Bowden.

(03?).1920
Plymouth district, Devon
-

Cadet	? [?]
2nd Lt.	24.03.1943 [268101]
WS/Lt.	23.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	01.12.1945-(04.1946)

24.03.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
23.01.1944			transferred, The Devonshire Regiment
22.01.1944	-	(09.1944)	Platoon Commander, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Petrie,
Sir David
D. Petrie

2nd surviving son of late Thomas Petrie, master millwright, and Jane Allan.
Married (1920) Edris Naida (died 1945), youngest daughter of late W.H. Elliston Warrall; no children.

09.09.1879
Inveravon, Banffshire
-
07.08.1961
Sidmouth, Devon

2nd Lt.	03.05.1940
WS/Lt.	01.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Col.	03.05.1940-(04.1944)
local Brig.	26.03.1941-(04.1944)

KCMG	1945	?
Kt	06.1929	HM's birthday 29
CIE	1915	?
CVO	1922	?
CBE	1919	?
OBE	1918	?

Knight of Grace of St John of Jerusalem, 1933; American Legion of Merit (Commander); Czechoslovak Order of the White Lion, Cl. III; Commander Order of Orange Nassau with Swords

Education: Aberdeen University (MA 1900)

Served Indian Police, 1900-1936; Punjab Police, 1900-1903; seconded for service with Samana Rifles (Kohat Border Military Police), being successively Quartermaster and Adjutant, 1904-1908; Assistant to Deputy Inspector-General of Police, CID, Punjab, 1909-1910; Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence, Government of India, 1911-1912; United Service Institution of India Gold Medal Essay, 1911; King's Police Medal, 1914; Additional Superintendent of Police, Delhi, 1912-1914; on special duty in Far East with Home Department, Government of India, 1915-1919; on Staff of Duke of Connaught, India, 1921; on Staff of Prince of Wales, India, 1921-1922; Senior Superintendent of Police, Lahore, 1923; Member of the Royal (Lee) Commission on the Public Services in India, 1923-1924; Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India, 1924-1931; Member Public Service Commission, India, 1931-1932, Chairman 1932-1936. Chairman, Indian Red Cross Society and St John Ambulance Association, and Chief Commissioner for the Empire of India of St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, 1932-1936; served under Colonial Office in Palestine, December 1937-January 1938.
03.05.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
			served Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) (posted to Cairo for 6 months 05.1940)
24.04.1941	-	1946	Director-General of the Security Service (MI5)

Peyton,
Guy Arthur Eliot
G.A.E. Peyton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

21.10.1907
-
06.02.1958

2nd Lt.	01.09.1927
...	...
local Col.	14.08.1942-02.08.1943
...	...
Col.	01.01.1953
T/Brig.	01.02.1954-(02.1957)

OBE

08.07.1941

01.09.1932			commissioned, 15th/19th Hussars
...	-	...	...
08.12.1938	-	02.12.1939	Chief Instructor, ...
03.12.1939	-	09.01.1940	ADC to General Officer Commanding Armoured Division, British Troops in Egypt
10.01.1940	-	13.03.1940	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (temporarily)
26.07.1940	-	11.05.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 7th Armoured Division
12.05.1942	-	13.08.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
14.08.1942	-	02.08.1943	Chief Instructor, Staff College, British Military Mission, Egypt
03.01.1944	-	24.08.1944	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (O), ...
11.03.1945	-	18.01.1946	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (Specially Employed)
...	-	...	...

Phayer,
James Edward
J.E. Phayer

25.11.1906
Greenwich district, Greater London / Kent / London
-
(12?).1982
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

WO class II	?
Lt.	24.01.1940 [113961]
WS/Capt.	15.07.1943
T/Maj.	15.07.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Maj.	? (reld 28.11.1948)
Capt.	17.10.1949, seniority 15.07.1943
Maj.	13.12.1953 (reld 17.10.1959)
Hon. Lt.Col.	28.11.1948 & 17.10.1959

LSGCM

01.06.1951

- [date of qualification 12.07.1943]

?	-	23.01.1940	served in the ranks, Royal Artillery
24.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 28.11.1948]
17.10.1949	-	17.10.1959	short service commission, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
(1959)	-	17.10.1959	Second-in-Command, 6th (Vehicle) Battalion REME

Phayre,
Robert Desmond Hensley
R.D.H. Phayre

Married; children.

01.10.1915
-
18.03.2007
Exeter

2nd Lt.	29.08.1935
...	...
T/Maj.	01.11.1941-26.07.1942, 28.04.1942-12.08.1944, 13.09.1944-02.03.1946
...	...
Col.	14.06.1963 (retd 25.10.1970)

MID

07.01.1949

29.08.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
19.08.1939	-	23.05.1940	SSO, Campbellpore, India
01.05.1941	-	19.07.1941	Staff Captain RA, Indian Infantry Division
20.07.1941	-	28.07.1941	Brigade Major RA, Indian Infantry Division
23.12.1941	-	26.07.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Burma Army
19.01.1943	-	06.07.1944	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (RA), General HQ, India
13.09.1944	-	05.12.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Radar), War Office
...	-	...	...

Philips,
Herbert Francis Humphrey
H.F.H. Philips

From Bridlington.
Married ((12?).1940, Oakham district, Rutland) Dheidre Hornsby.

(09?).1908
Cheadle district, Staffordshire
-
died possibly in the early 1980s

2nd Lt. TA	18.04.1934 [62693]
Lt. TA	18.04.1937 (resigned commission 11.01.1939)
Lt.	31.05.1939
T/Capt.	25.02.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	24.02.1943
Capt.	01.01.1949
A/Maj.	24.11.1942-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	1944?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946 & 31.12.1958

MC	29.03.1945	NW Europe *
BL	18.07.1947	liberation of the Netherlands [by Dutch Royal Decree No. 29 of 24.04.46] **
39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: Lancing College

			late Cadet, Lancing College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
18.04.1934	-	11.01.1939	commissioned, The Lanarkshire Yeomanry - Territorial Army (Lanark)
31.05.1939	-	31.12.1958	commissioned, Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class I) [age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized
1939	-	1940	Troop Leader, "A" Squadron, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps (France & Belgium)
1944	-	1945	Officer Commanding, "A" Squadron, East Riding Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps (NW Europe)

* [Recommendation for the award of a Military Cross to Maj. H.F.H. Philips]. Major Philips has consistently and successfully fought his Squadron since D-Day. His reconnaissances before each battle have been of the highest order, without thought of his own safety, and have often led to the successful outcome of his tank battle. During every action he has shown great courage, resource and steadiness. On Monday, 1st August, 1944, near Lisieux, the enemy put in a counter-attack at an early hour of the morning, causing the Infantry to begin to retire. Major Philips reconnoitred the situation on foot, placed his troops at once, thereby restoring what might otherwise have been an ugly situation. Throughout the campaign his standard of leadership and personal courage have been of the highest order.
Signed by Lt.Col. T.C. Williamson, DSO, Comd. E.Riding Yeo., RAC, 10 Nov 44; approved by H.D.G. Crerar, Gen, GOC-in-C, First Cdn Army [Citation courtesy of Mr Alain Brogniez]
** [Recommendation for the award of the Dutch order of the Bronze Lion to Maj. H.F.H. Philips]. Major Philips commanded a Sq[uadro]n of 19 tanks in the liberation of S. Holland. His Sq[uadro]n led the attacks in the following engagements:- Schijndel and Boxtel Oct 23-Oct 24, 1944. 's Hertogenbosch Oct 25 - 28, Heusden Nov 4-Nov 5. It was in every battle starting at Zommeren and Heide on Nov 13 and 14 to the final clearance of the left bank of the Maas opposite Venlo and Roermond on 25 Nov. It was during the latter series of battles on 18 Nov that the infantry of 51 (H) Div [= 51st (Highland) Infantry Division] were held up at Heringen by mines, demolitions and heavy fire. Major Philips, who was up with the leading tanks led his Sq[uadro]n into the village. By the surprise and bold attack, thirty Germans were killed and much of their equipment destroyed. This bold action, typical of many others by Major Philips during the campaign put all the Germans on this part of the front to rout. Major Philips's fearless leadership throughout the whole campaign was an inspiration and example to all.
Signed by Maj. V.C. Ellison, MC, Major Commanding, East Riding Yeomanry; approved by RMP Carver, Brigadier, Comd 4 Armd Bde [Citation courtesy of Mr Alain Brogniez]

Phillips,
Arthur Frederick
A.F. Phillips (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Phillips)

Son of Arthur F. Phillips (1892-), and Rose Amy Gertrude Halls (1896-1977).
Married (26.11.1939, West Ham district, Essex) Doris I.M. Bryant; one son, one daughter.

02.04.1915
West Ham district, Essex
-
05.07.1999
Southend on Sea district, Essex

Pte.	12.05.1932 [6009966]
CSM	07.05.1941
2nd Lt.	30.10.1941 [217063]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 23.04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
EM	02.05.1947	-
EM	02.05.1947	1st clasp

12.05.1932			enlisted service, 6th Battalion The Essex Regiment - Territorial Army
09.06.1941			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Shrivenham, Wiltshire
30.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
30.10.1941	-	22.02.1942	53rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Tadworth, Surrey)
24.02.1942	-	12.04.1942	9th Reserve Regiment RA (Retford)
14.04.1942			RA Depot, Woolwich
08.05.1942	-	22.07.1942	passage from Gurruck, Scotland to India aboard HMT Pasteur
22.07.1942			Reserve Regiment RA, Mhow, India
25.08.1942			No 3 Madrassi A.A.T.C., Deolalli, India
29.08.1942			14th Battery, 3rd Indian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment IA
03.04.1943			transferred to Ceylon-Kurunegala
22.11.1944			GHQ British Base Reinforcement Camp, Trincomalee
29.11.1944			transferred, The Essex Regiment
25.11.1944	-	03.03.1945	1st Battalion The Inniskilling Fusiliers (Mirzapore)
05.03.1945	-	07.04.1945	52nd Infantry Brigade (Budni)
11.04.1945			2nd Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Kanchapara)
16.07.1945	-	16.08.1945	Special Duties - Provision of Transit Camp Staff - Madras (assumed duties of Adjutant of Fort George, Madras)
16.08.1945	-	14.09.1945	Waterproofing Centre, 105th Lines of Communications Area Madras
30.10.1945	-	16.11.1945	passage from Bombay to Southampton aboard HMS Winchester Castle
30.11.1945	-	30.11.1945	RA Depot, Woolwich
30.11.1945			No. 1 Infantry Holding Battalion (Colchester)

PHillips,
C S
C.S. Phillips

?
-

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

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

Phillips,
Charles Norman
C.N. Phillips

?
-
?

Wt.Offr. cl. I	?
Lt.	23.02.1941 [175283]
T/Capt.	01.06.1941-17.08.1945
WS/Capt.	18.08.1945
T/Maj.	18.08.1945-(04.1946)

23.02.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Phillips,
Daphne Gordon
(Miss)
D.G. Phillips

Daughter of Maj.Gen. Sir Leslie and Lady Phillips.
Married 1st ... Chard.
Married 2nd ... Conway.
Married 3rd Maj. Peter Guy Egerton Hill of The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.

?
-
30.01.2007

2nd Sub.	26.03.1943 [270392]
WS/Sub.	26.09.1943
T/J.Comd.	20.06.1945
Hon. Capt.	?
Capt.	09.06.1954
Maj.	? (reld 01.11.1965)

26.03.1943			commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service
09.06.1954	-	31.10.1965	commissioned, Women's Royal Army Corps - Territorial Army
01.11.1965	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Phillips,
[Richard] Ewart William Irving
"Dick"
E.W.I. Phillips

Son of Francis Irving Phillips (1889-), and Mary Ethel Aimee Crabtree (1889-).
Married ((12?).1945, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Jean Elizabeth Munsey (1924? - ); four children.
Also known as: Irving-Phillips, R.E.W.

21.08.1914
Dower House, Newbury, Berkshire
-
1975

2nd Lt.	18.10.1939 [102030]
WS/Lt.	18.04.1941
T/Capt.	17.04.1942-17.01.1944
WS/Capt.	18.01.1944 (reld 28.05.1952)
T/Maj.	18.01.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	28.05.1952

18.10.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in North Africa, Eritrea and in India in the latter part of the war

Phillips,
Geoffrey David
G.D. Phillips

Son of A.J. Phillips, and ... Davies, of Plas Wilmot, Oswestry, Shropshire.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

29.05.1921
Oswestry, Shropshire
-
26.12.2008
Oswestry, Shropshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.08.1941 [200422]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	19.08.1945-(08.1946)
Lt.	20.01.1948, seniority 29.05.1944
A/Capt.	20.01.1948
Capt.	29.05.1948, seniority 20.01.1948
A/Maj.	23.07.1951-...

Education: Repton School (05.1935-12.1939; The Orchard).

02.08.1941			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [emergency commission]
01.11.1941			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
02.11.1942			transferred, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
20.01.1948			commissioned, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
25.03.1952			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Phillips,
Harold Chetwode
H.C. Phillips

Married (25.01.1939, Tanglan Garrison Church, Singapore) Valda Barclay Black (1915-), daughter of Maj. Robert Barclay Black, DSO (1876-1953), and Lady Marcia Valda Jocelyn (1891-1972).

17.09.1901
Kingston district, Surrey
-

2nd Lt.	13.07.1921 [26248]
Lt.	13.07.1923
Capt.	13.07.1934
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	27.04.1941-26.07.1941
T/Lt.Col.	27.07.1941-18.05.1942, 26.10.1942-02.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	03.10.1945
A/Col.	03.04.1945-02.10.1945
T/Col.	03.10.1945
Col.	30.10.1948, seniority 03.10.1948
A/Brig.	03.04.1945-02.10.1945
T/Brig.	03.10.1945-(01.1946)
Brig.	01.07.1952 (retd 11.09.1954)

	DSO	01.02.1945	NW Europe
	OBE	01.08.1946	Malaya & Singapore

Education: Staff College (psc).

13.07.1921			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
04.06.1938	-	30.09.1940	Brigade Major RA
(1942)			General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Operations), Malaya Command
21.12.1942	-	18.08.1944	Commanding Officer, 151st (The Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (UK & NW Europe) (wounded)
1945?	-	1945?	Commander Royal Artillery, 5th Infantry Division
...	-	...	...

Phillips,
Henry Brooking
H.B. Phillips

Married ((09?).1932, Kensington district, London) Theodora Eugenie Woolf (1904-), daughter of Henry Lumley Woolf, and Marie Elizabeth Reddall.

28.01.1908
Kingston district, Surrey
-
25.01.1996
Hove district, Sussex

2nd Lt.	18.02.1926 [34501]
Lt.	18.02.1929
Capt.	15.11.1931
Maj.	09.05.1938
T/Lt.Col.	03.11.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	?
Capt. & Paym.	16.06.1952
Maj. & Paym.	30.01.1958 (reld 23.08.1966)
Hon. Lt.Col.	23.08.1966

TD	19.08.1943	-
TD	20.07.1954	1st clasp
TD	20.07.1954	2nd clasp

18.02.1926			commissioned, 54th (East Anglian) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps - Territotial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
16.06.1952	-	23.08.1966	commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [short service commission]

Phillips,
James Wilfred
J.W. Phillips

Married (post-war) Jun.Comd. Penelope Ellison Otto, ATS.

17.07.1907
Wandsworth, London, Surrey
-
1960

2nd Lt.	01.09.1927 [38745]
Lt.	01.09.1930
Capt.	15.08.1936
A/Maj.	22.09.1940-26.10.1940, 17.01.1941-13.03.1941
T/Maj.	14.03.1941-30.04.1941, 17.05.1941-21.02.1942
WS/Maj.	22.02.1942
Maj.	01.09.1944
A/Lt.Col.	22.11.1941-21.02.1942
T/Lt.Col.	22.02.1942-23.02.1942, 30.06.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	05.10.1950 (retd 04.12.1951)

MID

09.08.1945

NW Europe

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

01.09.1927			commissioned, 8th Hussars
			regimental service

Phillips,
Ronald Marcel
R.M. Phillips (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

23.11.1912
-
04.1988

2nd Lt.	01.09.1932
...	...
T/Maj.	05.07.1942-27.01.1945
...	...
Lt.Col.	10.10.1953 (retd 18.04.1960)

MID

23.03.1944

01.09.1932			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
...	-	...	...
31.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...

Philpots-Green,
Gordon
G. Philpots-Green

Changed surname from Green to Philpots-Green by deed poll of 01.11.1948. In WW2 Army Lists already shown as Philpots-Green.
Married (1944, Victoria, Australia) Barbara Helen Hawkins; two sons.

1911
-
?
Adelaide, South Australia

2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124211]
WS/Lt.	11.05.1941
T/ Capt.	11.05.1941-26.06.1942
WS/Capt.	27.06.1942
T/Maj.	27.06.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Maj.	? (reld 12.07.1949)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	12.07.1949

	EM	09.01.1947	-
	EM	07.07.1950	1st clasp

09.03.1940			commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
05.04.1941			transferred, The York and Lancaster Regiment
01.05.1945	-	1945?	Commanding Officer, .. Battalion The Green Howards (Burma)

Philpott,
Frederick James
F.J. Philpott

05.03.1915
-
(09?).1976
St Austell district, Cornwall

Gnr.	20.02.1941
Bdr.	?
Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	04.10.1941 [205501]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	01.08.1942-19.10.1942, 05.03.1943-16.03.1943
T/Capt.	17.03.1943-31.12.1944
WS/Capt.	01.01.1945 (reld 11.06.1946)
A/Maj.	01.09.1944-29.12.1944
T/Maj.	30.12.1944-20.01.1945, 29.01.1945-11.06.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
?	?	?

20.02.1941	-	14.03.1941	served in the ranks, 2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
14.03.1941	-	04.10.1941	served in the ranks, 9th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
04.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
04.10.1941	-	11.11.1941	RAOC Officer Training School, Rushton Hall, Kettering
11.11.1941	-	03.12.1941	8th Armoured Division Workshops
03.12.1941	-	24.02.1942	Armoured Fighting Vehicle Repair & Recovery School
24.02.1942	-	19.10.1942	Command Workshop Aldershot
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
31.12.1942	-	29.01.1945	252nd Indian Armoured Brigade Workshop (31st Indian Armoured Division) with PAI-Force, from 10.11.1943 with Middle East Forces (Egypt and Syria)
29.01.1945	-	17.11.1945	252nd Indian Armoured Brigade HQ (31st Indian Armoured Division, from 10.1945 1st Indian Armoured Division) with Middle East Forces
08.02.1946	-	23.03.1946	252nd Indian Armoured Brigade HQ (1st Indian Armoured Division) with Middle East Forces

Phipps,
Leckonby John Alexander
L.J.A. Phipps (Photo courtesy of Stefan Katic)

Married ((06?).1983, Kensington and Chelsea district, Middlesex) Lady Evelyn Patricia Mary Scudamore-Stanhope.

12.03.1924
Wincanton district
-
02.06.2001
Moccas, Hereford, Herefordshire

2nd Lt.	25.06.1944 [323973]
WS/Lt.	25.12.1944 (reld > 04.1947)

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

25.06.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	1st Royal Dragoons (liberated Bjerget, Helberskov, Denmark) (despatches)

Chartered surveyor; land agent.

Pierce,
John Henry
I.D.B. Pilkington

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Percival Richard Pierce (1882-1956), and Fanny Steedman (1885-1966).
Married (27.05.1950, Norton-in-Hales, Whitchurch district, Shropshire) Sylvia Cecilia Newman (1926 - ); one son, two daughters.

12.07.1912
West Bromwich district, Staffordshire
-
26.09.1990
Solihull South district, West Midlands

Cpl	? [41287952]
2nd Lt.	09.04.1941 [181504]
WS/Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th class)	22.01.1942
WS/Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th class)	01.10.1942, seniority 22.01.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	22.02.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

21.06.1994

- [posthumously]

WW2			served at Dunkirk, N Africa with the 5th Army & Italy, Salerno:
			enlisted service, The Cheshire Regiment
09.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Mechanical Maintenance Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Pigott,
Henry Clarke
H.C. Pigott

Married 1st ((06?).1939, North East Cheshire district, Cheshire) Ruth Goddard.
Married 2nd ((12?).1966, Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey) Mona J. Morriss.

20.04.1911
-
13.07.1980
Bramhall, Stockport, Greater Manchester

2nd Lt.	22.02.1941 [174251]
WS/Lt.	22.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	27.04.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

1940	-	1941	Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.02.1941			commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]

Pike,
Godfrey Eben
G.E. Pike (Photo courtesy of Mrs Sheila Padden)

Son of Godfrey Pike of Gilwern, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
Married (28.10.1939) Caroline Fox Hanbury (born 28.07.1921), daughter of Sir Cecil Hanbury and Effield Dorothy Cecil Symons-Jeune; two sons.
From Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, later London.

01.08.1915
Westbury district, Wiltshire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.08.1935 [66074]
Lt.	29.08.1938
A/Capt.	02.06.1940-01.09.1940
T/Capt.	02.09.1940-12.09.1941
WS/Capt.	13.09.1941
Capt.	29.08.1943
A/Maj.	13.06.1941-12.09.1941
T/Maj.	13.09.1941-22.10.1941, 12.03.1942-08.02.1944
WS/Maj.	09.02.1944
Maj.	29.08.1948 (retd 09.02.1949)
A/Lt.Col.	09.11.1943-08.02.1944
T/Lt.Col.	09.02.1944-04.06.1944, 02.06.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	09.02.1949

DSO	10.05.1945	NW Europe [investiture 28.06.45]
MBE	23.09.1943	North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia) [investiture 28.06.45]
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	11.01.1945	Italy

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

29.08.1935			commissioned, Grenadier Guards
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Egypt)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Welllington Barracks)
25.01.1940	-	24.01.1941	Adjutant, ...
(1941/42?)			Brigade Major, 1st Guards Brigade
(1944)	-	(1945)	Officer Commanding, No. 2 Squadron, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (NW Europe)
09.02.1949	-	01.08.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Pike,
Peter

21.10.1918
-
07.1989
Norwich district, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	22.06.1940 [134185]
WS/Lt.	22.12.1941 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	10.11.1944-(04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

?	-	22.06.1940	either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Norfolk Regiment [emergency commission]
22.10.1944	-	31.08.1945	served H Squadron, No. 2 GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom) in Italy (attached 1st British Armoured Division, then 10 Corps)
31.08.1945	-	?	Staff, No. 2 District, Italy

Pilcher,
Ronald
R. Pilcher (Photo courtesy of Julian Pilcher)

Son (with three brothers) of Percy William Pilcher (1866-1937), and Martha Mowbray Harwood (1866-1947).
Married (07.06.1930, St Peter, Harborne, Birmingham) Enid Hamer Houghton (13.05.1899 - 01.12.1988), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Alfred Joseph Houghton (1867-1914), and Alice Ann Wilkinson (1866-1923); no children.

30.10.1901
Atcham district, Shropshire
-
06.11.1977
Edgbaston, Birmingham

Lt.	27.11.1939 [107581]
WS/Capt.	13.07.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Maj.	25.12.1942-(07.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

27.11.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
?	-	05.1945	Officer Commanding, 31 Vehicle Reserve Depot RAOC (under No. 1 Chilwell Motor Transport Group RAOC)

Pile,
Sir Frederick Alfred;
2nd Baronet
F.A. Pile

Eldest son of Sir T. D. Pile, 1st Bt, and Caroline Maude (died 1948), daughter of John M. Nicholson, JP, Dublin.
Succeeded father, 1931.
Married 1st (1915) Vera Millicent (whom he divorced, 1929), daughter of Brig.Gen. Lloyd; two sons (Col. Frederick Devereux Pile, Royal Tank Regiment).
Married 2nd (1932) Hester (died 1949), only daughter of late George Phillimore, BCL, Shedfield, Hants.
Married 3rd (1951) Molly Eveline Louise Mary (late Chief Comdr, ATS), only daughter of late Ralph Smyth, Newtown, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, widow of Brigadier Francis Wyville Home.

14.09.1884
-
14.11.1976
Cottered, Hertfordshire

2nd Lt.	29.07.1904 [3052]
Lt.	29.07.1907
Capt.	30.10.1914
Maj.	26.08.1916
Bt. Lt.Col.	03.06.1919
Lt.Col.	06.06.1927
Col.	21.08.1928, seniority 03.06.1923
Maj.Gen.	11.02.1937
Lt.Gen.	28.07.1939, seniority 08.07.1938
Gen.	25.12.1941 (retd 26.11.1945)

GCB 1945 (KCB 1941; CB 1938); DSO 1918; MC; LLD (Hon.) Leeds 1946

29.07.1904			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches, DSO, MC); Assistant Director of Mechanisation, War Office, 1928-1932; Commander, Canal Brigade, Egypt, 1932-1936; Commander, 1st Anti-Aircraft Division TA, 1937-1939
28.07.1939	-	04.1945	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Anti-Aircraft Command

Director-General Ministry of Works, 1945; Colonel Commandant RA, 1945-1952; Chairman: Cementation Co. Ltd, 1961-1963 (Director, 1945-1961); Fothergill & Harvey Ltd, 1956-1964; Katherine Low Settlement, Battersea, 1951-1963; Chartered Nurses' Society; Management Committee, Herts Training School, 1950-1967 (Member 1958-).
Published: Ack-ack : Britain's defence against air attack during the Second World War (1949).

Pile,
[Sir] Frederick Devereux;
3rd Baronet

Son of Gen. Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Bt, GCB, DSO, MC.
Succeeded father, 1976.
Married 1st (1940) Pamela Henstock (? - 1983), daughter of late Philip Henstock; two daughters.
Married 2nd (1984) Mrs Josephine Culverwell (née Cowper).

10.12.1915
-
01.11.2010

2nd Lt.	29.08.1935 [66190]
...	...
Capt.	29.08.1943
A/Maj.	03.03.1942-02.06.1942
T/Maj.	03.06.1942-20.11.1943, 28.12.1943-28.08.1944, 18.09.1944-28.08.1948
local Lt.Col.	17.12.1942-06.10.1943
...	...
Col.	01.02.1960 (retd 12.09.1963)

12.07.1945

NW Europe (Stadtlohn - Ahaus advance 30.03.45) [recommendation availalbe upon request]

Education: Weymouth; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

29.08.1935			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (later Royal Tank Regiment) - Royal Armoured Corps
			served War of 1939-45, Egypt and NW Europe
11.02.1942	-	16.12.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), School of Artillery (UK)
17.12.1942	-	27.12.1943	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley (UK)
28.12.1943	-	19.05.1944	RAC Eastern Command (UK)
20.05.1944	-	04.07.1944	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Plans), HQ 2nd British Army (UK & BLA)
05.07.1944	-	28.08.1944	Brigade Major, 8th Armoured Brigade (BLA)
(1945)			Squadron Commander, 1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (BLA) (MC)
1955	-	1956	commanded Leeds Rifles
1957	-	1960	Colonel GS, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC
1960	-	1962	Commander, RAC Driving and Maintenance School

Secretary, Royal Soldiers' Daughters' School, 1965-71.
Published: Better than riches (1993).

Pilkington,
Iain David Bruce
I.D.B. Pilkington

Married ((06?).1941, Kensington district, London) Edna May Tongue, QAIMNSR.

1920
-

2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [164216]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

?	-	28.12.1940	152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Civil engineer. MICE.
Published: Queen of the Trianon : the story of Marie Antoinette (1955); The King’s Pleasure: The Story of Louis XV (1957).

Pilling,
Douglas William
D.W. Pilling

Son (with one sister) of James Percival Pilling (1880-1963), and Emily Sharp (1879-1965).
Married ((06?).1947, Banbury district, Oxfordshire) Ruth E. Loveridge (23.07.1923 - 09.1989); ... children.

03.05.1916
Stockport, Cheshire
-
02.06.1984
Southend on Sea, Essex

2nd Lt.	07.08.1943 [291177]
WS/Lt.	07.02.1944
Lt. & Paym.	07.02.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

?	-	07.08.1943	Officer Training Unit (R.A.P.C.)
07.08.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]

Pine-Coffin,
Trenchard John
J.H. Pink

12.06.1921
Kashmir
-
08.2006

2nd Lt.	31.12.1939 [112831]
...	...
A/Maj.	18.02.1945-17.05.1945
T/Maj.	18.05.1945-14.05.1947, 09.12.1948-30.12.1952
Maj.	31.12.1952
Lt.Col.	20.02.1961 (retd 31.03.1968)

OBE

16.08.1963

31.12.1939			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment
			served King's African Rifles (Burma)
			transferred, Parachute Regiment

Deputy Lieutenant (DL).

Pink,
James Henry
J.H. Pink

Husband of Marion Pink (née ...); one daughter.

08.09.1915
-
13.02.2007

2nd Lt.	30.01.1936
T/Maj.	13.08.1941-05.09.1941, 06.01.1942-13.07.1942, 21.01.1944-(01.1946)
Maj.	30.01.1949 (retd 10.12.1956)
Hon. Lt.Col.	10.12.1956

MBE	11.10.1945	?
MID	08.07.1941	?
MID	22.03.1945	?

30.01.1936			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
...	-	...	...

Pinner,
Ernest Robert

see:

Goldstein,
Ernst

Pio,
Oscar Alfred
O.A. Pio

Son of Amerigo Pio, and Dorothea Emelye De Pass (1890-1938).
Married (11.11.1943, Kensington district, London) Esmée Gioia Mackenzie Cooke; three daughters, four sons.

23.08.1914
Paddington district, London
-
19.12.1999
Milan, Italy

Cadet	? [2161895]
2nd Lt.	08.01.1944 [304601]
WS/Lt.	08.07.1944 (reld 11.10.1946)
T/Capt.	04.07.1945-(12.1946)
Hon. Capt.	11.10.1946

08.01.1944

commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

Managing Director, president of companies.
His daughter writes: "I know that he was in North Africa in 1944/45 and after that he was in Italy selecting documents for the Foreign Office up till the end of 1946."

Pipe,
Kenneth Sydney
"Ken"
K.S. Pipe (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive)

Married ((03?).1944, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Bessie Smee.

04.12.1917
-
11.2001
Watford district, Hertfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.01.1943 [258011]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1943

02.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne)

Pirie,
John Sawyer
J.S. Pirie (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Pirie)

Son of William Sawyer Pirie (1860-1939), and Julia Frances Pearce (1876-1960).
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Colin Sawyer Pirie, RNVR,
Married 1st ((09?).1938, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Barbara Hauber, later Sister QAIMNSR (died 1944).
Married 2nd (21.05.1947, Hamburg, Germany) Sub. Williama Lillis Shaw Collemy, ATS (1922-2007); two sons.

21.06.1912
Esher, Kingston district, Surrey
-
19.01.2001
Auckland, New Zealand

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164310]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
A/Capt.	(02.1943)
T/Capt.	21.04.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	23.01.1946 (reld 09.09.1947)
T/Maj.	23.01.1946-09.09.1947
Hon. Maj.	09.09.1947

08.04.1943

North Africa *

?	-	21.12.1940	either 122nd or 123rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1943)			F Battery, 12th (Honourable Artillery Company) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery

Literature: Lt.Gen. C.G.G. Nicholson, The Thala road : the story of F Battery 12th (HAC) Regiment RHA. In: The Royal Artillery commemoration book 1939-1945 (1950), p. 266-270.

* [Recommendation for the immediate award of the Military Cross to Capt. J.S. Pirie] Place: Thala. During the night of 22 February 1943. After our Forward Defence Lines had been overrun and disintegrated, 5 German tanks came on down the road and halted less than 100 yards from the Battery position: they had colected about 40 Prisoners of War and surrounded their tanks with them. Captain Pirie, having organised his guns to lay on the tanks as best they could in the dark, fired a verey light over the tanks so that the guns were able to lay on them accurately and fire. 2 of the 5 tanks were knocked out, the remaining 3 turned back and round to attack the guns. When another was knocked out, the other 2 turned back. Throughout the rest of the night when there were no Infantry in front Captain Pirie placed himself with the guns in the most exposed position and took charge of them himself. All this time German voices and tanks could be heard, and the whole valley was being swept by machine-gun and cannon fire. Throughout the next day, until he was wounded in the afternoon, Captain Pirie handled his guns as offensively as he could. His initiave, encouragement and leadership were an inspiration to all his men.
[Recommended by Lt.Col. John A.T. Barstow, Commanding 12th HAC Regiment RHA, approved 27.02.1943 by Brig. C.G.G. Nicholson, Commander Nickforce, and 07.03.1943 by Lt.Gen. K.A.N. Anderson, Commander-in-Chief First Army.]

Pitman,
Thomas Islay
"Tommy"
T.I. Pitman

Married (1948) Sheilah
Westropp, the daughter of Major-General Victor Westropp; four daughters.

11.02.1915
Edinbugh
-
26.03.2005
in hospital (of Harmby House, Harmby)

2nd Lt. SRO	08.11.1933
2nd Lt.	11.02.1936 [56972]
Lt.	11.02.1939
Capt.	11.02.1944
A/Maj.	05.10.1945-04.01.1946
T/Maj.	05.01.1946-10.02.1949
Maj.	11.02.1949 (retd 28.06.1957)

	MC	18.12.1936	Palestine 36
	MID	21.02.1946	as POW

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

08.11.1933			commissioned into the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
11.02.1936			commissioned into the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) - Royal Armoured Corps
07.1940			dropped behind the Italian lines to carry out a hazardous reconnaissance of the Tobruk-Bardia road (captured)
26.07.1940	-	04.1945	POW; escaped 09.1943, re-captured; 05.1944 to Oflag VIB at Warburg
05.1945?	-	(04.1948)	Officer Commanding, C Squadron, 11th Hussars (Berlin)
			Instructor, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
?	-	1953	took over Blenheim Company, which became Sovereign's Company, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
1953	-	1954	Officer Commanding, C Squadron, 11th Hussars (Malaya)
	-	1957	Second-in-Command, 11th Hussars (Seremban)
28.06.1957	-	11.02.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Won the Southern Command and Army Championships at golf, 1934. Set up a malting business in North Yorkshire, 1958. He bred cattle and sheep and for many years enjoyed golf and shooting. For 10 years, he was chairman of the Northern Horse Show and raised substantial sums for paraplegic charities and for Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Pitt,
John William
J.W. Pitt

?
-

2nd Lt.	07.05.1943 [273894]
WS/Lt.	08.11.1943
WS/Capt.	21.01.1946
T/Maj.	21.01.1946-(04.1946) (reld 1946?)
Hon. Capt.	1946?
Capt. RARO	09.08.1958

18.02.1949

07.05.1943			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
			1st Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment
09.08.1958			transferred to Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Intelligence Corps

Served the Allied Control Commission, Munster, 1947-1950. Later Intelligence Officer at Essen.

Pittendrigh,
Arthur

see:

RNR officers' section

Pitts,
Reginald George
R.G. Pitts

Son of ... Pitts, and ... Williams.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

10.06.1924
Exeter district, Devon
-

Cadet	? [14330647]
2nd Lt.	17.11.1944 [335172]
WS/Lt.	17.05.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	18.01.1946-(04.1947)

17.11.1944			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
1944			6th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
1945			1st Battalion The Devonshire Regiment

Plant,
George Daniel
G.D. Plant

(03?).1921
Dudley district, Staffodshire / Worcestershire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1942 [237581]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1943

04.07.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(05.1944)			Middle East Training Centre

Plant,
William James
W.J. Plant

Lived at Preston, Lancashire.

(03?).1888
Fylde, Lancashire
-

Pte.	? [2647]
2nd Lt.	? [26262]
A/Capt.	12.06.1917-24.04.1917
T/Capt.	25.04.1917.-25.03.1918
A/Capt.	25.03.1918, seniority 25.04.1917 (without pay or allowances)
T/Capt.	14.04.1921-24.07.1921 (reld 24.07.1921)
Prov. Maj.	27.09.1921
Maj.	21.10.1924, seniority 27.09.1921
Lt.Col.	31.07.1928
Bt. Col.	31.07.1932
Maj.	15.07.1940 (reverted to this rank at own request whilst employed)
Lt.Col.	29.04.1941 (reld 03.12.1945; restored to rank of Bt. Col.))
local Col.	03.02.1943-(04.1944)

19.08.1943

?			commissioned, North Lancashire Regiment (later: The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)) - Special Reserve of Officers
12.06.1917	-	24.04.1917	Company Commander, North Lancashire Regiment
25.03.1918	-	05.1918	Officer Cadet Unit
?	-	?	3rd Battalion The Loyal Regiment
26.05.1921	-	24.07.1921	4th (Defence Force) Battalion The Loyal Regiment
31.07.1928	-	06.06.1935	Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Loyal Regiment
06.06.1935			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class I) (15.11.1941 transferred to the regimental list of the Royal Artillery)
02.1941	-	15.11.1941	Commanding Officer, 7th Battalion The Loyal Regiment, reorganized as:
15.11.1941	-	summer1942	Commanding Officer, 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
(04.1944)			specially employed

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County Palatine, Lancaster, 02.11.1935.

Platt,
Eugene William
E.W. Platt

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.05.1941 [187720] (reld 24.09.1942; ill-health) (deprived of his rank 06.04.1943)

17.05.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Platt,
John Rowley Innes
J.W. Pitt

Married (1940) Isobel Fenwick; two sons.

17.06.1905
Wylam, Northumberland
-
16.10.2006

2nd Lt.	29.01.1925 [32105]
Lt.	29.01.1927
Capt.	01.05.1937
A/Maj.	12.04.1940-11.07.1940
T/Maj.	12.07.1940-25.05.1941, 29.05.1941-28.01.1942
Maj.	29.01.1942
A/Lt.Col.	01.03.1942-31.05.1942
T/Lt.Col.	01.06.1942-11.09.1944, 08.11.1944-(04.1946)
Lt.Col.	15.11.1948 (supernumerary 15.11.1951) (retd 27.06.1952)
A/Col.	16.10.1943-26.11.1943
T/Brig.	?
Hon. Brig.	27.06.1952

DSO	24.08.1944	crossing of the River Garigliano, Italy, 11.05.44
OBE	14.06.1969	HM's birthday 69: Secretary of the Wiltshire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association
MID	16.09.1943	North Africa

Education: Wellington; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Quetta (1939; psc)

29.01.1925			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
			served with the 1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Egypt, Hong Kong, India):
12.11.1931	-	11.11.1934	Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Wellington)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Poona, India)
01.04.1939	-	11.04.1940	Brigade Major, Army Gas School (Winterbourne)
(1940)			junior staff officer, I Corps (France)
1940	-	1942	Home service (UK):
			Brigade Major, 5th Infantry Brigade (UK)
1942			staff officer, 1st Army (landing at Algiers, N Africa)
			staff, 18th Army Group (Tunisia, Sicily)
			Commandant, Army Gas School
(05.1944)			Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (Egypt, Italy [wounded])
			War Office
			staff, 2nd Army (Germany)
			Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
			Brisith Army Staff, Washington
			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (India)
1948	-	1949	instructional staff, School of Infantry
1950	-	1952	Commander, 130th Infantry Brigade (TA)
27.06.1952	-	25.03.1961	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Secretary of the Wiltshire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for 16 years. Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire, 1973.
Published: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry 1907-1967 (1972); Three hundred years of foxhunting in South and West Wiltshire (1989)

Platt,
Sir William

Son of late John Platt and Margaret Oudney Graham, 74 Whitehall Court, SW1.
Married (31.03.1921) Mollie Dendy Watney, younger daughter of late Dendy Watney; two sons.

14.06.1885
Brooklands, Cheshire
-
28.09.1975
London

2nd Lt.	16.08.1905 [9000]
Lt.	19.06.1909
T/Capt.	21.09.1914-31.10.1914
Capt.	01.11.1914
T/Maj.	22.11.1916-31.12.1916
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1917
Maj.	29.01.1924
T/Lt.Col.	10.07.1918-15.01.1920
Bt. Lt.Col.	30.01.1924
Lt.Col.	31.08.1930
Col.	22.01.1933, seniority 30.01.1927
T/Brig.	18.10.1934-17.10.1938
Maj.Gen.	11.11.1938, seniority 26.12.1937
A/Lt.Gen.	07.01.1941
Lt.Gen.	31.05.1941
Gen.	04.01.1943 (retd 17.04.1945; Reserve of Officers up till 14.06.1947)

GBE	01.01.1943	New Year 43
KCB	30.05.1941	East Africa operations 41
CB	08.06.1939	Sudan
DSO	1908	?
MID	14.08.1908	?
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	20.05.1918	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
MID	01.04.1941	?

NW Frontier of India 1908 Medal & Clasp; 1914 Star and Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Order of the Nile 1st class (Egypt) (1941; London Gazette 09.10.1942); Grand Cross, Star of Ethiopia (1944; London Gazette 01.03.1945); Commandeur, Légion d'Honneur (France) (1945)

Education: Marlborough College (1898-1902); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1904-1905); Staff College, Camberley (1919)

16.08.1905			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Battalion)
1908	-	1913	served NW Frontier, India (1st Battalion) (despatches, DSO)
1914	-	1918	served European War (France & Belgium, 27.08.1914-27.10.1914, 11.01.1916-22.12.1917, 25.03.1918-11.11.1918) (despatches, Bt Major, Bt LtCol on promotion to substantive rank of Major; wounded):
1914			platoon commander at the commencement
08.01.1915	-	21.11.1916	Brigade Major, 103rd Infantry Brigade (Home Forces & France)
22.11.1916	-	1917	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 21st Division (France)
1917	-	09.07.1918	General Staff Officer 2nd Grade (GSO2), 2nd Australian and New Zealand Corps & 22 Army Corps (France)
10.07.1918	-	15.01.1920	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 37th Division (France)
16.01.1920	-	1926	staff & regimental duties (Ireland, India, Egypt):
16.01.1920	-	12.02.1922	Brigade Major, 12th Infantry Brigade (Eastern Command) & Galway Brigade (Irish Command)
08.03.1924	-	11.04.1926	Brigade Major, ... (Egypt)
03.12.1927	-	30.08.1930	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), War Office
31.08.1930			transferred to The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
31.08.1930	-	21.01.1933	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Plymouth)
22.01.1933	-	17.10.1934	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 3rd Division (Bulford) (Southern Command)
18.10.1934	-	17.10.1938	Commander, 7th Infantry Brigade (Tidworth) (Southern Command)
11.11.1938	-	04.10.1941	Major-General Commanding the Troops, The Sudan & Commandant Sudan Defence Force
05.12.1941	-	(04?).1945	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, East African Command

ADC to the King, 29.06.1937-10.11.1938. Colonel, The Wiltshire Regiment, 28.06.1942-01.11.1954.
Director, Messrs. Mather and Platt Ltd., Manchester, 24.02.1946-03.1957.
Published: East Africa: despatch on operations 1940 Nov.-1941 July, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, covering reports by Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt and Lieutenant General Sir Alan G. Cunningham (London Gazette, No. 37645); East Africa: despatch on operations 1941 July 12-1943 Jan. 8, by Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, East Africa Command (London Gazette, No. 37655)

Plowman,
Owen Gordon
O.G. Plowman

Son of Owen Alfred John Plowman (1868-1951), and Elizabeth Flint.
Married Elizabeth Hunter.

11.05.1893
Lichfield district, Staffordshire
-
(03?).1981
Bournemouth, Dorset

Wt.Offr. I (SSM)	16.03.1927
Lt. (Asst.Paym.)	17.10.1934 [63700]
Capt. (Asst.Paym.)	17.10.1940
A/Maj. (Staff Paym. 2nd cl.)	17.08.1940-16.11.1940
T/Maj. (Staff Paym. 2nd cl.)	17.11.1940-(01.1946)
Maj. (Asst.Paym.)	01.07.1946
Lt.Col.	01.07.1950 (retd 05.08.1953)

	MBE	08.06.1950	HM's birthday 50 *
	MID	09.09.1921	Iraq

Iraq Operations 1919-20 Medal & Clasp

11.05.1911			enlisted The Hampshire Regiment, being transferred to Army Pay Corps 27.11.1911 & served in the ranks for 12 years, 51 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 3 years, 258 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 1 for 7 years, 215 days
17.10.1934			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps
?	-	?	?
1949	-	1950	Staff Paymaster, Pay Branch, GHQ, Middle East Land Forces (Palestine & Egypt)
1950?			Regimental Paymaster, Household Cavalry & Foot Guards

* [Recommendation for the award of the MBE to Maj. & Asst.Paym. O.G. Plowman] He has been employed in dealing with matters of policy and individual cases covering all aspects of officers pay and allowances, with problems in connection with payment of bills, and recoveries from Foreign Governments in respect of Stores and Supplies, and in clearing up the Suspense Accounts and aftermath of Palestine. His ability and hard work have been outstanding; he never spares himself and his zeal is applied as much in the interest of the individual as in carrying out Regulations and Instructions. His practical, commonsense, yet sympathetic, approach to the many problems has been invaluable. This has been especially noticeable in connection with clearing up the aftermath of Palestine. He was in charge of the Command Services wing of the Army Pay Office in Palestine up to its evacuation, and, consequent on his organizing ability and foresight there have been no losses to the Public in connection with those accounts.
Over a period of 38 years service he has consistently maintained a very high standard of selfless devotion to duty and loyalty to his superiors and Corps. He has never spared himself and his cheerfulness, willingness to help others, and unstinting hard work are deserving of the highest praise and fully merit recognition. [Recommended by Brig. E.T.C. Smith, DPIC, GHQ Middle East Land Forces]

Plowman,
Piers [Alan]
P. Plowman

Son of Owen Alfred John Plowman (1868-1951), and Elizabeth Flint.
Married ((03?).1925, Lewisham district, London) Helen Bowles.

27.02.1895
Lichfield district, Staffordshire
-
(03?).1950
York district, East Riding of Yorkshire
(died whilst attending a conference in York)

Lt. (Asst.Paym.)	06.05.1937 [71860]
WS/Capt.	09.04.1941
WS/Capt. (Asst.Paym.)	01.11.1942
Capt.	06.05.1943
A/Maj. (Staff Paym. 2nd cl.)	09.01.1941-08.04.1941
T/Maj. (Staff Paym. 2nd cl.)	09.04.1941-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.07.1946

	MBE	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41: for services in the War Office
	MID	23.07.1937	Palestine

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

02.1913			enlisted Grenadier Guards, being transferred to Army Pay Corps 1913 & served in the ranks for 10 years, 124 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 7 years, 219 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 1 for 6 years, 90 days
06.05.1937			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps
?	-	?	member, War Office Inspection Team
1949			Regimental Paymaster, Nottingham

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