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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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E.S. Sabine to V.R.B. Smallwood

Sabine,
Edward Spencer
E.S. Sabine (Photo courtesy of Jane Sabine)

Son of Harry Sabine, and Caroline Cook.
Married (24.08.1941, Chester district, Cheshire) Sarah Yeates (03.08.1918 - 05.2003); ... children (four daughters, three sons).

25.09.1920
Maidstone district, Kent
-
23.09.1984
Maidstone, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.05.1943 [276218]
WS/Lt.	07.11.1943 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 03.05.1952)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	03.05.1952

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Def M	-	-
EM	21.09.1993	posthumously

07.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			112th Battery, 28th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (North Africa, India & Burma)

Sadler,
Willis Michael
"Mike"
W.M. Sadler

22.02.1920
Kensington, London
-
04.01.2024
Cambridge

Gnr.	? [1095726]
2nd Lt.	10.10.1942 [282465]
WS/Lt.	10.04.1943
T/Capt.	27.07.1944-01.11.1945 (reld 01.11.1945; on appointment to Rhodesian Forces)
Hon. Capt.	01.11.1945

	MC	22.03.1945	NW Europe
	MM	24.02.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)

			served in the ranks, Royal Horse Artillery, attached Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) (MM)
10.10.1942			commissioned, King's Royal Rifle Regiment [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transfered, Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) (MC)

St. John,
Stephen Rowland
S.R. St. John

Son of Lt.Col. the Hon.
Rowland Tudor St. John
(formerly The Durham Light
Infantry), and of Katherine
Madge Lockwood, of
Richmond, Surrey.
Residence: (1943) Glasgow.

25.06.1915
Hartley Wintney
district, Hampshire
-
31.10.1943
[age 28]
[Minturno War
Cemetery, Italy, V.D.6]

2nd Lt.	31.01.1935 [64531]
Lt.	31.01.1938
A/Capt.	01.09.1939-22.11.1939
Capt.	31.01.1943
T/Maj.	?

19.08.1943

Middle East (Egypt and Libya)

31.01.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(01.1937)			20th Field Brigade RA (Catterick Camp)
(01.1939)			Depot Regiment, Depot, Royal Artillery (Woolwich)
25.08.1939	-	22.11.1939	Adjutant, ...
?	-	31.10.1943	"K" Battery, 5th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

St. John,
Sydney
S. St. John (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles St John Carver)

Married; ... children.

09.07.1912
-
01.1999
Salisbury,
Wiltshire
[his ashes were
spread at Middle
Wallop Airfield,
Wiltshire]

A/Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	22.02.1941 [173336]
WS/Lt.	22.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

39\|45 St	?	?
Fr&G St	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?
Def M	?	?

22.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
22.05.1944			transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps

St. Lawrence,
Raleigh Vincent *
R.V. St Lawrence

Married Jane (predeceased him);two daughters, one son.
* Also shown with first names: Vincent Charles Raleigh

(12?).1916
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
07.07.2007
[age 90]
Bishoptown, Renfrewshire, Scotland

2nd Lt.	19.11.1939 [105505]
WS/Capt.	20.03.1945
Hon. Maj.	?

Worked for the Bank of England.

19.11.1939			commissioned, The King's Regiment [emergency commission]
30.12.1942			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
			4th Parachute Battalion

Worked for Stonyhurst College.

Sale,
Walter Morley
W.M. Sale

Son of Charles Vincent Sale,
late of Aston Rowant House,
Oxon.
Married (08.02.1928) Hon. Ismay Hilda Margaret FitzRoy (born 03.12.1908), daughter of 4th Baron Southampton, OBE; one son, one daughter.

02.08.1903
-
29.08.1976
Halesworth, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	31.01.1925, seniority 02.02.1924 [25822]
Lt.	02.02.1926
Capt.	01.02.1930
Maj.	26.06.1938
A/Lt.Col.	15.03.1941-14.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.	15.06.1941-20.12.1941, 17.12.1942-(01.1946)
WS/Lt.Col.	?
Lt.Col.	26.06.1947
A/Col.	14.05.1945-(01.1946)
Col.	15.12.1948, seniority 14.11.1948
A/Brig.	14.05.1945-(01.1946)
T/Brig.	(1949)
Brig.	03.08.1952 (retd 01.09.1955)

	CVO	05.06.1952	HM's birthday 52
	OBE	01.02.1945	NW Europe
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
?	MID	09.01.1949	Palestine 03-09.46
	CdeG	16.01.1947	? [awarded 08.12.1945]
	LeoII	16.01.1947	? [awarded 08.12.1945]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; New College, Oxford (BA); Staff College (psc)

			from General List, Territorial Army
31.01.1925			commissioned, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) (Windsor)
1943	-	12.1944	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), Guards Armoured Division [for almost 2 years]
12.1944	-	(1946)	Commanding Officer, 1st Household Cavalry Regiment (despatches twice)
26.06.1947	-	14.12.1948	Commanding Officer, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
1950	-	1954	Chief of Staff, London District

Equerry to the Queen, 01.05.1954; Crown Equerry, 01.03.1955-05.04.1961. Extra Equerry to the Queen, 05.04.1961-1976.

Sales,
Jack Eric Denyer
J.E.D. Sales

04.10.1901
Wenhaston, Suffolk
-
10.1996
Basingstoke, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.08.1941 [201935]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	08.09.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	1946?
Capt.	01.09.1946, seniority 14.04.1946
T/Maj.	18.06.1949
Maj.	16.08.1954 (reld 01.09.1956)
Hon. Maj.	01.09.1956

EM	08.02.1949	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Fr&G St	?	?
Def M	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?
Const LSM	?	?

Served in the Special Constabulary.

1930s ?			enlisted, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
?	-	15.08.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
01.09.1946	-	01.09.1956	short service commission

Salmon,
Frank Robert
F.R. Salmon

Second son (with two brothers and one sister) of Rev. Thomas Salmon (1873-1932), and Isabel Littleton (1879-1972).
Brother of Capt. Thomas David Salmon, Royal Artillery, and Maj. Russell Salmon, General List.
Married (09.11.1940, Winchester district, Hampshire) Patricia Jean Evèn Painton (22.11.1917 - 06.1997), daughter of Lt.Col. George Richard Painton, MD, DPH, RA<C, of Teignmouth; three sons.

19.05.1910
Stutton, Samford district, Suffolk
-
26.01.1997
Dacorum, Leominster district, Hereford and Worcester

2nd Lt.	26.10.1938 [77957]
WS/Lt.	01.08.1940
A/Capt.	01.05.1940-31.07.1940
T/Capt.	01.08.1940-20.03.1943
WS/Capt.	21.03.1943
A/Maj.	21.12.1942-20.03.1943
T/Maj.	21.03.1943-25.10.1945
WS/Maj.	26.10.1945
A/Lt.Col.	26.07.1945-25.10.1945
T/Lt.Col.	26.10.1945-mid 1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

21.04.1950

Education: Winchester College (1923.3-1929.2; Commoner; Assoc. XI 1928-1929; VI; Cadet Sergeant, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps); Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Scholar, Birmingham University (1929; Mining B.Sc. 1932; B.U. Assoc. XI).
Mining engineer with Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, Ltd.

26.10.1938			commissioned, 83rd (Welsh) Field Brigade RA - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilised TA
1940			133rd Field Regiment RA (53rd Infantry Division)
1942	-	1945	Officer Commanding, 332nd (Radnor) Field Battery (83rd (Welsh) Field Regiment RA, 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division) (UK, NW Europe (Normandy & Holland))
1945	-	12.1945	Lieutenant-Colonel (Military Government), Chief Production Controller, 2 (Ruhr) Coal District, Northern Germany Coal Control
1946	-	25.06.1960	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Assistant to Director of Production, Powell Duffryn & Co., 1946. Assistant Area General Manager, National Coal Board, Area No. 5 (Mid-West Durham), Durham, 1947. Director and General Manager, Mitchell Cotts (Middle East) Ltd., 1953. Tube Investments, 1956. Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (M.I.Mech.E.).

Salmon,
Miles Norton
M.N. Salmon (Photo courtesy of Mr Ben Jewitt)

Son (with three brothers) of Arthur John Salmon (1875-1955), and Maud Alice Addinell (1879-1956).
Married (15.02.1947, Watford, Hertfordshire) Joyce Olive "Joy" Pullin (27.10.1923 - 01.2000), daughter (with one brother) of Arthur Henry Pullin (1885-1937), and Lesley Innes Webster (1899-1984); four daughters.

05.05.1920
Watford, Hertfordshire
-
11.12.1991
Spofforth, Harrogate, Leeds district, North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	13.12.1941 [221325]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	01.04.1944-04.05.1946
WS/Capt.	05.05.1946 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	05.05.1946-(12.1946)

Education: Newells Preparatory School, Seafield Park, Fareham, Hampshire (09.1929-1934); Haileybury College, Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire (1934.2-1938.2; Colvin House); Camborne School of Mines, Penryn, Cornwall (09.1938-).

13.12.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
10.1942: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, REME Workshop Posting (Formerly Gross's Garage) 02.1943: Petersham, Surrey, England REME course: Radar Control of 3.7" & 40mm AA guns 10.06.1943-12.06.1943: voyage from Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland to New York City, New York, USA 06.1943: Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA, Demonstration of Radar Controlled Guns at Newark Army Airfield 11.07.1943: Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, USA, US account of REME/Royal Artillery visit to Camp Davis. 08.1943: Orlando, Orange, Florida, USA, REME Demonstrations and Parades 09.1943: Riverside, Riverside, California, USA, REME Demonstrations and Parades 27.09.1943: New York, New York, USA, Ticker Tape Parade down Broadway to accept salute from Mayor La Guardia, Sir John Dill and Major General Sanderford Jarman, and demonstration of night firing AA Batteries 25.12.1943: White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA, Christmas in NYC and White Plains 12.1943: Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA, Posted to British Military Mission, Washington DC 01.1944: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, AA No 3 mk III "Baby Maggie" work - the AA No 3 mk VII was later developed by REME into the "Brakemine" AA weapon to combat the V2 attacks on London. 17.04.1944-27.04.1944: voyage from New York City, New York, USA to Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland 05.1944: Park Royal, Middlesex, England, REME AA Command Workshop Posting (North London Batteries) 1944: Arborfield, Berkshire, England, REME course: Tank Building/Recovery & High Speed Testing 01.1946: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya, East Africa Command under Major-General Colin Bullard 10.1946: York, Yorkshire, England, Demobilised.

Mining engineer. Retired 1980. Marketing director Hicksons Products Ltd. since 1982. Timber consultant.

Salmon,
Paul Harry
P.H. Salmon

Youngest son of Harry Lionel Salmon (1875-1958), and Annie Ivy Leigh (1896-1981).
Married (24.08.1945, Bonnington Church, Leith) Catherine Jean Towerson Sinclair, only daughter of Mr & Mrs David Sinclair, of Leith; two sons.

28.12.1920
Wandsworth district, London
-
17.01.2004
Sandton, South Africa

Gnr.	? [1397873]
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [172036]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942
T/Capt.	01.08.1944-(10.1945)
WS/Capt.	19.01.1946 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	19.01.1946-(08.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 08.1946, < 12.1946

12.05.1981

Education: Cranleigh School, Surrey.

25.08.1939			mobilized for enlisted service
02.07.1940			either 151st or 152nd Officer Cadet Training Unit (Signals), Catterick
15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Salmon,
Russell
R. Salmon

Eldest son (with two brothers and one sister) of Rev. Thomas Salmon (1873-1932), and Isabel Littleton (1879-1972).
Brother of Lt.Col. Frank Robert Salmon, TD, Royal Artillery, and Capt. Thomas David Salmon, Royal Artillery.

06.03.1907
Westonbirt, Tetbury district, Gloucestershire
-
27.09.1941
Asmara (died of meningitis following an operation)
[Asmara War Cemetery, plot 3,E.1]

2nd Lt.	16.04.1941 [230433]
A/Maj.	16.04.1941?

Education: Twyford; Winchester College (1920.3-1926.2; Commoner; Soccer XI 1925, 1926; Senio Prefect of his House); Exhibitioner, Christ Church, Oxford (1926; took a Second in History; B.A., 1929).

			Sudan Political Service:
07.09.1930	-	01.11.1935	Assistant District Commissioner, Dilling, Western Jebels District, Kordofan, Sudan
01.11.1935	-	01.11.1938	Assistant District Commissioner, Sinkat, Beja District, Kassala, Sudan
01.11.1938	-	01.01.1939	Civil Secretary's Office
01.01.1939	-	09.06.1940	a Deputy Assistant Director (Public Security), Civil Secretary's Office (& Commandant Police Depot)
09.06.1940	-	16.04.1941	with rank of Bimbashi, Sudan Defence Force [Governor's commission, African Colonial Forces] (with "Meadow Force" on Eritrean border; Police Officer with Brigade HQ at Keren and fall of Massawa)
16.04.1941			commissioned, General List - African Colonial Forces Section [emergency commission]
16.04.1941	-	27.09.1941	Major, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (O.E.T.A.), Eritrea; Military Governor of Barentu district of Eritrea

Salmon,
Thomas David
T.D. Salmon

Third son of (with two brothers and one sister) of Rev. Thomas Salmon (1873-1932), and Isabel Littleton (1879-1972).
Brother of Lt.Col. Frank Robert Salmon, TD, Royal Artillery, and Maj. Russell Salmon, General List.
Married (29.04.1950, Ilford, Essex) Morris Patricia Reyner Turner (19.06.1923 - ), daughter of George Samuel Turner, of Ilford; two daughters, one son.

01.11.1916
North Stoneham Rectory, South Stoneham district, Hampshire
-
02.09.1997
Mid Surrey district, Surrey

Gnr.	09.1939
2nd Lt.	06.01.1940 [109900]
WS/Lt.	06.07.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Capt.	04.04.1944-03.07.1944
T/Capt.	04.07.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

Education: Twyford School; Winchester College (1930.1-1935.2; Commoner); Christ Church, Oxford (1935-1939; Fell Exhibitioner 1936; 2nd Cl. Mod., 1936; 2 Lit. Hum., 1939; B.A., 1940; M.A., 1949).

06.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1940	-	1942	133rd (Welsh) Regiment RA
1942	-	1943	Training Brigade RA
1944	-	1945	133rd (Welsh) Regiment RA (NW Europe)

Solicitor, 1949. Treasurer, Solicitor's Department, 1951. Assistant Treasurer Solicitor (Ministry of Aviation), 1965. Board of Trade (Civil Aviation), 1966, Assistant to Speaker’s Counsel, House of Commons.

Salvesen,
Charles Ormond Loggie
C.O.L. Salvesen

Son of Maj. Charles Emil Salvesen, RA (1891-1973), and Juliet Loggie (1893-1977).
Married 1st (26.08.1943, Gibraltar Cathedral; divorced 16.12.1949) Third Officer Margaret Ruth Bell, WRNS (24.05.1920 - 31.03.2014).
Married 2nd (03.02.1950, Singapore; divorced) Annette Frances More (1927 - ) [she published memoirs "Sworn to secrecy" (2014)].
Married 3rd (09.02.1962, Edinburgh, Scotland) Ann May Hynd Penman (14.05.1917 - 18.07.1968).

24.03.1918
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
13.04.1989
Ballaugh, Isle of Man

2nd Lt.	04.12.1937 [73528]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1940
T/Capt.	01.12.1940--29.09.1942
WS/Capt.	30.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	30.09.1942-(04.1945), 25.05.1945-.(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946
Capt.	25.05.1956, seniority 23.06.950
Hon. Maj.	31.01.1958

20.06.1950

Education: Edinburgh Academy (1924-1934).
Scottish champion pairs figure skater, 1938.

			late Cadet Edinburgh Academy Cadet Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
04.12.1937			commissioned, 61st (Finsbury Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Brigade Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
01.04.1939			transferred, ... - Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1946?	-	24.05.1956	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
25.05.1956	-	30.01.1958	Territorial Army (seconded for service of the Staff)
31.01.1958	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Entered a mercantile career, director of a number of firms. Deputy commandant. Special Constabulary (Reserve Unit), Singapore, 11.12.1950. Worked for Unilever, Caithness Glass, and as a publican.

Sammons,
John Douglas Joseph
J.D.J. Sammons

Son of Alfred Sammons, and Eliza Ffitch.
Married Sylvia ... (predeceased him); four sons.

29.03.1917
Stepney district, London / Middlesex
-
20.01.2018
Moruya Hospital, NSW, Australia (formerly of Higgins)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.10.1940 [153309]
WS/Lt.	19.04.1942
T/Capt.	26.04.1943-01.02.1944
WS/Capt.	02.02.1944
Capt.	08.07.1946, seniority 02.02.1944
T/Maj.	11.04.1944-(04.1946)
Maj.	15.11.1953 (retd 08.07.1954)

02.05.1947

			served in the ranks - Territorial Army
?	-	19.10.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
19.10.1940			commissioned, The Essex Regiment [emergency commission]
			served in Syria, Tobruk and Burma
08.07.1946	-	07.07.1954	commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [short service commission]
			served British Army of the Rhine
08.07.1954	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

On demobilisation, he emigrated to Australia where he served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Flight Lieutenant, being promoted to Squadron Leader (Equipment Branch) before his retirement in 1971. He then served as an office manager with the Fijian High Commission in Canberra for a further 10 years.

Samuels,
Leslie Joseph
L.J. Samuels

Son of Samuel Joshua Honigbaum (1863-1933), and Millicent Collins (1873-1968).
Married 1st (01.06.1945, Tel Aviv, Israel) Lenke Iren Szanto (03.04.1921 - 05.11.1961), daughter of Daniel Szanto, and Ella Feldstein; one son.
Married 2nd Sally Lever.
Residence: (1944) Terenure, Dublin.

11.12.1912
Dublin, Ireland
-
14.06.1997
North London Hospital, Woodside Park, London

Lt.	22.05.1941 [188255]
WS/Capt.	22.05.1942

	MC	24.08.1944	Italy (attack across river Trigno, 27/28.10.43)
	MID	23.09.1943	North Africa

Education: RCSI (LCRPI&LM, LRCSI&LM 1936).

22.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(1943)			Regimental Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion London Irish Rifles, The Royal Ulster Rifles (MC)

General practitioner (Samuels & Samuels), Tottenham, London. Clinical Assistant Surgeon, Out-patients Department, Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham. Late Extern Clinical Assistant, Coombe Hospital, Dublin. Orthopaedic House Surgeon, Ancoats Hospital, Manchester.

Samwell,
Hugh [Peter] de Lancy
H. de L. Samwell

Son of the Rev. Edward Hugh Samwell (died 1936), Rector of Christ Church, Falkirk, and Florence Nellie Kate Samwell.
Husband of Klare Else Lieselotte Samwell, of Stirling.

08.07.1911
Stockport district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
13.01.1945
(KIA) [age 33]
[Hotton War
Cemetery, Belgium,
XI.A.11]

2nd Lt.	01.01.1938 [73830]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	19.03.1943-(04.1944)
A/Maj.	1945?

	MC	04.05.1943	Middle East (Mareth Line, N Africa)
	MID	13.01.1944	Middle East

Managing Director of Scottish Radio Industries, Denny.

			late Cadet Corporal, Glenalmond (Trinity College) Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Trainig Corps)
01.01.1938			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939	-	13.01.1945	mobilized TA, serving all the time with the 7th Battalion (North Africa, Sicily, Italy, NW Europe) [wounded at El Alamein 11.1942, and again in 03.1943; In Italy he played a leading role in defending soldiers accused of mutiny in September 1943, as documented in the famous book Mutiny at Salerno: An Injustice Exposed by Saul David; killed in action in the final phase of the German Ardennes offensive *]

Published: An Infantry Officer with the Eighth Army (1945)
* His death is recorded thus in the Battalion history: "During the advance of the Argylls the leading tank of the squadron of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, which were in support, was knocked out and a considerable amount of spandau and mortar fire was coming from the high ground on both sides of the road, and from the wooded area west of Lavaux. At this stage the opposition became rather sticky, and ‘A’ company of the Argylls was temporarily held up by some Panther tanks in the wooded area. Here several casualties were sustained, including ‘A’ company commander, Major Peter Samwell, M.C., who was killed."

Sanchez,
Albert Edward
A.E. Sanchez

Son (with five sisters) of Albert Edward Sanchez (1873-), and Mary Sanchez (1878-1957).
Married Annie Darcy (1906? - 1996); three children.

12.07.1900
Kirkdale, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
14.04.1979
Lancaster district, Lancashire (formerly of Kents Bank,
Kendal)

WS/MSM	?
Lt. (Inspector of RE Machinery)	30.10.1941 [216567]
T/Capt. (IREM)	15.06.1943-29.10.1944
WS/Capt. (IREM)	30.10.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

30.10.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Sanders,
Edward Albert
E.A. Sanders

10.11.1922
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.12.1941 [222273]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	20.04.1943-(04.1946)

19.12.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in India & Burma

Sanderson,
John Lilburn
J.L. Sanderson

16.03.1915 ?
-

2nd Lt.	16.08.1939 [95042]
WS/Lt.	14.02.1941
T/Capt.	14.02.1941-(04.1946)
Capt.	21.08.1947
Maj.	01.01.1948
Lt.Col.	01.07.1949

OBE	05.06.1952	HM's birthday 52
MID	01.08.1946	Malaya 42
MID	12.09.1946	gallant and distinguished services while Prisoner of War
TD	21.04.1950	-
TD	23.11.1951	1st clasp

			late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, Barnard Castle School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
16.08.1939			commissioned, 9th The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1940)			9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)
14.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	Adjutant, ...
01.10.1952	-	16.03.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Sandilands,
Charles Alistair
C.A. Sandilands

Only son of Lt.Col. Vincent Corbett Sandilands, DSO (1878-1961), and Jessie Goldie Alexander
Married (24.09.1959, Paddington district, London) Daphne M.Y. Edghill, widow of 2nd Lt. Percy Reginald Currie Fear, RA (1912-1940), and daughter of Mr & Mrs W.Y. Edghill, of Barbados.

14.10.1918
-
03.2002
South & West Dorset district, Dorset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113596]
WS/Lt.	14.07.1941
T/Capt.	27.10.1942-15.03.1946
WS/Capt.	16.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	1946
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

Czechoslovak Military Cross

Education: Winchester College (1932.1-1936.2; Turner's (Sunnyside) House).

?	-	14.01.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training unit (Sandhurst; prize cadet)
14.01.1940			commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) [emergency commission]
1941			attached RAF
1942			Captain & Adjutant, Officer Cadet Training Unit
1944			General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Air Headquarters Canadian Army, NW Europe
1945	-	1946	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) and 1st grade (GSO1) (Operations), Air Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine

Welfare Officer, J. Lyons & Co., 1947. Messrs. Hunters, solicitors.

Sandilands,
Patrick Stanley
"Pat"
P.S. Sandilands (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

30.11.1911
Tonbridge, Kent
-
29.08.1995
Oban, Argyll, Scotland

2nd Lt.	27.08.1931 [52708]
...	...
A/Lt.Col.	03.09.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	29.11.1954 (retd 05.12.1959)

	DSO	24.01.1946	NW Europe 1944/45 (Sicily, Italy, Germany) [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	24.08.1944	?

27.08.1931			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(07.1939)			2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
08.1943	-	(06.)1945	Second-in-Command, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (DSO, despatches)

Sandys,
Edwin Duncan;
Baron Duncan-Sandys (created 1974; Life Peer)
E.D. Sandys

Only son of Capt. George Sandys, formerly MP for Wells, and Mildred, daughter of Duncan Cameron, Ashburton, New Zealand.
Married 1st (16.09.1935) Diana (marriage dissolved 1960; she died 1963), daughter of late Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill; one son, two daughters.
Married 2nd (19.04.1962) MarieClaire, daughter of Adrien Schmitt, Paris, and formerly Viscountess Hudson; one daughter.

24.01.1908
Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset
-
26.11.1987
London

2nd Lt.	16.04.1937 [71545]
WS/Lt.	16.04.1940
T/Capt.	19.09.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 23.02.1946; disability)
T/Lt.Col.	1941
Hon. Lt.Col.	23.02.1946

	CH	1973	?
-	PC	1944	-

Grand Cross, Order of Merit, Italy, 1960.
Order of Sultanate of Brunei, 1973.
Medal of Honour, City of Paris, 1974.
Gold Cup of European Movement, 1975.
Goethe Gold Medal, Hamburg Foundation, 1975.
Grand Cross of Order of Crown, Belgium, 1975.
Commandeur, Légion d'Honneur, France, 1979.
Grand Cross, Order of Merit, Fed. Rep. of Germany, 1981.

Education: Eton; Magdalen College, Oxford (MA) [served in Oxford cavalry Officers' Training Corps and the Oxford University air squadron].

16.04.1937			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1940			served in Expeditionary Force in Norway
1940	-	1941	Commanding Officer of an Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Wales)
1941			disabled on active service (injuries from a serious car crash)

Entered Diplomatic Service, 1930; served in Foreign Office and British Embassy, Berlin; Member of Parliament (MP) (C) Norwood Division of Lambeth, 1935-45, Streatham, 1950-February 1974; Political Columnist of Sunday Chronicle, 1937-39; Member National Executive of Conservative Party, 1938-39; Cofounder, Air Raid Protection Institute (later Institute of Civil Defence), 1938; Financial Secretary to War Office, 1941-43; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply, responsible for armament production, 1943-44; Chairman, War Cabinet Committee for defence against German flying bombs and rockets, 1943-45; Minister of Works, 1944-45; Minister of Supply, October 1951-October 1954; Minister of Housing and Local Government, October 1954-January 1957; Minister of Defence, January 1957-October 1959; Minister of Aviation, October 1959-July 1960; Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, July 1960-October 1964, and also Secretary of State for the Colonies, July 1962-October 1964. Founded European Movement, 1947, Chairman, International Executive until 1950; Chairman, Parliamentary Council of European Movement, 1950-51 (President of Honour, European Movement, 1980-); Memmber Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe and of WEU, 1950-51, 1965- (Leader British Delegations, 1970-72); President, Europa Nostra, 1969-84 (Honorary Life President, 1984); Chairman British Section, Franco British Council, 1972-78; Chairman International Organising Committee, European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. Member, General Advisory Council, BBC, 1947-51. Director, Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1947-51 and 1966-72. Vice-President, Association of District Councils, 1979-. Honoray Vice-President, National Chamber of Trade, 1951-. Honorary MRTPI, 1956; Honorary FRIBA, 1968. Member of Magic Circle. Freeman of Bridgetown, Barbados, 1962.
Publications: European Movement and the Council of Europe, 1949; The Modern Commonwealth, 1961.

Sandys,
William Frederick
W.F. Sandys

Married ((12?).1928, Dover district, Kent) Ellen May Joyner (1906-1990), daughter of John Joyner (1868-1942), and Flora Elizabeth M. Ogilvie (1871-1927).

09.12.1898
Portsea Island district, Hampshire
-
06.1984
Dover district, Kent

Lt. QM	17.08.1939 [96055]
WS/Capt. QM	01.11.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt.	09.12.1953, seniority 28.06.1948 (reld 28.02.1959)

	MBE	13.12.1945	Italy *
	TD	18.09.1951	-

17.08.1939			commissioned, The Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1939	-	1945(?)	Quartermaster, 1st Battalion The Hertfordshire Regiment (UK, Gibraltar & Italy)
?	-	09.12.1953	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
09.12.1953	-	28.02.1959	commissioned, Hertfordshire Contingent, Army Cadet Force

* Captain Sandys has served as Quartermaster of 1st Battalion The Hertfordshire Regiment since the outbreak of war with exceptional ability and devotion to duty. On three occasions during the course of the war he has shown outstanding powers of organisation and ability to overcome abnormal difficulty. When his Battalion was embodied at the beginning of the war Captain Sandys was almost entirely responsible for the rapid and efficient equipping and mobilising of the Unit. In the summer of 1940 the Unit was in particularly difficult circumstances in that all types of personal and public equipment were taken on charge, issued and twice called in for re-issue to Regular Units which had returned from France. During this time also personnel were continually drafted overseas. In spite of these difficulties and discouragements Captain Sandys performed his duties with quite outstanding skill. In 1943-1944 the Unit was stationed at Gibraltar. Conditions were peculiar in that the Unit maintained on ledger charge many kinds of additional siege equipment and at the same time was responsible for equipping and maintaining a number of attached sub-units. The ration strength of this Unit was 50% above War Establishment. For fifteen months Captain Sandys showed the utmost diligence and outstanding powers of organisation in undertaking duties greatly in excess of those normal for a Unit Quartermaster without increase of staff or other outside assistance. In Italy from September 1944 to January 1945 the Unit was engaged in active operations in mountainous country under appalling weather conditions. Administrative resources were straind to the utmost. The Unit lines of communications varied between a twenty mile mule train over difficult tracks and a sixty mile motor transport drive over roads made almost impassable by mud or snow. During this period Captain Sandys never failed to meet any demand made on him by forward troops. When the weather was at its worst he personally made the twelve hour round trip from the Unit B-Echelon to Unit Rear Headquarters once every forty-eight hours and always reported by telephone or in person to his Commanding Officer. Throughout the whole period he showed the most outstanding endurance, determination and devotion to duty. Captain Sandys enlisted in 1914 at the age of 16 and has served continuously since that date. He was wounded in Mesopotamia in 1917.
[Recommended 24.08.1945 by Lt.Col. G.W.H. Peters, commanding 1st Bn. The Hertfordshire Regiment, approved 25.08.1945 by Brig. M. Redmayne, commanding 66th Infantry Brigade, 29.08.1945 by Maj.Gen. C.F. Loewen, commanding 1st Infantry Division]

Sanford,
Henry Martin Ayshford
H.M.A. Sanford

Son (with two brothers) of Edward Charles Ayshford Sanford (1859-1923), and Elizabeth May Griffith (1885-1978).

12.02.1907
Nynehead, Wellington, Somerset
-
06.04.1974
Yeovil district, Somerset
(road accident)

2nd Lt.	29.01.1927 [37296]
Lt.	29.01.1930
Capt.	02.11.1937
A/Maj.	08.07.1941-07.10.1941
T/Maj.	08.10.1941-17.11.1941, 01.09.1942-02.11.1943
Maj.	29.01.1944 (half-pay list 06.05.1944; ill-health) (retd 11.06.1947)

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
GenSM	-	& clasp Palestine 1936-1939

Education: King's Mead School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; No 30 Regimental Instructors’ Course- CWS Porton, Wiltshire 23.07-18.08.1928 (Qualified ‘Q2’); No 13 Qualifying Course (Infantry weapons?) Hythe, Kent 21.04-13.06.1930; passed Subject (a) (i) for promotion to Capt London 18.07.1931; No 12 Mortar Course-Qualified Netheravon, Wiltshire 10.05-05.06.1937; passed Subject (b) for promotion to Capt London 10.1937.

29.01.1927			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards
29.01.1927	-	28.03.1934	1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK, from 22.03.1932 Sudan, from 24.10.1932 Egypt, from 09.12.1933 UK) [06.06.1930 obtained civil aviator's certificate (No. 9167), taken on a D.H. 60 60-80 h.p. Cirrus II at Cinque Ports Flying Club]
29.03.1934	-	06.09.1936	2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK) [1934 seriously ill after a motor accident in Crathie, Aberdeenshire]
07.09.1936	-	15.01.1941	3rd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK, from 03.10.1936 Palestine, from 31.12.1936 UK, from 23.11.1937 Egypt, from 14.10.1938 Palestine, from 08.12.1938 Kasr-el-Nil Barracks, Cairo, Egypt) [general service wound left shoulder 19.12.1940, hospitalized till 02.01.1941]
07.12.1938	-	11.12.1938	Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal, Alexandria Area
12.12.1938	-	02.10.1939	Garrison Adjutant & Quartermaster, Alexandria Area
16.01.1941	-	07.07.1941	Staff Captain, General Headquarters Middle East (Egypt)
08.07.1941	-	12.07.1942	Commandant, Prisoner of War Camp Middle East Forces (Egypt) (despatches)
13.07.1942	-	13.08.1942	Holding Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK)
14.08.1942	-	17.01.1943	5th Battalion Coldstream Guards (UK: Knook Camp, Heytesbury, from autumn 1942 at Mere)
18.01.1943	-	07.02.1943	Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK)
08.02.1943	-	13.08.1943	Local Defence Adviser, RAF Station Vágar (Faeroes)
14.08.1943	-	03.10.1943	Local Defence Adviser, RAF Station Gosport (UK)
04.10.1943	-	01.11.1943	Holding Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK)
02.11.1943	-	06.05.1944	Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards (UK)

Sanford,
William Boris
W.B. Sanford

1919 ?
-
10.07.1940
[Exeter Higher
Cemetery,
Devon, Z.K.2]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113597]

?	-	14.01.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
14.01.1940	-	10.07.1940	2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (France & UK)

Sanguinetti,
William Scurfield Swire
W.S.S. Sanguinetti

27.11.1906
-
28.09.1969
Surrey SW district, Surrey (formerly of Rudgwick, Sussex)

2nd Lt.	04.02.1926 [34910]
Lt.	04.02.1929
Capt.	20.05.1936
A/Maj.	02.09.1939-01.12.1939
T/Maj.	02.12.1939-04.06.1941
WS/Maj.	05.06.1941
Maj.	04.02.1943 (half-pay 17.06.1946; disability) (retd 09.04.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	05.03.1941-04.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.	05.06.1941-22.05.1942
Hon. Lt.Col.	09.04.1947

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst

04.02.1926			commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment
(03.1931)			1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment (Razmak)
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment (Nowshera (for Rawalpindi))
30.09.1935	-	09.06.1939	Company Officer, The Malay Regiment (employed under Colonial Office)
?	-	(02?).1941	Second-in-Command, 5th Special Service Battalion
05.03.1941	-	05.1942?	Commanding Officer, No. 5 Commando

Sankey,
Richard Massey
R.M. Sankey

Son of Herbert Massey Sankey (1889-), manufacturer & merchant, and Sybil Adele I. Abbs (1898?-).
Married (10.06.1944, St Mary's Church, Credenhill, Hereford district, Herefordshire) Section Officer Jean Anne [Forbes] Robson *, WAAF (24.02.1917 - 09.1990), earlier ((09?).1940, Southampton district, Hampshire) married to Christopher B. Boyer, and daughter of Charles Joseph Forbes Robson [?]; ... children (one daughter, one son?).

* Also found as: Jennifer Megan Margaret Elizabeth Anne Forbes Robson, and as: Jennifer Elizabeth Anne Margaret Forbes Robson.

25.10.1920
Perry Hall, Orpington, Bromley district, Kent
-
25.10.1986
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164989]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
A/Capt.	? (reld 10.07.1946)

21.12.1940

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Sant,
Richard Charles
J.E. Santos

Son of ... Sant, and ... Morgan.
Married ((06?).1940, Battersea district, London) Kathleen M. Phillips; ... children.

29.05.1918
Farnham district, Kent
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.06.1941 [193757]
WS/Lt.	15.09.1941
WS/Capt.	01.04.1944 (reld 11.06.1947)
T/Maj.	17.12.1945-11.06.1947
Hon. Maj.	11.06.1947

28.06.1941			commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission]
1942?	-	1945?	posted, 4th Gurkha Regiment

Santer,
John Roland
J.R. Santer

Son (with four(?) brothers) of Herbert Darce Santer, and Annie Winifred McGiveron.
Married ((06?).1946, Conway district, Caernarvonshire) Elizabeth Jean Jones (10.10.1924 - 04.2006), daughter (with two sisters) of Richard Glyn Jones (1898-1990), and Elizabeth Novie Evans (1898-1981); two daughters.

02.10.1917
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
(06?).1982
Colwyn district, Clwyd, Wales

Cadet	? [3770192]
2nd Lt.	14.11.1943 [308964]
WS/Lt.	14.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

14.11.1943			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Santos,
John Edward
J.E. Santos

Son of Robert Bell Santos, and Mary Veronica Gannon.

07.04.1920
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
13.10.2005
Coventry. Warwickshire South district, Warwickshire

Cadet	? [901178]
2nd Lt.	09.04.1944 [324386]
WS/Lt.	09.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Capt. ?	?

09.04.1944			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served, Divisional Signals, 17th Indian Infantry Division

Sarson,
Martin Grimsdick
M.G. Sarson (Photo courtesy of Mr Pat Gariepy)

Son (with two [three?] brothers) of Arthur West Sarson (1887-1980), and Katherine Dorothy Ball (1891-1981).

08.09.1920
Wandsworth district, London
-
18.09.2005
Lewisham district, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.04.1943 [278010]
WS/Lt.	10.10.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	31.10.1945-(04.1946)

Education: St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (1946-1949).

10.04.1943			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission]
autumn 1945			308th Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)

Satchell,
Stanley William
S.W. Satchell

Son (with two brothers & one sister) of Capt. William James Satchell, and Jeanne Faulkner.
Brother of Sq.Ldr. James Satchell, RAF, and of Sister Mary Satchell, QAIMNS.
Married ((06?).1949, Westminster district, London) Pamela Ellen Sorrell, daughter of Mr & Mrs E.A. Sorrell, of London WC2.

06.10.1919
Reading district, Berkshire
-
29.07.1992
Thorpe Bay, Southend on Sea district, Essex

2nd Lt.	07.04.1945 [343827]
WS/Lt.	07.04.1945
Lt.	05.10.1946, seniority 08.01.1943
A/Capt.	22.12.1945-21.03.1946
T/Capt.	22.03.1946-07.07.1947
Capt.	08.07.1947
T/Maj.	01.11.1951-20.02.1953
Maj.	08.07.1954 (retd 06.10.1974)

Education: instructor in gunnery (field), qualified on a gunnery staff course; light aircraft pilot (fixed wing).

			served in the ranks for 11 years, 79 days
07.04.1945			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 04.10.1946]
05.10.1946			permanent commission

Saunders,
Arthur David Rich
A.D.R. Saunders

Son of Harold Cecil Rich Saunders (1882-1918), and Dorothy May Triscott (1887-1974).
Married Margaret Mitchell Bell (1921? - 28.06.2012); one son.

05.07.1917
Chelsea district, London
-
21.06.2000
Haverfordwest district, Dyfed

2nd Lt.	26.08.1937 [73122]
...	...
Capt.	26.08.1945
T/Maj.	20.08.1943-(04.1946)
...	...
Brig.	19.09.1965 (retd 27.10.1968)

MBE

26.06.1947

Netherlands East Indies

26.08.1937			commissioned, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
...	-	...	...

Saunders,
Hugh Ward Bannerman
H.W.B. Saunders (Photo courtesy of Mr Julian B. Saunders)

Eldest son of Maj. Allan Lindsey Saunders, MRCS, LRCP (1869-1939), and Katie Winifred Rolfe (1873-1934), of London W.
Married 1st (1923?) Eileen Campbell Terry, eldest daughter of Charles H. Terry, of The Chestnuts, Pangbourne, Berkshire.
Married 2nd (1936) Mireille C. .... (1904 - (06?).1943); one son, one daughter.
Married 3rd (17.08.1945, Longdon, Lichfield district, Staffordshire) Daisy Glynn (? - (06.).1972), widow of Maj. Arthur Victor Negus (1887-1943), of Hanch Hall, Lichfield; one son.

13.09.1898
Grimston, Freebridge Lynn district, Norfolk
-
07.05.1972
St Marylebone district, London

2nd Lt.	19.07.1916 [15469]
Lt.	19.01.1918
Capt.	01.01.1923
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	28.10.1940-20.12.1940, 16.01.1941-21.02.1941
T/Lt.Col.	22.02.1941-31.01.1943
Lt.Col.	01.02.1943 (retd 22.09.1948)

DSO	14.01.1943	Middle East (Egypt & Libya) *
MID	13.01.1944	Middle East
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

19.07.1916			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders
03.11.1917	-	31.10.1918	served in Mesopotamia
15.01.1919	-	02.12.1919	specially employed (to 12.10.1919 in Russia)
1919			sailed from Hong Kong to Victoria, British Columbia, on the ship Empress of Russia, in transit to Aberdeen
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Ballykinlar)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Aldershot)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Edinburgh)
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Aldershot)
(10.1942)			Commanding Officer, 5/7th (Mar and Mearns) Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (DSO)

* Recommendation for the award of the Distinguished Service Order to T/Lt.Col. H.W.B. Saunders: In the late afternoon of 3 Nov [1942] an attack in co-operation with tanks was launched on an enemy locality about Tel El Aqqiqira. This locality was supposed to be in our hands or lightly held and the attack was carried out only under cover of smoke in consequence. Soon after the attack was launched our tanks came under intense and accurate anti-tank fire while the Battalion ran into several machine gun nests, thus causing severe casualties both in tanks and men and bringing the attack to a standstill. The wireless sets in both the leading companies were hit and put out of action and all runners trying to reach Battalion Headquarters became casualties. Fully realising the situation, Col. Saunders at once personally went forward on foot to his leading companies. He re-organised the left one which had lost all its officers. He then went across to the right one, during all which time both tanks and infantry were pinned to their ground by heavy enemy fire. By his courageous action he steadied the Battalion and enabled it to hold the ground won by getting his men to dig in where they lay. Throughout the whole action Col. Saunders displayed leadership of the highest order, showing a complete disregard for danger and setting a fine example to his command. To his personal example and determination the partial success of the Battalion was largely due.
[Recommended 09.11.1942 by Brig. D.A.H. Graham, commanding 153rd Infantry Brigade, approved 13.11.1942 by Maj.Gen. D.N. Wimberley, commanding 51st Infantry Division, 18.11.1942 by Lt.Gen. O.H.W. Leese, commanding 30th Corps, 24.11.1942 by Gen. B.L. Montgomery, commanding 8th Army, and finally by Gen. H.R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Middle East Forces.]

Saunders,
Ian Robert
I.R. Saunders

Son of ... Saunders, and ... Saville.

28.11.1920
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
-
died between 1985 and 1990 ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.03.1942 [229190]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	28.04.1945, seniority 24.07.1943 (half-pay 30.06.1947; disability) (retd 18.10.1947; disability)

23.08.1945

Italy *

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 14 days
31.03.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1945)			C Squadron, The Queens Bays (Italy) (MC)
28.04.1945			permanent commission

* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to WS/Lt. I.R. Saunders: On the morning of 17th April 1945, Lieutenant Saunders, The Queens Bays, was in command of a troop of tanks supporting "D" Company, 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's). The task allotted to this force was the enlargement of, and exploitation from, the small bridgehead over the Marina Canal - an area dominated by enemy tanks and assault guns. Two out of the four of the tanks supporting the Companies which had secured the original bridgehead had been knocked out and any movement drew immediate fire. Despite this adverse state of affairs, this officer manoeuvred his troops into fire positions from which he harassed the enemy all day, knocking out at least two enemy tanks and killing a number of infantry, causing others to surrender. During this time every one of the tanks under his command was hit at least once by a solid shot. There is no doubt, that but for his courage, skill and determination, not one of his tanks would have arrived intact on the objective, thereby leaving the infantry open to an extremely probable counter-attack. His advance under fire from tanks and assault guns for a distance of fifteen hundred yards enabled the infantry to carry out their appointed task with every success and resulted in the final break through of the defences of the Argenta Gap. Lieutenant Saunders' personal bearing was an inspiration, not only to his own men, but also to the infantry which his troop was supporting.
[Recommended by Lt.Col. M.J.F. Palmer, commanding 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, approved by Brig. T.P.D. Scott, commanding 38th (Irish) Infantry Brigade, 02.05.1945 by Brig. J.F.B. Combe, commanding 2nd Armoured Brigade, 07.05.1945 by Maj.Gen. R.K. Arbuthnott, commanding 78th Infantry Division, 15.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. C.F. Keightley, commanding 5 Corps, 23.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. R.L. McCreery, commanding 8th Army, and finally 24.05.1945 by Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Allied Force HQ.]

Saunders,
Joseph Frank
J.F. Saunders (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jane Kromann)

Son of Joseph Thomas Saunders, and Daisy Morton.
Married (18.01.1941, Chelmsford district, Essex) Charlotte Florence Agnew Brand (01.11.1915 - 26.11.1993), daughter of Charles Agnew Brand (1892-1915), and Charlotte Caroline Rudd (1884-1951); one daughter.

15.12.1916
Islington district, London
-
07.07.1994
Horn, Fårvang, Denmark
[Tvilum Churchyard]

Gnr.	16.06.1937 [2043354]
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.07.1942 [255918]
WS/Lt.	05.01.1943
T/Capt.	20.01.1945-07.05.1945
WS/Capt.	08.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	08.05.1945-(1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

16.09.1949

16.06.1937			enlisted, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
20.07.1941			approved for Officer Cadet Training Unit
1942			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Deolali, Bombay, India
05.07.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Post-war career as Horticultural Engineer. RAF Benevolent Fund's representative (help to ex-servicemen and their families). One of the founders of George Fuller Club for the Blind, Cheshunt, Herts and East Herts Talking Newspaper. Chairman of Hoddesdon Cricket Club and captain of 2nd Team for many years. Ran a charity Wednesday’s Cricket Tournament in aid of George Fuller Club.
His daughter writes: "He served with the The Chindits 'Special Force' in India and Burma from 1943 till the end of the war."

Saunders,
Mervyn Rice
"Bill"
M.R. Saunders

Married ((09?).1946, Durham South Western district) Patricia M. Elston.

19.06.1913
-
01.1992
Darlington district, Co. Durham / Yorkshire

Wt.Offr. Cl. III	?
Lt.	24.01.1940 [113966]
A/.Capt.	16.08.1940-15.11.1940
T/Capt.	16.11.1940-30.04.1941
WS/Capt.	01.05.1941
A/Maj.	01.02.1941-30.04.1941
T/Maj.	01.05.1941-10.04.1947
WS/Maj.	11.04.1947
A/Lt.Col.	11.01.1947-10.04.1947
T/Lt.Col.	11.04.1947-05.05.1947
Lt.	20.03.1946, seniority 17.11.1938
Capt.	20.03.1946, seniority 17.11.1943
Maj.	17.11.1948
Lt.Col.	21.01.1957, seniority 01.04.1957 (retd 18.07.1960)

DSO

07.06.1945

NW Europe [citation available upon request]

			served in the ranks for 8 years, 137 days
24.01.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 19.03.1946]
(1945)			Battery Commander, 83rd Field Regiment RA
20.03.1946			permanent commission

Saunders,
Stanley George
S.G. Saunders

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

12.06.1903
-
10.03.1977
Wandsworth district, London

Cadet	? [5672188]
2nd Lt.	14.05.1942 [233867]
WS/Lt.	14.11.1942
T/Capt.	14.05.1943-11.05.1945
WS/Capt.	12.05.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	12.05.1945?
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe
	EM	25.06.1948	-

14.05.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

His son writes: "7th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Colour Sgt in '39). Commissioned into Royal Artillery (Anti-Aircraft Sites on South coast; served in Holland on Monty's staff after hostilities). Demobilized '46 as Major."

Saunderson,
George Walter
"Sandy"
S.G. Saunders

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of George Sanderson (1882-1952), and Margaret Jane Eaton (1889-1948).
Married (17.05.1941, Manchester, Lancashire) Margaret Grime Telford (05.12.1923 - 01.12.2004); five sons, two daughters.

10.01.1916
Belfast, Northern Ireland
-
10.04.1974
Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
(murdered by IRA gunmen at Earl of Erne primary school, Teemore, Knockaraven, Enniskillen)

Cadet	? [6978048]
2nd Lt.	26.08.1944 [327725]
WS/Lt.	26.08.1944 (reld 18.05.1946)
Hon. Lt.	18.05.1946
Lt.	24.05.1950, seniority 18.05.1946
Capt.	01.05.1951
Maj.	01.04.1970 (retd 11.01.1973)
Bt. Lt.Col.	11.01.1973

Joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was 18 and served in Palestine and the Middle East before the outbreak of World War II.

			transferred to the Parachute Regiment
26.08.1944			commissioned, Royal Irish Fusiliers [emergency commission]
24.05.1950	-	31.12.1953	commissioned, Inniskilling Fusiliers - Territorial Army
31.12.1953	-	09.02.1966	Northern Irish Brigade - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
01.04.1970	-	11.01.1973	Ulster Defence Regiment [exceeded age limit]

On demobilisation, he trained as a teacher at Larkfield College, Belfast, and after a short time at Enniskillen Model School, he was appointed Principal of the Earl of Erne School. Around 1952, he moved with the pupils into the new building, and resided in the bungalow in the grounds of the school. He continued in the teaching profession until his death.

Savage,
Raymond Percival
R.P. Savage

03.12.1919
Ealing, West London, Brentford district, Middlesex
-
05.01.2022
Sidmouth, Devon

2nd Lt.	17.12.1939 [109504]
WS/Lt.	17.06.1941

21.02.1978

17.12.1939			commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
1940			served with 1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, 148th (Territorial) Infantry Brigade in Norway, 1940; internee in Sweden, 1940
1941	-	15.02.1942	served with 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, 15th Indian Infantry Brigade, 9th Indian Infantry Division in Malaya
15.02.1942	-	08.1945	POW in Japanese captivity (in Changi and Havelock Road Camps, Singapore, Malaya, on Burma-Thailand Railway and Thailand)

Saywell,
William Louis
W.L. Saywell

Son of John Saywell (1870?-), and Maud Crofts (1871?-).
Married (01.06.1935, St German's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Kathleen Peggie Rendel ((12?).1908 - (09?).1964); ... children (one son?).

14.03.1907
Appley Bridge, Wigan district, Lancashire
-
12.11.1964
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Mansfield district, Nottinghamshire

2nd Lt.	24.03.1937 [71249]
WS/Lt.	24.03.1940
T/Capt.	15.12.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	18.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	23.09.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Capt.	16.08.1946, seniority 11.04.1945 30.09.1947, seniority 18.03.1942
Maj.	01.12.1948

	TD	21.04.1950	& 1st clasp
	EM	20.03.1947	24.08.1951 cancelled as since been awarded TD

24.03.1937			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery -Territorial Army (62nd (North Midland) Field Brigade RA)
01.10.1937			transferred, 222nd (Derby) Anti-Aircraft Battery, 68th (North Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
14.07.1952	-	20.07.1957	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Scale,
Richard Dymoke
R.D. Scale

30.07.1909
-
25.02.1995
Truro district, Cornwall

2nd Lt. SRO	31.10.1928
2nd Lt.	29.08.1930 [40496]
Lt.	29.08.1933
Capt.	12.02.1939
A/Maj.	09.06.1942-19.08.1942
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 29.09.1949)

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp.

Education: Imperial Service College.

			late Cadet Serjeant, Imperial Service College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
31.10.1928	-	28.08.1930	commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
29.08.1930			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (later Royal Tank Regiment)
?	-	27.11.1940	RAC Base Depot
28.11.1940	-	(12.1940)	6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
29.09.1949	-	13.01.1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Scales,
Harold Wilkinson
H.W. Scales

Son of Arthur J. Scales, and Gertrude Wilkinson.
Married ((09?).1944, Bradford district, Yorkshire) Barbara Peacock.

(09?).1923
Halifax district, Yorkshire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.12.1943 [303366]
WS/Lt.	03.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

24.12.1943			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]
			seconded, 8th Punjab Regiment

Scales,
William Ernest [Walter]
W.E. Scales (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Wicks)

Son of Ada Scales.
Married 1st ((06?).1942, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Elsie W.D. Boughen.
Married 2nd ((06?).1953, East Ham district, Essex) Ellen B. Freeman.

10.03.1909
Ware, Hertfordshire
-
06.2001
Colchester, Essex

Platoon Sergeant-Major (Wt.Offr. Cl. III)	? [5946522]
Lt.	11.01.1941 [167619]
T/Capt.	18.11.1942-(07.1945)
WS/Capt.	17.10.1945
T/Maj.	17.10.1945-(04.1947)

DCM

22.10.1940

BEF 1940

1926			enlisted Territorial Army
			served in the ranks, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
(06.1940)			"B" Company, 2nd Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (France & Belgium) (DCM)
11.01.1941			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(1944)			1st Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Italy)

Scanlon,
Martin Patrick
M.P. Scanlon

Son of ... Scanlon, and ... Hughes.
Married ...; ... children.

13.08.1917
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
13.10.2005
Reading district, Berkshire

Cpl.	(10.1940)
Sgt.	(04.1941)
CQMS	07.1941
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.01.1943 [258719]
WS/Lt.	07.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

10.1940			HQ No 20 Training Centre Royal Engineers (Plumer Barracks, Crownhill, Plymouth)
04.1941			No 3 Construction Centre Royal Engineers (Radcliffe, Manchester)
07.01.1943			commissioned, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) [emergency commission]
1943	-	1946	2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles

Scarr,
Kenneth Roy Renforth
K.R.R. Scarr (Photo courtesy of Ian Scarr)

Son of John Renforth Scarr (1883-1954), and Anne Dore (1888-1982), of Cailla 444, Iquique, Chile.
Married 1st (08.1939, Valparaiso, Chile; 12.1941 separated; 02.1943 divorced) Sybil Lyon (16.02.1912 - ).
Married 2nd (06.1947, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire) Kathleen I. "Kay" Francis (09.01.1920 - 21.10.1980); four sons, one daughter.

13.12.1913
Iquique, Chile
-
02.08.1966
Queens, Long Island, New York, USA

Cadet	? [14427496]
2nd Lt.	07.05.1944 [320177]
WS/Lt.	07.11.1944 (demobilized 01.1947) (reld 27.12.1950)
T/Capt.	1946?
Hon. Capt.	27.12.1950

Education: Cheltenham College (09.1927-12.1930; Day Boy; Officer Training Corps).
Bank clerk, Bank of London and South America. Serving as a driver in the Royal Horse Artillery, Territorial Army, 1932-1935.

12.1943	-	04.1944	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
07.05.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
mid 1945	-	06.1945	43rd Reconnaissance Regiment RAC (the Netherlands, Germany [wounded 12.02.1945 Reichswald Forest])
07.1945	-	01.1947	joined another Reconnaissance Regiment (India; war ended before they were able to fight in Burma; 02.1946 diplomatic mission to Saigon)

Hired by British South American Airways, early 1947. Manager of British South American Airways at Miami International Airport, and later BOAC (present day British Airways), where he was a manager at Kennedy International Airport.

Schenck,
Robert William
R.W. Schenck

Son of Frederick Charles Schenck (1875-1960), and Amy Curtis (1876?-1941).
Married ((09?).1955, Liverpool district, Lancashire) Florence Williams; three daughter, one son.

22.08.1922
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
17.02.1976
Liverpool, Merseyside

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.02.1943 [264463]
WS/Lt.	26.08.1943 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	07.08.1946-(12.1946)
Lt.	30.12.1950

26.02.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
30.12.1950			commissioned, Royal Pioneer Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Schenirer,
Joseph

Naturalized British citizen, 05.03.1946.
Married five times in five different countries.

1913
Munich, Germany
-
03.1984
Haifa, Israel

2nd Lt.	30.06.1941 [278037]
WS/Lt.	01.08.1942 (reld 09.12.1947)
T/Capt.	04.11.1944-09.12.1947
Hon. Capt.	09.12.1947

Star of Bethlehem

Emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Civil servant (worked in passport control).

			served Egypt Tripoli, Benghazi, Italy campaign:
30.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Palestine Section [emergency commission]
			371st Company, RASC (wounded in the leg at Bologna, Italy 04.1945; recovering in UK till 01.1946)
1946			returned to Italy, attached to Intelligence Corps (AG 23) to assist with the interrogation of POW’s for War Crimes, under GSI

Schilling,
Richard Selwyn Francis
R.S.F. Schilling

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Dr George Schilling, and Florence Louise Loweth, of Kessingland, Suffolk.
Married (28.08.1937, St John the Baptist Church, Broadstone, Poole district, Dorset) Heather Maud Elinore Norman (1914 - 2008); one son, two daughters.

09.01.1911
Kessingland, Mutford district, Suffolk
-
30.09.1997
Islington district, London

Lt.	09.07.1938 [75948]
Capt.	09.07.1939

CBE

14.06.1975

HM's birthday 75: Director, TUC Centenary Institute of Occupational Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Education: Epsom College (1925-1929; Prefect, Captain of Rugby XV, member Cricket XI); St Thomas's Hospital; BS; MD Lond 1947; DSc Lond; MB BS 1937; FRCP (MRCP Lond 1955); MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1934; FFPHM; FFOM; DPH (distinc.) University of London 1947; DIH Eng 1947.
Obstetric house physician, St Thomas' Hospital, 1935; house physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1936; Assistant Industrial Medical Officer, ICI (metals) Ltd, Birmingham, 1937.

			late Officer Cadet, University of London Contingent (Medical Unit), Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
09.07.1938			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
1939	-	1940	served British Expeditionary Force; evacuated from Dunkirk
1940	-	1946	Unemployed List
?	-	09.01.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Medical Inspector of Factories, 1939-1942. Secretary Industrial Health Research Board of Medical Research Council, 1942-1946; Nuffield Fellow in Industrial Health, 1946-1947; Reader in Occupational Health, University of Manchester, 1947-1956; WHO Consultant, 1956-1969. Professor of Occupational Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, 1960-1976, now Emeritus, Hon. Fellow 1979; Director, TUC Centenary Institute of Occupational Health, 1968-1976. Lectures: Milroy, RCP, 1956; Mackenzie, BMA, 1956; Cantor, RSA, 1963; C.E. A. Winslow, Yale Univ., 1963; Ernestine Henry, RCP, 1970. Former Vice-President, Permanent Commission, International Association Occupational Health. Former President: Assoc. of Industrial Medical Officers; British Occupational Hygiene Soc.; Occup.Med. Sect. of Roy. Soc. Med. Member: Committee of Inquiry into Trawler Safety, 1968; Royal Commn on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury, 1973-1978. Hon. Mem., Amer. Occupational Med. Assoc., 1986. Hon. FRSocMed 1976; Hon. DIH, Soc. of Apothecaries, 1988; Hon. FFOM, RCPI, 1990; Hon. Fellow, UMDS, 1994.
Published: (ed) Modern Trends in Occupational Health, 1960; (ed) Occupational Health Practice, 1973, 2nd edn 1980; original papers on Byssinosis (respiratory disease of textile workers) and other subjects in occupational health in BMJ, Lancet, Brit. Jl of Industrial Medicine, and foreign journals.

Scholes,
Thomas Roy
T.R. Scholes

Son of Thomas Scholes, and ... Carr.

22.06.1915
Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire
-
05.12.1941
(MPK) [age 26]
[Alamein Memorial, Egypt, column 21]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.06.1941 [190624]

Education: Denstone College.

?	-	07.06.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit (Sandhurst?; Bronze Medal for shooting at Bisley)
07.06.1941			commissioned, North Somerset Yeomanry (Territorial Army) [emergency commission]
			transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps

Schreiber,
Sir Edmond Charles Acton
"Teddy"
E.C.A. Schreiber

Son of late Hon. Brig.Gen. Acton Lemuel Schreiber, CB, CMG, DSO (1865-1951), and Evelyn Amy Hunt.
Married (24.10.1916) Phyllis Barchard (19.03.1889 - 04.04.1977), only daughter of Maj. Charles Percival Barchard (1858-1908); two daughters (daughter Diana Schreiber married Capt. John Gerard Wells, CBE, DSC, RN).

30.04.1890
London
-
08.10.1972
Exmouth, Devon

2nd Lt.	23.12.1909 [12846]
Lt.	23.12.1912
T/Capt.	29.05.1915-22.12.1915
Capt.	23.12.1915
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1918
Maj.	08.03.1927
A/Lt.Col.	26.08.1917-08.02.1919
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1930
Lt.Col.	01.01.1937
Col.	08.01.1938, seniority 01.01.1933
T/Brig.	27.09.1938-07.06.1940
A/Maj.Gen.	26.04.1940-07.06.1940
Maj.Gen.	08.06.1940, seniority 24.07.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	08.05.1941-07.05.1942
T/Lt.Gen.	08.05.1942-11.08.1942, 07.09.1942-30.07.1944
Lt.Gen.	31.07.1944, seniority 21.01.1943 (retd 04.01.1947)

KCB	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
CB	01.01.1942	New Year 42
DSO	01.12.1914	service with Expeditionary Force *
MID	17.02.1915	?
MID	18.05.1917	?
MID	14.12.1917	?
MID	23.12.1918	?
MID	26.07.1940	?
14\|15 St	-	& Clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

* Very gallant conduct on 14th September in saving horses which had become entangled in blocked road, and man-handling guns away from a position which had become untenable from a very heavy shell fire, continuing to work, although wounded.

Education: Wellington (1903-1908); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1908-1909); Staff College, Camberley (1923-1924; psc).

23.12.1909			commissioned, Royal Field Artillery (Royal Regiment of Artillery)
1914	-	1918	served European War France & Belgium (17.08.1914-30.09.1914, 11.11.1914-01.04.1917 & 07.07.1917-11.11.1918) (wounded; despatches, DSO, Bt Maj.)
17.06.1916	-	02.11.1916	Staff Captain (Staff Officer to Maj.Gen. RA), France
26.08.1917	-	08.02.1919	Commandant, Artillery School
07.06.1920	-	12.01.1921	Brigade Major, ... (India)
14.01.1921	-	15.12.1922	Adjutant, ... (Royal Artillery)
08.04.1925	-	17.10.1926	Brigade Major, ... (Southern Command)
18.10.1926	-	07.04.1929	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), RAF School of Army Co-operation
21.01.1930	-	20.01.1933	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College (Camberley)
16.11.1934	-	31.12.1936	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London)
08.01.1938	-	26.09.1938	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Senior Officers' School, Sheerness
27.09.1938	-	02.09.1939	Brigadier RA, Southern Command
03.09.1939	-	23.04.1940	Corps Commander RA, II Corps [= Brigadier RA], British Expeditionary Force (BEF) (France)
26.04.1940	-	11.05.1940	General Officer Commanding, 61st Infantry Division (UK)
12.05.1940	-	07.05.1941	General Officer Commanding, 45th Infantry Division (UK)
08.05.1941	-	08.03.1942	General Officer Commanding, V Corps (UK)
07.04.1942	-	11.08.1942	Force & Army Commander, North Africa, with the task of forming the Expeditionary Force which became the First Army (pronounced medically unfit for service abroad)
07.09.1942	-	18.03.1944	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command (UK)
19.03.1944	-	24.09.1944	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, SouthEastern Command (UK)
26.09.1944	-	10.07.1946	Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta

National President, Old Contemptibles Association, 1960. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Devon, 23.11.1948. KStJ, 22.06.1945. Colonel Commandant, RA, 18.04.1945-16.04.1955. Colonel Commandant, Royal Malta Artillery (Territorial Army), 05.12.1946-29.04.1955.

Schwartz,
Bernard Marcus
B.M. Schwartz

Son of ... Schwartz, and ... Cohen.

05.01.1926
Cardiff district, Wales
-
23.02.2005
Cardiff district, Wales

Cadet	? [14437055]
2nd Lt.	12.08.1945 [352872]
WS/Lt.	12.02.1946
T/Capt.	04.09.1946-(04.1947)

12.08.1945			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
24.12.1945			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section)

Sclater,
Robert Oakes
R.O. Sclater (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark C.D. Ashdown)

Married ((12?).1933, Devizes district, Wiltshire) Sybil C. Niven, of Marden, Wiltshire.

21.07.1909
-
01.12.1943
[age 34]
[Glasgow Crematorium, column 3]

2nd Lt.	29.08.1929 [44208]
Lt.	29.08.1932 (half-pay [unemployed] 07.05.1933-12.08.1933)
Capt.	01.08.1938
T/Maj.	04.10.1940-01.12.1943

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (No. 5 Company).

29.08.1929			commissioned, The York and Lancaster Regiment
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment (Delhi)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment (Ahmednagar)
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment (York) (on the strength of the depot)
?	-	?	?

Scobie,
Sir Ronald MacKenzie
R.M. Scobie

Son of Mackay John Scobie of India PWD.
Married (09.02.1927) Joan Duncan, daughter of William Henry Sidebotham, solicitor of Farnham, Surrey; one daughter.

08.06.1893
India
-
23.02.1969
Cottage Hospital, Odiham, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	25.02.1914 [8306]
Lt.	09.06.1915
A/Capt.	22.04.1917-17.06.1917
Capt.	03.11.1917
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1919
Maj.	01.01.1929
local Lt.Col.	30.12.1932-22.01.1935
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1934
Lt.Col.	07.01.1937
Col.	18.01.1938, seniority 01.01.1937
A/Brig.	01.09.1939-29.02.1940
T/Brig.	01.03.1940-08.08.1940
local Brig.	18.08.1940-16.10.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	17.10.1941-09.04.1942
Maj.Gen.	10.04.1942, seniority 08.11.1941 (retd 18.06.1947)
A/Lt.Gen.	22.03.1943-21.03.1944
T/Lt.Gen.	22.03.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.	18.06.1947

KBE	26.04.1945	?
CB	09.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt, Libya) 11.41-04.42
CBE	30.12.1941	Middle East (East Africa and Madagascar)
MC	03.06.1916	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
MID	01.04.1941	?
MID	06.04.1944	Middle East
14\|15 St	-	& Clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.
Czechoslovak Military Cross 23.07.1943

Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc); Imperial Defence College (idc)
Excelled at all sports, shortly before the outbreak of war he played rugby for Scotland against England, Ireland, and Wales. He also played rugby for the army.

25.02.1914			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (served in France & Belgium 30.09.1914-11.11.1918; wounded)
25.03.1918	-	13.08.1918	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France)
14.08.1918	-	14.09.1920	Brigade Major, ... (France)
15.09.1920	-	03.09.1924	Officer Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Class A)
16.03.1927	-	31.03.1929	Staff Captain, ... (Aldershot Command)
01.04.1929	-	24.02.1931	Brigade Major, 5th Infantry Brigade (Aldershot Command)
30.12.1932	-	22.01.1935	Director of Military Art (GSO2), Royal Military College of Australia
(01.1937)			served at London
18.01.1938	-	31.08.1939	an Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office (London)
01.09.1939	-	08.05.1940	Deputy Director of Mobilization, War Office (London)
09.05.1940	-	08.08.1940	Deputy Adjutant-General, Middle East
09.08.1940	-	17.08.1940	specially employed
18.08.1940	-	16.10.1941	Brigadier General Staff, British Troops in Sudan
17.10.1941	-	16.02.1942	General Officer Commanding, 70th Infantry Division (Syria, Libya, Egypt, Syria)
17.02.1942	-	05.08.1942	Deputy Adjutant-General (DAG), Middle East
06.08.1942	-	21.03.1943	General Officer Commanding, Troops Malta
1943	-	1944	Chief of the General Staff, Middle East (Cairo)
09.1944	-	1946	General Officer Commanding, Greece

Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 03.08.1951-1954. Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 19.03.1951-08.06.1958. CStJ, 23.12.1946.
Literature: Henry Maule, Scobie, hero of Greece (1975)

Scoones,
[Sir] Reginald Laurence
R.L. Scoones

Son of late Major Fitzmaurice Scoones, Royal Fusiliers.
Married (1933) Isabella Bowie, daughter of
John Nisbet, Cumbrae Isles, Scotland; one daughter.

18.12.1900
Hermitage, Sutton Heston, Brentford, Middlesex
-
06.10.1991
Westminster Hospital, London

2nd Lt.	16.07.1920 [490]
Lt.	16.07.1922
local Capt.	16.04.1930-27.04.1934
Capt.	23.03.1935
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	04.07.1941-25.07.1941, 07.09.1941-14.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.	15.11.1941-14.11.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	15.11.1942
A/Col.	15.05.1942-14.11.1942
T/Col.	15.11.1942-30.07.1945
Col.	31.07.1945
A/Brig.	15.05.1942-14.11.1942
T/Brig.	15.11.1942-04.06.1943, ...-13.11.1949
Brig.	14.11.1949
T/Maj.Gen.	09.05.1950-28.02.1951
Maj.Gen..	01.03.1951 (retd 29.04.1955)

KBE	01.01.1955	New Year 55
CB	07.06.1951	HM's birthday 51
DSO	08.02.1945	Burma
OBE	08.07.1941	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
MID	19.07.1945	Burma

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

16.07.1920			commissioned, Royal Fusiliers
01.09.1923			transferred, Royal Tank Corps (from 1938 Royal Tank Regiment)
31.12.1926	-	27.04.1934	attached Sudan Defence Force
01.06.1935	-	17.03.1938	Adjutant, 1st Battalion Royal Tank Corps
29.09.1938	-	22.01.1939	Staff Captain, ... (Egypt) (temporary)
01.08.1939	-	06.10.1939	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Mobile Division
07.10.1939	-	16.07.1940	Brigade Major, Cavalry Brigade (Cairo)
02.11.1940	-	06.04.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Western Desert Corps (Middle East)
12.04.1941	-	(06.)1941	Second-in-Command, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
1941	-	1941	Commanding Officer, 42nd Battlaion Royal Tank Regiment
07.09.1941	-	14.05.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
15.05.1942	-	13.04.1943	Deputy Director of Military Training (A), War Office
17.11.1943	-	15.03.1945?	Commander, 254th Indian Tank Brigade (Burma)
1945			Deputy Director of Military Training
1947	-	1950	Asst Kaid, Sudan Defence Force
09.05.1950	-	30.11.1954	MajorGeneral Commanding British Troops Sudan and Commandant Sudan Defence Force
29.04.1955	-	18.12.1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Late Royal Armoured Corps; Director, The Brewers' Society, 1957-69.

Scott,
Arthur James Patrick
"Pat"
A.J.P. Scott

Son of Thomas Scott, and Charlotte Boyce.
Married ((12?).1942, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Olga D. Barritt ((09?).1922 - ).

17.03.1917
Dover
-
29,04.1988
Waveney, Suffolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.12.1940 [162149]
WS/Lt.	14.06.1942
T/Capt.	24.07.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 10.07.1954)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	10.07.1954

MBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe
39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: Dover County School (1923-1931); King Edward’s School, Birmingham (1931-1935).

1939			enlisted, Royal Armoured Corps
?	-	14.12.1940	Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.12.1940			commissioned, 1st Lothians and Border Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
25.11.1943	-	07.1945?	Adjutant

Accountant F.P.C.A.

Scott,
Claud Everard Walter Montagu-Douglas-
C.E.W. Montagu-Douglas-Scott

Second son (with three sisters and one brother) of Lt.Col. lord George William Montagu-Douglas-Scott, OBE (1866-1947), and Elizabeth Emily Manners (1878-1924), of Kirklands, Ancrum, Roxburghshire.
Married (23.08.1941) Margaret Frances Philips (17.09.1917 - 17.03.2000), daughter of Brig.Gen. Lewis Francis Philips, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (1870-1935), and Margaret Aline Moreton Macdonald (1882?-1971), of Hill Grove, Bembridge, Isle of Wight; one son, one daughter.

12.10.1915
Kirklands, Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scotland
-
04.11.1994

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [97869]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
Lt.	11.04.1945
T/Capt.	07.06.1942-11.11.1943
WS/Capt.	12.11.1943
T/Maj.	12.11.1943-24.12.1945
WS/Maj.	25.12.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	25.12.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

	MC	08.07.1943	North Africa *
	TD	21.04.1950	-

* On May 9th, 1943, at 1130 hours "B" Sqn, 2nd Lothians & Border Horse were ordered to enter HAMMAM LIF at all costs. Capt. SCOTT was the Rear Link Officer and his tank like all others in the squadron came under heavy artillery and mortar fire during the advance on the town. This fire in no way distracted Capt. SCOTT whose information from the Squadron Leader to the Regimental Commander over the wireless was a model of calmness and clarity. The orders which he received from the Commanding Officer for the Squadron, he passed on in a clear and concise manner over the "B" Set. Shortly after entering the town, Capt. SCOTT's tank received a direct hit with an H.E. shell, which did not damage the "A" Set but broke the "B" Set and made short [...] communication impossible. This officer proceeded without hesitation to leave his tank and run across to the Squadron Leader to deliver orders by word of mouth. He continued in this manner running to and fro between his own and his Squadron Leader's tank in spite of heavy shell fire which continued throughout the whole operations for a period of 3 hours, By his coolness and complete disregard for his personal safety Capt Scott displayed an outstanding example of devotion to duty, and ensured that the essential wireless communication between the Squadron and the Regiment was maintained during this most vital operation.

Education: Eton College (?-1933); Christ Church, Oxford.
With Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd., London & Hong Kong, 1936-1938.

			late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.09.1939			commissioned, 2nd Lothians and Border Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army (served Tunisia and Italy)
?	-	12.10.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Member, Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland). Farmer.

Scott,
David Robert
D.R. Scott

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.07.1941 [194285]
WS/Lt.	07.07.1942
T/Capt.	07.07.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 21.05.1952)
Hon. Capt.	21.05.1952

13.09.1940			enlisted service, Corps of Royal Engineers
?	-	13.07.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
13.07.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
12.1941	-	11.1945	1st (Sikh) Engineer Battalion, Royal Indian Engineers
			also served with No. 2 Training Battalion, Royal Engineers, No. 4 Depot Royal Indian Engineers, Sialkot & Eastern Command, Bengal

Scott,
George Alexander
G.A. Scott

?
-

2nd Lt.	21.03.1915 [38501]
Lt.	?
Capt.	?
Maj.	12.10.1927
Bt/ Lt.Col.	01.01.1932
Lt.Col.	12.10.1936 (retd 01.09.1948)

TD	03.05.1935	-
TD	15.07.1952	1st, 2nd & 3rd clasps
MID	14.12.1917	?

Education: Edinburgh University (MA, BSc).

21.03.1915			commissioned, Forth Royal Garrison Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	161st Heavy Battery, Forth Heavy Brigade RA (Edinburgh)
12.10.1936	-	(01.1939)	Commanding Officer, Forth Heavy Brigade RA [later: Forth Heavy Regiment RA] (Edinburgh)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(04.1946)			Unemployed List

Military member, City of Edinburgh Territorial Army and Air Force Association, (04.1941)-(04.1946).

Scott,
Gordon Meredith
G.M. Scott (Photo courtesy of Moira Scott)

Son of Sir William Dalgleish Scott (1890-1966), and Valerie Meredith Burn (1899-1964).
Married Rosemary Emma Wright; two daughters, one son.
Residence: (1945) Bangor, Co. Down.

15.04.1923
Harrow, Middlesex
-
22.03.2006
St Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, Ontario, Canada

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.08.1942 [243203]
WS/Lt.	28.02.1943 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	10.07.1946-(12.1946)

23.08.1945

Italy [recommendation available upon request]

Education: The Queen's University of Belfast, Faculty of Medicine (MB, BCh, BAO 1952).

28.08.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1945)			10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) (Italy) (MC)

Went to St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada in 1954 as a physician and an anaesthetist at the St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital.

* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to WS/Lt. G.M. Scott: On the 18th April 1945 Lieut. Scott, with his Troop, was supporting a Company of the 24th Guards Brigade during the advance through Chiesa el Bando. When the advance was held up by an enemy minefield Lieut. Scott went out on foot to reconnoitre a path through the minefield; throughout his recce he was subjected to intense mortar and shell fire. On completion of his task Lieut. Scott was returning to his tank when he was wounded by a mortar shell. Although in great pain, from a serious wound, and losing a large amount of blood, he had the presence of mind and singleness of purpose, to pass on the information he had gained on his recce to his Troop Sergeant. This information proved invaluable, and as a result of it the Squadron was able to continue the advance and assist the Infantry in clearing the village. Lieut. Scott has always shown great coolness and courage in previous actions.
[Recommended by Lt.Col. D.R.B. Kaye, commanding 10th Royal Hussars, approved by Brig. J.F.B. Combe, commanding 2nd Armoured Brigade, by Lt.Gen. C.F. Keightley, commanding 5 Corps, by Lt.Gen. R.L. McCreery, commanding 8th Army, and finally by Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Allied Force HQ.] (Citation kindly provided by Sim Morrison)

Scott,
Harold George
H.G. Scott

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

19.05.1911
-
12.1998
Enfield district, Middlesex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.08.1944
WS/Lt.	26.02.1945
WS/Lt. (& Paym.)	26.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)

26.08.1944

commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]

His daughter writes: "I know he was in the Pay Corps in Egypt after attending OCTU in the Isle of Man where I was born. He was living in Enfield when he was called up."

Scott,
John
J. Scott

Married 1st (1913) Sybil, daughter of late Sir Frederic Hewitt, MVO, MD; two sons. Married 2nd (1933) Hester Mary, daughter of Arthur Hogan.

24.06.1887
-
03.12.1971

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.08.1908, seniority 29.07.1908
Lt.	29.07.1911
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj.	26.01.1917-10.08.1917
A/Maj. TF	29.12.1917-26.01.1918
Maj.	27.01.1918
Lt.Col.	17.01.1936
Col.	28.08.1939, seniority 17.01.1939 (retd 23.06.1942)
T/Brig.	28.08.1939-(01.1940)
Hon. Brig.	24.06.1942

DSO	1919	?
OBE	1958	?
MID	23.12.1918	?
MID	07.07.1919	?
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

NW Frontier of India 1930-1931 Medal & Clasp

Education: St Andrews University (MA 1907); psc

1914	-	1918	served European War: Mohmands and Swatis, near Hafiz Kor (04.1915), France & Belgium (11.12.1917-11.11.1918) (despatches twice, DSO)
30.03.1920	-	30.09.1923	Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
22.01.1936	-	19.08.1939	Commanding Officer, 85th (East Anglian) Field Brigade (later Regiment) RA - Territorial Army (Stratford)
28.08.1939	-	(01.)1940	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 15th (Scottish) Division (temporary)
1940	-	1941	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Home Guard, 12th Corps
1941	-	1942	Commander Gravesend Sub Area
1942	-	1944	Training Officer Invernessshire Home Guard

CC Worcestershire, 1949, Alderman, 1965. Chairman, S. Worcestershire Conservative Association, 1950-1956.

Scott,
James Malcolm Irwin
J.M.I. Scott (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

23.05.1920
-
08.04.2006
Kettering, Northamptonshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [186337]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	30.07.1943-(04.1946)

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
10.05.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Scott,
K F
K.F. Scott (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	?
Lt.	(1940)

(1940)

instructor, 141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE

Scott,
Richard Turnbull
H.G. Scott

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

1915
Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
-
1974

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.09.1940 [151774]
WS/Lt.	03.03.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1948)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

OBE

			142nd Officer Cadet Training Unit (R.E.)
28.09.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
1941?	-	1945	POW (No. 3338) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)

Scott,
Sinclair Robert Grant
S.R.G. Scott

11.09.1904
-
04.1993
Braintree,
Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.08.1924 [30552]
Lt.	26.08.1926
Capt.	26.08.1935
A/Maj.	21.05.1940-20.08.1940
T/Maj.	21.08.1940-26.08.1940, 05.11.1940-23.02.1941
Maj.	26.08.1941
A/Lt.Col.	06.04.1943-05.07.1943
T/Lt.Col.	06.07.1943-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	12.04.1949 (retd 10.10.1950)

	MID	08.05.1936	Mohmand 35 *
	BSM	14.11.1947	in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies

NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1933 Medal & Clasp; NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1935 Clasp
* For distinguished services rendered in connection with the Mohmand operations, North West Frontier of India, 15th/16th August to 15th/16th October, 1935.

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

26.08.1924			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(03.1931)			served at Glasgow
(06.1933)			served in India
21.01.1937	-	20.05.1940	Assistant Instructor (Class DD to 31.07.1938), School of Military Engineering (Chatham)
28.09.1944	-	(04.1946)	Staff Officer I (Royal Engineers) on the staff of the Engineer-in-Chief & Director, Royal Engineers, Department of the Quarter-Master-General to the Forces, War Office (London)
10.10.1950	-	23.03.1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Scott-Bowden,
Logan
L. Scott-Bowden

Son of late Lt.Col. Jonathan Scott-Bowden, OBE, TD, and Mary Scott-Bowden (née Logan).
Married (1950) Helen Jocelyn, daughter of late Major Sir Francis Caradoc Rose Price, 5th Bt, and late Marjorie Lady Price; three sons, three daughters.

21.02.1920
Whitehaven district, Cumbria / Cumberland
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.07.1939
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	15.11.1940-14.02.1941
T/Capt.	15.02.1941-24.08.1943
WS/Capt.	25.08.1943
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	25.05.1943-24.08.1943
T/Maj.	25.08.1943-02.07.1952
Maj.	03.07.1952
T/Lt.Col.	20.02.1959-19.08.1960
Lt.Col.	20.08.1960 (supernumerary 20.08.1963)
T/Col.	31.03.1964-10.07.1964
Col.	11.07.1964
T/Brig.	20.05.1966-30.12.1966
Brig.	31.12.1966
Maj.Gen.	? (retd 1974)

CBE	1972	?
DSO	15.06.1944	Operation Bell Push Able (Normandy reconniassance 01.44)
OBE	1964	?
MC	02.03.1944	Operation KJH (Normandy reconnaissance 12.43-01.44)
MC	24.01.1946	?

Education: Malvern College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; jssc (1956), psc (1945)

03.07.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1940			served in Norway
04.05.1941	-	03.06.1942	Adjutant, 53rd (Welsh) Division RE
1942	-	1943	Liaison Duties in Canada and USA
25.01.1943	-	24.05.1943	Adjutant, ....
1943	-	1944	Normandy Beach Reconnaissance Team
1944	-	(1945?)	Officer Commanding, 17th Field Company RE (NW Europe)
29.05.1946	-	02.12.1946	GSO2, HQ Allied Land Forces South East Asia (Singapore)
03.12.1946	-	18.10.1947	Brigade Major, 98th Indian Infantry Brigade (Burma)
16.10.1950	-	03.12.1950	SORE2, HQ British Troops in Egypt (Palestine)
1951			served in Libya
01.03.1951	-	11.02.1953	DAQMG, War Office
1953			served in Korea
24.07.1954	-	02.04.1956	Brigade Major, HQ Training Brigade
01.04.1958	-	18.02.1959	GSO2 Joint Secretariat HQ British Forces Arabian Peninsular
20.02.1959	-	24.04.1960	GSO1 (Plans) (Arabia)
1960	-	(1962?)	Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), 1st Division (British Army of the Rhine)
20.12.1962	-	29.03.1964	GSO1 (Home Defence Plans), UK Land Forces HQ, Eastern Command
31.03.1964	-	06.05.1966	Assistant Director of Plans, War Office
20.05.1966	-	(01.1967)	Commander, HQ Training Brigade
1969			National Defence College, India
1970	-	1971	Commander Ulster Defence Regiment
1971	-	1974	Head of British Defence Liaison Staff, India

Colonel Commandant RE, 1975-1980.

Scott-Brown,
Charles L Scott

see:

Canadian Army officers' section

Scrimgeour,
Donald
D. Scrimgeour (Photo courtesy of Mrs Linda Murphy)

Son of John Thomson Scrimgeour (1891-1950), and Isabella Wilson (1893-1984).
Married Hilda Newton (15.01.1925 - 26.08.1992), daughter of Edward Owen Newton (1889-1952), and Eva Preston (1888-1978); one daughter.

15.07.1921
Hull, Yorkshire
-
12.04.2012
Hull, East Yorkshire

L/Sgt.	? [2664475]
2nd Lt.	14.07.1945 [252227]
WS/Lt.	14.01.1946 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

?	-	14.07.1945	164 Officer Cadet Training Unit (Barmouth)
14.07.1945			commissioned, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)[emergency commission]

His daughter writes: "He served with the 3rd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards in North Africa and Italy (1943-1944) before being commissioned as a Lieutenant which he served with the 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in Eygpt (1945-1946). In those days to be an officer in the guards you normally came from a wealthy family and that is the reason he chose the East Yorkshire Regt, this was the regiment his Father and Uncles served with during WW1. He became the liaison officer to the Soviet Military mission in the British zone in Austria repatriating prisoners (1946)."

Scrimgeour,
William
W. Scrimgeour

Son of Alexander Carron Scrimgeour (1867-1937), and Helen May Bird (1869-?).
Brother of W/Cdr. James Scrimgeour, CMG, OBE, Auxiliary Air Force.

21.09.1909
Tadworth, Epsom district, Surrey
-
01.1986
Chichester district, Sussex

CSM	?
2nd Lt.	24.01.1941 [188103]
WS/Lt.	23.07.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Capt.	23.07.1941-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

MID

06.04.1944

Middle East

24.01.1941

commissioned, Intelligence Corps[emergency commission]

Scripps,
Frank Ernest
F.E. Scripps

Son of Ernest E. Scripps, and Lydia Smith.
Married (23.08.1941) Grace Ada McEwen (08.04.1918 - 03.09.1990); two sons, one daughter.

16.03.1916
Ruislip, Uxbridge district, Middlesex
-
09.03.2000
Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand

A/Sgt. (Fitter)	18.05.1942 [6896706]
WS/Sgt. (Fitter)	18.11.1942
Cadet	18.01.1943
2nd Lt.	30.07.1943 [288775]
WS/Lt.	30.01.1944 (dispersal 31.01.1946) (reld 28.03.1946)
A/Capt.	01.09.1945-30.11.1945
T/Capt.	01.12.1945-28.03.1946
Hon. Capt.	28.03.1946

Education: Uxbridge Secondary School; Maths certificate 1929-1930.
Motor engineer (Messrs Ruislip Garages, High Street, Ruislip).

02.01.1939	-	15.02.1939	enlisted, Queen's Westminster (King's Royal Rifles) - Territorial Army (London)
16.02.1939	-	23.08.1939	transferred, 75th Searchlight Regiment RA - Territorial Army (Cowley, Oxfordshire)
24.08.1939	-	07.10.1940	embodied, 75th Searchlight Regiment RA - Territorial Army (Cowley, Oxfordshire)
08.10.1940	-	01.05.1941	posted, 38th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Harrow, London)
02.05.1941	-	17.01.1943	posted, 73rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (218th Battery) (Stanwell, Surrey)
18.01.1943	-	29.07.1943	posted, 124th Officer Cadet Training Unit RA (Llandrindod Wells, Powys)
30.07.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
30.07.1943	-	12.08.1945	posted, 135rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA, from 23.01.1945 redesignated as: 629th [Infantry] Regiment RA (Plymouth, Devon)
15.01.1944	-	30.06.1944	15.01.1944 injured; 09-22.02.1944 sick leave; 07.03.1944-05.06.1944 admitted to Military Hospital Oxford and subsequently attached Depot RA (Woolwich)
27.02.1945	-	12.08.1945	Officer-in-Charge, Home Details
13.08.1945	-	31.01.1946	posted, 84 Prisoner of War Camp (as A/Cs Officer)

Scrope,
Adrian Cuthbert
A.C. Scrope

From Nafferton, Yorkshire.
Married (1928) Everilda Sykes (born 17.11.1907); four sons, three daughters.

15.05.1906
Kensington, London
-
11.1992
Bury St Edmonds district, Suffolk

Lt.	02.09.1939 [100769]
A/Capt.	12.07.1940-11.10.1940
T/Capt.	12.10.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	22.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	22.09.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

OBE	23.09.1943	North Africa
TD	04.1950	-
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean

			late Cadet Corporal, Ampleforth College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.09.1939			commissioned, Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) - Territorial Army
			served in France, North Africa & Italy (QMG? with 1st Army)
12.07.1940	-	(04.1941)	Staff Captain, ...
(1944)			General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Staff College, Camberley
?	-	08.08.1956	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Scruby,
Charles Robinett Wolfe
C.R.W. Scruby

Youngest son of Charles B. Scruby, and Phyllis E. Wolfe, of St Margaret's Bay, Kent.
Married (31.08.1946, Norwegian Seaman's Church, Bermondsey district, London) Inger Cathrine Smith-Petersen, eldest daughter of Morten Smith-Petersen, commercial shipowner, and Else Smith-Petersen, of Oslo, Norway; ... children (one son?).

?
-

2nd Lt.	11.05.1940 [130492]
WS/Lt.	11.11.1941
T/Capt.	10.11.1942

11.05.1940			commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
(09.1944)			1st Battalion The Border Regiment [did not take part in the Arnhem operation, according to to his son]

Far Eastern Broadcasting Service (1947).

Seal,
Austen Frederick Herbert
A.F.H. Seal (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carol Vincent)

17.06.1909
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
12.1987
Chichester district, Sussex

Lt. (OME 4th class)	23.08.1939 [96084]
T/Capt. (OME 3rd cl.)	02.09.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	01.03.1941
T/Maj.	15.05.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	05.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

15.01.1957

			late Cadet Serjeant, Portsmouth Grammar School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
23.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
13.12.1943	-	(04.1944)	a Deputy Assistant Director Mechanical Engineering (DADME), HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)
?	-	17.06.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Seall,
Cecil Herbert
C.H. Seall

Son (with one brother) of Joseph Herbert Seall (1878-), and Emily Elliker (1879-).
Married ((03?).1922, Woolwich district, Kent) Dorothy Violet Wynn (21.10.1902 - 10.1986); one daughter, one son.

(12?).1900
Weymouth, Dorset
-
(09?).1965
Newark district, Lincolnshire

WS/Sgt.Maj. (Artfr.)	?
Lt. QM	18.04.1941 [191131]
Lt. (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer)	30.05.1941, seniority 18.04.1941
Lt. (Assistant Electrical Mechanical Engineer)	01.10.1942, seniority 18.04.1941
T/Capt. (AEME)	01.09.1943-17.04.1944
WS/Capt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	18.04.1944
Capt. (EMAE)	01.11.1947

MID

06.04.1944

Middle East

18.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
30.05.1941			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Sebag-Montefiore,
David
D. Sebag-Montefiore

Son of Lt.Col. Thomas Henry Sebag-Montefiore (1887-1954), and Irene Catherine Cohen (1891-1933).
Married (17.08.1955, Spanish and Portugese Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London, EC3) Juliet Nadine Marcelle Raphael ((06?).1934-), daughter of Geoffrey George Raphael (1893-1969) and Nancy Jeannette May Rose; four daughters.

17.11.1924
27, Sussex Square, Paddington district, London, W2
-

Cadet	? [1116985]
2nd Lt.	11.12.1943 [302612]
WS/Lt.	11.06.1944
2nd Lt.	21.11.1945, seniority 17.11.1945
Lt.	17.05.1947
A/Capt.	04.06.1946-03.09.1946
T/Capt.	04.09.1946-02.05.1950
Capt.	17.11.1951
Maj.	17.11.1958 (retd 26.07.1961)

Education: Eton College; Edinburgh University; Lackham School of Agriculture.

11.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 20.11.1945]
21.11.1945			permanent commission

Sebag-Montefiore,
Denzil Charles
D.C. Sebag-Montefiore

Son of Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore (1884-1960), and Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass (1891-1972).
Brother of Lt.Col. Oliver Robert MArne Sebag-Montefiore and Capt. Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore.
Married 1st (10.12.1936, New West End Synagogue, London) Pamela Lucy Magnus ((09?).1914 - 28.04.1944), daughter of Laurie Magnus (1872-1933) and Marian Dora Spielmann (1882-1972); one daughter.
Married 2nd (01.07.1946) Ruth Emily Magnus ((03?).1916-), daughter of Laurie Magnus (1872-1933) and Marian Dora Spielmann (1882-1972); one son, one daughter.

18.02.1914
Paddington district, Greater London
-
01.1996
Fulham district, London

Sigmn.	?
2nd Lt.	12.10.1938 [77345]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Lt.	18.10.1947, seniority 11.04.1945
T/Capt.	16.11.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	?
Capt.	01.01.1949
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	18.10.1947

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

Education: Wellington College; Trinity College, Cambridge.

			late Cadet, Wellington College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.10.1938			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army (London Corps Signals)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
18.10.1947	-	18.02.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Member, London Stock Exchange.

Sebag-Montefiore,
Eric Cecil
E.C. Sebag-Montefiore

Son of Maj. Cecil Sebag-Montefiore (1873-1923), and Emilia Margaret "Amy" Raphael (1876-1942).
Married (22.01.1924, Spanish and Portugese Synagogue, Lauderdale Road, London) Audrey Mabel Rose Haldin (11.11.1899 - 09.1984), daughter of Henry Hyman Haldin (1863-1931) and Mabel Julia Leon (1874-1970); one daughter, one son.

22.01.1899
Paddington district, London
-
05.05.1991
West Meon, Winchester district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	21.12.1917 [15336]
Lt.	21.06.1919
Capt.	26.11.1931
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 08.11.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	02.01.1941-04.02.1941
Hon. Lt.Col.	08.11.1947

MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp.

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

21.12.1917			commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry
18.10.1918	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium
			served in India
WW2			Posted 2nd Bn Home Service Details 10.10.1939, Posted 11th Bn DLI 26.10.1939, Detached to Brigade HQ, Back to 4 ITC, Posted No 2 Infantry Base Depot 05.1940, Posted 14th Bn as 2 i/c 15.10.1941, Posted 30th DLI 04.1942, Posted 21 Group RAF Cranwell 28.04.1942, Posted No 2 (?) PoW Cage 05.1942 in command, Posted ITC 1943, Posted Italy 01.08.1943
08.11.1947	-	22.01.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Sebag-Montefiore,
Geoffrey Edmund
E.C. Sebag-Montefiore

Son (with one sister) of Edmund Sebag-Montefiore (1869-1929), and Juliana Lucas Davidson (1872-1911).
Married (07.03.1927, London) Elizabeth Grace Troyte-Bullock (26.12.1898 - 29.10.1975), eldest daughter of Lt.Col. Edward George Troyte-Bullock, CMG, TD (1862-1942), and Grace Amy Margaret Mount Batten (1874-1968), of Zeals House, Wiltshire; one son. She remarried (23.07.1949, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Culworth, Brackley district, Northamptonshire) Brig. David Arthur Kennedy William Block (1908-2001).
Residences: (1943) Culworth, Oxford & London EC2.

10.04.1893
Paddington, London
-
10.05.1943
Culworth, Brackley district, Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	24.01.1914 [8429]
T/Lt.	31.10.1914-30.01.1915
Lt.	31.01.1915 (half-pay) (full-pay 07.08.1920) (half-pay 24.09.1920) (retd 22.10.1920; ill-health caused by wounds)
T/Capt.	23.10.1916-24.02.1918, 03.06.1920-24.09.1920
T/Maj.	25.02.1918-..., 11.06.1919-....
Maj. (retd)	22.10.1920
Capt.	01.04.1939 (reld 21.03.1943; ill-health)
T/Maj.	29.02.1940-(04.1941)

	MBE	03.06.1918	Egyptian Expeditionary Force
	Nile	26.11.1919	?

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

24.01.1914			commissioned, 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
			Staff Lieutenant, 1st Class
23.10.1916	-	11.12.1917	Assistant Provost Marshal attached to a HQ unit
11.12.1917	-	25.02.1918	Staff Captain attached to a HQ unit
25.02.1918			Assistant Provost Marshal attached to a HQ unit
11.06.1919			Assistant Commandant attached to a HQ unit
03.06.1920	-	24.09.1920	employed with Corps of Military Police (as Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal)
01.04.1939			commissioned, Corps of Military Police (Mobile Division, Provost Company) - Territorial Army, General List
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	?	Traffic Control Group Officer, Oxford

Member of London Stock Exchange.

Sebag-Montefiore,
[Rt. Rev.] Hugh William
H.W. Sebag-Montefiore

Youngest son of Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore (1884-1960), and Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass (1891-1972).
Brother of Maj. Denzil Charles Sebag-Montefiore and Lt.Col. Oliver Robert Marne Sebag-Montefiore.
Married (01.12.1945, Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, Hertfordshire) Elisabeth Mary Macdonald Paton (13.10.1919 - 14.11.1999), elder daughter of the Rev. William Paton, DD (1886-1943), and Grace Mackenzie Macdonald (1887-1967), of St Albans; three daughters.
Changed last name from Sebag-Montefiore to Montefiore by deed poll of 06.01.1947.

12.05.1920
London
-
13.05.2005
London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [187876]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	?

Education: Rugby School; St John's College, Oxford (MA, BD) (Hon. Fellow, 1981).

?	-	24.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served, Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (saw action in the Arakan and Kohima campaigns on the frontiers of India)

Deacon 1949, priest 1950. Curate, St George's, Jesmond, Newcastle, 1949-1951; Chaplain and Tutor, Westcott House, Cambridge, 1951-1953; VicePrincipal, 1953-1954; Examining Chaplain: to Bishop of Newcastle, 1953-1970; to Bishop of Worcester, 1957-1960; to Bishop of Coventry, 1957-1970; to Bishop of Blackburn, 1966-1970; Fellow and Dean of Gonville and Caius College, 1954-1963; Lecturer in New Testament, University of Cambridge, 1959-1963; Vicar of Great Saint Mary's, Cambridge, 1963-1970; Canon Theologian of Coventry, 1959-1970; Honorary Canon of Ely, 1969-1970; Bishop Suffragen of KingstonuponThames, 1970-1978; Bishop of Birmingham, 1978-1987. Hon. Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Southwark, since 1987. Member, Archbishops' Commission on Christian Doctrine, 1967-1976; Chairman, General Synod Board for Social Responsibility, 1983-1987. Chairman: Indep. Commission on Transport, 1973; Transport 2000, 1987-1992; Friends of the Earth Trust, 1992-; National Trust for the Homeless, 1992-. Hon. DD: Aberdeen, 1976; Birmingham, 1985.
Published: (contrib.) The Historic Episcopate and the Fullness of the Church, 1954; To Help You To Pray, 1957; (contrib.) Soundings, 1962; Josephus and the New Testament, 1962; (with H. E. W. Turner) Thomas and the Evangelists, 1962; Beyond Reasonable Doubt, 1963; (contrib.) God, Sex and War, 1963; Awkward Questions on Christian Love, 1964; A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1964; Truth to Tell, 1966; (ed) We Must Love One Another Or Die, 1966; (contrib.) The Responsible Church, 1966; Remarriage and Mixed Marriage, 1967; (contrib.) Journeys in Belief, 1968; (ed) Sermons From Great St Mary's, 1968; My Confirmation Notebook, 1968; The Question Mark, 1969; Can Man Survive, 1970; (ed) More Sermons From Great St Mary's, 1971; Doom or Deliverance?, 1972; (ed) Changing Directions, 1974; (ed) Man and Nature, 1976; Apocalypse, 1976; (ed) Nuclear Crisis, 1977; (ed) Yes to Women Priests, 1978; Taking our Past into our Future, 1978; Paul the Apostle, 1981; Jesus Across the Centuries, 1983; The Probability of God, 1985; So Near And Yet So Far, 1986; Communicating the Gospel in a Scientific Age, 1988; God, Sex and Love, 1989; Christianity and Politics, 1990; Reclaiming the High Ground, 1990; (ed) The Gospel and Contemporary Culture, 1992; The Womb and The Tomb, 1992; Preaching for Our Planet, 1992; Credible Christianity, 1994; Oh God, What Next?, 1995; Time to Change, 1996; contributions to New Testament and Theological journals.

Sebag-Montefiore,
Oliver Robert Marne

Son of Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore (1884-1960), and Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass (1891-1972).
Brother of Maj. Denzil Charles Sebag-Montefiore and Capt. Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore.
Married (17.09.1937, Central Synagogue, Hallam Street, London City) Henrietta Floretta Waley-Cohen (30.05.1914 - 25.12.1999), daughter of Sir Robert Waley Cohen (1877-1952) and Alice Violet Beddington (1881-1935); one son, two daughters.
Residence: (1965) Brook Hall, Finchingfield, Essex & 28 Devonshire Place Mews, London.

09.07.1915
Paddington district, London
-
10.1993
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	30.12.1936 [69800]
Lt.	30.12.1939
Capt.	11.04.1945 07.10.1947, seniority 19.04.1944
T/Maj.	19.04.1944-22.10.1945
WS/Maj.	23.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
Maj.	09.07.1949, seniority 01.05.1947 (retd 01.11.1950)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1947

21.04.1950

& 1st clasp

Education: Wellington College; Peterhouse College, Cambridge University (MA, 1949).

			late Cadet, Wellington College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
30.12.1936			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Terriorial Army (64th (7th London) Field Brigade RA)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley
01.11.1950	-	12.07.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

President of the London Jewish Welfare Board.

Sebag-Montefiore,
Thomas Henry
T.H. Sebag-Montefiore

Son (with four brothers and one sister) of Arthur Sebag-Montefiore (1853-1895), and Harriette Beddington (1859?-1924).
Married (11.12.1919, Central Synagogue, London) Irene Catherine Cohen (19.06.1891 - 03.12.1933), daughter of Sir Leonard Lionel Cohen (1858-1938) and Eliza Henrietta Schloss (1865-1935); two sons (Maj. David Sebag-Montefiore), one daughter.

09.11.1887
Paddington district, Greater London
-
11.06.1954
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.07.1906 [12549]
Lt.	25.07.1909
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj.	25.09.1916-30.10.1916, 08.11.1916-...
Maj.	12.02.1917 19.06.1917, seniority 02.02.1917 (half pay 30.05.1922-14.08.1922; ill-health)
A/Lt.Col.	30.11.1918-29.12.1918
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1932
Lt.Col.	22.11.1934 (half pay 22.11.1938) (retd 22.05.1939)

	DSO	03.06.1918	Italy
	MC	01.01.1917	?

Education: Clifton College, Bristol; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

25.07.1906			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			got his aviator's licence # 93 on 13.06.1911, taken on a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain
1914	-	1919	served in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany
30.11.1918	-	29.12.1918	Commander of an Artillery Brigade
01.12.1922	-	22.02.1925	Adjutant, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA - Teirrotial Army
			Commanding Officer, 1st Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
22.05.1939	-	15.08.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
09.1939	-	06.1944	Commandant, 125 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Artillery

Honorary Secretary, Royal Artillery Association. Honorary Colonel, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 17.05.1939-17.05.1944.

Seccombe,
Lionel Sidney
L.S. Seccombe

Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Thomas Seccombe (1866-1923), and Elizabeth Jane Goddard (1872-).
Married ((09?).1930, Fulham, London) Ida Mai Orton (11.05.1907 - 02.1997); one son.

26.06.1903
Acton, Middlesex
-
25.01.1955
Khartoum, Sudan

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [98110]
WS/Lt.	18.09.1940
T/Capt.	18.09.1940-24.01.1942
WS/Capt.	25.01.1942
T/Maj.	25.01.1942-25.07.1942
WS/Maj.	26.07.1942
T/Lt.Col.	26.07.1942-13.10.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	14.10.1944-19.03.1946 (dismissed the service by sentence of a general court-martial 19.03.1946)
A/Col.	14.04.1944-(01.1945)

MID

08.04.1943

in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field

Education: Felsted School (1917-1922); Pembroke College, Oxford.
BBC boxing radio commentator.

			late C.S.M., Felsted School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
02.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
...	-	...	...
14.04.1944	-	?	Commander Bombardment Units (CBU) (attached to HQ Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force) (Normandy 06.1944)
...	-	...	...

Left BBC to join the Education Department of the Sudan Government. Died in Khartoum Hospital of fever contracted during his service in Equatoria.

Seddon,
Alan Douglas
A.D. Seddon

Son (with three brothers) of William Seddon (1864-), and Catharine Georgina D'Arcy (1862-1938), of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

17.09.1889
Northwood, Watford, Hertfordshire
-
16.04.1976
Spain
[English Cemetery
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Provincia de Las Palmas, Islas Canarias, Spain]

2nd Lt. (on prob.)	11.11.1911 [8029]
2nd Lt.	24.05.1913
T/Lt.	22.10.1914-10.12.1914
Lt.	11.12.1914
Capt.	16.02.1916
Maj.	30.06.1930 (half-pay 21.12.1936) (retd 01.08.1939)
Capt.	09.09.1940 (reverted to this rank at own request)
A/Lt.Col.? or T/Lt.Col.?	?

1914-15 Star; Brisith War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Russia Order Of St. Stanislas; White Russia, Cross of the Archangel Michael

Education: Uppingham School (09.1902-12.1907); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (late Cadet Cambridge University Contingent, Officers Training Corps).

11.11.1911			commissioned, 4th Battalion, The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment) - Special Reserve of Officers
24.05.1913			commissioned, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
15.01.1915	-	08.05.1915	served, France & Belgium
15.04.1919	-	03.11.1919	Special Appointment (Class FF) (Intelligence), Black Sea
11.05.1920	-	19.12.1920	Police Control Officer, Black Sea
20.12.1920	-	10.10.1923	Special Appointment (Class BB), Black Sea (temporary)
05.02.1924	-	04.02.1927	Adjutant, ...
01.08.1928	-	26.12.1928	Specially Employed, War Office
1938			FO Observer, Czechoslovakia
01.08.1939	-	17.09.1939	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
11.07.1941	-	(04.1946)	Specially Employed, graded as General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2):
1942	-	1943	established & led Russian Section of Special Operations Executive (SOE)
(1944)	-	(1945)	505 Detachment, Civil Affairs
1945	-	1948	British Resident Officer, Landkreis Harburg (Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories)
1948	-	1953	British Resident Officer in respecitively Walsrode, then Dannenberg, then Osnabrück (Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories)

WMOU Masonic Lodge, 1939-1940.

Seddon,
Roland Nelson
R.N. Seddon

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Lt.Col. Thomas Young Seddon (1864-1947), and Mildred Emily Segar (1882-1963).
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Thomas Carfrea Seddon, RN.
Married 1st (05.09.1939, All Saints' Church, West Parley, Blandford district, Dorset) Dorothy Ida Kathleen Canning (23.01.1914 - 22.12.1982); two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (07.01.1984, North Dorset) Prudence Sarapera (12.01.1930 - 14.12.2019).

11.05.1909
Sheikh Budin, West Bengal, India
-
01.04.1998
Stourton, North Dorset
[Stourton Caundle Civic Cemetery]

2nd Lt.	31.01.1929 [41213]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	15.10.1941-14.01.1942
T/Maj.	15.01.1942-20.08.1942
WS/Maj.	21.08.1942
Maj.	31.01.1946
A/Lt.Col.	21.05.1942-20.08.1942
T/Lt.Col.	21.08.1942-01.01.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	02.01.1945
Lt.Col.	12.04.1951 (Supernumerary 12.04.1954)
A/Col.	02.07.1944-01.01.1945
T/Col.	02.01.1945-16.04.1945, 13.08.1945-29.11.1945, 06.03.1954-04.05.1954
local Col.	03.02.1954-05.03.1954
Col.	05.05.1954 (retd 09.07.1959)

	OBE	24.08.1944	Italy
	MID	06.04.1944	Middle East

Education: Weymouh College (09.1923-1927); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1927-1928).

31.01.1929			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
01.04.1936	-	31.03.1937	Assistant Instructor (Class GG), Tank Driving & Maintenance School
01.04.1937	-	07.04.1939	Instructor (Class GG), Driving & Maintenance Wing, Armoured Fighting Vehicle School
03.07.1939	-	20.11.1939	Adjutant, ..
18.09.1940	-	04.06.1941	Instructor, Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.05.1942	-	11.11.1942	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (Armoured Fighting Vehicles), Middle East
12.11.1942	-	17.02.1943	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (X), General Headquarters Middle East
1943	-	1944	Officer Commanding Divisional Signals, Headquarters 7th Armoured Division (OBE)
20.02.1944	-	01.07.1944	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), ...
02.07.1944	-	19.06.1945	Chief Signals Officer, Middle East
13.08.1945	-	25.01.1946	specially employed [might be with Special Operations Executive (SOE)]
?	-	12.11.1947	Staff Officer, grade 1 (SO1) (Signals), Air Formation, Headquarters South East Asia Command
01.09.1950	-	14.01.1954	Chief Instructor Driving & Maintenance School, RAC Centre
06.03.1954	-	(01.1957)	C.A.F. S.O. (Col.), Far East Land Forces

Seddon,
William Frederick Clyde
W.F.C. Seddon

Married Lucy Seddon (née ...); one son, two daughters [all died 17/18.07.1963 at the hands of W.F.C. Seddon, who decided to end the lives of himself and his family, urged by financial difficulties]

1924 ?
South America
-
18.07.1963
[aged 39]
Leicester-Forest-
East, Leicestershire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.04.1943 [273506]
WS/Lt.	28.10.1943
Lt. TA	16.06.1948, seniority 27.04.1946
A/Capt. TA	16.06.1948
Capt. TA	27.04.1950, seniority 16.06.1948
A/Maj. TA	16.01.1952
Hon. Maj.	20.09.1955

28.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(1943)			served in Italy
16.06.1948	-	20.09.1955	served Territorial Army
20.09.1955	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Scoutmaster and assistant secretary of the Leicestershire Branch of the National Farmers’ Union.

Selby,
James May

see:

Indian Army officers' section

Self,
Stewart Bulwer
S.B. Self

Son of Ronald Henry Self (1891-1963), and Florence Gertrude De Caux (1894-1968)..
Married (19.06.1946, Lothingland, Suffolk) Jane Elizabeth Mary Minchin (06.11.1922 - ), daughter of Robert Sylvan Minchin (1886-1948), and Johanna Frederica Schwemmer (1886?-1963); one son, two daughters.

02.05.1920
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
05.2005
Ashford district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.09.1941 [207253]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	06.07.1943-19.09.1943, 09.11.1943-23.11.1943
T/Capt.	24.11.1943-02.06.1945
Lt.	20.02.1946, seniority 02.11.1942
T/Capt.	16.06.1946-01.05.1947
Capt.	02.05.1947
Maj.	05.07.1954 (retd 28.09.1959)

			served in the ranks (mobilized Territorial Army) for 2 years, 4 days
06.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 19.02.1946]
20.02.1946			permanent commission

Seligman,
Geoffrey Charles
G.C. Seligman

Youngest son (with two brothers and one sister) of Sir Charles David Seligman (1869-1954), banker, and Eva Henriette Merton (1879-1962), of Kensington, London.
Married (09.07.1936, West London Synagogue) Meryl "Merrie" Adelaide Jona (21.10.1916 - 11.1997), twin daughter of Dr. J. Leon Jona, of Melbourne; two sons, one daughter.

15.04.1913
St Marylebone district, London
-
12.1994
Westminster district, London

Gnr. ? / Bdr. ?	? [1434870]
2nd Lt.	08.06.1940 [132389]
A/Lt.	28.08.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	12.09.1943
T/Maj.	12.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	02.08.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	1945?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

28.01.1949

Education: Cambridge University.

			served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery
08.06.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps
28.08.1940	-	(04.1941)	under the heading "miscellaneous special appointments" of Commands and Staff
(04.1944)			seconded

Banker, chief executive and then chairman of S.G. Warburg and Co. Ltd., merchant bankers, he was involved in arranging several large takeovers in the UK. Many of his numerous charitable activities were carried through his own charitable foundation. He was HonMRCP and a Friend of the Royal College of Physicians.

Seligman,
Spencer Walter Oscar
"Bobby"
G.C. Seligman

Son of Walter Leopold Seligman (1873-1935), and Ethel Maud Raphael (1882-1945).
Married (26.08.1948, Westminster district, London) Joanne W.R. Bye, daughter of Mr & Mrs Edward Bye, of The Park, Nottingham.

01.03.1915
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
08.2001
Kensington and Chelsea district, London

2nd Lt.	01.06.1940 [134429]
WS/Capt.	20.11.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	20.11.1942-(04.1946)

19.10.1944

NW Europe

			Honourable Artillery Company (121st and 125th Officer Cadet Training Units, R.A.)
01.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	Officer Commanding, 222nd Battery, 65th (Highland) Medium Regiment RA (NW Europe)

Banker. Executive director of S.G. Warburg and Co. Ltd., merchant bankers.

Selwyn,
John Jasper
J.J. Selwyn

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Stephen John Selwyn (1875-1960), and Phyllis Graeme Hickling (?-1967).
Married 1st (1943) Margaret Evelyn Gee (died 1980), formerly Mrs Charles Whittingham, and daughter of George Gee, of Ely Grange, Frant, Sussex; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1983) Mary Mitchell Brooke-Edwards.

11.08.1918
Repton
-
21.05.1997
of The Orchards, Pinkneys Green, Berkshire
[buried Remenham, Berkshire]

2nd Lt.	26.07.1939, seniority 25.08.1938 [75243]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	14.10.1941-13.01.1942
T/Capt.	14.01.1942-04.02.1943, 23.09.1943-11.02.1946, 01.05.1946-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
T/Maj.	07.03.1949-24.08.1951
Maj.	25.08.1951 (retd 10.08.1959)

	MC	02.10.1942	Dieppe
	MID	30.10.1953	Malaya 01-06.53

Education: MA; Staff College (psc).

			General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
26.07.1939			commissioned, 13th/18th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
(1942)			No. 3 Commando (Dieppe) (MC)
(1944)			Troop Commander, B Squadron, 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (Normandy)

Senior,
Robert Hepworth
R.H. Senior

03.06.1907
Farnham district, Surrey
-
08.1993
Bromley district, Kent

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47665]
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	24.01.1942-16.06.1943, 02.10.1943-(01.1946)
Col.	05.03.1955 (retd 24.04.1958)

MID

20.12.1940

28.08.1930			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
...	-	...	...

Senior,
Ronald Henry

Eldest son of Lawrence Henry Senior, and Emmadonna Shuttleworth Holden, of London SW5.
Married (14.07.1932) Hon. Norah Marguerite Joicey (21.09.1905 - 1987), daughter of James Arthur Joicey, 2nd Baron Joicey, JP (1880-1940), and Georgina Wharton Burdon (?-1952); two daughters.

03.07.1904
Chelsea district, London
-
02.03.1988
Westminster district, London SW3

2nd Lt.	? [28534]
...	...
Maj.	19.12.1934
T/Lt.Col.	05.12.1942-25.09.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	26.09.1943
A/Brig.	26.03.1943-(04.1944)
T/Brig.	?
Hon. Brig.	< 04.1946

DSO	22.10.1940	British Expeditionary Force 1939-40
DSO	18.05.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
TD	04.08.1942	-
TD	10.01.1958	2nd clasp
MID	29.04.1941	distinguished services in the field

Education: Cheltenham College (01.1918-).

04.1924			commissioned, 24th London Regiment (later renamed 7th (Southwark) Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment) - Territorial Army (from 02.1938 Second-in-Command)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
05.1942	-	10.1942	Commanding Officer, 5th Bn The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
28.10.1942	-	04.1943	Commanding Officer, 1st/7th Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment
25.03.1943	-	06.06.1944	Commander, 151st (Durham Light Infantry) Infantry Brigade (N Africa, Libya, Egypt, Sicily, UK, NW Europe) (wounded)
(07.1943)			Officer Commanding Assault during Operation Husky (Sicily)
23.01.1945	-	14.08.1945	Commander, 56th Infantry Brigade (NW Europe) [except for 27.1-6.2.1945] (27.01.1945-06.02.1945 & 24.03.1945-28.03.1945 acting General Officer Commanding, 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division (NW Europe))

Chairman, National Association of Port Employers, 1954-59.

Senior,
Victor James
"Vic"
V.J. Senior

24.05.1916
-
29.07.2007

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1942 [269298]
...	...
WS/Capt.	03.01.1944
T/Maj.	03.01.1944-(04.1946)

	MC	25.11.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
	MC	20.09.1945	Italy

30.08.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			50th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment

Serjeant,
John Edgar

Son (with two sisters) of John Owen Serjeant (1878-1966), and Edith Mary Jones (1880-1909).
Married ((06?).1926, St George Hanover Squadre district, London) Ellen Elizabeth Leppard (27.07.1906 - 04.1984), daughter (with one sister) of Owen Leppard (1868-1935), and Fanny Jane Freeman (1866-1939); three daughters, one son.

08.05.1904
Islington district, London
-
08.11.1969
Aldershot, Hampshire

WS/Sgt.Maj.	?
Lt. QM	31.12.1941 [205865]
WS/Capt. QM	31.12.1944
Capt. QM	01.11.1947
Capt.	01.11.1949, seniority 31.12.1944
Lt.	10.08.1954, seniority 26.07.1945
Capt.	10.08.1954
Maj.	10.08.1954, seniority 07.09.1951 (reld 01.11.1958)
Hon. Maj.	01.11.1958

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe

31.12.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
01.11.1949			short service commission, RAMC (Administrative & Technical Section, from 10.08.1954 Non Medical Section)

Seton,
Sir John Hastings;
10th Baronet of Pitmedden
J.H. Seton

Son of Maj. Sir William Samuel Seton, 9th Bt (1837-1914), and Eva Kate St Leger Wood (1852?-1927).
Succeeded father, 1914.
Married (18.06.1923, Bedford district, Bedfordshire; divorced 1950) Group Officer Alice Ida Hodge (Lady Seton), WRAF (09.05.1904 - 28.07.1995), daughter of Percy Cornelius Hodge (1880-1959), Cape Civil Service, and Mary Ida Winifred Webb (1881-1965); one son (Midsh. Robert James Seton, RNVR), one daughter.

20.09.1888
-
21.06.1956
Mill Hill, London

2nd Lt.	13.12.1905 (reld 08.06.1910)
T/2nd Lt.	14.08.1914
T/Lt.	24.10.1914
Lt.	15.12.1914
Capt.	12.01.1917, seniority 13.11.1916 25.05.1917, seniority 01.06.1916
Lt.	27.06.1940 [125532] (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	03.04.1946-(04.1947)

Education: Bedford School.

13.12.1905			commissioned, The Durham Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), from 05.07.1908 The Durham Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve)
01.04.1909			transferred, Royal Field Artillery (Supplementary List)
1916	-	1921	6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion The Gordon Highlanders [12.08.1915-03.02.1916 seconded to 2nd (Scottish) Provisional Battalion]
27.06.1940			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]

Seymour,
Rothesay Egerton *
R.E. Seymour

* also known as: Seymour, Egerton Rothesay

?
-

2nd Lt.	10.03.1941 [238317]
WS/Capt.	10.06.1941 (reld 08.09.1948)
T/Maj.	10.06.1941-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	08.09.1948

	MC	26.03.1918	*
	MID	WW I	?

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has repeatedly performed marked acts of courage and initiative, and he has on two occasions attacked and routed enemy patrols, though greatly outnumbered. Within the last two months he has himself accounted for sixteen of the enemy during various patrol encounters, and has burned large quantities of enemy supplies, his work being magnificent throughout.

(1914)			1st Rhodesian Regiment
(1918)			Intelligence Agent, East African Intelligence Department
10.03.1941			commissioned, General List, African Colonial Forces Section [emergency commission]

Shakespear,
Richard Harry Baird
R.H.B. Shakespear (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of Harry Talbot Shakespear and Winifred Constance Baird.
Married (08.04.1940, St Thomas-on-the-Bourne, Farnham, Surrey South Western district) Barbara Joan Stewart "Bobbie" Roberts (25.01.1916 - 09.1993), of Farnham, Surrey; one daughter. Barbara Shakespear remarried (1950) Capt. John Mohun Carew, Devonshire Regiment,

28.01.1917
Reigate district, Surrey
-
23.07.1943
(KIA) [age 26]
[Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, IV.G.41]

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71128]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	10.06.1940-09.09.1940
T/Capt.	10.09.1940-(07.1943)
WS/Capt.	?
T/Maj.	?

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1935-1936).

28.01.1937			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
?	-	05.1940	Motor Transport Officer, HQ Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (wounded & evacuated to UK)
25.01.1941	-	(01.1942)	Adjutant, ....
?	-	23.07.1942	2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (Sicily) (killed in action)

Shand,
Bruce Middleton Hope
B.M.H. Shand

Son of Philip Morton Shand (1888-1960),and Edith Marguerite Harrington (1893-1946).
Married (02.01.1946, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London) Rosalind Maude Cubitt (11.08.1921 - 10.1994), daughter of Roland Calvert Cubitt and Sonia Rosemary Keppel, and granddaughter of Lord Ashcombe.
Father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles).

22.01.1917
London
-
11.06.2006
Stourpaine, Dorset

2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71086]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	01.11.1940-31.01.1941
T/Capt.	01.02.1941-10.02.1942
WS/Capt.	30.07.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945 (half-pay & retd 25.04.1947; disability)
A/Maj.	30.04.1942-29.07.1942
T/Maj.	30.07.1942-09.06.1945
Hon. Maj.	25.04.1947

MC	05.07.1940	British Expeditionary Force 39/40 (France): covered the withdrawal of a column in the face of fire from four tanks
MC	09.07.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 8th Army
Fr&G St	-	-

Education: Rugby; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

28.01.1937			commissioned, 12th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
1939	-	06.11.1942	served as Troop Leader in "A" Squadron (France), then UK, then from 09.1941 North Africa [wounded & captured]
06.11.1942	-	1945	POW in German captivity (Oflag IXA, Spangenberg)

Published: Previous engagements (1990; memoirs).

Shand,
John Sinclair
J.S. Shand

Son (with one brother and one sister) of John Glendinning Bryden Shand (?-1960), and Joan Mary Wake-Walker (?-1965).
Married (1942) Marjorie Eileen Moore; ... children.
Residence: (1945) Kelso.

22.09.1916
-
02.11.1980

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.11.1940 [158470]
WS/Lt.	30.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

07.06.1945

NW Europe (Holtershof north of Haffen 25.03.45)

			either 122nd, 123rd or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
02.07.1944			transferred, The Gordon Highlanders
(1945)			seconded, 9th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (MC)

His daughter writes: "My father attended Gresham School in Holt, Norfolk and then served a five year apprenticeship (interrupted by the war) to become an engineer."

Shanks,
Thomas Edwin Thornton
T.E.T. Shanks

Son of Arthur Thornton Shanks, and Ada Jane Clarke.
Married ((12?).1944, Eastbourne district, Sussex) Hilda M. "Dill" Harrison (31.08.1900 - ).

09.01.1892
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
1975
[Hartfield, St Mary the Virgin Church, East Sussex]

T/2nd Lt.	13.06.1911
T/Lt.	01.04.1918 (reld 01.09.1921)
2nd Lt.	13.05.1941 [154146]
WS/Lt.	13.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	09.11.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1945, < 04.1946

13.06.1911			commissioned, 1st Wessex Field Company, Wessex Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers - Territorial Force
13.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served Special Duties Section of Auxiliary Units (British Resistance)

Architect.

Sharp,
Anthony Keith
A.K. Sharp

Married Daphne ... (predeceased him); ... children.

29.05.1919
-
24.08.2009
hospital

2nd Lt.	25.02.1940 [121374]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1941
A/Capt.	01.09.1941-30.11.1941
T/Capt.	01.12.1941-20.09.1943
WS/Capt.	21.09.1943
A/Maj.	21.06.1943-20.09.1943
T/Maj.	21.09.1943-27.11.1944, 13.02.1945-06.11.1946
Lt.	28.02.1945, seniority 29.11.1941
Capt,	01.07.1946
Maj.	29.05.1953
Lt.Col.	01.08.1960 (retd 04.03.1963)

	OBE	08.06.1963	HM's birthday 63
	MID	23.05.1958	Malaya

			served in the ranks, Royal Fusiliers (for 122 days)
25.02.1940			commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
28.02.1945			permanent commission
			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The South Wales Borderers

Founder and first Headmaster of Bredon School, Pull Court.

Sharp,
Ronald Graham
"Ponto"
R.G. Sharp

Youngest son of John and Eleanor Sharp, of Balmuir, nr Dundee.
Married (1926?) Anne Gilroy, second daughter of Mr & Mrs H.B. Gilroy, of The Croft, Broughty Ferry.

12.03.1901
Dundee district, Scotland
-
29.05.1940
(KIA) [age 39]
[Warhem Communal Cemetery, Northern France, A.45]

2nd Lt.	? [26757]
Lt.	?
Capt.	23.02.1928, seniority 10.12.1927
Maj.	18.05.1938
Lt.Col.	01.11.1938

Education: Rugby School (Tudor House; 05.1915-05.1919; XV 1917-18; Rugby Football Blue 1919); University College, Oxford.
Joined John Sharpe & Co., Jute Spinners, of Dundee. Military member of the Angus Territorial Army Association.

1920s?	-	31.10.1938	20th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company - Royal Tank Corps (Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire)
01.11.1938	-	29.05.1940	Commanding Officer, 20th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company - Royal Tank Corps, 1939 redesignated as 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps [24.08.1939 mobilized TA] (UK, then France & Belgium) [killed in his Regimental HQ in a farm between Vijfwegen and Ratte-ko (?) crossroads when a German shell burst in the middle of the farm courtyard]

Sharratt,
Geoffrey
"Tony"
G. Sharratt

Son (with two sisters and three sons) of Walter Cyril Sharratt (1885-1952), and Maud Maria Perry (1883-1963).
Married (1946) Mary Robina `Sally` Peace (31.10.1917 - 16.11.1991), daughter (with one borther and one sister) of Peter McLeod Peace (1894-1940), and Lizzie May "Maisie" O'Hara (1886-1956); two sons.

05.06.1914
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
-
01.04.1997
Hunters Creek Nursing home, Boston, Lincolnshire

Sgt.	?
Lt.	27.03.1940 [124390]
T/Capt.	11.02.1941-(10.1942), 24.11.1943-(08.1946)
Capt.	20.02.1948

	MC	25.04.1941	Middle East
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East

27.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
(1941)			7th Medium Regiment RA (MC)
...	-	...	...
(1944)			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
...	-	...	...
26.05.1949	-	05.06.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Shaw,
Cyril James

29.03.1922?
-
(12?).1969?

Cadet	? [16001116]
2nd Lt.	13.11.1943 [300311]
WS/Lt.	13.05.1944
T/Capt.	09.01.1946-(04.1947)

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

13.11.1943

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Shaw,
Edwin
"Ted"

Son of Edwin Shaw, and Evelyn Robinson.
Married K. Baerenz.
Residence: (1942) Bridlington.

25.01.1915
York, Yorkshire
-
18.07.1997
Stroud district, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	14.12.1940 [160932]
WS/Lt.	14.06.1942
T/Capt.	27.01.1943-30.06.1945
WS/Capt.	01.07.1945 (reld 10.1946)
T/Maj.	01.07.1945-(04.1946)

MC	12.05.1942	Middle East (Egypt and Libya) *
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Optometrist.

?	-	14.12.1940	either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.12.1940			commissioned, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) [emergency commission]
04.1941	-	11.1942	served in Middle East & North Africa:
(1942)			4th Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment (Middle East) (MC)
03.1945	-	10.1946	served in NW Europe

* Recommendation for the award of the immediate Military Cross to 2nd Lt. E. Shaw: 2/Lt. E. Shaw was in command of No. 8 Platoon 4th Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment on the night of 20/21 March, 1942. He fought for and gained a footing on the Ras El Eleba, in spite of the fact that the feature was held by a company of the 155th Lorried Infantry Regiment, supported by at least 4 machine guns, 2 anti-tank guns and one medium mortar. He led his platoon with cool determination, capturing an officer, 4 other ranks and one machine gun and inflicting several casualties on the enemy. Eventually the platoon depleted by casualties was driven off the feature by a counter attack of at least fifty men. He did not leave until he made certain that all his men had withdrawn less one too seriously wounded to move. He himself covered the withdrawal of his Platoon. The action throughout of this young officer in his first engagement was most praiseworthy and definitely was of the highest standard.
[Recommended 25.03.1942 by Brig. C.W. Haydon, commanding 150th Infantry Brigade, approved 29.03.1942 by Maj.Gen. W.H.C. Ramsden, commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, 02.04.1942 by Lt.Gen. W.H.E. Gott, commanding 13 Corps, 11.02.1942 by Lt.Gen. N.M. Ritchie, commanding 8th Army, and by Gen. C.J.E. Auchinleck, commanding Middle East Forces.]

Shaw,
Ernest Raymond
E.R. Shaw

08.01.1919
-
21.04.2011

Cadet	? [2038803]
2nd Lt.	02.12.1943 [302467]
WS/Lt.	02.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

02.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transferred, The Welch Regiment
02.06.1944	-	(04.1946)	seconded, The King's African Rifles

His son writes: "He was in France with the BEF, then East Africa, ending up in Burma."

Shaw,
Jack William
J.W. Shaw

(03?).1892
Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire
-

T/2nd Lt.	?
T/Lt.	?
2nd Lt.	31.03.1917, seniority 27.12.1915 [31196]
Lt.	? (resigned 30.06.1920)
Capt. TA	28.01.1925 (resigned 06.06.1930)
Capt. TARO	01.07.1931
local Maj. TARO	12.08.1942

21.04.1950

31.03.1917			commissioned, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Regular Forces
?	-	23.07.1919	temporary commission RAF
30.06.1920	-	15.04.1931	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
(1925)	-	06.06.1930	served 4th Battalion The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
01.07.1931	-	27.10.1945	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
05.12.1939	-	(04.1941)	specially employed: Assistant Military Liaison Officer
(04.1944)			specially employed

Shaw,
James
J. Shaw

Married Charlotte (née ...).

31.01.1918
-
15.03.2007
Hampshire

2nd Lt.	25.08.1938 [77577]
...	...
T/Maj.	15.07.1942-26.04.1943, 16.05.1943-10.10.1950
...	...
Lt.Col.	11.02.1961 (retd 31.01.1967)

	MBE	24.08.1944	?
	MID	20.12.1940	?

BSc (Eng); MIEE

25.08.1938			commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals
...	-	...	...

Shaw,
John Leathley
"Jack"
J.L. Shaw (Photo courtesy of Mr David Maxwell)

Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of Walter Shaw, company director (Printer, Director of Castell Brothers Ltd., eventually the business ended up as Shaw’s Price Guide), and Mabel Annie Leathley (1878-), of South Woodford, Essex.
Brother of P/O Harold Shaw, RAFVR, Capt. Theodore Leathley Shaw, RASC & Lucy Thornton Shaw (who married Capt. John Leathley, RAPC).

(09?).1909
North Bierley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
1996
Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [187893]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Capt.	19.12.1945
T/Maj.	19.12.1945-(04.1947)

?	-	24.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Shaw,
Theodore Leathley
"Theo"
T.L. Shaw (Photo courtesy of Mr David Maxwell)

Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of Walter Shaw, company director (Printer, Director of Castell Brothers Ltd., eventually the business ended up as Shaw’s Price Guide), and Mabel Annie Leathley (1878-), of South Woodford, Essex.
Brother of P/O Harold Shaw, RAFVR, Maj. John Leathley Shaw, RA & Lucy Thornton Shaw (who married Capt. John Leathley, RAPC).
Married ((12?).1930, Leighton Buzzard district, Bedfordshire / Buckinghmashire) Edith M. Farrer.

15.08.1903
Bradford district, Yorkshire
-
06.11.1987
North Dorset district, Dorset

2nd Lt.	04.09.1943 [293187]
WS/Lt.	04.03.1944 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	20.08.1945-(04.1946)

04.09.1943

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Shaw,
William Boyd Kennedy
"Bill"
W.B.K. Shaw

Son of late Col F.S.K. Shaw, CBE.
Married (1936) Eleanor, younger daughter of Maj. R.A. Dyott, Freeford, Lichfield; one son, three daughters.
From Salisbury.

26.10.1901
Tynemouth, Northumberland
-
23.04.1979
Lichfield, Staffordshire

2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [146099]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	08.05.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	08.05.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

OBE	14.10.1943	Middle East
MBE	08.07.1941	Middle East 12.40-02.41
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42

Belgian Croix Militaire de lere Classe (14.05.1948) and Croix de Guerre 1940, avec palme) (16.01.1947); Officer Order of Orange Nassau, with swords (01.07.1952).

Education: Radley College; University College, Oxford
Sudan Forest Service, 1924-1929; later employed on archæological excavations in near East; explorations in Libyan Desert, 1927, 1930, 1932, and 1935; awarded Gill Memorial of Royal Geographical Society, 1934; Department of Antiquities, Palestine Government,
1936-1940.

04.07.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
15.07.1940			transferred, Intelligence Corps
07.1940	-	1943?	founding member of the Long Range Patrol Unit ("R" Patrol) & Long Range Desert Group (Intelligence Officer from 03.1941)
1943			Advisor on Arab Affairs, British Military Administration, Tripolitania
29.05.1944			transferred, Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment - Army Air Corps
1944	-	1945	GSO 2 (Intelligence) at SAS Brigade Headquarters

Land Agent, 1946-1953.
Published: Long Range Desert Group, 1945; articles in periodicals on Libyan Desert

Shearer,
William Alan Watson
W.A.W. Shearer

Son of ... Shearer, and ... Ferguson.

13.08.1917
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
-
10.1995
Wellingborough district,
Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	21.12.1937 [88120]
WS/Lt.	21.12.1940 (reld 25.12.1945; disability)
Hon. Lt.	25.12.1945

Education: Harrow School (02.1931-03.1935)

21.12.1937			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	?	served 4th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (captured)
?	-	01.1945	prisoner of war [for some time member of the British Free Corps, but found unfit for employment [see: Stephen's Study Room]; part of a prisoner exchange organized by the Red Cross]

Shearn,
Gerald Wyndham
W.G. Shearn (Photo courtesy of Mr David Frape)

later used as last name:
Huntley-Shearn.
Son of ... Shearn, and ... Wetten.

30.08.1911
Bath, Somerset
-
(09?).1976
Bristol district, Avon

Pte.	24.10.1938 [70169]
L/Cpl.	01.08.1940
Cpl.	22.12.1941 (remustered as Cpl. 05.01.1942)
A/Sgt.	06.05.1942
2nd Lt.	24.10.1942 [249709]
WS/Lt.	24.04.1943
WS/Capt.	04.06.1944 (reld 1947/48?)
T/Maj.	04.06.1944-(04.1946)
A/Lt.Col.	1947/48?

Imperial Service Medal (30.09.1969)

Male Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist (Postal), Bristol District, Post Office, 03.02.1939.

24.10.1938			enlisted in the Reserves (Bath)
04.07.1942			202nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
1942?	-	1943?	512 General Transport Company, RASC
?	-	?	13 Ambulance Car Company HF
1946?			9th Company, RASC (T Force) (Hanover, Germany)
1947	-	1948	involved in the Berlin air lift

Assistant Inspector, Bristol, General Post Office.

Sheen,
James Edward
"Jim"
J.E. Sheen (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Bendall)

Son of Arthur Joseph Sheen, and Ethel Annie Critoph, of Norwich, Norfolk.
Married 1st (12.02.1942, Shirley, Solihull district, Warwickshire) Muriel Susan Cooper; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1966, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) Rosemary Rachel Thompson.

21.03.1921
Woodford, West Ham district, Essex
-
30.12.2008
Costessey, Norwich ?

Sapper	04.08.1939 [T/2100396]
Gunner	01.08.1940
Private	18.11.1943
Driver	23.03.1944 (reld 08.09.1944)
2nd Lt.	09.09.1944 [330211]
WS/Lt.	09.03.1945 (demobilized 25.09.1947) (reld 01.07.1959)

Education: St Antony's RC School (01.1926-1932 & 1934-35); St Egberts College, Chingford, Essex (1932-1934).
Metal brokers & stock brokers clerk, 01.1935-08.1939.

04.08.1939			enlisted, 310th Battery, 74th Anti-Aircraft Battalion - Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
25.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.08.1940	-	28.10.1943	redesignated, 74th Searchlight Regiment Royal Artillery (UK)
29.10.1943	-	17.11.1943	attached, 51 PTW
18.11.1943	-	22.03.1944	transferred, 9th Training Battalion, Royal Army Service Corps (UK)
23.03.1944	-	10.05.1944	148th Pre-Officer Cadet Training Unit Training Establishment, then posted to "A" Wing 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, 148th Training Brigade (UK)
11.05.1944	-	08.09.1944	166th Officer Cadet Training Unit (UK)
09.09.1944			commissioned, The Essex Regiment [emergency commission]
09.09.1944	-	04.11.1945	No. 1 Infantry Training Centre (UK)
05.11.1945	-	22.11.1945	1st Infantry Holding Battalion (UK)
23.11.1945	-	24.03.1946	4th Battalion The Norfolk Regiment (UK)
25.03.1946	-	1947?	1st Holding Battalion (UK)
1947?	-	25.09.1947	Infantry Training Centre (East Anglia, UK) [Garrison Adjutant 13-30.03.1947]

Landscape & contracting gardener at Harewood Ugley, Essex.

Sheepshanks,
James Michael
J.M. Sheepshanks

Married Felicity ...; two step-sons.

c. 1925 ?
-
04.05.2008
Royal Brompton Hospital
[age 83]

Cadet	? [1157245]
2nd Lt.	01.07.1945 [349904]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1946

01.07.1945

commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Sheffield,
George Nelson Hookey
G.N.H. Sheffield

Son of Maj. George Nelson Sheffield (1871-1918) and Violet Sybil Hookey (born 1879).

07.01.1907
Hampstead district,
London
-
08.1987
Tunbridge
Wells district, Kent

Cadet	1925
2nd Lt.	30.08.1926 [36865]
Lt.	30.08.1929
local Capt.	07.10.1935-30.09.1937
Capt.	01.10.1937
A/Maj.	27.06.1940-22.08.1940, 26.03.1941-28.04.1941
T/Maj.	29.04.1941-16.08.1941, 17.08.1942-29.08.1943
Maj.	30.08.1943
Lt.Col.	01.10.1950 (Employed List 1) (supernumerary 01.10.1953)
Col.	12.09.1957 (retd 07.01.1960)

MBE

11.07.1940

for distinguished services in the field

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal and Clasp; 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal; War Medal

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1925-1926); wartime Small Arms Technical Course (sa (w)); Technical Staff Course, Military College of Science, Woolwich (ptsc)

30.08.1926			commissioned, The Essex Regiment
1926	-	1935	regimental service, 2nd Battalion, India (Peshawar [1930], Nowshera [03.1931] & Nasirabad [06.1933]) [obtained the special Qualification at the Army Signal School in Poona (03.1932); completed promotion examination (in written subjects) in India (10.1932)]
07.10.1935	-	31.10.1938	Adjutant, Calcutta and Presidency Battalion, Auxiliary Force, India
1938	-	1942	regimental service (e.g. 01.1939 indicated as attached to the 2nd Battalion at Warley on the supernumerary list)
21.02.1942	-	30.01.1946	Experimental and Liaison Officer, Netheravon Wing (Netheravon), Small Arms School
31.01.1946	-	31.03.1948	Chief Design Officer, Armaments Design Department
01.04.1948	-	04.01.1949	Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2), ...
13.01.1949	-	30.09.1950	Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2), Proof & Experimental Establishment
01.10.1950	-	16.04.1953	Technical Staff Officer, 1st grade (TSO1), ...
01.05.1953	-	(02.1957)	Technical Staff Officer, 1st grade (TSO1), Inspectorate of Armaments, Ministry of Supply
1957	-	1959	posted to the Proof and Experimental Establishment, Pendine
07.01.1960	-	07.01.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Shelley,
Guy Philip Arthur

Son of ... Shelley, and ... Cree.
Married ((03?).1942, Wokingham district, Berkshire) Diana M. Griffith.
From Winchester.

13.07.1919
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
10.1987
Trowbridge district, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.07.1940 [140145]
WS/Lt.	10.06.1941
T/Capt.	10.06.1941-03.12.1942
WS/Capt.	04.12.1942
T/Maj.	04.12.1942-341.08.1945
WS/Maj.	01.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	01.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

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

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
27.07.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
(1944)			Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS) (Ammunition), HQ Eighth Army (MBE)

Shepherd,
Edward

?
-
?

Cadet	? [?]
2nd Lt.	06.06.1942 [255330]
WS/Lt.	06.12.1942
T/Capt.	14.06.1944-(04.1946)

06.06.1942

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Shepherd,
James Kettles

Married ((12?).1935, Skipton district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Jean Fulton Walker; two sons, one daughter.

01.11.1908
Forfar, Scotland
-
04.07.1982
Brechin, Scotland

Cadet	? [14588264]
2nd Lt.	05.05.1944 [315932]
WS/Lt.	05.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Capt. ?	1946 ?

Education: Forfar Academy; University of Edinburgh (MA, 1928; Harry Dalgety Bursary; Muirhead Prize in Civil Law); LL.B.

05.05.1944			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
			served in India (Karachi, Bombay, New Delhi)

Private law firm in Kirriemuir, Scotland.

Sheriffs,
Martin Simpson

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of James Sheriffs (1875-1937), and Mary Cook (1874-1958).
Married (25.05.1944, Presbyterian Church, Wealdstone, Middlesex) Nellie Goulding (18.11.1917 - 30.10.2003), daughter of William Chambers Goulding (1889-), and Elizabeth Maud Holliday (1889-); one daughter.

08.06.1909
Harrow on the Hill, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
22.12.1999
High Wycombe Hospital, Chiltern district, Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.03.1943 [267718]
WS/Lt.	26.09.1943
T/Capt.	28.03.1944-17.10.1945
WS/Capt.	18.10.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	18.10.1945-(08.1946)

26.03.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
			312 Pioneer Company

Insurance manager, Phoenix.

Sherret,
David

Married; children.

26.08.1917
-
24.08.2009
Windsor

2nd Lt.	23.11.1940 [158199]
Lt.	17.11.1945, seniority 13.10.1941
A/Capt.	19.03.1942-18.06.1942
T/Capt.	19.06.1942-16.10.1944
WS/Capt.	17.10.1944
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	13.11.1943-18.12.1943, 23.08.1944-16.10.1944
T/Maj.	17.10.1944-11.07.1952
Maj.	13.04.1953
T/Lt.Col.	12.02.1959-08.10.1961
L:t.Col.	09.10.1961 (supernumerary 09.10.1964)
T/Col.	25.11.1963-19.07.1964
Col.	20.07.1964 (retd 26.08.1972)

20.09.1945

Italy

Education: Joint Services Staff College (jssc); Staff College (psc).

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 83 days
23.11.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 16.11.1945]
26.08.1943	-	12.11.1943	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Military Training), GHQ PAIFORCE
13.11.1943	-	18.12.1943	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Military Training), GHQ PAIFORCE
19.12.1943	-	28.12.1943	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Military Training), GHQ PAIFORCE
23.07.1944	-	11.08.1944	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), ... Infantry Division
23.08.1944	-	06.06.1945	Brigade Major, HQ 20th Indian Infantry Brigade
17.11.1945			permanent commission
04.11.1947	-	01.06.1949	Staff Officer Royal Engineers (SORE) (Technical), ...
08.06.1949	-	17.12.1950	DAA&QMG, British Military Mission to Greece
19.12.1950	-	28.04.1952	GSO2 (AE), JIBME
12.03.1954	-	09.12.1954	Brigade Major, Engineer Group (TA)
12.02.1959	-	03.07.1961	GSO1, Medical Section, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
25.11.1963	-	12.01.1966	Commander HQ Engineers (TA), Scottish Command
17.02.1966	-	(02.1967)	UK Representative (Colonel), Project CLOUDGAP, Washington

ARIBA, later RIBA. MArch.

Sherwood,
Ernest Charles

Son of William Arthur Sherwood (1878-1971), and Jane Elisabeth Borlase (1878-1946).
Married Dorothy May Marchant (1905 - 12.061968), daughter of George Jonathan Marchant (1870-), and Kate Fielder (1869-); two sons, one daughter.

09.04.1909
Eastry district, Kent
-
10.07.1955
Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey

Armt. QMS	? [2316221]
Lt. (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer)	15.06.1941 [199128]
Lt. (Assistant Electrical & Mechanical Engineer)	01.10.1942, seniority 15.06.1941
WS/Capt.	15.06.1944 (reld >10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	08.01.1945-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

15.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Shinn,
Harry

?
-

WS/RQMS	?
Lt. QM	03.06.1943 [287478] (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe

03.06.1943			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
06.04.1944	-	(09.1944)	Quartermaster, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Shirley,
Arthur Walter *

* Initially known as Shirley, Adolph Walter.
Married (20.09.1924, St George Congregationist Church, Oxford) Margaret J. Ostler; two children.

28.08.1898
-
07.02.1973
Bridport, Dorset

Pte.	02.03.1916 20.04.1920 (re-enlisted)
Cpl.	01.06.1920
L/Sgt.	07.08.1920
T/Sgt.	07.08.1920-15.08.1920
T/CQMS	15.08.1920-21.07.1921
CQMS	20.09.1924
CSM (Wt.Offr. Cl. II)	19.07.1926
2nd Lt.	07.12.1927 [38906]
Lt.	07.12.1930
Capt.	01.01.1932
Maj.	01.12.1936 (reld 17.05.1949)
A/Lt.Col.	26.10.1943-06.03.1944
T/Lt.Col.	07.03.1944-(04.1946)
A/Col.	15.09.1946-...
Hon. Lt.Col.	17.05.1949

	MBE	01.01.1960	for political services
	TD	?	-

02.03.1916			enlisted, 2/1 Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry)
...	-	...	...
07.12.1927			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
25.01.1939	-	17.05.1949	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
02.09.1939	-	08.1941	Camp Commandant, HQ 48th Division (embarked for France 08.01.1940, evacuated Dunkirk-Dover 31.05.1940)
08.1941	-	10.1941	70th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
23.10.1941			Infantry Training Centre
18.11.1941			1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
25.06.1942			Officer Commanding, 37th Primary Training Centre
20.02.1943			16th Infantry Training Centre
28.07.1943			disembarked Algiers, attached No. 1 ITD, Middle East Forces
26.10.1943	-	11.11.1943	Officer Commanding Troops at Haifa, Egypt
07.12.1943	-	10.1944	Camp Commandant, Italian Civil Internee Camp, Fayed, Egypt
15.10.1944			Camp Commandant, 380th Prisoner of War Camp, Egypt
12.11.1945			Officer Commanding Troops at Geneifa, Egypt
...	-	...	...

Short,
Reginald Robert Thomas

Son of ... Short, and ... Boyce.

(03?).1915
Edmonton, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-

2nd Lt.	03.04.1943 [269113]
WS/Lt.	03.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	19.12.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

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

Shrive,
Richard
"Dick"
R. Shrive (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Reeve)

20.10.1891
Oundle, Northamptonshire
-
1974
Sheerness, Kent

Sgt.	? [33397]
2nd Lt.	16.10.1915 [11643]
Lt.	01.07.1917
A/Capt.	14.06.1918-30.11.1918
Capt.	28.07.1928
A/Maj.	01.12.1918-02.04.1919
Maj.	07.03.1938, seniority 01.01.1937 (retd 20.10.1941; but remained employed) (reverted to retd 1944/45?)
A/Lt.Col.	01.11.1940-(04.1941)
T/Lt.Col.	01.02.1941-(04.1944)

MBE	03.06.1931	HM's birthday 31
MC	26.09.1917	*
MC	04.10.1919	**

Chevalier, Ordre de la Couronne (Belgian Order of the Crown 5th class) (25.07.1918); Croix de Guerre (Belgian War Cross) (25.07.1918); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When under heavy shell fire with his battery he entered a burning building and removed a number of cartridges which were on the point of being exploded by the burning debris. By this prompt and gallant action he undoubtedly saved much material as well as considerable damage to the guns.
** On 24th October, 1918, near Bousies, in charge of his battery, he was ordered to get a section in action sufficiently far forward to shoot on an: important railway junction. Despite heavy enemy shelling and several casualties during the night 24th/25th October, his guns were in action by 4 p.m. on 25th October, and made excellent practice on the junction. Throughout the operation he displayed courage and sound judgment, and completed his task satisfactorily.

			served in the ranks for 4 years, 320 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class II for 214 days
13.02.1915	-	06.1915	served in France & Belgium
16.10.1915			commissioned, Royal Garrison Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery
22.05.1916	-	11.11.1918	served 91st Siege Battery RGA (France & Belgium)
(03.1931)			Portsmouth Defences
(06.1933)			RA Fixed Defence Northern Ports, Hedon
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	21st Heavy Battery (Shoeburyness)
(04.1941)			served Coast Defence and Anti-Aircraft Branch (commanded special armament mounting units)

Shurmer,
Cyril Alfred

Son of ... Shurmer, and ... Gray.
Married ...; ... children.

19.10.1913
Southwark district, London
-
27.03.1974
Westminster district, London (formerly of Bromley Common, Kent)

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [130697]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 12.05.1948)
A/Maj.	01.11.1943-(07.1944)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt. Col.	12.05.1948

MID

10.05.1945

NW Europe

25.05.1940

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps (for service with Expeditionary Force Institutes; without pay and allowances from Army Funds) [emergency commission]

A grandchild writes: "His notes show active service in France with the BEF (just prior to Dunkirk he was evacuated from Boulogne), North Africa (Operation Torch landings in Algeria), possibly Sicily/Italy and then he was part of an advance party of RASC a few days after D-Day landings. He then pushed on through France (including the Great Ardennes Offensive), Belgium, Holland and then finally on into Germany."

Siddall,
James Roger Stuart

Son of John James Siddall (1875-), and Hetty McNeal (1880-).
Married ((06?).1948, Stafford district, Staffordshire) Cicely Bellamy; ... children.

21.10.1916
Stoke on Trent district, Worcestershire
-
04.03.1985
Stafford district, Staffordshire

Cadet	? [128543]
2nd Lt.	07.12.1940 [160580]
WS/Lt.	07.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

			163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.12.1940			commissioned, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) [emergency commission]
			probably served with Royal Indian Army Service Corps at some point

A grandson writes: "Evacuated at Dunkirk. He was promoted to Captain 1944."

Siderfin,
John Gareth
J.G. Siderfin (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)

(09?).1903
Eastry district, Kent
-

Capt.	01.02.1939 [87308] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	20.12.1941-(04.1944)
Hon Maj.	< 04.1946
Capt. RARO	28.05.1949

MID

01.02.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve (Category B, employed)
24.08.1939			mobilized
04.1939	-	20.09.1941	6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Coleraine (N Ireland), Grangemouth (Scotland) & Egypt)
20.09.1941	-	03.04.1942	Battery Commander (Officer Commanding), 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Egypt)
03.04.1942	-	?	staff appointment, Anti-Aircraft Defence, Egypt
28.05.1949	-	07.01.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Sidney,
William Philip;
1st Viscount De L'Isle, cr. 1956;
Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, cr. 1835
W.P. Sidney

23.05.1909
Chelsea district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
05.04.1991
Kent

...	...
Capt.	?
T/Maj.	21.09.1943-(04.1944)

30.03.1944

Anzio 07/08.02.44

1929			commissioned, Grenadier Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
...	-	...	5th Battalion Grenadier Guards (Italy)

Governor-General of Australia, 1961-1965.

Siebert,
Edgar Leonard
E.L. Siebert

Son of Edgar Alaric Siebert, and Clara Jane Purvis Hodgson.
Married ((06?).1938, Romford district, Essex) Gladys E. Lambert.

03.04.1908
West Ham district, Greater London
-
(09?).1974
Redbridge district, Greater London

2nd Lt.	28.09.1940 [150197]
WS/Lt.	07.06.1941
T/Capt.	06.11.1942-12.06.1943
WS/Capt.	13.06.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	13.06.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

28.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			specially employed

Siemssen,
Oscar Roy
O.R. Siemssen

Son of ... Siemssen, and ... Muncey.

20.08.1911
Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
01.1995
Limpsfield, Surrey

2nd Lt.	19.10.1940 [151913]
WS/Lt.	19.04.1942
T/Capt.	01.04.1943-(04.1944)

19.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in North Africa & Germany

Sill,
Silvester Anthony

(06?).1922
-

2nd Lt.	02.08.1942 [242909]
WS/Lt.	02.02.1943

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

02.08.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Sills,
Thomas Herbert
T.H. Sills

Son of Walter Sills (1878-1950), and Madge von der Heyde (1898-1976).
Married Mary Yeadon; one son, one daughter.
From Sandy, Bedfordshire.

05.08.1915
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
01.1988
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

2nd Lt.	17.06.1939 [88781]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
WS/Capt.	22.11.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	26.06.1944-(04.1946)

MBE

24.01.1946

NW Europe

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Bradfield College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
17.06.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	"B" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA

Solicitor at Sandy, Bedfordshire.

Simcox,
George Edwin
G.E. Simcox

30.04.1919 ?
Worksop district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire / West Riding of Yorkshire ?
-
05. 1993 ?
Chorley district, Lancashire ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.06.1940 [134514]
WS/Lt.	15.12.1941
A/Capt.	04.10.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	13.10.1945
T/Maj.	13.10.1945-(04.1946)

?	-	15.06.1940	151st Officer Cadet Training Unit (Royal Signals)
15.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Simkin,
Frank William
F.W. Simkin

Son of ... Simkin, and ... Boult.
From Birmingham.

17.02.1922
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
10.2001
Hereford, Herefordshire / Monmouthshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.08.1942 [240875]
WS/Lt.	07.02.1943

?	39\|45 St ?	?	?
	Fr&G St	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	WM 39\|45	-	-

07.08.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			43rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (UK)
			served in NW Europe

Simmons,
Sydney
S. Simmons

Son of ... Simmons, and ... Macleod.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

27.10.1917
Watford district, Buckinghamshire
-
12.2014 still alive

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.07.1941 [194167]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	20.02.1944-(04.1947)
A/Maj. ?	?

05.07.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in Gibralter, France & the Netherlands

Simon,
Francis Derek Noel
F.D.N. Simon

Son (with four brothers) of Frank Cecil Simon (1875-1956), and Claire Evelyn Mammelsdorff (1886-1970).
Married ((16.08..1939, St Peter, Belsize Park, Hampstead district, London) Vivienne Olive Walters (06.08.1914 - 23.03.1993), daughter of Martin Walters, of Johannesburg; one son, one daughter.

24.12.1913
Hampstead, London
-
25.06.1976
Newmarket district, Suffolk (formerly of St John's Wood, London)

2nd Lt.	07.10.1939 [100896]
WS/Lt.	07.01.1941
T/Capt.	07.01.1941-30.06.1943
WS/Capt.	01.07.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	01.07.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

MID

20.12.1940

defence of Hondeghem 05.1940 *

* For the splendid example he set to all ranks and for the cheerful and cool manner in which he carried out his duty. This officer was wounded both during the action and again in the withdrawal.

Education: Gresham's School Holt (1926); Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

07.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?	-	06.12.1939	4th Field Training Regiment RA
07.12.1939	-	...	"K" Battery, 5th Field Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (wounded; Dunkirk) (despatches)
			served North Africa, Sicily, Italy & NW Europe:
14.04.1944	-	?	Assistant Commander Bombardment Units (CBU) (attached to HQ Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force) (Normandy 06.1944)
...	-	...	...

Stockbroker. Director, Reliance Mutual Insurance Society Ltd. Member, St Marylebone borough council, 1956-1965 (deputy mayor 1963-1964, mayor 1964-1965). Justice of the peace (JP), Inner Area, Greater London 1965.

Simpson,
?
Simpson

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	?
...	...
Capt.	?

(04.1945)

14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment

Simpson,
Beaumont Lowndes
B.L. Simpson

Son of Oswald Simpson (1876-), and Mona Marie De Maine Beaumont (1878-1958).
Married 1st ((09.)1936, Macclesfield district, Cheshire) Mary G.S. Christie; one daughter.
Married 2nd (04.1991, Macclesfield district, Cheshire) Joan Jackson.

05.04.1909
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
13.11.2001
East Cheshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.05.1943 [277024]
WS/Lt.	29.11.1943 (reld > 04.1947)
A/Capt. ?	1946?

29.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Simpson,
Geoffrey
G. Simpson

Married Sarah Helen Mary (née ...).

27.11.1893
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
21.09.1969
Swallowfield, Reading, Wokingham district, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	27.05.1940 [205686]
WS/Lt.	27.01.1941
T/Capt.	27.01.1941-(04.1947)
Lt.	01.11.1947, seniority 27.11.1941

MC	26.03.1918	*
15 St	-	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Cor M	-	-

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When with a small party, which was attacked by superior numbers of the enemy, he continued fighting, leading and encouraging his men, though he had been twice wounded. His courage and dogged determination were worthy of the highest praise, and proved a splendid example to the men under him.

WW I			Tpr./Pte., T/Lt. & T/Capt., Bowkers Horse (East African Mounted Rifles, then King's African Rifles)
27.05.1940			commissioned, General List - African Colonial Forces Section [emergency commission]

Colonial servant.

Simpson,
Gordon Russell
G.R. Simpson

Second son of Alexander Russell Simpson, a Writer to the Signet from Edinburgh.
From Port of Menteith, Stirling.
Married (1943) Marion Elizabeth King (died 1976); two sons.

02.01.1917
Tayport, Fife
-
30.03.2005
[Edinburgh ?]

2nd Lt.	16.01.1937 [69991]
WS/Lt.	02.12.1939
A/Capt.	02.09.1939-01.12.1939
T/Capt.	02.12.1939-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	05.09.1941
Capt.	11.04.1945
T/Maj.	30.11.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	08.09.1944
T/Lt.Col.	08.09.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj.	01.05.1947-24.03.1950
Lt.Col.	25.03.1950 (supernumerary 26.03.1953)
Bt. Col.	25.03.1953

DSO	07.12.1944	Italy
DSO	23.08.1945	Italy
LVO	16.06.1979	HM's birthday 79
TD	21.04.1950	& 1st clasp
TD	25.10.1955	2nd clasp
EM	25.06.1948	[cancelled 01.04.1952]

Education: Rugby School

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Rugby School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
16.01.1937	-	spring 1939	commissioned, 19th (Lothians and Border Horse) Armoured Car Company - Royal Tank Corps - Territorial Army (Edinburgh)
spring 1939	-	1946	2nd Lothians and Border Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1942?)	-	(1944?)	Officer Commanding, "B" Squadron
(1944?)	-	09.07.1944	Second-in-Command
09.07.1944	-	1946	Commanding Officer
01.12.1955	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Partner, Bell Cowan [later: Bell Lawrie Macgregor], the Edinburgh stockbrokers, 1938-1982. Chairman, Edinburgh Stock Exchange, 1961-1963; Chairman, Scottish Stock Exchange, 1965-1966; President, Council of Associated Stock Exchanges, 1971-1973; Deputy Chairman, Stock Exchange, 1973-1978. Chairman, General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation Ltd, 1979-1987 (Director, 1967-1987). Lieutenant Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers). Member Court, Stirling University, 1980-1988; Commissioner, Queen Victoria School, 1982-1992. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Stirling and Falkirk Districts (Central Region), 1981-1992.

Simpson,
Gordon Wright
G.W. Simpson (Photo courtesy of Mr Victor MacIlwaine)

Son of Joseph Brunskill Simpson, farmer, and Celia Elsie Wright, of Winton, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Married ...; ... children.

(09?).1915
Walsingham district, Norfolk
-
05.07.1942
[age 27]
[Kirkee War Cemetery, India, 13.D.2]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.05.1942 [237245]

Tea planter in Assam, India.

30.05.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Simpson,
Kenneth Arnold
K.A. Simpson

?
-

Lt.	08.05.1943 [274685]
WS/Capt.	08.05.1944

Education: MB

08.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			served with the Chindits in Burma

Simpson,
Richard Louis
R.L. Simpson

?
-

2nd Lt.	10.06.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

			late Cadet-Sergeant, Malvern College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
10.06.1939			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1940)			9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)

Sinclair,
Gordon Finlay
G.F. Sinclair

Son of Charles Sinclair (1889-1977), and Gertrude Sinclair (1885-1939).
Married ((06?).1938, London) Margaret Josephine Dillon (10.06.1905 - 07.1997), daughter (with one brother) of Michael Dillon (1873-1912), and Annie Mcevoy (1876-1944); two daughters, one son.

26.08.1912
Solihull, Warwickshire
-
19.09.1974
Cuckfield, Sussex

2nd Lt.	14.02.1931 [49730]
Lt.	01.12.1936
T/Capt.	26.10.1941-25.07.1942
WS/Capt.	26.07.1942
T/Maj.	26.07.1942-03.04.1944
WS/Maj.	04.04.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Col.	04.01.1944-03.04.1944
T/Lt.Col.	04.04.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

TD	20.06.1946	-
TD	28.12.1951	1st clasp
TD	28.12.1951	2nd clasp

Education: Rossall School (1925-1929.2).

			late Cadet, Rossall School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
14.02.1931			commissioned, 87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
04.01.1944	-	(1944)	Officer Commanding , No. 3 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit:
(06.1944)			Chief Bombardment Liaison Officer with Naval Commander Eastern Task Force (Normandy)
...	-	...	...
01.01.1953	-	28.01.1955	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
28.01.1955	-	26.08.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Technical representative, Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

Sinclair,
R P F
R.P.F. Sinclair (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Grobler)

?
-
?

Cadet

Student.

(1940)			141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
			most likely not commissioned

Sinclair,
Thomas Christopher
T.C. Sinclair (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

09.02.1916
-
04.2001

2nd Lt.	28.08.1937, seniority 30.01.1936 [67795]
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	01.04.1943-10.10.1943, 09.11.1943-03.03.1945, 13.05.1945-01.07.1947
...	...
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1954 (retd 10.02.1958)
Hon. Lt.Col.	10.02.1958

OBE	12.06.1958	?
MC	08.07.1941	?
MC	12.02.1942	?
MID	01.04.1941	?
MID	06.04.1944	?
MID	19.07.1945	?

28.08.1937			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
...	-	...	...
30.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...

Sinton,
Maynard Bunbury
M.B. Sinton (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of William Maynard Sinton (1860-1942), and Myra Sophia Atkinson, of Ballyards, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.

28.08.1915
Armagh district, Northern Ireland
-
27.05.1940
(KIA) [age 24]
[Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium, West Flanders, Belgium, enclosure No. 6, V, B, 3]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1936 [69134] (reld 18.03.1939)
2nd Lt.	11.11.1939

MID

20.12.1940

operations in the field 03-06.40 [posthumously]

Edcuation: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

27.08.1936	-	18.03.1939	commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
11.11.1939			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers [emergency commission]
?	-	27.05.1940	Officer Commanding, 8 Platoon "A" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (killed in action)

Skene,
Alexander George
A.G. Skene

Son of George Alexander Skene, and June Annal Cromarty.
Married (26.02.1944, Aberdeen, Scotland) Williamina Baxter Cormack (18.12.1914 - 30.04.1969), daughter (with fice sisters and one brother) of John Cormack (1865-1947), and Agnes Morrice Baxter (1870-1934); one son.

26.09.1916
St Machar district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
-
26.11.1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Cadet	? [3321711]
2nd Lt.	25.02.1944 [311351]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	22.09.1945-(04.1946)

?	-	25.02.1944	161st Royal Military College Officer Cadet Training Unit (Aldershot)
25.02.1944			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]

Skerritt,
Charles William
C.W. Skerritt (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert C. Skerritt)

Son (with three sisters and one brother) of Walter Skerritt (1883-1969), and Minnie Edgson (1884-1975).
Married ((09?).1938, Melton Mowbray district, Leicestershire) Dorothy Margaret Wesson (03.04.1916 - 05.2000); two sons.

25.06.1915
Melton Mowbray district, Leicestershire
-
09.10.1991
Kenilworth, Mid Warwickshire district, Warwickshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.09.1943
WS/Lt.	18.03.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Isle of Man
18.09.1943			commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			seconded, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry & Corps of Military Police (Italy)

Sketcher,
Ernest Kenneth Charles
E.K.C. Sketcher

Son of Ernest Sketcher (1882-), coal agent, and Martha Mabel Curtis (1891-), of King's Lynn, Norfolk.

04.04.1923
King's Lynn, Norfolk
-
19.05.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[Rangoon Memorial, Burma, face 13]

2nd Lt.	10.07.1943 [284748]
WS/Lt.	10.01.1944

Education: Culford School (1937-1940).
Member of the 23rd (Culford School) Bury St Edmunds Scouts. Joined the MIdland Bank at Norwich and later at Fakenham, whence he left to join the Army.

10.07.1943			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]
?	-	19.05.1944	attached, 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) *

* Letter from his Commanding Officer to Mr. and Mrs. Sketcher, dated May 17th 1944 informing them that Kenneth had been in command of a long distance patrol raiding the enemy's supply route: "They had surprised and routed a party of Japanese resting in a village and were lying in ambush on a track. Several hours later the patrol engaged another party of the enemy and after a while, Kenneth, in accordance with his Colonel's instructions, ordered the patrol to withdraw. Kenneth, with one private retired last down the hill, the private rejoining the remainder of the patrol. Search was made in the jungle by other patrols, including one under the personal command of the Company Commander. Unfortunately the jungle was very dense and the search vain. Later a report came from native sources that the body of a British soldier had been seen in that are; and the Colonel of the Battalion has concluded that Kenneth was killed while returning down the hill."

Skey,
Frederic Whitting
F.W. Skey

01.07.1910
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
06.2000
Stafford district, Staffordshire

2nd Lt.	30.01.1930
Lt.	30.01.1933 (reld 17.11.1935)
L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	29.12.1941 [45006]
WS/Lt.	29.12.1941
WS/Capt.	10.03.1946 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	10.03.1946-(08.1946)

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

30.01.1930	-	17.11.1935	commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
(03.1931)			3rd Battalion RTR (Lydd)
(06.1933)	-	(10.1935)	6th Armoured Car Company RTR (Peshawar (for Razmak), then Lahore (for Delhi))
29.12.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Skinner,
Harry Edward James
D. Slifkin

Married ((09?).1941, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Joan M. Gill; ... children (one daughter?).

08.10.1915
-
(09?).1983
Croydon district, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.09.1941 [210523]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	24.02.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

27.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (NW Europe)
17.08.1945	-	(04.1946)	a General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate Royal Armoured Corps, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office

Skinner,
the Rev. Leslie
L .Skinner

26.11.1911
-
09.10.2001
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

Chaplain to the Forces 4th class (Capt.)	17.09.1941 [199890]
Chapl. to the Forces 3rd cl.	05.10.1957

TD	?	-
TD	16.09.1960	1st clasp
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
LeoII	25.09.1947	liberation of Belgium [recommendation available upon request]
CdeG	25.09.1947	liberation of Belgium [recommendation available upon request]

17.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (Methodist) [emergency commission]
02.1944	-	(10.1945)	Chaplain, Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry (Normandy) (despatches)
01.06.1948	-	26.02.1962	Territorial Army
26.02.1962	-	26.11.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Published: Sherwood Rangers casualty book 1944-1945 : the personal notebook of Revd. Leslie Skinner RAChD, Chaplain 8th Armoured Brigade, attached The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (1991); "The man who worked on Sundays" : the personal war diary June 2nd 1944 to May 17th 1945 of Revd. Leslie Skinner RAChD, Chaplain 8th (Independent) Armoured Brigade, attached The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Regiment (1991).

Skuse,
Leonard Ernest Edward
L.E.E. Skuse

Son of Douglas Edward Harry Skuse (1895-), and Winifred Charlotte Bennett (1895-1960), of Wandsworth, London.
Married (08.1948, Sheffield district, Yorkshire) Joan M. Lawrence.

11.05.1919
Wandsworth district, London
-
29.09.1952
Hong Kong

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	? [72569]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1940
A/Capt.	28.10.1941-27.01.1942
T/Capt.	28.01.1942
WS/Capt.	29.08.1944
Lt.	28.02.1945, seniority 11.11.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946
T/Maj.	29.08.1944-(04.1947)

MID

07.09.1951

Korea

21.07.1937			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939	-	27.02.1945	mobilized Supplementary Reserve of Officers
28.02.1945			permanent commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery

Slade,
Reginald James
R.J. Slade

Married ...; ... children.

31.07.1890
Leytonstone, West Ham district, Essex
-

T/2nd Lt.	23.10.1914
Lt.	? (Unemployed List 04.05.1920)
Lt.	26.04.1941 [183807]
WS/Capt.	28.03.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	28.03.1945-(08.1946)

Professional Associate, Chartered Surveyors' Institution (PASI).

1914	-	1920	commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [temporary commission]
26.04.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Slayter,
Edward Lanyon Penne
E.L.P. Slayter (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Slayter)

Son of Edward Wheeler Slayter (1869-1938), RAMC doctor in India, and Florence Mary Richardson
Married Miss Robinson.

05.07.1901
Isle of Wight
-
24.12.1961

2nd Lt.	23.12.1921 [437]
Lt.	23.12.1923
T/Capt.	30.05.1930
Capt.	23.05.1932
Maj.	23.12.1938 (retd 27.01.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	29.08.1944-28.11.1944
T/Lt.Col.	29.11.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	27.01.1947

MID

19.09.1946

Burma

23.12.1921			commissioned into The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
26.03.1926	-	24.02.1932	employed with the King's African Rifles
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Edinburgh)
07.12.1933	-	04.08.1937	employed with the King's African Rifles
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Secunderabad, India)
(1942)			Commanding Officer, 11th Battalion The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
27.01.1947	-	29.09.1951	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Slemeck,
Daniel Christopher
D.C. Slemeck

Son of ... Slemeck, and ... Vaisey.
Brother of Lt. R.H. Slemeck, RNVR, and of Lt. A.G. Slemeck, RNVR.
Married ((12?).1939, Dorchester district, Dorset) Peggy C. Atkinson.

28.03.1915
Wimborne district, Dorset
-
(12?).1977
Aylesbury district, Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	08.07.1939 [91954]
WS/Lt.	27.10.1940
T/Capt.	27.10.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	11.09.1942 (reld 17.01.1946; disability)
T/Maj.	11.09.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	17.01.1946

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe

			late Cadet, St. Edward's School Contingent, Junior Division, Offier Training Corps
08.07.1939			commissioned, The Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
27.10.1940	-	(04.1941)	Adjutant, ...

Slifkin,
David
D. Slifkin

06.06.1925
-

Cadet	? [T/14421346]
2nd Lt.	16.09.1944 [330378]
WS/Lt.	16.03.1945 (dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court-Martial 12.05.1947)

16.09.1944			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
			served possibly in India

Slim,
Sir William Joseph;
1st Viscount Slim

see:

Indian Army

Smales,
Richard William Clayton

21.04.1915
-
08.2002
Monmouth district, Monmouthshire

2nd Lt.	31.01.1935 [64541]
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	21.08.1945-01.01.1946
...	...
Brig.	20.02.1964 (retd 01.05.1967)

31.01.1935			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Small,
Frederick Douglas Richard
F.D.R. Small

Son of ... Small, and ... Dear.

17.02.1917
Reading district, Berkshire
-
02.1990
Reading and
Wokingham,
Berkshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1941 [193987]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	23.02.1944
T/Maj.	23.02.1944-(04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Small,
John
J. Small (Photo courtesy of Mr Trevor Bennison)

Married ...; one daughter.

10.07.1912
-
05.10.1997
South Africa

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1941 [194058]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	03.09.1943-02.12.1943
T/Capt.	03.12.1943-16.11.1945
WS/Capt.	17.11.1945 (reld 27.01.1946)
A/Maj.	17.08.1945-16.11.1945
T/Maj.	17.11.1945-27.01.1946
Hon. Capt.	27.01.1946

	MBE	24.01.1946	NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe

28.04.1939			enlisted, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
02.09.1939			embodied for service
?	-	20.06.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
07.1944	-	05.1945	Administration Officer, 753 (Ambulance Car) Company RASC (NW Europe) (MBE)

Small,
Owen Arthur
"Bunny"
O.A. Small (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Ammundsen)

Son of Leonard John and Kate Hyde Small, of Hunton, Kent.
Engaged to be married to Barbara Martin.

1917/18 ?
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Coriano Ridge
War Cemetery,
XIX, H, 1]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.06.1941 [193988]
WS/Lt.	01.11.1942
A/Capt.	?

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
?			transferred to Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
?	-	18.09.1944	7th Armoured Brigade Workshops REME

Smallwood,
Calver Henry Read
C.H.R. Smallwood

Son (with one brother) of Charles Calver Smallwood (1880-1944), and Alice Ethel Maud Knight (1885-1971).
Brother of Maj. Vivian Rene Broadway Smallwood. Rroyal Tank Regiment.
Married ((09?).1939, Chelsea district, London) Margaret G. Bradley (1906? - (03?).1962).

18.10.1908
Paddington, London
-
(12?).1969
New Forest district, Hampshire

Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	27.01.1934 [62223]
Lt.	27.01.1937
Capt.	23.01.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	15.11.1942-05.04.1944
WS/Maj.	06.04.1944
Maj.	01.01.1950, seniority 06.08.1945
T/Lt.Col.	(1945?)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 8th Army
It St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
TD	01.08.1946	-
TD	03.10.1950	2 clasps

			served in the ranks, Inns of Court Regiment
27.01.1934			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
			90th (City of London) Field Brigade RA
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	01.01.1950	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.01.1950	-	31.07.1952	Territorial Army
31.07.1952	-	08.11.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Smallwood,
Robert Evelyn Russell
R.E.R. Smallwood

Son of Gerald Russell Smallwood and Beatrice May Wade.
Married 1st ...; ... children (one daughter?).
Married 2nd (23.09.1992) Jane Henrietta Birkmyre, daughter of Sir Henry Birkmyre, 2nd Bt. and Doris Gertrude Smith; two daughters.

13.02.1920
Solihull district, Warwickshire / West Midlands / Worcestershire
-

2nd Lt.	03.07.1939 [95581]
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	30.05.1941-29.08.1941
T/Capt.	30.08.1941-13.03.1944, 22.01.1945-(01.1946)
Capt.	01.07.1946 (reld 01.01.1949)
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst

03.07.1939			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
(1940)			9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)

Smallwood,
Vivian René Broadway
"Chips"
V.R.B. Smallwood (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Smallwood)

Son (with one brother) of Charles Calver Smallwood (1880-1944), and Alice Ethel Maud Knight (1885-1971).
Brother of Lt.Col. Calver Henry Read Smallwood, Royal Artillery.
Married ((12?).1939, Chard district, Somerset) Pauline Annette Fricker (25.12.1908 - 02.1997), daughter (with one sister) of Samuel Gottlieb Fricker (1856-1936), and Charlotte David (1869-); one daughter, four sons.

06.11.1911
Fulham, London
-
12.2004
North Somerset district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	29.11.1939 [101075]
WS/Lt.	29.05.1941
T/Capt.	15.02.1942-01.09.1945
WS/Capt.	02.09.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj.	02.09.1945?-...
Hon. Maj.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946
Maj.	01.09.1947 14.04.1953, seniority 07.06.1948

MBE	31.12.1976	New Year 1977: lately Director, British Export Houses Association; for services to export
MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean
TD	12.12.1950	-
TD	18.01.1972	1st clasp

			served in the ranks, Inns of Court Regiment
29.11.1939			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.05.1947	-	08.07.1952	Territorial Army
08.07.1952	-	14.04.1953	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
14.04.1953	-	20.04.1956	Territorial Army
20.04.1956	-	14.04.1962	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

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