[Sir] Christopher Earle
Son of late Edward Everard Earle
WelbyEverard, Gosberton House,
near Spalding, Lincolnshire, solicitor,
and Gwladys Muriel Petra Herbert.
Brother of Capt. Philip H.E. Welby-
Everard, RN. Married (1938) Sybil
Juliet Wake Shorrock (died 1994); two
sons.
Residence: The Manor House,
Sapperton, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Spalding, Lincolnshire
-
10.05.1996
Sleaford, Lincolnshire
|
2nd Lt. |
30.04.1932,
seniority 29.09.1930 [52445] |
| Lt. |
29.09.1933 |
| Capt. |
29.09.1938 |
| A/Maj. |
10.01.1941-09.04.1941 |
| T/Maj. |
10.04.1941-10.06.1944 |
| WS/Maj. |
11.06.1944 |
| Maj. |
01.07.1946 |
| local Lt.Col. |
05.04.1943-10.03.1944 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
11.03.1944-10.06.1944 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
11.06.1944-06.07.1951 |
| Lt.Col. |
07.07.1951
(Employed List (1) 28.07.1952) |
| T/Col. |
07.01.1952-30.12.1953 |
| Col. |
31.12.1953 |
| T/Brig. |
25.01.1954-09.10.1957 |
| Brig. |
10.10.1957 |
| Maj.Gen. |
19.05.1959 (retd
01.05.1962) |
|
KBE |
01.01.1965 |
New
Year 1965 |
|
|
OBE |
11.10.1945 |
? |
|
CB |
31.12.1960 |
New
Year 1961 |
|
MID |
22.03.1945 |
NW
Europe |
| from
General List, Territorial Army - University Candidates |
|||
| 30.04.1932 |
commissioned,
The Lincolnshire Regiment |
||
| (06.1933) |
2nd
Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (Dover (for Catterick)) |
||
| (01.1937) |
2nd
Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (Catterick Camp) |
||
| 25.01.1937 |
- |
(01.1939) |
Adjutant,
Regimental Depot, The Lincolnshire Regiment (Lincoln) |
| 10.01.1941 |
- |
30.01.1942 |
Brigade
Major, ... Brigade |
| 31.01.1942 |
- |
30.03.1943 |
General
Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (L), GHQ Home Forces |
| 05.04.1943 |
- |
07.11.1943 |
General
Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley |
| 11.03.1944 |
- |
1944 |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (wounded in Normandy) |
| 30.10.1944 |
- |
05.11.1946 |
General
Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division |
| 28.12.1946 |
- |
11.09.1948 |
General
Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (SD), GHQ, Middle East Land Force |
| 1949 |
- |
1951 |
Commanding
Officer,
1st Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment |
| 07.01.1952 |
- |
23.01.1954 |
Brigade
Colonel, HQ Midland Brigade |
| 25.01.1954 |
- |
1957 |
Commander,
HQ Scottish Command (264th Scottish Beach Brigade and 157th (Lowland) Infantry
Brigade) |
| 1957 |
- |
1959 |
Brigadier
General Staff (BGS) (Operations), HQ, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), and HQ
Northern Army Group |
| 1959 |
- |
04.10.1961 |
Chief
of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Northern Europe |
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Lincolnshire, 1966. High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1974.
Claude
-
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt.
|
? |
| ? |
commissioned,
? |
||
Ivan Addison
York, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
23.08.1972
East End, North Leigh, Oxford district, Oxfordshire
| 2nd Lt. | 01.02.1936 [66826] |
| Lt. | 01.02.1939 |
| T/Maj. | 17.06.1941-15.09.1944 |
| WS/Maj. | 16.09.1944 (reld 19.02.1946) |
| T/Lt.Col. | ? |
| Hon. Lt.Col. | 19.02.1946 |
|
MID | 24.06.1943 | Middle East 01.05.1942-22.10.1942 |
|
MID | 19.07.1945 | Italy |
Served apprenticeship with L.N.E.R. Road Motor Department, becoming Foreman and Inspector.
| 01.02.1936 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | ||
| 06.05.1939 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [temporary commission] | ||
| 10.02.1945 | - | (10.1945) | Senior Instructor, RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot) |
Philip Newton
Son of ... Welch, and ... Matthews.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
Wrexham district, Cheshire / Denbighshire / Flintshire
-
06.02.2003
| Cadet | ? [14387722] |
| 2nd Lt. | 02.04.1944 [314413] |
| WS/Lt. | 02.10.1944 (reld 10.08.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 09.08.1946-(04.1947) |
| Hon. Capt. | 10.08.1947 |
| 02.04.1944 | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| served, Inns of Court Regiment |
Walter
-
2002 ?
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 07.06.1941 [190694] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 24.09.1943-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. | 1946? (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Maj. | ? |
| Hon. Maj. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| 07.06.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
Henry Francis
Devonport, Devon
-
30.12.1970
Herne Bay, Kent
| 2nd Lt. | 04.02.1926 [34945] |
| Lt. | 04.02.1929 |
| Capt. | 10.12.1937 |
| A/Maj. |
09.02.1940-13.03.1940, 01.05.1940-27.06.1940 |
| T/Maj. | 28.06.1940-03.02.1943 |
| Maj. | 04.02.1943 (retd 25.05.1949) |
| A/Lt.Col. | 10.08.1945-09.11.1945 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 10.11.1945-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Lt.Col. | 25.05.1949 |
| 04.02.1926 | commissioned, Border Regiment | ||
| 22.04.1930 | - | 12.09.1930 | served North West Frontier of India |
| 1933 | 1st Battalion Border Regiment | ||
| served part of World War II with the North Staffordshire Regiment | |||
| 01.1945 | Second-in-Command, 9th Battalion Border Regiment (Burma) | ||
| 25.05.1949 | - | 22.07.1955 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
[Sir] Joseph William
-
14.08.1992
Lulworth, Dorset
| 2nd Lt. | 13.04.1932 [53007] |
| ... | ... |
| WS/Maj. | 19.01.1944 |
| local Lt.Col. | 17.12.1942-(07.1943) |
| T/Lt.Col. | 19.01.1944-(04.1946) |
| ... | ... |
| Col. | 1951 |
 |
Kt | 1973 | ? |
|
OBE | 1946 | ? |
 |
TD | 1947 | - |
|
TD | ? | - |
|
TD | ? | - |
| 13.04.1932 | commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | ||
| 16.05.1936 | commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment - Territorial Army | ||
| 1941 | Staff College, Camberley | ||
| 1942 | - | 1942 | General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), General Headquarters Home Forces |
| 17.12.1942 | - | (07.)1943 | instructor (General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1)), Staff College, Camberley |
| 1943 | - | 1946 | General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), Headquarters South East Asia Command |
Peter George
Second son of Rev. Alexander Wade Welford (1857-1950), and Eliza Jane Adamson (1872-1957).
Married (07.09.1940, Sutton Coldfield district, Warwickshire) Enid Daphne Blackmore ((09?).1920 - 05.07.2006); three daughters, one son.
Chelmsford, Essex
-
31.12.1971
Broadford district, Scotland
| BQMS | ? [1428903] |
| 2nd Lt. | 27.11.1943 [308778] |
| WS/Lt. | 27.11.1943 |
| WS/Capt. | 02.05.1945 (reld 07.1945) |
| A/Maj. | 02.02.1945-07.1945 |
| Hon. Capt. | 07.1945 |
| 09.1939 | - | 1943 | 191st Battery 69th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA - Territorial Army (eventually Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Birmingham, from 12.1940 Valetta, Malta) |
| 27.11.1943 | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | ||
| 11.12.1943 | transferred, Army Educational Corps (served mainly at HQ British Troops in Egypt) | ||
| 02.02.1945 | Staff Officer, grade 2 (SO2) (Education) |
Charles Ian Ballantine
Only son of Maj. Charles Ernest Wells (1875-1932),, formerly of The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), and Jessie Crawford Seymour Wells (née Ballantine) (1871-1959).
Of Tofte Manor, Sharnbrook.
-
29.05.1942
(DOW) [age 29]
[St. Peter's Churchyard, Sharnbrook, west of tower, on boundary]
| 2nd Lt. |
13.07.1934 [62941] 19.09.1934, seniority 02.02.1933 |
| Lt. |
12.02.1938,
seniority 02.02.1936 |
| Capt. |
01.05.1939 |
| A/Maj. ? T/Maj. ? |
? |
| 13.07.1934 |
commissioned,
University Candidates, General List - Territorial Army |
||
| 19.09.1934 |
transferred,
Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army |
||
| ? |
- |
(01.1937) |
26th
Field Brigade RA (Larkhill) |
| 12.02.1938 |
- |
(01.1939) |
105th
(Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Bedford) |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| (1939) |
- |
(1940) |
"C"
Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA |
| ? |
- |
29.05.1942 |
89th
Battery, 23rd Field Regiment RA [died of wounds] |
Edward Phillips
-
?
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 10.05.1941 [186334] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946) |
| (1940) | 141 Officer Cadet Training Unit RE | ||
| 10.05.1941 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Jack Percival
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of William Pericval George Wells (1871-1953), and Beatrice Howell (1873-1946).
Married (15.06.1929, Croydon district, London) Mary Elizabeth Terry (1904- ); two daughters.
Croydon district, London
-
05.1984
Lambeth district, London
| CSM | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 22.09.1941 [202793] |
| WS/Lt. | 22.09.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945) |
| T/Capt. | 01.10.1943-(04.1945) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 07.1945, < 10.1945 |
| served in the ranks, Reconnaissance Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps | |||
| 22.09.1941 | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| served in India |
Joseph Alec
"Joe"
Son of Joseph Algernon Wells (1885-1946), and Lily Hammond (1896-1929).
Married Mary Lavinia Blackshield Green (01.07.1927 - 10.12.1992), daughter of Clement Everard Green (1894-1948), and Ellen Castle (?-1966); one son, one daughter.
Ware, Hertfordshire
-
21.02.2004
Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield district, Hertfordshire
| Spr. | ? [1875365] |
| L/Cpl. | ? |
| Cpl. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 25.09.1943 [293557] |
| WS/Lt. | 28.11.1943 (reld > 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 11.04.1946-(04.1947) |
| WS/Capt. | 1947? |
| Capt. | 05.04.1949, seniority 01.01.1949 |
| served in the ranks, Royal Engineers | |||
| 1940 | - | (05.1941) | No.1 (later becoming No. 101) Troop of No. 6 Commando (Scarborough) (took part in Operation Claymore, raid on Lofoten Islands, Norway, 01-04.03.1941) |
| 25.09.1943 | commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia and after the war in Germany on attachment (Section Q) | |||
| 05.04.1949 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
Richard Granville
Only son of Revd Richard Busk Paterson Wells (1873-1963), and Katharine Ursula Leveson-Gower (1878-1963).
Married (05.12.1942) Elizabeth Muriel Josephine Ruston (05.12.1916 - 11.1989), only daughter of Col. Joseph Seward Ruston, JP, of Aisthorpe Hall, Lincolnshire.
Westhampnett district, Hampshire
-
01.1998
Andover district, Hampshire
| Gnr. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 13.06.1939 [92164] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 05.06.1942-22.11.1945 |
| WS/Capt. | 23.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 23.11.1945-... |
| Hon. Maj. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
|
TD | 21.04.1950 | - |
| late Cadet Serjeant, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| 13.06.1939 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| served WW II in France, N Africa, Italy, and Middle East | |||
| ? | - | 17.07.1966 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
David Scotland
Leith North district, Midlothian, Scotland
-
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 26.04.1941 [184990] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld 17.01.1946; disability) |
| T/Capt. | 14.06.1944-17.01.1946 |
| Hon. Capt. | 17.01.1946 |
| ? | - | 26.04.1941 | Officer and Cadet Training Centre, RASC |
| 26.04.1941 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] |
Sir Henry Colville Barclay
2nd son of late Alexander Wemyss.
Married (1919) Vera, youngest daughter of late Alfred Mozley and Mrs Russell, of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire; one son, one daughter.
-
02.04.1959
| 2nd Lt. |
23.12.1910
[14202] |
| ... |
... |
| Maj.Gen. |
09.01.1939,
seniority 07.01.1938 |
| A/Lt.Gen. |
10.06.1940-09.06.1941 |
| T/Lt.Gen. |
10.06.1941-20.10.1941 |
| Lt.Gen. |
21.10.1941,
seniority 11.08.1941 |
| Gen. |
15.10.1945 (retd
23.11.1946) |
KCB, 1945 (CB 1940); KBE, 01.07.1941 (HM's birthday 41); DSO 1914; MC 1916
| 23.12.1910 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
| 26.07.1921 |
transferred,
Royal Corps of Signals |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
| 09.01.1939 |
- |
18.02.1940 |
Director
of Mobilization, War Office (London) |
| 19.02.1940 |
- |
09.06.1940 |
Deputy
Adjutant General (DAG), war Office (London) |
| 10.06.1940 |
- |
02.06.1941 |
Adjutant
General to the Forces, War Office (London) |
| 03.06.1941 |
- |
15.06.1942 |
Chief
of the British Army Staff, Washington, DC (USA) |
| 16.06.1942 |
- |
1946 |
Military
Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, War Office |
Edgar Flottwell
Married (19.12.1953) Denise Wilkinson; three daughters, one son.
|
|
-
17.01.2015
Fullarton Lutheran Homes, Fullarton, South Australia (formerly of Hahndorf, South Australia)
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
02.08.1941
[200632] |
| WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942 (reld
< 04.1946) |
| Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
|||
| 02.08.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
||
| 1941 |
- |
1945 |
65th Field
Regiment RA (India & Burma) |
Kenneth Arthur
Mother's maiden name: Werrell.
Married 1st ((12?).1946, Tavistock district, Devon) Stella M. Cattran.
Married 2nd (04.1986, Brent district, Middlesex) Yukari Tsuruta.
St Marylebone disrict, London
-
15.06.2010
Ilkley, Penzance, Cornwall
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 21.09.1940 [149389] |
| WS/Lt. | 21.03.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 15.12.1942-(04.1944) |
| WS/Capt. | 14.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Maj. | 14.03.1945-(04.1946) |
| ? | - | 20.09.1940 | either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 21.09.1940 | commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| (04.1944) | - | (1945) | serving with Indian Army (served in Burma with Intelligence Corps) |
John Samuel
-
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt.
|
08.11.1941
[214905] |
| WS/Lt. |
01.10.1942 (reld
> 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. |
28.06.1944-(04.1946) |
| 08.11.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission] |
||
| (05.1944) |
HQ Eastern
Command (Hounslow, Middlesex) |
William Herbert Beach *
Son (with one brother and one half-brother) of William Henry Wesson (1874-1936), and Jenny Beach (1881-1913).
Married ((12?).1947, Brosmgrove district, Worcestershire) Zoe Ruby Eveson (25.06.1917 - 06.2006), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Leonard George Eveson (1882-1962), and Ruby Emily Gaunt (1887-1929); two daughters, three sons.
* Third Christian name also used as: Beech
Walsall, Staffordshire
-
21.01.1983
Wrexham district, Clwyd, Wales (formerly of Bobingale, Albrighton, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire)
| 2nd Lt. | 01.08.1937 [72665] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.08.1940 |
| Capt. | 01.05.1947 |
|
TD | 18.09.1951 | - |
| late Cadet, Ellesmere College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| 01.08.1937 | commissioned, 62nd (North Midland) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 01.10.1937 | transferred, 73rd (Heavy) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery | ||
| served with 210th (West Bromwich) Anti-Aircraft Battery RA in France (1939/40) | |||
| ? | - | ? | training officer at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire |
| (07.1942) | - | (04.1946) | Unemployed List |
| 28.01.1953 | - | 29.12.1962 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |
Arthur John
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
-
| S/Sgt. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 12.04.1943 [279530] |
| WS/Lt. | 12.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 13.02.1945-(04.1946) |
| served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers | |||
| 12.04.1943 | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Iraq |
Clement Arthur
Only son of Clement West, GIPR (?-1915), of India and Canterbury, Kent, England.
Married 1st (1921) Janet Clarisse Crowley, daughter of Walter Crowley, of Ewhurst, Surrey; one son (killed in action 1943).
Married 2nd Margaret Elizabeth O'Conor, only daughter of late Aylward Robert O'Conor (?-1951), of Somerton, Co. Dublin.
Manmad, India
-
04.09.1972
CrossinHand, Heathfield, Sussex
| 2nd Lt. | 19.07.1912 [5397] |
| Lt. | 27.08.1914 |
| A/Capt. | 03.03.1917-25.06.1917 |
| Capt. | 26.06.1917 |
| Maj. | 25.09.1928 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. | 01.07.1933 |
| Lt.Col. | 16.05.1936 |
| Col. | 17.01.1938, seniority 01.07.1936 (retd 10.01.1947) |
| T/Brig. |
17.01.1938-11.09.1939, 28.05.1940-18.11.1941, 01.12.1941-03.12.1943 |
| A/Maj.Gen. | 04.12.1942-03.12.1943 |
| T/Maj.Gen. | 04.12.1943-(01.1946) |
| Hon. Maj.Gen. | 10.01.1947 |
|
|
CB | 08.06.1944 | HM's birthday 1944 |
 |
DSO | 06.05.1932 | NW Frontier of India 10.1930-03.1931 |
 |
MC | 1915 | ? |
 |
14|15 St | - | & clasp |
 |
BWM | - | - |
 |
VM | - | - |
|
MID | 17.02.1915 | ? |
|
MID | 14.12.1917 | ? |
|
MID | 06.05.1932 | ? |
| 19.07.1912 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers | ||
| served European War, France and Belgium, 04.10.1914-01.02.1915, 31.08.1916-03.07.1918 & 20.10.1918-11.11.1918 (wounded; MC, despatches twice) | |||
| 22.11.1917 | - | 14.04.1918 | Adjutant, ... - Territorial Force |
| 02.02.1919 | - | 08.10.1922 | Assistant Instructor Survey, School of Military Engineering, Chatham (temporarily) |
| 09.10.1922 | - | 17.04.1925 | General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office |
| 18.04.1925 | - | 20.01.1927 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office |
| 1927 | - | 1928 | Staff College, Camberley (psc) |
| 18.04.1930 | - | 30.04.1932 | BrigadeMajor, India (operations, NWF) (DSO, despatches) |
| 01.05.1932 | - | 17.04.1934 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General Staff, AHQ, India |
| 01.10.1934 | - | 13.01.1936 | Deputy Assistant Military Secretary, War Office |
| 1936 | Imperial Defence College (idc) | ||
| 1937 | Commander, Royal Engineers (CRE), 3rd Division | ||
| 17.01.1938 | - | 05.09.1939 | Deputy Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War, and Assistant Secretary of the Selection Board, War Office |
| 06.09.1939 | - | 11.09.1939 | Military Secretary to the British Expeditionary Force (France) |
| 28.05.1940 | - | 11.05.1941 | Brigadier, General Staff, ... (Home Forces) |
| 12.05.1941 | - | 18.11.1941 | Brigadier, General Staff to Delegation to New Zealand Government |
| 01.12.1941 | - | 03.12.1942 | Brigadier General Staff, ... |
| 04.12.1942 | - | 13.04.1943 | District Commander, East Central District, Home Forces |
| 1943 | - | 1945 | Major-General, General Staff (attached to the COSSAC planning team 1943-1944 and SHAEF 1944-1945, as Major General (Operations) Chief of Staff Supreme Allied Commander; Assistant Chief of Staff SHAEF; Joint Services Planning Staff for Control Commission of Germany (CCG); Chief of Army Division, CCG) |
| 1945 | - | 1946 | Major-General in charge Administration, Southern Command |
Sidney John
-
| Cadet | ? [S/899607] |
| 2nd Lt. | 14.01.1944 [307050] |
| WS/Lt. | 14.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 14.01.1944 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
Louis John
Married Marie Grech.
Walsall, Staffordshire
-
(12?).1944
Hemel Hempstead
| Cpl. |
? [0099] |
|
2nd Lt. |
29.10.1915 |
| Lt. |
12.08.1917,
seniority 01.06.1916 (reld 30.09.1921 |
| A/Capt. |
27.02.1918-10.03.1918, ...-21.01.1919 |
| T/Capt. |
...-... |
| A/Maj. |
22.01.1919-13.10.1919 |
| Maj. TARO |
30.09.1921 |
| Lt. |
02.09.1939
[100637] |
| T/Capt. |
22.09.1940-(04.1941) |
|
|
MC |
01.01.1918 |
? |
|
|
MID |
28.11.1917 |
? |
|
|
14|15
St |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM |
- |
- |
|
|
VM |
- |
- |
| served
in the ranks, Imperial Light Horse: |
|||
| 09.1914 |
- |
12.1914 |
British,
German & Portugese East Africa, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia |
| 12.1914 |
- |
07.1915 |
German
South-West Africa and on the adjacent borders of the Union of South Africa,
except for: |
| 01.03.1915 |
- |
09.03.1915 |
served,
France & Belgium |
| 29.10.1915 |
commissioned,
Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery -
Territorial Force |
||
| 29.10.1915 |
- |
30.09.1921 |
North
Midland Divisional Ammunition Column |
| 10.1916 |
- |
11.11.1918 |
Asia
Minor (region including Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Macedonia, European Turkey
and the Islands of the Aegean Sea) |
| 22.01.1919 |
- |
13.10.1919 |
seconded
as Battery Commander |
| 13.10.1919 |
- |
? |
seconded
as Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal (Class FF) |
| 30.09.1921 |
- |
16.07.1932 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized,
TA |
||
| 02.09.1939 |
- |
1944 |
commissioned,
National Defence Companies, employed in the The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
Regiment |
Guy Randolph
Only son of Maj.Gen. Sir Richard Westmacott, KCB, DSO (1841-1925).
Married (10.07.1916) Edith Victoria Blanche (12.01.1895-05.06.1966); ... children.
Kirkee, Bombay, India
-
13.02.1978
Lewes, East Sussex
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
? [42650] |
| Lt. |
15.05.1915 (reld
22.06.1919) |
| A/Capt. |
23.12.1917-17.04.1918 |
| T/Capt. |
...-09.07.1918 |
| Capt. RARO |
22.06.1919 |
| A/Maj. |
24.09.1940-(04.1941) |
| WS/Maj. |
? |
| A/Lt.Col. |
30.12.1943-(04.1944) |
| T/Lt.Col. |
? |
| Hon. Lt.Col. |
29.01.1945 |
|
|
DSO |
04.02.1918 |
* |
|
|
MID |
23.05.1918 |
? |
|
|
MID |
03.06.1919 |
? |
|
CdeG |
06.11.1918 |
? |
|
|
14|15
St |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM
14|20 |
- |
- |
|
|
VM |
- |
- |
| ? |
- |
16.09.1916 |
Special
Reserve of Officers |
| 17.09.1916 |
commissioned,
The Grenadier Guards |
||
| 23.12.1917 |
- |
17.04.1918 |
Company
Commander |
| 11.07.1918 |
- |
14.12.1918 |
Staff
Officer 3rd class (as T/Lt.), Royal Air Force |
| 22.06.1919 |
- |
29.01.1945 |
Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
| (06.1944) |
|
|
Senior
British Intelligence Officer (?) (Normandy) |
William
Son of Joseph Westmoreland, carpenter, and Mary Lloyd.
Married (20.10.1945, Tadcaster district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Doreen Cook; two daughters.
Castleford, Pontefract district, Yorkshire
-
24.01.2004
Newport, Wales
| Pte. | 28.09.1939 [4539804] |
| Cadet | 29.02.1940 |
| 2nd Lt. | 04.07.1940 [138143] |
| WS/Lt. | 04.01.1942 (dispersal 08.03.1946) (reld 18.06.1946) |
| 28.09.1939 | - | 14..12.1939 | enlisted, West Yorkshire Regiment (relegated to the reserve) |
| 15.12.1939 | - | 28.02.1939 | Infantry Training Centre, West Yorkshire Regiment |
| 29.02.1940 | - | 03.07.1940 | 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit (Shornecliffe) |
| 04.07.1940 | commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.09.1940 | - | 17.05.1941 | 70th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham) |
| 10.02.1941 | - | 28.02.1941 | training course, Catterick |
| 18.05.1941 | - | 27.12.1941 | 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (Horncastle) |
| 01.07.1941 | - | 15.07.1941 | 1st Corps Platoon Commanders School (Lincoln) |
| 28.12.1941 | - | 05.01.1942 | Joint Assembly Centre (Ford House, Leeds) (awaiting embarkation to India) |
| 05.01.1942 | - | 07.03.1942 | embarked Leeds for Bombay, India |
| 03.1942 | - | 09.1945 | served in India a total of 3 years 10 months travelling to Bangalore on duty in 1943 (for a week) and having 10 days in hospital in April 1944 (unknown reason): |
| 11.03.1942 | - | 01.06.1942 | Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC) Special School (Kakul) |
| 01.06.1942 | - | ? | 48 CSS RIASC training camp (Ambala) |
| ? | - | ? | 3 Motor Transport training team attached to 95th General Purpose Transport Company (Ghansi) |
| ? | - | 02.09.1945 | 176th General Purpose Transport Company (Harihar) |
| 03.09.1945 | - | 27.09.1945 | Homeward Bound Trooping Depot Deolali (pending repatriation) |
| 27.09.1945 | - | 10?.1945 | embarked Bombay for UK |
| 10?.1945 | - | 08.03.1946 | 4th Infantry Holding Battalion |
Victor John Eric
Second son (with two brothers) of Brig.Gen. Henry Charles Edeward Westropp (1861-1930), and Mary Frances Anne Lowndes (1871-1972), of Marlow.
Marred 1st (01.09.1923, St Wilfrid's Parish Church, Haywards Heath, Cuckfield district, Sussex) Elenita Augusta Lynch (1899? - 10.04.1940), daughter of Jasper ffoulkes Lynch, of Saltillo, Mexico; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (25.11.1944, New Delhi Church, India) Elspeth Mary Duncan (15.06.1914 - 12.1996), younger daughter of Lt.Col. Horace Adrian Duncan, DSO, of Ascot; one son, one daughter.
Radcliffe, Bury district, Lancashire
-
08.06.1974
Cliff Lodge, Leyburn, Northallerton district, North Yorkshire (formerly of Ten Acres, Warfield, Bracknell, Berkshire)
| 2nd Lt. | 19.02.1916 [13552] |
| Lt. | 19.08.1917 |
| Capt. | 19.02.1927 (regimental seniority 17.04.1920) |
| Maj. | 19.02.1936 |
| local Lt.Col. | 15.06.1939-31.08.1939 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 03.09.1939-02.12.1939 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 03.12.1939-28.12.1939 |
| Lt.Col. | 29.12.1939 (supernumerary 29.12.1942) |
| A/Col. | 01.06.1940-30.11.1940 |
| T/Col. | 01.12.1940-29.06.1943 |
| Col. | 30.06.1943, seniority 29.12.1942 |
| A/Brig. | 21.05.1941-20.11.1941 |
| T/Brig. | 21.11.1941-22.02.1945 |
| Brig. | 01.11.1947 |
| A/Maj.Gen. |
06.10.1943-11.12.1943, 01.05.1944-22.02.1945 |
| T/Maj.Gen. |
23.02.1945-(01.1946), 1947 |
| Maj.Gen. | 20.04.1948, seniority 22.10.1944 (retd 01.03.1951) |
|
|
CB | 01.01.1947 | New Year 1947 |
|
|
CBE | 05.08.1943 | Tunisia * [citation available upon request] |
|
|
BWM | - | - |
|
|
VM | - | - |
 |
39|45 St | - | - |
 |
Afr St | - | - |
 |
It St | - | - |
 |
Def M | - | - |
 |
WM 39|45 | - | - |
 |
LM | 28.07.1944 | ? |
* Recommendation for the appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire of Brig. V.J.E. Westropp: "As D.A.G. A.F.H.Q. has served with conspicuous ability & heavy responsibility as head of the Adjutant General's Branch. He has worked tirelessly with great success in setting up in a new theatre a sound & satisfactory standard on the A.G.'s side of the staff & in organising he varied activities of the A.G.'s Branch. His knowledge & very hard work have contributed to the high morale & discipline of the troops in North Africa."
[Recommended by Maj.Gen. H.M. Gale, Chief Administrative Officer, Allied Force Headquarters.]
| 19.02.1916 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers | ||
| 26.01.1917 | - | 11.08.1917 | served in France & Belgium (with 7th Corps Signals) |
| 1917 | - | 1918 | sickness |
| 23.07.1918 | - | 11.11.1918 | served in France & Belgium (with 5th Tank Brigade Signals) |
| Signal Service Training Centre | |||
| 07.01.1921 | transferred, Royal Corps of Signals | ||
| 01.12.1921 | - | 30.11.1924 | Instructor (Class GG 22.08.1924), School of Signals |
| 1924 | - | 1925 | served in Egypt |
| 1925 | - | 1926 | survey course (UK) |
| 02.02.1926 | - | 16.01.1930 | Officer of Company of Gentlemen Cadets (Class B, Class GG to 18.02.1927, Class A from 19.02.1927), Royal Military Academy, Woolwich |
| 1930 | - | 1931 | B Corps Signals (NW Frontier of India) |
| 1931 | - | 1932 | Staff College, Quetta |
| 1932 | - | 1934 | Peshawar District Signals (NW Frontier of India) |
| 24.04.1934 | - | 15.03.1936 | General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Staff Duties, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office |
| 16.03.1936 | - | 07.09.1936 | Staff Captain, 1st Division (Aldershot Command) |
| 08.09.1936 | - | 20.12.1936 | Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), 1st Division (Palestine and Trans-Jordan) (temporarily) |
| 21.12.1936 | - | 23.04.1938 | Staff Captain, 1st Division (Aldershot Command) |
| 05.11.1938 | - | 07.05.1939 | Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), 8th Division (Palestine and Trans-Jordan) (temporarily) (despatches) |
| 09.05.1939 | - | 06.06.1939 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office |
| 1939 | - | 1940 | raised & commanded, Anti-Aircraft Training Battalion (Militia) (Harrogate), from 09.1939 1st Army Signals, then 3rd Lines of Communications Signals, then again 03.1940 1st Army Signals |
| 1940 | - | 01.06.1940 | Officer Commanding, No. 1 Operators Training Battalion |
| 01.06.1940 | - | 23.06.1940 | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office |
| 24.06.1940 | - | 20.05.1941 | Assistant Adjutant General (AAG) (AG11), War Office |
| 21.05.1941 | - | 18.08.1942 | Deputy Director of Personal Services, War Office |
| 1942 | - | 1944 | Deputy Adjutant General (DAG), Allied Force HQ (served in Tunisia 1942-1943 & Sicily/Italy 1943-1944) (CBE) |
| 1944 | - | 1946 | Deputy Adjutant General (DAG), General HQ, India (CB) |
| 1946 | - | 1947 | President, War Crimes Court, Ravensbrück, Hamburg |
| 1947 | - | 16.10.1949 | Chief of the Military Division, later Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy) and Chief of Combined Services Division of the Allied Control Commission for Germany (BE) |
| 16.10.1949 | - | 1951 | also: UK Commissioner, Military Security Board, Control Commission for Germany (BE) |
| 01.03.1951 | - | 24.05.1957 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Ernest Donald
"Don"
Son of Claude Westwood.
Married; four daughters.
Melbourne, Vict.
-
27.10.2000
Adelaide, South Australia
| Ldg.Acm. (RAAF) |
? [407188] |
| Sgt. (Austr.
Army) |
? [SX11038] |
|
2nd Lt. |
23.08.1941 [204895] |
| WS/Lt. |
? (reld 03.04.1946) |
| A/Capt. |
01.01.1942-(04.1944) |
| T/Capt. |
? |
| Hon. Capt. |
03.04.1946 |
| 20.07.1940 |
- |
30.12.1940 |
served,
Royal Australian Air Force (enlisted at Adelaide, Southern Australia): 2nd
Service Flying Training School Wagga |
| 21.01.1941 |
- |
23.08.1941 |
served,
Australian Army (enlisted at Glenelg, Southern Australia): MT Reserve |
| 23.08.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] |
||
| 02.1942 |
captured at
Singapore |
||
| 1942 |
- |
1945 |
POW in
Japanese captivity |
Guy Ernest FitzGerald
Son of Colonel Joseph Robert Wethered, CMG, DSO, and of Dorothy K.A. Wethered, of Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
-
22.11.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, 6.H.16]
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
22.06.1940
[134368] |
| WS/Lt. |
01.02.1941 |
| T/Capt. |
01.02.1941-(04.1941) |
| WS/Capt. |
12.11.1942 |
| T/Maj. |
12.11.1942-(04.1944) |
| Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
|||
| 22.06.1940 |
commissioned,
The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission] |
||
| 01.01.1943 |
transferred,
Royal Armoured Corps |
||
| 01.04.1943 |
transferred,
he Gloucestershire Regiment |
||
| ? |
- |
22.11.1944 |
Officer
Commanding, "A" Company, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment |
Ralph Percival
Son of Dudley J.G. Whale, and Gladys Patti Drew (1897-).
Married ((03?).1947, Shrewsbury district, Shropshire) Mary J. Bishop.
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
07.1999
Boston district, Lincolnshire
| Cadet | ? [6459303] |
| 2nd Lt. | 12.12.1943 [302932] |
| WS/Lt. | ? (reld 20.05.1946) |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| Hon. Capt. | 20.05.1946 |
| Lt. & Paym. | 24.09.1951 |
| Capt. & Paym. | 18.04.1955 |
| 2nd Lt. | 29.07.1964, seniority 07.09.1945 |
| Lt. & Paym. | 29.07.1964, seniority 07.09.1947 |
| Capt. & Paym. | 29.07.1964, seniority 07.09.1951 |
| Maj. | 30.06.1970 (retd 28.03.1976) |
| 12.12.1943 | commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps | ||
| served in North Africa | |||
| 24.09.1951 | commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [short service commission] | ||
| 29.07.1964 | limited service regular commission |
Kevin Henry
Son of ... Whately, and ... Plummer.
Married ((03?).1949, Ludlow district, Shropshire) Gwendoline H. McClintock.
Woolwich district, London
-
14.03.1974
Newcastle, Craven Arms, Clun district, Shropshire
| Pte. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 10.07.1941 |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 01.04.1944-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. | ? |
| T/Maj. | ? |
| Lt. | 02.02.1946, seniority 28.02.1943 [333665] |
| Capt. | 28.08.1947 (retd 01.10.1953; receiving a gratuity) |
| 10.07.1941 | commissioned, Sikh Regiment - Indian Army | ||
| 23.03.1942 | - | 02.05.1942 | Officers' Light Anti-Aircraft course serial No. 18, Anti-Aircraft School (Deolali, India) |
| 02.02.1946 | commissioned, Cheshire Regiment [permanent commission] |
Anthony Robert
"Andy"
Son (with two brothers) of the Revd. Ernest Whately-Smith, MC, MA (1882-1964), Head Master of Hordle Preparatory School, and Dorothy Ada Calkin (1884-1934), of Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire.
Married (02.03.1940, Beaulieu Abbey, New Forest district, Hampshire) Mary E. Hodgkinson, daughter of Mr & Mrs William Hodgkinson, of Beaulieu, Hampshire.
East Preston district, Sussex
-
25.11.1944
Gaggenau, Germany
(executed) [age 29]
[Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany, 3.K.2]
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
14.01.1940 [113612] |
| WS/Lt. |
? |
| WS/Capt. |
15.09.1943 |
| T/Maj. |
15.09.1943-(04.1944) |
Worked for Vacuum Oil Company.
| ? | - | 14.01.1940 | 164th Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 14.01.1940 | commissioned, The Dorset Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| 04.02.1944 | - | (04.)1944 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), School of Military Intelligence, Matlock |
| 19.08.1944 | transferred, The Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps | ||
| ? | - | 25.11.1944 | 2nd Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps (Operation Loyton, Vosges Mountains [captured]) |
Leslie James
From North Harrow.
-
| Cadet | ? [7944907] |
| 2nd Lt. | 31.10.1943 [299492] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.05.1944 (reld < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 06.03.1945-(04.1946) |
|
|
MC | 21.12.1944 | NW Europe 1944-1945 |
| 31.10.1943 | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 23.01.1944 | transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) | ||
| (1945) | 1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe) |
Charles Arnold
"Arnie"
Son of ... Wheeldon, and ... Norbury.
Married Effie ...; one son.
Stockport district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
28.09.2012
| Cadet | ? [2663562] |
| 2nd Lt. | 19.08.1945 [357093] |
| WS/Lt. | 19.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| A/Maj. ? | ? |
| Hon. Capt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| had previously served with the Coldstream Guards and with No 6 Commando on D-Day before being pulled back for officer training in India | |||
| 19.08.1945 | commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| seconded, Indian Army (served in India & Burma) |
George Russell
Son of ... Wheeler, and ... Russell.
Married (1941) Madeline Alice Holland (27.07.1917 - 08.1991), daughter (with one brother [Maj. Kenneth Archibald Holland, TD]) of Archibald Kerly Holland (1870-1934), and Madeline Clay (1883-1951); one daughter.
|
|
Dorchester district, Dorset
-
17.04.2002
South and West Dorset district (of West Lulworth, formerly of Malaya)
| Cpl. | ? [6899188] |
| 2nd Lt. | 23.04.1943 [271249] |
| WS/Lt. | 23.10.1943 (reld 05.03.1952) |
 |
OBE | 01.01.1967 | New Year 1967: secretary of the central electricity board, Malaysia |
 |
MM | 29.09.1942 | escape & evasion after St Nazaire raid [recommendation available upon request] |
Brewer's clerk in Dorchester.
| served in
the ranks, The Royal Sussex Regiment (attached to a Special Service Brigade with
1 Troop, No. 2 Commando) (MM) [left behind with a companion after the St. Nazaire raid; evaded capture and made their way to Gibraltar and then home about a month or so after the March 1942 event] |
|||
| 23.04.1943 | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission] |
Richard Malcolm
"Mac"
Son (with one brother) of Richard Ernest Wheeler (1882-1921), and Amelia Louise Wheeler (1882-1950).
Married Safiye Niazi (14.12.1918 - ); one daughter, one son.
Monghyre, India
-
06.01.1993
Watford district, Hertfordshire
| Cadet | ? [1464200] |
| 2nd Lt. | 20.02.1944 [320998] |
| WS/Lt. | 20.08.1944 |
| T/Capt. | 04.03.1945-25.12.1945 |
| WS/Capt. | 26.12.1945 (reld 08.03.1947) |
| T/Maj. | 26.12.1945-(08.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. | 08.03.1947 |
|
|
39|45 St | - | - |
|
|
Afr St | - | & clasp 8th Army |
|
|
Def M | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 20.02.1944 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| served in the Middle East in the 8th Army until 1944 when he was seconded to the Sudan Defence Force (1946 showing at 4th Battalion SDF, Khartoum) |
Richard Percy
Son of Percy Scott Whelan and Edythe Laura Whelan, of Henfield, Sussex.
Ireland
-
31.10.1944
(KIA) [age 38]
[Nederweert Cemetery, the Netherlands, II.A.5]
| 2nd Lt. |
04.02.1926 [34947] |
| Lt. |
04.02.1929 |
| Capt. |
26.04.1937,
seniority 19.10.1936 |
| A/Maj. |
03.09.1939-(04.1941) |
| Maj. |
17.02.1943 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
15.01.1943-(04.1944) |
|
|
MID |
11.02.1941 |
Somaliland |
| 04.02.1926 |
commissioned,
(Royal) Northumberland Fusiliers |
||
| 28.08.1929 |
- |
03.08.1933 |
employed
with Royal West African Frontier Force (1st Battalion The Nigeria Regiment
(Kaduna)) |
| (01.1937) |
|
|
2nd
Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Bordon) |
| 08.10.1937 |
- |
(01.1940) |
seconded,
The Northern Rhodesia Regiment |
| 01.08.1942 |
- |
(04.)1944 |
seconded,
The Northern Rhodesia Regiment |
| ? |
- |
31.10.1944 |
possibly
seconded, 9th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) |
Frederick James Strover
From Bibury, Gloucestershire.
Married Joan Olave Patricia Whetstone (née ...).
Loughborough
-
01.09.1956
Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire
| 2nd Lt. |
29.01.1927
[37304] |
| Lt. |
29.01.1930 |
| Capt. |
01.06.1935 |
| A/Maj. |
22.09.1939-21.12.1939 |
| T/Maj. |
22.12.1939-15.03.1940, 02.11.1940-17.01.1941, 08.07.1941-29.09.1942, 19.10.1942-18.01.1943 |
| WS/Maj. |
19.01.1943 |
| Maj. |
29.01.1944 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
19.10.1942-18.01.1943 |
| T/Lt.Col.
|
19.01.1943-08.05.1947 |
| Lt.Col. |
09.05.1947
(supernumerary 09.05.1950) |
| Col. |
01.01.1953 (retd
27.06.1956; disability) |
| Hon. Brig. |
27.06.1956 |
|
|
OBE |
17.01.1946 |
Burma |
|
|
MID |
26.07.1940 |
operations
in the field |
|
|
MID |
19.07.1945 |
Burma |
|
TD |
? |
? |
| 07.05.1936 |
commissioned,
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps |
||
| 26.07.1939 |
- |
15.03.1940 |
Assistant
Military Secretary (and temporary ADC 26.07.1939-21.09.1939) |
| seconded,
3rd Carabiniers (The Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) |
|||
| 09.05.1947 |
transferred, 3rd Dragoon Guards |
||
| 09.05.1947 |
- |
09.05.1950 |
Commanding
Officer, 3rd Dragoon Guards |
Harold Arthur Armstrong
"Harry" / "Hodie"
Eldest son of Mr & Mrs A.J. While, of Tettenhall, Wolverhampton.
Married Janette Bell Symington Clark, only daughter of Mr & Mrs T.P.M. Clark, of Troon, Ayrshire; one son, three daughters (including twins).
Barrow in Furness district, Cumbria / Lancashire
-
18.11.1983
East Molesey, Surrey Northern district, Surrey
| 2nd Lt. |
08.01.1938
[73894] |
| WS/Lt. |
08.01.1940 |
| T/Capt. |
14.02.1942-(04.1944) |
| WS/Capt. |
01.10.1942 (reld
< 04.1946) |
| A/Maj. |
23.12.1943-(04.1944) |
| T/Maj. |
1945? |
| Hon. Maj. |
< 04.1946 |
|
|
MBE |
01.01.1946 |
New
Year 1946 |
|
|
MID |
15.12.1942 |
Middle
East 11.1941-04.1942 |
|
TD |
14.09.1956 |
- |
| late
Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer
Training Corps |
|||
| 08.01.1938 |
commissioned,
51st (Westmorland & Cumberland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery -
Territorial Army |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized
TA |
| ? |
- |
06.04.1960 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
[Sir] Lashmer Gordon
"Bolo"
Son of Colonel A.E. Whistler, Indian Army, and Florence Annie Gordon, daughter of late Charles Forbes RivettCarnac.
Married ((06?).1926, Eastbourne district, Sussex) Esmé Winifred Keighley, daughter of Mr & Mrs George Keighley; two daughters.
|
|
-
04.07.1963
Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire
| 2nd Lt. | 12.09.1917 [13017] |
| Lt. | 12.03.1919 |
| Capt. | 30.09.1932 |
| Maj. | 01.08.1938 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 05.02.1940-04.05.1940 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 05.05.1940-02.07.1942, 13.08.1942-03.03.1943 |
| WS/Lt.Col. | 04.03.1943 |
| Lt.Col. | 01.01.1945 |
| A/Col. | 04.09.1942-03.03.1943 |
| T/Col. | 04.03.1943-21.06.1945 |
| WS/Col. | 22.06.1945 |
| Col. | 25.02.1946, seniority 22.06.1945 |
| A/Brig. | 04.09.1942-03.03.1943 |
| T/Brig. | 04.03.1943-21.06.1945 |
| A/Maj.Gen. | 22.06.1944-21.06.1945 |
| T/Maj.Gen. | 22.06.1945 |
| Maj.Gen. | 06.02.1947, seniority 05.04.1946 |
| A/Lt.Gen. | 11.11.1946-30.12.1946 |
| Lt.Gen. | 10.05.1951 |
| Gen. | 06.07.1955 (retd 04.02.1957) |
|
GCB | 01.01.1957 | New Year 1957 |
|
KCB | 01.01.1955 | New Year 1955 |
|
KBE | 01.01.1952 | New Year 1952 |
|
|
CB | 29.03.1945 | NW Europe |
|
|
DSO | 11.07.1940 | BEF |
|
DSO | 22.04.1943 | Middle East |
|
|
DSO | 13.01.1944 | Italy |
|
MID | 29.04.1941 | ? |
|
MID | 22.03.1945 | NW Europe |
|
MID | 09.08.1945 | NW Europe |
|
MID | 04.04.1946 | NW Europe |
Commander of the Crown of Belgium 2nd class, with palm (25.09.1947); Croix de Guerre (Belgium) (1940), with palm (25.09.1947); Grand Officer, House of Orange (Netherlands) (08.04.1954; Knight Grand Officer, House of Orange (Netherlands) (14.04.1962)
| 12.09.1917 | commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment | ||
| 15.10.1917 | - | 28.03.1918 | served European War: France & Belgium (wounded twice, British War Medal, Victory Medal) |
| 27.05.1919 | - | 10.1919 | served in Russia |
| 01.04.1921 | - | 26.03.1922 | special appointment (Class GG), Irish Command (temp.) |
| 06.04.1927 | - | 11.12.1927 | special appointment (Class GG), Independent Brigade China (temp.) |
| 01.05.1929 | - | 30.04.1933 | Adjutant, Territorial Army |
| 25.11.1933 | - | 24.11.1936 | Adjutant, The Royal Sussex Regiment |
| 1936 | - | 1939 | served Palestine (medal and clasp) |
| 05.02.1940 | - | 1942 | Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment |
| 10.03.1942 | - | 01.04.1942 | acting Commander, 133rd (Royal Sussex) Infantry Brigade (UK) |
| 24.08.1942 | - | 03.09.1942 | acting Commander, 133rd (Royal Sussex) Infantry Brigade (Egypt) |
| 04.09.1942 | - | 26.11.1942 | Commander, 132nd (Middlesex and Kent) Infantry Brigade (Egypt) |
| 29.11.1942 | - | 28.01.1944 | Commander, 131st (Surrey) Lorried Infantry Brigade (Libya, N Africa, Italy, UK) [except for 14-26.7.1943] |
| 28.01.1944 | - | 21.06.1944 | Commander, 160th (South Wales) Infantry Brigade (UK) |
| 23.06.1944 | - | 22.01.1945 | General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (NW Europe) |
| 25.02.1945 | - | 1945 | General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (NW Europe) |
| 1945 | - | 1946 | served Palestine |
| 1947 | - | 1948 | General Officer Commanding, British Troops in India |
| 1948 | - | 09.05.1950 | General Officer Commanding, Troops Sudan, Kaid Sudan Defence Force |
| 02.06.1950 | - | 14.03.1951 | District Officer Commanding, Northumbrian District & General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division TA |
| 10.05.1951 | - | 1953 | General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, West Africa Command |
| 07.12.1953 | - | 02.1957 | General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command |
Literature: Sir John Smyth. Bolo Whistler : the life of General Sir Lashmer Whistler : a study in leadership (London: Muller, 1967)
Charles Forrester
Sheffield, Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
10.11.1960
Paddington district, London
| 2nd Lt. | 01.05.1940 [127919] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.03.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 01.03.1941-(10.1945) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 10.1945, < 01.1946 |
| 01.05.1940 | commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 12.07.1941 | - | (10.1945) | Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering) |
Trevor Arthur Anthony
Only son of W/Cdr. Raymond Whitaker, MBE, RAF, and Hilda Margaret Sharp, of Ogbury, Great Durnford, Salisbury.
Married (14.04.1951, The Chapel of St Cross, Winchester, Hampshire) Jennifer Luard "Jebber" Howson ((12?).1929 - ), younger daughter of Capt. John Montague Howson, CBE, RN, and Betty Frances Clare Luard, of Fisher's Pond, Hampshire; one son, one daughter.
Residence: (1945) London.
Chelsea district, London
-
12.04.2018
Burrington, North Somerset
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 23.10.1943 [296779] |
| WS/Lt. | 23.04.1944 |
| T/Capt. | 1944? |
| 2nd Lt. | 28.11.1945, seniority 15.01.1945 |
| Lt. | 14.07.1946 |
| Capt. | 01.1951? (retd 01.09.1953) |
| Hon. Capt. | 01.09.1953 |
|
MC | 01.03.1945 | NW Europe * |
| 23.10.1943 | commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) [emergency commission] | ||
| (1944) | - | (1945) | 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade (NW Europe) |
| 28.11.1945 | permanent commission |
Signed by J.A. Hunter, Lt.Col. Commanding 8th Bn The Rifle Brigade, 22 Oct. 1944; approved by C.B. Harvey, Brig. Commanding 29th Armoured Brigade, G.P.B. Roberts, Maj.Gen. Commanding 11th Armoured Division, R.N. O'Connor, Lt.Gen. Commanding 8th Corps, M.C. Dempsey, Lt.Gen. Commanding Second Army, B.L. Montgomery, Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief 21st Army Group [Citation courtesy of Mr Vincent Billiet]
Charles Henry
-
| Wt.Offr. Cl. II |
? [4907187] |
| Lt. |
31.12.1940
[163015] (reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. |
27.09.1943-(04.1944) |
| Hon. Capt. |
< 04.1946 |
|
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Fr&G
St |
- |
- |
|
LSGCM |
- |
- |
| served
in the ranks, The South Staffordshire Regiment (served in India) |
|||
| 31.12.1940 |
commissioned,
The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission] |
||
| 02.1945 |
- |
06.1945 |
attached
21st Army Group (serving in Belgium) |
George Frederick
Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Cyril Simms Whitby (1878-1957), and Mabel Rust Jennings (1882-1945).
Married (03.04.1946, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire) Rhona Charmian Butler (11.1924 - ), daughter of Arnold William Cadbury Butler (1902-1966), and Rhona Catherine Burgess Webb (1902-1990); four sons, two daughters. Charmian Whitby remarried (1988) Guy T. Smith.
-
22.02.1973
Penn, Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire
| 2nd Lt. | 14.06.1941 [190523] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 13.03.1944-04.02.1946 |
| WS/Capt. | 05.02.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 05.02.1946-(04.1947) |
|
MBE | 01.01.1945 | New Year 1945 |
| Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 14.06.1941 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Horace Verner
Son (with one brother) of Mr. and Mrs. T. Whitby.
Married Barbara Margaret Duthie; one daughter, one son.
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
10.06.1968
Howick, South Africa
| A/RQMS | ? |
| Lt. | 20.06.1940 [137764] |
| Lt. QM | 30.09.1940 |
| WS/Capt. | 28.06.1943 (reld > 04.1947) |
| T/Maj. | 28.06.1943-(04.1947) |
| 20.06.1940 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 29.10.1941 | 3rd Royal Horse Artillery (North Africa) |
| 29.10.1941 | - | ? | Staff Captain, General HQ [Middle East?] |
Harold Wray
Married; three sons.
Weihsien, Shantung, China
-
15.12.2005
Frimley Park Hospital, West Surrey district, Surrey
| 2nd Lt. |
01.06.1935 |
| Lt. |
20.10.1939
[65389] |
| WS/Capt. |
19.07.1940 |
| Capt. |
20.10.1940 |
| A/Maj. |
05.08.1942-04.11.1942 |
| T/Maj. |
05.11.1942-19.08.1945 |
| WS/Maj. |
20.08.1945 |
| Maj. |
20.10.1947 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
20.05.1945-19.08.1945 |
| T/Lt.Col.
|
20.08.1945-01.01.1946, 29.07.1954-21.12.1957 |
| Lt.Col. |
22.12.1957 |
| Col. |
20.10.1962 (retd
14.08.1972) |
|
|
OBE |
01.01.1962 |
New
Year 1962 |
|
|
TD |
01.05.1956 |
- |
|
|
MID |
21.11.1946 |
? |
|
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM
39|45 |
- |
- |
| 01.06.1935 |
|
|
commissioned,
Officer Training Corps - General List - Territorial Army (for service with
Infantry Unit of Edinburgh University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer
Training Corps) |
| 20.10.1939 |
|
|
short
service commission, Royal Army Medical Corps |
| 1942 |
- |
1945 |
served in India
(NW Frontier) |
| 20.10.1944 |
permanent commission |
||
| 1945 |
- |
1945 |
Commanding Officer,
Combined 31st & 42nd Indian Convalescent Depots (British Troops) (India) |
| 29.12.1945 |
- |
20.07.1946 |
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services, HQ Western Command |
| 01.10.1946 |
- |
12.11.1946 |
HQ
South Wales District |
| 1946 |
- |
1949 |
served in Bermuda |
| 29.07.1954 |
- |
05.10.1958 |
Chemical Defence
Experimental Establishment, Porton (Ministry of Supply) |
| 16.10.1958 |
- |
21.07.1963 |
Assistant
Director-General Army Medical Services (Army Medical Department 8), War Office |
| 27.07.1965 |
- |
(1968) |
Medical Liaison
Officer, British Army Staff Washington (USA) |
Hugh Templeton Hawkes
Second son (with one brother and two sisters) of Eric Aubrey Hawkes Whitcombe (1886-1967), of New Zealand (later of Sevenoaks, Kent), and Nancy Templeton Young (1895-1977).
Brother of Maj. John Douglas Hawkes Whitcombe, Highland Light Infantry.
Glassford district, Scotland
-
11.01.1946
Sourabaya, Netherlands East Indies (killed in an ambush)
[Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia, 5.L.3]
| 2nd Lt. | 30.06.1939 [86407] |
| WS/Lt. | 02.04.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 07.09.1942 |
| A/Maj. | 12.1945 |
| 30.06.1939 | commissioned, Oxford University Officer Training Corps - Territorial Army (General List) | ||
| 02.10.1939 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 02.10.1939 | - | 27.07.1944 | 145th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (Berkshire Yeomanry) (England; Northern Ireland; England) |
| 28.07.1944 | - | 01.1945 | 231 Battery, 67th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment Royal Artillery (British Liberation Army, NW Europe) |
| 01.1945 | - | 11.01.1946 | 145th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (Berkshire Yeomanry) (South East Asia Command; attached 26th Indian Division) (from 16.06.1945 Officer Commanding, 396th Battery) |
John Douglas Hawkes
Eldest son (with one brother and two sisters) of Eric Aubrey Hawkes Whitcombe (1886-1967), of New Zealand (later of Sevenoaks, Kent), and Nancy Templeton Young (1895-1977).
Brother of Maj, Hugh Templteton Hawkes Whitcombe, Royal Artillery.
Married (04.11.1943, Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) Heather Madeline Sherston, WRNS (14.04.1922 - 27.08.2012), daughter of Capt. Geoffrey William Sherston, MC, of Richmond, Yorkshire; one daughter, four sons.
Glassford district, Scotland
-
06.12.2008
Sudbury, Suffolk
[St Mary Churchyard
Brent Eleigh, Babergh district, Suffolk]
| Cadet | 1936 |
| 2nd Lt. | 26.08.1937 [73176] |
| WS/Lt. | 29.06.1940 |
| Lt. | 26.08.1940 |
| A/Capt. | 29.03.1940-28.06.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 29.06.1940-01.01.1944 |
| WS/Capt. | 02.01.1944 |
| Capt. | 26.08.1945 |
| A/Maj. | 02.10.1943-01.01.1944 |
| T/Maj. |
02.01.1944-24.08.1944, 11.12.1944-30.03.1947 |
| Maj. | 26.08.1950 (retd 29.03.1969) |
|
MID | 20.12.1940 | in recognition of distinguished services in connection with operations in the field.03-06.1940 |
|
MID | 23.07.1957 | ? |
| 26.08.1937 | commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [from 20.01.1959 Royal Highland Fusiliers] | ||
| 1939? | - | 1943? | 1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (42nd Infantry Division) (British Expeditionary Force, France 10.1939-06.1940 (Officer Commanding, Carrier Platoon; despatches); UK 1941-1943) |
| 1943? | - | 1944? | 13th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (UK) |
| 10.1944 | - | 1945 | Company Commander, 2nd Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Land Forces, Adriatic; 10th Indian Division, Central Mediterranean Forces) & Town Major of Athens for a time |
| 1947 | - | 1948? | Adjutant, 5th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry |
| 1949 | with 1st Battalion The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Hong Kong) | ||
| 1950 | - | 1952 | Garrison Adjutant at HQ, Kuala Lumpur |
| 1952 | - | 1954 | Officer Commanding, A Company, 1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Tel-el-Kebir, Canal Zone) |
| 1954 | - | 1956 | Officer Commanding, Highland Brigade Depot Training Company |
| 1956 | - | 1959 | Officer Commanding, Support Company, 1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Cyprus; despatches; Lüneburg, Germany; Edinburgh) |
| 1959 | - | 1962 | Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG) Recruiting, HQ Scottish Command |
| 1962 | - | 1964 | Second-in-Command, Infantry Records (Perth) |
| 1965 | - | 1969 | Infantry and GSC Records, York & in charge of Scottish Infantry Division Records |
Anthony Stewart Clifford
Son of Clifford Sidney White (1881-1957), and Maud Elaine Mawe (1890-1965).
Married ((06?).1950, Westminster district, London) Anne Williamson; ... children (one daughter?).
St Marylebone district, London
-
28.02.1990
Fulham district, London
| 2nd Lt. | 28.12.1940 [165913] |
| WS/Lt | 28.06.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 01.02.1943-22.06.1945 |
| WS/Capt. | 23.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 23.06.1945-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
|
MID | 29.11.1945 | services in the field |
| either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 28.12.1940 | commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission] |
Arthur George
* From late 1940s known as: Foster-White.
-
08.1985
Colchester, Essex
| WS/CSM | ? |
| Lt. QM | 15.05.1942 [236290] |
| WS/Capt. QM | 15.05.1945 |
| Capt. QM | 01.11.1947 (reld 14.04.1949) |
| Hon. Capt. QM | 14.04.1949 |
| 15.05.1942 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | ||
| 14.04.1949 | - | 15.11.1958 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Arthur George
-
| Lt. (Surveyor or Works) | 19.02.1943 [263292] |
| T/Capt. (Surveyor or Works) | 29.07.1946-(04.1947) |
| WS/Capt. (Surv. of Works) | ? |
| Lt. (Surv. of Works) | 01.10.1946, seniority 19.02.1943 |
| Capt. (Surv. of Works) | 01.10.1946, seniority 19.02.1946 |
| Capt. (Quantity Surveyor) | 01.11.1948, seniority 19.02.1946 |
| Maj. (Quantity Surveyor) | 19.05.1952 |
| 19.02.1943 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.10.1946 | - | 12.09.1952 | short service commission |
| 12.09.1952 | - | 23.07.1966 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Benjamin Newport
Denis
Son of Lt.Col. George Henry White, RAPC (1876-1953), and Helen Mackenzie (1878-1932).
Brother of Lt. Kenneth John White, RNR, and Cdr. Duncan Frederick White, RNR.
Married Angela (née ...), a WRAC officer.
Residence: (1945) Crewkerne, Somerset.
Dublin, Ireland
-
08.2000
Birkenhead, Cheshire
| 2nd Lt. | 30.01.1930 [44976] |
| Lt. | 30.01.1933 |
| Capt. | 01.08.1938 |
| A/Maj. | 06.09.1940-05.12.1940 |
| T/Maj. | 06.12.1940-21.02.1942 |
| WS/Maj. | 22.02.1942 |
| Maj. | 01.07.1946 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. | 01.07.1951 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 01.11.1941-24.01.1942, 16.02.1942-21.02.1942 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 22.02.1942-21.01.1952 |
| Lt.Col. | 22.01.1952 |
| T/Col. | 30.10.1952-01.06.1954 |
| Col. | 02.06.1954 |
| Brig. | 01.09.1959 (retd 28.09.1962) |
|
|
OBE | 28.06.1945 | Italy |
|
MID | 24.10.1950 | Malaya |
| 30.01.1930 | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals | ||
| 29.12.1934 | - | 14.05.1938 | employed with King's African Rifles |
| 02.01.1939 | - | 31.08.1940 | Adjutant, Territorial Army |
| 03.05.1943 | - | 10.06.1943 | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 9th Army |
| 11.06.1943 | - | 19.02.1944 | Deputy Chief Signals Officer, Middle East |
| 20.02.1944 | - | 25.02.1944 | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), MAAF [= Mediterranean Allied Air Force ?] |
| 26.02.1944 | - | 18.03.1944 | Signals Officer |
| 17.12.1944 | - | 06.01.1945 | Chief Signals Officer, 5th Corps HQ (Italy) |
| 20.08.1947 | - | 10.07.1950 | Assistant Adjutant General, GHQ Far East Land Forces |
| 30.10.1952 | - | 02.11.1955 | Assistant Adjutant General (Mob.), War Office |
| 05.12.1955 | - | (02.1957) | Colonel General Staff, Royal Military College of Science |
| ? | - | 1962? | Chief Signals Officer, Southern Command |
[Sir] Dick Goldsmith
Son of Percy Hall White and Gertrude White (née Farthing).
Married (28.11.1945) Kathleen Somers Tonkinson (née Bellamy); two sons.
Tonbridge, Kent
-
21.02.1993
Burpham, near Arundel, Sussex
| 2nd Lt. |
29.12.1942
[135872] |
| WS/Lt. |
29.06.1943 |
| WS/Lt.Col. |
05.03.1945 |
| A/Col. |
? |
| local Brig. |
04.12.1945-(04.1946) |
|
KCMG |
01.01.1960 |
New
Year 1960 |
|
|
KBE |
09.06.1955 |
HM's
birthday 1955 |
|
|
CBE |
08.06.1950 |
HM's
birthday 1950 |
|
|
OBE |
11.06.1942 |
HM's
birthday 1942: as Assistant Director, War Office |
|
|
MID |
02.08.1945 |
NW
Europe |
| 01.1936 |
joined the Security
Service (MI5) |
||
| closely involved in
operating the highly successful "Double Cross" system against Nazi
Germany |
|||
| 29.12.1942 |
commissioned,
Intelligence Corps [emergency commission] |
Eric
-
| 2nd Lt. |
15.10.1939 [102043] |
| WS/Lt. |
15.10.1940 (reld
< 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. |
15.10.1940-(04.1944) |
| Hon. Capt. |
< 04.1946 |
| Lt. |
01.01.1951,
seniority 15.10.1940 |
| Capt. |
01.01.1951,
seniority 22.10.1950 |
| Maj. |
22.10.1958 |
| Hon. Capt. |
01.01.1959 |
| 15.10.1939 |
commissioned,
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission] |
||
| 01.01.1951 |
- |
01.01.1959 |
short
service commission, Royal Army Educational Corps |
Geoffrey George
-
| 2nd Lt. | 03.01.1940 [112352] |
| WS/Lt. | 12.10.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 12.10.1940-(04.1941) |
| WS/Capt. | 22.12.1942 |
| T/Maj. | 22.12.1942-(04.1944) |
| WS/Maj. | 27.02.1945 |
| local Lt.Col. | 10.11.1943-(04.1944) |
| T/Lt.Col. | 27.02.1945-(04.1946) |
| WS/Lt.Col. | 05.07.1946 (reld 09.11.1947) |
| T/Col. | 05.07.1946-(04.1947) |
| Hon. Col. | 09.11.1947 |
|
|
MBE | 11.06.1960 | HM's birthday 1960: Services Liaison Officer, Germany, War Office |
|
MID | 23.09.1943 | North Africa |
| 03.01.1940 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 10.11.1943 | - | (04.1944) | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Camberley Wing, Staff College (Camberley) |
Herbert Walter Percy
Son of ... White, and ... Lane.
Married ((06?).1941, Sheppey district, Kent) Nora N. Glover; ... children (one son?).
Residence: (1944) Earlsfield.
Wandsworth district, London
-
?
| Cadet | ? [6085489] |
| 2nd Lt. | 15.08.1943 [300221] |
| WS/Lt. | 15.08.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 12.01.1945-(01.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 01.1946, < 04.1946 |
|
|
MC | 07.12.1944 | Italy (attack on Colombella 27.06.1944) [recommendation available upon request] |
|
|
39|45 St | - | - |
|
|
Afr St | - | & clasp 8th Army |
|
|
It St | - | - |
|
|
Def M | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 15.08.1943 | commissioned, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| (1944) | 5th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (Italy) (MC) |
Louis McKelvey
Son of (with four brothers and one sister) of William John White (1872-1967), and Margaret Shimmons (1873-).
Married Constance Jean Muriel Moore (07.1914 -1980); two sons.
Cootehill, Cavan, Ireland
-
27.01.1982
Auckland, New Zealand
| Gnr. | ? |
| Bdr. | ? |
| L/Sgt. | ? |
| Sgt. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 28.12.1940 [163000] |
| WS/Lt. | 28.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 19.08.1943-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| Capt. | 24.10.1949 |
| Maj. | 20.10.1951 |
 |
EM | 08.09.1953 | - |
| 1939 | joined the 8th Belfast Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (SR) | ||
| either 121st of 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 28.12.1940 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 24.10.1949 | - | 14.05.1955 | Territorial Army |
| 15.05.1955 | - | 09.12.1961 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |
Oliver Geoffrey Woodhouse
From Farnborough, Hampshire.
-
(03?).1975
Andover district, Hampshire
| 2nd Lt. |
28.08.1930
[47671] |
| Lt. |
28.08.1933 |
| Capt. |
28.08.1938 |
| A/Maj. |
16.09.1940-15.12.1940 |
| T/Maj. |
16.12.1940-13.10.1941, 30.07.1942-25.06.1943 |
| WS/Maj. |
08.09.1944 |
| Maj. |
01.07.1946 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
26.03.1943-25.06.1943 |
| T/Lt.Col.
|
26.06.1943-08.07.1943, 08.06.1944-30.09.1948, 11.09.1949-06.09.1950 |
| local Lt.Col. |
20.12.19147-12.03.1948 |
| Lt.Col. |
31.08.1952
(supernumerary 31.08.1955) (retd 08.02.1959) |
|
|
DSO |
17.01.1946 |
Burma |
|
|
OBE |
13.06.1959 |
HM's
birthday 1959 |
|
|
MID |
10.01.1946 |
Burma |
| 28.08.1930 |
commissioned,
The Dorsetshire Regiment |
||
| 11.06.1936 |
- |
05.01.1939 |
Supervising
Officer for Physical Training (Class GG to 31.07.1938), Northern Ireland
District |
| 06.01.1939 |
- |
15.09.1940 |
Instructor,
... |
| 1943? |
- |
1945? |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment |
| 01.10.1948 |
- |
08.09.1949 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Eastern Command |
| 21.09.1949 |
- |
29.05.1950 |
Staff
Officer, 1st grade (SO1), British Army of the Rhine |
| 10.01.1956 |
- |
(02.1957) |
Commandant,
ASPT Southern Command |
| 08.02.1959 |
- |
22.08.1965 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Percival Walter Shatford
Sob of Percival Walter White (1875-), and Eva Shatford.
Married ((09?).1945, Surrey North Western district, Surrey) Audrey M. Jackman; three daughters.
Farnham district, Surrey
-
07.09.1996
Largs Bay, Adelaide, Australia
| 2nd Lt. | 08.04.1940 [123842] |
| WS/Lt. | 08.10.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| Hon. Capt. | > 01.1946, < 04.1946 |
| 08.04.1940 | commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 1941 | - | 1945 | POW (No. 3549) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern) |
William Walford
* later used as name:
Walford-White,
William
Married Joan Mary Uden (died 09.02.2007, aged 86); two daughters, one son.
-
09.2003
Colchester, Essex
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
07.05.1936 |
| ... |
... |
| T/Maj. |
? |
| Maj. |
07.05.1949 (retd
07.05.1954) |
| 07.05.1936 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
Neil Steuart Patrick
Son of Lionel Cole Whitefoord (1876-1916), and Marjory Agatha Postlethwaite (1883-1963).
Engaged (04.1939) Maria Viktoria Vogt, daughter of Hauptmann & Frau C. Vogt, of Berlin.
Married (15.06.1940, Christ Church, Mayfair, Westminster district, London; marriage dissolved 1955) Pamela Aurore Eyre Wood (21.01.1916 - 12.2003), only daughter of Lt.Col. Frederick Evan Wood (1875-1945), and Enid Amy Eyre Wood (later Mrs H.C.V. Porter) (1894-1971); two daughters.
Paddington district, London
-
03.1992
New Forest district, Hampshire
| 2nd Lt. | 29.08.1935 [66080] |
| Lt. | 29.08.1938 |
| A/Capt. | 14.05.1940-13.08.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 14.08.1940-17.04.1941 |
| WS/Capt. | 18.04.1941 |
| Capt. | 29.08.1943 |
| A/Maj. | 18.01.1941-17.04.1941 |
| T/Maj. | 18.04.1941-28.08.1948 |
| Maj. | 29.08.1948 (retd 18.10.1948; receiving a gratuity) |
|
|
MC | 13.12.1938 | Palestine 1936-1939: for gallant conduct while commanding a platoon engaged with bandits at Jaffa on 9th and 10th Sept 1938 |
Gained aviator's certificate (No. 15443) on 26.09.1937 taken on D.H. 60, Gipsy 1-90 at Misr Airwork.
| 29.08.1935 | commissioned, Irish Guards | ||
| (1938) | 1st Battalion Irish Guards (Palestine) (MC) | ||
| 2nd Battalion Irish Guards | |||
| 18.10.1948 | - | 04.01.1965 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Alastair Frederic
Eldest son (with one brother and one sister) of V.Adm. Frederic Aubrey Whitehead, CB, JP (1874-1958), and Elizabeth Caird, of Ashburnham, South Queensferry, West Lothian.
Ashburnham, South Queensferry, West Lothian
-
14.11.1974
Tonbridge district, Kent
| 2nd Lt. | 12.10.1938 [77843] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| A/Capt. | 25.01.1941-24.04.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 25.04.1941-31.03.1944 |
| WS/Capt. | 01.04.1944 |
| A/Maj. | 01.01.1944-31.03.1944 |
| T/Maj. | 01.04.1944-22.04.1949 |
| Lt. | 17.08.1946, seniority 17.01.1942 |
| Capt. | 17.08.1946, seniority 17.07.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 09.02.1952-16.07.1953 |
| Maj. | 17.07.1953 (retd 03.04.1959) |
|
|
MC | 29.06.1944 | Italy [citation available upon request] |
|
? |
MID ? | ? | ? |
| late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Repton School Contingent, Officer Training Corps | |||
| 12.10.1938 | commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized SRO [to 16.08.1946] | ||
| (05.1940) | 17th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company | ||
| (1944) | 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (MC) (Italy) | ||
| 17.08.1946 | permanent commission |
Arthur Philip
Son of ... Whitehead, and ... Fell.
|
|
Hindhead, Farnham district, Surrey
-
24.04.2003
Kendal district, Westmorland
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 04.07.1940 [138007] |
| WS/Lt. | 04.01.1942 (reld 01.11.1945; disability) |
| T/Capt. | 26.09.1943-(04.1944) |
| Hon. Capt. | 01.11.1945 |
|
EM | 06.03.1947 | - |
| 04.07.1940 | commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 25.06.1944 | 1st Battalion The Tyneside Scottish - The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (Normandy [seriously wounded]) |
Robert Christopher
Carlisle district, Cumbria
-
Australia
| 2nd Lt. | 07.11.1942 [261359] |
| WS/Lt. | 07.05.1943 |
| 07.11.1942 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Benjamin James
Son (with one brother) of Benjamin Whitehouse (1886?-1923), and Amelia Mealor (1889-).
Brother of Lt. Harry Whitehouse, The King's Regiment.
Married (28.10.1939, Birkenhead district, Cheshire) Joan Townshend; one son, one daughter.
Address: (1943): 7 Stanley Road, Bebington.
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
04.05.1991
New Ferry, Wirral, Birkenhead district, Cheshire
| Cadet | ? [2930036] |
| 2nd Lt. | 30.07.1943 [288274] |
| WS/Lt. | 30.01.1944 |
| T/Capt. | ? |
| Hon. Capt. | 13.02.1946 |
|
EM | 22.01.1985 | - |
| served in the ranks, Liverpool Scottish | |||
| 02.04.1943 | - | 29.07.1943 | D Company, 161st (RMC) Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst |
| 30.07.1943 | commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission] | ||
| 10.12.1944 | - | (1945) | seconded, 6th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (Holland, Germany) |
| 13.02.1946 | unemployed list |
Dudley Ernest
Son of ... Whitehouse, and ... Coombs.
Married Monique Jane ...; three sons.
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
06.06.1989
Llandough Hospital, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales (formerly of Barry, South Glamorgan, Wales)
| 2nd Lt. | 29.11.1939 [100422] |
| WS/Lt. | 29.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Capt. |
14.04.1943-(04.1945), 22.06.1945-(04.1946) |
|
EM | 25.06.1954 | - |
| served in the ranks, Inns of Court Regiment | |||
| 29.11.1939 | commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] |
His son writes: "Yellow fever in Egypt. Wounded in battle. El Alamein, 8th Army RTR Matilda, then Sherman, then tanks with arc lights in place of gun & tanks with flamethrower in place of gun. Liberating Paris."
Harry
Son (with one brother) of Benjamin Whitehouse (1886?-1923), and Amelia Mealor (1889-).
Brother of Capt. Benjamin James Whitehouse, The King's Regiment.
Married ((09?).1939, Birkenhead district, Cheshire) Blanche Matilda Bleasdale (28.06.1902 - 03.1988), of Birkenhead.
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
18.03.1943
[age 28]
[Rangoon Memorial, Burma, face 5]
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 02.11.1940 [156237] |
| WS/Lt. | 02.05.1942 |
| either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 02.11.1940 | commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 18.03.1943 | seconded, Lincolnshire Regiment |
William Stephen Ian;
[1st Viscount Whitelaw]
|
|
-
01.07.1999
| 2nd Lt. | 07.10.1939 [89506] |
| Lt. | 07.04.1941 |
| WS/Capt. | 07.02.1943 |
| T/Maj. | 07.02.1943-(04.1946) |
| A/Lt.Col. | ? |
|
|
MC | 21.12.1944 | NW Europe 1944-1945 |
|
|
MID | 08.11.1945 | NW Europe |
| 30.06.1939 | commissioned, General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army | ||
| 07.10.1939 | commissioned, Scots Guards | ||
| (1944) | 3rd (Tank) Battalion Scots Guards (NW Europe) (despatches) | ||
| 17.08.1948 | Lothians and Border Yeomanry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |
John Percival
Son of Frank Whiteley, CMG, JP, Ilkley, Yorkshire, and Sarah Emiliy Whiteley. Married (1925) Amy Beatrice, daughter of H.G. Tetley, Alderbrook, Surrey; three sons. From London.
Mafeking, South Africa
-
04.07.1943
(aircraft crash) [age 45]
[Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, 1.A.7]
|
2nd Lt. |
1916 [123922] |
| Lt. |
10.11.1917 |
| Lt. [Life Gds] |
13.11.1926,
seniority 31.08.1925 (retd 25.01.1928) |
| Capt. |
24.03.1928 |
| Maj. |
10.03.1932 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
? |
| [A/ ?] Brig. |
? |
|
|
OBE |
11.07.1940 |
distinguished
services in the field |
|
TD |
23.06.1942 |
? |
| 1916 |
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery |
||
| 15.06.1920 |
- |
29.10.1920 |
special
appointment as Cipher Officer (Class HH) |
| 13.11.1926 |
- |
25.01.1928 |
transferred
to & service in the Life Guards |
| 25.01.1928 |
transferred
to Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Regimental List Life Guards - Class II |
||
| 25.01.1928 |
- |
23.03.1928 |
Lieutenant,
393rd (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Battery, 99th (Buckinghamshire and
Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
(Aylesbury, UK) |
| 24.03.1928 |
- |
09.03.1932 |
Battery
Captain, 393rd (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Battery, 99th (Buckinghamshire
and Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
(Aylesbury, UK) |
| 10.03.1932 |
- |
(01.1939) |
Officer
Commanding, 393rd (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Battery, 99th
(Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery -
Territorial Army (Aylesbury, UK) |
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized
TA |
||
| early
1940s |
Commanding
Officer, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal
Artillery |
||
| Brigadier
General Staff [?] |
|||
| 04.07.1943 |
died in the
Liberator Mk II AL523 (also carrying Polish general Vladislav Sikorski) that
crashed just after take-off from Gibraltar |
Walter [Waller Wesley]
Son (with one brother and four sisters) of Walter Waller Whitfield (1862-), and Caroline Eliza Hunt (1872-).
Married (1921, Dublin) Mary Gough (02.07.1905 - 26.02.1969), daughter of William Gough (1880-), and Elizabeth Keogh (1885-); three children.
Dropmore, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
04.1947
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
| WS/RSM |
? |
| Lt. QM
|
29.09.1943
[325826] |
| served
in the ranks, Royal Berkshire Regiment |
|||
| 29.09.1943 |
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] |
Charles Vere
Son of William Edward Whiting (1874-1931), and Mary Elizabeth Whiting.
Married ((03?).1936, Surrey North Eastern district) Mair Eluned Thomas (21.04.1909 - 04.10.1987); ... children (one son?).
Harley, Atcham district, Shropshire
-
27.09.1992
Winscombe, West super Mare district, Somerset
| 2nd Lt. | 24.03.1937 [70667] |
| WS/Lt. | 24.03.1940 |
| T/Capt. |
11.04.1940-(07.1941), 06.03.1944-10.04.1945 |
| Capt. | 11.04.1945 |
| T/Maj. | 09.12.1945-(04.1947) |
| WS/Maj. | ? |
| Maj. | 15.03.1947, seniority 06.03.1946 |
| T/Lt.Col. | ? |
| Hon. Lt.Col. | 15.03.1950 |
|
|
TD | 21.04.1950 | - |
| late Officer Cadet, Bangor University College Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| 24.03.1937 | commissioned, 6th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers - Territorial Army | ||
| 01.07.1939 | - | (07.1941) | Adjutant, 9th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers |
| 15.03.1947 | - | 15.03.1950 | commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [short service commission] |
| 15.03.1950 | - | 05.03.1955 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
Mark Peter
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Mark Kingsley Whitlock (1881-1968), and Louise Augusta Irmgart Heim (1895-1983).
Married (01.05.1946, Khartoum, Sudan) 3rd Officer Mary Jane Rosamund "Molly" Hall, WRNS (06.01.1922 - ), daughter (with two sisters) of Col. Sir Lionel Reid Hall of Dunglass, 12th Bt. (1898-1975), and Mary Marjoribanks Moore Heath; three sons, two daughters.
St Giles district, London
-
01.05.2009
in hospital (formerly of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk)
| Gnr. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 30.07.1939 [96061] |
| WS/Lt. | 30.01.1941 |
| Lt. | 11.04.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 20.04.1941-06.08.1943 |
| WS/Capt. | 07.08.1943 |
| T/Maj. | 07.08.1943-(01.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. | > 01.1946, < 04.1946 |
|
|
MID | 21.06.1945 | Mediterranean [recommendation available upon request] |
|
|
TD | 13.07.1951 | - |
| late Cadet Serjeant, Downside School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| served in the ranks, The Honourable Artillery Company, Royal Horse Artillery | |||
| 30.07.1939 | commissioned, 2nd/8th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - Territorial Army | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| 1943 | - | 1944 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (Staff Duties), 3 Corps (Greece) (despatches) |
John Gordon
Son (with one sister and one half-sister) of John Whittaker (1847-1924), and Constance Lillian Mason.
Married Dorothy Ruth Matthews; one son, one stepdaughter.
Chorley, Lancashire
-
12.06.1987
[Scarborough
Toronto Municipality
Ontario, Canada]
| 2nd Lt. | 26.08.1937 [73052] |
| Lt. | 26.08.1940 |
| A/Capt. | 13.07.1940-12.10.1940 |
| T/Capt. | 13.10.1940-25.08.1945 |
| Capt. | 26.08.1945 |
| A/Maj. | 25.06.1946-24.09.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 25.09.1946-02.04.1948 |
| Maj. | 26.08.1950 |
| local Lt.Col. | 04.07.1956-(02.1957) |
| Lt.Col. | 20.08.1959, seniority 01.05.1959 (retd 29.03.1962) |
| 26.08.1937 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery | ||
| 13.03.1941 | - | 03.10.1941 | Adjutant, ... |
| 04.11.1941 | - | 01.10.1943 | Adjutant, ... |
Frederic Milner
Richmond district, Yorkshire
-
01.1990
Northumberland North Second district, Northumberland
| Fus. |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
16.08.1939
[95121] |
|
WS/Lt.
|
16.02.1941 (reld
< 04.1946) |
| Hon. Lt. |
< 04.1946 |
| 16.08.1939 |
|
|
commissioned,
9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army |
| 24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized
TA |
| (1940) |
|
|
9th
Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France) |
| ? |
- |
05.12.1951 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers |
Alistair Gordon Donald
Only son of Mr & Mrs Whyte, of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Married (1936?) Eveline Mackie, MA, youngest daughter of Adam Mackie, and Mrs Mackie, of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; ... children (one daughter?).
Aberdeen, Scotland
-
1985
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
| Lt. | 07.06.1934
[56558] 02.07.1934, seniority 02.07.1933 |
| Capt. | 02.07.1935, seniority 02.07.1934 |
| A/Maj. | 13.01.1940-12.04.1940 |
| T/Maj. | 13.04.1940-01.07.1943 |
| Maj. | 02.07.1943 |
| A/Lt.Col. | 07.08.1945-06.11.1945 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 07.11.1945-14.05.1948 |
| Lt.Col. | 15.05.1948 |
| T/Col. | 30.09.1953-(01.1957) |
| Col. | 01.06.1957 (retd 06.10.1959; disability) |
|
|
CBE | 01.01.1959 | New Year 1959 |
|
|
MBE | 11.05.1937 | Palestine |
|
|
MID | 20.12.1945 | ? |
| from General List - Territorial Army | |||
| 07.06.1934 | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission] | ||
| 1935 | - | 1936 | served Egypt |
| 1936 | - | 1937? | served Palestine |
| 1937 | - | 1939 | served Egypt |
| 02.07.1939 | permanent commission | ||
| 13.01.1940 | - | 08.05.1941 | Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), ... (Middle East Forces) |
| 1941 | - | 1945 | POW in Italian & German captivity |
| 07.08.1945 | - | 22.02.1946 | Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS), HQ Scottish Command |
| 1947 | - | 1948 | Officer-in-Charge Surgical Division, Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank |
| 1948 | - | 1950 | Officer-in-Charge Surgical Division, Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot |
| 15.11.1950 | - | 19.06.1953 | Officer-in-Charge Surgical Division, British Military Hospital Fayid |
| 30.09.1953 | - | 09.03.1956 | Consulting Surgeon HQ British Army of the Rhine |
| 01.04.1956 | - | 1959 | Consulting Surgeon, Royal Army Medical College (Millbank) |
John Roy
Son of Albert S. Wickens, and Hilda M. Norman.
Married ((06?).1947, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Joan Elizabeth Hogan (14.06.1920 - (09?).1982), daughter (with three siblings) of Michael J. Hogan (1881-1942), and Mary Ann Moore (1892-1976); one daughter.
Ardingly, Steyning district, Sussex
-
30.03.1985
Tilgate, Crawley, West Sussex
| Cadet | ? [2092254] |
| 2nd Lt. (EME) | 17.01.1944 [308159] |
| WS/Lt. (EME) | 17.07.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| A/Capt. (EME) | (04.1946) |
| 1943 | Officer Training School, Bangalore | ||
| 17.01.1944 | commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission] | ||
| attached, Corps of Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
John Joseph Onslow
Islington district, London
-
(12?).1967
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
| Lt. | 17.01.1940 [15449] |
| Captain, Indian Army | |||
| 17.01.1940 | commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) [emergency commission] | ||
| (1941) | 8th (HD) Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment |
Marcus William
Second son of Capt. Thomas Lampugh Wickham (1869-1942), DL, JP, of Boston Spa, and Cycely Mabel Boynton (1877-1947), of Burton Agnes Hall, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Burton Agnes, Yorkshire
-
19.12.1989
Bridlington, Yorkshire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 25.05.1940 [133267] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.07.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 01.07.1941-(10.1945) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 10.1945, < 01.1946 |
| 25.05.1940 | commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission] | ||
| 1942 | - | 1944 | served at General Headquarters (GHQ) |
Francis Nathaniel Heron
Son of Brig.Gen. Bertram FitzHerbert Widdrington (1873-1942), and Clothilde Enid Onslow-Ford (died 1952).
Married (21.04.1949, St Marylebone district, London) Leila Gabrielle "Gay" Garforth-Bles; one step-son.
Alnwick district, Northumberland
-
13.02.2009
Newton Hall, Newton On The Moor, Morpeth, Northumbria
| 2nd Lt. |
03.07.1939 [95572] |
| Lt. |
03.01.1941 |
| A/Capt. |
23.07.1945-22.10.1945 |
| T/Capt. |
23.10.1945-(04.1946) |
| Capt. |
01.07.1946 (retd
05.09.1949) |
|
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
|
Fr&G
St |
- |
- |
|
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
Gen
SM |
- |
- |
| 03.07.1939 |
commissioned,
Welsh Guards |
||
| (1944) |
- |
(1945) |
1st
Battalion Welsh Guards (NW Europe) |
William John Graham
Son of William and Elizabeth Thomson Graham Wield.
Married ((12?).1938, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Agnes Reid Cannon, of Dumfries; two daughters, one son.
Bloomfield, Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
-
08.09.1946
(KIA) [age 33]
[Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar, 2.J.15]
| Pte. | 1935 |
| 2nd Lt. | 09.03.1940 [124773] |
| WS/Lt. | 29.08.1940 |
| A/Capt. | ? |
| 1935 | - | 1940 | enlisted service, 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers |
| ? | - | 09.03.1940 | 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 09.03.1940 | commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Malta, Palestine, France and Belgium before joining the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in 1941 and serving in Burma (now Myanmar); returned home for 5 months in 1945 before signing up for another 5 years service with RIASC; disembarked at Rangoon in May 1946, during the uprisings later that year he drowned trying to save another's life; he suffered severe burns earlier in his career |
Arnold
Son of Edward and Ellen Wienholt.
Husband of Enid F. Wienholt, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
|
|
Goomburra, Queensland
-
10.09.1940
[age 62]
[Khartoum Memorial, panel 2]
| 2nd Lt. |
? [183659] |
|
|
DSO |
15.10.1918 |
* |
|
|
MC |
? |
? |
|
|
MC |
? |
? |
| 1900 |
- |
1901 |
served
colonial militia (Australia), Queensland, Australia (South African War):
Private (Sergeant 01.06.1900), 4 (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent |
| 1914 |
- |
1918 |
served
First Great War |
| commissioned,
General List |
|||
| ? |
- |
10.09.1940 |
101 Mission
(Abyssinian Border) (possibly executed for spying by a rival power) |
Derrick Edmund [Will Playford]
Residences: Gorleston (1945), Acle, Norwich (1976).
-
02.06.1976
* either 01.11.1912 or 06.11.1912
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
04.04.1942
[232183] |
| WS/Lt. |
04.10.1942 |
| T/Capt.
|
20.04.1945 |
| Maj. TA
|
04.10.1947 |
| Lt.Col. TA |
30.11.1953 (retd
30.11.1957) |
|
|
MC |
22.03.1945 |
NW
Europe [raid on enemy supply dump at Oss, Holland] |
|
MID |
? |
? |
|
MID |
? |
? |
| 04.04.1942 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] |
||
| 1944/45 |
NW Europe (ended
the war protecting Dutch electrical manufactures from pilfering and looting) |
||
| 04.1.1947 |
- |
30.11.1957 |
served
Territorial Army |
| 30.11.1957 |
- |
? |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers |
Cyril Edward Major
Son of Edward Alfred and Edith May Wiggins; husband of Joyce Wiggins, of Marylebone, London.
Epping, Essex
-
10.11.1944
(KIA) [age 38]
[Nederweert War Cemetery, The Netherlands, II.E.7]
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
21.09.1940 [149694] |
| WS/Lt. |
17.07.1941 |
| T/Capt.
|
31.03.1942-10.11.1944 |
| 21.09.1940 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
||
| ? |
- |
10.11.1944 |
494th Field
Battery, 131st (City of Glasgow) Field Regiment RA [killed in action by shellburst while serving as an Observation Post officer in the Ommel area, The Netherlands] |
Denys Reginald
"Reg"
Married (24.06.1936, St Marylebone district, London) Mary Ethel Sumner Barrett (20.08.1912 - 25.07.2010); two daughters.
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03.06.1988
Bracknell, Berkshire
| 2nd Lt. | 15.06.1932 [53229] |
| Lt. | 15.06.1935 |
| WS/Capt. | 16.04.1943 |
| T/Maj. | 16.04.1943 |
| Hon. Maj. | 1945/46 (reld) |
| Capt. | 01.09.1949 |
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Olav | 17.10.1946 | Norway 1945 [recommendation available upon request] * |
* Initially recommended for MBE, but not awarded.
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late Cadet, St. Edmund's College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps |
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| 15.06.1932 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | ||
| 15.06.1932 | - | (01.1937) | 162nd (City of London) Battery, 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade - Territorial Army |
| 24.04.1937 | - | 01.11.1958 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |
| 08.07.1942 | - | (04.)1944 | Instructor in Gunnery (Field), Gunnery Wing, School of Artillery (Larkhill, Salisbury Plain, Wilts.) |
| 06.1944 | - | 10.1945 | Commanding Officer, No.1 Forward Observer Unit RA (Airborne) (with 1st Airborne Corps HQ 09.1944; in Norway acting as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Stavanger Zone) |
George Richardson
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Thomas Scott Sanderson Wightman (1885-1922), and Margaret Henderson Richardson (1886-1976).
Married 1st (06.10.1939, St Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland) Anne Patricia Bryham Oliver (04.06.1916 - 01.1964), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Charles Bryham Oliver (1886-1958), and Ellen Jane Shanley (1889-1965); two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd (04.1972, Lower Agbrigg, West Riding of Yorkshire) ...; one daughter.
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
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18.11.1987
Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, Yorkshire
| Lt. | 15.05.1941 [185950] |
| WS/Capt. | 15.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| Hon. Maj. | ? |
| 15.05.1941 | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| served in North Africa |
Gerald Frederic
Son of Dr. L.E. Wigram.
Hampstead, Greater London
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17.05.2009
Calverleigh, Tiverton, Devon
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
12.06.1940
[322601] |
| WS/Lt. |
12.12.1941 |
| T/Capt.
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01.12.1943-(04.1946) |
| 12.06.1940 |
commissioned,
General List, Infantry - African Colonial Forces Section [emergency commission] |
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| served,
Kenya Regiment |
William Alfred Charles
Married Cecilia Egerton Guest (1906-1981); one son.
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30.10.1981
Folkestone, Shepway district, Kent
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 27.03.1941 [181650] |
| A/Lt. | 26.03.1941-20.06.1942 |
| WS/Lt. | 21.06.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946) |
| A/Capt. | 21.01.1942-20.06.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 21.06.1942-(10.1945) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 10.1945, < 01.1946 |
| 27.03.1941 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Samuel John
Son of John T. Wilcox, and Emily Jane A. Harrison.
Married ((06?).1925, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire) Edith Ann Wilcox ((03?).1889 - (06?).1959), daughter of Joseph Chamberlain Wilcox (1855-), and Anna Maria B. Smith (1864-).
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
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02.09.1978
Prestbury, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
| Wt.Offr. class II | ? |
| Lt. | 25.02.1941 [173528] |
| T/Capt. | 16.09.1942-(07.1945) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 07.1945, < 10.1945 |
| Capt. | 01.05.1947 |
| Maj. | 16.12.1947 (retd 15.07.1953) |
| Lt. | 15.07.1953 |
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MBE | ? | ? |
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EM | 08.02.1949 | 2nd clasp |
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TD | 01.12.1953 | - |
| WW I | served as Corporal & Company Sergeant-Major in the 1/5th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment | ||
| 25.02.1941 | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| (04.1944) | - | (07.1945) | serving with Home Guard |
| 01.05.1947 | - | 15.07.1953 | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army [exceeded age limit] |
| 15.07.1953 | commissioned, Gloucester Contingent, Army Cadet Force - Territorial Army |
Harold Wilfred Harmsworth
Elder son (with three sisters and one brother) of Lt.Col. Wilfred Hubert Wild, Northumberland Fusiliers, and Violet Grace Harmsworth.
Married (19.10.1940, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Winifred Mary Hutchinson.
Barnet district, Greater London
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25.01.1947
Fayrsstede, Denham, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 16.03.1940 [123620] |
| WS/Lt. | 16.09.1941 |
| WS/Capt. | 14.08.1945 (reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. | 14.08.1945-... |
| Hon. Maj. | < 04.1946 |
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MID | 23.05.1946 | Mediterranean |
| 16.03.1940 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 19.11.1940 | transferred, Intelligence Corps | ||
| 18.04.1942 | transferred, Royal Corps of Signals |
Peter Miller
Son of Thomas Milner Wildash, and Constance Miller.
Married (1928) Lucy Helen Ransome (17.10.1915 -); one daughter, one son.
West Ham, London
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15.02.1971
Hammersmith district, London
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 12.07.1941 [197441] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| Hon. Lt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| 12.07.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| attached, Indian Army | |||
| 23.03.1942 | - | 02.05.1942 | Officers' Light Anti-Aircraft course serial No. 18, Anti-Aircraft School (Deolali, India) |
Ian Temple
Son of ... Wilde, and ... Lazenby.
Married (02.03.1946, St Michael's and All Angels Church, Heliopolis, Egypt) Ldg.Acwm. Rosabelle Taylor, WAAF; ... children (one daughter?).
Gainsborough district, Lincolnshire
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19.04.2009
Devizes, Wiltshire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 25.01.1941 [170131] |
| WS/Lt. | 25.05.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 31.03.1946-(12.1946) |
| 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 25.01.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
Alec Warren Greenlaw
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Surg.R.Adm. Alexander Gascoigne Wildey, CB (1860-1934), and Ruth Amy Hprniman (1867-1953), of Churt, Surrey.
Married 1st (30.05.1916, Malling district, Kent) Joan Baldock (18.05.1887 - 17.02.1942), daughter of Frederick G. Baldock (1856-1945), and Emily Harriet Henley (1854-1944), of Bodmin, Cornwall; one son (Maj. John Peter Alexander Wildey, RASC).
Married 2nd ((09?).1964, Dunmow district, Essex) Mrs Joan Isabel Moller (21.04.1911 - 13.01.1997), of Felsted, Essex.
Stoke Damerel district, Devon
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18.02.1981
Weal House Nursing Home, St Neots, Huntingdon district, Cambridgeshire
| 2nd Lt. | 23.12.1910 [4563] |
| Lt. | 23.12.1913 |
| T/Capt. | 11.08.1915-07.08.1916 |
| Capt. | 08.08.1916 |
| A/Maj. |
25.09.1916-27.05.1917, 13.06.1917-10.07.1919 |
| Maj. | 01.01.1929 |
| Lt.Col. | 01.07.1937 |
| Col. | 22.08.1940, seniority 01.07.1940 (supernumerary 24.07.1915) (retd 20.06.1946) |
| A/Brig. | 26.04.1940-25.10.1940 |
| T/Brig. | 25.10.1940-20.06.1946 |
| Hon. Brig. | 20.06.1946 |
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CBE | 01.08.1946 | Malaya & Singapore |
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MC | 31.05.1916 | ? |
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14|15 St | - | & clasp |
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BWM | - | - |
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VM | - | - |
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39|45 St | - | - |
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Pac St | - | - |
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Def M | - | - |
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WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 23.12.1910 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery | ||
| 03.10.1914 | - | 04.01.1915 | served in France & Belgium (wounded) |
| 25.03.1915 | - | 10.10.1917 | served in France & Belgium (wounded) |
| 24.09.1919 | - | 23.09.1922 | Adjutant, ... |
| 01.09.1924 | - | 17.02.1926 | Staff Captain, India |
| 22.01.1930 | - | 14.03.1932 | Staff Officer Royal Artillery (SORA) (General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)), Wessex Area, Southern Command |
| 15.03.1932 | - | 21.01.1934 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), London District |
| 21.01.1936 | - | 31.01.1937 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Royal Army Service Corps Training Centre |
| 11.1937? | - | 1940 | Commander, 3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Singapore) |
| 26.04.1940 | - | 15.02.1942 | Commander, HQ Anti-Aircraft Defences, Malaya (CBE) |
| 1942 | - | 1945 | POW in Japanese captivity |
John Peter Alexander
Son of Brig. Alec Warren Greenlaw Wildey, CBE, MC (1890-1981), and Joan Baldock (1887-1942).
Married ((12?).1946, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Margarat "Peggy" North (06.1927 - 20.01.2009); three children.
Richmond district, North Riding of Yorkshire
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24.03.1996
Wadebridge, Bodmin district, Cornwall
| 2nd Lt. | 01.07.1939 [95546] |
| Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| A/Capt. |
01.01.1942-17.01.1946, 25.03.1946-08.05.1946 |
| T/Capt. | 09.05.1946-30.06.1946 |
| Capt. | 01.07.1946 |
| T/Maj. | 09.12.1950-30.06.1952 |
| Maj. | 01.07.1952 (retd 09.09.1960) |
| 01.07.1939 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps | ||
| 15.02.1942 | - | 1945 | POW in Japanese captivity |
Harry Reuben
Married (divorced 1946); one son.
Aberdeen, Scotland
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02.1987
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
| Pte. |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
02.07.1939 [93991] |
| WS/Lt. |
02.01.1941
(dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court Martial
13.07.1945) |
| T/Capt. |
13.11.1942-(04.1944) |
| 02.07.1939 |
commissioned,
5th/7th Battalion The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army |
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| 24.08.1939 |
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mobilized
TA |
| (04.1941) |
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specially
employed |
| served
North Africa, probably also Sicily, Italy (involved in the attack on the machine gun line at
Sferro) & France |
Harold William
Son of Reginald Jack Wilkes (1896-1989), and Dorothy Maud Loveday Tame (1898-1985).
Married (10.01.1942, Wythenshawe, Manchester) Dorothy Milroy; two daughters.
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27.02.1973
New End Hospital, Hampstead, London (formerly of 40 Cheviot Gardens, London NW2)
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 16.08.1941 [201408] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 16.08.1941 | commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission] |
Thomas George
Cupar, Fife, Scotland
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15.09.1967
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 26.10.1941 [217672] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) |
| A/Capt. ? | ? |
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39|45 St | - | - |
 |
Bur St | - | - |
|
Def M | - | - |
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BWM 39|45 | - | - |
| 26.10.1941 | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Burma (possibly with the Indian Army Service Corps, attached to the XIIIth Army) |
George Harry
Married in Burma an officer in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
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?
[died in his 50s]
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 09.10.1941 [212087] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 07.09.1943-31.12.1943 |
| WS/Capt. | 01.01.1944 |
| T/Maj. | 24.07.1945-(04.1946) |
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MID | 16.12.1943 | Burma / Eastern Frontier of India |
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MID | 05.04.1945 | Burma / Eastern Frontier of India |
| 09.10.1941 | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission] | ||
| served in Burma |
James French
Only son of Col. James Sutherland Wilkins, DSO, of Eye, Suffolk.
Married (11.01.1939, St Paul's, Knightsbridge) Grace Helen Gwendolen Stirling Home Drummond Murray (11.10.1904-), second daughter of Capt. William Augustus Stirling Home Drummond Murray and the Hon. Gwendolen Edwardes; two sons.
Hartismere district, Suffolk
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25.07.1971
Warmingham, Norwich district, Norfolk
| 2nd Lt. |
30.08.1926
[36918] |
| Lt. |
30.08.1929 |
| local Capt. |
22.05.1935-28.09.1935 |
| Capt. |
30.09.1937 |
| A/Maj. |
29.12.1940-28.03.1941 |
| T/Maj. |
29.03.1941-29.08.1943 |
| Maj. |
30.08.1943 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
01.08.1945-31.01.1946 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
01.11.1945-24.03.1948, 16.07.1948-22.01.1951 |
| Lt.Col. |
23.01.1951
(supernumerary 23.01.1954) (Employed List (1) 23.01.1953) (retd
29.10.1957) |
| A/Col. |
10.09.1945-24.02.1946 |
| T/Col. |
05.03.1953-02.06.1956 |
| A/Brig. |
10.09.1945-24.02.1946 |
| Hon. Col. |
29.10.1957 |
| 30.08.1926 |
commissioned,
The Norfolk Regiment (laterThe Royal Norfolk Regiment) |
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| (03.1931) |
1st
Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Sialkot) |
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| (06.1933) |
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1st
Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Sialkot (for Chakrata)) |
| 22.05.1935 |
- |
28.09.1935 |
specially
employed India |
| (10.1937) |
|
|
2nd
Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Aldershot (for Gibraltar)) |
| (01.1939) |
|
|
Garrison
Adjutant, Gibraltar |
| ? |
- |
? |
? |
| 01.11.1945 |
- |
24.02.1946 |
Brigade
Commander |
| 16.07.1948 |
- |
03.11.1950 |
Deputy
Provost Marshal |
| 05.03.1953 |
- |
11.11.1954 |
Area
Commander HQ Mauritius |
| 29.11.1954 |
- |
08.12.1955 |
Deputy
District Commander, HQ 25th Armoured Brigade District, Middle East Land Forces |
| 09.12.1955 |
- |
22.03.1956 |
District
Commander, Tripolitania |
Bernard Cautley
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
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15.09.1985
Knaresborough, Leeds district, Yorkshire
| 2nd Lt. |
20.12.1918 [27071] |
|
Lt. |
20.12.1920 |
|
T/Capt. |
30.03.1929-15.01.1930 |
|
Capt. |
16.01.1930 |
|
Maj. |
01.08.1938 (retd
10.03.1949) |
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A/Lt.Col.
? |
05.1943-11.1943 |
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T/Lt.Col. |
05.06.1946-(04.1947) |
|
Hon. Lt.Col. |
10.03.1949 |
Iraq Operations 1919-20 Medal & Clasp.
| 20.12.1918 |
|
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commissioned,
The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
| 29.05.1926 |
- |
30.04.1931 |
employed
with King's African Rifles (from 03.02.1930 Company Commander, 3rd (Kenya)
Battalion at Meru) |
| (06.1933) |
|
|
2nd
Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Agra) |
| (01.1937) |
|
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2nd
Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Maymyo) |
| (01.1939) |
|
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1st
Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Strensall) |
| 05.1943 |
- |
11.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Batalion The Worcestershire Regiment |
Charles
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| 2nd Lt. |
13.06.1924 [30111] |
|
Lt. |
13.06.1926 |
|
T/Capt. |
21.10.1941 |
|
Lt. |
01.04.1947,
seniority 24.08.1939 |
|
Capt. |
01.11.1947 |
|
Maj. |
03.09.1952 (reld
30.05.1960) |
|
T/Lt.Col. |
? |
|
Hon. Maj. |
30.05.1960 |
|
|
OBE |
01.01.1959 |
New
Year 1959 |
|
MID |
12.09.1946 |
as
POW |
| 13.06.1924 |
- |
31.03.1947 |
commissioned,
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Regular Army Reserve of Officers [Class
I] |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
from the Reserve of Officers |
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| (1940) |
|
|
9th
Battalion The Royal Nothumberland Fusiliers (France) |
| 01.04.1947 |
- |
14.05.1954 |
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
[short service commission] |
| 15.05.1954 |
- |
30.05.1960 |
Corps
of Royal Military Police [short service commission] |
George
Son (with seven siblings) of John William Wilkinson (1871-1937), and Martina Jane Cocksedge (1879-1976).
From Hindhead, Surrey.
Married Marjorie Ella Morris (30.04.1922 - ); one son.
Rawmarsh, Yorkshire
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2010
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 07.09.1940 [148576] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.03.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 21.12.1941-21.08.1944 |
| WS/Capt. | 22.08.1944 |
| T/Maj. | 22.08.1944-(04.1947) |
| Capt. | 01.06.1947, seniority 22.08.1944 |
| Maj. | 30.09.1953 (reld 01.07.1959) |
|
|
MBE | 11.10.1945 | NW Europe [recommendation available upon request] |
| 07.09.1940 | commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| 25.02.1941 | transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers | ||
| (1945) | Officer Commanding, 182 Railway Operating Company RE (4 Railway Operating Group RE) (MBE) | ||
| 01.06.1947 | - | 01.07.1959 | short service commission |
Henry
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| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
19.12.1942
[256134] |
|
WS/Lt. |
19.06.1943 |
|
T/Capt. |
01.11.1945 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
Hon. Capt. |
> 04.1946 |
| 19.12.1942 |
commissioned
into The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission] |
Jack Charles Thomas
Son (with one sister) of John Henry "Jack" Wilkinson (1891-1968), and Amy Elizabeth Copsey (1891-1956).
Married (22.05.1945, London) Alma Edith Starling (22.05.1917 - 01.1997), daughter of George Stoddart Starling (1869-1937), and Winifred Marion Penny (1875-1952); one son.
Colchester, Essex
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17.01.1997
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
| Corporal | ? [404099] |
| A/Sgt. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 10.12.1944 [337390] |
| WS/Lt. | 10.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| Hon. Lt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
|
MID | 24.06.1943 | Middle East 05-10.1942 |
| served in the ranks, The Royal Dragoons (despatches) | |||
| possibly Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst | |||
| 10.12.1944 | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] |
Martin John Durham
Son of William D. Wilkinson, and Mabel Annie Jessel (1893-?).
Kensington district, Greater London
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09.2000
Lambeth district, London
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
22.06.1940
[137337] |
| WS/Lt. |
19.02.1941 (reld
> 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. |
06.06.1944-(04.1946) |
| ? |
- |
22.06.1940 |
either
164th, 165th, 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 22.06.1940 |
commissioned,
The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission] |
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| 17.07.1942 |
|
|
transferred,
Royal Armoured Corps |
| attached,
3rd The King's Own Hussars |
Ronald Joseph
Son of ... Wlikinson, and ... Kearsley.
Married ... ; three sons, one daughter.
West Derby district, Lancashire
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05.2000
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 22.08.1942 [241458] |
| WS/Lt. | 22.02.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| A?/Capt.? | 1946? |
| 22.08.1942 | commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.10.1942 | transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | ||
| seconded to RIEME with the 7th Indian Division, in India 1943, Burma 1944-45, Siam 1945-1946 and Malaya 1946 |
Trevor Basil
Son of Charles Edward Wilkinson (1869-1951), and Gertrude Ellen Eva Claris (1887-1959), of Eastlea, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
Married (01.08.1940) Ethel Sylvia Morley (14.01.1917 - 08.1988); ... children (two sons?).
Hitchin district, Hertfordshire
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12.2005
Chichester district, Sussex
| 2nd Lt. | 15.03.1939 [86661] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 13.11.1942-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. | ? |
| Capt. | 15.03.1949 |
| Hon. Maj. | 15.03.1949 |
Stock Exchange.
|
late Cadet, Sherborne School Contingent, Officer Training Corps |
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| 15.03.1939 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve (Category B, Employed) | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized SR | ||
| Adjutant-General's Directorate of Personal Services (AG3), General HQ, Middle East (Cairo, Egypt) | |||
| 15.03.1949 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
David Gordon
Son of Norman Wilkinson Cox, and Agnes M. Chaplin.
Married ((03?).1941, Northumberland South distrct, Northumberland) Audrey Smith, of Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Hammersmith district, London
-
09.04.1945
(KIA) [age 23]
[Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany, 4.J.3]
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 26.05.1944 [320931] |
| WS/Lt. | 26.11.1944 |
|
|
MC | 01.03.1945 | NW Europe 1944-1945 (won with the 1/7th at the Panheel Lock) |
| 26.05.1944 | commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission] | ||
| (1945) | - | 09.09.1945 | 1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe) (killed in action) |
Ian Kennedy
Son of ... Will, and ... Salmon.
Married (1956, St Giles district, Scotland) Elizabeth Murray Allison.
Colinton district, Scotland
-
1993
Dalkeith district, Scotland
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 02.09.1939 [96961] |
| WS/Lt. | 02.03.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 21.05.1941-(04.1944) |
| T/Maj. | (1944) |
|
|
MC | 23.03.1944 | Italy |
| 02.09.1939 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army | ||
| (08.1942) | - | (1944) | 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk, then Italy) |
Neil Fullerton Salmon
St Andrew district, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
1993
Morningside district, Scotland
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 19.10.1940 [153405] |
| WS/Lt. | 19.04.1942 |
DSO (Italy)
| 19.10.1940 | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission] | ||
| (08.1942) | 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk) |
Ronald Kerr
"Ronnie"
|
|
Edinburgh
-
11.09.2014
Gullane, East Lothian
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 10.02.1940 [117357] |
| ... | ... |
| WS/Capt. | 24.04.1944 |
| T/Maj. | 24.04.1944-(04.1946) |
| Capt. | 01.05.1949 |
|
|
MID | 08.11.1945 | NW Europe [recommendation available upon request] |
| Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 10.02.1940 | commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission] | ||
| 03.06.1943 | - | 23.09.1943 | training course, Staff College, Camberley |
| 01.05.1949 | - | 23.03.1968 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
Cecil Martin
Second son (with two brothers) of Edgar Douglas Willcock (1884-1938), and ... Hooper, of The Grey House, Albrighton, later of The Island, Oaken, nr Wolverhampton.
Brother of Lt. Douglas Brian Willcock, Parachute Regiment.
Married (30.08.1944, St Mary Magdalen, Tingewick, Buckinghamshire) Gwendoline Ethel Thornton, Section Officer WAAF, only daughter of Gp.Capt. & Mrs T.J.E. Thornton, of Cliftonville, Margate.
Wolverhampton district, Shropshire
-
04.1997
Cardiff district
| 2nd Lt. | 05.08.1939 [94631] |
| WS/Lt. | 05.02.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 10.11.1943-(04.1946) |
| late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Canford School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | |||
| commissioned, 2nd/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment - Territorial Army | |||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized TA | ||
| 30.09.1941 | - | 03.1943 | 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps |
| 01.08.1942 | transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps |
[Sir] Henry Beresford Dennits
|
|
-
15.08.1968
|
2nd Lt. |
20.12.1911 [4694] |
|
... |
... |
|
Col. |
29.06.1937,
seniority 01.07.1932 |
|
A/Maj.Gen. |
21.11.1939-08.03.1940 |
|
Maj.Gen. |
09.03.1940,
seniority 19.07.1938 (retd 21.08.1946) |
|
A/Lt.Gen. |
12.05.1941-11.05.1942 |
|
T/Lt.Gen. |
12.05.1942-13.05.1942, 26.05.1942-(01.1946) |
|
local Lt.Gen. |
14.05.1942-25.05.1942 |
|
Hon. Lt.Gen. |
21.08.1946 |
KCIE, 1945; CB 1942; DSO 1918; MC
| 20.12.1911 |
commissioned,
Sherwood Foresters |
||
| ... |
- |
...
|
... |
| 16.10.1938 |
- |
08.1939 |
Commander,
15th Infantry Brigade (York) |
| 08.1939 |
- |
19.11.1939 |
Commander,
13th Infantry Brigade (Catterick Camp) |
| 21.11.1939 |
- |
17.06.1940 |
Inspector
of Infantry, War Office (London) |
| 18.06.1940 |
- |
11.05.1941 |
General
Officer Commanding, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division (Home Forces) |
| 12.05.1941 |
- |
13.05.1942 |
General
Officer Commanding, I Corps District (Home Forces) |
| 1942 |
- |
1944 |
General
Officer Commanding, Central India |
| 1944 |
Chairman
of Army Reorganization Committee, to consider India's postwar defence needs |
John William Mills
Son of Herbert William Mills, a master builder, and
Mary Amelia Tizard.
Married (23.02.1951) Anne Priscilla Sainsbury; two adopted children (one son, one daughter).
Residence: (1945) Farnham, surrey.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hampstead
-
20.08.2002
Le This, Normandy, France
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
04.07.1940
[138702] |
| WS/Lt. |
04.01.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
22.01.1943-(04.1944) |
| T/Maj. |
? |
| WS/Maj. |
03.08.1945 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
03.08.1945-(04.1946) |
|
|
MBE |
28.06.1945 |
Italy |
|
|
MID |
06.04.1944 |
Middle
East |
| ? |
- |
04.07.1940 |
168th
Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 04.07.1940 |
commissioned,
General List [emergency commission] |
||
| 05.08.1942 |
transferred,
Intelligence Corps |
||
| served
with HQ 8th Army in Egypt, North Africa, and
Italy |
Leader writer, Guardian, Manchester, England, 1948-51; assistant editor, Times Literary Supplement, London, 1960-67, planning editor, 1969-71. Instructor, California Institute of the Arts, 1972-73; visiting professor of drama, University of New South Wales, 1979. Visiting fellow, Australian National University, 1979. Memberships: Arts Council of Great Britain (member of art panel, 1980--).
Published: Popski : a life of Vladimir Peniakoff (1954); The theatre of Bertolt Brecht : a study from eight aspects (1959); Brecht on theatre (1964; transl., ed. & author of notes); Art in a city (1967); Expressionism (1971); The theatre of Erwin Piscator (1978), etc.
Terence Charles
"Terry"
|
|
West Bromwich district, Staffordshire
-
04.03.2011
|
L/Cpl. |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
24.08.1939
[86726] |
|
A/Capt. |
29.12.1940-28.03.1941 |
|
T/Capt. |
29.03.1941-31.07.1941, 11.08.1942-14.10.1942 |
|
WS/Capt. |
15.10.1942 |
|
A/Maj. |
15.07.1942-14.10.1942 |
|
T/Maj. |
15.10.1942-12.10.1944 |
|
WS/Maj. |
13.10.1944 |
|
A/Lt.Col. |
13.07.1944-12.10.1944 |
|
T/Lt.Col. |
13.10.1944-23.08.1946 |
|
Lt. |
25.05.1946,
seniority 23.06.1941 |
|
Capt. |
01.07.1946 |
|
Maj, |
23.12.1952 (retd
17.03.1958) |
|
Hon. Lt.Col. |
17.03.1958 |
|
TD |
11.1953 |
? |
| served
in the ranks, Warwickshire Yeomanry - Territorial Army |
|||
| 08.04.1939 |
commissioned,
68th (South Midlands) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army |
||
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA to 24.05.1946 |
||
| (07.1943) |
- |
(05.1944) |
Commanding
Officer, 654 Air Observation Post Squadron (Sicily landings, Cassino) |
| (1944?) |
Commanding
Officer, 43 Operational Training Unit (Andover) |
Criminologist.
Albert Humphrey
From Resolven, Glamorgan.
Neath district, Glamorgan
-
(12?).1983
Aberconwy, Gwynedd, Wales
| 2nd Lt. |
23.03.1932
[51336] |
| Lt. |
23.03.1935 |
| Capt. |
10.07.1939 |
| T/Maj. |
13.02.1941-(04.1944) |
| WS/Maj. |
01.05.1943 (reld
1946?) |
| A/Lt.Col. |
01.02.1943-01.09.1943 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
23.03.1944?-18.07.1944?, 19.08.1945-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Lt.Col. |
1946? |
|
|
DSO |
16.12.1943 |
Burma
/ Eastern Frontier of India |
|
|
OBE |
13.06.1946 |
HM's
birthday 1946 |
|
|
MID |
10.05.1945 |
NW
Europe |
|
|
TD |
10.10.1947 |
- |
|
|
TD |
17.02.1950 |
1st
clasp |
| 23.03.1932 |
- |
11.1939 |
commissioned,
7th (Montgomeryshire) Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers - Territorial Army |
| 24.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized
TA |
| 11.1939 |
- |
01.09.1943 |
1st
Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers |
| 05.1940 |
- |
08.1941 |
Officer
Commanding, "A" Company (France [wounded] & UK) |
| 08.1941 |
- |
01.02.1943 |
Second-in-Command
(UK & Burma) |
| 01.02.1943 |
- |
01.09.1943 |
Commanding
Officer (Burma) |
| 23.03.1944 |
- |
18.07.1944 |
Commanding
Officer, 7th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (UK & France [wounded]) |
| 1946? |
- |
26.03.1952 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers |
Charles Riddell Dingwall
Kensington, Greater London
-
18.09.1973
London
| 2nd Lt. |
28.01.1939 |
| WS/Lt. |
01.01.1941 (reld
< 04.1946) |
| T/Capt.
|
29.05.1943-(04.1944) |
| Hon. Capt. |
< 04.1946 |
| 28.01.1939 |
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army |
||
| 28.01.1939 |
- |
(1939) |
51st
(London) Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| (1939) |
- |
(1940) |
"D"
Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA |
| (04.1944) |
Garrison
Adjutant |
Colin Sutherland
Son of Stanley Stapleton Williams (1879-), late Capt. East Yorkshire Regiment, and Florence Sutherland (1880-).
Married ((09?).1928, Birmingham South district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire) Nesta V. Clark; ... children (one daughter?).
Ashley, Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
01.07.1971
| 2nd Lt. | 30.03.1940 [125218] |
| WS/Lt. | 30.09.1941 (reld 11.09.1948) |
| T/Capt. | 25.12.1945-(12.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | 11.09.1948 |
Ground engineer (aircraft). Apprenticed to Robey & Co Ltd, General Engineers, Lincoln from 1922-1925.Employed by Blackburn Aircraft Co., Brough, Gloster Aircraft Co., Cheltenham, and Redwing Aircraft Co., Croydon and Colchester, 1925-1934. Ground engineer with East African Airways Co., Nairobi, 1934-1935. Was in charge of maintenance and overhaul of club aircraft of Southend Flying Club, (1935-1937) [gained civil aviator's certificate taken on an Avro Cadet, Genet Major, 140 h.p. at Southend Flying Club on 30.06.1936].
| 30.03.1940 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 29.04.1941 | 312 Company Royal Army Service Corps (2nd Armoured Division); captured at Kalamata, Greece; POW (No. 84) in German captivity (transit camp, Corinth, Greece 31.04.1941-06.06.1941; Oflag V-B, Biberach, Germany 14.06.1941-10.1941; Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany 10.1941-15.09.1942; Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern, Germany 17.09.1942-15.04.1945; Stalag VII-A, Moosberg, Germany 22.04.1945-29.04.1945) |
David Richard
Ffestiniog, Wales
-
| Spr. |
1914? [62634] |
| T/2nd Lt. |
30.01.1918
[161728] |
| T/Lt. |
30.07.1919 |
| T/Capt. |
? (reld 1920/21) |
| Lt. |
29.04.1941 |
| T/Capt. |
30.07.1941-(04.1947)
(reld > 04.1947) |
|
|
14|15
St |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM |
- |
- |
|
|
VM |
- |
- |
|
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
|
GenSM |
- |
&
clasp Kurdistan |
|
Ind
GenSM |
- |
&
clasp Afghanistan NW Frontier 1919 |
| 1914? |
served
in thre ranks, Royal Engineers (served in France from 23.08.1915) |
||
| 30.01.1918 |
commissioned,
Irish Guards (attached 1st Life Guards) [temporary commission] |
||
| Had an electrical contracting company in Wales called Captain
D.R. Williams & Co. Electrical Engineers and Contractors. |
|||
| 29.04.1941 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
||
Edgar Vaughan
Swansea district, Wales
-
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 10.02.1940 [117990] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.02.1941 |
| A/Capt. | 01.11.1940-31.01.1941 |
| T/Capt. | 01.02.1941-16.02.1944 |
| WS/Capt. | 17.02.1944 |
| A/Maj. | 17.11.1943-16.02.1944 |
| T/Maj. |
17.02.1944-23.03.1944, 23.04.1944-(04.1946) |
| Lt. | 16.06.1945, seniority 03.03.1941 |
| Capt. | 01.07.1946 |
| Maj. | 02.06.1952 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 19.03.1954) |
| served in the ranks for 2 years, 324 days | |||
| ? | - | 09.02.1940 | mobilized Territorial Army |
| 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 10.02.1940 | commissioned, York and Lancaster Regiment [emergency commission to 15.06.1945] | ||
| served in Burma & India | |||
| 16.06.1945 | permanent commission | ||
| ? | - | 19.03.1954 | 1st Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment M.E.L.F. |
Edward Alexander Wilmot
"Alick"
Son of late Captain B.C.W. Williams, JP, DL, Herringston, Dorchester and Hon. Mrs Winifred Mary Williams (MBE 1920), elder daughter of 2nd Baron Addington. Married (1943) Sybilla Margaret Archdale, daughter of Col. Osmund Audley Archdale; one son, three daughters.
Herringston, Dorchester, Dorset
-
09.11.1994
Herringston, Dorchester, Dorset
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
28.08.1930
[47677] |
|
Lt. |
28.08.1933 |
|
Capt. |
28.08.1938 |
|
A/Maj. |
26.05.1941-25.08.1941 |
|
T/Maj. |
26.08.1941-18.07.1943 |
|
WS/Maj. |
19.07.1943 |
|
Maj. |
01.07.1946 |
|
local Lt.Col. |
26.03.1942-23.07.1942 |
|
A/Lt.Col. |
19.04.1943-18.07.1943 |
|
T/Lt.Col. |
19.07.1943-28.11.1943 31.01.1944-21.06.1952 |
|
Bt. Lt.Col. |
01.07.1951 |
|
Lt.Col. |
13.10.1953 |
|
A/Col. |
24.03.1945-19.04.1945 |
|
Col. |
16.01.1956,
seniority 08.06.1954 |
|
A/Brig.
|
24.03.1945-19.04.1945 |
|
T/Brig. |
16.01.1956 |
|
Brig. |
08.06.1958 |
|
T/Maj.Gen. |
08.02.1960-13.02.1960 |
|
Maj.Gen. |
13.02.1960 (retd
28.01.1965) |
|
|
CB |
01.01.1962 |
New
Year 1962 |
|
|
CBE |
12.06.1958 |
HM's
birthday 1958 |
|
|
OBE |
13.06.1946 |
HM's
birthday 1946 |
|
|
MC |
03.09.1940 |
gallant
and distinguished services in recent operations |
|
MID |
03.02.1944 |
gallant
and distinguished services in the field |
| 28.08.1930 |
commissioned
into the King's Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles) |
||
| 21.01.1939 |
- |
19.06.1939 |
Adjutant,
2nd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Calais) |
| 25.03.1942 |
- |
23.07.1942 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Senior Officers' School |
| 31.07.1942 |
- |
13.12.1942 |
Brigade
Major, ... Brigade |
| 15.12.1942 |
- |
18.04.1943 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 1st Army |
| 19.04.1943 |
- |
17.10.1943 |
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Divisional HQ, ... Division |
| 31.01.1944 |
- |
08.03.1945 | Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Italy) |
| 08.03.1945 |
- |
23.03.1945 |
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Allied Force HQ |
| 24.03.1945 |
- |
19.04.1945 |
Brigadier
General Staff (SD), .... |
| 20.04.1945 |
- |
30.09.1945 |
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... |
| 01.10.1945 |
- |
12.1946 |
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (SD), General HQ Central Mediterranean Forces |
| 1947 |
US
Armed Forces Staff College (course 1) |
||
| 08.09.1947 |
- |
21.12.1949 |
Assistant
Adjutant General, War Office |
| 22.12.1949 |
- |
08.06.1952 |
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Instructor), Joint Services Staff College |
| 1954 |
- |
1955 |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion 60th Rifles |
| 16.01.1956 |
- |
1957 |
Commander,
2nd Infantry Brigade |
| 1958 |
Imperial
Defence College |
||
| 1959 |
Brigadier
Author, War Office |
||
| 08.02.1960 |
- |
20.02.1962 |
General
Officer Commanding, 2nd Division, British Army of the Rhine |
| 01.06.1962 |
- |
09.11.1962 |
Chief
of Staff, General HQ, Far East Land Forces |
| 09.11.1962 |
- |
10.11.1963 |
General
Officer Commanding, Singapore Base District |
| 1964 |
Chairman,
Vehicle Committee, Ministry of Defence |
||
| 01.02.1965 |
- |
31.01.1968 |
Lieutenant,
Army Cadet Force, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve, Category IV, Section
B, Dorset |
Edward Eyre Max
-
15.01.1979
| 2nd Lt. | 01.09.1932 [53688] |
| ... | ... |
| T/Maj. |
01.10.1941-12.01.1942, 31.05.1942-26.06.1943, 14.07.1943-04.11.1944, 01.02.1945-(01.1946) |
| Maj. | 01.07.1946 (retd 04.07.1947) |
|
|
MID | 30.12.1941 | ? |
| 01.09.1932 | commissioned, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers | ||
| ... | - | ... | ... |
| 29.01.1942 | - | 23.05.1942 | 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa) |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
Edward Jeffrey *
* also found as: Edward Jeffery
Sturminster, Dorset
-
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
25.12.1911 |
| Lt. |
? |
| Capt. |
? |
| Maj. |
01.10.1929 (retd
28.01.1939) |
| Maj.
|
01.12.1938 * |
* Maj. (retd), Reserve of Officers
| 25.12.1911 |
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery |
||
| ? |
- |
(03.1931) |
20th
Field Brigade RA (Catterick) |
| (06.1933) |
- |
(01.1937) |
25th
Field Brigade RA (Nowshera, then Jhansi) |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| (1939) |
- |
(1940) |
Officer
Commanding, "C" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA |
Edward Stephen Bruce
"Ted"
Son of late Maj.Gen. Sir Hugh Bruce Bruce-Williams, KCB, DSO (1865-1942), and Mabel Heward.
Married 1st (14.04.1925) Elizabeth Frances Chadwyck-Healey (died 1934), daughter of Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Bt. and Frances Katharine Wait.
Married 2nd (1938) Evelyn Agnes Clay (born 1906); two sons, two daughters (son David Arden Bruce Williams (1940-2007) was Colonel in the Royal Green Jackets).
Pinhoe, Devon
-
20.01.1977
Winchester, Hampshire
| 2nd Lt. |
20.09.1911 [1554] |
| Lt. |
17.04.1913 |
| Capt. |
15.05.1915 |
| Bt. Maj. |
01.07.1930 |
| Maj. |
23.11.1932 |
| local Lt.Col. |
15.10.1930-14.10.1934 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. |
01.07.1934 |
| Lt.Col. |
11.07.1938 |
| Col. |
08.02.1940,
seniority 01.07.1937 (supernumerary 31.12.1944) (retd 30.12.1946) |
| A/Brig. |
08.02.1940-07.08.1940 |
| T/Brig.
|
08.08.1940-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Brig. |
30.12.1946 |
|
|
CBE |
02.06.1943 |
HM's
birthday 1943 |
|
|
MID |
15.05.1917 |
? |
|
LegH |
? |
? |
|
|
14|15
St |
- |
&
clasp |
|
|
BWM
14|20 |
- |
- |
|
|
VM |
- |
- |
Iraq operations 1919-20 Medal & Clasp;
Palestine 1936-39 Clasp
| 20.09.1911 |
commissioned,
The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) |
||
| 20.08.1914 |
- |
19.10.1914 |
served
France & Belgium |
| 11.04.1915 |
- |
13.03.1916 |
A.Sig.Serv.
[= Air Signal Service ?] (from 25.05.1915-07.07.1915 Gallipoli, from
15.10.1915-18.03.1916 Egypt) |
| 14.03.1916 |
- |
22.07.1916 |
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Egyptian Expeditionary Force &
France (from 06.06.1916) (wounded twice) |
| 23.07.1916 |
- |
06.04.1917 |
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), France |
| 04.02.1918 |
- |
07.07.1919 |
Brigade
Major, Home Forces |
| 08.07.1919 |
- |
07.07.1922 |
Adjutant,
... (Iraq operations, 1919-1920) |
| 31.08.1922 |
- |
20.01.1926 |
Officer
Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
| 21.01.1929 |
- |
14.10.1930 |
General
Staff Officer for Weapon Training (Class CC), Aldershot Command |
| 15.10.1930 |
- |
14.10.1934 |
Lt.Col.
in Command, Oxford University Contingent, Officer Training Corps |
| (01.1937) |
2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade
(Malta) |
||
| 11.07.1938 |
- |
07.02.1940 |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Palestine operations, 1939) |
| 22.01.1940 |
- |
31.01.1940 |
acting Commander, 7th Support Group (Egypt) |
| 08.02.1940 |
- |
29.07.1941 |
Commander, 182nd Infantry Brigade (UK) |
| 30.07.1941 |
- |
20.04.1943 |
Brigadier
General Staff, Scottish Command (Home Forces) |
| 1943 |
- |
1946 |
Brigadier
General Staff, East Africa Command |
Geoffrey Francis John
Son of ... Williams, and ... O'Callaghan.
Married ((06?).1947, Solihull district, Warwickshire / West Midlands / Worcestershire) Maureen L. Wade; one son, one daughter.
Wolverhampton district, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands
-
14.04.1994
North Cardinganshire district, Dyfed, Wales
| Lt. | 15.07.1944 [325705] |
| WS/Capt. | 15.07.1945 (reld > 04.1947) |
|
|
OBE | 01.01.1983 | New Year 1983 |
| 15.07.1944 | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] | ||
| served in India & Burma (service group 57 and 80 Indian Para Field Ambulance) |
George Torquil Gage
"Toots"
-
01.04.2012
Bodmin
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
03.07.1939
[95617] |
|
Lt. |
03.01.1941 |
|
A/Capt. |
28.02.1941-27.05.1941 |
|
T/Capt. |
28.05.1941-03.12.1943, 07.02.1944-13.12.1945 |
|
WS/Capt. |
14.12.1945 |
|
Capt. |
01.07.1946 |
|
A/Maj. |
14.09.1945-13.12.1945 |
|
T/Maj. |
14.12.1945-25.05.1947, 23.06.1947-17.12.1950 |
|
Maj. |
03.07.1952 |
|
Lt.Col. |
04.07.1962
(supernumerary 04.07.1965) (retd 31.03.1968) |
| 03.07.1939 |
commissioned,
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry |
||
| 24.03.1945 |
- |
18.06.1945 |
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... Infantry Brigade |
| 17.02.1951 |
- |
30.06.1952 |
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office |
| 1954 |
- |
1954 |
OC
"A" Company 1st Battalion DCLI, Prospect Garrison Bermuda (then posted to
Kingston, Jamaica later in 1954) |
| 06.10.1959 |
regiment
redesignated The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry |
||
| 16.07.1965 |
- |
(02.1967) |
Commandant
& Officer-in-Charge Records Hong Kong Mil. S.C. |
A Vice-President, Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association.
Griffith Owen
Nantlle, Carnarvon district, Wales
-
10.01.1961
Paddington district, London
[buried at Mill Hill Cemetery]
| Cpl. |
?
[26242] (reld 30.05.1918) |
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
28.12.1940
[171156] |
| WS/Lt. |
28.06.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
01.06.1943-06.02.1946 |
| WS/Capt. |
07.02.1946 |
| T/Maj. |
07.02.1946-(04.1947)
(reld > 04.1947) |
|
|
14|15
St |
- |
- |
|
|
BWM
14|20 |
- |
- |
|
|
VM |
- |
- |
| served
in World War I in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (in France from 04.12.1915
onwards; wounded) |
|||
| 28.12.1940 |
commissioned,
General List [emergency
commission] |
||
| 01.11.1942 |
|
|
transferred,
Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section) |
| served
in Egypt |
[Hon. Sir] Harold
-
17.10.1971
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
28.09.1917 [11947] |
|
... |
... |
|
T/Brig.
|
16.09.1942-24.08.1944, 25.10.1944-(01.1946) |
|
Brig. |
15.12.1948 (retd
30.03.1956) |
|
T/Maj.Gen. |
? |
|
Hon. Maj.Gen. |
30.03.1956 |
|
|
KBE |
1956 |
? |
|
|
CB |
1953 |
? |
|
|
CBE |
1946 |
? |
|
|
MID |
05.04.1945 |
? |
| 28.09.1917 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers |
||
| 22.04.1940 |
- |
16.08.1941 |
Commander
Royal Engineers, ... Division |
| 26.11.1941 |
- |
17.03.1942 |
Staff
Officer, Royal Engineers |
| (1947) |
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona) |
Harry Arthur
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Charles Henry Williams (1864-1953), and Kate Reynolds (1878-1956), of Manor Park.
Brother of F/O Eric Williams, RAFVR.
Married Philomena Mary ...
Romford district, Essex
-
15.03.1971
Stepney district, London
| 2nd Lt. | 01.08.1941 [195861] * |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 |
* Without pay and allowances from Army Funds
| 01.08.1941 | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps for service with Expeditionary Force Institutes) [emergency commission] |
Hereward [Frederick Arthur] Minto
Married 1st ((03?).1930, Brentford district, Middlesex) Gladys E. Moore.
Married 2nd ((06?).1948, Worthing district, Sussex) Phyllis M. Hall, earlier (1930) married to Lt.Cdr. Reginald Charles Duff-Jones, RNVR, and later remarried ((09?).1955, Worthing district, Sussex) to Joseph William Ion Miles (19.03.1909 - 01.1985).
-
23.05.1979
Chiswick, Ealing district, Middlesex
| Tpr. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 26.11.1941 [205323] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 24.11.1942-(04.1944) |
| Hon. Capt. | < 04.1946 |
| served in the ranks, Royal Army Ordnance Corps | |||
| 26.11.1941 | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
Idwal
Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Thomas Williams (1882-1966), and Annie Jones (1879-1975).
Married Jenny "Siân" Davies (15.04.1908? - 30.04.1997); two sons.
Resolven, Glamorgan, Wales
-
03.04.1974
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
| 2nd Lt. | 25.02.1943 [264885] |
| WS/Lt. | 25.08.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946) |
|
|
EM | 19.05.1953 | - |
| 25.02.1943 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | ||
| 2nd Indian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment - Indian Army |
Iorwerth Ellis
-
1972
| 2nd Lt. | 28.09.1940 [149886] |
| WS/Lt. | 28.03.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
26.08.1942-(04.1944), 18.04.1944-(10.1945) |
| WS/Capt. | 1945? (reld 26.12.1945) |
| T/Maj. | 1945? |
| Hon. Maj. | 26.12.1945 |
|
MID | 29.11.1945 | Italy |
| 28.09.1940 | commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) [emergency commission] |
John Edmund
"Jack"
Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Wesley Decimus Mills Williams (1870-1914), and Sarah "Dolly" Foan (1875-1964).
Married 1st (06.09.1933, All Saints Church, Preston on Tees, Stockton district, Durham) Alice Crossley Robinson ((09?).1908 - ), daughter (with two sisters) of James Robinson (1876-), and Louise Robinson (1875-); one daughter, one son.
Married 2nd (10.12.1951, Maidstone Registry Office, Kent) Margaret Matilda "Peg" Warner (13.08.1914 - 27.07.2005), daughter (with four sisters and one brother) of William Macdonald Intyre Warner (1863-1945), and Mary Ann "Polly" Blundell (1880-1967); three daughters.
Shepherdswell, Kent
-
06.03.1998
Ashford district, Kent
* In Army records: 06.01.1909.
| A/SQMS | ? [7879226] |
| Lt. | 01.01.1941 [161395] |
| A/Capt. | 17.11.1941-16.02.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
17.02.1942-02.01.1943, 21.03.1943-24.08.1945 |
| A/Maj. |
06.11.1943-18.11.1943 13.08.1945-12.11.1945 |
| T/Maj. | 13.11.1945-30.06.1946 |
| Lt. | 25.08.1945, seniority 01.08.1938 |
| Capt. | 25.08.1945, seniority 06.01.1940 |
| Maj. | 01.07.1946 |
| T/Lt.Col. | 26.07.1951-08.01.1953 |
| Lt.Col. | 09.01.1953 (supernumerary 09.01.1956) (retd 09.11.1957) |
| T/Col. | 22.12.1953-03.09.1954 |
| Hon. Col. | 09.11.1957 |
|
|
OBE | 02.01.1956 | New Year 1956 |
|
MID | 23.09.1943 | North Africa |
| served in the ranks for 13 years, 73 days | |||
| served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 155 days | |||
| 01.01.1941 | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 24.08.1945] | ||
| 25.08.1945 | permanent commission , Royal Army Service Corps | ||
| 08.1951 | - | 27.08.1954 | Officer Commanding, HQ Army Emergency Reserve RASC (OBE) |
| 04.09.1954 | - | (1955) | Officer Commanding, RASC Technical Inspectorate and Fleet Administrative Unit |
the Rev. John Evan Gwyn Thomas
Son of Benjamin Evan Williams, and Hannah Thomas.
Married ((06?).1943, Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire) Lynn B.J. Thomas.
Llanwrtyd Wells, Brecknockshire, Wales
-
09.03.1981
Carmarthen district, Dyfed, Wales
| Chapl. to the Forces 4th Class (Capt.) | 27.08.1938 [76695] |
| Hon. CF 3rd Cl. | > 04.1946 |
|
|
OBE | 01.01.1952 | New Year 1952: Principal Chaplain, CCG |
|
|
TD | 20.06.1950 | - |
|
|
EM | 28.11.1947 | - |
Deacon 1929, priest 1930. St David's, Curate of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1929-1936. Vicar of Llangunnock, 1936-1946.
| 12.02.1943 | - | 03.06.1958 | commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (Church of England) - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |
| 1939 | - | 1945 | served as Chaplain to the Forces (4th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry) |
John Gestern *
Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of Thomas Adam Williams (1885-), and Rachel Fenney (1881-).
Married Joan Vaughan Smith (11.10.1912 - 1981), daughter (with five siblings) of George Owen Smith (1880-1961), and Mabel Mary Vaughan (1888-1939); three sons.
* Middle name also spelled as: Gesturn
Barry, Cardiff district, Wales
-
02.2008
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 28.11.1942 [253680] |
| A/Capt. | 02.10.1944-01.01.1945 |
| T/Capt. | 02.01.1945-23.02.1945 |
| Lt. | 01.10.1946, seniority 28.11.1942 |
| T/Capt. |
02.11.1946-02.06.1948, 01.10.1948-27.11.1948 |
| Capt. | 28.11.1948 |
| Capt. (QM) | 20.09.1952 |
| Lt. (QM) | 15.08.1953 |
| Capt. (QM) | 15.08.1953 |
| Maj. (QM) | 28.11.1954 |
| Lt.Col. (QM) | 18.09.1966 (retd 12.11.1969) |
|
|
MBE | 04.12.1959 | Malaya [recommendation available upon request] |
|
|
MC | 01.03.1945 | NW Europe 1944-1945 [recommendation available upon request] |
| served in the ranks for 6 years, 45 days, as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 2 years, 160 days | |||
| 28.11.1942 | commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission to 30.09.1946] | ||
| served Special Operations Executive (SOE) | |||
| 4th Battalion The Welch Regiment | |||
| 01.10.1946 | short service commission | ||
| 15.08.1953 | permanent commission | ||
| 05.07.1956 | transferred, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles (MBE) |
John Howard Jenkyn
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
-
07.2003
Salisbury district, Wiltshire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 27.02.1943 [264930] |
| WS/Lt. | 27.08.1943 |
| A/Capt. | 14.07.1945-13.10.1945 |
| T/Capt. | 14.10.1945-07.11.1949 |
| Lt. | 01.04.1947, seniority 27.08.1943 |
| Capt. | 08.11.1949 |
| T/Maj. | 01.09.1948-16.03.1952 |
| Lt. | 27.09.1950, seniority 08.05.1945 |
| Capt. | 27.09.1950, seniority 04.09.1950 |
| T/Maj. | 08.10.1954-07.11.1956 |
| Maj. | 08.11.1956 |
| Lt.Col. | ? |
| Col. | 30.06.1972 ()retd 08.11.1977) |
| served in the ranks for 1 year, 1 day | |||
| 27.02.1943 | commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission to 31.03.1947] | ||
| (1943/44) | 1st Battalion Yorkshire and Lancaster Regiment (Italy) | ||
| 07.08.1946 | transferred, Army Catering Corps | ||
| 01.04.1947 | short service commission | ||
| 27.09.1950 | permanent commission |
John Leslie
_01_s.JPG)
From Cardiff.
-
?
| 2nd Lt. | 27.11.1939 [106457] |
| ... | ... |
| WS/Capt. | 01.11.1942 |
| T/Maj. | 27.11.1943-(04.1946) |
|
|
MBE | 13.12.1945 | Italy [recommendation available upon request] |
|
MID | 11.01.1945 | Italy |
| 27.11.1939 | commissioned, Royal Welsh Fusiliers [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.08.1942 | transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps | ||
| 03.06.1943 | - | 23.09.1943 | training course, Staff College, Camberley |
| (1945) | Brigade Major, 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group (MBE) |
Keith Henry Glyn
Son (with one sister) of Henry Clifford Williams (1892-1970), and May Olive Burberry (1894-1981).
Married ((06?).1947, Chatham district, Kent) Lotte E. Schroeter (18.12.1924 - 15.08.2008); two daughters.
-
09.12.1981
Maidstone district, Kent
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 04.08.1941 [201699] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) |
| 04.08.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
[Sir] Leonard
Married (1948) Anne Taylor Witherley; three daughters.
|
|
-
01.08.2006
[Liphook, Hampshire?]
| Cadet |
? |
|
2nd Lt. |
05.07.1941
[194639] |
|
WS/Lt. |
01.10.1942 |
|
T/Capt.
|
04.07.1943-(04.1946) |
|
Maj. |
? |
|
|
KBE |
13.06.1981 |
HM's
birthday 1981 |
|
|
CB |
1975 |
? |
Worked for Inland Revenue, 1938.
| 1940 |
- |
1947 |
war service
with the Royal Artillery (North Africa, Salerno, Italy,
in charge of Corinth area in Greece, Vienna) |
| ? |
- |
05.07.1941 |
Officer
Cadet Training Unit |
| 05.07.1941 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
||
| 71st (West
Riding) Field Regiment RA |
Aviation), 1954; Ministry of Technology (later DTI), 1964; Imperial Defence College staff 1966; Deputy Secretary, 1973; Department of Energy, 1974-1976. DirectorGeneral for Energy, Commission of the European Communities, 1976-1981.
Maurice Herbert
Son (with six sisters and two brothers) of Frederick Williams (1853-1906), and Martha Willoughby (1860-1913).
Married (16.02.1924, Woolwich, Greater London / Kent) Ivy Stacey; three sons, one daughter.
Swindon, Wiltshire
-
(09?).1966
Swindon, Wiltshire
| Gnr. | (1924) [1034401] |
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 25.10.1941 [214440] |
| WS/Lt. | 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| Hon. Lt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| served in the ranks, Royal [Field] Artillery (1924 RA Barracks, Woolwich) | |||
| 25.10.1941 | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |
Morley Savage
Son of ... Williams, and ... Savage.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
29.05.1980
Glyndwr district, Clwyd, Wales
| Cadet | ? [7895558] |
| 2nd Lt. | 29.02.1944 [321154] |
| WS/Lt. | 29.08.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946) |
| 29.02.1944 | commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission] | ||
| 1945/46? | Royal Military Police (Vienna) |
Owen Henry
Married 1st ((12?).1940, Liverpool North district) Mabel Senior (died 17.01.1942); one son.
Married 2nd (09?).1942, West Cheshire district) Joyce May Hakon Deavin (02.05.1921 - 01.2004); two sons.
-
10.1992
New Forest district, Hampshire
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 07.12.1940 [160714] |
| WS/Lt. | 07.06.1942 |
| T/Capt. | 20.12.1942-(04.1946) |
| WS/Capt. | ? |
| Capt. RARO | 01.01.1949 |
| Hon. Maj. | 01.01.1949 |
| Capt. | 12.03.1951, seniority 23.09.1950 |
| Maj. | 19.09.1958 (reld 22.09.1968) |
| Hon. Maj. | 22.09.1968 |
| ? | - | 07.12.1940 | Officer Cadet Training Unit |
| 07.12.1940 | commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.01.1949 | - | 12.03.1951 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |
| 12.03.1951 | - | 22.09.1968 | short service commission |
Richard Brian
From Bedford.
-
| 2nd Lt. |
13.06.1936
[67889] |
| Lt. |
13.06.1939 |
| A/Capt. |
24.09.1939-(11.1939) |
| T/Capt. |
24.12.1939-(04.1941) |
| WS/Capt. |
01.03.1943 |
| T/Maj. |
01.03.1943-(04.1944) |
| WS/Maj.
|
29.09.1944 |
| Maj. |
01.05.1947,
seniority 18.11.1945 |
| Lt.Col. |
01.04.1950 |
|
|
MBE |
06.01.1944 |
Middle
East |
|
|
TD |
12.12.1950 |
&
1st clasp |
| late
Cadet, Bedford Modern School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training
Corps |
|||
| 13.06.1936 |
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army |
||
| 13.06.1936 |
- |
(01.1939) |
417th
(Bedfordshire) Battery, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA
(Bedford) |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| (1939) |
- |
(1940) |
"D"
Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA |
Robert
"Robin"
Son of Enoch Williams, and Elizabeth Roberts, of Penybwlch Farm, Conwy.
-
18.01.1990
Anglesey, Aberconwy district, Gwynedd, Wales
| Cadet | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 18.05.1940 [130118] |
| WS/Lt. | 18.11.1941 (reld 14.05.1944; ill-health) |
| Hon. Lt. | 14.05.1944 |
| either 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit | |||
| 18.05.1940 | commissioned, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [emergency commission] | ||
| (01.1942) | - | (04.1944) | specially employed |
Thomas Cyril Baines
Bedwelty district, Monmouthshire
-
01.1999
Alton district, Hampshire
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
12.02.1943 [262878] |
| WS/Lt. |
12.08.1943
(reld 07.01.1946; disability) |
| T/Capt. |
1945? |
| Hon.
Capt. |
07.01.1946 |
| 12.02.1943 |
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency
commission] |
Thomas Henry
"Tom"
Residence: Luton, later Slatash, Cornwall.
-
02.1971
| Sgt. |
? |
| Lt. |
24.12.1940
[161374] |
| WS/Capt. |
15.08.1943 (reld
> 04.1946) |
| T/Maj. |
15.08.1943-(04.1944) |
| 24.12.1940 |
commissioned,
The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission] |
||
| 1942 |
- |
1943 |
Digby
Air Force base |
| 1943 |
- |
1943/44 |
served
in Gold Coast |
| 1943/44 |
- |
1944 |
served
in UK |
| 1944 |
- | 1945/46 | served
in Ghana & Burma (suffered bouts of malaria) |
| couldn't settle into civilian life and rejoined army |
Trevor Humphrey
-
| Cadet |
? [14604155] |
| 2nd Lt. |
13.05.1944
[320007] |
| WS/Lt. |
13.11.1944 |
| 13.05.1944 |
commissioned,
The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency
commission] |
William Arthur Wellesley
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Lewis Williams (1876-), and Mabel Eveline Chamberlain (1882-1968).
Married ((09?).1940, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Hilda Marjorie Bryer (24.02.1914 - 23.12.1987), daughter (with five brothers and two sisters) of George Bryer (1878-1950), and Lavinia Pick (1877-1951); one son, two daughters.
Sydenham, London
-
26.10.1968
Eastbourne district, Sussex
| 2nd Lt. * | 19.04.1944 [318805] |
| WS/Lt. | 27.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. | 27.09.1944-(04.1946) |
* Without pay and allowances from Army Funds
| 19.04.1944 | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | ||
| served Special Operations Executive (SOE) |
Cecil Hugh
Son (with two sisters) of Cdr. Hugh Alexander Williamson, RN (1885-1979) [later Gp.Capt. RAF], and Ermyntrude Alberta Alexandra Walsh (1885-1975).
Married (21.02.1933, London) Gwendoline Vera Wilcox (21.11.1911 - 31.03.1989); two daughters.
|
|
Paignton, Totnes district, Devon
-
09.12.1999
North Devon
| 2nd Lt. | 08.07.1940 [142144] |
| WS/Lt. | 08.01.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) |
| T/Capt. | 08.01.1943-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Capt. | > 04.1946, < 08.1946 |
| 08.07.1940 | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission] | ||
| involved with the installation of the "Aspidistra" propaganda transmitter |
Joseph
Pendleton, Lancashire
-
12.04.1957
Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells
| T/2nd Lt. | ? [59883] |
| T/Capt. | 16.04.1919 (reld 16.09.1919; retaining rank of 2nd Lt.) |
| 2nd Lt. | 21.08.1931, seniority 16.08.1930 |
| WS/Lt. | 10.06.1940 (reld 09.02.1944; ill-health) |
| 1918? | - | 16.09.1919 | commissioned, 8th Service Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment [temporary commission] |
| 21.08.1931 | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment - Regular Army Reserve of Officers | ||
| 24.08.1939 | mobilized RARO | ||
| 05.11.1939 | transferred, Pioneer Corps |