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1939-1945

* Most of the 'indigenous' Indian Army officers are not shown in the sources at my disposal, so can't add these on these pages.
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Badhwar, I C	? -	Capt. (1945)	served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Bailey, Robert	? -	Tpr. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Baker, Francis William	21.01.1915 - 02.2001 Northumberland	2nd Lt. 05.03.1942 WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 WS/Capt. 24.02.1946 T/Maj. 24.02.1946-(12.1946)	(02.1942)     "A" Company, Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) 05.03.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       17th Dogra Regiment
Baker, John Law Married (26.06.1943, Delhi, India) Eiriona Mair Iona Jones (23.10.1911 - 01.1998); ... children.	24.04.1917 Darjeeling, India - 05.04.1997 Lisbon, Portugal	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 10.07.1941 WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 A/Maj. ...-02.02.1944 T/Maj. 03.02.1944-(04.1946)	Education: Warwick School; Pembroke College, Oxford (where he was studying jurisprudence until the outbreak of war). 10.07.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served 9th Jat Regiment Government service in the Sudan Political Service, 1948-1953. Later he worked in a variety of companies in many countries.
Baker, Robert George Alexander	13.08.1913 - 09.1989 Camden district, London	2nd Lt. 16.10.1940 WS/Lt. 16.04.1942 (reld < 04.1947) T/Capt. 29.05.1942-(04.1946)	16.10.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Baker, Thomas Eric Married ...; one son, one daughter.	15.01.1920 - 31.07.1988 Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 15.11.1941 WS/Lt. 26.06.1942 T/Capt. 26.06.1942-(04.1947) A/Maj. ? ?	15.11.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       16th Punjabi Regiment
Baker, William Harry Son of Capt. Harry Baker, Indian Army.	11.06.1919 - 21.11.1995 Plymouth district, Devon	Sgt. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 Lt. 01.03.1947, seniority 21.05.1944 [378342] 12.02.1949, seniority 16.07.1943 A/Capt. 30.10.1944-31.01.1945 T/Capt. 01.02.1945-14.02.1945 WS/Capt. 15.02.1945 Capt. 12.02.1949, seniority 16.01.1948 A/Maj. 15.11.1944-14.02.1945 T/Maj. 15.02.1945-15.01.1955 Maj. 16.01.1955, seniority 27.08.1954 (retd 11.06.1974)	Education: a.t.o. (qualified on an Ammunition Technical Officer's course at the School of Ammunition, RAOC, Bramley). ? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 28.02.1947] 01.03.1947     short service commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps 12.02.1949     permanent commission
Ball, Reginald Alexander Ingleby Married Evelyn Rosina ...; three daughters.	1911 - 24.06.1942 [Alamein Memorial, Egypt, column 167]	2nd Lt. 31.05.1941 [EC 2646] A/Capt. ? MC 13.08.1942 Middle East (Egypt & Libya): battle south of Bir Hacheim 27.05.42 [recommendation available upon request]	Tea planting engineer. 31.05.1941     commissioned, Indian Armoured Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission] (1942)     Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (11th Frontier Force) (MC)
Banham, Herbert Godfrey Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Harold Francis John Banham (1866-1955), and Edith Alice Boulton (1876-1966). Married (20.12.1941, Bangalore, Karnataka, India) Gladys Joan Donnelly (02.04.1917 - 04.10.2005), elder daughter of Ivon Arthur Donnelly (1890-1951), and Muriel Madge Jones, of Shanghai; two sons.	14.02.1907 Royston, Hertfordshire - 17.06.1996 Uckfield, East Sussex	2nd Lt. 11.12.1941 WS/Capt. 16.10.1942 T/Maj. 16.10.1942-(04.1947)	11.12.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       16th Punjab Regiment (served in Murree and Sialkot as a training officer) Banker.
Bannerman, Robert Married (06?.09.1943, St John's Church, Meerut, India) Josephine Elizabeth Knight; two daughters, one son.	10.09.1910 Glasgow, Scotland - 01.08.1966 Fairlie, Ayrshire, Scotland	2nd Lt. 04.10.1941 [EC 5867] Lt. 08.04.1942, seniority 08.04.1937 WS/Capt. 10.09.1943 T/Maj. 10.09.1943-(04.1946)	Education: Hamilton Technical College, Canada. 18.05.1940 - 10.1941 enlisted, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (other ranks workshop branch) 04.10.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 15.01.1942     arrived in India 04.1942 - 09.1942 Workshops Officer, IEME Station Workshop, Meerut Cantonment, Indian Army Ordnance Corps 09.1942 - 07.1943 Officer Commanding Station Workshops, Meerut Cantonment, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 07.1943 - 08.1944 Second-in-Command, Indian Infantry Troops Workshops, IEME (from 04.02.1944-23.08.1944 with 14th Army in Burma) 08.1944     Second-in-Command, 507 Command Workshops, IEME 11/12.1945     returned to UK
Bardsley, Joseph Son (with seven sisters and five brothers) of Joseph Bardsley (1874-1932), and Agnes Wright (1879-1931). Married (06.08.1928, Ootacamund, Madras, India) Rita Claire Josephine D'Silva (16.06.1892 - (06?).1968), daughter of Henry Joseph D'Silva (1839-), and Elisa Henrietta Henford/Hereford.	25.09.1900 Crompton, Lancashire - 02.1961 Oldham district, Lancashire	2nd Lt. 12.12.1941 WS/Lt. 12.12.1941 (reld > 08.1947) A/Capt. ?	previous service for increment of pay 6 years, 337 days (Lancashire Fusiliers) 12.12.1941     commissioned, Royal Indian Army Service Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission]
Barker, Alan Robert	29.10.1898 Canterbury, Kent - 08.1984 Trowbridge, Wiltshire	2nd Lt. 27.10.1916 [IA 74] Lt. 27.10.1917 Capt. 27.10.1920 Maj. 27.10.1934 A/Lt.Col. 01.10.1940-31.12.1940 T/Lt.Col. 01.01.1941-26.10.1942 Lt.Col. 27.10.1942 Col. 07.02.1947, seniority 27.10.1945 [28.11.1947, promotion antedated 01.01.1947] (retd 23.05.1948) A/Brig. 22.07.1942?-... T/Brig. 21.04.1943-(04.1946) Hon. Brig. 01.07.1949 Col. AERO ? [405716] DSO 18.10.1945 Italy OBE ? ? MC 01.01.1920 Afghan War 1919 [published 03.08.1920]	Education: Staff College (psc) 27.10.1916 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 31.01.1917 - 04.08.1917 Royal Flying Corps 25.09.1917 commissioned, Indian Army (1919) 3/124th Baluchistan Infantry, Ind. Army, attached South Waziristan Militia 05.08.1928 - 29.07.1930 Instructor (Clas B), Small Arms School India 01.04.1937 - (01.)1940 Brigade Major, Peshawar Brigade (Northern Command, India)  1940 - 30.09.1940 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), India 7th Gurkha Rifles 22.07.1942 - (07?.)1943 Commander, 27th Indian Infantry Brigade (07.1944?) - (08.1945?) Commander, 43rd (Lorried) [Gurkha] Indian Infantry Brigade (Italy) 23.05.1948 retired, but retained on the Special List (Ex-Indian Army) to 30.06.1949 Army Emergency Reserve of Officers Honorary Colonel, 10th (Wiltshire) Battalion, Mobile Defence Corps.
Barker, Albert Victor	1891/92 ? India - 1970 Australia	Assistant Surgeon 1st class (British Cadre) ? Senior Assistant Surgeon (with rank of Lt.) 04.12.1942 [M/22052] Capt. ? (reld 22.03.1948) MBE 16.12.1943 Burma	04.12.1942     commissioned, Indian Medical Department [emergency commission] (1943)     Indian Medical Department Bearer Corps attached to British Military Hospital Shillong (MBE)
Barlow, Alfred Edmund Son of Charles Edmund Barlow, and Teresa Helen Deakin, of Anglesey, Wales and New York, USA. Married (1922) Margaret Theodora "Dora" Molesworth (1896-1960), of Woking, Surrey, daughter of Rev. Thomas Charles Underwood Molesworth (1866-1907), and Mary Rosamond Eaton (?-1962); three sons.	11.01.1896 - 31.12.1945 (motor accident) [age 49] [Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata, plot O, row F, grave 59]	Lt. 05.05.1916 [336175] Capt. 03.05.1919 Maj. 03.05.1933 local Lt.Col. 20.06.1938-22.08.1938 Lt.Col. 09.09.1938 A/Col. 21.08.1942-28.09.1942 T/Col. 29.09.1942-30.06.1944 Col. 01.07.1944, seniority 09.09.1941 A/Brig. 21.08.1942-28.09.1942 T/Brig. 29.09.1942-31.12.1945 MC 03.06.1916 ? MID 28.10.1942 Burma 12.41-05.42	? - 05.10.1917 mobilized Territorial Force (for 3 years, 62 days) 05.05.1916     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 06.10.1917     commissioned, Indian Army       Royal Garhwal Rifles 20.06.1938 - 22.08.1938 specially employed, India 26.08.1938 - 08.09.1938 specially employed, India 1941? - 1942? Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles 21.08.1942 - 31.02.1943 Area Commander, India (Ranchi Area?) 1944?     Commander, 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade 1945? - 31.12.1945 Commandant, Fortress Command Calcutta (died from injuries received in a motor accident)
Barlow, Lance Mount Elder son (with a twin brother and one brother who died in infancy) of Harold Barlow (1860-), and Millicent Alice Peacock (1873-), of Bengal, India. Married ((06?).1927, Kensington district, London) Margaret Sheila McCormick, elder daughter (with one sister) of Lt.Col. Andrew Louis Charles McCormick, CIE, RE (1869-1943), and Winifred Fairweather, of Jersey.	08.11.1899 Cuttack, Bengal - ?	2nd Lt. 15.04.1919 [AI 414] Lt. 15.04.1920 Capt. 15.04.1925 Maj. 15.04.1937 Lt.Col. 15.04.1945 (retd 17.03.1947) OBE 01.02.1937 Secretary Governor NWF Province MC 30.05.1924 Waziristan 22/23 MC 02.12.1932 for service in action with the Chitral relief column IndGSM - & 3 bars WM 39|45 - - IndSM - - JubM - - CorM - -	Education: Cadet College, Quetta. 15.04.1919     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 22.004.1919     commissioned, Indian Army       12th Frontier Force Regiment (Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides) (1922/23)     5th Battalion 12th Frontier Force Regiment, attached Tochi Scouts (1932)     5th Battalion 12th Frontier Force Regiment 18.01.1933 - 14.04.1937 specially employed: Private Secretary to the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province (OBE) (04.1944) - (04.1946) Military Secretary to the Governor of Punjab
Barlow-Wheeler, William Hubert	19.10.1909 -	2nd Lt. 27.08.1931 [AI 84] Lt. 27.11.1933 Capt. 27.08.1939 A/Maj. 28.07.1940-27.10.1940 T/Maj. 28.10.1940-22.12.1940, 27.06.1941-(01.1946) WS/Maj. 16.03.1943 Maj. 01.07.1946 (retd 09.12.1950) A/Lt.Col. 25.10.1943-(01.1946) T/Lt.Col. ? Hon. Col. 09.12.1950 DSO 17.01.1946 Burma MBE 01.01.1964 for political services in Woodford	served in the ranks for 3 years, 310 days 27.08.1931 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 22.10.1932 commissioned, Indian Army (1945)     11th Sikh Regiment attached to 1st Sikh Light Infantry 1947?     Special List (ex-Indian Army) [person number 52755]
Barnard, Jack	1909 -	2nd Lt. 09.1939? [ABRO 672] (reld 21.05.1947) [A?]/Capt. ? T/Maj. ? Hon. Maj. 21.05.1947 MC 16.12.1943 Burma 43	Burma Forestry Commission under Messrs. Bros. & Co Ltd. (Myitkyina). Officer Training Corps (Canford) 09.1939? commissioned, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) [emergency commission] Kachin Levies bush training school under Major Mike Calvert 1942 made the trek from Burma with the Chinese 96th Division to China 1942 - 1943? OSS Detachment 101 (to train in jungle warfare behind enemy lines under a Colonel Eifler) [with his 12 agents Capt. Barnard parachuted 250 miles behind enemy lines, destroying bridges and railways and 21 other objects on 7th February 1943] Published: The hump : the greatest untold story of the war (1960)
Barnes, Derek Robert Paul Son of Lt.Col. Stuart Barnes, OBE, Royal Artillery, and Kathleen Mary G. Whittard. Married ((09?).1948, Winchester district, Hampshire) ... Newman.	(03?).1924 Winchester district, Hampshire -	Bdr. ? [878665] 2nd Lt. 02.04.1945 [EC 15931] WS/Lt. 1946? (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) Lt. TA 01.05.1947, seniority 10.02.1947 [380651] A/Capt. TA 01.11.1950 Capt. TA 10.02.1951, seniority 01.11.1950 (reld 27.07.1957)	served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery 02.04.1945     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.05.1947 -  15.07.1952 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army 15.07.1952 - 27.07.1957 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [resigned commission]
Barnes, Sholto Douglas Son of Maj. Louis Harding Barnes (1865?-), and Anne Chinner Barlow (1867-). Married (28.04.1939)  Marjorie Joan Berkeley, daughter of Lt.Col. Arthur Mowbray Berkeley, CIE (1870-1937), and Irene Lutwyche Waterlow (1881-1948).	30.11.1907 Malling district, Kent - 01.1992 New Forest district, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 24.06.1940 [133998] Capt. 15.04.1942 [EC 10478] T/Maj. 25.01.1942-(04.1946) WS/Maj. ? (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) T/Lt.Col. (1945) A/Col. 29.08.1945-(04.1946) Maj. 17.04.1951, seniority 27.01.1946 Hon. Lt.Col. 12.05.1952 OBE 28.06.1945 Burma [decoration posted] * MID 26.06.1947 Netherlands East Indies	Education: Haileybury  (2nd term 1921-2nd term 1924). Worked for Lloyds Bank, 1925-1929. From 1929 with Borneo Co., Bangkok, Siam. 24.06.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission] 18.03.1942     transferred, Indian Army Ordnance Corps (1944)     Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, HQ 14th Army (Burma) (OBE) 17.04.1951 - 11.05.1952 commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers 12.05.1952     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
* Recommendation for the appointment to the OBE for Lt.Col. S.D. Barnes: Throughout the above period [15 May to 14 Aug 1944] Lt. Colonel Barnes work as ADOS [Assistant Director of Ordnance Services] Headquarters Fourteenth Army has been of an exceptionally high order. He has during the DDOS [Deputy Director of Ordnance Services] frequent absences on tour been responsible for giving many quick and important decisions on Ordnance matters and it is largely due to his exceptionally clear thinking, hard work, and all round knowledge of Ordnance that it has been possible to ensure an adequate supply of Ordnance stores and ammunition to operational troops. [Recommended 18.11.1944 by Brig. B. Pennefather-Evans, DDOS HQ Fourteenth Army, approved 20.11.1944 by Maj.Gen. A.H.J. Snelling, Maj.Gen. in charge of Adminsitration Fourteenth Army, and 30.11.1944 by Lt.Gen. W.J. Slim, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fourteenth Army.] [Citation kindly supplied by Mr Oliver Phillips.]
Barnett, George	16.07.1895 - 07.1989 Bury St Edmonds district, Suffolk	T/2nd Lt. 28.12.1914-22.03.1915 T/Lt. 23.03.1915-26.06.1915 T/Capt. 27.06.1915-01.11.1916 (resigned 02.11.1916) Capt. 10.07.1919 [1270] Maj. 17.10.1927, seniority 22.01.1927 A/Lt.Col. 12.11.1942-11.02.1943 T/Lt.Col. 12.02.1943-11.11.1943 Bt. Lt.Col. 01.01.1936 (retd 28.07.1947) WS/Lt.Col. 12.11.1943 A/Col. 12.05.1943-11.11.1943 T/Col. 12.11.1943-(01.1946) Hon. Col. 28.07.1947 OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 MC 01.01.1917 ? MID 05.06.1919 ? BWM 14|20 - - VM - - Iraq Operations 1919-1920 Medal & Clasp	Education: Oakham School (1905-1912; Rugby C) mobilized Special Reserve of Officer for 353 days 28.01.1916 - 02.11.1916 served in France & Belgium 01.10.1918 - 26.06.1919 served in Russia 10.07.1919 commissioned, Royal Army Veterinary Corps 01.11.1924 transferred, Indian Continuous Service Cadre RAVC 12.11.1935 - 11.11.1940 Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, India 02.06.1942 - 11.05.1943 Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, India ? Officer Commanding, Indian Army Veterinary Corps Training Centre (GHQ India) MRCVS. Late Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
Barrington, James Ambrose Married (02.1946, Brentford district, Middlesex) Joyce I. Fleet; .. children (one daughter?).	1914? -	2nd Lt. 01.12.1942 Ordnance Mechanical Engineer (with rank of Lt.) 08.08.1943, seniority 08.08.1938 Lt. 09.06.1952, seniority 02.11.1950 [423114] Capt. 02.06.1954	01.12.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 1947?     Special List (ex-Indian Army) 09.06.1952     commissioned, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [short service commission]
Barron, John	? -	Sgmn. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ?     transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Barrow, H B S	? - ?	2nd Lt. 11.02.1945 WS/Lt. ?	11.02.1945     commissioned, Indian Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Staff) - Indian Army Departments [emergency commission] (1945?)     Ordnance Branch, HQ Southern Army, India
Barry, Dick Son of ... Barry, and ... Norris. Married Mary Bowdren (1911 - ); ... children (one son?).	24.11.1911 Plymouth district, Devon - 04.1997 Bristol district, Gloucestershire	2nd Lt. 22.10.1942 WS/Lt. 22.04.1943 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)	22.10.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps His son writes: "My father was initially RCT, injured at Dunkirk and subsequently commissioned in RIASC. 2LT (1942) Capt (1945) later Maj.".
Barry, Michael Joseph Married (07.09.1949) ...; ... children (one son?).	21.03.1913 - 21.05.2000 Birmingham district, Warwickshire	Lt. 21.02.1942, seniority 02.11.1938 Prob. Capt. 11.05.1942, seniority 02.11.1939 Capt. 03.09.1943, with effect from 21.02.1942, seniority 02.11.1939 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)	Education: National University of Ireland (MB, BCh, BAO 1936). 21.02.1942     commissioned, Indian Medical Service [emergency commission]
Barstow, Arthur Edward "Bustling Bill" Son of Lt.Col. Thomas Adam Anderson Barstow, Seaforth Highlanders, and Jane Cape Barstow. Married (1927) Nancy Lewkenor, of Cocking, Sussex, daughter of late Brig.Gen. Henry Lewkenor Knight, CMG, DSO. His brother, Brigadier John A. Barstow, MC, also died on service.	17.03.1888 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 28.01.1942 (KIA) [age 53] [Singapore Memorial, column 143]	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 25.01.1908 [185406] Lt. 25.04.1910 T/Capt. 01.09.1915 Capt. 06.04.1917, seniority 01.09.1915 A/Maj. 15.07.1917-23.09.1917, 02.07.1918-01.10.1918 T/Maj. 12.05.1919 Maj. (prov.) 25.01.1923 Maj. 16.01.1924, seniority 25.01.1923 Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1931 Lt.Col. 07.08.1932 Bt. Col. 26.01.1935 Col. 01.07.1935, seniority 26.01.1935 T/Brig. 18.06.1938 A/Maj.Gen. 28.09.1940 Maj.Gen. 01.04.1941, seniority 23.04.1940 CIE 20.06.1941 Waziristan 40 MC ? ? MID 19.12.1946 Malaya 42	Education: Bradfield; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Imperial Defence College (idc); Staff College (psc) 25.01.1908 commissioned into the Army, Unattached List 11.03.1909 commissioned into the Indian Army, General List (1910) - (1919) served with 15th Ludhiana Sikhs (European War; wounded, despatches, MC); 15.07.1917-23.09.1917 & 02.07.1918-01.10.1918 Second-in-Command of a battalion 12.05.1919 - 19.07.1919 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Qartermaster General (DAA&QMG), ... (Afghanistan) 1920 served in Iraq (despatches) 1923 served in Kurdistan (despatches) ? transferred to 2nd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment 01.04.1927 - 31.12.1928 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), ... (Northern Command, India) 01.01.1929 - 31.12.1929 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India) 1930 served at the Northwestern Frontier (India) (despatches) 1933 - 1935 Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment 26.01.1935 - 23.04.1938 General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), India Office 08.04.1938 Colonel of the 2nd Royal Battalion (Luhiana Sikhs), 11th Sikh Regiment 18.06.1938 - 1940 Commander, Kohat Brigade (Kohat District, Northern Command, India) 1940 - 27.09.1940 Commander, Waziristan District, India (despatches, CIE) 28.09.1940 - 28.01.1942 General Officer Commanding, 9th Indian Division (Malaya) Published: The Sikhs : an ethnology (1928)
Bartlett, John Rodney	15.02.1921 - (12?).1978 South Glamorgan district, Wales	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 04.10.1942 WS/Lt. 04.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	04.10.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served with 1st Gurkha Rifles (Burma)
Bassett, Douglas Cameron Stewart	(09?).1919 Cardiff district, Wales - (03?).1952 Bridgwater district, Somerset	2nd Lt. 07.09.1940 WS/Capt. 30.10.1942 T/Maj. 30.10.1942-(04.1946) 2nd Lt. 14.06.1946 [367414] Capt. 04.07.1949, seniority 22.05.1946	07.09.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul 14.06.1946 - 28.04.1947 Special List (for service with Army Cadet Force (Somerset Comm.) 04.07.1949     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
Basu Mallick, P	? -	Capt. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Bate, Ronald Thomas Married; two sons, one daughter.	11.09.1919 Hambledon district, Surrey / Sussex - 01.05.2008 The Conifers Nursing Home, Hambleton, Lancashire	2nd Lt. 01.07.1939 [118240 .. ... WS/Capt. 26.12.1943 ... ... Maj. 01.07.1952 (retd 11.09.1974) A/Lt.Col. 02.03.1946-26.03.1946	01.07.1939 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 31.01.1940     commissioned, Indian Army (Dorgans) 27.01.1948 transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Bates, Philip Cecil	28.09.1907 St Pancras district, London - 02.1985 Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire	L/Bdr. ? 2nd Lt. 12.12.1943 [EC 12981] WS/Lt. 12.06.1944 01.11.1945, seniority 12.06.1944 [355493] (reld < 04.1947) A?/Capt. ?	12.12.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.11.1945     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section)
Battams, Reginald Clare Son of Henry Battams, and Henrietta Maria Haas. Married ((06?).1940, Brentford district, Middlesex) Kathleen H. Campbell; two daughters.	24.09.1908 Brentford district, Middlesex - 04.10.1998 Chichester district, Sussex	2nd Lt. 24.05.1941 [187730] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 01.05.1944, seniority 01.10.1942 [EC 15298] WS/Capt. 21.06.1943 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) T/Maj. 21.06.1943-(12.1946)	Banker. 24.05.1941     commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission] 01.05.1944     transferred, Indian Army
Baxter, Henry Joseph Patrick "Harry"	08.04.1921 - 10.01.2007	2nd Lt. 11.10.1942 [363915] WS/Lt. 11.04.1943 A/Capt. 15.01.1945-14.04.1945 T/Capt. 15.04.1945-24.05.1945 WS/Capt. 25.05.1945 A/Maj. 25.02.1945-24.05.1945 T/Maj. 25.05.1945-04.07.1947 ... ... Brig. 30.06.1973 (retd 01.04.1976) CBE 30.12.1975 New Year 76 OBE 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 68 GM 13.02.1959 ? - KM ? Knight of Malta MID 28.05.1957 ?	11.10.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 24.05.1946] 25.05.1946 permanent commission, Royal Irish Fusiliers (British Army) Commander Ulster Defence Regiment, 1973-1976.
Baxter, Stafford Squire Charles Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Stafford Stratton Baxter (1874-1939), and Alice Bessy Ray Buckle (1877-1945). Married Dorothy Glover (03.11.1920 - 18.09.2011); one son, one daughter.	12.12.1903 Copford, Lexden district, Essex - 1976 Perth, Western Australia	2nd Lt. 15.03.1922 (reld 12.12.1923) 2nd Lt. 02.04.1942 WS/Lt. 07.12.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)	15.03.1922 - 12.12.1923 commissioned, 4th Battaion The Sussex Regiment - Territorial Army (02.1942)     "A" Company, Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) 02.04.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]  (1943)     served 7th Rajput Regiment
Bayles, John Glenn Blackburn Son of John H.G. Bayles, and Florence V. Heaton (née Powell). Married ((09?).1951, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Pauline Frances Wharton (née Derbyshire); one son, one daughter.	(12?).1923 Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire - 15.02.2006 Southwell, Nottinghamshire	Tpr. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 WS/Lt. 01.11.1945, seniority 22.02.1944 [358336] (reld 28.10.1950) Hon. Capt. 28.10.1950	22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.11.1945     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Beale, Gerald Edward Ashley Married Yda Reynolds; ... children (one daughter?).	07.09.1915 -	2nd Lt. 29.08.1935 [378420] Lt. 29.11.1937 local Capt. 15.03.1938-09.05.1938 A/Capt. 22.10.1939-15.12.1939, 09.07.1940-13.08.1940 T/Capt. 14.08.1940-01.11.1941 WS/Capt. 02.11.1941 Capt. 29.08.1943 A/Maj. 01.04.1941-29.06.1941, 01.11.1941-01.11.1941 T/Maj. 01.11.1941-31.05.1945 WS/Maj. 01.06.1945 Maj. 29.08.1948 A/Lt.Col. 01.03.1945-31.05.1945 T/Lt.Col. 01.06.1945-13.01.1947, 26.06.1947-24.05.1948, 13.05.1955-05.10.1956 Lt.Col. 06.10.1956 (supernumerary 06.10.1959) T/Col. 12.08.1961-31.12.1961 Col. 01.01.1962 (retd 30.01.1971) OBE 01.01.1962 New Year 62 OBE | IGS clasp NWF 1936-37 | 39-45 Star | Burma Star | 39-45 War Medal | 39-45 India Service Medal | Nigeria Independence Medal 1960. Five cased boxing medals named to him 3 for the Imperial Services Competitions 1930-31-33 and 2 for Sandhurst against RAF Cranwell 1934-35 all winners medals at various weights. Kings Badge and certificate for those disabled due to service, 2 sets of WW11 Para wings.	Education: jssc, psc. 29.08.1935     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 19.11.1936     commissioned, Indian Army 07.1943 - 28.02.1945 Brigade Major, Indian Parachute Brigade 1945 - 1946 Commanding Officer, 4th Indian Parachute Regiment 01.01.1947 - 07.06.1947 Instructor (Class A), Indian Military Academy 25.05.1948     transferred from Special List (ex-Indian Army) to Royal Regiment of Artillery 15.08.1949 - 21.12.1951 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, HQ 3rd Anti-Aircraft Group RA 13.05.1955 - 21.05.1958 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office 02.08.1958 - 11.08.1961 specially employed, Military Forces Nigeria (GSO1 HQ NMF 01.09.1958-08.05.1961) (OBE) 12.08.1961 - 14.08.1964 Military Member, NAAFI Board of Management 11.11.1964 - (02.1967) Colonel General Staff, Allied Forces Southern Europe (Naples) 07.10.1968 - ? Deputy Commander/Colonel General Staff, HQ British Troops Malta
Beamiss, Wilfred Stanley Son of Harry Whiffing Beamiss (1865-1944), and Kate Stephens. Married ((09?).1930, Dorchester district, Dorset) Peggy Jacqueline D'Esterre (17.11.1906 - 1989), of Tolpuddle; two? children.	10.05.1904 Plymouth, Devon - 12.01.1946 [age 41] [Kirkee War Cemetery, India, 9.E.5]	2nd Lt. 10.09.1927 [710 AI] Lt. 01.09.1930 Capt. 01.04.1937 Lt. 03.09.1937, seniority 01.12.1929 Capt. 03.09.1937, seniority 01.09.1936 A/Maj. 20.06.1940-19.09.1940 T/Maj. 20.09.1940-22.10.1941 WS/Maj. 23.10.1941 Maj. 01.09.1944 A/Lt.Col. 23.07.1941-22.10.1941 T/Lt.Col. 23.10.1941-24.03.1942, 12.04.1942-12.01.1946	served in the ranks for 8 years, 20 days 01.09.1927     commissioned, Royal Tank Corps 10.1932     serving by then with the 11th Armoured Car Company RTC, he qualified as instructor in the tactical handling of armoured fighting vehicles and their machine gunnery and in car and light tank drills at the RTC School at Ahmednagar ("distinguished") 14.01.1935 - 15.09.1936 Station Staff Officer 1st Class, HQ Staff, Bannu Brigade (India) 03.09.1937     commissioned, Indian Army       served Indian Army Ordnance Corps
Beanland, Douglas Son of Fred Beanland, Harrogate and Sandsend, Whitby, Yorkshire. Married 1st (1917) Annie Sybil Harrowing (died 1919), daughter of Arthur Harrowing, Whitby, Yorkshire; one daughter, Married 2nd (1922; marriage dissolved 1953) Elizabeth Grace Longstaff, daughter of George Longstaff, of Newbiggin, Northumberland; one son, one daughter. Married 3rd (1953) Beryl Enid Hanson (who 1st married (1917) Thomas Brian Russell, ICS, died 1951), daughter of Frederick William Hanson, of Bombay and London.	04.03.1893 - 09.04.1963 Weedon, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire	2nd Lt. 22.01.1913 [337176] Lt. 22.04.1915 Capt. 22.01.1917 Maj. 22.01.1931 Lt.Col. 25.01.1938 A/Col. 09.08.1940-08.02.1941 T/Col. 09.02.1941-05.06.1944 Col. 06.06.1944, seniority 25.01.1941 (retd 20.10.1947) A/Brig. 23.12.1942-22.06.1943 T/Brig. 23.06.1943-14.05.1944 A/Maj.Gen. 15.05.1944-14.05.1945 T/Maj.Gen. 15.05.1945-(01.1946) Hon. Maj.Gen. 20.10.1947 CIE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 OBE 20.12.1932 for services in connection with military operations in Burma 12.30-03.32	Education: Marlborough College, Wiltshire; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1912-1913; Sword of Honour). 22.01.1913     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 13.10.1914     commissioned, Indian Army (1915) - (1917) 22nd Punjabis 1918 - 1919 Adjutant and Quarter-Master, Cadet College, Quetta 01.05.1919 - 15.02.1924 Adjutant and Quarter-Master, Staff College, Quetta 16.02.1924 - 1927 3rd Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment 1927 - 1928 student, Staff College, Quetta 1928 - 13.02.1931 3rd Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment 14.02.1931 - 13.02.1935 Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-Master General (DAA&QMG), Burma District 14.02.1935 - ? Second-in-Command, 3rd Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment 1938 - 1940 Commanding Officer, 10th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment 1940 - 1942 Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), General Headquarters India 1942 - 1944 Commander (Brigadier), 106 Lines of Communications Area 15.05.1944 - 1945 specially employed: Maj.Gen. in charge of Administration, North-Western Army (CIE) 1945 - 1947 specially employed: Deputy Quartermaster-General in India
Beard, Albert Edward Married Gwendoline Mary ...; two sons.	? - ?	Assistant Commissary (with rank of Lt.) 16.04.1943 [OS 481] (reld > 04.1947) T/Capt. 16.11.1944-(04.1947) T/Maj. 1947? Hon. Maj. > 04.1947 LSGCM 18.06.1948 -	16.04.1943     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]       served Indian Army Ordnance Corps (India)
Beardall, Peter William Son of ... Beardall, and ... Sykes.	(06?).1921 Basford district, Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire -	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 28.05.1942 [EC 7728] WS/Lt. 28.11.1942 T/Capt. 13.07.1943-(04.1946) Lt. 30.12.1946, seniority 28.11.1941 [378192] Capt. 18.09.1948 Hon. Maj. 16.05.1952 EM 04.03.1949 -	28.05.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Indian Army Ordnance Corps (India) 30.12.1946 - 16.05.1952 commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [short service commission] 16.05.1952 - 30.12.1954 Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class I) 30.12.1954 - 01.07.1959 Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)
Beaton, William Simon McKillican	1897? Inverness-shire, Scotland - 15.08.1946 Calcutta, India [Croy Churchyard, Inverness-shire, Scotland]	2nd Lt. 22.08.1942 [EC 7084] Capt. ? Maj. ? (reld 15.02.1946) T/Lt.Col. < 04.1945 Hon. Lt.Col. 15.02.1946 OBE ? ? MID 05.04.1945 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India	22.08.1942 commissioned into the Indian Army [emergency commission]
Beaumont, John Son (with one brother and one sister) of John William Beaumont (1883-1952), and Elizabeth Pattrick (1891-1976). Married (16.05.1962, St James Woodside, nr Leeds, Yorkshire) Annie Gibson (née Brook) (01.06.1915 - 23.10.2006).	08.05.1916 Leeds, West Yorkshire - 04.06.1991 Mirfield, Dewsbury district, Yorkshire	2nd Lt. 28.02.1942 [EC 7015] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld 27.05.1946; ill-health) A/Capt. ...-07.05.1944 T/Capt. 08.05.1944-27.05.1946 Hon. Capt. 27.05.1946	previous service for increment of pay 1 year, 85 days 28.02.1942     commissioned, Indian Army Ordnance Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission]
Becher, Noel St John Son of Lionel Bernard Alexander Becher (1887-1961), and Bertha Lemon (1878-1920). Married 1st ((06?).1940, Tonbridge district, Kent; divorced) Cynthia Goulding Tapp (1914 - 2014). Married 2nd (1944, Bareilly, Bengal, India) Margaret Ann Galloway (04.03.1910 - 06.1995); one child.	02.12.1914 Kensington, London - 09.12.1995 Ashtead, Surry Mid-Eastern district, Surrey	2nd Lt. 31.01.1935 [386 AI] Lt. 30.04.1937 A/Capt. 08.10.1940-07.01.1941 T/Capt. 08.01.1941-03.03.1941 WS/Capt. 04.03.1941 Capt. 31.01.1943 A/Maj. 04.12.1940-03.03.1941 T/Maj. 04.03.1941-30.01.1948 Maj. 31.01.1948 (retd 31.01.1949) Hon. Lt.Col. 31.01.1949	Education: Hereford Cathedral School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (01.09.1933-12.1934). 31.01.1935     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 14.03.1936     commissioned, Indian Army [Jat Regiment] ... - ... ...
Beckett, John Arthur	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 T/Capt. 16.03.1944-(04.1946)	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ?     transferred, The Lancashire Fusiliers
Beckett, John Kenneth	see:	British Army officers
Behn, Stanley Ralph Married ((12?).1939, Brentford district, Middlesex) Gladys Emily Fisher (17.06.1904 - 07.2000); ... children.	02.10.1909 Kings Lynn district, Norfolk - 03.1981 Sudbury district, Suffolk	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 21.11.1943 [EC 11637] WS/Capt. 01.01.1945 (reld < 04.1947) T/Maj. 01.01.1945-(04.1946)	Manager in the construction trade.       served in the ranks, Royal Ulster Rifles 21.11.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Indian Army Ordnance Corps (at some point Planning Staff, CND, Cawnpore)
Bell, Eric Richmond Son of John Bell (1874-), and Ethel Richmond (1896-1994). Married ((03?).1947, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Olive Stuart (1914 - 1977); one daughter.	21.11.1919 Tynemouth, Cumberland - 08.01.1978 Warwick Farm, Sydney,  NSW, Australia	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 06.05.1942 WS/Lt. 06.11.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) T/Capt. 01.05.1943-(12.1946)	06.05.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Bell, John Hogan	see:	British Army officers' section
Belvalker, V S	? -	Capt. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Bennett, Derek Lyddon Son of Godfrey Bennett, and Louisa Wills. Married (05.11.1955, Upper Agbrigg district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Margaret Helen Garside; one son, one daughter.	29.09.1926 Harrogate, Knaresborough district, West Riding of Yorkshire -	Pte. ? [6101250] 2nd Lt. 20.05.1945 [EC 16060] WS/Lt. 1947? WS/Capt. 1947? Capt. 01.01.1949 [402358] T/Maj. 1947? Hon. Maj. 01.01.1949	served in the ranks, The Queen's Regiment 20.05.1945     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       Burma Frontier Force       Special List (ex-Indian Army) 01.01.1949     The Brigade of Gurkhas - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Bennett, Thomas Henry "Tom" Son (with three sisters) of Ernest Bennett (1878-1972), and Amy Elizabeth Ann Hoyle (1878-1967). Married (19.02.1946 St Stephen, Tockholes, Darwen district, Lancashire) Freda Waring Bridge (26.08.1921 - ), daughter of Fred Bridge, and Elizabeth Waring; two daughters.	24.01.1911 Darwen, Lancashire - 12.1985 Fulham, London	2nd Lt. 18.04.1941 WS/Lt. 18.04.1941? A/Capt. 21.05.1942-10.10.1942 T/Capt. 01.05.1943-(10.1945)	previous service for increment of pay 49 days 18.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Indian Army Service Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission] (1944/45)     Export/Import Officer, Office of the Director General Indian Medical Service His daughter writes: "We think my father started the war in the Sindh desert and was then seconded to Delhi. He had a degree in Chemistry so he was used there to help oversee the movement of drugs into India."
Berridge, Basil "Bill" Second son of Harold Berridge, CIE, OBE, of Sutton, Surrey. Married 1st (27.09.1934) Patricia Gwendoline Berry Castleman-Smith; one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1946?) Joyce Evelyn Ruscoe, daughter of Mr & Mrs S.W. Ruscoe, of Muswell Hill, London.	09.03.1902 Sunderland, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear - 29.10.1960 Kitale, Kenya	2nd Lt. 23.12.1921 [IA 811] Lt. 23.12.1923 20.04.1929, seniority 23.03.1924 Capt. 23.12.1930 Maj. 23.12.1938 A/Lt.Col. 04.04.1943-03.07.1943 T/Lt.Col. 04.07.1943-13.10.1943, 30.03.1944-(01.1946) Lt.Col. 23.12.1947 (retd 27.12.1948) IndGSM - - IndGSM 36-39 - & clasp Waziristan MID ? - WM 39|45 - - Bur St - - IndSM - -	Education: Dover College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 23.12.1921     commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (served Palestine, Egypt & Turkey) 19.01.1925 - 28.04.1927 employed with 4th Battalion King's African Rifles (Bombo, Uganda) 1927     attached, 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Chakrata, India) 07.01.1929 - 19.04.1929 attached, Indian Army 20.04.1929     transferred, Indian Army (IASC training, 30th Transport Company) 1930     HQ Razmak Brigade 1931     NW Frontier of India 1935     served at Dacca, Calcutta, Kohat, Waziristan operations 1937     Officer Commanding, 40th Independent Motor Transport [Company?] 1939     served Kaisora Valley campaign 1942     RIASC senior officers' course (Chiklala) 1947     MT Supplies Imphal campaign, Southern Command (Burma) (embarked Bombay for East Africa 14.06.1947)
Berry, John James "Jack"	31.08.1915 -	2nd Lt. 09.08.1941 WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 A/Capt. ?	09.08.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] Passed out from Sandhurst, shipped to Bombay in Oct 1941. Joined Poona Horse Division. Learned about tank technology. Sent to Egypt under Col. Hatch (3rd Indian Motor Brigade), later Col. Kilkelly. Was involved in a Stukker raid in Alexandria in 1942, injured and sent to Cairo hospital. Rejoined his regiment in Damascus a few months later. Spent some time in Cyprus. Returned home in 1947.
Bevis, Derek Harold	? -	Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Beyts, Geoffrey Herbert Bruno "Billy" Son of Lt.Col. R.F.S. Beyts. Married 1st (1940) Ruby Elliott (died 1980); one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1981) Linda Segrave Daly.	17.01.1908 Bhudi, Kutch State, India - 13.12.2000 Benajarafe, Spain [buried in Malaga]	2nd Lt. 02.02.1928 [IA 897 & 157559] Lt. 02.05.1930 Capt. 02.02.1937 A/Maj. 02.07.1940-01.10.1940 T/Maj. 02.10.1940-05.01.1942 WS/Maj. 06.01.1942 Maj. 02.02.1945 A/Lt.Col. 06.10.1941-05.01.1942 T/Lt.Col. 06.01.1942-04.06.1942, 20.07.1942-19.01.1943 WS/Lt.Col. 20.01.1943 (retd 17.02.1949) A/Col. 20.07.1942-19.01.1943 T/Col. 20.01.1943-19.12.1943 A/Brig. 13.04.1945-(04.1947) Hon. Col. 17.02.1949 DSO 03.05.1945 Burma MBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MC 20.12.1932 Burma 12.30-03.32 MID 19.09.1946 Burma	Education: Bowden House School, Seaford; Wellington College (1921[3]-1926[2]); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1926-1928); Staff College (psc). 02.02.1928     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 28.03.1929     commissioned, Indian Army 1940     trained Independent Companies in Scotland that took part in the Norway campaign 02.07.1940     Second-in-Command, Auxiliary Units 08.1942     Chief of Staff to Colin McKenzie, who was setting up the SOE resistance organisation (later renamed Force 136) in South East Asia 27.12.1943 - 1945 Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles 03.04.1945 - 15.06.1945 Commander, 62nd Indian Infantry Brigade
Bhagyam, G D	? -	Maj. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Bickers, Maurice Henry Townshend	09.06.1891 - (03?).1969 Winchester district, Hampshire	2nd Lt. ? ... ... WS/Lt.Col. 09.04.1944 T/Col. 09.04.1944-(04.1946) OBE ? ?	26.09.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 26.09.1941 - (04.1947) Director of Postal Services, India
Bickford, John Philip Kennedy	? -	2nd Lt. 02.04.1942 WS/Lt. 02.10.1942 ... ...	(02.1942)     "A" Company, Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) 02.04.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Bidappa, R P	? -	Capt. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Biggin, A	? -	Lt. ? 09.04.1943, seniority 03.12.1936 WS/Capt. 03.12.1941	? commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Bird, John Alan Geoffrey Son of John Wilfred Bird (1872-), surgeon, originally of Canada, and Marjorie Jane Bird.	20.05.1906 Balham, Wandsworth district, London - 28.02.1942 (MPK) [age 35] [Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar, face 49]	2nd Lt. 08.01.1931, seniority 17.05.1927 (reld 06.12.1932; on joining the A.F. (1.)) 2nd Lt. 23.08.1941 [EC 3422] A/Capt. ?	08.01.1931     commissioned, Army in India Reserve of Officers 23.08.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? - 28.02.1942 17th Dogra Regiment (missing, presumed killed in Burma)
Birdwood, Travers John Durrant * Son of Lt.Col. Gordon Travers Birdwood (1867-1945), and Alice Caroline Finlay. Married Diana V. Turner; one son, one daughter. * last Christian name also found as: Durand	26.09.1913 - 23.11.2001 South & West Dorset	2nd Lt. 31.08.1933 [238 AI] Lt. 30.11.1935 Capt. 31.08.1941 A/Maj. 08.01.1944-07.04.1944 T/Maj. 08.04.1944-(04.1946) Maj. 31.08.1946 MID 13.01.1944 Middle East	31.08.1933 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 15.11.1934 commissioned, Indian Army (1941) Officer Commanding, Indian 2 Patrol, Indian Long Range Squadron (ILRS), attached Long Range Desert Group
Birks, Harry Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Levi Birks (1873-1950), and Lucy Barlow (1880-). Married 1st (29.04.1918, Ardwick, St Matthew, Lancashire) Elizabeth Harris (1898 - 1976); two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd Bertha ... (? - 17.09.1941). Married 3rd.	08.06.1898 Longton, Staffordshire - 01.1947 Bombay, India	2nd Lt. 17.11.1942 [EC 9151] WS/Lt. 17.05.1943 (reld 01.12.1945) Hon. Lt. 01.12.1945	"A" Company, 1st Battalion The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) 17.11.1942     commissioned, Corps Indian Engineers (Railways) - Indian Army [emergency commission]
Birtwistle, Harry Standing Son (with one sister) of Joseph Birtwistle (1894-1965), and Isabella Standing (1895-1969). Married ((06?).1948, Ewell, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Margaret Jean Lucas (26.07.1925 - 18.05.1992), daughter (with three brothers) of William Robert Lucas (1895-1981), and Dorothy Jane Dye (1895-1979); three daughters, three sons.	29.07.1920 Colne, Burnley district, Lancashire - 13.09.1979 Keighley district, West Riding of Yorkshire	2nd Lt. 11.04.1942 WS/Lt. 11.10.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)	11.04.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served 17th Dogra Regiment
Bishop, Derek Roland Son of Frank Roland Bishop, and Phillis Dora Charlwood, of Hove, Sussex.	(09?).1922 Reigate district, Surrey - 28.10.1942 (KIA) [age 20] [Gauhati War Cemetery, India, 4.A.7]	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 29.10.1941 [EC 4117]	served in the ranks, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 29.10.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Black, Denis Victor	20.10.1897 Buxton, Norfolk -	2nd Lt. 11.08.1915 [5384] Lt. 12.12.1916 A/Capt. 25.01.1918-18.10.1918 T/Capt. 19.10.1918-13.12.1920 Capt. 05.09.1925 A/Maj. 03.11.1918-10.07.1919 Indian Army:   Lt. 20.04.1929, seniority 23.06.1916 Capt. 20.04.1929, seniority 23.06.1919 Maj. 23.06.1933 Lt.Col. 09.10.1938 Col. 07.03.1943, seniority 09.10.1941 (retd 29.03.1948) A/Brig. 01.10.1943-31.03.1944 T/Brig. 01.04.1944-(01.1946) Hon. Brig. 29.03.1948 MC 01.02.1919 * * For conspicuous gallantry valid ability in action on 8th and 9th August, 1918, E. of Amiens. The section of Tanks under his command did excellent work and reduced numerous enemy points of resistance, capturing or destroying many guns and machine guns. After Tanks of his own and other sections had been put out of action near Rosieres by direct hits, he went round the disabled Tanks under heavy fire, noting their position and condition, and seeing to the evacuation of the wounded. He also brought back valuable information as to the situation on the flanks. He behaved splendidly throughout.	1914 - 16.02.1915 mobilized Special Reserve for 49 days 11.08.1915 commissioned, East Yorkshire Regiment 09.01.1917 - 27.01.1917 Machine Gun Corps 28.07.1917 - 31.08.1923 Tank Corps [seconded to 2nd Battalion (1919)] 01.09.1923 transferred, Royal Tank Corps 07.12.1925 - 28.12.1928 Adjutant, ... 29.12.1928 - 19.04.1929 attached, Indian Army 20.04.1929 transferred, Indian Army (Royal Indian Army Service Corps) 09.10.1938 - 22.04.1940 Assistant Director of Supplies & Transport, India 23.04.1940 - 24.01.1941 Assistant Director of Supplies, India ? - 29.03.1948 Special List (ex-Indian Army) Participated in the 1920 Olympic games on the 4x100 m.
Blackater, Clarkson Forrester "Dan" Son of Alexander Forrester Brown Blackater (1860-1925), and Mary Jane Nimmo (1873-1925). Married Agnes Espie Taggart; one daughter.	05.08.1905 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scorland - 1969 Kilmacolm, Port Glasgow district, Renfrewshire, Scotland	2nd Lt. 20.05.1924 Lt. 20.05.1926 (reld 14.11.1927; on enlistment in the Malay States Volunteer Reserve) 2nd Lt. 23.08.1941 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)	late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Sedbergh School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps 20.05.1924 - 21.05.1927 commissioned, 9th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry - Territorial Army 21.05.1927 - 14.11.1927 General List, Infantry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers 04.1941     enlisted, Indian Army 23.08.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? - 15.02.1942 5/18 Royal Garhwal Rifles (captured at Singapore) 02.1942 - 08.1945 POW (No. 27326) in Japanese captivity [Changi 02.1942-11.1942; Tarsoa 11.1942-07.1943; Tamarkan 07.1943-11.1943; Chungkai 11.1943-05.1944; Tamuan 05.1944-01.1945; Kamburi 01.1945-08.1945] Published: Gods without reason (1948; war memoirs).
Blackie, Robert Goldie Married; one daughter.	27.03.1921 Linlithgow district, West Lothian, Scotland - 14.12.1982 Chelmsford district, Essex	2nd Lt. 28.05.1942 WS/Lt. 28.11.1942 Lt. 28.04.1945, seniority 27.09.1943 [345090] A/Capt. 29.09.1944-28.12.1944 T/Capt. 29.12.1944-16.01.1946, 04.01.1947-07.03.1948 Capt. 27.03.1948 Maj. 27.03.1955 (retd 01.05.1969)	served in the ranks for 2 years, 268 days 28.05.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 27.04.1945] 28.04.1945 transferred, Sherwood Foresters [permanent commission British Army] 02.07.1955 - 21.11.1958 specially employed Military Forces Malaya 01.03.1960 transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps
Blair, Ian James	05.05.1915 Gisborne, Auckland, New Zealand - 1998 Kyrenia, Kyrenia District, Cyprus	2nd Lt. 17.10.1939, seniority 09.04.1938 [RO/3579] Lt. 09.07.1940 (reld 17.04.1946) A/Capt. ...-09.12.1940 T/Capt. 10.12.1940-17.04.1946 Hon. Capt. 17.04.1946	09.03.1938     enlisted for Army service 17.10.1939     commissioned, Army in India Reserve of Officers 18.06.1940     called to Army Service, serving with the infantry 25.12.1941     captured at Hong Kong while serving with C Company, 2/14th Punjab Regiment & POW in Japanese captivity at POW camps: 29.12.1941 - 20.04.1942 Shampshuipo 20.04.1942 - 11.05.1944 Argyle Street 11.05.1944 - 15.08.1945 Shamshuipo
Blair, Marshall Bennett	? -	A/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 T/Capt. 10.06.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Blake, William John "Bill" Son (youngest of seven children) of John Blake, and Ellen Knight. Bachelor.	25.10.1891 Portsea, Hampshire - 15.02.1961 Portsmouth, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 14.12.1919, seniority 12.08.1919 [AI 647] Lt. 16.07.1920 Prov. Capt. 16.07.1925-31.08.1925 Capt. 19.10.1925 Maj. 16.07.1937 A/Lt.Col. 10.07.1942-09.10.1942 T/Lt.Col. 10.10.1942-15.07.1945 Lt.Col. 16.07.1945 (retd 30.03.1947)	served in the ranks for 8 years, 334 days  1909     21st Lancers       from Indian Army Reserve of Officers 14.12.1919     commissioned, Indian Army (2/66th Punjabis) 01.10.1935 - 25.09.1937 Adjutant & Quartermaster, Army School of Physical Training, India 1937 - 1947 seconded to Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), serving in Wana, Jullundur, Kamptee, Deolali and Kalyan
Blaquiere, John Arthur Brother of Capt. Norman Arthur Blaquiere.	1895 -	2nd Lt. 30.03.1942 [570] T/Maj. ? MID 26.06.1947 Netherlands East Indies	30.03.1942 commissioned, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers [emergency commission] served Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Indian Army
Blaquiere, Norman Arthur Brother of Maj. John Arthur Blaquiere. Formerly of Dehra Dun, India.	? - 31.07.1952 Swinton, Lancashire	2nd Lt. 05.08.1918 Capt. 31.08.1928, seniority 03.09.1924 2nd Lt. 01.04.1944 [EC 13335] WS/Lt. 01.10.1944	05.08.1918 commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers (Infantry Branch) served Burma Frontier Service 01.04.1944 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Blatchford, G H	? -	2nd Lt. 15.03.1941 (reld > 04.1946)	15.03.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Blenkin, William	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Bodeker, Wilfrid Bernard Thompson "Bill" / "Pinkie" Fourth child of Frederick William Bodeker, and Katherine Louise Thompson (?-1898). His father remarried and had four more children. Married (04.01.1928, Moulmein) Gladys Edna Starling; three daughters, two sons.	11.05.1896 Rangoon, Burma - 04.04.1962 [Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia]	Capt. AIRO 25.04.1930, seniority 08.02.1926 (reld 04.09.1939) Capt. ABRO 04.09.1939 Maj. ABRO 02.03.1943 (reld 30.04.1945)	Accountant. WW I     served as Corporal in Mespotamia 25.04.1930     commissioned, Army in India Reserve of Officers 04.09.1939     commissioned, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers [emergency commission] (Rangoon)       Fought for the 1st Burma Division. In his letters to his wife, who had fled to Dehra Dun in India, he described his war time experiences. He was second-in-command to the “Brig” and to “Marsh”. He also did some Intelligence work. As a trained Forestry Officer, working for the family Timber Company in Moulmein, he brought an invaluable understanding of jungle warfare with him. After the order to withdraw from Maymyo, he with a band of others walked out on the Burma Trail to India in 28 days, arriving in Shillong in May 1942, before the Monsoons [which were very bad that year] arrived. Later, he was based in Hoshiapur in India. In Western Australia, he stood for Parliament for the DLP [Democratic Labor Party] against the sitting member, Paul Hasluck, who later became the Governor General of Australia. Bodeker gained 12% of the vote, which was seen as a recognition of his personal skills and knowledge - as well as a swing against the Liberal Party. Literature: C.M.T. Nash (ed.), W.B.T. Bodeker – 100th anniversary (1996).
Bond, Richard Willoughby	11.02.1900 West Derby district, Lancashire - 13.07.1988 Olney, Milton Keynes district, Buckinghamshire	L/Sgt. ? 2nd Lt. 14.11.1943 [EC 11047] WS/Lt. 14.05.1944 (reld 01.05.1947) Lt. 01.05.1947, seniority 14.05.1944 [380484] Capt ? Maj. ? (reld 27.05.1953) TD ? -	14.11.1943     commissioned, Indian Service Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission] (03.1945)     HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade 01.05.1947     commissioned, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army 14.06.1949     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Bone, Charles Antony Son of William Bone, and Georgina Budgen. Married (1946) Feyette Lorraine Hendy (died 05.03.2011, aged 91), step-daughter of Godfrey Denham; one daughter, one son.	28.12.1915 Romford district, Essex - 05.1995 Esher, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey	2nd Lt. 08.10.1942 WS/Lt. 08.04.1943 T/Capt. 29.07.1943-(04.1947)	served in Singapore, then Delhi 08.10.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] Worked with British American Tobacco pre- & post-war.
Bone, Norman Arthur Sydney	19.11.1920 - 03.2007 still alive	Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 26.11.1942 WS/Lt. 26.05.1943	26.11.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 4th Battalion Prince of Wales's Own Gurkhas
Booth, Douglas Henderson	1907 St Machar district, Aberdeen, Scotland - 1946 ?	2nd Lt. 01.03.1941 WS/Lt. 21.11.1941 T/Capt. 21.11.1941-(04.1946)	Formerly a rubber planter and manager, at Travancore, India. 01.03.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       POW in Japanese captivity
Borrell, Edward Harley "Ted" Son of James Edward Borrell (1897-1975), and Hulda Briggs. Married ((03?).1946, Durham North Western district) Nora Bateman ((12?).1920 - 2007); three sons.	30.07.1920 Barton, Irwell district, Lancashire - 05.1992 Corbridge, Northumberland West district	Gnr. ? 2nd Lt. 17.08.1941 [EC 3331] WS/Lt. ? (reld 07.06.1946; ill-health) Hon. Lt. 07.06.1946	17.08.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served in India & Egypt Architect, town planner and painter. Lived in Great Britain, USA and New Zealand.
Boulter, Charles John Son (with one sister and one brother) of Charles John Boulter (1874-1963), and Isabella Woods (1884-1969). Brother of Lt.Col. Henry George Victor Boulter, Indian Army. Married (02.11.1949, St George's Garrison Church, Singapore) Elizabeth Maureen Gray Robins (21.05.1924 - 21.07.2011); one daughter, four sons.	20.01.1918 Lewisham district, London - 10.07.2011 Kent	2nd Lt. 27.01.1938 [AI 867] Lt. 27.04.1940 A/Capt. 13.11.1940-09.02.1941 T/Capt. 13.02.1941-17.07.1941, 28.12.1941-28.03.1942 WS/Capt. 29.03.1942 Capt. 27.01.1946 28.03.1948, seniority 27.01.1946 [380614] A/Maj. 29.12.1941-28.03.1942 T/Maj. 29.03.1942-31.03.1942, 12.10.1943-27.04.1944, 03.05.1944-04.11.1944, 16.11.1944-24.04.1945 WS/Maj. 25.04.1945 Maj. 27.01.1951 A/Lt.Col. 25.01.1945-24.04.1945 T/Lt.Col. 25.04.1945-18.05.1945, 24.09.1945-10.02.1946, 14.06.1961-28.06.1962 Lt.Col. (Emp. List 1) 29.06.1962 (supernumerary 29.06.1965) (Special List 20.01.1968) (retd 08.03.1969) OBE 08.06.1963 HMs birthday 63: on loan to Government of the Federation of Malaya MC 30.12.1941 Middle East (Syria, Iraq and Iran) [recommendation available upon request] MID 08.07.1941 ? MID 15.12.1942 Middle East 11.41-04.42 CdeG 1941 Middle East (Syria, Iraq and Iran)	Education: Imperial Service College ("B" House; 01.1932-07.1936; School Prefect; House Captain; 1st IX; 1st XV; Sgt., Officers Training Corps); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1936-1937); Staff College (psc). 27.01.1938     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 04.1938 - 03.1939 attached Royal Warwickshire Regiment 01.04.1939     commissioned, Indian Army (3/1 Punjab Regiment) 1939 - 1945 Punjab Regiment (Western Desert, Eritrea & Syria 1940-1942, Italy 1944-1945) (wounded; MC, despatches twice, Croix de Guerre) (1941)     3/1 Punjab Regiment, attached 5th Indian Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (MC) 12.10.1943 - 02.03.1944 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), ... Indian Division 11.08.1945 - 22.09.1945 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ... 24.09.1945 - 14.10.1945 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), ... 15.10.1945 - 27.07.1946 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ... 28.03.1948     transferred, Royal Artillery (served Europe & Far East) 23.07.1949 - 26.05.1950 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), HQ Land Forces Hong Kong 16.10.1952 - 28.10.1954 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), HQ British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) 25.01.1957 - 01.07.1957 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Plans), General HQ Far East Land Forces (FARELF) 15.07.1957 - 01.10.1958 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Operations & Training), ... 23.04.1959 - 11.05.1961 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) , War Office 06.06.1961 - 22.09.1963 specially employed, Federation of Malaya (OBE) 17.04.1964 - 21.02.1966 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), HQ British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) 12.09.1966 - (01.1967) Assistant Quartermaster General (AQMG), Ministry of Defence
Boulter, Henry George Victor Son (with one sister and one brother) of Charles John Boulter (1874-1963), and Isabella Woods (1884-1969). Brother of Lt.Col. Charles John Boulter, OBE, MC, Indian Army & Royal Artillery.	10.08.1909 Ireland - 11.1995 Yeovil district, Somerset	2nd Lt. 29.08.1929 [AI 928] Lt. 29.11.1931 Capt. 01.08.1938 A/Maj. ? T/Maj. ? Maj. 29.08.1946 (retd 01.12.1948) T/Lt.Col. ? Hon. Lt.Col. 01.12.1948 MID 28.10.1942 Burma 12.41-05.42	Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1928-1929). 29.08.1929     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 15.10.1930     commissioned, Indian Army       9th Jat Regiment (despatches)
Bowden, Alexander Gwynne	20.09.1920 - (12?).1977 Chelsea district, London	2nd Lt. 26.10.1940 WS/Lt. 26.04.1942 Maj. (1945)	26.10.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Bowden, John Wallace Guy Son of Tom Lake Bowden, and Marjorie Harnet Stack. Married (08.07.1954, Westminster Cathedral, London) Countess Ilona de Horthy, widow of M. Stephen Horthy, former Deputy Regent of Hungary.	25.09.1915 Bromley district, London -	2nd Lt. 01.02.1941 [371883] WS/Capt. 21.04.1943 A/Maj. 21.01.1943-20.04.1943 T/Maj. 21.04.1943-06.06.1948 Lt. 04.12.1946, seniority 03.03.1941 Capt. 04.12.1946, seniority 01.07.1946 T/Maj. 01.08.1948-24.09.1951 Maj. 25.09.1951 local Lt.Col. 22.10.1951-20.03.1952 T/Lt.Col. 02.06.1952-01.07.1954 Lt.Col. 14.02.1961 (Employed List (1)) (retd 21.03.1963) Hon. Col. 21.03.1963 CBE 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 61: Military Attaché, Baghdad MID 19.09.1946 ? Cmdn 20.01.1959 * * For brave conduct on the 14th July 1958, when the British Embassy in Baghdad was attacked by an armed mob. On this and the following days he maintained communications between Her Majesty's Ambassador and the members of his staff.	Education: BA; Staff College (psc). 01.02.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 03.12.1946] 04.12.1946     permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps (British Army) 23.07.1947     transferred, 3rd King's Own Hussars [later: The Queen's Own Hussars] (1961)     Military Attaché, HM Embassy, Baghdad (CBE)
Bowie, Albert Gordon	29.04.1907 Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex - 22.02.2007 Suffolk	2nd Lt. 01.02.1929 Lt. 01.05.1931 Capt. 31.01.1938 A/Maj. 13.07.1940-12.10.1940 T/Maj. 13.10.1940-06.04.1943 WS/Maj. 07.04.1943 A/Lt.Col. 07.01.1943-06.04.1943 T/Lt.Col. 07.04.1943-(01.1946)	from Supplementary Reserve of Officers 01.02.1929 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 21.03.1930 commissioned, Indian Army ... - ... 1st/2nd KEO Gurkhas
Boyd, Francis Bagenal "Bill" Son (with two brothers and one sister) of John Bagenal Boyd (1855-1935), and Dora Knox-Fletcher (1876-1956). Married (12.07.1948, Poole district, Dorset) Johanna Wilhelmina Geerlachdina Dijkslag (06.05.1914 - 17.04.2010), earlier married (with one son) to Cornelis van Kan (1921-1970), and daughter of Capt. Frederik Dijkslag; one son. Lived at Hillburn House, Taghmon, County Wexford, Ireland.	18.10.1913 - 05.04.2006	2nd Lt. 26.08.1937 [IA 791] Lt. 26.11.1939 A/Capt. 06.01.1941-05.04.1941 T/Capt. 06.04.1941-25.08.1945 Capt. 26.08.1945 (retd 21.01.1949) T/Maj. ? Hon. Maj. 21.01.1949 MC 26.06.1947 Netherlands East Indies (prior to 30.11.46) MID 09.05.1946 Burma	Education: St Columba's College, Dublin; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1936-1937).       served in the ranks, 2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (for 4 years, 206 days) 26.08.1937     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 27.10.1938     commissioned, Indian Army       served 11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) Horse breeder (he was buried on 09.04.2006, just before Numbersixvalverde, bred by him, won the Grand National).
Boyes, Thomas Plumer "Tom" Married Marjorie "Bill" (née ...) (died aged 87 27.12.2006, Whitford, Devon).	28.11.1920 - 01.1985 Exeter, Devon	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 10.09.1941 [EC 3820] WS/Lt. 01.09.1942 T/Capt. 01.09.1942-(04.1944) WS/Capt. 15.08.1944 T/Maj. 15.08.1944-(04.1946) Lt. 11.01.1947, seniority 28.05.1943 [375303] Capt. 28.11.1947 Maj. 28.11.1954 (retd 28.11.1955) MC 17.01.1946 Burma MID 21.10.1952 Malaya 01-06.52	Education: Staff College (psc) served in the ranks 10.09.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 10th Gurkha Rifles 11.01.1947 permanent commission, Royal Army Service corps 16.12.1954 - (08.1955) Junior Division Instructor, RASC Officers' School (Aldershot) 25.02.1956 Major, 10th Gurkha Rifles, Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Boyle, Douglas Gordon Married ((03?).1939, Brentford district, Middlesex) Kathleen M. Atkinson.	25.05.1913 - (03?).1983 Claro district, North Yorkshire	2nd Lt. 14.09.1940 [EC 4359] WS/Lt. 09.06.1941 T/Capt. 09.06.1941-(04.1946) T/Lt.Col. (1946) MID 19.09.1946 Burma	14.09.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps (No. 6 Transport Column)
Boys, Anthony Vernon "Toby" Son (with one brother) of Ernest John Egerton Boys (1887-1953), and Janet Myfanwy Thoresby Jones (1892-1990). Married (20.05.1950, Hereford district, Herefordshire) Dorothea Maud "Thea" Cheese (24.07.1922 - 21.06.1998), daughter of George Owen Cheese; one daughter.	19.06.1922 Paddington, London - 12.01.1959 Kisumu, Kenya (formerly of Kibigori Veterinary Station, Kenya)	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 15.03.1942 [EC ....] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 01.10.1945, seniority 01.10.1942 [355800] (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)	15.03.1942     commissioned, Corps of Indian Engineers (Transportation) - Indian Army [emergency commission] (for docks operating) 01.10.1945     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers His daughter writes: "He trained with the Royal Scots, transferred to the Indian Army. Was at OTS Mhow (1941-2); served in India, Iraq and Egypt (as Lt), returned Bombay March 1945 and served in India, Burma and Malaysia. Transferred back to British Army."
Bozman, Cuthbert Alfred "Luke" Son (with four sisters) of Cuthbert David Bozman (1861-1943), and Ellen Mary Todhunter (1869-1951). Married ((03?).1932, St Pancras disitrict, London) Isabel Wernigg (née MacKenzie) (28.11.1899 - 26.08.1966).	28.06.1899 Bidston, Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 12.10.1964 The Salutation Hotel, Ambleside, Westmorland (formerly of Cheam, Surrey)	Lt. 03.03.1925 [MZ 2208] Capt. 03.03.1928 Maj. 03.09.1936, seniority 03.09.1934 Lt.Col. 03.09.1944 (retd 22.05.1948) OBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46	Education: MB, ChB (Edin) 1924, DPH (Lond). 10.07.1917     Private, 3rd Battalion The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment 10.06.1918     Private, Royal Air Force 19.12.1918 - 07.05.1919 Cadet, Royal Air Force 03.03.1925     commissioned, Indian Medical Service 08.08.1932 - 01.08.1933 Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology, India (01.1941) - (10.1941) P.H.O., Bombay (07.1942)     officiating, additional A.D.I.G.M.S. (01.1943)     O.S.D. official on staff of the Director General of the Indian Medical Service (1945)     Officiating Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India Director of Public Health, Burma. Health Adviser to the British Middle East Office at Cairo, 1950. Curator, Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, 1956-1964.
Bradley, Kenneth Catlow	? -	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Brady, Ralph Hollinshed	19.02.1904 Stockport, Cheshire - 01.02.1978 Stockport district, Greater Manchester	Lt. 10.12.1939, seniority 10.12.1934 [EC 221] T/Capt. 10.12.1939-... WS/Capt. 03.05.1942? (reld 28.12.1945) A/Maj. ...-02.05.1942 T/Maj. 03.05.1942-28.12.1945 Hon. Maj. 28.12.1945 MID 30.12.1941 Middle East MID 13.01.1944 Middle East	10.12.1939     commissioned, Indian Army Ordnance Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission] ?     transferred, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers A relative writes: "I believe started in a Calcutta Scotch volunteer regiment, subsequently merged with the Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Taken PoW in either Africa or Italy, to Camp 29, Veano (Piacenza). He was reported to his parents as missing believed dead; however, on being released from Veano he made his way independently to Switzerland."
Branfoot, Denis Charles	18.07.1891 Madras, India - 12.05.1964 Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent (formerly of Wellington, Somersetshire)	2nd Lt. 18.01.1911 [IA 208] Lt. 18.04.1913 Capt. 01.09.1915 Maj. 18.01.1928 Lt.Col. 01.11.1936 (retd 15.10.1946) A/Col. 21.11.1941-20.05.1942 T/Col. 21.05.1942-27.041943	18.01.1911     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 08.03.1912     commissioned, Indian Army 07.08.1916 - 11.11.1918 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry (Frontier Force) (Mesopotamia) (1922)     22nd/25th Cavalry (Frontier Force) (Loralai, Baluchistan) (1932)     Sam Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force) ... - ... ...
Brassington, Alan Manton	? -	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Bray, William Charles Edward Married; two sons.	03.03.1897 - (12?).1974 Shepway district, Kent	Wt.Offr. ? Assistant Commissary (with rank of Lt.) 01.02.1941 (reld > 04.1946)	13.09.1941     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
Brereton, John Maurice Son of James Hudson Brereton (1869-), and Mary Paton Schorr (1878-1916). Married ...; ... children.	11.08.1914 Orsmkirk district, Lancashire - 09.1996 Hay-on-Wye, Breconshire / Herefordshire / Radnorshire / Wales	2nd Lt. 27.07.1940 WS/Lt. 13.05.1941 (reld < 04.1946) T/Capt. ? Hon. Capt. < 04.1946 Lt. 01.01.1949 [402263]	1932     joined Royal Horse Artillery as a boy-trumpeter       served in the ranks, India 27.07.1940     commissioned, 3rd Cavalry - Indian Army [emergency commission] 1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity (working on the Thailand railway) 01.01.1949 - 25.08.1965 The Royals - Royal Armoured Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] Published: Russian tanks 1915-1968 (1970); The 7th Queen's Own Hussars (Famous regiments series) (1975); The horse in war (1976); A history of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and their predecessors, 1685-1980 (1982); A guide to the regiments and corps of the British Army : on the regular establishment (1985); The British soldier : a social history from 1661 to the present day (1986); A history of the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) and its predecessors, 1689-1989 (1989); The history of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding),1702-1992 (1993; with A.C.S. Savory).
Bridges, Reginald Frank	06.02.1903 Hitchin district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire -	Conductor ? Assistant Commissary (with rank of T/Lt.) 01.02.1941 WS/Maj. ? Maj. (OEO) 01.01.1949 [402315]	01.02.1941     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission] 1946/47? Special List (ex-Indian Army) 01.01.1949 short service commission ? - 06.02.1958 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Briggs, [Sir] Harold Rawdon "Briggo"   Son of late Henry Edwin Briggs, and Georgina Martha Briggs, of Birstwith Hall, Ripley, Yorkshire. Married 1st; one daughter.. Married 2nd (1940) Irene Mona Wood, of Broadstone, Dorset, daughter of Herbert Henry Capper, of Colombo, Ceylon, and widow of Eng.Cdr. Alfred Oswald Wood, RN; one son. US citizen until naturalization in 1914.	14.07.1894 Pipestone, Minnesota, USA - 27.10.1952 Limassol, Cyprus	2nd Lt. 15.08.1914 [83186 & IA 149] T/Lt. 05.03.1915-31.08.1915 Lt. 15.11.1916 ?, seniority 01.09.1915 A/Capt. 07.09.1917--14.08.1918 Capt. 15.08.1918 Bt. Maj. 01.01.1932 Maj. 15.08.1932 Lt.Col. 17.09.1937 A/Col. 24.09.1940-23.03.1941 T/Col. 24.03.1941-21.09.1942 Col. 22.09.1942, seniority 17.09.1940 A/Brig. 24.09.1940-23.03.1941 T/Brig. 24.03.1941-11.05.1943 A/Maj.Gen. 12.05.1942-11.05.1943 T/Maj.Gen. 12.05.1943-15.07.1945 Maj.Gen. 16.07.1945, seniortiy 10.2.1945 (retd 01.1948) T/Lt.Gen. 01.1946 Hon. Lt.Gen. 07.08.1948 KCIE 01.01.1948 New Year 48 [as announced 14.08.47] KBE 1952 ? CB 1948 ? CBE 28.06.1945 Burma DSO 30.12.1941 Middle East DSO 23.04.1942 Middle East (Egypt and Libya) DSO 18.05.1944 Burma MID 24.06.1943 Middle East MID 05.08.1943 Persia / Iraq MID 05.04.1945 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India	Education: Bedford School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Quetta (1927-1928) 15.08.1914     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 05.03.1915 - 31.08.1915 attached, 4th Battalion The King's Regiment (Liverpool Regiment) and joined 31st Punjab Regiment 01.09.1915     commissioned, Indian Army served European War, 1914-1918, France, Mesopotamia, and Palestine (wounded; despatches) 1923 joined Baluchistan Regiment 1930 served Waziristan campaign 1937 - 1940 Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion 10th Baluchistan Regiment 24.09.1940 - 03.04.1942 Commander, 7th Indian Infantry Brigade (Eritrea and Western Desert) 12.05.1942 - 06.1944 General Officer Commanding, 5th Indian Infantry Division (Western Desert, Iraq & Burma) 1944? - 1945? General Officer Commanding, Bihar and Orissa (India) 01.1946 - 01.1948 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Burma Command 21.03.1950 - 1951 Director of Operations, Federation of Malaya
Briscoe, Albert Whitby Married (04.1939) Margaret Mary Cox, widow of Capt. Peter Shannon, Indian Medical Service. From Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.	1904 ? Co. Athlone, Ireland - 22.12.1961 Seend, Devizes district, Wiltshire	Gnr. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)	Solicitor. Prominent (international) golfer in Ireland during the 1920’s and 30’s. ? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 21.11.1944 - (12.1946) Intelligence Officer (Capt.), Directorate of Military Intelligence, General Staff Branch, India Headquarters Staff
Brittain, Francis David Gerald "Gerry" Son (with one brother) of Francis Ernest Brittain (1897-), and Dorothy Grace Sinclair (1900-1991). Married (1948, McCracken Memorial) ... Todd, daughter of Albert Edward Todd (1897-1941), and Jane Mcgladery (1901-1988); three sons, one daughter.	11.02.1926 - 17.04.1989 Newtonards Hospital, Co. Down, Northern Ireland	Pte. ? [6101130] 2nd Lt. 12.05.1945 [EC 15957] WS/Lt. 1947? (reld 05.08.1947) T/Capt. 1947? Hon. Capt. 05.08.1947 Lt. 18.09.1952, seniority 29.11.1949 [425722] A/Capt. 18.09.1952-10.02.1953 Capt. 11.02.1953, seniority 18.09.1952	served in the ranks, The Queen's Royal Regiment 12.05.1945     commissioned, 16th Light Cavalry - Indian Army [emergency commission]       Special List (ex-Indian Army) 18.09.1952     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army 29.01.1954     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Britto, F J	? -	Capt. (1945)	served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Broadfoot, Ronald Thomas "Tom" Married (14.02.1950, Oswestry district, Shropshire) Pamela Benita Hurst (21.12.1924 - 02.1996); one son, one daughter.	27.12.1922 - 01.1987 Exeter district, Devon	Tpr. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 Lt. 28.06.1947, seniority 27.06.1945 [378853] Capt. 27.12.1949 T/Maj. 01.09.1951-24.10.1951 Maj. 27.12.1956 T/Lt.Col. 18.06.1966-30.12.1966 Lt.Col. 31.12.1966 (retd 31.03.1977)	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 27.06.1947] 28.06.1947     permanent commission, Royal Tank Regiment 1947?     2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment 14.11.1959     transferred, Corps of Royal Military Police 01.02.1966 - 08.06.1966 Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal, HQ ... Division 18.06.1966 - (02.1967) Assistant Provost Marshal, HQ, Berlin British Sector
Broady, Gordon [James] Son of ... Broady, and ... Cuddy. Married ((06?).1937, Blackpool district, Lancashire) Gladys Macer (10.02.1911 - 26.02.2008); one daughter.	03.12.1912 Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire - 02.1987 Dewsbury district, West Yorkshire	Pte. 09.10.1939 A/L/Cpl. 19.03.1940 A/Cpl. 08.04.1940 A/Sgt. 20.04.1940 WS/Sgt. 20.08.1940 A/Mech. Staff Sgt. 27.01.1942 2nd Lt. 11.10.1942 [EC 8032] WS/Lt. 11.04.1943 A/Capt. (OME Sect.Offr.) 20.04.1943-19.07.1943 T/Capt. 20.07.1943-02.03.1946 Hon. Capt. 02.03.1946 39|45 St - - Bur St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MID 19.09.1946 Burma	Coach painter (master). 09.10.1939     enlisted, Royal Army Service Corps 13.07.1942 - 10.10.1942 Officer Training School, Bangalore 11.10.1942     commissioned, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Indian Army [emergency commission] 14.10.1942     officer student, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC) School, Kakul 30.08.1943 - 09.09.1943 course of instruction, General Motors for India Ltd. 17.11.1943 - 15.08.1945 officiating Officer Commanding, 99 (Motor) Workshops Company, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (IEME) [embarked for UK on leave 29.12.1944, embarked for India 16.04.1945] 16.08.1945 - 19.11.1945 posted, 3rd Battalion 4tth Bombay Grenadiers 21.11.1945 - 02.03.1946 arrived UK for Class "A" release & granted terminal leave
Brock, Francis Antoine	03.11.1914 Penzance, Cornwall -	2nd Lt. 07.06.1940 [EC 40] WS/Lt. 07.11.1941 T/Capt. 07.11.1941-(08.1946) T/Maj. (1944) MC 07.12.1944 Italy *	07.06.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (1944)     Officer Commanding, A Squadron, 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers, Indian Armoured Corps Published: The 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers in Italy, September 1943-May 1945 (1948, privately published) [published anonymously but attributed to Maj. F. Brock in: Roger Perkins, Regiments : regiments and corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth 1758-1993 (1993)]
* Recommendation for the award of an immediate Military Cross to T/Maj. F.A. Brock: "At BAVAGNA on 16 June [1944] during the advance to FOLIGNO this officer was commanding the leading squadron. Though obstructed by many demolitions and opposed by German rearguards, Maj. Brock by his skillful handling of the squadron pressed forward, killing and capturing a considerable number of the enemy. As a result of this rapid advance several extremely valuable bridges were saved, on more than one of which the German engineers were surprised and driven off when in the act of blowing the charges. Continuing the advance N.E. from BAVAGNA the squadron captured a horse drawn battery, destroyed a large quantity of equipment and inflicted further heavy casualties. Throughout the day Maj. Brock showed great initiative and drive. His gallant leadership under fire was an inspiration to his men and his determination to overcome all obstacles is worthy of the highest praise." Recommended 19.06.1944 by Lt.Col. W.E.D. Robinson, commanding 6th Lancers, approved 26.06.1944 by Maj.Gen. D. Russell, commanding 8th Indian Division, on 12.07.1944 by Lt.Gen. R.L. McCreery, commanding 10th Corps, on 15.07.1944 by Lt.Gen. O.W.H. Leese, commanding 8th Army, and finally on 16.07.1944 by Gen. H.R.L.G. Alexander, commanding Allied Central Mediterranean Force. [Recommendation courtesy of Mr Tony Brock]
Brodie, Neil Malcolm Son (with one sister) of Capt. Walter Malcolm Brodie (1873-1958), and Elizabeth Ann Hughes (1889-1977), of Bristol, Gloucestershire. Married (04.09.1943, Ranchi, India) Joyce Beatrix Searles (01.08.1909 - 1984), daughter of Ernest Edward Searles (1880-1961), and Emily Charlotte Day (1883-1967), of Bristol, Gloucestershire; one daughter.	24.10.1910 Malta - (03?).1964 Norwich district, Norfolk	2nd Lt. 29.01.1931 [16 AI] Lt. 29.04.1933 Capt. 29.01.1939 WS/Maj. 30.11.1943 Maj. 01.07.1946 (retd 31.12.1948) A/Lt.Col. 30.08.1943-29.11.1943 T/Lt.Col. 30.11.1943-(01.1946) Hon. Lt.Col. 31.12.1948 Maj. 01.01.1949 [49781]	Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 29.01.1931     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 09.11.1932     commissioned, Indian Army       1st Punjab Regiment       1st Rajputana Rifles 01.01.1949 - 07.12.1960 commissioned, Gordon Highlanders - Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Brodie, Robert	28.08.1921 -	Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 01.10.1944 [EC15096] WS/Lt. 1947? (reld 06.01.1949) Capt. 06.01.1949 [401560]	served in the ranks, Royal Signals 01.10.1944 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served, 4th Prince of Wales Own Gurkha Rifles 1947? - 06.01.1949 Special List (ex-Indian Army) 06.01.1949     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army 01.11.1951     transferred, Intelligence Corps 07.01.1956     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Bronnert, David Henry Youngest son (with three brothers) of Julius Henry Bronnert (1871-1943), and Gertrude Emmeline Boon (1871-). Married (01.03.1945, St Peter's Church, Hale, Bucklow district, Cheshire) Pamela Hewitt (20.12.1923 - 06.2001), elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Joseph Hewitt, of Hale; ... children (one son?).	10.10.1910 West Didsbury, Chorlton district, Lancashire - 03.1999 Trafford district, Cheshire	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 29.10.1942 WS/Lt. 23.04.1943 WS/Lt. 01.09.1945, seniority 23.04.1943 [353126] (reld < 04.1946)	Education: Manchester Grammar School (1925-1926); Manchester Tech (Master, Technical Science, Textiles, 1931). 1941 - 1942 served Corps of Military Police 29.10.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.09.1945     transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) Managing Director, Henry Bronnert & Co Ltd and S.T. Smith & J.E. Jones Ltd, 1945-1960; R. Shaw & Co Ltd, 1947-1957. Director Secretary, James Dyson (Paper) Ltd, 1959-...
Brooke, Kenneth Read Son of Percy Arthur Brooke, and Elsie Read.	23.03.1907 Hampstead district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 04.1998 New Forest district, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 01.09.1927 Lt. 01.09.1930 Capt. 01.04.1937 Lt. 21.01.1939, seniority 01.12.1929 [IA 1226] Capt. 21.01.1939, seniority 01.09.1936 A/Maj. 11.07.1941-10.10.1941 T/Maj. 11.10.1941-31.08.1944 Maj. 01.09.1944 (retd 18.12.1948) local Lt.Col. 19.08.1943-(01.1946) Hon. Lt.Col. 18.12.1948	01.09.1927 commissioned, Royal Tank Corps 21.01.1939 transferred, Indian Army served The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry) Published: The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry) : 1922-1947 (1957)
Brookes, Edmund Mars Son (with one brother and one sister)of William Brookes, and Ellen Nutton. Married 1st ((09?).1939, Sheffield district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Mary Wilson. Married 2nd ((06?).1977, Ashford district, Kent) Betty S. Laceby.	06.12.1914 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire - 11.1985 Ashford district, Kent	Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 22.12.1943 [EC 13411] WS/Lt. ? 01.10.1945, semiority ? [358146] (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946) T/Capt. ? Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946	22.12.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.10.1945     transferred, British Army (General List)
Brookes, Frank Ellis	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Brooks, Alfred Frederick	? -	Lt. 21.10.1942, seniority 21.10.1937 T/Maj. (1947) A/Lt.Col. (1947)	21.10.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 27.10.1945 - (04.1947) a Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Army, India (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Brossard, Philippe Andrew Francis	see:	RINVR officers' section
Brown, George Ernest	1902 ? Islington, London - 19.10.1943 [age 41] [Delhi War Cemetery, 3.B.11]	Staff Sgt. Instr. ? [682304] Lt. ? [EC 8409]	served in the ranks, The King's Royal Rifle Corps ?     commissioned, Indian Army served Indian Engineers
Brown, M	? -	2nd Lt. 20.12.1941 WS/Lt. 20.12.1941 T/Capt. 07.05.1944-(04.1946)	20.12.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Brown, Maurice Albert Son of Albert Edwin John Holmshaw Brown (1892-1938), and Effie Gladys Burrell (1890-). Husband of Ethel May Brown, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.	(12?).1914 Doncaster district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire / West Riding of Yorkshire - 24.07.1945 Kani, Burma [age 30] [Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, collective grave 26.E.18-24]	2nd Lt. 04.05.1942 [EC 10049] WS/Lt. 01.02.1943 T/Capt. 01.02.1943-24.07.1945	04.05.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? - 24.07.1945 10th Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment
Brown, Peter Austen Leadley Son (with one sister) of James Francis Leadley Brown (1874-1955), and Edith Charlotte Hubback (1876-1947), of Kokstad, Cape Province, South Africa. Married Joleshawri Tantiani (?-1957); two sons, two daughters.	25.01.1912 Saskatchewan, Canada - 06.04.1944 (DOW) [age 32] [Kohima War Cemetery, India, 4.H.10]	2nd Lt. 11.12.1941 [EC 1498] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 A?/Capt. ?	11.12.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? - 06.04.1944 Assam Regiment (died at Kohima from wounds received leading an assault on a machine gun nest on Jail Hill)
Brown, Thomas Douglas Married (18.10.1941, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland); ... two daughters, two sons.	28.06.1916 Govan, Glasgow, Scotland - 08.06.1974 Cape Town, South Africa	Prob. Lt. 14.08.1941? [M 21] Prob. Capt. 10.01.1942, seniority 14.08.1941 Capt. 03.09.1943, seniority 14.08.1941 (reld 07.03.1946; ill-health) Hon. Capt. 07.03.1946 MID 05.04.1945 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India	Education: Govan Secondary School; Glasgow University (22.04.1940, MB, ChB). 14.08.1941?     commissioned, Indian Army Medical Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission] Practised as a General Practitioner in Glasgow from 1946 to 1962. Emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa.
Brownbill, Alfred	? -	L/Bdr. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 29.11.1943	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Browne, Maurice Coulden	? -	Bdr. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 03.11.1943	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Browning, R G	? -	Assistant Commissary (with rank of Lt.) 01.12.1940 WS/Capt. 02.10.1943 T/Maj. 02.10.1943-(04.1946) A?/Lt.Col. (1947)	21.01.1942     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission] (1947)     HQ Southern Command (Poona, India)
Bruce, Robert Stuart	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 [EC 10883] WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 T/Capt. 1946? (reld 01.02.1947) Hon. Capt. 01.02.1947	previous service for increment of pay 196 days ? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, 12th Frontier Force Rifles - Indian Army [emergency commission]
Bryan, Goodhand Charles Married (02.05.1925, All Saints' Church, Srinagar, Kashmir) Irma Gwendoline Schwaiger, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Imre Schwaiger, of Delhi.	18.09.1900 Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Ireland - 05.07.1994 Stogursey, Somerset	2nd Lt. 16.07.1920 Lt. 04.12.1921 Capt. 16.07.1927 local Maj. 03.04.1939-17.12.1939 Maj. 18.12.1939 A/Lt.Col. 16.01.1941-15.04.1941 T/Lt.Col. 16.04.1941-(10.1945) OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 MC 30.05.1924 Waziristan	Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 16.07.1920     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) ?     commissioned, Indian Army (2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles) 01.04.1937     transferred, Special Unemployed List 03.04.1939 - (04.1946) Commandant, Malabar Special Police, Madras
Buchanan, Denis Anselan Son of George Harkness Buchanan. Married ....; two daughters, one son.	? New Zealand -	2nd Lt. 05.07.1941 [EC 2961] WS/Lt. 21.12.1941 T/Capt. 21.12.1941-(04.1946) T/Maj. (1945) MBE 08.02.1945 Burma	Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) 05.07.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (1945)     3/5 Royal Gurkha Rifles Frontier Force (Burma) (MBE)
Buck, Herbert Cecil Son of Lt.Col. Cecil Henry Buck, Indian Army, and Eleanor May Buck, of Yateley, Hampshire. Husband of Celia Buck (née Wardle), of Yateley.	12.12.1916 India - 22.11.1945 (died in air crash near Chard, Somerset on flight to Germany) [age 28] [Reading Crematorium, panel 1]	2nd Lt. TA 02.08.1938 2nd Lt. 21.09.1938, seniority 28.01.1937 [IA 1117] Lt. 02.01.1940, seniority 28.04.1939 A/Capt. 01.07.1941-14.08.1941, 18.11.1941-03.01.1942 T/Capt. 04.01.1942-27.01.1945 Capt. 28.01.1945 MC 23.04.1942 Middle East (Egypt and Libya)	Education: St Peter's Hall, Oxford University (MA) 02.08.1938 commissioned, General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates) 21.09.1938     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 02.01.1940     commissioned, Indian Army 3rd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment 1939 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment 1942     Special Interrogation Group, attached. L Detachment Special Air Service  07.1942 - 19.10.1942 seconded, 1st Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps (captured at Tobruk) 1942 - 1945 POW in German captivity
Buckley, George Arthur	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Buckley, Harry Hall Son of Alfred Eustace Buckley (?-1938), and Lizzie Towne (1885-1963). Married ((06?).1946, Bromley district, Kent) Margaret Howard Binyon (20.07.1916 - 04.10.2011), daughter of Basil Binyon, and Gladys Elise Rosa Keep; one daughter, two sons.	16.04.1916 Saskatchewan, Canada - 18.02.1975 Greenwich district, London	2nd Lt. 03.12.1938 Ordnance Mechanical Engineer (with rank of Lt.). 21.09.1940, seniority 16.04.1936 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) T?/Maj. ? ?	late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Officer Training Corps 03.12.1938     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officer 21.09.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Ordnance Corps
This eulogy for Maj. H.H. Buckley was written by his son Chris: "Harry first became involved in Militarism in 1936 at Cambridge University, where he joined the Officer Training Corps. He was studying Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, so naturally joined an engineer unit. After University He worked for Mather and Platt, an engineering company in Manchester and was in a Territorial Army engineer unit as a reservist. With the dark clouds of war on the horizon he was fully mobilized before the outbreak of war in 1939 and deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force as an Engineering officer. It was in France that he met his future wife Margaret who was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and was deployed to France as a ’passive air defence instructor’. Prior to deployment she had held the rank of Corporal but had had to relinquish it to private for deployment purposes. The stories of their meeting are entirely from my mother and can be related on another occasion. I attempted to engage my father on numerous occasions with questions like ’Tell us a story from the war’. He was always reticent and sometimes counter attacked with grizzly descriptions, to try and silence my questions. He would relate that war involved long periods of boredom. From my mother I learnt that he, alongside her, were posted to a factory where maintenance was carried out on the tanks. On one occasion intelligence had determined that the factory was vulnerable to German bombing, so my father organised the demolition by explosives of the factory chimney to make it less recognizable from the air. Strategic Withdrawal was the main action for this army and as a child I gleaned from my father that an army in retreat was not a picnic. He related that there were people being shot for lacking discipline in retreat. Relating this story to an ex British Army regular he said - in the first war yes, but not in the second world war. All I can do is relate what I heard him say. As an engineer he was in the rear party in retreat, blowing up bridges and other installations to slow the advancing Germans. They retreated to St Nazaire where Harry was again ordered to stay back to fill up the harbour with the abandoned vehicles used in the retreat. He was the last to leave and left the port on a motorcycle. He had been given money and was able to pay for passage to the UK on a fishing boat. The fisherman were suspicious that they would be impounded if they put into a port, so they landed Harry on an isolated beach. Upon return to the UK Harry discovered that his new love’s family lived in a large house. The story goes that he joined the British Indian army as the pay was better and would enable him to afford his unfolding future. It is my belief that in the retreat many of Harry’s unit members were lost, probably on the Lancastria, a troopship sunk in St Nazaire bay with the loss of approximately 4000. The army realized that he would be of greater use in the far east than in a re-hash with the Germans. He sailed for India and became established with the British Indian Army in Rawlpindi. He was then posted to staff college in Quetta, Pakistan. Before boarding the train he was instructed to phone HQ at each stop as the situation was deteriorating. He never arrived to start the course and instead was deployed to Malaya to command a unit of the Royal Indian Army Ordinance Corps - primarily staffed by Indian troops. He was in the jungle to face up to the advancing Japanese army. Comments gleaned from my mother were that he learnt to feel safer during the night - ‘the only time he ever felt safe’; and that there were problems with communications. This latter information has been well documented in analysis of the reasons why Singapore fell. With the fall of Singapore Harry passed the next three and a half years as a prisoner of war in Changi POW camp. My father was an excellent Bridge player. The story I was brought up on, was that he made up a bridge foursome together with the senior British officer, and that this officer did not want to break up the bridge foursome - so my father was not sent to work on the Burma - Siam railway. ‘He played bridge to save his life’. A more realistic explanation I think is that he was not sent to work on the railway because he was an only son of a widowed mother. My father explained to me that it was the task of the senior British officer of the camp to select people to meet the demand for workers on the railway. The casualty rate on the railway was much higher than in the camp. The Japanese worked people to death - similar to the German concentration camps. For the first year of captivity, officers were not required to do manual work. After that he was put to work digging and growing potatoes. Apparently this helped him survive as some of the more lenient guards would allow them to eat the roots, which are of course similarly nutritious to a potato. He would have been severely disciplined for taking a potato. Also during captivity he traded his watch with a guard for some ducks. Enterprise is necessary to survive the POW experience. On liberation he was returned to India and apparently reunited with his non-field kit. Upon return to the United Kingdom he was admitted to the royal naval hospital in Greenwich to recover from a large boil caused by years of malnutrition He was also suffering from the after-effects of Malaria. While in hospital he learnt watch repair as a hobby, a form of therapy. He was demobilized from the army and moved forwards with life working as an engineer, marriage and raising children. He died in 1975 at the age of 58. He worked a full working life up until he was given a year off for medical reasons six weeks prior to his death. It is believed that his demise at a fairly young age was partly caused by consequences of his wartime service. I also believe that he worked fully to the last in large part because that is what his fallen comrades had done in the Japanese POW camps, and it was his way of maintaining solidarity. 25 years after his death my mother was given a lump sum by the British Government as compensation. Survivors are annoyed that the Japanese government has not paid compensation, has not admitted responsibility of any kind, or offered any apology. Harry now has a grandson named Harry."
Bukhari, Syed Dilbar Hussain	? -	Jemadar 02.03.1944	02.03.1944     commissioned, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (Supply Branch) [Indian emergency commission] (03.1945)     HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade
Bullas, Alan Howard Son of John Howard Bullas, and Violet Lockley, of Chadsmoor, Cannock, Staffordshire.	(09?).1921 Chadsmoor, Cannock, Staffordshire - 20.07.1945 [age 24] [Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, India, plot O, row B, grave 42]	Sgmn. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 [EC 11753] WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? - 20.07.1945 9th Jat Regiment
Buncher, Alfred Edward Son of William Buncher, and Rose Ward. Married (1916?, India) Laurina Freer (1892-?); one son (died at birth).	08.03.1892 * Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire - (09?).1978 Leicestershire Central district * Army records show: 14.10.1891	Conductor ? Lt. & Assistant Commissary 01.01.1937 [ST/17] Capt. & Deputy Commissary 21.11.1939 A/Maj. 19.04.1941-18.07.1941 T/Maj. 19.07.1941-26.05.1942 Maj. & Commissary 27.05.1942 (retd 03.12.1946)	(1911)     Private, 1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (Alma Barracks, Farnham, Surrey) 01.01.1937     commissioned, Indian Army Departments (01.1940)     Headquarters Staff CRIASC Peshawar District Regiment, Royal Indian Army Service Corps,  N.W.F.P., India 19.07.1941 - (04.1944) a Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies, Directorate of Supplies and Transport, Quartermaster-General's Branch, India HQ Staff
Burge, Cecil Son of William John and Emily Florence Burge. Married 1st ..., an Indian citizen; no children. Married 2nd (1950) Helen Mary Wheeler; no children.	02.04.1900 Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - 08.08.1975 Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Havering district, London	Pte. WW I [3702 & 210386] 2nd Lt. 21.04.1941 [EC 2117] WS/Capt. 17.05.1943 (reld 01.01.1949) T/Maj. 17.05.1943-(04.1947) local Lt.Col. 17.02.1943-(04.1944) MBE 01.01.1942 New Year 42 Awarded the Indian Service Medal and Indian Independance Medal, presumably also the 1939-45 Star and 1939-1945 War Medal. Held the British War Medal 1914-1918 from WW1. Had 12 medals in all; 1937 Coronation Medal (as Secretary at Sanawar School); others possibly IGSM x2 and jubilee?	WW I     served in the ranks, Somerset Light Infantry 21.04.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       possibly Indian Army Corps of Clerks, then 8th Punjab Regiment
Burnett, Derrick Hinton Married ((09?).1947, Lambeth district, London) ... Rogers; ... children (one son?).	22.08.1916 Croydon district, London -	2nd Lt. 21.,06.1940 WS/Lt. 17.06.1941 WS/Capt. ? (reld > 12,1946, < 04.1947) Capt. RARO 14.02.1951 [415051] Hon. Maj. 14.02.1951	21.06.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 1946/47?     Special List (ex-Indian Army) 14.02.1951 - 22.08.1966 Brigade of Gurkhas, Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] His son writes: "My father was at the battle of Kohima, and he told me when he was alive that he organised the tank onto the tennis court during the battle. This was a turning point during the battle by all accounts. He was originally an officer in the Assam Riffles, and later became an officer in the 1st Gurkha Rifles reaching the rank of a retired Major."
Burnett, Edward John Sidney "Bunny" Son of Dr Arthur H. Burnett, and Ellen L. Bryant. Married 1st ...; two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd (1967) Christine Adrienne de Jenner; two daughters.	08.02.1921 Southampton district, Hampshire - 19.11.1978 Southampton district, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 23.08.1941 [EC7596] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 A/Maj. (1944) Lt. 19.12.1945, seniority 08.08.1943 [325908] Capt. 08.02.1948 T/Maj. 11.04.1945-27.02.1949, 08.11.1950-07.02.1955 Maj. 08.02.1955 T/Lt.Col. 12.02.1958-09.06.1959 Lt.Col. 01.04.1963 (supernumerary 01.04.1966) Brig. 31.12.1967, seniority 30.06.1967 A/Maj.Gen. 06.12.1971 Maj.Gen. 21.02.1972, seniority 14.08.1971 (retd 02.06.1975) CB 01.01.1975 New Year 75 DSO 17.11.1964 Malaysia * [citation available upon request] OBE 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 65 [citation available upon request] MBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 54 [citation available upon request] MC 20.09.1945 Burma [citation available upon request] MID 27.04.1951 Malaya MID 21.08.1964 Borneo * On the 2nd January 1964, the 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Burnett, was flown from Malaya to Tawau to deal with the strongest and most threatening Indonesian incursion into Malaysia, up to that time. Morale in the area had been badly shaken as the result of losses received in a strong enemy attack on Kalabakan, an important logging centre, and the presence of 16,000 Indonesian civilians in the Tawau District posed an ugly internal security problem. Lieutenant-Colonel Burnett very quickly deployed his battalion over a very large area to find the enemy and bring them to battle in the jungle and to deal with the internal security situation. By his excellent tactical handling of his troops the enemy were found within 24 hours. They split into small parties which were relentlessly hunted. These parties, which included a strong element of welltrained marines showed plenty of fight, counter attacking and inflicting casualties on our troops. Throughout the period from January to June, Lieutenant-Colonel Burnett moved about his area energetically and fearlessly by land rover on rough tracks and by helicopter. He frequently faced the danger of ambush by an ubiquitous enemy and on occasions personally took charge of the situation under enemy fire. During the months January and February his troops accounted for 93 enemy intruders. As a result of Lieutenant-Colonel Burnett's efforts the dangerous situation threatening Tawau was overcome, the extremely low morale of the local people was restored and the large local Indonesian population was deterred from causing serious trouble. It was chiefly due to his energetic determination, fearlessness and fine leadership in the field that a large and dangerous enemy incursion was defeated.	Education: Kelly College, Tavistock.       served in the ranks for 1 year, 356 days 23.08.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 18.12.1945] 1941 - 1947? 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles (served in Hong Kong and Malaya) 19.12.1945     permananent commission, Royal Hampshire Regiment 21.08.1948     transferred, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles 25.02.1949 - 05.08.1949 Staff Captain, Kowloon Infantry Brigade 06.08.1949 - 07.11.1950 Staff Captain, HQ Gurkha Infantry Brigade 03.12.1952 - 20.02.1955 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), HQ Brigade of Gurkhas 12.02.1958 - 10.10.1958 Military Attaché (GSO1), Katmandu 28.11.1959 - 01.11.1961 Brigade Major, HQ Brigade of Gurkhas (1964)     Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles (DSO) 04.02.1966 - (02.1967) General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Training), HQ Western Command 1967     College Commander, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1968 - 1970 Commander, 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade (Hong Kong) 1970 - 1971 commanded Gurkha Lines of Commuincations, in Nepal 06.12.1971 - 14.02.1975 Deputy Commander Land Forces and Major-General Brigade of Gurkhas, in Hong Kong Colonel, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, 01.03.1975-01.03.1977. Managing Director, Tehran Racing.
Burnett, William Trevor	13.07.1926 - 01.05.2013	Pte. ? [6091135] 2nd Lt. 12.08.1945 [EC 16226] (reld > 04.1947)	15.06.1944 - 11.08.1945 served in the ranks, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 12.08.1945     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Burt, Herbert Samuel Son of Herbert J. Burt, and Gertrude M. Wenn. Married ((12?).1936, Camberwell district, London) Florence M. Whitaker; two sons, six daughters.	13.12.1915 Camberwell district, London - 04.1999 St Albans district, Hertfordshire	2nd Lt. 01.03.1941 [174902] 29.12.1941, seniority 01.03.1941 [EC 16351] WS/Lt. 01.09.1942 WS/Capt. 1947? (reld 14.10.1948) Capt. 14.10.1948, seniority 04.11.1945 Hon. Maj. 20.06.1949	? - 01.03.1941 either 163rd, 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit 01.03.1941     commissioned, The Queen's Regiment [emergency commission] 29.12.1941     transferred, Indian Army (served probably in Burma) 14.10.1948 - 20.06.1949 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army 20.06.1949 - 13.12.1965 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Burton, Oswald James	08.09.1920 - 06.2009 still alive	2nd Lt. 28.05.1942 [EC 6622] WS/Lt. 28.11.1942 (reld 27.08.1947) Lt. 27.08.1947, seniority 08.09.1943 [384447] Capt. 01.04.1950	28.05.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 1946/47? Special List (ex-Indian Army) 27.08.1947     commissioned, Lothian and Border Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army 18.07.1951     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Butler, Alfred George Third son of Alfred George Butler, and Beatrice Anne Butler, of Blackheath. Married (23.10.1928, Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Barbara Joyce Brewer, of Higher Brimley, Devon, younger daughter of J. Henry Brewer, and Mrs Brewer, of London SW10; ... children (one daughter?).	24.07.1896 Blackheath, South East London - 02.12.1941 [age 45] [Alamein Memorial, column 195]	T/2nd Lt. 18.12.1914-30.01.1916 2nd Lt. 14.11.1916 23.11.1916, seniority 01.10.1915 [AI 833] Lt. ?, seniority 01.10.1916 A/Capt. 11.03.1919-30.09.1919 Capt. 01.10.1919 Maj. 01.10.1933 A/Lt.Col. 08.09.1940-07.12.1940 T/Lt.Col. 08.12.1940-12.03.1941 Lt.Col. 29.04.1941 OBE 03.04.1923 Waziristan 04-12.21 [dated 24.05.1922]	14.11.1916     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 23.11.1916     commissioned, Indian Army       104th Rifles (Waziristan) (OBE) 07.08.1926 - 22.11.1928 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)       6th Rajputana Rifles
Butler, Edward Gerald Robert "Garrett" Second son (with four brothers and one sister) of Canon John Whitestone Butler (1869-1953), and Edith Mary Burnett (1880-1949), of Thomastown Rectory, Kilkenny, Eire. Married 1st (1945, Lucknow, India) Eileen Mirembe Weatherhead (02.1921 - 1949), youngest daughter of Canon Herbert Thomas Candy Weatherhead (1875-1930), of C.M.S., Uganda, and Edith Eileen Barton; one son. Married 2nd Lawrie Armel Yearwood (16.01.1930 - 03.6.1994), daughter of W. Armel Yearwood, and Agnes Bayne; ... children. From Bally Adams, Athy.	10.03.1910 Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Eire - 26.07.1999	Lt. 03.01.1941 Capt. 30.01.1942 18.09.1942, seniority 30.06.1941 (reld 1947) T/Maj. 21.01.1944-(04.1946)	Education: King's Hospital, Dublin & Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1938, MB, ChB, BAO (Dubl, 1940)); Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (Eng, 1950). Internship in Birmingham, 1940-1941. 03.01.1941     commissioned, Indian Medical Service [emergency commission] Medical Officer, Tanganyika, 1947. Medical Officer in Mahenge, Tanganyika, 1952-1961. Provincial Medical Officer at Morogoro, Tanganyika, 1961-12.1963. Served with the Kenyan Government, 1965-1969. He worked in Natal, South Africa, 1970-1990.
Butler, Saw	? -	2nd Lt. ? [ABRO 626] WS/Lt. ? T/Capt. ? T/Maj. ? DSO 25.09.1947 in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Field (prior to September, 1945) MC 08.02.1945 in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Burma and on the Eastern Frontier of India MID 07.11.1946 in recognition of gallant and distinguished services whilst engaged in special operations in South East Asia	? commissioned, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) [emergency commission] (1945?) attached Northern Kachin Levies
Butterworth, Vincent Younger son of James William Butterworth, and Mary Esther Fitton. Married (28.06.1941, Rochdale district, Lancashire) Joan Kenworthy; three sons.	08.03.1918 Rochdale district, Lancashire - 09.1998 York district, Yorkshire	Sgt. ? 2nd Lt. 06.02.1944 [EC 12367] WS/Lt. 11.04.1944 WS/Lt. 01.10.1945, seniority 11.04.1944 [356385] Lt. 01.11.1948, seniority 11.04.1944 Capt. ? Maj. 06.02.1957 2nd Lt. 30.07.1964, seniority 11.01.1942 Lt. 30.07.1964, seniority 11.01.1944 Capt. 30.07.1964, seniority 11.01.1948 Maj. 30.07.1964, seniority 11.01.1955 (retd 08.12.1972) MBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63	06.02.1944     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.10.1945     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission] 01.11.1948     short service commission 30.07.1964     limited service regular commission
Bwye, Mark	01.03.1900 -	2nd Lt. 29.01.1920 Lt. 29.01.1921 Capt. 29.01.1927 Maj. 29.01.1938	29.01.1920 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 05.02.1920 commissioned, Indian Army served 10/15 Punjabi Regiment ? - (04.1946) ?
Byrne, Bernard	? -	A/Master Gnr. ? Lt. 21.01.1942 A/Capt. 21.01.1942-(04.1944) WS/Capt. 21.01.1945 A/Maj. ? ?	21.01.1942     commissioned, "Special List" of Quarter-Masters of the Indian Army [emergency commission] (1947)     HQ Southern Command (Poona, India)
Byrne, Derek Terry Son of David William Byrne (1892-1974), and Victoria May Terry (1897-1950). Married (26.11.1950, Dargaville, Kaipara, Northland, New Zealand) Thelma Lillian Jenkins (03.04.1926 - ); two sons.	19.05.1920 Rochford district, Essex - 17.12.1986 Kawerau, New Zealand	2nd Lt. 14.02.1942 [EC 11137] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) T/Capt. 1946 ? Hon. Capt. > 12.1946, < 04.1947 EM 04.03.1949 -	14.02.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Byrne, Ian Cesnola	19.03.1900 Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 06.1988 Yeovil district, Somerset	2nd Lt. 16.12.1918 [IA 254] Lt. 16.12.1919 Capt. 16.12.1924 Bt. Maj. 01.07.1935 Maj. 16.12.1936 A/Lt.Col. 03.09.1939-30.09.1939, 01.08.1940-24.08.1940, 30.07.1942-19.09.1942 T/Lt.Col. 20.09.1942-15.12.1944 Lt.Col. 16.12.1944 [401316] (retd 20.01.1949) Hon. Col. 20.01.1949	16.12.1918 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 30.12.1918 commissioned, Indian Army served The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry) 1947?     Special List (ex-Indian Army)