Ralph Andrew Paul
Son of Paul Gaston Vallee (1883-1949), and Frances Emily Waites (1870-1960).
Married ((06?).1945, Hampstead district, Middlesex) Jean E. McEwen; four sons, one daughter.
Twickenham, Middlesex
-
25.04.1974
Huntingdon district, Huntingdonshire
| P/O (prob) | 08.02.1940 [77505] |
| (WS) F/O | 08.08.1941 |
| (T) F/Lt. | 01.09.1942 (reld 15.03.1945; medical unfitness) |
| 08.02.1940 | commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 28.02.1940 | HQ British Allied Air Force, British Expeditionary Force (France) (wounded in the retreat to Dunkirk) | ||
| 11.07.1940 | Department of Intelligence of the Chief of Air Staff | ||
| 04.04.1941 | 12 Group RAF (on operations) | ||
| 04.10.1941 | 13 Group RAF | ||
| 20.10.1942 | 145 Wing RAF (India) (on operations) | ||
| 01.09.1943 | 221 Group RAF (India) |
Jacques [Philippe] Marie Louis Ferdinand
"Jack"
Son (with one brother) of Jean Léon Ferdinand van Hoegaerden (1885-1949), pilot and film actor, and Claire Marie Léonie Louisa Vergote de Lantsheere (1887-1966).
Married 1st (25.11.1930, Brussels; marriage dissolved 25.10.1949) Emilienne Leontine Françoise van Coppenolle (15.04.1908 - ), daughter of Hector Alphonse Léon van Coppenolle, and Marie Eudoxie Prudence Sinave; one daughter.
Married 2nd Iléana d'Adhémar de Cransac de Panat (25.11.1908 - ).
Married 3rd Gertrude van de Vyvere; one daughter, one son.
Operated from 1943 onwards under assumed name: Grenville, Trevor Courtney Basil.
Naturalized British citizen, 25.07.1947.
Brussels, Belgium
-
06.07.1990
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
| Army: | |
| Pte. | ? |
| 2nd Lt. | 03.07.1940 [137768] |
| WS/Lt. | 03.01.1942 (reld 27.03.1942) |
| RAFVR: | |
| P/O (prob) | 28.03.1942 [120934] |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 01.10.1942 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 28.03.1944 (reld 19.09.1946; medical unfitness for air force service) |
| served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps | |||
| 03.07.1940 | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | ||
| 15.07.1940 | transferred, Intelligence Corps | ||
| 03.07.1940 | - | 27.03.1942 | specially employed |
| 28.03.1942 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| trained in Rhodesia; flew Wellingtons, Oxfords, Tiger Moths, Fairchilds, Hudsons, Dakota, Austers, Anson, DC3, Cessna Cranes, Baltimores |
Robert Owen
Of American descent.
-
|
(WS) F/O
|
(1943)
[121803] |
|
DFC |
17.08.1943 |
? |
| ? |
commissioned,
RAFVR (General Duties Branch) |
||
| 01.1943 |
- |
06.1943 |
9 Squadron
RAF |
Desmond Victor
Eldest son of Dr. Amos George Varian, MA, MD, BCh (1890-1960), and Dr. Hilda Maud [Burman] Marsh, MA, MD, BCh (1879-1943), of Duncliffe, Totnes, Devon.
Married (11.12.1941, Oxford, Oxfordshire) 3rd Officer Betty Angell Money, WRNS (08.03.1920-01.1992), only daughter of Cdr. Norman Angel Kyrle Money, OBE, RN, and Gladys Gransmore, of Paignton. She remarried ((12?).1943, Folkestone district, Kent) F/Lt. Jack Hubert Stigner, RAFVR.
Wandsworth district, London
-
27.12.1942
(MPK) [age 22]
[Malta Memorial, panel 2, column 2]
| Ldg.Acm. | ? [912913] |
| P/O (prob) | 12.12.1940, seniority 24.11.1940 [89330] |
| (WS) F/O | 12.12.1941, seniortiy 24.11.1941 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 12.12.1942, seniority 24.11.1942 |
| 12.12.1940 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 27.12.1942 |
pilot, 500 Squadron RAF [Flew Hudson coded 'W' (serial unknown) which took off at 0900 from Blida for Operation Mascara No 1 from which it failed to return.] |
John Kenneth
Youngest of the four sons of Michael Varvill (1848-1894), and Ada Winder (1855-1903), of York.
Brother of Lt.Col. Michael Noel Varvill, OBE, MC, RE, and Lt.Col. Bernard Varvill, MC, RAMC.
York, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
16.04.1957
St Marys Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight (formerly of West Wittering, Sussex)
| P/O (prob) | 21.02.1941 [61390] |
| (WS) F/O | 21.02.1942 (Emgcy List) (reld 10.02.1954; retaining rank of F/Lt.) |
| (A) F/Lt. | ? |
 |
MC | 26.03.1918 | Battle of Diyala River on 7-10 March 1917 |
 |
MID | 15.08.1917 | Battle of Diyala River on 7-10 March 1917 |
Solicitor.
| WW I | T/Capt., East Lancashire Regiment | ||
| 21.02.1941 | commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| Intelligence officer in East Anglia and later on the Continent firstly within RAF’s 88 Squadron (Blenheims and Bostons) then in a Mosquito squadron |
Peter Michael Craven
Son of Dr. Harry Cecil Craven Veitch, and Leila Mary Hornby, of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire.
St Asaph district, Denbigshire / Flintshire
-
03.11.1944
[age 24]
[Singapore Memorial, column 433]
|
Ldg.Acm. |
?
[1601675] |
|
P/O (prob) |
05.06.1943
[145073] |
|
P/O |
05.03.1944,
seniortiy 05.06.1943 13.03.1944, seniority 05.09.1943 |
|
(WS) F/O
|
05.03.1944 |
| 05.06.1943 |
commissioned,
RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
||
| stationed
in Rhodesia & India (briefly) |
|||
| ? |
- |
03.11.1944 |
11 Squadron
RAF (Burma) |
Michael George Francis
Only child of Lt.Col. Edward Francis Vereker Ventris (d. 1938) and Anna Dorothea Janasz (d. 1940).
Married (04.1942) Lois Elizabeth Knox-Niven, daughter of Hugh William Knox-Niven; one daughter, one son.
|
|
|
|
Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
-
06.09.1956
near Hatfield, Hertfordshire (car accident)
| Ldg.Acm. | ? [1804896] |
| P/O (prob) | 11.02.1944 [163950] |
| (WS) F/O | 11.08.1944 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 11.02.1946 |
 |
OBE | 01.01.1955 | New Year 55: for services to Mycenaean paleography |
| 1942 | - | 1946 | served Royal Air Force (UK, Canada, West Germany): |
| 1942 | - | 1943 | bases in Shropshire & Yorkshire, also Dumfries & Manchester |
| 07?.1943 | - | 02.1944 | training in Canada (11.02.1944 qualified as Air Navigator) |
| 11.02.1944 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 1944? | - | 1945 | 76 Squadron RAF (Breighton, Holme) |
| 1945 | - | 08.1946 | non-flying duties |
Published: Documents in Mycenaean Greek (with John Chadwick; 1956); Work-Notes on Minoan Language Research and Other Unedited Papers (1988).
Literature: John Chadwick, The Decipherment of Linear B (2nd ed. 1960); Andrew Robinson, The Man who Deciphered Linear B, the Story of Michael Ventris (2002).
Reginald George Beaumont
Son (with one brother) of George Nicholas Vessey (1875-1918), and Emily Louise Beaumont (1880-1937).
Married (23.04.1934, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Winifred Joan Lines (17.08.1911 - 15.09.1994), daughter (with one brother) of William Joseph Lines (1879-1963), and Winifred Kate Bouts (1884-1979); three sons.
Fulham district, London
-
15.02.1990
Truro, St Austell district, Cornwall
| (A) P/O (prob) | 31.12.1941 [115073] |
| P/O (prob) | 28.02.1942 |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 01.10.1942 |
| 31.12.1941 | commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 01.06.1942 | transferred Royal Air Force Regiment |
John Peter
Son of Arthur Ernest Vickery, and Sarah Jane Allen, of Sanderstead, Surrey.
Wandsworth district, Greater London
-
05.04.1945
(flying accident) [age 24]
[Sanderstead (All Saints) Churchyard Extension, H.67]
|
Sgt. |
?
[1331839] |
|
P/O (prob) |
07.09.1942
[131532] |
|
(WS) F/O |
07.09.1943 |
|
(WS) F/Lt. |
07.09.1944 |
| 01.1941 |
|
|
enlisted,
RAFVR |
| 10.1941 |
|
|
pilot
training, US/Canada (under the Arnold scheme) |
| 07.09.1942 |
commissioned,
RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
||
| 1942 |
- |
08.1943 |
instructor,
Canada |
| 06.1944 |
assigned to the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces |
||
| 08.1944 |
- |
12.1944 |
pilot, 43
Squadron RAF (Sardinia & Italy) |
| 02.1945 |
- |
05.04.1945 |
pilot, 595
Squadron RAF (Aberporth, Wales) |
Alexis Peter
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Peter Theodore Vlasto (1879-1941), and Aziza Katherine Pallis (1884-1986).
Married (19.03.1945, Kensington district, London) Hilda Joan "Jill" Medway (30.03.1916 - 15.09.1968); one daughter, one son.
|
|
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
20.07.2000
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
| F/Lt. | 11.07.1940 (reld 08.10.1942; on appointment to RAFVR) |
| F/O | 08.10.1942 [136477] |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 01.02.1945 |
Junior Assistant, Air Ministry, 1938.
| 11.07.1940 | commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class CC) | ||
| 08.10.1942 | commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) (for administrative and miscellaneous duties) | ||
| cryptographer during WWll at Bletchley Park, England, breaking German and Russian codes; served in N. Africa and Palestine 1941-42; led the code-breaking team on Japanese army air force traffic ('3366') 1943-45. |
Published: The Entry of the Slavs into Christendom (1968); A History of the Russian Language (1975).