| D |
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|
|
Dale,
James Alexander
From Gillingham, Dorset.
|
[possibly:
26.11.1912
-
08.1986
Yeovil, Somerset]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
21.09.1940
[149290]
|
WS/Lt.
|
21.03.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
10.07.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
01.08.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
DFC
|
11.11.1943
|
Sicily
07.43
|
|
DFC
|
19.10.1944
|
Normandy
06.44
|
|
21.09.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
25.05.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Hamilcar Squadron, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Normandy)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, C Squadron (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
26.11.1944
|
-
|
(10.1945)
|
OC
.. Squadron, The Glider Pilot Regiment (at RAF Station Tarrant Rushton)
[06.05.1945-13.05.1945 on leave]
|
|
Daniells,
Lawrence Eugene Downes
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
? [7931768]
|
2nd Lt.
|
04.03.1944 [312276]
|
WS/Lt.
|
04.09.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
04.03.1944
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Platoon
Officer, 3 Parachute Platoon & 3 Para Jeep Section, 250th Light Composite
Company RASC (Arnhem)
|
|
Dauncey,
Michael Donald Keen
"Mike"


Only son of late Thomas Gough Dauncey and Alice
Dauncey (née Keen); married 1945, Marjorie Kathleen, daughter of H. W. Neep,
FCA; one son two daughters.
|
11.05.1920
-
04.2005 still alive
[Uley, near Dursley, Glos]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
03.05.1941
[184738]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
Lt.
|
11.01.1947,
seniority 11.11.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
21.11.1945-20.02.1946
|
T/Capt.
|
21.02.1946-31.05.1946
|
WS/Capt.
|
01.06.1946
|
Capt.
|
11.05.1947
|
A/Maj.
|
01.03.1946-31.05.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
01.06.1946-12.07.1947,
01.02.1954-10.05.1954
|
Maj.
|
11.05.1954
|
Lt.Col.
|
09.06.1963
[supernumerary 09.06.1966]
|
Col.
|
30.06.1968
(retd 30.01.1976)
|
Hon. Brig.
|
30.01.1976
|
|
DSO
|
27.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
Education: King Edward's School, Birmingham; International
Examination, Institution of Chartered Accountants; jssc, psc (1950)
|
|
|
served in
the ranks for 234 days
|
03.05.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission to 10.01.1947] (from 170 (MG)
Officer
Cadet Training Unit, Droitwich)
|
03.05.1941
|
-
|
13.11.1943
|
5th
Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (Warrenpoint [N Ireland], S England, Anglesey
[N Wales])
|
13.11.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Adjutant, G Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [3 x wounded, POW, escaped])
|
11.01.1947
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Cheshire Regiment [permanent commission]
|
01.03.1946
|
-
|
25.07.1947
|
Aide de
Camp to the General Officer Commanding in Chief, Land Forces Greece
|
1948
|
-
|
1949
|
Parachute
Battalion, British Army of the Rhine
|
10.01.1951
|
-
|
29.12.1952
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), HQ Infantry Brigade
|
1957
|
-
|
1958
|
Instructor,
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
|
|
-
|
1963
|
Brigade
Major, 126th Infantry Brigade
|
1963
|
-
|
1966
|
Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (British Army of the Rhine &
Cyprus)
|
07.04.1966
|
-
|
1968
|
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (DS Plans), Joint Services Staff College
|
1968
|
-
|
1969
|
Commandant,
Jungle Warfare School
|
1969
|
-
|
1972
|
Commandant,
Support Weapons Wing, School of Infantry
|
1973
|
-
|
1975
|
Defence
& Military Attaché, British Embassy Madrid
|
Colonel, The Cheshire Regiment, 01.04.1978-1985. DL
Gloucestershire, 19.09.1983.
1980-82 Chairman, Glos Joint Services Cadet Committee. 1981-90 Hon Colonel, 1st
Cadet Bn Glos Regiment (ACF). 1994-98 President, The Glider Pilot Regiment
Association. 2000 Leader The Airborne Pilgrimage to Arnhem.
|
Davies,
Eric John

From London.
|
09.12.1918
-
deceased |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.09.1941 [207782]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942 (reld
04.12.1948)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
04.12.1948
|
|
MC
|
13.01.1944
|
Italy
|
|
MID
|
18.04.1946
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
27.09.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 21 Platoon (D Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire
Regiment (Sicily)
|
02.05.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 10 Platoon (T Company), 1st Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
|
Davies,
Frank
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.02.1940
[117932]
|
WS/Lt.
|
11.08.1941 (reld
05.10.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
12.01.1946
|
Hon Capt.
|
05.10.1946
|
|
11.02.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
01.11.1941
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
17.09.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 6 Flight (C Squadron, No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem)
|
|
Davies,
John Alun Emlyn
Son of Robert Emlyn
and Mary Davies.
Married (1941) Elizabeth Boshier (deceased); three sons.
|
04.05.1909
-
12.07.1997
Bexley, Kent
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.06.1940 [138813]
|
WS/Capt.
|
15.11.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/Maj.
|
15.11.1943-...
|
Hon. Maj.
|
< 04.1946
|
|
Education: Ruabon Grammar School; Trinity College,
Cambridge (Scholar; BA 1st cl. Pts I and II, History Tripos; MA 1984)
Called to Bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1936.
29.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
01.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
1943
|
|
|
Deputy
Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), 2nd Parachute Brigade
|
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
HQ/Support Company, 1st Parachute Battalion
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, HQ/Support Company, 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [wounded, POW
at Stalag 7A])
|
1944
|
|
|
Deputy
Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), 1st Airboorne Division
|
Joined Board of Trade, 1946; Assistant Solicitor,
1963; Principal Assistant Solicitor, Department of Trade and Industry,
1968-1972; Assistant Solicitor, Law Commission, 1972-1974; parttime Assistant,
Law Commission, 1974-1977. Asst Secretary to Jenkins Committee on Company Law,
1959-1962. Retired 1977.
|
Davies,
Robert
|
03.07.1896
-
|
RQMS
|
?
|
Lt. QM
|
26.01.1939 [85877]
|
WS/Capt. QM
|
01.11.1942
|
Capt. QM
|
26.01.1945
|
Maj. QM
|
01.05.1947 (retd
28.01.1950)
|
|
MBE
|
1950/51
|
?
|
|
26.01.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into The South Staffordshire Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
seaborne
echelon, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem)
|
28.01.1950
|
-
|
03.07.1951
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Davison,
John

Son of Gerald Davison, and of Joan Davison, of
Putney, London.
|
1921
?
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 23]
[Groesbeek Memorial, panel 1]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
28.09.1940 [151701]
|
WS/Lt.
|
28.03.1942
|
|
|
|
|
121st
Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU)
|
28.09.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 7 Platoon (B Company), 156th Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Dawson,
Charles Neville Bruce
Son of Edward Elliot Neville Dawson and Muriel
Simpson Dawson; husband of Sheila Mosley Dawson, of Guildford, Surrey.
|
30.08.1916
-
20.09.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 6.C.11]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.08.1936 [69165]
|
Lt.
|
27.08.1939
|
A/Capt.
|
11.09.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
11.12.1939
|
WS/Capt.
|
14.03.1943
|
Capt.
|
27.08.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
14.03.1943
|
|
MC
|
>
08.1944
|
?
|
|
MID
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
Education: Royal Military College
27.08.1936
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal
Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
4th Parachute
Brigade (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
De
Burgh,
Patrick Rupert Richard
"Paddy"
Son of Lt.Cdr. Ulric Campbell de Burgh, RN and Kathleen Maud Usher. Married
(1954) Helen Sylvia Hobhouse (divorced).
|
08.11.1923
-
04.2005 still alive
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
01.05.1943
[273178]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.11.1943
|
A/Capt.
|
16.01.1945-15.04.1945
|
T/Capt.
|
16.04.1945-02.09.1945,
25.02.1946-23.07.1948
|
2nd Lt.
|
13.03.1946,
seniority 08.11.1944
|
Lt.
|
08.05.1946
|
Capt.
|
08.11.1950
|
Maj.
|
08.11.1957
|
Lt.Col.
|
21.08.1965
|
Col.
|
30.06.1969 (retd
08.11.1978)
|
|
OBE
|
01.01.1969
|
New
Year 69
|
|
MID
|
10.05.1945
|
NW
Europe
|
|
01.05.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Artillery [emergency commission to 12.03.1946]
|
?
|
-
|
09.1944
|
Staff Lieutenant, HQ RA, 1st Airborne
Division (Arnhem [POW, evacuated])
|
16.01.1945
|
-
|
20.04.1947
|
Staff
Captain RA, 1st Airborne Division
|
13.03.1946
|
|
|
permanent
commission
|
18.01.1954
|
-
|
01.05.1957
|
IG, School
of Artillery
|
03.04.1959
|
-
|
12.01.1961
|
Staff
Captain, War Office
|
|
De
Gex,
George Francis

Son of late Brig.Gen. Francis John de Gex, CB,
CMG and Edith Hope Miller. Married (1946) Ronda Marianne (died 1982), daughter of late C.F. Recaño; one
daughter.
|
23.04.1911
-
16.08.1986
Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
|
2nd Lt. TA
|
20.08.1931
|
2nd Lt.
|
03.09.1932,
seniority 29.01.1931 [50471]
|
Lt.
|
29.01.1934
|
Capt.
|
29.01.1939
|
A/Maj.
|
09.10.1939-08.01.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
09.01.1940-26.05.1940,
26.05.1941-30.06.1946
|
Maj.
|
01.07.1946
|
local Lt.Col.
|
14.12.1944-31.12.1946,
14.10.1952-17.10.1952
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1947-31.03.1947
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
01.04.1947-23.07.1949,
09.06.1951-11.09.1952, 18.10.1952-05.02.1953
|
Lt.Col.
|
06.02.1953
|
Col.
|
31.12.1954
|
T/Brig.
|
?
|
Brig.
|
31.12.1958
|
Maj.Gen.
|
14.02.1961,
seniority 10.02.1961 (retd 05.09.1966)
|
|
CB
|
01.01.1964
|
New
Year 64
|
|
OBE
|
01.01.1949
|
New
Year 49
|
|
MID
|
20.12.1940
|
BEF
|
|
DSC(US)
|
14.11.1947
|
...,
45
|
|
Education: Wellington College, Berks; Trinity Hall,
Cambridge (MA); jssc; psc
20.08.1931
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Territorial Army, General List (University
Candidates)
|
03.09.1932
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Artillery (from General List, Territorial Army, University
Candidates)
|
(01.1937)
|
|
|
17th
Field Brigade (Woolwich)
|
(01.1939)
|
|
|
Hong
Kong-Singapore Royal Artillery (Singapore)
|
01.09.1939
|
-
|
15.10.1939
|
Adjutant,
...
|
29.05.1940
|
-
|
19.06.1940
|
Staff
Captain, ... (British
Expeditionery Force)
|
22.06.1940
|
-
|
15.01.1941
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
|
26.05.1941
|
-
|
14.07.1942
|
Brigade
Major, ...
|
15.07.1942
|
-
|
08.01.1943
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
|
02.09.1943
|
-
|
09.04.1944
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
1st
Airlanding Light Regiment RA (Arnhem [evacuated])
|
14.12.1944
|
-
|
24.11.1946
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
|
01.01.1947
|
-
|
23.10.1948
|
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ...
|
27.08.1949
|
-
|
10.11.1949
|
Chief
Instructor
|
09.06.1951
|
-
|
22.06.1952
|
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ...
|
31.12.1954
|
-
|
(02.1957)
|
Colonel
General Staff, War Office
|
1958
|
-
|
1959
|
Commander,
1 Army Group Royal Artillery (AGRA)
|
1959
|
-
|
1960
|
DMS(B), War
Office
|
1961
|
-
|
01.02.1964
|
Commander
Artillery, Northern Army Group
|
01.03.1964
|
-
|
08.08.1966
|
Director,
Royal Artillery
|
Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, 22.08.1967-23.04.1976.
|
Dean,
Henry Stanley
|
?
-
deceased
|
CSM
|
? [6346789]
|
2nd Lt.
|
21.10.1943 [305232]
|
WS/Lt.
|
21.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
?
|
|
|
served in
the ranks in The Queen's Own Royal West
Kent Regiment
|
21.10.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [immediate emergency commission]
|
11.12.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Liaison
Officer of 3rd Parachute Battalion at 1st Parachute Brigade HQ (Arnhem [POW])
|
|
Deane-Drummond,
Anthony John
"Tony"

Son of late Col John D. DeaneDrummond, DSO,
OBE, MC. Married (1944) Mary Evangeline Boyd; four daughters.
Interview
at IWM
|
23.06.1917
-
04.2005 still alive
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
28.01.1937
[71076]
|
Lt.
|
28.01.1940
|
A/Capt.
|
26.08.1942-25.11.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
26.11.1942-29.06.1943
|
WS/Capt.
|
30.06.1943
|
Capt.
|
28.01.1945
|
A/Maj.
|
30.03.1943-29.06.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
30.06.1943-27.01.1950
|
Maj.
|
28.01.1950
|
Brev. Lt.Col.
|
01.07.1956
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
22.10.1945-12.01.1946
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1957-24.07.1957
|
local Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1953-15.12.1955
|
Lt.Col.
|
25.07.1957
[supernumerary 25.07.1960]
|
local Col.
|
11.04.1960-05.08.1960,
01.09.1960-10.02.1961
|
Col.
|
30.03.1961
|
T/Brig.
|
30.03.1961-07.10.1964
|
Brig.
|
08.10.1964
|
Maj.Gen.
|
01.06.1966,
seniority 10.02.1966
(retd 29.05.1971)
|
|
CB
|
01.01.1970
|
New
Year 70
|
|
DSO
|
25.08.1959
|
Oman
|
|
MC
|
29.09.1942
|
escape
|
|
MC
|
20.06.1946
|
Tragino
Aqueduct raid 02.41
|
|
MID
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
MID
|
07.01.1949
|
Palestine
|
|
Education: Marlborough College; Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (psc; 1945)
28.01.1937
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Corps of Signals
|
1939
|
-
|
1940
|
Signals
Officer, Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), II Corps (France)
|
1940
|
-
|
12.02.1941
|
No. 2
Commando, renamed 11th SAS Battalion (Europe & North Africa; POW Italy, escaped
15.06.1942)
|
08.1942
|
-
|
1943
|
Signals
Officer, 2nd Parachute Brigade (North Africa, Italy)
|
1943
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Second-in-Command,
1st Airborne Divisional Signals (Italy, UK, Arnhem [POW, escaped])
|
20.07.1945
|
-
|
21.10.1945
|
GSO2
(Operations), 6th Airborne Division (Palestine)
|
22.10.1945
|
-
|
12.01.1946
|
GSO1
(Operations), [6th Airborne Division ?]
|
13.01.1946
|
-
|
10.02.1946
|
GSO2
(Operations), ...
|
11.02.1946
|
-
|
24.05.1947
|
Brigade
Major, 3rd Parachute Brigade
|
01.07.1947
|
-
|
17.08.1948
|
GSO2,
War Office
|
1949
|
-
|
1951
|
Instructor,
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
|
01.01.1953
|
-
|
15.12.1955
|
Instructor
(GSO2), Staff College Camberley
|
01.01.1957
|
-
|
26.10.1957
|
GSO1
(Communications), GHQ, UK Land Forces
|
1957
|
-
|
1960
|
Commanding
Officer, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (Malaya, Oman)
|
30.03.1961
|
-
|
19.10.1963
|
Commander,
44th Independent Parachute Brigade Group (TA)
|
22.10.1963
|
-
|
21.05.1966
|
Assistant
Commandant (Brig.), Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
|
01.06.1966
|
-
|
01.07.1968
|
General
Officer Commanding, 3rd Division
|
02.09.1968
|
-
|
01.08.1970
|
Assistant
Chief of Defence Staff (Operations), Ministry of Defence
|
Colonel Commandant, Royal Signals, 01.05.1966-01.05.1971.
Director: Paper and Paper Products Industry Trng Bd, 1971-1979;
Wood Burning Centre, 1980-1983. British Gliding Champion, 1957; Pilot, British
Gliding Team, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1965.
Published: Return ticket (1951); Riot control
(1975); Arrows of fortune (autobiography, 1991)
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Delacour,
Lindsay David

Son of Lawrence Louis and Jessie Emma Delacour,
of Notting Hill, London.
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12.09.1920
-
19.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 25.A.13]
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Cadet
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?
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2nd Lt.
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22.03.1941 [179815]
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WS/Lt.
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22.09.1942
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MID
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24.08.1944
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Italy
09-11.43
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162nd
Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU)
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22.03.1941
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commissioned
into The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
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14.11.1942
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transferred
to the Royal Armoured Corps
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06.06.1943
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transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, 5 Platoon (A Company), 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed
in action in the Dreijenseweg area at Oosterbeek])
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Dennison,
Mervyn William
Elder son of Reverend W. Telford Dennison and
Hester Mary (née Coulter). Married (1944) Helen Maud, daughter of Claud George
Spiller, Earley, Berks; one son, one daughter.
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13.07.1914
County Cork
-
12.01.1993
[Creevylough- gare, Saintfield, Ballynahinch,
Co. Down ?]
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2nd Lt.
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01.10.1939
[100018]
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WS/Capt.
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10.01.1943
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T/Maj.
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1944?
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CBE
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01.01.1967
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New
Year (lately Puisne Judge of the High Court of Zambia)
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MC
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20.09.1945
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Arnhem
09.44
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DL
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Education: Methodist College, Belfast; Queen's University,
Belfast (BA); Middle Temple
01.10.1939
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commissioned
into The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
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1939
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-
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1943
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served in
1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles
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28.04.1943
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transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, A Company, 3rd
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [POW])
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1945
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called to
the Bar: Northern Ireland, 1945; Middle Temple, 1964
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Crown
Counsel, N Rhodesia, 1947; Legal Draftsman, 1952; Senior Crown Counsel and
Parliamentary Draftsman, Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953; Federal
Solicitor-General, 1959; QC (N Rhodesia) 1960; also Chairman Road Service Board, N
Rhodesia, and Member Central African Air Authority; High Court Judge, Zambia,
1961-67. Secretary, Fermanagh CC, NI, 1967-73; Chief Commissioner, Planning Appeals
Commission and Water Appeals Commission, 1973-80; Chairman, Industrial Tribunals
in N Ireland, 1981-84. Member Senate, Queen's University, Belfast 1979-87. Honorary
Colonel,
The Zambia Regiment, 1964-66. JP, 1969-73, DL 1972, Co. Fermanagh. KStJ 1978 (CStJ
1964).
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Derbyshire,
Francis Alexander
"Frank"

Son of Francis Ignatious and Frances Elizabeth
Derbyshire, of Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
Husband of Mabel Derbyshire, of
Newton-le-Willows.
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1919
?
-
19.09.1944
(KIA) [age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 6.A.15]
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2nd Lt.
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15.01.1944 [304446]
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WS/Lt.
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1944?
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15.01.1944
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commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
[emergency commission]
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01.04.1944
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transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
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(09.1944)
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Section
Commander, G Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
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Des
Vœux,
Sir William Richard de Bacquencourt
"Dicky";
9th Baronet, cr. 1787, succ. 1942


Son of Lt.Col. Henry John des Vœux, OBE,
and Dorothy Gladys Turner Farley.
Married (1939) Jean Margaret Rew, only
daughter of Lt.Col. John Ford Elkington, DSO; three daughters.
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27.12.1911
-
20.09.1944
Arnhem
(KIA) [age 32]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 6.C.10]
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Cadet
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?
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2nd Lt.
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27.08.1931 [52952]
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Lt.
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27.08.1934
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Capt.
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27.08.1939
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WS/Maj.
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04.11.1940
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T/Lt.Col.
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04.11.1940 &
15.03.1943
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MID
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24.08.1944
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Italy
09-11.43
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MID
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20.09.1945
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Arnhem
09.44
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Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
27.08.1931
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commissioned
into the Grenadier Guards
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(01.1937)
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3rd
Battalion, The Grenadier Guards
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04.02.1937
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