| D |
|
|
|
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,
The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
25.05.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(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)
|
Officer
Commanding,
.. Squadron, The Glider Pilot Regiment (at RAF Station Tarrant Rushton)
[06.05.1945-13.05.1945 on leave]
|
|
Daniells,
Lawrence Eugene Downes
Son of ... Daniells, and ... Warren.
|
(06?).1918
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
-
06.2010 |
Cadet
|
? [7931768]
|
2nd Lt.
|
04.03.1944 [312276]
|
WS/Lt.
|
04.09.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
04.03.1944
|
|
|
commissioned,
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
Coventry district, Warwickshire / West Midlands
-
2010 still alive
at 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
|
|
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,
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,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Adjutant, G Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [3 x wounded, POW, escaped])
|
11.01.1947
|
|
|
commissioned,
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
-
08.2005
Monmouth, Gloucestershire / Herefordshire /
Monmouthshire |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.09.1941 [207782]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942 (reld
04.12.1948)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
04.12.1948
|
|
27.09.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
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,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(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,
The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
01.11.1941
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
17.09.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(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
Corwen district, Denbighshire /
Merionetshire
-
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,
The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
01.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
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; part-time Assistant,
Law Commission, 1974-1977. Assistant Secretary to Jenkins Committee on Company Law,
1959-1962. Retired 1977.
|
Davies,
Robert
|
03.07.1896
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985
|
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?
|
?
[only one further unconfirmed reference found about ths decoration]
|
|
26.01.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
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 Willoughby Davison, and of Joan Davison, of
Putney, London.
|
05.02.1921
-
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,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 7 Platoon (B Company), 156th Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Dawkins,
Harold Peter
|
(06?).1921
Fareham district, Hampshire
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
02.01.1943
[258275]
|
WS/Lt.
|
02.07.1943
|
|
02.01.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission]
|
22.03.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
A Company, 156th Parachute
Battalion (at Arnhem with Carrier Platoon [POW])
|
|
Dawson,
Charles Neville Bruce
Son of Edward Elliot Neville Dawson and Muriel
Simpson Dawson.
Husband of Sheila Mosley Dawson (née Mayne), CBE, JP, of Guildford, Surrey (she
remarried Owen Walker and died 06.12.2005); one son, one daughter.
|
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,
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 (1898-1977), and Kathleen Maud Usher
(remarried 1939 Wilson).
Married
1st (12.08.1954; divorced 1957) Helen Sylvia Hobhouse (11.07.1925 - 22.03.1966),
daughter of Edmund Walter Neill Hobhouse, FRCP (1888-1973), and Phyllis Claudia
Smyly (1892-1974), of May Cottage, Mortimer Common, Berkshire.
Married 2nd (22.08.1957) Bridget Elizabeth "Bridie" Cavenagh ((12?).1935 -), daughter of John
Bernard Cavenagh (1890-1970), and Elizabeth Bower McTurk (1903-1993); one son,
one daughter. |
08.11.1923
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
07.12.2010
West Lavington, Devizes, Wiltshire |
| 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 |
|
Education: Imperial Service College.
|
01.05.1943 |
|
|
commissioned,
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 |
Instructor
in Gunnery, School
of Artillery |
| 03.04.1959 |
- |
12.01.1961 |
Staff
Captain, War Office |
| |
|
|
Battery Commander, G Battery, 7th Parachute Light Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (UK and
Bahrain) |
|
1963 |
- |
1965 |
Chief
Instructor, Young Officers' Wing, School of Artillery (Larkhill) |
|
1965 |
- |
1968 |
Commanding Officer, 95 Commando Light Regiment Royal Artillery (Singapore and
Borneo) |
|
1968 |
- |
1969 |
Carrier Borne Ground Liaison |
|
1969 |
- |
1972 |
Commander Recruiting and Liaison W |
|
1972 |
- |
? |
HQ
Support Command Northern Army Group |
|
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
Farnham district, Hampshire / Surrey / Sussex
-
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)
|
|
Education: Wellington College, Berkshire; Trinity Hall,
Cambridge University (MA); jssc; psc
20.08.1931
|
|
|
commissioned,
Territorial Army, General List (University
Candidates)
|
03.09.1932
|
|
|
commissioned,
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
|
1918 ?
-
19.03.2011
Spain
[age 93] |
| 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,
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [immediate emergency commission] |
| 11.12.1943 |
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps |
| (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
(search for "Deane Drummond" under "Maker/Producer
Information")
|
|
23.06.1917
Upton upon Severn district, Worcestershire
-
2010 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)
|
|
Education: Marlborough College; Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (psc; 1945)
28.01.1937
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Corps of Signals
|
1939
|
-
|
1940
|
Signals
Officer, Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), II Corps (France)
|
06.1940
|
-
|
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)
|
Delacour,
Lindsay David

Son of Lawrence Louis and Jessie Emma Delacour,
of Notting Hill, London.
|
12.09.1920
-
19.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 25.A.13]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.03.1941 [179815]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.09.1942
|
|
MID
|
24.08.1944
|
Italy
09-11.43
|
|
|
|
|
162nd
Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU)
|
22.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
14.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Armoured Corps
|
06.06.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 5 Platoon (A Company), 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed
in action in the Dreijenseweg area at Oosterbeek])
|
|
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.
|
13.07.1914
County Cork, Ireland
-
12.01.1993
[Creevylough- gare, Saintfield, Ballynahinch,
Co. Down, Northern Ireland ?]
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.10.1939
[100018]
|
WS/Capt.
|
10.01.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
1944?
|
|
Education: Methodist College, Belfast; Queen's University,
Belfast (BA); Middle Temple
01.10.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
|
1939
|
-
|
1943
|
served in
1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles
|
28.04.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, A Company, 3rd
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [POW])
|
09.1944
|
-
|
04.1945?
|
POW
in German captivity (at Oflag IX A/H at Spangenberg)
|
Called to
the Bar: Northern Ireland, 1945; Middle Temple, 1964. 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, Deputy Lieutenant (DL) 1972, Co. Fermanagh. KStJ 1978 (CStJ
1964).
|
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.
|
(09?).1919
Warrington district, Lancashire
-
19.09.1944
(KIA) [age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 6.A.15]
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.01.1944 [304446]
|
WS/Lt.
|
1944?
|
|
15.01.1944
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery
[emergency commission]
|
01.04.1944
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, G Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
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.
|
27.12.1911
Chelsea district, Greater London
-
20.09.1944
Arnhem
(KIA) [age 32]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 6.C.10]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.08.1931 [52952]
|
Lt.
|
27.08.1934
|
Capt.
|
27.08.1939
|
WS/Maj.
|
04.11.1940
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
04.11.1940 &
15.03.1943
|
|
MID
|
24.08.1944
|
Italy
09-11.43
|
|
MID
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
27.08.1931
|
|
|
commissioned,
Grenadier Guards (qualified as interpreter in French, 2nd class 06.1932)
|
(06.1933)
|
|
|
2nd
Battalion Grenadier Guards (Wellington Barracks, for Windsor)
|
(01.1937)
|
|
|
3rd
Battalion Grenadier Guards (Chelsea Barracks)
|
04.02.1937
|
-
|
(01.1939)
|
Adjutant,
2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Chelsea Barracks, then Aldershot)
|
25.07.1940
|
-
|
(04.1941)
|
specially
employed (graded as GSO3)
|
1943
|
-
|
20.09.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Deuchar,
Ernest

Son of ... Deuchar, and ... Taylor.
From Bradford.
|
13.11.1911
Derby district, Derbyshire
-
05.08.1995
Bradford, West Yorkshire
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.07.1942
[240289]
|
WS/Lt.
|
25.07.1942
(reld < 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
09.10.1943
|
Hon. Capt.
|
< 04.1946
|
|
25.07.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 12 Platoon (B Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire
Regiment (Sicily)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Deputy
Assistant Provost Marshal, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)
|
21.09.1955
|
-
|
02.02.1971
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Devlin,
Brian
Son of Dr. A.J. Devlin, Liverpool.
|
30.06.1919
Ireland
-
07.06.1997
Mendlip, Somerset
|
Lt.
|
14.11.1942
[252477]
|
WS/Capt.
|
14.11.1943
|
Capt.
|
14.11.1947,
seniority 14.11.1943
|
WS/Maj.
|
12.02.1945
|
Maj.
|
14.11.1950
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
12.11.1944-11.02.1945
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
12.02.1945-01.03.1945,
25.02.1959-28.02.1960
|
Lt.Col.
|
29.02.1960 (retd
01.10.1963)
|
Maj. TA
|
05.04.1965
|
Maj. T&AVR
|
01.04.1967
|
A/Lt.Col. ,,
|
01.07.1967
|
Lt.Col. ,,
|
30.01.1968,
seniority 01.07.1967
|
|
OBE
|
01.01.1963
|
New
Year 63
|
|
MBE
|
01.01.1959
|
New
Year 59
|
|
39|45
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
It
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
Fr&G
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
Def
M
|
-
|
-
|
|
BWM
39|45
|
-
|
-
|
|
GenSM
|
-
|
&
clasp Malaya
|
|
Education: Stoneyhurst College (1932-1935); University of Liverpool (1941);
MB ChB (1941); DPH (1951), DTM and H (1952)
1941
|
|
|
while
awaiting his call up to the army, he served as a ship's doctor in a
convoy to the Far East; three ships nearby were sunk by torpedoes
|
14.11.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
|
1942
|
-
|
1943
|
with 1st
Parachute Brigade (N Africa, Sicily)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Regimental
Medical Officer, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, POW,
escaped 10.1944])
|
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
Commanding
Officer, 181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Norway)
|
1946
|
-
|
1949
|
Senior
Medical Officer, British Military Mission to Saudi Arabia (14.11.1947 joined the
regular forces)
|
1952
|
-
|
1955
|
Far
East Land Forces, Singapore
|
1958
|
-
|
1962
|
seconded
Federation of Malaya Military Foces (SMO/SO2 Med)
|
1963
|
|
|
British
Army of the Rhine
|
|
|
|
Senior
Specialist in Army Health
|
05.04.1965
|
-
|
01.04.1967
|
Territorial
Army
|
01.04.1967
|
-
|
29.02.1972
|
Territorial
& Army Volunteer Reserve
|
29.02.1972
|
-
|
?
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
Worked at the Department of Health and Social
Security in Birmingham, and later directed the blood transfusion unit
in Frome.
|
Dickens,
John Raymond

Son of ... Dickens, and ... Stiff.
|
16.09.1914
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
-
11.1997
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.03.1941 [180222]
|
WS/Lt.
|
29.09.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
Hon. Capt.
|
< 04.1946
|
|
29.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
C Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem; wounded
[POW])
|
|
Dickenson,
John Burley
"Dick"
|
?
- |
| Cadet |
? |
| Lt. |
27.07.1940
[138357] |
| WS/Capt. |
02.08.1941 |
| T/Maj. |
02.08.1941 |
| Lt. |
01.11.1946,
seniority 27.07.1940 |
| Maj. |
27.07.1953
(reld 01.11.1956) |
| Hon.
Maj. |
01.11.1956 |
 |
LS&GCM |
28.11.1947 |
- |
|
| 27.07.1940 |
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 31.10.1946] |
| (09.1944) |
|
|
Battery
Captain, 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [POW]) |
| 01.11.1946 |
- |
01.11.1956 |
short
service commission |
|
Dickson,
Milton John Patrick Stanley
Son of ... Dickson, and ... Milton.
|
01.03.1921
Stroud district, Gloucestershire
-
02.1996
Exeter, Devon
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
19.10.1940 [153103]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.04.1942
|
Lt.
|
20.02.1946, seniority
01.09.1943
|
Capt.
|
01.03.1948
|
Maj.
|
29.03.1955 (retd 09.05.1955)
|
Capt. TA
|
07.11.1958, seniority
30.08.1951
|
Maj. TA
|
? (reld 15.10.1965)
|
|
EM
|
14.04.1950
|
-
|
|
19.10.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
|
27.05.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Mortar Platoon (HQ/Sp Company), 3rd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
20.02.1946
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Royal Ulster Rifles [short service commission?]
|
20.02.1952
|
|
|
transferred,
Northamptonshire Regiment
|
09.05.1955
|
-
|
07.11.1958
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
07.11.1958
|
-
|
15.10.1965
|
Territorial
Army - Devonshire Regiment
|
|
Dinwiddie,
Gordon Maitland

Son of Lauderdale Maitland Dinwiddie (1894-) and Nora
Helena Sigismonde Bobillier (1893-).
Married (1951, Wandsworth, Surrey) Molly Bradley (1925-);
two sons.
|
14.10.1916
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
-
1998
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
24.05.1939
[90195]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
Lt.
|
25.10.1946,
seniority 03.03.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
01.07.1941-30.09.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
01.10.1941-20.09.1943
|
WS/Capt.
|
21.09.1943
|
Capt.
|
25.10.1946,
seniority 01.07.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
21.06.1943-20.09.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
21.09.1943-14.10.1943,
06.12.1943-30.06.1948, 10.01.1950-23.08.1952
|
Maj.
|
24.08.1952
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
17.12.1954-20.02.1958,
04.03.1959-19.02.1960 [Emp. List 1]
|
Lt.Col.
|
20.02.1960
[supernumerary 20.02.1963]
[KOSB Emp. List 1 15.09.1961] [Special List 01.01.1967] (retd 01.01.1971)
|
|
TD
|
21.04.1950
|
-
|
|
Education: jssc, psc
|
|
|
late
Cadet, Sedbergh School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
|
24.05.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Own Scottish Borderers - Territorial Army
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
to 24.10.1946
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, C Company, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem
[wounded, POW])
|
25.10.1946
|
|
|
permanent
commission
|
10.01.1950
|
-
|
17.06.1951
|
Generral
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Inf.), HQ British Army of the Rhine
|
18.06.1951
|
-
|
04.11.1951
|
Generral
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Ops.), HQ 1 Corps
|
05.11.1951
|
-
|
08.02.1952
|
Generral
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (L)
|
17.12.1954
|
-
|
01.02.1958
|
Generral
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), HQ Northern Army Group
|
06.02.1959
|
-
|
26.11.1961
|
specially
employed, Malaya Military Forces
|
06.12.1961
|
-
|
25.03.1964
|
Generral
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (L), ... Division/District
|
06.04.1964
|
-
|
20.01.1965
|
Generral
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Ministry of Defence
|
10.10.1966
|
-
|
(02.1967)
|
Assistant
Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), RMAS [Royal Mil. Academy
Sandhurst?]
|
|
Dobie,
David Theodor
Son of Dave Walter Dobie, Director of The
Tyneside Fischquay in North Shields, Newcastle, and Ragna Danilsen Nilsen
(1885-1970).
Married to Rex Dobie; two daughters, one son.
|
21.10.1912
Tynemouth, Northumberland
-
12.12.1971
Nairobi, Kenya
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.04.1936 [67437]
|
Lt.
|
25.04.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
12.08.1940
|
WS/Capt.
|
28.12.1941
|
T/Maj.
|
28.12.1941
|
WS/Maj.
|
27.07.1944 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
1944?
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
< 04.1946
|
* date of Dutch Royal Decree 31.07.1945
|
25.04.1936
|
|
|
commissioned,
The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) - Territorial Army
(4th Battalion)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
01.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
1941
|
-
|
1942
|
3rd
Parachute Battalion
|
(1942)
|
-
|
1943
|
Officer
Commanding, B Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion (Tunisia; illness)
|
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
12th Parachute Battalion (UK)
|
1944
|
-
|
09.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [POW, escaped])
|
?
|
-
|
13.03.1963
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
Emigrated to East Africa, 1948. Mercedes Benz later
Nissan dealer in Nairobi (Kenya) and
Dar el Salaam (Tanzania) since 1949.
|
Dodd,
Roy George Wortley
"Bobby"

Son of Robert and Louisa Wortley Dodd (née
Fradd), of
Flansham, Sussex.
|
(09?).1913
Hampstead district, Greater London
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 25.A.15]
|
2nd Lt.
|
02.01.1941
[173559]
|
WS/Lt.
|
02.07.1942
|
|
02.01.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
|
01.01.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1943)
|
|
|
Platoon
Commander, D Company, 10th Parachute Battalion (Italy)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Mortar Platoon (Support Company), 10th
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Dodwell,
Christopher Bradford
"Chris"

Son of ... Dodwell, and ... Mason.
|
(09?).1919
Thame district, Buckinghamshire /
Oxfordshire
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.01.1941
[166383]
|
WS/Lt.
|
11.07.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
DFC
|
11.04.1946
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
|
|
|
Officer
Producing Centre
|
11.01.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
|
19.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 12 Flight (E Squadron, No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem)
|
09.1944
|
-
|
04.1945?
|
POW
in German captivity (at Oflag IX A/H at Spangenberg)
|
|
Doig,
Charles

Married; (one son?).
|
27.08.1914
Glasgow, Scotland
-
2007
Melbourne, Australia
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.03.1943 [268306]
|
WS/Lt.
|
27.03.1943
|
WS/Capt.
|
? (reld 27.08.1947)
|
Hon. Maj.
|
27.08.1947
|
|
27.03.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Royal Scots Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 7 Platoon (B Company), 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish
Borderers (Arnhem [POW])
|
|
Donaldson,
Adrian

|
21.09.1922
-
08.2006 still alive
|
2nd
Lt.
|
07.03.1942
[228471]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
Lt.
|
16.01.1946,
seniority 21.03.1945
|
A/Capt.
|
01.10.1944-31.12.1945
|
T/Capt.
|
01.01.1946-24.05.1947
|
WS/Capt.
|
25.05.1947
|
Capt.
|
21.09.1949
|
A/Maj.
|
06.02.1946-01.05.1946,
19.05.1947-24.05.1947
|
T/Maj.
|
25.05.1947-16.01.1948,
01.12.1950-30.03.1951
|
Maj.
|
21.09.1956
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
10.05.1961-18.02.1964
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
29.02.1964-19.09.1964
|
Lt.Col.
|
20.09.1964
(Employed List 1)
|
Col.
|
31.12.1968,
seniority 30.06.1968
(retd 21.09.1977)
|
local
Brig.
|
31.10.1968-...
|
Hon.
Brig.
|
21.09.1977
|
|
CBE
|
31.12.1977
|
New
Year 78
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MBE
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14.04.1959
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for
services against the Eoka Terrorists in Cyprus
|
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DSO
|
09.11.1944
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Arnhem
09.44
|
|
39|45
St
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-
|
-
|
|
It
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
Fr&G
St
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-
|
-
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Def
M
|
-
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-
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BWM
39|45
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-
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-
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GenSM
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-
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with 2 bars
(Palestine 1945-48 & Cyprus
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Kor
M
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-
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-
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UN
Kor M
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-
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-
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Education: psc
|
|
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served in
the ranks for 173 days
|
07.03.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 15.01.1946]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Gun
Position Officer, C Troop, 2nd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [evacuated])
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16.01.1946
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|
|
permanent
commission
|
Royal Army Reserve of Officers (RARO) after
retirement.
|
Donaldson,
Thomas
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.05.1941 [187038]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
17.05.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 2 Platoon, Medium Machine Gun Group (Support Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem)
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|
Donaldson,
William Stewart

Son of William and Lilian Donaldson.
Husband of
Geraldine (Jill) Donaldson, of Wimbledon, Surrey.
|
1919 ?
-
20.09.1944
(KIA) [age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 21.B.10]
|
2nd Lt.
|
21.11.1943 [300870]
|
WS/Lt.
|
?
|
|
Served Metropolitan Police (London).
21.11.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
|
26.02.1944
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 11 Platoon (C Company), 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
Dormer,
William Nicoll McNaughton
|
24.09.1921
-
04.1991
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.03.1941 [180226]
|
WS/Lt.
|
29.09.1942
|
Lt.
|
31.08.1946,
seniority 24.03.1944
|
A/Capt.
|
18.02.1946-17.05.1946
|
T/Capt.
|
18.05.1946-23.09.1948
|
Capt.
|
24.09.1948
|
Maj.
|
24.09.1955
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
04.08.1966-30.12.1966
|
Lt.Col.
|
31.12.1966
(Special List 24.09.1971) (retd 24.09.1976)
|
|
Education: ptsc
|
|
|
served
in the ranks for 264 days
|
29.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission to
30.08.1946]
|
27.11.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
officer,
Support Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
31.08.1946
|
|
|
transferred,
Highland Light Infantry
[20.01.1959 reformed as: Royal Highland Fusiliers] [permanent commission]
|
01.03.1949
|
-
|
01.03.1950
|
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), HQ Independent Parachute Brigade
|
06.01.1958
|
-
|
18.01.1960
|
TSO2,
Proof and Experimental Establishment
|
15.02.1962
|
-
|
07.05.1964
|
TSO2,
War Office
|
04.08.1966
|
-
|
(02.1967)
|
TSO1,
Army Personnel Reserve Establishment
|
|
Dorrien-Smith,
Geoffrey Richard

Son of Maj. Edward Pendarves Dorrien-Smith (1879-1937), DSO,
and Frances Amy Selonia Bowlby.
|
09.04.1916
Chelsea district, Greater London
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 28]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 6.A.10]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.08.1936 [69101]
|
Lt.
|
27.08.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
21.05.1940-...,
10.08.1943-...
|
Capt.
|
27.08.1944
|
|
Education: King's Mead School, Seaford; Royal
Military College
27.08.1936
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
B Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Douglas,
Colin Martin

Married Gina Cachia (1931-1989); five
children.
|
28.07.1912
Newcastle
-
21.12.1991
Lambeth, London (heart failure)
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.10.1941 [210784]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
15.10.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
Hkn
|
19.03.1948
|
Norway
45
|
|
11.10.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
|
1942
|
-
|
07.1943
|
Medium Machine
Gun Platoon
Commander, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment
|
07.1943
|
-
|
1945
|
Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment
(Arnhem [evacuated])
|
Actor (played in Dr. Who & A family at war).
|
Douglas,
John Shewell

Son of Charles Shewell Douglas and Dorothy Douglas (née Hogarth), of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
|
(03?).1921
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 23]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 2.B.1]
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.03.1942
[228396]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
Education: BA
07.03.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
26.05.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
B Company, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Douglass,
Donald Marsh

Son of N.C. Douglass.
Brother of F/O Peter Norman
Douglass, RAF.
Married Margaret Prescott; adopted two sons, two
daughters.
|
07.05.1919
Sydney, NSW, Australia
-
10.06.2003
Australia
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.05.1943 [276864]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.11.1943 (retd
30.07.1946)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
30.07.1946
|
|
Came to the UK aged 7 for his father's work.
c.
1940
|
-
|
c.
1943
|
served
in the ranks, 5th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (UK)
|
22.05.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
|
(1943?)
|
|
|
"B"
Company, 2nd Parachute Battlaion (North Africa & Italy))
|
(09.1944)
|
-
|
21.09.1944
|
Officer
Commanding, Assault Platoon (Support Company), 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem
[captured])
|
21.09.1944
|
-
|
12.04.1945
|
POW
in German captivity (Oflag 79)
|
Returned to Australia after demobilization. Studied Medicine for a bit and then decided to
become a Minister of Religion with the Church of England. He worked in various church roles, (was a Missionary in North West Australia, Rector of some various churches, and finished his working life as
the Chaplain of a Psychiatric Hospital). Member of Bush Church Aid Society of Australia
Field Staff.
|
Dover,
Victor
"Dicky"

Son of ... Dover, and ... Victor.
Married Joan Dover.
|
25.02.1919
Edmonton distict
-
(12?).1982
Swale district
|
2nd Lt.
|
14.01.1940 [113514]
|
WS/Lt.
|
14.07.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
01.05.1943-31.07.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
01.08.1943-04.02.1944
|
WS/Capt.
|
05.02.1944
|
A/Maj.
|
05.11.1943-04.02.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
05.02.1944-24.06.1945
& 05.08.1945-13.11.1946
|
Lt.
|
08.06.1946,
seniority 25.08.1941
|
Capt.
|
01.07.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
30.12.1946-22.06.1947
& 20.09.1951-04.04.1952 & 10.05.1952-17.07.1952 &
23.08.1952-24.02.1953
|
Maj.
|
25.02.1953 (retd
01.04.1959)
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks for 134 days
|
14.01.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [emergency commission to
07.06.1946]
|
27.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
A Company,
2nd Parachute Battalion (Sicily)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
08.06.1946
|
|
|
transferred
to The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [permanent commission]
|
Published: The silken canopy (memoirs;
1979); The sky generals (airborne generals; 1981)
|
Downing,
Maxwell William

|
(06?).1911
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
22.09.1944
(KIA) [age 33]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 27.B.4]
[commemorated
at Thorpe Green War Memorial]
|
2nd Lt.
|
16.11.1940 [156901]
|
WS/Lt.
|
16.05.1942
|
|
|
|
|
probably
served in the British Expeditionary Force
|
16.11.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
03.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, G Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
Doyle,
James Thorburn
"Paddy"

Son of Norman and Mary Helen Laurie Thorburn
Doyle, of Cheam, Surrey.
|
(09?).1920
Lambeth district, Greater London
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 23.A.12]
|
Lt.
|
22.05.1943 [270898]
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
Education: MB, BS, MRSCS, LRCP
22.05.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Officer (reserve),
181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Drake,
John Ellis

From London.
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.11.1942
[251802]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.05.1943
(reld 28.10.1953)
|
Hon.
Capt.
|
28.10.1953
|
|
22.11.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Assistant
Brigade Signals Officer, 1st Airlanding Brigade [L Section (No. 2 Company),
1st Airborne Divisional Signals] (Arnhem)
|
|
Drayson,
Gareth Fitzalan Howard
"Gremlin"

Son of Rear-Admiral Edwin Howard Drayson, CBE (Rtd.) and Hilda Jeannie Harding, of Lustleigh, Devon.
|
(12?).1916
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
19.09.1944
(KIA)
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 15.B.20]
|
Lt.
|
07.03.1941 [181248]
|
WS/Capt.
|
07.03.1942
|
|
MID
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
Education: MB (Edinburgh)
07.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Regimental
Medical Officer, 10th Parachute Battalion (Italy; Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Driver,
[Sir] Antony Victor
"Tony"

Son of late Arthur William Driver and Violet
Clementina Driver (née Browne).
Married (1948) Patricia (née Tinkler); three
sons. |
20.07.1920
Fulham district, Greater London
-
07.01.2002
[Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey ?] |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.03.1943 [267815]
|
WS/Lt.
|
27.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
-
|
Kt
|
1986
|
HM's
birthday 86 (Chairman, South West Thames Regional Health
Authority)
|
|
Education: King's College, University of London
(BScEng Hons); Dip., Graduate School of Industrial Administration,
CarnegieMellon University, Pittsburgh;
CEng; FIMechE, FInstPet; FIMgt
27.03.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artilley [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Troop
Leader, E Troop, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [POW])
|
In oil industry with Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, until
1975, and BP Oil Ltd, 1976-1980: seconded
to British Petroleum Co., as Marketing Manager, N Europe, 1969-1971; General
Manager, Sales, 1971-1978; Director, Personnel and Administration, 1979-1980.
Non-executive Director: Candles Ltd, 1976-1980; Rockwool Ltd, 1978-1980; Baxter
Fell & Co. Ltd, 1980-1985; Chairman, Hoogovens (UK) Ltd, 1985-1988. Director:
Institute of Cancer Research, 1981-; Oil Industries Club Ltd, 1981-; Surrey
Association
of Youth Clubs and Surrey PHAB Ltd, 1991-. Chairman, South West Thames Regional Health Authority, 1982-1988. Liveryman, Tallow Chandlers' Co.,
1977-; Freeman, City of London.
|
Dundas,
James Strathern
From Selkirk.
|
?
-
25.09.1944
Oosterbeek
(KIA)
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 2.C.3]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.10.1939 [100912]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.04.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
15.10.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
B Company,
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Dupenois,
Georges

Son of ... Dupenois, and ... De Jardin.
|
(06?).1921
Coventry district, Warwickshire / West
Midlands
-
|
2nd
Lt.
|
07.01.1943
[258679]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.12.1943
(reld 27.04.1948)
|
2nd
Lt. TA
|
27.04.1948
|
Lt. TA
|
27.04.1948
(reld 22.12.1955)
|
A/Capt.
TA
|
08.08.1949
|
Hon.
Capt.
|
22.12.1955
|
|
07.01.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 14 Platoon (B Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment
(Arnhem [POW])
|
27.04.1948
|
-
|
24.04.1953
|
Territorial
Army - General List (Training Corps, Junior Training Corps, Emanuel School
Contingent)
|
01.04.1950
|
|
|
[also?:]
Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Border Regiment
|
24.04.1953
|
-
|
?
|
Territorial
Army - General List (Combined Cadet Force, Whitgift Middle School Contingent)
|
?
|
-
|
22.12.1955
|
Territorial
Army - General List (Combined Cadet Force, Trinity School Contingent)
|
|
Dyson,
Walter Gilbert

Son of ... Dyson, and ... Wright.
|
23.06.1923
Bradford district, West Yorkshire
-
06.1996
Bradford district, West Yorkshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
23.01.1943
[259921]
|
WS/Lt.
|
23.07.1943
(reld > 04.1946)
|
|
23.01.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
|
22.06.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|