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The service number of each person is (when known) given after the date of commissioning. Most officers had only a wartime career, but when no indication is given about a Territorial Army commission or an emergency commission, the officer involved served as a Regular Army officer, with in most cases an active army career before and after the war. For explanations & abbreviations you can look at the help page.

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Eason, Bryan Dennis	? -	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 25.07.1943 [288421] WS/Lt. 25.01.1944 (retd > 04.1946)	11.09.1943 commissioned into The Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] 23.01.1944 transferred to The South Staffordshire Regiment (09.1944) Supernumerary Officer Commanding, Support Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
Eastwood, Herbert David	1919 ? - 06.2006 still alive [aged 87]	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 11.02.1940 [121135] WS/Lt. 11.08.1941 (retd 26.09.1946) T/Capt. 16.04.1943 Hon. Capt. 26.09.1946 MC 09.11.1944 Arnhem 09.44	167th Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) 11.02.1940 commissioned into The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission] 27.01.1944 transferred to the Parachute Regiment 1944 - 1945 Officer Commanding, 1 Platoon, 21st Independent Parachute Company (UK; Arnhem [evacuated]; Norway) Post-war career in the Security Services.
Eden, Michael Charles Son of Brigadier Henry Charles Hamilton Eden and of Violet Alice Eden; husband of Patricia Eden, of Hambleton, Lancashire.	1922 ? - 21.09.1944 (KIA) [age 22] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 20.C.10]	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 28.03.1943 [267948] WS/Lt. 28.09.1943	28.03.1943 commissioned into the Royal Engineers [emergency commission] 1944 - (09.1944) Troop Officer, 2 Troop, 4th Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [killed in action])
Edwards, Donald Kenneth	01.09.1923 - 11.1997 Trowbridge, Wiltshire	Cadet ? [7955805] 2nd Lt. 10.10.1943 [295840] WS/Lt. 10.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946) MC 09.11.1944 Arnhem 09.44	10.10.1943 commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] 23.01.1944 transferred to The South Staffordshire Regiment (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 17 Platoon (C Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem; [?])
Edwards, J	? -	Capt. ?	? commissioned into the ? [emergency commission] (09.1944) Second-in-Command, C Company, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
Egan, the Reverend Bernard Mary	1905 ? - 07.1988 [age 83]	Capt. = Chaplain to the Forces 4th Cl. 17.12.1940 [159715] (reld 11.12.1945; disability) Hon. Chaplain to the Forces 4th Cl. 11.12.1945 MC 23.03.1944 Sicily 07.43	17.12.1940 commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission] - Roman Catholic (1942) - (1943) Chaplain, 1st Parachute Brigade (N Africa) (07.1943) - (09.1944) Chaplain, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [POW]) Returned to education and was headmaster, Wimbledon College Preparatory School, London for some 20 years.
Elliott, James Roland [Clarke] Elder son of James Taylor Elliott, Riversdale, Strabane, Co Tyrone, and Margaret Whiteside, 4th daughter of Walter Clarke, Lurgan, Co Armagh. Married (02.06.1942) Isabel, younger daughter of Edmund Ashworth Radford, MP, FCA and Beatrice Elizabeth Hay; one son, two daughters.	13.09.1916 Riversdale, Strabane - 18.03.1985 Isle of Man	Gnr. ? 2nd Lt. 01.04.1939 [87508] WS/Lt. 24.11.1940 T/Capt. 24.11.1940-(04.1941), 10.03.1943-(09.1944) Lt. 02.11.1948, seniority 24.11.1940 Capt. TA 01.11.1949 A/Maj. TA 08.06.1950 Maj. TA 13.12.1950, seniority 08.06.1950 Maj. AERO 20.10.1955, seniority 13.12.1950 Maj. RARO 27.02.1959, seniority 13.12.1950 MBE > 02.1943, < 12.1944 parachute training officer ERD 04.09.1984 & 1st and 2nd clasp	Education: Felsted School (1931-1932); Queen's University, Belfast late Cadet, Felsted School Contingent, Officer Training Corps 1937? - 01.04.1939 served in the ranks, 188th (Antrim) Fortress Battery, RA (TA) 01.04.1939 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers 01.04.1939 - 1941? 8th Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (24.08.1939 mobilized; served in the British Expeditionary Force in France) 1941 - 1942 parachute training officer at the Central Landing Establishment, Ringway Airport, Manchester 01.08.1942 transferred, Parachute Regiment late 1942 - 1943 2nd Parachute Battalion (Tunisia & Italy; missed the Sicily landings due to being hospitalized after a motorbike accident); served also as Liaison Officer with the US Forces (09.1944) - 20.09.1944 Battery Captain "Q", 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA (Arnhem [POW]) 20.09.1944 - (05?).1945 POW in German captivity 02.11.1948 - 26.04.1955 Regular Army Reserve of Officers (serving Territorial Army) 27.04.1955 - 19.10.1955 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers 20.10.1955 - 26.02.1959 Mobile Defence Corps, Army Emergency Reserve of Officers 27.02.1959 - ? Regular Army Reserve of Officers Motor trade executive.
Ellis, Frederick William	? -	Cadet ? [1762210] 2nd Lt. 24.09.1943 [293982] WS/Lt. ? WS/Capt. 05.09.1945 (reld < 04.1946) Hon. Maj. < 04.1946	24.09.1943 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] (09.1944) Officer Commanding, H Troop, 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA [supporting 156th Parachute Battalion] (Arnhem [evacuated])
Erskine, James S	? -	Prov. 2nd Lt. ? 2nd Lt. 15.08.1943 Lt. 18.12.1943	? commissioned into the Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission] (12.1943) No. A-16 Canadian Infantry Training Centre, Calgary, Alta. (02.1944) - 01.04.1944 Prince of Wales Rangers 01.04.1944 - No. A-34 Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC Canloan scheme: CDN/452 (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 19 Platoon (D Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem; wounded, POW) 08.06.1945 - 17.10.1945 No. 11 District Depot (struck off strength)
Evans, Kenneth Charles "Ken"	11.05.1922 - 03.2000 Bridgend, Glamorgan	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 28.03.1943 [267949] WS/Lt. 28.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	28.03.1943 commissioned into the Royal Engineers [emergency commission] 1943 - (09.1944) Troop Officer, 1 Troop, 4th Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
Evans, Philip Brandon	? -	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 07.01.1943 [258683] WS/Lt. 07.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	07.01.1943 commissioned into The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission] (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 16 Platoon (C Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
Ewens, Alfred Francis "Frank"	(06?).1909 West Ham, Greater London -	2nd Lt. 01.12.1942 [250583] WS/Lt. 01.06.1943 (reld 14.10.1953) T/Capt. 10.07.1945 Hon. Capt. 14.10.1953	01.12.1942 commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission] (07.1943) - (09.1944) Adjutant, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)

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