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Hacart, Frantz Yves	22.09.1911 St Quen - 18.09.1944 (KIA) [repatriated to Chateau de Frecquiennes Pavilly France on 28.09.1948]	Lt. ?	1942     Free French Forces (Forces françaises de l'Extérieur) (09.1944) Liaison Officer from French Army, 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem; initially for Operation Linnet)
Hackett, [Sir] John Winthrop "Shan" Son of Hon. Sir John Winthrop Hackett, KCMG, LLD, Perth, WA, and Deborah, daughter of Frederick Slade Drake- Brockman, Perth. Married (21.03.1942, Jerusalem) Margaret, daughter of Joseph Frena, Graz, Austria, and widow of Friedrich Grossman; (one daughter deceased), and two adopted step daughters. Interview at IWM (1) Interview at IWM (2) Interview at IWM (3)	05.11.1910 Perth, Western Australia - 09.09.1997 Coberley Mill, Gloucestershire	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 02.09.1933, seniority 29.01.1931 [52752] Lt. 29.01.1934 Capt. 29.01.1939 A/Maj. 01.01.1941-31.03.1941 T/Maj. 01.04.1941-16.12.1942 WS/Maj. 17.12.1942 Maj. 01.07.1946 A/Lt.Col. 17.09.1942-16.12.1942 T/Lt.Col. 17.12.1942-30.06.1943 WS/Lt.Col. 01.07.1943 A/Col. 01.01.1943-30.06.1943 T/Col. 01.07.1943-18.06.1945, 18.03.1946-21.11.1947, 16.01.1948-04.11.1951 Col. 05.11.1951 A/Brig. (01.01.1943-30.06.1943 T/Brig. 01.07.1943-18.06.1945, 01.01.1947-05.09.1947, 22.11.1947-15.01.1948, 01.03.1952-23.03.1956 Brig. 24.09.1956 T/Maj.Gen. 24.03.1956-30.03.1957 Maj.Gen. 31.03.1957 Lt.Gen. 18.07.1961, seniority 11.04.1961 Gen. (local) 14.04.1966-17.10.1966 Gen. 18.10.1966 (retd 01.10.1968) GCB 10.06.1967 HM's birthday 67 KCB 02.06.1962 HM's birthday 62 CB 01.01.1958 New Year 58 CBE 01.06.1953 HM's coronation 53 MBE 1938 ? DSO 13.08.1942 Middle East DSO 24.05.1945 NW Europe (Arnhem 09.44) MC 21.10.1941 Middle East MID 23.07.1937 Palestine MID 1937/41? Transjordan Frontier Force MID 1937/41? Transjordan Frontier Force MID 24.08.1944 Italy 09-11.43 MID 20.09.1945 Arnhem 09.44 MID 07.01.1949 Palestine 46-47 Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp. DL; BLitt, MA Oxon; FRSL (1982)	Education: Geelong Grammar School, Australia; New College, Oxford (Hon. Fellow 1972); psc; idc (1951) Oxford University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps 02.09.1933 commissioned 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Palestine, 1936 (despatches) 27.09.1937 - 15.07.1941 seconded to Transjordan Frontier Force local Capt. to 28.01.1939 local Maj. 16.05.1940-31.12.1940 16.07.1941 - 28.09.1941 seconded to Commission of Control, Syria and Lebanon (Syria; wounded) 07.11.1941 - 26.03.1942 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Operations), 9th Army (Western Desert; wounded) 17.09.1942 - 31.12.1942 General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (O), Raiding Forces GHQ, Middle East Forces 01.01.1943 - 17.09.1944 Commander, 4th Parachute Brigade (Italy, Arnhem [wounded]) 13.01.1946 - 17.03.1946 General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ... Division 18.03.1946 - 31.12.1946 Colonel General Staff, Int. Org. ACA 01.01.1947 - 03.08.1947 Brigadier General Staff (BGS) (1), Austria 06.09.1947 - 21.11.1947 Commander, Transjordan Frontier Force 22.11.1947 - 15.01.1948 Comd (Brig.), HQ Middle East 16.01.1948 - 19.07.1948 Comd (Col.) 01.08.1949 - 13.11.1950 Senior Army Instructor, Royal Naval College, Greenwich 01.03.1952 - 26.01.1954 Deputy Quartermaster General (DQMG), British Army of the Rhine 29.01.1954 - 23.03.1956 Commander, 20th Armoured Brigade 24.03.1956 - 03.02.1958 General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division 10.02.1958 - 09.02.1961 Commandant, Royal Military College of Science 18.07.1961 - 31.12.1962 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Ireland Command 04.02.1963 - 31.03.1964 Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff, War Office 01.04.1964 - 03.02.1966 Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of Defence 14.04.1966 - 10.07.1968 Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, and Commander Northern Army Group in NATO ADC (Gen.), 1967-1968. Colonel Commandant, REME, 04.02.1961-03.02.1966; Hon. Colonel: 10th (Volunteer) Battalion The Parachute Regiment, TA, 1965-1967; 10th Volunteer Bn, The Parachute Regt, 1967-1973; Oxford University Officers Training Corps, 1967-21.07.1978; Col, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, 1969-1975. Mem., Lord Chancellor's Cttee on Reform of Law of Contempt, 1971-1974; Mem., Disciplinary Tribunal, Inns of Court and Bar, 1972-1983. Vis. Prof. in Classics, KCL, 1977. Lectures: Lees Knowles, Cambridge, 1961; Basil Henriques Meml, 1970; Harmon Meml, USAF  Acad., 1970; Jubilee, Imperial Coll., 1979. President: UK Classical Assoc., 1971; English Assoc., 1973. Hon. Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Dyers, 1975; Freeman of City of London, 1976. DL Glos 1982. Hon. LLD: Queen's Univ. Belfast; Perth, WA, 1963; Exeter, 1977; Buckingham, 1987. FKC, 1968; Hon. Fellow St George's Coll., University of Western Australia, 1965. Chesney Gold Medal, RUSI, 1985. Published: I was a stranger (1977); (jointly) The Third World War (1978); (jointly) The untold story (1982); The profession of arms (1983); (ed.) Warfare in the Ancient World (1989); articles and reviews Literature: Roy Fullick, Shan Hackett : the biography of Sir John Hackett GCB, DSO, MC (2003)
Haddon, Thomas "Tommy" Son of Major J.T. Haddon of the Cameronians. Married (1939) Clodagh, the youngest daughter of Lt-Col. Bertrand Russell (youngest son of Lord Chief Justice Russell of Killowen); three sons. Private papers at IWM	19.02.1913 - 12.04.1993	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 02.02.1933 [58141] Lt. 02.02.1936 A/Capt. 03.09.1939-02.12.1939 T/Capt. 03.12.1939-01.02.1941 Capt. 02.02.1941 A/Maj. 01.01.1942-31.03.1942 T/Maj. 01.04.1942-16.10.1943 WS/Maj. 17.10.1943 Maj. 01.07.1946 Lt.Col. (Brev.) 01.07.1951 A/Lt.Col. 17.07.1943-16.10.1943 T/Lt.Col. 17.10.1943-01.02.1948, 24.08.1949-25.06.1951, 12.07.1951-09.12.1955 Lt.Col. 10.12.1955 Col. 25.09.1958, seniority 14.01.1957 [supernumerary 25.09.1964] local Brig. 13.09.1958-24.09.1958 T/Brig. 23.09.1958-13.01.1961 Brig. 14.01.1961 (retd 20.02.1968) CBE 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 61; Singapore OBE 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 57 NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp	Education: Hamilton Academy; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; idc, psc 02.02.1933 commissioned into The Border Regiment 1933 - 1935 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment (Northern Ireland) 1935 - 1939 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment (India) 09.1939 - 02.1940 Officer Commanding, B Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (UK, France) 07.02.1940 - 26.05.1941 Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (France [Dunkirk], UK) 1941 - 1941 attended Staff College, Camberley 17.11.1941 - 30.11.1941 specially employed 01.12.1941 - 31.12.1941 GSO3, War Cabinet Office (Assistant Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee) 01.01.1942 - 26.01.1943 GSO2, War Cabinet Office (Assistant Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee) 27.01.1943 - 07.1943 Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Sicily) 07.1943 - 09.1944 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem [POW at Hadamar]) 04.06.1945 - 13.01.1948 GSO1, Chief of Staff Committee, War Office 1948 - 1949 Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Palestine, East Africa) 24.08.1949 - 25.04.1951 GSO1, HQ Hong Kong 12.07.1951 04.09.1952 02.02.1953 - - - 03.09.1952 01.02.1953 29.06.1955 GSO1, War Office (Army Council Secretariat) 12.1955 - 1958 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (British Army of the Rhine) 29.09.1958 - 27.04.1961 Commandant, Singapore Military Forces [01.01.1959-03.09.1961 specially employed, Singapore Military Forces] 11.01.1963 - 02.07.1965 Chief of Staff, HQ Land Forces Hong Kong ADC to the Queen, 26.03.1964-20.02.1968. President of the Border Regiment Association, 1966. Vice-President Border Affairs in the King's Own Royal Border Regimental Association, 1975. Vice President of the Regular Commissions Board in Wiltshire, 1966-1968.
Haeffner, Bruno Henry	? - [possibly: 18.03.1915 - 12.1994 Pontypool, Monmouthshire]	Gnr. ? 2nd Lt. 20.01.1940 [117210] WS/Lt. 20.07.1941 Capt. ? (reld ?) Hon. Maj. ? Efficiency Medal (Territorial), 12.01.1951	served in the ranks 20.01.1940 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] 19.08.1942 transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment (09.1944) Section Commander, A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
Haig, Oliver Peter Son of Col. Oliver Haig. Married (10.05.1930) Rosamond Mary Ponsonby (1906-1985), daughter of Sir George Arthur Ponsoby; one son, one daughter.	(12?).1908 Marylebone, London - 13.05.1987	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 30.06.1939 [93769] WS/Lt. 30.11.1940 T/Capt. 30.11.1940 WS/Capt. 10.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946) T/Maj. 10.06.1943 Hon. Maj. < 04.1946 Lt. 14.07.1952, seniority 14.12.1947 Capt. 14.07.1952, seniority 18.02.1952 Maj. ? (reld 14.07.1960) Hon. Maj. 14.07.1960 Hkn 19.03.1948 Norway 45 TD 22.09.1950 ?	late Cadet, Clifton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps 30.06.1939 commissioned into The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army (4th Battalion) 24.08.1939 mobilized 14.01.1941 transferred to the Reconnaissance Corps - Territorial Army (09.1944) - (1945) Assistant Provost Marshal, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [evacuated]; Norway) 16.06.1945 transferred to The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army ? - 14.07.1952 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers 14.07.1952 - 14.07.1960 short service commission
Hall, Kenneth Arthur	? -	Cadet ? [1929154] 2nd Lt. 26.12.1943 [303535] WS/Lt. 26.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	26.12.1943 commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] 1944 - (09.1944) Troop Officer, 3 Troop, 4th Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [evacuated])
Halliday, Keith Creighton	? - 23.09.1944 (KIA) [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 2.B.8]	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 19.04.1942 [243505] WS/Lt. 19.10.1942	19.04.1942 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] (09.1944) Troop Leader, B Troop, 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [killed in action])
Halls, Jack Reginald Married Patricia Diana Lawrence; one son, one daughter.	? Norfolk -	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 26.10.1940 [155128] WS/Lt. 25.04.1941 T/Capt. 25.04.1941 WS/Capt. 14.03.1944 T/Maj. 14.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	26.10.1940 commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] (09.1944) Officer-in-Charge Transport, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)
Halsall, Bernard Holt From Southport.	? - 03.2005 still alive	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 22.06.1940 [134176] WS/Lt. 22.12.1941 T/Capt. 31.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946) MC 21.10.1943 Sicily 07.43	22.06.1940 commissioned into The King's Regiment [emergency commission] 24.08.1942 transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 7 Flight (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
Halstead, Richard Angus From Durham.	? -	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 06.09.1941 [203705] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946) Hon. Lt. < 04.1946 MC 20.04.1944 Italy	06.09.1941 commissioned into The Suffolk Regiment  [emergency commission] 09.03.1943 transferred to the Parachute Regiment (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 3 Platoon (R Company), 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
Hanmer, Nicholas Brian "Nick"	17.07.1921 - 09.2003 Ipswich, Suffolk	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 01.03.1941 [176197] WS/Lt. 01.09.1942 T/Capt. 03.09.1945 Capt. 10.07.1948 (reld 06.12.1949) MBE 31.12.1960 New Year 61: Somaliland	01.03.1941 commissioned into The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission] 26.03.1943 transferred to the Parachute Regiment (09.1943) Platoon Commander, B Company, 10th Parachute Battalion (Italy) (09.1944) Adjutant, 10th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem) Senior Administrative Officer in the former Somaliland Protectorate (1960).
Hannah, Alexander "Chad"	? -	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 23.08.1941 [203025] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (retd 28.08.1945; disability) Hon. Lt. 28.08.1945	23.08.1941 commissioned into The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission] (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 1 Platoon, Anti-Tank Group (Support Company), 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
Happer, William Richard Armour	05.06.1914 - 06.1994 Teignbridge, Devon	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 20.09.1941 [210484] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 Lt. TA 08.02.1949, seniority 01.10.1942 (reld 22.08.1951) Hon. Lt. 22.08.1951	20.09.1941 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] 11.05.1944 transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment (09.1944) Section Commander, F Squadron (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem) 08.02.1949 - 22.08.1951 The Parachute Regiment - Territorial Army
Hardie, Norman George	? - 20.09.1944 (KIA) [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 3.B.19]	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 21.09.1940 [149735] WS/Lt. 21.03.1942 T/Capt. 12.02.1943	21.09.1940 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] 27.07.1942 transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 1 Flight (A Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed in action])
Harding, Leslie Owen	21.12.1913 - 11.1984 Crawley, West Sussex	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 15.08.1942 [242557] WS/Lt. 15.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946) Hon. Lt. < 04.1946	15.08.1942 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] (09.1944) Officer Commanding, G Troop, 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA [supporting 10th Parachute Battalion] (Arnhem [POW])
Hardman, Lawrence Kent "Laurie"	13.02.1913 - 02.1988 Hastings and Rother, East Sussex	Cadet Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 08.03.1930 [45029] Lt. 08.03.1933 Capt. 12.03.1935 T/Maj. 15.05.1941 WS/Maj. 24.08.1945 T/Lt.Col. 24.08.1945 Hon. Lt.Col. ? MID 10.05.1945 NW Europe (Arnhem) TD 14.06.1945 ?	late Cadet Corporal, Leys School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps 08.03.1930 commissioned into the Royal Artillery - Territorial Army 08.03.1930 - (08.1939) 225th Field Battery, 57th (Home Counties) Field Regiment (Brighton) 24.08.1939 mobilized (04.1941) Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, South Eastern Command (09.1944) Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem) ? - 22.04.1961 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Hardman-Mountford, John Ernest till 01.07.1940: J.E. Mountford Son of Ernest and Louisa Mountford. Married (21.03.1940) Peggy Hardman; one son, one daughter (twins).	26.11.1917 Chelmsford, Essex - 22.12.1971 in a road traffic accident	2nd Lt. 08.12.1937 [73655] WS/Lt. 08.12.1940 Lt. 09.11.1946, seniority 03.03.1941 [permanent commission] A/Capt. 05.06.1941-04.09.1941 T/Capt. 05.09.1941-26.02.1944 Capt. 08.12.1945 Capt. 09.11.1946, seniority 01.07.1946 [permanent commission] A/Maj. 22.09.1947-31.10.1947 T/Maj. 01.11.1947-29.04.1948, 08.05.1952-31.08.1952 Maj. 01.09.1952 (retd 04.04.1968) Lt. TAVR 09.01.1969, seniority 15.09.1941 Lt.Col. TAVR ? MID 29.01.1957 Cyprus 07-12.56 TD 21.04.1950 ?	Education: King Edward's School, Birmingham; London University (LLB); psc 08.12.1937 - (01.1939) commissioned into The South Staffordshire Regiment - Territorial Army (5th Battalion) 24.08.1939 mobilized to 08.11.1946 (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 21 Platoon (D Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded, POW]) 09.11.1946 permanent commission 1946 - 1948 Adjudant, Junior Leaders Depot, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, Shropshire 1950 Staff College, Camberley 1951 - 1953 War Office 1954 - 1956 Company commander (Canal Zone (Egypt) and Cyprus) 1957 - 1959 Brigade Major, Western Command, Cardiff 01.04.1959 - 30.06.1960 specially employed East Africa Land Forces 1960 - 1962 seconded to King's African Rifles: Second-in-Command, 6th King's African Rifles (Mauritius) Commander, B Company, 2/6th King's African Rifles (Dar es Salaam) Second-in-Command, 5th King's African Rifles (Nakuru, Kenya) 1963 - 1965 PS(1), HQ British Army of the Rhine (Rheindahlen, Germany) 1965 - 1968 seconded to Army Legal Service 09.01.1969 - ?