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MacDonald,
George Smith
"Pat"
Elder son of George Smith Macdonald, of Port
Colborne.
Married (23.06.1945, Holy Trinity Church, Welland)
Dora Cardwell, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Erwin Cardwell.
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28.10.1918
Port Colborne, Ont.
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23.08.2008
Port Colborne, Ont.
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-
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22.10.1943
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No. A-11
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
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22.10.1943
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-
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06.03.1944
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No. A-21
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
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06.03.1944
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-
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No. A-34
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
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Canloan
scheme: CDN/177
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, 3 Platoon (A Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [POW])
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02.06.1945
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-
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21.07.1945
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No. 2
District Depot
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21.07.1945
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-
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?
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No.
A-22 Canadian Army Medical Corps Training Centre, as Army Counsellor
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Published: The memoirs of Capt. G. Smith
'Pat' Macdonald (Ret.): (soldier, lawyer, politician) (by Port Colborne
Historical and Marine Museum, 2006).
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MacDonald,
John James
"Scotty"

Married Theresa (predeceased him); four children.
memorial record
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22.04.1919
Sydney, NS, Canada
-
10.03.2008
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Canada
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Prov. 2nd
Lt.
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25.02.1944
[F.54912]
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Lt.
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?
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A/Capt.
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?
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Capt.
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01.10.1945
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MM
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?
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?
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?
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-
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03.03.1944
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Cadet, No.
O-1 Officer Trainig Centre, Brockville Ont.
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25.02.1944
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commissioned
into the Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission]
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03.03.1944
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-
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No.
A-13
Training Centre (Prov. Reinforcements) CIC
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Canloan
scheme: CDN/637
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(09.1944)
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Supernumerary
Officer, B Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded,
POW])
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09.1944
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-
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04.04.1945
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POW
in German captivity (at Oflag IX A/H at Spangenberg)
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(10.1945)
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60
CI (B) Training Centre
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MacDonnell,
Charles James
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15.03.1921
-
04.1990
Ynys Mon district, Gwynedd
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Sgt.
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? [5189367]
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2nd Lt.
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07.09.1943 [294983]
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WS/Lt.
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07.03.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
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served in
the ranks, Reconnaissance Corps
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07.09.1943
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commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, No. 1 Medium Machine Gun Platoon (Support
Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
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09.1944
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-
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(04?).1945
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POW in
German captivity (# 2173), Oflag IX-A/Z, Rothenburg an der Fulda, Hessen
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Macduff-Duncan,
Colin Edmund

Married (28.06.1950, St George's Church, Nenyuki,
Kenya) Mary Katherine Hickson (born 1928), daughter of Lt.Col. Lionel Henry
Hickson, DSO, and Sibyl Hattie Hermione Graham; two sons.
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25.01.1918
Corstorphine district, Edinburgh City,
Scotland
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09.2000
New Forest district, Hampshire
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Cadet
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?
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2nd Lt.
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26.01.1939
[85601]
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Lt.
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01.01.1941
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A/Capt.
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10.09.1941-09.12.1941
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T/Capt.
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10.12.1941-27.10.1942,
04.01.1943-03.12.1943,
17.09.1944-...
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WS/Capt.
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01.12.1945
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Capt.
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01.07.1946
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T/Maj.
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01.12.1945
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Maj.
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26.01.1952
(retd 09.05.1954)
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Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
26.01.1939
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commissioned
into The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
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1944?
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7th
Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
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(09.1944)
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Junior
Liaison Officer 1st Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [evacuated])
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(1950)
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attached,
3rd Battalion The King's African Rifles (Nanyuki, Kenya)
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09.05.1954
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-
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25.01.1968
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Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
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MacFadden,
John Terence Moore

Son of Dr. Arthur William James MacFadden,
C.B., M.B., and Alice B. MacFadden.
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1916
?
-
04.10.1944
(as a POW) [age 28]
[Hanover War Cemetery, 15.F.6]
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Cadet
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?
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2nd Lt.
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19.11.1939 [105619]
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WS/Lt.
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19.05.1941
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19.11.1939
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commissioned
into The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
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24.09.1943
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transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, 9 Platoon (T Company), 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [POW, died])
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Macfarlane,
Philip
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?
-
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Cadet
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?
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2nd Lt.
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20.06.1942 [235819]
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WS/Lt.
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20.12.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
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20.06.1942
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commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, B Troop,
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, RA [attached 2nd Parachute Battalion]
(Arnhem [POW])
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MacInnes,
William
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?
-
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BSM
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? [780157]
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2nd Lt.
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16.09.1943 [301766]
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WS/Lt.
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16.03.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
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Hon. Capt.
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?
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2nd Clasp to the Efficiency Medal (Territorial),
12.08.1949.
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served
in the ranks
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16.09.1943
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commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [immediate emergency commission]
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(09.1944)
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Liaison
Officer, 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA (Arnhem [POW])
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Mackay,
Eric MacLachlan

Son of Ian MacLachlan Mackay and Violet Aimée
ScottSmith. Married 1st (1954) Ruth Thérèse Roth (died 1985); one son. Married
2nd (1994) Margaret Hadcock (née Shepherd).
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26.12.1921
India
-
16.11.1995
Yeovil, Somerset
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Cadet
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?
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2nd Lt.
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12.10.1941
[210907]
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WS/Lt.
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01.10.1942
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Lt.
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19.01.1946,
seniority 26.06.1944
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A/Capt.
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20.05.1943-19.08.1943
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T/Capt.
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20.08.1943-06.04.1946
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WS/Capt.
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07.04.1946
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Capt.
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26.12.1948
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A/Maj.
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20.09.1944-22.11.1944,
11.03.1946-06.04.1946
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T/Maj.
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07.04.1946-25.12.1955
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Maj.
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26.12.1955
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T/Lt.Col.
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18.02.1963-05.11.1963
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Lt.Col.
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06.11.1963
[supernumerary 06.11.1966]
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Col.
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30.06.1968
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Brig.
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31.12.1969,
seniority 30.06.1969
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A/Maj.Gen.
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08.09.1973
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Maj.Gen.
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02.11.1973,
seniority 02.05.1973 (retd 29.01.1977)
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CBE
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01.01.1972
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New
Year 72
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MBE
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20.09.1945
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Arnhem
09.44
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DSC(US)
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14.11.1947
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Arnhem
09.44
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PPM
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1965
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=
Pingat
Peringatan Malaysia
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CEng 1976; MICE 1976
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Education: Fettes College, Edinburgh; Staff College
(1951); jssc (1960)
1940
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served in
the ranks of The Royal Scots Fusiliers for 270 days
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12.10.1941
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commissioned
into the Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 18.01.1946]
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1941
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-
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1945
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1st
Parachute Squadron RE (North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Arnhem, Norway):
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(09.1944)
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Officer
Commanding, A Troop, 1st Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [POW, escaped])
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1945
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-
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1946
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Officer
Commanding, Field Company, 20th Indian Division (French Indo-China)
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1946
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Second-in-Command,
23rd Indian Divisional Engineerrs (Java)
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1947
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Officer
Commanding, 35th Indian Field Company (Malaya)
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1948
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Supplementary
Engineering Course, SME
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01.09.1949
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-
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12.05.1950
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Staff
Officer RE 2nd grade (Intelligence), Army Incr., Joint Intelligence Bureau
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11.01.1952
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-
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17.01.1954
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GSO
2 (Organization and Equipment), HQ, Allied Land Forces Central Europe
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05.05.1954
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-
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05.03.1956
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Senior
Instructor (GSO2 Tactics), SME
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1956
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-
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1958
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Officer
Commanding, 33rd Field Squadron RE (Cyprus, Suez)
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03.03.1958
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-
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04.06.1960
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GSO
2 (Weapons), War Office
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1961
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-
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1962
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Second-in-Command,
2nd Divisional Engineers
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18.02.1963
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-
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15.09.1963
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specially
employed, Federation of Malaya
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04.04.1963
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-
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10.08.1965
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Chief
Engineer, Malaysian Army (Borneo/Malaya)
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1966
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-
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1967
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GSO
1 (Coordination), Master-General of
the Ordnance
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1968
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-
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1969
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Colonel
General Staff, RSME
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1970
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-
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1971
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Chief
Engineer (Brig.), Army Strategic Command
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1972
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Chief
Engineer (Brig.), UK Land Forces
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08.09.1973
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-
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01.11.1976
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Chief
Engineer, British Army of the Rhine
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Managing Director: Cementation Sico Oman Ltd,
1977; Galadari Cementation Pte Ltd, Dubai, 1978-83; Forum Develt Pte Ltd,
Singapore, 1983-85; Regional Director Iraq, Engineering Services International, 1981-82;
Chairman, Amorshield Security Products, 1986-90.
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MacKenzie,
Alexander
"Sandy"
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?
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Cadet
|
?
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2nd Lt.
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11.09.1943 [292965]
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WS/Lt.
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11.03.1944 (reld
11.01.1950)
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Hon. Lt.
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11.01.1950
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11.09.1943
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commissioned
into The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
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(09.1944)
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Intelligence
Officer, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
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Mackenzie,
Charles Baillie
Sons of Theodore Charles Mackenzie.
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29.12.1909
-
1990
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Cadet
|
?
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2nd
Lt.
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30.01.1930 [44938]
|
Lt.
|
30.01.1933
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Capt.
|
01.08.1938
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A/Maj.
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20.09.1940-19.12.1940
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T/Maj.
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20.12.1940-05.11.1942
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WS/Maj.
|
06.11.1942
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Maj.
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01.07.1946
|
Lt.Col. (Brev.)
|
01.07.1951
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
06.08.1942-05.11.1942
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T/Lt.Col.
|
06.11.1942-09.08.1952
|
Lt.Col.
|
10.08.1952
|
Emp. List 1
|
01.10.1953
|
T/Col.
|
02.10.1952-01.06.1954
|
Col.
|
02.06.1954
|
T/Brig.
|
03.09.1954
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Brig.
|
02.06.1958 (retd
31.05.1959)
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DSO
|
09.11.1944
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
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OBE
|
02.01.1950
|
New
Year 50
|
Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp
|
Education: Royal Military College; Joint Services Staff College
30.01.1930
|
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commissioned into The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
|
05.05.1933
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-
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01.04.1935
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employed with King's
African Rifles
|
01.06.1940
|
-
|
07.06.1940
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), 1st Army
|
08.06.1940
|
-
|
14.09.1940
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), ... Corps HQ
|
20.09.1940
|
-
|
13.10.1941
|
Brigade
Major, ...
|
15.10.1941
|
-
|
18.07.1942
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ HF
|
1942
|
-
|
1943
|
Commanding
Officer, 5th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion (7th Camerons)
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10.12.1943
|
-
|
19.08.1944
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General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 21st Army Group
|
20.08.1944
|
-
|
10.10.1945
|
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Operations), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem
[evacuated];
Norway)
|
18.10.1945
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-
|
24.08.1947
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General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
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11.04.1948
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-
|
31.03.1950
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General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), BMM Greece
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01.04.1950
|
-
|
13.10.1950
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General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Training)
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02.10.1952
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-
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21.07.1954
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Assistant
Adjutant General (Col.), War Office
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03.09.1954
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-
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(02.1957)
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Commander,
154th (Highland) Infantry Brigade, Scottish Command
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Secretary, Territorial & Auxiliary Forces
Association, Glasgow, Scotland
Published: It was like this! (1954)
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Mackenzie,
P
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?
-
2004/05
|
Initials unclear.
|
?
|
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commissioned
into ? [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
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Officer
Commanding, 7 Platoon (B Company), 10th
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
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Mackey,
Patrick Wallace Alexander
"Pat"

Son of Frank Alexander Mackey and Ethel Finlay
Mackey, of Farnham, Surrey.
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1920
?
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Ede General Cemetery H.21]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.04.1940 [129461]
|
WS/Lt.
|
20.10.1941
|
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20.04.1940
|
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commissioned
into The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) [emergency commission]
|
06.08.1942
|
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transferred
to the Highland Light Infantry
|
01.02.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1943)
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Officer
Commanding, 4 Platoon (A Company), 10th Parachute Battalion (Italy; Arnhem [killed in
action])
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MacLaine
[25th of Lochbuie],
Gillean Robert

Son of Kenneth Douglas Lorne MacLaine, 24th of
Lochbuie, and Olive Marguerite Stewart- Richardson. Married Noreen Olive
Beadon; one son.
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03.01.1921
-
05.05.1970
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.08.1942
[240684]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.02.1943 (reld
25.11.1953)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
25.11.1953
|
|
01.08.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission]
|
01.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, F Squadron ( No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|
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transferred
to The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
|
|
Macleod,
Norman
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.09.1940 [148308]
|
WS/Lt.
|
07.03.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
10.07.1943
|
|
24.04.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Battery
Captain "G",
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, RA (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
|
Madden,
David John
"Tiny"

Son of Maj John Grevile Madden, DSO, and of
Annie Madden, of Alverstoke, Hampshire. His brother, Lt. Keith Mansfield
Madden, MC, also died on service.
|
01.10.1919
-
21.09.1944
Arnhem
(KIA) [age 25]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 2.B.14]
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.07.1939 [94285]
|
Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
WS/Capt.
|
13.05.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
13.05.1943
|
|
Education: RMA Woolwich (The Benson Memorial Prize,
1939)
01.07.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
(09.1944)
|
-
|
21.09.1944
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Air), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [killed in
action])
|
|
Maguire,
Hugh Pownall
Son of William Robert Maguire (?).
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(03?).1912
Crosserlough, Lancashire
-
1997
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
25.05.1940
[130962]
|
WS/Capt.
|
12.06.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/Maj.
|
12.06.1943
|
Hon. Maj.
|
< 04.1946
|
Lt.
|
07.02.1952
|
Capt.
|
23.05.1952 (reld
07.02.1960)
|
|
25.05.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Intelligence), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)
|
|
|
|
served
Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army
|
07.02.1952
|
-
|
07.02.1957
|
served
Royal Ulster Rifles - Regular Army [short service commision]
|
07.02.1957
|
-
|
07.02.1960
|
served
Royal Ulster Rifles - Regular Army Reserve of Officers [short service
commision]
|
|
Maker,
A B
|
?
-
|
Lt. QM
|
03.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned
into the ? [emergency commission]
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Quartermaster,
No. 2 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|
Mallett,
William John
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
24.10.1942
[249340]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.04.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
24.10.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
No. 1
Forward Observation Unit RA [attached 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron]
(Arnhem [POW])
|
|
Maltby,
Ralph Alexander

Son of Francis Brough Maltby and Enid Rosamond
Maltby; husband of Jean Felicity Maltby (nee Beath), of Oxford.
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03.10.1917
-
17.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 3.C.18]
|
2nd Lt.
|
26.08.1937
[73034]
|
WS/Lt.
|
26.08.1940
|
T/Capt.
|
16.12.1941
|
|
MID
|
09.07.1942
|
air
operations RAF
|
Order of the Patriotic War (USSR), 11.04.1944
|
26.08.1937
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
(01.1939)
|
|
|
2nd
Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lichfield)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, No. 2 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Manley,
Bernard Vincent
From Bexleyheath, Kent.
|
26.09.1910
Plumstead, London
-
04.08.2005
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
19.12.1942
[256220]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.06.1943
|
Lt.
|
24.05.1947,
seniority 26.09.1935
|
A/Capt.
|
02.05.1944-01.08.1944
|
T/Capt.
|
02.08.1944-09.10.1945
|
WS/Capt.
|
?
|
Capt.
|
24.05.1947,
seniority 26.09.1941
|
A/Maj.
|
10.07.1945-09.10.1945
|
T/Maj.
|
10.10.1945-25.09.1948.
|
Maj.
|
26.09.1948 (retd
17.05.1965)
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks for 2 years 169 days
|
19.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Administrative Branch [emergency
commission to 23.05.1947]
|
(09.1944)
|
-
|
20.09.1944
|
Second-in-Command,
Divisional Ordnance Field Park Compmany, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [POW])
|
24.05.1947
|
|
|
permanent
commission
|
17.05.1965
|
-
|
05.07.1966
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Manning,
Geoffrey
"Geoff"

From Leicester.
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.04.1943
[270542]
|
WS/Lt.
|
20.10.1943
(reld > 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
26.05.1945
|
|
20.04.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Wireless Communication Section, 1st Airborne Divisional Workshops
REME (Arnhem)
|
|
Mansfield,
Peter Geoffrey Alan
|
16.03.1919
-
03.1990
Bournemouth, Hampshire
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.06.1940
[134320]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
01.04.1941 &
18.07.1945
|
|
22.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
|
07.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command, R Company, 1st Parachute Battalion
(Arnhem)
|
|
Markwick,
Eric John

Son of James Markwick, and May Catherine Liversage, of
Wallasey, Cheshire.
Husband of Dorothy Markwick, of Wallasey.
|
(03?).1918
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
22.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 3.C.4]
|
Cadet
|
?
[2929995]
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.09.1943
[293609]
|
WS/Lt.
|
1944?
|
|
25.09.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
|
22.10.1943
|
|
|
transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment-
Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
Marquand,
Wilfred James
"Bill"
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
15.03.1941
[177205]
|
WS/Lt.
|
15.09.1942 (retd
26.10.1946;
disability)
|
T/Capt.
|
25.11.1943
|
Hon. Capt.
|
26.10.1946
|
|
19.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Signals
Officer, 1st Parachute Brigade [J Section (No. 2 Company), 1st Airborne
Divisional Signals] (Arnhem)
|
|
Marrable,
Arthur Trevor

From Croydon.
|
12.10.1909
Yezd, Persia
-
22.02.1954
Aldershot, Hants.
|
T/Lt.
|
02.02.1936
[67301]
|
Lt.
|
23.04.1936,
seniority 27.10.1935
|
Capt.
|
23.04.1937,
seniority 27.10.1936
[short service commission]
|
Capt.
|
23.04.1941,
seniority 27.10.1936
[permanent commission]
|
A/Maj.
|
07.07..1943-06.10.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
07.10.1943-21.08.1944
|
WS/Maj.
|
22.08.1944
|
Maj.
|
27.10.1945
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
22.05.1944-21.08.1944
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
22.08.1944-14.06.1945,
20.06.1945-15.02.1950
|
Lt.Col.
|
16.02.1950
|
A/Col.
|
30.07.1947
|
T/Col.
|
01.11.1947-04.11.1947
|
|
DSO
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Medal & Clasp; Palestine
1936-39 Medal & Clasp; Palestine 1947-48 Clasp; 1939-1945 Star; France
& Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal; Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
Medal 1953
MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond (1934)
|
02.02.1936
|
-
|
22.04.1936
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Medical Corps [temporary commission]
|
23.04.1936
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
|
1936
|
-
|
1940
|
served
Egypt & Palestine (1936), India (1937-1940)
|
23.04.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Medical Corps [permanent commission]
|
|
|
|
served
North Africa (1943)
|
(04.1944)
|
|
|
RAMC
Training Establishment
|
1944
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Commanding Officer,
181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Arnhem [POW])
|
1945
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Norway)
|
1945
|
-
|
1946
|
Chief
Instructor, Depot & Training Establishment RAMC
|
1947
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 224th Parachute Field Ambulance (Middle East Land Forces [MELF])
|
1947
|
|
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
|
1947
|
-
|
1948
|
Commanding
Officer, 16th Parachute Field Ambulance (MELF)
|
1948
|
-
|
1949
|
Commanding
Officer, 23rd Parachute Field Ambulance (British Army of the Rhine)
|
1950
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 35th Field Ambulance (MELF)
|
1950
|
-
|
1951
|
Commanding
Officer, British Military Hospital Tripoli (MELF)
|
1951
|
-
|
1953
|
ADMS
HQ Cyprus District (MELF) [& CO BMH Cyprus, 1952-1953]
|
1953
|
-
|
1954
|
Senior
Medical Officer, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Hospital
|
|
Marshall,
George Christopher
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
? [854746]
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.04.1944 [314634]
|
WS/Lt.
|
05.10.1944
|
|
05.04.1944
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Signals
Officer, HQ RA, 1st Airborne Division [F Section (No. 2 Company), 1st Airborne Divisional
Signals] (Arnhem [evacuated])
|
|
Marshall,
John Wilson
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
19.09.1942 [245234]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.03.1943 (retd
12.03.1946;
disability)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
12.03.1946
|
|
MID
|
24.08.1944
|
Italy
09-11.43
|
|
19.09.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 10 Section (D Troop), 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron (Arnhem)
|
|
Martin,
Victor David Randall
"Morph"
|
19.03.1919
-
10.2001
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
|
Lt.
|
27.02.1943 [260584]
|
WS/Capt.
|
27.02.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
MID
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
Education: MB
27.02.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Regimental Medical
Officer, 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA (Arnhem [POW])
|
|
Mason,
Peter Brown
|
1921
Belgian Congo
-
|
Prov. 2nd Lt.
|
11.12.1943
[B.150251]
|
Lt.
|
22.01.1944
|
|
Education: elementary education in New Jersey &
Toronto; Toronto Oakwood Collegiate Institute; University of Toronto (BASc,
chemical engineering)
1943
|
|
|
joined
Canadian Army
|
|
-
|
11.12.1943
|
cadet, No.
O1 Officer Training Centre (CIC)
|
11.12.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission] (Officer Training
Centre, Brockville, Ont.)
|
17.12.1943
|
-
|
07.03.1944
|
No. A-10
Canadian Infantry Training Centre, Camp Borden, Ont.
|
07.03.1944
|
-
|
|
No. A-34
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
|
|
|
|
Canloan
scheme: CDN/176
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 16 Platoon (D Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
17.07.1945
|
-
|
07.09.1945
|
No. 2
District Depot (from Canadian Army Overseas) (struck off strength)
|
Joined B.F. Goodrich Canada Ltd. in 1947, and
climbed up from compounder to President and Chief Executive Officer, since
01.09.1969.
|
Matthews,
Harold Theodore Bernhardt
|
08.10.1918
[South Africa?]
-
|
Sgt.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.02.1941 [270443]
|
WS/Lt.
|
? (reld 26.08.1945)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
26.08.1945
|
|
01.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
General List, Infantry, African Colonial Forces Section
|
10.04.1943
|
|
|
transferred, Parachute Regiment, African Colonial Forces Section
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Liaison
Officer 156th Parachute Battalion with 4th Parachute Brigade (Arnhem [POW in
German captivity # 91220, Oflag 79, Braunschweig, Untersachsen)
|
|
Mawson,
Stuart Radcliffe
Son of late Alec Robert Mawson, Chief Officer,
Parks Dept, LCC, and Ena (née Grossmith), daughter
of George Grossmith Jr, Actor Manager. Married (1948) June Irene, daughter of
George Percival; two sons, two daughters.
|
04.03.1918
London
-
20.02.2008
|
Lt.
|
14.08.1943 [291107]
|
WS/Capt.
|
14.08.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
MRCS, LRCP 1943; MB, BChir Cantab 1946; FRCS 1947;
DLO 1948
|
Education: Canford School; Trinity College,
Cambridge; St Thomas's Hospital, London. BA Cantab 1940, MA 1976.
House
Surgeon, St. Thomas's Hospital, 1943.
14.08.1943
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
|
1943
|
-
|
09.1944
|
Regimental
Medical Officer, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [POW in German captivity #
1676, Stalag IV-G, Oschatz, Sachsen])
|
Chief Assistant, ENT Department, St Thomas's Hospital, 1950;
Consultant ENT Surgeon: King's College Hospital, 1951; Belgrave Hospital for Children,
1951; Consultant Surgeon, Ear Nose and Throat Department, King's College
Hospital, London, 1951-1979, Head of Department, 1973-1979, Hon. Consultant,
1979. Recognized Teacher of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University of London, 1958. Chm.,
KCH Med. Cttee and Dist Management Team, 1977-1979. FRSocMed (Pres. Section of
Otology, 1974-1975); Liveryman, Apothecaries' Soc.; former Mem. Council, Brit.
Assoc. of Otolaryngologists.
Published:
Diseases of the Ear (1963, 5th edn 1988); (jtly) Essentials of
Otolaryngology (1967); (contrib.) ScottBrown's Diseases of the Ear,
Nose and Throat (4th edn 1979); (contrib.) Modern Trends in Diseases of
the Ear, Nose and Throat (1972); Arnhem
Doctor, 1981; numerous papers in scientific journals
|
McCardie,
William Derek Hessing

Son of ... McCardie, and ... Collins.
|
15.08.1912
King's Norton district, Staffordshire /
Warwickshire / Worcestershire
-
03.04.1977
Cheltenham district
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.01.1934 [62214]
|
Lt.
|
27.01.1937
|
T/Capt.
|
10.04.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
1942?
|
WS/Maj.
|
06.07.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
06.07.1943
|
Lt.Col.
|
01.05.1947
(removed 06.06.1957; on conviction by the Civil Power)
|
A/Col.
|
12.06.1945
|
|
OBE
|
???
|
???
|
|
TD
|
10.10.1947
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
late
Cadet Corporal, Repton School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training
Corps
|
27.01.1934
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
|
27.01.1934
|
-
|
28.02.1939
|
48th
(South Midland) Divisional RASC
|
28.02.1939
|
|
|
transfrerred
to The South Staffordshire Regiment - Territorial Army (6th
Battalion TA)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
(08.1942)
|
-
|
08.04.1943
|
Officer
Commanding, D Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment
|
08.04.1943
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicly; Arnhem [wounded,
POW])
|
01.05.1947
|
-
|
late
1949
|
Commanding
Officer, 5th Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment
|
01.05.1950
|
-
|
06.06.1957
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers
|
Company director, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Also
served with 17 Para.
|
McCartney,
John Stewart Granville
|
17.06.1919
-
01.1995
Southampton, Hampshire
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.08.1940 [143723]
|
WS/Lt.
|
15.02.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
26.12.1944
|
|
17.08.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding 13 Platoon (B Company), 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Sicily)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 2 Medium Machine Gun Platoon (Support Company), 1st Battalion The Border Regiment
(Arnhem [evacuated])
|
|
McCombe,
David W
Married (01.1943?) Doris Roberts.
article
"Paratrooping pioneer"
|
1906
?
County of Dumbarton
-
1972
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
05.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
10.1941 (reld
03.05.1946)
|
local A/Maj.
|
08.1943-08.1943
(for one week)
|
|
Accountant. Came to South Africa for the Empire
Exhibition (1936), and remained there. Working for the Board of Executors Trust,
he became an estate agent.
1939
|
|
|
joined the
Union Defence Force (in a civilian capacity)
|
10.06.1940
|
|
|
joined the
South African Air Force (Johannesburg)
|
07.1940
|
-
|
02.1941
|
commissioned,
Radio Signals Company (Pretoria)
|
02.1941
|
-
|
(03/04?).1941
|
SAAF Signal
Training School (Tempe, Bloemfontein)
|
(03/04?).1941
|
-
|
?
|
Air Force
Station, Kimberley
|
26.07.1942
|
-
|
26.01.1943
|
detached
for Special Duties to the United Kingdom Forces
[to investigate the viability of
establishing an airborne force in South Africa, resulting in his 'Report on
British Airborne Troops with Special Reference to Training and Equipment of
Parachute Troops and Air Landing Troops', dated 15.12.1942; he had embarked on
the SS Stratheard 26.07.1942; in the meantime qualified as a parachutist at
the RAF Central Landing Establishment in Ringway, Manchester & received
glider training]
|
02.1943
|
-
|
04.1944
|
staff
duties (explored the possibility to train South African paratroopers in the
Middle East 08.1943; emplaned to Cairo 04.04.1944)
|
14.04.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to the General Service Corps (Volunteer), and at the same time seconded to the
British Army for duty with Headquarters, Airborne Forces
|
22.06.1944
|
-
|
26.09.1944
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3) (Air), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [wounded
& evacuated])
|
30.09.1944
|
-
|
18.11.1944
|
hospitalized
|
20.12.1944
|
|
|
posted back
to the MAF Depot in Voortrekkerhoogte (arrived back in Pretoria 03.01.1945 and
spent the rest of his time until demobilisation in 1946 in and out of
hospitals)
|
Returned to the Board of Executors (for the last
period of his life in Rhodesia).
|
McCooke,
John Brewster
|
25.05.1915
-
01.1992
Stourbridge, West Midlands
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
03.08.1940
[140490]
|
WS/Lt.
|
03.02.1942
(reld < 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
18.12.1942
|
|
03.08.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
A Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem [POW])
|
|
McCourt,
James Frederick
"Freddie"

Married Carolyn Pickel; two daughters, one son.
|
?
-
18.11.2004
Ste. Anne's Veterans Hospital, Montreal,
Que.
|
|
|
-
|
01.03.1944
|
RRC
|
01.03.1944
|
-
|
|
No. A-34
Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC
|
|
|
|
Canloan
scheme: CDN/465
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
A Company,
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [POW])
|
|
-
|
05.09.1945
|
No. 4
District Depot (struck off strength and placed on Reserve Active Officers,
General List)
|
|
McDermont,
Andrew Johnston
"Jack"

|
?
-
22.09.1944
(KIA)
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 6.D.7]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.03.1943 [268968]
|
WS/Lt.
|
27.09.1943
|
|
30.03.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [emergency commission]
|
02.04.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 3 Platoon (A Company), 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in
action])
|
|
McGowan,
the Reverend Daniel
"Dan"

From Friern Barnet.
|
?
-
08.07.1981
|
Capt.
|
17.08.1943 [287572]
=
Chaplain to the Forces 4th cl.
|
|
MC
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
17.08.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission] -
Roman Catholic
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Chaplain,
16th Parachute Field Ambulance (Arnhem [POW till 04.1945])
|
Parish of Brighouse. Left the clergy, 10.1945.
Married and became a parole officer. Struck by polio & rheumatism.
|
McKenna,
James Lloyd
"Jim"

Son of Cornelius and Elizabeth McKenna, of
Grand Pabos, Gaspe County, Province of Quebec, Canada.
|
1918
?
-
22.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 6.A.9]
|
|
|
|
|
Canloan
CDN/639
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
Mortar Platoon (Support Company), 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in
action])
|
|
McLaren,
Robert Leonard

Son of Pte. Peter Melvin McLaren, The
Bedfordshire Regt. (died of wounds in Belgium, 24th October, 1917), and of
Jessie Margaret McLaren; husband of Violet McLaren, of Eastwood, Essex.
|
1914
?
-
18.09.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Groesbeek Memorial, panel 1]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.12.1941
[220547]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
|
|
|
|
formerly of
the Royal Army Medical Corps
|
20.12.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, F Troop, 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA (Arnhem [killed in
action])
[glider did not arrive]
|
|
McLean,
Donald
|
11.01.1925
??
-
09.01.2001
[12.2000 ??]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
Lt.
|
01.03.1941
[176446]
|
WS/Capt.
|
03.10.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
03.10.1943
(reld > 04.1946)
|
|
01.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]
|
01.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
1943
|
-
|
1945
|
served
2nd Parachute Battalion
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Adjutant,
2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
|
McMillen,
Christopher John Salter
|
24.06.1916
-
05.1989
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
|
2nd Lt. TA
|
24.08.1935
[65826]
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.01.1938
|
Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
08.01.1941-07.04.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
04.10.1940-28.01.1946
|
Capt.
|
29.01.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
01.03.1946-31.05.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
01.06.1946-14.05.1948,
04.06.1949-28.01.1951
|
Maj.
|
29.01.1951 (retd
28.04.1960)
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
26.04.1947-14.07.1947
|
|
BK
|
20.03.1947
|
Arnhem 09.44 *
|
* date of Dutch Royal Decree 31.07.1945
|
24.08.1935
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Essex Regiment - Territorial Army, serving with the 6th Battalion
(West Ham)
|
29.01.1938
|
|
|
commissioned
into the The Essex Regiment - Regular Army
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
No. 1
Forward Observation Unit RA [attached 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ] (Arnhem [evacuated])
|
28.04.1960
|
-
|
24.06.1966
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officer [age limit]
|
|
McNabb
*,
Trevor Victor Patrick

Son of Thomas Benbow McNabb and Gladys Mary
McNabb, of Kensington, London.
|
1922
?
-
27.09.1944
Enschede (DOW sustained while being a POW)
[age 22]
[Enschede Eastern General Cemetery, 195]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
19.09.1942 [245232]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.03.1943
|
|
MID
|
24.08.1944
|
Italy
09-11.43
|
* Army List has (erroneously): McNab
|
19.09.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron (Arnhem [died as POW])
|
|
McNaught,
Eustace Arthur
|
18.02.1922
-
10.1992
Yeovil, Somerset
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.01.1943 [259961]
|
WS/Lt.
|
30.07.1943
(reld 15.02.1948)
|
Hon.
Capt.
|
15.02.1948
|
Lt.
(Hon. Capt.) RARO
|
01.01.1949
|
|
30.01.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Assistant
Command Post Officer, 2nd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem)
[glider
did not arrive]
|
30.11.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to the Special Air Service Regiment
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
01.01.1949
|
-
|
?
|
Intelligence
Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Meakin,
Reginald
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.04.1944
[314146]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1944
|
Capt.
|
03.10.1950 (reld
19.10.1964)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
19.10.1964
|
Efficiency Medal (Territorial), 13.12.1949.
|
01.04.1944
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Glider Pilot Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|
|
|
transferred
to The King's Regiment [short service commission]
|
15.05.1954
|
-
|
05.10.1964
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Military Police
|
|
Meikle,
Ian Ormiston

Son of Ormiston and Phyllis Alma Meikle
(née Adams), of
Hornchurch, Essex.
|
(09?).1920
Romford district, Essex
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 2.B.11]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
21.06.1941
[193470]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
|
Education: BA (Cantab.)
21.06.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Gun
Position Officer, B Troop, 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [killed in
action])
|
|
Menzies,
the Reverend
Alistair Charles Vass

Son of ... Menzies, and ... Vass.
Private
papers at IWM
Interview
at IWM
|
20.09.1916
West Ham district
-
03.2005
New Forest, Hamsphire
|
Capt.
|
30.10.1941
[205975] = Chaplain to the
Forces 4th Cl. (retd 03.01.1946)
|
Maj. TA
|
? = Chaplain to
the Forces 3rd Cl.
|
|
TD
|
15.03.1966
|
?
|
|
Civilian chaplain in London, Stafford and Kent.
30.10.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission] - Church of
England
|
1941
|
-
|
1942
|
Chaplain,
70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion The Royal West Kent Regiment & 265th Field
Park Company, RE (UK)
|
1942
|
-
|
1943
|
Chaplain,
3rd Parachute Battalion (Tunisia)
|
(09.1943)
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Chaplain,
156th Parachute Battalion (Italy, Arnhem [POW till 04.1945])
|
(1945)
|
|
|
Chaplain,
Grenadier Guards
|
?
|
-
|
12.11.1953
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
12.11.1953
|
-
|
01.04.1967
|
served
in the Territorial Army (The Royal Fusiliers 1953, The Green Jackets till
1956, 44th Indian Parachute Brigade till 1959, Royal Army Service Corps till
1967)
|
01.04.1967
|
-
|
?
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
Chaplain & deputy director, Epsom College.
Retired somewhere between 1980 & 1982, living in Christchurch, Devonshire.
|
Millar,
Gerrard Roland
"Dusty"
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.03.1941
[176150]
|
WS/Lt.
|
25.08.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
01.03.1945
|
Lt.
|
01.12.1946,
seniority 25.08.1941
|
Capt.
|
? (reld
01.12.1953; disability)
|
Hon. Maj.
|
01.12.1953
|
|
MID
|
08.11.1945
|
services
in the field
|
|
01.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
19.09.1942
|
|
|
transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment
- Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
01.12.1946
|
-
|
01.12.1953
|
short
service commission
|
|
Miller,
Cecil Ralph
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.05.1936 [67820]
|
Lt.
|
27.05.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
02.12.1939
|
Capt.
TA
|
01.05.1947
17.02.1948 substituted for 11.04.1945
|
A/Maj.
TA
|
23.03.1949
|
Maj.
TA
|
12.04.1953,
seniority 23.03.1949
|
|
TD
|
?
|
?
|
|
TD
|
20.06.1950
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
late
Cadet, Harrow School Contingent, Junior division, Officer Training Corps
|
27.05.1936
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Army (7th Battalion)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
27.01.1943
|
|
|
transferred, Parachute Regiment
- Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3) (Air), 1st Parachute Brigade (Arnhem)
|
?
|
-
|
03.10.1955
|
served
Territorial Army
|
12.04.1950
|
-
|
?
|
seconded
for service on the Staff
|
03.10.1955
|
-
|
?
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Miller,
Joseph Esmond
Son of Col. John Francis Xavier Miller, OBE. Married
(1946)
Kathleen Veronica LochéeBayne; one son.
|
22.09.1914
Darlington
-
03.02.1990
Salisbury, Wiltshire
|
Lt.
|
19.12.1940,
seniority 01.09.1940 [163133]
|
A/Capt.
|
14.03.1941-13.06.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
14.06.1941-18.12.1941
|
Capt.
|
19.12.1941,
seniority 01.09.1941
|
A/Maj.
|
03.11.1943-02.02.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
03.02.1944-31.08.1948
|
Maj.
|
01.09.1948
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
27.01.1951-07.11.1958
|
Lt.Col.
|
08.11.1958
|
Col.
|
01.09.1963
|
Brig.
|
01.03.1971
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
04.12.1973
|
Maj.Gen.
|
01.01.1974 (retd
21.01.1976)
|
|
MC
|
21.10.1943
|
Sicily
07.43
|
1939-1945 Star; Italy Star; France & Germany
Star; DM; WM; GSM & clasp Arabian Peninsula; QEII Coronation Medal (1953)
|
Education: St George's College, Weybridge; London
University (St Bartholomew's Hospital). MRCS, LRCP; MRCGP; MFCM; MBIM.
Qualified, July 1940. Fellow RoySocMed; Mem., BMA; psc (1948)
19.12.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
|
1940
|
-
|
1942
|
RAMC Depot
|
1942
|
-
|
1945
|
Airborne
Forces (N Africa, Sicily, Italy, Holland, Germany):
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Regimental
Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicily)
|
03.11.1943
|
-
|
25.09.1944
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [POW])
|
01.09.1945
|
|
|
from
short service commission
|
1945
|
-
|
1947
|
RAMC
Depot
|
18.02.1949
|
-
|
04.08.1950
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS),
HQ Middle East Land Forces (Egypt)
|
16.10.1950
|
-
|
23.11.1950
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS),
... Infantry Division (Middle East)
|
1950
|
-
|
1954
|
Commanding
Officer, 35 Field Ambulance (Tripoli & Egypt)
|
1954
|
-
|
1957
|
Senior
Medical Officer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
|
1957
|
-
|
1959
|
Commanding
Officer, 4 Field Ambulance (Germany)
|
1959
|
-
|
1961
|
Commanding
Officer, 10 Brigade Group Medical Company (Aden)
|
17.03.1961
|
-
|
01.10.1961
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services (ADMS),
HQ Middle East Command (Aden)
|
01.12.1961
|
-
|
1965
|
Officer-in-Charge
& Chief Instructor, Field Training Centre & HQ AER RAMC
|
1965
|
-
|
1968
|
Commanding
Officer, British Military Hospital Hong Kong
|
1968
|
-
|
1969
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services (ADMS),
4th Division (Germany)
|
1969
|
-
|
1971
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services (DDMS),
HQ British Army of the Rhine
|
1971
|
-
|
1972
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services (DDMS),
HQ Scotland (Army)
|
1972
|
-
|
1973
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services (DDMS),
HQ UK Land Forces
|
04.12.1973
|
-
|
24.12.1975
|
Director
of Medical Services (DMS),
HQ UK Land Forces
|
Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, 1973-21.01.1976. OStJ 1964, CStJ 1975.
|
Miller,
Terence George

Only son of late George Frederick Miller,
Cambridge, and late Marion Johnston, Port William, Wigtownshire.
Married (1944) Inga Catriona, 3rd daughter of Austin Priestman, MD,
Folkestone, Kent; one son, three daughters.
|
16.01.1918
-
1997 still alive
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.06.1940
[134055]
|
WS/Lt.
|
15.12.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
06.06.1943-...,
12.10.1945-...
|
WS/Capt.
|
?
|
Capt. TA
|
03.02.1949,
seniority 24.04.1946
|
A/Maj. TA
|
06.05.1950
|
Maj. TA
|
16.01.1952,
seniority 06.05.1950
|
Lt.Col. AERO
|
26.07.1965,
seniority 02.07.1964
|
|
TD
|
17.03.1961
|
?
|
|
Education: Perse (foundn schol.); Jesus College,
Cambridge (schol.; Nat. Sci. Tripos, pt 1 cl. 1, pt 2 cl. 1); MA (Cantab)
Wiltshire Prizeman, 1939.
15.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
10.10.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 3 Flight (B Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
03.02.1949
|
-
|
12.05.1953
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers (Unattached List) - Territorial Army
|
13.05.1953
|
-
|
31.03.1967
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
|
01.04.1967
|
-
|
14.10.1967
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve (Category
II)
|
15.10.1967
|
|
|
transferred
to the Corps of Royal Engineers - Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)
|
Harkness Scholar, 1948; Research
Fellow, Jesus College, 1949-1954.
University Demonstrator, 1948; Lecturer in Geology, University of
Keele, 1953; Senior Lecturer, 1963, Professor of Geography, University of
Reading, 1965-1967; Principal, University College of Rhodesia, 1967-1969; Visiting
Professor, Reading University, 1969-1971. Director,
Polytechnic of North London, 1971-1980.
Published: Geology (1950); Geology and Scenery in Britain (1953);
scientific papers in various journals.
|
Miller,
Thomas Visger
|
26.01.1921
-
11.1997
Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London
|
Cadet L/Cpl.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.04.1939
[89654]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
Lt.
|
31.08.1946,
seniority 26.07.1943
|
Capt.
|
26.01.1948 (retd
25.07.1952)
|
|
22.04.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (late Cadet Lance-Corporal,
Charterhouse School Contingent, OTC)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
No. 1
Forward Observation Unit RA [attached 4th Parachute Brigade HQ] (Arnhem [POW])
|
31.08.1946
|
-
|
25.07.1952
|
permanent
[short service?] commission
|
|
Mills,
Gordon Thomas

Son of Trevor Wallace Mills, and Rose Lena Pitt
Mills; husband of Sybil Mills, of Whitchurch, Glamorgan.
|
1917 ?
-
28.09.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[Rhenen General Cemetery, 27.A.1]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.11.1941 [220201]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
MID
|
11.04.1946
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
27.11.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regimet of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
25.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 11 Flight (E Squadron, No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Mills,
Kenneth Stanley

Son of Stanley Charles and Hilda Mary Mills, of
Bristol.
|
1923 ?
-
23.09.1944
(KIA) [age 21]
[Enschede Eastern General Cemetery, 199]
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.12.1942 [255204]
|
WS/Lt.
|
05.06.1943
|
|
05.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
|
26.11.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, D Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed
in action])
|
|
Milo,
Peter Middleton
|
16.12.1919
-
12.1986
Chichester, West Sussex
|
2nd
Lt.
|
18.05.1940
[130630]
|
WS/Lt.
|
18.11.1941
|
Lt.
|
15.12.1945,
seniority 16.06.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
01.07.1943-30.09.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
01.10.1943-21.08.1944
|
WS/Capt.
|
22.08.1944
|
Capt.
|
16.12.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
22.05.1944-21.08.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
22.08.1944-09.06.1945,
13.12.1946-31.03.1948, 17.04.1953-15.12.1953
|
Maj.
|
16.12.1953
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
18.10.1960-15.04.1962
|
Lt.Col.
|
16.04.1962
(supernumerary 16.04.1965)
(retd 16.03.1968)
|
local
Col.
|
27.10.1964
|
|
Education: psc
|
|
|
served
in the ranks for 264 days
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
(TA)
|
18.05.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission to 14.12.1945]
|
12.06.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, C Company, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
15.12.1945
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Cheshire Regiment [permanent commission]
|
08.02.1950
|
-
|
08.02.1951
|
Staff
Captain "A", HQ BTB
|
17.04.1953
09.01.1954
|
-
-
|
29.12.1953
11.03.1954
|
Brigade
Major, ... Infantry Brigade
|
12.04.1954
|
-
|
21.04.1956
|
Instructor,
Joint School for Chemical Warfare
|
18.06.1956
|
-
|
29.06.1958
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2),
Gibraltar (10.09.1956-29.06.1956 MA Rabat)
|
18.10.1960
|
-
|
13.03.1962
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2),
British Joint Staff Mission, Washington
|
16.04.1962
|
-
|
21.04.1964
|
Deputy
Commandant, Mercian Brigade Depot
|
27.10.1964
|
-
|
(02.1967)
|
Military
Attaché (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) Stockholm
|
|
Mitchell,
C H D

unknown
|
?
-
|
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned
into the ? [emergency commission]
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|
Mobbs,
Gerald Aubrey
"Gerry"
Married Elizabeth Lanchester; at least one
son (Sir Nigel Mobbs).
|
03.1911
-
06.08.1976
|
Lt.
|
22.09.1939 [100118]
|
WS/Capt.
|
01.06.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
01.06.1940
|
WS/Maj.
|
11.02.1943 (retd
08.12.1945;
disability)
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
11.02.1943
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
08.12.1945
|
|
22.09.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Administrative Branch [emergency commission]
|
30.07.1940
|
-
|
(04.1941)
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, ...
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Assistant
Director of Ordnance Services, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
Re-joined Slough Estates in 1945, a company of which he had been made a director during
1944. He served as a director of Slough Estates until his retirement in March 1976, his 65th birthday. Successively he was an executive director, chief
executive and managing director, and from 1971 to 1976 chairman. He also held at one time a non-executive directorship of Horlicks. He was High Sheriff
of the county of Buckinghamshire in 1962/3 and subsequently was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county until his death.
|
Monsell,
John Humphrey Arnold [de la Poer]
"Johnny"
|
18.08.1916
-
11.1989
Barnstaple, Devon |
2nd Lt.
|
31.12.1939 [112889]
|
Lt.
|
01.07.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
03.12.1941-02.03.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
03.03.1942-...,
11.11.1945-...
|
Capt.
|
09.05.1946 (retd
17.09.1947)
|
Lt.
|
02.09.1952,
seniority 25.02.1947
|
Capt.
|
02.09.1952,
seniority 16.12.1950
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks for 3 years, 108 days
|
31.12.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Medium Machine Gun Platoon (Support Company), 2nd Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem)
|
02.09.1952
|
-
|
25.09.1955
|
short
service commission
|
26.09.1955
|
-
|
?
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Montgomery,
Hector


Son of ... Motngomery, and ... Miller.
|
(06?).1917
Paddington district, Greater London /
London / Middlesex
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.10.1939 [105125]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.04.1941 (reld
16.02.1946;
disability)
|
T/Capt.
|
04.06.1943
|
Hon. Capt.
|
16.02.1946
|
Efficiency Medal (Territorial), 28.01.1949.
|
22.10.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) [emergency
commission]
|
01.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred, Parachute Regiment
- Army Air Corps
|
(1942)
|
|
|
151st
Parachute Battalion (India)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
B Company, 156th Parachute
Battalion (Arnhem)
|
Sales manager, Woking, Surrey.
|
Montgomery,
Thomas Everard

Son of Thomas Alexander and Gladys Montgomery;
husband of Lavender Montgomery, of Kilshannig, Co. Cork, Irish Republic.
|
1908
?
-
21.11.1944
(DOW) [age 36]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Spec. Mem.]
Buried at the time in Lingen Cemetery, Germany, but whose grave is now lost.
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
14.12.1940 [160794]
|
WS/Capt.
|
10.10.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
10.10.1943
|
|
14.12.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Border Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, A Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem [died of
wounds])
|
|
Moore,
Francis Pepys Durie
"Frank"
Interview
at IWM
|
?
-
2004 still alive |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
24.04.1943 [271510]
|
WS/Lt.
|
24.10.1943
|
|
24.04.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
1943
|
-
|
1944
|
1st Airlanding Light
Regiment RA (UK, Italy)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Troop
Leader, F Troop, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery, 1st Airlanding Light
Regiment RA (Arnhem [evacuated])
|
08.10.1945
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment (cancelled 07.01.1947)
|
Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural
Engineers (FIAgrE) since 1954.
|
Moorwood,
Stanley James Duffield
|
01.09.1918
-
02.1985
Andover, Hampshire
|
Cadet L/Cpl.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
03.06.1939
[89110]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
16.05.1945
|
|
03.06.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into The York and Lancaster Regiment (Hallamshire Battalion) - Territorial
Army (late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Oakham School Contingent, Junior Division,
Officer Training Corps)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
08.11.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Section
Commander, D Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
Solicitor, Shamley Green, Surrey.
|
Morley,
Wilfred David Clarence
"Wilf"
|
07.05.1920
-
03.1995
Bromley, Kent
|
Cadet
|
? [T/76292]
|
2nd Lt.
|
03.09.1943 [292711]
|
WS/Lt.
|
03.03.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
03.09.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Parachute Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 1 Provost Section with 1st Parachute Brigade (Arnhem)
|
|
Morris,
?
|
?
-
|
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned
into ? [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
APO (Army
Postal Officer?), 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)
|
|
Morrison,
the Reverend James
Gilbert
Youngest of five children of
the Rev.
James Horne Morrison, minister of the United Free Church.
Married (05.1944) Jean ...; three sons.
|
23.11.1915
Falkland, Fife
-
12.11.2008
Cambridge (formerly of Rhonehouse and
Kirkpatrick Durham)
|
Capt.
|
27.02.1942 = Chaplain to the
Forces 4th Cl. [225398] [emergency commission]
|
Capt.
|
01.07.1946 = Chaplain to the
Forces 4th Cl. [permanent commission]
|
zA/Maj.
|
01.07.1945-30.09.1945
= A/Chaplain to the
Forces 3rd Cl.
|
T/Maj.
|
01.10.1945-30.04.1950
= T/Chaplain to the
Forces 3rd Cl.
|
Maj.
|
01.05.1950 = Chaplain to the
Forces 3rd Cl.
|
Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1960 = Chaplain to the
Forces 2nd Cl. (retd 23.11.1970)
|
|
MBE
|
14.06.1980
|
HM's
birthday 80: for seervices to the British community in Rotterdam
|
|
MID
|
23.05.1958
|
Malaya
08-12.57
|
|
Education: MA
27.02.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission to 30.06.1946] - Church of
Scotland
|
14.01.1943
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Chaplain, 7th
Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [POW])
|
01.07.1946
|
|
|
permanent
commision (served Cyprus, France, Aden, Malaysia, Germany & UK)
|
08.11.1948
|
-
|
03.01.1952
|
Staff
Chaplain, British Army of the Rhine
|
25.01.1952
|
-
|
18.07.1955
|
Senior
Chaplain to the Forces, Aldershot District
|
08.01.1960
|
-
|
21.08.1960
|
Senior
Chaplain to the Forces, BFAP
|
1970
|
-
|
1970
|
Chaplain,
Cyprus
|
Minister, The Scots Church (Presbyterian) at
Rotterdam (Neth.), 1972-1981.
|
Morrison,
John Alexander

|
?
-
[Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.06.1939
[88880]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
18.01.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
31.03.1943-...,
19.08.1945-... (retd 1946)
|
Maj TA
|
?
|
|
TD
|
12.12.1950
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the Honourable Artillery Company
|
07.06.1939
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - Territorial Army
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
20.08.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 5 Flight (D Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [POW])
|
Management position within a major South African company.
Published: Silent invader : a glider pilot's story of the invasion of
Europe in World War II (1999)
|
Morrissey,
Dennis Richard Lawrence
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
18.05.1940 [130361]
|
WS/Capt.
|
15.02.1942 (retd
04.07.1947;
disability)
|
T/Maj.
|
10.07.1943
|
Hon. Maj.
|
04.07.1947
|
|
18.05.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) [emergency commission]
|
15.05.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
27.02.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, HQ Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem; wounded [POW])
|
09.1944
|
-
|
(04?).1945
|
POW
in German captivity (#140228 at Stalag VII-A at Moosburg an der Isar, Bayern)
|
|
Mortlock,
Douglas Gerald
|
24.12.1920
Fulham district, Greater London
-
02.1990 still alive
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.10.1941
[212936]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
Lt.
|
01.02.1947,
seniority 24.06.1943
|
A/Capt.
|
23.04.1943-22.07.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
23.07.1943-08.07.1945,
28.08.1945-29.09.1946
|
WS/Capt.
|
30.09.1946
|
Capt.
|
24.12.1947
|
A/Maj.
|
30.06.1946-29.09.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
30.09.1946-23.04.1950,
25.01.1951-23.12.1954
|
Maj.
|
24.12.1954
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
02.04.1962-10.07.1962
|
Lt.Col.
|
11.07.1962
(supernumerary 11.07.1965) (retd 01.12.1967)
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks for 219 days
|
11.10.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission to 31.01.1947]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Brigade
RASC Officer, 1st Parachute Brigade (Arnhem)
|
15.07.1965
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
Morton,
Richard Elwin
"Dicky"
|
04.05.1917
-
08.1997
Yeovil, Somerset
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.02.1941
[174530]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.08.1942
|
Lt.
|
19.07.1947,
seniority 04.11.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
11.03.1943-10.06.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
11.06.1943-15.01.1944,
16.03.1944-18.07.1947
|
Capt.
|
19.07.1947,
seniority 01.07.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
01.04.1952-06.05.1952,
09.05.1952-27.08.1952
|
Maj.
|
04.05.1953
|
Lt.Col.
|
31.08.1960 (retd
02.12.1962)
|
|
MID
|
07.01.1949
|
Palestine
09.47-03.48
|
|
|
|
|
served in
the ranks 1 year 38 days
|
22.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency
commission to 18.07.1947]
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command, C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
19.07.1947
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [permanent commission]
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
|
Moy-Thomas,
Edward Alfred

Son of Alan and Gertrude Moy-Thomas, of Monte Carlo.
Married (29.04.1936, St George's, Bloomsbury, Holborn district, London) Wilma Mary
Marsden [she remarried to Frederick Laws], of Highgate, Middlesex, daughter of
Mr & Mrs Wilfred Marsden, Keeper of Printed Books of the British Museum;
two children.
His brother F/Lt. James Alan Moy-Thomas RAFVR was killed in a road accident
(29.02.1944).
|
09.03.1910
-
20.09.1944
(KIA) [age 34]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 16.B.15]
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.09.1940 [148593]
|
WS/Lt.
|
07.03.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
Education: Eton (R.A. Young's); Christ Church.
Worked for Messrs. France, Fenwick, shipowners.
08.1939
|
|
|
volunteered
for service in an anti-aircraft battery of the Honourable Artillery Company
|
|
|
|
Officer
Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
|
07.09.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency
commission]
|
|
|
|
took part
in the airborne invasion of Sicily, then Taranto & Foggia
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Staff
Captain, 1st Airlanding Brigade (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Muir,
Iain
Colquhoun


Son of William Clark Muir and Margaret Welsh Muir (née Miller), of Muswell Hill, Middlesex.
|
15.02.1922
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
25.09.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 3.C.15]
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.02.1941 [172724]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.08.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
1944?
|
|
MID
|
22.03.1945
|
NW
Europe (Normandy)
|
|
22.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
05.11.1942
|
|
|
transferred
to the Glider Pilot Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 22 Flight (D Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Munford,
Dennis Stewart
Son of ... Munford, and ... Burton.
Married Audrey Grace (née ...) (died 26.01.2007,
aged 85).
|
16.09.1912
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
27.02.2002
Waveney, Suffolk
[age 89]
|
Gnr.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
08.06.1940 [134902]
|
WS/Lt.
|
08.12.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
09.11.1942
|
WS/Capt.
|
26.01.1944 (retd
29.08.1951)
|
A/Maj.
|
1944?
|
Hon. Maj.
|
29.08.1951
|
|
39|45
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
It
St
|
- |
-
|
|
Fr&G
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
Def
M
|
-
|
-
|
|
BWM
39|45
|
-
|
-
|
|
EM
|
28.03.1989
|
-
|
|
BSM
|
?
|
?
|
|
BL
|
08.11.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44 * [date of Dutch Royal Decree
09.02.46]
|
|
08.06.1940
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [POW])
|
Retired Colonial Service official, Southwold,
Suffolk.
|
Murdoch,
Barry

|
15.10.1917
-
11.2001
South East Hampshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
26.08.1937
[73111]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.05.1940
|
Lt.
|
26.08.1940
|
A/Capt.
|
01.02.1940-30.04.1940
|
T/Capt.
|
01.05.1940-02.11.1942,
06.03.1943-25.07.1945
|
WS/Capt.
|
26.07.1945
|
Capt.
|
26.08.1945
|
A/Maj.
|
26.04.1945-25.07.1945
|
T/Maj.
|
26.07.1945-02.11.1947,
15.09.1949-25.08.1950
|
Maj.
|
26.08.1950 (retd
15.10.1972)
|
local Lt.Col.
|
15.06.1956-25.05.1958
|
|
26.08.1937
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Lincolnshire Regiment
|
21.04.1939
|
-
|
?
|
temporary
Adjutant, 4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
|
06.03.1943
|
-
|
13.04.1943
|
Adjutant,
...
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 8 Flight (D Squadron, No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment
(Arnhem)
|
03.02.1948
|
|
|
transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
Murray,
Alexander Donald Milles

Elder son of Brig. Cyril Alexander 'Alick' George Octavius Murray (1887-1960),
formerly of The KOSB, and Marjorie Lilias Milles (died 1965), of Philipburn, Selkirk.
|
06.04.1925
Kensington district, London
-
18.09.1944
Oosterbeek
(KIA) [age 19]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 16.C.18]
|
Cadet
|
? [14425786]
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.02.1944 [311345]
|
WS/Lt.
|
1944?
|
|
Prefect and
Head of House (Bramston's), Winchester College, 1943.
25.02.1944
|
|
|
commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 5 Platoon (B Company),
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Murray,
Douglas Campbell

Son of Jack Murray, and Emma Wilks, of Fleetwood,
Lancashire.
Married Hilda Parkinson; one son.
|
17.04.1913
Fleetwood, Fylde district, Lancashire
-
22.01.2005
Battle Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.09.1939,
seniority 13.08.1939 [106883]
|
WS/Lt.
|
13.02.1941
|
WS/Capt.
|
19.03.1943 (reld
08.1945)
|
A/Maj. ?
|
12.1942?-03.1943?
|
T/Maj.
|
19.03.1943-(09.1944)
|
|
13.08.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Corps of Engineers - Supplementary Reserve
of Officers
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
08.1939
|
|
|
attached,
107th Army Troops Company RE (summer camp)
|
10.1939
|
-
|
11.1939
|
attached,
50th Divisional Engineers (UK)
|
11.1939
|
-
|
01.1940
|
48th
Divisional Engineers (UK
|
01.1940
|
-
|
11.1941
|
Section
Officer, 253rd Field Company RE (France & Belgium 01.1940-06.1940, then
UK)
|
11.1941
|
-
|
01.1942
|
Section
Officer, 103rd Army Troops Company RE (Marine Division)
|
01.1942
|
-
|
09.1944
|
1st Parachute Squadron RE
(Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, UK & Arnhem [captured])
|
01.1942
|
-
|
12.1942
|
Second-in-Command
|
12.1942
|
-
|
09.1944
|
Officer
Commanding
|
09.1944
|
-
|
04.1945
|
POW in
German captivity (Oflag 12B, Brunswick)
|
Post-war he became Chief Engineer for Reading, Berkshire.
|
Murray,
Francis Anthony Stoddard
"Tony"
|
28.09.1918
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
26.01.1939
[85686]
|
WS/Lt.
|
25.12.1940
|
Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
18.09.1940-28.10.1940,
04.11.1940-24.12.1940
|
T/Capt.
|
25.12.1940-05.03.1941,
07.06.1941-25.06.1942, 14.04.1943-15.09.1943
|
WS/Capt.
|
16.09.1943
|
Capt.
|
01.07.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
16.06.1943-15.09.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
16.09.1943-19.02.1947
|
WS/Maj.
|
20.02.1947
|
Maj.
|
26.01.1952
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
20.11.1946-19.02.1947
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
20.02.1947-28.01.1949
|
|
26.01.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry
|
|
|
|
attached
Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, F Squadron (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
|
|
Murray,
Iain Arthur
Only son of Lt.Col. Sir Malcolm
Donald Murray (1867-1938), and Lady
Hilda Joanna Gwendoline Finch
(1872-1931).
Married 1st (15.12.1932; divorced 1946) Angela
Houssemayne Du Boulay (born 17.10.1912), daughter of Lt.Col.
Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay; two daughters.
Married 2nd (16.01.1947; divorced 1959) Anne Drummond
(30.06.1911 - 1985), daughter of Hon. Rupert
Drummond.
|
17.09.1904
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
23.01.1986
Maidstone district, Kent
[age 81]
|
2nd Lt.
|
18.09.1939
[99246]
|
WS/Lt.
|
10.08.1940
|
T/Capt.
|
10.08.1940
|
WS/Maj.
|
02.06.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
02.06.1943
|
Hon.
Lt.Col.
|
1945/46
(retd)
|
|
Education: Eton College.
Page of Honour to HM George V, 1917-1921.
18.09.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
|
13.05.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
|
(09.1944)
|
|
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Commanding Officer,
No. 1 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
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Myers,
Edmund Charles Wolf
"Eddie"

Of Jewish descent.
Elder son of late Dr Charles Samuel Myers, CBE,
FRS and Edith Seligman.
Married (12.10.1943) Louisa Mary Hay (died 1995), elder
daughter of late Aldred Bickham SweetEscott; one daughter.
From Minehead, Somerset.
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12.10.1906
Kensington, London
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06.12.1997
Stow-on-the- Wold, Gloucestershire
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2nd Lt.
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30.08.1926
[36717]
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Lt.
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30.08.1929
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Capt.
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30.08.1937
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A/Maj.
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08.02.1940-07.05.1940
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T/Maj.
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08.05.1940-05.04.1942
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WS/Maj.
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06.04.1942
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A/Lt.Col.
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10.02.1941-08.03.1941,
02.02.1942-05.04.1942
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T/Lt.Col.
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06.04.1942-01.07.1943
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WS/Lt.Col.
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02.07.1943
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A/Col.
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03.08.1942-30.09.1942,
01.03.1943-01.07.1943
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T/Col.
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02.07.1943-09.02.1944,
23.07.1945-31.03.1946
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Col.
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12.12.1949
[supernumerary 12.12.1955]
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A/Brig.
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01.03.1943-31.08.1943
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T/Brig.
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01.09.1943-09.02.1944,
28.02.1944-14.08.1944
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Brig.
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07.02.1955
(retd 01.07.1959)
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Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp; Africa Star; Italy Star; France &
Germany Star
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Education: Haileybury; Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich; Caius College, Cambridge (BA, CEng, MICE); psc, fs
30.08.1926
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commissioned
into the Corps of Royal Engineers
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1936
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served
Palestine
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08.02.1940
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-
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15.03.1940
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Staff
Officer Royal Engineers, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
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12.03.1941
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17.01.1942
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GSO2, ...
[part of 7th Armoured Division?]
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02.02.1942
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-
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02.08.1942
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GOS1, ...
[part of 7th Armoured Division?]
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03.08.1942
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30.09.1942
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Deputy
Director ME
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01.10.1942
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28.02.1943
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Lieutenant-Colonel,
Field Staff (Commander, British Military Mission to Greek Resistance Forces,
SOE)
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01.03.1943
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09.02.1944
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Director
Special Operations (MO4)
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28.02.1944
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14.08.1944
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MO1 UK
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(09.1944)
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(1945)
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Commander
Royal Engineers, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [evacuated]; Norway)
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23.07.1945
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28.02.1946
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Colonel
General Staff, South East Asia Command
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01.04.1946
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-
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13.10.1948
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SO1,
Joint Iintelligence Board,
Ministry of Defence
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12.12.1949
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-
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16.05.1951
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Colonel
General Staff (GSO1), War Office
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1951
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-
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1952
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served
Korea (1st Commonwealth Division)
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12.12.1952
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-
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10.12.1954
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Colonel
General Staff, RAF Staff College
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07.02.1955
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-
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03.02.1956
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Chief
Engineer (Brigadier), HQ British Troops in Egypt
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30.04.1956
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-
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1959
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Deputy
Director Personnel Administration, War
Office
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Secretary, Royal Engineers Flying Club, 1934-1935.
Chief Civil Engineer Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. Ltd, 1959-1964.
Construction Manager, Power Gas Corp. Ltd, Davy-Ashmore Group, 1964-1967.
Regional Sec., British Field Sports Soc., 1968-1971.
Published: Greek entanglement (1955)
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