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

 
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O'Callaghan,
Eric Charles
E.C. O'Callaghan (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen) E.C. O'Callaghan
Married 1st (1943) Gladys Wilden, who died in 1949; one daughter.
Married 2nd (1950) Dorothy Rogers (marriage dissolved); one daughter.
Married 3rd (marriage dissolved).
Married 4th (1989) Caroline Grimwood; one son, one daughter.

05.01.1923
Alverstoke
-
23.05.2003
New Forest, Hampshire
2nd Lt.
 		05.09.1942 [243580]
WS/Lt.
 		05.03.1943
Lt.
 		23.03.1946, seniority 05.07.1945
A/Capt.
 		23.02.1944-22.05.1944
T/Capt.
 		23.05.1944-09.06.1945, 06.11.1945-31.05.1947
WS/Capt.
 		01.06.1947
Capt.
 		04.01.1950
A/Maj.
 		01.03.1947-31.05.1947
T/Maj.
 		01.06.1947-20.11.1949, 01.12.1955-04.01.1957
Maj.
 		05.01.1957
Lt.Col.
 		03.03.1965
Col.
 		30.06.1969 (retd 20.12.1974)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
 07.01.1949
 Palestine 47-48
MC
 21.10.1943
 Sicily 07.43
Mention in Despatches MID
 20.09.1945
 Arnhem 09.44
Mention in Despatches MID
 07.01.1949
 ?
Education: Gosport Central Grammar School



served in the ranks for 1 year 206 days in the Hampshire Regiment
05.09.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 22.03.1946]
(07.1943)

3 Platoon, 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE (N Africa, Sicily, Italy)
(09.1944)

Officer Commanding, 2 Platoon, 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
10.1945
 -
 		1947
 		1st Airborne Squadron RE (Palestine)
23.03.1946

permanent commission
1947
 -
 		(1948)
 		Officer Commanding, 1st (Airborne) Squadron RE (Palestine)
1949

Royal School of Military Engineering, Chatham
1950

US Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
14.08.1953
 -
 		24.11.1955
 		Staff Captain, War Office
26.11.1957
 -
 		10.02.1958
 		Staff Officer Royal Engineers 3rd grade, HQ Northern Command
11.02.1958
 -
 		08.12.1958
 		Staff Officer Royal Engineers 2nd grade, ... (British Army of the Rhine)



returned to Sandhurst as a company commander before moving to Cyprus for a UN tour of duty

08.01.1962
 -
 		25.02.1965
 		General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ ... Division



command his own regiment; returned to the Royal School of Military Engineering as Chief Instructor at the Plant, Road and Airfields Wing before being posted to Germany as Commander RE with the 4th Division in the rank of colonel
?
 -
 		1974
 		Commandant, Army Apprentices' College at Chepstow, Gwent
Investment management company, since 1974.
O'Grady,
 Arthur Edgar
 A.E. O'Grady 		03.10.1915
-
05.1994
Surrey Northern  district, Surrey
2nd Lt.
 		05.12.1942 [255022]
WS/Lt.
 		05.06.1943
T/Capt.
 		27.09.1944
05.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(09.1944)

Adjutant, No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA [attached 1st Airborne Division HQ] (Arnhem [evacuated])
Ogilvie,
 James Graeme
J.G. Ogilvie J.G. Ogilvie
 Son of James Tough Ogilvie and Mary Isobel Ogilvie.
Husband of Sadie Mary Ogilvie, of Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
 		1918 ?
-
26.09.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Rhenen General Cemetery, 27.C.12]
2nd Lt.
 		27.07.1940 [140041]
WS/Lt.
 		27.01.1942
T/Capt.
 		12.02.1943
27.07.1940

commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
01.11.1941

transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
17.09.1942

transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
(09.1944)

Officer Commanding, D Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [killed in action])
Olliff,
Donald Edwin
D.E. Olliff D.E. Olliff
Interview at IWM
 		24.11.1919
-
02.2001
North Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Lt.
 		08.01.1944 [306048]
WS/Capt.
 		08.01.1945

MB

08.01.1944

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(09.1944)

Section Officer, 133rd Parachute Field Ambulance (Arnhem)
Oliver,
Royston William Raymond
"Roy"
R.W.R. Oliver R.W.R. Oliver
R.W.R. Oliver R.W.R. Oliver (Photo from pegasusarchive.org)
R.W.R. Oliver (Photo from pegasusarchive.org)   		21.02.1914
Lambeth district, Greater London
-
21.09.1981
[buried at Seaside, Oregon, USA]
Lt.
 		10.08.1940 [143210]
[emergency commission]
T/Capt.
 		28.12.1940-..., 20.08.1943-...
WS/Capt.
 		03.06.1944
T/Maj.
 		03.06.1944
WS/Maj.
 		?
Lt.
 		08.06.1946, seniority 18.05.1939
[permanent commission]
Capt.
 		08.06.1946, seniority 18.05.1944 (retd 16.06.1948)
T/Lt.Col.
 		?
Hon. Lt.Col.
 		16.06.1948 (retd)
Maj. RARO
 		01.01.1949
Silver Star Medal (US) SSM
 31.05.1945
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 22.03.1945
 NW Europe
10.08.1940

commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment [emergency commission to 08.06.1946]
(1944)

No. 5 Public Relations Service
(09.1944)

Deputy Assistant Director of Public Relations, Second Army [seconded as Army Public Relations Officer, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem)]
08.06.1946

permanent [short service?] commission
?
 -
 		16.06.1948
 		retired from the 15th/19th Royal Hussars
16.06.1948
 -
 		20.02.1964
 		Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Royal Armoured Corps - 15th/19th Royal Hussars [age limit]
O'Sullivan,
John Charles
J.C. O'Sullivan
 Son of ... O'Sullivan, and ... Fraser.
 		19.07.1914
Farnham district, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex
-
2nd Lt.
 		31.01.1935 [64579]
Lt.
 		31.01.1938
A/Capt.
 		22.04.1940-21.07.1940
T/Capt.
 		22.07.1940-08.07.1942
WS/Capt.
 		09.07.1942
Capt.
 		31.01.1943
A/Maj.
 		09.04.1942-08.07.1942
T/Maj.
 		09.07.1942-03.10.1942, 05.02.1943-30.03.1943
Mention in Despatches MID
 13.01.1944
 Middle East
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp
31.01.1935

commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission]
(09.1944)

Second-in-Command, S Company, 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
08.01.1946
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), HQ Eastern Command
Oxenford,
Alan Arthur Ruthven
 A.A.R. Oxenford
Son of Ferdinand and Carolyn Reeves Oxenford; husband of Anne Gillespie Oxenford, of Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire.
 		1913 ?
 -
08.10.1944
(DOW) [age 31]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 24.A.11]
2nd Lt.
 		29.06.1940 [138945]
WS/Lt.
 		29.12.1941
T/Capt.
 		1944?
29.06.1940

commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission]
05.06.1942

transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
(09.1944)

Officer Commanding, 25 Flight (E Squadron, No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem [died of wounds])

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