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Tannenbaum, Albert Louis Of Jewish descent.	(12?).1917 Mile End Old Town district, London, Middlesex -	2nd Lt. 04.10.1943 [301775] WS/Lt. 04.07.1944	04.10.1943 commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission] 18.12.1943 transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944) [attached?] HQ Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
Tate, Francis Raymond Son of Joseph Bayliss Tate and Clara Elizabeth Tate; husband of Joyce Mary Tate, of Tenbury, Worcestershire.	(03?).1905 West Bromwich - 21.09.1944 (KIA) [age 39] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 20.C.13]	2nd Lt. 05.03.1940 [123505] WS/Lt. ? A/Capt. 24.07.1940 WS/Capt. 01.05.1943 T/Maj. 1944?	Education: Cambridge University (MA) 05.03.1940 commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission] 07.11.1942 transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944) Officer Commanding, HQ Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem; killed in action)
Tate, Joseph "Joe" Son of Joseph and Beatrice Mary Tate, of Whickham, Co. Durham.	1918 ? - 22.09.1944 (DOW) [age 26] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 29.A.8]	2nd Lt. 21.12.1940 [164866] WS/Lt. 21.06.1942	21.12.1940 commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission] (09.1944) Liaison Officer, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Arnhem; died of wounds)
Tatham Warter, Allison Digby Interview at IWM (1) Interview at IWM (2)	26.05.1917 Atcham district, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire - 21.03.1993	2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 [75060] Lt. 28.01.1940 A/Capt. 25.02.1940-21.04.1940, 22.05.1940-25.06.1940 T/Capt. 26.06.1940-12.08.1942 WS/Capt. 13.08.1942 Capt. 28.01.1945 A/Maj. 13.05.1942-12.08.1942 T/Maj. 13.08.1942-22.07.1943, 06.01.1944-... A/Lt.Col. 19.11.1944-07.12.1944 DSO 22.03.1945 Arnhem 09.44	28.01.1937 commissioned, Unattached List 27.04.1938 commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 10.1943 - (09.1944) Officer Commanding, A Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (UK, Arnhem; wounded, escaped) Hunter & running a safari company in Kenya.
Tayler, Cyril Cadle Son of Herbert William and Jessie Tayler; husband of Beryl Joy Tayler, of Northleach, Gloucestershire.	28.05.1920 Cardiff, South Wales - 20.09.1944 (KIA) [age 24] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 29.A.7]	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 22.02.1941 [174387] WS/Lt. 22.08.1942 MID 11.04.1946 Arnhem 09.44 [posthumously]	served in the ranks, Territorial Army 1939 - (1940) served, Worcestershire Regiment (France [Dunkirk]) ? - 22.02.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst 22.02.1941 commissioned, Welch Regiment [emergency commission] 18.09.1942 transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps 18.09.1942 18.06.1943 03.1944 19.09.1944 - 20.09.1944 A Squadron (No. 1 Wing), Glider Pilot Regt completed flying training stationed at RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire Section Commander (Arnhem) [Flight Commander in lead glider from Keevil (glider contained 2 jeeps, Polish HQ and a war correspondent); killed in action]
Taylor, Basil Anthony Bethune	10.06.1918 - 05.2000 Salisbury, Wiltshire	2nd Lt. 27.01.1938 [74523] WS/Lt. 14.09.1940 Lt. 01.01.1941 A/Capt. 14.06.1940-13.09.1940 T/Capt. 14.09.1940-20.12.1944 WS/Capt. 21.12.1944 Capt. 27.01.1946 A/Maj. 21.09.1944-20.12.1944 T/Maj. 21.12.1944-26.01.1951 Maj. 27.01.1951 T/Lt.Col. 30.04.1959-15.09.1959 Lt.Col. 16.09.1959 [supernumerary 16.09.1962] Col. 12.08.1964, seniority 08.08.1964 T/Brig. 12.08.1964-30.12.1966 Brig. 31.12.1966 (retd 31.07.1971) CBE 01.01.1970 New Year 70 MBE 21.10.1952 ? SS 14.11.1947 Arnhem 09.44 Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp	Education: psc 27.01.1938 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery 27.01.1941 - 27.12.1941 Adjutant, ... 28.12.1941 - 27.11.1942 GSO3, Middle East Land Forces 07.02.1943 - 08.10.1943 GSO3, Airborne Forces (09.1944) Battery Captain, 2nd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem; evacuated) 24.01.1946 - 30.06.1948 GSO2, School of Signals 10.08.1950 - 28.12.1952 GSO2, Malaya District 01.05.1955 - 11.08.1956 DAA&QMG, HQ British Army of the Rhine 07.12.1961 - 06.08.1964 AMS, War Office 12.08.1964 - (1967?) CRA, HQ ... Division (TA)/Wales District 1961-1964 Honorary Secretary, The Royal Artillery Yacht Club
Taylor, Deryk John [W]	(03?).1920 Rochford district, Essex -	2nd Lt. 12.11.1939 [105322] WS/Lt. 12.05.1941 (reld 24.08.1946) Hon. Capt. 24.08.1946	12.11.1939 commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlott of Wales's) [emergency commission] 01.11.1942     transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944) Motor Transport Officer, HQ Company, 156th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [seaborne trail?])
Taylor, H G	? -	2nd Lt. ? WS/Lt. ? Original regiment / service unclear	? (09.1944) Officer Commanding, Brigade Defence Platoon, 4th Parachute Brigade (Arnhem)
Taylor, James William "Jim"     Son of ... Taylor, and ... Pickering. Married Dorothy (née ...); four children.	18.04.1920 Worksop district, Nottinghamshire -	Pte. 09.1939 [M11245] 2nd Lt. 08.1943 Lt. ?	23.09.1939 - 08.1943 No. 10 Platoon, "B" Company, Calgary Highlanders (Calgary, UK, New York, Montreal, Calgary, and Gordon Head, BC) 08.1943 - 01.1944 instructor, junior NCO course, Calgary Highlanders (Currie Barracks) 01.1944 - 1944 battle drill instructor, Vernon Battle School 1944 - 04.04.1944 No. A-16 Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC 04.04.1944 - 05.1944 No. A-34 Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC Canloan scheme: CDN/489 05.1944 - 24.09.1944 Officer Commanding, 12 Platoon (C Company), 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem; wounded, POW) 09.1944 - 15.04.1945 POW in German captivity 30.05.1945 - 15.08.1945 No. 13 District Depot (from Canadian Army Overseas) (struck off strength) Re-enlisted as a Corporal in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, 1947, receiving a permanent commission as Lieutenant in 1951, retiring in 1968. After that social worker in British Columbia, but from 1970 again Army service with the British Columbia Dragoons, from 1972 as Commanding Officer, finally retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1974.
Taylor, John Cuthill	24.09.1916 - 07.1995 Tunbridge Wells, Kent	Lt. 22.09.1939 [104006] WS/Capt. 22.09.1940 Hon. Capt. 1945/46 (reld) MB	22.09.1939 commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] (09.1944) Section Officer, 181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Arnhem)
Taylor, Kenneth M "Ken"	? -	2nd Lt. ? Lt. ?	? commissioned into the Canadian Infantry Corps [emergency commission] - 01.03.1944 No. A-15 Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC 01.03.1944 - No. A-34 Training Centre (Reinforcements) CIC Canloan scheme: CDN/200 (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 11 Platoon (B Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Arnhem; ?) 12.06.1945 - No. 10 District Depot (from Canadian Army Overseas) Employed at Western Canada Greyhound Lines.
Taylor, Percy Albert "Buck" / "Pat" Second son of Charles Henry Taylor and Beatrice Annie Eley, of East Kirkby, Nottinghamshire. Married (10.06.1939) Nancy Holt, BA (died 2002), of Wrentham, Suffolk (who later remarried Ralph Dyer of Wrentham, Suffolk); one daughter.	11.12.1912 East Kirkby, Basford district, Nottinghamshire - 24.09.1944 (MIA) [age 31] [Groesbeek Memorial, panel 1]	WS/Sgt. 05.03.1942 2nd Lt. 27.02.1943 [265315] WS/Lt. 27.02.1943 T/Capt. 10.02.1944-24.09.1944	Education: East Kirkby Boys' School; Kingsway Senior School; School of Education, Shorncliffe (passing out as an Instructor of Army Education)   1929 - 1935 served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery Served Lincolnshire Constabulary, being stationed at Barton-on-Humber, Grantham, and Spalding, 1935-1939. 09.1939 mobilized; Sergeant-instructor in signalling 02.10.1942 - 26.02.1943 Officer Cadet Training Unit 27.02.1943 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] served North Africa & Italy (09.1944) - 24.09.1944 Officer Commanding, D Troop, 2nd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [missing in action]) [killed by a sniper whilst getting one of his own wounded NCO's into an ambulance; field burial in a garden at Oosterbeek]
Taylor, William Andrews "Willie" SAME ?? Name:  Reginald William A Taylor Birth:  18 May 1921 Death:  Oct 1984 - Basingstoke, Hampshire	18.05.1921 - c. 2000	2nd Lt. 09.03.1940 [125152] Lt. 09.09.1941 A/Capt. 16.02.1942-15.05.1942 T/Capt. 16.05.1942-07.08.1942, 16.12.1942-19.12.1944 WS/Capt. 20.12.1944 Capt. 01.07.1946 A/Maj. 20.09.1944-19.12.1944 T/Maj. 20.12.1944-29.12.1944, 05.08.1945-22.12.1946, 18.03.1947-31.12.1947 Maj. 09.03.1953 Lt.Col. 09.04.1962 [supernumerary 09.04.1965] (retd 18.05.1971) MID 29.06.1954 ? Hkn 19.03.1948 Norway 45	Education: jssc, psc, fsc 09.03.1940 commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers 03.02.1943 - 09.01.1944 Adjutant, ... 09.01.1944 - 19.12.1944 Intelligence Officer, 1st Parachute Brigade (UK, Arnhem [evacuated]) 05.02.1945 - 05.06.1945 General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), 1st Airborne Division (Norway) 06.08.1945 - 21.07.1946 DAA&QMG, Parachute Brigade 17.07.1946 transferred to The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 31.10.1947 - 30.03.1950 Instructor, Tactical Wing, School of Infantry 31.03.1953 - 30.09.1953 DAQMG, HQ Northern Malaya Sub District 01.10.1953 - 06.02.1955 DAQMG, HQ Federal Division/District, Malaya 10.04.1958 - 08.10.1959 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office 26.06.1965 - (02.1967) General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Liaison HQ, British Army of the Rhine
Taylorson, Thomas Whiteley From London.	10.04.1918 - 11.2003 North Dorset district, Dorset	2nd Lt. 06.11.1943 [299372] WS/Lt. 06.05.1944 [unemployed list 1945/46?] DFC 19.10.1944 Normandy 06.44	06.11.1943 commissioned, Army Air Corps [emergency commission] (09.1944) Section Commander, C Squadron (No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
Telfer, Ronald Douglas Son of Cecil Claude and Mabel Grace Telfer, of Mannamead, Devon.	1919 ? - 05.12.1944 (KIA) [age 25] [Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, 3.C.39]	2nd Lt. 19.10.1940 [151828] WS/Lt. 19.04.1942 T/Capt. 1944?	19.10.1940 commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment [emergency commission] 06.09.1941 transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) ? transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944) Section Commander, G Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
Temple, Reginald Robert Son of Lt­Gen. R.C. Temple, CB, OBE, RM, and Z.E. Temple (née Hunt). Married 1st (1952) Julia Jasmine Anthony (marriage  dissolved 1979); one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1979) Susan McCorquodale (née Pick); one daughter (one step son, one step daughter).	12.02.1922 Kensington district, Greater London -	2nd Lt. 12.10.1941 [210871] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 T/Capt. 24.12.1943 American Silver Star, 1944; Order of Oman, 3rd Class, 1985.	Education: Wellington College; Peterhouse, Cambridge 1940 - 1946 HM Forces (RE and Para Regt): 12.10.1941 commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] (09.1944) General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3) (Air), 4th Parachute Brigade (Arnhem) Stockbroking, 1947-1951; entered HM Foreign Service, 1951; Office of HM Commissioner General for SE Asia (Singapore), 1952-1956; 2nd Secretary, Beirut, 1958-1962; 1st Secretary, Algiers, 1964-1966, Paris, 1967-1969; FCO, 1969-1979; Counsellor 1975; Sultanate of Oman Govt Service, 1979-1985. Director: Shearwater Securities Ltd, I of M, 1989-1992; City and International Securities Ltd, I of M, 1993-1996.
Thesiger, Roderic Miles Doughty "Roddy" Youngest son of late Hon. Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, DSO, and Mrs Reginald Astley, CBE; married 1st, 1940, Mary Rose (marr. diss. 1946; she died 1962), daughter of Hon. Guy Charteris; 2nd, 1946, Ursula, daughter of A. W. Whitworth, Woollas Hall, Pershore; one son, one daughter.	08.11.1915 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 05.03.2005 Lucton, Leominster, Herefordshire	2nd Lt. 31.10.1939 [103642] WS/Lt. 01.05.1941 T/Capt. 16.07.1943 Hon. Capt. 1945/46  (reld)	Education: Eton; Christ Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute 31.10.1939 commissioned, The Welsh Guards [emergency commission] 1939 - 1942 Welsh Guards 1942 - 1944 1st Parachute Brigade: 01.08.1942 transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944) Second-in-Command, A Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem; wounded, POW) Assistant, Tate Gallery, 1945-1946; afterwards worked with Messrs Sotheby and privately until 1954. Director, P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. Ltd, 1955-1971.
Thomas, Antony Robert "Tony" Son (oldest of four brothers) of Martin Lewis Thomas and Eleanor Thomas, of Sydenham, London.	08.05.1919 - 20.09.1944 (KIA) [age 25] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 1.A.11]	2nd Lt. 19.10.1940 [153075] WS/Lt. 19.04.1942	19.10.1940 commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission] 01.07.1942 transferred, Royal Armoured Corps 23.01.1944 transferred, The Border Regiment (09.1944) - 20.09.1944 Officer Commanding, Brigade Defence Platoon, 1st Airlanding Brigade (Arnhem [killed in action])
Thomas, Emrys James Son of William and Margaret Thomas (née Roberts), of Cardiff; nephew of Duncan Evans, of Cardiff.	(09.)1915 Cardiff, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire - 22.09.1944 (KIA) [age 28] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 3.D.8]	2nd Lt. 14.05.1942 [233883] WS/Lt. 14.11.1942 T/Capt. 1944? AFC 15.02.1945 NW Europe	14.05.1942 commissioned , Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] ? transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 15 Flight (F Squadron, No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem; killed in action)
Thomas, Nigel Beaumont also known as: Beaumont-Thomas, Nigel Son of Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas, MC, General List, Lost in M.V. Henry Stanley, 7th December 1942 and of Pauline Grace (Marriott) Beaumont-Thomas, of South Kensington, London. See also here.	17.04.1916 Hyde Park Mansions, London - 20.09.1944 (KIA) [age 28] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 17.A.11]	2nd Lt. 10.06.1939 [93266] WS/Lt. 01.01.1941 WS/Capt. 08.07.1943 T/Maj. 08.07.1943 MC 21.10.1941 Middle East MID 01.03.1945 services in the field (Arnhem)	Education: prep school at Heath Mount, Hampstead, London; Harrow; BA (Cantab.) Trinity College 1939 joined Richard Thomas and Co Ltd. as a civil engineer 10.06.1939 commissioned into the Royal Engineers Militia - Royal Monmouthshire, Supplementary Reserve (late Cadet Corporal, Harrow School Contingent, OTC) 24.08.1939 mobilized 11.1939 - 06.1941 attached King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners (India, North Africa, Abyssinia [wounded], North Africa) (POW in Italy, escaped 09.1943, in the UK 01.1944) 28.05.1944 - 20.09.1944 Second-in-Command, 4th Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [killed in action])
Thomas, Norman Leslie	? - [2001 still alive]	2nd Lt. 28.03.1943 [267973] WS/Lt. 28.09.1943	28.03.1943 commissioned into the Royal Engineers [emergency commission] (09.1944) Troop Officer, 3 Troop, 4th Parachute Squadron RE (Arnhem [evacuated])
Thomas, Reginald Son of Theophilus Lloyd Thomas and of Anne Eliza Thomas (nee Reynolds); husband of Edith Elizabeth Nora Thomas, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.	1916 ? - 21.09.1944 (KIA) [age 28] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 19.B.10]	2nd Lt. 12.11.1938 [78890] WS/Lt. 01.01.1941	12.11.1938 commissioned into the Royal Artillery [Regular Army, Supplementary Reserve] (01.1939) 33rd Field Regiment RA 24.08.1939 mobilized transferred to the Parachute Regiment (09.1944) Officer Commanding, Mortar Platoon (Support Company), 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem; killed in action)
Thompson, Edwin John Son of ... Thompson, and ... Roberts.	02.02.1922 Wolverhampton district, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands - 02.1997 Wolverhampton district, West Midlands	2nd Lt. 04.07.1942 [237538] WS/Lt. 04.04.1943	04.07.1942 commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artilley [emergency commission] (09.1944) Troop Leader, E Troop, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem)
Thompson, William Francis Kynaston "Sheriff" Married (10.09.1937) Rosemary Kate Foster (1915-1997); three sons, one daughter.	12.11.1909 Greenwich, Greater London - 06.06.1980	2nd Lt. 29.08.1929 [44179] Lt. 29.08.1932 Capt. 01.08.1938 A/Maj. 12.08.1940-11.09.1940, 13.01.1941-13.03.1941 T/Maj. 14.03.1941-03.06.1942, 05.07.1942-16.10.1943 WS/Maj. 17.10.1943 Maj. 01.07.1946 A/Lt.Col. 17.07.1943-16.10.1943 T/Lt.Col. 17.10.1943-09.06.1945, 01.07.1945-31.03.1952 Lt.Col. 01.04.1952 T/Col. 18.06.1954-30.12.1954 Col. 31.12.1954 T/Brig. 12.11.1956 Brig. 31.12.1958 (retd 12.11.1959) OBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 54 MBE 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 BK 30.03.1947 Arnhem 09.44 * * Date of Dutch Royal Decree: 09.02.1946.	Education: ids, jssc, psc, fs 29.08.1929 commissioned into the Royal Artillery ? - 31.12.1936 21st Mountain Brigade, RA (NW Frontier (India)) 01.01.1937 - 06.11.1938 employed Military College of Science 07.11.1938 - 15.05.1940 specially employed as Adjutant, ... 13.08.1940 - 11.09.1940 Staff Officer RA (GSO2), HQ Northern Command 13.01.1941 - 06.01.1942 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), 54th Division 07.01.1942 - 03.06.1942 Brigade Major, ... 02.1943 - 07.1943 Second-in-Command, 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA (Sicily) 07.1943 - 09.1944 Commanding Officer, 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA (Sicily, Italy, UK, Arnhem; wounded, POW) 01.07.1945