Officers of the British Army 1939-1945

British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Aaron, C.
to
Abbott, J.P.F.

Abbott, J.R.
to
Abel, W.K.J.

Abel Smith, A.
to
Abulafia, A.

Acarnley, C.E.
to
Aitken, W.H.H.

Aizlewood, J.A.
to
Anstice, J.H.

Arbuthnot, A.R.C.
to
Arbuthnott, R.K.

Archdale, A.
to
Azzopardi, M.F.

A. Abel Smith to A. Abulafia

Abel Smith,
[Sir] Alexander

Son of late Lt.Col. Francis Abel Smith, DL; married 1st, 1936, Elizabeth (died 1948), daughter of David B. Morgan, Biltmore, North Carolina, USA; one son one daughter; 2nd, 17.02.1953, Henriette Alice Cadogan (Lady Abel Smith); one son one daughter. Brother of Col. Henry Abel Smith.

18.09.1904
-
17.04.1980
[Quenington, Cirencester, Glos. ?]

Lt.	01.11.1938 [78480]
T/Capt.	07.02.1940
WS/Lt.Col.	21.08.1943
A/Col.	21.02.1943
T/Col.	21.08.1943
T/Brig.	?
Hon. Brig.	1945/46 (retd)

	KCVO	31.12.1979	?
-	Kt	1968	?
	TD	?	?

Order of Legion of Merit, USA. Knight (1st Class) Order of Dannebrog (Denmark).

Education: Eton College; Magdalen College, Oxford

			Lance-Bombardier in the 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Regiment
01.11.1938			commissioned into the 80th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.11.1940			transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
			British Army Staff, Washington

Retired Merchant Banker; J. Henry Schroder Wagg and Co. Ltd, 1946-1967; Chairman: Pressed Steel Co., 1955-1965; Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association, 1966-1973; Director of other companies.
Member, BNEC, 1965-1969; Deputy Chairman, Export Council for Europe, 1963-1969. Chairman, Sussex Church Campaign, 1970-; Trustee, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, 1956-1979.
JP Herts 1949, JP Sussex 1955.

Abel Smith,
Anthony

Son of Col. Bertram Abel Smith and Rhona Margaret Ada Hanbury-Tracy. Married Olwyn Heywood-Jones, daughter of Captain Llewellyn Heywood-Jones and Constance Violet Hope-Johnstone, on 26 January 1940; one son.

18.07.1909
-
1979

2nd Lt.	29.08.1931, seniority 30.01.1930 [47021]
Lt.	30.01.1933
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	01.12.1940-28.02.1941
T/Maj.	01.03.1941-20.12.1944, 18.03.1945-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946
T/Lt.Col.	22.12.1948-07.07.1950
Lt.Col.	08.07.1950 (supernumerary 08.07.1953) (retd 07.03.1958)
T/Col.	26.11.1951
local Brig.	26.11.1951
Hon. Col.	07.03.1958

	OBE	?	?
	MID	01.03.1945	services in the field

Education: psc

			from the General List, Territorial Army
29.08.1931			commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), RAC
29.04.1939	-	03.09.1939	specially employed, Mechanical Cavalry Depot
04.09.1939	-	04.07.1940	Intelligence Officer, British Expeditionery Force
(04.1941)			specially employed
10.01.1947	-	31.12.1947	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), British Army of the Rhine
01.01.1948	-	10.01.1948	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Operations), ...
26.11.1951	-	27.11.1954	Military Attaché (Col./local Brig.), Athens
05.02.1955	-	?	Commandant, RMSM Eastern Command

Abel Smith,
Bertram

Son of Robert Smith and Isabel Adeane. Married Rhona Margaret Ada Hanbury-Tracy (died 1926), 17.08.1905; 2 daughters, one son (Col. Anthony Abel Smith). Of Ratcliffe Hall, near Leicester.

06.02.1879
-
21.09.1947

2nd Lt.	[...]
WS/Lt.
Capt.	(1916)
Maj.	?
T/Lt.Col.	?
Col.	16.02.1924 (retd)

DSO	15.02.1919	Belgium *
MC	03.06.1916	?
TD	?	?

* As battalion commander at Houthem, on September 29th, 1918, he showed great gallantry and power of command. When the left flank of his battalion had been left in the air, he overcame a difficult situation by very able handling of his command. Again, near Gheluwe, on October 1st, 1918, he led his battalion to the attack with great gallantry through very heavy machine-gun and shell fire, though suffering from the effects of gas. His leadership and personal example maintained a fine fighting spirit in his battalion.

			commissioned into the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
			South Nottinghamshire Hussars
(1918)			Commanding Officer, 23rd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
1924?			joined the Territorial Army
26.05.1926	-	06.02.1946	Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the King (additional)

Honorary Colonel, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 23.05.1937-31.03.1946. Co-opted Member (04.1941-04.1946), later Military Member (04.1944), County of Nottingham Territorial Army and Air Force Association.
Sheriff, Nottinghamshire, 1915.

Abel Smith,
Henry

see:

Smith,
Henry Abel

inexplicable why he is officially listed under "Smith", while his brother is listed under "Abel Smith"

Abel Smith,
Lionel Robert

Son of Maj. Reginald Abel Smith, JP (brother of Col. Bertram Abel Smith) and Margaret Alice Holland.

05.02.1893
-
before 10.1971

2nd Lt.	? [309590]
2nd Lt. SR	22.06.1929
Lt. SR	22.06.1932
Lt. RARO	15.06.1918 (retd 05.02.1944; age limit)

?			commissioned into the Grenadier Guards
			transferred to the Supplementary Reserve, Category B, later Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Class III (voluntarily)
			?

Abel Smith,
Robert Eustace

Son of Eustace Abel Smith, JP (brother of Col. Bertram Abel Smith) and Lady Ailleen Geta Catherine Conolly; husband of Mary Sidney Clive Abel Smith, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Of Longhills Lincoln in the county of Lincoln and also of Lodge Farm Much Hadham in the county of Hertford and of 34 Montpelier Square in the county of London.

24.03.1909
-
21.05.1940
(KIA) [age 30]
[Esquelmes War Cemetery, IV.A.4]

2nd Lt.	? [42107]
Capt. SR	23.06.1939

Education: graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University

			commissioned into the Grenadier Guards
			transferred to the Supplementary Reserve, later Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Class I (voluntarily)
?	-	21.05.1940	3rd Battalion The Grenadier Guards (France [killed in action])

Abel Smith,
Wilfred Lyulph

Son of Col. Wilfred Robert Abel Smith (brother of Col. Bertram Abel Smith), and Violet Elizabeth Katherine Somerset.

26.01.1905
-

2nd Lt.	01.11.1935? [78481]
Lt.	01.11.1938
T/Capt.	10.07.1940
WS/Capt.	16.04.1941
T/Maj.	16.04.1941
WS/Maj.	06.05.1944
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	1945/46 (retd)

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

01.11.1935?			commissioned into the Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Abela,
Charles

Son of Paul and Amalia Abela; husband of Antoinette Abela, of Birkirkara.

1905 ?
-
24.01.1945
(KIA) [age 40]
[Imtarfa Military Cemetery, 3.1.11C]

2nd Lt.	19.08.1940 [205330]
WS/Lt.	19.02.1942

19.08.1940			commissioned into The King's Own Malta Regiment [emergency commission]
	-	24.01.1945	2nd Battalion The King's Own Malta Regiment

Abela,
Emanuel

?
-

Lt. QM	07.04.1941 [202143]
WS/Capt. QM	?
Hon. Capt. QM	09.04.1945 (retd)

			Regimental Sergeant-Major
07.04.1941			commissioned into the Royal Malta Artillery

Abela,
J P

?
-

2nd Lt.	24.01.1944 [?]
WS/Lt.	24.07.1944

24.01.1944

commissioned into the Royal Malta Artillery [emergency commission]

Abela,
Joseph Anthony

?
-

Serjt.	? [10350981]
2nd Lt.	29.06.1945 [248690]
WS/Lt.	29.12.1945

29.06.1945

commissioned into the Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

Abela,
Joseph Vincent

31.12.1903
-

2nd Lt.	16.09.1925 [37983]
Lt.	16.09.1927
Capt.	27.05.1933
A/Maj.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Maj.	03.12.1939-21.08.1941, 01.03.1942-15.09.1942
Maj.	16.09.1942
A/Lt.Col.	02.03.1945-13.05.1945, 21.07.1945-...
Lt.Col.	26.02.1948 (retd 29.10.1951)

	OBE	01.01.1954	New Year 54
	MBE	11.07.1940	?

Commander of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (12.1945)

			served King's Own Malta Regiment
16.09.1925			commissioned into the Royal Malta Artillery
04.11.1934	-	14.11.1937	Captain Instructor in Gunnery
			?
(1953)			Civil Defence Commissioner and Commandant of the Civil Defence School, Malta

Abela,
Wiiliam Joseph

?
-

2nd Lt.	02.01.1941 [178378]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1942
Hon. Lt.	14.08.1944 (retd)

			Private
02.01.1941			commissioned into the Royal Malta Artillery [emergency commission]

Abeles,
Walter

?
-

Lt.	11.10.1943 [301317]
WS/Capt.	11.10.1944

11.10.1943

commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps - Palestine Section [emergency commission]

Abell,
Miss Brenda Evelyn

?
-

2nd Sub.	09.10.1942 [250049] 2455e
WS/Sub.	09.04.1943
T/Jun.Cdr.	21.09.1945

09.10.1942

commissioned into the Auxiliary Territorial Service

Abell,
Brian William

?
-

2nd Lt.	05.11.1942 [251249]
WS/Lt.	05.05.1943

05.11.1942

commissioned into The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission]

Abell,
Ernest Samuel

?
-

2nd Lt.	? [122123]
Lt.	05.06.1940 (retd 1945/46)

05.06.1940			commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry [emergency commission]
26.07.1942			transferred to the Pioneer Corps

Abell,
Horace Kenyon

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.10.1939 [103862]
WS/Lt.	02.09.1940
T/Capt.	04.06.1942
WS/Capt.	29.06.1945
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	1945/46 (retd)

15.10.1939			commissioned into The Wiltshire Regiment [emergency commission]
07.09.1941			transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps

Abell,
James Edward

?
-

Lt.	04.04.1942 [199569]

Education: MB

04.04.1942

commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps - unemployed list [emergency commission]

Abell,
John Guy

?
-

Capt.	?
2nd Lt.	14.05.1941 [188307] 1381h
WS/Lt.	14.05.1941
T/Capt.	14.08.1941
Capt.	30.04.1945 (retd; re-granted rank)

14.05.1941

commissioned onto the General List, Infantry [emergency commission]

Abell,
Robert Lloyd

?
-

T/2nd Lt.	04.11.1914
A/Capt.	14.07.1916
T/Capt.	?
A/Maj.	17.11.1917-09.02.1919
Lt.	09.07.1940 [139741]
T/Capt.	28.12.1940
`WS/Maj.	19.02.1944
T/Lt.Col.	19.02.1944
Hon. Lt.Col.	1945/46 (retd)

	DSO	01.01.1919	New Year 19
	MC	01.01.1917	New Year 17

04.11.1914			commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery
14.07.1916	-	?	Battery Commander, Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery
(1918)			104th Battery, 22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
09.07.1940			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Abell,
Robert Peter

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [177067]
WS/Lt.	24.06.1942

15.03.1941

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Abell,
Stephen Thomas James

?
-

Lt.	05.08.1940 [141858]
WS/Capt.	05.08.1941
Hon. Capt.	1945/46 (retd)

05.08.1940

commissioned into the Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]

Abels,
Graham Evlyn Manners

?
-

2nd Lt.	22.08.1942 [242934]
WS/Lt.	12.02.1943
T/Capt.	21.04.1944

22.08.1942

commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

Abels,
John

?
-

Lt.	24.04.1943 [270914]
WS/Capt.	24.04.1944

24.04.1943

commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Abelson,
Sidney George

?
-

Lt.	01.06.1939
WS/Capt.	01.06.1940
Hon. Capt.	1945/46 (retd)

Education: MB

01.06.1939			commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Aberbach,
Friedrich

?
-

Lt.	16.01.1943 [263412]
WS/Capt.	16.01.1944 (retd 26.07.1946)

16.01.1943

commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Abercorn,
The [3rd] Duke of (cr. 1868);
Hamilton, James Albert Edward

30.11.1869
-
12.09.1953

2nd Lt.	441a
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercrombie,
Miss E

?
-

2nd Lt.	2343c
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercrombie,
H

?
-

2nd Lt.	698c
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercrombie,
H D

?
-

2nd Lt.	387r
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercrombie,
H M

?
-

2nd Lt.	2073b, 3125i
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercrombie,
J

?
-

2nd Lt.	1357c, 3447a
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercrombie,
R

?
-

2nd Lt.	1848a
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercromby,
F S

?
-

2nd Lt.	637d
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercromby,
Sir George William

18.03.1886
-
09.09.1964

2nd Lt.	1317a, 2734a
WS/Lt.
Bt. Col.

1905?			commissioned into the Scots Guards
1920	-	1927	Commanding Officer, 6th (Territorial) Battalion The Gordon Highlanders
			?

Honorary Colonel, 6th Gordon Highlanders, 1931-1944.

Abercromby,
H

?
-

2nd Lt.	1318e
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercromby,
J C

?
-

2nd Lt.	2048a
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abercromby,
Robert Alexander

15.08.1895
-

2nd Lt.	11.11.1914 [] 2734a, 3057b
WS/Lt.
Maj.	04.02.1931 (retd 20.05.1933)

commissioned into the

Abercromby,
Robert Ogilvie

?
-

Lt.	25.11.1940 [159269]
WS/Capt.	25.02.1941

25.11.1940

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Abercromby,
R O

?
-

Maj.

? (retd)

			commissioned into the ...
14.03.1942	-	(04.1944)	Assistant Inspector (Civilian), Armaments Inspection Department, Ministry of Supply Area No. 1, Newcastle

Abercromby,
Roy William

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.10.1939 [102966]
WS/Lt.	15.07.1940
T/Capt.	15.07.1940
WS/Capt.	01.08.1942
T/Maj.	01.08.1942
Hon. Maj.	1945/46 (retd)

15.10.1939			commissioned into The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
?			transferred to the unmeployed list

Aberdare,
The Lord

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Aberdeen,
The Lord Provost of

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Aberdeen and Temair,
The Marquis of

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Aberdein,
J

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Aberdein,
R C

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Aberdein,
R J

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abergavenny,
The Marquis of

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abernathy,
W W

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abernethy,
D A N

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abernethy,
Peter Paul

29.06.1897
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.
Lt.Col.	30.01.1943

commissioned into the

Abernethy,
V A

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abernethy,
W D

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Aberstone,
R I

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abery,
E A

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abery,
R T

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abey,
F F

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abey,
H W

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abey,
H W

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abigail,
R A

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abigail,
S H G

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abinett,
V V

?
-

2nd Lt.
WS/Lt.

commissioned into the

Abinett,
William Godfrey

04.09.1899
-

2nd Lt.	17.07.1919
WS/Lt.
Brig.	14.05.1952 (retd 09.06.1954)