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Abbott, J.P.F.
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Abel, W.K.J.
Abel Smith, A.
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Abulafia, A.
Acarnley, C.E.
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Aitken, W.H.H.
Aizlewood, J.A.
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Arbuthnott, R.K.
Archdale, A.
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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)
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO
31.12.1979
?
- Kt
1968
?
Territorial Decoration 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
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
?
?
Mentioned in Despatches 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)
Mentioned in Despatches 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)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 01.01.1954 New Year 54
Member of the Order of the British Empire 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)
  MC ? ?
      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)