Officers of the British Army 1939-1945 -- A

British Army Officers
1939-1945

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A. Archdale to M.F. Azzopardi

Archdale,
Alfred
A. Archdale

10.08.1910
Freebridge Lynn district, Noroflk
-
01.2002
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47503]
Lt.	28.08.1933
Capt.	28.08.1938
A/Maj.	23.01.1941-22.04.1941
T/Maj.	23.04.1941-13.04.1945
WS/Maj.	14.04.1945
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	14.01.1945-13.04.1945
T/Lt.Col.	14.04.1945-14.01.1946 09.05.1949-30.05.1952
Lt.Col.	31.05.1952 (supernumerary 31.05.1955) (retd 13.10.1958)

Education: Royal Military Academy

28.08.1930			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			?
01.06.1946	-	02.09.1947	Instructor
03.03.1949	-	08.05.1949	Instructor in Gunnery, Western Command
09.05.1949	-	07.08.1952	Senior Instructor (HAA), Western Command
?	-	31.05.1955	Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel
12.09.1955	-	(02.1957)	MCO & ME Officer (Class 1), P & E Establishment Shoeburyness
13.10.1958	-	10.08.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (age limit)

Archdale,
Arthur Joseph
A.J. Archdale

18.11.1923
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
19.03.1999
New Forest district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	08.05.1943 [273778]
WS/Lt.	08.11.1943

08.05.1943

(04.1946)

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] (Africa, Italy and Palestine)

Headmaster of York House School, (Preparatory School), Rickmansworth 1963-84. MCC member. CoE. PCC member and sometime Churchwarden Brockenhurst Parish Council.

Archdale,
Arthur Somerville
A.S. Archdale

Son of late F. Archdale, Baldock, Herts.
Married (1907) Mildred Barbara Funnell.

08.09.1882
Baldock, Hertfordshire
-
30.03.1948
Camberley, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1901 [6906]
Lt.	21.12.1904
Capt.	1914
Maj.	14.02.1916
Lt.Col.	31.01.1931 (half-pay 31.01.1935)
Col.	31.01.1935
T/Brig.	24.11.1937 (retd 09.09.1939)
Hon. Brig.	09.09.1939 (re-granted 12.02.1942)

	DSO	04.06.1917	?
	CdeG	17.12.1917	?

Education: Repton; Royal Military Academy; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

21.12.1901			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
02.02.1909	-	02.02.1913	an Officer of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets (Class B.) [31.01.1912 augmented to Class A], Royal Military Academy (seconded for service on the Staff) (restored to the establishment)
			served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches four times, DSO, Croix de Guerre)
06.05.1915	-	?	Adjutant, North Midland (Howitzer) Brigade
20.02.1917	-	14.06.1918	Brigade Major, ...
14.06.1918		?	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General Staff
12.02.1919	-	09.11.1919	Brigade Major, ... (restored to the establishment)
?	-	22.12.1920	... (restored to the establishment)
10.04.1922	-	16.05.1923	Staff Officer RA, Western Command (restored to the establishment [13.07.1923 notification cancelled])
?	-	01.08.1924	Brigade Major, ...
01.08.1924	-	21.05.1927	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
1931	-	31.01.1935	Commander, 9th Field Brigade RA (Bulford)
			Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Artillery)
01.10.1935	-	(11.)1939	Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA), 42nd (East Lancs) Division, TA
(11?.)1939	-	23.05.1942	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Artillery) (reverted to retired list 12.02.1942) (ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers (age limit) 23.05.1942)

Played cricket for the Army (1st class, 1920-1921).

Archdale,
Audley Montgomery
A.M. Archdale

Son of Col. Osmund Audley Archdale and Emily Vita Thorneycroft. Married (29.06.1960, Kloosterzande, Netherlands) Anna Adolphine Henriette barones Collot d'Escury (born 02.08.1937), daughter of Hendrik Adolf André baron Collot d'Escury; no children.

23.08.1920
Blue Room, Plean House, Bannockburn, Stirlingshire
-

[Edinburgh]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [165039]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1949

?	-	21.12.1940	168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940	-	(04.1946)	commissioned into the Scots Guards [emergency commission]
01.01.1949	-		Scots Guards - Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Archdale,
Audley Quintin
A.Q. Archdale (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Archdale.)

3rd son of Edward Mervyn Archdale, 1st Bt., and Alicia Bland Fleming and brother of Nicholas Edward and Humphrys Archdale (both RN). Married (22.03.1922, St George Hanover Square district, Middlesex) Mary Edith Haigh Bury, daughter of Oliver Bury; three daughters.

03.04.1886
Ballinamellard, Ireland
-
(03?).1978
Ross district, Hereford & Worcester

2nd Lt.	20.12.1906
Lt.	20.12.1909
Capt.	30.10.1914
A/Maj.	18.05.1917, seniority 26.01.1917
Maj.	?, seniority 08.04.1917
Brev. Lt.Col.	01.01.1933
Lt.Col.	01.04.1935 (half pay 01.04.1939) (retd 01.10.1939)

MID

16.03.1919

for gallant and distinguished services in the field

Education: Winchester College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1905-1906)

20.12.1906			commissioned, Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery
			51st Battery Royal Field Artillery at Shorncliffe, part of 39th Bde RFA
1909			Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh
1913			sailed with his Regiment from Southampton 21 Nov 1913 on the MHT Dongola, arriving in Karachi, India 13 Dec 1913; wounded 1916
(12.1916)			M Battery Royal Regiment of Artillery (Risalpur, India)
08.1917			ordered back to England after four years service overseas
1918	-	1919	16th Brigade RHA (Germany)
1921			part of the Inter-Allied Commission of Control
31.10.1921	-	01.04.1922	Brigade Major, Divisional RA, 53rd Welsh Division (seconded for service on the Staff with the TA) (01.04.1922 restored to the establishment)
13.11.1922	-	27.09.1924	Adjutant, 81st (Welsh) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (seconded for service with the TA)
01.01.1925			restored to the establishment
23.06.1927	-	1929?	Major Instructor in Gunnery (Artillery), School of Artillery (seconded) (01.01.1929 restored to the establishment)
(03.1931)			1st Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (UK)
(06.1933)			1st Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (Egypt)
1935?	-	01.04.1939	Regimental Lt-Col of Royal Regiment of Artillery (Field Branch):
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Bulford)
01.10.1939	-	13.01.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Regiment of Artillery, Class II) (released because of age limit)
1939?	-	1945?	Commanding Officer, Pre-Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU), Wrotham

Archdale,
Charles Lindsell
C.L. Archdale

06.09.1904
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
(03?).1978
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1924 [31252]
Lt.	30.08.1926
Capt.	04.04.1935
A/Maj.	22.05.1940-20.06.1940 13.07.1940-19.07.1940
Maj.	14.09.1941, seniority 30.08.1941
Lt.Col.	30.03.1946 (retd 29.04.1955)
A/Col.	05.02.1945

	MID	20.12.1940	?
	TD	26.01.1968	?

Education: Royal Military College

30.08.1924			commissioned into The Manchester Regiment
?			?
?	-	30.03.1949	Commanding Officer, ...
?	-	01.09.1969	served Army Cadet Force (Norfolk), Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve as a Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel)

Archdale,
Edward Hugh Montgomery
E.H.M. Archdale

Married ((09?0.1931, Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Doris E. Carnell.

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.03.1943 [284036]
WS/Lt.	14.03.1943

14.03.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
01.09.1944	-	(04.1946)	transferred, Indian Army

Archdale,
Fulbert Audley
F.A. Archdale

Married M. Archdale; at least one son (Lt. Michael Mervyn Lyon Archdale). From Southbourne, Hants.

08.08.1890
Horfield, Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
16.07.1953
Bournemouth district, Hampshire

Lt.	?
A/Capt.	09.04.1918
Capt.	05.03.1919
Lt.	22.05.1940 [131209]
T/Capt.	22.08.1940
WS/Capt.	19.06.1942
T/Maj.	12.10.1942
WS/Maj.	16.01.1945 (reld 1945/46)
A/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	1945/46?

	MBE	23.03.1944	Sicily
	MID	WW I	?

1906			joined HMS Worcester
			attended a Merchant Navy Training School and was apprenticed on barque Inverlyon in which he circumnavigated the world three times by sail; joined Hoogli Pilot Service, Calcutta in 1911
			served World War I with 130th Baluchis (despatches)
?	-	01.05.1922	Indian Army Reserve of Officers:
09.04.1918	-	?	Company Commander
1924	-	1929	Commanded the Karachi Corps Auxiliary Force
26.03.1934			Consul of Greece at Karachi
1939			joined Movement Control
22.05.1940			commissioned onto the General List [emergency commission]
(04.1941)			specially employed
03.08.1941			transferred to the Pioneer Corps

Published: Elementary radiesthesia and the use of the pendulum (1950)

Archdale,
Geoffrey Arthur Frederick
G.A.F. Archdale

Married ((03?).1946, Bury district, Suffolk) Sybil Hunter.

18.11.1908
-
(06?).1954
Anglesey West district, Wales

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1928 [40350] (half-pay 30.03.1930; ill-health) (restored 13.12.1930)
Lt.	30.08.1931
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	21.05.1940-20.08.1940
T/Maj.	21.08.1940-29.08.1945
Maj.	30.08.1945
A/Lt.Col.	30.05.1940-12.07.1940
Lt.Col.	01.04.1951 01.02.1952, seniority 01.03.1951 (retd 01.04.1953; disability)

Education: Royal Military Academy

30.08.1928			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
17.11.1939	-	29.05.1940	Adjutant, ...

Archdale,
Michael Mervyn Lyon
M.M.L. Archdale

Son of Lt.-Col. Fulbert Audley Archdale and Mrs. M. Archdale, of Southbourne, Bournemouth, Hampshire.

06.03.1921
Bideford district, Devon / Cornwall / Seilly
-
25.06.1944
(MIA) [age 23]
[Bayeux Memorial, panel 17, column 3]

2nd Lt.	19.11.1939 [105616]
WS/Lt.	19.05.1941

19.11.1939			commissioned into The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
?	-	25.06.1944	1st (Airborne) Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles [6th Airborne Division] (missing in action while on patrol, Normandy)

'Archdale Close' in Bournemouth named after him in the 1960's/70's as part of a programme of commemoration of those killed in WWII.

Archdale,
Nicholas Montgomery
N.M. Archdale

Son of Maj. Richard Montgomery Archdale and Phyllis Katheren Wake. Married (10.11.1953) Patricia Thomas, daughter of Herbert William Thomas.

05.02.1924
Rhodesia
-

2nd Lt.	22.05.1943 [277406]
WS/Lt.	22.11.1943
T/Capt.	(1945/46?)

MID

04.04.1946

NW Europe

22.05.1943			commissioned into The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
25.08.1943	-	(04.1946)	transferred to the Parachute Regiment (served in the 7th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, part of 6th Airborne Division)

High Sheriff for Clwyd, Wales, 1991.

Archdale,
Osmund Audley
"Om"
O.A. Archdale

Second son of George Montgomery Archdale (who served in the French Army during WW1 and received the CdeG) and Lucy Glynn. Brother of Maj. Richard Montgomery Archadale, and Capt. Patrick Mervyn Archdale RN.
Married (14.06.1919, St. Paul's, Knightsbirdge, London) Emily Vita Thorneycroft (02.05.1897 - 12.1989), daughter of Wallace Thorneycroft; one son (Audley Montgomery Archdale), two daughters.

14.06.1895
Osmington, Dorset
-
10.09.1968
Dorchester, Dorset

2nd Lt.	12.08.1914 [9695] (retd 1918; invalided)
Lt.	? (half-pay 23.07.1916; ill-health) (restored to the establishment 17.03.1917)
Capt.	07.03.1917, seniority 01.01.1917 (half-pay 13.12.1919; ill-health caused by wounds) (retd 13.12.1924)
Capt.	24.08.1939
T/Maj.	14.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	15.07.1941
T/Lt.Col.	15.07.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Lt.Col.	? (retd 07.08.1946; age limit)
Hon. Col.	07.08.1946 ?, seniority 14.08.1945

MBE	11.07.1940	?
MID	02.08.1945	NW Europe
LegH	1945	?
CdeG	1945	?

Education: Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Under Officer, Sword of Honour)

12.08.1914		commissioned into the Rifle Brigade
WW I		seriously wounded in the hip and spent 2 years in hospital recovering, though he limped for the rest of his life
01.01.1918		graded for purposes of pay as Staff Lieutenant 1st Class
16.04.1918	-	ADC to General Sir Hugh Ellis, Royal Tank Corps (seconded)
Stockbroker with Williams de Broë and opened their Paris office in 1920. He moved to London as a partner in the firm in 1938 with his family.
24.08.1939		mobilized Intelligence Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
		joined the Mission of Maj.Gen. Edward L. Spears, which consisted of 12 nominated persons to liaise with the French Army and later became the nominated messenger betweeen Churchill and De Gaulle
05.07.1940		specially employed

Stockbroker.

Archdale,
Richard Montgomery
R.M. Archdale

Eldest son of George Montgomery Archdale (who served in the French Army during WW1 and received the CdeG) and Lucy Glynn. Brother of Col. Osmund Audley Archdale, and Capt. Patrick Mervyn Archdale RN. Married (23.04.1919, Courteenhall, Northants) Phyllis Katheren Wake, daughter of Sir Hereward Wake, 12th Bt.; one son (Capt. Nicholas Montgomery Archdale), one daughter, one son (Nicholas Montgomery Archdale).

29.12.1892
Dorchester district, Dorset
-
15.12.1965

T/2nd Lt.	(1916) [108031]
T/Lt.	13.05.1918, seniority 01.07.1917 (reld 09.09.1919; retains the rank of Lt.)
T/Capt.	20.04.1916
Lt.	04.12.1939
T/Capt.	16.03.1940
WS/Capt.	03.05.1942
T/Maj.	03.05.1942

MBE	21.06.1945	Mediterranean Theatre
MC	18.01.1918	*
	?	Greek Military Medal of Merit

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His platoon held the most intricate portion of the line, and suffered many casualties. He personally reconnoitred and fixed the exact situation of a most dangerous and active hostile strong point, and though wounded, refused to leave his platoon, remaining in command of it till the battalion was relieved. He undertook the personal supervision of the relief, the successful completion of which was due to his courageous efforts. [According to his nephew Audley Montgomery Archdale, his MC was for storming a German machine-gun post on a horse and killing them all.]

WW I			19th Hussars (Military Cross):
20.04.1916	-	?	Staff Captain
04.12.1939	-	(04.1946)	2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Territorial Army [emergency commission]
04.12.1939	-	?	Intelligence Officer, HQ 22nd Heavy Armoured Brigade (posted)

Archdale,
Ronald John
R.J. Archdale

Married 1st ((12?).1941, Wayland district, Norfolk) Caroline Anne Garnier (04.04.1920 - (06?).1978).
Married 2nd ((09?).1978, Wayland district, Norfolk) Betty M. Kingsley.

11.06.1917
-
01.2003
Breccles Hall. Attleborough, Norwich district, Norfolk]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71026]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	11.07.1940-10.10.1940
T/Capt.	11.10.1940-31.08.1941
WS/Capt.	01.09.1941
Capt.	28.01.1945
A/Maj.	01.06.141-31.08.1941
T/Maj.	01.09.1941-08.01.1946 13.02.1948-27.01.1950
Maj.	28.01.1950 (retd 26.06.1958)

MID

12.09.1946

while POW

Education: Royal Military Academy; Staff College, Camberley

28.01.1937			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			? (POW)

Archdale,
William Martin
W.M. Archdale

20.01.1912
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
10.2003
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1932 [50969]
Lt.	28.01.1935
Capt.	28.01.1940
A/Maj.	12.06.1943-11.09.1943
T/Maj.	12.09.1943-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 07.07.1957)

MID

23.05.1946

Education: Royal Military College

28.01.1932			commissioned into The Manchester Regiment
20.04.1939	-	21.09.1939	Adjutant, ... (TA) (temporary)
07.07.1957	-	20.01.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Kings) (age limit)

Archer,
Bertram Stuart Trevelyan
B.S.T. Archer

Son of Bertram George Reine Archer (who was an electrical engineer and owned his own business), and Francis Maud Archer (nee Hatfield).
Mrried (1939) Kathleen Matilda "Kit" Hatt; one son, Ian Stuart Trevelyan Archer, ARIBA, AADip,(Hons), and two daughters, Deidre Marjorie Strowger and Melanie Patricia Archer.

03.02.1915
Hampstead, London
-

2nd Lt.	30.03.1940 [126305]
A/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	10.11.1943
T/Maj.	10.08.1943
Hon. Maj.	? (retd)

OBE	10.06.1961
GC	30.09.1941	most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner *
TD	20.03.1947	?
ERD		Army Emergency Reserve Decorations & 2 bars

* Lieutenant Archer had been employed on bomb disposal since June 1940 and had dealt with over 200 bombs. He had enjoyed unbelievable immunity from death and shown sustained nerve and courage of the highest order. On 2nd September 1940 he was called out with his section to deal with a whole stick of unexploded bombs which had fallen in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's refinery at Llandarcy, near Swansea. Several tanks of oil were on fire, which added greatly to the danger and difficulty of the work. Whilst tackling the most dangerous of the bombs two of the others exploded and it was obvious that the one on which they were working might do likewise at any moment. They continued working on it, however, for several hours until Lieutenant Archer had removed the fuse and rendered the bomb harmless.

07.1936			qualified as an ARIBA at the youngest age permitted as an Architect, at 21
1936	-	1995	worked in Grays Inn, with Ingram Son and Archer (Archer name added to firm after BSTA qualified). Archer continued working with this partnership all his working life apart from the time he spent in the Army
			served with the Honourable Artillery Company
30.03.1940			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers
1940	-		CO No. 104 Bomb Disposal Section deployed in South Wales
			served on in bomb disposal units
10.08.1943	-	(04.1944)	Staff Officer Royal Engineers, Southern Command
	-	1945	CO No. 12 Bomb Disposal Company, RE
1950			re-joined the Army Emergency Reserve and later served with 137th Bomb Disposal Regiment, RE (AER)
1953			CO No. 142 Bomb Disposal Regiment

Honorary Colonel Bomb Disposal Regiments, 1963. Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1970. Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal, 1977. Chairman of the VC and GC Association since August 1994.

Arkwright,
Robert Harry Bertram
R.H.B. Arkwright

Eldest son of Bertram Harry Godfrey Arkwright and Grace Emma Julia Hurt. Married (1927) Kathleen Gladys, daughter of late Major E.E. Hanbury, Scots Guards; one son, one daughter (and one son deceased).

30.07.1903
-
14.11.1971
[Poulton, Cirencester, Glos. ?]

2nd Lt.	31.01.1924 [28043]
local Maj.	01.05.1936-13.07.1936
T/Col.	06.03.1943-...
A/Brig.	06.09.1942-05.03.1943
T/Brig.	06.03.1943-...
Maj.Gen.	02.05.1947, seniority 21.12.1946 (rets 08.09.1951)

CB	26.01.1945	?
DSO	29.07.1943	?
DSO	13.01.1944	?

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

31.01.1924			commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers
1934	-	1935	Staff College, Camberley
01.05.1936	-	13.07.1936	specially employed
27.10.1936	-	14.06.1939	Brigade Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot Command
06.1939	-	12.1939	GSO2, War Office
1940			Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), 1st Armoured Division (France)
1940	-	1942	GSO1, 8th Armoured Division
1942	-	1943	Brigadier Armoured Fighting Vehicles, 8th Army
23.07.1943	-	1946	Commander, 23rd Armoured Brigade [till 8.1944 Independent Armoured Brigade Group; 8.1944-1.1945 Infantry Brigade Group, known as Force 140, from 2.9-19.10.1944 known as ARKFORCE; from 1.1945 Armoured Brigade Group] (Sicily, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Egypt, Greece) (DSO and Bar, CB) [except for 4.12.1944-8.1.1945 & 1-22.4.1945]
1946			Commander, 2nd Infantry Division
1947	-	1948	Director RAC, War Office
1948	-	1949	General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Armoured Division TA
1949	-	1951	General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division

Armstrong,
Robert William
R.W. Armstrong

Son of Robert William and Louisa Blanche Armstrong.
Husband of Catherine Doris Armstrong, of Berwick-on-Tweed.

1906 ?
-
25.05.1940
(KIA) [age 34]
[Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France, plot 2, row 6, grave 32]

2nd Lt.	11.12.1935 [66509]
Lt.	11.12.1938
A/Capt.	1940?

11.12.1935

25.05.1940

commissioned, 9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - Territorial Army (killed in action, Dunkirk)

Armstrong,
Sidney George
S.G. Armstrong

Son of George and Mary Ann Armstrong, of Weybridge, Surrey.
Husband of Helen Armstrong, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.

(12?).1906
Windsor district, Surrey
-
07.12.1941
(KIA) [age 35]
[Tobruk War Cemetery, Libya, 8.N.11]

Cadet	?
Lt.	29.12.1940 [189082]

Education: Woking County Grammar School for Boys, Surrey.

			served (in the ranks?), Royal Army Medical Corps
?	-	28.12.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.12.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
?	-	07.12.1941	2nd Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Arnold,
Allan Cholmondeley
A.C. Arnold

Son of Lt-Col Arthur Seymour Arnold, late Indian Army, and Ruby Burnett. Married Dorothy Hamilton, only daughter of Arthur Webster-Wedderburn, Deputy Inspector-General Police, Jamaica; no children.

23.05.1893
-
29.01.1962
[Bayford, nr Wincanton, Somerset ?]

2nd Lt.	04.09.1912 [4934]
Lt.	11.08.1914
Capt.	07.12.1915
T/Maj.	14.12.1918-05.10.1919
Bt. Maj.	03.06.1919
Maj.	29.09.1930
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1935
Col.	15.08.1939, seniority 01.07.1938 (retd 16.03.1946)
local Brig.	09.11.1939-06.11.1940
A/Brig.	07.11.1940-06.05.1941
T/Brig.	07.05.1941-02.02.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	03.02.1942-02.02.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	03.02.1943-...
Hon. Maj.Gen.	16.03.1946

CIE	1947	?
CBE	30.12.1941	?
MC	WW I	?
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	15.05.1917	?
MID	05.07.1919	?
MID	03.02.1920	N Russia
MID	06.04.1944	?

1914 Star and Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Waziristan Medal & 2 Clasps (1919-1921 & 1921-1924); Order of the Phoenix, Cross of Grand Officer with swords (24.09.1943)

Education: Wellington College, Berks; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

04.09.1912			commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment
1914	-	1918	World War I (France & Belgium 11.08.1914-08.08.1817 & 01.06.1918-11.11.1918)
29.12.1914	-	25.06.1916	A. Sig. Serv.
26.06.1916	-	26.07.1917	Staff Captain, ... (France)
27.07.1917 12.06.1918	- -	07.08.1917 13.12.1918	Brigade Major, ... (France)
14.12.1918	-	30.05.1919	Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General (DAQMG), ... (France)
31.05.1919	-	05.10.1919	Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General (DAQMG), ... (North Russia; wounded)
01.04.1921 09.04.1922	- -	25.03.1922 06.04.1925	Brigade Major, ... (India)
09.05.1927	-	21.12.1930	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Scottish Command
29.09.1930			transferred to the Royal Fusiliers
01.10.1933	-	30.09.1937	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (UK)
15.08.1939	-	(01.1946)	Military Attaché to Turkey (Ankara) (GSO1 to 06.11.1940)

Food Department, Government of India 1946-1947. Ministry of Food 1949-1954.

Arnold,
Alan Edward
A.E. Arnold

24.11.1920
-
(03?).1982
Brighton

2nd Lt.	11.10.1939
WS/Lt.	11.04.1941
A/Capt.	02.03.1943-01.06.1942
T/Capt.	02.06.1942-15.06.1945
WS/Capt.	16.06.1945
A/Maj.	16.03.1945-15.06.1945
T/Maj.	16.06.1945-23.05.1953
Lt.	04.08.1945, seniority 24.11.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	24.05.1953
T/Lt.Col.	31.01.1961-12.10.1961
Lt.Col.	13.10.1961 (supernumerary 13.10.1964)
Col.	18.07.1966
Brig.	1969? (retd 1976?)

OBE

13.12.1966

Education: BSc (Eng); Staff College, Camberley (psc)

11.10.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 03.08.1945]
06.11.1944	-	15.03.1945	Staff Officer, 3rd grade (SO3), RE HQ, AAI [= Allied Armies in Italy?]
16.03.1945	-	31.07.1945	Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ ... Army Group
(01.1946)			Officer Commanding, 59 Commando Squadron RE
02.12.1946	-	06.10.1947	Sn.Comd. [= Squadron Commander?]
29.09.1949	-	05.09.1951	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DAA&QMG), HQ HCD
16.01.1956	-	12.02.1956	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Plans), HQ BTE [= British Troops in Egypt?]
13.02.1956	-	04.06.1958	General HQ, Middle East Land Forces (MELF)
31.01.1961	-	08.02.1963	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Planner) Intelligence/Cartography, HQ South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO)
12.04.1963	-	20.04.1965	Chief Instructor, Tactical School, Royal School of Military Engineering
15.07.1966	-	(02.1967)	Colonel (General Staff), Ministry of Defence
1969	-	1972	Commander, Engineer Support Group

Arnold,
John Henry
J.H. Arnold

?
-

S.Sgt.	?
Lt. (AIA)	18.06.1943 [279466]
WS/Capt. (AIA)	?
Capt. (AIA)	29.11.1946, seniority 18.06.1946
Maj. (AIA)	11.06.1954 (reld 01.09.1956)
Hon. Maj. (AIA)	01.09.1956

			served in the ranks, Royal Armoured Corps
18.06.1943			commissioned, Assistant Inspector of Armourers, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (with rank of Lieutenant) [emergency commission to 28.11.1946]
29.11.1946	-	01.09.1956	short service commission

Arnold,
Leonard Roy
L.R. Arnold

(12?).1907 ?
Edmonton district ?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.08.1941 [201399]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	01.09.1942-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

?	-	16.08.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.08.1941			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			spent the war years in India (Jubblepore, Lahore & Bombay), then Rangoon, Burma and finally Japan (after 1945)

Arnold-Baker,
Richard [Werner] Gaunt
R.G. Arnold-Baker

changed his name from Werner Gaunt von Blumenthal by deed poll of 27.09.1938

Son of Baron Albrecht von Blumenthal and Alice Wilhelmine (née Hainsworth); adopted surname of mother's second husband, Percival Richard Arnold Baker, 1938. Brother of Capt. W.C.W. Arnold-Baker.
Married Edna Honor Arnold-Baker (née ...) (died 05.01.1965 at Athens, Greece).
Of Pipits Hill, Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey.

26.04.191
-
07.2003
Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156821]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	01.01.1944
Capt.	? (reld 01.01.1949)
T/Maj.	01.01.1944
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1949

BSM

23.07.1948

German student, who became a naturalized British citizen, 12.01.1932.

1940	-	1946	served World War II (UK, North Africa, on attachment of US Army, Switzerland):
02.11.1940			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
(04.1941)			Intelligence Officer, Intelligence Section, HQ Scottish Command (Edinburgh) (interrogated Rudolf Hess, who had flown to Scotland)
			served with MI6:
			was in charge of the Visa Department of the British Consul -General in Zurich (Switzerland) [having a staff of 4 SIS men]
			Section V (Counter-Espionage) representative at Bern (Switzerland)
(04.1944)			specially employed
01.01.1949	-	01.01.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Arnold-Baker,
Wolfgang Charles Werner
W.C.W. Arnold-Baker

changed his name from Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal by deed poll of 27.09.1938

Son of Baron Albrecht von Blumenthal and Alice Wilhelmine (née Hainsworth); adopted surname of mother's second husband, Percival Richard Arnold Baker, 1938. Brother of Maj. R.G. Arnold-Baker.
Married ((03?).1943, Kensington district, Middlesex) Edith Woods; one son, one daughter.

Of Pipits Hill, Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey.

25.06.1918
-

Lce.-Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	25.02.1941 [175843]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1942
T/Capt.	? (reld 1946)

	OBE	01.01.1966	Secretary, Nat. Assoc. of Local [Parish] Councils
	Hkn	19.03.1948	service in Norway

German student, who became a naturalized British citizen, 15.01.1932.
Education: Winchester College; Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA 1940)

1941	-	1946	served World War II (UK, Belgium & Norway):
25.02.1941			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			commanded Prime Minister Winston Churchill's bodyguard
			transferred to Intelligence Corps
			served with MI6 (arrested Deputy Commandant of Auschwitz in Norway)

Called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1948. Admty Bar, 1948-1952; Secretary, National Association of Local Councils, 1953-1978; Deputy Eastern Traffic Commissioner, 1978-1990. Editor, Road Law, 1992-1996. Member, Royal Commission on Common Lands,
1955-1958; Member European Committee, International Union of Local Authorities, 1960-1978; a Delegate to European Local Government Assembly, Strasbourg, 1960-1978. Gwylim Gibbons Award, Nuffield Coll., Oxford, 1959. Consultant Lecturer, since 1978, and Visiting Professor, since 1985, City University; occasional broadcaster.
Published: Norway (pamphlet), 1946; Everyman's Dictionary of Dates, 1954; Parish Administration, 1958; New Law and Practice of Parish Administration, 1966; The 5000 and the Power Tangle, 1967; The Local Government Act 1972, 1973; Local Council Administration, 1975, 4th edn 1993; The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, 1981; Practical Law for Arts Administrators, 1983, 3rd edn 1992; The Five Thousand and the Living Constitution, 1986; The Companion to British History, 1996; many contributions to British and European local government and legal journals.

Ashburnham,
[Sir] Denny Reginald;
12th Baronet (cr. 1661), of Bromham, Sussex
D.R. Ashburnham

Only surviving son of Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 11th Bt, and Elfrida, daughter of late James Kirkley, JP, Cleadon Park, Co. Durham. Succeeded father 05.03.1953. Married (22.06.1946) Mary Frances, daughter of Major Robert Pascoe Mair, Wick, Udimore, Sussex; two daughters (one son deceased).

24.03.1916
-
21.06.1999
Guestling, Hastings, East Sussex

2nd Lt.	07.09.1940 [148577]
WS/Lt.	07.03.1942
T/Capt.	09.06.1944

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne

07.09.1940			commissioned into The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(07.1943)			Signals Officer, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicily)
(09.1944)			Motor Transport Officer (HQ Company), 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (seaborne echelon for Arnhem)

Ashworth,
John Blackwood
J.B. Ashworth

Son of Lt.Col H.S. Ashworth (killed in action, 1917), Royal Sussex Regt, and late Mrs E.M. Ashworth.
Married (1944) Eileen Patricia, daughter of late
Major H.L. Gifford (Royal Ulster Rifles) and of Lady Gooch; one daughter.

07.12.1910
-
03.04.1994
Ilkley, West Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	15.04.1942-16.07.1943, 04.07.1944-24.02.1952
...	...
Brig.	13.04.1959 (retd 15.01.1965)

CBE	1962	?
DSO	21.12.1944	?
MID	20.12.1940	?
MID	24.08.1944	?

Grand Officer, Order of House of Orange (1967) (The Netherlands)

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

28.08.1930			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment
...	-	...	...
18.12.1938	-	11.10.1941	Instructor, Royal Military College
12.10.1941	-	14.01.1942	Commandant JL School
17.07.1943	-	03.07.1944	Brigade Major
04.07.1944	-	10.1944?	Commanding Officer, 1st/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (wounded, DSO)
23.10.1944	-	17.10.1945	GSO1, War Office
			OC 4/5 Royal Sussex, 1945; OC 1st Royal Sussex, 1946; GSO1, Brit. Middle East Office, 1947; AMS War Office, 1948; OC 1st Royal Sussex, 1951; Comdt Joint Sch. of Chemical Warfare, 1954; Commander 133rd Inf. Bde (TA), 1957; Director of Military Training, War Office, 1959-62; Inspector of Boys' Training, War Office, 1962-65. ADC to the Queen, 1961-65.

Colonel, The Royal Sussex Regiment, 1963-1966; Dep. Col, The Queen's Regt (Royal Sussex), 1967-68. DL Sussex 1972-83. OStJ 1950.

Ashworth,
William
W. Ashworth (Photo courtesy of Pat Gariepy)

?
-

Suptdg.Clk.	?
Lt. QM	31.05.1940 [137601]
WS/Capt. QM	31.05.1943
Maj. QM	01.11.1947

	MBE	01.01.1948	New Year 48
	LSGCM	28.11.1947	-

31.05.1940

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Aslett,
Alfred Rimbault
A.R. Aslett

14.01.1901
-
15.05.1980
Cowfold

2nd Lt.	24.12.1920 [15528]
Lt.	24.12.1922
Capt.	01.04.1935
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	06.02.1942-02.06.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	23.08.1943
Lt.Col.	26.08.1945 (retd 09.02.1946)
A/Col.	03.06.1942-30.06.1942, 22.03.1943-22.08.1943
T/Col.	23.08.1943-08.02.1946
A/Brig.	03.06.1942-30.06.1942, 22.03.1943-22.08.1943
T/Brig.	23.08.1943-15.06.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	21.05.1945-15.06.1945
Hon. Brig.	09.02.1946

DSO	22.03.1945	?
MID	27.05.1941	?
MID	05.04.1945	?

24.12.1920			commissioned into the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
05.02.1926	-	03.02.1930	Adjutant, ...
03.02.1931	-	02.02.1935	Officer Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
21.10.1938	-	03.08.1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...
24.10.1940	-	14.11.1941	Brigade Major, ... (specially employed)
03.06.1942 17.12.1942	- -	30.06.1942 05.01.1943	acting Commander, 16th Infantry Brigade (Ceylon)
21.05.1945	-	15.06.1945	acting General Officer Commanding, 36th Infantry Division (India)
29.07.1945	-	(31.8.1945)	Commander, 72nd Infantry Brigade (India)

Played rugby for England, 1926 & 1929.

Asprey,
James Frederick Courtney
J.F.C. Asprey

28.06.1920
-
10.1995
Henley, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	04.01.1942 [220946]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 30.11.1945; disability)
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	30.11.1945
RAF:
Wt.Offr.	01.02.1954 [4093458]
P/O	06.12.1956
F/O	?
F/Lt.	06.12.1959
Sq.Ldr.	01.01.1965 (retd 02.04.1966; own request)

04.01.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served with the Chindits in Burma
?	-	01.03.1951	Territorial Army (active list)
01.03.1951	-	27.02.1952	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
27.02.1952	-	05.12.1956	enlisted service in RAF
06.12.1956	-	02.04.1966	commissioned service in the RAF (Airfield Construction Branch) [1961 CO 5004 Airfield Construction Squadron, Aden]

Asquith,
Richard Warren
R.W.O. Asquith

20.07.1914
Halifax, Yorkshire
-
09.1988
Halifax, Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	13.07.1935 [65579]
Lt.	13.07.1938
Capt.	17.07.1939
T/Maj.	11.12.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	22.11.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.	01.05.1947
Maj.	20.07.1948, seniority 01.05.1947
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

	MC	> 04.1944 < 04.1946	?
	TD	12.12.1950	with 1st clasp

			late Cadet, Rydal School Contingent., Junior Division,. Officer Training Corps
13.07.1935			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - Territorial Army
13.07.1935	-	(01.1939)	4th Battalion (Territorial) The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Halifax)
< 11.1939			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
08.01.1951	-	20.07.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Asquith,
Robert Wills
R.W.O. Asquith

Last residence given as both Halifax, Yorkshire & London.

?
-
08.10.1963

2nd Lt.

18.06.1935

18.06.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
18.06.1935	-	(01.1937)	278th (5th West Riding) Battery, 70th (West Riding) Field Brigade RA (Halifax)
< 01.1939	-	(04.1946)	transferred, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class II)

Machine tool engineer.

Astell,
George Henry
G.H. Astell

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.04.1941 [189598]
WS/Lt.	25.10.1941
WS/Capt.	(1944?) (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	(1944)

04.01.1945

Burma

?	-	27.04.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.04.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
(1944)			seconded, Burma Rifles (Chindit force, Burma)
			possibly also served with airborne forces of the Indian Atmy

Aston,
Michael

07.07.1923
-
(03?).1980
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.02.1943 [264646]
WS/Lt.	20.08.1943
A/Capt.	09.08.1946-14.09.1946, 16.11.1946-16.02.1947
T/Capt.	17.02.1947-09.05.1947, 03.07.1947-06.07.1950
Lt.	14.02.1948, seniority 07.01.1946
Capt.	07.07.1950
T/Maj.	15.08.1956-06.01.957
Maj.	07.07.1957 (retd 14.09.1972; disability)

Education: Repton; Staff College, Cambridge (psc)

05.1942			joined, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; served in the ranks for 283 days (chosen for training at a Officer Cadet Training Unit)
20.02.1943			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission to 13.02.1948]
			Platoon Commander, 4th Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Woodhall Spa)
05.1943 06.1944 09.1944 12.1944	- - -	09.1944 12.1944 05.1945	2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (UK [Bulford]) No.15 Platoon, B Company (Normandy; wounded) UK Ardennes & Germany
14.02.1948			transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery [permanent commission]
19.03.1958			transferred to the Intelligence Corps

Astor,
Hon. [Sir] John Jacob
"Jakie"
J.J. Astor

Youngest son (with three brothers and one sister) of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952), and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964), the first woman MP.
Brother of Capt. the Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor.
Married 1st (23.10.1944) Ana Inez "Chiquital" Carcano (marriage dissolved 1972; she died 1992), younger daughter of late Señor Dr Don Miguel Carcano, KCMG, KBE. and Stella de Morra; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1976) Susan Sheppard Eveleigh (marriage dissolved 1985), daughter of late Maj. Michael Eveleigh.
Married 3rd (1988) Marcia de Savary.

29.08.1918
Cliveden
-
10.09.2000
London

2nd Lt.	01.03.1939 [86211]
A/Lt.	04.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	30.11.1942
T/Maj.	30.11.1942-(04.1946)
Capt. RARO	01.03.1949
Hon. Maj.	01.03.1949

Kt	03.06.1978	HM's birthday 78: Chairman, Agricultural Research Council
MBE	01.02.1945	NW Europe
ERD	30.05.1989	-
LegH	?	?
CdeG	?	?

Education: Eton; New College, Oxford.

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Officer Training Corps
01.03.1939			commissioned, The Life Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
1940			joined GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")
?	-	(09.1945)	Officer Commanding, "J" Squadron, later "F" Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (attached SAS Brigade)
01.03.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Farmer and horserace breeder. Contested (C) Sutton Division of Plymouth, 1950; Member of Parliament (MP) (C) Sutton Divisinio of Plymouth, 1951-Sept. 1959. Parliamentary Private Secretary to Financial Secretary of Treasury, 1951-1952. Chairman: Governing Body of National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 1963-1968; Agricultural Research Council, 1968-1978; NEDC for Agricultural Industry, 1978-1983. Member: Horserace Totalisator Board, 1962-1968; Horserace Betting Levy Board, 1976-1980. Steward of Jockey Club, 1968-1971 and 1983-1985. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) 1962, Justice of the Peace (JP), Cambridgeshire, 1960-1974.

Astor,
Hon. Michael Langhorne
M.L. Astor

Third son (with three brothers and one sister) of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952), and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964), the first woman MP.
Brother of Maj. the Hon. John Jacob Astor, MBE.
Married 1st (28.11.1942, Westminster district, Middlesex) Barbara Mary Colonsay McNeill (marriage dissolved, 11.1961; she married 1962, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley, PC), only daughter of late Capt. Ronald Fitzroy Rous McNeill; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (12.07.1961, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Mrs Patricia David Pandora Jones (marriage dissolved 1968), daughter of late Sir Bede Clifford, GCMG, CB, MVO.
Married 3rd ((03?).1970, Chipping Norton district, Oxfordshire) Judith Caroline Traill Innes, daughter of Paul Innes; one son, one daughter.

10.04.1916
London
-
28.02.1980
Chipping Norton district, Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	05.07.1937 [72230]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Lt.	11.04.1945
T/Capt.	02.01.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	?

Education: Eton; New College, Oxford.

05.07.1937			commissioned, General List - University Candidates - Territorial Army
17.05.1939			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (Berkshire Yeomanry)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	06.1945	GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")
(04.1946)			Unemployed List
?	-	10.04.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

MP (C) Eastern Division of Surrey, 1945-1951. Chairman, The London Library; Member, Arts Council, 1968-1971. Member Executive, National Trust, 1978-.
Published: Tribal feeling (1963; autobiography); Brand (1967; novel).

Atkinson,
Richard Henry
R.H. Atkinson

?
-

2nd Lt.	17.07.1943 [288169]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

17.07.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
02.07.1944			transferred, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

Atkinson,
Robert Hemingway
R.H. Atkinson

Son of Robert and Sara Ann Atkinson.

29.12.1893
Scarborough district, Yorkshire
-
(06?).1974
Scarborough district, North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	05.07.1940 [139183]
WS/Lt.	16.08.1941
WS/Maj.	?
Maj.	01.10.1948, seniority 08.07.1946 (reld 01.04.1957)
T/Col.	(1947)
Hon. Col.	01.04.1957

05.07.1940			commissioned, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
05.03.1941			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch)
(1947)			HQ Southern Command (Poona, India)
01.10.1948	-	01.04.1951	short service commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
01.04.1951	-	01.04.1957	transferred, General List

Atkinson,
Robert Hughes
R.H. Atkinson

?
-

2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [179940]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

29.03.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Atkinson,
Rodham Home
R.H. Atkinson

Son of ... Atkinson, and ... Cook.

09.04.1913
Bucklow district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
(12?).1971
Southwark district, London

SQMS	?
2nd Lt.	18.11.1940 [154778]
WS/Lt.	18.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	18.02.1942-(04.1946)

			served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps
18.11.1940			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
22.03.1941			transferred, Army Catering Corps

Attewell,
John Herbert
J.H. Attewell

Son of ... Attewell, and ... Templeman.

13.04.1917
Basford district, Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire
-
10.1997
Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire

2nd Lt.	29.12.1937 [73828]
WS/Lt.	01.04.1940
T/Capt.	22.03.1945
Capt.	?

	TD	21.04.1950	-
	BK	24.04.1946	*

* date of Dutch Royal Decree

29.12.1937			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
29.12.1937	-	(01.1939)	240th (Nottinghamshire Royal Horse Artillery) Battery, 60th (North Midland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) (Nottingham)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.05.1957	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Aubrey,
Herbert Arthur Reginald
H.A.R. Aubrey

Son of J.B. and F.G. Aubrey.
Married ((03?).1920, Steyning district, Sussex) Marion Houghton, daughter of late J. Brooke Houghton; one daughter.

30.07.1883
-
22.11.1954
[Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk ?]

2nd Lt.	20.10.1902 [864]
Maj.	?
Lt.Col.	11.02.1930 (half-pay ...)
Col.	11.02.1934 (retd 05.04.1938) (recalled 1940?) (reverted to retd 12.08.1943)
T/Brig.	24.11.1937-...
Hon. Brig.	05.04.1938
A/Brig.	07.10.1940-...

	OBE	1919	?
	MC	1915	?

Education: privately; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

20.10.1902			commissioned into The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
01.05.1919		29.12.1919	Staff Officer, 1st Class (Air), Air Ministry [as Squadron Leader]
30.12.1919	-	?	Staff Officer, 2nd Class (Q), Air Ministry [as Squadron Leader]
1930	-	1934	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
05.04.1934	-	05.04.1938	Commander, 146th (1st West Riding) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army
05.04.1938		12.08.1943	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
07.10.1940	-	13.05.1941	Commander, 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) (UK)
1941	-	1945	Commander North West London SubDistrict

Auchinleck,
Sir Claude John Eyre

see:

Indian Army

Auger,
Frank Lewis
F.L. Auger

Son of ... Auger, and ... Houghton.
Married ((12?).1946, Wokingham district, Berkshire / Wiltshire) ... Williams.

(06?).1912
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
2007

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [170679]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942
A/Capt.	?

15.02.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Austen,
Amyas Francis Allan
F.L. Auger

Married Betty Martin.

11.12.1917
-
05.03.2007
Grassington North Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	30.06.1939, seniority 27.01.1938 [96385]
...	....
T/Maj.	11.08.1944-06.06.1949, 10.01.1951-26.01.1951
Maj.	27.01.1951 (retd 11.12.1974)

13.12.1945

Education: BA.

30.06.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?			transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps

Awdry,
John
J. Awdry

Son of Walter Robert Awdry (who was the son of the Rev. Charles Roston Eridge Awdry, author of the Thomas the Tank Engine book series), and Mabel L. Thring.

24.12.1918
-
[1990 still alive]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.08.1938 [77675]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	01.06.1940-31.08.1940
T/Capt.	01.09.1940-31.03.1941, 01.11.1941-11.03.1943, 11.09.1943-01.10.1945
WS/Capt.	02.10.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	02.07.1945-01.10.1945
T/Maj.	02.10.1945-24.08.1951
Maj.	25.08.1951
local Lt.Col.	04.10.1953-20.05.1955, 01.08.1956-(02.1957)
Lt.Col.	11.05.1959 (retd 01.12.1962)

MID

07.01.1949

Palestine 47

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc).

25.08.1938			commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Catterick Camp)
...	-	...	...
(1947)			6th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Palestine)
22.11.1958			transferred, The Parachute Regiment
1950s			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment

Ayton,
Philip Atterbury
P.A. Ayton

Son of Sydney Harry Ayton, and Elsie Alice Foster, of Eastbourne, Sussex.

(09?).1921
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
26.12.1943
(DOW) [age 22]
[Dartmouth (Longcross) Cemetery, Devon, G.136]

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941 [184637]
WS/Lt.	?
T/Capt.	?

	MID	03.08.1944	gallant & distinguished services in the field [posthumously]
?	CdeG?	?	? [posthumously]

26.04.1941			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
			No. 2 Special Boat Squadron (died of wounds received during the raid on Petit Port, Sark, Channel Islands (Operation Hardtack 28))

Azzopardi,
Michael F
M.F. Azzopardi

?
-
1944 ?
Warwick district, Warwickshire ?
[age 54 ?]