| R.B.W.
Bethell
to F.W.A. Butterworth |
Bethell,
Richard Bryan Wyndham
|
15.09.1906
Fareham, Hampshire
-
11.1990
Mendip, Somerset
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Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.08.1926
[36294]
|
Lt.
|
30.08.1929
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Capt.
|
24.11.1937
|
A/Maj.
|
27.07.1940-26.10.1940
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T/Maj.
|
27.10.1940-27.11.1941
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WS/Maj.
|
28.11.1941
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Maj.
|
30.08.1943
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
28.08.1940-25.05.1941
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A/Lt.Col.
|
28.08.1941-27.11.1941
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
28.11.1941-14.07.1942,
31.08.1942-15.10.1945
|
WS/Lt.Col.
|
16.10.1945
|
Lt.Col.
|
12.04.1949
|
A/Col.
|
16.05.1945-15.10.1945
|
T/Col.
|
16.10.1945-23.07.1946,
28.12.1947-06.05.1950
|
Col.
|
07.05.1950
(supernumerary 07.05.1956)
|
A/Brig.
|
16.04.1945-15.10.1945
|
T/Brig.
|
16.10.1945-23.07.1946,
29.01.1951-24.03.1954
|
Brig.
|
25.03.1954
(retd 16.07.1959)
|
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DSO
|
01.03.1945
|
NW
Europe
|
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Education: psc
30.08.1926
|
|
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commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
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02.09.1939
|
-
|
26.07.1940
|
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3)
(Liaison), ...
|
27.07.1940
|
-
|
27.08.1940
|
Brigade
Major, ...
|
28.08.1940
|
-
|
27.08.1941
|
General
Staff Officer, 2n grade (GSO2), ...
|
28.08.1941
|
-
|
14.07.1942
|
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
|
194X
|
-
|
194X
|
Commanding Officer, 181st Field Regiment
RA
|
16.04.1945
|
-
|
12.07.1946
|
Commander
Royal Artillery (CRA), ...
|
24.07.1946
|
-
|
18.04.1947
|
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
|
28.12.1947
|
-
|
16.12.1950
|
Colonel
General Staff (Col. GS), RAF Staff College
|
29.01.1951
|
-
|
08.11.1953
|
Brigadier
General Staff (BGS), HQ Northern Command (UK)
|
15.01.1954
|
-
|
09.10.1955
|
Commander
Royal Artillery (CRA), 43rd Wessex Infantry Division TA
|
01.01.1956
|
-
|
31.07.1956
|
Commander
(Brig.), 89 Army Group Royal Artillery (Field) TA
|
01.08.1956
|
-
|
31.12.1956
|
Commander
Royal Artillery (CRA), HQ Royal Artillery, 54th Infantry Division TA
|
16.07.1959
|
-
|
15.09.1964
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Beveridge,
Arthur Joseph
Son of John Beveridge, BL, Arborfield, Grosvenor
Road, Dublin, and Jane Healy Manus, Clare, Ireland.
Married (1928) Sheila, daughter of Lt.Col. William MacNamara, Retd RAMC,
Dublin; three sons, two daughters (and one son, one
daughter deceased).
|
21.03.1893
Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
-
25.09.1959
Venice, Italy
|
Lt. SR
|
27.07.1914
|
Capt. SR
|
19.01.1916
|
A/Maj. SR
|
04.01.1918-15.02.1919,
16.02.1919-26.04.1919
|
Capt.
|
01.04.1919,
seniority 19.01.1919 [8619]
|
Maj.
|
19.07.1927
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
27.02.1940-26.03.1940,
03.04.1940-01.06.1940
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
02.06.1940-20.10.1941
|
Lt.Col.
|
21.10.1941
|
A/Col.
|
13.10.1941-12.04.1942
|
T/Col.
|
13.04.1942-30.04.1946
|
Col.
|
01.05.1946,
seniority 21.10.1944
|
A/Brig.
|
17.08.1947-02.09.1947
|
T/Brig.
|
12.02.1948-14.08.1948,
11.11.1949-27.11.1949
|
Brig.
|
28.11.1949
|
local Maj.Gen.
|
16.10.1950
|
T/Maj.Gen.
|
01.11.1950-07.11.1951
|
Maj.Gen.
|
08.11.1951 (retd
29.04.1953)
|
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CB
|
01.01.1953
|
New
Year 53
|
|
OBE
|
03.06.1935
|
?
|
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MC
|
04.02.1918
|
*
|
|
MID
|
24.12.1917
|
?
|
|
|
MID
|
20.12.1940
|
?
|
|
|
MID
|
07.01.1949
|
?
|
|
?
|
NorMC
|
11.08.1942
|
Norwegian
Military Cross with laurels
|
|
BWM
14|20
|
-
|
-
|
|
VM
|
-
|
-
|
|
39|45
St
|
-
|
-
|
|
DefM
|
-
|
-
|
|
BWM
39|45
|
-
|
-
|
Iraq Operations 1919-1920 Medal & Clasp.
Palestine 1946-48 Clasp.
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His dressing station was
heavily shelled during an engagement, but owing to his determination, courage
and initiative, a large number of wounded were attended to and evacuated from
the danger zone.
|
Education: Belvedere College, Dublin; University
College, Dublin. MB, BCH, BAO, NUI, 1915 (1st place 1st Cl. Hons); MSc., NUI,
1919; DPH, QUB, 1927
27.07.1914
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps - Special Reserve of Officers
|
19.07.1915
|
-
|
31.03.1919
|
mobilized
Special Reserve (for 3 years, 256 days) [served France & Belgium
04.06.1916-11.11.1918]
|
01.04.1919
|
|
|
permanent
commission,
Royal Army Medical Corps
|
1919
|
-
|
1920
|
served
in France
|
1920
|
-
|
1923
|
served
in Mesopotamia
|
1923
|
-
|
1925
|
served
in India
|
1925
|
-
|
1927
|
served
British Army of the Rhine
|
1928
|
|
|
specialist
in Pathology
|
1928
|
-
|
1931
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Hygiene & Pathology, Jamaica
|
1935
|
-
|
1936
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Hygiene & Pathology, Malaya
|
1936
|
-
|
1938
|
Examiner
in Pathology, King George V College of Medicine, Singapore
|
1938
|
-
|
1938
|
Deputy
Assistant Director of Pathology, East Anglia Area
|
1939
|
-
|
1940
|
Physiologist
Anti-Gas Laboratory
|
27.02.1940
|
-
|
26.03.1940
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, 146th Infantry Brigade (BEF, France)
|
27.03.1940
|
-
|
02.04.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, 196th Field Ambulance, RAMC
|
03.04.1940
|
-
|
24.05.1940
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, 146th Infantry Brigade (Norway)
|
25.05.1940
|
-
|
10.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, 23rd Casualty Clearing Station, RAMC
|
1940
|
-
|
1941
|
Commanding
Officer, 221st Field Ambulance, RAMC
|
1941
|
-
|
1943
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, 55th Infantry Division (UK & East Africa)
|
11.1943
|
-
|
12.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, No. 6 (West Africa) General Hospital
|
12.1943
|
-
|
01.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, No. 36 (West Africa) General Hospital
|
27.01.1944
|
-
|
28.10.1944
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, Sierra Leone Area (West Africa)
|
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
Commanding
Officer, No. 37 (West Africa) General Hospital
|
1945
|
-
|
1945
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, 1st Anti-Aircraft Group
|
12.1945
|
-
|
03.1946
|
Commanding
Officer, No. 6 (East Africa) General Hospital
|
04.1946
|
-
|
09.1946
|
Commanding
Officer, No. 1 British Military Hospital
|
1946
|
-
|
1947
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, South Palestine Area
|
1947
|
-
|
1948
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services/Deputy
Director of Medical Services, HQ British Troops in Palestine &
Trans-Jordan
|
1948
|
-
|
1949
|
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, Aldershot District
|
1949
|
-
|
1950
|
Deputy
Director of Medical Services, HQ Scottish Command
|
01.11.1950
|
-
|
1953
|
Director
of Medical Services, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
|
02.10.1951
|
-
|
29.04.1953
|
also:
King's [from 01.04.1952 Queen's] Honorary Physician
|
29.04.1953
|
-
|
21.03.1958
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
Late Assistant Medical Officer of Health,
Lincolnshire County Council.
Published: several scientific articles in Journal of Royal Army Medical
Corps, 1935-1949
|
Bews,
Alastair Innes
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
? [10350998]
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.12.1944
[337956]
|
WS/Lt.
|
30.06.1945 (reld
15.06.1947)
|
T/Capt.
|
22.10.1945
|
Hon. Capt.
|
15.06.1947
|
|
30.12.1944
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
|
|
Bews,
Ian Charles Randall
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
19.06.1943
[281244]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.12.1943
|
|
19.06.1943
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
|
Bews,
John Thomas
|
07.02.1886
Luton, Bedfordshire
-
died between 02.1957 and 02.1967
|
Lt. QM
|
22.03.1930
[45201]
|
Capt. QM
|
22.03.1938
|
Maj. QM
|
01.02.1940 (retd
07.02.1941; age) (reactivated & retd 26.08.1948)
|
|
|
MBE
|
<
1930
|
?
|
|
|
MID
|
22.06.1915
|
?
|
Italian Bronze Medal for Military Valour
(26.05.1917); Meritorious Service Medal; 1914
Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
|
|
|
|
served
in the (Royal) Army Service Corps:
in the ranks for 14 years, 295 days,
as Warrant Officer (WO) Class 2 for 292 days,
as acting WO Class 1 for 1 year, 185 days,
as temporary WO Class 1 for 4 years, 122 days,
as WO Class 1 for 7 years, 275 days
|
09.08.1914
19.04.1918
|
-
-
|
12.01.1918
11.11.1918
|
served
in France & Belgium
|
22.03.1930
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps
|
|
Bews,
Thomas Athol
|
(03?).1901
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
-
|
Cadet
|
? [14649140]
|
2nd Lt.
|
23.06.1944
[325209]
|
WS/Lt.
|
? (reld
20.07.1945; disability)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
20.07.1945
|
|
| 23.06.1944 |
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]
|
|
Bews,
Thomas Elwyn
|
25.03.1906
Redruth, Cornwall
-
29.02.1988
Reading, Berkshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.02.1941
[316458]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.08.1942
|
WS/Capt.
|
? (reld
18.11.1946)
|
Hon. Maj.
|
18.11.1946
|
|
01.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Corps of Engineers, African Colonial Force [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
in the Kenya Regiment
|
Sub-Postmaster.
|
Bews,
William Edward Stephen
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
? [3253949]
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.04.1944
[314762]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1944
|
|
| 01.04.1944 |
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
|
|
Bews,
William Noel
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
? [14436240]
|
2nd Lt.
|
16.12.1944
[334673]
|
WS/Lt.
|
16.06.1945
|
|
16.12.1944
|
|
|
commissioned
into The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
|
01.01.1949
|
|
|
transferred
to Regular Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Biggart,
Thomas Ronald
"Ron" / "Timmy"
From Bude, Cornwall.
|
21.01.1909
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
08.1990
Honiton, Devon
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.07.1936
[68599]
|
Capt.
|
18.07.1939
(reld < 04.1946)
|
T/Maj.
|
09.12.1941-(04.1944)
|
Hon. Maj.
|
<
04.1946
|
Maj.
|
01.05.1949
(retd 09.01.1951)
|
|
|
MBE
|
18.02.1943
|
Middle
East 05-10.42
|
|
|
MID
|
09.08.1945
|
NW
Europe
|
|
TD
|
21.04.1950
|
TD
with 1st Clasp
|
|
17.07.1936
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Devonshire Regiment - Territorial Army
|
17.07.1936
|
-
|
18.07.1939
|
6th
Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
|
18.07.1939
|
-
|
?
|
9th
Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
|
|
|
2nd
Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
|
27.07.1948
|
|
|
transferred
to Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
|
09.01.1951
|
-
|
23.05.1959
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Binney,
Thomas Lindsay
|
22.08.1904
Richmond, Surrey
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.01.1925
|
...
|
...
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
03.06.1942-24.01.1943,
30.06.1943-(01.1946)
|
...
|
...
|
Brig.
|
28.10.1954 (retd
28.05.1956)
|
|
|
CBE
|
04.04.1952
|
?
|
|
|
MID
|
20.12.1940
|
?
|
|
Education: psc
29.01.1925
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
|
06.1943
|
-
|
04.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, 6th Battalion The Cameronians
|
04.1944
|
-
|
?
|
staff
appointment (West Africa)
|
|
Bird,
Sir Clarence August
Married (1919) Dorothea Marian (died 1982), MBE
1918, KiH 1932, daughter of late Major W.E. Nichols; one son (and one son
died on active service).
|
05.02.1885
-
30.07.1986
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
|
2nd Lt.
|
21.12.1904 3212]
|
Lt.
|
23.06.1907
|
Capt.
|
30.10.1914
|
A/Maj.
|
14.10.1917-09.12.1917
|
Bt. Maj.
|
01.01.1918
|
Maj.
|
24.09.1922
|
Bt. Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1926
|
Lt.Col.
|
31.12.1929
|
Col.
|
11.11.1933,
seniority 01.01.1929
|
T/Brig.
|
08.11.1935-31.07.1939
|
local Maj.Gen.
|
28.08.1939
|
Maj.Gen.
|
01.10.1939,
seniority 04.01.1938
|
A/Lt.Gen.
|
01.07.1941
|
Lt.Gen.
|
25.12.1941,
seniority 08.08.1941 (retd 31.07.1944; Indian Pension)
|
|
|
KCIE
|
1943
|
?
|
|
|
CB
|
1940
|
?
|
|
|
DSO
|
1917
|
?
|
|
Education: Cheltenham College; psc
1904
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Corps of Royal Engineers
|
1907
|
-
|
1913
|
served
in India
|
1914
|
-
|
1915
|
Indian
Expeditionary Force (France)
|
1916
|
-
|
1917
|
British
Expeditionary Force (France)
|
1917
|
-
|
1925
|
served
in India
|
1921
|
|
|
Staff
College, Camberley
|
1922
|
-
|
1925
|
Army
HQ, India
|
1925
|
|
|
Army
Course, London School of Economics
|
1926
|
-
|
1929
|
Chief
Instructor in Fortification, School of Military Engineering, Chatham
|
1930
|
-
|
1933
|
Commandant,
KGVO Bengal Sappers & Miners (India)
|
11.11.1933
|
-
|
07.11.1935
|
Assistant
Quarter-Master General (AMGQ),
Aldershot Command
|
08.11.1935
|
-
|
31.07.1939
|
Chief
Engineer, Aldershot Command
|
1939
|
-
|
1942
|
Engineer-in-Chief,
Army HQ, India
|
01.04.1942
|
-
|
1944
|
Master-General
of Ordnance (MGO),
India
|
Regional Commissioner, NW Region, Department of Food, Government of India,
1944-1945. Special Commissioner, 1945-1947. Divisional Food Officer, North
Midland Division, Ministry of Food, 1947-1948. Chairman, Rhodesia Railways,
1948-1953.
Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 11.07.1942-1952.
Colonel Commandant, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1944-1948.
FRSA.
|
Birdwood,
the Lord;
Birdwood, William Riddell;
1st Baron of Anzac and of Totnes;
1st Baronet
|
13.09.1865
Kirkee, India
-
17.05.1951
Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames,
London
|
...
|
...
|
Field Marshal
|
20.03.1925
|
GCB (1923), GCSI (1930), GCMG (1919), GCVO
(1937), CIE (1908), DSO (1908), DCL, LL.D., qs
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
|
|
no
active WW II service known, but carried on in the Army List
|
Colonel, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's),
17.02.1920-17.05.1951. Colonel,
Probyn's Horse (5th King Edward VII's Own Lancers), 21.06.1924-17.05.1951. Colonel, 6th Gurkha Rifles,
12.03.1926-17.05.1951. Colonel
Commandant, 13th Frontier Force Rifles. Colonel, Royal Horse Guards, 13.02.1933-17.05.1951.
|
Birks,
Horace Leslie
Married (1920) Gladys Hester (died 1957), MBE,
daughter of LieutCol Hugh Harry Haworth Aspinall, OBE; one son.
Private
papers
|
07.05.1897
Hackney, Greater London, Middlesex
-
25.03.1985
New Forest, Hampshire
|
T/2nd Lt.
|
25.02.1917-24.08.1918
|
T/Lt.
|
25.08.1918-04.12.1920
|
Lt.
|
15.12.1920,
seniority 25.07.1919 [22474]
|
Lt.
|
29.09.1923,
seniority 25.07.1919
|
Capt.
|
31.01.1930
|
Bt. Maj.
|
01.01.1936
|
Maj.
|
01.08.1938
|
local Lt.Col.
|
10.11.1937-25.10.1939
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
07.11.1939-06.02.1940
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
07.02.1940-02.02.1941
|
WS/Lt.Col.
|
03.02.1941
|
A/Col.
|
07.11.1939-01.12.1939,
28.08.1940-02.02.1941
|
T/Col.
|
03.02.1941-20.12.1943
|
WS/Col.
|
21.12.1943
|
Col.
|
01.01.1944,
seniority 21.12.1943 (retd 01.08.1946)
|
A/Brig.
|
22.09.1941-21.03.1942
|
T/Brig.
|
22.03.1942-20.12.1943
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
21.12.1942-20.12.1943
|
T/Maj.Gen.
|
21.12.1943-28.06.1944,
28.8.1944-...
|
Hon. Maj.Gen.
|
01.08.1946
|
|
|
CB
|
13.12.1945
|
Italy
|
|
|
DSO
|
25.04.1941
|
Middle
East
|
|
|
MID
|
01.04.1941
|
Middle
East 08.39-11.40
|
|
|
MID
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08.07.1941
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Middle
East 12.40-02.41
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1914-1915 Star;
British War Medal; Victory Medal
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Education:
University College School; Staff College, Quetta (1927-1928)
23.02.1915
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enlisted, London Rifle
Brigade and served in the ranks for 2 years, 1 day
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01.09.1915
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-
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07.07.1916
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served
France & Belgium (wounded)
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1916
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-
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1917
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served
with Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps (UK)
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09.07.1917
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-
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28.11.1917
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served
2 Company, D Battalion Tank Corps, 1st Tank Brigade on Western Front, France & Belgium
(wounded)
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1918
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-
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1924
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served
in UK
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01.08.1920
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-
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27.12.1923
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Assistant
Instructor (Class GG), Tank Driving and Maintenance School (temp.)
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15.12.1920
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commissioned
into the Worcestershire
Regiment, but seconded to the Tank Corps
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29.09.1923
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transferred
to the Royal Tank
Corps (later: Royal Tank Regiment)
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1924
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-
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1926
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1st
Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps (India)
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1927
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-
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1928
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staff
officer at Staff College, Quetta (India)
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1929
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-
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1930
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6th
Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps (India)
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28.04.1930
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-
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30.04.1932
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Staff Captain,
55th (West Lancashire) Division, TA, Western
Command (UK)
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01.05.1932
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-
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27.04.1934
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General Staff Officer
3rd grade (GSO3), Western Command (UK)
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1934
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-
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1934
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1st
Light Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
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19.01.1935
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-
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13.10.1937
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General Staff Officer
2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (UK)
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10.11.1937
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-
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16.03.1938
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specially employed,
Staff College, Quetta (India)
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17.03.1938
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-
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25.10.1939
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Instructor (General Staff
Officer 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Quetta
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01.12.1939
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-
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27.08.1940
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General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 7th Armoured Division, Army of the Nile
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28.08.1940
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-
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00.00.1941
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Second-in-Command, 4th
Armoured Brigade (Egypt, Libya) (DSO, despatches twice)
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22.09.1941
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-
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01.11.1941
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Commander, 126th Infantry
Brigade (UK), redesignated:
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01.11.1941
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-
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25.07.1942
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Commander, 11th Armoured
Brigade (UK), redesignated:
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25.07.1942
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-
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25.10.1942
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Commander, 11th Tank
Brigade (UK)
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21.12.1942
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-
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11.01.1943
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General Officer Commanding,
? Division
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12.01.1943
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-
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28.06.1944
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General Officer Commanding,
10th Armoured Division (Syria, Egypt)
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28.08.1944
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-
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?
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Major-General, Royal
Armoured Corps, Central Meditteranean Force (CB)
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01.08.1946
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-
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07.05.1955
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Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
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Secretary,
University College Hospital Medical School, 1946-1963.
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Bisdee,
Morris Sutherland Worgan
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26.03.1909
Launceston, Tasmania
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Lt.
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24.01.1933
[58237]
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Capt.
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24.01.1935,
seniority 01.05.1934
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A/Maj.
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27.03.1940-26.06.1940
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T/Maj.
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27.06.1940-09.11.1942
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WS/Maj.
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10.11.1942
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Maj.
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24.01.1943
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A/Lt.Col.
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10.08.1942-09.11.1942
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T/Lt.Col.
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10.11.1942-25.02.1946
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Lt.Col.
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28.02.1948
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T/Col.
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27.03.1954-31.05.1956
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Col.
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01.06.1956 (retd
01.09.1964)
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