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Gadsby, H.M.
to
Gwynn, C.W.

 

H.M. Gadsby  to  C.W. Gwynn
Gadsby,
Henry Martin
H.M. Gadsby 		?
-
Cadet
 		? [2702058]
2nd Lt.
 		06.08.1944 [326830]
WS/Lt.
06.02.1945 (reld 1947)
06.08.1944

commissioned, Scots Guards [emergency commission]
(1944)
 -
 		(1945)
 		NW Europe campaign
01.01.1949
  
 		 
 		short service commission [?]
 
Gadsdon,
Peter Henry
P.H. Gadsdon
From Bognor Regis.
Son of Arthur Henry Gadsdon (1883-1997), and Catherine Fuller.
Married 1st (1947, Hereford) Lesley Delia Bolt; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1977, Westminster) Elizabeth Thompson.
Married 3rd (11.01.1997, Lewes, Sussex) Dorothy Doughty. 

interview at IWM [listen at sample]
 04.02.1918
Westhampnett, Sussex
-
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		03.08.1940 [140653]
WS/Lt.
 		31.01.1942
T/Capt.
 		17.02.1942-...
T/Maj.
 		(1945)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
 28.06.1945
 Burma
Military Cross MC
 12.07.1945
 Burma
Mention in Despatches MID
 05.04.1945
 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
?
 -
 		03.08.1940
 		163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
03.08.1940

commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
1942
 -
 		1945
 		served with 4/14th Battalion Punjab Regiment (Arakan, Burma and India)
Company director.
Gaffney,
George Frederick
H.M. Gadsby 		?
-
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		21.05.1943 [276755]
WS/Lt.
 		21.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.
 		01.11.1945-(04.1946)
21.05.1943

commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
Gaffney,
James
H.M. Gadsby 		?
-
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		26.02.1943 [264442]
WS/Lt.
 		26.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt.
 		28.12.1943-27.03.1944
T/Capt.
 		28.03.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.
 		> 04.1946
Long Service Good Conduct Medal (Military) LSGCM
 27.08.1948
 -
26.02.1943

commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949
 -
 		10.02.1962
 		Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Gale,
Sir Richard Nelson
"Windy"
R.N. Gale (Source: ox18.net/ broadwellrafmjgale.htm) R.N. Gale (Source: ox18.net/ broadwellrafmjgale.htm)
R.N. Gale (Source: ox18.net/ broadwellrafmjgale.htm) R.N. Gale (Source: www.1canpara.com)
R.N. Gale (Source: http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/c_gale [containing more photos]) R.N. Gale (Source: hhttp://www.ornebridgehead.org/richard_gale.htm [containing much more photos])
R.N. Gale 		25.07.1896
Wandsworth, London
-
29.07.1982
London
2nd Lt.
 		22.12.1915
..
 		..
T/Maj.Gen.
 		07.05.1944-03.12.1946
...
 		...
Gen.
 		06.06.1952 (retd 1957) (retd 19.11.1960)
Knight Grand Corss of the Order of the Bath GCB
 1954
 ?
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
 1953
 ?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
 02.08.1945
 ?
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
 1950
 ?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
 1940
 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 31.08.1944
 ?
Military Cross MC
 1918
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 22.03.1945
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 07.01.1949
 ?
Commander of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
 16.01.1948
 ?
Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
 20.06.1944
 ?
Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
 28.12.1956
 ?
Croix de Guerre with Palm (France) CdeG
 28.12.1956
 ?

British War Medal; Victory Medal; Grand Officier de la Couronne (Belgium)

Education: Merchant Taylors' School; Aldenham; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1915); Staff College, Quetta
22.12.1915

commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment
1916
 -
 		1922
 		Machine Gun Corps (WWI Western Front; won MC) (from 1918 India)
11.01.1923
 -
 		31.01.1927
 		Instructor (Class C), Machine Gun School India
1927
 -
 		1930
 		served in India
26.02.1930

transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
20.02.1932
 -
 		31.12.1933
 		General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)
01.01.1934
 -
 		19.02.1936
 		Brigade Major, ... (India)
01.02.1937
 -
 		24.10.1939
 		General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO), ...
13.10.1937

transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
12.1938

Staff Duties (Planning), General Staff, War Office (London)
25.10.1939
 -
 		11.12.1940
 		General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
12.1940
 -
 		07.1941
 		Commanding Officer, 2/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment
05.09.1941
 -
 		17.04.1942
 		Commander, 1st Parachute Brigade (UK)
18.04.1942
 -
 		15.06.1942
 		Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Air), War Office (London)
16.06.1942
 -
 		11.12.1942
 		Directorate of Air, War Office (London)
12.12.1942
 -
 		06.05.1943
 		Deputy Director of Air, War Office (London)
07.05.1943
 -
 		23.05.1945
 		General Officer Commanding, 6th Airborne Division (UK, NW Europe [Normandy], UK)
08.12.1944

also: Deputy Commander, 1st Allied Airborne Army
24.05.1945
 -
 		31.10.1945
 		General Officer Commanding, 1st British Airborne Corps
18.01.1946
 -
 		10.12.1947
 		General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division
01.01.1948
 -
 		16.01.1949
 		General Officer Commanding, British Troops, Egypt and Mediterranean Command
07.02.1949
 -
 		14.05.1952
 		Director-General of Military Training, War Office (London)
24.09.1952
 -
 		31.12.1956
 		Commander-in-Chief, Northern Army Group, Allied Land Forces Europe & British Army of the Rhine
1958
 -
 		1960
 		re-employed NATO: Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
ADC to the Queen, 31.01.1954-1957. Colonel, The Worcestershire Regiment, 20.04.1950-1961. Colonel Commandant, The Parachute Regiment, 1956-1961.
Published: With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy (1948); Call to arms (1968); Great battles of Biblical history (1969); The Worcestershire Regiment (1970); Kings at arms (1971)
Gammell,
Sir James Andrew Harcourt
J.A.H. Gammell
Eldest son of late Sir Sydney J. Gammell, Countesswells,
Aberdeenshire.
Married 1st (1919) Gertrude
(died 1960), eldest daughter of late Gilbert W. Don; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1964) Mrs Mary Kirkwood, widow of Comdr.
David Kirkwood, RN.
° papers
26.09.1892
[Scotland ?]
-
01.08.1975
[Alrick, Glenisla, by Alyth, Perthshire?]
2nd Lt.
 		05.08.1914, seniority 19.12.1912 [8402]
Maj.
 		1927
Bt. Lt.Col.
 		1931
Lt.Col.
 		1935
Col.
 		1938
T/Brig.
 		19.12.1938-06.05.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
 		24.07.1940-06.05.1941
Maj.Gen.
 		07.05.1941, seniority 30.11.1940
A/Lt.Gen.
 		25.12.1941-24.12.1942
T/Lt.Gen.
 		25.12.1942-28.09.1944
Lt.Gen.
29.09.1944, seniority 01.07.1944 (retd 09.05.1946)

KCB 1944 (CB 27.09.1940); DSO 1917; MC; DL

Education: Winchester; Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, 2nd class Hons Hist. Trip.); idc (1938)
05.08.1914

commissioned, Royal Field Artillery



served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches 7 times, DSO, MC)
1927

transferred to Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
1930
 -
 		1933
 		Instructor Staff College, Camberley
05.05.1935
 -
 		1938
 		Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
19.12.1938
 -
 		06.02.1940
 		Commander, 4th Infantry Brigade (Aldershot Command, UK & BEF, France)
07.02.1940
 -
 		21.06.1940
 		Brigadier General Staff, British Expeditionary Force (France)
22.06.1940
 -
 		23.07.1940
 		Commander, 15th Infantry Brigade (Scottish Command)
24.07.1940
 -
 		24.12.1941
 		General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (UK)
25.12.1941
 -
 		06.09.1942
 		General Officer Commanding, ... Corps (UK)
07.09.1942
 -
 		03.01.1944
 		General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command (UK)
04.01.1944
 -
 		17.12.1944
 		Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre
1945

Representative of British Chiefs of Staff with USSR and Head of British Military Mission in Moscow
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County Angus, 1946.
Gange,
Frank Cecil
F.C. Gange
Son of Frank Belson Gange and Nellie Gange; husband of Maud Gange.
 c. 1919
Shanghai, China
-
09.06.1943
Bairagarh, nr. Bhopal, India
(railway accident)
[Kirkee War Cemetery, India, 8.D.6]
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		10.05.1941 [186779]
WS/Lt.
 		10.05.1942
Worked briefly for the Meteorological Office before enlisting the Army.



Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.05.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1943)

4th Field Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery (Poona, India)
Garbett,
Glyn Warren
G.W. Garbett
Son of Thomas and Millicent Garbett, of Crynant, Glamorgan.
 (09?).1919
Crynant, Glamorgan
-
29.04.1945
(KIA) [age 25]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, 20.F.23]
Cadet
 		? [7358174]
2nd Lt.
 		28.04.1944 [315743]
WS/Lt.
 		28.10.1944
A/Capt.
 		?



Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.04.1944

commissioned, South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
?
 -
 		29.04.1945
 		6th Battalion South Wales Borderers (Burma)
Garlick,
Richard Norman Thomas
R.N.T. Garlick 		02.11.1923
-
01.1989
Yeovil, Somerset
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		22.08.1943 [292184]
WS/Lt.
22.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
 22.03.1945
 NW Europe
22.08.1943



commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)

Officer Commanding, 4 Troop, "A" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France)
 
Garrard,
Ronald Ernest
R.E. Garrard (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn) 		(03?).1907
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
1984
Gloucestershire
Sgt.
 		? [10558222]
2nd Lt.
 		28.12.1944 [336954]
WS/Lt.
28.06.1945
Lt.
 		01.08.1947, seniority 28.06.1945
WS/Capt.
 		? (removed from the Army on conviction by the Civil Power 13.04.1950)
A/Maj. ?
 		(1947)
28.12.1944




commissioned, Army Catering Corps [immediate emergency commission]
(1947)

HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
01.08.1947
 -
 		13.04.1950
 		short service commission
 
Garratt,
Lawrence Francis
L.F. Garratt 		09.07.1893
Headington
-
died between 1967 and 1985
2nd Lt.
 		18.07.1913 [5172]
Lt.
 		09.06.1915
A/Capt.
 		11.03.1917-25.04.1917
Capt.
 		18.07.1917
A/Maj.
 		26.04.1917-25.12.1918
Maj.
 		04.07.1932
Lt.Col.
01.08.1939 (retd 29.03.1947)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 03.06.1919
 Italy
Military Cross MC
 01.01.1917
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 15.06.1916
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 05.06.1919
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 11.10.1945
 for gallant and distinguished services in the field
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
 ?
 ?
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
 ?
 ?
Victory Medal VM
 ?
 ?
Afghanistan NW Frontier 1919 Medal & Clasp.
Belgium Order of the Crown (WW I) ?
 		Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 23rd Gunnery Staff Course (1931; and qualified in coast defence & anti-aircraft)
18.07.1913

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery



served World War I (France & Belgium 08.02.1915-17.05.1915 & 20.08.1915-18.11.1917; in Italy 19.11.1917-04.11.1918)
17.01.1916
 -
 		28.02.1917
 		Adjutant, 105th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
13.08.1919
 -
 		15.12.1922
 		Adjutant, ...
01.10.1926
 -
 		21.09.1930
 		Adjutant, ... (Territoral Army)
(06.1933)

8th Field Brigade RA (Mhow)
(01.1937)

8th Field Brigade RA (Mhow, for Lucknow, Cawnpore & Fyzabad)
(01.1939)

7th Field Regiment RA (Catterick Camp)
...
 -
 		...
 		...
 
Garrett,
Richard Strang
R.S. Garrett 		?
-
Sapper
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		21.06.1939
WS/Lt.
01.01.1941



late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Bradfield College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps




served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
21.06.1939



commissioned, 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939

mobilized TA
(1940)

served in Norway
Garside,
George
G. Garside 		19.10.1912
-
[02.2007 still alive]
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		16.01.1943 [261015]
WS/Lt.
16.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt.
 		< 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
 04.04.1946
 NW Europe
1939
 -
 		1943
 		enlisted & served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps (UK)
16.01.1943



commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] (UK & NW Europe)
 
Gartside,
Arnold
A. Gartside
From Oldham.
 		?
-
1953
Winchester
Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.)
 		01.07.1939 [90454] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. (T/OME 3rd cl.)
 		08.06.1940-(04.1941)
T/Capt.
 		29.07.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. 05.07.1945
Hon. Capt.
 		< 04.1946
Capt.
 		01.05.1947, seniority 05.07.1945
Maj.
 		01.09.1950
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
 28.06.1945
 Italy
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
 21.04.1950
 ?
 01.07.1939
  
 		 
 		commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939
  
 		 
 		mobilized TA
01.10.1942
  
 		 
 		transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Gates,
Ronald Henry Charles
R.H.C. Gates 		?
-
1993
Berkshire
2nd Lt.
 		16.07.1942 [237307]
WS/Lt.
 		16.01.1943
T/Capt.
07.09.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.
 		? (reld 10.04.1948)
Hon. Capt.
 		10.04.1948
Capt.
 		18.01.1955, seniority 21.11.1951
Maj.
 		01.11.1956 (retd 25.08.1961)
Military Cross MC
 15.11.1945
 ?
16.07.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]



Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 9 (Far East)
01.01.1949
 -
 		18.01.1955
 		Regular Army Reserve of Officers
18.01.1955
 -
 		25.08.1961
 		Territorial Army
Gaunt,
Ronald
R. Gaunt
From Swaffham.
 		?
-
Gnr.
 		?
Wt.Off. II
 		?
Lt.
 		01.02.1941 [168494]
WS/Capt. 07.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
 		07.11.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.
 		< 04.1946
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 29.03.1945
 NW Europe

 
served in the ranks, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.02.1941



commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
 
Gawthorpe,
John Bernard
J.B. Gawthorpe
Eldest son of late John H. Gawthorpe, Roundhay, Leeds.
Married (1915) Clarice Turner (died 1956), Roundhay; one daughter.
 		12.11.1891
Ossett, Yorkshire
-
20.08.1979
2nd Lt.
 		28.07.1911 [6876]
Lt.
 		1913
T/Capt.
 		?
Capt.
 		16.08.1915, seniority 20.06.1915
A/Maj.
 		01.06.1917-20.10.1917,
19.02.1918-...
T/Maj.
 		16.02.1918-20.06.1921
Bt. Maj.
 		11.11.1919 *
Maj.
 		25.09.1931 (retd 25.09.1931)
Maj. RARO
 		25.09.1931, seniortiy 04.01.1928
Lt.Col. TA
 		16.02.1934
Bt. Col. TA
 		16.02.1938
Col. TA
 		16.02.1938 (supernumerary 11.04.1945) (ceases to draw pay from Army Funds 27.01.1945) (retd 12.11.1948; age limit)
T/Brig. TA
25.08.1939-10.08.1940
Hon. Brig.
 		27.01.1945
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
 02.01.1939
 New Year 39
Mention in Despatches MID
 20.12.1940
 BEF 39-40
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
 19.08.1943
 ?
* in connection with Military Operations in Archangel, North. Russia
 		Education: Wakefield; Leeds
28.07.1911

commissioned, 7th & 8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalions West Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Army



served European War, France and
Belgium, 1915, 1917, 1918 (wounded); North Russia, 1919
29.05.1916

seconded, Machine Gun Corps
14.10.1916
 -
 		20.11.1916
 		Assistant Instructor, Training Centre, Machine Gun Corps
20.11.1916
 -
 		?
 		Instructor, Training Centre, Machine Gun Corps
04.05.1917

transferred from Territorial Force to Regular Forces
01.06.1917
 -
 		20.10.1917
 		Assistant Instructor, Machine Gun Corps
19.02.1918
 -
 		06.04.1918
 		Company Commander, Machine Gun Corps
07.04.1918
 -
 		1918
 		Second-in-Command of a Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
08.11.1918
 -
 		30.11.1918
 		Instructor (Class EE), Machine Gun Corps
12.12.1919
 -
 		05.1921
 		Assistant Instructor, Machine Gun School
01.11.1921
 -
 		01.10.1924
 		Officer in charge of Technical Duties (Class EE), Machine Gun School
28.03.1925

restored to the establishment of the regiment
01.11.1926
 -
 		01.11.1930
 		Adjutant, 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
25.09.1931
 -
 		12.01.1946
 		Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
16.02.1934
 -
 		16.02.1938
 		Commanding Officer, 7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939

mobilized TA
25.08.1939
 -
 		10.08.1940
 		Commander, 137th Infantry Brigade (UK, France, UK) [except for 21.06-05.07.1940]
05.06.1940
 -
 		05.07.1940
 		acting General Officer Commanding, 46th Infantry Division (France & Belgium, UK)
18.10.1940 - (04.1941) Commander Home Guard, Cambridge Area
1943
 -
 		1944
 		Commander, Cambridge Sub Area
Honorary Colonel, 12th/13th (Yorks) Battalion Parachute Regiment (TA), 02.04.1949-12.11.1956. President, 1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association, 1975-1976.
Gearing,
Frederick Edward
F.E. Gearing 		21.08.1892
Brighton, Sussex
-
L/Cpl.
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		07.07.1915
Lt.
 		?
T/Capt.
 		26.12.1918-14.07.1919
Capt.
 		05.11.1919 (reld 30.09.1921)
Capt.
 		31.01.1940 [101214]