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1939-1945

 

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Godby,
Henry William Thomas

H.W.T. Godby
Son (with three brothers and three sisters) of Thomas Godby (1891-1966), and Edith Annie Ing (1896-1944).
Married ((03?).1940, Ashby de la Zouch district, Leicestershire) Ellen Dean (11.07.1917 - 20.01.1991), daughter of John Dean, and Mary Draper; one daughter, one son. Ellen Godby remarried ... Smith.
30.07.1918
-
10.1984
St Albans, Hertfordshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 05.03.1943 [265844]
WS/Lt. 28.07.1944 (reld 08.04.1946)
A/Capt. 03.12.1945-(02.03.1946?)
T/Capt. 03.03.1946?-08.04.1946
Hon. Capt. 08.04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe (Buhne
? - 26.07.1942 served in the ranks, 4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
27.07.1942 - 04.03.1943 161st Officer Cadet Training Unit
05.03.1943     commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
05.03.1943     2nd Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment
12.08.1944     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Goddard,
Arnold

A. Goddard
?
-
1978
Cadet
? [T/221764]
2nd Lt.
09.10.1943 [296038]
WS/Lt.
09.04.1944 (reld 1946)
09.10.1943
 
 
commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
1944?


transferred, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)



probably served in France & Burma
Goddard,
David Michael

D.M. Goddard
Second son (with two brothers and one sister) of Frederick Walter Goddard (1892-1957), and Eva Mildred Oliver (1897-1966).
Brother of S.Lt. Frederick Maurice John Goddard, RNVR.
Married (15.07.1950, St Marylebone district, London) Agnes Claire Frances Cockwill (née Wyton) ((12?).1925 - 29.03.2015), daughter of Thomas Henry Wyton (1899-1942), and Martha Agnes Baker (1898-1979); three daughters.
01.03.1925
Winchester, Hampshire
-
30.06.1992
Plymouth district, Devon
Cadet ? [14423617]
2nd Lt. 08.04.1944 [314782]
WS/Lt. 08.10.1944
T?/Capt. 1947? (reld > 04.1947)
Military Cross MC 12.07.1945 NW Europe 1944-1945
Education: Winchester College (1938.3-1943.1; B House).
08.04.1944     commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
 1944 - 1945 2nd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (NW Europe) (MC)
1945     Tripoli (Lybia)
1946     HQ British Military Administration, Dodecanese
1947     Eritrea
1948     2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade & Public Relations, British Army of the Rhine
Actor since 1950.
Goddard,
Frederick Charles
F.C. Goddard (Photo courtesy of Mr Hywel George)
?
-
?
Cadet ? [14237322]
2nd Lt. 01.10.1943 [295119]
WS/Lt. 01.04.1944
T/Capt. 09.11.1944-(04.1946)

MiD, Dutch Bronze Cross

01.10.1943     commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) [emergency commission]
(1944)     5th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment
Mr Howard Evans writes: "I believe this is the same man. Born Taunton 27/12/1910. Died Harrogate, Claro district, Yorkshire 29/1/1985. Rugby Prop forward. ENGLAND SERVICES Taunton/Somerset County (47 pre-war appearances)/South-East Command. The son of a college porter, he married Irene Churchill in 1934 and was a Licensed Victualler at the ‘Royal Marine’ in 45 Silver Street, Taunton in 1939. He played for the Rhine Army XV and BAOR Combined Services in Germany 1946. His wife died in 1942."
Goddard,
Kenneth Maurice

K.M. Goddard
Son of ... Goddard, and ... Ballard.
Married ((06?).1948, Surrey North Western district) Mary Cannon (predeceased him); one daughter.
(09?).1917
Wandsworth district, London
-
11.01.2010
2nd Lt. 26.04.1941 [184287]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 01.04.1945-(04.1946)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. ?
Mention in Despatches MID 19.09.1946 Burma
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 26.06.1990 -
26.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Godden,
Harold Edgar Keeble

H.E.K. Godden (Photo courtesy of Mr Mike Godden)
Son of Edgar James Godden, and Edith May Keeble.
Married (07.07.1943, Salisbury district, Wiltshire) Betty Ruth M. Street (remarried 1956 as Roberts) (09.02.1923 - 05.2001); one son, one daughter.
16.07.1922
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
11.06.1951
Rooksdown House, Sherborne St. John (Army plastic surgery unit) following severe burns sustained in a domestic accident
[Ruislip (St. Martin) Churchyard Extension]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 12.12.1942 [255839]
WS/Lt. 12.06.1943
A/Capt. 08.07.1944-07.10.1944
T/Capt. 08.10.1944-15.04.1945
WS/Capt. 16.04.1945
A/Maj. 16.01.1945-15.04.1945
T/Maj. 16.04.1945-(04.1947)
Lt. 22.10.1949, seniority 16.01.1945
Capt. 22.10.1949, seniority 16.07.1949
08.1941     enlisted
10.1941     training, 61st Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (Tidworth)
      103rd Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) (Perham Down, then Sandhurst)
12.12.1942     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
12.12.1942     161st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps, redesignated: 12th Battalion Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (Scarborough, from 07.1943 East Africa)
07.1943     East Africa Armoured Car Regiment (Gilgil, Kenya)
07.1944     British Military Mission Ethiopia
12.1946     returned to UK
      War Office Selection Board (Lingfield, Surrey)
13.12.1947     transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
22.10.1949     permanent commission, Royal Army Service Corps
02.1950     RASC HQ Aldershot, Hampshire
Godfrey,
Geoffrey Ernest

G.E. Godfrey
02.11.1910
Staines district, Middlesex
-
03.1988
Chiltern & South Buckinghamshire district, Buckinghamshire
Cadet
? [2358439]
2nd Lt.
18.02.1945 [346084]
WS/Lt.
18.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
18.02.1945
 
 
commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]



served in Singapore & Burma
Godley,
William

W. Godley (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Godley)
Married (07.05.1946, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh) Gladys Jones (07.04.1921 Yorkshire, England - 03.05.1992 Lenzie, Scotland), serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service; three sons.
11.01.1919
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
10.01.2006
Glasgow, Scotland
Gunner 31.03.1938
A/Bombardier 16.09.1940
Bombardier 19.01.1942
A/Sergeant 21.11.1941
Cadet 20.02.1942
2nd Lt. 08.10.1942 [247617]
WS/Lt. 08.04.1943 (reld 09.07.1946)
A/Capt. 19.08.1945
T/Capt. 19.11.1945
Hon. Capt. 09.07.1946
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: Holy Cross Academy, Edinburgh; St Anthony's Intermediate School, Edinburgh.
31.03.1938     enlisted, 292nd Battery, 94th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army (Edinburgh)
26.09.1938 - 08.10.1938 called out for military service
19.08.1939     called out for military service
02.09.1939     mobilized TA
08.10.1940     transferred, 227th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (UK; an RA demonstraion unit))
20.02.1942 - 07.10.1942 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.10.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
20.09.1943     posted to Coventry
17.11.1943 - 30.03.1946 posted to an Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (India)
Worked for the South of Scotland Electricity Board and eventually became head of their Agricultural Advisory Engineering Department.
Godwin,
Harry Peter

H.P. Godwin
Son of ... Godwin, and ... Hodge.
Married ((03?).1946, Chelsea district, London) Freeland Home-Morton.
03.03.1919
Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
03.1989
Exeter district, Devon
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 29.11.1939 [101347]
WS/Lt. 29.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
29.11.1939     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
14.08.1941     transferred, North Somerset Yeomanry (TA)
13.03.1943     transferred, Royal Tank Regiment
Godwin,
Peter

P. Godwin
13.12.1919
-
27.01.1999
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 28.03.1942 [229569]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld 26.11.1944; disability)
28.03.1942     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
Godwin-Austen,
[Sir] Alfred Reade
A.R. Godwin-Austen A.R. Godwin-Austen
A.R. Godwin-Austen  
Second son of Lt.Col. Alfred Godwin Godwin­Austen (1844-),
24th and 89th Regiments, and Sara Matilda Orred.
Remained unmarried.

17.04.1889
Frensham, near Farnham, Surrey
-
20.03.1963

Maidenhead Hospital, St Luke's Road, Maidenhead
2nd Lt.
06.11.1909 [6446]
...
...
Maj.Gen.
23.08.1939, seniority 14.07.1938
A/Lt.Gen.
18.09.1941-08.02.1942,
20.01.1945-(01.1946)
local Lt.Gen.
16.01.1945-19.01.1945
T/Lt.Gen.
...-28.03.1946
Lt.Gen.
29.03.1946, seniority 05.01.1943
Gen.
01.05.1946 (retd 06.03.1947)

KCSI, 13.06.1946; CB 30.05.1941; OBE; MC
MID 15.09.1939, 26.07.1940, 11.02.1941, 15.12.1942

Education: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
06.11.1909
 
 
commissioned, South Wales Borderers
...
-
...
...
23.08.1939
-
28.02.1940
General Officer Commanding, 8th Infantry Division (Palestine & Trans-Jordan)
29.02.1940
-
11.09.1940
General Officer Commanding, .. Division (British Somaliland)
12.09.1940
-
23.11.1940
General Officer Commanding, 2nd (African) Infantry Division (East Africa), redesignated:
24.11.1940
-
17.09.1941
General Officer Commanding, 12th (African) Infantry Division (East Africa, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia)
18.09.1941
-
08.02.1942
General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps (Libya)
1942
-
1942
Commandant, Staff College, Camberley
16.11.1942
-
21.10.1943
Director of Tactical Investigation, War Office (London)
22.10.1943
-
1945
Vice Quartermaster-General, War Office (London)
07.09.1945
-
1945
special appointment: Quartermester-General, India Command (New Delhi)
1945
-
(04.1946)
special appointment: Principal Administrative Officer, India Command (New Delhi)
Goff,
Alfred James
A.J. Goff
Married (04.04.1931) Kathleen May Sargent; three daughters, one son. Lived in Woodcote.
22.11.1903
[Whitchurch?], Bradfield, Berkshire
-
(06?).1983
Woodcote, Reading & Wokingham district, Berkshire
Pte.
09.05.1921 [5330613]
Dvr.
1922
L/Bdr.
?
Bdr.
1927
Sgt.
(1929/30?)
BQMS (IG)
1931
BSM (AIG)
01.11.1935
Lt. (DOIG)
10.04.1940 [125753]
WS/Capt. (DOIG)
10.04.1943
A/Maj. (DOIG)
1945
T/Maj. (DOIG)
?
Capt. (DOIG)
14.12.1948, seniority 01.11.1947
Capt. (DO)
01.11.1949, seniority 10.04.1943
Maj. (DO)
19.12.1949 (reld 02.11.1955; own request)
Hon. Maj. (DO)
02.11.1955
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
01.01.1949
New Year 49
Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (10.1939)
Education: Army Ceritificates of Education: 3rd Class (15.05.1923, Bareilly), 2nd Class (28.09.1923, Bareilly); 1st Class (13.10.1926, Jubblepore)
Labourer.
09.05.1921


enlisted, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Reading, Berkshire)
(1921)


2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Portobello Barracks, Dublin, Ireland)
11.02.1922
-
17.04.1929
served in India:
1922
-
1922
1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India)
1922
-
1929
transferred to Royal Field Artillery: 71st Field Battery (India) [serving as Driver, Lance-Bombardier & Bombardier; 1926-1927 Jubblepore; 19.09-08.10.1927 Gunnery Course School of Artillery Kakul; 1928 Saugor practice camp]
1929?
-
1930?
26th Field Brigade (Bulford Camp)
22.09.1930
-
27.09.1931
23rd Gunnery Staff Course, Okehampton Camp
1931
-
1940
with the Territorial Army (TA) Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) School of Artillery & Instructor at the Military College of Science
1931


Battery Quartermaster Sergeant (Instructor in Gunnery) (BQMS (IG))
[passed NCO's PS TA Course, School of Artillery, Larkhill, 16.10.1933-04.11.1933]
01.11.1935
-
09.04.1940
Battery Sergeant-Major (Assistant Instructor in Gunnery) (BSM (IG))
[passed Anti-Aircraft Unit Instructor's Course, 20.09-31.10.1936]
10.04.1940


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] as District Officer-Instructor in Gunnery (DOIG) (qualified in anti-aircraft gunnery)
19.04.1940


1940

1940
-
1945
Instructor in Gunnery, School of Anti-Aircraft Defence [later: School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery] (Manorbier, South Wales)
9th LAA Practice Camp Cartmel/Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire
MT10 War Office teaching & training men/units in AA
1945
-
1949
Technical Advisor to the Brigadier RA & Governor of Gibraltar on defence of the Fortress relating to AA & Field
01.11.1949
-
02.11.1955
short service commission: Quartermaster of various male & mixed AA units
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 1955-1972; CPS Chemical Co., 1972-(1982?).
Goldhawk,
Roland John
R.J. Goldhawk (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Jennings)
Son of Roland Macalpine Goldhawk, and Letitia Larsen.
Married ...; two sons, one daughter.
12.12.1915
Uitenhaege, Eastern Province, South Africa
-
24.06.1996
Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 20.02.1943 [264207]
WS/Lt. 20.08.1943 (reld 17.07.1945; on appointment to Southern Rhodesian Forces)
20.02.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
      served with the Chindits (Burma)
Served in Rhodesian Army as Officer Commanding of the Royal Rhodesian Engineers, 1 Squadron.
Goldie,
Hugh Desmond Barré
H.D.B. Goldie
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Col. Barré Algernon Highmore Goldie, CBE, TD (1870-1949), and Bertha Hollis (?-1938), of Old Rectory, Brampton, Huntingdon.
Married 1st (07.1933, Abingdon district, Berkshire) Helen Sydenham Rowell (02.02.1908 - 04.1985), daughter of Maj. R.S. Rowell, TD, of Appleton, Berkshire.
Married 2nd (01.1986, Wallingford, Berkshire) Audrey Vivienne Massereene Going Kennedy (01.03.1910 - 01.2005), earlier married to John Archibald Goldie .
19.07.1907
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
12.1994
Wallingford, Berkshire
2nd Lt. TA 20.04.1926
2nd Lt. 01.09.1928 [35416]
Lt. 31.01.1932
Capt. 01.08.1938
A/Maj. 25.10.1940-24.01.1941
T/Maj. 25.01.1941-14.12.1943,
02.03.1944-29.05.1944,
22.06.1944-31.08.1945
Maj. 01.09.1945 (retd 10.09.1951)
A/Lt.Col. 06.07.1945-05.10.1945
T/Lt.Col. 06.10.1945-(04.1946)
T/Col. ?
Hon. Col. 10.09.1951
2nd Lt. 26.08.1952
Capt. 26.08.1952 (reld 31.03.1956)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 02.01.1950 New Year 50
Military Cross MC 11.07.1940 BEF 39-40 [citation available upon request]
Cadet Forces Medal CFM 01.1969 -
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp. Order of Independence, 2nd class [Order of El Istiqlal] (Jordan), 18.10.1949.
Education: Shrewsbury.
20.04.1926 - 01.09.1928 commissioned, 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA - Territorial Army
01.09.1928     commissioned, The West Yorkshire Regiment
08.06.1929 - 10.09.1951 transferred, The Royal Scots Fusiliers (served France, India, Persia, Syria & Egypt)
(05.1940)     Officer Commanding, 17th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company
1947 - 1949 Commander, 1st Mechanized Brigade of the Arab Legion
10.09.1951 - 13.08.1958 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
26.08.1952 - 31.03.1956 commissioned, General List - Territorial Army
County Commandant (Lt.), Oxfordshire Army Cadet Force 31.10.1956-31.08.1969. County Honorary Secretary, Forces Help Society, Oxfordshire.Deputy Lieutenant (DL), 04.06.1965 & Justice of the Peace (JP), 1967, Oxfordshire.
Golding,
Ardale Vautier
A.V. Golding
Only son of Arthur Vautier Golding (1864-1936), and Annie Violet Norrie, of Sancote, Scarborough.
Married 1st (25.06.1932, St Margaret's, Lee) Betty Evelyn Rowsell, only daughter of Eustace F. Rowsell (of Ceylon,), and Mrs Rowsell, of Blackheath; ... children (two sons?).
Married 2nd Anna Fletcher Snow.
26.12.1902
Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
26.05.1992
Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Sgt. ?
2nd Lt. TA 01.08.1925 [33027]
2nd Lt. 31.01.1927
Lt. 31.01.1930
Capt. 01.03.1937
A/Maj. 01.09.1939-30.11.1939
T/Maj. 01.12.1939-30.11.1942
WS/Maj. 01.12.1942
Maj. 31.01.1944
local Lt.Col. 04.10.1940-16.09.1941
A/Lt.Col. 01.09.1942-30.11.1942
T/Lt.Col. 01.12.1942-(04.1946)
Col. 01.04.1953 (retd 04.08.1956)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE ? ?
Education: University College School (played cricket 1921); BSc, Mechnical Engineering; passed final examination of the Advanced Class, Military College of Science (pac).
      late Cadet Under Officer, University College School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.08.1925     commissioned, 23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps - Territorial Army
31.01.1927     commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [from 1939 Royal Tank Regiment] [supposedly "the only officer in the history of the RTR never to take up a regimental posting"]
1928 - 1931 Military College of Science
16.04.1931 - 12.09.1932 specially employed, War Office (MI1?)
13.09.1932 - 31.12.1937 2nd Assistant Superintendent (Class FF to 12.09.1934, then Class CC), Design Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
01.01.1938 - 01.09.1939 specially employed (Class CC to 31.07.1938): attached to British Military Attaché, Berlin; co-authored technical handbook for field troops
02.1940 - 19.06.1940 was in France as a Liaison Officer with the French Ministry of Defence; left Bordeaux on the tramp ship Broompark; he and the Earl of Suffolk (a civilian) were instrumental in saving 600 tons of machine tools, the French supply of heavy water and £2 million pounds worth of cut diamonds; arrived at Falmouth 21.06.1940
(1941)     Assistant Military Attaché, Washington, DC, USA
1949 - 1956 served at Fort Halstead, Kent
04.08.1956 - 26.12.1960 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
MIMechE. Diplomatic capacity Armaments Control Agency of Western European Union based in Paris.
Golding,
Norman Henry
N.H. Golding
Son of Thomas Golding (1885-), and Cicely Turner (1888-1985).
Married 1st ((06?).1936, Wandsworth district, London) Lilian Frances M. Jeffels (30.08.1909 - (09?).1978); ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd ((03?).1979, Surrey South Western district, Surrey) Isobel Margaret Bell (12.06.1922 - 06.2001).
14.10.1914
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
11.2000
Surrey Northern district, Surrey
2nd Lt. 01.06.1939 [91949]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
WS/Capt. 02.07.1942-30.09.1945
WS/Capt. 01.10.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 01.10.1945-....
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 23.03.1944 Sicily
      late Cadet Serjeant, Bedford School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.06.1939     commissioned, 4th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(1943)     1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (Sicily) (despatches)
Goldsmith,
Harold Eric

H.E. Goldsmith
Son of ... Goldstein, and ... Ludzski.
Born as Harold Goldstein. Changed name by deed poll of 29.11.1939.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

21.07.1915
St Martin district, London,
-
27.08.1980
Camden district, London
Cadet ? [T/6850798]
2nd Lt. 07.07.1945 [352089]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1946 (rled > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
Traveller.
07.07.1945     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps[emergency commission]
Goldsmith,
Oliver
O. Goldsmith
02.07.1911
-
24.01.1944
[age 32]
[Brookwood Memorial, panel 13, column 2]
2nd Lt.
27.08.1931 [52630]
Lt.
27.08.1934
Capt.
27.08.1939
Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society RHS Br
19.08.1930
lifesaving at Wicklow *
* At about 3pm on 19 August 1930 John F Goldsmith (51), a retired Engineer Commander, went into the sea at Ballinacarrig, Co. Wicklow, in an attempt to assist his son who apparently in danger. Having swam out some 50 to 60 yards fully clothed, he got into difficulties. Miss Amy K Goldsmith then swam out to assist him and kept him up until Oliver Goldsmith (19) swam out to them and took his uncle to shore. Unfortunately, Commander Goldsmith did not recover. Oliver Goldsmith then went back into the sea and assisted his aunt back to shore. The rescue was brought to the attention of the RHS by Lt Colonel F E Whitton, from West Byfleet, and the Society approved the award of its bronze medal to Oliver Goldsmith and a testimonial on Vellum to Amy Goldsmith at its committee meeting on 13 January 1931. The Society despatched the awards by post to Lt.Col. Whitton on 2 February 1931 for him to organise their presentation. RHS case no. 50653.
Education: Royal Military College, Woolwich
27.08.1931


commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment  (Duke of Edinburgh's)
(06.1933)


1st Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Singapore)
(01.1937)


1st Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Bangalore, India)
(01.1939)


2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Catterick Camp)



30th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment
?
-
24.01.1944
seconded 2nd/4th Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Goldstone,
Lionel Stanley
L.S. Goldstone L.S. Goldstone (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)
L.S. Goldstone (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs) L.S. Goldstone (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)
L.S. Goldstone (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)

Son of Harry J. Goldstein (1881-), mantle manufacturer, and Jane Goldstein (1884-) (who changed their surname to Goldstone).
Married ((03?).1927, Hampstead district, London; divorced) Vera Rebecca Esterman (27.10.1906 - 03.1999); one son. Vera Goldstone remarried (1939) Arny Ernest Jay (formerly Jacobovitz) (1900-1970).

(06?).1905
Hackney district, London
-
07.11.1943
(died of wounds received in action) [age 38]
[Minturno War Cemetery, Italy, I.C.12]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 26.10.1940 [153926]
WS/Lt. 26.04.1942
A/Capt. ?
Military Cross MC 10.02.1944 Italy (Teano 30.10.43) [immediate award; posthumously] [recommendation available upon request]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
? - 26.10.1940 Sandhurst Officer Cadet Training Unit
26.10.1940     commissioned, South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
? - 07.11.1943 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
 
Gomersall,
Harry Tolson
H.T. Gomersall
Son (with three sisters) of Harry Gomersall (1872-), and Annie Coldwell.
Married (07.01.1939, Lower Agbrigg, West Riding of Yorkshire) Marian Baldwin; ... children.
14.06.1910
Cahir, Tipperary, Ireland
-
05.1995
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Lt. 20.06.1940 [137745]
A/Capt. 27.01.1941-26.04.1941
T/Capt. 27.04.1941-19.12.1941
A/Maj. 20.09.1941-19.12.1941
T/Maj. 20.12.1941-25.03.1943
WS/Maj. 26.03.1943
A/Lt.Col. 26.12.1942-25.03.1943
T/Lt.Col. 26.03.1943-17.03.1944,
09.09.1945-02.04.1946
Lt. 02.01.1946, seniority 01.08.1938
Capt. 02.01.1946, seniority 14.06.1941
Maj. 01.07.1946
T/Lt.Col. 01.07.1954-27.08.1954
Lt.Col. 28.08.1954 (retd 01.03.1957)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 01.01.1957 New Year 57
Mention in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 Middle East
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.
      served in the ranks for 8 years, 3 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class II for 3 years, 263 days
20.06.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 01.01.1946]
01.04.1942 - 25.12.1942 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Middle East Land Forces
02.01.1946     permanent commission
23.10.1947 - 12.08.1948 Instructor Gunnery, Coast Artillery School
13.08.1948 - 12.12.1949 Secretary, Coast & Seaward Defence Centre
Good,
Wilfred Geoffrey
W.G. Good
Son of John Duncan Good, and Beatrice Emma Wells.
Married ((09?).1937, Windsor district, Berkshire / Surrey) Gladys Evelyn Webb.
Residence: (1944) Datchet, Buckinghamshire.
(09?).1913
Slough, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
11.09.1944
[age 31]
[Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium, I.D.2]

Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.03.1942 [229056]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
A/Capt.
1944?
Education: Slough Secondary School.
21.03.1942


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?
-
11.09.1944
55th (The West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (killed during the attack on the bridge at Lommel)
Goodall,
Maurice Smith
M.S. Goodall
Married ...; ... children.
24.07.1917
MT Bosworth district, Lincolnshire
-
(06?).1976
Andover district, Hampshire
2nd Lt. 02.05.1941 [185340]
Lt. 09.01.1946, seniority 25.07.1940
A/Capt. 04.04.1942-03.07.1942
T/Capt. 04.07.1942-01.05.1947
Capt. 02.05.1947
T/Maj. 03.03.1948-23.07.1953
Maj. 24.07.1953 (retd 01.01.1961)
T/Lt.Col. ?
Hon. Lt.Col. 01.01.1961
AMIMechE
02.05.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (M.M. Branch) [emergency commission to 08.01.1946]
01.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
08.09.1945 - (04.1946) a Staff Captain, Directorate of Mechanical Engineering, Department of the Quarter-Master General to the Forces, The War Office
Goodall,
Stephen Edward Montague
S.E.M. Goodall (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
18.06.1922
-
2nd Lt. 14.11.1943 [307718]
WS/Lt. 14.05.1944
... ...
Brig. 30.12.1969, seniority 30.06.1969 (retd 18.03.1973)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 10.06.1967 HM's birthday 1967
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 08.05.1956 Malaya
Military Cross MC 20.09.1945 Burma
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
14.11.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 07.03.1947]
Goodchild,
John Hovenden
J.H. Goodchild
From Sidcup.

18.12.1912
West Norwood, South-East London
-
29.11.2006

2nd Lt.
05.10.1940 [151326]
WS/Lt.
05.04.1942 (reld 1945)
T/Capt.
?
Hon. Capt.
1945
Military Cross MC
24.09.1942
Middle East
Military Cross MC
17.06.1943
Middle East
05.10.1940


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Goode,
Alan Francis
A.F. Goode (Photo courtesy of Robin Adair)
Son (with two brothers) of John Howard Goode (1868-1968), and Grace Isabel Goode (1871-1965).
08.05.1908
Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
16.11.1995
Alveston, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Lt. 26.05.1945 [348511]
WS/Capt. 26.05.1946 (reld > 04.1947)
Education: University of Birmingham, Middlesex & St. Bartholomew's; MB, FRCS Eng 1934; ChM Birm 1947; MB, ChB (Hnrs.) 1932; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1932.
26.05.1945     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
Goode,
Francis David
F.D. Goode
Son of ... Goode, and ... Kelley.
Married ((06?).1940, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) ... Walker.
25.06.1917
Reigate district, Surrey / Kent
-
08.2000
East Devon district, Devonshire
2nd Lt.
28.01.1937 [71105]
Lt.
28.01.1940
A/Capt.
03.06.1940-02.09.1940
T/Capt.
03.09.1940-02.07.1942
Capt.
28.01.1945 (resigned commission 20.07.1946)
A/Maj.
18.09.1942-17.12.1942
T/Maj.
18.12.1942-13.09.1943,
22.11.1943-19.07.1946
Hon. Maj.
20.07.1946
Capt.
02.02.1947, seniority 18.12.1942
Lt.
08.11.1947, seniority 25.06.1938
Capt.
08.11.1947, seniority 25.06.1946
T/Maj.
08.11.1948-24.06.1951
Maj.
25.06.1951 (retd 01.01.1958)

Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College (psc; 1942).
28.01.1937


commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment (2nd Battalion)
05.11.1938
-
20.05.1939
Camp Commandant, 8th Division (temporarily) (Palestine) (under Maj.Gen. B.L. Montgomery)
(12.1939)
 
 
Second-in-Command, "A" Company, 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (France)
03.06.1940
-
30.11.1940
Adjutant
01.12.1940
-
1942
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Staff Duties, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
(06.1944)
 
 
Officer Commanding, "D" Company, 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (NW Europe)
22.02.1945
-
(04.1946)
a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Directorate of Personal Services, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, War Office
02.02.1947
-
07.11.1947 
short service commission
08.11.1947


commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [permanent commission]
Published: The War Office General Staff 1940 to 1942 : a worm's eye view. In: RUSI Journal (Vol. 138, No. 1, Feb. 1993).
Goodman,
Eric Whitlock
E.W. Goodman (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Archer) E.W. Goodman (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Archer)
Married (25.09.1929, Cheltenham) Norah Dorothy Stacpoole (25.04.1895 - 07.03.1986), only daughter of Richard John Stacpoole, DL, JP, of Edenvale, Co. Clare, Ireland, and his wife Geraldine Norah Isabella (née Crowe).

12.02.1893
Merton, Surrey
-
08.12.1981
2nd Lt.
18.07.1913
Lt.
09.06.1915
A/Capt.
22.09.1916-28.10.1916,
22.11.1916-30.01.1917
Capt.
18.07.1917
A/Maj.
31.01.1917-26.02.1919
Maj.
20.06.1932
Lt.Col.
28.07.1939
A/Col.
01.09.1940-28.02.1941
T/Col.
01.03.1941-28.06.1941,
01.07.1941-(01.1946)
Col.
19.06.1946, seniority 28.07.1942 (retd 19.07.1948)
A/Brig.
01.02.1941-28.06.1941,
01.07.1941-03.08.1941
T/Brig.
04.08.1941-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.
19.07.1948
Distinguished Service Order DSO
1938?
NW Frontier
Military Cross MC
01.01.1918
France/Belgium
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1916
France/Belgium
Mention in Despatches MID
18.02.1938
NW Frontier
Mention in Despatches MID
20.06.1941
?
1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Iraq Operations 1919-20 Medal & Clasp; NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp
Education: Wellington.
18.07.1913


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery



served in France & Belgium (15.02.1915-11.11.1918)
02.1915?
-
11.1915?
121st Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
14.11.1915
-
16.09.1916
Adjutant, 9th Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery
30.01.1917
-
1918
Officer Commanding, 119th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
08.01.1930
-
19.06.1932
Captain Instructor in Gunnery (Artillery), School of Artillery
1936
-
1937
Officer Commanding, 5th Bombay Mountain Battery RA (Waziristan)
03.01.1937
 
 
course, Senior Officers' School, Belgaum
1939
-
1940
Commanding Officer, 21st Mountain Regiment RA (served Ahmedzai Salient)
01.09.1940
-
31.01.1941
Commander Royal Artillery, ... (India)
01.02.1941
-
30.06.1941
Brigadier Royal Artillery, Western Command (India)
01.07.1941
-
15.02.1942
Commander Royal Artillery, 9th Indian Division (Malaya; captured)
1942
-
1945
POW in Japanese captivity (Singapore, Formosa & Manchuria)
Goody,
John Frederick
J.F. Goody J.F. Goody

Son (with one brother) of Wilfred Goody (1895-1966), and Annie Horsley Kingman (1892-1965).
Married 1st Sara Richmond Barker (12.02.1917 - 05.05.1962), daughter of Richmond Barker (1866-1952), and Sarah Ann Hind (1875-1952); two children.
Married 2nd (01.06.1963, Carisle, Cumberland) Winifred Toulson (06.01.1920 - 20.01.2013), daughter of Andrew Stoddart Toulson (1890-1941), and Jean Park Brodie (1891-1959)..
Married 3rd ((03?).1976, Bridgnorth, Shropshire) Chistabel Anne Barker (1928 -2000), daughter of Richmond Barker (1866-1952), and Sarah Ann Hind (1875-1952)..
28.08.1919
Carlisle, Cumberland
-
06.02.2013
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Cadet ? [14264848]
2nd Lt. 28.08.1943 [289943]
WS/Lt. 28.02.1944
28.08.1943     commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission]
His son-in-law writes: "I believe he originally joined the Border Regiment before being sent to Africa, after being seconded to the 2nd Battalion The Gold Coast Regiment. I know he served in Burma in WW11."
Gordon,
Cyril Vyvian Eagleson
C.V.E. Gordon

01.05.1922
Lahore, India
-
09.01.2007
2nd Lt.
12.10.1941
WS/Lt.
01.05.1943
A/Capt.
01.12.1943-29.02.1944
T/Capt.
01.03.1944-27.07.1945
Lt.
28.04.1945, seniority 01.02.1945
T/Capt.
20.08.1945-30.04.1949
Capt.
01.05.1949
T/Maj.
15.12.1955-30.04.1956
Maj.
01.05.1956 (retd 31.05.1977)
Military Cross MC
16.12.1943
Burma
Military Cross MC
26.04.1945
Burma
Education: Wellington; Cambridge; Staff College (psc)



served in the ranks for 202 days
12.10.1941
-
27.04.1945
commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]



posted to King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers (India)
28.04.1945


permanent commission
Gordon,
George Andrew Douglas
G.A.D. Gordon
Son of George Gordon, and Evaline Fraser.
Married (31.03.1935, Inverness, Scotland) Hildegard Muriel Middleton (06.08.1904 - 07.01.1998), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of
George Middleton (1869-1946), and Barbara Jessie Mundell (1873-1954); one son, three daughters.

20.08.1909
Richmond, Surrey
-
23.05.1997
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Lt. 05.09.1939 [107317]
WS/Capt. 05.12.1939
T/Maj. 05.12.1939-(07.1945)
Education: Edinburgh University (MB, ChB 1931); DMR Cairo University, Egypt 1943; DMRD Lond 1945.
      served with the British Expeditionary Force, then in Egypt, Palestine, Malta, and Italy:
05.09.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
10.09.1941     Reported to No 11 Depot and Training Establishment RAMC Leeds on the incorporation of No 39 General Hospital. General Duties Medical Officer 39 General Hospital St Andrews (Malta).
1942     General Duties Medical Officer 39 General Hospital St Andrews (Malta).
02.06.1943     Reported for duty as a Radiologist to 39 General Hospital (Malta).
30.10.1943     Undertook a course in radiology in Cairo. Returned to Malta on 26 Dec on completion of his course.
27.02.1944     Posted from 39 (UK) General Hospital No 45 (UK) General Hospital.
30.05.1944     Senior Medical Officer, Malta (30 Coy RAMC). From 30 RNF to X (1) surplus to War Establishment (SMO).
(10.1945) - (04.1946) Unemployed List
Was in general practice with his father, but later opened the first department of ultrasonic radiology in Britain. Radiologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, 1953-1974, West End Hospital Neurology & Neurosurgery, 1947-1970 & Willesden General Hospital, 1947-1974. Ultrasonic Radiologist, Whittington Hospital, 1970-1974. FRSM. Member, British Inst Radiol & Biol Eng Soc. Late Assistant Radiologist, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Lond. After retirement visiting professor in bio-medical engineering at the City University, London, 1975-1981. Visiting Fellow, City University, London.
Gordon,
Robert Maltman
R.M. Gordon
?
-
Cadet
? [1913214]
2nd Lt.
10.05.1942 [233366]
WS/Lt.
10.11.1942 (reld 15.12.1953)
T/Capt.
1940/50s?
Hon. Capt.
15.12.1953
1939?
-
1942
served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers
10.05.1942


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
 
Gordon,
Ronald Ernest Jocelyn
"Ron"
R.E.J. Gordon (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son (with two sisters) of Victor Jonathan Jocelyn Gordon (1887-1955), and Daisy Sophia Podd (1886-1966), of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Home address at death: 58 Station Road, West Wickham, Kent.
06.05.1915
Addiscombe, London Borough of Croydon, Greater London
-
08.02.1944
[age 28]
[Anzio War Cemetery, Italy, IV, M, 5]
Pte. 1940
L/Sgt. ?
2nd Lt. 17.07.1942 [239423]
WS/Lt. 17.01.1943
Education: Selhurst Grammar School (1926-1932; General School Certificate with case; School Caps for Cricket and Athletics; Old Croydonian).
Insurance inspector, Yorkshire Insurance Company Ltd..(played also football for them).
17.07.1942     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942) - 08.02.1944 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk, later Italy)
Gordon,
William Charles Watson
W.C.W. Gordon
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
1915
-
1981
Sgt. ?
2nd Lt. 08.02.1941 [171311]
WS/Lt. 08.08.1942
T/Capt. 11.09.1942-09.05.1944
WS/Capt. 10.05.1944
T/Maj. 10.05.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Maj. ? (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 29.01.1949)
T/Lt.Col. 1946?
Hon. Lt.Col. 29.01.1949
08.02.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
 
Gordon,
William James
W.J. Gordon
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.03.1943 [269198]
WS/Lt. 27.09.1943
WS/Capt. 1946?
T/Maj. 1946?
Capt. 01.01.1949
Hon. Maj. 01.01.1949
27.03.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
 
Gordon-Watson,
David Michael Lindsay
D.M.L. Gordon-Watson

23.02.1913
London
-
20.05.2002
Salisbury, Wiltshire
2nd Lt.
31.08.1935, seniority 01.02.1934
Capt.
01.02.1942
T/Maj.
14.08.1940-30.06.1946
Brig.
24.11.1961 (retd 22.03.1963)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
07.01.1949
?
Military Cross MC
1939?
Palestine
Military Cross MC
27.09.1940
?
Military Cross MC
15.06.1944
?
Education: nadc, psc
31.08.1935


commissioned, Irish Guards
...


...
(09.1944)


Second-in-Command, 2nd (Armoured) Battalion The Irish Guards (NW Europe)
18.09.1945
-
25.03.1946
Brigade Major, ...
26.03.1946
-
30.01.1947
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards
07.04.1951
-
27.10.1952
Military Attaché (GSO1), Washington
...


...
Stud manager/farmer, Dorsetshire.
Gore,
Francis St John Corbet
"Bobby"

F.St.J.C. Gore F.St.J.C. Gore
Son (with two brothers) of Francis William Baldock Gore (1873-1937), and Mary Isabel Kirsteen Corbet­Singleton (1891-1986).
Married 1st (17.07.1951, Westminster district, London; marriage dissolved 1975) Priscilla Margaret King, daughter of Cecil Harmsworth King; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((09?).1981, Kensington and Chelsea district, London) Lady Mary Sophia Strachey (06.09.1920 - 08.2000), daughter of 3rd Earl of Selborne, PC, CH.
Married 3rd (2009) Mary Barrow.

08.04.1921
Wokingham district, Hampshire
-
23.04.2010
Stoke­by­Nayland, Suffolk
2nd Lt. 11.02.1940 [120057]
Lt. 11.08.1941
A/Capt. 04.08.1944-28.09.1944,
22.10.1944-25.11.1944
T/Capt. 26.11.1944-30.06.1946
Capt. 01.07.1946 (half-pay 17.02.1948; disability) (retd 31.03.1948; disability)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE 14.06.1986 HM's birthday 86: Adviser on paintings, National Trust
Education: Wellington College (1934.3-1939.2; Hardinge Dormitory; Dormitory Prefect); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (26.08.1939-1939); Courtauld Institute of Art (1946; 1st class honours).
      served in the ranks for 163 days
11.02.1940     commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
      served North Africa & Italy [wounded twice]
FSA. Employed Sotheby's, 1950-1955; National Trust: Adviser on pictures, 1956-1986, Honorary Adviser 1986-; Historic Buildings
Sec., 1973-1981. Member, Executive Committee, National Art Collections Fund, 1964-1997; Trustee: Wallace Collection, 1975-1989; National Gallery, 1986-1994.
Published: Catalogue, Worcester Art Museum, Mass (British Pictures), 1974; various exhibition catalogues, incl. RA; contributions to Apollo, Country Life, etc.
Gore Graham,
Peter Alastair John
P.A.J. Gore Graham
09.08.1912
-
27.01.2007
[Old Cemetery, Blewbury, Oxfordshire]
2nd Lt.
01.09.1932 [53631]
...
...
T/Maj.
13.06.1942-30.06.1946
...
...
Brig.
01.01.1965 (retd 09.08.1967)
Education: ptsc
01.09.1932


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
30.11.1939
-
31.03.1940
Chief Instructor, OCW
21.08.1940
-
12.03.1942
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
13.03.1942
-
07.10.1946
DAD (A1), Ministry of Supply
Gorman,
[Sir] John Reginald
J.R. Gorman
J.R. Gorman
Son of Major J.K. Gorman, MC. Married (1948) Heather, daughter of George Caruth, solicitor, Ballymena; two sons, two daughters.
01.02.1923
Omagh
-

Killyleagh, Co. Down
2nd Lt.
05.12.1942
WS/Lt.
05.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Capt.
1944?
Knight Kt
1998
?
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
1961
?
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
1974
?
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
1959
?
Military Cross MC
1944
?
Education: Rockport, Haileybury and ISC; Portora; Glasgow University; Harvard Business Sch. FCIT, FIPM; MIH
05.12.1942


commissioned into the Irish Guards
1941
-
1946
Irish Guards (Normandy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)
Chairman, Risk Management International (NI), since 1995. 
Royal Ulster Constabulary, 1946-1960; Chief of Security, BOAC, 1960-1963 (incl. Royal Tour of India, 1961); Personnel Dir and Mem. Bd of Management, BOAC, 1964-1969; British Airways: Regional Man., Canada, 1969-1975; Regional Man., India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, 1975-1979; Vice­Chm. and Chief Exec., NI Housing Exec., 1979-1985; Dir, Inst. of Dirs, NI, 1986-1995. Dir, NI Airports Bd, 1985-1992; Mem., NI Bd, Nationwide Building Soc., 1986-1991. Pres., British Canadian Trade Assoc., 1972-1974; Vice­Chm., Federated Appeal of Montreal, 1973-1974. Chm., Bd of Airline Representatives, India, 1977-1979; Chm., Inst. of Housing (NI), 1984. Bd Mem., Co­operation North, 1987-; Chm., NI Forum for Political Dialogue, 1996-. DL, 1982, High Sheriff, 1987-1988, Co. Down.
Published: The times of my life (2003; autobiography)
Gormley,
Charles Henry
C.H. Gormley C.H. Gormley
C.H. Gormley
Younger son of Mr & Mrs Thomas Gormley, and stepson of Mrs M.M. Gormley, of Walmer, Kent.
Married (1930) Eileen Beatrice Sherborne, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs John Sherborne, of Reddish Manor, Kidmore, Oxfordshire; one son, one daughter.
12.1904
Eastry district, Kent
-
20.11.1969

Malta
[age 64]
2nd Lt. 17.04.1941 [230139]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Lt.Col. ?, seniority 03.01.1941 (reld > 04.1947)
A/Col. 03.07.1943-19.09.1945
T/Col. 20.09.1945-(04.1947)
local Brig. 20.10.1945-26.02.1946
A/Brig. 27.02.1946-(04.1947)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 01.01.1941 New Year 41
Education: Dover County School for Boys (early 1920s); Reading University; Cambridge University (BA (hons)).
Served Colonial Administrative Service: Administrative Officer under the African Civil Service, at Lindi Tanganyika Territory (Cadet, 1927; Assistant District Officer, 1929). Assistant District Officer, Somaliland, 1936-(1940).
      Governor's Commission, African Colonial Forces 
17.04.1941     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
11.05.1945     transferred, General List - African Colonial Forces Section (with effect from 17.04.1941)
Chief Administrator for the Dodecanese Islands, 10.1945-1946. Deputy Provincial Commissioner, Kenya, 1947. Administrative Secretary, Kenya, 1948-1949.
Gort,
6th Viscount (Ireland, cr. 1816; UK, cr. 1945);
Baron Kiltarton (1810);
Vereker, John Standish Surtees Prendergast

Lord Gort (J.S.S.P. Vereker)






 
Son of 5th Viscount and Eleanor (died 1933), daughter and co­heiress of R.S. Surtees of Hamsterley
Hall, Co. Durham [she married 2nd, 1908, Col S. M. Benson].
Succeeded father, 1902.
Married (1911) Corinne (whom he divorced,
1925), daughter of George Medlicott Vereker; one daughter.

10.07.1886
St George Hanover Square, London
-
31.03.1946
Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London 
[buried at Penshurst Place, Kent]
2nd Lt.
16.08.1905
...
...
T/Brig.
14.11.1932-24.11.1935
Maj.Gen.
25.11.1935
local Lt.Gen.
24.09.1937-05.12.1937
Gen.
06.12.1937
Field Marshal
01.01.1943

VC 1918; GCB, created 04.06.1940; KCB, created 1938; CB 1937; CBE 1928; DSO 1917; MVO 1910; MC 1915

16.08.1905


commissioned, Grenadier Guards
...


...
14.11.1932
-
02.03.1936
Director of Military Training, Army HQ, India
26.03.1936
-
23.09.1937
Commandant, Staff College, Camberley (as Maj.Gen. General Staff)
24.09.1937
-
05.12.1937
Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War
06.12.1937
-
03.09.1939
Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
04.09.1939
-
19.07.1940
Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force, France
20.07.1940
-
13.05.1941
Inspector-General of the Forces for Training and Inspector-General, Home Guard
14.05.1941
-
06.05.1942
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar
07.05.1942
-
24.09.1944
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta
31.10.1944
-
20.11.1945
High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine & High Commissioner, Trans-Jordan 
20.07.1940
-
19.07.1944
also: ADC to HM the King George VI
Gosling,
Richard

R. Gosling (Photo courtesy of Margaret Fieldhouse)
Sixth of nine children (four brothers, four sisters) of
Richard Gosling (1867-1938), and Annie France (1872-1934).
Married 1st (14.05.1932, Guildford, Surrey) Kate Florence Pullen ((09?).1898 - 16.07.1932), daughter of James Pullen (1855-1930), and Jane Daborn (1858-1933)..
Married 2nd ((03?).1937, Elham, Kent) Edith Victoria Wisby (03.01.1901 - 03.1985), daughter of Daniel Howard Wisby (1859-1919?), and Rosina Augusta Hayes (1861-1940); one son, one daughter.
Relationship (fictional marriage given as 15.06.1939, Shropshire on birth certificate of daughter) Priscilla Isobell May Warner ((09?).1920 - ), daughter of ... Warner, and ... Walker; two daughters. Priscilla Warner married (1950) Albert Francis Worthington (1915-2002).
15.06.1901
Market Drayton, Shropshire
-
19.01.1961
Oswestry, Shropshire
Pte. 15.06.1919 [4026194]
L/Cpl. 05.03.1920
Cpl. 20.06.1920 (03.03.1921 reduced to the ranks due to a court-martial)
L/Cpl. 19.04.1923
Cpl. 04.04.1929
L/Sgt. 1930?
Sgt. 01.02.1931 (reld 14.09.1939; own request)
RSM 28.10.1939?
Lt. QM 28.05.1940 [131446]
WS/Capt. QM 28.05.1943
Capt. 01.09.1946, seniority 28.05.1943
Maj. 28.05.1953 (reld 14.08.1956)
Hon. Maj. 14.08.1956
15.06.1919 - 14.09.1939 enlisted service, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
28.10.1939 - 27.05.1940 enlisted service, Royal Army Service Corps
28.10.1939 - 15.11.1939 No. 12 Training Group, Dover
16.11.1939 - 27.11.1939 No. 3 Training Centre, Margate
28.11.1939 - 26.04.1940 No. 10 Training Centre, Cromer
27.04.1940 - 28.12.1942 posted to Scotland
28.05.1940 - 31.08.1946 commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
29.12.1942 - 09.11.1945 posted to Isle of Man (Officer-in-Charge of Barracks)
10.11.1945 - 29.11.1949 posted to West Africa (West Africa Army Ordnance Corps; as Senior Supply Officer, sierra Leone & Gambia)
01.09.1946 - 14.08.1956 commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [short service commission]
30.11.1949 - 21.11.1950 posted British Army of the Rhine
Gossage,
Terence Leslie
T.L .Gossage
Son of Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage, and ... O'Brien.
Married (28.12.1949) Cherry April Ellinor Curtis, daughter of Maj. Philip Pinckney Curtis, and Hélène Ellinor Clare Kidston; two sons, one daughter.
24.08.1918
Kensington district, London
-
18.06.1999
New Forest district, Hampshire
2nd Lt. 26.01.1939 [85668]
Lt. 01.01.1941
A/Capt. 01.01.1941-31.03.1941
T/Capt. 01.04.1941-(04.1946)
... ...
Maj. 26.01.1952 (retd 11.07.1960)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 01.01.1959 New Year 1959
26.01.1939     commissioned, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(03.1945)     HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade
30.08.1945 - (04.1946) Instructor, Platoon Commanders' Course, School of Infantry (Warminster)
Gott,
William Henry Ewart
"Strafer"
W.H.E. Gott
 
Eldest son of late Lt­Col William Henry Gott, and Anne Rosamund Gott, of Armley House, Leeds. Married (1934) Pamela Frances Mary, younger
daughter of late Brig.Gen. Walpole Kays, CMG; two daughters.
From Fleet, Hampshire.

13.08.1897
district Scarborough, Yorkshire
-
07.08.1942
killed in an air crash
[El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt, XXXIII.D.21]
2nd Lt.
17.02.1915 [1798]
Lt.
25.08.1916
Capt.
22.01.1921
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1934
Maj.
21.07.1934
Lt.Col.
30.10.1938 (supernumerary 30.10.1941-09.12.1941)
A/Col.
16.02.1940-15.08.1940
T/Col.
16.08.1940-20.10.1941
Col.
21.10.1941
A/Brig.
16.02.1940-15.08.1940
T/Brig.
16.08.1940-.05.09.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
06.09.1941-08.02.1942
A/Lt.Gen.
09.02.1942-07.08.1942
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
06.08.1942
Middle East 11.41-04.42
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
08.07.1941
Middle East 12.40-02.41
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.04.1941
Middle East 08.39-11.40
Distinguished Service Order DSO
30.12.1941
Middle East 02.41-07.41
Military Cross MC
30.01.1920
?
Mention in Despatches MID
24.06.1943
Middle East
British War Medal; Victory Medal
Education: Harrow; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1930-1931)
17.02.1915

commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
1916
-
1918
served European War: France & Belgium 28.08.1916-10.07.1917 (wounded, MC; 1917 prisoner)
19.09.1925
-
17.10.1928
Adjutant, 13th London Regiment, TA
01.01.1934
-
11.02.1936
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
12.02.1936
-
31.12.1937
Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Baluchistan District (India)
1938
-
1939
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Egypt)
1939
-
1940
General Staff Officer 1 (GSO1), 7th Armoured Division (Egypt)
31.01.1940
-
02.09.1941
Commander, 7th Support Group (Egypt, Libya, Egypt) [from 31.01-16.02.1940 acting]
08.04.1941
-
16.04.1941
Commander, 2nd Support Group (Libya)
06.09.1941
-
06.02.1942
General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (Egypt, Libya, Egypt)
09.02.1942
-
07.08.1942
General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps (N Africa)
Literature: "Strafer" Gott : tribute to Lt.Gen. William Henry Ewart "Strafer" Gott, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.M. and Bar, M.C. (ed. H.R.W. Vernon; 1984)
Gottelier,
Lawrence Victor
"Lawrie"

L.V. Gottelier
Son of Henry Edward Gottelier, and Florence May Laundy.
Married 1st ((06?).1941, Surrey South Western district) Joan Temple Gosman (19.09.1918 - 17.11.1988); two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (05.1991, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent) Eunice L.A. "Toni" Botterill.
05.1918
Beckenham, Bromley district, Kent
-
06.01.2008
Goudhurst
2nd Lt. 05.10.1940 [151441]
WS/Lt. 04.09.1941
T/Capt. 04.09.1941-14.11.1945
WS/Capt. 15.11.1945
T/Maj. 15.11.1945-(04.1946)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 12.08.1947 -
Education: prep school, Bath; St Benedict's, Ealing (1935).
1938     enlisted, Territorial Army
? - 05.10.1940 151st Officer Cadet Training unit
05.10.1940     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
12.1943 - ? 2 Air Support Signals Unit (NW Europe)
After the war his career developed in various roles in the property market and by his retirement in the early ‘80s he had become a partner in Levens, estate agents, and was based in their office in Hayes near Bromley.
Gough,
Kenneth Roy

K.R. Gough
(03?).1905
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
2nd Lt. 04.01.1940 [112215]
WS/Lt. 04.07.1941 (reld 07.09.1945; disability)
Hon. Lt. 10.07.1945
04.01.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
      led a party of his men from Metz to Switzerland between 10 & 23 June 1940
Goulburn,
Edward Henry

E.H. Goulburn
Son of late Brig.Gen. C.E. Goulburn, DSO, and of Grace Ethel, daughter of late W.H. Foster, Apley Park,
Bridgnorth, Salop.
From Bletchworth.
27.05.1903
St George Hanover Square, London
-
15.02.1980
Betchworth, Surrey
2nd Lt.
31.01.1924 [28083]
Lt.
31.01.1926
Capt.
09.04.1932
A/Maj.
29.06.1940-28.09.1940
T/Maj.
29.09.1940-30.01.1941
Maj.
31.01.1941
A/Lt.Col.
20.03.1942-19.06.1942
T/Lt.Col.
20.06.1942-26.04.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
27.04.1945
A/Col.
27.10.1944-26.04.1945
T/Col.
27.04.1945
Col.
08.05.1948, seniority 09.07.1947 (retd 15.09.1951)
A/Brig.
27.10.1944-26.04.1945
T/Brig.
27.04.1945-(01.1946)
A/Maj.Gen.
09.07.1946
Hon. Maj.Gen.
15.09.1951
Distinguished Service Order DSO
21.12.1944
NW Europe
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.03.1945
NW Europe
Knight Commander, Order of Oranje-Nassau with Swords (Netherlands) ON
18.07.1947
liberation Netherlands
Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
31.01.1924


commissioned, Grenadier Guards
19.08.1931
-
18.08.1934
Adjutant, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
03.02.1938
-
03.09.1939
specially employed (Adjutant)
04.09.1939
-
11.10.1940
Adjutant, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
1942
-
10.1944
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards (UK, France, Belgium and Holland)
27.10.1944
-
11.07.1945
Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade (Holland and Germany)
17.07.1945
-
21.08.1945
Commander, 5th Guards Brigade (NW Europe)
1945
-
1946
Commander, 1st Guards Brigade (Palestine)
1946
-
1947
Major­General Commanding Allied Military Mission to Italian Army
1948
-
1950
Lieutenant­Colonel Commanding Grenadier Guards
15.09.1951
-
27.05.1963
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Surrey, 1962. Landowner & farmer.
Gould,
Arthur Frederick
"Ted"

A.F. Gould
14.10.1914
-
06.1989
Salisbury district, Wiltshire
2nd Lt. 02.01.1943 [258203]
WS/Lt. 02.07.1943 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 10.01.1953)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. 10.01.1953
1939     enlisted service (BEF, France)
02.01.1943     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
      served Westminster Dragoons (NW Europe 1944-45)
Goulden,
Francis Richard

F.R. Goulden
Married; one son, one daughter.
18.10.1916
Ashton Under Lyne district, Cheshire, Lancashire
-
03.1994
West Somerset
Cadet
? [14274065]
2nd Lt.
19.09.1943 [293702]
WS/Lt.
19.03.1944
T/Capt.
04.08.1945-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.
?
Capt. RARO
01.01.1949
Capt. TA
03.02.1961, seniority 14.10.1957
Maj. TA
01.07.1963 (reld 01.01.1964)
Hon. Maj.
01.01.1949 & 01.01.1964
19.09.1943


commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
post-war
 
 
transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
01.01.1949
-
02.02.1961
Regular Army Reserve of Officers
03.02.1961
-
01.01.1964
Territorial Army
Goulder,
Claud

C. Goulder (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
02.04.1896
Swaffham district, Norfolk
-
18.03.1956
Castleacre, nr King's Lynn, Norfolk
2nd Lt.
10.02.1915 [268750]
...
...
Lt.Col.
21.08.1942 (supernumerary 21.08.1945)
Col.
11.05.1945
T/Brig.
11.12.1942-(04.1947)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
?
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
30.12.1941
?
Military Cross MC
WW I
?
Mention in Despatches MID
30.12.1941
?
10.02.1915


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
15.03.1942
-
19.09.1942
Commander Royal Artillery, 23rd Indian Infantry Division
20.09.1942
-
08.07.1944
Commander Royal Artillery, 19th Indian Infantry Division
08.07.1944
-
05.08.1944
acting General Officer Commanding, 21st Indian Infantry Division
(1947)
 
 
HQ Southern Command, India
Gover,
Stanley Gilbert

S.G. Gover (Photo coutersy of Mr Carlton Gover)
Son of Gilbert John Gover (1874-1953), and Ada Sarah Colborne (1869-1962).
Married (26.12.1931, Reading district, Berkshire) Kate Norcutt (25.02.1909 - 1969); one son, one daughter.
31.10.1902
Clifton, Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
11.04.1981
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, Westminster district, London
A/Wt.Offr. Cl. I ? [2316667 ]
Lt. 06.07.1940 [137799]
A/Capt. 06.10.1941-05.01.1942
T/Capt. 06.01.1942-03.09.1945
WS/Capt. 04.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 04.09.1945-(04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [recommendation available upon request]
06.07.1940     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
06.10.1941 - (01.1942) Adjutant, London Area Signal Company
      London District Signals (MBE)
 
Gow,
Peter Frederick Lincoln

P.F.L. Gow
Son (with two sisters) of Alexander Lincoln Gow (1895-1972), and Gertrude Benlow (1900-1985).
Married ((06?).1943, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Muriel Helen Mary Jenkyns (08.09.1920 - 30.12.2002); two children.
06.02.1921
Southampton, Hampshire
-
14.06.2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2nd Lt. 18.06.1943 [281463]
WS/Lt. 18.12.1943 (reld 28.11.1953)
T/Capt. 13.05.1946-(12.1946)
Hon. Capt. 28.11.1953
18.06.1943     commissioned, Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Gow,
Stanley George
S.G. Gow S.G. Gow
S.G. Gow S.G. Gow
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of John Lacey Gow (1875-1930), and Bessie Maud Finch (1878-1923).
Married ((03?).1936, Chelsea district, London) Dorothy Bulger (09.12.1903 - (03?).1975); one daughter.
18.02.1905
St George in the East, London
-
29.07.1975
Chelsea district, London
CSM ?
2nd Lt. 30.04.1941 [185002]
WS/Lt. 30.04.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 25.10.1942-(04.1946)
WS/Capt. ?
Capt. 01.01.1949
Hon. Maj. 01.01.1949
Mention in Despatches MID 06.04.1944 Middle East
30.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
01.01.1949 - 18.02.1955 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Gow,
William Younger
"Willie"

E. Gowlland
c. 1896
Perthshire
-
?
?
T/2nd Lt.
?
T/Lt.
? (reld 01.09.1921; retaining rank of Lt.)
2nd Lt.
03.04.1940 [125419]
A/Capt.
24.10.1940
WS/Capt.
07.01.1943
T/Maj.
07.01.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.
1944?, seniority 09.07.1943
A/Lt.Col.
09.04.1943-(04.1944)
Military Cross MC
03.06.1919
?
WW I medals
?


commissioned, Royal Warwickshire Regiment [temporary commission]



attached, 1st/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Force
03.04.1940
 
 
commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]



possibly on the 8th Army staff of Gen. Neil Ritchie and later stationed with PI Force in Persia/Iraq
Gowlland,
Eric

E. Gowlland
Son of Richard Gowlland, commercial traveller, and Ethel Eliza Pottinger Gowlland, formerly Fulton.
17.05.1904
Leeds, Yorkshire
-
07.1999
Huntingdonshire
2nd Lt.
25.03.1943 [268750]
WS/Lt.
25.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.
< 04.1946
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM
06.02.1947
-
25.03.1943


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
 
Gowlland,
Geoffrey Cathcart

G.C. Gowlland (Photo from: http://www.gowlland.me.uk/biographies.htm#zzgeoffreycathcartgowlland)
G.C. Gowlland (Photo from: http://www.gowlland.me.uk/biographies.htm#zzgeoffreycathcartgowlland)
G.C. Gowlland (Photo from: http://www.gowlland.me.uk/biographies.htm#zzgeoffreycathcartgowlland)
 

Fifth child and second son of Richard Sankey Gowlland and Jessie Katherine Gowlland (née Lake).
Married (20.11.1912, Downton, Wiltshire) Vera Rosa Marriott Smith, daughter of Col. Walter William Marriott Smith, RA (retd); one daughter.

27.05.1885
Ealing, Brentford, Middlesex
-
09.10.1980
2nd Lt.
20.12.1905 [3400]
Lt.
25.06.1908
Capt.
30.10.1914 (half-pay 27.04.1920-27.08.1920)
T/Maj.
01.04.1921-14.12.1922
Maj.
06.01.1923
Lt.Col.
09.08.1930
local Col.
27.08.1926-23.08.1929
Bt. Col.
01.04.1932, seniority 01.04.1931
Col.
09.08.1934, seniority 01.04.1931 (retd 03.08.1940; retaining appointment) (reverted to retd 17.12.1941)
A/Brig.
27.12.1940-(04.1941)
T/Brig.
....1941-....1941
Hon. Brig.
17.12.1941
Mention in Despatches MID
17.02.1915
France
Mention in Despatches MID
25.10.1916
Sudan 14-16
Mention in Despatches MID
05.12.1918
Sudan 17-18
Fourth Class of the Order of the Nile (Egypt) Nile
29.08.1917
valuable services rendered to Egypt
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
-
-
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
-
-
Victory Medal VM
-
-
Sudan Medal SM
-
& Sudan 1917-18 Clasp
Education: Fettes College, Edinburgh; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
20.12.1905


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
15.12.1910
-
14.12.1912
employed with Egyptian Army (passage from Liverpool to Port Said on SS "Crosby Hall")
17.02.1913
-
04.08.1914
Assistant Instructor, School of Military Engineering
05.08.1914
-
28.11.1914
served in France & Belgium
28.06.1915
-
13.01.1916
Assistant Instructor, School of Military Engineering (temporary)
14.01.1916
-
14.06.1918
employed with Egyptian Army: Assistant Director at the Military Works Department (till 18.03.1916 in Egypt, then till 15.05.1918 Egyptian Expeditionary Force)
27.04.1920
-
27.08.1920
sick leave ‘on account of ill-health caused by wounds’
20.12.1920
-
31.03.1921
Adjutant, ...
01.04.1921
-
14.12.1922
attached, Royal Tank Corps
10.01.1923
-
26.08.1926
Chief Instructor in Workshops (Class Y), School of Military Engineering
27.08.1926
-
23.08.1929
Chief Engineer, Iraq
(03.1931)
 
 
Staff Officer, Royal Engineers (Electrical & Mechanical), HQ Aldershot Command (UK)
01.04.1932
-
18.12.1933
Chief Inspector, Royal Engineer Stores, Inspection Department (Woolwich) [in that capacity also Associate Member of the Royal Engineer Board & Military Member of the Experimental Sub-Committee of the Wireless Telegrpahy Board]
10.04.1934
-
14.04.1937
Deputy Engineer-in-Chief (Electircal & Mechanical), Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India
28.04.1937
-
10.06.1940
Chief Engineer, The British Troops in China (Hong Kong) (from 1938 also the Officer Commanding British Troops in Hong Kong, and in that capacity a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council)
1941?
-
1941?
Chief Engineer, Northern Ireland District *
03.08.1940
-
27.05.1943
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
MIMechE. Commanding Officer, 6th Dorset (Wimborne) Battalion Home Guard, 1942-1945. Played rugby football for Scotland.
* April 1941 is showing in that appointment Col. V.E.G. Guinness (from 27.10.1940), so perhaps Gowlland took over from him later in the year.
Gowlland,
Richard John

R.J. Gowlland
Married; ... children (one son?).
1919
-
11.2008 still alive
2nd Lt.
15.12.1939 [109035]
WS/Lt.
15.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
15.12.1939


commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
Grace,
Eileen
(Mrs)
Mrs. E. Grace (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carol Vincent)
?
-
2nd Sub.
26.02.1942 [227930]
WS/Sub.
02.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Jun.Comdr.
31.08.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Jun.Comdr.
< 04.1946
26.02.1942


commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service
21.10.1943
-
(04.1944)
a Staff Captain (A), Adjutant General's Branch, HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)
Gradel,
Jack

J. Gradel
Married ((06?).1948, Hampstead district, London) Milla M. Djanogli; ... children (one daughter?).

22.09.1918
-
11.2000
Westminster district, London
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 07.02.1942 [224906]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Capt. 19.07.1945
T/Maj. 19.07.1945-(04.1946)
07.02.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.11.1942     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section)
Grafton,
James Douglas
"Jimmy"
J.D. Grafton
Son of James Hawkins Grafton and Ethel Marion Brannan. Has a twin brother.
19.05.1916
-
06.1986
Chichester, Sussex
2nd Lt.
02.06.1939, seniority 02.12.1937 [91666]
WS/Lt.
01.03.1941
T/Capt.
01.03.1941
WS/Capt.
15.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
04.04.1945
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
13.07.1951
?



late Officer Cadet CSM, London Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.06.1939


commissioned, General List (University Candidates, Officer Training Corps) (University of London Contingent, Senior Division) - Territorial Army (for service with the infantry unit of the contingent)
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
11.12.1939


transferred to The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
(09.1944)


Officer Commanding, A Company, 4th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (NW Europe)
?
-
19.05.1966
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
TV script writer, company director, Strutton Ground, London. Co-wrote some of the famous sketches in The Goon Show, a radio series.
Graham,
Douglas Alexander Henry
D.A.H. Graham D.A.H. Graham
26.03.1893
-
28.09.1971
[Brechin, Angus ?]
2nd Lt.
17.09.1913 [8265]
Lt.
03.11.1914
Capt.
18.06.1916
Maj.
16.12.1930
Lt.Col.
27.06.1937
Col.
05.04.1940
A/Brig.
05.04.1940-04.10.1940
T/Brig.
05.10.1940-14.05.1944
A/Maj.Gen.
05.05.1943-09.01.1944,
20.01.1944-14.05.1944
T/Maj.Gen.
15.05.1944-05.10.1944
Maj.Gen.
06.10.1944, seniority 01.02.1944 (retd 06.02.1947)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
24.08.1944
Italy
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42
Distinguished Service Order DSO
14.01.1943
Middle East
Distinguished Service Order DSO
08.07.1943
Middle East
Military Cross MC
01.01.1918
New Year 18
Mention in Despatches MID
20.12.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
13.01.1944
Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID
28.09.1944
Normandy
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe
Commander of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
16.01.1947
?
Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
1945?
France 44?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
1945?
France 44?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
15.12.1919
?
Commander of the Order of St Olav (Norway) StOlav
23.05.1947
Norway 45
1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp
Education: London School of Economics
17.09.1913


commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
1914
-
1918
served European War in France (13.08.1914- 22.10.1914, 10.09.1916-11.11.1918) (wounded, despatches, MC, French Croix de Guerre)
30.04.1917
-
07.06.1919
Brigade Major, ...
06.04.1920
-
29.10.1920
Assistant Military Secretary, India
19.02.1928
-
30.12.1930
Staff Captain, Scottish Command
31.12.1930
-
18.02.1932
Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quarter-Master General (DAA&QMG), Lowland Area, Scottish Command
01.05.1932
-
30.04.1935
Officer Commanding, Regimental Depot, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (Hamilton, UK)
1936
-
1937
2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (Palestine & UK)
27.06.1937
-
04.04.1940
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (UK)
05.04.1940
-
07.08.1940
Commander, 27th Infantry Brigade (UK), redesignated:
07.08.1940
-
28.04.1943
Commander, 153rd Infantry Brigade (UK, Egypt, North Africa)
07.05.1943
-
10.10.1943
General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Infantry Division (North Africa, Libya, Italy; wounded at Salerno)
19.01.1944
-
17.10.1944
General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (UK, North-West Europe)
27.11.1944
-
1945
General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (North-West Europe, UK, Norway)
(12.)1945


General Officer Commanding, British Land Forces Norway
Colonel, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 22.08.1954-26.03.1958.
Graham,
Frederick Clarence Campbell
"Freddie"
F.C.C. Graham F.C.C. Graham (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)
14.12.1908
-
09.05.1988
2nd Lt. 31.01.1929
... ...
T/Lt.Col. 02.07.1943-09.01.1951
... ...
Maj.Gen. 12.04.1959 (retd 16.04.1962)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 1960 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO 28.06.1945 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 26.07.1940 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 15.12.1942 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 18.10.1945 ?
31.01.1929     commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
... - ... ...
08.07.1940 - 31.10.1940 GSO3, HQ British Troops in Egypt
11.02.1941 - 20.03.1941 Brigade Major, ....
1944     Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (DSO)
... - ... ...
Graham,
Harry Dick McGibbon
P.L. Graham
?
-
2nd Lt.
11.10.1941 [210938]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.
?
Hon. Capt.
< 04.1946
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM
19.09.1952
?
11.10.1941


commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]
Graham,
Joseph Proctor
J.P. Graham (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)

Son of John Proctor Graham, and ... Flowers.
16.09.1918
Pendlebury, Salford district, Lancashire

-
01.1996
2nd Lt. 14.02.1943 [262534]
WS/Lt. 14.08.1943
T/Capt. 17.08.1944-(01.1946)
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
14.02.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Graham,
John Andrew

J.A. Graham
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 17.10.1942 [249184]
WS/Lt. 17.07.1943 (reld 16.08.1946)
17.10.1942     commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
Graham *,
Kenneth Geoffrey John

K.G.J. Graham
* Born in Germany with the name: Gans, Joachim. Naturalization as British citizen 29.01.1947.
05.03.1910
-
28.10.2004
Cadet ? [13051413]
2nd Lt. 07.04.1945 [343691]
WS/Lt. 07.10.1945
WS/Capt. 30.04.1946 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj. 30.04.1946-(12.1946)
07.04.1945     commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
Graham,
Patrick Ludovic
P.L. Graham
Son of Donald Noble Graham, CIE (1844-1901), and Gertrude Lawrence Clara Dunsterville (died 1932).
Married (28.09.1926) Barbara Jury, only daughter of Col. Edward Cotton Jury, CMG, MC, late 18th Royal Hussars; two sons.
02.04.1898
Airthrey
-
14.07.1958
Baghdad
2nd Lt.
19.02.1916
Lt.Col.
30.06.1944 (retd 03.03.1949)
Hon. Col.
03.03.1949
Military Cross MC
?
?
Education: Winchester; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; psc
19.02.1916


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
27.02.1940
-
04.06.1940
DAQMG
05.06.1940
-
04.11.1940
GSO2
01.08.1942
-
25.05.1943
GSO1
194X


Commanding Officer, 97th Anti-Tank Regiment RA
Graham,
Stuart Douglas
S.D. Graham
Son of Maj. Wiliam Bannatyne Graham, and Mary Beatrice Hansell.
18.02.1890
India
-
1980
2nd Lt. 23.07.1910 [6836]
Lt. 23.07.1913
T/Capt. 13.03.1916-22.07.1916
Capt. 23.07.1916
A/Maj. 30.12.1916-05.11.1918
Maj. 01.05.1927
Lt.Col. 01.01.1937
local Col. 20.06.1938-08.01.1939
Col. 09.01.1939 (supernumerary 30.06.1944) (retd 24.05.1946)
T/Brig. 14.08.1939-26.10.1940,
08.05.1941-29.06.1941
Hon. Brig. 24.05.1946
Military Cross MC 14.01.1916 ?
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1916 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 21.05.1918 ?
Education: Staff College (psc).
23.07.1910     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
      served France & Belgium 17.01.1915-16.11.1915, Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and Islands of the Aegean Sea 17.11.1915-12.02.1916, France and Belgium 10.11.1916-11.11.1918
14.12.1914 - 06.02.1915 Adjutant, 146th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
22.05.1915 - 10.02.1916 Adjutant
06.11.1918 - 07.06.1919 Brigade Major, RA (France)
22.05.1920 - 30.10.1921 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (Aldershot Command) (temporarily)
24.01.1923 - 20.01.1924 Brigade Major, RA (Egypt) (temporarily)
30.04.1926 - 27.05.1928 Staff Captain, War Office (London)
28.05.1928 - 30.09.1930 Brigade Major, RA (Aldershot Command)
(03.1931)     13th Field Brigade RA (Aldershot)
(06.1933)     8th Field Brigade RA (Mhow)
14.05.1934 - (01.1937) Brigade Major, Mhow Brigade Area, Bombay District, Southern Command, East Indies
20.06.1938 - 08.01.1939 specially employed (India)
09.01.1939 - 13.08.1939 instructor, Senior Officers' School (Belgaum)
14.08.1939 - 26.10.1940 Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA), ...
08.05.1941 - 29.06.1941 specially employed
16.08.1941 - 30.06.1943 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office (London)
24.05.1946 - 18.02.1948 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Grant,
Angus Ivor
A.I. Grant
Second son of Col. John Peter Grant, CB, MC, TD, DL (1885-1963), and Gertrude Margaret Truell (1883-1967), of Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire.
Brother of Maj. John Peter Grant, MBE, The Lovat Scouts.

21.03.1920
Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Inverness-shire, Scotland
-
18.03.1942
(died of illness) [age 21]
[Torshavn Cemetery, Faroë Islands, grave 138]
2nd Lt. 11.03.1939 [85936]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
Education: Winchester College (1933.3-1938.2; I House (Turner's (Sunnyside)); studied languages in France and Switzerland (1938).
With Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co., 1939.
      late Cadet L/Sgt. Winchester College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
11.03.1939     commissioned, The Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army
1940 - 1942 served Faroë Islands
Grant
Dennis William

D.W. Grant
Son of ... Grant, and ... Mann.
Married ...; one son, one daughter.
24.05.1918
Kings Norton district, Warwickshire
-
03.1985
Greenwich district, London
2nd Lt. 16.11.1940 [156910]
WS/Lt. 16.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt. 18.12.1944-17.03.1945
T/Capt. 18.03.1945-02.02.1946
WS/Capt. 03.02.1946
A/Maj. 03.11.1945-02.02.1946
T/Maj. 03.02.1946-09.10.1947
Lt. 16.08.1947, seniority 10.10.1941
Capt. 16.08.1947, seniority 01.07.1946
T/Maj. 16.06.1950-04.09.1950,
10.09.1950-16.06.1951
Maj. 10.04.1953
T/Lt.Col. 29.09.1959-30.09.1962
Lt.Col. (Empl. List 1) 01.10.1962 (supernumerary 01.10.1965)
Col. 08.10.1966, seniority 18.09.1965 (retd 17.05.1974)
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM 23.05.1947 ?
Qualified as instructor in gunnery (anti-aircraft) and successfully completed the Technical Staff Course at the Royal Military College of Science.
      served in the ranks for 1 year, 176 days (mobilized Territorial Army 24.08.1939)
      either 122nd, 123rd, 124th or Survey Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.11.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 15.08.1947]
      served with 82nd (West Africa) Division (Burma)
16.08.1947     permanent commission
24.01.1955 - 04.03.1958 Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2) Art. Div. M. of S.
29.09.1959 - 04.05.1962 Technical Staff Officer, 1st grade (TSO1) P & E Establishment Pendine
11.05.1962 - 11.12.1965 Technical Staff Officer, 1st grade (TSO1) Inspectorate of Armaments
08.10.1966 - (01.1967) Military Attaché, Prague
His son writes: "From 1944, he was leading West African troops, whose courage, initiative and cheerfulness he greatly admired, all through the extremely difficult Arakan campaign. After the Japanese surrender, the Indian troops were repatriated first, since Indian independence was in the wings, so the Africans had to wait some time for their troopships to arrive. My father chose to stay with his men and keep them occupied and entertained with sporting events, and great "wassas", or feasts until they could return home. He then accompanied them back to Nigeria and took the troop train with them, from Lagos up to Kano, delivering them along the way with great celebrations at each stop. He more or less emptied the regimental purse to do this and got some "flak" from the top brass later but he always maintained that it was money well spent and that it was the very least that was owed to such splendid soldiers, many of whom never returned."
Grant,
Eneas Henry George
E.H.G. Grant
Son of late Col H.G. Grant, CB, late Seaforth Highlanders and Isabel, daughter of Eneas Mackintosh, Balnespick, Inverness­shire. Married (1926) Lilian Marion (died 1978), daughter of late S. O'Neill, Cumberstown House, Co. Westmeath; one son (and elder son, Lieut Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action, Korea, 1951).
From Tomatin, Inverness.
14.08.1901
-
05.02.1994
[Tomatin, Inverness­shire ?]
2nd Lt.
24.12.1920 [18829]
Lt.
24.12.1922
Capt.
17.04.1929
Maj.
01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.
14.02.1942-13.05.1942
T/Lt.Col.
14.05.1942-10.06.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
11.06.1945
Lt.Col.
02.09.1946
A/Col.
11.12.1944-10.06.1945
T/Col.
11/06/1945-(01.1946)
Col.
26.08.1948, seniority 11.06.1948
A/Brig.
11.12.1944-10.06.1945
T/Brig.
11.06.1945-(01.1946)
Brig.
01.07.1952 (supernumerary 26.08.1954) (retd 06.09.1955)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
07.06.1951
HM's birthday 51
Distinguished Service Order DSO
19.10.1944
NW Europe
Distinguished Service Order DSO
11.10.1945
NW Europe
Military Cross MC
06.11.1936
Palestine
Mention in Despatches MID
23.07.1937
Palestine
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp
Education: Wellington College, Berks; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
24.12.1920


commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
01.08.1928
-
30.11.1932
Adjutant, Lovat Scouts (Territrial Army)
1936


1st Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Palestine)
1940


France
1944?
 
Commanding Officer, 7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (NW Europe)
11.12.1944
-
15.01.1945
Commander, 185th Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)
26.01.1945
-
24.07.1945
Commander, 157th (Highland Light Infantry) Infantry Brigade (NW Europe)
1945
-
1949
Brigade Commander (NW Europe & ...)
1949
-
1952
Commader, Gold Coast District
1952
-
1955
Deputy Commander, Northumbrian District
Colonel Commandant, Gold Coast Regiment, 1949-1952. JP Inverness­shire, 1957-91; DL Inverness­shire, 28.05.1958-80. Chairman Inverness­shire TA and Air Force Association, 1961-65.
Grant
James

J. Grant

?
-

2nd Lt.
17.02.1942 [225198]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
T/Capt.
10.02.1944-(04.1946)
17.02.1942


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Possibly same as:
James (Jim) Lieutenant Colonel RE, died peacefully at home on 14 February 2007, aged 86. Husband of the late Florence, father, grandfather, and great grandfather.
Grant,
John Peter
J.P. Grant (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Eldest son of Col. John Peter Grant, CB, MC, TD, DL (1885-1963), and Gertrude Margaret Truell (1883-1967), of Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire.
Married (12.04.1941) Katherine Greaves (01.06.1918 - 08.11.2011), daughter of Maj. Owain Edward Whitehead Greaves (?-1941), Royal Horse Guards, and the Wenefryde Agatha Lindsay-Tollemache-Scott, 10th Countess of Dysart (1889-1975); one son, one daughter.
13.01.1915
St Andrew district, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
25.07.1987
Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Inverness-shire
2nd Lt. 29.03.1933 [58604]
Lt. 29.03.1936
A/Capt. 1940
T/Capt. 10.02.1941-24.07.1942
WS/Capt. 25.07.1942
T/Maj. 25.07.1942-10.08.1945
WS/Maj. 11.08.1945 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 11.08.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 25.07.1942
A/Maj. 01.05.1947-...
Maj. 01.01.1949
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 21.06.1945 NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
Education: Winchester College (1928.3-1933.2; I House (Turner's (Sunnyside)); Grenoble University, Switzerland (1933-1934).
With British Linen Bank, George Street, Edinburgh.
      late Cadet Cpl., Winchester College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
29.03.1933     commissioned, The Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
1943 - 1945 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), ... (NW Europe)
1945 - 1946 Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), 8th Corps
01.05.1947 - 11.06.1948 Scottish Horse - Territorial Army
12.06.1948 - 13.01.1965 Scottish Horse - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
London Stock Exchange. Landowner and farmer. 15th Laird of Rothiemurchus Sheriff of Inverness
Grant-Suttie,
Hubert Francis

H.F. Grant-Suttie
Eldest son of late Robert Grant­Suttie and Hon. Edith Mary Dawnay, daughter of 7th Viscount Downe. Married (1920) Torfrida Alianore (died 1971), elder daughter of Sir Wroth Lethbridge, 5th Bt, and Hon. Mrs Walter Yarde­Buller of Marchington Hall, Staffs; one son, one daughter.
15.12.1884
-
03.06.1973
2nd Lt.
29.07.1904
Lt.Col.
1933
Col.
05.04.1936, seniority 01.07.1934 (retd 01.08.1939)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
20.08.1940
for distinguished services in the field
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.01.1918
for distinguished services in the field
Military Cross MC
14.01.1916
?
Education: psc, ns
29.07.1904


commissioned, Royal Artillery



served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches four times, DSO, MC)
05.04.1936
-
1939
Assistant-Quartermaster-General, War Office
14.09.1939

10.02.1940
Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (CBE)
1943
-
1947
Command Welfare Officer, Scotland
CStJ, 1953 (OStJ, 1948). Member Royal Co. of Archers, Queen's Body Guard in Scotland.
Grant Watson,
Robert De Merve [Low]

R.D.M. Grant Watson
Son of Herbert A. Grant Watson, and of Anna C. Grant Watson (née Low), of Kensington, London.
18.01.1910
Brazil
-
27.03.1942
(KIA) [age 32]
[Kinghtsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya, 10.C.18]
2nd Lt. TA
14.11.1933
2nd Lt.
14.03.1934, seniority 01.09.1932 [56997]
Lt.
01.09.1935
Capt.
01.09.1940
Mention in Despatches MID
30.06.1942
Middle East (posthumously)
14.11.1933


commissioned, University Candiates (General List - Territorial Army)
14.03.1934

commissioned, Scots Guards
(01.1937)


2nd Battalion Scots Guards (Aldershot)
18.05.1937
-
07.04.1938
specially emplyed, War Office
(01.1939)


2nd Battalion Scots Guards (Egypt)
?
-
27.03.1942
Special Boat Service, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps [drowned when canoe capsized on operation to capture German pilot who crash-landed on an island near Gazala Point, Libya]
Grasett,
Sir Arthur Edward
A.E. Grasett A.E. Grasett
 

20.10.1888
-
04.12.1971

2nd Lt.
24.06.1909 [6855]
...
...
Maj.Gen.
27.09.1938, seniority 09.01.1938 (retd 02.07.1947)
A/Lt.Gen.
07.11.1941-06.11.1942
T/Lt.Gen.
07.11.1942-24.08.1945
local Lt.Gen.
25.08.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.
02.07.1947

KBE 1945; CB 1940; DSO 1919; MC 1915

24.06.1909
 
 
commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
...
-
...
...
04.11.1938
-
27.08.1941
General Officer Commanding, British Troops in China
1941
-
1941
General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong
08.10.1941
-
06.11.1941
General Officer Commanding, 48th Infantry Division
07.11.1941
-
14.01.1943
General Officer Commanding, VIII Corps District (UK)
1943
-
1944
Chief Liaison Officer to Allied Forces in the United Kingdom
1944
-
1945
Head Civil Affairs Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
25.08.1945
-
1954
Lieutenant-Governor & General Officer Commanding Troops, Jersey
Gray,
Donald

D. Gray
Married ...;
two sons.
01.02.1916
-
2009
Cadet ? [1523303]
2nd Lt. 18.03.1944 [312837]
WS/Lt. 18.09.1944 (reld 09.07.1946; disability)
Hon. Lt. 09.07.1946
18.03.1944     commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]
19.01.1945     wounded in the Netherlands
Gray,
Donald Marshall

D.M. Gray
Son of the late Dr John William Gray, Medical Superintendant of Grassington Sanatorium and later Wolsingham Sanatorium, County Durham, and Mary Anderson Fallas.
15.10.1919
Grassington, Skipton district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
03.02.1949
Canongate district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
2nd Lt.
25.05.1940 [132522]
WS/Lt.
25.11.1941
T/Capt.
20.01.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
12.04.1945
T/Maj.
12.04.1945-(04.1946)
Military Cross MC
12.07.1945
NW Europe
25.05.1940


commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [emergency commission]
19.07.1941


transferred, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(07.1943)
 
 
"B" Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (Sicily; wounded)
(1944)
-
(1945)
Officer Commanding, "A" Company, 6th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
Gray,
Geoffrey Copland

G.C. Gray
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
25.06.1903
Chelmsford district, Essex
-
07.12.1981
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.05.1922 [2339]
Lt. 27.05.1924
WS/Capt. ?
Capt. 01.01.1949
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. ?
      late Cadet C.&.M., Bradfield College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
27.05.1922     commissioned, 5th Battalion The Essex Regiment - Territorial Army
31.12.1924 - 15.08.1953 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Gray,
John Herbert
"Jack"

J.H. Gray (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Clark(
Married Marie Phillips.
05.12.1912
-
09.08.2005
St Alban's district, Hertfordshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
12.04.1941 [180949]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.
< 04.1946
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM
06.03.1947
-
03.1939
 
 
joined 53rd (City of London) Mobile Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment -Territorial Army
?
-
12.04.1941
Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.04.1941


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Published: Jack's war (2002)
Gray,
John Willoughby

J.W. Gray
Married Felicity Gray, choreographer.
Residence: (1946) London.
05.11.1916
London
-
13.02.1993
Salisbury, Wiltshire
2nd Lt.
24.02.1940 [121291]
WS/Lt.
27.01.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.
17.09.1944-(04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
24.01.1946
NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID
10.05.1945
NW Europe
24.02.1940


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(09.1944)
-
(05.1945)
Officer Commanding, No. 9 Patrol, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom"), attached to the 11th Armoured Division
Actor.
Gray,
Oliver John

O.J. Gray
01.03.1923 ??
-
06.2003 ??
Mid Warwickshire ?
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
26.06.1943 [284443]
WS/Lt.
26.12.1943 (reld 15.03.1952)
Hon. Lt.
15.03.1952
26.06.1943


commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
19.02.1945


transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (parachute trained at Kabrit Parachute School)



served in Palestine post-war
Gray,
Thomas

T. Gray
21.04.1921
-
11.1986
North Tyneside district,Tyne and Wear
Cadet ? [10591699]
2nd Lt. 22.11.1944 [339761]
WS/Lt. 22.04.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
22.11.1944     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
      served in India
Gray,
the Rev. Vernon Gittins
V.G. Gray (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen)
Married ((09?).1947,
Caernarvon district, Caernarvonshire, Wales) Laura Elizabeth Evans (? - 01.08.2008); one son.
05.11.1914
-
(12?).1977
Caernarvon district, Caernarvonshire, Wales
Chaplain to the Forces 4th class (with rank of Capt.) 21.03.1942 [225405]
07.02.1951, seniority 06.07.1950
T/Chapl. 3rd cl. (Maj.) 01.09.1954-05.11.1958
Chapl. 3rd cl. (Maj.) 06.11.1958 (retd 05.11.1969)
Education: St David's College, Lampeter (BA 1937 (2nd cl. Hist.); St Michael's College, Llandaff (1938).
Deacon, 1939. Priest, 1940 Bangor. Curate of Dolgelly, 1939-1942.
21.03.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission to 14.04.1947]
23.03.1943 - 29.04.1943 8th Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
30.04.1943 - 12.04.1944 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA (1st Airborne Division)
13.04.1944 - ? 21st Army Group, British Increment to 1st Canadian Army
06.11.1946 - 14.04.1947 Unemployed List
15.04.1947     short service commission
07.02.1951     permanent commission
1947 - 1949 Chaplain to the Forces, Pirbright
1949 - 1957 Chaplain to the Forces, East Africa
1957 - 1960 Chaplain to the Forces, Donnington
1960 - 1963 Chaplain to the Forces, British Army of the Rhine
1963 - 1964 Chaplain to the Forces, Colchester
1964 - (1967) Chaplain to the Forces, Hong Kong
Curate of Llanfairisgaer, 1946-1947.
Grazebrook,
Tom Neville

T.N. Grazebrook (Photo courtesy of Mr Sheldon A. Goldberg) T.N. Grazebrook (Photo courtesy of Mr Sheldon A. Goldberg)
Son of Tom Grazebrook, of Pedmore, Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
Married (26.08.1937, Great Burstead Parish Church, Essex) Marion Betty Asplin, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Charles Asplin, of Burghsted Lodge, Billericay, Essex; one son, two daughters.
12.07.1904
Bromsgrove district, Hereford and Worcester / Shropshire / Staffordshire / Worcestershire
-
24.08.1967
Hammersmith Hospital [lately of Sheepscombe, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire]
2nd Lt. 27.08.1924 [30680]
Lt. 27.08.1926
Capt. 15.04.1935
A/Maj. 02.07.1940-01.10.1940
T/Maj. 02.10.1940-26.08.1941
Maj. 27.08.1941
A/Lt.Col. 14.11.1941-13.02.1942
T/Lt.Col. 14.02.1942-16.06.1944
WS/Lt.Col. 17.06.1944
A/Col. 17.12.1943-16.06.1944
T/Col. 17.06.1944-10.02.1948
Col. 24.06.1948, seniority 17.06.1947 (Supernumerary 24.06.1954)
A/Brig. 28.03.1945-27.09.1945
T/Brig. 28.09.1945-10.02.1948,
14.08.1949-31.12.1952
Brig. 01.01.1953 (retd 30.06.1958)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE 02.08.1945 NW Europe
Distinguished Service Order DSO 18.11.1943 Sicily
Mention in Despatches MID 20.12.1940 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 23.09.1943 North Africa
Mention in Despatches MID 08.04.1949 Malaya
Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM 08.11.1945 SHAEF?
Education: Shrewsbury School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Quetta & Camberley (psc; 1938-1939).
27.08.1924     commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment
1928     Adjutant, Regimental Depot The Gloucestershire Regiment
24.02.1932 - 09.03.1934 employed with Royal West African Frontier Force
01.12.1934 - 20.02.1937 Adjutant, The Gloucestershire Regiment (Mhow)
      served in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, NW Europe:
02.09.1939 - 13.01.1940 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), GHQ British Expeditionary Force (France)
14.01.1940 - 27.06.1940 Brigade Major, 5th Infantry Brigade (France [Dunkirk])
02.07.1940 - 25.05.1941 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), S.D., War Office
14.11.1941 - 11.03.1943 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), S.D., War Office
1943 - 1943 Second-in-Command, 11th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment
1943 - 1943 Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (North Africa, Italy, Sicily)
17.12.1943 - 27.03.1945 Colonel General Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (chief of the SHAEF Post Hostilities Planning Sub-section)
28.03.1945 - 28.06.1945 Brigadier General Staff, Plans G3 Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
29.06.1945 - 21.05.1947 Deputy Secretary, Control Commission for Germany
25.06.1947 - 30.12.1947 Commander, 25th Infantry Brigade (Malaya)
09.01.1948 - 10.02.1948 Brigadier General Staff (Intelligence), Far East Land Forces
11.02.1948 - 28.05.1949 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (Malaya)
14.08.1949 - 09.07.1952 Deputy Director of Manpower Planning (A), War Office
18.08.1952 - 12.06.1955 Commander, 159th Infantry Brigade TA
15.06.1955 - 1958 Brigadier A/Q, HQ Western Command
Deputy Lieutenant, Gloucestershire, 1965.
Green,
E H
E.H. Green
?
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. ?
... ...
Maj. (03.1945)
?     commissioned, ? [emergency commission?]
(03.1945)     HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade
Green,
George Lewis [Gerald]

G.L. Green
08.06.1915
-
10.03.2007
Bahrain
2nd Lt.
22.06.1941
WS/Capt.
03.12.1944
T/Maj.
03.12.1944-(04.1946)
...
...
Maj.Gen.
?
22.06.1941


commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission]
Gerald Green came to Bahrain in 1956 after a distinguished career in the Durham Light Infantry. He saw war service in France, Sudan, Libya, Malta and Egypt. After the war he served in Greece and Northern Ireland. His first job in Bahrain was to establish the Military Wing of Public Security. In 1963, he became Private Secretary to HH the Amir Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. In 1999, he was appointed Counsellor to HH the Amir. In 2001, he was promoted to Major General (Ret'd). Gerald Green was decorated by many nations, which included the Order of Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Commander of the British Empire (CBE), Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory (Vatican), War Cross for Valour (Greece), Jerusalem Cross for Services to the Anglican Church in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East and Warden Emeritus at St Christopher's Cathedral in Bahrain.
Green,
John Noel
J.N. Green (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Green)
Son of Herbert A. Green, and Alice M. Penn.
Married ...; two sons.
25.12.1921
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
-
07.10.2002
Keighley, Yorkshire
Cadet ? [2155135]
2nd Lt. 29.10.1944 [334572]
WS/Lt. 29.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
29.10.1944     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
      served in Burma
Green,
Louis Vernon
L.V. Green
Son of Louis Penn Green (1880-1954), and Rosetta Mary Brown (1884-1987).
Married (02.06.1929, St John the Evangelist, Clapham, Lambeth, London) Grace Evelyn Willsher (1906? - 1991?); ... children.
03.06.1906
Thornton Heath, Croydon district, Surrey
-
27.05.1983
Henfield, Worthing district, West Sussex
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.01.1943 [258775]
WS/Lt. 09.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
09.01.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
Green,
Peter John Philip
P.J.P. Green (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)
Son of Capt. C. Green, and ... Compton.
Married Susan ...; one son.
25.06.1918
Richmond district, Surrey
-
15.02.2008
New Forest Nursing Home (formerly of Lyndhurst, Hampshire)
2nd Lt. 22.05.1937 [71918]
WS/Lt. 22.05.1940 (reld 23.05.1945; disability)
Hon. Lt. 23.05.1945
Military Cross MC 13.09.1945 gallant & distinguished services in the field
Education: Imperial Service College (1932.2-1936.2).
      late Cadet, Imperial Service College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.05.1937     commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
? - 05.1940 Second-in-Command, "C" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (severely wounded at Dunkirk; captured)
1940 - 1944 POW in German captivity (Oflag IX-A, Spangenberg); repatriated
Consular staff, 1945-1950.
Green,
Ralph Kent

R.K. Green (Photo courtesy of Mrs Barbara Lawrence) R.K. Green (Photo courtesy of Mrs Barbara Lawrence)
Son (with one sister) of Ralph Westgate Green (1886-1963), and Muriel Kent (1893-1876), of London NW6, later of Frome, Somerset.
28.05.1914
Great Barrow, Chelmsford district, Essex
-
31.05.1977
Winsley Hospital, Limpley Stoke, Trowbridge district, Wiltshire
(of chronic emphysema and TB)
Pte. ? 12.09.1939
Cadet 02.10.1939
2nd Lt. 29.10.1939 [105204]
WS/Lt. 29.04.1941
A/Capt. 28.04.1943-(07.)1944
WS/Capt. 24.12.1945 (reld 31.01.1946)
A/Maj. 23.09.1945-23.11.1945
Hon. Capt. 31.01.1946
Education: Mill Hill School, London (09.1928-07.1932); British College of Accountancy.
12.09.1939 - 01.10.1939 enlisted service, Royal Army Service Corps (Gloucester)
02.10.1939 - 28.10.1939 Cadet, No. 1 RASC Training Centre (Aldershot)
29.10.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
29.10.1939 - 13.11.1939 1st Mixed Training Battalion RASC (Aldershot)
14.11.1939 - 02.07.1940 48th Divisional Petrol Company RASC (Hungerford, from 05.01-25.06.1940 with BEF, France):
14.11.1939 - 09.12.1939 joined 517th Petrol Company RASC
10.12.1939 - 23.12.1939 course of instruction at Army Gas School, Winterbourne
06.01.1940 - 04.06.1940 joined 517th Petrol Company RASC (BEF, France)
03.07.1940 - 28.03.1941 48th Divisional Ammunition Company RASC (UK)
29.03.1941 - 28.04.1943 73rd Independent Infantry Brigade (for duty as Brigade RASC Officer) (UK)
29.04.1943 - 12.10.1943 1st Airborne Division (for duty with Commander RASC) (UK, embarked 12.05.1943 for North Africa (British North Africa Forces), disembarked 26.05.1943, embarked for UK 03.10.1943)
13.10.1943 - 12.11.1943 6th Airborne Division (for duty with HQ RASC)
13.11.1943 - 23.11.1945 Airborne Supplies Training Wing, redesignated 01.07.1944 RASC Air Training Centre (Lemsford, later Leicester) (from 01.07.1944 as Chief Instructor, from 23.09.1945 as Officer Commanding)
29.10.1944 - 14.12.1944 for temporary duty with South East Asia Command (India)
04.04.1945 - 24.04.1945 temporarily attached to Officer Commanding RASC, Kensington (emplaned 10.03.1945 UK for Brussels)
24.11.1945 - 31.01.1946 No. 3 [M.C.U.?] (for Class "A" release)
Green,
Rhodri Grahame Mortimer
"Rod"

R.G.M. Green
Son of ... Green, and ... Steele.
16.02.1918
Guildford district, Surrey
-
07.1998
Petersfield district, Hampshire
2nd Lt. 27.01.1938 [74671]
WS/Lt. 12.11.1940
Lt. 01.01.1941
A/Capt. 12.08.1940-11.11.1940
T/Capt. 12.11.1940-20.09.1943
WS/Capt. 21.09.1943
Capt. 27.01.1946
A/Maj. 21.06.1943-20.09.1943
T/Maj. 21.09.1943-30.04.1944,
27.09.1944-02.01.1947,
23.08.1949-26.01.1951
Maj. 27.01.1951
Lt.Col. 01.02.1960 (supernumerary 01.02.1963) (retd 30.03.1968)
Military Cross MC 22.10.1940 BEF France
27.01.1938     commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters
(1940)     2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (BEF) (MC)
01.04.1958 - 02.03.1959 specially employed, Nigerian Military Forces
      seconded to the Trucial States in the Arabian desert (later a military adviser in Oman & converting to Islam)
Green,
Samuel [Robert]
S. Green (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Green)
21.12.1897
-
(09?).1975 ?
York district, Greater Manchester ?
Lt. (OME 4th cl.) 16.07.1932 [53333]
Maj. 11.09.1936
Lt.Col. 09.05.1939
Lt.Col. (OME 1st cl.) 11.08.1942, seniority 09.05.1939
Lt.Col. (EME 1st cl.) 01.10.1942, seniority 09.08.1939
A/Col. 30.10.1942-29.04.1943
T/Col. 30.04.1943-(04.1944)
Col. 11.04.1945
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 30.08.1945 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 09.03.1956 2nd clasp
AMInstCE.
16.07.1932     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
16.07.1932 - (10.1935) 56th (1st London) Divisional RAOC (Chelsea)
(01.1937)     Officer Commanding, 56th (1st London) Divisional RAOC (Chelsea)
(01.1938) - (01.1939) Officer Commanding, No. 3 (London) Ordnance Field Park RAOC (Chelsea)
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
01.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
13.02.1951 - 11.03.1955 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Green,
Stanley George

S.G. Green (Photo courtesy of Colin Hales) S.G. Green (Photo courtesy of Colin Hales)
S.G. Green (Photo courtesy of Colin Hales) S.G. Green (Photo courtesy of Colin Hales)
S.G. Green (Photo courtesy of Colin Hales)
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ? [101792]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 01.12.1939 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 01.1946) (reld 08.05.1948)
A/Maj. 25.08.1939-30.11.1939
T/Maj. 01.12.1939-(10.1945)
T/Lt.Col. 1945?
Hon. Lt.Col. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 25.05.1951 a cancellation for a 1st clasp was published 06.1951, showing him as serving with Intelligence Corps (reitred)
25.08.1939     commissioned, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers - Special List
Served Control Commission for Germany.
Green,
William

W. Green
01.08.1882
-
1947
2nd Lt.
11.08.1900
...
...
Maj.Gen.
01.03.1935
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
?
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
?
?
11.08.1900


commissioned, The Black Watch
...
-
...
...
03.01.1938
-
1940
Area Commander
Green,
William Marriott

W.M. Green
Son of Robert and Charlotte Green.
Married ...; ... children.
16.06.1908
Timberland, Sleaford district, Lincolnshire
-
(03?).1981
Bourne district, Lincolnshire
L/Cpl. ? [4799509]
CSM ?
2nd Lt. 19.03.1943 [266320]
WS/Lt. 19.03.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 01.08.1944-(08.1946)
Lt. 10.06.1950 (reld 27.03.1952)
Military Medal MM 06.11.1936 Palestine 1936
(1936)     2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (MM)
19.03.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [immediate emergency commission]
10.06.1950 - 27.03.1952 commissioned, Lincoln Contingent, Army Cadet Force - Territorial Army
Green,
Sir William Wyndham
W.W. Green

15.05.1887
-
12.11.1979
2nd Lt.
18.12.1907 [690]
...
...
T/Brig.
22.04.1938-11.06.1940,
14.06.1940-06.02.1941
Maj.Gen.
07.02.1941, seniority 16.07.1938 (supernumerary 15.04.1944) (retd 04.07.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.
16.04.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.
04.07.1946

KBE 10.04.1945; CB 1942; DSO 1918; MC 1916 and bar 1917

18.12.1907
 
 
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...
-
...
...
22.04.1938
-
11.06.1940
Commandant Military College of Science (Woolwich)
14.06.1940
-
03.03.1941
Brigadier RA, Northern Command (UK)
04.03.1941
-
07.11.1941
Deputy Governor Gibraltar
07.01.1942
-
30.09.1942
General Officer Commanding, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (Home Forces)
01.10.1942
-
?
5th Anti-Aircraft Group Commander (Home Forces) 
?
-
07.03.1945
6th Anti-Aircraft Group Commander (Home Forces) 
16.04.1945
-
(01.)1946
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Anti-Aircraft Command
Greenacre,
Walter Douglas Campbell
W.D.C. Greenacre
20.03.1900  Durban, South Africa
-
15.08.1978
2nd Lt.
23.06.1920, seniority 26.08.1919
Maj.
01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.
01.04.1941-30.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.
01.07.1941-07.09.1941,
30.10.1941-25.01.1944
Lt.Col.
26.01.1944
A/Col.
15.12.1943-14.06.1944
T/Col.
15.06.1944-(01.1946)
A/Brig.
04.08.1944-12.08.1944,
17.08.1944-07.02.1945
T/Brig.
08.02.1945-(01.1946)
Brig.
01.03.1951 (retd 31.05.1952)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1953
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.06.1945
?
Member of the Royal Victorian Order MVO
1927
?
Mention in Despatches MID
10.05.1945

23.06.1920


commissioned, Welsh Guards
15.01.1936
-
30.11.1936
Staff Captain, London District (temporary)
26.10.1938
-
07.09.1939
Brigade Major, Home Forces
1941
-
1941
Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards (raised  the unit)
1941
-
1943
Commanding Officer, 2nd (Armoured) Battalion Welsh Guards
1943
-
1944
Second-in-Command, 5th Guards Armoured Brigade
18.08.1944
-
02.02.1945
Commander, 6th Guards Tank Brigade (NW Europe), redesignated:
02.02.1945
-
17.06.1945
Commander, 6th Guards Armoured Brigade (NW Europe), redesignated:
17.06.1945
-
1947
Commander, 6th Guards Brigade (NW Europe)
1947
-
1948
Commander, Schleswig Holstein Sub Area, British Army of the Rhine
1948
-
1949
Commander, 128th Infantry Brigade, TA
1950
-
1952
Commander, 17th Infantry Brigade & District, Middle East Land Forces
Extra Equerry to the King, 21.07.1936-10.12.1936 & 01.03.1937--1952. Extra Equerry to the Queen, 1952-(1968).
Greenall,
Peter Michael Benson
P.M.B. Greenall (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Only son of James Benson Greenall (1890-1971), and Gwendolyn Elsie "Gwen" Jones (1888-), of Chaplin's Farm, Langham Moor, Colchester & Arlington House, London SW1.
26.04.1925
15a St Peter's Square, Hammersmith district, London W
-
21.09.1944
(KIA) [age 19]
[Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 22.G.3]
Cadet ? [2624321]
2nd Lt. 28.01.1944 [307862]
WS/Lt. 28.07.1944
28.01.1944     commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
? - 21.09.1944 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
[After heavy fighting around the Valkhof at Nijmegen, Lt. Greenall with some ten men stormed the Belvédère Tower at the Valkhof and managed to drive back the Germans. When the British cautiously moved towards the bridge they were surprised by a German motorcycle and sidecar that tried to escape northwards across the bridge in a desperate attempt. While passing, the passenger in the sidecar gave off a salvo with his automatic weapon, killing Lt. Greenall.]
Greenbank,
Geoffrey Francis
G.F. Greenbank (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Greenbank)
Son of Francis Greenbank (1876-1950), and Florence Mary Ayers (1882-1949).
Married (1940) Mabel Greenbank (died 1997); two sons, one daughter.
Lived at Clayton Heights, Bradford, from 1953 Wellfield, Bradford, from 1959 Speeton Avenue, Bradford.
04.10.1915
Mutford district, Suffolk
-
02.1999
Bradford, Yorkshire
2nd Lt. 20.09.1941 [207849]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 02.07.1943-(04.1944), 10.11.1944-(04.1946) (retd 01.05.1947)
Capt. TA 01.05.1947
Education: King Alfred’s College, Winchester, Hampshire.
20.09.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      served Normandy (1944), was wounded and returned to France
      ended the war running a PoW camp of Japanese soldiers in Burma
[was presented with a Japanese officer's sword]
01.05.1947     transferred, Territorial Army
22.07.1948     transferred,Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Tory candidate for Bradford South in General Election, 10.1951.
Greenfield,
Donald Eric
D.E. Greenfield

Married ((03?).1947, Bradford district, West Yorkshire) Irene J. Clough.
08.09.1914
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
01.1987
Birmingham district, West Midlands
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.05.1942 [233655]
WS/Lt. 09.11.1942 (reld 29.11.1950)
T/Capt. 27.01.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. 29.11.1950
Education: University of Birmingham.
Solicitor.
(06.1940)     Dunkirk evacuation
09.05.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch [emergency commission]
      served in India
Greenway,
the Hon. Charles Paul;
3rd Baron Greenway (cr. 1927):
Baronet (cr. 1919)

C.P. Greenway
Son of 2nd Baron Greenway and Eileen (died 1963), daughter of late Maj.­Gen. Sir Harry Triscott Brooking, KCB, KCSI, KCMG.
Succeeded father, 30.04.1963.
Married (1939) Cordelia Mary, daughter of late Major Humfrey Campbell Stephen, late Northumberland Fusiliers; three sons.
31.01.1917
-
14.09.1975
[London ?]
2nd Lt.
26.10.1940 [153843]
WS/Lt.
26.04.1942
T/Capt.
06.02.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
08.09.1945
T/Maj.
08.09.1945-(04.1946)
Education: Winchester; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1938; MA, 1942)



Private, Royal Hampshire Regiment
26.10.1940


commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
11.07.1944


transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps [with effect from 08.06.1943]
1942
1943
(06.1944)
-


1946


9th Parachute Battalion (wounded)
Assistant Adjutant (UK)
Second-in-Command, B Company (Merville, France)
(India, Palestine)

Insurance Broker and Underwriter, Lloyd's, London. Citizen and Vintner Freeman of the City of London, 1938. Bailli délégué, Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs de la Grande Bretagne.
Greenwood,
Henry
H. Greenwood (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Greenwood) H. Greenwood (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Greenwood)
Son (with one brother) of Herbert Greenwood (1886-1956), and Blanche Plucknett (1883-1965).
Married Audrey Joyce Cossens (24.09.1920 - 11.03.2009), daughter of Francis Joseph Cossens (1894-1971), and Violet May Cox (1894?-1965); two sons.
02.04.1917
Radstock, Somerset
-
20.01.1969
Kingsdon, Bridgwater district, Somerset
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 18.10.1941 [212904]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt. 22.05.1943-(04.1944),
25.06.1944-(10.1944),
17.06.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Lt. 01.01.1952, seniority 06.11.1944
Capt. 01.01.1952, seniority 06.11.1948
18.10.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.01.1952 - 01.01.1957 commissioned, Royal Army Educational Corps [short service commission]
01.0.1957     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
His son Mr Christopher F.K. Greenwood, MBE, writes: "He joined the 8th Army in Egypt and served throughout the Desert Campaign. After the invasion of Italy he was appointed Adjutant of the Regiment and in December 1944 joined HQRA 10 Corps as Temporary Staff Captain. In February 1945 joined the 8th Indian Division as as A/LORA and was appointed WO in June 1945 and returned to UK with them to prepare for the invasion of Japan. He took and passed the Intelligence Course on Japanese Warfare during this period. Following on the defeat of Japan he went to Germany. In October 1945 as LORA to the 11th Armoured Division where he was responsible for security in a large zone of Schleswig Holstein. He appears to have been Acting Brigade Major for a period and directed the administration of Displaced Persons camps in the region under NOIC. Post-war he went on to Graduate in Classics at Bristol University. A subject which he taught until 1952 when he took a short term commission with the RAEC, becoming Divisional Education Officer South West. He bought a Prep School in Somerset in 1957. My mother joined the F.A.N.Y and was recruited for Special Operations Executive (SOE) and based at Grendon Underwood with the Royal Signals Regiment during WW2. She was awarded the B.E.M."
Greenwood,
James Eric
J.E. Greenwood (Photo courtesy of Mrs Sally Goodall)
Son of James Greenwood, and Clara A. Peaker.
Married 1st ((03?).1950, Goole, Howden district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Mary "Mollie" Fitch (11.12.1922 - 06.1981); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (05.1987, Epsom, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Maureen A. Lancaster.
25.10.1918
Goole, Pontefract district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
10.07.2012
Epsom, Surrey
2nd Lt. 09.03.1940 [124827]
WS/Lt. 09.09.1941 (reld 08.03.1946; disability)
T/Capt. 01.07.1942-08.03.1946
Hon. Capt. 08.03.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 01.01.1982 New Year 82: Principal Professional and Technology Officer, Department of the Environment.
 
      Cadet, 40th Survey Regiment RA
09.03.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Greenwood,
John Richard Wyomarus
J.R.W. Greenwood (Photo courtesy of Tim Greenwood)

Son of John Henry Greenwood (1873-1956), and Gladys May Hemington (1896-1990).
Married ((09?).1943, Pontypool district, Monmouthshire) Joy Stephanie McMurty Higgitt ((06?).1921 - 2005), daughter of Arthur Henry Higgitt (1885-1948), and Gwladys Thomas (1892-1978); ... children (one son?).
28.11.1916
Wandsworth district, London
-
14.03.2000
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
L/Cpl. ?
2nd Lt. 10.10.1941 [211666]
WS/Lt. 18.04.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 29.08.1944-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 08.1946, < 12.1946
10.10.1941     commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
His son writes: "Territorial up to Dunkirk as private. Commission to lieutenant in Intelligence Corps, Bletchley Park. Commission to Captain, I Corps British Indian Army NW Frontier. Served the North Africa, then returned to Bletchley Park. Assigned to 1st Canadian Army for invasion. Later British Army of the Rhine."
Gregory,
Cyril

C. Gregory
Son of Joe Gregory (1884-1962), and Mary Elizabeth Dronfield (1886-).
Married ((03?).1942, Sheffield district, Yorkshire) Nellie Fraser; ... children (one son?).
01.10.1916
Sheffield, Yorkshire
-
02.2001
West Lancashire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 02.08.1941 [200576]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 12.10.1944-(08.1946)
      Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.08.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      365th Battery, 92nd Field Regiment RA
Gregson,
Cyril Leach
C.L. Gregson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Margaret Holt)
C.L. Gregson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Margaret Holt)
Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Edwin Gregson (1859-), and Mary Jane Leach (1859-).
Married 1st (08.1927, Chorley district, Lancashire) Ruth Riding; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (30.05.1950, Longmoor Lane Methodist Church, Liverpool, Lancashire) Barbara Ruth Rutledge (1922 - ); one daughter.
04.03.1899
Chorley, Lancashire
-
(03?).1981
Congleton and Crewe district, Cheshire
2nd Lt. 30.08.1944 [329003] (reld > 12.1947)
WW I     served with 17th Lancers
30.08.1944     commissioned, General List [emergency commission] (without pay and allowances from Army funds)
Gresham,
Albert
A. Gresham (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Blackmore-Heal)

Son (with one sister) of George Gresham (1888-1954), and Harriet Scott (1887-).
Married ((09?).1938, Blackpool district, Lancashire) Elizabeth Mary O'Callaghan (11.10.1914 - 09.10.1961), daughter (with three brothers and one sister) of Thomas O'Callaghan (1875-), and Elizabeth Nolan (1876-), of Leeds; one daughter, one son.
27.02.1911
Hunslet district, Yorkshire
-
31.08.1942
[age 31]
[Leeds (Harehills) Cemetery, section X.1, grave 342]
Wt.Offr. Cl. III (PSM) ? [4611554]
A/Wt.Offr. Cl. II ?
Lt. 07.09.1940 [143997]
T/Capt. 28.03.1941-31.08.1942
Mention in Despatches MID 20.12.1940 in recognition of distinguished services in connection with operations in the field, 03-06.40

 

07.09.1940     commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]
? - 31.08.1942 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
[Died from a gunshot wound in the chest caused by the accidental discharge of a .22 rifle which he had mounted on a 2 pounder gun for target practice and which he was endeavouring to adjust.]
Grey,
John Victor Charles
J.V.C. Grey
08.05.1915
-
04.2002
Norwich district, Norfolk
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
07.12.1940 [160732]
WS/Lt.
07.06.1942
T/Capt.
31.10.1942-(04.1946)
?
-
07.12.1940
either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Units
07.12.1940


commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]



148th Regiment RAC
Grice,
James Dickenson
J.D. Grice
Son of ... Grice, and ... Perry.
18.09.1915
Dewsbury district, Yorkshire - West Riding / West Yorkshire
-
(09?).1975
Claro district, North Yorkshire
2nd Lt.
18.12.1935 [66629]
Lt.
18.12.1938
A/Capt.
26.09.1941-20.10.1941,
25.01.1942-31.03.1942
T/Capt.
01.04.1942-30.06.1946
Lt.
17.01.1945, seniority 24.02.1941
06.02.1951, seniority 03.03.1941
Capt.
01.07.1946
Maj.
18.09.1951
Lt.Col.
04.10.1959 (retd 20.03.1962)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
01.06.1953
HM's coronation: Korea
Mention in Despatches MID
20.12.1940
?
Army Emergency Reserve Decoration ERD
04.06.1954
-
Education: Staff College (psc)
18.12.1935


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (106th (West Riding) Army Troops Company RE (Doncaster))
24.08.1939


mobilized
(1942)


[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East)
17.01.1945


permanent commission
Grieve,
James Alexander

J.A. Grieve
1903
Glasgow, Scotland
-
 
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 26.02.1943 [259708]
WS/Lt. 26.08.1943 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court-Martial 05.05.1948)
26.02.1943     commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
Griffin,
[Sir] Arthur John Stewart
A.J.S. Griffin
Son of Arthur Wilfrid Michael Stewart Griffin and Florence May Griffin.
Married (1962) Henrietta
Montagu­Douglas­Scott (1934-20.02.2008), daughter of Brigadier Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott and his wife Lady Victoria, daughter of Field Marshal Earl Haig; two sons.

20.02.1924
Claygate, Surrey
-
01.04.2009
Teddington, Middlesex
2nd Lt.
07.05.1944 [320191]
WS/Lt.
07.11.1944
Lt.
19.04.1947, seniority 20.08.1946
T/Capt.
05.05.1948-19.02.1951
Capt.
20.02.1951 (retd 28.02.1959; receiving a gratuity)
T/Maj.
21.12.1954-(01.1957)
Hon. Maj.
28.02.1959
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO
16.06.1990
HM's birthday 90
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
01.01.1974
New Year 74
Member of the Royal Victorian Order MVO
10.06.1967
HM's birthday 67
Education: Harrow School.
11.1942
-
07.05.1944
enlisted service in the ranks for 1 year, 185 days
07.05.1944


commissioned, Royal Armoured corps [emergency commission to 18.04.1947]
1944
-
1944
24th Lancers (NW Europe; wounded)
1944
-
1945
seconded, The Queen's Bays (Italy)



ADC to General Sir Ivor Thomas, GOC Anti-Aircraft Command
19.04.1947
-
28.02.1959
permanent commission, The Queen's Bays



served in Germany as regimental adjutant; as a staff captain at the headquarters of the 7th Armoured Division, Verden; and as the commander of C Squadron, The Queen’s Bays, in Jordan and Libya
Press Secretary to HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1956-1991.
Griffin,
Eric Charles

E.C. Griffin
Son of Calton Charles Griffin (1889-1971), and Minnie Wallis.
Brother of Brig. Calton Wallis Griffin, MC, East Lancashire Regiment.
25.08.1918
Devonport district, Devonshire
-
26.04.1975
New Forest district, Hamsphire
2nd Lt. 09.04.1938 [75082]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
A/Capt. 01.11.1941-31.01.1942
T/Capt. 01.02.1942-24.06.1942,
17.03.1943-07.05.1945,
04.03.1946-30.06.1946
Lt. 17.01.1945, seniority 25.02.1941
Capt. 01.07.1946
Maj. 25.08.1952 (retd 07.05.1960)
Military Cross MC 20.12.1940 BEF France 05-06.40 [recommendation available upon request]
Army Emergency Reserve Decoration ERD 04.06.1954 -
      late Cadet Serjeant, Portsmouth Grammar School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
09.04.1938     commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized SRO [to 16.01.1945]
(1939/40)     1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment (British Expeditionary Force) (MC)
17.01.1945     transferred, Regular Army [permanent commission]
Griffin,
John Arnold Atkinson
J.A.A. Griffin

Son of Cdr. John Griffin, RN.
Married 1st (1915) Marjorie Annie Williams (died 1968), daughter of Rev. Alan Williams; one son, one daughter
Married 2nd (1970) Astri Stanton, widow of I.R.L. Stanton.
05.10.1891
-
25.03.1972
2nd Lt. 04.03.1911 [4605]
... ...
Col. 07.04.1939, seniority 01.06.1938 (retd 04.06.1945)
A/Brig. 24.10.1939-23.04.1940
T/Brig. 24.04.1940-03.05.1943
A/Maj.Gen. 04.05.1943
T/Maj.Gen. 1944
Hon. Maj.Gen. 04.06.1945
Distinguished Service Order DSO 1918 ?
Education: Sherborne; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
04.03.1911     commissioned, Lincolnshire Regiment
... - ... ...
1939 - 1940 Base Commandant, British Expeditionary Force (France)
1940     General Officer Commanding, Cambridge Area
      served in Hong Kong & India
1943 - 1944 Commander, 11th Indian Brigade (Italy)
Colonel, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, 1948-1958.
Griffith,
Robert Jacob

R.J. Griffith
03.09.1918
-
07.1994
Bromley district, Kent
2nd Lt.
01.06.1940 [134399]
WS/Lt.
01.12.1941
A/Capt.
25.05.1942-24.08.1942
T/Capt.
25.08.1942-15.11.1943
WS/Capt.
16.11.1943
Capt.
17.07.1946, seniority 16.11.1943
A/Maj.
16.08.1943-15.11.1943
T/Maj.
16.11.1943-15.07.1946,
12.02.1947-08.02.1950
Lt.
21.06.1947, seniority 26.08.1941
Capt.
21.06.1947, seniority 01.07.1946
T/Maj.
03.08.1950-25.02.1953
Maj.
26.02.1953
Lt.Col.
27.09.1962 (Empl. List 1) (retd 01.10.1964)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
30.12.1978
New Year 79: for service at Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Military Cross MC
22.04.1943
North Africa (Algeria, Tunesia) *
Military Cross MC
24.08.1944
Italy **
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Africa Star Afr St
-
& clasp 1st Army
Italy Star It St
-
-
Defence Medal Def M
-
-
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-
Education: Staff College, Camberley (psc).



served in the ranks for 192 days
?
-
01.06.1940
102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.06.1940


commissioned, North Irish Horse - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve [emergency commission to 16.07.1946]
17.07.1946
 
 
short service commission
21.06.1947


permanent commision, 10th Hussars
Served Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
* On 20 February [1943] part of ‘A’ Squadron were returning to take up their position at first light in the area 3247 (Tunisia, Sheet 4) when the Squadron Leader’s tank was knocked out and Major W.H. Ketchell wounded. Capt. Griffith, who had been delayed on the way owing to a broken down vehicle, arrived shortly afterwards and very coolly and competently organised the defense of this vital area. He remained in command of this area until 5th March and during this period was responsible for holding the position by day and by night. On the morning of 1 March six enemy tanks were subjected to artillery fire; one was immobilised and all abandoned by their crews. Captain Griffith went out on foot and entered one of these tanks. He brought back a German wallet containing valuable material for identification and from the information which he supplied an operation for the complete destruction of the tanks was organised and successfully carried out. During these six days Captain Griffith displayed marked powers of leadership and initiative. The position was frequently under fire and Capt. Griffith went out many times on foot to locate the enemy guns and to secure valuable information of enemy tank and infantry movements. I consider that Captain Griffith played a very valuable part in the stopping of the tank thrust on Beja. He comes from Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Recommended by Lt.Col. David Dawnay, Commanding Officer North Irish Horse, endorsed by Lt.Col. P. Scott, Acting Commander 128th Infantry Brigade, Maj.Gen. H.A. Freeman-Attwood, Commanding 46th Division, Lt.Gen. C. Allfrey, Commander 5 Corps, approved by Lt.Gen. K.A.N. Anderson, General Officer Commander-in-Chief 1st Army.
** 0600 hours 23 May 1944 – 1000 hrs 24 May 1944. Adolf Hitler Line, Italy. In the action against the Hitler Line
Major Griffith’s squadron supported the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, a battalion of the 2 Canadian Infantry Brigade. 600 yards from the Start Line his squadron was held up by the obstacles and an extensive enemy minefield. Visibility was 10 yards and the squadron came under very heavy enemy shelling and mortaring which continued incessantly for 28 hours. Touch was lost with the infantry and a battle commenced with the powerful anti-tank defences. Major Griffith controlled this battle on foot despite the heavy enemy fire and besides accounting for several snipers himself, his tank destroyed two Mark V tanks (Panthers), two 75 m.m. anti-tank guns, one 88 m.m. anti-tank gun and inflicted severe casualties on the enemy infantry. Four of his Churchill tanks were destroyed in this action. As it was found impossible to by-pass the minefield and all attempts at gapping were unsuccessful, Major Griffith decided to consolidate his gains. To do this, he left the safety of his tank and for many hours on foot and under intense fire, directed the forming of a strong point. He helped considerably in the re-organization of the infantry and directed the clearance of casualties. He held this position against constant enemy actions throughout one day and one night and would only leave the area when ordered to do so during the following morning when the battle had been won. His clear appreciation of the situation, his complete disregard for his personal safety, his coolness and daring were an inspiration to all the troops in the area and there is no doubt that his action in pinning down powerful elements of the enemy defenses helped considerably in the forcing of the Hitler Line.
Recommended 28.05.1944 by Lt.Col. E.V. Strickland, Commanding Officer North Irish Horse, endorsed by Brig. J.L. Tetley, Commander 25th Army Tank Brigade, Brig. T.G. Gibson, Commander 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade, Lt.Gen. E.L.M. Burns, General Officer Commanding 1st Canadian Corps, Lt.Gen. O.W.H. Leese, General Officer Commanding Eighth Army, approved by General H.R.L.G. Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Central Mediterranean Force.
Griffiths,
Arthur Vivian

A.V. Griffiths
Married (14.05.1942, Poona, India) Sister Sarah Ann Marr, TANS (1907-1981); ... children.
06.09.1903
Llantrissant, Glamorgan
-
01.09.1983

Martock, Somersetshire
Prob. Sg.Lt. RNVR 15.11.1934?
Sg.Lt. RNVR 07.09.1936, seniority 15.11.1934
2nd Lt. 30.09.1939 [103137]
WS/Capt. 30.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 30.09.1940
Maj. 27.02.1949
Hon. Maj. 06.09.1959
Education: MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1934.
14.05.1936 - (08.1936) HMS Guardian (netlayer)
30.09.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(1942)     served in India
01.05.1947 - 19.09.1951 commissioned, Territorial Army
19.09.1951 - 06.09.1959 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Had a medical practice just after the war at Abersychan, Monmouthshire. then opened another surgery in Pontypool. Factory doctor for the Bognor Regis district, Sussex, 25.07.1959. Surgeon, St John's Ambulance Brigade. Medical Officer, Shaftesbury Society. Late Casualty Surgeon Officer, Birkenhead General Hospital. Reserve Medical Officer, Municial Hospital, Birkenhead,
Griffiths,
George Henry

G.H. Griffiths
 
?
-
Cadet ? [7955239]
2nd Lt. 25.12.1943 [303692]
WS/Lt. 25.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
25.12.1943     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Griffiths,
George Henry

G.H. Griffiths
 
?
-
 
Cadet ? [993542]
2nd Lt. 16.12.1944 [335895]
WS/Lt. 16.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt. < 04.1946
16.12.1944     commissioned, The Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
Griffiths,
Gordon Herbert

G.H. Griffiths
 
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 14.06.1940 [136314]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 22.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
14.06.1940     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
04.02.1941     transferred, The Pioneer Corps
Griffiths,
Gordon H
ugh
G.H. Griffiths
?
-
Cadet ? [2195652]
2nd Lt. 22.04.1945 [346328]
WS/Lt. 22.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
22.04.1945     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Griffiths,
John Francis

J.F. Griffiths
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
06.05.1920
Aldershot, Hampshire
-
13.06.1998
Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 20.02.1943 [264624]
WS/Lt. 20.08.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Lt. 16.10.1951, seniority 04.10.1946 (reld 14.07.1965)
Hon. Capt. 10.12.1952
1940     enlisted, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
20.02.1943     commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
16.10.1951 - 10.12.1952 Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
10.12.1952 - 15.03.1955 Royal Army Service Corps (EFI Section) - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
15.03.1955 - 30.04.1955 Royal Army Service Corps (EFI Section) - Regular Army (without pay and allowances from Army Funds) [short service commission]
13.06.1955 - 01.12.1955 Royal Army Service Corps (EFI Section) - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.12.1955 - 07.06.1956 Royal Army Service Corps (EFI Section) - Regular Army (without pay and allowances from Army Funds) [short service commission]
07.08.1956 - 14.07.1965 Royal Army Service Corps (EFI Section) - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Griffiths,
Richard Lewis
"Dick"

R.L. Griffiths (Photo courtesy of Mr David Peter Griffiths) R.L. Griffiths (Photo courtesy of Mr David Peter Griffiths)
Son of T.R. Griffiths, and M.G. Lewis.
Married (1952, Uruguay) Judith Vecino (1927? - ); two sons.
11.11.1915
Pontypridd, South Wales
-
2nd Lt. 21.09.1940 [149327]
WS/Lt. 21.03.1942
T/Capt. 03.06.1942-(04.1946)
Lt. 03.10.1947, seniority 21.03.1942
Capt. 06.06.1948 (reld 24.08.1949)
Hon. Capt. 24.08.1949
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM ? -
Education: Wellington School.
      either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.09.1940     commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
1944 - 1945 served NW Europe
03.10.1947 - 24.08.1949 commissioned, Territorial Army
Worked with the Vestys Group.
Griffiths,
Robert
"Roy"

R. Griffiths (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)

Several records with papers & photographs to be found in this archives. Search for "Roy Griffiths" and/or "R. Griffiths".

12.04.1920
-
04.05.1997
Ashstead, Mid Surrey district
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 13.06.1943 [287838]
WS/Lt. 13.12.1943
T/Capt. 27.07.1944-30.06.1946
WS/Capt. 01.07.1946
T/Maj. 01.07.1946-(04.1947)
Capt. 01.10.1946, seniority 01.07.1946
Hon. Maj. 01.10.1953
Mention in Despatches MID 09.08.1945 NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID ? ?
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM 22.07.1952 -
      served in the ranks (North Africa)
13.06.1943     commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]
07.1943 - 10.1946 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (Sicily, then temporarily liaison officer with naval HQ Messina for the attack on the toe of Italy, then UK, NW Europe) (Officer Commanding 'D' Company during Operation Blackcock)
01.10.1946     short service commission
      Staff Officer at HQ NAQ [participating in the War Crimes Court at Bad Lippspringe and acting as mandatory witness at Hameln Prison]
      member of the Inter-Services Team for the Empire Press Tour (Normany to the Baltic)
      Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, HQ Army Air Transport Organisation (Wunsdorf) [Berlin air lift]
      Staff Officer, HQ 21 Army Group (Bad Oeynhausen)
01.10.1953     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Grimble,
Rudolf
"Rolf"
R. Grimble
Younger son of the late A.R. Grimble, of Beckenham, Kent, and Mrs J. Grimble, of Surbiton, Surrey.
Married ((06?).1945, Westminster district, London) Janet Eleanor Easton, daughter of Mr & Mrs George W. Easton, of Bo'ness, West Lothian..
13.04.1914
-
11.1985
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey
Sub-Conductor ?
2nd Lt. 06.04.1940 [126536]
WS/Lt. 14.04.1941
T/Capt. 14.04.1941-07.01.1942
WS/Capt. 08.01.1942
T/Maj. 08.01.1942-10.05.1944
WS/Maj. 11.05.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 11.05.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Maj. 23.01.1951, seniority 23.04.1948
Lt.Col. 13.04.1952
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 18.10.1943 Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID 23.03.1944 Sicily
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM 12.08.1949 -
Army Emergency Reserve Decoration ERD 10.09.1954 -
? - 06.04.1940

Royal Army Ordnance Corps (No. 2 Officer Cadet Training Wing)

06.04.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
23.01.1951     commissioned, Supplementary Reserve of Officers
Accountant.

 
Grimley,
Leslie Herbert

L.H. Grimley
Son of Henry Grimley, and Georgina Alice Grimley.
06.10.1903
Camberwell, Southwark district, London
-
1980

Canberra, Australia
2nd Lt. 27.01.1941 [175633]
WS/Lt. 27.01.1941
T/Capt. 30.12.1942
WS/Capt. 07.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
27.01.1941     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (Transportation Section) [emergency commission]
22.07.1941     transferred, Royal Army Service Corps
(04.1946)     Unemployed List
Groom,
Frederick Charles

F.C. Groom F.C. Groom
Son (with two brothers) of George Groom (1842-1912), and Ann Davis (1842-).
Married (14.12.1913, Chelmsford, Essex) Ellen Norah Saltmarsh (19.03.1896 - 29.07.1971); two sons, four daughters.
24.08.1885
London
-
29.06.1963

Chelmsford, Essex
Lt. 24.08.1939 [98660]
T/Capt. ?
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 09.04.1948 -
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM 06.03.1947 decoration cancelled due to being awarded TD
? - 25.12.1948 commissioned, The Essex Regiment - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class II) [exceeded age limit]
24.08.1939     mobilized TARO
A grandchild writes: "He served in WW1 as a private soldier in the 2nd Dragoons; he was then posted to the Essex Yeomanry Number 395902; he then became an officer in the Essex Regiment T.A. at Chelmsford, I believe he spent WW2 at the Military Corrective Training Centre Colchester."
Groome,
Cyril Arthur

C.A. Groome
Son of William Henry Groome, and Clara Elizabeth Lester.
Married ((12?).1936, Paddington district, London) Eileen L. O'Brien ((06.).1917 -), daughter of ... O'Brien, and ... Mills.
17.08.1914
West Ham district, London
-
02.2005

Mendip district, Somerset
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 06.06.1942 [235374]
WS/Lt. 06.12.1942 (reld 02.1946)
1939     enlisted service
06.06.1942     commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission]
      known to have served in the The East Lancashire Regiment, Royal Engineers and Intelligence Corps (both at Medmenham with Central Interpretation Unit and Camouflage development and Training Centre at Farnham Castle); demobilized from Cairo/Alexandria, Egypt
Groundsell,
Leo Douglas

L.D. Groundsell
Married ((12?).1935, Northampton & Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire) Lilian R. Poole.
(12?).1910
Wisbech district, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk
-
1973
Surrey
Wt.Offr. Class II ?
2nd Lt. 08.08.1941 [199135]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 02.10.1942
Capt. 01.07.1949, seniority 02.10.1942 (Empl.List 4)
T/Maj. 08.09.1945-(04.1947)
Maj. 08.08.1954 (reld 01.07.1961)
Hon. Maj. 01.07.1961
Long Service Good Conduct Medal LSGCM 02.03.1948 -
08.08.1941     commissioned, The Northamptonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
1941? - 1945? 2nd Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment
01.07.1949     short service commission
Groundwater,
Ivor Sinclair
I.S. Groundwater
20.06.1917
-
Lt. (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.) 19.05.1942 [231966]
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th cl.) 01.10.1942, seniority 19.05.1942 (reld 22.11.1946)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. 22.11.1946
Education: DRC Glas; MIMechE, AMIMktgSM.
19.05.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
01.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
      served with 5th Indian Division
With Courtaulds Ltd; Imperial Chemicals Ltd; Hall Thermotank Ltd. Director & Manager, The Thermal Engineering Division, Johnson & FIetcher Ltd, 1961.
Published: Solar radiation in air conditioning (1967).
Grundy,
Arthur

A. Grundy
1923 ?
-
1985 ?
 
Cadet ? [904611]
2nd Lt. 02.07.1944 [331831]
WS/Lt. 02.01.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Capt. 23.01.1945-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt. > 10.1945, < 04.1946
(Territorial) Efficiency Medal EM 07.07.1970 -
02.07.1944     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
Grundy,
Alphonsus Peter

"Alfred"
A.P. Grundy
Married ((12?).1933, North Manchester district, Lancashire) Alice Gibbons.
22.05.1907
-
07.1988
Manchester district, Lancashire
 
CSM ?
Lt. 19.01.1941 [168648] (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 01.10.1944-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 22.08.1944 Italy
Mention in Despatches MID 11.01.1945 Italy
19.01.1941     commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949 - 22.05.1962 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Grundy,
Enoch
[George]
A. Grundy
Married ...; ... children.
13.12.1891
Leigh, Lancashire
-
(06?).1982
Delyn district, Clwyd, Wales
 
2nd Lt. 13.03.1918 [59673]
01.07.1921, seniority 27.05.1920
Lt. 27.05.1922
WS/Maj. 23.04.1942 (reld 27.02.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 23.04.1942-27.02.1946
Hon. Lt.Col. 27.02.1946
13.03.1918     commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment
01.07.1921 - 27.02.1946 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Gubbins,
[Sir] Colin McVean
C.McV. Gubbins C.McV. Gubbins
C.McV. Gubbins C.McV. Gubbins
C.McV. Gubbins C.McV. Gubbins
C.McV. Gubbins C.McV. Gubbins
Younger son and third child of John Harington Gubbins, CMG (1852-1929), Oriental Secretary at the British Legation, and Helen Brodie McVean (1869-1922).
Married 1st (22.10.1919, Bedford district, Bedfordshire; divorced 1944) Norah Creina Somerville Warren (02.08.1895 - 23.01.1975), second daughter of Sg.Cdr. Philip Somerville Warren (1845-1909); two sons (Capt. John Michael McVean Gubbins was killed in action in Italy 1944).
Married 2nd (25.09.1950, Kensington district, London) Anna Elise "Tulla" Jensen (15.01.1915 - 18.08.2007), widow of Lt. Rolf Thorbjørn Tradin (28.04.1913 - 30.05.1943), Royal Norwegian Air Force, Oslo, and daughter of Hans Didrik Jensen of Tromsø, Norway. .

02.07.1896
Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
-
11.02.1976
Stornoway, Hebrides
2nd Lt. 16.09.1914 [14618]
Lt. 09.06.1915
A/Capt. 26.08.1916-31.10.1917
A/Maj. 01.11.1917-27.12.1917
A/Capt. 02.01.1918-11.02.1918
Capt. 12.02.1918 (regimental seniority 03.11.1917)
Bt. Maj. 01.07.1933
Maj. 24.02.1934
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1938
WS/Lt.Col. 20.10.1940
Lt.Col. 01.10.1941
A/Col. 20.04.1940-19.10.1940
T/Col. 20.10.1940-04.12.1941
Col. 05.12.1941, seniority 01.07.1941 (retd 27.04.1946)
A/Brig. 25.05.1940-16.06.1940,
18.11.1940-25.04.1941
T/Brig. 26.04.1941-20.12.1943
A/Maj.Gen. 21.12.1942-20.12.1943
T/Maj.Gen. 21.12.1943-26.04.1946
Hon. Maj.Gen. 27.04.1946
Kinght Commander of the Order of St Michael & St George KCMG 01.01.1946 New Year 46
Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George CMG 01.01.1944 New Year 44
Distinguished Service Order DSO 06.08.1940 Norway
Military Cross MC 22.09.1916 *
Mention in Despatches MID 31.01.1941 ?
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Officier Légion d'Honneur (France); Grand Officier Order of Leopold (Belgium); Croix de Guerre (Belgium); Order of Dannebrog, 1st cl. (Denmark); Commander, Royal Order of St Olav, with star (Norway; 26.02.1954); Grand Officer Order of Orange Nassau (the Netherlands); Polonia Restituta (Poland); Commander Legion of Merit (USA; 14.05.1948). Comdr Order of White Lion.

* For conspicuous gallantry. When one of his guns and its detachment were blown up by a heavy shell, he organised a rescue party and personally helped to dig out the wounded while shells were falling all round.
Education: Normanton Grammar School, Yorkshire; Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc).
1914     joined Royal Field Artillery
09.11.1914 - 17.04.1918 served in France & Belgium (wounded)
22.03.1919 - 05.10.1919 Aide-de-Camp to General Officer Commanding, Archangel Force, Russia
28.11.1921 - 20.01.1922 Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Irish Command (temporarily)
28.02.1922 - 30.09.1922 Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Irish Command (temporarily)
14.01.1925 - 13.08.1925 Adjutant, ...
21.04.1926 - 15.02.1928 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Army Headquarters, India
1928 - 1929 Staff College
01.02.1931 - 07.04.1933 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
08.04.1933 - 31.01.1935 Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Eastern Command
1939 - 1945 World War II in France, Norway, North Africa, Italy and Far East
01.10.1935 - 19.04.1940 General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office (Military Intelligence Department, examining methods of guerrilla warfare 1939)
1939     Chief of Staff, Maj.Gen. Adrian Carton de Wiart's abortive military mission to Poland
1939 - 1940 Head of Military Intelligence mission to Poles and Czechs in Paris, France
20.04.1940 - 24.05.1940 Commander, Independent Companies (NW Expeditionary Force), Norway (DSO)
25.05.1940 - 16.06.1940 acting Commander, 24th Infantry Brigade (Guards) (Norway)
1940 - 1940 raised and commanded Auxiliary Units for special duties under General Headquarters, Home Forces
1940 - 1946 Director of Operations and Training, Special Operations Executive (Executive Head of Special Operations Executive 1943) (KCMG & CMG)
27.04.1946 - 02.07.1954 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Managing director of a large firm of carpet and textile manufacturers (Gray's Carpets & Textiles). Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Islands Area of the Western Isles, 29.12.1975.
Published: (joint author) The fourth dimension of warfare (1968).

Literature
: Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley, Gubbins and SOE (1993).
Gubbins,
John Michael McVean

J.M.McV. Gubbins
Son of Maj.Gen. Sir Colin McVean Gubbins, KCMG, DSO, MC, and Lady Gubbins (Norah Creina Somerville Warren), of Mayfair, London.
11.07.1921
St Marylebone district, London
-
06.02.1944

[age 22]
[Cassino Memorial Italy, panel 11]
2nd Lt. 15.02.1941 [172404]
WS/Lt. 15.08.1942
T/Capt. 24.11.1942-06.02.1944
Education: Cheltenham College.
? - 15.02.1941 either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941     commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]
1941     served Special Operations Executive (SOE) (Instructor at Arisaig)
? - 06.02.1944 5th Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Guckian,
William Joseph

H. Gunner
Married (12.1947, Dublin North district) Mary Patricia Joan Kelly; four sons.
18.04.1922
Claudy, Northern Ireland
-

Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Cadet ? [16001427]
2nd Lt. 15.01.1944 [307246]
WS/Lt. 15.07.1944 (reld > 04.1947)
A/Capt. 1944-...
Education: BSc.
15.01.1944     commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
1944 - 1947 served Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (India)
AMICE.
Guest,
Reginald Edwin
"Freddie"
R.E. Guest (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide) R.E. Guest (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide)
R.E. Guest (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide) R.E. Guest (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide)
Son of John Guest, and Josephine H. Guest.

(03?).1896
Highbury, Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
(12?).1962
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
Pte.
? [740082]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
19.08.1918 [80433]
Lt.
19.02.1920 (reld 30.09.1921)
Lt. RARO
06.12.1931, seniority 23.02.1930 (reld 02.08.1946)
T/Capt. RARO
10.01.1941-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.
02.08.1946
Victory Medal VM
-
-
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
-
-
Temporary Assistant Postman, 1913.
      served in the ranks, 25th Battalion London Regiment
      served with 8th Cavalry Regiment - Indian Army (North West Frontier, India from 03.1917)
? - 19.08.1918 Officer Cadet Unit
19.08.1918     commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - Territorial Army
? - 30.09.1921 9th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - Territorial Army
06.12.1931 - 02.08.1946 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized
? - 12.1941 attached to Royal Artillery on HQ Staff, Hong Kong (escaped)
      instructor, Officer Cadet School, Bangalore
Published: Escape from the bloodied sun (1956); Indian cavalryman : reminiscences (1959); Fifteen : the advanced game of contract bridge (1960) 
Guest,
William
W. Guest (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Lowther)

20.10.1903
Hemsworth
-
09.06.1991
Wakefield
2nd Lt. 20.06.1940 [135720]
WS/Lt. 12.08.1941
T/Capt. 12.08.1941-(1946)
WS/Capt. 1946? (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 29.03.1946
Maj. 01.10.1947 (retd 23.04.1954)
Hon. Maj. 23.04.1954
Lt. (A/Maj.) 07.07.1954 (reld 01.05.1979)
Hon. Maj. 01.05.1979
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 01.01.1971 New Year 71: County Sports Officer, West Riding ACF 54-70 *
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 31.03.1953 -
Cadet Forces Medal CFM 30.05.1967 -
Cadet Forces Medal CFM 29.05.1979 1st clasp
20.06.1940     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
      served with 1st Army (North Africa & Italy)
      served Special Operations Executive (SOE) (Middle East & Far East)
01.05.1947     commissioned, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
07.07.1954 - 01.05.1979 commissioned, Army Cadet Force (York (West Riding)) (MBE) [exceeded age limit]
Rugby player & manufacturing confectioners agent.
* Major Guest joined the Gordon Highlanders early in the war, was commissioned and served with 1st Army in North Africa and Italy, then with SOE Forces in the Middle and Far East. When the Territorial Army was reformed after the war he joined the 4th Bn KOYLI (TA). He was serving as a Company Commander in 1954 when he was asked by the West Riding ACF County Commandant (his old TA Commanding Officer) to become his Sports Officer. At that time interest in sport in the West Riding was rather desultory. Although a busy man in his civilian occupation, and with not much knowledge of any sport other than Rugger (he had played full back for Yorkshire) Major Guest quickly settled down to organising sport in the County. The strength of the County is about 1800 Cadets, the biggest in the UK with 81 Detachments, equivalent to about 4 normal sized Counties. The sports in which the County participates are Athletics, Cross Country, Swimming, Boxing, Pentathlon and Soccer. Working almost every weekend in the year (his only free time) he is either at home drawing up programmes,  working out transport arrangements, checking ages, and in fact planning all the background organisation of each event, or he is away in all weathers with the County teams at County, Command and National events. These events in themselves take up 15 weekends in the year. He has mastered the intricacies of the regulations for all Sports and, in addition to organising the County events, as West Riding is central in Northern Command he has had a very considerable hand in organising and running Command events, and three National events which require much planning and organisation. He has never missed a fortnight’s Annual Camp, where, in addition to his Sporting activities, he gives considerable and valuable assistance on the military training side. Now, aged about 65, he is as tireless in his work for ACF Sport as he was 16 years ago. It may seem that the job of Sports Officer is a part-time one. In a County of this size to achieve the results he has it is a full-time task. Major Guest has certainly given loyal and efficient service beyond the usual call of ACF duty.
Gundry,
Gerald Ashton
G.A. Gundry (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Cundick)
16.08.1911
Dorchester district, Dorset
-
12.1990
Chippenham district, Wiltshire
2nd Lt. 24.10.1931 [52854]
Lt. 01.09.1936 (reld 11.04.1938)
WS/Capt. 15.11.1940
WS/Maj. 15.08.1944
A/Lt.Col. ?
Hon. Maj. ?
Maj. 01.01.1949

DSO (19.04.1945, Italy)

Education: Eton.
24.10.1931     commissioned, 10th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
03.08.1932 - 11.04.1938 16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
11.04.1938 - 10.03.1962 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
06.01.1942     North Irish Horse (from 12.01.1942 Officer Commanding, "C" Squadron)
1944? - 1944? Commanding Officer, 16th/5th Lancers (Italy) (DSO)
Gunner,
Harry

H. Gunner
02.11.1900
-
05.1986
Surrey South Western district
Lt. QM 12.12.1944, seniority 03.10.1944 [336283]
Capt. QM 14.09.1946, seniority 06.07.1946
Maj. QM 14.09.1952 (retd 02.11.1955; age)
      served in the ranks for 13 years, 132 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 3 years, 134 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class 1 for 7 years, 296 days
12.12.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps
Gurney,
Jocelyn Eustace
J.E. Gurney (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Second son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Sir Eustace Gurney (1876-1927), of Sprowston Hall and Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, and Ann Agatha Lee-Warner (1882-1966).
Married 1st (16.04.1941; divorced 1948), Lady Katherine Mary Veronica Paget (08.10.1922 - ), 5th (twin) daughter of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, GCVO, DL (1885-1947), and Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners (1883-1946); one daughter. Katherine Gurney remarried (1949) Maj. Charles Farrell.
Married 2nd (26.05.1949) Susan Esterel Elwes (23.04.1915 - ), widow of Capt. Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright, RA, and eldest daughter of Robert Hamond Arthur Elwes, JP (1887-1955), and Esterel Edith Philippa Louise Tillard (?-1925), of Congham Hall, Norfolk; three daughters.
24.02.1910
Belgravia, London
-
22.05.1973
Tacolneston Hall, Norwich, Norfolk
2nd Lt. 29.08.1931, seniority 30.01.1930 [50088]
Lt. 30.01.1933
Capt. 21.01.1938
A/Maj. 25.05.1940-24.08.1940
T/Maj. 25.08.1940-07.09.1944
WS/Maj. 08.09.1944
Maj. 01.07.1946 (half-pay 24.01.1947; disability) (retd 04.10.1947; disability)
T/Lt.Col. 08.09.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. 04.10.1947
Distinguished Service Order DSO 28.06.1945 Italy [citation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 05.07.1940 BEF France 39-40 [citation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 22.10.1940 BEF France 39-40 [citation available upon request]
Education: Eton College; New College, Oxford (MA).
      General List - Territorial Army
29.08.1931     commissioned, Welsh Guards
20.12.1936 - 12.09.1938 Adjutant, Guards Depot
17.09.1938 - 24.05.1940 Adjutant, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (BEF, France)
24.05.1940 - ? Company Commander, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (BEF, France) (MC & Bar)
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
06.1944 - 12.04.1945 Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards (Italy) (DSO)
1945? - (04.1946) General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Plans, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
02.03.1955 - 26.07.1955 Lieutenant, Norfolk Army Cadet Force
Of Tacolneston Hall, Norfolk; farmed at Tacolneston Hall and Sprowston Hall, Norfolk; Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Norfolk 02.07.1971; County Councillor, Norfolk and Chairman Depwade Rural District Council.
Gurrey,
Donald Boswell
D.B. Gurrey
15.12.1919
Epsom district, Surrey
-
10.2005
East Surrey
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
28.12.1940 [162161]
WS/Lt.
28.06.1942
T/Capt.
25.03.1943
WS/Capt.
13.08.1943
T/Maj.
13.08.1943
Lt. RARO
01.01.1949
Hon. Capt.
01.01.1949
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
03.06.1972
HM's birthday 72



[121st or 133rd] Officer Cadet Traning Unit
28.12.1940


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]



served as a gunnery officer in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy
(1943)
-
(1945)
specially employed; served as a counter-intelligence officer in Italy and was involved in the negotiations when the Germans surrendered
1946
-
1949
served in Germany
01.01.1949


Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Served post-war with the Foreign (& Commonwealth) Office (France, 1949-1950; Poland 1954-1957; Singapore, 1957-1959; Dominican Republic, 1960-1962). Retired 1970s.
Published: Across the lines : an account of Axis intelligence and sabotage in Italy 1943-45 (1994)
Guy,
Frederick William Ernest
F.W.E. Guy (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jackie M. Rogers)
Married ((09?).1953, Totnes district, Devon) Lucy R. Adams.
(09?).1903
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
(06?).1966
Totnes district, Devonshire
2nd Lt. 03.04.1943 [269146]
WS/Lt. 03.10.1943 (reld 28.07.1947; disability)
Hon. Lt. 28.07.1947
21.01.1943 - 02.04.1943 36th course, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
03.04.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
Gwinnett,
the Reverend John
J. Gwinnett
Son of John Gwinnett.
From Cheltenham.
Married (06.04.1948) Lady Doreen Stella Lowry-Corry (29.07.1916 - 15.07.2002), daughter of Maj. Adrian Lowry-Corry and Geraldine Hartcup; one son.
09.01.1916
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
-
(03?).1977
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (ranking as Capt.)
28.11.1942 [248389]
A/Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (ranking as Maj.)
24.09.1945-23.12.1945
T/Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (ranking as Maj.)
24.12.1945-21.01.1947 (Unemployed List 03.01.1947-30.06.1952)
Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (ranking as Capt.)
29.03.1955, seniority 20.05.1953
Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (ranking as Maj.)
01.04.1961 (retd 09.01.1970)
Military Cross MC
11.10.1945
NW Europe
Education: BA
28.11.1942


commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department [emergency commission to 02.01.1947]
(1944)
-
(1945)
padre, 9th (Home Counties) Parachute Battalion 
01.07.1952
-
28.03.1955
short service commission
29.03.1955
-
09.01.1970
permanent commission
Gwynn,
Sir Charles William
C.W. Gwynn

3rd son of Rev. John Gwynn, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity, Trinity College, Dublin, and Lucy Josephine, daughter of William Smith O'Brien, Cahirmoyle, Co. Limerick. Married (1904) Mary (died 1951), widow of Lieut. Lowry Armstrong, RN.
04.02.1870
Ramelton, County Donegal
-
12.02.1963
2nd Lt.
15.02.1889
Lt.
1891
Capt.
15.02.1900
Bt. Maj.
16.02.1900
Maj.
01.10.1908
T/Lt.Col.
20.01.1911-1914(?),
21.07.1915-09.12.1915
Bt. Lt.Col.
03.06.1916
Bt. Col.
01.01.1917
Col.
18.04.1920 (half-pay 18.04.1924)
T/Brig.Gen.
10.12.1915-20.09.1919,
?-01.01.1921
Maj.Gen.
01.01.1925 (retd 08.01.1931)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
03.06.1931
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1918
?
Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George CMG
09.11.1903
for services in demarcation of Sudan­Abyssinian Frontier
Distinguished Service Order DSO
1894
Sofa Expedition
Mention in Despatches MID
1894?
Sofa Expedition
Mention in Despatches MID
WW I
?
Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
11.03.1919
WW I
Croix de Guerre (Belgium) CdeG
15.04.1918
WW I
RGS Peake Fund Medal, 1909.
Education: St Columba's College, Rathfarnham, Dublin; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley
1889


commissioned, Royal Engineers
1893
-
1894
Sofa expedition, Sierra Leone (W Africa; wounded; despatches, DSO, Bt. Maj.)
1899
-
1901
demarcation survey of Sudan-Abyssinian frontier
?
-
27.06.1901
Staff Captain, Headquarters
20.01.1911
-
1914
Director Military Art, Royal Military College Duntroon, Australia (as General Staff Odficer, 2nd grade (GSO2))
1914
-
1918
served European War (despatches; Bt. Lt.Col. & Bt. Col., CB, Croix de Guerre):
24.01.1915
-
03.07.1915
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 57th Division, 'C' Force, Home Defence
21.07.1915
-
10.12.1915
2nd Australian Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1))
10.12.1915
-
29.02.1916
Commander, 6 Australian Infantry Brigade
29.02.1916
-
1919
Brigadier-General, General Staff, 1 Australian and New Zealand Corps, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and British Armies in France
18.03.1919
-
20.09.1919
Commander, ... Brigade
18.11.1919
-
1920
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 1st Division, Aldershot Command
1920
-
01.01.1921
Brigadier-General, General Staff, Eastern Command
01.01.1921
-
18.04.1924
temporary Colonel on the Staff
03.01.1923
-
01.01.1925
ADC to the King
01.05.1926
-
08.01.1931
Commandant Staff College, Camberley
08.01.1931
-
04.02.1937
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
1939
-
1945
journalist, military critic & publicist
Published: Imperial policing (1934); joint editor with Sir John Alexander Hammerton, The second Great War : a standard history (1939-1946)
Gwynne,
John Nevile Wake

J.N.W. Gwynne
Son (with three sisters) of Nevile Gwyn Gwynne, CBE (1868-1951), and Isabel Violet Wake, of Deans, Piddinghoe, Sussex.
Married (07.01.1941, Chelsea Old Church, London; marriage dissolved 1956 [she remarried (1968) Henry Barclay]) Patricia Louisa Morrison-Bell (1919-1994), second
daughter (with one sister) of Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell (1871-1956), 1st Bt., and Lilah Katharine Julia Wingfield (1888-1981); one son, one daughter.
Lived at Knights Mill, Quenington, Fairford, Gloucestershire.
20.06.1905
Broxbourn, Hertfordshire
-
19.02.1981

Quenington, Fairford, Gloucestershire
2nd Lt. ? [37916]
Lt. 11.03.1930
A/Capt. 13.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt. 01.07.1942
Capt. 01.01.1949
T/Maj. 01.07.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. 11.04.1956
Education: Outward Bound school; Eton; Christ Church College, Oxford (BA).
Solicitor.
      late Officer Cadet, Oxford University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
11.03.1927     commissioned, 98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
17.06.1933 - 11.04.1956 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
13.07.1940 - (04.1941) special appointment
1939 - 1945 served in France [wounded], then worked in forming & training units in operations behind enemy lines, then joined Special Operations Executive (SOE) & served in Greece, then Officer in Charge of Religious Affairs on the Control Commission of Germany
Gwyther,
Robert Wilton

R.W. Gwyther
Only son of Henry Wilton Gwyther (1879-1954), dental surgeon, and Ruth C. Harris (1881-1956), of Cricklewood, London.
Married 1st (10.09.1938, Holy Trinity Church, Cliftonville, Thanet district, Kent) Denise Eve Dixon, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Murton Dixon, of Cliftonville, Kent.
Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Westminster district, London) Maria J.S. Phillips; ... children (one son?).
19.07.1911
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
09.09.1962

Plympton St Maurice, Devon
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 04.07.1940 [138689]
WS/Lt. 04.01.1942
T/Capt. 02.12.1942-06.04.1944
WS/Capt. 07.04.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 07.04.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Education: Aldenham School (09.1926-12.1929; Paull's House; Scholar; Cricket XI 1928-29; Football XI 1927-29).
Solicitor. With Messrs. Corner & Co., London.
? - 04.07.1940 Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940     commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
      served in Abyssinia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Cyrenaica Tripolitania
? - 09.1943 12th Division S.D.F. [= deception title given to the 1st Sudan Defence Force Brigade]
09.1943 - 09.1944 served Special Operations Executive (SOE): MO 4 (General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, Cairo) [= SOE Middle East Branch], initially B1 Section, then Force 133, then Advanced Force 133
       
 
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GLUB

GODB
to
GWYT