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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Haggie, P.F.S.
to
Heywood, B.G.

Hibberd, F.
to
Hyslop, H.J.M.

P.F.S. Haggie to B.G. Heywood

Haggie,
Peter Frazer Sinclair

see:

Clifford,
Peter Frazer Sinclair

Haig,
Hugo Rowland
H.R. Haig

10.11.1912
-
[1990 still alive]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.02.1933 [58198]
Lt.	02.02.1936
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-01.02.1941
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	11.11.1940-10.02.1941
T/Maj.	11.02.1941-18.05.1941, 20.05.1946-30.06.1946
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 29.10.1960)

30.12.1941

Middle East 02.41-07.41

Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst

02.02.1933			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Aldershot)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Egypt)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Ahmednagar, India)
(1939)	-	(1945)	probably regimental service
30.04.1955	-	(1956)	Second-in-Command, Highland District Records Office (Perth) [also President of the Mess Committee, Highland Brigade HQ]
29.10.1960	-	10.11.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Hailey,
John Malcolm
J.M. Hailey

16.03.1905
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.02.1926, seniority 03.09.1925 [34437]
...	...
A/Lt.Col.	16.08.1941-15.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.	16.11.1941-08.05.1942, 26.06.1942-29.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	30.10.1945
...	...
Brig.	26.12.1955 (retd 12.11.1957)

DSO

19.10.1944

Education: psc

01.02.1926			commissioned, Royal Artillery
01.09.1939	-	18.02.1940	Deputy Assistant Military Secretary, War Office (London)
10.04.1940	-	26.09.1940	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
31.12.1940	-	15.08.1941	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
16.08.1941	-	08.05.1942	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ...
00.00.194X	-	00.00.194X	Commanding Officer, 131st Field Regiment RA
14.01.1945	-	18.04.1945	General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
18.04.1945	-	29.04.1945	GSO1 ???
30.04.1945	-	16.02.1946	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA)

Hakewill Smith,
[Sir] Edmund

17.03.1896 Kimberley, South Africa
-
15.04.1986
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

2nd Lt.	16.06.1915 [13349]
Lt.	02.08.1916
A/Capt.	07.01.1918-26.02.1918, 16.10.1918-25.01.1920
Capt.	08.09.1923
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1936
Maj.	01.08.1938
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1939
A/Lt.Col.	06.05.1940-05.08.1940
T/Lt.Col.	06.08.1940-29.09.1941
WS/Lt.Col.	30.09.1941
A/Col.	30.03.1941-29.09.1941
T/Col.	30.09.1941-30.12.1942
Col.	31.12.1942, seniority 01.07.1942
A/Brig.	30.03.1941-29.09.1941
T/Brig.	30.09.1941-25.12.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	25.03.1942-15.02.1943, 19.11.1943-25.12.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	26.12.1943-30.04.1946
Maj.Gen.	01.05.1946, seniority 21.08.1944 (retd 10.03.1949)

KCVO	10.06.1967	HM's birthday 67
CB	05.07.1945	NW Europe
CBE	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
MC	01.02.1919	*
DSO	11.02.1943	?
MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Commander with Star of the Royal Order of St Olav (Norway) (19.03.1948); Grand Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) (14.11.1947)
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during the nine miles' advance east of Ypres on 28th, -29th and 30th September, 1918. On the 28th he successfully filled a gap in the front line at a critical moment. On the 29th, when he was the only platoon officer left in his company, he took command of two platoons, and showed admirable coolness and determination in dealing with machine-gun neste, which were holding up the company on his right.

Education: Diocesan College, South Africa; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

16.06.1915			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
01.10.1915	-	11.11.1918	served European War (France & Belgium 01.10.1915-03.07.1916, 14.12.1917-31.03.1918, 12.09.1918-11.11.1918; wounded twice, MC)
1920			British Military Mission, South Russia
1921	-	1922	Aide de Camp to Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, Governor of Bengal (India)
20.09.1927	-	19.09.1930	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
15.02.1931	-	20.02.1931	restored to the establishment
20.02.1931	-	08.11.1933	seconded as student at Staff College, Quetta (India)
08.11.1933	-	02.01.1934	restored to the establishment
02.01.1934	-	01.01.1936	Staff Captain, War Office (UK)
02.01.1936	-	14.01.1937	employed on Air Staff Duties, Royal Air Force (UK)
05.02.1938	-	05.05.1940	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office (UK)
06.05.1940	-	06.1940	Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (UK)
09.1940	-	29.03.1941	Commanding Officer, 4/5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (UK)
30.03.1941	-	24.03.1942	Commander, 157th Infantry Brigade (UK)
25.03.1942	-	15.02.1943	Director of Organisation, War Office (UK)
16.02.1943	-	18.11.1943	Commander, 155th Infantry Brigade (UK)
11.11.1943	-	18.11.1943	General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (acting) (UK)
19.11.1943	-	1946	General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (UK, NW Europe)
1946	-	1949	Commander, Lowland District, Scotland (UK)
10.03.1949	-	17.03.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

President of Military Court for War Crimes trial of German FM Albert von Kesselring, Venice, Italy, 05.1947. Colonel, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, 01.05.1946-24.12.1957. Berkshire County Commandant (Lt.), Army Cadet Force, 04.04.1952-15.09.1957. Governor, Military Knights of Windsor, 13.03.1951-1978. Deputy Constable and LieutenantGovernor of Windsor Castle, 04.09.1964-31.12.1972. Justice of the Peace (JP).

Halpin,
John Bernard
J.B. Halpin

10.03.1916
-
03.1990
Lewes, Sussex

Lt.	01.12.1940 [176584] (reld 18.04.1945; disability)

01.12.1940

commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]

Halsted,
John Gregson
J.G. Halsted

papers

16.08.1890
-
08.05.1980

2nd Lt.	20.04.1910 [5185]
...	...
Col.	01.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1934
A/Brig.	01.09.1939-29.02.1940
T/Brig.	01.03.1940-06.02.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	28.09.1940-31.03.1941
Maj.Gen.	01.04.1941, seniority 23.04.1940 (retd 19.07.1946)

CB 11.07.1940; OBE; MC

20.04.1910			commissioned, The Loyal Regiment
...	-	...	...
02.09.1939	-	20.01.1941	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Britsh Expeditionary Force & Home Forces
21.01.1941	-	14.04.1942	Major-General in charge of Administration, South Eastern Command (Home Forces)
1945			Vice Quartermaster-General, War Office

Hamilton,
John Aloysius
"Jack"
J.A. Hamilton

04.08.1909
-

Prob. Lt.	23.04.1936 [67838]
Lt.	15.09.1936, seniority 29.01.1936
Capt.	23.04.1937, seniority 29.01.1937
A/Maj.	04.05.1941-03.08.1941
T/Maj.	04.08.1941-13.10.1941
WS/Maj.	09.09.1945 (retd 11.02.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	09.06.1945-08.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.	09.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	11.02.1947

Education: Trinity College, Dublin (MB); [Royal Military Academy?], Sandhurst

23.04.1936			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
			served in Poona, India
			served in India, Iraq, Italy and the UK (8th Army)
1946			returned to India
11.02.1947	-	23.04.1953	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Went into private medical practice in India, where thereafter he was always called 'the Colonel'.

Hamilton,
Noel Fenwick Vicars
"Nick"
N.F.V. Hamilton

19.12.1897
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985

2nd Lt.	07.04.1916
Lt.	29.06.1917
Capt.	03.10.1927
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 11.11.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	08.01.1941-07.04.1941
T/Lt.Col.	08.04.1941-07.05.1942, 16.11.1942-05.08.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	06.08.1945
A/Col.	06.02.1945-05.08.1945
T/Col.	06.08.1945
Hon. Col.	11.11.1947

British War Medal; Victory Medal

07.04.1916			commissioned, Leinster Regiment
1916	-	1918	served in France & Belgium [from 19.07.1916-10.09.1916 & 01.01.1917-09.06.1917 & 06.04.1918-18.06.1918] (wounded twice)
04.10.1922			transferred to The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
15.02.1937	-	20.02.1940	Adjutant, Auxiliary Force (India)
08.01.1941	-	1941	Commanding Officer, 56th (London) [Divisional] Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps

Hanbury-Brown,
Hassall
H. Hanbury-Brown

Married; children.

15.08.1920
Turner’s Hill, East Grinstead, West Sussex
-
14.10.2007
Forest Holme Hospice, Poole

Cadet	1938
2nd Lt.	18.02.1940 [118404]
WS/Lt.	09.07.1941
Lt.	18.08.1941
A/Capt.	09.04.1941-08.07.1941
T/Capt.	09.07.1941-16.07.1945
WS/Capt.	17.07.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	17.04.1945-16.07.1945
T/Maj.	17.07.1945-17.02.1953
Maj.	18.02.1953 (retd 15.04.1960)

MID

05.04.1945

Burma / Eastern Frontier of India

General Service Medal with Cyprus clasp

Education: Brighton College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1938-39); technical staff course, Military College of Science (ptsc); long electrical and mechanical engineering course, School of Military Engineering (EM)

18.02.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
26.10.1953	-	(08.1955)	Technical Staff Officer, 2nd grade (TSO2), Admiralty Gunnery Establishment (Portland)

AMIMechE

Hanley,
[Sir] Michael Bowen
M.B. Hanley

Son of late Prof. James Alec Hanley, PhD, ARCS (1886-1960), and Una Bowen.
Married (1957) Hon. Lorna Margaret Dorothy, daughter of late Hon. Claude HopeMorley.

Guardian obituary

24.02.1918
Leeds
-
01.01.2001
Salisbury District Hospital

2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [164032]
WS/Lt.	28.06.1942
T/Capt.	15.05.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 24.10.1953)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	24.10.1953

KCB

1974

Education: Sedbergh School (1931-1937); Queen's College, Oxford (MA)

28.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
15.04.1944	-	(04.1946)	instructor, Searchlight Wing, School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery
1946			Assistant Military Attaché, Budapest

Joined Security Service, 1948. Deputy Director-General (1971-1972), then Director-General (1972-1978) of the Security Service (MI5).

Hannah,
Douglas George
D.G. Hannah

?
-

2nd Lt.	13.05.1939 [89509]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	05.08.1942-(04.1946)
Capt. RARO	13.05.1949 (reld 21.03.1951)

			late Cadet, Charterhouse School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
13.05.1939			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
(06.1944)			Second-in-Command, HQ Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) (Normandy)
13.05.1949			transferred to Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Hansen,
Percy Howard
P.H. Hansen

Son of late Viggo Julius Hansen, and Elsa Been. This Danish couple settled first in South Africa, then after the turn of the century in London, becoming British citizens (naturalized 13.12.1910).
Married Marie Rose, daughter of G. Emsell; one daughter.

26.10.1890
Dresden, Germany (where his parents were taking a cure)
-
12.02.1951
Kensington, London
[Garnisons Kirkegård, København]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.03.1911 [6724]
Lt.	03.08.1912
T/Capt.	04.09.1914-01.02.1915
Capt.	02.02.1915
T/Maj.	11.08.1915-07.06.1916, 04.08.1917-31.01.1919 (half-pay 25.11.1921; restored on full establishment 23.01.1922)
Brev. Maj.	01.01.1919 *
Maj.	15.11.1927
Brev. Lt.Col.	01.07.1932
Lt.Col.	09.09.1937
Col.	05.09.1939, seniority 01.07.1935 (supernumerary 30.06.1944)
A/Brig.	28.01.1941-27.07.1941
T/Brig.	28.07.1941 (retd 19.01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	19.01.1946

VC	01.10.1915	**
DSO	16.09.1918	***
MC	29.10.1915	****
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	?	?
MID	?	?
MID	?	?
CdeG	?	?
LM	14.11.1947	?
StOlav	?	?
14\|15 St	?	?
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
Gen SM	?	with clasp Palestine
Fr&G St	?	?
Def M	?	?
BWM 39\|45	?	?

* Special promotion in recognition of war service.
** For most conspicuous bravery on 9th August, 1915, at Yilghin Burnu, Gallipoli Peninsula. After the second capture of the "Green Knoll" his Battalion was forced to retire, leaving some wounded behind, owing to the intense heat from the scrub which had been set on fire. When the retirement was effected Captain Hansen, with three or four volunteers, on his own initiative, dashed forward several times some 300 to 400 yards over open ground into the scrub under a terrific fire, and succeeded in rescuing from inevitable death by burning no less than six wounded men.
*** For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He volunteered to carry out a reconnaissance, and brought back valuable information obtained under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, which had been unprocurable from other sources. Throughout he did fine work.
**** For conspicuous gallantry at Suvla Bay on 9th September, 1915. He made a reconnaissance of the coast, stripping himself and carrying only a revolver and a blanket for disguise. He swam and "scrambled over rocks, which severely cut and bruised him, and obtained some valuable information and located a gun which was causing much damage. The undertaking was hazardous. On one occasion he met a patrol of 12 Turks who did not see him, and later a single Turk whom he lulled. He returned to our lines in a state of great exhaustion.

Education: prepatory schools in Hazelwood, Limpsfield, Surrey & Oxted, Surrey; Eton (20.09.1904-...); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (29.07.1908-04.03.1911); Staff College, Camberley (psc, 1919)

04.03.1911			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment
04.09.1914	-	10.08.1915	Adjutant, 6th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (Gallipoli, 18.07.1915-10.08.1915)
11.08.1915	-	07.06.1916	6th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (Gallipoli, 10.08.1915-23.09.1915; Egypt, 26.09.1915-26.10.1915)
08.06.1916	-	16.09.1916	Brigade-Major, Halton Park Camp
17.09.1916	-	03.08.1917	Brigade-Major, ... (Home Forces & France, 25.12.1916-01.11.1918)
04.08.1917	-	03.11.1918	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (France)
04.11.1918	-	31.01.1919	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Tactical School, Camberley
02.02.1920	-	22.06.1920	Brigade-Major, 8th Infantry Brigade (Southern Command)
09.02.1922	-	05.07.1923	Brigade-Major, 12th Infantry Brigade (Eastern Command)
10.02.1925	-	09.02.1929	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 55th (West Lancashire) Division (Western Command)
31.03.1931	-	26.02.1934	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Jamaica
27.02.1934	-	31.03.1935	Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), Western Command
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment
09.09.1937	-	1939	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment
02.09.1939	-	27.01.1941	AA&QMG, 55th Division (Home Forces)
28.01.1941	-	23.02.1942	DA&QMG, 12th Corps (Home Forces)
24.02.1942	-	14.05.1943	Area Commander, Belfast Area (Home Forces)
15.05.1943	-	25.08.1943	Sub-District Commander, Ashford (Home Forces)
08.1943	-	1945	SHAEF Mission to Norway (Head of Civil Affairs)
19.01.1946	-	26.10.1948	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Harden,
James Richard Edwards
J.R.E. Harden

Son of late Major J.E. Harden, DL, JP, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and L.G.C. Harden.
Married (1948) Ursula Joyce (died 31.01.2007, age 90), youngest daughter of G.M. Strutt, Newhouse, Terling, Chelmsford, Essex; one son, two daughters.
Residence: (1945) Tandragee, Northern Ireland.

12.12.1916
-
10.2000
Bangor, Caernarvonshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.01.1937 [71219]
Lt.	28.01.1940
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-13.10.1942
WS/Capt.	14.10.1942
Capt.	28.01.1945 (retd 08.09.1947; on agricultural release)
A/Maj.	14.07.1942-13.10.1942
T/Maj.	14.10.1942-21.03.1944, 17.05.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	08.09.1947
Capt. TA	08.09.1947, seniority 12.12.1943
A/Maj. TA	08.09.1947-11.12.1950
Maj. TA	12.12.1950, seniority 08.09.1947 (reld 07.10.1952)

OBE	11.06.1983	HM's birthday 83: for services to land drainage in Wales
DSO	11.10.1945	NW Europe
MC	21.12.1944	NW Europe
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East

Education: Oriel House, St Asaph; Bedford School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

28.01.1937			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
			served in the Middle East & NW Europe
08.09.1947	-	12.12.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
08.09.1947	-	07.10.1952	commissioned, Royal Irish Fusiliers - Territorial Army

Farmer. Member of Parliament (MP) (Ulster Unionists) for County Armagh, 1948-1954. Justive of the Peace (JP), County Armagh, 1956, Cærnarvonshire, later Gwynedd, 1971-1982; Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Co. Armagh, 1946, Cærnarvonshire, later Gwynedd, 1968; High Sheriff, Cærnarvonshire, 1971-1972.

Harding,
Ronald Howard [Victor]
R.H.V. Harding (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Henstridge)

(09?).1917
Wilton, Wiltshire
-
2000
Kent

Sgt.	? [2657023]
2nd Lt.	31.05.1941 [189185]
WS/Lt.	31.05.1941
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	19.10.1945-(04.1946)

			served in the ranks, Coldstream Guards (L/Sgt., 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards)
31.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Harding-Newman,
Rupert Norton
R.N. Harding-Newman

Telegraph obituary
Times obituary

05.12.1907
Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
-
22.10.2007
Wyvis House, Dingwall

2nd Lt.	02.02.1928 [39335]
Lt.	02.02.1930
Capt.	21.05.1937
A/Maj.	07.03.1941-06.06.1941
T/Maj.	07.06.1941-21.09.1942
WS/Maj.	22.09.1942
Maj.	02.02.1945
A/Lt.Col.	22.06.1942-21.09.1942
T/Lt.Col.	22.09.1942-22.01.1946
WS/Lt.Col.	23.01.1946
Lt.Col.	02.12.1949 (supernumerary 02.12.1952)
A/Col.	23.07.1945-22.01.1946
T/Col.	23.01.1946-19.04.1946, 08.12.1946-30.04.1948, 25.12.1948-03.09.1950
local Col.	20.04.1946-12.09.1946
Col.	24.12.1952
Brig.	18.05.1958 (retd 28.02.1961)

	MC	13.08.1942	Middle East
	MID	23.05.1946	?

Education: jssc; psc

02.02.1928			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps
1928	-	1930	5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
1930	-	1935	5th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps & 6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Egypt)
1935			2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
1936