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Hibberd,
Frank
F. Hibberd
Son of George and Emily
Hibberd.
Husband of Gladys Marjorie
Hibberd, of Williton.
1891 ?
-
28.05.1946
[age 55]
[Bicknoller (St
George)
Churchyard,
Somerset]
2nd Lt.
? [48982]
Lt.
05.03.1918
[A/?]Capt.
?

WW I: 1914-15 Star; British war Medal; Victory Medal

?


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army



served World War I



Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
Hibbett,
Edward Charles
E.C. Hibbett
?
-
WS/RSM
?
Lt. (QM)
23.09.1940 [152971]
WS/Capt. (QM)
23.09.1943
Capt. (QM)
01.11.1947
Maj. (QM)
13.06.1948
(1940)


Regimental Sergeant-Major, 88th Regiment RA (Territorial Army) 
23.09.1940
 
 
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Hicks,
Arthur Lionel
A.L. Hicks (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
06.09.1910
Gosforth, Northumberland
-
04.1986
Surrey Mid-Eastern district, Surrey
2nd Lt. 29.01.1931 [49862]
... ...
T/Lt.Col. 06.09.1944-14.01.1947,
27.04.1950-11.04.1952
... ...
Col. 28.02.1957 (retd 18.01.1961)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1947 New Year 47 [recommendation available upon request]
Education: Cambridge (BA 1933, MA 1959).
29.01.1931     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
High,
R
R. High
?
-
2nd Lt.
?
WS/Lt.
?
?


commissioned, ? [emergency commission]
(05.1944)
 
 
Wireless Telegraphy School, Middle East Training Centre
Higham,
Harold
H. Higham
?
-
?
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 10.10.1942 [247972]
WS/Lt. 10.10.1942
T/Capt. 16.02.1944-(07.1945)
10.10.1942     commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
16.11.1943 - (07.1945) Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)
Higgins,
James
J. Higgins
Married ...; ... children (one on?).
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 18.04.1941 [166380]
WS/Lt. 18.07.1942
T/Capt. 02.01.1945-(07.1945),
02.08.1945-01.03.1946
WS/Capt. 02.03.1946
T/Maj. 02.03.1946-(12.1946)
      either 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th or 125th Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.01.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Hilder,
Richard Waterhouse
R. High

03.07.1921
-
18.09.2022
2nd Lt. 08.11.1941 [214848]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
08.11.1941     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
Hill,
Alfred Henry Stanley
"Stan"
R. High
Married (18.01.1941, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Doreen Olivia Malin (03.10.1919 - 01.07.2002), daughter of Willliam Henry Malin (1891-1944), and Kate Olivia Higgins (1888-1984); ... children (one son?).
03.06.1917
Aston, Warwickshire
-
22.02.1988
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 16.01.1943 [2611022]
WS/Lt. 16.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Capt. ?
T/Capt. 02.09.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
16.01.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Hill,
Arthur Abraham
A.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr Graham Hill, via Mr John McLoughlin)
06.1921
-
02.03.1998
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
27.02.1943 [264535]
WS/Lt.
27.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
27.02.1943


commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]



served 2nd/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
Hill,
Charles Cornelius
C.C. Hill
?
-
Colour Sgt.
? [3185269]
Lt.
07.09.1940 [143988]
T/Capt.
08.11.1941-14.02.1944
WS/Capt.
15.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.
11.1942-...
T/Maj.
15.02.1944-....
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946



served in the ranks
07.09.1940


commissioned, The Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]



seconded to Indian Army as Machine Gun Instructor
11.1941
 
 
Staff Captain, ... (India)
11.1942
 
 
Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, Central Command (India)
Hill,
Douglas Rowland Holdsworth
K.A. Hill
Eldest son of Horace Rowland Hill, and Elizabeth Hair Masters, of Crawley Sussex, and of Midhurst.
Married (26.07.1933, All Saints', Margaret Street, St Marylebone district, London) Agnes Margaret Douglas, only daughter of Mr & Mrs A.A. Douglas, of Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire; three daughters.
20.10.1904
Camberwell district, London
-
16.10.1966
Chelsea district, London
2nd Lt. 02.03.1940 [120476]
WS/Lt. 02.09.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt. 10.09.1944-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt. > 07.1945, < 10.1945
Education: Malvern College (1919.1-1923; House Prefect No. 9 House); Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, BA; Cl. III, Nat.Sci.Trip. 1926).
02.03.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
      served France (No. 1 Company RASC, No. 1 General Base Depot, British Expeditionary Force) and North Africa, with RASC and on HQ Staff, Malta
Director, City of London Brewery and Investment Trust Ltd and other Companies.
Member Court of Common Council, for Dowgate Ward, 1947; Alderman, City of London for Queenhithe Ward, 1960; elected Sheriff, City of London, 1966; one of HM Lieutenants for City of London.
Chairman: Bridge House Estates Committee, 1953 and 1958; City Schools Committee, 1956 and 1957. Trustee, Rowland Hill Benevolent Fund; Member, Visiting Committee, Holloway Prison (Deputy Chairman 1963-1965); Member Council, Boy Scouts Association and Chairman Camp Sites Board, Boy Scout HQ; Past Master Leathersellers Company, 1963/64; Member Court, Painter Stainers Company.
Hill,
Frank Robert
Andrew
F.R.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hill) F.R.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hill)
F.R.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hill) F.R.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hill)
01.05.1915
-
04.1984
Eastbourne, Sussex
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
13.09.1941 [204425]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
WS/Capt.
1946?
Capt.
01.11.1947, seniority 01.05.1947
Maj.
? (reld 10.08.1961)
Hon. Maj.
10.08.1961, again 05.09.1965
Capt. TA
21.05.1964, seniority 09.02.1950 (reld 05.09.1965)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
14.04.1959
Cyprus 2nd half 58
Mention in Despatches MID
31.12.1957
Cyprus
13.09.1941


commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]



served 2nd/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
01.11.1947


short service commission (Employed List 3)
15.05.1954


transferred to Corps of Royal Military Police
21.05.1964
-
05.09.1965
served Territorial Army
Hill,
James A
J.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr John McLoughlin)
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. ?
WS/Lt. ?
?     commissioned, ? [emergency commission]
      served B Company, 2nd/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
Hill,
Kenneth Alan
K.A. Hill
Son of Clement and Olive Hill, of Bristol; husband of Barbara Hill, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
1921 ?
-
26/27.04.1942
[age 21]
[Bristol (Canford) Cemetery, Gloucestershire, KK.294]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
15.02.1941 [172232]



Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.02.1941


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?
-
27.04.1942
2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (UK)
Hill,
Lawrence Vallely
L.V. Hill
From Stanevix, Carlisle.
(12?).1905
Carlisle, Cumberland
-

2nd Lt.
26.02.1943 [279455]
WS/Capt.
10.09.1943
T/Maj.
10.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.
27.10.1944
local Lt.Col.
08.12.1943-(04.1944)
T/Lt.Col.
27.10.1944-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
21.06.1945
NW Europe
26.02.1943


commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
Hill,
Peter Guy Egerton
P.G.E. Hill
Married Maj. Daphne Gordon Conway (née Phillips), Women's Royal Army Corps.
30.07.1911
Medway, Kent
-
02.2002
Uckfield, Sussex
2nd Lt.
28.01.1932 [50931]
Lt.
28.01.1935
A/Capt.
01.09.1939-30.11.1939
T/Capt.
01.12.1939-27.01.1940
Capt.
28.01.1940
A/Maj.
30.08.1940-15.11.1940,
02.04.1941-14.04.1941
T/Maj.
15.05.1941-05.01.1944,
08.04.1945-30.06.1946
Maj.
01.07.1946 (retd 18.08.1961)
Mention in Despatches MID
07.01.1949
Palestine 09.46-03.47
Education: psc
28.01.1932


commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment



served in Italy
(1949)


served in Palestine
Published: (with G.L.A. Squire) The Surreys in Italy (1992)
Hill,
Richard William
K.A. Hill
Son of Arthur Edwin Hill (1886-1978), and Anastasia Tsaousopoulos (1886-1975).
Married 1st (10.03.1945, Capetown, South Africa'divorced 03.10.1975) Joyce Patricia Heginbotham; three daughters.
Married 2nd (15.12.1975) Catherine Ivy Mavrou.
08.08.1919
Whittlesey district, Cambridgeshire
-
12.06.2010
Mykonos, Greece
2nd Lt. 12.11.1938 [78507]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
A/Capt. 22.11.1941-21.02.1942
T/Capt. 22.02.1942-03.03.1942,
24.07.1942-03.03.1943,
21.10.1944-31.12.1944
WS/Capt. 01.01.1945
A/Maj. 01.10.1944-31.12.1944
T/Maj. 01.01.1945-21.09.1947
Lt. 10.11.1945, seniority 08.02.1942
Capt. 08.08.1946
Maj. 21.03.1955 (retd 01.09.1959)
      late Cadet Company Sergeant-Major, Canford School Contingent, Officer Training Corps
12.11.1938     commissioned, Royal Tanks Corps [later: Royal Tank Regiment] - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized SRO
? - 04.12.1940 RAC Base Depot
04.12.1940 - (1946) 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt & North Africa, Palestine & Iraq, Italy & Austria)
10.11.1945     permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps
16.08.1947     transferred, 15th/19th Royal Hussars [seconded to the Greek Government as a liaison officer during the post-war Greek Civil War]
02.09.1950     transferred, Corps of Royal Signals
Hill,
Stanley
James Ledger
"Speedy"
J.S.L. Hill (Source: www.1canpara.com) J.S.L. Hill (Source: www.bbc.co.uk)
J.S.L. Hill (Source: www.ornebridgehead.org)
J.S.L. Hill J.S.L. Hill
J.S.L. Hill
J.S.L. Hill
J.S.L. Hill
J.S.L. Hill
J.S.L. Hill (© Imperial War Museum (BU 2910)) J.S.L. Hill (© Imperial War Museum (BU 2910))
J.S.L. Hill (© Imperial War Museum (BU 2910)) J.S.L. Hill (© Imperial War Museum (BU 2910))
Son (with one sister) of Maj.Gen. Walter Pitts Hendy Hill, CB, CMG, DSO (1878-1942), and Phyllis Gertrude Sandars (1887-1982), of West Amesbury House, Wilts.
Married 1st (03.04.1937, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Denys Gunter-Jones (20.01.1912 - 05.1996), daughter of Edward Hubert Gunter­Jones, MC, JP (1885-1962), and Jeannette Kehrmann (1885-1975), of Gloucester House, Ledbury; one daughter.
Married 2nd (10.1986, Chichester district, Sussex) Joan Patricia Haywood.

14.03.1911
Bath district, Somerset
-
16.03.2006
Church Farm Care Home, Cotgrave, Nottingham
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.08.1931 [52648]
Lt. 27.08.1934 (reld 12.08.1935)
Lt. SRO 29.10.1938
T/Capt. ?
WS/Capt. ?
A/Maj. 15.07.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj. ?
T/Lt.Col. ?
WS/Lt.Col. 02.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Brig. 02.12.1943-(06.1944)
Maj. RARO 01.11.1947
Hon. Brig. 01.11.1947
Distinguished Service Order DSO 11.02.1943 North Africa 11.42
Distinguished Service Order DSO 29.03.1945 Normandy 06.44
Distinguished Service Order DSO 24.01.1946 Rhine crossing to Baltic 45
Military Cross MC 11.07.1940 BEF (France)
Legion d'Honneur, 5th Class (France) LegH 1942 ?
Silver Star Medal (USA) SSM 23.07.1948 NW Europe 45
King Haakon VII Liberty Cross (Norway) Hkn 03.1949 NW Europe 45

Medaille Militaire & Croix de Guerre (France)

Education: Marlborough; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Sword of Honour).
27.08.1931 - 1935 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
29.10.1938     Supplementary Reserve of Officers, Category B
24.08.1939     mobilized
1939     2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (BEF)
15.07.1940 - (04.1941) Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), GHQ, BEF
01.08.1942     transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
1942 - 1942 Commanding Officer, 1st Parachute Battalion (N Africa landing; wounded 24.11.1942)
25.04.1943 - 04.05.1943 acting Commander, 3rd Parachute Brigade (UK)
02.06.1943 - 02.07.1945 Commander, 3rd Parachute Brigade (UK, NW Europe [Normandy], UK, NW Europe [Rhine crossing], UK; wounded thrice) [except for 20-30.12.1944]
30.07.1945 - (08.1945) Commander, 1st Parachute Brigade (UK)
1947 - 1948 Commander, 4th Parachute Brigade - Territorial Army
01.11.1947 - 14.03.1961 transferred to Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Appointed to Board of Associated Coal & Wharf Cos Ltd, 1948; President, Powell Duffryn Group of Cos in Canada, 1952-1958. Vice Chairman, Powell Duffryn Ltd, 1970-1976 (Director, 1961-1976); Chairman, Pauls & Whites Ltd, 1973-1976 (Director, since 1970); Director: Lloyds Bank, 1972-1979; Lloyds Bank UK Management Committee Ltd, 1979-1981.
Honorary Colonel of a TA unit, Army Air Corps, 06.01.1949-23.05.1952.
Hills,
Stuart Faber
S.F. Hills S.F. Hills
Elder son (with one sister and one brother) of Herbert Stuart Hills (1885-1947), Electrical Engineer with Jardine Matheson, became an exchange Broker, and Edith Attwater Faber  (1883-1974), a nurse.
Married (1953) Dorothy Knight; three daughters.
05.04.1924
Hong Kong
-
29.05.2004
Tonbridge, Kent
Tpr. 1942 [14400616]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.01.1944 [304722]
WS/Lt. 09..07.1944 (reld 13.07.1947)
A/Capt. 01.08.1945-31.10.1945
T/Capt. 01.11.1945-13.07.1947
Hon. Capt. 13.07.1947
Military Cross MC 21.12.1944 NW Europe (Burjus ridge / Le Hamel 17.08.1944) *

* Date of action: 17 Aug 44. Lt. Hills was commanding a Troop of C Squadron in support of a Company of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (D.C.L.I.) which had been ordered to capture LE HAMEL over the Burjus [= Berjou] ridge in order that the bridgehead on the Burjus [= Berjou] ridge could be firmly established. In order to reach the village of LE HAMEL it was necessary to pass through extremely thickly wooded country from which the enemy had not been cleared. Owing to this difficult country, his troop became separated from the Company of Infantry. However, he pushed forward to the outskirts of the village, during which time his whole troop were continually engaged by enemy Bazookas which he was unable to locate owing to the thick country and the fact that the enemy allowed his troop to pass and attacked him from the rear. In spite of having two of of his tanks badly damaged by enemy Bazookas, Lt. Hills continued to lead his troop forward until he reached the outskirts of the village. He continued to engage enemy positions in the village until he had used up all his ammunition. In spite of the failing light and continued attacks from enemy snipers and shortage of ammunition, Lt. Hills remained in position with his troop, until after darkness had fallen, and the Infantry arrived to clear the village. Lt. Hills displayed the highest courage throughout the whole of the action, and carried on quite regardless of his own personal danger, especially when he guided his troop on foot in order to find a way through this difficult and wooded country which was infested with enemy snipers and Bazookas.

Education: Tonbridge School, Kent (1938-1942; Judde House; Cricket XI, 1941, 1942; Football XV, 1941).
20.08.1942     joined as a Trooper, Royal Armoured Corps - 30th Primary Training Wing, Bovington Camp (UK)
10.1942     58 Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, Bovington (UK)
03.1943  - 1943 No 1 Pre-Officer Cadet Training Unit Alma Barracks, Blackdown (UK)
1943 - 1944 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst (UK)
09.01.1944     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
1944 - 1945 Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (UK, NW Europe)
[Part of 'C' Squadron which was selected for training on the DD tank. His tank was hit by enemy fire as it launched and sank on the way to Gold beach. Crew all survived. Rejoined the regiment on 13th June. Was involved in a number of actions in June and early July 1944. Spent a short period as liaison officer between the SRY and 50th Division. 17th August. Action around the Berjou ridge including the villages of Berjou and Le Hamel. Was awarded the MC for this action. Took part in the ground part of Operation Market-Garden, after reaching Grave they worked with US 82nd Airborne in enlarging the Nijmegen bridgehead. October 8th, removed from command of his troop and made Regimental intelligence officer (and have a rest from the strain of action).]
1945 - 1947 Force T (British Army of the Rhine)
In business, Johannesburg. Served Malayan Civil Service, 1949-1958. He served during the turbulent years of the Emergency and returned to England in 1958 to join Associated Octel, a subsidiary of Shell. Responsibility for the company's business in the Far East involved many months of travel each year; he made 92 trips to Japan. Retired 1986.
Published: By tank into Normandy (2002).
Hilton,
Richard
R. Hilton
2nd son of John Edward Hilton, JP, Lambourn, Berks. Married (1917) Phyllis Martha, eldest daughter of late Rev. S. H. Woodin, MA, Rector of Yarmouth, IoW; two sons.
18.01.1894
-
26.07.1978
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
19.12.1913 [1686]
Lt.
09.06.1915
Capt.
03.11.1917
Maj.
01.01.1933
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.01.1937
Lt.Col.
29.08.1939 (supernumerary 29.08.1942)
A/Col.
01.09.1940-28.02.1941
T/Col.
01.03.1941-21.01.1943
Col.
22.01.1943, seniority 01.01.1940
A/Brig.
10.10.1941-09.02.1942
T/Brig.
10.04.1942-27.10.1944,
05.12.1944-(02.1946)
Brig.
09.05.1948 (retd 11.10.1948)
local Maj.Gen.
16.08.1947
RAF:

Sq.Cdr.
1918
Distinguished Service Order DSO
19.10.1944
?
Military Cross MC
03.06.1916
HM's birthday
DFC
21.09.1918
*
DFC
02.11.1918
**
1914-15 Star; British War Medal ; Victory Medal; Commander, Order of St Olav, Norway, 1945.
* An officer who shows remarkable skill and courage in co-operating with our artillery, and in carrying out photographic reconnaissances. He also proved himself a very gallant leader on a recent raid, when he led two low patrols over the lines, attacking with machine-gun fire and heavily bombing enemy reserves. The machine in which he was flying was rendered useless for further service, so intense was the hostile aircraft fire.
** A most courageous and determined officer who has rendered valuable service on low reconnaissances. On August 8th, after dropping bombs to form smoke screens, he was attacked by five scouts; his observer was wounded, but Captain Hilton, flying at an extremely low altitude, with great skill evaded his pursuers and landed safely. His machine was so badly damaged that it had to be replaced.
Education: Malvern; Royal Military Acamadey Woolwich; psc
19.12.1913


commissioned, Royal Garrison Artillery



served European War, 1914-1918, Western Front, in RA, RFC and RAF (wounded) (France & Belgium 22.04.1915-03.07.1916, 18.09.1917-21.09.1918)
04.05.1916
-
31.03.1918
seconded to RFC
01.04.1918
-
06.07.1919
employed under the Air Ministry
17.08.1922
-
03.01.1924
seconded to Tank Corps:
23.01.1923
-
21.10.1923
Assistant Instructor (Class FF), Tank Driving & Maintenance School (temporary)
1924
-
1930
Indian Mountain Artillery
01.04.1930
-
31.12.1932
Staff Captain, War Office, 1930-1933
1934
-
1938
Indian Mountain Artillery
1939
-
1940
BEF
01.09.1940
-
09.10.1941
Chief Instructor (Air), School of Artillery
1941
-
1944
Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 15th (Scottish) Division (wounded)
1945


Brigadier General Staff (BGS) to Allied Liberation Forces, Norway
1946
-
1947
Deputy Chief of British Mission to Soviet Zone of Germany
1947
-
1948
Military Attaché in Moscow
Published: Military Attaché in Moscow, 1949; Nine Lives, 1955; The Indian Mutiny, 1957; The North­West Frontier, 1957; The Thirteenth Power, 1958; Imperial Obituary, 1968; contributions to Blackwoods, Nineteenth Century and After, Service and other journals.
Hind,
Alan Wheelton
A.W. Hind
Son (with one brother) of John Wheelton Hind (1885-1960), chartered accountant, and Dora Millicent Chase (1884-1963), of Pinner, Middlesex.
Married 1st (04.04.1945, St Paul’s Cathedral, Calcutta, India) Sister Margaret Marion Fearnehough (19.10.1915 - 19.09.1995), Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Joseph Robert Fearnehough (1871-1949), and Jessie Woodhead (1884-); one daughter, two sons.
Married 2nd (11.1991, Surrey South Eastern district) Joan M. Hind.

08.08.1918
Hendon district, Oxfordshire
-
11.12.2013
Lakeside, Lower Maddaford, Devon
Lt. 07.11.1942 [252021]
WS/Capt. 07.11.1943 (reld > 04.1947)
Education: Merchant Taylors' School; Guy's Hospital (1937-1941); MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 17.10.1941; MB, BS Lond 1947; FFA RCS Eng 1953; DA Eng 1947.
07.11.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
      served in India, Malaya and Burma
Anaesthetic registrar (1947), consultant (1949), Guy's Hospital.
Hindle,
Geoffrey Vernon
G.V. Hindle
Son of Walter Hindle, and Alice H. Truelove.
Married ((09?).1956, Carlisle district, Cumbria) Joyce S. Marrack; one daughter, one son.
27.03.1924
Brentford district, Middlesex
-

Carlisle, Cumbria
Cadet ? [14322674]
2nd Lt. 18.11.1944 [335038]
WS/Lt. 18.08.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt. 16.06.1946-(04.1947)
18.11.1944     commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
Hirst-Good,
Alan Henry
A.H. Hirst-Good
Married Jessica Serina W Pipe; one son, two daughters.
1907
Christchurch, NZ
-
2nd Lt.
28.06.1941 [191754]
WS/Lt.
? (reld 13.09.1943)
28.06.1941


commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Hiscock,
Fred
"Freddie"
F. Hiscock (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Wood)
?
-
?
Lt. 02.11.1939 [106341] (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt. 17.07.1941-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt. > 07.1945, < 10.1945
      late RAOC
02.11.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
Hiscock,
William Harry
W.H. Hiscock
?
-
2001 ?
London ?
2nd Lt.
21.11.1942 [251859]
WS/Lt.
21.05.1943
21.11.1942


commissioned, The Border Regiment [emergency commission]



2/5th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal Regiment (Staffordshire Yeomanry)
(05.1944)
 
 
Wireless Telegraphy School, Middle East Training Centre
Hiskett,
Mervyn
M. Hiskett
see:
University of Bergen
20.05.1920
St Albans
-
11.06.1994
Gravesend, Kent
Cadet
? [1585730]
2nd Lt.
19.01.1945 [339576]
WS/Lt.
19.07.1945 (reld 1947)
Hon. Capt.
1947
Capt. AERO
24.10.1963
Capt. TA
01.01.1965, seniority 24.10.1963
19.01.1945


commissioned, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
24.10.1963


Captain, Intelligence Corps - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
01.01.1965


Captain, Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army
01.04.1967


Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Hislop,
John Charles
J.C. Hislop
Son of a well-known Wellington surgeon.
1906
Wellington, New Zealand
-
17.04.1976
Lt. 03.04.1941 [181476]
WS/Maj. 11.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col. ?
Hon. Lt.Col. < 04.1946
Education: Christ's College; University of Edinburgh (MB, 1932); FRCS Eng (1938); FRACS (1956).
03.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] (Surgeon specialist)
      served in Iraq (1941), Trincomalee, Ceylon (1942/43) & India/Burma (Field Ambulance RAMC within 50th Indian Parachute Brigade) (1944/45)
Resident Medical Officer, King Edward Hospital, Ealing. Resided at Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Hislop,
Joseph Kerr
J.K. Hislop (Photo courtesy of Mrs Betty Richards via Mr Charles Vernon)
Eldest son of Albert James Hislop, and Amy Clements.
Married ((03?).1939, Chippenham district, Wiltshire) Mollie Marian Wareham, of Cambridge.
25.02.1914
Malmesbury, Wiltshire
-
09.07.1944
near Caen, France
(KIA) [age 31]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, II.B.25]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
28.11.1942 [253625]
WS/Lt.
28.05.1943
Worked for gentlemen's outfitters in Malmesbury, Bristol and Cambridge. Volunteered for the Auxiliary Fire Service.
28.11.1942
 
 
commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]
20.06.1943


transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
?
-
09.07.1944
"A" Troop, 245 Battery, 62nd Anti-Tank Regiment RA (killed by machine gun fire whilst on reconnaissance)
Hitchcock,
Rowland William
"Rowley"

R.W. Hitchcock (Photo courtesy of Mr Vincent Tessier)

Son of William Cooper Hitchcock (1866?-1939), and Edith Grimsey (1875-).
Married ((03?).1931, Woodbridge district, Suffolk) Elsie Norah Oliver (24.06.1906 - 24.09.1993).
05.02.1902
Ringshall, Bosmere district, Suffolk
-
29.01.1987
Sudbury district, Suffolk
2nd Lt. 14.04.1927 [37858]
Lt. 14.04.1930
T/Capt. 20.08.1940-27.03.1941
WS/Capt. 28.03.1941
A/Maj. 28.12.1940-28.03.1941
T/Maj. 28.03.1941-09.04.1944
WS/Maj. 10.04.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 10.04.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Military Cross MC 23.09.1943 North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia) [citation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 11.01.1945 Italy
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 31.01.1946 -
14.04.1927     commissioned, 103rd (Suffolk) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
01.10.1932     transferred, 409th (Suffolk) Anti-Aircraft Battery RA
15.09.1934     transferred, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.05.1939     transferred, Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(1940) - 1941 Officer Commanding, 230th Medium Battery RA (France, Dunkirk)
(1943)     58th Medium Regiment RA (North Africa) (MC)
? - 08.08.1953 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Published: "Rowley" recalls farming, fighting and fun (1984; memoirs).
Hix,
Charles Samuel
C.S. Hix (Photo courtesy of Mr David Fourness)
16.02.1914
-
10.2004
Dudley district, Staffordshire / Worcestershire
2nd Lt. 02.05.1942 [233265]
WS/Lt. 02.05.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 1944?
Hon. Capt. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
02.05.1942     commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
His son-in-law writes: "He was in the Royal Tank Corps on the north west frontier in the 1930's. Quetta earthquake 1935. Joined the Military Police - went on expeditionary force to Northern France. Was on the last destroyer out of Dunkirk. Sent to Scotland where he was commissioned. I believe the Provost Company to the 8th Army in North Africa, then Italy and Austria."
Hoar,
Ian Reginald
"Hamps"
I.R. Hoar
19.06.1916
Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland
-
2nd Lt.
19.10.1935 [66215]
WS/Lt.
05.03.1941
T/Capt.
03.06.1943-(04.1944),
28.07.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.
?
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46
Mention in Despatches MID
29.11.1945
Italy
Civil servant (Male Assistant Preventive Officer, Customs and Excise Department from 12.1937).
19.10.1935


commissioned, 6th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment - Territorial Army
30.08.1939


transferred, General List (Infantry) - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers 
05.03.1940
-
19.06.1966
transferred, The Hampshire Regiment - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
10.04.1944
-
28.05.1944
Adjutant, No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army")



served Corps of Military Police
Hoare,
Geoffrey Edward
G.E. Hoare

Only son (with two sisters) of Edward Geoffrey Hoare (1880-1950), who served as T/Lt. RNVR in WW1, and Dorothy Frances Sherry.
Married 1st ...; three children.
Married 2nd (08.1986, Surrey Northern district, Surrey) Moya Richardson; two step-children.
27.12.1922
Brighton district, Sussex
-
27.09.2017
Yeovil, Somerset
Cadet ? [1127383]
2nd Lt. 22.10.1942 [249118]
WS/Lt. 22.04.1943 (demobilized 11.02.1947) (reld 18.03.1953)
A/Capt. 08.09.1945-05.09.1946
T/Capt. 06.09.1946-11.02.1947
A/Maj. 06.09.1946-11.02.1947
Hon. Capt. 18.03.1953
Education: Tonbridge School (1936-1939; Ferox Hall).
      served in Local Defence Volunteers (Home Guard)
30.07.1941     enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery
22.10.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
 1943 - 1946 attached, Indian Artillery (Burma)
London Discount Market 1946-1948. Director Duncan Bros & Co., Calcutta 1948-1963. Sales Manager C.S.B.P. & Femurs Ltd, Perth, W. Australia since 1963 (until about 1980s). Fellow Inst. of Directors: MBIM, AISM. After his retirement he became a member of the Quaker movement and travelled extensively (Europe, Australasia, Canada and the USA) in the Quaker ministry.
Hoare,
Reginald Arthur Reid
R.A.R. Hoare
Married (15.05.1940) Lucy Myrtle Corbett-Winder; one son.
?
-
early 2008 still alive
2nd Lt.
07.12.1940 [160183]
WS/Lt.
07.06.1942
Lt.
21.06.1947, seniority 05.07.1942
Capt.
21.06.1947, seniority 05.01.1947
Maj.
05.01.1954 (retd 12.03.1955; receiving a gratuity)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM
24.10.1947
-
?
-
07.12.1940
either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.12.1940


commissioned, 4th Queen's Own Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
21.06.1947
 
 
permanent commission
Hoare,
Ronald Jack
R.J. Hoare (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
1920 / 1922 ?
-
2nd Lt. 04.08.1939 [75515]
Lt. 13.02.1946, seniority 31.08.1938
Capt. 13.02.1946, seniority 31.08.1944
WS/Maj. 19.12.1942
Maj. ? (retd 30.06.1955; receiving a gratuity)
T/Lt.Col. 21.04.1945-(01.1946)
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1951
A/Col. 14.07.1945-(01.1946)
T/Col. (1946)
Hon. Col. 30.06.1955
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE 01.01.1947 New Year 47
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 06.01.1944 Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
04.08.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [temporary short service commission]
... - ... ...
31.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
13.02.1946     permanent commission
... - ... ...
Hobart,
Patrick Robert Chamier
P.R.C. Hobart (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
14.11.1917
-
22.11.1986
2nd Lt. 26.08.1937 [73080]
... ...
T/Lt.Col. 15.07.1943-(01.1946)
... ...
Maj.Gen. 02.05.1966, seniority 10.02.1966 (retd 1972)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 1970 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO 01.03.1945 ?
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 24.08.1944 ?
Military Cross MC 28.01.1943 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 15.12.1942 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 06.04.1944 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 ?
26.08.1937     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment
... - ... ...
27.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
Hobart,
Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley
P.C.S. Hobart


Son of late Robert T. Hobart, Indian Civil Service (ICS), and Janetta, daughter of C. Stanley, Roughan Park, Tyrone. Married (11.1928) Dorothea, daughter of late Colonel C. Field, Royal Marines; one daughter.
14.06.1885
Naini Tal, India
-
19.02.1957
Farnham, Surrey
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
29.07.1904 [23838]
Lt.
15.04.1907
Capt.
30.10.1914
T/Maj.
01.06.1916-31.03.1919, 21.01.1920-21.01.1921
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1918
Maj.
24.09.1922
Bt. Lt.Col.
24.05.1922
Lt.Col.
01.03.1930
Bt. Col.
01.01.1928
Col.
01.03.1933, seniority 24.05.1926 (half-pay 01.03.1937) (full-pay 18.03.1937)
T/Brig.
01.03.1933-17.12.1937
Maj.Gen.
18.12.1937 (retd 09.03.1940) (re-employed 1941) (reverted to retd 14.06.1946)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
1919
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
02.01.1939
New Year 39
Distinguished Service Order DSO
24.06.1916
*
Military Cross MC
23.06.1915
?
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1915
?
Mention in Despatches MID
15.08.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
12.03.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
27.08.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
05.09.1919
?
Mention in Despatches MID
12.06.1923
?
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID
09.08.1945
NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID
04.04.1946
NW Europe
Commander, Legion of Merit (US) LM
15.03.1945
?
NW Frontier of India 1908 Medal & Clasp; 1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Waziristan 1919-1921 Clasp
* For conspicuous gallantry when carrying out a series of dangerous reconnaissances under fire, during which he collected much useful information. On one occasion he made gallant efforts to rescue one of his escort, who was wounded; on another occasion he was wounded himself.
Education: Temple Grove; Clifton College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc)
29.07.1904


commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers
1906


to India and joined 1st Sappers and Miners
1908


served Mohmand Expedition, NW Frontier (medal and clasp)
1911


Staff Delhi Durbar
1915


with 1st Bengal Sappers and Miners in France (present at Neuve Chapelle (MC); Festubert, May 1915, and September Offensive, 1915) (01.01.1915-17.12.1915)
01.09.1915
-
31.05.1916
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France) and Indian Expeditionary Force "D" (Mesopotamia)
01.06.1916
-
11.12.1916
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Indian Expeditionary Force "D" (Mesopotamia)
12.12.1916
-
02.10.1918
Brigade Major, Indian Expeditionary Force "D" (Mesopotamia) ( wounded, prisoner of war)
04.10.1918
-
31.03.1919
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2), Egyptian Expeditionary Force (Palestine)
21.01.1920
-
21.01.1921
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2), War Office (UK)
05.04.1921
-
04.01.1922
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2), Wana Column (Waziristan Force)
08.01.1922
-
11.05.1923
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2), Eastern Command (India)
10.11.1923


transferred to the Royal Tank Corps
12.05.1923
-
11.05.1927
instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2)), Staff College Quetta (India)
01.03.1930


restored to the establishment
01.03.1933
-
31.03.1936
Inspector Royal Tank Corps (UK)
01.04.1934
-
28.02.1937
also Commander, 1st Tank Brigade (Southern Command)
18.03.1937
-
23.11.1937
Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Armoured Fighting Vehicles), War Office (UK)
24.11.1937
-
26.09.1938
Director of Military Training, War Office (UK)
27.09.1938
-
08.12.1939
General Officer Commanding, The Mobile Division (Egypt),  03.09.1939 redesignated as: The Armoured Division (Egypt) [later: 7th Armoured Division]
09.03.1940
-
14.06.1946
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
14.02.1941
-
22.02.1942
General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division (UK) [except for 22.2-17.5.1942]
17.05.1942
-
15.10.1942
General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division
16.10.1942
-
31.08.1945
General Officer Commanding, 79th Armoured Division (UK, NW Europe)
01.09.1945
-
31.03.1946
Commandant, Specialised Armour Development Establishment (SADE) (Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Colonel Commandant Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), 01.05.1947-01.01.1952 (Rep. 1948-1951). Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 01.03.1949-15.10.1953.
Literature: Maj. K.J. Macksey. Armoured crusader : a biography of Major-General Sir Percy Hobart (London : Hutchinson, 1967)
Hobson,
Allan Holden
A.H. Hobson (British Army identity document, courtesy of the family) A.H. Hobson in later life (mid 1980s). (Photographer Mr John Tudehope, Auckland, NZ - courtesy of the family)
Son of Sydney James Hobson and Harriett Annie Raybould.
Married
Beth Mifanwy Whitten; four sons.
05.03.1914
Campsie, NSW, Australia
-
1994
NSW, Australia
Pte. 13.06.1940
L/Cpl. 14.10.1941
A/Cpl. 29.10.1941
Cpl. 13.11.1941, seniority 29.10.1941
Cadet 16.11.1942
2nd Lt. 13.03.1943 [267208]
WS/Lt. 13.09.1943 (reld 08.07.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 23.05.1946 Mediterranean Theatre (Cassino 05.44 ?)
13.06.1940 - 05.03.1943 enlisted service, Provost Corps - Territorial Army
13.06.1940 - 11.07.1940 17th Traffic Control Company (Huntington, Cambridge area)
11.07.1940 - 24.10.1941 posted to The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment
24.10.1941 - 26.01.1942 17th Company, Traffic Control Wing, Corps of Military Police (as his old unit was redesignated on 25.01.1941)
26.01.1942 - 22.06.1942 posted to 10th Company, Traffic Control Wing, Corps of Military Police (Wisbech)
22.06.1942 - 08.09.1942 attached to 70th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment
15.09.1942 - 16.11.1942 attached 148th Training Brigade
16.11.1942 - 05.03.1943 posted to 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
13.03.1943     commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
13.03.1943

16.06.1943
30.11.1943
13.12.1944
08.04.1946
-




08.07.1946




2nd Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
North Africa (British North Africa Forces)
Italy (Central Mediterranean Forces)
Greece (Central Mediterranean Forces)
returned from overseas
Became managing director of a series of ladies hairdressing salons in Sydney, returning to his pre-war occupation.
Hobson,
Philip Lindsey
P.L. Hobson

Son of ... Hobson, and ... Macphail.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
21.07.1920
Wareham district, Dorset
-
2012
USA
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 22.03.1941 [179223]
WS/Lt. 22.09.1942
T/Capt. 17.09.1943-08.01.1946
WS/Capt. 09.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 09.01.1946-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
      either 121st, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.03.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Hodge,
Francis Vere
F.V. Hodge F.V. Hodge (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Gerritsen)
F.V. Hodge F.V. Hodge
Only child of Rev. Roger Cuthbert Vere Hodge (1884-1975), and Juliette Borneque Peter (1885-1975), of Huntspill Rectory, Highbridge, Somerset, later of Tendring Rectory, Essex.
Married ((12?).1942, Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset) Eleanor Mary Connor, daughter of Mr & Mrs A.B. Connor, of Gwenfrenor, Burnham-on-Sea; two sons, one daughter. 

31.10.1919
Bere Regis, Wareham district, Dorset
-
15.12.2013
Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 22.02.1941 [172959]
WS/Lt. 22.08.1942 (reld 21.06.1952)
T/Capt. 13.05.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. 21.06.1952
Military Cross MC 23.12.1943 operations South of Catania, Sicily 14.07.43 [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 01.02.1945 Normandy [recommendation available upon request]
Education: Sherborne (1933.3-1935; exhibitioner); Worcester College, Oxford (MA, 1946; BA, 1946); Cuddesdon College (1946).
22.02.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1941 - 1943? 458th Independent Light Battery RA, 1942 renamed 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA
1943? - 1943? Combined Operations Bombardment course (Troon)
03.1943 - 1945? Forward Observation Officer, No. 1 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit (COBU) (Sicily, Tunisia, UK, Normandy)
Joined the clergy. Ordained deacon 1948, priest 1949 (Chichester). Curate of Battle, 1948-1954. Rector of Iping, with Chithurst, 1954-1958. Sequestrator & Curate-in-charge of Linch, 1954-1956; Rector, 1956-1958. Vicar of Kingswood, Surrey, 1958-1965. Vicar of Moorlinch with Stwaell and Sutton Mallet, Diocese Bath & Wells, 1965-1979. Chaplain to the Bombardment Units Association. Priest-in-charge of Lydeard St Lawrence with Combe Florey and Tolland, Bath & Wells, 1979-1984. Prebendary of Wells Cathedral, 1979. Retired 1984.
Hodge,
Richard Aubrey
R.A. Hodge
19.05.1907
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
28.07.1983
Orchard Close Nursing Home, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
29.05.1943 [277874]
WS/Lt.
29.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
29.05.1943
 
 
commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
Lloyds Underwriter.
Hodgkinson,
Peter
P. Hodgkinson
?
-
[10.2007 still alive]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
19.04.1941 [184024]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
A/Capt.
?
T/Capt.
22.10.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?
1946?
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe
Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star (France) CdeG
?
?
19.04.1941


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1944)
-
(1945)
146th Field Regiment RA (attached 7th Armoured Division) (NW Europe)
Hodgson,
Edward

E. Hodgson
?
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 02.08.1941 [198805]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Capt. ? (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. ?
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 06.05.1949 -
? - 02.08.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.08.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
21.10.1942     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
Hodgson,
William Frederick
"Joe"

W.F. Hodgson
W.F. Hodgson
05.12.1920
-
15.03.2013
Keswick, Cumbria
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 13.02.1943 [262425]
WS/Lt. 13.08.1943 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 03.09.1945-(12.1946)
A/Maj. ?
Military Cross MC 31.08.1944 Normandy 06.1944 *
General Service Medal GSM - -
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St ? ?
France & Germany Star Fr&G St ? ?
Defence Medal Def M ? ?
British War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
* On 6 Jun 44 Lieut. Hodgson held his platoon position with great gallantry & resource, although subjected to many attacks by greatly superior forces & inflicted at least 45 casualties on the enemy & 1 AFV knocked out. He so manoeuvred his platoon & personally led a counter-attack that the enemy was completely deceived as to his strength & positions & eventually withdrew. His own platoon suffered no casualties. Throughout all this time he was a constant example of courageous leadership & his cheerful disregard of danger was an inspiring example to his men.
[Recommended 09.06.1944 by Lt.Col. P.J. Luard, commanding 13th (Lancashire) Battalion The Parachute Regiment, endorsed 10.06.1944 by Brig. J.H.N. Poett, commanding 5th Parachute Brigade, 11.06.1944 by Maj.Gen. R.N. Gale, commanding 6th Airborne Division, 16.06.1944 by Lt.Gen. J.T. Crocker, commanding I Corps, 12.07.1944 by Lt.Gen. M.C. Dempsey, commanding 2nd Army, finally approved by Gen. B.L. Montgomery, commanding 21st Army Group.]
13.02.1943     commissioned, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
14.08.1943     transferred, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
(06.1944)     "A" Company, 13th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (MC)
Hodson,
Felix Ian
F.I. Hodson (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
19.01.1912
-
11.1989
2nd Lt. 30.12.1933 [62132]
... ...
Capt. 17.04.1939
WS/Maj. 06.07.1944
T/Lt.Col. 06.07.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. ?
30.12.1933     commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Territorial Army
... - ... ...
27.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
Hogan,
Henry Tanner
H.T. Hogan (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom Cross)
24.03.1900
Epsom, Surrey
-
08.02.1980
Old Catton, Norfolk
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 17.07.1919 [22766]
Lt. 17.07.1921
Capt. 17.07.1932
Maj. 01.08.1938 (half-pay 17.05.1947; disability) (retd 17.05.1947)
A/Lt.Col. 11.08.1941-10.11.1941
T/Lt.Col. 11.11.1941-22.04.1945
Hon. Lt.Col. 17.05.1947
17.07.1919     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)     14th Heavy Battery RA (Bombay, India)
(06.1933)     1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Blackdown)
01.01.1935 - 31.12.1938 Adjutant, 51st (London) Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Territorial Army) (Chelsea, London)
01.02.1942 - ? Commanding Officer, 3rd Indian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Malir Cantonment, India)
? - ? Commanding Officer, 147th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
Hogg,
Edgar George William
E.G.W. Hogg (Photo courtesy of Mr James Hogg) E.G.W. Hogg (Photo courtesy of Mr James Hogg)
E.G.W. Hogg
Son of William Lawrence Hogg (1891-1978), and Gladys Antrum (1896-1987).
Married (09.06.1945, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Joy Mary Somner Merryweather (18.09.1920 - ), daughter of Archibald Somner Merryweather (1887-1960), and Mary Edith Wood (1888-1962); two sons, three daughters.
20.11.1920
Belmont, Epsom district, Kent
-
17.05.2005
Trowbridge district, Wiltshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.03.1941 [177492]
WS/Lt. 15.09.1942
WS/Capt. 19.12.1945
T/Maj. 19.12.1945-(04.1946)
Lt. 14.09.1954, seniority 13.09.1951
Capt. 12.02.1955
Maj. ? (reld 31.07.1965)
      either 162nd, 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.03.1941     commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]
(04.1945) - (04.1946) The Northern Rhodesia Regiment (from 01.09.1944 Adjutant)
14.09.1954 - 17.09.1956 short service commission
17.09.1956 - 14.09.1962 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
14.09.1962 - 01.01.1964 Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army
01.01.1964 - 31.07.1965 short service commission [without pay and allowances from Army Funds]
Hogg,
John Chalmers
see: Indian Army officers' section  
Hogg,
R W
R.W. Hogg
?
-
?
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 03.05.1941
WS/Lt. 03.05.1941
T/Capt. 12.11.1943-(07.1945)
03.05.1941     commissioned, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission]
12.08.1943 - (07.1945) Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)
Hoggins,
Roden Kenneth
R.K. Hoggins (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Married ((06?).1940, Solihull district, Warwickshire) Frances Barbara Tippetts (05.06.1907 - 03.1994).
24.05.1908
Belvedere, Dartford district, Kent
-
04.1999
Worthing district, West Sussex
2nd Lt. 13.07.1934 [63310]
... ...
WS/Capt. ?
Capt. 07.05.1946, seniority 11.04.1945
Hon. Maj. ?
Mention in Despatches MID 09.05.1946 Burma
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 04.02.1949 -
Education: King Edward's School, Birmingham (1926).
      late Cadet Lance-Corporal, King Edward's School (Birmingham) Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
13.07.1934     commissioned, 8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Army
01.1940 - 06.1940 served in France & Belgium
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
10.1943     Home Forces
?     HQ 14th Army (South East Asia Command)
Hoile,
Eric Percy
"John"
E.P. Hoile

Son of ... Hoile, and ... White.
Married (Kent) ... Marshall.
(06?).1925
Thanet district, Kent
-
25.05.2004
Cherry Orchard, Bredwardine, Herefordshire
Cadet ? [14712104]
2nd Lt. 10.06.1945 [352656]
WS/Lt. 10.12.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
10.06.1945     commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
(1945)     served in Waziristan
Holbech,
Edward Ambrose
see: RAFVR officers' section  
Holbrook,
George William
G.W. Holbrook
?
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
31.08.1940 [145444]
WS/Lt.
01.03.1942
T/Capt.
01.10.1942
WS/Capt.
03.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Maj.
03.01.1944
T/Maj.
03.04.1944
31.08.1940


commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(09.1944)


seaborne echelon, 1st Airborne Divisional Signals ? ("Market-Garden")
Holbrook,
Julian St Clair
J.St.C. Holbrook
From Church Cookham, Hampshire.
07.08.1897
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985
2nd Lt.
22.04.1915 [11435]
Lt.
01.07.1917
A/Capt.
11.11.1918-15.12.1918
T/Capt.
15.09.1920-...
Capt.
22.05.1926
Maj.
15.11.1935
A/Lt.Col.
23.11.1940-22.02.1941
T/Lt.Col.
23.02.1941-31.07.1942
Lt.Col.
01.08.1942 (supernumerary 01.08.1945)
A/Col.
05.04.1943-04.10.1943
T/Col.
05.10.1943
Col.
04.06.1946, seniority 01.08.1945
A/Brig.
05.04.1943-04.10.1943
T/Brig.
05.10.1943-13.12.1949
Brig.
14.12.1949 (retd 14.12.1951)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE
21.12.1944
Italy
Military Cross MC
19.11.1917
*
Mention in Despatches MID
10.06.1921
Waziristan
Mention in Despatches MID
24.08.1944
?
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. While his battery was in action the ammunition at one of the gunpits was set on fire. He at once entered the gunpit and extinguished the fire. By his gallantry and coolness he prevented the destruction of the ammunition and the gun at great personal risk.
22.04.1915





commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Field Artillery)
11.11.1918
-
15.12.1918
Labourer Corps
11.07.1920
-
10.09.1920
RTO, Waziristan Force
15.09.1920
-
?
Assistant Embassy Staff Officer, India
(1921?)


No. 1 Special Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
(03.1931)


11th Field Brigade RA (Aldershot)
30.10.1931
-
16.09.1934
Adjutant, 11th Field Brigade RA (Aldershot)
(01.1937)


16th Field Brigade RA (Ewshott)
(01.1939)


1st Field Regiment RA (Nowshera, India)
27.11.1939
-
03.04.1940
Instructor in Gunnery, Home Forces
20.08.1940
-
22.11.1940
Instructor in Gunnery, Home Forces
(11.1942)


Commanding Officer, 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA (Western Desert [El Alamein])
(1943)
-
04.1945
Commander, 6th Army Group Royal Artillery (Sicily, Italy)
1945
-
?
Corps Commander RA, III Corps (Greece)
04.04.1949
-
14.12.1951
also: ADC to the King
14.12.1951
-
07.07.1957
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Holbrook,
Philip Norman Elston
P.N.E. Holbrook
Son of Sir Claude Vivian Holbrook (1886-1979), and Katherine Elizabeth Elston (1890-1966).
Married 1st (20.02.1943, Westminster district, London) Helen A. Stevens; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (19.01.1966, Chelsea district, London) Carolyn Anne Skyrme ((09?).1940 - ), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Sir William Thomas Charles Skyrme, and Hon. Barbara Suzanne Lyle (1915-1994); one daughter, one son.
20.05.1916
Oxshott, Epsom district, Surrey
-
06.08.1990
Long Sutton, Basingstoke, Surrey South Western district, Surrey
2nd Lt. 30.01.1936 [67155]
Lt. 30.01.1939
A/Capt. 01.06.1940-31.08.1940
T/Capt. 01.09.1940-16.04.1942
WS/Capt. 17.04.1942
Capt. 30.01.1944 (retd 06.09.1946; receiving a gratuity)
A/Maj. 17.01.1942-16.04.1942
T/Maj. 17.04.1942-08.12.1943,
24.01.1944-05.06.1944,
07.11.1944-06.09.1946
Hon. Maj. 06.09.1946
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (31.08.1934-12.1935).
30.01.1936     commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
25.05.1939     gained civil aviator's licence taken on D.H. Moth - Gypsy 1 - 85 h.p. at Hampshire Aeroplane Club
01.07.1940 - 22.10.1941 Adjutant, 9th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment [unit transformed into:]
11.1941? - ? Squadron Commander, 157th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
19.07.1944     transferred, 3rd The King's Own Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
1946? - 20.05.1966 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Holden,
Fred Alexander
F.A. Holden
1920 ?
-
Lt. 16.06.1945 [348785]
WS/Capt. 16.06.1946 (reld > 04.1947)
Capt. 22.11.1953, seniority 05.09.1951 (reld 17.05.1957)
Education: MB, BS (London, 1954); MRCS, LRCP (London, 1944); Dipl. Bacteriologist, University of London (1956).
16.06.1945     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
      served in Burma
22.11.1953 - 17.05.1957 commissioned, Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, University of Saskatchewan & Bacteriologist, University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada.
Holden,
John Reid
J.R. Holden (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
08.01.1913
-
18.04.1995
2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 [71215]
... ...
T/Maj. 12.03.1941-31.01.1942,
03.06.1942-08.06.1945,
12.07.1945-(01.1946)
... ...
Maj.Gen. 06.04.1962 (retd 17.05.1968)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 1965 ?
Companion of the Order of the British Empire CBE 1961 ?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.06.1953 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO 21.10.1941 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 08.07.1941 ?
28.01.1937     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment
... - ... ...
      7th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
27.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
Holden,
Leonard Arthur
L.A. Holden
12.1918
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 21.12.1940 [164637]
WS/Lt. 30.12.1941
T/Capt. 30.12.1941-18.04.1943
WS/Capt. 19.04.1943 (reld 07.08.1945; disability)
A/Maj. 19.01.1943-18.04.1943
T/Maj. 19.04.1943-07.08.1945
Hon. Maj. 07.08.1945
? - 21.12.1940 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940     commissioned, Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
01.08.1942     transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
      served in North Africa & Italy
Holden,
Ronald Brockett
R.B. Holden
Only son of the late Francis John Gerald Holden, and of Mrs Pawley, of Scarborough.
Married (09.1931) Sheila Irene Moore, only daughter of Frank Moore and the late Mrs Moore, of W.1, London.

From York.
(06?).1904
Scarborough district, Yorkshire - East Riding / Yorkshire - North Riding / North Yorkshire

-
Cadet
? [?]
2nd Lt.
13.09.1922 [7333]
20.04.1923, seniority 01.07.1922
Lt.
01.07.1925?
Capt.
01.04.1929
Maj.
18.02.1935 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.
15.08.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.
< 04.1946
Lt.Col.
01.05.1947
Bt. Col.
30.09.1950
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.12.1944
Italy
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1946
Mediterranean
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD
21.10.1943
-
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD
31.03.1950
3 clasps



late Cadet, Marlborough College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps

13.09.1922


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (73rd (Northumbrian) Field Brigade RA)
(03.1931)
-
(06.1933)
Battery Officer, 291st (1 North Riding) Battery, 73rd (Northumbrian) Field Brigade RA (Whitby)
?
-
10.12.1936
Officer Commanding, 291st (1 North Riding) Battery, 73rd (Northumbrian) Field Brigade RA (Middlesbrough)
10.12.1936
 
 
transferred, 62nd (North & East Riding) Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA
18.11.1936
-
01.11.1938
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [dated 04.05.1937, with effect from 18.11.1936]
01.11.1938
 
 
commissioned, Royal Tank Corps - Royal Armoured Corps (45th Battalion (West Yorkshire Regiment))
24.08.1939
 
 
mobilized TA
04.1943
-
(1944)
Commanding Officer, 51st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps (Western Desert & Italy)
10.01.1951
 -
1959?
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Honorary Colonel of a West Yorkshire Regiment TA unit, 14.06.1955. Deputy Lieutenant, West Riding of Yorkshire & York, 05.1959.
Holderness,
John Barry William
J.B.W. Holderness
Son of Barry Layton Holderness, MBE, and Emily Lizzie Teale, of London SW14.
Married 1st (16.10.1943, Bromley district, Kent) Judith Olive Baker, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs Edmund E. Baker, of Bromley, Kent.

Married 2nd (04.1984, Westminster district, London) Diana Rosemary Mallinson(03?).1921 - 03.12.2008), widow of Capt. William Broadbent Gordon Cran (1919-1972), and daughter of Mr & Mrs Dyson Mallinson, of Bournemouth.
(09?).1919
Richmond district, Surrey
-
2nd Lt. 28.12.1939 [102025]
WS/Lt. 28.06.1941
T/Capt. 07.05.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. 27.09.1945
T/Maj. 27.09.1945-(04.1946)
Education: Sherborne College (Harper House, 1933.3-1937); Weber's School, Bonn, Germany; Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA).
28.12.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Barrister-at-law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court; Partner law firms in London & Jersey.
Holderness,
Robert John
R.J. Holderness
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
27.04.1921
-
01.10.1969
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 24.10.1942 [249365]
WS/Lt. 24.04.1943
T/Capt. 29.06.1945-(01.1946),
23.01.1946--(04.1947)
1942 - 1942 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
24.10.1942     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
      5th Inniskilling Dragoons
His daughter writes: "I have been told that my father won the sword of honour at Sandhurst and moved from captain to Major during the time he served in Normandy, Belgium and Holland."
Holdich,
William Jeffkins
W.J. Holdich (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anita Hegdal)
Only son of Walter Stuart Holdich (1856-), and Gertrude Emily Jeffkins (1866-1959), of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
Married (11.07.1929, All Souls', Langham Place, St Marylebone district, London) Ellen Dorothy Wood (?-1981), only child of F.W. Wood, and Mrs Wood, of St Margarets-on-Thames.
Unmarried relationship with a Norwegian woman; two daughters.
14.07.1890
Kew, Richmond, Surrey
-
02.08.1957
Little Bendrose,Toys Hill, Tonbridge district, Kent
[St Paul's Churchyard, Four Elms, Kent]
Rfmn. 1910
T/2nd Lt. 22.12.1915
T/Lt. 01.06.1916
A/Capt. 18.01.1918
T/Capt. 18.07.1918
T/Maj. 04.03.1919
Maj. 11.11.1920 (dispersed 08.01.1920) (reld 23.12.1921)
Lt. 19.03.1940 [123079]
T/Capt. 13.08.1940-14.01.1942
WS/Capt. 15.01.1942
A/Maj. 15.10.1941-14.01.1942
T/Maj. 15.01.1942-27.08.1945
WS/Maj. 28.08.1945 (dispersed 24.12.1947) (reld 16.04.1954)
T/Lt.Col. 28.08.1945-24.12.1947
Hon. Lt.Col. 16.04.1954
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)
Officer  of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) [replaced by later version]
OBE 03.06.1919 HM's birthday 19: France
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mentioned in Despatches MID 30.12.1918 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID 10.07.1919 ?
King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway) Hkn 19.03.1948 ?
1910 - 1914 served in the ranks, Queen's Westminster Rifles - Territorial Force
22.12.1915     commissioned, 5th Battalion The Prince of Wales' s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) - Territorial Force
05.05.1916
05.05.1917
-
-
13.09.1916
08.01.1920
served in France:
1916 - 13.09.1916 served 1/5th & 3/5th Battalions, The Prince of Wales' s Own (wounded; left ankle broken by shell fire at the Somme)
1917     seconded, Garrison Guards
18.01.1918 - 18.11.1918 Adjutant, 79 Labour Group Headquarters (Labour Corps)
18.11.1918     Labour Superintendent (Assistant Controller of Labour), Labour Corps
25.01.1919     5th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
? - 04.03.1919 Assistant Labour Commandant
04.03.1919 - 08.01.1920 Assistant Controller of Labour, Labour General HQ, British Expeditionary Force (France)
11.11.1920     transferred, Territorial Force Reserve
19.03.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
19.03.1940     seconded, Edinburgh District HQ
13.08.1940     seconded, Command Supply Depot
15.10.1941     seconded, Aberdeen Sub-Area HQ
29.09.1943     seconded, Southern Command HQ
(04.1944)     seconded
14.06.1945 - 25.07.1947 served, Allied Land Forces in Norway
28.12.1945     Force Evacuation Staff, Norway
14.02.1946     1st British Liaison HQ
Eastern merchant (company director).
Holdsworth,
David
D. Holdsworth
(03?).1923 ?
Doncaster district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire / Yorkshire - West Riding ?
-
Cadet
? [14258581]
2nd Lt.
23.10.1943 [296201]
WS/Lt.
23.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mentioned in Despatches MID
10.05.1945
NW Europe
23.10.1943


commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
15.01.1944
-
30.06.1944
2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (UK & NW Europe)
01.07.1944
-
(09.1944)
Intelligence Officer, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)
Holdsworth,
Maurice Joseph
M.J. Holdsworth
13.12.1894
Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
11.1988
Deben district, Suffolk
Pte.
? [1778]
2nd Lt.
27.08.1915 [122639]
Lt.
27.05.1917
Capt.
? (retd 26.07.1923)
WS/Lt.
01.06.1940
WS/Capt.
01.06.1940-(04.1941)
Lt.
28.03.1941, reverted to this rank dated 01.03.1940
Capt.
22.12.1942 restored to this rank with seniority 01.06.1940
T/Maj.
18.08.1940-(04.1944)
T/Lt.Col.
?
Military Cross MC
03.06.1918
HM's birthday 18: for distinguished service in Italy
Mention in Despatches MID
04.04.1946
NW Europe



served in the ranks, London Regiment
27.08.1915


commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment
25.08.1918
 
 
seconded for service with the Indian Army (on probation) (with seniority as Lt. as from 27.05.1917)
30.09.1918
 
 
transferred (on probation), Indian Army
30.09.1919
 
 
transferred, Indian Army
01.03.1940
-
(1946?)
re-employed with the Pioneer Corps
Holdsworth,
Maurice Poole
M.P. Holdsworth

Son of George Holdsworth, and Mary Poole.
Married ((12?).1942, Birkenhead district, Cheshire) Noel Winifred Toolan (25.12.1919 - 11.1996); one son, one daughter.
26.07.1920
Ulverston district, Lancashire
-
03.05.1988
New Forest district, Hampshire
2nd Lt. 04.11.1941 [216286]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 11.07.1944-25.05.1946
WS/Capt. 26.05.1946 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj. 26.05.1946-(12.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE 01.01.1976 New Year 76: Chairman, Chamber of Shipping; for services to shipping
Education: BSc.
04.11.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Mechanical Maintenance Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
His daughter writes: "My father was awarded an MSc from Liverpool University shortly after the war. He did a lot of work on radar guided Bofors anti-aircraft guns during the war."
Holdsworth,
Michael
M. Holdsworth (Photo courtesy of Mrs Pam Freeman) M. Holdsworth (Photo courtesy of Mrs Pam Freeman)
M. Holdsworth  
Son (with three brothers and three sisters) of Frederick John Cropper Holdsworth (1887?-1951), and Mary Wilmot Harris Arundell (1891-1974).
Brother of Lt.Cdr. John Arundell Holdsworth, CVO, OBE, RN.

Married (1952) Jasmine Muntz.
From Totnes.
10.05.1918
Kingsbridge district, Devon
-
10.2012
Ashprington near Totnes, South Devon
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
25.08.1938 [77612]
Lt.
01.01.1941
A/Capt.
26.09.1941-25.12.1941
T/Capt.
26.12.1941-09.09.1944
WS/Capt.
10.09.1944
A/Maj.
10.06.1944-09.09.1944
T/Maj.
10.09.1944-24.08.1951
Maj.
25.08.1951 (retd 12.03.1958)
Military Cross MC 31.08.1944 Normandy 11.06.44 [investiture 16.03.45]
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)
25.08.1938


commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment
(01.1939)


attached to the Depot, The Devonshire Regiment
15.08.1939
-
1945?
served 2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (Malta (09.1939-03.1943), Kabret, Egypt (04.1943-06.1943), Sicily/Italy (07.1943-10.1943), UK (11.1943-06.1944), NW Europe (06.1944-05.1945))
10.06.1944
-
(09.1944)
Officer Commanding, "D" Company
Holdsworth,
Peter Wesley Arthur
P.W.A. Holdsworth
01.04.1923
-
11.2003
South Warwickshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
16.11.1941 [217648]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
Lt.
03.11.1945, seniority 01.10.1945
A/Capt.
19.08.1946-18.11.1946
T/Capt.
19.11.1946-31.03.1950
Capt.
01.04.1950
T/Maj.
14.02.1953-28.07.1955,
15.08.1955-31.03.1957
Maj.
01.04.1957
T/Lt.Col.
21.12.1964-29.06.1965
Lt.Col.
30.06.1965
Col.
30.06.1969
Brig.
30.06.1973 (retd 31.03.1978)
Education: jssc, psc
16.11.1941
 
 
commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 02.11.1945]

 
 
served in Burma
03.11.1945
 
 
permanent commission
08.03.1951
-
06.12.1951
Staff Captain, War Office
14.02.1953
-
30.06.1955
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ...



Officer Commanding, 6th Field Park Squadron RE
1960
-
07.1962
Officer Commanding, 26th Armoured Engineer Squadron RE
01.08.1962
-
17.08.1964
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Commander-in-Chief's Defence Secretariat, HQ Middle East Command
28.08.1954
-
30.11.1964
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
Holdsworth,
Tyrrell Arthur
T.A. Holdsworth
Son of ... Holdsworth, and ... Carter-Clout.
08.11.1917
Reigate district, Surrey
-
05.1994
Ipswich district, Suffolk
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
15.12.1939 [109039]
WS/Lt.
15.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.
25.05.1943-(04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
23.03.1944
Sicily
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe
?
-
14.12.1939
Honourable Artillery Company (162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit)
15.12.1939


commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
16.02.1940
-
20.07.1944
2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
21.07.1944
-
(09.1944)
..., 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment ( NW Europe [09.1944 not present with unit])
Holgate,
William Townley
W.T. Holgate
Married ((12?).1944) Helen Lancaster; one daughter, two sons.
09.05.1911
Blackburn district, Lancashire
-
(09?).1975
Stockport district
Pte.
1939
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
12.10.1940 [151526]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.
09.09.1943-(04.1946)
Capt.
09.10.1951
Maj.
08.11.1954
EM
28.11.1947
-
39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Italy Star It St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
Defence Medal Def M ? ?
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
(04.1940)


served in the ranks (Norway campaign)



(9th RE Batch) 141st Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.10.1940


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]



served in North Africa (El Alamein)



served with the airbornes (trained at Ringway, Manchester) 
[took perhaps even part in the Arnhem operation, but this is unconfirmed]
09.10.1951
-
01.07.1955
Territorial Army
01.07.1955
-
09.05.1961
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Holland,
Kenneth Archibald
"Ken"
K.A. Holland
Son (with one sister [who married Lt. George Russell Wheeler, OBE, MM]) of Archibald Kerly Holland (1870-1934), and Madeline Clay (1883-1951).
Married (03.12.1949, St Martin's Church, Broadmayne, nr Dorchester) Elizabeth Margaret Atkinson (22.10.1918 - 15.10.1999); no children.
07.08.1905
Dorchester, Dorset
-
23.11.1998
Dorchester County Hospital, South Dorset district, Dorset
2nd Lt. 12.03.1930 [44587]
Lt. 12.03.1933
Capt. 01.06.1939 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Maj. ?
Hon.Maj. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 12.04.1945 -
      late Cadet Corporal, Dorchester Grammar School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.03.1930     commissioned, 4th Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
18.10.1947 - 28.09.1955 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
District valuer.
Hollebone,
James Charles
J.C. Hollebone (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son of Ralph Chevalier Hollebone, and Adela Jean Macalister.
Brother of Capt. Keith Somers Hollebone, The London Scottish.
Married (21.10.1939, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London) Phoebe Rollo Howitt, of Victoria, London; one son.
19.07.1913
Hampstead, Middlesex
-
05.09.1944
[age 31]
[Gradara War Cemetery, Italy, I.A.17]
Pte. ?
2nd Lt. 27.05.1939 [87896]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
A?/Capt. ?
Education: Brighton College.
27.05.1939     commissioned, The London Scottish - The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(08.1942)     1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)
Hollebone,
Keith Somers
K.S. Hollebone (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son of Ralph Chevalier Hollebone, and Adela Jean Macalister.
Brother of Capt. James Charles Hollebone, The London Scottish.

Married (20.11.1943, Radcliffe, Bristol, Gloucestershire) Elinor H. Todd; one daughter, one son.
13.09.1918
Wellington, Shropshire
-
07.1991
West Oxford
Pte. ?
2nd Lt. 03.06.1939 [87897]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
T/Capt. (1945?)
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
Education: Brighton College.
03.06.1939     commissioned, The London Scottish - The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(08.1942)     1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)
Hollerton,
Charles Bertram
C.B. Hollerton (Photo courtesy of Clare Hollerton)
Son of ... Hollerton, and ... Hill.
Married ((06?).1947, Cannock district, Staffordshire) Eileen M. Griffiths; ... children (one daughter?).
28.05.1919
Kings Norton district, Warwickshire
-
(03?).1982
Hertford & Ware district, Hertfordshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 17.08.1940 [145109]
WS/Lt. 17.02.1942
T/Capt. 16.12.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt. ?
Capt. 09.07.1951, seniority 30.11.1950
Maj. 26.07.1958
2nd Lt. 30.07.1964, seniority 26.02.1945
Lt. 30.07.1964, seniority 26.02.1947
Capt. 30.07.1964, seniority 26.02.1951
Maj. 30.07.1964, seniority 26.07.1958 (retd 23.09.1973)
? - 17.08.1940 either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.08.1940     commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
? - 06.1942 Carrier Platoon, 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment (wounded at Tobruk; evacuated to Egypt)
27.09.1942     transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch
09.07.1951     short service commission
30.07.1964     limited service regular commission
Holleyman,
John Arnold
J.A. Holleyman (Photo courtesy of Bob Whitman Holleyman) J.A. Holleyman (Photo courtesy of Bob Whitman Holleyman)

Eighth and youngest child (with four sisters and three brothers)  of George Henry Holleyman (1873-1940), and Thirza Glenister Woodger (1874-1945).
Brother of Col. Oswald Whitman Holleyman, OBE.
Married (24.04.1951, Christ Church, Bridlington, Buckrose district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Florence May Hodgson (22.05.1909 - 01.1996).
12.03.1916
Kensington, London
-
01.1986
Wayland district, Norfolk
Tpr. ?
Sgt. 1939
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 30.11.1940 [158631]
WS/Lt. 30.05.1942 (demobilized > 12.1946, < 04.1947) (reld 10.05.1952)
T/Capt. 14.03.1946-(12.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 12.1946, < 04.1947
39|45 St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 17.06.1949 -
01.09.1939     enlisted
      either 122nd, 123rd or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.11.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      36th Battery, 12th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
      served with 7th Indian Division (Burma); during the Siege of Imphal, he caught typhus and was invalided out of active service
Holleyman,
Oswald Whitman
"Os" / "Osie"
O.W. Holleyman (Photo courtesy of Bob Whitman Holleyman) O.W. Holleyman (Photo courtesy of Bob Whitman Holleyman)
Son (with four sisters and three brothers) of George Henry Holleyman (1873-1940), and Thirza Glenister Woodger (1874-1945).
Brother of Capt. John Arnold Holleyman.
Married 1st ((12?).1934, Kensington district, London) Christine Dorothy Kite (10.02.1910 - 04.1997), daughter of John George Kite (1877-), and Frances Clara Cranfield (1871-1948); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((06?).1946, Ipswich district, Suffolk) Joan M. Bedwell.
Residence: (1946) Barnes, Surrey.
08.07.1910
Notting Hill, Kensington district, London
-
04.1993
Kings Lynn district, Norfolk
2nd Lt. 14.06.1933 [56055]
Lt. 14.06.1936
Capt. 04.05.1938
T/Maj.. 15.02.1941-17.11.1942
WS/Maj.. 18.11.1942
Maj.. 01.05.1947, seniority 08.07.1944 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 18.11.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Lt.Col. 01.08.1950
Bt. Col. 01.08.1953
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 06.06.1946 Burma [recommendation available upon request]
39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Coronation Medal 1953 Cor M - -
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 30.05.1947 -
14.06.1933 - 1940 commissioned, 11th London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles); 15.12.1935 transferred to Royal Artillery when unit was conversed as Anti-Aircraft Brigade
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
1940 - 1940 instructor in a training regiment
1940 - 1940 battery commander, Anti-Aircraft Command (Stanmore)
1940 - 1941 posted, Royal West African Frontier Force (took part in Allied campaigns which overthrew the Italian colonies of Somaliland and Abyssinia)
1941 - 1943 Garrison Commander, Accra, Gold Coast & as Director of Air Raid Precaution Service, Accra
1943 - 1944 served India & Burma
10.1944 - 01.1945 Commanding Officer, 21st Anti-Tank Regiment West African Artillery Burma)
01.08.1950 - 01.08.1953 Commanding Officer, 512th Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiment RA - TA (Islington)
25.09.1953 - ? Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Holleyman,
Wilfred Frank
W.F. Holleyman (Photo courtesy of Bob Whitman Holleyman) W.F. Holleyman (Photo courtesy of Bob Whitman Holleyman)

Son (with three brothers and two sisters) of Frank Wilfred Holleyman (1892-1949), and Winifred Sarah Eldridge (1898-1981).
Married (14.06.1947, Église de St Eugène, Algiers, Algeria) Yvette Gisele Morra (19.07.1924 - 01.04.2015), daughter (with two sisters) of Firmin Marius Morra (1886-1966), and Melanie Andres (1887-1973); one daughter, one son.
15.10.1916
Highgate, Islington district, London
-
14.02.1978
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
2nd Lt. 31.03.1944 [318443]
WS/Lt. 30.09.1944 (reld 02.1946)
Hon. Lt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Italy Star It St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM ? -

French "Battle of Dunkirk Commemorative Medal"

1936     enlisted, No. 8 (London) Hygiene Company, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939 - 1943 mobilized TA - 14 Field Hygiene Section RAMC (44th (Home Counties) Division) (UK, France, UK, North Africa)
1943 - 1945? 3rd Entomological Field Unit (Italy)
31.03.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps (Non-Medical Section) [emergency commission]
Holliman,
Charles Alexander
"Gus"
C.A. Holliman C.A. Holliman
Son of Charles and Mary Holliman.
Husband of Peggie Eileen Holliman, of Sheringham, Norfolk.
Residence: (1942/43) Sheffield; (1945) Pwllheli.
26.05.1917
-
21.01.1945
(KIA) [age 27]
[Nederweert War Cemetery (The Netherlands), III.A.6]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
28.01.1937 [71224]
Lt.
28.01.1940
T/Capt.
?
Capt.
28.01.1945 (notification cancelled 06.03.1945)
T/Maj.
?
WS/Maj.
20.10.1942
T/Lt.Col.
20.10.1942-21.01.1945
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.03.1945
NW Europe [presented in the field by Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery 11.44]
Military Cross MC
24.02.1942
Middle East
Military Cross MC
19.08.1943
Middle East
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst
28.01.1937


commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [later: Royal Tank Regiment], Royal Armoured Corps
(01.1939)
 
 
1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt)



1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
09.1940
-
08.1942
served Long Range Patrol Unit (LRPU) & Long Range Desert Group (LRDG)



Officer Commanding, LRDG (Rhodesian) S1
(1944)
-
21.01.1945
Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
Hollington,
Robert Luckett
R.L. Hollington
Son of Joseph James Luckett Hollington, and of Marie Stuart Hollington, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
1914 ?
-
27.03.1942
(MIA) [age 26]
[Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar, face 12]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
12.07.1941 [197176]
12.07.1941


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?
-
27.03.1942
1st Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (Burma)
Hollins,
Peter Roland Claude
R.M. Rickards (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom Pearson-Chisman)
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Lt.Cdr. Douglas Foster Hollins, RNVR (1887-1976), and Stella Maude Banks (1889-), of Westwood, Esher.
Married 1st (03.10.1942, St Paul's Cathedral, Ranchi, Bihar) Eva E. Mitchem, QAIMNSR ((12?).1920 - ), younger daughter of Sidney John Mitchem, and ... Palmer, of Bournemouth.
Married 2nd ((06?).1948, Westminster district, London) Christine Sybil Wetenhall (04.07.1922 - 09.1999), daughter of James Percy Wetenhall, and Sybil Frances Gardiner; two sons.
Residence: (1949) Oxshott, Surrey.
20.11.1917
Kingston district, Kent
-
03.2005
Horsham district, Sussex
Tpr. ?
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 04.05.1940 [130251]
WS/Lt. 04.11.1941 (reld 25.06.1946; disability)
T/Capt. 20.03.1944-25.06.1946
Hon. Capt. 25.06.1946
Education: Malvern College (House 4; 1931.3-1936; Sci. V; House Prefect).
      102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.05.1940     commissioned, The Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
Holloway,
Roland David
W.J.V. Holloway
Son (with one brother) of Roland Eveleigh Holloway (1882-1966), and Mabel Marie Chinchen Essex (1884-1952), of Wimbledon Common.
Married (20.09.1935, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Nancy Briant Evans (24.05.1911 - 09.07.1981), daughter (with three brothers) of Arthur Henry Evans (1872-1950), and Dorothy Briant (1887-1983), of Hampstead; three sons, one daughter.
26.12.1909
Wandsworth, St Marylebone district, London
-
02.01.1987
Reading, Berkshire
Lt. 01.05.1939 [87776]
WS/Capt. 01.05.1940
T/Maj. 07.05.1943-12.06.1944
WS/Maj. 13.06.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 24.07.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 Middle East 02.41-07.41
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 -
Education: Leyse School; Cambridge & St George's Hospital (BA, 1931; MA, 1938); MB, BChir 1937; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond, 03.05.1934.
General practitioner, Deddington, Oxfordshire, 1935-1939.
      late Cadet-Serjeant, Leys School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
01.05.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
      served in France (early 1940), Egypt [16th General Hospital, Cairo] (Nov. 1940), then Sudan & Palestine, returning to the UK (Crookham) in the winter of 1944
? - 26.12.1954 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
General practitioner (Boake, Holloway & Hood), Ockley, Surrey, 1947-1972. Took up farming. Honorary Medical Officer, Horsham Hospital. Lecturer on General Practice at St George's Hospital Medical School. House physician St James Hospital (LCC) Balham. Reserve Obstetric Assistant St George's Hospital.
Holloway,
Walter John Vere
W.J.V. Holloway (Photo courtesy of Mr Jon de Gray)
Son of Walter William Holloway (1883-1959), and Olive May Shelton (1888-1970).
Married 1st ((06?).1941, Hendon district, Middlesex) Margaret M. Ely.
Married 2nd ((06?).1954, Hartismere district, Suffolk) ... Fitch (née Driver).
29.04.1916
Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire / Huntingdonshire / Lincolnshire / Northamptonshire
-
(09?).1977
Thanet district, Kent
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 07.03.1942 [229400]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt. 01.08.1944-(04.1946)
University student.
(09.1941)     14 Platoon, 3 Company, Officers' Training School, Bangalore
07.03.1942     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
Hollowell,
Walter James
W.J. Hollowell (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith D. Tubby)
Son of Walter Ernest Hollowell, and Lilian May Hollowell (née Allen), of Ipswich, Suffolk.
(12?).1910
Mutford district, Norfolk / Suffolk
-
15.02.1942
[age 31]
[Singapore Memorial, Myanmar, column 53]
2nd Lt.
04.04.1929 [41824]
Lt.
04.04.1932
Capt.
22.05.1935
T/Maj.
15.12.1940-15.02.1942
Education: Framlingham College (1919-1927)



late Cadet Serjeant, Framlingham College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps

04.04.1929
-
27.03.1942
commissioned, 4th Battalion The Suffolk Regiment - Territorial Army (24.08.1939 mobilized TA) (possibly killed by the Japanese at Singapore Hospital)
Hollwey,
James Bell
J.B. Hollwey

Married (1920) Annie Alice Duxbury Hewat (born 1893); four daughters, two sons.
c. 1895 ?
-
Prob. 2nd Lt.
01.10.1912 [5562]
Lt.
?
A/Capt.
?
Capt.
08.08.1916
Maj.
26.02.1922 (retd 11.09.1945)
T/Lt.Col.
15.08.1942-(06.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.
11.09.1945
Military Cross MC
04.06.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
09.08.1945
NW Europe
Legion d'Honneur, 5th Class (France) LegH
01.05.1917
?
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St - & Clasp
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -



late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Exeter School Contingent, Officers Training Corps
 01.10.1912


commissioned, Royal Field Artillery, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers



served France & Belgium (09.1914-12.1914 & 01.1915-11.1915), Asia Minor (11.1915-11.11.1918)
24.02.1924
-
11.09.1945
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] (24.08.1939 mobilized)
15.08.1942
-
23.09.1943
Commanding Officer, 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
Hollyman,
Ernest Guy
"Ernie"

E.G. Hollyman (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Hollyman-Mawson)
Son (with five brothers and four sisters) of George Burnell Hollyman (1876-1946), and Hester Mabel Churchill Sweet (1881-1951).
Married ((12?).1945, Aldershot, Hampshire) Amy Alice Mary Fawn (02.11.1915 - 07.01.2007).
09.03.1912
Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
-
10.1999
West Surrey district, Surrey
Tpr. 1930
Sgt. ?
Lt. 13.04.1940 [126899] (reld > 04.1947)
A/Capt. 06.06.1942-(07.1944)
T/Capt. 01.06.1946-(04.1947)
39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
1930     enlisted, 7th Queen's Own Hussars
13.04.1940     commissioned, 7th Queen's Own Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] (wounded & captured at Tobruk 1942)
      Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (Northern Ireland & Egypt)
1942?     5th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (North Africa) [wounded & captured at Tobruk]
1942 - 1945 POW in Italian & German captivity
25.10.1945     transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch)
A relative writes: "I was told by another relative that he was wounded again when allied aircraft bombed his camp in Germany (which one, I wonder, of the 120 approx?), and whilst they were playing soccer the football landed near the fence. Another officer asked permission to fetch it; so the soldier in the watchtower gave his permission. It happened again; so the same officer ran to fetch it again without asking; so the German in tower shot and killed him. Ernest, might have been repatriated by the Germans due to his wounds but I have no evidence to support this assumption."
Holm,
Andrew Mackie
A.M. Holm (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)
1897
Cathcart, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
1970
Troon district, Ayrshire, Scotland
2nd Lt. 15.10.1915 [86996]
Lt. ? (reld 04.11.1919; ill-health caused by wounds)
A/Capt. 14.09.1918
Capt. 01.04.1939 (retd 01.09.1948)
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 -
Education: The Glasgow Academy (1907-1914).
15.10.1915 - 04.11.1919 5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
01.04.1939 - 28.06.1939 commissioned, 4th/5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
28.06.1939     Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
      6th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
? - 05.1940 Officer Commanding, HQ Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (captured)
28.05.1940 - 13.04.1945 POW (No. 709) in German captivity (Oflag IX-A/Z, Rotenburg an der Fulda)
Holme,
Henry Atkinson
"Jumbo"
H.A. Holme (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)
20.04.1895
West Ward district, Westmorland
-
15.09.1963
Glasgow, Scotland (formerly of High Greenan, Ayr)
2nd Lt. 01.05.1917
... ...
Maj. 01.08.1938 (retd 28.05.1947)
T/Lt.Col. 03.01.1942-12.09.1945
Hon. Lt.Col. 28.05.1947

OBE

01.05.1917     commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(07.1939)     2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
07.1940 - 09.1940 Commanding Officer, 4/5th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
DL, JP.
Holmes,
Charles
C. Holmes (Photo: www.mccaskie.org.uk)
From Rathlin Island.
Married (1952) Catherine Mary Smith (1911-1983).
28.10.1894
-
1981
[Urney Graveyard, Co. Tyrone]
T/2nd Lt.
19.12.1916-18.06.1918
T/Lt.
19.06.1918-03.06.1920
Lt. & Paym.
04.06.1920
Capt. & Paym.
04.06.1925
Maj. & Staff Paym.
14.08.1928
Lt.Col. & Staff Paym.
14.08.1933
Lt.Col. & Staff Paym. 1st class
12.05.1938
A/Col.
28.12.1945-(04.1946)
Col. & Chief Paym.
11.01.1950 (retd 26.11.1954)
Hon. Brig.
26.11.1954
Military Cross MC
16.09.1918
*
Military Cross MC
01.02.1919
**
British War Medal; Victory Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. One night this officer, with 12 men and a party of infantry, captured two machine guns, holding at bay a large body of the enemy who nearly cut them off, and successfully extricating the whole of his men with but few casualties.
** For conspicuous gallantry and able leadership south-east of Dadizeele in September, 1918. He led a platoon against a wood strongly held by machine guns and about 100 men, clearing it at the point of the bayonet and accounting for at least fifty men and three machine guns. Although wounded himself, he continued encouraging his men against heavy odds.



served in the ranks for 109 days
28.02.1917
-
11.11.1918
served in France & Belgium (wounded twice)
28.03.1919
-
04.11.1919
Adjutant, Service Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
04.06.1920


commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps
(03.1931)


served at Eastern Command
(06.1933)


served at Barnet
(01.1937)


Assistant Command Paymaster, Scottish Command (Edinburgh)
(01.1939)


served at Woking
?
-
(04.1941)
Command Paymaster, Gibraltar
01.05.1943
-
(04.1944)
District Paymaster, Northern Ireland Command (Lisburn, Co. Antrim)
Retired to his farm at Ballybogan, 1954.
Holt,
Benjamin
"Ben"
B. Holt (Photo courtesy of Mr David Holt)
Son of Frederick Holt, and Ethel Thompson.
From Wallasey.
Married (13.09.1941, Wallasey distrct, Cheshire / Merseyside) Daphne M.L. Rippon ((06?).1919 - ), daughter of Frederick Ernest Rippon, and Leonara Dean Stowell; two sons.
29.10.1916
-
03.1998
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
2nd Lt. 10.01.1943 [258439]
WS/Lt. 10.07.1943
A/Capt. 29.12.1943-(04.1944)
T/Capt. ?
WS/Capt. 03.01.1946
T/Maj. 03.01.1946-(04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 24.01.1946 NW Europe
10.01.1943     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(1944) - (1945) Adjutant, 49th (West Riding) Infantry Divisional Signals (NW Europe) (MBE)
Assistant General Manager, Mersey Docks & Harbour Company. Ports Officer, Regional Seat of Government, North West retired 1977.
Holtom,
John Edward Brunwell
J.E.B. Holtom (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
21.06.1921 ?
-
07.2003 ?
Sandwell, West Midlands ?
2nd Lt. 09.09.1943 [269827]
WS/Lt. 09.03.1944
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
09.09.1943     commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
Homer,
John Arthur
J.A. Homer J.A. Homer
Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Walter Howard Homer (1884-1967), and Mary Jane Brady (1884-1962).
Married (20.12.1941, The Register Office, Derby, Derbyshire) Mabel Tomkinson (21.02.1917 - 26.06.2008); three daughters.
22.11.1916
Walsall, Staffordshire
-
07.1995
Walsall, West Midlands
2nd Lt. 25.06.1945 [350128]
WS/Lt. 25.06.1945
T/Capt. 25.09.1945-(04.1947)
WS/Capt. 1947? (reld 14.12.1947)
T/Maj. 1947?
Hon Maj. 14.12.1947 & 01.05.1961
Capt. 29.01.1949, seniority 01.07.1947
Chemist.
25.06.1945     commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
29.01.1949 - 30.11.1951 commissioned, Intelligence Corps - Territorial Army
01.12.1951 - 01.05.1961 Supplementary Reserve of Officers, renamed: Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
Honeybourne,
Cecil Travers
C.T. Honeybourne (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) C.T. Honeybourne (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

Son of Col. Harry Cecil Honeybourne (?-1971), CBE, of The Gables, Hythe, Kent.
Married (1940) Elizabeth Mary Woodsend (? - 24.01.2006), daughter of Dr R.N. Woodsend, of Catterick, Yorkshire; two sons, two daughters.
18.04.1913
-
died before 2006
2nd Lt. 02.02.1933 [58058]
Lt. 02.02.1936
A/Capt. 08.11.1939-07.02.1940
T/Capt. 08.02.1940-01.02.1941
Capt. 02.02.1941
A/Maj. 02.05.1941-01.08.1941
T/Maj. 02.08.1941-01.02.1942,
27.05.1942-27.01.1944
WS/Maj. 28.01.1944
Maj. 01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col. 28.10.1943-27.01.1944
T/Lt.Col. 28.01.1944-01.02.1948,
07.11.1951-31.03.1954
Lt.Col. 01.04.1954 (Supernumerary 01.04.1957)
T/Col. 14.02.1957-19.02.1958
Col. 20.12.1958 (Supernumerary 20.02.1964)
T/Brig. 15.11.1961-19.02.1962
Brig. 20.02.1962 (retd 10.06.1968)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 21.12.1944 Italy [citation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 24.08.1944 Italy
NW Frontier of India 1936-47 Medal & Clasp.
Education: Blundells School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; nadc, jssc, psc.
02.02.1933     commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals
... - ... ...
02.11.1940 - 30.01.1942 Instructor, Officer Cadet Training Unit Wing, Royal Signals Base Depot School Middle East
31.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
27.05.1942 - 18.12.1942 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Middle East Training Centre
28.10.1943 - (05.)1944 Commander, 5th Divisional Signals (OBE, dispatches)
10.06.1944 - 20.05.1945 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
28.06.1945 - 10.11.1947 Commandant (Lt.Col.) Army Signal School India
08.03.1948 - 28.09.1949 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG) (Maintenance), HQ HC District
03.11.1949 - 08.04.1951 Chief Instructor, Royal Signals Wing, School of Signals
07.11.1951 - 31.03.1954 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Plans), British Joint services Mission, Washington, DC, USA
01.04.1954 - 05.07.1954 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Plaaning Team "B" secondment to Ministry of Defence
14.02.1957 - 03.03.1960 Colonel General Staff (Training), HQ Allied Land Forces Central Europe
14.03.1960 - 19.09.1961 Colonel General Staff (D/S), NATO Defence College
15.11.1961 - 22.02.1963 Chief Staff Officer (Brig.), NEARELF
27.03.1963 - 18.01.1965 Commander R & L Staff, HQ Northern Command
15.02.1965 - 1968 Deputy Commandant (Brig.), NATO Defence College
14.08.1964 - 1968 also ADC to HM the Queen
Honeyman,
George Eric Ballingall
G.E.B. Honeyman
11.06.1897
Blairgowrie district, Perthshire, Scotland
-
15.11.1962
Anwoth district, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
[his ashes were scattered at Ornockenoch House, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas, Scotland]
2nd Lt.
27.10.1916 [13077]
Lt.
27.04.1918
Capt.
18.05.1930
Maj.
01.08.1938 (retd 26.10.1947)
A/Lt.Col.
29.04.1940-10.06.1945
Hon. Lt.Col.
26.10.1947
Distinguished Service Order DSO
11.10.1945
in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field
Mention in Despatches MID
28.12.1918
?
World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal
27.10.1916


commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
19.03.1917
-
11.11.1918
served in France & Belgium
(03.1931)


1st Battalion The Black Watch (Meerut)
01.01.1933
-
31.12.1935
Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Meerut)
(01.1937)


2nd Battalion The Black Watch (Glasgow)
23.12.1937
-
03.04.1940
Brigade Major, 153rd (Black Watch and Gordon) Infantry Brigade (Aberdeen)
29.04.1940
-
12.06.1940
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Black Watch (France; captured at St Valery-en-Caux)
12.06.1940
-
1945
POW in German captivity
Contributor to the 1944 book ‘Backwater – Oflag  IXA/H’
Hood,
Sir Alexander
A. Hood A. Hood
A. Hood A. Hood
 
Son of Alexander Hood, of Trinity, Edinburgh.
Married 1st, Evelyn Dulcia Ellwood, CStJ (1887 - 12.01.1971), daughter of George Ellwood, of Kensington; one son (Lt.Cdr. Alexander Hugo Evelyn Hood, RN), two daughters.
Married 2nd, Mrs Helen Winifred Wilkinson, of Hamilton, Bermuda.

25.09.1888
Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
11.09.1980
Bermuda
Lt.
26.01.1912 [18164]
...
...
Col.
20.06.1939, seniority 01.05.1937
A/Brig.
20.07.1940-15.08.1940,
05.10.1940-10.02.1941,
01.03.1941-27.03.1941
T/Brig.
28.03.1941-31.07.1941
Maj.Gen.
01.08.1941
Lt.Gen.
01.08.1941 (supernumerary 01.08.1945)

GBE 1946 (CBE 1939); KCB 1943 (CB 1942); KCVO 1953
MID 26.07.1940 & 20.12.1940
26.01.1912


commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps
...
-
...
...
03.09.1939
-
30.06.1940
Deputy Director of Medical Services, British Expeditionary Force
20.07.1940
-
15.08.1940
Deputy Director of Medical Services, Scottish Command
01.03.1941
-
31.07.1941
Deputy Director General, Army Medical Services, War Office (London)
01.08.1941
-
1948
Director General, Army Medical Services, War Office (London)
01.08.1941
-
?
also: King's Honorary Physician
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda (1949-04.1955).
Hood,
Rev. Canon Dr. John Charles Fulton
J.C.F. Hood
First son of the Rev. John Fulton Hood, BA, and Maria Christina du Plat Hood (née Richardson Griffiths), of Craigweil-on-Sea, Bognor Regis, Sussex.
Brother of Paym.Capt. Basil Frederick Hood, RN.
Married (1920) Helen Patuffa Kennedy­Fraser (collector and singer of Songs of the Hebrides); two daughters, one son (Lt. John Kennedy Hood, killed in North Africa, 1943.
02.12.1884
Stockport, Cheshire
-
19.12.1964
[Battle, Sussex ?]
T/Chaplain to the Forces, 4th class (T/Capt.)
15.05.1915 [18768]
Chaplain to the Forces, 4th class (Capt.)
24.07.1921
Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd class (Maj.)
27.09.1931
Hon. Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd class (Hon. Lt.Col.)
01.01.1937 (reld 02.12.1944)
T/Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd class (T/Lt.Col.)
01.04.1942-02.12.1944
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD
28.03.1939
?

Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon, 1949.

Education: St John's, Leatherhead (1896-1902); Christ's College, Cambridge (Tancred Student). BA (Class and Theol. Hons) 1905, MA 1909; Durham BD, 1922; DD 1943.
Curate of Nottingham Parish Church, 1907-1911; Leeds Parish Church, 1911-1915; CF (BEF), 1915-1918; Vicar of St Barnabas, Leeds, 1917-1923; Garstang, 1923-1932; on Lancs Education Commission and diocese Inspector of Schools; Rector of Keighley,
1932-1945.
15.05.1915
-
1945
commissioned, [Royal] Army Chaplains' Department - Territorial Army
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
1940


Chief Chaplain British Forces in Norway
1940
-
1941
Chief Chaplain British Forces in Iceland
(04.1941)


Senior Chaplain
1942
-
02.12.1944
Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General to the Forces
Rector of Nuneham Courtenay, 1945-1947; Rector of Moulton (Suffolk) and Kennett (Cambs.), 1947-1956; Canon in Bradford Cathedral, Rural Dean of Craven, Surrogate, Chaplain to High Sheriff of Yorks (Sir Prince Prince­Smith, Bt). Founder and Editor of The Midnight Sun (Troops' newspaper in Norway and Iceland).
Published: An Account of St Mary's Church, Nottingham, 1910; An Account of Garstang Parish Church, 1929; An Account of Keighley Parish Church, 1936; A Soldier's Breastplate, 1939; Icelandic Church Saga, 1946; Contributor to The Times, Yorkshire Post, etc.
Hood,
John Kennedy
J.C.F. Hood
Son of the Revd. Canon John Charles Fulton Hood, MA, DD, TD, and Helen Petuffa Hood, of Moulton Rectory, Suffolk.
1921
-
29.09.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria, VII.A.II]
2nd Lt.
18.04.1942 [232588]
WS/Lt.
?
18.04.1942


commissioned, The Rifle Brigade [emergency commission]
?
-
29.09.1943
2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade
Hook,
William Thomson
W.T. Hook
?
-
2nd Lt.
27.11.1939 [106257]
WS/Lt.
27.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
20.06.1946
distinguished services in the field
27.11.1939
    commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
(1940)
 
 
9th Battalion The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (France)
Hooper,
Robert Stanley Edmed
R.S.E. Hooper (Photo courtesy of Mr Bruce Hooper)
Younger son of Mr & Mrs F.E. Hooper, of Madras, India.
Married 1st (04.01.1938, St George's Cathedral, Madras, India; marriage dissolved 30.01.1958) Sybil Crawford, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs F.M. Crawford, of Craigieburn, Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, late of Hong Kong.
Married 2nd (15.02.1958) Joan Cross; ... children (one son?).
1910
Madras, India
-
29.04.1979
Isle of Man
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 24.08.1940 [145510]
WS/Lt. 24.02.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
? - 24.08.1940 either 122nd, 123rd, 125th or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.08.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      seconded, Indian Army
Hope,
Adrian Price Webley
A.P.W. Hope
Son of late Adm. Herbert Willes Webley Hope, CB, CVO, DSO, and Katherine, youngest daughter of Rev. Francis
Kewley.
Married (09.09.1958) Mary Elizabeth (died 28.05.1990), eldest daughter of Graham Partridge, Cotham Lodge, Newport, Pembrokeshire;
no children.

21.01.1911
Fareham district, Hampshire
-
12.12.1992
Charlton Horethorne, Sherborne, Dorset
2nd Lt.
29.01.1931 [49876]
Lt.
29.01.1934
Capt.
29.01.1939
A/Maj.
13.10.1940-12.01.1941
T/Maj.
13.01.1941-31.08.1942
WS/Maj.
01.09.1942
Maj.
01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.
01.06.1942-31.08.1942
T/Lt.Col.
01.09.1942-20.08.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
21.08.1945
A/Col.
21.02.1945-20.08.1945
T/Col.
21.08.1945-27.08.1946
Col.
21.01.1952 (supernumerary 21.01.1958)
A/Brig.
25.11.1945-24.05.1946
T/Brig.
25.05.1946-27.08.1946,
15.02.1951-31.12.1958
Brig.
01.01.1959
T/Maj.Gen.
07.06.1959-11.106.1959
Maj.Gen.
12.06.1959 (retd 06.05.1966)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
31.12.1960
New Year 61
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE
05.06.1952
HM's birthday 52
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
14.10.1943
Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID
22.12.1939
Palestine
Mention in Despatches MID
24.06.1943
Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID
11.01.1945
Italy
Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp
Education: Winchester College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
29.01.1931
 
 
commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers
(03.1931)
-
(06.1933)
1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Fort George)
(01.1937)
 
 
1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Catterick Camp)
01.07.1937
-
27.10.1938
Adjutant, 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
28.10.1938
-
12.05.1940
Staff Captain, 8th Division (Palestine, Egypt) (temporary)
14.05.1940
-
12.10.1940
Staff Captain, Middle East
13.10.1940
-
19.06.1941
Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DA&QMG) (Plans) Egypt
20.06.1941
-
31.05.1942
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) (Instructor), Staff College
01.06.1942
-
07.01.1945
Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), 30 Corps (Egypt, Sicily, Italy)
21.02.1945
-
24.11.1945
Colonel Assistant Quartermaster, Plans, India
25.11.1945
-
25.03.1946
Brigadier, Quartermaster, SE Asia
08.12.1947
-
25.08.1948
Commandant & Chief Instructor, School of Military Administration
06.09.1948
-
08.02.1951
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Instructor), Joint Services Staff College
15.02.1951
-
28.11.1953
Deputy Quartermaster-General (DQMG), General HQ, Middle East Land Forces
1954


Student, Imperial Defence College
01.01.1955
-
(02.)1957
Brigadier Quartermaster (Operations), War Office
1958
-
1959
Brigadier General Staff, HQ, British Army of the Rhine
07.06.1959
-
19.05.1961
Major-General in charge of Administration, General HQ, Far East Land Forces
19.06.1961
-
14.02.1964
Director of Equipment Policy, War Office
04.04.1964
-
08.04.1966
Deputy Master-General of the Ordnance, Ministry of Defence
Hope,
Alexander Erskine

A.E. Hope (Photo courtesy of Mr Steven Fullman)
Son (with a brother and a twin brother) of Maj. Richard Berwick Hope (1874-1952), and Mary Frances West.
Married (11.10.1941)  Lilias Mary Phyllis Austwick (07.08.1912 - 1994), of Knutsford, Cheshire, later of Peldon, Essex, daughter of Rev. William Herbert Austwick; one daughter, one son. Lilias Hope remarried (21.01.1948) Lt.Col. Gerard Francis Kirkpatrick Daly, RE.
15.05.1917
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
02.10.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, the Netherlands, XII.C.1]
2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 [71119]
local Lt. 24.04.1939-19.11.1939
Lt. 28.01.1940
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
28.01.1937     commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
(01.1938) - (01.1939) 2nd Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Gravesend)
24.04.1939 - 19.11.1939 Adjutant, ... - Territorial Army (temporarily)
      9th Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
? - 02.10.1944 attached, 7th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment (killed in the battles for the brickwork factories at Driel, the Netherlands, in the follow-up of operation Market-Garden)
Hope,
James
J. Hope (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble) J. Hope (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Gamble)
06.05.1907
-
2nd Lt.
30.08.1926 [36549]
Lt.
30.08.1929
local Capt.
19.09.1934-26.08.1936
Capt.
01.01.1938
A/Maj.
17.01.1940-16.04.1940
T/Maj.
17.04.1940-20.08.1943
Maj.
30.08.1943
A/Lt.Col.
30.06.1945-29.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.
30.09.1945 (1 day only)
local Lt.Col.
01.10.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.
01.11.1949, seniority 17.08.1949
16.12.1949, seniority 05.06.1949 (retd 17.10.1956)
Mention in Despatches MID
30.12.1941
Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID
24.06.1943
Middle East
Education: Staff College (psc)
30.08.1926


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)


Depot Brigade, Depot Royal Artillery, Woolwich
30.09.1932
-
26.08.1936
attached to Sudan Defence Force
(01.1937)


RA Fixed Defences, South Western Ports, Plymouth
10.03.1938
-
08.01.1940
Adjutant, 71st Anti-Aircraft Brigade (Territorial Army) (Dunfermline, Scotland)
09.1940
-
20.09.1941
Battery Commander (Officer Commanding), 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Scotland & Egypt)
20.09.1941
-
?
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Anti-Aircraft Command, Western Desert Force
Hope,
Philip Lynton
P.L. Hope
?
-
c. mid-1960s
Cape Town, South Africa
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
28.04.1941 [189602]
WS/Lt.
10.07.1942
T/Capt.
(1945)
WS/Capt.
? (reld 06.08.1946)
T/Maj.
?
Hon. Maj.
06.08.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
05.04.1945
Burma / Eastern Frontier of India



Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.04.1941


commissioned, General List [emergency commission]



served with the Katchin Levies, Burma
Hope Thomson,
Maxwell Richard Julian
"Tim"
M.R.J. Hope Thomson M.R.J. Hope Thomson
M.R.J. Hope Thomson
Son (with one sister) of .Maj. James Thomson (1874-1917), Royal Artillery, and Edith Annie Dunbar (1877-1959), of Glasgow.
Married (18.03.1945, St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, Westminster district, London) Audrey Anne Mathias (09.08.1923 - 02.04.2010), daughter (with one sister) of Owen Mathias (1894-1963), and Dorothy Winifred Dixon (1893-1961); one son, one daughter.
02.05.1911
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
20.06.1990
Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
2nd Lt. 27.08.1931 [52731]
Lt. 27.08.1934
Capt. 27.08.1939
A/Maj. 09.10.1940-08.01.1941
T/Maj. 09.01.1941-26.02.1941,
26.05.1941-31.03.1942
WS/Maj. 01.04.1942
A/Lt.Col. 01.01.1942-31.03.1942
T/Lt.Col. 01.04.1942-06.02.1943
WS/Lt.Col. 07.02.1943-14.09.1944,
07.02.1945-11.01.1953
Lt.Col. 12.01.1953 (supernumerary 12.01.1956) (Employed List (1) 19.05.1955)
A/Col. 07.08.1942-06.02.1943
T/Col. 07.02.1943-31.05.1944
local Col. 04.07.1955-30.09.1956
Col. 01.10.1956
A/Brig. 07.08.1942-06.02.1943
T/Brig. 07.02.1943-31.05.1944
Brig. 01.10.1960 (retd 02.04.1964)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 24.01.1946 NW Europe
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1951 New Year 1951
Military Cross MC 06.11.1936 Palestine 04-09.1936
Mention in Despatches MID 25.10.1955 Malaya
General Service Medal & clasp Palestine 1936-1939
Education: Wellington College (1925.1-1929; Orange; Dormitory Prefect; Shooting VIII 1927-1929; XV 1929); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1930-1931); jssc (1947), psc (1941), ns (1946).
27.08.1931     commissioned, Royal Scots Fusiliers
(1936)     Signal Officer, 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (Palestine) (MC)
19.03.1940 - 09.10.1940 Adjutant, ... (BEF)
23.05.1941 - 01.11.1941 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Airborne Forces
1942     Commanding Officer, 4th Parachute Battalion
07.08.1942 - 06.07.1944 Commander, 50th Indian Parachute Brigade
08.10.1944 - 19.11.1944 attached, 6th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers
11.1944 - 02.1945 Second-in-Command, 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (NW Europe)
07.02.1945 - 14.07.1945 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (NW Europe) (DSO) [14 days' leave to get married 19-30.03.1945]
06.07.1946 - 05.1947 Commanding Officer, 4th/5th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (Paderborn, Germany)
04.08.1947 - 28.01.1951 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (Plans), Combined Operations Headquarters (OBE)
01.04.1951 - 05.12.1952 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), HQ 1st Division Arab Legion
09.1953 - 05.1955 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (Berlin, Germany & Malaya) (despatches)
04.07.1955 - 30.09.1956 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (Instructor), School of Amphibious Warfare
01.10.1956 - (01.1957) Deputy Commander, Joint Services Amphibious Warfare Centre & Chief Instructor of Staff Training Wing (Colonel)
1957     157th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade (TA)
01.02.1962 - 02.04.1964 also: ADC to HM the Queen
Commandant Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland, 1964-1974.
Hopkins,
Arthur Dudley
"Banger"
A.D. Hopkins (Photo courtsey of Mr Charlie Hopkins)
Married 1st (1939) Edith Berry (died 1982); five sons.
Married 2nd (1986) Vivien Peele.

Lived at Shipton (1952- 2002).
1913
Mill Hill, NW London
-
19.02.2006
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
12.04.1941 [180964]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
T/Capt.
18.05.1943-(04.1944),
20.10.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?
?
Education: Mill Hill School
After leaving school he took several jobs in the Textile Industry until he eventually went into partnership with an old family friend Ronald Thackrah (which was dissolved on 31.12.1955). The two of them were Sales Agents in London for Charles Early of Witney and George Williamson a worsted cloth manufacturer based in Bradford.
1940
-
1946
served Second World War, UK (1940-1943), India (1940-1946):



Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.04.1941


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]



Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), ....
Went on to become Managing Director and Chairman of Charles Early & Marriot.
Hopkins,
Joseph Brian Whitfield
J.B.W. Hopkins
Married (1936?) Kathleen Elizabeth Sherwood (1913-1991); one son.
20.11.1912
Camberwell, London
-
25.07.1979
Upminster, Essex
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.01.1943 [256994]
WS/Lt.
02.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.
13.09.1945-(04.1946)



Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.01.1943


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]



served with 6th Airborne Division
(1944?)


served with 1st Airborne Division (possibly at Arnhem, but unconfirmed; Norway)
Post-war insurance manager (London).
Horley,
Eric Wilfred

E.W. Horley
Last name changed to Robinson-Horley by deed poll of 04.10.1948.
07.09.1912
-
03.1990
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
Pte. ?
2nd Lt. 07.06.1939 [89421]
WS/Lt. ?
Lt. 14.11.1943, seniority 13.08.1939 [EC 15295]
A/Capt. 01.11.1941-31.01.1942
T/Capt. 01.02.1942-23.05.1942
WS/Capt. 24.05.1942
A/Maj. 24.02.1942-23.05.1942
T/Maj. 24.05.1942-06.09.1948
Lt. 12.10.1946, seniority 07.09.1938
Capt. 12.10.1946, seniority 07.09.1943
Maj. 07.09.1948
T/Lt.Col. 08.09.1955-30.11.1955
Lt.Col. 01.12.1955 (retd 22.09.1959)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 21.12.1944 Italy
EM 02.05.1947 -
EM 02.05.1947 1st clasp
      mobilized TA for 5 years, 126 days:
      served in the ranks, Honourable Artillery Company, Infantry Battalion - Territorial Army
07.06.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
14.11.1943     commissioned, Indian Army (Royal Indian Army Service Corps) [emergency commission to 11.10.1946]
12.10.1946     permanent commission, Royal Army Service Corps
01.08.1947 - 31.12.1947 specially employed
03.09.1948 - 06.07.1950 Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Western Command
08.09.1955 - (01.1957) Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, British Army of the Rhine
Published: Last post : an Indian Army memoir (1985).
Horn,
George Morison
G.N. Horn
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
28.03.1919
-
21.01.1984
Ealing, London
Cadet ? [1906923]
2nd Lt. 19.11.1944 [334955]
WS/Lt. 19.05.1945 (reld 08?.1946)
Education: University of Glasgow (BSc).
? - 18.11.1944 140th Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Engineers
19.11.1944     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
01.1945? - 08.1946? No. 9 Training Battalion RE
Engineer, Electric and Musical Industries Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex.
Horn,
Trevor Langdale
T.L. Horn
Son of William Austin Horn (1841-1922), and Penelope Elizabeth Belt (1853-1944).
Married 1st (25.09.1919, St Stephen, Kensington, London) Hilary Hepworth Peeke (08.07.1895 - 30.06.1936).
Married 2nd (12.11.1943, Westminster district, London) Hon. Angela Ierne Evelyn Ross (née Dixon) (16.02.1907 - 10.2003); one daughter.
18.05.1888
Walkerville, Adelaide, S.A., Australia
-
26.12.1966
Chippenham district, Wiltshire
2nd Lt. 04.09.1907
Maj. (Res. of Offrs.) 24.04.1929, seniority 14.04.1923
Maj. 06.06.1923 (retd 24.04.1929)
A/Lt.Col. 15.05.1943-14.08.1943
T/Lt.Col. 15.08.1943
Military Cross MC 01.01.1918 ?
04.09.1907 - 24.04.1929 commissioned, 16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
01.11.1939     retired officer re-employed, 16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
31.10.1940 - 14.05.1943 Chief Instructor, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)
15.05.1943 - (07.)1945 Commandant, Officers Training School, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Rushton Hall, near Kettering)
Played polo (won the Verdun Cup and the County Cup in 1931, with a Beaufort team).
Horne,
Henry Francis Coventry
J.O. Horne
22.08.1908
Stow, Suffolk
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985
2nd Lt.
30.08.1928 [40388]
Lt.
30.08.1931
Capt.
01.08.1938
A/Maj.
11.07.1941-10.10.1941
T/Maj.
11.10.1941-20.08.1943,
10.10.1943-08.03.1945
WS/Maj.
09.03.1945
Maj.
30.08.1945
A/Lt.Col.
16.11.1944-10.12.1944,
02.01.1945-08.03.1945
T/Lt.Col.
09.03.1945-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.
29.11.1950 (supernumerary 29.11.1953) (retd 23.08.1955)
Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
30.08.1928


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)


18th Field Brigade RA (Brighton)
(06.1933)


Depot Brigade, RA Depot (Woolwich)
(01.1937)


3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Changi, Singapore)
31.01.1938


seconded for service with Indian Army
?
-
?
18th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Indian Army)
23.08.1955
-
22.08.1963
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Horne,
John Ogilvie
J.O. Horne
19.09.1901
Kensington upon Thames, Surrey
-
07.1997
Kensington upon Thames, Surrey
2nd Lt.
31.08.1922, seniority 19.09.1920 [17209]
Lt.
19.09.1922
Capt.
31.08.1935, seniority 19.09.1933
Maj.
01.08.1938 (retd 22.02.1948)
A/Lt.Col.
03.03.1942-02.06.1942
T/Lt.Col.
03.06.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.
22.02.1948
Mention in Despatches MID
05.04.1945
Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
31.08.1922


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)


2nd Training Brigade RA, Depot RA (Woolwich)
(06.1933)


27th Field Brigade RA (Exeter/Bristol, for Colchester)
05.12.1933
-
04.12.1936
employed under Colonial Office (Staff Officer local Forces Jamaica)
(01.1937)


4th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Portsmouth)
(01.1939)


31st Gunnery Staff Course - Counter-Defence & Anti-Aircraft Branch (Supplementary), The Military College of Science (Woolwich)
10.1945
-
10.1945
Commanding Officer, 9th (Londonderry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (SR)
Horner,
Arthur William
A.W. Horner
Son (with one brother) of Francis Moore Horner (1847-1930), and and Edith Hinkley (1882-1945), of London.
Married ((06?).1938, St Abans, Hertfordshire) Patricia Denise Campbell (23.12.1915 - 08.06.1996), daughter (with three sisters and one brother) of Maj. Arthur Colin Clyde Campbell, OBE (1875-1917), and Gladys Annie Theophilus (1883-1959), of St Albans; two sons, one daughter.
22.06.1909
Hackney district, London
-
24.10.1999
Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
2nd Lt. 11.07.1936 [68393]
Lt. 11.07.1939
T/Capt. 04.05.1941-28.02.1942
WS/Capt. 01.03.1942
Capt. 11.04.1945
T/Maj. 01.03.1942-01.02.1946
WS/Maj. 02.02.1946 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Lt.Col. 02.02.1946-(12.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. > 12.1946, < 04.1947
Lt. 14.10.1947, seniority 11.07.1939 (reverted to this rank at own request) (reld 24.01.1948)
Hon. Lt.Col. 24.01.1948
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG 13.06.1964 HM's birthday 1964: Director, Independence Celebrations, Kenya, 1963
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 30.05.1947 -
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 24.11.1953 1st clasp
Education: Hardenwick; Felsted (1922-1926; late Cadet Lce.-Corpl., Felsted School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps).
Marine insurance, 1926-1939.
11.07.1936     commissioned, 28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
1939 - 1946 served World War II in UK and Washington (Rifle Brigade: Lt-Col: psc)
14.10.1947 - 24.01.1948 transferred, Army Air Corps (Special Air Service)
Farming in Kenya, 1948-1950. Colonial Administrative Service (later HM Overseas Civil Service). Kenya, 1950-1964 (Assistant Secretary, Secretariat, 15.06.1950; Commissioner of Lands, 01.07.1955; seconded to the office of the Minister for Education, Labour and Lands for special duty, 27.09.1958; Commissioner of Lands, 29.12.1958; Commissioner of Lands, 07.01.1960; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Lands, 25.01.1960; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Lands, 01.12.1960; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Lands, 28.02.1961; Permanent Secretary for Works, Ministry of Works, 16.01.1962; Temporary Minister for Works, Ministry of Works, 27.01.1962). Director of Independence Celebrations. 1963: Principal , Ministry of Overseas Development. 1964-1973: seconded Diplomatic Service, 1968-1970: retired 1973.
Horner,
Sybry
S. Horner
Son of ... Horner, and ... Bennett.
Married ((03?).1935, Carlisle district, Cumbria) Agnes Craik.
13.08.1911
Bradford, Yorkshire
-
(09?).1971
High Hoyland, Barnsley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
Cadet
? [16237950]
2nd Lt.
27.09.1941 [207981]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942 (reld 31.07.1946; disability)
T/Capt.
11.11.1945-31.07.1945
Hon. Capt.
31.07.1946
27.09.1941
 
 
commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Footwear dealer.
Hornsby,
Basil William

B.W. Hornsby (Photo courtesy of Mrs Geraldine Benzmann) B.W. Hornsby (Photo courtesy of Mrs Geraldine Benzmann)
Married (17.11.1941, Eastbourne, Sussex) Heather Kinloch (19.06.1920 - 11.1987); one son, one daughter.
10.12.1918
-
28.01.1978
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.11.1941 [217399]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
15.11.1941     commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission]
      served 2nd & 6th Battalions in the Middle East, also a member of Paiforce
Hotelier.
Hornsby,
Leslie Charles
L.C. Hornsby
Son of ... Hornsby, and ... Atwell.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
01.10.1916
Wandsworth district, London
-
11.09.1984
Bromley district, Kent
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 12.10.1940 [153472]
WS/Lt. 12.04.1942
01.02.1945, seniority 12.04.1942 [EC 14064]
T/Capt. 02.07.1944-(04.1946)
      Officer Producing Centre
12.10.1940     Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
01.02.1945     transferred, Royal Indian Army Service Corps - Indian Army
Hornung,
[Sir] John Derek
J.D. Hornung

Elder son (with one sister and one brother) of late Lt.Col. Charles Bernard Raphael Hornung (1886-1964), and Olive Aileen Phillpotts (1891-1978), of Ivorys, Cowfold, Sussex.
03.01.1915
Kensington district, London
-
26.08.1978
Cowfold, Horsham, West Sussex
2nd Lt. 31.01.1936 [62427]
Lt. 31.01.1939
A/Capt. 16.04.1940-15.07.1940
T/Capt. 16.07.1940-01.05.1942
WS/Capt. 02.05.1942
Capt. 31.01.1944
A/Maj. 02.02.1942-01.05.1942
T/Maj. 02.05.1942-16.11.1944
WS/Maj. 17.11.1944 (retd 09.05.1948; receiving a gratuity)
A/Lt.Col. 17.08.1944-16.11.1944
T/Lt.Col. 17.11.1944-(01.1946)
Hon.Lt.Col. 09.05.1948
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO 1976 ?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire CBE 21.06.1945 NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 22.10.1940 BEF [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
Chevalier, Order of Leopold II with palme (Belgium)Croix de Guerre (Belgium) Leo II
CdeG
08.12.1945 liberation of Belgium [recommendation available upon request]
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp
Education: Eton (1932).
      Supplementary Reserve of Officers
31.01.1936     commissioned, Irish Guards
(1939/40)     2nd Battalion Irish Guards (BEF, France)
17.07.1940 - 01.02.1942 Adjutant, ...
03.09.1944 - 05.05.1945 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Guards Armoured Division (NW Europe)
High Sheriff for Sussex, 1962; Exon Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1954-1967, Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant, 1967-1971. Steward of the Jockey Club, 1968-1970. Lieutenant of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard since 1971; Chairman, Sena Sugar Estates Ltd, since 1964.
Horrocks,
Sir Brian Gwynne
"Jorrocks"
B.G. Horrocks


 
Only son of late Col. Sir William Heaton Horrocks, KCMG, CB.
Married (1928) Winifred Nancy, daughter of Brook
and Hon. Mrs Brook Kitchin; one daughter deceased.
07.09.1895
Ranniket, India
-
04.01.1985
Chichester, West Sussex
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
08.08.1914 [5821]
Lt.
18.12.1914
Capt.
01.01.1917
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1935
Maj.
25.11.1936
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1937
A/Lt.Col.
05.10.1939-06.12.1939
Lt.Col.
07.12.1939
A/Col.
17.06.1940-16.12.1940
T/Col.
17.12.1940-27.05.1941
Col.
28.05.1941, seniority 01.07.1940
A/Brig.
17.06.1940-16.12.1940
T/Brig.
17.12.1940-26.06.1942
A/Maj.Gen.
27.06.1941-26.06.1942
T/Maj.Gen.
27.06.1942-12.08.1943
WS/Maj.Gen.
13.08.1943-26.08.1944
Maj.Gen.
27.08.1944, seniority 01.03.1944
A/Lt.Gen.
13.08.1942-12.08.1943
T/Lt.Gen.
13.08.1943-16.11.1943,
03.08.1944-1945?
Lt.Gen.
12.02.1946, seniority 29.12.1944 (retd 13.01.1949; disability)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
09.06.1949
HM's birthday 49
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
05.07.1945
NW Europe
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
05.08.1943
Tunisia
Distinguished Service Order DSO
31.12.1942
Middle East
Military Cross MC
30.01.1920
escaping or attempting to escape from captivity
Mention in Despatches MID
24.06.1943
Middle East 05-10.42
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID
09.08.1945
NW Europe
Commander, Order of King George I (Greece) GeoI
20.06.1944
distinguished services in the cause of the Allies
Knight Grand Officer, Order of Orange Nassau with Swords (Netherlands) OON
17.10.1946
liberation of the Netherlands
Grand Officer, Order of the Crown with Palm (Belgium) OCrwn
16.01.1947
liberation of Belgium
Croix de Guerre1940 with Palm (Belgium) CdeG
16.01.1947
liberation of Belgium
Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
?
liberation of France
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
?
liberation of France
Commander, Legion of Merit (US) LM
?
?
1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal 1939-1945; War Medal 1939-1945
Education: Uppingham; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1931-1933; psc); qualified as interpreter 2nd class Russian (6.1924)
08.08.1914


commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)



served European War, France & Belgium, 08.1914-21.10.1914 (wounded, prisoner of war 1914-1918)
02.1919
-
12.11.1919
Russia (MC, prisoner of war 1919-1920)
1920
-
1931
regimental service
26.01.1927
-
20.12.1930
Adjutant, 9th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment, TA (UK)
30.01.1934
-
23.02.1936
Staff Captain, Military Secretary's Branch, War Office (UK)
24.02.1936
-
29.01.1938
Brigade Major, 5th Infantry Brigade ([Aldershot], UK)
13.03.1938
-
30.06.1938
specially employed, War Office (UK)
25.07.1938
-
04.10.1939
Instructor (General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley (UK)
05.10.1939
-
30.04.1940
Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Staff College, Camberley (UK)



served war of 1939-45 (wounded, DSO, CB, KBE)
13.05.1940
-
06.1940
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment (UK, France)
01.06.1940
-
02.06.1940
acting Commander, 11th Infantry Brigade (France, UK)
17.06.1940
-
03.02.1941
Commander, 9th Infantry Brigade (UK)
04.02.1941
-
26.06.1941
Brigadier General Staff, Eastern Command (UK)
27.06.1941
-
14.03.1942
General Officer Commanding, 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division (UK)
20.03.1942
-
12.08.1942
General Officer Commanding, 9th Armoured Division (UK)
13.08.1942
-
08.12.1942
General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps (N Africa)
09.12.1942
-
29.04.1943
General Officer Commanding, X Corps (N Africa)
30.04.1943
-
06.1943
General Officer Commanding, IX Corps (Tunis) (wounded at Bizerte)
03.08.1944
-
1945
General Officer Commanding, XXX Corps (NW Europe)
01.02.1946
-
1947
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command (UK)
1948
-
1949
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine (Germany)
Honorary Colonel, Royal Artillery, 06.05.1949-06.05.1954.
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, House of Lords, 18.01.1949-1963. Director, Bovis Holdings, 1963-1977.

Published: A full life (London : Collins,1960); Am. ed.: Escape to action (New York : St. Martin's, 1961)), new edn, 1974; Corps Commander (London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977) (with Eversley Belfield & H. Essame)
Editor, Famous Regiments Series
Literature: Philip Warner. Horrocks : the general who led from the front (London : Hamish Hamilton, 1984)
Horsfield,
Roderick
R. Horsfield
Married ((03?).1918, Kensington district, London) Phyllis M. Goodman.
1894
Derbyshire
-
1968
Kent
T/2nd Lt. 07.01.1915 [60567]
03.1915, seniority 10.12.1914
T/Lt. ? (reld 23.10.1916; ill-health)
? (reld 16.09.1919)
A/Capt. 16.07.1917-24.09.1918
Capt. 20.09.1921, seniority 11.07.1920
T/Maj. 26.12.1940-03.02.1942
WS/Maj. 04.03.1942 (reld 09.10.1945; exceeded age limit)
A/Lt.Col. 30.08.1943-(01.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col. 09.10.1945
Efficiency Decoration ED ? ?
1915 Star 15 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
General Service Medal GSM - & clasp Iraq
      11 Canadian Infantry (service number 21373)
07.01.1915     commissioned, King's Royal Rifle Corps (16th Battalion (CLB))
      transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
09.1915 - 20.04.1915 served in France & Belgium
05.07.1917 - 23.10.1917 served in France & Belgium (commanded a Broad Gauge Workshop Company)
24.09.1918 - 31.10.1918 Egyptian Expeditionary Force
      Iraq Railways
20.09.1921 - 09.10.1945 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized RARO
Horton,
Joseph
J. Horton
Married Margaret ...; two sons.
12.08.1915
Dudley district, Worcestershire
-
06.11.1998
Worcester district, Worcestershire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 19.04.1941 [184011]
WS/Lt. 01.05.1942
T/Capt. 01.05.1942-11.10.1943
WS/Capt. 12.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Maj. 12.07.1943-(04.1944)
      Officer Cadet Training Unit (Alton Towers)
19.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      79th Anti-Tank Regiment RA (India, Western Desert, Greece)
Horton-Smith,
David Alexander Graham

D.A.G. Horton-Smith D.A.G. Horton-Smith
D.A.G. Horton-Smith D.A.G. Horton-Smith
Son of Lionel Graham Horton Horton-Smith (1871-1953), and Nora Blanche Dorrington (1883-1973).
Married ((09?).1940, Chelsea district, London) Margaret Brewer, daughter of A.J. Brewer, of Waldemar Mans, London SW6.
27.08.1910
Kensington district, London
-
30.01.1982
Sheets Heath, Brookwood, Surrey North Western district, Surrey
Cpl. ?
2nd Lt. 22.02.1936 [66874]
Lt. 22.02.1939
T/Capt. 19.12.1949-15.04.1943
WS/Capt. 16.04.1943
Capt. 11.04.1945
T/Maj. 16.04.1943-13.08.1945
WS/Maj. 14.08.1945 (reld 1948)
T/Lt.Col. 14.08.1945-(04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 11.10.1945 NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 14.11.1947 -
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 22.08.1952 1st clasp
Education: Marlborough College (09.1923-07.1926; C1 (Maltese Cross) House).
      late Cadet, Marlborough College, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.02.1936     commissioned, 14th Battalion London Scots (The Gordon Highlanders) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
14.05.1943     Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (Q), HQ 1 Corps
(1944/45)     Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (M) (Road Movement), Second Army HQ (MBE)
(1945)     21st Army Group Movement Control Pool
? - 31.08.1960 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Scotland Shooting, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1949 (Adjutant 1948). King's 100 1948 (runner-up 1947). Company secretary (Tobacco Securities Trust Co. Ltd., 1960s).
Hough,
George Cecil
G.C. Hough
19.01.1903
Birkenhead district, Cheshrie / Merseyside
-
05.1990
Liskeard district, Cornwall
2nd Lt.
06.10.1939 [104824]
WS/Lt.
06.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.
?
Hon. Capt.
< 04.1946
06.10.1939


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Houghton,
William
W. Houghton
Married Mary Beatrice Ethel Gale (born 1914) (marriage dissolved ± late 1940s).
1911 ?
St Helens, Lancashire
-
1969 ?
Bournemouth, Hampshire
QMS ? [7880904]
2nd Lt. 02.10.1944 [329557]
WS/Lt. 02.10.1944
WS/Capt. ?
Capt. 01.09.1948, seniority 01.04.1946
A/Maj. ? late 1940s ?
02.10.1944     commissioned, Army Catering Corps [emergency commission]
01.09.1948     short service commission
House,
Eric Kirkwood

E.K. House
Son of Ernest Kirkwood House, and Florence Matilda Crooks.
Married (16.12.1936, Brompton Oratory, Kensington district, London) Edith H. "Poo" Foster, of Tenterden, Kent; one daughter.
(03?).1913
Kensington district, London
-
13.07.1968
St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth district, London
2nd Lt. 04.05.1938 [75309]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
WS/Capt. 05.10.1941 (reld 13.11.1944; disability)
T/Maj. 05.10.1941-16.10.1944
Hon. Maj. 16.10.1944
04.05.1938     commissioned, 7th (23rd London) Battalion The East Surrey Regiment - Territorial Army
 1939     transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
Houston,
Anthony Bertram McGregor
"Tony"
A.B.McG. Houston 
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Bertram Beaman Houston, MC (1883-1944), chemical manufacturer, and Winifred Muriel McGregor (1890-1959).
Brother of Second Officer Roxane Mary Houston, WRNS, and Midsh. David Arthur Houston, RN.
Married (19.09.1939, Register Office, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) Margarat A. Gardiner (23.12.1914 - 13.03.1990); one son, one daughter.
16.04.1917
Kensington, London
-
28.02.2005
Commerce Township Michigan, USA
2nd Lt. 01.10.1938, seniority 01.04.1937 [78197]
WS/Lt. 01.04.1940
Lt. 11.04.1945
T/Capt. 01.10.1942-(10.1945)
Capt. 1946?, seniority 27.04.1945 (reld 02.07.1957)
Education: Queen's College, Cambridge University (BA 1939, MA 1943).
      late Officer Cadet C.S.M., Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officers Training Corps
01.10.1938     commissioned, Engineer Unit, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officers Training Corps, General List
29.09.1939     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
11.12.1950 - 02.07.1957 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Engineer for Ford Motor Company for over 50 years.
Houston,
John Kenneth
J.K. Houston
30.03.1914
Kilrea, North Ireland
-
Lt. 16.02.1941 [173010]
WS/Capt. 16.02.1942
T/Maj. 24.05.1943-(04.1946)
Education: Queen's University, Belfast. MB, BCh, BAO Belf 1938, LRCP, LRCS Ed, LRFPS Glas 1938.
16.02.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
      served in India & Burma
Anglican Mission, Wamira Samarai, Papua.
Hovell-Thurlow- Cumming-Bruce,
Henry Charles;
7th Baron Thurlow, cr. 1792, succ. 1952
H.C. Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce
Eldest son of 6th Baron and Grace Catherine (died 1959), daughter of Canon Trotter of Christ Church, Barnet; succeeded father, 1952.
29.05.1910
-
29.05.1971
2nd Lt.
28.08.1930 [47526]
Lt.
28.08.1933
Capt.
28.08.1938
WS/Maj.
12.09.1944
Maj.
01.07.1946
local Lt.Col.
15.07.1943-30.04.1944
...
...
Col.
31.12.1952
T/Brig.
27.05.1945-03.05.1949,
12.02.1954-(02.1957)
Brig.
1958
Maj.Gen.
01.06.1959 (retd 24.03.1964)

CB 1961; CBE 31.01.1956 (OBE 1948); DSO 21.12.1944 (Bar 10.05.1945); MID (13.01.1944, 01.01.1955)

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College (1942; psc); Joint Services Staff College (1949; jssc); Imperial Defence College (1953; idc); Hon. LLD (Belfast)
1930

commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders
15.12.1936
-
14.01.1940
ADC to High Commissioner, Palestine
16.03.1940
-
25.02.1941
Assistant Military Secretary, British Forces in Palestine & Trans-Jordan
1941


served with 2nd Cameron Highlanders, Eritrea
15.11.1942
-
12.12.1942
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Middle East (Libyan Arab Force, Western Desert)
13.12.1942
-
01.06.1943
Brigade Major, 152nd Infantry Brigade (despatches)
15.07.1943
-
30.04.1944
Instructor (GSO2), Senior Officers' School
01.05.1944
-
28.05.1944
GSO1 Liaison HQ 21st Army Group
1944
-
1944
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (NW Europe)
27.11.1944
-
05.11.1945
Commander, 44th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade
06.11.1945
-
28.02.1947
Commandant, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) Training Centre
1947
-
1949
OC Highland Brigade Training Centre
04.05.1949
-
25.07.1950
GSO 1, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
26.07.1950
-
13.04.1952
AA&QMG, 1st Infantry Division (Middle East Land Forces)
13.07.1952
-
19.09.1952
GSO1 (Inf), SHAPE Mission to the Netherlands
12.02.1954
-
22.02.1956
Commander, 39th Infantry Brigade, East Africa Command (despatches)
19.04.1956
-
1959
Deputy Director of Infantry, War Office
1959
-
1962
GOC 50 (N) Division and Northumbrian Area
1962
-
1963
GOC Troops, Malta and Libya
Member Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Body Guard for Scotland). President: Missions to Seamen, 1965-; SSAFA Berks, 1969-. Chairman: Directors, Jerusalem and the East Mission, 1967-; St Christopher's Hospice, Beckenham, 1966-. CStJ 1968 (OStJ 1937).
Howard,
Charles Storrs
C.S. Howard (1960) C.S. Howard (1960)
01.06.1906
St Marylebone, Greater London
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
30.08.1926 [36683]
Lt.
30.08.1929
Capt.
17.11.1937
A/Maj.
03.04.1940-02.07.1940
T/Maj.
03.07.1940-02.07.1942
WS/Maj.
03.07.1942
Maj.
30.08.1943
A/Lt.Col.
03.04.1942-02.07.1942
T/Lt.Col.
03.07.1942-17.01.1948,
28.02.1948-08.08.1950
Lt.Col. 
09.08.1950 (Employed List (1) 28.07.1952)
Col.
29.01.1954, seniority 06.03.1953
local Brig.
24.05.1952-07.06.1952
T/Brig.
08.06.1952-02.10.1955,
15.12.1955-(02.1957)
Brig.
07.03.1957 (retd 30.06.1958)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
12.06.1958
HM's birthday 58
Distinguished Service Order DSO
26.10.1954
Malaya
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
> 04.1944
< 04.1946
?
Mention in Despatches MID
30.10.1953
Malaya 01.53-06. 53
Education: Hailebury College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Quetta (1946?; psc)
30.08.1926     commissioned, Somerset Light Infantry
12.11.1934
-
21.12.1937
Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (India)
05.07.1939
-
17.08.1939
ADC to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, India
03.04.1942
-
20.07.1942
Commandant, ...
1942
-
1944
Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
17.09.1942
-
26.09.1942
acting Commander, 135th Infantry Brigade
1944
-
1947
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (India & Burma)
28.02.1948
-
31.03.1949
ADAWS, HQ Northern Command
01.04.1949
-
24.06.1949
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Training), ...
09.08.1950
-
28.07.1952
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (India & Burma)
08.06.1952
-
01.07.1955
Commander, 26th Gurkha Infantry Brigade (Malaya, 1953-1955)
15.12.1955
-
195?
Deputy Director of Military Training, War Office
30.06.1958
-
01.06.1964
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Head, Army Outward Bound School, Wales, 1958
Howard,
Dudley Kenneth
D.K. Howard
Son of Cyril Howard (1887-1968), and Emily Gertrude Ellens (1888-1978).
Married (16.06.1941) Iris Jones; one son.
21.06.1914
Toxteth, Liverpool
-
06.1985
Rhuddlan, Wales
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
14.06.1941 [193323]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
T/Capt.
30.06.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
18.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.
1945?
T/Maj.
?
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
29.11.1945
Italy
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM
28.11.1947
& first clasp
?
-
14.06.1941
Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.06.1941


commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Howard,
Francis Walter
"Frank"
F.W. Howard (Photo courtesy of Mr Vincent Howard) F.W. Howard (Photo courtesy of Mr Vincent Howard)
F.W. Howard (Photo courtesy of Mr Vincent Howard)

Son of Vincent and Alice Howard.
Married (02.02.1929, St Mary Church, Cadogan, Chelsea, London) Valentine Eleanor Perreur-Lloyd; three sons, two daughters.
22.12.1898
Waterford, Ireland
-
14.01.1977
Farnham, Surrey
[Farnham Cemetery]
RNR:  
Boy Seaman 28.11.1914
Ordinary Seaman 22.05.1916
T/Midsh. 07.09.1917
A/S.Lt. 22.11.1918 (reld 23.12.1919)
Army:  
2nd Lt. 19.07.1925 [33076]
Lt. 19.07.1927
Capt. 01.09.1935
T/Maj. 01.12.1940-(04.1944)
WS/Maj. 10.06.1944 (reld 31.08.1945)
Maj. 01.01.1949
A/Lt.Col. 1941?
T/Lt.Col. ?
Hon. Lt.Col. 31.08.1945
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 11.11.1919 Kronstadt *
Mention in Despatches MID 11.07.1941 Battle of Britain?
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 15.05.1942 -
* For distinguished services in command of H.M. Coastal Motor Boat No. 86 in the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919. He passed through the line of forts under a heavy fire, but his engines broke down shortly after and he remained under fire and only able to move at very slow speed until escorted out by H.M. Coastal Motor Boat No. 72.
Education: Training Ship “Mercury” 1912-1914; Regent Street Polytechnic 1921-1923.
Chartered Gas Engineer 1924.
1914 - 1919 served Royal Navy (Jutland, HMS Ajax (Gun Layer) 31.05.1916; Zeebrugge Raid (2i/c) CMB 23B (Torpedo Boat) 23.04.1918;  Ostende Raid (2i/c) CMB23B 10.05.1918; CMB 30B 23.04.1918 in Command 17.7.1919: CMB 86B in Command 17.07.1919: Minelaying in Baltic Sea off Russia July-Nov 1919; Kronstadt Raid against Bolshevik Fleet 17/18.08 1919
19.07.1925     commissioned, 26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion - Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
01.11.1936     transferred, 34th (Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion RE
13.12.1937 - 08.08.1953 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
24.08.1939     mobilized TARO (01.08.1940 transferred to Royal Artillery)
24.08.1939 - 11.1941 Senior Anti-Aircraft Liaison Officer, RAF Biggin Hill (Battle of Britain)
11.1941 - 31.08.1945 Senior Anti-Aircraft Liaison Officer, South-West Sector
Howard,
Frederick Henry
F.H. Howard (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

25.02.1915
-
06.05.2000
2nd Lt. 31.01.1935 [64577]
... ...
Maj. 31.01.1948 (retd 01.06.1955)
T/Lt.Col. 29.01.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. 01.06.1955
Distinguished Service Order DSO ? ?
Military Cross MC ? ?
Military Cross MC 14.10.1943 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 ?
31.01.1935     commissioned, The Buffs
... - ... ...
30.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
Howard,
Gurth Hillsides
G.H. Howard (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)
14.01.1919
Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
01.1996
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
2nd Lt. 26.01.1939
Lt. ?
Capt. ?
T/Maj. 01.06.1944-01.06.1948,
29.01.1951-25.01.1952
Maj. 26.01.1952 (retd 28.04.1959)
Military Cross MC 21.10.1941 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID 19.09.1946 ?
26.01.1939     commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(07.1939)     2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(1941)     5th King's African Rifles (MC)
Howard,
Henry Cecil Lloyd
H.C.L. Howard (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Cundick)
30.08.1882
-
24.01.1950
2nd Lt. 08.01.1901
... ...
Col. 03.06.1922 (retd 16.10.1934)

CB (1946), CMG (1919), DSO (1916) and Bar (1917)

08.01.1901     commissioned, 16th Lancers
1939 - 1941 re-employed: Assistant Quartermaster-General, Eastern Command
12.08.1943 - (04.1946) Colonel, 16th/5th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps
Howard,
Hugh Lloyd
D.K. Howard
Only child of Mr & Mrs D. Lloyd Howard, of Little Friday Hill, Chingford.
Married (28.06.1919, Basingstoke) Marcella Le Maistre, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs G.H. Le Maistre, of Chigwell, Essex; ... children (son Sigm. Alexander Villenewe Lloyd Howard, 3rd Divisional Signals, was killed in action 05.07.1944, aged 19).
1890
India
-
10.10.1957
Chigwell, Essex
2nd Lt. ? [25541]
T/Lt. ?
A/Capt. 06.05.1917
T/Capt. ?
A/Maj. 31.01.1919
T/Maj. 09.04.1921 (reld 16.07.1921)
Lt.Col. 11.02.1925
Lt.Col. 30.10.1931
Bt. Col. 30.10.1935
Military Cross MC 04.06.1917 ?
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 15.11.1935 -
Education: Marlborough College; Oxford University.
Apprenticeship & directorship in the family business Howards and Sons of Ilford, manufacturing chemists.
      Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Force (landed in France three weeks before the Battle of Loos, in which he took part with the 24th Division Signal Company RE)
1918     Officer Commanding, 36th (Ulster) Divisional Signals
23.12.1920 - 29.06.1926 56th (1st London) Division Signals Company (DF)
? - 29.10.1935 28th London Regiment
30.10.1935 - ? 47th (2nd London) Divisional Signals
? - 01.10.1937 Artists Rifles - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
02.10.1937 - 28.11.1951 Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class I) [exceeded age limit]
Howard,
John Walter Langley
J.W.L. Howard
Son of Langley and Violet Howard.
19.02.1919
Hammersmith, London
-
09.06.2016
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.07.1940 [140046]
WS/Lt. 27.01.1942
T/Capt. ?
WS/Capt. 17.06.1945 (demobilized > 01.1946, < 04.1946) (reld 07.11.1953)
Mention in Despatches MID 27.09.1945 Burma
      either 162nd or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
27.07.1940     commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission]
Howard,
Michael William
M.W. Howard
Son of V.Adm. Ronald Howard and Ruth Evelyn Coryton.
Married (05.05.1949) Gillian Hester Shelley (born 03.06.1918), daughter of Sir John Frederick Shelley, 10th Bt.
12.03.1917
Alverstoke district, Hampshire
-
16.02.1994
Sampford Spiney, Yelverton, Devon
2nd Lt.
12.03.1938 [65193]
WS/Lt.
07.11.1940
Lt.
01.01.1941
A/Capt.
07.08.1940-06.11.1940
T/Capt.
07.11.1940-27.07.1941,
30.07.1941-23.04.1942,
04.05.1942-30.10.1943
WS/Capt.
31.01.1943
Capt.
12.03.1946 (half-pay 20.12.1948; disability) (13.03.1950; disability)
A/Maj.
31.07.1943-30.10.1943
T/Maj.
31.10.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.
13.03.1950
Military Cross MC
13.01.1944
Italy
Military Cross MC
12.04.1945
NW Europe
18.05.1935


commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
12.03.1938


commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment
(01.1939)
 
 
2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (Malta)
(1943)
-
(1945)
2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (Italy & NW Europe)
18.07.1944
-
(09.1944)
Officer Commanding, "C" Company
Howard,
Reginald John
R.J. Howard R.J. Howard
Son of ... Howard, and ... Smith.
From Oxford.

IWM interview

08.12.1912
St Pancras district, Greater London / London
-
05.05.1999
West Surrey
2nd Lt.
09.11.1940 [155710]
WS/Lt.
?
WS/Capt.
13.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.
13.08.1942-(06.1944)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
31.08.1944
Normandy 06.44
09.11.1940


commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
(06.1944)


Officer Commanding, "D" Company, 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Normandy) (of "Pegasus bridge" fame)
Howard,
Thomas Farquharson Ker
T.F.K. Howard
Lived in: Southampton (1944), later Goldenhayes, Woodlands, Hampshire.
Married; one son, one daughter.
01.09.1899
-
died between 12.1961 and 02.1967
2nd Lt.
23.01.1919 [13261]
Lt.
23.01.1921
Capt.
23.01.1932
Maj.
01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.
01.04.1941-30.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.
01.07.1941-31.05.1942,
25.04.1943-31.12.1945
Lt.Col.
01.01.1946 (retd 03.06.1950)
A/Col.
06.05.1945-(01.1946)
A/Brig.
06.05.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.
03.06.1950
Distinguished Service Order DSO
24.08.1944
Italy
British War Medal; Victory Medal
23.01.1919


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
07.1919
-
10.1919
served in Russia
10.07.1933
-
19.08.1935
Adjutant, ...
01.01.1937
-
31.03.1941
Instructor in Gunnery, Southern Command (Salisbury)
(04?).1943
-
04.1945
Commanding Officer, 23rd Army Field Regiment RA (Italy)
04.1945
-
1945
Commander, 6th Army Group Royal Artillery (Italy)
Howarth,
John Rushworth
J.R. Howarth (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
?
-
10.04.1987
Worthing
2nd Lt. 26.05.1940 [134021]
... ...
WS/Maj. 11.09.1944
T/Lt.Col. 11.09.1944-(04.1946)
26.05.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
Howell,
Arthur Herbert
A.H. Howell
01.08.1922 ?
?
-
03.1982 ?
Hartismere district, Suffolk ?
Cadet ? [7628950]
2nd Lt. 04.12.1943 [302089]
WS/Lt. 04.06.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
04.12.1943     commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
      served in East Africa (Kenya); sustained a bad leg injury in a train " accident" and spent some time in a Military Hospital in possibly Nairobi
Howell,
Clarence William
C.W. Howell
(12?).1913
Maidenhead district, Berkshire
-
03.2006 still alive
SSM
?
2nd Lt.
09.02.1943 [266647]
WS/Lt.
09.02.1943
T/Capt.
22.02.1944
WS/Capt.
?
Capt. RARO
01.01.1949
Hon. Maj.
01.01.1949
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe



served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps
09.02.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949
-
?
Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Howell,
Jack Norman
J.N. Howell
Son of Leslie Francis Ernest Howell, and Violet Louisa Page, of Gorleston, Norfolk.
Brother of 2nd Lt. Leslie Charles Howell.
Married; ... children.
08.1920
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
06.11.1967
Letchworth, Hitchin or Baldock, Bedfordshire
2nd Lt. 05.12.1942 [255233]
WS/Lt. 05.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
05.12.1942     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944) - (1945) 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (NW Europe)
Howell,
Leslie Charles
L.C. Howell
Son of Leslie Francis Ernest Howell, and Violet Louisa Page, of Gorleston, Norfolk.
Brother of Lt. Jack Norman Howell.
12.1921
Holborn district, London / Middlesex
-
18.02.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Anzio War Cemetery, Italy, I.O.4]
? ? [1447388]
2nd Lt. 03.09.1943 [292706]
03.09.1943     commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment [emergency commission]
Howell,
Walford Charles
W.C. Howell
(12?).1899
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
Paym. (Lt.)
10.01.1940 [114066]
Paym. (T/Capt.) 08.03.1942
T/Maj.
(1949?)
Maj.
16.03.1953 (reld 01.10.1955)
Hon. Maj.
01.10.1955
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
01.01.1949
New Year 49
10.01.1940


commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission to 30.09.1946]
01.10.1946


short service commission
Accountant & auditor.
Howes,
R
R. Howes
?
-
WS/Sgt.Maj.
17.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946 ?)
17.09.1941


Regimental Warrant Officer, Class I, Military Provost Staff Corps
Howes,
Ralph Edward
R.E. Howes
?
-
Sgt.
?
2nd Lt.
29.03.1941 [181130]
WS/Lt.
29.04.1942
T/Capt.
29.04.1942-(04.1944)
A/Maj.
10.08.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.
06.07.1944 (reld 21.02.1948)
T/Lt.Col.
?
Hon. Lt.Col.
21.02.1948
29.03.1941


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Howes,
Robert Edward
R.E. Howes
?
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
08.05.1942 [233517]
WS/Lt.
08.11.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
08.05.1942


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Howes,
Robinson Peall Guy
R.P.G. Howes
(06?).1909
Cockermouth district, Cumbria / Cumberland
-
01.12.1968
Maidstone, Kent
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
05.09.1942 [245200]
WS/Lt.
05.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
05.09.1942


commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch [emergency commission]
Company director.
Howes,
Roger Hylton
R.H. Howes
30.05.1924
-
11.1991
Eckington, near Pershore, Worcestershire
Cadet
? [1151193]
2nd Lt.
15.01.1944 [304447]
WS/Lt.
15.07.1944
WS/Capt.
> 04.1946
Lt. TA
09.02.1948, seniority 30.05.1947
Capt. TA
12.05.1954
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD
30.12.1955
-
15.01.1944


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
09.02.1948


served Territorial Army
Howlett,
Bernard
"Swifty"
B. Howlett
Only son of the Rev. Thomas Edwin Howlett (1853-1904), and Gertrude Emily Pickburn (1871-), of Snaresbrook.
Married (02.04.1929, Bangalore, India) Helena Beatrice Joan Whitby * (12.06.1898 - 09.02.1976), only child of Hugh Owen Whitby (1864-1934), and Helena Mabel Forman (1867-1959), of Little Judde, Tonbridge, Kent; one son, one daughter.
* She remarried (12.01.1948) Brig. Francis Latham, DSO (1883-1958), of Tonlow, Tonbridge, Kent.

Played first-class cricket, 1922-1931.

18.12.1898
Stoke Newington, London
-
29.11.1943
Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy
(KIA) [age 44]
[Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy, II.E.25]
2nd Lt. 24.04.1918 [13838]
Lt. 24.10.1919
Capt. 18.02.1930
Maj. 01.08.1938
T/Lt.Col. 07.10.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Lt.Col. ?
T/Col. ?
T/Brig. 17.12.1942?-29.11.1943
Distinguished Service Order DSO 15.06.1943 North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 18.11.1943 Sicily
Mention in Despatches MID 20.12.1940 BEF
Mention in Despatches MID 24.08.1944 Italy [posthumously]
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Education: St Edmund's School, Canterbury.
24.04.1918     commissioned, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
08.1918 - 11.1918 served in France & Belgium
04.12.1930 - 03.12.1934 Adjutant, 4th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West KEnt Regiment (Territorial Army) (Tonbridge)
18.04.1936 - 31.03.1939 Staff Captain, 40th (West Riding) Division (Northern Command) (Clifton, Yorkshire) (temporarily)
01.04.1939 - (01.1940) Brigade Major, 132nd Infantry Brigade (British Expeditionary Force) (despatches)
1940? - 1941/42? Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
17.12.1942 - 02.03.1943 Commander, 36th Infantry Brigade (North Africa)
03.03.1943 - 16.03.1943 Commander, 139th Infantry Brigade (North Africa) (temporarily)
17.03.1943 - 29.11.1943 Commander, 36th Infantry Brigade (North Africa, Sicily, Italy) (DSO & Bar, despatches)
Hoy,
Charles Leslie

C.L. Hoy
Married ((09?).1931, Farnham district, Surrey) Phyllis M. Wickham.
(12?).1901
Dover district, Kent
-
1970
Denbighshire, Wales
CSM ?
Lt. (Technical Maintenance Officer) 08.09.1940 [152705]
WS/Capt. (TMO) 08.09.1943
      enlisted service (including Peshawar in the 1930s)
08.09.1940     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
? - ? 1st Airborne Division
Hoyland,
Percy

P. Hoyland
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Thomas Hoyland (1865-), and Sarah Ann Walker (1876-).
Married (23.07.1932, St Giles and St Mary, Pontefract, West Yorkshire) Ivy Teesdale (05.09.1910 - 08.1994), daughter (eith one sister) of Frederick Teesdale (1869-), and Mary Hannah Sharp (1886-); ... children.
15.07.1904
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
12.2001
Pontefract, Yorkshire
S/Sgt. (1932)
Wt.Offr. cl. II (1941)
Lt. 18.01.1941 [168799]
T/Capt. 14.11.1941-11.11.1944
WS/Capt. 12.11.1944 (reld 01.11.1947; on appointment to RAF)
RAF:  
F/Lt. 01.11.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 [59754]
Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1948, seniority 01.08.1947 (retd 02.11.1954)
? - 18.01.1941 Small Arms School Corps
18.01.1941     commissioned, The York and Lancaster Regiment [emergency commission]
01.11.1947     commissioned, Royal Air Force Regiment [extended service commission]
Hubble,
John Frederick
J.F. Hubble J.F. Hubble
Son of Frederick Hubble, and Elizabeth Gardner.
Married ((09?).1947, Chelsea district, London) Dulcie Patricia Gibson-Pattinson (30.01.1920 - 11.2005); ... children.

(09?).1913
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
08.1964
Walsall district, Staffordshire
2nd Lt. 03.07.1939 [93457]
WS/Lt. 03.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 08.08.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 01.03.1983 [posthumously]
      late Cadet Serjeant, Bromsgrove School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
03.07.1939     commissioned, 8th Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
07.06.1944     transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
14.06.1944     glider pilot training
25.10.1944     B  Squadron, 1st Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment (Earls Colne Airfield) (Operation Varsity, Germany, 24-30.03.1945)
? - 11.12.1963 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Huckin,
William
W. Huckin (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son of John Thomas William Huckin (1878-1976), and Edith Ellen Hubbard (1878-1971).
Married ((12?).1941, Bromley district, Kent; divorced) Joan Elizabeth Wing (10.03.1925 - 04.04.1982). She remarried (1949) William C. Wright.
05.06.1915
Croydon district, Surrey
-
06.1985
Lambeth district, London
2nd Lt. 11.06.1938 [75923]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
local Capt. 05.04.1941-...
T/Capt. 17.03.1942-24.02.1944
WS/Capt. 25.02.1944
T/Maj. 25.02.1944-13.02.1946
WS/Maj. 14.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Lt.Col. 14.02.1946-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Capt. 01.12.1947, seniority 25.02.1944
A/Maj. 01.06.1949-31.03.1952
Maj. 01.04.1952, seniority 01.06.1949
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
Emergency Reserve Decoration ERD 03.11.1953 -
Emergency Reserve Decoration ERD 03.11.1953 1st clasp
      late Cadet Corporal, St. Dunstan's College Contingent, Officer Training Corps
11.06.1938     commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [later Royal Tank Regiment] - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized SRO
03.01.1942     transferred, 7th Queen's Own Hussars
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
01.12.1947 - 30.01.1956 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [on appointment to a commission in the Territorial Army]
01.06.1949 - ? seconded for service on the Staff
30.01.1956 - 05.06.1965 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Hudson,
Eric Roy Baines
E.R.B. Hudson (Photo courtesy of Amanda Hudson)
02.11.1919
-
19.03.2019
Chiang Mai, Thailand
2nd Lt. 26.08.1939 [95873]
WS/Lt. 26.02.1941
Lt. 11.04.1945
A/Capt. 15.05.1941-14.08.1941
T/Capt. 15.08.1941-26.10.1941,
02.08.1942-21.08.1944
WS/Capt. 22.08.1944
A/Maj. 22.05.1944-21.08.1944
T/Maj. 22.08.1944-19.01.1947
Lt. 19.01.1946, seniority 02.05.1942
Capt. 02.11.1946
T/Maj. 03.01.1949-05.03.1951,
19.10.1952-01.11.1953
Maj. 02.11.1953 (retd 19.03.1959)
Mention in Despatches MID 05.04.1945 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 -
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 16.09.1947 - [cancelled due to being awarded TD]
Education: Staff College (psc).
Articled Pupil to Borough Engineer, Bournemouth.
      late Cadet Serjeant, Cranleigh School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
26.08.1939     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939 - 18.01.1946 mobilized TA
19.01.1946     permanent commission
Hudson,
Harold
H. Hudson
1910
South Bank, York
-
WS/Sgt.Maj.
18.07.1942



trained at Tidworth & Andover



Regimental Sergeant-Major (Warrant Officer, Class 1), "A" Squadron, 11th Hussars
Hudson,
Harold Gordon
H.G. Hudson
10.03.1920
-
22.02.2015
2nd Lt. 03.07.1939 [95106]
Lt. 03.01.1941
A/Capt. 21.10.1941-14.11.1941,
08.03.1942-13.05.1942
T/Capt. 14.05.1942-25.08.1944
Capt. 01.07.1946
T/Maj. 03.08.1948-13.07.1949,
01.02.1952-02.07.1952
Maj. 03.07.1952 (retd 27.03.1959)
Maj. TA 01.06.1962, seniority 09.08.1955 (reld 10.03.1965)
Military Cross MC 02.03.1944 Sicily 08.43
Education: qualified as Instructor-in-Gunnery (Field) on a Long Gunnery Staff Course (G); qualified in the basic portion as Instructor-in-Radar (Field) on a Short Gunnery Staff Course (Radar and Searchlights) followed by a special Radar Course (gfr); Staff College, Camberley (psc).
03.07.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(1943)     Forward Observation Officer, Combined Operations Bombardment Unit (Sicily & Italy) (MC)
27.03.1959 - 01.06.1962 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.06.1962 - 10.03.1965 King's Own Regiment, Lancastrian Brigade - Territorial Army
Hudson,
[Prof.] John Pilkington
J.P. Hudson J.P. Hudson
Residence: (1943) Chapel-en-le-Frith, Cheshire, (1944) Burgess Hill, Sussex.
24.07.1910
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire
-
06.12.2007
Sgt.
?
2nd Lt.
26.10.1940 [154286]
WS/Lt.
?
WS/Capt.
06.11.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.
06.11.1942-(04.1944)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE
01.01.1975
New Year 75
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
01.01.1943
New Year 43
George Medal GM
20.04.1943
?
George Medal GM
15.09.1944
?
26.10.1940

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Hufford,
Jack

J. Hufford
Son of James W. Hufford, and Amy L. Harrisson.
Married Patricia Ruth ... (21.08.1921 - 11.1989); ... children (one daughter, four sons?).
02.11.1914
Barnet district, Middlesex
-
01.1998
Maidstone district, Kent
2nd Lt. 07.07.1944 [333515]
WS/Lt. 07.01.1945 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
07.07.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps (Non-Medical Section) [emergency commission]
      served at Gilgil Garrison, Kenya (East Africa)
Hughes,
Ernest Trevor
E.T. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hughes) E.T. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hughes)
Son of ... Hughes, and ... Evans.
Married (28.08.1941, Beaumaris, Anglesey East district, North Wales) Margaret L. Parry; ... children (one son?).
04.05.1921
Forden district, Montgomeryshire / Shropshire
-
28.04.1997
Bangor, Caernarvonshire, North Wales
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 01.05.1943 [273934]
WS/Lt. 01.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt. 07.04.1944-(04.1946)
Lt. 19.02.1949, seniority 01.05.1944
Capt. 19.02.1949, seniority 01.11.1948
12.12.1950, seniority 01.05.1949 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 17.09.1951)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 20.06.1952 -
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 20.06.1952 1st clasp
01.05.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
19.02.1949 - 17.09.1951 permanent commission
His son writes: "I know that he stayed on after the war in Venice, Celle and Hanover."
Hughes,
Harold
"Hugh"
H. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Hughes)
Married ...; ... children.
25.02.1921
Liverpool
-
2nd Lt. 21.12.1940 [162197]
WS/Lt. 21.06.1942
T/Capt. 11.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. 16.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj. 16.09.1945-(04.1946)
? - 21.12.1940 123rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      stationed in the north east around Amble and Tynemouth and lastly in Palestine
Hughes,
John Herbert Ainsworth

J.H.A. Hughes
Married ((09?).1943, Wrexham district, Denbighshire) Freda M. Turner; ... children.
10.03.1904
Wrexham district, Denbighshire
-
13.09.1978
Haslington, Crewe, Cheshire
WS/CQMS ?
Lt. (Technical Maintenance Officer) 17.02.1942 [227546]
WS/Capt. (TMO) 17.02.1945
Capt. (TMO) 01.12.1946, seniority 17.02.1945
Maj. (TOT) 21.09.1953 (reld 01.12.1953)
Mention in Despatches MID 13.01.1944 Middle East
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (without gratuity) LSGCM 16.07.1948 -
17.02.1942     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
01.12.1946 - 01.12.1953 commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [short service commission]
Hughes,
Morgan

M. Hughes
?
-
2011 ?
USA
2nd Lt. 13.06.1943
WS/Lt. 25.09.1943
A/Capt. 11.01.1944-(04.1944)
13.06.1943     commissioned, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) [emergency commission]
Hughes,
Robert Lachlan

R.L.. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Moray Hughes, from Ancestry.co.uk) R.L.. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Julie W. Hughes, from Ancestry.co.uk)
R.L.. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Julie W. Hughes, from Ancestry.co.uk) R.L.. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Sophie Hughes, from Ancestry.co.uk)
Son (with one brother) of Cecil Harold Hughes (1880-), and Eveline Mary Taylor (1887-).
Married ((03?).1938, Westminster district, London) Irene Margaret Taylor (06.08.1916 - 25.09.1995), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Robert Palmer Taylor (1876-), and Pauline Constance Rosner (1887-); four sons, one daughter.
20.09.1909
Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
-
04.04.2009
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
2nd Lt. 19.11.1939 [105485]
A/Capt. 11.03.1940-(10.1940)
WS/Capt. 30.11.1940 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 01.1946) (reld 20.12.1950)
T/Maj. 30.11.1940-(10.1942),
25.11.1942-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj. > 10.1945, < 01.1946
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 13.12.1949 -
      from Artists Rifles (Cadet, 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit)
19.11.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
11.03.1940 - (10.1940) Adjutant, ...
His son indicates service with War Office & Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in Italy. Migrated to Australia, 1948.
Hughes,
William James

W.J. Hughes (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Hughes)
Son of ... Hughes, and ... Atkins.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
11.02.1916
Bishopstoke, Hampshire
-
03.06.1996
Bournemouth, Dorset
Cadet ? [7677806]
2nd Lt. 21.05.1944 [320510]
WS/Lt. 21.11.1944
A/Capt. 14.09.1945
05.11.1940     enlisted, Royal Army Pay Corps (Reading, Berkshire)
1943     Officer Cadet Training Unit, Wrotham, Kent
10.1943     No. 6 Company, 140th Officer Cadet Training Unit RE (Class 157, Corsham, Wiltshire)
21.05.1944     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Movement Control Section [emergency commission]
07.03.1945     embarked for India, arriving in Bombay 31.03.1945
25.05.1945     Movement Detachment (MOVDET), Hmawbi, Burma
01.1946     Movement Detachment (MOVDET), Pegu, Burma
Hugo,
Terence James
"Terry"
T.J. Hugo
Son of Capt. James William Hugo, Royal Artillery, and Grace Lily Saunders, of Lanark.

(06?).1919
Petersfield district, Hampshire / Sussex
-
30.01.1945
(KIA) [age 25]
[Nederweert
War Cemetery,
The Netherlands,
IV.E.9
]
Cadet ? [320921]
2nd Lt. 29.10.1943 [299276]
WS/Lt. 1944?
29.10.1943     commissioned, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) [emergency commission]
08.05.1944? - 30.01.1945 attached, No. 1 Troop, No. 6 Commando

Hukins,
Alfred William James
A.W.J. Hukins (Photo courtesy of Sally Jeffery)
Son of ... Hukins, and ... Noon.
Married ((06?).1944, New Forest district, Hampshire) Mollie A. Robinson; two sons.
21.06.1914
Tonbridge district, Kent
-
26.05.1986
Southdown, Holtwood, Poole district, Dorset
[Poole Crematorium]
2nd Lt. 11.07.1942 [237960]
WS/Lt. 11.07.1942
T/Capt. 13.05.1943-26.12.1945
WS/Capt. 27.12.1945
T/Maj. 27.12.1945-(04.1947)
Capt. ?
Maj. 11.07.1955
11.07.1942     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
21.05.1947     transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps
1947?     short service commission
03.02.1956 - 21.06.1959 Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)
Hulett,
Arthur Thomas
A.T. Hulett
Son of Thomas and Edith Jane Hulett.
Married ((06?).1931, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Hilda M. Overell; one son, two daughters.
25.10.1909
Bedford, Bedfordshire
-
06.01.1947
The Royal Infirmary, Leicester
[age 37]
[Gilroes Cemetery and Crematorium, Leicester, Leicestershire, Crematorium Memorial Panel 3]
L/Sgt. ?
2nd Lt. 16.03.1940 [121987]
WS/Lt. 16.09.1941
T/Capt. 30.12.1943-17.02.1945
WS/Capt. 18.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 18.02.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 06.03.1947 -
      served in the ranks, Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
16.03.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      121st Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
 
Hull,
Geoffrey Thomas
G.T. Hull
Son of T. Hull, and ... Bevan, of Bournemouth.
Married ((12?).1947, St Marylebone district, London) Joan Reynolds (22.01.1923 - 10.2003), younger daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Ernest Brayley Reynolds, OBE, MRCVS (1879-1967), and Lily Florence New (1891-1965), of Newmarket; one son, two daughters.
Residence: (1945) Finchampstead, Berkshire
19.03.1915
Wheatenhurst, Gloucestershire
-
03.06.1974
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
2nd Lt. 29.08.1935 [66002]
Lt. 29.08.1938
A/Capt. 25.04.1940-24.07.1940
T/Capt. 25.07.1940-15.09.1940,
06.12.1940-29.10.1941
WS/Capt. 30.10.1941
Capt. 29.08.1943
A/Maj. 30.07.1941-29.10.1941
T/Maj. 30.10.1941-(01.1946)
Maj. 29.08.1948 (retd 12.09.1958)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 08.02.1945 ?
NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Medal & Clasp
29.08.1935     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1942? - 1944? Officer Commanding, 16th Mountain Battery, 28th Indian Mountain Regiment RIA (MBE)
His son writes: "Royal Artillery, sometime with 28th Mountain Regt RIA, and Punjab Frontier Force 3 Peshawar Mountain Battery. Burma-India frontier 42-45."
Hulland,
Eric J [James?]
E.J. Hulland (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
31.03.1923 ?
-
(06?).1983 ?
Sapper Cadet ?
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
      not commissioned ?
Humphrey,
John Bernard
J.B. Humphrey (Photo courtesy of Poppy Humphrey) J.B. Humphrey (Photo courtesy of Poppy Humphrey)
Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Bernard Humphrey (1880-), and Blanche Marie Ambrose (1885-).
Married (22.06.1935, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) Louise Wismer (29.07.1908 - 1997), daughter of A.O. Wismer, of Kitchener, Ontario; two sons.
12.11.1907
New Barnet, Barnet district, Hertfordshire
-
01.1992
Oakville, Toronto, Canada
Cadet ? [S/14415373]
2nd Lt. 16.09.1944 [330609]
WS/Lt. 16.03.1945 (reld 25.09.1946)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. 25.09.1946
Education: Barnet Grammar School; City of London School; Leeds Grammar School.
Insurance executive. Past President, Independent Auto. Casualty Insurance Conference; Vice-President, All Canada Insurance Federation, Apprentice Agent with Prudential Assurance Co. of England, 1924-28; Adjuster with a number of Insurance Agencies in Vancouver, B.C., Hamilton, London and Toronto, Ontario 1928-34; Adjuster in Claims Office of American Auto. Insurance Co. in Toronto, 1934-39; transferred to the HQ St. Louis for training in underwriting and production, subsequently moving to Los Angeles Br. and Portland, Ore., Br. 1939-42.
1942     enlisted as a Private
16.09.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
1944 - 1946 served in India
Underwriting Manager in Los Angeles and Spokane Brs., 1946-50; returned to Toronto to assist in opening a full-scale branch for the Co. as Asst. Mgr.; appointed Branch Manager, 1952; Resident Vice-President, The American Insurance Co., since 1956.
Humphreys,
Charles Andrew
C.A. Humphreys
Married Phyllida (née ...); three sons.
09.04.1922
-
25.02.2007
Sailsbury
2nd Lt.
14.02.1942 [226382]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
...
...
Maj.
09.04.1956
Lt.Col.
20.09.1965 (retd 30.03.1977)
Military Cross MC
02.08.1945
?



served in the ranks for 221 days
14.02.1942


commissioned, King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission to 01.11.1946]
02.11.1946


permanent commission
01.01.1966


transferred, The Royal Green Jackets

Humphreys,
George William
G.W. Humphreys
Married; children.
22.06.1900
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
-
c. 1976/77
Melksham, Wiltshire
2nd Lt.
27.01.1940 [103753]
WS/Lt. 05.10.1940
T/Capt.
05.10.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.
28.08.1943
T/Maj.
28.08.1943-(04.1946)
27.01.1940


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]



served mainly in India
Worked for the Avon Rubber Company in Melksham until his retirement.
Humphreys,
Herbert Stanley
H.S. Humphreys
?
-
2nd Lt.
14.03.1942 [228902]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt.
30.08.1944-(04.1946)
14.03.1942


commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944?)
-
(1945?)
probably served 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
Humphriss,
Deryck

D. Humphriss
Son of ... Humphriss, and ... Smith.
Married ((09?).1939, Bedford district, Bedfordshire) Margaret E. Stroud; ... children.
14.05.1912
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
1988
S/Sgt. ?
2nd Lt. 13.10.1941 [211049]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 19.01.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt. ? (reld 02.03.1949)
T/Maj. 1946?
Hon. Maj. 02.03.1949
13.10.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (MM Branch) [emergency commission]
01.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
22.09.1944 - (04.1946) a Staff Captain, Directorate of Mechanical Engineering, Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, India HQ Staff (played rugby for GHQ and Captained Indian army swimming and water polo teams)
1946?     Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering, Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, India HQ Staff
Hunt,
Alfred Melville [Bertram]
A.M. Hunt
Son of Reginald Noel Hunt (1873-1940), and Lilian Mary Sidney (1872-1965).
Brother of Lt.Col. Reginald Howard Hunt, RAMC.
Married Lydia Robina Helen Hunt (27.06.1902 - (09?).1975); one daughter, one son.
08.11.1906
Pretoria, South Africa
-
03.1993
Bullingdon district, Oxfordshire
2nd Lt. 14.12.1944 [336833]
WS/Capt. 16.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj. 16.06.1945-(04.1946)
14.12.1944     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
Hunt,
G H
G.H. Hunt (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Cleland)
?
-
?
... ...
Lt. (07.1945)
?     commissioned, ... [emergency commission]
(07.1945)     Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force/Air (Rear)
Hunt,
[Sir] Henry Cecil John;
Baron Hunt of Llanvair  Waterdine, Co. of Salop (cr. 11.06.1966)
H.C.J. Hunt
Son of late Capt. C.E. Hunt, MC, Indian Army, and E.H. Hunt (née Crookshank).
Married (1936) Joy Mowbray­Green; four daughters.

Residence: (1944) Green's Norton, Northants.
22.06.1910
Shimla, India
-
08.11.1998
Henly-on- Thames, Berks.
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
30.01.1930 [44889]
.Lt.
30.01.1933
local Capt.
06.01.1934-02.04.1935,
26.02.1938-31.07.1938
Capt.
01.08.1938
A/Maj.
23.09.1940-22.12.1940
T/Maj.
23.12.1940-05.01.1941,
24.10.1941-14.05.1944
WS/Maj.
15.05.1944
A/Lt.Col.
15.02.1944-14.05.1944
T/Lt.Col.
15.05.1944-(01.1946)
A/Col.
17.10.1944-...
Col.
25.06.1951 (retd 22.06.1956)
A/Brig.
17.10.1944-(01.1946)
T/Brig.
(1945),
01.11.1953-(08.1955)
Hon. Brig.
22.06.1956
Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter KG
23.04.1979
?
- Barony
11.06.1966
HM's birthday 66: for services to youth
Knight Kt
16.07.1953
?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
21.06.1945
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
03.08.1944
?
Indian Police Medal (1940).
Education: Marlborough College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (King's Gold Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword, 1930); DCL; LLD
30.01.1930


commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [permanent commission]
1930
-
1931
2nd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Tidworth, Wilts.)
1931
-
1934
1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Lucknow & Calcutta, India)
06.01.1934
-
02.04.1935
seconded to Indian Police with local rank of Captain, Bengal
1935
-
1938
1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Mingaladon, Burma)
[qualified as Interpreter in French and German, 01.1936]
26.02.1938
-
22.09.1940
seconded to Indian Police with local rank of Capt, Bengal
1942
-
1943
Second-in-Command 10th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (2nd Rangers)
1943
-
1944?
Chief Instructor, Commando Mountain and Snow Warfare Training Camp, Braemar, Aberdeenshire
15.02.1944
-
1944
Commanding Officer 11th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Italy & Palestine)
1944
-
1945
Commander, 11th Indian Brigade (Italy & Greece)
1946
-
1946
Staff College, Camberley, Surrey
1946
-
1948
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Joint Planning Staffs, Middle East Land Forces
1949


Joint Services Staff College
1950
-
1951
Western Europe's Commanders-in-Chief Committee
1951
-
1952
Allied Land Forces, Central Europe
1952
-
1952
Colonel, General Staff, Headquarters I (British) Corps
1952
-
1953
Leader of British Everest Expedition, Tibet (led 1953 expedition in which Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay reached the summit of Mount Everest)
01.11.1953
-
(08.)1955
Assistant Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey
1955
-
1956
Commander 168th Infantry Brigade (Territorial Army)
22.06.1956
-
22.06.1968
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Awarded Founder's Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 1954; awarded Lawrence Memorial Medal, Royal Central Asian Society, 1954; President, National Association of Youth Clubs, 1954-1970; President, The Alpine Club, 1956-1958; Director, Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, 1956-1966; President, Britain and Nepal Society, 1960-1975; Rector, Aberdeen University, 1963-1966; President, Climbers' Club, 1963-1966; President,
British Mountaineering Council, 1965-1968; Life Peer, 1966; Chairman, Parole Board for England and Wales, 1967-1974; Personal Adviser to Prime Minister Rt Hon (James) Harold Wilson during Nigerian Civil War, 1968-1970; President, The National Ski Federation, 1968-1972; President, Council for Volunteers Overseas, 1968-1974; Chairman, Advisory Committee on Police in Northern Ireland, 1969; President, Rainer Foundation, 1971-1985; Member, Royal Commission on the Press, 1974-1977; President, National Association of Probation Officers, 1974-1980; President, Royal Geographical Society, 1977-1980; created KG, 1979; Chairman, Intermediate Treatment Committee, 1980-1985; President, Council for National Parks, 1980-1986; joined Social Democratic Party, 1981; joined Social
and Liberal Democrats, 1988; President, National Association for Outdoor Education, 1991-1993; awarded King Albert I Memorial Medal for Mountaineering, 1994. 
Published: The ascent of Everest (1953); Sir John Hunt's diary (Everest 1953) [1953]; Our Everest adventure. The pictorial history from Kathmandu to the summit, with Christopher Brasher (1954); translation with Wilfrid Noyce of Starlight and storm. The ascent of six great north faces of the Alps by Gaston Rébuffat (1956); The red snows. An account of the British Caucasus Expedition, 1958, with Christopher Brasher (1960); Nigeria. The problem of relief in the aftermath of the Nigerian civil war. Report of Lord Hunt's mission. (1970); Hunt Report on Mountain Training, July 1975; Life is meeting (1978); editor of My favourite mountaineering stories (1978); In search of adventure [1989]. 
Hunt,
Kenneth
"Ken"
K. Hunt (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Hunt) K. Hunt (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Hunt)
K. Hunt (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Hunt)
Son (with two brothers) of John Hunt, coalminer, and Elizabeth Sills.
Married ((03?).1939, Westminster district, London) Mary Mabel Crickett (03.1916 - 1995), daughter of Charles Crickett, and Louisa Mary Maidment, of Margate, Kent; two sons, one daughter.

26.05.1914
Mansfield district, Nottinghamshire
-
27.03.2004

Hungerford, Berkshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 12.10.1940 [151485]
Lt. 31.08.1946, seniority 25.06.1940
A/Capt. 01.02.1942-28.02.1943
T/Capt. 01.03.1943-07.04.1946
Capt. 31.08.1946, seniority 26.05.1945
A/Maj. 15.06.1945-07.04.1946
T/Maj. 08.04.1946-27.07.1946,
11.03.1948-25.05.1950
Maj. 26.05.1950
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1955
T/Lt.Col. 10.10.1953-16.09.1958
Lt.Col. 17.09.1958
Col. 28.07.1960, seniority 14.01.1959 (supernumerary 28.07.1966)
T/Brig. 28.07.1960-13.01.1963
Brig. 14.01.1963 (retd 04.09.1967)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 09.06.1955 HM's birthday 55 [recommendation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 13.12.1945 Italy [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 23.09.1943 North Africa
Mention in Despatches MID 19.07.1945 Italy
Mention in Despatches MID 29.11.1945 Italy
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 18.06.1996 -

Suez Campaign Medal

Education: Chatham House School, Ramsgate; Staff College, Camberley (psc); Imperial Defence College (1963; idc).
      served in the ranks for 1 year, 40 days (24.08.1939 mobilized TA)
? - 12.10.1940 121st Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.10.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 30.08.1946]
1942 - 1946 served, Africa, Italy, Austria, with Honourable Artillery Company, 12th Royal Horse Artillery (despatches thrice)
31.08.1946     permanent commission
01.03.1948 - 09.11.1949 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), War Office
21.11.1949 - 07.01.1950 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), War Office
16.01.1950 - 09.10.1951 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
10.10.1953 - 03.02.1956 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Operations, Staff Duties & Training), HQ British Troops in Egypt
14.04.1956 - 13.04.1958 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
1958 - 1960 Commanding Officer, 40th Field Regiment RA
28.07.1960 - 09.03.1961 Commander, Army Group RA, Western Command
20.03.1961 - 05.01.1963 Commander Royal Artillery, 51st Highland Division & District - Territorial Army
20.03.1964 - (02.1967) Deputy Standing Group Representative to North Atlantic Council
Vice-President, International Institute for Strategic Studies, since 1988 (Deputy Director, 1967-1977). Director, British Atlantic Committee, 1978-1981. Specialist Adviser to House of Commons Defence Committee, 1971-1984. Visiting Professor: Fletcher School of Law, Cambridge, Mass, 1975; University of Southern California, 1978-1979; University of Surrey, 1978-1987. Member Council, Royal United Services Institution, 1977; Fellow, Institute of Security, Tokyo, 1979-. Freeman, City of London, 1977; Member, HAC. Hon. Dr (PolSci), Korea Univ., 1977. Order of Rising Sun (Japan), 1984.
Published: NATO without France, 1967; The Requirements of Military Technology, 1967; Defence with Fewer Men, 1973; (ed) The Military Balance, 1967-1977; (jointly) The Third World War, 1978; (jointly) Asian Security, annually, 1979-1989; Europe in the Western Alliance, 1988; contributions to learned journals, and chapters in books, in UK, USA, E Asia.
Hunt,
Reginald Howard
R.H. Hunt
Son of Reginald Noel Hunt (1873-1940), and Lilian Mary Sidney (1872-1965).
Brother of Maj. Alfred Melville Hunt, Royal Signals.
Married Joan Mary ... (1920 - ).
26.08.1909
Pretoria, South Africa
-
22.09.1999
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
Lt. 25.10.1934 [63799]
Capt. 25.10.1935
A/Maj. 05.02.1940-04.05.1940
T/Maj. 05.05.1940-12.08.1944
WS/Maj. 13.08.1944
Maj. 25.10.1944
A/Lt.Col. 13.05.1944-12.08.1944
T/Lt.Col. 13.08.1944-17.02.1949
Lt.Col. 18.02.1949 (retd 17.03.1958)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 13.12.1945 Italy [citation available upon request]
General Service Medal GSM ? & clasp Palestine 36-39
39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Italy Star It St - -
Defence Medal Def M ? ?
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
Education: LRCP, LRCS Ed. (1934), LRFPS Glas (1934); LDS RCS Ed (1932). Graded dermatologist.
25.10.1934     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
1935 - 1936 Egypt
1936 - 1936 Palestine/Egypt
1936 - 1937 Sudan
1937 - 1938 Egypt
1938 - 1939 Palestine
25.10.1939     permanent commission
1940     British Expeditionary Force, France
1941 - 1943 Middle East Forces
07.03.1942 - 26.08.1943 Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (15.05.1943 arrived at Malta, 06.09.1943 left Malta)
13.05.1944 - 1944 Assistant Director of Medical Services, HQ 2nd District (Central Mediterranean Forces)
1944 - 29.06.1945 Assistant Director of Medical Services, Yugoslav Increment, Allied Force HQ (Central Mediterranean Forces)
1948 - 1952 East Africa:
1951     Commanding Officer, British Military Hospital Mackinnon Road
25.02.1952 - 06.07.1953 Assistant Director of Medical Services, HQ Eastern Command
05.10.1953 - 05.12.1954 Assistant Director of Medical Services, HQ British Element, Trieste Force (BETFOR)
07.01.1955 - (02.1957) Commander Medical Services & Assistant Director of Medical Services Caribbean Area
Hunt,
R J
R.J. Hunt (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
?
-
?
Maj. 19.04.1930 [7968]

TD

      7th City of London Regiment - Territorial Army
      Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class II)
(1941)     8th (HD) Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment
Hunter,
Antony Noel
A.N. Hunter
Only son (with one sister) of Capt. George Noel Hunter, OBE (1884-1957), and Ethel Mary Marsh (1889-1962).
Married 1st (21.06.1938, St Margaret's, Westminster, London) Rosemary Finnis ((12?).1917 - 1993), youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs Leslie Finnis, of South Kensington; three daughters.
Married 2nd (10.03.1951) Mrs Myrtle Joyce Rutherfurd (née Thorelius, adopted Leigh) (10.03.1917 - 01.04.1993), daughter of Hilmer Frederik Thorelius (1892-1975), and Myrtle Bessie Marie Johnson (1896-1974), of New York.
Married 3rd (13.08.1964, Chelsea, London) mademoiselle Mary Irene Clouët Des Pesruches.
One son.
18.07.1913
"Walden", Surbiton, Kingston district, Surrey
-
22.05.1967
Ragdale, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Pte. ?
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 28.01.1940 [117456]
WS/Lt. 19.05.1941
T/Capt. 19.05.1941-19.07.1943
WS/Capt. 20.07.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 20.07.1943-1946
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 24.01.1946 NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
Education: Uppingham School (05.1927-04.1932; Hockey XI 1931, 1932).
      RASC No 1 Training Centre
28.01.1940

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
20.04.1943 - 1945 Senior Supply Officer, Divisional RASC, 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
Director (latterly managing director and chairman) of the family firm, Sun Engraving Company Limited.
Hunter,
Henry Laurenson
"Harry"
H.L. Hunter
Son of Capt. William James Twatt Hunter, and Christina Abernethy.
Married Eileen Abrahamson; one daughter, one son.
12.10.1920
Leith district, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
19.11.2013
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 06.09.1941 [203742]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Capt. 06.05.1945 (reld 24.03.1946)
T/Maj. 20.07.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. 24.03.1946
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 23.05.1952 -
06.09.1941

commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers [emergency commission]
Hunter,
Peter Derek Vassar
P.D.V. Hunter
Son of Fred Charles and Georgina Daisy Hunter, of Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk.
Residence: (1944) King's Lynn.
1915 ?
-
10.08.1944
(KIA) [age 29]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, XXI.B.2]
[commemorated at Snettisham War Memorial, Norfolk]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
06.02.1943 [262353]
WS/Lt.
06.08.1943
Military Cross MC
31.08.1944
Normandy
06.02.1943




commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)
-
10.08.1944
Officer Commanding, 2 Troop, "A" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France [killed in action])
 
Hunter,
Thomas Girvan
T.G. Hunter (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
23.06.1903
Prestwick, Scotland
-
29.01.1971
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2nd Lt. 01.03.1941 [178348]
WS/Lt. 01.03.1945 (reld 21.05.1946)
01.03.1941     commissioned, General List - Territorial Army
(1941)     Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe
Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, from 1947 to 1969.
Hunter,
Thomas Harris
"Tom"
T.H. Hunter
Son of Thomas Hunter (1873-), and Janet Harris (1872-).
Married (20.09.1923, Union Church, Perth, Perthshire) Mary Hamilton Tolmie (21.07.1893 - 1961), daughter of Alexander Tolmie (1866-1941), and Marion Jane Johnston (1859-1940).
1898
Perth, Pertshire, Scotland
-
02.04.1970
Myrtle Cottage, Connel, Argyll, Scotland (formerly of Balcanquhal House, Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland)
2nd Lt. 02.07.1917 [20476]
Lt. ?
Capt. ?
Maj. 31.03.1928
Lt.Col. 08.06.1934
Bt. Col. 08.06.1938 (restored to that rank 15.10.1945 on ceasing to be employed)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 11.10.1945 gallant & distinguished service
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 18.09.1936 -
(Territorial) Efficiency Decoration TD 16.02.1951 4 clasps
? - 02.07.1917 Officer Cadet Unit
02.07.1917     commissioned, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery - Territorial Force
?     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
28.02.1925     transferred, 51st (Highland) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Coprs - Territorial ASrmy
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
? - 06.1940 Commander RASC, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (France; captured at St Valéry)
06.1940 - 1945? POW (No. 1128) in German captivity (Oflag VII-C, Laufen, Bayern (1940), then Oflag IX-A/H, Spangenberg, Hessen)
[Devised Scottish dance  "The Reel of the 51st Division", originally called "The 51st Country Dance (Laufen Reel)" during the winter of 1940 with Lt. J.E.M. Atkinson, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders & Lt. A.P.H. Oliver, Seaforth Highlanders. Original tune was composed by Lt. J.H. Ross, Seaforth Highlanders.]
15.10.1945 - 07.05.1955 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Honorary Colonel, 51st (Highland) Divisional Column RASC (TA), 03.04.1950-14.08.1959.
Justice of the Peace (JP).
Huntley,
Jack Eric
J.E. Huntley
Son of ... Huntley, and ... Wheatley.
(06?).1917
Croydon district, London
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 27.09.1941 [207987]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Capt. 1946? (reld 27.07.1946)
T/Maj. 1946?
Hon. Maj. 27.07.1946
Capt. 07.07.1947
Maj. 07.09.1955 (reld 27.03.1962)
Hon. Maj. 27.03.1962
27.09.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
07.07.1947 - 27.03.1962 short service commission, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Hurman,
Henry Rowland
H.R. Hurman (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
Son of William H. Hurman, and Florence Risdon.
Married 1st ((12?).1945, Hendon district, Middlesex) Joyce A. Rogers.
Married 2nd ((06?).1981, Bodmin district, Cornwall) Helen M. Walker.
(06?).1916
Bath district, Gloucestershire
-
13.03.1985
Padstow, Cornwall
2nd Lt. 08.03.1941 [177246]
WS/Lt. 26.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt. 26.05.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Reporter for the Daily Mail.
08.03.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
31.05.1945 - (04.1946) Instructor, RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)
 
Hurman,
Preston John
P.J. Hurman (Photo courtesy of Mr Mike Hurman) P.J. Hurman
Son of William John Hurman (1881-1960), foreman, and Alice Henrietta Purkiss (1883-1915), and adopted son of Mrs Elizabeth Buzzard, of Cannes, Southern France.
Married (30.11.1946, Holy Trinity Church, Brompton Road, Kensington district, London) Kathleen Mary Dawn "Kate" Macleod ((12?).1928 - 31.07.2013), younger daughter of Hugh Henderson Macleod (1867-1942), and Phyllis Mary Galsworthy (1890-1977), of Merrow, Guildford; one daughter, two sons.


 

26.01.1915
Pimlico, St George Hanover Square district, London
-
12.11.2005
Hindhead, West Surrey (formerly of Haslemere, West Surrey)
Cpl. ?
2nd Lt. 18.05.1940 [132143]
WS/Lt. 18.11.1941
A/Capt. ? 12.1941 ?
T/Capt. 05.07.1942-21.07.1944
WS/Capt. 22.07.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 22.07.1944-(01.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 24.06.1943 Middle East (raid on Jalo from the Kufra oasis, North Africa September 1942)
His early years spent in Brighton at a Barnado’s children’s home until age 11. Worked in London from the age of 13.
04.09.1939 - 1940 enlisted, Royal Army Service Corps
[training in Woolwich & Dulwich]
1940 - 05.1940 Officer Producing Centre, RASC (St Lawrence College, Ramsgate)
18.05.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
05.1940 - 09.1940 workshop unit RASC (Faringdon, Oxfordshire, and Eaton Hall, Cheshire)
 09.1940 - 11?.1940 volunteered for the Middle East
[09.1940 passage per “Duchess of York”  to Port Said via Cape Town; posted to Abbassia 10 miles from Cairo for 6 week acclimatisation]
 11?.1940 - 11?.1941 345 Lines of Communications Company RASC (Egypt & North Africa)
[moved to Tobruk and put under siege by Rommel’s forces; losing 2.5 stone in weight during the coming months; lLate 1941 evacuated by “HMS Hero” and disembarked Tel Al Kebir]
11?.1941 - 06?.1942 7th Armoured Division
06?.1942 - 10?.1942 Sudan Defence Force (served with Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) & Special Air Service (SAS)) (despatches)
[contracted malaria, sent to Sinai to recover 10?.1942-12?.1942]
12.1942? - 11.1943 Brigade RASC Officer (BRASCO), 231st (Malta) Infantry Brigade
[preparation of the invasion of Sicily Op Husky; 07.1943 landed on Amber Beach southern tip of Sicily; 07.09.1943 took part in the landing in Pizzo Italy]
11.1943 - 04.1944 Brigade RASC Officer (BRASCO), 5 Army Group Royal Artillery (Scotland)
04.1944 - 05.1945 Officer Commanding, 536 DUKW Company RASC
[preparation for Operation Overlord. Attached to 50th Infantry Division tasked with landing on the Eastern edge of Gold Beach (King Beach) to take the villages of La Rivière and Le Hamel; landed in Normandy at 0730Hrs D Day; injured by the blast of an Anti-tank mine on D+1 was evacuated to a Canadian Field Hospital then back to the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot; 18.08.1944 rejoined unit; 09.1944 Operation Market-Garden (Arnhem); 03.1945 Operation Turnscrew (Rhine crossing); Town Major of Seelze, Germany; returned to the Nijmegen area, the Netherlands]
05.1945     posted back to UK & demobilised
Established Preston & Co Estate Agents in Woking and worked there until he retired.
Hurn,
Stanley James
S.J. Hurn
14.08.1910
Newport, Monmouthshire
-
01.1999
Newport, Monmouthshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
27.06.1942 [237274]
WS/Lt.
22.07.1942
Lt.
01.08.1946, seniority 22.07.1942
Capt.
04.02.1949
Maj.
04.02.1956 (reld 01.07.1963)
Hon. Maj.
01.07.1963
Mechanical engineer.
03.09.1939
 
 
enlisted service
27.06.1942


commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
12.10.1943
 
 
transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
25.11.1944
-
01.12.1944
No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army") (spent only one week with the unit)
01.08.1946
-
01.07.1963
short service commission, Royal Armoured Corps (from 11.10.1947-30.06.1948 Royal Tank Regiment)
Hurst,
Kenneth William
K.W. Hurst (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hurst)
Son (with three brothers and one sister) of William George James Hurst (1884-1971), and Harriett Rosetta Calter (1883-1958).
Married ((09?).1934, Woodbridge, Suffolk) Elizabeth Annie Gildersleeves (10.01.1910 - 14.09.1989), daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of William Henry Gildersleeves (1872-1933), and Ellen Cooper (1875-1941); two daughters, one son.
04.09.1910
Fareham, Hampshire
-
10.10.1988
Boxhill, Tadworth, Surrey
2nd Lt. 12.12.1942 [255565]
WS/Lt. 12.12.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. .16.01.1944-(01.1946)
A/Maj. 1945?
T/Maj. 1946?
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
12.12.1942     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
03.05.1943 - 11.07.1945 Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners Group - Indian Army
12.07.1945 - (10.1945) [new position with] Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners Group - Indian Army
Estate secretary to the Warnford Farm Estate in Hampshire.
His son writes: "
I know he left in Bangalore as a Madras Sapper as a Captain on 10 April 1945 relinquishing the post of Adjutant, Depot Wing. June 1945 he was in charge No. 36 Pl. Cy."
Hussey,
Marmaduke John;
Baron Hussey of North Bradley (cr. 1996; Life Peer)
M.J. Hussey
Son of late E.R.J. Hussey, CMG and Mrs Christine Hussey.
Married (1959) Lady Susan Katharine Waldegrave (see Lady Susan Hussey); one son, one daughter.

29.08.1923
-
27.12.2006
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
04.06.1943 [278547]
WS/Lt.
04.12.1943 (reld 14.02.1947; disability)
Hon. Lt.
14.02.1947
Education: Rugby School; Trinity College, Oxford (Scholar, MA; Hon. Fellow 1989)
04.06.1943




commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
01.1944


landed at Anzio and was seriously wounded within hours (captured, POW in German captivity and finally repatriated because of his bad health)
Joined Associated Newspapers, 1949, Director 1964; Managing Director, Harmsworth Publications, 1967-1970; joined Thomson Organisation Executive Board, 1971; Chief Executive and Managing Director, 1971-1980, Director, 1982-1986, Times Newspapers Ltd; Joint Chaiman, Great Western Radio, 1985-1986; Director, William Collins plc, 1985-1989. Chairman: Ruffer Investment Management Ltd, 1995-; Cadweb, 1996-. Member of the Board, British Council, 1983-1996. Member: Government Working Party on Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres in England, 1984-1986; Management Committee and Education Committee, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1987-; Chairman, King's Fund London Commission, 1991-1992, 1995. President, Royal Bath and West of England Society, 1990-1991. Trustee: Rhodes Trust, 1972-1991; Royal Academy Trust, 1988-1996. Chairman, Board of Governors: BBC, 1986-1996; Royal Marsden Hospital, since 1985; Director, Colonial Mutual Group, since 1982.
Hutchinson,
Arthur Harold Watson
A.H.W. Hutchinson
06.01.1908
Gateshead district, Durham
-
2nd Lt. 28.11.1936 [69734]
WS/Lt. 28.11.1939
T/Capt. 14.09.1940-08.09.1942
WS/Capt. 09.09.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj. 10.04.1944-(08.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 08.1946, < 12.1946
28.11.1936     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Special Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized SRO

His cousin writes: "Retired as Major from BAOR in Erfurt c.1953. Was a racing car driver with Billy Cotton before the war. Evacuated from Dunkirk. Served in Swaffam/Diss/Downham Market area in 1941/2. North Africa after that. Then I think Normandy through to Germany."

22.02.1947 - 06.01.1963 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Hutchinson,
John Oliver
J.O. Hutchinson (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
17.11.1907
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
06.1987
Basford district, Nottinghamshire
Dvr. ?
2nd Lt. 20.04.1940 [129796]
WS/Lt. 20.10.1941
T/Capt. 30.04.1942-11.05.1944
WS/Capt. 12.05.1944 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj. 12.05.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 10.01.1946 Burma
20.04.1940     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
Hutchinson,
Peter Hereward *
P.H. Hutchinson
* later known as: Peter Hanley Hutchinson
Married Kitty ...; one daughter, one son.
07.07.1922
-
06.01.2008
2nd Lt.
07.12.1944
WS/Lt.
07.06.1945
...
...
Maj.
03.12.1957, seniority 23.03.1957 (retd 14.01.1960)
Education: MA (Trinity College, Oxon.; 1941)
07.12.1944




commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission]



1st Battalion The Black Watch
31.07.1946


permanent commission, Gordon Highlanders (1st Battalion)



served No 5 Commando (South East Asia) and 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment
Hutchinson,
T H
T.H. Hutchinson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ?
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
?     commissioned, ? [emergency commission]
Hutchinson,
William
W. Hutchinson

?
-
Wt.Offr. Cl. I
? [7259269]
Lt. (QM)
08.10.1944 [223328]
WS/Capt. (QM)
08.10.1947
Capt. (QM)
12.04.1949
Capt.
01.11.1949, seniority 08.10.1947
T/Maj.
10.02.1954-(12.1954)
Maj.
12.04.1955 (reld < 02.1959)
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Military) LSGCM
11.11.1949
? [date of qualification 18.04.46]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
?
?
Burma Star Bur St
?
?
Defence Medal Def M
?
?
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
?
?
Korea Medal Kor M
?
?
United Nations Service Medal (Korea) UN Kor M
?
?
08.10.1944




commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission to 31.10.1949]
01.11.1949


short service commission, RAMC (Admin. & Tech., later Non-Medical Section)
OStJ, 01.07.1955.
Hutchison,
[Sir] Balfour Oliphant
B.O. Hutchison (Photo courtesy of Isabel Hutchison)
Son of Alexander Hutchison, of Braehead, Kirkcaldy, and youngest brother of Lord Robert Hutchison of Montrose, PC, KCMG, CB, DSO (1873-1950).
Married (28.01.1920) Audrey Jervis-White-Jervis (25.08.1895 - 09.1991), eldest daughter of late Herbert Jervis­White­Jervis (1858-1934), and Beatrice Ruggles-Brice (1866-1939); three sons (2nd Lt. Julian Jervis Oliphant Hutchison, RAC, killed in action 23.01.1942; Lt. Andrew Balfour Hutchison, RAC, died of wounds 06.04.1945), two daughters.
 

12.02.1889
Kirkcaldy
-
26.04.1967
Rendham Court, nr Saxmundham, Suffolk
2nd Lt. (prob) 26.06.1909 [4670]
Lt. 09.08.1913
Capt. 09.11.1918
Maj. 11.10.1930
Lt.Col. 06.07.1935 (half pay/full pay 01.10.1937)
Bt. Col. 01.10.1937, seniority 01.10.1936
Col. 20.07.1938, seniority 01.10.1936
T/Brig. 19.11.1938-06.10.1939
A/Maj.Gen. 08.06.1940-...
T/Maj.Gen. ...-16.01.1942
Maj.Gen. 17.01.1942, seniority 29.10.1941 (retd 10.12.1945)
A/Lt.Gen. 09.01.1944-08.01.1945
T/Lt.Gen. 09.01.1945-10.12.1945
Hon. Lt.Gen. 10.12.1945
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE 1946 ?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 1940 ?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 1941 ?
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mention in Despatches MID 16.08.1917 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 27.08.1918 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 21.02.1919 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 12.01.1920 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 15.09.1939 Palestine
Mention in Despatches MID 01.04.1941 Middle East (Egypt / Libya)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.12.1941 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID 30.06.1942 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID 06.04.1944 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID ? ?
Education: Bilton Grange; Uppingham; Staff College, Camberley (22.01.1923-1924; psc).
26.06.1909     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers
09.12.1911     7th Queen's Own Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
26.12.1916 - 11.11.1918 served European War in Mesopotamia (despatches four times)
19.07.1918 - 29.04.1919 General Staff Officer, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
01.05.1925 - 24.01.1927 Staff Captain, Scottish Command
25.01.1927 - 30.07.1927 Staff Captain, Shanghai Defence Force and Northern China (temporarily)
31.07.1927 - 01.01.1928 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Northern China (temporarily)
02.01.1928 - 30.04.1929 Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General (DA&QMG), Eastern Command
11.10.1930     10th Royal Hussars
1935 - 1937 Commanding Officer, 10th Royal Hussars
01.10.1937 - 18.11.1938 Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), Mobile (1st Armoured) Division (Southern Command)
19.11.1938 - 06.10.1939 Brigadier in charge Administration, Palestine (temporarily) (during Palestine Rebellion) (despatches, CBE)
08.06.1940 - 05.1942 Deputy Quartermaster-General (QMG), Middle East
05.05.1942 - 12.1943 General Officer Commanding Sudan and Eritrea
09.01.1944 - 1945 Quartermaster-General (QMG), India
Huttenbach,
Colin Frowd
I.G. Bailey (Photo courtesy of Stephanie Bailey Cooper)
Son (with one sister) of Col. Norman Hugh Huttenbach, DSO, OBE, MC (1891-1978), and Audrey Swainson Akroyd (1891-1960).
Married ((12?).1947, Westminster district, London)  Margarethe Helene Maszarovics (05.06.1924 - (09?).1979), daughter of Mr & Mrs M. Maszarovics, of Vienna, Austria..
Married 2nd (24.06.1980, Kensington, London) Brigid Louise Hermon (1938 - 24.11.2009), who was earlier married to Richard Christopher Stacy Waddy (1935-1998), and daughter of Robert Arthur Hermon (1907-1963), and Mary Katherine Selina Meade (1910-1965).
01.05.1918
-
06.07.1988
Andover district, Hampshire
Gnr. ?
2nd Lt. 20.01.1940 [117225]
WS/Lt. 20.07.1941
T/Capt. 11.06.1942-(04.1946)
Lt. 03.03.1953, seniority 09.01.1945
Capt. 01.08.1953, seniority 03.03.1953
Distinguished Flying Cross (UK) DFC 01.02.1944 Italy *
Mention in Despatches MID 23.05.1946 Mediterranean

* Captain Huttenbach has participated in a large number of sorties and has displayed skill and courage of a high order. During the battle of the Sangro on 1st December, 1943, he undertook very many sorties on that day and was responsible for silencing the enemy's mortar fire on 5 occasions, thus enabling our tanks to advance. In these operations, Captain Huttenbach displayed outstanding gallantry and his example was most inspiring.

Education: Harrow School (1932.1-1937.1; The Park House; Monitor 1936).
20.01.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      No. 14 Air Observation Post course
      651 (Air Observation Post) Squadron RAF (DFC)
03.03.1953 - 18.02.1958 Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
18.02.1958 - ? Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Huttenbach,
Norman Hugh

N.H. Huttenbach 
Son of August Huttenbach (?-1918), and Louisa Camilla Walker (?-1891), of Penang, Straits Settlements.
Married 1st (11.03.1916, St George's, St George Hanover Square district, London; marriage dissolved 1932) Audrey Swainson Akroyd (1891-1960), daughter of Swainson Howden Akroyd (1849-1925), and Evelyn Fanny King (1855-1921), of Avon Dassett, Warwickshire; one son (Capt. Colin Frowd Huttenbach, DFC), one daughter.
Married 2nd (03.11.1932, St George Hanover Square district, London) Mary Millicent Marsh, younger daughter of Octavius Bulwer Marsh.
Married 3rd ((09?).1969, Bromley district, London) Ursula A. Sameidt; one son, one daughter.
16.09.1891
Penang, Straits Settlements
-
11.07.1978
in hospital, Bromley district, Kent
2nd Lt. 20.07.1911 [4599]
Lt. 20.07.1914
Capt. 08.08.1916 (retd 09.03.1927; receiving a gratuity; granted rank of Maj.)
A/Maj. 1916-1919
Maj. 09.03.1927, seniority 09.03.1926
T/Lt.Col. 19.05.1940-11.01.1945
WS/Lt.Col. 12.01.1945
A/Col. 23.04.1944-(04.1945)
T/Col. 12.01.1945-03.09.1945
Hon. Col. 03.09.1945
Distinguished Service Order DSO 11.01.1919 *
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42
Military Cross MC 08.11.1915 Dardanelles
1914 Star 14 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mention in Despatches MID WW I ?
Mention in Despatches MID WW I ?
Mention in Despatches MID WW I ?

* N.H. Huttenbach

Education: Harrow School (1905.2-1909.3; The Park House; Monitor 1908; Football XI 1907-1909 (Capt. 1908-1909); athletics); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1909-1911).
20.07.1911     commissioned, Royal Field Artillery
WW I     served Great War (1914 Star; wounded, 1914; Gallipoli, 1915; France 1916-1917; Instructor, School of Gunnery, 1918; France 1918; MC, DSO, Italian Silver Medal for Valour 26.05.1917, three despatches)
Company director. Master Warwickshire Hounds, 1927-1929.
09.03.1926 - 03.09.1945 Royal Regiment of Artillery - Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class II) [exceeded age limit]
10.05.1939     attached Royal Army Ordnance Corps
19.02.1940 - (01.1942) Deputy Assistant of Ordnance Services at outstations, Northern Command
(01.1944) - (04.1944) specially employed
(07.1944) - (07.1945) employed
Hutton,
Sir Thomas Jacomb
T.J. Hutton T.J. Hutton
T.J. Hutton T.J. Hutton
Eldest son of William Henry Hutton, JP, Clevedon, Som.
Married (1921) Isabel (CBE 1948; she died 1960), daughter of James Emslie, Edinburgh.

27.03.1890
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
-
17.01.1981
[London?]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
23.12.1909 [19400]
Lt. 23.12.1912
T/Capt.
29.05.1915-22.12.1915
Capt.
23.12.1915
A/Maj.
27.11.1916-20.08.1917
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1918 *
A/Maj.
29.04.1918-02.07.1918
T/Maj.
02.04.1919-16.11.1920
Maj.
05.02.1927
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1927
Col.
29.05.1933, seniority 01.07.1930
local Maj.Gen.
29.07.1938-19.08.1938
Maj.Gen.
20.08.1938, seniority 20.03.1938
A/Lt.Gen.
20.07.1940
Lt.Gen.
12.12.1941 (retd 12.12.1944)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire KCIE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Military Cross MC
23.06.1915
?
Military Cross MC
26.09.1917
**
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1915
?
Mention in Despatches MID
04.01.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
18.05.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
14.12.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
28.10.1942
Burma 12.41-05.42
Legion d'Honneur, 5th Class (France) LegH
WW I
?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
WW I
?
? It WC
WW I
Italian War Cross
1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal

* Special promotion for war services.
** For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His battery was very heavily shelled for a considerable time. On three occasions when fires were caused in gun-pits he succeeded in extinguishing them and preventing the ammunition from exploding. On several occasions he dug out and rescued wounded under heavy shell fire, and also under heavy fire rescued a wagon and team which had been thrown into a shell hole by a heavy shell. He showed the greatest gallantry, coolness, and contempt of danger, and the fine behaviour of all ranks was largely due to his example.
Education: Rossall; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; idc, psc
23.12.1909


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
22.08.1914
13.07.1916
-
-
25.06.1915
11.11.1918
served Royal Field Artillery (Battery Commander, 27.11.1916-20.08.1917 & 29.04.1918-02.07.1918) in France & Belgium (wounded thrice; despatches four times)
04.09.1918
-
29.10.1918
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3),  ... (France)
30.10.1918
-
01.04.1919
Brigade Major, ... (France)
02.04.1919
-
16.11.1920
Assistant Military Secretary (Class BB) to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Saloniki and Black Sea
17.11.1920
-
31.03.1923
regimental service RA
01.04.1923
-
23.05.1924
Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), War Office
24.05..1924
-
31.10.1926
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (Eastern Command)
01.11.1926
-
30.04.1927
regimental service RA
01.05.1927
-
14.12.1930
Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) to Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
15.12.1930
-
28.05.1933
regimental service RA
29.05.1933
-
20.01.1936
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Military Operations, War Office
21.01.1936
-
28.07.1938
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 1st Infantry Division (Aldershot Command & Palestine / Trans-Jordan)
29.07.1938
-
19.08.1938
specially employed, India
20.08.1938
-
19.07.1940
General Officer Commanding, Western Independent District, India
20.07.1940
-
09.05.1941
Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Army HQ, India
10.05.1941
-
28.12.1941
Chief of the General Staff, Army HQ, India
27.12.1941
-
05.03.1942
General Officer Commanding, Burma
[officially 29.12.1941; assumed command 27.12.1941]
1942
-
1944
Secretary, War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council, Government of India
12.12.1944
-
27.03.1955
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Officiating Secretary, Viceroy's Executive Council; Secretary, Planning and Development Department, 1944-1946; Regional Officer, Ministry of Health, 1947-1949; General Manager, Anglo-American Council on Productivity, 1949-1953; Director, British Productivity Council, 1953-1957. Chairman, Organisation and Methods Training Council, 1957-1964. Colonel Commandant RA, 11.03.1942-1952. Colonel Commandant, Hong Kong-Singapore RA.
Hyams,
Henry Hart
H.H. Hyams
?
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
21.01.1940 [117128]
WS/Lt. 21.07.1941
T/Capt.
10.05.1942-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946)



served in the ranks in the Rifle Brigade



Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
21.01.1940


commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission]



seconded to the South Wales Borderers (as Adjutant) (Burma)
Hyatt-Box,
John Allan
see: Box,
John Allan Hyatt
 
Hyland,
Frederick Gordon

F.G. Hyland
08.02.1888
-
16.04.1962
2nd Lt.
23.07.1909 [11637]
...
...
Maj.Gen.
30.05.1939, seniority 01.09.1938 (supernumerary 08.02.1945) (retd 05.04.1946)

CB 1942; MC

23.07.1909


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
...
-
...
...
30.05.1939
-
30.09.1942
General Officer Commanding, 6th Anti-Aircraft Division (UK)
1942
-
1944
Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of the Fortress, Gibraltar
Hyslop,
Hugh John Maxwell
H.J.M. Hyslop
12.05.1905
-
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
30.08.1924
... ...
Maj.
03.10.1941, seniority 30.08.1941
30.08.1924


commissioned into the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
?
-
?
?
       
 
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