Geoffrey
Married (at Malta) Mary Dorothea Rochfort; at least one son (born 1927).
Dewsbury, Yorkshire
-
08.05.1977
Winterbourne Earls, Salisbury, Wiltshire
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
07.04.1916 [9298] |
| Lt. | 07.10.1917 |
| Capt. |
01.11.1927 |
| Maj. |
01.08.1938 (retd
26.10.1948) |
| A/Lt.Col. |
18.11.1940-29.12.1940 |
|
MBE |
25.07.1921 |
for an action he planned and took a prominent role in on 03.05.21 in Ireland
[gazetted 28.09.21] |
|
BWM
14|20 |
? |
? |
|
VM |
? |
? |
| 07.04.1916 |
commissioned,
The Border Regiment |
||
| 10.1916 |
- |
02.1918 |
served
the region of Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the
Islands of the AEgean Sea |
| 01.1918 |
- |
31.10.1918 |
served
Egyptian Expeditionary Force (wounded) |
| 08.08.1918 |
- |
01.06.1919 |
employed
under the Air Ministry |
| (1921) |
Platoon
Commander, 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment (Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, in the West of Ireland)
[seriously injured in action with the South Mayo Brigade IRA. 03.05.1921] |
||
| (1921?) |
- |
14.01.1929 |
5th (Cumberland) Battalion The Border Regiment (Territorial Army) |
| 15.01.1929 |
- |
14.01.1933 |
Adjutant,
5th (Cumberland) Battalion The Border Regiment (Territorial Army) (Workington) |
| (06.1933) |
1st
Battalion The Border Regiment (Holywood) |
||
| (01.1937) |
2nd
Battalion The Border Regiment (Ferozep) |
||
| (01.1939) |
2nd
Battalion The Border Regiment (Calcutta) |
||
| (09.1939) |
2nd
Battalion The Border Regiment (India) |
||
| (04.1944) |
specially
employed |
Denis James
Edmonton district
-
19.08.1981
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt.
|
12.04.1941
[182321] |
| 12.04.1941 |
commissioned,
The Essex Regiment [emergency commission] |
||
| 1944/45? |
transferred,
Indian Army |
||
| probably
served 9th Jat Regiment |
|||
| 22.02.1947 |
returned
to UK |
Robert Charles
-
| Cadet |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
17.10.1942
[249231] |
| WS/Lt. | 17.04.1943 (reld
02.02.1952) |
| Hon. Capt. |
02.02.1952 |
| 17.10.1942 |
commissioned,
The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission] |
[Sir] John Drummond
|
|
-
07.01.1985
| 2nd Lt. |
12.08.1914 [5689] |
| Col. |
26.02.1940 (retd
19.10.1945) |
| A/Brig. |
26.11.1940-(04.1941) |
| T/Brig. |
...-29.04.1943 |
| A/Maj.Gen. |
13.04.1942-13.04.1943 |
| T/Maj.Gen. | 13.04.1943-19.10.1945 |
| Hon. Maj.Gen. |
19.10.1945 |
KBE (05.07.1945; NW Europe), CB (01.01.1944), OBE (1939), MC (1916);
Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau
with Swords (The Netherlands) (16.01.1948)
| 12.08.1914 |
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
| 1941 |
- |
1942 |
Chief
Engineer, I Corps (Home Forces) |
| 1942 |
- |
1943 |
Chief
Engineer, Home Forces |
| 1943 |
- |
1945 |
Chief
Engineer, 21st Army Group (NW Europe) |
[Sir] Gerald Howard Boteler;
10th Baronet Irby, of Whapload and Boston, co. Lincoln;
9th Baron Boston, of Boston, co. Lincoln
Son of Lt.-Col. Leonard Paul Irby, OBE (great-grandson of 2nd Baron) (1871-1936), and Ethel Maud Boteler (1869-1957), daughter of Capt. William John Casberd Boteler, RN (1843-1907).
Succeeded cousin 12.10.1972.
Married 1st (14.08.1926) Katherine Gertrude Edwards, daughter of Captain C.M.H. Edwards (divorced 1931); one daughter.
Married, 2nd (08.02.1936) Erica Nelly Hill (13.08.1899-05.1990), daughter of T.H. Hill; one son.
-
17.02.1978
Esher, Surrey
| T/2nd Lt. |
29.08.1915 |
| T/Lt. |
? |
| 2nd Lt. |
27.09.1939
[100873] |
| WS/Capt. | 01.09.1940 |
| T/Maj.
|
01.09.1940-(04.1946) |
|
MBE |
1918 |
? |
| 1915 |
- |
1918 |
commissioned,
The King's
Royal Rifle Corps [temporary commission] |
| 27.09.1939 |
commissioned,
Royal Army
Service Corps [emergency commission] |
the Lord
Ironside, Sir William Edmund;
1st Baron (cr. 1941) Ironside of Archangel and of Ironside
Son of Surg.Maj. William Ironside, RHA, of Ironside, Aberdeenshire.
Married (1915) Mariot Ysobel, daughter of Charles Cheyne; one son, one daughter.
|
|
|
|
|
|
South Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
22.09.1959
Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London
| 2nd Lt. |
25.06.1899 |
| Lt. |
16.02.1901 |
| Capt. |
18.02.1908 |
| Maj. |
30.10.1914 |
| Bt.
Lt.Col. |
03.06.1916 |
| Bt.
Col. |
01.01.1919 |
| Col. |
02.06.1919 |
| Maj.Gen. |
11.11.1919 |
| Lt.Gen. |
01.03.1931 |
| Gen. |
30.06.1935
(retd 19.07.1940) |
| Field
Marshal |
20.07.1940 |
| - | Baron |
01.01.1941 |
- |
|
GCB |
09.06.1938 |
HM's
birthday 38 |
|
|
KCB |
01.08.1919 |
North
Russia |
|
CMG |
01.01.1918 |
for services rendered in
connection with Military Operations in the Field |
|
DSO |
23.06.1915 |
for
distinguished service in the field [with effect from 03.06.1915] |
S. Africa: MiD (10.9.1901); Queen's South African Medal (clasps Cape
Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal); King's South African Medal (clasps
South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902); France, Russia: MiD (04.12.1914,
22.06.1915, 15.06.1916, 15.05.1917, 11.12.1917, 20.12.1918, 21.05.1920); 1914
Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; KCB; CMG; DSO; Croix de Guerre avec
Palme, 2nd Class; Order St Vladimir; Croix d'Officier de la Légion d'Honneur;
Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class (Japan) (06.02.1922);
Iraq: North-West Persia Medal and Clasp; others: Grand Croix de
la Légion d'Honneur (1946)
| 25.06.1899 |
commissioned
Royal Artillery; section commander, 44th Battery (2.1900-5.1902) (1899-1902
South African War) |
||
| 26.09.1908 |
- |
01.06.1909 |
Staff
Captain (South Africa) |
| 02.06.1909 |
- |
25.09.1912 |
Brigade-Major
(South Africa) |
| 05.08.1914 |
- |
28.10.1914 |
Staff
Captain (France) |
| 29.10.1914 |
- |
16.02.1915 |
General
Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), 6th Division (France) |
| 17.02.1915 |
- |
29.02.1916 |
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), 6th Division (France) |
| 03.03.1916 |
- |
06.01.1918 |
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 4th Canadian Division (Home Forces &
France) (T/Lt.Col.) |
| 07.01.1918 |
- |
26.03.1918 |
Commandant
(General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1)), Small Arms School [or: Machine Gun
Corps School] (Camiers, France) (T/Col.) |
| 27.03.1918 |
- |
19.09.1918 |
Commander,
99th Infantry Brigade (France) (T/Brig.Gen.) |
| 20.09.1918 |
- |
16.11.1918 |
Brigadier-General
General Staff (T/Brig.Gen.) (Russia) |
| 17.11.1918 |
- |
03.03.1919 |
General
Officer Commanding, Archangel (Russia) (T/Maj.Gen.) |
| 04.03.1919 |
- |
14.11.1919 |
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Archangel (Russia) (T/Maj.Gen. to 10.11.1919) |
| 01.03.1920 |
- |
16.05.1920 |
Chief,
British Military Mission to Eastern Hungary |
| 04.07.1920 |
- |
22.08.1920 |
Commander,
Ismid Force (Iraq) |
| 23.08.1920 |
- |
07.07.1921 |
Commander,
Northern Persian Force (Mesopotamia Expeditionery Force) |
| 01.05.1922 |
- |
30.04.1926 |
Commandant
(Major-General General Staff), Staff College (Camberley, UK) |
| 01.10.1926 |
- |
25.10.1928 |
General
Officer Commanding, 2nd Division (Aldershot Command, UK) |
| 21.11.1928 |
- |
31.05.1931 |
General
Officer Commanding, Meerut District (India) |
| 01.06.1931 |
- |
19.09.1933 |
Lieutenant,
Tower of London (UK) |
| 04.10.1933 |
- |
15.03.1936 |
Quartermaster-General
India (India) |
| 12.04.1936 |
- |
26.09.1938 |
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command (UK) |
| 27.09.1938 |
- |
14.10.1938 |
specially
employed |
| 05.11.1938 |
- |
30.06.1939 |
Governor
& Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar (Gibraltar) |
| 01.07.1939 |
- |
03.09.1939 |
Inspector-General,
Overseas Forces (UK) |
| 04.09.1939 |
- |
26.05.1940 |
Chief,
Imperial General Staff, War Office (UK) |
| 27.05.1940 |
- |
19.07.1940 |
Commander-in-Chief,
Home Forces |
| 12.10.1937 |
- |
19.07.1940 |
also: ADC
General to the King |
Published: Tannenberg : the first thirty days in East Prussia (1925), Archangel, 1918-1919 (1953)
Literature: James Eastwood, General Ironside (London : Pilot Press, [1940]); Andrew Soutar, With Ironside in north Russia (London : Hutchinson, [1940]); Roderick Macleod & Denis Kelly (ed.), The Ironside diaries, 1937-1940 (London : Constable, 1962); Lord Ironside (ed.), High road to command : the diaries of Major-General Sir Edmund Ironside, 1920-1922 (London : Leo Cooper, 1972)
Leonard George
Bombay, India
-
27.04.1973
Bridge, Canterbury, Kent
| Lt. |
27.07.1933
[56537] |
| Capt. |
04.09.1934,
seniority 27.07.1934 |
| A/Maj. |
12.01.1940-11.04.1940 |
| T/Maj. |
12.04.1940-04.11.1942 |
| WS/Maj. |
05.11.1942 |
| Maj. |
27.07.1943 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
05.08.1942-04.11.1942 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
05.11.1942-23.12.1945 |
| WS/Lt.Col. |
24.12.1945 |
| Lt.Col. |
21.06.1948 |
| A/Col. |
24.06.1945-23.12.1945 |
| T/Col. |
24.12.1945-08.07.1946, 04.04.1953-15.01.1957, 24.05.1957-13.08.1957 |
| Col. |
14.08.1957 (retd
04.09.1962) |
| A/Brig. |
11.10.1945-13.11.1945 |
|
MID |
11.01.1945 |
? |
|
GSM |
- |
&
clasp Palestine & clasp Cyprus |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Afr
St |
- |
&
clasp 1st Army |
|
It
St |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
BWM
39|45 |
- |
- |
Served Cambridge & London Hospitals.
| 27.07.1933 |
commissioned,
Royal Army Medical Corps |
||
| 27.07.1933 |
- |
03.9.1933 |
seconded |
| 1934 |
- |
1936 |
Egypt |
| 1936 |
- |
(01.)1937 |
Palestine |
| 1937 |
- |
1939 |
Egypt
(01.1939 at Gebeit) |
| 1940 |
British
Expeditionary Force (France) |
||
| 1942 |
- |
1944 |
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Field Ambulance RAMC (from 1943 British North Africa Force) |
| 1944 |
- |
1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 1st Mobile Military Hospital (Central Mediterranean Force) |
| 1945 |
- |
1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 11th Convalescent Depot RAMC (Central Mediterranean Force) |
| 24.06.1945 |
- |
10.10.1945 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ 56th Infantry Division (Central Mediterranean
Force) |
| 11.10.1945 |
- |
13.10.1946 |
Deputy
Director of Medical Services, HQ XIII Corps (Central Mediterranean Force) |
| 14.10.1946 |
- |
1946 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ 56th Infantry Division (Central Mediterranean
Force) |
| 1946 |
- |
31.03.1948 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Eastern Command (UK) |
| 28.05.1948 |
- |
15.07.1951 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ British Troops in Sudan & Commanding
Officer, Station Hospital (Middle East Land Forces) |
| 1951 |
- |
1953 |
Commanding
Officer, Military Hospital Wheatley Oxford (Home Forces) |
| 04.04.1953 |
- |
15.11.1956 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ 7th Armoured Division (British Army of the
Rhine) |
| 1957 |
- |
1958 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Middle East Land Foces |
| 1958 |
- |
1959 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Cyprus District (Middle East Land Forces) |
| 1959 |
- |
1961 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Salisbury Plain District (Home Forces) |
| 1961 |
- |
1962 |
Assistant
Director of Medical Services, HQ Home Counties District (Home Forces) |
| 04.09.1962 |
- |
11.01.1964 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Thomas Alexander
From Motherwell.
-
| 2nd Lt. |
02.05.1932
[53100] |
| Lt. |
02.05.1935 |
| Capt. |
08.06.1937 |
| Maj. |
01.09.1939 (reld
from active service < 04.1946) |
| T/Lt.Col.
|
10.10.1942-(08.1945) |
| Hon. Lt.Col. |
< 04.1946 |
| Lt.Col. |
01.05.1947 (retd
02.05.1948) |
| Hon. Col. |
22.08.1962 |
|
|
DSO |
21.06.1945 |
Burma |
|
TD |
14.03.1946 |
? |
|
|
TD |
23.11.1951 |
1st
clasp |
| 02.05.1932 |
commissioned,
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - Territorial Army |
||
| 02.05.1932 |
- |
(09.1939) |
6th
(Lanarkshire) Battalion The Cameronians (Hamilton, Scotland) |
| 24.08.1939 |
mobilized
TA |
||
| 02.1945 |
- |
08.1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 7th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment |
| 02.05.1948 |
- |
22.08.1962 |
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Noel Mackintosh Stuart
Eldest son of William Stuart Irwin of Motihari, Bihar and Orissa, India.
Married 1st (1918) Margaret Maud (died 1963), daughter of late B. Bavin; one son.
Married 2nd (1966) Mrs Elizabeth Collier (née Fröhlich).
|
|
|
|
India
-
21.12.1972
Holford, near Bridgewater, Somerset
|
2nd Lt. |
04.08.1912 [4987] |
| Lt. |
24.09.1914 |
| T/Capt. |
09.05.1915-06.11.1915 |
| Capt. |
07.11.1915 |
| A/Maj. |
10.03.1917-22.08.1917 |
| Bt. Maj. |
03.06.1919 |
| Maj. |
13.07.1927 |
| A/Lt.Col. |
27.04.1917-31.05.1917, 23.08.1917-19.02.1918 |
| T/Lt.Col. |
06.04.1918-30.04.1919 |
| Bt. Lt.Col. |
01.07.1931 |
| T/Col. |
01.05.1919-27.01.1920 |
| Col. |
02.03.1937,
seniority 01.07.1934 |
| T/Brig. |
15.03.1939-29.03.1941 |
| A/Maj.Gen. |
20.05.1940-29.03.1941 |
| Maj.Gen. |
30.03.1941,
seniority 22.11.1940 |
| A/Lt.Gen. |
01.04.1942-22.11.1942 |
| T/Lt.Gen.
|
23.11.1942-26.08.1943, 12.05.1945-15.06.1945 |
| Lt.Gen. |
13.06.1947,
seniority 30.06.1944 (retd 20.12.1948) |
|
|
CB |
11.07.1940 |
? |
|
|
DSO |
01.01.1918 |
? |
|
|
DSO |
24.09.1918 |
* |
|
|
DSO |
1919 |
? |
|
MC |
03.07.1915 |
Ypres
02.05.15 ** |
|
|
MID |
01.01.1916 |
? |
|
|
MID |
22.05.1917 |
? |
|
|
MID |
21.12.1917 |
? |
|
|
MID |
28.12.1918 |
? |
NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the whole of his battalion front was heavily attacked and all communications with his forward companies were cut, this officer personally organised his headquarters and stragglers, and formed a defensive flank so as to obtain touch with the brigade on the right. This flank he held for eight hours against all attacks, organising two counter-attacks against the enemy during this period, thus averting a critical situation. It was greatly due to his able conduct that the holding of their battle position by his brigade was possible throughout the day. His courage, energy and quick decision inspired the greatest confidence in his men.
** On 2nd May, 1915, east of Ypres, when in reserve trenches with his company, seeing that the men in the front trenches were overcome by gas and were retiring, with great initiative and courage and under heavy fire, he at once advanced with his company and seized the front trenches before the Germans could occupy them, and drove back the enemy's attack. On 13th May in the counter-attack he handled his company with great skill and determination.
| 04.08.1912 |
commissioned, The Essex Regiment |
||
| 08.1914 |
- |
1919 |
served European War: France 22.08.1914-13.10.1914, 17.12.1914-01.03.1916,
05.09.1916-11.11.1918 (DSO and two Bars, MC, Croix de Guerre, 1914 Star, despatches five times): |
| 1914 |
- |
21.09.1916 |
2nd Battalion
The Essex Regiment (France) |
| 22.09.1916 |
- |
09.03.1917 |
Adjutant, 2nd Battalion
The Essex Regiment (France) |
| 23.08.1917 |
- |
19.02.1918 |
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (France) |
| 06.04.1918 |
- |
30.06.1918 |
Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (France) |
| 01.07.1918 |
- |
30.04.1919 |
Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (France) |
| 01.05.1919 |
- |
10.12.1919 |
Commander
(Class X),
Abbeville District (France) |
| 28.01.1920 |
- |
29.01.1924 |
Officer,
Company
of Gentleman Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
| 10.03.1926 |
- |
09.03.1928 |
Brigade
Major, Rhine Army |
| 13.07.1927 |
transferred, The Border Regiment |
||
| 01.04.1929 |
- |
01.04.1933 |
General
Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (GSO2), Northern Command, India |
| 30.11.1933 |
- |
18.11.1935 |
Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Royal Military College (Sandhurst) |
| 02.03.1937 |
- |
10.03.1939 |
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), British Troops in China |
| 15.03.1939 |
- |
19.05.1940 |
Commander, 6th Infantry Brigade (UK, France & Belgium) |
| 20.05.1940 |
- |
12.08.1940 |
General Officer Commanding, 2nd Infantry Division (France, UK) |
| 13.08.1940 |
- |
27.10.1940 |
specially employed: Commandant of British Army element in Dakar expedition ("Operation
Menace") |
| 28.10.1940 |
- |
06.11.1941 |
General Officer Commanding, 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division (UK) |
| 07.11.1941 |
- |
15.03.1942 |
General Officer Commanding, XI Corps (UK) |
| 01.04.1942 |
- |
31.07.1942 |
General Officer Commanding, IV Indian Corps (Burma) |
| 01.08.1942 |
- |
20.05.1943 |
General Officer Commanding, Eastern Army, India |
| 1944 |
- |
1945 |
General
Officer Commanding, East Scotland District |
| 1946 |
- |
1948 |
General Officer Commanding, West Africa Command |
| 20.12.1948 |
- |
24.12.1954 |
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |
Published: Infantry Officer, 1914-1918: the record of service as a young officer in the first World War (1942)
Sir Hastings Lionel
John William
-
| QM Lt. |
15.03.1939 |
| ... | ... |
| T/Maj. |
12.09.1942 |
| 15.03.1939 |
commissioned
into the Royal Army Service Corps |
||
| ? |
- |
? |
? |