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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Laing, W.K.
to
Lyon-Clark, A.W.P.

W.K. Laing to A.W.P. Lyon-Clark

Laing,
[Sir] William Kirby

Son of late Sir John Laing,
CBE, and late Lady Laing
(née Beatrice Harland).
Married 1st (1939) Joan
Dorothy Bratt (died 1981);
three sons.
Married 2nd (1986) Dr (Mary)
Isobel Lewis, younger
daughter of late Edward C.
Wray.

21.07.1916
Carlisle, Cumberland
-
12.04.2009
[London?]

Cadet	? [2076586]
2nd Lt.	02.01.1944 [304198]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1944 (reld 1945)

Kt 1968; JP; DL; MA; FEng, FICE

Education: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Hon. Fellow,
1983).

1943	-	02.01.1944	served in the ranks, Royal Engineers
02.01.1944			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Territorial Army: Maj., 14.10.1966. Lt.Col., 23.12.1967. Col., 17.05.1971. Colonel
commanding Engineer & Railway Staff Corps, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve,
12.01.1978. On Supernumerary List, 21.07.1981-04.08.1997.
Industrialist. Director John Laing plc (formerly John Laing & Son Ltd), 1939-1980
(Chairman, 1957-1976). Chairman, Laing Properties plc, 1978-1987, President,
1987-1990.
President: London Master Builders Association, 1957; Reinforced Concrete Association,
1960; National Federation of Building Trades Employers (now Building Employers'
Confederation) 1965, 1967 (Honorary Member, 1975); ICE, 1973-1974 (a Vice-President,
1970-1973); Construction Industry Res. and Inf. Assoc., 1984-1987 (Chairman,
1978-1981); Chairman, National Joint Council for Building Industry, 1968-1974. Member,
Board of Governors: St Lawrence College (Chairman, 1977-1989, President, 1977-);
Princess Helena College, 1984-1987; Member: Court of Governors, The Polytechnic of
Central London, 1963-1982; Council, Royal Albert Hall, 1970-1992 (President,
1979-1992). Hon. Mem., Amer. Assoc. of Civil Engineers. Master, Paviors' Co.,
1987-1988. DL Greater London, 1978-1991. Hon. Fellow, UCNW, 1988. Hon. DTech, Poly.
of Central London, 1990; Dr hc Edinburgh, 1991.

Lambert,
Thomas Henry

19.08.1920 ?
Croydon district,
London / Surrey ?
-
04.1985 ?
Croydon district,
London / Surrey ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.09.1940 [148137]
WS/Lt.	01.02.1942
T/Capt.	01.02.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	29.10.1945
T/Maj.	29.10.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	? (reld 25.02.1953)
Hon. Capt.	25.02.1953

24.01.1946

NW Europe 44/45

?	-	07.09.1940	102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944/45)			specially employed: "A" Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")
(11.1944)			attached to 11th Armoured Division (Antwerp)
(03.1945)			attached to US XVIII Corps (Rhine crossing)
			served with British troops in Denmark

Lamonby,
Kenneth Butler

Son of Harold and Dora
Lamonby (née Atkinson), of
Colchester, Essex.

(12?).1919
Kingston district,
Middelsex / Surrey
-
11.07.1943
[age 23]
[Suda Bay War
Cemetery,
Greece, 13.E.12]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.12.1940 [160965]
WS/Lt.	?

?	-	14.12.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.12.1940			commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	11.07.943	seconded, Special Boat Service, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps

Lampier,
John Francis Rex

07.07.1915
Truro
-
23.11.1973
Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219629]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	15.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	03.06.1945
T/Maj.	03.06.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	01.05.1947, seniority 03.06.1945
Hon. Maj.	13.05.1955

29.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.05.1947	-	13.05.1955	served Territorial Army
13.05.1955	-	07.07.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Assistant bank manager.

Lander,
John

Son of John Meads Lander
and Jessie Lander, of
Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.

(12?).1894
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
13.07.1943
(KIA) [age 47]
[Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, IV.C.33]

T/2nd Lt.	? [30338] (reld 01.09.1921; retaining rank of 2nd Lt.)
Lt.	01.07.1926
Capt.	03.06.1930
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1936
Maj.	30.03.1939

TD	03.04.1942	-
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: University of Birmingham (BSc)

?	-	01.09.1921	commissioned, Sherwood Foresters (SR) - Regular Forces (served in France & Belgium 02.08.1915-19.10.1917)
01.09.1921?	-	30.06.1924	served, Sherwood Foresters (SR) - Territorial Army
01.07.1924	-	(06.1933)	transferred, Royal Corps of Signals (46th (North Midland) Divisional Signals) (Derby)
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	236th Field Artillery Signal Section (Chesterfield)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
18.03.1942			transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
06.1942	-	13.07.1943	Officer Commanding, 21st Independent Parachute Company (killed when the plane he travelled in was shot down over Sicily)

Lane,
Alfred

03.03.1907
Wortley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
05.1984
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

L/Sgt.	? [2317990]
Lt.	19.06.1940 [134827] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt. TA	16.04.1953, seniority 01.02.1945
Capt. TA	29.07.1954 (retd 15.01.1958; age limit)

MID

22.12.1939

Palestine 04-07.39

1921/22?	-	18.06.1940	served in the ranks, Royal Corps of Signals
19.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
16.04.1953	-	15.01.1958	Territorial Army (commanded 126 Wireless Troop TA)

Lane,
Cecil Edward

Residences: Luton, Bedfordshire, then London

?
-

2nd Lt.	23.06.1941 [191896]
WS/Capt.	09.08.1943
T/Maj.	09.08.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	12.08.1945
Maj.	01.01.1949
T/Lt.Col.	12.08.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.01.1949

MBE

19.10.1944

Normandy landings

Education: BSc

23.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
09.05.1943	-	(04.1944)	a Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)
01.01.1949	-	20.07.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lane,
Leonard Patrick

Son of Denis Lane, farmer.
Married (25.03.1916,
London) Elsie Elizabeth
Cullen; one son (Fusilier
Leonard Patrick Lane, Royal
Northumberland Fusiliers,
kiled in action 31.05.1940 at
De Panne, Belgium), two
daughters.

17.03.1891
Kilumney, Ovens, Co. Cork, Ireland
-

Pte. ?	1915 [10792]
T/2nd Lt.	09.10.1918 [48045] (reld 1920; retaining rank of 2nd Lt.)
2nd Lt.	15.01.1941 [161813]
WS/Lt.	15.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946) (reactivated, or never formally released?)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
WS/Capt.	? (reld 29.05.1949)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	29.05.1949

Served Irish Constabulary, then Hong Kong Police (1912-1915).

1915			joined Irish Guards
09.10.1918			commissioned, Royal Highlanders
			transferred to Chinese Labour Corps
Inspector of police, Hong Kong, 1920s-1938.
15.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lane-Joynt,
Philip Robert

From Heckfield.

24.12.1901
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985

2nd Lt.	23.12.1921 [12118]
Lt.	23.12.1923
Capt.	04.04.1935
Maj.	23.12.1938
A/Lt.Col.	17.07.1944-16.10.1944
T/Lt.Col.	17.10.1944-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	10.08.1947 (supernumerary 10.08.1950) (retd 29.08.1952)

DSO

01.03.1945

NW Europe

23.12.1921			commissioned into The Royal Irish Rifles
16.08.1922			transferred to The Prince of Wales's Volunteers
04.04.1935			transferred to The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
19.02.1936	-	28.01.1938	employed wIth the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF)
17.07.1944	-	11.1944	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots
10.08.1947			transferred to the Employed List
29.08.1952	-	09.02.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lang,
Thomas Melville
T.M. Lang

05.12.1915
Hillhead district, Glasgow City, Scotland
-
1998
Dunoon district, Argyll, Scotlland

2nd Lt.	19.04.1939 [87009]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1940
T/Capt.	01.12.1940-(09.1944)
WS/Capt.	13.05.1945
A/Maj.	(09.1944)
T/Maj.	13.05.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	?

			late Cadet Corporal, Kelvinside Academy Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
19.04.1939			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
21.08.1944	-	(08.1944)	2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)
?	-	05.12.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Lapraik,
John Neilson
"Jock" / "Ian"

From Glasgow.

13.09.1915
Boroughmuirhead district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
15.03.1985
Chiltern and Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [132519]
WS/Lt.	23.06.1941
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	23.06.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	23.08.1943
local Maj.	01.10.1943-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	06.04.1944-(04.1946)
Maj.	13.09.1949, seniority 20.01.1948
local Lt.Col.	?
A/Lt.Col.	10.06.1952-12.09.1953
Lt.Col.	13.09.1953, seniority 10.06.1952
Bt. Col.	10.05.1956

DSO	18.10.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field
OBE	09.08.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MC	19.08.1941	Middle East
MC	03.02.1944	gallant & distinguished services in the field
TD	14.09.1956	?
MID	25.01.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field

Lion of Judah (Abessynia); Military Cross, Class B (Greece) (14.10.1949)

Education: High School of Glasgow (1927-1934)
Qualified as a lawyer.

?	-	25.04.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.05.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]
1941			No. 51 Commando
1942			1st Special Service Regiment
1943	-	1945	seconded, Special Boat Squadron (M Det - attached Greek Sacred Squadron)
			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps - Territorial Army

Honorary Colonel, The Artists Rifles, 01.04.1973-01.01.1983.

Lascelles,
Reginald George
"Pip"

Married Jill (née ...).

14.09.1908
-
22.12.1984
Bath district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	31.01.1929 [41140]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	22.04.1941-21.07.1941
T/Maj.	22.07.1941-07.09.1943
WS/Maj.	08.09.1943
A/Lt.Col.	08.06.1943-07.09.1943
T/Lt.Col.	08.09.1943-(01.1946)
Maj.	31.01.1946 (retd 24.07.1950)
Hon. Lt.Col.	24.07.1950

31.01.1929			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)			21st Field Brigade, RA (Catterick)
(06.1933)			1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade, RA (Blackdown)
(01.1937)			24th Mountain Brigade, RA (Quetta)
(01.1939)			20th Mountain Regiment, RA (Quetta)
25.10.1940	-	(04.1941)	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, General Staff Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India
(1944)	-	(1945)	Commanding Officer, 1st Indian Anti-Tank Regiment (Mayu Peninsula, Arakan)
01.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office
24.07.1950	-	27.05.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lassen,
Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau
A.F.E.V.S. Lassen

Son of Emil Victor Schau
Lassen and Suzanne Maria
Signe Lassen, of Nyhavn,
Copenhagen, Denmark.

22.09.1920
Høvdingegård, Denmark
-
09.04.1945
Commachio, Italy
(KIA) [age 24]
[Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy, II.E.11]

2nd Lt.	20.05.1942 [234907]
WS/Lt.	20.11.1942
WS/Capt.	13.09.1943
T/Maj.	09.10.1944-09.04.1945

VC	04.09.1945	Italy *
MC	21.02.1946 [07.12.1942]	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MC	21.02.1946 [27.09.1943]	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MC	21.02.1946 [15.02.1944]	gallant & distinguished services in the field

* In Italy, on the night of 8th/9th April, 1945, Major Lassen was ordered to take out a patrol and raid the north shore of Lake Comacchio. His task was to cause casualties, capture prisoners and give the impression of a major landing. The patrol was challenged and came under machine-gun fire. Major Lassen himself attacked with grenades and silenced two enemy posts, capturing two prisoners and killing several Germans. The patrol had suffered casualties and was still under fire. Major Lassen moved forward and flung more grenades into a third enemy position, calling upon the enemy to surrender. He was then hit and mortally wounded, but whilst falling he flung a grenade, wounding more of the enemy and enabling his patrol to capture this last position. Finally, he refused to be evacuated lest he should impede the withdrawal and endanger further lives. His high sense of devotion to duty and the esteem in which he was held by the men he led, added to his own magnificent courage, enabled Major Lassen to carry out with complete success all the tasks he had been given.

1940			joined the British Army as a private in The Buffs
02.1941			joined the British Commandos
20.05.1942			commissioned, General List [emergency commission] [not borne on the published Army List]
?	-	09.04.1945	Special Boat Service, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps (killed in action, Italy)
27.06.1947			posthumously transferred from General List to The Buffs, with effect from 01.03.1943

Laurance,
Patrick Knowles
P. Laurance

24.12.1919
Southend-on-Sea
-
11.01.2008

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.12.1942 [261292]
WS/Lt.	13.06.1943
T/Capt.	?

MID

19.07.1945

Italy

13.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Laurence,
[Sir] Peter Harold
P.H. Laurence

Son of ... Laurence, and ... Jackson.
From Quetta.

18.02.1923
Stourbridge district, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands / Worcestershire
-
26.11.2007

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.04.1942 [232555]
WS/Lt.	18.10.1942
A/Capt.	1944?
T/Capt.	08.01.1945-(04.1946)

KCMG 1981 (CMG 1976); MC 03.08.1944 (Italy); DL

18.04.1942

commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]

HM Diplomatic Service.

Law,
Edward Desmond Cooper
"Jimmy"
E.D.C. Law

Son (with one sister) of Lt.Col. Alfred Letchworth Annie Law (1871-1928), Chief Constable of Hertfordshire 1911-1928, and Katherine Rotheram.
Married 1st Ruth Green; .. children (one daughter?).
Married 2nd (03?).1929, St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex) Mrs. Phyllis Beatrice Western (née Cartel) (1899-1994).

17.07.1902
Northern Ireland
-
20.11.1996
Hasketon, Woodbridge, Deben district, Suffolk

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	27.06.1939 [91012]
WS/Lt.	04.10.1940
T/Capt.	04.10.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	15.11.1942 (reld < 05.1946)
T/Maj.	15.11.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	?

	TD	21.04.1950	-
	EM	14.11.1946	[24.08.1951 cancelled, because a TD had been awarded in lieu]

Education: Eton.
Assistant brewer, of "The Dell", Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire (1920s).

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, The London Scottish, The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
27.06.1939			commissioned, The Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(04.1944)			special appointment [i.e. appointment outside of own regiment]
?	-	09.08.1950	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Law,
Peter
P. Law

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124515]
WS/Lt.	09.08.1941
T/Capt.	01.10.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	?
Lt.	05.08.1954, seniority 21.07.1949

MBE	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 45
EM	14.04.1950	-
EM	14.04.1950	1st clasp

			either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.03.1940			commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
11.05.1943			transferred, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [30.09.1947 cancelled]
(1945)			21st Independent Parachute Company (Palestine)
			also served in India as a Parachute instructor as well as with the SAS
05.08.1954	-	04.09.1955	Royal Berkshire Regiment - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
05.09.1955	-	?	Royal Berkshire Regiment - Territorial Army
?	-	29.05.1964	Royal Berkshire Regiment - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [removed on conviction by the Civil Power, and deprived of the hon. rank of Capt.]

Lawrance,
John Macleod
J.M. Lawrance (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Dewhurst)

16.06.1907
Winslow district, Bucknghamshire
-
01.01.1987
Bush Hill, Enfield district, London

2nd Lt.	30.08.1926 [36704]
Lt.	30.08.1929
Capt.	12.04.1938
A/Maj.	11.10.1940-10.01.1941
T/Maj.	11.01.1941-29.08.1943
Maj.	30.08.1943 (retd 16.06.1958)
A/Lt.Col.	07.11.1946-06.02.1947
T/Lt.Col.	07.02.1947-(02.1957)
Hon. Lt.Col.	16.06.1958

MID

01.08.1946

Malaya 42

30.08.1926			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Ballykinlar)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Aldershot)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Gibraltar, for Malaya)
17.12.1938	-	10.10.1940	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Malaya)
02.1942	-	1945	captured at Singapore & POW in Japanese captivity (held in Korea)
1945	-	1958	served mainly with the British Army of the Rhine

Director of The Hammond Engineering Company in Enfield until that company was sold.

Lawrence,
Archie Frank
A.F. Lawrence

1898/1901 ? *
-

* either:
(12?).1898
Camberwell district,
or:
(06?).1901
Reigate district

2nd Lt.	09.06.1941 [10173]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 24.01.1949)
A/Capt.	09.06.1941-...
A/Maj.	24.06.1943-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	24.01.1949

09.06.1941

commissioned, General List [emergency commission] (without Army pay and allowances)

Lawrie,
Walter Gray Aitken
W.G.A. Lawrie

Married (1943, Roorkee, Bengal) Jean Gladys Crawford; two sons, two daughters.

10.03.1914
-
01.09.2007
Brazil

2nd Lt.	01.02.1934 [62539]
Lt.	01.02.1937
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-21.10.1939, 29.01.1940-12.03.1940
T/Capt.	13.03.1940-30.09.1941
WS/Capt.	01.10.1941
Capt.	01.02.1942
A/Maj.	01.07.1941-30.09.1941
T/Maj.	01.10.1941-09.09.1945
WS/Maj.	10.09.1945
Maj.	01.02.1947
A/Lt.Col.	10.06.1945-09.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.	10.09.1945-01.02.1951, 20.05.1954-10.02.1955
Lt.Col.	11.02.1955
T/Col.	01.10.1956-(02.1957)
Col.	10.05.1961 (retd 23.07.1966)

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp

Education: University (MA (BA)); Staff College (psc).

01.02.1934			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(01.1937)			served at Chatham
(01.1939)			served in India
10.06.1945	-	30.06.1947	Military Adviser Training Battalion India
01.07.1947	-	17.09.1947	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Engineering) (Pamphlets), GHQ New Delhi
02.02.1951	-	11.01.1953	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), SP District
01.10.1956	-	(02.1957)	MA [= Military Attaché/Adviser?] (Colonel), Amman

Solicitor in London. MICE.
Published: articles (RUSI Journal etc.)

Lawson,
Francis Ryall
F.R. Lawson

Son of Thomas and Emily
Henrietta Lawson, of Dublin,
Irish Republic.
Husband of Barbara
Lawson, of Cheltenham.

1913 ?
-
22.11.1945
[age 32]
[Gloucester Old
Cemetery,
Gloucestershire,
plot B, grave
10176]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.03.1941 [176155]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1942

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.03.1941			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]

Laycock,
[Sir] Robert Edward

Layer,
Leslie Ronald
L.R. Layer

Married; ... children (one son?).

17.11.1914
-
06.1993
Watford district, Hertfordshire

Cadet	? [5053732]
2nd Lt.	30.09.1944 [330624]
WS/Lt.	30.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.09.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Lea,
Thomas Alfred Henry
T.A.H. Lea

Married ((09?).1922, Bucklow district, Lancashire) May D. Chambers.

(03?).1898
Northwich district, Cheshire
-

2nd Lt.	29.08.1928 [40286]
Lt.	29.08.1931
Capt.	07.11.1932
Maj.	06.07.1939 (retd 13.03.1948; age)

MM	?	?
TD	21.09.1944	-
TD	04.01.1955	1st clasp
TD	04.01.1955	2nd clasp

29.08.1928			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army (42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Signals)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Leaphard,
Clark Edmond John
C.E.J. Leaphard

Son of Charles Edmund and Claire Isabel Leaphard (née Haggeman).
Brother of Capt. M.J.A. Marshall.
Married Buxey Cooper from Hove, Sussex; one daughter.

28.04.1913
-
14.12.1996
Thailand

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164608]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
A/Capt.	10.07.1943-09.10.1943
T/Capt.	10.10.1943-12.09.1944
WS/Capt.	13.09.1944
T/Maj.	13.09.1944-14.09.1944, 20.11.1944-12.03.1948
Lt.	21.12.1946, seniority 28.04.1939
Capt.	21.12.1946, seniority 01.07.1946
T/Maj.	20.01.1949-27.04.1949
Maj.	28.04.1949 (Employed List 5 12.07.1962-15.06.1965) (retd 28.04.1958)

21.06.1945

NW Europe

			served in the ranks for 162 days
21.12.1940			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission to 20.12.1946]
14.10.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
			attached, No. 12 Commando
30.05.1943 (06.1944)	- -	1945 (08.1944)	attached, No. 6 Commando Officer Commanding, No. 6 Troop
29.11.1945			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
21.12.1946			permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps
16.08.1947			transferred, The Queen's Bays
01.01.1959			transferred, Queen's Dragoon Guards

Leaphard,
Marshall John Adam
"Spot"
M.J.A. Leaphard

Son of Charles Edmund and Claire Isabel Leaphard (née Haggeman).
Brother of Maj. C.E.J. Leaphard.

(12?).1914
Horsham district, Sussex / West Sussex
-
30.01.1945
(KIA) [age 30]
[Nederweert
War Cemetery,
The Netherlands,
IV.E.2]

2nd Lt.	12.07.1941 [197175]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt. ? T/Capt. ? WS/Capt. ?	?

12.07.1941			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
10.08.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
30.05.1943 30.05.1943 09.06.1944	- - -	30.01.1945 08.06.1944 30.01.1945	attached, No. 6 Commando No. 3 Troop Officer Commanding, No. 1 Troop

Lee,
Geoffrey Charles
G.C. Lee

Son of ... Lee, and ... Sambleson.

11.06.1914
Halifax district, Yorkshire - West Riding / West Yorkshire
-
01.2004
Salisbury,
Wiltshire

Lt.	27.05.1940 [131410]
A/Capt.	01.05.1941-31.07.1941
T/Capt.	01.08.1941-04.05.1943
WS/Capt.	05.05.1943
A/Maj.	05.02.1943-04.05.1943
T/Maj.	05.05.1943-30.06.1943, 13.05.1946-10.06.1950
Lt.	30.01.1946, seniority 11.06.1937
Capt.	30.01.1946, seniority 11.06.1945
Maj.	11.06.1950
T/Lt.Col.	03.05.1956-31.03.1958
Lt.Col.	01.04.1958 (retd 11.06.1969)

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

27.05.1940			commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (as Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th Class (with rank of Lieutenant)) [emergency commission to 29.01.1946]
01.10.1942			transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (as Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th Class (with rank of Lieutenant))
30.01.1946	-	11.06.1969	permanent commission:
15.08.1947	-	21.07.1950	Deputy Assistant Director Mechanical Engineers (DADME) (Organisation), HQ EA [= East Africa?] Command
15.08.1961	-	29.10.1964	Assistant Director Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (ADEME), HQ Northern Command

MBIM, later FBIM.

Lees,
Thomas William
T.W. Lees

21.11.1913
-
11.1995
Wiltshire

Staff Sergeant	?
2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [175973]
WS/Lt.	?
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	01.11.1943
WS/Capt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	15.03.1944
Capt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	01.11.1946, seniority 15.03.1944 (reld 24.03.1948)
T/Maj. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	14.10.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	24.03.1948

15.03.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [Motor Mechanics Branch] [emergency commission to 31.10.1946]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
01.11.1946	-	24.03.1948	short service commission

Leese,
Sir Oliver William Hargreaves

Le Fanu,
[Sir] George Victor Sheridan
G.V.S. Le Fanu

Son of late Maj.Gen. Roland Le Fanu, DSO, MC, and Marguerite (née Lumsden).
Married (1956) Elizabeth,
daughter of late Major Herbert Hall and Kitty (née Gauvain); three sons.

24.01.1925
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
05.02.2007
London

2nd Lt.	01.10.1943 [295094]
WS/Lt.	01.04.1944
2nd Lt.	06.03.1946, seniority 24.01.1946
Lt.	24.07.1947
A/Capt.	27.02.1947-26.05.1947
T/Capt.	27.05.1947-23.01.1952
Capt.	24.01.1952
T/Maj.	09.12.1952-(02.1957)
Maj.	24.01.1959 (retd 28.02.1963)

KCVO

13.06.1987

HM's birthday

Education: Shrewsbury School; Staff College, Camberley (1959; psc)

			served in the ranks for 245 days
01.10.1943			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards [emergency commission to 05.03.1946]
28.05.1944	-	15.07.1944	2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (Italy [wounded])
09.09.1944	-	(1945?)	2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
06.03.1946			permanent commission
1949	-	1952	Assistant Adjutant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
1952	-	1955	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
1960	-	1961	Staff Captain to Vice-Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
1961	-	1963	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Headquarters London District

Deputy Assistant Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons 1963-76, Assistant Serjeant at Arms 1976-81, Deputy Serjeant at Arms 1981-82, Serjeant at Arms 1982-89.
Chairman, Morley College, 1993-. Trustee, Wall Trust, 1991-.

Le Fanu,
Roland
R. Le Fanu

Married Marguerite Lumsden; at least one son.

02.06.1887
-
died between
06.1947 and
02.1957

2nd Lt.	04.11.1908 [4301]
Lt.	14.09.1911
Capt.	11.11.1914
Maj.	02.03.1928
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1929
Col.	22.12.1935, seniority 01.07.1932
Maj.Gen.	29.08.1939, seniority 19.07.1938 (retd 26.10.1940)

DSO	16.08.1938	Waziristan
MC	01.01.1919	?
MID	17.10.1939	?
CdeG	29.01.1919	?

Order "Al Rafidain" Fourth Class (Iraq) (29.10.1929)

Education: psc, ns

			served in the ranks for 2 years, 125 days
04.11.1908			commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment
...			...
01.03.1932	-	25.04.1935	GSO2, War Office
22.12.1935	-	31.07.1939	GSO1, Rawalpindi District (India)
29.08.1939	-	23.08.1940	General Officer Commanding, 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (UK)
26.10.1940	-	02.06.1947	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Lentaigne,
Walter David Alexander

see:

Indian Army

Lester,
Alfred John
A.J. Lester

Son of Alfred Lester, and Marjorie Phipps, of Wallingford, Berkshire.

(09?).1917
Wallingford, Berkshire
-
01.08.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[St Charles de Percy War Cemetery, France, XV.G.2]

2nd Lt.	13.03.1943 [267238]
WS/Lt.	13.09.1943

13.03.1943			commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	01.08.1944	7th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment

Lever,
the Rev. Clifford

?
-

[perhaps:
21.12.1899
-
08.1987
Droxford,
Hampshire ??]

Chaplain to the Forces 4th class

03.07.1939 [...] (ranking as Capt.)

03.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplain's Department - Reserve of Officers [Methodist]
24.08.1939	-	(04.1946)	mobilized

Published: On my heart too! : the epic of Calais, 1940 (1943)

Lewes,
John Steel
"Jock"
J.S. Lewes

Son of Arthur Harold and Elsie Steel Lewes, of Hanworth, Middlesex.

21.12.1913
-
30.12.1941
(KIA) [age 28]
[Alamein Memorial, column 53]

2nd Lt.	28.10.1939 [65419]
WS/Lt.	?

Education: M.A. (Oxon.): Christchurch College. President O.U.B.C., 1937.

28.10.1939			commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
			founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS)
?	-	30.12.1941	seconded, "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade (killed in action while returning from Nofilia airfield raid when the truck he was travelling in was attacked by a Messerschmitt)

Literature: John Lewes, Jock Lewes : co-founder of the SAS (2000)

Lewis,
Cyril Kenneth Hugh
C.K.H. Lewis

Son of ... Lewis, and ... Bartless.

04.09.1913
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
01.1989
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	19.09.1942 [245276]
WS/Lt.	? (reld 18.04.1944; ill-health)
Hon. Lt.	18.04.1944

19.09.1942			commissioned, Reconnaissance Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served in North Africa

Lewis,
John Theodore
J.T. Lewis

?
-

2nd Lt.	22.04.1942 [232642]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1942

22.04.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lewis,
John Thomas

10.08.1908
-
12.1997
Kings Lynn,
Norfolk

2nd Lt.	11.01.1942 [223715]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	01.12.1946, seniority 11.01.1942
Capt.	10.12.1948, seniority 11.01.1948
Lt. (QM)	01.12.1951, seniority 25.05.1951
Maj. (QM)	29.11.1953 (retd 01.09.1956)

11.01.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
01.12.1946			short service commission
01.12.1951			regular commission
01.09.1956	-	11.08.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lewis,
St Hilary Wilfred Tamar

Married 1st Diana Mary Lewis (died 14.10.1947).
Married 2nd Anne ...; one daughter, one son.

11.12.1911
Oxhey,
Hertfordshire
-
24.12.1994
Penrith,
Cumberland

2nd Lt.	03.02.1934, seniority 01.09.1932
Lt.	01.09.1935
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-31.08.1940
Capt.	01.09.1940
A/Maj.	07.04.1941-04.06.1941, 03.12.1941-03.01.1942
T/Maj.	04.01.1942-13.12.1942, 23.01.1943-27.03.1943, 01.04.1943-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 06.02.1949)
Hon. Lt.Col.	06.02.1949

NW Frontier of India 1836-37 Medal & Clasp

			from Territorial Army - University Candidates
03.02.1934			commissioned, Royal Norfolk Regiment
			served in India & Burma

Col Lewis had a long career in the Army, followed by 25 years as a Land Agent in Penrith. He was born in 1911 at Oxhey, Herts and educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. Soon after leaving Cambridge he was commissioned in 1932 into the Royal Norfolk Regiment with which he spent all his army career. He served in the peace-time Army in India, then was recalled home on the outbreak of war in 1939. He returned to India and Burma to take part in the Far East campaigns. After the war he was a member of the occupying force in Germany. Col Lewis married Diana Bury in 1946. She died in 1948. He retired from the Army in 1949 and in 1951 married Miss Anne Dillingham Blackett-Ord. In 1953 they moved to Newton-Reigny and he became a Land Agent. He loved the work, particularly aspects dealing with the forestry. A man of the trees, knowledgeable, practical and happy to help with the physical work of planting them, he was also a keen shot, content to walk miles with a gun under his arm and he thoroughly enjoying a day's shooting. He and his wife devoted a great deal of time to many voluntary works and he will be particularly missed by the Calvert Trust, as he was their treasurer for ten years. Col Lewis will be missed by a wide circle of friends particularly in his parish where he was a friend to all.

Lewis,
T W

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.07.1939
WS/Lt.	08.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	08.01.1940-(04.1941), 27.05.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

15.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Lewis,
Thomas William

?
-

2nd Lt.	20.09.1941 [207335]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	01.07.1945

20.09.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lewis,
Thomas William Lutwyche

From Sanderstead.

18.08.1918
-

2nd Lt.	18.08.1939 [70833]
WS/Lt.	26.01.1940
Lt.	18.02.1941
A/Capt.	26.10.1939-25.01.1940
T/Capt.	26.01.1940-10.04.1941
WS/Capt.	11.04.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	11.01.1941-10.04.1941
T/Maj.	11.04.1941-31.10.1941
Maj.	18.08.1952 (retd 31.05.1959)
A/Lt.Col.	26.04.1945-20.05.1945

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE

28.06.1945

Italy

			from Territorial Army
18.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps

Lewis,
Thomas William Stanley

?
-

2nd Lt.	22.08.1942 [243248]
WS/Lt.	22.02.1943
T/Capt.	16.12.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

22.08.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Liardet,
Sir Claude Francis

Youngest son of late Commander H.M. Liardet, HMIN.
Married 1st (1906) Dorothy Hopper, youngest daughter of A.R. Hopper, MD (marriage dissolved 1927); one son (Lt.Gen. Henry Maughan Liardet, CB, CBE, DSO), one daughter.
Married 2nd (1928) Dorothy
Clare Borrett, OBE 1946, only daughter of late Adm. George Holmes Borrett, CB; one son.

26.09.1881
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
05.03.1966
Chiddingfold, Surrey

2nd Lt.	15.03.1899 [7191]
Lt.	21.06.1899
Capt.	08.03.1905
Maj.	1914
Bt. Lt.Col.	03.06.1919
Lt.Col.	25.04.1922
Bt. Col.	25.04.1926
Col.	25.04.1927, seniority 25.04.1926
Maj.Gen.	23.06.1938 (retd 25.09.1951)

KBE	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
CB	01.02.1937	?
DSO	01.01.1917	New Year 17
TD	?	?
TD	04.08.1950	& 2 clasps
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	05.07.1919	?

WWI: BWM, VM

Education: Bedford School.

15.03.1899			commissioned, 1st Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) (transferred 01.04.1908 to Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery on formation of Territorial Force)
			served European War (Brevet LtCol, DSO, despatches four times)
			commanded 125th Heavy Battery, RGA (France and Flanders) & 23rd Heavy Artillery Brigade; also Brigade Major, Heavy Artillery Australian Corps (17.01.1917-...) & General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), XIII Corps (29.10.1918-...)
1919			Commander, Lancashire and Cheshire Coast Brigade RA
25.04.1922	-	25.04.1927	Commander, 106th Lancashire Yeomanry Brigade RFA, TA
01.09.1929	-	01.09.1933	Commander, 64th (7th London) Field Brigade RA, TA
1934	-	14.12.1934	Commander Royal Artillery, 47th Division
15.12.1934	-	07.03.1938	Commander Royal Artillery, The London Division
23.06.1938	-	17.11.1940	General Officer Commanding, 1st London Division (until 6.1940 The London Divion, TA), redesignated as:
18.11.1940	-	26.01.1941	General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division
27.01.1941	-	1942	specially employed: Inspector of Aerodrome Defences, Air Ministry
1942	-	1945	DirectorGeneral, Ground Defence, Air Ministry
12.02.1942	-	1945	Commandant, Royal Air Force Regiment

President Corporation of Insurance Brokers, 1947-1951. Director of Bevington, Vaizey and Foster Ltd, Lloyd's. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of London, 29.01.1945. Honorary Colonel 64th (7th London) Field Brigade RA, TA, 16.10.1937-16.10.1953.

Liardet,
Henry Maughan
"Bill"

Son of late Maj.Gen. Sir Claude Francis Liardet, KBE, CB, DSO, TD, DL, and Dorothy, youngest daughter of A.R. Hopper, MD.
Married 1st (1933) Joan Sefton Constable (died 1991), daughter of Maj. G.S. Constable, MC, JP; three sons (one being R.Adm. Guy Francis Liardet, CB, CBE, RN).
Married 2nd (1994) Mrs
Barbara Corcoran.
Residence: (1945) Chiddingford.

27.10.1906
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
08.02.1996
Arundel, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	27.10.1927 [31303]
Lt.	28.10.1930
Capt.	01.04.1937
A/Maj.	29.07.1940-28.10.1940
T/Maj.	29.10.1940-19.12.1941
WS/Maj.	20.12.1941
Maj.	27.10.1944
A/Lt.Col.	20.09.1941-19.12.1941
T/Lt.Col.	20.12.1941-29.07.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	30.07.1944
Lt.Col.	10.03.1949
A/Col.	30.01.1944-29.07.1944
T/Col.	30.07.1944-19.11.1945, 01.07.1946-04.12.1948
Col.	04.08.1950 (supernumerary 04.08.1956)
A/Brig.	22.05.1945-19.09.1945, 10.06.1947-09.08.1947
T/Brig.	10.08.1947-04.12.1948, 31.07.1950-02.05.1954
Brig.	03.05.1954
T/Maj.Gen.	?
Maj.Gen.	06.10.1958 (retd 02.05.1964)

CB	11.06.1960	HM's birthday 60
CBE	19.04.1945	Italy
DSO	13.12.1945	Italy
OBE	09.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
MID	11.01.1945	Italy
MID	29.11.1945	Italy

Education: Bedford School; Staff College, Camberley (1939; psc); Imperial Defence College (1955; idc)

1924			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
27.10.1927			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (later: Royal Tank Regiment)
1927	-	1938	service UK, India, Egypt:
1928	-	1930	2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
1930	-	1935	10th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps (India)
1935	-	1935	3rd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
11.12.1935	-	18.08.1936	Staff Officer (Class FF), HQ Armoured Mobile Force (Egypt) (temporarily)
21.01.1937	-	20.01.1939	Adjutant, Royal Tank Corps Depot (Bovington Camp)
31.10.1939	-	28.07.1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office (London)
29.07.1940	-	19.09.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London) (also secretary to Tank Users' Committee)
1941	-	1945	active service in Egypt, North Africa, Italy:
20.09.1941	-	11.11.1941	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ...
12.01.1941	-	14.05.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 10th Armoured Division (Alamein)
15.05.1942	-	05.07.1942	Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
10.07.1942	-	16.12.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), [10th Armoured Division ?]
16.12.1942	-	26.01.1944	Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
30.01.1944	-	10.10.1944	Commandant, 1st Armoured Replacement Group
11.10.1944	-	21.05.1945	Second-in-Command, 25th Tank Brigade (later Assault Brigade)
22.05.1945	-	19.09.1945	Commander, 25th Armoured Engineer Brigade Royal Engineers (Italy) (despatches twice)
29.11.1945	-	30.06.1946	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ...
01.07.1946	-	13.12.1946	Colonel in charge of Administration, ...
05.01.1947	-	08.04.1947	Commander Detachment, 1st Armoured Division, Palestine (Second-in-Command, Armoured Brigade)
10.06.1947	-	31.12.1947	Brigadier, Royal Armoured Corps, Middle East Land Forces
01.01.1948	-	14.05.1948	Brigadier General Staff, Middle East Land Forces
15.05.1948	-	22.09.1948	Brigadier, Royal Armoured Corps, Middle East Land Forces
1949	-	1950	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
31.07.1950	-	07.01.1953	Deputy Director, Manpower Planning (B), War Office (London)
19.01.1953	-	01.12.1954	Commander, 23rd Armoured Brigade (Territorial Army)
23.01.1956	-	1958	Chief of Staff, British Joint Services Mission (Army Staff), Washington, DC
22.11.1956	-	16.10.1958	also: Army ADC to the Queen
1958	-	1961	Director-General of Fighting Vehicles, War Office (London)
1961	-	04.04.1964	Deputy Master-General of the Ordnance, Ministry of Defence
02.05.1964	-	27.10.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Regiment, 1961-1967. Director, British Sailors' Society, 1961-1978; Chairman, SS&AFA West Sussex Committee, 1966-1985. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Sussex, 1964-1974, W Sussex 1974-. W Sussex CC, 1964-1974; Alderman, 1970-1974. President Sussex Council, Royal British Legion, 1975-1981.

Liddell,
Sir Clive Gerard
"Jock"

Son of late Lt.Col. John Liddell, and Ellen Jane Gerard, of Huddersfield.
Married 1st (1914) Clare Lambert Roberts (died 1917).
Married 2nd (1918) Hilda Jessie Bisset, widow of Lieut Maurice Cane; one
son, one daughter.

01.05.1883
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
-
09.09.1956
Chelsea, Greater London

2nd Lt.	22.10.1902 [12844]
Lt.	13.05.1905
Capt.	17.10.1908
T/Maj.	05.11.1914-02.01.1916
Maj.	22.10.1917
T/Lt.Col.	03.01.1916-30.04.1922
Bt. Lt.Col.	23.10.1917
Bt. Col.	23.06.1923
Col.	02.03.1928, seniority 23.10.1921
T/Brig.	16.06.1931-29.12.1933
Maj.Gen.	30.12.1933 (half-pay 07.03.1934) (full pay 01.01.1935)
T/Lt.Gen.	13.12.1937-28.01.1938
Lt.Gen.	29.01.1938
Gen.	05.09.1941, seniority 06.02.1941 (retd 01.11.1942)

KCB	02.01.1939	New Year 39
CB	01.01.1935	New Year 35
CMG	03.06.1918	HM's birthday 18: for services rendered in connection with the war
CBE	1919	?
DSO	1915	?
MID	17.02.1915	?
MID	22.06.1915	?
MID	01.01.1916	?
MID	15.06.1916	?
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	06.07.1918	?
RHMbr	25.08.1926	* [case 48630]
14\|15 St	-	& clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Order of the Crown of Italy, 4th class
* For the rescue from drowning, at St. Lunaire, Britanny, France, of Mrs. Norris, her son aged nine, and his governess, who had been swept out by the current.

Education: Uppingham; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Imperial Defence College (idc, 1927); Staff College (psc, 1919)

22.10.1902			commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment
23.03.1908	-	22.03.1911	Adjutant, ...
01.04.1912	-	15.10.1914	Staff Captain, 6 District, Northern Command (played rugby for the Army in 1912)
1914	-	1918	served European War, 1914-1918 in France & Belgium [15.10.1914-09.12.1916] (despatches 6 times, DSO, CMG, CBE, Bt Lt.Col.)
05.11.1914	-	02.01.1916	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), ... (France)
03.01.1916	-	07.12.1916	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), ... (France)
11.12.1916	-	06.02.1917	specially employed, War Office
07.02.1917	-	28.02.1919	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), War Office (temporary)
01.03.1919	-	30.04.1922	Instructor (Assistant Adjutant General (AAG)), Staff College
1923	-	1925	Deputy Administrator British Empire Exhibition
(1926)			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
02.03.1928	-	15.06.1931	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
16.06.1931	-	06.04.1934	Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade (Southern Command)
01.01.1935	-	26.11.1935	General Officer Commanding, 47th (2nd London) Division TA (London District)
27.11.1935	-	12.12.1937	General Officer Commanding, 4th Division (Eastern Command)
13.12.1937	-	30.06.1939	Adjutant-General to the Forces, War Office & a Member of the Army Council
11.07.1939	-	14.05.1941	Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar
1941	-	1942	Inspector-General for Training (Home Forces)

Colonel, Leicestershire Regiment, 22.03.1943-1948. Governor, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 27.10.1943-27.10.1949. Director of Ambulance, Order of St John, 1943-1948; Acting Chief Commissioner, St John Ambulance Brigade, 1943-1947.
Chairman; 1st County Finance Co., 1948, A.H. Fuller Ltd, 1950, Wessex Central Concentrator Plant Ltd, 1952, Eureka Scientific Co. Ltd, 1954, Wilchester Permanent Building Society, 1955, Southall and Wembley Laundries, 1945.

Limer,
Harold

Son of Fred Limer, and Eleanor Annie Telford.
Married; ... children (one son?).

04.10.1919
South Shields district, Co. Durham
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [180449]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942
Lt.	24.11.1945, seniority 01.07.1942
A/Capt.	17.05.1943-16.08.1943
T/Capt.	17.08.1943-27.02.1946
WS/Capt.	28.02.1946
Capt.	31.12.1946
A/Maj.	24.07.1945-09.09.1945, 16.01.1946-27.02.1946
T/Maj.	28.02.1946-02.06.1946
Maj.	31.12.1953 (retd 22.06.1959)

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 52 days
?	-	28.03.1941	either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.03.1941			commissioned, 23rd Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 23.11.1945]
summer1942			posted, 40th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
24.11.1945			permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps
03.01.1947			transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps

Lindsey,
Peter Kenneth John

see:

Indian Army

Lines,
Thomas Arthur

?
-

2nd Lt.	10.07.1940 [141056]
WS/Lt.	18.05.1941
T/Capt.	22.06.1942-14.01.1944
WS/Capt.	15.01.1944
T/Maj.	23.10.1944-(04.1946)

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

10.07.1940

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

Ling,
Harvey Peter Lindsay *

* order of first names is officially P.H.L., but (initially) registered in the Army as H.P.L.

03.10.1916
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
-
c. 2000 ?
Northampton

2nd Lt.	07.10.1939 [100361]
WS/Lt.	07.04.1941
T/Capt.	02.01.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 24.09.1946)
T/Maj.	1946?
Hon. Maj.	24.09.1946
2nd Lt. TA	24.09.1946
A/Capt. TA	01.09.1949
Lt. TA	01.04.1950, seniority 24.09.1946
Capt. RARO	01.04.1950

	MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
	TD	22.08.1952	-

Education: Oundle School; Queen's College, Cambridge

07.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	(05.1945)	General HQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (NW Europe; operating with 2nd Canadian Corps)
01.04.1950			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.09.1946	-	12.07.1956	Oundle School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force (Territorial Army - General List)

After the war he taught at Oundle School.

Lister,
John William Stephen

Son of an Army officer in the 4th Dragoons, who served in India for years, and during WWI had been recalled to the 6th Iniskilling.

14.04.1910
-
08.1996
Oxford,
Oxfordshire

WS/Sgt.Maj. (Clerk of Works)	06.03.1942 [1863544]
2nd Lt.	04.10.1946 [274367]
T/Capt.	02.09.1947-17.06.1952
Lt. (QM)	18.06.1952, seniority 19.09.1951
Capt. (QM)	18.06.1952, seniority 19.09.1951
T/Maj.	18.06.1952-04.01.1953, 01.05.1954-06.09.1956
Maj. (QM)	07.08.1956 (retd 11.03.1961)

39\|45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	? (with clasp 8th Army)
It St	?	?
Fr&Ge St	?	?
BWM 39\|45	?	?
GenSM	?	? (with clasp Malaya)
LSGCM	?	? (with bar)

			did a correspondent course on quantity surveying
?	-	?	served in the ranks for 14 years, 247 days - Royal Engieners
?	-	?	served as [Regimental] Warrant Officer, Class II for 2 years, 182 days
?	-	?	served as [Regimental] Warrant Officer, Class I for 5 years, 207 days
04.10.1946			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [immediate emergency commission to 31.05.1947]
01.06.1947			short service commission
18.06.1952			permanent commission

Llewellyn,
[Sir] David Treharne

3rd son of Sir David Richard
Llewellyn (1879-1940), 1st Bt, LLD, JP, and Magdalene Anne (died 1966), younger daughter of late Rev. Henry Harries, DD, Porthcawl.
Married Joan Anne Williams, OBE, 2nd daughter of R. H. Williams, Bonvilston House, Bonvilston, near Cardiff; two sons, one daughter.

17.01.1916
Aberdare
-
09.08.1992
Newbury,
Berkshire

2nd Lt.	07.03.1942 [228336]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Capt.	? [acting or temporary?]

09.02.1960

Education: Eton; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA 1938; MA 1979

			enlisted Royal Fusiliers, serving in the ranks
07.03.1942			commissioned, The Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	served NW Europe
(04.1946)			Unemployed List

Journalist. Contested (C) Aberavon Div. of Glamorgan, 1945. MP (C) Cardiff, North, 1950-September 1959; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1951-52 (resigned, illhealth).
Published: Nye: The Beloved Patrician, 1961; The Adventures of Arthur Artfully, 1974; Book of Racing Quotations, 1988.

Llewellyn,
William Herbert Rhydian

Son of Sir David Richard
Llewellyn (1879-1940), 1st Bt, LLD, JP, and Magdalene Anne (died 1966), younger daughter of late Rev. Henry Harries, DD, Porthcawl.
Married (02.01.1943) Lady
Honor Morvyth Vaughan, daughter of Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne and Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt; one son, two daughters.

08.07.1919
-

2nd Lt.	01.07.1939 [95231]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	24.10.1941-23.01.1942
T/Capt.	24.01.1942-07.08.1943, 30.08.1943-03.04.1946
WS/Capt.	04.04.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	20.04.1945-10.06.1945, 24.02.1946-03.04.1946
T/Maj.	04.04.1946-30.06.1947, 23.08.1948-30.06.1952
Maj.	01.07.1952 (retd 28.05.1958)

	MC	22.10.1940	gallant conduct in action with the enemy
	MID	23.09.1943	N Africa

Education: Staff College (psc)

01.07.1939

commissioned, The Welsh Guards

Deputy Lieutenant (DL).

Lloyd,
Cyril

Son of late Alfred Henry Lloyd, of Horsham, Sussex.
Married 1st (1931) Winifred Dorothy Moore (born 1901) , a daughter of W. Moore, of Godalming, Surrey; one daughter.
Married 2nd Marjorie ... (1916-23.07.2008), his ATS driver.
Mrs. Marjorie Lloyd (Photo courtsey of Mrs Anne Ammundsen)

14.04.1906
-
27.07.1989
Horsham district, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	25.12.1929 [44586]
Lt.	25.12.1932
Capt.	08.03.1935
Capt. TARO	21.06.1939
T/Maj.	22.12.1939-(04.1941)
T/Lt.Col.	27.01.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Lt.Col.	?, seniority 12.10.1943
Col.	11.04.1945
T/Brig.	15.11.1943-31.01.1946
A/Maj.Gen.	01.02.1946-01.07.1946
Maj.Gen.	02.07.1946 (retd 01.09.1957)

CB	01.01.1948	New Year 48
CBE	28.09.1944	Normandy
OBE	01.01.1943	New Year 43
TD	25.01.1945	-
TD	17.02.1950	1st & 2nd clasp

Education: Brighton Grammar School; London University and Cambridge University (First Class in Mathematics, Physics, Divinity); Staff College, Camberley (psc)

25.12.1929	-	20.06.1939	228th (Sussex) Battery (How.), 57th (Home Counties) Field Brigade RA - Territorial Army
21.06.1939			transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
1939	-	1940	British Expeditionary Force (despatches)
19.07.1940	-	1942	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), General Staff, Canadian Army (despatches, OBE)
27.10.1943	-	(04.)1944	an Assistant Director of Military Survey, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office (London)
1944	-	1944	a Deputy Chief of Staff, 21st Army Group (despatches, CBE)
01.12.1944	-	01.12.1949	Director of Army Education, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office (London)
01.09.1957	-	14.04.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lecturer and Teacher; Research Worker in Science; Member: Council of Boy Scouts Association, 1950-70; Council Association of Technical Institutions, 1961-64; Central Advisory Council for Education (England) and Advisory Committee on Education in Colonies, 1949-53; Advisory Council on Scieintific Policy (Joint Enquiry on Technicians, 1962-65; Board, International Centre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training (Turin); Council for Techical Education and Training for Overseas Countries; Regional Advisory Council for Higher Technological Education (London), 1950-67; Parliamentary and Scientific Committee; National Advisory Council for Education in Industry and Commerce, 1945-68; Southern Regional Council for Further Education; Council, Institution of Environmental Studies; VicePresident British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education (Chairman 1955-58); Industrial Training Council, 1958-64; Central Training Council and its General Policy Committee, 1964-68; Chairman, Governing Body, National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 1960-70; Schools Broadcasting Council for the UK, 1962-65; W Sussex Education Committee; Council Rural Industries Bureau, 1960-67; President, SASLIC, 1970-79; President, Society for Promotion of Vocational Training and Education, 1973; Chairman, Committee on Scientific Library Services; Chairman Governors, Crawley College of Further Education until 1978; Vice-President, Crawley Planning Group, 1967-; Chief Officer, Commonwealth Technical Training Week, 1961; Treasurer, 1963 Campaign for Education; Member Council for Educational Advance; Trustee: Edward James Foundation; Industrial Training Foundation; President, Roffey Park Management Institute. Governor, Imperial College, 1950-70; Member Delegacy, City and Guilds College, 1950-70; Honorary Executive Principal, West Dean College, 1969-72. Founder Life Member, Cambridge Society Patron, Chalk Pit Museum. Liveryman, Goldsmiths' Co. and Freeman of City of London; FRSA. Fellow of Institute of Physics; MRST. Director-General, City and Guilds of London Institute, 1949-67, Consultant, since 1968; President, Associated Examining Board for General Certificate of Education, since 1976 (Chairman, 1970-76).
Published: Booklets: British Services Education, 1950; Human Resources and New Systems of Vocational Training and Apprenticeship, 1963; contributions to journals

Lloyd,
John Timothy Alban

From Llanwnda (at 1944), Denibgh (at 1959)

?
-

Lt.	18.10.1941 [211566]
WS/Capt.	18.10.1942

21.12.1944

NW Europe

Education: MB, ChB (1940; VU Manchester); MRCS (Eng., 1940); LRCP (London, 1940), DP [registered 08.07.1940]

18.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
27.08.1943	-	(09.1944)	Regimental Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Department of Pathology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Rhyl, 1950s.

Lloyd,
Simon Croil

Married Diana ...

1925 ?
-
03.12.2008
Henllan, near Denbigh
[age 83]
[Colwyn Bay Crematorium]

Cadet	? [14422207]
2nd Lt.	08.04.1944 [314783]
WS/Lt.	08.10.1944

08.04.1944

commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) [emergency commission]

Lloyd,
Talfryn Doughton

10.11.1921
-
12.1984
Reading and
Wokingham,
Berkshire

Cadet	? [1111847]
2nd Lt.	29.04.1944 [315621]
WS/Lt.	29.10.1944
Lt.	01.05.1947, seniority 10.11.1944
Hon. Capt.	05.07.1951 (retd ?)

29.04.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served Burma
01.05.1947			short service commission ?
05.07.1951			transferred from Active List to Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Lloyd Owen,
David Lanyon

Son of late Capt. Reginald Charles Lloyd Owen, OBE, RN.
Married (1947) Ursula Evelyn (MBE 1991), daughter of late Evelyn Hugh Barclay and Hon. Mrs Barclay, MBE; three sons.

10.10.1917
Hampton, Middlesex
-
05.04.2001
Norwich, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	27.01.1938 [74596]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	03.04.1940-17.06.1940, 05.07.1940-20.07.1940
T/Capt.	21.07.1940-30.06.1943
WS/Capt.	01.07.1943
Capt.	27.01.1946
A/Maj.	01.04.1943-30.06.1943
T/Maj.	01.07.1943-14.02.1944
WS/Maj.	15.02.1944
Maj.	27.01.1951
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1954
A/Lt.Col.	15.11.1943-14.02.1944
T/Lt.Col.	15.02.1944-25.01.1948
local Lt.Col.	21.12.1953-30.06.1954
Lt.Col.	18.11.1957 (supernumerary 18.11.1960)
Col.	01.11.1961, seniority 01.01.1961
T/Brig.	06.12.1962-31.10.1965
Brig.	01.11.1965
Maj.Gen.	20.06.1966 (retd 11.10.1972)

CB	01.01.1971	New Year 71
DSO	21.06.1945	Mediterranean
OBE	29.06.1954	Malaya 07-12.53
MC	26.11.1942	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MID	28.06.1945	Italy
MID	01.05.1953	Malaya 07-12.52

Education: Winchester; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; idc, psc

27.01.1938			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (from 14.11.1959 Queen's Surreys)
1939	-	1941	2nd Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Palestine, Western Desert)
24.02.1941	-	14.09.1941	instructor, Middle East Officer Cadet Training Unit
1943	-	1945	Commander, Long Range Desert Group
06.09.1945	-	19.10.1946	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) to Supreme Allied Commander, GHQ Central Mediterranean Forces
20.10.1946	-	05.12.1946	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) to Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Force HQ
26.01.1948	-	19.05.1949	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
20.05.1949	-	22.09.1950	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) to Chief of the Imperial General Staff
16.02.1952	-	27.09.1953	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) to High Commissioner & Director of Operations in Malaya
21.12.1953	-	20.12.1955	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (DS), Staff College, Camberley
1957	-	1959	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment
17.12.1959	-	20.10.1961	College Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
01.11.1961	-	16.11.1962	Colonel General Staff, War Office
06.12.1962	-	30.11.1964	Commander, 24th Infantry Brigade Group
20.06.1966	-	1968	General Officer Commanding, Cyprus District
1968	-	01.07.1969	General Officer Commanding, Near East Land Forces
29.08.1969	-	13.09.1972	President, Regular Commissions Board

Knight of Cross of Merit, SMO Malta, 1946. Chairman, Long Range Desert Group Association, since 1945.
Published: The desert my dwelling place (1957); Providence their guide : the Long Range Desert Group, 1940-1945 (1980)

Lloyd Price,
Rhodri John

Married Pamela Graham (died 10.01.2007, aged 95).

03.02.1910
-
17.05.1950
[Fayid War
Cemetery, Egypt,
13.G.6]

2nd Lt.	30.01.1930 [44947]
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	24.03.1945-(01.1946)

MID

28.10.1942

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...

Lochhead,
David Alexander Wallace

Only son of Mr & Mrs B.H. Lochhead.
Married (1957) Cecilia, the younger daughter of Sir George and Lady Gaggero; three sons.

01.10.1920
Ayr
-
03.03.2009
Troon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.10.1940 [155044]
WS/Lt.	26.04.1942
Lt.	17.01.1945, seniority 01.04.1943
A/Capt.	22.06.1942-21.09.1942
T/Capt.	22.09.1942-12.02.1943, 20.05.1943-30.09.1943, 26.10.1943-03.12.1943, 18.02.1945-22.08.1947
WS/Capt.	23.08.1947
Capt.	01.10.1947
A/Maj.	21.04.1945-05.07.1945, 08.08.1947-22.08.1947
T/Maj.	23.08.1947-02.12.1947, 13.08.1952-13.11.1953
Maj.	01.10.1954 (retd 01.01.1964)

	OBE	1985	?
	MC	27.02.1945	Holland

Education: Larchfield School, Helensburgh; Ayr Academy.
Joined London office of the Imperial Bank of India.

08.1939	-	1940	served in the ranks for 1 year, 55 days (mobilized TA): 1st Battalion London Scottish (TA)
?	-	26.10.1940	either Sandhurst or 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
26.10.1940			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-schire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
10.1940	-	04.1943	9th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (Caithness)
04.1943	-	1945	Company Commander, 7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (NW Europe)

Lodwick,
John Alan Patrick

Son of late Capt. John Thornton Lodwick (1882-1915), DSO, Indian Army, and Kathleen, daughter of Sir Henry
AshbrookeCrump, KCSI.
Married; two sons, two daughters.

02.03.1916
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
18.03.1959
Barcelona, Spain
(car crash)

2nd Lt.	? [244970]
WS/Lt.	?
A/Capt.	?

	MID	21.06.1945	Mediterranean
	CdeG	1940	-

Education: Cheltenham College; RN College, Dartmouth

			French Foreign Legion 1940 (POW - escaped)
			Special Operations Executive (SOE), F Section
1944?			commissioned, General List
1944	-	1945	Special Boat Squadron (S Detachment + L Squadron)

Novelist.
Published: novels: Brother Death, 1948; The Cradle of Neptune, 1951; Somewhere A Voice Is Calling, 1953; The Butterfly Net, 1954; The Starless Night, 1956; Equator, 1957, etc.; war: The Filibusters, 1946 [republished as: Raiders from the sea (1990)]; travel: The Forbidden Coast, 1956; biography: Gulbenkian, 1958; autobiography: Bid The Soldiers Shoot, 1958.

Long,
Michael

Son of Capt. Eustace Ruffel Drake Long, RN.
From Wrotham.

?
-

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [97967]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
T/Capt.	07.09.1943-(04.1944)
Lt.	11.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

	MBE	30.12.1978	New Year 79
	MC	04.05.1944	Italy

			late Officer Cadet, Aberdeen University Contingent, Senior division, Officer Training Corps
02.09.1939			commissioned, 11th Battalion The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Territorial Army
			No. 9 Commando
?	-	10.11.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

District Officer, Forestry Commission (Scotland).

Longfield,
Richard James
"Jim"

Son of Maj. Lewis Longfield.
Married (1929) Charlotte Mary Portal (born 1903); one son, one daughter.

02.01.1901
Thanet, Kent
-
08.1987
North Dorset

2nd Lt.	13.07.1921 [17990]
Lt.	13.07.1923
Capt.	13.07.1934
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	21.06.1941-20.09.1941
T/Lt.Col.	21.09.1941-31.03.1944, 22.05.1944-05.09.1946
Lt.Col.	06.09.1946 (supernumerary 06.09.1949) (retd 21.10.1951)
Hon. Col.	21.10.1951

13.07.1921			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
12.01.1925	-	25.08.1926	Riding Establishment
20.12.1926	-	31.05.1929	ADC to the Governor of Madras
01.11.1934	-	31.10.1937	Adjutant, ...
10.1945	-	1947	Commanding Officer, 9th (Londonderry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (SR)
21.10.1951	-	03.10.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Longworth,
Wilfred Roy

Son of Wilfred Arnold Longworth and Jessie Longworth. Married (1951) Constance Elizabeth Dean; two daughters.

13.12.1923
-

Burwood, Vict.
(Australia)

Cadet	? [14617776]
2nd Lt.	12.07.1944 [324596]
WS/Lt.	12.01.1945 (reld [Class B] 09.1946)
Lt. RARO	01.01.1949

	AM	1986	?
	CFM	20.04.1951	serving officer Cadet Forces

Education: Bolton School; Manchester University (BSc; MSc; PhD)

1941	-	1943	Lord Lieutenant's Commission, Army Cadet Force
1943	-	1944	Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.07.1944	-	1946	commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]
07.1944	-	1944	Anti-Aircraft Command (Southern England)
late 1944			Advanced Lines Course, School of Signals
1945			embarked for India & posted to 7th Indian Air Formation Signals (Mhow, Central India)
			very shortly detached to 2 Indian Combined Operations Corps with special carrier equipment for the invasion of Malaya (took charge of all long distance line communication from Penang to Johore Barhu)
			later, after handing back to the civilian P & T moved to Singapore to take charge Air Command SE Asia Switchboard
09.1946			returned to UK & demobilized
1946	-	1951	Lancashire (East) County, Army Cadet Force
01.01.1949	-	13.12.1983	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
1951	-	1956	Lancashire (West) County, Army Cadet Force

Works Manager and Chief Chemist, Blackburn & Oliver, 1948-1956. Postgraduate research, University of Keele , 1956-1959. Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Huddersfield College of Technology, 1959-1960. Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Sunderland Technical College, 1960-1964. Head, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Manchester Polytechnic, 1964-1970. Principal Director (formerly Director), Swinburne Institute of Technology and College of Technical and Further Education, 1970-1986. Retired 1986.President, World Council on Cooperative Education, 1983-1985.
Fellow, Royal Institute of Chemistry (FRIC), 1963 [renamed Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (London)]; Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI), 1970; Fellow, Australian College of Education (FACE), 1976.
Published: articles on cationic polymerisation in learned journals.

Louis,
George Reginald

From Bradford.

25.07.1923
-
09.1995
Wayland, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	19.12.1943 [303267]
WS/Lt.	19.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Capt.	25.07.1950 (reld 01.07.1959)
Hon. Capt.	01.07.1959

10.05.1945

NW Europe (action at Goch, Germany, 23.02.45)

19.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commision]
19.02.1944			transferred, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
(1944)			7th Battalion The Green Howards (NW Europe)
02.1945	-	05.1945	attached D Company, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (NW Europe)
01.01.1949	-	01.12.1957	short service commission (probably served n Korea, Aden and Malaya; possibly even as Acting Major, and possibly associated with Military Police)
01.12.1957	-	01.12.1958	Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Class I
01.12.1958	-	01.07.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Class III

Lovat,
17th Lord (cr. 1458-1464) (de facto 15th Lord, 17th but for the Attainder);
Fraser, Simon Christopher Joseph
"Shimi";
Baron (UK) (cr. 1837)
Wedding, 1938.

Unveiling of the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge, Sept. 1952 (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Harvey).

Son of 16th Lord Lovat and Hon. Laura Lister (died 1965), 2nd daughter of 4th Baron Ribblesdale. Succeeded father, 18.02.1933. Married (1938) Rosamond, only daughter of Sir Delves Broughton, 11th Bt; two sons, two daughters (and two sons deceased).

09.07.1911
Beaufort Castle,
Inverness
-
16.03.1995

Cadet	?
2nd Lt. TA	05.02.1930 [44718]
2nd Lt.	03.09.1932, seniority 27.08.1931
Lt.	27.08.1934 (retd 01.12.1937)
Capt.	08.07.1939
T/Maj.	17.04.1940-01.10.1942
WS/Maj.	02.10.1942
A/Lt.Col.	1942-01.10.1943
T/Lt.Col.	02.10.1943-14.03.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	15.03.1944
A/Col.	15.09.1943-19.02.1945
T/Col.	20.02.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946; disability)
A/Brig.	15.09.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Brig.	> 04.1946

DSO	02.10.1942	Dieppe raid
MC	07.07.1942	Combined Operations Boulogne area
TD	24.11.1953	?

Order of Suvorov (Russia); Légion d'Honneur (France); Croix de Guerre avec palme (France); Liberation Cross (Norway)

Education: Ampleforth; Magdalen College, Oxford (BA)

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Ampleforth College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
05.02.1930			commissioned into the Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army
			Cadet, Oxford University Cavalry Squadron
03.09.1932			commissioned into the Scots Guards - Regular Army
03.09.1932	-	01.12.1937	served Scots Guards (UK, Egypt, UK)
01.12.1937	-	07.06.1939	Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized as Captain, The Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army
1940			instructor, Lochailort training school
1941			Combined Operations HQ observer (attached as observer to No. 4 Commando for the Lofoten raid)
1941?	-	08.1942	No. 4 Commando (French coast) [initially supernumerary officer, B Troop, later Second-in-Command of the Commando]
08.1942	-	1943	Commanding Officer, No. 4 Commando (Dieppe)
1943	-	12.06.1944	Commander, 1st Special Service Brigade (wounded 12.06.1944, MC, DSO)
?	-	01.01.1949	Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.01.1949	-	16.06.1962	Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 05.1945-07.1945. DL 1942, JP 1944, Inverness. Awarded LLD (Hon.) by Canadian universities. Order of St John of Jerusalem (Commander, 01.01.1946); Knight of Malta; Papal Order of St Gregory with Collar. 24th Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat.
After the war, Lovat built up the family estates, greatly increasing their productivity and gaining the respect of local people. However, financial collapse, followed by the death of two sons in quick succession, brought the sale of Beaufort Castle in 1994.
Published: March past : a memoir (1978)

Loyd,
Edward Percy Canning

Son of William Lewis Brownlow Loyd (died 1947), and Hon. Bettine Henrietta Knatchbull-Hugessen (died 1967).
Brother of Maj. Peter Wyndham Loyd.
Nephew of Gen. Sir Henry Charles Loyd.
Married (06.02.1946) June Cecilia Keppel (born 1924); one son, one daughter.

(03?).1921
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
07.01.1977

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.02.1939 [85277]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Capt.	22.02.1949

Education: Eton

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Officer Training Corps
22.02.1939			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
08.09.1939	-	06.03.1941	mobilized, Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards
07.03.1941	-	20.06.1942	3rd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (captured)
21.06.1942	-	23.04.1945	POW, Africa
24.04.1945	-	?	Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards

Loyd,
Sir Henry Charles
H.C. Loyd

Son of late Edward Henry Loyd.
Married (1922) Lady Moyra Brodrick, youngest daughter of 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC; one son, one daughter.

21.02.1891
Belgravia, Westminster, London
-
11.11.1973
Mettingham, Bungay, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	03.09.1910 [17960]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	15.06.1939, seniority 22.06.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	15.02.1941-14.04.1942
T/Lt.Gen.	15.02.1942-31.10.1942
Lt.Gen.	01.11.1942
Gen.	12.02.1946 (retd 23.04.1947)

GCVO 1965 (KCVO 1947); KCB 1943 (CB 1941); DSO 1918; MC; DL

03.09.1910			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards
...	-	...	...
15.06.1939	-	22.05.1940	General Officer Commanding, 2nd Infantry Division (Aldershot Command & British Expeditionery Force)
18.06.1940	-	14.02.1941	Inspector of Infantry, War Office
15.02.1941	-	08.03.1942	Chief of the General Staff, Home Forces
09.03.1942	-	17.02.1944	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command
18.02.1944	-	31.08.1945	General Officer Commanding, London District

Colonel, Coldstream Guards.

Loyd,
Peter Wyndham

Son of William Lewis Brownlow Loyd (died 1947), and Hon. Bettine Henrietta Knatchbull-Hugessen (died 1967).
Brother of Capt. Edward Percy Canning Loyd.
Nephew of Gen. Sir Henry Charles Loyd.

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.05.1942 [233952]
WS/Lt.	22.11.1942
A/Capt.	15.04.1945-17.10.1945
Lt.	06.03.1946, seniority 18.10.1945
Capt.	18.04.1950 (retd 18.08.1952)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	18.08.1952

22.05.1942			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards [emergency commission to 17.10.1945]
25.07.1942	-	13.09.1944	Troop Commander, No. 1 Squadron, 1st (Armoured) Battalion The Coldstream Guards
14.09.1944	-	20.12.1944	HQ 5th Guards Armoured Brigade
21.12.1944	-	08.04.1945	1st (Armoured) Battalion The Coldstream Guards
09.04.1945	-	15.07.1945	Adjutant, 1st (Armoured) Battalion The Coldstream Guards
16.07.1945	-	23.06.1946	Adjutant, 5th Battalion The Coldstream Guards
06.03.1946			permanent commission
24.06.1946	-	?	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards

Lucas,
Alfred William Tindall

30.06.1920
-
2000
Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.07.1939 [95192]
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	08.01.1942-07.04.1942
T/Capt.	08.04.1942-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.07.1946

MBE

22.03.1945

Operation Frippery (North Sumatra 44)

03.01.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
			Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 7

Luck,
Albert Edwin

Brother of Capt. John Lewis Luck, RE.

13.01.1905
Poplar, Greater London, Middlesex
-
05.1987
Bournemouth, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.02.1942 [228214]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

			possibly served in the Territorial Army before the war; served at Gibraltar and at Narvik (Norway) during the war
14.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Luck,
John Lewis

Brother of Capt. Albert Edwin Luck, RA.

23.11.1911
Poplar, Greater London, Middlesex
-
03.1993
Epping Forest, Essex

Cadet	? [14549476]
2nd Lt.	14.11.1943 [300426]
WS/Lt.	14.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	26.05.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946

	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe

Ex-Thames tug skipper.

14.11.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1944)			commanded the steam tugs for placing the Mulberry harbours at Normandy

Lumkin,
Frederick Arthur

Son of ... Lumkin, and ... Harper.

(06?).1916
Norwich district, Norfolk
-

2nd Lt.	13.12.1939 [110232]
WS/Lt.	13.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

13.12.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
?	-	1942	[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East; captured at Tobruk)
1942	-	1945?	POW (No. 3045) in Italian/German captivity (Stalag Va, Ludwigsburg)

Lumsden,
Herbert

Son of John Lumsden.
Married (1923) Alice
Mary, younger daughter of George Roddick, JP; two sons.
From Clanfield, Oxford.

08.04.1897
Chile
-
06.01.1945
[Brookwood
Memorial,
Surrey]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt. (prob)	13.08.1915
2nd Lt.	23.11.1916, seniority 13.05.1916 [11523]
Lt.	13.11.1917
Capt.	10.08.1925
Maj.	06.09.1931
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1936
Lt.Col.	29.07.1938
Col.	01.08.1940, seniority 01.01.1939
A/Brig.	?
T/Brig.	?
A/Maj.Gen.	15.10.1941-04.10.1942
T/Maj.Gen.	05.10.1942-..., 15.01.1943-25.09.1943
WS/Maj.Gen.	26.09.1943
Maj.Gen.	17.05.1944, seniority 23.12.1943
A/Lt.Gen.	21.08.1942-..., 15.01.1943-25.09.1943
T/Lt.Gen.	26.09.1943-(04.1944)

CB	01.01.1945	New Year 45
DSO	05.07.1940	for gallant and distinguished services in action in connection with recent operations
DSO	13.08.1942	Middle East
MC	26.07.1918	*
MID	29.04.1941	for distinguished services in the field
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East

World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during 13 days of continuous fighting in charge of a forward section. He invariably showed the greatest coolness and courage in the face of danger, keeping his section in action, and always volunteering for any officer's patrol work. As FOO he was consistently shelled whenever he moved his OP, and, although finally wounded, he continued to work and observe for his battery.

Education: Eton; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (1929-1930; psc)

			served in the ranks, mobilized Territorial Force, 317 days
13.08.1915			mobilized Special Reserve 272 days
23.11.1916			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [Royal Horse Artillery]
12.1916	-	11.11.1918	served European War in France & Belgium (wounded; MC)
24.06.1925			transferred, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
25.02.1932	-	14.10.1932	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Aldershot Command
15.10.1932	-	30.12.1935	Brigade Major, 1st Cavalry Division (Aldershot Command)
21.12.1937	-	28.07.1938	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
1938	-	1940	Commanding Officer, 12th Royal Lancers (UK, France)
23.06.1940	-	01.12.1940	Commander, 3rd Motor Machine Gun Brigade (UK), redesignated:
01.12.1940	-	15.10.1941	Commander, 28th Armoured Brigade (UK)
15.10.1941	-	29.10.1941	General Officer Commanding, 6th Armoured Division (UK)
05.11.1941	-	19.08.1942	General Officer Commanding, 1st Armoured Division (Egypt, Libya, Egypt) [except for 3.1-12.2.1942 [wounded] and 19.7-15.8.1942 (wounded)]
08.1942	-	13.12.1942	General Officer Commanding, X Corps (North Africa) (despatches twice, DSO and Bar [wounded])
15.01.1943	-	1943	Corps Commander (Home Forces)
1943	-	06.01.1945	British Liaison Officer with General MacArthur, South-West Pacific (killed by a kamikaze attack aboard battleship New Mexico (Lingayen Gulf))

Lund,
[Sir] Otto Marling

28.11.1891
-
15.08.1956

2nd Lt.	20.07.1911 [6783]
...	...
Col.	01.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1934
T/Brig.	22.05.1939-20.02.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	11.11.1940-20.02.1941
Maj.Gen.	21.02.1941, seniority 30.10.1940
A/Lt.Gen.	01.05.1946-22.04.1947
Lt.Gen.	23.04.1947, seniority 31.05.1944 (retd 30.06.1948)

KCB, 1948 (CB 1942); DSO 1917

20.07.1911			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
22.05.1939	-	16.09.1939	specially employed