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MacDonald, C.B.
to
McNaughton, J.F.

Medway, G.E.R.
to
Murray, D.J.S.

 

G.E.R. Medway  to  D.J.S. Murray
Medway,
Gordon Edgar Roberts
G.E.R. Medway (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Porter) gravestone of G.E.R. Medway
Son of Arthur Edgar and Elsie Annie Medway, of Purley, Surrey.
(12?).1920
-
22.05.1940
(KIA) [age 19]
[Avelgem Communal Cemetery, Belgium, A.6]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
14.01.1940 [113467]
?
-
13.01.1940
162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940


commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
?
-
22.05.1940
2nd Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (killed in action)
Mellor,
James Frederick Charles
"Fred"
J.F.C. Mellor
From Cobham.
Married; at least one son.
30.11.1913
-
died between 1967 and 1985
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
31.08.1933 [56720]
Lt.
31.08.1936
A/Capt.
11.12.1939-10.03.1940
T/Capt.
11.03.1940-30.08.1941
Capt.
31.08.1941
A/Maj.
20.01.1942-19.04.1942
T/Maj.
20.04.1942-30.08.1946
Maj.
31.08.1946
local Lt.Col.
25.11.1943-28.06.1944,
26.05.1948-25.05.1949
T/Lt.Col.
08.10.1951-26.12.1953,
08.10.1955-15.01.1956
Lt.Col.
16.01.1956 (supernumerary 16.01.1959)
Col.
26.02.1959 (retd 27.03.1962)
T/Brig.
?
Hon. Brig.
27.03.1962
Distinguished Service Order DSO
24.01.1946
NW Europe
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1958
New Year 58
Mention in Despatches MID
24.06.1943
Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID
04.04.1946
NW Europe
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; jssc, psc
31.08.1933


commissioned, King's Royal Rifle Corps
17.08.1937
-
14.08.1938
ADC to General Officer Commanding Burma
(09.1940)


Officer Commanding, "C" Company, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
31.03.1941
-
07.09.1941
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), British Troops in Egypt
20.01.1942
-
14.02.1942
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Middle East Forces
15.02.1942
-
16.06.1942
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 10th Army
17.06.1942
-
02.01.1943
Brigade Major, 69th Infantry Brigade
16.05.1943
-
24.011.1943
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Home Forces
25.11.1943
-
16.06.1944
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Royal Military College, Sandhurst
29.06.1944
-
20.08.1944
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 21st Army Group
05.11.1944
-
21.03.1945
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 3rd Infantry Division
(04.1945)


2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
07.12.1945
-
27.03.1947
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (SO2), AATDC
28.04.1947
-
19.05.1949
Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Washington
08.10.1951
-
09.10.1953
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ British Troops in Egypt
Menday,
Ronald Philip
R.P. Menday
From Bletchley.
03.01.1913
-
01.2001
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
25.05.1940 [132152]
WS/Lt.
?
WS/Capt.
01.11.1941
T/Maj.
06.07.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.
29.10.1944
A/Lt.Col.
? (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
01.01.1968
New Year 68: for service as Warden, Turner's Court Children's Home, Oxford
Military Cross MC
01.03.1945
NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID
03.08.1944
NW Europe (special operations)
Mention in Despatches MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe



Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.05.1940


commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
c. 04.1943
-
c. 08.1944
No. 4 Commando (initially A Troop Commander, later Second-in-Command) (UK, Normandy)
[commanded "Menday Force" on some raids in 12.1943; took over command of the Commando when the CO was wounded in Normandy 06.06.1944]
(04.1945)


Commander of 2 Commando Brigade Training Wing
Warden, Turner's Court Children's Home, Oxford, 1960's.
Meredith,
Reginald John
R.J. Meredith
Son of Evan and Violet Rosalind Meredith.
Husband of Nora Anne Meredith.
1919 ?
-
14.09.1945
(KIA) [age 26]
[Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India, 1.L.9]
Cadet
? [2362585]
2nd Lt.
23.11.1944 [335329]
WS/Lt.
?
23.11.1944


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?
-
14.09.1945
attached, 6th Battalion The South Wales Borderers
Merritt,
William Edward
"Bill"
W.E. Merritt (Photo courtesy of Mrs Valerie Martin (née Merritt))
W.E. Merritt (Photo courtesy of Mrs Valerie Martin (née Merritt))
Son of James ans Mary Merritt, of Christchurch New Zealand.
Married (1935) Doris Lambert; one daughter.
18.08.1908
Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
-
09.06.1977
Christchurch, New Zealand
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
04.04.1942 [232060]
WS/Lt.
04.10.1942
T/Capt.
22.03.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj.
?
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1946
Mediterranean
?
-
03.04.1942
Officer Cadet training Unit at Weedon, Northamptonshire
04.04.1942


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



served in Bone, North Africa & Italy
A professional cricketer who played for New Zealand & Northamptonshire (1926/27-1946). Member of the British Army Cricket Team to tour England.
Metcalfe,
John Francis
J.F. Metcalfe
Son of late Brig.Gen. F.H.
Metcalfe, DSO.
Married (1938, Allahabad) Natalia Eleanor, daughter of late Col. N.E. Margetts, US Army; one daughter.
30.06.1908
Berwick district, Durham / Northumberland
-
11.06.1975
Windlesham, Littlestone, New Romney, Kent
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
02.02.1928
Lt.
02.02.1931
Capt.
24.11.1937
A/Maj.
14.05.1940-13.08.1940
T/Maj.
14.08.1940-22.12.1940,
25.07.1941-18.01.1942,
24.01.1942-12.08.1942,
22.10.1942-08.03.1944
WS/Maj.
09.03.1944
Maj.
02.02.1945
local Lt.Col.
24.01.1942-12.08.1942,
22.10.1942-18.07.1943
A/Lt.Col.
09.12.1943-08.03.1944
T/Lt.Col.
09.03.1944-03.07.1944,
15.08.1944-01.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
02.10.1945
Lt.Col.
01.10.1949
A/Col.
02.04.1945-01.10.1945
T/Col.
02.10.1945-04.11.1946
Col.
13.08.1952
A/Brig.
02.04.1945-01.10.1945
T/Brig.
02.10.1945-24.01.1946,
01.10.1951-13.09.1956
Brig.
14.09.1956
Maj.Gen.
07.11.1958 (retd 05.12.1963)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1960
?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
1954
?
Mention in Despatches MID
26.04.1945
?
Mention in Despatches MID
08.05.1956
?
Education: Radley College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
02.02.1928


commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
(03.1931)
-
(06.1933)
1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Tientsin)
(01.1937)


1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Allahabad)
1939
-
1945
served in India and Burma:
24.04.1937
-
05.12.1940
Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Allahabad)
09.07.1941
-
23.01.1942
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
22.10.1942
-
18.07.1943
Instructor (General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Quetta
09.1943
-
1944
Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Arakan)
1944
-
04.1944
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (in command of 21 Column, Chindits, Burma) [wounded]
15.08.1944
-
11.09.1944
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ...
12.09.1944
-
01.04.1945
Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ...
02.04.1945
-
24.11.1945
Brigadier "Q" (Maintenance), HQ Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA)
25.01.1946
-
27.10.1946
Colonel in charge of Administration, South Wales District
05.11.1946
-
13.04.1949
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Instructor), Joint Services Staff College
08.1949
 
 
transferred, The East Surrey Regiment
08.1949
-
08.1951
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment (Greece)
01.10.1951
-
04.01.1954
Brigadier General Staff, HQ Western Command
1954


Imperial Defence College
03.02.1955
-
30.09.1955
Commander, ... Infantry Brigade (Far East Land Forces)
01.10.1955
-
1957
Commander, 2nd Federation Infantry Brigade (Malaya)
1958
-
1961
Director of Personnel Administration, War Office
1961
-
1963
General Officer Commanding, Aldershot District
Colonel, The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, 14.10.1959-1964.
Middleton,
George Sidney Forbes
G.S.F. Middleton

19.07.1907
Farnham, Hampshire / Surrey
-
27.12.1940
[age 32]
[Cranwell (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire, 2.D.15]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
01.09.1927 [38599]
Lt.
01.09.1930
Capt.
22.11.1937
Maj.
?
01.09.1927


commissioned, East Surrey Regiment 
28.08.1931
-
19.08.1935
employed with King's African Rifles
22.11.1937?


transferred, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
20.08.1935
-
31.03.1939
employed (GSO3 War Office) Committee of Imperial Defence
?
-
?
?
Miles,
Eric Grant

2nd son of late George H. Miles, Homestall, Welwyn, Herts. Married (1924) Lady Marcia Valda (died 1972), youngest daughter of 7th Earl of Roden; one daughter.
11.08.1891
Homestall, Welwyn, Herts
-
03.11.1977
The Rope Walk, Lyth Hill, Shrewsbury
Cadet
?
2nd Lt. 
03.06.1911 [20038]
T/Lt.
27.08.1914-31.08.1914
Lt.
01.09.1914
T/Capt.
01.09.1915-24.01.1916
Capt.
25.01.1916
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1919
Maj.
08.05.1928
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1931
Lt.Col.
06.05.1936
Col.
11.02.1938, seniority 01.07.1934
A/Brig.
12.01.1940-11.07.1940
T/Brig.
12.07.1940-15.06.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
12.05.1941-15.06.1941
Maj.Gen.
16.06.1941, seniority 20.11.1940 (retd 10.09.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.
25.09.1944-30.11.1944
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1943
New Year 43
Distinguished Service Order DSO
04.06.1917
distinguished service in the field
Military Cross MC
24.07.1915
*
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1915
?
Mention in Despatches MID
04.01.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
15.05.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
20.05.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
29.12.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
2012.1940
?
1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
* For conspicuous gallantry. During a critical period in the attack on "Hill 60" and neighbouring trenches on May 1st, 1915, he succeeded in mending the telephone wire along the railway cutting under such heavy shell fire that messengers were unable to get through.
Education: Harrow; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1922; psc); Imperial Defence College (1934; idc)
03.06.1911


commissioned into The King's Own Scottish Borderers
1914
-
1918
served European War (France & Belgium 13.08.1914-23.09.1918; wounded)
(05.1915)


attached 5th Signal Company, Royal Engineers
06.11.1915
-
23.03.1916
General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), .... (France)
24.03.1916
-
16.07.1917
Brigade Major, ... (France)
17.07.1917
-
11.06.1918
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), .... (France)
28.08.1918

22.09.1918
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), .... (France)
23.09.1918
-
30.01.1919
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff School (Cambridge, UK)
08.02.1919
-
29.03.1919
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), .... (France)
30.03.1919
-
12.03.1920
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Rhine Army (Germany)
01.05.1920
-
21.06.1920
General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), Schleswig Plebiscite Area Germany (Germany)
23.01.1923
-
31.03.1924
General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office (London, UK)
01.04.1924
-
23.01.1927
General Staff Officer for Weapon Training, Southern Command (UK)
24.01.1927
-
26.06.1928
Brigade Major, Shanghai Defence Force [and Northern China (temporary)] (China)
11.02.1930
-
15.01.1934
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London, UK)
06.05.1936
-
1938
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment
11.02.1938
-
15.11.1939
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Malaya (Malaya)
12.01.1940
-
15.09.1940
Commander, 126th Infantry Brigade (UK, France & Belgium, UK)
16.09.1940
-
11.05.1941
Brigadier General Staff, Home Forces (UK)
12.05.1941
-
07.10.1941
General Officer Commanding, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division (UK)
08.10.1941
-
04.05.1943
General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division (UK, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, N Africa) (wounded)
12.1943
-
1946
General Officer Commanding, East Kent, Kent & South-Eastern Districts, also:
25.09.1944
-
12.1944
temporary General Officer Commanding-in- Chief, South-Eastern Command
10.09.1946
-
11.08.1956
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Colonel, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 19.06.1944-19.06.1954.
A Member of the House of Laity, Church Assembly, 1955-1960; Deputy Chairman, Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance, 1954-1960, Chairman, 1960-1971.
Miller,
John Alfred Tennant
"Jack"
J.A.T. Miller
Married (27.06.1933) Adelaide Hilda Clay (died 10.1972, aged 85), daughter of Charles John Clay and Elizabeth Teasdale Smith, of Burton-upon-Trent, and widow of Henry Francis Clifford (killed in action 09.01.1917); her daughter Henrietta married Maj. Peter F.S. Haggie (who changed his name to Clifford).
13.11.1887
Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
29.10.1972
Frampton-on-Severn
2nd Lt.
18.12.1907 [4058]
Lt.
?
Capt.
?
Maj.
02.06.1923
Lt.Col.
13.01.1933 (half-pay 13.01.1937) (retd 13.07.1937)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE
WW I ?
?
WWI medals
WW I


Lieutenant, Royal Kent Regiment
WW I


Captain & Adjutant, 14th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
09.08.1922


Captain, 14th/20th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps (with seniority 23.12.1916)
19.01.1928
-
13.12.1929
Deputy Provost Marshal (Class BB), Rhine Army (temporary)
13.01.1933
-
13.01.1937
Commanding Officer, 14th/20th Hussars (Egypt & India)
13.07.1937
-
19.08.1945
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
24.06.1939
-
13.05.1940
Commanding Officer, 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps (Territorial Army)
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
22.05.1940
-
(04.1944)
special appointment (specially employed under the Director of Military Operations, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office)
Published: (as editor) Browne, J. Gilbert & E.J. Bridges. Historical Record of the 14th (Kings) Hussars 1900-1922 Volume Two (1932)
Miller,
[Sir] John Mansell
J.M. Miller  
3rd son of Brig.Gen. Alfred Douglas Miller, CBE, DSO, DL, JP, Royal Scots Greys, and of Ella Geraldine Fletcher, Saltoun, E Lothian.
Home address: (1944) Tetbury.



Guardian obituary

Times obituary
04.02.1919
Wheatley,  Oxfordshire
-
17.05.2006
Wheatley, Oxon.
2nd Lt.
26.01.1939 [85599]
Lt.
01.01.1941
A/Capt.
11.09.1941-10.12.1941
T/Capt.
11.12.1941-29.09.1944
WS/Capt.
30.09.1944
Capt.
01.07.1946
A/Maj.
30.06.1944-29.09.1944
T/Maj.
30.09.1944-29.06.1947,
19.11.1948-13.02.1950
Maj.
26.01.1952
Lt.Col.
07.11.1958 (retd 05.04.1961)
Knitght Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order GCVO
13.06.1987
HM's birthday 87
Knitght Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO
15.06.1974
HM's birthday 74
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
11.06.1966
HM's birthday 66
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.03.1945
NW Europe 09.44 *
Military Cross MC
21.12.1944
NW Europe 08.44 **
* For his skill in re-establishing two companies of his regiment after a fierce tank attack had dislodged them.
** When, in the face of heavy shelling, he kept his beleaguered men together, continually exposing himself to enemy fire with complete disregard to his personal safety.
Education: Eton; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)
26.01.1939


commissioned, Welsh Guards
1939
-
1940
... Battalion, Welsh Guards (British Expeditionery Force)
21.08.1942
-
22.05.1944
Adjutant, ...
1944
-
1945
Officer Commanding, Prince of Wales Company, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (NW Europe)
11.1945
-
08.1947
ADC to Field Marshal Lord Wilson (Washington, DC)
1953
-
1956
Regimental Adjutant
1956
-
1958
Brigade Major, 1st Guards Brigade
07.11.1958
-
05.04.1961
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
President: Royal International Horse Show, 1993-; Coaching Club, 1975-1982; Hackney Horse Society, 1978-1979, 1994-1995; National Light Horse Breeding Society (HIS), 1982; British Driving Society, 1982-; Royal Windsor Horse Show Club, 1985-1990; Horse Rangers Association, 1985-; Cleveland Bay Horse Society, 1986-1988; BSJA, 1988-1993; BHS, 1992-1994; Rare Breeds Survival Trust, 1995-; Vice-President, Irish Draught Horse Society, GB, 1990-. Patron: Side Saddle Association, 1984-; Coloured Horse and Pony Society, 1988. President: Wheatley Br, RNLI, 1982-; Wheatley Scouts, 1982-... Crown Equerry, 05.04.1961-01.08.1987, an Extra Equerry since 1987.
Mills,
Bernard
B. Mills
17.10.1913
-
07.2001

North Yorkshire
2nd Lt.
25.02.1940
A/Capt.
24.10.1942-23.01.1943
T/Capt.
24.01.1943-24.10.1946
A/Maj.
08.11.1944-07.02.1945
T/Maj.
08.02.1945-27.12.1946
Lt.
25.10.1946, seniority 17.10.1939
Capt.
25.10.1946, seniority 17.10.1944
T/Maj.
11.06.1947-16.10.1949
Maj.
17.10.1949 * (retd 29.07.1963)
* To take rank and precedence in his Corps and in the Army (with effect from 04.07.1955) as if his appointment as Maj. bore the date 17.10.1950
1939
-
1940
served in the ranks for 123 days
25.02.1940

commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission to 24.10.1946]
25.10.1946


transferred to Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, from 1959 The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry [permanent commission]
Milne,
the Lord;
Milne, George Francis;
1st Baron of of Salonika and Rubislaw

Lord Milne Lord Milne
Lord Milne
° Wikipedia
° papers
05.11.1866
Aberdeen 
-
23.03.1948
London
...
...
Field Marshal
30.01.1928

GCB (1927); GCMG (1919); KCB (1918); KCMG (1919); CB (1912); DSO (1902); DCL; LLD; KGStJ; Grand Cross of several foreign orders.

...
-
...
...



no active WW II service known, but carried on in the Army List
Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 21.11.1918. Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Pay Corps, 02.07.1940-14.03.1945. Master-Gunner St. James's Park, 15.08.1929.
Literature: Uncle George : Field Marshal Lord Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw (1976)
Milner-Barry,
Walter Leopold
W.L. Milner-Barry
(09?).1904
Hendon, Greater London
-
17.11.1981
Easton, Winchester, Hampshire
2nd Lt.
05.05.1940 [144860]
WS/Lt.
05.11.1941
T/Capt.
01.04.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
23.03.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon.Capt.
< 04.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE
03.06.1978

for services to the National Association of Boys' Clubs

Mention in Despatches MID
30.06.1942
Middle East 07-10.41
Mention in Despatches MID
02.03.1944
gallant & distinguished services in the field
Oil company executive for Shell in Palestine.
05.05.1940


commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
04.1943
-
?
served Special Boat Squadron
Merchant banker.
Serving Brother, Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 02.01.1958.
Milnes-Coates,
[Sir] Robert Edward James Clive;
3rd Baronet (cr. 1911)
see: Coates,
Robert Edward James Clive
 
Miscampbell,
Norman Alexander
N.A. Miscampbell

20.02.1925
-
16.02.2007

Cadet
? [14433608]