Paget,
Sir Bernard
Charles Tolver




3rd son of late Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford, and Helen Beatrice, daughter
of late Very Rev. R.W. Church, Dean of St Paul's.
Married (1918) Winifred Nora, daughter of Sir John Paget, 2nd Bt; one son (and
younger son died of wounds, 1945).
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15.09.1887
Oxford, Oxfordshire
-
16.02.1961
Petersfield, Hampshire
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2nd Lt.
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13.11.1907 [4112] |
...
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...
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Maj.Gen.
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22.01.1938,
seniority 29.12.1937
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A/Lt.Gen.
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05.06.1940-04.06.1941
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T/Lt.Gen.
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05.06.1941-04.09.1941
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Lt.Gen.
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05.09.1941,
seniority 05.08.1941
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A/Gen.
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25.12.1941-24.12.1942
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T/Gen.
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25.12.1942-04.05.1943
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Gen.
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05.05.1943 (retd
14.10.1946)
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GCB
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01.01.1946
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New
Year 46
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KCB
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01.01.1942
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New
Year 42
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CB
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11.07.1940
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distinguished
service in the field
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DSO
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01.01.1918
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distinguished
service in the field
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MID
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20.12.1940
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?
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Grand Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta
(07.12.1944)
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13.11.1907
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|
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commissioned,
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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...
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-
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...
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....
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22.01.1938
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-
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29.11.1939
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Commandant
(Major-General General Staff), Staff College
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30.11.1939
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-
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18.04.1940
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General
Officer Commanding, ... Division (Eastern Command)
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19.04.1940
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-
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30.05.1940
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Force
Commander, Norway
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31.05.1940
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-
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04.06.1940
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Major-General
General Staff, Home Forces
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05.06.1940
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-
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14.02.1941
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Chief of
General Staff, Home Forces
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15.02.1941
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-
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24.12.1941
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General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southeastern Command
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25.12.1941
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-
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28.07.1943
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Commander-in-Chief,
Home Forces
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06.01.1944
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-
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1946
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Commander-in-Chief,
Middle East
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13.10.1944
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|
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also: ADC
General to the King (Extra)
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Painter,
Gordon Whistler Arnaud

Son of late BrigadierGeneral Arnaud C.
Painter, CMG; married Kathleen Hay Lannoy, eldest surv. daughter of Colonel
J.L. Tweedie, DSO; one son two daughters.
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24.02.1893
-
28.09.1960
[Farnborough, Hants ?]
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2nd Lt.
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19.12.1913 [8353] |
Lt.
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09.06.1915
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Capt.
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03.11.1917
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A/Maj.
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22.10.1916-18.07.1919
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Maj.
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01.01.1933
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Bt. Lt.Col.
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01.07.1935
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Col.
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01.08.1939,
seniority 01.07.1938 (retd 23.02.1948)
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A/Brig.
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25.09.1940-24.03.1941
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T/Brig.
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25.03.1941
|
Hon. Brig.
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23.02.1948
|
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DSO
|
1917
|
?
|
|
MID
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04.01.1917
|
?
|
|
MID
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23.07.1917
|
?
|
|
MID
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23.12.1918
|
?
|
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MID
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07.07.1919
|
?
|
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MID
|
01.08.1946
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Malaya
42
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1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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Education: Malvern College; Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich; Staff College (21.01.1927-...)
19.12.1913
|
|
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commissioned
into the Royal Garrison Artillery [later: Royal Regiment of Artillery]
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10.01.1916
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-
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21.10.1916
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Adjutant,
... (served France & Belgium, 08.03.1915-11.11.1918)
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22.10.1916
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-
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18.07.1919
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Battery
Commander
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30.10.1916
|
|
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restored
to the establishment of the Royal Garrison Artillery (supernumerary)
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22.11.1920
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-
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30.04.1921
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Staff
Captain, ... (India)
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08.08.1922
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-
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05.10.1925
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Adjutant,
...
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(1928)
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|
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attached
to 4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
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01.01.1929
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|
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restored
to the establishment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
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18.02.1930
|
-
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30.11.1931
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Staff
Captain, ... (India)
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01.12.1931
|
-
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31.03.1934
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General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
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04.02.1936
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-
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30.09.1937
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Deputy
Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), War Office
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01.10.1937
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-
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09.02.1939
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General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
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10.02.1939
|
-
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31.07.1939
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specially
employed (local Colonel)
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01.08.1939
|
-
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24.09.1940
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General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Rawalpindi District (India)
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25.09.1940
|
-
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01.02.1942
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Commander,
22nd Indian Infantry Brigade (India & Malaya)
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1942
|
-
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1945
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prisoner of
war (Japan)
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31.12.1945
|
-
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23.02.1948
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retained
on the Active List (supernumerary)
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23.02.1948
|
-
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24.02.1953
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transferred
to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers (terminated due to age limit)
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Pakenham-Walsh,
Ridley Pakenham
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29.04.1888
-
03.11.1966
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2nd Lt.
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18.12.1908 [4284]
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...
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...
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Maj.Gen.
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30.06.1939,
seniority 20.06.1938 (supernumerary 29.04.1945) (retd 28.08.1946)
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A/Lt.Gen.
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07.06.1941-17.11.1941
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CB 1940; MC
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18.12.1908
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|
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commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers
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...
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-
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...
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...
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04.09.1939
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-
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30.06.1940
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Engineer-in-Chief,
British Expeditionary Force
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07.1940
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-
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07.1940
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mission
to USA
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14.07.1940
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-
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06.06.1941
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General
Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland District
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07.06.1941
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-
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17.11.1941
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Commander,
IX Corps (Home Forces)
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15.12.1941
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-
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22.02.1943
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Commander,
Salisbury Plain District (Home Forces)
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1943
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-
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1946
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Controller
General, Army Provision (Eastern Group)
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Palairet,
John Hamilton
Married (05.05.1951) Anne Marjorie Bibby; three
daughters.
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23.01.1917
-
27.11.1969
Ledbury, Herefordshire
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2nd Lt.
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28.01.1937
[71077] |
Lt.
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28.01.1940
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A/Capt.
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14.05.1940-13.08.1940
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T/Capt.
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14.08.1940-30.10.1940,
01.02.1941-12.11.1942
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WS/Capt.
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13.11.1942
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Capt.
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28.01.1945
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A/Maj.
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13.08.1942-12.11.1942
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T/Maj.
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13.11.1942,
07.03.1943-03.11.1943,
18.10.1944-07.03.1945,
28.09.1945-29.01.1948,
09.10.1948-27.01.1950
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Maj.
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28.01.1950 (retd
01.03.1959)
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28.01.1937
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|
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commissioned,
3rd Dragoon Guards
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...
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-
|
...
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...
|
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Palamountain,
Edgar William Irwin
Son of William Bennett and Eveleigh Mary
Palamountain. Married (1948) Eleanor, daughter of Maj.Gen.
Sir Richard Lewis, KCMG, CB, CBE; one son, two daughters.
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24.12.1917
-
05.06.1990
London City, London
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2nd Lt.
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18.01.1941
[166318] |
WS/Lt.
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18.07.1942 |
T/Capt.
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? |
WS/Capt.
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19.10.1945 (reld
26.01.1949) |
T/Maj.
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19.10.1945 |
A/Lt.Col.
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1946
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Hon. Maj.
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26.01.1949
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Capt. RARO
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26.01.1949,
seniority 01.01.1949
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MID
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04.04.1946
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NW
Europe
|
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Education: Charterhouse; St John's College, Oxford
(MA)
18.01.1941
|
|
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commissioned
into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
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|
|
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Royal Horse
Artillery
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1944
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-
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1945
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operations
staff, HQ 11th Armoured Division (NW Europe)
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1945
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-
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1947
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Allied
Commission for Austria
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26.01.1949
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-
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?
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Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
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AngloIranian Oil Co., London and Tehran, 1948-51;
Total Ltd, 1952-56; M & G Group, 1957-79: Executive Director, 1962; Managing
Director, 1968; Chairman, 1977. Director of various companies. Chairman, Wider
Share Ownership Council, since 1971. Chairman: Unit Trust Assoc., 1977-79;
Institutional Shareholders Cttee, 1978-79; President, Money Management Council,
1987- (Chairman, 1985-87). Trustee: National Association of Almshouses, 1963-80;
Esmée Fairbairn Trust, 1966-80, 1988- (Director, 1980-88); Thames Help Trust,
1980; Social Affairs Unit, 1982-; Prospect Trust, 1988-. Patron, Inst. of
Economic Affairs, 1972-; Governor: NIESR, 1981-; Ditchley Foundation, 1986-; Member
of the Board, Adam Smith Inst., 1982-; Member Council, University of Buckingham
(formerly UC, Buckingham), 1975-(Chairman, 1979-84). Member Committee, London
Voluntary Service Council, 1969-. FRSA 1984. DUniv Buckingham, 1985.
Published: Taurus Pursuant : a history of the Eleventh Armoured
Division (1945)
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Palmer,
Godfrey Nugent
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29.05.1919
-
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2nd Lt.
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03.07.1939
[94902]
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Lt.
|
03.01.1941
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A/Capt.
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20.09.1941-19.12.1941
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T/Capt.
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20.12.1941-21.12.1941,
13.12.1943-30.06.1946
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Capt.
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01.07.1946
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T/Maj.
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01.01.1950-17.09.1950,
09.06.1951-15.02.1952
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Maj.
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03.07.1952 (retd
21.07.1959)
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03.07.1939
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|
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commissioned,
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
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(1942)
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|
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1st
Battalion The Cameronians (Burma; wounded)
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Palmer,
Rodney Howell

Married 1st Frances Pauline Ainsworth, née
Gordon-Duff; at least one son.
Married 2nd Nancy Isobel Hurt (died 03.03.2007).
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24.11.1907
Basingstoke, Berkshire
-
04.1987
Newbury, Berkshire
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2nd Lt.
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29.08.1931,
seniority 30.01.1930
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...
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...
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Maj.
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01.07.1946 (retd
26.07.1946)
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T/Lt.Col.
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07.09.1943-16.10.1944,
21.07.1945-(01.1946)
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Hon. Lt.Col.
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26.07.1946
|
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MC
|
17.06.1943
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?
|
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29.08.1931
|
|
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commissioned,
12th Lancers
|
...
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-
|
...
|
...
|
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Parker,
Hugh Love
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?
Scotland
-
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T/2nd Lt.
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27.06.1917
|
Lt.
|
?
|
A/Capt.
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?
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2nd Lt.
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23.09.1939
[108583]
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WS/Lt.
|
06.11.1939
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A/Maj.
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01.06.1940-(04.1941)
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WS/Maj.
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28.06.1941
|
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MBE
|
03.06.1919
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HM's
birthday 19 [20.03.20 investiture by British High Commissioner in Cairo]
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MID
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01.04.1941
|
Middle
East 08.39-11.40
|
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MID
|
08.07.1941
|
Middle
East 12.40-02.41
|
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14|15
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
BWM
14|20
|
?
|
?
|
|
VM
|
?
|
?
|
|
39|45
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
Afr
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
BWM
39|45
|
?
|
?
|
|
RHS
- S
|
?
|
?
|
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27.06.1917
|
|
|
commissioned,
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
|
|
|
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served
3rd Battalion
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
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23.09.1939
|
|
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commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
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(04.1944)
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-
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(06.1946)
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Unemployed
List
|
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Parker,
Robert Henry
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± 1912/1913
-
[02.2007 still alive, aged 94]
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Cadet
|
? [2580689]
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2nd Lt.
|
02.10.1943 [295749]
|
WS/Lt.
|
02.04.1944 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
?
|
Hon. Capt.
|
< 04.1946
|
|
MID
|
09.05.1946
|
Burma
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks, Divisional Signals, 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division - Territorial
Army
|
24.08.1939
|
|
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mobilized
TA
|
|
|
|
served
in the Royal West African Frontier Force
|
02.10.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
|
07.02.1945
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Welch Fusiliers
|
|
Parkinson,
David Fortune
|
?
-
27.02.1945
(KIA)
[Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, 48.G.7]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.10.1942 [249220]
|
WS/Lt.
|
17.04.1943
|
|
17.10.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
|
?
|
-
|
27.02.1945
|
..
Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (NW
Europe)
|
|
Parminter,
Reginald Horace Roger
Son of Maj. William George Parminter and Leila M.E.
Heyn.
Married (1919) Muriel Davis; one son.
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28.03.1893
-
07.05.1967
Burwash, Sussex
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2nd Lt.
|
05.02.1913 [1207] |
T/Lt.
|
31.08.1914-14.09.1914 |
Lt.
|
15.09.1914
|
T/Capt.
|
01.08.1915-30.09.1915
|
Capt.
|
01.10.1915 |
Bt. Maj.
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03.06.1919
|
Maj.
|
06.10.1926 |
Lt.Col.
|
05.11.1933
|
Bt. Col.
|
07.04.1935,
seniority 07.04.1934
|
Col.
|
05.11.1937,
seniority 07.04.1934 (supernumerary 31.12.1945) (retd 20.04.1948)
|
A/Brig.
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07.03.1940-20.07.1940,
29.10.1940-15.12.1940
|
T/Brig.
|
16.12.1940-25.10.1941,
04.11.1941-07.06.1942,
11.07.1942-(01.1946)
|
Hon. Brig.
|
20.04.1948
|
1914 Star; British War Medal; Vicotry Medal;
Kurdistan & Iraq Medals & Clasps
|
Education: Dover College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst;
Royal Air Force Staff College
05.02.1913
|
|
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commissioned,
The Manchester Regiment
|
|
|
|
served European War (DSO, MC):
France & Belgium (26.09.1914-26.04.1915, 01.08.1915-11.12.1915),
Mesopotamia (05.01.1916-31.10.1918)
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23.10.1915
|
-
|
03.03.1917
|
Adjutant,
... The Manchester Regiment
|
04.03.1917
|
-
|
22.12.1917
|
Staff
Captain I.E.F. "D" & Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
|
14.08.1918
|
-
|
23.03.1921
|
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
|
19.11.1921
|
-
|
31.03.1922
|
Brigade
Major, ... (Western Command)
|
14.04.1922
|
|
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restored
to the esablishment,
The Manchester Regiment
|
30.08.1923
|
-
|
09.08.1924
|
Officer
Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
|
10.08.1924
|
-
|
31.08.1927
|
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
|
(03.1931)
|
|
|
1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment
(Shorncliffe)
|
(06.1933)
|
|
|
1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment
(Gosport, for West Indies)
|
05.11.1933
|
-
|
06.04.1935
|
CO 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment
|
07.04.1935
|
-
|
06.04.1939
|
Commandant Royal Military School of Music and Inspector of Army Bands
(Kneller Hall, Twickenham) (Class Y to 31.07.1938)
|
01.09.1939
|
-
|
06.03.1940
|
Assistant-Adjutant
& Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), British Expeditionary Force
|
07.03.1940
|
-
|
20.07.1940
|
Deputy
Quartermaster-General (DQMG), British Expeditionary Force
|
27.07.1940
|
-
|
26.10.1940
|
Assistant
Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ... (Home Forces)
|
29.10.1940
|
-
|
25.10.1941
|
Brigadier
in charge of Administration, Gibraltar
|
04.11.1941
|
-
|
27.02.1942
|
Deputy
Adjutant & Quartermaster General (DA&QMG), ... (Home Forces)
|
28.02.1942
|
-
|
07.06.1942
|
Brigadier
in charge of Administration, ... (Home Forces)
|
18.06.1942
|
-
|
23.06.1942
|
Colonel in
charge of Administration, ... (Home Forces)
|
1942
|
-
|
1944
|
Assistant Adjutant and
Quartermaster- General, ... (in charge of Administration)
|
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
commanded Area in France and Belgium
|
29.01.1943
|
-
|
1948
|
ADC to the
King
|
1946
|
-
|
1947
|
Chief of UNRRA Mission to
Austria
|
20.08.1948
|
-
|
28.03.1953
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
Member UN Secretariat, New York, 1948-1954.
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Paton,
Arthur William
Son of British consul to Korea. Married (1955)
Jane Cooper; three sons, one daughter.
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08.04.1916
Korea
-
08.02.2005 |
2nd Lt.
|
20.07.1940 [140780] |
WS/Lt.
|
20.01.1942
|
Lt.
|
? (reld
26.11.1952)
|
T/Capt.
|
17.09.1942
|
WS/Capt.
|
23.12.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
23.12.1943
|
Hon. Maj.
|
26.11.1952
|
|
MC
|
24.02.1942
|
Middle
East
|
|
Education: St Edward's, Oxford; Christ Church,
Oxford
Worked for several months on the Humber production line in Coventry, before joining Burmah Oil.
20.07.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Armoured Corps - 11th Hussars (North Africa) [emergency commission]
|
1942
|
|
|
served Special Operations Executive
(SOE) to supply the Greek resistance movement
|
1945?
|
|
|
Ceylon
|
Served a spell at the Foreign Office, before a fishing business took him to Kenya for four years.
Joined the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation
(Bangkok). Returned to the UK in 1965, living in Sussex.
|
Patrick-Smith,
Roy
Married (divorced); one son.
|
?
-
1985
Morocco
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.08.1940
[145802]
|
WS/Capt.
|
22.01.1942
|
T/Maj.
|
22.01.1942-28.09.1944
|
WS/Maj.
|
29.07.1944
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
29.07.1944-(04.1946)
|
Hon.
Lt.Col.
|
?
|
|
EM
|
28.01.1949
|
-
|
|
?
|
-
|
17.08.1940
|
133rd
Officer Cadet Training Unit
|
17.08.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
Western Desert & Greece; was part of delegation to Beirut; later served in
the Balkans and on the Allied Commission in Hungary (initially Artillery, then
political officer, then intelligence duties)
|
post-war
?
|
|
|
Territorial
Army ?
|
Sometime ADC to Duke of Gloucester.
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Paul,
Charles Robert
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29.12.1901
Bristol, Gloucestershire
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2nd Lt.
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13.02.1921
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Lt.
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13.07.1923
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Capt.
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13.07.1934
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Maj.
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01.08.1938
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A/Lt.Col.
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22.09.1942-21.12.1942
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T/Lt.Col.
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22.12.1942-31.03.1944,
30.01.1945-(01.1946)
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NW Frontier of India 1930-1931 Medal & Clasp
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13.07.1921
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commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery
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01.04.1938
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01.09.1939
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Adjutant,
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Paul,
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MC
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UNKNOWN; perhaps Lt.Col. C.R.
Paul ?
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(1943)
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Combined
Operations HQ
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Pavitt,
Richard [Gordon] Hastings
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16.09.1920
Masterton, New Zealand
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Gnr.
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1938 [064165]
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2nd Lt.
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19.11.1944 [348803] |
WS/Lt.
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08.04.1945 (reld
24.01.1947)
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T/Capt.
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12.11.1945-24.01.1947
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Hon. Capt.
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24.01.1947
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EM
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28.11.1958
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1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Italy star, Defence Medal, War Medal, New Zealand War Service Medal, General Service Medal bar S.E. Asia 1945-46, Efficiency Medal bar
New Zealand (26.04.1949) *
* Curiously, Pavitt wrote to the War Office on the 30th June, 1958, claiming the award of the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) and, most surprisingly and probably because they
were unaware of his previous award of the New Zealand Efficiency Medal, this award was gazetted on the 28th November, 1958.
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1938
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enlisted in the New Zealand Territorial Force
and served in the Field Artillery.
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08.1943
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attested for the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force
and posted to the 6th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery (Italy)
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04.1944
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selected
for a course at an Officer Cadet Training Unit as an officer candidate for the British Army
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19.11.1944
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commissioned,
Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
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1944
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