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St. John, S.
to
Small, O.A.

Smith, A.F.
to
Symons, C.D.

 

S. St. John  to  O.A. Small
St. John,
Sydney
W.M. Sale
Married; ... children.
 		?
-
03.1999
Salisbury,
Wiltshire
[his ashes were
spread at Middle
Wallop Airfield,
Wiltshire]
A/Sgt.
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		22.02.1941 [173336]
WS/Lt.
 		22.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.
 		?
Hon. Capt.
 		< 04.1946
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
 ?
 ?
France & Germany Star Fr&G St
 ?
 ?
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
 ?
 ?
Defence Medal Def M
 ?
 ?
22.02.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
22.05.1944

transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
Sale,
Walter Morley
W.M. Sale
Son of Charles Vincent Sale,
late of Aston Rowant House,
Oxon.
Married (08.02.1928) Hon. Ismay Hilda Margaret FitzRoy (born 03.12.1908), daughter of 4th Baron Southampton, OBE; one son, one daughter.
 		02.08.1903
-
29.08.1976
Halesworth, Suffolk
2nd Lt.
 		31.01.1925, seniority 02.02.1924 [25822]
Lt.
 		02.02.1926
Capt.
 		01.02.1930
Maj.
 		26.06.1938
A/Lt.Col.
 		15.03.1941-14.06.1941
T/Lt.Col.
 		15.06.1941-20.12.1941,
17.12.1942-(01.1946)
WS/Lt.Col.
 		?
Lt.Col.
 		26.06.1947
A/Col.
 		14.05.1945-(01.1946)
Col.
 		15.12.1948, seniority 14.11.1948
A/Brig.
 		14.05.1945-(01.1946)
T/Brig.
 		(1949)
Brig.
 		03.08.1952 (retd 01.09.1955)
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
 05.06.1952
 HM's birthday 52
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
 01.02.1945
 NW Europe
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 30.12.1941
 Middle East 02.41-07.41
Mentioned in Despatches? MID
 09.01.1949
 Palestine 03-09.46
Croix de Guerre with Palm (Belgium) CdeG
 16.01.1947
 ? [awarded 08.12.1945]
Chevalier Order of Leopold II with Palm LeoII
 16.01.1947
 ? [awarded 08.12.1945]
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; New College, Oxford (BA); Staff College (psc)



from General List, Territorial Army
31.01.1925

commissioned, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) (Windsor)
1943
 -
 		12.1944
 		Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), Guards Armoured Division [for almost 2 years]
12.1944
 -
 		(1946)
 		Commanding Officer, 1st Household Cavalry Regiment (despatches twice)
26.06.1947
 -
 		14.12.1948
 		Commanding Officer, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
1950
 -
 		1954
 		Chief of Staff, London District
Equerry to the Queen, 01.05.1954; Crown Equerry, 01.03.1955-05.04.1961. Extra Equerry to the Queen, 05.04.1961-1976.
Sales,
Jack Eric Denyer
J.E.D. Sales 		04.10.1901
Wenhaston, Suffolk
-
10.1996
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		16.08.1941 [201935]
WS/Lt.
 		01.10.1942
T/Capt.
 		08.09.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.
 		1946?
Capt.
 		01.09.1946, seniority 14.04.1946
T/Maj.
 		18.06.1949
Maj.
 		16.08.1954 (reld 01.09.1956)
Hon. Maj.
 		01.09.1956
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM
 08.02.1949
 ?
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
 ?
 ?
France & Germany Star Fr&G St
 ?
 ?
Defence Medal Def M
 ?
 ?
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
 ?
 ?
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, George V issue Const LSM
 ?
 ?
Served in the Special Constabulary.
1930s ?

enlisted, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
?
 -
 		15.08.1941
 		Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.08.1941

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
01.09.1946
 -
 		01.09.1956
 		short service commission
Sanford,
William Boris
W.B. Sanford
?
-
10.07.1940
[Exeter Higher
Cemetery,
Devon, Z.K.2]
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		14.01.1940 [113597]
?
 -
 		14.01.1940
 		164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940

commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
14.01.1940
 -
 		10.07.1940
 		2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (France & UK)
Schreiber,
 Sir Edmond Charles Acton
"Teddy"
E.C.A. Schreiber E.C.A. Schreiber
E.C.A. Schreiber
Son of late Hon. Brig.Gen. Acton Lemuel Schreiber, CB, CMG, DSO (1865-1951), and Evelyn Amy Hunt.
Married (24.10.1916) Phyllis, only daughter of late Major C.P. Barchard; two daughters.
° Wikipedia
° papers
30.04.1890
London
-
08.10.1972
Exmouth, Devon
2nd Lt.
 		23.12.1909 [12846]
Lt.
 		23.12.1912
T/Capt.
 		29.05.1915-22.12.1915
Capt.
 		23.12.1915
Bt. Maj.
 		01.01.1918
Maj.
 		08.03.1927
A/Lt.Col.
 		26.08.1917-08.02.1919
Bt. Lt.Col.
 		01.01.1930
Lt.Col.
 		01.01.1937
Col.
 		08.01.1938, seniority 01.01.1933
T/Brig.
 		27.09.1938-07.06.1940
A/Maj.Gen.
 		26.04.1940-07.06.1940
Maj.Gen.
 		08.06.1940, seniority 24.07.1938
A/Lt.Gen.
 		08.05.1941-07.05.1942
T/Lt.Gen.
 		08.05.1942-11.08.1942,
07.09.1942-30.07.1944
Lt.Gen.
31.07.1944, seniority 21.01.1943 (retd 04.01.1947)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
 08.06.1944
 HM's birthday 44
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
 01.01.1942
 New Year 42
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 01.12.1914
 service with Expeditionary Force *
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 17.02.1915
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 18.05.1917
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 14.12.1917
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 23.12.1918
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 26.07.1940
 ?
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
 -
 & Clasp
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
 -
 -
Victory Medal VM
 -
 -
* Very gallant conduct on 14th September in saving horses which had become entangled in blocked road, and man-handling guns away from a position which had become untenable from a very heavy shell fire, continuing to work, although wounded.
 		Education: Wellington (1903-1908); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1908-1909); Staff College, Camberley (1923-1924; psc)
23.12.1909

commissioned, Royal Field Artillery (Royal Regiment of Artillery)
1914
 -
 		1918
 		served European War France & Belgium (17.08.1914-30.09.1914, 11.11.1914-01.04.1917 & 07.07.1917-11.11.1918) (wounded; despatches, DSO, Bt Maj.)
17.06.1916
 -
 		02.11.1916
 		Staff Captain (Staff Officer to Maj.Gen. RA), France
26.08.1917
 -
 		08.02.1919
 		Commandant, Artillery School
07.06.1920
 -
 		12.01.1921
 		Brigade Major, ... (India)
14.01.1921
 -
 		15.12.1922
 		Adjutant, ... (Royal Artillery)
08.04.1925
 -
 		17.10.1926
 		Brigade Major, ... (Southern Command)
18.10.1926
 -
 		07.04.1929
 		General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), RAF School of Army Co-operation
21.01.1930
 -
 		20.01.1933
 		General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College (Camberley)
16.11.1934
 -
 		31.12.1936
 		General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London)
08.01.1938
 -
 		26.09.1938
 		General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Senior Officers' School, Sheerness
27.09.1938
 -
 		02.09.1939
 		Brigadier RA, Southern Command
03.09.1939
 -
 		23.04.1940
 		Corps Commander RA, II Corps [= Brigadier RA], British Expeditionary Force (BEF) (France)
26.04.1940
 -
 		11.05.1940
 		General Officer Commanding, 61st Infantry Division (UK)
12.05.1940
 -
 		07.05.1941
 		General Officer Commanding, 45th Infantry Division (UK)
08.05.1941
 -
 		08.03.1942
 		General Officer Commanding, V Corps (UK)
07.04.1942
 -
 		11.08.1942
 		Force & Army Commander, North Africa, with the task of forming the Expeditionary Force which became the First Army (pronounced medically unfit for service abroad)
07.09.1942
 -
 		18.03.1944
 		General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command (UK)
19.03.1944
 -
 		24.09.1944
 		General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South­Eastern Command (UK)
26.09.1944
 -
 		10.07.1946
 		Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta
National President, Old Contemptibles Association, 1960. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Devon, 23.11.1948. KStJ, 22.06.1945. Colonel Commandant, RA, 18.04.1945-16.04.1955. Colonel Commandant, Royal Malta Artillery (Territorial Army), 05.12.1946-29.04.1955.
Scobie,
Sir Ronald MacKenzie 
R.M. Scobie R.M. Scobie
R.M. Scobie R.M. Scobie
R.M. Scobie R.M. Scobie
R.M. Scobie R.M. Scobie
R.M. Scobie R.M. Scobie
R.M. Scobie R.M. Scobie
 Son of Mackay John Scobie of India PWD.
Married (09.02.1927) Joan Duncan, daughter of William Henry Sidebotham, solicitor of Farnham, Surrey; one daughter.
 		08.06.1893
India
-
23.02.1969
Cottage Hospital, Odiham, Hampshire
2nd Lt.
 		25.02.1914 [8306]
Lt.
 		09.06.1915
A/Capt.
 		22.04.1917-17.06.1917
Capt.
 		03.11.1917
Bt. Maj.
 		03.06.1919
Maj.
 		01.01.1929
local Lt.Col.
 		30.12.1932-22.01.1935
Bt. Lt.Col.
 		01.01.1934
Lt.Col.
 		07.01.1937
Col.
 		18.01.1938, seniority 01.01.1937
A/Brig.
 		01.09.1939-29.02.1940
T/Brig.
 		01.03.1940-08.08.1940
local Brig.
 		18.08.1940-16.10.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
 		17.10.1941-09.04.1942
Maj.Gen.
 		10.04.1942, seniority 08.11.1941 (retd 18.06.1947)
A/Lt.Gen.
 		22.03.1943-21.03.1944
T/Lt.Gen. 
 		22.03.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Gen.
 		18.06.1947
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) KBE
 26.04.1945
 ?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
 09.09.1942
 Middle East (Egypt, Libya) 11.41-04.42
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE
 30.12.1941
 Middle East (East Africa and Madagascar)
Military Cross MC
 03.06.1916
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 20.12.1918
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 05.07.1919
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 01.04.1941
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 06.04.1944
 Middle East
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
 -
 & Clasp
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
 -
 -
Victory Medal VM
 -
 -
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp.
Czechoslovak Military Cross 23.07.1943
 		Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich[ Staff College (psc); Imperial Defence College (idc)
Excelled at all sports, shortly before the outbreak of war he played rugby for Scotland against England, Ireland, and Wales. He also played rugby for the army.
25.02.1914

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (served in France & Belgium 30.09.1914-11.11.1918; wounded)
25.03.1918
 -
 		13.08.1918
 		General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (France)
14.08.1918
 -
 		14.09.1920
 		Brigade Major, ... (France)
15.09.1920
 -
 		03.09.1924
 		Officer Company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Class A)
16.03.1927
 -
 		31.03.1929
 		Staff Captain, ... (Aldershot Command)
01.04.1929
 -
 		24.02.1931
 		Brigade Major, 5th Infantry Brigade (Aldershot Command)
30.12.1932
 -
 		22.01.1935
 		Director of Military Art (GSO2), Royal Military College of Australia
(01.1937)
  
 		 
 		served at London
18.01.1938
 -
 		31.08.1939
 		an Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office (London)
01.09.1939
 -
 		08.05.1940
 		Deputy Director of Mobilization, War Office (London)
09.05.1940
 -
 		08.08.1940
 		Deputy Adjutant-General, Middle East
09.08.1940
 -
 		17.08.1940
 		specially employed
18.08.1940
 -
 		16.10.1941
 		Brigadier General Staff, British Troops in Sudan
17.10.1941
 -
 		16.02.1942
 		General Officer Commanding, 70th Infantry Division (Syria, Libya, Egypt, Syria)
17.02.1942
 -
 		05.08.1942
 		Deputy Adjutant-General (DAG), Middle East
06.08.1942
 -
 		21.03.1943
 		General Officer Commanding, Troops Malta
1943
 -
 		1944
 		Chief of the General Staff, Middle East (Cairo)
09.1944
 -
 		1946
 		General Officer Commanding, Greece
Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 03.08.1951-1954. Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 19.03.1951-08.06.1958. CStJ, 23.12.1946.
Literature: Henry Maule, Scobie, hero of Greece (1975)
Scoones,
[Sir] Reginald Laurence
R.L. Scoones
 Son of late Major Fitzmaurice Scoones, Royal Fusiliers.
Married (1933) Isabella Bowie, daughter of
John Nisbet, Cumbrae Isles, Scotland; one daughter.
 		18.12.1900
Hermitage, Sutton Heston, Brentford, Middlesex
-
06.10.1991
Westminster Hospital, London
2nd Lt.
 		16.07.1920 [490]
Lt.
 		16.07.1922
local Capt.
 		16.04.1930-27.04.1934
Capt.
 		23.03.1935
Maj.
 		01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.
 		04.07.1941-25.07.1941,
07.09.1941-14.11.1941
T/Lt.Col.
 		15.11.1941-14.11.1942
WS/Lt.Col.
 		15.11.1942
A/Col.
 		15.05.1942-14.11.1942
T/Col.
 		15.11.1942-30.07.1945
Col.
 		31.07.1945
A/Brig. 
 		15.05.1942-14.11.1942
T/Brig.
 		15.11.1942-04.06.1943,
...-13.11.1949
Brig.
 		14.11.1949
T/Maj.Gen.
 		09.05.1950-28.02.1951
Maj.Gen..
 		01.03.1951 (retd 29.04.1955)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) KBE
 01.01.1955
 New Year 55
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
 07.06.1951
 HM's birthday 51
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 08.02.1945
 Burma
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
 08.07.1941
 Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 19.07.1945
 Burma
Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
16.07.1920

commissioned, Royal Fusiliers
01.09.1923

transferred, Royal Tank Corps (from 1938 Royal Tank Regiment)
31.12.1926
 -
 		27.04.1934
 		attached Sudan Defence Force
01.06.1935
 -
 		17.03.1938
 		Adjutant, 1st Battalion Royal Tank Corps
29.09.1938
 -
 		22.01.1939
 		Staff Captain, ... (Egypt) (temporary)
01.08.1939
 -
 		06.10.1939
 		General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Mobile Division
07.10.1939
 -
 		16.07.1940
 		Brigade Major, Cavalry Brigade (Cairo)
02.11.1940
 -
 		06.04.1941
 		General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Western Desert Corps (Middle East)
12.04.1941
 -
 		(06.)1941
 		Second-in-Command, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
1941
 -
 		1941
 		Commanding Officer, 42nd Battlaion Royal Tank Regiment
07.09.1941
 -
 		14.05.1942
 		General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
15.05.1942
 -
 		13.04.1943
 		Deputy Director of Military Training (A), War Office
17.11.1943
 -
 		15.03.1945?
 		Commander, 254th Indian Tank Brigade (Burma)
1945

Deputy Director of Military Training
1947
 -
 		1950
 		Asst Kaid, Sudan Defence Force
09.05.1950
 -
 		30.11.1954
 		Major­General Commanding British Troops Sudan and Commandant Sudan Defence Force
29.04.1955
 -
 		18.12.1960
 		Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Late Royal Armoured Corps; Director, The Brewers' Society, 1957-69.
Scott,
John
J. Scott
Married 1st (1913) Sybil, daughter of late Sir Frederic Hewitt, MVO, MD; two sons. Married 2nd (1933) Hester Mary, daughter of Arthur Hogan.
 		24.06.1887
-
03.12.1971
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		12.08.1908, seniority 29.07.1908
Lt.
 		29.07.1911
Capt.
 		30.10.1914
A/Maj.
 		26.01.1917-10.08.1917
A/Maj. TF
 		29.12.1917-26.01.1918
Maj.
 		27.01.1918
Lt.Col.
 		17.01.1936
Col.
 		28.08.1939, seniority 17.01.1939 (retd 23.06.1942)
T/Brig. 
 		28.08.1939-(01.1940)
Hon. Brig.
 		24.06.1942
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 1919
 ?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
 1958
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches
MID
 23.12.1918
 ?
Mentioned in Despatches
MID
 07.07.1919
 ?
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
 -
 -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
 -
 -
Victory Medal VM
 -
 -
NW Frontier of India 1930-1931 Medal & Clasp
 		Education: St Andrews University (MA 1907); psc
1914
 -
 		1918
 		served European War: Mohmands and Swatis, near Hafiz Kor (04.1915), France & Belgium (11.12.1917-11.11.1918) (despatches twice, DSO)
30.03.1920
 -
 		30.09.1923
 		Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
22.01.1936
 -
 		19.08.1939
 		Commanding Officer, 85th (East Anglian) Field Brigade (later Regiment) RA - Territorial Army (Stratford)
28.08.1939
 -
 		(01.)1940
 		Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 15th (Scottish) Division (temporary)
1940
 -
 		1941
 		General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Home Guard, 12th Corps
1941
 -
 		1942
 		Commander Gravesend Sub Area
1942
 -
 		1944
 		Training Officer Inverness­shire Home Guard
CC Worcestershire, 1949, Alderman, 1965. Chairman, S. Worcestershire Conservative Association, 1950-1956.
Scott,
Sinclair Robert Grant
S.R.G. Scott 		11.09.1904
-
04.1993
Braintree,
Essex
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		26.08.1924 [30552]
Lt.
 		26.08.1926
Capt.
 		26.08.1935
A/Maj.
 		21.05.1940-20.08.1940
T/Maj.
 		21.08.1940-26.08.1940,
05.11.1940-23.02.1941
Maj.
 		26.08.1941
A/Lt.Col.
 		06.04.1943-05.07.1943
T/Lt.Col.
06.07.1943-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.
 		12.04.1949 (retd 10.10.1950)
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 08.05.1936
 Mohmand 35 *
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
 14.11.1947

in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies
NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1933 Medal & Clasp; NW Frontier of India (Mohmand) 1935 Clasp
 * For distinguished services rendered in connection with the Mohmand operations, North West Frontier of India, 15th/16th August to 15th/16th October, 1935.
 		Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
26.08.1924

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(03.1931)

served at Glasgow
(06.1933)

served in India
21.01.1937
 		-
 		20.05.1940
 		Assistant Instructor (Class DD to 31.07.1938), School of Military Engineering (Chatham)
28.09.1944
 		-
 		(04.1946)
 		Staff Officer I (Royal Engineers) on the staff of the Engineer-in-Chief & Director, Royal Engineers, Department of the Quarter-Master-General to the Forces, War Office (London)
10.10.1950
 		-
 		23.03.1960
 		Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Scott-Bowden,
Logan
L. Scott-Bowden
Son of late Lt.Col. Jonathan Scott-Bowden, OBE, TD, and Mary Scott-Bowden (née Logan).
Married (1950) Helen Jocelyn, daughter of late Major Sir Francis Caradoc Rose Price, 5th Bt, and late Marjorie Lady Price; three sons, three daughters.
 		21.02.1920
-
Cadet
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		03.07.1939
Lt.
 		03.01.1941
A/Capt.
 		15.11.1940-14.02.1941
T/Capt.
 		15.02.1941-24.08.1943
WS/Capt.
 		25.08.1943
Capt.
 		01.07.1946
A/Maj.
 		25.05.1943-24.08.1943
T/Maj.
 		25.08.1943-02.07.1952
Maj.
 		03.07.1952
T/Lt.Col.
 		20.02.1959-19.08.1960
Lt.Col.
 		20.08.1960 (supernumerary 20.08.1963)
T/Col.
 		31.03.1964-10.07.1964
Col.
 		11.07.1964
T/Brig.
 		20.05.1966-30.12.1966
Brig.
 		31.12.1966
Maj.Gen.
 		? (retd 1974)