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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Wadsworth,
Guthrie Morgan Brian
G.M.B. Wadsworth

(01?).1900
Bromley, Greater
London, Kent
-
16.01.1942
drowned at sea
[age 42]
[Freetown (King
Tom) Cemetery,
6.E.6]

Lt.	28.09.1939 [106133]
WS/Capt.	28.09.1940

Education: Silcoates School, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield (1914-1917); studied medicine (MB)

28.09.1939

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Waghorn,
John Edward
J.E. Waghorn (Photo courtesy of Mr John C.W. Waghorn)

Son of Sydney J. Waghorn, and Lydia Higgs.
Married ((06?).1941, Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey) Dorothy Margaret Marella Cornes (14.08.1913 - 01.2000), daughter of ... Cornes, and ... Parker; one son.

09.06.1917
Southwark district, London
-
09.03.1999
Redhill, Surrey

Cadet	? [188560]
2nd Lt.	14.05.1942 [233754]
WS/Lt.	14.11.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

14.05.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in India at some point

Wagstaff,
Joseph John

Son of George Frederick Wagstaff, and Ethel Mary P. Foxwell.
Married ((09?).1940, Thornbury district, Gloucestershire) Doreen L. Hunter, of Chew Stoke, Somerset; one daughter. Doreen Wagstaff remarried (1945) Francis H. Cridland.

(06?).1919
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
12.04.1943
(DOW) [age 24]
[La Reunion War Cemetery, Algeria, 4.G.2]

2nd Lt.	05.05.1937 [71665]
WS/Lt.	05.05.1940
T/Capt.	16.09.1940-06.05.1942
WS/Capt.	07.05.1942
T/Maj.	07.05.1942-12.04.1943

Education: Bristol Grammar School.
Worked for Messrs Hudson-Smith and Briggs, accountants.

			late Cadet Serjeant, Bristol Grammar School Contingent, Junior Division, Offier Training Corps
05.05.1937			commissioned, 66th (South Midland) Field Brigade Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
(01.1939)			76th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA (Bristol)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	12.04.1943	349th Battery, 76th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (died of wounds) *

* Mr Nick Kemp shared his father's notes about the death of Maj. J.J. Wagstaff: "That evening Waggie held an 'orders group' giving the route role details of our coming journey. He gave each officer present a typed copy of the orders read them through to ensure all were certain about the details. On those orders was one paragraph '2. The column will be under the commanding Major J J Wagstaff RA'. This was the only piece of the order that he did not read out. I did not see him again. He met his end the next day at 0445hrs when his car was in collision with a train. It appeared afterwards at the court of inquiry that a bar should have ben placed across the line to hold up traffic, but through some negligence on someone's part it was not done. And we lost a real friend and a very fine soldier."

Wagstaff,
Mrs Marjorie Frances
M.F. Wagstaff

Daughter of late Charles Fry, Bedford.
Married 1st Lt.Cdr. Jeffrey Kerr Laughton, RN (died 1925); one son deceased.
Married 2nd Maj.Gen. Cyril Mosley Wagstaff, CB, CMG, CIE, DSO (1878-1934).
Married 3rd (1950) Maj.Gen. John Talbot Wentworth Reeve, CB, CBE, DSO (1891-1983).

24.12.1899
district Bedford, Bedfordshire
-
02.1998
West Surrey

C.Asst.	07.10.1938 [192092]
local C.Comd.	?
C.Comd.	15.09.1939, renamed:
2/Sub.	30.05.1941
T/Sen.Comdt.	16.03.1940-(04.1941)
T/Contr.	12.05.1942-(04.1946)
WS/C.Comd	12.11.1942
Hon. Contr.	?

	CBE	01.01.1944	New Year 44
	TD	13.07.1951	? (got initially the Efficiency Medal (Territorial), 20.01.1947, which was cancelled when this decoration was awarded)

1938			joined Auxiliary Territorial Service (County of London)
			served with BEF, and in Middle East and BAOR
12.05.1942	-	(04.1944)	Deputy Director of ATS, Northern Command (UK)

Was i/c Public Welfare Section of Control Commission for Germany (BE); Principal in Board of Trade (Overseas) till 1950; Swedish Red Cross Medal in Silver, 1950; County Director, BRCS, 1953-1957; Dep. Pres. Suffolk BRCS, 1957, Hon. Vice-Pres., 1977. Badge of Honour (2nd Class) BRCS, 1970. JP (W Suffolk), 1954.

Wagstaff,
Oliver Philip
O.P. Wagstaff

23.09.1908
district Berkhamsted
-
died before 1985

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1928 [40413]
Lt.	30.08.1931
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	22.07.1940-21.10.1940
T/Maj.	22.10.1940-30.03.1942, 29.06.1942-16.02.1943
WS/Maj.	17.02.1943
Maj.	30.08.1945
A/Lt.Col.	17.11.1942-16.02.1943
T/Lt.Col.	17.02.1943-04.03.1944, 09.01.1947-03.08.1947, 26.10.1950-09.11.1950
local Lt.Col.	28.05.1949-15.08.1949, 01.07.1950-14.08.1950
Lt.Col.	10.11.1950 (supernumerary 10.11.1953) (retd 13.06.1957)

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 & 1936-37 Medals & Clasps

Education: Royal Military Academy; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

30.08.1928			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	25th Field Brigade, RA (Nowshera, India)
(01.1937)			22nd Mountain Brigade, RA (Razmak, India)
(01.1939)			21st Mountain Regiment, RA (Peshawar, India)
1939	-	1945	war service:
(03.1941)			CO 7/66 Battery, 4th Field Regiment RA (5th Indian Division) (Keren, Eritrea)
04.08.1947	-	31.10.1947	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Operations), HQ Malaya Command
01.11.1947	-	31.12.1947	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Operations), HQ Malaya District
01.20.1948	-	19.11.1948	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Central Malaya Sub-District
13.06.1957	-	29.02.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Wakelin,
Henry Farquhar Glencorse
H.F.G. Wakelin (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Married Sonia Mary ...

05.11.1919
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
04.07.1964
St Bartholomews Hospital, Smithfield, London City (formerly of Blackwell Heath, Buckingham)

2nd Lt.	01.07.1939 [95269]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	16.12.1940-15.03.1941
T/Capt.	16.03.1941-19.07.1942, 01.12.1942-13.03.1943, 23.04.1943-05.09.1943, 09.09.1943-05.01.1944
WS/Capt.	06.01.1944
A/Maj.	06.10.1943-05.01.1944
T/Maj.	06.01.1944-30.04.1944, 12.03.1945-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.07.1952 (retd 09.10.1955; receiving a gratuity)

01.07.1939			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
?	-	15.05.1940	4 (Carrier) Platoon, HQ Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (sick; returned to UK)

Obtained civil aviator's licence (No. 22448) 07.03.1947, taken on a D.H.87(b) at London Aero Club.

Walbank,
David Marston
D.M. Walbank

Son of ... Walbank, and ... Marston.

22.08.1922
Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
(06?).1971
Bedford district

2nd Lt.	28.04.1943 [268298]
WS/Lt.	28.10.1943

Education: Oxford University (MA jurisprudence, 1948).

28.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
late 1944	-	17.11.1945	Officer Commanding Advanced W/T Section T, 5 Corps Signals (Italy, Austria)

Waldron,
Frank Arthur Lovegrove
F.A.L. Waldron

Younger son of ... Waldron, and ... Jay, of Newbury.
Married 1st (1948, Kenya) Tatiana Blackwall, widow of Richard Blackwall, RNVR.
Married 2nd (11.06.1968, Surrey South Eastern district) Elizabeth Mary Giles.

11.08.1916
Newbury district, Hampshire / Berkshire
-
06.1988
Henley district, Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire

RAFVR:
P/O	25.10.1938 (reld 10.07.1940)
Army:
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156078]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942 (reld 03.01.1948; disability)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	03.01.1948

Education: Trinity College, Oxford (rowed for Oxford).

25.10.1938	-	10.07.1940	commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)
(1940?)			5th (Ski) Battalion Scots Guards
			either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940			commissioned, Scots Guards [emergency commission]
(1943)	-	(1945)	2nd Battalion Scots Guards (Middle East; Battle of Medenine 06.03.1943, Italy & NW Europe [wounded])

Walford-White,
William

see:

White,
William Walford

Walker,
Charles Reginald Albert William
C.R.A.W. Walker

Married ((06?).1934, St Marylebone district, London) Lillian G. Matthews; ... children (one son?).

17.05.1909
Cannock district, Staffordshire
-
08.1993
Chichester district, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	29.09.1941 [212309]
WS/Lt.	09.01.1942
T/Capt.	14.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	29.07.1945 (reld 30.10.1946)
T/Maj.	29.07.1945-(04.1946)
Capt.	30.10.1946, seniority 29.07.1945
Maj.	03.01.1955 (reld 23.07.1958)
Hon. Maj.	23.07.1958

MID

13.12.1949

Malaya 01-06.49

29.09.1941			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
30.10.1946			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [short service commission]
15.05.1954			transferred, Corps of Military Police

Walker,
Cyril Frank
C.F. Walker

Married; ... children.

31.05.1913 *
-
17.08.2009
Sevenoaks, Kent

* age at death indicated as 95, so perhaps date of birth actually 31.05.1914

Lt.	04.07.1940 [138085] (Unemployed List 20.04.1946-01.12.1946)
A/Capt.	14.01.1941-13.04.1941
T/Capt.	14.04.1941-20.09.1943
A/Maj.	21.06.1943-20.09.1943
T/Maj.	21.09.1943-18.09.1944
Capt.	02.12.1946, seniority 21.09.1943
T/Maj.	18.04.1947-20.05.1952
Lt.	21.05.1952, seniority 03.06.1940
Capt.	21.05.1952, seniority 03.06.1945
Maj.	21.05.1952, seniortiy 03.06.1950
T/Lt.Col.	24.06.1960-31.03.1961
Lt.Col.	01.04.1961
T/Col.	12.01.1965-25.02.1965
Col.	26.02.1965
Brig.	30.06.1967 (retd 07.04.1970)

MID

05.04.1945

Burma / Eastern Frontier of India

			served in the ranks for 7 years, 150 days
04.07.1940			commissioned, The South Lancashire Regiment [emergency commission to 01.12.1946]
07.10.1944	-	12.05.1945	Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal (DAPM), Lines of Communications Sub Area
13.05.1945	-	09.10.1945	Assistant Provost Marshal (APM), Army HQ
02.12.1946			short service commission
31.12.1946	-	27.02.1947	DAPM, HQ Southern Command
18.04.1947	-	08.01.1948	APM, HQ ... Infantry Division (Palestine)
17.04.1948	-	16.04.1950	APM, GHQ Middle East Land Forces
21.05.1952			permanent commission, Royal Provost Corps
07.11.1962	-	30.11.1964	Commandant, Depot & Training Centre RPC Northern Command
12.01.1965	-	(02.1967)	DPL, HQ British Army of the Rhine

MBIM, later FBIM. MIPM.

Walker,
Gerald Majella
G.M. Walker

15.10.1920
-
1985 still alive

Cadet	? [7948151]
2nd Lt.	02.04.1944 [315335]
WS/Lt.	04.08.1944 (Unemployed List 12.01.1947-31.12.1950)
A/Capt.	28.12.1945-27.03.1946
T/Capt.	28.03.1946-11.01.1947
...	...
Lt.Col.	25.05.1956 (retd 04.10.1971)

Education: BA

			served in the ranks for 2 years, 56 days
02.04.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 31.12.1950]
			Reconnaissance Corps, RAC
(05.1944)			Wireless Telegraphy School, Middle East Training Centre
01.01.1951	-	27.01.1953	short service commission
28.01.1953	-	04.10.1971	permanent commission, Royal Army Educational Corps

Walker,
Graeme Murray
G.M. Walker

10.10.1923
Hall Green, Birmingham
-

Cadet	? [14406224]
2nd Lt.	16.04.1944 [315277]
WS/Lt.	16.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

16.04.1944			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944?)	-	(1945?)	Royal Scots Greys

Motorsport commentator.

Walker,
Jack Thomas
"Johnnie"
J.T. Walker

Married Jean (nëe ...); one son.

18.09.1920
-
02.1990
Crawley, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1941 [203372]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	16.03.1944-15.06.1944
T/Capt.	16.06.1944-17.09.1947
Lt.	28.04.1945, seniority 18.03.1945
Capt.	18.09.1947
Maj.	18.09.1954 (retd 03.12.1960)
Lt.Col. TA	31.12.1964

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 363 days
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
30.08.1941			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission to 27.04.1945]
28.04.1945			permanent commission
12.1960?	-	01.04.1967	Territorial Army

Walker,
James Douglas

Originating from Inverness.

21.03.1923
-
10.2004
West Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.09.1943 [293553]
WS/Lt.	19.03.1944
A/Capt.	13.07.1946-12.10.1946
T/Capt.	13.10.1946-20.03.1950
Lt.	08.11.1947, seniority 21.09.1945
Capt.	21.03.1950
T/Maj.	28.01.1957-20.03.1957
Maj.	21.03.1957
T/Lt.Col.	22.02.1965-28.06.1965
Lt.Col.	29.06.1965
Col.	30.06.1969
Brig.	31.12.1971, seniority 30.06.1971 (retd 18.04.1974)

	OBE	late 1960s	?
	PM	?	?

Education: Staff College, Camberley (psc)

1942	-	19.09.1943	served in the ranks for 353 days
19.09.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 07.11.1947]
08.11.1947			permanent commission
18.05.1948	-	20.10.1948	Technical Staff Officer, 3rd grade (TSO3), War Office
18.12.1950	-	03.03.1952	Staff Officer, 3rd grade (SO3), HQ Southern Command
11.10.1954	-	10.10.1955	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), 12 SME
21.04.1959	-	13.06.1961	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Northern Army Group
31.10.1963	-	27.01.1965	Brigade Major, Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME)
1972	-	1974	Commander, Engineer Support Group

Walker,
John Gibson
J.G. Walker

Son of John Hinton Walker (1881-), and Eleanor Marion Carson, of Farnham, Surrey.

(03?).1918
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
18.06.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, France, XV.F.7]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164854]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
A/Capt.	?

?	-	21.12.1940	168th Officer Cadet Training unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
?	-	18.06.1944	seconded, 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry [Capt. Walker was the adjutant of 8th DLI and was very involved in the planning stages of the battalions role in “Overlord”. At St Pierre Capt. Walker leapt aboard a British tank near the 8th DLI HQ and by shouting and waving his arms in full view of a strong enemy counter-attack managed to direct the tanks fire into the oncoming ranks of German Infantrymen. Capt. Walker was killed in Action on the evening of the 18th June 1944 when a German Artillery “Stonk” (heavy concentration of shellfire) burst in the trees directly above Battalion HQ.]

Walker,
Robert Steuart
R.S. Walker (Photo courtesy of Mrs Barbara Strong)

05.1909
Scotland
-

2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [130832]
WS/Lt.	27.10.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	27.10.1941-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

25.05.1940

commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment [emergency commission]

Emigrated to Australia, 1959.

Walker,
William Thomlinson
W.T. Walker

?
-

2nd Lt.	24.03.1944, seniority 01.07.1942 [302000]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1943 (reld 29.03.1946; on appointment to South Rhodesian Forces)

24.03.1944

commissioned, General List [emergency commission]

Walker-Brown,
Robert
"Bob"
R. Walker-Brown

Son of ... Brown, a Scottish surgeon, and ... Mitchell.
Married 1st (1955) Leonie Hossack (predeceased him).
Married 2nd (1996) Helen Leeming.
Residence: (1945) Llangurig Montgomeryshire.

09.04.1919
Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire
-
16.08.2009

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	23.02.1938 [74210]
Lt.	14.02.1942 19.12.1945, seniortiy 09.10.1941
A/Capt.	11.09.1944-10.12.1944
T/Capt.	11.12.1944-25.05.1945
WS/Capt.	26.05.1945
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	24.02.1945-25.05.1945
T/Maj.	26.05.1945-28.02.1947, 20.09.1949-11.06.1952, 13.03.1953-08.04.1953
Maj.	09.04.1953
Lt.Col.	09.01.1961 (Empl. List 1 09.01.1961) (supernumerary 09.01.1964) (retd 01.05.1966)

	DSO	21.06.1945	Italy
	MBE	27.04.1944	successful escape as POW

Education: privately; Dulwich College.

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Dulwich College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, London Scottish, Gordon Highlanders
23.02.1938			commissioned, 31st (City of London Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.08.1940			transferred, General List
14.02.1942			transferred, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
?	-	06.1942	served, 2nd Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (Egypt [wounded & captured])
06.1942	-	05.10.1943	POW in Italian captivity (military hospital, Lucca & Campo Prigoneri di Guerra 21, Chieti) [made several escape attempts, finally successful (MBE)]
1943	-	1944?	instructor, Infantry Training Centre, Aberdeen
22.06.1944			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps
1944	-	1945	2nd Special Air Service Regiment (Forêt de Chatillon, France 07.1944; Genoa & Le Spezia, Italy 12.1944 (DSO))
19.12.1945			transferred, The Highland Light Infantry [permanent commission]
			training major, 21st Special Air Service Regiment
			22nd Special Air Service Regiment (Second-in-Command for a period)
03.09.1958			transferred, Parachute Regimet
1961	-	1963	Commanding Officer, 23rd Special Air Service Regiment - Territorial Army
1963	-	1964?	Defence Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence

Wall,
Richard Alan
R.A. Wall

Eighth child of A.J. Wall, and Beatrice Louise Hardy, of Oporto, Portugal, and Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.
Married (19.10.1949) Lia Krohn da Silva (1927-1993); one son, two daughters.

05.07.1910
Oporto [Porto], Portugal
-
20.06.1999
Porto, Portugal

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.03.1941 [176778]
WS/Lt.	08.09.1942 (reld 26.05.1946)
T/Capt.	03.09.1945-26.05.1946
Hon. Capt.	26.05.1946

?	-	08.03.1941	either 161st or 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.03.1941			commissioned, Irish Guards [emergency commission]
(04.1944)	-	1945	specially employed: Special Operations Executive (SOE) (posted to the Azores, possibly as temporary Britsh consul, and also to the then Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) as interpreter, as he spoke Portuguese)

Wall,
William Marcus Copinger
W.M.C. Wall

Son of Alan Copinger Wall (1871-1927), and Irene Bischof (?-1964).

28.02.1905
-
1994
Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	28.01.1925 [31617]
Lt.	28.01.1927
Capt.	20.02.1937
A/Maj.	02.09.1939-01.12.1939
T/Maj.	02.12.1939-30.06.1940, 07.10.1940-07.12.1941
Maj.	28.01.1942
Lt.Col.	27.10.1948 (retd 29.06.1953)

MID

18.02.1938

NW Frontier of India

NW Frontier of India 1946-37 Medal & Clasp

28.01.1925			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.02.1939	-	01.09.1939	Adjutant, ... - Territorial Army
			8th Indian Field Regiment RIA

Wallace,
John Alan Fraser
J.A.F. Wallace

Youngest son of Maj.Gen. Sir Alexander Wallace, 27th Punjab Regiment, and Edith Campbell Ross.
Engaged (1930) Marian Hunter Greig, only daughter of Sir Robert and Lady Greig.
Residence: (1946) Barnton, Midlothian.

21.12.1900
Bareilly
-
(12?).1976
Horsham district, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	?
Lt.	17.12.1920 (retd 25.05.1923)
2nd Lt.	05.01.1940 [14780]
WS/Lt.	05.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

21.02.1946

gallant & distinguished services in the field

?			commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
20.04.1920			commissioned, Indian Army (attached 31st Lancers)
05.01.1940			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers [emergency commission]
?	-	05.1940	Second-in-Command, "A" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (wounded; captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 430) in German captivity (Oflag IX-A/Z, Rotenburg an der Fulda)

Wallace,
William John Colin

Son of Robert Newlands Wallace and Elizabeth Agnes Gambles, of Grey Timbers, Bovy Tracey, Devon.
Married Amy Victoria Runo (14.01.1916-05.03.1991), of Massachusetts, USA; one son, two daughters.

24.11.1911
Ravenglass, Bootle district, Cumberland
-
22.08.1968
Taunton district, Somerset
(died of a stomach tumour)
[ashes spread in the rose garden of the Torquay Cemetery]

Trooper	02.08.1940
2nd Lt.	19.12.1942 [256512]
WS/Lt.	19.06.1943 (for dispersal 23.03.1946) (reld 21.06.1946)
A/Capt.	28.08.1944-28.11.1944
T/Capt.	29.11.1944-23.03.1946
Hon. Capt.	23.03.1946

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst

02.08.1940			enlisted, Royal Armoured Corps
02.08.1940	-	23.08.1940	46th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
24.08.1940	-	13.12.1942	50th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
14.12.1942	-	20.01.1943	52nd Training Regiment RAC (Bovington)
19.12.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
21.01.1943	-	21.07.1943	60th Training Regiment RAC
22.07.1943	-	23.03.1946	57th Training Regiment RAC (from 29.08.1944 Adjutant)

Emigrated to the United States in 1946, settling as a real estate developer in Seattle.

Wallbridge,
Henry Stephen Cramer
"Steve"
H.S.C. Wallbridge

16.09.1918
British Guyana
-
16.07.1965
[buried in Canterbury]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.08.1943 [292622]
WS/Lt.	29.08.1943

Clerk.

16.11.1936			enlisted Army at London
29.08.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
13.08.1944	-	14.09.1945	B Patrol, No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army") ("R" Patrol Skipper from April 45 to end of hostilities)

Waller,
Anthony Durrant
A.D. Waller

Son of Col. Noel Huxley Waller, MC, TD, and Helen Ethel Waller.
Husband of Florence Mabel Waller of Clifton, Bristol.

(03?).1906
Hampstead, Greater London
-
29.05.1940
(KIA) [age 34]
[Ledringhem Churchyard, France, D.1]

2nd Lt.	20.05.1925 [32421]
Lt.	20.05.1927
Capt.	01.07.1931
Maj. *	?

* Acting or Temporary ?

Education: Cambridge University

			Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
20.05.1925			commissioned, 5th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army (Gloucester)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
24.08.1939	-	29.05.1940	Officer Commanding, HQ Company, 5th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (UK & France)

Waller,
Hughe Bolton

Only son of Hardress J. Waller, and the Hon. Mrs. Waller (died 1957), of Kensington, London.
Married (02.12.1944, Brompton, Kensington district, Middlesex) Rosemary Clare Ford, elder daughter of the late Capt. Richard Ford, of Lowndes Square, SW1, London.

28.03.1908
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
11.1992
Kensington and Chelsea district, London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.03.1939 [86311]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	27.07.1943-24.02.1944
WS/Capt.	25.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

Afr St

& clasp 1st Army

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Charterhouse School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
25.03.1939			commissioned, 24th (Derbyshire Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company - Royal Tank Corps [later: 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps] - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(04.1944)			specially employed
?	-	27.05.1959	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Wallington,
Frank Hume

15.04.1915
-
05.1998
Redbridge, Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.10.1939 [101388]
WS/Lt.	15.04.1941
T/Capt.	31.08.1942-15.04.1944
WS/Capt.	16.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Maj.	1944?

39\|45 St	?	?
It St	?	?
Afr St	?	?

15.10.1939

commissioned, The Essex Regiment [emergency commission]

Walmsley,
Derek John
D.J. Walmsley

Son of Dorothy F. Walmsley, and stepson of Mr. F.W.B. Abrams.

1924 ?
-
13.02.1945
(KIA) [age 21]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, 27.G.13]

Cadet	? [6923703]
2nd Lt.	28.04.1944 [315740]
Lt.	?

28.04.1944			commissioned, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [emergency commission]
?	-	13.02.1945	attached, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment

Walter,
Richard John
R.J. Walter

?
-

2nd Lt.	29.07.1944 [326142]
WS/Lt.	29.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt. TA	01.09.1949

29.07.1944			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
01.09.1949	-	19.06.1950	served Territorial Army - Royal Artillery
19.06.1950	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Walters,
Cyril
C. Walters

Son of William and Annie Mary Walters.
Husband of Beryl Maud Walters, of Rugby, Warwickshire.

1916 ?
-
31.10.1944
(KIA) [age 28]
[Geel War Cemetery, Belgium, IV.D.18]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.07.1943 [284542]
WS/Lt.	02.01.1944

02.07.1943			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			6th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
?	-	31.10.1944	attached, 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (NW Europe)

Walton,
Joseph Noel
C. Walters

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

03.12.1902
Holborn district, London / Middlesex
-

2nd Lt.	27.01.1941 [169409]
WS/Lt.	21.08.1941
T/Capt.	07.10.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	01.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

27.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
04.1942			embarked for India, ultimately being posted to Basra and then somewhere in Persia

Walton,
Robert Lewin
R.L. Walton (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Thomas)

?
New Zealand
-

2nd Lt.	24.08.1941 [203464]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 11.03.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	11.03.1946

			Officer Training School, Belgaum (India)
24.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
09.11.1943	-	(04.1944)	seconded, RAF Levies, Iraq

Walton,
Thomas Atkinson
T.A. Walton (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Stafford)

Son of Thomas Walton, and Ethel Agusta Charters.
Married ((09?).1939, Belper district, Derbyshire) Phyllis Mary Fletcher, only daughter of Mr & Mrs J.T. Fletcher, of Duffield, Derbyshire. She remarried (1947) Peter Phipps Ayre.

(09?).1913
Derby district, Derbyshire
-
04.08.1944
(aircraft accident, North Kursa) [age 31]
[Ranchi War Cemetery, India, Sp. Mem. 5.F.5]

2nd Lt.	20.05.1933 [58986]
Lt.	20.05.1936
T/Capt.	15.03.1943-(04.1944)
A/Maj.	1944?

Associate, Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA).

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Repton School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
20.05.1933			commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (5th Battalion) - Territorial Army
30.03.1938			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (Class I)
?	-	?	?

Ward,
Charles Herbert John
C.H.J. Ward

(12?).1907
Lambeth, Greater London
-

2nd Lt.	19.06.1929
Lt.	19.12.1931
Capt.	01.03.1935
Maj.	01.05.1937 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	03.12.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

			late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
19.06.1929			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
?	-	(03.1931)	420th (Bedfordshire) Battery, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Luton)
(06.1933)	-	(01.1939)	Officer Commanding, 417th (Bedfordshire) Battery, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Bedford)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	Officer Commanding, "D" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA

Ward,
Dennis
D. Ward

01.02.1924
Rotherham, Yorkshire
-
05.04.2008

Cadet	? [6108180]
2nd Lt.	11.11.1944 [334633]
WS/Lt.	11.05.1945

11.11.1944			commissioned, York and Lancaster Regiment [emergency commission]
12.12.1945			transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps

Linguist and artist.

Ward,
Harold Matthias Arthur
H.M.A. Ward

(06?).1884
district Tendring, Essex
-

2nd Lt.	? [22750]
T/Maj.	15.07.1916
Maj.	12.05.1917 [dated 15.07.1916], seniority 01.06.1916
Bt. Lt.Col.	09.01.1926
Lt.Col.	01.10.1932 (reld 09.04.1949)
Bt. Col.	01.10.1936

DSO	>17, <21	?
OBE	>32, <37	?
TD	<21	?

(01.1937)			Suffolk Heavy Brigade RA (Territorial Army)
			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
			?
?	-	09.04.1949	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Co-opted member Suffolk Territorial Army Association (1944)

Ward,
Melville Ernest
M.E. Ward (Photo courtesy of Mr Myles Ward)

Son of ... Ward, and ... Bacon.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

11.03.1915
Basford district, Nottinghamshire
-
(03?).1974
Basford district, Nottinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.05.1941 [187131]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1947)

?	-	17.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.05.1941			commissioned, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) [emergency commission]
			served in Burma with the Gurkhas (A/Maj.?)

Ward-Jackson,
Peter Wilson
P.W. Ward-Jackson

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.02.1940 [121380]
WS/Lt.	25.08.1941
T/Capt.	22.03.1942-(04.1944), 04.01.1944-(04.1946) (reld 1946?)

MID

15.12.1942

Middle East 41/42

			served in the ranks in the Suffolk Regiment
?	-	25.02.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
25.02.1940			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
1941/42			served with the 1st Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment (Middle East)

Warden,
Geoffrey Percival
G.P. Warden

28.03.1906
Tamworth
-
03.2000
Lichfield, Staffordshire

2nd Lt.	04.02.1926 [34942]
Lt.	04.20.1929
local Capt.	27.06.1930-30.04.1935
Capt.	30.07.1936
local Maj.	01.05.1935-26.06.1936
A/Maj.	01.02.1941-30.04.1941
T/Maj.	01.05.1941-10.02.1942, 04.07.1942-03.02.1943
Maj.	04.02.1943
Lt.Col.	01.01.1951 (Emp. List (1)) (supernumerary 01.01.1954) (retd 06.05.1956; age limit)

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

04.02.1926			commissioned, The Loyal Regiment
27.06.1930	-	26.06.1936	employed with the Trans-Jordan Field Force
25.09.1936			transferred, 3rd Dragoon Guards
01.08.1937	-	31.01.1941	Adjutant, ...
(02.1949)			Second-in-Command, 3rd Dragoon Guards
06.05.1956	-	07.02.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Wardlaw,
John Irvine Hugh
J.I.H. Wardlaw

Son of John Brown Wardlaw and Selina Wilson Wardlaw, of Westminster, London.

1919 ?
-
09.08.1944
(KIA) [age 25]
[Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, France, V.E.11]

2nd Lt.	03.08.1940 [140963]
WS/Lt.	03.02.1942
T/Capt.	11.12.1943-09.08.1944

03.08.1940			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			Squadron Officer, "C" Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

Wardropper,
Stanley
S. Wardropper

Married ((09?).1935, Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Dorothy Waslin.

(06?).1909
Sunderland district, Durham / Tyne and Wear
-
(03?).1961
Holderness district, East Riding of Yorkshire

Cadet	?
Lt.	28.09.1940 [149839]
T/Capt.	21.02.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt.	21.09.1946, seniority 28.09.1940 (reld 17.03.1954)

Gen SM	-	& clasp Palestine
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 1st Army
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
LSGCM	18.02.1949	date of qualification 05.07.1944

?	-	28.09.1940	163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.09.1940			commissioned, The Border Regiment
			seconded, East Yorkshire Regiment
21.09.1946	-	27.02.1950	commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [short service commission]
27.02.1950	-	17.03.1954	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Ware,
Ewen Reginald Woodford
E.R.W. Ware

Son of ... Ware, and ... Dare.
Married ((12?).1943, Wells district, Somerset) Eunice L. Pearce; .. children (one daughter?).

(09?).1921
Westonzoyland, Bridgwater district, Somerset
-
27.02.2009
Doddiscombsleigh, Exeter

Cadet	? [14671067]
2nd Lt.	28.01.1945 [339842]
WS/Lt.	28.07.1945
T/Capt.	23.02.1946-(04.1947)
WS/Capt.	1947?
Capt.	01.06.1948, seniority 13.06.1947
Maj.	02.05.1958
2nd Lt.	15.06.1964, seniority 17.06.1944
Lt.	15.06.1964, seniority 17.06.1946
Capt.	15.06.1964, seniority 17.06.1950
Maj.	15.06.1964, seniority 02.05.1958 (retd 15.06.1972)
A/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Col.	15.06.1972

OBE

01.01.1969

New Year 69

Education: Wells Blue School.
Chartered surveyor.

28.01.1945			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 31.05.1948]
01.06.1948			short service commission
14.05.1952			transferred, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
15.06.1964			limited service regular commission

Ware,
Miss Joyce Marion
J.M. Ware

Married ((09?).1946, Chapel en le Frith district, Derbyshire) Maj. (later Lt.Col.) William Leppington, Thornton, RA (1912-1978); ... children.

1917
-
1992
London

2/Sub.	12.02.1943 [266122]
WS/Sub.	12.08.1943

12.02.1943

commissioned, Auxiliary Territorial Service

Wark,
Thomas Lean
T.L. Wark

1913
St Andrew district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
1993
Turriff district, Aberdeen, Scotland

2nd Lt.	13.05.1933 [58913]
Lt.	13.05.1936 (half-pay on account of ill-health 06.08.1941) (full-pay 11.02.1942) (reld 20.03.1945; disability)
T/Capt.	01.12.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	20.03.1945

			late Cadet Corporal, Fettes College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
13.05.1933			commissioned, 7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) - Territorial Army
30.12.1936			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(09.1939)	-	(10.1939)	"B" Company 7th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots
06.03.1944	-	(04.1944)	Staff Lieutenant, Claims, Scottish Command

Warner,
Arthur Henry John
A.H.J. Warner

Son of Arthur J. Warner, and Susannah Squire.
Married; ... children (one son?).

09.06.1917
Brentford district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex
-
03.1995
Maidstone district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.08.1941 [201031]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A?/Capt.	?

09.08.1941			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
25.04.1944	-	(04.1946)	seconded, The Northern Rhodesia Regiment

Warner,
Charles Whitlow
"Carl"
C.W. Warner

From Birkenhead.

10.04.1910
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
01.09.2002
Liverpool, Lancashire

Lt.	19.07.1940 [139125]
WS/Capt.	19.07.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	27.10.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

14.10.1943

Middle East

Education: MB

19.07.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
10.1942	-	02.1943	Officer Commanding, forward dressing station of the 15th Light Field Ambulance (North Africa)
?	-	29.12.1943	Medcial Officer & Instructor, Middle East Training Centre

General practitioner, Woolton, Liverpool, 1936-1984.

Warner,
Eric Albert André
E.A.A. Warner

Son of Albert Warner, and Hellie A. Vandenberg.
Married ((12?).1939, Bromley district, Greater London / Kent) Ivy E. Jones.

(09?).1917
Canterbury district, Kent
-
17.04.1984
Karori, Wellington, New Zealand

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.10.1942 [249202]
WS/Lt.	17.04.1943 (reld 02.02.1949)
T/Capt.	16.08.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	02.02.1949

17.10.1942			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	7th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (NW Europe)

Warr,
Antony Lawley
"Tim"
A.L. Warr (Photo courtesy of Mr David Warr)

Son of Frank Hubert Warr, and Annie Lawley.
Married (11.05.1937, Weston super Mare district, Avon / Somerset) Phyllis E. Crisp; two sons, one daughter.

15.05.1913
Selly Oak, Birmingham, Kings Norton district, Warwickshire
-
29.01.1995
Taunton, Somerset

Tpr.	19.09.1940
Cadet	01.1941
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [187241]
A/Lt.	13.08.1941
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 05.01.1946) (relinquished commission 30.06.1958)
A/Capt.	29.07.1942-28.10.1942
T/Capt.	29.10.1942-05.01.1946
A/Maj.	? *
Hon. Capt.	30.06.1958

* According to "The book of remembrance and war record of Mill Hill School"; not substantiated by Army List or his "Statement of service" as issued by the War Office Records Centre in Febr. 1959.

Education: Bromsgrove; Brasenose College, Oxford (Exhibitioner and Kitchener Scholar; OU Rugby XV 1934-35, England Rugby 1935). Also played first-class cricket with Oxford University.
Assistant Master, Leeds Grammar School, 1935-1938. Assistant Master, Mill Hill School, 1938-1940.

19.09.1940			enlisted, Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army
01.1941	-	09.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.05.1941			commissioned, 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army [emergency commission]
1941	-	01.1942	Staff Officer for Physical Training, Southern Command
01.1942	-	?	Staff Officer for Physical Training, 100th (Sandhurst) Officer Cadet Training Unit

Assistant Master (English Subjects) & Director of Physical Education, Harrow School, 1946-1975 (House Master of Rendall 1961-1973).

Warren,
Brian Matthew Michael
B.M.M. Warren

Married (15.09.1945, India) ...; ... children (one daughter?).

1923
-
1973
Saudi Arabia
(killed)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.01.1942 [224538]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
Lt.	19.01.1953, seniority 25.03.1950
Capt.	25.03.1954 (cashiered by sentence of a general court martial 27.05.1955)

21.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in Egypt & India/Burma
19.01.1953			short service commission
1953	-	1955	94th Locating Regiment RA (Germany)

Warren,
Maurice Cyprian
M.C. Warren

Younger son of Mr & Mrs A.J. Warren, of Epsom.
Married Margot ...

?
-
31.05.1942
Java
[Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia, 5.H.12]

2nd Lt.	27.01.1913 [77]
A/Capt.	19.01.1917-19.02.1917, 02.05.1917-09.05.1917
Capt.	09.05.1917, seniority 01.06.1916
A/Maj.	24.06.1917-...
2nd Lt.	?

	BWM 14\|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Clifton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
27.01.1913			commissioned, 5th Battalion The East Surrey Regiment - Territorial Force (Asiatic theatre of war 08.1915)
19.01.1917	-	19.02.1917	company commander, The Devonshire Regiment
02.05.1917	-	09.05.1917	company commander, The Devonshire Regiment
24.06.1917	-	?	Major on HQ of a battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
06.06.1918			seconded as Special Service Officer (Class HH, later Class FF)
Partner, Maclaine, Watson & Co., Batavia.
1940?			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			saw service with Dunsterforce and in Persia; either died of disease or was executed by the Japanese

Warren,
Victor Henry
V.H. Warren

Son of ... Warren, and ... Pearce.
Married (Nigeria) Elizabeth Jacquet (died 1994); one son.

17.01.1919
Cardiff district, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire
-
20.04.2009
Newenden ?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138337]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1942
T/Capt.	04.07.1943-24.10.1944
WS/Capt.	25.10.1944 (reld 08.03.1946)
T/Maj.	25.10.1944-08.03.1946
Hon. Maj.	08.03.1946
Capt. RARO	07.10.1953

Education: Bristol grammar school; Worcester College, Oxford.

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
			guarded airfields for a year, then volunteered for India
04.1943	-	1945?	Officer Commanding, No. 2 Mule Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (India, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon & Italy)
07.10.1953	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

District officer at Warri (Nigeria) and Benin before becoming permanent secretary at the Ministry of Works in Ibadan. Retired 1958, returning to the UK. Became secretary of St Thomas's medical school, 1964-1982. Secretary of United Medical and Dental Schools, 1982-1984.

Warren-Boulton,
John Clifford
J.C. Warren-Boulton

14.11.1914
-
12.1987
Worthing district, West Sussex

2nd Lt. AuxFI	30.03.1940
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.05.1942 [237244]
WS/Capt.	04.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

	WM 39\|45	-	-
	Ind SM 39\|45	-	-

30.03.1940			commissioned, The Calcutta Presidency Battalion - Auxiliary Force in India
30.05.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Warwick,
George William Bolton
G.W.B. Warwick (Photo courtesy of Mr John Greer)

Married (14.08.1945, Ferry Fryston, Pontefract district, West Yorkshire) Betty Charnock; two daughters, one son.
Lived in John of Gaunts Hall, Norfolk.

18.01.1911
Upper Tooting, Wandsworth district, London
-
13.12.1973
Chesham, Buckinghamshire

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	01.02.1941 [168470]
WS/Lt.	01.08.1942
WS/Capt.	27.04.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Maj.	12.07.1943-(04.1944)

Burma Star, Pacific Star

Education: Bishop Storford College, Alliot House (c. 1923).
Joined London Stock Exchange.

01.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			seconded, Indian Army (Royal Indian Army Service Corps)

Waters,
Eric Fletcher
E.F. Waters

Son of George Henry Waters (1890-1916), a coal miner who was killed as a Sapper with 256th Tunnelling Company RE in France, and Mary Elizabeth Fletcher (1891-).
Married ((03?).1941, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Mary D. Whyte; two sons (one of which is rock musician Roger Waters).

(12?).1914
Auckland district, Co. Durham
-
18.02.1944
[MPK]
[Cassino Memorial, Italy, panel 5]

Cadet	? [6479943]
2nd Lt.	11.09.1943 [292975]

Education: at Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham; Durham University.
School teacher.

11.09.1943			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
?	-	18.02.1944	C Company, 8th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers (missing, presumed killed at Anzio)

Waters,
Henry James
H.J. Waters

?
-

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1933 [57481]
Lt.	12.07.1939
T/Capt.	14.02.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	01.04.1942
Capt.	11.04.1945
A/Maj.	1941?
T/Maj.	12.08.1942-08.12.1944
WS/Maj.	09.12.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Col. ?	1944 ?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946
Capt.	01.10.1951, seniority 01.11.1947
Maj.	12.06.1958 (retd 1959)

	TD	12.09.1947	-
	MID	29.11.1945	Italy

[Africa Star?] & 1st Army Clasp

14.01.1933			commissioned, Honourable Artillery Company Infantry Battalion - Territorial Army (Machine Gun Officer, then [1936] Battalion Signals Officer, then [1938] Commander No. 2 Company)
12.07.1939			transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1939	-	1940	London Divisional Signals (Officer Commanding "K" Section, then Officer Commanding "D" Section, then Officer Commanding Signals School)
13.05.1940	-	1942	Alabaster Force, later Iceland Force (Staff Officer Royal Signals, later Commandant Force Signal School)
1942	-	1943	IX Corps (UK) (Staff Officer Royal Signals; attached to 1st Army for planning Operation Torch, then actually service in North Africa)
20.02.1943	-	14.05.1944	2nd Air Formation Signals (Officer Commanding 1 Company, then Second-in-Command, and from 27.03.1944-08.05.1944 acting Commanding Officer)
15.10.1944	-	04.1945	10th Air Formation Signals (Commanding Officer)
15.04.1945	-	1945/46?	7th Indian Air Formation Signals
01.10.1951			short service commission, Regular Army

Waters,
Ray William
R.W. Waters (Photo courtesy of Jo Waters)

Son of William Alfred Waters (1891-1974), and Annie Beatrice Green (1899-1977).
Married ...; ... children.

08.01.1922
West Ham district, London
-
24.04.1997
Sydney, NSW, Australia
[Emu Plains General Cemetery]

Cadet	? [1444697]
2nd Lt.	18.09.1943 [303855]
WS/Lt.	18.03.1944
Lt.	01.10.1946, seniority 18.03.1944
Capt.	18.09.1949 (reld 01.07.1959)
Hon. Capt.	01.07.1959

14.04.1950

1939			enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (at Barking)
1939	-	1943	served at London & Malta (c. 2 years)
18.09.1943			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission]
09.1943	-	06.1944	7th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (leading a machine gun platoon, in the Italian Campaign (Garigliano/Monte Argento, Monte Natale, Anzio –Molletto River battles); wounded)
01.10.1946	-	21.10.1950	short service commission
21.10.1950	-	01.10.1954	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class I)
01.10.1954	-	01.07.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)

Joined the Colonial Service, where he served in Singapore and Tanganyika.

Watkin,
Robert Owen
R.O. Watkin (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Watkin)

Married (10.1939); one daughter, one son.

30.03.1910
Llanfyllin district, Denbighshire / Montgomeryshire / Powys
-
12.06.1986
Pembrokeshire

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [96868]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	23.01.1942-(04.1944)
A/Maj. ?	1945 ?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

			joined Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
02.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Welch Fusiliers
			probably mainly involved in training at various locations in the UK
spring 1943	-	(05.1945?)	served in India
?	-	30.04.1960	Territoral Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Watkins,
Bernard Kelly
B.K. Watkins

(12?.)1906
St. Austell, Cornwall
-
07.1964 still alive

2nd Lt.	? [34451]
Lt.	15.02.1929 (reld 08.10.1930)
Lt.	13.08.1939
T/Capt.	28.05.1940
WS/Capt.	07.04.1941
T/Maj.	07.04.1941 (demobilized < 04.1946)
Capt.	01.01.1949 (reld 21.02.1962)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946 & 21.02.1962

			late Cadet, King's College (Taunton) Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
15.02.1926			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
15.02.1926	-	08.10.1930	51st (Cornwall & Warwick) Medium Brigade, RA (Territorial Army)
13.08.1939	-	13.08.1942	Royal Artillery [temporary short service commission]
13.08.1942	-	21.02.1962	Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Regimental List (Royal Artillery) [age limit]

Watkins,
Gordon Osborne
G.O. Watkins

From King's Lynn.

01.02.1915
-
01.1987
Basford district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire

2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [177618]
WS/Lt.	15.09.1942
T/Capt.	?
A/Maj.	?

12.07.1945

Burma

15.03.1941			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(1944/45)			Officer Commanding, "D" Company, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment

Watkins,
Sidney Maurice Kynoch
S.M.K. Watkins

Married (24.05.1940) Dora Isbel Rettie Fowler; two daughters.

15.06.1914
Aberdeen, Scotland
-
21.04.2008
Grange over Sands, Cumbria

Lt.	16.05.1940 [133379]
WS/Capt.	16.05.1941
T/Maj.	23.12.1943-(04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
Afr St	-	-

Education: Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, before graduating in Medicine in 1938 from Aberdeen University (MB, ChB)

16.05.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			served with the Royal Artillery in Algiers, Tunis, Pantelleria & Sousse

Continued his medical career post-war, working as a Surgical Registrar before becoming a General Practitioner in Sheffield and later Dronfield, Derbyshire until his retirement in September 1973.

Watkinson,
Douglas James
D.J. Watkinson (Photo courtesy of Emma Watkinson)

Son of Harold Watkinson, and Winifred A. Phillips.
Married ((06?).1947, Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire) Marjorie Bailey; one son.

11.12.1919
Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire
-
11.2010 still alive

2nd Lt.	09.08.1941
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
A/Capt. ?	?

09.08.1941			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			seconded, Indian Army (oversaw the running of the Quetta railway)

Watson,
Alexander
A. Watson (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

?
-

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	13.01.1937
WS/Lt.	13.01.1940
T/Capt.	22.09.1941-(04.1944)

			75th (Highland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery
13.01.1937			commissioned, 4th Battalion The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
(08.1942)			1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)

Watson,
Sir Daril Gerard
D.G. Watson

Eldest son of late J.B. Watson, formerly of Paisley.
Married (1917, Hendon) Winifred, younger daughter of late Alfred Reynolds, formerly of Hampstead; one son.

17.10.1888
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
01.07.1967
[Larch Wood, Hadlow Down, Nr Uckfield, Sussex ?]

Capt.	22.12.1916, seniority 07.12.1916 [9758]
...	...
Bt. Lt.Col.	1931
Lt.Gen.	19.07.1945, seniority 01.06.1944
Gen.	17.08.1946 (retd 19.08.1947)

GCB, 1947 (KCB, 1945; CB 1942); CBE 11.07.1940; MC; Legion of Merit (USA), Degree of Commander.

Education: Mercers' School

1914			enlisted Army
22.12.1916			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry
1928			promotion to Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1934	-	1936	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1937	-	1939	Commandant, Senior Officers' School, India
30.06.1939	-	1939	Brigadier General Staff, Eastern Command (UK)
1939	-	17.09.1940	Brigadier General Staff, 3rd Corps (BEF)
18.09.1940	-	12.10.1941	General Officer Commanding, 2nd Infantry Division (UK)
13.10.1941	-	18.12.1941	specially employed, Middle East
19.12.1941	-	15.06.1942	Director of Staff Duties, War Office (London)
16.06.1942	-	06.12.1942	Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office (London)
07.12.1942	-	18.03.1944	Deputy Adjutant-General, War Office (London)
19.03.1944	-	1946	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command (UK)
1946	-	1947	Quartermaster-General to the Forces
1946	-	1947	also: ADC General to the King

Colonel, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1947-1953; Member of the Railway Executive, 1949-1953; Chief of General Services, BTC, 1953-1954; Secretary-General, BTC, January-June 1955.

Watson,
Derrick James
D.J. Watson (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son of ... Watson, and ... Bignold.

11.03.1916
Croydon district, London
-
08.2005
Poole district, Dorset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.09.1941 [204377]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	26.10.1944-05.03.1945
WS/Capt.	06.03.1945 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	06.03.1945-(09.1945), 01.10.1945-(04.1946)

MID

10.05.1945

NW Europe 44-45

13.09.1941			commissioned, South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(1945)			1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)
10.11.1945			transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Watson,
Edward Lawrence
E.L. Watson

?
-

2nd Lt.	30.03.1940 [125214]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1940 (reld 06.09.1943; ill health)
T/Capt.	01.12.1940-(04.1941), 14.05.1942-...
Hon. Capt.	06.09.1943
Capt. TA	15.09.1947

ERD

14.05.1957

30.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
15.09.1947			Captain, The Green Howards - Territorial Army
17.03.1949			transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment (Territorial)
10.08.1952			transferred as a Captain to the General List in the Army Emergency Reserve

Watson,
Harley Mullen
H.M. Watson

13.06.1900
-
10.1994
Huddersfield, Yorkshire

2nd Lt.	01.12.1939 [106316]
WS/Lt.	17.05.1941 (reld 1945)
A/Capt.	1940??
T/Capt.	12.10.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	1945

Went to HMS Indefatigable 1912-1914. Joined Bibby's "Gloucestershire" as Deck Boy- tried to join the Army in 1915, but was discharged as too young. Went to Marconi School in Liverpool and went to sea as Assistant Radio operator. 1915/16 joined 10th Kings Liverpool Regiment as TF bugler, Army Number 5771/357026. Demobilized in 1919, after which he went back to Marconi.

01.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
1940			Officer Commanding, Railway Telegraph Operations Section

Watson,
Harry Boulby
H.B. Watson (Photo courtesy of Mr David S.C. Wilson)

?
-

2nd Lt.	? [37790]
Maj.	11.04.1945

?			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
(08.1943)			instructing staff, 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow

Watson,
James Bentley
J.B. Watson

Son of ... Watson, and ... Hebden.
Married Joan Alice (who predeceased him); two sons, one daughter.

14.05.1915
Leeds, Yorkshire
-
29.04.2008
Castletown, Isle of Man
[age 92]

2nd Lt.	30.11.1940 [158509]
Lt.	? (reld 15.11.1950)
WS/Capt.	05.07.1945
T/Maj.	05.07.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	15.11.1950

MBE	01.01.1968	New Year 68
MC	23.08.1945	Italy
MID	29.11.1945	Italy

			enlisted in the Leeds Rifles
30.11.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1945)			76th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Italy)

CPM. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Uganda.

Watson,
Leslie Gerald
R.H. Watson

21.12.1912
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
28.11.1972
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.08.1942 [242204]
WS/Lt.	10.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A?/Capt.	(1946?)

10.08.1942			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
			served in East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika) and the Far East

Watson,
Robert Albert
R.A. Watson (Photo courtesy of Michael S. Watson)

Son of Maj. Robert O. Watson, DCM, RAMC, and Fanny Watson.
Husband of Caroline Watson, of Ponsanooth.

06.07.1889
St Peters, Portsea Island district, Hampshire
-
18.12.1943
[age 54]
[Ponsanooth (St Michael) Churchyard

Sgt.	? [17659]
2nd Lt.	29.11.1914 [23067]
Lt.	29.11.1917?
Capt.	01.12.1929
Maj.	31.01.1935 01.03.1935, seniority 01.01.1935 (retd 31.12.1938)
Maj. (QM) TA	01.01.1939 (reld 13.12.1943; ill-health)
Hon. Lt.Col.	13.12.1943

DSO	03.06.1919	?
MC	23.06.1915	?
MC	09.09.1916	*
MID	3 x	?

1914 Star; Victory Medal; British War Medal 1914-1920
* For conspicuous gallantry during a long period of operations, when acting as F.O.O. [Forward Observation Officer]. Daily under heavy fire, he showed great bravery in finding observation posts and gaining information. He was wounded in the performance of these duties.

			113th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
29.11.1914			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
			No. 8 Fire Commandant
31.12.1922	-	?	Staff Captain (temporary)
14.01.1924	-	?	Adjutant, 54th (West Riding & Staffordshire) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery
01.10.1928			restored to the establishment
01.12.1929	-	31.09.1932	Adjutant, Cornwall Heavy Brigade RA - TA
01.10.1932	-	?	Adjutant, Devon & Cornwall Heavy Brigade RA - TA
(01.1937)			Officer Commanding Royal Artillery, Jamaica
31.12.1938	-	06.07.1939	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
01.01.1939			served Territorial Army
?	-	24.08.1939	Administrative Officer
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Watson,
Ronald Haughton
R.H. Watson

Son of ... Watson, and ... Greig.
From London, SW15.

(03?).1920
St Marylebone district, London
-
31.01.2011

2nd Lt.	22.11.1941 [217978]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	01.05.1947, seniority 13.01.1943
Capt.	01.11.1948
A/Maj.	01.08.1950
Maj.	13.01.1954, seniority 01.08.1950

	MC	07.12.1944	Italy
	TD	14.09.1956	-

22.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served Derbyshire Yeomanry RAC (Italy) (MC)
01.05.1947			Territorial Army

Watts,
Arthur Lyndon
A.L. Watts

Married; at least one child.

26.10.1913
-
16.03.1990
Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales

2nd Lt.	30.07.1943 [300118]
WS/Lt.	30.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	(1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946

15.03.1945

lifting mines 12.12.44 on the Athens - Phaliron road, allowing convoys to pass safely

			served in the Western Desert, Italy & Greece:
30.07.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
			46th Liverpool Welsh Royal Tank Regiment

Waugh,
Arthur Evelyn St John

see:

RM officers' section

Waugh,
Edward Raymond
"Ted"
E.R. Waugh (Photo courtesy of Mr John C. Waugh)

Son (with three brothers and four sisters) of William Leo Waugh (born 1878), and Mary Ann Bagnall (born 1875).
Brother of Capt. Henry George Waugh.
Married ((12?).1941, Blackburn district, Lancashire) Stella Morgan Williams.

27.09.1913
Chorlton (up)on Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire
-

2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [130975]
WS/Lt.	18.05.1941
T/Capt.	18.05.1941-(04.1944)
W/Capt.	10.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

Education: Ampleforth College.

25.05.1940

commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]

Waugh,
Henry George
"Harry"
H.G. Waugh (Photo courtesy of Mr John C. Waugh)

Son (with three brothers and four sisters) of William Leo Waugh (born 1878), and Mary Ann Bagnall (born 1875).
Brother of Maj. Edward Raymond Waugh.
Married 1st (03.02.1941, Altrincham, Cheshire; divorced) ...; one son.
Married 2nd (c. 1950) ...

03.02.1911
Chorlton (up)on Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire
-
(12?).1961
South Africa

2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156236]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	20.11.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

Education: Ampleforth College.

02.11.1940			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
(04.1944)			serving with Home Guard

Waugh,
Jack Alfred James
F.A. Way

Eldest son of trainer Robert Thomas "Tom" Waugh, and Eleanor Alfrida Hayhoe.
Married ((12?).1935, Wellingborough district, Bedfordshire / Northamptonshire) Mildred B. Whitworth.

11.11.1911
Newmarket, Suffolk
-
09.1999
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	10.05.1939 [87546]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941 (reld 28.12.1942; ill-health)
T/Capt.	02.05.1942-28.12.1942
Hon. Capt.	28.12.1942

			late Cadet, Framlingham College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
10.05.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilised TA
(08.1942)			Dieppe raid (wounded; invalided out of the Army)

Racehorse trainer in Newmarket for nearly 30 years.

Wavell,
Sir Archibald Percival; Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester (23.07.1943);
Viscount Keren of Eritrea and Winchester (1947);
1st Earl Wavell (1947)
A.P. Wavell

Son of late Maj.Gen. Archibald Graham Wavell, CB.
Married (22.04.1915) Eugenie Marie, CI 1943, only child of late Col. Owen Quirk, CB, DSO; one son, three daughters.

05.05.1883
Colchester, Essex
-
24.05.1950
London
[buried at Winchester College]

2nd Lt.	08.05.1901 [6749]
Lt.	13.08.1904
A/Capt.	03.1912?
T/Capt.	13.07.1912
Capt.	20.03.1913
A.Maj.	28.09.1914-23.11.1915
T/Maj.	24.11.1915-07.05.1916
Maj.	08.05.1916
T/Lt.Col.	19.10.1916-02.06.1917
Bt. Lt.Col.	03.06.1917
Col.	12.07.1922, seniority 03.06.1921 (half-pay 12.01.1926; full-pay 02.11.1926)
T/Brig.Gen.	20.03.1918-29.03.1918, 16.04.1918-17.04.1920
T/Brig.	01.07.1930-15.10.1933
Maj.Gen.	16.10.1933 (half-pay 16.01.1934; full-pay 11.03.1935)
Lt.Gen.	29.01.398 (half-pay 21.04.1938; full-pay 26.04.1938)
local Gen.	28.07.1939-30.09.1940
Gen.	01.10.1940
Field Marshal	01.01.1943

-	PC	1943	?
	GCB	04.03.1941	Middle East
	KCB	02.01.1939	New Year 39
	CB	01.01.1935	New Year 35
	GCSI	1943	? [18.09.1943?]
	GCIE	1943	? [18.09.1943?]
	CMG	01.01.1919	Egypt
	MC	03.06.1915	distinguished services in the field
	MID	22.06.1915	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?
	MID	22.01.1919	?
	LM	23.07.1948	?
		09.05.1941	?
		?	Cloud and Banner (China)
		?	Star of Nepal
		15.01.1943	Grand Cross, Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands)
		23.07.1943	Military Cross (Czechoslovakia)
		05.05.1942	Commander, Order of the Seal of Solomon (Ethiopia)
		10.04.1942	Military Cross, 1st Class (Greece)
		23.09.1941	Order of Virtuti Militari, 5th Class (Poland)
		30.09.1920	Order of El Nahda, 2nd Class (Hedjaz)
		WW I	Order of the Nile, 3rd Class
		07.05.1920	Commandeur, Legion d'Honneur (France)
		15.02.1917	Order of St Stanislas, 3rd class with swords (Russia)
		1917?	Order of St Vladimir (Russia)

Queen's South African Medal, Clasps: Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; NW Frontier of India 1908 Medal & Clasp; 1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Winchester College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (09.1900-05.1901); Staff College (22.01.1909-...)

08.05.1901			commissioned into The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
08.05.1901	-	10.1902	2nd Battalion The Black Watch (South African War) (medal with 4 clasps) (invalided home with an injury)
early 1903	-	1908?	2nd Battalion The Black Watch (Punjab)
1908			Indian Frontier, operations in the Zakka Khel country (medal with clasp)
1910?	-	1910?	study of Russian language in Russia
28.12.1911			restored to the establishment
01.03.1912	-	31.03.1912	specially employed, War Office
01.04.1912	-	19.09.1914	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Russian Section, Directorate of Military Training, War Office
1914	-	1916	served in France, 22.10.1914-28.06.1915, 15.12.1915-18.10.1916, 01.1918-03.1918 ()
20.09.1914	-	15.11.1914	special appointment (GSO2), Intelligence Branch, GHQ, British Expeditionary Force (France)
16.11.1914	-	16.06.1915	Brigade Major, 9th Infantry Brigade (France; wounded [lost his left eye], MC)
24.11.1915	-	14.12.1915	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 64th (Highland) Division (Home Forces)
15.12.1915	-	18.10.1916	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (France)
19.10.1916	-	12.06.1917	Military Attaché (temporary General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) with Russian Army in the Caucasus
13.06.1917	-	28.12.1917	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF)
18.01.1918	-	28.02.1918	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermster General (AA&QMG), Supreme War Council Versailles
12.03.1918	-	19.03.1918	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), GHQ Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF)
20.03.1918 16.04.1918	- -	29.03.1918 12.1918	Brigadier General, General Staff ( BGGS), XX Corps (EEF)
01.1919	-	17.04.1920	Brigadier General, General Staff ( BGGS), GHQ Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF)
04.1920	-	12.1921	Company Commander, 2nd Battalion The Black Watch (British Army of Occupation on the Rhine)
12.12.1921	-	30.06.1923	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), War Office
01.07.1923	-	11.01.1926	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Directorate of Military Operations, War Office
02.11.1926	-	30.06.1930	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 3rd Division (Salisbury Plain; Southern Command)
01.07.1930	-	15.01.1934	Commander, 6th Brigade (Aldershot Command)
01.03.1932	-	15.10.1933	ADC to the King
11.03.1935	-	18.08.1937	General Officer Commanding, 2nd Division (Aldershot Command)
19.08.1937	-	20.04.1938	General Officer Commanding The British Forces in Palestine & Trans-Jordan (temporary)
26.04.1938	-	27.07.1939	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command
28.07.1939	-	14.02.1940	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East
15.02.1940	-	04.07.1941	Commander-in-Chief, Middle East
11.07.1941	-	16.01.1942	Commander-in-Chief, India (& Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India)
17.01.1942	-	06.03.1942	Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific
07.03.1942	-	19.06.1943	Commander-in-Chief, India (& Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India)
17.08.1941	-	17.10.1943	ADC General to the King
18.09.1943	-	03.1947	Viceroy and Governor-General of, India

High Steward of Colchester since 1947; Chancellor Aberdeen University since 1945; Colonel The Black Watch (RHR), 01.03.1946-24.05.1950; Constable of the Tower of London, 19.03.1948-24.05.1950; Lord Lieutenant of County of London, 13.09.1949-24.05.1950; a Governor of Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, StratfordonAvon, since 1949.
LLD (St Andrews); DCL (Oxford); LLD (Cambridge, Aberdeen and London); KStJ, 24.12.1943.
Published: The Palestine Campaigns, 1928; Allenby, 1940; Generals and Generalship, 1941; Allenby in Egypt, 1943; Other Men's Flowers (Anthology), 1944; Speaking Generally, 1946; The Good Soldier, 1947.
Literature: J. Connell, Wavell, soldier and scholar (1964); H.E. Raugh, Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941 (1993); R.J. Collins, Lord Wavell, 1883–1941: a military biography (1947); R. Lewin, The chief: Field Marshal Lord Wavell, commander-in-chief and viceroy (1980); B. Fergusson, Wavell: portrait of a soldier (1961);Wavell: the viceroy's journal, ed. P. Moon (1973)

Way,
Francis Alan
F.A. Way

Son of Francis Robert and Emily Way, of Laverstock, Wiltshire.

21.01.1917
-
19.05.1940
(KIA) [age 23]
[Ath (Lorette) Commnual Cemetery, Belgium, B.2.21]

2nd Lt.

26.07.1939, seniority 27.01.1938 [86247]

Education: Clifton College; Gonville & Gaius College, Cambridge University (BA)

			from General List - Territorial Army - University Candidates
26.07.1939			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment
?	-	19.05.1940	The Gloucestershire Regiment (UK & France/Belgium)

Wayman,
William Henry Charles
W.H.C. Wayman

Married (1926, Wesleyan Church, Bangalore); five children.

11.04.1902
Huntley, Westbury on Severn district, Gloucestershire
-
05.1990
Weymouth district, Dorset

WS/RSM	?
Lt. (QM)	24.09.1941 [221273]
WS/Capt. (QM)	24.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Capt. (QM)	17.10.1946, seniority 24.09.1944
Maj. (QM)	21.11.1951 (reld 17.10.1956)
Hon. Maj. (QM)	17.10.1956

1920			enlisted as Risca, and served in the ranks (eventually Regimental Sergeant-Major), posted to India (driver RA at Simla)
late 1930s			returned to the UK
24.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served at Cairo at some point
17.10.1946	-	17.10.1956	short service commission

Weatherall,
Stamford
"Stan"
S. Weatherall

Son of ... Weatherall, and ... Walker.

21.10.1912
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
12.1995
Basford district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire

Pte.	1940 [4611219]
L/Cpl.	1940
Cpl.	1941?
L/Sgt.	1942?
Sgt.	1942?
CSM (Wt.Offr. Cl. II)	1943?
2nd Lt.	06.06.1944 [322742]
WS/Lt.	06.06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

1940	-	1940	served in the ranks (driver), 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (BEF (France & Belgium), Dunkirk)
07.1940	-	03.1942	served in the ranks, No. 1 (later 101) Troop, No. 6 Commando (training in England & Scotland)
04.1942	-	11.1945	No. 2 Special Boat Squadron [training in UK; served in guiding in assault troops with infrared devices, during Nov. 1942 landings in French North Africa, then involved in sabotage operations on Italian ships and railways, before returning to England for an aborted raid on Dunkirk]
06.06.1944			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [immediate emergency commission]
06.1944	-	12.1944	attachment to Small Operations Group in Ceylon (C Group 2 SBS)
12.1944	-	11.1945	attachment to 15th Indian Corps (Arakan, Burma) (C Group 2 SBS)
18.08.1956			relinquished his commission as a Lieutenant Regular Army (emergency commission) on enlistment in the ranks, Territorial Army

Weaving,
John Foley
J.F. Weaving

Son of Llewelyn Weaving (1888-1941), and Alice Ashworth.
Married ((09?).1951, South Westmorland district) Hester Claudia Blagden, MB, BCh (12.01.1927 - ), daughter of Bishop Claude Martin Blagden (1874-1952), and Hester Evelyn Dewar (1885-1956), of The Wray, Grasmere, Westmorland; ... children (one son?).

06.08.1923
Chester district, Cheshire
-
04.1991
Brighton district, Sussex

Cadet	? [1953330]
2nd Lt.	03.09.1944 [330134]
WS/Lt.	03.03.1945
Hon. Capt.	18.04.1951

03.09.1944			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served possibly in East Africa with the King’s African Rifles
18.04.1951			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Webb,
Arthur Bernard Charles [Christian]
J.R. Webb

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Joseph Robert Rideal Webb, and Adela Cora Morris.
Cousin of Maj. Harry Alforth Bernard Stait-Gardner.

1912 ?
-
19.02.1942
[age 30]
[Rangoon Memorial, Burma, face 19]

2nd Lt.

26.10.1941 [217683]

26.10.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
?	-	19.02.1942	attached, 2nd Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Webb,
Cecil Harrison
"Rusty"
C.H. Webb

Son of Zenas Webb (1881-1960), and Regina Madeline Foster (1884-1915).
Married ((09?).1935, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Jean G.M. Field (1916? - (03?).1960) [she remarried 1940 Solbé, then 1941 Kynoch]; one son.

(12?).1913
Kings Norton district, Warwickshire
-
?

2nd Lt.	23.03.1940 [126246]
WS/Lt.	23.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

?	-	23.03.1940	either 121st or 125th Officer Cadet Training Unit RA
23.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1941?	-	1945?	POW (No. 722) in German captivity (from 12.09.1942 Oflag VIIB)

Taught himself to sail and subsequently solo-circumnavigated the world in his yacht Flyd.

Webb,
John Francis
"Jack"
J.F. Webb

Son of ... Webb, and ... Waldron.
Married (1946) Mary Beldham, a Queen Alexandra's nurse; two sons, one daughter.

05.02.1917
Carlisle, Cumberland
-
05.04.2009
Fleet, Hampshire

Lt.	28.08.1941 [202345]
Capt.	28.08.1942
A/Maj.	03.05.1946-02.08.1946
T/Maj.	03.08.1946-31.10.1947
Maj.	28.08.1949
A/Lt.Col.	15.09.1947-31.10.1947
T/Lt.Col.	01.11.1947-28.02.1948, 23.06.1958-14.08.1959
Lt.Col.	15.08.1959
Col.	28.08.1964 (retd 02.04.1974)

MC	08.07.1943	North Africa
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Gen SM	-	& clasp Palestine

Education: King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Durham University (medicine; MB BS, 1940); FRCP (Edinburgh, 1972) [MRCP (Edinburgh, 1966)]; MD (Durham, 1956). Junior specialist in medicine, 1950; Senior specialist, 1956; Consultant, 1967.
Genereal practitioner.

28.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission to 27.08.1942]
27.08.1942			short service commission
1943	-	1944	Regimental Medical Officer, 8th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment [redesignated 145th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps]
1944	-	1946	Central Mediterranean Forces (Commanding Officer of a British Military Hospital at Rome)
1946	-	1946	British Troops, Austria
1946	-	1947	Central Mediterranean Forces / Middle East Land Forces (1947 Commanding Officer, 13th Light Field Ambulance RAMC)
15.01.1948			permanent commission
1947	-	1950	Military Hospital, Carshalton
1950	-	1954	Officer-in-Charge, Medical Division, No. 33 General Hospital (Far East Land Forces, Hong Kong)
1958	-	1961	Officer-in-Charge, Medical Division, British Military Hospital, Hong Kong (Far East Land Forces, Hong Kong)
1962	-	1968	Officer-in-Charge, Medical Division, British Military Hospital, Münster (Germany)
1968	-	1974	Senior Physician, Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot

Geriatrician at Guildford Hospital.

Webb,
John Reginald
J.R. Webb

?
-

2nd Lt.	10.10.1942 [245537]
WS/Lt.	10.04.1943 (reld < 04.1947)

10.10.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Webber,
John James
"Jim"
J.J. Webber

?
-
14.05.2006

Sgt.	? [2093392]
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138495]
Lt.	08.12.1945, seniority 03.08.1941

	MC	31.08.1944	NW Europe
	DCM	24.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)

04.07.1940			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry [emergency commission]
(1942?)			44 Field Park Company Madras Indian Engineers (Middle East)
07.11.1942			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
(1944)			7th Parachute Battalion (6th Airborne Division) (NW Europe)
08.12.1945			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry [short service commission?]

F.C.A. of Minehead.

Weightman,
George
G. Weightman

Son of James and Anne Weightman, of Mossley Hill, Liverpool.

1913 ?
-
29.05.1940
(KIA) [age 27]
[Cassel Commnual Cemetery Extension, France, C.6]

2nd Lt.

15.10.1939 [103360]

Education: Dip. Ed. (Dunelm)

15.10.1939			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
15.10.1939	-	29.05.1940	2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (UK & France/Belgium) [killed by shellfire while commanding No. 10 Platoon, "B" Company in an isolated farm just outside Cassel]

Weinstein,
Ernest
E. Weinstein

Married 1st ((12?).1947, Willesden district, Middlesex) ... Lawrence.
Married 2nd ((03.)1951, Westminster district, Middlesex) ... Weaver.

13.06.1916
Hackney district, Greater London
-
10.2002
Camden district, London

2nd Lt.	16.04.1942 [233084]
WS/Lt.	16.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	1945?
A/Maj.	25.09.1945-...

16.04.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			attached Royal Indian Army Service Corps
12.1944	-	(02.)1945	RIASC School (Kakul)
25.09.1945	-	?	Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies (DADS), Quartermaster-General's Branch, General HQ, India

Director & chairman of Ernest Jones Jewellers.

Weir,
Sir George Alexander
G.A. Weir

From King's End, Powick.
Son of late Archibald Weir, MD, of Malvern.
Married (1917) Margaret Irene, daughter of Robert
More, Woodsgate Place, Bexhill; one son, one daughter.

01.12.1876
Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
-
15.11.1951

2nd Lt.	11.01.1902 [491]
Capt.	1902
Maj.	1912
Brig.Gen.	1915
Maj.Gen.	1927
Lt.Gen.	1933
Gen.	13.10.1937 (retd 12.04.1938)

KCB	1934	?
CB	1923	?
CMG	1919	?
DSO	1915	?

Officer of St Maurice and St Lazarus; Croix de Guerre avec palmes

Education: Harrow; Trinity College; Cambridge; psc

1899	-	1901	served S. Africa (despatches twice; Queen's medal 4 clasps)
1914	-	1918	European War (wounded, despatches, DSO, Bt LtCol and Col)
1922	-	1926	Commandant, Equitation School and Inspector of Cavalry
1927	-	1931	General Officer Commanding, Bombay District
1932	-	1933	General Officer Commanding, 55th (West Lancs) Division, TA
1934	-	1938	General Officer Commanding (1936 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief) the British Troops in Egypt
12.04.1938	-	01.12.1943	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
14.09.1929	-	01.12.1946	Colonel, 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) [= 3rd Dragoon Guards]
22.06.1938	-	27.09.1949	Honorary Colonel, 8th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment (TA), from 01.01.1947: 639th Heavy Regiment, RA (The Worcestershire Regiment)

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Worcestershire, 26.06.1941. Vice-Chariman & Military Member, Worcester Territorial Army Association.

Weiss,
Cyril Benno Leslie

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Wiss,
Cyril Benno Leslie

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