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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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G.M.B. Wadsworth to T.H. Williams

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

09.06.1917
London
-
03.1999
Redhill, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.05.1942 [233754]
WS/Lt.	14.11.1942

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

Wagstaff,
Joseph John

Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Wagstaff.
Husband of Doreen L. Wagstaff, of Chew Stoke, Somerset; one daughter.

1919 ?
-
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-(04.1941)
T/Maj.	?

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)

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]

Walford-White,
William

see:

White,
William Walford

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

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)

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)

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-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)

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,
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.

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

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.

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,
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,
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,
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

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

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

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	-	-
BWM 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.

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]

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.

Welby-Everard,
[Sir] Christopher Earle
C.E. Welby-Everard

Son of late Edward Everard Earle WelbyEverard, Gosberton House, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, solicitor, and Gwladys Muriel Petra Herbert. Brother of Capt. Philip H.E. Welby- Everard, RN. Married (1938) Sybil Juliet Wake Shorrock (died 1994); two sons.
Residence: The Manor House, Sapperton, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

09.08.1909
Spalding, Lincs.
-
10.05.1996
Sleaford, Lincs.

2nd Lt.	30.04.1932, seniority 29.09.1930 [52445]
Lt.	29.09.1933
Capt.	29.09.1938
A/Maj.	10.01.1941-09.04.1941
T/Maj.	10.04.1941-10.06.1944
WS/Maj.	11.06.1944
Maj.	01.07.1946
local Lt.Col.	05.04.1943-10.03.1944
A/Lt.Col.	11.03.1944-10.06.1944
T/Lt.Col.	11.06.1944-06.07.1951
Lt.Col.	07.07.1951 (Employed List (1) 28.07.1952)
T/Col.	07.01.1952-30.12.1953
Col.	31.12.1953
T/Brig.	25.01.1954-09.10.1957
Brig.	10.10.1957
Maj.Gen.	19.05.1959 (retd 01.05.1962)

KBE	01.01.1965	New Year 65
OBE	11.10.1945	?
CB	31.12.1960	New Year 61
MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe

Palestine 1936-39 Medal and Clasp

Education: Charterhouse; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1928-1931); Staff College, Camberley (psc); Joint Services Staff College (jssc)

			from General List, Territorial Army - University Candidates
30.04.1932			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (Dover (for Catterick))
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (Catterick Camp)
25.01.1937	-	(01.1939)	Adjutant, Regimental Depot, The Lincolnshire Regiment (Lincoln)
10.01.1941	-	30.01.1942	Brigade Major, ... Brigade
31.01.1942	-	30.03.1943	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (L), GHQ Home Forces
05.04.1943	-	07.11.1943	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
11.03.1944	-	1944	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (wounded in Normandy)
30.10.1944	-	05.11.1946	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
28.12.1946	-	11.09.1948	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (SD), GHQ, Middle East Land Force
1949	-	1951	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
07.01.1952	-	23.01.1954	Brigade Colonel, HQ Midland Brigade
25.01.1954	-	1957	Commander, HQ Scottish Command (264th Scottish Beach Brigade and 157th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade)
1957	-	1959	Brigadier General Staff (BGS) (Operations), HQ, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), and HQ Northern Army Group
1959	-	04.10.1961	Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Northern Europe

General Officer Commanding, Nigerian Army, 1962-1965.
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Lincolnshire, 1966. High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1974.

Welch,
Claude
C.I.B. Wells

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	?

?			commissioned, ?

Wells,
Charles Ian Ballantine
C.I.B. Wells

Only son of Maj. Charles Ernest Wells (1875-1932),, formerly of The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), and Jessie Crawford Seymour Wells (née Ballantine) (1871-1959).
Of Tofte Manor, Sharnbrook.

14.07.1912
-
29.05.1942
(DOW) [age 29]
[St. Peter's Churchyard, Sharnbrook, west of tower, on boundary]

2nd Lt.	13.07.1934 [62941] 19.09.1934, seniority 02.02.1933
Lt.	12.02.1938, seniority 02.02.1936
Capt.	01.05.1939
A/Maj. ? T/Maj. ?	?

Education: Trinity College, Cambridge University (BA)

13.07.1934			commissioned, University Candidates, General List - Territorial Army
19.09.1934			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
?	-	(01.1937)	26th Field Brigade RA (Larkhill)
12.02.1938	-	(01.1939)	105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Bedford)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	"C" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA
?	-	29.05.1942	89th Battery, 23rd Field Regiment RA [died of wounds]

Wemyss,
Sir Henry Colville Barclay
H.C.B. Wemyss

2nd son of late Alexander Wemyss.
Married (1919) Vera, youngest daughter of late Alfred Mozley and Mrs Russell, of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire; one son, one daughter.

26.04.1891
-
02.04.1959

2nd Lt.	23.12.1910 [14202]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	09.01.1939, seniority 07.01.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	10.06.1940-09.06.1941
T/Lt.Gen.	10.06.1941-20.10.1941
Lt.Gen.	21.10.1941, seniority 11.08.1941
Gen.	15.10.1945 (retd 23.11.1946)

KCB, 1945 (CB 1940); KBE, 01.07.1941 (HM's birthday 41); DSO 1914; MC 1916

23.12.1910			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
...	-	...	...
26.07.1921			transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
...	-	...	...
09.01.1939	-	18.02.1940	Director of Mobilization, War Office (London)
19.02.1940	-	09.06.1940	Deputy Adjutant General (DAG), war Office (London)
10.06.1940	-	02.06.1941	Adjutant General to the Forces, War Office (London)
03.06.1941	-	15.06.1942	Chief of the British Army Staff, Washington, DC (USA)
16.06.1942	-	1946	Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, War Office

Published: English inns (1951)

Werner,
Edgar Flottwell
E.F. Werner

Married (19.12.1953) Denise Wilkinson; three daughters, one son.

08.05.1920
-
[02.2007 still alive]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.08.1941 [200632]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1941	-	1945	65th Field Regiment RA (India & Burma)

Emigrated to Australia, 1970. Company Director until 1976 when retired.

Wesley,
John Samuel
J.S. Wesley (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carol Vincent)

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.11.1941 [214905]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	28.06.1944-(04.1946)

08.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
(05.1944)			HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)

Westbury,
Louis John
L.J. Westbury (Photo courtesy of Mrs Pauline Clift)

Married Marie Grech.

02.07.1882
Walsall, Staffordshire
-
(12?).1944
Hemel Hempstead

Cpl.	? [0099]
2nd Lt.	29.10.1915
Lt.	12.08.1917, seniority 01.06.1916 (reld 30.09.1921
A/Capt.	27.02.1918-10.03.1918, ...-21.01.1919
T/Capt.	...-...
A/Maj.	22.01.1919-13.10.1919
Maj. TARO	30.09.1921
Lt.	02.09.1939 [100637]
T/Capt.	22.09.1940-(04.1941)

MC	01.01.1918	?
MID	28.11.1917	?
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM	-	-
VM	-	-

Served in the South African Constabulary from 1905.

			served in the ranks, Imperial Light Horse:
09.1914	-	12.1914	British, German & Portugese East Africa, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia
12.1914	-	07.1915	German South-West Africa and on the adjacent borders of the Union of South Africa, except for:
01.03.1915	-	09.03.1915	served, France & Belgium
29.10.1915			commissioned, Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Force
29.10.1915	-	30.09.1921	North Midland Divisional Ammunition Column
10.1916	-	11.11.1918	Asia Minor (region including Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Macedonia, European Turkey and the Islands of the Aegean Sea)
22.01.1919	-	13.10.1919	seconded as Battery Commander
13.10.1919	-	?	seconded as Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal (Class FF)
30.09.1921	-	16.07.1932	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized, TA
02.09.1939	-	1944	commissioned, National Defence Companies, employed in the The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

Westmacott,
Guy Randolph
G.R. Westmacott

Only son of Maj.Gen. Sir Richard Westmacott, KCB, DSO (1841-1925).
Married (10.07.1916) Edith Victoria Blanche (12.01.1895-05.06.1966); ... children.

1891
-
?

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	? [42650]
Lt.	15.05.1915 (reld 22.06.1919)
A/Capt.	23.12.1917-17.04.1918
T/Capt.	...-09.07.1918
Capt. RARO	22.06.1919
A/Maj.	24.09.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	?
A/Lt.Col.	30.12.1943-(04.1944)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	29.01.1945

DSO	04.02.1918	*
MID	23.05.1918	?
MID	03.06.1919	?
CdeG	06.11.1918	?
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His flank was completely exposed, both during the attack and after reaching the objective, and he had to form a defensive flank with his company throughout the whole action. On the enemy delivering a heavy counter-attack on this exposed flank he formed his company to the right, and shattered it with steady and admirably controlled fire. On reaching the objective he consolidated, covering the flank of the battalion by digging a very strong line, and also providing further protection for the flank of the division by means of several machine guns. The complete success of the attack and the immediate defeat of the hostile counter-attack were largely due to his resource and prompt action.

?	-	16.09.1916	Special Reserve of Officers
17.09.1916			commissioned, The Grenadier Guards
23.12.1917	-	17.04.1918	Company Commander
11.07.1918	-	14.12.1918	Staff Officer 3rd class (as T/Lt.), Royal Air Force
22.06.1919	-	29.01.1945	Regular Army Reserve of Officers
(06.1944)			Senior British Intelligence Officer (?) (Normandy)

Westmoreland,
William
W. Westmoreland

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138143]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1942

?	-	03.07.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]

Westwood,
Ernest Donald
"Don"
E.D. Westwood

Son of Claude Westwood.
Married; four daughters.

16.10.1916
Melbourne, Vict.
-
27.10.2000
Adelaide, South Australia

Ldg.Acm. (RAAF)	? [407188]
Sgt. (Austr. Army)	? [SX11038]
2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [204895]
WS/Lt.	? (reld 03.04.1946)
A/Capt.	01.01.1942-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	03.04.1946

20.07.1940	-	30.12.1940	served, Royal Australian Air Force (enlisted at Adelaide, Southern Australia): 2nd Service Flying Training School Wagga
21.01.1941	-	23.08.1941	served, Australian Army (enlisted at Glenelg, Southern Australia): MT Reserve
23.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
02.1942			captured at Singapore
1942	-	1945	POW in Japanese captivity

Wethered,
Guy Ernest FitzGerald
G.E.F. Wethered

Son of Colonel Joseph Robert Wethered, CMG, DSO, and of Dorothy K.A. Wethered, of Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

1920 ?
-
22.11.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, 6.H.16]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.06.1940 [134368]
WS/Lt.	01.02.1941
T/Capt.	01.02.1941-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	12.11.1942
T/Maj.	12.11.1942-(04.1944)

Oxford Blue. International Half Miler.

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
22.06.1940			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
01.01.1943			transferred, Royal Armoured Corps
01.04.1943			transferred, he Gloucestershire Regiment
?	-	22.11.1944	Officer Commanding, "A" Company, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment

Whately-Smith,
Anthony Robert
"Andy"

Son of the Revd. Ernest Whately-Smith, MC, MA, and Dorothy Whately-Smith, of Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire.

BBC's WW2 People's War

1915 ?
-
25.11.1944
(executed) [age 29]
[Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany, 3.K.2]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113612]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	15.09.1943
T/Maj.	15.09.1943-(04.1944)

?	-	14.01.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940			commissioned, The Dorset Regiment [emergency commission]
04.02.1944	-	(04.)1944	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), School of Military Intelligence, Matlock
19.08.1944			transferred, The Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
?	-	25.11.1944	2nd Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps (Operation Loyton, Vosges Mountains [captured])

Whelan,
Richard Percy
R.P. Whelan

Son of Percy Scott Whelan and Edythe Laura Whelan, of Henfield, Sussex.

20.12.1905
Ireland
-
31.10.1944
(KIA) [age 38]
[Nederweert Cemetery, the Netherlands, II.A.5]

2nd Lt.	04.02.1926 [34947]
Lt.	04.02.1929
Capt.	26.04.1937, seniority 19.10.1936
A/Maj.	03.09.1939-(04.1941)
Maj.	17.02.1943
T/Lt.Col.	15.01.1943-(04.1944)

MID

11.02.1941

Somaliland

04.02.1926			commissioned, (Royal) Northumberland Fusiliers
28.08.1929	-	03.08.1933	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force (1st Battalion The Nigeria Regiment (Kaduna))
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Bordon)
08.10.1937	-	(01.1940)	seconded, The Northern Rhodesia Regiment
01.08.1942	-	(04.)1944	seconded, The Northern Rhodesia Regiment
?	-	31.10.1944	possibly seconded, 9th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Whetstone,
Frederick James Strover

From Bibury, Gloucestershire.
Married Joan Olave Patricia Whetstone (née ...).

05.04.1907
Loughborough
-
01.09.1956
Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	29.01.1927 [37304]
Lt.	29.01.1930
Capt.	01.06.1935
A/Maj.	22.09.1939-21.12.1939
T/Maj.	22.12.1939-15.03.1940, 02.11.1940-17.01.1941, 08.07.1941-29.09.1942, 19.10.1942-18.01.1943
WS/Maj.	19.01.1943
Maj.	29.01.1944
A/Lt.Col.	19.10.1942-18.01.1943
T/Lt.Col.	19.01.1943-08.05.1947
Lt.Col.	09.05.1947 (supernumerary 09.05.1950)
Col.	01.01.1953 (retd 27.06.1956; disability)
Hon. Brig.	27.06.1956

OBE	17.01.1946	Burma
MID	26.07.1940	operations in the field
MID	19.07.1945	Burma
TD	?	?

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: staff course

07.05.1936			commissioned, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards - Royal Armoured Corps
26.07.1939	-	15.03.1940	Assistant Military Secretary (and temporary ADC 26.07.1939-21.09.1939)
			seconded, 3rd Carabiniers (The Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards)
09.05.1947			transferred, 3rd Dragoon Guards
09.05.1947	-	09.05.1950	Commanding Officer, 3rd Dragoon Guards

While,
Harold Arthur Armstrong
H.A.A. While (Photo courtesy of Mrs Caroline Banszky)

Married Janette Clark; one son, three daughters.

14.02.1910
Barrow in Furness district, Cumbria / Lancashire
-
18.11.1983
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	08.01.1938 [73894]
WS/Lt.	08.01.1940
T/Capt.	14.02.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.	23.12.1943-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	1945?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

MBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42
TD	14.09.1956	-

Education: Cambridge University

			late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
08.01.1938			commissioned, 51st (Westmorland & Cumberland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	06.04.1960	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Whistler,
[Sir] Lashmer Gordon
"Bolo"

Son of Colonel A.E. Whistler, Indian Army and Florence Annie Gordon, daughter of late Charles Forbes RivettCarnac.
Married (1926) Esmé Keighley; two daughters.

03.09.1898
-
04.07.1963

2nd Lt.	12.09.1917
Lt.	12.03.1919
Capt.	30.09.1932
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	05.02.1940-04.05.1940
T/Lt.Col.	05.05.1940-02.07.1942, 13.08.1942-03.03.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	4.3.1943
Lt.Col.	1.1.1945
A/Col.	4.9.1942-3.3.1943
T/Col.	4.3.1943-21.6.1945
WS/Col.	22.6.1945
Col.	1946
A/Brig.	4.9.1942-3.3.1943
T/Brig.	4.3.1943-21.6.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	22.6.1944-21.6.1945
T/Maj.Gen.	22.6.1945
Maj.Gen.	1946
Lt.Gen.	10.5.1951
Gen.	06.07.1955 (retd 04.02.1957)

GCB	1957	?
KCB	1955	?
KBE	1952	?
CB	29.03.1945	?
DSO	11.07.1940	?
DSO	22.04.1943	?
DSO	13.01.1944	?
MID	29.04.1941	?
MID	22.03.1945	?
MID	09.08.1945	?

Commander of the Crown of Belgium 2nd class, with palm; Croix de Guerre (Belgium) (1940), with palm; Grand Cross, House of Orange (Netherlands)

Education: Harrow; RMC Sandhurst; qualified as interpreter Italian (2nd class) (10.1928)

12.09.1917			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment
15.10.1917	-	28.03.1918	served European War: France & Belgium (wounded twice, British War Medal, Victory Medal)
27.05.1919	-	10.1919	served in Russia
01.04.1921	-	26.03.1922	special appointment (Class GG), Irish Command (temp.)
06.04.1927	-	11.12.1927	special appointment (Class GG), Independent Brigade China (temp.)
01.05.1929	-	30.04.1933	Adjutant, Territorial Army
25.11.1933	-	24.11.1936	Adjutant, The Royal Sussex Regiment
1936	-	1939	served Palestine (medal and clasp)
05.02.1940	-	1942	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment ?
10.03.1942	-	01.04.1942	acting Commander, 133rd (Sussex and Kent) Infantry Brigade (UK)
24.08.1942	-	03.09.1942	acting Commander, 133rd (Sussex and Kent) Infantry Brigade (Egypt)
04.09.1942	-	26.11.1942	Commander, 132nd (Middlesex and Kent) Infantry Brigade (Egypt)
29.11.1942	-	28.01.1944	Commander, 131st (Surrey) Lorried Infantry Brigade (Libya, N Africa, Italy, UK) [except for 14-26.7.1943]
28.01.1944	-	21.06.1944	Commander, 160th (South Wales) Infantry Brigade (UK)
23.06.1944	-	22.01.1945	General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (NW Europe)
25.02.1945	-	1945	General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (NW Europe)
1945	-	1946	served Palestine
1947	-	1948	General Officer Commanding, British Troops in India
1948	-	1950	General Officer Commanding, Troops Sudan, Kaid Sudan Defence Force
02.06.1950	-	14.03.1951	District Officer Commanding, Northumbrian District & General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division TA
1951	-	1953	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, West Africa Command
07.12.1953	-	02.1957	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command

Chairman, Committee on the New Army, 12.1957-05.1958. Colonel, The Royal Sussex Regiment, 01.12.1953-... Colonel Commandant, Royal West African Frontier Force, ...-1960. Honorary Colonel, Royal Nigerian Military Forces, 1959. Honorary Colonel, Royal Sierra Leone Military Forces, 1959. Chairman, Army Cadet Force Association, 1961-... VicePresident, National Small Bore Rifle Association (NSRA), 1958-... Deputy Lieutenant, Sussex, 1957.
Literature: Sir John Smyth. Bolo Whistler : the life of General Sir Lashmer Whistler : a study in leadership (London: Muller, 1967)

Whitaker,
Trevor Arthur Anthony

Son of Raymond Whitaker and Hilda Margaret Sharp. Married Jennifer Leward Howson; one son, one daughter.
From London.

14.01.1924
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.10.1943 [296779]
WS/Lt.	23.04.1944
T/Capt.	1944?
2nd Lt.	28.11.1945, seniority 15.01.1945
Lt.	14.07.1946
Capt.	01.1951? (retd 01.09.1953)
Hon. Capt.	01.09.1953

01.03.1945

NW Europe *

23.10.1943			commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade (NW Europe)
28.11.1945			permanent commission

* [Recommendation for the immediate award of a Military Cross to Lt. T.A.A. Whitaker]. On 17 October Lieut. Whitaker was commanding a group consisting of one motor platoon and one sec[tion] carriers 8 R.B. [= 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade] and one t[roo]p of tanks 23 H [= 23rd Hussars]. The road south of Meerselo was cratered by the enemy and trees had been felled across the road. These demolitions were registered by the enemy and under heavy mortar fire. Lieut. Whitaker at once began to clear the road-blocks and fill in the craters. Enemy mortar fire was continuous and great difficulty was experienced in dealing with the demolitions. In spite of this Lieut. Whitaker carried on with his task with great courage and determination and was a fine example to all under his command. Casualties were incurred and Lieut. Whitaker was wounded in the leg. He carried on with his task and refused to be evacuated until his force was ordered to stop work on the road, as another route had been been found. Lieut. Whitaker's conduct during this operation was of the highest order and he was the finest possible example to the men under his command.
Signed by J.A. Hunter, Lt.Col. Commanding 8th Bn The Rifle Brigade, 22 Oct. 1944; approved by C.B. Harvey, Brig. Commanding 29th Armoured Brigade, G.P.B. Roberts, Maj.Gen. Commanding 11th Armoured Division, R.N. O'Connor, Lt.Gen. Commanding 8th Corps, M.C. Dempsey, Lt.Gen. Commanding Second Army, B.L. Montgomery, Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief 21st Army Group [Citation courtesy of Mr Vincent Billiet]

Whitby,
Charles Henry

?
-

Wt.Offr. Cl. II	? [4907187]
Lt.	31.12.1940 [163015] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	27.09.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
LSGCM	-	-

			served in the ranks, The South Staffordshire Regiment (served in India)
31.12.1940			commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
02.1945	-	06.1945	attached 21st Army Group (serving in Belgium)

Whitcher,
Harold Wray

Married; three sons.

03.12.1911
Weihsien, Shantung, China
-
15.12.2005
Frimley Park Hospital, West Surrey district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	01.06.1935
Lt.	20.10.1939 [65389]
WS/Capt.	19.07.1940
Capt.	20.10.1940
A/Maj.	05.08.1942-04.11.1942
T/Maj.	05.11.1942-19.08.1945
WS/Maj.	20.08.1945
Maj.	20.10.1947
A/Lt.Col.	20.05.1945-19.08.1945
T/Lt.Col.	20.08.1945-01.01.1946, 29.07.1954-21.12.1957
Lt.Col.	22.12.1957
Col.	20.10.1962 (retd 14.08.1972)

OBE	01.01.1962	New Year 62
TD	01.05.1956	-
MID	21.11.1946	?
39\|45 St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-

Education: MB, ChB (Edinburgh) 1939, MA (Oxford) 1954

01.06.1935			commissioned, Officer Training Corps - General List - Territorial Army (for service with Infantry Unit of Edinburgh University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps)
20.10.1939			short service commission, Royal Army Medical Corps
1942	-	1945	served in India (NW Frontier)
20.10.1944			permanent commission
1945	-	1945	Commanding Officer, Combined 31st & 42nd Indian Convalescent Depots (British Troops) (India)
29.12.1945	-	20.07.1946	Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, HQ Western Command
01.10.1946	-	12.11.1946	HQ South Wales District
1946	-	1949	served in Bermuda
29.07.1954	-	05.10.1958	Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton (Ministry of Supply)
16.10.1958	-	21.07.1963	Assistant Director-General Army Medical Services (Army Medical Department 8), War Office
27.07.1965	-	(1968)	Medical Liaison Officer, British Army Staff Washington (USA)

Specialist in Pathology, 1954. Junior Specialist in Physiology, 1955. Senior Specilaist, 1958. Consultant in Physiology, 1963. OStJ, 04.1972.

White,
Denis
D. White

Son of Lt.Col. George Henry White, RAPC (1876-1953), and Helen Mackenzie (1878-1932).
Brother of Lt. Kenneth John White, RNR, and Cdr. Duncan Frederick White, RNR.
Married Angela (née ...), a WRAC officer.
Residence: (1945) Crewkerne, Somerset.

10.03.1910
Dublin, Ireland
-
08.2000
Birkenhead, Cheshire

2nd Lt.	30.01.1930 [44976]
Lt.	30.01.1933
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	06.09.1940-05.12.1940
T/Maj.	06.12.1940-21.02.1942
WS/Maj.	22.02.1942
Maj.	01.07.1946
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1951
A/Lt.Col.	01.11.1941-24.01.1942, 16.02.1942-21.02.1942
T/Lt.Col.	22.02.1942-21.01.1952
Lt.Col.	22.01.1952
T/Col.	30.10.1952-01.06.1954
Col.	02.06.1954
Brig.	01.09.1959 (retd 28.09.1962)

	OBE	28.06.1945	Italy
	MID	24.10.1950	Malaya

Education: Royal Military Acdemy, Woolwich; Joint Services Staff College (jssc).

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
29.12.1934	-	14.05.1938	employed with King's African Rifles
02.01.1939	-	31.08.1940	Adjutant, Territorial Army
03.05.1943	-	10.06.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 9th Army
11.06.1943	-	19.02.1944	Deputy Chief Signals Officer, Middle East
20.02.1944	-	25.02.1944	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), MAAF [= Mediterranean Allied Air Force ?]
26.02.1944	-	18.03.1944	Signals Officer
17.12.1944	-	06.01.1945	Chief Signals Officer, 5th Corps HQ (Italy)
20.08.1947	-	10.07.1950	Assistant Adjutant General, GHQ Far East Land Forces
30.10.1952	-	02.11.1955	Assistant Adjutant General (Mob.), War Office
05.12.1955	-	(02.1957)	Colonel General Staff, Royal Military College of Science
?	-	1962?	Chief Signals Officer, Southern Command

White,
[Sir] Dick Goldsmith

Son of Percy Hall White and Gertrude White (née Farthing).
Married (28.11.1945) Kathleen Somers Tonkinson (née Bellamy); two sons.

20.12.1906
Tonbridge, Kent
-
21.02.1993
Burpham, near Arundel, Sussex

2nd Lt.	29.12.1942 [135872]
WS/Lt.	29.06.1943
WS/Lt.Col.	05.03.1945
A/Col.	?
local Brig.	04.12.1945-(04.1946)

KCMG	01.01.1960	New Year 60
KBE	09.06.1955	HM's birthday 55
CBE	08.06.1950	HM's birthday 50
OBE	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42: as Assistant Director, War Office
MID	02.08.1945	NW Europe

Officer, Legion of Merit (USA, 08.11.1945); Croix de Guerre (France)

Education: Bishops Stortford College; Christ Church, Oxford (Hon. Student, 1981); University of Michigan and University of California, USA.

01.1936			joined the Security Service (MI5)
			closely involved in operating the highly successful "Double Cross" system against Nazi Germany
29.12.1942			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]

DirectorGeneral of MI5, 1953-56, and of MI6, 1956-72.

White,
Eric

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.10.1939 [102043]
WS/Lt.	15.10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	15.10.1940-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt.	01.01.1951, seniority 15.10.1940
Capt.	01.01.1951, seniority 22.10.1950
Maj.	22.10.1958
Hon. Capt.	01.01.1959

15.10.1939			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
01.01.1951	-	01.01.1959	short service commission, Royal Army Educational Corps

White,
Oliver Geoffrey Woodhouse

From Farnborough, Hampshire.

22.08.1910
-

2nd Lt.	28.08.1930 [47671]
Lt.	28.08.1933
Capt.	28.08.1938
A/Maj.	16.09.1940-15.12.1940
T/Maj.	16.12.1940-13.10.1941, 30.07.1942-25.06.1943
WS/Maj.	08.09.1944
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	26.03.1943-25.06.1943
T/Lt.Col.	26.06.1943-08.07.1943, 08.06.1944-30.09.1948, 11.09.1949-06.09.1950
local Lt.Col.	20.12.19147-12.03.1948
Lt.Col.	31.08.1952 (supernumerary 31.08.1955) (retd 08.02.1959)

DSO	17.01.1946	Burma
OBE	13.06.1959	HM's birthday 59
MID	10.01.1946	Burma

Education: Staff College (psc)

28.08.1930			commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment
11.06.1936	-	05.01.1939	Supervising Officer for Physical Training (Class GG to 31.07.1938), Northern Ireland District
06.01.1939	-	15.09.1940	Instructor, ...
1943?	-	1945?	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Doresetshire Regiment
01.10.1948	-	08.09.1949	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ Eastern Command
21.09.1949	-	29.05.1950	Staff Officer, 1st grade (SO1), British Army of the Rhine
10.01.1956	-	(02.1957)	Commandant, ASPT Southern Command
08.02.1959	-	22.08.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Published: Straight on for Tokyo : the war history of the 2nd Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (54th Foot), 1939-1948 (1948)

White,
William Walford

* later used as name:
Walford-White,
William

Married Joan Mary Uden (died 09.02.2007, aged 86); two daughters, one son.

07.05.1915
-
09.2003
Colchester, Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.05.1936
...	...
T/Maj.	?
Maj.	07.05.1949 (retd 07.05.1954)

07.05.1936			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...

Whiteley,
John Percival
J.P. Whiteley

Son of Frank Whiteley, CMG, JP, Ilkley, Yorkshire, and Sarah Emiliy Whiteley. Married (1925) Amy Beatrice, daughter of H.G. Tetley, Alderbrook, Surrey; three sons. From London.

1898
Mafeking, South Africa
-
04.07.1943
(aircraft crash) [age 45]
[Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, 1.A.7]

2nd Lt.	1916 [123922]
Lt.	10.11.1917
Lt. [Life Gds]	13.11.1926, seniority 31.08.1925 (retd 25.01.1928)
Capt.	24.03.1928
Maj.	10.03.1932
T/Lt.Col.	?
[A/ ?] Brig.	?

	OBE	11.07.1940	distinguished services in the field
	TD	23.06.1942	?

Education: Shrewsbury School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

1916			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
15.06.1920	-	29.10.1920	special appointment as Cipher Officer (Class HH)
13.11.1926	-	25.01.1928	transferred to & service in the Life Guards
25.01.1928			transferred to Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Regimental List Life Guards - Class II
25.01.1928	-	23.03.1928	Lieutenant, 393rd (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Battery, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army (Aylesbury, UK)
24.03.1928	-	09.03.1932	Battery Captain, 393rd (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Battery, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army (Aylesbury, UK)
10.03.1932	-	(01.1939)	Officer Commanding, 393rd (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Battery, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery - Territorial Army (Aylesbury, UK)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
early 1940s			Commanding Officer, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
			Brigadier General Staff [?]
04.07.1943			died in the Liberator Mk II AL523 (also carrying Polish general Vladislav Sikorski) that crashed just after take-off from Gibraltar

Member of Parliament (MP) (Nat. U.), County of Bucks, Buckingham Division, 14.06.1937-04.07.1943. Justice of the Peace (JP), Bucks., 1930. Military Member, Territorial Army Association, Buckinghamshire, (04.1941).

Whitfield,
Walter [Waller Wesley]

(06?).1902
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
1948
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

WS/RSM	?
Lt. QM	29.09.1943 [325826]