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1939-1945

* Most of the 'indigenous' Indian Army officers are not shown in the sources at my disposal, so can't add these on these pages.
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Abbiss, Arthur George Son of Arthur Abbiss, and Florence Jessica Mumbray (1898-1981). Married ((06?).1948, Wandsworth district, London) Doreen A. Martin.	(06?).1920 Wandsworth district, London - (12?).1957 Worthing district, Sussex	S/Sgt. ? 2nd Lt. 29.08.1942 WS/Lt. 28.02.1943 T/Capt. 22.07.1943	29.08.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       specially employed
Abbott, Arnold Noel Son of ... Abbott, and ... Barnes. Married ((06?).1951, Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire) Dorothy E. Smith.	22.10.1922 High Wycombe, Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire - 01.2002 Aylesbury district, Buckinghamshire	A/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 04.04.1943 [...] WS/Lt. 04.10.1943	04.04.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Abbott, Burton Edward	21.11.1906 -	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 04.02.1926 [Indian Army AI 461] [Special List 34557] Lt. 04.05.1928 Capt. 04.02.1935 A/Maj. 19.10.1940-11.01.1941, 15.08.1941-21.08.1941 T/Maj. 22.08.1941-14.11.1941 Maj. 04.02.1943 (retd 01.10.1948) WS/Lt.Col. ? A/Col. 23.08.1943-22.02.1944 T/Col. 23.02.1944 Hon. Col. 01.10.1948 local Brig. 22.03.1943-31.01.1944 A/Brig. 01.04.1944-21.05.1944 OBE > 04.1944 < 09.1945 ? MID 27.09.1945 Burma	Education: Royal Military College; psc 04.02.1926 commissioned onto the Unattached List (for the Indian Army) 08.04.1927 transferred to the Indian Army 13 FF Rifles, Indian Army 19.10.1940 - 11.01.1941 Brigade Major, Eastern Command (India) 22.05.1941 - 14.11.1941 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), India 22.03.1943 - 21.05.1944 Commander, ... Brigade 01.01.1949 - 05.06.1957 transferred to East Lancashire Regiment - Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Abbott, C W	? -	Lt. 11.11.1935 [...]	commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 08.01.1941     relinquished his commission [but still listed in the April 1946 Army List]
Abbott, Cyril Edmund	30.05.1907 Holbeach district, Lincolnshire - 06.1989 Wellingborough district, Northamptonshire	Lt. 15.07.1942 [OW 276] = Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, later Electrical and Mechanical Assistant Engineer T/Capt. 1945? MID 29.11.1945 ?	15.07.1942     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission] A relative writes: "He enlisted in Northamptonshire into the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment on 4th August 1923, giving his date of birth as 30th May 1905, when in fact he was two years younger and his date of birth was 1907! (He got an uncle to sign his papers for him) He served in England from 4/8/1923 to 16/11/1925 , was in Malta 17/11/1925 to 31/1/1927, China 1/2/1927 to 6/3/1929 and India 7/3/1929 to 14/7/1942. He was commissioned in the Indian Army and retired in 1946."
Abbott, Dennis	14.11.1909 -	2nd Lt. 29.08.1929 [AI 874] Lt. 29.11.1931 Capt. 01.08.1938 A/Maj. 02.03.1941-01.06.1941 T/Maj. 02.06.1941-20.06.1941, 31.05.1942-... Maj. 01.07.1946 T/Lt.Col. ? Hon. Lt.Col. 01.10.1948 (retd)	29.08.1929     commissioned, General List 22.10.1930     transferred, Indian Army       ?
Abbott, E W	? -	2nd Lt. 19.07.1941 WS/Lt. 28.01.1942 T/Capt. 28.01.1942	19.07.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Abbott, H E	? -	2nd Lt. 16.10.1940 [...] WS/Lt. 22.05.1941	16.10.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Abbott, K B	? -	2nd Lt. 10.07.1941 [...] 2560b	10.07.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Abbott, N M	? -	2nd Lt. 21.06.1940 [EC 340] Lt. 1940/41?, seniority 21.06.1935 WS/Capt. 01.05.1941 T/Maj. ? Hon. Maj. 25.12.1945  (retd)	21.06.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Abbott, Thomas Ernest Married ...; one son, two daughters.	01.11.1906 -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 28.01.1942 WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1947)	28.01.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Indian Army Service Corps
Acaster, Alfred George	? -	2nd Lt. 22.12.1940 WS/Capt. 29.04.1942 T/Maj. 29.04.1942-..., 08.10.1944-...	22.12.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Acethorpe, Harold George	15.07.1903 Derby, Derbyshire - 06.1990 Ashford, Kent	T/Lt. 15.09.1941 [...] = Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer T/Capt. 29.08.1942	15.09.1941     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
Achard, Philip Ian	? -	2nd Lt. 08.10.1942 [...]	08.10.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Achard, Percy Louis	? -	2nd Lt. 15.02.1941 [EC 1795] WS/Lt. 15.08.1942 A/Capt. 17.07.1943 T/Capt. 17.10.1943 MC 15.11.1945 Burma	15.02.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? 3rd Madras Regiment, Indian Army
Acheson, J	? -	Capt. 15.11.1941 [...] (reld > 04.1946)	15.11.19141 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Acland, Peter Theodore Son of Henry Vivian Acland (1883-1968), and Jeanne Van de Nest (c. 1882-1950). Residence: Kelowna,  British Columbia.	24.03.1914 Victoria, Canada - 10.09.1984 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	2nd Lt. 27.08.1936 [AI 702] Lt. 27.11.1938 A/Capt. 03.09.1939-15.10.1939, 27.07.1940-12.09.1940 T/Capt. 13.09.1940-25.10.1940, 29.01.1941-03.03.1941, 17.04.1941-26.08.1944 Capt. 27.08.1944 (retd 27.02.1949) Hon. Maj. 27.02.1949	served in the ranks for 3 years, 334 days 27.08.1936 commissioned, Unattached List for the Indian Army 01.11.1937 commissioned, Indian Army ? - ? ? 1949? transferred to the Canadian Army ? - ? Captain (GS2), 25th Canadian Infantry Training Brigade ? - ? Major, Canadian Grenadier Guards Honorary Major, Kumaon Rifles.
Acton, Thomas John Hampden Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Theodore John Chichester Acton (1886-1968), Indian Colonial Service, and Margaret de Carteret Martin (?-1971). Married ((12?).1953, Brackley district, Buckinghamshire / Northamptonshire / Oxfordshire) Elizabeth Monica Lambert, daughter of M.E. Lambert; one son.	29.07.1923 - 05.1984 Helmdon, Northampton district, Northamptonshire	2nd Lt. 17.07.1943 [EC 10981] WS/Lt. 17.01.1944 (reld 03.11.1945; ill-health) Hon. Lt. 03.11.1945	Education: Haileybury (1937.3-1940.2; Trevelyan House); Trinity College, Oxford University (1940-1942); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1942-1943). 17.07.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 1943 - 1945 16th Light Cavalry
Adams, Arthur Married (29.06.1935, St Michael's Church, Chaubattia, India) Ethel Mary Hester Adely.	13.07.1909 Edinburgh, Scotland - 26.08.1986 Chichester, Sussex	Sgt. ? [400024] A/RQMS ? 2nd Lt. 27.12.1942 [371507] WS/Lt. 27.12.1942 T/Capt. 27.03.1943-(04.1947) WS/Capt. ? (reld > 04.1947)	1935     1st King's Dragoon Guards (India) 27.12.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 01.10.1946     transferred, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
Adams, Thomas	? -	Sub Conductor ? T/Conductor ? Assistant Commissary (Lt.) 14.12.1941 T/Capt. 27.06.1944-(04.1947)	14.12.1941 commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission] (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Adamson, G	? -	2nd Lt. 15.02.1941 WS/Lt. 18.07.1942 T/Capt. 18.07.1942-(04.1946)	15.02.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (1942)     1st Battalion 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) (North Africa)
Adderley, Alan Rex Son of John Adderley, civil servant, of South Norwood, London SE25. Married ((09?).1927, Croydon district, London) Dorothy Gee Lamburd (29.03.1900 - 07.1996); one son, one daughter.	05.04.1902 Bromley district, London - 04.1988 Lyme Regis, Honiton district, Devon	Lt. 06.06.1942 [236044] Capt. ?, seniority 06.06.1937 (reld < 04.1947) T/Maj. 09.03.1944-(04.1946)	Education: Selhurst Grammar School for Boys (1913-1917); Dulwich College (09.1917-07.1920; Senior Scholar 1917; President, Scientific & Photographic Society 1919-20; exhibitioner); did not accept a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1919; Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Scholarship 1920); BA 1923) and St Thomas's Hospital, London (MB, BCh (Cantab) 1932, MRCS (Eng) 04.11.1925, LRCP (Lond) 04.11.1925). Worked for the Church Missionary Society in Egypt and Trans-Jordan and the government medical service in Southern Rhodesia until 1937. 06.06.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] 21.02.1943     commissioned, Indian Medical Service [emergency commission] General practitioner in Worthing, 1937-1964.
Addison, Leonard Joseph Lancelot Son of Joseph Lancelot Addison (1865-1940), technical adviser to the Inspector of Army Wireless Telegraphy, and Harriet Jowett, of Charlton, London SE7. Married (1927) Phyllis Mabel Coombs, daughter of late E.E. Coombs, OBE, of Hove, Sussex; one son, one daughter.	27.09.1902 Woolwich, Greater London - 30.05.1975 Chelsea, London	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 01.02.1923 [24359] Lt. 01.02.1925 Lt. 04.07.1927, seniority 01.05.1925 [817 IA] Capt. 01.02.1932 A/Maj. 03.09.1939-02.12.1939 T/Maj. 03.12.1939-31.01.1940 Maj. 01.02.1940 A/Lt.Col. 05.08.1940-04.11.1940 T/Lt.Col. 05.11.1940-20.12.1943 WS/Lt.Col. 21.12.1943 Lt.Col. 01.08.1944 (retd 18.03.1948) A/Col. 21.06.1943-20.12.1943 T/Col. 21.12.1943-(12.1947) A/Brig. 1945 T/Brig. 04.10.1946-(12.1947) Hon. Brig. 18.03.1948 CMG 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 52 CBE 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 47 MID WW II ?	Education: Strand School, Elm Park and Ardingley College (1910-1912); King's College School (1912-1916); Dulwich College (01.1916-12.1920; Elmlawn; Spenser (athletic house); XV 1920; 2nd XI 1919/20; VI 1920; Captain of  Athletics 1920); Royal Military College, Sandhurst. (1920-1923; Under Officer 1922; XV 1921-1923; Kent XV 1922-1923; RMC Athletic Team 1921-1923). 01.02.1923     commissioned, Royal West Kent Regiment (1st Battalion) 22.06.1926 - 03.07.1927 seconded to Indian Army 04.07.1927     transferred to the Indian Army (Royal Indian Army Service Corps) 30.09.1939 - 04.08.1940 Deputy Assistant Director of Contracts, Army HQ (Simla) 05.08.1940 - 18.08.1940 Assistant Director of Contracts, Army HQ (Simla) 05.1945     on temporary transfer to Home Department 04.1946     Chief Director of Purchase, Department of Food, Government of India 1947     Counsellor, UK High Commission to India, Calcutta Acting Deputy High Commissioner for the UK in India (Calcutta), 03.1948-08.1948. Deputy High Commissioner for the UK in India (Calcutta), 1949-1952.
Aers, Ian Benwell Joseph Son of Rowland Aers, Central Excise India, and Mrs Aers. Married (02.03.1945, St Swithun's Church, Bournemouth) Pamela Yvonne Ridgeway, WAAF (30.03.1922 - 02.2005), youngest daughter of Brig. David Graeme Ridgeway, CB, DSO (1879-1950), of Kenya, and Margaret Gladys Buchanan MacGeorge (1883?-1958) [divorced wife of Archibald Borthwick], of Bournemouth.	14.01.1921 - 11.1995 Norwich district, Norfolk	2nd Lt. 31.12.1939 [112801] 2nd Lt. 02.06.1940 [IA 1255] Lt. 30.06.1941 A/Capt. 20.02.1941-19.05.1941 T/Capt. 20.05.1941-19.04.1943, 30.07.1943-02.02.1944 WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 Capt. 01.07.1946 (retd 20.11.1948) A/Maj. 03.11.1943-02.02.1944 T/Maj. 03.02.1944-(12.1947) Hon. Maj. 20.11.1948 MID 05.08.1943 Persia / Iraq	Education: Dulwich College (1936-1939); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.       served in the ranks for 121 days ? - 31.12.1939 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst 31.12.1939     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 02.06.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served, 8th Punjab Regiment 02.12.1950     commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Afridi, Monowar Khan	12.02.1900 - 1968 ?	T/Lt. 01.08.1924-19.05.1925 Lt. 20.05.1925, seniority 01.08.1924 [MZ 1100] Capt. 01.08.1927 Maj. 01.02.1936, seniority 01.02.1934 A/Lt.Col. 01.08.1941-31.10.1941 T/Lt.Col. 01.11.1941-31.01.1944 Lt.Col. 01.02.1944 A/Col. 02.08.1944 local Brig. 05.08.1944 CBE 06.06.1946 Burma OBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44	Education: MD (MB) 25.05.1925 commissioned into the Indian Medical Service 04.01.1930 - 14.03.1933 Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology, India 27.09.1934 - 22.12.1935 Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology, India 05.08.1944 - ? Consultant, ...
Aird Smith, William Son of Thomas and Janet Aird-Smith. Husband of Dorothy Edith Aird-Smith, of Langport, Somerset.	29.08.1893 - 17.02.1942 (lost at sea) [age 49] [Singapore Memorial, column 144]	Lt. 16.12.1918, seniority 01.03.1917 [IA 888] Capt. 03.02.1920 (temporary non-effective list 12.04.1920-25.02.1921) Bt. Maj. 01.01.1933 Maj. 03.02.1934 T/Lt.Col. ? Lt.Col. 26.06.1942, seniority 09.09.1941 A/Brig. ? MID 19.12.1946 Malaya 42	Education: psc 1914 - 15.12.1918 mobilized Indian Army Reserve of Officers (3 years, 198 days) 16.12.1918 commissioned into the Indian Army 4th Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles 30.08.1924 - 15.02.1927 Staff Captain, ... (India) 16.10.1930 - 16.09.1931 Staff Captain, 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade (Rawalpindi District, Northern Command, India) 17.09.1931 - 07.10.1934 Brigade Major, 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade (Rawalpindi District, Northern Command, India) 05.12.1936 - 06.04.1937 Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General (DAQMG), ... (India) 07.04.1937 - (01.1940) General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Luckonw District, Eastern Command (India) 29.05.1940 - 1941 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ... (India) 1942 - 17.02.1942 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), 11th Indian Division (Malaya)
Albert, Edward Francis Son (with six sisters and two brothers) of George Williamson (1854-), and Margaret Roberts McCracken (1858-). Born with last name Williamson; got last name Albert when his mother remarried after his father's death. Married Lydian Gladys Ross Perry (14.09.1906 - 28.06.1942), daughter (with one brother) of Henry Alton Perry, and Josephine Elizabeth Hughes (1870-); one daughter.	21.12.1894 Abbey Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland - 02.1974 Isle of Man	2nd Lt. IARO 18.09.1918 [IA 947] 2nd Lt. 29.03.1920, seniority 18.06.1919 WS/Lt. ? Capt. ? (Special Unemployed List 01.04.1937) Maj. 03.09.1939, seniority 03.10.1938 (retd 23.06.1947)	18.09.1918     commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers (Cavalry Branch) 29.03.1920     commissioned, Indian Army (7th Rajputs) 10.02.1940 - (04.1941) an Assistant Embarkation Staff Officer, India Headquarters Staff
Alexander, John	? -	Crftmn. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Alfieri, Frederick John	25.05.1892 - 17.03.1961	2nd Lt. 30.07.1918, seniority 29.10.1917 ... ... Maj.Gen. 01.06.1945, seniority 04.06.1944 (retd 1947) CIE ? ?	30.07.1918 commissioned into the Indian Army 34th Royal Sikh Pioneers, IA; Regt Duty and Staff Appts and RIASC 01.03.1935 - 30.06.1938 Staff Captain, ... (India) 1938 Assistant Director of Supplies, Rawalpindi, India 22.06.1940 - 17.06.1941 Assistant Quartermaster-General, Army HQ, India 18.06.1941 - 28.04.1942 Assistant Adjutant-General, Army HQ, India 1941 - 1942 Director of Organisation, India 1942 Major-General in charge of Administration, Central Command, India 1943 - 1945 Deputy Quartermaster-General, India 1945 - 1946 Director of Supplies & Transport, India
Alford, Jack Son (with four sisters) of John Alford (1873-), and Ellen Cocking (1871-). Married Dorothy ...	09.01.1904 Valley Enough, Helland, Bodmin district, Cornwall - 12.02.1942 [age 38] [Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, Sp. Mem. 21.E.13]	2nd Lt. 31.01.1924 [IA 220] Lt. 30.04.1926 Capt. 31.01.1933 A/Maj. 10.09.1939-09.12.1939 T/Maj. 10.12.1939-03.02.1940 Maj. 31.01.1941	31.01.1924     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 03.04.1925     commissioned, Indian Army (1932)     Sam Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force) ? - 12.02.1942 Officer Commanding, 100th Light Tank Squadron, Indian Armoured Corps
Allan, George	? -	Wt.Offr II ? 2nd Lt. 21.01.1943 WS/Lt. 21.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	21.01.1943 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] possibly served in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps
Allen, Albert Ernest "Dick" Son of ... Allen, and ... McHugh.	29.11.1914 Sheffield, Salford district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire - 15.06.1976 Islington, London	L/Sgt. ? 2nd Lt. 07.05.1942 [EC 5621] WS/Lt. 07.05.1942 WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 T/Maj. 03.02.1944-(04.1946) MC 04.04.1946 Far East (Netherlands East Indies)	07.05.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served 3rd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment, and took part in the following campaigns: East Africa, North Africa, Battle of El Alamein, Arakan, Battle of Kohima, Burma, Singapore, Surabaja Dutch East Indies / Indonesia Post-war a teacher.
Allen, Frederick Joshua	02.10.1897 - died between 02.1967 and 02.1985	2nd Lt. 14.02.1917 .. ... Lt.Col. 15.06.1942 (supernumerary 15.06.1945) (retd 24.11.1948) A/Col. 10.08.1942-09.02.1943 T/Col. 10.02.1943-(01.1946) A/Brig. 01.05.1944-31.10.1944 T/Brig. 01.11.1944-(01.1946) Hon. Brig. 24.11.1948 OBE 28.10.1942 ? MID 19.07.1945 ?	14.02.1917 commissioned into the Indian Army 11.03.1936 - 25.10.1940 specially employed, Indian State Forces 10.08.1942 - 02.10.1944 Chief Signal Officer, Army HQ, India
Allen, Hugh Charles	1913 ? -	Sgt. ? 2nd Lt. 08.10.1942 WS/Lt. 08.10.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) T/Capt. 17.03.1944-(12.1946)	08.10.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Allington, Hector George Married ((09?).1931, Wellington district, Somerset) Florence Annie Uzzell (14.02.1908 - 03.2004).	18.10.1909 Oake, Wellington district, Somerset - (03?).1975 Taunton district, Somerset	2nd Lt. 16.02.1945 WS/Lt. 1946, seniority 16.02.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 04.1947)	served in the ranks, Corps of Royal Engineers 16.02.1945     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Royal Indian Army Service Corps (possibly in Afghanistan)
Amey, Arthur Frank Son (with four brothers and three sisters) of Herbert James Amey (1867-1945), and Edith Mary Spicer (1880-1977). Married ((09?).1935, Dartford district, Kent) Constance A. Davis; ... children (one daughter, one son?).	22.06.1907 Paddington district, London - 02.1984	Ordnance Mechanical Engineer (with rank of Lt.) 26.04.1941, seniority 26.04.1936 [OS11828 ?] A/Capt. 22.06.1941-... T/Capt. ...-21.10.1943 WS/Capt. 21.01.1944 A/Maj. 21.10.1943-20.01.1944 T/Maj. 21.01.1944-(04.1946) 39|45 St - - Bur St - - WM 39|45 - -	26.04.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 26.04.1941 - 02.12.1941 Military College of Science (UK) 04.04.1942 - 21.04.1944 61st Indian Mobile Workshop Company (as Section Officer, from 20.10.1942-06.12.1942 as officiating Officer Commanding, from 20.08.1943 as Officer Commanding; from 13.05.1943-24.05.1943 supplementary command: 37th Brigade Light Aid Detachment Type "E" (Burma)) (India, from 15.05.1942 Assam, from 20.10.1942 Assam/Burma border) 22.04.1944 - 21.03.1945 86th Indian Mobile Workshop Company (as Officer Commanding) (Assam/Burma border) 21.03.1945 - 11.06.1945 Indian Station Workshops Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Tinsikia (as Officer Commanding) (North Assam) 11.06.1945 - 28.01.1946 139th Indian Mobile Workshop Company (as Officer Commanding) (Bengal, from 19.10.1945 [Sakatoise?]) 28.01.1946 - 12.02.1946 [Bueno?] Vista Transit Camp 02.03.1946     voyage
Amin Lall	? -	Capt. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Amoore, David Miles Son of Henry James Amoore (1884-1957), and Constance Louise Creasey (1887-1974), of East End, Ditchling, Sussex. Twin brother of Col. Wynyard Miles Amoore. Married Petty Officer Edythe Mary Dunn, WRNS (07.05.1923 - 16.03.1998), daughter of James D. Dunn, and Florence Kerr Ward, of Ferniecraig, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire; one son, one daughter.	07.12.1916 Agra, India - 06.2001 Vancouver, BC, Canada	2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 [IA 771] Lt. 28.04.1939 A/Capt. 05.10.1939-04.01.1940 T/Capt. 05.01.1940-02.05.1941 WS/Capt. 03.05.1941 Capt. 28.01.1945 (retd 01.01.1949) A/Maj. 03.02.1941-02.05.1941 T/Maj. 03.05.1941-30.06.1941, 17.06.1942-(01.1946) WS/Maj. ? T/Lt.Col. ? Hon. Lt.Col. 01.01.1949 MC 22.07.1943 Middle East (Egypt & Libya) MC 19.04.1945 Italy	Education: Sherborne School (1930-1935); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1935-1936). 28.01.1937     commissioned, Unattached List 19.04.1938     commissioned, Indian Army ... - ... Commanding Officer, 1st/9th Gurkha Rifles Played cricket. Sales manager. Emigrated to Canada. Canadian Forest Products Ltd.
Amoore, Wynyard Miles Son of Henry James Amoore (1884-1957), and Constance Louise Creasey (1887-1974), of East End, Ditchling, Sussex. Twin brother of Lt.Col. David Miles Amoore. Married 1st (20.07.1945, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Third Officer Patricia Frances Bayntun, WRNS (1923 - ); two sons. Married 2nd (03?).1960, Chelsea district, London) Doreen P. Sheridan.	07.12.1916 Agra, India - 1977	2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 [IA 768] Lt. 28.04.1939 A/Capt. 14.05.1940-13.08.1940 T/Capt. 14.08.1940-16.12.1940 WS/Capt. 17.12.1940 Capt. 28.01.1945 A/Maj. 17.09.1940-16.12.1940 T/Maj. 17.12.1940-30.06.1941, 17.06.1942-17.01.1945 WS/Maj. 18.01.1945 A/Lt.Col. 18.10.1944-17.01.1945 T/Lt.Col. 18.01.1945-(01.1946) Capt. 12.02.1948, seniority 28.01.1945 [73383] Maj. 28.01.1950 Lt.Col. 01.11.1958 (supernumerary 01.11.1961) Col. 06.12.1963, seniority 02.07.1963 (retd 08.02.1966) DSO 13.12.1945 Italy MBE 19.05.1950 Malaya MID 08.04.1949 Malaya	Education: Sherborne School (1930-1935); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1935-1936); Staff College (psc). 28.01.1937     commissioned, Unattached List 30.04.1938     commissioned, Indian Army ... - ... Commanding Officer, 6th Gurkha Rifles 12.02.1948     6th Gurkha Rifles, Gurkha Regiment
Amos, David Mark	? -	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944 T/Capt. 16.05.1944-(04.1946)	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Anderson, Eric Hatfield	see:	RINVR officers' section
Anderson, Frank	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Anderson, Victor Dennistoun Winstanley Son of the Revd. David Anderson and Mrs. Anderson. Married (08.08.1929, St Peter, Hersham, Chertsey district, Surrey) Joan Mary Dew (12.12.1905 - 24.06.1997), of Pennington Common, Hampshire, daughter of Percival Roderick Dew (1882-1953), and Mabel Mary Digby (1879-1964); one son..	06.04.1900 - 22.01.1942 [Singapore Memorial, column 241]	2nd Lt. 15.04.1919 [AI 1531] Lt. 15.04.1920 Capt. 15.04.1925 Maj. 15.04.1937 A?/Lt.Col. ?	15.04.1919     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 27.04.1919     commissioned, Indian Army 01.01.1930 - 31.03.1931 Adjutant & Quartermaster, Small Arms School, India 12.12.1941 - 09.01.1942 Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment
Anderson, Walter Gilray Edlest of two children of Rev. Frederick J. Anderson, a Missionary in India from 1901-1946, and Mabel Anderson. Remained unmarried.	29.01.1907 Ratlam, India - 02.09.2002 Toronto, Ont., Canada	Lt. 15.03.1941 [MZ 23691] Capt. (prob) 19.11.1943, with effect of 15.03.1941  1944/45?, seniority 21.07.1940 (reld 16.02.1946)	Education: University of Toronto (BA; 1924-1928); University of Toronto's medical school 1928-1934); LMS (Newfoundland) Interned at St. Michael's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto before beginning his work in mission hospitals in India. 15.03.1941 commissioned, Indian Medical Service [emergency commission] 15.03.1941 - 16.02.1942 called up at Poona, sent from Bombay to Singapore on 23.01.1942, arriving there at 05.02.1942 (captured) 16.02.1942 - 1945? POW in Japanese captivity (Changi, Selerang, and many different camps; part of "K" Force that went to Thailand in June 1943) Served pre- & post-war as doctor with the United Church in India for 39 years, retiring in 1976. Literature: Ann Louise Smith (comp.). Canadian missionary POW on the Death Railway : the World War II story of Walter G. Anderson, MD (2009)
Andrews, David Ernest	? - 05.05.1954 Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia	T/2nd Lt. ? T/Lt. (prob) 11.08.1917 [IA 517] Lt. 16.09.1917, seniority 04.10.1916 12.10.1919, seniority 24.06.1917 A/Capt. 01.07.1918-22.10.1918 Capt. 20.03.1925, seniority 29.06.1920 Maj. 24.02.1938? Lt.Col. 30.11.1945 (retd 27.07.1947)	?     commissioned, Royal Irish Fusiliers (Reserve Battalion) [temporary commission] 11.08.1917     commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers 01.07.1918 - 22.10.1918 Company Commander, 95th Russell's Infantry 24.02.1938 - (04.1946) Special Unemployed List, temporarily re-employed with Corps of Sappers and Miners Temporary civil servant, Southern Rhodesia.
Anjaria, P K	? -	Maj. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Ansell, Charles Cecil	13.06.1919 - 01.2003 Oxfordshire	2nd Lt. 26.01.1939 [IA 1127] Lt. 01.01.1941 A/Capt. 10.07.1940-09.10.1940 T/Capt. 10.10.1940-..., 23.05.1942-26.11.1942, 14.04.1943-02.02.1944 WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 Capt. 26.01.1947 (retd 30.05.1949) A/Maj. 03.11.1943-02.02.1944 T/Maj. 03.02.1944-29.03.1944 WS/Maj. 1946? Maj. RARO 30.05.1949 [405114] Hon.Lt.Col. 30.05.1949 DSO > 04.1944 < 04.1946 ?	26.01.1939 commissioned, Unattached List 02.01.1940 commissioned, Indian Army (12.1943) Ofiicer Commandng, "A" Company, 4/7th Rajputs (Arakan) (1947?) Commandng Officer, 4/7th Rajputs 30.05.1949 transferred from Special List (ex-Indian Army) to Regimental List, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Ansell, William Frank Harding	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 22.02.1944	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Anstey, Daniel Married Irene Louise "Peggy" ...	11.02.1893 Bristol, Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire - 03.01.1976 Torquay, Devon	Pte. ? [M2/267775] T/2nd Lt. 12.07.1915-15.12.1917 Lt. 12.04.1917 [17788] A/Capt. 1918? Capt. 1921/22? 07.03.1924, seniority 08.04.1920 Bt. Maj. 26.06.1931 Maj. 08.04.1934 A/Lt.Col. 24.09.1940-23.12.1940 T/Lt.Col. 24.12.1940-07.04.1942 Lt.Col. 08.04.1942 (retd 24.05.1947) A/Col. 14.05.1945 A/Brig. 14.05.1945-(04.1947) Hon. Brig. 24.05.1947 OBE 16.08.1938 Waziristan 09.37-12.37 BWM 14|20 - - VM - - MID 05.03.1919 as A/Capt. attached to the 20th Infantry, IA  IndGSM 08|35 - & clasps Waziristan 19-21 & NW Frontier 30-31 IndGSM 36|39 - & clasps NW Frontier 36-37 & NW Frontier 37-39 MD 18.02.1938 NW Frontier of India MID 16.08.1938 NW Frontier of India 39|45 St - - WM 39|45 - - MID 20.06.1941 ? IndSM - - CivD LSM - -	Education: Fairfield and Keble College, Oxford. served in the ranks for 304 days, The Worcestershire Regiment 06.04.1916 - 23.01.1920 Staff Lieutenant 1st class (served with 2/14 Punjabis IA & 20th Infantry IA [Waziristan]) 12.04.1917     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 16.12.1918     commissioned, Indian Army (Indian Army Service Corps) 01.05.1928 - 31.12.1928 Station Staff Officer 2nd class, Risalpur, India 01.01.1929 - 30.04.1932 Staff Captain, India (NW Frontier of India 1930) 1936 - 1939 NW Frontier of India (for some time Deputy Assistant Director of Transport, RIASC) 03.02.1940 - 12.04.1940 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), India 14.05.1940 - 31.08.1940 Embarkation Staff Officer, India Settled at Salcombe, Devon.
Antcliffe, Douglas Leslie Son of William Charles Antcliffe (1877-1924), and Elsie Maud Harcourt (1890-). Married Jessie Margaret Dorothy Watson (01.12.1919 - 04.06.1995); ... children (ons son, one daughter?).	25.11.1920 Fulham district, London - 09.1999 North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 28.05.1942 WS/Lt. 28.11.1942 (reld > 12,1946, < 04.1947)	28.05.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] His daughter writes: "He served 1942 to 1946 in PAIFORCE (Middle East) and India / Burma."
Antia, S N	? -	Capt. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Arathoon *, Mack[ertoom] David Son of David Mackertoom Harutoonian and Elizabeth .... Married (19.09.1936) Gladys Kathleen Glover (1902 - 1982), daughter of Edward Henry Philip Glover (1869-1941), and Ovsanna Zeytoon (1877-1960); one son. * Baptised as M.D. Adams. As his parents died young, he was adopted by Arathoon M. Arathoon.	19.01.1902 Province of Charmahal, Iran - 20.07.1969 Pickering, Ontario, Canada	2nd Lt. 15.03.1942 [EC 4919] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld 1948) T/Capt. 15.12.1943-(04.1947) A/Maj. ? ? A/Lt.Col. ? ? 39|45 St - - Bur St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MID 05.04.1945 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India MD 19.09.1946 Burma	Education: Armenian College, Calcutta (01.07.1918-06.1922). Worked in his uncle's Shellac Factory at Murhu, District Ranchi, 1922-1936. Started on his own as shellac broker in Calcutta, 1936.       officer training at Meerut 15.03.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served Indian Auxiliary Pioneer Corps (Adjutant for a period, serving under 14th Army Set up a shellac factory at Bangkok post-war, which had to close after two years due to government policy.
Ardeshir, Eruch Ardeshir Ruttanji	15.10.1900 -	T/Lt. 16.12.1927-29.04.1928 Lt. 30.04.1928, seniority 16.12.1927 Capt. 16.12.1930 Maj. 16.06.1937 A/Lt.Col. 28.11.1942-27.02.1943 T/Lt.Col. 28.02.1943-26.09.1943, 29.11.1943-05.04.1946 Lt.Col. 06.04.1946	30.04.1928 commissioned, Indian Medical Service ... - ... ... (1947) HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Armitage, Edward Arthur Son of Thomas Armitage, hammerman, and Mary Ann Armitage, of Plumstead.	05.03.1893 Woolwich district, London - 25.12.1969 Plumstead Hospital, Greenwich district, Greater London (formerly of Minster, Ramsgate, Kent)	T/Assistant Commissary (with rank of T/Lt.) ? Assistant Commissary (with rank of Lt.) 25.06.1940 [OS 73] (retd 06.10.1946) A/Capt. 11.01.1941-10.04.1941 T/Capt. 11.04.1941-(04.1946) T/Maj. 1946? Hon. Maj. 06.10.1946	WW I     served Royal Artillery (NW Frontier of India)       from temporary commission 25.06.1940     commissioned, Indian Army Departments       served Royal Indian Army Ordnance Corps (captured at Singapore; POW in Japanese captivity in Changi Camp, Singapore) Retired to live in Minster, Kent.
Ash, Mark Gerald Son of Gerald Beaumont Ash, LDS, MRCS, LRCP (1882-1957), and Marie Eveline M. Amsler, of Brockenhurst, Hampshire. Married ((06?).1946, Hendon district, Middlesex) Rachel Maynard Goslett (10.07.1903 - 09.2001), daughter of Mr & Mrs Gordon Goslett, of Holmbury, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire; ... children.	(09?).1912 Watford district, Hertfordshire - 03.07.2010 Funtington, Chichester district, West Sussex	2nd Lt. 15.11.1939 [EC 141] WS/Lt. 05.05.1941 A/Capt. 08.01.1942-(10.1942) WS/Capt. 21.11.1942 T/Maj. 21.11.1942-05.04.1945 WS/Maj. 06.04.1945 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947) T/Lt.Col. 06.04.1945-(12.1946) MBE 28.06.1945 Burma MID 09.05.1946 Burma	15.11.1939     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       14th Punjab Regiment (1945)     HQ 14th Army (Burma) (MBE)
Ash, William Leaves	06.04.1908 Easington district, Durham - 29.01.1990 Prestbury, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire	WS/Wt.Offr. Cl. I (Sub-Condr.) ? [4386431] 2nd Lt. 01.04.1946 [EC 16555] WS/Capt. ? (reld 29.11.1948) Maj. (1947) Capt. TA 18.10.1948, seniority 31.12.1946 Hon. Maj. 25.08.1950 Lt. 03.03.1952, seniority 07.07.1949 Capt. 06.07.1955 (Employed List 3) (reld 20.06.1961) Hon Maj. 20.06.1961 MBE 13.09.1945 Burma * 39|45 St - - Bur St - - WM 39|45 - - IndSM - - GenSM - & clasp Cyprus LSGCM - & clasp India IndIndepM - - * During the the period 16 Aug - 15 Nov 44 and previously since he joined the Brigade as Head Clerk, Condr. Ash's untiring work has been outstanding. It has been a difficult period of repatriation, moves and sickness, but he has always run an efficient organization, sometimes by his own practically unaided efforts. [Recommended 07.12.1944 by Brig. G.A. Bain, commanding 64th Indian Infantry Brigade, approved 26.12.1944 by Maj.Gen. T.W. Rees, commanding 19th Indian Division, 01.01.1945 by Lt.Gen. F.W. Messervy, commanding IV Corps, 24.[02?].1945 by Lt.Gen. W.J. Slim, commanding Fourteenth Army, 29.04.1945 by Lt.Gen. O.W.H. Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia.]	Home 15.4.29 to 12.11.29. Egypt 13.11.29 to 13.1.30. China 19.1.30 to 25.3.31. India 26.3.31 to 31.3.46 (Burma). Egypt, Khartoum, Cyprus.       served in the ranks, Green Howards       Royal Army Service Corps (attached Indian Army Corps of Clerks) (1944)     HQ 64th Indian Infantry Brigade (MBE) 10.02.1946     commissioned, Indian Army (IACC) [emergency commission]       2nd Gurkha Rifles (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona) 18.10.1948  - 25.08.1950  commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army 25.08.1950 - 03.03.1952 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers 03.03.1952 - 20.06.1961 short service commission, RASC
Ashdown, John William Richard Durham   Son of Arthur Durham Ashdown (1872-1953), Indian Police Service (lastly as Inspector General of Police for the United Provinces) & Lt.Col. IARO, and Annie Florence Clifford (1878-1921). Cousin of Lt.Col. W.H.M. Fawcett, Indian Army. Married (03.11.1938, Rawalpindi, India) Lois Alisoun Hudson (26.06.1909 - 27.01.1978); five sons, two daughters (one of them being the Rt.Hon. Lord Jeremy John Durham "Paddy" Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (born 1941) [officer Royal Marines 01.05.1959 - 20.08.1972; Capt. 01.01.1970]).	19.11.1909 Bahraich, United Provinces, India - 29.05.1980 Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset [buried Castlemaine, Vict., Australia]	2nd Lt. 29.08.1929 [AI 597] Lt. 29.11.1931 Capt. 10.10.1938 05.05.1939, seniority 01.08.1938 A/Maj. 16.08.1942-15.11.1942 T/Maj. 16.11.1942-27.07.1944 WS/Maj. 28.07.1944 Maj. 29.08.1946 (retd 12.12.1948) A/Lt.Col. 28.04.1944-27.07.1944 T/Lt.Col. 28.07.1944-11.12.1948 Hon. Lt.Col. 12.12.1948 & 13.06.1960 Capt. TA 16.07.1956, seniority 06.03.1946 [450480] (reld 13.06.1960) IndGSM 36|39 - & clasp Waziristan 36-37 39|45 St - - Bur St - - WM 39|45 - - MID 05.04.1945 Burma / Eastern Frontier of India IndSM - -	Education: Douai School, Berkshire (1920-1923); Bedford School, Bedfordshire (1923-1927); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (No. 5 Company) (1927-1929; prize for military law) [various cups & medals in different sports]. 29.08.1929     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 1929 - 1930 Platoon Commander, Royal Irish Fusiliers 24.10.1930     commissioned, Indian Army 24.10.1930 - 1936 4th Battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment (Company Officer, then Company Commander, then Quartermaster & Signals Officer) 10.1932 - 12.1932 Army Signals School, Poona (3 months) 09.1935 - 02.1936 Animal Transport Course, RIASC School, Chaklala (6 months) 1936     transferred, Royal Indian Army Service Corps 1936 - 1936 Supply Officer & Motor Transport Section Commander 1936 - 1937 Officer Commanding Troop Mule Company, Waziristan Operations (appx. 6 months) (06.1940)     part of the Dunkirk evacuation as part of the British Expeditionary Force (disobeyed the order to abandon his Indian troops) 17.09.1940 - (04.1941) Staff Captain (Transport), Directorate of Supplies and Transport,  Quartermaster-General's Branch, India HQ Staff       Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of an Armoured Division (1942)     senior war course, Staff College, Quetta (4 months)       Brigade Major Indian Infantry [...],       Assistant Director of Supplies of an Army Group 17.11.1944 - 25.12.1945 Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Central Command, India 26.12.1945 - (04.1947) Assistant Director of Supplies (Petrol, Oil, Lubrication), Directorate of Supplies and Transport, Quartermaster-General's Branch, India HQ Staff [Army Petroleum Technical Training School, Madras (3 months in 1946)] 10.01.1956 - (1956) Safety Officer, HQ Cairnryan Port, nr Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland 16.07.1956 - 13.06.1960 commissioned, Royal Irish Fusiliers - Territorial Army (for service with HQ 107th (Ulster) Independent Infantry Brigade Group TA Managing director of two companies (Comber Produce Company Lts & Comber Poultry Ltd, both of Castle Street, Comber, Co. Down, Northern Ireland), engaged in the breeding and fattening of pigs and poultry and in market gardening, 04.1948-1956. Member & (Vice) Chairman, British Legion (Comber Branch), 1948-1960. Member & Vice Chairman (2 years), Strangford Lough Wildfowlers Association, 1953-1960. Emigrated to Australia, 1960, to become a teacher at Castlemaine High School, Castlemaine, Victoria until the late 1970s.
Assersohn, Mark	? -	Crftmn. ? 2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 WS/Lt. 12.01.1944 T/Capt. 29.01.1944-(04.1946)	? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow 22.08.1943     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Atkins, James Henry Son of Arthur Henry Atkins, and Hilda Clare Young, of Lathom, Lancashire.	(09?).1921 West Derby district, Lancashire - 27.05.1944 (KIA) [age 23] [Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy, V.E.17]	2nd Lt. 10.09.1941 [EC 3823] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 A?/Capt. ?	10.09.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (1942) - 27.05.1944 1st Battalion 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) (North Africa & Italy)
Atkinson, John Surtees Son of Maj. John Edward Atkinson (1879-), formerly of 3rd The King's Own Hussars, RAC, and of Elizabeth Joyce Alexander, of Kemerton, Worcestershire. His brothers Lt. Robert Norman Atkinson, Parachute Regiment, and Lt. Leonard Atkinson, South Wales Borderers, also died on Service.	04.09.1916 - 26.01.1942 [age 26] [Singapore Memorial, column 143]	2nd Lt. 26.08.1937 [IA 788] Lt. 26.11.1939 Capt. ?	26.08.1937     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 25.10.1938     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] ? - 26.01.1942 3rd Cavalry - Indian Armoured Corps
Atta Mohammad	? -	Capt. (1945)	served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre Son of late Col John Claude Auchinleck, RA. Married (1921) Jessie (from whom he obtained a divorce, 1946), daughter of late Alexander Stewart, of Innerhadden, Kinloch-Rannoch, Perthshire.	21.06.1884 Aldershot, Hampshire - 23.03.1981 Marrakech, Morocco	Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 21.01.1903 [115611] Lt. 15.12.1905, seniority 10.07.1905 Capt. 21.01.1912 A/Maj. 21.02.1916-24.02.1916, 08.04.1916-04.05.1916, 11.07.1916-30.11.1916, 21.01.1917-23.02.1917, 07.03.1917-11.03.1917 Maj. 21.01.1918 A/Lt.Col. 24.02.1917-06.03.1917 T/Lt.Col. 23.05.1919-26.08.1919 Bt. Lt.Col. 15.11.1919 Lt.Col. 21.01.1929 Col. 01.02.1930, seniority 15.11.1923 T/Brig. 01.07.1933-29.11.1935 Maj.Gen. 30.11.1935 A/Lt.Gen. 01.02.1940-15.03.1940 Lt.Gen. 16.03.1940 Gen. 26.12.1940 Field Marshal 01.06.1946 (retd 01.12.1947) GCB 01.01.1945 New Year 45 CB 03.07.1934 Mohmand operations 07-10.33 GCIE 20.12.1940 C-in-C India CSI 08.05.1936 Mohmand operations 08-10.35 DSO 03.06.1917 Mesopotamia OBE 03.06.1919 HM's birthday 19 MID WW I ? MID 03.07.1934 Mohmand operations CdeG WW I ? LM 23.07.1948 ? Virtuti Militari 5th class (Poland), 15.05.1942; War Cross (Czecho­Slovakia), 1944; Order of the Star of Nepal, 1st Class, 1945; Knight Grand Cross of Order of St Olav (Norway) (19.3.1948); 1st Class Order of Cloud and Banner (China), 1947; Grand Officer Legion of Honour; Croix de Guerre (France), 1918, 1949	Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Hon. LLD Aberdeen, 1948; Hon. LLD St Andrews, 1948; Hon. LLD Manchester, 1970; idc, psc 21.01.1903 commissioned, Unattached List, Indian Army 10.04.1904 commissioned, 62 Punjab Regiment, Indian Army 1914 - 1919 World War I: Egypt (1914-1915), Aden (1915), Mesopotamia (1916-1919) 21.02.1916 08.04.1916 11.07.1916 21.01.1917 07.03.1917 - - - - - 24.02.1916 04.05.1916 30.11.1916 23.02.1917 11.03.1917 Second-in-Command of a Battalion 24.02.1917 - 06.03.1917 Commanding Officer of a Battalion 14.09.1917 - 31.10.1918 Brigade-Major, ... 03.11.1918 - 22.05.1919 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force 23.05.1919 - 26.08.1919 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force 1919 Kurdistan 01.02.1923 - 30.09.1924 Assistant Quartermaster-General, ... (India) 1927 Imperial Defence College 21.01.1929 - 31.01.1930 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment 01.02.1930 - 16.04.1933 Instructor (General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1)), Staff College, Quetta (India) 01.07.1933 - 02.04.1936 Commander, Peshawar Brigade, Mohmand Operations (India) 03.04.1936 - 31.08.1936 unemployed list 01.09.1936 - 17.07.1938 Deputy Chief of the General Staff & Director of Staff Duties, Army Headquarters, India 18.07.1938 - 24.01.1940 Commander, Meerut District, Eastern Command, India 1938 Member, Expert Committee on the Defence of India 01.02.1940 - 05.1940 General Officer Commanding, IV Corps (UK) 05.1940 - 06.1940 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Norway 06.1940 - 19.07.1940 General Officer Commanding, V Corps (UK) 20.07.1940 - 11.12.1940 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command (UK) 21.12.1940 - 04.07.1941 Commander-in-Chief, India (& Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India) 05.07.1941 - 15.08.1942 Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, also: 25.06.1942 - 15.08.1942 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 8h Army (North Africa) (temp.) 16.08.1942 - 19.06.1943 unassigned (India) 20.06.1943 - 14.08.1947 Commander-in-Chief, India & War Member, Governor-General's Executive Council (20.06.1943-1946) 15.08.1947 - 30.11.1947 Supreme Commander in India and Pakistan (under Joint Defence Council) Aide-de-Camp General to the King, 15.05.1941-00.00.1946. Colonel, 1st Punjab Regiment; Colonel of the Indian Grenadiers, 1939-1947. Colonel, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 06.04.1941-31.08.1947. A Governor of Wellington College, 1946-1959. President, London Federation of Boys' Clubs, 1949-1955. President,  National Small­bore Rifle Association, 1956. A Vice­President, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshop. Chairman, Armed Forces Art Society, 1950-1967. Literature: John Connell [= J.H. Robertson]. Auchinleck : a biography of Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1959); Brownlow, Donald Grey. Checkmate at Ruweisat : Auchinleck's finest hour (1977); Roger Parkinson, The Auk : Auchinleck, victor at Alamein (1977); Philip Warner. Auchinleck, the lonely soldier (1981); Alexander Greenwood. Field-Marshal Auchinleck : a biography of Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, G.C.B., G.C.I.E., C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E., LL. D. ([1990?])
Auchmuty, Charles William Married (1944) Dolores Fielding (born 1922); two daughters.	28.02.1912 - 10.2003 Chichester, Sussex	2nd Lt. 21.09.1940 [EC 1146] WS/Lt. 01.07.1941 T/Capt. 01.07.1941-02.02.1944 WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 T/Maj. 03.02.1944-(04.1946) EM 14.10.1949 ? (with 1st clasp?)	21.09.1940 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served with the 2/6 Rajputana Rifles
Auret, Alan Sauer Son of Abraham Auret, and Isabel (‘Isabella’) Grey Palmer.	20.02.1883 Cape Colony, South Africa - 05.04.1976 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa	2nd Lt. 22.10.1902 Lt. 22.01.1905 Capt. 22.10.1911 Maj. 22.10.1917 Lt.Col. 25.05.1927 Col. 31.01.1932, seniority 25.05.1931 (retd 29.03.1935) OBE 03.06.1927 HM's birthday 27 DefM ? ?	22.10.1902 - 24.03.1904 commissioned, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 25.03.1904 transferred, 102nd Prince of Wales’s Own Grenadiers, Indian Army 1905 transferred, 127th Queen Mary's Own Baluch Light Infantry 08.1917 - 27.01.1918 served in Mesopotamia 1918 Second-in-Command, 2/98th Infantry 1919 served in Persia 1922 Second-in-Command, 3rd Battalion 10th Baluch Regiment (Queen Mary's Own) 07.1927 - 05.1931 Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion 10th Baluch Regiment (by 07.1929 commanding Razani Line; served on operations with Wana Brigade, 03.1930-09.1930) 31.01.1932 - 29.03.1935 Instructor, Senior Officers’ School at Belgaum (proceeded on five months’ furlough, and returned to England, 31.10.1934) 29.03.1935 - 25.02.1945 Indian Army Reserve of Officers 22.05.1940 - (04.1941) General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) for the Home Guard, London District
Auret, John Hawkins Eldest son of Col. Alan Auret, OBE. Married (21.05.1945, St Mar's, Torquay) Cynthia Mary Hay, younger daughter of Col. W. Norman Hay, CIE, DSO; three daughters, one son.	08.11.1914 Fort Sanderman, in the Zhob province of India - 15.03.2017 Broadview Care Home, Wanganui, New Zealand	2nd Lt. 31.01.1935 [394 AI] Lt. 30.04.1937 A/Capt. 11.11.1939-10.02.1940 T/Capt. 11.02.1940-25.07.1940, 29.07.1940-18.10.1940, 28.09.1941-11.12.1941, 27.10.1942-06.11.1942, 27.11.1942-30.01.1943 Capt. 31.01.1943 A/Maj. 24.03.1943-23.06.1943 T/Maj. 24.06.1943-(01.1946) Maj. 31.01.1948	31.01.1935     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 30.04.1936     commissioned, 10th Baluch Regiment - Indian Army 28.09.1941 - 11.12.1941 Adjutant, ...       Tochi Scouts (North-West Frontier of India) 1946/47?     Special List (ex-Indian Army) Published:  'May you never be weary' : life on the North West Frontier of the Raj and Tamer places (2009).
Austin, Desmond Stanley Rouget Son (with one sister and one brother) of Edward Stanley Austin (1890-1958), and Annie Cecilia Rouget Hatwood (1884-1975). Married (10.12.1955, New Zealand) Noreen Mora (18.04.1923 - 08.2007); one son, one daughter.	23.09.1919 Rhyl. St Asaph district, Merionethshire - 04.12.1971 [Te Awamutu Cemetery, New Zealand]	2nd Lt. 18.05.1940 [EC 1978] WS/Lt. 18.11.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947) T/Capt. 29.09.1942-(04.1946)	18.05.1940     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Austin, ?	? -	2nd Lt. ? ... ...	(02.1942)     "A" Company, Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) ?     commissioned, ... - Indian Army [emergency commission]
Austin, John Steel "Jock" Married (04.01.1946, St Dunstan's Church, Cheam) Rosemary Robison, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs L.McD. Robison, of Cheam; one son, one daughter.	06.03.1909 - 16.03.1989 Ewell, Surrey	2nd Lt. 07.05.1942 WS/Lt. 07.11.1942 A/Capt. 08.06.1943.-08.09.1943 T/Capt. 09.09.1943-(10.1945) WS/Capt. (10.1946)	01.1942 - 04.1942 "?" Company, Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) 07.05.1942     commissioned, 9th Gurkha Regiment - Indian Army [emergency commission]
Autar Singh	? -	2nd Lt. (1942)	?     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 23.03.1942 - 02.05.1942 Officers' Light Anti-Aircraft course serial No. 18, Anti-Aircraft School (Deolali, India)
Avery, Edward William James probably the same as: E.W.J. Avey, RINVR	? -	Pte. 04.1940 2nd Lt. 10.06.1941 WS/Lt. 22.12.1941 T/Capt. 22.12.1941-(04.1946) A/Maj. 1946?	served in the ranks, Indian Army 10.06.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (1941) aboard SS Windsor Castle (troopship)
Avetoom, Carapiet Joseph "Carr" Married ...; ... children (one son?).	02.02.1899 - 15.07.1977 Ealing, London	2nd Lt. 10.04.1942 WS/Lt. 10.10.1942 WS/Capt. 26.03.1943 A/Maj. ...-25.03.1943 T/Maj. 26.03.1943-(10.1945)	10.04.1942     commissioned, Indian Pioneer Battalion - Indian Army [Indian emergency commission] His son writes: "My father served in Imphal, I think, prior to going from Meerut with his battalion to Burma. Like one of the officers Arrathoon in your list, he was educated in the Armenian College, Calcutta."

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