| B |
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Barker,
Alan Robert
|
29.10.1898
Canterbury, Kent
-
1984
Wiltshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
27.10.1916 [IA
74]
|
Lt.
|
27.10.1917
|
Capt.
|
27.10.1920
|
Maj.
|
27.10.1934
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
01.10.1940-31.12.1940
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1941-26.10.1942
|
Lt.Col.
|
27.10.1942
|
Col.
|
07.02.1947,
seniority 27.10.1945 [28.11.1947, promotion antedated 01.01.1947] (retd
23.05.1948)
|
A/Brig.
|
22.07.1942?-...
|
T/Brig.
|
21.04.1943-(04.1946)
|
Hon. Brig.
|
01.07.1949
|
Col. AERO
|
? [405716]
|
|
DSO
|
18.10.1945
|
Italy
|
|
OBE
|
?
|
?
|
|
MC
|
01.01.1920
|
Afghan
War 1919 [published 03.08.1920]
|
|
Education: Staff College (psc)
27.10.1916
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
31.01.1917
|
-
|
04.08.1917
|
Royal
Flying Corps
|
25.09.1917
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
(1919)
|
|
|
3/124th Baluchistan Infantry, Ind.
Army, attached South Waziristan Militia
|
05.08.1928
|
-
|
29.07.1930
|
Instructor
(Clas B), Small Arms School India
|
01.04.1937
|
-
|
(01.)1940
|
Brigade
Major, Peshawar Brigade (Northern Command, India)
|
1940
|
-
|
30.09.1940
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), India
|
|
|
|
7th Gurkha
Rifles
|
22.07.1942
|
-
|
(07?.)1943
|
Commander,
27th Indian Infantry Brigade
|
(07.1944?)
|
-
|
(08.1945?)
|
Commander,
43rd (Lorried) [Gurkha] Indian Infantry Brigade (Italy)
|
23.05.1948
|
|
|
retired,
but retained on the Special List (Ex-Indian Army) to 30.06.1949
|
|
|
|
Army
Emergency Reserve of Officers
|
Honorary Colonel, 10th (Wiltshire) Battalion, Mobile
Defence Corps.
|
Barnard,
Jack
|
1909
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
09.1939? [ABRO
672] (reld 21.05.1947)
|
[A?]/Capt.
|
?
|
T/Maj.
|
?
|
Hon. Maj.
|
21.05.1947
|
|
MC
|
16.12.1943
|
Burma
43
|
|
Burma Forestry Commission under Messrs. Bros. & Co
Ltd. (Myitkyina).
|
|
|
Officer
Training Corps (Canford)
|
09.1939?
|
|
|
commissioned,
Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
Kachin Levies
|
|
|
|
bush training school under Major Mike
Calvert
|
1942
|
|
|
made the trek from Burma with the Chinese 96th
Division to China
|
1942
|
-
|
1943?
|
OSS Detachment 101
(to train in jungle warfare behind enemy lines under a Colonel Eifler)
[with his 12 agents Capt. Barnard parachuted 250 miles behind enemy lines, destroying bridges and railways and 21 other
objects on 7th February 1943]
|
Published: The hump : the greatest untold
story of the war (1960)
|
Barstow,
Arthur Edward
"Bustling Bill"

Son of Lt.Col. Thomas Adam Anderson Barstow,
Seaforth Highlanders, and Jane Cape Barstow.
Married (1927) Nancy Lewkenor, of
Cocking, Sussex, daughter of late Brig.Gen. Henry Lewkenor Knight, CMG, DSO.
His brother, Brigadier John A. Barstow, MC, also died on service.
|
17.03.1888
-
28.01.1942
(KIA) [age 53]
[Singapore Memorial, column 143]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
25.01.1908
[185406]
|
Lt.
|
25.04.1910
|
T/Capt.
|
01.09.1915
|
Capt.
|
06.04.1917,
seniority 01.09.1915
|
A/Maj.
|
15.07.1917-23.09.1917,
02.07.1918-01.10.1918
|
T/Maj.
|
12.05.1919
|
Maj. (prov.)
|
25.01.1923
|
Maj.
|
16.01.1924,
seniority 25.01.1923
|
Bt. Lt.Col.
|
01.07.1931
|
Lt.Col.
|
07.08.1932
|
Bt. Col.
|
26.01.1935
|
Col.
|
01.07.1935, seniority
26.01.1935
|
T/Brig.
|
18.06.1938
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
28.09.1940
|
Maj.Gen.
|
01.04.1941,
seniority 23.04.1940
|
|
CIE
|
20.06.1941
|
Waziristan
40
|
|
MC
|
?
|
?
|
|
MID
|
19.12.1946
|
Malaya
42
|
|
Education: Bradfield; Royal Military College,
Sandhurst; Imperial Defence College (idc); Staff College (psc)
25.01.1908
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Army, Unattached List
|
11.03.1909
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Indian Army, General List
|
(1910)
|
-
|
(1919)
|
served
with 15th Ludhiana Sikhs (European War; wounded, despatches, MC);
15.07.1917-23.09.1917 & 02.07.1918-01.10.1918 Second-in-Command of a
battalion
|
12.05.1919
|
-
|
19.07.1919
|
Deputy
Assistant Adjutant & Qartermaster General (DAA&QMG), ... (Afghanistan)
|
1920
|
|
|
served
in Iraq (despatches)
|
1923
|
|
|
served
in Kurdistan (despatches)
|
?
|
|
|
transferred
to 2nd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment
|
01.04.1927
|
-
|
31.12.1928
|
Deputy
Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), ... (Northern Command, India)
|
01.01.1929
|
-
|
31.12.1929
|
General
Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
|
1930
|
|
|
served
at the Northwestern Frontier (India) (despatches)
|
1933
|
-
|
1935
|
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment
|
26.01.1935
|
-
|
23.04.1938
|
General
Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), India Office
|
08.04.1938
|
|
|
Colonel
of the 2nd Royal Battalion (Luhiana Sikhs), 11th Sikh Regiment
|
18.06.1938
|
-
|
1940
|
Commander,
Kohat Brigade (Kohat District, Northern Command, India)
|
1940
|
-
|
27.09.1940
|
Commander,
Waziristan District, India (despatches, CIE)
|
28.09.1940
|
-
|
28.01.1942
|
General
Officer Commanding, 9th Indian Division (Malaya)
|
Published: The Sikhs : an ethnology (1928)
|
Bate,
Ronald Thomas
Married; two sons, one daughter.
|
11.09.1919
-
01.05.2008
The Conifers Nursing Home, Hambleton,
Lancashire
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.07.1939
[118240
|
..
|
...
|
WS/Capt.
|
26.12.1943
|
...
|
...
|
Maj.
|
01.07.1952 (retd
11.09.1974)
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
02.03.1946-26.03.1946
|
|
01.07.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
31.01.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army (Dorgans)
|
27.01.1948
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
Baxter,
Henry Joseph Patrick
"Harry"
Times
obituary
|
08.04.1921
-
10.01.2007
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.10.1942
[363915]
|
WS/Lt.
|
11.04.1943
|
A/Capt.
|
15.01.1945-14.04.1945
|
T/Capt.
|
15.04.1945-24.05.1945
|
WS/Capt.
|
25.05.1945
|
A/Maj.
|
25.02.1945-24.05.1945
|
T/Maj.
|
25.05.1945-04.07.1947
|
...
|
...
|
Brig.
|
30.06.1973 (retd
01.04.1976)
|
|
CBE
|
30.12.1975
|
New
Year 76
|
|
OBE
|
08.06.1968
|
HM's
birthday 68
|
|
GM
|
13.02.1959
|
?
|
|
-
|
KM
|
?
|
Knight
of Malta
|
|
MID
|
28.05.1957
|
?
|
|
11.10.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission to 24.05.1946]
|
25.05.1946
|
|
|
permanent
commission, Royal Irish Fusiliers (British Army)
|
Commander Ulster Defence Regiment, 1973-1976.
|
Beaton,
William Simon McKillican
|
1897?
Inverness-shire, Scotland
-
15.08.1946
Calcutta, India
[Croy Churchyard, Inverness-shire, Scotland] |
2nd Lt.
|
22.08.1942 [EC
7084]
|
Capt.
|
?
|
Maj.
|
? (reld
15.02.1946)
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
< 04.1945
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
15.02.1946
|
|
OBE
|
?
|
?
|
|
MID
|
05.04.1945
|
Burma
/ Eastern Frontier of India
|
|
22.08.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
Beckett,
John Kenneth
|
see: |
British
Army officers
|
|
Berry,
John James
"Jack"

|
31.08.1915
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
09.08.1941
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
A/Capt.
|
?
|
|
09.08.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
Passed out from Sandhurst, shipped to Bombay in Oct 1941. Joined Poona Horse Division. Learned about tank technology. Sent to Egypt under
Col. Hatch (3rd Indian Motor Brigade), later Col. Kilkelly. Was involved in a Stukker raid in Alexandria in
1942, injured and sent to Cairo hospital. Rejoined his regiment in Damascus a few months later. Spent some time in Cyprus. Returned home in 1947.
|
|
Birdwood,
Travers John Durrant *

Son of Lt.Col. Gordon Travers Birdwood
(1867-1945), and Alice Caroline Finlay.
Married Diana V. Turner; one son, one daughter.
* last Christian name also found as: Durand
|
26.09.1913
-
23.11.2001
South & West Dorset
|
2nd Lt.
|
31.08.1933 [238 AI]
|
Lt.
|
30.11.1935
|
Capt.
|
31.08.1941
|
A/Maj.
|
08.01.1944-07.04.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
08.04.1944-(04.1946)
|
Maj.
|
31.08.1946
|
|
MID
|
13.01.1944
|
Middle
East
|
|
31.08.1933
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
15.11.1934
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
(1941)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, Indian 2 Patrol, Indian Long Range Squadron (ILRS), attached Long
Range Desert Group
|
|
Black,
Denis Victor
|
20.10.1897
Aylsham district, Norfolk
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.08.1915 [5384]
|
Lt.
|
12.12.1916
|
A/Capt.
|
25.01.1918-18.10.1918
|
T/Capt.
|
19.10.1918-13.12.1920
|
Capt.
|
05.09.1925
|
A/Maj.
|
03.11.1918-10.07.1919
|
Indian Army:
|
|
Lt.
|
20.04.1929,
seniority 23.06.1916
|
Capt.
|
20.04.1929,
seniority 23.06.1919
|
Maj.
|
23.06.1933
|
Lt.Col.
|
09.10.1938
|
Col.
|
07.03.1943,
seniority 09.10.1941 (retd 29.03.1948)
|
A/Brig.
|
01.10.1943-31.03.1944
|
T/Brig.
|
01.04.1944-(01.1946)
|
Hon. Brig.
|
29.03.1948
|
|
MC
|
01.02.1919
|
*
|
* For conspicuous gallantry valid ability in
action on 8th and 9th August, 1918, E. of Amiens. The section of Tanks under
his command did excellent work and reduced numerous enemy points of
resistance, capturing or destroying many guns and machine guns. After Tanks of
his own and other sections had been put out of action near Rosieres by direct
hits, he went round the disabled Tanks under heavy fire, noting their position
and condition, and seeing to the evacuation of the wounded. He also brought
back valuable information as to the situation on the flanks. He behaved
splendidly throughout.
|
1914
|
-
|
16.02.1915
|
mobilized
Special Reserve for 49 days
|
11.08.1915
|
|
|
commissioned,
East Yorkshire Regiment
|
09.01.1917
|
-
|
27.01.1917
|
Machine Gun Corps
|
28.07.1917
|
-
|
31.08.1923
|
Tank Corps [seconded
to 2nd Battalion (1919)]
|
01.09.1923
|
|
|
transferred, Royal
Tank Corps
|
07.12.1925
|
-
|
28.12.1928
|
Adjutant, ...
|
29.12.1928
|
-
|
19.04.1929
|
attached, Indian Army
|
20.04.1929
|
|
|
transferred, Indian
Army (Royal Indian Army Service Corps)
|
09.10.1938
|
-
|
22.04.1940
|
Assistant Director of
Supplies & Transport, India
|
23.04.1940
|
-
|
24.01.1941
|
Assistant Director of
Supplies, India
|
?
|
-
|
29.03.1948
|
Special
List (ex-Indian Army)
|
Participated in the 1920 Olympic games on the
4x100 m.
|
Blaquiere,
John Arthur

Brother of Capt. Norman
Arthur Blaquiere.
|
1895
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.03.1942 [570]
|
T/Maj.
|
?
|
|
MID
|
26.06.1947
|
Netherlands
East Indies
|
|
30.03.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Army in Burma Reserve of Officers [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served Indian Electrical and
Mechanical Engineers, Indian Army
|
|
Blaquiere,
Norman Arthur

Brother of Maj. John
Arthur Blaquiere.
Formerly of Dehra Dun, India.
|
?
-
31.07.1952
Swinton, Lancashire
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.08.1918
|
Capt.
|
31.08.1928,
seniority 03.09.1924
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.04.1944 [EC 13335]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1944
|
|
05.08.1918
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army Reserve of Officers (Infantry Branch)
|
|
|
|
served
Burma Frontier Service
|
01.04.1944
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
Bone,
Norman Arthur Sydney

|
19.11.1920
-
03.2007 still alive
|
Cpl.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
26.11.1942
|
WS/Lt.
|
26.05.1943
|
|
26.11.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
4th
Battalion Prince of Wales's Own Gurkhas
|
|
Bowie,
Albert Gordon

|
29.04.1907
-
22.02.2007
Suffolk
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.02.1929
|
Lt.
|
01.05.1931
|
Capt.
|
31.01.1938
|
A/Maj.
|
13.07.1940-12.10.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
13.10.1940-06.04.1943
|
WS/Maj.
|
07.04.1943
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
07.01.1943-06.04.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
07.04.1943-(01.1946)
|
|
|
|
|
from
Supplementary Reserve of Officers
|
01.02.1929
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
21.03.1930
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
1st/2nd KEO
Gurkhas
|
|
Boyes,
Thomas Plumer
"Tom"

Married Marjorie "Bill" (née ...) (died
aged 87 27.12.2006, Whitford, Devon).
|
28.11.1920
-
01.1985
Exeter, Devon
|
Pte.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
10.09.1941 [EC
3820]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.09.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
01.09.1942-(04.1944)
|
WS/Capt.
|
15.08.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
15.08.1944-(04.1946)
|
Lt.
|
11.01.1947,
seniority 28.05.1943 [375303]
|
Capt.
|
28.11.1947
|
Maj.
|
28.11.1954 (retd
28.11.1955)
|
|
MC
|
17.01.1946
|
Burma
|
|
MID
|
21.10.1952
|
Malaya 01-06.52
|
|
Education: Staff College (psc)
|
|
|
served in
the ranks
|
10.09.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
10th Gurkha
Rifles
|
11.01.1947
|
|
|
permanent
commission, Royal Army Service corps
|
16.12.1954
|
-
|
(08.1955)
|
Junior
Division Instructor, RASC Officers' School (Aldershot)
|
25.02.1956
|
|
|
Major,
10th Gurkha Rifles, Regular Army Reserve of Officers
|
|
Bridges,
Reginald Frank
|
06.02.1903
Hitchin district, Bedfordshire /
Hertfordshire
-
|
Conductor
|
?
|
Assistant Commissary (with rank of
T/Lt.)
|
01.02.1941
|
WS/Maj.
|
?
|
Maj. (OEO)
|
01.01.1949
[402315]
|
|
01.02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
|
1946/47?
|
|
|
Special
List (ex-Indian Army)
|
01.01.1949
|
|
|
short
service commission
|
?
|
-
|
06.02.1958
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Butler,
Saw
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
? [ABRO 626]
|
WS/Lt.
|
?
|
T/Capt.
|
?
|
T/Maj.
|
?
|
|
DSO
|
25.09.1947
|
in recognition of gallant and
distinguished services in the Field (prior to September, 1945)
|
|
MC
|
08.02.1945
|
in recognition of gallant and
distinguished services in Burma and on the Eastern Frontier of India
|
|
MID
|
07.11.1946
|
in recognition of gallant and
distinguished services whilst engaged in special operations in South East
Asia
|
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned,
Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) [emergency commission]
|
(1945?)
|
|
|
attached
Northern Kachin Levies
|
|
Bwye,
Mark
|
01.03.1900
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.01.1920
|
Lt.
|
29.01.1921
|
Capt.
|
29.01.1927
|
Maj.
|
29.01.1938
|
|
29.01.1920
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
05.02.1920
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
|
|
|
served
10/15 Punjabi Regiment
|
?
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|