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1939-1945

 

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Cable,
Desmond James
D.J. Cable
05.10.1916
Middlesex
-
02.1994
Teignbridge, Devon
2nd Lt.
27.08.1936 [380032]
T/Maj.
15.04.1943
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1956 (retd 01.04.1957)
T/Lt.Col.
16.04.1956
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.06.1953

Military Cross MC
17.12.1942

Mention in Despatches MID
09.05.1946

Education: psc
27.08.1936


commissioned onto the Unattached List
02.11.1937


transferred to the Indian Army
...
-
...
...
16.06.1947


transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Cable,
Gordon Evelyn Porter
G.E.P. Cable
13.06.1910
-
07.2002
Exeter, Devon
2nd Lt.
29.01.1931 [380923]
T/Maj.
14.02.1941
Lt.Col.
02.11.1951 (retd 01.07.1957)
29.01.1931


commissioned onto the Unattached List
22.06.1932


transferred to the Indian Army
01.08.1940
-
15.02.1942
DADOS, 9th Indian Division
27.09.1947


transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Campion,
David Allan
D.A. Campion
?
-
Cpl.
?
2nd Lt.
29.10.1941 [?]
T/Lt.
24.06.1942-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946)
29.10.1941


commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Cantlay,
James Edward
D.A. Campion
Married Joanne (née ...).
?
-
1983
2nd Lt.
16.11.1940 [?]
WS/Lt.
16.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.
26.06.1942-(04.1946)
16.11.1940


commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
(1941)


Officer Commanding, Indian 1 Patrol, Indian Long Range Squadron (ILRS), attached Long Range Desert Group
Cariappa,
Kodandera Madappa
"Chimma"
K.M. Cariappa (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawskshaw-Burn) K.M. Cariappa

28.01.1900 *
Shanivarsanthe in erstwhile Coorg
-
15.05.1993
Bangalore

* according to Army List; other sources give 28.01.1899
2nd Lt.
17.07.1920 [IAPN 967]
Lt.
17.07.1921
Capt.
17.07.1927
Maj.
17.07.1938
A/Lt.Col.
19.12.1942-18.03.1943
T/Lt.Col.
19.03.1943-(01.1946)
...
...
Field Marshal
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
?
?
Mention in Despatches MID
19.10.1944
Burma & Eastern Frontier of India
Mention in Despatches MID
05.04.1945
Burma & Eastern Frontier of India
Education: Staff College
17.07.1920


commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
17.07.1920


commissioned, Indian Army



7th Rajputana Regiment
23.11.1936
-
31.07.1939
Staff Captain
01.08.1939
-
22.11.1940
Brigade Major
15.01.1949
-
14.01.1953
Commander-in-Chief, (independent) Indian Army
Chambers,
Henry Maurice
H.M. Chambers
Married (1920) Aileen Geraldine Olga Allison (born 1896) (marriage dissolved 1947); two sons.
15.07.1897
-
1967
T/2nd Lt.
25.09.1914-11.08.1917
T/Capt.
12.08.1917-02.12.1917
Lt.
25.06.1916 [IA 811]
A/Capt.
29.12.1917-15.06.1919
Capt.
16.06.1919
Maj.
16.06.1933
Lt.Col.
27.09.1939
A/Col.
05.04.1941-04.10.1941
T/Col.
05.10.1941
WS/Col.
01.04.1946
Col.
07.04.1947
28.11.1947, seniority 01.03.1947 (retd 14.01.1948)
A/Brig.
11.02.1942-10.08.1942
T/Brig.
11.08.1942-31.03.1946
A/Maj.Gen.
01.04.1945-31.03.1946
T/Maj.Gen.
01.04.1946
Hon. Maj.Gen.
14.01.1948
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE
17.01.1946
Burma
Mention in Despatches MID
22.08.1946
Far East
Mention in Despatches MID
19.09.1946
Burma
Education: Staff College (psc)
25.06.1916


commissioned, British Army
03.12.1917


commissioned, Indian Army (5th Mahratta Light Infantry)
01.11.1925
-
28.02.1927
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)
01.03.1927
-
31.12.1927
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
01.01.1928
-
31.03.1929
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)
19.04.1932
-
04.02.1933
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... (India)
05.02.1933
-
18.04.1936
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
05.04.1941
-
18.07.1943
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (India)
1942


acting Commander, 64th Indian Infantry Brigade
19.07.1943
-
09.02.1944
Brigadier General Staff, ... (India)
1945


Commander, 71st Indian Infantry Brigade (Burma)
1945


acting General Officer Commanding, 26th Indian Infantry Division (Burma)
1945
-
1946
General Officer Commanding 26th Indian Infantry Division (Burma, Sumatra)
Chetwynd-Stapylton,
Henry Philip
H.P. Chetwynd-Stapylton
?
-
Pte.
?
2nd Lt.
01.10.1941
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
T/Capt.
11.11.1942-(04.1946)
01.10.1941


commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Connett,
Frank James
F.J. Connett (Photo courtesy of Mrs Annette Warner)
Married 1st (23.09.1918) Millicent Agnes Joyce (born 02.05.1897 Calcutta, India; died 17.05.1931 Guildford, Surrey, UK); four daughters, three sons.
Married 2nd (11.05.1935) Henrietta Ellenora Cornish (born 24.04.1912 Calcutta, India; died 17.01.1986 Sydney, NSW, Australia); one daughter, one son.
Lived in India (Calcutta, then Bombay), then Australia (Sydney).
13.03.1892
Honiton, Devon
-
02.08.1968
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Capt.
29.07.1927, seniority 13.12.1923
Maj.
08.08.1942



served World War I in Mesopotamia & Persia
(1918)


Lance Corporal, 1st/4th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment (Kirkee, India)
29.07.1927


commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers



probably served as logistics officer in World War II
Cook,
Douglas Oswald
D.O. Cook
26.11.1899
-
13.10.1973
Cross-in-Hand, Heathfieid, Sussex
2nd Lt.
21.08.1918 [IA 751]
Lt.
21.08.1919
Capt.
21.08.1923
Maj.
21.08.1936
A/Lt.Col.
18.06.1941-17.09.1941
T/Lt.Col.
18.09.1941-01.07.1944
Lt.Col.
02.07.1944 (retd 18.05.1948)
21.08.1918


commissioned, Unattached List
13.01.1919


commissioned, Indian Army
?
-
?
served Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Coppen,
George Charles
G.C. Coppen
03.03.1917 ?
-
2nd Lt.
01.11.1941 [EC 4584]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942
T/Capt.
20.03.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.
?
T/Maj.
?
Lt. TA
16.12.1947, seniority 01.10.1942 [388634]
Capt. TA
01.09.1951
Maj. TA
08.04.1953 (retd 23.02.1960)
Military Cross MC
21.06.1945
Burma
Territorial Decoration TD
17.05.1960
?
01.11.1941


commisioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]



13th Frontier Force Rifles
16.12.1947
-
23.02.1960
commissioned, Royal Ulster Rifles - Territorial Army
23.02.1960
-
03.03.1967
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Cowan,
David Tennant
D.T. Cowan
D.T. Cowan
D.T. Cowan
D.T. Cowan
D.T. Cowan
D.T. Cowan
Son of Charles Thomas and Kate Cowan.
Married 1st (1920)  Anne Elliot Dunlop (died 1973); one daughter (one son killed in action)
Married 2nd (1973) Frances Elisabeth Newall, widow of Lt­Col F.H.A. Stables.
09.10.1896
-
15.04.1983
Andover, Hampshire
2nd Lt. (prob)
14.08.1915 [13209]
Lt.
14.05.1917 [IA 202]
A/Capt.
06.05.1919-12.04.1920
Capt.
03.05.1920
local Maj.
16.11.1932-01.11.1934
Bt. Maj.
01.07.1933
Maj.
03.05.1934
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.01.1938
A/Lt.Col.
21.12.1939-20.03.1940
T/Lt.Col.
21.03.1940-02.05.1942
Lt.Col.
03.05.1942
A/Col.
01.10.1941-01.03.1943
WS/Col.
02.03.1943
Col.
17.04.1943, seniority 01.01.1941
A/Brig.
01.10.1941-01.03.1943
A/Maj.Gen.
02.03.1943-01.03.1943
T/Maj.Gen.
02.03.1943-11.02.1945
Maj.Gen.
12.02.1945 (retd 09.01.1948)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
05.07.1945
Burma
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
28.06.1945
Burma
Distinguished Service Order DSO
28.10.1942
Burma
Distinguished Service Order DSO
22.06.1944
Burma
Military Cross MC
25.08.1916
*
* For conspicuous gallantry in action. He led his platoon with great dash against the enemy's trenches, and, when fired on by about five machine-guns, withdrew a short distance and dug himself in. He then returned, reported to his C.O., and led up another platoon to reinforce his own.
Education: Reading; Glasgow University; Staff College (psc)
14.08.1915


commissioned, 3rd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1915
-
1917
2 Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (despatches, MC) [moblized Special Reserve to 26.07.1917 for 1 year, 347 days]
27.07.1917


transferred, 6th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
27.09.1919
-
?
Staff Captain, India
1919
-
1920
Third Afghan War, Waziristan (despatches)
16.09.1921
-
29.11.1922
Deputy Assistant Military Secretary, India
1927
-
1928
Staff College, Quetta, India
03.04.1930
-
31.05.1932
Assistant Military Secretary, India
01.06.1932
-
01.11.1934
Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Indian Military Academy
21.12.1936
-
16.10.1938
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), India (Waziristan 1937; despatches)
1939
-
1940
Commanding Officer, 1/6 Gurkha Rifles
18.09.1940
-
17.02.1941
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), India
18.02.1941
-
30.09.1941
Deputy Director of Military Training, General Headquarters India
01.10.1941
-
14.12.1941
Officiating Director of Military Training, General Headquarters India
15.12.1941
-
01.03.1942
Deputy Director of Military Training, General Headquarters India
1942
-
1945
General Officer Commanding, 17th Indian Infantry Division ("Black Cats") (Burma)
1945
-
1946
General Officer Commanding, British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan
1948


Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Commandant (Lieutenant, seniority 30.03.1948), Devon Army Cadet Force, 01.04.1950-16.10.1957. Chm. Approved Sch., Devon, 1951-60; Sec. (part­time) Assoc. of Managers of Approved Schs, 1963-73. DL Devon, 18.02.1954-07.12.1960. Captain and Manager, Indian Army Hockey Team, NZ and Australia Tour, 1926; Hon. Commandant Empire Village, VIth British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Wales, 1958.
Coy,
Francis Caleb
"Frank"
F.C. Coy
10.04.1889
St George Hanover Square, London, Surrey
-
T/2nd Lt.
11.02.1917-02.12.1917
2nd Lt.
11.11.1917
Lt.
11.11.1918
Capt. (prov.)
10.11.1922
Capt.
09.01.1925, seniority 10.11.1922
Maj.
10.11.1935 (retd 10.04.1941)
Hon. Lt.Col.
21.12.1943 (reverted to retd)
?
-
10.02.1917
served in the ranks, mobilized Territorial Force (2 years, 190 days)
11.11.1917


commissioned, British Army
03.12.1917


transferred, Indian Army
(1940)


serving in the Punjab, India
Crawford,
James Dirom
J.D. Crawford
Son of James Muir Crawford, and Winifred Edith Wernicke.
Married (08.02.1938, Lahore) Anne Elizabeth Coldstream; ... children.
29.06.1911
Shepton Mallet, Somerset
-
17.07.1991
Bath, Somerset
2nd Lt.
27.08.1931
...
...
Lt.Col.
24.07.1953 (supernumerary 24.07.1956) (retd 07.02.1958)
27.08.1931


commissioned, Unattached List (for the Indian Army)
23.01.1932


commissioned, Indian Army
20.03.1943
-
15.04.1944
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
19.11.1947


transferred, 3rd Dragoon Guards
Cryer,
Edward Reginald James
E.R.J. Cryer

23.07.1905
Devizes, Wiltshire
-
1987
Surrey
Sub-Conductor
?
T/Conductor
?
Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer (T/Lt.)
15.09.1941
T/Capt.
01.04.1942-(04.1946)
15.09.1941


commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
       

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