| D |
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D'Aeth,
Cloudesely Edward Patrick Hughes
Son of Edward Henry Hughes D'Aeth, and
Florence E. Lawley.
|
03.01.1916
Birmingham district, Warwickshire
-
(12?).1970
Banbury district, Oxfordshire |
2nd Lt.
|
24.09.1941
|
WS/Lt.
|
24.09.1941
(reld > 04.1946)
|
A/Maj.
|
10.03.1943-(04.1944)
|
|
IndGSM
|
-
|
&
clasp NW Frontier 37-39
|
|
39|45
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
Def
Med
|
?
|
?
|
|
WM
39|45
|
?
|
?
|
|
24.09.1941
|
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army
[emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
|
|
Dalrymple-Hay,
Hugh Brereton
|
15.02.1900
India
-
03.1987
Deben, Suffolk
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.04.1919 [IA
33]
|
Lt.
|
15.04.1920
|
Capt.
|
15.04.1925
|
Maj.
|
15.04.1937
|
Lt.Col.
|
15.04.1945
|
|
DSO
|
22.03.1945
|
services
in the field
|
|
Education: Cadet College, Quetta
15.04.1919
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List
|
22.04.1919
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
(1937)
|
-
|
(1945)
|
2nd Royal Lancers (Gardner’s Horse), Indian Armoured Corps
(served also in North Africa)
|
|
Darwin,
Eugene Kirby
|
07.08.1913
-
01.2002
Ealing district, London |
| 2nd Lt. |
16.10.1940 |
| WS/Lt. |
28.06.1941 |
| T/Capt. |
28.06.1941-03.12.1943 |
| WS/Capt. |
04.12.1943 (reld
> 04.1947) |
| A/Maj. |
04.09.1943-03.12.1943 |
| T/Maj. |
04.12.1943-(04.1947) |
|
|
16.10.1940 |
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] |
| |
|
|
served
Royal Indian Army Service Corps |
|
16.08.1945 |
- |
23.10.1945 |
15th
Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul |
|
Datta,
R C
|
?
-
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
David,
Lawrence Arthur
|
?
Burma
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
? [8199]
|
A/Capt.
|
?
|
|
?
|
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army
(Indian Signal Corps)
|
|
|
|
served
19 Indian Divisional Signals
|
|
Davies,
John Selwyn
|
?
-
|
Pte.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.03.1942
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
(reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks
|
15.03.1942
|
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army
[emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
Bombay Grenadiers (wounded at Kohima; elieved to be killed but was not)
|
|
Davis,
John Lewis Haycroft
|
12.02.1911
Sutton, Surrey
-
(11?).2006
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.02.1942
[EC 8737]
|
WS/Lt.
|
05.05.1942 |
T/Capt.
|
05.05.1942-30.09.1943
|
WS/Capt.
|
01.10.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
01.10.1943-(04.1946)
|
WS/Maj.
|
?
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
(1949)
|
A/Col.
|
?
|
Maj.
|
24.11.1951
[419951]
|
Hon.
Col.
|
24.11.1951
|
|
CBE
|
07.11.1946
|
special
operations SE Asia
|
|
DSO
|
21.02.1946
|
services
in the field [to be dated 31.03.1944]
|
|
05.02.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
General List, Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
(1944)
|
|
|
attached 6th Rajputana
Rifles (Special Operations Executive (SOE), South East Asia)
|
(1949)
|
|
|
Federation Volunteer State
Forces, Malaya
|
24.11.1951
|
-
|
12.02.1966
|
transferred
to Intelligence Corps - Regular Army Reseve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Davis,
Patrick David Channer
|
(03?).1925
Farnham district, Hampshire / Surrey /
Sussex
-
|
Pte.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.10.1943
|
WS/Lt.
|
17.04.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
15.04.1919
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List
|
22.04.1919
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
17.10.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
| ? |
-
|
?
|
served 4/8
Gurkhas
|
Published: Animals that changed the world
(1966; with A.A. Dent); A child at arms (1970)
|
Deakin,
Charles Cecil
Married Elisabeth Wheeler (26.03.1914-2003?); two
sons, one daughter.
|
16.07.1896
Atcham, Montgomeryshire
-
26.11.1978
Hornsby, Australia
|
2nd
Lt. IARO
|
09.02.1918,
seniority 31.10.1917
|
2nd Lt.
|
20.05.1919,
seniority 31.07.1918 [IA 628 / 15638]
|
Lt.
|
31.07.1919 |
Capt.
|
24.04.1923
|
Maj.
|
24.04.1936
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
05.03.1937-28.05.1940
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
17.05.1941-16.08.1941
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
17.08.1941-23.04.1944
|
Lt.Col.
|
24.04.1944
(retd 01.07.1948)
|
Hon.
Brig.
|
01.07.1948
|
|
DSO
|
23.01.1942
|
SW
Pacific
|
|
OBE
|
18.04.1946
|
as
POW
|
|
MID
|
23.01.1942
|
SW
Pacific
|
|
Education: Staff College, Quetta (psc)
10.1914
|
-
|
30.10.1917
|
served
in the ranks, mobilized in the Territorial Force (2 years, 356 days)
|
31.10.1917
|
-
|
19.05.1919
|
mobilized
Indian Army Reserve of Officers (1 year, 201 days)
|
20.05.1919
|
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army
(2nd Punjab Regiment)
|
(06.1933)
|
|
|
student,
Senior Division, Staff College, Quetta
|
06.12.1935
|
-
|
28.02.1937
|
Staff
Captain, Lahore Brigade Area (Lahore, India)
|
05.03.1937
|
-
|
28.05.1940
|
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 1st Australian Division (New South Wales,
Australia)
|
29.05.1940
|
-
|
02.05.1941
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (India)
|
1941?
|
-
|
1945?
|
prisoner
of war in Japanese captivity (POW Camp Pudu Jail, Kuala Lumpur)
|
|
Deakin,
Peter Stanley
Son of ... Deakin, and ... Johnson.
Married ((03?).1946, Edmonton district) Ethne M. Willis. |
(06?).1923
Kensington district, London
- |
| 2nd Lt. |
26.11.1942 (reld > 04.1947) |
|
|
26.11.1942 |
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] |
|
Deedes,
Sir Ralph
Bouverie
|
17.10.1890
Epsom, Surrey
-
03.03.1954
Guildford, Surrey
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.01.1910
[185407]
|
...
|
... |
Lt.Gen
|
12.02.1945,
seniority 01.04.1944 (retd 1946)
|
KCB, 14.06.1945 (HM's birthday 45); CB, 11.06.1942
(HM's birthday 42); OBE 1920; MC
|
29.01.1910
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
05.03.1911
|
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
01.10.1937
|
-
|
20.12.1939
|
Deputy
Military Secretary, India
|
21.12.1939
|
-
|
11.03.1941
|
Brigade
Commander, Thal Brigade (India)
|
12.03.1941
|
-
|
10.09.1942
|
District
Commander, Waziristan District (India)
|
21.08.1943
|
-
|
10.03.1944
|
specially
employed: Military Secretary, India
|
11.03.1944
|
-
|
(01.1946)
|
special
appointment: Adjutant-General, India
|
|
de
Salis,
Rudolph Albert
naturalized UK citizen, 06.12.1915
|
03.07.1898
Switzerland
-
25.05.1958
London
|
2nd
Lt.
|
29.06.1916
[IA25]
|
Lt.
|
29.06.1917
|
A/Capt.
|
29.05.1919-15.09.1919
|
Capt.
|
29.06.1920
|
Maj.
|
29.06.1934
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
22.09.1940-21.12.1940
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
22.12.1940-28.06.1942
|
Lt.Col.
|
29.06.1942
(retd 30.03.1947)
|
|
DSO
|
11.04.1946
|
services
in the field
|
|
29.06.1916
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List
|
02.07.1916
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
18.04.1917
|
|
|
4th
Cavalry (WW I)
|
?
|
-
|
?
|
?
|
|
de
Vere White,
Newport
|
see: |
White,
Newport de Vere
|
|
Dickson,
Peter Norman Lowthian

Son of Frederick Cartwright Dickson, and
Gertrude Lowthian.
|
14.03.1919
Warrington district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
died between 1985 and 1990 ??
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.07.1939 [IA
1061]
|
Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
13.02.1941-12.05.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
13.05.1941-30.06.1941,
06.07.1941-10.07.1941,
02.08.1941-12.04.1942
|
WS/Capt.
|
13.04.1942
|
Capt.
|
01.07.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
13.01.1942-12.04.1942
|
T/Maj.
|
13.04.1942-09.09.1946,
07.05.1947-02.12.1947
|
British Army:
|
|
Capt.
|
17.07.1948,
seniority 01.07.1946 [392374]
|
T/Maj.
|
01.11.1951-30.06.1952
|
Maj.
|
01.07.1952 (retd
13.02.1958)
|
|
Education: Oakham School (1933-1937; rugby colour);
qualified on an Inspecting Ordnance Officers Course at "B" Branch,
RAOC Advanced Training School, Bramley (ioo)
01.07.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for the Indian Army)
|
29.01.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
?
|
-
|
02.1942
|
Signals
Officer, 5th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment (Penang) [captured at Singapore]
|
02.1942
|
-
|
1945?
|
POW
in Japanese captivity
|
?
|
-
|
16.07.1948
|
Special
List (ex-Indian Army)
|
17.07.1948
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
Dinwiddie,
Herbert William

|
22.03.1899
India
-
12.04.1981
|
2nd Lt.
|
24.04.1918 [14455]
|
...
|
...
|
Lt.Col.
|
24.04.1944
|
A/Col.
|
02.03.1944-(04.1947)
|
Col.
|
? (retd
16.06.1948)
|
A/Brig.
|
23.06.1944-(04.1947)
|
Hon. Brig.
|
16.06.1948
|
|
CBE
|
06.06.1946
|
HM's
birthday 46
|
|
24.04.1918
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
19.10.1935
|
-
|
02.10.1939
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), India
|
01.05.1940
|
-
|
10.12.1941
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), India
|
11.12.1941
|
-
|
02.12.1942
|
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
|
1944
|
-
|
1946
|
Commander,
114th Indian Infantry Brigade
|
09.04.1946
|
-
|
(04.1947)
|
Brigadier
General Staff, Southern Army (India)
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India
|
|
Dodkins,
Clifford Mayhew

Married Lorna Clementina Hartnoll (died
21.02.2007).
|
18.10.1914
Croydon, Surrey
-
10.06.1974
Hove, Sussex
|
2nd Lt.
|
31.01.1935
[380533]
|
Lt.
|
30.04.1937
|
A/Capt.
|
16.11.1940-15.02.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
16.02.1941-30.01.1943
|
Capt.
|
31.01.1943
|
A/Maj.
|
10.07.1943-09.10.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
10.10.1943-29.01.1948
|
Capt. (Special
List)
|
30.01.1948,
seniority 31.01.1943
|
Maj.
|
31.01.1948
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
10.06.1954-30.06.1955
|
Lt.Col. (Emp.
List (1))
|
01.07.1955
|
Col.
|
15.01.1961 (retd
28.10.1966)
|
|
CBE
|
01.01.1967
|
?
|
|
DSO
|
06.06.1946
|
?
|
|
MID
|
19.07.1945
|
?
|
|
MID
|
10.01.1946
|
?
|
|
31.01.1935
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for the Indian Army)
|
10.03.1936
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
24.07.1939
|
-
|
08.11.1939
|
ADC
to HE The Governor Bihan
|
09.11.1939
|
-
|
25.08.1940
|
Military
Secretary
|
27.08.1940
|
-
|
03.11.1940
|
Staff
Station Officer Kohat
|
04.11.1940
|
-
|
15.02.1941
|
Staff
Captain, Kohat Brigade
|
01.04.1941
|
-
|
10.07.1942
|
Adjutant,
44th Cavalry (India)
|
05.08.1942
|
-
|
28.02.1943
|
Staff
Captain, 267th Indian Armoured Brigade
|
01.03.1943
|
-
|
04.08.1943
|
Staff
Captain, IAC Frg. Brigade
|
30.01.1948
|
|
|
transferred,
3rd Dragoon Guards (Special List - ex-Indian Army)
|
11.09.1949
|
-
|
14.02.1952
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), RAC HQ, British Army of the Rhine
|
Published: (with David Littlejohn) Orders,
decorations, medals and badges of the Third Reich (including the Free City of
Danzig) (1968-1974; 2 vols.)
|
Dogra,
D P
|
?
-
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
Domingo,
Walter Scott
Married (early 1920s). |
10.10.1892
Agra, India
-
(09?).1951
Gosport district, Hampshire |
| Sgt. |
WW I [52736] |
| S/Sgt. |
? |
| T/Lt. (Assistant
Commissary) |
? |
| Lt.
(Assistant Commissary)
|
17.07.1941 |
 |
BWM
14|20 |
- |
- |
 |
VM |
- |
- |
|
|
WW I |
|
|
Royal Field Artillery |
|
1920s |
|
|
Indian Army Service Corps |
| |
|
|
from a temporary commission |
|
17.07.1941 |
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army Departments |
|
|
|
|
served
Indian Army Service Corps |
|
Donald,
Alan Hilliard
Second of two sons of Charles Hilliard
Donald (1873-1959), Warden of Game and Fisheries in Punjab, India, and Ina Mignon Frieda
Bolster (1886-1971).
From Dharmsala, Punjab.
Married (09.08.1945, Edensdale, Natal) Margaret Nichols, Lt. SAAF, daughter of
the Rev. Arnold Nichols, Principal of Natal College and the late Mrs Nichols;
one daughter, one son. |
15.04.1917
India
-
12.1996
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex |
| 2nd Lt. |
28.01.1937 [746
AI] |
| Lt. |
28.04.1939 |
| A/Capt. |
14.05.1940-13.08.1940 |
| T/Capt. |
14.08.1940-15.04.1942 |
| WS/Capt. |
16.04.1942 |
| Capt. |
28.01.1945 (retd
01.06.1948) |
| A/Maj. |
16.01.1942-15.04.1942 |
| T/Maj.
|
16.04.1942-07.02.1943,
18.03.1943-(04.1946) |
| Hon. Maj. |
01.06.1948 |
 |
MID |
29.11.1945 |
Italy |
|
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
| 28.01.1937 |
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army) |
| 08.05.1938 |
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army (13th Frontier Force
Rifles) |
| |
|
|
served
at NW Frontier (Rawalpindi at some point), Italy (1945), South Africa (1945) |
Joined British
Colonial Service, 1948. District Officer, Lesotho. British Commissioner,
Cayman Islands, 1956-04.07.1959. Administrator, Cayman Islands, 04.07.1959-1960. |
Donaldson,
Alexander Wishart
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.03.1941
|
WS/Lt.
|
11.09.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
28.07.1943-(04.1946)
|
A/Maj. ?
|
?
|
|
15.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served with the 5/11 Sikh Regiment in the Malayan campaign, escaping from Singapore at the fall
|
|
Douglas,
William Abbott Gale

Son of Gustavus Gale Douglas and of Fanny Jane
Elizabeth Douglas (née Abbott).
Husband of Mary Evered Douglas, of Lilliput, Dorsetshire.
|
25.07.1901
Fulham, Greater London, Middlesex
-
04.03.1942
[age 41]
[Singapore Memorial, column 351]
|
2nd Lt. (Army)
|
14.07.1921
|
Lt. (Army)
|
14.07.1923
|
Lt.
|
19.12.1931,
seniority 14.10.1923 [818 IA]
|
Capt.
|
19.12.1931,
seniority 14.07.1929
|
Maj.
|
01.08.1938
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
19.06.1941-18.09.1941
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
19.09.1941-04.03.1942
|
|
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst
14.07.1921
|
|
|
The
Devonshire Regiment
|
20.04.1931
|
-
|
18.12.1931
|
seconded,
Indian Army
|
19.12.1931
|
|
|
transferred,
Indian Army (Indian Army Ordnance Corps)
|
|
|
|
served
at Kedah
|
?
|
-
|
1942
|
HQ
11th Indian Infantry Division (Singapore)
|
AMIMechE.
|
Dowson,
John Seymour

Son of John Harold Dowson (1860-1945), and
Adella Victoria Hummerston (1872-1940).
Married Joan ...; ... children (one son, one daughter?).
|
09.01.1906
Western Australia
-
02.12.1966
Mosman Park, Western Australia
[Karrakatta Cemetery, WA]
|
2nd Lt.
|
19.03.1941 [EC
1997]
|
WS/Lt.
|
?
|
WS/Capt.
|
? (reld
30.11.1946)
|
T/Maj.
|
?
|
Hon. Maj.
|
30.11.1946
|
|
MBE
|
01.01.1948
|
New
Year 48: Executive Engineer (Surveys), Great Indian Peninsula Railway,
Bombay
|
|
In 1923, he had begun working as an engineering
cadet with Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR). He served as assistant
executive engineer with the Indian Railways prior to World War Two.
19.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
Royal Indian Engineers, building (supply) railway lines in India & Iraq
|
General Manager (1950-1961), then Chairman
(1961-1964) of the Midland Railway Company, a private Australian railway
company. Worked for WAGR until he died in late 1966, when he was chief planning
and development officer, having acted previously as deputy commissioner and
deputy senior administrator and technical adviser.
Literature: Evelyn Duffy, A railwayman of vision : John Seymour
Dowson, : 9 January 1906-2 December 1966 (1999)
|
Drinkwater,
John Henry
Son of William Henry and Catherine
Drinkwater, of Howdon, Wallsend, Northumberland.
Husband of Muriel May Drinkwater.
|
?
-
13.07.1945
[Basra War Cemetery, Iraq, 8.C.7]
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Wt.Offr.
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?
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Lt.
(Assistant Commissary)
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01.08.1944 [OS/656]
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01.08.1944
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commissioned,
Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
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served
Indian Army Ordnance Corps
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Dubern,
Jack Emile
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19.09.1917
-
01.1988
Surrey North-Western district, Surrey |
| 2nd Lt. |
22.02.1941 |
| WS/Lt. |
22.01.1942 (reld
> 04.1947) |
| T/Capt. |
22.01.1942-(04.1946) |
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22.02.1941 |
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commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] |
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served
Royal Indian Army Service Corps |
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16.08.1945 |
- |
23.10.1945 |
15th
Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul |
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Duffy,
Robert Michael


Eldest son of Thomas Michael & Beatrice
Ann Duffy (née Perkins).
His parents settled in Buma, 1911.
Married 1st (01.05.1933) Colleen Coral Vaillant; two daughters (all died on the trek from Burma to India).
Married 2nd (28.12.1946) Eleanor Falicitas Elizabeth Boudville (died
26.05.1980); four daughters.
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01.05.1907
Whitton, Twickenham, Brentford, Middlesex
-
03.05.1986
Perth, Australia
[Karrakata Lawn Cemetery, Section 'A', Grave No. 199,
Perth]
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2nd Lt.
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1941
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Lt.
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?
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Capt.
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?
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A/Maj.
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1945/46?
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39|45
St
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?
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?
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Burma
St
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?
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?
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Def
Med
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?
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?
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WM
39|45
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?
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?
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Geo
V Jub
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?
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?
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TD
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?
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?
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Power Station Assistant Superintendent at a Power Station in Rangoon,
Rangoon Electric Tramway & Supply Co. Ltd. (Ahlone), 02.01.1925-30.09.1953
(except for the war period 03.1942-04.1946).
(1935)
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Sergeant,
III Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Auxiliary Force India
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1941
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commissioned,
Rangoon Field Brigade, Burma Auxiliary Force
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Burma Intelligence Corps being
attached to 20th Indian Division, Indian Command (Mhow) before return to Rangoon
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After Burma became Independent in 1948, R.M. Duffy stayed back in Burma, became a Citizen of The Union of Burma and was
appointed Construction Engineer to build this Ywama Power Station in Insein,
Rangoon, 1958-62, and became the Power Station Engineer when operational.
Migrated to Perth, Australia (1970s?).
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Duncan,
Charles John
Son of ... Duncan, and ... Hill.
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13.02.1919
Greenwich, London
-
28.10.1974
North Cleveland district
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2nd Lt.
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24.09.1942
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WS/Lt.
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24.03.1943
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A?/Capt.
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?
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24.09.1942
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commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
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7th Rajput Regiment
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(1945)
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"E"
company, United Services Pre-Cadet College, Belgaum
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Duncan,
R J
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?
-
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2nd Lt.
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25.06.1940
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WS/Lt.
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30.01.1941
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T/Capt.
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17.08.1941-(04.1946)
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WS/Maj.
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01.07.1946
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T/Lt.Col.
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01.07.1946-(12.1947)
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25.06.1940
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|
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commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
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(1947)
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HQ
Southern Command (Poona, India)
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Dutta,
R C
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?
-
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...
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-
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...
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...
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(1947)
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HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
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