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D'Aeth,
Cloudesely Edward Patrick Hughes

C.E.P.H. D'Aeth (Photo courtesy of A. Hughes-D'Aeth)
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)
Indian General Service Medal 1936-1939 IndGSM
-
& clasp NW Frontier 37-39
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
?
?
Defence Medal Def Med
?
?
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
?
?
24.09.1941


commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]



served Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Dalrymple-Hay,
Hugh Brereton
H.B. Dalrymple-Hay

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
Distinguished Service Order 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
E.K. Darwin (Photo courtesy of Mrs Linda Smith)
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
R.C. Datta (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
?
-
Capt.
(1947)
...
-
...
...
(1947)
 
 
HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
David,
Lawrence Arthur

L.A. David

His ex daughter-in-law writes: "Born in Burma to a British family. He was a dispatch rider before he was offered a commission. He recieved a significant medal because his CO was shot by a sniper on parade, and he assumed command and kept the rest of the men from being shot too. He was in a communications unit and used to tell stories of crossing the Irriwaddy River many times to keep the communications open. After the razing of Rangoon he was sent to Singapore to recover, but was then redeployed back to Burma to help provide rations to the local people because he spoke the local language. After being decommissioned he returned to his family in England where they had been evacuated to, but soon after emigrated to Australia."

?
Burma
-
2nd Lt.
? [8199]
A/Capt.
?
Military Cross MC
17.01.1946
Burma
?


commissioned, Indian Army (Indian Signal Corps)



served 19 Indian Divisional Signals
Davies,
John Selwyn

J.S. Davies
?
-
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

J.L.H. Davis

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
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
07.11.1946
special operations SE Asia
Distinguished Service Order 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
P.D.C. Davis
(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

C.C. Deakin
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
Distinguished Service Order DSO
23.01.1942
SW Pacific
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
18.04.1946
as POW
Mentioned in Despatches 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

P.S. Deakin
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
R.B. Deedes

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

A. du P. Denning
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)
Distinguished Service Order 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

P.N.L. Dickson
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

H.W. Dinwiddie (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
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
Commander of the Order of the British Empire 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

C.M. Dodkins
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)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.01.1967
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
06.06.1946
?
Mention in Despatches MID
19.07.1945
?
Mention in Despatches 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
D.P. Dogra (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
?
-
Capt.
(1947)
...
-
...
...
(1947)
 
 
HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Domingo,
Walter Scott
W.S. Domingo
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
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal 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

A.H. Donald
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
Mention in Despatches 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

A.W. Donaldson
?
-
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

W.A.G. Douglas
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

J.S. Dowson
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
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) 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

J.H. Drinkwater
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]
Wt.Offr.
?
Lt. (Assistant Commissary)
01.08.1944 [OS/656]
01.08.1944
 
 
commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]



served Indian Army Ordnance Corps 
Dubern,
Jack Emile
J.E. Dubern (Photo courtesy of Mrs Linda Smith)
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)
22.02.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
      served Royal Indian Army Service Corps
16.08.1945 - 23.10.1945 15th Advanced Course, RIASC School, Kakul
Duffy,
Robert Michael
R.M. Duffy (Photo courtsey of Mr Richard Boudville) R.M. Duffy (Photo courtsey of Mr Richard Boudville)
R.M. Duffy (Photo courtsey of Mr Richard Boudville) R.M. Duffy (Photo courtsey of Mr Richard Boudville)
R.M. Duffy (Photo courtsey of Mr Richard Boudville)
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.
01.05.1907
Whitton, Twickenham, Brentford, Middlesex
-
03.05.1986
Perth, Australia
[Karrakata Lawn Cemetery, Section 'A', Grave No. 199, Perth]
2nd Lt.
1941
Lt.
?
Capt.
?
A/Maj.
1945/46?
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
?
?
Burma Star Burma St
?
?
Defence Medal Def Med
?
?
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
?
?
George V Silver Jubilee Medal Geo V Jub
?
?
Territorial & Efficiency/Efficiency Medal with Clasp "India" TD
?
?
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)


Sergeant, III Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Auxiliary Force India
1941


commissioned, Rangoon Field Brigade, Burma Auxiliary Force



Burma Intelligence Corps being attached to 20th Indian Division, Indian Command (Mhow) before return to Rangoon
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?).
Duncan,
Charles John

C.J. Duncan (Photo courtesy of Mr Nigel Duncan) C.J. Duncan (Photo courtesy of Mr Nigel Duncan)
C.J. Duncan (Photo courtesy of Mr Nigel Duncan)  
Son of ... Duncan, and ... Hill.
13.02.1919
Greenwich, London
-
28.10.1974
North Cleveland district
2nd Lt.
24.09.1942
WS/Lt.
24.03.1943
A?/Capt.
?
24.09.1942
 
 
commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]



7th Rajput Regiment
(1945)
 
 
"E" company, United Services Pre-Cadet College, Belgaum
Duncan,
R J

R.J. Duncan (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
?
-
2nd Lt.
25.06.1940
WS/Lt.
30.01.1941
T/Capt.
17.08.1941-(04.1946)
WS/Maj.
01.07.1946
T/Lt.Col.
01.07.1946-(12.1947)
25.06.1940
 
 
commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
(1947)
 
 
HQ Southern Command (Poona, India)
Dutta,
R C
R.C. Dutta (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
?
-
Maj.
(1947)
...
-
...
...
(1947)
 
 
HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
       

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