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1939-1945

 

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Garforth-Bles,
George David [Garforth]
G.D. Garforth-Bles
Son of Capt. George Marcus Garforth-Bles, of Manchester and Knutsford.
Married 1st (28.03.1939) Susan Muir-Mackenzie (marriage dissolved 1947); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1948) Ann Deshon; thee sons.

05.10.1909
Knutsford, Cheshire
-
27.09.2006
2nd Lt.
 		29.08.1931, seniority 30.01.1930 [IA 998]
Lt.
 		30.10.1932, seniority 30.04.1932
Capt.
 		01.08.1938
A/Maj.
 		10.09.1939-04.10.1939,
30.07.1942-03.10.1942
T/Maj.
 		04.10.1942-(01.1946)
Maj.
 		01.07.1946 (retd 02.01.1948)
A/Lt.Col.
 		(1946)
T/Lt.Col.
 		?
Hon. Lt.Col.
 		02.01.1948
Mention in Despatches MID
 19.09.1946
 Burma
Education: Rugby School; Jesus College, Cambridge University



from General List, Territorial Army
29.08.1931

commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
30.10.1932

commissioned, Indian Army
19131
 -
 		1939
 		The Guides Cavalry (10th Queen Victoria's Own Frontier Force) (NW  Frontier Force)
1937
 -
 		1937
 		course at the Army Equitation School, Saugor, Central India



4th Battalion, 3rd Madras Regiment (Burma; despatches)
Emigrated to Canada, where he took up the post of secretary at the Eglinton Hunt Club in Toronto. On his return to England, he ran a small family business.
Published: (with S.D. Clarke) Now or Never : the story of the 4th Battalion, the Madras Regiment in the Burma Campaign (1946)
Gellatly,
Cyril James
C.J. Gellatly 		?
-
2nd Lt.
 		22.08.1943
WS/Lt.
 		22.02.1944
A/Capt. ?
 		?
RAF:
Cadet Pilot
 		26.09.1951 [4080252]
(A) P/O (prob)
 		27.02.1952
P/O
 		03.12.1952
F/O
 		1953 (reld 22.09.1953)
22.08.1943

commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]



served with 11th Sikhs
1951
 -
 		1953
 		served with RAF
Hotel manager, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1960.
Gill,
Thomas
T. Gill
?
-
1990s
Padiham, Lancashire
L/Cpl.
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		30.05.1943 [RC 11021]
WS/Lt.
 		19.10.1943
T/Capt.
 		18.02.1944-(04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
 08.02.1945
 brave conduct during a fire at Bombay docks 04.44
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
 -
 -
Burma Star Bur St
 -
 -
Def M
 -
 -
BWM 39|45
 -
 -
30.05.1943

commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]



served Indian Army Ordnance Corps
Gilmore,
Scott
S. Gilmore 		?
USA
-
2nd Lt.
 		08.07.1943
WS/Lt.
08.01.1944
08.07.1943

commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (volunteered as an American citizen)



served 8th Gurkha Rifles (Burma)
Published: A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles: a Burma memoir (1995)
Goddard,
Eric Norman
E.N. Goddard (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
3rd son of late Arthur Goddard, Chartered Accountant, London.
Married (1939) Elizabeth Lynch, daughter of late Major Lynch Hamilton and Frances Prioleau; one son.
 		06.07.1897
-
11.06.1992
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2nd Lt.
 		?
...
 		...
Lt.Col.
 		16.12.1936
Col.
 		19.04.1939
A/Brig.
 		02.11.1940-01.05.1941
T/Brig.
 		02.05.1941-31.12.1942
A/Maj.Gen.
 		04.08.1942-31.12.1942
T/Maj.Gen.
 		01.01.1943-15.04.1944
Maj.Gen.
 		16.04.1944 (retd 11.1948)
A/Lt.Gen.
1947
Hon. Lt.Gen.
 		11.1948

CB 1947; CIE 1944; CBE 1942 (OBE 1919); MVO 1936; MC

Education: Dulwich College
15.11.1915

commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
18.11.1915
  
 		 
 		commissioned, Indian Army



service in Mesopotamia, Persia and Kurdistan, 1916-19 (despatches twice, OBE, MC); GSO3 AHQ India, 1923-25; 12th Frontier Force Regt, 1928; Staff College, Quetta, 1928-29; Brigade Major, Nowshera Brigade, 1932-34; Chitral relief, 1932 (despatches, bar to MC); Mohmand operations, 1933 (despatches); Bt Major, 1933; GSO2 Eastern Command, 1934-36; Officer i/c King's Indian Orderly Officers, 1936 (MVO 4th class); Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment, 1936
19.04.1939
 -
 		14.10.1940
 		Colonel in charge of Administration, Burma
02.11.1940
 -
 		13.01.1942
 		Brigade Commander
01.1942

Majord-General in charge of Administration Army in Burma
12.1941 - 12.1944 served in Burma and on Eastern front, including Maj.­Gen. i/c Administration 11th Army Group and Allied Land Forces SE Asia, 1943-44 (despatches four times, CIE,
CBE)
15.05.1945
 -
 		(01.1946)
 		special appointment
1947
 -
 		1948
 		General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command, India
Special appointment CCG, 1949-53; Dir of Civil Defence, North­Western Region (Manchester), 1955-63; Pres., East Lancs Br., British Red Cross, 1964-66.
Golding,
Cyril Frederick
C.F. Golding 		26.10.1894
Elham, Kent
-
01.07.1951
Lt.
 		08.02.1935, seniority 18.06.1930 [RO/3212]
Capt.
 		? (reld 14.08.1947)
T/Maj.
 		?
Hon. Maj.
 		14.08.1947
08.02.1935

commissioned, Army in India Reserve of Officers



served in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (Iraq, Burma & Malaya) (eventually as an Acting Lt.Col. ?)
 
Goodyer,
Ronald Charles John
R.C.J. Goodyer 		(03?.)1913
St Germans, Cornwall
-
c. 1955/56
Coventry area
(heart attack)
Cpl.
 		?
2nd Lt.
 		26.11.1942
WS/Lt.
 		26.05.1943
T/Capt.
 		27.06.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?
 		?
Education: Duke of York's School, Dover
26.11.1942

commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Graham,
John Onslow
J.O. Graham
Son of Herbert Walter Onslow Graham and Phyllis Ann Graham; husband of Kathleen Graham.
 		21.01.1916
-
03.01.1942
Kampar, Malaya
(KIA) [age 25]
[Taiping War Cemetery, 2.F.17]
2nd Lt. TA
 		08.07.1936
2nd Lt.
 		29.01.1938 [881/AI]
Lt.
01.10.1915
     

late Cadet Corporal, Tonbridge School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps

08.07.1936

commissioned, 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, Territorial Army (Bath)
29.01.1938

commissioned into the Army, Unattached List [permanent commission]
06.04.1939

commissioned into the Indian Army, General List
?
 -
 		03.01.1942
 		1st Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment
Green *,
Rodney
J.O. Graham
* changed last name in 1947 by deed poll to: Needham

Telegraph obituary 		15.05.1923
-
05.12.2006
2nd Lt.
 		?
Lt.
 		?
A/Capt.
 		?
?
 -
 		?
 		Captain, 4th Battalion, 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (India) (wounded)
Social anthropologist.
Grimshaw,
Ewing Henry Wrigley
"Harry"
E.H.W. Grimshaw

Telegraph obituary
 		30.06.1911
India
-
01.11.2007
Amesbury Abbey
2nd Lt.
 		29.01.1931 [50117]
Lt.
 		29.04.1933
Capt.
 		29.01.1939
A/Maj.
 		23.02.1941-22.05.1941
T/Maj.
 		23.05.1941-30.06.1941,
15.04.1944-14.07.1944
WS/Maj.
 		15.07.1944
Maj.
 		01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.
 		15.04.1944-14.07.1944
T/Lt.Col.
 		15.07.1944-13.08.1945,
01.07.1949-15.03.1953
A/Brig.
 		16.03.1945-15.09.1945
...
 		...
Maj.Gen.
 		22.01.1962 (retd 30.07.1965)
Companion of the Order of the Bath (Military Division) CB
 1965
 ?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE
 1957
 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 28.06.1945
 Burma
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
 10.06.1954
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 05.08.1943
 ?
Mention in Despatches MID
 05.04.1945
 ?
29.01.1931

commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
05.04.1932

commissioned, Indian Army



served War of 1939-1945: Western Desert & Burma (despatches twice)
06.04.1943
 -
 		15.04.1944
 		Brigade Major, ... (India)
16.03.1945
 -
 		04.03.1946
 		Commander, 161st Indian Brigade
03.10.1947

transferred, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers



active service in Malaya, 1948 and 1950, Kenya, 1954, Suez, 1956 and Cyprus, 1958; General Officer Commanding, 44th Division (TA) and Home Counties District, 1962-1965
Colonel, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1966-1968; Deputy Colonel, The Royal Irish Rangers, 1968-1973. Deputy Constable, Dover Castle, 1962-1965.
       

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