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Garforth-Bles,
George David [Garforth]
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.
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05.10.1909
Knutsford, Cheshire
-
27.09.2006
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2nd Lt.
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29.08.1931,
seniority 30.01.1930 [IA 998]
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Lt.
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30.10.1932,
seniority 30.04.1932
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Capt.
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01.08.1938
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A/Maj.
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10.09.1939-04.10.1939,
30.07.1942-03.10.1942
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T/Maj.
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04.10.1942-(01.1946)
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Maj.
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01.07.1946 (retd
02.01.1948)
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A/Lt.Col.
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(1946)
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T/Lt.Col.
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?
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Hon. Lt.Col.
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02.01.1948
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MID
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19.09.1946
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Burma
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Education: Rugby School; Jesus College, Cambridge
University
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from
General List, Territorial Army
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29.08.1931
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commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
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30.10.1932
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commissioned,
Indian Army
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19131
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-
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1939
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The Guides Cavalry (10th Queen
Victoria's Own Frontier Force) (NW Frontier Force)
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1937
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-
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1937
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course
at the Army Equitation School, Saugor, Central India
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4th Battalion, 3rd
Madras Regiment (Burma; despatches)
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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)
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Gellatly,
Cyril James
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?
-
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2nd Lt.
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22.08.1943
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WS/Lt.
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22.02.1944
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A/Capt. ?
|
?
|
RAF:
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Cadet Pilot
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26.09.1951
[4080252]
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(A) P/O (prob)
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27.02.1952
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P/O
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03.12.1952
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F/O
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1953 (reld
22.09.1953)
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22.08.1943
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commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
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served with
11th Sikhs
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1951
|
-
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1953
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served
with RAF
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Hotel manager, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1960.
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Genders,
Charles Herbert
Married (26.07.1939) Jean Paul Neilson, elder
daughter of Doctor & Mrs H. Ross Neilson, of Isle of Wight; ... children
(one son?).
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08.08.1904
-
05.1998
Horsham district, West Sussex
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L/Cpl.
|
?
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2nd Lt.
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29.01.1927
[37330]
|
T/Lt.
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25.10.1926-28.01.1930
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Lt.
|
29.01.1930
21.02.1936, seniority 29.04.1929 [AI 377]
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Capt.
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30.03.1936,
seniority 29.01.1936
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A/Maj.
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23.06.1941-22.09.1941
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T/Maj.
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23.09.1941-28.01.1944
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Maj.
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29.01.1944 (retd
23.04.1948)
|
T/Lt.Col.
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15.04.1944-(04.1946)
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Hon. Lt.Col.
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23.04.1948
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Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
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served
in the ranks for 6 years, 192 days, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
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29.01.1927
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commissioned,
Lincolnshire Regiment
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25.10.1926
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-
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21.09.1935
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employed
with King's African Rifles
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21.02.1936
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|
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transferred,
Indian Army
|
|
|
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1st
Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment
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25.11.1938
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-
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22.06.1941
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Staff
Captain, ...
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23.04.1948
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-
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24.04.1965
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Reserve
of Officers
|
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Ghosh,
D B
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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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Gill,
D R
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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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Gill,
Gurdial Singh
Son of Bir Singh Gill.
Married Rena Leighton, daughter of Alexander Lister.
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21.03.1896
-
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T/Lt.
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20.06.1923-19.06.1926
|
T/Capt.
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20.06.1926-25.08.1926
|
Lt.
|
26.08.1926
|
Capt.
|
26.08.1926,
seniority 20.06.1926
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Maj.
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20.12.1934,
seniority 20.12.1932
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Lt.Col.
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20.12.1942
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CIE
|
13.06.1946
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HM's
birthday 46: as Inspector of Prisons, Madras
|
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OBE
|
1942
|
?
|
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Education: Edinburgh Univeristy (MB and ChB, 1919)
1914
|
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entered
Indian Medical Service
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20.06.1923
|
-
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25.08.1926
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temporary
commission, Indian Medical Service
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26.08.1926
|
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commissioned,
Indian Medical Service
|
1941
|
-
|
1946?
|
Inspector-General
of Prisons, Madras
|
Did his medicine in Edinburgh, practised in
Bolton, and returned to India with his Scottish wife Rena, to join the Indian
Medical Service. In 1930, the IMS was abolished and its members were given the
option of joining the defense services or one of the quasi-military services.
Gurdial Singh chose the Prisons Service. With the IMS he had served several
years in northwest India. The Prisons Department posted him to the South - and,
in time, Rena and he preferred it here. When Gurdial Singh retired, he was
Inspector General of Prisons, Madras.
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Gill,
Thomas
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05.05.1917
-
01.2000
Padiham, Preston and South Ribble district,
Lancashire
|
L/Cpl.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.05.1943 [RC
11021]
|
WS/Lt.
|
19.10.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
18.02.1944-(04.1946)
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MID
|
08.02.1945
|
brave
conduct during a fire at Bombay docks 04.44
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39|45
St
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-
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Bur
St
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-
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-
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Def
M
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-
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-
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BWM
39|45
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-
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-
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30.05.1943
|
|
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commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
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served
Indian Army Ordnance Corps
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A teacher in later years and also a trustee of Padiham Building Society.
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Gilmore,
Scott
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?
USA
-
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2nd Lt.
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08.07.1943
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WS/Lt.
|
08.01.1944
|
|
08.07.1943
|
|
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commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission] (volunteered as an American citizen)
|
|
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served 8th
Gurkha Rifles (Burma)
|
Published: A
Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles: a Burma memoir (1995)
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Goddard,
Eric Norman

3rd son of late Arthur Goddard, Chartered
Accountant, London.
Married (1939) Elizabeth Lynch, daughter of late Major Lynch Hamilton and
Frances Prioleau; one son.
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06.07.1897
Lambeth district, Greater London
-
11.06.1992
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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2nd Lt.
|
?
|
...
|
...
|
Lt.Col.
|
16.12.1936
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Col.
|
19.04.1939
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A/Brig.
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02.11.1940-01.05.1941
|
T/Brig.
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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
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CB 1947; CIE 1944; CBE 1942 (OBE 1919); MVO
1936; MC
|
Education: Dulwich College
15.11.1915
|
|
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commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
18.11.1915
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
|
|
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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
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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.
|
Godenho,
T B
|
?
-
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
Gokhale,
M A
|
?
-
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
Golding,
Cyril Frederick
|
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. ?)
|
|
Goodway,
Cyril Ernest Francis
|
1910 ?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
10.11.1940 [EC
1024]
|
WS/Lt.
|
14.01.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
14.01.1942-05.11.1943
|
WS/Capt.
|
06.11.1943
|
A/Maj.
|
06.08.1943-05.11.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
06.11.1943-(04.1946)
|
|
10.11.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
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served
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
|
|
Goodyer,
Ronald Charles John
Son of ... Goodyer, and ... Waghorn.
|
(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]
|
|
Goring,
Arthur
|
25.01.1907
Richmond district, Surrey
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.08.1926
|
Lt.
|
30.08.1929
|
Lt. (IA)
|
24.03.1930,
seniority 30.11.1928
|
Capt.
|
30.08.1935
|
Maj.
|
30.08.1940
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
01.05.1942-31.07.1942
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
01.08.1942-(04.1944),
15.08.1944-(01.1946)
|
|
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff
College (psc)
30.08.1926
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Royal Fusiliers
|
24.03.1930
|
|
|
transferred,
Probyn's Horse - Indian Army
|
15.09.1934
|
-
|
05.06.1936
|
ADC
to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India
|
16.07.1940
|
-
|
(04.)1941
|
General
Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Military Operations and
Intelligence, General Staff Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India
|
1941
|
-
|
12.1941
|
attached
HQ Staff, Hong Kong (escaped)
|
Fruit Farm and Nurseries at Dince
Hill, Whimple, in the county of Devon till 1954. OStJ, 28.06.1957. CStJ,
12.1960.
|
Graham,
John Onslow
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
|
|
Grant,
Frederick William
Son of Frederick William Grant, Sub-Conductor in the Indian Army and formerly of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry.
Married (1929, Cawnpore) ... Hazells.
|
03.03.1903
Poona, India
-
08.1995
Poole, Dorset
|
Staff Sgt.
|
(1929)
|
Sub-Conductor
|
(1934)
|
Conductor
|
?
|
Assistant
Commissary (Lt.)
|
01.10.1940
|
WS/Capt.
|
15.04.1941
|
T/Maj.
|
25.12.1942-(04.1946)
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
10.03.1943-(04.1944)
|
|
01.10.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
Indian Army Ordnance Corps
|
(04.1944)
|
|
|
specially
employed
|
|
Grant,
Harold James
|
22.10.1920
Ranchi, India
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.07.1941
|
WS/Lt.
|
18.11.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
15.03.1943-(04.1947)
|
T/Maj. ?
|
?
|
Hon. Maj. ?
|
?
|
|
05.07.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served Royal Garwhal Rifles
(Burma & Italy)
|
|
Greedy,
William
|
19.07.1900
-
|
Assistant
Commissary (Lt.)
|
09.03.1942
|
A/Deputy
Commissary (A/Capt.)
|
15.02.1942-14.05.1942
|
T/Deputy
Commissary (T/Capt.)
|
15.05.1942-(01.1946)
|
WS/Capt.
|
30.11.1943
|
A/Maj.
|
30.08.1943-29.11.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
30.11.1943-(04.1947)
|
|
|
|
|
temporary
commission
|
09.03.1942
|
|
|
permanent
commission, Indian Army Departments
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
Green
*,
Rodney
* changed last name in 1947 by deed poll to: Needham
|
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"
|
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)
|
|
CB
|
1965
|
?
|
|
CBE
|
1957
|
?
|
|
DSO
|
28.06.1945
|
Burma
|
|
OBE
|
10.06.1954
|
?
|
|
MID
|
05.08.1943
|
?
|
|
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.
|
Gurdial
Singh
|
15.06.1908
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
31.01.1929 [IA
935]
|
Lt.
|
30.04.1931
|
Capt.
|
31.01.1938
|
Maj.
|
31.01.1946
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
(1947)
|
|
31.01.1929
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
25.03.1930
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
|
|
|
|
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