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Hadden, George	? -	Wt.Offr. ? Assistant Commissary (with rank of Lt.) 16.02.1944 (reld > 04.1947)	16.02.1944     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission]
Haddon, David Alfred Son of English parents who have moved to Scotland. Married (wife died 2001); two sons.	24.09.1920 Hamilton, Scotland - 08.2007 still alive in Canada	L/Cpl. 1942 2nd Lt. 24.09.1942 Lt. 23.07.1944? A/Capt. 01.09.1943-22.07.1944, 11.1944-08.1946	Education: started studying at Glasgow University when war broke out (till 1941) 07.07.1941 conscripted into British Army (Royal Armoured Corps) (Catterick Camp, Yorkshire) 1942? 2-month passage to India in the troopship Cameronia ? - 23.09.1942 Officers' Training School, Mhow (India) 24.09.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 24.09.1942 - 31.08.1943 "A" Company, 1st/4th Bombay Grenadiers (Nasirabad, India [till 12.1942], Iraq) 01.09.1943 - 22.07.1944 Captain Second-in-Command, 252nd Indian Armoured Brigade HQ Squadron (Iraq, Egypt) 02.1944 - 03.1944 attended Middle East Training Centre for 6 weeks (Gaza, Palestine) 22.07.1944 - 06.08.1946 "A" Company, from 11.1944 Motor Transport Officer, 1st/4th Bombay Grenadiers [11.1945 renamed Indian Grenadiers] (Egypt, Syria & Lebanon, returned to India, repatriated and demobilized) In 1951 emigrated with wife and baby to Canada and have lived in the Toronto area ever since.
Haimes, Brian Joseph Son of William Joseph Haimes, and Winifred May McKeown. Married (03.1946) Joan Mary Theresa Collins (died 02.2009); two sons, five daughters.	22.11.1923 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 05.2009 still alive in the north of England	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 06.09.1942 WS/Lt. 06.03.1943 (reld > 04.1947) WS/Capt. 1947? A/Maj.? 1947? Capt. 14.04.1954, seniority 30.11.1951 [431405] Maj. 22.08.1959, seniority 02.01.1958 (reld 22.11.1969) ERD 15.07.1966 -	Education: St Joseph's College, Liverpool; John Fisher School, Purley. originally volunteered for the RAF but was found to be too shortsighted for flying duties and subsequently enlisted with the Black Watch as an Officer Cadet 06.09.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served Royal Indian Army Service Corps (1943/44?) posted the Rawalpindi, Chaklala Air Base where he subsequently became commandant of the Air Supply Depot with [acting?] rank of Captain spent a period of time immediately after VE-Day on attachment in Berlin before returning to India 14.04.1954 - 01.04.1967 commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers 01.04.1967 - 22.11.1969 commissioned, Royal Corps of Transport - Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve [exceeded age limit] On Partition of India (1947) he went to Perth, Australia where he entered university and subsequently gained a scholarship to Magdelene College, Oxford.  On leaving Oxford University he joined the Royal Dutch Shell Group from which he retired in 1978 and now lives in the north of England.
Hall, Robert William	07.03.1918 - 09.1988 Gloucester district, Gloucestershire	Sub-Conductor ? 2nd Lt. 21.05.1944 [EC 13425] WS/Lt. 21.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)	21.05.1944     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]       served 14 Punjab Regiment
Halliwell, Edwin "Ted" Married Margaret (née ...).	1920 ? - 07.03.2007 Bushey, Hertfordshire [aged 87]	2nd Lt. 16.01.1942 WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 T/Capt. 19.04.1944-(04.1946)	16.01.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served Probyns Horse Former headmaster Ashfield School.
Hamilton, Robert	? -	2nd Lt. 22.11.1942 [EC 6689] WS/Lt. 22.05.1943 28.03.1945, seniority 22.09.1943 (reld < 04.1947)	22.11.1942     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Happell, William Horatio Son of W.A. Happell, Indian Colonial Service. Married (1925) Ivy Ellen Grimley.	15.04.1890 Edmonton - 04.02.1971 Dulwich	2nd Lt. 18.09.1909 [1408] Lt. 18.12.1911 Capt. 01.09.1915 A/Maj. 18.01.1918-07.02.1918 T/Maj. 29.09.1919-31.12.1919 Maj. 18.09.1925 Lt.Col. 18.09.1935 Bt. Col. 22.08.1938 Col. 18.09.1939, seniority 22.08.1938 (retd 29.04.1944) T/Brig. 22.08.1938-01.01.1944 Hon. Brig. 29.04.1944 CIE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 MID 27.08.1918 ?	Education: Tonbridge; Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 18.09.1909 commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 28.03.1914 transferred, Indian Army 04.1915 - 11.1915 SSO served with the 99th Deccan Infantry during its service on the NW Frontier (Mahsud campaign) [Mahsud (02.03.1918)], then Iraq (10.04.1917-31.10.1918) 29.09.1919 - 31.12.1919 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Mesopotamian Expeditionery Force 04.05.1920 - 23.07.1920 Staff Captain, Mesopotamian Expeditionery Force 09.1920 - 07.02.1922 various staff posts in Iraq 08.02.1922 - 29.05.1922 Staff Captain, Iraq Expeditionery Force (temporary) 30.05.1922 - 30.09.1922 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Mesopotamian Expeditionery Force 25.05.1927 - 15.11.1929 Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General, India 16.11.1929 - 14.02.1930 Assistant Judge Advocate General (Extra), India 15.02.1930 - 29.02.1936 Assistant Judge Advocate General, India 01.03.1936 - 21.08.1938 Deputy Judge Advocate General, India 22.08.1938 - 01.01.1944 Judge Advocate General, Adjutant-General's Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India
Hardaker, Marcus William Bennett	28.02.1899 -	Gnr. WW I [158025] Sgt. WW I [1411482] Conductor ? Asst. Commissary (with rank of Lt.) 14.07.1936 Deputy Commissary (with rank of Capt.) 07.04.1939 Commissary (with rank of Maj.) 28.05.1941 WS/Lt.Col. ? (retd 30.06.1948) Hon. Col. 30.06.1948 MBE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 BWM 14|20 ? ? VM ? ? Ind Gen SM ? & clasp Iraq	31.03.1917 enlisted, Royal Garrisson Artillery (British Army) 04.12.1918     transferred as Warrant Officer, Indian Army Ordnance Corps 14.07.1936 commissioned, Indian Army Department served Indian Army Ordnance Corps 1947?     Special List (ex-Indian Army) [personal number 61810]
Harkirat Singh	07.04.1911 -	2nd Lt. 02.02.1933 ... ... T/Maj. 12.08.1943-(01.1946) T/Brig. ? ?	02.02.1933     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 15.12.1935 commissioned, Indian Army ... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Harper, James Gordon Married Roberta (née ...); one son, one daughter.	26.09.1915 Chorlton district, Lanscashire - 23.02.2007	2nd Lt. 30.01.1936 Lt. 30.04.1938 A/Capt. 20.02.1941-19.05.1941 T/Capt. 20.05.1941-30.12.1942, 13.07.1943-13.01.1944 WS/Capt. 14.01.1944 Capt. 30.01.1944 A/Maj. 14.10.1943-13.01.1944 T/Maj. 14.01.1944-16.09.1946 WS/Maj. 17.09.1946 Maj. 30.01.1949 (emp. List 5 12.07.1962-15.06.1965) (retd 26.09.1970) A/Lt.Col. 17.06.1946-16.09.1946 T/Lt.Col. 17.09.1946-05.11.1946	30.01.1936 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 30.03.1937 commissioned, Indian Army 7th Rajput Regiment Special List (ex-Indian Army) 02.05.1948 transferred, Royal Army Service Corps 15.07.1965 transferred, Royal Corps of Transport
Harper-Nelson, John Joseph	see:	Nelson, John Joseph Harper
Harris, Dennis	? -	Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 05.09.1943 WS/Lt. 05.03.1944	05.09.1943 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission]
Hartwell, John Redmond Son of Sydney Charles Elphinstone Hartwell (1844-1899), and Marian Janette Hartwell (née Jenkins). Married 1st (1911) Nina Oliver (marriage dissolved, 1921), daughter of General G.F.W. St John; one daughter. Married 2nd (1929) Hazel Hay (died 1945), younger daughter of Sir John Benton, KCIE, widow of Captain Liston, IA; one son. Married 3rd (1946) Edith Elizabeth, daughter of late F.W. Frosdyke.	07.05.1887 Naini Tal, West Bengal, India - 19.09.1970 Eastbourne, Sussex	2nd Lt. 24.01.1906 [80089] Lt. 24.04.1908 Capt. 24.01.1915 A/Maj. 05.07.1917-04.09.1917, 21.03.1918-19.05.1918, 19.07.1918-14.09.1918 Maj. 24.01.1921 Lt.Col. 06.09.1930 (Unemployed List 28.10.1934-30.10.1934) Col. 29.03.1935, seniority 06.09.1933 (Semi-Effective List 29.03.1938-19.08.1938) T/Brig. 23.10.1938-15.01.1941 A/Maj.Gen. 26.10.1940-15.01.1941 Maj.Gen. 16.01.1941, seniority 22.04.1940 (retd 31.05.1943) CB 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 DSO 03.06.1916 distinguished service in the field	Education: Radley; Royal Military College, Sandhurst 24.01.1906 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army): 89th Royal Irish Fusiliers 18.03.1907 commissioned, Indian Army 1907 - 1928 1/4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles 1914 - 1918 served in France and Belgium, Gallipoli Egypt, NW India, Baluchistan (wounded; despatches, DSO) 25.08.1914 - 02.11.1914 AESO 14.03.1919 - 07.05.1919 Staff Captain, ... (India) 08.05.1919 - 16.10.1920 Personal Assistant to Quartermaster-General, Army HQ, India 17.11.1920 - 14.04.1921 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Egyptian Expeditionery Force (temporary) 01.07.1922 - 27.02.1923 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Army HQ, India 1927     Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), Shanghai Defence Force 1928 transferred, 1st Battalion 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles) 06.09.1930 - 27.10.1934 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles 29.03.1935 - 28.03.1938 Instructor, Senior Officers' School, Belgaum, India 23.10.1938 - 1940 Brigade Commander, Sind (Independent) Brigade Area, Karachi 26.10.1940 - 1943 Commander, Kohat District, North West Frontier Province Represented Radley at cricket, rackets, and fives, and RMC at these and hockey; Army Lawn Tennis VI, 1926; and won Indian Army Lawn Tennis Singles, 1924 and 1925 and doubles 1925 and 1926.
Harty, Arthur Henry Son of Theophilus Harty (1858-1943), overseer to a plantation in Clarendon, and M.E. Fowles. Married (06.11.1919, Dover, Kent) Gladys Maud Davies, daughter of the late Lt.Col. Henry Davies, CMG; one son, one daughter (and one son deceased). Father of Lt.Cdr. (E) Richard Harty, RN (1920-1970).	13.08.1890 - 19.10.1977 Kingston, Jamaica	Capt. 24.11.1919, seniority 17.07.1916 Maj. 07.02.1926 Lt.Col. 07.02.1934 Col. 09.08.1943, seniority 07.02.1937 Maj.Gen. 12.11.1946 CIE 1942 ?	Education: Jamaica College, Jamaica; Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (MB, BS 1912); MRCS (England) & LRCP (London) (1914) 08.1914 joined Royal Navy as a Surgeon; served in Grand Fleet and Mediterranean Fleet in European War 24.11.1919 commissioned, Indian Medical Service 1920 - 1923 served in Burma 1923 - 1942 Bombay Presidency and Sind 1942 - 1945 Inspector-General, Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces 1945 - 1948 Surgeon-General, Bombay 23.08.1945 - 1948 King's Honorary Physician Officer, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (OStJ), 01.07.1944.
Harvey, [Sir] Charles Offley ° Wikipedia ° papers	16.07.1888 Eastbourne district, Sussex - 11.10.1969	2nd Lt. 09.09.1908 ... ... Col. 15.08.1936, seniority 01.01.1934 T/Brig. 24.04.1939-11.03.1941 A/Maj.Gen. 15.10.1940-11.03.1941 Maj.Gen. 12.03.1941, seniority 22.04.1940 (retd 01.04.1947) Kt, 1946; CB 1941; CVO 1922; CBE 1922; MC and Bar; LLD (Hon.)	09.09.1908 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) ... - ... ... 24.04.1939 - 14.10.1940 Commander, Wana Brigade (India) 1940 - 1942 General Officer Commanding, 8th Indian Division 1943 - 1946 Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian States Forces Colonel, KGO Central India Horse, 23.12.1944.
Hatton, Thomas Ellis "Tim"	? -	2nd Lt. 15.10.1944 [EC 15159]	Private, The Queen's Regiment 15.10.1944 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 9th Gurkha Rifles Tim Hatton volunteered for the army at the age of seventeen, and was commissioned into the 9th Gurkha Rifles, with whom he served in Malaya, Indonesia, Thailand and India during Partition. He was a member of the Malayan Police Service from 1948 to 1967, serving throughout the two Malayan Emergencies, and retiring as Acting Director of the Malaysian Special Branch. He was awarded the Colonial Police Medal and the OBE. On returning to the UK he became a principal in the Development Commission. Since 1982 he has been heavily involved in education, as Clerk to the Governors of the Haberdasher's Aske Schools and Director of the United Westminster Schools Foundation. He currently lives in Salisbury, where he is an official guide to the cathedral. Published: Tock tock birds (2004; memoir)
Hawkins, Edward John Son of Edward William, Postmaster at Madras, and Maude Elizabeth Hawkins. Married; ... children (one son?).	21.01.1898 Madras -	2nd Lt. 15.01.1942	15.01.1942 commissioned, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers [emergency commission] [Possibly Divisional Engineer, Major P&T Signals. Born Madras India 1898.]
Hawkins, George Ledsam Seymour Son of George Ezar Hawkins (c. 1841-1917), and Constance Caroline Boyce (1869-c. 1950), of Apton Hall, Rochford, Essex. Married (1921) Katharine Marian (died 1957), daughter of George Hancock, Templecombe, Somerset; one daughter, one son deceased.	13.05.1898 Freebridge Lynn district, Norfolk - 11.1978 Dereham, Norwich district, Norfolk [buried 14.11.1978 at Bylaugh Cemetery]	2nd Lt. SRO 15.08.1914 2nd Lt. 29.03.1918, seniority 13.05.1917 Lt. 13.11.1918 A/Capt. 02.10.1918-03.04.1919 Indian Army:   Lt. 07.12.1923, seniority 15.05.1916 Capt. 07.12.1923, seniority 13.05.1919 Maj. 13.05.1933 Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1934 Bt. Col. 24.05.1936, seniority 24.05.1935 Col. 01.07.1938, seniority 24.05.1935 A/Brig. ? Maj.Gen. 12.04.1942 (retd 06.04.1945) CB 01.01.1943 New Year 43 MC ? ?	15.08.1914 - 28.03.1918 mobilized Special Reserve of Officers for 3 years, 226 days (served European War (MC), France and Belgium) 08.1914 commissioned, 4th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment 1915     transferred, Royal Field Artillery 29.03.1918     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery 07.12.1923 transferred, Indian Army 04.07.1928 - 07.08.1933 Commandant, Indian Army Ordnance Corps School (India) 28.03.1936 - 29.11.1937 Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS), India (served North West Frontier (Waziristan)) (despatches) 30.11.1937 - 1941 Ordnance Consulting Officer, India Office 07.06.1941 - 1945 Director of Ordnance Services, India HQ Staff Colonel Commandant, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, 1945-1956; Regional Director, Southern Region Ministry of Works, 1945-1957.
Haylock, Stanley William	31.07.1897 Basford district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire -	2nd Lt. 11.04.1917 [943 IA & 402440] ... ... Lt.Col. 23.03.1943 (retd 04.02.1949) T/Col. 21.06.1942-(01.1946) T/Brig. 17.04.1946-(04.1947) Hon. Brig. 04.02.1949 OBE 16.08.1938 Waziristan 37	11.04.1917 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 25.11.1917 commissioned, Indian Army 28.03.1937 - 31.05.1940 Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), India (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Hazells, Colin Leslie Donne	? -	Pte. ? [24418] Sgt. (1919?) Sub-Conductor 09.1920 Assistant Commissary (Lt.) 29.07.1940 A/Maj. (1942) WS/Maj. 01.11.1943 (reld > 12.1947) A/Lt.Col. 08.1943-31.10.1943 T/Lt.Col. 01.11.1943-(04.1947) BWM 14|20 ? ? VM ? ? Ind Gen SM ? & clasp Waziristan 21-24 LSGCM 04.1936 ?	Living in Madras and working as a shopkeeper. 22.05.1917     enlisted, 2nd Battalion The Dorset Regiment (served in Mesopotamia);  03.1919 re-enlisted as a regular serviceman 09.1920     transferred, Indian Army Ordnance Corps (serving in Rawalpindi) 29.07.1940     commissioned, Indian Army Departments [emergency commission] served Royal Indian Army Ordnance Corps (1942)     Standardization Officer, IGS Cawnpore 12.1942     Officer Commanding, O.I.D. Delhi Fort 08.1943 DIS&C Bombay Area 04.1946     AIGS Central India Area 07.1946 DIS&C Bengal Area
Heath, Sir Lewis Macclesfield "Piggy" Son of Col Lewis Forbes Heath, ISC. Married 1st (1915) Marjorie (died 1930s?), daughter of late Brig.Gen. Arthur Blanchard Hawley Drew, CIE; three sons, two daughters. Married 2nd (1941)  Katherine Margaret (died 1984), daughter of the later T.A. Lonergan, Auckland, NZ; one son.	23.11.1885 India - 10.01.1954 Bath	2nd Lt. 18.01.1905 [93958] Lt. 18.04.1907 Capt. 18.01.1914 A/Maj. 03.02.1916-13.02.1916 T/Maj. 30.05.1919-26.09.1919 Maj. 18.01.1920 Bt. Lt.Col. 01.01.1929 Lt.Col. 06.12.1929 Bt. Col. 06.05.1932, seniority 06.05.1931 Col. 09.01.1934, seniority 06.05.1931 local Brig. 16.01.1936-15.07.1936 T/Brig. 16.07.1936-19.01.1939 Maj.Gen. 20.01.1939 (semi-effective lsit 24.04.1939-20.10.1939) A/Lt.Gen. 26.04.1941-09.05.1941 Lt.Gen. 10.05.1941 (retd 13.04.1946) KBE 30.05.1941 East Africa CB 02.01.1939 New Year 39 CIE 03.06.1921 East Persia DSO 08.09.1933 Chitral Reliefs 09-10.32 MC 22.12.1916 Mesopotamia MID 01.04.1941 Middle East 08.39-11.40 MID 30.12.1941 Middle East MID 19.12.1946 Malaya	Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst 18.01.1905 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 15.03.1906 commissioned, Indian Army (19th Punjabis) 20.12.1909 - 25.01.1913 employed with King's African Rifles 1914 - 1919 served artillery in European War (Egypt & Mesopotamia) (wounded [lost an eye and suffered permanent injury to his left arm]; despatches, MC) 30.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), ... (India & Afghanistan) 09.08.1919 - 26.09.1919 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), ... (India) 1919 - 1921 Commandant Seistan Levy Corps (East Persia) (CIE) 21.11.1924 - 05.07.1928 Assistant Commandant & Commandant Indian Wing, Army School of Education, India 1928     10/14 Punjab Regiment 1929 - 1933 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion (King George's Own) (Ferozepore Sikhs) 11th Sikh Regiment (served NW Frontier of India 1930 (despatches; Bt Col.) & 1932 (despatches; DSO)) 09.01.1934 - 15.07.1936 Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Senior Officers' School, Belgaum, India 16.01.1936 - 15.07.1936 specially employed, India 16.07.1936 - 23.04.1939 Brigade Commander, Wana Brigade (India) [1937 served NW Frontier of India (despatches)] 21.10.1939 - (07?).1940 General Officer Commanding, Deccan District (India) (temporary) (07?).1940 - 25.04.1941 General Officer Commanding, 7th Indian Division (Sudan) (temporary) 26.04.1941 - 15.02.1942 Commander, III Indian Corps (Malaya; captured) 1942 - 1945 prisoner of war in Japanese captivity (Singapore, Formosa and Manchukuo (Manchuria))
Hedley, Robert Cecil Osborne Son of late Major R.C. Hedley, Corbridge, Northumberland. Married (1945) Lucy, daughter of late J.D.N. Strang and Mrs Strang, Oakwood, Hexham, Northumberland.	31.10.1900 Hexham, Northumberland - 19.11.1973 Haydon Bridge, Northumberland	2nd Lt. 24.12.1920 [63963] Lt. 24.03.1923 Capt. 24.12.1928 Maj. 01.08.1938 A/Lt.Col. 30.07.1942-29.10.1942 T/Lt.Col. 30.10.1942-(01.1946) A/Col. 04.05.1944-(01.1946) Col. 08.01.1947 (retd 08.06. 1952) A/Brig. 31.05.1944-(01.1946) T/Brig. ? T/Maj.Gen. 19.09.1950-14.02.1952 Hon. Maj.Gen. 08.06.1952 CB 19.10.1951 Malaya CBE 26.06.1947 Sumatra DSO 1944 Burma DSO 21.06.1945 Burma DSO 28.06.1945 Burma MID 15.12.1942 Middle East MID 1944? Burma MID 08.04.1949 Malaya MID 13.12.1949 Malaya IGS Medal with clasp, Waziristan, 1923-1924; NW Frontier Clasp to IGS Medal, 1930.  Sumatra (Gen. Service Medal and Clasp); Malaya (clasp)	Education: St Bees School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst 24.12.1920 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 10.03.1922 commissioned, Indian Army 1923 Lieut 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 03.02.1935 - 17.12.1938 Company Officer (Instructor), Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1941 - 1942 Deputy Assistant Military Secretary, GHQ, Middle East Forces 1942 - 1944 Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 31.05.1944 - 09.07.1945 Commander, 48th Indian Infantry Brigade (Burma) 1945 - 1946 HQ Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA) 30.01.1946 - 11.1946 General Officer Commanding, 26th Indian Infantry Division (Sumatra) 1947 Commandant, School of Infantry, Mhow 1948 Brigadier Commanding British Gurkha Troops in India 1948 - 1949 Brigadier Commanding Johore Sub-District, Malaya 1949 - 1950 Commander, 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade 19.09.1950 - 07.05.1952 Maj.Gen. Bde of Gurkhas, and GOC South Malaya District 12.09.1952 - 01.11.1958 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] Schools Liaison Officer, Western Command, 1952-1961.
Hemingway, Eugene Percival Son of John William Hemingway, and Norah Chinal. Married (09.10.1935) Doris Violet Wood (died 04.05.2007); two daughters, one son.	21.08.1913 Fategarh, India - 01.12.1993 Auckland, New Zealand [his ashes were scattered at the War Memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand]	Gunner 13.09.1934 [788729] Sgt. Art. Clerk 1940? QMS Art. Clerk 1942? 2nd Lt. 08.07.1943 [EC 10856] WS/Lt. 08.08.1943 A/Capt. 23.03.1944-20.06.1944 T/Capt. 21.06.1944-..., 10.07.1944-(04.1946) Capt. 21.06.1948 WS/Maj. 20.01.1948 A/Lt.Col. 20.08.1947-07.01.1947, 10.01.1948-19.01.1948 T/Lt.Col. 20.01.1948-20.02.1948 39|45 St - - Afr St - - Bur St - - Def M - - BWM 39|45 - Indep M - -	13.09.1934     enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery 13.09.1934 - 07.10.1940 8th Field Regiment RA 22.08.1940 - 01.03.1943 served 7th Armoured Division / 5th Indian Infantry Division / HQ 9th Army / GHQ Paiforce (Middle East Forces) (Egypt, Sudan Eritrea 22.08.1940-15.07.1941, Palestine, Lebanaon 16.07.1941-15.10.1942, Iraq 16.10.1942-01.03.1943): 08.10.1940 - 07.07.1941 GHQ 02E (Br) 08.07.1941 - 15.11.1941 28th Field Regiment RA 15.11.1941 - 28.10.1942 HQ 9th Army 29.10.1942 - 01.03.1943 GHQ Paiforce 14.03.1943 - 07.07.1943 Officer Training School, Belgaum (India) 08.07.1943 commissioned, Royal Indian Army Service Corps - Indian Army [emergency commission to 31.12.1947] 08.07.1943 - 04.08.1943 officiating Officer Commanding, 75th Air Transport Company RIASC (Nowshera) 05.08.1943 - 05.11.1943 YO [= Young Officers' ?] course, RIASC School, Kakul (India) 12.12.1943 - 07.01.1944 Air Despatch, Chaklala (India) 27.02.1944 - 28.04.1947 HQ 14th Army (South East Asia Command): 27.02.1944 - 28.04.1944 4th Indian Company RIASC (AD) (Argatarla) (Platoon Commander, from 23.03.1944 Second-in-Command, from 21.04.1944 officiating Officer Commanding) 29.04.1944 - 10.07.1946 attached officer, SPCR Ferozepore 11.07.1946 - 07.08.1947 establishment officer, RIASC Records (MT) Lucknow 08.08.1947 - 07.02.1948 HQ No. 1 RAMO Calcutta and Delhi [from 01.01.1948 on a short service commission [SS 15334]] 08.02.948 - 01.02.1951 Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies & Transport, HQ Calcutta Sub Area: 08.02.1948 - 10.04.1948 117th Company RIASC (GT) (Calcutta) 11.04.1948 - 20.06.1948 officiating DADS&T, HQ Calcutta Sub Area (Calcutta) 21.06.1948 - 03.10.1948 12th Company RIASC (Supplies) [administrative posting only] 04.10.1948 - 01.02.1951 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Staff Duties), HQ Calcutta Sub Area (Calcutta) Moved to New Zealand arriving 24.05.1951 on the SS Rangitira at Auckland.
Hemingway, William Frederick	20.11.1903 -	2nd Lt. 23.04.1941 [EC 2150] T/Lt. 23.07.1941 WS/Capt. ? (reld 07.03.1946) T/Maj. ? Hon. Maj. 07.03.1946	served Middle East Land Forces & South East Asia Command: 23.04.1941     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] Officer Commanding, 318th Indian Railway Bridge Construction Company
Henderson, A G	? -	Lt. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Hill, Herbert Lawrence	04.08.1899 Chester district, Cheshire / Flintshire - 05.04.1955 Jhelum, Pakistan	2nd Lt. 21.08.1918 [AI 906] Lt. 21.08.1919 Capt. 21.08.1923 Maj. 21.08.1936 A/Lt.Col. 03.10.1940-02.01.1941 T/Lt.Col. 03.01.1941-20.08.1944 Lt.Col. 21.08.1944 A/Col. ? Col. 01.10.1947, seniority 21.08.1947 T/Brig. ? (T/?)Maj.Gen. ? CBE 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 52 OBE 1941/42? ? MID 19.12.1946 Malaya 42 MID 25.09.1947 POW Far East	Education: Staff College (psc) 21.08.1918     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 11.01.1919 commissioned, Indian Army 18.05.1935 - 14.03.1938 Staff Captain, Kohat District, Northern Command, India 15.03.1938 - 17.05.1939 Brigade Major, Quetta Brigade, Baluchistan District, Western Command, India 16.10.1940 - (04.1941) Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), ... (India) ? - 02.1942 [Commanding Officer?], 19th Hyderabad Regiment [escaped Singapore on the motor launch "Mary Rose" 14.02.1942, which was, however, intercepted by the Japanese] 02.1942 - 1945 in Japanese captivity at Muntok, and from 1945 at Changi in Singapore 01.09.1948     retired, but continued to be borne on the Special List (ex-Indian Army) British Army while employed with the Pakistan Armed Forces
Hill, John Edwin Francis Son of a prison officer.	10.10.1911 Calcutta, India - 25.03.1975 Australia	2nd Lt. 06.02.1944 [EC 12409] WS/Lt. 06.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946) A?/Capt. ? ?	officer training at Belgaum 06.02.1944     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Hilton, Thomas Son of Mr Alfred Hilton, and Helen Hilton (née Ramsden), of Bolton, Lancashire. Married (10.1945, New Delhi) Ada Macmillan (she was a QARANC); one son, one daughter.	22.11.1912 Little Hulton, Bolton district, Lancashire - 05.1990 Pwllheli and Porthmadog district, Gwynedd	2nd Lt. 29.11.1941 WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld early 1946) A/Capt. ? ? A/Maj. ? 1946? MID ? ?	29.11.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] Adjutant, 14/12 Frontier Force Regiment Postings Branch, Adjutant-General's Staff, GHQ India
Hiran, C S	? -	Maj. (1947)	... - ... ... (1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
Hobbs, Thomas Edgar Son of ... Hobbs, and ... Jarvis.	30.10.1919 Luton district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire - 24.03.1988 Surrey	L/Cpl. ? 2nd Lt. 10.07.1941 [EC 2869] WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 T/Capt. ? WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 WS/Capt. 01.11.1945, seniority 03.02.1944 [358675] A/Maj. ? MID 19.07.1945 Italy	served in World War II: fought in Burma, was wounded, sent to Poona and returned to active service behind enemy lines: 10.07.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 7th Gurkha Rifles (Italy) 01.11.1945 transferred, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Hodding, Charles	? - early 1950s	Lt. ? T/Capt. ? Capt. 01.05.1922 (retd) 2nd Lt. 23.04.1941 WS/Lt. 02.11.1941 T/Capt. 02.11.1941-(04.1946) local Maj. 10.05.1943-(04.1944) Lt.Col. ? ? MBE 01.01.1945 New Year 45 MC 03.06.1919 HM's birthday 19: Aden Peninsula   VD ? ?	1910s? - 1930s? served Reserve of Officers, Indian Army: (1919) Aden Machine Gun Company [ 1933 East Coast Battalion ? ] 23.04.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] (04.1944) specially employed
Hodgkinson, Frank Outram Married ((03?).1921, Nottingham) ... Murrell.	27.09.1900 - 02.1986 Worthing, West Sussex	2nd Lt. 16.07.1921 [IA 416] Capt. ? Maj. 16.07.1938 T/Lt.Col. ? Lt.Col. 18.12.1946 (retd 01.01.1949)	16.07.1921 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 20.11.1921 commissioned, Indian Army (attached 61st Pioneers) ? - 01.01.1933 ADC to His Excellency the Governor of Burma (01.1939)     seconded (11.1939) - (04.1946) not listed in the Army List
Hopper, John Lawrence	? -	2nd Lt. 29.03.1941 A/Maj. ? ?	29.03.1941 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] served Frontier Force Rifles (India / Burma)
Horsford, Derek Gordon Thomond	07.02.1917 Kensington, Greater London - 05.10.2007 Motcombe ?	2nd Lt. 28.01.1937 ... ... T/Lt.Col. 12.08.1944-30.08.1946 ... ... Maj.Gen. 15.07.1966, seniority 14.04.1966 (retd 24.02.1972) CBE 1962 ? DSO 28.06.1945 ? DSO 17.01.1946 ? MBE 08.12.1953 ? MID 25.01.1943 ? MID 10.01.1946 ?	28.01.1937 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 09.04.1938     commissioned, Indian Army 1944 - 1945 Commanding Officer, 4/1 Gurkha Rifles (Burma) ... - ... ...
Hughes, Arthur John Lloyd Son of Capt. Arthur Lloyd Hughes, Master Mariner New Zealand Shipping Co. (1871-), and Mary Elizabeth McGuigan (1870-1947). Married 1st (03.11.1934, The Church of Our Lady, Bulford, Amesbury district, Wiltshire) Dorothy Eleanor Hughes, widow of William Walker Skynner (1889-1916), and daughter of Robert Raines Hughes (1868-?), and Florence Eleanor Bedford (1858?-1941). Married 2nd ((09?).1962, Bridge district, Kent) Eunice Woodget ((09?).1926 -), daughter of ... Woodget and ... Barker,	01.06.1901 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 11.03.1973 Birchington, Thanet district, Kent	P/O (prob) RAF 13.07.1925 P/O RAF 13.01.1926 F/O RAF 13.02.1927 F/Lt. RAF 05.11.1930 (reld 14.11.1935) 2nd Lt. 14.11.1935 [AI 347] Lt. 16.12.1935, seniority 14.02.1928 Capt. 16.12.1935, seniority 14.11.1934 A/Maj. 27.01.1941-26.04.1941 T/Maj. 27.04.1941-19.05.1941 Maj. 14.11.1942 (retd 28.07.1948) (resigned commission 14.01.1954) T/Lt.Col. 19.11.1943-(04.1947) Hon. Lt.Col. 28.07.1948	13.07.1925     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 29.08.1932     10 (Bomber) Squadron RAF (Boscombe Down) [interpreter 2nd class in French 01.1934] 13.07.1935     Reserve of Air Force Officers (Class A) 14.11.1935     commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 16.12.1935     commissioned, Indian Army (1938)     served 4th Grenadiers (Rawalpindi, India) .. - ... ... Translated from the French: Philippe Harlé, The Glenans sailing manual (1963).
Hunter, Arthur John	? -	2nd Lt 13.08.1942 [EC 14747] WS/Lt. ? T/Capt. ? ? A/Maj. ? ? MBE 04.01.1946 for service with the RAF	commissioned during the Malayan retreat in 1941/42, escaped to Ceylon, and later parachuted into Burma and Malaya, in 1945, while serving with Force 136: 13.08.1942 commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission] 6/19 Hyderabad Regiment
Hutchison, Henry	? - 01.03.1940 [Brookwood Memorial, panel 26, column 1]	Wt.Offr. Cl. I (Conductor) ?	? - 01.03.1940 serving in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps
Hutton, Reginald Antony "Reggie" Son of Charles Antony (died 1942) and Laura Beatrice Hutton (née Rogers) (1876-1966), Earls Colne, Essex. Married (1934) Margaret Isabel (died 1967), daughter of Mark Feetham; two daughters.	18.04.1899 London - 21.12.1983 Newton Ferrers, Devon	2nd Lt. 21.12.1917 [15346] Lt. 31.12.1918 A/Capt. 28.10.1919-20.12.1922 Capt. 21.12.1922 Maj. 21.12.1935 A/Lt.Col. 28.12.1940-27.03.1941 T/Lt.Col. 28.03.1941-14.03.1942 WS/Lt.Col. 15.03.1942 Lt.Col. 21.12.1943 A/Col. 15.09.1941-14.03.1942 T/Col. 15.03.1942-..., 08.10.1944-(01.1946) Col. ? (retd 1947) A/Brig. 19.12.1941-18.06.1942, 06.11.1944-(04.1946) T/Brig. 19.06.1942-31.08.1943 Hon. Maj.Gen. 04.06.1948 2nd Lt. TA 24.01.1952 Capt. TA 24.01.1952 CIE 01.01.1948 New Year 48 DSO 04.01.1945 Burma DSO 15.11.1945 Burma OBE 30.12.1941 New Year 42 MID 1940 ?	Education: Haileybury; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1934-1935; psc) 21.12.1917 commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) 21.03.1918 commissioned, Indian Army (2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles) 1919 served 3rd Afghan War 1919 - 1920 served Mahsud and North Western Frontier of India 1933 served Mohmand-Bajaur 01.10.1936 - 21.01.1939 Staff Captain, ... (NW Frontier, India & Waziristan) 22.01.1939 - 20.08.1940 Brigade Major, ... (NW Frontier, India & Waziristan) 12.10.1940 - 27.12.1940 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (Middle East: Western Desert, Crete) 28.12.1940 - 14.09.1941 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (East Africa: Somaliland, Abyssinia, and Eritrea) 15.09.1941 - 17.04.1942 Deputy Director of Military Intelligence, East Africa (Somaliland, Abyssinia, and Eritrea) 06.11.1944 - 11.12.1944 Commander, 51st Indian Infantry Brigade (Burma) 11.12.1944 - 29.12.1944 Commander, 53rd Indian Infantry Brigade (Burma) 13.01.1945 - 31.08.1945 Commander, 51st Indian Infantry Brigade (Burma & Malaya) 1946 - 1946 Commander, 89th Indian Infantry Brigade 1946 - 1947 Controller of Ordnance Services, I Corps (India) 1947 - 1951 Chief of the General Staff, Pakistan Army 24.01.1952 - commissioned, General List - Territorial Army 31.03.1956 - 18.04.1964 Lieutenant, Army Cadet Force, Devon [age limit] Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Devon, 1962.
Hyne, Ian Frank	21.02.1924 - 03.12.2008 Lister Hospital, Stevenage	2nd Lt. 16.04.1944 WS/Lt. 16.10.1944 2nd Lt. 16.08.1947, seniority 21.02.1945 [380584] Lt. 21.08.1948 T/Capt. 07.02.1950-20.02.1951 Capt. 21.02.1951 Maj. 30.09.1958 (dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court Martial 15.05.1963)	16.04.1944     commissioned, Indian Army [emergency commission to 15.08.1947] served Royal Indian Army Service Corps 16.08.1947 - 15.05.1963 permanent commission, Army Catering Corps

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