| M |
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Mainprise-King,
Terence
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28.03.1906
-
10.1973 still alive
|
2nd Lt.
|
04.02.1926
[34832]
|
Lt.
|
04.02.1929
|
Lt.
|
07.02.1936,
seniority 04.05.1928 [342 AI]
|
Capt.
|
07.02.1936,
seniority 04.02.1935
|
A/Maj.
|
24.07.1940-23.10.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
24.10.1940-15.12.1940
|
WS/Maj.
|
15.11.1942
|
Maj.
|
04.02.1943 (retd
23.05.1948)
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
15.08.1942-14.11.1942
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
15.11.1942-31.05.1943,
14.04.1944-(01.1946)
|
A/Col.
|
07.07.1945-...
|
WS/Col.
|
?
|
T/Brig.
|
?
|
Hon. Brig.
|
23.05.1948
|
|
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst
04.02.1926
|
|
|
commissioned, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
|
28.12.1933
|
-
|
29.11.1935
|
employed
with Royal West African Frontier Force
|
07.02.1936
|
|
|
transferred, Indian Army (13 Frontier Force
Rifles)
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
Commissioner for the Indian Military
Widows' and Orphans' Fund, 01.10.1965-1970s.
|
Mains,
Antony Archibald
"Tony"
|
29.12.1913
-
11.2000
West Surrey
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.02.1934
[433551]
|
Lt.
|
01.05.1936
|
A/Capt.
|
03.09.1939-02.12.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
03.12.1939-31.01.1942
|
Capt.
|
01.02.1942
|
A/Maj.
|
24.01.1944-23.04.1944
|
T/Maj.
|
24.04.1944
|
Maj.
|
?
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
?
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
?
|
|
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst
01.02.1934
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
|
|
|
1st
Battalion, The Dorset Regiment (India)
|
11.03.1935
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
|
|
|
2/9th
Gurkha Rifles
|
|
|
|
intelligence
instructor, Karachi
|
|
|
|
chief
military security officer, Baghdad
|
?
|
-
|
03.1942
|
General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2),18th Indian Corps & assistant
military governor, Rangoon
|
|
|
|
chief
military security officer in Assam and the 14th Army area
|
|
|
|
then
rejoined the Ghurkhas in Baluchistan and the NWFP
|
|
|
|
chief
intelligence officer of the central command and as chief staff officer of the
Indian Infantry School at Mhow
|
24.02.1954
|
-
|
?
|
Intelligence
Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
|
Continued to live in Surrey and was involved in
the Society for Army Historical Research, the Military Historical Society, the
9th Ghurkha Rifles Regimental Association, and the Burma Star association, and
has contributed to different television productions on Indian and Ghurkha
subjects.
Published: Retreat from Burma : an Intelligence Officer’s personal
story (1973); Field security : very ordinary intelligence (1993); A soldier with
railways : experiences in India, Burma, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon (1994); The
Anglo-Indian community services in World War II : before, during and after. In:
The Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (No. 298. 1996)
|
Marindin,
John Francis
|
22.12.1897
Christchurch, Hampshire
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.09.1915 [IA
166]
|
Lt.
|
15.09.1916
|
Capt.
|
15.09.1919
|
Maj.
|
15.09.1933
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
01.10.1940-05.12.1940
|
Lt.Col.
|
06.12.1940
|
A/Col.
|
31.09.1944-09.12.1944
|
T/Col.
|
10.12.1944-(04.1946)
|
A/Brig.
|
09.04.1945-18.08.1945
|
T/Brig.
|
19.08.1945-(04.1946)
|
Hon. Brig.
|
21.01.1948
|
|
DSO
|
22.06.1944
|
Burma
|
|
MID
|
16.12.1943
|
Burma
/ Eastern Frontier of India
|
|
15.09.1915
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
28.10.1915
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
|
|
|
served 5th
Royal Gurkha Rifles
|
15.06.1944
|
-
|
31.07.1944
|
Commander,
37th Indian Infantry Brigade (temporary)
|
1945?
|
-
|
1946
|
Commander,
115th Indian Infantry Brigade
|
1946
|
|
|
Commander,
Razmak Brigade (India)
|
1947?
|
|
|
Special
List (ex-Indian Army) [386063]
|
|
Masters,
John
Son of late John Masters, 16th Rajputs, and Ada
(neé Coulthard).
Married Barbara Allcard; one son, one daughter (one daughter deceased).
Wikipedia
|
26.10.1914
Calcutta, India
-
07.05.1983
Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA
|
2nd Lt.
|
30.08.1934 [IA
478]
|
Lt.
|
30.11.1936
|
A/Capt.
|
28.09.1939-27.12.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
28.12.1939-04.04.1940
|
WS/Capt.
|
09.10.1940
|
Capt.
|
30.08.1942
|
A/Maj.
|
09.07.1940-08.10.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
09.10.1940-01.11.1940
|
Maj.
|
?
(retd 01.01.1949)
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
10.06.1944-(01.1946)
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
?
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
01.01.1949
|
|
DSO
|
05.10.1944
|
Burma
|
|
OBE
|
17.01.1946
|
Burma
|
|
MID
|
19.09.1946
|
Burma
|
|
Education: Wellington; RMC, Sandhurst
30.08.1934
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
|
|
|
seconded,
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
|
09.10.1935
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
1935
|
|
|
2nd
Battalion 4th Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles (NW Frontier, 1936-37)
|
1939
|
|
|
Adjutant
(Iraq, Syria, Persia, 1941)
|
1942
|
|
|
Brigade
Major, 114th Indian Infantry Brigade
|
1943
|
|
|
Brigade
Major, 111th Indian Infantry Brigade
|
1944
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 3rd Battalion 4th PWO Gurkha Rifles (Burma)
|
1945
|
|
|
General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 19th Indian Division
|
1946
|
|
|
GSO1,
MO1, GHQ (I)
|
1947
|
|
|
GSO2
Staff College, Camberley
|
Author.
Published: Nightrunners of Bengal, 1951; The
Deceivers, 1952, repr. 1966; The Lotus and the Wind, 1953; Bhowani Junction,
1954; Coromandel, 1955; Far, Far the Mountain Peak, 1957; Fandango Rock, 1959;
The Venus of Konpara, 1960; To the Coral Strand, 1962; Trial at Monomoy, 1964;
Fourteen Eighteen, 1965; The Breaking Strain, 1967; The Rock, 1969; The Ravi
Lancers, 1972; Thunder at Sunset, 1974; The Field-Marshal's Memoirs, 1975; The
Himalayan Concerto, 1976; Now, God Be Thanked, 1979; Heart of War, 1980; By the
Green of the Spring, 1981; autobiography: Bugles and a Tiger, 1956; The Road
Past Mandalay, 1961; Pilgrim Son, 1971; posthumous publication: Man of War,
1983.
|
Mayne,
Sir Ashton
Gerard Oswald Mosley

2nd son of late Major Mosley Mayne.
Married 1916, Phyllis (died 1949), only daughter of the late LtCol H.
Tweddell (only son Capt. RA, killed in action in Italy, 1943).
|
24.04.1889
Wincanton district, Dorset / Somerset
-
17.12.1955
|
2nd Lt.
|
09.09.1908 [23034]
|
...
|
...
|
T/Brig.
|
17.09.1938-09.05.1941
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
12.04.1941-09.05.1941
|
Maj.Gen.
|
10.05.1941,
seniority 22.04.1940
|
A/Lt.Gen.
|
12.05.1942-23.10.1942
|
Lt.Gen.
|
24.10.1942
|
Gen.
|
01.04.1944 (retd
01.09.1947)
|
GCB, 1947 (KCB, 1944; CB 1941); CBE 1941; DSO
1917
|
09.09.1908
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
09.12.1909
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
17.09.1938
|
-
|
11.04.1941
|
Commander,
9th Indian Infantry Brigade (India)
|
12.04.1941
|
-
|
11.05.1942
|
General
Officer Commanding, 5th Indian Infantry Division (Sudan)
|
(05?).1942
|
-
|
(10?).1943
|
Commander,
21st Corps (Middle East)
|
01.10.1943
|
-
|
31.12.1944
|
General
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, India (special appointment)
|
07.07.1944
|
-
|
1947
|
also: ADC
General to the King
|
01.01.1945
|
-
|
1946
|
Secretary,
Military Department, India Office
|
|
Mazumdar,
Narendra Kumar
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.08.1943 [ABRO
777] (reld 30.10.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
?
|
Hon. Capt.
|
30.10.1946
|
|
01.08.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Army in Burma Reserve of Officers [emergency
commission]
|
|
Mazumdar,
Tofael Ahmed
|
?
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.08.1943 [ABRO
778] (reld 12.10.1946)
|
T/Maj.
|
?
|
Hon. Maj.
|
12.10.1946
|
|
01.08.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
Army in Burma Reserve of Officers [emergency
commission]
|
|
MacLean,
Malcolm Finlayson

Married (22.12.1942) Daphne May Dempster
(born 5th November 1923); at least one daughter.
|
21.12.1910
-
15.06.1952
(KIA) [age 41]
[Pusan War Cemetery, Korea, 22.4.1447]
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1934,
seniority 28.01.1932 [62896]
|
Lt.
|
13.10.1935,
seniority 28.04.1934
|
Capt.
|
28.01.1940
|
A/Maj.
|
10.10.1940-09.01.1941
|
T/Maj.
|
10.01.1941-12.03.1941,
18.04.1941-30.06.1941
|
.WS/Maj.
|
10.09.1943
|
Maj.
|
01.07.1946
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
10.06.1943-09.09.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
10.09.1943-21.12.1943
|
|
|
|
|
from
General List - Territorial Army (University Candidates)
|
01.09.1934
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
13.10.1935
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
05.10.1947
|
Special
List (ex-Indian Army)
|
06.10.1947
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
|
|
McCraith,
Brian George [P]
|
(09?).1909
Hackney, Greater London
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
02.1941 [EC 1006]
|
WS/ Lt.
|
? (reld
13.04.1945; ill-health)
|
|
02.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
|
Messervy,
Sir Frank Walter




Eldest child of Walter John Messervy, bank
manager, and Myra Naida de Boissiere.
Married (1927) Patricia, daughter of Col E. Waldegrave Courtney, Silksworth,
Camberley; one son, one daughter
(and one son deceased).
|
09.12.1893
Trinidad
-
02.02.1974 Heyshott, near Midhurst
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.01.1913
[81124]
|
Lt.
|
22.04.1915
|
Capt.
|
22.01.1917
|
A/Maj.
|
23.11.1918-27.12.1918
|
Bt. Maj.
|
01.07.1929
|
Maj.
|
22.01.1931
|
local Lt.Col.
|
01.09.1932-30.06.1933
|
Bt. Lt.Col.
|
01.07.1933
|
Lt.Col.
|
10.04.1938
|
Col.
|
21.09.1939,
seniority 01.07.1936
|
A/Brig.
|
01.03.1941-13.04.1941
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
14.04.1941-13.04.1942
|
T/Maj.Gen.
|
14.04.1942-18.06.1942
|
Maj.Gen.
|
17.04.1943
|
A/Lt.Gen.
|
1944? [acting
rank]
|
A/Lt.Gen.
|
08.12.1944
[appointed rank]
|
Lt.Gen.
|
01.06.1945,
seniority 03.04.1944 (retd 22.08.1948)
|
A/Gen.
|
15.08.1947
|
| Hon. Gen.
|
22.08.1948
|
|
KCSI
|
12.06.1947
|
HM's
birthday 47
|
|
KBE
|
05.07.1945
|
HM's
birthday 45
|
|
CB
|
09.09.1942
|
Middle
East 11.41-04.42
|
|
DSO
|
30.12.1941
|
Middle
East 02.41-07.41
|
|
DSO
|
20.04.1944
|
Burma
|
|
MID
|
?
|
?
|
|
MID
|
01.04.1941
|
Middle
East 08.39-11.40
|
|
MID
|
05.04.1945
|
Burma
/ Eastern Frontier India
|
|
MID
|
19.07.1945
|
Burma
|
|
LM
|
?
|
?
|
|
?
|
Nile
|
?
|
Order
of the Nile, 4th class
|
|
Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley
(1925-1926; psc)
22.01.1913
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
08.04.1914
|
|
|
commissioned, Indian Army
|
1914
|
|
|
9th Hodson's Horse
|
1914
|
-
|
1919
|
served European War (France, Palestine, and Syria)
|
1919
|
|
|
Kurdistan
|
12.02.1928
|
-
|
02.03.1932
|
Brigade
Major, ... (Risalpur, NW Frontier, India)
|
01.09.1932
|
-
|
16.01.1936
|
Instructor
(General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staf College, Quetta
|
1938
|
-
|
1939
|
Commanding Officer, 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers
|
21.09.1939
|
-
|
28.02.1941
|
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 5th Indian Division (India &
East
Africa)
|
10.1940
|
-
|
02.1941
|
also:
Commander, Gazelle Force (Sudan and Eritrea)
|
01.03.1941
|
-
|
13.04.1941
|
Commander, 9th Indian Brigade (Keren, Ethiopia)
|
14.04.1941
|
-
|
02.01.1942
|
General Officer Commanding, 4th Indian Division (Western Desert, Cyrenaica
[Libya])
|
03.01.1942
|
-
|
12.02.1942
|
General Officer Commanding, 1st Armoured Division (Cyrenaica [Libya])
|
09.03.1942
|
-
|
18.06.1942
|
General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (Egypt, Libya)
|
28.06.1942
|
-
|
14.08.1942
|
Deputy Chief of the General Staff, General Headquarters, Middle East Force
|
1942
|
-
|
1943
|
General Officer Commanding, 43rd Indian Armoured Division
|
30.07.1943
|
|
|
Director, Armoured Fighting Vehicles, General HQ India Command [specially
employed]
|
1944
|
|
|
General Officer Commanding, 7th Indian Division (Arakan, Kohima)
|
10.1944
|
-
|
1945
|
General Officer Commanding, IV Corps (Burma, Tamu to Rangoon)
|
1945
|
|
|
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Malaya Command
|
15.10.1946
|
-
|
1947
|
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India
|
15.08.1947
|
-
|
10.02.1948
|
Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Armed Forces
|
Colonel, 16th Light Cavalry, 24.08.1945-01.09.1948. Colonel, The Jat Regiment,
1947-09.12.1955. Deputy Chief Scout, 04.1949-1950. Berks County Councillor, 1953-1956.
Late Indian Administrative
Service
Literature: Henry Maule. Spearhead general : the epic story of General Sir Frank
Messervy and his men in Eritrea, North Africa and Burma (London : Odhams,
1961)
|
Meston,
Douglas George

Brother of Maj. Hector
Findlay Meston.
|
(09?).1904
Wandsworth, Greater London
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
22.05.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
22.05.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
Meston,
Hector Findlay

Brother of 2nd Lt.
Douglas George Meston.
|
(09?).1906
Lambeth, Greater London
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
11.12.1941 [EC
11898]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.10.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
08.10.1943-(04.1946)
|
Capt.
|
? (reld
14.06.1946)
|
T/Maj.
|
?
|
Hon. Maj.
|
14.06.1946
|
|
11.12.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
|
|
Milanes,
Reginald John Felix

Son of Juan Henke Milanes.
Married (17.04.1940, Peshawar) Rosamond Mary Tyndale-Biscoe; three sons.
|
12.07.1912
-
13.03.2007
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1932
[53831]
|
Lt.
|
01.12.1934
|
A/Capt.
|
03.09.1939-02.12.1939
|
T/Capt.
|
03.12.1939-28.01.1940,
01.02.1940-31.08.1940
|
Capt.
|
01.09.1940
|
A/Maj.
|
07.08.1940-06.11.1940
|
T/Maj.
|
17.11.1940-(04.1946)
|
Maj.
|
09.03.1948,
seniority 01.07.1946 (retd 13.06.1958)
|
Hon. Lt.Col.
|
13.06.1958
|
|
01.09.1932
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
29.11.1933
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
|
|
|
served 12th Frontier Force Regiment
|
09.03.1948
|
|
|
transferred,
Royal Regiment of Artillery
|
13.06.1958
|
-
|
12.07.1967
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
|
Moreton,
Ernest Albert
|
29.12.1895
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
15.03.1960
Felpham, Bognor Regis, Sussex
|
2nd Lt.
|
05.05.1917 [IA
692 & 14877]
|
Lt.Col.
|
12.01.1941
|
Col.
|
04.07.1947,
seniority 12.01.1944 (retd 21.11.1948)
|
T/Brig.
|
?
|
Hon. Brig.
|
21.11.1948
|
|
05.05.1917
|
|
|
commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
|
12.01.1918
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(1947)
|
|
|
HQ
Southern Command, India (Poona)
|
|
Morison,
David George

Married Elva Mary Morison (née ...); at
least one son.
|
18.01.1920
Salisbury
-
|
2nd Lt.
|
15.11.1941
|
WS/Lt.
|
?
|
Lt.
|
02.12.1946,
seniority 01.10.1942 [375942]
|
Capt.
|
25.01.1948 (reld
06.04.1953)
|
|
Education: Rencombe College
1938
|
|
|
joined
Territorial Army
|
1939
|
|
|
transferred
to Regular Army (stationed in France three times as a tank Sergeant)
|
?
|
-
|
14.11.1941
|
202nd
Officer Cadet Training Unit
|
15.11.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission to 01.12.1946]
|
?
|
-
|
late
1944
|
officer
commanding of a transport company (India, Burma & NW Frontier)
|
1945
|
|
|
served at
Japanese War Tribunal (Singapore)
|
02.12.1946
|
-
|
06.04.1953
|
transferred,
Royal Army Service Corps [short service commission]
|
1948
|
-
|
1952
|
served
in Egypt
|
06.04.1953
|
-
|
07.04.1953
|
Regular
Army Reserve of Officers
|
07.04.1953
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transferred,
Australian Forces
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Morris,
James Ronald

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06.10.1900
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
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2nd Lt.
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16.07.1920 [312
IA]
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Lt.
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29.10.1921,
seniority 16.07.1921
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Capt.
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16.07.1927
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Maj.
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16.07.1938
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A/Col.
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30.03.1944
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A/Brig.
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30.03.1944-(01.1946)
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DSO
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26.04.1945
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Burma
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16.07.1920
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commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
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29.10.1921
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commissioned,
Indian Army
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9th Gurkha
Rifles
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1944
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-
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1944
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Commander,
111th Indian Infantry Brigade (part of the "Chindits" Special Force)
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1944
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-
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1946
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Commander,
62nd Indian Infantry Brigade (part of the "Chindits" Special Force)
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Morris,
Norman Ernest

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?
-
[possibly:
14.12.1923
-
04.1995
Louth, Lincolnshire]
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L/Sgt.
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?
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2nd Lt.
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28.05.1942
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WS/Lt.
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28.11.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
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A/Maj. ?
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?
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served
in the ranks
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28.05.1942
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commissioned,
Indian Army [emergency commission]
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11th Sikh Regiment
(India, Burma &
Singapore)
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Moss,
Gerald Crompton de Vere

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21.06.1903
-
1983/84 ?
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2nd Lt.
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30.08.1923 [IA
741]
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Lt.
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30.11.1925
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Capt.
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30.08.1932
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Maj.
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30.08.1940 (retd
18.09.1948)
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A/Lt.Col.
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20.08.1943-19.11.1943
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T/Lt.Col.
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20.11.1943-(04.1946)
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Hon. Lt.Col.
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18.09.1948
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30.08.1923
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commissioned,
Unattached List (for Indian Army)
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01.11.1924
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commissioned,
Indian Army (2nd Battalion 4th Bombay Grenadiers)
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?
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-
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1948?
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Commanding
Officer, 25th Battalion Indian Grenadiers Regiment
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Murray-Lyon,
David Murray

Eldest son of Dr. T.M. Murray-Lyon.
Married (1916) Meredith Napier; one daughter.
personal
papers
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14.08.1890
Glendale, Northumberland
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04.02.1975
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2nd Lt. [RGA]
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29.12.1908 [4700]
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Lt. [RGA]
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?
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2nd Lt. (prob.) [KOSB]
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02.11.1910
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2nd Lt. [KOSB]
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27.05.1911,
seniority 02.11.1910
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Lt.
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09.03.1914
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T/Capt.
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28.04.1915-21.05.1915
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Capt.
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09.12.1915 |
A/Maj.
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16.12.1916-17.04.1917,
26.04.1919-11.09.1919, 08.11.1919-08.03.1920
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Bt. Maj.
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01.01.1919
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T/Maj.
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09.04.1921
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Maj.
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09.12.1928 |
A/Lt.Col.
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04.11.1917-27.04.1918,
04.04.1919- | |