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The service number of each person is (when known) given after the date of commissioning. Most officers had only a wartime career, but when no indication is given about a Territorial Army commission or an emergency commission, the officer involved served as a Regular Army officer, with in most cases an active army career before and after the war. For explanations & abbreviations you can look at the help page.
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Aasen, Clifford Mervin ![]() Son (with five sisters and one brother) of Edward Aasen (1890-1961), and Eva Mary Fisher (1891-1942). Married Leona Blanche Hartley; one son. |
25.06.1917 - 1954 Montreal, Que. |
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Adams, Norman Vere Maxwell Eldest son (with one brother) of Dr. Daniel Vere Maxwell Adams (1875-1953), and Edith Anne Williams, of Lanark. Married ((03?).1942, Bromwell district, Kent) Hilda Mary Cook, of Hunstanton, Norfolk; one son. |
07.1918 Boroughmuirhead district, Edinburgh City, Scotland - 18.09.1944 (KIA) [age 27] [Groesbeek Memorial, panel 8] |
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Education: Cargilfield Preparatory School; Fettes College (Glencorse House;
1932-07.1936; Va mods.); Edinburgh University (completed two years as a medical
student).
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Adams, Ronald McCardie Martin ![]() ![]() Only son (with one sister) of Dr. Henry Adams (1873-), and Kathleen May Martin (1886-1979), of North Shields. Married (12.08.1948, Northumberland South district, Northumberland) Aline Hassal Harvey (07.11.1922 - 09.04.2016), daughter (with one brother) of Fredrick William Harvey (1894-1976), and Evelyn Hassall (1897-1980); three sons, one daughter. |
05.02.1922 Tynemouth district, Northumberland - 08.05.2011 Tunbridge Wells |
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Ainslie, John Thompson "Tom" Son of John Ainslie (1887-), and Elizabeth A. Thompson (1881-). Married ((09?).1942, Northumberland South district) Joan D. Mearns ((03?).1918 - ), daughter of ... Mearns, and ... Brown; one son, three daughters. |
09.11.1918 Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland / Tyne and Wear - 12.11.1998 Toronto Grace Hospital, Ontario, Canada |
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Education: Newcastle Royal Grammar School; Pembroke College, Cambridge
University
(1937; modern languages; BA 1940, MA 1945).
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Alford, William Carson "Bill" Married 1st (1940, Carnlachie district, Scotland) Margaret Falcon Graham; one son, two daughters. Married 2nd (1979, Inverness district, Scotland) Barbara Courtenay Hyatt-Box (née Linton) (25.02.1922 - 05.2016), former WRNS officer, daughter (with one brother) of Charles Henry Linton (1887-1955), and Emma Beatrix M. Bowen (1897-) |
03.03.1913 Rutherglen district, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 04.03.1990 Kincardine district, Sutherland, Scotland |
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Education: Rutherglen Academy, Glasgow University
1932-1938 (MB, ChB, 1938); MRCGP.
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Allenby, Peter Sewell Elder son (with one sister and one brother) of Sq.Ldr. Sewell Allenby (1879-1954), and Nellie Amelia Codrington (1887-1957), of Ealing. Married (06.05.1944, St Peter's, Parkstone, Poole district, Dorset) Rachel Marita Jolliffe, elder daughter of the late C.H. Jolliffe, Colombo, Ceylon, and of Mrs. Jolliffe, of Parkstone, Dorset; one son, two daughters. |
03.10.1918 Headington district - 21.04.1971 Homington Down, Salisbury district, Wiltshire |
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Education: MB, BS (London, 1945); St Thomas's
Medical School; MRCS (Eng), LRCP (Lond), 1943.
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Allsop, David Youngest son of George Allsop (1874-?), and Mary Hutchinson (1876-?), of Woodbine, Bakewell. Married (01.05.1943) Sub. Miriam Brook Kaye, ATS (22.05.1917 - 09.1997), elder daughter of Brig. Geoffrey Lancelot Kaye (1890-1959), and Ruth Emerton Fisher (1895-1984), of Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth. |
04.08.1917 Bakewell district, Derbyshire - 09.09.1987 Poole, Dorset |
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Anderson, Dermod Green ![]() Son of John Jarrold Armitage Anderson (1874-1938), and Mary Pinkerton Woodside (1877-). Married ((03?).1940, St Marylebone district, London) Caroline A. Cooke. |
04.11.1914 - 25.09.1944 (KIA) [age 29] [Groesbeek Memorial, panel 8] |
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Education: University of Liverpool. Architect clerk. Served RAFVR (air crew, Eltham) pre-war.
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Anson, Patrick Anchitel Richmond ![]() Only son of Capt. Henry Percy Richmond Anson (1877-1915, killed in action ), The Middlesex Regiment, and of Lilian Mary Daw (1888-1977), of Alderney, Channel Islands. |
17.03.1914 Staines district, Middlesex - 29.09.1944 (DOW in Stalag XI B at Soltau) [age 30] [Becklingen War Cemetery, 4.E.12] |
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Education:
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
(1932-1933).
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Armstrong, Thomas Wilfred Welburn "Tom" Son (with one brother and one sister) of Clement Armstrong, and Ruby Welburn (1886-1965). Married (1941, Blythswood district, Scotland) Joan Girdwood Steel; two sons. |
1916 Tarras House in Glen Tarras, Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - 24.09.1991 Glen Taras, Lanark, Scotland |
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Joined the Merchant Navy in the early 1930s and
after completing his apprenticeship, joined the Scots Guards and later the
police in Wishaw.
Rose to the rank of
inspector in the Motherwell and Wishaw police before
leaving to becoming head of security for the British
Steel Corporation in Scotland, based at the Ravenscraig
Steel Works in Motherwell.
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Arnold, William Frank "Bill" ![]() Son of Spencer Arnold (1871-1935), and Constance Cooper, of Blundeston, nr Lowestoft. Married ((06?).1942, Westminster district, London) Priscilla Edith Matilda Ryan (14.08.1915 - 11.01.2010), younger daughter of the late Sir Thomas Ryan, CIE (1879-1934), and of Edith Mary Stanley, of Burley, nr Ringwood; ... children (two sons, one daughter?). Wife resided (1944): Burley, Ringwood, Hampshire. |
22.05.1908 Great Yarmouth, Yarmouth district, Norfolk - 02.1997 East Dereham district, Norfolk |
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Ash, Bertram Percival ![]() Son of ... Ash, and ... Jones. Married 1st ((06?).1935, Westminster district, London) Minnie Ivey. Married 2nd ((09?).1943, Gosport district, Hampshire) Barbara Helena D. Hudson (05.09.1923 - 07.1989). |
27.07.1912 Brentford district, Middlesex - 10.1989 Surrey North-Western, Surrey |
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Ashe, Norman Constantine de Courcy ![]() Elder son (with four brothers [one died in infancy] and one sister) of Capt. Wellesley St. George Ashe (1881-1958), and Hon. Estelle Emily Spencer de Courcy (1889-1984). Married (15.07.1944) Bertha Frances Deirdré McCormick, youngest daughter of Canon & Mrs Francis J. McCormick, Ardcarne Rectory, Boyle, Eire; two sons. |
05.09.1922 Cheltenham district, Kent - 02.06.1967 New Jersey, USA (flying accident) |
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Education: Kelly College, Tavistock. Civil air pilot.
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Ashley, Cyril John "Ash" Son of ... Ashley, and ... Thomas. Married ((06?).1945, Bakewell district, Derbyshire) Elsie Jones; two sons. |
(06?).1914 Bristol, Gloucestershire - 04.06.2011 care home, Bridgnorth |
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Ashmore, Norman Hugh Harry ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Son of Harry Walter Ashmore (1900-1988), and Mary E. Dyer (1900-). |
13.11.1922 - 10.11.2017 SE England |
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Junior clerk.
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Ashworth, Charles Frederick ![]() Son of Lt.Col. Hugh Stirling Ashworth, killed in action in Egypt, 26th March, 1917, while commanding 4th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment, and Elsie Madeleine Ould (1880-). Brother of Lt.Col. J.B. Ashworth, The Royal Sussex Regiment. |
(12?).1909 East Preston district, Sussex - 21/22.09.1944 (KIA) [age 35] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 5.D.11] |
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Education: Wellington College (The Hill,
1922.3-1926). Went into business.
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Astbury, Joseph Peter ![]() Son of the Rev. Frank Llewellyn Davies Astbury (1871-1925), and Albinia Esther Donne (1892-1984). Married Elisabetta (née ...). |
14.07.1916 Sleaford district, Lincolnshire - 05.12.1987 Islington, London |
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Education: Christ's College, Cambridge University (1935-1938).
Astbury was a Communist Party member during his time as a student at Cambridge. He maintained that membership through his military service and beyond, eventually admitting his allegiance. The Security Service first began to take an interest in him in 1936 when his name began to appear in intercepted correspondence of other suspects. There is a summary of his early career at serial 36g. He did, however, manage to join the Army and gain a commission before the Service could intervene, and so Captain Astbury served out the war in the GHQ Liaison regiment. The file details how he was captured at Arnhem on 17 September 1944 and after his release he seems to have courted publicity and given press interviews detailing his claims to have been involved with 'phantom' communication systems on D-Day and thereafter. The file reveals he was in regular contact with prominent Communists such as Douglas Springhall. In 1947, Astbury joined Manchester University to work as part of the "cosmic ray team." Astbury made his communist views public knowledge in November 1950, which also documents growing disagreements between him and the leader of the Manchester team. Astbury's name became closely linked to the Cambridge spy ring when a letter from him to Guy Burgess was found among the latter's possessions in New Bond Street on 7 June 1951 shortly after Burgess defected (copy at serial 141a). Despite a close watch being kept on his activities and contacts, no evidence seems to have emerged of Astbury passing information about his research to the Soviets. At this time, Astbury frequently travelled to Switzerland for research purposes and the Service continued to gather information on his work and contacts through to 1958. |
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Aston, Frederick Cuthbert "Freddie" ![]() ![]() Eldest son (with one brother) of John Clifford Aston (1884-1943), and Minnie Cartmel Ellis (1885-1970). Married ((03?).1943, Doncaster district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire / West Riding of Yorkshire) Evelyn Hugill ((12?).1918 - 01.07.2008), daughter of Norman Hugill (1893-1950), and Kate Fitzsimmons (1891-1972); two sons, two daughters. |
12.09.1919 Glasgow, Scotland - 28.02.2003 Ipswich General Hospital, Ipswich, Suffolk |
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Education: Brigg Grammar School (01.1933-07.1936).
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Atkinson, Laurence |
(12?).1919
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Austin, George Norman ![]() Son of Robert Blacow Austin (1888-), and May Bretherton, of St. Anne's, Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. |
05.06.1920 Preston district, Lancashire - 24.09.1944 (KIA) [age 24] [Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 20.C.18] |
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