British Army Officers 1939-1945 -- B

A.G.H. Brousson to P.H. Bywaters

Brousson,
Anthony Gerald Habgood
A.G.H. Brousson

Elder son of Herbert Louis Brousson (?-1946), a member of the London Stock Exchange, and Dorothea Flamank Carlill, of Uphill, Knockolt, Kent.
Married (01.01.1935, St John's Roman Catholic Church, Gravesend, Kent) Lorna Everard Lewis (12.07.1910 - 11.2000), younger daughter of Lt.Col. Stanley Everard Lewis, RAMC (1877-1938), of Shears Green, Gravesend; one son.

22.04.1907
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
-
(06?).1976
Braintree, Essex

2nd Lt.	29.01.1927 [37041]
Lt.	29.01.1930
local Capt.	19.02.1936-28.01.1938
Capt.	29.01.1938
local Maj.	29.11.1938-10.10.1941
WS/Maj.	11.01.1942
Maj.	29.01.1944
A/Lt.Col.	11.10.1941-10.01.1942
T/Lt.Col.	11.01.1942-28.01.1942, 15.04.1942-12.06.1948, 06.12.1948-31.03.1950
Lt.Col.	01.04.1950
A/Col.	19.11.1945-23.12.1945
Col.	01.02.1953
A/Brig.	19.11.1945-23.12.1945
T/Brig.	31.08.1956-10.02.1957
Brig.	11.02.1957 (retd 23.04.1959)

OBE

06.01.1944

Middle East (East Africa and Madagascar)

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Second Class (18.09.1953; in recognition of his valuable services in the saving of life during the Po Valley floods)

Education: Westminster School (20.01.1921-12.1924; Ashburnham House); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1926); St Catharine's College, Cambridge University (matric. Michaelmas 1927, BA 1929; MA 1957).

29.01.1927			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
WW II			served in Egypt, Sudan & Eritrea:
29.11.1935	-	14.12.1940	specially employed, Sudan Defence Force
15.12.1940	-	10.10.1941	Staff Officer Royal Engineers (SORE), ...
(1943)			RE Sudan Defence Force (OBE)
12.07.1945	-	18.11.1945	Staff Officer Royal Engineers (SORE), ...
19.11.1945	-	23.12.1945	Chief Engineer, HQ British Troops in Egypt
24.12.1945	-	25.06.1947	Staff Officer Royal Engineers (SORE), ...
1948	-	1948	Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), Northern Ireland District
13.06.1948	-	05.12.1948	Assistant Chief Instructor, ....
1950	-	1950	Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), British Element Trieste
01.02.1953	-	20.11.1955	Assistant Director of Inspection (Military), Electrical and Mechanical Equipment, Ministry of Supply
20.01.1956	-	29.06.1956	Chief Engineer, HQ West Africa
31.08.1956	-	1958	Chief Engineer, Cyprus District
23.04.1959	-	22.04.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

AMIMechE 1955, EM. Head of Department of Science, Braintree College of Further Education, 1968.

Brown,
Alan Ward
A.W. Brown

Son of Hugh Ward Brown, Dublin, and Gertrude Corisande Brown (née Bean, now Stephens).
Married (1936) Pamela
Margaret (née Preston); one son.

08.07.1909
-
01.09.1971
High Hurstwood, Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.01.1930
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	12.12.1942-20.08.1945
A/Col.	21.02.1945-20.08.1945
A/Brig.	18.04.1945-17.10.1945
Brig.	11.01.1957 (retd 10.07.1958)

CBE	1955	?
DSO	01.02.1945	?
MC	1935	?

Chevalier of the Order of Leopold with Palm, Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (Belgium) 25.09.1947

Education: Bromsgrove School, Worcs; idc (1949-1950); Staff College (1940, psc)

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps
1931	-	1931	5th Battalion RTC
1931	-	1935	2nd Armoured Car Company (India/Pakistan)
1936	-	1938	2nd Battalion RTC
25.08.1939	-	10.10.1939	specially employed
16.04.1940	-	05.05.1940	GSO2
14.05.1940	-	18.10.1941	Brigade Major
13.11.1941	-	01.05.1942	GSO2
02.05.1942	-	18.06.1942	GSO1
19.06.1942	-	29.06.1942	GSO2
01.07.1942	-	29.10.1942	GSO2
30.10.1942	-	12.08.1943	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 79th Armoured Division
1943	-	?	Commanding Officer, 147th Battalion Royal Armoured Corps (NW Europe)
?	-	1945	Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (NW Europe)
18.04.1945	-	22.02.1946	Commander, 31st Armoured Brigade (NW Europe)
1948	-	1949	Commandant Specialised Armour Establishment
1953	-	1956	Commander, 25th Armoured Brigade

Brown,
Alexander Douglas
A.D. Brown

24.05.1900
-
1976

2nd Lt.	16.07.1919
Lt.	16.07.1921
Capt.	09.03.1931
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 31.01.1949)

Iraq Operations 1919-20. Medal & 2 clasps (Iraq & NW Persia). Waziristan 1921-24. Medal & clasp.

16.07.1919			commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
(1923)			1st Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Bareilly, India)
25.03.1925	-	08.03.1931	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force:
(03.1931)			Company Officer, 2nd Battalion The Nigeria Regiment (Kano)
01.06.1932	-	25.04.1936	employed with Royal West African Frontier Force :
(06.1933)			Company Commander, 6th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment (Enuga)
(09.1935)	-	(10.1935)	Company Commander, 5th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment (Zaira, for Maiduguri)
(01.1937)	-	(01.1938)	1st Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Shorncliffe)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Lucknow)
(1943)	-	(1944)	5th Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Bournemouth, then Sandbanks)

Brown,
Alexander Morgan
"Bill"
A.M. Brown (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Brown)

Married; three children.

30.07.1920
-
29.06.2006
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.06.1941 [193504]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 12.1943?)
RINVR:
Prob. T/S.Lt.	12.1943?, seniority 22.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment [emergency commission]
12.1943?			transferred, Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve
(12.1943)	-	(04.1946)	HMIS Hamla (RIN training establishment, Marve, Bombay) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Brown,
Alfred Gordon Ernest
"Ernie"
A.G.E. Brown

Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Alfred James Brown, and Caroline Charlotte James.
Married (03.09.1932, Holy Trinity, Lamorbey, Kent) Lois Violet Mabel Perry (15.04.1911 - 19.09.1962), daughter of Henry James Vivian Perry (1883-1934), and Violet Mabel Campbell (1887-1965); two daughters, three sons.

01.06.1906
West Ham district, London
-
23.08.1978
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.01.1941 [163778]
WS/Lt.	25.07.1942 (reld 20.03.1948)
T/Capt.	04.03.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	20.03.1948

Education: West Ham Municipal College; University of London (BSc).

25.01.1941

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

His grandson writes: "He was in North Africa setting up flexible mesh mat airfields and I believe also worked on designing the mulberry concrete docks used on the French coast."

Brown,
Anthony
A. Brown

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124850]
WS/Lt.	06.03.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?

?	-	09.03.1940	either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.03.1940			commissioned, South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
06.02.1944	-	(05.1944)	Instructor, Gas School, Middle East Training Centre

Brown,
Andrew

Married (25.12.1940, Salisbury) Isabella Hunter Murray; ... children (one daughter?).
Residence: (1946) Hove.

16.09.1902
Barrhead, Scotland
-
08.08.1968
Perth, Western Australia

2nd Lt.	20.09.1941 [210109]
WS/Lt.	30.04.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt.	30.04.1942-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

MBE

24.01.1946

NW Europe 44-45

20.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(1944/45)			69 Company RASC (MBE)

Brown,
Brian Alan

22.02.1903 ??
Castle Ward district, Northumberland ??
-
14.01.1995 ??
Tynemouth, North Shields, Tyne and Wear ??

2nd Lt.	20.02.1940 [120284]
WS/Lt.	20.08.1941
T/Capt.	18.09.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946)

Education: BA

20.02.1940			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1942)			[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East)

Brown,
Charles L Scott

see:

Canadian Army officers' section

Brown,
Charles Norman
C.N. Brown

From Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

?
-
20.12.1989
Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [162672]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942 (reld 1947)
A/Capt.	11.04.1942-...
A/Maj.	31.07.1943-...
T/Maj.	(1945)
A/Lt.Col.	13.05.1946-...

MBE	06.06.1946	Burma
MID	05.04.1945	Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
MID	22.08.1946	Far East
39\|45 St	?	?
Bur St	?	?
Def M	?	?
39\|45 BWM	?	?
GenSM	?	& Clasp South-East Asia 1945/46

10.10.1939	-	04.09.1940	enlisted in the ranks, 11th Highland Light Infantry (Hamilton)
05.09.1940	-	21.12.1940	163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
03.01.1941	-	12.02.1942	9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Scotland; embarked from Gourock for attachment to the Indian Army)
04.1942	-	06.1942	two month induction course at OfficerTraining School, Bangalore
13.06.1942	-	14.07.1942	10/6th Rajputana Rifles
15.07.1942	-	04.03.1943	Company Commander, 16/6th Rajputana Rifles
05.03.1943	-	22.12.1943	Staff Officer/Liaison Officer, Headquarters, 23rd Indian Infantry Division (Imphal)
23.12.1943	-	12.05.1946	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), 23rd Indian Infantry Division (Imphal, India, Malaya & Java)
13.05.1946	-	10.11.1946	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), 23rd Indian Infantry Division
1946	-	1947	regimental depot, Seaforth Highlanders (Fort George, Inverness)

Brown,
Denis Francis Douglas

Elder son of Douglas Brown, and Roxane Emilie Nathalie Everaert (1900-1981).
Married ((03?).1952, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Pamela D. Watling ((06?).1931), daughter of Frank Victor Watling, and Dorothy Alice Norman; ... children (one daughter?).

30.03.1923
Wandsworth district, London
-
02.1998
Gloucester district, Gloucestershire

Gnr.	1941
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.10.1942 [249019]
WS/Lt.	22.04.1943 (reld > 12.1946, > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	06.08.1945-(12.1946)

Education: Tonbridge School (summer 1936-1941; Manor House; Rowing IV 1939-1941, Football XV 1939 (Capt.); School Praeses 1940-1941; Head of the School 1940-1941).

1941			served in the ranks, 16th Field Regiment RA
1942			123rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1942	-	13.07.1945	131st Field Regiment RA (UK 1942-1944, NW Europe 1944-1945)
1946			instructor in gunnery, Middle East Forces

On the stock exchange. Played rugby football for Surrey, 1947-1948. Captain Rosslyn Park R.F. Club, 1950. Liveryman of the Skinners' Co.

Brown,
Edward Albert
"Ted"
E.A. Brown (Photo courtesy of Mr Chris Brown)

Married ...; ... children (one son?).

?
-
03.2001

Cadet	? [2052234]
2nd Lt.	19.09.1943 [303784]
WS/Lt.	19.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Capt.	1945?

			served in the ranks, attached No. 11 Commando [see Commando Veterans Forum]
			joined Royal Artillery in Haifa
19.09.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
06.06.1944			transferred, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
			served in Italy; captured just outside Rimini in Northern Italy, and spent the remainder of the war as a POW in Stalag VIIA

Brown,
Eric Henry Charles
E.H.C. Brown

Son of Harry Juniper Brown (1892-1952), and Frances Ballard.
Married 1st (07.06.1941, Epping district, Essex) Winifred Annie Conner (11.11.1916 - 03.2001); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((12?).1969, Maldon district, Essex) Susan Brown.

23.01.1917
Maldon district, Suffolk
-
22.05.1971
Dorking, Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey

Cadet	? [738747]
2nd Lt.	02.10.1943 [295690]
WS/Lt.	02.04.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

Education: Bancroft's School Essex.

02.10.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
11.04.1945			transferred, The Essex Regiment

Brown,
George Alexander
G.A. Brown (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)

Son of Thomas George Brown (1883-1967), and Ethel Mary Margaret Duncan Brown (1893-1978).
Married ((09?).1949, Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey) Barbara Joy Cresser (25.12.1925 - 05.1985), only child of Albert Cresser, and Alice Mayner; two sons, two daughters.

27.01.1923
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
29.10.1989
South Wootton, Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1942 [237287]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1943 (reld 18.09.1946)
A/Capt.	18.12.1944-17.03.1945
T/Capt.	18.03.1945-(08.1946) *

* Army List has 19.03.1945; his Soldier's Service and Pay Book shows 18.03.1945

Education: Birmingham University (Sapper Cadet, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps).

			141st Officer Cadet Training Unit RE
04.07.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(11.1942)			3 Section, 278 Field Company RE (Hurworth)
(09.1944)			9th (Airborne) Field Company RE (part of the seaborne echelon for Operation Market-Garden (airborne operations Arnhem / Nijmegen / Eindhoven))

His sister writes: "George in the meantime had volunteered and joined the Royal Engineers. I am not sure where he was during this time but I do remember him coming home one night to tell Mother and Dad that he had volunteered for the Airborne. This was not surprising as he had originally wanted to join the Royal Air Force. He went overseas, survived a lot of the war and I still have air letters from him sent from Italy. He seldom talked of his experiences. He did tell me later that he was in training for D-day but the unit was pulled at the last minute by General Montgomery and sent in to Arnhem, Holland. This was a disaster, miscalculated and the Germans were waiting for them when they landed by glider. On the way north, however, George borrowed a motorbike and took a quick side trip to Chorleywood to say goodbye to Mother and on his way back to join the unit, he had an accident and was thrown over the hedge on the Rickmansworth road. His ankle was damaged and he was pulled from the glider. This accident saved his life, the glider he should have been in crashed over England. He went in with the Seaborne Trail to Nijmegen."

Brown,
Sir John
J. Brown

Elder son of late Alderman John Brown of Abington, Northampton, and Kate Davis Allen.
Married (1904) Annie Maria, 3rd daughter of late Alderman Francis Tonsley, JP, of Northampton; two sons.

10.02.1880
-
04.04.1958

2nd Lt.	? [21336]
...	...
Col.	? (retd 10.02.1937)
Maj.Gen.	01.11.1937 (retd 18.11.1941)
A/Lt.Gen.	04.09.1939-03.09.1940
T/Lt.Gen.	04.09.1940-(04.1941)
Hon. Lt.Gen.	18.11.1941

KCB	1934	?
CBE	1923	?
CB	1920	?
DSO	1918	?
TD	?	?

Education: Magdalen College School, Brackley

			joined 1st VB Northamptonshire Regiment, 1901 (afterwards 4th (TA) Bn Northamptonshire Regiment); served in Suvla landing August 1915, Anzac and Palestine campaigns; Commanded 162nd (East Midland) Infantry Brigade (TA), 1924-1928
01.11.1937	-	03.09.1939	Deputy Director-General of Territorial Army (temporary)
04.09.1939	-	29.11.1940	Deputy AdjutantGeneral (Territorial), War Office
30.11.1940	-	(04.)1941	Director-General, Territorial Army & Inspector-General of Welfare and Education, War Office

JP; DL; FRIBA; FRICS. Chairman of the British Legion, 1930-1934; Chairman British Empire Service League, 1946-1953; Hon. Freeman of County Borough of Northampton, 1934; Master of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers, 1942-1944 and 1950-1951. Honorary Colonel, 3rd Survey Regiment Royal Artillery (TA), 11.02.1939-27.09.1949.

Brown,
John Austin
J.A. Brown

26.02.1905
St Albans district, Hertfordshire
-
04.1996
Kensington and Chelsea district, London

Tpr.	?
2nd Lt.	12.11.1926 [36469]
Lt.	12.11.1929
Capt.	01.05.1935
Maj.	28.08.1939

	TD	31.01.1946	-
	TD	13.07.1951	2 clasps

			Inns of Court Officer Training Corps
12.11.1926			commissioned, 9th London Regiment (Queen's Victoria Rifles) - Territorial Army [later: Queen's Victoria Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps]
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	26.05.1940	Officer Commanding, C Company, 7th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (captured at Calais)
26.05.1940	-	1945?	POW (No. 730) in German captivity (Oflag IX-A/H, Spangenberg, Hessen)
?	-	02.03.1955	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Brown,
Keith Charles
K.C. Brown

Son (with two brothers) of George Freckleton Brown (1881-1953), and Marie Todd Parker (1886-1952).
Married (05.10.1944, St Johns, Long Eaton) Patricia Jane Marshall (19.05.1922 - 27.03.2001); two sons, two daughters.

04.09.1922
Ripley, Derbyshire
-
23.02.2013
Kingsley House, Tetbury

Cadet	? [14683314]
2nd Lt.	06.05.1944 [320101]
WS/Lt.	06.11.1944 (reld > 04.1947, < 12.1947)
T/Capt.	05.11.1945-(04.1947)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1947, < 12.1947

39\|45 St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

			Officer Cadet Training Unit, Falmark Hall
06.05.1944			commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
			trained at Arborfield with Cromwell, Churchill & Sherman tanks
			Light Aid Detachment REME officer atached to Probyns Horse (India & Burma)
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Chartered engineer.

Brown,
Kenneth Maxwell
K.M. Brown (Photo courtesy of Jane Maxwell-Brown)

Also known as: Maxwell-Brown, Kenneth.
Son of ... Brown, and Maud Cooke.
Married ((12?).1939, Northwich district, Cheshire) Eleanor Mary Potter (08.03.1920 - 10.2003); one daughter, one son.

05.1914
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
25.05.2013

2nd Lt.	08.06.1934 [63156]
Lt.	08.06.1937
T/Capt.	14.08.1940-19.01.1942
WS/Capt.	20.01.1942
Capt.	01.05.1947, seniority 20.01.1942
T/Maj.	20.01.1942-06.10.1945
WS/Maj.	07.10.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Maj.	02.05.1948, seniority 01.05.1947
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946
Maj.	03.06.1952, seniority 02.05.1948
Lt.Col.	12.10.1953, seniority 08.05.1953

TD	04.02.1949	-
TD	21.04.1950	1st clasp
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East 11.41-04.42

08.06.1934			commissioned, 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Signals - Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			served Western Desert, Sicily, Salerno, Normandy & Norway
01.1947			reformed 304th Signal Squadron at Signal House, Score Lane, Liverpool
01.09.1950	-	03.06.1952	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
03.06.1952	-	30.10.1956	Supplementary Reserve of Officers [later: Army Emergency Reserve]
30.10.1956	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Honorary Colonel, 91st Signal Regiment AER, 23.10.1959-01.08.1964.

Brown,
Robert Charles
R.C. Brown

Of Lancing, Sussex.

21.11.1902
Lewisham district, London / Kent
-
(06?).1976
Yeovil district, Somerset

Lt. (QM)	18.03.1939 [86127]
WS/Capt. (QM)	01.11.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

MBE

24.408.1944

Italy

18.03.1939			commissioned, 57th (Home Counties) Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	21.11.1957	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Brown,
Robert Donald
R.D. Brown

?
-
16.09.1943
(KIA)
[Cassino Memorial, Italy, panel 6]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [121662]
WS/Lt.	18.01.1941
T/Capt.	18.01.1941-...
T/Maj.	...-16.09.1943

DSO

21.02.1946
to be dated
16.09.1943

in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field (Italy)

	-	09.03.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.03.1940			commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
?	-	16.09.1943	attached 2/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment (killed in action, Monte Cassino)

Brown,
Roy Claude
R.C. Brown (Photo courtesy of Mr Barry Brown)

Son (with one brother) of Oscar Leslie Brown (1891-1933), and Amelia "Milly" Adeleana Cook-Darch (1897-1990).
Brother of S.Lt. (E) Geoffrey Colin Brown, RNVR.
Married ...; three children.

06.01.1917
Bulawayo, North Matabeleland (later Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
-
27.05.1977
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe)

Gnr.	1938
Cadet	? [1479656]
2nd Lt.	22.01.1942 [224777]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 10.12.1947)
T/Capt.	04.12.1945-(04.1947)
Hon. Lt.	10.12.1947

1938			enlisted, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
(1939)			95th Battery, 27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
22.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Architect.

Brown,
Robert Walker

see:

Walker-Brown,
Robert

Brown,
Sam Wayland
S.W. Brown

Married ...; one son.

07.03.1916
Newport district, Wales
-
08.1989
South Glamorgan district, Wales

2nd Lt.	16.05.1943 [285046]
WS/Lt.	16.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A?/Capt.	?
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

16.05.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Brown,
Walter James
W.J. Brown

?
-
1969

2nd Lt.	16.12.1940 [163279]
WS/Lt.	22.04.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
T/Capt.	22.04.1942-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945

16.12.1940

commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]

A grandchild writes: "He also served under-age in WW1. He was in Kingston upon Thames and Brompton Rd Knightsbridge, maybe in the Blitz. Was also in Essex with ack-ack guns shooting at Doodle Bugs. Has a 14-15 star from WW1 and Defence Medal from WW11."

Brown,
William
W. Brown

20.10.1908
-
09.1996
Poulton le Fylde, Blackpool and Fylde district, Lancashire

2nd Lt.	29.03.1933 [58625]
Lt.	29.03.1936 (reld 29.09.1945)
T/Capt.	02.12.1939-(04.1941), 30.10.1943-(09.1945)
A/Maj.	1945
T/Maj.	1945
A/Lt.Col.	1945
Hon. Maj.	29.09.1945

MID	23.05.1946	Mediterranean
TD	30.11.1993	-
TD	30.11.1993	1st clasp

29.03.1933			commissioned, 5th Battalion The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
17.04.1940	-	02.06.1940	served in France with his unit
01.05.1942			transferred, Royal Armoured Corps
14.12.1942			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
			569th Army Transport Company RE (North Africa 1943)
			Adjutant, 82nd Company RE (Italy 1944)
1945			Commander RE, Taranto
29.09.1945	-	20.10.1958	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attaine age limit]

Brown,
William Aubrey Stead
W.A.S. Brown

26.10.1914
-
07.1998
Southend on Sea district, Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.04.1943 [273045]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946
Lt.	21.04.1946
Capt.	12.08.1953

04.11.1949

22.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
26.06.1944			transferred, The Essex Regiment
01.03.1951	-	03.07.1955	commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
04.07.1955			Mobile Defence Corps - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers

Browne,
Brian Robertson
B.R. Browne

later used as:
Robertson-Browne, B.

05.06.1920
-
31.10.1979
Kenilworth, Warwickshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.06.1940 [138930]
WS/Lt.	29.12.1941
WS/Capt.	24.10.1942
T/Maj.	24.10.1942-(04.1944)
T/Capt.	27.06.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	15.10.1949

	MID	01.03.1945	Ardennes
	EM	25.03.1949	?

Commander-in-Chief's certificate [for his actions in Normandy with the resistance when he was dropped wide and spent some two months adrift from his battalion behind German lines]

29.06.1940			commissioned, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) [emergency commission]
10.09.1943			transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
(06.1944) (12.1944)	-	(02.1945)	9th Parachute Battalion Anti-Tank Platoon (Merville, France) B Company (Ardennes)
15.10.1949	-	24.02.1955	transferred to the Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army
24.02.1955			transferred to the Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Self-employed salesman.

Browne,
Denniss James Guinan
D.J.G. Browne

Son of James Satterley [Guinan-]Browne (1874-1949), and Elsie Kate Coe (1886-1972).
Married (29.11.1952, Abu Suwêr, Egypt) Lois Cynthia Horton Morgan (1924 - ), younger daughter of Colonel F.R.H. Morgan, D.S.O, O.B.E & Mrs Morgan of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; two sons.
Married ((12?).1983, Sutton district, Greater London) Maureen M. Elliott-Mears-Brine (1922 - ).

28.12.1919
Bromley district, Surrey
-
02.2000
Poole district, Dorset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.06.1940 134485]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1941
T/Capt.	05.11.1943-(04.1946)
Lt.	01.06.1946, seniority 01.12.1941
Capt.	01.11.1947
Maj.	28.12.1953
Hon. Maj.	01.01.1965

02.05.1947

& 1st clasp

			102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
11.09.1945	-	(04.)1946	a Staff Captain, Directorate of Recruiting and Demobilization, Department of the Adjutant General to the Forces, The War Office
01.06.1946	-	01.06.1954	short service commission
01.06.1954	-	01.01.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)

His son writes: "He was stationed in North Africa and took part in the Desert Campaign commanded by General Montgomery. I believe that after the end of the war he spent some time based in Germany."

Browne,
Guy Bruno
G.B. Browne

Son of ... Browne, and ... Butler.

12.11.1914
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
04.1999
South Dorset district, Dorset

2nd Lt.	30.08.1934 [63578]
Lt.	30.08.1937
A/Capt.	01.01.1941-31.03.1941
T/Capt.	01.04.1941-07.05.1941
WS/Capt.	08.08.1941
Capt.	30.08.1942
A/Maj.	08.05.1941-07.08.1941
T/Maj.	08.08.1941-19.07.1942, 13.07.1943-29.08.1947
Maj.	30.08.1947
T/Lt.Col.	05.08.1953-31.03.1954
Lt.Col.	01.04.1954 (retd 24.06.1958)

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College (psc)

30.08.1934			commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (Lucknow)
(01.1939)			1st Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (Rawalpindi)
23.01.1939	-	31.12.1940	Instructor (Class "C"), Armament Wing, Small Arms & Mechanization School [later Small Arms School], India (Ahmednagar)
12.05.1944	-	(09.1944)	Second-in-Command, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)
01.05.1946	-	16.07.1946	Brigade Major, 158th Infantry Brigade (British Army of the Rhine)
10.09.1946	-	22.10.1946	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), HQ Hannover Garrison
23.10.1946	-	26.06.1947	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Qartermaster General (DAA&QMG)
17.04.1948			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps
17.08.1951	-	03.08.1953	Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (DADST), War Office
14.08.1956	-	(02.1957)	Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (ADST), Southern Command

Browne,
John Raymond Jennison
J.R.J. Browne

Son of Archibald Buchanan Browne, and Ethel Ivy Jennison.
Married ((09?).1946, St Marylebone district, London) Marcelle P. Butcher.

12.02.1922
Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire
-
06.1994
Yeovil district, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [201988]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	15.08.1944-(04.1946)

?	-	23.08.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.08.1941			commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			served in Burma

Browning,
[Sir] Frederick Arthur Montague
"Boy" / "Tommy"
F.A.M. Browning

Second child and only son of Lt.Col. Frederick Henry Browning, CBE (1870-1929), London merchant, and Anne Alt (1873-1959).
Married (19.07.1932) Dame Daphne du Maurier (13.05.1907 - 19.04.1989), second of three daughters of Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (1873-1934), actor-manager, and Muriel Beaumont (1881-1957); one son, two daughters.

20.12.1896
Brompton, London
-
14.03.1965
Menabilly House, Par, Cornwall

2nd Lt.	16.06.1915 [22588]
Lt.	15.07.1915
A/Capt.	16.12.1917-23.11.1920
Capt.	24.11.1920
Maj.	22.05.1928
Lt.Col.	01.02.1936
Col.	01.09.1939, seniority 01.02.1930
A/Brig.	03.10.1939-02.04.1940
T/Brig.	03.04.1940-02.11.1942
A/Maj.Gen.	03.11.1941-02.11.1942
T/Maj.Gen.	03.11.1942-26.05.1944
Maj.Gen.	27.05.1944, seniority 28.12.1943
A/Lt.Gen.	09.12.1943-08.12.1944
T/Lt.Gen.	09.12.1944-(01.1946)
Lt.Gen.	09.05.1946, seniority 23.12.1944 (retd 05.04.1948)

GCVO	22.05.1959	?
KCVO	1953	?
KBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46
CB	01.01.1943	New Year 43
DSO	04.02.1918	*
MID	23.05.1918	?
MID	22.03.1945	?

Polonia Restituta 2nd class 07.12.1944
Croix de Guerre (France) WWI
1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He took command of three companies whose officers had all become casualties, reorganised them, and proceeded to consolidate. Exposing himself to very heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, in two hours he had placed the front line in a strong state of defence. The conduct of this officer, both in the.assault and more especially afterwards, was beyond all praise, and the successful handing over of the front to the relieving,
unit as an entrenched and strongly fortified position was entirely due to his energy and skill.

Education: Eton College (1910-1914); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1914-1915).

16.06.1915			commissioned, Grenadier Guards
			Served European War, 1914-1918 [France & Belgium 13.10.1915-05.01.1916 & 28.09.1916-11.11.1918] (despatches, DSO, Croix de Guerre)
04.11.1918	-	04.11.1921	Adjutant, ...
24.04.1924	-	23.04.1928	Adjutant, Royal Military College, Sandhurst [competed in bobsleighing the 1928 Winter Olympics in Sankt Moritz]
(03.1931)			3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Wellington Barracks)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Wellington Barracks, for Windsor)
01.02.1936	-	01.08.1939	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Egypt & Wellington Barracks)
01.09.1939	-	02.10.1939	Assistant Commandant, Small Arms School
03.10.1939	-	13.05.1940	Commandant, Small Arms School
14.05.1940	-	19.02.1941	Commander, 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade (UK)
19.02.1941	-	02.11.1941	Commander, 24th Guards Brigade Group (Guards) (UK)
03.11.1941	-	05.04.1943	General Officer Commanding, 1st Airborne Division
06.04.1943	-	08.12.1943	Major-General Airborne Forces
09.12.1943	-	09.12.1944	Commander, Airborne Troops
1944	-	1944	Commander, [1st] British Airborne Corps (NW Europe)
1944	-	1944	also: Deputy Commander First Allied Airborne Army (NW Europe)
26.12.1944	-	(01.)1946	Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia
1946	-	1948	Military Secretary, War Office

Comptroller and Treasurer, Princess Elizabeth's Household, 01.01.1948-01.05.1952. Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh, 01.05.1952-08.07.1959. Extra Equerry to the Queen and to the Duke of Edinburgh, since 08.07.1959. Civil Defence County Controller, Cornwall; Chairman Territorial Army Association, Cornwall; Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of Cornwall, 22.02.1960. Colonel, Indian Parachute Regiment, 05.06.1945-... Commodore Royal Fowey Yacht Club.

F.A.M. Browning

Browning,
Langley
L. Browning

Son of late LieutCol W. B. Browning, CIE, IMS, Cregg, Fermoy, Co. Cork. Married (1915) Violet, daughter of Alan Thomas Cairnes, The Glen, Drogheda, Co. Meath; one son, one daughter.

28.07.1891
Cregg, Fermoy, Co. Cork
-
19.04.1974
[Dublin ?]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.07.1911 [5253]
Lt.	20.07.1914
T/Capt.	16.06.1915-07.08.1916
Capt.	08.08.1916
A/Maj.	11.08.1918-08.10.1918
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1929
Maj.	04.01.1929
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1933
Lt.Col.	10.12.1937
Col.	05.11.1938, seniority 01.01.1936
T/Brig.	15.08.1939-31.08.1940
A/Maj.Gen.	01.09.1939-31.08.1940
T/Maj.Gen.	14.11.1940-19.04.1943
Maj.Gen.	20.04.1943, seniority 07.10.1941 (retd 23.10.1946)

CB	01.01.1944	New Year 44
OBE	1919	?
MC	1915	?
MID	01.01.1916	?
MID	05.06.1919	?
LM	14.05.1948	awarded 1946
ItCwn	1946	?

1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Croce di Guerra (Italy, 17.05.1919); Cross of Merit, 1st Cl., Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1946
Hon. Citizen of Texas, 1946

Education: Tonbridge (scholar); RMA Woolwich; psc

20.07.1911			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
1914	-	1919	served European War: France & Belgium (23.08.1914-09.1914 & 07.1915-11.1916), Italy (04.06.1918-04.11.1918) (wounded; despatches, Croce di Guerra)
01.07.1917	-	20.04.1918	Captain Instructor, Gunnery School of Instruction for Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery
09.10.1918	-	07.03.1919	Brigade Major RA, Italy
12.08.1919	-	04.06.1922	Adjutant
06.04.1928	-	25.10.1930	General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), India (N.W. Frontier Campaign)
26.10.1930	-	07.06.1932	Brigade Major, India
21.01.1933	-	20.01.1936	Instructor [General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2)], Staff College, Camberley
05.11.1938	-	14.08.1939	Instructor [General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1)], Senior Officers' School, Sheerness
15.08.1939	-	31.08.1940	Inspector of the Royal Artillery (temp.)
01.09.1940	-	13.11.1940	Commander Royal Artillery (CRA), 4th Division
14.11.1940	-	13.02.1942	General Officer Commanding (GOC), 10th Anti-Aircraft Division, Home Forces
22.09.1942	-	03.04.1944	Commander RA Training Establishments & Major-General RA Training, War Office
22.09.1942	-	03.04.1944	Commander RA Training Establishments & Major-General RA Training, War Office
04.04.1944	-	1946	GOC military mission to the Italian Army
23.10.1946	-	28.07.1951	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Brownjohn,
[Sir] Nevil Charles Dowell
N.C.D. Brownjohn

Son of Arthur Dowell Brownjohn, of Richmond, Surrey, and Repton.
Married (1929) Isabelle White; one son.

25.07.1897
-
21.04.1973

2nd Lt.	22.04.1915
...	...
Lt.Col.	26.05.1939
A/Col.	16.03.1940-15.09.1940
T/Col.	16.09.1940-17.09.1941
Col.	18.09.1941, seniority 01.01.1941
A/Brig.	17.03.1941-16.09.1941
T/Brig.	17.09.1941-26.07.1943
A/Maj.Gen.	27.07.1942-26.07.1943
T/Maj.Gen.	27.07.1943-09.12.1945
Maj.Gen.	10.12.1945, seniority 17.04.1944
Lt.Gen.	18.02.1950
Gen.	10.11.1953 (retd 29.11.1958)

GBE 1957 (OBE 1941); KCB 1951 (CB 1944); CMG 1949; MC 1917

Education: Malvern College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

1915			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
02.03.1940	-	01.08.1940	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
02.08.1940	-	16.03.1941	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Directorate of Staff Duties, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
17.03.1941	-	26.07.1942	Brigadier General Staff, ... (Home Forces)
27.07.1942	-	13.04.1943	Deputy Major-General in charge of Administration, Home Forces
14.04.1943	-	03.07.1944	Major-General "Q" Chief of Staff
04.07.1944	-	07.08.1944	Deputy Asisstant Chief of Staff (DACOS), Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)
08.08.1944	-	22.01.1945	Deputy Quartermaster-General, Middle East Command
23.01.1945	-	25.03.1945	Major-General in charge of Administration, Middle East Command
26.03.1945	-	22.06.1945	Deputy Quartermaster-General, Middle East Command
23.06.1945	-	26.10.1945	Major-General Staff Duties, War Office
1945	-	1946	Chief Administration Officer British Army of the Rhine, Germany
1949	-	1950	Vice Quartermaster-General, War Office
1950	-	1952	Vice Chief Imperial General Staff, War Office
1952	-	1955	Chief Staff Officer, Ministry of Defence
1955	-	1958	Quartermaster-General, War Office
1957	-	1958	also: Aide-de-Camp to the Queen

Brownlie,
William Steel

From Greenock.
Married (first) Margaret Mitchell (deceased); (second) Netta Russell (deceased); one son, one daughter.

12.10.1923
Cambusnethan
-

Cadet	? [14403657]
2nd Lt.	30.01.1944 [308074]
WS/Lt.	30.07.1944
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	14.12.1944
Lt. TA	22.10.1950, seniority 12.10.1946
Capt. TA	01.08.1952
A/Maj. TA	30.06.1954
Maj. TA	12.10.1957, seniority 30.06.1954
Lt.Col. TA	20.05.1966
Lt.Col. TAVR	01.04.1967, seniority 20.05.1966 (retd 01.04.1969)
Bt. Col. TAVR (retd)	01.04.1969

	MC	01.03.1945	NW Europe (battle for the bridge at Asten, Holland, 22.09.44)
	TD	18.01.1963	?

Education: Greenock Academy (Dip.Ed.); Glasgow University (MA)

1942	-	1947	served in the Royal Armoured Corps:
30.01.1944			commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
1944	-	1947	2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (NW Europe)
(1944)	-	(1945)	Troop Commander, A Squadron
22.10.1950	-	1968	served in The Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick's Own) - Territorial Army (later Territorial Army & Volunteer Reserve):
(1950s?)			Second-in-Command
1966	-	1968	Commanding Officer

Principal teacher modern languages, John Neilson High School in Paisley, Scotland (1951-1984), since 1969 Depute Head. Contributor, Lingo Column, Times Educational Supplement; Editor, The Scottish Schoolmaster; Editor, The Yeoman (Ayrshire Yeomanry).
1964; Thirteen Letters from a Scottish Soldier (Editor), 1988.
Published: The proud trooper : the history of The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, from its raising in the Eighteenth Century till 1964 (1963)

Brownrigg,
Sir Wellesley Douglas Studholme
W.D.S. Brownrigg

Youngest son of Gen. John Studholme Brownrigg, CB (1814 -1889), Grenadier Guards, and his second wife Beatrice Laura Desanges
(1865-1922).
Married (02.02.1919, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London) Mona Editha Jeffreys (05.09.1889 - 15.04.1969), only daughter of Maj.Gen. Henry Byron Jeffreys, CB, CMG.

21.04.1886
Chelsea, London
-
07.02.1946
London

2nd Lt.	28.01.1905
Lt.	16.02.1907
Capt.	21.01.1913
T/Maj.	23.08.1914-17.11.1915
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1916
T/Maj.	16.12.1918-31.03.1923
Maj.	16.05.1923
T/Lt.Col.	18.11.1915-15.12.1918
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1918
Bt. Col.	01.07.1925
Col.	23.07.1927, seniority 01.01.1922 (half pay 16.02.1931) (full pay 01.11.1931)
T/Brig.	18.05.1933-15.07.1934
Maj.Gen.	16.07.1934 (half pay 16.10.1934) (full pay 16.06.1935)
T/Lt.Gen.	03.01.1938-28.01.1938
Lt.Gen.	29.01.1938 (retd 01.07.1940)

KCB	08.06.1939	HM's birthday 39
CB	01.01.1936	New Year 36
DSO	22.12.1916	Mesopotamia
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Mulgrave Castle; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

28.01.1905			commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
28.01.1905	-	31.01.1910	1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
01.02.1910	-	30.07.1913	Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
23.08.1914	-	17.11.1915	Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, 13th Division (Home Forces & Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; under Lt.Gen. Sir Frederick Shaw in Gallipoli 06.1915-12.1915)
18.11.1915	-	15.12.1918	Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Indian Expeditionary Force "D" & Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (served under Lt.Gen. Sir Stanley Maude in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia) (despatches six times [28.01.1916, 13.07.1916, 19.10.1916, 15.08.1917, 12.03.1918, 27.08.1918], Brevets of Major and Lt.Col, DSO, the Order of St Vladimir with swords 22.12.1916) (Egypt 01.1916-02.1916, Mesopotamia 02.1916-10.1918)
16.12.1918	-	31.12.1918	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (employed at War Office) (temporarily)
01.01.1919	-	31.12.1919	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office (temporarily)
1920			Staff College (psc)
01.02.1921	-	31.03.1923	Commander Company of Gentlemen Cadets (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Royal Military College, Sandhurst
01.04.1923	-	27.01.1927	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office (under the Director of Staff Duties responsible for the education of officers and the Officers' Training Corps)
28.01.1927	-	1929	Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General in charge of Administration, Shanghai Defence Force, Northern China Command (temporarily)
1929	-	15.02.1931	Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General in charge of Administration, China Command (temporarily)
01.11.1931	-	17.05.1933	Commander, 159th (Welsh Border) Infantry Brigade (Western Command)
18.05.1933	-	15.10.1934	Commander, 11th Infantry Brigade (Colchester, Eastern Command)
16.06.1935	-	02.01.1938	General Officer Commanding, 51st (Highland) Division TA (Scottish Command)
03.01.1938	-	30.06.1939	Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War
01.07.1939	-	03.09.1939	Director-General of Territorial Army, War Office, and Member of Army Council
04.09.1939	-	1940	Adjutant-General, GHQ British Expeditionary Force (France)

Zone and Sector Commander Home Guard since 1941; ADC to the King, 14.12.1933-15.07.1934. Colonel, The Sherwood Foresters, 19.01.1941-07.02.1946.
Published: Unexpected : a book of memories (1942); regular contributor to Evening News, Christian Science Monitor and Ministry of Information Commentaries.

Bruce,
Alexander Cathcart
A.C. Bruce (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Epps)

Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Robert Cathcart Bruce (1859-1955), and Grizelda Wilson Rodger (1857-1940).
Married (18.04.1958, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland) Elizabeth Wallace Malcolm "Betty" Aitken (07.06.1892 - 06.1972), daughter of John Malcolm Aitken, and Isabella Wilson Aitken; no children.

08.12.1894
Goole, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
01.09.1966
hospital, Folkestone, Kent

T/2nd Lt.	16.09.1914
2nd Lt.	09.02.1918, seniority 01.01.1917 [9484]
...	...
Capt.	01.01.1923
Maj.	01.11.1934 (retd 01.08.1936)

MID

1919

Education: Bradfield School (09.1908-04.1913; Prefect).

16.09.1914			commissioned, Royal Field Artillery [temporary commission]
09.02.1918			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [permanent commission]
22.01.1930	-	01.05.1933	Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry
1935			served NW Frontier of India
01.08.1936?	-	15.05.1946	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class I) [exceeded age limit]
1937	-	1943	Ministry of Home Security

British Council Representative to Malta, 1945-1950. Director of Training and Operations of Civil Defence at British Columbia & Alberta, Canada, 1950-1958.

Bruce,
David
D. Bruce

?
-

2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156090]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942 (reld 20.09.1946; disability)
T/Capt.	25.05.1945
Hon. Capt.	20.09.1946

02.11.1940			commissioned into the Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
01.01.1949	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Stock jobber, London.

Bruce,
Donald Charles
D.C. Bruce

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.11.1942 [253253]
WS/Lt.	21.05.1943
T/Capt.	29.10.1945-14.03.1946
WS/Capt.	15.03.1946
Capt.	14.08.1946, seniority 15.03.1946
Maj.	25.01.1957 (reld 16.09.1961)
Hon. Maj.	16.09.1961
Capt.	02.09.1963, seniority 01.03.1948
Maj.	01.09.1967

21.11.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission to 13.08.1946]
14.08.1946			short service commission
04.09.1950			transferred, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
02.09.1963	-	30.08.1967	General List - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers (later T&AVR, category II)
01.09.1967	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Bruce,
Edward Macaulay
E.M. Bruce (Photo courtesy of Mr John McLoughlin)

Son of Robert Perry Bruce (1861-1914), and Olive Maud Macaulay (died 1968).
Married (1939) Nancy Elinor Humfrey, daughter of Lt.-Col. F.G.C. Humfrey; two sons, one daughter.

09.02.1908
-
08.1986
Cirencester, Gloucestershire

L/Cpl. TA	?
2nd Lt.	24.01.1940 [113936]
WS/Lt.	24.07.1941
T/Capt.	27.01.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	13.06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

			served in the ranks, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - Territorial Army
24.01.1940			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]
			served B Company, 2nd/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment

General manager, Unilever.

Bruce,
Ian Robert Craufurd George Mary
I.R.C.G.M. Bruce (Photo courtesy of Philena Bruce, via Amravati Mitchell)

Son of Eric Henry Stuart Bruce (1855-1935), scientist & aviator, and Helen Florence Mary Auxilium King (1860-1941).
Married (01.06.1926) Joan Mary Feilding (1904-1991), daughter of Lt.Col. Rowland Charles Feilding, DSO; five daughters.

family papers

22.06.1890
Kensington, Greater London
-
16.01.1956

2nd Lt.	15.09.1915 [9850]
T/Lt.	01.04.1917-24.05.1917
Lt.	25.05.1917
A/Capt.	13.04.1918-30.10.1919
T/Capt.	03.11.1919-24.01.1923
Capt.	25.01.1923
Bt. Maj.	29.12.1923
Maj.	05.05.1935
Lt.Col.	30.03.1938 (half-pay/full-pay 30.03.1938)
A/Col.	05.06.1941-14.08.1941
Col.	15.08.1941, seniority 30.03.1941 (supernumerary 22.06.1945) (retd 28.03.1946)
A/Brig.	05.06.1941-04.12.1941
T/Brig.	05.12.1941-06.10.1943
Hon. Brig.	28.03.1946

DSO	30.12.1941	East Africa
MBE	1918	?
MID	30.01.1919	?
MID	05.06.1919	?
Leo II	16.01.1947	?
CdeG	16.01.1947	?
HS MM	27.05.1949	?
14\|15 St	-	& clasp (Mons)
Gen SM	-	& clasp (Palestine)
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
Cor M 37	1937	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Cor M 53	1953	-

Education: Beaumont School, St Albans, Hertfordshire; Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire; qualified in a course of instruction at the London School of Economics

09.08.1914	-	14.05.1915	served in the ranks, mobilized Territorial Force (279 days, of which 32 days reckon as commissioned service for increase of pay and retirement) (21.09.1914-06.04.1915 France & Belgium)
15.09.1915			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (06.10.1915-15.03.1916 France & Belgium)
23.01.1916	-	30.10.1919	attached, Machine Gun Corps (Asia Minor region 06.11.1916-11.11.1918, Russia 13.02.1919-21.02.1919 & 11.03.1919-10.1919)
03.11.1919	-	02.12.1922	Staff Captain, ... (Black Sea & Turkey)
03.12.1922	-	29.02.1924	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), ... (Turkey) (temporary)
09.04.1926	-	26.05.1929	Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Aldershot)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Egypt)
30.03.1938	-	04.06.1941	employed with the Royal West African Frontier Force
30.03.1938	-	04.06.1941	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Gold Coast Regiment
05.06.1941	-	06.10.1943	Brigade Commander, East Africa
09.07.1941	-	28.07.1943	Commander, 28th (East African) Infantry Brigade (East Africa, Abyssinia, French Somlailand) *
28.03.1946	-	22.06.1948	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

* Except for the periods 09.02-26.02.1942, 03.04-01.05.1942, 23.06-23.07.1942, 07.08-31.08.1942, 09.11-21.11.1942, 13.02-13.03.1943 & 20.03-20.04.1943

Bruce,
John Girvan
"Jock"
J.G. Bruce (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Married Brenda ...; two sons.

26.08.1908
-
15.07.1990
Croydon district, London

CSM	?
2nd Lt.	17.07.1942 [239422]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1943
WS/Maj.	05.10.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	05.10.1945-...
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

07.1938			joined C Company, The London Scottish
17.07.1942			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
(08.1942)	-	1943?	1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk, then Sicily & Italy [wounded])
			Staff Officer & Captain

Brueton,
Ronald Henry
R.H. Brueton (Photo courtesy of Sarah Brueton)

Son of Leonard Brueton, and Ethel Crompton.
Married ((03?).1935, Prescot district, Lancashire) Mary Kathleen Holland (03.01.1910 - 11.1984); four daughters.

20.06.1913
Ormskirk, Lancashire
-
06.1996
Settle, Ewecross district, North Yorkshire

WS/Conductor	?
Lt. QM	12.10.1942 [247000]
T/Capt. QM	16.10.1943-11.10.1945
WS/Capt. QM	12.10.1945 (demobilized > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Lt. QM	01.05.1947
Capt. QM	18.01.1950

19.08.1949

12.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
01.05.1947			commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Territorial Army
20.07.1955			transferred, Unattached List
20.07.1956			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

A granddaughter writes: "He went to military school and was in the BEF. He was at Dunkirk, possibly evacuated on an 'Isle of man Ferry'? and was at the D-Day landings."

Bruxner-Randall,
James Gerald
J.G. Bruxner-Randall

Son of Col. Richard George Randall [from 1891 Bruxner-Randall], JP (1850-1921), and Agnes Georgina Bruxner (1860/61?-1938), of Thurlaston Holt, Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Brother of Lt. Walter George Bruxner-Randall.
Married 1st (21.04.1925, Gresford Church, Wrexham district, North Wales; divorced 1947) Mary Eileen Lilian Neville "Molly" Bagot (20.10.1896 - 09.10.1984), daughter of John Christopher Bagot (1856-1935), and Anna Catherine Fleming (1866-1963), of Ballyturin, Gort, Ireland; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1950, Florida, USA) Laure Triest Gyselynck, daughter of H. Gyselynck, of Antwerp, Belgium.

07.04.1890
Acton Bury, Lancashire
-
1986

2nd Lt.	09.03.1910
Lt.	11.06.1911
Capt.	27.10.1914
T/Maj.	01.01.1919-26.01.1920
Maj.	18.11.1925
Lt.Col.	18.05.1933 (half-pay/full-pay 18.05.1937)
Col.	18.05.1937, seniority 18.05.1936 (supernumerary 31.12.1943) (retd 14.08.1946)
T/Brig.	24.11.1937-01.08.1942, 26.08.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	14.08.1946

CBE	21.12.1944	?
MID	23.01.1918	?
MID	16.09.1943	?

Order of the Black Star 5th Class. 1914-1915 Star. British War Medal. Victory Medal. Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (USA).

Education: West Downs School, Winchester (1901-1903); Winchester College (Turner's House, 1903-1908); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

09.03.1910			commissioned, Royal Welch Fusiliers (1st Battalion)
14.01.1914	-	26.01.1920	served with Nigeria Regiment, West Africa Frontier Force (African Theatre of WW1, in French West Africa to the north of the Northern Nigeria Frontier, operations by the Sokoto and Katsena Columns were under the command of Captain J. G. Bruxner-Randall and Lt. Colonel R. G. Coles, respectively, between midnight 4/5 January, 1917 and midnight 15/16 May, 1917); Kamerun & Nigeria 24.08.1914-18.02.1916; Nigeria 05.01.1917-15.05.1917
18.08.1922	-	01.04.1923	Adjutant, ... (Militia)
1933	-	1937	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
18.05.1937	-	13.07.1941	Commander, 159th (Welsh Border) Infantry Brigade - Territorial Army
14.07.1941	-	01.08.1942	Commandant, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst (Home Forces)
1942	-	1945	Brigadier, Staff & Civil Affairs (North Africa & Italy):
1943	-	1944	Commander, 57 Area, Central Mediterranean Forces

Bruxner-Randall,
Walter George
W.G. Bruxner-Randall

Son of Col. Richard George Randall [from 1891 Bruxner-Randall], JP (1850-1921), and Agnes Georgina Bruxner (1860/61?-1938), of Thurlaston Holt, Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Brother of Brig. James Gerald Bruxner-Randall, CBE.
Married (29.07.1914, Ballivor Church) Dorothy Marguerite Montgomery (? - 15.03.1954), younger daughter of Maj. & Mrs Montgomery, of Kilmer, County Meath; one son (F/O Julien Walter Lowndes Bruxner-Randall, RAF was killed in action).

11.11.1888
Acton Bury, Lancashire
-
15.03.1954
killed by Mau-Mau rebels on his coffee farm Manyika Estate, eight miles from Thika, Kenya

2nd Lt.	14.10.1908
Lt.	24.06.1910 (reld 19.02.1913)
2nd Lt.	10.06.1940 [135850]
WS/Lt.	10.06.1940 (reld 31.08.1941; ill-health)

Education: Winchester College (Fearon's House, 1902-12.1905); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

14.10.1908	-	19.02.1913	commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers
10.06.1940	-	31.08.1941	commissioned, King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]

Bryan,
Sidney Eric
"Bill"
S.E. Bryan (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Bryan)

21.03.1908
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
02.10.1975

Cadet	? [6561781]
2nd Lt.	15.01.1944 [304627]
WS/Lt.	15.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

15.01.1944			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
			probably seconded to the Commandos

Bryant,
A C

?
-

Sapper Cadet

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

not commissioned ?

Bryant,
Edward William
E.W. Bryant

?
-
?

Cadet	? [14691126]
Lt.	20.05.1944 [320832] (reld > 12.1946)

20.05.1944

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Bryant,
George Jack Leslie
J.G.L. Bryant (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)

(09?).1912
Winchester district, Hampshire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.08.1943 [289220]
WS/Lt.	14.02.1944
T/Capt.	21.06.1945-(04.1947)

14.08.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(1947)			HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)

Bryant,
William
W. Bryant

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164136]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	04.12.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 08.1946, < 12.1946

04.11.1949

21.12.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
12.01.1941			transferred, 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry (TA) - Royal Armoured Corps

Buchan,
James Francis
J.F. Buchan (Photo courtesy of Mr Alan Buchan)

Son of James Buchan, and Helen Duncan.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

19.09.1916
Aberdeen, Scotland
-
06.2001
Southend-on-Sea district, Essex

2nd Lt.	01.03.1941 [176405]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1942
WS/Capt.	06.05.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	06.05.1945-(08.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp 8th Army
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

01.03.1941			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry [emergency commission]
01.06.1942			transferred, Royal Armoured Corps

His son Alan Buchan writes: "I believe that Dad finished the war as a Lieutenant Colonel - he was awarded the war substantive rank of Major - and he served initially with the Highland Light Infantry, then with the Royal Tank Regiment. During the campaign after Alamein he was badly wounded; after his recovery I think he was detatched to another regiment, but I don't have any information on that at this time."

Buchan,
John Thomson Stanley
J.T.S. Buchan

1918
Dennistoun district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
2000

Lt.	27.11.1943 [301661]
WS/Capt.	27.11.1944

Education: The High School of Glasgow (1928-1936); MB

27.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945?)	served 209th Field Ambulance RAMC (NW Europe [wounded])

Fellow (qua Surgeon) of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 06.09.1948.

Buchanan,
Alexander Stewart
A.S. Buchanan (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Jervis)

1912
-

Lt.	29.08.1939
T/Capt.	?

			late Cadet, Loretto School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
29.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
			attached, Indian Army
23.03.1942	-	02.05.1942	Officers' Light Anti-Aircraft course serial No. 18, Anti-Aircraft School (Deolali, India)

Antique furniture dealer.

Buchanan,
John Osmond
J.O. Buchanan

Son of ... Buchanan, and ... Stevens.

09.09.1916
Bromsgrove district, Hereford and Worcester / Shropshire / Staffordshire / Worcestershire
-
27.02.2004

2nd Lt.	07.09.1940 [148339]
WS/Lt.	07.03.1943
T/Capt.	05.09.1943

07.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	attached to SHAEF HQ (Versailles, France / Cologne, Germany)

Buchanan-Jardine,
[Sir] Andrew Rupert John;
4th Baronet (cr. 1885)
A.R.J. Buchanan-Jardine

Son of Sir John William BuchananJardine, 3rd Bt and Jean Barbara (died 1989), daughter of late Lord
Ernest Hamilton.
Succeeded father, 05.11.1969.
Married (05.10.1950) Jane Fiona (marriage dissolved 1975), 2nd daughter of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 6th Bt; one son, one daughter.

02.02.1923
Castle Milk, Dumfries
-
10.2002 still alive
Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

2nd Lt.	04.07.1942 [237577]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1943
Lt.	09.01.1946, seniority 02.08.1945 (reld 10.06.1949)
T?/Maj.	1948
Hon. Maj.	10.06.1949

	MC	01.03.1945	NW Europe
	BL	04.02.1947	Valkenswaard 09.44 & Eibergen 03.45 *

* date of Dutch Royal Decree

Education: Harrow; Royal Agricultural College

04.07.1942			commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards [emergency commission]
(09.1944)			Officer Commanding, 2 Troop, D Squadron, 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment (Guards Armoured Division) (NW Europe)
09.01.1946	-	10.06.1949	permanent commission

Landowner & farmer, Dumfriesshire. JointMaster, Dumfriesshire Foxhounds, 1950. JP Dumfriesshire, 1957. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), 16.06.1978.

Buck,
Reginald Claude Beresford
R.C.B. Buck (Photo courtesy of Lt.Col. Frank M.G. de Planta de Wildenberg)

Eldest son of Major William Tennant Buck (1862-1911), 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and Beatrice Elinor Biddulph Beresford (1876-1929).
Grandson of Maj.Gen. William Lewis Buck, late Madras Staff Corps and GOC Burma Division 1885.
Married Nancy Joan Mary Spearman; two daughters, one son.
Maternal grandfather of Lt.Col. F.M.G. de Planta de Wildenberg, R Anglian.

31.03.1905
Secunderabad, India
-
27.10.1973
South Africa

2nd Lt.	29.01.1925 [31883]
Lt.	29.01.1927 (retd 29.01.1935; receiving a gratuity) (recalled 24.08.1939)
A/Capt.	06.02.1940
WS/Capt.	23.10.1940 (demobilized 1945?)
Capt.	01.01.1949
T/Maj.	23.10.1940-(04.1941), 25.06.1942-...
Hon. Maj.	1945?

Education: Wellington College (1912-1923); Royal Military College, Sandhurst

29.01.1925			commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
29.11.1925	-	29.01.1935	2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (embarked for the hill station of Gharial on the NW Frontier in India and remained in India with his Battalion until October 1934 serving at Karachi, Multan and Bombay)
01.1935?	-	11.05.1955	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
24.08.1939	-	23.10.1940	2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Borden, Hampshire, from 26.09.1939 France, evacuating from Dunkirk 06.1940, then Home Service)
23.10.1940	-	04.1942?	30th (Home Defence) Battalion
14.01.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps
14.03.1942			transferred, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
12.04.1942	-	06.1942?	Officer Commanding, D Company, 70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
06.1942?	-	1945?	Second-in-Command, 70th (Young Soldier) Battalion (landed in Italy in December 1943 and was detached to take up the appointment of Town Major of Positano. After the fall of Rome, during the advance north to the Austrian border, he was appointed Town Major of Siena. He remained in Italy until the end of the war before retiring to Somerset.)

Joined the Colonial Service in 1952 and was posted to Northern Rhodesia as a District Officer.

Buckeridge,
John
J. Buckeridge (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Buckman)

Son of Charles Friend Buckeridge (1891-1961), and Hilda Gertrude Sheraton (1893-1944).

25.06.1923
Kensington district, London
-

2nd Lt.	02.04.1943 [269397]
WS/Lt.	02.10.1943
Lt.	19.04.1947, seniority 25.12.1945
A/Capt.	09.07.1945-08.10.1945
T/Capt.	09.10.1945-24.06.1950
Capt.	25.06.1950
A/Maj.	07.10.1945-28.10.1945
T/Maj.	10.10.1955-24.06.1957
Maj.	25.06.1957
Lt.Col.	11.11.1965
Col.	30.06.1971 (retd 25.06.1978)

MID

23.05.1946

Mediterranean Theatre

Education: Staff College (psc).

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 49 days
02.04.1943			commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission to 18.04.1947] [from 31.12.1966 The Queen's Regiment]
19.04.1947			permanent commission
11.07.1951	-	10.12.1952	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
24.01.1956	-	17.02.1958	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (SD), HQ (BR) Corps
07.07.1960	-	17.08.1962	Brigade Major, HQ Int. Brigade Group
24.09.1964	-	30.09.1965	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), HQ (SDB) Southern Command

Buckle,
Leslie George
F. Bullen

Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Walter George Buckle (1871-1944), and Isabella Amelia Merhoff (1881-1946).
Married ((09?).1928, Medway district, Kent) Edith Lucy Newman (26.02.1908 - 13.10.1992), of Shirley, Croydon, Surrey [she remarried ((06?).1948, Bridge district, Kent) Leonard Frank Keen (1902-1990)]; one daughter, one son.

(03?).1904
Forest Hill, Lewisham district, London
-
05.02.1944
[Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, 30A.B.4]

Sub.Condr.	?
Lt. (OEO 3rd Cl.)	07.03.1941 [185780]
T/Capt.	01.07.1942-05.02.1944
A/Maj.	13.11.1943-05.02.1944

07.03.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
16.12.1942	-	(10.1943)	a Staff Captain on the staff of Deputy Quarter-Master-General (Army Equipment), The War Office
(01.1944)	-	05.02.1944	a Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master-General (Army Equipment), The War Office

Buckley,
John Wedge
J.W. Buckley

Son of ... Buckley, and ... Evans.

10.09.1920
Llanelly district, Carmarthenshire / Glamorgan
-
05.1996
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [165069]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
T/Capt.	21.01.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	08.06.1946, seniority 10.03.1943
WS/Capt.	1946?
Capt.	10.09.1947 (retd 28.07.1952)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	28.07.1952

21.12.1940			commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
			served in Italy (3rd Battalion Welsh Guards ?)
08.06.1946	-	28.07.1952	permanent commission

Budd,
Francis Jesser
F.J. Budd (Photo courtesy of Rupert Hague-Holmes)

Son (with six siblings) of Walter Budd (1875-), a meat wholesaler in Hastings, and Katherine K. Holloway (1876-1956).
Brother of Lt. Sidney Grahame Budd, Royal Artillery.
Married (1939) Ethne Marie Angela Gray (22.11.1916 - 03.2005), daughter (with five sisters and two brothers) of William George Henry Seigert Gray (1881-1933), and Carlotta Lena Valsint Alcazar (1884-1962); four daughters, one son.

19.07.1914
Hastings, Sussex
-
12.06.2015
Harnham Croft, Salisbury

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.03.1942 [228055]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Lt.	18.09.1946, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt.	01.12.1948
Maj.	01.12.1955 (reld 04.08.1968)

39\|45 St	-	-
Fr&G St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39-45	-	-
Gen SM	-	& clasp

Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur (France)

Education: Grammar School, Hastings.
Registered architect. Architect's assistant, Slough, Buckinghamshire.

1940			enlisted, Corps of Royal Engineers
			bomb disposal section
08.03.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
1942	-	1943?	building roads in Faroe Islands
1944	-	1945	served in NW Europe (France, Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany)
18.09.1946	-	04.08.1968	short service commission (served in Gibraltar, Cyprus, Ghana, West Africa and Singapore)

Worked with the property services agency of the Civil Service based in Hounslow until he retired.

Budd,
Sidney Grahame
S.G. Budd (Photo courtesy of Rupert Hague-Holmes)

Son (with six siblings) of Walter Budd (1875-), a meat wholesaler in Hastings, and Katherine K. Holloway (1876-1956).
Brother of Maj. Francis Jesser Budd, Royal Engineers.
Married ((06?).1948, Brentwood district, Essex) Una Davies (16.09.1924 - (12?).1975); one son.

02.09.1918
Hastings, Sussex
-
04.07.1988
Detling, Maidstone, Kent

2nd Lt.	23.08.1942 [259293]
WS/Lt.	23.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)

23.08.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Architect.

Bulfin,
Patrick George John Mary Davies
P.G.J.M.D. Bulfin

Son of Ignatius Bulfin (1870-1954), and Mary Bulfin (1875-).
Married ((03?).1940, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Emma Margaret Merriman ((03?).1907 - 1981), daughter of William Heath Merriman (1869-1941), and Winifred Emma Evans (1871-1936).

11.11.1904
Bournemouth, Christchurch district, Hampshire
-
1981
Frankston, Victoria, Australia

2nd Lt.	29.01.1925
Lt.	29.01.1927
Capt.	30.08.1937
A/Maj.	30.09.1940-29.12.1940
T/Maj.	30.12.1940-28.01.1942
Maj.	29.01.1942
A/Lt.Col.	23.08.1943-22.11.1943
T/Lt.Col.	23.11.1943-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	19.01.1948 (retd 06.09.1951)

DSO	29.06.1944	Italy [recommendation available upon request]
39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39-45	-	-
MID	20.12.1940	Norway [recommendation available upon request]
Gen SM	-	& clasp Palestine 36-39 & clasp Malaya 49-50
NorWC	11.08.1942	Norway [recommendation available upon request]

Education: Downside School (1912-1923); Staff College (psc).

29.01.1925			commissioned, Green Howards
01.11.1936	-	29.09.1940	Adjutant, 1st Battalion Green Howards (Palestine 1938-39)
			served Norway, Iraq, Sicily, Italy
18.06.1944	-	31.12.1944	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ...
05.08.1946	-	22.04.1948	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), ...
1948	-	1950	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Green Howards
1950	-	1951	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), HQ Aldershot District

Bullen,
Frank
F. Bullen

?
-

T/Lt.	?
T/Capt.	11.08.1915
T/Maj.	02.10.1916 (reld 29.10.1920)
Lt.	16.07.1939 [103060]
WS/Capt.	29.12.1939
T/Maj.	29.12.1939-(04.1941)
Hon. Maj.	01.08.1946

?	-	29.10.1920	commissioned, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infatry
16.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [temporary short service commission]
(03?).1943	-	08.01.1946	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

His grandson writes: "Was on searchlight duty in WW2 before being sent behind lines in Burma we think. I also know of a War diary by Major Frank Bullen, mentioned in The Banzai Hunters by Peter Haining."

Bullen,
William Alexander
"Bill"
W.A. Bullen (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Horne)

Son of ... Bullen, and ... Morgan.
Married 1st ...; ... daughters.
Married 2nd (10.06.1983) Rosalind M. Gates.

22.09.1918
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
30.10.1992
Woodnesborough, nr Sandwich, Canterbury district, Kent

2nd Lt.	31.05.1939 [91394]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	26.09.1941-26.11.1942
WS/Capt.	27.02.1943 (demobilized 14.01.1946) (reld 31.05.1949)
A/Maj.	27.11.1942-26.02.1943
T/Maj.	27.02.1943-14.01.1946

Education: London Hospital School (1945-1950; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond, 1950 [medical reg. no. 80369, 27.01.1950]); MRCGP.

			late Cadet Corporal, Merchant Taylor's School (Crosby) Contingent, Officer Training Corps
1938			joined 7th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
31.05.1939			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers (Category B)
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
1939			1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt, Libya [1940])
1941			Tank Design Board of North America in Canada (Lecture tour of USA for 6 months in 1942)
14.02.1942			permanently unfit for general service & placed in category 'C'
17.09.1942	-	26.11.1942	a Staff Captain to Tank Liaison Assistant Directors under Deputy Director General Tank Supply, Ministry of Supply
27.11.1942	-	14.01.1946	a Deputy Assistant Director, Tank Liaison Fighting Vehicles [renamed as: Fighting Vehicles Production Liaison] under Deputy Director General Fighting Vehicles Supply [later "Supply" substituted by: "(Research & Development)"], Ministry of Supply

Entered general practice in Sandwich, Kent, and later joined Pfizer, becoming president of Pfizer (Canada). Subsequently up to his retirement he was chairman of Borthwicks plc, a food company. In his retirement he became a professional wine grower at Patrixbourne and recently won an award for the excellence of his wine. He died in his last vineyard at Woodnesborough, near Sandwich.

Bullock,
D T

?
-

Sapper Cadet

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

not commissioned ?

Bullock,
Edward Anthony Watson
E.A.W. Bullock

Younger son of late Sir Christopher Bullock, KCB, CBE, and late Lady Bullock (née Barbara May Lupton).
Married (1953) Jenifer Myrtle, elder daughter of late Sir Richmond Palmer, KCMG, and late Lady Palmer (née Margaret Isabel Abel Smith); two sons, one daughter.

27.08.1926
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-

Gillingham, Dorset

Cadet	? [14492503]
2nd Lt.	26.08.1945 [354238] (reld 1947)

Education: Rugby School (Scholar; Running VIII); Trinity College, Cambridge University (Exhibitioner; MA).

1944	-	1945	served in the ranks, 1st Battalion The Life Guards (Italy)
26.08.1945			commissioned, The Life Guards [emergency commission]

Chairman, Cambridge University Conservative Association. Joined Foreign Service, 1950; served: Foreign Office, 1950-1952; Bucharest, 1952-1954; Brussels, 1955-1958; Foreign Office, 1958-1961; La Paz, 1961-1965; Ministry of Overseas Development, 1965-1967; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1967-1969; Havana, 1969-1972; HM Treasury, 1972-1974; Head of Pacific Dependent Territories Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1974-1977; Consul- General, Marseilles, 1978-1983; Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1983-1985. Chairman, Buckhorn Weston and Kington Magna Parish Council, 1993-1995.

Bullock,
J H

?
-
?

2nd Lt.

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

commissioned, ? [emergency commission]

Bunting,
John
J. Bunting

Married Vera ... (died 1985); one son, three daughters.

1911 ?
Belfast
-
26.12.1986
Papua New Guinea (while on holiday)

Lt.	28.02.1941 [171582]
WS/Capt.	28.06.1942 (reld 1946)
Capt.	08.07.1947, seniority 28.06.1942
Maj.	27.07.1950
A/Lt.Col.	01.08.1956-12.09.1957
Lt.Col.	13.09.1957, seniority 01.08.1956
A/Col.	01.02.1961-12.07.1962
Col.	13.07.1962, seniority 01.02.1961

	CBE	11.06.1966	HM's birthday 66
	TD	29.06.1956	-

Education: Junior Technical College, Belfast; Queen's University (qualified as pharmaceutical chemist, 1932); MB, BCh 1938; BAO; FRCS.

28.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
08.07.1947	-	31.01.1966	Territorial Army
01.02.1966	-	?	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

General practitioner in Quinton, Birmingham for nearly 50 years until 1985.

Burch,
John Charles
J.C. Burch

?
-

2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124229]
WS/Lt.	09.09.1941
T/Capt.	10.08.1943-(04.1946)

09.03.1940

commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Burchill,
Herbert
H. Burchill

Married (15.02.1935, Dublin) Hilda Annie Brabazon; one daughter, one son.

04.06.1909
Dublin, Ireland
-
23.07.1993
Cranbury, New Jersey, USA

2nd Lt.	16.04.1943 [260086]
WS/Lt.	16.10.1943
T/Capt.	01.09.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?	?

16.04.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (Transportation) [emergency commission]
(1945?)			served in Germany

Burd,
Kenneth John
K.J. Burd (Photo courtesy of Mr Ben Burd)

Only child of Capt. Arthur Valentine Burd (1880-1960), and Maggie Grapes.
Married 1st (14.10.1939, Poole, Dorset; marriage dissolved) Lucy Helena Nobes (07.11.1918 - 07.12.2007), daughter of Sidney Harold James Nobes (1888-1976), and Alice L. Mugliston (1887-); two sons. Lucy Burd remarried Bryan Hewitson.
Married 2nd ((06?).1968, Southampton district, Hampshire) ... Finnegan.

23.06.1912
Hounslow, Brentford district, Middlesex
-
07.2004
Southampton district, Hampshire

Pte. 2nd cl.	02.09.1932 [7883630]
Pte.	04.11.1933
L/Cpl.	28.02.1934 (unpaid to 06.12.1935, then temporary pay, and from 11.091.1936 full pay)
Cpl.	01.04.1937
L/Sgt.	11.11.1938
Sgt.	09.03.1939
Lt.	16.12.1939 [105962]
A/Capt.	28.06.1940-27.09.1940
T/Capt.	28.09.1940-14.06.1941, 18.10.1941-28.02.1942
WS/Capt.	01.03.1942
A/Maj.	01.12.1941-28.02.1942
T/Maj.	01.03.1942-24.06.1945
Capt.	01.09.1946, seniority 01.03.1942
Maj.	16.12.1952 (Employed List 4 11.11.1954)

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
WM 39-45	-	-

Education: went to school in Maidstone.
Entered an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic at a local garage (09.1929-09.1932).

02.09.1932			enlisted, Royal Tank Corps (Maidstone) (served in the ranks in the UK for 7 years, 105 days)
04.09.1932	-	03.11.1933	Royal Tank Corps Depot (Bovington) (for recruits' training)
04.11.1933	-	06.02.1934	Royal Tank Corps Depot (Bovington)
07.02.1934	-	15.03.1936	"A" Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps [11.10.1935-20.12.1935 69th Course for Regimental Warrant Officers & Non-Commissioned Officers, Army School of Education (Shornecliffe)
16.03.1936	-	20.12.1938	Royal Tank Corps Depot (Bovington) (as Driver-Mechanic, Group "C", Class I; instructor)
20.12.1938	-	01.09.1939	2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (from 11.04.1939 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps) (remained attached to Royal Tank Corps Depot; for all purposes) [21.01.1939-04.04.1939 Instructors Armament Course, Gunnery Wing, Armoured Fighting Vehicles School & Small Arms School (Hythe)]
01.09.1939	-	15.12.1939	52nd (Heavy) Training Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (UK)
16.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1940	-	08.02.1941	50th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (UK)
09.02.1941	-	17.05.1941	23rd Armoured Brigade (UK)
14.06.1941	-	24.06.1941	55th Training Regiment RAC (Farnborough, UK)
24.06.1941	-	23.08.1941	embarked for Middle East, disembarked Egypt
24.09.1941	-	18.10.1941	1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Middle East)
18.10.1941	-	20.06.1942	Squadron Commander, HQ Squadron 32nd Army Tank Brigade (missing Cyrenaica; captured by Italians)
20.06.1942	-	12.04.1945	POW (No. 1909) in Italian & German captivity (Oflag 79, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen)
02.07.1945	-	26.08.1945	100 Officer Cadet Training Unit RAC (Sandhurst) (for refresher course & for leave)
27.08.1945	-	03.10.1945	No. 65 Tactical Course, Bovington Camp (UK)
04.10.1945	-	04.03.1946	Instructor in Gunnery (Captain), Gunnery Section, Gunnery Wing, Royal Armoured Corps School (Bovington Camp) (UK)
05.03.1946	-	08.07.1946	Draft [Serial?] RLHAP assembling HQ RAC School for embarkation to Central Mediterranean Forces
01.09.1946			short service commission
09.07.1946	-	14.09.1948	P/A RAC Range (UK)
15.09.1948	-	29.02.1951	RAC Centre Lulworth (UK)
29.03.1951	-	09.03.1953	65th Training Regiment RAC (UK)
09.03.1953	-	03.04.1953	Depot RAC (UK)
07.04.1953	-	22.06.1953	"R" List, HQ 25th Armoured Brigade District (Middle East Land Forces)
23.06.1953	-	03.08.1956	Camp Commandant, HQ 2nd Infantry Brigade (Middle East Land Forces to 20.10.1954, then UK from 30.10.1954)
04.08.1956	-	31.08.1956	Depot RAC (UK)
01.09.1956	-	23.06.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers - Class III

Retiring to the Romsey/Southampton area he was a successful small business man and genial taxi driver. In his spare time he devoted much of it to the affairs of the Romsey Rifle Club, serving in all executive offices for for nearly fifty years.

Burdis,
John Francis Calbreath
J.F.C. Burdis

Son of Frank Calbreath Burdis (1889-1966), and Elizabeth Gilbertson (1891-).
Married 1st ((03?).1948, Northumberland South district) Helen Mary Armstrong (05.11.1918 - 30.11.1977), daughter of Frederick John Hutchinson Armstrong (1882-1969), and Edith Sayer (1885-); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd ...; one daughter.

03.06.1922
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Cumberland
-
07.1975
United States

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.06.1942 [235662]
WS/Lt.	13.12.1942 (reld 17.06.1953)
Hon. Lt.	17.06.1953

RHS Br

1945

Colombo Ceylon 23.07.44

Education: Durham University.

13.06.1942			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
			attached, King's African Rifles

Professor in the Department of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Burgess,
Roy Benyon
R.B. Burgess

Son of Percy George Francis and Edith Ethel Rose Burgess (née Benyon), of Worcester.

(03?).1922
Strood district, Kent
-
08.06.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Hermanville War Cemetery, 1.M.16]

2nd Lt.	24.10.1942 [249302]
WS/Lt.	24.04.1943

24.10.1942			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	08.06.1944	Officer Commanding, 3 Troop, "B" Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) (France [killed in action])

Burley,
Henry George
H.G. Burley

Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of Alfred Burley (1870-1951), and Eleanor Edith White (1869-1956).
Married ((12?).1928, Ringwood district, Hampshire) Elsie Kathleen Page (26.12.1902 - 12.1986).

14.01.1904
Chartham Hatch, Bridge district, Kent
-
02.1988
New Forest district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	16.01.1940 [115532]
WS/Lt.	06.06.1940
T/Capt.	06.06.1940-(01.1942), 12.02.1942-25.11.1944
WS/Capt.	26.11.1944 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	26.11.1944-(12.1946)

16.01.1940

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Burnard,
S W
S.W. Burnard

?
-

Lt. QM

02.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

02.06.1943			commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(06.1944)			3rd Parachute Battalion

Burnet,
Donald Hugh

Son of Francis William and Ellen Louise Burnet.

24.07.1917
Colombo, Ceylon
-
05.2013
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [98957]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
T/Capt.	20.01.1942-10.01.1944
WS.Capt.	11.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Maj.	11.10.1943-10.01.1944
T/Maj.	11.01.1944-(04.)1945
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

02.09.1939			commissioned, 2nd Battalion London Scottish, The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley

Burnett,
John Stuart Frederick Andrew Forbes
J.S.F.A.F. Burnett

From Newmachar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Son of Maj. T.L.F. Burnett, of Ardbrecknish in Argyllshire.
Married ((12?).1947, St Marylebone district, London) Wilhelmina E.S. Hogarth; one daughter.

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [162694]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
A/Maj.	(10.1945)
WS/Maj.	?
Maj.	01.11.1948, seniority 29.06.1946
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	?

	DSO	17.01.1946	Burma *
	MC	16.12.1943	Burma / Eastern Frontier of India

* Major BURNETT undertook a recce patrol North of SWEBO from 3 Dec 44 to 18 Jan 45. Early in Mar he volunteered to lead a patrol and to be dropped by parachute. At dusk on 14 Mar 45 he was dropped near the village of MYOGI to the East of KUME. At this time there was a very strong concentration of the enemy in the area which was augmented by the enemy troops withdrawing from MANDALAY and MAYLO. Major BURNETT actually dropped within three miles of the Headquarters of the JAPANESE 15 Army. With total disregard for his own personal safety he displayed great courage and moved about the area and made many open contacts with the local inhabitants, any of whom might have given him away to the JAPANESE. He transmitted back an unusually large quantity of valuable operational intelligence. He provided many bombing targets, and a raid on MYOGYI, planned on his information, resulted in 200 enemy casualties. In order to divert suspicion he asked that he village in which he himself was hiding should be straffed. This was done. He gave the exact line of the enemy withdrawal and on many occasions put himself in very great danger to carry out his task. He returned from this mission on 14 Apr 45. On 26 Apr 45 this gallant OFFICER again dropped by parachute at dusk. He landed a few miles to the East of PAUNGDE, a town which was a rallying point for all the withdrawing enemy troops from the ARAKAN and IRRAWADDY fronts. He again displayed a high degree of courage and led his patrol on a most successful mission. A great deal of valuable intelligence was transmitted back to Army Headquarters.
** Dring, and before, the operations on the Chindwin River in the 23rd Indian Division area, Lieutenant Burnett carried out continuous and deep patrolling. Included in his many patrols and reconnaissances were the following: Six days across the Chindwin as far as the Tonzi valley, a distance of over 80 miles : eight days reconnaissance of the Nawngpuawng and Zidaw areas, a distance of over 130 miles: six days reconnaissance of the Hpanaing-Yaza area, a distance of over 60 miles; six days reconnaissance of the Tatkon area, a distance of over 80 miles. On all these patrols he was operating far into the enemy patrolled country, and had continually to dodge Japanese patrols to return with his information. The information he brought back was of the greatest value to higher authorities, both military and civil. His reports were most clear and concise. He also brought back many valuable documents. On his last patrol, a reconnaissance of over 100 miles, ten days across the Chindwin, he made a special reconnaissance of the Tonmakeng area, where a Japanese force was believed to have its headquarters. Apart from much valuable general information, he was able to obtain the exact dispositions of the enemy in the Tonmakeng-Sitsawk area. In all these many patrols and reconnaissance he was operating in what was virtually Japanese controlled territory. The official account of the recrossing of the River Chindwin is given below. This action in itself was deserving of an award.On arrival in the area of Namponbon (SF 2144) the patrol hid in the jungle to rest while the B.I.C. interpreter was sent into Namponbon village in order to arrange boats. He returned with the answer that the whole village was deserted, and that they had all gone fishing with all the boats left to their disposal. This in itself was suspicious, as usually someone is left in the village. In view of this, Lieutenant Burnett decided that it would be dangerous to go down to Sahpa or up to Myenga, as the suspicious behaviour of Nanponbon indicated the presence of a Japanese patrol.At 15.30 hrs. the Gurkha Naik, who was one of the sentries, came in to report that he had seen three Japs creeping towards Namponbon village from the south. At the same time a British Other Rank, the other sentry, reported more suspicious movement in the area. Lieutenant Burnett realised that there was a Japanese patrol in the area and that it had got information about the presence of a British patrol. Bullets were heard to go overhead. The question arose of how to cross the Chindwin. There were no boats, and only Lieutenant Burnett felt sure of being able to swim the river. Two of the others, Major Giles and Naik Singbir were very poor swimmers, whilst the B.I.C. interpreter and the British Other Rank, could not swim at all. The whole party discarded their clothing and equipment, hiding them in the jungle and retained only their weapons, with some thought of getting over on bamboos or branches of trees. The patrol then ran into Myenga where they asked for boats, but with no success. They grabbed an empty petrol tin for someone to use as a float. About 100 yards north of Myenga they found a small two-man boat overturned near the bank. This was righted, and with the four non-swimmers in the boat, Lieutenant Burnett pushed-off, propelling the boat by swimming. When the water was about chest high, the boat sank. It was brought to the surface again and, with the British Other Rank and the interpreter in the boat and the other officer and the Naik holding on, Lieutenant Burnett again pushed off, swimming and pushing as best as he could. At any moment they expected fire to be opened up on them. In the deepest part of the river, where there was a strong wind blowing and considerable waves, the boat sank again. Fortunately it came to the surface again. Lieutenant Burnett and Naik Singbir managed to pull the interpreter across the boat, while Major Giles and the British Other Rank held on. With Lieutenant Burnett and Singbir, both by this time practically exhausted, propelling the boat by swimming; the patrol managed to reach the opposite bank.Major Glies, giving the account, stated that had it not been for Lieutenant Burnett in particular, the crossing could not have been accomplished without the loss of three lives.

			either 162nd, 163rd, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training unit
21.12.1940			commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission]
			After travelling to India, probably in 1941, he was posted to the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles and then served with V Force in Burma. During early 1943, Lieutenant Burnett was involved in reconnaissance work on the Assam/Burma border, including forays over the Chindwin River and into Japanese occupied territory. In January 1943, he was sent across the Chindwin in order to scout ahead for the first Chindit operation and worked in the vicinity of the Burmese village of Tonmakeng. Possibly on Burnett's recommendation, Tonmakeng was chosen as the first supply drop location for Wingate's Northern Group, after the fledgling Chindit Brigade had safely crossed the Chindwin themselves in mid-February.
02.1946			No. 17 War Crimes Investigation Unit
12.1946			Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders.
01.11.1948	-	30.10.1952	short service commission
30.10.1952	-	01.05.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Emigrated to New Zealand. Appointed to New Zealand Military Forces, 1957 (reached rank of Lt.Col.).

Burney,
George Talbot
G.T. Burney

Son of Brigadier Herbert Henry Burney, CB, CBE, and of Diana Geraldine Burney (nee Talbot Coke); husband of Evelyn May Gwenllian Burney, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex.

15.09.1889
Mansfield district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire
-
07.11.1940
[Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany, 3.C.25]

2nd Lt.	06.02.1909
Col.	16.12.1937
T/Brig.	28.08.1939-07.11.1940

06.02.1909			commissioned, Gordon Highlanders
28.08.1939	-	04.01.1940	Commander, ... Brigade (temporary)
05.01.1940	-	12.06.1940	Commander, 153rd (Black Watch and Gordon) Infantry Brigade (UK, France & Belgium) (POW)

Burney,
Nigel Madan
N.M. Burney

Son of Rev. Prof. Charles Fox Burney (Oriel Professor at Oxford) and Ethel Wordsworth Burney (née Madan).

(06?).1916
Headington district, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
-
17.12.1939
[age 23]
[Beuvry Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, 1.B.5]

2nd Lt. TA	24.11.1934 [63826]
2nd Lt.	28.08.1937, seniority 30.01.1936
Lt.	30.01.1939

Education: Marlborough College; Oxford University (1937)

			late Cadet Corporal, Marlborough College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.11.1934			commissioned, 4th Battalion (Territorial) The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Oxford)
28.08.1937			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment (as University Candidate)
(01.1939)	-	17.12.1939	2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (Plymouth & France)

Burnham,
Harry West
H.W. Burnham

Son (with two brothers) of Thomas Cyril Burnham (1885-1928), and Dora West Barnes (1886?-1955).

13.03.1915
West Hartlepool, Co. Durham
-
06.1983
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire

2nd Lt.	01.08.1942 [240453]
WS/Lt.	01.02.1943
T/Capt.	07.06.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 18.11.1953)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	18.11.1953

01.08.1942			commissioned, Intelligence Corps [emergency commission]
01.02.1943	-	06.03.1944	Staff Lieutenant, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
07.03.1944	-	03.06.1945	Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
04.06.1945	-	(01.)1946	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office
1946	-	(04.1946)	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Military Intelligence, Department of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office

Burningham,
Jack Handley

Son (with one brother) of 2nd Lt. Ralph Horace Burningham (1886-1919), Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and Mary Elizabeth Handley Lawton (1880-1964).
Married ((06?).1961, Uckfield district, Sussex) Phyllis J. Campbell (1923 - ).

13.02.1917
Thanet, Kent
-
25.07.2000
Eastbourne, Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124129]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1941
T/Capt.	15.08.1941-02.02.1944
WS/Capt.	03.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Maj.	03.11.1943-02.02.1944
T/Maj.	03.02.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

Bank clerk.

			either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Warwickshire Regiment [emergency commission]
			attached Indian Army:
(1943)	-	(10.1944)	7th Rajput Regiment
(10.1945)	-	(1946)	15th Punjab Regiment

Burns,
Charles
C. Burns

31.03.1895
-
12.07.1961

Sgt.	(1919) [12837]
2nd Lt.	16.04.1941 [191962]
WS/Lt.	16.07.1941
T/Capt.	16.07.1941-02.05.1945
Hon. Capt.	02.05.1945

13.08.1919

Archangel Command

WW I			7th &13th Battalions The Yorkshire Regiment (Russia) (MM)
16.04.1941			commissioned, General List, Infantry [emergency commission]
02.05.1945			Unemployed List

Burns,
Frank Edward
F.E. Burns

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.06.1942 [235961]
WS/Lt.	28.07.1942 (reld 30.12.1953)
T/Capt.	03.12.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	30.12.1953

20.06.1942			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
01.11.1942			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers - Movement Control Section
			finished the war in Trieste, Italy

Burr,
Louis William

Son of William Francis Burr, and Minnie Louise Francis.
Married ((03?).1939, Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey) Marjorie E. Newman.

(12?).1911
Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-

2nd Lt.	03.04.1943 [269131]
WS/Lt.	03.10.1943
T/Capt.	16.05.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946)

21.01.1943	-	02.04.1943	36th course, Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
03.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Burridge,
Donald William
D.W. Burridge

15.01.1905
Brentford, Middlesex
-
01.1987
Reading & Wokeham, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	28.01.1925
A/Brig.	03.10.1944-02.04.1945
T/Brig.	03.04.1945-25..01.1946, 07.09.1951-14.01.1953
Brig.	15.01.1953 (retd 14.02.1958)

CBE

28.01.1925			commissioned into the Corps of Royal Signals
01.09.1941	-	01.06.1943	Commandant, Army Signals School
02.06.1943	-	13.10.1943	SO1
14.10.1943	-	18.09.1944	Deputy Signal Officer
1944	-	1945	Chief Signal Officer, XV Indian Corps (Burma)
04.02.1946	-	08.08.1946	GSO1 HQ Eastern Command

Burrough,
David Michael Charles
"Mike"
G.F. Busby

Son (with two brothers) of Rev. John Burrough (1873-1922), and Grace Winifred Norris (1891?-1951).
Married ((06?).1945, Chiddingly, Hailsham district, Sussex) Eileen Lawley Dayrell (24.07.1914 - 14.01.2004); two sons.

10.08.1915
-
15.01.1997
Uckfield district, Sussex
[Chiddingly Parish Churchyard]

2nd Lt.	01.10.1939 [99792]
WS/Lt.	01.04.1941
Lt. & Paym.	20.04.1947 23.05.1947, seniority 10.08.1938
Capt. & Paym.	23.05.1947
Maj. & Staff Paym. 2nd cl. (temp.)	30.07.1951-09.08.1951
Maj. & Paym.	10.08.1951
T/Lt.Col. & Paym.	17.03.1963-26.08.1964
Lt.Col. & Staff Paym. 1st cl.	27.08.1964 (retd 17.08.1972)

			served in the ranks Territorial Army for 30 days
01.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission to 22.05.1947]
?	-	05.1940	A Company, 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (France; captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 2602) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)
20.01.1946			transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps (on probation)
20.04.1947			transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps
23.05.1947			permanent commission
12.1952	-	14.03.1955	Staff Paymaster, HQ Northern Army Group
10.07.1962	-	27.02.1963	Staff Paymaster, War Office
17.03.1963	-	(02.1967)	Staff Paymaster, HQ Welsh Division (TA) Wales District

Burrows,
Arthur Thomas
A.T. Burrows

Son of ... Burrows, and ... Ransome.

18.03.1919
Newmarket district, Cambridgeshire / Suffolk
-
deceased

2nd Lt.	24.08.1939
...	...
Col.	?

MBE	?	?
ERD	?	?
MID	10.01.1946	?

24.08.1939

1969

served, Royal Corps of Signals (Supplementary Reserve of Officers)

Burt *,
John Astell
J.A. Burt

Son of Henry John Astell Burt (1887-1960), and Elsie Rose Charig (1891-1976)..
Married Maj-Britt ... (1918-1966).
* Also known as: Astell-Burt, John.

17.03.1918
Warrington, Cheshire
-
07.2001
Mendip district, Somerset

Tpr.	?
2nd Lt.	05.02.1938 [74072]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	16.12.1942-(04.1944)
Capt.	11.04.1945
Hon. Maj.	01.05.1949

OBE	12.06.1971	HM's birthday 71: for services to the British community in Karachi
MBE	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58: a member of the United Kingdom community in Karachi, Pakistan
TD	21.04.1950	& 1st clasp

Education: St Edward's School (Christmas 1931-summer 1934; exhibitioner).

			late Cadet, St Edward's School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, Inns of Court Regiment (Officer Producing Unit)
05.02.1938			commissioned, 36th (Middlesex) Anti-Aircraft Battalion Royal Engineers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
01.11.1938			transferred, 58th Anti-Aircraft Battalion RE
01.08.1940			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(04.1944)			seconded, Indian Army
01.05.1949			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Solicitor, 1946. Commissioner for Oaths.

Burt,
Spencer Ernest
S.E. Burt

Son (with three brothers) of Ernest E. Burt, and Mabel Bloomfield.
Brother of Lt. Herbert George Burt, RNVR & F/Lt. Edward Russell Burt, RAFVR.
Married ((12?).1939, Deben district, Suffolk) Nancy Johnson.

18.05.1914
Woodbridge district, Suffolk
-
09.1996
Norwich district, Norfolk

Lt.	26.08.1940 [144688]
WS/Capt.	26.08.1941

26.08.1940

commissioned, The Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]

Burt,
Philip Jeffery
P.J. Burt

Son of Claude Northcote Burt (1874-), of Prospect House, Tisbury, Wiltshire.
Married ((09?).1926, Birmingham North district, Warwickshire) Eve Kathlen Nicholls.

04.10.1899
Ecclesall Bierlow district, Derbyshire / West Riding of Yorkshire
-
27.05.1942
Bir Hacheim
(KIA) [age 42]
[Alamein Memorial, column 31]

2nd Lt.	31.08.1918 [63444]
Lt.	? (retd 24.08.1923)
Capt.	05.10.1934
A/Maj.	11.12.1941-27.05.1942

Education: Haileybury (Le Bas House, 3rd term 1913-2nd term 1917); Cadet College, Quetta.

31.08.1918			commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army)
14.02.1919			commissioned, Indian Army (attached 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse))
?			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (347th Battery, 87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Brigade RA)
26.10.1938			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized TARO
09.12.1940	-	27.05.1942	seconded as Adjutant, 2nd Indian Field Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery

Burton,
Lawrence Vincent
L.V. Burton

Son of ... Burton, and ... Townsend.

25.08.1914
Shoreditch district, London / Middlesex
-
09.1997
Swindon district, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [189876]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	03.10.1952, seniority 30.09.1946 (reld 03.08.1956)
Hon. Capt.	03.08.1956

?	-	24.05.1941	Officer & Cadet Training Centre, RASC
24.05.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
03.10.1952	-	03.08.1956	commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers

Burton,
Oliver Charles Hay
O.C.H. Burton

Son of Harry Charles Hay Burton (1869-1953), and Isabel Charlotte Burton (1875-1938).
Married ((06?).1940, Taunton district, Somerset) Janet Mary Moore (died 1996, having been remarried), of Nelson, New Zealand; one daughter, one son.

12.06.1910
Winchester district, Hampshire
-
17.02.1944
Anzio, Italy
[died of wounds]
[Anzio War Cemetery, IV, R, 6]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.01.1930 [44804]
Lt.	30.01.1933
Capt.	01.08.1938
T/Maj.	01.09.1940-(04.1941), 03.09.1942-17.02.1944

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)	-	(06.1933)	28th Field Brigade RA (Lahore, India)
15.10.1936	-	(01.1940)	Instructor (Class C), Equitation School, Saugor, India
			may have served 27th Field Regiment RA
?	-	17.02.1944	19th Field Regiment RA (Italy)

Burton,
Van Duzer
V.D. Burton

Married Emily (née ...).

28.11.1921
-
(03?).1982
Shipston district

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.11.1941 [214826]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	? (reld 26.06.1948)
Hon. Capt.	26.06.1948
Capt.	06.04.1950 (retd 10.03.1955)

08.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served, 12th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps (captured 04/05.02.1943 North Africa)
20.06.1947			short service commission (relinquished his commission 26.06.1948, but obviously signed up again as he finally retired 10.03.1955, serving in Palestine & Malaya)

Burtt,
Lewis William
L.W. Burtt

Son (with two sisters) of William John Burtt (1883-1918), and Florence Helena Brown (1887-1976).
Married ((09?).1941, Barnet district, Middlesex) Geraldine Burgess Tolley (03.05.1921 - 03.2000), daughter of Claude Edmund Tolley (1895-1959), and Winifred Louisa Ash (1899-); no children.
Residence: (1945) Boreham Wood.

06.12.1911
Solihull district, Warwickshire
-
08.2003
Kent

Bdr.	?
2nd Lt.	24.12.1939 [113132]
WS/Lt.	18.12.1940
T/Capt.	09.09.1941-11.01.1944
WS/Capt.	12.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Maj.	12.01.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946

MBE	13.12.1945	Italy [recommendation available upon request]
MID	29.11.1945	Italy
EM	18.04.1947	-

?	-	24.12.1939	121st Officer Cadet Training Unit
24.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
10.1943	-	(05.1945)	Royal Artillery Training Depot (North Africa, first in charge of the Training Wing and latterly in Italy, Second-in-Command of 1st (Training) Regiment, RATD)

Bury,
Ralph James
R.J. Bury

Son of ... Bury, and ... Swann.
From London, S.E. 25.

31.01.1920
Bromley district, Greater London, Kent
-
09.1997
Worthing, West Sussex

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	07.06.1939 [92444]
Lt.	11.04.1945
WS/Capt.	12.11.1942
T/Maj.	12.11.1942
Hon. Maj.	01.12.1950
Lt.	16.06.1952, seniority 21.06.1947
Capt.	09.06.1952, seniority 22.06.1951
Lt.Col. ??	?

	MBE	28.06.1945	Burma
	TD	21.04.1950	?

			served in the ranks in the Royal Regiment of Artillery
07.06.1939			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
1941			Air Liaison Officer with the RAF
01.12.1950	-	31.10.1951	transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.11.1951	-	08.06.1952	transferred to the Territorial Army
09.06.1952	-	08.06.1955	served Royal Artillery, Regular Army [short service commission]: Air Observer for the Fleet Air Arm during the Korean War, HMS Glory
09.06.1955	-	08.06.1960	transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers [short service commission]
09.06.1960	-	?	transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Busby,
George Francis
G.F. Busby

?
-

2nd Lt.	16.01.1941 [316710]
WS/Lt.	?
WS/Capt.	23.09.1944 (reld 30.11.1946)
T/Maj.	23.09.1944-30.11.1946
Hon. Maj.	30.11.1946

16.01.1941

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - African Colonial Forces Section [emergency commission]

Lived in Uganda until 1968.

Busby,
Peter Rupert Alwyn

(09?).1920
-

2nd Lt.	04.07.1942 [237288]
WS/Lt.	04.01.1943

Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).

04.07.1942

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Butcher,
Donald Arthur Thomas
D.A.T. Butcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Rodney Butcher)

Son of Henry Butcher, and Beatrice A. Bridges.
Married ((12?).1941, Ashford district, Kent) Julia B. Weston (predeceased him); two sons, one daughter.

21.08.1917
Canterbury, Kent
-
15.08.2008

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.09.1941 [207693]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	15.07.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	27.02.1950, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt. TA	01.05.1947
Capt.	14.04.1951
Maj.	09.05.1959
2nd Lt.	16.09.1964, seniority 07.06.1944
Lt.	16.09.1964, seniority 07.06.1946
Capt.	16.09.1964, seniority 07.06.1950
Maj.	16.09.1964, seniority 09.05.1959 (retd 21.08.1972)

Assistant manager. Gained aviator's certificate (No. 18154) on 14.05.1939, taken on a B.A. Swallow, Cirrus, 85, at Cinque Ports Flying Club.

27.09.1941			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			served in North Africa & Italy
01.05.1947			commissioned, The Buffs - Territorial Army
27.02.1950			commissioned, The Buffs [short service commission]
16.09.1964			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [limited service regular commission]

Butler,
Alexander Alastair Wentworth
A.A.W. Butler

Son of Maj. Cyril Ernest Butler, and ... Lawrence, of Penzance, Cornwall.
Married ((09?).1955, Penzance district, Cornwall) Anneliese Zimmer.

10.05.1924
St Austell district, Cornwall
-

2nd Lt.	21.01.1945 [339476]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1945 (reld > 04.1947)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.01.1938-(05.1941); Admiralty No. 1875) [probably did not finish education, as he's not showing as being commissioned in the RN].
Apprentice municipal and civil engineer, Penwith District Council, Cornwall, 18.08.1942.

21.01.1945

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Butler,
Hubert Arthur Joseph
H.A.J. Butler

Son of Howard Arthur Butler (1897-1961), and Mrs Catherine Redding.
Married ((06?).1945, St Marylebone district, London) Verona Adella Maureen Nichols (25.07.1923 - 02.02.2002); ... children.

06.11.1920
Alexandria, Egypt
-
05.04.1985
Mt Eliza, Melbourne, Australia

2nd Lt.	02.05.1940 [131384]
WS/Lt.	02.11.1941 (reld 16.02.1947)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	16.02.1947

02.05.1940

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Butler,
Humphrey William
H.W. Butler

Son of Col. Lewis Butler and Adelaide Bulteel.
Married ((06?).1927, St Marylebone district, London) Mrs Gwendolyn V. Francis (née Van Raalte).

07.02.1894
Cookham district, Berkshire
-
26.02.1953
London

2nd Lt. (prob)	22.01.1913
2nd Lt.	03.10.1913
T/Lt.	(1916)
Capt.	? (reld 01.04.1920)
A/Maj.	22.07.1918-11.07.1919
Maj. GRO	01.04.1920
Lt.Col. TA	17.06.1939 [48840]
local Col. TA	10.11.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	05.09.1951

CVO	01.01.1943	New Year 43 [dated 23.09.1942]
MVO	04.06.1934	HM's birthday 34 [dated 25.04.1934]
MC	14.01.1916	?
MC	17.09.1917	*
MID	09.12.1914	?

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty under exceptionally trying conditions. At a time when his battalion headquarters were isolated in a tunnel, one entrance of which was on fire and the others being bombed by the enemy, he was of the greatest assistance to his commanding officer in steadying the men, getting out orders and maintaining the organisation. He went out later when the entrances were cleared and reconnoitred the position with the C.O., after which he displayed very great ability in getting his men away, eventually swimming a river in order to get back to our own lines.

Education: Malvern College.

			late Cadet Serjeant, Malvern College Contingent, Officers Training Corps
22.01.1913	-	01.04.1920	commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps - Special Reserve of Officers
17.03.1917	-	?	Adjutant, ...
22.07.1918	-	11.07.1919	Major on HQ of a Battalion
04.02.1920			restored to the establishment
01.04.1920	-	23.07.1946	General Reserve of Officers [later: Regular Army Reserve of Officers] [exceeded age limit]
17.06.1939			commissioned, Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
?	-	05.09.1951	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Equerry to HRH The Duke of Kent 30.05.1930-(1941). OStJ, 1936.

Butler,
James W
J.W. Butler

?
-

2nd Lt.	? [150491]
Lt.	12.03.1919 (reld 10.07.1919)
WS/Capt.	17.10.1943
T/Maj.	17.10.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	03.12.1947

?			commissioned, 8th Hussars
10.07.1919	-	03.12.1947	General [later: Regular Army] Reserve of Officers [age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized
30.07.1941			transferred, [Royal] Pioneer Corps

Butler,
James William
J.W. Butler

?
-

Offr. Cadet RSM	?
2nd Lt.	08.11.1929 [44469]
Lt.	08.05.1932
Capt.	01.10.1936 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

22.06.1944

08.11.1929			commissioned, Senior Division, University of London Contingent, Officer Training Corps - General List, Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
28.08.1940			transferred, The Border Regiment
1946?	-	08.08.1956	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Butler,
James William
J.W. Butler

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	17.06.1943 [281591]
WS/Lt.	17.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	01.08.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	05.11.1951, seniority 20.02.1947
Capt.	25.04.1952
Maj.	08.06.1960

TD	15.05.1964	-
EM	?	-
EM	27.09.1957	1st clasp

17.06.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.04.1944			transferred, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
14.07.1944	-	(04.1946)	seconded, The King's African Rifles
05.11.1951	-	01.04.1967	commissioned, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) - Territorial Army
01.04.1967	-	?	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class IIIB)

Butler,
John Douglas
J.D. Butler

18.08.1924
Bathavon, Somerset
-
17.03.2019

Cadet	? [6107872]
2nd Lt.	08.12.1943 [302698]
WS/Lt.	08.06.1944 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)

10.06.1942	-	07.12.1943	served in the ranks, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
08.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
1944/45?			Guards Armoured Division

Butler,
John William
J.W. Butler

?
-

2nd Lt.	14.01.1943 [259039]
WS/Lt.	14.10.1943
T/Capt.	24.08.1945-(04.1946)

14.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
22.08.1945			transferred, Army Educational Corps

Butler,
Leonard George
L.G. Butler

?
-

2nd Lt.	10.01.1942 [222677]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 01.07.1953)
A/Capt.	15.02.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	01.07.1953

10.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
03.04.1942	-	07.06.1942	Battery Commander (Officer Commanding), 6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) (Egypt)

Butler,
Richard William
R.W. Butler

Son of William Butler, and Margaret Lucy Aldridge, of Leighton Buzzard.

08.1914
Farnham district, Hampshire / Surrey
-
09.04.1945
[Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, 20.H.18]
[commemorated at Leighton Buzzard War Memorial]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.07.1944 [330715]
WS/Lt.	02.01.1945
T/Capt.	09.04.1945

02.07.1944			commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	09.04.1945	attached, 9th Battalion The Border Regiment (Burma)

Butler,
Thomas Frederick
T.F. Butler (Photo courtesy of H.M. Butler)

Married ...; ... children (one child?).

12.04.1900
Bath, Somerset
-
(06?).1969
Bedford district, Bedfordshire

Signaller	? [2323125]
Sgt.	?
2nd Lt.	02.01.1942 [223463]
WS/Lt.	02.01.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
T/Capt.	12.08.1943-(10.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

NW Frontier of India 1936/37 medal & clasp

02.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
			served in India

Butterfield,
Henry William
H.W. Butterfield

Son of William Arthur Butterfield (1873-1943), and Rebecca Emelda Stevenson (1880-1953).

05.08.1909
India
-
30.11.1984
Rye, Sussex

2nd Lt.	23.12.1931 [51827]
Lt.	23.12.1934
A/Capt.	1940?
WS/Capt.	23.12.1941
Hon. Maj.	21.10.1959

MID

20.12.1940

operations in the field 05-06.40

			late Cadet Serjt., Downside School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
23.12.1931			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
			2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
(05.1940)			Liaison Officer with 5th Infantry Division
23.12.1941	-	21.10.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Butterworth,
Francis Wyndham Arthur
F.W.A. Butterworth

Son of Col. Reginald Francis Amherst Butterworth, CMG, DSO (1876-1960), formerly of the Royal Engineers, and Margaret Elaine Butterworth (née Morison) (1879?-1958), of Fareham, Hampshire.
Husband of Alison Margaret Butterworth; one daughter.
Residences:
(1942) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
(1944) Blackwater, Hampshire.

18.11.1906
Leeds, Yorkshire
-
06.11.1944
(KIA) [age 37]
[Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery, The Netherlands, 9.B.15]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.08.1926 [36309]
Lt.	30.08.1929
Capt.	23.02.1936
local Maj.	05.02.1939-29.08.1943
Maj.	30.08.1943
T/Lt.Col.	14.08.1944?

	DSO	21.12.1944	NW Europe
	MBE	09.09.1942	Middle East (East Africa & Madagascar) 11.41-04.42

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst

30.08.1926			commissioned, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
(03.1931)			1st Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (Jamaica & Bermuda) & special appointment as Garrison Adjutant, Jamaica
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (Egypt (for Quetta))
04.04.1936	-	(04.)1944	attached, Sudan Defence Force (specially employed)
14.08.1944	-	02.11.1944	Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (NW Europe) [In the Netherlands, the advance from Roosendaal on Stampersgat was held up by fierce defence German defence around the local sugar refinery. During the planning of a large scale attack to deal with the resistance, Lt.Col. Butterworth was mortally wounded in the chest when the Battalion HQ (at the Dorpsstraat at Oud-Gastel) got three direct hits at 08.30 hrs on 2 Nov. Butterworth was moved by ambulance to 30 Field Dressing Stattion at Essen (Belgium), was operated upon, but his condition deteriorated and he finally succumbed to his his wounds in the afternoon of 6 Nov.]

Buxton,
Julian Wilberforce
J.W. Buxton (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive)

Son (with one brother) of Leland William Wilberforce Buxton (1884-1967), and Ada Mary Oakes (1888-1979).
Married (18.12.1939, Kensington district, London; divorced 1948) Marie-Iseult Dunsterville Dunsterville (03.03.1906 - 01.1988), daughter of
Walter Frederick Dunsterville (1865-1943), and Gwynedd Maud Juliana Vallings
(1869-1945).

20.08.1913
Hambledon district, Surrey
-
11.1992
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	19.10.1935 [66207]
Lt.	19.10.1938
Capt.	26.07.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Maj.	?
Maj.	20.08.1947, seniority 01.05.1947

	TD	21.04.1950	& 1st clasp
	EM	14.11.1946	cancelled 24.08.1951 due to being awarded TD in lieu

Education: Ampleforth College; Trinity College, Cambridge.

			late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
19.10.1935			commissioned, 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
(06.1944)			No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne)
01.11.1948	-	20.08.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Buzza,
Wesley Winston
W.W. Buzza

Son of Livingstone Cooke Buzza (1878-1956), and Gertrude Parry (1891-1934).
Married ((09?).1948, Dover district, Kent) Mary M. Buzza (née Harley); three sons, one daughter.

(03?).1915
Southwark district, London
-
28.02.2009
Badgeworth Court, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138031]
WS/Lt.	19.05.1941
T/Capt.	11.07.1942
WS/Capt.	29.06.1945
Capt.	01.10.1946, seniority 29.06.1945
T/Maj.	29.06.1945-(04.1947)

MID

29.11.1945

Italy

?	-	04.07.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940			commissioned, The Essex Regiment [immediate emergency commission]
01.10.1946			short service commission

Byers,
Gerald
G. Byers (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Byers)

Son of Charles Coutts Byers (1883-1964), town clerk of Darwen Borough Council 1927-1957, and Mary Florence Lawson (1887-1977).
Married ((06?).1942, Billericay, Brentwood district, Essex) Mabel Augusta Buckenham ((09?).1916 - 1983), daughter of Francis Henry Buckenham (1881-1967), and Florence Kate Ruffhead (1879-1968).
Residence: (1945) Billericay.

16.09.1915
Wigan district, Lancashire
-
07.1989
Blackburn district, Lancashire

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [97064]
Lt.	11.04.1945
T/Capt.	(1943)
WS/Capt.	17.09.1943 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	17.09.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1947

	MBE	13.12.1945	Italy
	MID	16.09.1943	North Africa

24.08.1939			mobilized TA
02.09.1939			commissioned, 4th Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment - Territorial Army
(1945)			Headquarters Jewish Infantry Brigade Group (Italy) (MBE)
1946?	-	16.09.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Byers-Jones,
Edward
"Howard"
E. Byers-Jones

Son of the Rev. George Weston Byers-Jones (1880?-1957), and Eva Gwendoline ... (1883?-1960)
Married ((03?).1940, St Albans district, Hertfordshire) Paulette L. Piroux; three sons.

14.06.1918
Canada
-
26.08.1998
Eugene, Oregon, USA

Spr.	09.1939
2nd Lt.	20.12.1939 [109276]
Lt.	17.01.1945, seniority 02.05.1941
A/Capt.	05.01.1943-04.04.1943
T/Capt.	05.04.1943-01.04.1944
WS/Capt.	02.04.1944
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	02.01.1944-01.04.1944
T/Maj.	02.04.1944-01.11.1952
Maj.	02.11.1952 (retd 14.01.1959)

MID

19.07.1945

Burma

Education: Dean Close School, Cheltenham; London University; Staff College (psc).

09.1939	-	19.12.1939	served in the ranks for 96 days
20.12.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in North Africa & Burma
17.01.1945			permanent commission

Byford,
Gerald St Leger
G.St.L. Byford

10.03.1924
-
04.2003
Kent district, Kent

Cadet	? [14401434]
2nd Lt.	22.08.1943 [300515]
WS/Lt.	22.02.1944
Lt.	01.11.1947, seniority 10.09.1946
Capt.	10.03.1951 (retd 08.03.1957; receiving a gratuity)

MID

09.05.1946

Burma

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 2 days
?	-	22.08.1943	'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow
22.08.1943			commissioned, The Manchester Regiment [emergency commission to 31.10.1947]
01.11.1947			permanent commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery

Byrne,
Aidan Asquith
J.J. Byrne

Married ...; ... children (one son?).

09.06.1912
Dublin, Ireland
-
06.10.1997
South Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Lt.	23.10.1939 [106820]
WS/Capt.	23.10.1940 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	25.06.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

	MC	24.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya) [recommendation available upon request]
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Education: University of Dublin & Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Licentiate in Midwifery (LM) 1939, LRCP Irel & LRCS Irel; Diploma in Public Health (DPH), National University of Ireland 1946. Medical registration 17.04.1939.

23.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
(1942)			149th (N) Field Ambulance RAMC (MC)

Health Officer, Inland Districts, Selangor. Medical Officer, Oversea Civil Service, Malaya.

Byrne,
John Joseph *
J.J. Byrne

* Later known as John Patrick Byrne.
From Ashton-under-Lyne.

30.04.1919
-

Sgt.	? [3855811]
2nd Lt.	10.04.1944 [339999]
WS/Lt.	11.06.1944 (reld 15.08.1949; on enlistment in the ranks TA)

DCM

08.04.1943

Burma

10.04.1944

commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [immediate emergency commission]

Bywaters,
Philip Haydon
P.H. Bywaters

12.03.1913
Watford district, Hertfordshire
-
03.1998
Dover district, Kent

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.03.1940 [126279]
WS/Lt.	23.09.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	(03.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

23.03.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Chartered surveyor.