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British Army Officers
1939-1945

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Lagden, A.L.
to
Lyttelton, H.R.A.

A.L. Lagden to H.R.A. Lyttelton

Lagden,
Alfred Leonard

Son of Alfred William Lagden (1881-
1949), and Clara Agnes Fletcher (1884-1919).
Married (19.08.1938, Inverness,
Scotland) Lilian "Lily" Wilson ((09?)
.1912 - 1951), of Liverpool; ... children
(one daughter?).

30.06.1908
Finsbury, Shoreditch district, London
-
27.10.1998
Ayr district, Ayrshire, Scotland

WS/QMS	?
Lt. QM	12.12.1942 [250953]
WS/Capt. QM	26.11.1945
Capt. QM	01.11.1947 (reld 09.12.1949)
T/Maj. QM	26.11.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	09.12.1949

LSGCM

23.06.1950

date of qualification 27.09.44

12.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]

Laing,
Hector;
Baron Laing of Dunphail (cr. 1991)
(Life Peer), of Dunphail in the district
of Moray

Son of Hector Laing, and Margaret
Norris Grant.
Married (1950) Marian Clare,
daughter of Maj.Gen. Sir John Laurie,
6th Bt, CBE, DSO; three sons.

12.05.1923
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
21.06.2010
Gerrards Cross,
Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.03.1943 [268992]
WS/Lt.	27.09.1943
T/Capt.	07.09.1946-(04.1947) (reld > 04.1947)

Kt	31.12.1977	[conferred 07.02.1978]
MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
BSM	17.10.1946	?

Education: Loretto School, Musselburgh, Scotland; Jesus College, Cambridge (Hon. Fellow, 1988).

27.03.1943			commissioned, Scots Guards [emergency commission]
(1944)	-	(1945)	3rd (Armoured) Battalion Scots Guards (NW Europe)
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Life President, United Biscuits (Holdings) plc, 1990 (Director, 1953; Managing Director, 1964; Chairman, 1972-1990). McVitie & Price: Director, 1947; Chairman., 1963. Member of the Board, Royal Insurance Company, 1970-1978; Director: Allied-Lyons, 1979-1982; Exxon Corporation (USA), 1984-1994. A Director, Bank of England, 1973-1991. Chairman: Food and Drink Industries Council, 1977-1979; Scottish Business in the Community, 1982-1991; Business in the Community, 1987-1991; Director, Grocery Manufrs of America, 1984-1990; President: European Catering Association, 1990-1993; Institute of Business Ethics, 1991-1994. Treasurer, Conservative Party, 1988-1993. Trustee, Lambeth Fund (Chairman Trustees, 1983-1997); The Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference, 1986-1993; Trustee, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Foundation, 1990-1994. Member, St George's Council, Windsor; Governor, Wycombe Abbey School, 1981-1994. FRSE 1989. DUniv Stirling, 1985; Hon. DLitt HeriotWatt, 1986. Businessman of the Year Award, 1979; National Free Enterprise Award, 1980.

Laing,
John Marriott

Elder son (with one brother)
of Col. Stanley van Buren
Laing, CIE, DSO, MC
(1884-1962), and Dorothy
Hall, of Yateley, Hampshire.
Married (1951) Jillian Ann
Godsell, only daughter of
Lt.Col. K.B. Godsell, DSO, MC
& Mrs Godsell, of Stroud,
Gloucestershire.

06.01.1920
-
16.09.2009
[Thirsk?]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	03.07.1939 [95196]
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	22.03.1942-21.06.1942
T/Capt.	01.09.1940-(04.1941), 22.06.1942-02.06.1943
WS/Capt.	03.06.1943
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	03.12.1942-14.01.1943, 17.04.1943-02.06.1943
T/Maj.	03.06.1943-23.08.1943, 18.04.1945-02.07.1952
Maj.	03.07.1952
T/Lt.Col.	07.09.1966-30.12.1966
Lt.Col.	31.12.1966 (retd 12.02.1970)

11.03.1943

Middle East (Egypt & Libya)

Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc).

03.07.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1942/43)			21 Field Squadron RE (Middle East) (MC)
30.08.1943	-	14.05.1944	Staff Officer Royal Engineers, 3rd grade (SORE3), Allied Force HQ, British North Africa Forces
20.10.1955	-	11.12.1957	GSO2, HQ AFNE
19.05.1960	-	06.05.1962	DAQMG HQ ... Infantry Brigade
19.06.1962	-	27.11.1962	GSO2 Far East Defence Secretariat
28.11.1962	-	18.06.1964	HQ Far East Command
09.11.1964	-	08.05.1966	Assistant Military Attaché, Moscow
07.09.1966	-	(02.1967)	AA&QMG, ... Divisional District

Laing,
Reginald Gordon

Son of Charles Pearce Laing (1879-1937), insurance clerk, and Martha Gilbert Somerville (1880-1974).
Married ((09?).1928, Lewisham district, Kent) Doris Minnie Miles (05.12.1905 - 01.1992); ... children (two sons, one daughter?).

27.09.1904
Canonbury, Islington district, London
-
06.01.1959
Worthing, London

2nd Lt.	01.01.1943 [256677]
WS/Lt.	01.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	11.11.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MBE

20.09.1945

Italy [recommendation available upon request]

01.01.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
(1945)			Officer Commanding, 1254 (Independent) Company, Indian Pioneer Corps (Italy) (MBE)

Laing,
Thomas James

?
-
?

Sgt.	? [288039]
2nd Lt.	03.03.1944 [316999]
WS/Lt.	03.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	06.02.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

03.03.1944

commissioned, Army Educational Corps [immediate emergency commission]

Laing,
[Sir] William Kirby

Son of late Sir John Laing,
CBE, and late Lady Laing
(née Beatrice Harland).
Married 1st (1939) Joan
Dorothy Bratt (died 1981);
three sons.
Married 2nd (1986) Dr (Mary)
Isobel Lewis, younger
daughter of late Edward C.
Wray.

21.07.1916
Carlisle, Cumberland
-
12.04.2009
[London?]

Cadet	? [2076586]
2nd Lt.	02.01.1944 [304198]
WS/Lt.	02.07.1944 (reld 1945)

Kt 1968; JP; DL; MA; FEng, FICE

Education: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Hon. Fellow,
1983).

1943	-	02.01.1944	served in the ranks, Royal Engineers
02.01.1944			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Territorial Army: Maj., 14.10.1966. Lt.Col., 23.12.1967. Col., 17.05.1971. Colonel commanding Engineer & Railway Staff Corps, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve, 12.01.1978. On Supernumerary List, 21.07.1981-04.08.1997. Industrialist. Director John Laing plc (formerly John Laing & Son Ltd), 1939-1980 (Chairman, 1957-1976). Chairman, Laing Properties plc, 1978-1987, President, 1987-1990. President: London Master Builders Association, 1957; Reinforced Concrete Association, 1960; National Federation of Building Trades Employers (now Building Employers'
Confederation) 1965, 1967 (Honorary Member, 1975); ICE, 1973-1974 (a Vice-President, 1970-1973); Construction Industry Res. and Inf. Assoc., 1984-1987 (Chairman, 1978-1981); Chairman, National Joint Council for Building Industry, 1968-1974. Member, Board of Governors: St Lawrence College (Chairman, 1977-1989, President, 1977-); Princess Helena College, 1984-1987; Member: Court of Governors, The Polytechnic of Central London, 1963-1982; Council, Royal Albert Hall, 1970-1992 (President, 1979-1992). Hon. Mem., Amer. Assoc. of Civil Engineers. Master, Paviors' Co., 1987-1988. DL Greater London, 1978-1991. Hon. Fellow, UCNW, 1988. Hon. DTech, Poly. of Central London, 1990; Dr hc Edinburgh, 1991.

Lambert,
Jack Lawrence

Son of Edward Lambert, and Jane Ann Smith (1878-1960).
Married (1930, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) Isabella Florence Clouston (11.07.1907 - 25.01.2003); two daughters.

09.06.1904
Stockton, New South Wales, Australia
-
28.07.1954
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa

2nd Lt.	27.03.1942 [230301]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Maj.	? (reld 14.02.1948)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	14.02.1948

Bur St

Architect. Australian citizen, living at Twickenham, UK.

27.03.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served with the Gurkhas; returned to the UK 01.1946

Lambert,
John

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Robert Frederick William Lambert (1873-1941), and Ada Pomfret (1877-1962).
Brother of Sq.Ldr. Robert Lambert, RAFVR.
Married ((09?).1939, Preston, Lancashire) Marjorie Williams (03.08.1913 - (12?).1956); two sons.

25.09.1913
Preston, Lancashire
-
05.10.1972
Preston, Lancashire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.06.1941 [189930]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Capt. ?	?

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			possibly 88th Field Regiment RA
08.03.1942	-	1945	taken POW at the fall of Singapore; in Japanese captivity at Changi & Java

Returned to his career as a journalist and later became manager of the Lancashire Evening Post & Chronicle (Wigan).

Lambert,
Reginald Charles

Son of Charles Edwin Lambert, and Eliza Lydia Wood (1876-1936).
Married ((09?).1936, Milton district, Kent) Joan Mary Barnes (1911-); ... children (one daughter?).

13.06.1910
Sittingbourne, Milton district, Kent
-
14.08.1993
Faversham, Canterbury district, Kent

2nd Lt.	06.11.1943 [299240]
WS/Lt.	06.05.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt.	05.12.1945-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	03.03.1951

06.11.1943			commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
03.03.1951	-	13.06.1965	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Lambert,
Thomas Henry

Married Ulla Clement (13.01.1926 - ), living in Denmark; two sona, one daughter.

16.01.1913
-
20.12.1959
Denmark (died of Hodgkin's disease)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.09.1940 [148137]
WS/Lt.	01.02.1942
T/Capt.	01.02.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	29.10.1945
T/Maj.	29.10.1945-(04.1946)
Lt.	? (reld 25.02.1953)
Hon. Capt.	25.02.1953

24.01.1946

NW Europe 44/45

?	-	07.09.1940	102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
07.09.1940			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944/45)			specially employed: "A" Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom")
(11.1944)			attached to 11th Armoured Division (Antwerp)
(03.1945)			attached to US XVIII Corps (Rhine crossing)
			served with British troops in Denmark

Lamonby,
Kenneth Butler

Son of Harold and Dora Lamonby (née Atkinson), of Colchester, Essex.

(12?).1919
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
11.07.1943
[age 23]
[Suda Bay War Cemetery,
Greece, 13.E.12]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.12.1940 [160965]
WS/Lt.	?

Education: Culford School.

?	-	14.12.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.12.1940			commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	11.07.943	seconded, Special Boat Service, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps

Lampard,
Geoffrey Frank

Son (with one sister) of Edgar Frank Lampard (1887-1951), and Alice Maud Bones.

29.11.1913
Guildford district, Surrey
-
05.11.2001
Lancaster district, Lancashire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [203034]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	17.11.1944-(04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.08.1941			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
01.01.1943			transferred, Royal Armoured Corps
01.04.1943			transferred, The Gloucestershire Regiment
1942	-	1946	served in India & Burma

Lampier,
John Francis Rex

07.07.1915
Truro
-
23.11.1973
Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219629]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	15.09.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	03.06.1945
T/Maj.	03.06.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. TA	01.05.1947, seniority 03.06.1945
Hon. Maj.	13.05.1955

29.11.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.05.1947	-	13.05.1955	served Territorial Army
13.05.1955	-	07.07.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Assistant bank manager.

Lancaster,
Roger Dudley
L.R. Layer

Son of ... Lancaster, and ... Mattingley.
Married.

14.11.1922
Islington district, London
-
07.1999
Hereford, Herefordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	07.08.1943 [288569]
WS/Lt.	07.02.1944 (reld > 04.1947)
T/Capt.	08.10.1946-(04.1947)

Education: Latymer Upper School, Edmonton; Peterhouse, Cambridge University.

Latymer School, Edmonton

07.08.1943

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lander,
John

Son of John Meads Lander (1862-1937), and Jessie Hadassah Thompson (1870-), of Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.

05.07.1896
Alrewas, Lichfield district, Staffordshire
-
13.07.1943
(KIA) [age 47]
[Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, IV.C.33]

Memoral window at St Mary the Virgin, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire

T/2nd Lt.	29.05.1918 [30338] (demobilised 26.09.1919) (reld 01.09.1921; retaining rank of 2nd Lt.)
Lt.	01.07.1926
Capt.	03.06.1930
Bt. Maj.	01.01.1936
Maj.	30.03.1939

TD	03.04.1942	-
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Education: Stoke-on-Trent Grammar School; University of Birmingham (BSc)

15.09.1914			enlisted, Royal Fusiliers
21.07.1915			transferred, Royal Engineers
29.05.1918	-	01.09.1921	commissioned, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment - Regular Forces (attached 1/2 Regular Battalion; served in France & Belgium 02.08.1915-19.10.1917)
01.09.1921?	-	30.06.1924	served, Sherwood Foresters (SR) - Territorial Army
01.07.1924	-	(06.1933)	transferred, Royal Corps of Signals (46th (North Midland) Divisional Signals) (Derby)
(01.1937)	-	(01.1939)	236th Field Artillery Signal Section (Chesterfield)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
06.1940	-	01.1942	Central Landing Establishment
01.1942	-	06.1942	1 Glider Training School (Thame)
18.03.1942			transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
06.1942	-	13.07.1943	Officer Commanding, 21st Independent Parachute Company (killed when the plane he travelled in was shot down over Sicily)

Lane,
Alfred

03.03.1907
Wortley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
24.05.1984
Copnor, Portsmouth district, Hampshire

L/Sgt.	? [2317990]
Lt.	19.06.1940 [134827] (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
Lt. TA	16.04.1953, seniority 01.02.1945
Capt. TA	29.07.1954 (retd 15.01.1958; age limit)

MID

22.12.1939

Palestine 04-07.39

1921/22?	-	18.06.1940	served in the ranks, Royal Corps of Signals
19.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
16.04.1953	-	15.01.1958	Territorial Army (commanded 126 Wireless Troop TA)

Lane,
Cecil Edward

Residences: Luton, Bedfordshire, then London

?
-

2nd Lt.	23.06.1941 [191896]
WS/Capt.	09.08.1943
T/Maj.	09.08.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	12.08.1945
Maj.	01.01.1949
T/Lt.Col.	12.08.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	01.01.1949

MBE

19.10.1944

Normandy landings

Education: BSc

23.06.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
09.05.1943	-	(04.1944)	a Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), HQ Eastern Command (Hounslow, Middlesex)
01.01.1949	-	20.07.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lane *,
George [Henry]
G. Lane

* Born as György Lanyi. Naturalized British citizen 07.1946.
Son of Ernest Lanyi.
Married 1st (14.08.1943; divorced 1957) Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild (05.08.1908 - 20.01.2005), daughter of Nathaniel Charles Rothschild and Rozsika von Wertheimstein; three daughters, one son.
Married (1963) 2nd Elizabeth Heald, daughter of Sir Lionel Heald.

18.01.1915
Hungary
-
19.03.2010
London

Sgt.	? [13802871]
2nd Lt.	17.07.1943 [285687]
WS/Lt.	17.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

MC	03.08.1944	?
MC	27.09.1945	commando raid Ault 17/18.05.44
MM	?	?

17.07.1943			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
			served No. 3 Troop No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando

Farmer.

Lane,
John Epey Farnell
"Jack"

Son of Oliver Lane, and Elizabeth Mary Biss.
Brother of WS/Capt. Oliver Guy Lane (1914-2008?), Royal Army Medical Corps (114370).
Married 1st ((03?).1944, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Sybil M. Jones.
Married 2nd (10.1950, Wandsworth district, London) Nora Grace Martin (02.07.1912 - 10.05.1994); one son.

14.09.1912
Wandsworth district, London
-
19.01.1972
Bromley district, Greater London (formerly of Loose, Maidstone, Kent)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.09.1942 [245275]
WS/Lt.	19.03.1943
T/Capt.	18.11.1943-(12.1946)
WS/Capt.	1946? (reld > 12/1946, < 04.1947)
T/Maj.	1946?

MID

26.06.1947

Netherlands East Indies

1942	-	1942	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
19.09.1942			commissioned, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
1942?	-	12?.1944	15th (Scottish) Reconnaissance Regiment
12?.1944	-	1945?	instructing staff, Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Banker. Made a career in the Westminster Bank. He died months before retirement as Assistant Controller at Head office in Lothbury City of London.

Lane,
Leonard Patrick

Son of Denis Lane (1848-1909), farmer, and Hannah Hinchin (1851-).
Married (25.03.1916, London) Elsie Elizabeth
Cullen; one son (Fusilier Leonard Patrick Lane, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, kiled in action 31.05.1940 at De Panne, Belgium), two daughters.

17.03.1891
Kilumney, Ovens, Co. Cork, Ireland
-
12.12.1971

Pte. ?	1915 [10792]
T/2nd Lt.	09.10.1918 [48045] (reld 1920; retaining rank of 2nd Lt.)
2nd Lt.	15.01.1941 [161813]
WS/Lt.	15.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946) (reactivated, or never formally released?)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946
WS/Capt.	? (reld 29.05.1949)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	29.05.1949

Served Irish Constabulary, then Hong Kong Police (1912-1915).

1915			joined Irish Guards
09.10.1918			commissioned, Royal Highlanders
			transferred to Chinese Labour Corps
Inspector of police, Hong Kong, 1920s-1938.
15.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lane,
Leslie James

Son of Sidney Albert and Sarah Annie Lane.
Married ((06?).1930, Cobh, Co. Cork; divorced 1950s) Patricia Sweeney; three children.

16.03.1907
Bibury, Northleach district, Gloucestershire
-
13.07.1993
Clifton, Gloucestershire

BSM	?
Lt.	20.06.1940 [137753]
A/Capt.	30.06.1942-29.09.1942
T/Capt.	30.09.1942-31.10.1942
WS/Capt.	01.11.1942
A/Maj.	13.01.1942-08.03.1942, 26.09.1942-31.10.1942
T/Maj.	01.11.1942 (one day only), 30.08.1945-26.12.1949
Capt.	01.08.1949, seniority 01.11.1942
Lt. (D.O.)	16.07.1952, seniority 14.01.1951
Capt. (D.O.)	16.07.1952, seniority 14.01.1951
Maj. (D.O.)	16.07.1952, seniority 30.08.1951 (retd 16.03.1961)

			served in the ranks for 14 years, 98 days
			served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 54 days
20.06.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission to 31.07.1949]
01.08.1949			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [short service commission]
16.07.1952			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [permanent commission]

Lane-Joynt,
Philip Robert

From Heckfield.

24.12.1901
-
05.03.1981
Holne, Newton Abbot district, Devon

2nd Lt.	23.12.1921 [12118]
Lt.	23.12.1923
Capt.	04.04.1935
Maj.	23.12.1938
A/Lt.Col.	17.07.1944-16.10.1944
T/Lt.Col.	17.10.1944-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	10.08.1947 (supernumerary 10.08.1950) (retd 29.08.1952)

DSO

01.03.1945

NW Europe

23.12.1921			commissioned into The Royal Irish Rifles
16.08.1922			transferred to The Prince of Wales's Volunteers
04.04.1935			transferred to The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
19.02.1936	-	28.01.1938	employed wIth the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF)
17.07.1944	-	11.1944	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots
10.08.1947			transferred to the Employed List
29.08.1952	-	09.02.1957	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lang,
Thomas Melville
T.M. Lang

05.12.1915
Hillhead district, Glasgow City, Scotland
-
1998
Dunoon district, Argyll, Scotlland

2nd Lt.	19.04.1939 [87009]
WS/Lt.	01.12.1940
T/Capt.	01.12.1940-(09.1944)
WS/Capt.	13.05.1945
A/Maj.	(09.1944)
T/Maj.	13.05.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	?

			late Cadet Corporal, Kelvinside Academy Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
19.04.1939			commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
21.08.1944	-	(08.1944)	2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)
?	-	05.12.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Langley,
James Maydon
J.M. Langley (Photo courtesy of Sarah Hardcastle)

12.03.1916
Wolverhampton
-
10.04.1983
Deben district, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	04.07.1936 [68294]
Lt.	04.07.1939
A/Capt.	25.06.1942-...
WS/Capt.	30.10.1943
A/Maj.	30.07.1943-29.10.1943
T/Maj.	30.10.1943-13.04.1944
WS/Maj.	14.04.1944
Maj.	01.01.1949
A/Lt.Col.	14.01.1944-...
T/Lt.Col.	(1945)
Hon. Lt.Col.	12.03.1966

MBE	29.04.1941	?
MC	20.12.1940	BEF France 40
MID	21.07.1945	NW Europe

Education: Uppingham School.

04.07.1936			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO (2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, BEF)
01.06.1940			wounded & POW in German captivity
05.10.1940			escaped
19.04.1941			Intelligence Officer, War Office: served MI9 (Military Intelligence 9, escape & evasion)
14.01.1944			General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Intelligence School
10.07.1945			Town Major
01.01.1949	-	12.03.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Published: Fight another day (1974; memoirs); (with M.R.D. Foot) MI9, escape and evasion (1979).

Langly-Smith,
Alec Frederick Collingwood
A.F.C. Langly-Smith

Eldest son of William F. Langly-Smith, and Nelly Anna C. Collingwood (1887-), of Denbigh, Bramcote Road, Putney.
Married ((12?).1939, Chichester district, Sussex) Freda Mary Barbara Gotelee (27.06.1912 - 1984), only daughter of J.F. Gotelee, and ... Burrows, of Conduit Lodge, Eltham, Kent; one daughter, one son.

04.06.1912
Wandsworth district, London
-
25.01.1983
Chichester district, Sussex

2nd Lt.	19.11.1939 [100353]
WS/Lt.	18.02.1941
T/Capt.	18.02.1941-09.10.1941
WS/Capt.	10.10.1941
T/Maj.	10.10.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	10.12.1945 (reld < 04.1947)
A/Lt.Col.	(1945)
T/Lt.Col.	10.12.1945-(04.1946)

MC	11.07.1940	BEF France 40 *
MC	24.01.1946	NW Europe 44-45 **
Leo II	08.12.1945	Ardennes 44 ***
CdeG	08.12.1945	Ardennes 44 ***
EM	25.03.1949	-

Third Class Valuer, Inland Revenue Department, 08.1938.

			served in the ranks, Inns of Court Regiment
19.11.1939			commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1940)			attached HQ 2nd Infantry Division (BEF, France) (MC)
(1944)	-	(1945)	2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry (Officer Commanding C Squadron, from 14.01.1945 Second-in-Command)

FRICS.

* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to 2nd Lt. A.F.C. Langly-Smith: By the very nature of their duties the Divisional Motor Contact Officers were continually required to perform the most urgent and hazardous duties. They were consequently much in the limelight but nevertheless fulfilled their duties with skill, determination and courage which merits recommendation. In particular 2nd Lieutenant Langly-Smith who was twice blown up and in spite of being shaken and knocked about continued to carry out his duties in a cool and and brave manner.
[Recommended by Maj.Gen. N.M.S. Irwin, commanding 2nd Infantry Division]
** Recommendation for the award of a Bar to the Military Cross to WS/Capt. (T/Maj.) A.F.C. Langly-Smith: This officer landed in Normandy on D-Day in command of C Squadron of this Regiment, and continued in that capacity until 14 January 1945, when he was appointed Second-in-Command of the Regiment. His squadron went into action in the ORNE bridgehead almost at once, and fought off a very determined German counter-attack in the ESCOVILLE area on 16-17 June 1944. During the operations following the breakthrough at CAEN the squadron was continually in action up to the SEINE, and later in HOLLAND and the ARDENNES. Under his efficient leadership they could always be relied upon to do well: he himself was at all times a model of coolness and confidence, while he had a gift of imparting cheerfulness to all ranks which was of the greatest value. Since becoming Second-in-Command he has carried out much excellent work on the administrative side, and his services throughout the campaign have been of a very high order.
[Recommended on 30.06.1945 by Lt.Col. W.P. Serocold, commanding 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, seconded on 26.07.1945 by Maj.Gen. A.J.H. Cassels, commanding 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, and on 21.08.1945 by Lt.Gen. B.G. Horrocks, commanding 30 Corps.]
*** Recommendation for the appointment as Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II with palm & Croix de Guerre 1940 with palm of A/Lt.Col. A.F.C. Langly-Smith: Lieutenant-Colonel Langly-Smith was responsible for the patrols of the Reconnaissance Regiment during the Ardennes campaign. By his skilful handling of these patrols and by his energy and judgement in their direction he ensured that a very early link up was made with the Americans and that a considerable number of prisoners and amount of German equipment were captured. Throughout a period when the conditions were almost as unsuitable as possible for their use he obtained the maximum results from his armoured patrols and his sound judgement and resolute leadership had a very definite effect upon the speedy termination of the campaign which liberated the Ardennes.
[Recommended on 05.11.1945 by Brig. J.A. Hopwood, commanding 154th Infantry Brigade, seconded on 08.10.1945 by Maj.Gen. A.J.H. Cassels, commanding 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, and on 09.10.1945 by Maj.Gen. R.A. Hull, commanding 30 Corps.]

Lapraik,
John Neilson
"Jock" / "Ian"

From Glasgow.

13.09.1915
Boroughmuirhead district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
15.03.1985
Chiltern and Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.05.1940 [132519]
WS/Lt.	23.06.1941
A/Capt.	?
T/Capt.	23.06.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	23.08.1943
local Maj.	01.10.1943-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	06.04.1944-(04.1946)
Maj.	13.09.1949, seniority 20.01.1948
local Lt.Col.	?
A/Lt.Col.	10.06.1952-12.09.1953
Lt.Col.	13.09.1953, seniority 10.06.1952
Bt. Col.	10.05.1956

DSO	18.10.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field
OBE	09.08.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MC	19.08.1941	Middle East
MC	03.02.1944	gallant & distinguished services in the field
TD	14.09.1956	?
MID	25.01.1945	gallant & distinguished services in the field

Lion of Judah (Abessynia); Military Cross, Class B (Greece) (14.10.1949)

Education: High School of Glasgow (1927-1934)
Qualified as a lawyer.

?	-	25.04.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.05.1940			commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [emergency commission]
1941			No. 51 Commando
1942			1st Special Service Regiment
1943	-	1945	seconded, Special Boat Squadron (M Det - attached Greek Sacred Squadron)
			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps - Territorial Army

Honorary Colonel, The Artists Rifles, 01.04.1973-01.01.1983.

Larbalestier,
William Geoffrey
"Bill"
W.G. Larbalestier

Married ((03?).1929, Wandsworth district, London) Gertrude Alice Burke; ... children.

27.04.1907
Islington district, London
-
25.02.2009
Scalby, Scarborough

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	19.01.1941 [167530]
WS/Lt.	11.07.1941 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	15.06.1942-(07.1944)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Got a job in the City of London in the head office of Spiers and Pond, which owned a number of hotels throughout England and were suppliers to hotels and clubs in the West End of London. Manager of Farringdon Street Station Restaurant. Then assistant manager at Chiltern Court restaurant in Baker Street, a large restaurant and banqueting hall. Then deputy manager of the Victoria Hotel in Manchester.

			served in the ranks, Manchester Regiment
19.01.1941			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
22.03.1941			transferred, Army Catering Corps
			after a year, he was sent to join the Burma Command and transferred to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

After an initial year back in London with Spiers and Pond, he moved to Scarborough to open The Grand Hotel. In 1970 general manager to manage the hotel section of Spiers and Pond. While manager, his company bought the Royal Hotel in Scarborough.

Larkin,
Stuart Gaisford

Sob of ... Larkin, and ... Scott.
Married ((09?).1939, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Gladys M. Franklin; ... children.

(06?).1918
Croydon district, London
-
20.12.2014
West Byfleet

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	06.09.1941 [204590]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	09.10.1942-12.12.1945
WS/Capt.	13.12.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	13.12.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

09.08.1945

NW Europe

06.09.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			attached, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division

Lascelles,
Reginald George
"Pip"

Only son of Arthur Moore Lascelles (1880-1918), VC, MC, Durham Light Infantry, and Sophia Hardiman (1880-1964).
Married 1st (17.01.1933, parish church of South Farnborough, Hartley Wintney, Southampton) Barbara Aylwin Sulivan (27.03.1915 - 04.2003), daughter (with one brother) of Thomas Light Sulivan (1883-1965), and Winifred Blanche Aylwin-Foster (1889-1973).
Married 2nd (15.01.1944, New Delhi, India) Ethel Geddes "Jill" Williamson (13.11.1911 - (06?).1974), daughter (with three sisters) of Sir James Williamson (1877-1959), and Jennie Geddes Black (1882-1952).

14.09.1908
Cape Town, South Africa
-
22.12.1984
Bath district, Somerset

2nd Lt.	31.01.1929 [41140]
Lt.	31.01.1932
Capt.	01.08.1938
A/Maj.	22.04.1941-21.07.1941
T/Maj.	22.07.1941-07.09.1943
WS/Maj.	08.09.1943
A/Lt.Col.	08.06.1943-07.09.1943
T/Lt.Col.	08.09.1943-(01.1946)
Maj.	31.01.1946 (retd 24.07.1950)
Hon. Lt.Col.	24.07.1950

31.01.1929			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
(03.1931)			21st Field Brigade, RA (Catterick)
(06.1933)			1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade, RA (Blackdown)
(01.1937)			24th Mountain Brigade, RA (Quetta)
(01.1939)			20th Mountain Regiment, RA (Quetta)
25.10.1940	-	(04.1941)	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, General Staff Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India
(1944)	-	(1945)	Commanding Officer, 1st Indian Anti-Tank Regiment (Mayu Peninsula, Arakan)
01.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office
(1947)			served in Kenya
24.07.1950	-	27.05.1964	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lassen,
Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau
A.F.E.V.S. Lassen

Son of Emil Victor Schau
Lassen and Suzanne Maria
Signe Lassen, of Nyhavn,
Copenhagen, Denmark.

22.09.1920
Høvdingegård, Denmark
-
09.04.1945
Commachio, Italy
(KIA) [age 24]
[Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy, II.E.11]

2nd Lt.	20.05.1942 [234907]
WS/Lt.	20.11.1942
WS/Capt.	13.09.1943
T/Maj.	09.10.1944-09.04.1945

VC	04.09.1945	Italy *
MC	21.02.1946 [07.12.1942]	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MC	21.02.1946 [27.09.1943]	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MC	21.02.1946 [15.02.1944]	gallant & distinguished services in the field

* In Italy, on the night of 8th/9th April, 1945, Major Lassen was ordered to take out a patrol and raid the north shore of Lake Comacchio. His task was to cause casualties, capture prisoners and give the impression of a major landing. The patrol was challenged and came under machine-gun fire. Major Lassen himself attacked with grenades and silenced two enemy posts, capturing two prisoners and killing several Germans. The patrol had suffered casualties and was still under fire. Major Lassen moved forward and flung more grenades into a third enemy position, calling upon the enemy to surrender. He was then hit and mortally wounded, but whilst falling he flung a grenade, wounding more of the enemy and enabling his patrol to capture this last position. Finally, he refused to be evacuated lest he should impede the withdrawal and endanger further lives. His high sense of devotion to duty and the esteem in which he was held by the men he led, added to his own magnificent courage, enabled Major Lassen to carry out with complete success all the tasks he had been given.

1940			joined the British Army as a private in The Buffs
02.1941			joined the British Commandos
20.05.1942			commissioned, General List [emergency commission] [not borne on the published Army List]
?	-	09.04.1945	Special Boat Service, Special Air Service Regiment, Army Air Corps (killed in action, Italy)
27.06.1947			posthumously transferred from General List to The Buffs, with effect from 01.03.1943

Latham,
the Hon. Francis Charles Allman
F.C.A. Latham

Only son (with three sisters) of Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham (1888-1970), and Maya Helen Allman (?-1978).
Married 1st (07.1942) Margaret Fuller (? - 28.01.1944), daughter of Ernest Fuller, of Maidstone.
Married 2nd (08.1944; marriage dissolved 1950) Eleanor Roma Roseman (16.01.1914 - 11.1993), daughter of Isadore Roseman.
Married 3rd (1951) Gabrielle Monica O'Riordan (?-1987), daughter of Dr S.M. O'Riordan; two sons.

24.01.1917
Hendon district, Oxfordshire
-
05.11.1959
Australia

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.04.1943 [278148] (reld 29.12.1947)
WS/Lt.	(1945?)
Indian Army:
WS/Lt.	21.11.1945, seniority ... [EC 14144]
A?/Capt.	1947?

Education: Dauntsey School, Devizes.

1939			joined Warwickshire Yeomanry
1941			transferred, Royal Army Service Corps
18.04.1943			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			served with Middle East & Central Mediterranean Forces
21.11.1945			transferred, Indian Army (3rd Gurkha Rifles)

Latty,
Arthur George
A.G. Latty (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son of George Albert Victor Latty (1884-1926), and Eleanor Mary Hodges (1889-1975).
Married ((09?).1939, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Dorothy Mary Smith (27.07.1916 - 24.09.1982); one daughter, one son.

26.05.1916
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
21.02.1982
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent (formerly of East Bridgford, Nottingham)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.01.1942 [232228]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Capt.	03.03.1943-02.06.1943
T/Capt.	03.06.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

13.01.1944

Middle East

19.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
08.12.1944	-	(04.1946)	Instructor, RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)

Managing director.

Lauder,
Francis Joseph
F.J. Lauder (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark C.D. Ashdown)

23.05.1910
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
29.10.1994
Plymouth district, Devon

2nd Lt.	29.08.1930 [47612]
Lt.	20.11.1933
Capt.	20.11.1938
A/Maj.	03.09.1941-02.12.1941
T/Maj.	03.12.1941-15.06.1942, 12.11.1943-21.08.1944, 14.06.1945-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 20.01.1955)

NW Frontier of India (Loe Agra and Mohmand) 1935 Medal & Clasp

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (No. 5 Company).

29.08.1930			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Kamptee (for Nowshera))
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Nowshera)
(01.1939)	-	(06.1940)	Second-in-Command, B Company, 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Bordon & BEF France)
20.01.1955	-	05.10.1960	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Laurance,
Patrick Knowles
P.K. Laurance (Photo courtsy of Pauline Laurance)

Son (with two brothers) of Howard Arthur (Abraham) Laurance (1874-1926), and Julia (Jessie) Samuel (1880-).
Married ((12?).1946, St Marylebone district, London) Joan Hart (09.02.1921 - 23.02.2019), daughter (with one sister) of John I. Hart, and Lillian Leah Laurance (1883-1960); two daughters.

24.12.1919
Westcliff, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
-
11.01.2008
London

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.12.1942 [261292]
WS/Lt.	13.06.1943
T/Capt.	? (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MID

19.07.1945

Italy

13.12.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Laurence,
[Sir] Peter Harold
P.H. Laurence

Son of ... Laurence, and ... Jackson.
From Quetta.

18.02.1923
Stourbridge district, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands / Worcestershire
-
26.11.2007

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.04.1942 [232555]
WS/Lt.	18.10.1942
A/Capt.	1944?
T/Capt.	08.01.1945-(04.1946)

KCMG 1981 (CMG 1976); MC 03.08.1944 (Italy); DL

18.04.1942

commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]

HM Diplomatic Service.

Law,
Andrew Torrance
A.T. Law (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)

Son (with one sister and one brother) of David Law (1872-), and Jane Edith Torrance (1879-).
Residence: (1944) Sudbury, Suffolk.
Married ...; ... children.

02.06.1909
Hornsey, Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
03.09.1984
Sudbury, Suffolk

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	23.07.1930 [47260]
Lt.	23.07.1933 (reld 31.10.1934)
WS/Capt.	19.06.1941
T/Maj.	19.06.1941-28.04.1944
WS/Maj.	29.04.1944
Maj.	01.01.1949
T/Lt.Col.	29.04.1944-(10.1945)
Hon. Col.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

DSO	15.06.1944	Italy
MID	29.11.1945	Italy
TD	08.05.1953	-
TD	08.05.1953	1st clasp

Education: Monkton Combe School.

23.07.1930			commissioned, 14th London Regiment - Territorial Army
31.10.1934	-	05.08.1959	The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized TARO
(08.1942)	-	(1944)	1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk) (DSO, despatches)

Honorary Colonel, The London Yeomanry and Territorials, T. & A.V.R., 01.04.1967-05.07.1968.

Law,
Edward Desmond Cooper
"Jimmy"
E.D.C. Law

Son (with one sister) of Lt.Col. Alfred Letchworth Annie Law (1871-1928), Chief Constable of Hertfordshire 1911-1928, and Katherine Rotheram.
Married 1st Ruth Green; .. children (one daughter?).
Married 2nd (03?).1929, St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex) Mrs. Phyllis Beatrice Western (née Cartel) (1899-1994).

17.07.1902
Northern Ireland
-
20.11.1996
Hasketon, Woodbridge, Deben district, Suffolk

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	27.06.1939 [91012]
WS/Lt.	04.10.1940
T/Capt.	04.10.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	15.11.1942 (reld < 05.1946)
T/Maj.	15.11.1942-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.	?

	TD	21.04.1950	-
	EM	14.11.1946	[24.08.1951 cancelled, because a TD had been awarded in lieu]

Education: Eton.
Assistant brewer, of "The Dell", Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire (1920s).

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, The London Scottish, The Gordon Highlanders - Territorial Army
27.06.1939			commissioned, The Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(04.1944)			special appointment [i.e. appointment outside of own regiment]
?	-	09.08.1950	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Law,
Peter
P. Law

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	09.03.1940 [124515]
WS/Lt.	09.08.1941
T/Capt.	01.10.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	?
Lt.	05.08.1954, seniority 21.07.1949

MBE	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 45
EM	14.04.1950	-
EM	14.04.1950	1st clasp

			either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.03.1940			commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
11.05.1943			transferred, The Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [30.09.1947 cancelled]
(1945)			21st Independent Parachute Company (Palestine)
			also served in India as a Parachute instructor as well as with the SAS
05.08.1954	-	04.09.1955	Royal Berkshire Regiment - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
05.09.1955	-	?	Royal Berkshire Regiment - Territorial Army
?	-	29.05.1964	Royal Berkshire Regiment - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [removed on conviction by the Civil Power, and deprived of the hon. rank of Capt.]

Lawrance,
John Macleod
J.M. Lawrance (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Dewhurst)

16.06.1907
Winslow district, Bucknghamshire
-
01.01.1987
Bush Hill, Enfield district, London

2nd Lt.	30.08.1926 [36704]
Lt.	30.08.1929
Capt.	12.04.1938
A/Maj.	11.10.1940-10.01.1941
T/Maj.	11.01.1941-29.08.1943
Maj.	30.08.1943 (retd 16.06.1958)
A/Lt.Col.	07.11.1946-06.02.1947
T/Lt.Col.	07.02.1947-(02.1957)
Hon. Lt.Col.	16.06.1958

MID

01.08.1946

Malaya 42

30.08.1926			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Ballykinlar)
(06.1933)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Aldershot)
(01.1937)			2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Gibraltar, for Malaya)
17.12.1938	-	10.10.1940	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (Malaya)
02.1942	-	1945	captured at Singapore & POW in Japanese captivity (held in Korea)
1945	-	1958	served mainly with the British Army of the Rhine

Director of The Hammond Engineering Company in Enfield until that company was sold.

Lawrence,
Archie Frank
A.F. Lawrence

1898/1901 ? *
-

* either:
(12?).1898
Camberwell district,
or:
(06?).1901
Reigate district

2nd Lt.	09.06.1941 [10173]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 24.01.1949)
A/Capt.	09.06.1941-...
A/Maj.	24.06.1943-(04.1944)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	24.01.1949

09.06.1941

commissioned, General List [emergency commission] (without Army pay and allowances)

Lawrence,
Geoffrey Aleric Robin Davis
G.A.R.D. Lawrence

02.01.1910
Henley district, Buckinghamshire / Berkshire / Oxfordshire
-
(06?).1980
Swansea district, West Glamorgan

Wt.Offr. I (ASM)	? [7587707]
2nd Lt.	17.01.1943 [263756]
WS/Lt.	?
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	06.08.1943, seniority 24.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	12.06.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

1936			enlisted, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
17.01.1943			commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in Egypt, possible even South Africa

Lawrenson,
Ralph [De Sales]
R. De S. Lawrenson

Only son of Edward L. Lawrenson, and Charlotte M. Thompson.
Married ((06?).1945, Uckfield district, Sussex) Dilys Valerie Freeman ((09?).1924 - ), youngest daughter of Capt. Alan W. Freeman. and Fiona M. Horne, of Hythe, Kent; ... children (two sons, one daughter?).

18.05.1915
Hadlow Down, Uckfield, East Sussex
-
07.2003
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	25.10.1941 [214499]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 26.01.1946)

MID

10.05.1945

NW Europe

Education: Downside (Officer Training Corps), 1932.

25.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served, Royal Dragoons

Lawrie,
Walter Gray Aitken
W.G.A. Lawrie

Married (1943, Roorkee, Bengal) Jean Gladys Crawford; two sons, two daughters.

10.03.1914
Rhu district, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
-
01.09.2007
Brazil

2nd Lt.	01.02.1934 [62539]
Lt.	01.02.1937
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-21.10.1939, 29.01.1940-12.03.1940
T/Capt.	13.03.1940-30.09.1941
WS/Capt.	01.10.1941
Capt.	01.02.1942
A/Maj.	01.07.1941-30.09.1941
T/Maj.	01.10.1941-09.09.1945
WS/Maj.	10.09.1945
Maj.	01.02.1947
A/Lt.Col.	10.06.1945-09.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.	10.09.1945-01.02.1951, 20.05.1954-10.02.1955
Lt.Col.	11.02.1955
T/Col.	01.10.1956-(02.1957)
Col.	10.05.1961 (retd 23.07.1966)

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp

Education: University (MA (BA)); Staff College (psc).

01.02.1934			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(01.1937)			served at Chatham
(01.1939)			served in India
10.06.1945	-	30.06.1947	Military Adviser Training Battalion India
01.07.1947	-	17.09.1947	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Engineering) (Pamphlets), GHQ New Delhi
02.02.1951	-	11.01.1953	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), SP District
01.10.1956	-	(02.1957)	MA [= Military Attaché/Adviser?] (Colonel), Amman

Solicitor in London. MICE.
Published: articles (RUSI Journal etc.)

Laws,
Arthur Thurlow
H.S. Laws

Eldest son of Mr & Mrs Robert George Laws, of Uphill, Weston-super-Mare.
Brother of Lt.Col. Howard Stracey Laws, Indian Army.
Married (28.04.1934, St Mary Abbot's, Kensington, London) Fiona Murphy, only daughter of Richard Bayly Murphy (died 1912), and Lucie Haden Freeman (from 1916 Mrs Wintringham N. Stable).

01.02.1902
Cardiff district, Glamorgan
-
12.02.1985
Newcote Home, Bristol, Gloucestershire

P/O (prob)	14.10.1929
P/O	01.12.1930
F/O	14.04.1931 (reld 05.11.1933)
Lt.	19.02.1939 [88937]
WS/Capt.	11.02.1941
T/Maj.	11.02.1941-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	06.11.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	06.11.1941-(04.1944)
A/Col.	12.03.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

16.01.1948

14.10.1929	-	05.11.1933	commissioned, RAF Special Reserve (General Duties Branch)
19.02.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
11.11.1940	-	05.08.1941	a General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Army Requirements, War Office
06.08.1941	-	(04.1944)	a General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Directorate of Army Requirements, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
1946?	-	07.10.1953	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Stockbroker.

Lawson,
Colin
C. Lawson

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	12.04.1941
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
WS/Capt.	26.01.1946 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	26.01.1946-(08.1946)

12.04.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			Instructor in Gunnery
26.10.1945	-	(04.)1946	a Military Assistant (graded Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office) to the Officer in Charge, Military Department (= Military Deputy), Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Forces, War Office

Lawson,
Francis Ryall
F.R. Lawson

Son of Thomas and Emily
Henrietta Lawson, of Dublin,
Irish Republic.
Husband of Barbara
Lawson, of Cheltenham.

1913
Ireland
-
22.11.1945
[age 32]
[Gloucester Old
Cemetery,
Gloucestershire,
plot B, grave
10176]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	01.03.1941 [176155]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1942

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.03.1941			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]

Laycock,
[Sir] Robert Edward
R.E. Laycock

Layer,
Leslie Ronald
L.R. Layer

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

17.11.1914
-
06.1993
Watford district, Hertfordshire

Cadet	? [5053732]
2nd Lt.	30.09.1944 [330624]
WS/Lt.	30.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

			Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.09.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Layland,
Frank Reginald
F.R. Layland

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Frank Percival Layland (1893-1971), and Alice Elizabeth Gostick (1892-1955).
Married ((12?).1942, Ilkeston district, Derbyshire) Marjorie E. Beardsley; five children.

13.07.1919
Shardlow district, Derbyshire
-
04.10.2009
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.09.1942 [245618]
WS/Lt.	19.03.1943
T/Capt.	10.11.1943-29.01.1946
WS/Capt.	30.01.1946 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	30.01.1946-(08.1946)

MID

22.03.1945

NW Europe

Bakery storeman.

19.09.1942			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
01.11.1942			transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section)

Layton,
Stanley Hinks
S.H. Layton (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Son of ... Layton, and ... Hinks.
Married ((12?).1939, Hendon district, Middlesex) Kathleen M. Sheret.

18.09.1913
York district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
28.11.1990
Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire

2nd Lt.	19.01.1942 [232225]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	27.01.1943-(07.1945)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

MBE

21.06.1945

HM's birthday 45

19.01.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
			331 Company RASC (MBE)
09.06.1945	-	(04.1946)	Instructor, RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)

Lazarus,
Kenneth Henry
"Ken"
K.H. Lazarus

Second son of Mr & Mrs R.A. Lazarus, of Wanganui, New Zealand.
Changed surname (late 1940s/early 1950s) to Lawrence.
Married (07?.1945, Melbourne) Joan Marshall (05.1917 - 09.1990), only daughter of Arthur Herbert Marshall (1888-1969), and Laura Georgina Hall (1888-1973), of Devonport, NZ; ... children (one daughter, one son?).

?
New Zealand
-
lived in Spain 1999

2nd Lt.	21.01.1944, seniority 05.10.1939 [305966]
WS/Lt.	05.04.1941
WS/Capt.	? (reld 06.06.1946)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	06.06.1946

MBE	21.06.1945	HM's birthday 45: LRDG Adriatic [presented by Governor-General of Australia at Parliament House, Brisbane 15.06.49] [citation available upon request]
MID	30.12.1941	Middle East
MID	13.01.1944	Middle East
MID	22.02.1945	Mediterranean

Surveying officer, South Africa.

			East African Engineers
07.1941	-	1944	Longe Range Desert Group (LRDG)
1941	-	1943	S1, R1 & S1 (as Officer Commanding) Patrols
1943	-	1944	Officer Commanding, A Squadron
21.01.1944			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers (African Colonial Force) [emergency commission]
?			served Keny Regiment [service number 682]

Lea,
Christopher Gerald
C.G. Lea

Second son (with one brother and two sisters) of George Percy Lea (1875-1961), and Jocelyn Clara Lea (1889-1971), of Franche, Kidderminster, Worcs.
Brother of Lt.Gen. Sir George Harris Lea, KCB, DSO, MBE
Married (29.05.1952, Westminster, London) Susan Elizabeth Dorrien-Smith (27.07.1924 - 27.03.2020), daughter of Edward Pendarves Smith-Dorrien-Smith DSO (1879–1937), and Frances Amy Salvin Bowlby (1890-1978); one daughter, two sons.

27.11.1917
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
-
01.06.2006
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

2nd Lt.	26.08.1937 [73126]
Lt.	26.08.1940
A/Capt.	21.11.1940-20.02.1941
T/Capt.	21.02.1941-06.06.1945
Capt.	26.08.1945 (retd 12.07.1948; receiving a gratuity)
T/Maj.	07.10.1945-(04.1947)
Hon. Maj.	12.07.1948

	MC	20.06.1946	Tragino Aqueduct raid 10.02.1941
	MID	20.12.1945	PoW

Education: Charterhouse (1931.1-1935.2); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (boxing blue, 1937).

26.08.1937			commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers
?	-	12.02.1941	No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion (twice wounded; captured at Calitri (MC)
1941	-	1945	PoW in Italian (Camp No. 5) & German (Oflag 9A/Z, Rotenburg, Fulda; PoW No. 1682) captivity; made numerous unsuccessful escape attempts (despatches)
20.12.1945	-	20.03.1946	served with 12th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Batavia, Semarang) [General Service medal with clasp South East Asia]
12.07.1948	-	27.11.1967	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Admitted to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1948. Oxford Circuit. Member, National Assistance Board Appeal Tribunal, Oxford Area, 1961-1963. Mental Health Review Tribunal, Oxford region, 1962-1968. Metropolitan Magistrate, 1968-1972. Deputy Chairman, Berks Quarter Sessions, 1968-1971. Circuit Judge, 1972. Ordained a Church of England Priest, 1993. Non-stipendiary minister (NSM) in Stratfield Mortimer.

Lea,
Ronald Maurice
R.M. Lea

Son of ... Lea, and ... Read.
Married ((06?).1940, Edmonton district, Essex) Constance Armitage Gate; ... children (two sons, one daughter?).

27.05.1917
Edmonton district, Essex
-
08.06.1983
Colchester district, Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.11.1939 [105471]
WS/Lt.	19.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	02.04.1942-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946

19.07.1949

?	-	19.11.1939	Artists Rifles (Cadet, 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit)
19.11.1939			commissioned, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) [emergency commission]
14.04.1941			transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch)

Lea,
Thomas Alfred Henry
T.A.H. Lea

Married ((09?).1922, Bucklow district, Lancashire) May D. Chambers.

04.01.1898
Northwich district, Cheshire
-
19.10.1966
Anglesey General Hospital, Bangor

2nd Lt.	29.08.1928 [40286]
Lt.	29.08.1931
Capt.	07.11.1932
Maj.	06.07.1939 (retd 13.03.1948; age)

MM	?	?
TD	21.09.1944	-
TD	04.01.1955	1st clasp
TD	04.01.1955	2nd clasp

29.08.1928			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army (42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Signals)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Leaphard,
Clark Edmond John
C.E.J. Leaphard

Son of Charles Edmund and Claire Isabel Leaphard (née Haggeman).
Brother of Capt. M.J.A. Marshall.
Married Buxey Cooper from Hove, Sussex; one daughter.

28.04.1913
-
14.12.1996
Udon Thani, Thailand

2nd Lt.	21.12.1940 [164608]
WS/Lt.	21.06.1942
A/Capt.	10.07.1943-09.10.1943
T/Capt.	10.10.1943-12.09.1944
WS/Capt.	13.09.1944
T/Maj.	13.09.1944-14.09.1944, 20.11.1944-12.03.1948
Lt.	21.12.1946, seniority 28.04.1939
Capt.	21.12.1946, seniority 01.07.1946
T/Maj.	20.01.1949-27.04.1949
Maj.	28.04.1949 (Employed List 5 12.07.1962-15.06.1965) (retd 28.04.1958)

21.06.1945

NW Europe

			served in the ranks for 162 days
21.12.1940			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission to 20.12.1946]
14.10.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
			attached, No. 12 Commando
30.05.1943 (06.1944)	- -	1945 (08.1944)	attached, No. 6 Commando Officer Commanding, No. 6 Troop
29.11.1945			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
21.12.1946			permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps
16.08.1947			transferred, The Queen's Bays
01.01.1959			transferred, Queen's Dragoon Guards

Leaphard,
Marshall John Adam
"Spot"
M.J.A. Leaphard

Son of Charles Edmund and Claire Isabel Leaphard (née Haggeman).
Brother of Maj. C.E.J. Leaphard.

20.07.1914
Horsham district, Sussex / West Sussex
-
30.01.1945
(KIA) [age 30]
[Nederweert
War Cemetery,
The Netherlands,
IV.E.2]

2nd Lt.	12.07.1941 [197175]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt. ? T/Capt. ?	?

12.07.1941			commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
10.08.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
30.05.1943 30.05.1943 09.06.1944	- - -	30.01.1945 08.06.1944 30.01.1945	attached, No. 6 Commando No. 3 Troop Officer Commanding, No. 1 Troop

Leathley,
John
"Jack"
J. Leathley (Photo courtesy of Mr David Maxwell)

Son of Joseph William Leathley (1880-1946) & Sarah Collins.
Married (25.01.1941, Edmonton district) Lucy Thornton Shaw ((09?).1917 - 1995), youngest daughter of Walter Shaw, and Mabel Annie Leathley, and sister of P/O Harold Shaw, RAFVR, Maj. John Leathley Shaw, RA & Capt. Theodore Leathley Shaw, RASC; one daughter.

27.06.1910
Tynemouth district, Northumbeland
-
04.05.1965
Muswell Hill, London N10

2nd Lt.	19.09.1942 [246514]
WS/Lt.	19.03.1943
Paym. (with rank of Lt.)	19.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

(01.1941)			attached to staff at War Office
?	-	19.09.1942	Officer Training Unit (RAPC)
19.09.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]
01.01.1949			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Bank Manager for National Westminster.

Ledwidge,
Victor Richard
"Vic"
V.R. Ledwidge (Photo courtesy of Mr Graham Ledwidge)

Son (with one brother) of William Oliver Ledwidge (1874-1941), and Ada Caroline Brown (1879-1966).
Brother of F/O Eric William Ledwidge, RAFVR.
Married ((06?).1935, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Kathleen Mary Shearing (14.10.1912 - 06.2003), daughter of Walter Francis Shearing, and Lily Mary Huggett.

13.05.1909
London
-
19.09.1978
Lodsworth, Chichester district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.01.1941 [165242]
WS/Lt.	18.07.1942
T/Capt.	26.07.1944-17.09.1945
WS/Capt.	18.09.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 10.1945, < 01.1946

			either 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th or 125th Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.01.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served in the Far East (Ceylon?)

Joined London Metal Warehouses 1945 (managing director, 1952).

Lee,
Edward
E. Lee

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.10.1940 [155055]
WS/Lt.	26.04.1942
WS/Capt.	09.10.1944 (reld 06.01.1945)
T/Maj.	09.10.1944-06.01.1945
Hon. Maj.	06.01.1945

?	-	26.10.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
26.10.1940			commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission]
06.1941			escaped from Crete aboard an abandoned landing craft; stayed aboard the landing craft and landed at Mersa Matruh
09.07.1944	-	06.01.1945	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General Staff, Central Command, India

Lee,
Geoffrey Charles
G.C. Lee

Son of ... Lee, and ... Sambleson.

11.06.1914
Halifax district, Yorkshire - West Riding / West Yorkshire
-
01.2004
Salisbury,
Wiltshire

Lt.	27.05.1940 [131410]
A/Capt.	01.05.1941-31.07.1941
T/Capt.	01.08.1941-04.05.1943
WS/Capt.	05.05.1943
A/Maj.	05.02.1943-04.05.1943
T/Maj.	05.05.1943-30.06.1943, 13.05.1946-10.06.1950
Lt.	30.01.1946, seniority 11.06.1937
Capt.	30.01.1946, seniority 11.06.1945
Maj.	11.06.1950
T/Lt.Col.	03.05.1956-31.03.1958
Lt.Col.	01.04.1958 (retd 11.06.1969)

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

27.05.1940			commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (as Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 4th Class (with rank of Lieutenant)) [emergency commission to 29.01.1946]
01.10.1942			transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (as Electrical Mechanical Engineer 4th Class (with rank of Lieutenant))
30.01.1946	-	11.06.1969	permanent commission:
15.08.1947	-	21.07.1950	Deputy Assistant Director Mechanical Engineers (DADME) (Organisation), HQ EA [= East Africa?] Command
15.08.1961	-	29.10.1964	Assistant Director Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (ADEME), HQ Northern Command

MBIM, later FBIM.

Lee,
Geoffrey James [Fey]
B.L. Leslie

Son of Archibald James Fey Lee (1884-1966), and Eleanor Caroline Turner (1884-).
Married (1940, St Alban's district, Hertfordshire) Mollie Garlick Rowlands (20.01.1919 - 05.05.2008), daughter (with two sisters) of William Hugh Rowlands (1876-1952), and Bertha Garlick (1878-1974); one son, one daughter.

15.03.1919
Leytonstone, West Ham district, London
-
13.01.2009
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113604]
WS/Lt.	14.07.1941
T/Capt.	01.11.1943-(04.1946)
Lt.	19.12.1947, seniority 15.03.1942
Hon. Capt.	16.12.1948
F/Lt. RAF	14.08.1951 [502001]

?	-	13.01.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940			commissioned, The East Surrey Regiment [emergency commission]
10.06.1943	-	(04.1946)	posted, King's African Rifles
19.12.1947	-	15.12.1948	commissioned, The Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
16.12.1948	-	13.08.1951	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
14.08.1951			short service commission, Royal Air Force Regiment
23.10.1957			transferred, Catering Branch

His son writes: "I have a letter dated 29 May 1940, confirming injury evacuation to Davyhulme Hospital on the 26 May from France (B.E.F). As well as a number of photos from the King's African Rifles circa 1943/44."

Lee,
Samuel Hughes
S.H. Lee (Photo courtesy of Mr Raymond J. Lee)

Son of James Lee, and Bertha Hughes.
Married ...; two sons, one daughter.

15.06.1915
Leigh district, Lancashire
-
02.2002
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

L/Cpl.	?
2nd Lt.	25.10.1940 [167814]
WS/Lt.	20.02.1942
T/Capt.	20.02.1942-09.01.1944
WS/Capt.	10.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	10.01.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

25.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
			515 Vehicle Company RAOC (Alexandria, Egypt)

His son writes: "8th armoured RAOC commissioned into army from from F W Woolworh trainee manager. Served in UK and then Middle East/Palestine. Looking for details regarding his stay on to complete a sports stadium in Palestine for which he received a Mention in Dispatches as recognition of his contribution."

Leek,
Gordon Harry

04.09.1921
-
07.1994

Sapper Cadet

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

not commissioned

Leeman,
William James Townsley
"Tim"
W.J.T. Leeman (Photo courtesy of Mr Bernard Leeman)

Son of William John Leeman (1867-1935), and Mary "Minnie" McMaster (1867-).
Married Margaret Ethel Rook; one son, one daughter.

24.02.1895
Belfast, Nothern Ireland
-
14.05.1949
Nairobi, Kenya (formerly of Songea, Tanganyika)

2nd Lt.	28.07.1940 [218675]
WS/Lt.	28.01.1942 (reld > 04.1947)

1917	-	1919	served as CQMS with Machine Gun Company, 4th King's African Rifles & East African Unattached List
28.07.1940			commissioned, General List (African Colonial Forces Section) [emergency commission]
			served 6th Kings African Rifles, then Military Intelligence Tanganyika

Lees,
Thomas William
T.W. Lees

21.11.1913
-
11.1995
Wiltshire

Staff Sergeant	?
2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [175973]
WS/Lt.	?
Lt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	01.11.1943
WS/Capt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	15.03.1944
Capt. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	01.11.1946, seniority 15.03.1944 (reld 24.03.1948)
T/Maj. (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer)	14.10.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	24.03.1948

15.03.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [Motor Mechanics Branch] [emergency commission to 31.10.1946]
01.10.1942			transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
01.11.1946	-	24.03.1948	short service commission

Leese,
Sir Oliver William Hargreaves

Le Fanu,
[Sir] George Victor Sheridan
G.V.S. Le Fanu

Son of late Maj.Gen. Roland Le Fanu, DSO, MC, and Marguerite (née Lumsden).
Married (1956) Elizabeth,
daughter of late Major Herbert Hall and Kitty (née Gauvain); three sons.

24.01.1925
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
05.02.2007
London

2nd Lt.	01.10.1943 [295094]
WS/Lt.	01.04.1944
2nd Lt.	06.03.1946, seniority 24.01.1946
Lt.	24.07.1947
A/Capt.	27.02.1947-26.05.1947
T/Capt.	27.05.1947-23.01.1952
Capt.	24.01.1952
T/Maj.	09.12.1952-(02.1957)
Maj.	24.01.1959 (retd 28.02.1963)

KCVO

13.06.1987

HM's birthday

Education: Shrewsbury School; Staff College, Camberley (1959; psc)

			served in the ranks for 245 days
01.10.1943			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards [emergency commission to 05.03.1946]
28.05.1944	-	15.07.1944	2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (Italy [wounded])
09.09.1944	-	(1945?)	2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
06.03.1946			permanent commission
1949	-	1952	Assistant Adjutant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
1952	-	1955	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards
1960	-	1961	Staff Captain to Vice-Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
1961	-	1963	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Headquarters London District

Deputy Assistant Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons 1963-76, Assistant Serjeant at Arms 1976-81, Deputy Serjeant at Arms 1981-82, Serjeant at Arms 1982-89.
Chairman, Morley College, 1993-. Trustee, Wall Trust, 1991-.

Le Fanu,
Roland
R. Le Fanu

Married Marguerite Lumsden; at least one son.

02.06.1887
-
02.01.1957
Frenchie, Fife, Scotland

2nd Lt.	04.11.1908 [4301]
Lt.	14.09.1911
Capt.	11.11.1914
Maj.	02.03.1928
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1929
Col.	22.12.1935, seniority 01.07.1932
Maj.Gen.	29.08.1939, seniority 19.07.1938 (retd 26.10.1940)

DSO	16.08.1938	Waziristan
MC	01.01.1919	?
MID	17.10.1939	?
CdeG	29.01.1919	?

Order "Al Rafidain" Fourth Class (Iraq) (29.10.1929)

Education: psc, ns

			served in the ranks for 2 years, 125 days
04.11.1908			commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment
...			...
01.03.1932	-	25.04.1935	GSO2, War Office
22.12.1935	-	31.07.1939	GSO1, Rawalpindi District (India)
29.08.1939	-	23.08.1940	General Officer Commanding, 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (UK)
26.10.1940	-	02.06.1947	Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Leftley,
William Victor
W.V. Leftley

Married ((03?).1925, Sevenoaks district, Kent) Edna M. Masson; ... children.

12.01.1900
Malling district, Kent
-
(12?).1982
Swale district, Kent

F/Cadet	? [137533]
T/2nd Lt. (Observer Officer)	03.10.1918
2nd Lt.	16.09.1940 [147585]
WS/Lt.	27.08.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	27.08.1941-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

03.10.1918			temporary commission, Royal Air Force (Flying Branch) (100 Squadron)
16.09.1940			commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Leicester,
George William Frederic
G.W.F. Leicester (Photo courtesy of Yael Driver)

Elder son of Maj. William Frederic Leicester (1831-), Bengal Staff Corps, and Mary Lilian Young.
Married (19.01.1932, St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, St George Hanover Square district, London) Katharine Anne Chenevix Trench (13.05.1912 - 02.11.2001), daughter of Col. Lawrence Chenevix Trench, CMG, DSO (1883-1958),and Winifred Ross Tootal (?-1969); one daughter. Katherine Leicester remarried (1945) Lt.Col. Alec Frankland (which produced two sons, one daughter).

24.04.1895
Poole district, Dorset
-
25.02.1944
Grantham & West Kesteven district, Lincolnshire
(died on active service, as result of an accident) [age 48]
[Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire, H.53]

2nd Lt.	15.08.1914 [8680]
Lt.	01.12.1914
T/Capt.	15.08.1918-10.02.1920
Capt.	12.03.1921
Maj.	02.12.1933
Lt.Col.	24.09.1938 (supernumerary 24.09.1941)
A/Col.	(1943)

14 St	-	& clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
MID	06.01.1944	Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Iran)

Education: Wellington College (1908.3-1911; Bevir's; rackets VIII); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1913).

15.08.1914			commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment
07.09.1914	-	22.10.1914	served in France & Belgium (wounded; POW 1914)
17.05.1919	-	26.10.1919	Garrison Adjutant, Northern Command
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (Aldershot)
(06.1933)			Regimental Depot, The Cheshire Regiment (Chester)
(09.1935)	-	(1936)	Officer Commanding, Regimental Depot, The Cheshire Regiment (Chester)
(01.1937)			1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (Ambala, for Bombay)
(01.1938)			1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (Bombay)
24.09.1938	-	(01.1939)	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (Bombay, then Khartoum, Sudan)
02.09.1940	-	06.1943	Officer Commanding, Palestine Recruiting and Training Depot at Sarafend, near Tel-Aviv, Palestine (also Inspector of Palestine Regiments)
?	-	25.02.1944	attached RAF Regiment

Leigh,
Robert Arthur
R.A. Leigh

Son of ... Leigh, and ... Wagstaffe.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

19.12.1918
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
07.1999
Exeter district, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.01.1940 [113573]
WS/Lt.	14.07.1941
T/Capt.	23.05.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	01.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj.	01.06.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	< 08.1946

10.05.1945

gallant and distinguished services in the field

?	-	14.01.1940	164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940			commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]

Leigh-Lye,
Edward James Margetson
E.J.M. Leigh-Lye

Son of Rev. Arthur Leigh-Lye, and Margaret Cordell Snee.
Married ((06.).1942, Lambeth district, London) Vida M. St J. Kiesler (née Firth) (29.08.1900 - (12?).1982).

16.08.1909
Thurloxton, Bridgwater district, Somerset
-
03.1985
Worthing district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	31.05.1941 [189268]
WS/Lt.	09.09.1942 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court-Martial 28.10.1944)
T/Capt.	09.09.1942-(04.1944)

?	-	31.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
31.05.1941			commissioned, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wals's Own Yorkshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
1942	-	10.1944	specially employed, Auxiliary Units (Intelligence Officer, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Lejeune,
Michael Leonard
"Mike"
M.L. Lejeune

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Francis Arnold Lejeune (1888-1977), and Hilda Agatha Gladys Brown (1892-1987).
Married (15.02.1947, St. Bartholomew's Cathedral Chapel, New York City, NY, USA) Second Officer Margaret Helen Werden "Peggy" Wilson, WRNS (14.11.1918 - 20.08.2010), daughter of William Werden Wilson (1877-1950), and Sophie Irene Whittemore (1886-1934); two sons, one daughter.

22.03.1918
Manchester, Lancashire
-
15.11.2014
Santa Barbara, California, USA

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.12.1942 [256083]
WS/Lt.	19.06.1943 (reld 13.11.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	13.11.1946

Education: Cate School, Carpinteria, Cal.; Yale University; Yale University Graduate School.
Teacher, St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, 1941.

19.12.1942			commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
			11th Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps (North Africa, Italy & Greece)

American international finance official. Joined staff of IBRD (World Bank), 1946. Personnel Officer, 1948-1950. Assistant to Loan Director and Secretary Loan Staff Committee, Loan Department, 1950-1952. Chief of Division, Europe, Africa and Australasia Department, 1952-1957. Asisstant Director of Operations, Europe, Africa and Australasia, 1957-1963. Assistant Director of Operations, Far East, 1963-1964. Director of Administration, IBRD, IDA and IFC, 1964-1967. Director Middle East and North Africa Department, 1968-1969. Director Eastern Africa Department, 1970-1974. Executive Secretary Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 1974-1983. Senior Adviser to Vice-President Operations Policy, 1983. Consultant, 1983-...Trustee (Vice-President, 1999) Santa Barbara Foundation, 1991-1999.
Published: Partners against hunger : the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (with Warren C. Baum; 1986).

le Maistre,
Reginald Geoffrey
R.G. le Maistre (Photo courtesy of Mr Oliver le Maistre)

Married (06.10.1928, St James Church, Gerrards Cross, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Eileen Muriel Gardner; two sons, one daughter).

30.06.1899
Hampstead district, London
-
17.07.1984
Chalfont and Gerrards Cross Hospital, Chiltern and Beaconsfield district, Buckinghamshire

2nd Lt.	21.08.1918 [15965]
Lt.	21.02.1920
Capt.	28.02.1931
Maj.	01.08.1938 (retd 30.08.1954)

BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
MID	18.02.1938	NW Frontier of India
MID	20.12.1940	BEF 39-40

Iraq 1919-1920 Medal & Clasp. NW Frontier of India 1936-1937 Medal & Clasp.

Education: St George's, Harpenden; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

21.08.1918			commissioned, Royal Fusiliers
27.10.1918	-	11.11.1918	served in France & Belgium
01.01.1921	-	31.08.1923	seconded, 2nd Armoured Car Company (Tank Corps) (Mesopotamia (Iraq))
01.09.1923			transferred, Royal Tanks Corps [later: Royal Tank Regiment] - Royal Armoured Corps
01.01.1924	-	31.12.1927	Assistant Instructor (Class GG), Tank Driving and Maintenance School (Bovington Camp, Dorset)
(1928)			3rd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Lydd, Kent)
(03.1931)			2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Farnborough)
(06.1933)			1st Armoured Car Company (Cawnpore & Calcutta)
(01.1937)			1st (Light) Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Perham Down)
(01.1939)			5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps (Perham Down)
1940			Officer Commanding, HQ Squadron, 1st Armoured Reconnaissance Brigade (France)

Lemmon,
Thomas
"Tom"
T. Lemmon (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Lemmon)

Son of ... Lemmon, and ... Sutton.
Also known by last name Sutton Lemmon.
Married (1956, Bilston, Staffordshire) Esther Mary Lewis (31.07.1922 - 03.1992); three children.

(09?).1913
Shoreditch district, London
-
11.1963
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

A/Wt.Offr. Cl. II	?
Lt.	18.01.1941 [168443]
T/Capt.	29.03.1942-(12.1946)
Capt.	01.10.1946, seniority 02.07.1946
T/Maj.	01.04.1946?-(04.1947)
Maj.	18.01.1954 (Emp. List 4)

18.01.1941			commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission to 01.10.1946]
01.06.1943			transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.04.1946	-	(04.1947)	a General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Directorate of Military Training, General Staff Branch, India Headquarters Staff
01.10.1946			short service commission
01.10.1956	-	24.07.1958	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class III)

Lentaigne,
Walter David Alexander

see:

Indian Army

Leslie,
Bertram Lind
B.L. Leslie

Son of ... Leslie, and ... McCann.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

22.07.1917
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
08.1989
Sudbury district, Essex

Cadet	? [14681170]
2nd Lt.	06.05.1944 [320088]
WS/Lt.	06.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
A?/Capt.	1946?

06.05.1944

commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]

Lester,
Alfred John
A.J. Lester

Son of Alfred Lester, and Marjorie Phipps, of Wallingford, Berkshire.

07.07.1917
Wallingford, Berkshire
-
01.08.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[St Charles de Percy War Cemetery, France, XV.G.2]

2nd Lt.	13.03.1943 [267238]
WS/Lt.	13.09.1943

13.03.1943			commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission]
?	-	01.08.1944	7th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment

Leuchars,
Peter Raymond
P.R. Leuchars

Son of Raymond Leuchars, and Helen Inez Copland-Griffiths, of White Lodge, Alfriston, Sussex.
Married (1953) the Hon. Gillian Wightman Nivison, daughter of 2nd Baron Glendyne and Ivy May Rose, of Bournemouth; one son.

29.10.1921
London
-
17.07.2009
hospital

2nd Lt.	02.08.1941 [200120]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	02.01.1946, seniority 29.04.1944
A/Capt.	26.02.1945-25.05.1945
T/Capt.	26.05.1945-19.09.1946
...	...
Maj.Gen.	12.09.1972 (retd 08.03.1976)

CBE	16.05.1967	Borneo Territories 66
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
MID	07.01.1949	Palestine 46-47

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

			served in the ranks for 161 days
02.08.1941			commissioned, The Welsh Guards [emergency commission to 01.01.1946]
(10.1943)			Liaison Officer, HQ 4th Guards Brigade (Malton, Yorkshire [wounded])
1944	-	1944	Platoon Commander, 1st Battalion The Welsh Guards (NW Europe [wounded])
01.1945	-	1945	3rd Battalion The Welsh Guards (France & Italy)
1945	-	1948	Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Welsh Guards (Palestine)
02.01.1946			permanent commission
...	-	...	...

Chief Commander, St John Ambulance, 1980-1989 (Commissioner-in-Chief, 1978-1980 and 1985-1986).

Levay,
Douglas Stanley

Son (with three sisters and one half-brother) of Henry Robinson Levay (1873-1930), and May Oakey (1881-1981)..
Married (17.09.1938, Edinburgh, Scotland) Agnes Addison "Nancy" Forbes (10.11.1907 - 25.06.1974); one son.

15.06.1908
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
23.12.1985
Dr Grays Hospital, Elgin, Moray, Scotland

2nd Lt.	21.08.1942 [243018]
WS/Lt.	21.02.1943 (reld 03.01.1946; disability)
Hon. Lt.	03.01.1946

21.08.1942			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
?	-	06.1944	7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (seriously wounded at Chaux during Operation Epsom)

Levell,
John [James Peter]

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Francis James James Levell (1881-1946), brasscaster, and Annie Lavinia Caine (1883-1962).
Married 1st ((12?).1945, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire) Audrey Margaret Stark (1915 - 15.10.1961), widow (with two sons) of Sgt. Henry Anthony Montagu Lyons, RAFVR (1910-1944), and daughter (with one sister) of Thomas Henry Stark (1887-1959), and Maud Kennedy (1888-1965); one daughter, one son.
Married 2nd ((06?).1969, Cardiganshire North district, Cardiganshire) Gwyneth L. Childs.

27.02.1915
35 Ellington Road, Aston, Brimingham
-
17.11.1973
Carmarthen

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	12.11.1939 [105398]
WS/Lt.	12.05.1941
WS/Capt.	08.01.1942 (dispersal 17.04.1948) (reld 07.09.1948)
A/Maj.	08.10.1941-07.01.1942
T/Maj.	08.01.1942-(04.1946)

39\|45 St	16.12.1949	-
Bur St	16.12.1949	-
Def M	16.12.1949	-
WM 39\|45	16.12.1949	-

15.09.1939	-	11.11.1939	served in the ranks for 59 days:
?	-	26.11.1939	Cadet, No. 1 Training Battalion RASC (Aldershot)
12.11.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
12.11.1939	-	15.05.1940	UK:
			1st Armoured Divisional Troops Company RASC
27.11.1939			No. 4 Training Centre RASC (Margate) (driver instruction)
16.05.1940	-	16.06.1940	British Expeditionary Force (France & Belgium): embarked with Draft 0073
17.06.1940	-	21.10.1940	UK: embarked from Glasgow to India
22.10.1940	-	11.12.1945	India (1941-1943) & Burma/Assam (1943-1945):
?	-	01.11.1945	45 Company RIASC General Transport
12.12.1945	-	15.03.1946	UK
16.03.1946	-	15.04.1948	British Army of the Rhine

Lever,
the Rev. Clifford

?
-

[perhaps:
21.12.1899
-
08.1987
Droxford,
Hampshire ??]

Chaplain to the Forces 4th class

03.07.1939 [...] (ranking as Capt.)

03.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplain's Department - Reserve of Officers [Methodist]
24.08.1939	-	(04.1946)	mobilized

Published: On my heart too! : the epic of Calais, 1940 (1943)

Levy,
William Phineas
W.P. Levy

Birth registered under the name Phineas William Levy. Changed last name to Lang in 1952.
Son of Samuel Leon Levy (1892-1977), and Hannah Popper (1895-1976).
Married 1st ((03?).1952, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Daphne E. Birch; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((12?).1993, Kensington and Chelsea district, London) Jacqueline C. Frossard.

20.07.1923
Hendon, London
-
26.12.2004
Ealing, London

Cadet	? [7945250]
2nd Lt.	11.02.1945 [341492]
WS/Lt.	11.08.1945 (reld 31.12.1946)
Hon. Lt.	31.12.1946

			served in Tunisia & Italy
11.02.1945			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Lewenhaupt,
Erik Oskar Sten Reinhold [Gustafsson]
E.O.S.R. Lewenhaupt

11.10.1903
Stora Väst-Tibble, Bro sn, Sweden
-
15.11.1954
Oscar, Stockholms stad, Sweden

Cadet	? [T/14407089]
2nd Lt.	01.04.1944 [314758]
WS/Lt.	23.09.1944
T/Capt.	13.01.1945-(04.1947)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 13.12.1948)
Hon. Maj.	13.12.1948

01.04.1944

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

Lewes,
John Steel
"Jock"
J.S. Lewes

Son of Arthur Harold and Elsie Steel Lewes, of Hanworth, Middlesex.
Engaged to be married to Mirren Barford, an Oxford undergraduate.

21.12.1913
Calcutta, India
-
30.12.1941
(KIA) [age 28]
[Alamein Memorial, Egypt, column 53]

2nd Lt. TA	05.07.1935 (reld 12.01.1938)
2nd Lt.	28.10.1939 [65419]
WS/Lt.	?

Education: King's School, Parramatta; Christ Church College, Oxford University (MA; President Oxford University Boat Club, 1937).

05.07.1935			commissioned, General List - University Candidates - Territorial Army
			served, 1st Battalion, The Tower Hamlets Rifles, Rifle Brigade
28.10.1939			commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
			seconded, No. 8 Commando
?	-	30.12.1941	seconded, "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade [founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS); created the "Lewes bomb", a blast-incendiary field expedient explosive device] (killed in action while returning from Nofilia airfield raid when the truck he was travelling in was attacked by a Messerschmitt; he was buried in the desert)

Literature: John Lewes, Jock Lewes : co-founder of the SAS (2000)

Lewis,
Anthony Job

Son of Arthur Lewis, and of Elizabeth Lewis, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

03.10.1911
-
19.05.1940
Tournai
(KIA) [age 28]
[Dunkirk Memorial, France, column 52]

2nd Lt.	27.08.1931 [52655]
Lt.	27.08.1934
Capt.	27.08.1939

Education: Marlborough (Cotton House; 09.1925-12.1929); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

27.08.1931			commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
(06.1933)			1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Tidworth)
(09.1935)	-	(01.1937)	2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Hong Kong)
(01.1938)			2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Shanghai (temporary), for Sudan)
(01.1939)			2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Lucknow)
?	-	19.05.1940	1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (BEF)

Lewis,
Bridges George McGibbon
"Bunny"
B.G.McG. Lewis

From Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
Also known as: M[a]cGibbon-Lewis, Bridges George

12.11.1918
Kensington, London
-
07.09.2001
Westminster, London SW1V

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	02.11.1940 [156583]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1942
T/Capt.	11.03.1945-(05.1946)

	MC	24.08.1944	Italy [citation available upon request]
	MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe

?	-	02.11.1940	either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940			commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission]
06.1941			escaped from Crete aboard an abandoned landing craft; taken POW by the Italian submarine Adua which intercepted the landing craft; escaped after being landed in Italy and fought with the partisans
17.09.1944			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps [cancelled 01.01.1946]

Songwriter/producer/theatrical agent.

Lewis,
Cyril Kenneth Hugh
C.K.H. Lewis

Son of ... Lewis, and ... Bartless.

04.09.1913
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
01.1989
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	19.09.1942 [245276]
WS/Lt.	? (reld 18.04.1944; ill-health)
Hon. Lt.	18.04.1944

19.09.1942			commissioned, Reconnaissance Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
			served in North Africa

Lewis,
John Reginald

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	06.02.1937
WS/Lt.	06.02.1940 (reld > 01.1944, < 04.1944)
T/Capt.	24.05.1941-(01.1944)

06.02.1937			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
(1941)			Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe

Lewis,
John Theodore
J.T. Lewis

?
-

2nd Lt.	22.04.1942 [232642]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1942

22.04.1942

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lewis,
John Thomas

10.08.1908
-
12.1997
Kings Lynn,
Norfolk

2nd Lt.	11.01.1942 [223715]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	01.12.1946, seniority 11.01.1942
Capt.	10.12.1948, seniority 11.01.1948
Lt. (QM)	01.12.1951, seniority 25.05.1951
Maj. (QM)	29.11.1953 (retd 01.09.1956)

11.01.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
01.12.1946			short service commission
01.12.1951			regular commission
01.09.1956	-	11.08.1963	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lewis,
Paul Anthony James
"Jim"

Son (with one brother) of Fritz Lewis (1872-1950), and Ethel Mary Page (1875-1965).
Married 1st (12.10.1940, Selby Abbey, Selby, West Riding of Yorkshire) Jean Louise Standish (04.06.1918 - 01.2004); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((03?).1950, Truro, Cornwall) Queenie May Passmore (18.06.1922 - 01.07.2005); one son.

30.01.1919
Falmouth, Cornwall
-
23.02.2000
Truro, Cornwall

2nd Lt.	07.10.1939 [100359]
WS/Lt.	?
T/Capt.	31.12.1941-(07.1942), 13.07.1942-26.07.1943
WS/Capt.	27.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A/Maj.	23.02.1944-22.05.1944
T/Maj.	23.05.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946
Capt.	17.04.1951, seniority 24.04.1948
Maj.	? (reld 06.01.1960; disability)

	MC	08.04.1943	Operation Torch (landing at Algiers) *
	MID	01.02.1945	NW Europe 1944/45 **

* Major Lewis landed with the Commandos as Forward Observation Officer No. 4. On landing six boats came in the dark beneath the guns of Ilot de la Marine. Four were sunk and Major Lewis took command of the remaining two and landed. He established communication with his supporting unit and throughout the day passed valuable information and in the afternoon called for F.A.A. bomber support which was directly responsible for the capture of Fort Duperre.
** Major Lewis acting in the capacity of Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer Airborne Division carried out his work afloat showing exemplary devotion to duty. The deployment of Forward Observers Bombardment in the SWORD area of operation NEPTUNE showed that his planning had been carried out with more than the average care and forethought. The work that descended upon him during the first month of the operation OVERLORD required and demanded a high degree of concentration and efficiency. Major Lewis mot only carried out these duties in an exemplary fashion, but also found time to encourage his Officers and men in their many tasks ashore.

Education: Clare College, Cambridge (BA 1940, MA 1946).

07.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...
11.11.1940	-	(07.1942)	Adjutant, ...
			Combined Operations Bombardment Unit:
(11.1942)			Forward Observation Officer No. 4 (Operation Torch, Algiers) (MC)
(06.1944)			Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer (SBLO), Force S (attached 6th Airborne Division) (Operation Neptune, Normandy) (despatches)
...	-	...	...
17.04.1951			short service commission
19.09.1953			transferred, Royal Army Educational Corps

Lewis,
R

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	12.04.1941
WS/Lt.	?
A/Capt.	(04.1944)

12.04.1941			commissioned, ? [emergency commission]
			attached Indian Army:
(1943)			7th Rajput Regiment

Lewis,
Richard Alfred
R.A. Lewis

Son of Richard H. Lewis, and Margaret Glazier.
Married ...; ... children.

11.1911
Camberwell district, London
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	13.12.1941 [220451]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	07.05.1943-17.07.1944
WS/Capt.	18.07.1944
WS/Maj.	1947/48?
Maj.	25.01.1951, seniority 03.08.1948
Lt.Col.	15.12.1952, seniority 27.08.1951 (reld 11.03.1954)
Hon. Lt.Col.	11.03.1954

13.12.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
			served in India
25.05.1951	-	11.03.1954	Supplementary Reserve of Officers

Emigrated to Australia, 23.03.1954.

Lewis,
Rupert Wyndham

Second son of Col. Henry Lewis, JP, DL (?-1929), and Rose Mabel Lewis.
Married ((12?).1918, St George Hanover Square district, London) "Moira" Cecil Maude Violet Jackson (07.07.1895 - 16.01.1987).

01.08.1881
Whimple, Devon
-
05.03.1951
Fellyard, Slapton, Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	12.09.1908 [1784]
Maj.	04.01.1922 (retd 01.08.1931)
Lt.	02.09.1939
WS/Capt.	06.03.1940
T/Maj.	06.03.1940-(04.)1942

14.01.1916

12.09.1908			commissioned, Glamorganshire Yeomanry - Territorial Force
02.04.1915			commissioned, Welsh Guards [permanent commission] (MC)
02.09.1939			commissioned, National Defence Companies
(1941)			8th (HD) Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
01.08.1931?	-	29.01.1949	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Lewis,
St Hilary Wilfred Tamar

Married 1st Diana Mary Lewis (died 14.10.1947).
Married 2nd Anne ...; one daughter, one son.

11.12.1911
Oxhey,
Hertfordshire
-
24.12.1994
Penrith,
Cumberland

2nd Lt.	03.02.1934, seniority 01.09.1932
Lt.	01.09.1935
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-31.08.1940
Capt.	01.09.1940
A/Maj.	07.04.1941-04.06.1941, 03.12.1941-03.01.1942
T/Maj.	04.01.1942-13.12.1942, 23.01.1943-27.03.1943, 01.04.1943-(01.1946)
Maj.	01.07.1946 (retd 06.02.1949)
Hon. Lt.Col.	06.02.1949

NW Frontier of India 1836-37 Medal & Clasp

			from Territorial Army - University Candidates
03.02.1934			commissioned, Royal Norfolk Regiment
			served in India & Burma

Col Lewis had a long career in the Army, followed by 25 years as a Land Agent in Penrith. He was born in 1911 at Oxhey, Herts and educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. Soon after leaving Cambridge he was commissioned in 1932 into the Royal Norfolk Regiment with which he spent all his army career. He served in the peace-time Army in India, then was recalled home on the outbreak of war in 1939. He returned to India and Burma to take part in the Far East campaigns. After the war he was a member of the occupying force in Germany. Col Lewis married Diana Bury in 1946. She died in 1948. He retired from the Army in 1949 and in 1951 married Miss Anne Dillingham Blackett-Ord. In 1953 they moved to Newton-Reigny and he became a Land Agent. He loved the work, particularly aspects dealing with the forestry. A man of the trees, knowledgeable, practical and happy to help with the physical work of planting them, he was also a keen shot, content to walk miles with a gun under his arm and he thoroughly enjoying a day's shooting. He and his wife devoted a great deal of time to many voluntary works and he will be particularly missed by the Calvert Trust, as he was their treasurer for ten years. Col Lewis will be missed by a wide circle of friends particularly in his parish where he was a friend to all.

Lewis,
T W

?
-

2nd Lt.	15.07.1939
WS/Lt.	08.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	08.01.1940-(04.1941), 27.05.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

15.07.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Lewis,
Thomas William

?
-

2nd Lt.	20.09.1941 [207335]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	01.07.1945

20.09.1941

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lewis,
Thomas William Lutwyche

From Sanderstead.

18.08.1918
-

2nd Lt.	18.08.1939 [70833]
WS/Lt.	26.01.1940
Lt.	18.02.1941
A/Capt.	26.10.1939-25.01.1940
T/Capt.	26.01.1940-10.04.1941
WS/Capt.	11.04.1941
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	11.01.1941-10.04.1941
T/Maj.	11.04.1941-31.10.1941
Maj.	18.08.1952 (retd 31.05.1959)
A/Lt.Col.	26.04.1945-20.05.1945

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE

28.06.1945

Italy

			from Territorial Army
18.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps

Lewis,
Thomas William Stanley

?
-

2nd Lt.	22.08.1942 [243248]
WS/Lt.	22.02.1943
T/Capt.	16.12.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

22.08.1942

commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]

Lewton-Brain,
Eustace Gerrard

Son of Lawrence Lewton-Brain, MA (1879-1922), of Kuala Lumpur, and Anne Elizabeth O'Meara (1877-1967), of Parkstone, Dorset.
Brother of 2nd Lt. Derek Lewton-Brain, Army in Burma Reserdve of Officers, and Lt. Gerald Evan Lewton-Brain, Indian Army.
Married ((06?).1943, Kensington district, London) Colette E.M. Wright, daughter of Mr & Mrs Denis Melville Wright, of Kensington, London.

20.09.1911
Malaysia
-
07.04.1944
[age 32]
[Enugu Township Cemetery, Nigeria, European Section, grave 30]

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	18.05.1940 [132755]
WS/Lt.	18.11.1941
T/Capt.	11.02.1942-07.04.1944

?	-	18.05.1940	133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.05.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Leyton,
Geoffrey Bertrand

Son (with one brother) of Albert Sydney F. Grunbaum (1869-1921), and Helen Gertrude Stewart (1883-1959).
Married ((06?).1945, Oxford district, Oxfordshire) Sheila Robertson Dalgliesh (19.04.1915 - 03.1997), daughter of William Dalgliesh (1881-1950), and Juliet Jemima Cuthbert (1890-1950); two daughters, one son.

25.08.1913
Manchester
-
30.06.1997
Hamilton, Victoria, Australia

Lt.	19.12.1939 [114368]
WS/Capt.	19.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

Education: Cambridge University & Westminster Hospital; MD Camb 1946; MB BChir 10.05.1938; MRCS Eng LRCP Lond 1938; DCP Univ Lond 1947.

19.12.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
			captured in North Africa; POW in Italian, later German captivity

Consulting Pathologist, Hollymoor Hospital, Northfield, Birmingham. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine. Member, Assosciation of Clinical Pathologists. Late Director, Provincial Laboratory Winnipeg, Canada. Honorary Physician, Westminster Hospital. Emigrated to Australia, 1963. Consultant Pathologist, Wimmera Base Hospital, Victoria, Australia.

Liardet,
Sir Claude Francis

Youngest son of late Commander H.M. Liardet, HMIN.
Married 1st (1906) Dorothy Hopper, youngest daughter of A.R. Hopper, MD (marriage dissolved 1927); one son (Lt.Gen. Henry Maughan Liardet, CB, CBE, DSO), one daughter.
Married 2nd (1928) Dorothy
Clare Borrett, OBE 1946, only daughter of late Adm. George Holmes Borrett, CB; one son.

26.09.1881
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
05.03.1966
Chiddingfold, Surrey

2nd Lt.	15.03.1899 [7191]
Lt.	21.06.1899
Capt.	08.03.1905
Maj.	1914
Bt. Lt.Col.	03.06.1919
Lt.Col.	25.04.1922
Bt. Col.	25.04.1926
Col.	25.04.1927, seniority 25.04.1926
Maj.Gen.	23.06.1938 (retd 25.09.1951)

KBE	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
CB	01.02.1937	?
DSO	01.01.1917	New Year 17
TD	?	?
TD	04.08.1950	& 2 clasps
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	11.12.1917	?
MID	20.12.1918	?
MID	05.07.1919	?

WWI: BWM, VM

Education: Bedford School.

15.03.1899			commissioned, 1st Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) (transferred 01.04.1908 to Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery on formation of Territorial Force)
			served European War (Brevet LtCol, DSO, despatches four times)
			commanded 125th Heavy Battery, RGA (France and Flanders) & 23rd Heavy Artillery Brigade; also Brigade Major, Heavy Artillery Australian Corps (17.01.1917-...) & General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), XIII Corps (29.10.1918-...)
1919			Commander, Lancashire and Cheshire Coast Brigade RA
25.04.1922	-	25.04.1927	Commander, 106th Lancashire Yeomanry Brigade RFA, TA
01.09.1929	-	01.09.1933	Commander, 64th (7th London) Field Brigade RA, TA
1934	-	14.12.1934	Commander Royal Artillery, 47th Division
15.12.1934	-	07.03.1938	Commander Royal Artillery, The London Division
23.06.1938	-	17.11.1940	General Officer Commanding, 1st London Division (until 6.1940 The London Divion, TA), redesignated as:
18.11.1940	-	26.01.1941	General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division
27.01.1941	-	1942	specially employed: Inspector of Aerodrome Defences, Air Ministry
1942	-	1945	DirectorGeneral, Ground Defence, Air Ministry
12.02.1942	-	1945	Commandant, Royal Air Force Regiment

President Corporation of Insurance Brokers, 1947-1951. Director of Bevington, Vaizey and Foster Ltd, Lloyd's. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of London, 29.01.1945. Honorary Colonel 64th (7th London) Field Brigade RA, TA, 16.10.1937-16.10.1953.

Liardet,
Henry Maughan
"Bill"

Son of late Maj.Gen. Sir Claude Francis Liardet, KBE, CB, DSO, TD, DL, and Dorothy, youngest daughter of A.R. Hopper, MD.
Married 1st (1933) Joan Sefton Constable (died 1991), daughter of Maj. G.S. Constable, MC, JP; three sons (one being R.Adm. Guy Francis Liardet, CB, CBE, RN).
Married 2nd (1994) Mrs
Barbara Corcoran.
Residence: (1945) Chiddingford.

27.10.1906
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
08.02.1996
Arundel, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	27.10.1927 [31303]
Lt.	28.10.1930
Capt.	01.04.1937
A/Maj.	29.07.1940-28.10.1940
T/Maj.	29.10.1940-19.12.1941
WS/Maj.	20.12.1941
Maj.	27.10.1944
A/Lt.Col.	20.09.1941-19.12.1941
T/Lt.Col.	20.12.1941-29.07.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	30.07.1944
Lt.Col.	10.03.1949
A/Col.	30.01.1944-29.07.1944
T/Col.	30.07.1944-19.11.1945, 01.07.1946-04.12.1948
Col.	04.08.1950 (supernumerary 04.08.1956)
A/Brig.	22.05.1945-19.09.1945, 10.06.1947-09.08.1947
T/Brig.	10.08.1947-04.12.1948, 31.07.1950-02.05.1954
Brig.	03.05.1954
T/Maj.Gen.	?
Maj.Gen.	06.10.1958 (retd 02.05.1964)

CB	11.06.1960	HM's birthday 60
CBE	19.04.1945	Italy
DSO	13.12.1945	Italy
OBE	09.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt & Libya)
MID	11.01.1945	Italy
MID	29.11.1945	Italy

Education: Bedford School; Staff College, Camberley (1939; psc); Imperial Defence College (1955; idc)

1924			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
27.10.1927			commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (later: Royal Tank Regiment)
1927	-	1938	service UK, India, Egypt:
1928	-	1930	2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
1930	-	1935	10th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps (India)
1935	-	1935	3rd Battalion Royal Tank Corps (UK)
11.12.1935	-	18.08.1936	Staff Officer (Class FF), HQ Armoured Mobile Force (Egypt) (temporarily)
21.01.1937	-	20.01.1939	Adjutant, Royal Tank Corps Depot (Bovington Camp)
31.10.1939	-	28.07.1940	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office (London)
29.07.1940	-	19.09.1941	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London) (also secretary to Tank Users' Committee)
1941	-	1945	active service in Egypt, North Africa, Italy:
20.09.1941	-	11.11.1941	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ...
12.01.1941	-	14.05.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 10th Armoured Division (Alamein)
15.05.1942	-	05.07.1942	Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
10.07.1942	-	16.12.1942	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), [10th Armoured Division ?]
16.12.1942	-	26.01.1944	Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
30.01.1944	-	10.10.1944	Commandant, 1st Armoured Replacement Group
11.10.1944	-	21.05.1945	Second-in-Command, 25th Tank Brigade (later Assault Brigade)
22.05.1945	-	19.09.1945	Commander, 25th Armoured Engineer Brigade Royal Engineers (Italy) (despatches twice)
29.11.1945	-	30.06.1946	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, ...
01.07.1946	-	13.12.1946	Colonel in charge of Administration, ...
05.01.1947	-	08.04.1947	Commander Detachment, 1st Armoured Division, Palestine (Second-in-Command, Armoured Brigade)
10.06.1947	-	31.12.1947	Brigadier, Royal Armoured Corps, Middle East Land Forces
01.01.1948	-	14.05.1948	Brigadier General Staff, Middle East Land Forces
15.05.1948	-	22.09.1948	Brigadier, Royal Armoured Corps, Middle East Land Forces
1949	-	1950	Commanding Officer, 8th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
31.07.1950	-	07.01.1953	Deputy Director, Manpower Planning (B), War Office (London)
19.01.1953	-	01.12.1954	Commander, 23rd Armoured Brigade (Territorial Army)
23.01.1956	-	1958	Chief of Staff, British Joint Services Mission (Army Staff), Washington, DC
22.11.1956	-	16.10.1958	also: Army ADC to the Queen
1958	-	1961	Director-General of Fighting Vehicles, War Office (London)
1961	-	04.04.1964	Deputy Master-General of the Ordnance, Ministry of Defence
02.05.1964	-	27.10.1966	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Regiment, 1961-1967. Director, British Sailors' Society, 1961-1978; Chairman, SS&AFA West Sussex Committee, 1966-1985. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Sussex, 1964-1974, W Sussex 1974-. W Sussex CC, 1964-1974; Alderman, 1970-1974. President Sussex Council, Royal British Legion, 1975-1981.

Liddell,
Sir Clive Gerard
"Jock"

Son of late Lt.Col. John Liddell, and Ellen Jane Gerard, of Huddersfield.
Married 1st (1914) Clare Lambert Roberts (died 1917).
Married 2nd (1918) Hilda Jessie Bisset, widow of Lieut Maurice Cane; one
son, one daughter.

01.05.1883
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
-
09.09.1956
Chelsea, Greater London

2nd Lt.	22.10.1902 [12844]
Lt.	13.05.1905
Capt.	17.10.1908
T/Maj.	05.11.1914-02.01.1916
Maj.	22.10.1917
T/Lt.Col.	03.01.1916-30.04.1922
Bt. Lt.Col.	23.10.1917
Bt. Col.	23.06.1923
Col.	02.03.1928, seniority 23.10.1921
T/Brig.	16.06.1931-29.12.1933
Maj.Gen.	30.12.1933 (half-pay 07.03.1934) (full pay 01.01.1935)
T/Lt.Gen.	13.12.1937-28.01.1938
Lt.Gen.	29.01.1938
Gen.	05.09.1941, seniority 06.02.1941 (retd 01.11.1942)

KCB	02.01.1939	New Year 39
CB	01.01.1935	New Year 35
CMG	03.06.1918	HM's birthday 18: for services rendered in connection with the war
CBE	1919	?
DSO	1915	?
MID	17.02.1915	?
MID	22.06.1915	?
MID	01.01.1916	?
MID	15.06.1916	?
MID	04.01.1917	?
MID	06.07.1918	?
RHMbr	25.08.1926	* [case 48630]
14\|15 St	-	& clasp
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-

Order of the Crown of Italy, 4th class
* For the rescue from drowning, at St. Lunaire, Britanny, France, of Mrs. Norris, her son aged nine, and his governess, who had been swept out by the current.

Education: Uppingham; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Imperial Defence College (idc, 1927); Staff College (psc, 1919)

22.10.1902			commissioned, The Leicestershire Regiment
23.03.1908	-	22.03.1911	Adjutant, ...
01.04.1912	-	15.10.1914	Staff Captain, 6 District, Northern Command (played rugby for the Army in 1912)
1914	-	1918	served European War, 1914-1918 in France & Belgium [15.10.1914-09.12.1916] (despatches 6 times, DSO, CMG, CBE, Bt Lt.Col.)
05.11.1914	-	02.01.1916	Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), ... (France)
03.01.1916	-	07.12.1916	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), ... (France)
11.12.1916	-	06.02.1917	specially employed, War Office
07.02.1917	-	28.02.1919	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), War Office (temporary)
01.03.1919	-	30.04.1922	Instructor (Assistant Adjutant General (AAG)), Staff College
1923	-	1925	Deputy Administrator British Empire Exhibition
(1926)			Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
02.03.1928	-	15.06.1931	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
16.06.1931	-	06.04.1934	Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade (Southern Command)
01.01.1935	-	26.11.1935	General Officer Commanding, 47th (2nd London) Division TA (London District)
27.11.1935	-	12.12.1937	General Officer Commanding, 4th Division (Eastern Command)
13.12.1937	-	30.06.1939	Adjutant-General to the Forces, War Office & a Member of the Army Council
11.07.1939	-	14.05.1941	Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar
1941	-	1942	Inspector-General for Training (Home Forces)

Colonel, Leicestershire Regiment, 22.03.1943-1948. Governor, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 27.10.1943-27.10.1949. Director of Ambulance, Order of St John, 1943-1948; Acting Chief Commissioner, St John Ambulance Brigade, 1943-1947.
Chairman; 1st County Finance Co., 1948, A.H. Fuller Ltd, 1950, Wessex Central Concentrator Plant Ltd, 1952, Eureka Scientific Co. Ltd, 1954, Wilchester Permanent Building Society, 1955, Southall and Wembley Laundries, 1945.

Liddle,
Martin Napier
M.N. Liddle (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Thomas)

?
New Zealand
-

2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [203465]
WS/Capt.	22.11.1943 (reld 17.04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	17.04.1946

			Officer Training School, Belgaum (India)
23.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Lightfoot,
George Cecil

Son of Joseph Foster Lightfoot (1875-1959), and Eleanor Dickinson.
Married ((09?).1928, Lancaster, Lancashire) Mary Kendall (1903 - ); one son, one daughter.

(09?).1903
Lancaster, Lancashire
-
1966
Victoria, Australia

2nd Lt.	20.06.1940 [135532]
WS/Lt.	20.12.1941 (reld 07.11.1945)
T/Capt.	01.10.1942-07.11.1945
Hon. Capt.	07.11.1945

20.06.1940

commissioned, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) [emergency commission]

Lillicrap,
Wilfred Lancelot

Son (with two sisters) of William John Lillicrap (1868-1954), and Emily Bunker (1870-1964).
Cousin of Maj. Cyril William Roy Cann, Royal Artillery, and F/Lt. Gilbert Howard Cann, RAF.
Married ((06?).1933, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Rosalie Alice "Paddy" Paddon ((09?).1910 - 28.01.2008); two sons.

06.09.1900
Plympton St Mary, Devon
-
(03?).1979
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

WS/Staff Sgt.Maj.	?
Lt. (Asst.Paym.)	11.11.1942 [252784]
WS/Capt.	11.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

WW I			Private, Royal Warwickshire Regiment [59330] & Army Pay Corps [7658176]
11.11.1942			commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]

Limer,
Harold

Son of Fred Limer, and Eleanor Annie Telford.
Married; ... children (one son?).

04.10.1919
South Shields district, Co. Durham
-
19.01.2012
Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [180449]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1942
Lt.	24.11.1945, seniority 01.07.1942
A/Capt.	17.05.1943-16.08.1943
T/Capt.	17.08.1943-27.02.1946
WS/Capt.	28.02.1946
Capt.	31.12.1946
A/Maj.	24.07.1945-09.09.1945, 16.01.1946-27.02.1946
T/Maj.	28.02.1946-02.06.1946
Maj.	31.12.1953 (retd 22.06.1959)

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 52 days
?	-	28.03.1941	either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.03.1941			commissioned, 23rd Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 23.11.1945]
summer1942			posted, 40th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
24.11.1945			permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps
03.01.1947			transferred, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps

Lince,
Denis Liege

Son of Lucien Lince, and Charlotte May Smith.
Married (29.06.1949) Patricia Molly "Pat" Kiddy; five children.

23.08.1914
Mildenhall district, Suffolk
-
11.02.1998

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.08.1941 [201900]
WS/Lt.	21.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	21.05.1942-(04.1946)

?	-	16.08.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.08.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]

From 1946 chartered accountant, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Lindner,
James Neville Donovan

21.05.1922
King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
02.1997
Mid Surrey

Cadet	? [1929635]
2nd Lt.	22.04.1944 [324417]
WS/Lt.	22.10.1944

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

22.04.1944

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Lindsay,
[Sir] Martin Alexander;
1st Baronet (cr. 1962), of Dowhill
M.A. Lindsay (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of late Lt.Col. Alexander Bertram Lindsay, 2nd KEO Gurkhas, and Gladys Hutton.
Married 1st (15.12.1932; marriage dissolved 1967) Joyce Emily Lindsay (05.05.1904 - 19.04.1998), daughter of late Maj. Hon. Robert Lindsay, Royal Scots Greys; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (01.08.1969) Lœlai Mary Ponsonby (06.02.1902 - 11.1993), Duchess of Westminster, only daughter of 1st Baron Sysonsby, PC, GCB, GCVO, Treasurer to HM King George V.

22.08.1905
London
-
05.05.1981
Surrey South Western district, Surrey

2nd Lt.	29.01.1925 [32017]
Lt.	29.01.1927 (retd 01.07.1936; receiving a gratuity) (mobilized 24.08.1939)
WS/Maj.	01.01.1942
T/Lt.Col.	1943?
Maj.	01.01.1949
Hon. Lt.Col.	22.08.1955

Bt	01.01.1962	for political and public services
CBE	05.06.1952	HM's birthday 1952: for political and public services in the West Midlands
DSO	19.04.1945	NW Europe
MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe

Education: Wellington College (1919-1923); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1923-1925).

29.01.1925			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
			seconded 4th Battalion Nigeria Regiment 1927; travelled West to East Africa through Ituri Forest, Belgian Congo, 1929; Surveyor to British Arctic Air-Route Expedition to Greenland (King's Polar Medal), 1930-31; Leader British Trans-Greenland Expedition, 1934
01.07.1936	-	22.08.1955	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Prospective National Unionist Candidate, Brigg Division, 1936-39.
(07.1939)			2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
			active service on staff Norway 1940 (despatches)
1941	-	1942	Commanding Officer, 151st Parachute Battalion
14.04.1943			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps
1943	-	1944	Commanding Officer, 9th (Essex) Parachute Battalion
02.1945?			transferred back, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
07.1944	-	05.1945	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (51st Highland Division) in 16 operations (despatches, wounded, DSO)

MP (C) Solihull Div. of Warwickshire 1945-64. DL for County of Lincoln, 1938-45; Chairman, West Midlands Area of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1949-52; Murchison Grant, Royal Geographical Society; Gold Medallist, French Geographical Soc.; Medallist Royal Belgian Geographical Soc.; André Plaque, Royal Swedish Soc. for Geography and Anthropology; Hon. Member Royal Belgian Geographical Society; a Member of the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers); Gold Staff Officer, Coronation, 1953.
Published: Those Greenland days, 1932; The epic of Captain Scott, 1933; Sledge, 1935; So few got through : the diary of an infantry officer, 1946; Three got through : memoirs of an Arctic explorer, 1947; The House of Commons (Britain in pictures), 1947; Shall we reform “the Lords”?, 1948; The baronetage, 1977.

Lindsell,
Robert Anthony
"Bob"

Married ...; ... children.

18.01.1915
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
23.06.2009
Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	31.01.1935 [64536]
Lt.	31.01.1938
A/Capt.	24.06.1940-31.08.1940, 06.12.1940-27.12.1940
T/Capt.	28.12.1940-07.01.1941, 08.03.1941-16.01.1942
WS/Capt.	17.01.1942
Capt.	31.01.1943
A/Maj.	17.10.1941-16.01.1942
T/Maj.	17.01.1942-02.07.1942, 24.08.1942-11.12.1944., 08.02.1945-11.11.1945
WS/Maj.	12.11.1945
Maj.	31.01.1948
A/Lt.Col.	12.08.1945-11.11.1945
T/Lt.Col.	12.11.1945-02.03.1948, 25.07.1950-01.08.1952, 01.10.1953-17.01.1956
Lt.Col.	18.01.1956 (supernumerary 18.01.1959)
T/Col.	01.12.1959-18.01.1961
Col.	19.01.1961
T/Brig.	06.03.1964-18.01.1965
Brig.	19.01.1965 (retd 05.05.1972)

MC	08.12.1945	Italy
39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Medal & Clasp.

Education: St Peter's College, Radley (D., 3rd term 1928-2nd term 1933; School Prefect; winner of the Adam Fox Essay Prize 1932 & 1933, member of Radley Eight 1933); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Tactics Prize, passed out 5th); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2nd class mechanical sciences, part I, MA); long electrical and mechanical course, School of Military Engineering.

31.01.1935			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(09.1935)	-	(01.1937)	Cambridge
(01.1938)	-	(01.1939)	served in India
22.07.1942	-	04.08.1943	Staff Officer Royal Engineers, 2nd grade (SORE2), India
(1944)			10th Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, Indian Field Company (Italy) (MC)
25.07.1950	-	04.05.1952	Chief Instructor, ... (Pakistan Army)
01.10.1953	-	07.11.1955	Chief Instructor, 12 SME
01.12.1959	-	09.05.1961	Deputy Commander (Col.), HQ ESE UK
19.6.1961	-	14.07.1963	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), British Joint Services Missin, Washington
06.03.1964	-	14.09.1964	DREE, War Office
15.09.1964	-	(02.1967)	DFVE, Ministry of Defence
1969	-	1972	also: ADC to HM the Queen

FIMechE, FIEE.

Lindsey,
Peter Kenneth John

see:

Indian Army

Lines,
Thomas Arthur

?
-

2nd Lt.	10.07.1940 [141056]
WS/Lt.	18.05.1941
T/Capt.	22.06.1942-14.01.1944
WS/Capt.	15.01.1944
T/Maj.	23.10.1944-(04.1946)

MID

11.01.1945

Italy

10.07.1940

commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [emergency commission]

Ling,
Harvey Peter Lindsay *

* order of first names is officially P.H.L., but (initially) registered in the Army as H.P.L.

03.10.1916
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
-
08.10.1980
Oundle, Peterborough

2nd Lt.	07.10.1939 [100361]
WS/Lt.	07.04.1941
T/Capt.	02.01.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 24.09.1946)
T/Maj.	1946?
Hon. Maj.	24.09.1946
2nd Lt. TA	24.09.1946
A/Capt. TA	01.09.1949
Lt. TA	01.04.1950, seniority 24.09.1946
Capt. RARO	01.04.1950

	MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
	TD	22.08.1952	-

Education: Oundle School; Queen's College, Cambridge

07.10.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	(05.1945)	General HQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") (NW Europe; operating with 2nd Canadian Corps)
01.04.1950			Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.09.1946	-	12.07.1956	Oundle School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force (Territorial Army - General List)

After the war he taught at Oundle School.

Linter,
Frank Cyril

Son of Henry Howard Ernest Linter (1864-1942), and Florence Annie White (1868-1943).
Married ((06?).1927, Camberwell district, London) Marjorie Kate Baskett (19.04.1902 - 01.1988), daughter of George Baskett (1874-), and Alice Maria Blyth (1874-1956); one son.

15.11.1899
Peckham, Camberwell district, London
-
09.1981
Bromley district, Kent

T/2nd Lt.	03.03.1919
Lt.	31.10.1924, seniority 19.10.1922
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	?

03.03.1919			commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Service Battalions) [temporary commission]
18.01.1922	-	15.11.1949	Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class II) [attained age limit]
24.08.1939			mobilized RARO

Lipscomb,
Christopher Godfrey

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Godfrey Lipscomb (1864-1953), land agent, and
Mildred Agnes Leatham (1874-1922).
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Eric Streatfeild Lipscomb, RN.
Married (07.07.1937, Chard, Somerset) Ellen Diana Hayward (29.06.1911 - 17.04.1987), daughter of Arthur Rusher Hayward (1878-1939), and Lilian Amy Geare (1880-1974), of Misterton, Somerset; two sons.

22.12.1907
Margam, Glamorganshire
-
16.01.1982
Knook, Warminster, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	02.02.1928 [39345]
Lt.	02.02.1931
Capt.	06.01.1938
A/Maj.	24.01.1941-31.03.1941, 01.06.1941-24.06.1941
T/Maj.	25.06.1941-02.11.1941, 28.11.1941-15.04.1944
WS/Maj.	16.04.1944
Maj.	02.02.1945
A/Lt.Col.	16.01.1944-15.04.1944
T/Lt.Col.	16.04.1944-31.08.1950
Lt.Col.	15.11.1951
Col.	31.12.1952
T/Brig.	01.09.1950-30.12.1956
Brig.	31.12.1956
Maj.Gen.	01.11.1958 (retd 27.09.1961)

CB	31.12.1960	New Year 1961
DSO	29.03.1945	NW Europe (France & Holland 08-10.1944)
DSO	03.05.1945	NW Europe (Cleve & Bedburg, Germany 12.02.1945)

Education: Charterhouse; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1926-1927); Staff College (1947; psc).

02.02.1928			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
1928	-	1933	2nd Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (UK)
29.11.1933	-	07.09.1939	specially employed with Nigerian Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force
01.06.1941	-	02.11.1941	Chief Instructor, Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU)
16.01.1944	-	24.05.1944	Commandant, Divisional Battle School
25.05.1944	-	01.07.1944	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) (L), 21st Army Group
01.08.1944	-	1946	Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry
01.12.1946	-	22.01.1947	Military Assistant to Commander-in-Chief, B.F.O.
1947	-	1947	Staff College, Camberley
03.12.1947	-	31.08.1950	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG), Southwestern District, Southern Command
01.09.1950	-	11.08.1953	Brigade Commander, 19th Infantry Brigade
10.01.1953	-	(01.)1957	Commandant, Senior Officers' School
1957	-	1958	Commander, Hanover District, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
1958	-	1961	Chief of Joint Services Liaison Organisation, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Bonn

Published: History of the 4th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) : in the Campaign in North-West Europe June, 1944-May, 1945 (1946)

Lister,
Dudley Stuart

08.04.1899
Lambeth district, London
-
17.09.1965
Fulham district, London

2nd Lt.	21.12.1917
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	04.10.1940-(01.1946) (retd 09.1946)

	MC	15.10.1918	?
	MID	27.05.1941	Lofoten raid

21.12.1917			commissioned, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
1940	-	1942	Commanding Officer, No. 4 (Army) Commando
02.07.1942	-	15.05.1943	Commanding Officer, No. 10 (Inter Allied) (Army) Commando

Lister,
John William Stephen

Son of John Stephen Lister, an Army officer in the 4th Dragoons, who served in India for years, and during WWI had been recalled to the 6th Iniskilling, and Hettie Annie Bunce.
Married ((03?).1937, Medway district, Kent) Anne M. Thomas.

14.04.1910
Kensington district, London
-
08.1996
Oxford, Oxfordshire

WS/Sgt.Maj. (Clerk of Works)	06.03.1942 [1863544]
2nd Lt.	04.10.1946 [274367]
T/Capt.	02.09.1947-17.06.1952
Lt. (QM)	18.06.1952, seniority 19.09.1951
Capt. (QM)	18.06.1952, seniority 19.09.1951
T/Maj.	18.06.1952-04.01.1953, 01.05.1954-06.09.1956
Maj. (QM)	07.08.1956 (retd 11.03.1961)

39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	- (with clasp 8th Army)
It St	-	-
Fr & G St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
GenSM	?	? (with clasp Malaya)
LSGCM	?	? (with bar)

			did a correspondent course on quantity surveying
?	-	?	served in the ranks for 14 years, 247 days - Royal Engineers
?	-	?	served as [Regimental] Warrant Officer, Class II for 2 years, 182 days
?	-	?	served as [Regimental] Warrant Officer, Class I for 5 years, 207 days
04.10.1946			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [immediate emergency commission to 31.05.1947]
01.06.1947			short service commission
18.06.1952			permanent commission

Little,
David Fountaine

see:

Indian Army officers' section

Lithgow,
Anthony Onslow Laurence
"Tony"

Son (with one brother) of Capt. Douglas Plenderleath Lithgow (1896-1944), Royal Dragoons, and Dorothy Kathleen Hughes-Onslow (1892-1972), of South Newington Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Married (06.10.1949, Westminster, London) Bridget Mary Lighton (29.10.1927-), daughter of Sir Christopher Robert Lighton, 8th Bt. (1897-1993), and Rachel Gwendoline Goodridge; one son, two daughters.

21.04.1921
Paddington, London
-
28.07.1988
Dundee, Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.03.1941 [177766]
WS/Lt.	15.09.1942
A/Capt.	18.10.1942-10.12.1942, 11.10.1943-16.11.1943
T/Capt.	17.11.1943-02.02.1945
WS/Capt.	03.02.1945
A/Maj.	03.11.1945-02.02.1946
T/Maj.	03.02.1946-04.04.1946, 23.04.1946-26.09.1946
Lt.	09.01.1946, seniority 21.10.1943
Capt.	21.04.1948
T/Maj.	07.11.1946-14.03.1947, 13.01.1951-20.04.1955
Maj.	21.04.1955
Lt.Col.	03.03.1964
Brig.	30.06.1970 (retd 31.03.1976)

MC	08.12.1953	Korea
MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
LeoII	08.12.1945	Ardennes battle
CdeG40	08.12.1945	Ardennes battle

Education:Harrow School (1935.1-1940.2; Cricket XI 1938-1940 (Captain 1939-1940); Monitor 1939; Rackets Player 1940; Brisco Owen Scholar 1940); jssc (US), psc.

			served in the ranks for 184 days
15.03.1941			commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission]
1942			Adjutant , ... The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1942	-	1943	served North Africa
1943			served Sicily
1944	-	1945	Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Black Watch (France & Germany) (Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II with palm and Croix de Guerre 1940 with palm)
09.01.1946			permanent Regular Army commission
13.01.1951	-	14.01.1953	Brigade Major, ... Infantry Brigade
15.01.1958	-	14.01.1960	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), War Office
17.08.1962	-	13.01.1964	Brigade Major, HQ ... Infantry Brigade Group
1964	-	1966	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Black Watch
26.11.1966	-	(01.)1967	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1) & Chief Instructor, School of Infantry
1967			College Commander, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
?	-	31.03.1976	ADC to HM the Queen

Littleboy,
Alfred Donald

Son of ... Littleboy, and ... Wilson.
Married ((03?).1943, Surrey North Eastern district) Queenie G. Lock.

26.04.1921
Kingston, Surrey
-
11.2002
Haverfordwest district, Dyfed, Wales

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.06.1943 [281442]
WS/Lt.	18.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

18.06.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			served in Italy

Littlehales,
Richard Gough

Son of Rev. Charles Gough Littlehales (1871-1945), and Anna Sophia Mary Snell (1874-1950).
Married (12.09.1936, St Andrew's Church, Plymouth, Devon) Pauline Winifred Matthews (24.10.1908 - 02.1991), daughter of F.E.M. Matthews, of Stoke, Plymouth; one daughter.

06.11.1906
Whitchurch, Bradfield district, Oxfordshire
-
20.05.1983
Barston, Solihull South district, West Midlands

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	14.12.1940 [160847]
WS/Lt.	14.06.1942 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	01.09.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Education: Hailebury College (1920.2-1924.3; Thomason House).

			either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.12.1940			commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
			attached Royal Indian Army Service Corps (India & Iraq)

With Engelbert & Co. (Lub. Oils), of Speedwell Group, E.C. 2 (Director, 1974). With Elf-Sternol Ltd. 1980. With Frontier Gate Co. Ltd., Birmingham.

Livingstone,
Arthur Rupert William

Younger son (with one brother and two sisters) of Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1880-1960), and Cécile Stephanie Louise Maryon-Wilson, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Brother of Maj. Richard P. Livingstone, MBE.
Husband of Sylvia Mary Livingstone, of Oxford.

(09?).1917
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
-
14.08.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, France, III.C.11]

2nd Lt.	04.07.1940 [138016]
WS/Lt.	27.10.1941
T/Capt.	21.02.1942-(04.1944)
A/Maj.	1944

21.12.1944

NW Europe

Education: Oxford (BA).

04.07.1940			commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
?	-	14.08.1944	1st Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Livingstone,
Dermot Alexander
D.A. Livingstone (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of Capt. Alexander Frederick Livingstone, MBE (1885-), and ... Cooper.
Married (16.10.1948, Garrison Church, Iserlohn, Germany) Elizabeth Francis Thompson.

18.04.1919
Godstone district, Kent
-

2nd Lt.	01.07.1939 [95270]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	30.01.1946-29.04.1946
T/Capt.	30.04.1946-30.06.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	01.07.1952 (retd 18.04.1974)

Education: St Andrews College, Grahamstown (?-12.1934); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (28.01.1938-1939).

01.07.1939			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers [from 20.01.1959 Royal Highland Fusiliers]
?	-	05.1940	Officer Commanding, 17 Platoon "D" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 714) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)

Livingstone,
Richard Percy

Elder son (with one brother and two sisters) of Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1880-1960), and Cécile Stephanie Louise Maryon-Wilson, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Brother of Major Arthur R.W. Livingstone, MC.
Engaged (1946) Joan Mary Frank, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Geoffrey Frank, of Chelsea, London SW.
Married ((09?).1949, Devon Central district, Devonshire) Norah Lucy Moss, only daughter of Sir George and Lady Moss, of Eggesford, Devon.

(12?).1915
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
-
04.09.1982
Lezayre, Isle of Man

2nd Lt.	14.09.1940 [149081]
WS/Capt.	05.08.1942
Capt.	20.01.1948
T/Maj.	05.08.1942-(04.1944), 01.08.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	28.02.1951

	MBE	08.07.1943	SBS action *
	MID	08.07.1943	gallant & distinguished services in the field

Education: Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

?	-	14.09.1940	either 166th, 167th or 168th Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.09.1940			commissioned, The Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
			No. 12 Commando
06.03.1942	-	?	101 Troop, No. 6 Commando
(10.1942)			No. 2 Special Boat Squadron (North Africa) (10.1942 Operation Majestic Enterprise) (MBE)
			transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Territorial Army
28.02.1951	-	08.09.1965	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

* October 1942—North Africa. One of three officers [the others being Capt. Godfrey B. Courtney & Lt. James P. Foot] of the Special Service Brigade whose duty it was to put Major-General M.W. Clark of the U.S. Army and his mission ashore from the submarine in which they travelled to North Africa for the purpose of interviewing certain French authorities prior to the Allied landing in November 1942. These three officers had also to take General Clark and his party back to the submarine after the negotiations had been completed. General Clark has said of their services:— ‘Without their whole-hearted assistance and skilful use of the fine specialised equipment furnished them, I am sure that we could not have overcome the physical obstacles encountered in getting ashore and re-embarking through a heavy surf. Any consideration that can be given these officers will be well deserved and greatly appreciated by me.’ The skill, judgment and steady nerve contributed directly to the successful outcome of this most important preliminary to the main operation. (L.G. 08.07.43)

Livingstone-Bussell,
Neil
N. Livingstone-Bussell (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)

Son of ... Bussell, and ... Bruce.
Married ((09?).1945, Poole district, Dorset) Helen V.R. Wilson; .... children.

09.05.1918
Harpenden, St Albans district, Oxfordshire
-
25.08.2005
South and West Dorset district

2nd Lt.	27.01.1938 [74633]
Lt.	01.01.1941
Capt.	27.01.1946
T/Maj.	01.04.1948-26.01.1951
Maj.	27.01.1951 (retd 17.05.1959)

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1936-1937).
Obtained civil aviator's licence (No. 15690) 25.02.1938, taken on a DH60X 105 h.p. at Border Flying Club.

27.01.1938			commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
24.04.1939	-	18.06.1939	Adjutant, ... - Territorial Army (temporarily)
?	-	05.1940	Second-in-Command, "D" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 718) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)

Llewellyn,
[Sir] David Treharne

3rd son of Sir David Richard
Llewellyn (1879-1940), 1st Bt, LLD, JP, and Magdalene Anne (died 1966), younger daughter of late Rev. Henry Harries, DD, Porthcawl.
Married Joan Anne Williams, OBE, 2nd daughter of R. H. Williams, Bonvilston House, Bonvilston, near Cardiff; two sons, one daughter.

17.01.1916
Aberdare
-
09.08.1992
Newbury,
Berkshire

2nd Lt.	07.03.1942 [228336]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
Capt.	? [acting or temporary?]

09.02.1960

Education: Eton; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA 1938; MA 1979

			enlisted Royal Fusiliers, serving in the ranks
07.03.1942			commissioned, The Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
1944	-	1945	served NW Europe
(04.1946)			Unemployed List

Journalist. Contested (C) Aberavon Div. of Glamorgan, 1945. MP (C) Cardiff, North, 1950-September 1959; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1951-52 (resigned, illhealth).
Published: Nye: The Beloved Patrician, 1961; The Adventures of Arthur Artfully, 1974; Book of Racing Quotations, 1988.

Llewellyn,
William Herbert Rhydian

Son of Sir David Richard
Llewellyn (1879-1940), 1st Bt, LLD, JP, and Magdalene Anne (died 1966), younger daughter of late Rev. Henry Harries, DD, Porthcawl.
Married (02.01.1943) Lady
Honor Morvyth Vaughan, daughter of Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne and Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt; one son, two daughters.

08.07.1919
-
29.05.2008

2nd Lt.	01.07.1939 [95231]
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	24.10.1941-23.01.1942
T/Capt.	24.01.1942-07.08.1943, 30.08.1943-03.04.1946
WS/Capt.	04.04.1946
Capt.	01.07.1946
A/Maj.	20.04.1945-10.06.1945, 24.02.1946-03.04.1946
T/Maj.	04.04.1946-30.06.1947, 23.08.1948-30.06.1952
Maj.	01.07.1952 (retd 28.05.1958)

	MC	22.10.1940	gallant conduct in action with the enemy
	MID	23.09.1943	N Africa

Education: Staff College (psc)

01.07.1939

commissioned, The Welsh Guards

Deputy Lieutenant (DL).

Llewelyn,
Desmond Wilkinson

12.09.1914
-
19.12.1999

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	21.01.1940 [113799]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Lt.	< 04.1946

			served in the ranks, Rifle Brigade
?	-	21.01.1940	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
21.01.1940			commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
1940	-	1945	captured in France and POW in German captivity

Actor. Played "Q" in James Bond films.

Lloyd,
Arthur James

Son (with two sisters) of James Frederick Lloyd and Amy Clara Owen Lloyd.
Married ((06?).1937, Southwark district, London) Lucy Baldrati; one daughter.

26.03.1907
Dublin, Ireland
-
15.05.1988
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pte.	1925
L/Cpl.	?
Cadet	?
Lt.	08.03.1941 [176820]
T/Capt.	(05.1942)-(08.1943)
WS/Capt.	21.11.1944 (reld 26.02.1946)
A/Maj.	1943?
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	26.02.1946

39\|45 St	-	& clasp Battle of Britain
Bur St	-	& clasp Pacific
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: raised from the age of eight in a Children's Home in Dublin and then in Belfast.

1925	-	1932	served in the ranks, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) (serving in Malta, Egypt, The Sudan and India)
09.1939			recalled to service, serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France until 06.1940
1940?	-	07.03.1941	161st or 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.03.1941			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
03.1941	-	02.1942	served with The King's Regiment
02.1942	-	02.1946	served with Jat Regiment (India & Burma)
(05.1942)			9/9th Jat Regiment
(08.1943)			7/9th Jat Regiment

Served as a representative and Assistant Manager for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Lloyd,
Arthur Joseph

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	29.03.1941 [179712]
WS/Lt.	29.09.1932
T/Capt.	01.11.1942-(04.1946)

?	-	28.03.1941	141st or 142nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
29.03.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]

Lloyd,
Arthur Selwyn
A.S. Lloyd

Son of Arthur Edward Lloyd (1875-1963), and Agnes Eveline Irwin (1884-1971).
Married ((06?).1947, Shrewsbury, Shropshire) Dorothy Mary Harries (06.12.1912 - 06.05.1999), daughter (with one brother) of Herbert Frederick Harries (1871-1928), and Mary Jane Roberts (1871-1955); three daughters.

21.12.1912
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
-
07.1976
Malvern, Worcestershire

Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [97081]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
WS/Capt.	23.08.1944 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj.	23.08.1944-(08.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 08.1946, < 12.1946

	TD	25.10.1955	-
	BSM	28.01.1949	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) *

* For meritorious service in the prosecution of the war against an enemy in England and France, 25 May to 23 June 1944. Major Lloyd's previous experience and extensive knowledge of his work proved invaluable the accomplishment of naval support missions. The devastating and well placed fire from the naval guns aided immeasurably in the softening up, and in many cases, the complete obliteration of strong German emplacements. Progress of American ground troops was thereby expedited to a considerable degree, with a corresponding reduction in casualties and loss of material. His technical advice on naval gunnery and the capabilities of the British ships greatly facilitated the decision as to the employment of the Navy and its coordination with the Division Artillery. Major Lloyd's sound judgment, technical knowledge and well directed initiative are a credit to himself and the military service.

Education: Shrewsbury School (1926.3-1930).
Chartered accountant (ACA 1938; FCA).

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Shrewsbury School Contingent., Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
02.09.1939			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
...	-	...	...
(1944)			No. 2. Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
(06.1944)			Staff Officer Bombardment (SOB) with US 7th Corps (Operation Neptune, Normandy)
...	-	...	...
?	-	23.01.1963	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]

Lloyd,
Cyril Oxton

13.11.1908
Birkenhead distirict, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
1993

Cadet	05.1941
2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [201981]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	15.12.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	? (reld 12.11.1947)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	12.11.1947

(06.1940)			8th Battalion The King's Regiment (Dunkirk)
05.1941	-	08.1941	B Company, 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.08.1941			commissioned, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [emergency commission]
(1942)			served at Kakul (NW Frontier)
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE)
(1945)			seconded, 84th Indian Anti-Tank Company (14th Indian Army, Burma)

Lloyd,
Cyril

Son of Alfred Henry Lloyd, clerk, of Horsham, Sussex.
Married 1st (14.11.1931, Holy Trinity parish church, Bramley, Surrey) Winifred Dorothy Moore (04.04.1901 - (09?).1983), a daughter of William and Jane Moore, of Godalming, Surrey; one daughter.
Married 2nd Marjorie Blanche Fripp (25.04.1916 - 23.07.2008), his ATS driver, and daughter of Isaac and Blanche Fripp.
Mrs. Marjorie Lloyd (Photo courtsey of Mrs Anne Ammundsen)

14.04.1906
-
27.07.1989
Horsham, West Sussex

2nd Lt.	25.12.1929 [44586]
Lt.	25.12.1932
Capt.	08.03.1935
Capt. TARO	21.06.1939
T/Maj.	22.12.1939-(04.1941)
T/Lt.Col.	27.01.1944-(04.1944)
WS/Lt.Col.	?, seniority 12.10.1943
Col.	11.04.1945
T/Brig.	15.11.1943-31.01.1946
A/Maj.Gen.	01.02.1946-01.07.1946
Maj.Gen.	02.07.1946 (retd 01.09.1957)

CB	01.01.1948	New Year 48
CBE	28.09.1944	Normandy
OBE	01.01.1943	New Year 43
TD	25.01.1945	-
TD	17.02.1950	1st & 2nd clasp

Education: Brighton Grammar School; London University and Cambridge University (First Class in Mathematics, Physics, Divinity); Staff College, Camberley (psc).

25.12.1929	-	20.06.1939	228th (Sussex) Battery (How.), 57th (Home Counties) Field Brigade RA - Territorial Army
21.06.1939			transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
1939	-	1940	British Expeditionary Force (despatches)
19.07.1940	-	1942	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), General Staff, Canadian Army (despatches, OBE)
27.10.1943	-	(04.)1944	an Assistant Director of Military Survey, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office (London)
1944	-	1944	Deputy Adjutant General, 21st Army Group (despatches, CBE)
01.12.1944	-	01.12.1949	Director of Army Education, Department of the Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office (London)
01.09.1957	-	14.04.1966	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Lecturer and Teacher; Research Worker in Science; Member: Council of Boy Scouts Association, 1950-70; Council Association of Technical Institutions, 1961-64; Central Advisory Council for Education (England) and Advisory Committee on Education in Colonies, 1949-53; Advisory Council on Scientific Policy (Joint Enquiry on Technicians, 1962-65; Board, International Centre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training (Turin); Council for Technical Education and Training for Overseas Countries; Regional Advisory Council for Higher Technological Education (London), 1950-67; Parliamentary and Scientific Committee; National Advisory Council for Education in Industry and Commerce, 1945-68; Southern Regional Council for Further Education; Council, Institution of Environmental Studies; Vice-President British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education (Chairman 1955-58); Industrial Training Council, 1958-64; Central Training Council and its General Policy Committee, 1964-68; Chairman, Governing Body, National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 1960-70; Schools Broadcasting Council for the UK, 1962-65; W Sussex Education Committee; Council Rural Industries Bureau, 1960-67; President, SASLIC, 1970-79; President, Society for Promotion of Vocational Training and Education, 1973; Chairman, Committee on Scientific Library Services; Chairman Governors, Crawley College of Further Education until 1978; Vice-President, Crawley Planning Group, 1967-; Chief Officer, Commonwealth Technical Training Week, 1961; Treasurer, 1963 Campaign for Education; Member Council for Educational Advance; Trustee: Edward James Foundation; Industrial Training Foundation; President, Roffey Park Management Institute. Governor, Imperial College, 1950-70; Member Delegacy, City and Guilds College, 1950-70; Honorary Executive Principal, West Dean College, 1969-72. Founder Life Member, Cambridge Society Patron, Chalk Pit Museum. Liveryman, Goldsmiths' Co. and Freeman of City of London; FRSA. Fellow of Institute of Physics; MRST. Director-General, City and Guilds of London Institute, 1949-67, Consultant, since 1968; President, Associated Examining Board for General Certificate of Education, since 1976 (Chairman, 1970-76).
Published: Booklets: British Services Education, 1950; Human Resources and New Systems of Vocational Training and Apprenticeship, 1963; contributions to journals

Lloyd,
John Edward

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

06.12.1914
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [201735]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	27.07.1943-(04.1946)
Lt.	03.09.1947, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt.	01.10.1950

23.08.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
03.09.1947			Territorial Army
07.01.1956	-	06.12.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]

His daughter writes: "My father was a royal engineer who served in Burma. I understand that after recovering from malaria he was sent to Kashmir as part of a personal guard to the Governor of Bombay Major General Lumley."

Lloyd,
John Timothy Alban

From Llanwnda (at 1944), Denibgh (at 1959)

?
-

Lt.	18.10.1941 [211566]
WS/Capt.	18.10.1942

21.12.1944

NW Europe

Education: MB, ChB (1940; VU Manchester); MRCS (Eng., 1940); LRCP (London, 1940), DP [registered 08.07.1940]

18.10.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
27.08.1943	-	(09.1944)	Regimental Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (NW Europe)

Department of Pathology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Rhyl, 1950s.

Lloyd,
Philip Cuthbert

Son of Philip Alexander Lloyd, and Lila White.
Married ((09?).1939, Wirral district, Cheshire) Mary Edith Purcell (03.03.1913 - 02.2007); two sons, two daughters.

22.06.1914
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
11.1984
Birkenhead district, Cheshire

2nd Lt.	30.08.1939 [96003]
WS/Lt.	01.03.1941
T/Capt.	06.08.1942-18.05.1943
WS/Capt.	19.05.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Maj.	19.05.1943-(01.1946)
Hon. Maj.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Accountant.

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Liverpool College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
30.08.1939			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
(05.1945)			Staff College, Quetta

Lloyd,
Reginald Arthur Harris
R.A.H. Lloyd

Married ((03?).1946, Lutterworth district, Leicestershire / Northamptonshire / Warwickshire) Maureen Salusbury.

24.01.1913
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
24.10.2002
All Stretton, Shropshire

2nd Lt.	16.05.1934 [62832]
Lt.	16.05.1937
T/Capt.	23.02.1940-18.01.1941
Capt.	11.04.1945
T/Maj.	19.01.1941-(10.1945)
Hon. Maj.	< 04.1946

	TD	?	-
	TD	03.01.1980	1st clasp

16.05.1934	-	30.12.1938	commissioned, 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army
30.12.1938			transferred, Horsed Cavalry Brigade Company RASC
24.08.1939			mobilized TA

Insurance manager. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of Salop, 17.10.1979.

Lloyd,
Simon Croil

Married Diana ...

1925 ?
-
03.12.2008
Henllan, near Denbigh
[age 83]
[Colwyn Bay Crematorium]

Cadet	? [14422207]
2nd Lt.	08.04.1944 [314783]
WS/Lt.	08.10.1944

08.04.1944

commissioned, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) [emergency commission]

Lloyd,
Talfryn Doughton

10.11.1921
-
12.1984
Reading and
Wokingham,
Berkshire

Cadet	? [1111847]
2nd Lt.	29.04.1944 [315621]
WS/Lt.	29.10.1944
Lt.	01.05.1947, seniority 10.11.1944
Hon. Capt.	05.07.1951 (retd ?)

29.04.1944			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			served Burma
01.05.1947			short service commission ?
05.07.1951			transferred from Active List to Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Lloyd-Davies,
Hugh Bernard

Son of ... Lloyd Davies, and ... Davis.
Married ((06?).1942, Bridport district, Dorset) Mollie E. Caldwell; onesister, one son.

(06?).1920
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
17.11.1945
Kensington district, London
[age 25]
[Golders Green Crematorium, panel 2]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.09.1941 [207747]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

21.01.1949

- [posthumously]

27.09.1941			commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
?	-	17.11.1945	8th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers

Lloyd Owen,
David Lanyon

Son of late Capt. Reginald Charles Lloyd Owen, OBE, RN.
Married (1947) Ursula Evelyn (MBE 1991), daughter of late Evelyn Hugh Barclay and Hon. Mrs Barclay, MBE; three sons.

10.10.1917
Hampton, Middlesex
-
05.04.2001
Norwich, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	27.01.1938 [74596]
WS/Lt.	21.07.1940
Lt.	01.01.1941
A/Capt.	03.04.1940-17.06.1940, 05.07.1940-20.07.1940
T/Capt.	21.07.1940-30.06.1943
WS/Capt.	01.07.1943
Capt.	27.01.1946
A/Maj.	01.04.1943-30.06.1943
T/Maj.	01.07.1943-14.02.1944
WS/Maj.	15.02.1944
Maj.	27.01.1951
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1954
A/Lt.Col.	15.11.1943-14.02.1944
T/Lt.Col.	15.02.1944-25.01.1948
local Lt.Col.	21.12.1953-30.06.1954
Lt.Col.	18.11.1957 (supernumerary 18.11.1960)
Col.	01.11.1961, seniority 01.01.1961
T/Brig.	06.12.1962-31.10.1965
Brig.	01.11.1965
Maj.Gen.	20.06.1966 (retd 11.10.1972)

CB	01.01.1971	New Year 71
DSO	21.06.1945	Mediterranean
OBE	29.06.1954	Malaya 07-12.53
MC	26.11.1942	gallant & distinguished services in the field
MID	28.06.1945	Italy
MID	01.05.1953	Malaya 07-12.52

Education: Winchester; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; idc, psc

27.01.1938			commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (from 14.11.1959 Queen's Surreys)
1939	-	1941	2nd Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Palestine, Western Desert)
24.02.1941	-	14.09.1941	instructor, Middle East Officer Cadet Training Unit
1943	-	1945	Commander, Long Range Desert Group
06.09.1945	-	19.10.1946	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) to Supreme Allied Commander, GHQ Central Mediterranean Forces
20.10.1946	-	05.12.1946	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)) to Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Force HQ
26.01.1948	-	19.05.1949	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
20.05.1949	-	22.09.1950	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) to Chief of the Imperial General Staff
16.02.1952	-	27.09.1953	Military Assistant (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) to High Commissioner & Director of Operations in Malaya
21.12.1953	-	20.12.1955	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (DS), Staff College, Camberley
1957	-	1959	Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment
17.12.1959	-	20.10.1961	College Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
01.11.1961	-	16.11.1962	Colonel General Staff, War Office
06.12.1962	-	30.11.1964	Commander, 24th Infantry Brigade Group
20.06.1966	-	1968	General Officer Commanding, Cyprus District
1968	-	01.07.1969	General Officer Commanding, Near East Land Forces
29.08.1969	-	13.09.1972	President, Regular Commissions Board

Knight of Cross of Merit, SMO Malta, 1946. Chairman, Long Range Desert Group Association, since 1945.
Published: The desert my dwelling place (1957); Providence their guide : the Long Range Desert Group, 1940-1945 (1980)

Lloyd Price,
Rhodri John

Married Pamela Graham (died 10.01.2007, aged 95).

03.02.1910
-
17.05.1950
[Fayid War
Cemetery, Egypt,
13.G.6]

2nd Lt.	30.01.1930 [44947]
...	...
T/Lt.Col.	24.03.1945-(01.1946)

MID

28.10.1942

30.01.1930			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
...	-	...	...

Lloyd-Thomas,
Roger

Son (with one brother) of Trevor John Thomas (1890-1972), and Eleanor Maud Jones (1891-1973).
Brother of Lt. David Hamilton Pryce Thomas, RA.
Married (27.10.1945, St Marks Church, Gold Tops, Newport, Monmouthshire) Stella Mary Willmett (06.03.1921 - ), daughter of Reginald Ernest Willmett (1881-1957), and Martha Richards (1882-1970); three sons, one daughter.

07.02.1919
Abercarn, Monmouthshire
-
12.06.2010

Gnr.	?
Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.04.1940 [129119]
WS/Lt.	27.10.1941
T/Capt.	15.02.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.	11.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

Education: Barry Grammar School (awarded two scholarships); Magdalen College, Oxford (Modern Languages).

?	-	26.04.1940	123rd Officer Cadet Training Regiment, RA
27.04.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1941?	-	05.1942	gunner officer, "F" Troop, 4 Battery, 2nd Indian Field Regiment, Indian Artillery (India, Egypt & Libya)
1943			Allied Force HQ Algiers
(04.1944)			specially employed: served in General Alexander's forward HQ at Siena, Florence and Bologna

Joined Civil Service, specialising in government inquiries into disasters and in helping to draft the follow-up legislation.

Lochhead,
David Alexander Wallace

Only son of Mr & Mrs B.H. Lochhead.
Married (1957) Cecilia, the younger daughter of Sir George and Lady Gaggero; three sons.

01.10.1920
Ayr
-
03.03.2009
Troon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	26.10.1940 [155044]
WS/Lt.	26.04.1942
Lt.	17.01.1945, seniority 01.04.1943
A/Capt.	22.06.1942-21.09.1942
T/Capt.	22.09.1942-12.02.1943, 20.05.1943-30.09.1943, 26.10.1943-03.12.1943, 18.02.1945-22.08.1947
WS/Capt.	23.08.1947
Capt.	01.10.1947
A/Maj.	21.04.1945-05.07.1945, 08.08.1947-22.08.1947
T/Maj.	23.08.1947-02.12.1947, 13.08.1952-13.11.1953
Maj.	01.10.1954 (retd 01.01.1964)

	OBE	1985	?
	MC	27.02.1945	Holland

Education: Larchfield School, Helensburgh; Ayr Academy.
Joined London office of the Imperial Bank of India.

08.1939	-	1940	served in the ranks for 1 year, 55 days (mobilized TA): 1st Battalion London Scottish (TA)
?	-	26.10.1940	either Sandhurst or 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
26.10.1940			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
10.1940	-	04.1943	9th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (Caithness)
04.1943	-	1945	Company Commander, 7th Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (NW Europe)

Lockett,
Jeffery Gordon

Son of Gordon Lockett, and Helen Johnson-Houghton.
From Eastham, Cheshire.

11.11.1913
Wirral district, Cheshire
-
20.02.1960
Southern Rhodesia
[Karoi Main Cemetery, Zimbabwe]

2nd Lt.	21.09.1940 [149534]
WS/Capt.	01.02.1943 (reld 04.11.1953)
T/Maj.	01.02.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj.	04.11.1953

	DSO	26.04.1945	Burma [full text]
	MC	05.08.1943	Burma

?	-	21.09.1940	either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
21.09.1940			commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany)
			served with Chindits in Burma
			seconded, 7th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment

Lodge,
Robert Lionel

Son of Henry Charles Lodge (1890-1951), and Rose Evelyn Sayer (1890-1980).
Married 1st (26.12.1948, Newport district, Monmouthshire; divorced 1955) Barbara E. Webb; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((06?).1955, Newport district, Monmouthshire) Jeanne Bourton; one daughter.

21.11.1920
Newport district, Monmouthshire
-
22.05.1960
Paignton, Totnes district, Devon

2nd Lt.	21.11.1938 [78169]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	28.07.1945-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.	?
Lt.	01.05.1947, seniority 21.11.1943
Capt.	02.06.1949
Hon. Maj.	02.06.1949

MID

26.04.1945

Burma

			late Cadet Serjeant, King's School (Worcester) Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
21.11.1938			commissioned, 83rd (Welsh) Field Brigade, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			served in Burma (with Chindits)
01.05.1947			transferred, The Monmouthshire Regiment
02.06.1949			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Logan,
Frank Alan
.
Son (with one sister) of Frank Allen Logan (1889-1959), and Katherine Kirk (1892-1969).
Married 1st ((03?).1941, Hereford district, Herefordshire; divorced) Joan Mary Waters (25.12.1916 - 11.03.2005), daughter of Sydney Waters (?-1926), and Doris Nutter (1895-1964); two sons.
Married 2nd (09.02.1962) Ruth E. Westcott; two daughters, one son.

26.07.1919
Coventry, Warwickshire
-
26.04.1999
Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital, Milford (formerly of Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

2nd Lt.	02.05.1942 [233094]
WS/Lt.	02.11.1942 (demobilized > 08.1946, < 12.1946) (reld 18.11.1953)
T/Capt.	01.10.1945-(08.1946)
Hon. Capt.	18.11.1953

	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe
	OON	18.07.1947	bridging Zuid-Willemsvaart [Bois Duc Canal] at Someren 21/22.09.1944 [Dutch Royal Decree dated 24.04.1946] [recommendation available upon request]

Education: Bablick School, Coventry (...-1935).
Apprentice aircraft engineer, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company, 05.10.1935.

(1940)			7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (British Expeditionary Force)
			No. 4 Commando (Special Service Brigade)
			3rd Training Battalion Royal Engineers
			141st Officer Cadet Training Corps
02.05.1942			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1944/45)			13th Field Squadron RE (despatches, Knight Order of Oranje-Nassau)

Lived in Rhodesia & South Africa, 1948-1958. Owned and operated Logan Computer Integrated Manufacturing Associates, moving to Uxbridge, Mass., USA, in 1986. Retired 1995.

Lodwick,
John Alan Patrick

Son of late Capt. John Thornton Lodwick (1882-1915), DSO, Indian Army, and Kathleen, daughter of Sir Henry Ashbrooke-Crump, KCSI.
Married; two sons, two daughters.

02.03.1916
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
18.03.1959
Barcelona, Spain
(car crash)

2nd Lt.	? [244970]
WS/Lt.	?
A/Capt.	?

	MID	21.06.1945	Mediterranean
	CdeG	1940	-

Education: Cheltenham College (09.1924-07.1929); RN College, Dartmouth (1929-1933).

1939			volunteer, French Foreign Legion 1940 (POW - escaped)
1942	-	1943	Special Operations Executive (SOE), F Section (subversive operations, Europe)
1943			Commando, UK & Italy
1944?			commissioned, General List
1944	-	1945	Special Boat Squadron (S Detachment + L Squadron) (Aegean & Jugoslavia) (1944 POW, escaped same year)

Novelist.
Published: novels: Brother Death, 1948; The Cradle of Neptune, 1951; Somewhere A Voice Is Calling, 1953; The Butterfly Net, 1954; The Starless Night, 1956; Equator, 1957, etc.; war: The Filibusters, 1946 [republished as: Raiders from the sea (1990)]; travel: The Forbidden Coast, 1956; biography: Gulbenkian, 1958; autobiography: Bid The Soldiers Shoot, 1958.

Loe,
Harry Adrian

Second son of Ernest Loe (1881-), and Clara Rosetta Harriet Monk, of Alton, Hampshire.
Married ((12?).1937, St Marylebone district, London) Prudence Etty Gordon "Prue" Smith (? - 07.11.2005), only daughter of Mr & Mrs Gordon Smith, of Neatham Grange, near Alton, Hampshire; two daughters, one son.

(09?).1905
Lambeth district, London
-
18.08.1968
Rye Cottage, Mapledurwell, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	03.08.1932 [53438]
Lt.	03.08.1935
WS/Capt.	05.06.1940
T/Maj.	05.06.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Maj.	02.07.1943
Maj.	01.01.1949
T/Lt.Col.	02.07.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col.	02.11.1960

OBE

06.06.1946

Burma [citation available upon request]

03.08.1932			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized
05.03.1940	-	(04.1941)	Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, ... (Narvik campaign (Norway) 04.1940)
03.08.1942	-	02.11.1960	transferred, Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
(1943)			Commanding Officer, No 4 Non-Division Group Supplies & Transport, East African Army Service Corps
1943	-	1946	Commander, East African Army Service Corps, 11th (East Africa) Division (served in East Africa, from 06.1943 Ceylon, from 06.1944 Burma, from 04.1945 India)

Loftus,
William Desmond

Son of William H. Loftus (1885-19151), and Anne Mathews (1889-1981).
Married (28.08.1946, Glasgow, Scotland) Kathleen Mclaughlin (07.07.1913 - 06.06.1983).

04.05.1915
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
06.11.1977
Glasgow, Scotland

Cadet	? [1451820]
2nd Lt.	06.08.1944 [334468]
WS/Lt.	06.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

06.08.1944

commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

His son writes: "My father served in the North Africa campaigns (El Alamein, Benghazi, Tobruk, etc)"

Logan,
David Whyte
D.W. Logan

24.03.1915
-
16.07.1995
Bridgwater, Taunton Deane district, Somerset

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	28.12.1940 [165771]
WS/Capt.	24.10.1944

28.12.1940			commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade

Logan,
Eric Frank

see:

Indian Army officers' section

Long,
Harold Anthony
"Tony"

Son of Harold George Long, and Gladys Beatrice Parker.
Married ((06?).1951, Norwich district, Norfolk) Winifred L. Conlan; two sons, one daughter.

01.08.1919
St Giles, Headington district, Oxfordshire
-
03.2007
Wayland, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	01.03.1941 [176035]
WS/Lt.	01.09.1942 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 03.10.1951)
T/Capt.	21.11.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946 & 03.10.1951

MID

23.05.1946

Mediterranean

?	-	01.03.1941	either 163rd, 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th or 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit
01.03.1941			commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
07.1941			basic training at Cullompton
1942	-	1946	seconded, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, attached to 43rd Gurkha Lorried Brigade (serving in India, the Middle East and Italy)
01.1946			returned to UK on H.T. Obita from Port Said to Newhaven (via Malta & Toulon)

Long,
John Campbell
J.C. Long

Married Jennifer ...; two sons, one daughter.

19.10.1918
-
13.12.2009
Pinewood Nursing Home, Budleigh Salterton, Devon (formerly of Eastbourne)

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.10.1939 [86401]
WS/Lt.	15.04.1941
Lt.	19.05.1945, seniority 03.03.1941
WS/Capt.	15.03.1944
Capt.	19.04.1946
A/Maj.	15.12.1943-14.03.1944
T/Maj.	15.03.1944-21.09.1947, 02.04.1949-18.04.1951
Maj.	19.04.1951 (retd 01.06.1962)

15.10.1939			commissioned, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
(03.1945)			HQ 23rd (Chindit) Infantry Brigade
19.05.1945			permanent commission

Long,
John Ronald
"Ron"

Son (with one brother and one sister) of John Long (1891-1985), and Nellie Helliwell (1899-1968).
Married ((06?).1946, Sheffield district, Yorkshire) Olga M. Hird ((09?).1917 - ), daughter of William H. Hird, and Eleanor G. Mirfin; three sons, one daughter.

28.05.1918
Loxley, nr. Sheffield, Yorkshire
-
16.12.1988

Cadet	? [7905717]
2nd Lt.	25.07.1942 [240341]
WS/Lt.	25.01.1943
T/Capt.	22.09.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?	1945 ?
Capt.	23.04.1951, seniority 17.07.1948
Maj.	31.08.1953
Lt.Col.	23.10.1961 (retd 01.10.1966)

	OBE	01.01.1967	New Year 67
	TD	09.07.1963	-

1939?			enlisted service, East Yorkshire Yeomanry
11.1941	-	07.1942	Officer Cadet Training Unit, Catterick
25.07.1942			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
08.1942			9th Armoured Division
12.1943			76 Signals
22.06.1944	-	(04.1946)	a Staff Officer, 3rd grade (SO3), Signals Staff, Eastern Army, India
23.04.1951			Territorial Army
01.10.1966			Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

His son writes: "Before transferring to India to build radio stations for Earl Mountbatten he was deployed as a signal officer with the regiments operating the Hobart's Funnies (79th Armoured Division), effectively back with the regiment that he had enlisted with. Many of his colleagues from that time died on or shortly after D-Day. During his time as a TA officer he made various operational trips to Germany and was on "active service" during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember that on one occasion he used the radio call sign "Sunbeam Major". After being retired from the army in 1964 he became a Governor at one of the Military Colleges, possibly Cranwell. This made use of his expertise in Education. He was also co-opted onto Sheffield Council Education Committee for the same reason. He received a Papal Medal, Bene Merente, for services to Catholic Education."

Long,
Michael
"Mickey"

Son of Capt. Eustace Ruffel Drake Long, RN, and Ethel Ida Brown.
From Wrotham.

10.11.1914
Samford district, Suffolk
-
01.09.2001
Salisbury, Wiltshire

2nd Lt.	02.09.1939 [97967]
WS/Lt.	02.03.1941
T/Capt.	07.09.1943-(04.1944)
Lt.	11.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

	MBE	30.12.1978	New Year 79
	MC	04.05.1944	Italy

			late Officer Cadet, Aberdeen University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
02.09.1939			commissioned, 11th Battalion The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Territorial Army
(1944)			No. 9 Commando (Italy)
?	-	10.11.1964	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

District Officer, Forestry Commission (Scotland).

Longfield,
Richard Charles
R.C. Longfield

Son of Rev. Claude Longfield (1871-1903), and Anna "Annella" Arbella Bomford (1868-1941).
Married (02.11.1930) Olive Isabel Newman (01.01.1906 - 12.2000); two sons, one daughter.

17.04.1901
Dum Dum, Kolkata, India
-
23.12.1982
Amport, Andover, Winchester district, Hampshire

2nd Lt.	23.12.1920 [226]
...	...
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	09.06.1941-08.09.1941
T/Lt.Col.	09.09.1941-(01.1946)
Lt.Col.	24.07.1946 (supernumerary 24.07.1949) (retd 12.01.1953)
A/Col.	24.05.1945-(01.1946)
A/Brig.	24.05.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Brig.	12.01.1953

MID

08.11.1945

NW Europe

23.12.1920			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.1944	-	1945	Commanding Officer, 59th (Newfoundland) Heavy Regiment RA

Longfield,
Richard James
"Jim"

Son of Maj. Lewis Longfield.
Married (1929) Charlotte Mary Portal (born 1903); one son, one daughter.

02.01.1901
Thanet, Kent
-
13.08.1987
Gillingham, North Dorset

2nd Lt.	13.07.1921 [17990]
Lt.	13.07.1923
Capt.	13.07.1934
Maj.	01.08.1938
A/Lt.Col.	21.06.1941-20.09.1941
T/Lt.Col.	21.09.1941-31.03.1944, 22.05.1944-05.09.1946
Lt.Col.	06.09.1946 (supernumerary 06.09.1949) (retd 21.10.1951)
Hon. Col.	21.10.1951

13.07.1921			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
12.01.1925	-	25.08.1926	Riding Establishment
20.12.1926	-	31.05.1929	ADC to the Governor of Madras
01.11.1934	-	31.10.1937	Adjutant, ...
10.1945	-	1947	Commanding Officer, 9th (Londonderry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (SR)
21.10.1951	-	03.10.1956	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]

Longworth,
Wilfred Roy

Son of Wilfred Arnold Longworth and Jessie Longworth. Married (1951) Constance Elizabeth Dean; two daughters.

13.12.1923
-
04.2017
Burwood, Vict.
(Australia)

Cadet	? [14617776]
2nd Lt.	12.07.1944 [324596]
WS/Lt.	12.01.1945 (reld [Class B] 09.1946)
Lt. RARO	01.01.1949

	AM	1986	?
	CFM	20.04.1951	serving officer Cadet Forces

Education: Bolton School; Manchester University (BSc; MSc; PhD)

1941	-	1943	Lord Lieutenant's Commission, Army Cadet Force
1943	-	1944	Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.07.1944	-	1946	commissioned, Corps of Royal Signals [emergency commission]
07.1944	-	1944	Anti-Aircraft Command (Southern England)
late 1944			Advanced Lines Course, School of Signals
1945			embarked for India & posted to 7th Indian Air Formation Signals (Mhow, Central India)
			very shortly detached to 2 Indian Combined Operations Corps with special carrier equipment for the invasion of Malaya (took charge of all long distance line communication from Penang to Johore Barhu)
			later, after handing back to the civilian P & T moved to Singapore to take charge Air Command SE Asia Switchboard
09.1946			returned to UK & demobilized
1946	-	1951	Lancashire (East) County, Army Cadet Force
01.01.1949	-	13.12.1983	Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
1951	-	1956	Lancashire (West) County, Army Cadet Force

Works Manager and Chief Chemist, Blackburn & Oliver, 1948-1956. Postgraduate research, University of Keele , 1956-1959. Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Huddersfield College of Technology, 1959-1960. Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Sunderland Technical College, 1960-1964. Head, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Manchester Polytechnic, 1964-1970. Principal Director (formerly Director), Swinburne Institute of Technology and College of Technical and Further Education, 1970-1986. Retired 1986.President, World Council on Cooperative Education, 1983-1985.
Fellow, Royal Institute of Chemistry (FRIC), 1963 [renamed Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (London)]; Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI), 1970; Fellow, Australian College of Education (FACE), 1976.
Published: articles on cationic polymerisation in learned journals.

Lonsdale,
Errol Henry Gerrard
E.H.G. Lonsdale (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

Second son of Rev. William Henry Mackenzie Lonsdale (1879-1946), and Mary Ann ..., of Arlaw Banks, Barnard Castle.
Married ((09?).1944) Muriel Allison Payne, daughter of E.R. Payne, of Mugswell, Chipstead; one son, one daughter.

26.02.1913
Co. Durham
-
03.04.2003
Ilton, Ilminster, Somerset

2nd Lt.	05.09.1934, seniority 02.02.1933 [63661]
Lt.	02.02.1936
Capt.	02.02.1941
A/Maj.	23.11.1941-22.02.1942
T/Maj.	23.02.1942-14.08.1943, 26.10.1943-20.11.1944
WS/Maj.	21.11.1944
Maj.	01.07.1946
A/Lt.Col.	17.07.1944-12.09.1944, 19.10.1944-20.11.1944
T/Lt.Col.	21.11.1944-31.03.1953
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1952
Lt.Col.	01.04.1953 (supernumerary 01.04.1956)
Col.	18.04.1957 (supernumerary 18.04.1963)
T/Brig.	28.08.1960-17.04.1961
Brig.	18.04.1961
Maj.Gen.	12.06.1966, seniority 14.04.1965

CB	1969	?
MBE	16.04.1942	?
MID	30.12.1941	?
MID	30.10.1956	?

Education: Westminster School (...-1931; Grant's); St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge (1931-1934; BA 1934, MA 1948); jssc, psc; MInstT 1966.

			University Candidate
05.09.1934			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
27.05.1938	-	29.04.1943	attached to Sudan Defence Force (despatches)
30.04.1943	-	14.08.1943	Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), 10th Armoured Division (Middle East)
17.04.1944	-	11.07.1944	Senior Instructor, Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.07.1944	-	16.07.1944	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)
17.07.1944	-	12.09.1944	Chief Instructor, RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)
13.09.1944	-	18.10.1944	General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)
19.10.1944	-	14.08.1945	Chief Instructor, RASC Officer Training Centre (Aldershot)
15.08.1945	-	04.11.1945	Assistant Quartermaster General (AQMG), HQ 20th Indian Division (Saigon)
07.11.1945	-	26.01.1946	Assistant Adjutant General (AAG), HQ 20th Indian Division (Saigon)
18.02.1946	-	29.04.1946	Assistant Quartermaster General (AQMG), HQ Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA)
28.06.1946	-	12.02.1947	Assistant Quartermaster General (AQMG), HQ Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA)
1947	-	1948	Commander Royal Army Service Corps (CRASC),16th Airborne Division
15.10.1948	-	08.04.1951	General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1)
15.11.1951	-	09.09.1953	Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG), War Office
1953	-	1954	Commander Royal Army Service Corps (CRASC),1st Commonwealth Division (Korea)
1954	-	1956	Commander Royal Army Service Corps (CRASC),1st Federal Division (Malaya) (despatches)
18.04.1957	-	22.01.1960	(Colonel) A/Q Plans (Assistant Chief of Staff G4 (ACOS G4)) HQ Northern Army Group (Northag)
07.03.1960	-	23.05.1960	Special Board, War Office
28.06.1960	-	26.09.1962	Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport (DDST), I (British) Corps
12.10.1962	-	18.03.1964	Commandant, HQ RASC Training Centre
31.03.1964	-	31.03.1966	Inspector RASC, War Office & Inspector, Royal Corps of Transport 1965-1966
28.04.1964	-	11.06.1966	ADC to HM the Queen
12.06.1966	-	1969	Transport Officer-in-Chief

Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Transport, 1969-1974. Honorary Colonel: 160 Regiment RCT(V), 1967-1974 ; 562 Parachute Squadron RCT(V), 1969-1978. FCIT (MlnstT) 1966. Vice-President: Transport Trust, 1969; lnternational Union for Modern Pentathlon and Biathlon, 1976-1980; President, Modem Pentathlon Association of Great Britain, 1977-1988, Honorary President, 1988-2003 (Chairman, 1967); Chairman,
lnstitution of Advanced Motorists, 1971-1979, Vice-President, 1979.

Lord,
Ernest

Son of ... Lord, and ... Kerry.

01.07.1914
Haslingden district, Lancashire
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [174078]
Lt.	27.02.1946, seniority 01.07.1937
A/Capt.	15.07.1942-14.10.1942
T/Capt.	15.10.1942-03.09.1943
WS/Capt.	04.09.1943
Capt.	27.02.1946, seniority 01.07.1945
A/Maj.	04.06.1943-03.09.1943
T/Maj.	04.09.1943-14.06.1945
WS/Maj.	15.06.1945
Maj.	01.07.1950
A/Lt.Col.	15.03.1945-14.06.1945
T/Lt.Col.	15.06.1945-02.02.1947, 25.08.1954-02.09.1958
Lt.Col.	03.09.1958 (Special List 16.09.1965) (retd 01.07.1969)

OBE

01.01.1970

New Year 70

			served in the ranks for 1 year, 113 days
?	-	15.02.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit (Royal Army Ordnance Corps)
15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission to 26.02.1946]
27.02.1946			permanent commission
29.05.1950	-	31.05.1953	Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (DADOS), Ordnance Directorate, General Headquarters, Far East Land Forces
28.08.1954	-	27.11.1956	Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS), Headquarters Mid West District
24.01.1963	-	15.09.1965	Officer-in-Charge (P.9 Prov.) Central Ordnance Depot Donnington
29.11.1965	-	(02.1967)	Officer-in-Charge Mobilization
01.07.1969			Regular Army Reserve of Officers

Lorimer,
Garth

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	08.03.1941 [176947]
WS/Lt.	08.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

?	-	08.03.1941	either 161st or 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.03.1941			commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission]
			seconded, Indian Army (probably 13th Indian Infantry Regiment in some training capacity)

Lorkin,
Leslie Frank

Married ((03?).1945, Brentford district, Middlesex) Florence Bull (19.10.1918 - (09?).1969), daughter (with two sisters and three brothers) of Joseph Luke Bull (1889-1955), and Prudence Roberts (1890-1955); ... children (one son?).

09.01.1920
-
07.12.1972
Hockley, Rochford district, Essex

Cadet	? [S/80194]
2nd Lt.	08.08.1944 [334476]
WS/Lt.	08.02.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)

08.08.1944

commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]

Lorraine,
Herbert Derrick Bell
"Bertie"

Son of Dr. Joseph Currie Lorraine (1886-1945), and Margaret Kennedy (1890-1926).
Married 1st ((09?0.1937, Oxford, Oxfordshire) Barbara Mary Methews ((03?).1914 - ); one son.
Married 2nd ((03?).1949, Chelsea district, London) Phyllis H.J. Macleod ((06?).1924 - ); four sons, one daughter. Phyllis Lorraine remarried (1989) Herbert C. Worsdall.

04.01.1913
Yenindyoung, Rangoon, Burma
-
19.03.1982
Seal, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

2nd Lt.	31.12.1938 [79842]
WS/Lt.	03.12.1939 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	03.12.1939-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 01.1946, < 04.1946

Education: Trinity College, Glenalmond (1926-1931); Christ Church, Oxford University.
Rugby player.

			late Cadet C.Q.M.S., Glenalmond (Trinity College) Contingent, Officer Training Corps
31.12.1938			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized SRO
1939	-	1940	served with British Expeditionary Force (France; wounded & captured)
1940	-	1945	POW (No. 1565) in German captivity (Oflag VIIC, Laufen; Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)

Director of Charrington, Gardner, Locket & Co. Ltd.

Louis,
George Reginald

From Bradford.

25.07.1923
-
09.1995
Wayland, Norfolk

2nd Lt.	19.12.1943 [303267]
WS/Lt.	19.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Capt.	25.07.1950 (reld 01.07.1959)
Hon. Capt.	01.07.1959

10.05.1945

NW Europe (action at Goch, Germany, 23.02.45)

19.12.1943			commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
19.02.1944			transferred, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
(1944)			7th Battalion The Green Howards (NW Europe)
02.1945	-	05.1945	attached D Company, 8th Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (NW Europe)
01.01.1949	-	01.12.1957	short service commission (probably served n Korea, Aden and Malaya; possibly even as Acting Major, and possibly associated with Military Police)
01.12.1957	-	01.12.1958	Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Class I
01.12.1958	-	01.07.1959	Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Class III

Lovat,
17th Lord (cr. 1458-1464) (de facto 15th Lord, 17th but for the Attainder);
Fraser, Simon Christopher Joseph
"Shimi";
Baron (UK) (cr. 1837)
Wedding, 1938.

Unveiling of the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge, Sept. 1952 (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Harvey).

Son of 16th Lord Lovat and Hon. Laura Lister (died 1965), 2nd daughter of 4th Baron Ribblesdale. Succeeded father, 18.02.1933. Married (1938) Rosamond, only daughter of Sir Delves Broughton, 11th Bt; two sons, two daughters (and two sons deceased).

09.07.1911
Beaufort Castle,
Inverness-shire, Scotland
-
16.03.1995
Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Cadet	?
2nd Lt. TA	05.02.1930 [44718]
2nd Lt.	03.09.1932, seniority 27.08.1931
Lt.	27.08.1934 (retd 01.12.1937)
Capt.	08.07.1939
T/Maj.	17.04.1940-01.10.1942
WS/Maj.	02.10.1942
A/Lt.Col.	1942-01.10.1943
T/Lt.Col.	02.10.1943-14.03.1944
WS/Lt.Col.	15.03.1944
A/Col.	15.09.1943-19.02.1945
T/Col.	20.02.1945-(04.1946) (reld > 04.1946; disability)
A/Brig.	15.09.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Brig.	> 04.1946

DSO	02.10.1942	Dieppe raid
MC	07.07.1942	Combined Operations Boulogne area
TD	24.11.1953	?

Order of Suvorov (Russia); Légion d'Honneur (France); Croix de Guerre avec palme (France); Liberation Cross (Norway)

Education: Ampleforth; Magdalen College, Oxford (BA)

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Ampleforth College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
05.02.1930			commissioned into the Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army
			Cadet, Oxford University Cavalry Squadron
03.09.1932			commissioned into the Scots Guards - Regular Army
03.09.1932	-	01.12.1937	served Scots Guards (UK, Egypt, UK)
01.12.1937	-	07.06.1939	Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939			mobilized as Captain, The Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army
1940			instructor, Lochailort training school
1941			Combined Operations HQ observer (attached as observer to No. 4 Commando for the Lofoten raid)
1941?	-	08.1942	No. 4 Commando (French coast) [initially supernumerary officer, B Troop, later Second-in-Command of the Commando]
08.1942	-	1943	Commanding Officer, No. 4 Commando (Dieppe)
1943	-	12.06.1944	Commander, 1st Special Service Brigade (wounded 12.06.1944, MC, DSO)
?	-	01.01.1949	Lovat Scouts - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
01.01.1949	-	16.06.1962	Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 05.1945-07.1945. DL 1942, JP 1944, Inverness. Awarded LLD (Hon.) by Canadian universities. Order of St John of Jerusalem (Commander, 01.01.1946); Knight of Malta; Papal Order of St Gregory with Collar. 24th Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat.
After the war, Lovat built up the family estates, greatly increasing their productivity and gaining the respect of local people. However, financial collapse, followed by the death of two sons in quick succession, brought the sale of Beaufort Castle in 1994.
Published: March past : a memoir (1978)

Lovegrove,
Cyril Ernest
"Sam"

Son of Ernest Lovegrove (1888-1975), and Bertha Maud Lavell (1887-1960).
Married (12.06.1943, Amersham district, Buckinghamshire) Elizabeth Margaret Shorting (17.088.1922 - 21.04.2009); five sons.

01.07.1916
Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire
-
25.08.1993
Brighton district, Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	18.01.1941 [166501]
WS/Lt.	18.07.1942 (reld 1946)
T/Capt.	22.07.1944-(04.1946)

?	-	18.01.1941	cadet, 141st Officer Cadet Training Unit
18.01.1941			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
			involved in minelaying & bomb disposal
(08.1944)			staff, 140th Officer Cadet Training Unit, Royal Engineers, Class 167, at Bowbridge Road Army Camp, Newark

Lovegrove,
the Rev. Thomas Henry

From London E4.

14.12.1908
Lambeth district, London
-
11.1997
Northampton district, Northamptonshire

Chapl. to the Forces 4th cl. (Capt.)	03.12.1941 [216122]
T/Chapl. to the Forces 3rd cl.	16.11.1945-(04.1946)

21.12.1944

NW Europe [recommendation available upon request]

03.12.1941			commissioned, Royal Army Chaplains' Department (United Navy, Army and Air Force Board (Baptist)) [emergency commission]
1943	-	1945	Chaplain, 6th Battalion The Green Howards (Sicily, Normandy) (MC)

Daily Telegraph obituary: "The Rev Henry Lovegrove. Army chaplain who tended the wounded on the D-Day beaches. THE REVEREND HENRY LOVEGROVE, who has died aged 88, was a Non-Conformist army chaplain awarded an MC for helping stretcher-bearers and the wounded on the Normandy beaches in June 1944; the Defence Ministry believes that he was the last surviving chaplain who took part in the D-Day landings. After a rough crossing, Lovegrove landed immediately behind the assault craft of the 6th Battalion The Green Howards having climbed down the scrambling nets at sea while wearing uniform with clerical collar and full pack (but no gun). He changed boats twice on the way ashore, the water covering sunken obstacles and shell holes in which many men drowned. Once on the narrow strip of beach, they had to wait for the Royal Engineers to cut a gap through the barbed wire, and when they moved inland lost many men to German snipers. The day after the landings, Lovegrove acquired a 500cc Norton motor-cycle and rode around the area looking for wounded; as soon as he found them he mobilised stretcher-bearers and took the casualties back for medical treatment. He survived many grim experiences, once being trapped in a house during a German counter-attack. In between helping the wounded and avoiding German shell-fire, he was burying the dead (often digging the graves himself) and conducting brief burial services. On July 21, a day of very heavy fighting, Lovegrove, out looking for some men with whom contact had been lost, was caught by an anti-personnel shell which wounded him severely with shrapnel and splinters. He had just learned that he had been awarded an MC for his earlier conduct; but it was not until two months later, when he rejoined after recovering from his wounds, that he was presented with the medal by General Horrocks near Arnhem. Thomas Henry Lovegrove, the son of a Salvation Army officer, was born on December 14 1908 and worked with the Salvation Army before becoming a Baptist minister. In 1941 he volunteered to become an army chaplain. He served in various home units until 1943, when he was posted to the 8th Army, then fighting in North Africa. Subsequently, he was posted to the 6th Battalion, The Green Howards in the Sicily campaign, where his predecessor had just been killed. Lovegrove then returned to Scotland to train for D-Day. Before the invasion he gave many short talks and took a variety of services. After leaving the Army in 1954, he became a warden of youth clubs in Wales and London. His stamina and fearlessness during the Normandy campaign brought admiration from all sides, particularly from the wounded. He never lost his keen sense of humour — which he needed more than ever, he said, when fending off the media at the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the landings. He married, in 1941, Joan Cummin, who survives him with their son and daughter."

Low *,
Richard Cecil Edmondston

Son of Louis Archibald Reith Low (1878-1969), and Cécile Lina Campiche (1878-1967).

Married (1947) Lucienne Cecile Victorine Hermelin (20.06.1917 - 1994); one son.
* Later also known by last name Edmondston-Low.

23.03.1909
Blackheath, Greenwich district, London
-
02.10.1982
Radlett, Hertfordshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	27.07.1940 [140715]
WS/Lt.	27.01.1942
T/Capt.	26.05.1946-(04.1947)
Hon. Capt.	?
Capt.	30.04.1955

EM	28.11.1947	-
EM	28.11.1947	1st clasp
EM	28.11.1947	2nd clasp

?	-	26.07.1940	either 122nd, 123rd or 125th Officer Cadet Training Unit
27.07.1940			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1940	-	1942/43?	field artillery officer attached to the 10th Indian Division
1942/43	-	1945	POW in Italian & German captivity [escaped after a third attempt early 1945, and after a completely uneventful 48 hours, comprising two night marches, ambled into the midst of an Infantry Regiment of the 3rd American Army. He stayed with them until a little after VE Day, unofficially attached as an Interpreter and Liaison Officer with the Free French Forces]
30.04.1955	-	13.12.1956	Army Emergency Reserve of Officers
14.12.1956	-	?	Territorial Army

CEng, AFRAeS.

Lowe,
Charles John Grafton
C.J.G. Lowe (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Jervis)

Son of ... Lowe, and ... Grafton.

03.02.1919
Headington district, Oxfordshire
-
10.04.1994
Storrington, Worthing district, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	15.02.1941 [170816]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942

OBE

14.06.1975

HM's birthday 1975: Deputy Director of Education Hong Kong

Education: BA (Cantab.).

15.02.1941			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			attached, Indian Army
23.03.1942	-	02.05.1942	Officers' Light Anti-Aircraft course serial No. 18, Anti-Aircraft School (Deolali, India)

Legislative Council Member, Hong Kong Administration, 1972-1975.

Lowe,
Samuel Edward Newton
"Sam"

Youngest son (with one brother and two sisters) of John Newton Lowe, and Mary Short.
Married ((09?).1940, Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Marjorie Wilson; four children.

05.10.1915
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
(03?).1975
Plymouth district, Devon

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	05.11.1942 [251144]
WS/Lt.	05.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	1945?
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

Leeds City Tramways and Transport Department, 1933.

05.11.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			66th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA

His son writes: "In September 1940 my father it was assigned to OSDEF (Orkneys and Shetland Defence Force), primarily guarding the great naval base at Scapa Flow. In May 1942 the regiment was sent to India. He was seconded to the Indian Army and was discharged with the rank of Acting Major. He returned home late 1945."

Lowry,
J
J. Lowry

?
-
?

2nd Lt.	09.07.1940
...	...
WS/Capt.	16.03.1941
T/Maj.	16.03.1941-(04.1947)
A/Col.	07.10.1945-(04.1947)

09.07.1940			commissioned, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [emergency commission]
07.10.1945	-	(04.1947)	Inspector of Fire Services, India

Lowther,
Walter John Joseph

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Walter Collis Lowther (1870-1945), and Rose Annie A. Bruck (1872-1966).
Married ((12?).1915, Brentford district, Middlesex) Irene Muriel Lowe (31.07.1891 - 06.12.1982).

17.12.1893
Twickenham, Middlesex
-
19.01.1986
William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent (formerly of Sandgate, Kent, earlier from 1947-1965 at Little Farm, Pluckley, Kent)

Lt.	19.04.1940 [116202]
T/Capt.	22.10.1940-16.01.1943
WS/Capt.	17.01.1943
T/Maj.	17.01.1943-(04.1947)

			served in Royal Field Artillery in WW I
19.04.1940			commissioned, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) [emergency commission]

Loyd,
Edward Percy Canning

Son of William Lewis Brownlow Loyd (died 1947), and Hon. Bettine Henrietta Knatchbull-Hugessen (died 1967).
Brother of Maj. Peter Wyndham Loyd.
Nephew of Gen. Sir Henry Charles Loyd.
Married (06.02.1946) June Cecilia Keppel (born 1924); one son, one daughter.

(03?).1921
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
07.01.1977

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.02.1939 [85277]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
Capt.	22.02.1949

Education: Eton

			late Cadet, Eton College Contingent, Officer Training Corps
22.02.1939			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
08.09.1939	-	06.03.1941	mobilized, Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards
07.03.1941	-	20.06.1942	3rd Battalion The Coldstream Guards (captured)
21.06.1942	-	23.04.1945	POW, Africa
24.04.1945	-	?	Training Battalion The Coldstream Guards

Loyd,
Sir Henry Charles
H.C. Loyd

Son of late Edward Henry Loyd.
Married (1922) Lady Moyra Brodrick, youngest daughter of 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC; one son, one daughter.

21.02.1891
Belgravia, Westminster, London
-
11.11.1973
Mettingham, Bungay, Suffolk

2nd Lt.	03.09.1910 [17960]
...	...
Maj.Gen.	15.06.1939, seniority 22.06.1938
A/Lt.Gen.	15.02.1941-14.04.1942
T/Lt.Gen.	15.02.1942-31.10.1942
Lt.Gen.	01.11.1942
Gen.	12.02.1946 (retd 23.04.1947)

GCVO 1965 (KCVO 1947); KCB 1943 (CB 1941); DSO 1918; MC; DL

03.09.1910			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards
...	-	...	...
15.06.1939	-	22.05.1940	General Officer Commanding, 2nd Infantry Division (Aldershot Command & British Expeditionery Force)
05.1940			Rear GHQ, British Expeditionary Force (France)
18.06.1940	-	14.02.1941	Inspector of Infantry, War Office
15.02.1941	-	08.03.1942	Chief of the General Staff, Home Forces
09.03.1942	-	17.02.1944	General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command
18.02.1944	-	31.08.1945	General Officer Commanding, London District

Colonel, Coldstream Guards.

Loyd,
Peter Wyndham

Son of William Lewis Brownlow Loyd (died 1947), and Hon. Bettine Henrietta Knatchbull-Hugessen (died 1967).
Brother of Capt. Edward Percy Canning Loyd.
Nephew of Gen. Sir Henry Charles Loyd.

?
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	22.05.1942 [233952]
WS/Lt.	22.11.1942
A/Capt.	15.04.1945-17.10.1945
Lt.	06.03.1946, seniority 18.10.1945
Capt.	18.04.1950 (retd 18.08.1952)
T/Maj.	?
Hon. Maj.	18.08.1952

22.05.1942			commissioned, The Coldstream Guards [emergency commission to 17.10.1945]
25.07.1942	-	13.09.1944	Troop Commander, No. 1 Squadron, 1st (Armoured) Battalion The Coldstream Guards
14.09.1944	-	20.12.1944	HQ 5th Guards Armoured Brigade
21.12.1944	-	08.04.1945	1st (Armoured) Battalion The Coldstream Guards
09.04.1945	-	15.07.1945	Adjutant, 1st (Armoured) Battalion The Coldstream Guards
16.07.1945	-	23.06.1946	Adjutant, 5th Battalion The Coldstream Guards
06.03.1946			permanent commission
24.06.1946	-	?	Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Coldstream Guards

Lucas,
Arthur William Tindall
"Bill"

Eldest son of Maj.Gen. Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas (1879-1958), and Joan Holdsworth, of Northwood, Stevenage.

30.06.1920
-
03.09.1951
(drowned in a boating accident at Public School Camp, Portmadoc)

2nd Lt.	03.07.1939 [95192]
Lt.	03.01.1941
A/Capt.	08.01.1942-07.04.1942
T/Capt.	08.04.1942-(04.1946)
Capt.	01.07.1946
Maj.	1950

MBE

22.03.1945

Operation Frippery (North Sumatra 44)

Education: Marlborough College (09.1934-07.1938); BSc (London); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

03.07.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1939	-	1940	British Expeditionary Force (France)
			Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 7 (South East Asia Command)
1950?	-	1951	adviser, Pakistan Army (Instructor School of Military Engineering, Sialkot, West Pakistan)

Lucas,
Frank Renshaw
F.R. Lucas (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

27.04.1915
-
12.1998

2nd Lt.	31.01.1935 [64508]
...	...
T/Maj.	19.03.1941-01.08.1941, 05.06.1942-19.05.1943, 09.06.1943-(01.1946)
...	...
Lt.Col.	02.05.1956 (retd 05.06.1958)

MC	19.10.1944	?
MID	30.06.1942	?
MID	24.06.1943	?

31.01.1935			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
20.01.1942	-	23.05.1942	6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
...	-	...	...

Luck,
Albert Edwin

Brother of Capt. John Lewis Luck, RE.

13.01.1905
Poplar, Greater London, Middlesex
-
05.1987
Bournemouth, Hampshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.02.1942 [228214]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	?
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

			possibly served in the Territorial Army before the war; served at Gibraltar and at Narvik (Norway) during the war
14.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]

Luck,
Donald Charles

Son of Pte. Frederick James Luck (1884-1919), The Essex Regiment, and Gertrude Fanny Hollingworth (1881-1959).
Married ((03?).1937, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Doris E. Richardson.

23.07.1913
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
27.01.2008

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	20.12.1941 [220372]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt.	01.10.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946, < 08.1946

20.12.1941

commissioned, The Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]

Luck,
John Lewis

Brother of Capt. Albert Edwin Luck, RA.

23.11.1911
Poplar, Greater London, Middlesex
-
03.1993
Epping Forest, Essex

Cadet	? [14549476]
2nd Lt.	14.11.1943 [300426]
WS/Lt.	14.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Capt.	26.05.1944-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt.	> 04.1946

	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe

Ex-Thames tug skipper.

14.11.1943			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
(1944)			commanded the steam tugs for placing the Mulberry harbours at Normandy

Luckins,
Robert

Son of Edward Luckins, and Sarah Elizabeth Holmes.

(12?).1919
Holborn district, London
-

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	11.09.1943 [293073]
WS/Lt.	11.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)

GSM

& clasp South East Asia

14.11.1943			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
23.02.1945			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps

Luckman,
Michael

Son of Charles Montague Roscoe Luckman (1873-1952), and Beatrice Mary Gleadow (1870-1942).
Married Susan Gregory Bell (06.08.1914 - 03.1993); one daughter, one son.

29.07.1911
Swindon district, Wiltshire
-

2nd Lt.	27.07.1940 [140107]
WS/Lt.	16.01.1941 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	01.09.1942-(04.1946)

			Officer Producing Centre, Royal Army Service Corps
27.07.1940			commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(1942)			seconded, Indian Army

Joined French Foreign Legion.

Luddington,
William Henry Cropley

Son of Lt.Col. W.J.C. Luddington, and D.E. Vinning.
Married (08.12.1958) Sonia Quilter, daughter of Sir William Eley Cuthbert Quilter, 2nd Bt., and Hon. Gwynnedd Douglas-Pennant.

(06?).1909
Ely, Cambridgeshire
-
05.04.1965
Turweston, Brackley district, Northamptonshire

2nd Lt.	?
Lt.	? (reld 12.06.1937)
2nd Lt.	25.01.1941 [170303]
WS/Lt.	07.10.1941
T/Capt.	07.10.1941-19.09.1944
WS/Capt.	20.09.1944
A/Maj.	?
T/Maj.	20.09.1944-(01.1946)

19.10.1944

NW Europe (Rauray 01.07.44) [recommendation available upon request]

?			commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
29.08.1930	-	12.06.1937	commissioned, The East Lancashire Regiment
			either Sandhurst or 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.01.1941			commissioned, 24th Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
03.06.1943	-	23.09.1943	training course, Staff College, Camberley
10.08.1944			transferred, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps

Luff,
Robert Charles William

Son of ... Luff, and ... Glass.

07.07.1914
Bedford, Bedfordshire
-
18.02.2009

2nd Lt.	20.06.1942 [235818]
WS/Lt.	20.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
A?/Maj.	?

CBE

17.06.1995

HM's birthday 95: for charitable services to Medical Research.

Education: Bedford Modern School.

20.06.1942			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
			100th (Gordon Highlanders) Anti-Tank Regiment RA (India/Burma)
			Japanese POW liberation task force (Deputy Assistant Director of Army Welfare Services, HQ 4 Corps, South East Asia Command)

Theatrical agent and producer. Founder and Director, Robert Luff Charitable Foundation. OStJ 1991, CStJ 1995, KStJ 2000.

Lumb,
Thomas Bennett

Son of ... Lumb, and ... Bennett.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

14.02.1916
Hunslet district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
(06?).1982
Tameside district, Cheshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	19.06.1943 [281166]
WS/Lt.	19.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	30.10.1945-(04.1946)

?	-	19.06.1943	D Company, 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
19.06.1943			commissioned, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) [emergency commission]

Lumkin,
Frederick Arthur

Son of ... Lumkin, and ... Harper.

(06?).1916
Norwich district, Norfolk
-

2nd Lt.	13.12.1939 [110232]
WS/Lt.	13.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

13.12.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
?	-	1942	[Platoon/Section Commander?], 106th Army Troops Company RE (Middle East; captured at Tobruk)
1942	-	1945?	POW (No. 3045) in Italian/German captivity (Stalag Va, Ludwigsburg)

Lumsden,
Herbert

Son of John Lumsden.
Married (1923) Alice
Mary, younger daughter of George Roddick, JP; two sons.
From Clanfield, Oxford.

08.04.1897
Chile
-
06.01.1945
[Brookwood
Memorial,
Surrey]

Cadet	?
2nd Lt. (prob)	13.08.1915
2nd Lt.	23.11.1916, seniority 13.05.1916 [11523]
Lt.	13.11.1917
Capt.	10.08.1925
Maj.	06.09.1931
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.01.1936
Lt.Col.	29.07.1938
Col.	01.08.1940, seniority 01.01.1939
A/Brig.	?
T/Brig.	?
A/Maj.Gen.	15.10.1941-04.10.1942
T/Maj.Gen.	05.10.1942-..., 15.01.1943-25.09.1943
WS/Maj.Gen.	26.09.1943
Maj.Gen.	17.05.1944, seniority 23.12.1943
A/Lt.Gen.	21.08.1942-..., 15.01.1943-25.09.1943
T/Lt.Gen.	26.09.1943-(04.1944)

CB	01.01.1945	New Year 45
DSO	05.07.1940	France (in the retreat he was responsible for the fine work of the regiment)
DSO	13.08.1942	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
MC	26.07.1918	*
MID	29.04.1941	for distinguished services in the field
MID	15.12.1942	Middle East

World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during 13 days of continuous fighting in charge of a forward section. He invariably showed the greatest coolness and courage in the face of danger, keeping his section in action, and always volunteering for any officer's patrol work. As FOO he was consistently shelled whenever he moved his OP, and, although finally wounded, he continued to work and observe for his battery.

Education: Eton; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (1929-1930; psc).

			served in the ranks, mobilized Territorial Force, 317 days
13.08.1915			mobilized Special Reserve 272 days
23.11.1916			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [Royal Horse Artillery]
12.1916	-	11.11.1918	served European War in France & Belgium (wounded; MC)
24.06.1925			transferred, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
25.02.1932	-	14.10.1932	General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), Aldershot Command
15.10.1932	-	30.12.1935	Brigade Major, 1st Cavalry Division (Aldershot Command)
21.12.1937	-	28.07.1938	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Camberley
29.07.1938	-	22.06.1940	Commanding Officer, 12th Royal Lancers (UK, France)
23.06.1940	-	01.12.1940	Commander, 3rd Motor Machine Gun Brigade (UK), redesignated:
01.12.1940	-	15.10.1941	Commander, 28th Armoured Brigade (UK)
15.10.1941	-	29.10.1941	General Officer Commanding, 6th Armoured Division (UK)
05.11.1941	-	19.08.1942	General Officer Commanding, 1st Armoured Division (Egypt, Libya, Egypt) [except for 3.1-12.2.1942 [wounded] and 19.7-15.8.1942 (wounded)]
08.1942	-	13.12.1942	General Officer Commanding, X Corps (North Africa) (despatches twice, DSO and Bar [wounded])
15.01.1943	-	1943	Corps Commander (Home Forces)
1943	-	06.01.1945	British Liaison Officer with General MacArthur, South-West Pacific (killed by a kamikaze attack aboard battleship New Mexico (Lingayen Gulf))

Lund,
[Sir] Otto Marling

28.11.1891
-
15.08.1956

2nd Lt.	20.07.1911 [6783]
...	...
Col.	01.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1934
T/Brig.	22.05.1939-20.02.1941
A/Maj.Gen.	11.11.1940-20.02.1941
Maj.Gen.	21.02.1941, seniority 30.10.1940
A/Lt.Gen.	01.05.1946-22.04.1947
Lt.Gen.	23.04.1947, seniority 31.05.1944 (retd 30.06.1948)

KCB, 1948 (CB 1942); DSO 1917

20.07.1911			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
...	-	...	...
22.05.1939	-	16.09.1939	specially employed
17.09.1939	-	10.11.1940	Deputy Director of Military Operations, War Office (London)
11.11.1940	-	14.01.1944	Major-General RA (Home Forces & 21st Army Group)
1944	-	1946	Director Royal Artillery, War Office

Luscombe,
David Taylor

Son of Ben Luscombe, and Mary Louisa Pitts.
Married 1st (02.04.1945; divorced) Alice Dabina.
Married 2nd (12.09.1950, Westminster district, London) Joyce Elizabeth Gleave (1922 - 1997), daughter (with two siblings) of Harold Tootell Gleave, and Elsie Ryder; two children.

31.01.1916
Bingley, Keighley district, Yorkshire
-
04.05.2012

Pte.	26.07.1940
L/Cpl.	28.08.1940
A/Cpl.	18.10.1940
WS/Cpl.	16.01.1941
Cadet	02.05.1941
2nd Lt.	23.08.1941 [203051]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
A/Capt.	22.05.1943-21.08.1943
T/Capt.	22.08.1943-06.12.1944
WS/Capt.	07.12.1944 (reld 30.12.1945)
A/Maj.	07.09.1944-06.12.1944
T/Maj.	07.12.1944-30.12.1945

23.08.1941			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment [emergency commission]
01.12.1942			transferred, Royal Armoured Corps
			served Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Maj. D.T. Luscombe's son writes: "He was called-up into the Army, and posted to a new battalion, the 7th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on 26th July 1940 and posted on to 2nd/6th Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry which was being formed in Millerston, just east of Paisley near Glasgow. There was a maximum of 1 trained Sergeant and 1 Corporal per platoon and 1 Captain and 1 Sergeant Major per company. On 28th August 1940 David was promoted to unpaid Lance Corporal and on 18th October to acting paid Corporal because the battalion doubled in size. While still, partly trained, the battalion moved to the Raynham marshes in Essex as part of the coastal defences. For a month he was acting as a Lieutenant as no officer was available. After 7 days leave, he was sent to Brigade HQ to be cipher clerk under the Intelligence Officer. On the 16th January 1941 his acting rank as Corporal was changed to war substantive Corporal. He spent 24 hours in Colchester Hospital in Feb 1941and finally sent to 167 Officer Cadet Training Unit at Alma Barracks Malvern on 2nd May 1941. Discharged under paragraph 390 (xvii). K P (having been appointed to a commission) from 167 OCTU and passed out as a 2/Lieutenant in The Duke of Wellingtons Regt on 22nd August 1941. The 2nd/7th Battalion to which he was allocated, in Narborough, Near Swaffam Norfolk was under tents in training. After 2 months his Company moved to Hunstanton on the East Coast of the Wash, and towards the end of 1941 moved to Dungeness Marshes. The Battalion was stationed in New Maldon and David’s company in the evacuated tourist village of Littleston on Sea where he started a second winter on coastal defences. The following spring 1942, they remained in Kent on the marshes and then on the second line, north of Folkestone. David went to the Divisional Battle School 46 Division 26th January 1942 – 7th February 1942 as a student and then instructor and to the Central Battle School Goup HQ 16th February 1942 – 30th February 1942. He returned to command the battle platoon of the 2nd Battalion and to train them in the new commando style, then not particularly popular with the regular infantry. He was then attached to115 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) at Shorncliffe on 20th July 1942 to continue his training. He was promoted to substantive War Service Lieutenant on 1st October 1942 and then that autumn the Battalion was converted from infantry to a mechanised unit. All Junior Officers were posted to 51st Training Regiment RAC Catterick on 1st October 1942 where they were given basic training in driving tanks, wireless signalling (Morse code) etc. Then just before the Second Battle of El Alamein 23 October – 11 November 1942, the Battalion was broken up and distributed to various tank Regiments or to reinforcements for expected casualties in the Middle East. David was seconded to the Royal Armoured Corps in the War Service Rank of Lieutenant on 1st December 1942 and sent to the Middle East. He embarked UK and was taken on strength Middle East on 14th December 1942. When David left England, he embarked on the troopship Rajitaki in Liverpool, so early Jan 1943 transhipped to a former Dutch liner in Durban and on to Suez, disembarking in Egypt on 30th January 1943 and posted to XIVa HQ Middle East, a holding unit. On arrival he was sent to a Hussar Regiment outside Cairo as fortunately the Battle of El Alamein had not provided as many casualties (or vacancies) as expected. Eventually with a bunch of spare Officers he was posted on 30th January 1943 to General Headquarters Middle East Forces (Main Operating Area) (GHQ MEF (MOA)) in Cairo from X4A to await vacancies. The first call was for volunteers for a secret job which was not specified and he immediately volunteered. It turned out to be for Special Operations Executive (SOE). David was made Acting/Captain on 22 May 1943, and Temporary Captain on 22nd August 1943. David was posted to HQ Force 133 on 28th November 1943 once he had completed specialist training. Then put on the staff as General Staff Officer (GSO) grade III at HQ Force 133. 12th March 1944 he did parachute training. posted to Middle East 62 from Force 133 on 12th April 44 where he was promoted to Acting Major and GSO II on 7th September 1944. He went to Greece 1st Jan 1945 relinquishing his appointment as GSO II at HQ staff ME 62 (Retains Temporary Rank) and is posted to the holding unit X4a and is attached to the Greek Liaison Mission. He spends 8 days in hospital and is then posted away from Special Operational Service Middle East to Commander Military Forces (for Land Forces & Military Liaison Greece) on 27th January 1945 where he is appointed Staff Officer grade 2 (Civil Affairs) (Shiping and Railways) Military Liaison Greece with the temporary rank of Major. Under Brigadier Palmer, Commander Land Greece, during the military phase of the liberation of Greece, David was responsible for operations throughout Greece on behalf of refugees, analysing and evaluating archive material and reports from military formations and relief officers throughout Greece with a Staff Lieutenant, 1 secretary and 2 Other Rank clerks. They prepared reports and appreciations, drafted orders, instructions and cables about refugee care and movements, directing refugee operations for Military Liaison Relief Officers, attached volunteer personnel and mobile teams. As the organisation of forces in Greece developed he relinquish the post of SO2 (CA) (S&R) M L HQ Greece to be Staff Officer grade 2 (Civil Affairs) (Relief & Refugees) Military Liaison HQ Greece on 5th March 1945 where he worked on Refugee Repatriation. It was while in Greece that he met a young lady which culminated on the 2nd April 1945 in his marriage to Alice Dabina. Under the new Ministry of Evacuation David was then attached to the Displaced persons Division as the SO 2 Civil Affairs, assimilated into the United Nations Refugee Resettlement Agency as the Displaced Persons Specialist Grade II. Here under Mr Evert Barger the Director Displaced Persons Division he had a Movements Officer and an Administrative Assistant on his small staff. In Command of the Displaced Persons he was responsible for displaced persons handling and movement inside Greece and representing UNRRA on the Greek shipping committee in order to obtain necessary shipping for refugee movement to and from Greece and between the Greek islands. He co-ordinated and controlled regional arrangements for refugee movement, preparing regulations governing assembly, shelter, embarkation and dispersal, for implementation throughout Greece. Further changes in the organisation of forces in Greece as a result of the creation of UNRRA, meant he relinquish SO2(CA) Relief & Refugees) ML HQ Greece to be Staff Officer grade 2 (Civil Affairs) (Relief) Pool of Personnel UNRRA but still retaining the rank of Temporary Major on 5th May 1945. Still more changes and he relinquish SO2 (CA) (Relief) Pool of Personnel UNRRA to be Staff Officer grade 2 (Civil Affairs) (Agriculture) Pool of Personnel UNRRA on 1st June 1945. Finally the Army posted him to X(4)A a holding appointment on 30th September 1945 for release from the British Army to UNRRA Greece and he was granted 28 days leave in UK and a further 21 days Release Leave. His effective Date of Release (Class B - Local release to UNRRA HQ Athens, Greece) is 30th December 1945. Divorced Alice Dabina while serving in China in UNRRA due to her adultery."

Lusk,
Archibald Thomas
A.T. Lusk

Son (with one sister) of Archibald Lusk (1887-1967), and Ann Eadie Carmichael Shankie (1891?-1944).
Married (01.09.1947, The Oratory, Birmingham) Mary F. Guinness (15.02.1921 -), daughter (with one brother) of Francis Charles Guinness (1891-1969), and Mary Catherine Gemmell (1892-1969); two daughters, one son.

14.02.1924
Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
06.01.1982
Birmingham, West Midlands
[Quinton Cemetery, Quinton, Birmingham]

Cadet	02.09.1943 [6108290]
2nd Lt.	29.07.1944 [326481]
WS/Lt.	29.01.1945 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt.	06.06.1945-(04.1946)

Education: Birmingham University (1st Class Honours degree in English).

29.07.1944			commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps [emergency commission]
1945	-	1946	36(I) Ordnance Salvage Unit, South East Asia Command (Burma)

Lutener,
Neville
N. Lutener

?
-

Sgt.	? [2321056]
2nd Lt.	15.08.1942 [252351]
WS/Lt.	15.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt.	20.04.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Capt.	< 04.1946

BEM

01.07.1941

			enlisted served, Army Physical Training Corps
(1942)			attached, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Bruneval raid 02.1942)
15.08.1942			commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
09.06.1944			transferred, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps (with effect from 20.01.1943)
			served possibly as instructor with 4th Parachute Brigade

Luttrell,
Hugh Robert Fownes
H.R.F. Lottrell (Photo courtesy of Mr James Whitcombe)

Younger son (with three siblings) of Claude Mohun Fownes Luttrell (1867-1941), and Edith Rose Leigh (1893-1996).

(06?).1921
Chippenham district, Wiltshire
-
28.01.1944
Anzio, Italy
(KIA) [age 23]
(formerly of Purlands, Bicknoller near Taunton, Somerset)
[Anzio War Cemetery, Italy, III.D.7]

2nd Lt.	17.05.1941 [186894]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942

Education: Eton College (1933?-1939).

17.05.1941			commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]
?	-	28.01.1944	5th Battalion Grenadier Guards

Lyall,
David Charles
D.C. Lyall

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

04.04.1913
Lucknow, India
-
2009

2nd Lt.	31.08.1933
Lt.	31.08.1936
A/Capt.	27.02.1940-26.05.1940
T/Capt.	27.05.1940-07.07.1940, 30.07.1940-27.08.1940, 01.09.1940-03.12.1940, 27.02.1941-30.08.1941
Capt.	31.08.1941
A/Maj.	29.01.1942-28.04.1942
T/Maj.	29.04.1942-18.03.1944, 17.04.1944-30.08.1946
Maj.	31.08.1946 (retd 27.04.1954)

MID

17.10.1939

NW Frontier of India

NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal and Clasp
NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Clasp

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

31.08.1933			commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
...	-	...	...
01.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), School of Infantry (Warminster)

Lydall,
Edward Hugh Ernest

Son of Oscar and Dora Lydall.
Married ((09?).1937,Hove district, Sussex) Hilary Vyvyan Woolston (11.03.1915 - 04.1994); one daughter.
Residence: (1945) Marlborough, Wiltshire.

02.05.1911
-
04.1996
Surrey Mid-Eastern district, Surrey

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	10.05.1941 [187266]
WS/Lt.	20.09.1942
T/Capt.	20.09.1942-08.11.1943
WS/Capt.	09.11.1943
T/Maj.	09.11.1943-(04.1946)
A/Lt.Col.	(1945?)

MBE	28.06.1945	Italy (while serving with HQ 13 Corps) [recommendation available upon request]
MID	23.06.1945	Italy
BSM	16.01.1947	Central Mediterranean Force [recommendation available upon request]

Education: junior staff course (jsc) (Palestine, c. 1942)

?	-	10.05.1941	Officer Cadet Training Unit
10.05.1941			commissioned, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] (served in North Africa & Italy)
08.1942	-	07.1945	G2 (Staff Duties Section), HQ 13 Corps (MBE, US Bronze Star Medal, despatches)

Lymbery,
[His Honour] Robert Davison
R.D. Lymbery

Son of Robert Smith Lymbery (1885-1981), and Louise Barnsdale (1885-1968), of Landfall, West Wittering, Sussex.
Married ((06?).1952, Ketton, Rutland) Pauline Anne Tuckett, daughter of John Reginald and of Kathleen Tuckett; three daughters.

14.11.1920
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
-
13.10.2008
East Lavant, near Chichester, West Sussex

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	24.05.1941 [189822]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942
T/Capt.	01.08.1943-(04.1946)
A/Maj. ?	1946 ?

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

Education: Gresham's School; Pembroke College, Cambridge (1939-1940, 1946-1948; MA, LLB 1st class hons)

24.05.1941			commissioned, 17th/21st Lancers - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
1942	-	1946	Middle East, Italy, Greece (Royal Tank Regiment)

Foundation Exhibitioner, 1948; called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1949, Bencher, 1990; Harmsworth Law Scholar, 1949; practice on Midland Circuit, 1949-1971. Recorder of Grantham, 1965-1971; Chairman: Rutland QS, 1966-1971 (Deputy Chairman, 1962-1966); Bedfordshire QS, 1969-1971 (Deputy Chairman, 1961-1969); Commissioner of Assize, 1971. Queen's Councilor, 1967; a Circuit Judge (formerly Judge of County Courts), 1971-1993; Common Serjeant in the City of London, 1990-1993.Freeman, City of London, 1983; Liveryman, Cutlers' Company, 1992-.

Lynch,
Thomas Francis
T.F. Lynch (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)

?
-
?

Pte.	?
2nd Lt.	27.07.1940 [141246]
WS/Lt.	02.05.1941

27.07.1940			commissioned, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) [emergency commission]
(1941)			8th (HD) Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment

Lyne,
Charles Edward Michael

Son (with three (?) brothers and one (?) sister) of Rev. Richard Arundell Lyne (1871-1955), and Cecily Joan Bacon (1885-1967).
Brother of Capt. Richard Lyne, The Herefordshire Regiment, and of Lt.Col. John Francis Lyne, The Royal Fusiliers, later Glider Pilot Regiment.
Married ((06?).1940, Hailsham district, Sussex) Jessie M. Taylor.

11.09.1912
Upton Bishop, Ross district, Herefordshire
-
03.1989
Swindon district, Wiltshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	30.12.1939 [109860]
WS/Lt.	03.06.1941
T/Capt.	12.11.1943-(04.1946)

Education: Rossall School (1923.1-1930.1; preparatory school & Mitre House).

?	-	30.12.1939	168th (Infantry) Officer Cadet Training Unit
30.12.1939			commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
10.02.1940			transferred, The Queen´s Regiment
14.01.1941			transferred, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps

Artist & author.
Published: Horses, hounds and country (1938), From litter to later on : a puppy progress book (1973), Parson's son : sporting artist (1974), The Michael Lyne sketch book (1979), etc.

Lyne,
Frederick George Lander

Residence: (1943) Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire

09.07.1903
Watford,
Hertfordshire
-
04.1993
Pershore,
Worcestershire

2nd Lt.	05.03.1940 [114249]
WS/Lt.	24.10.1940
T/Capt.	24.10.1940-18.09.1941
WS/Capt.	19.09.1941
T/Maj.	19.09.1941-29.03.1944
WS/Maj.	30.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt.Col.	?
Hon. Lt.Col.	< 04.1946

DSO

08.07.1943

N Africa

05.03.1940			commissioned, The Suffolk Regiment [emergency commission]
22.05.1942			transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps
?			142 Regiment RAC

Lyne,
John Francis
"Daddy"

Second son (with three (?) brothers and one (?) sister) of Rev. Richard Arundell Lyne (1871-1955), and Cecily Joan Bacon (1885-1967).
Brother of Capt. Richard Lyne, The Herefordshire Regiment, and of Capt. Charles Edward Michael Lyne, Reconnaissance Corps.
Married (07.09.1940, St George's Church, Campden Hill, Kensington district, London) Dorothy Noel Belsham (30.12.1912 - 07.1993), second daughter of Mr & Mrs H.N. Belsham, of Hunstanton, Norfolk; two daughters, one son.

06.07.1911
Ross district, Herefordshire
-
09.08.1950
Maidenhead, Berkshire

Cadet	?
2nd Lt.	16.03.1940 [126104]
WS/Lt.	12.02.1941
T/Capt.	12.02.1941-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.	22.11.1942
T/Maj.	22.11.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.	03.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Lt.Col.	03.10.1945-(04.1946)

19.10.1944

NW Europe *

* On the night June 5th/6th the Glider flown by Major Lyne was hit by anti-aircraft fire and a crash landing east of the River Dives was unavoidable. This officer received many abrasions and a broken bone in his right foot. In spite of his injuries he led his party of 7 men through enemy held territory to our own lines, a distance of nearly 50 miles. Through his courage and tenacity the party was brought safely back having accounted for at least 16 Germans killed or wounded.

Education: Rossall School (1921.3-1928.3; preparatory school & Mitre House).

?	-	16.03.1940	162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
16.03.1940			commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers [emergency commission]
12.11.1940	-	(04.1941)	Adjutant, ...
22.08.1942			transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps
(06.1944)			Officer Commanding, "D" Squadron, No. 1 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment (Normandy)

Surveyor and land agent.

Lyne,
Lewis Owen
"Lew" / "Lou"

2nd son of Charles Lyne, Newport, Monmouthshire. Unmarried.
Residence: (1943) London.

19.08.1899
Newport,
Monmouthshire
-
04.11.1970
Kersey, Suffolk

Cadet	?
T/2nd Lt.	02.04.1919-09.09.1919
2nd Lt.	14.07.1921 [22301]
Lt.	14.07.1923
Capt.	16.10.1935
Bt. Maj.	01.07.1938
Maj.	01.08.1938
Bt. Lt.Col.	01.07.1939
A/Lt.Col.	23.11.1939-22.02.1940
T/Lt.Col.	23.02.1940-18.02.1942
WS/Lt.Col.	12.09.1942
local Col.	24.07.1941-18.02.1942
A/Col.	12.03.1942-11.09.1942
T/Col.	12.09.1942-02.07.1943
Col.	03.07.1943, seniority 01.07.1942
A/Brig.	12.03.1942-11.09.1942
T/Brig.	12.09.1942-28.03.1945
A/Maj.Gen.	29.03.1944-28.03.1945
T/Maj.Gen.	29.03.1945-...
Maj.Gen.	09.04.1946, seniority 02.09.1945 (retd 03.02.1949)

CB	01.02.1945	NW Europe
DSO	19.08.1943	Middle East
MID	05.08.1943	Persia-Iraq
MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe

Russian Order of Kutuzov, 1st class, 16.01.1947 [1945]. Legion of Honour & Croix de Guerre (France).

Education: Haileybury; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (...-1921); Staff College, Camberley (1936, psc)

14.07.1921			commissioned, Lancashire Fusiliers
1921	-	1938	regimental service, 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (Ireland [1921], England, Gibraltar, Egypt and N. China)
15.02.1930	-	(03.1931)	Adjutant, on the strength of the Depot (Bury)
(06.1933)			served at Catterick
27.05.1938	-	26.04.1939	Staff Captain to the Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, War Office (London)
			served War of 1939-1945 (despatches, immediate DSO, CB, French Legion of Honour, Officer, French Croix de Guerre)
27.04.1939	-	22.11.1939	Deputy Assistant Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, War Office (London)
23.11.1939	-	08.08.1940	Assistant Military Secretary, War Office (London)
1940			Commanding Officer, 9th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
29.06.1941	-	18.02.1942	Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Senior Officers' School
12.03.1942	-	20.03.1944	Commander, 169th (London) Infantry Brigade (UK, Iraq, N Africa, Italy) [except for 10-16.10.1943, 16.10-13.11.1943 (injured), 8-21.1.1944 (hospitalized)]
10.10.1943	-	15.10.1943	acting General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division (Italy)
29.03.1944	-	16.10.1944	General Officer Commanding, 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division (UK, NW Europe)
17.10.1944	-	21.11.1944	General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (NW Europe)
22.11.1944	-	1945	General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (NW Europe)
1945			Military Governor, British Zone, Berlin, Germany
01.01.1946	-		Director of Staff Duties, War Office (London)

Honorary Colonel, 574 (M) HAA Regiment (Lancashire Fusiliers), Royal Regiment of Artillery TA, 12.12.1947-01.07.1955.
Chairman Executive Committee, UNA, 1951-1957, Joint President, UNA, 1957; Chairman: The Manchester Oil Refinery (Holdings) Ltd, 1961-1966; Petrocarbon Developments Ltd, 1960-1968; Director, Lobitos Oilfields Ltd, 1963-1966; Chairman of the Board of Governors. Moor Park College, 1954-1960; President, The Knights' Association of Youth Clubs, 1946-1969; President, Haileybury Society, 1957-1958. President, The British Diabetic Association, 1963. Liveryman Glaziers' Company, 1949

Lyne,
Richard

Son (with three (?) brothers and one (?) sister) of Rev. Richard Arundell Lyne (1871-1955), and Cecily Joan Bacon (1885-1967).
Brother of Lt.Col. John Francis Lyne, The Royal Fusiliers, later Glider Pilot Regiment, and of Capt. Charles Edward Michael Lyne, Reconnaissance Corps.
Married ((03?).1946, Abingdon district, Berkshire) Ada K. Belcher; three daughters, one son.

07.08.1909
Woolhope, Ledbury district, Herefordshire
-
12.1985
Wallingford district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire

2nd Lt.	14.06.1939
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Capt.	07.01.1942-(04.1946)

Education: Rossall School (1921.1-1926.2; preparatory school & Mitre House).

14.06.1939			commissioned, The Herefordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			served in Burma

Lyon,
Frank Matthew

03.04.1915
-
02.1990
Gloucester district, Gloucestershire

Sgt.	? [4534864]
2nd Lt.	01.03.1945 [345381]
WS/Lt.	01.03.1945

12.07.1945

NW Europe *

01.03.1945			commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [immediate emergency commission]
(1945)			7th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (NW Europe) (MC)
?	-	12.06.1949	short service commission

* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to Lt. F.M. Lyon: At Haalderen (7566) on 2 April 1945 this officer was in command of 15 Platoon of C Company, in the initial breakout from the Nijmegen bridgehead. The platoon had the most difficult task of the operation - to assault an enemy post, which had been been built up & occupied for six months and was covered by mines. As anti-personnel mines were known to exist in the orchards round the house it was decided to attack frontally down the road which was thought to have only anti-tank mines, a plan which called for courage and not manouvre. The leading troops soon came under fire of 3 machine guns. Lt. Lyon with another soldier then attempted to rush the house, both being hit by bullets, Lt. Lyon's binoculars saving his life. Lt. Lyon withdrew into a nearby ditch, reorganised the section and led another assault, which together with skilfully placed PIAT fire, resulted in the destruction of the post, 3 enemy being killed and 17 taken prisoner. But for this officer's action a most difficult operation to capture the forward defence lines might have ensued. His gallantry an skill was all the more praiseworthy as it was his first time in action as an officer.
[Recommended 03.04.1945 by Lt.Col. C.D. Hamilton, commanding 7th Battalion DWR, approved 22.04.1945 by Brig. H. Wood, commanding 147th Infantry Brigade, 28.04.1945 by Maj.Gen. S.B. Rawlins, commanding 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, 21.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. C. Foulkes, commanding 1st Canadian Corps, by Gen. H.D.G. Crerar, commanding First Canadian Army, and finally by Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery, commanding 21st Army Group.]

Lyon,
James Marcus

1920 ?
-
01.02.2007
[age 87]

2nd Lt.	03.12.1938 [78697]
WS/Lt.	01.01.1941
WS/Capt.	01.01.1945
Capt.	?

15.05.1964

			late Cadet, Stowe School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
03.12.1938			commissioned, The Warwickshire Yeomanry - Territorial Army
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
05.10.1942			transferred, Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps
19.12.1942			transferred, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
			seconded, Special Operations Executive (SOE)
?	-	05.06.1950	Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
06.06.1950	-	19.09.1963	transferred, Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
20.09.1963			Eastbourne College Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, General List - Territorial Army (reverted to Lt. at own request)

Founder member of the Special Forces Club.

Lyon,
Peter Edward Lycett

Son of Maj. Edward Lycett Lyon (1877-1916), 18th Royal Hussars, and of the Hon. Mrs. Lyon (Kathleen Louisa Plunket), of Cuckfield, Sussex.

(12?).1911
Andover,
Hampshire /
Wiltshire
-
02.08.1944
[age 33]
[Bayeux War
Cemetery,
XXI.B.4]

2nd Lt.	27.01.1940 [117039]
WS/Lt.	27.12.1940
T/Capt.	22.09.1941-02.08.1944

27.01.1940			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	02.08.1944	Second-in-Command, "A" Squadron 13th/18th Royal Hussars (France) (killed in action)

Lyon-Clark,
Anthony William Patrick

Son of Maj. William Lyon-Clark (1858-1934) and Helen Holt Lyon-Clark.
Married (11.05.1935) Margaret Jean "Margot" Dary, of New York City, USA.

1913
-
18.07.1944
[age 31]
[Ranville War
Cemetery,
IVA.B.7]

2nd Lt.	26.04.1941 [184925]
WS/Lt.	01.07.1942
T/Capt.	01.07.1942-18.07.1944

26.04.1941			commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) [emergency commission]
(06.1944)	-	18.07.1944	Technical Adjutant, HQ Squadron 13th/18th Royal Hussars (France) (killed in action)

Lyttelton,
Humphrey Richard Adeane
"Humph"

Son (with four sisters) of George William Lyttelton (1883-1962), second son of the 8th Viscount Cobham, and Pamela Marie Adeane (1889-1975).
Married 1st (19.08.1948; marriage dissolved 1952) Patricia Mary Braithwaite Gaskell, daughter of John Wellesley Gaskell; one daughter.
Married 2nd (01.11.1952) Elizabeth Jill Richardson, daughter of Albert E. Richardson; two sons, one daughter.

23.05.1921
Eton College, Buckinghamshire
-
25.04.2008
Barnet General Hospital, London

2nd Lt.	29.11.1941 [219020]
WS/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Capt. ?	?

29.11.1941

commissioned, Grenadier Guards [emergency commission]

Jazz trumpeter, band-leader, cartoonist and broadcaster.

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