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1939-1945

 

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Mead,
Patrick Hilary
"Pat"
P.H. Mead
Eldest son of Cdr. Hilary Poland Mead, RN, and Gweneth Atkinson, of Blackheath, London.
Elder brother of Lt. Frederick Nicholas Mead, DSC and Bar, RNVR.
02.12.1919
Cork district, Ireland
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.11.1940 [155641]
WS/Lt. 09.05.1942 (demobilized 1946?) (reld 23.01.1952)
Hon. Lt. 23.01.1952
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: Tonbridge School (1933.3-1938; Parkside; Boat IV (Cox) 1937, 1938).
With Sun Insurance Office, 1938-1946.
15.02.1940 - 1940 Private, Royal Sussex Regiment
 1940 - 08.11.1940 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.11.1940     commissioned, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [emergency commission]
1940 - 1941 served in the UK
1941 - 15.12.1941 served with Middle East Forces (captured south of Gazala)
15.12.1941 - 29.04.1945 POW (No. 2651) in Italian & German captivity (PG 66 Capua 29.12.1941-23.03.1942; PG 35 Padua 23.03.1942-30.07.1943; PG 19 Bologna 02.08.1943-11.09.1943; Oflag V-A, Weinsberg. Baden-Württemberg 09.10.1943-01.04.1945; Stalag VII-A, Moosburg 04.04.1945-29.04.1945)
With Realist Film Unit (Documentary and Educational), 1947-1949. Riddoch Motors Ltd., Tanganyika, 1949-1956. Sales Executive, Colt Ventilation and Heating Ltd., Surbiton, 1956-(1965).
Meakin,
Geoffrey Arthur
"Geoff"
G.A. Meakin (Photo courtesy of Mr Mike Meakin)
Son (with one brother) of Frederick Arthur Meakin (1874-1959), architect & surveyor, and Jean Southern (1879-1966).
Married ((06?).1941, Boston district, Lancashire) Yvonne Gertrude Buckle (24.02.1916 - 21.02.1994); one son.
30.10.1915
Dartford, Kent
-
26.06.2006
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 05.04.1941 [180786]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 02.01.1945-(08.1946)
      Officer and Cadet Training Centre, Royal Army Service Corps
05.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Mealand,
Leonard
L. Mealand (Photo courtesy of Mr David Mealand)
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of William Mealand (1872-1957), and Kate Kitching (1873-1954).
Married 1st (04.04.1936, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Barbara Eveline Hunt (06.09.1908 - 01.10.1954), daughter of William Percival Hunt (1876-1938), and Florence Kate German (1871-1943); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (08.10.1955, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Maud R. Cotton; one daughter.
11.06.1911
Birmingham district, Warwickshire
-
30.04.1986
Birmingham district, Warwickshire
Cadet ? [1654380]
2nd Lt. 09.10.1943 [296048]
WS/Lt. 09.04.1944
16.09.1940     enlisted
09.10.1943     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
His son writes: "RASC, seconded RIASC (Baldist Regiment). Acting Captain 1945-1946. Would be interested in anything which throws further light on what he was involved in esp. Abbottabad c. Aug 1945 also records mention an "Apple Contract" in or near Kashmir c.1945-1946."
Meara,
Bernard Gordon
B.G. Meara (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)
Son of ... Meara, and ... Davies.
Married ((06?).1942, Cleveland
district, North Riding of Yorkshire)
Dorothy G. Owen.
15.03.1912
Pontypool district,
Gwent /
Monmouthshire

-
02.01.1984
Bexhill, Hastings & Rother district, East Sussex
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 04.04.1942 [229769]
WS/Lt. 04.10.1942 (reld < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 05.04.1945-(04.1946)
04.04.1942     commissioned, The South Wales Borderers [emergency commission]
(1945)     seconded, 1/5th Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (NW Europe)
10.11.1945     transferred, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Mears,
Gerald Theodore
G.T. Mears
Changed surname Meyer to Mears by
deed poll of 27.10.1924. Lived at
Wembley at the time.
Married ((06?).1934, Blandford
district, Dorset) Betty A.F. Jones.
29.07.1901
Rochford district,
Essex

-
(06?).1979
New Forest district,
Hampshire
2nd Lt. 23.08.1941 [203513]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 01.04.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Capt. 21.11.1944
T/Maj. 21.11.1944-(04.1946)
Capt. 01.12.1946, seniority 21.11.1944
Capt. & Paym. 07.09.1949
Maj. 22.08.1954 (reld 01.02.1961)
Hon. Maj. 01.02.1961
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
Africa General Service Medal 1902-1956 Afr GSM - & clasp Kenya
? - 23.08.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit
23.08.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission to 03.04.1947]
01.12.1946     short service commission
07.09.1949     transferred, Royal Army Pay Corps
      served in Kenya during the Mau-Mau Rebellion
Meddemmen,
Alick Edward
A.E. Meddemmen (Photo courtesy of Mr Gerald Dennett)

Son (with nine sisters and one brother)of James Meddemmen (1859-1918), shoe maker, and Matilda Jane Stephens (1861-1942).
Married (23.06.1923, St Lawrence's Church, Catford, Lewisham district, Kent) Mabel Elizabeth Bowden (07.11.1899 - 20.05.1996), of St. Mary Cray, Kent, daughter (with six brothers and two sisters) of Albert William Bowden (1872-1930), and Amelia Elizabeth Legate (1872-1949); three daughters, one son.
12.10.1897
Stepney, Mile End Old Town district, London
-
11.04.1944
Nairobi
[age 46]
[Nairobi War Cemetery, Kenya, 2.D.2]
A.E. Meddemmen (Photo courtesy of Mr Gerald Dennett)
2nd Lt. 26.08.1941 [202306]
Lt. & Paym. 26.02.1943
T/Capt. & Paym. 01.02.1944-11.04.1944
26.08.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission]
Medway,
Gordon Edgar Roberts
G.E.R. Medway (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Porter)  
Son of Arthur Edgar Medway, general shop keeper (ex-Army), and Elsie Annie Roberts, of Purley, Surrey.
10.11.1920
Leytonstone, West Ham district, Essex
-
22.05.1940
(KIA) [age 19]
[Avelgem Communal Cemetery, Belgium, A.6]
gravestone of G.E.R. Medway
Pte. ? [6827143]
2nd Lt. 14.01.1940 [113467]
02.09.1939     embodied, No. 2 Company Infantry, Honourable Artillery Company
? - 13.01.1940 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
14.01.1940     commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
04.1940? - 22.05.1940 2nd Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (killed in action) *
* From R.H. Medley, Cap badge : the story of four battalions of The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and The Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) (1995): "It was now 22 May and shelling activity built up during the day. Battalion headquarters [at Avelgem] was heavily shelled but suffered no casualties. In spite of the observation provided by Mont d'Eclus the Germans sent up an observation balloon beyond the range of our anti-tank guns. There was sporadic artillery fire during the morning and sounds of heavy automatic fire away to the right flank. The shelling increased in intensity during the afternoon and "A" Company on the left was subjected to a creeping barrage which ranged back and forth for some four hours. A direct hit on one trench had killed Medway, who had distinguished himself earlier by taking a reconnaissance patrol on to the enemy side of the Escaut. The Germans had established a foothold across the Escaut further to the left of the Battalion and 13 Platoon under PSM Wilson was sent to strengthen "A" Company. The shelling continued and was now falling in the reserve areas."
Meigh,
Joseph Leslie
"Les"

J.L. Meigh (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive) J.L. Meigh (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian O'Grady, via Pegasus Archive)
Son of ... Meigh, and ... Quine,
Married ((12?).1945, Devizes district, Wiltshire) Gerd Hammer.
28.04.1922
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
01.07.2002
Manchester, Lancashire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 20.06.1942 [235884]
WS/Lt. 20.03.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 22.03.1945-(01.1946)
Lt. 09.05.1950 (reld 31.08.1959)
Hon. Maj. 31.08.1959
20.06.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
(06.1944)     No. 1 Forward Observation Unit RA (Airborne) [Seaborne Tail for Operation Market-Garden 09.1944]
09.05.1950 - 03.10.1952 Tavistock Grammar School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial Army
03.10.1952 - 01.09.1953 Dunstable Grammar School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial Army
01.09.1953 - 31.08.1959 Bristol Grammar School Contingent, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial Army
Meikle,
John Cunningham
"Jack"
J.C. Meikle
Son of Archie Miller Meikle and Emily Meikle, of Monkseaton, Northumberland.
Twin brother of 2nd Lt. R.C. Meikle.

(09?).1916
Tynemouth district
-
16.05.1941
(KIA) [age 24]
[Alamein Memorial, column 67]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
19.12.1939 [109566]
Mention in Despatches MID
30.12.1941
Middle East
Education: Aberdeen Grammar School.
Chartered accountant.
?
-
19.12.1939
163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
19.12.1939


commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission]
19.12.1939
-
16.05.1941
1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (killed in action at Fort Capuzzo, Libya)
Meikle,
Robert Coulson
R.C. Meikle
Son of Archie Miller Meikle and Emily Meikle, of Monkseaton, Northumberland.
Twin brother of 2nd Lt. J.C. Meikle.

(09?).1916
Tynemouth district
-
16.05.1941
(KIA) [age 24]
[Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt, 19.F.6]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
19.12.1939 [109567]
Education: Aberdeen Grammar School.
Chartered accountant.
?
-
19.12.1939
163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
19.12.1939


commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission]
19.12.1939
-
16.05.1941
1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (killed in action at Fort Capuzzo, Libya)
Meiklejohn,
Kenneth Matthew
K.M. Meiklejohn
Elder son (with one half-brother) of Kenneth Forbes Meiklejohn (1885-1914), Queen's Own Cameron Hgihlanders, and Sybil Maud Stewart (1895-1971),
Married (12.06.1940, Bridge, Kent) Margaret Constance "Peggy" Bovill (24.08.1911 - 06.2001), daughter (with one brother and two sisters) of Frederick Walter Bovill (1864-1942), and Constance Helena Bryan (1871-1940); one son, one daughter.
14.01.1915
-
11.12.1998
Uttlesford, Essex
2nd Lt. 27.05.1939 [88372]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
T/Capt. 24.11.1943-09.12.1945
WS/Capt. 10.12.1945 (reld < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 10.12.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 04.146, < 08.1946
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 10.12.1945
A/Maj. 01.05.1947-...
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 21.04.1950 -
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) *

* Displayed zeal, devotion to duty and coolness in action, and was of great assistance throughout the operation (Neptune).

Education: Winchester College (1928.2-1933.2. Aul. Prae. VI); Scholar, New College, Oxford (1933; 2nd cl. Mod. 1935; 2 Jur. 1937).
      late Cadet Serjt., Winchester College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
27.05.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
1939     64th Field Regiment RA (Iraq & Tunisia)
... - ... ...
1944 - 1944 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit (NW Europe; wounded)
(06.1944)     Bombardment Liaison Officer, HMS Bellona (light cruiser) (despatches)
1944 - 1946 instructor, Larkhill
01.05.1948 - 14.01.1965 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Company secretary, United Glass Ltd.
Mellish,
Michael Henry Tindal
M.H.T. Mellish (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)
Son of ... Mellish, and ... Atkinson.
Married (15.04.1939, Brompton Oratory, London) Norah Mary Masters; one son.
04.10.1914
St Marylebone district, London
-
06.10.2007
St Peter Port, Guernsey
2nd Lt. 15.04.1936 [56865]
Lt. 02.02.1938
WS/Capt. 13.05.1944
Capt. 01.10.1946, seniority 13.05.1944 (reld 30.12.1949)
Member of the Royal Victorian Order MVO 01.01.1979 New Year 79
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 01.01.1964 New Year 64: as Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey
Army Emergency Reserve Decoration ERD 03.11.1953 -
      late 2nd Lt. Supplementary Reserve of Officers, Royal Scots Fusiliers
16.09.1935 - 05.01.1936 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] (as Acting Pilot Officer on probation)
15.04.1936     commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized SRO
? - 05.1940 Second-in-Command, "B" Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (France & Belgium) (wounded; captured)
1940 - 1945 POW (No. 12) in German captivity (Oflag VII-B, Eichstätt, Bayern)
13.05.1944 - 01.10.1946 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
01.10.1946 - 30.12.1949 short service commission
Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey 1945 to 1978. OStJ, 01.1970.
Mellor,
Eric Harold
E.H. Mellor (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs) E.H. Mellor (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)
E.H. Mellor (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Burroughs)
Elder son (with one brother) of Robert Oswald Mellor, solicitor, and Ida Grace Buckley.
Married (24.01.1953, Holy Trinity, Brompton, London SW) Anne E. Bond, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs T.J. Bond, of Bidhurst, Wallington, Surrey.
22.01.1919
Royton, Oldham district, Lancashire
-
09.06.2011
Hove Nursing Home, Sussex
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 04.07.1940 [137515]
WS/Lt. 04.01.1942
T/Capt. 12.10.1945-(04.1946)
Education: Sedbergh School; Exeter College, Oxford (BA 28.07.1945).
? - 04.07.1940 Officer Cadet Training Unit
04.07.1940     commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
01.05.1942     transferred, Royal Armoured Corps
(07.1945)     6th (Airborne) Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment RAC (Larkhill, Salisbury)
Mellor,
Ian Hauxwell
I.H. Mellor
01.06.1915
-
19.02.1978
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 28.12.1940
WS/Lt. 28.06.1942
WS/Capt. 31.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 31.07.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Received his legal training with Messrs. Allan, Dawson, Simpson & Hampton, W.S.
      either 121 or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
28.12.1940     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      possibly Judge Advocate General staff of 3 Corps (Athens & Italy 1944/45)
Partner, M.J. Brown, Son & Co., Edinburgh.
Mellor,
James Frederick Charles
"Fred"
J.F.C. Mellor
Son of ... Mellor, and ... Marquand.
Married Ann ...; one son, two daughters.
Residence: (1946) Cobham.
 
30.11.1913
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
23.02.1976
in hospital, Surrey South Western district, Surrey (formerly of Chiddingfold, Surrey)
2nd Lt. 31.08.1933 [56720]
Lt. 31.08.1936
A/Capt. 11.12.1939-10.03.1940
T/Capt. 11.03.1940-30.08.1941
Capt. 31.08.1941
A/Maj. 20.01.1942-19.04.1942
T/Maj. 20.04.1942-30.08.1946
Maj. 31.08.1946
local Lt.Col. 25.11.1943-28.06.1944,
26.05.1948-25.05.1949
T/Lt.Col. 08.10.1951-26.12.1953,
08.10.1955-15.01.1956
Lt.Col. 16.01.1956 (supernumerary 16.01.1959)
Col. 26.02.1959 (retd 27.03.1962)
T/Brig. ?
Hon. Brig. 27.03.1962
Distinguished Service Order DSO 24.01.1946 NW Europe
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 01.01.1958 New Year 58
Mention in Despatches MID 24.06.1943 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; jssc, psc.
31.08.1933     commissioned, King's Royal Rifle Corps
17.08.1937 - 14.08.1938 ADC to General Officer Commanding Burma
(09.1940)     Officer Commanding, "C" Company, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
31.03.1941 - 07.09.1941 General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), British Troops in Egypt
20.01.1942 - 14.02.1942 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Middle East Forces
15.02.1942 - 16.06.1942 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 10th Army
17.06.1942 - 02.01.1943 Brigade Major, 69th Infantry Brigade
16.05.1943 - 24.011.1943 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Home Forces
25.11.1943 - 16.06.1944 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Royal Military College, Sandhurst
29.06.1944 - 20.08.1944 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 21st Army Group
05.11.1944 - 21.03.1945 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 3rd Infantry Division
(04.1945)     2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
07.12.1945 - 27.03.1947 Staff Officer, 2nd grade (SO2), AATDC
28.04.1947 - 19.05.1949 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Washington
08.10.1951 - 09.10.1953 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ British Troops in Egypt
Mellor,
Keith Wilson
K.W. Mellor
Son of Harold Mellor, and ... Wilson.
Married 1st ((09?).1947, North East Cheshire district) Mary Elizabeth Whiting.
Married 2nd (04.1985, Stockport district, Greater Manchester) Olive M. Price.
07.08.1914
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
12.06.1986
Stockport, Greater Manchester
2nd Lt. 29.07.1939 [94258]
WS/Lt. 29.01.1941
T/Capt. 02.05.1943-(01.1946)
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD ? -
29.07.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(1944)     Combined Operations Bombardment Unit
... - ... ...
Mellowes,
Peter Dennis John
R.K. Melville
Son (with two sisters [Gertrude D.H. Mellowes married Capt. Philip Adrian Dunscomb Smith]) of Dennis Charles Mellowes (1889-1975), and Gertrude Waterton (1888-1973).
Married ((09?).1953, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Gillian Frances Hill (14.05.1931 - 01.1989); three daughters.
Residence: (1945) King's Lynn, Norfolk; (1980s) Poole, Dorset.
04.10.1923
Barnet district, London
-
05.01.2003
Southampton district, Hampshire
Cadet ? [7955393]
2nd Lt. 07.11.1943 [299756]
WS/Lt. 07.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
Military Cross MC 12.07.1945 NW Europe 44-45 (forcing his way across the river IJssel, the Netherlands)
07.11.1943     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
(1944) - (1945) served The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (NW Europe) (MC)
Solicitor, 1951-1992.
Melville,
Robert Kenneth
"Bobby"
R.K. Melville
Younger son of Herbert David Melville (1880-1965), and Marguerite Ruth Riley (1879-1973).
Married 1st ((03?).1949, Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex) Joan Emerton Hawkins (05.02.1924 - 01.1996), daughter of Maurice Hewitt Hawkins (1897-1978), and Florence M. Emerton; ... children.
Married 2nd Claire ...
14.10.1918
Maldon district, Essex
-
18.01.2017
Burnham-on-Crouch
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 19.04.1941 [184234]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 21.05.1944-16.10.1945
WS/Capt. 17.10.1945 (reld 20.05.1948)
T/Maj. 17.10.1945-(04.1947)
Hon. Maj. 20.05.1948
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 07.07.1950 -
Order of El Istiqlal, Third Class (Jordan), 18.10.1949.
? - 19.04.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit
19.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
      served 47th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
Lt.Col., Arab Legion.
Menday,
Ronald Philip
R.P. Menday R.P. Menday
Son of ... Menday, and ... Watkins.
From Bletchley.
Married (18.12.1949, Stockholm, Sweden) Ingoid Margareta Runhill.
03.01.1913
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
-
01.01.2001
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 25.05.1940 [132152]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 01.11.1941
T/Maj. 06.07.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj. 29.10.1944
A/Lt.Col. ? (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 01.01.1968 New Year 68: for service as Warden, Turner's Court Children's Home, Oxford
Military Cross MC 01.03.1945 NW Europe
Mention in Despatches MID 03.08.1944 NW Europe (special operations)
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
      Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.05.1940     commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
c. 04.1943 - c. 08.1944 No. 4 Commando (initially A Troop Commander, later Second-in-Command) (UK, Normandy)
[commanded "Menday Force" on some raids in 12.1943; took over command of the Commando when the CO was wounded in Normandy 06.06.1944]
(04.1945)     Commander of 2 Commando Brigade Training Wing
Warden, Turner's Court Children's Home, Oxford, 1960's.
Mercer,
[Rt. Rev.] Eric Arthur John
E.A.J. Mercer
Son of Ambrose John Mercer (1886-), and Ruby Lydia Rowling, of Kent.
Married (1951) Rosemary Wilma Denby, daughter of John William Denby, Lincs; one son, one daughter.
06.12.1917
Walmer, Eastry district, Kent
-
08.11.2003
Hindon, Salisbury
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 02.11.1940 [156624]
WS/Lt. 02.05.1942
T/Capt. 1943?
WS/Capt. 09.10.1945 (reld 26.12.1947)
T/Maj. 09.10.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. 26.12.1947
Mention in Despatches MID 23.06.1945 Italy
Education: Dover Grammar School; Kelham Theological College.
1940     enlisted Sherwood Foresters
? - 02.11.1940 either 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th or 167th Officer Cadet Training Unit
02.11.1940     commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) [emergency commission]
1943     Captain & Adjutant, 14th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
1944     served Italy (despatches)
1944     Staff College, Haifa
1945     Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (DAA&QMG), 66th Infantry Brigade (Palestine)
1945     General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Spedical Duties), General Headquarters, Middle East Forces
Returned Kelham Theological College, 1946-1947. Ordained, Chester; Curate, Coppenhall, Crewe, 1947-1951 (deacon 1947, priest 1948, curate 1965); Priest in charge, Heald Green, 1951-1953; Rector, St Thomas', Stockport, 1953-1959; Chester Diocesan Missioner, 1959-1965; Rector, Chester St Bridget, 1959-1965; Honorary Canon of Chester Cathedral, 1964; Bishop Suffragan of Birkenhead, 1965-1973; Bishop of Exeter, 1973-1985. Church Commissioners: Deputy Chairman, Pastoral Committee, 1976-1985; Member, Board of Governors, 1980-1985. National Chairman, Church of England Men's Society, 1974-1978.
Published
: (contrib.) Worship in a Changing Church, 1965.
Mercer-Deadman,
Arthur
A. Mercer-Deadman
Son of ... Mercer-Deaman, and ... Bowles.
(03?).1917
Eton district, Oxfordshire
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 20.09.1941 [210125]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 19.01.1943-(04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 19.07.1945 Italy
20.09.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Meredith,
Arthur Elsdale
A.E. Meredith
Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Samuel Redhead Meredith (1850-1926), and Janet Elizabeth Clark (1854-1949).
Married Jessie Campbell ....; ... children (son Maj. Kenneth Evan Meredith, The Dorsetshire Regiment).
 
30.11.1885
Bramley, Leeds disrict, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
03.03.1962
The Hospital, Claremount Grove, Exmouth, Devon
2nd Lt. 15.08.1908, seniority 17.08.1907
Lt.Col. 01.04.1930 (half-pay 01.04.1934) (retired [Indian Pension] 01.10.1934)
Military Cross MC ? Mesopotamia
Education: Rugby School (...-1904.2); University College, Oxford.
17.08.1907     commissioned, Unattached List for Auxiliary Forces (University Candidates)
15.08.1908     commissioned, Unattached List for Indian Army
?     transferred, Royal Corps of Signals
01.10.1934     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized RARO
Meredith,
George
G. Meredith
Son of William J. Meredith, and Esther Caroline Whitfield.
Married ((12?).1938, Hay district, Breconshire) Kathleen Nell Powell; two daughters.
28.09.1913
Brecknock district, Breconshire
-
05.2001
Winchester district, Hampshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 02.08.1941 [200200]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 19.11.1944-17.10.1945
WS/Capt. 18.10.1945
T/Maj. 18.10.1945-(04.1946)
Capt. 15.07.1946, seniority 18.10.1945
Maj. 13.11.1954
Maj. 09.07.1956 (reld 05.03.1971)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63
Mention in Despatches MID 23.05.1946 Mediterranean
02.08.1941     commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
01.11.1941     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
15.07.1946 - 08.07.1956 short service commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery
09.07.1956 - 05.03.1971 short service commission, Royal Army Pay Corps
His daughter writes: "He was in North Africa, then Italy. Said he was in hospital in Perugia where he lost a kidney. Was I believe town major of Verona and/or Venice at the end of the war. Billeted at Daniele Hotel, Venice. Remained in the army. Later in Pay Corps. Stationed at Worthy Down, Winchester and was liaison officer there when it was handed over to army in 1960s."
Meredith,
Kenneth Evan
"Bill"
K.E. Meredith
Second son of Lt.Col. Arthur Elsdale Meredith, MC, Royal Signals (1885-1962), and Jessie Campbell ...
Married ((06?).1940, Dorchester district, Dorset) Elizabeth Marion "Betty" Longhurst, of Exmouth, Devon, younger daughter of F.H. Longhurst, MICE, and Mrs Longhurst; two daughters. Betty Meredith remarried (1946) Maj. Robert Hamond, Royal Norfolk Regiment.
20.05.1915
-
11.07.1944
[age 29]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France, XXI.E.6]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 31.01.1935 [66463]
Lt. 01.08.1938
A/Capt. 25.05.1940-24.08.1940
T/Capt. 25.08.1940-18.11.1941
WS/Capt. 19.11.1941
Capt. 31.01.1943
A/Maj. 19.08.1941-18.11.1941
T/Maj. 19.11.1941-11.07.1944
Education: Sherborne School (1929-1933; Lyon House; 6th form; 1st XI cricket team, 1933; 1st XV rugby football team, 1932); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (cadet scholarship, under-officer, XI, XV, golf team).
31.01.1935     commissioned, Unattached List
15.04.1936     commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment
01.07.1940 - 18.08.1941 Adjutant, ...
      served at Malta & at War Office
? - 11.07.1944 1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (killed in action near Villers Bocage, France)
From an obituary: ""Ice-cold and terrific in action," is one description of him. The last recollection a wounded brother Officer had of him, before losing consciousness, was of Meredith standing over him with a Sten gun tackling a Tiger tank. He was deeply kind and humane with no killing instinct, but he would never shrink or fail in a fight. He was one who was never satisfied unless he had given of his best, whether it was in games or his work or war or any other effort. To those who knew him well this high standard applied also to all his notions of conduct. In short, a very gallant soldier and gentleman.'"
Meredith,
Reginald John
R.J. Meredith
Son of Evan and Violet Rosalind Meredith (née Aston).
Married ((06?).1942, Gloucester, Gloucestershire) Nora Anne Ridge.
18.02.1918
Stourbridge, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands / Worcestershire
-
14.09.1945
(KIA) [age 26]
[Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India, 1.L.9]
Cadet
? [2362585]
2nd Lt.
23.11.1944 [335329]
WS/Lt.
?
23.11.1944


commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission]
?
-
14.09.1945
attached, 6th Battalion The South Wales Borderers
Merritt,
William Edward
"Bill"
W.E. Merritt (Photo courtesy of Mrs Valerie Martin (née Merritt)) W.E. Merritt (Photo courtesy of Mrs Valerie Martin (née Merritt))
Son of James ans Mary Merritt, of Christchurch New Zealand.
Married (1935) Doris Lambert; one daughter.
18.08.1908
Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
-
09.06.1977
Christchurch, New Zealand
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
04.04.1942 [232060]
WS/Lt.
04.10.1942
T/Capt.
22.03.1944-(04.1946)
A/Maj.
?
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1946
Mediterranean
?
-
03.04.1942
Officer Cadet training Unit at Weedon, Northamptonshire
04.04.1942


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



served in Bone, North Africa & Italy
A professional cricketer who played for New Zealand & Northamptonshire (1926/27-1946). Member of the British Army Cricket Team to tour England.
Metcalfe,
John Francis
J.F. Metcalfe
Son of late Brig.Gen. F.H.
Metcalfe, DSO.
Married (1938, Allahabad) Natalia Eleanor, daughter of late Col. N.E. Margetts, US Army; one daughter.
30.06.1908
Berwick district, Durham / Northumberland
-
11.06.1975
Windlesham, Littlestone, New Romney, Kent
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
02.02.1928
Lt.
02.02.1931
Capt.
24.11.1937
A/Maj.
14.05.1940-13.08.1940
T/Maj.
14.08.1940-22.12.1940,
25.07.1941-18.01.1942,
24.01.1942-12.08.1942,
22.10.1942-08.03.1944
WS/Maj.
09.03.1944
Maj.
02.02.1945
local Lt.Col.
24.01.1942-12.08.1942,
22.10.1942-18.07.1943
A/Lt.Col.
09.12.1943-08.03.1944
T/Lt.Col.
09.03.1944-03.07.1944,
15.08.1944-01.10.1945
WS/Lt.Col.
02.10.1945
Lt.Col.
01.10.1949
A/Col.
02.04.1945-01.10.1945
T/Col.
02.10.1945-04.11.1946
Col.
13.08.1952
A/Brig.
02.04.1945-01.10.1945
T/Brig.
02.10.1945-24.01.1946,
01.10.1951-13.09.1956
Brig.
14.09.1956
Maj.Gen.
07.11.1958 (retd 05.12.1963)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1960
?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
1954
?
Mention in Despatches MID
26.04.1945
?
Mention in Despatches MID
08.05.1956
?
Education: Radley College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
02.02.1928


commissioned, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
(03.1931)
-
(06.1933)
1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Tientsin)
(01.1937)


1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Allahabad)
1939
-
1945
served in India and Burma:
24.04.1937
-
05.12.1940
Adjutant, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Allahabad)
09.07.1941
-
23.01.1942
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), ...
22.10.1942
-
18.07.1943
Instructor (General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Quetta
09.1943
-
1944
Second-in-Command, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (Arakan)
1944
-
04.1944
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (in command of 21 Column, Chindits, Burma) [wounded]
15.08.1944
-
11.09.1944
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), ...
12.09.1944
-
01.04.1945
Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG), ...
02.04.1945
-
24.11.1945
Brigadier "Q" (Maintenance), HQ Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA)
25.01.1946
-
27.10.1946
Colonel in charge of Administration, South Wales District
05.11.1946
-
13.04.1949
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1) (Instructor), Joint Services Staff College
08.1949
 
 
transferred, The East Surrey Regiment
08.1949
-
08.1951
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment (Greece)
01.10.1951
-
04.01.1954
Brigadier General Staff, HQ Western Command
1954


Imperial Defence College
03.02.1955
-
30.09.1955
Commander, ... Infantry Brigade (Far East Land Forces)
01.10.1955
-
1957
Commander, 2nd Federation Infantry Brigade (Malaya)
1958
-
1961
Director of Personnel Administration, War Office
1961
-
1963
General Officer Commanding, Aldershot District
Colonel, The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, 14.10.1959-1964.
Michael,
James
J. Michael
?
-
Col. Sjt. ? [2981942]
2nd Lt. 24.08.1943 [301769]
WS/Lt. 24.02.1944
WS/Capt. ? (reld 22.02.1949)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. 22.02.1949
24.08.1943     commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [immediate emergency commission]
      8th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Michels,
Wallace Gorton
W.G. Michels

Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
18.02.1906
Maldon district, Essex
-
02.1999
Hereford district, Herefordshire
2nd Lt. 05.03.1940 [123032]
WS/Lt. 04.10.1940
T/Capt. 04.10.1940-(04.1946)
WS/Maj. ?
Capt. TA 30.09.1948, seniority 03.02.1944
Hon. Lt.Col. 30.04.1949
05.03.1940     commissioned, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) [emergency commission]
      served with 8th Gurkha Rifles
30.09.1948     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
30.04.1949 - 16.05.1956 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Middlemas,
William
W. Middlemas

08.08.1910
Thornley or Wheatley Hill, Easington district, Durham
-

Sqdn. Sgt.Maj. (Wt.Offr. cl. II)
? [6911882]
2nd Lt.
15.01.1943 [270084]
WS/Lt.
15.01.1943
T/Capt.
24.08.1943-(04.1946)
WS/Capt.
1946?
Capt.
01.11.1946, seniority 30.11.1945 (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 01.02.1952)
T/Maj.
28.03.1947
Long Service Good Conduct Medal LSGCM
20.02.1948
-
General Service Medal GenSM
-
& clasp Palestine
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Burma Star Bur St
-
-
Defence Medal Def M
-
-
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-
1928
-
1940
served in the ranks, Rifle Brigade
1940
-
1943
served in the ranks, Reconnaissance Corps - Royal Armoured Corps
15.01.1943
 
 
commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
01.1943
 
 
Assistant to Town-Major Ahwaz in Palestine, HQ 39th (Indian) Infantry Brigade
24.08.1943
 
 
No. 4 Base Provost Company
30.11.1945
 
 
Assistant Provost Marshal, Palestine District
01.11.1946
 
 
transferred, The Durham Light Infantry [short service commission]
1949
 
 
Officer Commanding, 173rd Provost Company (Belfast)
1950
-
1951
No. 2 Prisoner of War Discharge Centre, British Army of the Rhine (Göttingen, near Hanover, Germany)
Middleton,
George Sidney Forbes
G.S.F. Middleton

19.07.1907
Farnham, Hampshire / Surrey
-
27.12.1940
[age 32]
[Cranwell (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire, 2.D.15]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
01.09.1927 [38599]
Lt.
01.09.1930
Capt.
22.11.1937
Maj.
?
01.09.1927


commissioned, East Surrey Regiment 
28.08.1931
-
19.08.1935
employed with King's African Rifles
22.11.1937?


transferred, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
20.08.1935
-
31.03.1939
employed (GSO3 War Office) Committee of Imperial Defence
?
-
?
?
Miers,
Richard Capel Hanmer
R.C.H. Miers (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Hanmer James Miers, Esq. (1882-1954), and Mabel Catherine Morgan (1884-1948), of Penyworlod, Abergavenny.
Married ((12?).1949, Westminster, London) academic Suzanne "Sue" Doyle (29.12.1922 - 11.09.2016), who was a world expert on African Slavery; one son, one daughter.
11.06.1913
Llanfoist, South Wales
-
21.02.1962
JHQ Rheindahlen, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
[committed suicide, supposedly due to the fact that he felt he was not promoted; he had been gazetted to the rank of Maj.Gen. two days before, without knowing it...]
2nd Lt. 02.02.1933 [58123]
... ...
T/Maj. 06.12.1941-18.01.1942,
07.06.1942-(01.1946)
... ...
Col. 31.01.1959, seniority 07.04.1956
Brig. 01.01.1961
Distinguished Service Order DSO 13.09.1945 Burma
Distinguished Service Order DSO 20.12.1957 Malaya [dated 30.08.1957] *
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 09.06.1949 HM's birthday 1949
Mention in Despatches MID 30.06.1942 Middle East 07.1941-10-.1941
* As Commanding Officer of the 1st Bn. The South Wales Borderers, during a period of ten months spent on operations in the jungle Lieutenant-Colonel MIERS made a valuable contribution to the defeat of the terrorist organization. He was indefatigable in personally led reconnaissances and in the preparation of successful ambushes. The success and high reputation achieved by the1st Bn. The South Wales Borderers is very largely due to the tenacity and courage of its Commanding Officer.
Education: Cheltenham (05.1927-07.1931); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1931-1932).
02.02.1933     commissioned, The South Wales Borderers
... - ... ...
1936 - 1939 seconded, King's African Rifles
31.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
1955? - 1957? Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The South Wales Borderers
Published: Shoot to kill, Etc. [an account of operations against the Communists in Malaya] (1959). Contributor to: Time and Tide; Blackwood's Magazine; Yorkshire Post, etc.
Miles,
[Rev.] Archibald Geoffrey
A.G. Miles

Son of Adm. Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles, KCB, KCSI, RN (1980-1986), and Alison Mary Cadell (1898-1981).
Married (18.01.1951, St Mary's, Oxford, Oxfordshire) Elizabeth Joan Rosemary Tucker.
01.05.1922
-
13.03.1993
Wheatley, Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
2nd Lt. 01.08.1942 [240542]
WS/Lt. 01.02.1943 (reld 10.12.1952)
Education: New College, Oxford (BA, 1947; MA, 1948); Chichester Theological College (1949).
01.08.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Joined the clergy post-war.
Miles,
Eric Grant

2nd son of late George H. Miles, Homestall, Welwyn, Herts. Married (1924) Lady Marcia Valda (died 1972), youngest daughter of 7th Earl of Roden; one daughter.
11.08.1891
Homestall, Welwyn, Herts
-
03.11.1977
The Rope Walk, Lyth Hill, Shrewsbury
Cadet
?
2nd Lt. 
03.06.1911 [20038]
T/Lt.
27.08.1914-31.08.1914
Lt.
01.09.1914
T/Capt.
01.09.1915-24.01.1916
Capt.
25.01.1916
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1919
Maj.
08.05.1928
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1931
Lt.Col.
06.05.1936
Col.
11.02.1938, seniority 01.07.1934
A/Brig.
12.01.1940-11.07.1940
T/Brig.
12.07.1940-15.06.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
12.05.1941-15.06.1941
Maj.Gen.
16.06.1941, seniority 20.11.1940 (retd 10.09.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.
25.09.1944-30.11.1944
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1943
New Year 43
Distinguished Service Order DSO
04.06.1917
distinguished service in the field
Military Cross MC
24.07.1915
*
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1915
?
Mention in Despatches MID
04.01.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
15.05.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
20.05.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
29.12.1918
?
Mention in Despatches MID
2012.1940
?
1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
* For conspicuous gallantry. During a critical period in the attack on "Hill 60" and neighbouring trenches on May 1st, 1915, he succeeded in mending the telephone wire along the railway cutting under such heavy shell fire that messengers were unable to get through.
Education: Harrow; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1922; psc); Imperial Defence College (1934; idc)
03.06.1911


commissioned into The King's Own Scottish Borderers
1914
-
1918
served European War (France & Belgium 13.08.1914-23.09.1918; wounded)
(05.1915)


attached 5th Signal Company, Royal Engineers
06.11.1915
-
23.03.1916
General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), .... (France)
24.03.1916
-
16.07.1917
Brigade Major, ... (France)
17.07.1917
-
11.06.1918
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), .... (France)
28.08.1918

22.09.1918
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), .... (France)
23.09.1918
-
30.01.1919
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff School (Cambridge, UK)
08.02.1919
-
29.03.1919
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), .... (France)
30.03.1919
-
12.03.1920
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Rhine Army (Germany)
01.05.1920
-
21.06.1920
General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), Schleswig Plebiscite Area Germany (Germany)
23.01.1923
-
31.03.1924
General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office (London, UK)
01.04.1924
-
23.01.1927
General Staff Officer for Weapon Training, Southern Command (UK)
24.01.1927
-
26.06.1928
Brigade Major, Shanghai Defence Force [and Northern China (temporary)] (China)
11.02.1930
-
15.01.1934
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office (London, UK)
06.05.1936
-
1938
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment
11.02.1938
-
15.11.1939
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), Malaya (Malaya)
12.01.1940
-
15.09.1940
Commander, 126th Infantry Brigade (UK, France & Belgium, UK)
16.09.1940
-
11.05.1941
Brigadier General Staff, Home Forces (UK)
12.05.1941
-
07.10.1941
General Officer Commanding, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division (UK)
08.10.1941
-
04.05.1943
General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division (UK, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, N Africa) (wounded)
12.1943
-
1946
General Officer Commanding, East Kent, Kent & South-Eastern Districts, also:
25.09.1944
-
12.1944
temporary General Officer Commanding-in- Chief, South-Eastern Command
10.09.1946
-
11.08.1956
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Colonel, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 19.06.1944-19.06.1954.
A Member of the House of Laity, Church Assembly, 1955-1960; Deputy Chairman, Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance, 1954-1960, Chairman, 1960-1971.
Miles,
Eric Talbot Shakespear
E.T.S. Miles
Son (with six brothers and two sisters) of Alfred Shakespear Miles (1885-1975), and Ethel Josephine Hirst (1883-1963).
Married (06.05.1947; divorced 1957) Cynthia Zia Hester Westenra (07.09.1920 - 23.03.2002), daughter of the Hon. Richard Westenra (1893-1944), and Alice Florence Blacker-Douglas (1895-1975); two daughters, one son.
06.10.1921
Buenos Aires, Argentina
-
25.03.2014
Royal Free Hospital
L/Cpl. ?
2nd Lt. 03.06.1943 [291852]
WS/Lt. 03.12.1943 (reld 21.10.1946)
Hon. Lt. 21.10.1946
03.06.1943     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
      "B" Squadron, 25th Dragoons (4 Troop Leader & 1 Troop Leader)
His son writes: "He was commissioned at Dehradun Indian Military Academy. He fought in The Battle of The Admin Box in Lee tanks. His and one of his troop's tanks were burnt out on 11th February 1944. He and his crew received a replacement Lee the next morning. He is mentioned in three books about The Admin Box. The most recent "Burma '44" by James Holland."
Miles,
John Gordon
J.G. Miles
Son of Maj. Owen Miles, Royal Field Artillery, and ... Huntly-Gordon.
06.10.1921
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
12.1995
Camborne-Redruth district, Cornwall
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 28.06.1941 [193712]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 15.09.1944-(04.1946)
WS/Capt. ? (reld 25.07.1946)
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. 25.07.1946
28.06.1941     commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [emergency commission]
25.04.1944 - (04.1946) seconded, The King's African Rifles
Miller,
Aubrey Donald
A.D. Miller
Son of Thomas Miller.
06.04.1911
Wandsworth district, London
-
05.2003
Salisbury district, Wiltshire
Pte.
?
2nd Lt. TA
25.01.1930
2nd Lt.
31.08.1935, seniority 06.04.1934
Lt.
31.08.1938
A/Capt.
02.09.1939-23.09.1939,
03.02.1940-11.04.1940
T/Capt.
12.04.1940-13.01.1942
WS/Capt.
14.01.1942
Capt.
31.08.1943
A/Maj.
14.10.1941-13.01.1942
T/Maj.
14.01.1942-20.12.1942,
03.04.1943-24.04.1944
WS/Maj.
25.04.1944
Maj.
06.04.1947
A/Lt.Col.
25.01.1944-24.04.1944
T/Lt.Col.
25.04.1944-01.02.1950,
25.07.1952-24.12.1952
local Lt.Col.
18.06.1952-24.07.1952
Lt.Col.
25.12.1952 (supernumerary 25.12.1955) (Emp. List (1) 30.07.1955)
Col.
17.11.1957 (retd 19.12.1961)
T/Brig.
30.10.1961
Distinguished Service Order DSO
21.12.1944
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
08.02.1945
?
Mention in Despatches MID
26.07.1940
?
Mention in Despatches MID
1952
Malaya
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Africa Star Afr St
-
-
Italy Star It St
-
-
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp. Operations in Malaya 1952 Medal & Clasp.

Education: City of London School; Staff College (psc)



late Cadet, City of London School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps




served in the ranks, Honourable Artillery Company
25.01.1930


commissioned, 4th City of London Regiment - Territorial Army
31.08.1935


commissioned, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
(01.1937)


2nd Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment (Palestine)



served BEF (France), North Africa, Italy, Greece:
09.01.1938
-
05.08.1940
Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment (Plymouth, France)
06.08.1940
-
17.03.1941
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), HQ Northern Command
18.03.1941
-
04.06.1941
instructor, Northern Command Company Commanders' School
14.10.1941
-
13.12.1942
Brigade Major, 211th Infantry Brigade
03.04.1943
-
03.06.1943
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) (Training), HQ 141 Force
04.06.1943
-
23.10.1943
Brigade Major, 128th Infantry Brigade
1944?
-
1945?
Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment
19.12.1944
-
08.01.1945
acting Commander, 138th Infantry Brigade (Italy)
14.04.1945
-
16.05.1945
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), AFHQ
17.05.1945
-
24.10.1945
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), X Corps
06.11.1945
-
08.08.1946
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 46th Infantry Division
08.11.1947
-
07.09.1948
Assistant Adjutant-General (AAG), HQ BTB, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
08.09.1948
-
08.12.1948
Staff Officer,1st grade (SO1), HQ BTB, BAOR
05.02.1949
-
01.02.1950
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Training), HQ BAOR
02.02.1950
-
14.04.1952
Senior Instructor, Basic Wing, Mons. OCS
25.12.1952
 
 
transferred, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
25.12.1952
-
1955
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Green Howards
13.10.1955
-
(02.)1957
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), SHAPE Mission to Portugal
1957
-
1959
Commander, 131st Infantry Brigade TA
1959
-
1961
Head of Liaison Mission UN Command Korea

Miller,
George Patrick
"Peter"
G.P. Miller (aka G.P. Rose-Miller)

Third son of Capt. John Gardner Miller, The Black Watch (1864-), and Maud Helen Springfield, of Mayfield, Perth.
Known as "Rose-Miller" from about 1945.
Married (1929) Millicent Rose Lang-Rose (07.04.1907 - 20.09.1954); two daughters, two sons.

20.07.1897
-
19.10.1984
Barevan, Cawdor, Nairnshire, Scotland
2nd Lt. 22.12.1915 [10718]
Lt. 01.07.1917
Capt. 25.05.1923
Maj. 30.05.1935
A/Lt.Col. 01.09.1939-(01.1940)
T/Lt.Col. ...-16.10.1940
Lt.Col. 17.10.1940 (Supernumerary 17.10.1943) (retd 21.11.1945)
T/Col. 09.02.1943-(04.1944)
A/Brig. 31.01.1941-30.07.1941
T/Brig. 31.07.1941-(01.1943)
Hon. Brig. 21.11.1945
Distinguished Service Order DSO 22.10.1940 France & Belgium *
Military Cross MC 14.11.1916 **
WWI: British War Medal, Victory Medal.
* During the operations in May, Lieut.-Col. Miller displayed the greatest ability and gallantry in command of his battalion, especially during the battle at La Bassee on May 28. Inspired by his leadership, his battalion held out until completeiy surrounded by enemy infantry and tanks, causing many casualties to the enemy in men and material. When ordered to withdraw, what remained of his battalion Lieut.-Col. Miller led his headquarters through the enemy, displaying great daring and skill in doing so. The resistance of the Cameron Highlanders prevented the enemy from turning the right flank of the French troops on the Camerons' left. The determined resistance of his battalion was
largely due to Lieut.-Col. Mliller's powers of leadership and utter disregard for personal safety.
** For conspicuous gallantry in action. He assumed command of two companies,
holding on to an enemy trench with great courage and determination. He set a
splendid example to his men.
Education: Trinity College, Glenalmond; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
22.12.1915     commissioned, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
1915 - 1917 3rd Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
29.5.1916 - 05.10.1917 served France & Belgium
1919 - 1940 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (India, Burma, Sudan, UK & France)
01.09.1939 - 1940 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
15.02.1941 - 29.07.1942 Commander, 227th Infantry Brigade (raised & commanded in UK)
30.07.1942 - 27.01.1943 Commander, 155th Infantry Brigade (UK)
01.09.1942 - 11.09.1942 acting General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
21.11.1945 - 20.07.1952 Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Class I) [attained age limit]
Beef farmer, inventor and export salesman. Invented calf feeder, 1948, and new device for feeding young animals, patented 1978; having bought estate of 4,800 acres, produced new method of breeding out­wintered cattle with self­feed labour saving silage in the hills of Nairnshire (losing none in the very bad winter of 1978-79).
Published: articles on agricultural subjects.
Miller,
Gilbert Frederick

G.F. Miller (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert A. Hedges) G.F. Miller (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert A. Hedges)
Married Adda Bodez (07.1918 - 24.05.19??).
23.03.1916
Montevideo, Uruguay
-
19.06.1986
Madrid, Spain
2nd Lt. 12.07.1941 [194290]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
WS/Capt. 24.07.1945
T/Maj. 24.07.1945-(04.1947)
? - 12.07.1941 Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.07.1941     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Miller,
Harry Raymond
"Pat"
H.R. Miller

Second son of Lt.Col. Joseph Sydney Miller, DSO, and Florence Eva Drabble (1891-), of 40 Inverness Terrace, London W2.
Engaged (05.1944) Mary Simmonds, WAC, only daughter of Mr & Mrs A. Simmonds, of Assam, India & Eastbourne.
Married (10.04.1945, St Dunstan's, Woking, Surrey) Eileen Mary Whiteing (1916 - ), daughter of Capt. Isaac Henry [Joseph] Whiteing, DCM (1876-1971), and Mary Falvey, of Bisley Camp; one son, one daughter.
20.02.1916
Sheffield, Ecclesall Bierlow district, Yorkshire
-
01.1990
Richmond upon Thames district, Surrey
Lt. 15.09.1939 [104605]
Lt. 10.11.1944, seniority 15.09.1939
Capt. 10.11.1944, seniority 15.09.1940
A/Maj. 06.11.1942-05.02.1943
T/Maj. 06.02.1943-01.09.1947
WS/Maj. 02.09.1947
Maj. 15.09.1947
A/Lt.Col. 03.11.1945-23.01.1946,
24.08.1947-01.09.1947
T/Lt.Col. 02.09.1947-13.09.1953,
12.11.1956-06.01.1957
Lt.Col. 01.06.1957
Col. 15.09.1962 (retd 13.10.1973)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
United Nations Service Medal UNSM - & clasp Cyprus
Education: MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1939; DTM&H Eng 1954; DPH Eng 1954 (St Mary's). Junior Specialist in Army Health 1955. Senior Specialist 1959. Consultant 1965.
15.09.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
1941 - 1945 served in India & Burma
10.11.1944     short service commission
20.04.1945     permanent commission [dated 15.09.1944]
1945 - 1946 Commanding Officer, 180th Field Ambulance RAMC
1946     Hospital Ships "Atlantis" & "Oxfordshire"
1947 - 1948 Commanding Officer, British Military Hospital Suez (Middle East Land Forces)
1948 - 1950 Commanding Ifficer, 35rd Field Ambulance RAMC (Middle East Land Forces)
1950 - 1953 Senior Medical Officer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
1956     served in Aden
1957 - 1961 Senior Medical Officer & Deputy Assistant Director of Army Health, HQ Tripolitania (Middle East Land Forces)
1964 - 1965 Senior Instructor, Army School of Health
1966     Chief Medical Officer, HQ United Nations Force in Cyprus
1967 - ? Assistant Director of Army Health, HQ 17th Division/Malaya District (Far East Land Foces)
Miller,
John Alfred Tennant
"Jack"
J.A.T. Miller
Married (27.06.1933) Adelaide Hilda Clay (died 10.1972, aged 85), daughter of Charles John Clay and Elizabeth Teasdale Smith, of Burton-upon-Trent, and widow of Henry Francis Clifford (killed in action 09.01.1917); her daughter Henrietta married Maj. Peter F.S. Haggie (who changed his name to Clifford).
13.11.1887
Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
29.10.1972
Frampton-on-Severn
2nd Lt.
18.12.1907 [4058]
Lt.
?
Capt.
?
Maj.
02.06.1923
Lt.Col.
13.01.1933 (half-pay 13.01.1937) (retd 13.07.1937)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE
WW I ?
?
WWI medals
WW I


Lieutenant, Royal Kent Regiment
WW I


Captain & Adjutant, 14th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps
09.08.1922


Captain, 14th/20th Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps (with seniority 23.12.1916)
19.01.1928
-
13.12.1929
Deputy Provost Marshal (Class BB), Rhine Army (temporary)
13.01.1933
-
13.01.1937
Commanding Officer, 14th/20th Hussars (Egypt & India)
13.07.1937
-
19.08.1945
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
24.06.1939
-
13.05.1940
Commanding Officer, 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps (Territorial Army)
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
22.05.1940
-
(04.1944)
special appointment (specially employed under the Director of Military Operations, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office)
Published: (as editor) Browne, J. Gilbert & E.J. Bridges. Historical Record of the 14th (Kings) Hussars 1900-1922 Volume Two (1932)
Miller,
[Sir] John Mansell
J.M. Miller  
3rd son of Brig.Gen. Alfred Douglas Miller, CBE, DSO, DL, JP, Royal Scots Greys, and of Ella Geraldine Fletcher, Saltoun, E Lothian.
Home address: (1944) Tetbury.
04.02.1919
Wheatley,  Oxfordshire
-
17.05.2006
Wheatley, Oxon.
2nd Lt.
26.01.1939 [85599]
Lt.
01.01.1941
A/Capt.
11.09.1941-10.12.1941
T/Capt.
11.12.1941-29.09.1944
WS/Capt.
30.09.1944
Capt.
01.07.1946
A/Maj.
30.06.1944-29.09.1944
T/Maj.
30.09.1944-29.06.1947,
19.11.1948-13.02.1950
Maj.
26.01.1952
Lt.Col.
07.11.1958 (retd 05.04.1961)
Knitght Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order GCVO
13.06.1987
HM's birthday 87
Knitght Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO
15.06.1974
HM's birthday 74
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
11.06.1966
HM's birthday 66
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.03.1945
NW Europe 09.44 *
Military Cross MC
21.12.1944
NW Europe 08.44 **
* For his skill in re-establishing two companies of his regiment after a fierce tank attack had dislodged them.
** When, in the face of heavy shelling, he kept his beleaguered men together, continually exposing himself to enemy fire with complete disregard to his personal safety.
Education: Eton; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)
26.01.1939


commissioned, Welsh Guards
1939
-
1940
... Battalion, Welsh Guards (British Expeditionery Force)
21.08.1942
-
22.05.1944
Adjutant, ...
1944
-
1945
Officer Commanding, Prince of Wales Company, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (NW Europe)
11.1945
-
08.1947
ADC to Field Marshal Lord Wilson (Washington, DC)
1953
-
1956
Regimental Adjutant
1956
-
1958
Brigade Major, 1st Guards Brigade
07.11.1958
-
05.04.1961
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
President: Royal International Horse Show, 1993-; Coaching Club, 1975-1982; Hackney Horse Society, 1978-1979, 1994-1995; National Light Horse Breeding Society (HIS), 1982; British Driving Society, 1982-; Royal Windsor Horse Show Club, 1985-1990; Horse Rangers Association, 1985-; Cleveland Bay Horse Society, 1986-1988; BSJA, 1988-1993; BHS, 1992-1994; Rare Breeds Survival Trust, 1995-; Vice-President, Irish Draught Horse Society, GB, 1990-. Patron: Side Saddle Association, 1984-; Coloured Horse and Pony Society, 1988. President: Wheatley Br, RNLI, 1982-; Wheatley Scouts, 1982-... Crown Equerry, 05.04.1961-01.08.1987, an Extra Equerry since 1987.
Miller,
Peter Taverner
P.T. Miller

Eldest son of Taverner Barrington Miller, JP (1872-1944), and Catherine Mildred Miller (1878-), of Uplands, Wadhurst, Sussex.
Married (27.04.1935, South Cerney, Cirencester district, Gloucestershire) Alice Mary Smyth, of Paddington, London, only daughter of Lt.Col. H. Smyth, DSO, of South Cerney, Gloucestershire; one daughter.
22.05.1908
Eastbourne, Sussex
-
20.05.1940
near Amiens, France
(KIA) [age 31]
[Dunkirk Memorial, column 63]
2nd Lt. 12.04.1928 [39804]
Lt. 12.04.1931
Capt. 01.03.1939
A?/Maj. 1939?
Education: Radley College (1922.3-1927.2; House B; House Prefect; Junior Scholar; English Literature Prize; Cricket XI 1927; Fives Vest 1927); Oriel College, Oxford University (BA) (OUAC (Hurdles) 1931, (Relay) 1929-1930).
Barrister-at-law, Inner Temple (South-Eastern Circuit), 1933.
      late Cadet Corporal, Radley College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
12.04.1928     commissioned, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion (Territorial) The Royal Sussex Regiment - Territorial Army
? - 20.05.1940 B Company, 7th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment
Miller,
Robert Thornley
R.T. Miller

23.02.1914
-
1988
2nd Lt. 18.06.1932 [53237]
Lt. 18.06.1935
Capt. 05.05.1939 (reverted to lower rank at own request whilst employed during
the present emergency 28.07.1940)
Lt. 28.07.1940
Capt. 16.10.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 31.03.1943-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 19.01.1962 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 19.01.1962 1st clasp
      late Officer Cadet, University of London Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
18.06.1932     commissioned, 9th Battalion The Manchester Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
? - 26.02.1964 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Miller,
Simon Edward
S.E. Miller

Only son (with one sister) of Abraham "Alf" Miller (1885?-), and Rachel Angel Drukker (1885-1949), of Brondesbury Park, London NW2.
Married (14.10.1936, Hampstead Synagogue) Nita Muriel Goldberg ((12?).1912 - 10.06.2006), eldest daughter of Abraham Albert Goldberg, and Lotty Myer, of "Lyttelton", Arkwright Road, Hampstead, London NW3; one son, two daughters.
08.12.1911
Islington district, London
-
1987
Wooburn, Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 21.02.1942 [226460]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld < 08.1946)
T/Capt. 25.12.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Capt. < 08.1946
Member of the London Stock Exchange.
21.02.1942     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1944 - 1945 served with 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
Post-war he became a Justice of the peace and served in the local Magistrates court. Active in local wildlfe projects. Master, The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers, 1970.
Miller,
Thomas de Burgh

T. de B. Miller
Son (with one sister [who married Maj. Douglas Pilfold Stewart, Army Catering Corps])
of Brig. Hugh de Burgh Miller, CBE, DSO (1873-1951), and Una Maud Isobel Baird (1875-1966), of Dava, Farnham, Surrey.
Married (16.10.1937, Church of St Thomas-on-the-Bourne, Farnham, Surrey) Nina Margaret King, only daughter of Maj. A.B. King, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and Mrs King (later Mrs J.F. Crombie), of Gorshanger, Farnham; ... children (one son?).
13.02.1913
Woolwich district, London
-
10.1993
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
2nd Lt. 02.02.1933 [58053]
Lt. 02.02.1936
A/Capt. 21.07.1940-20.10.1940
T/Capt. 21.10.1940-01.02.1941
Capt. 02.02.1941
A/Maj. 10.07.1942-09.10.1942
T/Maj. 10.10.1942-23.04.1944,
20.05.1944-30.06.1946
Maj. 01.07.1946 (retd 27.02.1965)
A/Lt.Col. 12.11.1945-11.02.1946
T/Lt.Col. 12.02.1946-17.08.1946,
31.03.1950-17.11.1951
Hon. Lt.Col. 27.02.1965
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 09.09.1942 intelligence Malta *
Education: Cheltenham College (09.1926-07.1931; Day Boy); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1931-1933); Pembroke College, Cambridge University (MA 1941, BA 1937).
02.02.1933     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals
1938? - 1942? served in intelligence at Malta (MBE)
27.02.1965 - 13.02.1968 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
* Recommendation for the appointment as Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) of Capt. T. de. B. Miller: "This officer has been in command of a special and most important Intelligence Unit in MALTA for the past four years. During the past year, in particular, lack of first class equipment, shortage of personnel and enemy action have provided extremely great difficulties which Captain MILLER has surmounted in an outstanding fashion. Despite everything he has kept a flow of the most important and urgent information unceasingly and it is considered that his performance constitutes an outstanding example of devotion to duty."
Recommended by Brig. F.W. de Guingand, Director of Military Intelligence, General HQ Middle East, approved by Lt.Gen. T.W. Corbett, Chief of General Staff, General HQ Middle East.
Miller Mundy,
Edward Peter Godfrey
E.P.G. Miller Mundy
Son of Godfrey Edward Miller Mundy, and Mollie Ethel Gertrude Buck.
Married 1st (24.01.1941, Chelsea Old Church) Margaret Cecil "Peggy" Clarke (30.01.1917 - 03.1986); three sons. Peggy Miller Mundy remarried (09.06.1954) Capt. R.E. Wallace.
Married 2nd (31.01.1952, Westminster district, London; divorced 1966) Bridget Eileen Suzanne Christian (née Smiley) (15.03.1918 - (03?).1981), divorced wife of Lt.Col. John Monsell Christian, and daughter of Hubert Stewart Smiley and Elsie Hope Gill.
Married 3rd (07.10.1966, Newbury district, Berkshire) Lady Bridget Elliot (07.12.1921 - 19.11.2005) , divorced wife of James Averell Clark, then Henry Claude Lyon Garnett, and daughter of 5th Earl of Minto.
Married 4th ((09?).1970, Westminster district, London) Liliana Ristic.
08.07.1916
Paddington district, London
-
27.07.1981
Westminster district, London
2nd Lt. 02.07.1939 [68329]
Lt. 02.01.1941
A/Capt. 06.01.1941-05.04.1941
T/Capt. 06.04.1941-27.09.1942,
23.11.1943-22.02.1944
WS/Capt. 23.02.1944 (reld 02.03.1946)
A/Maj. 23.11.1943-22.02.1944
T/Maj. 23.02.1944-15.03.1944
Hon. Capt. 02.03.1946
Military Cross MC 05.07.1940 France
Mention in Despatches MID 08.11.1945 NW Europe
      commissioned, Supplementary Reserve of Officers
02.07.1939     commissioned, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) - Royal Armoured Corps
      served in UK, France, Middle East & Italy
Millo,
Royston Wilfred

R.W. Millo
Son of ... Millo, and ... Wayman.
22.05.1922
Croydon district, Kent
-
Cadet ? [14215168]
2nd Lt. 08.12.1943 [302706]
WS/Lt. 08.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Capt. 07.03.1946-06.06.1946
T/Capt. 07.06.1946-01.09.1946,
15.01.1947-21.05.1949
Lt. 10.04.1948, seniority 22.11.1944
Capt. 22.05.1949
T/Maj. 14.02.1955-21.05.1956
Maj. 22.05.1956
Lt.Col. 13.11.1964, seniority 19.08.1964
Col. 30.06.1971 (retd 31.03.1977)
Education: Staff College (psc).
      served in the ranks for 1 year, 159 days
08.12.1943     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission to 09.04.1948]
12.1943 - ? 2 Air Support Signals Unit (NW Europe)
10.04.1948     permanent commission
18.01.1952 - 16.06.1952 Staff Captain, HQ Anti-Aircraft Command
17.06.1952 - 05.12.1953 Instructor (Capt.), Mons.O.C.S.
14.02.1955 - 18.03.1957 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG), HQ Lubbecke District
11.01.1961 - 09.01.1963 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Southern Command
08.02.1963 - 05.10.1964 Adjutant, Signals Regiment (TA)
Mills,
Bernard
B. Mills
17.10.1913
-
07.2001

North Yorkshire
2nd Lt.
25.02.1940
A/Capt.
24.10.1942-23.01.1943
T/Capt.
24.01.1943-24.10.1946
A/Maj.
08.11.1944-07.02.1945
T/Maj.
08.02.1945-27.12.1946
Lt.
25.10.1946, seniority 17.10.1939
Capt.
25.10.1946, seniority 17.10.1944
T/Maj.
11.06.1947-16.10.1949
Maj.
17.10.1949 * (retd 29.07.1963)
* To take rank and precedence in his Corps and in the Army (with effect from 04.07.1955) as if his appointment as Maj. bore the date 17.10.1950
1939
-
1940
served in the ranks for 123 days
25.02.1940

commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission to 24.10.1946]
25.10.1946


transferred to Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, from 1959 The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry [permanent commission]
Mills,
Laurence John
L.J. Mills (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
01.10.1920
-
27.03.1994
2nd Lt. 02.05.1943 [273463]
WS/Lt. 02.11.1943
T/Capt. 28.10.1944-(01.1946)
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
02.05.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Mills,
Leslie
L. Mills
?
-
2nd Lt.
23.12.1925 [34143]
Lt.
23.12.1928
Capt.
26.04.1930
Maj.
15.12.1933
Lt.Col.
17.06.1939 (reld 08.06.1940; ill-health)
2nd Lt.
10.05.1941 (reld 19.06.1941)



late Cadet, Malvern College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
23.12.1925

commissioned, 5th (Prince of Wales's) Battalion The Devonshire Regiment (Plymouth)
24.08.1939
 
 
mobilized TA
10.05.1941
-
19.06.1941
commissioned, General List, Infantry [emergency commission]
Mills,
Richard Jehu
"Dick"
R.J. Mills
Married 1st Joan Webster.
Married 2nd Priscilla Matthews Beldock. One daughter, two sons.
11.03.1913
Dolgellau, Merioneth
-
24.12.2001
Chiltern district, Buckinghamshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 07.09.1940 [148547]
WS/Lt. 07.03.1941
WS/Capt. 03.02.1944 (reld 14.09.1946; disability)
T/Maj. 1946?
Hon. Maj. 14.09.1946
Education: at Dolgellau, Merioneth; University of Wales at Aberystwyth (read geography).
? - 07.09.1940 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst
07.09.1940     commissioned, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers [emergency commission]
02.12.1941     embarked Glasgow for India (served with 8th Battalion Frontier Force Regiment)
25.07.1945     embarked India for UK
 
Milne,
?
Milne
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ?
... ...
Capt. ?
(04.1945)     14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment
Milne,
the Lord;
Milne, George Francis;
1st Baron of of Salonika and Rubislaw

Lord Milne Lord Milne
Lord Milne
05.11.1866
Aberdeen 
-
23.03.1948
London
...
...
Field Marshal
30.01.1928

GCB (1927); GCMG (1919); KCB (1918); KCMG (1919); CB (1912); DSO (1902); DCL; LLD; KGStJ; Grand Cross of several foreign orders.

...
-
...
...



no active WW II service known, but carried on in the Army List
Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 21.11.1918. Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Pay Corps, 02.07.1940-14.03.1945. Master-Gunner St. James's Park, 15.08.1929.
Literature: Uncle George : Field Marshal Lord Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw (1976)
Milner-Barry,
Walter Leopold
"Papa"
W.L. Milner-Barry
23.07.1904
Hendon, Greater London
-
17.11.1981
Easton, Winchester district, Hampshire
2nd Lt.
05.05.1940 [144860]
WS/Lt.
05.11.1941
T/Capt.
01.04.1941-(04.1944)
WS/Capt.
23.03.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Hon.Capt.
< 04.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE
03.06.1978

for services to the National Association of Boys' Clubs

Mention in Despatches MID
30.06.1942
Middle East 07-10.41
Mention in Despatches MID
02.03.1944
gallant & distinguished services in the field
Oil company executive for Shell in Palestine.
05.05.1940


commissioned, General List [emergency commission]



served Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
04.1943
-
1944
served Special Boat Squadron (S Detachment, HQ Detachment & Greek Sacred Squadron)
Merchant banker.
Serving Brother, Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 02.01.1958.
Milnes,
Harold Tetley
"Dick"
H.T. Milnes (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
Son (with one sister) of Harold Milnes (1875-1951), and Emily Jane Sutcliffe (1875-1966).
Married (30.09.1939, Rawdon, Yorkshire) Jessy Shaw Gomersall (04.03.1918 - 07.02.2011); two daughters.
03.03.1915
Bradford district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
14.03.1982
Melton Mowbray district, Leicestershire
2nd Lt. 09.03.1940 [124161]
WS/Lt. 09.09.1941
T/Capt. 01.03.1942-(04.1946)
Education: Oxford University (MA).
09.03.1940     commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [emergency commission]
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
Solicitor.
Milnes-Coates,
[Sir] Robert Edward James Clive;
3rd Baronet (cr. 1911)
see: Coates,
Robert Edward James Clive
 
Milton,
Leslie Edward
L.E. Milton (Photo courtesy of Jane Milton)
Son of Dr. Edward F. Milton, and Annie Islip, of Eltham.
Married ...; one son, one daughter.
25.05.1914
Lewisham, London
-
10.04.1969
Gisborne, New Zealand
Lt. 05.09.1939 [99423]
WS/Capt. 05.09.1940 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
Hon. Capt. > 01.1946, < 04.1946
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: Epsom College (1923-1932). Guy's Hospital. MRCS, LRCP (Eng.) 1938.
Reserve Medical Officer, Hospital St. Cross, Rugby.
05.09.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission]
      served with the Maori Battalion in Egypt
General practitioner, London, UK & Gisborne, New Zealand.
Minchin,
Patrick Molesworth
P.M. Minchin
Son (with one brother) of Alfred Alyson Fennell Minchin (1887-1973), and Kathleen Winifred Molesworth (1897?-1998).
Married (23.03.1944) Mary Isobel Penistone, RSCN SRN, QAIMNSR (? - 22.12.1998), daughter of Joseph William Penistone; two sons, one adopted daughter.
27.08.1920
-
02.07.2007
Duns district, Berwickshire, Scotland
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 30.08.1941[203349]
WS/Lt. 23.12.1943 (reld > 01.1946, < 04.1946)
A/Capt. 1944
Lt. 24.01.1964 (reld 02.02.1965)
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey (summer 1934-summer 1939; Gownboys House); Merton College, Oxford University (1939-1940; BA 1946).
02.1941     enlisted for Army service
30.08.1941     commissioned, The King's Own Scottish Borderers [emergency commission]
03.1942     seconded to Indian Army & posted to Officer Training Corps Bangalore
1942     15th Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment (Quetta)
 1944?     9th Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment (Chindwara, C.P.)
1945     repatriated to UK
24.01.1964 - 02.02.1965 commissioned, Army Cadet Force (Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk)
Dairy farmer in Berwickshire (1945-1954), Somerset (1954-1960) & East Kent (1960-1963). Member, Scottish Veteran Harriers Club, competed in World Masters Track & Field championships, Toronto, 1975 and Gothenburg, 1977.
Minchinton,
Ernest John
E.J. Minchinton
Son of William John Minchinton, and Mary Ann Banner.
(09?).1919
Cardiff district, Glamorgan
-
20.05.1944
(MPK) [age 24]
[Rangoon Memorial, face 9]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 11.02.1940 [121106]
WS/Lt. 11.08.1941
A/Maj. ?
? - 11.02.1940 164th Officer Cadet Training Unit
11.02.1940     commissioned, Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
      attached Indian Army (Burma)
Minshull-Ford,
Francis Charles
F.C. Minshull-Ford (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
20.06.1914
-
03.02.1954
(killed in Mau Mau uprising, Kenya) [age 39]
2nd Lt. 01.02.1934 [62610]
Lt. 01.02.1937
A/Capt. 19.06.1940-18.09.1940
T/Capt. 19.09.1940-31.01.1942
Capt. 01.02.1942
A/Maj. 09.06.1942-08.09.1942
T/Maj. 09.09.1942-(01.1946)
01.02.1934     commissioned, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
03.06.1943 - 23.09.1943 training course, Staff College, Camberley
Minton,
David Samuel Haynes
H.L. Minton
Son of John Charles Minton, and Sarah Ann Jones.
Married ((06?).1942, Wandsworth district, London) Maude Alexandra Jones; three sons, two daughters.
27.03.1920
Bishops Castle, Clun district, Shropshire
-
09.09.2001
Yucaipa, San Bernardino, California, USA
Cadet ? [14291916]
2nd Lt. 07.11.1943 [299740]
WS/Lt. 07.05.1944 (reld 02.02.1947)
T/Capt. 07.01.1946-02.02.1947
Hon. Capt. 02.02.1947
07.11.1943     commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]
Joined clergy (deacon 1950, priest 1951; Bran. C. of Melita, 1950-1952, I. of Souris 1952-1956, Lockeport 1956-1958, R. of Crapaud 1958-1960).
Minton,
Herbert Lawrence
H.L. Minton
Son (with four brothers and one sister) of Richard Sidney Herbert Minton (1879-1956), and Jane Elizabeth "Jenny" Schofield (1879-1939).
Married (15.06.1940, St. Michael at Bowes Church, Wood Green, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Dora Engers; two sons, one daughter.
30.12.1914
Islington district, London
-
09.03.1987
Hackney district, London
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.06.1940 [134613]
WS/Lt. 15.12.1941 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
T/Capt. 24.08.1944-(04.1946)
? - 15.06.1940 170th Officer Cadet Training unit
15.06.1940     commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]
01.1941     attended Small Arms School (Netheravon)
18.12.1941     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Miscampbell,
Norman Alexander
N.A. Miscampbell

20.02.1925
-
16.02.2007

Cadet
? [14433608]
2nd Lt.
14.01.1945 [339429]
25.02.1940

commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission]

Mischler,
Stanley Max
S.M. Mischler
* Birth registration as: Max Stanley Mischler.
Son (with one brother) of Martin Mischler (1877?-1965), and Martha Sarah Lambert (1884-1959), of Brondesbury Park, London NW.
Brother of Maj. Norman Martin Mischler, Indian Army.
Married ((03?).1936, Bucklow district, Cheshire) Helen Margaret Newell ((03?).1910 - 06.01.2006); ... children (two daughters ?).

27.03.1910
Paddington, London
-
31.10.1995
Camborne-Redruth district, Cornwall
2nd Lt. 25.11.1942 [290853]
WS/Lt. 01.03.1944 (reld 31.12.1973)
Lt. 01.04.1950, seniority 01.03.1944
A/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. 31.12.1973
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 08.06.1950

HM's birthday 50

Cadet Forces Medal CFM 17.11.1950 -
Cadet Forces Medal CFM 24.11.1959 1st clasp
Education: St Paul's School, London; Magdalen College, Oxford (1929-1933; MA).
25.11.1942 - 31.03.1950 commissioned, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers - Special List (for service with Army Cadet Force, Cornwall)
01.04.1950   31.12.1973 commissioned, Territorial Army - Army Cadet Force (for Truro Cathedral School Contingent)
Housemaster, St John's School, Leatherhead. Headmaster of Truro Cathedral School, 08.1937-12.1973.
Mitchell,
Colin Campbell
C.C. Mitchell C.C. Mitchell

Only son of Colin Mitchell, MC, and Janet Bowie Gilmour.
Married (1956) Jean Hamilton Susan Phillips; two sons, one daughter.

story of C.C. Mitchell at Aden
17.11.1925
-
20.07.1996

Westminster, London
Cadet
? [14432057]
2nd Lt.
14.10.1944 [331354]
WS/Lt.
14.04.1945
A/Capt.
08.08.1946-07.11.1946
T/Capt.
08.11.1946-13.06.1948
2nd Lt.
21.11.1946, seniority 17.11.1946
Lt.
01.11.1947
T/Capt.
28.02.1949-06.11.1950
Capt.
17.11.1952
T/Maj.
07.11.1950-10.05.1951,
14.01.1956-16.11.1959
Maj.
17.11.1959
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1964
T/Lt.Col.
21.11.1964-30.12.1966
Lt.Col.
31.12.1966 (retd 01.10.1968; own request)
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1968
South Arabia (Aden)
Education: Whitgift School; Staff College, Camberley (1955, psc)
1944
-
1944
served in the ranks for 150 days
14.10.1944

commissioned, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [emergency commission to 20.11.1946]
1944
-
1945
8th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Italy [wounded])
21.11.1946


permanent commission



post-war regimental service (Palestine 1945-1948 [wounded], Korea 1950-1951, Cyprus 1958-1959, Borneo 1964)
28.03.1949
-
11.09.1950
ADC to General Officer Commanding Scottish Command
26.09.1951
-
24.09.1953
Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army)
22.10.1953
-
11.12.1954
GSO3, War Office (Directorate of Military Operations (MO4))
14.01.1956
-
20.01.1958
GSO2, HQ 51st Highland Division &  District (TA)
16.01.1961
-
22.05.1963
Brigade Major, HQ Infantry Brigade, King's African Rifles
21.11.1964
-
01.1967
GSO1 Staff of Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence
01.1967
-
(11.1967)
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Aden)
War corespondent covering the war in Vietnam. MP (C) W Aberdeenshire, 1970-Feb. 1974 (did not seek re­election); PPS to Sec. of State for Scotland, 1972-1973. Member, Select Committee on Armed Services, 1970-1971. Specialist Consultant: Rhodesia, 1975-1979; Mexico, 1980; Afghanistan, 1983; Nicaragua, 1985; Pakistan NWFP, 1986; Eritrea, 1987; Cambodia, 1990. Mem., UNHCR Mission to Cambodia, 1991, Mozambique, Angola and Transcaucasus, 1994-1996. Freedom of City of London, 1979. Chairman, The HALO Trust, since 1987.
Mitchell,
Gerald John
G.J. Mitchell
02.04.1892
-
Conductor ?
Ordnance Executive Officer (OEO), 3rd class & Lt. 06.11.1935 [66411]
OEO, 2nd class & Capt. 09.08.1939
A/Maj. 01.01.1940-31.03.1940
T/Maj. 01.04.1940-30.04.1941
WS/Maj. 01.05.1941
Bt. Maj. 01.07.1945
A/Lt.Col. 01.02.1941-30.04.1941
T/Lt.Col. 01.05.1941-(01.1946)
Lt.Col. 01.07.1946 (retd 28.08.1953)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.06.1953 Coronation honours 53 [citation available upon request]
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 01.01.1941 New Year 41
      served in the ranks for 15 years, 141 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class 2 for 2 years, 219 days
      served as Warrant Officer Class 1 for 7 years, 194 days
06.11.1935     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
01.02.1941 - 17.08.1941 an Assistant Director under Directors of Ordnance Services, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
18.08.1941 - 14.02.1943 an Assistant Quartermaster-General under Director-General of Army Equipment, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
15.02.1943 - 14.05.1945 an Assistant Quartermaster-General under Deputy Quartermaster-General (Army Equipment), Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
15.05.1945 - 1953 an Assistant Director of Ordnance Services under Controller of Ordnance Services, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
Mitchell,
Roger O'Connor
R.O. Mitchell (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Mitchell)
Son of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Mitchell, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Married Mary E. Robertson, of Chelsea, London.
1913 ?
-
05.06.1942
[age 29]
[Alamein Memorial, Egypt, column 55]
2nd Lt. 22.03.1940 [127317]
WS/Lt. 1941?
A/Capt. 1942?
      Lieutenant, Canadian Militia
22.03.1940     commissioned, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
? - 05.06.1942 1st Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (probably shot at an escape attempt after being captured)
Mitchell,
Ronald John
R.J. Mitchell (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
07.05.1911
-
06.2004
2nd Lt. 31.05.1933 [58949]
Lt. 31.05.1936
... ...
WS/Capt. 23.01.1943
T/Maj. ?
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
Lt.Col. AERD 29.11.1954, seniority 01.09.1953
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 26.10.1954 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 26.10.1954 1st clasp
Mention in Despatches MID 16.09.1943 North Africa
31.05.1933     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army
... - ... ...
28.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
? - 07.05.1966 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Mitchell,
Terence Frederick
T.F. Mitchell
Son of ... Mitchell, and ... Tucker.
Married ...; one son, two daughters.

03.05.1919
Newton Abbot district, Devon
-
01.01.2007
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 02.08.1941 [198828]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 11.02.1944-(08.1946)
02.08.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
11.11.1943 - (08.1946) Instructor (Class B), School of Artillery, India (Deolali)
Linguist and Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds.
Mitford,
Edward Cecil [Osbaldeston]
"Teddy"
K.E.A. Molyneux


20.11.1908
London
-
16.07.2002
Kensington, London
2nd Lt.
31.01.1929 [41253]
Lt.
31.01.1932
Capt.
01.08.1937
A/Maj.
22.06.1940-21.07.1940,
18.09.1940-16.11.1940
T/Maj.
17.11.1940-01.08.1942
WS/Maj.
02.08.1942
Maj.
31.01.1946
A/Lt.Col.
22.11.1941-21.01.1942,
03.07.1942-01.08.1942
T/Lt.Col.
02.08.1942-23.07.1943
WS/Lt.Col.
24.07.1943
Lt.Col.
27.03.1951 (supernumerary 27.03.1954)
A/Col.
24.01.1943-23.07.1943
T/Col.
24.07.1943-04.06.1944,
03.12.1954-17.01.1955
Col.
18.01.1955
T/Brig.
01.06.1955-29.06.1956
Brig.
27.02.1959 (retd 17.12.1960)
Military Cross MC
08.07.1941
Middle East 12.40-02.41
Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp
Education: Hailebury; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Haifa (psc)
31.01.1929


commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [renamed 04.04.1939: Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps]
31.01.1929
-
?
3rd Battalion Royal Tank Corps
25.09.1935
-
16.11.1935
special appointment (Class GG) (temporary)



6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment



patrol commander Long Range Patrol Unit and Long Range Desert Group
1941
-
1942
first Officer Commanding,  A Squadron Long Range Desert Group
03.07.1942

1942?
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (North Africa)
1942?
-
1943
Commanding Officer, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (North Africa)
1943
-
1943?
Second-in-Command, 22nd Armoured Brigade
1943?
-
1944?
staff appointments, Sicily & Italy
05.06.1944
-
24.10.1944
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (Middle East)
12.02.1945
-
23.02.1945
Chief Instructor, Armoured Fighting Vehicle School
25.02.1945
-
1945
Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Holland)
13.06.1948
-
05.09.1950
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), Special Staff, Ankara
03.02.1954
-
04.10.1954
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 7th Armoured Division
03.12.1954
-
31.05.1955
Commandant (Colonel), Arab Legion Armoured Corps
01.06.1955
-
(01.1957)
Commander (Brigadier), Armoured Brigade Arab Legion
Moberly,
Richard James
"Dick"

Only son of late J.E. Moberly. Married 1st (1935) Mary Joyce Shelmerdine (died 1964); three daughters. Married 2nd (1971) Mrs Vivien Mary Cameron (died 1981), daughter of Victor Bayley, CIE, CBE.
02.07.1906
St Marylebone, Greater London
-
21.12.2001
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
2nd Lt.
03.02.1926 [34480]
Lt.
03.02.1929
Capt.
03.02.1937
A/Maj.
17.05.1940-16.08.1940
T/Maj.
17.08.1940-05.07.1942
WS/Maj.
06.07.1942
Maj.
03.02.1943
A/Lt.Col.
06.04.1942-05.07.1942
T/Lt.Col.
06.07.1942-09.06.1944
WS/Lt.Col.
10.06.1944
Lt.Col.
25.03.1947
A/Col.
10.12.1943-09.06.1944
T/Col.
10.06.1944-06.11.1945,
23.06.1946-25.03.1948,
25.07.1949-24.01.1950
Col.
25.01.1950 (supernumerary 25.01.1956)
A/Brig.
25.05.1945-06.11.1945
T/Brig.
17.04.1952-31.12.1953
Brig.
01.01.1954
T/Maj.Gen.
12.09.1955-29.09.1956
Maj.Gen.
30.09.1956 (retd 03.10.1960)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
?
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
28.09.1944
?
Mention in Despatches MID
08.09.1933
?
03.02.1926


commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals
1928
-
1935
served in India
30.09.1936
-
15.05.1940
Instructor, ... [Class GG to 02.02.1937, Class CC 03.02.1937-31.07.1938]
16.05.1940
-
14.09.1940
Chief Instructor, ...
1942
-
1943
Commanding Officer, 1st Airborne Division Signal Regiment
10.12.1943
-
16.09.1945
Chief Signals Officer, 1st Airborne Corps
17.09.1945
-
25.03.1948
Commandant, Indian Signal Training Centre
25.07.1949
-
19.03.1952
Chief Instructor (& Deputy Commandant), School of Signals
17.04.1952
-
20.08.1954
Deputy Director of Signals, War Office
01.11.1954
-
1957
Chief Signal Officer (CSO), HQ British Army of the Rhine (Northern Army Group)
1957
-
1960
Signal Officer-in-Chief, War Office
Colonel Commandant, Royal Signals, 18.09.1960-22.12.1962. Commissioner for Dorset, St John Ambulance, 1968-1976. KStJ 1986.
Mockler-Ferryman,
Eric Edward
E.E. Mockler-Ferryman

Son of late Col Augustus Ferryman Mockler­Ferryman,
43rd LI. Unmarried.

27.06.1896
Maidstone, Kent
-
19.11.1978
[London ?]
2nd Lt. 
10.02.1915 [10224]
Lt.
08.08.1916
A/Capt.
03.08.1917-08.10.1918
Capt.
01.01.1925 [regimental seniority 03.11.1917]
A/Maj.
09.10.1918-30.03.1919
Bt. Maj.
01.01.1932
Maj.
11.02.1935
local Lt.Col.
21.01.1933-30.06.1935
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.07.1935
A/Lt.Col.
01.09.1939-30.11.1939
T/Lt.Col.
01.12.1939-30.09.1940
Col.
01.10.1940, seniority 01.07.1938 (retd 27.02.1947)
A/Brig.
12.08.1940-11.02.1941
T/Brig.
12.02.1941
Hon. Brig.
27.02.1947
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
02.08.1945
NW Europe
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
Military Cross MC
01.01.1919
New Year 19
Commander, Legion of Merit (US) LM
14.11.1947
?
Officer, Legion of Merit (US) LM
10.08.1943
?
Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
?
?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
?
?
Commander, Order of Leopold II (Belgium) LeoII
17.09.1948
?
Croix de Guerre (Belgium) CdeG
17.09.1948
?
Commander, Order of Oranje-Nassau with swords (Netherlands) ON
23.05.1947
?
1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Education: Wellington College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; University of London (Hon. MA)
1915


commissioned Royal Artillery
28.07.1915
-
11.11.1918
France and Flanders (MC):
12.02.1917
-
08.10.1918
Adjutant, ...
24.01.1928
-
18.02.1930
GSO3, War Office
19.02.1930
-
23.01.1932
Brigade Major, ... (Aldershot Command)
21.01.1933
-
20.01.1936
Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Camberley
15.06.1937
-
17.08.1939
seconded to Australian Military Forces (as General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2))
29.08.1939
-
11.08.1940
Head of German Intelligence Section, War Office (as General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1))
12.08.1940
-
15.03.1942
Brigadier, General Staff (Intelligence), Home Forces
16.03.1942
-
09.08.1942
Brigadier, Royal Artillery, Scottish Command
10.08.1942
-
25.03.1943
Head of Intelligence Section, Allied Force HQ, North Africa (as Brigadier, General Staff)
1943
-
1945
served with Special Operations Executive as Director of Operations, North West Europe ("specially employed")
1945
-
1946
Control Commission, Hungary
27.02.1947
-
27.06.1954
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Botanist.
Moffett,
William Gibson
W.G. Moffett
Son of Ralph Charles Moffett (1895-1954), and Anne Chaterine Gibson (1893-1988).
31.12.1921
-
1983
Surrey
Cadet ? [4270501]
2nd Lt. 18.01.1942 [232197]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 11.08.1943-(04.1946)
Lt. 01.09.1949, seniority 01.10.1942
Capt. 01.09.1949, seniority 18.01.1948 (cashiered by sentence of a general court-martial 19.06.1953)
      served in Palestine (pre-war)
18.01.1942     commissioned, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [emergency commission]
      served in Malaya
01.09.1949     short service commission
Mogg,
[Sir] Herbert John
H.J. Mogg H.J. Mogg
H.J. Mogg 
Son of late Capt. Herbert Barrow Mogg, MC and late Alice Mary (née Ballard).
Married (29.06.1939) Cecilia Margaret Molesworth (born 1914), second daughter of John Hilton Molesworth (1856–1921), rector of Feltwell, Norfolk, and a descendant of Robert Molesworth, first Viscount Molesworth; three sons.

17.02.1913
Chittoe Ranch, Comox, British Columbia, Canada
-
28.10.2001
Winterbrook Nursing Home, Cholsey, Oxfordshire
2nd Lt. 26.08.1937 [73153]
WS/Lt. 10.12.1939
Lt. 26.08.1940
A/Capt. 10.09.1939-09.12.1939
T/Capt. 10.12.1939-20.10.1940
WS/Capt. 21.10.1940
Capt. 08.07.1943
A/Maj. 21.07.1940-20.10.1940
T/Maj. 21.10.1940-08.04.1944
WS/Maj. 09.04.1944
Maj. 08.07.1948
Bt. Lt.Col. 01.07.1951
A/Lt.Col. 09.01.1944-08.04.1944
T/Lt.Col. 09.04.1944-26.05.1944,
14.06.1944-31.12.1947,
26.01.1950-08.12.1955
local Lt.Col. 01.01.1948-14.12.1949
T/Col. 09.12.1955-14.12.1955
Col. 15.12.1955, seniority 18.06.1954
local Brig. 20.06.1958-30.07.1958,
19.01.1961-09.02.1961
T/Brig. 31.07.1958-18.01.1961
Maj.Gen. 10.02.1961
Lt.Gen. 10.01.1966
Gen. ? (retd)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB 1972 ?
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 1966 ?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 1964 ?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 14.06.1960 Malaya [recommendation available upon request]
Distinguished Service Order DSO 31.08.1944 Normandy 06.44 [recommendation available upon request]
Distinguished Service Order DSO 12.04.1945 NW Europe 44-45 (Montfort 20.01.45) [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 10.05.1945 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 1944 ?
Meritorious Medal (Perak, Malaya)
Education: St Michael's School, Victoria, British Columbia; Malvern College (1926-31); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1935-1937; Sword of Honour); Staff College, Camberley (psc); Imperial Defence College (idc).
1933 - 1935 served in the ranks, Coldstream Guards (for 4 years, 99 days)
26.08.1937     commissioned, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
24.04.1939 - 12.02.1940 Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army) (temporary)
09.01.1944 - 22.05.1944 Commandant, Divisional Battle School
27.05.1944 - 1945 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (NW Europe) (DSO)
27.05.1944 - 14.06.1944 Second-in-Command
14.06.1944 - 1945 Commanding Officer
27.03.1946 - 31.10.1947 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... Armoured Division
01.01.1948 - 14.12.1949 Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College
1950 - 1951 Commanding Officer, 10th (City of London) Battalion The Parachute Regiment (TA)
16.01.1952 - 06.12.1953 Chief Instructor, School of Infantry, Warminster
07.12.1953 - 08.11.1955 Instructor (GSO1), Imperial Defence College
15.12.1955 - 30.04.1958 Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
31.07.1958 - 07.11.1960 Commander, Commonwealth Brigade Group, Malaya
10.02.1961 - 06.02.1963 Director of Combat Development, War Office
11.04.1963 - 09.01.1966 Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
10.01.1966 - 1968 Commander, 1st (British) Corps
1968 - 1968 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command
1968 - 1970 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Army Strategic Command
1970 - 1973 Adjutant-General, Ministry of Defence (Army)
1971 - 1974 also: ADC Gen. to the Queen
1973 - 1976 Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Colonel Commandant: Army Air Corps, 20.11.1963-1974; The Royal Green Jackets, 01.09.1965-1973; Honorary Colonel, 10th Parachute Bn, TA, 1973-1978. Kermit Roosevelt Lecturer, 1969. President: Army Cricket Association; Army Saddle Club, 1969; Army Boxing Association, 1970; Army Parachute Association, 1971; BHS, 1972; Ex Services Mental Welfare Society; Army Benevolent Fund, 1980- (Chairman, 1976); Normandy Veterans Association, 1982-; Chairman: Army Free Fall Parachute Association, 1970; Army Football Association, 1960-1963; Royal Soldiers' Daughters Sch., 1976; Operation Drake for Young Explorers, 1978-; Operation Drake Fellowship, 1980-1983; Royal Internat. Horse Show, 1979; Vice-President, Operation Raleigh. President, Council Services Kinema Corporation, 1970. Director, Lloyds Bank S Midland Regional Board, 1976. Member Council: Wessex TA&VRA, 1976; British Atlantic Committee, 1977; Fairbridge Drake Society, 1987. Commissioner, Royal Hospital Chelsea,  1976. Governor: Malvern College, 1967; Bradfield College, 1977; Chairman of Governors, Icknield School, 1981-. Honorary Liveryman, Fruiterers' Co. DL Oxfordshire, 1979, Vice Lord-Lieutenant, 1979-1989.
Moir,
Douglas Norman
"Douggie"
D.N. Moir D.N. Moir

24.08.1918
India
-
06.05.2008
2nd Lt.
25.08.1938 [77703]
Lt.
01.01.1941
Capt.
01.07.1946
...
...
Lt.Col.
28.04.1958 (retd 14.11.1969)
Mention in Despatches MID
06.06.1946
?
25.08.1938
 
 
commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (later: Royal Tank Regiment)
?

05.1940
3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Calais) (captured)
05.1940
-
04.1945
POW in German captivity (escape attempts, Colditz)
...
-
...
...
Mole,
Gerard Herbert Leo
G.H.L. Mole G.H.L. Mole
Son (with three sisters and three brothers *) of Philip Charles Mole (1861-1937), and Aniie Kathleen "Nina" O'Dea (1868-1904).
Married ((09?.1924, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) Claire Marie Philomena Kassapian (14.08.1898 - 01.11.1979), of Worth, Kent, daughter (with two brothers and three sisters) of Artin Kassapian (1861-1917), and Frances Claire Walsh (1873-1967); three sons, two daughters.
* And four half-siblings from his father's second marriage.
24.10.1897
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
-
14.11.1944
(died of wounds, due to an accident)
[Brunssum War Cemetery, the Netherlands,  II. 82]
2nd Lt. 07.04.1916 [13782]
Lt. 07.10.1917
Capt. 17.09.1925
Maj. 22.03.1937
A/Lt.Col. 26.02.1940-25.05.1940
T/Lt.Col. 26.05.1940-11.02.1943
WS/Lt.Col. 12.02.1943
Lt.Col. 24.05.1944
A/Brig. 12.08.1942
T/Brig. 12.02.1943-14.11.1944
Distinguished Service Order DSO 19.10.1944 NW Europe (bridgehead on the River Odon 10-16.07.1944)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 20.08.1940 ?
Military Cross MC 03.02.1920 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 29.04.1941 ?
Education: St Xavier's College, Calcutta; Mount St Mary's College, Spinkhill, Derbyshire; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
 07.04.1916     commissioned, Royal Irish Rifles
01.07.1916 - 26.09.1916 served, France & Belgium
23.10.1916 - 1918? seconded, Machine Gun Corps (lastly 8th Battalion)
01.12.1916 - 06.09.1918 served, France & Belgium
07.10.1917     transferred, Royal Ulster Rifles
05.1919 - 09.1919 served, Russia
28.01.1920 - 23.03.1924 employed with West African Frontier Force (Northern Nigeria)
1924 - 1935 regimental service in UK, Cologne, India (till 1933) & UK
01.03.1935 - 14.12.1935 Adjutant, 6th Battalion City of London Regiment (Territorial Army) (UK)
1935 - 1936 regimental service in UK
01.02.1936 - 21.03.1937 Garrison Adjutant (Class FF), Bordon (UK)
1937 - 1939 regimental service in UK
02.1940 - ? Commanding Officer, 1/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (British Expeditionary Force, France)
07.06.1940 - 19.06.1940 acting Commander, 143rd Infantry Brigade
12.08.1942 - 14.11.1944 Commander, 129th Infantry Brigade *
* Divisional history of 43rd Infantry Division reads: "..the minefields laid by 84th US Division would cause a certain amount of difficulty. At that time, little was know as to their exact location. Brigade commanders were therefore ordered to decide where they would debouch and to lift the mines. In this task the RE were to give all the help they could. Altogether it was eventually found that no less than fourteen hundred mines would have to be lifted to enable 214 Brigade to break out. By the morning of 14th November, 204 Field Company had picked up a considerable number of these American mines and loaded them on lorries. Major Evill, the Company Commander, decided to dump them near the Custom House on the German border, where 129 Brigade Headquarters was established. The lorries arrived here soon after and No 1 Platoon started unloading them. During the morning Brigadier Mole had a tour of his line. On returning he noticed this unusual activity going on close to his Headquarters and walked over to find out why this particular site had been chosen. As he approached seven hundred mines spontaneously detonated. There was an appalling explosion which blew a crater thirty feet across and five feet deep. No fewer than fourteen men of No1 Platoon were instantaneously killed and Brigadier Mole and six sappers seriously wounded. Brigadier Mole......died the same evening."
Molesworth,
James Vernon Crispin
J.V.C. Molesworth (Photo courtesy of Mr William Molesworth) J.V.C. Molesworth (Photo courtesy of Mr William Molesworth)
J.V.C. Molesworth (Photo courtesy of Mr William Molesworth) J.V.C. Molesworth (Photo courtesy of Mr William Molesworth)
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Charles Richard Molesworth, 10th Viscount Molesworth (1869-1961), and of the Viscountess Molesworth (Elizabeth Gladys Langworthy) (1883-1974), of St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.
24.10.1917
St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
-
07.06.1943
[age 26]
[Rangoon Memorial, Burma, face 13]
2nd Lt. 26.08.1937 [73137]
Lt. 26.08.1940
Capt. 26.08.1945 [promotion while actual fate was unknown]
Education: Cheltenham College (09.1931-12.1935l Hazelwell); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (31.01.1936-26.08.1937).
26.08.1937     commissioned, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
24.04.1939 - 23.08.1939 Adjutant, ... (Territorial Army) (temporarily)
08.1939 - 07.1940 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (BEF, France 03.1940-06.1940)
07.1940 - 03.1942 No. 3 Commando (operations at Lofoten Islands, Vågsøy and port of Måløy)
03.1942 - 07.06.1943 attached 142 Commando, 77th Indian Infantry Brigade (Chindits) (died as a POW)
Cheltonian, Commando and Chindit: Lt. James Molesworth (H, 1935)
William Molesworth (H, 1978) pays tribute to his uncle, James Vernon Crispin Molesworth, whose death as a POW in Burma in 1943 at the age of 26 is a reminder of the sacrifice made by the many young Old Cheltonians of his generation. Born 100 years ago, Uncle Jim was the third generation of my family to attend College, following his father, Charles, 10th Viscount Molesworth (H, 1891) and grandfather, Samuel, 8th Viscount Molesworth (First Hall, 1849), the latter a Founder Pupil. After a troubled first term, when he is said to have run away to Dowdesell Reservoir, Jim earned kudos through his prowess at football (1935 XV), rowing and boxing. His time at Hazelwell coincided with the redoubtable John Cedric Gurney (1927-43), whose disdain of boys too young to have fought in the Great War may have prejudiced their relationship, although perhaps the reason partly lay in Jim’s penchant for long bicycle rides with a friend to nearby country pubs! After Sandhurst in 1937, he joined the 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, which in its prenatal existence as the 46th Foot had been the family regiment since the eighteenth century. The pre-war years were good times for a young officer like Jim, with plenty of riding, hunt balls and a King’s Levée. With war declared in September 1939, he did not go with his battalion as part of the initial British Expeditionary Force that immediately crossed to France, only going over in the second wave of March 1940. Since little had happened during the ‘Phoney War’, however, he was still in time to take part in major actions along the Rivers Dyle and Escaut, as well as the final defensive position around Dunkirk, until evacuated in early June 1940. The following month Jim volunteered for Special Service with the newly-formed No. 3 Commando, one of the first units to be so named. Training in utmost secrecy at the Combined Training Centre at Inverary, his posting came through by the end of the year, so that he was able to go on the largescale raid on the Lofoten Islands in Norway in March 1941 (Operation Claymore), when vital components of a German Enigma machine were captured, which eventually led to the cracking of the German code. A return visit at the end of 1941 saw further raids carried out on the island of Vågsøy and port of Måløy (Operation Archery), which involved fierce street fighting. In March 1942 Jim transferred to 142 Commando in India under Major ‘Mad Mike’ Calvert. The latter worked closely with the eccentric Brigadier Orde Wingate as part of the Special Forces element of the legendary Chindits, the pioneers of Long Range Penetration in the jungle. Wingate built up his men – officers included – with gruelling route marches in the unforgiving environment of the Indian jungle, during which there were several casualties to malaria and drowning. The justification for such hazardous training was Operation Longcloth, launched in February 1943, when some 3,200 men crossed into Japanese-held Burma. Their objective was to create havoc in the enemy’s back yard by disrupting his lines of communication and supply, particularly railways, bridges and ammunition depots, as well as harassing the enemy when opportunity arose. Divided into eight columns of 400 men, each column was to be capable of acting independently by weekly supply drops from the air, a novel concept in warfare. Some 1,100 mules, nevertheless, were necessary for heavy weapons, ammunition, bulky radios and medical supplies, also 200 bullocks, 50 dogs of various breeds, and an assortment of horses and elephants. Since his father had bred Channel Island cattle, Jim was placed in overall charge of this Hannibalic assemblage, the likes of which had probably not gone into action with the British army before, nor, one imagines, are ever likely to! With the advantage of surprise, the Chindits at first carried out their acts of sabotage and ambush with little loss. Spurred on by early success, Wingate ordered the brigade deeper into enemy territory. The initial response of the Japanese had been to cut off their road routes, but once they realised they were being supplied by air, they became adept at intercepting these. Inevitably this led to animals being slaughtered for food. Others were put down from injury and sickness, or else freed once beyond serviceable use. Jim’s role as chief muleteer thus lessened to the extent that by March he had become one of Wingate’s liaison officers, running between columns to deliver latest orders and report back. This entailed hazardous treks through dense jungle trails and scrubland, for which good orientation was essential, as even when a destination was only a few miles away, rarely could one travel as the crow flies and using well worn tracks was to be avoided. By this time the Chindits were fighting off more and more Japanese, who were now fully mobilised. The enemy was able to use tanks on the jungle tracks, a threat the Chindits were unable to answer. Besides injury from contact, there were the everpresent risks of louse and disease. Those unable to keep up were simply left behind, although it was sometimes possible to leave them with friendly villagers. Rather than face capture or a lone death, some men requested a coup de grace – an overdose of morphia was the kindest option – or else took their own life. By now, late March, the Chindits had been operational more than six weeks. Most were exhausted, many diseased or suffering hunger and dehydration. They were some 500 miles inside enemy territory, heavily outnumbered and on the wrong side of the Irrawaddy river, which was 3/4 mile wide in places. With little further that could be achieved, Wingate was ordered to pull out. After an attempted re-crossing of the Irrawaddy was stopped by a Japanese patrol on the far bank, he divided his men into small dispersal groups to make their own way back to India. With the offensive role over, the priority was now speed and evasion. They thus stripped down their arms, discarded heavy equipment, and abandoned or ate the remaining animals. Jim was given a party of the highly regarded Burma Rifles and Gurkhas, but these soon ran into difficulties. For many Chindits would become trapped within the pocket of land at the confluence of the Irrawaddy and Shweli, and Jim’s group seems to have been among those compromised. Still fit at time of capture, he later contracted dysentery, was transferred to a prison hospital, but succumbed to his illness in June 1943. The rights and wrongs of Longcloth are still hotly debated. Although valuable propaganda at the time, it achieved little tactically, while those rendered hors de combat, whether through injury, disease, imprisonment or death, may have been as high as 80% of the brigade. Ultimately, any assessment must take account of the controversial figure of Wingate himself, who has been variously hailed as military genius who paved the way for all future jungle operations, or dangerous maverick with profligate disregard for men and resources. Perhaps he was a little of both. What is agreed by all those who served under him is that he was an inspirational leader of men. For him they pushed themselves to the limit: my uncle was one of them.
Molloy,
Peter Gerald
P.G. Molloy (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) P.G. Molloy
P.G. Molloy
Son of Lt.Col. Gerald Macleay Molloy, OBE (1873-1951), and Rhoda Essylt Dennys (1889-1945).
Married (29.04.1950, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Yvonne Gladys Young (27.11.1923 - 21.02.2011), daughter of G.A. Young, of Newport, Monmouthshire; one son, one daughter.
08.05.1914
Penbnathi, India
-
29.08.1999
South Dorset
2nd Lt. 01.02.1934 [62594]
Lt. 01.02.1937
A/Capt. 01.09.1939-30.11.1939
T/Capt. 01.12.1939-04.01.1942
Capt. 01.02.1942
A/Maj. 20.10.1941-14.11.1941,
01.07.1942-04.09.1942
T/Maj. 05.09.1942-(01.1946)
Maj. 01.02.1947 (retd 11.04.1949)
local Lt.Col. 14.09.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. 11.04.1949
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 01.01.1975 New Year 1975: Secretary, United Kingdom Branch, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Military Cross MC 13.09.1945 Burma [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 01.04.1941 Middle East 08.1939-11.1940
Education: Eagle House School, nr Sandhurst, Berkshire (1922-1927); Wellington College (1927.3-1932.2; Orange Dormitory; Dormitory Prefect); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1932-1933; athletics & cross-country running teams; Scholar); Staff College (psc).
01.02.1934     commissioned, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
 1934 - 1938 regimental duty in the UK & India
01.09.1938 - ... seconded, King's African Rifles (Uganda & Kenya)
      served in Abyssinian (1941) and Madagascar (1942) campaigns, Ceylon and finally Burma (1944):
06.12.1940 - 01.06.1941 Adjutant, ...
03.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
1942 - 1944 Brigade Major, 27th and 26th (East Africa) Infantry Brigades
1944 - 1945 Second-in-Command, 44th (Uganda) Battalion The King's African Rifles (Burma) (MC)
09.1945 - 1948 Assistant Military Attaché, Washington, DC, USA
11.04.1949 - 08.05.1964 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Assistant Game Warde, Sudan Government, 1949-1954. Director of Tanganyika National Parks, 1954-1960. Secretary, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, UK Branch, 1961-1979.
Published: Cry of the fish eagle : the personal experiences of a game warden and his wife in the Southern Sudan (1957).
Molyneux,
Kenneth Edward Alyson
K.E.A. Molyneux
Son of Maj. Edward Mary Joseph Molyneux, CMG, DSO, and of Mary Alison Molyneux (née Knolles), of Walmer, Kent; stepson of Major-General Sidney Henry Powell, CB, of Walmer.
25.05.1913
-
25.05.1945
(KIA) [age 32]
[Chittagong War Cemetery, Bangladesh, 2.D.7]
2nd Lt.
02.02.1933 [58148]
Lt.
02.02.1936
Capt.
02.02.1941
T/Maj.
30.10.1942-(04.1944)
02.02.1933


commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment
(06.1933)


2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (Portland (for Dover))
(01.1937)


2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (en route Dover)
(01.1939)


1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment (Nowshere, India)
?
-
25.05.1945
attached, 10th Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment
Monk,
Charles Philip
C.P. Monk (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian Hill)
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Charles Elridge Monk (1872-), and Ellen Page (1873-).
24.12.1897
Beckenham, Bromley district, Kent
-
(06?).1974
New Forest district, Hampshire
2nd Lt. ?
Lt. 18.05.1919
Lt. 08.04.1920, seniority 18.11.1918 (reld 15.11.1922)
2nd Lt. 19.10.1939 [80906]
WS/Lt. 19.10.1939 (reld 27.01.1944; ill-health)
T/Capt. 15.06.1940-(04.1942),
18.04.1942-(07.1943)
Hon. Capt. 27.01.1944
      Officer Cadet Unit
18.11.1917     commissioned, Royal Field Artillery - Territorial Force (serving 2nd London Brigade)
08.04.1920 - 15.11.1922 commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers
19.10.1939     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
      served France
(07.1940)     8 Base Supply Depot RASC (Bulford)
      served Middle East
Montagu-Douglas-Scott,
Claud Everard Walter
see: Scott,
Claud Everard Walter Montagu-Douglas-
 
Montague,
Thomas Redding
T.R. Montague
18.(06?).1918
Glasgow, Scotland
-
1990
Glasgow, Scotland
Cadet
? [2078780]
2nd Lt.
05.09.1943 [292551]
WS/Lt.
05.03.1944
Lt.
12.11.1948, seniority 05.03.1944
Civil engineer.
05.05.1932


enlisted Army
05.09.1943
 
 
commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
11.03.1945
-
25.03.1945
No 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private Army") (was only with the unit for two weeks; got his jaw broken in an argument, went to hospital and did not return)
12.11.1948
-
20.04.1951
Territorial Army
20.04.1951
-
?
Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Montgomery,
Sir Bernard Law;
1st Viscount (cr. 1946) Montgomery of Alamein, of Hindhead






Son of late Rt Rev. H.H. Montgomery, KCMG.
Married (1927) Elizabeth (died 1937), widow of Capt. O.A. Carver, RE; one son (David).
° Wikipedia
° further portraits
° papers
17.11.1887
Kennington, Lambeth, Greater London, Surrey
-
24.03.1976
Alton, Hampshire
[Holy Cross Cemetery]
2nd Lt.
19.09.1908
Lt.
01.04.1910
T/Capt.
14.09.1914-13.10.1914
Capt.
14.10.1914
T/Maj.
22.01.1917-15.07.1918,
12.04.1919-02.09.1919
Bt. Maj.
06.08.1918
Maj.
25.07.1925
T/Lt.Col.
16.07.1918-11.04.1919,
04.09.1919-05.11.1919,
23.01.1926-31.12.1927
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.01.1928
Lt.Col.
17.01.1931
Col.
29.06.1934, seniority 01.01.1931 (half-pay 29.06.1937; full-pay 05.08.1937)
T/Brig.
05.08.1937-27.10.1938
Maj.Gen.
28.10.1938, seniority 21.05.1938
A/Lt.Gen.
22.07.1940-21.07.1941
T/Lt.Gen.
22.07.1941-15.10.1942
Lt.Gen.
16.10.1942
Gen.
11.11.1942
Field Marshal
01.09.1944
Knight of the Garter KG 1946 ?
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB 1945 ?
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 11.11.1942 ?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 11.07.1940 ?
Distinguished Service Order DSO 1914 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 17.02.1915 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 04.01.1917 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 11.12.1917 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 20.05.1918 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 20.12.1918 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 05.07.1919 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 15.09.1939 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 24.06.1943 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 13.01.1944 ?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG WW I ?
Chief Commander, Legion of Merit (US) LM 10.08.1943 ?
1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Palestine 1936-1939 Medal & Clasp.
Has many foreign orders and decorations: Grand Commander, Order of King George 1st, Hellenes (20.06.1944), Virtuti Militari, 5th class (Poland) (31.10.1944), Order of Victory (USSR) (21.06.1945), Order of the Elephant (Denmark) (02.08.1945), Order of Suvorov, 1st class (USSR) (16.01.1947), Grand Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion (Netherlands) (16.01.1947), Grand Croix de la Légion d'Honneur & Croix de Guree avce Palme (France) (1944) &tc, &tc
Education: St. Paul's; Staff College
19.09.1908


commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment



served France & Belgium: 20.08.1914-14.10.1914, 01.01.1916-11.11.1918 (wounded twice; despatches, DSO, Bt Major, War Medals)
12.02.1915
-
21.01.1917
Brigade Major, ... (Home Forces & France)
22.01.1917
-
15.07.1918
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (France)
16.07.1918
-
11.04.1919
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), ... (France)
12.04.1919
-
02.09.1919
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Rhine Army
04.09.1919
-
05.11.1919
Commanding Officer, 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (temporary)
05.01.1921
-
23.05.1922
Brigade Major, ... (Irish Command)
24.05.1922
-
10.05.1923
Brigade Major, ... (Southern Command)
11.05.1923
-
07.01.1925
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), ... (Northern Command)
23.01.1926
-
20.01.1929
Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), Staff College
1931
-
1934
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
29.06.1934
-
28.06.1937
Instructor (General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1)), Staff College, Quetta (India)
05.08.1937
-
27.10.1938
Commander, 9th Infantry Brigade (Portsmouth, Southern Command [UK])
28.10.1938
-
22.08.1939
General Officer Commanding, 8th Infantry Division (Palestine, Trans-Jordan) (temporary)
28.08.1939
-
21.07.1940
General Officer Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division (Southern Command [UK], British Expeditionery Force [France & Belgium], UK)
22.07.1940
-
04.1941
General Officer Commanding, 5th Corps (UK)
04.1941
-
24.12.1941
General Officer Commanding, 12th Corps (UK)
25.12.1941
-
09.08.1942
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southeastern Command (UK)
10.08.1942
-
02.01.1944
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 8th Army (Western Desert, Sicily and Italy) [actual 13.8.1942-31.12.1943]
06.01.1944
-
25.05.1945
Commander-in-Chief, 21st Army Group (NW Europe)
26.05.1945
-
25.06.1946
Commander-in-Chief British Forces of Occupation in Germany & British Member of the Allied Control Council in Germany (Germany)
26.06.1946
-
31.10.1948
Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office (London)
01.11.1948
-
31.03.1951
Chairman, Western Europe Commanders-in-Chief Committee
01.04.1951
-
19.09.1958
Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Powers in Europe
Colonel Commandant: The Parachute Regiment, 06.11.1944-13.03.1956; Royal Tank Regiment, 12.07.1946-1956; Army Physical Training Corps, 01.05.1946-1961; Colonel, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 01.01.1947-1963. Representative Colonel, Royal Armoured Corps, 12.05.1947.
DL Southampton, 1959. Hon. Freeman City of London and many other cities and towns at home and abroad; Freeman of: Mercers' Co., Co. of Fletchers, and Carpenters' Co., London; Bonnetmakers and Dyers, Glasgow; former Governor of St Paul's Sch., London. Pres. and Vice­Pres., Patron, Vice­Patron and Hon. Patron, and Hon. Mem. of numerous socs. Hon. DCL: Oxford; Edinburgh; Dalhousie, Halifax; Newfoundland; Hon. LLD: Cambridge; Queen's, Belfast; Glasgow; St Andrews; Toronto; McGill; British Columbia; Hon. Dr of Science: Louvain; Liège.
Published: Ten Chapters, 1946; Forward to Victory, 1946; Normandy to the Baltic, 1947; Forward from Victory, 1948; El Alamein to the River Sangro, 1948; Memoirs, 1958; An Approach to Sanity: a Study of East­West Relations, 1959; The Path to Leadership, 1961; Three Continents, 1962; History of Warfare, 1968.
Literature: Brian Montgomery, A Field­Marshal in the Family (1973)
Montgomery,
John Morais
J.M. Montgomery (Photo courtesy of Dawn Pillans)
Son of Thomas Smith Montgomery (1872-), and Sarah Jane Johnston (1881-1917).
14.04.1916
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
18.11.1987
Camborne Redruth, Cornwall (while on holiday)
2nd Lt. 04.05.1940 [130707]
WS/Lt. 04.11.1941
A/Capt. 21.06.1943-20.09.1943
T/Capt. 21.09.1943-20.01.1945
WS/Capt. 21.01.1945 (reld 30.09.1946)
T/Maj. 21.01.1945-30.09.1946
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - & clasp 8th Army
Italy Star It St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: Churomers College, Petersfield (L/Cpl., Officer Training Corps); Brighton College.
Became the industry's youngest studio publicity officer at Shepperton Studios. He spent 2 years working as Publicity Manager for Jack Payne & his band.
30.09.1939     enlisted, Honourable Artillery Company Reception Unit
21.12.1939     Artists Rifles Officer Cadet Training Unit (Shorncliffe)
04.05.1940     commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment [emergency commission]
06.1940     2nd Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Selby, Yorkshire; snipers instructors course, Bisley 1941; Assistant Adjutant 10.1940; embarked for Middle East 04.1942; Middle East intelligence course, Cairo (Helwan) 1942; Intelligence Officer, 05.1942; wounded at El Alamein 10.1942; Middle East air interpretation photo course 1943)
06.1943     Intelligence Officer, 133rd Lorried Infantry Brigade
05.1944?     1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (Italy)
10.1944     officiating Brigade Major
21.01.1945     General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), General Headquarters Baghdad (Syria & Lebanon)
Journalist, author and playwright.
Published several books on cats & dogs, a biography of Florence Nightingale, etc.
Montgomery,
John Rupert Patrick
J.R.P. Montgomery
27.07.1913
-
27.06.2008
2nd Lt. 31.08.1933 [56699]
... ...
WS/Capt. (1943)
T/Maj. (1943)
... ...
Lt.Col. 03.02.1955 (retd 07.11.1962)
Hon. Col. 07.11.1962
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE ? ?
Military Cross MC 19.08.1943 Middle East (Egypt & Libya) [recommendation available upon request]
31.08.1933     commissioned, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
(1943)     7th Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (MC)
31.01.1944 - 11.06.1944 instructor, Tactical School, Middle East Land Forces
08.11.1944 - 21.04.1945 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), Training Centre
... - ... ...
Montgomery,
Thomas Hassard
J.R.P. Montgomery
Younger son of Alexander Shirley Montgomery, JP, and Thomasina Lucy Owen, of Ballykeel, Co. Down.
Married (24.07.1915, St Anne's Church, Dublin)  Hester Frances Dames-Longworth (12.05.1894 - 1954), daughter of Edward Travers Dames-Longworth, DL (1861-1907), and Hester Anne Pepys Cockerell (1868-1933), of Glynwood, Athlone; two daughters.
22.06.1872
Banhedy, Co. Down, Ireland
-
19.02.1953
Cadogan House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Lt. 03.11.1939 [116304]
WS/Capt. 03.02.1940
T/Maj. 03.02.1940-(04.1946)
local Lt.Col. 04.08.1941-(04.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 01.01.1918 ?
Queen's South Africa Medal QSAM ? & 2 clasps
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mention in Despatches MID 1917 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 1917 ?
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
      Serves on operations in South Africa as a Quartermaster-Sergeant, and Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the 13th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, 1900.
Serves on operations in France and Flanders as a temporary Major in the Army Service Corps, 1914-1918.
03.11.1939     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
Justice of the Peace (JP), Salop, 1922.
Montgomery-
Massingberd
,
Sir Archibald Armar
A.A. Montgomery-Massingberd A.A. Montgomery-Massingberd
A.A. Montgomery-Massingberd
° Wikipedia
° papers
06.12.1871
London
-
13.10.1947
Gunby Hall
...
...
Field Marshal
07.06.1935

GCB, 1934; KCB, 1925; KCMG, 1919; LLD (Queen's University, Belfast), 1934

... - ... ...
      no active WW II service known, but carried on in the Army List
Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 19.11.1927-05.12.1941. Colonel Commandant, Burma Rifles, 05.04.1935. Colonel Commandant, Royal Malta Artillery, 11.05.1937-05.12.1941.
Moody,
Charles Arundel Murcott
"Joe"

C.A.M. Moody
Son of Harold Arundel Moody, MD, BS (1882-1947), and Olive Mabel Tranter (1889-1965).
Married Joyce Ho Chew; one daughter, one son.
15.04.1917
Camberwell district, London
-
11.01.2009
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2nd Lt. 20.04.1940 [126968]
WS/Lt. 20.11.1941
T/Capt. 01.10.1942-28.07.1945
WS/Capt. 29.07.1945 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Maj. 20.07.1945-(08.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 08.1946, < 12.1946
Capt. 01.01.1949
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 01.01.1965 New Year 1965
Education: Alleyns School, Dulwich; London University.
20.04.1940     commissioned, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [emergency commission]
01.08.1942     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
31.10.1944     transferred, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
1945     seconded, Caribbean Regiment (in command Jamaica Contingent on return 1946)
01.01.1949 - 15.04.1967 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
M.I. Plant E., M.A.S.C.E. Commissioned Land Surveyor. Joined Engineering Department of  Jamaica Public Service Co. Ltd. 1949 (Senior Assistant Engineer on Lower White River, eventually Assistant to the President). Director Amalgamated Cinema Co. Ltd.; Allied Building Society; Ex-Services Ltd. Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 3rd Battalion Jamaica Regiment (National Reserve), 1961-1965. Fellow Royal Commonwealth Society.
Obituary from Syracuse Post Standard. CHARLES ARUNDEL "JOE" MOODY
January 11, 2009 Lt. Col. Charles Joe Arundel Moody of West Palm Beach, Florida, and previously Rochester, Michigan; Tonawanda, New York; Syracuse, New York; Kingston, Jamaica and London, England, passed away peacefully January 11, 2009. Born in London, England, on April 15, 1917, his parents were the late Dr. Harold and Olive Moody of London, England. His wife was the late Joyce (Ho Chew) Moody. Survived by his brothers and sisters, Dr. Christine Moody of Jamaica, Joan Charles of Canada and Rev. Garth Moody of England; his children, Harold (Michelle) Moody of Wellington, Florida, and Joanne (David) Deys of Bonn, Germany; grandchildren, Madeleine and Nickolaus Moody, Samantha and Alexandra Deys; and step- grandchildren, Matthew and Jessica Deys. Joe's life spanned from WWII, where he was the first commissioned coloured officer in the British Army, serving in the Queens Royal West Kent Regiment. He was the first commanding officer (Lt. Col.) of the 3rd Battalion Regiment in Jamaica and in 1965 was distinguished with the Order of the British Empire. He was a justice of the peace in Jamaica and worked for Jamaica Public Service for most of his career, retiring as deputy managing director in 1975. Joe moved his family to the United States in 1977 and retired as director of maintenance for Syracuse Housing Authority in 2001. He was an active member of Rockefeller United Methodist Church in Syracuse; lay member to Annual Conference; church chair of board of trustees; past 7 Valley District Lay Leader; and a member of the United Methodist Men. Throughout his life, Joe was an active member of the Free and Accepted Masons; serving as the District Grand Senior Warden of the District Grand Lodge in Jamaica; Honorary member Konosioni and Onondaga lodges; past president of the Onondaga Hill Masonic Club; and a member of the Central City Commandary #25, Cryptic Masons, Central City Royal Arch Chapter in Syracuse, and the Scottish Rite of Valley of Syracuse.
Moody,
Leslie

L. Moody (Photo courtesy of Mrs Marilyn Goos)
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Sidney Moody (1876-1954?), and Fanny Elizabeth Hinks (1885-1965).
Married 1st (11.12.1935; divorced 1945) Gwladys Vincent Jones of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales; two daughters.
Married 2nd (1946?, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia); two daughters.
(09?).1914
Luton, Bedfordshire
-
1986?
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2nd Lt. 10.05.1939 [89321]
WS/Lt. 01.01.1941
T/Capt. 16.05.1941-15.02.1945
WS/Capt. 16.02.1945 (reld > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
Hon. Maj. > 12.1946, < 04.1947
Military Cross MC 01.03.1945 NW Europe 44-45 (Merxem, Antwerp 07.09.44) [recommendation available upon request]
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 17.09.1965 -
10.05.1939     commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     mobilized TA
(1944/45)     3rd Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment (MC)
Moon,
Sydney Philip Charles

S.P.C. Moon
Son (with one sister) of Charles Henry Moon (1869?-1938), and Amelia Kate Crowfoot (1873-).
(03?).1901
Hampstead district, London
-
2nd Lt. 05.03.1940 [120917] (ceases to hold a commission 16.06.1941)
Worked for Jardine, Matheson in India, returning to England in 1936.
05.03.1940     commissioned, The Essex Regiment [emergency commission]
Moor,
Hugh Widdington
"Peter"

H.W. Moor
From Penmaenmawr, North Wales.
07.01.1913
-
04.1998
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
2nd Lt. 02.02.1933 [58042]
Lt. 02.02.1936
A/Capt. 20.02.1940-19.05.1940
T/Capt. 20.05.1940-01.02.1941
Capt. 02.02.1941
A/Maj. 27.12.1941-26.03.1942
T/Maj. 27.03.1942-11.08.1945
WS/Maj. 12.08.1945
Maj. 01.07.1946 (retd 10.02.1953)
A/Lt.Col. 12.05.1945-11.08.1945
T/Lt.Col. 12.08.1945-(01.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. 10.02.1953
Distinguished Service Order DSO 19.04.1945 NW Europe 44-45 [citation available upon request]
Military Cross MC 19.10.1944 NW Europe 44-45 [citation available upon request]
Military Cross Leo II 08.12.1945 Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II with palm and Croix de Guerre 1940 with palm [citation available upon request]
NW Frontier of India 1936-37 Medal & Clasp.
Education: Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1935); Staff College (psc).
02.02.1933     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
01.06.1940 - 26.12.1941 Adjutant
(1944)     510 Field Company RE (attached 1/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment) (MC)
(1945)     Officer Commanding, 204 Field Company RE (DSO)
Moorby,
Ronald Leigh
"Ronnie"
R.L. Moorby
Son of Gertrude and John William Moorby.
From Liverpool.
Married Vyvyan Moorby.
04.04.1908
Aughton, Ormskirk, West Lancashire
-
02.02.1984
Durrington, Wiltshire
Gnr.
?
2nd Lt.
05.08.1939 [95014]
WS/Lt.
05.02.1941
A/Capt.
12.12.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt.
03.04.1942
T/Maj.
03.04.1942-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.
26.09.1945
T/Lt.Col.
26.09.1945-(04.1946)
Maj.
01.09.1946, seniority 21.10.1945 (reld 17.05.1964)
Hon. Lt.Col.
17.05.1964
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
28.06.1945
Italy
Mention in Despatches MID
11.01.1945
Italy
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD
20.06.1950
-



late Cadet, Rossall School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps



served in the ranks, Royal Artillery
05.08.1939


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
24.08.1939
 
 
mobilized TA
01.09.1946
-
17.05.1964
short service commission
Club Secretary, Tidworth Garrison Golf Club, 1965-1973.
Moorby,
Ronald Leonard
R.L. Moorby
Son of Leonard Thomas Moorby (1885-1958), and Ada Maud Galaud, of Purley, Surrey.
Married (09.1946, Purley, Surrey) Audrey Margaret Church (1921 - 2003), daughter of Albert E.R. Church, and Eva M. Case; two daughters.
24.12.1917
Lambeth, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
08.2005
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
Cadet ? [7890218]
2nd Lt. 24..03.1945 [343474]
WS/Lt. 13.06.1945
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. 02.1946
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 20.06.1950 -
pre-war     cadet in the Territorial Army
(1940) - (1941) 3rd County of London Yeomanry Sharpshooters
? - 24.03.1945 Officer Cadet Training Unit (Catterick, North Yorkshire)
24.03.1945     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
      served with West Africa Artillery
Moorcroft,
Frank Essex
F.E. Moorcroft (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Hawkshaw-Burn)
Married ((09?),.1953, Taunton district, Somerset) Maj. Kathleen L'Estrange Heppard, WRAC (formerly ATS).
07.06.1904
Epsom district, Surrey
-
27.01.1986
Hawarden, Deeside, Clwyd
2nd Lt. 16.08.1939 [94961]
A/Capt. 11.08.1940-(04.1941)
WS/Capt. 12.06.1942
T/Maj. (1947)
Capt. 01.05.1947
15.06.1951, seniority 23.06.1942
Maj. 14.09.1952
Hon. Lt.Col. 15.06.1954
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 14.11.1947 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 24.10.1952 1st clasp
Indian Independence Medal.
16.08.1939     commissioned, The Manchester Regiment - Territorial Army
24.08.1939     commissioned TA
01.11.1941     transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery
27.10.1945 - (04.1947) a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Southern Army, India
(1947)     HQ Southern Command, India (Poona)
01.09.1948 - 15.06.1951 Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
15.06.1951 - 15.06.1954 short service commission
15.06.1954 - 07.06.1959 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Moore,
Charles Frederick Anthony [Devereux Scott]
"Derek"

C.F.A. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Moore)
Son (with one sister?) of Charles Frederick Moore (1891-1930), and Adrienne Angelique Marie Therese Sciortino (1897-1958).
Married Jean Edwards (13.07.1921 - 08.09.1965); one son, two daughters.
26.04.1920
Cairo, Egypt
-
04.08.1979
Los Angeles, California, USA
2nd Lt. 24.01.1941 [178088]
WS/Lt. 18.01.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 10.08.1945-(08.1946)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - & clasp 8th Army
Italy Star It St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
24.01.1941     commissioned, General List [emergency commission]
30.10.1942     transferred, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Moore,
Herbert Leslie
H.L. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mrs Hazel Fuller)
Son of Jabez Charles Moore, and Annie Fish, of Norfolk and Cheshire.
Married (at Bebington Cheshire) Mona Williams; four children: Hazel, Leslie, Yvonne and David.
30.05.1916
Lancaster
-
15.03.1980

Benoni, South Africa
Gnr.
20.02.1940
Cadet
15.01.1941
2nd Lt.
17.05.1941 [187597]
WS/Lt.
01.10.1942 (released 28.06.1946) (relinquished commission 21.02.1953)
A/Capt.
01.06.1943-14.01.1944
T/Capt.
15.01.1944-28.06.1946
Hon. Capt.
21.02.1953
20.02.1940


enlisted at Liverpool into the Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.06.1940


324th Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (103rd Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA)
15.01.1941


133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
17.05.1941


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
17.05.1941
 
 
9th Anti-Aircraft Reserve Regiment
05.1942
-
11.1945
served in India:
09.05.1942
-
07.1942
passage from UK to India
22.07.1942


No. 3 Anti-Aircraft Training Centre (India) (01.04.1943 Second-in-Command of a Training Battery, 01.06.1943 Officer Commanding of a Training Battery)
21.04.1944
 
 
16th Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment  RA (India)
17.12.1944


502nd Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (India)
13.08.1945


Chemical Research Defence Establishment (India)
11.11.1945
 
 
returned to UK, and posted to Depot RA, Woolwich
Moore,
Keith
K. Moore
Son of William John and Marjorie Bashford Moore.
Husband of Patricia Moore, of East Colne; one son.
1924 ?
-
25.05.1945
(plane crash) [age 21]
[Colchester Cemetery, B.B.99]
2nd Lt.
27.03.1943 [268910]
WS/Lt.
27.09.1943
A/Capt.
possibly for a while
1939


enlisted in the Army, served in the ranks
27.03.1943


commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission]
19.07.1943


transferred, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps (cancelled 21.07.1944)
Moore,
Lewis Arnold

L.A. Moore
Son of Lewis Robert and Jessica Moore.
Married (1944, Alexandria, Egypt) Third Officer Joan Spiers McKee, WRNS (? - 11.05.2013), of Dundee.
1918
-
06.01.1945
[age 26]
[Mombasa (Mbaraki) Cemetery, Kenya, Prot. Service Plot, row M, grave 37]
Cadet ? [7664647]
2nd Lt. 29.02.1944 [311249]
WS/Lt. 29.08.1944
29.02.1944     commissioned, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [emergency commission]
? - 06.01.1945 attached, 5th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment
Moore,
Lionel Eric

L.E. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mr Geoff Moore)
 
26.08.1901
Shenley, Hertfordshire
-
21.04.1978
Barnstaple district, Devon
A/RQMS ?
Lt. 26.02.1941 [173534] (reld 01.04.1947)
A/Capt. ?
Hon. Lt. ?
RAFVR:  
P/O 01.04.1947 [204494]
F/O 01.04.1947 (reld 29.01.1954)
26.02.1941     commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
01.04.1947     commissioned, RAFVR (Training Branch)
Moore,
Ronald John
R.J. Moore
19.09.1913
-
05.1987
Brentwood district, Essex
L/Cpl. ? [2655275]
2nd Lt. 29.10.1943 [300432]
WS/Lt. 29.10.1943
      served in the ranks, Coldstream Guards
29.10.1943     commissioned, The Dorsetshire Regiment [emergency commission]
His grandson writes: "I know he was in the Guards pre-war and was recalled in Sept 1939 and went into the Military police where he became an officer."
Moore,
Ronald Nicholas
R.N. Moore
Married ...; ... children.
14.12.1898
-
03.02.1962
Acton Hospital, Middlesex (formerly of Ealing, London)
2nd Lt. 29.01.1918, seniority 28.11.1917
Lt. ?, seniority 28.11.1917
T/Capt. 28.11.1918-... (reld 01.05.1922)
2nd Lt. 09.11.1945?, seniority 28.09.1940 [199148]
WS/Maj. 26.08.1945 (reld 27.04.1948)
T/Lt.Col. 26.08.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Lt.Col. 27.04.1948
Military Cross MC 10.08.1921 *
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during, the defence of Tuz. On the 19th August, 1920, a party of the insurgents succeeded in reaching the barbed wire and were cutting a way through. He, together with a bomber, crawled out under heavy fire and bombed them, inflicting severe casualties. Throughout. the subsequent attacks on his post he inspired all ranks by his coolness and courage.
06.03.1917     Inns of Court Officers Training Corps [C/10850]
16.08.1917     No. 14 O.C.B.
29.01.1918     commissioned, Indian Army Reserve of Officers (attached 1/113th Infantry, Indian Army)
Engineer, Kenya.
09.11.1945?     commissioned, General List, Infantry (African Colonial Forces Section) [emergency commission]
Moorhead,
Henry Robert Leishman
R.J. Moore
Elder son (with one brother and one sister) of Dr Robert Leishman "Robin" Moorhead, MB, CM (1871-1953), and Edna Lucy Dunk (1893-1917), of Halland, Sussex.
Married (1946, Scotland?) Mary Barbara MacKinnon (03.12.1920 - 06.1999), younger daughter of Rev Alexander MacKinnon (1884-1963), and Mary Barr (1885-1965), of Snizort, Isle of Skye; three sons.
14.06.1914
South Godstone, Godstone district, Surrey
-
20.07.1984
North Dorset district, Dorset
2nd Lt. TA 03.07.1936
2nd Lt. 29.08.1936, seniority 31.01.1935 [68100]
Lt. 31.01.1938
A/Capt. 03.09.1939-02.12.1939
T/Capt. 03.12.1939-30.01.1943
Capt. 31.01.1943
A/Maj. 19.03.1943-16.04.1943,
08.06.1943-08.08.1943
T/Maj. 09.08.1943-13.05.1944,
29.12.1944-30.01.1948
Maj. 31.01.1948
A/Lt.Col. 05.02.1946-08.03.1946
T/Lt.Col. 08.09.1956-20.04.1956
Lt.Col. 21.04.1956 (retd 15.03.1958)
Education: Charterhouse (1928.1-1933.2; Daviesites House); Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (01.10.1933-...; BA 1936 (History Tripos, Part I, Class 3, 1935; Part II, Class 3, 1936), MA 1954); Sarum Theological College (1966).
03.07.1936     commissioned, General List (University Candidates) - Territorial Army
29.08.1936     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
01.07.1941 - 30.07.1941 Adjutant, ...
Joined the clergy (deacon 1967 Sarum; Curate of Gillingham, diocese Sarum, 1967-1971; in Sarum Diocese since 1972). Justice of the Peace (JP), Weymouth, 1964.
His son writes: "Known to have been in France (1940), North Africa (1942), Northwest Europe (1944) & Palestine (1945)."
Mooring,
Barnet William Rixson

B.W.R. Mooring
Son of ... Mooring, and ... Rixson.
From Bedford.
(06?).1913
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
2nd Lt.
22.05.1935 [65183]
Lt.
22.05.1938
A/Capt.
01.09.1939-(11.1939)
WS/Capt.
27.04.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj.
27.04.1940-(04.1941),
02.03.1943-(04.1944)
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
Military Cross MC
04.05.1944
Italy



late Cadet Serjeant, Bedford Modern School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.05.1935


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
22.05.1935
-
(01.1939)
417th (Bedfordshire) Battery, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Bedford)
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
(1939)
-
(1940)
Officer Commanding, "B" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA
(04.1941)


specially employed

Moran,
Lawrence *

R. Moran
Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Laurence Moran, and Bridget Murphy.
Married (08.06.1953, Prescot, Lancashire) Pauline Alderson (23.01.1925 - 01.10.1996), formerly (1944) married to Roy Nelson Whittaker (1918-1998), and daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Percy Richard Alderson (1899-1968), and Rose Linda Porter (1900-1950); one daughter, three sons.
* officially: Laurence

13.12.1915
Bootle, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
14.05.1962
Halewood, nr Liverpool, Prescot district, Lancashire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 28.06.1942 [245025]
WS/Lt. 28.12.1942
T/Capt. 15.10.1943-15.08.1945
WS/Capt. 16.08.1945 (reld 21.12.1947; disability)
T/Maj. 16.08.1945-21.12.1947
Hon. Maj. 21.12.1947
Education: university (studying dentistry).
28.06.1942     commissioned, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission]
Moran,
Ronald

R. Moran
Son of ... Moran, and ... Gibbs.
Married ...; ... children.
06.06.1915
Croydon, Surrey
-
09.2002
East Surrey district, Surrey
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 18.01.1941 [165179]
WS/Lt. 18.07.1942
T/Capt. 15.06.1943-15.11.1945
WS/Capt. 16.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Maj. 16.11.1945-(04.1946)
Hon. Maj. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Capt. 01.05.1947, seniority 16.11.1945 (Unattached List 31.10.1956)
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 23.01.1947 - [cancelled 14.09.1956 upon receipt of TD]
Efficiency Medal (Territorial) EM 23.01.1947 1st clasp [cancelled 14.09.1956 upon receipt of TD]
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 14.09.1956 -
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 14.09.1956 1st clasp
      either 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th. 125th Officer Cadet Training Units, or Coast Artillery School
18.01.1941     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
01.05.1947 - 22.10.1957 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
22.10.1957 - 06.06.1965 commissioned, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit]
Mordin,
Frank Derick [M]

F.D. Mordin
Son of ... Mordin, and ... Roser.
10.12.1911
Wandsworth district, Greater London
-
L/Sgt.
?
2nd Lt.
06.04.1940 [126757]
WS/Lt.
?
WS/Capt.
30.06.1943
T/Maj.
30.06.1943-(04.1944),
22.04.1945-(04.1946)
?
-
06.04.1940
133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit RA
06.04.1940


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
28.09.1944


transferred, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)



served in the British 8th Army, then throughout Italy ending up at the end of the war in Austria, probably as Governor of a number of Austrian provinces
More,
George Robert Melville Harvey
G.R.M.H. More
Son of Capt. George Irwin Sanctuary More, RN (retd).
Married (Middlesex) Mary Paulina Seale (10.01.1920 - 10.2003), Junior Commander ATS, daughter of Sir John Carteret Hyde Slade, 4th Bt (1881-1964), and Margaret Herring (?-1960), of Slade, near Kingsbridge, Devon & Narborough House, West Norfolk; two sons.
03.11.1918
Athens, Greece
-
06.1991
North Dorset district, Dorset
2nd Lt. 26.01.1939 [85558]
Lt. 01.01.1941
A/Capt. 20.03.1941-19.06.1941
T/Capt. 20.06.1941-13.08.1941,
07.09.1941-05.12.1944
WS/Capt. 06.12.1944
Capt. 01.07.1946
A/Maj. 06.09.1944-05.12.1944
T/Maj. 06.12.1944-25.01.1952
Maj. 26.01.1952
A/Lt.Col. 01.12.1944-23.12.1944
T/Lt.Col. 03.06.1959-30.04.1960
Lt.Col. 01.05.1960 (supernumerary 01.05.1963)
Col. 04.11.1964, seniority 18.08.1964 (retd 26.03.1971)
Military Cross MC 21.10.1941 Middle East (Syria, Iraq and Iran)
Military Cross MC 25.01.1945 ?
Education: Royal Military Acdemy, Woolwich; Staff College (psc).
26.01.1939     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
20.03.1941 - 22.06.1941 Adjutant, ...
07.09.1941 - 02.10.1942 Adjutant, CRE ... Armoured Division
23.12.1942 - 24.03.1943 Instructor, School of Military Engineering & RE Training Centre
12.10.1945 - 10.02.1947 Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, School of Military Engineering East & West Ridings
24.02.1947 - 25.04.1947 PA to HQ RAAC Screening Commission (Italy)
21.01.1949 - 12.02.1951 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, General Headquarters, Middle East Land Forces
17.11.1956 - 29.05.1959 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) Instructor, RE JSAWC
30.12.1959 - 03.10.1960 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (RE) (Operations, Plans & Intelligence), Northag
27.10.1960 - 03.09.1963 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office
18.09.1963 - 23.10.1964 Assistant Military Secretary, War Office
04.11.1964 - (02.1967) Assistant Adjutant-General, Ministry of Defence
Son Henry More about his father Col. G.R.M.H. More, RE and grandfather Capt. G.I.S. More, RN (retd): "My Dad went out to the Middle East at the beginning of 1941 on one of the three Glenships (they carried LCAs) as part of 11 Commando.  He led one of the landing parties at the Litani River operation in Syria against the Vichy French. Nasty business but he got an MC for his efforts - but lost his CO, Dick Pedder, KIA who he thought the world of.  After the commando he joined 7th Armoured Division and became a Desert Rat as assistant to the CRE (Dad was a Sapper).  My grandfather was in the RN from the 1890s and was commander G on HMS Lord Nelson at the Dardanelles operation in 1915/16 then joined an RN mission to the Royal Hellenic Navy (Greek Navy!) for which he got an OBE. My Dad was actually born in Athens in 1918 a week or so before the Armistice. At the end of WW1, grandfather was invalided out for eyesight (an excuse really to reduce the headcount) and spent the years between the wars playing golf etc.  When WW2 came round, he started agitating and eventually got a couple of jobs in UK before they decided he was a bit too belligerent for them at home so they sent him out to Kabrit to run Saunders for Combined Operations (he was born in 1882 so he would have been about 60 when he joined Saunders!). Even when I knew my grandfather (when he was old) he was still bursting with energy and showed me how they taught the sailors to fire Thompsons. Anyway, grandfather took up the Saunders job in June 1942 and my Dad would go down to Kabrit to see him when he came back from the desert on leave.  Since Dad had landed in some pretty crude LCAs at the Litani he probably could tell his Dad a thing or two about landing from the sea.  Then Dad joined SOE and was dropped into the Balkans for 14 months.  Of course when he got out he went back to Kabrit to check in with his Dad.  Then grandfather went on to India with Combined Operations in December 1944/January 1945 (getting ready for the planned Japan landings) while Dad went back to regular soldering in Italy and Greece before returning to the UK in 1945. After the war, Dad served in Egypt (Ismailia) from about 1950 to 1952 when things started to wind up there with Nasser and wind down for the British.  My mother, elder brother and I were there and we all lived on a houseboat on the Sweetwater canal which branches off the Suez canal at Ismailia heading towards Cairo (north of Kabrit). Our boat was an old ML (ML1316 as I recall) which Dad worked on getting the engines rebuilt."
More,
William Thomas
"Bill"
W.T. More
Son of Thomas More, and Elizabeth Mair.
Married (09?).1951, Wharfedale district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Helen Palframan (1931-2001); two sons.
04.05.1918
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
05.1987
Surrey North-Western district, Surrey
Cadet ? [T/77162]
2nd Lt. 04.03.1944 [312259]
WS/Lt. 04.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
T/Capt. (12.1945)
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
04.03.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
      served with Royal Indian Army Service Corps in various theatres: North Africa, India, Burma
(12.1945)     RIASC School at Kakul (training officer cadets)
More-Gordon,
Harry
H. More-Gordon (Photo courtesy of Mr Frank de Planta)
16.08.1902
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 01.02.1923 [23873]
Capt. 01.09.1936 (retd 12.04.1938)
A/Maj. 22.12.1942-(04.1944)
01.02.1923     commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders
12.04.1938     Regular Army Reserve of Officers
24.08.1939     mobilized RARO
(08.1942)     1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk)
Moreton,
[Sir] John Oscar
J.O. Moreton
Son of Rev. C.O. Moreton.
Married (1945) Margaret Katherine Fryer, daughter of late Sir John Fryer, KBE, FRS; three daughters.

28.12.1917
Oakham, Rutland
-
14.10.2012
Cobham, Surrey
2nd Lt. 07.10.1939 [100381]
WS/Lt. 07.04.1941 (reld 25.03.1947)
T/Capt. 25.02.1943-25.03.1947
A/Maj. 1945
Hon. Capt. 25.03.1947 & 24.03.1948
2nd Lt. 25.03.1947
Lt. 25.03.1947 (reld 24.03.1948)
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George KCMG 1978 ?
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO 1976 ?
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG 1966 ?
Military Cross MC 31.08.1944 Burma [citation available upon request]
Education: St Edward's School, Oxford (1931.3-1936.2); Trinity College, Oxford (BA 1942 [2nd Class Hons. Lit.Hum.]; MA 1944).
07.10.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
1939 - 1946 99th (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (France, Belgium, 1940; India, Burma, 1942-1945)
25.03.1947 - 24.03.1948 General List - Junior Training Corps (Uppingham School Contingent) - Territorial Army
Diplomat. Colonial Office, 1946 (Assistant Master, 1946-1948; Assistant Principal, 1948); Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, 1949-1950; seconded to Government of Kenya, 1953-1955; Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Colonies (Rt Hon. Alan Lennox­Boyd), 1955-1959; transferred to Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), 1960; Counsellor, British High Commission, Lagos, 1961-1964; IDC 1965; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, CRO, 1965-1966, Commonwealth Office 1966-1968, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968-1969; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1969-1971; High Commissioner, Malta, 1972-1974; Deputy Permanent Representative, with personal rank of Ambassador, UK Mission to UN, NY, 1974-1975; Minister, British Embassy, Washington, 1975-1977. Director, Wates Foundation, 1978-1987. Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod, Order of St Michael and St George, 1979-1992. Governor, St Edward's School, Oxford, 1980-1992. Hon. DL Hanover College, Indiana, 1976.
Morgan,
Christopher Ralph
C.R. Morgan (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cresser-Brown)
(09?).1922
Wolverhampton district. Staffordshire
-
(09?).1968
Harrow district, London
Cadet ? [1929672]
2nd Lt. 19.09.1943 [293542]
WS/Lt. 19.03.1944
Education: Birmingham University (1941 Senior Training Corps, Engineering Section, Clitheroe).
19.09.1943     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Morgan,
David Russell
D.R. Morgan

From Dumfries & Warsash, Hants.
26.10.1907
-
died between 02.1967 and 02.1985
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
02.02.1928 [39640]
Lt.
02.02.1931
Capt.
01.08.1938
A/Maj.
20.05.1941-19.08.1941
T/Maj.
20.08.1941-23.02.1942,
08.06.1943-18.10.1944
WS/Maj.
19.10.1944
A/Lt.Col.
19.07.1944-18.10.1944
T/Lt.Col.
19.10.1944-(01.1946)
WS/Lt.Col.
?
Lt.Col.
05.03.1949 (supernumerary 05.03.1952)
A/Col.
19.06.1945-(01.1946)
A/Brig.
19.06.1945-(01.1946)
T/Brig.
(03.1952)-01.07.1954
Col.
16.03.1952 (retd 01.07.1954)
Hon. Brig.
01.07.1954
Distinguished Service Order DSO
11.10.1945
NW Europe
Military Cross MC
21.12.1944
NW Europe
Education: Royal Military College
02.02.1928


commissioned into The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
(03.1931)
-
(06.1933)
1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Edinburgh)
(01.1937)


1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Hong Kong)
(01.1939)


2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Secunderabad, India)
19.07.1944
-
08.1944
Commanding Officer, 10th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry
1944
-
1945
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
05.03.1949


transferred to the Black Watch
01.07.1954
-
26.10.1965
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Morgan,
Ernest
E. Morgan
?
-
Cadet
? [7959168]
2nd Lt.
13.06.1944 [321844]
WS/Lt.
13.12.1944
Hon. Capt.
01.01.1949
13.06.1944


commissioned, The Manchester Regiment [emergency commission]
01.01.1949


Intelligence Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Morgan,
Farrar Robert Horton
F.R.H. Morgan (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Guinan-Browne) F.R.H. Morgan (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Guinan-Browne)
F.R.H. Morgan (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Guinan-Browne) 
Eldest son (with three sisters and one brother) of Robert Upton Morgan, MBE (1867-1958), and Amy Eliza Edwards (1863-1959).
Married 1st ((03?).1915, St Pancras district, London) Alice Winifred May (30.11.1893 - 12.03.1955), daughter of Thomas Robert Cross (1857-), and Alice Betsy Lomas (1854-1930); two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (23.04.1957, St John the Baptist, Dartmouth) Frances Maud Turner (née Blackborow) (21.05.1902 - 22.06.1977), 4th daughter of late Harold and Ida Blackborow, and widow of Sidney Turner.

12.09.1893
St Pancras district, London
-
31.05.1978
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
T/2nd Lt. 03.09.1914-04.07.1915 [15495]
T/Lt. 05.07.1915-10.11.1916
2nd Lt. 27.09.1916, seniority 03.06.1915
T/Lt. 11.11.1916-31.12.1916
Lt. 01.01.1917
T/Capt. 01.05.1917-01.06.1921
Capt. 02.06.1921
A/Maj. 27.02.1918-16.08.1918
Maj. 04.04.1935
A/Lt.Col. 07.05.1940-06.08.1940
T/Lt.Col. 07.08.1940-09.12.1940
Lt.Col. 10.12.1940 (supernumerary 10.12.1943) (retd 11.09.1946)
A/Col. 08.12.1941-07.06.1942
T/Col. 08.06.1942-11.09.1946
Hon. Col. 11.09.1946
Distinguished Service Order DSO 11.07.1940 France *
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mention in Despatches MID 05.06.1919 ?
Africa General Service Medal 1902 Afr GSM - & clasp East Africa (Somaliland) 1920
General Service Medal 1918 GSM - & clasp Palestine 1936-1939
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
Syrian Order of Merit 1st class.
Education: University College School, Hampstead; School of Oriental Studies, London University.
08.1914 - 02.09.1914 served in the ranks (mobilized Territorial Force) for 29 days
14.07.1915 - 04.07.1916 served France & Belgium
27.09.1916     commissioned, The Border Regiment
11.11.1916 - 22.01.1924 employed with the King's African Rifles (British, German and Portugese East Africa, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia 06.01.1917-25.11.1918)
01.1924     qualified as interpreter 2nd class in Ki-Swahili
1927     served in China
(03.1931)     1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Bordon)
16.10.1931 - 27.08.1935 Adjutant (attached General Staff), Officers Training Corps, Glasgow & Aberdeen Universities
(01.1937)     1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Holywood, for Catterick Camp)
(1937) - (1940)  1st Battalion The Border Regiment (Palestine 1937-1939 & France 1939-1940)
(1940)     attached 5th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (France) (133rd Infantry Brigade, 44th Infantry Division, 3rd Corps) (DSO)
08.12.1941 - 23.05.1943 Sub-Area Commander, Home Forces
1944 - 1946 commanded British Troops in Syria (OBE)
11.09.1946 - 02.09.1948 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Principal Control Officer, Germany, 1946-1949.
* Recommendation for the award of the Distinguished Service Order to A/Lt.Col. F.R.H. Morgan: For conspicuous ability and leadership in command of his Bn. during the 27th and 28th May, his Bn greatly reduced by casualties held a long sector at ROUGE CROIX. No reserve except the carrier platoon was available. By his skilful dispositions, by his personal example of bravery where enemy pressure was heaviest and by his very able use of his carrier platoon he maintained his line intact against heavy enemy attacks by A.F.Vs and Infantry.
Recommended by Brig. N.I. Whitty, O.C. 133th Infantry Brigade.
Morgan,
Fred

F. Morgan
1924
-
Cadet ? [14784385]
2nd Lt. 20.04.1945 [346568]
WS/Lt. 20.10.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
20.04.1945     commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission]
      attached, Indian Army (NW Frontier)
Morgan,
Sir Frederick Edgworth
"Freddie"

F.E. Morgan F.E. Morgan
F.E. Morgan F.E. Morgan
F.E. Morgan F.E. Morgan

Eldest son of Frederick Beverley Morgan (died 1934), and Clara Elizabeth Horrocks, of Paddock Wood, Kent.
Married (15.08.1917) Marjorie Cecile, daughter of Col. Thomas du Bédat Whaite CB, CMG, Westport, Co. Mayo; one son, two daughters.

05.02.1894
Paddock Wood, Kent
-
19.03.1967
Northwood, Middlesex
2nd Lt.
18.07.1913 [8223]
Lt.
09.06.1915
T/Capt.
15.04.1916-17.07.1917
Capt.
18.07.1917
Maj.
22.06.1932
Bt. Lt.Col.
01.01.1934
Col.
28.05.1938, seniority 01.01.1937
T/Brig.
08.08.1939-27.02.1942
A/Maj.Gen.
28.02.1941-27.02.1942
T/Maj.Gen.
28.02.1942-11.11.1942
Maj.Gen.
12.11.1942, seniority 13.11.1941 (retd 29.12.1946)
A/Lt.Gen.
14.05.1942-13.05.1943
T/Lt.Gen.
14.05.1943-28.12.1946
Hon. Lt.Gen.
29.12.1946
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
24.08.1944
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Commander, Legion of Merit (US) LM
12.04.1945
?
Commander, Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
1945
?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
1945
?
Distinguished Service Medal (USA) DSM
16.01.1948
?
Mention in Despatches MID
15.05.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
05.07.1919
?
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
-
-
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
-
-
Victory Medal VM
-
-
Education: Hurstleigh private school, Tunbridge Wells (1902-1907); Clifton College (1907-1911); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1912-1913); Staff College, Quetta (1927-1928; psc)
18.07.1913


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1913
-
1914
Lahore Divisional Artillery (India)



France and Belgium  07.11.1914-11.11.1918 (despatches twice) (aarly in the war he was blown up and suffered severe shell-shock, but he returned later to serve on the staff of the Canadian Corps):
23.08.1915
-
08.01.1916
Aide-de-Camp to the Brigadier commanding Royal Artillery in France
09.01.1916
-
05.03.1919
Staff Captain Royal Artillery (France)
18.08.1919
-
04.09.1922
Adjutant, ... (India)
1922
-
1930
served in India
1930
-
1931
Brigade Major, Staff College, Quetta (India)
01.02.1931
-
18.01.1932
Staff Officer to Major-General Royal Artillery (General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), General Staff Branch, HQ of the Army in India
19.01.1932
-
31.01.1935
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), Royal Artillery, India
15.03.1936
-
21.12.1937
General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2) on staff of Director of Staff Duties, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office (London)
22.12.1937
-
27.05.1938
Deputy Assistant Military Secretary, War Office (London)
28.05.1938
-
07.08.1939
General Staff Officer 1st grade (GSO1), 3rd Infantry Division (Southern Command) (Bulford)
08.08.1939
-
03.11.1940
Commander, 1st Support Group, 1st Armoured Division (UK, France, UK)
04.11.1940
-
27.02.1941
Brigadier General Staff, II Corps
28.02.1941
-
30.10.1941
General Officer Commanding, Devon and Cornwall County Division (UK)
30.10.1941
-
13.05.1942
General Officer Commanding, 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division (UK)
14.05.1942
-
12.04.1943
General Officer Commanding, I Corps District (Home Forces)
23.04.1943
-
early 1944
Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander (Designate) (COSSAC) (UK)
early 1944
-
mid 1945
Deputy Chief of Staff to Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force (NW Europe)
09.1945
-
1946
Chief of UNRRA operations in Germany
29.12.1946
-
05.02.1954
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Controller of Atomic Energy, 26.08.1951-1954. Controller of Atomic Weapons, 1954-1956. Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1948-24.06.1958.
Published: Overture to Overlord (1950); Peace and war : a soldier's life (1961)

Morgan,
Gerald Alan

F. Morgan
Son of ... Morgan, and ... Cockerill.
Married ((03?).1947, Kettering district, Northamptonshire) Elizabeth A. Rudd; ... children (one son?).
(12?).1923
Kettering district, Northamptonshire
-
Cadet ? [5892464]
2nd Lt. 12.02.1944 [308243]
WS/Lt. 12.08.1944 (reld 12.07.1948)
Hon.Capt. 12.07.1948
20.04.1945     commissioned, The Northamptonshire Regiment [emergency commission]
Morgan,
John Bell
J.B. Morgan
10.09.1918
-
03.2013
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 13.02.1943 [262682]
WS/Lt. 13.11.1943 (demobilized > 04.1946, < 08.1946) (reld 24.05.1952)
T/Capt. ?
Hon. Capt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
13.02.1943     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
Morgan,
John Geoffrey [Basil]
J.G. Morgan
24.08.1921
-
30.10.2014
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 12.04.1941 [182304]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
A/Capt. 21.07.1944-20.10.1944
T/Capt. 21.10.1944-25.02.1945,
23.03.1945-03.10.1946,
05.01.1947-19.08.1947
Lt. 05.07.1947, seniority 24.02.1944
Capt. 24.08.1948
Maj. 24.08.1955 (retd 16.09.1958)
Military Cross MC 02.08.1945 NW Europe (reoonnaissance of a bridge at Unterstedt, Germany 30.04.45) [recommendation available upon request]
Mention in Despatches MID 08.12.1953 Korea
12.04.1941     commissioned, The Welch Regiment [emergency commission to 04.07.1947]
(1945)     Intelligence Officer, 1/5th Battalion The Welch Regiment (NW Europe) (MC)
04.10.1946 - 31.12.1946 Unemployed List
05.07.1947     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [permanent commission]
Joined the clergy. Wells Theological College, 1959. Deacon, 1960, priest 1961. Curate, Oakdale St George, Sarum, 1960-1964. Curate, St Mark, Talbot Village, 1964-1967. Curate in charge, Ensbury St Thomas Ecllesiastical Convential District, 1967-1969. Incumbent, Ensbury, 1969-1982. Incumbent North Leigh, Oxfordshire, 1982-(1985).
Morgan,
Sir William Duthie
Portrait, 1945 Portrait, c. 1951
W.D. Morgan Portrait, 1970.

Son of late Alexander Morgan, OBE, MA, LLD, DSc (1860-1949), and Isobel Duthie, Edinburgh. Married (1921) Amy (died 1976), daughter of Cromwell Varley of the Manor House, Chislehurst; one son, one daughter.

15.12.1891
Edinburgh
-

13.05.1977
London
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
20.12.1912 [8038]
Lt.
09.06.1915
A/Capt.
31.07.1916-19.12.1916
Capt.
20.12.1916
A/Maj. 22.01.1917-06.10.1917,
05.12.1917-04.07.1918,
21.10.1918-15.04.1919
local Maj.
12.01.1929-31.03.1931
Maj.
01.04.1931
Lt.Col.
01.04.1939
Bt. Col.
01.07.1939
A/Col.
16.03.1940-15.09.1940
T/Col.
16.09.1940-06.02.19141
Col.
07.02.1941, seniority 01.07.1939
A/Brig.
22.06.1940-21.12.1940
T/Brig.
22.12.1940-29.10.1941
A/Maj.Gen.
01.06.1941-29.10.1941
T/Maj.Gen.
08.04.1943-06.09.1943
WS/Maj.Gen.
07.09.1943
Maj.Gen.
15.05.1944, seniority 09.01.1944
A/Lt.Gen.
07.09.1942-06.09.1943
T/Lt.Gen.
07.09.1943-14.01.1944,
18.02.1944-16.08.1946
Lt.Gen.
17.08.1946, seniority 26.12.1944
Gen.
23.11.1946, seniority 07.11.1946 (retd 04.06.1950)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
01.01.1949
New Year 49
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
18.10.1945
Mediterranean
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1944
New Year 44
Distinguished Service Order DSO
1919
?
Military Cross MC
25.11.1916
*
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1915
?
Mention in Despatches MID
15.06.1916
?
Mention in Despatches MID
14.12.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
07.07.1919
?
Mention in Despatches MID
20.12.1940
?
Croix de Guerre (15.04.1918; Belgium); 1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Waziristan 1921-1924 Medal and Clasp

* For conspicuous gallantry in action. As F.O.O. he maintained telephonic and visual communication under very heavy fire throughout the operations, thereby obtaining most valuable information.
Education: Staff College, Camberley (psc); Hon. LLD (Edinburgh), 1950
20.12.1912


commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Field Artillery)
1914
-
1919
served European War: France & Belgium (08.1914-11.11.1918) (despatches, MC, DSO, Belgian Croix de Guerre)
1922
-
1923
Waziristan
05.05.1927
-
11.01.1929
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), War Office
12.01.1929
-
03.05.1931
Military Attaché, Budapest (as General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) [also for Berne & Vienna]
(06.1933)


19th Field Brigade RA (Bordon)
28.08.1934
-
27.08.1938
Chief Instructor (General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
1939
-
1940
Regimental Commander, ... (British Expeditionary Force, France)
13.01.1940
-
20.06.1940
General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), 1st Infantry Division (France)
22.06.1940
-
31.05.1941
Brigadier General Staff (BGS), 1st Corps
01.06.1941
-
29.10.1941
General Officer Commanding (GOC),  55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division (UK) (injured)
07.09.1942
-
25.07.1943
Chief of General Staff (CGS), Home Forces
26.07.1943
-
14.01.1944
Chief of General Staff (CGS), 21st Army Group
18.02.1944
-
28.02.1945
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Southern Command
1945
-
1945
Chief of Staff (CoS) to Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean
29.09.1945
-
10.1945
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre
10.1945
-
31.01.1947
Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre
1947
-
12.04.1950
Commander, British Army Staff, Washington, and Military Member of the Joint Services Mission, Washington
04.06.1950
-
15.12.1953
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Colonel Commandant RA, 01.01.1947-15.12.1956. Honorary Colonel of a 458 HAA Regiment RA (TA), 22.12.1952-22.12.1957
Chairman: Siemens Brothers & Co. Ltd, London, 1953-1957; Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd, 1957-1962. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of London, (later Greater London), 22.01.1958-1976, Vice­Lieutenant, Co. London 31.01.1958, Greater London 03.02.1967-1970.
Morgan,
William Phillip Claude Kipling Clifford

W.P.C.K.C. Morgan
Son (with one brother and one half-brother) of Richard Morgan (1877-1947), and Rose Maude Louise Willis Phillips (1885-1972).
04.11.1912
Lambeth, London
-
08.2005
East Devon district, Devon
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 24.02.1942 [226580]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 25.01.1946-(04.1946)
24.02.1942     commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission]
      wounded and sent to Cosham Hospital around 21.09.1944
Morrill,
Kenneth Frank

K.F. Morrill
Son of Alfred Thomas William Morrill (1876-1944), and Florence Mary Eliza Berry (1877-1956).
(06?).1914
Wandsworth district, London
-
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.11.1940 [155675]
WS/Lt. 09.05.1942
T/Capt. 19.06.1943-03.01.1944
WS/Capt. 04.01.1944
T/Maj. 15.02.1945-(04.1946)
Lt. 19.04.1947, seniority 09.05.1940
Capt. 19.04.1947, seniority 09.05.1945
Maj. ? (cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial 22.12.1951)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 28.06.1945 Italy [recommendation available upon request] [04.04.1952 cancelled and annulled and name erased from the Register, in consequence of his having been cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial.]
Mention in Despatches MID 19.07.1945 Italy
? - 09.11.1940 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit
09.11.1940     commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
      2nd Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers
[10.1942 embarked UK; 08.11.1942 disembarked North Africa; Platoon Commander, then Company Commander, then Adjutant; from 07.1943 Sicily; from 09.1943 Italy as Company Commander; 01.1944 medically downgraded]
01.04.1944 - (01.1945) Adjutant, No. 4 (British) Corps Reinforcement Unit (MBE)
19.4.1947     permanent commission
Post-war possibly a land agent in Perth, Australia,
Morris,
Edward Augustus
"Ted"

E.A. Morris
Married ((09?).1928, Knaresborough district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Gladys Evelyn Ellis, daughter (with two sisters) of Francis Ellis (1885-), and Annie Leyland; one son, one daughter.
21.03.1906
Middlesborough district, North Riding of Yorkshire
-
25.12.1978
Harrogate, Claro district, Yorkshire
Cpl. ?
2nd Lt. 07.04.1941 [181069]
WS/Lt. 24.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Capt. 09.12.1942-(01.1946)
Hon. Capt. < 04.1946
07.04.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
(09.1944)     551st General Transport Company RASC (attached 24th Transport Column (Bridging) RASC)
“We carried the boats to the Waal for the evacuation of the paratroopers from Arnhem – carried a lot of them away after the show. I can't say how many of them were taken prisoner but I do know that there were quite a lot who wouldn’t leave the wounded who couldn’t be evacuated. They did a magnificent job their efforts will understandably go down in history as the most heroic stand ever made by heroes of any nationality.”
Company director.
Morris,
Sir Edwin Logie
E.L. Morris E.L. Morris
 
Son of late Clarke Morris, MRCS, LRCP, JP.
Married 1st (1921) Celia (marriage dissolved, 1953),
daughter of Arthur Meade, St Ives, Cornwall; no children.
Married 2nd (1953) Mary Sinclair, widow of John Sinclair, Farnham, Surrey.
10.03.1889
Greenwich, Greater London, Kent
-
29.06.1970
[Normandy, nr Guildford, Surrey ?]
2nd Lt.
23.07.1909 [6541]
Lt.
01.04.1911
Capt.
23.07.1915
...
...
Maj.Gen.
04.09.1939, seniority 27.06.1938
A/Lt.Gen.
18.11.1941-31.01.1942
local Lt.Gen.
01.02.1942-13.02.1942
A/Lt.Gen.
14.02.1942-30.11.1942
T/Lt.Gen.
01.12.1942-03.01.1943
Lt.Gen.
04.01.1943
Gen.
08.04.1946 (retd 15.11.1948)

KCB, 1944 (CB 01.01.1941); OBE 1919; MC
MID 16.12.1915, 17.02.1918, 30.05.1918, 06.01.1919, 05.06.1919
Education: Wellington, Royal Miltary Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (1921-1922; psc); Imperial Defence College (1933; idc)
23.07.1909


commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
1914
-
1918
served European War: France & Italy: Brigade Major, 10th and 144th Infantry Brigades & General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 14 Corps (Brevet­Maj.; despatches five times, OBE, MC)
06.11.1919
-
15.10.1920
Brigade Major; Black Sea (Turkey)
31.12.1926
-
20.01.1930
Instructor (Gemeral Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)), Staff College, Camberley
19.01.1931
-
09.12.1932
General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), War Office
09.03.1934
-
27.12.1934
Commander Royal Engineers (CRE), India
28.12.1934
-
02.10.1936
Deputy Director of Operations & Intelligence (GSO1), Army HQ, India
14.11.1936
-
04.10.1938
Deputy Director of Military Operations, War Office
05.10.1938
-
03.09.1939
Brigadier General Staff, Northern Command
16.03.1939
-
03.09.1939
also: ADC to the King
04.09.1939
-
31.10.1940
Director of Staff Duties, War Office
01.11.1940
-
10.12.1940
Area Commander (West Sussex County), Home Forces
11.12.1940
-
18.05.1941
specially employed
19.05.1941
-
17.11.1941
General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division (Home Forces)
18.11.1941
-
31.01.1942
Commander, IX. Corps (Home Forces)
14.02.1942
-
05.04.1944
Chief of General Staff, India
07.06.1944
-
1946
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command
1946
-
1948
British Army Representative, Military Staff Committee, United Nations
1947
-
1948
also: ADC General to the King
Colonel Commandant, RE, 01.02.1945-01.10.1958. Chief Royal Engineer, 11.09.1951-01.10.1958. Master of the Skinners' Company, 1954-1955.
Morris,
Ernest Wilson

E.W. Morris
?
-
2nd Lt. 09.08.1941 [195641]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
T/Capt. 03.10.1942-(04.1946)
09.08.1941     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Morris,
Howard Arthur
H.A. Morris
Son of ... Morris, and ... Duncan.
07.1920
Shardlow district, Derbyshire
-
(03?).1967 ?
Hackney district, London ?
2nd Lt. 08.05.1943 [273915]
WS/Lt. 29.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 08.1946)
Hon. Lt. > 04.1946, < 08.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1946 NW Europe
08.05.1943     commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission]
Morris,
Hugh Neville
H.N. Morris (Photo courtesy of Wendy A. Harrison)
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Frank Morris (1878-1958), and Amy Billingham (1890-).
Married ((03?).1960, Bilston district, Staffordshire) Patricia Ann Badger (07.1939 - 30.06.2018); one son, one daughter.
20.06.1920
Dudley, Staffordshire
-
23.08.1981
Kinver, nr Stourbridge, South Staffordshire
Cadet ? [930130]
2nd Lt. 11.03.1944 [312673]
WS/Lt. 11.09.1944 (reld 26.05.1946)
T/Capt. 07.11.1945-26.05.1946
Hon. Capt. 26.05.1946
      Officer Cadet Training Unit
11.03.1944     commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
Morris,
Michael
see: Killanin,
Lord; Morris, Michael
 
Morris,
William David
W.D. Morris (Photo courtesy of Keith Phillips) W.D. Morris (Photo courtesy of Keith Phillips)
Son of Sidney Price Morris (1875-1941), contractor and undertaker, and Elizabeth Jane Williams (1876-), of Ferry House, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Married ((06?).1939, East Glamorgan district, Wales) Mair Eluned James, daughter of E.T. James, of Barry.
20.11.1910
Llandilofawr district, Carmarthenshire, Wales
-
04.06.1983
Wembley, Hendon district, London
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 05.09.1942 [245163]
WS/Lt. 05.03.1943
T/Capt. 23.12.1943-(08.1946)
WS/Capt. ?
Maj. 01.05.1947
Lt.Col. 30.04.1953
Bt. Col. 15.05.1958
A/Col. ?
Col. 01.07.1963, seniority 14.11.1962
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 25.10.1955 -
Mention in Despatches MID 22.03.1945 NW Europe
King Haakon VI Liberty Medal (Norway) Hkn LM 19.03.1948 liberation of Norway [Norwegian scroll dated 20.09.1946]
Education: Llandeilo Grammar School.
05.09.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [emergency commission]
(03.1944)     [6th?] (Airborne) Ordnance Field Park RAOC
(08.1945)     1st (Airborne) Ordnance Field Park RAOC
01.05.1947     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
?     Unattached List - Territorial Army
14.11.1962 - 14.11.1964 Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army
14.11.1964     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
Bank manager. DL (1964), JP (1968) Greater London. FIB. OStJ, 1980. Treasurer, Middlesex Lawn Tennis Association. Financial Sectritary, Catles St London Welsh Baptist Church.
Morrison,
Peter

P. Morrison [UNVERIFIED] (Photo courtesy of Mr Pieter Kempff)
?
-
Cadet ? [1929475]
2nd Lt. 25.03.1945 [343536]
WS/Lt. 25.09.1945 (reld > 04.1947)
25.03.1945     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
Morrison,
Piercy Denham

P.D. Morrisson (Photo courtesy of Mr Iain Miskimmin)
Son of Piercy Henderson Morrison (?-1936), and Jessie Morrison (?-1951), of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Married ((09?).1929, Newcastle-on-Tyne district, Northumberland) Mira I. Cochran-Carr; ... children (one daughter?).
19.10.1896
Horton, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
12.02.1964
Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
2nd Lt. 26.01.1916 [13667]
Lt. 26.07.1917
A/Capt. 12.07.1919-18.10.1919
Capt. 04.11.1925
Maj. 01.08.1938 (retd 22.07.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 03.02.1920 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 21.02.1946 services in the field
British War Medal 14-19; Victory Medal.
Education: Uppingham School (09.1910-04.1915; Brooklands House); Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Cambridge University.
26.01.1916     commissioned, The Royal Scots Fusiliers (served in France & Belgium 18.07.1916-11.01.197, 02.06.1917-05.08.1917, 31.10.1917-02.01.1918 & 09.09.1918-11.11.1918; served in Russia 1919; wounded twice)
26.04.1918 - 02.11.1919 seconded, Machine Gun Corps
22.07.1927 - 29.11.1928 attached to Sudan Defence Force
? - 05.1940 Second-in-Command, 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers (captured)
05.1940 - 1945 POW (No. 712) in German captivity (Oflag IX-A/H, Spangenberg, Hessen)
22.07.1946 - 21.06.1947 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit]
Morrison,
Robert Archey
"Bob"

R.A. Morrison (Photo courtesy of Hazel Morrison)
Son of Johnston Morrison, RIC Constable, and Agnes Alice Maud King.
Husband of Gwendolen Edith Morrison; two sons.
24.03.1892
Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
-
14.01.1941
29th Military Hospital, Orsmskirk
[age 48] (possibly from a tropical illness)
[Orsmkirk (SS. Peter and Paul) Churchyard, Lancashire, grave 1183]
2nd Lt. 27.11.1916
T/Capt. 01.05.1920-30.12.1920
Lt. 07.01.1921 [26426]
Capt. 01.02.1931

British War Medal; Victory Medal; India General Service Medal 1908-35 & clasp Burma 1930-32.

      served in the ranks for 1 day
19.02.1916     transferred to Army Reserve
19.02.1916 - 26.11.1916 served in the ranks Mobilized Army Reserve for 270 days
27.11.1916 - 06.01.1921 commissioned,  Mobilized Special Reserve for 4 years, 41 days
02.1917 - 04.1917 served in France & Belgium (wounded)
01.05.1920 - 30.12.1920 Education Officer (Class FF), Turkey
07.01.1921     commissioned, Army Educational Corps
(06.1933) - (01.1939) Instructor, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
21.03.1939 - (01.1940) Instructor (Class B), Indian Military Academy (Dehra Dun)
Mortelmans,
Edward Eugene Louis
E.E.L. Mortelmans

Son of Louis John Mortelmans (1887?-1956), and Theresa Antoinette I. Braem (1887-1922).
Married ((03?).1942, Islington district, London) Frances H. Lane; one daughter, one son.

18.04.1915
Edmonton district, London / Middlesex
-
25.12.2008
St. Christopher's Nursing Home, Hatfield
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 29.11.1941 [219161]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 04.1947)
A/Maj. ? ?
Education: Carlingford College; Upper Hornsey Road Evening Art Ins; Central Institute of Art and Design; Slade School of Fine Art.
29.11.1941     commissioned, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [emergency commission]
      seconded, Indian Army
Artistic painter & illustrator.
Morton,
Henry Whittaker
H.W. Morton

Son (with two sisters) of George Morton (1876-), and Emily Whittaker (1874-1918).
Married (04.07.1931, Gateshead district, Co. Durham) Herbertie Margaret Elliott (26.09.1900 - 05.01.1991); one daughter.
25.03.1903
Chester Le Street district, Durham
-
30.12.1980
Mold, Flintshire, Wales
2nd Lt. 19.02.1940 [120483]
WS/Lt. 10.05.1941
T/Capt. (1943)
WS/Capt. 29.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Maj. (1945)
Hon. Maj. < 04.1946
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44
Mention in Despatches MID 20.12.1940 BEF 39-40 (served in the caves at Arras 03-05.40)
19.02.1940     commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission]
      855th Quarrying Company RE
Morton-Clarke,
James Charles Morton
J.C.M. Morton-Clarke (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
13.08.1914
-
13.07.1966
2nd Lt. 31.01.1935 [64617]
... ...
T/Maj. 04.09.1942-(01.1946)
Maj. 31.01.1948
Lt.Col. ?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE ? ?
31.01.1935     commissioned, Royal Berkshire Regiment
... - ... ...
      seconded, King's African Rifles
21.01.1942 - 23.05.1942 6th War Course, Middle East Staff School (Haifa)
... - ... ...
Moss,
Frank [Edward]
F.E. Moss

Son (with two brothers and four sisters) of Joseph Moss (1873-1932), and Harriet Higgins (1870-).
Married ((03?).1927, Amesbury district, Wiltshire) Irene Alice Watts (11.10.1907 - 03.05.1975), daughter (with two sisters) of Henry Watts (1881-1945), and Alice Eliza Farmer (1886-1935); one daughter, one son.
12.05.1902
Ripley, Derbyshire
-
26/27.04.1941
[Athens Memorial, face 3]
RSM
?
Lt. (QM)
16.12.1939 [111070]
16.12.1939

commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
?
-
27.04.1941
106th (The Lancashire Hussars) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
Moss,
Geoffrey Hugh Buckton
G.H.B. Moss (Portrait courtesy of Mr Hugh Moss)
Married; three sons.
22.06.1901
Richmond district, Surrey
-
27.05.1987
Winchester district, Hampshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
22.12.1921 [18254]
Lt.
22.12.1923
Capt.
22.12.1932
Maj.
22.12.1938
A/Lt.Col.
02.05.1940-01.08.1940
T/Lt.Col.
02.08.1940-08.07.1941,
24.11.1941-(01.1946)
WS/Lt.Col.
1946?
Lt.Col.
13.07.1947 (supernumerary 13.07.1950) (retd 22.12.1953)
A/Col.
13.09.1944-(01.1946)
Hon. Col.
22.12.1953
Mention in Despatches MID
24.08.1944
Italy
Officer, Legion of Merit (US) LM
16.01.1948
?
Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
22.12.1921

commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers
(03.1931)
 
 
serving at Hong Kong
(06.1933)
 
 
serving at Hong Kong
(01.1937)
 
 
serving at Longmoor
14.04.1938
-
31.08.1939
Staff Captain, Directorate of Fortification and Works, Department of the Quarter-Master-General to the Forces, War Office (temporary)
(1942)


served in Jerusalem
22.12.1953
-
03.10.1956
Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
AMIEE
Moss,
John Cottam
J.C. Moss (Photo courtesy of Peter Moss)
J.C. Moss (Photo courtesy of Peter Moss)
J.C. Moss (Photo courtesy of Peter Moss)

Son of W/Cdr. Thomas Moss, RAFVR (1884-1964), and Ethel Gladys Herbert (1881-1970).
Brother of Lt. William Francis Moss, Welsh Guards.
Married 1st (01.11.1941, St Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya) Joyce Alison Blunn (13.11.1916 - 30.11.1977); two sons.
Married 2nd (09.10.1987, Guildford, Surrey) ...
31.03.1914
Milford, Surrey
-
10.1997
St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey Northern district, Surrey
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 12.10.1940 [151447]
WS/Lt. 19.03.1941 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 19.03.1941-(08.1946)
      Officer Cadet Training Unit
12.10.1940     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission]
      attached Indian Army; captured 15.02.1942; survived POW in Far East after fall of Singapore
Moss,
William Francis
"Bill"
W.F. Moss (Photo courtesy of Peter Moss)

Son of W/Cdr. Thomas Moss, RAFVR (1884-1964), and Ethel Gladys Herbert (1881-1970)
Brother of Capt. John Cottam Moss, Royal Signals.
Married (11.01.1936, St john, Busbridge, Surrey South Western district, Surrey) Mary Prudence Hodsoll (08.1912 - 1991), of Godalming; one son, one daughter.
13.03.1913
India
-
30.06.1944
(killed by a V-1 missile at Imber Court)
[Woking (St John's Crematorium), panel 4]
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 08.03.1941 [176781]
Lt. 08.09.1942
Mention in Despatches MID 23.09.1943 North Africa
      either 161st or 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
08.03.1941     commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission]
? - 30.06.1944 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards
Mossley,
Gerald Edwin Chilton
G.E.C. Mossley
Son of J.C. Mossley, of Moradabad, U.P., India.
Married Eva Maud Phillips; ... children.
23.12.1912
Lucknor, India
-
07.04.1973
[Marburg Cemetery, Port Shepstone, Kwazulu-Natal, South Afrcia]
2nd Lt. 27.10.1937 [73303]
A/Capt. 13.03.1942-26.04.1944
WS/Capt. 27.04.1944
T/Maj. 27.04.1944-01.08.1945
WS/Maj. 02.08.1945 (reld 26.08.1947)
T/Lt.Col. 02.08.1945-26.08.1947
Hon. Lt.Col. 26.08.1947
Territorial Efficiency Decoration TD 30.12.1955 -
Education: Campbell College (09.1924-07.1929; Price's House; Boxing 1928-29). Graduated as Mechanical Engineer 19.09.1935.
Premium Apprentice Pupil, Draughtsman, L.M.S. Locomotive Works, Crewe. British Railways XC, 1935-36.
      late Cadet, Campbell College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
27.10.1937     commissioned, 7th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment - Territorial Army
13.04.1939     Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
02.09.1939     [seconded ?], Corps of Royal Engineers (A.F.I.)
21.02.1942     transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers
Farming, Kenya Colony, East Africa.
Motion,
Kenneth Robert
K.R. Motion
Son of ... Motion, and ... Kerrison.
25.03.1923
Braintree district, Essex
-
21.01.2008
hospital
[age 85]
[All Saints Cemetery, Honiton]
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
18.04.1942 [232568]
WS/Lt.
18.10.1942
T/Capt.
28.12.1945-(04.1946)
18.04.1942

commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission]
Mott,
Francis Vincent Douglas
F.V.D. Mott (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Lidbury)
Son (with five siblings) of John Mott, and Emily Muriel Backhouse.
Married Lesley Alexandra Patricia Clarke
(14.12.1921 - 03.2003); one daughter, one son.
30.10.1915
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
18.07.2006
West Surrey district, Surrey
2nd Lt. 27.08.1936 [69176]
Lt. 27.08.1939
A/Capt. 31.03.1941-29.06.1941
T/Capt. 30.06.1941-19.10.1942,
26.02.1943-10.12.1943,
26.01.1944-26.08.1944
Capt. 27.08.1944
A/Maj. 12.02.1946-11.05.1946
T/Maj. 12.05.1946-16.02.1947,
19.11.1948-30.12.1949
Maj. 31.12.1949 (retd 01.07.1959)
Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
27.08.1936     commissioned, The York and Lancaster Regiment
08.1944 - 10.1944 staff 72nd course, 206th Officer Cadet Training Unit
Mott,
Percival Eric
P.E. Mott (Photo courtesy of Mrs Stella Marsh)
Son (with two brothers) of Arthur Mott (1884-1967), and Florence Mary Barnes (1883-1957).
Brother of Lt. Mervyn Gerard Mott, RNVR, and of Sq.Ldr. Arnold John Mott, MBE, RAF[VR].
Married (1940) Minna Cecilia Martin (15.08.1918 - 08.2001).
17.04.1918
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
-
01.07.2001
Windsor and Maidenhead district, Berkshire
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 15.05.1941 [186387]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942
A/Capt. 08.10.1943-07.01.1944
T/Capt. 08.01.1944-30.04.1946
WS/Capt. 01.05.1946
A/Maj. 01.02.1946-30.04.1946
T/Maj. 01.05.1946-16.04.1954
Lt. 15.02.1947, seniority 17.10.1942
Capt. 17.04.1947
Maj. 17.04.1954 (retd 31.12.1971)
Mention in Despatches MID 06.04.1944 Middle East
Mention in Despatches MID 11.01.1945 Italy
      Officer Cadet Training Unit
15.05.1941     commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission to 14.02.1947]
15.02.1947     permanent commission
Mrs Stella Marsh writes: "My uncle Percival Eric Mott was a member of the Calcutta Light Horse, when he was able to join the army he trained in the Bangalore Cadet Collegen then to Mhow in Indore. He was with the 8th Indian Division in Meirut. He travelled by train across the Sind desert to Karachi, then by sea to Basra in Iraq. At some point he became the youngest Major in the army but I don't know when. He travelled across the desert to Transjordan - Palestine; across Sinai and over the Suez Canal and into the Egyptian desert; they held the enemy at Ruiweisite Ridge until new troops arrived - ultimately all of this became the Alamein Line. The next treck was the 1500 miles from Egypt to Tunis, hard driving over awful desert. Once in Alexandria he was posted away from his British Section and took over an Indian Infantry Brigade HQ Signals section. They drove across Sinia through Palestine and up into Lebanon to train as a Mountain Division, for operations along the spine of Italy. He landed at Taranto in December 1943. They had some grim battles, including Casino and breaking through the Gothic line and then on North. The captured the independent state of San Marino and then continued North. Near Forli they were pulled out for rest and recuperation but before this could happen they were ordered to Salonika in Greece. VJ day was followed by orders to return to India first to Karachi then on to Sialkot in the North followed by a sudden move to Poona near Bombay (1000 miles away). He was then posted to Shillong 800 miles North East of Calcutta. Ultimately he saw the British flag pulled down and the new one hauled up on 1st September 1947."
Moulton,
Owen William
O.W. Moulton
Married ((12?).1935, Gloucester district, Gloucestershire) Louie Ann Beatrice Preece (09.10.1916 - 10.01.2012); two daughters.
08.08.1912
-
02.06.1998
Bromley district, London
2nd Lt. 08.08.1942 [74166]
WS/Lt. 08.02.1943 (reld > 08.1946, < 12.1946)
T/Capt. 07.10.1944-(08.1946)
08.08.1942     commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Administrative Branch [emergency commission]
A grandchild writes: "We think he was in North Africa at some point, but was in Berlin on cessation of hostilities."
Mounter,
Francis Walter
F.W. Mounter (Photo courtesy of Jay Mounter)
Son of ... Mounter, and ... Patterson.
Married 1st ((06?).1939, Surrey North Eastern district; divorced) Helen Anastasia Tippett-Wilson (05.12.1918 - 10.1989) (she remarried 1948 Herbert Akers, then 1957 Lord Roberts German, then 1975 Victor D. Rogers).
Married 2nd ((09?).1946, Colchester district, Essex) Elsie B. Moore.
15.12.1913
Wandsworth district, London
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12.03.1992
Richmond upon Thames, Surrey
Cadet ?
2nd Lt. 09.08.1941 [200732]
WS/Lt. 01.10.1942 (reld 1948)
A/Capt. 21.01.1947-20.04.1947
T/Capt. 21.04.1947-(12.1947)
Electrical engineer.
09.08.1941     commissioned, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [emergency commission]
(1941?)     Training Officer, Sheffield University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps
21.09.1943     9th Battalion The King's Regiment
27.01.1947 - (12.1947) Transport Officer, School of Infantry (Warminster)
A relative writes: "We also know that early in the war he was attached to a unit involved with a radar station (presumably experimental) in Cornwall and now know, thanks to help from Sheffield University that they were working on developing radar during the war. Other than that we have no proof but family hearsay of the following: Lt. Mounter was involved in the Normandy Landings. Prior to joining the Royal Fusiliers he was in the Indian Army (we know he was fluent in Urdu and another Indian language, so this may be correct). He fought in Holland and was injured, possibly blown up in a jeep (throughout his life he did have tiny bits of shrapnel appear in his skin which he had to have removed). He was in hospital in Holland in 1944. He was mentioned in Despatches *. According to the home for retired officers in Richmond, where he died, he had 'a distinguished war record'."
* No proof found.
Mowbray,
?
Mowbray
?
-
?
2nd Lt. ?
... ...
Lt. QM ?
(04.1945)     14th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment
Moxon,
Bryan
B. Moxon (Photo courtesy of Mr David S.C. Wilson)

Son of Charles Stone Moxon (1896-1977), and Marjorie Esther Wint (1898-1997).
Married ((09?).1947, Droitwich district, Worcestershire) Helena M. Gwynee-James; ... children.
03.03.1924
Huddersfield district, West Riding of Yorkshire
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28.11.2021
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Cadet ? [14407968]
2nd Lt. 22.08.1943 [300509]
WS/Lt. 22.02.1944
      enlisted, Gordon Highlanders
? - 22.08.1943 'A' Company, 4 Wing, Officers' Training School, Mhow
22.08.1943     commissioned, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
      served with 2nd Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (Burma); wounded in Arakan with Royal Scots Fusiliers; served on in Burma, later Germany
Moyens,
Ian Charles
I.C. Moyens (Photo courtesy of Mrs F.H. Gell)
Married ((06?).1936, St Marylebone district, London) Joan Isabel Clark (02.05.1911 - 07.1995); three daughters.
Lived at Richmond, Surrey, then Sunbury-on-Thames.
21.02.1907
St Marylebone district, Greater London
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11.1977
Sunbury-on-Thames, Kingston upon Thames district, Greater London
2nd Lt. 06.12.1940 [159415]
WS/Lt. ?
WS/Capt. 27.08.1943
Capt. 01.11.1946, seniority 27.08.1943 (Emp. List 4)
T/Maj. 27.08.1943-(04.1944),
24.04.1945-(04.1946)
Maj. 06.12.1953 (reld 09.04.1957)
Hon. Maj. 09.04.1957
06.12.1940     commissioned, Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 30.10.1946]
01.11.1946 - 09.04.1957