Officers of the British Army 1939-1945 -- A (original) (raw)

A.V. Anderson to J.F. Aran

Anderson,
Alexander Vass
"Sandy"

Son of late Lt.Col Alexander Vass Anderson (1856-1933), of Stonehaven, Scotland.
Married 1st (18.02.1918, St Marylebone district, London; separated 1926; divorced 06.07.1935) Estelle Bell Gasson (10.05.1898 - 13.11.1972), daughter of George Henry Gasson (1858-1935), and Estelle Mary Bell (1866-1947); three sons (incl. Lindsay Anderson, film director). Estelle Anderson remarried (1936) Maj. Cuthbert Sleigh.
Married 2nd (08.10.1935, Church of Scotland, Simla, India) Aileen Elizabeth Stevenson (05.07.1902 - 21.09.1981), daughter of Stanley James Stevenson (1876-1929), and Florence Apcar (1875-1961), of Edinburgh; one step-daughter (from Aileen's earlier marriage to Thomas James Barnes (1888-1935)).

17.11.1895
Stonehaven, Scotland
-
17.10.1963
St Martin, Jersey

	CB	01.01.1945	New Year 45
	CMG	09.06.1949	HM's birthday 49
	MBE	02.06.1923	Malabar
	LM	16.01.1947	?
	OON	14.05.1948	? [Dutch Royal decree of 13.02.47]

A Thai decoration

Education: at Stonehaven; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley (1931; psc).

Anderson,
Andrew Sandilands Knox

Son of Donald Knox Anderson and Mary Anabella Anderson
Married ((03?).1940, Kensington district, London) Evelyn Ruth Wacher, of Canterbury.

28.11.1915
-
03.12.1945
[age 30]
[Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia, 4.B.3]

Education: Wellington College (1929-1933; Blucher House); Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Anderson,
Arthur Emilius David

Son of Rev. David Anderson (?-1916), and Blanche Alice May Laurie (?-1945).
Married (1916) Jean Douglas McIntyre; two daughters.
Lived in London.

30.09.1886
Twickenham, Greater London
-
21.10.1967
Wrotham, Kent

Anderson,
Arthur Reginald Colenso

Son of Arthur Anderson (1867-), and Frances Mary Merritt (1875-1923).
Married 1st ((06?).1924, Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire) Mary Kelland; two daughters.
Married 2nd ((03?).1951, Wood Green district, Middlesex) Dora Olive H. Warne (09.05.1894 - (03?).1979).

06.12.1900
Colchester, Essex
-
14.05.1971
Looe, Liskeard district, Cornwall

	MBE	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42

| 26.11.1940 | | | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------- | | (1942) | | | served Auxiliary Units | | | | | servedSpecial Operations Executive (SOE) | | | 03.06.1944 | | | transferred, The East Surrey Regiment |

Anderson,
Claudius Charles Grigor

Son of ... Anderson, and ... Jones.
Married ((09?).1948, Lambeth district, London) Pamela I. Prideaux ((12?).1921 - ), earlier married (1941) to Reginald St John Lockett (1915-2004), and daughter of Walter Edward Prideaux (1890-1962), and Beatrice M. Andrews (1891?-1965).

23.11.1916
Lewisham district, London
-
29.08.1989
West Norwood, Lambeth district, London

Education: Dulwich College (1929-1934).

| | | | late Cadet Serjeant, Dulwich College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 06.07.1938 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army (302nd Anti-Aircraft Company, 34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Battalion, RE (Greenwich)) | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | | | | served searchlight unit (captured) | | | 1940? | - | 1945? | POW in German captivity | | 01.08.1940 | | | transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery | | ? | - | 16.05.1953 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |

Anderson,
Colin Daintry

Son (with one brother) of Ian Forrest Anderson (1891-1970), and Mona Kathleen Daintry (1898-1983).

16.08.1919
The Hedges, Weybridge, Chertsey district, Surrey
-
07.04.1945
near Hengelo, Netherlands
(KIA)
[Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, VI.A.1]

Education: College of Corpus Christi, Cambridge (1938).

| 02.10.1939 | | | commissioned, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [emergency commission] | | ----------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 16.02.1941 | | | transferred, Royal Armoured Corps - 25th Dragoons | | ? (04.1944) | | | [transferred to?] 16th/5th Lancers |

Anderson,
Sir Desmond Francis

Only son of late Frank H. Anderson. Married (1915) Mary Hope Prisca, 2nd daughter of Rev. S.W. Wentworth Wilkin, CF, York; one son, one daughter.

05.07.1885
-
29.01.1967
[Chailey Green, Nr Lewes, Sussex ?]

	KBE	01.01.1943	New Year 43
	CB	09.06.1938	HM's birthday 38
	CMG	03.06.1919	?
	DSO	18.02.1915	war service
	MID	17.02.1915	?
	MID	01.01.1916	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?
	MID	05.07.1919	?
	LegH	09.04.1920	?

1914 Star and Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Russian Order of St Stanislas (2nd Class)

Education: Rugby School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

Colonel, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), 23.11.1940-08.12.1948. Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, 1945-1956.

Anderson,
Donald John

?
-
?

Education: London Hospital; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1940.

Clinical Assistant London Hospital. House Surgeon Chest Unit, Horton EMS Hospital. Physician Caterham & District Hospital. Div. Surgeon St John Ambulance Brigade.

Anderson,
Geoffrey David "Chaps"

Youngest son (with three brothers) of Rev. F.I. Anderson, of St Michaels, Sutton Lane, London W4.
Married (07.1946, Surrey North Western district) Elizabeth Daphne Beedham (08.02.1924 - 07.1996); one son.

04.08.1918
Seaton, Devon
-
02.09.2011
Kensington, London
[Oundle Cemetery]

	OBE	01.01.1957	New Year 1957
	AERD	03.11.1953	-
	CFM	31.01.1961	-
	CFM	30.01.1973	1st clasp
	MID	26.04.1945	Burma

Education: St Peter's Preparatory School, Seaford; Marlborough College (09.1932-07.1936; XI 1935-1936; Cadet, Officer Training Corps); Pembroke College, Cambridge (MA).

Assistant Master, Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa (1946-1947), then from January 1950 at Oundle School until retirement in 1979.

Anderson,
[Sir] Gilmour Menzies
[later known as: Menzies Anderson, Sir Gilmour]

Son of William Menzies Anderson, DSO, MC, and Jessie Jack Gilmour.
Married (1943) Ivy Beryl Shairp (n�e Chadwick); one daughter, plus one step-son & one step-daughter, both adopted (from Mrs Sharp's previous marriage).

29.04.1914
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
12.12.1977
Glasgow, Scotland

	Kt	13.02.1962	for political services in Scotland
	CBE	02.01.1956	New Year 56: for political and public services
	MBE	16.12.1943	Burma *

Education: Glasgow High School; Glasgow University (LLB).
Solicitor, 1939. Member Glasgow Corporation, 1938-1939 and again, 1945-1947.

| | | | late Cadet, Kelvinside Academy Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 24.05.1939 | | | commissioned, Highland Light Infantry - Territorial Army (6th Battalion) | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | 1942 | - | 1945 | served, Chindits (India, Burma) | | 29.12.1944 | - | 01.07.1945 | Commander, 16th Infantry Brigade (India) [from 29.12.1944-3.2.1945 acting] |

Chairman, Glasgow Unionist Association, 1954-1957. President, Scottish Unionist Association, 1960-1961. Chairman, Conservative Party in Scotland, 1967-1971 (Deputy Chairman 1965-1967).

* Major Anderson trained and commanded No. 6 Column until 2 March 1943, when he became Brigade Major. He had not had any previous experience of staff work, but the rapidity with which he grasped his duties and the vigour and intelligence he displayed in their discharge won my admiration. At this juncture bad work on the part of the new Bde. Maj. might well have jeopardised the safety of the whole Brigade but from the time of taking over until the final dispersal of the Brigade for the return march. Major Anderson never flagged or failed to give me perfect satisfaction. Not physically strong, he wore himself out by continuous and devoted application to his duties. His judgement was sound and of value to me on many occasions. The excellent work done by this officer whose military experience is of recent date is deserving of the highest praise and recognition.
Recommended by: Brigadier O.C. Wingate, D.S.O., Commander, 77 Indian Infantry Brigade Group.

Anderson,
Howard Allen

?
-
?

| | | | late Cadet, Edinburgh Academy Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 03.11.1923 | | | commissioned, 51st (Highland) Divisional Engineers - Corps of Royal Engineers - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers | | (06.1944) | | | on staff of Rear-Admiral Mulberry/Pluto on staff of ANCXF (Invasion of Normandy, 1944) [HMS Odyssey] | | ... | - | ... | ... |

Anderson,
James Masson

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

21.03.1917
-

	OBE	16.06.1984	HM's birthday 84: for service as Chairman, Moray District Council

DL, JP, Morayshire.
His daughter writes: "He has always talked fondly about his time with the Dogra Regiment. He was in a training role".

Anderson,
John

?
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| ? | | | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [?] [emergency commission] | | - | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | seconded, Warwickshire Yeomanry - Royal Armoured Corps | | | | | | "H" Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") | | | | | | 2 GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") | |

Anderson,
[Sir] John D'Arcy



Only son of Maj. Reginald D'Arcy Anderson, RGA, and Norah Gracey.
Married (07.12.1937) Elizabeth Antoinette Merrifield Walker.

23.09.1908
Downpatrick, Co Down, Ireland
-
16.04.1988
London SW3

	GBE	01.01.1967	New Year 1967 [investiture 19.02.1971]
	KCB	1961	?
	CB	01.01.1957	New Year 1957
	CBE	13.12.1945	Italy
	DSO	27.09.1940	BEF 1939-40 (Abbeville 27.05.1940)
	MID	29.04.1941	?
	MID	06.04.1944	?

Grand Officer, Order of the Crown (Belgium), 1963
Grand Officer, Order of Leopold (Belgium), 1966

Education: Winchester College (1922.3-1927.2; Drawing Prize, VI 1925-1926); New College, Oxford (Exhibitioner 1927; 3 Lit. Hum.1930; MA 1959); idc, psc 1941.

| | | | General List - Territorial Army | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 30.08.1930 | | | commissioned, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards | | WW II | | | served in France, the Middle East and Italy (wounded twice, despatches twice): | | 1939 | - | 1940 | British Expeditionary Force | | 06.05.1940 | - | 03.09.1940 | Brigade Major (BM), 2nd Armoured Brigade (British Expeditionary Force) (DSO) | | 04.09.1940 | - | 10.01.1941 | Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), ... | | 13.01.1941 | - | 06.01.1942 | General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), ... | | 17.01.1942 | - | 06.12.1942 | General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), ... (Middle East Forces) | | 21.02.1943 | - | 15.03.1943 | Deputy Director of Motor Transport (DDMT), General HQ, Middle East Forces | | 16.03.1943 | - | 07.04.1943 | Director of Motor Transport (DMT), ... | | 08.04.1943 | - | 10.11.1943 | Deputy Director of Motor Transport (DDMT), ... | | 1944 | - | 1944 | 4th Armoured Brigade (Italy) | | 06.04.1944 | - | 06.06.1944 | Commanding Officer, Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry (Normandy; wounded) | | 11.11.1944 | - | 19.10.1946 | Brigadier General Staff (BGS), ... (Italy) | | 15.07.1946 | - | 19.10.1946 | Brigadier General Staff (BGS), ... (Central Mediterranean Forces) | | 20.10.1946 | - | 03.07.1947 | Brigadier General Staff (BGS), ... (Central Mediterranean Forces) | | 04.07.1947 | - | 14.09.1947 | Deputy Chief of Staff | | 15.09.1947 | - | 04.05.1948 | COS Betfor | | 11.08.1948 | - | 12.07.1950 | Brig. C.I.G.S. Conference Working Comnittee | | 08.08.1950 | - | 30.12.1950 | D.D.S.D. (Brig.) | | 07.02.1952 | - | 20.06.1952 | Commander (Brig.) Cyrenaica District | | 21.06.1952 | - | 04.08.1953 | Commander, 25th Armoured Brigade | | 30.09.1953 | - | 21.02.1955 | Chief of Staff, 1 (British) Corps | | 04.04.1955 | - | 01.03.1956 | General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division (British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)) | | 24.04.1956 | - | 31.05.1958 | Chief of Staff at Headquarters Northern Army Group and British Army of the Rhine | | 15.08.1958 | - | 21.10.1959 | Director of the Royal Armoured Corps, War Office | | 07.12.1959 | - | 26.02.1961 | Director General Military Training, War Office | | 21.04.1961 | - | 03.02.1963 | Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office | | 01.03.1963 | - | 31.03.1964 | Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War | | 01.04.1964 | - | 21.12.1965 | Military Secretary, Ministry of Defence | | 04.01.1966 | - | 1968 | Commandant of the Imperial Defence College | | 18.10.1966 | - | 1968 | also ADC General to HM the Queen |

Honoray Colonel Oxford University O.T.C. (T.A.) 20.06.1961. Colonel of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, 16.11.1962-1967. Honorary Cololonel Queens University Belfast O.T.C. (T.A.) 12.07.1964. Colonel Commandant R.A.E.C. 26.10.1964. First Colonel Commandant of The Ulster Defence Regiment from 1969-1977. High Sheriff of County Down in 1974. Pro-Chancellor, QUB, 1969-80. Member, Commonwealth
War Graves Commn, 1963- 71. Member, Army Museums Ogilby Trust ; Vice-President Sandes Soldiers' and Airmen 's Homes; Deputy President, ACF Association (NI). Hon. LLD QUB, 1980.

Anderson,
[Sir] John Evelyn

28.06.1916
-
09.09.2007

	KBE	1971	?
	CBE	01.01.1963	New Year 63
	MID	13.01.1944	?
	MID	23.03.1944	?
	MID	02.08.1945	?

Anderson,
John Thompson McKellar

Son of John and Mary Anne McNicol McKellar Anderson; husband of Moira Anderson, of Chessington, Surrey.

12.01.1918
Hampstead, London
-
05.10.1943
Termoli, Italy
(KIA) [age 25]
[Sangro River War Cemetery, VIII.A.44]

1939-45 Star; Africa Star - clasp "8th Army"; Italy Star; Defence Medal (1939-45); War Medal (1939-45)

* During the attack on Longstop Hill, Tunisia, on 23rd April, 1943, Major Anderson, as leading Company Commander, led the assault on the battalion's first objective. Very heavy casualties were incurred, including the Commanding Officer killed and all other Company Commanders killed or wounded. Major Anderson re-organised the battalion, led the assault on the second objective, and, despite a leg wound, captured Longstop Hill with a total force of only four officers and less than forty other ranks. He personally led attacks on at least three enemy machine-gun positions and in every case was the first man in the enemy gun-pits. It is largely due to this officer's bravery and daring that Longstop Hill was captured, and it was the inspiration of his example that encouraged leaderless men to continue the advance.

Education: B.A. Hons. (Cantab.).

Anderson,
Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel





Married (1918) Kathleen Lorna Mary, daughter of late Sir Reginald Gamble; one son (killed in action), one daughter (deceased).

25.12.1891
Dhazwar, Madras, India
-
29.04.1959
King George V Hospital, Gibraltar

	KCB	05.08.1943	Tunisia
	CB	11.07.1940	services in the field
	MC	22.09.1916	*
	LM	10.08.1943	?
	MID	06.05.1932	NW Frontier
	MID	26.07.1940	operations in the field
	LegH	?	?
	CdeG	?	?

1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; NW Frontier Medal and Clasp; Grand Cordon Moroccan Ouissam Alaouite; Grand Cordon Tunisian Nisham Iftikar; Grand Cordon Star of Ethiopia (14.10.1949); KStJ, 04.01.1952
* For conspicuous gallantry. Captain Anderson was severely wounded in front of an enemy first line trench. He endeavoured to struggle on, but progress was impossible as one of his legs was broken. Nevertheless, although exposed to heavy fire, he continued to direct and encourage the men.

Education: Charterhouse; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

Anderson,
Patrick Francis
Son of ... Anderson, and ... Wilkin.
From Crawley.

25.06.1917
York district, Yorkshire
-
11.09.1986
Greenwich district, London

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst; jssc (US), psc

Anderson,
[Sir] Richard Neville

Son of Col Sir Neville Anderson, CBE. Married (1942) Dorrie Norah Wybergh; two sons.

28.04.1907
Chelsea district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
04.09.1979

	KCB	10.06.1961	HM's birthday 61
	CB	01.01.1957	New Year 57
	CBE	07.01.1949	?
	DSO	07.12.1944	Italy
	DSO	28.06.1945	Italy
	MID	15.09.1939	?

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Tonbridge; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; idc, jssc, psc

Colonel, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, 24.10.1959-1966. Colonel, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), 01.09.1957-01.10.1959. Colonel, The King's Own Royal Border Regiment, 31.05.1961-23.04.1971.
Director, Civil Defence for Wales, 1965-1968. Honorary Fellow, Institute of Civil Defence, 1966.

Anderson,
Ronald Patrick George

Youngest son of Mr & Mrs G.A. Anderson, of London W8.
Married ((09?).1928, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire) Enid Marjorie Brandon, youngest daughter of Mr & the late Mrs A.J. Brandon, of Church Crookham, Hampshire; ... children (one son, one daughter?).

12.04.1900
Eastbourne, Sussex
-
04.06.1981
Farnham, Surrey North Western district

	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe

NW Frontier of India 1930-31 Medal & Clasp

Education: Staff College (psc).

Anderson,
Roy Newling

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

21.01.1924
-
15.04.2015

His daughter writes: "My father served in the Indian Army (7th Cavalry) I think 1945-6 and was in the occupation force in Japan where I think he served as an intelligence officer. He was a member of the Indian Cavalry Officers' Association and I think he was the last survivor in the association."

Anderson,
Trevor Alexander Shaw

Son of Dr. Samuel Eric Hill Anderson, and Barbara Anderson (n�e Shaw), of Cockfield, Co. Durham.

(09?).1922
Teesdale district, Durham, Yorkshire - North Riding
-
09.08.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[St Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux, VIII, G, 10]

Anderson,
Walter Blyth

16.06.1908
Wakefield district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
04.1996
Droxford district, Hampshire

| 10.03.1945 | | | commissioned, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Anderson,
William Maurice Eyre
"Bill"

From Parkstone.

31.08.1908
Dublin
-
13.12.1986
Ticehurst, Wadhurst, Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex

NW Frontier of India (Loe Agra and Mohmand) 1935 Medal & Clasp; 1939-45 Star; France & Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal

Education: MB, BCh, BAO Dub (1933), MD (1941; Trinity College, Dublin); graded pathologist (1939)

Andrews,
Alan

Residence in 1945: Dartford.

14.07.1915
-
24.11.1991
Hertford and Ware, Hertfordshire

	DSO	28.06.1945	Italy
	OBE	01.01.1949	New Year 49
	SSM	14.05.1948	in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Dover County School for Boys; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

Andrews,
Alex

?
-

| 22.06.1940 | | | commissioned, The Gordons [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------- |

Andrews,
Alfred

24.06.1896
-
19.06.1983
Sidmouth, Honiton district, Devon

	MC	03.06.1918	?
	14|15 St	-	-
	BWM 14|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

| | | | served in the ranks, mobilized Territorial Force to 09.05.1915; 182 days; mobilized Territorial Force to 24.09.1919; 3 years, 350 days Served 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in France & Belgium (21.10.1915-11.11.1918) | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 19.02.1921 | | | commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | | 21.03.1923 | - | 26.05.1928 | employed with Royal West African Frontier Force | | (03.1931) | | | 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Multan) | | 30.06.1931 | - | 29.06.1934 | Adjutant, 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Multan (for Bombay)) | | (01.1937) | | | 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Guernsey) | | (01.1939) | | | 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Bordon) | | (05.1944) | | | Commandant, Middle East Training Centre |

Post-war possibly active in the Education Branch of the Control Commission for Germany.

Andrews,
Arthur

13.07.1925 ?
-

Education: BSc

Andrews,
Francis Yardley

Son of Herbert James Andrews, and Mabel Drake.
Married ((09?).1939, Surrey North-Western district) Marguerite J. West ((09?).1914 - ), daughter of ... West, and ... Powell.

07.05.1912
Lambeth district, London
-
29.10.1990
Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire

	MID	16.09.1943	North Africa
	TD	13.11.1956	-
	TD	13.11.1956	1st clasp

Education: Dulwich College (09.1925-1929; Sidney (athletic house)).
Chartered surveyor.

| | | | late Cadet, Dulwich College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 17.06.1936 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Territorial Army (1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional RASC) | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA |

Andrews,
George Lewis Williams
"Geordie"

Only son of Captain C.G.W. Andrews, The Border Regiment (killed in action, 1914) and of late Mrs Diana
Gambier-Parry (n�e Norrington).
Married (1938) Marianne, daughter of late Carl Strindberg, Stockholm and late Fru Greta Winbergh
(n�e Skj�ldebrand); one son.

01.07.1910
Cockermouth, Cumberland
-
27.08.2001
Nairn, Scotland

	CBE	11.06.1960	HM's birthday 60
	DSO	01.03.1945	NW Europe 44-45
	MID	24.06.1943	Middle East
	Leo	25.09.1947	? [dated 08.12.1945]
	CdeG	25.09.1947	? [dated 08.12.1945]

Education: Haileybury; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (No. 5 Company); Staff College (1940; psc); Joint Services Staff College (1948; jssc).

Honorary Colonel, 2nd Battalion 51st Highland Volunteers, 1975-1979.

Angelo-Thomson,
William Thomas Angelo

Son of Fairfoul Thomson (1872?-1940), of Croydon.
Married 1st ((09?).1939, Wandsworth district, London) Jean M. Miller.
Married 2nd (17.03.1948, Singapore) Rosemary Threlfall, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Arthur P. Threlfall; two daughters.

09.04.1908
Croydon, London
-
03.1999
Swindon district, Wiltshire

Education: Croydon High School; Dulwich College (01.1923-12.1925; Grenville (athletic house)).

Solicitor.

Annatt,
John Arthur Stanley

Married ((06?).1945, Bromley district, Kent) Olive L. Newlyn.

1922 ?
-

Education: Dulwich College (1936-1939).

| 31.10.1943 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | --------------------------------------------------------------- |

Annett,
Jacques Marcel

Son of Thomas Auguste Annett (1835-1907), and Antoinette Amadieu (?-1957).
Married (29.12.1931, Wandsworth district, London) Phyllis Agnes Morgan (17.08.1904 - 05.08.1982); two sons.

30.10.1901
Lyon, France
-
14.02.1981
Walton on Thames, Surrey North Western district

| 18.01.1940 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Pay Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- |

Anson,
Donald Archibald Vernon

Married ((12?).1939, Bromley district, Kent) Eileen J. Dixson.

05.04.1910
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
1995

| 11.02.1940 | | | commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | fought in Africa and then in Italy and was involved in the ski warfare program in some way | |

Anson,
Geoffrey Frank

From Birchington.

08.10.1922
Sevenoaks, Kent
-
04.12.1977
Hastings, Sussex

Education: Cambridge University

Area manager, Ford Motor Credit Co., Ltd, London. Played first-class cricket, 1947.

Anstee,
Edward Patrick

Son (with one brother) of George Valentine Anstee (1869-), and Alice Bertha Sears (1874-).
Married ((06?).1931, Lambeth district, London) Esther Capes; three sons.

17.03.1905
Lambeth district, London
-
1992
Port Augusta, Australia

| 30.10.1943 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | --------------------------------------------------------------- |

Anstice,
John Henry

25.10.1897
Orangefield, Prestwick, Ayrshire
-
10.02.1970
Thorpe-le-Soken, Colchester district, Essex

	DSO	22.10.1940	BEF 39-40
	DSO	28.10.1942	Burma
	MID	29.04.1941	?
	BWM 14|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

Anstruther-Gray,
William John St Clair;
Baron Kilmany (cr. 1966), 1st Baronet (cr. 1956)

Only son of two children of Col. William Anstruther-Gray, MP, DL, JP (1859–1938), army officer and Unionist MP for St Andrews district (1906–10, 1910–19), and his wife, Clayre Tennant CBE.
Married (1934) Monica Helen Lambton, only child of Geoffrey Lambton, 2nd son of 4th Earl of Durham.

05.03.1905
Kilmany, Cupar, Fife, Scotland
-
06.08.1985
Westminster Hospital, London

Education: Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford.

Unionist Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire, 1931-1945. Assistant Postmaster-General, May-July 1945; Crown nominee for Scotland on General Medical Council, 1952-65. Contested (U) Berwick and East Lothian, February 1950; MP (U) Berwick and East Lothian, 1951-66. Chm. of Ways and Means and Dep. Speaker, House of Commons, 1962-64 (Dep. Chm., 1959-62); Chm. Conservative Members' 1922 Committee, 1964-66. Elected Member, National Hunt Committee, 1948; Member, Horserace Betting Levy Board, 1966-74. DL Fife, 1953. Lord-Lieutenant of Fife, 1975-80. PC, 02.06.1962.

Anton,
Alexander Elder

Married Doris May Lawrence; one son.

02.07.1922
-
06.06.2011
Glasgow, Scotland

	CBE	02.06.1973	HM's birthday 73

Education: Aberdeen University (MA (1946), LLB (1949), LLD (Hon)); FBA.

| 02.05.1942 | | | commissioned, The Gordon Highlanders [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | (08.1942) | | | 1st Battalion The London Scottish (Higham, Suffolk) |

Solicitor, 1949-1953; Senior Lecturer of Law, Aberdeen University, 1953-59; Professor of Jurisprudence, Glasgow University, 1959-73; Honorary Professor, 1984, Aberdeen University; Member, Scottish Law Commission, 1966-82; UK Delegate to Hague Conference on Private International Law, 1964-82; Chairman, Scottish Rights of Way Society, 1988-92.
Published: Private International Law, 1967 and 1990; Civil Jurisdiction in Scotland, 1984.

Appleyard,
John Geoffrey "Geoff"



Son of John Ernest Appleyard, motor engineer, and Mary Elizabeth Northrop.
From Linton-on-Wharfe, near Wetherby, Yorkshire.

20.12.1916
Bramley, nr Leeds, Lancashire
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13.07.1943
Sicily, Italy
(MPK) [age 26]
[Cassino Memorial, panel 12]

	DSO	15.12.1942	gallant & distinguished services in the field with Small Scale Raiding Force (cross-Channel raids)
	MC	23.05.1941	BEF France 39-40
	MC	28.07.1942	gallant & distinguished services in the field (reconnaissance operations of West African coast in trawler "Maid Honor")

Education: Moorlands School, Headingley; Bootham School, York (1930-1935); Caius College, Cambridge (01.10.1935-; BA 1939, MA 1942; Captain of the Boat Club 1937-38). Member British ski-ing team, 1938-39.

Literature: J.E. A[ppleyard], Geoffrey : Major John Geoffrey Appleyard, D.S.O., M.C. and Bar, M.A. : being the story of "Apple" of the Commandos and Special Air Service Regiment (1946)

Aran,
John Francis
"Faffy"

Son (with one sister) of John James Aaron (1870-1934), and Eliza Anna Wells (1873-1948).
Married ((09?).1928, Birkenhead district, Cheshire) Alice Winifred "Flower" Langton (04.1906 - 11.1986); five sons, one daughter.

02.09.1903
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
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(06?).1970
Northampton district, Northamptonshire

| 29.09.1941 | | | commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------- |

A grandchild writes: "1939 Staff Sergeant Royal Military Police in Liverpool. At some stage transferred to Royal Pioneer Corps. Have photos of him in Palestine 3/44 and Marraq 10/42."