British Army Officers 1939-1945 -- B (original) (raw)

A.R. Boughton to J.C. Brougham

Boughton,
Arthur Rutland

13.01.1910
Meriden district, Warwickshire / West Midlands
-
08.03.1980
Bath district, Avon (formerly of Ashley, nr Chippenham, Wiltshire)

| 30.10.1941 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | (01.1945) | | | 2nd Air Landing Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (TA) |

Veterinary surgeon (08.12.1948).

Boulton,
Arthur William
"Billy"

First relationship; one son, one daughter.
Married (02.1946, New Forest district, Hampshire) Margaret J. Bennetts.

?
-
1964
Johannesburg, South Africa

Enlisted in the Merchant Navy, 20.10.1921.

Boulton,
Cyril Hughes

Son of James and Millicent Annie Boulton.

29.03.1905
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
04.2001
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Education: junior staff course (jsc).

Bourke,
Leslie Ernest

19.03.1903
-
06.12.1987

Education: Malvern; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Bourke,
Patrick Edward [Roston]

Son of ... Bourke, and ... Bradshaw.

26.05.1920
Hackney district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
22.11.1993
Worthing, Sussex

Bournon,
Leon

?
-

| (1944) | | | enlisted service (Lisburn, Northern Ireland) | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 03.07.1945 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Administrative Branch) [immediate emergency commission from the ranks] | | 18.03.1953 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [emergency commission ?] |

Bousfield,
William Anthony

From Bournemouth.

?
-

	MC	31.08.1944	Normandy

| 31.08.1940 | | | commissioned, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | (06.1944) | | | seconded 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Normandy) |

Bouverie-Brine,
James Ivor

09.10.1915
Taplow House, Buckinghamshire
-
30.03.2016
Horder Mews, Old Town, Swindon, Wiltshire

| 30.01.1936 | | | commissioned, Royal Tank Corps | | ---------- | | --------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | | | | | 5th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment | | | 14.04.1951 | | | transferred, Royal Army Ordnance Corps |

Bowden,
Walter Allen

Son of Walter and Alithea Maria Bowden.

07.09.1906
Over, Tendring district, Essex
-
(06?).1970
Chelsea district, London

	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe

| 15.06.1941 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | --------------------------------------------------------------- |

Bowen,
William Oswald
"Bill"

Youngest son of late William Bowen, Llanelly.
Married (1932) Ethel Gwenllian, daughter of late Dr J.L. Davies, Llanelly; three sons, one daughter.

10.11.1898
Llanelly, Glamorgan
-
14.01.1961
St Giles Hill, Winchester

	CB	06.06.1946	Burma
	CBE	08.02.1945	Burma / Eastern Frontier of India
	OBE	03.06.1935	HM's birthday 35
	MID	28.10.1942	Burma
	MID	19.10.1944	Burma

British War Medal; Afghanistan NW Frontier 1919 Medal & Clasp; Waziristan 1919-21 Clasp; Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Llanelly; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

| | | | served European War, 1914-1918 in France, Italy, N.W. Frontier India and Burma | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 21.12.1917 | | | commissioned, Unattached List (for Indian Army) | | 22.03.1918 | | | commissioned, Indian Army | | 1917 | - | 1928 | served with Gurkha Rifles | | 23.10.1926 | - | 28.09.1928 | seconded, Corps of Royal Signals | | 29.09.1928 | | | transferred, Corps of Royal Signals | | 22.10.1930 | - | 17.10.1934 | employed with Burma Military Police (Assistant Commandant and Inspector of Wireless, Burma Military Police, Pyawbwe (Yametbin District), Burma) | | 1932 | | | on active service Burma while seconded to Civil Government Burma and Palestine 1936-1937 | | 01.03.1936 | - | 28.02.1939 | Adjutant, ... | | 18.05.1939 | - | 22.10.1942 | Chief Signal Officer, Burma Front in Burma Army (despatches) | | 23.10.1942 | - | 1945 | Chief Signal Officer, Eastern Army and Fourteenth Army successively (despatches, CBE, CB) | | 02.06.1949 | - | 04.11.1951 | Chief Signal Officer, Middle East Land Forces | | 20.12.1951 | - | 01.09.1954 | Director of Signals, War Office |

MIEE. Hampshire County Civil Defence Officer since 1954.

Bower,
Edgar

12.04.1898 *
-
07.1965
Southwark district, London

* Army records show 1897 as year of birth

1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Bower,
Edward William

Of Besan�on.
Brother of Capt. Jack Bower, Royal Armoured Corps.

21.02.1913
-
10.1988
Macclesfield district, Cheshire

	OBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
	TD	21.04.1950	-

Education: Wakefield Grammar School; Shrewsbury School (1926.3-1931; Rigg's House); The Queen's College, Oxford University (BA, 07.1939).

| | | | late Cadet L/Cpl., Shrewsbury School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 24.05.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | | | | Staff College | | | | | | 21st Army Group (served in intelligence) | | | ? | - | 21.02.1963 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [attained age limit] |

Joint managing director, Lancashire Cotton Waste Co. Ltd., Texapro Ltd., Blackley Motors.

Bower,
Leslie

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

05.03.1909
Southampton, Hampshire
-
09.2002
South Hampshire

| 08.05.1943 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps (Non-Medical Section) [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Bowers,
Bernard Anthony

Married Myra Whittingham; two daughters, one son.

17.05.1921
-
16.01.1999
Newark district, Nottinghamshire

| | | | possibly served with 23rd Royal Irish Hussars | | | ---------- | -- | --------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | ? | - | 12.02.1944 | Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst | | 13.02.1944 | | | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | | (1945?) | | | possibly served as ADC to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery |

Worked for the British Coal Board as a Mining Engineer. In 1966 he moved to Canada (Sydney, NS) with his family and was employed by the Federal Government of Canada as a mines safety inspector with the Labour Department. He returned to England in 1986 upon retirement.

Bowes,
Peter

?
-

| | | | late Cadet, Tonbridge School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 08.07.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | (1939) | - | (1940) | "D" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA |

Bowlby,
George Molesworth Salvin

Son of Russell Frank Bowlby (1890-1980), and Mary Dene (1892?-).
Married 1st (20.11.1947; divorced 1953) Anne Pauline Thoburn Mcgaw (16.05.1927 - 08.04.1973), daughter of Lt.Col. Alfred Joseph Thoburn Mcgaw (1900-1984), and Sylvia Inez Pakenham Johnstone (1901-); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (03.10.1955) Naomi Blanche Thoburn McGaw, daughter of John Thoburn McGaw; one son, one daughter.

11.10.1918
Walton on Naze, Tendring district, Essex
-
14.03.2000
Norwich, Kings Lynn district, Norfolk

Education: Eton College;Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1937-1938).

Bowles,
William Roderick

Elder son of Mrs Arnold Bowles, of Chorleywood.
Married (22.11.1948, Mombasa, Kenya) Leslie Margaret Tod, daughter (with one sister) of Francis Hunter Tod (1865-1928), and Margaret Ethel Henrietta Fraser (1884-1965), of Southborough, Tunbridge Wells; two sons, one daughter.

29.04.1917
-
09.2006
Oxfordshire

| (1939) | | | 246th Battery, 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA - Territorial Army (Watford) | | ---------- | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1941 | | | E Battery, 124th Officer Cadet Training Unit RA (Llandrindod Wells) | | 19.12.1941 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |

Bowley,
Leslie Welbourne *

Brother of Lt.Col. Ronald Graham Bowley.
Married (04.06.1931) Alice May Myers; one daughter, one son.

* birth & Army registration as: Lesliie Welborne Bowley

14.05.1908
Carslisle district, Cumbria / Cumberland
-
12.12.1967
Woking, Surrey

Bank official.

Bowley,
Ronald Graham
"Roy"

Brother of Maj. Leslie Welbourne Bowley.
Married 1st; one daughter.
Married 2nd Lucy (n�e ...); one daughter, one step son.

02.02.1905
-
10.1989
Barnstaple district, Devon

	Ind GSM	?	& NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Clasp
	39|45 St	-	-
	Pac St	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	39|45 BWM	-	-

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Bowman,
Colin McKenzie

Married (1940, Broughty Ferry district, Scotland) Mary Keith Davie; ... children (one son?).

06.06.1913
Monifieth West district, Scotland
-
14.11.1991
Dundee district, Scotland

| | | | Officer Cadet Training Unit | | | ---------- | | --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 31.05.1941 | | | commissioned, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission] | | 03.06.1945 | | | transferred, Army Educational Corps |

His son writes: "Liaison Officer with Divisional Headquarters of 51st Highland Division, entered Germany in 1945 I think. Served with Ian Eadie, the unofficial divisional artist."

Bowman,
Robert Andrew

07.08.1918
-
02.1993
Boston district, Lincolnshire

Bowman,
Thomas David Dickenson

Son of ... Bowman, and ... Roberts.
From Old Coulsdon, Surrey.

(09?).1915
Woodstock district, Oxfordshire
-
20.12.1983
[age 68]
Richmond, Australia

	MC	29.03.1945	NW Europe

Bowring,
John Recanati

Married (04.11.1937, Cairo) Phyllis Evelyn Taylor, elder daughter of the late Oscar Taylor and Mrs Townley, of Heatherwood, Hordle, Hampshire; three daughters.

23.08.1899
Pilgrims Rest, Transvaal, South Africa
-
10.08.1970
Cape Town, South Africa

	OBE	08.07.1941	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
	MC	21.01.1920	Russia 19 *
	BWM 14|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

* For conspicuous gallantry eight miles south of Lijma, on 15th and 16th September, 1919. When the advance of the infantry was checked by maohine-gun fire he laid a line forward from his guns, and quickly brought accurate fire to bear on the enemy positions, enabling the advance of the infantry to be rapidly continued. On the 16th September he again rendered great assistance to the infantry.

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

Bowyer,
Frederick John

Son of Frederick C. Bowyer, and Linda M. Roach.
Married ((03?).1941, Slough, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Vera Joan Brown ((06?).1919 - ), daughter of Frederick G. Brown, and Elsie Beenham; one son, one daughter.

07.09.1916
Slough, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
28.04.1984
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

Box,
John Allan Hyatt

Also known as: J.A. Hyatt-Box.
Son of late Allan Cyril Box and Bertha (n�e Storey), of 55 Durham Road, London N2.
Married 1st (15.01.1944) Barbara Courtenay Linton, WRNS officer (marriage dissolved 1951).
Married 2nd (1953) Doris Lee (deceased); two daughters.

27.01.1920
Hampstead, London
-
07.03.2005
Leatherhead, Surrey

Education: Ceylon; Highgate School, London (09.1934-03.1938); School of Architecture, London Poly. ARIBA 1948

Film production designer & art director. RDI, 1992. Entered film industry, 1948: films designed include: The Million Pound Note, 1954; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, 1958; Our Man in Havana, 1959; The World of Suzie Wong, 1960; Lawrence of Arabia, 1961 (Academy Award 1962); Doctor Zhivago, 1965 (Academy Award 1966); A Man for All
Seasons, 1966 (BAFTA Award 1967); Oliver!, 1967 (Academy Award 1968); Nicholas and Alexandra, 1970 (Academy Award 1970); Travels with My Aunt, 1972; The Great Gatsby, 1973 (BAFTA Award 1974); Rollerball, 1974 (BAFTA Award 1975); A Passage to India, 1984; Black Beauty, 1994; First Knight, 1995; produced: The Looking Glass War, 1969. FRSA 1993. Award for special contribution to films, BAFTA, 1991.

Boxer,
[Prof.] Charles Ralph

Son of Col Hugh Boxer and Jane Boxer (n�e Patterson); married 1945, Emily Hahn (died 1997); two daughters.

08.03.1904
Sandown, Isle of Wight
-
27.04.2000
St Albans, Hertfordshire

FBA (1957)

Education: Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Cam�es Professor of Portuguese, London University, 1947-1951; Professor of the History of the Far East, London University, 1951-1953; resigned latter post and re�appointed Cam�es Professor, 1953-1967; Professor of History of Expansion of Europe Overseas, Yale, 1969-1972. Visiting Research Professor, Indiana University, 1967-1979; Emeritus Professor of History, Yale, 1972-. Emeritus Professor of Portuguese, University of London, since 1968; Fellow, King's Coll., 1967. Hon. Fellow, SOAS, 1974. A Trustee of National Maritime Museum, 1961-1968. For. Member, Royal Netherlands Acad. of Scis, 1976. Dr hc Universities of Utrecht (1950), Lisbon (1952), Bahia (1959), Liverpool (1966), Hong Kong (1971), Peradeniya (1980). Gold Medal, Institute Historico e Geografico Brasileiro, 1986. Order of Santiago da Espada (Portugal); Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal); Kt Order of St Gregory the Great, 1969.
Published: The Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrade, 1929; The Journal of M. H. Tromp, Anno 1639, 1930; Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1817, 1936 (2nd edn 1950); Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770, 1948; The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1640, 1951, 2nd edn 1967; Salvador de S� and the Struggle for Brazil and Angola, 1952; South China in the 16th Century, 1953; The Dutch in Brazil, 1624-1654, 1957; The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622, 1959; The Great Ship from Amacon, 1959; Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa, 1960; The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750, 1962; Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825, 1963; The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, 1965; Portuguese Society in the Tropics, 1966; Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1969; The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825, 1969; Anglo�Dutch Wars of the 17th Century, 1974; Mary and Misogyny, 1975; Jo�o de Barros: Portuguese humanist and historian of Asia, 1981; From Lisbon to Goa 1500-1750, 1984; Portuguese Conquest and Commerce in Southern Asia 1500-1750, 1985; Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan 1543-1640, 1986; Dutch Merchants and Mariners in Asia 1602-1795, 1988; numerous articles in learned periodicals.

Boyce,
Eric John
Married (31.12.1955, Walsall, Staffordshire) Lilian Ward (31.07.1917 - 07.07.2001), daughter of William Ward, and Emily Craddock; ... children.

17.07.1924
Co. Down, Northern Ireland (lived in Lurgan Town)
-
01.10.1973
Walsall district, Staffordshire

| 26.07.1942 | | | commissioned, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

His grandchild writes: "He served in the RAF during WW2 and went to Germany and Australia."

Boyd,
John Errol Moritz
Only child of Surgeon Lt.Col. Herbert Boyd (1847-1922), and Annie Cecilia Daly (1858?-1915).
Married ((12?).1908, Wandsworth district, London) Ada Vincent.

26.05.1881
Maylebone, London
-
08.05.1953
Birchington-on-Sea, Thanet district, Kent

	MC	14.01.1916	?
	QSAM	-	& 5 clasps
	14 St	-	& clasp
	BWM 14|20	-	-
	VM	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	MID	01.01.1916	?
	39|45 WM	-	-

Education: United Services College (1890.3-1895.3); St May's Hospital (MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond) 1906; Specialist in Entomology.

Published: Suggestions for arrangement & marking of microscopical slides in a cabinet. In: Journal of the RAMC (1920); The philatelic zoo. In: Stamp Lover (vol. XII, No. 11), and several other articles.

Boylan,
Francis Michael Benedict [Cary]

Son of Thomas Boylan (1865-1925), and Cecilia Mary Cary.
Married 1st Eileen Cecilia May Wetherell (1899-1967); two daughters.
Married 2nd Netta (n�e ...).

06.10.1898
-
23.02.1974

	MBE	22.02.1945	gallant and distinguished services in the field

| | | | Cadet Training Unit | | | ---------- | | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 20.10.1917 | | | commissioned, Royal Field Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers | | 21.06.1940 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |

Boyle,
Alfred Lewis
Married ((03?).1943, Sedbergh district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Valerie M. Meakin; ... children (three daughters, two sons?).

26.05.1907
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
11.12.1978
Sedbergh, Cumbria

Boyle,
Robin Lascelles
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of V.Adm. the Hon. Robert Francis Boyle, MVO, RN (1863-1922), and of the Hon. Cerise Boyle (nee Champion de Crespigny) (1875-1951), of Virginia Water, Surrey.

13.11.1915
Fareham district, Hampshire
-
24.05.1940
(KIA) [age 24]
[Robecq Communal Cemetery, grave 13]

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Boyle,
S G L

?
-
?

Boynton,
[Sir] John Keyworth

Son of ... Boynton, and ... Stevenson.
From Bradford-on-Avon.

14.02.1918
Carlisle district, Cumbria / Cumberland
-
15.01.2007
London

Brace,
Eustace Frank Feilden

Son of Col. Henry Fergusson Brace, DSO, MC (1888-1948), and Beatrice Ida Feilden (1892-1973) [divorced; he married again (1937) Susan Agnes Rhodes Tilney (1897-1964)], of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

(06?).1920
Paddington district, London
-
18.05.1940
(KIA) [age 20]
[Adegem Canadian War Cemetery, XII.F.1]
[commemorated at St Werburgh's Churchyard and War Memorial, Hanbury, Staffordshire]

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

| 03.07.1939 | | | commissioned, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars - Royal Armoured Corps | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Bradbury,
Geoffrey Harris

Married ...; ... children.

(06?).1912
Rotherham district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
21.10.1992
Harare

| 25.12.1935 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized SRO | | (1945) | | | Deputy Commander Royal Engineers (DCRE), 207 Sub Area (Italy) (MBE) |

Civil engineer.

Bradford,
Raymond Howard

22.06.1912
-
17.04.1942
(MIA) [age 29]
[Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar, face 12]

| | | | served in the ranks for 3 years, 156 days | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 28.01.1937 | | | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment | | (01.1939) | | | 1st Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (Maymyo) | | ? | - | 17.04.1942 | 1st Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (Burma) [missing in action while acting as Second-in-Command of the Battalion] |

Bradford,
William Edgar Gerald

Son of ... Bradford, and ... Judge.
Married (27.04.1940, Christ Church, Waterloo, Crosby district, Merseyside) Ruby Catharine Roberts, daughter of John Brining Roberts, of Creswell Lodge, Great Crosby; two daughters.

05.09.1912
Hampstead district, London
-
(06?).1968
Liverpool South district, Lancashire

Education: University of Liverpool (MB, ChB 1937).

| 23.08.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | mobilized TA | | | | | | wounded & captured in Egypt | | | | | | POW (No. 2766) in Italian & German captivity (Stalag 383, Hohenfels, Rheinland-Pfalz) | |

General practitioner, Wilkinson & Bradford, Liverpool.

Braithwaite,
Thomas Colin

Second son of Charles Wilkinson Braithwaite (1882-), and Agnes Lilian Elliott, of Heckwood, Hexham, Northumberland.
Brother of Lt.Col. Douglas Elliott Braithwaite.
Married ...; ... children (two sons?).
Residence: (1946) Netherwitton, Northumberland.

10.04.1913
Auckland district, Durham
-
2001
Tyne and Wear district

	OBE	29.03.1945	NW Europe 44-45
	MID	24.08.1944	Italy
	TD	21.04.1950	-

Education: Rugby School (09.1926-02.1931; Kilbracken House; XI 1931); Trinity College, Cambridge (1931-1938?).
Stockbroker, 1938.

| | | | late Cadet, Rugby School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 24.05.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA (wounded twice) | | (1944?) | - | (1945?) | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 2nd Army | | ? | - | 27.04.1963 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |

General Commissioner (Income Tax).

Brammer,
Georg Wilhelm Gerhard
"George"

Son of Gerhard Peter Brammer (1870-1924), and Constance Violet Sophie Herskind (1875-1962).
Married (18.09.1940, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland) Anna Flygenring (08.09.1907 - 28.07.1968); one son, two daughters.

16.09.1909
Copenhagen, Denmark
-
31.08.1979
Hitchin, Hertfordshire

	ChrX	20.01.1947	?

| | | | served in the ranks, Royal Armoured Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 16.04.1940 | | | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | | 15.07.1940 | | | transferred, Intelligence Corps | | | | | His son writes: "His education in Danish, English and German resulted in a transfer into Intelligence. He was involved in the short-lived attempt (Expeditionary Force) to land in Norway. At some time he was employed on censorship duties in the Isle of Man. He was made part of the Occupying force in Iceland. By 1943 he seems to have been transferred to an office in Kingsway in London. He became an early entrant into Copenhagen upon the German retreat." | | | late 1945 | - | 12.1949 | Copenhagen & Control Commission for Germany (partly in civil occupation) | | 20.10.1948 | - | 12.02.1950 | Territorial Army | | 13.02.1950 | - | 21.10.1959 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |

Brannan,
Reginald Sydney Claud

Son (with one sister) of William Brannan, and Violet Glady Cantell (1896-).

06.05.1919
Newhaven district, Hampshire
-
31.12.1973

| 06.07.1942 | | | commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------- |

Branston,
Peter Jocelyn

(06?).1908
Newark district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire
-

* In the April 1944 Army List as from 29.07.1939, but in April 1941 not listed as such yet (so still Capt.)

| | | | late Cadet Sergeant, Charterhouse School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 24.07.1926 | | | commissioned, 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) - Territorial Army | | (1940) | | | served in Norway | | ? | - | 28.11.1956 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |

Brant,
Raymond Middleton

(03?).1923
West Bromwich district, Staffordshire / Shropshire / Worcestershire / Warwickshire
-
18.12.2011
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

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

Bray,
Anthony Neville

Son of Jocelyn Bray, and Rosa Sandra D. Onslow.

24.03.1913
Ockham, Guildford district, Surrey
-

Aeronautical engineer.

Sales manager & company director, Shere, Surrey.

Bray,
[Sir] Robert Napier Hubert Campbell
"Bobby"

Son of late Brig.�Gen. Robert Napier Bray, CMG, DSO.
Married (1936) Nora, daughter of G.C.G. Gee, Rothley, Leics.; three sons.

14.06.1908
-
14.08.1983
[London?]

	GBE	1966	?
	KCB	1962	?
	CB	1957	?
	CBE	1952	?
	DSO	31.08.1944	?
	DSO	03.05.1945	?
	MID	20.12.1940	?

Education: Gresham's School, Holt; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Colonel, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 1965-75.

Bray,
Sebert Edmund

Son of Alfred Herbert and Emma Edith Bray.
Husband of Doris Sheila Bray, of Chelmsford, Essex; one daughter.

(12?).1910
Romford district, Essex
-
06.01.1945
(KIA) [age 34]
[Bologna War Cemetery, Italy, V, C, 5]

Brayley,
[Sir] John Desmond;
Baron (cr. 22.06.1973; Life Peer) of the City of Cardiff in the County of Glamorgan


Son of Frederick and Jennie Brayley. Married (1945) Q.E.S. Bee (marriage dissolved 1960); two daughters.
From Weston-super-Mare.

29.01.1917
Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan
-
16.03.1977
London

	Kt	07.08.1970	?
	MC	11.02.1943	North Africa
	MID	23.09.1943	North Africa

Education: privately; grammar school; military. FICA 1958

Joined Phoenix Glass Co. Ltd, Bristol, 1946; Chairman, Canning Town Glass Works Group, 1961-1973; Parliamentary Under�Secretary for Defence (Army), March-September 1974. Honorary Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 25.06.1970-06.1975. President, Pontypridd Society of Mentally Handicapped Children; Patron, Institution of Engineers and Technicians. President, Pontypridd Boys' Amateur Boxing Club. Patron, Masonic Hospital; Vice�Patron, Masonic Schools. Companion, Grand Order of Water Rats. Freeman, City of London, 1961; Freeman, Worshipful Co. of Barber�Surgeons. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Greater London, 19.05.1970; Justice of the Peace (JP), Middlesex Area of Greater London, 1968. FRSA 1973.

Brecknell,
Mervyn St John
"Jack"

Son of Henry Brecknell, and Marjorie Edwards.
Brother of F/O Douglas Frank Charles Brecknell, RAFO.
Married ((12?).1936, Westminster district, Middlesex) Stella M. Wagstaff.

26.10.1912
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
28.02.1995
Lambeth district, London

Sales Manager. Tapsfield & Philpot 1928-1931.

| 11.02.1940 | | | commissioned, The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | (04.1944) | | | special appointment |

Joined Calvin Lodge (Old Cheltoninan Lodge), 01.05.1956 (Worshipful Master 1963).

Breese,
Henry Howard


Son (with eight siblings) of Samuel Breese (1878-1964), and Elizabeth Mary Williams (1879-).

14.04.1913
Runcorn district, Cheshire
-
(03?).1979
Warrington district, Cheshire

Probation officer.

| | | | served in the ranks, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 28.04.1942 | | | commissioned, General List [emergency commission] | | 06.05.1943 | | | transferred, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | | 10.1944 | | | [From: Probation Journal; Oct. 1944] | | | | | may have served asAssistant Adjutant in SE Asia | |

Lecturer and Social Worker Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Breeze,
John Langdon

Married (14.06.1941, Cooling, Kent) Stella Batchelor (18.02.1918 - 02.1993), daughter (with two sisters and two brothers) of Clarence Batchelor (1893-1961), and Lillie Scotchmer (1891-1969); five sons.

23.05.1904
Wanstead, West Ham district, Essex
-
31.01.1968
Ashford, Kent

	TD	13.12.1945	-

| | | | served in the ranks, 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 17.11.1934 | | | commissioned, 166th (City of Rochester) Anti-Aircraft Battery - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 13.12.1935 | | | transferred, 55th Anti-Aircraft Brigade RA | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | (06.1941) | | | 308th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery RA | | ? | - | 27.11.1954 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |

A son writes: "We know that he served on AA duties based at Cooling Castle, nr. Rochester, Kent. And that he served in Sierra Leonne. He latterly, served in Belgium."

Breitmeyer,
Alan Norman

Son of Cecil Breitmeyer and Clare Herbert�Smith.
Married 1st (1952) Hon. June Jane Coupar Barrie (marriage dissolved 1977); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1978) Susan Irwin (n�e Lipscomb).

14.03.1924
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
1997 still alive

Education: Winchester College; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; jssc, psc (1954)

| | | | served in the ranks for 302 days | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 05.06.1943 | | | commissioned into the Grenadier Guards [emergency commission to 22.01.1946] | | (1944) | - | (1945) | Intelligence Officer, 2nd (Armoured) Battalion Grenadier Guards (NW Europe) | | 18.11.1948 | - | 19.11.1950 | ADC to the Chairman, Western European Commanders-in-Chief Committee (Field Marshal Montgomery) | | 26.01.1955 | - | 15.11.1955 | Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), HQ ... Infantry Division | | 16.11.1955 | - | 05.06.1967 | Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), HQ ... Armoured Division | | 21.01.1960 | - | 18.02.1962 | specially employed Malaya Military Forces | | 06.05.1963 | - | 27.08.1964 | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), War Office | | 1964 | - | 1966 | Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards | | 1966 | - | 1966 | Officer Commanding the Regiment & Regimental Depot, Grenadier Guards | | 1972 | - | 1974 | Deputy Commander, North Eastern District |

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Cambs., 1978. High Sheriff, Cambs., 1984. Lieutenant, HM Body Guard, Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 1993-1994 (Member, 1976-1994; Harbinger, 1992-1993). County Councillor, Cambs., 1977-1985.

Brennan,
Edward Bernard

Married ...; ... children.

09.11.1910
Dowlais
-
02.1984
Lincoln district, Lincolnshire

	MBE	09.1940	?

Education: Cambridge University (BA); MRCS, LRCP 1937; DMR University of London 1947.

| 10.10.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | --------------------------------------------------------------- |

Briant,
John Henry

?
-

	39|45 St	-	-
	Afr St	-	-
	Fr&G St	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	39|45 WM	-	-
	EM	20.03.1947	-

| | | | either 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th or & 170th Officer Cadet Training Unit | | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 19.10.1940 | | | commissioned, The Devonshire Regiment [emergency commission] | | 18.12.1947 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 01.02.1950 | | | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers | | 01.02.1952 | | | transferred, Corps of Royal Egineers (Movement Control Section) - Territorial Army Reserve of Offficers |

Brice,
Eric Gordon

Married (16.11.1935) Frances Ellis; two sons, two daughters.

08.06.1909
Plymouth district, Devon
-
07.1996
York district, Yorkshire

	OBE	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58
	MID	07.01.1949	Palestine 47
	LSGCM	02.03.1948	-

| | | | served in the ranks for 16 years, 143 days | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | served as Warrant Officer, Class 2 for 1 year, 5 days | | | 25.09.1941 | | | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission to 27.01.1947] | | 28.01.1947 | | | short service commission | | 12.03.1947 | - | 15.05.1947 | SO3, HQ British Forces in Palestine | | 27.11.1947 | | | permanent commission |

Bridge,
Harold Victor

Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Albert Henry Bridge (1868-1938), and Minnie Trick (1869-1949).
Married (12.12.1927, Kiansu, China) Hilda Jessie Morton (1903? - 24.12.1980); three sons.

23.05.1902
Tientsin, China
-
29.06.1967
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

	MID	28.10.1942	Burma 12.41-05.42

Bridge,
Nigel Cyprian;
Bridge of Harwich, Baron created 1980 (Life Peer), of Harwich in the County of Essex

26.02.1917
-
20.11.2007

	BSM	08.11.1945	?

Kt 1968; PC 1975

| 17.05.1941 | | | commissioned, The King's Royal Rifle Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1947; Bencher, 1964, Reader, 1985, Treasurer, 1986; Junior Counsel to Treasury (Common Law), 1964-1968; a Judge of High Court, Queen's Bench Division, 1968-1975; Presiding Judge, Western Circuit, 1972-1974; a Lord Justice of Appeal, 1975-1980. A Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1980-1992. Member, Security Commission, 1977-1985 (Chairman 1982-1985). Honorary Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 1984. Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1989.

Briggs,
Geoffrey Harry

see:

RAF section

Bright,
Cyril Percy Christopher Sibthorpe

Son of Percy Sibthorpe Bright (1867-1946), and Winifred Agnes Hill (1882?-), of London.
Married 1st ((03?).1932, Epsom district, Surrey) Elizabeth G. "Betty" Brandon; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (18.04.1947, Kensington district, London) Janie Hunter, second daughter of Edward William Hunter, and Mabel Elizabeth Peile (1879-), and earlier married to Leon G. Coleman.

06.06.1903
Lambeth district, London
-
09.1988
Reading and Wokingham district, Berkshire

	CBE	06.06.1946	Burma
	OBE	08.02.1945	Burma / Eastern Front of India
	MID	26.07.1940	France
	MID	10.01.1946	Burma
	MID	09.05.1946	Burma
	MID	27.04.1951	Malaya

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

Brignall,
Douglas Arthur

06.02.1906
Hastings, Sussex
-
08.2006 still alive

Brinjes,
Harold Eric Christopher

Son of Eric John Brinjes (1883?-1929), and Lilian May Bennett (1882?-1962).
Married ((06?).1935, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Violet M. Sartain (13.02.1909 - ); ... children (one daughter?).

30.11.1909
Fulham district, London
-
06.1990

Director and general manager of J. Lyons & Co. (Canada), 1952.

Brinkley,
William Hayward
"Bill"

Married (1943) Jean McCreath; twin sons and a daughter.

reminiscence

24.05.1913
-
08.09.1995
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

	MID	19.10.1951	?

Bill Brinkley was a cadet in HMS Conway 1929-31 but green blindness prevented a naval career. Instead, he entered Sandhurst in 1932 and was commissioned to the Norfolk Regiment in August 1933, joining the 2nd Battalion in Devonport prior to 6 years service with the 1st Battalion in India. He served during Northwest Frontier operations, then in Delhi and Bangalore. In 1940, when he was Adjutant of the Battalion he moved to the United Kingdom for the defence of London. After attending Staff College Camberley he was staff employed in Lincoln. He rejoined the 1st Battalion in Scotland and trained for the landing in Normandy 6th June 1944. He was wounded on a patrol in Normandy and was evacuated to England. He trained recruits at the Regimental Depot Norwich. Once his wound healed, he rejoined the Battalion at Kervenheim. In March 1945 he became a GSO II Instructor at the Staff College, Quetta. His peacetime service took him to less peaceful places. Evacuated from India on Independence in 1947, he rejoined the Battalion for service during the airlift of Berlin. Staff employment in Hong Kong followed when the New Territories were threatened by the Chinese Army. When this threat receded, he was posted to Seremban, Malaya for anti-communist operations. He became Second in Command of 1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment in Trieste and led its families during the evacuation to Wuppertal due to trouble between Yugoslavia and Italy. When the families were rejoined by the Battalion, he was moved to Staff employment at the Headquarters of the British Commonwealth Force Korea in Kure, Japan. He was appointed to command 1st Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment for anti-Eoka operations in Cyprus. At the end of Eoka activity the Battalion moved to Iserlohn, Germany where he relinquished his tour of command. In retirement he served in a variety of Staff appointments in Chester, Exeter and for the last fourteen years of his retired service he had the Army Band Office in the Ministry of Defence which moved to the Royal Military School of Music. He settled in Ricklinghall, Suffolk where he was church warden for a period. He was also Chairman of the local branch of the Royal British Legion for 12 years. A strong supporter of all Regimental occasions and activities he was also a keen golfer.

Britten,
Charles Edward

02.07.1915
Bozeat
-
20.01.1997
Earls Barton, Wellingborough district, Northamptonshire

Palestine 1936-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1934-1935).

Broad,
John Russell

11.08.1925
-

Brewer.

Broad,
Richard Lowther

Married (1956?) Joan Lucile Murchison.

10.04.1910
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
12.05.1991
Branscombe, Seaton, Honiton district, Devon

	MC	15.07.1941	escape & evasion and/or special operations
	LegH	?	?
	CdeG	?	?

Post-war a stockbroker.
Literature: A talent to survive : the wartime exploits of Lt.-Col. Richard Lowther Broad, MC, L�gion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre (1982)

Broadbent,
B T

?
-

| ? | | | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | | ------ | | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | (1944) | | | Officer Commanding, 328 Divisional Troops Company RASC |

Broadhurst,
Frank Brown

From Stockport.

23.12.1903
Stockport district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
02.01.1978
Sleegill, Richmond, Surrey

	MBE	13.12.1945	Italy *
	39|45 St	-	-
	Afr St	-	-
	It St	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	39|45 BWM	-	-
	MID	19.07.1945	Italy
	LSGCM	18.02.1949	- [effective from 22.04.41]

* This officer has filled the post of Training Officer, R.E.T.D. [Royal Engineers Training Depot, Capua, Italy], since February 1944 and has been responsible for the preparation and co-ordination of programs for the training of all the RE reinforcements in Italy, including some 2,000 transfers from the Royal Artillery since the beginning of December 1944. During a number of peak periods, when there have been up to 1,400 men on training in the Depot simultaneously, his powers of organisation have been a vital factor in turning out reinforcements whose standard of training has been invariably very high. His enthusiasm and qualities of leadership during the whole of the period have inspired his team of N.C.O. instructors to produce consistently good results over these periods of high pressure work.

| c. 1923 | | | enlisted | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 15.01.1941 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission to 06.03.1947] | | 07.03.1947 | | | short service commission | | 23.03.1949 | | | transferred, Royal Army Educational Corps |

Brock,
George

?
-

Brockie,
George Alexander

1st partner Elizabeth Waller (n�e Critchley) (12.03.1906 - 09.1978), earler married to George Waller (1900-1969), and daughter of Annie Critchley (1865-1915); one son.
Married 1st? ((06?).1950, Westminster, London) Catherine McDonald Taggert (n�e Robertson) (08.03.1910 - (09?).1964), widow of Lt. Kenneth John Taggart (1914-19145), Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and daughter (with one sister and one brother) of John Black Robertson (1877-1962), and Catherine McDonald (1882-1953).
Married 2nd? (07.10.1975, Isle of Wight) Vera Lois Letitia Lewis (n�e Card), daughter of Arthur Henry Card (1874-1941), and Violet Jessie Stannard (1877-1947).

01.02.1903
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
-
29.07.1989
Harrow, London

| 04.12.1943 | | | commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------- | | (1944) | | | served in Yorkshire |

Brodie,
Thomas "Tom"

Son of Thomas Brodie, Bellingham, Northumberland.
Married (1938) Jane Margaret Chapman�Walker (died 1992); three sons, one daughter.

20.10.1903
Bellingham, Northumberland
-
01.09.1993
Basingstoke, Hampshire

	CB	01.01.1954	New Year 54
	CBE	07.01.1949	Palestine
	DSO	07.09.1951	?
	MID	26.04.1945	?
	SSM	08.06.1951	Korea
	SSM	10.08.1954	Korea
	LM	30.10.1953	Korea

Education: Durham University (BA 1924); Staff College (psc)

| | | | from General List, Territorial Army | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 03.02.1926 | | | commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment | | 08.05.1933 | - | 07.05.1936 | Regimental Adjutant, The Cheshire Regiment | | 27.01.1938 | - | 02.09.1939 | Instructor, Royal Military College, Sandhurst | | 1942 | - | 1943 | Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment | | 06.11.1943 | - | 01.11.1944 | Commander, 14th Infantry Brigade (India, Burma, India), redesignated: | | 01.11.1944 | - | 04.03.1945 | Commander, 14th Airlanding Brigade (India) | | 1946 | - | 1947 | Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment | | 1947 | - | 1948 | served in Palestine (CBE & despatches) | | 1951 | | | Commander, 29th Infantry Brigade (Korea) (DSO, US Silver Star Medal, US Legion of Merit) | | 1952 | - | 20.07.1955 | General Officer Commanding, 1st Infantry Division (Middle East Land Forces) |

Colonel, The Cheshire Regiment, 26.12.1955-31.12.1961. Economic League, 1957-84.

Broke,
Charles Vere

Son of Lt.Col. Harry Broke (1864-1923), and Isabel Lucy Heathcote, of Alresford, Hampshire.
Married (03.10.1935) Violet Rosemary Balfour (18.02.1913 - 03.1998); one son.

13.11.1911
Alresford, Alverstoke district, Hampshire
-
06.08.1944
(KIA) [age 32]
[Brouay War Cemetery, France, V.A.11]

	MID	22.03.1945	NW Europe

| | | | late Cadet Serjeant, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 10.06.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | ? | - | 06.08.1944 | 147th (The Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA |

Bronnert,
David Henry

see:

Indian Army officers' section

Brook,
Walter Herbert
"Stokes"

1896
-

	DCM	?	?

Literature: Brook, Colin L. A potted history - the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and Walter Brook DCM.In: Cronicl Powys, No. 42 (Dec. 1997), p. 38-41; No. 43 (Apr. 1998), p. 38-41.

Brooke,
Sir Alan Francis;
1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough (cr. 1946);
1st Baron (cr. 1945)








Son of late Sir Victor Brooke, Bart, and Lady Brooke� Colebrooke, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh.
Married 1st (28.07.1914) Jane Mary (died 1925), daughter of Col Richardson, Rossfad, Ballinamallard, Co. Fermanagh; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1929) Benita, widow of Sir Thomas Lees, 2nd Bt, and eldest daughter of Sir Harold Pelly, 4th Bt; one son (one daughter deceased).

23.07.1883
Bagn�res de Bigorre, France
-
17.06.1963
Hartley Wintney, Hampshire

	KG	1946	?
	GCB	1942	?
	KCB	14.06.1940	?
	CB	1937	?
	OM	1946	?
	GCVO	1953	Palestine
	DSO	01.01.1917	?
	DSO	?	?
	MID	22.06.1915	?
	MID	01.01.1916	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?
	MID	15.05.1917	?
	MID	11.12.1917	?
	MID	20.12.1918	?
	MID	05.07.1919	?
	MID	20.12.1940	?

Belgian War Cross; 1914 Star & Clasp; British War Medal; Victory Medal
08.10.1943 Order of Polonia Restitua 1st class (Poland)
29.02.1944 Order of Suvorov 1st class (USSR)
15.08.1946 Order of the White Lion 1st class (Czechoslovakia)
17.10.1946 Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold with Palm & Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (Belgium)
17.10.1946 Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
14.05.1948 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion (Netherlands)

Education: local school, Pau (France); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, 20.05.1939. Colonel Commandant, Glider Pilot Regiment, 12.11.1942-22.07.1951. Colonel Commandant, Honourable Artillery Company, 16.08.1946. Master Gunner, St James's Park, 05.11.1946-01.12.1956. Constable, Tower of London, 23.08.1950-31.07.1955.

Brooke,
James Edgar

Son of Leonard Russell Brooke, and Gertrude Ella Heather.
Married (16.09.1939, Westminster district, London) Olive Barbara Nisbet ((09?)/1921 - ), daughter of Harold V. Nisbet, and Ellen M. Lassham, of Croydon, Surrey; two sons, one daughter.

20.07.1914
Lewisham district, London
-
06.08.1994
Bedford district, Bedfordshire

	EM	30.03.1993	-

His son writes: "He had previously served in the territorials - London Rifle Brigade which became Tower Hamlet Rifles. I believe that the Reconnaissance Regiment was in 5 Division Recce. His troop ship was sunk off Singapore and he was taken prisoner of the Japanese and spent time on the Burma (Death) Railway."

Brooke-Taylor,
Edward Mallalieu
Son of Col. Herbert Brooke Taylor (1855-1923), and Mary Taitt Mallalieu, of Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Married (12.06.1928) Rachel Frances Pawson; ... children (one son?).

(12?).1893
Bakewell, Derbyshire
-

	CBE	08.06.1944	Buxton Home Guard
	MC	01.01.1918	?
	TD	04.02.1927	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?
	MID	05.07.1919	?
	14|15 St	-	-
	BWM 14|20	-	-
	VM	-	-

Education: Cheltenham College.
Admitted a solicitor, 1920.

| | | | late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Cheltenham College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ------------ | ---- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 19.08.1911 | | | commissioned, 6th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) - Territorial Army | | 25.02.1915 | - | 11.11.1918 | served in France & Belgium (wounded): | | 21.12.1917 | - | 23.08.1918 | General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), ... | | 24.08.1918 | - | 20.06.1919 | Brigade Major, ... | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | | | | served Buxton Home Guard | | | (04.1941) | | | Military Member, County of Derby Territorial Army and Air Force Association | | (04.1944) | - | (04.1946) | Vice-Chairman & Military Member, County of Derby Territorial Army and Air Force Association |

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Derby, 28.05.1936. Coroner for High Peak.

Brookes,
William Frederick Pentland

Son (with one sister) of Lt.Col. William Henry Brookes, MC & Bar, RFA (1884-1942), and Emily Louise Pentland (1877-1946), of Birmingham.
Married (27.03.1948, All Saints Church, Tobruk, Libya) Pamela Susannah Randall, MBE, MA (11.12.1916 - ), daughter of Ashley Wynne Randall, and Jessie Louise Rhodes, of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire; one son. Pamela Brookes remarried (1972) Justus Guy Jones (1914-2009).

1908
Kirkee, Bombay, India
-
17.10.1954
Ickenham, Hammersmith district, Middlesex

General manager, shipping company.

Brookshaw,
Herbert Philip Son of ... Brookshaw, and ... Davis.
Married (1947) June Chitty; two sons, one daughter.

21.03.1921
Swanage, Wareham district, Dorset
-
10.2005

Education: Farnborough Grammar School; Staff College, Camberley (psc)

| | | | served in the ranks for 1 year, 16 days | | | ---------- | -- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | Officer Cadet Training Unit | | | 28.03.1942 | | | commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | | 28.03.1942 | - | 1945 | 3rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment (Middle East, NW Europe [Normandy, Antwerp, Germany]) | | 06.1944 | | | liaison officer for the 29th Armoured Brigade (for a short while in Normandy) | | 02.06.1945 | | | permanent commission, Royal Armoured Corps | | 02.11.1946 | | | transferred to the Royal Tank Regiment | | | | | served in India for a spell before returning to England. After attending Staff College, he was a staff officer in Hong Kong and then in Malaysia during the emergency. On his return, he joined 4 RTR and served as a squadron commander and adjutant in BAOR before retiring from the Army in 1959. | |

Joined Stenhouse, the insurance brokers, and became regional director of the Midlands branch. After a spell in the Newcastle office, he moved to London as managing director for the southern region and subsequently of the whole company . After retiring from Stenhouse in 1981, Brookshaw was appointed managing director of Hadley Cannon, the insurance broking subsidiary of LEP plc. He worked voluntarily for the Abbeyfield Society and the Housing Appeals Tribunal and was a case worker for SSAFA for more than 20 years.

Brotheridge,
Herbert Denham "Den" Son of Herbert Charles and Lilian Brotheridge, of Smethwick, Staffordshire; husband of Maggie Brotheridge, of Smethwick.

1915 ?
-
06.06.1944
Normandy
(KIA) [age 29]
[Ranville Churchyard, France, grave 43]

Brougham,
John Collingwood
Son of Rev. Richard Henry Vaux Brougham (1870-), and Beatrice Rose Burnaby.
Married ...; ... children (two daughters?)..

07.10.1897
Mallow, Cork, Ireland
-
08.04.1960
Hachenburg, Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

| | | | cadet, Officers Training Corps | | | ---------- | | ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 06.01.1915 | | | commissioned, The Cork Royal Garrison Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers | | 01.04.1940 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | 1945/46? | | | Military Intelligence, Bad Oeynhausen | | 01.03.1949 | | | short service commission | | 01.03.1951 | | | transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section) |