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

Deacon,
Terry

Son of George Harold Deacon, and
Elizabeth Ruth Williams, of Plymouth.
Married ((06?).1943, Plymouth
district, Devon) Acting First Officer
Audrey Dora Hawkins, WRNS.

(06?).1919
Devonport district,
Devon
-
05.06.1944
Plymouth district,
Devon
(injured by a flying
shell fragment, which
subesquently led to
his death following a
stroke) [age 24]
[Plymouth City
Crematorium, panel
2]

Solicitor.

Deakin,
John Charles

First son of Lt.Col. Charles Deakin, The Worcestershire Regiment, and ... Braithwaite.
Married (06.01.1944) Katherine Margaret Richardson (1919? - ); one daughter, three sons.

07.02.1919
Guildford district, Surrey
-
30.09.1981
Bolton Appleby, Westmorland, Cumbria

Education: Charterhouse School (1932.3-1936; Saunderites House); Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

| | | | late Cadet, Charterhouse School Contingent, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 29.10.1938 | | | commissioned, The Worcestershire Regiment - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized SRO | | 29.10.1948 | - | ? | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |

Land agent, 1948.
His son writes: "Was stationed in India during WW2. Returned to England with wife and myself on S.S. Alcantara on 2 Feb 1945. "

Deakin,
Ronald Henry

03.04.1921 ?
-
1977 ?
Birmingham, West Midlands ?

	OBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46
	TD	03.11.1950	-
	EM	09.01.1947	- [24.08.1951 cancelled, due to award of TD]

Dean,
Arthur Paul;
Baron Dean of Harptree (created 1993) (Life Peer), of Wedmore in the County of Somerset

Son of Arthur Percival Dean, and Jessie Margaret Gaunt.
Married 1st (1957) Doris Ellen Webb (died 1979).
Married 2nd (1980) Peggy Parker.

14.09.1924
Northwich district, Cheshire
-
01.04.2009
Banwell, Weston�super�Mare, Avon

	Kt	1985	?
-	PC	1991	-

Education: Ellesmere College, Shropshire; Exeter College, Oxford (MA, BLitt).

| 28.01.1944 | | | commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ADC to the commander of 1 Corps (British Army of the Rhine) | | | 01.01.1949 | | | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |

Former President Oxford University Conservative Association and Oxford
Carlton Club. Farmer, 1950-1956. Resident Tutor, Swinton Conservative College, 1957; Conservative Research Department, 1957-1964, Assistant Director from 1962. MP (C) Somerset North, 1964-1983, Woodspring, Avon, 1983-1992. A Front Bench Spokesman on Health and Social Security, 1969-1970; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, DHSS, 1970-1974; Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker, 1982-1992. Member: Executive Committee, CPA, UK Branch, 1975-1992; House of Commons Services Select Committee, 1979-1982; House of Commons Chairman's Panel, 1979-1982; Chairman, Conservative Health and Social Security Committee, 1979-1982. A Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 1995-. Member, Executive Committee, Association of Conservative Peers, 1995-. Formerly, Member Governing Body of Church in Wales. Company director.

Dean,
Claud Horace

Son (with four brothers and three sisters) of Ernest Dean (1863-1949), and Adelaide Ravina Kidd (1865-1959).
Married ((06?).1930, Wirral district, Cheshire) Ethel Victoria Bellis (1906 - 1959), daughter (with four brothers and three sisters) of George Bellis (1875-), and Lily Maud Phipps (1883-1943); one son, two daughters.

18.06.1898
Tranmere, Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
24.05.1978
Rock Ferry, Birkenhead district, Merseyside

	MBE	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 1941

| WW I | | | served as Pte. & Lt., Liverpool Regiment & Royal Army Service Corps | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 04.10.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] | | (1946) | | | Commander, Relief Detachment, Brunswick, 704 HQ/Control Commission for Germany 2328 |

Dean,
Ellis
"Dixie"

?
-

	MC	24.01.1946	Rhine crossing to Baltic coast 1945

| 07.08.1943 | | | commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | (06.1944) | | | 3rd Parachute Battalion | | (1945) | | | 13th Parachute Battalion |

Dearbergh,
Geoffrey Frederick

Next-of-kin (wife?): Elizabeth Mary Dearbergh.
Related to (son of?): Maj.T.L. Dearbergh.

15.03.1924
-
03.07.1979
Kensington, London

1939-45 Star; France & Germany Star; Defence Medal

Registrar of the Companies Court.

Dearbergh,
Tom Lees

Related to (father of?): Lt. G.F. Dearbergh.
Married; at least one daughter.
Residence: (1931): Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

17.10.1897
St Albans, Hertfordshire
-
15.07.1972
Milford-on-Sea, Lymington, New Forst district, Hampshire

[Company director?] till 1931 (Francis Napier (London and Paris) Ltd.)

Dearden,
Allan

(12?).1906
-
13.03.1958
Nottinghamshire

Deards,
Robert Frederick

Son of Charles Edward Deards, and Henrietta Lilian Pheby.
Married ((03?).1940, Epping district, Essex) Joan Frances Hill (23.12.1919 - 06.2001); two sons. one daughter.

15.11.1913
Epping district, Essex
-
12.1989
Norwich district, Norfolk

| | | | either Sandhurst or 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit | | | ---------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 21.12.1940 | | | commissioned, The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission] | | | | | served with 9th Jats and possibly 8th Gurkhas in India & Burma | |

Deas,
William

Married Robina Helen Nicol; two sons.

01.04.1907
-
09.1969

His son writes: "He served in Greece, Malta during the siege and in Lebanon. I believe that he was in charge of the bakeries for the 8th Army at one stage."

D'Eath,
Douglas Peter

Son of Daniel James D'Eath (1885-1951), and Amy Annie Louisa Welham (1897-1972).
Married ((12?).1941, Salisbury district, Wiltshire) Phyllis Webb (1922? - ); one daughter.

25.03.1922
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
21.02.1973
St Asaph district, Denbighshire, Wales (formerly of Gwespyr, Flintshire, Wales)

| 22.11.1941 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | served in North Africa | |

Deaville,
John

Husband of D. Deaville, of Barnehurst, Kent.

1912 ?
-
10.06.1945
(MIA) [age 33]
[Rangoon Memorial, Burma, face 12]

deBanzie,
Eric Statham

Son of Louis Foster de Banzie (1887-1963), and Emily Statham Anderson (1892-1972).
Married (1955, St Marylebone district, London) Isabel Nora Paterson (18.03.1929 - 11.06.2008); three daughters, one son.

15.05.1922
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
-
27.10.2000
Maidstone, Kent

Education: Merchant Taylor's School (1934-); St John's College, University of Oxford (BA, 1946; MA 1960).

Administrator, Cocos Islands, 1948-1950. Chartered accountant. FCA. Financial director, Berry Wiggins and Co. Ltd. since 1966. Accountant, British Museum Publications Ltd.
His son writes: "He served with the 1st and 8th armies in North Africa, Sicily and Italy."

deBlaby,
Reginald Edward

Son of Capt. G.T. de Blaby and Mrs. de Blaby, of Dublin, Irish Republic.

?
-
23.03.1943
(KIA atWadi Zigzaou (Mareth Line))
[Medjez-el-Bab Memorial, Tunisia, face 30]

de Brett,
Edward Maurice

Married Dorothy Elizabeth (n�e ...) (died 18.03.2007); two daughters.

07.11.1910
-
11.2000
Chichester, Sussex

	MID	18.02.1938	NW Frontier of India (twice mentioned)

DeChair,
George Herbert Blackett

Married ((09?).1919, Brighton, Sussex) ... Pearson; at least one son ([Capt. Michael Beachamp De Chair](#De Chair%5FMB)).

30.07.1892 *
Lewisham, Greater London
-
17.05.1957
Chesham, Buckinghamshire

* year of birth registered in Army records as 1891

	OBE	03.06.1919	HM's birthday 19: for service in France
	MC	18.02.1915	operations in the field
	MID	17.02.1915	?
	MID	11.12.1917	?
	PolRes	20.06.1944	?
	14 St	-	& clasp & roses [= bar "5 Aug to 22 Nov 1914"] (20.04.20)
	BWM 14|20	06.10.1920	-
	VM	-

WWI medal cards: No.1,No. 2, No. 3

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

DeChair,
Michael Beauchamp

Son of [Colonel G.H.B. De Chair, OBE, MC](#De Chair%5FGHB), and Mrs. De Chair (n�e Pearson).
Husband of Anne De Chair, of Fernhurst, Sussex.

(03?).1921
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
16.05.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[El Alia Cemetery, Algeria, 12.G.35]

deChair,
Somerset Struben

Son of late Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (1864-1958), former Governor of NSW, and Enid Struben (died 1966), youngest daughter of H.W. Struben.
Married 1st (1932) Thelma Arbuthnot (marriage dissolved 1950); one son (and one son deceased).
Married 2nd (1950) Carmen Appleton (n�e Bowen) (marriage dissolved 1958); two sons.
Married 3rd (1958) Mrs Margaret Patricia Manlove (n�e Field�Hart) (marriage dissolved 1974); one daughter.
Married 4th (1974) Anne Juliet Dorothea Maud FitzWilliam, Marchioness of Bristol, only daughter of 8th Earl FitzWilliam, DSC; one daughter.

22.08.1911
Sunningdale, Berkshire
-
05.01.1995
Antigua

Education: King's School, Paramatta, New South Wales; Balliol College, Oxford University

| | | | late Officer Cadet, Oxford University Contingent, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 23.03.1938 | | | commissioned, Royal Horse Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized | | | | | served with Household Cavalry in the Middle East, during Iraqi and Syrian campaigns (wounded 21.06.1941): | | | 1940 | - | 1941 | Intelligence Officer, 4th Cavalry Brigade | | 1942 | - | 1942 | Captain General Staff (Intelligence) |

Member of Parliament (MP) (Nat. C) for South West Norfolk, 1935-45; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon. Oliver Lyttelton MP, Minister of Production, 1942-44; MP (C) South Paddington, 1950-51. Chairman National Appeal Committee of UN Association, and member of National Executive, 1947-50; Chairman, Kent Association of Boys' Clubs, 1945-48; Governor, Wye Agricultural College, 1946-48.
Published: Fiction: Enter Napoleon, 1934; Red Tie in the Morning, 1936; The Teetotalitarian State, 1947; The Dome of the Rock, 1948; The Story of a Lifetime, 1954; Bring Back the Gods, 1962; Friends, Romans, Concubines, 1973; The Star of the Wind, 1974; Legend of the Yellow River, 1979; _non�fiction:_The Impending Storm, 1930; Divided Europe, 1931; The Golden Carpet, 1943; The Silver Crescent, 1943; A Mind on the March, 1945; edited and translated: The First Crusade, 1945; Napoleon's Memoirs, 1945; Napoleon's Supper at Beaucaire, 1945; Julius Caesar's Commentaries, 1951; Napoleon on Napoleon, 1991; biography: (ed) The Sea is Strong (memoirs of Admiral de Chair), 1961; (ed) Getty on Getty, 1989; autobiography: Buried Pleasure, 1985; Morning Glory, 1988; Die? I Thought I'd Laugh, 1993; drama: Peter Public, 1932; _poetry:_The Millennium, 1949; Collected Verse, 1970; Sounds of Summer, 1992

deCouter,
Henri David
"Harry"

Married (05.12.1934, Manley district, New South Wales, Australia) Patricia Long; ... children.

13.04.1910
Manley, NSW, Australia
-
09.10.1952
Queen Marys (Roehampton) Hospital, Wandsworth, London (formerly of Bexley, Kent)

| 25.11.1939 | | | commissioned, The Lincolnshire Regiment [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | 21.07.1943 | | | transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section) |

Dees,
Sydney John

Son of William Dees, and Julia Springett.
Married ((09?).1939, Greenwich district, Kent) Ruby Larkin; ... children (one son?).

(09?).1915
Lambeth district, London
-

| 13.06.1942 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | served in India | |

de Guingand,
Sir Francis Wilfred
"Freddie"

Son of the late Francis Jules de Guingand, of Ealing, London.
Married (1942) Arlie Roebuck, widow of Major H.D. Stewart, West Yorks Regt (marriage dissolved, 1957); one daughter.

28.02.1900
Acton, East London
-
29.06.1979
Cannes, France

	KBE	29.06.1944	Normandy
	CBE	26.02.1943	operations resulting in capture of Tripoli
	OBE	30.12.1941	New Year 42
	CB	14.10.1943	Sicily
	DSO	05.11.1942	Middle East
	MID	24.06.1943	Middle East
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
	MID	08.11.1945	NW Europe
	LM	12.04.1945	distinguished services .in the cause of the Allies
	DSM	?	?
	LegH	?	?
	CdeG	?	?
	Kutz	?	?
	OON	17.10.1946	?

Education: Ampleforth College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1935-1937; psc).

Chairman: Rothmans of Pall Mall (UK); Carreras Ltd, 1967-1968, and other Companies; Director and International Director of the Rothmans Group.
Published: Operation Victory, 1947; African assignment, 1953; Generals at war, 1964; From brass hat to bowler hat, 1979.
Literature: Gen. Sir Charles Richardson, Send for Freddie : the story of Montgomery's Chief of Staff Major-General Sir Francis de Guingand, KBE, CB, DSO (1987)

de Hadeln,
Harry



Youngest son (with six brothers) of ... Hudson, and ...
Adopted in 1928 by art historian Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln (1878-1935), and became known as Harry Hudson-von Hadeln, later Baron Harry de Hadeln.
Married (30.10.1935, Aix-les-Bains Town Hall, France; followed by a later church wedding in the Russian Orxthodox Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland) Alexandra "Alex" Bălăceanu (03.03.1911 - 27.02.1977), painter & sculptor; two sons (one of whom died in infancy).

20.07.1907
West Hartlepool, Co. Durham
-
29.04.1972
in hospital, Nyon, Switzerland

Founded in 1946 de Hadeln & Cie, fine art publishers in Florence, Italy.

Delamain,
Charles Beevor Harty

Son of Charles Henry Delamain (1847-1928), and Lucy Jane Beevor (1855-1946).
Married ((06?).1926, New Forest district, Hampshire) Ella Toulman (1900?-1992); one son.

01.12.1896
-
07.10.1979
[Nunicipal de l'Alf�s del Pi, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain]

	OBE	08.06.1939	HM's birthday 39: Tientsin Area, British Troops in China.
	MC	27.08.1917	*
	MID	13.01.1944	Middle East

WWI: MC, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in entering a gun pit and extinguishing ammunition which had been set on fire by a bursting shell. His coolness and courage in the face of great danger saved the gun pit from destruction and averted the loss of life which would have ensued from a big explosion.

Delamere,
Lord (4th Baron);
Cholmondeley, Thomas Pitt Hamilton

Only son of Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, KCMG, JP, MLC (1870-1931), and Lady Florence Cole (1878-1914).
Married 1st (14.06.1924; marriage dissolved 1944)) Phyllis Anne Montagu-Douglas-Scott (03.03.1904 - 1978), eldest daughter of Lord George William Montagu-Douglas-Scott, OBE (1866-1947), and Lady Elizabeth Emily Manners (1878-1924), of Kirklands, Ancrum, Roxburghshire; one son, two daughters.
Married 2nd (15.06.1944, Westminster district, London; marriage dissolved 1955) Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley (29.07.1906 - 10.1986), youngest daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, 1st and last Baron Mount Temple, PC (1867-1939), and Amalia Mary Maud Cassel (1881-1911).
Married 3rd (26.03.1955) Mrs Diana Colville (23.12.1913 - 03.09.1987), younger daughter of Seymour Caldwell.

19.08.1900
Whitegate, Northwich district, Cheshire
-
13.04.1979
Oxford, Oxfordshire

Education: Eton (1914.2-1918.3).
Justice of the Peace (JP), Cheshire, 1937.

| | | | late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1923 | - | 1924 | commissioned, Welsh Guards - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | | 18.09.1939 | | | commissioned, Welsh Guards [emergency commission] | | | | | served in Auxiliary Units at GHQ Coleshill | |

Chairman, Everetts Advertising Ltd. Director, Proved Securities Ltd.

de Lisle Bush *,
Claude D'Arcy Stratton

Son of Alfred George and Florence Katharine de Lisle Bush; husband of Dorothy Joan de Lisle Bush, of Stonehouse, Glos.

* changed last name by deed poll of 28.04.1920 from Bush to de Lisle Bush

1894 ?
Gloucestershire
-
22.01.1941
[age 47]
[Eastington (St Michael) Churchyard, Gloucestershire, west of porch]

1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal

| | | | late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Clifton College Contingent, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 20.11.1912 | - | 16.06.1928 | commissioned, 3rd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment - Special Reserve of Officers | | 29.08.1940 | - | 22.01.1941 | commissioned, The Gloucestershire Regiment [emergency commission] |

Dellar,
Frank Richardson

Son of Percy Dellar, and Alice Maud Mary Squibb.
Married ((06?).1940, Berkhampstead district, Hertfordshire) Gladys Jean Butler.

16.04.1915
Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire
-
07.2001
South Gloucester district, Gloucestershire

| | | | either 164th, 165th or 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 14.12.1940 | | | commissioned, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [emergency commission] | | 01.02.1951 | - | 31.12.1956 | Lieutenant, Hertfordshire Contingent, Army Cadet Force |

de l'Orme,
Max[imilian] Hodel[ius]

Home town (1945): Brighton.

14.12.1907
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
07.1986
Brighton, Sussex

	DSO	29.03.1945	NW Europe
	MC	20.12.1940	gallant conduct in action with the enemy
	TD	?	?
	TD	16.02.1951	?

Architect.

De Manio,
John Baptiste
"Jack"


Son of Jean and Florence de Manio.
Married 1st (1935) Juliet Gravaeret Kaufmann, New York (marriage dissolved, 1946); one son.
Married 2nd ((09?).1947, Chelsea distirct, London) Loveday Elizabeth Matthews (widow, n�e Abbott) (02.02.1917 - 04.1999).

26.01.1914
-
28.10.1988
London

Education: Aldenham School.

| | | | late Cadet, Aldenham School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | 02.09.1939 | | | commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment - Territorial Army | | 1939 | - | 1940 | 7th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (France) | | 1940 | - | 1944 | 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Middle East Forces) |

Forces Broadcasting, Middle East, 1944-46. Joined Overseas Service, BBC, 1946; BBC Home Service, 1950; resigned to become freelance, 1964. Presenter BBC programmes: Today, 1958-71; Jack de Manio Precisely, 1971-78; With Great Pleasure, 1971-73; broadcast 1st Interview given by HRH The Prince of Wales, 1969; contributor Woman's Hour, 1979-. Assists with fund raising for Association of Friends of Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women, 1980-. Radio Personality of Year Award, Variety Club of GB, 1964; Radio Personality Award of Year, British Radio Industries Club, 1971.
Published: To Auntie with Love, 1967; Life Begins Too Early, 1970; contributions to Punch and numerous other periodicals.

Demetriadi,
George

Son of George Constantine Demetriadi (1876-1949), and Agathoniki-Helen Nellie Ionides (1887-1974).
Brother of Maj. Stephen George Demetriadi, TD, Royal Signals.
Married Elizabeth Kerr (27.06.1919 - 16.02.2013), younger daughter of Maj. Basil Kerr, DSC (1879-1957), and Winifred Katherine Blezard (1890-1974).

31.10.1912
-
02.1992
Lambeth district, London

| | | | late Cadet, Marlborough College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 30.07.1939 | | | commissioned, 8th Battalion The Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA |

Demetriadi,
Springett Stephen

Son of Sir Stephen [= Stephanos Constantine] Demetriadi, KBE (1880-1952), and Gulielma Norah Mabel Bates.

14.06.1914
Chalwood, Reigate district, Surrey
-
04.07.1972
Bolney, Sussex

	MID	10.05.1945	NW Europe
	TD	?	?
	TD	01.04.1952	?

* Gazetted 17.03.1944: "at his own request reverts to the rank of Lt., 17th Mar. 1942, while so employed".
Gazetted 21.03.1944: "is restored to the rank of Capt., 1st Sept. 1943".

| | | | late Cadet Serjeant, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | | 29.04.1933 | | | commissioned into the Royal Artillery - Territorial Army | | (04.1936) | | | 98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry) Field Brigade, RA (TA) | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | 1942? | - | 1945? | GHQ Liaison Regiment [Phantom] | | ? | - | 14.06.1964 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [age limit] |

Stock broker, London Stock Exchange.

Demetriadi,
Stephen George

Son of George Constantine Demetriadi (1876-1949), and Agathoniki-Helen Ionides.
Brother of Lt.Col. George Demetriadi, MBE, TS, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Married (1948) Elaine Blew; two sons.

03.04.1917
Manchester
-
01.1997
Salisbury, Wilshire

	TD	20.06.1950	?

| | | | late Cadet, Lancing College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 29.04.1939 | | | commissioned into the Yeomanry - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | | | | transferred to the Royal Corps of Signals | | | 19.11.1948 | - | 01.09.1949 | transferred to Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 01.09.1949 | - | 13.02.1951 | transferred to Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers | | 13.02.1951 | - | 27.06.1952 | transferred to Royal Ulster Rifles - Territorial Army | | 27.06.1952 | - | ? | transferred to Cheshire Yeomanry - Territorial Army Reserve of Officers |

Dempsey,
Sir Miles Christopher
"Lucky" / "Bimbo"








Son of late A.F. Dempsey, Hoylake, Cheshire. Married (1948) Viola, youngest daughter of Capt. Percy O'Reilly, Colamber, Westmeath. Lived at The Old Vicarage, Greenham, Newbury, Berks., later
Coombe House, Yattendon, Berks.

15.12.1896 New Brighton, Cheshire
-
05.06.1969 Yattendon, Berks.

	GBE	02.01.1956	New Year 56
	KBE	05.07.1945	NW Europe
	KCB	29.06.1944	Normandy
	CB	14.10.1943	Sicily
	DSO	11.07.1940	recent operations
	MC	03.06.1919	HM's birthday 19
	MID	28.12.1918	?
	MID	26.07.1940	operations in the field
	MID	09.08.1945	NW Europe
	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe
	LM	12.04.1945	distinguished services in the cause of the Allies
	DSM	16.01.1948	distinguished services in the cause of the Allies

British War Medal; Victory Meda; NW Persia Medal & Clasp; Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold with Palm & Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (Belgium) (16.01.1947); Knight Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau with Swords (Netherlands) (20.01.1947)

Education: Shrewsbury; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; psc

Aide de Camp General to the King, 1946-1947. Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Military Police, 13.03.1947-1957. Colonel, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), 22.11.1946-22.11.1956. Honorary Colonel, AAC, Special Air Service (Territorial Army), 29.01.1948-.... Colonel Commandant, Special Air Service Regiment, 21.02.1951-1960. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Berkshire, 24.10.1950-... Commander­in­Chief (designate), UK Land Forces 1951-1956. Chairman, Racecourse Betting Control Board, 1947-1951. Director of H. & G. Simonds (Chairman 1953-1963). Deputy Chairman, Courage, Barclay & Simonds Ltd, 1961-1966. Chairman, Greene, King & Sons Ltd, 1955-...
Published: Operations of the 2nd Army in Europe (London : War Office, 1947)

Denaro,
Arthur Edward

Son of Colonel Frank P. Denaro and Marie Denaro, of Sliema, Malta.

18.08.1914
Malta
-
29.09.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium, II.B.12]

Education: Downside; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Denbigh,
10th Earl of &
9th Earl of Desmond;
Feilding, William Rudolph Stephen

Son of Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1885-1937) and Agnes Imelda Mary Harding (1885-1937).
Brother of Lt. the Hon. David Charles Feilding, Capt. the Hon. Basil Egerton Feilding, Sq.Ldr. the Hon. Hugh Richard Feilding, RAFVR & Capt. the Hon. Henry Anthony Feilding, MC.
Married (17.05.1940) Verena Barbara Price (died 28.02.1995), widow of Lt.Col. T.P. Fielding Johnson; one son, one daughter.

17.04.1912
-
31.12.1966

Education: Oratory School, Woodcote, nr Reading; Christ Church, Oxford

Justice of the Peace (JP), Warwickshire.

Dendy,
Murray Heathfield

Eldest son of late Charles Dendy, of Youl Grange, Eastbourne. Married (1919) Lettice, youngest daughter of late Charles Van Neck and Mrs Van Neck, 79 Eaton Place, SW.

12.11.1885
Wincanton, Somerset
-
04.06.1951
Folkestone, Kent

Education: Rugby; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; idc, psc

Dene,
John Anthony

Son of Col. Arthur Pollard Dene (1878-1945), and Elsie Beatrice Yvonne Koe.
Married 1st (22.02.1940, St Mark's, North Audley Street, Westminster district, London; divorced 1960) Mary Anson (02.07.1918 - 06.1999), daughter of Claud Ronald Anson (1895-1965), and Frederica Heath Harrison (?-1941); two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((12?).1960, Melton Mowbray district, Leicestershire) Judith A. Ramsden.

06.06.1912
Bodmin district, Cornwall
-

Education:Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1930-1931).

Denholm,
Alastair Robert

Son (with one sister) of Daniel McPhee Denholm (1891-1952), and Mary Paul Glendinning (1893-1922).
Married 1st (1946, Hong Kong; divorced) ...; one daughter.
Married 2nd (05.12.1953, Kolkata, India) Grace Florence Niblett (05.12.1930 - 06.10.2014); one daughter, one son.

28.10.1922
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
30.09.1985
Edinburgh, Scotland

Denne,
David Charles

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Charles Frederick Denne (1881-1967), and Ethel Irene Bowrah (1883-1959).
Married (28.12.1940, Scunthorpe district, Lincolnshire) Peggy Russell Stewart (1920 - 16.09.2013); one son, one daughter.

26.03.1917
Newbury district, Hampshire
-
25.11.2005
Willesborough, Kent

	EM	21.09.1993	-

| | | | either 121st or 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit | | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 28.12.1940 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | | | | served in North Africa & Palestine (training) | | | 20.06.1944 | | | transferred, The Hampshire Regiment | | 04.10.1944 | | | 2nd Battalion The Hampshire Regiment |

Denney,
William Granville

From Liverpool.

23.03.1922
-

	MC	12.04.1945	NW Europe

| | | | served in the ranks for 1 year, 91 days | | | ---------- | | --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 30.01.1943 | | | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission to 21.03.1947] | | (06.1944) | | | Officer Commanding, 1 Troop, "A" Squadron, 13th/18th Hussars (France) | | 22.03.1947 | | | permanent commission, 13th/18th Hussars |

Denning,
Arthur du Pr�


Married Joan Matthews; one son, one daughter.

15.04.1909
West Bromwich, Shropshire
-
04.1993
Poole, Dorset

	DSO	07.11.1946	special operations SE Asia
	MC	21.06.1945	services in the field
	CdeG	?	?

Worked for Baring Brothers Bank.

Dennis,
Gordon Noel

Son (with three sisters) of Nelson Frederick Dennis (1867-1922), and Alice Louisa Weeden (1873-1905).
Married (1917, Elham, Kent) Lydia Florence Gorman (04.1896 - 1975), daughter of Stephen John Galpin Gorman (1858-1938), and Sarah Jane Hamilton (1862-); one daughter, four sons.

28.12.1897
Farnham district, Surrey
-
08.1984
South East Hampshire district

Dennis,
Jack


From Huddersfield.

?
-

| | | | served in the ranks, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards (attached Long Range Desert Group) (MM) | | | ---------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | 13.06.1943 | | | commissioned, The Durham Light Infantry [emergency commission] | | 05.01.1945 | | | transferred, Pioneer Corps |

Joined the police.

Dennis,
Stanley

?
-

| 09.07.1944 | | | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------- |

Dennis,
William Michael

06.02.1912 ?
-
(03?).1981 ?
Surrey North-western district, Surrey ?

| | | | late Cadet Corporal, Giggleswick School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 22.11.1933 | - | 02.10.1936 | commissioned, 70th (West Riding) Field Brigade Royal Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1941 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] |

Denny,
Maynard Leslie

Son of ... Denny, and ... Barlow.
Married (26.07.1945, Shrewsbury district, Shropshire) Phyllis Minnie Davis (26.08.1923 - (12?).1979), daughter (with two brothers and four sisters) of Denzil Ernest Davis (1898-1957), and Minnie Holden (1902-1981); one daughter, one son.

20.05.1921
Colchester district, Essex
-
09.2000
Farnham, West Surrey district, Surrey

Denny,
Noel Nigel Molesworth

Son of Ernest Wriothesley Denny, and Lois Marjorie Legge.
Married (07.02.1953) Margaret Fulcher; two sons.

22.03.1920
-
01.1993
Reading and Wokingham district, Berkshire

| 02.03.1940 | | | commissioned, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------------- | | (06.1944) | | | "A" Squadron 13th/18th Hussars (France) |

Denny-Brown,
Derek Ernest


Married (1937) Sylvia Marie, daughter of late Dr J.O. Summerhayes, DSO; four sons.

01.06.1901
Christchurch, New Zealand
-
20.04.1981
Cambridge, Mass., USA

	OBE	1942	?

Education: New Plymouth High School, NZ; Otago University, NZ; Magdalen College, Oxford (Hon. Fellow, 1976); MD NZ (MB); DPhil Oxon; FRCP

Neurologist. Beit Memorial Research Fellow, 1925-28; Rockefeller Travelling Fellow, 1936; formerly Neurologist to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Assistant Physician National Hospital, Queen Square, and sometime Registrar to Dept for Nervous Diseases, Guy's Hospital; former Director, Neurologcal Unit, Boston City Hospital. Harvard University: Prof. of Neurology, 1941-46, and 1967-72; J. J. Putnam Prof. of Neurology, 1946-67. Fogarty Internat. Scholar, Nat. Insts of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1972-73. Hon. Fellow, RSM, 1958. Gran Oficier, Order of Hippolite Unanue (Peru), 1963. Sherrington Medal, Royal Society Mecicine London, 1962; Jacoby Award, Amer. Neurol. Assoc., 1968. Hon. AM Harvard; Hon. LLD Wayne, 1959; Hon. LLD Glasgow, 1971; Dr hc Brazil; Hon. DSc Otago, 1969; Hon. DLit Jefferson, 1977. J.J. Putnam Professor of Neurology, Emeritus, Harvard University, since 1972; Hon. Col RAMC.
Published: Selected Writings of Sir Charles Sherrington, 1939; Diseases of Muscle (part author), 1953; The Basal Ganglia, 1962; Cerebral Control of Movement, 1966; Centennial Vol., Amer. Neurol. Assoc., 1975; papers on neurological subjects in scientific journals.

Dent,
John Edward

Son of ... Dent, and ... Bales.
Married 1st ((03?).1943, Maidstone district, Kent) Beryl Audrey Harvey Baines (20.09.1921 - 09.1994), daughter of ... Baines, and ... Bennett; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1999) Maureen Hickson.

19.10.1921
Malling district, Kent
-
15.05.2008
Burwash, East Sussex

	MBE	01.01.1985	New Year 85: Export Sales Executive, Dynamics Group, British Aerospace pic. For services to Export.

| | | | served in the ranks for 2 years, 125 days | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 17.12.1943 | | | commissioned, Regiment of Royal Artillery [emergency commission to 30.08.1946] | | 02.07.1944 | | | transferred, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | | 31.08.1946 | | | permanent commission, The Buffs (from 01.03.1961 The Queen's Own Buffs, from 31.12.1966 The Queen's Regiment) | | 1956 | - | 1959 | 4th King's African Rifles |

Denton,
Ronald Bentley

Elder son of Lt.Col. H.B. Denton, OBE, and ... Davies, of Plas Ffron, near Wrexham.
Married (18.05.1946, All Saints' Episcopal Church, Lockerbie) Eileen _Mona_H�l�ne "Mo" Lightbody, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Thomas Lightbody, of Hallguards, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire; one son.

02.10.1913
Barton district, Lancashire
-
26.04.1977
in hospital, Congleton and Crew district, Cheshire (of Garden Cottage, Davenham, Cheshire)

	MC	10.02.1944	Italy: construction of an FBE bridge over the F. Biferno at Campomarino 03-05.10.43 [recommendation available upon request]
	MC	07.12.1944	Italy: advance on Alatri 01.06.44 [recommendation available upon request]
	TD	30.12.1949	& 1st clasp
	MID	11.01.1945	Italy

Education: Shrewsbury School (1927.3-1932; Moser's House); various technical colleges.

Honorary Colonel 123rd (East Lancashire) Field Engineer Regiment TA, 14.05.1957. Honorary Colonel, H.Q. 42 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Division/District Engineers, ...-31.03.1967. Justice of the Peace (JP), Northwich, 1965. Chairman and Managing Director, Joseph Parks & Son Ltd.; Managing Director, Structural Steelcrete Ltd.

dePlanta de Wildenberg,
Louis Gregory Marie Noel

Son of Henri Marie Joseph de Planta de Wildenberg (?-1950), of Swiss descent, and Jane Elisabeth Shiels.
Married (29.04.1933, Croydon district, London / Surrey) Irene Clara Hardiman (24.08.1909 - 07.1995); a twin son & daughter and another daughter.

25.12.1907
Lambeth district, London
-
19.09.1984
Croydon district, Greater London / Surrey

| 10.08.1942 | | | commissioned, Pioneer Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- | | | | | spent most of the war in Kenya | |

dePomerai,
Walter Theodore Ralph

Born as: Tolley, Walter Theodore.
Changed name by deed poll of 07.12.1939.
Married 1st ((06?).1957, Exeter district, Devon) Odile Juliette A.M. de Pomerai (22.04.1915 - (06?).1972) ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd ((09?).1973, Chichester district, Sussex) Mabel de Pomerai (29.08.1896 - (06?).1982).

18.03.1892
-
(03?).1977
Taunton district, Somerset

| | | | Officer Cadet Unit | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 12.11.1917 | | | commissioned, Royal Field Artillery - Special Reserve of Officers | | 24.12.1920 | | | transferred, Army Educational Corps - Regular Forces | | 13.11.1939 | - | 26.01.1949 | commissioned, (Auxiliary Military) Pioneer Corps - Regular Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |

deRothschild,
Edmund Leopold
"Eddy"



Second child and first son of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942), and Marie Louise Eug�nie Beer (1892-1975).
Married 1st (1948) Elizabeth Edith Lentner (1923-1980); two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1982) Anne Kitching, JP, widow of J. Malcolm Harrison, OBE.

02.01.1916
Westminster, London
-
17.01.2009
Exbury, Hampshire

	CBE	01.01.1997	New Year 97
	TD	30.06.1950	& 1st clasp
	39|45 St	-	-
	Afr St	-	& clasp
	It St	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	WM 39|45	-	-

Education: Locker's Park preparatory school; Harrow School; Trinity College, Cambridge.

| | | | late Officer Cadet, Cambridge University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 23.11.1935 | | | commissioned, 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA - Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | 1939 | - | 1940 | Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (BEF, France) | | 1942 | - | 1944 | 77th (Highland) Field Regiment RA (North Africa, Italy [wounded]) | | 1944 | - | 1946 | Jewish Infantry Brigade | | 18.12.1952 | - | 26.01.1966 | Territorial Army Reserve of Officers [exceeded age limit] |

Banker & horticulturist. Deputy Chairman: Brit. Newfoundland Corp. Ltd, 1963-1969; Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corp. Ltd, 1966-1969; Biotechna�Graesser A. P. Ltd, 1989-. Member, Asia Committee, BNEC, 1970-1971, Chairman, 1971. Trustee, Queen's Nursing Inst.; Member Council, Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses; President, Res. into Ageing. President, Association of Jewish Ex�Servicemen and Women; Vice�Pres., Council of Christians and Jews. Governor, Tech. Univ. of Nova Scotia. Hon. LLD Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, 1961; Hon. DSc Salford, 1983. Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st Class (Japan), 1973. Director, N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, since 1975 (Partner since 1946, Senior Partner, 1960-1970, Chairman, 1970-1975). President, Exbury Gardens Ltd, 2000-09.
Published: Window on the world (1949); Edmund de Rothschild : a gilt-edged life (1998; autobiography).

Derrett,
Peter Alfred

Son of Percy Alfred Derrett (1884-), and May C. Hills.

03.11.1917
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
-
05.1991
Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire

Commercial traveller.

des Graz,
Edward Percy Aymer

Son of Maurice des Graz, DL, JP, and the Hon. Mrs. des Graz.
Married (1929) Rhona Felicia Bridget Lloyd-Mostyn, of Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire.

20.12.1899
-
06.06.1942
(KIA) [age 42]
[Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya, 11.B.22]

	MID	15.03.1945	Middle East

Member of Army Revolver Shooting Eight; winner of Championship Cup and Gold Medal at Bisley.

Detmaur,
Charles William

Son of ... Detmaur & ... Detmaur (n�e Gosling).
Married Nora Nicholls, from Halberton; ... children.

(09?).1920
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
09.04.2007

| 01.01.1944 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |

Devas,
Michael Campbell

Son (with one sister) of Capt. Geoffrey Charles Devas, MC (1887-1971), and Joan Campbell-Bannerman (1888-1975).
Married 1st (28.06.1952, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Teston, Maidstone district, Kent; divorced 1967) Patience Merryday Stern (19.07.1931 - ), daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of Lt.Col. Sir Albert Gerald Stern, KBE, CMG (1878-1966), and Helen Merryday Orr-Lewis (1901-1974), of Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (12.10.1967, Chelsea district, London) Gillian Barbara Smith-Bingham (n�e Hewett) ((09?).1932 - ), formerly wife of Charles Arthur Smith-Bingham (1931-2003), and daughter of Col. Henry M.P. Hewett, and Joyce Garrard, of Chipping Warden, nr Banbury.

06.06.1924
Malling district, Kent / Surrey
-
04.05.2007
Hunton Court, Hunton, Maidstone, Kent

* Recommendation for the award of the Military Cross to WS/Lt. M.C. Devas: On 9 Apr 1945 this officer was commanding the leading troop of the Squadron which was advancing towards the bridge over the canal South of Menslage. This officer found his troop's way barred by a large road-block. Despite heavy Spandau fire from both sides of the road to his front, this young officer dismounted from his tank to recce a way to by-pass the road-block by a flanking movement which would take him up to the bridge behind the block. At this point the highest priority was attached to discovering whether or not the bridge was blown, and due to the height and depth of the road-block, it was only possible to see this by getting right up to the line of the canal. Lieut. Devas discovered a route which he thought his tanks could take without getting bogged. Although still under heavy enemy fire, he returned to his own tank and proceeded to lead his troop across country by the deviation. He had only gone a few yards when his tank hit a mine and was destroyed. His crew baled out, but not so this young officer, who continued to sit in the tank giving orders to his troop, reporting back the information to his Squadron Leader and firing his own Besa Gun against the enemy infantry. When he thought he could accomplish nothing further (after giving covering fire to the remainder of his crew to enable them to reach the cover of a nearby foxhole) he himself calmly dismounted from his tank and walked forward on foot, quite alone, to recce the bridge. Although slightly wounded in the arm by a snipers' bullet, he showed a total disregard for the enemy fire, and reached the bridge successfully, which he discovered to be blown. He then walked back under heavy enemy Spandau fire to his troop, reporting this valuable information to the Squadron Leader over the air. Later on, he cleared the woods surrounding the bridge of enemy and remained in position protecting the Royal Engineers all night, whilst a bridge was being constructed. Although wounded, he refused to be evacuated or to leave his troop. This officer's calmness and courage throughout the engagement were an inspiration to his troop and to the Squadron; and his resolution in obtaining valuable information under heavy fire was of the greatest value to the plans which were being made for the subsequent advance.
[Recommended 16.04.1945 by Lt.Col. J.C. Windsor Lewis, commanding 2nd Bn Welsh Guards, approved 20.04.1945 by Brig. G.F. Johnson, commanding 32nd Guards Brigade, 25.04.1945 by Maj.Gen. A.H.S. Adair, commanding Guards Armoured Division, 05.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. B.G. Horrocks, commanding 30 Corps, 15.05.1945 by Lt.Gen. M.C. Dempsey, commanding 2nd Army, and finally by Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery, commanding 21st Army Group.] (Kindly provided by Mr Jordi Devas)

Deverall,
Peter Edmund

Son of Edmund Percy Deverall (1893-1962), and Mary Louisa Love (1892-1996).
Married (25.05.1939, Lambeth district, London) Lilian Finley (20.04.1916 - 02.1995), daughter of Charles Bertram Finley (1883-1959), and Grace Rosetta Darling (1884-1984); two sons, three daughters.

09.10.1916
Lambeth, London
-
03.2003
Lyonshall, Kington district, Herefordshire / Radnorshire

Lived and worked in India and Pakistan for many years and spoke many dialects fluently as well as many European languages including Czech.

Deverell,
Sir Cyril John

09.11.1874
St Peter Port, Guernsey
-
12.05.1947
Court Lodge, Lymington

GCB, 1935; KCB, 1929; KBE, 1926; CB 1918

Colonel, West Yorkshire Regiment, 21.03.1934.

Devereux,
Almeric Clifford Eustace

21.10.1905
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
-
(06?).1980
Mendip district, Somerset

Education: Westminster School and Selwyn College, Cambridge

| | | | from General List, Territorial Army | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 29.01.1927 | | | Commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery | | (01.1937) | | | 23rd Mountain Brigade (Jutogh) | | (01.1939) | | | 9th Field Regiment (Larkhill) | | 21.01.1939 | - | 03.09.1940 | Adjutant, ... (France) | | 04.09.1940 | - | 19.11.1940 | GSO3, ... | | 20.11.1940 | - | 13.11.1941 | DAAG, ... | | 06.11.1942 | - | 22.08.1944 | Commanding Officer, 181st Field Regiment RA | | 1947 | - | 1949 | commanded 3 SP Regt Royal Pakistan Artillery | | 09.04.1951 | - | 28.02.1954 | Commander RA, 49th Armoured Division (Territorial Army) | | 15.03.1954 | - | 30.10.1955 | Commander, 64th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (Territorial Army) | | 10.03.1956 | - | 31.12.1956 | Commandant, Coast Artillery Training Centre and Inspector, Coast Defences (Home) | | 01.01.1957 | - | 19.11.1957 | Commander, HQ Plymouth Garrison |

DeVille *,
Louis Martin

* officially: DeVille, but registered in the Army as: De Ville.
Married ((03?).1935, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Doris Mabel Kennedy ((03?).1903 - ); one son, one daughter.

19.09.1909
Croydon, Greater London
-
11.04.1989
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

| 15.06.1940 | | | commissioned, The Cheshire Regiment [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 04.08.1941 | | | transferred, Royal Regiment of Artillery |

Dewar,
David Matthew Henry

Son of Maj. Matthew James Manuia Dewar (1890-1952), publicity officer GWR, and Marjorie Harriet Beaman (1889-1984), of Reading, Berkshire.
Married (04.06.1954, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Barbara Mary Andrews Terry (1925 - 12.06.2011), daughter of Frederick Charles Andrews Terry; three daughters.

22.01.1919
London
-
12.09.1999
Sutton, Surrey

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

Education: Downside School, Bath (1932-1937); Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (1937-1939 & 1946-1947; scholar; 1 M Mod 1938; war degree; BA, MA 1945; 1 Eng Sci 1947).

| 04.08.1939 | | | commissioned, General List (Territorial Army) (University Candidates) | | ---------- | | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 18.10.1939 | | | commissioned, Corps of Royal Engineers [emergency commission] | | | | | served France & Belgium, India & Gold Coast | |

Industrial administration course, Birmingham Technical College, 1947-1948. Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Parkinson Stove Co., Birmingham, 1947-1953. AMIMechE, 1949, later MIMechE. Mathematician/physicist, technical editor & information scientist, Morganite Research and Development Ltd., later Morgan Crucible Group, 1953-1984. He was recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, and matriculated his arms at the Lyons Office on 2 November 1954 as Dewar of Gilston. Member Governing Body, Wandsworth Technical College, 1963-1975.
Published: (compiled; with L. Graham) List of Members of Downside School, 1814-1949, and list of students of Acton Burnell, 1794-1814 (1951); papers on "Astrofix" for survey of India 1944-45.

Dewdney,
Percy Raymond
"Simon"

Son (with one brother) of William John Dewdney (1884-1969), and Gertrude Dunn (1881-1965).
Married 1st (11.06.1935, Hersham, Surrey; divorced) Harriet Nora Mee (28.05.1910 - 07.1992) (remarried 1945 L.V. Chambers), daughter of Robert and Frances Olive Mee; one son.
Married 2nd (01.06.1945, Tonbridge district, Kent) Barbara S. Murray; one daughter.

22.11.1911
Walton, Chertsey district, Surrey
-
2002
Dunfermline, Scotland

| 26.06.1943 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | (1944/45) | | | 3rd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA (Bulford, UK) (17.09.1944 returned to unit, 10.03.1945 on leave) |

Solicitor.

Dewey,
Edward Frederick "Ted"
Son (with two brother and two sisters) of George Edward Dewey (1889-1970), and Rose Davis (1888-1953).
Married (23.07.1938, Welling, Dartford district, Kent) Hilda Hore (13.03.1912 - 02.1986); one son, one daughter.

02.11.1914
Fulham, London
-
06.02.2004
Sidcup, Bexley district, Kent

Education: Christ's Hospital, Horsham (1926-1930).

| 09.10.1942 | | | 133rd Officer Cadet Training Unit | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 22.04.1943 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | 20.06.1944 | | | transferred, Pioneer Corps | | 08.01.1945 | | | attached, 33 Group Indian Pioneer Corps | | 14.12.1945 | | | Staff Captain, Headquarters Allied Forces in Netherlands East-Indies (AFNEI) (Batavia, Java) |

Dewhurst,
John Powys

Son (with one brother) of Capt. Gerard Powys Dewhurst, JP (1872-1956), and Mary Brougham (1872-1911), of Bodidris, Llandegla, Denbighshire.
Married (22.12.1939, Westminster district, London) Frances Barbara Ramsden-Jodrell (07.04.1905 - 1980), daughter (with two sisters) of Lt.Col. Henry Ramsden-Jodrell, CMG (?-1950), and Dorothy Lynch Cotton-Jodrell (?-1958), of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire.

23.08.1901
Lymm, Cucklow district, Cheshire
-
17.10.1978
Ellesmere, Oswestry district, Shropshire

	MBE	01.01.1973	New Year 73: Chairman, Preston Trustee Savings Bank

Education: Eton College (1914.3-1920.2; Eton XI 1919-20; Opp. Wall and Field XI's 1919; Secretary of Musical Society); Trinity College, Cambridge.
Cotton spinner and manufacturer.

| | | | late Cadet-Under Officer, Eton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 09.04.1923 | - | 02.02.1927 | commissioned, Cheshire Yeomanry - Territorial Army | | 05.07.1939 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | (04.1946) | | | Unemployed List |

Director, George and R. Dewhurst Ltd. and Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Co. Ltd. Chairman, Donald Brown (Brownal) Lts., and Preston Trustee Savings Bank. Justice of the Peace (JP), Lancashire, 1950.

DeWilden,
Archibald Stuart

Son (with one sister and three brothers) of George Archibald Wilden (1880-1915), and Ethel Lucy Skevington (1885-1961).
Married Lilianne Denise Binard (divorced, Canada 1966/67?); ... children (one daughter?).

24.10.1907
Ipswich, Suffolk
-
15.12.1971
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| 26.08.1944 | | | commissioned, Intelligence Corps [immediate emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Dewing,
Richard Henry
"Dick"

15.01.1891
-
21.09.1981

CB 1941; DSO 1917; MC 1915
Commander, Legion of Merit 08.11.1945

Dibsdall,
Dennis

Son of ... Dibsdall, and ... Clements.
Married 1st ((12?).1938, Swindon district, Wiltshire) Yvonne M. Keating.
Married 2nd ((09?).1947, St Marylebone district, London) Delphine R.L. Goddard.

20.08.1915
Swindon district, Wiltshire
-

Education: BSc (Eng); AMIEE; AMIERE.

| | | | served in the ranks for 345 days | | | ---------- | -- | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ? | - | 19.07.1941 | Officer Cadet Training Unit | | 19.07.1941 | | | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission to 01.11.1946] | | 02.11.1946 | | | permanent commission |

Dick,
Arthur [Alexander Thomas] Kennedy

Son of James Kennedy Dick (1888-1915), and Lilian Ethel Smith (1893-).
Married ((06?).1953, Surrey Northern district) Sheila R. Harvey; ... children (one daughter?).

30.11.1914
West Ham, London
-
27.03.1986
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Costing & wages clerk. Cooked Meat & Provision Co.

| 28.02.1943 | | | commissioned, Royal Armoured Corps [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | (06.1944) | | | "A" Squadron, 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) (Normandy) |

His daughter writes: "I think he was in Crete and I think he was injured in the face by shrapnel in France."

Dick,
Dennis Julian

From Gatley.

13.06.1919
-
17.04.1991
Styal, Wilmslow, MacClesfield district, Cheshire

	MC	23.08.1945	NW Europe

Dick,
John Henry Michael

20.12.1922
-
29.03.1992
Ettington, nr Stratford upon Avon, South Warwickshire district, Warwickshire

| | | | served in the ranks for 1 year, 181 days | | | ---------- | -- | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 03.12.1942 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] | | 01.04.1944 | - | 31.10.1944 | transferred, Special Air Service Regiment - Army Air Corps (transfer cancelled) | | 14.11.1945 | - | 23.11.1959 | permanent commission |

Dickens,
Gordon Cecil Henry

Son of Sydney G. Dickens, and Dora M. Watson.

12.11.1917
Hastings district, Sussex
-
18.12.2013
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Dickinson,
Douglas Povah

Eldest son of late Col William Vicris Dickinson, CMG.
Married (1924) Frances Mildred, eldest daughter of John Cracroft Wilson, of Cashmere, Christchurch, New Zealand; two daughters.

06.11.1886
Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
-
08.01.1949
Woking, Surrey

	CB	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41
	DSO	04.06.1917	HM's birthday 17
	OBE	06.10.1933	*
	MC	14.01.1916	?
	MID	17.02.1915	?
	MID	01.01.1916	?
	MID	15.05.1917	?
	MID	20.05.1918	?
	MID	20.12.1918	?
	MID	01.04.1941	Middle East 08.39-11.40

* For valuable services rendered in the field in connection with military operations in Northern Kurdistan, Iraq, during the period December, 1931, to June, 1932.

Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Staff College, Camberley (1920; psc)

Colonel, The Welch Regiment, 17.01.1941-08.01.1949. Secretary, National Rifle Association, 1944-1949.

Dickinson,
William Michael Kington

12.05.1885
[Ireland ?]
-
07.05.1948
East Twickenham (illness)
[Twickenham Cemetery]

Education: Trinity College, Dublin (1906-1908; BA).

Dickson,
James Alexander

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

06.12.1915
-
10.2000
South Cheshire district, Cheshire

| 28.11.1942 | | | commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------- |

Dickson,
James Tulloch

Son of Lt. Col. Jack M. Dickson, Royal Artillery, and Jean Dickson, of North Warnborough, Hampshire; husband of Doris Dickson.

1914 ?
-
20.06.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Ranville War Cemetery, France, IIA.L.12]

| | | | late Cadet Company Sergeant Major, Imperial Service College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 14.04.1937 | | | commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 14.04.1937 | - | (01.1939) | 418th (Bedfordshire) Battery, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Biggleswade) | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | (1939) | - | (1940) | "B" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA | | ? | - | 20.06.1944 | HQ Royal Marines Armoured Support Group |

Dickson,
William Barrie

From Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland

?
-
05.03.1997
Dalnaglar Nusring Home, Crieff, Scotland

Dill,
Sir John Greer






Son of John Dill, bank official from Belfast, and Jane Greer, from Lurgan.
Married 1st, Ada Maud (died 1940), daughter of Col W. Le Mott�e; one son.
Married (10.1941) 2nd, Nancy, widow of Brig. Dennis Furlong and daughter of late Henry Charrington.

25.12.1881
Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
-
04.11.1944
Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
[National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.]

	GCB	01.01.1942	New Year 42
	KCB	11.05.1937	HM's coronation
	CB	02.01.1928	New Year 28
	CMG	01.01.1918	New Year 18
	DSO	06.1915	?
	MID	17.02.1915	?
	MID	22.06.1915	?
	MID	15.06.1916	?
	MID	04.01.1917	?
	MID	15.05.1917	?
	MID	11.12.1917	?
	MID	20.12.1918	?
	MID	05.07.1919	?
	DSM	21.11.1944	posthumously
	LegH	14.07.1919	?
	CdeG	08.03.1920	?
	14|15 St	?	& clasp
	BWM 14|20	?	-
	VM	?	-

Croix de Couronne, 3rd class (Commandeur; 21.08.1919) (Belgium); Croix de Guerre (21.08.1919)(Belgium); Order of the Crown of Roumania, 4th class (Officer; 20.09.1919); grand Cross, Order of St Olav (Norway) (26.11.1943); Order of Polonia Restituta, 1st class (Poland) (22.07.1941)

Education: Cheltenham College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Imperial Defence College (idc); Staff College, Camberley (psc).

LLD (Univ. of Toronto, 1943; College of William and Mary, 1944; Princeton Univ. 1944). Howland Memorial Prize, Yale Univ. 1944.
Colonel Commandant, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps, 12.11.1942-04.11.1944; Colonel, East Lancashire Regiment, 24.12.1932-04.11.1944.

Dilley,
Samuel

?
-

| 20.08.1945 | | | commissioned, Pioneer Corps [immediate emergency commission] | | ---------- | | | -------------------------------------------------------------- |

Dimoline,
Harry Kenneth
"Ken" / "Jack"

Son of late Charles Alfred Francis Dimoline, FCIS (1869-1934), of Oakwood, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
Brother of Maj.Gen. William Alfred Dimoline, CBE, MC.
Married ((06?).1928, Kensington district, London) Amy Sybil Heap, daughter of Joseph Heap, of Outwood, Birkenhead; one son, one daughter.
Residence: (1942) Wolverton, Somerset.

06.09.1903
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
15.11.1972
Donhead St Andrew, Shaftesbury, Dorset

	CBE	25.11.1943	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
	DSO	09.09.1942	Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
	MBE	09.06.1938	HM's birthday 38
	TD	?	-
	CPM	1955	?
	MID	30.12.1941	Middle East 02.41-07.41
	MID	?	?
	MID	11.01.1945	Italy
	MID	09.05.1946	Burma

Education: Sedbergh School (played cricket).

Military Member, County of Lancaster Territorial Arm and Air Force Association (1944)-(1946). Chief Commandant Malayan Police Volunteer Reserve, 1949-1957. Director G.W. Joynson and Co Ltd and Luaka Tea Co Ltd.

Dingwall,
Frederick Munro

Married Mary ...; three sons, two daughters.

18.08.1918
-
13.04.1972
Surrey North Western district (of Sunningdale, Berkshire)

	MID	04.04.1946	NW Europe

Metals and minerals merchant (London & Scandinavian Metallurgical Company, Ltd).

Dingwall,
John Johnston

Changed name by deed poll of 26.11.1941 from: Johnston, John Dingwall

Son of Alfred Hubert Johnston, and Eileen Grace Dingwall.
Married Rosemary de Mallet Morgan; three daughters, one son.
Residence:
(1945) Greenock;
(1969) Lyford Grange, Lyford, Oxfordshire.

01.09.1913
Epsom district, Surrey
-
09.2001
Wantage, Berkshire

NW Frontier of India 1937-39 Medal & Clasp

Education: Staff College (psc)

| | | | late Cadet Serjeant, Eastbourne College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 02.05.1934 | | | commissioned, Royal Tanks Corps - Supplementary Reserve of Officers | | 31.01.1936 | | | commissioned, Royal Tank Corps [later: Royal Tank Regiment], Royal Armoured Corps | | (01.1937) | | | 2nd Battalion, Royal Tank Corps (Farnborough) | | (01.1939) | | | 11th Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps (Peshawar, India) | | 28.05.1940 | - | (04.1941) | Adjutant, 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry | | 18.04.1942 | - | 05.08.1942 | General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3), 11th Armoured Division | | 08.09.1942 | - | 17.12.1942 | Staff Captain, 6th Armoured Division | | 26.02.1943 | - | 06.04.1944 | Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG), Training Establishment RAC | | 1944? | - | 1945? | 1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment | | 13.11.1945 | - | 21.07.1948 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Senior Officers' School | | 22.07.1948 | - | 14.01.1951 | General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Staff College, Quetta | | 17.11.1956 | - | (02.1957) | General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), North Western District |

Dismore,
Leonard Henry

Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Albert John Victor Dismore (1872-1921), and Emily Emma Coffin (1873-1945).
Married ((09?).1934, Canterbury district, Kent)Winifred Irene "Dizzy" Forwood (17.05.1915 - 28.01.2005); three daughters, one son.

17.11.1906
West Ealing, Brentford district, Middlesex
-
21.06.1956
Canterbury, Thanet district, Kent

	OBE	01.06.1953	HM's coronation 1953
	TD	21.04.1950	-
	EM	21.02.1947	[24.08.1951 cancelled due to being awarded TD]
	MoF	14.11.1947	SOE France [recommendation available upon request]

Journalist in Fleet Street and with the Continental Daily Mail before he joined the Kentish Gazette at Canterbury just before the outbreak of the war in 1939.

His Majesty's Consul for the Provinces of North, Central and South Sumatra, to reside at Medan, 14.09.1950. Her Majesty's Consul at Tunis, 29.04.1953. Her Majesty's Consul at Macao, 26.08.1954.

Dixon,
Arnold Rex

Son of ... Dixon, and ... Hunter.
Married ((06?).1947, Luton district, Bedfordshire) Joyce B. Champkin; one son, one daughter.

16.05.1913
Great Ayton, Stokesley district, North Riding of Yorkshire
-
31.05.2008
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Education: Lincoln College, Oxford University (undergraduate commoner, MA 1931).
Secretary.
Obtained civil aviator's licence (No. 16063) taken on a D.H. 60 Cirrus (85 h.p.) at Bedford Aero Club, 18.07.1938.

| | | | late Officer Cadet, Oxford University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 29.11.1938 | | | commissioned, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army | | 24.08.1939 | | | mobilized TA | | 03.06.1943 | - | 23.09.1943 | training course, Staff College, Camberley |

Dixon,
William George Moore
"Bill"

Only son (with one sister) of George Thomas Dixon, OBE (1873-1951), Commissioner of Livestock, Board of Agriculture & Fisheries, England and Wales, and Hilda Marian Egremont (1885-1976), of Lewdown, Devon, formerly of Bradley Hall, Derbyshire.
Married (15.05.1942, Tavistock district, Devon) Hope May de Gruchy, eldest daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Guy Fortescue Burrell de Gruchy (1867-1940), and Catherine May Miller, of Noirmont Manor, Jersey.

17.11.1914
Pirbright, Guildford district, Surrey
-
14.04.1988
Jersey

	39|45 St	-	-
	Bur St	-	-
	Def M	-	-
	WM 39|45	-	-
	MID	20.12.1940	Norway [09.04.1948 rectified from J.J. Dixon to W.C.M. Dixon]
	Afr GSM	-	& clasp Kenya

Education: Berkhamsted; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

| | | | served in the ranks for 4 years, 172 days | | | ---------- | -- | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 27.01.1938 | | | commissioned, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | | 1939 | - | 1940 | served with British Expeditionary Force (France) | | 04.1940 | | | served in Norway (despatches) | | 1942 | - | 1943 | seconded, Reconnaissance Corps (Delhi, India) | | 1944 | | | Animal Transport Officer, 16th Brigade (2nd Chindit expedition behind enemy lines) (Burma) | | 1946 | - | 1949 | British Army of the Rhine | | 1950 | - | 1953 | seconded, The King's African Rifles (Uganda, then Kenya) (anti-Mau Mau operations) | | 1953 | - | 1954 | Brigade Adjutant, HQ Midland Brigade (Bugbrooke Barracks, Warwick) | | 1955 | - | 1958 | seconded, Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force (as Second-in-Command Training Depot, Zaria, Nothern Nigeria) | | 28.08.1959 | - | 17.11.1964 | Regular Army Reserve of Officers |