Born in 1894; educated at King's College School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served with Royal Hampshire Regt, 1914-1926; served in World War Two; died in 1980.
Born 1913; educated at Bradfield College, RMA Sandhurst and St John's College Cambridge; commissioned Royal Engineers, 1933; served with 14th Army, India and Burma, 1941-1945; commanded a column of the 77th Brigade on 1st Chindit Expedition, 1943; awarded DSO, 1943; acting Brig 1944; commanded 77th Brigade on 2nd Chindit Expedition, 1944; awarded Bar to DSO, 1944; commanded Special Air Service (SAS) Brigade, NW Europe, 1944-45; commanded Malayan Scouts (SAS Regiment), 1950-1951; court martialled and dismissed the Service, 1951. Writer and lecturer on guerrilla warfare and military history, 1952-1998; died 1998. Publications: Prisoners of Hope: The Campaign of the77th Infantry Brigade in Burma, 1944 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1952); Slim as a General (Pan Books, London, 1973).
Born in 1846; entered Indian Army, 1863; Col, 1895; served on North West Frontier of India, 1868, in Afghan War, 1878-1879, and in Waziristan, India, 1881, China, 1900-1901, and India, 1901-1903; retired, 1903; died in 1913.
Born, 1860; educated, Wellington College, Royal Military College Sandhurst; Royal Army and Wigtown Militia, 1877-1878; served with HM 40 Foot, 1879-1882; Queen's Own Corps of Guides, 1882-1895; Hazara Expedition, 1888; Chitral Relief Expedition, 1895; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Musketry, 1891-1895; Second in Command, Malakand campaign, North West Frontier, 1897; operations in Mamund country, North West Frontier, 1897-1898; Commanding Officer, Guides Infantry, Buner, North West Frontier, 1898; Commander, 40 Pathans, 1899-1906; Assistant Adjutant General, Musketry, Army Headquarters, India, 1906-1908; Commanded a Brigade, 1908-1915; Commandant, 40 Pathans, operations at Gyantse, Tibet, 1904; Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, 1904; Commander, 1 Peshawar Div, 1915-1919; retired, 1920; died, 1943.
Born in 1898; served in Cabinet War Room, 1943-1945; died in 1979.
Born in 1861; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1880; employed on military and public works, India and Burma, 1883-1899; served in South Africa, 1899-1902; Commandant, Balloon School, 1903-1910; Commandant, School of Military Engineering, 1911-1914; Deputy Inspector General, Lines of Communication, 1914; Chief Engineer, 3 Corps and 3 Army, 1915; General Officer Commanding 24 Div, 1915-1917; Director General, Tank Corps, 1917; Director General, War Office, 1917-1918; commanded 64th Div, Forces in Great Britain, 1918-1919; Commander, No 1 Area, British Troops in France and Flanders, 1919; Lt Governor and Commanding Troops in Guernsey, 1920-1925; retired in 1925; died in 1955.
Born in 1863; joined Army, 1882; Capt, 1891; served with Chitral Relief Force, 1895; attended Staff College, 1897; Maj, 1898; attached to Egyptian Army, 1897-1899; served in Sudan, 1898; Staff Capt (Intelligence), Army HQ, 1899; Deputy Assistant Adjutant, later Assistant Adjutant General, South Africa, 1899-1902; Professor, Staff College, Camberley, 1902-1904; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Staff College, Camberley, 1904-1905; Commandant, Staff College, Quetta, India 1906-1911; Brig Gen commanding 13 Infantry Bde, Irish Command, 1911-1914; Inspector of Infantry, 1914; commanded 7 Div, Western Front, 1914; promoted to command 12 Corps but died of wounds sustained in Battle of Loos, 1915.
Born in 1914; unattached 2nd Lt, 1936; appointed to 17 Dogra Regt, Indian Army, 1937; served in Waziristan, 1937; Lt, 1938; seconded to RAF, 1941-1944; captured by the Japanese Army in Burma, 26 Apr 1943, but escaped 10 days later; Capt, 1944; Maj, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1948; Lt Col, 1951; Deputy Commander, 5 Base Ordnance Depot, Middle East Land Forces, 1954-1955; Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, HQ, Eastern Command, 1957; retired, 1969; died in 1995.
Born 1886; educated Uppingham, Leicester, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Surrey; 2nd Lt, Gordon Highlanders, 1906; Lt, 1909; Capt, 1914; served World War One, 1914-1918; Adjutant to Col John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld, 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders, 1915-1916; Staff Capt, 20 Infantry Bde, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1916; Bde Maj, 45 Infantry Bde, France, 1916-1917; Brevet Maj, 1916; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, and temporary Maj for, successively, 51 Div, 5 Corps and 18 Corps, France, 1917-1918; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, and temporary Lt Col, 4 Div, 1918-1920; attended Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1919; Bde Maj, 6 Indian Infantry Bde, Northern Command, India, 1920; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Northern Command, India, 1920-1923; Instructor and General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Staff College, Quetta, India, 1923-1926; Maj, 1923; Brevet Lt Col, 1924; Col, 1927; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, War Office, 1928-1930; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, War Office, 1931-1934; Directing Staff, Imperial Defence College, 1934-1936; temporary Brig and Commander, 2 Infantry Bde, Aldershot Command, 1936, and Palestine and Trans-Jordan, 1937-1938; Maj Gen, 1937; Director of Staff Duties, War Office, 1938-1939; Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1939-1940; acting Lt Gen and General Officer Commanding 1 Corps, Home Forces, 1940-1941; Lt Gen, 1941; General Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern Command, 1941-1942; Senior Military Assistant, Ministry of Supply, [1942-1944]; retired, 1944; died 1954.
Born in 1913; 2nd Lt, Royal Lincolnshire Regt, 1933; Lt, 1936; General Staff Officer Grade 3, HQ Western Command, 1940; Bde Maj, Nigerian Bde, 1940-1942; Capt, 1941;General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1 Lines of Communication Sub-Area, North Africa, 1942-1943, 20 Liaison HQ, 1944, and North West Europe, 1945-1946; served with the French Special Air Service, 1944; General Staff Officer Grade 1, North West Europe, 1946; Maj, 1946; General Staff Officer Grade 2, British Military Mission to France, 1947; AMA (General Staff Officer 2), Cairo, 1949-1951; General Staff Officer Grade 2 later Grade 1, HQ Allied Forces in Central Europe, 1955-1958; Lt Col, 1956; General Staff Officer Grade 1, French Forces in Germany, 1958-1959; retired, 1968; died in 1994.
Born 1889; educated at Uppingham School, Leicestershire, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into The Gloucestershire Regt, 1909; served in Bombay, India, 1910; Lt, 1911; service with 7 Bn, The King's (Liverpool Regt), Territorial Force, 1913; served with 1 Bn, The Gloucestershire Regt, Bordon, Hampshire, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service with 1 Bn, The Gloucestershire Regt, 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Div, 1 Corps, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, 1914; captured by German forces, 1914; POW, 1914-1917; Capt, 1915; awarded MC, 1916; escaped to the Netherlands from Schwarmstedt prison camp, Germany, 1917; service on Western Front, Macedonia and Turkey, 1917-1918; awarded Bar to MC, 1918; General Staff Officer 3, General Headquarters (Operations and Intelligence), British Salonika Force, 1918-1919; Brevet Maj, 1919; General Staff Officer 3, British Salonika Force and British Army of the Black Sea, Russia, 1919-1920; General Staff Officer 3, 6 Div, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, Iraq, 1920-1921; Capt, Royal Tank Corps, 1923; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1923; Maj, 1924; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1925-1927; Senior Officers School, Sheerness, Kent, 1927; General Staff Officer 2, Northern Command, 1927-1929; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Northern Ireland District, 1930-1933; Brevet Lt Col, 1933; Lt Col, 1935; Commanding Officer, 1 Bn (Light), Royal Tank Corps, Egypt, 1935-1939; Col, 1936; temporary Brig, 1939; commanded 1 Army Tank Bde, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commanded Armoured Bde, Egypt, 1939-1941; commanded 4 Armoured Bde, 7 Armoured Div, Western Desert campaign, 1940-1941; commanded 4 Armoured Bde in capture of Fort Capuzzo, Battle of Beda Fomm, Libya, Feb 1941; awarded CBE, 1941; Brig General Staff and Deputy Director of Staff Duties, Armoured Troops, General Headquarters, India, 1941-1943; retired 1944; member of Looe Urban District Council, Cornwall, 1952-1967; member for Great Britain, International Committee of the International Game Fish Association; died 1981. Publications: 13 days. The chronicle of an escape from a German prison camp (G Bell and Sons, London, 1918); A short guide to shark angling at Looe, and other places in SW England (Published by the author, Looe, Cornwall, 1958); Shark angling in Great Britain (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1961).
Born 1878, Crumpsall, Lancashire; educated Rugby and New College Oxford, called to Bar at Inner Temple, 1902; joined 2 Volunteer Battalion, Manchester Regiment, 1904; elected MP for Heywood, Lancashire, 1910; appointed Aide de Camp to Major General William Douglas, General Officer Commanding 42 East Lancashire Division, 1914; requested posting with his battalion on Gallipolli front lines, Sept 1915; killed in action, 23 Sept 1915.
Born in 1911; joined RN, 1930; Engineering Capt, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty, 1955; Imperial Defence Course, 1956; Commanding Officer of HMS FISGARD, Naval Artificers' Training Establishment, Torpoint, 1958-1960; Director of Underwater Weapons, Admiralty, 1960-1963; R Adm, 1964; Adm Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Devonport, 1964-1966; retired, 1967; died, 2005.
The Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament was founded in the early 1960s as a response to the Cold War; it arose from the Institute of Strategic Studies, founded in 1957, and was intended to be a separate but parallel body for discussion of the ethical problems of nuclear deterrence. Originally called the Conference on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament', early members included Sir Anthony Buzzard, Sir Kenneth Grubb, Alan Booth, Sydney Bailey and the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell. To enforce the connection between the organisations Alastair Buchan, Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies, became the first CCADD Vice-President. The first CCADD conference was held at Lambeth Palace and Fulham Palace, London, in 1963. On 20 September 1965 it became incorporated as a company limited by guarantee, and shortly afterwards changed its name to theCouncil on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament'. During the 1960s CCADD became the advisory body on defence and disarmament to the British Council of Churches, and began to publish research and hold regular discussion meetings, as well as an annual international conference. Following the end of the Cold War in 1989, the CCADD has expanded its topics of concern to include humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, the role of the UN, the arms trade, biological and chemical weapons, torture and terrorism.
CCADD publishes a number of conference papers, reports, discussion papers and studies. Studies published since 1992 include: Retaliation: A Political and Strategic Option under Moral and Religious Scrutiny (Methodist Publishing House, 1992); Profit Without Honour? Ethics and the Arms Trade (Methodist Publishing House, 1992); Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Intervention and World Order (Macmillan, 1998); The Crescent and the Cross: Muslim and Christian Approaches to War and Peace (Macmillan, 1998); Demanding Peace: Christian Responses to War and Violence (SCM Press, 1999); Witnesses to Faith?: The Concept of Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam (Ashgate, 2005); Britain's Bomb: What Next? (SCM-Canterbury Press, 2006).
Born 1895; educated at Ampleforth and University College, Oxford; commissioned into C Battery (14 Lancashire), Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force, (3 West Lancashire Bde), 1915; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Lt, 1916; attached to Royal Flying Corps, 1916-1917, and served in Aden and Salonika; temporary Capt, 1919-1921; service in Egypt and Palestine to assess educational requirements of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1919-1921; Royal Army Educational Corps, 1921-1956; Capt, 1921; General Staff Officer 3, General Headquarters, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1921-1922; Education Officer, London District, 1923-1931; visit to the Army of the Irish Free State, 1926; Education Officer, Headquarters Presidency and Assam District, India, 1931-1938; Brevet Maj, 1935; tour of Tibet, 1937; Education Officer, Headquarters Home Counties, 1938-1939; Maj, 1939; served World War Two, 1939-1945; posted to Royal Army Educational Corps Depot, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 1939- 1940; Staff Capt, War Office, 1940-1941; Education Officer, Headquarters Edinburgh Area, 1941-1943; Lt Col, 1943; Chief Education Officer, British North Africa Force and Central Mediterranean Force, 1943-1945; General Staff Officer 1 (Education), Headquarters Northumbrian District, 1945-1947; Chief Education Officer, British Troops in Egypt, 1947-1949; Col, 1947; Commandant, Army College, Wellbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, 1949-1951; Chief Education Officer, Headquarters Northern Command, 1951-1953; temporary Brig, 1953; Chief Education Officer, Headquarters, Northern Army Group, British Army of the Rhine, 1953-1956; Honorary Brig, 1956; retired, 1956; member of Claro Divisional Education Executive, 1956-1960; awarded CBE, 1957; examiner for the First Class Army Certificate of Education, 1957; Honorary Secretary of the United Services Catholic Association; died 1970.
Born 1922; educated Sherborne, Trinity College, Cambridge; Military Service 1942-1946; Captain, 60th Rifles; Political Welfare Executive, Cairo, 1942; Special Operations Executive (Force 133) Greece, [1943-1944]; Anglo-Greek Information Service, West Macedonia, 1945; Press Officer, Volos and Salonika, 1946; BBC Foreign News Service, 1949-1951; Financial Times, 1951-1956; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Columbia University, New York, 1953-1954; Shell International Petroleum Company, 1957-1978.
Born in 1899; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1919; Lt, 1921; Lt Instructor in Gunnery, Northern Command, 1932; Capt, 1932; Capt Instructor in Gunnery, Northern Command, 1932-1934; Instructor in Gunnery, Malta, 1935-1937; Instructor in Gunnery, School of Anti-Aircraft Defence, 1937-1939; Maj, 1938; served in World War Two with Royal Artillery in North Africa; Wg Cdr, RAF Regt, 1946; Senior Regt Officer in charge of Ground Defence, HQ Air Command, Far East, 1948; Gp Capt, 1950; retired 1952; died in 1982.
Born in 1886; 2nd Lt 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 1905; Lt, 1907; employed with Egyptian Army, 1913-1914; Capt, 1914; served World War One, France and Belgium, 1914-1918; acting Maj, 1916, 1917-1919; Brevet Maj, 1919; Maj, 1923; General Staff Officer, Grade 3, War Office, 1923; Commander, Company of Gentleman Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer, Grade 2, 1923-1925; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and temporary Lt Col, 1925-1926; Lt Col, 1927; Commander, 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 1927-1931; [Commander 6 Midland Cavalry Bde (Territorial Army), 1931-1932]; retired 1932; director of Charringtons Brewery, 1932; member of His Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 1935; recalled to service, and served in World War Two, 1939-1945; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, Aldershot Command, [1939-1940]; Commander 1 Armoured Bde, Middle East and Greece, 1940-1941; Commander Fighting Vehicles Section, General Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt, May-Jul 1941; invalided back to England, Jul 1941; Commander of an Armoured Div, 1941-1943; Honorary Brig, 1943; retired, 1943; Personal Assistant to FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945[-1946]; died 1965.
Born in 1877; educated at Kelvinside Academy, Göttingen University and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1896, and posted to India; served on North West Frontier with Military Works Services; transferred to Bengal Sappers and Miners, [1899]; Capt, 1905; Staff College, Quetta, 1907-1909; Staff Capt, HQ, India, 1909-1910; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Operations Section, General Staff, Simla, 1910-1912; unofficial war correspondent with Bulgarian Army, 1912; Assistant Military Secretary to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Aldershot, 1912-1914; Maj, 1914; ADC to General Officer Commanding 1 Army Corps, BEF, 1914; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1 Army Corps HQ, 1914-1916; Brig Gen (Head of Intelligence Service), BEF General HQ, 1916-1918; Deputy Director of Transportation, General HQ, France, 1918; Director of Movements and Quartering, India, 1920-1921; Col, 1921; Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Eastern Command, India, 1921-1922; retired, 1922; MP (Conservative) for Dumfriesshire, 1924-1929; publication of Field-Marshal Earl Haig (Cassell and Co, London, 1929), At GHQ (Cassell and Co, London, 1931) and Haig (Duckworth, London, 1933); died in 1946.
Born 1896; entered Royal Marines as 2nd Lieut, 1913, serves with RM brigade in Flanders, 1914; Gallipoli, 1915 (despatches, French Croix de Guerre); Grand Fleet, 1916-1917; Adjutant of RM Bn which landed from HMS Vindictive at Zeebrugge, 23 Apr 1918; served in Egyptian Army, 1921- 1925; Sudan Defence Forces, 1925-1931; commanded Sudan Camel Corps, 1927- 1930; commanded military operations in Kordofan, 1929-1930; Senior RM Officer, East Indies Station, 1931-1933; Home Fleet, 1935-1936; Commanded Somaliland Camel Corps, 1937-1940; commanded defence of British Somaliland, 1940; Military Governor and Commander troops British Somaliland, 1941-1943; Commander Portsmouth Div Royal Marines, 1943-1944; Director of Combined Operations, India and South-East Asia, 1944-1945; MGGS, 1945-1946; Commander Chatham Group Royal Marines, 1946-1948; one of HM's Body Guard of Honorary Corps of Gentleman-at-Arms, 1949-1966 and Harbinger, 1952-1966; Col Commandant Somaliland Scouts, 1948-1958; Member Berkshire Cricket Club, 1955-1961; Member of Anglo-Somali-Society, 1960-1979; died 1979.
Born 1917; educated at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon; served with Royal Navy, 1936-1961; commissioned Midshipman, 1936; service on HMS LONDON, 1 Cruiser Sqn, Mediterranean Fleet, 1936-1938; acting Sub Lt, 1938; Promotion Course, Portsmouth, 1938; Sub Lt, 1938; served on HMS IMOGEN, 3 Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, 1939; service in World War Two with the Home Fleet and the Western Approaches Command, 1939-1945; qualified as signal communications specialist, 1942; service on HMS OFFA, Battle of the Atlantic, 1942-1943; served on HMS BELFAST, 1943-1945; sinking of the German battlecruiser SCHARNHORST, Battle of North Cape, 1943; shore bombardment of Normandy coast, France, for D Day, Operation NEPTUNE, Jun 1944; Lt Cdr, 1944; served on HMS UKUSSA, Royal Naval Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon, 1946-1947; Signal Division, Admiralty, 1947-1949; Cdr, 1951; posted to HMS PRESIDENT, 1952-1954; commanded HMS CONTEST, 1955-1956; Joint Tactical School, Malta, 1957; HMS PHOENICIA, 1958-1960; served as Sea Cadet Corps Officer, 1961, retired 1961; Defence Correspondent for the Statist, 1962-1967; regular contributor of articles to Navy magazine, 1962-1977, member of the Bow Group Standing Committee on Defence, 1982. Publications: Co-authored with John Arbuthnot Ducane Wilkinson, MP, The uncertain ally. British Defence Policy, 1960-1990 (Gower, Aldershot, 1982); British Defence, a blueprint for reform (Brassey's, London, 1987).
Born in 1905; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1925; Lt, 1927; Assistant Instructor, Small Arms School, Netheravon, 1931-1934; served in India, 1935-1938; Capt, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 1936; attended Staff College, Camberley, 1939; served in North West Europe, 1939-1940, and 1944-1946; various staff appointments, 1940-1942, including General Staff Officer Grade 2, Canadian Corps; Maj, 1942; commanded 1 Bn, Hereford Regt, 1942-1944, 159 Infantry Bde, 1944-1946, and 43 Div, 1946; commanded Northumbrian District, 1946; commanded 2 Div, Far East, 1946, 3 Div, Palestine, 1946-1947, and 5 Div, Germany, 1947-1948; attended Imperial Defence College, 1948; Brig, General Staff, Western Command, 1949-1951; ADC to King George VI, 1949-1952, and Queen Elizabeth II, 1952; Chief of Staff, Southern Command, 1951-1954; Maj Gen, 1952; General Officer Commanding 3 Infantry Div, Egypt, 1954-1957; Director of Military Training, War Office, 1957-1959; retired, 1959.
Born in 1909; first RAF commission, 1928; Flight Lt, 1932; served in Middle East, 1932-1938; Sqn Ldr, No 5 (Bomber) Group, 1938; served in World War Two in South Africa and UK; Gp Capt, General Duties Branch, 1949; retired in 1959; died in 1985.
Born 1909; educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals, 1929; Technical Royal Corps of Signals Training, Catterick, Yorkshire, 1929-1931; 2 Divisional Signal Regt, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1931-1933; Lt, 1932; served with 13 Corps Signal Regt, Indian Signal Corps, Rawalpindi and Karachi, India, 1934-1939; Capt, 1938; posted to 1 Anti Aircraft Bde Signal Sqn, Hampshire, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Adjutant, 1 Anti Aircraft Signal Regt, Territorial Army, London, 1939-1940; service with 53 (Welsh) Div Signal Regt, East Anglia, 1940; served with 61 Div Signal Regt, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1940-1941; temporary Maj, 1941; Staff Officer to Chief Signals Officer, Headquarters, 3 Corps, Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1941-1942; served in Basra, Iraq, and Khorramshah and Qom, Iran, with 10 Army, 1942-1943; service in Sicily, Italy, and Allied Forces Headquarters Algiers, Algeria, 1943-1945; Maj, 1946; Staff Officer to Chief Air Formation Signals Officer, RAF Headquarters, Germany, 1946-1948; Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), 1948; Senior Officers School, Devizes, Wiltshire, 1948; British Army Mission to Burma, 1949-1951; Lt Col, 1951; Chief Signals Officer, 1 Anti Aircraft Group, London, 1951-1955; Commanding Officer, Signal Regt, Territorial Army, 1955-1957; retired 1957; died 1998.
Born 1892; educated Loughborough School, Leicestershire; 2nd Lt, 10 (County of London) Bn (Hackney), London Regt, Territorial Force, 1912; Capt, Territorial Army, 1913; served World War One in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and India, as part of 162 Bde, 54 (East Anglian) Div; transferred to Essex Regt as Lt, 1916; temporary Deputy Assistant Adjutant, 21 Corps, 1917; Maj, Territorial Army, 1917; service in India with 57 (Wildes Rifles) Frontier Force and 25 (County of London) Bn (Cyclists), London Regt, Territorial Force, 1918-1919; served with 1 Bn, Essex Regt in Ireland, 1920-1922, and Borden, Hampshire, 1923-1927; Capt, 1925; attended Staff College, 1927-1929; General Staff Officer, Small Arms School, Netheravon, Wiltshire, 1930-1932; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters Western Command, 1932-1934; Brevet Maj, 1933; served with 1 Bn, Essex Regt during Saar Plebiscite, 1934-1935; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, and Local Lt Col, Nigeria Regt, Royal West African Frontier Force, 1935-1938; Maj, 1936; Assistant Commandant and Local Col, Nigeria Regt, Royal West African Frontier Force, 1938-1939; Brevet Lt Col, 1939; served World War Two, 1939-1945; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 4 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1939-1940; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, Headquarters Lines of Communication, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1940; temporary Lt Col and acting Brig, 1940-1941; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Headquarters West Africa, 1940-1941; Commander, Gold Coast, West Africa, 1941; War Substantive Lt Col and temporary Brig, 1941; Commander, Counter-Attack Bn (formed from 30 Bn, Essex Regt), Home Forces, 1942; Assistant Quartermaster General, British North Africa Force, 1942-1943; Lt Col, 1942; temporary Brig, 1943-1947; Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, British North Africa Force, 1943; Commander, Lines of Communication, Base Sub-Area, Bone, North Africa and 54 Area, Bari, Italy, 1943-1944; Commander, Essex Sub-District, Eastern Command, Home Forces, 1945-1947; honorary Brig and retired, 1947; died 1972. Publications: The History of the West African Frontier Force (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1964), by Col A Haywood and Clarke.
Born in 1966; studied political science at the University of Winnipeg, Canada; awarded Master's degree on Soviet and Canadian military policy and nuclear weapons doctrine by Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1990; employed as analyst and historian for Air Command Headquarters, Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg, Canada, 1991-1992; former PhD student in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, 1993-1996; employed by the National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Canada.
Publications: Canadian nuclear weapons (The untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal) (Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada, 1998).
Born, 1904; commissioned into 4 Queens Hussars as 2 Lieutenant, 1924; Lieutenant, 1926; Captain, 1936; Major, 1941; Commander, B Sqn, 4 Queens Hussars, 3 Royal Tank Regt, Greece, 1941; POW, Warburg, Germany, 1941-1942; POW, Rottenburg, Germany, 1942-1945; Commandant, Bridgend Prisoner of War camp, 1947-1948; retired with rank of Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, 1948; died, 1996.
Born in 1895; educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered Army, 1914; service in World War One, France and Belgium, 1915-1917 and Italy, 1917-1919; Assistant British Commissioner, Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928; Senior British Commissioner, British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936; Chief Engineer, China Command, 1940-1941; Prisoner of War, 1941-1945; retired in 1948; British Commissioner, Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-57; died in 1970.
Born in [1910]; served in Royal Artillery, [1928]-1962.
Born in 1874; educated at Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Grenadier Guards, 1893; Lt, 1897; served in Nile Expedition, 1898, and South Africa, 1899-1902; Capt, 1900; passed Staff College, 1903-1904; General Staff Officer, War Office, 1905-1909; Maj, 1909; General Staff Officer, London District, 1910-1914; head of British missions, General HQ, France, 1915-1918; Military Governor, Cologne, 1918-1919; commanded 1 Infantry Bde, Aldershot, 1920; British Military Representative, League of Nations, Geneva, 1920-1922; Military Attaché, Paris, 1924-1927; Director of Personal Services, 1928-1930; Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War, 1930-1934; retired, 1934; died in 1959.
Born in 1873; entered Grenadier Guards, 1891; served in West Africa, 1897; Capt, 1899; served in South Africa, 1899-1901; MP (Liberal Unionist) for South Herefordshire, 1900-1906; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer; MP (Unionist) for South Herefordshire, 1908-1918; rejoined Grenadier Guards, 1914; commanded 7 Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment, 1916-1918; died in 1918.
Born 1898; educated at Harrow, Christ Church, Oxford and Strasbourg University; served with French Red Cross, France, 1915-1916; Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1916-1917; commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, 1917; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service on Western Front with 3 Bn, Coldstream Guards, 1917-1918; Lt, 1918; garrison duty, Cologne, Germany, 1918-1919; Aide de Camp to Lt Gen Sir (George) Tom (Molesworth) Bridges, Head of British Mission Allied Armies of the Orient, Smyrna, Turkey, 1920; service with 3 Bn, Coldstream Guards, Turkey, 1922-1923; service in UK with 1 Bn, Coldstream Guards, 1923-1925; Capt, 1926; British Liaison Officer to French forces, Syria, 1926-1929; service in UK, 1929-1930; attached to French Army and served with 13 Dragoons in France and 2 Spahis and the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, 1930; service in UK, 1930-1932; served in the Sudan and Egypt with 1 Bn, Coldstream Guards, 1932-1933; Aide de Camp to FM Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 7th Bt, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, 1933-1935; Maj, 1935; retired 1937; attached to Foreign Office, 1939-1942; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Assistant Chief of Staff, Gibraltar, 1942-1943; Special Liaison Officer, Algiers, 1943-1944; Honorary Lt Col, 1948; died 1991.
The Cold War, a 24 part television documentary series conceived by Robert Edward (Ted) Turner, and produced by Jeremy Isaacs Productions for CNN (Cable News Network), broadcast on BBC2, 1998-1999.
Born in 1895; educated at Sherborne School; 2nd Lt, 9 King's Own (Royal Lancashire) Regt, 1914; joined Royal Flying Corps, 1915; served in France, 1915; POW, 1915-1918; served in Northern Russia, 1919; served on the Control Commission in Austria and Hungary, 1920-1922; Air Adviser to the Estonian Army, 1928; studied at RAF Staff College, 1931; commanded No 12 (Bomber) Sqn, 1934; Air Attaché, Moscow, 1934-1937; Deputy Director of Plans, Air Ministry, 1938; Senior Air Staff Officer, Advanced Air Striking Force, France, 1940; Director of Allied Air Cooperation, Air Ministry, 1940; Head of Air Section, British Military Mission to Moscow, 1941; Air Officer in charge of Administration, Army HQ, India, 1942-1943; Deputy Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Transport Command, 1943-1945; Air Officer Commanding No 3 Group, Bomber Command, 1946; AVM, 1946; Director General of Technical Services, Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1946-1947; Controller of Technical and Operational Services, Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1947-1948; died in 1986.
Born 1892; educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 1 Wessex Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorial Force, 1915; service with 3 West Riding Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorial Force, and 461 Field Company, Royal Engineers, Western Front, 1915-1918; awarded MC, 1915; Lt, 1916; Capt, 1918; Superintending Engineer, Maintenance Command, Northern Area, 1938; service with RAF in World War Two, 1939-1945; awarded CBE, 1945; Deputy Director of Works (Civil Aviation), Air Ministry, 1945-1947; Director of Works (Civil Aviation), Air Ministry, 1947-1952; died 1979.
Born in 1877; 2nd Lt, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1897; served with Tirah Expedition Force, North West Frontier of India, 1897-1898; Lt, 1898; Capt, 1901; served in South Africa, 1902; Adjutant, Volunteers, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 1903-1905 and 1907-1908; Adjutant, Territorial Force, 1908-1911; Adjutant, Officers Training Corps, 1913-1914; Maj, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commanded 7 Bn Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 1915-1916; 2nd in Command, Officers Cadet Bn, 1917-1918; died in 1958.
Born in 1891; educated at Bideford Grammar School; moved to London in 1908, and was employed as a clerk first in the Patent Office and then at Banstead Mental Hospital; volunteered for service and posted to Dover with 3 and 10 Bns, East Surrey Regt, 1914; student, later instructor, School of Musketry, Hythe, 1915; posted to Machine Gun Training School, Grantham, 1915-1916; Machine Gun Corps Base Depot, Camiers, France, 1916-1918; joined 21 Bn, 1918 and took part in Third Army attack across the Ancre, Aug 1918. Donald Cook, his son, was born in 1926.
Born, 1922; educated at Manchester Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford; Pilot, Royal Air Force, 1941-1946; Assistant Principal, Air Ministry, 1948; Private Secretary to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Air, 1949-1951; Private Secretary to Permanent Under Secretary of State for Air, 1951-1953; Private Secretary to Chief of Air Staff, 1953-1955; Assistant Secretary, Head of the Air Staff, Secretariat, 1955-1960; Head of Cyprus Secretariat, including negotiations in Cyprus and responsibility for setting up Sovereign Base Area Administration in Cyprus, 1960-61; awarded CMG, 1961; Director of Accounts, Air Ministry, 1961-1962; Assistant Under Secretary of State, Air Ministry, 1962-1964; Assistant Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1964-1968; Deputy Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1970; awarded CB, 1970; Deputy Secretary, Civil Service Department, 1970-1973; Permanent Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1973-1976; created KCB, 1974; Honorary Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford, 1976; Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1976-1982; appointed GCB, 1979; Member of Council, King's College London, 1981-1989; Honorary Consultant, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, from 1982; Governor, Cranbrook School, 1982-1992; Director, Westland Helicopters, 1982-1985; Privy Councillor, 1983; Chairman, Delegacy, King's College Medical and Dental School, 1983-1989; Director, Babcock International Group, 1983-1990; Director, Morgan Crucible, 1983-1994; Member of Council, Imperial College, London, 1983-1996; Director, N M Rothschild and Sons, 1983-1996; published Communications in crisis management (Council for Arms Control, London, 1985); Chairman, United Scientific Holdings, 1985-1989; Chairman, Institute of Contemporary British History, 1986-1992; Chairman, High Integrity Systems Limited, 1986-1995; Fellow of King's College London, 1987; Chairman of Trustees, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, 1987-2002; Fellow of Imperial College London, 1988; Chairman of Council, Imperial College, London, 1988-1996; Member, Advisory Council on Public Records, 1989-1992. For further biographical information see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Born in 1916; commissioned into the army, 1940; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Pay Corps, 1943; Lt, 1945; member of British Mission to Bulgaria, 1944-1947; Capt, 1946; Maj, 1952; Lt Col, 1955; Commandant, Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre, 1959; Col, 1960; Command Paymaster, Northern Command, 1962; Army Representative on HM Forces Savings Committee, 1965-1966; Brig, 1966; Chief Paymaster, Far East Land Forces, 1966-1969; Chief Paymaster, British Army of the Rhine, 1969-1970; retired, 1971; died in 1985.
Born in 1893; educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Field Artillery, 1914; wounded at Gallipoli, 1915; transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1916; posted to No 56 Sqn, 1917; served in France with BEF, 1917; joined No 61 Sqn and participated in air defence of London, 1918; Flight Cdr, No 37 Sqn, 1918; posted to Middle East, 1920; temporary ADC to Sir Winston Churchill, 1921; ADC to Governor General of Australia, 1924-1926; joined and later commanded No 19 Sqn, 1927; retired in 1928; recalled in 1939 and served World War Two in North Africa, Middle East and Italy; Sqn Ldr, 1943; retired, 1946; died in 1981.
Born 1854; educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, University of Cambridge; travelled in India, 1877-1878; Barrister (Middle Temple), 1877-1882; travelled in North America, 1879; travelled in French North Africa, 1890; naval historian, 1890-1922; special correspondent to Pall Mall Gazette, Dongola Expedition, Sudan, 1896; Ford Lecturer in English History, Oxford, 1903; Lecturer in History to the Naval War College, Greenwich, London, 1902-1914; awarded Chesney Gold Medal by the Royal United Service Institution, 1914; knighted, 1917; died 1922. Publications: The fall of Asgard. A tale of St Olaf's days (Macmillan, London, 1886); For God and gold (Macmillan, London, 1887); Kophetua the thirteenth (Macmillan, London, 1889); Monk (Macmillan, London, 1889); Sir Francis Drake (Macmillan, London, 1890); A business in great waters (Methuen, London, 1895); Drake and the Tudor Navy. With a history of the rise of England as a maritime power (Longmans, London, 1898); Papers relating to the Navy during the Spanish War, 1585-1587 (Navy Records Society, London, 1898); The successors of Drake (Longmans, London, 1900); England in the Mediterranean. A study of the rise and influence of British power within the Straits, 1603-1713 (Longmans, London, 1904); Fighting instructions, 1530-1816 (Navy Records Society, London, 1905); England in the Seven Years' War. A study in combined strategy (Longmans, London, 1907); Signals and instructions, 1776-1794 (Navy Record Society, London, 1908); A note on the drawings in the possession of the Earl of Dartmouth illustrating the Battle of Sole Bay, May 28, 1672, and the Battle of the Texel, August 11, 1673 (Navy Records Society, London, 1908); The campaign of Trafalgar (Longmans, London, 1910); Some principles of maritime strategy (Longmans, London, 1911); The spectre of navalism (Darling and Son, London, 1915); The League of Peace and a free sea (Doran, New York, 1917); The League of Nations and freedom of the seas (Oxford University Press, London, 1918); Official History of the Great War: Naval operations (Longmans, London, 1920-1931).
Born, 1925; Cadet, Royal Navy, 1943; Midshipman, 1944; Lieutenant, 1945; Destroyer Gunnery Officer, 1949; Lieutenant Commander, 1953; Commander, 1959; died 2007.
Born 1908; educated at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; Mid, HMS RAMILLIES, 1925; served on HMS RENOWN during world cruise of HRH Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, and HRH Elizabeth Angela Marguerite, Duchess of York, 1927; Sub Lt, HMS CORNWALL, China Station, 1930; Lt, 1930; served on HMS MALAYA, 2 Battle Sqn, Home Fleet, 1931-1933; qualified as Interpreter in Russian after language study in Bessarabia, 1934; qualified in Signals and Wireless Telegraphy, HM Signal School, Portsmouth, 1935; served at Admiralty and on the staff of V Adm Hon Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, 1936; Flag Lt and subsequently Flag Lt Cdr to R Adm Lionel Victor Wells, Flag Officer commanding 3 Cruiser Sqn, Mediterranean Fleet, HMS ARETHUSA, 1937-1939; acting Sqn Signals and Wireless/Telegraphy Officer, 3 Cruiser Sqn, Mediterranean Fleet, 1937-1939; Lt Cdr, 1938; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Staff of Adm commanding 3 Battle Sqn and North Atlantic Escort Force, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1939-1941; Deputy Head of Naval Mission to USSR, 1941-1942; Flag Lt and Signals Officer to R Adm Sir Clement Moody, Flag Officer commanding Aircraft Carriers, Home Fleet, 1943; Signals Officer, Staff of V Adm Sir (William Eric) Campbell Tait, Flag Officer commanding South Atlantic Station, 1944; Signals Officer, Staff of R Adm Sir Harold Martin Burrough, Flag Officer, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches, 1945; Naval and Marine Staff, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty, 1946-1948; acting Cdr, 1946-1953; awarded OBE, 1949; Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence), to R Adm Stephen Harry Tolson Arliss, Flag Officer Commanding British Naval Forces, Germany, and Chief British Naval Representative in the Allied Control Commission, HMS ROYAL ALBERT, Hamburg, Germany, 1949-1951; qualified as Interpreter in German; Intelligence Div, Naval Staff, Admiralty, 1952-1953; retired 1953; Export Consultant, ETG Consultancy Services, 1954-1965; contested Hayes and Harlington as Conservative Party candidate, UK General Election, 1955; Conservative MP for Harrow East, 1959-1966; Vice Chairman, Conservative Navy Committee, 1964; Chairman, Parliamentary Flying Club, 1965; Managing Director, New English Typewriting School Limited, 1969-1988; Chairman, Wiltshire Monday Club, 1977; Chairman of Governors, Urchfont School, 1982-1988; died 1988.Publications: Sailor in a Russian frame (Johnson, London, 1968).
Gunner in Edinburgh University Battery, OTC; volunteered for active service and commissioned as 2nd Lt, 1 Lowland Bde, Royal Field Artillery, 1914; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1915; served with Royal Field Artillery on Western Front, 1915-1918.
Born in 1869; studied engineering at University College, London; ship's engineer, 1893; moved to South Africa and worked as electrical engineer, Capetown Harbour Power Station, 1894; Assistant Engineer, later Resident Engineer, Johannesburg Municipal Power Station, 1895-1899, 1901-1904; volunteer stretcher bearer with Royal Army Medical Corps, South Africa, 1899-1900; Assistant Engineer, Victoria Falls Power Company, 1909-1911; 2nd Lt, later Lt, Rand Rifles, 1914; transferred to South African Engineer Corps and served in German South West Africa, 1914-1915; undertook signal training in UK, 1915; served in France with South African Signal Company, Royal Engineers, 1916; served in UK, 1917-1918; appointed to a position in the Public Works Department, South African Government, 1919; worked for Consulting Engineer, Pretoria Power Station, 1921-1923; resident in Channel Islands, 1940-1945; died 1952.
Born in 1920; educated at Wellington College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Trinity College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1940; Lt, 1941; Capt, 1946; Maj, 1953; Lt Col, 1961; Defence Adviser, British Mission to the UN, 1964-1966; Brig, Engineer Plans, Ministry of Defence (Army), 1968-1970; Chief Executive, Cumbernauld Development Corporation, 1970-1985.
Born in India, 1905; educated at Connaught House, Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1925; Lt, 1927; served in India with Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, 1932-1936; awarded Albert Medal (later exchanged for the GC) for rescuing survivors of the earthquake in Quetta, India, 1935; Capt, 1936; Instructor, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1936-1938; Staff Capt, 1939; Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1939; served in World War Two in the Middle East, Italy and North West Europe, 1939-1945; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office, 1939-1940; temporary Maj, 1940-1941; Middle East, 1940-1942; Assistant Quartermaster General, 1941-1942; temporary Lt Col, 1941-1944; Maj, 1942; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, 30 Corps, Western Desert, 1942; General Staff Officer 1, British Army Staff, Washington DC, USA, 1942-1943; Instructor, US Command and Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, 1942-1943; awarded OBE, 1943; substantive Lt Col, 1944; acting Brig, Allied Forces Headquarters, Caserta, Italy, 1944; Brig Q [Quartermaster] (Army Equipment), 1944; temporary Brig, 1944-1953; awarded CBE, 1946; Col, 1949; Brig, 1953; temporary Maj Gen, 1953; Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Eastern Command, 1953-1956; Maj Gen, 1954; awarded CB, 1954; Vice Quartermaster General, 1956-1957; Lt Gen, 1957; Controller of Munitions, Ministry of Supply, 1957-1960; created KBE, 1958; Master General of the Ordnance, War Office, 1960-1962; Governor, Wellington College, 1960-1976; Col Commandant, Royal Pioneer Corps, 1961-1967; Col Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1961-1970; retired 1962; Director, Alastair Watson Limited, 1962-1970; Chairman, Bowmaker Limited, 1962-1971; Director, British Oxygen Limited, 1962-1976; Chairman of Governors, Eagle House School, 1968-1976; Chairman of Governors, Bigshotte School, 1968-1976; Director, C T Bowring and Company Limited, 1969-1971; Vice President and Chairman of Governors, Wellington College, 1969-1976; Chairman, Wilverley Securities Limited, 1970-1973; Keith and Henderson Limited, 1973-1976; Chairman, Polamco Limited, 1976-1993; Chairman of Governors, Brockenhurst Sixth Form College, 1977-1984; President, Old Wellingtonian Society, 1979-1993; President, New Forest Preservation Society, 1982-1993; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts; died 1993.Publications: Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cowley, 1905-1993, edited by Colin Maitland (Deltastet, London, 1998).
Born 1902; educated at Kings Norton Grammar School, London University (external engineering degree, 1922); Imperial College London, (PhD in aeronautics, 1924); engineer on construction of Airship R101, 1924-1929; Airworthiness Dept, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, 1929-1930; Chief Technical Officer, Royal Airship Works, 1931; Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, working on investigation of wing flutter and stability of structures, 1931-1935; Lecturer in aircraft structures, Aeronautics Department, Imperial College London, 1932-1938; Principal Scientific Officer, RAE, 1935-1936; Head of Air Defence Department, RAE, 1936-1938; Chief Technical Officer, Air Registration Board, 1938-1939; Superintendent of Scientific Research, RAE, 1939-1940; Deputy Director of Scientific Research, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1940-1943; Director of Special Projects, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1943-1944, Chairman and Managing Director Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd, 1944-1946; Director, Gas Turbine Establishment, 1946-1948; Chief Scientist, Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1948-1954; Kt 1953; Created Baron Kings Norton of Wotton Underwood (Life Peer), 1965; Chancellor, Cranfield University (formerly Cranfield Institute of Technology), 1969-1997, died 1997. Publications: numerous papers on theory of structures, wing flutter, gas turbines, civil aviation and airships.
Born 1907; educated at Fonthill, East Grinstead, Sussex, the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1927; service with 19 Bde Royal Artillery, British Army of Rhine, Germany, 1927-1929; Aide de Camp to Lt Gen Sir William Thwaites, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1929; Lt, 1930; served with 19 Field Bde, Royal Artillery, 1930-1934; Capt, 1938; served in World War Two, 1939-1943; served in Belgium and France and commanded 29 Battery, 19 Field Regt Royal Artillery, 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1939-1940; temporary Maj, 1940; evacuated from Dunkirk, Operation DYNAMO, Jun 1940; Lt Col, 1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, 1 Airborne Div, 1942; killed in action during Operation FUSTIAN, the glider assault on the Ponte Grande bridge by 1 Air Landing Bde, 1 Airborne Div, Sicily, Jul 1943.
Born 1892; educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into 7 Queen's Own Hussars, 1911; Lt, 1913; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Aide de Camp to Div Commander, Home Forces, 1914-1915; Staff Capt, France, 1917-1918; Capt, 1918; Bde Maj, France, 1918-1919; General Staff Officer 3, British Army of the Rhine, 1919; Adjutant, 7 Queen's Own Hussars, 1919-1922; Maj, 15/19 The King's Royal Hussars, 1924; Bde Maj, Southern Command, 1927-1929; General Staff Officer 2, War Office, 1929-1931; Brevet Lt Col, 1931; Lt Col, 1934; Commanding Officer, 15/19 The King's Royal Hussars, 1934-1938; Col, 1938; General Staff Officer 1, Senior Officers' School, Sheerness, Kent, 1938-1939; Inspector, Royal Armoured Corps, War Office, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; acting Maj Gen, 1939-1940; General Officer Commanding 7 Armoured Div, Western Desert, 1939-1941; temporary Maj Gen, 1940-1941; Maj Gen, 1941; created KBE, 1941; commanded 3 Armoured Group, 1941-1942; commanded Hampshire and Dorset District, 1942; retired 1944; UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), 1944-1946; Deputy Chief of Mission to Greece; Chief of Emergency Supply Unit, European Regional Office; Chief of European Regional Office Voluntary Society Liaison Unit.died 1970.