Born in 1883; Gunnery Officer, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1914-1918; served on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet, 1918; Capt, 1922; HMS CARDIFF, 1923-1925; Deputy Director of Plans, Admiralty, 1925-1927; Flag Capt, HMS NELSON, 1928-1930; Director, Tactical School, 1931-1932; commanded HMS HOOD, 18932-1933; Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, 1933-1935; ADC to King George V, 1934; R Adm, 1934; R Adm, 1 Battle Sqn, 1936-1938; V Adm, 1938; Commandant, Imperial Defence College, 1939; Adm Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands, 1939-1942; Adm, 1942; member of Board of Enquiry appointed to investigate the escape from Brest of the German battle cruisers SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU and PRINZ EUGEN, 1942; retired list, 1943; Flag Officer, 1944; Governor of Tasmania, 1945-1951; died in 1953.
Born in 1908; 2nd Lt, North Staffordshire Regt, 1929; regimental duties, 1929-1940; Lt, 1932; Capt, 1938; held various staff appointments and attended Staff College, 1940-1942; held various staff appointments and commanded 7 North Staffordshire Regt, 1942-1947; seconded to Foreign Office, 1948-1950; commanded 1 North Staffordshire Regt in Trieste, 1951-1953, and Korea General Staff Officer Grade 1 (Training), SHAPE, 1954; retired, 1956; died in 1972.
Born in 1897; educated at Plymouth College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served with Dorset Regt in Mesopotamia and Palestine, 1915-1918; served in India, 1919-1925, War Office, 1933-1935, and Colonial Office, 1937-1939; served in East Africa, North Africa, and West Africa, 1939-1944; Col, 1941; Brig, 1941; Maj Gen, 1944; Director of Quartering, War Office, 1944-1945; Deputy Director-General, Political Warfare Executive, Ministry of Information, 1945; Chief of Information Services and Public Relations, Control Commission, Germany, 1945-1946; Deputy Chief of Staff, Control Commission, Germany, 1946-1948; Regional Commissioner, Land North Rhine/Westphalia, 1948-1950; Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Relations Office, 1951; Principal Staff Officer to Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1953-1957; British Deputy High Commissioner in Calcutta, 1957-1962; Director of Information Services and Cultural Relations, Commonwealth Relations Office, 1962-1964; British High Commissioner, Cyprus, 1964-1965; retired, 1965; died in 1984.
Born in 1854; educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; entered 13 Hussars, 1875; served in East Indies, 1875-1878, 1879-1880, 1881-1882 and in Afghanistan, 1880-1881; attached to 19 Hussars and served as orderly officer in 1 Cavalry Brigade during Egyptian Expedition, 1882; engaged in action at Kassassin and Battle of Tel-el-Kebir and took part in march to, and occupation of Cairo; Capt, 1883; Maj, 1890; Lt Col, 1896; commanded 13 Hussars, 1896-1901; served in South Africa, 1899-1901; present at the Relief of Ladysmith, including actions at Colenso, Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz, and Pieters Hill, 1900, and served during operations in the Transvaal, 1900-1901, and Orange River Colony, 1901; Brevet Col, 1900; Commandant, POW camp, Leigh, 1915-1917; died in 1925.
Born in 1859; Lt, Royal Artillery, 1878; Capt, 1886; Maj 1896; Lt Col, 1906; Brevet Col, 1909; retired, 1911; died in 1931.
Born 1911, South Africa; educated Oundle and Sandhurst; commissioned into Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1931-1938; adjutant, 9 Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial Army, 1939; Major 1940; second in command, 2 Royal Welch Fusiliers, Burma, 1944-45; General Staff Officer, War Office, 1946; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, HQ Home Counties District, 1946-48; instructor, British Military Mission, Greece, 1948-1950; Major and second in command, 1 Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1950-53, Lieutenant Colonel 1954-57; staff appointments 1957-60; retired 1960; died 2003.
Born 1907; educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Christ's College, Cambridge; commissioned into the Royal Engineers, 1927; Lt, 1930; served in India, 1930-1934; Mohmand, North West Frontier, India, 1933; Electrical and Mechanical Engineering course, UK, 1934-1936; Engineer Staff Officer and Field Engineer, Rawalpindi, India, 1936-1940; Waziristan, 1936; Capt, 1938; Staff Officer Royal Engineers 3, Delhi, India, 1939-1940; service in World War Two, 1939-1945; Second in Command of Indian Engineer Training Depot, 1940-1941; temporary Maj, 1940-1944; Staff College, Quetta, India, 1941-1943; Instructor, Staff College, Quetta, 1943-1944; Maj, 1944; Commanding Officer, Forward Airfield Engineer Group, Burma, 1944-1945; temporary Lt Col, 1944-1946; served in Malaya, 1945; Chief Instructor (Plant, Roads, Airfields), School of Military Engineering, Chatham, Kent, 1945-1948; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, War Office, 1948-1950; Chairman, Western Union Committee on Logistics, 1948-1950; awarded OBE, 1950; Lt Col, 1950; temporary Col, 1950-1953; Col, Q (Movements), Far East Land Forces, 1950-1953; Col, 1953; Deputy Quartermaster General, British Army of the Rhine, 1954-1957; awarded CBE, 1957; Brig, 1957; Chief Engineer, Far East Land Forces, 1957-1959; Chief Engineer, Northern Army Group NATO and British Army of the Rhine, 1959- 1962; Maj Gen, 1960; awarded CB, 1962; retired 1963; Col Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers, 1966-1972; died 1978.
Born in 1884; 2nd Lt, East Yorkshire Regt, 1903; Lt, 1905; Capt, 1914; served at Gallipoli, 1915, and in Egypt, 1916; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, 11 Div, Egyptian Expedition Force, 1916 and British Armies in France, 1916-1918; Maj, 1918; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, 11 Div, British Armies in France, 1918-1919; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, British Army on the Rhine, 1919; served in operations in Iraq, 1919-1920; Lt Col, 1931; died 1973.
Born in 1896; educated at Eton; 2nd Lt, the Rifle Brigade, 1914; served in France, World War One, 1915-1918; Lt, 1916; Private Secretary to his father when Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Labour, 1918; Capt, 1921; Brevet Maj, 1932; Brigade Maj, 7 Infantry Brigade, 1932-1934; Brevet Lt Col, 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office, 1935-1937; retired pay, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Deputy Director, Home Guard and acting Maj Gen, 1941; Director General, Home Guard and Territorial Army, 1941-1944; Col and temporary Maj Gen, 1942; Deputy Adjutant General, 1944-1945; President of West Midland Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve Association, 1968-1969; died in 1982.
Born 1892; educated at Royal Naval College, Osborne and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; served in World War One, 1914-1918 in HMS EXCELLENT, 1914-1915, HMS MALAYA, 1916-1918, HMS SIR JOHN MOORE, 1918 and HMS FORGE, near Crowborough, Sussex; Lt Cdr, 1922; served as Gunnery Officer on HMS CARDIFF, 1921-1924; Cdr, 1927; HMS EXCELLENT, Gunnery School, Portsmouth, 1932-1933; Capt, 1933; Tactical Division, Admiralty, 1934-1936; Capt of HMS BIRMINGHAM, 5 Cruiser Sqn, China, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet, 1940-1942; awarded CBE, 1941; R Adm, 1942; Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, 1942-1944; awarded CB, 1944; V Adm, 1945; commanded cruisers in Pacific Fleet, 1945; created KCB, 1946; President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1946-1948; Adm, 1949; Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, HMS TERROR, 1949-1951; appointed GBE, 1951; Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe, 1951-1953; retired list, 1953; died 1963.
Born 1907; commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps, 1927; Lt, 1930; served with The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), India; service on North West Frontier, India, 1936-1937; Capt, 1937; service with 11 Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps, Peshawar, Punjab, and Razmak, Waziristan, India, 1938-1939; served in India and Italy, World War Two, 1939-1945; Maj, 1944; Instructor, Indian Armoured Corps Fighting Vehicles School, India, 1946-1947; retired [1949]; Justice of the Peace; died 1998. Publications: The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), 1922-1947 (Scinde Horse Association, London, 1957).
Born in 1906; educated at St Andrew's, Grahamstown, South Africa; served during World War Two with 49 Division in Iceland and the United Kingdom, and with 3 Indian Division in Burma.
Born in 1911; Sub Lt, 1932; Lt, 1934; served on HMS GLORIOUS, 1937-1939 and as a pilot, 812 and 831 Naval Air Sqns, 1940-1942; Cdr, 1948; Capt, 1955; retired, 1965; died in 1985.
Born, 1908; educated, preparatory school, Seascale; Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; midshipman in HMS EMERALD, [1927]; Lt, 1930; HMS KELLY, 1939-1941; Comdr, 1940; HMS OSPREY, 1941-1943; Western Approaches Escort Groups, 1943-1945; Capt, 1945; Chief of Staff to Commander in Chief, Portsmouth, 1955-1957; Rear Adm, 1955; retired from the Army, 1958; died, 1996.
Born in 1914; educated at Bournemouth School; commissioned into RAF, 1936; took part in development trials of Fairey Battle day bomber; worked as RAF flying instructor; took part in development trials of Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO); seconded to the Foreign Office in Germany as a magistrate, 1945-1947; joined Colonial Service and posted to Nigeria, 1947; retired from Colonial Service, 1958; appointed Director, Yorkshire Association for the Care of the Disabled, 1958, and Director, Nigerian National Council for the Blind, 1960; set up West African Organisation for the Blind; died in 1994.
Born in 1891; educated at St Peter's College, Radley and University College Hospital; served with BEF in France, 1914-1915, and Salonika Expeditionary Force, 1915-1918; appointed to staff of King's College Hospital, 1922; served in BEF, 1940; Brig, 1941; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Middle East Force, 1941-1942 and later Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Army; retired, 1952; died in 1981.
Born in 1898; served in Cabinet War Room, 1943-1945; died in 1979.
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.
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 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, 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 [1910]; served in Royal Artillery, [1928]-1962.
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 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 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 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 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 in 1898; studied chemistry at King's College London, 1915-1917, 1919-1920; served in Royal Naval Air Service and RAF, 1917-1918; postgraduate, King's College London, 1920-1922; researcher at British Cotton Industries Research Association, 1922; died in 1992.
Born in 1914; commanded F Troop, 112 Field Battery, 30 Field Regt, Royal Artillery in France, 1940; died in 1986.
Born 1891; educated Stonyhurst College, City and Guilds Engineering College, London University (Associate of the City & Guilds Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 1912); Sapper, London Electrical Engineers, Territorial Army, 1910-1913; Pte, 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force, Aug-Dec 1914; 2nd Lt, 4th Connaught Rangers, attached Indian Corps, Western Front, Dec 1914-Aug 1915; wounded in action, Aug 1915; joined Royal Flying Corps, Nov 1915; qualified as Pilot, Mar 1916; service with 8 Sqn, May-Nov 1916, mainly engaged in artillery observation and reconnaissance, Western Front; Lt, Nov 1916; service with 60 Sqn, Nov-Dec 1916; Capt 1916; Flight Commander, 29 Sqn, Izel-le-Hameau, Arras, France, Dec 1916; shot down 1 Feb 1917 by Lt Werner Voss; Prisoner of War, Feb 1917-Sep 1918; granted permanent Commisson in RAF, 1919; Member, British Delegation, Inter-Allied Aeronautical Commission, Bulgaria, 1920; 60 Sqn, Risalpur, North West Frontier Province, India, 1922-1923; Sqn Ldr 1924; AFC, 1929; Air Attaché, British Embassy, China, 1930; Wg Cdr 1932; Senior Officers' Tactical Course, Portsmouth, 1935-1936; Gp Capt 1937; Station Commander, RAF Marham, Norfolk, 1937-1940; Station Commander, RAF St Athan, 1940-1942; Base Commander, North Africa and Italy, 1942-1944; President of Courts Martial, Italy, 1944-1945; Representative of British Red Cross, Sweden, 1945; died 1985
Born in 1901; passed out of the Royal Military Academy, 1920; joined 1st Battery, Royal Artillery, served in India, 1920-1928; posted to 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and, as a jockey, twice won the Gunner Gold Cup at Sandown; rejoined regiment in 1937 and served in Palestine; Battle of Sidi Barrani, 1940; second in command of South Nottinghamshire Hussars, 1940, and served in North Africa; sole survivor of Battle of the Cauldron, Gazala Bir Hachem, Libya, 1942; command of 3rd Royal Horse Artillery, 1942; command of 13th Honourable Artillery C, Royal Horse Artillery, 1943; served in Normandy landings, France, Belgium, Holland and northern Germany, 1943-1945; helped liberate Belsen concentration camp, 1945; held commands with Norfolk and Kent regiments, 1945-51; appointed to the Sovereign's Body Guard as a Gentleman at Arms, 1951-1971; died 1996.
Born 1916; educated at the City of Oxford School and St Catherine's College, Oxford; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; mobilised from Territorial Army, 1940; served in ranks, 1940; commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps, 1940; Adjutant, Royal Army Service Corps, 7 Armoured Div, Middle East Forces, 1940; acting Capt, 1940-1941; War Substantive Lt, 1941; temporary Capt, 1941-1942; Deputy Assistant Director of Supply and Transport, Headquarters 30 Corps, Middle East Forces, Western Desert, 1941-1942; Officer Commanding 66 Company, Royal Army Service Corps, Middle East Forces, 1942; War Substantive Capt, 1942; Chief Instructor, Royal Army Service Corps Training School, Egypt, Central Mediterranean Forces, 1942-1943; temporary Maj, 1942-1944; attended Staff Course, Haifa, Palestine, 1943; General Staff Officer 2, Staff College, Haifa, Palestine, 1943-1944; acting Lt Col, 1944; Commander, Royal Army Service Corps, 1 Army Transport Column, Central Mediterranean Forces, 1944; War Substantive Maj, 1944; served in Italy, 1944-1945; temporary Lt Col, 1944-1947; Commander, Royal Army Service Corps, 13 Supply Units, Central Mediterranean Forces, 1945; Assistant Director of Supply and Transport, Allied Forces Headquarters, 1945-1947; acting Col, 1946; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office, 1947-1950; Officer Commanding 68 Company, Royal Army Service Corps (Air Despatch), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1951-1952; Deputy Assistant Director of Supply and Transport (Organisation and Training), Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1952; Assistant Adjutant General (Administration), Headquarters, Northern Army Group (Northag), BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), Germany, 1952-1953; temporary Lt Col, 1952-1954; Instructor, Royal Army Service Corps Officers School, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1954-1956; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Headquarters, Cyrenaica District, Libya, Middle East Land Forces, 1956-1958; Brevet Lt Col, 1957; Commander, Royal Army Service Corps, 2 Infantry Div, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1958-1960; Lt Col, 1959; Col, 1960; Assistant Adjutant General to Maj Gen John Edward Longworth Morris, Director of Recruiting, War Office, 1960-1963; Brig, 1964; Deputy Director of Supply and Transport, Northern Command, 1964; Chief Transport Officer, Northern Command [1965-1966]; Inspector, Royal Corps of Transport and Deputy Transport Officer in Chief (Army), Ministry of Defence, 1966-1967; retired 1967; Home Bursar, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1967; Fellow, Institution of Mechanical and General Technician Engineers; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Transport; died 1998.
Born in 1905; educated at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; served on HMS IRON DUKE, HMS WIVERN and HMS LABURNHAM; served on HMS NELSON, Home Fleet, 1931; served on HMS VENETIA, Abyssinia, 1935; commanded HMS WRESTLER, 1936, and later HMS SCOUT; court-martialled, dismissed his ship and reprimanded after HMS SCOUT ran aground in the Thames Estuary, 1938; served as gas and ventilation officer, HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN, 1938; commanded HMS THRACIAN, Hong Kong Local Defence Flotilla, 1938-1941; Cdr, 1943; retired, 1955; died in 1995.
Born 1906; educated at St Olave's School and Trinity College, Cambridge; Mathematical Tripos Part 1 1926, Part 2 1928, Mayhew Prize; began career in the Civil Service as Assistant Principal, Air Ministry, 1929; Assistant Under Secretary of State, 1943; Deputy Secretary, Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1946; Deputy Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office (German Section), 1947-1948; Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence, 1948-1952; Third Secretary, HM Treasury, 1952; Second Secretary, Board of Trade, 1952-1955; Permanent Under Secretary of State, Air Ministry, 1955-1963; Second Secretary, HM Treasury, Nov 1963 - 1964; Joint Permanent Under Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, Apr - Oct 1964 with responsibility for universities and research; Permanent Secretary at the newly created Ministry of Technology, 1964-1966; retired from the Civil Service, 1966; Director of British Printing Corporation, 1966-1971; co-opted, member of Cambridge University Appointments Board, 1957-1960; member Cambridge University Women's Appointments Board, 1963-1976; Chairman, London Advisory Board, Salvation Army, 1968-1976; Visiting Professor, Department of Administration, Strathclyde University, 1966-1976; Councillor, Bedford College, University of London, 1972-1976; Honorary Doctor of Laws Strathclyde University, 1970; died 1978. Publications: Posthumous publication: The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979).
Born 1879; educated at Beaumont College, Foster's, Stubbington House, Hampshire; joined training ship HMS BRITANNIA, Dartmouth, Devon, as Naval Cadet, 1894; service on HMS BLAKE, Channel Fleet, 1896-1897, and HMS ECLIPSE, East Indies Station, 1897-1899; Sub Lt, 1899; HMS CLEOPATRA, 1899; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1899-1900; served on HMS GRIFFON and HMS DESPERATE, Mediterranean Fleet, 1900-1901; service on HM Torpedo Boats 92, 89 and 96, 1901-1902; Lt, 1902; HMS CRUISER, 1902; served on HMS VENGEANCE, China Station, 1902-1905; HMS BARFLEUR, 1905; served on HMS KING ALFRED, HMS HART and HMS HAWKE, China Station, 1906-1909; HMS CHELMER, Home Fleet, 1910; HMS GARVY, 1911; served on HMS CHELMER and HMS ALBATROSS, Mediterranean Fleet, 1911-1913; Cdr, 1914; commanded HMS HARPY, Mediterranean Fleet, 1913-1915; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service on HMS HARPY, Dardenelles, 1915; Flag Cdr to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, 1917-1918; Capt, 1919; awarded CMG, 1919; Deputy Director, Plans Division, Admiralty, 1920-1922; commanded HMS CARLISLE, 1922-1924; Capt Auxiliary Patrol, Fishery Protection, HMS HAREBELL, 1925-1926; Directing Staff, Imperial Defence College, 1926-1929; commanded HMS REPULSE, 1929-1931; Naval Aide de Camp to King George V, 1931-1932; R Adm, 1932; Director of Naval Intelligence Division, 1932-1935; awarded CB, 1934; R Adm, 10 Cruiser Sqn, HM King George V Jubilee Review, Spithead, 1935; R Adm commanding Reserve Fleet, 1935-1937; V Adm, 1936; created KCVO, 1937; retired list, 1938; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Naval Attaché, The Hague, Netherlands, 1940; Principal Liaison Officer with Allied Navies, 1940; Flag Officer, Tunisia, 1943-1945; Flag Officer, Netherlands, 1945-1946; died 1962. Publications: Bombing and strategy. The fallacy of total war (Sampson Low, Marston and Company, London, 1947); The dress of the British sailor (National Maritime Museum, London, 1957).
Born in 1897; educated at Birkenhead and Dean Close, Cheltenham; joined 5 Battalion King's Liverpool Regt, 1914; served with East Surrey Regt in France and Belgium, World War One, 1914-1919; served with Midland Division HQ, British Army of the Rhine, 1919; transferred to Royal Signals, 1920; served in India, 1920-1922; Iraq, 1921; West Africa (Nigeria) 1922-1928; Staff College, 1933-1934; 2 Indian Division Signals, Quetta, India (Quetta earthquake), 1935-1936; General Staff Officer Grade 3, War Office, 1936-1937; Officer Commanding Troops, Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1940; served during World Two including Commander, 26 (East African) Infantry Brigade, 1941-1942, Commander of 22 (East African) Brigade, Madagascar, 1942-1943, and 28 (East African) Brigade, Ceylon, India and Madagascar, 1944-1945; Commander, 11 East African Division, Burma, 1945-1946; General Officer Commanding, East Africa, 1946-1948; Commander, Aldershot District, 1948-1951; Representative for United Kingdom on Military Staff Committee, United Nations, 1951-1953; retired, 1953; Col Commandant, King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia Regt and Rhodesian African Regt, 1954-1960s; Chairman of Army Cadet Force Association, 1954-1960; Secretary, British Section of Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1959-1962; Secretary of overseas organisation of Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, 1962-1965; Col Commandant, Malawi Rifles, 1964-1965; died in 1965.
Born, 1896; educated at Greenwich Central School; Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1910-1914; served in the ranks in World War One, 1914-1918; service with Transport and Supply Column, 40 (London) Div, Territorial Force, and 25 Div Motor Transport Company, Army Service Corps, Western Front, 1914-1918; joined 47 (London) Div, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army, 1924; service with Territorial Army, 1924-1951; HM Customs and Excise, 1919-1934; Assistance Board, 1935-1946; transferred to 50 (Northumbrian) Div, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army [1937]; served in World War Two, in France, Cyprus, Iraq, Iran, North Africa and Italy, 1939-1945; awarded OBE, 1940; Commanding Officer, 50 (Northumbrian) Div, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army, Cyprus and North Africa, 1940-1942; awarded DSO, 1942; Deputy Director Supply and Transport, 10 Corps, North Africa and Italy, 1942-1943; Officer Commanding Troops, HMS HILARY, Salerno, Italy, 1943; awarded CBE, 1944; Deputy Director Supply and Transport, British Increment, US 5 Army, Italy, 1944; Deputy Director Supply and Transport, 8 Army, Italy, 1944-1945; Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1946-1954; Controller, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, 1951-1954; UN Adviser, Administration, Burma, 1954-1955; awarded CB, 1955; Under-Secretary (Special Duties), Ministry of Supply, 1956; Under Secretary, Secretary's Department, Admiralty, 1957-1959; UN Adviser, Administration, Nepal, 1959-1962, Asia and Far East, 1962-1964; UN Adviser, Social Security, Iraq, 1965-1966, Trinidad, 1967, and Saudi Arabia, 1971; Member of Institute of Public Administration and the British Institute of Management; died, 1979.
Born in 1877; joined Indian Civil Service, 1898; District Opium Officer, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 1923-32; died in 1936.
Born 1920; educated Whitgift School; entered Royal Air Force 1939; served in Coastal Command, World War Two, 1939-1945; anti U-boat operations, 1945; Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, 1956-1958; commanded Bomber Command Development Unit, 1959-1960; head of North East Defence Secretariat, Cyprus, 1960-1962; Command, RAF Farnborough, 1962-1964; a Director of Operational Requirements (RAF), Ministry of Defence, 1965-1967; Imperial Defence College, 1968; Commandant, RAF College of Air Warfare, Manby, 1969; Commander, Southern Maritime Air Region, 1969-1971; Air Vice Marshal, 1970; Senior RAF Member, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1972-1974; Deputy Controller of Aircraft (C), Ministry of Defence, 1974-1975; retired 1975.
Publications: Management in the Armed Forces: an anatomy of the military profession (London: McGraw-Hill, 1977).
Born 1910; educated at Beaumont College, Windsor, Berkshire; commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles, via the Supplementary Reserve, 1931; service in Egypt and Hong Kong, 1932-1940; Lt, 1934; Capt, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Adjutant, 2 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, France, 1940; evacuated from Dunkirk, Operation DYNAMO, France, Jun 1940; General Staff Officer 3 (Operations), Headquarters 10 Corps, UK, 1940-1941; temporary Maj, 1941; service with 8 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles [1942-1943]; Second in Command, 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Air Landing Bde, 6 Airborne Div, Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of occupied France, Jun 1944; North West Europe campaign, including Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, 1944-1945; Commanding Officer, 2 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, 1945-1948; awarded DSO for leading the assault over the Ochtum Canal and the capture of the Kattenturm Bridge, Germany, 1945; Maj, 1946; service in Port Said, Egypt, and Palestine, 1946-1948; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarermaster General, 1 Anti Aircraft Group (London), 1948-1949; temporary Lt Col, 1949; General Staff Officer 1, Headquarters Mid Western District, UK, 1949-1952; Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Hong Kong, UK and British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Wuppertal, Germany, 1952-1955; Lt Col, 1953; temporary Brig, 1955; commanded 107 (Ulster) Independent Infantry Bde Group, 1955-1958; Col, 1956; Hon Brig, 1958; retired 1958; awarded CB, 1958; died 1997.
Born in 1894; Assistant Clerk, HMS VICTORY, 1911; Assistant Clerk and Clerk, HMS HERMIONE, 1911; Clerk, HMS NEW ZEALAND, 1914, and HMS LEVIATHAN, 1915; Paymaster Lt, 1916; Secretary's Clerk, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1917-1919; Paymaster Cdr, 1932; Fleet Stores Officer on Staff of Cdr-in-Chief, Mediterranean, 1943-1945.
Born 1895; educated at Liverpool; joined the White Star Line as an apprentice, 1911; served in World War One with The King's (Liverpool) Regt, 1914-1918; Manager, Liverpool Office, White Star Line, 1919-1923; Berlin Office, White Star Shipping Company (Cunard White Star Limited from 1934), 1923-1939; captured by German forces in Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr 1940; interned in Germany, 1940-1944; repatriated, Aug 1944; awarded MBE, 1946; Head Office, Cunard Steamship Company, 1946-1948; Manager, Hamburg Office, Cunard Steamship Company, Germany, 1948-1952; Manager, Paris Office, Cunard Steamship Company, France, 1952-1958; retired 1958; died 1965.
Born in 1896; served in Army Service Corps, [1915]-1918, joined No 142 Sqn, 1918; served with No 47 Sqn, South Russia, 1919; Assistant Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence, 1937-1939, and to War Cabinet, 1939-1941; Fighter Command, 1941-1942; Director of Plans, Air Ministry, 1942-1944; Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar, Feb-June 1944; Air Officer CommandingBalkan Air Force, 1944-1945; Assistant Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1945-1946; Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Policy), 1946-1947; Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command, 1947-1949; Chief Staff Officer to Minister of Defence and Deputy Secretary (Military) to Cabinet, 1949-1951; ADC to King George VI, 1950-1952; Chairman of British Joint Services Mission, Washington, and UK Representative on the Standing Group of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1951-1954; ADC to Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-1954; Chairman of Council, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 1954-1958; died in 1971.
Born in 1911; attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1929-1931; 2nd Lt, 2 Bn, Border Regt, 1931; joined 5 Bn, 14 Punjab Regt, Indian Army, 1932; served in India, 1932-1935 and 1947, Abyssinia, 1935-1937; seconded to Burma Frontier Force, 1937-1941; Lt, 1933; Capt, 1939; commanded No 1 Independent Infantry Company, Malaya, 1941-1942; held as POW by Japanese,1942-1945; served in Burma, [1945-1946], and India, [1946-1947]; died in 1984.
Born in 1903; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osbourne and Dartmouth; first went to sea, 1920; Lt, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1928-1931; served in China and Hong Kong, 1931-1932; undertook Naval Staff Course, 1935-1936; First Lt, Cadets' Training Cruiser, 1937-1939; commanded HMS WAKEFUL, 1940; Staff Officer (Operations) to V Adm Light Forces, Eastern Mediterranean, 1940-1941; Staff Officer (Operations) to R Adm (Destroyers), Mediterranean, 1941-1942; Chief Staff Officer to Senior Naval Officer Inshore Sqn, North Africa, 1942-1943; commanded HMS MUSKETEER, Arctic, Atlantic and Mediterranean, 1943-1945; Deputy Director of Movements, Admiralty, 1945-1946; commanded HMS SOLEBAY, 1947-1948; served on Directing Staff of JointServices Staff College, 1948-1950; Chief of Staff Far East, 1950-1952; commanded HMS INDEFATIGABLE, 1953-1954; R Adm, 1954; Flag Officer, Ground Training (Home Air Command), 1955-1957; retired, 1957; died in 1988.
Born in 1905; educated at Cheltenham College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in India, 1936-1937; Staff Capt, China, 1937-1939; Staff Capt, Hong Kong, 1939; served in France, 1939-1940, Iceland, 1940-1941, and France and Belgium, 1944; Col, HQ 21 Army Group, Palestine, 1946-1947; served inEast Africa, 1947-1949; Lt Col, 1949; Commander, Royal Engineers, Sussex and Surrey, 1950-1951; honorary Col and retired, 1951; died in 1981.
Born, 1948; educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, Northumberland, Manchester University, York University, and Nuffield College, Oxford; Teaching Assistant, York University, 1971-1972; Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, 1974-1975; Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1975-1976; Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1976-1978; Head of Policy Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1978-1982; Professor of War Studies, King's College London, since 1982; Member of Council, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1984-1992; Honorary Director, Centre for Defence Studies, from 1990; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 1991; Fellow of King's College London, 1992; Chairman, Committee on International Peace and Security, US Social Science Research Council, from 1993; Fellow of the British Academy, 1995; awarded CBE, 1996, KCMG, 2003; Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London, from 2001.
Publications: US Intelligence and the Soviet strategic threat (Macmillan, London, 1977); Arms production in the United Kingdom: problems and prospects (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1978); The West and the modernisation of China (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1979); Britain and nuclear weapons (Macmillan for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1980); The evolution of nuclear strategy (Macmillan in association with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1981); Nuclear war and nuclear peace (1983); editor of The troubled alliance. Atlantic relations in the 1980s (Heinemann, London, 1983); Atlas of global strategy (Macmillan, London, 1985); The price of peace: living with the nuclear dilemma (Firethorn, London, 1986); Terrorism and international order (Routledge and Kegan Paul for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1986); Why is arms control so boring? (Council for Arms Control, London, 1987); Britain and the Falklands War (Blackwell, Oxford, 1988); edited with Philip Bobbitt and Gregory Treverton, US nuclear strategy: a reader (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989); editor of Military power in Europe: essays in memory of Jonathan Alford (Macmillan in association with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Basingstoke, 1990); with Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Signals of war: the Falklands conflict of 1982 (Faber and Faber, London, 1990); editor of Europe transformed: documents on the end of the Cold War (Tri-Service, London, 1990); editor with John Saunders, Population change and European security (Brassey's, London, 1991); editor with Michael Clarke, Britain in the world (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991); editor of War, strategy and international politics. Essays in honour of Sir Michael Howard (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992); with Efraim Karsh, The Gulf conflict, 1990-1991: diplomacy and war in the new world order (Faber and Faber, London, 1993); editor of War (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994); Military intervention in European conflicts (Blackwell, Oxford, 1994); The revolution in strategic affairs (Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Oxford, 1998); editor of Strategic coercion: concepts and cases (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998); The politics of British defence, 1979-98 (Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, 1999); Kennedy's wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000).