Born in [1896]; Midshipman, 1913; served in the North Sea, 1915, English Channel, 1915-1916, and off the west coast of Ireland, 1917-1918; Lt, 1917; served in Turkey, 1922, and China, 1927-1929; Cdr, 1931; served in the Mediterranean, 1934-1936 and 1939-1940, North Sea, 1941-1942, and Indian Ocean, 1942-1944; Capt, 1938; commanded destroyer base HMS DEFENDER, Liverpool, 1944-1945; Capt-in-Charge, West Africa, 1945-1946; Naval Officer in Charge, Hamburg, 1946-1947; retired, 1948; Commodore of Convoys, 1950-[1966]; died in 1985.
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 in 1937; educated at Eton; commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys, 1956; ADC to Sir Evelyn Baring as Governor of Kenya, 1958-1959; military correspondent, 1961-1962 and political and diplomatic correspondent, 1962-1964 for the Daily Express; correspondent for The Times, 1965-1985; defence correspondent, 1965-1970; publication of The Arabs and Israel (1968) and Britain's Reserve Forces (1969); features editor, 1970-1973; publication of Rommel (1973); home editor, 1973-1978; publication of Evelyn Baring the last Proconsul (1978); foreign editor, 1978-1981; deputy editor, 1981-1982; editor, 1982-1985; died in 1985.
Born in 1906; Pilot Officer, General Duties Branch, 1930; posted to No 25 Fighter Sqn, 1931; posted to No 35 Bomber Sqn, 1935; served in Middle East, 1935-1937; Flight Lt, 1936; Sqn Leader, 1938; appointed Sqn Leader Operations at No 11 Group HQ, Fighter Command, 1938; commanded No 54 Fighter Sqn, May 1940; later in the same year promoted to Wing Cdr and posted to HQ No 11 Group as Group Controller in Fighter Group Operations Room; on duty during Battle of Britain, Sep 1940; posted to HQ Fighter Command, Stanmore, 1941; graduated from RAF Staff College, 1942; commanded RAF Station High Ercall, and later RAF Station Honiley, 1941-1943; posted to China, 1943-1945; Gp Capt Fighter Operations, HQ Fighter Operations, Stanmore, 1945; Station Commander, Southern Section, 1946; Gp Capt, 1947; Senior Air Staff Officer, No 22 Group HQ, 1948; Deputy Director of Operations (Air Defence), Air Ministry, 1949-1952; Senior Staff Officer in charge of Administration, No 83 Group HQ, West Germany, 1952-1955; retired, 1955; died in 1984.
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 1919; educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 1940; served with Maritime Royal Artillery, 1940-1943; service with 8 Bn The Parachute Regt, 1944-1946 in France, Belgium and Palestine; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General and Bde Maj, Parachute Bde, Palestine, 1946-1948; attended Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1949; Company commander with Highland Light Infantry, North Africa, Malta and Egypt, 1951-1953; Second in Command, Army Air Transport and Development Centre, Old Sarum, Wiltshire, 1953-1955; Bde Maj, 16 Independent Parachute Bde Group, Cyprus, and Suez, 1956; awarded MBE, 1957; Second in Command, 2 Bn Parachute Regt, Jordan, 1958; commanded Regimental Depot, Royal Highland Fusiliers, 1958-1959; commanded 1 Bn, Royal Highland Fusiliers in Aden, Malta and Libya, 1960-1962; commanded Infantry Bde Group, West Germany, 1962-1965; Imperial Defence College, 1966; Brig, General Staff, Headquarters, Middle East Land Forces, Aden, 1967; awarded CBE, 1968; General Officer Commanding North West District, 1968-1970; Col, Royal Highland Fusiliers, 1969-1978; Director of Infantry, Ministry of Defence, 1970-1973; retired 1973; Vice President, Army Cadet Force Association (Scotland), 1976-1978; Director, British Red Cross Society, Perth and Kinross, 1977-1981; Member, Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Body Guard for Scotland); died 1981.
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 1861; educated at King's College School, London and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered Royal Engineers, 1881; Capt, 1890; Major, 1899; Instructor, Royal Military Academy, 1890-1896; Staff College, 1896-1897; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence Division, War Office, 1899-1901; publication of Handbook of the German Army (HMSO, London, 1900); served in South Africa, 1901-1902; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, Intelligence Division, War Office,1904-1908; publication of A history of the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865 (with Henry Spencer Wilkinson) (Methuen and Co, London, 1905); Lt Col, 1906; Secretary to British Delegation to Geneva Conference, 1906; British Delegate to Red Cross Conference, 1907; Col, 1909; General Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office, 1909-1910; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 4 Div, 1911-1914; publication of Land warfare: an exposition of the laws and usages of war on land for the guidance of officers of His Majesty's Army (with Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim (War Office publication, 1912); served at General HQ, BEF, 1914-1918; Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, BEF, 1918; Officer in charge of Military Branch, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1919-1949; publication of Military operations: France and Belgium (13 volumes) (HMSO, London, 1922-1948) and Military operations: Italy (with Henry Rudolph Davies) (HMSO, London, 1949), parts of the official history of World War One; publication of A short history of World War One (Oxford University Press, London, 1951); died in 1956.
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 1913; served in 50 Royal Tank Regiment, [1941-1942]; completed Special Operations Executive (SOE) training at Haifa, Palestine, and at General Headquarters, Middle East, Cairo, Egypt, 1943; volunteered for service in SOE Force 133, West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944; Lieutenant, 1943; Captain, 1944; Major, [1945]; served in Royal Artillery Regt, 1946-1947; died 1994.
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 1917; served in Fleet Air Arm, 1938-1946; died in 1987.
Commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1941; War Service Lt, 1942; served with 5 Indian Div, Java,1945-1946; hon Capt, 1946.
Born 1889; educated at Haileybury; commissioned into Corps of Royal Engineers, 1910; Lt, 1912; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Capt, 1916; acting Maj, 1916-1918; service in Mesopotamia, 1916-1918; awarded DSO, 1917; Staff Officer to Engineer-in-Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; Maj, 1926; service in India, [1932-1947]; Lt Col, 1934; Col, 1937;Director, Survey Department of India, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; awarded CIE, 1942; retired as Hon Brig, 1948; President, British Cave Rescue Association; died 1980.Publications: Gravity anomalies and the structure of the Earth's crust (Survey of India, Dehra Dun, India, 1932); A report on the values of gravity in the Maldive and Laccadive Islands (The John Murray Expedition, Scientific Reports, London, 1936); Cave fauna (Cave Research Group, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, 1946); Cave fauna. Preliminary list with Mary Hazelton (Cave Research Group,Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, 1947); National Grid co-ordinates of corners of 6-inch Ordnance Survey Sheets and cutting values at sheet edges of one-kilometre grid lines near corners (Cave Research Group, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, 1948).
Born in 1897; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osbourne and Dartmouth, Jesus College, Cambridge and Imperial College of Science, London; joined RN, 1910; served World War One with RN, Royal Navy Air Service, Royal Flying Corps and RAF; transferred to RAF, 1918; RAF Staff College, 1929; commanded RAF Mosul, 1930; RN Staff College, 1934; Wing Cdr, 1935; Deputy Director of Intelligence, Air Ministry, 1938-1939; Group Capt, 1938; Air Officer in charge of Administration, later Senior Air Staff Officer, General HQ, BEF, France, 1939-1940; Deputy Director of Plans, later Director of Military Cooperation, Air Ministry, 1940-1941; Chief of the Air Staff, New Zealand, and Commander Royal New Zealand Air Force, South Pacific, 1941-1943; Air Officer in charge ofAdministration, Air Command, South East Asia, 1943-1946; Deputy Head of RAF Delegation to USA, 1946-1948; member of Air Council for Technical Services, 1948-1951; retired 1951; Principal of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, 1951-1954; publication of The enigma of menace, (1959), Flight towards reality, (1975), and Skies to Dunkirk, (1982); died in 1987.
Born 1867; educated Royal Naval School, New Cross, London, Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Surrey; Lt, 1 Bn, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Mullingar, Ireland, 1886; Adjutant, 1 Bn, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 1889-1890; two year tour of duty at depot of Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Naas, Ireland, 1891-1893; Mounted Infantry Course, Aldershot, 1894; Adjutant, Mounted Infantry, Aldershot, 1895; Capt, 1895; Adjutant, SpecialService Mounted Infantry Bn, Mashonaland Field Force, during Mashonaland Campaign, Southern Rhodesia, and command of a mounted column, 1896-1897; Brevet Maj, 1897; attended Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1898-1899; Adjutant, Special Service Mounted Infantry Regt (Protectorate Regt), during the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1901; commander western defences at the Siege ofMafeking, 1899-1900; Brevet Lt Col, 1900; transferred to Irish Guards, 1900; Staff Officer to Lt Col Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell and Lt Col Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer; Brevet Lt Col and commanded Rhodesian Mounted Bde, 1900-1901; Maj, 1901; invalided back to England, 1901; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (commanding Mounted Infantry), Aldershot Command, 1901-1903; Commandant, School of Mounted Infantry, Longmoor Camp, Aldershot Command, 1903-1906; Brevet Col, 1905; Col, 1906; Assistant Adjutant General and General Staff Officer, Grade 1, 2 Div, Aldershot Command, 1906-1910; temporary Maj Gen and General Officer Commanding, New Zealand Forces, 1910-1914; served World War One, 1914-1918; Commander, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919; Maj Gen, 1914; Commander, New Zealand and Australian Div, Egypt and Gallipoli, 1914-1915; temporary Lt Gen, 1915-1918; Commander, ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), Gallipoli and Egypt, 1915-1916; Commander, 2 ANZAC (Australianand New Zealand Army Corps), later renamed British 22 Corps, Egypt and Western Front, 1916-1919; temporary Commander, 3 Corps, BEF (British Expeditionary Force),1918; Lt Gen, 1918; Commander, 4 Corps, BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), Mar 1919; Commander, 2 Corps, BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), Jul-Dec 1919; Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War, 1920-1922; Commander in Chief, BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), 1922-1924; Gen, 1923; on Military Committee of Experts in connection with the Inter-Allied Conference on the Dawes Report, 1924; General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, 1924-1928; Aide de Camp General to HM King George V, 1925-1929; Governor and Commander in Chief of Gibraltar, 1928-1933; Col Royal Ulster Rifles, 1922-1937; retired, 1933; Chairman Royal Empire Society; Governor Haileybury College and Imperial Service College; commanded platoon in the Home Guard, 1939-1944; died 1957. Publications: Life of an Irish Soldier (John Murray, London, 1939); The Home Guard Training Manual (John Murray, Pilot Press, London, 1940), edited by John Langdon-Davies and revised by Godley.
Born in 1896; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned in Indian Army, 114 Marathas, 1914; served in Mesopotamia, 1916-1918; ADC to General Officer Commanding, 1 Corps, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1918; General Staff Officer Grade 3, General HQ, Baghdad, 1919; transferred to Bombay Political Department, 1920;Assistant Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay, 1921; Assistant Private Secretary to Viceroy, 1923; Secretary, Rajkot Political Agency, 1925; Secretary to Resident for Rajputana, 1929; Prime Minister, Bharatpur State, Rajputana, 1932; Deputy Secretary, Government of India (Political Department, in charge of War Branch), 1939; Resident, Eastern States, Calcutta, 1941; Resident, Western Indian States and Baroda Rajkot, 1943; retired in 1947; died in 1990.
Born in County Armagh, Ireland, 1913; briefly served in the Merchant Navy before enlisting in the 5 Inniskilling Dragoon Guards; commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1939; service with British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, [1939]-1940; evacuated from Dunkirk, France, 1940; served in France, North Africa and North West Europe, World War Two, 1939-1945; served in Egypt and with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1946-1962; postwar appointments included the Royal Army Ordnance Corps Training Centre, Andover, Hampshire and the Central Ordnance Depot, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire; retired from the Army, 1962; died 1983. Publications: Model soldiers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962); Harris was assistant author of Brig Alan Henry Fernyhough's History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920-1945 (Royal Army Ordnance Corps, London, 1967); Irish Regiments in the First World War (Mercier Press, Cork, Ireland, 1968); How to go collecting model soldiers (Patrick Stephens, London, 1969); Knight's battles for wargamers. The Alma, 1854 (C Knight, London, 1971); The Royal Irish Fusiliers, the 87th and 89th Regiments of Foot (Leo Cooper, London, 1972); Model soldiers (Octopus Books, London, 1972).
Born in 1907; served in RAF in UK and East Africa, 1939-1945; followed a political career in Kenya,1945-1961, as Mayor of Nairobi, Nairobi City Councillor, Elected Member of the Legislative Council, and finally Minister of the Crown for Information and Broadcasting; died in 1994.
Born in 1915; served with 10 Indian Div, Italy, 1945; died in 1980.
Born in 1920; trained as a lithographer; joined RAF, 1939; served with 504 Sqn, Battle of Britain, 1940, and with 151 Wing, Murmansk, USSR, 1941; awarded Order of Lenin, 1941; commanded RAF squadron at Coolham Airfield, West Sussex, and took part in invasion of Normandy (Operation OVERLORD), 1944; Flight Lt, 1946; commanded 65 Sqn on mission to Sweden, 1948;retired, 1951; died in 1993.
Served with 8 Bde, 3 Infantry Div during Normandy landings, 1944; Instructor, Royal Engineers Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1944.
Born 1907; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, Dec 1941; service in Indian Army, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; demobilised [1947]; Chairman and Managing Director, Carrier Engineering Company Limited, 1979; died 1986.
Born in 1908; educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, Stonyhurst College, and Trinity College, Dublin;admitted solicitor, Ireland, 1930; admitted to Kenya Bar, 1931; called to Irish Bar, 1936; Chief Magistrate, Palestine, 1936; Crown Counsel, 1937; Attorney-General, Aden, 1945; called to English Bar, 1946; King's Counsel (Aden), 1946; Solicitor-General, Palestine, 1947; attached Foreign Office, 1949; Solicitor-General, Malaya, 1950; Attorney-General, Federation of Malaya, 1950-1955; Queen's Counsel (Malaya), 1952; Chief Justice of Hong Kong, 1955-1970, and Brunei, 1964-1970; Member, Courts of Appeal, the Bahamas, Bermuda and Belize, 1970-1975, and Gibraltar, 1970-1984; President, Courts of Appeal, Brunei, 1970-1973, the Bahamas, 1975-1978, Bermuda and Belize,1975-1979, and Seychelles, 1977-1984 died in 1986
Born 1910; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned as Lt, Army Dental Corps, 1939; Capt, 1940; served on HM Hospital Ship LLANDOVERY CASTLE, 1940-1942; posted for duty in Middle East, 1942-1943; served in North Africa and Italy, 1943-1945; service with Southern Command, UK, 1945; released from Army, 1946; worked with UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in China, 1946-1947; member of Ex-Services Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Group; died 1988.
Served in France and Belgium with Royal Field Artillery, 1916-1918; Lt, 1918; served Second World War in North Africa and Middle East.
Born in 1910; served in Indian Army 1931-1947; died in 1983.
Born in 1890; educated at Rossall and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Army as 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1909; service on the Western Front, World War One, 1914-1918; Capt, 1915; Brevet Maj, 1918; General Staff Officer, Grade 3, 1918; Brigade Maj, 1918-1919; Assistant Military Secretary, 1919-1920; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office,1923-1924; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Eastern Command, 1924-1926; Maj, 1927; Military Assistant to Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1927-1930; Col, 1930; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Military Operations, 1933-1936; served in Palestine, 1936; General Staff Officer Grade1, 1 Division, 1936-1938; Maj Gen, 1938; General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1938-1940; Deputy Chief of General Staff, Army HQ, India, 1940-1941; Lt Gen and Chief of General Staff, India, 1941; General Officer Commanding Burma, 1942; Secretary of War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council, India, 1942-1944; Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery,1942-1952; retired, 1944; Officiating Secretary, Viceroy's Executive Council, and Secretary of Planning and Development Department, 1944-1946; Regional Officer, Ministry of Health, 1947-1949; General Manager, Anglo-American Council on Productivity, 1949-1953; Director, British Productivity Council, 1953-1957; Chairman of Organisation and Methods Training Council, 1957-1964; died in 1981.
Born in 1878; educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor; 2nd Lt, 1 Bn, Connaught Rangers, 1900; served in South Africa, 1900-1902; Lt, 1902; attached to Egyptian Army, 1907-1917; Capt, 1909; served in Sudan, 1910; Maj 1915; served at Gallipoli, 1915; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Hedjaz (Hejaz) Mission, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917; Base Commandant, 1917-1918;Special Service Officer, Hedjaz (Hejaz) Operations, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1920; employed under Egyptian Government, 1920-1921; employed under Colonial Office as Military Adviser to Iraqi Army, 1921-1927; joined South Staffordshire Regt, 1922; Lt Col, 1924; retired pay, 1932; died in 1965.
Service in Royal Navy, [1931]-1956; Sub Lt, 1932; served on HMS VAMPIRE, 1933, and HMS DUNCAN, 1933-1934; Lt, 1934; served on HMS SEAMEW, 1938-1939; service in World War Two, 1939-1945, including the Mediterranean, 1940-1943, the Arctic, 1942-1943 and the Normandy invasion, 1944; Lt Cdr, 1942; lent to Royal Australian Navy, 1945, and served as Lt Cdr, Damage Control and Firefighting School, HMAS PENGUIN, Naval Depot, Balmoral, Sydney, Australia, 1945-1955; service on HMAS RUSHCUTTER, 1955-1956; retired 1956; publication of The gilded image, an autobiography (privately published, 1978).
Served with RN, 1941-1949; died in 1980.
Born 1864; educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Yorks andLancashire Regt, 1884; transferred to 1 Bn, Scots Guards as Lt, 1884; Capt, 1897; retired to Reserve of Officers, 1899; raised 38 Company, Imperial Yeomanry, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Commanding Officer 10 Bn, Imperial Yeomanry, South Africa, 1900-1901; awarded DSO, 1901; Maj, 1902; Hon Lt Col, 1903; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Railway Staff Officer, Paddington, London, 1914; raised 2/1 Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, 1914; Brevet Col, 1918; succeeded to Barony, 1933; died 1943.
Born in 1845; educated at Eton College; entered Rifle Brigade, 1865; helped to suppress Fenian rising,Canada, 1866; Secretary, Oregon Boundary Dispute Commission, Canada, 1867; ADC to Viceroy of Ireland, 1868-1873; served in Jowaki Expedition, India, 1877, and in Egyptian Campaign, 1882; Military Secretary to Governor of Gibraltar, 1883-1885, and to Governor of Bombay, 1885-1890; 2nd in Command, 3 Bn, Rifle Bde, Jullundar, India, 1890-1893; Lt Col, 1892; commanded 2 Bn, Rifle Bde, Dublin, Ireland, 1893-1895; appointed Assistant Adjutant General War Office, 1895; Assistant Military Secretary, War Office, 1897-1898; commanded brigade during Nile Expedition, Sudan, 1898; commanded 2 Infantry Bde, Aldershot, 1899; commanded 4 Infantry Bde, 2 and4 Divs, South Africa, 1899-1900; served in Natal, 1901-1902; Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, 1902-1904; Chief of General Staff and First Military Member of Army Council, 1904-1908; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1908-1912; published Eighty years: soldiering, politics, games (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1927); died in 1931.
Born in 1912; educated at Wesley College Dublin and Dublin University; commissioned into RAF, 1933; served in flying boats with 230 Sqn, Egypt and Far East, 1935-1938; commanded night fighter squadron, UK, 1939-1940, and day fighter squadron, 1940; Officer Commanding 266 (Fighter) Wing, Dutch East Indies, 1942; POW, Java, 1942; Staff College, 1947; FighterCommand Staff Duties, 1948-1950; Officer Commanding RAF Odiham, 1950-1952; Senior Air Staff Officer, HQ No 11 Group, RAF, 1958-1959; Air Officer Commanding No 13 group, 1959-1961; Air Officer Commanding No 11 Group, Fighter Command, 1961-1962; Senior Air Staff Officer, Far East Air Force, 1962-1964; Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Intelligence), 1964-1965; Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence), 1965-1968; retired, 1968; Director General of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1972.
Born in 1912; Cadet, Peninsula and Orient Steamship Navigation Company, 1928; Midshipman Royal Naval Reserve, 1929; Acting Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, 1933; Pilot Officer, RAF, 1934; transferred to RAF Marine Craft Branch 1934; Commanding Officer, RAF Bridlington, 1935-1936; Flight Lt, 269 Sqn 1938; Anson pilot, Coastal Command, World War Two,1939-1945; Director of Organisation (Establishments), Air Ministry, 1944-1945; commanded RAF Station Shaibah, Abu Sueir Shallufa, 1945-1947; Group Captain, Organisation, HQ RAF Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947-1948; Senior Air Advisor and DepartmentalHead of Mission, British Services Mission, Burma, 1949-1952; Senior Air Officer in charge of administration, HQ Transport Command, 1952-1956; Deputy Director of Work Study, Air Ministry, 1956-1959; Director of Manning at Air Ministry, 1960-1963; Air Officer, Administration, HQ Near East Air Force, 1963-1965; HQ Fighter Command, 1965-1967; retired in 1967; died in 1988.
Born in 1901; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; served in Middle East, 1940-1944, and East Africa, 1944; Officer in Charge of Surgical Divs of No 62 General Hospital, Tobruk, Libya, 1941-1942; and Consulting Surgeon, 9 Army, East Africa and Southern Command; Brig, 1944; retired from Army, 1945, and went on to work as surgeon at St George's Hospital, London; Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, 1967-1972; died in 1984.
Trained as Greek interpreter at the British Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus, 1957; attached to Special Branch of the Cyprus Police and later 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Cyprus, 1957-1958.
Born in 1916; 2nd Lt, Royal Scots, 1939; Lt, 1941, served with 4 Indian Div, Western Desert, 1941-1942; member of 'A' Force, special unit involved in escape operations in Western Desert, 1942, Italy, 1943-1944, and Austria, 1945; Capt, 1945; Maj, 1950; died in 1981.
Born in 1893; educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Indian Army, 1913; joined 9th Hodson's Horse, 1914; served in World War One in France, Palestine, and Syria; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1917; served in India, 1919-1938, at regimental duty, as Bde Maj, 1 Risalpur Cavalry Bde, and as an instructor at Staff College, Quetta; attended Staff College,Camberley, 1925-1926; Maj, 1929; Lt Col, 1938; commanded 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers, India, 1938-1939; Col, 1939; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 5 Indian Div, 1939-1940; Col 1939; commanded Gazelle Force, Sudan and Eritrea, 1940-1941; commanded 9 IndianInfantry Bde, Keren, Eritrea, 1941; commanded 4 Indian Div, Western Desert and Cyrenaica, 1941-1942; commanded 1 Armoured Div, Cyrenaica, 1942; commanded 7 Armoured Div, Western Desert, 1942; Deputy Chief of General Staff, General HQ, Middle East Force, 1942; commanded 43 Indian Armoured Div, 1942-1943; Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, General HQ, India Command, 1943; Maj Gen, 1943; commanded 7 Indian Div, and later 4 Corps, Burma campaign, 1944-1945; Lt Gen, 1945; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Malaya Command, 1945-1946; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India, 1946-1947; Commander-in-Chief,Pakistan Army, 1947; retired, 1948; died in 1974.
Born in 1907; joined Engineering Department of the Post Office, 1925; after a period in the PhysicsLaboratory he was transferred to regional work in Northern Ireland, where he also carried out research on magnetrons at Queen's University, Belfast; served with Royal Corps of Signals in France, 1940; Commander, 11 Unit, Lines of Communication Signals, North Africa, 1942-1943, and Italy, 1943; General Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office, 1944-1945; worked in Post Office Research Department, 1946, in charge of a group studying the causes of electronic valve failure; appointed Director of Research, 1965; died in 1981.
Born in 1896; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Artillery, 1915; served in France and Belgium, 1915-1919; Instructor, Staff College, Camberley, 1933; seconded to Australian Military Forces, 1937-1939; Head of German Intelligence Section, War Office, 1939-1940; Brig, General Staff (Intelligence), Home Forces,1940-1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, Scottish Command, 1942; Head of Intelligence Section, Allied Force HQ, North Africa, 1942-1943; served with Special Operations Executive, North West Europe, 1943-1945; Control Commission, Hungary, 1945-1946; retired pay, 1947; died in 1978.
Born in 1918; educated at Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University; trained as a solicitor, Glasgow, 1935-1939; served in Territorial Army, 1938; served with Air Observation Post, 1941-1944; commanded B Flight, No 652 Air Observation Post Sqn, RAF, Normandy, Jun 1944; Lt Col commanding War Crimes Investigation Unit, Germany, 1945-1946; formed and commanded No 666 Scottish Sqn, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1948-1953.
Served with O Company, 4 Bn, Special Bde, Royal Engineers, France, 1916.
Born in [1898] in New South Wales, Australia; educated at Sydney Technical College and Sydney University; served in 7 Australian Light Horse and 60 and 11 Sqns, Royal Flying Corps and RAF, 1914-1918; served as Air Ministry approved test pilot on flying boats, seaplanes and land planes; founder, chairman, managing director and chief designer, Percival Aircraft Limited; designed Saro-Percival Mail Plane, 1930, Percival Gull, 1931-1932 and Percival Mew Gull, 1933; won many air races and trophies, both national and international, and set a number of aviation records; served in Reserve of Air Force Officers, 1929-1939; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1939-1945; founder member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators; died in 1984.
Born in 1871; served in Benin, West Africa, 1897; Superintendent of Signals Schools, 1911; Naval Assistant to 2nd Sea Lord, 1916; served in World War One, 1914-1917; commanded HMS WARSPITE in Battle of Jutland, 1916; R Adm, 1918; President of Ordnance Committee, 1920-1923; retired list, 1923; died in 1951.