Born 1913; educated at Minehead Modern School, Somerset, Latymer Upper School, London, King's College London and Heidelberg University, Germany; Acting Vice Consul and Vice Consul, British Consulate General, Free City of Danzig, 1938-1939; service in World War Two, 1939-1945; enlisted in Army, 1939; commissioned, 1940; Intelligence Officer, Auxiliary Units, General Headquarters Home Forces, and Instructor in irregular warfare, 1940-1941; Instructor, German Interrogation Course, Cambridge, 1941; posted to Middle East, 1941; Intelligence Officer, Headquarters 8 Army, Egypt and Libya, 1941-1942; General Staff Officer 3, General Headquarters Middle East, and Headquarters 10 Corps, Jun-Sep 1942; General Staff Officer 3, Headquarters 8 Army, 1942-1943; General Staff Officer 2, Instructor on War Intelligence Course, School of Military Intelligence, Matlock, Derbyshire, 1943-1944; served in North West Europe, 1944-1945; Maj, General Staff Officer 2, Operational Intelligence, G2 Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), 1944-1945; General Staff Officer 2, Tactical Headquarters 21 Army Group and Headquarters British Army of the Rhine, 1945; Deputy Head of Political Intelligence Section, Headquarters British Army of the Rhine, 1945; demobilised, Dec 1945; Personal Assistant, Messrs Williams and Williams, Chester and London, 1946; Senior Research Officer, Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1946-1948; Joint Services Staff College, 1948; Deputy Assistant Director, Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1950-1953; British Joint Services Mission, Washington DC, USA, 1953-1956; awarded OBE, 1956; Assistant Director, Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1957-1963; Imperial Defence College, 1960; Counsellor, British Embassy, Washington DC, USA, 1963-1965; Chairman, Joint Intelligence Staff, Cabinet Office, 1965-1968; Assistant Director (Economic Intelligence), Defence Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1973; Director of Economic Intelligence, Defence Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1970-1973; Deputy Chief Adviser to Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, 1973-1978; died 1995. Publications: Die Persönlichkeit Johann Christian Günthers (Heinrich Fahrer, Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim, Germany, 1938); translation, with Douglas Scott and R F C Hull, of Existence and being by Martin Heidegger (Vision, London, 1949); translation, with E E Thomas, of Ostasien denkt anders (The mind of East Asia) by Lily Abegg (Thames, London, 1952); In the caves of the mind. Poems by Alan Crick (Privately published, Rye, Sussex, 1992).
Born 1915; educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Cheshire Regt, 1935; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; Lt, 1938; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Capt, 1943; Bde Maj, 6 Airlanding Bde, 1943-1944; Commanding Officer, 9 Bn, The Parachute Regt, 1944-1946; awarded DSO, 1945; General Staff Officer 2, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1946-1948; Maj, 1948; General Staff Officer 1, School of Land/Air Warfare, 1950-1952; General Staff Officer 1 (Plans) to FM Sir Gerald (Walter Robert) Templer, Director of Operations, Malaya, 1952-1954; awarded OBE, 1954; Brevet Lt Col, 1954; Col General Staff, Manoeuvre Planning Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), 1955-1957; Lt Col, 1957; Col, 1957; Deputy Commandant, JSA [Joint Services Academy] Warfare Centre and Chief Instructor, Staff Training Wing, 1957-1958; commanded 16 Parachute Bde, 1960-1961; Imperial Defence College, 1962; Director, Land/Air Warfare Ministry of Defence (Army Department), 1964-1966; awarded CB, 1966; Commandant, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, 1967-1969; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, 1969-1972; Col, The Cheshire Regt, 1969-1971; created KCB, 1970; Col Commandant, The Prince of Wales Div, 1971-1974; retired 1972; Trustee, Imperial War Museum, London, 1973-1983; Director, South East Regional Board, Lloyds Bank Limited, 1973-1986; Chairman, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, 1974-1985; Lieutenant, HM Tower of London, 1975-1981; Vice President, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1978-1985; Director, Flextech Limited, 1978-1986; Deputy Lieutenant, Kent, 1979. Died 2002
Born 1903; educated at The Oratory and the Royal Military Academy; commissioned into Royal Artillery as 2 Lieutenant, 1923; Lieutenant, 1925; Indian Signal Corps, 1926-1930; Adjutant, 1935-1938; Captain, 1936; Brigade Major, Anti Aircraft Corps, Territorial Army, 1938-1940; Major, 1940; Lieutenant Colonel, 1941; secretary of the Venezia Giulia Boundary Commission, 1946; secretary of the Four Power Commission, Italian Colonies, 1947; Colonel, 1947; chief secretary to Control Commission, Germany, 1948; military attaché, Greece, 1949-1951; Brigade Commander, 1951-1955; Queen's Messenger, 1955-1960; died 1980.
Born 1919; RAF College, Cranwell, 1937-1938; Pilot Officer 1938; School of Air Navigation, Manston, Jan-Apr 1939; 75 (Bomber) Squadron, Apr-Jul 1939; Met Flight, Mildenhall, Jul-Sep 1939; School of Air Navigation, St Athan, Glamorgan, Sep 1939-Jul 1940; Flying Officer 1940; BAT & DU, WIDU & 109 Squadron, Boscombe Down Wilts, Jul 1940-Aug 1941; Flight Lt 1941; Acting Sqn Ldr 1941; Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Jan 1942-Apr 1943; AFC 1942; 109 Squadron, Wyton, Apr-Jun 1943; Sqn Ldr 1943; Acting Wg Cdr 1943; commanded 105 Squadron, Marham & Bourn, June 1943-Sep 1944; DFC 1943; Acting Gp Capt 1944; DSO 1944; RAF Staff College 1944; Air Headquarters, India, 1945-1946; Officer Commanding RAF Agra, 1946-1947; Headquarters, Flying Training Command, 1948-1950; Officer Commanding Flying, Hullavington, 1950-1952; Wg Cdr 1950; Air Ministry, 1953-1955; Officer Commanding BCDU, Wittering, 1955-1956; Gp Capt 1957; Gp Capt Ops HQ Middle East Air Force, 1957-1959; Officer Commanding 24 AD Wing, Watton, 1960-1961; CBE 1960; retired 1961; died, 29 Dec 2001.
Born in 1914; commanded F Troop, 112 Field Battery, 30 Field Regt, Royal Artillery in France, 1940; died in 1986.
Born 1862; educated at Malvern College; joined Royal Navy, 1876; served on HMS DUKE OF WELLINGTON, flagship of Adm Sir George Elliot, 1876-1877; Midshipman, 1877; served on HMS ALEXANDRA, flagship of V Adm Geoffrey T Phipps Hornby, Mediterranean Fleet, 1877-1878; served on HMS CRUISER, 1878; Sub Lt, 1881; served on HMS TEMERAIRE, Egyptian War, 1882; landed with Naval Bde and present at Battle of Tel el Kebir, 1882; Lt, 1882; Cdr, 1895; served on HMS BLAKE, 1901; Capt, 1901; commanded HMS GOOD HOPE, Flagship of R Adm Edmund Samuel Poe, 1 Cruiser Sqn, Channel Fleet, 1904-1906; commanded HMS BLACK PRINCE, 1906; Assistant Director of Torpedoes, 1906-1908; Aide de Camp to King Edward VII, 1909-1910; R Adm, 1911; Aide de Camp to HM King George V, 1910-1911; R Adm, Home Fleet, Portsmouth, and President of Submarine Committee, 1913; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commanded 5 Battle Sqn, Channel Fleet, Flagship HMS PRINCE OF WALES, 1914-1915; Senior Naval Officer in charge, Gibraltar, 1915; V Adm, 1916; retired 1919; died 1936.
Born in 1898; 2nd Lt, Lancashire Fusiliers, 1917; Lt, 1918; Capt, 1930; served in France and Belgium, 1917-1918; Maj, 1938; served in France, 1940.
Born 1892; educated at Marlborough and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commisioned into the Royal Regt Artillery 1911; served World War One, 1914-1919 (wounded, despatches four times, MC and bar, DSO); Brevet Maj, 1929; Maj 1929; Brevet Lt Col, 1933; Col, 1938; Maj Gen 1941; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Army Headquarters India, 1925-1927; Bde Maj 12 Indian Infantry Bde, 1927-1929; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office, 1930-1934; Imperial Defence College Course, 1935-1936; General Staff Officer Grade 2 Staff College, Camberley, 1937-1938; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Division 2, Aldershot, 1938-1939; Commander Corps of Royal Artillery 1 Corps BEF (British Expeditionary Force) 1939-1940; Brig Gen Staff 10 Corps, 1940; Director of Military Intelligence, War Office, 1940-1944; Maj Gen, General Staff British Army Staff, Washington, USA, 1944-1946; retired pay, 1946. Col Commandent Intelligence Corps, 1952-1960; died 1973.
Born, 1898; educated at Charterhouse and Royal Military Academy; commissioned, Royal Field Artillery (RFA), 1918; service on Western Front, World War One 1918; Prisoner of War, 1918; Gunnery course, School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, 1919; service in 130 Bde, RFA, 28 Div, Anatolia, 1919-1920; service with RFA, India, 1920; transferred to 3 King's Own Hussars, India 1931; Staff College course, Camberley, 1932-1933; Bde Maj, 150 Bde, 1935-1936; Company Commander, Royal Military College Sandhurst, 1937-1938; Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, 1939; Chief Staff Officer, British Mission to French Gen Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Paris, France, led by Maj Gen Sir Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse, 1939-1940; Head of War Office Mission to King Leopold, Belgium, May 1940; Second in Command, 3 Hussars, 7 Armoured Bde, Western Desert, 1940-1941; General Staff Officer Grade 1, British Troops Headquarters, Greece, for evacuation of British forces from Greece, April 1941; commanded 3 Armoured Bde, Tobruk, Libya May-Jul 1941; General Officer Commanding 7 Armoured Bde, 7 Armoured Div, Western Desert Jul-Dec, 1941; Director of Military Operations, Middle East General Headquarters, 1942-1944; commanded Land Forces Adriatic, southern Italy, 1944-1945; retired from Army, 1948; became professional painter and sculptor; recommissioned for special duties, Middle East, 1956; retired from Army again, 1959; died, 1983.
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 in 1900; educated at Ampleforth School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; joined West Yorkshire Regt, 1919; seconded to King's African Rifles, 1926-1931; Officer Commanding Troops, Nyasaland, 1930-1931; Adjutant, 1 Battalion West Yorkshire Regt, 1932-1934; Staff College, Camberley, 1935-1936; Military Assistant to the Secretary of State for War, 1939-1940; Director of Military Intelligence, Middle East, 1942; Chief of Staff, 8 Army, 1942-1944; Chief of Staff, 21 Army Group, 1944-1945; retired pay, 1947; publication of Operation Victory (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947); African Assignment (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1953); Generals at War (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1953); From Brass Hat to Bowler Hat: Sir Francis de Guingand (Hamilton, London, 1979); died in 1979.
Born 1864; educated in Jersey and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into 2 Bn, Durham Light Infantry, Gibraltar, 1883; employed with Mounted Infantry, Frontier Field Force, Egypt and the Sudan, 1885-1886; Battle of Giniss, Sudan, 1885; awarded DSO for service in an attack by Arabs on fort at Ambigole Wells, Egypt, 1886; Capt, 1891; Adjutant, 2 Bn, Durham Light Infantry, Poona, Bombay, India, 1892-1896; attended Staff College, 1899; served with Mounted Infantry, Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, South Africa, 1900; awarded CB, 1900; raised and commanded 6 Mounted Infantry Regt and a Mobile Column, South Africa, 1900-1902; Maj, 1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1902; service with 5 Dragoon Guards, 1902; Commanding Officer, 2 Provincial Regt of Hussars, Hounslow, Middlesex, 1902-1903; Second in Command, 1 (Royal) Dragoons, 1903; Lt Col, 1906; Brevet Col, 1906; Commanding Officer, 1 (Royal) Dragoons, 1906-1910; Col, 1910; General Staff Officer 1, 2 Div, Aldershot Command, 1910-1911; temporary Brig Gen, 1911-1914; commanded 4 Cavalry Bde, Eastern Command, 1911; commanded 2 Cavalry Bde, Southern Command, 1911-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commanded 2 Cavalry Bde, 1 Cavalry Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1914; temporary Maj Gen, 1914-1915; General Officer Commanding 1 Cavalry Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), Western Front, 1914-1915; Maj Gen, 1915; General Officer Commanding 29 Div, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 1915-1916; temporarily commanded 9 Corps, Gallipoli, 1915; General Officer Commanding 29 Div, Western Front, 1916-1918; created KCB, 1917; temporary Lt Gen, 1918; General Officer Commanding 13 Corps, Western Front, Mar 1918; General Officer Commanding 15 Corps, British Armies in France, Apr 1918; Lt Gen, 1919; created KCMG, 1919; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, 1919-1923; Gen, 1926; retired 1926; died 1955. Publications: Polo in India (Thacker, Bombay, India, 1907); Tournament polo (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1938); Reminiscences of sport and war (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1939).
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 in 1905; educated at Westminster School and Selwyn College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1926; Capt,1937; served in France, 1939-1940 and 1944; Maj, 1943; commanded 3 SP Regt Royal Pakistan Artillery, 1947-1949; Lt Col, 1949; Commander, 49 Armoured Div (Territorial Army), 1951; Col, 1952; Commander, 64 Anti-Aircraft Bde (Territorial Army), 1954; Commandant, Coast Artillery School and Inspector, Coast Defences (Home), 1956; Brig, 1956; Commander, Plymouth Garrison, 1957; retired, 1957; died in 1980.
Born 1891; educated at Haileybury; commissioned into Corps of Royal Engineers, 1911; trained at Royal Engineers Depot, Chatham, Kent, 1911-1913; Lt, 1913; Assistant Garrison Engineer, Madras, India, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service with 2 Queen Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, Bangalore and Secunderabad, India, 1915; service in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1915-1919; awarded MC, 1915; Capt, 1917; awarded DSO, 1917; Brevet Maj, 1919; served in Iraq, 1919-1920; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1924; Instructor in Tactics, School of Military Engineering, 1925-1927; Maj, 1926; General Staff Officer 2, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1927-1929; Commanding Officer, 54 Field Company, Royal Engineers, Bulford, Wiltshire, 1929-1931; Brevet Lt Col, 1930; General Staff Officer 2, Southern Command, 1931-1933; Lt Col, 1934; Imperial Defence College, 1934; service in Malta, in charge of improving the island's defences, 1935-1936; Col, 1936; General Staff Officer 1, War Office, 1936-1937; temporary Brig, 1937; Army Instructor, Imperial Defence College, 1937-1939; Maj Gen, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Director of Military Operations, War Office, 1939-1940; Chief of Staff to ACM Sir (Henry) Robert (Moore) Brooke-Popham, Commander-in-Chief Far East, 1940-1941; awarded CB, 1941; Deputy to FM Sir John Greer Dill, British Joint Services Mission, Washington DC, USA, 1942; Head of Army and Air Liaison Staff, Australia, 1943-1944; Head of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) Mission to Denmark, 1944-1945; member of Allied Control Commission, Berlin, Germany, 1945-1946; retired 1946; died 1981. Publications: The Army (William Hodge, London, 1938)
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 [1901]; educated in France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland; BSc, University of Lyons, France; served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1940-1945, mainly based at Headquarters of Force 133 at Cairo, Egypt, during World War Two, under the name of Maj and later Lt Col Julian Antony Dolbey; worked for Lyons Silks Ltd, French Silhouettes and Arnold Securities, all associated companies of the French textile group Maison J Bourdelin.
Served with 5 (Weald of Kent) Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regt), Mesopotamia, 1915; wounded, 1915; working for Hills Brothers Company, Basra, Iraq, in the date trade, 1925-1927; emergency commission, Indian Army, 1941; acting Major, 1944.
Publications: Dates and date cultivation of Iraq (Agricultural Directorate of Mesopotamia Memoir No. 3, published Cambridge, 1921); co-editor with Albert Aten, Dates: handling, processing and packing (Food and Agriculture Organisation Agricultural Development Paper No 72, Rome, 1962)
Born in [1896]; Deputy Provost Marshal, 2 Army, UK and Normandy, 1943-1944; died in 1993.
Attended British nuclear tests, Monte Bello Island, Western Australia, 1952, and Emu Field, Australia, 1953; Indoctrinee Force Coordinator, BUFFALO nuclear tests, Maralinga, Australia, 1956.
2nd Lt, 1936; service with Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 1936-1945; service with 59 (Home Counties)(Cinque Ports) Field Bde, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 1938; served at Headquarters, 61 (North Midland) Field Regt, Royal Artillery,Territorial Army, 1939; Lt and temporary Capt, 1939; Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer, No 2 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit, attached to 4 Bde, 1 Div Free French Army and 421 Field Artillery Group, US Army, serving in southern France and Italy,1944-1945.
Born Rotherham, Kent, 1908; serving as Boy on the HMS IMPREGNABLE, 1924; HMS AJAX, 1924-25; HMS CALYPSO, 1925-1927; Ordinary Seaman, 1926; Able Seaman, 1927; HMS PEMBROKE I, 1927-1928; invalided out 1929.
Fall of the Wall is a two part television documentary produced for BBC2 by Brian Lapping Associates, a London based television production company. The documentary was aired on the BBC2 on 30 Oct and 6 Nov 1994 to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The programme was produced by David Ash and Stephen Clark, and Directed by David Ash.
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 1904; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1924; Lt, 1926; Capt, 1937; Assistant Inspector, Ammunitions Branch, Armaments Inspection Department, 1938-1939; Instructor, Royal Army Ordnance Corps School of Instruction, 1939-1940; Maj, 1940; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, General Headquarters, BEF, France, 1940; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1940-1941; AssistantQuartermaster General and later Colonel, Q Branch, Ordnance Supplies and Ammunition, Washington, 1941-1942; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, 1942-1943; Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, 1943-1944; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, Middle East Land Forces, 1944; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, Central Ordnances Provision Office, Middle East Land Forces, 1944-1945; Deputy Commandant, Central Ordnance Depot, Donnington, 1945-1949; Lt Col 1948; Deputy Commandant, Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester, 1951-1952; Col, 1952; Commandant, Battalion Ordnance Depot, British Army of the Rhine, 1952; commanded HQ Ammunition Organisation, Eastern Command, 1954-1956; Director, Ammunition and Stores, War Office, 1956-1959; Brig, 1956; retired, 1959; publication of History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1920-1945 (1967).
Born in India, 1875; commissioned into the Army as 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1894; service in Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1897-1899; service in the Boer War, 1899-1900; assistant commander on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission, Northern Nigeria, 1902-1904; service in West Africa, 1903; appointed Capt and married Dorothea Oakey, 1904; command of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, 1904-1909; command of 31 (Fortress) Company, Ceylon, 1909-1912; command of L Company at RE Depot, Chatham, 1913; appointed Major, 1914; service on the Western Front, World War One, 1914-1918; appointed Gas Adviser, 1915; command of Special Brigade, and Director of Gas Services, 1917; President of the Chemical Warfare Committee, 1918; service in North West FrontierProvince, India, 1919-1920; appointed Lt Col, Commander, Royal Engineers in Fermoy, Ireland and Director of Irish Propaganda, 1921; Commander, Royal Engineers in Northumbria, 1922; appointed Col and Deputy Chief Engineer, Southern Command, 1924; Chief Engineer, Aldershot Command, 1926-1930; ADC, 1928; appointed Maj Gen, 1930; publication of Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade (W Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1934); Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1937-1945; publication of Commonsense and ARP, a practical guide for householders and business managers (C Arthur Pearson, London, 1939); awarded Gold Medal of the Institution of Royal Engineers, 1964; died in Hampshire, 1969.
Yorkshire Television is an independent television company based in Leeds, Yorkshire. It was established in 1968 and is presently one of the largest independent television companies. In 1997 it became a franchise of the Granada Media Group, later Granada Compass. The television documentary Four hours in My Lai was broadcast as part of the First Tuesday television series during 1989. It was produced by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, and directed by Kevin Sim.
Born 1890; educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst; served with the Gordon Highlanders in India and Egypt; served in World War One; transferred to Grenadier Guards, 1927; military attaché, Brussels, Belgium and The Hague, Netherlands, 1931-1935; commander, 1 Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 1937-1938; military attaché, Paris, France, 1938-1939; retired, 1944; chief of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Paris, 1945-1947; died 1964.
Born in 1878; educated at Malvern College and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1897-1898; 2nd Lt, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1898; served in South Africa, 1899-1902; attended Staff College, Camberley; served as adjutant to a territorial battalion; General Staff Officer Grade 3, 2 Army HQ, Home Forces, 1914; General Staff Officer Grade 3, 7 Corps, France, 1915; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 37 Div, 7 Corps, France, 1916; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 3 Army HQ, France, 1916; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Heavy Branch (later Tank Corps) HQ, France, 1916; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1917; planned tank attack at Cambrai, Nov-Dec 1917; Lt Col, 1918; planned tank operations for autumn offensives of 1918; devised Plan 1919 for a full-fledgedmechanised-air offensive; Chief Instructor, Staff College, Camberley, 1922; promoted Military Assistant to Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1926; commander of an experimental brigade at Aldershot; Senior Staff Officer, 2 Div, 1927-1930; Maj Gen, 1930; retired pay, 1933;associated with Sir Oswald Moseley's Union of British Fascists, 1933-1934; became military correspondent for the London Daily Mail, 1935; died in 1966.Publications: The star in the West: a critical essay upon the works of Aleister Crowley (Walter Scott Publishing Co, London and Felling on Tyne); Hints on training territorial infantry from recruit to trained soldier (Gale and Polden, London, 1913); Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918 (John Murray, London, 1920); The reformation of war (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1923); Yoga. A study of themystical philosophy of the Brahmins and the Buddhists (W Rider and Son, London, 1925); Sir John Moore's system of training (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1925; British light infantry in the eighteenth century (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1925); The foundations of the science of war (Hutchinson and Co, 1926); Imperial defence, 1588-1914 (Sifton Praed and Co, London, 1926); Atlantis: America and the future (Kegan Paul and Co, London, 1926); On future warfare (Sifton Praed and Co, London, 1928); The generalship of Ulysses S. Grant (John Murray, London, 1929); India in revolt (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1931); The dragon's teeth (Constable and Co, London, 1932); War and Western civilization, 1832-1932 (Duckworth and Co, London, 1932); Generalship: itsdiseases and their cure (Faber and Faber, London, 1933); Grant and Lee: a study in personality and generalship (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1933); Empire, unity and defence (Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1934); The Army in my time (Rich and Cowan, London, 1935); Memoirs of an unconventional soldier (Nicholson and Watson, London, 1936); The first of the league wars (Eyre andSpottiswoode, London, 1936); The last of the gentlemen's wars (Faber and Faber, London, 1937); Towards Armageddon (Lovat Dickson, London, 1937); The conquest of red Spain (Burns, Oates and Co, London, 1937); The secret wisdom of the Qabalah (Rider and Co, London, 1937); Decisive battles of the United States (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1942); Decisive battles (Eyre and Spottiswoode,London, 1939-1940); Machine warfare (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1941); Armoured warfare (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1943); Watchwords (Skeffington and Son, London, 1945); Thunderbolts (Skeffington and Son, London, 1946); Armament and history (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1946); The Second World War (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1948); The decisive battles of the Westernworld and their influence upon history (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1954-1956); The generalship of Alexander the Great (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1958); The conduct of war, 1789-1961 (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1961); Julius Caesar: man, soldier and tyrant (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1965).
Born, 1944; educated St Catherine's College, Oxford (MA 1967; Hon Fellow, 1994); Magdalene College, Cambridge (MPhil, 1982); joined RAF, 1963; Pilot, 3 Squadron, 1967-1971; Flying Instructor, 1972-1975; Army Staff College, 1976; Personal Staff Officer, 1977-1979; Officer, 50 Squadron, 1979-1981; Director of Defence studies, RAF, 1982-1985; Station Commander RAF Odiham, 1985-1987; Assistant Director, Defence Programmes, 1987-1988; Director Air Force Staff Duties, 1988-1990; Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, 1991-1992; Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, 1992-1994; Air Marshal; Commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1994-1995; retired, 1996; Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1997-1998; undertook writing, broadcasting, lecturing and projects for the British Government, the US Department of Defense and NATO; Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Defence, 2004-2007; died, 2007.
Born, 1913; educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of Leeds; Assistant Librarian, University of Leeds, 1937-1945; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, 1941; service in North West Europe, 1944-1945; General Staff Officer 2 (Intelligence), Headquarters, 21 Army Group, British Liberation Army, Germany, 1945; Deputy Librarian, University College London, 1945-1958; General Staff Officer 2 (Intelligence), British Army of the Rhine, Germany, 1946; Member, Enemy Publications (Requirements) Committee (EPCOM), 1946-1948; Joint Honorary Secretary, University and Research Section of Library Association, 1948-1951; Commanding Officer, University of London Officer Training Corps, 1958-1963; Librarian, King's College London, 1958-1974; Chairman, Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries, 1961-1966; Trustee, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, 1963-1983; Honorary Secretary, Council of Military Education Committees of Universities of UK, 1966-1978; Secretary, National and University Libraries Section, International Federation of Library Associations, 1967-1968; Secretary, University Libraries Sub-Section, International Federation of Library Associations, 1967-1973; Member, University of London Committee on Library Resources, 1968-1971; Vice Chairman, British Theatre Museum Association, 1971-1977; Member, Council for National Academic Awards Librarianship Board, 1971-1981; Director of Central Library Services and Goldsmiths' Librarian, University of London, 1974-1978; Member, British Library Advisory Committee for Reference Division (Bloomsbury), 1975-1978; Honorary Keeper, Military Archives, King's College London, 1979-1983; Editor, LIBER Bulletin, 1980-1983; Fellow of King's College London, 1981; died, 1983. Publications: Library co-operation at a time of financial constraints (University of London Library Resources Co-ordinating Committee, London, 1981); Guide to the Library resources of the University of London (University of London Library Resources Co-ordinating Committee, London, 1983).
Rob Evans (b 1964) is a Guardian journalist . His book, Gassed: British chemical warfare experiments on humans at Porton Down was published by House of Stratus, London, 2000.
Born 1894; educated Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland, Universities of Bonn, Germany, andGlasgow; temporary Lt in 15 (Service) Bn, (1 Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry; served in World War One, 1914-1918; temporary Capt, 1914-1917; Lt, 1916; Intelligence Section, 4 Army, Feb-Mar 1917; Lt in Indian army, 1917; Capt, 1919; service on the North West Frontier, India; Adjutant 56 Frontier Force Rifles, India; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, India, 1931-1932; Brevet Maj, 1932; Brig Maj, India, 1932-1935; Maj, 1933; Brevet Lt Col, 1937; Lt Col, 13 Frontier Force Rifles, 1938; General Staff Officer, Grade 1 and temporary Col, 1940; acting Brig, 1940; died 1986.
Born 1896; educated at School for the Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath, Eltham College, Mottingham, Kent, and Jesus College, Oxford; served in World War One, 1914-1918; joined Inns of Court Regt, Dec 1915; trained with Officers Cadet Bn, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 1916; commissioned into The King's Royal Rifle Corps, Nov 1916; posted to 5 (Reserve) Bn, The King's RoyalRifle Corps, Dec 1916; served with 2 Bn, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), Western Front, 1917-1918; awarded MC, 1917; Lt, 1918; service with 2 Bn, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, British Army on the Rhine, 1918-1919; posted to 20 Bn, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, British Army on the Rhine, 1919-1920; demobilised, 1920; joined 2 Bn, Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, Territorial Army, Apr 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned as War Service Capt, Jul 1939; served in UK with 8 Bn, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1940-1942; second in command, 70 (Young Soldiers) Bn, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, UK, 1942; Camp Commandant, Allied Forces Headquarters (British Section), North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945; awarded OBE, 1945; honorary Lt Col, 1945; retired, 1945.
Born 1903; commissioned into Royal Engineers as 2 Lieutenant, 1923; attached to Bengal Sappers and Miners, Roorkee, India; Lieutenant, 1925; worked on the placement of airfields in Burma, 1929-1930; Captain, 1934; assisted in the reconstruction of Quetta, India, after earthquake, 1935-1939; Major, 1940; served with Gazelle Force in Eritrea, 1940; served in Paiforce, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, 1941-1944; Commander, Royal Engineers (CRE) at Kineton, UK; Gibraltar and Minden, Germany, 1944-1952; Lieutenant Colonel, 1949; Chief Engineer, Rheindahlen project, Germany, 1952-1955; retired with rank of Honorary Colonel, 1955; died 1997.
Born 1895; educated at Rokeby, Charterhouse and St John's College, Oxford; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 3 (Reserve) Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1914; attached to 2 Bn, Welch Regt, 1 Div, Western Front, 1915; Lt, 1915; served with 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 19 Bde, 2 Div, Battle of Loos, France, 1915; Capt, 1915; service with 1 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1915-1916; wounded serving with 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 19 Bde, 33 Div, High Wood, Battle of the Somme, Picardy, France, 1916; poet and writer, 1917-1985; posted to 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Western Front, 1918; served with Wadham College Company, 4 Officer Cadet Bn, Oxford, 1918; service with 3 (Reserve) Garrison Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1918-1919; demobilised, 1919; graduated from St John's College, Oxford as a Bachelor of Letters, 1925; Professor of English Literature, Royal Egyptian University, Cairo, Egypt, 1926; moved permanently to Majorca, 1929; Clarke Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1954; awarded Gold Medal of the National Poetry Society of America, 1960; Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1963; Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford, 1961-1966; awarded Gold Medal for Poetry, Cultural Olympics, Mexico, 1968; awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1968; elected Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford, 1971; died 1985.Publications: Refer to A bibliography of the writings of Robert Graves by Fred Hall Higginson, Second Edition revised by William Proctor Williams (St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, 1987).
Served in World War Two with No 4 Training Command; attached to 98 Gp HQ, Egginton Hall, Derbyshire, 1943-1944; took part in bombing missions over North West Europe with 320 Sqn, 1944-1945 and 98 Sqn, 1944-1945; Officer Commanding 608 Sqn, RAF Downham Market and 142 Sqn, RAF Gransden Lodge, 1945; Officer Commanding 252 Sqn, RAF Araxos and 13 Sqn, RAFHassani, Greece, 1945-1946; Officer Commanding and RAF/USAF Senior Liaison Officer, RAF Sealand, 1951-1954; Officer Commanding No 2 Maritime HQ Unit, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Edinburgh, 1961; died in 1988.
Born in 1897; educated at Northampton School; joined 7 Bn Northamptonshire Regt as a volunteer, Sep 1914; served with Northamptonshire Regt and Lancashire Fusiliers in France and Belgium, 1915-1918; Lt, 1918; joined Indian Army, 1918; Capt, 1922; Bde Maj, Wana, North West Frontier, India, 1932-1936; Maj, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Rawalpindi District, 1939; General Staff Officer Grade 1, India, 1941; Lt Col, 1943; served in Burma, [1943-1945]; Col, 1946; Maj Gen, 1947; retired, 1957; died in 1989.
Lt, 1914; served on HMS REVENGE, Battle of Jutland, 1916; Lt Cdr, 1922; Cdr, 1927; served on teaching staff of Royal Naval College, Greenwich; publication of A cruiser commander's orders (Gieves, Portsmouth, 1933), The art of the admiral (Faber and Faber, London, 1937), Sea power in the next war (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1938), The men who defend us (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1938) and Service pay (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1944); correspondent for The Sunday Times, HMS SCYLLA, 1944; visited Germany, 1945; publication of The Bismarck episode (Faber and Faber, London, 1948), Nelson the sailor (Faber and Faber, London, 1949), Main fleet to Singapore (Faber and Faber, London, 1951), Unconditional hatred (Devin-Adair Co, New York, 1954).
Born in 1905; 2nd Lt, Welch Regt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939, and Crete, 1941; captured by Germans in Crete, 1941, and held as POW in Salonika and Germany, 1941-1945; Maj, 1942; Lt Col, 1947; died in 1985.
Born 1916; educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; Lt, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; temporary Capt, 1941-1942; service in Malta, 1940-1942; served in Sicily and Italy, 1943; Capt, 1944; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1944; GeneralStaff Officer 2, Headquarters 8 Army, Italy, 1944-1945; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office, 1945-1947; Instructor, Royal Corps of Signals Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1947-1949; Chief Instructor, 1948-1949; Maj, 1949; Instructor, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1949-1952; General Staff Officer 2, Headquarters, East African Command, Kenya, 1952-1954; service in Malaya, 1954- 1956; Lt Col, 1956; Commanding Officer, 6 Armoured Div Signal Regt, Royal Corps of Signals, British Army of the Rhine, 1956-1958; retired from the Army, 1960; awarded OBE, 1961; employed by Lines Brothers; died 1983.
Born 1917; educated at Marlborough College, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Open International University for Complementary Medicine, Sri Lanka; commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1937; service with 1 Bn, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Colchester, Essex, 1937-1939; served in World War Two in the UKand Italy, 1939-1945; Lt, 1940; temporary Capt, 1940-1942; War Substantive Capt, 1942; temporary Maj, 1942-1945; Capt, 1945; temporary Maj, 1945-1949; service in Greece, Egypt and Cyprus, 1948-1958; Maj, 1950; served with 1 Bn, Royal Green Jackets on its formation, 1958; Lt Col, 1959; awarded OBE, 1959; Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Royal Green Jackets, 1959-1962; Security Commander, Aden, 1962-1964; commanded 129 Infantry Bde, Territorial Army, 1964-1966; Brig, 1966; Chief of Staff, UN Peacekeeping Force, Cyprus, 1966-1968; retired, 1968; Chief Security Officer, Sierra Leone Selection Trust Limited, 1969-1970; Vice President, International PeaceAcademy, 1971-1973; Consultant, 1973-1997; Visiting Senior Lecturer in Peace Studies, Bradford University, 1974-1979; Consultant, United World College of Atlantic, 1974-1981; Vice President, UN Association (UK), 1974-1997; Member, Management Committee,Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1978-1989; Education Planning Director, British Council for Aid to Refugees (Vietnamese Section), 1979-1980; General Secretary, World Disarmament Campaign, 1980-1982; Member of Generals (retired) for Peace and Disarmament, 1981-1990; Director, Centre for International Peacebuilding, 1983-1997; Co-ordinator, Worldwide Consultative Association of Retired Generals and Admirals, 1991-1997; Member, International Council, Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, USA, 1992-1997; Consultant/Adviser, International Institute for Peaceful Change; died 1997.Publications: The impartial soldier (Oxford University Press, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1970); The blue berets (Leo Cooper, London, 1971); The thin blue line. International peacekeeping and its future, with Indar Jit Rikhye and Bjørn Egge (Yale University Press, London, 1974); The knaves of diamonds (Seeley Service, London, 1976); Waging war on war:the need for new concepts of common security for Europe (Project for Peace Studies, Oxford, 1988); Investing charity funds (Jordans, Bristol, 1995).
Born in 1872; 2nd Lt, Liverpool Regt, 1892; Lt, 1895; Adjutant, 1897-1899; served in South Africa 1899-1900; Capt, 1900; Adjutant, 1901-1903; Officer Commanding Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1903-1907; employed at Army HQ and War Office, 1909; General Staff Officer Grade 3, Army HQ, 1909-1911; Brigadier Major, Aldershot Command, 1911-1913;employed in War Office, 1914; General Staff Officer Grade 2, France, 1914-1915, and Grade 1, 1915; Brig Gen, later Maj Gen, General Staff, France, 1915-1917; Maj Gen, General Staff, Italy, 1917-1918; Maj Gen, General Staff, France, 1918; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1918-1920; Lt Gen, 1920; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Army of the Black Sea, 1920-1921, Allied Occupation Forces in Turkey, 1921-1923, Northern Command, 1923-1927, Western Command, India, 1927-1931, and Aldershot Command, 1931-1933; Gen, 1927; ADC to the King, 1930-1934; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar, 1933-1938; publication of Plumer of Messines (John Murray, London, 1935); retired, 1938; publication of Tim Harington looks back (John Murray, London, 1940); died in 1940.
Born in 1903; served in World War Two on HMS FISHGUARD, 44 Escort Group, Western Approaches; served with Fleet Air Arm, [1943-1945]; Educational Officer, HMS ROYAL RUPERT, Germany, 1945-1947; Recreational Libraries Officer, 1952-[1966]; died in 1987.
Born 1914; educated Roslyn public schools, Swarthmore College, and Columbia University; taught political science at Columbia, Barnard, Princeton and Marshall Universities; research assistant to Judge Samuel Rosenman and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt's public papers; section chief, Bureau of the Census, 1940; personnel officer, Office for Emergency Management, 1941; administrative analyst, United States Bureau of the Budget, in 1942 and 1946; entered the United States Army in 1942 as a private in the Infantry; commissioned a second lieutenant, Armored Force, in 1943; assigned to European Theater of Operations as combat historian in 1944, where he interrogated German prisoners of war; special assistant to President Truman 1949-1953; associate director of American Political Science Association at Washington, D.C., 1953-1956; research director, presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; administrative aide to Senator John A. Carroll of Colorado in 1957; moved to Huntington, W.Va., in 1957 to teach at Marshall University; delegate Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1977); host of a daily talk show and a writer for a weekly newspaper column; science consultant, House Committee on Science and Technology, 1980-1982; taught at the University of Charleston and Marshall University, 1981-1984; elected secretary of state of West Virginia in 1984.
Publications: Author of Insurgency: personalities and politics of the Taft era (Columbia University Press, New York, 1940) and The bridge at Remagen (Hamilton, London, 1961).
Born in 1902; educated at St Edward's College, Liverpool and Liverpool University; qualified as a dental surgeon, 1923; worked in private practice, 1923-1926; Liverpool University Officers' Training Corps, 1921-1925; Cadet Corporal, Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry, 1925-1926; served with 106 (Lancashire Hussars) Yeomanry Regt, Royal Horse Artillery, 1926-1941; served in Palestine, Western Desert, Greece, Crete, and Syria, 1940-1942; commanded 106 Regt in UK, 1937-1940, Palestine, 1940, Western Desert, 1940 and Greece, 1941, and Crete, 1941, and 60 Field Regt, Royal Artillery in Syria, 1941, and Western Desert, 1941-1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, 7 Indian Div, India, 1942, and Burma, 1943-1945; commanded 7 Indian Div, 1945; North West Frontier, India,1942; Burma, 1943-1945; Commander, Royal Artillery, 42 (Lancashire) Infantry Div (Territorial Army), 1947-1950; Chief Dental Officer, Cheshire County Council, 1957-1968; died in 1990.
Born in 1906; educated at Marlborough College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and King's College, Cambridge; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1926; Lt, 1927; served in India, 1928-1934, including Mohmand Campaign, 1933; Capt, 1936; served in UK, 1937-1939 and France, 1939-1940; Commander, Royal Engineers, 1 Airborne Div, 1942; served in North Africa, 1943, Italy, 1943, North West Europe, 1944-1945, and India, 1946-1947; publication of Memoirs of a junior officer (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1951); Commander, 63 Gurkha Infantry Bde, Malaya, 1952-1955; Brig, 1955; publication of Red shadow over Malaya (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1955); Commander, Royal Engineers, 1 British Corps, Egypt, 1956; publication of Life in the Army today (Cassell and Co, London, 1957; retired in 1958; Honorary Col, Parachute Engineer Regt, 1959-1968; Honorary Col, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1964-1968; died in 1991.
Born in 1894; served in France and Belgium, 1915-1917; 2nd Lt, West Yorkshire Regt, 1915; Lt, 1917; served in Italy, 1917-1918; served in Kurdistan, 1923; Capt, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1924; General Staff Officer for Weapon Training, Aldershot Command, 1930-1933; Brig Maj, Aldershot Command, 1933-1934; Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Egypt, 1935-1936; DeputyAdjutant and Quartermaster General, Palestine and Transjordan, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; Maj, Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1937; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1937-1940, and Grade 1, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; served in Egypt and Libya, 1940-1941, and later East Africa; honorary Brig, 1948; died in 1977.
Born 1896; educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the City School, Lincoln, and Loughborough College; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service on Western Front with Corps of Royal Engineers, 1915-1918; Associate Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1924; Civil and Mechanical Engineer, ICI Limited, 1925-1939; Officer Commanding 107 Company, Corps of Royal Engineers (Reserve), Territorial Army, 1931-1935; Fellow, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1933; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Assistant Director of Works, General Headquarters, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1939-1940; awarded OBE, 1940; Deputy Chief Engineer, Home Forces, 1940-1941, and Western Command, 1941; Deputy Controller, Military Works Services, War Office, 1941-1943; Director of Fortifications and Works, War Office, 1943-1945; Assistant Secretary, ICI Limited, 1945-1958; awarded CBE, 1946; Member, Central Advisory Water Committee, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1969; Member of the Bowes Committee, Committee of Inquiry into Inland Waterways, 1956-1958; Hon Secretary and Vice President, Royal Institution, 1960-1968; Vice Chairman, Isle of Wight River and Water Authority, 1964-1973; Vice President, Round Tables on Pollution, 1965-1973; Member of Council, Solent Protection Society, 1975-1985; UK Representative to Council of European Industrial Federations; Hon Life Member, Solent Protection Society; died 1992.
Born, 1861; educated Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1878-1880; Royal Artillery, 1880; staff captain, Meerut, 1890; adjutant of the Royal Horse Artillery, Kirkee; 1892; served in the South African War, 1899-1902; served in World War One, 1914-1918; general officer commanding-in-chief, Eastern Command, 1918-1920; Baron [1919]; aide-de-camp general to King George V, 1920; retired from Army, 1926; died 1929.