War Services

War Services.  © Yorkshire Ramblers' Club

P. N. Bartlett, Territorial Captain ; Intelligence Officer, 51st Division ; St. Valery, 1940 ; prisoner five years.

R. E. Chadwick, mobilised with 121st Field Regiment, R.A. ; Lieut. Instructor at O.C.T.U. ; Captain 27th and 15th Field Regiment ; India, Persia, Italian campaign.

P. F. Foley, Captain, R.E. Known to be Colonel.

W. Lacey, Territorial, Green Howards, Major, France 1940, Dunkirk ; by the Cape to Libyan Desert, Cyprus, Palestine ; Home to re-form. Instructing officers.

G. H. Lowe, Captain, Malay Volunteer Regiment ; Singapore ; prisoner till 1946, Death Railway.

T. Nettleton, Territorial Major (1934), Humber, Tees, Tyne, A.A. Gun Zones ; Lieut.-Col., 1940, to W. Africa to form W. African A.A. Regiment ; Sierra Leone till 1943 ; India with Regiment. Retired 1944. M.B.E., T.D.

W. M. Roberts, Captain, Scientific Reserve ; O.C.T.U.’s, Major ; Retired 1941.

J. B. B. Sherwood, Territorial Driver, R.A.S.C. ; Com­ mandos, 1940 ; Middle East, 1941, Sergeant, M.M. ; 1943, Second Lieut., Royal Ulster Rifles ; 1944, S.E.A.C., Lieut. Commandos, Special Boat Group, Arakan to Rangoon ; Captain.

J. Tattersall-Wright, Territorial Major, commanded 197 H.A.A. Battery (Leeds Rifles) and 324 Battery 103 Regiment till August 1941. Second in command 103 Regiment. 1942 on, H.Q. A.A. Command, adviser on use of films for training.

H. G. Watts, Territorial Reserve of Officers, Captain ; Special Duties, Roumania, Greece, Jugo-Slavia till wounded in April, 1941 ; 1942 on, Instructor Special Forces, U.K. and Middle East; Major, 1943.

J. C. Addyman, called up 1945, R.A.F. Ground Staff ; Egypt, S. Rhodesia.

M. H. Bowling, R.E.M.E. ; Belfast, Orkneys 1941-2-3 ; India, 2 years with H.Q., A.L.P.S.E.A., planning; Warrant Officer.

N. P. Elliott, entered R.N.A.S. 1942 ; Wingfleld (Cape Town), 1944 and 1945 ; Radio mechanic, Petty Officer.

S. Marsden, entered R.N., 1941 ; Seaman, Coastal Force, 1942 ; 1942-6, Commission, Mine sweeping, Liverpool, Sheerness, Lowestoft, Germany, Lieut., R.N.V.R.

D. Middleton, enlisted 1944, called up 1945 ; 15 months in the ranks, Second Lieut., Life Guards.

F.S. Smythe, Adviser on Equipment and Personnel, 1940 ;1941-2, Squadron-Leader, R.A.F. ; ’42-3, Combined Operations, command of Mountain Warfare School, Braemar ; ’43-44, Lovat Scouts, Lieut.-Col., training in the Rockies ; Staff, Italy.

G.B. Spenceley, joined R.A.F. second day of war ; Sergeant,Middle East, 44 operations ; shot down at Essen in second thousand bomber raid ; three years prisoner, Warrant Officer.

F. W. Stembridge, December, 1940, R.A. ; Sergeant, Alamein ; Lieut., through the Italian Campaign with 8th Indian Division.

H. S. Stringer, Gunner R.A., Second Lieut., 10th Field Regiment from the ranks, 13th Anti-Tank Regiment ; India, Palestine, Irak, Syria ; Major, Resident of the Courts of Cyrenaica.

H. Thompson, R.E., October 1939 to January 1946 ; Sergeant. France 1940, Calais evacuation ; through last Western Desert campaign ; Greece, six months with Special Force paratroops ; Italy, end of campaign, four months; Greece again.

P. W. Thornton, Dental Branch, R.A.F. July 1942 (Fl.-Off.) to May 1946, Fl./Lieut.