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Born in 1901; educated at Repton School and RAF Cadet College, Cranwell; commissioned, 1921; various posts in Coastal Command, 1921-1939; served in First Lord's Operations Room, Admiralty, 1939-1942; commanded RAF Station, St Eval, Cornwall, 1942, commanded Coastal Command Station, Nassau, Bahamas, 1942-1944; served at Supreme HQ, Allied Expeditionary Force, 1944-1946; Director of Air Branch, Control Commission, Berlin, 1947-1949; devised and organised the Air Lift to Berlin in 1948; conducted Anglo-Russian enquiry into collision between Yak fighter and GB civilian aircraft flying from Hamburg to Berlin during the Berlin Airlift, 1948; Commandant, RAF Bircham Newton; Assistant Chief of Staff, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1951-1953; retired 1953; died in 1975.

Born 1898; educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Clare College, Cambridge; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into Royal Artillery, 1916; service in France, Italy and South Russia, 1916-1920; Lt, 1917; served with 94 Heavy Artillery Bde, Italy, 1918; awarded MC, 1918; attached to Signal Service, 1918-1920; served with 14 Corps Signals Company, 10 Army, Piave river, Italy, 1918; seconded to Royal Engineers, 1918-1921; served as Signals Officer on British Military Mission to South Russia, Odessa Detachment, 1919-1920; acting Capt, 1919-1920; transferred to Royal Corps of Signals, 1921; Instructor, School of Signals, 1924-1928; Capt, 1927; Royal Engineers Board, 1928-1930; Second Military Member, Royal Engineers Board, 1930-1932; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1934; Intelligence Staff Officer, India, 1935; Maj, 1936; General Staff Officer 3, Baluchistan and Western District, India, 1936-1937; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; General Staff Officer 1, General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France, and General Headquarters, Home Forces, 1940-1941; temporary Lt Col, 1940-1941; awarded OBE, 1941; Lt Col, 1941; temporary Col, 1941; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, 2 Div, India, 1942-1944; Col, 1943; Maj Gen, 1944; commanded Madras Area, India, 1944-1947; awarded CB, 1946; Member of Indian Armed Forces Nationalisation Committee, 1947; General Officer Commanding Malaya District, 1947-1948; member of Nos 1 and 2 War Crimes Review of Sentences Boards, for German, Austrian, Italian and Japanese war criminals, 1948-1949; War Office, 1949; retired 1950; Telecommunications Attaché, British Embassy, Washington DC, USA, 1951-1954; Senior Planning Engineer, Independent Television Authority, 1954-1960; Chairman, Council of Royal Signals Institution, 1957-1963; Regional Officer, East Anglia, Independent Television Authority, 1960-1964; National Vice Chairman, Dunkirk Veterans' Association, 1962-1967; Technical Consultant, Inter-University Research Unit, Cambridge, 1965-1969; Chairman, South East Forum for closed circuit television in education, 1967-1973; National Chairman, Dunkirk Veterans' Association, 1967-1974; Technical Consultant, Women's Royal Voluntary Service Headquarters, 1970-1975; died 1996. Publications: Linking Universities by technology: a report prepared for the Working Party on Inter-University Communication by the Inter-University Research Unit, with H D Perraton and J W R Fox (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969); A life on the line (Costello, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1988). Article entitled 'Youthful memories of war', Stand to!, Summer 1989.

Joshua Waddington, FRCS, entered Guy's Hospital, London, as a pupil, Oct 1815.

Born 10 December 1836, London; educated at Marlborough, Rugby, King's College London and Brasenose College Oxford, attaining a BA in Classics and Mathematics; Honorary Fellow of Brasenose, 1911; ordained Curate, St Luke's, Berwick Street, London, 1861-1863; St James's, Piccadilly, London, 1863-1869; Grosvenor Chapel, London, 1870-1872; delivered Boyle Lectures, 1874, 1875; Bampton Lectures at Oxford, 1879; Warburton Lecturer at Lincoln's Inn, 1896; Select Preacher at Oxford, 1880-1881, 1907 and at Cambridge, 1876, 1891, 1903 and 1910; Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College London, 1875; Prebendary of St Paul's, 1881; Principal of King's College London, 1883-1897; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn, 1872-1880; Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, 1880-1896; Rector of St Michael's Cornhill, 1896-1903; Chaplain to Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers, 1880-1908; Dean of Canterbury from 1903; received honorary freedom of the City of Canterbury, 1921; died 9 January 1924.

Publications: Editor of A Dictionary of Christian Biography, literature, sects and doctrines with W Smith, 4 vols (John Murray, London, 1877-87); Some Central Points of Our Lord's Ministry (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1890); editor of Sussex folk and Sussex ways: a new edition with illustrations (Chatto & Windus, London, 1892); Christianity and Agnosticism. Reviews of some recent attacks on the Christian Faith (W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1895); editor of Luther's Primary Works, together with his shorter and larger Catechisms, translated into English with C A Buchheim, (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1896); editor of The Doctrine of Holy Communion and its Expression in Ritual. Report of a conference held at Fulham Palace in October 1900 (Longmans & Co, London, 1900); editor of Confession and Absolution. Report of a Conference held at Fulham Palace on December 30 and 31, 1901, and January 1, 1902 (Longmans & Co, London, 1902); Christianity and Agnosticism (Christian Knowledge Society, London, 1904); The Education Crisis: letters on the subject by the Dean of Canterbury (H Wace), Dr. Clifford and others. Re-published from the "Times," January, 1907 (Christian Knowledge Society, London, 1907); Principles of the Reformation, practical and historical (James Nisbet & Co, London, 1910); editor of A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the end of the sixth century A D, with an account of the principal sects and heresies with W C Piercy (John Murray, London, 1911); Some Questions of the Day, biblical, national, and ecclesiastical (James Nisbet & Co, London, 1912); Some Questions of the Day, national, ecclesiastical and religious (Chas J Thynne, London, 1914); The War and the Gospel: sermons and addresses during the present war (C J Thynne, London, 1917); Creative Christianity (Addresses) with others (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1921); The Story of the Passion, its own message considered in addresses (John Murray, London, 1922); The Story of the Resurrection (John Murray, London, 1923); Boyle, Bampton and Warburton lectures, and sermons.

Born in 1890; educated at Exeter School and Balliol College, Oxford; held various appointments in the Malayan Civil Service, 1915-1926; appointed as District Officer, Batang Padang, 1927, and Kuala Selangor, 1929; Superintendent of Census, Malaya, 1930-1932; Economy Officer, Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, Under Secretary, Straits Settlements and Financial Commissioner and Auditor General, Johore; Secretary for Defence, Malaya, 1938-1941; died in 1974.