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Born 1908; educated at Tonbridge School, Kent, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, 1928; service in India, 1928-1937; Lt, 1931; Adjutant, 1 Bn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, India, 1934-1937; Capt, 1937; commanded Company, Regimental Depot, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, Maidstone, Kent, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; attended Staff College, Jan-Apr 1940; Bde Maj, 30 Infantry Bde, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France, Apr-Jun 1940; defence of Calais, France, 1940; Bde Maj, 141 Infantry Bde, UK, Jun-Nov 1940; General Staff Officer 2 (Operations), Headquarters 1 Corps, UK, Dec 1940-Jul 1941; General Staff Officer 2 and General Staff Officer 1, Combined Operations, UK, 1941-1944; War Substantive Maj, 1942; temporary Lt Col, 1942-1944; Second in Command, 5 Bn, Dorsetshire Regt, UK and British Liberation Army, France, Mar-Jul 1944; awarded MC, 1944; temporary Lt Col, 1944-1948; Commanding Officer, 7 Bn, Hampshire Regt, British Liberation Army, North West Europe, 1944-1945; awarded DSO, 1945; Maj, 1945; Commanding Officer, 2 Bn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, UK and British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1945-1946; RN Staff College, Greenwich, 1946; Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, Buckinghamshire, 1947; General Staff Officer 1 (Training), General Headquarters, Far East Land Forces, Singapore, 1947-1948; Senior Army Liaison Officer, UK Services Liaison Staff, New Zealand, 1948-1951; Lt Col, 1949; Col (Co-ordination), Adjutant General's Branch, War Office, 1951-1953; Col, 1952; temporary Brig, 1953; commanded 18 Infantry Bde and 99 Gurkha Infantry Bde, Malaya, 1953-1955; awarded CBE, 1955; Imperial Defence College, London, 1956; Brig, 1956; Brig, General Staff (Staff Duties, Training and Technical), Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1957-1958; Maj Gen, 1958; General Officer Commanding East Anglia District and 54 East Anglian Infantry Div, Territorial Army, 1958-1961; Civil Defence Staff College, Sunningdale, Ascot, Berkshire, 1959; Col, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, 1959-1961; awarded CB, 1960; Deputy Commander, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), and Commander British Army Group Troops, Germany, 1961-1963; Deputy Col, The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regt, 1961-1965; Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), and General Officer Commanding Rhine Army Troops, Germany, 1963-1964; retired 1964; Deputy Lieutenant, Kent, 1964; Civil Service, 1964-1973; Chairman, Kent Committee, Army Benevolent Fund, 1964-1984; Vice President of local branch, Royal British Legion; Hon Col, 8 Queen's Cadre (formally 8 Bn, The Queen's Regt (West Kent)), 1968-1971; died 1994.

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Born 1897; educated at Bolton School, Technological Institutions, King's College London and University College London; joined Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1917; Instructor in Wireless, 1 Army, Western Front; awarded MC, Battle of the Lys, 1918; Head of value manufacturing, Ediswan and Radio Communication Company, 1919-1920; Head of the Patent Department, Radio Communication Company Limited, 1920; founded the Radio Press, 1922; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with RAF in France, 1939-1940; Staff Officer, Air Ministry, responsible for radar training in RAF, 1940-1941; Senior Technical Officer, No 73 Wing, responsible for radar stations in most of England and Wales, 1943-1945; demobilised from RAF, 1945; Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, 1951-1959; retired 1959; Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers; Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; awarded OBE, 1975; died 1979.

Publications: Thermionic tubes in radio telegraphy and telephony (Wireless Press, London, 1921); Wireless for all. A simple explanation (Daily Express, London, 1922); Elementary textbook on wireless vacuum tubes (Radio Press, London, 1922); Wireless valves simply explained (Radio Press, London, 1922); How to make your own broadcast receiver (Radio Press, London, 1923); More practical valve circuits (Radio Press, London, 1923); Simplified wireless (Radio Press, London, 1923); Practical wireless valve circuits (Radio Press, London, 1923); Radio valves and how to use them (Radio Press, London, 1924); The first commandment (Hutchinson, London, 1932); The manual of modern radio (Amalgamated Press, London, 1933); The book of practical radio (Amalgamated Press, London, 1934); Bibliography of Italian Maiolica [1967]; Italian maiolica (Hamlyn, London, 1972); Spanish pottery and porcelain [1973].

Born in 1907; educated at Loretto School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Seaforth Highlanders, 1927; Lt, 1930; served on North West Frontier, India, [1930-1931]; served at Seaforth Highlanders' Depot, Fort George, 1937-1938; Capt, 1938; joined British Military Mission, Iraq, 1939; served in North Africa, 1942-1943, and Sicily, 1943; taken prisoner by Germans in Sicily, 1943, and taken to Italy; escaped, recaptured by Italians and sought sanctuary in the Vatican City, 1943-1944; Maj, 1944; commanded 5 Seaforth Highlanders, 1945; commanded Seaforth Highlanders' Depot, Fort George, [1945-1950]; Lt Col, 1950; commanded 11 Seaforth Highlanders Territorial Army, 1950-1953; Commander, 152 Highland Infantry Bde, 1953; retired, 1953; died in 1980.

Born 1868; educated at University College School, Rugby School, Cheltenham, Blackheath Proprietary School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1888; served in India, 1889-1894; Lt, 1891; Assistant Instructor in Fortification, School of Military Engineering, Chatham, Kent, 1896-1899; Capt, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, as Adjutant and later, Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Railway Pioneer Regt, 1899-1902; awarded DSO, 1900; Staff Capt, Army Headquarters, War Office, 1905-1907; Maj, 1906; Chief Instructor in Fortification and geometrical drawing, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1907-1910; Secretary, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, employed on the British Official History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1910-1913; awarded the Chesney Gold Medal, 1913; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Deputy Director of Railway Transport, 1914; Assistant Secretary (Military), Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet, 1914-1917; Lt Col, 1915; originator of tanks, 1915-1916; temporary Col, 1915-1917; raised Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps, 1916; Brevet Col, 1917; awarded CB, 1917; lecture tour of USA, 1918; retired 1919; Honorary Maj Gen, 1919; Controller of Information Department of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry, 1919-1921; Director, Citroen Company, 1922-1951; created KBE, 1923; Chichele Professor of Military History, Oxford University, 1925-1939; Col Commandant Royal Tank Corps, 1934-1938; died 1951.Publications: Under the pseudonym of Backsight Forethought, The defence of Duffer's Drift. A few experiences in field defence for detached posts which may prove useful in our next war (William Clowes and Sons, London, 1904); The truth about Port Arthur by E K Nozhin, edited by Swinton (John Murray, London, 1908); under the pseudonym of Ole Luk-Oie, The great tab dope (W Blackwood and Sons, London, 1915) and A year ago: eyewitness's narrative of the war from March 30th to July 18th, 1915, with Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland [1916]; The Russian Army and the Japanese War, being historical and critical comments on the military policy and power of Russia and on the campaign in the Far East by Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin, edited by Swinton (John Murray, London, 1909); The tanks (Gill and Son, London, 1917); The study of war (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1926); translation of Albert, King of the Belgians in the Great War by Émile Joseph Galet (Putnam, London, 1931); Eyewitness. Being personal reminiscences of certain phases of the Great War, including the genesis of the tank (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1932); translation of An Eastern odyssey. The third expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil by Georges Lefèvre (Victor Gollancz, London, 1935); Twenty years after. The battlefields of 1914-18, then and now (George Newnes, London, 1936); War commentary. Broadcasts delivered between October, 1939 and March, 1940 (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940); The green curve omnibus (Faber and Faber, London, 1942); Over my shoulder. The autobiography of Major General Sir Ernest D Swinton (George Ronald, Oxford, 1951)

Born 1906 in Chita, Siberia, and originally named Alexander Lebedeff; moved to Harbin, China, 1922; awarded a Russian Diploma in Civil and Railway Engineering, Harbin Polytechnical Institute, China, 1930; worked in Shanghai, China, on the construction of skyscrapers, submitted articles to the Engineering Society of China, 1931-1935, and became interested in theosophy and naturopathy; enrolled as a student in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, 1936; cadet medical officer in the Hong Kong Defence Force, 1938; lieutenant medical officer, Hong Kong, 1941; Japanese POW, 1941-1945; moved to England, enrolled as a medical student, University of London, 1946, and changed his surname to Swan; Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of London, 1949; worked as a Houseman and locum in General Practice, Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1950-1952; Pathology Department, King's college Hospital, 1952-1954; appointed successively Registrar, Senior Medical Officer and Consultant Pathologist in Haematology, St James Hospital, Balham, London; Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, 1971; retired 1971; further research in leukaemia, Marsden Hospital Group Cancer Research Foundation Leukaemia Unit, 1972-1974; died 1980.

Born in 1913; Flag Officer, Signal Sqn, No 1 Electrical and Wireless School, 1937-1938; served with 10 Sqn, 1943-1944; died in 1995.