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Astley Vavasour Clarke, born 7 Feb 1870, son of Julius St Thomas Clarke and Hannah nee Vawser; educated at Oakham School, Caius College, Cambridge, Guy's Hospital (entered Apr 1892) and abroad. Awarded: BA (Cantab) 1892, MD 1898, MB BCh 1895, MRCS LRCP London 1896, MA MD (Cantab) Deputy Lieutenant, County of Leicester, 1928. Held the positions of Honorary Physician, Leicester Royal Infirmary, 1896-1930, Hon Consultant Physician, Ministry of Pensions (East Midlands Div) 1920, Member Leicester and Rutland Territorial Association since 1910. Also Deputy Chairman Leicester City Health Committee; Chairman of City General Hospital; President Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1912; President Leicester Medical Society 1911; Sheriff of Rutland, 1942. Retired in 1925; Married Ethel Mary Gee of Leicester, 1899. Died 21 Feb 1945. Publications: Lyddington, Rutland. Some points in the village history (1936). Also contributed to various medical journals

Born in London, UK, on October 20 1931; family moved to Farncombe in 1933; educated at Godalming Grammar School, Surrey; studied theatre, costume and tapestry at Guildford School of Art, Surrey; gained a teaching qualification from Goldsmith's College, London; completed National Service; headed the art department at a Surrey co-educational grammar school from 1958; later worked for a College of Education in Hampshire; first pageant was an acting role in the Pageant of Farnham Castle, 1950; production designer for the Pageant of Guildford,1957; acted for the Chantry Players, the Richmond Shakespeare Society, the Surrey Community Players and Polesden Lacey Open Air Theatre; founded and directed the Cloister Players, which specialised in large scale costume productions in settings such as cathedrals and castles; venues included Guildford Cathedral, Guildford Castle, Loseley Park, Farnham Castle, Salisbury Cathedral, Cowdray Castle, Sussex, and Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall; appointed as artistic director of the Guildford Festival, 1973; left teaching profession to further his theatrical career; Pageant Master of the Guildford Pageants,1968, 1977 and 1995; awarded a Silver Jubilee Medal, 1977; Pageant Master of the Farnham Pageant of 1988; Guildford Festival director until 1996; staged productions in York, Winchester, Salisbury, Exeter, Chichester, Newquay and Carlisle; researched the history of pageants and English tapestry; produced several films; died November 28 2014, Chilworth, UK.

Born 1909; educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals, 1929; Technical Royal Corps of Signals Training, Catterick, Yorkshire, 1929-1931; 2 Divisional Signal Regt, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1931-1933; Lt, 1932; served with 13 Corps Signal Regt, Indian Signal Corps, Rawalpindi and Karachi, India, 1934-1939; Capt, 1938; posted to 1 Anti Aircraft Bde Signal Sqn, Hampshire, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Adjutant, 1 Anti Aircraft Signal Regt, Territorial Army, London, 1939-1940; service with 53 (Welsh) Div Signal Regt, East Anglia, 1940; served with 61 Div Signal Regt, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1940-1941; temporary Maj, 1941; Staff Officer to Chief Signals Officer, Headquarters, 3 Corps, Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1941-1942; served in Basra, Iraq, and Khorramshah and Qom, Iran, with 10 Army, 1942-1943; service in Sicily, Italy, and Allied Forces Headquarters Algiers, Algeria, 1943-1945; Maj, 1946; Staff Officer to Chief Air Formation Signals Officer, RAF Headquarters, Germany, 1946-1948; Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), 1948; Senior Officers School, Devizes, Wiltshire, 1948; British Army Mission to Burma, 1949-1951; Lt Col, 1951; Chief Signals Officer, 1 Anti Aircraft Group, London, 1951-1955; Commanding Officer, Signal Regt, Territorial Army, 1955-1957; retired 1957; died 1998.

Born 1892; educated Loughborough School, Leicestershire; 2nd Lt, 10 (County of London) Bn (Hackney), London Regt, Territorial Force, 1912; Capt, Territorial Army, 1913; served World War One in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and India, as part of 162 Bde, 54 (East Anglian) Div; transferred to Essex Regt as Lt, 1916; temporary Deputy Assistant Adjutant, 21 Corps, 1917; Maj, Territorial Army, 1917; service in India with 57 (Wildes Rifles) Frontier Force and 25 (County of London) Bn (Cyclists), London Regt, Territorial Force, 1918-1919; served with 1 Bn, Essex Regt in Ireland, 1920-1922, and Borden, Hampshire, 1923-1927; Capt, 1925; attended Staff College, 1927-1929; General Staff Officer, Small Arms School, Netheravon, Wiltshire, 1930-1932; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters Western Command, 1932-1934; Brevet Maj, 1933; served with 1 Bn, Essex Regt during Saar Plebiscite, 1934-1935; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, and Local Lt Col, Nigeria Regt, Royal West African Frontier Force, 1935-1938; Maj, 1936; Assistant Commandant and Local Col, Nigeria Regt, Royal West African Frontier Force, 1938-1939; Brevet Lt Col, 1939; served World War Two, 1939-1945; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 4 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1939-1940; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, Headquarters Lines of Communication, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1940; temporary Lt Col and acting Brig, 1940-1941; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Headquarters West Africa, 1940-1941; Commander, Gold Coast, West Africa, 1941; War Substantive Lt Col and temporary Brig, 1941; Commander, Counter-Attack Bn (formed from 30 Bn, Essex Regt), Home Forces, 1942; Assistant Quartermaster General, British North Africa Force, 1942-1943; Lt Col, 1942; temporary Brig, 1943-1947; Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, British North Africa Force, 1943; Commander, Lines of Communication, Base Sub-Area, Bone, North Africa and 54 Area, Bari, Italy, 1943-1944; Commander, Essex Sub-District, Eastern Command, Home Forces, 1945-1947; honorary Brig and retired, 1947; died 1972. 

Publications: The History of the West African Frontier Force (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1964), by Col A Haywood and Clarke.

Julius St Thomas Clarke, MS FRCS, surgeon, entered Guy's Hospital Medical School as pupil in 1860; married Hannah Vawser.

Clayton born 1882, educated Cheltenham College and University of Cambridge, possibly Director of the Physio-Therapeutic Department or otherwise an employee of the School of Physiotherapy at King's College Hospital, 1914-1947.

Born in 1966; studied political science at the University of Winnipeg, Canada; awarded Master's degree on Soviet and Canadian military policy and nuclear weapons doctrine by Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1990; employed as analyst and historian for Air Command Headquarters, Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg, Canada, 1991-1992; former PhD student in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, 1993-1996; employed by the National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Canada.

Publications: Canadian nuclear weapons (The untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal) (Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada, 1998).

Trained at King's College Hospital 1929-1932. Obtained General Nursing Council registration, 1932

Born in 1895; educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered Army, 1914; service in World War One, France and Belgium, 1915-1917 and Italy, 1917-1919; Assistant British Commissioner, Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928; Senior British Commissioner, British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936; Chief Engineer, China Command, 1940-1941; Prisoner of War, 1941-1945; retired in 1948; British Commissioner, Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-57; died in 1970.