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Born 1907; Rhodes scholar from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1929; forester in Colonial Forest Service, Tanganyika, East Africa; returned to UK, 1939; served 22 (EA) Infantry Bde, Abyssinia, 1940-1942, as platoon commander of the 1/6 (Tanganyika) King's African Rifles; Madagascar, 1942-1943; died 1996.

Born, 1918; educated, Portsmouth Southern Grammar School; bank clerk, 1935; served in Army, Second World War; surveyor, 1946; began writing, 1954; Information Officer, Atomic Energy Authority, 1961; Historical Consultant to the BBC series 'The Great War', 1963; editor, Purnell's History of the Second World War, 1964; editor in chief, Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War Two, 1967; editor in chief, Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, 1971; editor, Purnell's History of the First World War, 1969; editor, British History Illustrated, 1974-1978; consultant editor, The Military History of World War Two, 1986; died, 2006.

Served in World War Two with No 2 Inland Waterways and Port Construction Unit, Royal Engineers and was involved in the preparation of dossiers on enemy occupied ports for use by port construction and repair companies.

Born 1896; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 3 (Reserve) Bn, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 1914; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1916; served with Royal Flying Corps, 1916-1918; service with 34 Sqn, Royal Flying Corps, Western Front, 1917; served in Palestine, 1917-1918; awarded MC, 1918; transferred to RAF, 1918; relief of Diwaniyah, Iraq, 1921; RAF Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, 1925; service in Iraq, 1928; Wg Cdr, 1932; Air Staff Officer, Directorate of Operations and Intelligence, Department of the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Ministry, 1934-1937; Gp Capt, 1937; Air Attaché, Washington DC, USA, 1937-1940; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Air Officer Commanding Northern Ireland, 1941; Air Officer in charge of Administration, Middle East, 1941-1943; awarded CBE, 1942; awarded CB, 1943; Director General, War Organisation, Air Ministry, 1943-1945; Deputy Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia, 1945-1946; created KBE, 1946; Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia, 1946-1947; Inspector General, RAF, 1948; Member, Air Council for Supply and Organisation, 1948-1950; ACM, 1949; Head of Air Force Staff, British Joint Services Mission to the USA, 1950-1951; retired, 1951; created KCB, 1951; Chairman, Air League of the British Empire, 1955-1958; died 1980.

Born, India, 1914. 

Educated: Darlington Grammar School and King's College London; BSc in Botany, 1935. 

Taught at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, 1936-1940. 

World War Two, 1939-1945: joined Royal Armoured Corps, 1940; Technical Scientific Officer, Rocket Division, Ministry of Supply, 1943-1946. 

Defence, science and medical editor, Daily Express, 1946-1973. 

Assistant Editor, Daily Express, and Chief Defence Correspondent, Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1972-1979.

Publications:

Breeding of farm animals (Harmondsworth: New York: Penguin, 1946)

A study of fishes (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1947)

Into the atomic age (London: Hutchinson, 1947)

Spotlight on animals (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1950)

Evolution (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950)

co-author with Bernard Wicksteed, It's fun finding out (1950)

Sleep, and how to get more of it (London: Daily Express, 1954)

novel, Not with a bang (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965)

novel, The giantkiller (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1967)

novel, The penthouse conspirators (London: Joseph, 1970)

Sex in our time (London: Weidenheld & Nicholson, 1973)

novel, The skeleton at the Villa Wolkonsky (London: Joseph, 1975)

novel, The eye of the tornado (London: Joseph, 1976)

Inside story: a documentary of the pursuit of power (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1978)

novel, The four horses (London: Joseph, 1978)

novel, Dirty tricks (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1980)

Their trade is treachery (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1981)

novel, The private world of St John Terrapin: a novel of the Cafe Royal (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1982)

Too secret too long: the great betrayal of Britain's crucial secrets and the cover-up (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1984)

The secret offensive: active measures: a saga of deception, disinformation, subversion, terrorism, sabotage and assassination (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1985)

Traitors - the labyrinths of treason (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987)

A web of deception: the Spycatcher affair (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987)

novel, Contamination (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1989)

The truth about dirty tricks: from Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1991)

One dog and her man, by Dido (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1991)

autobiography, Pastoral symphony: a bumpkin's tribute to country joys (Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1993)

A box of chocolates, by Dido (London: Bantam, 1993)

Life's a bitch: a canine commentary on human affairs, by Dido (Shewsbury, Swan Hill, 1996)

Tight lines: the accumulated lore of a lifetime's angling (London: Robert Hale, 1997)

Treachery: betrayals, blunders and cover-ups: six decades of espionage (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2011)

autobiography, Dangerous to know (London: Biteback, 2014)

Born in 1904; educated at Taunton School and HMS CONWAY; Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), 1921; service with Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, 1921; Lt, 1928; commanded Royal Naval Reserve contingent, Armistice Day ceremony, London, 1930; Lt Cdr, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; appointed to command inshore minesweeping flotilla, 1940; commanded HMS VAN MEERLANT, 1940-1941; wounded and lost a leg when HMS VAN MEERLANT sunk by mine, Thames estuary, Jun 1941; served in Admiralty on Staff of Second Sea Lord and in the Combined Operations Division; Cdr, 1944; retired from Royal Naval Reserve, 1945; died 1996.

George Pickstock entered Guy's Hospital London as a pupil, May 1849.

F P Pickering, to whom the manuscript notes are attributed, is probably Francis Pickering Pickering, born in Bradford, 1909; educated at Grange High School, Bradford; Leeds University (BA); Gilchrist Travelling Studentship; Germanic literature and languages at Breslau University (PhD); Lektor in English, 1931-1932; Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in German, University of Manchester, 1932-1941; Bletchley Park (Hut 3), 1941-1945; Head of German Department, University of Sheffield, 1945-1953; Professor of German, University of Reading, 1953-1974; later Emeritus Professor; Dean of the Faculty of Letters, University of Reading, 1957-1960; Goethe Medal, Goethe Institute, Munich, 1975; died, 1981. His connection with King's College London is not known. Publications: Christi Leiden in einer Vision geschaut (1952); Augustinus oder Boethius? (2 volumes, 1967, 1976); University German (1968); Literatur und darstellende Kunst im Mittelalter (1968), translated as Literature and Art in the Middle Ages (1970); The Anglo-Norman Text of the Holkham Bible Picture Book (1971); Essays on Medieval German Literature and Iconography (1980); articles and reviews in English and German journals.