Junior Commanders Course, Tactical School, Deccan College, Poona. June 1942.

Army No. Regiment. Rank. Name. Other name. Date Commissioned. Notes

Seated.
A/Captain .Wilson. A C

186401. Royal Engineers. 2nd Lieut. Bird. Douglas Alan. Comm.17/05/1941. Died 24/06/1944. Age 22.

148867.13th King's Regiment. Captain. Williams. Raymond Edward. Comm.14/09/1940. KiA 23/04/1943

Border Regt. Lieut. McIlvenna. Charles Preston

198180. King,s Regiment. 2nd Lieut. Davis. Thomas Valentine. Comm. 26/07/1941. Attached 2nd Punjab Regt Regiment

130798 Royal Welch Fusiliers. A/Captain. Leslie-Smith. Edward Rex. Died 18/08/1942

6th Rajputana Rifles. A/Captain. Coham-Fleming. William Holland Bickford. E.C. 15/02/1941. M.I.D. L.G. 22/08/1946

13th Frontier Force Regt. A/Captain. Wylie. Thomas. E.C. 01/11/1941 B: 03/01/1907

17th Dogra Regiment. Captain. Steele. John Hendry Dinham (Dinning). E.C. 22/06/1940 B: 10/02/1917

2nd Lieut. Hughes. J E

140696. North Staffordshire Regt. Lieut. White. George Henry William. Comm. 04/07/1940

Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Lieut. Parker. Leonard Kenneth. E.C. 18/10/1941 B: 11/05/1912

170424. Royal Tank Regiment. Captain. Chilver. Mervyn James. Comm. 18/01/1941

179012. Royal Artillery. 2nd Lieut. Sturla. John Michael. Comm. 22/03/1941 Wounded: 27/03/1943 Burma

219934. Royal Corps of Signals. 2nd Lieut. Esslemont. Norman Medhurst. 26/11/1941. Dangerously ill 12/06/1943

134175. 13th King's Regiment. T/Captain. Cotton. Henry Caemon. Comm. 22/06/1940

Second Row.

187451. Royal Artillery. 2nd Lieut. Bennett. Ralph Henwood. Comm. 17/05/1941

Worcestershire Regt. Lieut. Pigg. Francis Harold. Comm. 04/07/1940

6th Rajputana Rifles. A/Captain. Frank. Eric Oswald. E.C. 15/05/1941. B: 16/10/1909

9th Jat Regt. Captain. Edwards. E J. British Service attached.

11th Sikh Regt. T/Captain. McLaren. Peter Bertram. Comm. 11/12/1941

121579. Green Howards & 8/13th Frontier Force Rifles. Lieut. Goellnicht. Kenneth Fahey. Comm. 25/02/1940. Dangerously ill 11/08/1945

1/King Geo V's Own Gurkha Rifles. 2nd Lieut. Clark. H. W. E.C. 15/03/1941

3rd Madras Regt. 2nd Lieut. Rajaratnam. P C. E.C. 20/06/1942

Indian Armoured Corps. 2nd Lieut. Richards. Victor John Richard. E.C. 05/04/1941

160090. Royal Artillery. 2nd Lieut. Belam. Noel Stephen. Comm. 30/11/1940. Ex 928332 Royal Artillery

R.E. & Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners. 2nd Lieut. Clark. J H. Comm. 26/01/1930

165866. North Staffordshire Regt. 2nd Lieut. Yearron. Ralph William. Comm. 28/12/1940

155579. Royal Artillery. Captain. Thomas. Cecil Orr Stuart. Comm. 02/11/1940. 33rd Corps. 20th Ind. Div.

8th Punjab Regt. 2nd Lieut. Binns. Christopher Brian. E.C. 22/12/1940

A/Captain. Kadan. A B

Royal Army Service Corps. 2nd Lieut. Wilson. T G. Comm. 30/01/1939. Attached 11th Sikh Regt

Back Row.

E.C. 2241. 9/12th Frontier Force Regt. A/Captain. Shephard. William John Hopper. E.C. 01/01/1941. KiA 17/01/1944

18th Garhwal Rifles. 2nd Lieut. Cashin. Howard Edmund. E.C. 12/04/1941. Instructor Battle School 1944

10th Gurkha Rifles. T/Captain. Meredith George Morton. E.C. 22/12/1940

Royal Indian Army Service Corps. T/Captain. Hamidullah. Arjmand. Comm. 01/08/1937. T/Capt. 01/11/1939. A.I.R.O.

14th Coorg Btn. I. A. T/Captain. Appachoo. Apparanda Somaiah. Comm. 30/06/1939. Lieut. 30/06/1939

Indian Armoured Corps. Captain. Norris. Walter Vincent. Comm. 25/08/1938. B:22/06/1918

Royal Artillery. Lieut. Jones. P C. E.C. 12/01/1940

Royal Engineers. Captain. Prichard. Montague Illyd. Comm. 01/09/1940

85613. 2nd Suffolk Regt. T/Captain. Richards. Patrick Ernest Victor. KiA 25/01/1944

72932 1/Kings Regt. Lieut. Colley. Peter Guy. 09/07/1942. W.S. Lt. from R.A. (S. Res. of Off)

95250. Devonshire Regt. T/Captain. Snowden. Peter Barry. Comm. 01/01/1941. M.I.D. L.G. 05/04/1945

E.C. 2945. 15th Punjab Regt. T/Captain. Whitmarsh Knight. John William. E.C. 05/07/1941. M.C. 20/09/1945

138082. South Lancashire Regt. Captain. Wilkins. Cecil Carlisle Puddicombe Comm. 04/07/1940. Attached Madras Regiment

9th Gurkha Rifles. T/Captain. Richardson. Peter. Comm. 01/07/1939.

7th Gurkha Rifles. 2nd Lieut. Clark. B D. 15/02/1941. British Army. Attached.

The Nilgiri Malabar Btn. 2nd Lieut. Withey. George Henry. Comm. 12/04/1941

Indian Army. Captain. Singh Rajamajhi. Jagat G

 

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Some more great work there HW and I'm grateful for the new images of Captain Williams and Captain Cotton.

 

It is still a work in progress as War time Indian Army Commissions usually give the full name only in the London Gazette and do not give the E.C. service number. British Army commission notices usually give the full name only on the first entry but do give you the service number making it easier to find someone using just the number.

War time Indian Army promotions do not seem to appear in the London Gazette and the only time an Indial Army officer will be re mentioned is if he has been awarded a gallantry medal or mentioned in Despatches.

The Indian Army lists are very useful but do not give the full name or army number, promotions and sometimes, date of birth are shown.

Several of the officers in the photograph are proving to be elusive, e.g. P.C. Jones, who I cannot find in the London Gazette around the date of his first commission, 12th January 1940. He appears in the 1942 Indian Army List as having an Emergency Commission in the Royal Artillery. I am sure that I will find him, eventually.

 

130798 Acting Captain Edward Rex Leslie-Smith, Royal Welch Fusiliers, attached 5th Mahratta Light Infantry. Died 18th August 1942.

Captain Edward Rex Leslie-Smith | War Casualty Details | CWGC

 

186401 2nd Lieut. Douglas Alan Bird. Royal Engineers. Died 24th June 1944. The son of Lieutenant-General Sir Clarence August Bird. K.C.I.E., C.B., D.S.O., and Lady Bird, M.B.E. (Nee Nichols), of New Delhi, India.

Douglas Alan Bird was born at Simla in 1922 and so far the circumstances of his death are a mystery to me. He is commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial in Woking despite having been officially buried in Sewri, Bombay on the 25th June 1944.

"The BROOKWOOD 1939-1945 MEMORIAL commemorates nearly 3,500 men and women of the land forces of the Commonwealth who died during the Second World War and have no known grave, the circumstances of their death being such that they could not appropriately be commemorated on any of the campaign memorials in the various theatres of war. They died in the campaign in Norway in 1940, or in the various raids on enemy occupied territory in Europe such as Dieppe and St Nazaire. Others were special agents who died as prisoners or while working with Allied underground movements. Some died at sea, in hospital ships and troop transports, in waters not associated with the major campaigns, and a few were killed in flying accidents or in aerial combat. The Memorial was designed by Ralph Hobday and unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 25 October 1958.

The Memorial stands in BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY which is owned by the Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres."

 

The Birmingham Evening Despatch, 8th July 1944.

Lieut. Douglas Alan Bird, age 22, Royal Engineers, elder son of Lieut.-General Sir Clarence Bird and Lady Bird has died on active service of acute infantile paralysis.

 

Acute Infantile Paralysis being:

From: https://www.medicinenet.com/infantile_paralysis_polio/definition.htm