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GB-2014-WSA-10554 · Person · 1882-1958

Kitson, Roland Dudley, 3rd Baron Airedale, only son of James, 1st Baron Airedale, by his second wife, Mary Laura, daughter of Edward Fisher Smith, of Dudley, Worcs; b. July 19, 1882; adm. Jan. 18, 1894 (R); left July 1901; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1901; B.A. 1904; 2nd Lieut. 8th Batt. West Yorks Regt. April 23, 1912; Lieut. July 1, 1914; Capt. June 20, 1915; Gen. Staff Officer, 3rd grade, Sept. 20, 1916; served in France and Italy; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 11, 1917, and May 30, 1918; M.C. June 4, 1917; D.S.O. June 3, 1918; a director of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. Ltd., and of the Monk Bridge Iron and Steel Co. Ltd.; a Governor of the Bank of England 1923; Deputy Governor, London Assurance Corpn.; Lieutenant of the City of London; High Sheriff of the County of London 1928; succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Baron March 11, 1944; m. 1st July 1, 1913, Sheila Grace, daughter of Frank Edward Vandeleur, of South Kensington; 2nd Sept. 26, 1937, Dorothy Christabel, widow of Hugh Mortimer Rodland, and 4th daughter of the Rev. Canon Raymond Pelly; d. March 20, 1958.

GB-2014-WSA-10612 · Person · 1871-1949

Knox, Ernest Francis, son of Sir George Edward Knox, C. S. I., I. S. O., Judge of the High Court, North West Provinces, India, by Katherine Anna Louise, daughter of Major William Loch, 1st Bombay Lancers; b. July 27, 1871; adm. as exhibitioner June 5, 1885 (G); left Dec. 1888; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. Norfolk Regt. ov. 29, 1890; Lieut. Oct. 6, 1893; Indian Staff Corps Nov. 30, 1896; Capt. July 10, 1901; Double Company Commander 36th Sikhs Aug. 14, 1903; Major Nov. 29, 1908; Military Attache at St. Petersburg with temp. rank of Lieut.-Col. . May 3, 1911; Lieut .-Col. Nov. 29, 1916; Col. June. 3, 1920; retired May 15, 1922; served in the Tirah expedition 1897-8, and in Mesopotamia Feb. 1916 until he was dangerously wounded on June 12, 1916, and from Aug. 1917-Sept. 1918, North Persia Sept. 1918-May 1919; mentioned in despatches L. G. May 30 and Oct. 19, 1916; D.S.O. Dec. 22, 1916; m. Sept. 28, 1910, Margaret Muriel Dallas, only daughter of the Very Rev. James Dallas O'Meara, D.D., Dean of Rupertsland, Canada; d. June 1949.

GB-2014-WSA-10617 · Person · 1873-1959

Knox, Robert Welland, brother of Ernest Francis Knox (q.v.); b. Sept. 6, 1873; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 13, 1887; left July 1890; Caius Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. Oct. 1, 1890), only resided two terms; Edinburgh Univ.; M.B. and C. M. 1896; F.R.C.S. (Eng.) 1914; entered the Indian Medical Service; Lieut. July 28, 1897; Capt. July 28, 1900; Major Jan. 28, 1909; acting Lieut.-Col. Sept. 21, 1914-July 13, 1915, and Dec. 13, 1915-Jan. 27, 1917; Lieut. ­ Col. Jan. 28, 1917; served in the Dardanelles 1915-6 and as Asst. Director of Medical Services to the Goth and 10th Divisions of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Nov. 23, 1918-Nov. 11, 1919; mentioned in despatches LG. June 21, 1916, July 6, 1917, and June 14, 1918; D.S.O. Oct. 29, 1915; Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 4th class, and the Order of the Crown of Italy, 4th class; Col. Sept. 24, 1924; retired Jan. 1, 1928; m. Dec. 31, 1900, Lilian Margaret, daughter of Col. John Lewis Lock; d. Jan. 20, 1959.

GB-2014-WSA-11223 · Person · 1878-1951

Lloyd, Robert Archer, son of Robert Hodgens Lloyd, M. D., M.R.C.S., of Kennington, London, by Frances Harriet, daughter of George Lewis; b. April 14, 1878; adm. April 28, 1892 (A); left April 1895; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1900; M.B. (Lond.) 1901; M. D. 1909; entered the Ind. Med. Serv. 1902; Lieut. July 26, 1901, Capt. July 26, 1905; Med. Officer 21st Punjabis 1906-12; Major Jan. 26, 1914; Brevet Lieut.-Col. June 3, 1919; Lieut.-Col. Jan. 26, 1922; retired Jan. 12, 1925; served on the N. W. Frontier 1908; commanded No. 12 Ind. Gen. Hosp. at Brockenhurst, Rants, 1914-5, Marseilles in 1915, Amara 1916-8, and the Bakuta Refugee Camp, Mesopotamia, in 1919; mentioned in despatches L. G. Oct. 19, 1916, and Aug. 15, 1917; D.S.O. Sept. 17, 1917; m. Sept. 30, 1920, Ivy Francis Byard, youngest daughter of Reginald Byard Clayton of East Boldre, Rants; d. Jan. 4, 1951.

GB-2014-WSA-11524 · Person · 1882-1925

Lynch, Cecil St. John, brother of Edward Herbert Lynch (q.v.); b. Jan. 26, 1882; adm. May 2, 1895 (H); left May 1898; R.M.A. Woolwich 1899; 2nd Lieut. R.E. Aug. 18, 1900; Lieut. Aug. 18, 1903; Capt. Aug. 18, 1910; Major Nov. 2, 1916; acting Lieut.-Col. Dec. 8, 1917 - Sept. 24, 1918; served in France in Great War I as D. A. D. G. of Transport and in the Afghan War 1919; D. A. D. of Works, India, July 28, 1919; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 14, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1918; m.; d. at Quetta, Baluchistan, Sept. 27, 1925.

Lyttelton, Oliver, 1893-1972
GB-2014-WSA-11542 · Person · 1893-1972

Lyttelton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos of Aldershot, only son of the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, M. P., sometime Secretary of State for the Colonies, by his second wife, Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. March 15, 1893; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906 and went to Eton; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. Grenadier Guards July 15, 1915; temp. Capt. Oct. 18, 1915; served in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 4 and Dec. 11, 1917; D.S.O., Oct. 20, 1916; M.C. July 26, 1918; played golf for Cambridge 1913; M. P. Aldershot 1940-54; Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals 1939-40; P. C. 1940; President of the Board of Trade 1940-1 and May-July 1945; Minister of State and Member of War Cabinet 1941-2; Minister of Production and Member of War Cabinet 1942-5; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1951-4; created Viscount Chandos of Aldershot Sept. 10, 1954; chairman of Associated Electrical Insudtries Ltd. 1945-51 and since 1954; m. Jan. 30, 1920, Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of George, 10th Duke of Leeds; d. 21 Jan. 1972.

GB-2014-WSA-12162 · Person · 1877-1916

Meeson, Edward Hickman Tucker, only son of Frederick Meeson, of Eastbourne, by his first wife, Emily, daughter of Frederic Andrews, of Binsted, Rants; b. Dec. 20, 1877; adm. April 24, 1890 (R); left April 1891; Asst. Eng. R.N. July 1, 1900; Eng.-Lieut. June 1, 1904; Eng.-Lieut.-Com. June 1, 1912; Eng.-Com. May 28, 1915; present at the action in the Heligo­land Bight Aug. 28, 1914; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1915; m. Dec. 28, 1908 Gladys May, elder daughter of George Robert Gordon Joy, of Kingston Hill, Surrey; killed in action at the battle of Horn Reef, off Jutland, May 31, 1916.

GB-2014-WSA-12225 · Person · 1887-1961

Metcalfe, Christopher Henry Frank, son of Frank Ernest Metcalfe, of Willesden; b. May 12, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (G); left July 1906; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; served in Great War I; Major 5th Batt. Beds. Regt. Jan. 30, 1917; mentioned in despatches; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1917; m. Dec. 3, 1912, Mary Claire, eldest daughter of Duncan G. Kelly, of Brondesbury; d. 1961.

Page, Charles Max, 1882-1963
GB-2014-WSA-13376 · Person · 1882-1963

Page, Sir Charles Max, son of Charles Page, of Rye, Sussex, by Mary, daughter of George Sager, of Edinburgh; b. Sept. 2, 1882; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (R); left July 1901; Lond. Univ.; M.B. and B.S. 1906; M.S. 1908; St. Thomas's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1906; Bristowe Medal 1907; F.R.C.S. 1908; M.A. 1945; surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital; served in France 1914-9, acting Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C. March 26, 1918; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 22, 1915, May 25 and Dec. 30, 1918; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1919; author of a Medical Field Service Handbook (1918), and The Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations (1924); Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, 1934; Col. R.A.M.C. Sept. 1946; consulting surgeon to the army; Major-General; K.B.E. Jan 1, 1946; C.B. Jan 1, 1944; Officer of the Legion of Honour 1948; Robert Jones Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons 1951; a Busby Trustee 1955; Master of the O.W.W. Masonic Lodge, 1921; m. April 5, 1913, Helen Alicia, only daughter of Sir Thomas William Holderness, Bart., G.C.B., K.C.S.I.; d. Aug. 3, 1963.

GB-2014-WSA-13679 · Person · 1889-1937

Pemberton, Harold Charles, brother of Max Joseph Pemberton (q.v.); b. Jan. 28, 1889; adm. April 23, 1902 (G); left Dec. 1905; served in Great War I; Capt. 19th Batt. Lancs Fusiliers March 8, 1916; D.S.O. April 2, 1919; Croix de Guerre avec Palmes, sometime motoring and aeronautical correspondent of the Daily Express; m.; killed in an aeroplane accident Feb. 2, 1937.