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Fitzjohn, Tudor, son of the Rev. Thomas Lechmere Tudor Fitzjohn, Vicar of Cardington, Salop, by Emily Mercy, second daughter of William Patchett, of Shrewsbury; b. July 9, 1875; adm. Jan. 16, 1890 (G); left July 1891; Non-Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1896, migrated to Caius Coll., where he was adm. pensr. Jan. 14, 1898, and kept four terms; 2nd Lieut. Wares Regt. (from the Militia) April 21, 1900; Lieut. Dec. 8, 1900; Capt. Aug. 25, 1906; Major Oct. 26, 1915; temp. Lieut.-Col. 7th Batt. Lancs Regt. Dec. 20, 1915 - April 23, 1918, acting Lieut.-Col. 8th Batt. Lancs Fusiliers April 24 -July 30, 1918, and acting Lieut.­Col. Worcs Rcgt. Sept. 9, 1918 - Feb. 22, 1919; Lieut.-Col. in the army May 31, 1922; retired. June 25, 1922; served in the South African War with the Mounted Infantry 1901-2, and in Great War I 1914-21; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916, Jan. 4, 1917, and July 9, 1919; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1917, Bar July 30, 1919; French War Cross; m. May 17, 1916, Jessie Louisa, widow of Lieut.-Col. Victor G. Rickards, of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and daughter of the Rev. Canon Courtenay Moore, Rector of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork; d. 1962.

Shearman, Charles Edward Gowran, son of Ernest Charles Shearman (q.v.); b. May 1, 1889; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (G); left July 1906; R.M.A. Woolwich 1908; 2nd Lieut. Bedfs. Regt. Nov. 6, 1908; Lieut. March 1, 1911; Capt. Dec. 15, 1914; Brigade Major 173rd In­fantry Brigade 1917-8, and temp. Lieut.-Col. with the Rhine Army 1918-9; wounded; mentioned in despatches L.G. Oct. 19, 1914; Legion of Honour (5th class) 1914; M.C. Jan. 1, 1915; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1918; Major Feb. 3, 1928; Lieut.-Col. Oct. 16, 1933; D.A.A. and Q.M.G. Western Command 1930-2; commanded 1st Batt. Beds and Herts Regt. 1932-7; Col. Oct. 1, 1937; A.Q.M.G. Northern Command Oct. 1, 1937; temp. Brigadier, Middle East; mentioned in despatches L.G. April 1 and Dec. 30, 1941; C.B.E. July 11, 1940; retired with hon. rank of Brigadier Dec. 22, 1945; m. Dec. 10, 1924, Evelyn Winifred, only daughter of Col. Frank Augustin White, C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E., of Colchester, Essex; d. 1968.

Lonsdale, Christopher Windley, brother of William Henry Mackenzie Lonsdale (q.v.); b. Feb. 1, 1886; adm. May 4, 1899 (G); left July 1902; Durham Univ.; Head Master of Shawni­gan Lake School, British Columbia; d. Aug. 3, 1952.

Holloway, John Astley, son of Percy John Holloway, asst. Comptroller to the Viceroy of India, and Magdalen Frances Astley, d. of Edward Hugh Stanley Champneys of Sellindge, Kent; b. 5 Sept. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left July 1941; RA 1943-5 (Lieut. ); Tube Investments Ltd. 1947-83; retd.; m. 27 Aug. 1949 Nina Margaret, d. of Surgeon-Capt. John William Craig RN, of Kirkcudbright; d. 22 Feb. 2011.

Nares, Geoffrey Owen, brother of David Owen Nares (qv); b. 10 June 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left Apr. 1934; an actor and stage designer; first appeared (under his father's management) in The Winning Post at the Globe Theatre Dec. 1934; 2nd Lieut. RASC Oct. 1940, transf. 12 Lancers Aug. 1941; d. on active service 20 Aug. 1942.

Geoffrey Owen Nares was born at Hampstead, London on the 10th of June 1917 the younger son of Owen Ramsey Nares, an actor, and Marie (nee Polini) Nares, an actress, of 35, Hamilton Terrace, Westminster and of Highmoor in Oxfordshire. He was christened at St Augustine’s Church, Paddington on the 17th of November 1917. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1930 to April 1934. He won a Sir Henry Lucy Prize for Art in 1931. On leaving school he became an actor and a theatre designer, his first appearance being in the part of a stable boy in “The Winning Post”, starring Lawrence Olivier at the Adelphi Theatre on the 17th of December 1934. In June 1935 he played Kim Oldham in “Grief Goes Over” at the Globe Theatre and he played Martin Hilton in “Call it a Day” at the Glove Theatre, London in October of the same year which ran for more than a year; his father was also a member of the cast. As well as being an actor he was a designer of scenery for the stage and designed sets for “Candida”, “The Constant Wife”, ”Gaily We Set Out”, and “Blondie White”.
He enlisted as a Driver in the Royal Army Service Corps before being attending an Officer Producing School and being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the 26th of October 1940. He transferred to the 12th Royal Lancers in August 1941 and was posted to the Middle East where he contracted pappataci (sand fly fever) and died from a brain tumour in hospital at Cairo.
He is buried at Heliopolis War Cemetery Plot 2 Row D grave 14.

Salwey, Humphrey John, only son of John Salwey (adm. 1879, q.v.); b. March 6, 1900; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (G); left (with Triplett) July 1918; 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1922; Head Master of the Pilgrims' School, Winchester, 1931; m. Aug. 5, 1925, Lorna Mary, only daughter of John Powys Penruddocke, of Winchester House School, Eastbourne; d. 6 June 1985.

Samuel, Donald Edwin Lewis, son of Dennis Edwin Samuel, of Kensington, by Katie Lilian, daughter of Abraham Lewis Lazarus, of London; b. July 19, 1903; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (G); left Easter 1920; employed with Samuel Montagu & Co.; 2nd Lieut. Royal Army Pay Corps Sept. 16, 1940; Lieut. March 16, 1942; Capt. Faroe Islands Force; m. May 5, 1939, Rosemary Daphne Juliet, daughter of Fernand Réné Lang, of London; d. 1 Feb. 1999.

Samuel, Esmond, brother of Donald Edwin Louis Samuel (qv); b. 14 May 1906; adm. Jan. 1920 (G); left July 1920; a stockbroker; d. 20 Jan. 1981.

Savage, Patrick Morris Boscawen, son of Lieut.-Col. Morris Boscawen Savage CBE DSO, South Staffs Regt, of Lichfield, and Helen Elise Tovil QARNS, d. of Timothy William Tovell, estate manager; b. 21 Aug. 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1939, MA 1945; RMC Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut. South Staffs Regt 1940, Lieut. and Cipher Officer HQ Crete 1940, Capt. attd Roy. Corps of Signals 1941, p.o.w. 1941-5; asst master Summer Fields Oxford 1939 and 1945-56, asst HM 1956-60, HM 1960-76, Governor 1975-80; FRSA 1969; Confraternity of St Gregory, Downside Abbey, 1977; author of poems in numerous WW2 anthologies; d. 2 Apr. 2002.