Barker, Rodney Mylne, son of Geoffrey Mylne Barker MC, solicitor, of Gerrards Cross, Bucks, and Sybil Joyce, d. of Frank Hickman of Oxted, Surrey; grandson of Charles Mylne Barker (qv); b. 15 Sept. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1952; Trin. Hall. Camb., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; fenced against Oxford 1953-5; adm. solicitor 1959, practised in London 1959-63; MA Teaching, Oberlin Coll., OH, USA 1964-5; secondary sch. teacher, USA 1965-77; chmn. History Dept., Thayer Acad., Braintree, MA, USA 1969-77; adm. attorney-at-law, MA, USA 1977, practised in MA, USA; Alderman, City of Newton, MA, 1977-89; dir. paralegal program, Mount Ida Coll. Newton, MA 1979-1982; Prof. of US Immigration Law, Suffolk Univ., MA 2001-8; jt. author, Solicitors’ Clerks’ Handbook 1957 and 1964; editor-in-chief, Immigration Options for Religious Workers, American Immigration Lawyers Assn. 2005, 2010; m. 10 May 1958 Elizabeth Hatfield Hines, teacher, d. of Frank Bristow Hines of Cleveland, OH, USA; d. 2017

Griffiths, Brian Pinckstone, son of William Edward Bertram Griffiths CBE, dir. of Aviation Safety, Ministry of Aviation, of Blackheath, and Emily Pinckstone, d. of Walter Williams of Plymouth, Devon; b. 1 June 1935; adm. Sept. 1948 (B); left July 1953; Bank of England 1955-; m. 1st, 23 June 1962 Caroline Alexandra, d. of Leslie Bilsby, property developer, of Blackheath; 2nd, 5 June 1985 Alison Jane, d. of Peter Lawson Marshall, chief press officer, Home Office; d. Aug. 1995.

Hadwick, Dennis Rhodes, son of Sir William Hadwick, chief gen. manager Nat. Prov. Bank, and Nellie, d. of Walter Rhodes of Morecambe, Lancs; b. 5 Apr. 1922; adm. Jan. 1936 (B); left July 1940; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1940, BA MA 1947; RM 1941 (Capt.), seconded Sudan Defence Force 1942 (Bimbashi), returned RM 1944; Lond. Stock Exchange 1948-60; an under­writing member of Lloyd's 1961; m. 20 Apr. 1955 Marjory, d. of A. Mac Phail; d. 11 Oct. 1985.

Halse-Hearne, William Edward, son of William Frederick Halse-Hearne, RN stores officer, and Esther, d. of James Alexander Crofton; b. 22 July 1917; adm. Apr. 1931 (A), (B) Jan. 1933; left Dec. 1933; Drummond's Bank; 2nd Lieut. Wilts Regt 1943, transf. Commandos (Capt.); m. 18 June 1940 Margaret Horner; d. of wounds (Burma) Nov. 1944.

William Edward Halse-Hearne was born in North London on the 22nd of July 1917 the only son of William Frederick Halse-Hearne RN, a naval stores officer, and Esther (nee Crofton) Halse-Hearne of 17, King’s Road, Wimbledon in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from April 1931 and up Busby’s from January 1933 to December 1933.
He joined the staff of Drummonds Bank in London in 1934 where he worked as a clerk. He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1938 where he served with B Battery and he was mobilised for war service in September 1939.
He was married in Surrey on the 18th of June 1940 to Margaret Gertrude (nee Horner).
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment on the 4th of June 1943 and was later attached to No. 1 Commando where he was appointed to the command of No. 4 Troop.
In November 1944, No 1 Commando was based at Teknaf in the Maungdaw Hills of Burma from where they were carrying out patrols against Japanese troops in the area. On the 11th of November 1944, No. 4 Troop, No. 1 Commando was briefed for a patrol to investigate a report of the presence of Japanese troops in the area of the village of Ywathitke. The patrol was to consist of eighteen other ranks, commanded by William Halse-Hearne, accompanied by Lieutenant Paterson and by an Intelligence Officer. It was to take a route on the outward journey of Nurutlapara –Chiradan West - Ywathitke to Thavengonbaung and return by the same route. The patrol set out at midday and was due to return at 6pm.
They advanced down the main road to a river crossing where they received updated information that enemy troops were in Thavengonbaung and in a another village to the north of it. On receiving this information they split into two groups, one under Lieutenant Paterson and the other under William Halse-Hearne, with one advancing towards through the villages towards Thavengonbaung and the other continuing down the main track where the two groups were to rendezvous. Both groups reached the rendezvous point without incident where they were informed by a native boy that the Japanese were in the village where they were commandeering millet from the locals. They continued their advance towards the village in open order with C Section, under Lieutenant Paterson, on the left and with D Section, under William Halse-Hearne, on the right. They reached the south end of the village where they found the approach to it was across 100 yards of scrub with a further 100 yards of forward slope and then 800 yards of open paddy fields beyond. Having covered the 200 yards to the village they came under fire from an enemy light machine gun and from rifle fire from their right and from snipers on their left. The two sections took cover but William Halse-Hearne had been wounded and was lying on the open ground. He was brought in by his men under heavy fire who were then forced to fall back when they were brought under 2 inch mortar fire. C Section also withdrew having kileld three enemy snipers. William Halse-Hearne was carried to Thavengonbaung and then taken on an improvised stretcher to Chiradan West. He died from his wounds during the journey when the party was approximately a mile from Thavengonbaung.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Royal Bank of Scotland branch at 36, Andrew Square, Edinburgh
He is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery Plot 3, Row G, Grave 4.

Evers, Gilbert Davey, son of Harold Evers of Bromley; b. 11 Jan. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (A) Sept. 1926; left Apr. 1929; RAFVR 1939-45 (Flt Serg., flying instructor); PO Jan. 1945; killed in air operations over Germany 28 Jan. 1945.

Gilbert Davey “Pop” Evers was born at Bromley, Kent on the 11th of January 1912 the younger son of Harold Evers, a chartered secretary, and Rhoda Skene (nee Heathcote) Evers of 6, Haven Green, Ealing in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1925 and up Ashburnham from September 1926 to April 1929.
He was granted a short service commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Acting Pilot Officer on the 21st of October 1935 and was confirmed in his rank on the 21st of October 1936. He resigned his commission on the 11th of March 1937.
On the outbreak of war he was working as an instrument flying instructor and was lodging at 83, Grand Avenue, Hassocks in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940 where he rose to the rank of Warrant Officer before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 16th of January 1945.
On the 28th of January 1945, Bomber Command dispatched 153 Lancasters for an operation on the Gremberg railway marshalling yards at Cologne. The weather was clear and the target was hit but with some bombs overshooting.
Gilbert Evers and his crew took off from RAF Chedburgh at 10.46am on the 27th of January 1945 in Lancaster Mk I PD296 HA-B, as the Squadron’s lead aircraft for the operation. This was to be his 30th operation, the final one of his tour of operations. While the aircraft was in the target area it was hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed at 2pm at Bergisch-Gladbach, 14 kilometres to the east north east of the centre of Cologne, with the loss of all but one of the crew.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer Gilbert Davey Evers (Pilot)
Sgt Ernest Noel James Francis (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer Frederick J. Norton (2nd Navigator) (Wounded) (POW)
Flight Sergeant Anthony Morris (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant David Charles Allen (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Eric Holland (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Edward Bertram Barradell (Air Gunner)
Warrant Officer John Towns DFC (Air Gunner)
Theirs was one of four aircraft which were lost during the operation, one of which crash landed in liberated France.
The navigator, Frederick Norton, was the only member of the crew to survive. He had been wounded by shrapnel in the arm but landed safely by parachute and was captured. Had Gilbert Evers survived the operation he would have been stood down from further operations.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Church of Christ the Saviour, Ealing.
He is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 31, Row C, Grave 1.

Fearnley, George Roche, son of Harold Fearnley FRCS of Blackheath, and Kathleen Tregonning Howe; b. 6 June 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (B); left July 1932; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB MRCS LRCP 1939; MRCP 1942; Lieut. RAMC July 1945; FRCP 1962; consult. physician North Gloucs Area; author of articles on Fibrinolysis in Nature, The Lancet, BMJ etc.; m. 1st Sept. 1941 Joyce Enid, d. of A. H. Andrews of Blackheath; 2nd Elizabeth Munson, d. of Frank Baier of New York; 3rd 28 Feb. 1979 Rosemary Maureen Byrne; d. Jun 1994.

Finnie, Peter William, son of Thomas Jenkins Finnie of Burnham, Bucks, and Georgina Clara Welby, d. of James Chatburn Madeley of Guildford; b. 26 Apr. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (R) Sept. 1926; left Dec. 1929; Glyn Mills & Co. 1937-42; m. 25 July 1936 Norah Isabel, d. of F.E. Bentley of Battle, Sussex; d. 18 Dec. 1946.

Freeman, John Horace, son of Horace Freeman, barrister-at-law, and Beatrice Mary, d. of Albert Craddock, merchant; b. 19 Feb. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B), non-res. KS 1929; left July 1933; BNC Oxf., matric. 1933, BA 1937, MA 1967, hon. Fellow 1967; an advertising copywriter and dir. Ashley Courtenay Ltd 1937-40; Coldstream Guards 1940-5 (Maj.); served Middle East, N. Africa, Italy and NW Europe; MBE (Mil.) Nov. 1943, Croix de Guerre 1944; MP (Lab.) Watford 1945-55; PPS to Sec. of State for War 1945-6; Financial Sec. War Office 1946, Parly Under Sec. of State 1947; Parly Sec. Min. of Supply 1947-51; a journalist and broadcaste 1951-65; asst Editor New Statesman 1951-58, dep. Editor 1958-60, Editor 1961-5; HM Diplo­matic Service 1965-71; British High Commissioner to India 1965-8; PC 1966; HM Ambassa­dor to USA 1969-71; chairman LWT 1971-84, LWT (Holdings) plc and subsidiaries including Hutchinson Ltd, publishers, 1976-84; chairman ITN 1976-81; governor Brit. Film Inst. 1976- 82, chairman 1976-8; trustee Reuters 1984-8; visiting Prof. of lnternational Relations Univ. of California, Davis, USA, 1985-; m. 1st 6 Aug. 1938 Elizabeth Allen, d. of Douglas Johnston of Woking; 2nd 1948 Margaret Ista Mabel Abbott; 3rd 1962 Catherine, d. of Harold Dove Carroll; 4th 1976 Judith, d. of Denis Holden Mitchell, film producer; d. 20 Dec. 2014.

Dalton, John Michael, son of Sir John Cornelius Dalton Kt. MIEE, barrister, and his first wife Winifred, d. of Charles Robertson; b. 20 Mar. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (B); left July 1940; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1941; read for Bar, Gray’s Inn; 2nd Lieut. RE 1944; accidentally killed on active service with a Parachute Sqdn 7 Oct. 1944.

John Michael Dalton was born in Surrey on the 20th of March 1924 the only son of Sir John Cornelius Dalton MIEE FCIS, a barrister at law, and Lady Winifred (nee Robertson) Dalton of 20, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea in London and of “Little Brook”, North Holmwood in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1937 to July 1940. He matriculated for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1941 and read for the Bar at Gray’s Inn before enlisting into the army where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 23rd of July 1944. He joined the 4th Parachute Squadron based at Bisbrooke Hall, Glaston on the 22nd of August 1944. The unit left Glaston in late August and, being the most junior officer, John Dalton was chosen to remain behind with the Residue Party, which was to gather up spare equipment and to secure the base until the unit returned from operations when it was to move to Wragby. He was billeted at Glaston House.
At 4.30am on the morning of the 7th of October 1944, the officer in charge at Glaston received a telephone call from Leicester to say that John Dalton had been killed in a motor accident.
His funeral took place on the 12th of October 1944.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Gray’s Inn.
He is buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, Holmwood.

de Mowbray, Michael Stuart, brother of John Marsh Miles de Mowbray (qv); b. 1 Oct. 1921; adm. Sept. 1935 (B); left July 1940; Worcester Coll. Oxf., matric. 1940, BA 1943, BM 1946; DPM 1956; MRCPsych 1972; consult. psychiatrist St Mary Abbot's Hosp. Kensington and Banstead Hosp., Surrey; m. 26 June 1954 Hendrika, d. of Hessel Gijtenbeek of The Hague; d. 10 Aug. 2008.