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            1548 People & Organisations results for Grant's

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            GB-2014-WSA-13030 · Person · 1914-1986

            Nicholson, Richard Groves, brother of Bruce Holland Nicholson (qv); b. 15 Aug. 1914; adm. May 1928 (G); left July 1932; RASC 1939-45; a company accountant; m. 10 June 1939 Diana Mary, d. of James Anderson Housden of Surbiton, Surrey; d. 25 Oct. 1986.

            GB-2014-WSA-13024 · Person · 1911-2001

            Nicholson, Bruce Holland, son of Thomas Reginald Nicholson, bank manager, of Hampstead, and Jessie Winifred, d. of Richard Groves Holland, master cutler, of Sheffield; b. 13July 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (G); left Dec. 1928; a Midland Bank employee; RNVR in WW2 (Pavmaster Lieut.); m. Apr. 1937 Doris Mary, d. of Harry Stephen Collyer of Ripley, Surrey; d. Jan. 2001.

            GB-2014-WSA-13021 · Person · 1888-1967

            Nichols, Wallace Bertram, son of Harry Bertram Nichols, C.E., of Streatham Hill, b. March 2, 1888; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (G); left Dec. 1906; author of Prometheus in Piccadilly; The Saga of Judas; The Secret Son and other works in both verse and prose; m. 1928, Renée, daughter of Charles Deschamps; d. 1967.

            GB-2014-WSA-13007 · Person · 1921-2008

            Nicholas, Tressilian Bryan, son of Tressilian Charles Nicholas OBE MC, Fellow and Bursar of Trinity, Cambridge, and Emily Lothian, d. of John Buchanan of Wishaw, Lanarkshire; b. 19 May 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (G), KS Sept. 1935; left July 1940; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1940 (open schol.), BA 1943, MA 1946; Roy. Signals 1941-6 (Lieut.); BEA 1947, traffic officer Rome 1949-54, station superintendent Pans and dep. man. France 1959-63, representative Poland 1963-9, Bulgaria and Romania 1972-5, retd 1976; m. 18 June 1949 Marie Antoinette Lorna, d. of William Percy Young of Beckenham, Kent; d. 25 July 2008

            GB-2014-WSA-12989 · Person · 1881-?

            Newton, George Humphreys, son of Henry Cecil Newton, of Epsom, Surrey, by Catherine Amelia, daughter of Rees Charles Price, of Newton Abbot, Devon; b. Oct. 8, 1881; at Merchant Taylors' School 1891-2; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (G); left Dec. 1898; served in Paget's Horse in the South African War 1899-1901, and in India in Great War I; V.D. 1923; a civil engineer at Trichinopoly, South India; m. Nov. 24, 1909, Winifred Frances, second daughter of Richard Ladbroke Shubrick, of Trichinopoly.

            GB-2014-WSA-12974 · Person · 1888-1941

            Newman, Kenneth Edward, son of Albert Augustus Newman (q.v.); b. May 22, 1888; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (G); left Easter 1906; adm. a solicitor Oct. 1911; legal adviser to Shanghai Municipal Police 1914-9; practised at Shanghai; m. Jan. 8, 1914, Phyllis Louise, daughter of Felix Septimus Budd, of Newport, co. Monmouth; d. at Shanghai Sept. 30, 1941.

            GB-2014-WSA-12968 · Person · 1921-1941

            Newman, Charles Edward, son of Kenneth Edward Newman (qv); b. 7 Sept. 1921; adm. Sept. 1935 (G); left July 1938; Sgt RAFVR, killed in action (Libya) 7 Dec. 1941.

            Charles Edward Newman was born at Shanghai, China on the 7th of September 1921 the son of Kenneth Edward Newman, a solicitor, and Phyllis Louise (nee Budd) Newman of 593-11, Amherst Avenue, Shanghai, China and of 9, Maxwell Road, Northwood in Middlesex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1935 to July 1938.
            He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as a wireless operator/air gunner and rose to the rank of Sergeant.
            Charles Newman and his crew took off from Kabrit on the 9th of December 1941 in Wellington Mk II Z8333 to bomb enemy motor transport at Derna Landing Ground in Libya. The aircraft failed to return from the raid.
            The crew was: -
            Sergeant Hyman Freeman (Air Gunner)
            Flying Officer Derek Lahee Skinner DFC (Pilot)
            Sergeant Norman Maddox (Observer)
            Sergeant James Marsland (2nd Pilot)
            Sergeant Charles Edward Newman (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
            Sergeant Richard Malcolm Douglas McLeod (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
            Hyman Freeman’s body was found on a beach between Derna and Mrassa Wells, some seven miles from Tobruk in February 1942. He was buried there but the grave site was subsequently lost.
            He is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial Column 243.

            GB-2014-WSA-12962 · Person · 1861-1939

            NEWINGTON, FREDERICK DE BERCKEM, son of Rev. Philip Playsted Newington, Curate of Wilmington, Kent, and Mary Holmes, dau. of Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Westerham, Kent; b. 24 Jul 1861; adm. 3 Feb 1876 (G); left Dec 1878; m. 24 Feb 1903 Frances Rhoda, widow of Edward Wallace Evans, and dau. of Arthur Herbert Cocks CB, Bengal Civil Service (previously EICS Bengal), Whitbourne Court, Herefs.; d. 17 Oct 1939.

            GB-2014-WSA-12940 · Person · 1907-?

            Neville-Wyatt, Roderick Guy, son of James Neville-Wyatt; b. 14 Dec. 1907; adm. Jan. 1921 (G); left Dec. 1924.