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Upsdell, Jack, 1919-1997
GB-2014-WSA-17250 · Person · 1919-1997

Upsdell, Jack, son of Rev. George Edgar Skynner Upsdell, HM Central British Sch. Hong Kong, and Caroline Ruth, d. of Josiah Barrat of Woolwich; b. 18 May 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (R); left July 1938; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1941, MA 1945; MB 1945; surgical Registrar Epsom District Hosp.; FRACS 1960; surgeon superintendent Whakatane Hosp. NZ; m. 29 July 1944 Mary Eileen, d. of A. F. H. Dick of Blackheath; d. 25 Sept. 1997.

Turk, Arthur Vere, 1916-1988
GB-2014-WSA-17140 · Person · 1916-1988

Turk, Arthur Vere, son of Charles Vere Turk of Chesham Bois, Bucks; b. 20 Oct. 1916; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left July 1932; 2nd Lieut. Pioneer Corps May 1943; a chartered surveyor, ARICS 1938, FRICS; m.; d. 25 Apr. 1988.

GB-2014-WSA-17097 · Person · 1902-1985

Troutbeck, Wilfrid Henry, son of Henry Troutbeck (q.v.); b. July 13, 1902; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (R); K.S. (non-resident) 1917; left (with Triplett) July 1921; Trin. CoJI. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1921; designer for Western Electric Co. Ltd. 1925; engineer in charge Radio Broadcast Lab. 1928-9; technical director Electro-Acoustic Eng. Co. Ltd. 1930; joint man­aging director Watamps Ltd. 1934; technical officer, Admiralty, 1939-46; engaged in private recording business since 1946; A.M.I.E.E. 1929; M.I.R.E. 1959; m. 1st June 4, 1929, Polly Luce, of New York; 2nd 1945, Iona Carol, youngest daughter of A. J. Robertson, K.C., of London; d. 8 Feb. 1985.

GB-2014-WSA-17069 · Person · 1913-2001

Triggs, John Warren, son of William Warren Triggs CBE, engineer, of Copenhagen; b. 2 July 1913; adm. Jan. 1927 (R); left July 1932; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 1935; staff journalist Oxford Mail 1936-9; Border Regt 1940-6 (Maj.), despatches (NW Europe) Mar. 1945, MBE Jan. 1946; publicity officer Nat. Coal Board 1948; chief exec. PR Dept Festival of Britain 1948-51; dir. Campbell-Johnson Ltd 1951, Dorland Advertising 1957; m. 22 June 1946 Anne, d. of Sir George William Rendel KCMG, HM Ambassador to Belgium; d. 12 May 2001.

GB-2014-WSA-16998 · Person · 1921-2002

Towse, Anthony Norman Beresford, son of Maj. Edward Beresford Towse, Roy. Fusiliers, staff of N. M. Rothschild & Sons, and Nora Alice, d. of Edgar Harrv Selby ARIBA, man. dir. John Timpson & Co.; b. 30 Apr. 1921; adm. May 1935 (R); left Dec. 1938; RAFVR 1941-6; Lincoln Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1948, MA 1952; Westcott House Camb. 1948-50; ord. deacon 1950, priest 195 I (Southwell); Curate Beeston, Notts, 1950-7, Norburv, Surrev, 1957-60, Tenterden with Smallhvthe, Kent, 1960-4; Vicar ofAppledore, Kent, 1964-, with. neighbour­ ing parishes 1972-; Rural Dean South Lympne 1981-7; d. 13 Mar. 2002

GB-2014-WSA-16918 · Person · 1885-1960

Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas, only son of Capt. Thomas Henry Tizard, R.N., C.B., F.R.S., asst. hydrographer to the Admiralty, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William H. Church­ward, C.E., of Woking, Surrey; b. Aug. 23, 1885; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 28, 1899 (R); Q.S. Jan. 1900; left (with Triplett) July 1904; Magd. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1904; demy (Science) 1905; 1st class Maths. (Mods.) 1905; 1st class Nat. Science (Chemistry) 1908; B.A. 1908; senior demy 1909; Fellow of Oriel Coll. and lecturer in Nat. Science 1911-20; M.A. 1911; served in Great War I; Lieut.-Col. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; director of Technical Research and Experiment R.A.F.; mentioned in despatches; A.F.C. Nov. 2, 1918; principal asst. sec. Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research; F.R.S. 1926; C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1927; Rector of the Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology 1929-42; Hon. Fellow of Oriel Coll. Oxon. 1933; a trustee of the British Museum 1937; K.C.B. Feb. 1, 1937; member of the Air Council 1941-3; president of Magd. Coll. Oxon. 1942-6; chairman of the Defence Research Policy Committee and of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy 1946-52; Hon. Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1946; Hon. Sc.D., Cambridge, London and Leeds; Hon. LL.D. Queensland and Edinburgh; Hon. D.C.L. Durham; Gold Medallist of the Franklin Society of Philadelphia 1946; president of the British Association 1948; G.C.B. Jan. 1, 1949; a Busby Trustee 1938; a Governor of the School 1939; he was one of the leading scientists of his day, and it was in great part due to his prescience in the development of radar that the R.A.F. won the Battle of Britain in 1940; m. April 24, 1915, Kathleen Eleanor, second daughter of Arthur Prangley Wilson, of Rudgarick, Surrey; d. Oct. 9, 1959; the Henry Tizard Memorial Fund for the promotion of science at Westminster was founded in his memory 1960.

GB-2014-WSA-16914 · Person · 1910-1945

Titcomb, John Abbot, son of Harold Abbot Titcomb, mining engineer, of Farmington, Maine, USA, and Ethel, d. olJames Brignall of Wallington, Surrey; b. 27 Oct. 1910; adm. Jan. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Dartmouth Coll., BA 1932; Yale Univ. 1933-5; a mining engineer; Newmont Mining Corpn New York; US Marine Corps in WW2 (Capt.); rn. 3 Feb. 1940Janet, d. of Arthur Burling Foote of Grass Valley, California; d. I Mar. 1945 of wounds received in action, at Luzon, Philippines.

John Abbott “Jack” Titcomb was born at Newton, Massachusetts on the 27th of October 1910 the elder son of Harold Abbott Titcomb, a mining engineer, and Ethel (nee Brignall) Titcomb of High Street, Farmington, Maine and of 60, Addison Road, Kensington in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from January 1925 to July 1929 and won the Junior Rouse Ball Prize for Mathematics in 1928. He rowed at bow for the 2nd IV in 1928. He went on to Dartmouth College where he studied Mining and Geology and graduated with a BA in 1932. He then studied at the Sheffield Mining School at Yale from 1933 to 1935 and later studied in Yugoslavia. On leaving university he worked for the Newmont Mining Corporation of New York and was an active member of the Ledyard Canoe Club. He was a skiing instructor and a ski racer.
He was married at Emanuel Church, Grass Valley, California on the 3rd of February 1940 to Janet Stanwood (nee Foote, later Micoleau). They had a daughter, Marian, born on the 11th of July 1942 and a son, Peter Abbot, born on the 9th of May 1944.
He was acting as the head of a Marine air-ground liaison party on Luzon in the Philippines when he was shot and killed by a Japanese sniper at San Fernando, La Union. He was awarded a posthumous Silver Star with Gold Star.
His father donated land in his memory for the Titcomb Memorial Ski Slope (now Titcomb Mountain) in Maine, which was named in his honour in 1949.
He is commemorated on a plaque at the base ski lodge at Titcomb Mountain.
He is buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Plot A, Row 9, Grave 164.

GB-2014-WSA-16913 · Person · 1914-2004

Titcomb, Andrew Abbot, brother of John Abbot Titcomb (qv); b. 6 June 1914; adm. May 1928 (R); left July 1932; Dartmouth Coll., NH, USA, BA 1936; USNR in WW2 (Lieut.); an architect, MAIA ASNE; practised in Vermont 1955-88; chairman Board of Architects State of Vermont 1955-87; JP, Town Officer and Selectman Weathersfield, Vermont, 1950-88; m. 9 Nov. 1940 Joanna Curtiss, d. of Otis Grey Waring of Titusville, Florida; d. 8 Mar. 2004.

GB-2014-WSA-16874 · Person · 1900-?

Thumb von Neuberg, George Freiherr, son of Lieut.-General Freiherr Thumb von Neu­berg, commanding 2nd Prussian Cavalry Division, by Marie Melanie, daughter of Johann Gottlieb Grothe, of Langensabra, Germany; b. Jan. 25, 1900; adm. April 30, 1914 (R); left July 1914; an engineer; m. March 29, 1934, Maria Cornelia, daughter of August Ferdinand Roeder, of Cologne.