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Unwin, Roland Buckley, brother of Howard Buckley Unwin (q.v.); b. June 8, 1888; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (H); left July 1905; Imp. Coll. of Science & Technology; B.Sc. (Eng.) 1908; A.C.G.I.; A.M.I.C.E. 1924; M.I.C.E.; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles Aug. 6, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st East Surrey Regt. April 23, 1915; Lieut. R.E. Nov. 23, 1917; served on the western front Dec. 1914 - March 1919; joined H.M. Office of Works 1919; retired as superintending structural engineer, 1952; m. July 14., 1917, Mary Theresa, daughter of John Welsh, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Unwin, Howard Buckley, eldest son of Howard Unwin, C.E., of Chiswick, by Mary Louisa, daughter of William Buckley, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs; b. Dec. 10, 1879; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (H); left July 1897; Assoc. M.lnst.C.E. Jan. 10, 1905; Public Works Dept., Victoria­berg, Accra, West Africa; d. from the effects of an accident April 3, 1923.

Unwin, Cecil Buckley, brother of Howard Buckley Unwin (q.v.); b. Sept. 1, 1889; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (H); left July 1906; London Univ.; B.Sc. (Eng.) 1910; A.M.I.C.E., 1925; joint managing director of Kryn and Lahy, engineers, of Letchworth, Herts; M.l.M.E. 1943; m. 1st April 10, 1915, Dorothy, younger daughter of George Boswood; :md Sept. 1, 1945, Joan Elizabeth, eldest daughter of. John E. Gurney.

Underwood, Edward Arthur, son of Walter Gregory Underwood, Madras C.S., by Isabella Montgomery, daughter of George Charles Finlay, of Trichinopoly, Madras; b. Jan. 30, 1876; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (H); left April 1894; 2nd Lieut. Shropshire Light Infantry May 4, 1898; Lieut. Dec. 4, 1899; retired Sept. 22, 1906; served in the South African War 1899-1902.

Underwood, Charles Walter, brother of Edward Arthur Underwood (q.v.); b. Feb. 5, 1877; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (H); left July 1894.

Underhill, Thomas Meredith, son of Thomas Hill Underhill MB; b. 12 Jan. 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left Apr. 1925; d. 1927.

Tyser, Peter Anthony, son of Grafton Leslie Tyser FSI (formerly Nash), Valuation Dept Board of Inland Revenue, and Mary, d. of Sam Wood of Wakefield, Yorks; b. 13 July 1916; adm. May 1930 (H); left July 1935; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1939; RAFVR (Med.) 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr); DPH 1946, MB 1947, MD 1948; MRCGP 1956, FFCM 1974; County MO and prin­cipal School MO Cambs & Ely CC; later hon. consultant in Social and Preventative Medicine Fulbourn and Ida Darwin Hosps Camb., and United Camb. Hosps; m. 20 Nov. 1948 Christine Mary, d. of John M. Wallace CBE, of Haslemere, Surrey; d. 1 Oct. 2001.

Tyrwhitt, Cuthbert, son of Thomas Tyrwhitt ARIBA, of Fulham, and Dorothy Nina, d. of Reginald Godfrey Marsden, barrister-at-law; b. 11 Apr. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left July 1930; 2nd Lieut. Worcs. Regt Jan. 1932, Lieut. Jan. 1935, retd Mar. 1936; regazetted Sept. 1939 (Capt.); m. 23 Mar. 1936 Delia Gurnee, d. of Edward Norman Scott of New York; killed in action (Singapore) 15 Feb. 1942.

Cuthbert Tyrwhitt was born at Hampstead, London on the 11th of April 1912 the younger son of Thomas Tyrwhitt ARIBA, an architect, and Dorothy Nina (nee Marsden) Tyrwhitt of 4, North Court, Great Peter Street in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1925 to July 1930. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Corporal in September 1929. He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Regiment on the 28th of January 1932. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 28th of January 1935 and he resigned his commission on the 21st of March 1936.
He was married at the British Consulate at 10, Ma Ta Jen Hutung, Peiping in China on the 23rd of March 1936 to Delia Gurnee (nee Scott later Lane), an author, of Greenwich, Connecticut.
On leaving the army he returned to London where he joined the Diplomatic Service and lived at 4, North Court, Great Peter Street, London SW1.
Following the outbreak of war he was recalled to his Regiment on the 9th of September 1939 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In December 1939 he was posted to Singapore where he was attached to the Far East Combined Intelligence Bureau as an Intelligence Officer. He was tasked with creating a card index of security information which was being gathered from intercepted communications between Japanese consular officials and their attachés in Singapore, Hong Kong and their bases in Japan.
Following the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 and subsequent assault on the island of Singapore in February 1942 Cuthbert Tyrwhitt was reported to have been killed in action and buried at the British Headquarters at Fort Canning on the day that Singapore surrendered.
In October 1947, his wife donated the sum of £150 towards the Westminster School War Memorial Fund in his memory.
He is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial Column 67.

Tyrrell, Timothy Martin, son of Francis Astley Cooper Tyrrell FRCS and Nellie, d. of George Mabett, shipowner, of Cardiff; b. 14 May 1908; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left July 1926; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1926, BA 1929; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1932, MB BCh 1933; FRCS 1935; an ophthalmic surgeon; Royal Eve Hosp. 1936; Hunterian Prof. RCS 1944; m. 25 Apr. 1936 Beryl Mary Gwendoline, sister of Gerald Arnele Temple Stenning (qv); d. 2 Mar. 1968.

Tweedie-Smith, Leslie, son of Robert Tweedie-Smith, of Putney, by Harriet, daughter of John Crowle, of Kensington; b. Sept. 24, 1896; adm. May 4, 1911 (H); left. July 1913; served in Great War I; temp. Lieut. East Surrey Regt. Oct. 14, 1916; m. Sept. 17, 1919, Kathleen Francis Irene, second daughter of John Reacher, of Putney.