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Charles, Regilaus Henry, son of Henry Edward Charles, HM Customs & Excise, and Ellen Mabel Phillips; b. 17 Apr. 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (A), (B) Sept. 1925; left Mar. 1926; British S. Africa Police 1931.

Carver, Colin Howard, son of Frederic Carver of Thorpe Bay, Essex, and Evelyn Maud, d. of George Gorey le Couteur of Jersey; b. 10 Apr. 1913; adm. Jan. 1927 (B); left July 1930; dir. Carver Gregory & Co. Ltd, wholesale textile distributors; RA 1942, RE Sept. 1944 (Capt.); m. 16 July 1948 Joyce Yvonne Jacob, d. of Reginald William Hunnex of Thorpe Bay; d. 20 June 1982.

Carton, Arthur, son of Henry Joseph Carton, stockbroker, of Hove, Sussex, and Ida Kahn, opera and concert singer, d. of Joseph Kahn, shoe manufacturer; b. 23 Nov. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B); left Apr. 1928; Lond. Stock Exchange 1929-74; 2nd Lieut. RA Feb. 1941; dir. Porn & Dunwoody Ltd, diesel and lift engineers, 1953-; Master Worsh. Company of Gardeners 1974; m. 26 Mar. 1952 Alice, d. of Marcel Porn of Little Kingshill, Bucks.; d. 1 May 1994

Carrick-Allan, Nigel Powell, son of William Carrick-Allan MD of Dinard, Brittany, and Norah Rye, d. of Henry R. Powell of Bickley, Kent; b. 24 Aug, 1914; adm. Sept. 1928 (B), (A) Sept. 1931; left Apr. 1932; St Andrews Univ. 1936, MA 1941; Gunner RA, disch. for ill-health Nov. 1940; adm. an advocate (Scottish Bar) July 1944; m. 17 July 1939 Mary Swanson, d. of Angus Camp­bell of Auchdennan, Dumbartonshire; d. 14 Apr. 1960.

Carnwath, Thomas Douglas, son of Thomas Carnwath DSO MB DPH, Dep. Chief Med. Officer Min. of Health, and Margaret Ethel, d. of Andrew McKee of Belfast; b. 19 Nov. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (B); left Mar. 1926 and went to Eton (KS); King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA 1937; a chartered accountant; Peat Marwick Mitchell 1933-9 and 1946-7 5, partner 1961-7 5; Roy. Signals 1940-5 (Maj.); m. 14 Mar. 1942 Winifred Margaret, d. of Percy Stewart, med. prac­titioner, of Rugby; d. 1998.

Carmichael, Ian Stuart Edward, son of Edward Arnold Carmichael CBE FRCP, dir. Neurological Res. Unit MRC, and Jeanette Marie, d. of Ronald Stuart Montgomerie of Dumfries; b. 29 Mar. 1930; adm. Sept. 1944 (B); left July 1946; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1951, BA 1954, MA 1958; Imp. Coll. Lond., PhD 1958; lecturer in geology, Imp. Coll. 1958-63; Prof. of Geology and Geophysics, Univ. of California (Berkeley), USA 1967-2004, then Emeritus; FRS 1999; m. 1st, 23 June 1955 Jane Penelope, d. of East Rochfort Grange of Toronto, Canada; 2nd, 12 Sept. 1970 Dione Gilmore, d. of Thomas Thatcher of Brisbane, Australia; d. 26 Aug. 2011.

Carey, Cuthbert John, son of Norman Lewis Carey, actuary, of Harrow, and Edith Mildred, d. of John Oswald Jobson, solicitor; b. 6 Dec. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (B); left July 1937; Brit. Red Cross in WW2; a BBC studio manager; m. 20 June 1953 Daphne Joy, d. of F. H. Woodward of Stanmore, Middx; d. 27 Apr. 1954.

Cannon, George Anthony, son of Lieut. -Col. Douglas Rabbitts Cannon RE, of Alton, Hants, and Olivia Lumley, d. of George Henry Robinson of Atherstone, Warks; b. 9 Feb. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (B); left July 1943; Capt. RA Dec. 1945; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1954; chief exec. Fitch Lovell Ltd. 1972; chmn. Esk Frozen Foods Ltd. 1985-; m. 9 Sept. 1950 Jacqueline Helene Edmee Charlotte, d. of Dr Werner Hoedemakers of Brussels, Belgium; d. 24 Apr. 2009.

Calway, Frank Ferguson, son of Frank Hugh Ferguson Calway, silk throwster, of Duddlestone, Somerset, and Susan Dorothy, d. of Joseph B. Harcombe of Cape Town; b. 3 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (B); left July 1939; RN (Ord. Seaman); d. on active service 31 Aug. 1941.

Frank Ferguson Calway was born at Taunton, Somerset on the 3rd of February 1921 the only son of Frank Hugh Ferguson Calway, director of a silk mill, and Susie Dorothy (nee Harcombe) Calway of “Quoits Field”, Duddlestone in Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1934 to July 1939. He was a member of the 1st Cricket XI from 1937 to 1939 and was Captain in the latter year. He was a member of the 1st Football XI in 1938 and 1939, where he played as goalkeeper. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps, where he was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1937 and later rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was appointed as Head of House in 1938 and was amember of the Debating Society where he was elected as President in 1938.
On leaving school he travelled to Canada on the 5th of August 1939 where he played cricket for a public schools side but following the outbreak of war, he returned home on board the SS Duchess of Atholl, landing at Liverpool on the 6th of October 1939. On his return he joined his father’s firm for a period of nine months and was one of the first members of the Corfe Home Guard. He played for the Taunton Cricket Club in 1940 and for the Y.M.C.A Football XI in 1939. He enlisted in the Royal Navy and was posted to HMS Quebec, the naval training establishment at Inverary in Argyll. He contracted a pulmonary abscess and died from pneumonia at Drymen Hill Hospital near Loch Lomond.
His funeral took place on the 4th of September 1941 in a service conducted by the Reverend T.L.T. Fisher. A guard of honour was provided by the Corfe Home Guard.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Corfe.
He is buried at St Nicholas’ Church, Corfe Grave 369.

Buss, Kenneth Robin Caron, son of Air Cdre. Kenneth Caron Buss OBE RAF, dep. dir. Foreign Office res. Dept., and his second wife Lilian May, d. of David John Powell of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan; b. 10 May 1939; adm. Sept. 1952 (B); left July 1957; Univ. of Paris 1959-62, Licence-ès-Lettres; FO res. 1967-75; lecturer Woolwich Coll. of Further Education 1975-92; a writer, translator and journalist 1976-; m. 1st, 1963 Patricia Ann Cams; 2nd, Natalia Buss; d. 16 Dec. 2006.