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GB-2014-WSA-06925 · Person · 1874-1942

Faija, Reginald Kearsley, son of Henry Faija, of South Kensington, civil engineer and Charlotte Kearsley; b. Sept. 9, 1874; adm. Sept. 22, 1887 (R); left Dec. 1889; d. 1942.

GB-2014-WSA-06926 · Person · 1887-?

Failes, Bernard James, brother of Harold Watson Failes (q.v.); b. Sept. 14, 1887; adm. Jan. 18, 1900 (R); left July 1906; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1917; ord. 1911; Curate of St. Thomas's, Coventry, co. Warwick, 1911-4; acting Chaplain R. N. Sept. 4, 1914-9; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 28 and July 12, 1916; O.B.E. June 3, 1919; licensed to officiate at Ashbury, Berks, 1919-20; Curate of Great Yarmouth, 1920; Vicar of Raveningham with Norton Subcorse, 1925-7; Vicar of Watton, 1927-58; Rector of Ovington, 1946-52, all in Norfolk; Hon. Canon of Norwich 1945.

GB-2014-WSA-06927 · Person · 1885-1918

Failes, Frank Christopher, brother of Harold Watson Failes (q.v.); b. Feb. 9, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (R); left July 1904; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1904; B.A. 1907; had a preparatory school in Collingham Road, South Kensington; d. Dec. 20, 1918.

GB-2014-WSA-06928 · Person · 1881-1950

Failes, Harold Watson, son of the Rev. Watson Failes, Vicar of Ashbury, Berks, sometime an assistant master at the school, by Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of Christopher Failes, of Fitton Hall, Norfolk; b. Aug. 3, 1881; adm. Jan. 18, 1894 (R); left July 1898; d. Dec. 20, 1950.

GB-2014-WSA-06944 · Person · 1917-1936

Falk, Martin Giles Entwistle, son of George Adolph Falk, solicitor, of Bristol, and Millicent Mary, d. of Wilson Potter; b. 11 Jan. 1917; adm. May 1930 (R); left July 1934; King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1934; d. at Cambridge 24 Feb. 1936.

GB-2014-WSA-06951 · Person · 1917-1969

Farmar, Julian Avenel, son of Maj.-Gen. George Jasper Farmar CB CMG, Lieut.-Governor The Royal Hospital Chelsea, and Bertha Frances, d. of Maj.-Gen. William Henry Paget and grand- daughter of Lord William Paget (qv); b. 14 Aug. 1917; adm. Apr. 1931 (A), (R) May 1934; left Apr. 1935; 2nd Lieut. RA (TA) Sept. 1938; Lieut. (p.c.) Feb. 1945, Capt. July 1946, Maj. Aug. 1952; retd Mar. 1958; m. 21 Mar. 1945 Daphne, d. of William Joseph Carlisle of White Waltham, Berks; d. 18 Aug. 1969.

GB-2014-WSA-06955 · Person · 1870-1924

Fanshawe, Gerald Charles, son of General Charles Fanshawe, R.E., of Ryde, Isle of Wight, by his 2nd wife, Ann Wilhelmina, daughter of Capt. Charles James Hope-Johnstone, R. N.; b. Nov. 16, 1870; adm. April 1884 (R); left July 1889; Trin. Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. May 27, 1889); B.A. 1892; M.A. 1896; ord. deacon 1893, priest 1984; Curate of St. Thomas, Portman Square, London, 1893-1901; Domestic Chaplain to Bishop Ryle at Exeter 1901-3, at Winchester 1903-4, Hon. Chaplain 1904-11; Vicar of Godalming, Surrey, 1904-22; Rector of St. Maurice and St. Lawrence, Winchester, 1922; Hon. Canon of Winchesser 1922; m. Aug. 20, 1904, Morforwyn Mary Leveson, daughter of Lieut.-Col. George Hope Lloyd-Verney; d. April 15, 1924.

GB-2014-WSA-06956 · Person · 1873-1943

Fanshawe, John Edward, brother of Gerald Charles Fanshawe (q.v.); b. Jan. 15, 1873; adm. Jan. 14, 1886 (R); left July 1891; a clerk in the British Linen Bank, London, Feb. 1892; joint manager Sept. 1920 - Oct. 1924; m. April 14, 1910, Mira Monica Beata, daughter of John Francis Lescher, of Braintree, Essex; d. April 15, 1943.

GB-2014-WSA-06988 · Person · 1907-1992

Fassett, Richard Henry, son of Frederic Fassett and Margaret Anne, d. of Richard Hunting of Hampstead; b. 30 Aug. 1907; adm. Jan. 1922 (R); left Dec. 1923; a writer; m. 6 Nov. 1934 Doris Florence, d. of Henry Barrie of Whitchurch, Dorset; d. Dec. 1992.

GB-2014-WSA-06990 · Person · 1897-1940

Faulkner, Gilbert Faulkner, son of Edmund William Abram, of Hampton, Middlesex, by Lucy, daughter of William Thomas Ashton, of Soulton Hall, Salop; b. June 23, 1897 (R); adm. May 4, 1911; left Easter 1914; 2nd Lieut. unattached July 19, 1916; Indian Army 2nd Lieut. Nov. 12, 1916 (acting Capt. July 2-13, 1917); Lieut. July 19, 1917 (acting Capt. Nov. 9, 1919 - July 18, 1920); Capt. July 19, 1920; served in Mesopotamia 1917, Mahsud 1919-20, and Waziristan 1920-2; Major July 19, 1934; acting Lieut.-Col. 8th Punjab Regt.; assumed the name of Faulkner in lieu of Abram July 12, 1936; m. Nov. 29, 1929, Santa Muriel, daughter of Major Frederick William Lillicrap, of Sutton, Surrey; killed on war service in Waziristan, Dec. 7, 1940; the Faulkner History Prize was founded in his memory by his brother officers.

Gilbert Faulkner Abram (later Faulkner) was born at the Inner Temple, London on the 23rd of June 1897 the son of Edmund William Abram, a journalist and author, and Lucy (nee Ashton) Abram of “Sylvans”, Peaslake in Surrey.
He was educated at Godstone School and at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from the 4th of May 1911 to Easter 1914.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on the 19th of July 1916 and was attached to the 42nd Deoli Regiment on the 8th of November 1916. He was promoted to Acting Captain from the 2nd to the 13th of July and to Lieutenant on the 19th of July 1917, while serving in Mesopotamia.
In 1919 and 1920 he served at Mahsud and was promoted to Acting Captain from the 9th of November 1919 to the 19th of July 1920, being promoted to Captain from the latter date. He served in Waziristan from 1920 to 1922 and was promoted to Major on the 19th of July 1934.
He was named in a divorce petition which was filed by Ronald St George Cole on the 24th of August 1923. It was alleged that during the month of June 1923 Gilbert Abram and Mrs. Santa Muriel Cole had committed adultery on several occasions at the Central Hotel, 123, Cromwell Street. Cole was granted a decree nisi on the 15th of April 1929.
He was married on the 29th of November 1929 to Santa Muriel (nee Lillicrap formerly Cole) of Haslemere in Surrey but the marriage ended in divorce. He changed his name by deed poll to Faulkner on the 12th of July 1936. He was later promoted to Acting Lieutenant Colonel and was appointed to the command of the 5th Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment.
He was killed in action in Waziristan.
His medals were sold at auction on the 5th of March 2020.
The Faulkner History Prize was founded in his memory by his brother officers in 1945.
He is buried at Karachi War Cemetery Plot 12, Row D, Grave 13.