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Armstrong, Lindsay Crawford, son of Hugh Clayton Armstrong, solicitor, of Bromley, Kent, and Norah MacMahon, d. of William Henry Cortland Mahon of Dulwich; b. 21 June 1912; adm. April 1926 (A); left July 1929; a timber merchant; Roy. Sussex Regt 1940-4 (Lieut.); m.; d. of smallpox on active service in India 10 Apr. 1944.

Lindsay Crawford Armstrong was born at Bromley, Kent on the 21st of June 1912 the youngest son of Hugh Clayton Armstrong, a solicitor, and Nora Macmahon (nee Mahon) Armstrong of 7, Sanford Road, Bromley. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from April 1926 to July 1929 after which he went to work as a timber merchant. He was married at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1933 to Leonore “Nordie” Mary (nee Langton) of Chidham in Sussex.
Following the outbreak of war he attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the 21st of September 1940. He was later attached to the 1st Battalion, Sierra Leone Regiment.
On the 1st of February 1944, the 1st Battalion, Sierra Leone Regiment was advancing down the banks of the Kaladan River in Burma in pursuit of the retreating Japanese, who had placed a number of ambush parties in their path. D Company was patrolling in advance of the rest of the Battalion when Lindsay Armstrong singlehandedly killed an entire seven man Japanese patrol.
He was later contracted smallpox from which he died.
He is buried at Chittagong War Cemetery Plot 7, Row D Grave 8

Walker, Edward Clare, son of Charles Edward Walker, of Ealing, by Clara, daughter of John Letcher, of Llanelly, co. Carmarthen; b. May 19, 1883; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (A); left July 1900; R.M.A. Woolwich 1901; 2nd Lieut. Royal Engineers July 31, 1902; Lieut. Jan. 25, 1905; Capt. July 31, 1913; Major July 31, 1917; served in India 1914-8; Lieut.-Col. Nov. 20, 1928; C.R.E. Lahore Dec. 3, 1929; Col. Nov. 20, 1932; Deputy Chief Engineer, Northern Command, India, Dec 13, 1932; temp. Brig. and Chief Engineer, Southern Command, 1935; retired 1939; m. 1st. July 4, 1913, Winifred Helen, daughter of Thomas W. T. Wheeler; m. 2nd July 14, 1931, Winifred Mary, daughter of Marshall Tilley, D.L., of Londonderry; d. 26 Aug. 1969.

Aglionby, Wilfrid Henry, brother of John Orfeur Aglionby (q.v.); b. April 16, 1890; adm. April 30, 1903 (A); left Easter 1908; Corpus Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908: B.A. 1912, M.A. 1915; Wells Theo. Coll. 1912; ordained deacon 1913, priest 1914 (London); Curate of St. Mary the Virgin of Eton, Hackney Wick, Middlesex, 1913-6; temp. Chaplain to the Forces (4th class) June 14, 1916; served in Palestine with the 16th Infantry Brigade Sept. 1916 - June 1918, and in France June-Nov. 1918; twice wounded April 10 and July 29, 1918; M.C. Feb. 18, 1918; Curate of St. Michael's, Shoreditch, 1920-3; Vicar of St. Frideswide, Poplar, 1923; Perpetual Curate of St. Saviour's, Ealing, 1936; Prebendary of St. Paul's 1948; d. July 29, 1958.

Ala, Mirza Hussein Khan, second son of His Excellency Mohammed Ali Khan, of Ennismore Gardens, South Kensington, Persian Ambassador to Great Britain; b. Dec. 3, 1883; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (A); left July 1900; Secretary to the Persian Legation in London 1903; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 19, 1906; Minister for Public Works and Commerce in the Persian Cabinet and a member of the Persian Mission at the Versailles Conference in 1919; sometime Persian Minister at Washington; Iranian Minister at the Court of St. James 1934-7; Director General, Ministry of Commerce, Iran 1937-8; Governor of the Iranian National Bank 1941; Minister of Court to the Shah 1942; Iranian Ambassador to Washington 1945-50; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran, 1950-1; Prime Minister March 12, 1951 after the assassination of General Razmara; resigned April 27, 1951 in face of the violent opposition of the Majlis to negotiations with Great Britain over the oil dispute, and was appointed Minister of Court by the Shah; re-appointed Prime Minister 1955; resigned 1957 and re-appointed Minister of Court; assumed the family name of Ala in addition to Khan; m. June 8, 1927 Fatemeh, daughter of Sir Abol-Ghassem Khan Naser-ol-Molk, G.C.M.G., sometime Regent of Iran; d. 12 July 1964.

Herbert, Aubrey, brother of Jesse Basil Herbert (qv); b. 16 Oct. 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (A); left July 1924; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1924, Pres. of the Union 1928, BA 1928, MA 1962; education officer BBC 1933-41; dir. of programmes Malaya Broadcasting Corpn 1941-2; officer in charge propaganda broadcasting Colombo 1942-6; foreign correspondent India 1950-3; chief agent Liberal Party 1945, contested (Lib.) Parly elections between 1929 and 1966; West Suffolk CC 1955-70, county alderman 1970-4, Suffolk CC 1974; OBE Jan. 1978; m. 1st 28 Apr. 1929 Phyllis Irene, d. of Ernest James Haylor, draper, of Oxford; 2dn Ruth Crisp, d. of Sir Thomas Crisp English (qv); d. 20 Nov. 1981.

Clark-Kennedy, William Hew, second son of Capt. Alexander William Maxwell Clark­ Kennedy, of Knockgray, Galloway, by the Hon. Lettice Lucy Hewitt, third daughter of James, 4th Viscount Lifford; b. March 3, 1879; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (A); left July 1896; served in Paget's Horse during the South African War 1899-1901, and was mentioned in despatches; became asst. manager of the Standard Life Assurance Co. in Montreal and later a director; chairman of the Guardian Insurance Co. of Canada 1943; joined the Black Watch 1905; Major 1915; served in France in Great War I; reported killed at St. Julien 1915; Lieut.-Col. Dec. 30, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 14, 1916, bar Jan. 11, 1919; C.M.G. June 3, 1918; V. C. Dec. 14, 1918, for his gallantry when seriously wounded in the advance on the Fresnoy-Rouvroy line; Croix de Guerre 1915; m. Sept. 5, 1914, Kate, younger daughter of Robert Reford, of Montreal; d. Oct. 26, 1961.

Edwards, Hugh Robert Arthur, brother of Edward Cecil Theodore Edwards (qv); b. 17 Nov. 1906; adm. Sept. 1919 (A); left July 1925; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1925, rowed against Cambridge 1926 and 1930, BA; MA 1940; won (with L. Clive) the Pairs and rowed in the winning Four at the Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1932; rowed in winning Eights and Fours at the Empire Games, Canada, 1930, Grand Challenge Cup and Stewards Cup Henley 1930-1, Silver Goblets 1931-2; PO RAF Oct. 1931, FO Apr. 1932, Flt Lieut. Apr. 1936, Sqdn Ldr Dec. 1938, Wing Cdr Oct. 1946, Group Capt. July 1947; retd Nov. 1956; despatches Jan. 1941, June 1945, Jan. 1946; AFC Jan. 1943, DFC March 1944; coached Oxford in the Boat Race 1959-62; m. 16 June 1934 Michele Lydia Rosemary, d. of Maj. John Frederick Williams of Southsea, Hants; d. 21 Dec. 1972; DNB 1971-80, pp 278-9.

Cobbold, Temple Chevallier, brother of Reynold Chevallier Cobbold (q.v.); b. Feb. 13, 1904; adm. April 26, 1918 (A); left July 1921; d. 30 Dec. 1983.