Showing 284 results

Crook, Philip John Lancaster, son of Edward Arnold Crook, glove manufacturer, of Gt Malvern, Worcs, and Mary Clare Broad, d. of Lieut.-Col. John Lancaster IMS; b. 29 May 1920; adm. May 1934 (B); left July 1938; Univ. of Birmingham; Roy. Tank Regt 1941-3 (Lieut.); killed in action (N. Africa) Apr. 1943.

Philip John Lancaster Crook was born at Streatham, London on the 29th of May 1920 the only son of Edward Arnold Crook, a glove manufacturer, and Mary Clare Broad (nee Lancaster) Crook, later of 5, Heathcroft, Hampstead, London NW11. He was the twin of his sister Elizabeth Lorna.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from May 1934 to July 1938. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1937. He was articled to a firm of solicitors before going on to the University of Birmingham from where he graduated LLb.
He attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment on the 8th of March 1941.
On the 1st of April 1943, Philip Crook was with A Squadron, 50th Royal Tank Regiment which was resting in camp at Djorf. During the day a party from the Squadron was organised to visit the scene of a battle in which they had been involved at the Mareth Line on the 22nd of March 1943 against the German 15th Panzer Division. They were to try to learn the lessons of the fighting there and to salvage equipment from the area. They had been warned that the area had been heavily booby trapped and mined by the Germans before they had retreated and were instructed to take extreme care. During the trip, for reasons which are not known, Philip Crook left the track which had been swept and found to be clear of mines. Following the explosion of a German “S” anti personnel mine he was found lying on the ground badly wounded by shrapnel. He was evacuated to an Advanced Dressing Station where he died of his wounds a few hours later.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Malvern and on the memorial at the University of Birmingham.
He is buried at Sfax War Cemetery Plot X Row D, Grave 20.

Cullimore, Colin Stuart, son of Reginald Victor Cullimore, co. dir., and May Maria, d. of Edward Jay of Woking, Surrey; b. 13 July 1931; adm. May 1945 (B), prin. opp.; left July 1950; Univ. of Grenoble, France; Roy. Scots Fusiliers 1951-5 (Maj. TARO 1956), serving with Parachute Regt. in Cyprus and Egypt; Nat. Coll. of Food Technology 1955-6; gold medal, Inst. of Meat, 1956; InstD; asst. gen. man. J. H. Dewhurst Ltd. 1965, gen. man. 1969, man. dir. 1976-90; dir. external affairs, Vestey Group 1990-2; chmn. Retail Consortium Food Committee 1973-4, Multiple Shops Fedn. 1977-9; CBE 1978; dep. chmn. Meat Promotion Exec. 1975-8, Inst. of Meat 1982-3; pres. British Retail Assn. 1984-9; OStJ 1988; chmn. Reserve Forces Ulysses Trust 1992-6, NAAFI 1993-6, Westminster School Soc. 1999-2007, Lincoln Cathedral Council 2000-7; Master, Worshipful Company of Butchers 2004-5; FRSA 1987; DL Lincs 1998; m. 5 Aug. 1952 Kathleen Anyta, d. of Edgar Maurice Lamming, of Horncastle, Lincs; d. 22 Dec. 2015.

Currier, David Fletcher, son of Edward Putnam Currier of New York and Dorothy Fletcher of Melrose, Mass.; b. 9 Aug. 1915; adm. 21 Sept. 1933 (B); left July 1934; Yale Univ., AB 1938; USNR 1941-3 (Lieut.); posth. commendation for outstanding performance of duty; m. 8 Mar. 1941 Margaret Pitkin, d. of Richmond L. Brown of Greenwich, Conn.; killed in action in USS Plymouth 5 Aug. 1943.

David Fletcher Currier was born at Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York on the 9th of August 1914 the son of Edward Putnam Currier, a dealer in investment securities, and Dorothy (nee Fletcher) Currier of Tarrytown, New York. He was educated at Milton Academy, Massachusetts and at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from the 21st of September 1933 to July 1934. He was a member of the 1st VI Lawn Tennis team in 1934. He went on to Yale University where he was a member of the Freshman basketball and baseball teams and was a member of the University Baseball Squad, the Fence Club, Scroll and Key, of the Torch Honor Society and of the Calhoun College touch football team in his Sophomore year. He was a member of the National Reserve Officers Training Corps.
He graduated with a BA in 1938 and went to work for Morgan & Lockwood of 44, Wall Street, New York City. He was employed by American Airlines from April 1939 to July 1940.
He was married at Greenwich, Connecticut on the 8th of March 1941 to Margaret Pitkin (nee Brown); they had two children, Barbara and David Fletcher Jr., born on the 10th of January 1943.
He was a member of the New York Local Defence Force from 1938 and undertook a V-7 training course on board the Midshipman’s training ship USS Prairie State from November 1940 to February 1941. On the 18th of August 1941 he was called up for active duty with the United Stated Navy with the rank of Ensign and was posted to the Naval Reserve Training School at Staten Island. He served on inshore patrol duty from Staten Island from the 18th of August to the 12th of November 1941 and served in the Port Director’s Office in New York City from the 12th of November 1941 to the 23rd of February 1942. From the 23rd of February to the 5th of April 1942 he served at the Instructor training School at Fort Schuyler before being posted to the Naval Training School (Local Defence) based at Boston from the 5th of April to September 1942.
He was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade on the 15th of June 1942 and trained at the Sound School at Key West, Florida from the 2nd to the 16th of September 1942. He went on to the Submarine Chaser Training Center at Miami, Florida from the 16th of September to the 29th of October 1942. On the 31st of October 1942 he was appointed as Executive Officer and Navigator on a gunboat and was appointed as its commanding officer on the 8th of February 1943. On the 18th of June 1943 he was posted as Navigator to the patrol gunboat USS Plymouth (PG-57) and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of July 1943.
The USS Plymouth, under the command of Lieutenant Ormsby M. Mitchel Jr. USN, set sail from New York on the 4th of August 1943 as part of an escort for a coastal convoy which was bound for Key West.
At 9.37pm on the 5th of August 1943, the USS Plymouth was sailing some 90 miles off the coast of Elizabeth City, North Carolina when she picked up a contact on her sonar. As she swung to port to bear on the contact she was struck by a torpedo which had been fired by the U Boat U-566, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans Hornkohl. She had been struck just behind the bridge and the explosion forced her to roll to starboard before taking a heavy list to port. Her entire port side forward of the bridge was engulfed in flames and she sank two minutes later with the loss of 95 men from her crew of 179 officers and men. The survivors were picked up by the coast guard cutter USS Calypso and landed at Norfolk, Virginia the following day.
He received a posthumous Citation from the Secretary of the Navy for outstanding performance of his duty.
He is commemorated on the East Coast Memorial, Battery Park, New York.

Cuzner, Brian Roy, son of Harold Roy Cuzner, pharmacist, of Purley, Surrey, and Marjorie Kathleen, d. of Harold Jessup, farmer, of Sevenoaks, Kent; b. 18 July 1932; adm. Sept. 1946 (B); left July 1951; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1953, BA 1956, MA 1961; man. dir. Wilfrid Smith (Fine Chemicals) Ltd. 1982-97; m. 23 Dec. 1961 Margaret Louise Cuzner PhD, Reader Inst. of Neurology, Univ. of London, d. of F. J. MacLeod FRCS, of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada; d. 24 Apr. 2008.

Dalgarno, Christopher Miln, son of Cecil Miln Dalgarno, and Rita McCubbin; b. 18 Apr. 1933; adm. Jan. 1947 (B); left Apr. 1947; at Michaelhouse Sch., South Africa 1947-50; management consult. and factory owner, South Africa; d.

Dalton, John Michael, son of Sir John Cornelius Dalton Kt. MIEE, barrister, and his first wife Winifred, d. of Charles Robertson; b. 20 Mar. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (B); left July 1940; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1941; read for Bar, Gray’s Inn; 2nd Lieut. RE 1944; accidentally killed on active service with a Parachute Sqdn 7 Oct. 1944.

John Michael Dalton was born in Surrey on the 20th of March 1924 the only son of Sir John Cornelius Dalton MIEE FCIS, a barrister at law, and Lady Winifred (nee Robertson) Dalton of 20, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea in London and of “Little Brook”, North Holmwood in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1937 to July 1940. He matriculated for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1941 and read for the Bar at Gray’s Inn before enlisting into the army where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 23rd of July 1944. He joined the 4th Parachute Squadron based at Bisbrooke Hall, Glaston on the 22nd of August 1944. The unit left Glaston in late August and, being the most junior officer, John Dalton was chosen to remain behind with the Residue Party, which was to gather up spare equipment and to secure the base until the unit returned from operations when it was to move to Wragby. He was billeted at Glaston House.
At 4.30am on the morning of the 7th of October 1944, the officer in charge at Glaston received a telephone call from Leicester to say that John Dalton had been killed in a motor accident.
His funeral took place on the 12th of October 1944.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Gray’s Inn.
He is buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, Holmwood.

Davidson, John Thain, son of Norman Thain Davidson, solicitor, of Kenley, Surrey, and Joyce, d. of James Hill MD, of Brisbane, Australia; b. 30 Jan. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left July 1932; articled to his father's firm of solicitors; d. 25 Aug. 1933.

Davies, Morgan Wynn Humphrey, son of Richard Humphrey Davies CB, sec. Liberal Central Assn, and Mary Elizabeth, d. of Humphrey Evans of Ruthin, Denbighshire; b. 26 Dec. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (A), (B) Sept. 1928; left July 1929; Commonwealth Fellow MIT 1938-40, MSc; CEng FIEE LLM; lecturer Univ. Coll. of N. Wales, Bangor, 1940-3; Educ. Officer IEE 1943-7; sen. lecturer and Reader Imp. Coll. Lond. 1947-56; Prof. of Electrical Engineering Queen Mary Coll. Lond. 1956-79; Fellow Q. MC 1984; m. 8 July 1944 Gwendolin Enid, d. of Rev. Canon Douglas Edward Morton, Rector of Camborne, Cornwall; d. 24 June 2007.

Dawson, John Duncan, son of George Duncan Dawson MSc MB ChB, Prof. of Physiology, UCL, of Carshalton, Surrey, and Mollie Eileen Heppenstall PhD, chemist, d. of Frank Heppenstall of Carshalton; b. 18 Aug. 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (B); left Dec. 1964; St Mary’s Hosp. Med. Sch., LMSSA 1970, MB BS 1971, DA 1972; MRCGP; med. officer, Brit. Antarctic Survey 1972-4; asst. sec. BMA 1976-9, under sec. 1979-, head of professional affairs divn. 1981-; dir. BMA Foundn. for AIDS 1988-; d. 20 Dec. 1990.

Day-Winter, Alan John, son of Percy Day-Winter, co. chairman, of Brighton, and Nellie, d. of Thomas Felix Davey, mining engineer, of Snaresbrook, Essex; b. 27 May 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (H), (B) Jan. 1935; left July 1937; Univ. of Maine, USA, 1939-41; RCAF 1941-5 (Flt Lieut.); self­ employed in grocery, later toy trade; Freeman City of London; m. 1st 29 Mar. 1941 Pauline Clarice, d. of Col. Clare James Herbert USAF, of Castine, Maine; 2nd 27 Mar. 1965 Violet May, d. of Alfred Thomas Stephenson.