Scovell, Thornton Sydney, eldest son of Capt. Thornton Scovell, 63rd Foot, of Kensington, by Florence Sydney, daughter of Christopher Eales, of St. Marylebone, architect; b. June 20, 1877; adm. April 24, 1890 (A); left July 1895; enlisted in the Sportsman's Batt. 1914; served in Great War I, first in Belgium with 32nd Batt. Royal Fusiliers until disabled by illness, and with the Labour Corps during the final advance in France, and until the armistice; author of Scouting for physically defective Boys (1920); d. Feb. 23, 1942.

Sharp, Alexander Leonard Wakelin, son of Cecil Alexander Sharp FRIBA, of Cheam, Surrey, and Mary Beatrice, d. of William Palmer of Denmead, Hants; b. 18 Nov. 1906; adm. Jan. 1921 (A); left July 1924; Bullock Bros, Burma 1925-32; man. Sharp Brewster Ltd, yacht builders, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1935; 2nd Lieut. RA Sept. 1939; m. 10 Oct. 1933 Rosella Marthe, d. of Richard Campbell of Enfield, Middx; d. 3 Apr. 1996.

Shattock, John Swithun Harvey, son of Rev. Eric Arthur Shattock of Kingston St Mary, Taunton, Somerset, and Deborah Laetitia Paton, d. of Wilson Gibson Archibald of Wallington, Surrey; b. 21 Nov. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (A); left July 1926; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1926, BA 1929, MA 1968; joined ICS 1930; Under-Sec. Govt of India Defence Dept 1936, Dep. Sec. Political Dept 1944; Chief Minister Chamba State 1946; OBE Jan. 1947; joined HM Foreign Service 1947; Counsellor Office of UK High Commissioner Delhi 1948; head of Far Eastern Dept. FO 1950; CMG 1952; FO representative Imp. Defence Coll. 1952; Counsellor Belgrade 1953; political representative MEF Nicosia 1956; Minister UK Delegation to NATO 1959, to Disar­mament Conference Geneva 1961; FO London 1963-7, retd 1967; d. 6 June 1993.

Shinnie, Peter Lewis, son of Andrew James Shinnie OBE MD, MOH for the City of Westmimter, and Olive Victoire, d. of Arthur Whaley Lewis, sea captain, of Gwynfed, Carmarthenshire; b. 18 Jan. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (A); left Apr. 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1934, BA 1938, MA 1943; PO RAFVR Jan. 1937, transf. A & SD July 1940 (Sqdn Ldr), sen. Intell. Officer Greece 1944-5; asst Commissioner for Archaeology Sudan 1946, Commissioner 1948-55; FSA 1948; Dir. of Antiquities Uganda 1956; Prof. of Archaeology Univ. Coll. of Ghana 1958, Univ. of Khartoum 1966, Univ. of Calgary 1970 (Prof. Emeritus 1980); LLD (Calgary) 1983; author of Mediaeval Nubia 1954, Meroë: a civilisation of the Sudan 1970; m. 1st 2 Sept. 1946 Margaret Blanche Elizabeth, d. of Philip Cyril Cloake MD FRCP, Prof. of Neurology Univ. of Birmingham; 2nd Ama Owusua, d. of J. K. Nantwi of Kumasi, Ghana; d. 9 July 2007

Woodford-Ward, Peter Lovell, son of Alfred Ernest Woodford-Ward, architect, of Hampton­ on-Thames, and Kathleen Stanley of Cork, Eire; b. 13 May 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (A); left Dec. 1934; RA in WW2 (Lieut.), wounded Tunis; an inspector for Legal & General Insurance Soc.; m. 16 Sept. 1942 Margaret Audrey, d. of Charles William Arthur Teuten of Strawberry Hill; d. 22 June 1961.

Wood-Hill, Cyril, youngest son of George Wood-Hill, of South Kensington, barrister-at-law; b. May 7, 1883; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (A); left July 1902; called to the bar at the Inner Temple June 12, 1907; S.E. Circuit; served in France Sept. 1915 - Jan. 1919; Capt. Northants Yeomanry (T.F.) and General Staff; asst. legal adviser, Ministry of Agriculture; C.B.E. Feb. 1, 1937; m. July 14, 1920, Olive Mary, youngest daughter of Charles H. Kinder, of West Brampton; d. Jan. 30, 1941.

Stapleton, Louis Henry, brother of Thomas Stapleton (q.v.); b. July 25, 1874; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (A); left April 1891; Oxford Military Coll., Cowley 1891; served in the Matabele War 1893; was wounded in Jameson's Raid 1895; served in the South African War 1899-1900, and in Palestine in Great War I; temp. 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. March 2, 1918; m. July 2, 1908, An­netta Lima Smith, eldest daughter of Achille Perossi; d. Feb. 9, 1949.

Stevenson, Derek Leyland, son of Capt. Francis Herbert Leyland Stevenson HLI, Governor HM Prison, Brixton, and his second wife Eileen Gertrude Mary, d. of Maj. Alexander Villiers Briscoe RA, Governor HM Prison, Wormwood Scrubs; b. 13 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1934 (A); left Dec. 1939; joined RAF Sept. 1940, PO 1941, DFC July 1945, retd as Sqdn Ldr Oct. 1969; lives in Switzerland; author of Five Crashes later: the story of a Fighter Pilot 1988; m. 1st 10 July 1942 Joyce Monk; 2nd 20 Dec. 1952 Lorna Ann Wall; 3rd 22 Dec. 1970 Elisabeth Maria, d. of Josef Maria Kammerling, engineer; d. 9 May 2008.

Stonier, Alfred William, brother of George Walter Stonier (q.v.); b. March 21, 1905; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (A); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with Triplett) July 1923, matric. Michaelmas 1923; played chess for Oxford against Cambridge 1926; B.A. 1927; M.A. 1930; Ph.D. Heidelberg Univ. 1934; lecturer in the Dept. of Political Economy at Univ. Coll. London 1936; d. 31 Dec. 1992.

Strain, Alan Gordon, brother of John Loudon Strain (qv); b. 1 Dec. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (A); left July 1933; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; Sgt Army Educational Corps; d. on active service 10 Aug. 1943.

Alan Gordon Strain was born at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey on the 1st of December 1914 the fifth and youngest son of Dr. William Loudon Strain MD CM and Dorothy Maud (nee Savory) Strain of 4, Hove Court, Raymond Road, Wimbledon in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from January 1928 to July 1933. He matriculated for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1934 and was awarded a BA in 1937. On leaving university he went to work as a school teacher at Collington Rise Preparatory School, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Army Educational Corps where he rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was taken ill and was in a hospital at Epsom for three months before he died.
His brother, Captain John Loudon Strain OW, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed in action on the 31st of July 1917.
He is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium Block I, Grave 363.