Personal Number: Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Aubrey PERSHOUSE Unit: General List London Gazette : 9 January 1940 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34768/supplement/152/data.pdf GENERAL LIST. The undermentioned to be 2nd Lts. : — 29th Nov. 1939: — Aubrey PERSHOUSE (108997). London Gazette : 19 November 1948 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38459/supplement/6060/data.pdf The KING has been pleased to grant unrestricted permission for the wearing of the following decorations which have been conferred on the undermentioned personnel in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies:— DECORATIONS CONFERRED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Bronze Star Medal Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Aubrey PERSHOUSE (108997), General List.
Recommendation for Award for Pershouse, Aubrey Rank: Lieutenant Colonel ... | The National Archives Reference: WO 373/149/121 Name Pershouse, Aubrey Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Service No: 108997 Regiment: General List Theatre of Combat or Operation: Foreign to British: USA Award: Bronze Star Date of announcement in London Gazette: 17 September 1948
Reading the current thread on British Tank Development I became curious whether any of his cited work on German tank design (cited above) had been published or found in the National Archives. The thread is on: British Tank Development. Checking online there is very little about him, except this from an obituary for his wife (Edith Wood Pershouse Stone) in the Washington Post: Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...tuaries/e320ca98-b224-44be-bc10-2c6ce29eb728/ Ancestry has a summary: Link: Aubrey Pershouse 1905-1976 - Ancestry® Does anyone know what his regiment / corps was; his background and more?
Pershouse was attached to TT2, which was the 'B' vehicles department of the Ministry of Supply, and as such he was not considered a tank expert. My understanding is that he was originally brought into CIOS to research German 'B' vehicles, especially half-tracks, taking over from Rupert St. George Riley, who had undertaken the initial investigations in this field. That said, there is no doubt a lot more to this story than the little bit that I have inadvertently picked up.