Winchester House School Cricket XI 1929

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  1. chrisleach78

    chrisleach78 Member

    Hi all,

    I am trying to trace the war stories of the following members of our 1929 Cricket 1st XI - we know three of the team were killed in action and we have their details but I would like to find out more about...

    K E Godbold - Capt. Cape Town Highlanders
    J C M Paton - RNVR Lieut-Cmdr
    J P Hopps - Capt. RASC
    J P H Clay - Major, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
    P C Mattinson - Captain Royal Corps of Signals
    A E Mallett - DSC - Surg-Lieut RNVR
    B K S Evans-Gordon - RA Lieut (POW)
    R C Norwood - (DSC) Royal Navy Lieut


    Many thanks for any information anyone could provide about these men
     
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  2. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Hi Chris,

    Do you have any christian names for any of these?

    Cheers

    Geoff
     
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  3. chrisleach78

    chrisleach78 Member

    Afraid not - our school magazines were very formal and only recorded initials and surnames
     
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  4. chrisleach78

    chrisleach78 Member

    They would have all been born around 1917
     
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  5. chrisleach78

    chrisleach78 Member

    They would have all been born around 1917
     
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  6. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    All are Commissioned so the will be in Army and Navy Lists and also in London Gazette for 1939-45 period.

    Navy List also gives where serving.

    Have a go with surname in the following alternative search engine

    http://www.rafaircraftaccidents.com/Air_Force_List/aflfinderindex.html

    eg Norwood is in the 1939 Navy Lists and can be followed in postings in subsequent lists.

    Feb 1939, page 84 and Page 296 (HMS Glasgow)
    June 1940 HMS Victory and Page 293 gives full name as Roger Curteis

    Regards
    Ross
     
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  7. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Royal Artillery Museum
    http://firepower.org.uk/


    Via Ancestry, UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
    Name: B K S Evans- Gordon
    Rank: Captain
    Army Number: 69027
    Regiment: Royal Artillery
    POW Number: 2640
    Camp Type: Oflag
    Camp Number: V-A
    Camp Location: Weinsberg, Baden-Württemberg


    If this is the same man, then using Army No., these LG entries follow:

    London Gazette:
    Commissioned 2/Lt
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34318/page/5596/data.pdf

    Promotion to Captain-
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36673/supplement/3988/data.pdf
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36673/supplement/3987/data.pdf

    Mention for Palestine, '47
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38505/supplement/126/data.pdf

    Promotion to Major
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38698/supplement/4121/data.pdf

    MBE
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40194/supplement/3309/data.pdf
    which gives a full name of ... Major Brian Kenmure Spalding EVANS-GORDON (69027), Royal Regiment of Artillery.

    Hon. rank Lt Col
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45521/supplement/12450/data.pdf



    Recommendation which can be purchased online
    http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D7621035
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ufhN8sdtFlcC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=Brian+Kenmure+Spalding+EVANS-GORDON&source=bl&ots=L4GIUERcg5&sig=H_2CJ_QTP-sc890qsn_kIVzouUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HNCqU-zXHdTY7Aa10IAI&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Brian Kenmure Spalding EVANS-GORDON&f=false



    Death:
    Name: Brian Kenmure S Evans-Gordon
    Birth Date: 10 Nov 1916
    Date of Registration: Jun 1984
    Age at Death: 67
    Registration district: Kensington and Chelsea
    Inferred County: London
    Volume: 13
    Page: 1807

    Birth:

    Name: Brian K S Evans-gordon
    Mother's Maiden Surname: McMahon
    Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1916
    Registration district: Kensington
    Inferred County: London
    Volume Number: 1a
    Page Number: 140
     
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  8. chrisleach78

    chrisleach78 Member

    Thank you!
     
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  9. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member Patron

    If it turns out to be BKS Evans-Gordon, then he began his POW life in Italy, Camp 38 Poppi, near Arezzo.


    WO392/21 has been known to include errors in the information it shows. The details are stated as being correct as of August 1943.

    I hope this will help build a picture.


    45.jpg
     
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  10. Staffsyeoman

    Staffsyeoman Member

    There is a Joseph Peter (H) Clay, born Nuneaton July 1915, died Salisbury Q1 1980.

    He's not in the Half Yearly Army Lists of December 1938 or 1942, so that suggests not a pre-war Regular.

    In the Quarterly Army List for April 1941 he is listed as Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Territorial Army; 2/Lt 24/8/39; WS/Lt 2/12/39; A/Capt 2/12/39

    An HWL Clay ended the war as an A/Lt. Col, Royal Warwicks.
     
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