AI/420 Major Neville Glynn WILLIAMS, MC - 14th Punjab Regt: 23/03/1945

Hi Pals,

2IC but I'm drawing a blank on further details of his military career. Died 23 March 1945 and remembered on the Rangoon Memorial. If anyone has any further info it would be much appreciated.

TIA

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2528513/neville-glyn-williams/
MAJOR NEVILLE GLYN WILLIAMS
Service Number: AI/420
Regiment & Unit: 14th Punjab Regiment, 2nd Bn.
(2nd in Command, 4th Bn.)
Date of Death: 23 March 1945
Age 30 years old
Buried or commemorated at RANGOON MEMORIAL
Memorial Reference: Face 45.
Location: Myanmar
Awards Military Cross
Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Stanley Price Williams, C.I.E., and of Winifred de L. Williams (nee Young), of Marylebone, London; husband of Geraldine Mary Williams, of West Byfleet, Surrey.

 

Much appreciated dbf, I didn't have that.

 

Look for his commissioning in The London Gazette (which is online in several places) His Indian Army No. indicates he joined sometime before WW2. In my recent research nearly all officers came from private schools here, even if their parents served in India, so identifying their school can help. Remarkably such schools have archivists who will help. There is a Sandhurst Foundation who have skeleton records which can provide DoB etc.

DRyan67 will hopefully add their regimental history; most Indian Army units have a published history.

The NW Frontier was all too often a hostile theatre of operations till 1947, for live action experience some officers served there and the SWS were a locally recruited regular army unit. There are many books on that area, there is a thread here too. Even during WW2 the NWFP required a large military presence.

 

Short entry: Person Page and his old school: Second World War Plus another school id'd Ley's School, Cambridge in this notice:http://eaglehouseschool-heritage.da...FileName=EHM1945.pdf&origFilename=EHM1945.pdf

From a local memorial website, with a section for Ley's School:

Link: Roll of Honour - Cambridgeshire - Cambridge, Ley's School War Memorial 1939-1945

Might be worth asking the school if they have an Archivist! See: The Leys School

Attached is his May 1941 M.C. commendation.

 

Happened to have a photograph of the Ley's School Memorial in my files, as one of my Chindit 1 casualties is also remembered upon its panels. I was in contact with their archivist back in 2013, so they may well have some info on Williams.