Decorations and Awards to Members of the Reconnaissance Corps

Name: P Pike
Rank: Captain
Service No: 134185
Regiment: 2 GHQ Liaison Regiment, C.M. (Phantom)
Theatre: Italy 1945
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Name: George O'Brien Power
Rank: Lieutenant/ Major
Service No: 198378
Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps, ,C.M. (Phantom) (B Detachment)
Theatre: Salerno,Italy1944
Award: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
London Gazette:24 August 1944
Reference: WO 373/71

 

Name: George Frank Norman (Tom) Reddaway
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service No:
Regiment: GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom) (Adjutant)
Theatre: NW Europe 1944-45
Award: Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
London Gazette:
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Name: Thomas Fiddian Reddaway
Rank: Captain
Service No: 99490
Regiment: GHQ Liaison Regiment, RAC (Adjutant)
Theatre: North-West Europe 1944-45
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Name: Miles Belfrage Reid
Rank: Captain/ Major
Service No: 119433
Regiment: General Head Quarter Liaison Squadron General List
H Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom)
Theatre: Greece
Award: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
London Gazette:29 November 1945
Reference: WO 373/57

 

Name: Anthony Hugh Francis Harry St Clair-Erskine, 6th Earl of Rosslyn,
Rank: Captain
Service No: 138924
Regiment: B Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment,R.A.C.
Theatre: N.W. Europe 1944-45
Award: Mention in Despatches
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Name: Dennis Leslie Russell
Rank: Captain
Service No: 87926
Regiment: Royal Regiment of Artillery
F Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment,R.A.C.
Theatre: North West Europe 1944-45
Award: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
London Gazette:29 March 1945
Reference: WO 373/83

 

Name: Raymond John McCulloch Sadoine
Rank: Captain
Service No: 138635
Regiment: F Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment,R.A.C. attached 1 SAS (B Squadron)
Theatre: Normandy 1944
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Name: Ernest Edwin Sambrook
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 7909291
Regiment: Royal Armoured Corps
A Sqn GHQ Liaison Regiment RAC
Theatre: North West Europe 1944-45
Award: British Empire Medal
London Gazette:24 January 1946
Reference: WO 373/86

 

Name: Sanderson, Henry
Rank: Guardsman
Service No: 2694934
Regiment: Scots Guards
GHQ Liaison Regiment
Theatre : Foreign to British: Belgium
Award: Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (Fr)
London Gazette: 08 December 1945
Reference: WO 373/111

 

Name: Peter Leamonth Stileman
Rank: Temporary Captain
Service No: 105496
Regiment: QRR serving with GHQ Liaison Regiment
Theatre : Foreign to British: USA
Award: Bronze Star Medal
London Gazette: 17 October 1946
Reference: WO 373/147

 

Name: Vaughan-Morgan, John Kenyon
Rank: Captain
Service No: 131644
Regiment: GHQ Liaison Regiment,R.A.C.
Theatre: N.W. Europe 1944-45
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Name: Mervyn S B Vernon
Rank: Major
Service No:
Regiment: : Grenadier Guards
E Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom)
Theatre: North Africa 1942
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Name: Alec Henry Luxton Vickery
Rank: Bombardier
Service No: 898023
Regiment: Royal Regiment of Artillery
Theatre: North-West Europe 1944-45
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:01 February 1945
Reference: WO 373/90

 

Name: John Anthony Warre
Rank: Major
Service No: 58073
Regiment: 12 Royal Lancers; General Head Quarters 1 Echelon
No 11 Military Mission (Phantom) + B and K Squadrons GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom)
Theatre: British Expeditionary Force 1939-40
Award: Military Cross
London Gazette: 20 August 1940
Reference: WO 373/15

Name: John Anthony Warre
Rank: Captain
Service No: 58073
Regiment: 12 Royal Lancers
B and K Squadrons GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom)
Theatre: North Africa 1943
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Name: Arthur Leonard Edward (Chippy) Wood
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 5772642
Regiment: F Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment,R.A.C. (attached A Sq 1 SAS)
Theatre: France 1944 (op.Houndsworth)
Award: Mention in Despatches, Croix de Guerre with silver star(Fr)
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Name: A E Yuill
Rank: Captain
Service No: 21039
Regiment: H Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom)
Theatre: Mediterranean Theatre 1941
Award: Mention in Despatches
London Gazette:
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Thrilled to see Lt. R.K.Williams in your list for 'Mentioned in Despatches' - I am publishing his wartime letters on-line Chotie Darling . My mother told me he was given the oak leaf for lying among the German dead to gain information but since he fought in Normandy, Market Garden and the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) I don't know when this was. Do you know how I could find out?

Chotie's Daughter

 

Chotie's Daughter welcome to the forum, as yet I have been unable to find Lt. R.K.Williams MID Citation. It was listed in the London Gazette 10th May 1945



London Gazette 37072, 10 MAY, 1945

The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West
Europe:—

Recce R.

Maj. (temp.) R. T. Williams (130989).
Capt. (actg.) J. S. Collorick (262937).
Lt. J. C. Binns (240055).
Lt. I. M. Davies . (262939) .
Lt. R. H. Fleet (197073).
Lt. W. J. Hood (262923)
Lt. K. McDonell (210538).
Lt. J. B. Milne (295879).
Lt. J. E. Rogerson, M.C. (289321).
Lt. F. J. Wakeford (262932) (killed in action).
Lt. J. Wheeler (289328)
Lt. R. K. Williams (299440).
2656000 Sergt. F. GatenbyJ (killed in action).
7620943 Sergt. J. A. Hyslop
2697976 Sergt. J. Jardine.
6351803 Sergt. W. D. Seath.
5254518 Sergt. T. Blount.
14339083 Sergt. (actg.) D. N. Ladds.
4691949 Lee. -Sergt. J. Marriott.
3130961 Corpl. T. W. Bean.
14374083 Corpl. J. A. Porter.
320493 Corpl. C. F. Sheffield.
2616070 Corpl. R. E. Stone.

Cheers
Paul

 

My mother kept the following citation (which I now have) on display in a gold phot frame next to Dick's photo:

‘BY THE KING’S ORDER, THE NAME OF LIEUTENANT R. K. WILLIAMS RECONNAISSANCE CORPS, ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS, WAS PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON GAZETTE ON 10TH MAY 1945, AS MENTIONED IN A DESPATCH FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE. I AM CHARGED TO RECORD HIS MAJESTY’S HIGH APPRECIATION.
SIGNED P. J. GRIGGS, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR’

Still not sure how I could find out more.

Chotie's Daughter