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British Officers Killed during ww2

Can you name all (or most) army/admirals who died during ww2.
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Rank
Name
When
Where
Kamikazed on the USS New Mexico
Lieutenant-General
Herbert Lumsden
6 January 1945
Lingayen Gulf, Philippines
Unknown
Henry Karslake
19 October 1942
Uknown
Plane Crash
Vyvyan Pope
5 October 1941
Mocattam Hills, egypt
Shot down by German ace Emil Clade
William Gott
7 August 1942
Near Alexandria, Egypt
Sunk
Major-General and Director of Military Training at the War Office
Clifford Malden
25 March 1941
Off coast of Shoreham-by-Sea
Plane Crash
Major-General
Orde Wingate
24 March 1944
Near Bishnupur, Manipur State, British India
Plane Crash
Harry Willans
5 February 1943
Tobruk
KIA
George Hopkinson
9 September 1943
Castellaneta, Italy
Bombed
Tom Rennie
24 March 1945
River Rhine, Germany
Sickness
Philip de Fonblanque
2 July 1940
Cambridge, England
Motor Accident
Justice Tilly
5 January 1941
Unkown
Motor Accident
Jock Campbell
26 February 1942
near Halfaya, North Africa
Diphtheria
Merton Beckwith-Smith
11 November 1942
Karenko Camp
Shelled
Brigadier
Bernard Howlett
29 November 1943
Santa Maria Imbaro, Abruzzo, Italy
Plan shot down
Vivian Dykes
29 January 1943
Over the uk
Sunk
Archibald Paris
3 March 1942
Indian Ocean
DOW
Arthur Nicholls
11 February 1944
Tirana, German-occupied Albania
KIA
Frederick Kisch
7 April 1943
Wadi Akarit, French Tunisia
Claude Nicholson
26 June 1943
Siege of Calais
Cecil William Haydon
1 June 1942
El Alamein
John Cecil Currie
26 June 1944
Normandy, France
Unknown
Frank Witts
9 May 1941
Glasgow, Scotland
Illness
John Anderson Barstow
3 January 1941
India
Plane Crash
John Whiteley
4 July 1943
Over Gibraltar
Colonel
Victor Cazalet
DOW
James Oliver Ewart
1 July 1945
Melle, Germany
Heart attack
Graham Thomson Lyall
28 November 1941
Mersa Matruh, Egypt
Executed
Lance Newnham
18 December 1943
Sham Shui Prison Camp, Japanese-occupied Hong Kong
KIA
John Macnamara
22 December 1944
Italy
John MacDonell
5 September 1944
Italy
Lionel Beaumont-Thomas
7 December 1942
Arnhem, france
Plane Crash
Lieutenant colonel
Stanley Casson
17 April 1944
Near Newquay in Cornwall
Heart attack from over working
James Despencer-Robertson
5 May 1942
Headquarters Southern Command
Artillery
Johnny Johnson
12 June 1944
Bréville
KIA
Shane O'Neill
24 October 1944
Italy
Ronald Littledale
1 September 1944
Airaines, Normandy, German-occupied France
Ivan Lyon
16 October 1944
Soreh Island, Riau, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies
Geoffrey Keyes
18 November 1941
Beda Littoria, Libya
John Richard Easonsmith
16 November 1943
Dodecanese island of Leros
Leslie Hancock
12 July 1944
Maupertus-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
Unknown
Robert Brian James
3 August 1944
Normandy, France
Crash
Humphrey Arthur Gilkes
11 July 1945
Djibouti
DOW
Thomas Bevan
12 June 1942
Gazala, Italian Libya
Derek Anthony Seagrim
6 April 1943
Sfax, French Tunisia
Somerset Maxwell
30 December 1942
Unknown
DOW from Siege of Calais
Chandos Hoskyns
18 June 1940
Winchester, Hampshire, England
Sunk
Gordon Thorne
2 March 1942
SS Rooseboom, Indian Ocean
KIA
Walter Barclay
21 May 1943
Tunisa
Mine
Temporary Lieutenant colonel
John Whitty
23 October 1944
Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy
Meningitis
Major
Tony Ayrton
4 April 1943
Egypt
Shot Down
Geoffrey Appleyard
13 July 1943
Near Sicily, Italy
Michael Wittmann
Peter Scott
13 June 1944
Villers-Bocage, Normandy, France
KIA
Francis Arkwright
1 July 1942
Acroma, Italian libya
John Anderson
5 October 1943
Termoli, Italy
Colin Leo Bliss
10 July 1944
Le Mesnil, France
Basil Beazley
10 July 1943
Sicily, Italy
Peter Hobbs
27 May 1942
near Bir Hakeim, Libya
Gus March-Phillipps
12 September 1942
Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, France
Arthur Cocks
6 June 1944
Sword Beach, Normandy, France
Hugh Lister
9 September 1944
Hechtel, Belgium,
Jimmy Tompkins
1944
Maltot, France
Tom Mitford
30 March 1945
Sagaing, British Burma
Colin Cokayne-Frith
18 May 1940
Assche, Brabant, Belgium
Cyril Hamilton
10 February 1941
Battle of Keren
Ronald Cartland
30 May 1940
Battle of Dunkirk
Ronald Gerrard
22 January 1943
Tobruk
John Mulgan
26 April 1945
Greece
William Cavendish
9 September 1944
Heppen, Belgium
George Gallie
16 January 1944
First Battle of Monte Cassino
John Poston
21 April 1945
Luneburg Heath, germany
Charles Ferguson Hoey
16 February 1944
Arakan, British Burma
Frank Blaker
9 July 1944
British, Burma
Charles Packe
1 July 1944
Normandy
Walter Long
23 September 1944
Uden, German-occupied Netherlands
John Crichton
23 May 1940
France
Lionel Wigram
3 February 1944
Pizzoferrato village
Unkown
Edward North
1 January 1942
Uk
UNKNOWN
Terence Atherton
15 July 1942
UNKNOWN
How
Rank
Name
When
Where
Plane Crash
Major
Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley
17 December 1942
Malta
Executed
Frank Thompson
10 June 1944
Litakovo, Kingdom of Bulgaria
DOW
Acting Major
Patrick Hore-Ruthven
24 December 1942
Libya
KIA
A. J. Mackenzie
7 April 1945
Rheine, Westphalia, germany
Tuberculosis
Captain
John Arundell
25 September 1944
Oflag IV-C
Unexploded bomb
Michael Floud Blaney
13 December 1940
Manor Park, Essex
Morterd
Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
25 March 1945
British india
Accident
William Foster
13 September 1942
Clarendon Park, Wiltshire
Japanese firing squad
Douglas Ford
18 December 1943
Japanese-occupied Hong Kong
Sunk
Jenkin Thompson
24 January 1944
off Anzio, Italy
KIA
Keith Douglas
6 June 1944
Normandy Beach, france
Archibald Donald Mackenzie
6 October 1944
Ponte dell'Olio, Italy
Frederick Cambridge
15 May 1940
Leuven, Belgium
Charles Lyell
27 April 1943
Dj Bou Arada, Tunisia
Richard Porritt
26 May 1940
Seclin, France
Howard Dunbar
23 July 1942
Ruweisat Ridge, egypt
Michael Trotobas
27 November 1943
Lille, France
John Niel Randle
6 May 1944
Kohima, Nagaland
Robert Philpot-Brookes
28 May 1940
Mont-Saint-Éloi, Nord, France
John Grayburn
20 September 1944
Arnhem, Netherlands
Julian Tennyson
7 March 1945
Arakan, British Burma
Richard Tindall
22 January 1942
Ajdabiya, Cyrenaica, Italian Libya
Hedley Verity
31 July 1943
Caserta, Campania, Italy
Stuart Russell
30 October 1943
El Alamein, Egypt
James Jackman
26 November 1941
El Duda, Tobruk, Libya
Roger Human
21 November 1942
Bangalore, Karnataka, British India
Albert Richards
5 March 1945
Gennep, Netherlands
Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice
20 August 1944
italy
Richard Spender
28 March 1943
Sedjenane, Tunisia
Jack Watson
9 September 1944
Gothic line, Italy
Geoffrey Warren
21 November 1941
Sidi Razegh, Cyrenaica, Italian Libya
George Fenton
26 May 1944
Italy, Gustav Line
Murderd
Charles Skepper
4 April 1944
Unknown
DOW
Donald Ray
12 July 1944
coast of England
Simmon Latutin
30 December 1944
Mogadishu, Somaliland
Tristan Ballance
4 December 1943
Winter Line near Monte Cassino
James Bruce-Jones
29 April 1943
Enfidaville, French Tunisia
Sniper
Ian Oswald Liddell
21 April 1945
Rotenburg an der Wümme, Germany
George Charles Grey
30 July 1944
Operation Bluecoat
Executed
Graham Hayes
13 July 1943
Fresnes Prison, near Paris, France
Shelled
John Brunt
10 December 1944
Faenza, Italy
Sickness
John Shadwell
25 April 1942
British India
Sunk
John Gabriel
24 February 1941
Sea
KIA
Lieutenant
Drummond Allison
2 December 1943
Monte Cassino, Italy
Freeman Barnardo
25 October 1942
West of El Alamein, Egypt
Shot down
Robert Bernays
23 January 1945
Adriatic sea
DOW
Alick Bevan
24 January 1945
Nordrhein-Westfalen, germany
MIA
Dan Billany
Unknown
Apennines
KIA
Peter Blagg
18 March 1943
Donbaik, burma
Den Brotheridge
6 June 1944
Near Ranville, France
George Albert Cairns
19 March 1944
Henu Block, British Burma
Willward Alexander Sandys-Clarke
23 April 1943
Guiriat El Atach, French Tunisia
Geoffrey Crawford
14 February 1942
Indonesia
Jock Lewes
30 December 1941
El Gaus, Cyrenaica, Italian Libya
David Day
22 February 1944
British Burma
Geoffrey Fletcher
27 March 1943
Battle of the Mareth Line
Edward Smith
12 January 1940
Bucquoy, France
Oliver Morris
21 September 1944
Gothic Line, Fascist Italy
Christopher Furness
24 May 1940
Arras, France
Michael Heming
3 November 1942
El Alamein
Herbie Roberts
19 June 1944
London, England
St John Young
24 July 1944
Italy
Michael Sinclair
25 September 1944
Colditz, Nazi Germany
William Basil Weston
3 March 1945
Meiktila, British Burma
William Welch
25 May 1940
Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France
George Percy
21 May 1940
South of Pecq in Belgium
DOW
Alec Horwood
20 January 1944
Kyauchaw, British Burma
George Arthur Knowland
31 January 1945
Hill 170, Arakan, Burma
Claud Raymond
22 March 1945
British Burma
Heart attack
John O'Neill
16 October 1942
Hoylake, Cheshire, England
Bombed
Harold Dods
18 June 1944
Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London
Unexploded bomb
Second Lieutenant
Alexander Fraser Campbell
18 October 1940
Whitley Common, Coventry, England
KIA
George Ward Gunn
21 November 1941
Sidi Rezegh, Libya
William Fawcett
18 May 1941
France
Patrick Rucker
20 May 1940
Amiens, Picardy, France
Hugh Hesketh Hughes
23 May 1940
Belgium
Jack Richards
2 November 1944
Gelderland Netherlands
David Haig-Thomas
6 June 1944
Normandy
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