Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, was a British landowner, businessman, aristocrat, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. In the first-ever edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, with a fortune of £3.2 billion, with only Queen Elizabeth II above him.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, was a British soldier, landowner, businessman and politician. In the 1970s he was the richest man in Britain.
The Wessex Regiment was a Territorial Army infantry regiment of the British Army, in existence from 1967 to 1995. Initially consisting of a singular battalion, the regiment was later expanded to also have a second.
Sir Albert Lambert Ward, 1st Baronet, was a volunteer soldier in the Territorial Force and a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Lieutenant General Sir Ian Henry Freeland was a senior British Army officer, who served with distinction during World War II and most notably served as General Officer Commanding (GOC) and Director of Operations in security matters in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of rioting in 1969, and the beginning of the Troubles.
General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher was a British soldier who became the second Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army and the final non-Indian to hold the top post of the Indian Army after Partition.
Air Vice-Marshal William Charles Coleman Gell, was an officer of the British Army and then of the Royal Air Force. He served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Balloon Command from 1944 to 1945.
Major General David Shrimpton Jolliffe, is a retired senior British Army officer, who was Director General of the Army Medical Services from 2000 to 2003. From 2009 to 2014, he was the Chair of the Court of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, having been a member of the Board from 2006.
Kevin Barry Hurley, TD is a British politician and former police officer. He was the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner between November 2012 and May 2016. He previously served in the Metropolitan Police, reaching the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He was also an officer of the Territorial Army, serving first in the Parachute Regiment and then in the Royal Military Police.
Colonel Francis Cecil Leonard "Bill" Bell, DSO, MC, TD, was a British Army officer who was decorated for his service during the Second World War. He later served as chief legal adviser to Lloyds Bank and as chairman of the European Legal Committee of the British Bankers' Association.
Major General John Crackett, is a British businessman and is an officer of the Army Reserve as the senior reservist of the British Armed Forces.
The New Year Honours 1973 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1973 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1973.
Major General Simon Francis Neil Lalor, CB, TD, VR is a British businessman. As a Territorial Army officer, he served as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff from 2007 to 2010.
Air Vice-Marshal Ranald Torquil Ian Munro, is the General Counsel for Lombard International Assurance, a life insurance company; he was a senior officer in the Army Reserve before transferring to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
Brigadier-General Richard Edgar Sugden, was a British Army officer who was highly decorated for his service in the First World War.
Sir James Hugh Neill, was a British businessman, public servant, and British Army officer. Described as a "doyen of the Sheffield steel industry", he worked for his family's tool manufacturing firm, James Neill & Co, following leaving school, until retirement ; he served as the firms chairman between 1963 and 1989, and then its honorary president. He served as Master Cutler for 1958.
Colonel Raymond Arthur Clanaboy O'Neill, 4th Baron O'Neill,, is a Northern Irish peer, retired reservist officer and public administrator. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Antrim between 1994 and 2008.
Major General Celia Jane Harvey, formerly Celia, Countess Attlee is a British Army Major General and academic. She has served in the Territorial Army since joining the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1987. Harvey transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1991. She was promoted to major general in March 2020 and became deputy commander Field Army. Harvey stood for election to parliament as a Conservative Party candidate in 2010 in the Leicester West seat and came second to Liz Kendall. She is a lecturer in business studies and has published several academic papers.
Colonel Sir Richard Dawnay Martin-Bird was a British Army officer who was Vice-Chairman of the Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.
Arthur Leslie Walter Newth was a British Army officer. Whilst attending Bristol Grammar School he became a corporal in the school's cadet corps. In 1914 Newth was commissioned into the 4th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He served with the battalion on the Western Front and received the Military Cross for gallantry in 1915. Newth was promoted to the acting rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1918 to command the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. He was 21 when he was appointed and was probably the youngest battalion commander of the war.
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