Riley Jonathan P - The Life and Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell: From Norway, Through Burma, to Suez

The Life
and Campaigns of
General Hughie
Stockwell

The Life
and Campaigns of
General Hughie
Stockwell

From Norway,
through Burma, to Suez

by

J. P. Riley

First published in Great Britain in 2006 by
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Copyright J.P. Riley, 2006
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I would like to acknowledge the help of a great number of people and organizations in the writing of this book. I am indebted to them all and thank them for their kindness and their patience. Many are listed in the bibliography and sources, but those not listed by name include the following individuals: Polly Hope, Anabel Wright, The Lady Reilly (Anette, ne Stockwell, Hughs first cousin), Madge Crocker, Brigadier A.C. Vivian CBE, the late Lord Parry of Neyland, Mr Jamie Owen, Major E.C. Lanning, late RWAFF, the late Colonel B.G.B. Pugh OBE TD, Nigel Anderson MC, Myles Stockwell, Mrs Susan Sonnak, Tessa Trappes-Lomax, Major H.J.E. Jones MC, the late Lieutenant Colonel Neville Bosanquet, the late Major Peter Kirby MC TD DL, Rear Admiral E.F. Gueritz CB OBE DSC, Ian Moody Esq, Lieutenant Colonel Guy Goldsmith, the late General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley GBE KCB DSO MC BLitt, Major Barney Griffiths, Major Johnny Westbrooke, Dr Kate Morris, Major Sir Anthony Tritton Bt, Major General P.B. Cavendish CB OBE DL, Sir Philip Goodhart Kt, General Sir Richard Worsley GCB OBE, Hugo Meynell Esq, David Russell Esq, Major General F.G. Caldwell OBE MC, Mrs Susan Balance, Major General Sir Roy Redgrave KCVO, Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Prickett KCB, Mr Diccon Wright, Rt Hon Lord Morris of Aberavon KG QC, Mr Illtyd Harrington, Mr Peter Lindley Jones. I would also acknowledge and thank the following institutions:

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Crocker, Curator, The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum and Archives; Chris Hobson, Annie Maddison, Sarah Landa-Font, Sue Barrett, and the Staff of the Library, Joint Services Command and Staff College; Mr Andrew Orgill, Senior Librarian, The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Dr P.J. Thwaites MA MSc DMS AMA MIMgt, Curator of the Sandhurst Collection; Dr T.E. Rogers, Honorary Archivist, Marlborough College; Mr A.D. Richardson, Headmaster of Cothill House; Mr Vernon Scott and the Western Telegraph; Mr Ron Watts, Hon Curator, and Mr John Davies MA Dip Lib MIInfSci, Hon Secretary, the Pembroke Dock Museum Trust; John Harding and the staff of MOD Historical Branch (Army); Staff of the Public Record Office, Kew; Mrs Kate OBrien and the Staff of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Studies, Kings College London; Marie Lewis, Pembrokeshire County Record Office, Haverfordwest; Martyn Lockwood and the Staff of the Essex Police Museum, Chelmsford; Lieutenant Colonel Peter Hall, British Liaison Officer at the Fhrungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; Library Staff at the Fhrungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; Major W. Sharpe MBE, Regimental Secretary, and the staff at Regimental Headquarters, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, in Glasgow; Major W. Shaw MBE and the staff at Regimental Headquarters the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margarets Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment); The Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and IWM Department of Photographs; Dan Kurzman and the Sussex Academic Press, for permission to quote from Genesis 1948; HE the Ambassador and the Staff of the Embassy of Israel; Staff of the Hagana Archive; Regimental Headquarters of the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment; Debbie Usher, librarian at the Middle East Studies Centre, St Anthonys College Oxford; Anita Brady and the library staff, Royal College of Defence Studies; Brigadier Ahmed Aideed Al Masareh, Director of Moral Guidance, JHQ Jordanian Army; Mr Amjad Adaileh, Director Arabic Press Department, Communications and Information Division at the Royal Hashemite Court, Amman, Jordan; Ms Alia Al-Kadi, Press Officer Communications and Information Division at the Royal Hashemite Court, Amman, Jordan; Peter Lindley Jones and the Staff of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust; Lieutenant Colonel Derek Armitage and the staff of the Museum of Army Flying; Gillian Owen and British Waterways; Caroline Jones and the staff at the Waterways Archive; Gregory W. Pedlow and the SHAPE Archive.