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Battalion HQ |
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Commanding Officer - Lt Col R F Ware MC |
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Second-in-Command/Adjutant - Capt T N Douthwaite |
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Intelligence Officer - 2/Lt L Kauffman |
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Regimental Sergeant Major Pickering |
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C/Sgt (Orderly Room Colour Sergeant) Knights |
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HQ Company |
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Company Commander - T/Maj W S Olleson |
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Second-in-Command - Capt F B Kirkup |
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2/Lt T R Logan - No 1 Platoon Signals |
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No 2 Platoon AA |
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Lt T H Mynheer MM - No 3 Platoon Mortars |
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Capt F B Kirkup - 4 Platoon Carriers |
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Lt H B Lax |
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Capt J Welford - No 5 Platoon Pioneers |
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Captain T A Cookson MTO |
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No 6 Platoon Admin |
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Lt & Quartermaster A E Newman MBE |
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CSM G Gates, C/Sgt T Baker, CSM Gerrino, C/Sgt Argent, PSM Glover |
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A Company |
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Company Commander - Capt M H Brown |
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Second-in-Command - Capt G F D Girling |
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Lt W A Tinwell |
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2/Lt T W Weightman (WTO) Detached) |
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CSM Thomasson, C/Sgt Crow |
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B Company |
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Company Commander - Major K N Hillas |
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Second-in-Command - Lt J R Bavington Jones |
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2/Lt W G Alward |
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2/Lt R A Wharrier (Detached, Battle Platoon) |
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CSM M Etherington, C/Sgt A May |
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C Company |
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Company Commander - Capt T G L Ballance |
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Second-in-Command - Capt S H Hamner |
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2/Lt C W Duck |
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Captain R M Ponder (President of the Regimental Institute, Detached, Welfare) |
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2/Lt G Jobey (Instructor, Divisonal Battle School) |
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CSM A Pearson, C/Sgt Gaines |
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D Company |
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Company Commander - Capt J H Waylen |
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Second-in-Command - Lt P Armstrong |
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2/Lt E W P Varnon - Detached (Embarkation) |
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2/Lt J H Willans (103 Traffic Control Coy) |
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CSM George Broadhead, C/Sgt W ‘Jimmy’ James |
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NEXT PAGE: 16 DLI Officers’ Listing November 1942. |
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Officers, Warrant Officers and Colour Sergeants of the 16th DLI, May 1942 |
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This listing is dated May 22nd 1942 and is transcribed from a wartime DLI Newsletter. Unfortunately, the specific platoons assigned to each officer aren’t included in the document after No 6 Platoon. |
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Many of the officers and NCOs listed here went aboard in December 1942 and a large number of them feature on the Battalion Roll of Honour. At this stage in the Battalion’s history, while it based in the Rye area, new drafts of recruits were still arriving at regular intervals from Brancepeth Camp. Others were called up directly to the Battalion and trained by it, while in turn several reinforcement drafts were sent out to the frontline DLI Battalions in the desert. This helps account for the somewhat depleted look to the Rifle Company listings here. |