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Mentioned in Dispatches

British commanders-in-chief of a theatre of war or campaign were obliged to report their activities and achievements to the War Office in the form of dispatches, which were published in The Gazette.
In several occasions also persons were mentioned in these dispatches without them having received a decoration for the mentioned action. By adding a specific item to a certified decoration the recipient could show the mentioning.

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Stokes, Graham Henry* September 8th, 1902

Saint-Genies, de, Marie Joseph Gonzague* February 11th, 1917
† June 26th, 1944

Stuckey, Willaim† June 23rd, 1943
Row: O Grave: 31

Steele, James Stuart* October 26th, 1894
† July 24th, 1975

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Simeon, Charles Edward Barrington* December 24th, 1889
† November 6th, 1955

Sewell, Edgar Patrick* March 22nd, 1905
† January 8th, 1957

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Simon, Jean* April 30th, 1912
† September 28th, 2003

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Stubbs, Guy Clifford* November 19th, 1883
† October 18th, 1939

Sheen, Walter Charles* May 13th, 1907
† October 31st, 1969

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Smith, Harold Constantine* 1908
† October 31st, 1983

Spreckley, Herbert Dorman* December 1st, 1904
† August 29th, 1963

Stephen, George Hay* 1904
† March 22nd, 1994

Sharp, John† August 14th, 2019

Shan Lone, Duwa Lahpai "Rusty"* 1910
† September 21st, 2000

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Shone, John James† September 3rd, 1942
Plot: Western P. Grave: 62

Stevens, Richard Henry* April 9th, 1893
† February 12th, 1967

Simon, John Allsebrook, 1st Viscount Simon* February 28th, 1873
† January 11th, 1954

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Spencer-Churchill, John Strange "Jack"* February 4th, 1880
† February 23rd, 1947

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Sharpe, Sydney Anselm* November 10th, 1893
† 1986

Sweeney, Henry John "Tod"* June 1st, 1919
† June 4th, 2001

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Sheppard, Robert Marcelin "Patrice"* March 1st, 1922
† September 18th, 2002

Sargent, Walter George† March 28th, 1942
Plot: 2 Row: A Grave: 12

Snowball, George† March 28th, 1942

Stogdon, Edgar David* January 1st, 1919
† February 1st, 2008

Stephens, Richard Carver† March 28th, 1942

Smalley, Christopher John† March 28th, 1942

Stewart, Keith Lindsay* December 30th, 1896
† November 13th, 1972

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Smith, Stuart Arthur* January 3rd, 1920
† January 13th, 1989

Syfret, Edward Neville* June 20th, 1889
† December 10th, 1972

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Sturges, Robert Grice* July 14th, 1891
† September 12th, 1970

Steele, Arthur* April 6th, 1921
† September 14th, 1944

Sturdee, Vernon Ashton Hobart* April 16th, 1890
† May 25th, 1966

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Sutherland, Roy Buchanan* 1897
† September 28th, 1943
Plot: B5 Row: D Grave: 7

Sherlock, Wilfrid Holden "Bill"* May 20th, 1908
† January 29th, 1943
Plot: H Row: D Grave: 4

Stellin, Dion John* July 16th, 1916
† 1975

Stevenson, John Champion† November 24th, 1998

Stayner, Gerrard Frances Hood* July 29th, 1900
† September 1980

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Smith, James Ford† April 23rd, 1940
Plot: I Row: A Grave: 4

Shepherd, David Charles Leonard† December 25th, 1944
Plot: II Row: G Grave: 12

Simner, Kenneth Nugent* 1898
† December 27th, 1946
Plot: 34A Row: D Grave: 10

Scarlett-Streatfeild, James Rowland* February 17th, 1909
† May 10th, 1945
Plot: 1 Row: E Grave: 1-8

Swain, Cyril Douglas† March 31st, 1944
Plot: 8 Row: C Grave: 1

Street, Denys O.† April 6th, 1944
Plot: 3 Row: A Grave: 24

Stower, John Gifford† March 31st, 1944
Grave: 9A

Stewart, Robert C.† March 31st, 1944
Plot: 8 Row: C Grave: 6

Stevens Rupert J.† March 29th, 1944
Grave: 9A

Scheidhauer, Bernard W.M.* August 18th, 1921
† March 30th, 1944
Grave: 9A

Skantzikas, Sotirios* August 6th, 1921
† March 30th, 1944
Plot: 8 Row: D Grave: 4

Scott, John* July 13th, 1906
† June 10th, 2001

Singh, Munsha† October 29th, 1939

Stevens, Jack Edwin Stawell* September 7th, 1896
† May 20th, 1969

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Silverstein, Jacob* 1918
† October 20th, 1943
Plot: GE Grave: Coll. 34

Smyth, Frederick Arthur* 1905
† March 20th, 1945
Grave: 79

Simpson, John Herbert Thomas* March 26th, 1907
† August 26th, 1967

Smallwood, Denis Graham* August 23rd, 1918
† July 26th, 1997

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Scanlan, John Joseph* October 19th, 1890
† December 6th, 1962

Sankey, Robert Woodall "Bob"* April 8th, 1909
† April 18th, 1975

Sandover, Raymond Ladais* March 28th, 1910
† August 12th, 1995

Salwey, David* March 16th, 1919
† June 6th, 1943
Plot: S Grave: 11/16

Simpson, George Walter Gillow* June 6th, 1901
† March 2nd, 1972

Squires, Ernest Ker* December 18th, 1882
† March 2nd, 1940
Plot: Panel 2 

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Stuart, Kenneth* September 9th, 1891
† November 3rd, 1945
Plot: 27 Row: G Grave: 27

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Savage, Peter Robert† August 6th, 1943
Plot: III Row: F Grave: 35

Souter, William Richard* April 4th, 1920
† December 6th, 2008

Simpson, James William Albert* October 26th, 1893
† January 21st, 1917
Plot: IV Row: D Grave: 47

Strong, Kenneth William Dobson* September 9th, 1900
† January 11th, 1982

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Samson, Charles Rumney* July 8th, 1883
† February 5th, 1931

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Smith, Kenneth Brooke Farley† April 11th, 1943
Plot: 8 Row: A Grave: 6

Street, Geoffrey Austin* January 21st, 1894
† August 13th, 1940

Stewart, Charles Cosmo Bruce* July 29th, 1912
† July 10th, 1988

Schreiber, Edmund Charles Acton "Teddy"* April 30th, 1890
† October 8th, 1978

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Smith, Forgrave Marshall* March 17th, 1913
† 1994

Skey, Lawrence Wilton* October 29th, 1911
† May 8th, 1977

Sutcliffe, Walter Philip* August 15th, 1910
† October 9th, 1990

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Stephens, John William† April 21st, 1952

Smith, Thomas* March 17th, 1913

Sanders, John Evelyn* 1921
† July 30th, 1945

Slim, William Joseph, 1st Viscount Slim* August 6th, 1891
† December 14th, 1970

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Stevens, Ronald George* February 26th, 1914
† June 8th, 1944
Plot: X Row: H Grave: 23

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Stevens-Guille, George Frederick* December 9th, 1898
† October 26th, 1966

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Smith, Patrick Yvo Hugh* August 4th, 1900
† January 30th, 1975

Smith, Charles David Fiennes* November 29th, 1924
† October 18th, 1944
Row: A Grave: 10

Smith, Irving Stanley* May 21st, 1917
† February 16th, 2000

Stephen, Harbourne MacKay* April 18th, 1916
† August 22nd, 2001

Smith, George Frederick* April 20th, 1905

Small, John "Jack"* July 10th, 1912
† October 5th, 1997

Strachan, John Norton "Jack"* March 5th, 1905
† June 11th, 1944
Plot: 12 Row: 1 

Smith, Thurston Meiggs Wetherall* March 18th, 1916
† July 24th, 1984

Speare, Richard Douglas† November 23rd, 1945
Row: K.4 Grave: 95

Sterlin, Mitchell* 1922
† December 19th, 1943
Plot: VII Row: A Grave: 14

Spragge, John Godfrey* May 20th, 1907
† 1978

Somerville, James Fownes* July 17th, 1882
† March 19th, 1949

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Siddons, Victor Donald* May 24th, 1892
† 1967

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Spry, Daniel Charles* February 4th, 1913
† April 2nd, 1989

Spivey, Robert Edward "Spiv"* March 25th, 1921
† February 8th, 1994

Soden, James Arthur† September 30th, 1947
Plot: 3 Row: E Grave: 1

Stirling, Archibald David* November 15th, 1915
† November 4th, 1990

Swinnerton, Walter William† August 3rd, 1943
Plot: I Row: H Grave: 44

Skyrme, J. R.* 1918
† 2004

Sketchley, Samuel Edwin* October 24th, 1914

Saifullah, Mohammad* November 11th, 1911
† November 27th, 1991

Stait-Gardner, Harry Bernard Alforth* July 31st, 1910
† February 11th, 1993

Sewell, Alfred Jack† October 3rd, 1943
Grave: Lot 136

Staton, William Ernest* August 27th, 1898
† July 22nd, 1983

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Savage, Valentine* February 16th, 1919

St. Aubyn, Oliver Piers* July 12th, 1920
† May 24th, 2006

Smith, George William* January 19th, 1922

Smith, Ian Douglas* April 8th, 1919
† November 20th, 2007

Stanford-Tuck, Roland Robert* July 1st, 1916
† May 5th, 1987

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Stewart, William Paul* September 1920

Simonds, Guy Granville* April 23rd, 1903
† May 15th, 1974

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Stevenson, John Rowlstone* October 7th, 1908

Smyth, Kenneth Bowes Inman* January 31st, 1907
† October 26th, 1944
Plot: 18 Row: B Grave: 8

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Sinclair, Laurence Frank* October 23rd, 1908
† May 14th, 2002

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Starcevich, Leslie Thomas "Tom"* September 5th, 1918
† November 17th, 1989

Stannard, Richard Been* August 21st, 1902
† July 22nd, 1977

Shah, Sher* February 14th, 1917
† January 20th, 1945
Grave: 48

Seagrim, Derek Anthony* September 24th, 1903
† April 6th, 1943
Plot: XIV Row: C Grave: 21

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Singh Bhagat, Premindra* October 14th, 1918
† May 23rd, 1975

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