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| | David, Anthony (Tony) | First ever Flight/Engineer RPAF | | Davis, Colonel Dorothy | Chief Principal Matron | | Davis, Frank | Bandleader, Musician
Known as the Victor Sylvester of the EAST, the 39/46 war brought much popularity to his Band. | | Dawes, Cecil Lancelot | A soldier and a cartoonist he was acclaimed as India´s top
commercial cartonnist doing a lot of major work after the war. He also designed the logo "Courage Is Destiny" for the Frank Anthony Schools. Thousands of children wear his logo on their blazers while attending the Frank Anthony Schools. Mr. Dawes was also cartoonist for some
popular English newspapers. When he died the Statesmen Newspaper in India commemorated him as "the cartoonist who revolutionized classified advertisements", He was also well known within the army horse Shows circle, and the First Asian Games. Along with the Prime Minister of India he also inuaugurated the Holy Family Hospital, The Oberoi Chain of Hotels, etc. Delhi. He was also well known for his humour. Very few people knew that after fighting against Rommel in Basra, he was severely wounded, and suffered severe baoynet wounds all over his body & contracted the famous desert cough which in turn, did not allow him to sleep again in a bed. The chair was his bed and punishment till the time he died. He died a
proud man though forgotton by the Queen. He often reminisced about WWII and how they were given a pure
mug of rum before they fixed their baynotes and charged into hand combact while singing "God Save the Queen".
| | Dawson, Corporal J. | Soldier | | Dawson, Stan | Admiral | | Day, Francis | Chief Agent of the Company | | de Cruze, W.T. | Bandsman | de Dombal, Mike
(known as Mike Danton in the music world) | Musician | | de Facien, General Henri Joseph | Soldier | | de Gruyther, Sqdrn. Leader Albert | Distinguished Flying Cross, 1940
Old Boys Alumni Victoria School, Kurseong | | de Mellow, Anthony | ChampionSportsman | | de Mellow, Melville | India Radio Commentator and Journalist | | de Pass, Lieutenant Frank Alexander | Soldier | | de Roze, George Wilson | Advocate of the Calcutta High Court, ex-MLA, co-founder of the AI Study Circle, recipient of the prestigious Henry Gidney Award 1994 | | de Souza, Lawrence Augustus | Lawyer | | de Talleyrand Varle, Princess Catherine | Countryborn Colonial Woman | | Deboigne, Court Benoit | Soldier | | Deefholt, Eva | Basketball Player | | Deefholts | Hockey Player-(reserve) | | Deefholts, Margaret | Author | | Deefolts, C.J. | Official in the Telegraph Department | | Deefolts, Madame Adelina, | Musician | | DeRoze, George Wilson | Advocate (Calcutta) | | Derozio, Francis | James Scott & Company employee | |
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