| Notes: | CMP. Formerly Grenadier Guards. 11/2/44 Discharged to Commission. London Gazette 36427, page 1268, 17/3/44. General List. The undermentioned are granted immediate emergency commissions from the ranks in the rank of 2/Lt's: 12/2/44. General List. 2613328 CSM Ralp Benjamin Tillings (306842) from CMP.
Extract from Sevenoaks and Kentish Advertiser, 23/2/45. POLICEMAN SENT TO PRISON.
Lieut Ralp B Tilllings (33) Corps of Military Police pleaded guilty at the Kent Assizes at Maidstone this week to supplying Eleanor Louvain Draper with noxious pills with intent to procure a miscarriage. Draper pleaded guilty to administering the pills to herself at Tunbridge Wells. Mr T Eadie, prosecuting, said that Draper's husband, who was in the RAF, was overseas. She met Tillings, they became friendly and went to live together. When she told Tillings of her condition he suggested she took some thing and got her some pills. Later she became ill and both made statements to the Police. Det. Inspector Siggers said that Draper was a woman of good character. Mr Justice Charles: and she was persuaded by the man to do this? - I have reason to think so. Continuing the Inspector said that Tillings was a man of excellent character. Before joining the Army he had been a police officer. Pleading for leniency, Mr B H Waddy said that Tillings, who had risen from the ranks, was evacuated from Brest. He married just before he went to France, but owing to his service had been unable to be with his wife except on short leave. Draper was in somewhat the same position., her husband being abroad, This to a very large extent was a tragedy of the war. Both were very lonely. The met at a , became infatuated and went to live together, and if they were divorced they had intended to marry. Tillings had now made a full confession to his wife who had forgiven him. Binding Mrs Draper over for two years under the Probation Officer, the Judge said that she had done a wicked thing, but he thought she had been persuaded by the man. Tlllings would go to prison for six months. He had done a wicked and selfish thing.
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