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A.T. Bamber   to   J.G. Burton
Bamber,
Alexander Thomson
J.B. Blacklaws
Son of William Henry Bamber, and
Jessie Ann H. Thomson.
Married (27.03.1943, Cathedral
Church of All Saints, Cairo) Third
Officer Elizabeth Reid Halliday,
WRNS.		 (09?).1919
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
T/2nd Lt. 28.12.1941
T/Lt. 28.06.1942 (reld 04.05.1946)
A/T/Capt. 22.09.1943-(06.1944),
15.03.1945-(07.1945)
(08.1942) - (06.)1944 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (1)
1944 - (10.1944) attached Group 3, Holding Company, RM Training Group (Devon)
? - (07.1945) Adjutant, 26th RM Battalion
Bartlett,
Harry Royston
"Roy"
H.R. Bartlett (Photo courtesy of Dr Jonathan Bartlett) H.R. Bartlett (Photo courtesy of Dr Jonathan Bartlett)
Son of Brig. Harry Bartlett, CBE, and Hilda Mary Hodder.
Brother of Capt. William James Osborne Bartlett, MC and Bar, Royal Tank Regiment.
Married (15.04.1944, Church of St Mary, Hayling South, Havant, Gosport district, Hampshire) Joan Cook[e], of Budleigh Salterton.		 (03?).1924
Andover district, Hampshire / Wilthsire
-
01.11.1944
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
(died of illness) [age 20]
[Budleigh Salterton Church Cemetery, H.5.2]
T/2nd Lt.
 		21.08.1942
T/Lt.
10.05.1943
Education: Imperial Service College, Windsor
(08.1942?)
 -
 		(02.)1943
 		1st RM Mobile Company
(06.)1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		41 RM Commando 
[received a massive wound from a German machine gun in the back after running up and placing a pole charge against a pill-box around Vietri near Salerno in early September 1943 during Operation Avalanche]
12.03.1944
 -
 		01.11.1944
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) [died of illness from his wounds received at Salerno]
Beeman,
Philip
P. Beeman
Son of Robert Beeman, and Margaret Kate Madden.
 21.11.1916
Wandsworth district, London
-
05.2002
South Hams district, Devon
2nd Lt.
 		01.09.1935
Prob. Lt.
 		01.10.1937
Lt.
 		18.04.1938, seniority 01.10.1937
A/Capt.
 		15.11.1941-03.06.1942
Capt.
 		04.06.1942
A/Maj.
29.11.1944-18.03.1946
Maj.
 		30.06.1950
local Lt.Col.
 		17.10.1956-12.03.1957
A/Lt.Col.
 		13.03.1957-16.06.1958
local Lt.Col.
 		17.06.1958-29.06.1958
Lt.Col.
 		30.06.1958
Col.
 		30.06.1962 (retd 21.11.1965)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 08.01.1942
 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 09.02.43]
?
 -
 		(02.1936)
 		Chatham Division RM
(01.1937)
 -
 		(02.)1937
 		Portsmouth Division RM
1937
 -
 		(07.)1937
 		RM Depot, Deal
18.10.1937
 -
 		(02.)1938
 		HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
18.02.1938
 -
 		(10.1938)
 		HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
02.01.1939
 -
 		(04.)1939
 		gunnery course, HMS Excellent
1939
 -
 		(08.)1939
 		Chatham Division RM
27.08.1939
 -
 		(02.)1941
 		HMS Calcutta (cruiser)
15.11.1941
 -
 		(10.)1943
 		HMS Charybdis (cruiser)
1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		RM Siege Regiment
?
 -
 		(04.)1944
 		RM Armoured Support Group
(06.)1944
 -
 		(10.)1944
 		Instructor of Gunnery, RM Amphibious Training Centre (Burma Camp, Llwynwril) [under RM Training Group Wales]
29.11.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole)
?
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		Portsmouth Division RM
?
 -
 		(07.1948)
 		Gunnery School RM
(05.1949)
 -
 		(05.1950)
 		Pay and Records Office RM
(05.1953)
 -
 		(07.1954)
 		RM Office (London)
(04.1955)
 -
 		(01.)1956
 		RM Barracks, Eastney
17.10.1956
 -
 		(01.1957)
 		Material Staff, Amphibious Warfare HQ (London)
30.06.1958
 -
 		(01.1959)
 		Assistant Adjutant General, "A" Staff, Royal Marine Office (London)
(07.1961)
 -
 		(02.1964)
 		RM Barracks, Eastney
01.07.1965
 -
 		21.11.1965
 		RM ADC to the Queen
Belbin,
George Craven
 G.C.Belbin (Imperial War Museum © IWM (A 21370)) 		16.02.1920
-
25.01.2008
... ...
Lt. 01.02.1940
A/Capt. 30.06.1941
... - ... ...
13.09.1943 - (10.1943) HMS Belfast (cruiser)
... - ... ...
Bell,
Arnold
A. Bell (Photo courtesy of Mr Ed Bell)
Son (with three sisters and two brothers) of John Thomas Bell (1878-1941), and Alice Hall (1880-1969).
Husband of Muriel Hannah Bell, of Chatham; one son.

His son writes: "My father Capt. Arnold Bell RM was stationed at HMS Nile between May and November 1944. In October he took a detachment of Royal Marines to the Greek port of Piraeus to keep law and order in the interim period between the German's withdrawal and the establishment of civil law. The following is a quote from an ex-Marine who lived in New Zealand and was a member of the detachment. "This party had the exciting designation of 'Haddock' and consisted of two sergeants, four corporals and 46 marines who gathered at Sphinx. Training was commmennced on commando principle with emphasis on -riots and street fighting etc." The detachment landed on Greek soil on October 12 and remained until the beginning of November when they were ordered to board HMS Easton and harrass the Germans remaining on the island of Milos. An attack on a radar unit sited on Mount Topakas, on the South West corner of Milos was planned and executed on the night of November 13/14 during which my father and three Royal Marines were killed. The Radar unit ceased to operate from that date, two German prisoners were taken and a number of Greek teenagers who wished to fight for the Allies were taken on board Easton."
09.01.1908
-
14.11.1944
Milos, Greece
(KIA)
[Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece, collective grave 23.B.2-5]
T/A/Sgt.Maj.
 		07.10.1940
Lt.
 		01.01.1944
A/Capt.
 		15.07.1944
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 08.06.1944
 HM's birthday 44
Mentioned in Despatches MID
 11.12.1945
 wind up Europe 45 [posthumously]
(02.1941)
 -
 		(12.1941)
 		Sergeant-Major, 7th Battalion, 103rd RM Brigade
(08.1942)
 -
 		(02.)1943
 		101st RM Brigade
(06.)1943
 -
 		(08.)1943
 		Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2
(10.)1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		RM Military School
?
 -
 		(04.)1944
 		RM Training Group Wales (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2)
1944
 -
 		(06.)1944
 		RM Training Group Devon (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2)
15.07.1944
 -
 		14.11.1944
 		HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
Blacklaws,
John Berry
J.B. Blacklaws
Married Wendy Patricia Ware-Austin; two sons.
 ?
Scotland
-
1964
East Africa
Mne.
 		01.06.1943 [114295]
T/2nd Lt.
 		12.08.1944
T/Lt.
12.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
01.06.1943

enlisted RM
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		RM Commandos
?
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		Plymouth Division RM
Went home to Kenya post-war (farmer/game warden/safari leader).
Blake,
George Michael
G.M. Blake
15.08.1918
-
22.01.2007
2nd Lt.
 		01.01.1937
A/Lt.
 		30.01.1939-31.01.1939
Lt.
 		01.02.1939
A/Capt.
 		28.10.1940-17.08.1943,
04.10.1943-31.03.1946
Capt.
 		01.04.1946
Maj.
 		31.12.1953
...
 -
 		...
 		...
?
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		102nd RM Brigade
(08.1943)
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		RM Depot, Deal
29.09.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMNZS Gambia
...
 -
 		...
 		...
Blow,
Leslie
L. Blow (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Martin) L. Blow (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Martin)
?
-
Col.Sgt.
 		? [PO/215863]
T/Sgt.Maj.
 		26.06.1942
T/Lt. (QM)
 		15.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
British Empire Medal BEM
 01.07.1941
 HM's birthday 41 [investiture 04.11.41]
26.06.1942
 -
 		(08.1942)
 		HMS Watchful (RN base, Yarmouth)
(02.1943)
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) 2
(04.1944)
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		Administrative Officer, 1st RM Armoured Support Regiment (RM Armoured Support Group)
(03.1945)

Naval Party 2402 (Rhine crossing)
(07.1945)
  
 		 
 		no appointment listed
Bradley,
John William Evance
J.W.E. Bradley
Son of ... Bradley, and ... Burt.
Lived in Swanage in the 1990s.
 04.08.1920
Wareham district, Dorset
-
05.1994
Poole district, Dorset
T/Lt.
 		18.08.1941
A/T/Capt.
 		01.10.1942
Military Cross MC
 08.02.1944
 capture of Termoli (Italy)
?
 -
 		(12.1941)
 		15th (S) Battalion, 101st RM Brigade
?
 -
 		(08.1942)
 		no appointment listed
?
 -
 		(02.1943)
 		Commando Group HQ
(06.1943)
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		40 RM Commando
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Assistant to Officer-in-Charge Cadets, Cadet Wing, RM Military School
?
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		Plymouth Division, RM
Brockbank,
Maurice Chester
M.C. Brockbank
Son of Clarence Jesse Brockbank (1884-1970), and Caroline Brockbank.
Married ((09?).1938, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Marjorie Winifred "Madge" Adams (1916? - 30.11.2006), of Ewell, Surrey; one son. Madge Brockbank remarried (1952) Donald Burton Baker.		 1910 ?
Lancashire ?
-
12.04.1945
(KIA) [age 35]
[Becklingen War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany, 8.D.13]
T/2nd Lt. 05.02.1943
T/A/Lt. 13.06.1943
T/Lt. 05.08.1943
T/A/Capt. 14.12.1944
Mentioned in Despatches MID 23.01.1945 operations with Army in Italy 01-04.44
(04.)1943 - (06.)1944 40 RM Commando
(10.)1944 - (01.)1945 RM Holding Commando
1945 - 12.04.1945 "C" Troop, 45 RM Commando (killed at the crossing of the Aller River)
Brown,
Frank Weyer
J.W.E. Bradley
18.07.1910
-
Prob. 2nd Lt.
 		01.01.1929
Lt.
 		01.01.1932
Capt.
 		09.05.1938
T/Maj.
 		< 08.1942 (retd, reld or died > 06.1944)
RAF:
F/O
 		16.09.1934
F/Lt.
 		01.07.1938
03.01.1929
 -
 		(08.1929)
 		course for Probationary Second Lieutenants, RM at RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
?
 -
 		(04.1930)
 		RM Depot, Deal
?
 -
 		(02.1931)
 		Portsmouth Division. RM
?
 -
 		(01.)1932
 		Plymouth Division, RM
22.01.1932
 -
 		(09.1932)
 		HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean)
06.01.1933
 -
 		(01.)1934
 		HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
16.09.1934
 -
 		25.11.1937
 		employed under the Air Ministry:
16.09.1934
 -
 		(07.)1935
 		pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars [attached to RAF]
21.08.1935
 -
 		(02.1937)
 		S/R Squadron 823 FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF]
(07.1937)

HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] *
03.01.1938
 -
 		(01.1940)
 		specially employed [attached to RAF]: 
(02.1938)
 -
 		(08.1938)
 		HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [attached to RAF] *
15.08.1938
 -
 		(04.1939)
 		TSR Squadron 810 FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet)  [attached to RAF]
(08.1939)
 -
 		(04.1940)
 		Fleet Air Arm
06.12.1940
 -
 		(02.1941)
 		Commanding Officer, 786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crial, Fife)]
11.08.1941
 -
 		(12.1941)
 		Second-in-Command, 824 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)]
?
 -
 		(08.)1942
 		Commanding Officer, 824 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)]
09.1942
 -
 		(02.1943)
 		HMS Activity (escort carrier) **
20.04.1944
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		HMS President (for duty with 5th Sea Lord)
* indexed, but not listed as such
** (06.1943) - (04.1944) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Buckley,
Arthur Henry Rede
A.H.R. Buckley
Residence: (1944) Plymouth.
 06.02.1903
St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex
-
Prob. 2nd Lt.
 		01.09.1921
2nd Lt.
 		1922?, seniority 01.09.1921
Prob. Lt.
 		01.10.1924
Lt.
 		1925?, seniority 01.10.1924
Capt.
 		28.03.1934
Bt. Maj.
 		31.12.1940
Maj.
01.02.1944 (retd 25.02.1949)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
 08.06.1944
 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 12.12.44]
01.09.1921

commissioned, Royal Marine Artillery
(08.1923)

no appointment listed
1924?

transferred, Royal Marines (Plymouth Division)
12.1924
 -
 		(05.1926)
 		HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
?
 -
 		(07.1927)
 		12th RM Battalion
(04.1928)
 -
 		(05.)1928
 		Depôt RM, Deal
1928
 -
 		(06.1928)
 		Plymouth Division, RM
(08.1929)
 -
 		(02.)1931
 		Portsmouth Division, RM
1931
 -
 		(01.)1932
 		Chatham Division, RM
1932
 -
 		(09.1932)
 		Depôt RM, Deal
(05.1933)
 -
 		(06.1933)
 		no appointment listed
(01.1934)
 -
 		(07.1934)
 		Depôt RM, Deal
29.11.1934
 -
 		(07.1935)
 		HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
?
 -
 		(02.1936)
 		Chatham Division, RM
05.08.1936
 -
 		(07.)1937
 		HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
29.11.1937
 -
 		(02.1939)
 		HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Devonport)
(04.1939)

no appointment listed
(08.1939)
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		Plymouth Division, RM
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
?
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		Plymouth Division, RM
?
 -
 		(07.1948)
 		Royal Naval School of Music
Headed Seamenship Instructor Department of the naval boarding school Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk, early 1950s.

* indexed, but not listed as such
Burge,
Humphrey Edward Kelsey
H.E.K. Burge
Married Beatrix Hope C. "Bo" (née ...) (09.08.1907 - 30.03.1998) [she married before H.O.P. Evans, and later A.R. Llewellin-Taylour].
17.01.1917
-
died between 08.1989 and 08.1991 ??
2nd Lt.
 		01.09.1939
Prob. Lt.
 		16.02.1941
Lt.
 		02.12.1941, seniority 16.02.1941
A/Capt.
 		18.10.1943-12.08.1945,
28.11.1945-...
A/Maj.
 		13.08.1945-28.11.1945
Capt.
 		16.02.1949 (retd 29.08.1955)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 03.10.1952
 Korea (4th list) [investiture 03.03.53]
Silver Star Medal (US) SSM
 30.10.1953
 enemy action Moggumpo 30.08.51 [decoration presented]



served in the ranks for 2 years, 344 days
01.09.1939
  
 		 
 		commissioned RM
?
 -
 		(04.1940)
 		RM course, Portsmouth
?
 -
 		(02.)1941
 		RM Reserve Depot, Exton
18.03.1941
 -
 		(06.)1943
 		HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(08.)1943
 -
 		(10.)1943
 		Plymouth Division RM
18.10.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Air), HQ Special Service Group [from 12.1944 Commando Group]
?
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		3rd Commando Brigade (Light)
(07.1948)
 -
 		(05.1949)
 		Pay and Records Office, RM
01.03.1950
 -
 		(08.1951)
 		HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
?
 -
 		(05.1953)
 		RM Forces Volunteer Reserve Merseyside
07.12.1953
 -
 		(07.1954)
 		HMS Royal Prince (parent ship, Germany) (for service at Krefeld)
?
 -
 		(04.1955)
 		Pay and Records Office, RM
Burnford,
Alfred Myer
"John"
A.M. Burnford
Married (08.10.1946, Maidstone, Kent) Beryl Marjorie Roddam.
 ?
-
T/2nd Lt.
 		10.01.1941
T/Lt.
 		10.07.1941
T/A/Capt.
 		15.09.1944
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
 14.03.1944
 escape as POW while on a train to Verona
(02.1941)

Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (1) *
(12.1941)
 -
 		(08.1942)
 		11th RM Battalion (Land Defence Force), Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (1)
(02.1943)
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		no appointment listed: POW (escaped)
?
 -
 		04.1944
 		Plymouth Division RM
04.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(04.1946)
  
 		 
 		HMS Copra *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Burnford,
John Michael
 J.M. Burnford
Son of ... Burnford, and ... Wreyford.
 18.01.1921
St Marylebone district, Greater London
-
10.02.1981
Pulborough, Worthing district
T/2nd Lt.
 		22.11.1940
T/Lt.
 		22.05.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
(02.1941)
 -
 		(08.1942)
 		11th RM Battalion (Land Defence Force), Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (1)
(02.1943)
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed: POW
Burton,
John George
J.G. Burton
private papers
 1921
-
1978
2nd Lt.
 		?
T/Lt.
 		17.09.1941 (commission terminated 29.12.1944)
A/T/Capt.
10.07.1943-26.10.1943,
07.06.1944-09.08.1944
Military Cross MC
 29.08.1944
 Italy
(08.1942)

102nd RM Brigade
(02.1943)
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		Intelligence Officer, 41 RM Commando (Sicily, Salerno, Normandy)
 
       
 
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