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G.T. Haines  to  T.L. Hunton
Haines, George Thomas Son of Thomas George Haines, and Christina Marion Callaghan.	28.12.1911 Portsmouth - 17.01.1997 North Shor City, Auckland, New Zealand	2nd Lt. 01.01.1930 Lt. 01.01.1933 Capt. 24.10.1937 (retd 20.10.1947) A/Maj. 23.07.1941-23.03.1943, 25.03.1944-25.01.1945, 19.10.1945-20.10.1947 A/Lt.Col. 24.03.1943-24.03.1944, 26.01.1945-28.10.1945	02.01.1930 - (08.1930) RM course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] ? - (02.1931) RM Depot, Deal ? - (01.)1932 Portsmouth Division RM 1932 - (09.1932) Chatham Division RM 03.02.1933 - (08.)1934 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 04.10.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (02.1936) - (02.)1937 Chatham Division RM (07.1937)     no appointment listed 08.07.1937 - (09.1939) HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) (and for signal duties) (04.1940) - (02.)1941 Assistant Signal Officer, then Brigade Signal Officer, 101st RM Brigade [initially known as RM Brigade] (12.)1941 - (02.)1943 RM Division Signals (06.)1943 - (04.)1944 RM Signal School (06.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed ? - (04.1946) RM Signal School Emigrated to New Zealand.
Hamer, Frederick Alexander Son of Richard Hamer (1846-1922), and Clara Louisa Pattenden (1851-1903). Married ((12?).1906, Portsmouth district) Gladys Pansy Jane [Hewitt] Hack (born 19.09.1888, Secunderabad, India - (03?).1974, Chelsea, London); one daughter, two sons (Lt. Richard J.A. Hamer, The South Wales Borderers, and Cdr. John A.H. Hamer, CVO, OBE, DSC, RN)	30.12.1886 Granby, Bingham district, Nottinghamshire - 26.01.1972 Salisbury, Wiltshire	2nd Lt. 01.09.1903 Lt. 12.04.1906, seniority 01.07.1904 Capt. 01.09.1914 (supernumerary ...-09.05.1916) A/Maj. 25.11.1916-26.08.1918 Maj. 06.04.1925 (Paymaster 01.12.1933) Lt.Col. 05.04.1934 (dismissed the service by sentence of a general court martial 21.10.1941)	commissioned, Royal Marine Artillery 01.04.1921 - (01.1925) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.1926 qualified as interpreter French 06.02.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (China) 24.02.1928 - (02.)1931 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.04.1931 - (05.)1933 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) & as Squadron RM Officer, 1st Battle Squadron 1933 - (06.1933) Chatham Division RM (01.1934) - (08.)1939 Plymouth Division RM (09.)1939 - (02.)1941 Portsmouth Division RM
Hart, William James	? - 1995? France	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942 A/T/Capt. 30.11.1945-06.08.1946 (reld 05.04.1947)	15.05.1942 commissioned, Royal Marines (Chatham Division) ? - (07.1945) RM Holding Commando ? - (04.1946) 3rd Commando Brigade HQ
Harvey, Adolphus John Son of John Harvey, and Maria Elizabeth Sturman.	17.11.1905 Lowestoft, Suffolk - 05.02.1972	2nd Lt. 01.09.1924 Lt. 01.09.1927 Capt. 01.04.1936 A/Maj. 16.02.1940-12.10.1942 Maj. 04.01.1946 A/Lt.Col. 13.10.1942-08.03.1944, 18.10.1944-(01.1946) Lt.Col. 30.06.1949 A/Col. 09.03.1944-17.10.1944 Col. 31.12.1952 (retd) CBE 09.06.1955 HM's birthday 55 OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 04.04.1944 sevices in Sicily	? - (04.1940) Portsmouth Division RM (02.1941) - (10.1943) Staff Officer (Artillery), RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (MNBDO) (2) ? - (12.1943) RM Support Craft Regiment 09.03.1944 - 17.10.1944 RM Armoured Support Group 07.01.1945 - 29.03.1945 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 30.03.1945 - (04.1946) RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 13.10.1947 - (07.1948) "Q" Staff, RM Office (London) ? - (05.1950) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 55 Infantry Training Centre RM
Hasler, Herbert George "Blondie"	27.02.1914 Dublin - 05.05.1987	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1932 Prob. Lt. 01.09.1935 Lt. ?, seniority 01.09.1935 Capt. 23.05.1939 A/Maj. 11.03.1941-12.12.1943, 29.09.1947-30.12.1947 Bt. Maj. 30.06.1943 Maj. 31.12.1947 (retd 16.06.1948; medically unfit) A/Lt.Col. 13.12.1943-29.09.1947 DSO 29.06.1943 ? OBE 11.07.1940 distinguished services during the war CdeG ? ? MID 26.09.1940 Norway	01.09.1932 commissioned into the Royal Marines (01.1934) Portsmouth Division, RM (07.1935) Plymouth division, RM 10.01.1936 - (02.1937) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1937) no posting listed (02.1938) - (08.1939) Portsmouth Division, RM (04.1940) Landing Officer, RM Fortress Unit (Norway) [borne on Portsmouth Division, RM] (02.1941) Commander, Landing Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2 (MNBDO 2) * early 1942 - 22.06.1942 Development Staff, Combined Operations HQ 22.06.1942 - (12.1943) Officer Commanding, RM Boom Patrol Detachment [borne on Portsmouth Division, RM] 30.11.1942 leader of Operation Frankton (better known as the "Cockleshell Heroes" raid on German shipping in Bordeaux) 25.01.1944 - (04.1944) HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi) 24.04.1944 - (07.1945) CO RM Detachment 385 [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo)] (04.1946) HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore) * Innovative sailor, founder of the Single-handed Transatlantic race (1960), and inventor of the first effective self-steering gear for yachts. Literature: Ewen Southby-Tailyour, Blondie : a biography of Lieutenant-Colonel H.G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre, Royal Marines (1998) * no starting date indicated
Hasting, Peter Henry Son of Charles Albert Hasting (1885-1947), and Mildred Helena Moody (1888-?), of Wolborough, Brixham & Chiswick. Married 1st ((09?).1947, Devon Central district) Ann R. McCausland, daughter of Maj. F.M. McCausland, The Royal Scots, and Mrs E.C. McCausland (later Becher), of Dunsford, nr Exeter; one son. Married 2nd ((03?).1955, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire) Joyce Vielvyn Relph (03.09.1929 - 11.1989); one son, one daughter. Married 3rd ((09?).1978, Wantage district, Berkshire) Diana Wilson.	(06?).1922 Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex - 03.09.2012 Oxfordshire	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942 Lt. 21.01.1947, seniority 15.12.1943 Capt. 15.12.1951 (retd 18.03.1965) local Maj. 15.10.1960-06.11.1962	15.05.1942 - (08.)1942 Portsmouth Division RM 03.09.1942 - (02.1944) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon), from 01.09.1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (09.1943)     Second-in-Command, RM Detachment, HM LCF 4 (landing craft, flak) 16.03.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) (07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) * ? - (04.1946) Lympstone ... - ... ... Enlisted as a recruit to the Corps 1940 and served for two years in the ranks becoming corporal before his selection for a War Service Commission in 1942; he translated in 1946 to a Regular Commission. His war service centred on the Mediterranean, participating in the Allied invasions of Sicily and of Italy in 1943 and he had a narrow escape from a shell, which killed three of his marines on the day of the allied invasion of mainland Italy. From July 1944 until Victory in Europe he was OC RM Detachment and Naval Provost Marshal in Algiers. Hasting joined the aircraft carrier Unicorn in Hong Kong 1950, soon after North Korea invaded South Korea. In August that year, Unicorn sailed with a British Infantry Brigade HQ and two British Infantry Battalions to the relief of besieged Pusan; the first non-US reinforcements to South Korea. He remained with Unicorn in Korean waters until 1952, when he was appointed in the rank of Captain as Aide-de-Camp and Personal Secretary to HM Governor of the Bahamas. Returning to the UK 1954 he became Adjutant to the Royal Marines Reserve (City of London) and in his off-duty time was Chairman of the House Committee of the Army and Navy Club (‘The Rag’). In 1960 he became the first non-US Officer to be selected as Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Adm Robert Dennison, US Navy, in Norfolk, Virginia, and was at the nerve centre of the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962. In retirement he organised the annual Poppy Appeal for five villages and was a member of the Poole & District branch RMA. * indexed, but not listed as such
Hatter, Alfred William "Alf" / "Jerry"   His parents ran a pub opposite the RM Barracks at Eastney. Married Muriel Ackland; one daughter, one son.	13.04.1920 Eastney - 02.11.1974 Chichester, West Sussex	T/2nd Lt. 14.05.1943 A/T/Lt. > 08.1943, < 10.1943 T/Lt. 14.11.1943 A/T/Capt. 15.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	(06.1943) - (12.1943) 102nd RM Brigade (04.1944) - (06.1944) Commando Group RM ? - (07.1945) No. 1 RM Provost Company (London?) ? - (04.1946) Plymouth Division, RM
Hay, Ronald Cuthbert "Ronnie" Son of Capt. Cuthbert Joseph Hay (1882-?) and Letitia Griffith Fausset. Married (24.10.1944) Third Officer Barbara Grange, WRNS, daughter of George Rockfort Grange; two sons, two daughters.	04.10.1916 Perth - 22.11.2001 Wiltshire	2nd Lt. 01.09.1935 Lt. 01.10.1937 A/Capt. 02.05.1942-15.11.1942 Capt. 16.11.1942 (reld 06.09.1951) A/Maj. 15.04.1943-11.12.1944, 12.07.1945-(01.1946) A/Lt.Col. 12.12.1944-11.07.1945 T/Lt.Col. 12.07.1945-01.09.1945, 24.10.1945-(01.1946) Lt.Cdr. RN 06.09.1951, seniority 01.09.1947 Cdr. RN 30.06.1955 (retd 11.10.1966) DSO 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian [investiture 20.05.47] DSC 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance [investiture 14.04.42] DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg [investiture 20.05.47]	01.09.1935 commissioned, RM ... - ... ... ... - ... ... ? - (08.)1943 HMS Daedalus 01.09.1943 - (10.)1943 FFD with School of Air Combat [HMS Vulture] 14.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Bherunda 09.09.1944 - (07.)1945 Leader of No. 47 Fighter Wing [HMS Victorious] 01.10.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] ... - ... ... 06.09.1951 transferred to Fleet Air Arm
Hedley, John Norman "Jack"	03.09.1907 Aberdare Glam, Merthyr Tydfil district, Glamorgan - (09?).1974 St Germans, Cornwall	Lt. 28.02.1940 A/Capt. 10.05.1940 Capt. 09.06.1945 A/Maj. 01.10.1941 Maj. 31.12.1950 (retd 03.09.1957; age) DSO 13.07.1943 landings near Tobruk 09.42 [investiture 26.02.46] OBE 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 57 [investiture 23.07.57]	... - ... ...       served in the ranks for 15 years, 51 days (04.1940)     Home Base Ledger RM (10.1940) - (08.1942) Land Defence Force, renamed 11th RM Battalion (LDF), renamed 11th Battalion RM, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (1) (08.1942)     Officer Commanding, "D" (Machine Gun) Company 09.1942 - 05.1945 POW in Italian & German captivity (c. 1942/43 Campo 5 at Gavi, finally at Marlag und Milag Nord) ... - ... ...
Hetherington, Peter Graham   Twin son of  John G. Hetherington, and Blanche Thomas, of Kingswood, Surrey. Married (08.07.1944, King's Chapel of the Savoy, London) Judith Esther Hunt, only daughter of Mr & Mrs J.E. Hunt, of Purley, Surrey; ... children (one daughter).	(12?).1919 Barnet district, London -	T/Lt. 01.10.1941 A/T/Capt. 02.04.1941 T/Capt. 13.01.1943 A/T/Maj. 13.10.1942-(07.1945) MID 04.09.1945 services with 21 Army Group 02-04.45	(12.1941) - (07.1945) Second-in-Command, from 13.10.1942 Officer Commanding, 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (4th RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2)), from mid-1944 4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 5th RM Anti-Aircraft Brigade)
Hewiett, Frederick George	03.1892 Yarmouth, Norfolk -	Sub-Divisional Inspector RMP 25.01.1940 Chief Inspector RMP 16.10.1940 Superintendent RMP 15.01.1943 Assistant Chief Constable RMP 01.12.1946 (retd> 05.1950,  < 05.1953)	1911 joined RM 15.09.1932 enlisted, Royal Marine Police (RMP) 25.01.1940 commissioned, RMP: 25.01.1940 - (04.1940) Deptford (02.1941) - (12.1941) HM Dockyard, Sheerness (07.1945) - (07.)1946 Area Police Officer, Scottish Area (East) 01.12.1946 - (07.1948) Area Police Officer, Portsmouth Area
Holford, Cecil Francis Lovell "Chang"   Elder son of H.F. Stanley Holford, and Mrs Holford, of Horsham, Sussex. Married 1st (31.03.1930, St Michael's Church, Bournemouth, Dorset) Aileen Margery Rees, younger daughter of Dr and Mrs Rees; one daughter. Aileen Holford remarried (1949) Sydney C. Woolley. Married 2nd ((09?).1949, Westminster district, Middlesex) Lucy L. Crook.	08.07.1900 Hampstead district, Greater London - 14.06.1963 Chichester district, Sussex	2nd Lt. 01.01.1919 Lt. 01.01.1922 Capt. 01.01.1930 Maj. 02.10.1939 (retd 01.03.1948) A/Lt.Col. 14.08.1942-(01.1946) DSO 06.09.1940 withdrawal from Boulogne [investiture 18.02.41] 39|45 St - - Afr St - - It St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	HMS Royal Oak (battleship)       HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (08.1923)     no appointment listed ? - (01.)1925 Chatham Division RM 12.01.1925 - 09.08.1925 No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon [employed under Air Ministry] (as Temp. Flying Officer RAF, seniority 12.01.1925) 10.08.1925 - 20.01.1926 RAF Training Base, Leuchars [employed under Air Ministry] [awarded wings 08.01.1926; flying Reece - Spotter. D.H.9A; was involved in a serious air crash and his injuries resulted in him being forced to return to Corps Duties] 1926 - (05.)1926 Chatham Division RM 13.09.1926 - 30.11.1927 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.12.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) ? - (08.)1929 RM Depot, Deal 03.09.1929 - 21.01.1931 HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) 22.01.1931 - (02.)1931 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) 22.12.1931 - (06.1933) HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (01.1934) - (07.)1935 Portsmouth Division RM 23.08.1935 - (06.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean & Portsmouth) 1938 - (08.)1938 Portsmouth Division RM 08.08.1938 - (02.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (and for training duties in the port) 1939 - (04.)1939 Portsmouth Division RM 01.04.1939 - (12.1941) Instructor of Gunnery (Sea Service), Chatham Division RM [in command of "Force Buttercup" to cover the evacuation of Boulogne, 23.05.1940] (02.1942) - (04.)1944 Instructor of Gunnery, from 14.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HQ 2nd Coast Artillery Regiment of Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (06.1944)     HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) * 01.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Porcupine (landing craft base ship, Stokes Bay, Portsmouth) 18.05.1945 - (07.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 11.10.1945 - (10.1947) Naval Provost Marshal and Senior Officer, Royal Marines on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
Hollis, [Sir] Leslie Chasemore "Jo" Son of late Rev. Canon C.J. Hollis, MA. Married (1922) Rose May Fraser; no children.	09.02.1897 Bath, Somerset - 09.08.1963 Cuckfield, Sussex	Prob. 2nd Lt. 17.04.1915 T/Lt. 21.11.1915 Lt. 16.04.1918 Capt. 06.01.1921 Maj. 05.04.1935 Bt. Lt.Col. 31.12.1937 T/Col. 01.04.1939-30.09.1941 A/Col.Cdt. 01.10.1941-11.11.1943 T/Brig. 01.10.1941-(04.1946) Lt.Col. 01.10.1943 A/Maj.Gen. 12.11.1943-31.12.1946x Col. 04.01.1946 Maj.Gen. 01.01.1947 A/Lt.Gen. 01.01.1947-19.05.1949 Lt.Gen. 20.05.1949 Gen. 11.05.1951 (retd 1952) KCB 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 51 KBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 CB 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 CBE 01.01.1941 New Year 41 LM ? ?	Education: St Lawrence's College, Ramsgate 1914 - 1915 joined Royal Marine Light Infantry (training at RM Depot, Deal & RN Gunnery School, Whale Island) 1915 - 1917 HMS Duke of Edinburgh (cruiser) (Grand Fleet) 1917 - 1919 Lieutenant in charge of RM Detachment, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Harwich Force) 1919 - 1920 RM Barracks, Plymouth 1920 - 1923 Captain of Marines, HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 1923 - ? assistant small arms instructor, RM Barracks, Plymouth ? - (01.1925) RM Depot, Deal 01.01.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.10.1927 - (06.)1928 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 18.04.1929 - (01.)1932 Staff Officer (Intelligence) Capetown on staff of Commander-in-Chief Africa Station [HMS Calcutta (cruiser), later HMS Cardiff (cruiser)] 04.05.1932 - (02.)1936 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.04.1936 - (08.)1939 Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence 1939 - 1946 Senior Military Assistant Secretary, War Cabinet Office 1947 - 1949 Chief Staff Officer to Minister of Defence, also Deputy Secretary (Military) of the Cabinet Commandant General, Royal Marines, 26.05.1949-20.05.1952. Member Institute of Directors. Company director and author. Published: One Marine's Tale (1956); War at the Top (by James Leasor, based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, KCB, KBE) (1959); The Captain General (1961)
Hood, Alfred Cecil Son of William Hood. Married (04.03.1924, Malta) Rozalia Schlesinger, daughter of Janos Schlesinger.	15.02.1898 Ipswich, Suffolk - died between 08.1989 and 12.1998 ?	Mne. 22.02.1915 Cpl. 27.07.1920 Sgt. 19.07.1928 Staff Clerk 12.07.1933 Superintending Clerk 25.03.1935 Lt. (QM) 07.11.1939 Capt. (QM) 07.11.1942 Maj. (QM) RMFVR 23.02.1949 RN LSGC (29.03.1931); received shares from the Naval Prize Fund for having been at Jutland	22.02.1915 - 11.07.1933 served in the ranks for 20 years & 31 days: 22.02.1915 - 06.10.1915 C Company, Royal Marine Light Infantry (Deal) 07.10.1915 - 07.12.1915 F Company, Royal Marine Light Infantry (Chatham) 08.12.1915 - 31.05.1918 HMS Champion (light cruiser) 01.06.1918 - 21.06.1918 Chatham Division, RM 22.06.1918 - 22.07.1919 HMS Superb (battleship) (Flagship of V.Adm. Gough-Calthorpe, Eastern Mediterranean)) 23.07.1919 - 08.11.1919 Chatham Division, RM 09.11.1919 - 07.10.1921 Clerk, Allotment Office, RM 18.10.1921 - 30.11.1921 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) 01.12.1921 - 23.01.1922 Chatham Division, RM 24.01.1922 - 30.09.1924 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.10.1924 - 13.11.1924 Chatham Division, RM 14.11.1924 - 24.11.1925 HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment, Harwich) 25.11.1925 - 26.11.1925 Chatham Division, RM 27.11.1925 - 20.06.1926 Clerk, Allotment Office, RM 19.01.1927 - 23.10.1927 E Company, 12th RM Battalion 24.10.1927 - 30.11.1928 Chatham Division, RM 01.12.1928 - 30.10.1932 Clerk, Barracks 01.11.1932 - 11.07.1933 Clerk, Royal Marine Office (London) 12.07.1933 - 06.11.1939 served as Warrant Officer for 4 years & 227 days: 12.07.1933 - 06.11.1939 Staff Clerk, Royal Marine Office (London) ? - (04.1940) RM Depot, Deal ? - (02.1941) Quartermaster, RM Engineer Battalion (12.1941) - (06.1944) Chatham Division, RM (07.1945) - (07.1946) Quartermaster, 2nd Battalion RM Engineers ? - (07.1948) Pay and Records Office, RM 1948/49 ? transferred to RM Forces Volunteer Reserve 1949 ? - 1955 ? Personnel & Records Office, RM ?
Hosking, Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey "Geoff"	11.03.1922 - 01.1991 Dover, Kent	2nd Lt. 01.09.1940 Lt. 11.01.1942 A/Capt. 25.11.1944 Capt. 11.01.1950 (retd 04.10.1951)	01.09.1940 commissioned, Royal Marines (02.1941) course for Probationary Second Lieutenants, RM, Chatham 10.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) 15.11.1944 - 28.07.1945 48 RM Commando (A Troop, Y Troop Commander) (NW Europe; went to the UK, injured) (04.1946) RM Depot, Deal (07.1948) - (05.1950) Commando School RM Played rugby for England, 1949-50.
Houghton, Robert Dyer "Titch" Son of John Mayo Houghton, and Lucy EvelynTrotman, of Dawlish, Devon. Married (1940) Dorothy Uladh Lyons (28.09.1912 - 10.1995), youngest daughter of Maj.Gen. R.W.S. Lyons, IMS; two sons, one daughter.	07.03.1912 Newton Abbot district, Devon - 17.01.2011 Whitesmith, near Lewes, East Sussex	2nd Lt. 01.09.1930 Lt. 01.09.1933 Capt. 31.08.1938 A/Maj. 06.05.1941 ... ... Maj.Gen. 04.09.1961 (retd 28.10.1964) CB 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 OBE 07.01.1949 Palestine 03-07.48 MC 14.12.1945 Dieppe 19.08.42 & POW	Education: Haileybury (3rd term 1925-2nd term 1930). 1930     joined RM       HMS Malaya (battleship)       qualified as a small arms instructor 1935     Officer Commanding an anti-aircraft battery of the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (Egypt, Crete)       Chatham Division RM (04.1940) - (02.)1941 Adjutant, 1st Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) 1941 - (12.1941) Adjutant, 15th (S) Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) 1942 - 19.08.1942 Second-in-Command, 40 RM Commando (Dieppe; captured) (MC) 19.08.1942 - 1945 POW in German captivity 1945     Commanding Officer, 45 RM Commando       staff course, Staff College, Camberley       Commanding Officer, 40 RM Commando (Palestine) ... - ... ... Colonel Commandant, Royal Marines, 01.01.1973-31.12.1976. General Secretary, Royal UK Beneficent Association, 1968-1978. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) East Sussex, 1977.
Howard, Alfred James Richard   Son of Alfred and Eliza Howard.	08.05.1896 Alverstoke, Hampshire -	Bugler 12.07.1910 [15490] T/Sgt.Maj. 28.04.1942 T/Lt. 23.09.1942 A/T/Capt. 02.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	12.07.1910     joined Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) 01.1941 civilian instructor, Air Ministry 28.04.1942 commissioned, Royal Marines [temporary commission] (08.1942) Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines ? - (02.)1943 Combined Operations HQ * 12.04.1943 - (08.)1943 Adjutant RM Unit Combined Operations & CI Duties [HMS Victory III (accounting section, Watage, Berkshire)] 24.09.1943 - 30.05.1944 HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend) 30.05.1944 - (09.1945) HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) * indexed, but not listed as such
Howe, Geoffrey "Geoff"	? -	T/2nd Lt. 12.02.1944 T/A/Lt. 10.06.1944 T/Lt. 12.08.1944	12.03.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Hunton, Sir Thomas Lionel Son of Theodore Hunton. Married (1919) Margaret M.F., daughter of Lt­Col W.H. Steele, late RAMC; one son (one daughter deceased). ° papers	30.10.1885 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire - 20.04.1970 [Belvedere, Lympstone, Near Exmouth, South Devon ?]	2nd Lt. 01.09.1903 Lt. 01.07.1904 Capt. 01.09.1914 Brev. Maj. 01.01.1919 Maj. 24.01.1924 Brev. Lt.Col. 31.12.1930 Lt.Col. 05.04.1933 Brev. Col. 05.10.1935, seniority 05.10.1934 Col. 2nd Comdt. 01.06.1936, seniority 31.12.1933 Col. Comdt. 01.10.1938 T/Brig. 01.10.1938-30.09.1940 Maj.Gen. 01.10.1940 Lt.Gen. 26.01.1943 Gen. 01.05.1945 (retd 25.06.1946) KCB 01.01.1944 New Year 44 CB 01.01.1941 New Year 41 MVO 27.06.1927 visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand and Australia OBE 1918 ? MID 11.12.1918 Aegean MID 11.04.1919 Aegean British War Medal; Victory Medal	Education: Clifton College 1903 joined RM 1914 - 1918 served European War, including Battle of Jutland (despatches twice [11.12.1918], Chevalier Légion d'Honneur, Star of Roumania, Chevalier) 17.10.1918 - 03.03.1919 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), RM 04.03.1919 - 21.01.1923 Adjutant, RM (01.1925) Depot RM, Deal 03.11.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (08.1929) Depot RM, Deal 01.04.1930 - 31.08.1933 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), RM (01.1934) - (07.1935) Portsmouth Division, RM 05.10.1935 - 30.09.1938 Assistant Adjutant-General (AAG), Royal Marines, HQ 01.10.1938 - 1941 Commanded Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines 26.01.1943 - 1946 Commandant General, Royal Marines [Adjutant-General to 24.11.1943, General Officer Commanding to 27.05.1945] ADC to the King, 30.09.1939-30.09.1940; interpreter in Japanese.

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