| B.H.
Salmons to P.M. Sutcliffe |
Salmons,
Bryan Harvey
Son of George
Herbert Salmons, and Ellen Edith Phillpot.
Brother of Maj.
Thomas Cardus Salmons, RM.
|
27.04.1907
Teddington, Kingston district, Middlesex
-
15.10.1988
Quarr, Ryde, Isle of Wight
|
T/2nd Lt.
|
15.01.1940
|
A/T/Lt.
|
20.05.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
15.07.1940
|
A/T/Capt.
|
01.10.1941 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
 |
EM
|
25.03.1949
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks in the Artists Rifles pre-war
|
?
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
Portsmouth
Division RM
|
(02.1941)
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Land
Defence Force [later 11th RM Battalion (LDF)], Mobile Naval Base Defence
Organization [MNBDO] (1)
|
?
|
-
|
14.09.1942
|
Mobile
Naval Base Defence Organization [MNBDO] (1)
[captured on Operation Agreement, the attack on Tobruk]
|
14.09.1942
|
-
|
(05.1945?)
|
prisoner
of war [according to London Times 06.01.1943]
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Lympstone
[Commando Training Centre?]
|
Manager, Banana Importers (retired).
|
Salmons,
Thomas Cardus
Son of George
Herbert Salmons, and Ellen Edith
Phillpot.
Brother of Capt.
Bryan Harvey Salmons, RM.
|
14.01.1910
Teddington, Kingston district, Middlesex
-
01.2001
West Sussex district, Sussex
|
T/2nd Lt.
|
01.12.1939
|
A/T/Lt.
|
16.02.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
01.06.1940
|
A/T/Capt.
|
15.04.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
22.07.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
A/T/Maj.
|
22.04.1943
|
 |
EM
|
25.03.1949
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks in the Artists Rifles pre-war (personal no. 6792097)
|
(04.1940)
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
5th
Battalion, RM Brigade (from 1941 101st RM Brigade)
|
(08.)1943
|
-
|
(04.)1944
|
45
RM Commando
|
1944
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
RM
Training Group Wales
|
(10.)1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
30
Assault Unit (under Special Service Group, from 12.1944 Commando Group)
|
|
Sankey,
Robert Woodall
"Bob"

Married Annie Jeannette "Jean" ... (died
01.05.1977); two sons, one step-daughter, one step-son. |
(06?).1909
Wolverhampton district, Shropshire /
Staffordshire / West Midlands
-
18.04.1975
at home, near Hickling, Norfolk |
| T/2nd Lt. |
15.01.1940 |
| T/Lt. |
15.07.1940 |
| T/A/Capt. |
06.05.1940 |
| T/A/Maj. |
01.10.1941 |
| T/Maj. |
02.03.1944 |
| T/A/Lt.Col. |
02.12.1943 |
|
|
1940 |
- |
(04.)1940 |
Portsmouth Division RM |
|
(10.)1940 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
11th RM Battalion (Land Defence Force), Mobile Naval
Base Defence Organization (1) [latterly as Commanding Officer] |
|
(10.)1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
Commanding Officer, 40 RM Commando |
|
1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
RM Training Establishment Lympstone |
|
? |
- |
(04.1946) |
Portsmouth Division RM |
|
Simonds,
Robert William Barrow
Son of William Barrow-Simonds,
barrister-at-law, and Cicely Broughton.
|
13.10.1905
Winchester district, Hampshire
-
(09?).1980
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1924
|
Lt.
|
01.09.1927
|
Capt.
|
01.04.1936
|
A/Maj.
|
13.10.1940-08.06.1942
|
Bt. Maj.
|
30.06.1942
|
Maj.
|
04.01.1946
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
09.06.1942-(01.1946)
|
local Lt.Col.
|
11.05.1948-(07.1948)
|
Lt.Col.
|
30.06.1949
|
Col.
|
30.06.1952 (retd)
|
 |
CBE
|
01.01.1954
|
New
Year 54
|
Silver Medal of Concepcion (Chile) (earthquake
Concepcion, Chile, 24.01.1939)
|
Education: jssc
01.09.1924
|
|
|
commissioned, Royal Marines
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1937)
|
RM
Depot, Deal
|
11.01.1938
|
-
|
(08.1939)
|
HMS
Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
|
(04.1940)
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
Adjutant,
3rd RM Battalion (RM Brigade, then 102nd RM Brigade)
|
(08.1942)
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
...
(102nd RM Brigade)
|
(08.)1943
|
-
|
07.1944
|
CO
43 RM Commando (Anzio, Italy)
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Headquarters
Staff RM (RM Office) (London)
|
05.05.1948
|
-
|
(07.)1948
|
Staff
Officer (Intelligence), South Atlantic [HMS Afrikander]
|
13.08.1948
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
Nigeria
|
09.04.1952
|
-
|
(05.1953)
|
General
Staff, Headquarters Staff RM (RM Office) (London)
|
(04.1955)
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
RM
Barracks, Eastney
|
02.12.1954
|
-
|
(04.1955)
|
also:
Marine ADC to the Queen
|
|
Smalley,
Richard Beaumont
"Dickie"
Married Joan (predeceased him); ...
children.
|
23.01.1919
-
22.06.2008
Brize Norton ?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1937
|
A/Lt.
|
29.08.1939-31.10.1939
|
Lt.
|
01.11.1939
|
A/Capt.
|
06.05.1940-31.12.1944,
15.01.1945-(01.1946)
|
Capt.
|
01.11.1947 (retd)
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
10.04.1942
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS
Orion (cruiser)
|
09.07.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Staff
RM Officer, 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Birmingham (cruiser)]
|
|
Smallman,
Joseph Leslie
Son of Albert Smallman, and Annie Davies.
|
1907 ?
Bridgnorth, Shropshire
-
1985/86 ?
|
T/Lt.
|
15.11.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
RM
Divisional Artillery
|
(08.)1943
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
13.11.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS
Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
|
24.03.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
|
|
Smith,
David John *
* also known as: David Jonathan Smith
Married; ... children.
|
01.03.1924
Lewisham district, London ?
-
12.2003
Eastbourne district, Sussex
|
T/2nd Lt.
|
05.02.1943 [Plymouth Division RM]
|
T/Lt.
|
05.08.1943
|
T/A/Capt.
|
18.10.1945
|
T/A/Maj. ?
|
?
|
|
1943?
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
2nd
RM Engineer Company
|
(08.)1943
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
47th
RM Commando
|
(12.)1943
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
1st
RM Engineer Commando *
|
Served after the war in the Maritime Volunteer
Service. Civil occupation: engineer.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Smith,
Horace Swales
Mother: Annie ...
Married; one daughter.
|
15.05.1908
Harrogate, Yorkshire
-
03.1988
Adelaide, Australia
|
T/2nd Lt.
|
26.03.1943
|
T/Lt.
|
26.09.1943 (reld < 07.1945)
|
|
(06.1943)
|
-
|
(04.1944)
|
Mobile
Naval Base Defence Organization (1)
|
16.04.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
|
|
|
|
served in SE Asia
(Ceylon, Rangoon and Vietnam) (responsible from rescuing inmates from Japanese Prisoner of War camps)
|
Emigrated to Australia, 01.1956.
|
Spray,
Leopold Cooper Stuart
"Leslie"
Married 1st ((12?).1932, East Stonehouse district, Devon) Kathleen L. Braid; one
son, two daughters.
Married 2nd ((09?).1947, Westminster district, London) Ellen A.J. Menzies.
|
28.04.1909
France
-
06.03.2002 |
| Mne. |
11.10.1926 [Ply/X
302] |
| Sgt. |
? |
| Lt. |
28.02.1940 |
| A/Capt. |
16.10.1941-04.06.1944,
22.07.1944-(04.1946) |
| Capt. |
28.02.1948 (retd
28.02.1954) |
| A/Maj. |
05.06.1944-21.07.1944 |
 |
BEM |
11.05.1937 |
HM's Coronation 37: for meritious service |
|
|
11.10.1926 |
- |
27.02.1940 |
served in the ranks for 13 years, 139 days (in
China, Egypt and Ethiopia as well as taking over guard duties at Buckingham
Palace in 1935) |
|
WW II |
|
|
served in UK (South coast), Crete, Egypt, Ceylon & Australia: |
|
(04.1940) |
|
|
RM Home Base Ledger |
|
(10.1940) |
- |
(06.)1944 |
RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization
(MNBDO) (1) |
|
(10.1940) |
- |
(12.1941) |
RM Signal Company |
|
(10.)1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
RM Signal Holding Company |
|
21.05.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW,
Australia) |
|
(1946?) |
|
|
Naval
Provost Marshal, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] |
|
09.1946 |
- |
(04.)1947 |
HMS
Euryalus (cruiser) |
|
(07.1948) |
- |
(05.1949) |
Signal School RM |
|
(05.1950) |
- |
(05.1953) |
RM
Barracks, Eastney |
Joined the Blue
Streak programme. |
Stepney,
William
"Bill"
Officially:
Stephney, William
Son of George Stepney, and Margaret Ann Brigg.
Married; four sons, one daughter.
|
10.09.1905
St Peters, Jarrow, Durham
-
31.03.1951
|
Mne.
|
10.07.1923 [CH
24150]
|
...
|
...
|
T/Lt.
|
16.10.1943 (reld
1946)
|
|
10.07.1923
|
|
|
enlisted
RM at Newcastle-upon-Tyne
|
25.10.1943
|
-
|
12.1943
|
HMS
Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
|
22.12.1943
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
HMS
St Mathew (Combined Operations training base, Burnham on Crouch)
|
1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
RM
Training Group Devon
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
26th
RM Battalion
|
?
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
|
Stewart,
James Donald
"Jock"
 |
?
-
|
T/2nd Lt.
|
15.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
15.07.1940
|
A/T/Capt.
|
15.06.1941-15.12.1941,
17.08.1942-12.12.1943
|
T/Capt.
|
13.03.1944 (reld
28.09.1945)
|
A/T/Maj.
|
13.12.1943
|
|
15.01.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the Royal Marines [temporary commission]
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
Portsmouth Division,
RM
|
(02.1941)
|
|
|
Transport
Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2 (MNBDO 2) *
|
| 06.1942? |
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Second-in-Command, RM Boom Patrol Detachment [borne on Portsmouth Division, RM]
|
01.1944?
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Officer
Commanding, RM Boom Patrol Detachment
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
* no starting date indicated
|
Stewart-Brown,
Philip Harman
Son of Ronald Stewart-Brown (1872-1940),
MA, solicitor & historian, and Olga Sophia St George (1881-1962).
Married (24.02.1944) Mavis Farley (née Tottenham), daughter of Lt.Col. Robert Loftus
Tottenham; no children.
|
30.04.1904
Bromborough, Cheshire
-
21.12.1960
Marylebone, London
|
T/Lt.
|
04.09.1941
|
A/T/Capt.
|
01.01.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
24.04.1944
|
A/T/Maj.
|
24.01.1944
|
WS/Maj.
|
? (reld
11.11.1947)
|
|
Education: Harrow School, London; Oxford University
(played First Class cricket, 1924-1927)
20.07.1925
|
-
|
12.06.1926
|
commissioned,
2nd Lieutenant on the General List (University Candidates)
|
?
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
7th
RM Battalion, 103rd RM Brigade
|
(08.1942)
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
104th
RM Brigade
|
1943
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
RM
Training Group, Dalditch
|
1943
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
no
appointment listed
|
01.09.1943
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
HMS
Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office)
|
11.03.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS
Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
|
?
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
no appointment listed
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
RM Depot, Deal
|
|
Stockley,
Gordon Herbert
Son of Capt. Ernest
Norman Stockley, Royal Engineers, and Elizabeth Shewell Cooper.
Married Josephine Olive 'Dodo' Barnby (died
20.02.2007, aged 88); one son, two daughters.
|
24.01.1910
Medway, Kent
-
(09?).1951
Chatham district
|
Prob. 2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1928
|
2nd Lt.
|
?, seniority
01.09.1928
|
A/Lt.
|
24.08.1931-31.08.1931
|
Lt.
|
01.09.1931
|
Capt.
|
29.06.1937
|
A/Maj.
|
21.01.1942-04.07.1943,
18.05.1944-26.11.1944
|
Maj.
|
30.06.1946
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
05.07.1943-17.05.1944,
27.11.1944-23.07.1947
|
local Lt.Col.
|
04.07.1949-...
|
 |
MID
|
02.10.1942
|
Operation
Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42)
|
 |
MID
|
23.10.1945
|
Allied
Land Forces, South-East Asia
|
|
01.09.1928
|
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Marines
|
03.01.1929
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
course
for Probationary Second Lieutenants RM, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
(04.1930)
|
|
|
Depôt
RM, Deal
|
(10.1930)
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
24.08.1931
|
-
|
(01.1934)
|
HMS
Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
|
01.04.1935
|
-
|
(07.1937)
|
School
of Physical and Recreational Training, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth)]
|
04.01.1938
|
-
|
(09.1939)
|
HMS
Caldeonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth)
|
(04.1940)
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
Reserve
Depôt RM, Exton
|
13.07.1942
|
-
|
07.1943
|
Assistant
Royal Marine Adviser on Combined Operations, Combined Operations HQ
|
03.07.1943
|
-
|
17.05.1944
|
No.
220 Military Mission [HMS President]
|
05.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
RM
Training Group Wales
|
27.11.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, 44 RM Commando
|
27.12.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Staff
Officer RM to Flag Officer, Malaya [HMS Sultan]
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
Pay
and Records Office, RM
|
25.08.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
RN
Staff College
|
|
Stone,
Francis George William Frederick
Son of George Alfred Stone (1873-1939), and
Mary Caroline Carter.
Married (09.04.1928) Nora Annie Griffin; one son, one daughter.
|
09.12.1903
Fareham district, Hampshire
-
06.1986
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
|
T/CSM
|
? [PO/21668]
|
T/Lt.
|
05.02.1944 [Portsmouth Division]
|
T/A/Capt.
|
12.03.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
(04.1944)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Company
Officer, "R" Company (Detachment 395), Holding Company, RM Engineers
|
|
Sturges,
Sir Robert
Grice
|
14.07.1891
Wokingham district, Berkshire / Wiltshire
-
12.09.1970
|
Lt.
|
15.05.1912
|
...
|
...
|
Col. 2nd Comdt.
|
03.04.1939,
seniority 31.12.1938
|
A/Col. Comdt.
|
04.06.1940-30.09.1941
|
Col. Comdt.
|
01.10.1941
|
T/Brig.
|
04.06.1940-25.01.1943
|
A/Maj.Gen.
|
01.11.1940-25.01.1943
|
Maj.Gen.
|
26.01.1943
|
Lt.Gen.
|
09.06.1945
(half-pay 09.06.1945) (retd 1946)
|
KBE, 1945; CB 1942; DSO 07.01.1943
MID 05.07.1940, 08.07.1943
|
15.05.1912
|
|
|
commissioned,
RM
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
1940
|
|
|
General
Officer Commanding, Royal Marines Division
|
1940
|
|
|
General
Officer Commanding, British Occupation of Iceland
|
1942
|
|
|
General
Officer Commanding, British Forces on Madagascar
|
1943
|
-
|
1945
|
Commander,
Special Service Group (from 12.1944 Commando Group)
|
|
Sutcliffe,
Peter Mahon
Son of Surgeon Cdr. Percy Temple Sutcliffe,
OBE, MB, MA (1873-1949).
Married (1936) Molly Stone, of Southsea;
two sons, one daughter.

|
02.09.1912
Saltash, Cornwall
-
30.08.1986
Falmouth, Cornwall
|
Prob. 2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1931
|
2nd Lt.
|
?, seniority
01.09.1931
|
A/Lt.
|
11.09.1934-31.10.1934
|
Lt.
|
01.11.1934
|
Capt.
|
15.03.1939 (retd
14.03.1950; medically unfit)
|
|
Education: Arden House, Henley-in-Arden,
Warwickshire; Giggleswick School, Yorkshire
?
|
-
|
(01.)1932
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
1932
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
RM
Depot, Deal
|
1933?
|
-
|
1933?
|
HMS
Ramillies (battleship)
|
?
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
11.09.1934
|
-
|
(02.)1936
|
HMS
Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
02.06.1936
|
-
|
(07.1937)
|
HMS
Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
|
1937/38?
|
|
|
HMS
Curlew (cruiser)
|
(02.1938)
|
-
|
(04.)1939
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
1939
|
-
|
(08.)1939
|
Plymouth
Division, RM
|
21.08.1939
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
HMS
Newcastle (cruiser)
|
1943
|
-
|
(06.)1943)
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
14.07.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS
Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Portsmouth
Division, RM
|
(07.1948)
|
-
|
(05.1949)
|
Amphibious
School RM
|
Post-war a teacher.
|