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Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Officers
1939-1945

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Aall, H.C.
to
Ayre, A.

H.C. Aall to A. Ayre

Aall,
Hans Cato

Son of Ludvig Christian Laritz Aall and of Hilda Annette Aall (nee Linthoe), of Oslo, Norway; husband of Gudrun Hilditch Aall (nee Rygh), of Oslo.
02.06.1906
Norway
-
31.12.1942
[age 36]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 75, column 1]

T/Lt.
24.04.1941

DSC
01.01.1943
New Year 43

17.07.1941
-
(08.)1942
Navigating Officer, HMS Leda (minesweeper)

1942
-
31.12.1942
HMS Bramble (minesweeper)

Abbey,
Harold James
H.J. Abbey (03?).1883
Ware, Hertfordshire
-

T/Hon.Lt.
06.09.1939

06.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Abbey,
K
K. Abbey ?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)
18.12.1944

23.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Athene (aircraft transport)

Abbot,
Reginald George
R.G. Abbot (09?).1906
South Shields district, Durham / Tyne and Wear
-

T/Lt.
31.07.1940

T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945

01.03.1941
-
(06.1943)
HMS St Andrew (RN base, Oban)

01.07.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Caledonia (RN base, Oban)

Abbott,
Arthur Cyril
A.C. Abbott ?
-

T/Lt.
22.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

03.01.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)

(07.1945)

HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq) *

27.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Abbott,
Charles Delphin
C.D. Abbott ?
-

Prob. A/Lt.
25.10.1938

A/Lt.
?, seniority 25.10.1938

Lt.
11.06.1940

A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945

DSC
14.09.1943
minesweeping Dover Straits 43

MID
06.01.1942
intercepting SS Nordney

31.07.1939
-
(1942)
HMS Despatch

(1943)

HMT Adam

03.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Circe (minesweeper)

Abbott,
Harold Amos
H.A. Abbott ?
-

T/S.Lt. (S)
31.08.1942

03.12.1942
-
(07.1945)
HMS Pursuer (escort carrier)

Abbott,
John Alfred
J.A. Abbott ?
-

Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S)
23.08.1937

A/Cdr. (S)
< 07.1945

RD
?
?

25.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Lynx

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Attack

Abel,
James Tough
J.T. Abel ?
-

Paym.Cdr. (Registrar Class)
31.12.1938

RD
?
?

(04.1940)

RNR Registrar, South Shields

Abernethy,
George Youngs
G.Y. Abernethy ?
-

Ch.Skpr.
03.08.1936 [W.S. 2457]

27.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Concertator

Ablett,
Arthur Glyn
A.G. Ablett 06.11.1913
-
08.1991
Truro, Cornwall

T/Lt. (S)
29.08.1943

29.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Reaper (escort carrier)

Abraham,
Allan Hubert
A.H. Abraham 21.05.1909
Epping, Essex
-
10.1999
Worksop, Derbyshire

T/Lt. (E)
05.04.1943

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Abram,
George
G. Abram ?
-

Prob. T/Skpr.
22.09.1939 [W.S. 2039]

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Ackerley,
George Roger
G.R. Ackerley ?
-

Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S)
28.07.1938

A/Lt.Cdr. (S)
< 07.1945

25.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Prosperine

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Sirius

Acon,
Neville
N. Acon 16.08.1913
-
10.1996
Sefton North, Merseyside

Prob. S.Lt.
26.08.1938

S.Lt.
30.03.1939, seniority 26.08.1938

Lt.
15.07.1940

Lt.Cdr.
15.07.1948 (retd 28.06.1953)

RD
24.01.1947
?

14.12.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Northern Isles (auxiliary anti-submarine whaler)

10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Pyramus (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Orkney)

(08.1942)

no appointment listed

(02.1943)
-
(04.1944)

HMS St Adrian (armed yacht) *

18.05.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Prins Albert (landing ship infantry)

02.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft)

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

(05.1950)

no appointment listed

(05.1953)

no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Acum,
Harold
H. Acum ?
-

Prob. T/Skpr.
26.01.1940 [W.S. 3269, TS 386]

T/Skpr.
?, seniority 26.01.1940

DSC
?
?

25.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Strath Derry

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Red Sky

Acum,
Herbert
H. Acum (09?).1904
Sculcoates, East Riding of Yorkshire
-

T/Skpr.
01.06.1941 [TS 1060]

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Sailor King

Adam,
James
J. Adam ?
-

Paym.Lt.Cdr. (Registrar Class)
01.08.1938

(04.1940)

RNR Registrar, Banff (Macduff)

Adam,
James
J. Adam ?
-

T/Skpr.
01.01.1943 [TS 1319]

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Everton

Adam,
Mohammed bin H
M. bin H. Adam ?
-

T/Skpr.
02.12.1940

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Adam,
Robert
R. Adam ?
-

T/Lt.
27.11.1939

01.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)

Adams,
Charles Thomas Bruce
C.T.B. Adams ?
-

T/Skpr.
09.06.1943 [TS 1439]

DSM
?
?

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Adams,
Francis
F. Adams ?
-

T/Boom Skpr.
22.07.1944

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Barhill

Adams,
George Ernest
G.E. Adams ?
-

T/Skpr.
03.11.1941 [TS 1098]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Adams,
John
J. Adams ?
-

T/Skpr.
02.07.1941 [TS 1037]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Adams,
[Sir] Jameson Boyd
J.B. Adams
Son of George Norris Adams, MD. Married (1914) Phebe Carnac Thompson (died 1952), daughter of late Rt Rev. George Carnac Fisher, DD, Burgh House, Fleggburgh, Norfolk;
one son, one daughter.
(06?).1880
Rippinggale, Bourne, Lincolnshire
-
25.09.1962 *
[Golders Green Crematorium, London]

* date according to "Who's who"; the Navy List has 30.04.1962

Lt.
01.02.1906

Lt.Cdr.
? (retd)

Cdr. (retd)
11.11.1918

A/Capt.
< 07.1945

KCVO
10.06.1948
HM's birthday 48

CVO
1938
?

CBE
1928
?

DSO
1918
?

RD
?
?

The Royal Scottish Geographical Society Silver Medal (1909)

1893

first went to sea in the merchant service

1895

joined RNR

1907
-
1909
Second-in-Command (from 02.1908 on), Antarctic Expedition (had a glacier named after him)

1909
-
1914
entered Civil Service (Divisional Officer, Labour Exchanges Department)

1914
-
1915?
served European War (despatches, DSO, Croix de Guerre): Flag Lieutenant to R.Adm. Hood (commanding Dover Patrol)

1915?
-
1916?

recalled from the Navy and seconded to Lloyd George’s newly formed Ministry of Munitions

1916?
-
1917
Commanding Officer, of the battery "Carnac" of the Royan Navy Siege Guns at Nieuport (Belgium)

1917
-
03.1918
Royan Navy Siege Guns (Belgium)

1939

reemployed

01.12.1939
-
(02.1941)
HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden) *

05.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional for various services) **

(06.1944)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

* 04.1940 listed under HMS Gloucester II (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon), 02.1941 under Sheba, both with same starting date; can probably be explained by the fact that Sheba was the former Gloucester III, and that Adams was incorrectly listed under Gloucester II
** (04.1944) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Secretary of King George's Jubilee Trust, 1935-1948.

Adams,
John William Raymond
J.W.R. Adams ?
-

Midsh.
14.07.1938

21.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Forfar

Adams,
Percy Alec
P.A. Adams ?
-

T/Lt.
08.11.1939

(04.1940)

HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Adams,
Percy Walter
P.W. Adams ?
-

Paym.Lt.Cdr.
30.01.1933

RD
?
?

07.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Colombo

Adams,
Richard Willoughby
R.W. Adams ?
-

Prob. Midsh.
01.01.1939

29.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Laconia

Adams,
William John Henry
W.J.H. Adams ?
-

T/Lt.
26.09.1939

(04.1940)

HMS Forte *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Adamson,
Alexander
A. Adamson ?
-

Skpr.
16.10.1934 [W.S. 2652]

23.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
Boom Defence Depot Malaya [HMS Sultan]

Adamson,
Samuel
S. Adamson ?
-

T/Lt. (E)
12.09.1939

temporary commission under T.124 agreements

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Affleck,
Alexander
A. Affleck ?
-

Prob. T/Skpr.
01.02.1940 [W.S. 3280]

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Aikman,
Edmund Fleetwood
E.F. Aikman (06?).1908
West Derby, Lancashire
-

Lt.
12.02.1933

(04.1940)

HMS Cyclops *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Aisthorpe,
Horace Charles
H.C. Aisthorpe (12?).1909
Grimsby, Humberside
-
28.10.1971
St John's Anglican Church Cemetery, Halifax, NS, Canada

Skpr.
24.09.1938 [W.S. 2787]

A/Skpr.Lt. [acting rank]
01.07.1941?

A/Skpr.Lt. [appointed rank]
03.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950)

DSC
27.04.1943
convoy JW51B 12.42 [investiture 19.10.43]

(04.1940)

HMS Northern Pride (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *

29.04.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Pentland Firth (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

01.07.1941
-
(08.)1942
HMS Antrim (trawler base, Belfast)

12.1942
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Northern Gem (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

(06.1943)

no appointment listed

07.07.1943
-
(08.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Leeds United (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
HMS Leeds United (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *

19.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Beryl (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Aitchison,
Thomas Edemonston
T.E. Aitchison ?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)
13.09.1939

temporary commission under T.124 agreements

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Aitken,
Alexander
A. Aitken ?
-

T/Lt. (E)
08.12.1939

temporary commission under T.124 agreements

08.12.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Sagitta

Aitken,
Clifford Robert
C.R. Aitken ?
-

T/Lt.
01.10.1939

temporary commission under T.124 agreements

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Aitken,
D
D. Aitken ?
-

T/Lt.
18.09.1939

15.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
Minesweeping Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)

Aitken,
James Hutt
J.H. Aitken ?
-

Skpr.
10.05.1937 [W.S. 2703]

23.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
Boom Defence Depot Malaya [HMS Sultan]

Akister,
John
J. Akister ?
-

Paym.Lt. (Registrar Class)
13.03.1935 (retd 29.12.1939)

(08.1939)

RNR Registrar, Aberystwyth

Albany,
D K
D.K. Albany ?
-

Paym.Lt.
19.07.1937

18.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Comorin

Aldan,
George William
G.W. Aldan ?
-

T/Skpr.
06.09.1939 [W.S. 3014]

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Alder,
Ralph Herbert Laurence
R.H.L. Alder (03?).1883
Basingstoke, Berkshire
-

S.Lt. (retd)
23.09.1913

RD
?
?

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Alderman,
Thomas Franklyn
T.F. Alderman ?
-

Lt.
11.10.1939

(04.1940)

HMS Ceres *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Aldis,
Alfred Edward
A.E. Aldis ?
-

Prob. T/Lt.
29.01.1940

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Aldis,
Thomas Jeffrey
T.J. Aldis ?
-

T/Lt.
01.01.1940

temporary commission under T.124 agreements

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Aldiss,
Harry John
H.J. Aldiss ?
-

Lt.
05.10.1935

07.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Queen of Bermuda

Aldred,
Samuel Melhuish
S.M. Aldred

Husband of Gladys E. Aldred, of Scarthoe, Grimsby.
25.06.1897
Grimsby
-
23.02.1940
(KIA) [age 42]
[Cleethorpes Cemetery, section E, grave C.20]

Skpr.
24.03.1926 [WS 2406]

Ch.Skpr.
24.03.1936

(1919)

HMS Tusarion (minesweeping trawler)

1939?
-
23.02.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Benvolio (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) [ship mined off the Humber]

Aldridge,
Henry Cecil
H.C. Aldridge ?
-

T/Lt.
01.01.1940

01.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS President (for sea transport duties)

Alexander,
James
J. Alexander ?
-

T/Lt.Cdr.
31.10.1939

31.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
Actaeon Net Defence Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)

Alexander,
Richard Henry
R.H. Alexander ?
-

T/Skpr.
03.01.1940 [W.S. 3190]

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Alexander,
William Robert Mansfield
W.R.M. Alexander ?
-

T/Lt.
16.11.1939

19.03.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Rochester (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)

Alford,
Gerald Maurice
G.M. Alford ?
-

T/Lt.
31.01.1940

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

Alger,
Kenneth Ray
K.R. Alger ?
-

Lt.
01.12.1939

10.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Vandyck

Allan,
George
G. Allan ?
-

Lt.
13.12.1937

21.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Tigris

Allan,
Henry Samuel
H.S. Allan ?
-
[1959 still alive]

Lt.
31.12.1924

Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1932

Cdr.
31.12.1936

Capt.
30.06.1942

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
21.07.1942 (reld 1940/50s)

MID
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune

RD
?
?

(04.1940)

HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) *

21.07.1942
-
(08.1943)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

25.09.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, French Ship "Largs"

(07.1945)
no appointment listed

08.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Artifex (heavy repair ship)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Allan,
John
J. Allan ?
-

T/Lt.Cdr.
01.09.1939