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Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Officers
1939-1945

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Baber, A.H.
to
Byron, J.

Baber, A.H. to Byron, J.

Baber,
Angus Harvey
A.H. Baber
Son of Frank Cecil Harvey Baber (1888-1956), and Christine Campbell McCullock (1898-1969).
Married (19.12.1944, West Acton/Ealing Common) Joan Peggy Orriss (born 30.06.1921); two daughters.
19.06.1922
-
2007 still alive

Prob. T/Midsh.
03.11.1940

T/Midsh.
1941?, seniority 03.11.1940

T/A/S.Lt.
19.06.1942

T/S.Lt.
19.06.1943

T/Lt.
01.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

MID
01.01.1945
New Year 45

(02.1941)

no appointment listed

11.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Impulsive (destroyer)

27.01.1942
-
(06.)1942
HMS Onslow (destroyer)

16.08.1943
-
(04.1946)
HMS Vigilant (destroyer)

Captain, Merchant Navy. MCIT. Master, The Honourable Company of Master Mariners, 1981-1982.

Baker,
Arthur
A. Baker
Married; ... children.
From Grimsby.
?
-
24.09.1942
(KIA)
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 8, column 1]

T/Skpr.
01.09.1941

Skipper on fishing trawlers.

23.10.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Almandine (minesweeping trawler)

?
-
24.09.1942
HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS, Canada) [torpedoed on his way to Canada to pick up a Lend Lease boat, after which he was to proceed to the Mediterranean]

Baker,
Frederick Lawson
F.L. Baker (09?).1905
Bristol, Avon
-
1955

Prob. T/Lt.
02.09.1940

T/Lt.
1941?, seniority 02.09.1940

A/T/Lt.Cdr.
1943/44? (reld < 07.1945)

Served in the Merchant Navy (First Mate's certificate, December 1928, No 24723).

06.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Saltash (minesweeper)

20.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Agamemnon (minelayer)

12.10.1942
-
(02.1943)
First Lieutenant, HM LST 8 (landing ship, tank) [HMS Saker (Admiralty delegation, USA)] *

08.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM LST 364 (landing ship, tank)

07.03.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM LST 303 (landing ship, tank)

* (06.1943) & (08.1943) still indexed as at LST 8, but no longer listed as such

Ball,
Malcolm John
M.J. Ball 1922 ?
-
18.08.1942 (KIA) [age 20]
[Chatham Naval Memorial]

Prob. Midsh.
01.05.1938

A/S.Lt.
10.01.1942

DSC
16.08.1940
Dunkirk

MID
20.10.1942
attack on convoy 17.08.42

(1940)

HMS Scimitar (destroyer)

26.10.1941
-
(08.1942)
First Lieutenant, MTB 218

-
18.08.1942
Commanding Officer, MTB ...

Barclay,
Joseph Johnstone Eadie
J.J.E. Barclay ?
-
06.10.1958

Lt.Cdr.
19.05.1927

Cdr.
31.12.1936

Capt.
31.12.1942

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
15.05.1944 (reld 1945/46)

RD
?
?

11.08.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) (for miscellaneous services)

10.08.1942
-
(06.1943)
HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base & training establishment, Appledore)

15.08.1943
-
(04.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Canton (armed merchant cruiser)

15.05.1944
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Barker,
Wallace Hamilton
W.H. Barker 28.05.1908
West Derby, Lancashire
-
04.1994
Bath, Somerset

S.Lt.
24.06.1929

Lt.
24.06.1931

Lt.Cdr.
24.06.1939 (reld 1945/46)

RD
?
?

18.08.1941
-
(06.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Fritillary (corvette)

(08.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

03.12.1943
-
(06.1944)
Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

10.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Cormorant (base, Gibraltar) (for coastal forces)

Barnes,
Robert Douglas James
R.D.J. Barnes ?
-

Prob. Midsh.
01.05.1934

Midsh.
?, seniority 01.05.1934

A/S.Lt.
24.10.1937

S.Lt.
11.01.1940

Lt.
1941, seniority 25.10.1940

Lt.Cdr.
25.08.1948 (retd 24.10.1961)

RD
08.08.1947
-

RD
21.06.1960
1st clasp

31.08.1935
-
12.1935
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for 4 months' training)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

(02.1941)

HMS Shark (submarine) *

(12.1941)
-
(07.1945)
no appointment listed: probably while being a POW (at Colditz?)

12.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
First Lieutenant, HMS Fierce (minesweeper)

* indexed, but not listed as such; HMS Shark had been sunk by German surface craft 06.07.1940

Barnes,
Sidney George
S.G. Barnes 08.12.1913
-
1969 ?

T/Lt.
15.11.1940

T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 10.1943, < 12.1943

(06.1940)

HMS Medway Queen (minesweeper) ?

HMS Snapdragon (corvette) ?

11.02.1941
-
(02.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Hogarth (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)

(02.1943)
-
(09.1943)
HMS Thalassa (armed yacht) *

09.1943
-
(04.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Thalassa (armed yacht)

(06.1944)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

* indexed as posted to the ship, but not listed under the ship itself

Barry,
Joseph William Philip
J.W.P. Barry
Son of William and Elizabeth Mary Barry; husband of Beatrice Anne Barry, of Canterbury.
(09?).1902
West Ham, Essex
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 38]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 2, column 1]

T/Lt. (E)
15.09.1939

serving under T.124 agreement

15.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Bartle,
Arnold Herbert William
A.H.W. Bartle
Son of Arthur Herbert and Gertrude Mary Bartle; husband of Josephine Bartle, of Consett, Co. Durham.
(09?).1911
Croydon, Surrey
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 29]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 40, column 1]

A/S.Lt.
08.04.1933

S.Lt.
14.02.1936, seniority 06.02.1935

Lt.
27.03.1938
> 10.1938, antedated 26.11.1937

29.05.1938
-
(10.1938)
HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (to complete 9 months' training)

06.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Bartley,
John Frederick Castle
J.F.C. Bartley (06?).1904
Bromley, London
-
[07.1952 still alive]

Prob. S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
04.08.1927, seniority 14.04.1926

Lt.
12.08.1928

Lt.Cdr.
12.08.1936

A/Cdr.
> 02.1941, < 08.1942

Cdr.
31.12.1942 (retd 1945/46)

OBE
01.01.1943
New Year 43

DSC
01.01.1940
New Year 40

RD
02.05.1941
?

LM
28.06.1946
?

(04.1940)

HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) *

1940

HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)

(02.1941)

HMS Nasturtium (corvette) *

01.10.1941
-
(12.1943)
HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)

05.02.1944
-
(06.1944)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Falmouth [HMS Forte]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Baxter,
[Sir] Arthur James
A.J. Baxter 28.02.1890
Norwich, Norfolk
-
27.12.1951
[Petersham, Surrey ?]

Capt.
30.06.1939

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
02.12.1940 (retd > 06.1944, < 07.1945)

KBE
01.01.1945
New Year 45

DSC
1918
?

MID
01.02.1944
3 years ocean convoys

RD
?
?

Education: Great Yarmouth Grammar School

1904

cadet in Merchant Navy

1913

joined RNR

1914
-
1918
served in RN in command of Destroyers

1940
-
1945
Commodore of Ocean Convoys:

02.12.1940
-
(08.1942)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

26.03.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

14.04.1944
-
1945
RNR ADC to the King

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

1948
-
1949
Commodore of Orient Line Fleet (retd)

Baxter,
Frank
F. Baxter
Married Felicia Conte.
Lived at Holton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire.
26.05.1888
North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
-
22.09.1943
North Shields
[Holton-le-Clay Cemetery, Lincolnshire, B.42]

Deckhand
(1916) [ON 1990 DA]

T/Skpr.
20.08.1940 [TS 700]

MID
11.05.1916
Eastern Mediterranean

MID
?
?

MID
1919
?

14|15 St
?
?

BWM 14|20
?
?

VM
?
?

served in World War I

10.08.1940
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Glow (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)

20.06.1943
-
22.09.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Montano (minesweeping trawler)

Beale,
Charles Edward Stewart
C.E.S. Beale
Possibly related to Lt.Cdr. C.E.S. Beale, RN.
1892 ?
-
19.07.1944
[Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery, F.449]

T/S.Lt.
04.09.1917 (reld 1919?)

T/Lt.
25.04.1941

served in World War I

25.04.1941
-
19.07.1944
Naval Control Service, Durban [HMS Afrikander IV, later HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South Africa)]

Beech,
George England
G.E. Beech
Son of ... Beech, and ... England.
15.10.1915
Chard district, Devon / Dorset / Somerset
-

T/Skpr.
01.04.1941 [TS 991] (reld < 04.1946)

Trawler skipper, Fleetwood.

01.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Antrim (trawler base, Belfast)

22.04.1942
-
(12.)1943
HM BYMS 22 (British yard minesweeper)

12.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Arnold Bennett (minesweeping trawler)

(10.19144)

no appointment listed

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Beeson,
Jack
J. Beeson
?
-

T/Skpr.
12.09.1939 [WS 3032 & TS 151]

T/A/Ch.Skpr.
06.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

04.12.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Formidable (armed drifter) *

05.1941
-
(06.)1943
First Lieutenant, HMS Fidget (armed drifter)

(08.1943)

no appointment listed

25.08.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Morgan Jones (minesweeping trawler)

* (02.1941) indexed, but not listed as such; HMS Formidable was renamed HMS Fidget

Bell,
Charles Leigh de Hauteville
C.L. de H. Bell
From Coulsdon.
24.03.1903
Ormskirk, Lancashire
-
01.06.1972
Croydon district, London

Prob. S.Lt.
31.07.1925

S.Lt.
18.12.1925, seniority 31.07.1925

Lt.
31.07.1927

Lt.Cdr.
31.07.1935

Cdr.
31.12.1940 (retd 24.03.1953)

A/Capt.
16.02.1945?

Capt. (retd)
24.03.1953

DSC
02.05.1944
convoy Murmansk S28, probable destruction U-boat

RD
?
?

20.11.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; for various services)

11.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Broadwater (destroyer)

07.06.1942
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer)

08.10.1942
-
(10.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Whitehall (destroyer)

04.12.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)

16.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Palomares (fighter direction ship)

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

Captain, Merchant Navy ("Empress of England", 1957).

Bell,
Hugh Ian Turner
H.I.T. Bell 30.06.1912
-
10.05.1955

T/S.Lt. (E)
18.09.1939 (reld 15.05.1946)

officer holding temporary commission under T.124 agreements

18.09.1939
-
08.04.1942
HMS California (armed merchant cruiser)

09.04.1942
-
10.05.1942
HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)

11.05.1942
-
15.11.1943
HMS Hunter (escort carrier)

16.11.1943
-
28.01.1944
HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)

29.01.1944
-
08.08.1945
HMS Trouncer (escort carrier)

09.08.1945
-
17.09.1945
HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)

18.09.1945
-
13.11.1945
HMS Ranee (escort carrier)

14.11.1945
-
15.05.1946
HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)

Berg,
Dagfin[n] Anker
D.A. Berg 16.02.1892
Norway
-
01.10.1943
[Aberdeen Crematorium]

T/S.Lt. (E)
03.10.1940

T/A/Lt. (E)
03.10.1941

03.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Helier II (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)

09.02.1942
-
01.10.1943
HMS Sir John Hawkins (ferry)

Berger,
Brynjulf
B. Berger 27.12.1906
Norway
-
?
[1992?, USA?]

T/S.Lt.
26.08.1940

T/Lt.
26.11.1940 (reld 01.04.1941?)

10.12.1940
-
(02.1941?)
HMS Mercury (paddle minesweeper?)
[if it's indeed the minesweeper, then this ship was mined 24.12.1940 and foundered the following day]

01.04.1941 Rosyth avd. (from RNR)
01.04.1941-07.07.1941 M/Sw "Alcmaria"
25.07.1941-16.08.1941 "Heimdal"
16.08.1941-03.09.1941 M/Sw "Syrian"
03.09.1941-15.09.1941 MSPE
15.09.1941-05.01.1942 M/Sw "Alcmaria"
10.01.1942-03.10.1942 M/Sw "Polar VI"
16.10.1942-29.11.1942 "Heimdal" (Hospitalized)
30.11.1942-01.12.1942 SOK
02.12.1942-28.02.1943 MSPE (released SOK 28.02.1943)

Berntzen *,
Haakon
H. Berntzen
* also written as:
Berntsen, Haakon
27.09.1902
Norway
-
15.08.1945
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 100]

T/S.Lt. (E)
05.08.1940

T/Lt. (E)
05.08.1941

05.08.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Terje IV (minsweeping trawler?)

1941/42?

transferred to RINR

01.12.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMIS Berar (minesweeping trawler)

?
-
15.08.1945
HMIS Madura (minesweeping trawler) *

* (07.1945) indexed, but not listed as such

Bett,
Henry
H. Bett
26.12.1914
-
28.03.2007

T/Boom Skpr.
22.06.1940

A/T/Boom Skpr.Lt.
08.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

served in boom defence, Orkney Islands & Gold Coast, West Africa:

08.07.1940
-
(02.)1943
First Lieutenant, HMS Sea Monarch (boom defence vessel) [eventually perhaps even Commanding Officer]

03.1943
-
(06.1944)
First Lieutenant, HMS Barbrook (boom defence vessel)

05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Bownet (boom defence vessel)

02.1946
-
(04.1946)
[Commanding Officer? *], HMS Barbette (boom defence vessel)

* highest in rank, but not specifically indicated as "in command"

Beverley,
Herbert James
H.J. Beverley ?
-

T/Lt.
13.03.1940

T/A/Lt.Cdr.
07.1941?

DSO
30.07.1942
destruction of U252

DSC
01.01.1941
New Year 41

MID
13.03.1945
destruction of U-boat 25.05.44

(1940)
-
(1941)
HMT St. Kenan

07.1941
-
(06.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Vetch (corvette)

(08.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

01.03.1944
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (sloop)

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

Bigg,
Dudley James Henry
D.J.H. Bigg (03?).1897
Islington
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 43]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 2, column 1]

T/Lt. (E)
15.09.1939

serving under T.124 agreement

15.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Billot,
Godfrey Philip
G.P. Billot (09?).1906
St Pancras
-
[1959 still alive]

S.Lt.
30.05.1930

Lt.
30.05.1932

Lt.Cdr.
30.05.1940

A/Cdr.
1945? (retd 1940/50s)

DSO
18.05.1943
Oran Harbour 08.11.42

RD
?
?

05.1941
-
08.11.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hartland (escort) (sunk)

22.03.1943
-
(06.1944)
Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

18.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Naval Control Service, Ramsgate [HMS Fervent]

[ (04.1946)

HMS Robertson ?]

Bingham,
Austen
A. Bingham
Son of William Hopworth Bingham and Constance Preston Bingham, of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa.
?
-
02.11.1944
off Ostend
(KIA)
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 3]

T/Midsh.
31.01.1944

(06.1944)

HMS Berwick (cruiser) *

?
-
02.11.1944
HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Binks,
Rial Dennis
R.D. Binks
Married ((12?).1915, Sculcoates, Yorkshire) ... Stather.
1895 ?
Lancashire
-

Lt.Cdr.
30.09.1925

Cdr.
30.06.1937

Capt.
30.06.1942

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
28.07.1942

OBE
29.09.1942
rendering mines safe

RD
?
-

28.07.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

[ (04.1946)

HMS Guardian (net layer) ?]

Binsted,
Peter Burford
P.B. Binsted
Son of George Edward Binsted, and Florence Blyth.
Married; ... children.
29.04.1920
Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
05.1993
Hillingdon district, Middlesex

Prob. Midsh.
01.09.1937

Midsh.
14.08.1939, seniority 01.09.1937

A/S.Lt.
29.04.1940

S.Lt.
29.04.1941

Lt.