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Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Officers
1939-1945

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Daler, O.K.
to
Dutton, W.L.G.

O.K. Daler to W.L.G. Dutton

Daler,
Ove Kamillo
16.10.1908
Norway
-
?

Prob. T/Lt.
16.06.1941

T/Lt.
01.1942, seniority 16.06.1941 (reld 15.05.1942)

DSC
-
minelaying Dover 43

16.06.1941
-
26.07.1941
RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

03.08.1941
-
31.08.1941
gunnery course, Chatham

08.09.1941
-
01.05.1942
HMS Sherwood (destroyer)

15.05.1942

transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy

(1943)

HM ML 213 (motor launch) (52nd ML Flotilla)

SOK 15-24.5.1942 (from RNR); DD "Draug" 24-25.5.1942; SOK 25.5.1942; 4 ML Flotilla 25.5.1942-18.11.1943; DD "Lincoln" 14.12.1943-8.2.1944; DD "Sleipner" 16.2-10.3.1944; MID Admiralty 13.3-1.5.1944; SOK 1.5-1.8.1944; Commanding Officer, M/Sw "Syrian" 1.8.1944-29.9.1945; SOK 18.10.1945; Commanding Officer, M/Sw "Sidmouth" 16.11.1945-7.12.1946.

Davidson,
Arthur
A. Davidson ?
-
25.11.1942
[Deli Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria, 3.E.10]

T/Skpr.
20.08.1940 [TS 718]

DSC
16.03.1943
Operation Torch (landings in N Africa, 11.42); attacked 10.11.42 Italian submarine Emo, which was scuttled afterwards [award presented to next-of-kin]

20.08.1940
-
25.11.1942
HMS Lord Nuffield (trawler)

Davies,
Thomas Edward
T.E. Davies 1908 ?
-
09.04.1942
(KIA) [age 34]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]

Lt.
02.12.1933

Lt.Cdr.
1939/40?

OBE
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40

(1940)

HMT Northern Gift

02.11.1940
-
09.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hollyhock (corvette) (sunk)

Davies,
Thomas Eta
T.E. Davies ?
-

T/Lt.
09.12.1939

13.12.1942
-
(04.1944)
for duties with sea transport officers, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Sultan

Davis,
Edward Albert George
"Ted"
E.A. Davis (03?).1909
Camberwell, London
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973

Prob. S.Lt.
06.11.1933

S.Lt.
1934, seniority 06.11.1933

Lt.
26.11.1935

A/Lt.Cdr.
< 06.1943

Lt.Cdr.
1943?, seniority 26.11.1942

A/Cdr.
< 07.1945

Cdr.
31.12.1946

DSO
24.03.1942
commanded 12 successful operations to the enemy controlled coasts of Holland and North Brittany [investiture 12.05.42]

DSO
15.08.1944
special operations at sea [investiture 24.10.44]

RD
?
-

CdeG
05.1943
?

04.05.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet) (to complete 9 months' training)

26.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Cape Sable

(02.1941)

HMS Cape Sable *

18.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
French Ship "Gustave-Denis"

04.05.1943
-
(07.1945)
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (and for liaison with ISLD)

(1943?)
-
(1944?)
Senior Officer & Principal Operations Commander, 15th MGB Flotilla & in charge of Deputy Director of Operations Division (Irregular) 's main trianing and operational base at Dartmouth (based at RN College, Dartmouth)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davis,
Penrose Owen
P.O. Davis
Son of James Herbert and Louise Ann Davis, of Dunster. 1896
[01.03.1896 baptism]
-

Lt.
?

Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1927

Cdr.
30.06.1935

A/Capt.
10.10.1943?

Capt.
31.12.1943 (reld 1945/46)

RD
?
?

11.1939
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Discovery II

06.11.1941
-
(08.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Empire Pintail (Ministry of War Transport)

10.10.1943
-
(12.1943)
[Commanding Officer?], HMS Thane (escort carrier)

01.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Depoorter,
George Felix Leon
G.F.L. Depoorter
Of Belgian descent.
Married; at least one son.
?
-

Prob. T/Lt.
?

T/Lt.
26.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

(06.1943)
-
(07.1945)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Emma (landing ship, infantry) (Dieppe, North Africa, Sicily, Normandy) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dickie,
John Wilfred Harper Fullerton
J.W.H.F. Dickie
From Nottingham.
?
-
2002 still alive

T/Midsh.
?

T/A/S.Lt.
?

T/S.Lt.
02.01.1945, seniority 18.11.1944

T/Lt.
05.12.1946, seniority 18.11.1946

Lt. RN
?, seniority 18.11.1946

Lt. RNZN
07.07.1951, seniority 18.11.1946 [13695]

Lt.Cdr. RNZN
18.11.1954

Cdr. RNZN
? (retd < 02.1969?)

OBE
01.01.1973
New Year 73

1939
-
1942
HMS Conway (mercantile marine services)

20.02.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Wild Goose (sloop)

(07.1945)

HMS Opossum (sloop) *

02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Welcome (minesweeper)

1946?
-
07.07.1951
served on an Extended Service Commission, RN

29.04.1949
-
(05.1950
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)

07.07.1951

transferred to RNZN

25.10.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMNZS Maori

02.01.1956
-
(01.1956)
HMS Vernon (miscellaneous duties)

16.02.1961
-
(02.1963)
Director of Undersurface Warfare, Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Wakefield]

President of the Conway Club, 2000-2002.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dickson,
Alexander Forrest
"Alec" / "Forrest"
A.F. Dickson
Son of a merchant marine captain. Married (1947) Norma Houston; three sons, two daughters.

23.06.1920
Edinburgh
-
01.10.2005
Kenmore

Midsh.
24.10.1938

A/S.Lt.
23.06.1940

S.Lt.
23.06.1941

Lt.
01.08.1942

Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1950 (retd 01.07.1958)

OBE
31.12.1979
New Year 80

MID
18.04.1944
Operation Canned (destruction of enemy tankers 02.44)

RD
08.02.1950
?

Education: George Watson's School, Edinburgh

MS Kemmendine (belonging to the Patrick Henderson Line - one of the last passenger steam ships that sailed from Glasgow to Rangoon)

24.10.1938

joined RNR

03.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Keppel (destroyer) *

23.06.1941
-
(08.)1942
HMS Keppel (destroyer) (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Russian convoys [PQ17])

01.11.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Relentless (destroyer) (Africa) (was involved in a successful attack and sinking against some U-boat supply ships)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Anthony (destroyer) ** [was First Lieutenant, then CO]

Returned to the merchant marine, before joining Shell Marine Division. In 1970, Dickson joined the board of Shell Marine and later became head of Marine Operational Services for Shell International. Retired mid-1980s to Kenmore, in Perthshire.
Published: Seafaring, a chosen profession (1995)
* (02.1941) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such

Dines,
Ernest
E. Dines 1887/88 ?
-
16.01.1946
Lowestoft harbour
(accident)
[age 58]

A/T/Boom Skpr.
14.09.1942

T/Boom Skpr.
?, seniority 15.09.1942

15.09.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Twinkling Star (admiralty steel drifter)

(07.1945)

Boom Defence Depot, Rosyth *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Ditcham,
Anthony Greville Fox
A.G.F. Ditcham ?
-

T/Midsh.
06.05.1940

T/A/S.Lt.
25.07.1942

T/S.Lt.
?

T/Lt.
25.01.1945 (reld 1946)

DSC
21.04.1942
action with E-boats 19.02.42

?
-
11.05.1940
HMS Worcester (RNR training ship)

11.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (as Flagship of the battlecruiser Squadron, Scapa Flow: Arctic, Norwegian Sea, North Sea, Atlantic) (as Flagship of Force H, Gibraltar) (Mediterranean, Atlantic)

1941
-
(02.)1942
HMS Holderness (destroyer) (North Sea & Channel convoys)

14.09.1942
-
(02.1943)
HMS Reading (destroyer) (North Sea)

01.07.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (Atlantic, Arctic convoys [torpedoed Scharnhorst]) *

(06.1944)
-
(08.1944)
HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (bombarding off Sword Beach; anti-E-boat and U-boat patrols in Channel; return to Scapa Flow and Arctic)

?
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Finisterre (destroyer) (Far East; organised Ship’s Company race meeting in Shanghai with 30 horses borrowed from Chinese Army on borrowed race course)

Cambridge & London Universities, 1946-1948. Overseas Civil Service Nigeria, 1948-1961. Industry – UK, 1961-1982 (retired; reading history, writing memoirs, sailing offshore 8 metre (sold 1992)). Unpaid stable lad exercising race horses in training since 1987.

* (06.1943) indexed, but not listed as such

Dobson,
George William
G.W. Dobson ?
-

Midsh.
23.11.1923

A/S.Lt.
01.11.1926

S.Lt.
12.01.1929

Lt.
02.01.1930

Lt.Cdr.
02.01.1938

Cdr.
30.06.1943 (reld 27.04.1946)

Capt.
30.06.1957 (retd 1960)

OBE
10.06.1961
HM's birthday 61 [investiture 24.10.61]

MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45

RD
?
?

30.03.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

06.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Montclare (armed merchant cruiser)

01.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
HMS Prinses Josephine Charlotte [also: HMS Princess J. Charlotte] (landing ship infantry (small))

21.05.1941
-
18.10.1943
Commanding Officer, French Ship La Capricieuse (minesweeper)

01.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)

Dowding,
John Charles Keith
J.C.K. Dowding 01.11.1891
-
13.02.1965

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
08.05.1916

Lt.
08.05.1918

Lt.Cdr.
08.05.1926

Cdr.
30.06.1933

Capt.
31.12.1940 (retd 01.11.1946; removed from retd 29.11.1954)

Cdre. 2nd cl.
02.04.1941

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
1945?

CBE
13.10.1942
Russian convoy PQ17 07.42

DSO
16.08.1940
Dunkirk

MID
13.03.1945
assault Normandy 06-11.44

OCwn
01.02.1949
liberation of Belgium

RD
?
?

1914
-
1919
served 4 years in sailing ships; in 10th Cruiser Squadron and 2nd in Command of Destroyers, Home Station and Mediterranean, until 1919

1919

joined Orient Line; 1919; Staff Commander, 1936

(03.1938)

Officer-in-Charge, Sea Training for Boys, British Sailors' Society (Limehouse, London)

05.09.1939
-
(06.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Mona's Isle (auxiliary armed boarding vessel) [called up for active service]

(02.1941)

HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *

02.04.1941
-
(06.1943)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet}:

(07.1942)

Commodore of Convoy PQ17 to Archangel

(06.1944)

Staff Flag Officer Assault Area [HMS Odyssey ?]

(10.1944)

Principal Sea Transport Officer, Expeditionary Force

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
Principal Sea Transport Officer, British Army of Occupied Germany [Sea Transport Department, Admiralty]

01.09.1945
-
01.11.1946
RNR ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Down,
Jack Charles Edwin
J.C.E. Down 19.03.1913
-
12.1990
Worthing, West Sussex

Prob. T/S.Lt.
29.01.1940

T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 29.01.1940

T/Lt.
29.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

23.07.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Cathay (armed merchant cruiser)

15.01.1942
-
(10.1943)
First Lieutenant, later Commanding Officer, HMS Mallow (corvette)

10.12.1944
-
?
HMS Pennywort (corvette)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Driscoll,
Arthur William
"Hawkeye"
A.W. Driscoll
Son of Denis and Margaret Driscoll.
1904 ?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 36]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 39, column 3]

Prob. S.Lt.
07.11.1927

S.Lt.
30.04.1928, seniority 07.11.1927

Lt.
07.11.1930

Lt.Cdr.
07.11.1938

Master Mariner in the Merchant Navy

05.02.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS L 54 (submarine)

11.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
First Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Duck,
Norman Winder
N.W. Duck (06?).1903
St Marylebone, Greater London
-
31.05.1970
Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire

Prob. S.Lt.
02.05.1929

S.Lt.
06.09.1929, seniority 02.05.1929

Lt.
29.11.1931

Lt.Cdr.
29.11.1939

Cdr.
31.12.1943

A/Capt.
1946?

Capt.
31.12.1950 (retd > 01.1956, < 07.1959)

DSC
25.08.1942
Murmansk convoys 03-05.42

DSC
07.11.1944
sinking enemy submarine U-333 31.07.44

RD
14.07.1944
?

31.01.1931
-
(02.1931)
HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) [to complete 12 months' training]

29.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Circassia (armed merchant cruiser)

(02.1941)

HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

22.03.1941
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, HMS Starwort (corvette)

20.08.1942
-
(08.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Rockingham (destroyer)

01.1944
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Dominica (frigate)

(06.1944)
-
02.08.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Starling (sloop) & SO Escort Group 2

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Ceylon [Sea Transport Department]

1945
-
1946
RNR ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dunn,
John Oliver
J.O. Dunn ?
-
[1959 still alive]

Lt.
31.12.1924

Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1932

Cdr.
30.06.1936

Capt.
30.06.1942

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
10.08.1942 (retd 1940s)

Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd)
15.12.1948

RD
?
?

10.08.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Dutton,
Wilfred Louis Gerard
W.L.G. Dutton (12?).1913
Stone, Staffordshire
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ?

S.Lt.
01.02.1938

Lt.
04.11.1940

A/Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1944?

Lt.Cdr.
04.11.1948 (retd 01.07.1950)

MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41

MID
25.08.1942
Operation Ironclad

MID
21.12.1943
Operation Husky

MID
30.05.1944
Operation Antidote

MID
03.04.1945
minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.44

MID
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46

RD
< 12.1948
?

(04.1940)

HMS Shower (trawler) *

18.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Nyemetski (trawler)

16.08.1941
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Poole (Bangor class minesweeper)

01.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Speedy (Halcyon class minesweeper)

* indexed, but not listed as such

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