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Fanshawe, T.E.  to  Fritzen, H.

Fanshawe, Thomas Evelyn	29.09.1918 - 05.2000 Petersfield, Hampshire	Prob. A/S.Lt. 22.03.1939 Lt. 1942? Lt. RN [backdated?] 22.09.1940 Cdr. RN 1955 Capt. RN 1961 Cdre. RN 1966 (retd 1971) CBE 12.06.1971 HM's birthday 71 DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 44 MID 01.01.1945 New Year 45 FRHS * changed from RNR to RN at the end of the war [c. 1945]	Education: Dover College; Nautical College, Pangbourne 01.1942 - (10.1943) HMS Rother (frigate) 15.10.1943 - (06.1944) CO HMS Clover (corvette) 05.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier) 1946? - 1951 HMS Constance & HMS Phoenix 1951 - 1954 CO HMS Zest & CO HMS Obedient 1955 - 1957 CO HMS Loch Insh 1957 - 1959 CO HMS Temeraire 1959 - 1961 CO HMS Tyne 1961 - 1964 NATO Defence College & Liaison Officer with Commander-in-Chief Southern Europe 08.1964 - 1966 CO HMS Plymouth & Captain (D) 29th Escort Squadron 1966 - 1968 Sen. Naval Officer Persian Gulf and Commander Naval Forces Gulf (Cdre) 1969 - 1971 Senior British Naval Officer & Naval Attaché, South Africa (Cdre) 1970 - 1971 ADC to the Queen 1972-1981 Captain, Sea Cadet Corps
Farrow, George William	12.03.1915 - 26.01.2007	Prob. S.Lt. 17.02.1939 S.Lt. ?, seniority 17.02.1939 Lt. 15.08.1940 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1948 (mobilized 1939) (demobilized 11.10.1946) (retd 12.03.1960) MID 02.07.1946 wind up Far East RD > 05.1950 < 05.1953 ?	18.12.1939 18.12.1939 30.05.1940 04.1943 - - - - (08.)1943 29.05.1940 04.1943 (08.)1943 HMS Buttermere (minesweeping trawler) Third Officer Commanding Officer First Lieutenant 30.03.1944 transferred to Royal Indian Naval Reserve 01.06.1944 - (07.1945) HMIS Feroze (RIN Officers' Demobilisation Centre, Bombay) * 08.07.1944 - (04.1946) HMIS Orissa (minesweeper) * 16.01.1956 - 05.02.1956 HMAS Sydney (for 21 days training)  06.02.1956 - 18.02.1956 HMAS Watson (for 13 days basic "D" instruction) 19.02.1956 - 05.03.1956 HMAS Sydney (for 16 days training) Received Merchant Navy Master’s ticket, 06.11.1946. Spent his working life from 1951  with Stanvac (Mobil). * rather conflicting dates of appointment; perhaps only stayed a month on the books of HMIS Feroze, after which he was posted to HMIS Orissa
Fasting, Alexander Bennock	(09?).1897 Toxteth Park, Lancashire - 07.1962 still alive	Lt. 31.12.1924 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1938 Capt. 31.12.1943 (reld 1945/46) RD ? ?	20.03.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs) 06.07.1943 - (07.1945) Admiralty Berthing Officer [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]
Fitzgerald, William Thomas	? - 07.1962 still alive	Lt. 31.12.1924 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1938 Capt. 31.12.1943 (reld 1940/50s) RD ? ?	01.10.1941 - (12.1943) CO HMS Engadine (aircraft transport) 02.1944 - (06.1944) CO HMS Engadine (aircraft transport) 16.07.1945 - (04.1946) CO HMS Moray Firth (maintenance ship)
Flaaten, Ansgar	? Norway -	T/Lt. 05.07.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943 DSC 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 09.06.1942 (not gazetted) 4th MS Flotilla (ACO & S)	HMS Lochinvar (RN base, Port Edgar) * 18.12.1940 - (02.1941) CO HMS Daniel Clowden (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) 07.1941 - (12.1943) CO HMS Cape Nyemetski (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (07.1945) HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) * * indexed as such in (02.1941), so probably previous appointment, or the home base for HMS Daniel Clowden ** indexed, but not listed as such
Flåtten *, Olaf Johan Son of Olav and Hanna Flåtten, of Sandefiord, Norway; husband of Mary Flåtten, of Sandefiord. * also written as: Flaatten	24.05.1908 Norway - 18.10.1942 [Tehran War Cemetery, Iran, 2.C.13]	T/S.Lt. (E) 19.08.1940 T/Lt. (E) 19.08.1941	(02.1941) HMS Southern Gem (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) * ? - 18.10.1942 HMS Billow (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) * indexed, but not listed as such
Ford, Charles Musgrave	(09?).1887 Chorlton, Lancashire - 19.12.1974 [Bournemouth ?]	Lt.Cdr. 02.08.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1930 Capt. 31.12.1936 A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 1940? (retd > 08.1939, < 07.1944) Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) ? CBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 RD ? ? Order of St Anne, 3rd Class, 1915 (Russian); Commander Legion of Merit, 1949 (USA)	1912 joined Cunard Co. Ltd 1914 - 1918 served European War 1940 - 1942 Commodore of Ocean Convoys 1941 - 1942 RNR ADC to the King commanded several Cunard vessels, including SS Queen Mary and SS Queen Elizabeth; Commodore of Cunard White Star Fleet, retired
Forster, William Hay "Bill"	(12?).1899 Gateshead district, Durham - 12.1998 Isle of Wight	T/Lt. (E) 19.10.1942 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) > 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)	26.06.1944 - (07.1945) Engineer Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer) 16.03.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Ascension (frigate)
Forster, William Redvers Son of William and Harriet Ann Forster (née Ellis). Married (18.04.1932) Sarah Louise Heaney; three sons.	03.04.1900 Gateshead, Durham - 1975 Exmouth, Devon	RAF: 2nd Lt. 18.10.1918 (unemployed list 17.06.1919) RNR: T/Lt. (E) 04.10.1943 (reld 1946)	27.04.1918 enlisted RAF 31.05.1918 - 16.08.1918 training, No 7 (Observer) School of Aeronautics (Bath) 16.08.1918 - 17.10.1918 training, School for Anti-submarine Inshore Patrol Observers (Aldeburgh) 17.10.1918 - 06.01.1919 posted as Observer Gunner to Houton Bay (part of 28 Group) (Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands) [flew Short 184 seaplanes on anti-submarine patrols] 06.01.1919 - 17.06.1919 staff member of No. 1 Marine Observers' School (Aldeburgh) returned to Wallsend Shipyard and Engineering Co. to complete an apprenticeship as a fitter 14.08.1921 joined the Eagle Oil Transport Co. as 6th Engineer on the oil tanker, San Fraterno 1921 - 21.03.1939 remained in the Merchant Navy (from 1933 onwards as Chief Engineer) [Engineer "Skytteren" (whaling factory ship), 1930] 1942 - 1943 tested Merlin aircraft engines for Rolls Royce at Crewe 06.12.1943 - 1944 HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) [on arctic convoys to Archangel, Russia] 16.03.1944 - 09.01.1946 Engineer Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) [in command from 23.07.1945 before being paid off for disposal] (acting as Fleet Air Arm target vessel for air launched torpedos) [Operation Apostle, 05.1945 (accepted surrender of German forces in Kristiansand, Norway)] Returned to sea as marine engineer until retirement due to ill health in 1961, after which he retired to Exmouth, Devon.
Forsyth, Hugh Caldwell Codrington	(03?).1892 Lambeth, Greater London, Surrey - 07.1962 still alive	Lt.Cdr. 02.04.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1934 Capt. 31.12.1941 A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 1945? (retd) Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 01.01.1947 RD ? ?	17.08.1942 - (06.1944) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] (07.1945) - (04.1946) Naval Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves
Fortune, Thomas [Ian Moodie]	19.04.1916 Fife, Scotland -	T/S.Lt. 12.09.1939 T/Lt. 23.01.1942 T/Lt. SANFV 1944/45?, seniority 23.01.1942 DSC 06.06.1941 action against armed merchant raider 05.12.40 [investiture 03.02.42]	12.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Carnarvon Castle (armed merchant cruiser) (12.1941) no appointment listed 01.09.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Emperor (escort carrier) 1944/45? transferred to South African Naval Forces (Temporary Forces) (1945?) - (1946?) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (04.1946) HMA Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Fraser, Charles Robertson "Bob" / "Crash" Residence: (war years) Middleton-on-Sea.	25.07.1910 - 14.01.1984 Wantage, Berkshire	T/Lt. 17.11.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 30.11.1942? T/A/Cdr. 19.04.1945? (reld > 04.1946) DSC 07.12.1943 Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia, 05.43) DSC 27.03.1945 operation Dragoon (invasion of South of France, 08.44)	Education: Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe 1925 - 1927 Cadet, HMS Worcester (destroyer) 1927 - 1939 joined as a Cadet and served P & O S.N.Co.Ltd 17.11.1939 - (02.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Hazard (Halcyon class minesweeper) 25.10.1941? - ? HMS Acute (Algerine class minesweeper) ? - ? HMS Polruan (Bangor class minesweeper) 30.11.1942 - (10.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Stornoway (Bangor class minesweeper) 11.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Espiégle (Algerine class minesweeper) (08.44) Commanding Officer, HMS Aries (Algerine class minesweeper) 19.04.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Grecian (Catherine class minesweeper)
Fraser, Ian Edward Victoria Cross Reference	18.12.1920 Ealing, London - Wallasey, Merseyside	Lt. 01.03.1943 Lt.Cdr. 1951 (retd 1965) VC 13.11.1945 Operation Struggle * DSC 06.04.1943 sinking U-boat & several supply ships RD 1948? ? RD 1948 ? LM 02.12.1946 Operation Struggle * * On 31st July, 1945 in the Johore Strait, Singapore, Lieutenant FRASER, in command of HM Midget Submarine XE3, went up to attack the Japanese cruiser Takao, which was located after a long and hazardous journey. Lieutenant Fraser slid the submarine under the target which lay over a depression in the sea bed, and his diver * went out to fix the limpet mines to the bottom of the ship. The two side charges then had to be released, but the starboard charge stuck and the diver climbed out again and after a nerve-racking five minutes released the charge. XE3 then made for home.	Education: Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (09.1933-12.1935); HMS Conway 1937 - 1939 merchant navy 1939 - 1947 Royal Navy: (1943) HMS Sahib 07.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Bonaventure (CO HMS XE3) 16.01.1946 - (04.1946) for submarines, HMS Dolphin Managing Director, Universal Divers Ltd, 1947-1965 and since 1983 (former Chairman);  Younger Brother of Trinity House, 1980; JP Wallasey, 1957; Hon. Freeman, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, 1993 Published: Frogman VC (1957)
Freaker, Ronald Clifford "Ron" Married Beatrice ...; two daughters.	25.06.1903 Wandsworth, London, Surrey - 19.12.1991 New Forest, Hampshire	Prob. S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 26.10.1927, seniority 11.04.1927 Lt. 15.05.1930 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1938 (retd 25.06.1948) Cdr. (retd) < 07.1952 DSO 09.09.1941 destruction 2 U-boats 25 & 27.06.41 DSO 19.10.1943 convoy destruction 2 U-boats DSC 01.02.1944 U-boat hunt & aircraft action 27.08.43 DSC 15.05.1945 action against U-boats 02.45 RD 08.04.1942 ? Bronze Polar Medal (07.10.1941)	apprenticed at 16 Blue Star Line, served on 'Andora  Star' 20.07.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Caledon (cruiser) 1934 - 1938 RRS William Scoresby (Chief Officer, later Master) 11.12.1939 - (02.1941) Navigation Officer, HMS Albatross (seaplane  carrier) (06.1941) HMS Nasturtium (corvette) 08.09.1942 - 11.04.1944 CO HMS Jed (frigate) (02.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Loch Eck (frigate) * (04.1946) no posting listed Post-war a pilot, then the Senior Pilot with the Suez Canal Pilotage Service and left in 1956 to become a Board of Trade examiner of Masters and Mates at Southampton. After retirement coached candidates for their Yacht Master's Certificate. * (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Freeman, James Robert	? - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ?	Lt. 16.02.1938 ?, seniority 14.11.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 Lt.Cdr. 14.11.1945 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950) RD > 07.1945 < 04.1946 ?	24.06.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Fitzroy (minesweeper) 06.06.1941 - (08.)1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Malines (auxiliary escort) 10.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Verbena (corvette) 15.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS, Canada) (for miscellaneous duties)
Fritzen, Hans [Anton Fredrik]	04.02.1913 Norway - ?	T/Lt. 23.07.1943 (reld 25.07.1946)	20.12.1941 joined RNR 23.07.1943 re-entered RNR as Temp. Lieut. ? - (07.1945) HMS Bardsey (minesweeping trawler) * ? - (04.1946) HMS President (Admiralty) * Served in Royal Norwegian Navy after the war from 7.3.1953 to 22.8.1953 as U/Lt. (equal to T/Lt.). * indexed, but not listed as such

 

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