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Gaffney, Harry Cecil	11.11.1893 Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire -	Prob. Midsh. 01.1913 A/S.Lt. 09.1916 S.Lt. 03.04.1918, seniority 02.04.1916 A/Lt. ? Lt. 02.04.1918 T/Lt. RNVR 20.09.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. RNVR ? T/Lt. 30.09.1940, seniority 20.09.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. * 30.09.1940 (reld 24.08.1945) * the official service record [1] states that he held the rank of [T/A/]Commander for the period 20.03.1943-21.02.1945, which cannot be substantiated from other sources, though [1] As provided on 15.06.2006 by Second Sea Lord and Naval Home Command, Director Naval Career Management, Navy Search, TNT Archive Services, Swadlincote, Derbyshire.	01.1913 - 08.1914 Midshipman, Torpedo Boat 20 16.08.1914 - 07.1915 HMS Kinsfauns Castle (armed merchant cruiser) 15.07.1915 - 04.1918 HMS Challenger (6 inch cruiser) 18.04.1918 - (01.1919) First Lieutenant, Torpedo Boat 20 27.10.1939 - 20.04.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Marmion (paddle minesweeper) (Dunkirk) * 21.04.1941 - 20.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Goatfell (paddle minesweeper) 21.08.1942 - 26.08.1942 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 27.08.1942 - 19.10.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Goatfell (paddle minesweeper) 20.10.1942 - 22.08.1943 Commanding Officer, HM LST 15 [or 364] (landing ship tank) [borne initially on HMS Asbury (accomodation base, Asbury Park, New Jersey)] ** 23.08.1943 - 10.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HM LST 199 (landing ship tank) & SO 3rd LST Flotilla 11.04.1944 - 16.07.1944 Commanding Officer, HM LST 415 (landing ship tank) 17.07.1944 - 21.02.1945 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) * official service record states 01.10.1940-20.04.1941; the Navy List gives as starting date 27.10.1939; the Febr. 1941 Navy List has no appointment listed and doesn't show him at HMS Marmion ** though the Navy List gives LST 15, the official service record mentions LST 364; there's no obvious connection between the two ships
Gale, Newell Herbert "Herby" Son of William James and Elizabeth Gale. Married ((12?).1912, Toxteth Park district, Lancashire) of Ethel Cove. Residence: (1942) Salcombe, Devon.	(12?).1887 West Derby district, Lancashire - 22.09.1942 [age 54] [Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]	Lt. 01.01.1916 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1924 Cdr. 30.06.1931 Capt. 30.06.1937 A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 26.01.1942 DSO 27.10.1942 Commodore of Convoy PQ16 05.42 [SS Ocean Voice] RD 27.02.1925 -	Served Cunard White Star Line. 26.01.1941 - 22.09.1942 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 17.03.1941 - 03.04.1941 Rear-Commodore of Convoy HX 115 (Halifax - Liverpool) (aboard "Malaya II") 01.11.1941 - 16.11.1941 Commodore of Convoy ON 32 (Liverpool - Halifax) (aboard "Port Adelaide") 08.05.1942 - 12.05.1942 Commodore of Convoy UR 23 (Loch Ewe - Reykjavik) (aboard "Ocean Voice") 21.05.1942 - 30.05.1942 Commodore of Convoy PQ 16 (Reykjavik - Murmansk) (aboard "Ocean Voice") (DSO) 26.06.1942 - 07.07.1942 Commodore of Convoy QP 13 (Archangel - Reykjavik/Loch Ewe) 18.09.1942 - 22.09.1942 Commodore of Convoy SC 100 (Sydney, CB - UK) (aboard "Athelsultan") [She was fully loaded, in a severe gale, with heavy seas; no consideration had been given to the possibility of a submarine attack. But, at 0019hrs, on 22.09.1942, she was torpedoed by U-617, when the ship was just South East of Cape Farewell, position 58.24N 33.38W; the ship sank very quickly. Most of the ship’s crew were killed instantly, with only 9 survivors out of a total of 58 crew; together with six gunners, the Convoy Commodore and five of his staff, all of whom died.]
Galer, Richard Percy	(03?).1887 Hackney, Greater London - 12.09.1966 London	Prob. S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 01.07.1913 Lt. 20.07.1915 Lt.Cdr. 20.07.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1929 Capt. 31.12.1935 (retd 15.12.1941) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 14.11.1940? Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 11.09.1945 CBE 01.01.1942 New Year 42 RD < 1929 ?	20.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Pembroke IV (RN accounting base, Chatham) ? - 04.03.1940 convoy HX 19 (Halifax - Liverpool) [SS Pacific Reliance] (convoy dispersed) 14.11.1940 - (12.1941) Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 13.02.1941 - 17.02.1941 convoy OB 286 (Liverpool- ?) [SS Athelregent] (convoy dispersed) 21.03.1941 - 09.04.1941 convoy HX 116 (Halifax - Liverpool) [SS Kaipara] 26.08.1941 - 15.12.1941 also: RNR ADC to the King 04.03.1942 - 10.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Mersey (RN depot, Liverpool) * * (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Galpin, Richard John "Dick"	21.07.1903 - 08.03.1986 Surrey Northern, Surrey	Prob. S.Lt. 14.04.1926 S.Lt. 18.10.1927, seniority 14.04.1926 Lt. 11.10.1929 Lt.Cdr. 11.10.1937 Cdr. 30.06.1943 (reld 11.04.1946) Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 29.06.1955) RD ? - RD ? -	24.05.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (to complete 12 months' training) 02.10.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Laconia (armed merchant cruiser) 01.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) Went back to the Orient Line after the war and then went to Trinity House as one of the Elder Brethern.
Galteland, Kristian Son of Tellef S. and Marie Galteland, of Sandefjord, Norway	19.06.1913 Norway - 22.02.1942 [Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 8, column 1]	T/S.Lt. 23.09.1940 T/Lt. 19.06.1941	(02.1941) HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) * 18.11.1941 - 22.02.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Rosemonde (anti-subarine trawler) * indexed, but not listed as such
Gaudie, Robert Smith	? -	Prob. T/Skpr. 13.09.1940 [TS 650] T/Skpr. 1941, seniority 13.09.1940	13.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Arnold Bennett (minesweeping trawler) 11.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Windermere (anti-submarine warfare whaler) 10.02.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Crannock (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (07.1945)     no appointment listed
Geddes, George Carlow	22.06.1910 - 12.1987 West Lancashire district, Lancashire	Midsh. 01.01.1929 A/S.Lt. 02.04.1932 S/Lt. 28.05.1934 Lt. 18.01.1936 07.12.1938, seniority 01.01.1936 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1944 (demobilized < 04.1946) (retd 22.06.1955) RD 25.08.1943 -	(04.1940)     HMS Northern Reward (anti-submarine warfare trawler) * 06.11.1940 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Azalea (corvette) 08.06.1945 - (07.1945) a Naval Assistant, Compass Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such
Gedye, John Brian Burnett	(06?).1922 Southampton district, Hampshire -	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 22.05.1943	26.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Truculent (submarine) 14.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS London (cruiser) (04.1946)     HMS Flint Castle (corvette) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Gentle, Thomas	? -	Prob. T/S.Lt. 15.04.1940 T/Lt. 15.04.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	(02.1941) HMS Carnarvon Castle (armed merchant cruiser) * 10.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS William Scoresby (minesweeping trawler) 01.07.1943 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Bangor (Bangor class minesweeper) 23.07.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Welcome (Algerine class minesweeper) (04.1946)     HMS Salvestor (salvage vessel) * * indexed, but not listed as such
George, William Arthur Son (with ten brothers and two sisters) of Robert George, and Julia Gertrude Sutton (1884-1946). Married (21.08.1931, Grimsby, Lincolnshire) Annie M. Harris; two daughters.	12.1904 Grimsby, Lincolnshire - 15.10.1952 Grimsby, Lincolnshire	T/Skpr. 08.09.1939 [WS 3051 & TS 178] T/A/Ch.Skpr. 01.05.1945 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 26.09.1940 services in Norway * [investiture 03.02.42] * On 8 May 1940, being landed with a party from the Northern Spray to examine a German troop-carrier down in Efjordan, the party was surprised and attacked by some 30 Germans, the late occupants of the plane, with machine-guns and grenades. After all their ammunition was expended, the party surrendered, except Skipper George, who, eluding his captors, made his way to the wrecked plane, in which he spent the night. He collected all books and papers he thought might be of value and, launching the india-rubber boat, crossed the fjord and eventually rejoined his ship.	(12.1939)     no appointment listed 15.01.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Northern Gem (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (DSC) 15.06.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Exyáhne (minesweeping trawler) (04.1941)     no appointment listed 04.05.1941 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Egeria (minesweeping trawler) 12.07.1943 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Internos (minesweeping trawler)
Gibbon, Donald William Son of William Duff Gibbon and Clara Elizabeth Gibbon, of Usk, Monmouthshire. Husband of Irene Gibbon.	(12?).1910 Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire / Worcestershire - 25.03.1941 (MPK) [age 30] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 1]	Prob. T/S.Lt. 27.05.1940 T/Lt. ?	Served Merchant Navy (Anchor Line?). (02.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * ? - (03?).1941 training, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (03?).1941 - 25.03.1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) [missing, presumed killed while on passage aboard steamship SS Britannia [to join his submarine in India] when it was sunk by the German raider Thor off the Cape Verde Islands] * indexed, but not listed as such
Gibbons, James Oldest of four children; younger brother Sgt. (Pilot) Michael Gerrard Gibbons, RAFVR, was killed in action over Cologne, 26.02.1943.	04.07.1905 Birtley, Durham - 04.1988 Whitehaven, Cumberland	T/Lt. 02.09.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 20. 01.1944? (reld < 04.1946) DSC 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [award posted] MID 03.04.1945 minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.44	Served Merchant Navy. 06.11.1940 - 04.1942 HMS California (armed merchant cruiser) 20.01.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Bootle (Bangor class minesweeper) Returned to the Hudson Steamship Co sailing out of Newcastle initially. He then opened up the sugar route to the West Indies and before retirement became Commodore of the Hudson fleet.
Gibson, Harold Married; ... children.	? -	T/S.Lt. 14.11.1942 T/A/Lt. 01.11.1944 T/Lt. 07.12.1945 (reld 03.12.1946)	temporary officer serving under T.124T (rescue tugs) agreement 01.04.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) (for rescue tugs) 23.01.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) (for duty with rescue tugs) 17.07.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for duty with rescue tugs)
Gill, Sir Roy Son of Mason Gill, dentist, and British subject. Married (1914) Ivy Gwendolen Taylor, daughter of J. Taylor, of Kingston-on-Thames; one son, one daughter.	19.02.1887 Philadelphia, USA - 13.10.1967 Blackheath, London SE3	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 02.10.1913, seniority 16.09.1912 Lt. 10.02.1915 A/Lt.Cdr. (1922) Lt.Cdr. 10.02.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1930 ?, seniority 30.06.1929 Capt. 31.12.1935 A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 10.1940 (retd 19.02.1942, reld 1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 24.05.1946 KBE 01.01.1945 New Year 45 [investiture 03.07.45] CBE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [investiture 23.03.43] MID 01.02.1944 for outstanding devotion to duty during 3 years arduous service as Commodore of Ocean Convoys RD 15.08.1922 -	Education: Shoreham Grammar School; HMS Worcester. Served with Geo. Milne & Company as apprentice in the Barques Inverneill and Inverness, 1908. 2nd Mate of Inveresk. Served in command of South Metropolitan Gas Company's Steamers, 1920-1939. 1905     joined RNR 1914 - 1919 served European War, 4½ years in command of a Q-ship (04.1940) - (10.1940) HMS Iolanda (auxiliary patrol ship) * 10.1940 - (01.)1945 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] [became known as "the most shot-at Commodore in World War II"; brought all but 34 out of 1,869 ships safely into port] 12.01.1941 - 02.02.1941 convoy SC 19 (Halifax-Liverpool) [in SS Basil] 06.04.1941 - 22.04.1941 convoy HX 119A & HX 119B (Halifax-Liverpool) [in SS Tucurinca] 16.06.1941 - 03.07.1941 convoy HX 133 (Halifax-Liverpool) [in SS Glenpark] 28.10.1941 - 15.11.1941 convoy ON 31 (Liverpool-dispersed) [in SS Ville de Tamatave] (1943)     convoy ON 176 01.05.1943 - 17.05.1943 convoy HX 237 (New York-Liverpool) [in SS Pacific Enterprise] 16.06.1943     convoy ON 189 (Loch Ewe) 23.07.1943 - 06.08.1943 convoy HX 249 (New York-Liverpool) [in SS Empire Chivalry] (10.1944)     convoys XIF 23 & IXF 23 17.09.1941 - 19.02.1942 also: RNR ADC to the King (07.1945)     no appointment listed 17.10.1945 - 20.10.1945 Member of British Military Court for the trial of war criminals held at the War Crimes Court, Hamburg (The Peleus trial) 1945 - 1946 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Tyne Area Formerly River Superintendent South Eastern Gas Board, Metropolitan Division. Vice-President The Royal Naval Association; President, Association of Old Worcesters. Master of Clipper Ship Cutty Sark, 1957-1965; then Captain Commodore (Hon.); Governor of Cutty Sark Society. * indexed, but not listed as such
Goff, Roy Cyril	? -	Prob. T/S.Lt. 29.01.1940 T/S.Lt. ?, seniority 29.01.1940 T/Lt. 29.01.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1943, < 04.1944	(04.1940) no appointment listed 14.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Hazard 08.09.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Selkirk (07.1945) no appointment listed
Goldsworthy, Ivan Ernest Goodman	1894 * St Erth - [1959 still alive] * baptized at 08.06.1894	Lt. 30.09.1925 Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1933 Cdr. 30.06.1937 Capt. 31.12.1942 (reld 1945/46) Cmndn 08.10.1940 rescue survivors Lancastria RD ? ?	(1940) SS Oronsay (as Staff Cdr., Merchant Navy) [ (07.1945) HMS Osborne (RN base, Isle of Wight) ?]
Gordon, Alexander From Glasgow.	? -	T/Lt. (E) 24.09.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) ? DSC 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 [award posted]	(02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS St Modwen (armed yacht; anti-submarine duties) * * at least indexed for the given period, but not listed as such; got the DSC in 1945 while obviously still serving at the ship
Gornall, Charles Edwin Married ((06?).1918, Swansea district, Glamorgan) Emily Richards; .. children (one son?).	09.1900 Fylde district, Lancashire - 26.01.1955 (died at sea on the trawler Lorella out of Hull when it went down in a storm)	T/Skpr. 11.12.1939 [T.S. 283] T/A/Ch.Skpr. 18.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946) MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45	27.02.1940 - 12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS William Cale (minesweeping trawler) 30.12.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Lacerta (minesweeping trawler) 10.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Lacerta (minesweeping trawler)
Gorton, Sandford George Son of Sandford Thomas Gorton (1858-1900), railway engineer, and Clara Elliott (1866?-?). Married 1st ((06?).1907, Wandsworth district, London) Haldane Mary (died (06?).1944), daughter of R.E. Hutchison, of New South Wales; two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd (10.01.1945, Chelsea, London) Margaret Vinton Brown (née French)  (born 17.08.1901 at Lynn, Mass., USA), daughter of Edward Vinton French, president of a US insurance trust.	09.10.1883 Clapham, Lambeth, Greater London * - 1957 * place of birth sometimes indicated as: Richmond, Surrey	T/Lt. 25.03.1918 ? A/Lt.Cdr. 1918 ? T/Cdr. 12.12.1939 A/T/Capt. 08.1943 MBE 01.01.1918 New Year 18: for service at cable ships BWM 14|20 - - VM - - DefM - - WM 39|45 - -	Education: Cameron House preparatory school, Leatherhead; Thames Nautical Training College’s HMS Worcester (16.09.1897-22.06.1900; 1st Class Petty Officer). Joins Devitt & Moore as an apprentice (four-masted barque Macquarie), 27.06.1900-21.08.1903. 2nd Mate's Certificate, 10.10.1903. Passes for First Mate, 22.02.1905. Served as Third Officer at Beatrice, Third Officer, then Fourth Officer at Wilcania & Second Officer at Waregal [as of 14.06.1905]. Master's ticket, 16.09.1908. 20.11.1909 20.11.1909 09.12.1910 18.09.1912 General Post Office Cable Ship HMCS Monarch * 4th Navigating Officer 3rd Navigating Officer Assistant Cable Engineer 25.03.1918 25.03.1918 1918 01.03.1919 autumn 1919 - 15.12.1919 lent to Admiralty HMS President (additional; for miscellaneous or special service) for duty outside Admiralty, under Director of Anti-Submarine Division [HMS President] HMS Vernon (mining school, Portsmouth) HMS Hodder (cable ship) 15.12.1919 18.03.1924 - - 17.03.1924 ? Commanding Officer, Cable Ship "Kilmun" (serving under the Admiralty) 12.12.1939 - 30.06.1942 Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.07.1942 - (04.1946) Anti-Submarine Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * ship sunk 08.09.1915 off Folkestone, but Gorton continued service on successor with same name Monarch (3); saw service in Home Waters & Russia
Goulding, Harold Wilkinson Son of Harold Goulding, and Alice Jane Hodgson. Married ((12?).1926, Hartlepool district, Co. Durham) Edna Victoria Crallen (17.08.1901 - 09.2000); one son.	21.08.1903 West Hartlepool, Co. Durham - 04.08.1945 (died of illness)	Prob. T/Lt. 13.06.1940 T/Lt. 02.1941, seniority 13.06.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 13.06.1940? T/Cdr. 15.01.1944 DSO 13.11.1940 for outstanding fearlessness and resource on special service on enemy coasts 39|45 St - - Fr&G St - - DefM - - WM 39|45 - - MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42)	Served Merchant Navy. 13.06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (for miscellaneous duties) (DSO) 14.12.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire) (for HMS Northney (Combined Operations landing craft base, Hayling Island)) (08.1942 Senior Officer, Blue Beach Landings, Dieppe raid) (despatches) (10.1944) - (01.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] * 14.06.1945 - 04.08.1945 HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for duty with Naval Officer-in-Charge, Methil) * indexed, but not listed as such
Granger, Peter Henry Thomas Son of Thomas E. Granger, and Bertha W. Ashcroft.	16.02.1927 Eastbourne district, Sussex - 19.03.2011	T/Midsh. 05.01.1945 A/S.Lt. RN ? S.Lt. RN 09.06.1947, seniority 16.02.1947 Lt. RN 16.02.1949 (emgcy 23.04.1951) Lt. RNVR 14.02.1955, seniority 13.06.1950 Lt.Cdr. RNVR (later RNR) 13.06.1958 (retd 18.08.1971) RD 01.05.1964 -	(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Rifleman (Algerine class minesweeper) * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Grant, Brian Borthwick Married (1922) to Doris Eunice Fleming; two sons.	(12?).1891 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire - 1966	T/Lt. 04.05.1917 Prob. Lt. 31.12.1924 Lt. 25.08.1926, seniority 31.12.1924 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1935 (retd 10.10.1941) Capt. (retd) 10.10.1941 (reld 1945/46) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 05.09.1942 RD 11.03.1940 -	22.11.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) 05.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 05.09.1942 - (06.1944) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] 03.07.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Glengyle (landing ship infantry) (1949) Commanding Officer, SS Empress of France
Graves, William Francis	30.04.1907 Alnwick district, Northumberland - 06.1997 Whitby district, Yorkshire	Prob. S.Lt. 26.03.1931 S.Lt. 07.08.1932, seniority 26.03.1931 Lt. 26.03.1933 (retd 05.09.1935) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 10.03.1945 RD 1945/46? -	(02.1940)     no appointment listed 31.01.1940 - 10.06.1940 HMS Vandyck (armed merchant cruiser) (sunk by German bombing off Andenes; captured) 1940 - 1945 POW in German captivity Harbour Master, Whitby.
Gray, Alfred Francis Colenso	18.04.1900 North Witchford district, Cambridgeshire - 11.1984 Fenland district, Cambridgeshire	Prob. S.Lt. 14.01.1926 S.Lt. 26.05.1926, seniority 14.01.1926 Lt. 03.04.1929 Lt.Cdr. 03.04.1937 (retd 18.04.1945) Cdr. (retd) 18.04.1945 RD 20.11.1942 -	(04.1940)     HMS Circassia (armed merchant cruiser) * (06.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS St Sunniva (accommodation ship for Contraband Control Service) 28.10.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Valena (armed yacht for anti-submarine duties) (Campbeltown) 14.04.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Sardonyx (destroyer) 23.09.1943 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Charlestown (destroyer) (07.1945)     no appointment listed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, 1968-1969. * indexed, but not listed as such
Gray, Frank Son of Francis William and Hilda Gray, of Beverley. Husband of Joan Gray, of Beverley.	(09?).1907 Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire - 10.05.1940 (KIA) [age 32] [Beverely (Queensgate) Cemetery, Yorkshire, block 35, grave 22]	Prob. T/Lt. 26.02.1940	(04.1940)     no appointment listed ? - 10.05.1940 HMS Fowey (sloop) (killed by fire)
Green, Anthony Harold "Tony"	20.10.1924 -	T/Midsh. ? T/S.Lt. 24.10.1944 (reld 09.1946)	Joined Merchant Navy as a Cadet, 1941. TSS City of Pretoria, 11.1941. 05.1943 joined RNR 21.05.1943 - 12.1943 HMS Howe (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.1943 - 05.1944 course, RN College, Greenwich 18.05.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Wren (sloop) 06.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Kingfisher (sloop) Received a government grant to study for his Second Mate’s certificate then joined Shell Tankers (Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co) and remained with Shell until 1956 as Master of a tanker. Emigrated to Canada.
Green, George Durham	1917 ? - 05.11.1940 (KIA) [age 23] [Chatham Naval Memorial]	A/S.Lt. (E) ?	? - 05.11.1940 HMS Jervis Bay (auxiliary merchant cruiser)
Green, John William	? -	T/Skpr. 01.09.1940 [TS 780] (reld < 04.1946)	(1940?) HMS Girl Gladys (drifter) (1941?) HMS Yezo (trawler) (02.1941) no appointment listed 12.05.1941 - 22.10.1941 HMS Alder (trawler) (wrecked east coast Scotland) 20.09.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Bruinvisch (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (07.1945) no appointment listed
Greene, Joseph William "Jimmy" From Fleetwood.	04.04.1909 Fleetwood, Lancashire - 06.1988 North Walsham, Norfolk	T/Skpr. 04.12.1939 [WS 3171, TS 288] T/A/Skpr.Lt. 28.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 Awarded a gold watch by President Eisenhower for his seamanship in the post-war rescue of American seamen crewing a foundering timber ship.	(04.1940) no appointment listed (02.1941) HMS Kennymore (minesweeping trawler) * 24.05.1941 - (12.1943) HMS St Tudno (minesweeping depot, Sheerness) (for minesweeping duties) 28.04.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Pierre Gustave (drifter) 06.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 144 (motor minesweeper) Commanded the Grimsby trawler 'Northern Duke', 1950s/60s. * indexed, but not listed as such; vessel was sunk on 25.11.1940
Greene Kelly, Edward Trenchard "Tizzy" Son (with a twin brother and two sisters) of Sir Henry Greene Kelly (1865-1934), and Doris Muriel Dagmar Trenchard (?-1947). Married (13.09.1939, St James's, Piccadilly) Loraine Ianthe "Pipps" Dickson, of Woodspean, Newbury, Berkshire, youngest daughter of Col. William G.B. Dickson (?-1944), and Mrs Dickson, of Crossways, Newbury; ... children (one daughter). Loraine Greene Kelly remarried Nigel Craven-Wilkinson.	(09?).1913 Eton district, Buckinghamshire - 15.10.1943 Piombino Channel [age 32] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 73, 2]	T/S.Lt. 25.09.1939 T/Lt. 02.01.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? 1943 ? DSC 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43)	25.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Montclare (armed merchant cruiser) 03.09.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 14.12.1942 - 26.09.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 655 (motor torpedo boat) & acting Senior Officer, 33rd MTB Flotilla (DSC) 26.09.1943 - 15.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 636 (motor torpedo boat) (lost his life in what is now termed as a “friendly fire’ incident – the loss of 636 under the guns of 658)
Groos, William Henry	(06?).1888 Lambeth, London - died possibly between 07.1962 and 08.1973	A/Asst.Paym. 04.03.1910 Asst.Paym. 15.11.1911, seniority 04.03.1910 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 04.03.1920 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1930 (retd 10.06.1938) (reverted to retd < 07.1945) RD 15.02.1921 ?	12.08.1940 - 15.02.1945 HMS Unicorn II (RN base, Dundee), renamed 1942: HMS Cressy (RN base, Dundee)

 

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