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Halbert, W.E.
to
Hummel, G.H.

   
W.E. Halbert  to  G.H. Hummel
Halbert,
William Eric
W.E. Halbert
(12?).1907
Toxteth Park, Lancashire
-
Lt.
01.11.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.
> 06.1944, < 10.1944
Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1945 (reld 06.05.1946) (commission terminated 06.04.1947; medically unfit)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
09.05.1944
minesweeping Western Desert Sweep [award posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
03.09.1940
minesweeping
Mention in Despatches MID
31.03.1942
minefield clearance 12.41-01.42
Mention in Despatches MID
28.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
(04.1940)
-
(02.1941)
HMS Sutton (Hunt class minesweeper) *
28.09.1941
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Romney (Bangor class minesweeper)
03.1944
-
27.07.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Whitehaven (Bangor class minesweeper)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Postillion (Algerine class minesweeper)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Halcrow,
James Alexander Smith
J.A.S. Halcrow
1907 ?
-
09.12.1942
(KIA) (age 35)
[Chatham Naval Memorial]
Lt.
19.11.1935
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
25.04.1942
-
09.12.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Marigold (corvette)
Hall,
Harry John
H.J. Hall (Painting by William Dennis Dring. From The National Maritime Museum collection.)
10.10.1909
-
24.05.1994
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Prob. S.Lt.
28.05.1931
S.Lt.
12.07.1933, seniority 28.05.1931
Lt.
06.11.1934
Lt.Cdr.
06.11.1942
Cdr.
31.12.1944 (retd 01.07.1950)

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 
11.05.1943
Operation Torch & U-boat attacks

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
13.10.1942
convoy PQ17

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.11.1944
sinking of U671 04.08.44
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
27.04.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS Wishart (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (to complete 9 months' training)
05.09.1939
-
(02.1941)
HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden)
01.05.1942
-
07.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Lotus (corvette)
30.12.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Stayner (frigate)
20.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
(05.1950)


no appointment listed
Hall,
Robert Lindsey
R.L. Hall

Son of Henry James and Mercy Lorraine Hall, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
1914 ?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 26]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 2, column 2]
T/S.Lt. (E)
15.09.1939



serving under the T.124 agreement
15.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

 

Hand,
Reginald Hector Edwin

R.H.E. Hand (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Hutchinson)
(06?).1902
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
-
T/Lt.
22.09.1939
TA/Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1943? (reld < 04.1946)
22.09.1939
-
(02.)1943
HMS Ranchi (armed merchant cruiser)
15.04.1943
-
08.1943
Commanding Officer, HM LST 75 (landing ship, tank)
08.1943
-
11.1944
Commanding Officer, HM LST 214 (landing ship, tank) (Anzio & Normandy)
28.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
Hansen,
Peder
P. Hansen
Son of Hans Rasmus Syventsen and Hilma Elisabeht (née Johannessen); husband of Martha Hansen, of Haukerod, Norway.
18.07.1899
Norway
-
09.03.1942
[age 42]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 8, column 1]
A/T/Lt. (E)
05.08.1941
05.08.1940
-
09.03.1942
HMS Shera (minesweeping trawler)
Hansen,
Thorbjørn
T. Hansen
10.12.1914
Norway
-
T/S.Lt.
26.08.1940 (commission terminated 28.08.1942?)
14.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Skudd III (converted Norwegian whaler)
Hamilton-Hill,
Edward Alfred
E.A. Hamilton-Hill
?
-
Lt.
18.03.1933 (retd)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
11.07.1941
A/Cdr. (retd)
< 07.1945 (reverted to retd 23.02.1946)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
King Christian X's Liberty Medal (07.09.1948; mission to Denmark)
(09.1940)


Commanding Officer, MTB 14
(1944?)


Staff of SHAEF
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Harkness,
Archibald Ferguson
A.F. Harkness (Photo courtesy of Mrs Philippa Stafford)
Married; two sons, one daughter.
14.05.1911
-
1961
A/S.Lt.
22.04.1933
S.Lt.
14.07.1934
Lt.
22.04.1936
17.10.1939, seniority 24.03.1936
A/Lt.Cdr.
early 1942 &
> 02.1943, < 06.1943 till 23.03.1944
Lt.Cdr.
24.03.1944 (reld 27.05.1946) (retd 01.07.1950)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
09.06.1942
passage Black Sea - Alexandria 11.41-02.42
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
12.1943
?
Mention in Despatches MID
08.01.1942
withdrawal from Crete
Mention in Despatches MID
24.02.1942
taking Mikoyan [1stblFmgst?] (for skill and good seamanship)
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1944
New Year 44
Mention in Despatches MID
24.04.1945
bombarding Gothic Line from Adriatic Sea 44
Education: Ayr Academy, Scotland
Joined Merchant Navy, 1927, serving aboard the ships of A Holt & Co, Liverpool, and becoming a Master Mariner.
23.04.1939
-
(09.1939)
HMS Hyperion (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (to complete 9 months' training)
(04.1940)


HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) *
(1940)


HMS Euclase (armed trawler)
07.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Skudd III (minesweeping trawler)
18.03.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Wolborough (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(1942)


HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)
(1942)


Tuapse (Soviet ship)
05.04.1942
-
09.09.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Gloxinia (corvette)
10.1943
-
03.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Tetcott (destroyer)
28.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Urchin (destroyer)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hart,
William Percival
W.P. Hart
(09?).1901 ?
Ormskirk, Lancashire ?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt.
29.01.1940
T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 29.01.1940
T/Lt.
29.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
23.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
First Lieutenant, HMS Arabis (corvette)
19.08.1944
-
?
Commanding Officer, HMS Pennywort (corvette)
(07.1945)


HMS Pevensey Castle (corvette) *
01.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Fada (frigate)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hartnell,
George Arthur
G.A. Hartnell (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Brannan)
(03?).1908 ?
St George Hanover Square, London ?
-

Prob. T/Lt.
23.09.1940
T/Lt.
1941, seniority 23.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
06.12.1945? (reld > 04.1946)
18.12.1940
-
(02.1941)
First Lieutenant, HMS Tiercel (armed yacht; at times used as armed boarding vessel, accommodation ship & target ship)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
06.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Carisbrooke Castle (corvette)
Harvey,
Louis Martin
L.M. Harvey
Husband of Esther Harvey, of Anlaby.
(03?).1902
Yarmouth, Norfolk
-
03.02.1941
[age 39]
[Haltemprice (Anlaby Tranby Lane) Cemetery, Yorkshire, grave 211]
Prob. T/Skpr.
26.09.1940 [TS 727]
23.10.1940
-
03.02.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Arctic Trapper (trawler) (ship sunk by aircraft)
Hay,
William
W. Hay
1921 ?
-

07.08.1942
(KIA) (age 21)
[Pulborough (st. Mary) Churchyard]
Prob. Midsh.
01.05.1938
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
?
Mention in Despatches MID
20.01.1942
action with enemy Dover 27.11.41
(11.1941)


MTB 219
31.12.1941
-
07.08.1942
First Lieutenant, MTB 45 [HMS Wasp]
Henderson,
James
J. Henderson
?
-
T/Lt. (E)
28.09.1942
Mention in Despatches MID
24.04.1945
firefighting & damage control 31.01.45
15.03.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Berry (frigate)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Bayfield (Bangor class minesweeper) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Henderson,
John Roderick
J.R. Henderson
1885
-
01.1953
T/Lt. RNVR
10.04.1915
T/Lt.Cdr.
27.08.1939
T/A/Cdr.
28.08.1939?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.08.1940
withdrawal of troops from Le Havre [investiture 22.02.41]
28.08.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)
08.04.1941
-
(12.1941)
staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
(06.1944)
(07.1945)
(04.1946)
-


(04.1946)


HM's Dockyard, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane] 
and for salvage duties
Assistant to Captain of the Dockyard (and for salvage duties)
Hewitt,
Eric
E. Hewitt
Residence: (1970/71) Ty Gwyn, Penman1, Beaumaris, Wales.
18.07.1904
Stoke upon Trent
-
02.1996
Knowlsey, Merseyside
[memorial service 11.05.1996]
Midsh.
01.05.1921
A/S.Lt.
18.07.1925
Lt.
12.06.1928
Lt.Cdr.
12.06.1936
Cdr.
31.12.1941
A/Capt.
15.09.1945?
Capt.
30.06.1947 (retd > 07.1959, < 07.1962)
Mention in Despatches MID
23.11.1943
defence of convoy Eastern Mediterranean air attack 08.43
Letter of Appreciation LoA
-
bringing ship [SS Mnie de Larrinage] to be sunk as a block ship
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
08.1940
?
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
> 05.1953
< 01.1956
?
Education: HMS Conway (1919-1921)
13.06.1927
-
(07.1927)
submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
28.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Alaunia (repair ship)
(02.1941)


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
01.1941
-
31.08.1942
First Lieutenant, HMS Shoreham (sloop)
31.08.1942
-
(10.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Shoreham (sloop)
20.04.1944
-
23.11.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Whimbrel (sloop) **
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
15.09.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Sultan (base, Singapore) (for sea transport duties)
11.02.1952


RNR representative at funeral of HM King George VI
14.06.1956
-
1960?
RNR ADC to the Queen
Captain Superintendent HMS Conway (school ship since 1953 ashore], Mercantile Marine Services Association), 09.1949-07.1968. Sheriff, High Court of Justice for Anglesy, Wales, 1970-(1971).

* indexed, but not listed as such
** appointment & hence exact dates not confirmed by Navy List, but he was undoubtedly in command for operation Neptune; dates taken from ending & starting dates of predecessor & successor
Heywood,
Peter Walter Kenneth
P.W.K. Heywood
Residence: Laburnam Farm
Waste Lane, Berkswell, Warwickkshire.
?
-

Cadet
?
Prob. Midsh.
31.12.1936
Midsh.
?, seniority 31.12.1936
A/S.Lt.
23.03.1940
S.Lt.
23.03.1941
Lt.
23.09.1942
A/Lt.Cdr.
< 04.1946
Lt. RN
09.01.1947, seniority 23.09.1942
Lt.Cdr. RN
23.09.1950 (emgcy 09.12.1951)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
?, seniority 23.09.1950 (retd 31.12.1971)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
08.10.1956
?
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star with France and Germany clasp; Burma Star; 1939-45 War Medal; Silver Jubilee Medal 1910-1935; Russian Convoy medal
06.09.1939
-
04.1940
HMS Patroclus (armed merchant cruiser)
05.1940
-
06.1940
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
06.1940
-
01.1941
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship, Rothesay)
02.1941
-
07.1942
HMS Rockingham (destroyer)
29.07.1942
-
03.1944
HMS Obdurate (destroyer)
13.04.1944
-
11.1944
HMS Despatch (cruiser)
18.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HM LST 410 (landing ship, tank)
02.1946
-
01.1947
Commanding Officer, HM LST 3026 (landing ship, tank)
09.01.1947


transferred from RNR to RN
02.1947
-
06.1947
Commanding Officer, HMS Ringdove (coastal minelayer)
06.1947
-
08.1947
course, HMS Safeguard (boom defence depot, Rosyth)
08.1947
-
08.1949
HMS Barneath (boom defence vessel)
10.08.1949
-
08.1951
HMS Cleopatra (cruiser)
(05.1953)


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
Hill,
Harold
H. Hill
?
-
[1959 still alive]
S.Lt.
13.08.1928
Lt.
13.08.1930
Lt.Cdr.
13.08.1938 (retd 1945/46)
Cdr. (retd)
?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
05.01.1943
successful submarine patrol Western Approaches 07.42
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
02.02.1929
-
(08.1929)
Third Officer, HM Subm H 31
04.12.1940
-
02.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Gardenia (corvette)
23.02.1942
-
(02.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Sandwich (sloop)
21.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, LST 358
Hill,
Hugh Alfred
H.A. Hill
(09?).1901
Bangor, Anglesey
-

died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Prob. S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
29.09.1926, seniority 17.05.1926
Lt.
10.07.1928, seniority 17.05.1928 (retd 11.02.1935; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
17.05.1936
A/Cdr. (retd)
< 07.1945
Cdr. (retd)
13.08.1946, seniority 08.05.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1946
New Year 46
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
05.11.1946
?
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
10.01.1946
?
22.04.1942
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Wakakura (trawler)
15.07.1943
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Venture (shore establishment, Suva, Fiji) & Naval Liaison Officer, Fiji
Hill,
Walter
W. Hill
?
-
T/Lt. 15.09.1939
      serving under the T.124 agreement
15.09.1939 - 05.11.1940 HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
Hilldrith,
William
W. Hilldrith
(06?).1901
Hull, Yorkshire
-
T/Skpr.
08.06.1940
Mention in Despatches MID
12.11.1940
attack by enemy aircraft, 2 brought down
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
?
-
23.10.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Arctic Trapper (minesweeping trawler)
Hire,
Carlton Arthur
C.A. Hire
(12?).1909
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
T/S.Lt.
30.09.1940
T/Lt.
01.10.1942



holding temporary commission under T.124 agreements
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
01.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Badger (minesweeping base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs)
[HMS Jaunty (rescue tug)]
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Hitchcock,
Ernest Albert
E.A. Hitchcock
?
-
T/S.Lt.
13.10.1939
T/Lt.
22.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
02.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS King Sol (anti-submarine trawler)
10.12.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
24.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Borage (corvette)
Hodson,
Frank
F. Hodson
?
-
Skpr.
15.11.1937 [WS 2726]
10.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Brecon Moor

Hodson,
Frederick William
F. Hodson or F.W. Hodson (Drawing courtesy of Mr Nick Clark) ?
?
-
07.1962 still alive
Skpr.
19.07.1937 [WS 2708]
A/Chief Skpr.
14.08.1944 (retd)
05.12.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Stella Rigel (minesweeping trawler) *
14.12.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
* under HMS Stella Rigel is given F. Hodson, but as that person commanded HMS Brecon Moor, it is assumed that it should be F.W. Hodson, who is without appointment in the index of the Navy List
Hollinshead,
John Geoffrey

J.G. Hollinshead

Son of Alfred and Lily Hollinshead, of Bray, Co. Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.
1918 ?
-
24.11.1941
[age 23]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 1]
Prob. S.Lt.
09.02.1940
S.Lt. 
1940?, seniority 09.02.1940
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
08.11.1940
-
24.11.1941
HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Holmes,
Herbert
H. Holmes
From Birkenhead.
?
-
died between 07.1952 and 07.1959
S.Lt.
17.05.1926
Lt.
17.05.1928 (retd 24.07.1935)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
17.05.1936 (reverted to retd 04.06.1946)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
WW II
?
04.12.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) (to complete 12 months' training)
25.11.1939
-
06.02.1940
HMS Resource (repair ship, Mediterranean)
06.02.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
25.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
Naval Control Service (NCS) duties with Resident Naval Officer (RNO), Cypriot Ports [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)]
Hoodless,
Colin Arthur
C.A. Hoodless
(03?).1906
Steyning district, Sussex
-
11.03.1964
Plymouth
T/Lt.
20.11.1939
1940?, seniority 23.10.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr.
07.1943? (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
14.05.1946
attack 03.07.42 [award posted]
20.11.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Derbyshire (armed merchant cruiser)
06.11.1940
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Le Tiger (auxiliary anti-submarine warfare trawler)
07.1943
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Jasmine (corvette)
09.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Tintagel Castle (corvette)
Master Mariner. Captain of the Research Vessels "Sabella" & "Sarsia" of the Marine Biological Association, 1950/60s.
Houchen,
George William
G.W. Houchen

(12?).1906
Wayland, Norfolk
-
16.03.1966
Falmouth, Cornwall
Midsh.
01.09.1923
A/S.Lt.
02.04.1928
S.Lt.