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C. Kaiser  to  F.G. Kyte

Kaiser, Cyril	? -	T/Skpr. 01.05.1941 [TS 1025] (reld < 04.1946)	05.02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Our Bairns (minesweeping trawler)
Karlsen, Erling Kristian Son of Hugo and Anna Karlsen; husband of Alice Karlsen, of Tonsberg, Norway.	21.10.1907 Norway - 22.10.1940 [Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 2]	T/Lt. ?	? - 22.10.1940 HMS Hickory (trawler) [ship mined in the English Channel]
Kebble, Guy Franklin Son of Herbert John and Eleanor Kebble. Husband of Gwendoline Thora Kebble. Native of South Africa.	25.06.1911 - 22.05.1941 (KIA) [age 30] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 1]	T/S.Lt. 08.01.1941	01.1941 joined RNR 01.1941 - 07.04.1941 HMS KOS XXIII (converted whaler for anti-submarine duties) 08.04.1941 - 22.05.1941 HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (sunk during evacuation of Crete)
Keeble, Leslie Arthur James "Peter"	see:	SANF(V) officers' section
Keir, John Charles MacKintosh "Jack" Son of ... Keir, and ... Wilson. Married ((03?).1946, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Winifred K.S. Evenden, daughter of Charles Evenden (1894-1961), the founder of the MOTH organization.	(06?).1920 Headington district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex - 27.02.1988	Midsh. 31.12.1937 A/S.Lt. 17.07.1940 S.Lt. 29.03.1941 Lt. 01.12.1942 Lt. RN 08.01.1945, seniority 01.12.1941 Lt.Cdr. RN 01.12.1949 (retd 29.01.1958) DSC 06.06.1944 2 U-boats sunk Western Approaches 18.03.44 [decoration posted] MID 23.03.1943 Operation Torch (landings in North Africa 11.42)	(04.1940)     no appointment listed 17.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Mooltan (armed merchant cruiser) 25.03.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Boadicea (destroyer) 06.01.1944 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Spey (frigate) * 23.05.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Taff (frigate) 08.01.1945 transferred, RN (07.1945)     no appointment listed 21.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire) 23.06.1947 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Verulam (destroyer) 06.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Royal Arthur (Petty Officers' training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire) 11.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Striker (landing craft?) 26.01.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire) (01.1957) HMS Tyne ** * in later Navy Lists (incorrectly) still shown under HMS Spey ** indexed, but not listed as such
Kelly,  William Henry Eldest son of late W.H. Kelly, Chester Remained umarried. Last residence: Bootle, Lancashire.	22.08.1873 Chester, Cheshire - 08.06.1941 [Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]	S.Lt. 01.04.1903 Lt. 22.12.1904 A/Lt.Cdr. ? Lt.Cdr. ? A/Cdr. ? Cdr. 31.12.1917 A/Capt. 1918? Capt. 31.12.1922 (retd 23.08.1928) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 28.10.1939-08.06.1941 CBE 1918 ? DSO 27.06.1917 Auxiliary Patrol 16 RD 11.05.1918 ?	Education: King's School, Chester. After 10 years' experience in various grades in sailing ships, joined the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., 1898; Freeman of City of Chester and member of Joiners and Turners' Company; Freeman of the City of London and of the Livery of the Hon. Company of Master Mariners; Younger Brother of Trinity House; served European War, 1914-1918. Marine Superintendent, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Liverpool, 1921-1933. 28.10.1939 - 08.06.1941 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties) 08.06.1941 the Adda (motor passenger ship), the ship of the convoy commodore from the dispersed convoy OB-323 from Liverpool to West Africa, was torpedoed and sunk by U-107 82 miles west-southwest of Freetown; Cdre. Kelly went down with his ship
Kenna, Cecil John Son of George William Kenna, and Eleanor Ann Quayle. Married; one son.	23.02.1903 - 18.08.1982	T/Lt. (E) 19.01.1942 (reld 10.03.1946)	temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements 05.09.1942 - 26.06.1943 HMS Tracker (escort carrier) 12.07.1943 - 16.12.1943 HMS Mona's Isle (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship (coastal)) 21.01.1944 - 11.04.1945 HMS Thane (escort carrier) 11.04.1945 - 06.12.1945 HMS Ravager (escort carrier)       HMS Mersey (T.124X Depot, Liverpool)       HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) Superintendent Marine Engineer for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, 02.11.1958-31.03.1968.
Kennedy, Duncan Cameron Son of Sam Kennedy, foreman baker with Young of Inverkip. Married (22.07.1942, Greenock) Isabella "Bunty" Wallace Picken (born 20.12.1914), an Engineer's Machinist's daughter. webpage at www.mikekemble.com	24.02.1916 Greenock, Scotland - 03.1979 Barkingside, Ilford, Essex	T/S.Lt. 29.09.1939 MID 04.10.1940 courage & leadership when sunk HMS Cape Howe 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-1945	Education: Finnart School, Greenock; Navigation School, Greenock (1930-1932) 1932 - 1939 served with the Lyle Shipping Company 19.03.1932 - 19.02.1933 Cadet, SS Cape Verde (Liverpool) 20.03.1933 - 21.02.1934 Cadet, SS Cape Cornwall (Northfleet) 22.02.1934 - 27.07.1934 Cadet, SS Cape Horn (Shanghai - London) 09.08.1934 - 24.01.1938 Cadet & 3rd Mate, SS Cape Nelson (Cardiff) (apprenticeship completed 03.1936) (05.1937? rescue of Portugese seamen) 31.07.1939 - 21.06.1940 2nd Mate &  from 20.09.1939 S.Lt. RNR, HMS Cape Howe (special service vessel) (sunk south of Iceland) (08.1940) - (08.1941) 2nd Mate & A/1st Mate, MV Empire Steelhead (09.1941) - (01.1942) 2nd Mate, MV Baron Kinnaird (04.1942) - (07.1942) 2nd Mate, MV Ocean Might (08.1942) (06.1945) 1st Mate, MV Lambrook (04.1946) - (06.1946) Master, MV Wearwood (05.1949) Master, MV Harrow 17.11.1958 - 24.02.1960 1st Mate & Master, MV Constance Bowater Cargo Superintendent after the war.
Kent,  Arthur Horace Married ...; ... children (one son?).	16.06.1912 - 18.05.1984 South Shields district, Tyne and Wear	Prob. A/S.Lt. 01.07.1933 A/S.Lt. 07.03.1936 Lt. 25.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946) A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1943, < 04.1944 Lt.Cdr. 25.01.1948 Cdr. 30.06.1955 (retd 16.06.1962) DSC 11.05.1943 Operation Torch, destruction U-boat U660 11.42 [investiture 07.12.43] RD 20.04.1944 -	02.11.1939 - 03.1940 HMS Tiercel (armed yacht) 22.03.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS St Day (tug) (12.1941) - (04.1942) HMS Anglia (armed boarding vessel) * (06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed 06.08.1942 - 10.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Starwort (corvette) 25.08.1944 - 15.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Moyola (frigate) 24.12.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Perim (frigate) * indexed, but not listed as such
Kermode, [Sir] John Frank Son of late John Pritchard Kermode and late Doris Pearl Kermode. Married (1947) Maureen Eccles (marriage dissolved 1970); twin son and daughter.	29.11.1919 Douglas, Isle of Man - 17.08.2010 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire	T/Paym.S.Lt. 22.08.1940 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 19.04.1943 Kt 31.12.1990 New Year 91: for services to literature	Education: Douglas High School; Liverpool University (BA, 1940; MA 1947). 1939     as World War II began, Kermode registered as a conscientious objector, but later changed his mind after Germany invaded France, deciding that the Nazis could only be stopped through military means 1940 - 1946 serving as a lieutenant in the Navy [as a temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements], he was stationed for the first two years of the war off the coast of Iceland and later saw action in Africa and Asia: 04.09.1940 - (02.1943) HMS Leonian (boom carrier) 19.04.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Slinger (escort carrier) Lecturer, King's College, Newcastle, in the University of Durham, 1947-1949; Lecturer in the University of Reading, 1949-1958; John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature in the University of Manchester, 1958-1965; Winterstoke Professor of English in the University of Bristol, 1965-1967; Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literatur, UCL, 1967-1974, Honorary Fellow, 1996; King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University, 1974-1982; Fellow, King's College, Cambridge University, 1974-1987, Honorary Fellow, 1988. Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, 1977-1978. Co-editor, Encounter, 1966-1967. Editor: Fontana Masterguides and Modern Masters series; Oxford Authors. FRSL 1958. Member Arts Council, 1968-1971; Chairman, Poetry Book Society, 1968-1976. Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Honorary DHL Chicago, 1975; Honprary  DLitt: Liverpool, 1981; Newcastle, 1993; Hon Dr: Amsterdam, 1988; Yale, 1995; Wesleyan, 1997; London, 1997. Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Sciences. FBA, 1973. Published: (ed) Shakespeare, The Tempest (Arden Edition), 1954; Romantic Image, 1957; John Donne, 1957; The Living Milton, 1960; Wallace Stevens, 1960; Puzzles & Epiphanies, 1962; The Sense of an Ending, 1967; Continuities, 1968; Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, 1971; Modern Essays, 1971; Lawrence, 1973; (ed, with John Hollander) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, 1973; The Classic, 1975; (ed) Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, 1975; The Genesis of Secrecy, 1979; Essays on Fiction, 1971-1982, 1983; Forms of Attention, 1985; (ed jtly) The Literary Guide to the Bible, 1987; History and Value, 1988; An Appetite for Poetry, 1989; Poetry, Narrative, History, 1990; (ed with Keith Walker) Andrew Marvell, 1990; Uses of Error, 1991; (ed with Anita Kermode) The Oxford Book of Letters, 1995; Not Entitled (memoirs), 1996; Cleanth Brooks and the Art of Reading Poetry, 1999; Pieces of my Mind, 2003 (essays); Shakespeare's language, 2000; The Age of Shakespeare, 2005; contrib. New Republic, Partisan Review, New York Review, New York Times, New Statesman, London Rev. of Books, etc.
Kett,  William Henry "Hedley"	1913 London - 2007 still alive at Weston Acres, Banstead, Surrey	Prob. S.Lt. 23.09.1938 S.Lt. 19.03.1940, seniority 23.09.1938 Lt. 01.1941, seniority 21.11.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. < 04.1946 Lt.Cdr. 21.11.1948 Cdr. 30.06.1955 Capt. 30.06.1963 (retd 30.06.1968) DSC 29.06.1943 5 passages to Malta with stores [investiture 13.11.45] DSC 04.06.1946 attack on submarine 30.10.43 RD 01.11.1948 - RD 14.07.1960 1st clasp	Went to sea in SS Bolton, c. 1929. 24.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Oberon (submarine) 10.09.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Clyde (submarine) 01.1943 - 01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS P 34, renamed: HMS Ultimatum (submarine) 30.01.1945 - 13.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine) 25.06.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Tactician (submarine) 01.03.1967 - 01.03.1968 RNR ADC to the Queen Granted the Freedom of the City of London. Younger Brother of Trinity House.
King,  William David [Paddock]	17.02.1900 Southampton, Hampshire - 23.04.1941 Southampton, Hampshire	T/Lt. 01.11.1939 (reld < 02.1941)	Served Merchant Navy (Master's Certificate 19.12.1932).       officer holding temporary commission under T.124 agreements 26.01.1940 - (06.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Princess Elizabeth (auxiliary minesweeper; paddle steamer)
Kinghorn,  John Fletcher MacIntosh Married (1939); six children.	10?.1915 Edinburgh, Scotland - (06?).1975 Leicester City	T/Bm.Skpr. ? T/Lt. 11.11.1940 (reld > 04.1946)	Served Merchant Navy. 01.09.1941 - (02.)1943 HM Boom Depot, Lyness, Orkneys [HMS Prosperine] 05.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Barfoil (boom defence vessel) 05.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Baron (boom defence vessel) (10.1944) -  (04.1946)  no appointment listed
Kinsey, Gordon Roland Son of Roland Henry Kinsey (1883-1964), and Ethel Mary Day (1882-1925). Brother of Sq.Ldr. Raymond John Kinsey, RAFVR, and of Second Officer Betty Elaine Kinsey, WRNS. Married ((09?).1943, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Patricia M. Rees; one son, one daughter.	02.10.1913 Winscombe, Axbridge district, Somerset - 12.1999 Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire	Prob. Paym.S.Lt. 20.10.1936 Paym.S.Lt. 21.02.1938, seniority 20.10.1936 Paym.Lt. 20.10.1938 A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 04.1940, < 10.1940 Lt.Cdr. (S) 20.10.1946 A/Cdr. (S) > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Cdr. (S) 31.12.1956 Capt. (S) 31.12.1962 (retd 31.12.1964) OBE 01.01.1941 New Year 41 [investiture 18.02.41] RD ? -	19.10.1938 - ? HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (04.1940)     HMS Cheshire (armed merchant cruiser) * 08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cheshire (armed merchant cruiser) (OBE) 15.04.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Duke of York (battleship) 04.05.1944 - (07.1945) Assistant to Command Supply Officer, Nore Command [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] Banker (Lloyd's Bank Ltd., Portsmouth, then Crawley). * indexed, but not listed as such
Kirby,  Arthur Rowland Thomas Originally: Klein, Arthur Rowland Thomas (name change by deed poll of 04.01.1919) Married (1919, Portsmouth) ... Cumberland.	19.05.1897 Croydon, Greater London, Surrey - (09?).1971 Kerrier district, Cornwall	T/Lt. 17.11.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1940 T/A/Cdr. < 12.1941 (reld < 04.1946) OBE 04.02.1941 salvage SS Barnhill [investiture 11.03.41]	served in World War I 17.11.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) (02.1941) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * (1941) HMS Resolvo (tug) 10.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden) (from about late 1942/early 1943 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Port Sudan) 01.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) * indexed, but not listed as such
Kjenne, Kristian Son of Jens and Anette Kjenne, of Oslo, Norway.	19.07.1912 Norway - 21.05.1941 [age 29] [Cardiff Western Cemetery, C.94]	T/S.Lt. 29.07.1940	(02.1941) HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) * ? - 21.05.1941 HMS Darnett Ness (minesweeping trawler) * indexed, but not listed as such
Knight, John Templeton Married ((03?).1943, Weymouth district, Dorset) Nancy Coffey (divorced c. 1948/49).	? -	Prob. T/Midsh. 27.10.1940 (reld 1942?)	27.10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Nelson (battleship) 20.02.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Venomous (destroyer)
Kyte, Frederick Gilbert	(03?).1892 Swansea, Glamorgan - (09?).1966 Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset	Lt. (S) (Registrar Class) 21.04.1938	(07.1945) no appointment listed

 

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