Lane,
Harry Robertson
 |
?
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ?? |
Lt.
|
31.12.1924
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
31.12.1932
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1938
|
Capt.
|
30.06.1943
|
A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
|
10.08.1943
|
Cdre. 2nd cl.
|
29.01.1945 (reld 1940/50s)
|
|
OBE
|
02.06.1943
|
HM's
birthday
|
|
RD
|
?
|
?
|
|
01.10.1941
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
HMS
Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)
|
10.08.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commodore
of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Langer,
Edward Frederick

Married Minnie Mary Langer
(09.12.1913-09.1995), of Worksop,
Nottinghamshire.
|
06.02.1913
-
10.1984
Ipswich, Suffolk
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.01.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
27.01.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
29.09.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS
Ambrose (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
|
24.10.1942
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
HMS
P 556 (submarine)
|
17.03.1943
|
-
|
29.05.1944
|
on
loan to RANR(S):
|
17.03.1943
|
-
|
18.03.1943
|
London
Depot RAN
|
19.03.1943
|
-
|
05.1943
|
HMAS
Penguin
|
05.1943
|
-
|
21.06.1943
|
HMAS
Penguin (additional; for duty with K 9 (submarine))
|
22.06.1943
|
-
|
31.03.1944
|
First
Lieutenant, HMAS K 9 (submarine) [based at HMAS Penguin, from 29.07.1943 HMAS
Rushcutter]
|
01.04.1944
|
-
|
29.05.1944
|
HMAS
Penguin (addtional; for passage to UK per SS [Nellor ?])
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HM
LST 323 (landing ship, tank) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Langridge,
Richard Lionel
 |
(09?).1891
Mile End Old Town, London, Middlesex
-
17.12.1940
[age 49]
[Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Naval Reservation, grave 1240]
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
?
|
-
|
17.12.1940
|
HMS
Thomas Conolly (armed trawler)
|
|
Larkin,
N
 |
?
-
|
|
|
|
|
officer
holding a temporary commission under T.124 agreements
|
01.11.1939
|
-
|
30.05.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Gracie Fields (paddle minesweeper) [ship sunk off Dunkirk]
|
|
Latch,
Cyril Clive Telford
 |
?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA)
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 40, column 1]
|
Prob. Midsh.
|
26.08.1939
|
Midsh.
|
1940, seniority 26.08.1939
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
?
|
-
|
05.11.1940
|
HMS
Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)
|
|
Laws,
William Hall
|
(12?).1903
Prescot, Lancs.
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ??
|
Prob. S.Lt.
|
13.03.1930
|
S.Lt.
|
24.09.1930, seniority 13.03.1930
|
Lt.
|
22.06.1932, seniority 13.03.1932 *
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
13.03.1940 (retd < 05.1950)
|
A/Cdr.
|
< 05.1943
|
|
RD
|
22.05.1943
|
?
|
* officially retired 07.08.1939, but most probably
re-instated on the Active List of the RNR
|
29.11.1930
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
HMS
Revenge (battleship) (to complete 12 months' training) (Mediterranean)
|
29.08.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS
Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional for various services)
|
31.12.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS
Dunnottar Castle (armed merchant cruiser)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
Leddra,
Morris Reynolds

Son of Thomas William and Elizabeth Grace
Leddra, of Plymouth; husband of Edith Blanche Mary Leddra, of Mannamead,
Plymouth.
|
(03.)1887
Plymouth, Devon
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 53]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 2, column 1]
|
|
|
|
|
serving under the T.124 agreement
|
15.09.1939
|
-
|
05.11.1940
|
HMS Jervis
Bay (auxiliary merchant cruiser)
|
|
Lees,
Andrew Robertson

Son of James and Elizabeth Lees, of Aberdeen.
Husband of Ann Buchanan Lees, of Aberdeen.
|
1905
?
-
15.09.1940
(KIA) [age 35]
[Dover (St James's) Cemetery, C.1]
|
|
20.09.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
Dalmatia (armed trawler)
|
1940
|
-
|
15.09.1940
|
HMS Botanic
(armed trawler)
|
|
Leggett,
Arthur Abel

Son of Thomas and Charlotte Leggett;
husband of Hilda May Leggett, of Hakin, Milford Haven.
|
17.03.1904
-
07.03.1943
[age 38]
[Milford Haven Cemetery, section C, grave 561]
|
Skpr.
|
10.01.1939 [WS 2804]
|
A/Lt.Skpr.
|
< 12.1941
|
|
Trawler skipper, fishing out of Milford Haven.
(04.1940)
|
|
|
HMS Milford Duke
(boom defence vessel) *
|
16.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS Suma
(minesweeping trawler)
|
14.02.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Blighty
(minesweeping trawler)
|
19.02.1942
|
-
|
07.03.1943
|
HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (for
service at Barry)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Leslie,
John Aim Shearer
Only son of Captain John Spence Leslie.
|
31.01.1908
South Shields district, Durham / Tyne and
Wear
-
05.1984
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
|
T/Lt.
|
24.11.1941 (reld 1945/46)
|
|
MBE
|
11.12.1945
|
wind
up, Europe 45
|
|
(08.1942)
|
|
|
HMS
Tarana (Mediterranean)
|
25.05.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Staff
Officer (Operations), HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick)
|
Rejoined merchant fleet, Furness Withy
(Prince Line) (master mariner)
|
L'Estrange,
Henry Owen
Second son of Henry George L’Estrange,
and his wife Evelyn, who was the second eldest daughter of Owen Wynne of
Hazelwood, Sligo, and the grandson of Christopher Carleton L’Estrange of
Kevinsfort, Sligo, and Market Hill, Co.Fermanagh.
biography
|
1912
Lisnalurg, Sligo
-
12.1972
on board his ship RFA Stromness in the
Singapore naval base
[St. Anne’s Churchyard Knocknarea, Strandhill Co. Sligo]
|
S.Lt.
|
01.02.1938
|
Lt.
|
21.12.1940
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
21.12.1948
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1955
|
|
DSC
|
11.06.1942
|
HM's
birthday 42 [investiture 22.09.42]
|
|
RD
|
?
|
?
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
15.07.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Northern Sun (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)
|
20.07.1941
|
-
|
02.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Kingston Agate (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)
|
11.1943
|
-
|
08.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Kilbride (escort)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
02.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Berry
Head (escort repair ship)
|
Served Royal Fleet Auxiliary pre- & post-war.
|
Le
Sueur,
John Alexander
|
?
-
|
Prob. T/Midsh.
|
29.09.1939
|
T/Midsh.
|
1940?, seniority 29.09.1939
|
|
(04.1940)
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS
Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) *
|
29.11.1941
|
|
|
HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South
Atlantic, 24.11.1941] **
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
** intended, but not substantiated appointment
|
Lewis,
John Dudley Edward
|
?
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977 ?
|
Prob. A/S.Lt.
|
01.04.1937
|
A/S.Lt.
|
31.01.1938
|
S.Lt.
|
11.01.1940
|
Lt.
|
09.09.1940
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
09.09.1948
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1955 (Supernumerary List 06.07.1957)
(retd 12.07.1966)
|
|
RD
|
?
|
?
|
|
RD
|
?
|
1st
clasp
|
|
RD
|
22.04.1966
|
2nd
clasp
|
|
20.02.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS
Breda (auxiliary patrol armed yacht)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
19.01.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Verbena (corvette)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
10.11.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
|
|
Linder,
Charles John
 |
(12?).1886
?
Sunderland, Durham ?
-
|
T/Lt.
|
03.10.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 08.1942
|
|
05.11.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
Boom
Defence Depot, Scapa Flow (Lyness, Orkneys) [HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)]
|
09.10.1941
|
-
|
06.07.1943
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Fernmoor (boom defence vessel)
|
06.07.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Fernmoor (boom defence vessel)
|
05.03.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Rooke
(boom defence central depot, Rosyth)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Longhurst,
John Michael

Son of John Henry and F.W. Muriel
Longhurst, of Farnborough, Hampshire.
|
1921
?
-
24.09.1942
(MIA) [age 21]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 1]
|
Prob. Midsh.
|
01.09.1938
|
Midsh.
|
?, seniority 01.09.1938
|
A/S.Lt.
|
22.09.1941
|
|
MID
|
01.12.1942
|
Operation
EV (North Russian convoy PQ18 & QP14 09.42) [posthumously]
|
|
15.02.1940
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS Mashona
(destroyer)
|
01.08.1941
|
-
|
(08.)1942
|
HMS Ashanti
(destroyer)
|
1942
|
-
|
24.09.1942
|
HMS Somali
(destroyer) (missing in action after ship was torpedoed by U-70 in North
Atlantic)
|
|
Lowe,
Thomas Albert
"Tom"
 |
?
-
|
Prob. T/Lt.
|
27.01.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
1942?, seniority 27.01.1941 (reld 04.01.1946;
on medical grounds)
|
|
Served Merchant Navy (First Mate (SS) certificate, no 007834 dated March 1916)
23.06.1941
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
HMS
Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) (for Examination Service)
|
09.03.1944
|
-
|
?
|
HMS Orlando
(RN base, Greenock) (additional; for training with Admiralty Berthing Officer,
Clyde)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Lowein,
John Charles

Son of Arthur Edmund Lowein and Kathleen Minnie Yates.
Brother of S/Lt. (Sp.Br.) Robert
Trevor Lowein, RNVR [later: Sg.Lt. (D) RN].
|
04.02.1924
Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire
-
06.11.1992
London (brain tumour)
|
T/Midsh.
|
09.05.1941
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
01.12.1945
|
|
CBE
|
14.06.1986
|
HM's
birthday 86: Chairman Mobil Oil
|
|
Education: Pangbourne Naval College
|
|
|
served
Mediterranean, Baltic & north Russian convoys (Murmansk):
|
08.08.1941
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
HMS
Sheffield (cruiser)
|
06.04.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS King
George V (battleship)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS King
George V (battleship) *
|
Company secretarial course, London. Served Guiness
Breweries. Joined Mobil Oil in America (late 1940s?) (attended Harvard School of
Business), later South East Asia Manager in Tokyo. Former chairman and chief
executive, Mobil Oil. Sailed at the Olympics?
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Lowrey,
William Sutton
 |
(03?).1908
Hull
-
|
T/Lt.
|
09.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
DSC
|
28.11.1944
|
Operation
Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [award posted]
|
|
|
|
|
temporary
officer serving under T.124T (rescue tugs) agreement
|
05.02.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Nimrod
(anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue
tugs)
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Jaunty (Assurance class tug)
|
|
Lyall,
James McLaren
"Will"
 |
?
-
|
T/Skpr
|
13.11.1939
[WS 3100 & TS 219]
|
T/A/Ch.Skpr.
|
06.01.1944
|
T/A/Skpr.Lt.
|
16.02.1944? (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
MID
|
01.01.1943
|
New
Year 43
|
|
MID
|
?
|
Operation
Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
26.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Star of Briatin (minesweeping trawler)
|
01.03.1941
|
-
|
(10.1943)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Silver Seas
|
16.02.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MMS 214 (motor minesweeper)
|
|
| |
|
|
|