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D. MacDonald  to  P.J. Mylchreest
MacDonald,
Duncan
D. MacDonald (Photo courtesy of Mr Stuart Edmond)

27.09.1912
-
02.02.2008
Fortrose, Ross-shire
Prob. T/Lt. 23.10.1940
T/Lt. 1941?, seniority 23.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946
02.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Hollyhock (Flower class corvette)
(04.1941)     HMS Hollyhock (Flower class corvette) *
05.05.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Myosotis (Flower class corvette)
11.03.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Sandwich (Bridgewater class sloop)
09.05.1944 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Clare (Town class destroyer)
(01.1945) - (04.1945) HMS Clare (Town class destroyer) *
06.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Braithwaite (Captain class frigate)
(04.1946)     HMS Braithwaite (Captain class frigate) *
Post-war Principal at the Belfast School of Navigation until retirement in the late 1960s.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Maciver,
Angus
A. Maciver

Son of Murdo Maciver, and Christina Macleod.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

21.12.1909
Tolsta, Stornoway, Rossshire, Scotland
-
27.03.1982

Stornoway, Rossshire, Scotland
A/Skpr. 01.10.1943
Skpr. 1944?, seniority 01.10.1943 [WS 3749]
Lt. (PS) 01.02.1952 (retd 21.12.1954)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 11.06.1945 fire at Bari 09.04.1945
(12.1943)     no appointment listed
01.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Bonito (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler) (MBE)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
29.06.1946 - (10.1946) HM MMS 1010 (motor minesweeper)
MacIver,
Peter Graeme
P.G. MacIver (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jill McPhail)
Son of Walter MacIver, and Amy Frances Lowndes.
Married (16.08.1937) Beatrice Ada Hamilton; two daughters.

13.06.1905
Preston district, Lancashire
-
16.10.1989

Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Midsh. 01.01.1922
A/S.Lt. 13.06.1926
S.Lt. 19.05.1928
Lt. 01.09.1930
Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1938
Cdr. 31.12.1943 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 25.08.1942 attack U-boat Western Approaches 02.06.41 [investiture 07.12.43]
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 11.08.1942 -
01.10.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Carinthia (armed merchant cruiser)
18.09.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Periwinkle (corvette)
09.02.1942 - 07.07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Georgetown (destroyer)
03.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Hargood (frigate)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Mack,
George Edmund
G.E. Mack
Son of George and Helen A. Mack; husband of Marie Irene Corbeil Mack.

15.10.1887
Potter Heigham, Norfolk
-
18.11.1941
[age 54]
[Millport New Cemetery, Buteshire, Section L, Row 10, Grave 3]
T/Lt.
10.01.1940
T/Lt.Cdr.
?
(04.1940)


HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
15.06.1940
-
18.11.1941
HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Mackay,
Alexander Stuart
A.S. Mackay
Married (11.10.1914, Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire) Florence Mabel Shepherd (1882-1951); ... children (son Capt. Ian Sim Stuart Mackay, RN).
12.06.1880
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
13.03.1959
New Barnet, Hertfordshire
... ...
S.Lt. 01.10.1908
Lt. 14.12.1910
Lt.Cdr. 14.12.1918
Cdr. 31.12.1921 (retd 22.08.1928; own request)
Capt. (retd) 22.08.1928 (removed from retd 29.11.1954)
A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 07.01.1941
Mention in Despatches MID 15.12.1942 services in convoys since 41
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
07.01.1941 - (10.1942) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Mackay,
Ian Sim Stuart

I.S.S. Mackay I.S.S. Mackay
I.S.S. Mackay 

Son (with one sister) of Cdre. Alexander Stuart Mackay, RNR (1880-1959), and Florence Mabel Shepherd (1882-1951).
Married ((06?).1951, Chichester district, West Sussex)
Myfanwy Glyndwr "Boo" Williams (26.01.1928 - 03.05.2017), daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of Thomas Glyndwr (Glen) Williams (1892-1972), and Muriel Pelham Mackley (1898-1958); three daughters.
11.09.1924
Barnet district, Hertfordshire
-
06.01.1993
Itchenor Green, Chichester, West Sussex
T/Midsh. 17.08.1942
T/A/S.Lt. 11.03.1944
T/S.Lt. 11.09.1944
T/Lt. 01.06.1946
Lt. RN 09.01.1947, seniority 01.06.1946
Lt.Cdr. RN 11.03.1954
Cdr. RN 30.06.1959
Capt. RN 30.06.1965 (retd 07.07.1974)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1938-1942).
28.11.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Uganda (Uganda class cruiser)
21.02.1944 - (01.)1945 Navigating Officer, HMS Bellwort (Flower class corvette)
(04.1945)     HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) * [possibly at HM LCI 376 (landing craft, infantry)]
27.04.1945 - (04.1946) Navigating Officer, HMS Catterick (Hunt class destroyer)
      After the war he served in Howe, Belfast and Nereide. His first command was the minesweeper Walkerton in the Mediterranean in 1959. From 1963 he served for a year and 11 months as Second-in-Command of Ark Royal in the Far East. In 1967 he commanded the Dartmouth Training Squadron in Scarborough. Ian was sworn in as a Younger Brother of Trinity House in 1959. He was awarded the Shadwell Testimonial Surveying Prize for his work on the Fat Tau Mun Channel, Hong Kong; at the time he was neither a qualified surveyor nor a qualified navigating officer. During the 1950s he received three awards from public funds for studies into radar blind pilotage and manoeuvring techniques. In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation for his work in simulation training. As Director of Naval Equipment, in 1971 Ian was responsible for the design and procurement of seamanship equipment and use requirements in ship design. On retirement from the Navy he became Harbour Master at Chichester (1974-1988) and chairman of the Council of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society and an enthusiastic member of the Trinity House Association.”
* indexed, but not listed as such
MacKay,
John
"Jock"
J. MacKay
From Wick, Scotland.
19.04.1901
Wick, Laithness
-
(03?).1981
Central Leicestershire
T/A/Skpr.
01.09.1942
T/Skpr.
1943?, seniority 01.09.1942 [TS 1273] (reld > 04.1946)
01.09.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Asbury (RN accommodation, Asbury Park, NJ, USA) (for British yard minesweepers)
31.03.1943
-
20.08.1944
Third Officer, HM BYMS 188 [later: 2188] (British yard minesweeper)
21.08.1944
-
(04.1946)
First Lieutenant, HM BYMS 2188 (British yard minesweeper)
Mackay,
John
J. Mackay

Married ...; ... children (one son?).
26.06.1909
-
04.03.1956
Prob. A/Lt. 13.06.1939
Lt. 11.01.1940
A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943
Lt.Cdr. 11.01.1948 (retd 26.06.1954; age)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 26.01.1943 escorting North Russian convoy [investiture 19.10.1943]
26.11.1939 - (05.)1940 HMS Orchy (decoy ship)
22.05.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship)
(12.1940)     HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship) *
28.01.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Prince Charles (landing ship infantry)
12.06.1941 - 11.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS St Cathan (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
08.07.1942 - 09?.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantella (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
24.09.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS St Kenan (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (DSC)
(10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed
01.12.1943 - 05.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Leeds Castle (Castle class corvette)
22.05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Haig (Combined Operations base, Rye)
05.01.1945 - 08.08.1945 Commanding Officer, HM LST 239 (landing ship, tank)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
MacKellar,
Allan Cowan
A.C. MacKellar
Son of Duncan and Elizabeth MacKellar.
Married (16.10.1910, Bootle St Matthew, Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire) Mabel Constance Bishop, of Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
1882
Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand
-
16.11.1942
(died of illness) [age 60]
[Glasgow (Cardonald) Cemetery, section E, joint grave 8]
T/Lt.Cdr. 19.09.1939
      served in 1914-18 War
(12.1939) - (02.1940) no appointment listed
08.02.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)
19.06.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Clio (RN base, Barrow)
14.01.1942 - (10.)1942 Admiralty [HMS President]
02.11.1942 - 16.11.1942 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (as Sea Transport Officer, Grade II)
Mackellar,
Andrew
A. Mackellar
?
-

[1959 still alive]
Lt.
23.09.1923
Lt.Cdr.
23.09.1931
Cdr.
30.06.1938
Capt.
31.12.1943
A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
12.12.1944 (retd 1945/46)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
12.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Mackenzie,
Angus Alexander
"Bloodie"
A.A. Mackenzie (Photo courtesy of Sheena Mackenzie) A.A. Mackenzie (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
A.A. Mackenzie (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) A.A. Mackenzie (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of Angus McKenzie (1875-1918), and Margaret Gibbons (1878-1950).
Married (25.08.1932) Dorothy Anne Harding (14.10.1907 - 01.02.1977); one son, one daughter.

09.01.1905
Kingston, Jamaica
-

30.12.1975
Mahon, Menorca, Spain
[cremated Mahon; ashes consigned to Bedford Basin, Halifax, Canada in 2002]
Prob.S.Lt. 25.09.1931
S.Lt. 26.09.1932, seniority 25.09.1931
Lt. 25.09.1934
24.03.1937, seniority 23.09.1934
A/Lt.Cdr. summer 1940, seniority 15.01.1940
Lt.Cdr. 01.1932, seniority 23.09.1941 (dispersal 01.05.1946) (reld 11.07.1946) (retd 09.01.1950)
A/Cdr. > 01.1945, < 07.1945
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE 1975? Honorary Consul at Menorca
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 10.1943 -
Mention in Despatches MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coasts 05.40
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41
Mention in Despatches MID 28.10.1941 rescue convoy survivors North Sea 05.08.41
Master Mariner, serving with the Bibby Line.
04.06.1932 - 15.07.1932 Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid] (27.06.1932-01.07.1932 Anti-Gas School)
16.07.1932 - 02.09.1932 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
24.07.1934 - 20.08.1934 HMS Watchman (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
07.12.1935 - 08.09.1936 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) (temporary service)
08.09.1936 - 06.12.1936 HMS Whitsed (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Defence Flotilla) (temporary service)
07.12.1936 - 03.01.1937 HMS Whitsed (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Defence Flotilla) (28 days' training)
03.01.1937 - 23.01.1937 HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (for signal course)
24.01.1937 - 06.02.1937 HMS Defiance (torpedo school, Devonport) (for torpedo course)
07.02.1937 - 06.03.1937 HM Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] (for gunnery course)
09.09.1939 - 16.04.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Goodwin (armed boarding vessel) [tender to HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
17.04.1940 - 27.01.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (despatches twice)
28.01.1941 - 25.02.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
26.02.1941 - 09.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Vimiera (destroyer) (despatches)
10.01.1942 - 06.04.1942 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
07.04.1942 - 04.05.1942 HMS Buxton (destroyer)
05.05.1942 - 17.12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Liddesdale (escort destroyer)
18.12.1943 - 30.01.1944 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
31.01.1944 - 06.02.1944 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
07.02.1944 - 13.02.1944 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)
14.02.1944 - 11.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Undaunted (destroyer) [tender to HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
12.10.1944 - 14.01.1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
15.01.1945 - 06.05.1945 Admiralty [HMS President]
07.05.1945 - 31.05.1945 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
01.06.1945 - 11.07.1946 Commander at HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)
Founded Hong Kong & Eastern Shipping Company in Hong Kong, moving up to Tokyo and staying there until his retirement in 1962. Upon his retirement the Emperor decorated him with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, for as the Emperor said, "Putting Japanese shipping on its feet”. They first retired to Antigua, then re-retired to Menorca where he dropped into the occupation of market gardner selling his veggies in the local market and assisting British Subjects who found themselves in trouble, then handling passports for British residents in Menorca etc. as Honorary Consul (MBE).
MacKewn,
Allen Raymond *
"Ray"
A.R. MacKewn
* first name also found as Awlan, Allan and Alan
Married Mona (née ...) (23.04.1911-10.1991).
02.11.1906
-
03.04.1986
Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey
RAF:
 
P/O (prob)
15.03.1929 (terminated on cessation of duty 16.10.1929)
RNR:
 
T/Lt.
21.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 08.1942
T/A/Cdr.
27.05.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
28.12.1943

for courage and resource in organising a fire fighting party on board a Merchant Ship Alexandria Harbour 27.05.43

Mention in Despatches MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk 06.40
15.03.1929
-
16.10.1929
commissioned, Royal Air Force (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
01.01.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
06.1940


took part in Dunkirk evacuation; took over command of "St. Seiriol"
08.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
19.05.1941
-
(06.)1944
HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) (additional; for various services)
(10.)1944
-
(07.1945)
Sea Transport Officer-in-Charge, Marseilles
Chairman of the Sea Transport Association from 1953.
MacLeod,
Murdo [1]
M. MacLeod
20.02.1904
Portvolles Stornoway, Ross
-

[1959 still alive]
Skpr. 01.02.1941 [WS 3619] (retd 1940/50s)
23.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
McLeod,
Murdo [2]
M. McLeod
04.12.1905
Stornoway, Ross.
-
Skpr.
01.01.1942 [WS 3639]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
The undermentioned ones, numbered 3 to  5, were definitely three different persons, all originating from the Isle of Lewis. 
MacLeod,
Murdo [3]
M. MacLeod
From North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
?
-

L.Sea.
? [5849D]
Skpr.
?
Distinguished Service Medal DSM
16.08.1940
Dunkirk
(05.1940)
-
01.06.1940
HMS Skipjack (minesweeper) (sunk)
MacLeod,
Murdo [4]
M. MacLeod

From Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
?
-

[1959 still alive]
Ch.Skpr.
31.12.1950 (retd)
Skpr.Lt. (retd)
?
Distinguished Service Medal DSM
?
?



?
MacLeod,
Murdo [5]
“Murchadh Fridh"
M. MacLeod

From Cromore,  Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
20.04.1904
Cromore Lochs., Stornoway
-

Second Hand
1940? [LT/X 18320A]
Skpr.
01.09.1942 [WS 3648]
A/Skpr.Lt.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Cdr. ?
?
Distinguished Service Medal DSM
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Mention in Despatches MID
11.10.1940
blocking Zeebruge Canal or Dieppe
1921
-
1927
Pipe Major in the Army
1939
-
1945
served World War II, mainly as navigating officer on minesweepers:
(1940)


HMS Lord Grey (armed trawler)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Navigation teacher, Isle of Lewis.
Macmillan,
Ian Neil
I.N. Macmillan
Son of John Donald and Hannah Sarah Macmillan.
Husband of Ethelwyn Jill Macmillan.
1903 ?
-
24.02.1945
(MIA) [age 42]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]
...
...
Lt.Cdr.
20.06.1938
A/Cdr. (retd)
14.05.1944?
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
...
-
...
...
(04.1940)
-
(02.1941)
no appointment listed
01.08.1941
-
(12.1941)
Naval Control Service, Methil [HMS Cochrane II]
(1942)


British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Błyskawica (Polish destroyer)
14.05.1944
-
24.02.1945
HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (for service at Cardiff)
MacRae,
Ian Norman
I.N. MacRae (Photo courtesy of Mr David McRae) I.N. MacRae
Son of Donald and Viola Macrae, of Brighton, Victoria, Australia.
19.04.1918
Warragul, Victoria, Australia
-
08.01.1943
(MIA) [age 24]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 79, column 3]
T/S.Lt. 14.07.1941
T/Lt. 01.01.1943
War Medal (Norway) NorWM 06.10.1944 gallantry in Norwegian M.S. "Elizabeth Bakke" in war
Warehouse assistant. Voluntarily enlisted in Australian Militia Forces (5th Battalion (V.S.R.), 03.1936-03.1937; Cpl.).
(08.1941) - (10.1941) no appointment listed
29.11.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship, 1st Submarine Flotilla, Malta)
17.06.1942 - 08.01.1943 HM P 311 (T class submarine) (ship missing Mediterranean)
The Herald (Melbourne, Vict.), 09.11.1944:
Norwegian award to brave Brighton lad
Dramatic war exploits. King Haakon of Norway has conferred a decoration and a Diploma of Merit on Lieut. Ian Norman Macrae, a young Australian Royal Naval Reserve officer, who took part in several dramatic war exploits before he was lost while serving in a British submarine two
years ago. His parents, Mr and Mrs Donald Macrae, ol Bright Street, East Brighton, have not yet had official advice about the decoration, and no details of the exploit for which the award was made have been received in Australia. A dispatch from the British Government to the Acting Governor-General (Sir Winston Dugan) merely says that King Haakon conferred the decoration in recognition of Macrae's gallantry while serving in the Norwegian motorship Elizabeth Bakke during the war. The official secretary to the Governor-General (Captain L.S. Bracegirdle) had to seek the help of the police to trace Macrae's next-of-kin, whose address was given as "Bligh Street, East Victoria."
Notable escape. While serving as Third Officer on a merchant ship, Macrae was captured by the Germans in the first battle of Narvik. After 10 months in a Nazi prison camp, he organised a notable escape to Scotland (the details of which have never been revealed). He was then only 22.
Some of that part of his adventures was cabled from London and published in The Herald. Under fire from British destroyers, the captives were marched 42 miles through snow - filled mountain passes from Norway to Sweden. Forty who were still able to stagger at the end of the terrible journey, dragged the remaining 20 along with them. Following his escape from Sweden, Macrae was selected to be trained as an RNR officer at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. On gaining a commission, he transferred immediately to the submarine service, and his submarine went through the blitz on Malta. His first ship helped to transport the British Expeditionary Force to France. His second war voyage was to South America, and his third took him to Narvik. Mr and Mrs Macrae were advised by the Admiralty in January, 1943, that their son's submarine was lost "while engaged on special service." and early this year they received further advice of presumption of his death.
Passion for sea. Mrs Macrae said today that her son had a passion for the sea ever since he was a youngster. Before he was 17 he persuaded his parents to allow him to become an apprentice in sailing ships in the Australian grain trade. After three years as a trainee in sail he joined the British mercantile marine to complete his apprenticeship bv one year "in steam." Educated at University High School. Ian McCrae was assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the Melbourne Highland Pipe Band, and a warrant officer in the Victorian Scottish Regiment before he went to sea. His elder brother, Robert, is an AIF commando officer, and his only sister, Elva, is an AWAS corporal.
Main,
Robert George
see: RINR officers' section  
Mair,
Andrew
A. Mair (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Mair Jnr)
Son of Joseph Mair, and Mary Findlay.
Married (25.12.1936) Williamina Mair; two daughters, one son.
09.09.1911
-
14.08.1962
T/Skpr. 01.01.1941 [TS 1140] (reld < 04.1946)
06.02.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Chiltern (auxiliary patrol trawler)
04.11.1943 - 01.1944 HMS Exyhane (auxiliary patrol trawler; minesweeper)
24.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Sutherness (auxiliary patrol vessel)
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
15.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Woodbridge (auxiliary patrol vessel)
Mair,
James
J. Mair
Son of John Mair, of Portknockie.
Married (26.12.1939) Annie Reid, of Findochty; one daughter, two sons.
21.09.1907
Portknockie, Banffs., Scotland
-
1958
Elgin district, Moray, Scotland ?
T/Skpr.
01.12.1942 [TS 1339] (reld < 04.1946)
Trawlerman in Aberdeen (first command trawler Craigmillar).



served in the North Atlantic, spending lots of time in Iceland
22.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
Second Skipper, HMS Bouvet II (minesweeping whaler)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Major,
Guy Herbert Mainwaring
G.H.M. Major
Married ((12?).1939, Weymouth district, Dorset) Margaret O. Martin; ... children (one son, one daughter?).
05.08.1905
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
25.02.1983
Clifton, Bristol district, Avon
S.Lt. 16.06.1928
Lt. 16.06.1929 (retd 08.01.1935; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd) 04.02.1942
Served Merchant Navy.
(12.1939) - (07.1940) no appointment listed
20.07.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
14.01.1942 - (10.1942) Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
14.12.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
01.02.1943 - (01.)!945 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for service at Brindisi)
Makepeace,
Joseph Philip
"Joe"
J.P. Makepeace (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Cornish)
Son of Edmund George Makepeace (1861-1938), and Alice Elizabeth Makepeace.
Married ((09?).1923,
Pontypool district, Monmouthshire) Elsie Richards; two children.
19.11.1895
Llanfrechfa Upper, Pontypool district, Monmouthshire
-
16.12.1960
The General Hospital, Birmingham
A/S.Lt.
09.10.1917
S.Lt.
01.11.1917
A/Lt.
? (reld 04.03.1919)
Lt.
01.11.1919 (retd 06.05.1924)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
01.11.1927
A/Cdr. (retd)
07.08.1942? (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Cdr. (retd)
08.05.1946
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43 [investiture 19.10.43]
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD
11.1942
-
05.1912
-
04.1914
HMS Conway
05.1914
-
05.1916
HMS Conqueror
24.05.1916
-
30.05.1916
HMS Medea (ship was mined 29.05.1916; Makepeace was landed unconscious at Newcastle)
09.1916
-
04.1917
HMS Matchless
04.1917
-
07.1917
HMS Thruster
(08?).1917
-
08.1918
HMS Bat

Joined the Hudson Bay Co. serving in BAYCROSS and BAYSARNIA. Joined Alfred Holt & Co., 1921.

23.09.1939
-
(08.)1942
First Lieutenant, HMS Hector (armed merchant cruiser)
07.08.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
01.04.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Lucifer (communal RN base) (for service at Cardiff) (for coastal convoys?)
(06.1944)
 
 
took a dozen Gooseberries to Gold Beach D+2 (Normandy)
13.06.1944
-
(01.1945)
HMS Lucifer (communal RN base) (for service at Cardiff) (for coastal convoys?)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Maltby,
Henry Bradford
H.B. Maltby (Photo courtesy of Mr Hugh Morgan) H.B. Maltby (Photo courtesy of Mr Hugh Morgan)
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Gerald Rivers Maltby (1851-1922), and Hersey Eliza Cecilia Elliott (1854-1918).
Married (23.02.1918, St Mary Boltons, Brompton, London) Aline Doris Saunderson (18.01.1897 - (06?).1980), daughter of Henry Somerset Saunderson (1868-1947), and Clare St George Hillier (1871-1903).

05.08.1886
Pimlico, London
-
25.12.1940
(MPK) [age 54]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]
... ...
Capt. RN 31.12.1927
R.Adm. RN 10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939)
Capt. 28.08.1939
Cdre. 2nd cl. 28.08.1939-25.12.1940
28.08.1939 - 25.12.1940 Commodore of Ocean Convoys:
17.10.1939 - 29.10.1939 Convoy HX 5 (Halifax - Liverpool) (aboard ss Manchester Commerce) (as Vice-Commodore)
08.01.1940 - 17.01.1940 Convoy HG 14 (Gibraltar - Liverpool) (aboard ss Titan)
04.07.1940 - 20.07.1940 Convoy SL 38F (Freetown - Liverpool) (aboard ss Sarpedon)
28.10.1940 - 05.11.1940 Convoy HX 84 (Halifax - dispersed) (aboard ss Cornish City)
16.12.1940 - 25.12.1940 Convoy OB 260 (Liverpool - dispersed) (aboard ss Jumna)
Maltby,
James Edward
W.C. Meek
Son of James and Fanny Maltby.
Married ((12?),1931, Manchester South district, Lancashire) Amelia "Millie" Siddron (22.08.1903 - 13.11.1985), of St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire; one daughter.

20.11.1901
Cleethorpes, Grimsby district, Lincolnshire
-
22.08.1944
(KIA) [age 42]
[Newhaven Cemetery, grave 562]
Prob. S.Lt. 18.08.1925
S.Lt. 19.03.1927, seniority 18.08.1925
Lt. 05.06.1929, seniority 06.04.1929
?, seniority 18.08.1931
Lt.Cdr. 02.10.1939, seniority 18.08.1939
Mention in Despatches MID 30.01.1945 efforts to save lives when torpedoed 22.08.44 [posthumously]
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 24.12.1943 -
05.02.1940 - (04.)1940 Minesweeping Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
02.05.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Maidstone (destroyer depot ship, Scapa Flow) (for motor minesweepers)
(02.1941)     HMS Maidstone II (accounting base, Alexandria) *
06.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Seabelle (RN base, Persian Gulf)
14.11.1943 - 22.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Loyalty (Algerine class minesweeper) [torpedoed & sunk by U-480 in English Channel]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Mander,
John Haydn
J.H. Mander (Photo courtesy of Mr John Mander)
Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Thomas Mander (1879-1941), and Elizabeth Shirley (1882-1956).
Married Catherine "Bibby" Cruise; one son, one daughter.
30.08.1909
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
-
27.02.1976
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
T/Lt. (E) 11.08.1941 (reld 03.03.1947)
11.08.1941 - 07.09.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for courses)
08.09.1941 - 01.12.1941 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for maintenance duties at Queenborough Pier)
02.12.1941 - 18.02.1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for disposal)
19.02.1942 - 06.11.1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services: for maintenance duties on small boats)
07.11.1943 - 14.12.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for passage to UK & foreign service leave)
15.12.1943 - 06.09.1945 HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate)
07.09.1945 - 19.08.1946 HMS Holdfast (cable ship)
20.08.1946 - 03.03.1947 HMS Bullfrog (cable ship) / HMS Bullhead (cable ship)
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Marden,
Philip John
P.J. Marden
?
-
1999 ?
Somerset ?
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
06.12.1943
T/Lt.
06.05.1946, seniority 06.12.1945
Lt. RN
09.01.1947, seniority 06.12.1945 (emgcy 28.11.1951)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
21.04.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Fal (frigate)
09.01.1947


transferred to RN [extended service commission]
06.05.1947
-
1948
Navigating Officer, HMS Ossory (Algerine class minesweeper)
(07.1948)


HMS Ausonia (submarine depot ship) *
03.01.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier)
* indexed, nut not listed as such
Martin,
Albert Edward
A.E. Martin
?
-
T/Boom Eng.
04.05.1943
12.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Panorama
Martin,
Alister Angus
A.A. Martin
From Newcastle-on-Tyne.

23.07.1903
North Shields, Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
29.03.1979
Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire
Midsh.
01.01.1920
A/S.Lt.
23.07.1924
S.Lt.
17.09.1925
Lt.
21.04.1927
Lt.Cdr.
21.04.1935
Cdr. 31.12.1940
A/Capt.
?
Capt.
30.06.1945 (supernumerary 09.04.1951) (retd 23.07.1958)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
12.06.1945
opening Greek ports Patras & Itea [investiture 12.03.46]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
01.01.1941
New Year 41 [investiture 25.02.41]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
07.12.1943
Operation Antidote [investiture 11.05.45]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
27.03.1945
Operation Dragoon [investiture 11.05.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
04.10.1940
air attack
Mention in Despatches MID
31.03.1942
minefield clearance Nore 12.41-01.42
Mention in Despatches MID
14.11.1944
minesweeping Mediterranean
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
-
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
-
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
06.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
LP Trawlers Unit Officer [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)]
(06.1940)
 
 
Group Officer, HMS Inverforth (trawler) (Operation Dynamo)
(1940)
 

HMS Taipo (minesweeping trawler)
17.07.1941
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Rothesay (Bangor class minesweeper)



HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)
15.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Bulolo (landing ship, headquarters)
(04.1946)


HMS Eskimo (destroyer) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
 
Martin,
James Peter
J.P. Martin (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Gordon-Rawlings)
Son (with five sisters) of Patrick Martin (1869-1927), and Anne Ward (1871-1946).
Married (late 1941, Belfast, Northern Ireland) Isobel Buchanan (30.12.1915 - 08.09.2005); nine children.
02.09.1907
Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
-
1965
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 17.10.1939 (reld 20.01.1941)
Emigrated to New York, USA in September 1924. Here he worked for Furness Line on “Monarch of Bermuda” and “Queen of Bermuda”.
17.10.1939 - (01?.)1941 HMS Queen of Bermuda (armed merchant cruiser)
16.01.1941     seconded along with several of his crewmates to the steamer Oropesa (auxiliary transport) when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine approx. 100 miles NW of Bloody Foreland, Northern Ireland
      repatriated to Liverpool where he spent a long time in hospital before being invalided out with leg and back injuries
Mason,
Richard Albert
see: RNVR section  
Mates,
Leonard Newman
L.N. Mates (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Mates) L.N. Mates (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Mates)
L.N. Mates (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Mates) L.N. Mates (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Mates)
Married (04.1938) Amy d'Ernee Hill (born 16.08.1917, died 08.10.2000); two sons.
18.02.1909
Brentford, Middlesex
-
25.04.1979
Everett, Washington, USA
T/S.Lt.
09.09.1939
T/Lt.
26.10.1939, seniority 09.09.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
31.03.1944 (reld 21.03.1946)
Served in the Merchant Navy till 1937, and then as an estimator for Marley Tile.
09.09.1939
-
25.10.1939
HMS President (Admiralty)
26.10.1939
-
12.07.1940
HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
13.07.1940
-
17.09.1940
HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
18.09.1940
-
08.03.1941
HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland) [arrived 01.10.1940]
09.03.1941
-
02.04.1941
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
03.04.1941
-
13.07.1941
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)
14.07.1941
-
10.06.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Malines (auxiliary escort) (Mediterranean) [sunk 19.07.1942, salved 01.1943] *
19.03.1944
-
?
HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
08.1944
-
09.1944
traveled by rail through Syria to Turkey
?
-
14.11.1944
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
01.03.1945
-
12.07.1945
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for Naval Party 1732)
13.07.1945
-
30.09.1945
HMS Royal Albert (RN base, London [for Berlin, Germany]) (for Naval Party 1754)
01.10.1945
-
21.03.1946
HMS Royal Edgar (port party, Hamburg, Germany)
After the war, he was head of canals in the British Sector of Germany, lost that job when the Soviets blockaded Berlin, and emigrated to Seattle in July 1948. He worked for two freight forwarders in Seattle before retiring in 1970 or 1971.

* Official service record states till 18.03.1944, but Navy List doesn't show him any longer on the books of HMS Malines after 06.1943.
Mathews,
Henry Leonard
H.L. Mathews (Photo courtesy of Melanie Johnson) H.L. Mathews (Photo courtesy of Melanie Johnson)
H.L. Mathews (Photo courtesy of Melanie Johnson) H.L. Mathews (Photo courtesy of Melanie Johnson)
Son (with two brothers) of Thomas Henry Mathews (1873-1963), and Beatrice Barrett (1875-1963).
Married (01.05.1922, New Forest district, Hampshire) Edna Sainsbury; one son, one daughter.
26.10.1899
Totton, New Forest district, Hampshire
-
29.03.1983
Southampton district, Hampshire
Prob. Eng.Lt. 01.08.1927
Eng.Lt. 28.02.1928, seniority 01.08.1927
Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.08.1935
Cdr. (E) 31.12.1942 (retd 26.10.1949; age)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 14.03.1944 Operation Stonewall (operations in Western Channel 12.43-01.44) [investiture 06.03.45]
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 03.1943 -
16.11.1939 - (08.)1941 HMS Colombo (Carlisle class cruiser)
08.1941 - 22.02.1944 HMS Enterprise (E class cruiser) (DSC)
07.03.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Edgar (aircraft maintenance ship) [renamed HMS Perseus] [tender to HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)]
23.11.1944 - 10.07.1946 HMS Triumph (Colossus class light fleet aircraft carrier)
Mawer,
Harry
H. Mawer
Son of William Henry Mawer (1881-1941), and Rosina Gibson (1882-1973).
Married ((03?).1942, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire) Margery Teresa Palmer (11.07.1918 - 02.1998), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Sydney Herbert Palmer (1885-1952), and Catherine Veronica Connaughton (1883-1961); two daughters, one son.
14.11.1911
Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
25.08.1958
Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 18.05.1942
T/A/Lt. 12.05.1943
T/Lt. 06.07.1944 (reld 25.05.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.01.1945 towing Mulberry frames & rescue work
Education: Hull Grammar School; Boulevard Nautical School.
Humber pilot (apprentice 1927), On completion of his apprenticeship in the Humber pilot cutters in May 1933 he served in the sailing schooner Alert for a year and completed his qualifying time for 2nd mate in the s.s. Beucruachan, serving before the mast. He then went to the Hull coasters m/v Norris and Lesrix, being 1st mate of the latter vessel for about a year. He left her to become 2nd mate of the s.s. Olavus of Hull in the foreign trade.
1942 - 1946 salvage and rescue tug section of the RNR; served first as mate of HMS Destiny, then as rnaster of HMS Advantage, HMS Cheerly, HMS Enulus, HMS St. Malo, HMS Superman and finally HMS Enforcer:
(08.1942) - (10.1942) HMS Saker II (accounting base, Washington, DC, USA) *
01.10.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for rescue tugs)
12.05.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for duty with rescue tugs)
25.08.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for rescue tugs)
06.05.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) (for rescue tugs)
01.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs)
09.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Returned to the Humber Pilot Service. While in Hull on leave in 1944 he had succeeded in obtaining his foreign going masters' certificate. Licensed in March 1946, he was a member of the U.K.P.A. from his first day in the service. He served on the Humber until the onset of his illness.
May,
Andrew
A. May
?
-
?
T/Skpr. 01.01.1943 [TS 1331] (reld < 04.1946)
Fisherman in Fraserburgh.
17.06.1943 - 16.03.1945 First Officer, HM BYMS 2039 (British Yard minesweeper)
(07.1945)     HM MFV 1512 (motor fishing vessel) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
May,
Edward Herbert Elliott
E.H.E. May

Son of Edwin Joseph Clark May (1875-1962), and Ethel Maud Wraight (1880-1949).
Married ((06?).1932, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Norah Vera Maughan (03.03.1909 - 06.2005); ... children (one son, two daughters?).
04.11.1901
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
08.1987
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
Paym.S.Lt. 22.06.1926
Paym.Lt. 22.06.1928
Paym.Lt.Cdr. 22.06.1936
Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 04.11.1951)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 08.1941 -
26.08.1939 - (02.)1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(03.1940) - (04.1940) no appointment listed
01.04.1940 - (10.)1942 Base Accountant Officer, HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
05.11.1942 - (04.)1945 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
(07.1945)     HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
May,
Herbert Samuel
H.S. May
05.11.1904
Southwark, Greater London
-
(03?).1973
Lambeth district, London
Prob. T/Lt.
09.10.1940
T/Lt.
1941, seniority 09.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Served in the Merchant Navy.
(02.1941)


HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) *
18.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
Anti-Submarine Striking Force Convoy Duties [HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Mayall,
Maurice Jeffery Dabbs
M.J.D. Mayall (Photo courtesy of Lindsey Wilcox)
Son of John and Eliza E.J. Mayall.
Married (28.03.1913, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Beatrice Annie Westwood; one son, one daughter.

17.10.1882
St Johns, Hampstead, London
-
24.05.1966

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Prob. S.Lt. ?
S.Lt. 01.07.1912
Lt. 10.02.1915
Lt.Cdr. 10.02.1923
Cdr. 30.06.1926
Capt. 30.06.1932 (retd 17.10.1937)
A/Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 01.11.1942
Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 25.09.1945
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 28.03.1923 -
Went to sea as an apprentice in the barque Lalla Rookh, 1898. After serving with Union Steamship Co., he joined Canadian Pacific in 1910 as junior to the chief officer of the Empress of India.
1914     RNR training (presented to King George V by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty)
1914     HMS Natal
1915 - 1916 Cameroons Expeditionary Force (in command of several ships)
1916 - 1917 HMS Shannon (for 18 months)
1917 - 1918 commanded destroyers

Served on Empress liners until retirement, 1919-1942 (lastly commanded Empress of Russia, on which Prince Phillip travelled in 1941 when he helped stoke the boilers).

1928     senior officer war course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
1936     senior officers' tactical course, Portsmouth
01.11.1942
- 1945 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] (Atlantic, Russian and African convoys for 2½ years):
08.03.1943 - 23.03.1943 Commodore of Convoy HX 229 (New York City - Liverpool) (in Abraham Lincoln)
29.04.1943 - 18.05.1943 Commodore of Convoy ONS 6 (Liverpool - Halifax)
31.05.1943 - 15.06.1943 Commodore of Convoy HX 242 (New York City - Liverpool) (in Tortuguero)
03.08.1944 - 17.08.1944 Vice Commodore of Convoy HX 302 (New York City - Liverpool) (in Samdee)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India)
McCarthy,
Timothy Kentish Bewley

T.K.B. McCarthy
(12?).1925
-
20.07.2011
... ...
T/A/S.Lt. 12.04.1945
... ...
Lt. RN ? (withdrawal from extended service commission; placed on emgcy 23.04.1950)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
? - (10.1945) HMS Undaunted
... - ... ...
McClymont,
Ronald George
R.G. McClymont

12.04.1914
-
09.1990
Lancaster, Lancashire
Prob. S.Lt.
25.04.1938
S.Lt.
1940, seniority 25.04.1938
Lt.
04.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
04.11.1948 (retd 12.04.1959)
Royal Naval Reseve Decoration RD 12.06.1947 -
(04.1940)


HMS Wave *
02.12.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Dragon (cruiser)
09.03.1943
-
(06.)1943
Navigating Officer, HMS Prins Albert (landing ship infantry (small)) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)
06.1943
-
(07.1945)
Navigating Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Merchant Navy. On shipping  between Southampton & New York (1946-1952), between London/Le Havre/Liverpool and New York (1953-1954) and again between Southampton & New York (1955-1957).
McCorquodale,
Angus
"Mac"
A. McCorquodale
?
-
T/S.Lt. 27.09.1939
T/Lt. 27.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 28.01.1942?
T/A/Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946
01.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
01.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
05.04.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall)
28.01.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
11.03.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden, Arabia)
24.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)
(04.1946)     Sea Transport Division *
* indexed, but not listed as such
McDonald,
James Thomas Henry
J.T.H. McDonald (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian McDonald)
Son of James McDonald, steamboat engineer (fish trade), and Ada Jane Perks.
Brother of Maj. George McDonald, REME.

Married ((12?).1925, Swansea district, Glamorganshire) Alice M. Goss.
01.12.1904
Milford Haven, Haverfordwest district, Pembrokeshire
-
(06?).1979
Broad Haven, Haverfordwest district, Dyfed
Skpr. 05.05.1939 [WS 2897]
A/Ch.Skpr. 12.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Ch.Skpr. 30.06.1948 (retd 01.12.1954)
Skpr.Lt. (retd) 01.12.1954
Royal Naval Reseve Decoration RD 10.05.1954 -
12.12.1939 - 08.02.1940 HMS Radnor Castle (minesweeping trawler)
(03.1940) - (04.1940) HMS Radnor Castle (minesweeping trawler) *
02.05.1940 - 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Muroto (minesweeping trawler)
(02.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
17.08.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
(10.1943)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
19.10.1943 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS T.R. Ferrens (minesweeping trawler)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
McDonald,
Wilfred
W. McDonald
?
-
T/Lt. (E) 26.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) < 10.1944
01.02.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) (for miscellaneous duties)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] *
02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay) (for duty at Vizagatapam)
(04.1946)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
McDonald,
William
W. McDonald
?
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Eng.S.Lt.
03.03.1900
Eng.Lt. (retd)
07.05.1921
A/Eng.Lt.Cdr. (retd)
< 10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44 [decoration presented]
Defence Medal Def M
-
-
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-
Royal Naval Reseve Decoration RD
-
-
(10.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.11.1942
-
(07.1945)
HMS Gnu (RN base, Cape Town, South Africa) (MBE)
McFarlane,
John Chapman
J.C. McFarlane (Photo courtesy of Mr Chris Wall)

?
-
17.10.1942
[Yokahama War Cemetery, Japan, British section, K.B.7]
T/Bm.Eng. 25.01.1940
09.02.1940 - 25.12.1941 Boom Defence Depot, Kowloon, Hong Kong [HMS Robin (boom defence depot ship, Hong Kong)] (captured at the fall of Hong Kong)
25.12.1941 - 17.10.1942 POW in Japanese captivity (survived sinking of "Lisbon Maru")
McGinn,
Peter
R.G. McClymont
Son (with one brother) of Willam McGinn, and Mary Donnelly (she died c. 1895, after which William re-married Susan, with two step-children).
12.06.1891
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
-
05.1974
Crawfordsburn Hospital, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
T/Lt. (E)
07.07.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)
> 07.1945, < 04.1946
Served in the Merchant Navy.
25.08.1942
-
(07.1945)
HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Cape Wrath (repair ship) *
* indexed, but not listed as such

McGregor,
Colin McMillan
C. McGregor (© Imperial War Museum (A 24454))

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1881 ?
Greenock, Renfrewsahire, Scotland
-
?
T/A/Ch.Bm.Eng. 01.07.1942
... - ... ...
10.11.1941 - (06.1944) Boom Defence Depot, Clyde [HMS Orlando]
... - ... ...
McHugh,
Leo Dominic
see: RANR officers section  
McKellar,
Robert
R. McKellar (Photo courtesy of Mr John McKellar)
R. McKellar (Photo courtesy of Mr John McKellar)
Son of master mariner R.A. McKellar, of Grogport, Kintyre, and Isabella Mitchell.
Married Sally ...; two sons, two daughters.
(03?).1909
Litherland, Liverpool, Bucklow district, Lancashire
-
(06?).1966
Gravesend, Dartford district
Prob. Lt.
01.02.1938
Lt.
26.05.1938, seniority 01.02.1938
Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1946 (retd 01.07.1950)
Hon. Cdr.
29.06.1954
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
01.06.1953

HM's coronation: as Captain Superintendent, National Sea Training Schools, Gravesend

Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 14.07.1949 -
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
1940
-
18.09.1940
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
19.09.1940
-
26.01.1941
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
27.01.1941
-
(07.1945)
Executive Officer, HMS Gordon (Nautical Sea Training College, Gravesend) [from 01.12.1943 HMS General Gordon]
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
McKenzie,
John Grant
J.G. McKenzie (Photo courtesy of Mr Nigel McKenzie)
Married; two sons.
04.1921
St Bernard district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
17.12.1984
Glasgow, Scotland
Prob. Midsh. 03.04.1939
Midsh. 1940?, seniority 03.04.1939 (reld 09.12.1940; medically unfit)
Education: Daniel Stewarts College, Edinburgh.
Served with Merchant Navy with Ben Line.
20.05.1939 - 30.07.1939 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for 4 months' probationary training)
31.07.1939 - 04.12.1939 HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
05.12.1939 - 06.06.1940 HMS Valiant (battleship)
07.06.1940 - (12?).1940 HMS Ambuscade (destroyer) [possibly till 06.11.1940]
      may possibly have served at submarine HMS Terock (?), motor torpedo boat HM MTB 03 and trawler HMS Northern Star
In civil capacity involved at Southampton as one of the harbour masters for the D-Day invasion.
McLean,
Allan
A. McLean (© Imperial War Museum (A 13863))
?
-
T/S.Lt. 04.12.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
      temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) Agreement:
04.12.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs):
(01.1943)     First Lieutenant, HMS Prosperous (rescue tug)
... - ... ...
McLeod,
Norman Peter
N.P. McLeod (Photo courtesy of PC Cother family, via Mr Tony Drury)

?
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Lt.
12.01.1935
Lt.Cdr.
12.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Cdr.
12.08.1944?
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
(04.1940)


HMS Northern Duke (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *
17.05.1940

-

01.1941

Commanding Officer, HMS Aquamarine (trawler; armed boarding vessel)
31.01.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Austin (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
12.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)
McVey,
Thomas
T. McVey

Son of ... McVey, and ... Queenan.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
04.07.1917
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
15.07.1993
Durham South Western district, Durham
Prob. Midsh. 01.07.1935
A/S.Lt. 31.01.1938
S.Lt. 13.08.1939
Lt. 31.07.1940
A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1944, < 01.1945
Lt. (A) RN 1946/47?, seniority 31.07.1940
Lt.Cdr. (A) RN 31.07.1948 (Emgcy 26.10.1949) (commission terminated 16.01.1962)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.09.1941 Operation Canvas (capture of Kismayu, Italian Somaliland 02.41)
Served in the Merchant Navy (Anchor Line & Shell Line).
29.08.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (despatches)
(02.1941) - (04.1941) HMS Hawkins (cruiser) *
(06.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
(10.1941) - (04.1942) no appointment listed
03.04.1942 - (10.)1942 pilot, 759 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
(12.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) *
12.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton , Warrington, Lancashire) (for pilot duties)
(08.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop) *
13.12.1943 - 03.1946 pilot (from > 10.1944, < 01.1945 Officer Commanding), E Flight, 759 Squadron FAA [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)]
28.03.1946 - (07.1946) 780 Squadron FAA [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)]
01.06.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland)
20.01.1949 - (05.1949) Lieutenant-Commander (Air), HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Meade-Fetherstonhaugh,
the Hon. Sir Herbert
H. Meade-Fetherstonhaugh
Third of four sons of Richard James Meade (1832–1907), Lord Gillford, later fourth Earl of Clanwilliam and Admiral of the Fleet, and his wife, Elizabeth Henrietta (d. 1925), daughter of Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, governor of Queensland.
Brother of 5th and heir­presumptive to 6th Earl of Clanwilliam.
Assumed additional name of Fetherstonhaugh by Royal licence, 15.12.1931.
Married (06.07.1911) Margaret Isabel Frances Glyn (22.02.1888 - 15.06.1977), eldest daughter of late Rt Rev. Hon. Edward Carr Glyn; two sons, two daughters.
Lived at Uppark, Petersfield, Hampshire.
03.11.1875
Westminster, London, Middlesex
-
27.10.1964

King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, Surrey
Midsh. RN
15.02.1892
A/S.Lt. RN
14.08.1895
S.Lt. RN
22.12.1896, seniority 14.08.1895
Lt. RN
01.10.1897
Cdr. RN
30.06.1908
Capt. RN
31.12.1914
R.Adm. RN
25.11.1925
V.Adm. RN
08.05.1930
Adm. RN
31.07.1934 (retd 22.07.1936; own request)
Capt.
16.09.1939
Cdre. 2nd cl.
16.09.1939?
T/Lt. RNVR
?
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order GCVO
16.08.1934
New Year 35
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO
10.05.1929

Special Mission of HRH the Duke of Gloucester to Japan to invest His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan with the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
03.06.1925
HM's birthday
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
07.07.1922
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
21.10.1914
Heligoland Bight 28.08.14
Mention in Despatches MID
21.10.1914
Heligoland Bight 28.08.14
Mention in Despatches MID
03.03.1915
Dogger Bank 24.01.15
Mention in Despatches MID
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
Commendation Cmdn
15.09.1916
Battle of Jutland 31.05.16
Education: HMS Britannia (1889)



employed Naval Mobilisation
 
 
 
midshipman, HMS Canada (steel corvette) (North America Station)
(1897)
 
 
HMS Iphigenia (China)
1901
-
(03.1901)
HMS Ophir (Egypt) (a liner commissioned for a state visit to India by the duke and duchess of York, later George V and Queen Mary)
1902
 -
1904 
HMS Venerable (Mediterranean) (severely wounded in an accident, resulting in a permanently shortened leg, returning to duty in 1906)
1906
-
(1908)
First Lieutenant, HMS Enchantress (Admdiralty yacht)
1910
-
1912
mobilization department of the Admiralty
1912
-
1914?
Commanding Officer, HMS Goshawk (divisional leader)
(08.1914)
 
 
HMS Meteor (was present in the action with the German Sqdn in Heliogoland Bight on 28 Aug 1914 (despatches))
23.01.1915
-
(05.1916)
Commanding Officer, HMS Royalist (light cruiser) (was present in the action with the German Sqdn off the Dogger Bank on 24 Jan ’15; despatches; took part in the Battle of Jutland, 31 May ’16; commended)
?
-
1918
Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser)
1918
-
1919
Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord
1921
-
1923
Commanding Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) & as Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief at Rosyth
02.01.1923
-
(01.)1925
Commanding Officer, HMS Britannia (steam launch) & in command of RN College, Dartmouth
26.09.1924
-
25.11.1925
Naval ADC to the King
12.04.1926
-
(05.)1926
senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth
01.08.1926
-
(06.)1928
Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)]
(08.1929)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1930)
 
 
no appointment listed
(02.1931)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.04.1931
-
15.12.1934
Commanding Officer, HMS Victoria and Albert (HM Yacht, Portsmouth) & in command of HM's Yachts & Honorary Naval ADC to the King
[ 09.1939?
- 11.1939? HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (convoy duties) ?]
11.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
1940
-
1944?
Lieutenant-Colonel, Home Guard
(1944)
 
 
Admiralty Small Vessels Pool
Extra Equerry to the Queen since 05.08.1952 (formerly to King George VI from 21.07.1936 and to King George V from 15.12.1934). Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Lords, 1939-02.12.1946.
Meek,
William Clyde
W.C. Meek
06.10.1892
Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
died between 07.1952 and 07.1959 ??
Lt.
31.12.1923
Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1931
Cdr.
30.06.1936
Capt.
30.06.1942
A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
04.08.1942
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1942
New Year 42
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
(1941)


HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (convoy duties)
04.08.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Meldrum,
George Charles Wilson
G.C.W. Meldrum
17.11.1912
-
02.2000

Birkenhead, Cheshire
A/S.Lt.
21.07.1934
S.Lt.
09.05.1936
Lt.
29.01.1938
Lt.Cdr.
25.03.1946, seniority 29.01.1946 (reld 28.05.1946) (retd 17.11.1957)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 19.02.1946 -
07.02.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMT Northern Duke (trawler)
(1941)


Commanding Officer, HMT Northern Sun (trawler)
01.1942
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, HMS Pennywort (corvette)
17.11.1942
-
(02.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Pennywort (corvette)
03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Flamborough Head (escort repair ship)
Menzies,
Kenneth Michael Bertie
K.M.B. Menzies (Photo courtesy of Mr David Menzies) K.M.B. Menzies (Photo courtesy of Mr David Menzies)
Son (with one sister) of Charles Edward Kenneth Menzies (1891-1956), and Ruby Ada Strong (1893-1979).
Married (18.06.1941, St Bedes RC Church, Carlisle, Cumberland) Kathleen Josephine Ita Mary McShane (31.07.1918 - 02.2005), daughter of Peter McShane (1895-), and Kathleen Fearon (1895-); one son, one daughter. Kathleen Menzies remarried (1984) Bryan Leolin Richards.
(03?).1919
Hampstead district, London
-
14.09.1951
Barnet, Hertfordshire (formerly of London N12)
Prob. Midsh. 01.10.1937
Midsh. 03.02.1939, seniority 01.10.1937
A/S.Lt. 22.05.1939
S.Lt. 12.04.1940, seniority 25.02.1940
Lt. 22.11.1941 (dispersal 04.02.1946) (reld 14.04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 22.11.1949
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 1948/49? -
Prior to being RNR he served on the Royal Mail ship Highland Princess, finishing in London on 5th November 1939 as 4th Mate.
17.09.1938 - 15.01.1939 HMS Nelson (battleship) (additional; for training)
03.11.1939 - 06.01.1940 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for gunnery course at HM Gunnery School, Devonport)
06.01.1940 - 02.07.1940 HMS Wastwater (Lake class trawler) [tender to HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)]
Navy List gives: HMS Thirlmere (Lake class trawler)
03.07.1940 - 16.07.1940 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (additional; for time only; short A/J course)
17.07.1940 - 31.03.1941 HMS Gloxinia (Flower class corvette) [tender to HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast), from 15.08.1940 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport), from 01.10.1940 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool), from 01.12.1940 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
01.04.1941 - 21.07.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)
22.07.1941 - 16.02.1942 HMS Vetch (Flower class corvette) [tender to HMS ..., from 24.01.1942 HMS ...]
17.02.1942 - 06.04.1945 HMS Vetch (Flower class corvette) (from mid 1943 Commanding Officer)
07.04.1945 - 14.10?.1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)
15.10?.1945 - 14.04.1946 HMS ... (additional; for release)

Merrick,
Leslie Bertram
L.B. Merrick
Son of John Albert Merrick (1884-1947), and Ethel May Woodman (1891-1975).
Married 1st ((09?).1934, Lambeth, London; divorced 19.02.1947) Violet Rose Wright (16.01.1910 - 02.1991).
Married (06.1947, Bath, Somerset) Bridget Norton (17.12.1914 - 02.1997); two sons.

06.07.1909
Bath, Somerset
-
30.04.1979
Santry, Dublin, Ireland
T/Lt. 19.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld 23.11.1945; medically unfit)
02.01.1940 - (02.)1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
28.02.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)
07.1940 - 24.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Haarlem (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
29.10.1942 - 01.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Celia (Shakespearian class trawler)
18.12.1944 - 04.1945 Commanding Officer, HM LST 8 (landing ship, tank)
(07.1945)     HM LST 8 (landing ship, tank) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Merriman,
John Harvey
J.H. Merriman (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ruth McKenna)
22.07.1915
-
03.1999

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Prob. A/S.Lt.
31.12.1936
A/S.Lt.
08.05.1937
S.Lt.
11.01.1940
Lt.
08.05.1940
Lt.Cdr.
08.05.1948 (retd 01.07.1950)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 19.02.1946 -
Served Merchant Navy (on ships like SS City of Lyons, SS City of Christiania, SS City of London, SS City of Bristol, SS City of Pittsburg, SS City of Venice).
(1937?)
 
 
naval training, HMS Whitshed (destroyer)
1939
-
10.01.1940
HMS Iron Duke (training ship, Portsmouth)
11.01.1940
-
05.07.1940
HMS Carinthia (armed merchant cruiser)
06.07.1940
-
15.01.1943
First Lieutenant, French Ship La Flore (torpedo boat)
16.01.1943
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HMS Deveron (frigate) *
(1945)
 
 
HMS Trent (frigate)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Tulip (corvette) **
* (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such
Metcalf,
John Saville
J.S. Metcalf
07.12.1895
Bramley, West Riding of Yorkshire
-

16.01.1975
Otley, Leeds
Lt.Cdr.
28.01.1927
Cdr.
31.12.1934
Capt.
30.06.1944 (reld 1945/46)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
16.08.1915
?
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
05.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Guardian (net layer)
Meyer,
Charles Alexander
W.C. Meek
Married ((12?).1936, Essex South West district) Nancie Duiah Elphinstone ((03?).1911 - ); ... children (one daughter?).
Residence: (1945) Holyhead.
25.06.1907
Seven Kings, Romford district, Essex
-
02.1992
Bournemouth district, Hampshire
Midsh. 01.09.1923
A/S.Lt. 25.06.1928
S.Lt. 16.04.1932
Lt. 14.07.1934
Lt.Cdr. 14.07.1942
Cdr. 30.06.1949
Capt. * 31.12.1955 (retd 06.02.1963)
Mention in Despatches MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD > 02.1942
< 04.1942
-
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD > 07.1954
< 01.1955
1st clasp
* Supernumerary List promotion
Served Merchant Navy (2nd Mate's Certificate, 13.04.1927).
16.01.1932     training, HMS Vivid (RN barracks, Devonport)
16.06.1934     training, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer)
22.06.1935     training, HMS Ambuscade (destroyer)
30.11.1939 - (10.)1941 HMS Chitral (armed merchant cruiser)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
01.01.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Oracle (anti-submarine yacht/radar trials vessel)
(10.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
(10.)1944 - 19.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Hadleigh Castle (corvette) (despatches)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
28.04.1961 - 29.04.1962 RNR ADC to the Queen
Miller,
Horace Morgan
H.M. Miller
20.06.1892
Chard district, Devon / Dorset / Somerset
-

11.09.1972
The Swindon Rectory, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
T/Lt.
02.09.1939 (reld  07.1945, < 04.1946)
02.09.1939
-
12.1941
HMS Tamar (RN base Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous services)
12.1941
-
(09.1945?)
POW in Japanese captivity (Argyle Street Camp, and as this camp closed during 1944, probably Shamshuipo Camp)
Served Merchant Navy (Master Mariner).
Miller,
Robert Stevenson
R.S. Miller (Photo courtesy of Mr David Miller)
Son of the late Robert Miller, of Livorno, and Mrs John McNichol, of Kuala Pertang, Malaya.
Married (10.04.1937, Amersham district, Buckinghamshire) Eleanor Harrison, daughter of Mr & Mrs T.M. Harrison, of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire; two sons (one deceased), one daughter.
Residence: (1940) Guildford, Surrey.
15.03.1907
Rothesay, Isle of Bute
-
31.05.1966

Southwark distrct, London
Midsh. 01.05.1924
A/S.Lt. 26.03.1928
S.Lt. 08.09.1929
Lt. 12.04.1932
Lt.Cdr. 12.04.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Cdr. 31.12.1945 (retd 01.10.1951)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [while at HMS Lynx] [investiture 29.07.41]
Mention in Despatches MID 27.08.1940 Dutch & French coasts 05.40 [while at HMS Lynx]
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 1943/44? -
Education: Rothesay Academy.
Member of a landing party which carried through rescue services during a catastrophic earthquake which affected districts in New Zealand in the 1930s.
07.01.1933     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for course)
28.01.1933     HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (for course)
08.05.1933     HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean) (for training)
26.08.1933     HMS Duchess (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (for training)
26.12.1937     HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (for training)
09.01.1938     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for training)
10.08.1939     HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper)
(04.1940)     HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (DSC & despatches) [slightly wounded when with the Dover Patrol during operations at Boulogne 06.1940] *
? - 01.06.1940 HMS Keith (destroyer)
(10.1940)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
27.10.1940 - (12.1941) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
14.04.1942 - 20.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Spiraea (corvette)
1943 - 07.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Tweed (frigate) (torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic, south west of Ireland)
11.04.1944 - 08.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Jed (frigate)
08.1945 - 03.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Plym (frigate)
Associated with the ZIM Israeli Navigation Co.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Miller,
Thomas Robert William
T.R.W. Miller
Married ((12?).1916, Yarmouth district, Norfolk) ... Smith; .... chdilren.
13.05.1887
Mutford district, Norfolk / Suffolk
-

T/Skpr.
04.11.1940 [TS 827]
T/A/Ch. Skpr.
31.12.1942
Trawler skipper from Hull.
02.01.1941
-
15.11.1942
First Lieutenant, HMS David Ogilvie (minesweeping trawler)
16.11.1942
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS David Ogilvie (minesweeping trawler)
Milner,
Geoffrey Ernest
G.E. Milner
07.10.1906
Croydon, Surrey
-
12.1995
Southampton, Hampshire
Prob. S.Lt.
21.07.1930
S.Lt.
20.04.1931, seniority 21.07.1930
Lt.
31.07.1933 (retd 17.11.1936)
A/Lt.Cdr. (retd)
?
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
23.04.1944 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE
07.07.1942
sinking of HMS Dunedin
Mention in Despatches MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
(04.1940)
-
(02.1941)
no appointment listed
11.07.1941
-
24.11.1941
Navigating Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)  [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
09.08.1943
-
(06.1944)
Navigating Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Mills,
Wilfred John
W.J. Mills
?
-

[1959 still alive]
Lt.
30.09.1925
Lt.Cdr.
30.09.1933
Cdr.
30.06.1939
Capt.
30.06.1943
A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
21.09.1943 (reld 1940/50s)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
21.09.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed
Millson,
Claude Egarr
C.E. Millson

Elder son (with three sisters and one brother) of Capt. Guy Egarr Brown Millson (1865-1937), and Wilhelmina Victoria Murken (1877-1962), of Wallasey, Cheshire.
Married (03.11.1934, St Mary's, Goudhurst, Cranbrook district, Kent) Winifred Sylvia Noakes (06.03.1906 - 14.02.1973), only daughter of William John Noakes (1857-1935), and Beatrice Dungey (1874-1968), of Goudhurst, Kent; one daughter.
17.09.1904
Liscard, Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
17.11.1980
Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
Prob. Paym.S.Lt. 20.10.1930
Paym.Lt. 26.11.1932
Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) 26.05.1940 (retd 17.09.1949)
A/Cdr. (S) 15.06.1945
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 11.1942 -
Served Merchant Navy (2nd Mate's certificate, 07.11.1923).
30.08.1939 - (12.)1940 HMS Pembroke IV (for Naval Control Service, Thames)
18.12.1940 - (06.)1944 Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
(04.1945)     HMS Assistance (aircraft depot and repair ship) *
15.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
Moffatt,
Leonard Bentley
L.B. Moffatt
Son of Winifred Mary Moffatt.
Married Mary Melvin Knowles (09.05.1906 - 1973); two sons.
1908 ?
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
-
1980
Haymarket district, Edinburgh, Scotland
Prob. S.Lt. 01.05.1933
S.Lt. 27.11.1933, seniority 01.05.1933
Lt. 01.05.1935
Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1943 (retd 20.06.1948)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 03.1944 -
02.09.1939 - (07.)1940 HMS Widnes (Hunt class minesweeper)
25.07.1940 - (12.1940) French Ship "Diligente"
(02.1941)     French Ship "Diligente" *
05.03.1941 - 04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Juliet (minesweeping trawler)
22.04.1942 - 07.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Coriolanus (minesweeping trawler)
28.09.1942 - (04.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Felixstowe (Bangor class minesweeper)
08.04.1943 - 11.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Bridlington (Bangor class minesweeper)
24.11.1943 - 10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Spanker (Algerine class minesweeper)
(01.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Mogg,
William
"Billy"
W. Mogg (Photo courtesy of Mr Gareth Evans)
24.04.1896
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
-
08.02.1954
at sea off Norway
T/Skpr.
17.11.1939
T/Skpr.
04.09.1940 [TS 582]
Skpr. ?
?
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
09.01.1946
New Year 46 *
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
01.01.1941
New Year 41 **
* probably for services to fishing
** probably for his actions during the rescue of women and children from the SS Domala
17.11.1939


joined RNR (holding temporary commission under T.124 agreements until 04.09.1940)
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
04.09.1940
-
12.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Beaconsfield (minesweeping trawler)
Served at ST Ottilie, 1945. Lost at sea when the trawler he was commanding (Laforey) hit the reef Sendingane about 6 miles west of the Island of Batalden in the district of Sogn Og Fjorden, off Norway.
Monger,
John Calver
J.C. Monger
18.05.1903
Tendring, Essex
-
05.1989
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
T/Skpr.
07.11.1939 [TS 210]
A/T/Ch.Skpr.
06.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
02.01.1956
New Year 56
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
22.12.1942
good services in mine- sweeping, the Nore 10.42
01.02.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Red Sky (Admiralty wood drifter (minesweeping))
(10.1942?)


HMS Colonsay (minesweeping base, Grimsby)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Fishing Skipper, Research Vessel "Ernest Holt", Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1950s).
Monk,
Frank Leonard
F.L. Monk (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) F.L. Monk (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of Henry John and Lydia Clara Monk.
Married (02.04.1921, Worthing, East Preston district, Sussex) Barbara Ashby, of Coulsdon, Surrey; two sons.

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01.08.1892
Coulsdon, Croydon, Surrey
-
12.11.1942
(MPK) [age 50]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 75, column 1]
Paym. 20.10.1917
Paym.Lt.Cdr. 20.10.1923
Paym.Cdr. 30.06.1932
Paym.Capt. 30.06.1942
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 28.11.1923 -
Clerk with Lloyds Bank, Coulsdon, later Manager of Ludgate Hill Branch, London.
20.10.1913     joined RNR (Acting Assistant Paymaster)
... - ... ...
26.07.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
10.03.1941 - 12.11.1942 HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-515 off Morocco]
Monro,
Kenneth Stanley
K.S. Monro
06.11.1901
-
10.1989
Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Lt.
09.04.1927
Lt.Cdr.
09.04.1935
A/Cdr.
1945? (retd 1940/50s)
Cdr. (retd)
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -



convoy duties
14.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Leigh (RN base Southend)
(04.1946)


HMS Northway (landing ship, dock)
(1949)


Commanding Officer, Prince of Wales Sea Training School (Stalham, nr Norfolk)
Moore,
George William
G.W. Moore
?
-
T/Skpr.
19.12.1939 [WS 3165, TS 282]
T/A/Skpr.Lt.
06.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
03.09.1940
minesweeping coasts of Holland, Belgium & France
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
20.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Arctic Hunter (minesweeping trawler) *
10.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, MMS 1077 (motor minesweeper)
* (02.1941) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Moore,
William Josselyn
W.J. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mr Rod K. Pudduck)
Married ((03?).1935, Penzance district, Cornwall) Kate Marie Augusta Hichens (? - 23.01.1967).
10.02.1907
-
10.1986
St Austell, Cornwall
Prob. S.Lt. 02.10.1930
S.Lt. ?, seniority 02.10.1930
Lt. 02.10.1932
Lt.Cdr. 02.10.1940
Cdr. 30.06.1944
A/Capt. 1945?
Capt. 31.12.1951 (retd 10.02.1962)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 29.05.1945 sinking U-boat Nth S 25.11.44 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 13.10.1942 U-boat attack convoy SL109 05.42
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 13.02.1943 -
Merchant Navy officer, Blue Funnel Line.
16.01.1940 - (10.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Folkestone (sloop)
15.11.1940 - 22.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (sloop)
02.12.1942 - 20.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Whimbrel (sloop)
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
09.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ascension (frigate)
01.03.1945 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ascension (frigate)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
30.09.1945?  - (04.1946) DSTO, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Tamar] *
* Navy List of April 1946 gives date of appointment as 30.09.1943.
Moorhouse,
Leslie Hugh
A.S. Mullins
Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Joseph Collinge Moorhouse (1861-1932), and Lily Barratt (1866-1953).
Married ((06?).1941, Barton district, Greater Manchster, Lancashire; divorced) Kathleen J. Leigh ((06?).1921 - ), daughter of Arthur Roland Leigh (1899-1964), and Nellie Frost. She remarried (1950) Emrys Mitchell.
03.10.1900
Urmston, Liverpool, Barton district, Lancashire
-
(12?).1984
Warwick and Leamington district, Warwickshire
Prob. S.Lt. 17.05.1927
S.Lt. 10.01.1929, seniority 17.05.1927
Lt. 02.07.1930, seniority 17.05.1930 (retd 23.08.1932)
Lt.Cdr. (retd) 17.05.1938 (reverted to retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 13.04.1943 Operation Torch (N Africa landings 08.11.42)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 21.09.1944 -
Education: Manchester Grammar School (1911-1915).
First Mate's Certificate, 12.07.1923. Master's Certificate, 31.03.1927.
31.08.1939 - (02.)1940 HMS Pyramus (minesweeper & anti-submarine base, Orkney)
19.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) (for duty in Admiral's office)
(05.1940) - (06.1940) no appointment listed
08.07.1940 - 25.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS St Zeno (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
07.11.1940 - 03.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Snowdrop (corvette) [while under construction]
31.03.1941 - 01.1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties)
05.01.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
(08.1942) - (06.)1944 Combined Operations HQ, Admiralty [HMS President]:
(08.1942)     Intelligence Plans (Naval), Intelligence Section
(10.1942) - (12.1942) a Naval Operational Planner
(02.1943) - (06.)1943 a Naval Administrative Planner
(11.1942)     Combined Operations Pilotage Party 1 "Inhuman" (despatches)
(08.)1943     a Secretary to Maintenance Captain
(10.)1943 - (02.)1944 a Secretary to Deputy Naval Chief of Staff
(04.)1944     Administration Section
(06.)1944     Staff Officer Special Boat Units, Combined Operations HQ
17.08.1944 - 02.09.1945 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.09.1945 - (10.1945) Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Morris,
David John
A.S. Mullins
Son of Thomas and Ann Morris.
Married ((09?).1942, Swansea district, Glamorgan) Nancy Olwen Roach, of Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.
1906
Dinas, Pembrokeshire
-
10.11.1944
(MPK) [age 38]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 79, 2]
Prob. T/.Lt. 16.06.1941
T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 16.06.1941
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 05.10.1943 minesweeping Mediterranean 11.42-07.43 [investiture 18.04.44]
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
(10.1941)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
24.10.1941 - 01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Saronta (minesweeping trawler) **
17.01.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 80 (motor minesweeper) (DSC) [initially based at HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)]
03.11.1943 - 10.12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Southern Field (minesweeping whaler)
28.12.1943 - 17.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Hamlet (minesweeping trawler)
17.08.1944 - 10.11.1944 HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland) (as Admiralty Pilot) [missing, presumed killed when on passage ss "Empire World"]
* indexed, but not listed as such
** (08.1942) still [erroneously?] showing as in command
Morrison,
Keith Milner
K.M. Morrison
Son of Alexander William and Nellie Morrison; husband of Margaret Lawrie Morrison, of Gordon, New South Wales, Australia.
24.10.1902
Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 38]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 39, column 3]
Prob. S.Lt.
20.03.1928
S.Lt.
17.02.1930, seniority 20.03.1928
Lt.
11.07.1931
Lt.Cdr.
11.07.1939
26.12.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Curlew (cruiser) (to complete 12 months' training)
06.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)
Morrison,
Robert Houston
R.H. Morrison (Photo courtesy of Mr Steven Whyte) R.H. Morrison (Photo courtesy of Mr Steven Whyte)
R.H. Morrison (Photo courtesy of Mr Steven Whyte)
Married Nelly Helena Lombard.
1913 ?
Greenock district, Renfrewshire, Scotland ?
-
S/Lt. 08.08.1939
A/Lt. 03.09.1940
Lt. 15.06.1942, seniority 03.09.1940
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1943 New Year 43
31.10.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Glen Usk (paddle minesweeper)
31.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties)
19.06.1941 - 11.1941 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) (additional; for various services)
14.11.1941 - (04.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Skudd V (despatches)
(10.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Mortimer,
Ralph Smith [Raymond]
R.S. Mortimer (Photo courtesy of Mr George Peacock)
Married (early 1940s) Kathleen Cox.
08.05.1908
Cardiff area, Glamorgan
-
08.2000

Narberth (?), South Pembrokeshire
T/Lt.
05.06.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
19.06.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) [in command of four 'Football class' minesweepers]
(10.1944)


no appointment listed
(1945?)


Commanding Officer, HMS Rhododendron (corvette)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Post-war a harbourmaster at various ports around the world.
Mortimer,
William Wyndham
"Wyn"
W.W. Mortimer
Son (with one sister) of William Mortimer (1876-1931), insurance broker, and Charlotte Mary Bell Drake (1877-1967).
Married (20.01.1936, British Consulate-General, Shanghai, China) Dora Caddy (21.06.1904 - 27.03.1993), daughter of Thomas Henry Caddy (1879-1929), army officer, and Elizabeth Anne Hodgson (1874-1958); no children (one stepson from her earlier marriage to Frank Allan).
26.04.1904
Ladywood, Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
07.11.1994
Noble's Hospital, Braddan [latterly of Onchan, Isle of Man]
T/Lt. 09.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 05.12.1940?
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
Mention in Despatches MID 15.12.1942 fall of Singapore 02.42
09.10.1939 - 12.1940 HMS Cockchafer (river gunboat)
05.12.1940 - 02.1942 HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (additional; for various services) (despatches)
07.05.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)
08.09.1943 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (MBE)
Master Mariner & nautical surveyor.
Moss,
Harold Gordon Barnes
H.G.B. Moss
04.04.1909
Lambeth district, London, Surrey
-
T/Lt.
15.09.1939 (reld 05.11.1940; commission terminated)


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

C.H. Moulton (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Crowden)
Married ((06?).1926, West Derby district, Lancashire) Vera A. Hallam.
27.07.1900
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
17.05.1981
Tavistock district, Devon
T/Lt.Cdr. 26.09.1939
A/T/Cdr. 02.01.1943-23.09.1944
19.08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Ranpura (armed merchant cruiser)
08.03.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Ranpura (armed merchant cruiser)
02.01.1943 - 23.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Athene (aircraft transport)
(10.1944)     HMS Athene (aircraft transport) *
(01.1945)     HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) *
02.04.1945 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Mowatt,
George

G. Mowatt

?
-
died between 07.1962 and 07.1967
Prob. S.Lt. 07.12.1927
S.Lt. 07.05.1928, seniority 07.12.1927
Lt. 10.01.1931, seniority 29.11.1930
Lt.Cdr. 29.11.1938
Cdr. 30.06.1943 (retd > 07.1949, < 07.1952)
Mention in Despatches MID 01.09.1942 Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 11-15.06.42)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941 model) RD 02.02.1942 -
16.01.1928     HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for course in gunnery school)
10.04.1940 - 01.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Niger (Halcyon class minesweeper)
26.01.1941 - 23.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Blackpool (Bangor class minesweeper) *
27.05.1942 - 22.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Hebe (Halcyon class minesweeper) (despatches) [ship mined Adriatic]
04.04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for Admiralty Berthing Officer)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
24.10.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
* (12.1941) indexed under HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) , but not listed as such
Mugridge,
James Henry
J.H. Mugridge
?
-
T/Skpr.
09.09.1939 [WS 3018 & TS 137]
Prob. T/Lt.
?
T/Lt.
01.12.1941, seniority 27.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
11.11.1944? (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
07.06.1940
Dunkirk
Mention in Despatches MID
09.09.1941
for good services in action against enemy aircraft (attack Vidonia etc. 21.03.41)
(04.1940)


HMS Romola (minesweeping base, Lowestoft) *
10.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Hekla (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)
11.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Woolverstone (landing craft base & training establishment, Ipswich) (for Ipswich Repair Base)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Mugford,
Frank

F. Mugford
?
-
Prob. T/Lt. 29.07.1940
T/Lt. 12.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1942, < 02.1943
(10.1940)     HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
18.12.1940 - 12.05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Holly (minesweeping trawler)
12.05.1941 - early 1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Righto (minesweeping trawler)
11.03.1942 - 03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rousay (minesweeping trawler)
(04.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed
05.06.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for B.A.M. 100 Class)
07.09.1943 - 17.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Gorgon (Auk class minesweeper)
(10.1944)     HMS Gorgon (Auk class minesweeper) *
(01.1945) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
06.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Defender (ocean escort base, Liverpool)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
28.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for mobile training units( (in lieu of specialist anti-submarine officer)
Mullins,
Amos Stuart
A.S. Mullins

Son of Stuart Gardiner Mullins and Dorothy Mullins.
Husband of Kathleen Gladys Mullins, of Newhaven, Sussex.
05.09.1912
-
24.02.1943
[age 30]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, 4.F.1]
T/S.Lt.
15.04.1940
T/A/Lt.
24.01.1941
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
14.07.1942
ship sunk Tobruk [award presented to next-of-kin]
04.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) *
(1942)


Lighter A 14 (ship sunk)
23.10.1942
-
24.02.1943
HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (killed in a road accident)
Mullins,
James Patrick
J.P. Mullins
?
-

[possibly:
17.09.1922
-
02.1999
Flintshire East, Clwyd]
Prob. T/Lt.Cdr.
11.07.1940
T/A/S.Lt. RNVR
?
T/S.Lt. RNVR
03.02.1943
T/Lt. RNVR
03.02.1945
(02.1941)
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Viti (auxiliary patrol vessel) *
1942/43?


transferred to RNVR
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
06.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Stubborn (submarine)
22.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Voracious
* indexed, but not listed as such
Murray,
Brian Patrick John
B.P.J. Murray (Photo courtesy of Mrs Catherine Philpott)
Brother of F/O Fergus T. Murray, RAF(VR).
26.04.1906
West Ham, London, Essex
-
03.1998
Chichester, West Sussex
T/Lt. (E)
30.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)
> 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld 1946)



worked at P & O Lines
(05.1940)


second engineer, HMS Isle of Thanet (hospital ship) (Dunkirk)
22.01.1942
-
(06.1944)
second engineer, HMS Prince Charles (landing ship infantry)
13.11.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Sefton (infantry landing ship)
Murray,
James Gall

J.G. Murray
Son of William and Elizabeth Murray, of Renfrew, Scotland.
1903
Renfrew district, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
14.02.1942
(MPK) [age 38]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 2, column 2]
T/Lt. (E)
29.06.1940
29.06.1940
-
14.02.1942
Chief Engineer, HMS Li Wo (auxiliary patrol vessel) [ship sunk; see entry for Lt. Thomas Wilkinson, RNR]
Myhre,
Hans Kristian Olsen
H.K.O. Myhre
Son of Ole and Marthine Myhre; husband of Guuvar Marie Myhre, of Tonsberg, Norway.
24.08.1894
Norway
-
25.03.1942
[age 47]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 8, column 1]
T/S.Lt. (E)
30.08.1940
30.08.1940
-
25.03.1942
HMS Sulla (minesweeping trawler)
Mylchreest,
Peter John

P.J. Mylchreest
11.07.1926
-
19.12.2000
... ...
T/Midsh. 27.04.1944
A/S.Lt. ?
S.Lt. RN 26.03.1947, seniority 11.01.1946
... ...
Lt.Cdr. RN 16.01.1956 (retd 16.09.1961)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
? - (10.1945) HMS Rattlesnake
... - ... ...
       
 
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