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Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Officers
1939-1945

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MacDonald, D.
to
Myhre, H.K.O.

D. MacDonald to H.K.O. Myhre

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 (corvette)
05.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Myosotis (corvette)
06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Braithwaite (frigate) *

Post-war Principal at the Belfast School of Navigation until retirement in the late 1960s.
* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

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)

DSO	25.08.1942	attack U-boat Western Approaches 02.06.41 [investiture 07.12.43]
MID	01.01.1941	New Year 41
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.

1887 ?
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

?
-

Cdr.	31.12.1921 (retd 22.08.1928)
Capt. (retd)	22.08.1928
A/Cdre. 2nd cl.	07.01.1941

	MID	15.12.1942	services in convoys since 41
	RD	?	?

07.01.1941

(08.1942)

Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

MacKay,
John
"Jock"
J. MacKay

From Wick, Scotland.

1901
-
?

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)

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)

12.12.1944

(07.1945)

Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

MacLeod,
Murdo [1]
M. MacLeod

?
-
[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

?
-

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.	?

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)	?

DSM

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

From Cromore, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

?
-

Second Hand	1940? [LT/X 18320A]
Skpr.	01.09.1942 [WS 3648]
A/Skpr.Lt.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Lt.Cdr. ?	?

	DSM	01.01.1941	New Year 41
	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?

...	-	...	...
(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)

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)

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.

(09?).1903
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973

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)

DSO	12.06.1945	opening Greek ports Patras & Itea [investiture 12.03.46]
DSC	01.01.1941	New Year 41 [investiture 25.02.41]
DSC	07.12.1943	Operation Antidote [investiture 11.05.45]
DSC	27.03.1945	Operation Dragoon [investiture 11.05.45]
MID	04.10.1940	air attack
MID	31.03.1942	minefield clearance Nore 12.41-01.42
MID	14.11.1944	minesweeping Mediterranean
RD	?	-
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
A.E. Martin

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

17.10.1939 (reld 1941)

17.10.1939	-	(01?.)1941	HMS Queen of Bermuda (armed merchant cruiser)
16.01.1941			aboard the steamer Oropesa (auxiliary transport) when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine approx. 100 miles NW of Bloody Foreland, Northern Ireland
			shortly afterwards invalided out because of a leg injury

Mason,
Richard Albert

see:

RNVR section

Mates,
Leonard Newman
L.N. Mates (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. 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.

May,
Herbert Samuel
H.S. May

(12?).1904
Southwark, Greater 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

Married (28.03.1913, Vancouver, BC) Beatrice Annie Westwood; one son, one daughter.

17.10.1882
Hampstead, London, Middlesex
-
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

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)

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)

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).

McKenzie,
John Grant
R.G. McClymont

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 < 12.1941; disability)

Education: Daniel Stewarts College, Edinburgh
Served with Merchant Navy with Ben Line.

20.05.1939	-	(08.)1939	HMS Rodney (battlship) (Home Fleet) (for 4 months' training)
05.12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Valiant (battleship)
07.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Ambuscade (destroyer)

In civil capacity involved at Southampton as one of the harbour masters for the D-Day invasion.

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?

(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)

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	?

GCVO	16.08.1934	New Year 35
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
CB	03.06.1925	HM's birthday
CVO	07.07.1922	?
DSO	21.10.1914	Heligoland Bight 28.08.14
MID	21.10.1914	Heligoland Bight 28.08.14
MID	03.03.1915	Dogger Bank 24.01.15
MID	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
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)