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Palmer, Alfred Brian "Pedlar" Son of Joseph Palmer, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Married (18.08.1947, Hong Kong) Caroline May Cooley, of Michigan, USA.	27.03.1899 Sydney, NSW, Australia - 04.07.1993 Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida, USA	T/Lt. 13.02.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 MBE 05.12.1944 attemped escapes from POW camps [award presented] DSC 29.07.1941 Lighter X39 with inshore squadron with army in Egypt & Cyrenaica [investiture 12.12.44] RHSBr 1936 saving life at sea, Rangoon, Burma 29.04.35 Awarded a bronze medal by the Pope for devotion to duty while POW in Italy.	Education: Kogarah High School, NSW Began career at sea in sailing ships, 1916. 1917 joined RN as a Cadet 1917 - 1918 served with the Grand Fleet Joined Commonwealth Line, 1920. Passed BOT examinations, became Master Mariner, 1927. Left Australia in 1932 and took up residence in Shanghai. Joined Angus & Co. as marine surveyor. Held commission in Shanghai Volunteers S. Service, 1933-1939. Became expert rifle and pistol shot in this period. 1939 joined RNR 13.03.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) 12.02.1941 - 22.11.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Maria di Giovanni (schooner) [ship grounded west of Tobruk; captured] 11.1941 - (1944?) POW in Italian and German captivity (made numerous attempts to escape [once sentenced to death], and in one of these lost right arm 01.04.1945 - (07.1945) [Commanding Officer?], HMS Furneaux (RN depot, Brisbane) 02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Tamar II (accounting base, Hong Kong) MSC (USA), FRGS. Marine Superintendent China Waterways Transport. Published: The merchant ships of Cathay; Pedlar Palmer of Tobruk (with Mary E. Curtis; 1981; memoirs) [US ed.: The pirate of Tobruk : a sailor's life on the seven seas, 1916-1948 (1994)]
Parry, Robert Booth	? -	Prob. T/Lt. 11.12.1939 T/Lt. 1940, seniority 11.12.1939	11.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) 25.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) 08.1941 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Toreador 03.07.1943 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Ambitious (minesweeping depot ship) ? - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * ? - (04.1946) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Patience, James Brother of T/Skpr. John Ritchie Patience, RNR.	05.01.1915 Avoch, Ross-Shire, Scotland - 10.07.1982	Skpr. 01.10.1943 [WS 3752] (reld from active service < 04.1946, but stayed on) (retd 01.07.1950) S.Lt. (PS) 26.08.1954, seniority 01.04.1952 Lt. (PS) 14.10.1955, seniority 01.04.1955 Lt.Cdr. (PS) 30.07.1963, seniority 01.04.1963 (retd 1960s?)	(07.1945) no appointment listed 26.08.1954 transferred to Patrol Service
Patience, John [Ritchie] Brother of Lt.Cdr. (PS) James Patience, RNR.	1914 Avoch, Ross-Shire, Scotland - 07.07.1979	T/Skpr. 21.09.1942 [TS 1259] (reld > 04.1946)	(07.1945) HMS Barfoil (boom defence vessel) * (04.1946) HMS Scythe (auxiliary minesweeper; tug conversion) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Pattinson, Robert Martin	(06?).1904 West Derby, Lancashire - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	Prob. S.Lt. 01.12.1930 S.Lt. 20.04.1931, seniority 01.12.1930 Lt. 01.12.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1940 Cdr. 30.06.1946 (reld from active service 1946?) (retd 30.04.1954) DSC 24.04.1940 combatting enemy aircraft RD > 02.1941 < 07.1945 ?	05.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Northern Duke (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 01.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Nelson (battleship) 18.11.1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Genista (corvette) 24.05.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Usk (frigate) 18.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for Party "Minor" "A") (04.1946) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Pattison, Eric Ronald "Winger"	? -	Prob. Paym.S.Lt. 04.03.1939 Paym.Lt. 02.10.1940	- (1941?) HMS Kelly (destroyer) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no posting listed
Peate, Henry Benjamin	29.08.1903 Oswestry, Denbighshire Shropshire - 10.1989 Chester and Ellesmere Port, Cheshire	Prob. S.Lt. 06.09.1928? S.Lt. 06.07.1929, seniority 06.09.1928 Lt. 06.09.1930 (retd 15.04.1931, with seniority 15.03.1931) (reinstated on Active List 02.06.1931, with old seniority) Lt.Cdr. 06.09.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1944 (reld < 04.1946) Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 29.08.1958) DSC 21.12.1943 Operation Husky MID 15.05.1942 Bruneval raid 27.02.42 MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche MID 01.01.1945 New Year 45 MID 27.03.1945 Operation Dragon RD < 01.1945 ?	29.07.1929 - (08.)1929 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 09.09.1929 - (04.1930) HMS H 44 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 06.09.1939 - (02.)1941 [Executive Officer?] HMS Salopian (armed merchant cruiser) 24.07.1941 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Prins Albert (landing ship infantry) [for the Bruneval raid "borne" on the books of HMS Tormentor (parent ship, Warsash)] 26.06.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Silvio (landing ship infantry)
Penrose, Charles William	? - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	Skpr. 14.05.1917 [WSC 19] Ch.Skpr. 14.05.1927 [WS 2438] (retd 27.03.1940) Skpr.Lt. (retd) 27.03.1940 DSC 01.01.1940 New Year 40 RD 30.04.1935 ?	13.11.1939 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Ashfield (minesweeping trawler)
Perks, Henry John	29.04.1889 Atcham district, Montgomery- shire / Shropsire - 22.05.1971	Army: T/2nd Lt. ? T/Lt. ? (reld 22.03.1919) Lt. RARO 16.11.1921, seniority 25.11.1920 RNR: Prob. T/ Lt. 18.01.1940 T/Lt. 10.11.1941, seniority 18.01.1940 MID 20.12.1940 bomb disposal World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal	1917? commissioned, General List [temporary commission] 15.11.1917 transferred, Corps of Royal Engineers served in WW1 as a Merchant Navy Officer and a Royal Engineer Lieutenant (believed to be officer commanding an Army lighter carrying munitions out of Ramsgate) 16.11.1921 Regular Army Reserve of Officers (General List, I.W. & D. Trans.) 18.01.1940 - 27.04.1940 Admiralty [HMS President] 27.04.1940 - (02.1941) Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Perrett, Reginald Robert George Son of George and Emily Gertrude Perrett; husband of Olga Florrie Sarella Perrett, of Walsall, Staffordshire.	(12?).1900 Newbury district, Berkshire / Hampshire - 04.06.1941 (KIA) [age 40] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 49, 3]	T/Lt. (E) 09.09.1940	(02.1941) HMS Fratton (barrage balloon vessel) * ? - 04.06.1941 HMS Van Meerlant ([former Dutch] minelayer) [ship mined in the Thames estuary] * indexed, but not listed as such
Pettitt, Nelson Noel Son of William T. Pettitt (died in World War I), and Emily Pettitt.	25.12.1916 Settle, Yorkshire - 22.05.1973	T/S.Lt. 01.12.1939 T/Lt. 25.12.1941 (reld > 04.1946) Lt.Cdr. 25.12.1949 (emgcy 1950?) (retd 1956) 39|45 St ? ? Atl St ? & France & Germany clasp Afr St ? ? It St ? ? BWM 39|45 ? ?	Joined the Merchant Navy, 06.1933. 01.12.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Laconia (armed merchant cruiser) 24.03.1941 - 1941 submarine course [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 1941 - 1941 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) 05.06.1941 - 02.09.1941 Navigating Officer, HMS H.50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) of 7th Submarine Flotilla at Rothesay, Scotland] 03.09.1941 - 24.04.1942 Navigating Officer, HMS Turbulent (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) of 5th Submarine Flotilla at Gosport "standing by whilst completing at Vickers at Barrow in Furness and on Commissioning"; upon commissioning HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) in the Mediterranean] 25.04.1942 - 02.08.1942 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) 03.08.1942 - 14.09.1942 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (7th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) (for submarines) 15.09.1942 - 26.09.1942 First Lieutenant, HMS L 27 (submarine) 27.09.1942 - 19.12.1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 20.12.1942 - 31.12.1942 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (3rd Submarine Flotilla, Holy Loch, Scotland) 01.01.1943 - 05.04.1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Upright (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin (submarine depot ship)  for 6th Submarine Flotilla at Blyth, Northumberland] 06.04.1943 - 1943 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) 17.05.1943 - 01.08.1943 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (5th Submarine Flotilla) (for submarines) 02.08.1943 - 20.09.1943 First Lieutenant, HMS L.26 (submarine) 21.09.1943 - 13.10.1944 HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne) (12th Submarine Flotilla) (for ship's company of X craft) 14.10.1944 transferred to RINR [HMS Victory (RN barracks, Portsmouth)] 11.02.1945 - (04.1946) [Commanding Officer?], HMIS Baluchistan (minesweeper) 11.04.1947 transferred to RN 03.1947 - (10.1947) HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon) * 04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Resource (repair ship) 18.04.1953 - (01.)1956 HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) * (07.1948) & (05.1949) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Phillipson, Dryden Byrne Son of Dryden and Eva Blanche Phillipson; husband of Eleanor Phillipson, of Fanham, Newcastle-on- Tyne.	1914 ? - 07.03.1942 [age 28] [Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 8, column 1]	S.Lt. 01.07.1937 Lt. 16.05.1940	13.09.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Aquamarine (trawler; armed boarding vessel) (02.1941) HMS Mooltan (armed merchant cruiser)  * 03.1941 - 07.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HM Northern Princess (trawler) [based at HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall) ?] [on loan to US Navy] * indexed, but not listed as such
Piggot, William Brown	c. 1904 ? Londonderry ? - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	Prob. S.Lt. 13.10.1926 S.Lt. 1927?, seniority 13.10.1926 Lt. 13.10.1928 Lt.Cdr. 13.10.1936 Cdr. 30.06.1941 (reld < 04.1946) Capt. 31.12.1947 (retd 07.06.1958) OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 [investiture 30.06.42] DSC 14.09.1943 destruction U-boat Western Approaches 11.05.43 [investiture 18.07.45] DSC 02.05.1944 sinking U340 captain captured Mediterranean 02.11.43 [investiture 18.07.45] MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 RD ? ?	21.03.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Versatile (destroyer) (to complete 12 months' training) 06.10.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Hugh Walpole (trawler) 1940? Commanding Officer, HMS Arctic Explorer (trawler) 21.05.1940 - 01.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Mallow (corvette) 18.11.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) (for convoy duties) 20.07.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Fleetwood (sloop) 10.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
Piggott, Arnold Howard	(06?).1904 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 12.1996 Wycombe, Oxfordshire	Midsh. 1921 Lt. 21.01.1929 Lt.Cdr. 21.01.1937 (retd) A/Cdr. (retd) 1944 Cdr. (retd) ? (reverted to retd 1945) RD ? ?	Education: Taunton School and HMS Conway 1921 service with Canadian Pacific Steamship Company 1930 commanded Royal Naval Reserve contingent, Armistice Day ceremony, London 1940 appointed to command inshore minesweeping flotilla 1940 - 06.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Van Meerlant (wounded and lost a leg when the ship sunk by mine, Thames estuary) 10.06.1942 - 17.12.1943 staff, Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.12.1943 - (07.1945) Combined Operations Division, Admiralty
Piggott, Frederick Melbourne Married 1st Juanita Piggott; one son. Married 2nd Patricia Mary Piggott; one daughter.	27.04.1915 Ormskirk, Lancashire - c. 1986/87 Australia ?	Prob. A/S.Lt. 01.03.1937 A/S.Lt. 31.01.1938 S.Lt. 26.11.1939 Lt. 15.07.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1948 (retd 27.04.1960) RD 14.07.1949 ? RD ? 1st clasp	10.10.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Queen of Thanet (paddle minesweeper) (06.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Northcoates (minesweeping trawler) 30.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS L 27 (submarine) 01.04.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Otus (submarine) 23.11.1942 - (02.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS P 556 (submarine) 17.03.1943 - 07.06.1944 on loan to RANR(S): 17.03.1943 - 18.03.1943 London Depot RAN 19.03.1943 - 05.1943 HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage to Australia via USA per SS Ewing Young; arrived Gladstone, Qld. 12.04.1943) 05.1943 - 21.06.1943 HMAS Penguin (additional; for duty with K 9 (submarine)) 22.06.1943 - 31.03.1944 Commanding Officer, HMAS K 9 (submarine) [based at HMAS Penguin, from 29.07.1943 HMAS Rushcutter] 01.04.1944 - 07.06.1944 HMAS Penguin (addtional; for passage from Sydney to Colombo per SS Straat Soenda, disembarking at HMS Adamant at 06.06.1944) 1954 - 1959 training on behalf of Admiralty: 08.03.1954 - 12.03.1954 HMAS Penguin (ABC course) 13.03.1954 - 28.03.1954 HMAS Rushcutter (TAS course) 29.03.1954 - 04.04.1954 HMAS Telemachus 17.05.1956 - 05.1956 HMAS Watson (14 days ND refresher course) 28.02.1957 - 03.1957 HMAS Albatross (14 days MHQ course) 23.07.1959 - 08.1959 HMAS Penguin (28 days training for standard and advanced ABC & DC courses)
Piper, Aston Dalzell "Peter" Married; .. children.	19.04.1913 Dovercourt, nr. Harwich - 08.11.1995 Exeter, Devon	Prob. Midsh. 18.03.1932 Midsh. ?, seniority 18.03.1932 A/S.Lt. 16.07.1934 S.Lt. 23.05.1937 Lt. 19.08.1937 14.06.1938, seniority 29.03.1937 Lt.Cdr. 29.03.1945 (reld 1947) (retd 28.10.1950) (reinstated on Active List 25.10.1951) Cdr. 30.06.1953 Capt. 31.12.1960 (retd 05.03.1966) DSO 14.11.1944 patrols Mediterranean 06.43-07.44 DSC 01.01.1940 New Year 40 DSC 07.04.1942 12 war patrols Mediterranean since 04.41 DSC 21.07.1942 sinking U331 & U242 etc. Mediterranean RD 21.09.1944 ? RD 06.06.1957 ? RD 11.02.1966 ?	Education: Dovercourt High School and Ardingly College Went to sea with the Merchant Navy, 1929, mainly serving with the United Baltic Steamship Line, lastly as First Officer of SS Baltraffic prior to the outbreak of the war. 18.03.1932 joined RNR 05.10.1937 - (02.1938) HMS H 49 (submarine) 08.11.1939 - (02.1941) Navigator, HMS Ursula (submarine) (1942) First Lieutenant, HMS Unbeaten (submarine) 26.08.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS P.55, renamed early 1943: HMS Unsparing (submarine) 1944 - 1944 lectured on submarine operations in the United States 12.1944 - 1945? Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (submarine) (07.1945) no posting listed 08.1945 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Sirdar (submarine) (04.1946) HMS Cuillin Sound (repair ship) * * indexed, but not listed as such Obtained his master's certificate, 1948, but soon afterwards joined the Iraq Petroleum Company, first as mooring master in Qatar and subsequently as superintendent of Iraq's vital oil terminal at A1 Faw. He stayed there until 1958 when the Kassem coup d'etat and the murder of King Faisal prompted a move to Syria and then back to Qatar. He remained there until his retirement in 1965 when he returned with his family to Britain, living in retirement first near Henley-on-Thames and finally at Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
Pittendrigh, James	? -	T/Lt. 30.10.1939 (reld 1945/46) DSC  22.02.1918 * 1915 Star trio, 1939-45 and Africa Stars, Defence and War medals * In recognition of gallant conduct and good seamanship under fire. Whilst he was on patrol in H.M. Trawler "Restrivo" in the Kos Channel, on the 25th October, 1917, fire was opened on him from the shore. At the same time a caique, flying the Italian flag, was seen between the trawler and the shore, dismasted and drifting towards the enemy coast. Though a strong southerly wind was blowing and the sea was rough, Lieut. Pittendrigh closed the caique, took her in tow, and brought her into safety. The enemy meantime maintained a hot fire from a 4-inch gun, to which the trawler, owing to her inferior armament, was unable to make an effective reply.	WW I HMT Restrivo 16.02.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) 27.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)
Platt, Thomas Douglas Laverick	? -	T/Lt. 30.03.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? DSO  21.05.1942 attack St. Nazaire 28.03.42	17.10.1941 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, ML 443 & SO 28th ML Flotilla (07.1945)