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Tadman, W.K.
to
Tyson, I.J.

   
W.K. Tadman  to  I.J. Tyson
Tadman,
William Kilvington
W.K. Tadman
Son of John Edward Tadman (1882-1944), and Ethel Margaret Kilvington (1884-1962).
13.02.1912
Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire

-
01.05.1967
Hull district, East Riding of Yorkshire
Prob. A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933
A/S.Lt. 10.11.1934
S.Lt. 23.02.1937
Lt. 21.09.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. > 09.1943, < 10.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 21.09.1947 (retd 22.01.1953)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 12.06.1945 -
Commenced sea service as an apprentice in 1928 with Ellerman Bucknall & City Line (up to 1936).
11.08.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) (for 3 months' training)
26.01.1935 - 1935 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
03.1935 - 1935 HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
24.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Rodney (battleship)
04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Pangbourne (Hunt class minesweeper)
01.08.1941 - 11.09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Peterhead (Bangor class minesweeper)
09.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Woodruff (corvette)
Served Merchant Navy with Ellerman's Wilson Line, 21.04.1936-09.1964 (Master of "Rialto").
Tanner,
William Butler
"Bob"
W.B. Tanner
09.02.1898
Holyhead, Anglesey
-
05.1984
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
Lt. 31.12.1924
Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1932
Cdr. 31.12.1937
Capt. 30.06.1943 (reld 08.1947) (retd 09.02.1953)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 05.06.1940 -

Joined the Cunard Line 11.1924 as a Junior Officer aboard the Carmania. He has served aboard such famous ships as the old Caronia, Samaria, Antonia and Franconia.

20.04.1929     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
21.10.1933     HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery course)
16.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Dunluce Castle (depot ship)
06.08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
15.10.1941 - 26.04.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tenby (Bangor class minesweeper)
27.04.1943 - 01.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Aries (Algerine class minesweeper)
21.09.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Venduruth I (RN base, Cochin) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Cochin
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
09.12.1949 - 09.12.1951 RNR ADC to the King
Chief Officer of the RMS Britannic 08.1947. Then RMS Franconia. Master of cargo vessel Samson 01.1948. Staff Captain RMS Caronia (1949). Then RMS Arabia (± 1954/55).
Taylor,
William Compton
W.C. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian Gargate) W.C. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian Gargate)
Bachelor.
(09?).1891
West Hartlepool, Durham
-
T/Lt.
29.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
29.08.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
27.12.1940
good services to the Channel mobile balloon barrage [investiture 23.09.41]
01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Canton (armed merchant cruiser)
06.1940


possibly at HMS Carinthia (armed merchant cruiser) when it was lost on 06.06.1940
(1940)


HMS René le Besnerais (tug; barrage balloon vessel)
(02.1941)
 
 
HMS Victory III *
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Paragon (RN base, Harlepool) *
12.08.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Paragon (RN base, Harlepool)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Taylorson,
Oakley Norman
O.N. Taylorson
Son of Robert John Taylorson (1862?-1924), and Florence Annie Robinson(1866?-1959).
Married ((03?).1918, Hartlepool district, Co. Durham) Maude Evelyn Foxall (19.12.1894 - (12?).1975), daughter of Thomas and Margaret Foxall, of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham.
05.07.1892
West Hartlepool, Hartlepool district, Co. Durham
-
04.1976
Chatham district, Kent
T/S.Lt. (E) 20.10.1939
T/Lt. (E) 01.07.1941
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1943 New Year 43
30.10.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Queen of Thanet (paddle minesweeper)
06.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Queen of Thanet (paddle minesweeper) (despatches)
06.01.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Queen of Thanet (paddle minesweeper)
Temple,
Edward Wilson
E.W. Temple

Son of Harry and Margaret Temple; husband of Minnie Rose Temple, of Bridlington, Yorkshire.
1903 ?
-
22.10.1943
(KIA) [age 40]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, pan. 11, col. 1]
T/Skpr.
?
13.07.1942
-
22.10.1943
First Lieutenant, HM Trawler Orfasy (Isle class trawler) (torpedoed)
Thelwell,
Robert George
R.G. Thelwell
?
-
[1959 still alive]
Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1927
Cdr.
30.06.1935
Capt.
30.06.1942 (reld 1945/46)
Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd)
01.02.1951
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
21.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Pleiades (trawler base, Scapa Flow)
Thiselton,
Walter Ernest
W.E. Thiselton
?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA)
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 40, column 1]
Prob. Midsh.
01.01.1939
Midsh.
1940, seniority 01.01.1939
(08.1939)
-
(04.1940)
no appointment listed
?
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)
Thompson,
Victor James
V.J. Thompson (Photo courtesy of Mr Clive Grant)
25.05.1905
Lowestoft, Suffolk
-
01.12.1988
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
T/Skpr.
09.09.1939 [WS 3003 & TS 122]
T/A/Skpr.Lt.
05.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
26.12.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.44)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
12.12.1940
-
(08.1942)
French Ship "Resound"
05.01.1944
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1004 (motor minesweeper)
Publican from 1958-1968 & then skippered a pleasure cruiser 'Queen of the Broads' and 'Elizabeth Simpson' until 1980. 
Thompson,
William Ansdell
W.A. Thompson
?
-

[1959 still alive]
Lt.Cdr.
02.08.1923
Cdr.
31.12.1931
Capt.
31.12.1937 (retd > 07.1944, < 07.1945)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
      ?
Tognola,
John Frank
J.F. Tognola
Married ((12?).1928, Hull district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Phyllis E. Nicoll.
01.02.1902
Hull district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
(06?).1975
Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire
Prob. T/Lt. 19.08.1940
T/Lt. 03.1941, seniority 19.08.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 11.12.19145 wind up Europe 45
Served Merchant Navy.
(10.1940)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
24.10.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Maid Marion (armed yacht)
04.01.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Dianella (corvette) [possibly in command from 14.09.1943]
11.08.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Dianella (corvette) (MBE)
15.07.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Cuckmere (frigate)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Trickey,
James Fred
J.F. Trickey (Photo courtesy of Lynn Trickey) J.F. Trickey (Photo courtesy of Lynn Trickey)
J.F. Trickey
Married ...; four children (two born in the UK, two in South Africa).
07.11.1908
Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
1981
Durban, South Africa
[given a sea burial by Safmarine]
Midsh. ?
Prob. S.Lt. 02.04.1934
S.Lt. 1935?, seniority 02.04.1934
Lt. 14.02.1936
Lt.Cdr. 14.02.1944
A/Cdr. 15.04.1945 (reld 07.01.1947)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 23.02.1945 -
Served in the Merchant Navy (Certificate as Master of a foreign-going steamship, No. 33432, dated 14.12.1932). Resigned from The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd., 17.12.1938. Passage to Southampton, UK per RMS Edinburgh Castle, 12.1938.
05.05.1934 - 1934 gunnery course, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) [few days/weeks only]
20.07.1935 - 1935 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) [few days/weeks only]
02.11.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Starfish (submarine) (to complete 9 months' training)
26.09.1938 - 06.10.1938 HMS H 50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]
15.01.1940 - 31.01.1940 Lieutenant, South African Seaward Defence Force (Released to serve in the Royal Navy as Lieutenant, RNR. He sailed to Britain on the Union Castle liner, 'Warwick Castle', arriving at Southampton on 24.02.1940)
24.02.1940 - 11.03.1940 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for dispersal)
12.03.1940 - 31.03.1940 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (as spare submarine officer)
01.04.1940 - 29.04.1940 spare officer, HMS Unity (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth)] (ship lost in collision off River Tyne)
[After the sinking of HMSUnity James Trickey was singled out for 'special mention' by the Captain Lt. F.J Brooks for 'his assistance and encouragement of ratings in difficuties in the sea'. This was particularly relevant as Lt. Trickey was unable to swim more than a few yards.]
30.04.1940 - 1940 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (as spare submarine officer)
1940 - 30.08.1940 HMS H 31 (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth), then HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)]
31.08.1940 - 24.02.1941 HMS Porpoise (minelaying submarine) [tender to HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)]
25.02.1941 - 03.08.1941 First Lieutenant, H 44 (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)] (returned to general serivce; eyesight defect)
14.08.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Lairds Isle (ocean boarding vessel & school ship)
10.05.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Hilary (ocean boarding vessel) (06.1944 HQ ship "J" Force off Juno Beach, Normandy) [11.10.1944 discharged from RN and transfered to South African Naval Forces (No. 330783), but remained seconded to the RN]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
28.03.1946     in South Africa serving at RN shore base, HMS Kongoni, Durban
15.10.1946     secondment to UK Forces terminated
07.01.1947     indefinite release granted
Settled in Durban, 09.1944. Joined Safmarine, a newly established South African merchant marine company. He was appointed Captain and travelled the world for the next 20 years commanding Safmarine ships, retiring in 1968.
Troops,
Arthur Eric
A.E. Troops
Son of Arthur and Martha Troops.
Husband of Ada Troops, of Walkley, Sheffield.
10.08.1904
Isle of Wight
-
13.06.1944
[age 39]
[Sheffield (Crookes) Cemetery, KK.6821]
Midsh.
01.05.1922
A/S.Lt.
21.09.1925
S.Lt.
12.03.1927
Lt.
05.09.1930
Lt.Cdr.
05.09.1938
Cdr.
?
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
11.1940
?
Served in the Merchant Navy [S.41114]. Appointed as Navigating Officer on a Cable Ship serving under the Post Office, 08.12.1933.
01.03.1930
-
(04.1930)
HMS H 24 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
(04.1940)
-
(12.1941)
no appointment listed
?
-
13.06.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Monarch (cable ship)
[ship was erroneously shelled by the USS Plunkett while laying cable off Omaha beach at Normandy, causing three fatal casualties]
Tucker,
John Cameron
J.C. Tucker (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) J.C. Tucker (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
J.C. Tucker (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of ... Tucker, and ... Cooper.
Married 1st (1940s) ...; one son.
Married 2nd (1972) Muriel...; one stepdaughter.
27.08.1920
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
25.01.2011
Pangbourne, Reading
Midsh. 31.12.1936
A/S.Lt. 27.08.1940
S.Lt. 27.08.1941
Lt. 27.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.42) [investiture 28.09.43]
Mention in Despatches MID 06.07.1943 action with enemy convoy on the French coast 27.04.43
Education: Kingston Grammar School; HMS Worcester (training ship,1933-...).
Cadet apprentice with White Star Line until outbreak of war.
31.07.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Escort (destroyer)
19.09.1940 - 06.05.1941 HMS Camito (ocean boarding vessel) (ship torpedoed by U-97 west-southwest of Cape Clear)
09.06.1941 - 03.01.1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) [actually joined 17.06.1941]
22.03.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (DSC)
15.10.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Goathland (destroyer) (despatches)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
05.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Virago (destroyer)
Moved to South Africa and set up his own export business in Johannesburg, "Export Industries" (?),  exporting tools and crop spraying equipment to Middle East and South America. Returned to the UK after 28 years.
Tunbridge,
Robert Ernest Tuearsley
R.E.T. Tunbridge
(03?).1893
Isle of Wight, Hampshire
-
died between 07.1952 and 07.1962
Midsh.
?
S.Lt.
02.04.1916
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
02.04.1918
Lt.Cdr.
02.04.1926
Cdr.
30.06.1934
Capt.
31.12.1941 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (retd 09.12.1947)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
10.03.1942
Operation Countenance (Abadan Oil Refinery, Kaft-i-Khel Oil Fields and Bandar Shapur) [investiture 16.10.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
02.01.1945
secret operations enemy occupied French-Italian Adriatic
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
23.03.1928
-
05.09.1939
-
01.1941
Executive Officer, HMS Ranchi (armed merchant cruiser)
01.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Shoreham (sloop)
09.07.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for miscellaneous services)
01.11.1946
-
09.12.1947
RNR ADC to the King
Captain of the SS Ranchi, 1948.
Twomey,
Frederick John
F.J. Twomey
?
-
Prob. T/Lt.
13.03.1940
T/Lt.
05.1941, seniority 13.03.1940
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNVR
30.03.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNVR
25.01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
27.03.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS St Cathan (ASW trawler)
(07.1945)


Sea Cadet Corps
Tyson,
Ismay James
I.J. Tyson
?
-
[1959 still alive]
Lt.
24.12.1928
Lt.Cdr.
24.12.1936
Cdr.
31.12.1942 (reld 1945/46?)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
18.07.1944
Operation FY (N Russian convoy 03-04.44)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
01.01.1944
New Year 44
Mention in Despatches MID
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
Mention in Despatches MID
05.12.1944
convoy JW59 & RA59A
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
?
(1941)


Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Philomena (auxiliary trawler)
25.07.1942
-
(08.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Buxton (destroyer)
09.09.1943
-
(10.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Duff (frigate)
02.12.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Keppel (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
       
 
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