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Tadman, William Kilvington 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) 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"	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) 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 Bachelor.	(09?).1891 West Hartlepool, Durham -	T/Lt. 29.11.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 29.08.1940 (reld < 04.1946) 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 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 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 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	? - [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 OBE 01.01.1941 New Year 41 RD ? ?	21.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Pleiades (trawler base, Scapa Flow)
Thiselton, Walter Ernest	? - 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, Matthew Percival Son of Charles Kyme Thompson and Elizabeth Thompson. Married ((03?).1932, Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside) Mary Patricia Baragwanath, of Meliden, Flintshire; one daughter.	(06?).1909 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 02.10.1942 (KIA) [age 33] [Oban (Pennyfuir) Cemetery, Argyllshire, sec. I, grave 309]	Prob. A/Lt. 26.01.1939 Lt. 11.01.1940	14.09.1939 - (10.)1941 HMS Alaunia (armed merchant cruiser) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 13.12.1941 - (08.)1942 Navigating Officer, HMS Bridgewater (sloop) (10.1942)     no appointment listed ? - 02.10.1942 HMS Curacoa (cruiser) [ship lost in collision with liner "Queen Mary" off Bloody Foreland]
Thompson, Victor James	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) 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	? - [1959 still alive]	Lt.Cdr. 02.08.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 31.12.1937 (retd > 07.1944, < 07.1945) RD ? ?	?
Tognola, John Frank 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) 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
Tolfree, Frank Derek Son of ... Tolfree, and ... Wheatley. Married 1st ((06?).1948, Bromley district, Kent) Josephine Greenfield. Married 2nd ((03?).1958, Surrey South Western district) Peggy E. Turner.	(03?).1925 Bromley district, Surrey -	Prob. T/Midsh. 28.04.1942 T/A/S.Lt. 22.08.1944 T/S.Lt. 22.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	(06.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed 19.12.1942 - (04.)1945 HMS Westminster (destroyer) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Trickey, James Fred 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) 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp France & Germany Afr St - - It St - - WM 39|45 - - AfrSM - - 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 - 13.06.1934 gunnery course, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 14.06.1934 - 03.08.1934 HMS Rodney (battleship) (to complete 3 months' training) 20.07.1935 - 19.09.1935 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (training in submarines) 21.09.1935 - 03.11.1935 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (training in submarines) 04.11.1935 - 21.04.1936 HMS Starfish (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops]  (to complete 9 months' training in submarines) 03.09.1938 - 30.09.1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport, Hampshire) (training in submarines) 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] 01.02.1940 - 23.02.1940 HMS Afrikander I (RN base, Simonstown) [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 - 10.07.1940 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (as spare submarine officer) 11.07.1940 - 24.09.1940 HMS H 31 (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth), then from 31.08.1940 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)] 25.09.1940 - 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) 04.08.1941 - 13.08.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 14.08.1941 - 19.08.1942 HMS Lairds Isle (ocean boarding vessel & school ship) 20.08.1942 - 26.10.1942 HMS Manxman (minelayer) 27.10.1942 - 03.05.1943 HMS Lairds Isle (ocean boarding vessel & school ship) [tender to HMS Cochrane II] 04.05.1943 - 09.05.1943 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 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 transferred 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 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. ? 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 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) DSC 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.42) [investiture 28.09.43] 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	09.12.1892 Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire - 02.02.1956 died at sea while traveling as a passenger in the British India Steam Navigation Company's ship "Kenya" (his residence was at Bexhill, Sussex)	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 > 07.1945, < 04.1946) (retd 09.12.1947) DSC 10.03.1942 Operation Countenance (Abadan Oil Refinery, Kaft-i-Khel Oil Fields and Bandar Shapur) [investiture 16.10.45] MID 02.01.1945 secret operations enemy occupied French-Italian Adriatic * RD 23.03.1928 -	Served Merchant Navy (Second Mate's certificate, 18.04.1914; First Mate's certificate, 20.05.1919; Master's certificate, 22.12.1919). Joined P & O Company as Fourth Officer, 1914. Mobilized in the RNR World War I until 01.1920. 05.09.1939 - 01.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Ranchi (armed merchant cruiser) 01.1941 - (12.1941) [Executive Officer?], HMS Shoreham (sloop) (DSC) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 01.03.1942 - (02.)1943 Senior Officer, Ceylon Escort Group [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] 12.02.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) (for Sea Transport duties, Algiers) [in fact he was Senior Officer, African Coastal Flotilla, to carry out clandestine operations on enemy-held shores] (despatches) 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.
* Recommendation from the Deputy Director of the Operations Division (Irregular) (DDOD(I)) for the award of a Mention in Despatches for Capt. R.E.T. Tunbridge: "In connection with the attached list of recommendations for honours and awards to the personnel of the ACF, DDOD(I) desires to submit the work of Captain Tunbridge to the notice of the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean. Captain Tunbridge succeeded to the command of the African Coastal Flotilla in the spring of 1943 at a time when the fortunes of the flotilla were at a low ebb and the morale of the personnel lowered by the absence of active operations, and the difficulties in obtaining well found ships and suitable equipment. In the face of the overwhelming requirements of regular operations, no priority could be granted to the flotilla in its struggles to effect repairs to the ancient craft available, and no consideration could be given towards the provision of more suitable craft. Moreover, the prestige of the flotilla had been damaged by the depredations of “private navies” operating in the Mediterranean before the advent of DDOD(I). The zealous but unconstitutional conduct of the sponsors of the “private navies” had alienated the sympathy and understanding of local naval authorities who at best regarded irregular operations with amused tolerance and ridicule, or at the worst with impatience and hostility. Captain Tunbridge therefore, fresh from the relatively straightforward business of the sea, was faced with a formidable task with at first nothing to help him beyond directives and signals and letters of encouragement from DDOD(I) coupled with periodical personal visits from the latter and as much equipment as DDOD(I) could scrape together in the UK. In the sixteen months Captain Tunbridge has been in command he has, with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief’s staff, not only succeeded in building up a highly efficient force, but has restored the confidence of the flotilla in its work; has overcome the prejudices of local naval authorities, with the result that the flotilla now enjoys the maximum assistance in its work, and, above all, Captain Tunbridge has succeeded in removing the convictions of the clandestine authorities in the Mediterranean (since they have been largely deprived of their private navies) that the formation of the African Coastal Flotilla would hamper rather than advance their interests. This last achievement has been won at the expense of an outwardly strictly neutral attitude to all clandestine authorities and the exercise of exceptional patience, cunning and tact, for such is the ‘prima donna’-like temperament of those engaged on underground or subversive activities that had the slightest preference been shown to one more than the other (except as ordered by Allied Forces HQ) the competitors would have immediately seized the opportunity as an excuse to re-embark on private sea-going enterprises, chaos would have again resulted and the just prejudices of local naval authorities never overcome. Thus it will be seen that Captain Tunbridge in addition to his ability as an organizer and seaman has won a diplomatic victory, and it has been necessary for DDOD(I) to set down the record of his achievements in forceful rather than tactful language in order to emphasize this latter point."
Twomey, Frederick John	? -	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	? - [1959 still alive]	Lt. 24.12.1928 Lt.Cdr. 24.12.1936 Cdr. 31.12.1942 (reld 1945/46?) DSO 18.07.1944 Operation FY (N Russian convoy 03-04.44) DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 44 MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 05.12.1944 convoy JW59 & RA59A 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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