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1939-1945

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Abbey,
 Peter Alistair St Clare
P.A.St.C. Abbey
Son of ... Abbey, and ... Openshaw.		 03.09.1923
Hampstead district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
05.1995
Crawley, West Sussex
T/S.Lt. 11.09.1944
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
18.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Mauritius (cruiser)
Abbiss,
 Ronald Walker
R.W. Abbiss
Son of ... Abbiss, and ... Miller.		 (09?).1922
Holbeck district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 24.09.1944
07.03.1945 - (07.1945) 821 Squadron FAA
Abbot,
 Norman Percy
N.P. Abbot 		29.06.1919 ??
-
2002 ??
Petersfield, Hampshire ??
Prob. T/El.S.Lt. 08.12.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.04.1943
? - (02.1941) HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth) *
07.01.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Howe (battleship)
04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.) (for radar duties)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Abbott,
 Alexander Cranfield
A.C. Abbott 		21.05.1904
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
(06?).1974
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.03.1945
18.02.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Northney II (landing craft base, Hayling Island)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Actor in the BBC tv film "The Quarry" (1966).
Abbott,
 Allan Noel Norman
A.N.N. Abbott
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Born.		 13.02.1917
Uxbridge, Middlesex
-
08.1997
West Surrey
T/S.Lt. (A) 25.07.1943
T/Lt. (A) 01.06.1945
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
20.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship) (air engineering duties)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Abbott,
 Benjamin Charles
B.C. Abbott  		 ?
-
T/Lt. 29.08.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
04.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1 (motor minesweeper)
22.01.1946 - (04.1946) Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Abbott,
 Basil Duncan
B.D. Abbott
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Robinson.
 		02.04.1921
Tendring district, Essex
-
02.1995
Colchester, Essex
T/S.Lt. (A)
 20.11.1942
T/Lt. (A)
 20.05.1945
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
 < 07.1945, till < 04.1946



probably served at Malta
12.08.1944
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		pilot, 811 Squadron FAA
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Abbott,
 Charles Ortzen
C.O. Abbott
From Bradford.
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Marshall.
 		28.05.1918
North Bierley district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
08.1988
Ipswich, Suffolk
T/Lt.
 01.02.1943
Mention in Despatches MID
 30.05.1944
 Coastal Forces action 23.10.43
15.03.1943
 -
 		(06.1944?)
 		HM MTB 504 (motor torpedo boat)
22.11.1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		First Lieutenant, HM MTB 727 (motor torpedo boat)
30.10.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 632 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* other source: 15.03.1943-(10.1943) Commanding Officer, HM MGB 607 (motor gun boat)
Abbott,
 Charles Reginald
C.R. Abbott 		?
-
T/Lt. (E)
 11.01.1943
24.02.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Abbott,
 Douglas Barrington
D.B. Abbott
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Nicoll.
 		(12?).1924
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
T/S.Lt.
 11.11.1944
25.01.1944
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		HMS Fernie (destroyer)
Abbott,
 Frank del Sandys
"Joe"
F. del S. Abbott
Second son of Edmund Rushworth Abbott (1866-1953), solicitor, and Emily Beatrice Abney Sandys (1868-1947).
Brother of Capt. Edmund Geoffrey Abbott, AM, RN, and Lt. Myles John Abbott.
Married (1949) Marjorie May Paddon, only daughter of Mr & Mrs W.H. Paddon, of Erdington, Birmingham.		 21.08.1904
Uxbridge, Middlesex
-
04.02.2001
Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 01.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
 < 07.1945, 04.1946 still
15.05.1942
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for miscellaneous duties)
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Railways officer.
Abbott,
 Geoffrey Francis
G.F. Abbott 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 02.01.1944
T/Lt.
 01.08.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
26.09.1945
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		[Commanding Officer ?,] HMS Holderness (destroyer)
Abbott,
 Hugh Hector
H.H. Abbott 		12.10.1920
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
09.2002
Mid Warwickshire
[age 81]
T/El.Lt.
 01.01.1945
04.12.1944
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		HMS Corbrae (repair ship)
Member, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Abbott,
 John
J. Abbott 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 01.03.1944
T/Lt. (A)
 01.03.1946
14.07.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		845 Squadron FAA
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Abbott,
 John Landells
J.L. Abbott
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Landells.
 		11.05.1916
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
(06?).1982
Surrey South eastern district
T/Lt.
 26.11.1943
Male Assistant Preventive Officer, Customs and Excise Department, 1937.
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office)
Abbott,
 John Noel
J.N. Abbott 		1912 ??
-
T/Lt. (E)
 03.05.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Deane
Abbott,
 John William
J.W. Abbott 		?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 28.02.1944
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
 < 07.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Cormorant
Abbott,
 Luther Wrigley
L.W. Abbott
Married ((12?).1928, Bucklow district, Cheshire) ... Walters.		 (06?).1902
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
(03?).1967
Aled district, Denbighshire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 11.06.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abbott *,
 Max Evelyn Lee
M.E.L. Abbot
Only son of Lt.Col. S.H. Lee Abbott, DSO, IMS, of Whitechurch.
Residence: (1953) Hampton, Middlesex.
Married; one daughter, two sons.
* In Navy List shown as Abbot
02.12.1908
Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, India
-
18.03.1974
Hampton, Middlesex
T/Sg.Lt. 22.12.1939
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 01.1945, < 04.1945
Education: Fettes College, Edinburgh (Va mods; 1922-07.1927); Edinburgh Medical School (LRCP&S Ed, 1937). LRFPS Glas.
Afr house appointments at Chester Royal Infinmary he went to sea as a ship's doctor with the Red Funnel Line and saw some of the Far East .
17.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HM Dockyard Rosyth [HMS Cochrane]
04.02.1941 - 20.04.1942 HMS Eridge (escort destroyer)
08.03.1944 - (04.)1945 HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
      HMS Striker (Far East mid/late 40’s, visited Australia, staffed a field hospital at the end of the war at Kai Tak airfield, Hong Kong, returned to the UK based in Chatham Naval Dockyard)
General practitioner, Hampton-on-Thames. Was on the staff of St. Mary's Cottage Hospital, Hampton.
Abbott,
 Phillip
P. Abbott 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 03.10.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Illustrious (aircraft carier)
Abbott,
 Peter Esmond
P.E. Abbott 		?
-
T/Lt. (A) 03.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) 845 Squadron FAA *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Abbott,
 Philip Henry
"Bud"
P.H. Abbott (Photo courtesy of Mr & Mrs P.H. Abbott) P.H. Abbott (Photo courtesy of Mr & Mrs P.H. Abbott)
P.H. Abbott (Photo courtesy of Mr & Mrs P.H. Abbott) P.H. Abbott (Photo courtesy of Mr & Mrs P.H. Abbott)
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Thompson.
Married 1st ((06?).1949, Watford district) Joan M. Goddard (divorced 1960s); four children.
Married 2nd (1977, Cranbrook, BC) Linda ...
 		26.01.1921
Westcliffe on Sea, Rochford district, Essex
-

Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
T/S.Lt. (A)
 14.02.1942
T/A/Lt. (A)
 ?
T/Lt. (A)
 14.08.1944
07.09.1942
 -
 		(06.)1944
 		pilot, 831 Squadron FAA (attack of German battleship Tirpitz 04.1944)
19.06.1944
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus)]
10.05.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		pilot, 815 Squadron FAA
18.02.1946
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
Emigrated to Canada, 1957, first living near Vancouver, later in Cranbrook, BC. With a keen interest in theatre & singing, he does a lot of volunteer work.
Abbott,
 Robert
R. Abbott 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 14.12.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		1712 Squadron FAA
Abbott,
 Rolfe Merton Frederick
R.M.F. Abbott  
Son of Walter Abbott, and Minnie Arabella Newland.		 05.05.1917
Woolwich, Greater London, Kent
-
03.2002
Brighton, Sussex
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 23.10.1939
T/El.S.Lt. ?, seniority 23.10.1939
T/El.Lt. 01.03.1942
03.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
01.10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
04.08.1941 - (10.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
Abbott,
 Ronald Thomas
R.T. Abbott 		?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 19.11.1942
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Curlew
Abbott,
 Stephen Christopher Lee
S.C.L. Abbott
Son of ... Abbott, and ... Clark.
Married ((03?).1968, Oxford district, Oxfordshire) ... Goldup.
 		(12?).1923
Wallingford district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire
-
T/S.Lt.
 01.03.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Chartered accountant, Oxford.
Abbott,
 Thomas Frederick
T.F. Abbott 		?
-
T/Lt.
 21.11.1942
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Brontosaurus
Abel,
 James
J. Abel 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 20.04.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abel,
 Richard Cox
R.C. Abel 		08.04.1912
-
01.2001
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 30.08.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Braganza
Abel,
 Sidney Clinton
S.C. Abel
Son of ... Abel, and Aureola Ivy Abel.		 1921/22 ?
India ?
-
T/Lt. (A)
 01.05.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Ringtail
Abel-Smith,
 Lionel
L. Abel-Smith
Son of Brig.Gen. Lionel Abel Abel-Smith (1870-1946), and Genevieva Lilac Walsh.
 		01.09.1924
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt.
 01.09.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abell,
 Thomas
T. Abell 		25.03.1919 ??
??
-
09.1992 ??
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ??
T/Lt.
 23.04.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Sabre
Abell,
 William Arthur Lampson
W.A.L. Abell
Son of ... Abell, and ... Skelton.
Married ((12?).1949, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) ... Dickinson.		 (09?).1924
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 27.11.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Ukussa
Abello,
 Clarence Lionel
C.L. Abello (Photo courtesy of Mr Vincent Labiano Abello) 		17.09.1907
-
22.09.1992
Washington county, Oregon, USA
T/S.Lt.
 13.11.1942
T/Lt.
 13.08.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
  
 		 
 		no appointment listed
(07.1945)

HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) *
(04.1946)
  
 		 
 		no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Abercrombie,
 George Francis
G.F. Abercrombie
Of Lower Kingswood, Surrey.
Only son of late George Kennedy Abercrombie, Solicitor, London, and Margaret Jane (née Forbes).
Married (1932) Marie, younger daughter of late Frank Underhill, JP, Plympton, S. Devon; one son, two daughters.
 		25.06.1896
Kensington, Greater London
-
26.09.1978
Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey
Sg.Lt.
 1922
Sg.Cdr.
 30.06.1935
Sg.Capt.
 1948 (retd 1951)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
 1940
 ?
Education: Charterhouse School; Gonville and Caius Colleges, Cambridge. MA, BCh 1922; MB 1924, MD 1935



London Division RNVR



Surgeon Probationer, RNVR (HMS Warwick, Zeebrugge, 1918, despatches)



HMS Birmingham
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Anson
1950

King's Honorary Physician
General practitioner, 1924-1966.
House Surgeon and Resident Midwifery Assistant, St Bartholomew's Hospital; House Physician, Hospital for Sick Children, Gt Ormond Street. Honorary FRSocMed (first President, Secretary of General Practice, 1950); Member of Management Comitttee, 1963-1967, and Chairman, Emergency Bed Service Comittee, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1951-1967; Lecturer on General Practice, St Bart's Hospital Medical School, 1953-1966. Foundation Member, College of General Practitioners (Chm. Coun., 1952-1955; James Mackenzie Lectr, 1958; Pres., 1959-1962).
Published: Papers in Alpine and med. jls; Joint Editor, The Encyclopædia of General Practice, 1963.
Abercrombie,
 Hugh John Collin
H.J.C. Abercrombie
Only child of Sir John Robertson Abercrombie, merchant, and Elsie Maude Collin.
 		(03?).1917
Kensington, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
10.12.1952
Plymouth district, Devon
(on board HMS Devonshire)
T/El.Lt. 09.12.1941
Lt.Cdr. (L) ?
Education: MA.
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Dolphin
Abercrombie,
 John Dalrymple
J.D. Abercrombie 		?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
 12.10.1943



temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS St Helier
Abercromby,
 Philippe George
P.G. Abercromby
Son of ... Abercromby, and ... Dobson.
 		16.08.1918
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
10.1999
Brighton, Sussex
T/Lt. (A)
 16.08.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
 < 07.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Goshawk
Abernethy,
 John
J. Abernethy 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 07.07.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Mayina
Ablett,
 Ivor Ronald
I.R. Ablett
Son of ... Ablett, and ... Rich.
 		(03?).1925
Rochford district, Essex
-
Prob. T/Midsh. (A)
 22.03.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Ablett,
 Leon Arthur Duchemin
L.A.D. Ablett
Son of ... Ablett, and ... Duchemin.
Married ((06?).1967, Chelses district, London) ... Bulley.		 (09?).1921
Swansea district, Glamorgan
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 10.01.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Victory
Ablitt,
 Cedric Harry [Leveson Gower]
C.H. Ablitt
Son of Ernest Harry Ablitt (1867-1950), and Blodwen Jones (1891-?).
Married (06.1946, Battersea) Barbara Bowen (22.10.1920-04.2002); two children.
 		12.02.1917
Fylde, Lancashire
-
03.1999
Cardigan, Dyfed
T/Lt.
 21.05.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Mayina
Abraham,
Charles Alexander Calderwood
C.A.C. Abraham 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 15.02.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		827 Squadron FAA
Abraham,
Harold James
H.J. Abraham 		11.10.1911 ??
-
08.1995 ??
South Warwickshire ??
T/Lt. (A)
 01.10.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		1790 Squadron FAA
Abraham,
John Charles George
J.C.G. Abraham 		06.05.1911
-
12.2000
North Cotwolds, Gloucestershire
T/Sg.Lt.
 08.04.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
 < 07.1945
Education: MRCS, LRCP, BM, BCh
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Pembroke
Abraham,
Norman Alexander
N.A. Abraham
Son of ... Abraham, and ... Trinder.
 		(06?).1919
Wandsworth district, London
-
T/El.Lt.
 15.07.1942
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Western Isles
Abraham,
Nevil Hayne
N.H. Abraham 		28.10.1922
-
01.2001
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 28.04.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Byrsa
Abraham,
Robert Alfred
R.A. Abraham 		?
-
T/Lt.
 12.12.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Copra
Abraham,
Roy Henry
R.H. Abraham 		(06?).1915
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 14.12.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Maidstone
Abraham,
Ronald James
R.J. Abraham 		(03?).1917
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
 01.02.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abraham,
Roy Louis
R.L. Abraham
Son of ... Abraham, and ...Scanlan.
 		(06?).1924
St Pancras district, Greater London
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 20.12.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Sea Cadet Corps
Abraham,
Russell William Thomas
R.W.T. Abraham 		(09?).1924
Devonport district, Devon
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 26.08.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		849 Squadron FAA
Abrahams,
Anthony John
A.J. Abrahams
Son of ... Abrahams, and ... Closenberg.
 		(06?).1926
Hendon district, Great London
-
T/Midsh.
 13.04.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HM LST 321 (landing ship, tank)
Abrahams,
Arthur Hugh
A.H. Abrahams 		(12?.)1913 ??
Hackney, Greater London ??
-
T/Lt. (S)
 25.09.1942
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Epping
Abrahams,
Geoffrey Alan
G.A. Abrahams
Son of ... Abrahams, and ... Mollett.
 		(06?).1924
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 07.07.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abrahams,
Ian John
I.J. Abrahams 		23.11.1921
Hampstead district, Greater London
-
12.1991
Brighton, Sussex
T/Lt.
 02.04.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Seaborn
Abrahams,
Rodolphe Richard Clarence
R.R.C. Abrahams
Married 1st ((09?).1948, Croydon district, Surrey) Mary V.C. Goodyear.
Married 2nd ((06?).1983, Gravesend district, Kent) ... Tomlinson.
Married 3rd (10.1997, Colchester, Essex) Margaret J. Paul.		 (03?).1924
Croydon district, Greater London
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 10.06.1944
Education: Dulwich College (1938-1941).
05.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Abrahams,
Samuel Gluckstein
S.G. Abrahams 		(12?).1912
Shoreditch, London, Middlesex
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 10.11.1942
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abram,
Henry Charles
H.C. Abram 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 03.03.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Meadowsweet
Abram,
Robert
R. Abram 		?
-
T/Lt.
 19.08.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Minstrel
Abram,
William
W. Abram 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (E)
 24.01.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Braganza
Abrams,
Hilton John
H.J. Abrams
Son of ... Abrams, and .. Connelly.
 		(03?).1924
Fulham district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
Prob. T/Midsh. (E)
 02.10.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Abrams,
Max
M. Abrams 		?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 12.05.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Sea Cadet Corps
Abson,
Edward Pennington
E.P. Abson 		(03?).1918
Merthyr Tydfil district, Breconshire / Glamorgan / Mid Glamorgan
-
T/Sg.Lt.
 27.03.1942
Education: MB, ChB
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Penn
Acaster,
John
J. Acaster 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 25.04.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Acatos,
Peter Alexander
P.A. Acatos 		(09?).1905
Brentford, Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 26.01.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Benbow
Acheson,
 Cyril Thomas
C.T. Acheson 		?
-
T/Lt.
 07.08.1943
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Artifex
Acheson,
 Guy Hamilton
G.H. Acheson 		(12?).1901 ?
Ormskirk district ?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 13.02.1940
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Nile
Ackerley,
Leonard
L. Ackerley 		(12?).1924 ?
Worksop district ?
-
Prob. A/El.S.Lt.
 02.04.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Ackerman,
Harry
H. Ackerman 		(12?).1911
Warwick, Warwickshire
-
T/Lt.
 16.01.1942
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS President III
Ackers,
Herbert James
H.J. Ackers 		?
-
T/Lt.
 01.05.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Ackland,
 Reginald Percy
R.P. Ackland 		19.11.1916
-
04.2002
Plymouth, Devon
T/S.Lt. (S)
 29.09.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Monck
Ackroyd,
Anthony
A. Ackroyd 		?
-
T/Sg.Lt.
 18.12.1940
Education: MRCS, LRCP
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Ackroyd,
Dennis
D. Ackroyd 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 30.06.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Copra
Acland,
James Bryant
J.B. Acland 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
 30.12.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Acock,
John Robert Horace
J.R.H. Acock 		(03?).1902
Thanet, Kent
-
(03?).1968
Thanet district, Kent
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 27.10.1941
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Yeoman
Acott,
 Philip Noel
P.N. Acott 		(03?).1912
Croydon, Greater London
-
T/S.Lt.
 03.09.1944
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS MMS 106 (motor minesweeper)
Acott,
 Thomas George
T.G. Acott 		?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
 12.10.1944



temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Princess Iris
Acres,
Dudley
D. Acres  
Son of Stanley Acres, and Emily E. Tibbs.
Married ((03?).1951, Brentwood district, Essex) Veronica A. Carleton; ... children (one son?).		 10.06.1924
West Ham district, London
-
02.01.2011
Ord.Sea. ?
T/A/S.Lt. 1943?
T/S.Lt. 21.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
      HMS Hyderabad (corvette)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
      22nd LCT Flotilla [HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)]
19.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(04.1946)     HMS Polka (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Acton,
Herbert Ffolliott
H.F. Acton
Son of Joseph Acton (1860-1942), and Grace Dennison (1874-).
Married Ruth Patricia Williamson (1910-1993); three sons.		 19.04.1914
Dublin, Ireland
-
1997 ?
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
 26.10.1944



temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Helvig
Acton,
John Roberts
J.R. Acton 		?
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 29.06.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 24.01.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		no appointment listed
Acton,
T S
T.S. Acton 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 15.03.1945
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Fernie
Adams,
 Geoffrey Thomas Cyril
G.T.C. Adams
Son of ... Adams, and ... Pike.
Married; ... children (one son?).
 		14.01.1924
Sevenoaks district, Kent
-
09.1994
North Dorset district, Dorset
T/Midsh.
 ?
T/A/S.Lt.
 ?
T/S.Lt.
 01.03.1944
T/Lt.
 01.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 01.01.1945
 New Year 45 [investiture 03.07.45]
1942?
 -
 		1943?
 		HMS Keppel (destroyer)
05.01.1943
 -
 		(06.)1944
 		HMS Queenborough (destroyer)
(10.1944)
  
 		 
 		no appointment listed
27.01.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Vidette (destroyer)
(04.1946)

HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Adams,
Irwin Lucian Lloyd
 I.L.L. Adams  
Son of ... Adams, and ... Goor.
Married ((12?).1944, Totnes district, Devon) Gwyneth J. Collinson (née Griffiths).		 (03?).1916
Brentford district, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex
-
T/Paym.S.Lt. 27.03.1941
T/Paym.Lt. 27.03.1942 (reld 22.12.1944; medically unfit)
Education: Dulwich College (1929-1932).
21.04.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)
15.02.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)
Adams,
 John Maxwell
 J.M. Adams		 ?
-
 
T/A/El.S.Lt. ?
T/El.S.Lt. 06.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Dulwich College (1935-1939).
11.09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)
27.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Martello (auxiliary patrol base, Lowestoft)
(04.1946)     HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Adamson,
 Gordon
G. Adamson 		?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
 ?
T/S.Lt. (A)
 03.03.1944
28.12.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		pilot, 857 Squadron FAA



also served 807 Squadron FAA & HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Aimers,
Jeffrey Jenner Fust
J.J.F. Aimers		 08.12.1916
Dublin, Ireland
-
15.05.2001
Waterloo, Quebec, Canada
T/Lt.  
 23.10.1942 (reld 25.05.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 23.01.1945
 attack on enemy convoy 11.44
15.08.1943
 -
 		(04.1944)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 73 (motor torpedo boat)
15.05.1944
 -
 		(11.1944)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 473 (motor torpedo boat)



served also with 29th (Canadian) MTB Flotilla
30.06.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Ferret IV
Graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, 1947; he worked in London and Dublin and later moved to Montreal where he worked for McDougall, Smith & Flemming from 1952 to 1954. In 1955 he joined the firm of Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick and Ellwood, from 1964 Bolton, Chadwick, Ellwood and Aimers.
Airey,
 Stanley Gruchy
 S.G. Airey
 Son of John Henry Airey, and Edith Mary Gruchy.
Married (23.06.1943, Ealing, Brentford district, Middlesex) Peggy Irene Fenton; one daughter.		 23.11.1907
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
09.1990
Droxford district, Hampshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 21.06.1940
T/Lt. 21.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 01.1945, < 07.1945 (retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
09.09.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Snaefell (paddle minesweeper)
(02.1941)     HMS Righto (minesweeping trawler) *
12.05.1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Holly (minesweeping trawler)
1943 - 1943 Commanding Officer, HMS St Melante (minesweeping trawler)
29.04.1943 - 10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Clythness (minesweeping trawler)
10.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Proctor (minesweeping trawler)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Aiton,
 Archibald Barr
 A.B. Aiton
 Son of John Aiton, building contractor, and Elizabeth Aiton, of Strathaven, Lanarkshire.
03.09.1917
Avondale
-
10.11.1942
(MPK) [age 25]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 66, 1]
T/Sg.Lt. 28.07.1942?
Education: University of Glasgow (BSc 1938, MB 1941, ChB 1941).
House physician at Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow.
28.07.1942 - 10.11.1942 Medical Officer, HMS Martin (destroyer) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria)
Akers,
 Derek George Stanley
 D.G.S. Akers D.G.S. Akers
D.G.S. Akers
Son of George Francis Akers (1892-), and Hilda Gertrude E. Roney (1901-1987).		 (03?).1926
Lambeth district, London
-
T/S.Lt. 1945/46??
Education: Dulwich College (1937-1944); Oxford (...-1952).
? - ? ?
Headmaster of Purley High School for Boys.
Akister,
 Frederick Robert
 F.R. Akister
 Son of ... Akister, and ... Farrer.
 		(03?).1924
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
04.07.1944
(KIA) [age 20]
[Rawdon (St Peter) Churchyard, D.578]
 
T/S.Lt. (A)
 ?
?
 -
 		04.07.1944
 		pilot, 800 Squadron FAA [HMS Emperor (escort carrier)]
 [crashed Ards peninsula, Co. Down, N.
Ireland]
Alderson-Smith,
 Guy Fairburn
 G.F. Alderson-Smith
 Married ((09?).1934, Chelsea district, London) ... Swan.		 1909 ?
-
(03?).1968
Ealing district, Greater London
T/Lt.
 15.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 < 08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
23.02.1940
 -
 		(04.)1940
 		HMS Waverley (paddle minesweeper)
14.05.1940
 -
 		(02.)1941
 		HMS Thames Queen (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel)
07.1941
 -
 		(02.)1943
 		HMS Tenby (Bangor class minesweeper)
19.06.1943
 -
 		02.01.1945
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Ardrossan (Bangor class minesweeper)
10.03.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Tullichewan (Combined Operations camp, Tullichewan Castel Camp, Ballock)
Alderton,
 Paul Douglas
 P.D. Alderton (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Alderton)
Son of Douglas Valentine Alderton (1898-1975), and Kathleen Mabel Bartlett (1903-1983).
Married (24.10.1953, Hong Kong) Pauline Lee (born 1922); two sons, three daughters.
 		30.06.1924
Camberwell district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
06.07.1972
Hong Kong
T/A/S.Lt.
 30.06.1943?
T/S.Lt.
 30.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 14.11.1944
 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
22.07.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for beach duty):



served "F" & "H" RN Commandos (got DSC for Normandy, where he landed from HM LCT 321 (landing craft, tank))
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Aldred,
 Reginald Anderson
 R.A. Aldred
(06?).1902
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
21.01.1965
Bamford, Rochdale, Lancashire
T/Lt.
 15.02.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 > 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 01.01.1946
 New Year 46 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches  MID
 28.11.1944
 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
10.01.1941
 -
 		(12.1941)
 		HMS Princess Elizabeth (auxiliary minesweeper; paddle steamer)
18.02.1943
 -
 		(01.)1945
 		HMS Eastbourne (Bangor class minesweeper)
18.02.1943
 -
 		(08.)1943
 		Executive Officer
(10.)1943
 -
 		19.09.1944
 		Commanding Officer (despatches)
19.09.1944
 -
 		(01.)1945
 		Executive Officer
16.03.1945
 -
 		(10.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Bude (Bangor class minesweeper) (DSC)
(04.1946)
  
 		 
 		no appointment listed
Company director.
Aldren,
 John Townshend
J.T. Aldren 		(06?).1917
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
05.04.2006
Bristol
T/Sg.Lt.
 		05.05.1941 (reld 06.03.1946)

MB, ChB

1941

joined RNVR
07.06.1941
 -
 		11.1942
 		Medical Officer, HMS Firedrake (destroyer)
10.12.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Lanka (Colombo, Ceylon)
Alexander,
 John Montague
 J.M. Alexander
 Married; .. children (one son?).

His son Dave Alexander writes: "My Dad was based in Colombo, Trincomalee and a few other places. He was involved with Under Water Weapons Development. There was a lot of experiments going on down in Addu Atoll in the Maldives, but I don't know how long he was there. I also know that he made trips to a Research Laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex, from time to time. He was also on HMS Manxman somewhere in the Mediterranean. In the 1950's he was based in Malta and was in charge of Qrendi Mine Depot and spent a lot of time on HMS Forth (a Submarine Depot Ship) berthed in Msida Creek in Malta. His rank was Lt Commander RNVR. He had been involved in mines and torpedoes, submarine etc.; the Navy working on a Sonar device going by the name of "Sword Beam" high frequency narrow band, mainly for use in tropical waters, and also a device to prevent enemy minesweepers from surfacing mines from their "sinkers" on the sea bed, which was called and "S" Coupling. There were many trips in latter years to Foxhill, Lansdowne, Copenacre on top of or near to Box Tunnel and RAF Rudloe Manor. He was involved with various designs of anti-submarine devices, and spent a lot of time in the Pacific, trialing various underwater bits & pieces, and I know he spent a lot of time around the Maldives, Hong Kong and lots of other places around the UK."

(09?).1909
 Wandsworth district, London
-
09.12.1959
Bath, Somerset
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 07.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)



Special Branch officer on scientific duties (for details see 'personal touch' button)
(07.1945)
 		 
 		 
 		no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 		 
 		 
 		no appointment listed
MIEE. Admiralty Production Inspector.
Alexander,
 William Kennedy
 W.K. Alexander 		03.08.1914
Belfast, Northern Ireland
-
15.07.1975
T/S.Lt. 04.12.1939
T/Lt. 17.11.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
10.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
09.09.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Stefa (auxiliary minesweeping whaler)
(12.1941)     HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft) *
29.08.1942 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 215 (motor minesweeper)
30.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Ariel (air radio & air mechanics training establishment, Warrington, Lancashire)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Allan,
James Robert
 J.R. Allan		 ?
-
T/S.Lt. 03.07.1941
T/Lt. 24.11.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
07.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Sword Dance (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
27.06.1942 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Cornelian (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
1945? - 1945? Commanding Officer, HMS Gweal (minesweeping trawler)
Allan,
 Robert Alexander;
 Baron (cr. 16.07.1973) (Life Peer) Allan of Kilmahew, of Cardross, Dunbarton
 R.A. Allan
Younger son of late Claud A. Allan, VL, JP, Kilmahew Castle, Cardross, Dunbarton- shire, and of Adeline Allan, OBE. Married (1947) Maureen, daughter of late Harold Stuart­Clark, Singapore; one son, one daughter.
 		11.07.1914
-
05.04.1979
Prob. Lt.
 		24.05.1939
Lt.
 		12.1940, seniority 24.05.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.
 		?
Lt.Cdr.
 		24.05.1946
A/Cdr.
 		1943 (reld 16.04.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 12.09.1944
 Operation Gun (operation off west coast of Italy 27.03.44) *
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
 01.01.1944
 New Year 44
Mention in Despatches MID
 01.01.1943
 New Year 43
Officer, Legion of Merit (USA) LM
 06.11.1945

Mediterranean 44 **
Reserve Decoration RD
 ?
 ?
Commander Légion d'Honneur, 1943; Croix de Guerre, 1943 (France); despatches (5 times).
* For courage, determination and skill in Light Forces in successful actions with enemy coastal forces off the west coast of Italy.
** For distinguished service whilst in command of an advanced Coastal Forces Base and attached operating forces in the Mediterranean during 1944.
 		Education: Harrow (Rothschild Schol.); Clare College, Cambridge (Mellon Fellow; ran cross­country for Cambridge, 1935, 1936); Yale University
24.05.1939

joined RNVR, Clyde Division, List II
19.08.1939
 -
 		(04.1940)
 		HMS Saltash (minesweeper)
03.07.1940
 -
 		(02.1941)
 		HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
09.06.1942
 -
 		(08.1942)
 		HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) (for MTB service):
06.1942?
 -
 		(09.1942?)
 		Senior Officer, 10th MTB Flotilla
27.05.1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		HMS Razorbill (Coastal Forces base, Algiers)
1944
 -
 		1945
 		Senior Officer, Inshore Squadron
(07.1945)

no appointment listed
1945
 -
 		1946
 		Deputy Chief of Naval Information, Washington [HMS Saker?]
President Scottish Junior Unionists, 1948-1951; contested (U) Dunbartonshire, 1945 and West Dunbartonshire, general election and bye-election, 1950; MP (C) South Paddington, 1951-1966; Assistant Whip, 1953-1955; PPS to the Prime Minister, 1955-1958; Parlementary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, 01.1958-01.1959; Parlementary Under-Secretary, Foreign Office, 1959-1960. A Treasurer, Conservative and Unionist Party Organization, 1960-1965; Chairman, Conservative Central Board of Finance, 1961-1966. A Governor, BBC, 1971-1976; a Governor of Harrow School, 1968-; a Trustee and Chairman, Lord Mayor Treloar Schools. 
Chairman, Ladybird Books; Director: Pearson/Longman; Longman/Penguin; Bank of Scotland (Chairman, London Board); H. Clarkson (Holdings) Ltd, and other companies.
Allen,
Brian Stanley
 B.S. Allen		 ?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (A) ?
T/S.Lt. (A) 09.01.1946
Education: Dulwich College (1938-1941).
09.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
Allen,
 Cyril Arthur
C.A. Allen 		?
-
T/Lt. (A)
 		02.02.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
 		09.1944? (reld 1945/46)
26.01.1944
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		pilot, 813 Squadron FAA
09.1944
 -
 		10.1944
 		Commanding Officer, 813 Squadron FAA
(07.1945)

no appointment listed
Allen,
Douglas Morgan
 D.M. Allen
 Son of Ernest Allen (1871?-), merchant, and Lizzie Ada Fitness (1875-), of London SE21.
His brother Leslie Ronald Allen (09.02.1908-) served as a Corporal, RAFVR (Photographic Section).		 19.01.1911
Brixton Hill, Lambeth district, London
-
09.1997
Bromley district, Kent
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 31.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Dulwich College (09.1922-1928).
04.01.1943 - (10.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Curtana (minesweeping trawler)
11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for duty with Captain Minesweepers, Mediterranean)
01.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Filla (minesweeping trawler)
Allen,
 Eric John
E.J. Allen (Photo courtesy of Mrs Bea Hawkins)
 Only son of Virgil Allen and Mary Allen (née Redknap).
Married Madge Primrose Allen (née Benson); two daughters.
 		06.03.1906
St Pancras, Greater London
-
01.1972
Tel.
 		? [P/WRX 616]
Prob. T/S.Lt.
 		12.07.1940
T/Lt.
 		11.10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
1939
 -
 		1940
 		HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
?
 -
 		12.07.1940
 		HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' trainnig establishment, Hove, Sussex)
30.12.1940
 		-
 		(02.1941)
 		HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School) *
01.01.1941
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Mercury II (Admiralty Signal Establishment, Haslemere) **
* (12.1941) still indexed under HMS Victory, but not listed as such
** date of appointment probably includes initial posting to HMS Victory
Allen,
 Roy Stuart
 R.S. Allen
Son of John Purser Stuart Allen and Aileen Allen, of Newton Abbot, Devon.
 		(03?).1922
Cardiff district, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire
-
03.03.1943
(KIA) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 6]
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
 		?
T/S.Lt. (A)
 		10.06.1942
27.07.1942
 -
 		03.03.1943
 		observer, 836 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus] (shot down in sea 2 miles off mouth of estuary at Le Havre whilst minelaying on the North West French coast)
Alston,
 Michael John
"Mike"
 M.J. Alston (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston) M.J. Alston (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston)
 Son of ... Alston, and .. Wilson.		 06.10.1924
Epping district, Essex
-
Ord.Sea. ?
T/Midsh. 10.06.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 06.04.1944
T/S.Lt. 06.10.1944 (reld 07.1946)
1939-1945 Star 39-45 St ? ?
Atlantic Star Atl St ? ?
Italy Star It St ? ?
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45 ? ?
Naval General Service Medal Nav GenSM ? & bar 'minesweeping'
Russian Commemorative Medal; Greek Commemorative Medal; Anzio Medallion; Arctic Emblem		 Education: Felsted, Essex.
10.1942 - 12.1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
14.01.1943 - 03.1943 HMS Middleton (destroyer)
03.1943 - 06.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
06.1943 - 07.1943 RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.1943 - 09.1944 HMS Spanker (fleet minesweeper)
09.1944 - 10.1944 HMS Waterwitch (fleet minesweeper)
10.1944 - 07.1946 HMS Acute (fleet minesweeper)
Postwar career - Richard Costain, ICI.
Member of: HMS Middleton (L74) Association (Hon Sec); Algerines Association (Founder Member); HMS Collingwood Association; Russian Convoy Club; A.R.N.O.
Published: Destroyer and preserver : the story of HMS Middleton and her ship's company, (1941-1946) (1993)
Alty,
William Noel
W.N. Alty (Photo courtesy of Mr W.N. Alty) W.N. Alty (Photo courtesy of Mr W.N. Alty)
W.N. Alty (Photo courtesy of Mr W.N. Alty) W.N. Alty (Photo courtesy of Mr W.N. Alty)
Only child of Samuel Alty, and Cordelia Lupton.
(12?).1922
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
-
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 15.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 13.03.1945 assault of Normandy 06.44
08.06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing boats)
(06.1944)     HM LBV 58 (landing boat, vehicle) (Normandy) (despatches)
Alviniussen,
Victor Meidell
V.M. Alviniussen 		23.09.1900
Norway
-
?
T/S.Lt. (E)
 		19.08.1940 (reld 11.05.1942)
Mention in Despatches MID
 19.01.1942
 minesweeping Tobruk while under air attacks
19.08.1940
 -
 		11.05.1942
 		served RNVR:
19.08.1940
 -
 		(02.1941)
 		HMS Sotra (minesweeping trawler)
(1941)

HMS Svana (minesweeping trawler)
11.05.1942
 -
 		02.11.1942
 		Alexandria, Egypt
02.11.1942
 -
 		24.08.1943
 		Transvaalia (minesweeper)
[departed to UK 25.08.1943]
08.10.1943
 -
 		21.05.1944
 		MSPE
22.05.1944
 -
 		22.06.1944
 		DG course Helensburgh
22.06.1944
 -
 		04.07.1945
 		MSE
[Hospital Edinburgh, 27.02.1945-07.03.1945]
06.07.1945
 -
 		06.09.1945
 		SOK
06.09.1945
 -
 		20.05.1946
 		Qualicum (minesweeper)
Anderson,
Alfred John
A.J. Anderson 		?
-
T/Lt.
 		04.03.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
04.03.1940
 		-
 		(04.)1940
 		Executive Officer, HMS Wistaria (minesweeping trawler)
03.07.1940
 		-
 		(10.1940)
 		Executive Officer, HMS Northern Wave (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
08.01.1941
 		-
 		(08.)1943
 		Executive Officer, HMS Spiraea (corvette)
01.09.1943
 		-
 		(01.)1945
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Bugloss (corvette)
07.03.1945
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
Anderson,
James Allen
J.A. Anderson 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 		28.08.1941
T/Lt.
 		28.11.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
29.10.1943
 		-
 		(01.)1945
 		HMS Conn (frigate)
10.04.1945
 		-
 		01.05.1945
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Clare (destroyer)
01.05.1945
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		[First Lieutenant?], HMS Clare (destroyer)
Andrew,
Charles Henry William
C.H.W. Andrew
From London.
 (09?).1906 ?
Axminster district, Devon / Dorset ?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
 		13.09.1940
T/Lt.
 		03.1941, seniority 13.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 		> 06.1943, < 08.1943
Lt.Cdr. RNR
 		13.08.1965, seniority 11.07.1963
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 20.06.1944
 MGB service Dover & Plymouth Commands * [investiture 01.05.45]
France & Germany Star Fr&G St
 -
 -
Atlantic Star Atl St
 -
 & clasp France & Germany 
Defence Medal Def M
 -
 -
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
 -
 -
* For courage and seamanship in coastal actions in the Dover area and outstanding leadership and zeal as Senior Officer of a Naval force which took part in two commando operations in December 1943.
(02.1941)

HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
19.05.1941
 		-
 		(12.1941)
 		HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
06.04.1942
 		-
 		(06.)1944
 		Commanding Officer, HM MGB 329 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 14th MGB Flotilla [initially at HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
20.06.1944
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
(04.1946)
 		 
 		 
 		no appointment listed
13.08.1965
 		-
 		25.08.1966
 		Permanent RNR
* indexed, but not listed as such
Andrew,
John [David]
J. Andrew 		?
-
T/S.Lt. 10.07.1942
T/Lt. 10.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
28.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Orchis (corvette)
20.09.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Statice (corvette)
03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS)
28.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Ascension (frigate)
Andrews,
Reginald George
R.G. Andrews 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 		11.03.1943?
T/Lt.
 		11.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
11.10.1943
 		-
 		(10.1944)
 		Commanding Officer, HM ML 105 (motor launch)
04.1945
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HM ML 285 (motor launch)
Annear,
Charles
"Charlie"
C. Annear (Photo courtesy of Mr John Finestone) 		?
-
14.11.1942
(KIA)
[Port of Spain (St James) Military Cemetery, Trinidad and Tobago, western portion, grave 65]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 01.07.1941
T/Lt. (A) 01.10.1941
22.09.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 756 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, mr Winchester)]
? - 14.11.1942 pilot, 750 Squadron FAA [HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)] (killed in an air crash)
Appleby,
John Samuel
J.S. Appleby (Photo courtesy of Dr David J. Appleby) J.S. Appleby (Photo courtesy of Dr David J. Appleby)
J.S. Appleby (Photo courtesy of Dr David J. Appleby)
Son of George Albert Appleby, and Florence Minnie Porter.
Married (14.12.1947, Great Clacton, Essex) Audrey Grace Fookes (27.01.1926 - 16.12.1993), daughter of Reginald John Fookes (1895-1962), and Grace Matilda Jarvis (1895-1985); four sons.		 29.03.1925
Colchester, Essex
-
30.08.2011
Colchester, Essex
Midsh. (Sp.Br.) 23.06.1944 *
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.09.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.03.1945 (reld 1947)
1939-1945 Star 39-45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - & clasp France and Germany
Pacific Star Pac St - & clasp Burma
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Additionally a few Soviet medals.

* Special Branch officer who is qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

 Education: Bluecoat School, Colchester; Colchester Royal Grammar School (1936-1943).
1943     served on HMS Wivern (destroyer) & HMS Vivien (destroyer)
(06.1944)     served on a fast patrol boat for Operation Overlord
05.09.1944 - 21.11.1944 HMS Nairana (escort carrier)
11.1944 - 12.1944 HMS Khedive (aircraft carrier) [possibly for passage only]
18.12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties)
12.02.1945 - 14.01.1946 Confidential Book Officer, HMS Tengra (Combined Operations base, Mandapam, India)
      served on HMS Fiery Cross (whaler), on secret missions to check out beaches for Operation Zipper, the planned seaborne asault on Japanese held Malaya
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Royal Naval Supplementary Volunteer Reserve (Speical Branch) , c. 1952/3-(1960s?). Post-war a teacher (by 1969 was Head Teacher at a primary school), retiring in 1986. Ran a small printing business as a sideline, in order to supplement his teacher's salary. In later life he was ordained as a Minister and was much in demand at naval functions and at funerals of naval officers. Wrote several books and pamphlets, mostly on local Essex history, and was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. Honorary Secretary of the V&W Destroyer Association, a branch secretary of the Russian Convoy Club, and a chaplain to both the Burma Star Association and the Merchant Navy Association.
Appleby,
William Charles
"Bill" / "By Crikey"
W.C. Appleby 		?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
 		22.08.1940
T/S.Lt. (E)
 		1944?, seniority 22.02.1941



temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
30.10.1940
 		-
 		(12.1941)
 		HMS Worcestershire (armed merchant cruiser)
28.09.1943
 		-
 		(10.)1944
 		HMS Isle of Sark (RDF training ship)
06.12.1944
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Kedah (accommodation/HQ ship)
(04.1946)
 		 
 		 
 		no appointment listed
Appleyard,
Philip Norman Frederick
P.N.F. Appleyard 		27.08.1900
Edmonton district, Essex
-
07.01.1977
Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex
T/Lt.
 		12.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 		< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
 24.02.1942
 mined, brought to port 02.42
Mention in Despatches MID
 09.11.1943
 convoy OS45 U-Boat sunk
(04.1940)
 		-
 		(02.1941)
 		HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
09.1941
 		-
 		(08.1942)
 		HMS Royal Eagle (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel (coastal)) (despatches)
27.09.1943
 		-
 		(04.1945)
 		HMS Stonecrop (corvette) (despatches)
1944?
 		-
 		(04.)1945
 		Commanding Officer
(07.1945)
 		 
 		 
 		no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Apps,
David Sydney
D.S. Apps
Son of ... Apps, and ... Baker.
 (06?).1919
Tavistock district, Cornwall, Devon
 -
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 		28.07.1940
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 		?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 		?
T/El.Lt.
 		backdated 28.01.1943
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
 28.04.1942
 bomb disposal ?
24.07.1940
 -
 		(02.1941)
 		Department of Unexploded Bombs, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
07.01.1944
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
26.03.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancs)
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Arbuthnot,
 Michael Geoffrey Henderson
M.G.H. Arbuthnot
Son of Adm. Sir Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot, KCB, CB, DSO, RN, and Jessie Marguerite (Henderson) Arbuthnot.
Married (24.04.1948) (Nicole) Patricia Collins (born 13.12. 1917), elder daughter of Lt-Colonel Richard Leslie Halliburton Collins of Thurston House, Bury St Edmunds; one son. Lived in London.
 		28.09.1919
Frome district, Somerset
-
11.06.1967
T/A/S.Lt.
 		11.01.1940
T/S.Lt.
 		28.09.1940
T/Lt.
 		11.07.1942 (reld 1945/46)
Education: Stowe School (1933-1938), Head Boy, then Trinity College Cambridge
31.01.1940
 -
 		(02.1941)
 		HMS Cape Sable (special service vessel)
23.11.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Dakins (frigate)
Worked for Shell in Venezuela and Rhodesia.
Arbuthnott,
 [Rt. Hon. Sir] John Campbell;
 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, cr. 1641, succ. 1966;
Lord Inverbervie and Chief of the Name and Arms of Arbuthnott
 J.C. Arbuthnott
Elder son of (Robert) Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, CB, CBE, DSO, MC, and Ursula Collingwood (died 1989); succeeded
father, 15.12.1966; married 03.09.1949, Mary Elizabeth Darley (née Oxley) (born 26.05.1923); one son, one daughter.
 		26.10.1924
Dubton House, nr. Montrose
-

[Arbuthnott House, by Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland]
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
 		?
T/S.Lt. (A)
26.10.1944
Knight of the Thistle KT
 1996
 ?
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
 1986
 ?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 20.11.1945
 operations in the Far East 07-08.45

FRSE (1984)

Education: Fettes College; Gonville and Caius Colleges, Cambridge
1942
 -
 		1946
 		served Fleet Air Arm (RNVR):
28.12.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		849 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious]
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Cambridge University, 1946-1949 (Estate Management), MA 1967. Chartered Surveyor and Land Agent; Agricultural Land Service, 1949-1955; Land Agent (Scotland), The Nature Conservancy, 1955-1967. Chairman, Aberdeen and Northern Marts, 1986-1991 (Director, 1973-1991); Director: Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society, 1978-1994 (Deputy Chairman, 1982-1984, 1987-1988; Chairman, 1984-1987); Scottish Northern Investment Trust, 1979-1985; Clydesdale Bank, 1985-1992 (Northern Area, 1975-1985); Britoil, 1988-1990; Scottish Advisory Board, BP, 1990-1996. Member: Countryside Commission for Scotland, 1967-1971; Aberdeen University Court, 1978-1984; Royal Commission on Historical MSS, 1987-1994; Chairman, Red Deer Commission, 1969-1975; President: British Association for Shooting and Conservation (formerly Wildfowlers Association of GB and Ireland), 1973-1992; The Scottish Landowners' Federation, 1974-1979 (Convener, 1971-1974); Royal Zool Society of Scotland, 1976-1996; Scottish Agricultural Organization Society, 1980-1983; RSGS, 1983-1987; Federation of Agricultural Co­operatives (UK) Ltd, 1983-1987; Deputy Chairman, Nature Conservancy Council, 1980-1985, Chairman, Advisory Committee for Scotland, 1980-1985. Honorary Air Commodore 612 Co Aberdeen Suadron RAuxAF, since 1998. FRSA. Hon. LLD Aberdeen, 1995. GCStJ 1994; Prior of Scotland, OStJ, 1983-1995. Lord­Lieutenant Grampian Region (Kincardineshire), 1977-1999; Her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, Church of Scotland, 1986, 1987.
Archdale,
 Alexander Mervyn
 A.M. Archdale
Son of Theodore Montgomery Archdale (1873-1918) and Helen Alexander Russel (18760-1949). Brother of First Officer Helen Elizabeth Archdale, WRNS.
 		27.11.1905
-
13.05.1986
T/Lt.
 05.06.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 < 07.1945 (reld 1945/46)



HMS Cleopatra (cruiser)
(07.1945)

no appointment listed
Actor.
Archer,
 Edmund Hedley
 E.H. Archer
 Son of ... Archer, and ... Neate.
 		(09?).1921
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
12.10.1941
[Leatherhead SS. Mary and Nicholas) Churchyard, south of church]
T/S.Lt. (A)
 ?
?
 -
 		12.10.1941
 		785 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (died on a training exercise in Scotland)
Archer,
 Eric
 E. Archer 		1922 ?
-
29.03.2009
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
[age 87]
T/S.Lt. 19.11.1942
T/Lt. 19.11.1944
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR 12.10.1958
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR 12.10.1966 (retd 07.03.1973)
Reserve Decoration RD 10.03.1970 -
     

joined Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve pre-war
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
      Commanding Officer, HM MTB 416 (motor torpedo boat) (temporarily)
24.01.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) (for MTB duties, later miscellaneous services):
01.03.1943 - 06.1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 434 (motor torpedo boat)
06.1944 - 07.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 434 (motor torpedo boat)
1944? - 1945? Commanding Officer, HM MTB 413 (motor torpedo boat)
25.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
After the war Eric joined an RNVR colleague and worked in his family import and export business as a textile buyer, in Bradford, the place of his birth. He moved with his family to Scarborough in 1952 to work in the management of Rowntrees department store until it was taken over by Debenhams. In 1970 he moved to Huddersfield as production manager at Stereosound Productions, subsequently becoming Production Director.
Archer,
 Eric Arthur
 E.A. Archer 		?
-
T/Lt.
 12.09.1942 (reld 01.05.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
 11.12.1945
 wind up, Europe 45
08.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Lombard (minesweeping trawler)
Archer,
 William John
 W.J. Archer 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 1941?
T/Lt.
 27.11.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

14.12.1943

 attack on Valona 09.43 [decoration posted]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

07.08.1945

 Coastal Forces actions 04.45 [decoration posted]
(02.1942?)

HM MTB 224 (motor torpedo boat) ?
04.07.1942
 -
 		14.06.1943
 		First Lieutenant, HM MTB 86 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
15.06.1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 89 (motor torpedo boat)
22.09.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 400 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)

Congella (South African ship?) [transferred to South African Naval Volunteer Force?] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Archer-Shee,
 Philip
 P. Archer-Shee
 Son of ... Archer-Shee, and ... Pell.		 17.07.1911
Windsor district, Berkshire
-
Lt. 01.09.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. ?
Mention in Despatches MID 23.09.194 sinking of Mashona
      HMS Tartar (destroyer)
27.09.1943 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Chesterfield (destroyer)
18.12.1943 - 10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Scimitar (destroyer)
18.12.1944 - 14.08.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Wheatland (escort destroyer)
Arkell,
 John Norman
 J.N. Arkell
Son of Edward Norman Gwynn Arkell (1893-1969), and Margaret Neville Craig (1896-1959).
Married (25.06.1949, Reigate, Surrey) Norma H.M. Aitken; three daughters, one son.

DVD interview available at the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust

(09?).1923
Shaftesbury, Dorset
-
01.02.2010
Westminster Memorial Hospital
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 26.11.1943
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

30.05.1944

 Coastal Forces action 24/25.10.43 [investiture 12.12.44]
Education: Sherbourne College (1937-1941).
      HMS Bramham (destroyer)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
      HMS St Christopher (Fort William)
? - 25.10.1943 HM MGB 607 (motor gun boat) [HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)] (severely wounded; was hit by shrapnel in the legs, thighs and face, lost his right eye and the cheek below it was ripped apart)
Solicitor, Burridge Kent & Arkell,Shaftesbury, 1945-1988. President Dorset Law Society 1974; President Old Shirburnian Society 1982; Chairman of Trustees, King Edward VI Trust; Old Shirburnian Society Trustee 1982-1997; Town Freeman of Shaftesbury 1998.
Arlidge,
 Thomas Edward
 T.E. Arlidge 		(06?).1916
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
T/S.Lt.
 10.12.1943
T/Lt.
 01.05.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1944)
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Armitage,
 Rupert Appleton
 R.A. Armitage (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Armitage)
 Son of Matthew Ward Armitage (1878-1951), and Eva Gertrude Brown (1878-1917).
Married (07.10.1939, St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon, Coventry district, Warwickshire) Ruth Ella Gilbert; two sons.
 		19.12.1910
Guisborough district, North Riding of Yorkshire
-
11.09.1989
Shrewsbury district, Shropshire
T/S.Lt.
 03.07.1942
T/A/Lt.
 ?
T/Lt.
 20.04.1944, seniority 03.10.1942 (reld < 07.1945)
?
 -
 		?
 		HMS Kent (cruiser)
04.1944
 -
 		(01.1945)
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
?
 -
 		?
 		HM LCI(L) 314 (landing craft, infantry (large))
Bank manager.
Armitage,
 Robert Selby
R.S. Armitage R.S. Armitage
George Cross Database 		28.03.1910
Birling, Kent
-
01.06.1982
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
T/Lt.
 25.09.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 < 08.1942
T/A/Cdr.
 > 06.1944, < 10.1944
George Cross GC
 27.12.1940
 disabling land mines 09-10.40
GM
 15.02.1944
 mine disposal Corton Sands, Suffolk 15.06.42
Education: Rugby; Trinity College, Cambridge (1926)
25.09.1939
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, later Brighton)
(06.1940)

commanded a small coaster at Dunkirk
(10.1944)
  
 		 
 		HMS President (Admiralty) *
(07.1945)

no appointment listed
Stockbroker.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Armstrong,
Hugh Terence
H.T. Armstrong		 ?
-
T/Lt.
 29.11.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

22.12.1942

 hazardous minesweeping operations Channel [investiture 25.05.43]
29.11.1939
 -
 		(04.)1940
 		HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall)
09.09.1940
 -
 		(02.)1941
 		First Lieutenant, HMS Shera (minesweeping whaler)
13.11.1941
 -
 		(08.1942)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MMS 60 (motor minesweeper) [HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen), from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)]
30.09.1944
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Phrontis (patrol boat)
(07.1945)
  
 		 
 		no appointment listed
Armstrong,
 Lloyd
 L. Armstrong
 Brother of Dorothy Armstrong, second wife of Sq.Ldr. Gordon V. Carey, RAFVR.
 		?
-
T/S.Lt.
 05.03.1942
T/Lt.
 05.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
 01.01.1945
 New Year 45
Military Cross (Poland) PolMC
 08.12.1942
 services to the Polish Navy
(1940/41?)
  
 		 
 		HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 
14.03.1944
 -
 		(06.)1944
 		HMS Salamander (Halcyon class minesweeper)
07.08.1944
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		HMS Pique (Catherine class minesweeper)
10.01.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Rifleman (Algerine class minesweeper)
Armstrong,
Montagu John Proby
M.J.P. Armstrong
Son of Jack Proby Armstrong (1878-1953), and Maria Dominga Alvarenga Molina.		 11.1913
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
-
1984
[Guatemala City ?]
T/S.Lt. 20.09.1940
T/Lt. 05.03.1942, seniority 20.09.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

02.10.1942

 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 19.08.42) [investiture 01.12.42]
Mention in Despatches MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (Sicily landings 07.43)
Education: Harrow School; Merton College, Oxford.
(02.1941)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
12.09.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inveraray), from late c. 12.1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
19.08.1942     aboard HMS Invicta (landing ship, infantry (small)) (Dieppe raid)
07.1943     on Staff LC [= landing craft?] (Sicily)
08.1944 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Armstrong,
 Peter Alan
 P.A. Armstrong
 Son of Charles Alan and Gladys Noelle Armstrong, of Fernhurst.
 		10.03.1918
Mansfield district, Shirebrook, Derbyshire 
-
25.12.1941
[age 23]
[Fernhurst Burial Ground, grave 205]
T/S.Lt.
20.03.1941
19.09.1941
 -
 		25.12.1941
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 48 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)] (died of injuries following an accident)
Arnold,
Philip Weston
 P.W. Arnold		 1914 ?
-
T/S.Lt. 14.08.1941
T/Lt. 14.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Royal Humane Society Medal in Bronze RHSBr ? rescue services "Ottawa" Atlantic 09.42
1941     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
03.10.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Celandine (corvette)
03.03.1944 - 13.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Man O'War (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)     HMS Man O'War (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Arnold-Forster,
 Mark
M. Arnold-Forster
From St. Ives, Cornwall.
Son of William Edward Arnold-Foster (1886-1951), a painter, and Katherine Laird Cox.
Married (13.01.1955) Valentine Mitchison; two daughters, three sons.
16.04.1920
 Swindon
-
25.12.1981
Notting Hill, London
Prob. T/Midsh.
 05.01.1940
T/A/S.Lt.
 16.04.1940
T/S.Lt.
 16.04.1941
T/Lt.
 01.05.1942 (reld 25.04.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
 14.11.1944
 German evacuation Le Havre [award posted]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 01.01.1943
 New Year 43 [investiture 06.04.43]
Mention in Despatches MID
 31.03.1942
 attack on battle cruisers 02.42
Mention in Despatches MID
 14.07.1942
 attack on armed raider
Mention in Despatches MID
 04.05.1943
 action 11.03.43
Merchant seaman.



joined the RNVR and saw service with the MTB's from Dover:
(04.1940)

HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(02.1941)

no appointment listed
19.09.1941
 -
 		21.06.1943
 		HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTB's):
19.09.1941
 -
 		(12.1941)
 		First Lieutenant, HM MTB 45 (motor torpedo boat) (5th MTB Flotilla)
(02.1942)
 -
 		23.08.1942
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 219 (motor torpedo boat) (6th MTB Flotilla)
24.08.1942
 -
 		21.06.1943
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 38 (motor torpedo boat) [& Senior Officer, 6th MTB Flotilla ?] (6th MTB Flotilla)
22.06.1943
 -
 		(08.1943)
 		HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Holyhead)
24.01.1944
 -
 		24.09.1944
 		HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTB's):
(05.1944)
 -
 		24.09.1944
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 212 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 13th MTB Flotilla
25.09.1944
07.12.1944
 		HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
07.12.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
Journalist: 1946-1957 with The Manchester Guardian. In 1957 he left the Guardian to work for the Observer as a chief reporter and a defense correspondent. Shortly afterwards he became the deputy editor of the Independent Television News (ITV). From 1963 again with The Guardian.
Published: The world at war (1973); The siege of Berlin (1979)
Arnold-Jenkins,
James Gedwion
 J.G. Arnold-Jenkins
 Married ((12?).1922, St Pancras district, London) Constance M. Pryce; two sons.

20.12.1898
-
1977
West Sussex
Prob. T/S.Lt. 04.12.1939
T/Lt. 04.03.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 20.09.1943? (reld > 04.1946)
20.03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Sandhurst (repair ship)
15.04.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Port Napier (minesweeping trawler)
01.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Trelawney (minelaying base, Loch Alsh, Scotland)
24.03.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Welshman (Abdiel class minelayer)
20.09.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton)
(01.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Arnott,
Thomas Grenfell
 T.G. Arnott
Son of ... Arnott, and ... Baird.
Married (16.02.1942, Bath) Margaret Anne Wilson-Smith (08.09.1916 - ), a teacher & writer, daughter of Thomas Wilson-Smith (1885-1955), and Louisa Story (1879-1956); two sons, one daughter.		 21.09.1911
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
07.1999
North Yorkshire district
T/Lt. 01.04.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Lawyer.
12.05.1943 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Strephon (minesweeping trawler)
(08.1943) - (01.1945) HMS Strephon (minesweeping trawler) * [probably in command, as above]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Joined the clergy post-war.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Arthur,
Bruce Kilpatrick
B.K. Arthur		 ?
-
Ordinary Seaman
 1944?
T/Midsh.
13.04.1945
T/A/S.Lt.
 ? (reld 1946/47?)
(1944?)

HMS Dauntless (cruiser)
(07.1945)

HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) *
(04.1946)

HMS King George V (battleship) *
(1946/47?)

HMS Melbreak (destroyer)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Ascoli,
Hugh Edwin
H.E. Ascoli (Photo: Dunedin Society)

biography (Dunedin Society)
 25.05.1914
-
01.1993
Surrey South-Western
T/S.Lt.
 12.04.1940
T/Lt.
 12.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
 09.1944 (reld 17.02.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 11.12.1945
 wind up Europe 45 [award posted]
Education: Oxford University
For a short time followed his father, a Director of Dunlop Rubber, into the firm prior to embarking on his career in insurance and shipping.
?
 -
 		05.1940
 		HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
05.1940
 -
 		06.1940
 		participated in the Dunkirk evacaution in charge of a Dutch skoot
1940
 -
 		1940/41?
 		HMS Impulsive (destroyer)
1940/41?
 -
 		1941
 		HMS Alresford (minesweeper)
(02.1941)

no appointment listed
22.03.1941
 -
 		10/11.1941
 		HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [left, injured, before the ship was torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
1942?
 -
 		1943?
 		Executive Officer, HMS Northney III (Combined Operations training establishment, Hayling Island)
31.08.1943
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 704 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 52nd MTB Flotilla (Dartmouth)[initially a few months as First Lieutenant]
?
 -
 		?
 		Naval Control Officer, 524 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command) (Langham)
21.03.1945
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		training officer Coastal Forces, HMS Beehive (Felixstowe)
Ash,
Christopher Edward
"Chris"
C.E. Ash (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne S. Litten)		 ?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 29.09.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 29.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
26.09.1940
 -
 		(02.)1943
 		Department of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal], Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
27.04.1943
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Volcano (bomb disposal training establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland)
Ashby,
 Ronald Robert Willson
"Ron"
R.R.W. Ashby (© Photo: see hamstat (follow hyperlink)) R.R.W. Ashby
R.R.W. Ashby (© Photo: see hamstat (follow hyperlink)) R.R.W. Ashby (© Photo: see hamstat (follow hyperlink))
Married 1st (marriage dissolved).
Married 2nd Eileen.


09.07.1910
Watford, Hertfordshire
-
01.1998
Wayland, Norfolk
S.Lt. HKRNVR
 14.01.1936
Lt.  HKRNVR
 23.11.1937
T/Lt.
 03.06.1942, seniority 23.11.1937
T/Lt.Cdr.
 1942?
T/A/Cdr.
 1944?
T/Cdr.
 01.04.1946
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 13.10.1942
 withdrawal from Hong  Kong [investiture 02.02.43]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 10.07.1945
 operations Arakan coast 44-45 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches  MID
 01.08.1944
 Arakan Coastal Forces
Education: King's School, Canterbury.
Joined Benskins, family firm of brewers at Watford, soon leaving to work in Canton.
1936

joined, Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force (later Hong Kong RNVR)

-
 		24.02.1939
 		Hon Aide-de-Camp of the Governor of Hong Kong
12.02.1940
 -
 		(1942)
 		HMS Tamar, later HMS Tamar III (RN base, Hong Kong):
(04.1940)

for Motor Torpedo Boats
(02.1941)
 -
 		(1942)
 		Commanding Officer, MTB 07 (withdrew his MTB from Hong Kong)
03.06.1942
  
 		 
 		transferred RNVR
01.07.1942
 -
 		01.01.1943
 		HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven):
10.07.1942
 -
 		(1942)
 		Commanding Officer, SGB 4 (steam gun boat)
01.01.1943
 -
 		11.1943
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 670 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 33rd MTB Flotilla (Southampton, then Felixstowe, then Mediterranean)
27.11.1943
 -
 		07.1944
 		Naval Officer-in-Charge, Chittagong [HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay)]
07.1944
(07.1945)
 		Senior Officer Coastal Forces (Arakan) [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
21.03.1946
 -
 		20.08.1946
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Boxer (fighter direction ship)
23.06.1947
 -
 		(10.1947)
 		Commanding Officer, HMS Duncansby Head (repair ship)
Ashcroft,
Wilfred James Charles
W.J.C. Ashcroft
Son of Wilfred Ernest  Ashcroft and Elizabeth Mary Ashcroft (née Rush), of Middlesbrough.		 (03?).1921
Dover, Kent
-
14.09.1942
[age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]
T/S.Lt. (A) 06.06.1942
? - 14.09.1942 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
Ashenden,
William James
W.J. Ashenden 		(06?).1921
-
T/S.Lt. (E) 20.03.1944
T/Lt. (E) 20.03.1946 (reld [Class A] 07.12.1949)
1939-1945 Star 39-45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -& clasp Pacific
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
11.04.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
16.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Odzani (frigate)
01.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Papua (frigate)
(07.1948)     HMS Berry Head *
(05.1949)     HMS Zenith *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Ashton,
Eric Hedley
 E.H. Ashton
Son of ... Ashton, and ... Dodgson.
Married; four sons.

DVD interview available at the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust


(09?).1917
Ecclesall Bierlow district, Derbyshire / West Riding of Yorkshire
-
11.04.2007
North Wales
[age 89]
(formerly of Newark)
Petty Offr. Mech. ?
T/S.Lt. (E) 29.06.1942
T/Lt. (E) 29.06.1943
      HM MTB 71 (motor torpedo boat)
      HM MTB 201 (motor torpedo boat)
1942     commissioned, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
      overseeing Vosper MTB's built in Annapolis [HMS Asbury ?]
      served in Algiers [HMS Razorbill ?]
12.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
19.02.1945 - (07.1945) Base Engineer Officer, HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick, Shetlands)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Aspinall,
Peter
P. Aspinall		 ?
-
T/S.Lt.
 05.06.1941
T/Lt.
 05.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
 21.11.1944
 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 06.03.45]
18.08.1941
 -
 		(08.)1942
 		HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches)
01.10.1942
 -
 		(02.)1943
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 56 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
18.02.1943
 -
 		(06.)1943
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 248 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
05.07.1943
 -
 		01.1944
 		Commanding Officer, HM MTB 255 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
 -
 		(10.1944)
 		HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
(07.1945)

no appointment listed
Asprey,
Patrick John David
P.J.D. Asprey		 (09?).1921
Exeter district, Devon
-
died between 06.1963 and 08.1973 ??
Midsh. (A) RN
 		13.03.1939 (reld 07.03.1940; appointment terminated)
Prob. T/Midsh.
 		08.03.1940
T/Midsh.
 		?, seniority 08.03.1940
T/A/S.Lt.
 		25.07.1941
T/S.Lt.
 		25.07.1942
T/Lt.
 		25.01.1944 (reld 1945/46?)
Lt.
 		31.03.1953, seniority 23.07.1950
Lt.Cdr.
 		25.07.1958 (retd 13.06.1963)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
 25.04.1963
 ?
19.06.1939
 		-
 		(08.1939)
 		observers' course [HMS Excellent]
08.03.1940

joined RNVR
10.05.1940
 		-
 		(02.1941)
 		HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
(12.1941)
 		 
 		 
 		HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
(10.1944)
 		 
 		 
 		no appointment listed
04.1945
 		-
 		(07.1945)
 		HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for duty on Staff of CBNIEJ)
31.03.1953

transferred to Air Branch of Permanent RNVR
Atkins,
Frederick James
F.J. Atkins 		?
-
T/S.Lt. 18.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
      served at HM LCI(L) 265 (landing craft, infantry (large))
Atkins,
William Barnard
W.B. Atkins
1899 ?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 01.1943, seniority 19.12.1942
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
 01.01.1958
 New Year 58
(10.1944)
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Admiralty [HMS President] *
Sub-Manager of the Westminster Foreign Bank at Marseilles.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Atkinson,
George Maynard
G.M. Atkinson
01.03.1922
-
11.1991
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
T/A/S.Lt.
 ?
T/S.Lt.
 15.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
20.11.1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		HMS Pennywort (corvette)
26.02.1944
 -
 		(10.)1944
 		HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
21.10.1944
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		HM LST 538 (landing ship, tank)
(04.1946)

no appointment listed
Austin,
Herschel Lewis
"Lew"
H.L. Austin H.L. Austin
 Married; two children.

22.03.1911
Plymouth, Devon
-
08.04.1974
Brighton, Sussex
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.03.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.09.1944
08.09.1944 - (01.)1945 on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Politician (Labour MP for Stretford, 1945-1950).
Avern,
Edward Gilbert
E.G. Avern (Photo courtesy of Mr Rick Avern)
Son of ... Avern, and ... Neale.		 09.12.1918
Lambeth district, London
-
29.04.2009
Porb. T/S.Lt. 07.06.1940
T/A/Lt. 07.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
RAF:  
F/Lt. 03.08.1949 [500791]
(10.1940)     HMS Forfar (armed merchant cruiser) *
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
13.09.1941 - (07.1945) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
03.08.1949     commissioned, RAF (Education Branch) [short service commission]
03.08.1954     transferred to reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Avison,
Will
W. Avison
Son of the Revd. Edward Avison and Sarah Avison.
Married ((12?).1935, Ashbourne district, Derbyshire / Staffordshire)  Ethel Winifred Hewish (10.06.1909 - 10.1999), of Oakham, Rutland.		 1904 ?
-
02.11.1943
(KIA) [age 39]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 16.04.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 16.04.1943?
Mention in Despatches  MID
 30.05.1944
 Operation Antidote
29.06.1942
 -
 		02.11.1943
 		Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(05.1943)
 -
 		02.11.1943
 		Staff Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naples [HMS Hannibal]


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