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1939-1945

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Babington, J.H.
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Boal, W.J.
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Babington,
John Herbert
J.H. Babington
George Cross Database
06.02.1911
Tai Chow Foo, China
-
24.03.1992
West Oxfordshire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
16.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
> 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
George Cross GC 
27.12.1940
mine disposal [investiture 18.07.41]
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
08.06.1943
bomb disposal [investiture 15.02.44]
Education: Wyggeston School; St. Catharine's College, Cambridge (MA; BSc)
Physics teacher, King's College School, Wimbledon.
19.09.1940
-
(10.1944)
Department of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal], Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty inside Admiralty)



HMS Volcano (Bomb Disposal Training Establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland) (attached?) *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Assistant education officer in Hertfordshire; headmaster of Diss Grammar School, 1947; headmaster of the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, 1951; headmaster of Ashlyn's School, Berkhamsted, 1955; retd, 1980.
* according to evidence given by a local resident
Baddeley,
Philip
P. Baddeley
Son of ... Baddeley, and ... Stagg.

His son writes: "I think that he joined up in 1939 to train as a pilot in the navy but failed the eye test and moved to the ships. He joined the London Division of the RNVR. By Christmas of 1940, he was on HMS Nigeria patrolling the Denmark Straits over Christmas. He then moved again. I think that he qualified in radio operations. The observation ship which was patrolling off the coast of Portugal was sunk and he was rescued by the HMS Scarborough and taken to Gibraltar.  He was then on the HMS Renown and taken back into the Med with three other injured people before being taken back to the UK. He recovered at Glen Eagles Hotel and then was stationed on the Tyne before going back to sea. He ended up rescuing Dutch women and children in Java in LST 371 under Lt.Cdr. C.R. Martin. As with so many people, he never talked about the war but recently answered my questions. He returned to work."

(06?).1920
Northwich district, Cheshire
-
13.06.2007
T/S.Lt.
01.05.1941
T/A/Lt.
24.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
1939?


joined RNVR
(12.1940)


HMS Nigeria (cruiser) (Denmark Straits)



HMS Duncan (destroyer)
15.11.1941
-
(10.)1944
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
13.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HM LST 371 (landing ship, tank) (Java)
Bagg,
Sidney Cecil
S.C. Bagg
Married (16.10.1943) (marriage dissolved 11.1946); one son, one daughter.
(09?).1896
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
Army:

T/2nd Lt. (prob)
04.12.1916
T/Lt.
04.06.1918 (reld 01.05.1919; retaining the rank of Lt.)
Lt.
12.10.1940 [123301] (reld 25.10.1943)
RNVR:

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
25.10.1943
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
09.11.1943 (reld < 07.1945)
04.12.1916


commissioned, Army Service Corps
12.10.1940


commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission]
25.10.1943


commissioned, RNVR (Special Branch) (as Mechanical Engineer?)
(10.1944)


no appointment listed
Baggott,
John Charles
J.C. Baggott
Son (with one sister) of Samuel Charles Baggott (1883-1936), and Edith Maude Bayliss (1882-1960).
Married ((03?).1949, Scunthorpe district, Lincolnshire) Jean Bell; one son.
Brother-in-law of Maj. Frederick Edward McNelly.
14.04.1924
Swindon district, Wiltshire
-
04.04.1980
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
T/S.Lt.
15.04.1944
T/Lt.
15.04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon) *
04.04.1944
-
04.1945
Commanding Officer, HM LCT 7074 (landing craft, tank)
Partner in the firm of solicitors Mason & Baggott in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire (from appr. 1955). He also became Lincs. Amateur Golf Champion.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bagnall,
Rev. Roger
J.C. Baggott
Son of ... Bagnall, and ... Fleet.
Married; ... children (one son?).
30.12.1915
Cannock district, Staffordshire
-
04.1999
Hull district, Yorkshire
Prob. T/Chapl.
15.09.1944
T/Chapl.
1945?, seniority 15.09.1944 (reld 1946)

 

Education: BA.
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
17.10.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Robin (RN Air Station, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkneys)
1945
-
(07.)1945
Holding Company, RM Engineers
26.07.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Nabsmere (Mobile Naval Air Base IX, Middle Wallop, then Sembawang, Singapore)
Bailey,
George Edward
G.E. Bailey
Son of Charles Frederick and Catherine Cormack Bailey.
Husband of Lilias Stark Bailey, of South Harrow, Middlesex.
1905 ?
-

06.07.1944 
(KIA) [age 29]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 88, colum 1]
Prob. T/S.Lt.
26.04.1940
T/Lt.
26.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO 
29.09.1942
attack superior ship & E-boats 29.07.42 [investiture 17.11.42]
(02.1941)


HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
01.04.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 63 (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(07.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM MGB 67 (motor gun boat)
1944
-
06.07.1944
HMS Trollope (frigate) (torpedoed off Normandy)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bailey,
Harry Winston [Hardicker]
H.W. Bailey
(03?.)1904
Brentford district, Middlesex
-

26.04.1965 
Emery Down, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
T/S.Lt. (A)
08.09.1939
T/Lt. (A)
23.03.1940 (reld > 04.1946)
A/T/Lt.Cdr. (A)
< 12.1941
T/A/Cdr. (A)
< 07.1945
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
12.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
pilot, 752 Squadron FAA [HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Pairco, Trinidad)]
07.1941
-
(06.)1943
HMS Buzzard (RN Air Station, Palisadoes, Kensington, Jamaica) (for some period perhaps as Execeutive Officer)
1943?
-
1945?
served at the Isle of Man
(10.1944)
 
 
HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man) *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Company director.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bailey,
Leslie James
L.J. Bailey (Photo courtesy of Mr Athel Cornish-Bowden)
Son of Reginald Percy Bailey (1877-1956), and Maggie Edith B. Cooper (1876?-1950).
Married (27.02.1949, Newton Abbot, Devon) Elizabeth Cornish-Bowden (02.08.1915 - 28.03.2005), daughter of William Cornish-Bowden (1869-1939), and Henrietta Edith Kitson (1875-1965) & sister of Lt. E.J. Cornish-Bowden, RN & Cdr. (S) W.K. Cornish-Bowden, RN; four daughters, one son.
19.10.1911
Pill, Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
27.11.1965
Torquay, Devon
T/Sg.Lt. (D) 12.03.1943
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) > 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: LDS.
25.05.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Duke (RN training establishment, Great Malvern, Worcestershire)
21.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Fieldfare (RN Air Station, Evanton, Ross-shire)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Bailey,
Richard John
R.J. Bailey
?
-
 
T/A/S.Lt. 1943?
T/S.Lt. 08.01.1944
T/Lt. 01.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
07.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Vigilant (destroyer)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
22.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Hotspur (destroyer)
Bailey,
Richard Thurston
R.T. Bailey
Son of ...Bailey, and ... Smith.
23.08.1912
Amersham district, Buckinghamshire
-
02.1997
Chichester district, Sussex
T/S.Lt.
15.11.1940
T/Lt.
15.11.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 04.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
13.03.1945
assault on Normandy
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
10.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Arpha (armed merchant cruiser)
(06.1944)
-
(05.1945?)
Commanding Officer, [HD]ML 1001 ([harbour defence] motor launch) (Normandy, Arromanches; for hydrographic duties)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Bailey,
William
"Bill"
W. Bailey W. Bailey

W. Bailey

1918
Santos-o-Velho, Lisbon, Portugal
-
11.03.1985
Lisbon, Portugal
T/El.S.Lt. ?
T/El.Lt. ?
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE ? ?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC ? ?
George Medal GM ? ?
George Medal GM ? ?
       
Bain,
Charles David
C.D. Bain
Married Vera Harboe; two sons.
08.10.1910
-
T/S.Lt. 10.07.1941
T/Lt. 10.10.1941
T/A/Lt. Cdr. > 10.1944, < 01.1945
King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway) Hkn 26.08.1947 liaison on Norwegian ships Montbretia & Lincoln
(12.1941)     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
07.1941 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, "Montbretia" (Norwegian corvette)
18.11.1942 - 09.1943 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Lincoln" (Norwegian destroyer)
(10.1944)     HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) *
20.01.1944 - 03.10.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Piorun" (Polish destroyer)
(01.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
04.10.1944 - 28.09.1946 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Conrad" (Polish light cruiser)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Baker,
Geoffrey Herbert
G.H. Baker
?
-
T/S.Lt.
21.02.1941
T/Lt. 
16.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.11.1944
Operation Neptune, Normandy 06.44 [investiture 18.05.45]
03.05.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services)
13.03.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 250 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Baker,
Joseph
J. Baker
Son of William John and Maud Annie Baker (née Hayes), of Alford.
(09?).1917
Spilsbury district, Lincolnshire
-
13.01.1942
[age 24]
[Alford Cemetery, Lincolnshire, V.53]
T/Paym.S.Lt.
25.08.1939
T/Paym.Lt. 
25.08.1941
25.08.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber)
01.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
Confidential Book Officer, HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft)
25.03.1941
-
13.01.1942
HMS Europa (Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft)
Baker,
John Lindsay Allister
J.L.A. Baker
Son of Dudley Molyneux Baker, and Jessie Mary Heiron.
29.04.1922
Steyning district, Sussex
-
10.2004

Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
19.09.1943
T/Lt. 
19.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
01.08.1943
-
23.01.1944
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 224 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
09.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 388 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)     HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Baker,
Richard Douglas James
R.D.J. Baker
15.06.1925
Willesden, London
-
T/Midsh.
03.03.1944
T/A/S.Lt.
15.12.1944
T/S.Lt.
15.06.1945

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE
1976
?
RD
1979
?
Education: Kilburn Grammar School; Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA)
1943
-
1946
served RN:
01.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Peacock (sloop)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
27.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray)
Actor, 1948; Teacher, 1949; Third Programme Announcer, 1950-1953; BBC TV Newsreader, 1954-1982; broadcaster & author; Member, Broadcasting Standards Council, 1988-1993.
Published: Here is the News (broadcasts), 1966; The Terror of Tobermory, 1972; The Magic of Music, 1975; Dry Ginger, 1977; Richard Baker's Music Guide, 1979; Mozart, 1982, rev. edn 1991; London, a theme with variations, 1989; Richard Baker's Companion to Music, 1993
Baker,
Stanley Farmer
S.F. Baker
Son of Alfred Baker, and Eliza Farmer ??
Married ((09?).1909, Penzance district, Cornwall) Amelia Laity Rowe ??
(06?).1884 ?
Hednesford, Cannock district, Staffordshire ?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.11.1942
WW I
 
 
served as Petty Officer in the RNVR
(10.1944)
-
(04.1946)
Sea Cadet Corps
Bale,
William Arthur
W.A. Bale

Son of ... Bale, and ... Slater.
(12?).1920
Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
27.09.1941
T/Lt. (A)
14.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
15.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
pilot, 822 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
?
-
08.11.1942
pilot, 821 Squadron [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
[failed to return in his Albacore from a raid on La Senia airfield, Oran; was attacked and shot down by a Dewoitine Dw.520; captured]
08.11.1942
-
1943?
POW in French captivity
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lothian) *
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Balfour,
Keith Craig
K.C. Balfour
20.04.1910
[Canada?]
-
03.1986
Northallerton district, North Yorkshire
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
27.01.1941
T/Sg.Lt.
10.02.1941
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
> 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: MB, BCh.
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
03.03.1941
-
(06.1943)
Assistant Medical Officer, HMS Aurora (cruiser)
20.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Lochy (frigate)
Balfour,
Ronald Egerton
R.E. Balfour
Son of Alfred Granville Balfour and Frances Elizabeth Simpson. 
Married Deirdre Phyllis Ulrica Hart-Davis (24.04.1930); two daughters.
1896
Scotland
-
17.04.1941
Surbiton Hospital (car accident)
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 86]
T/Lt.
18.09.1939
A/T/Lt.Cdr.
> 04.1940, < 04.1941
18.09.1939
-
17.04.1941
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Balfour,
William
W. Balfour
Son of James Murdoch McDonald Balfour and Isabella Murray Balfour; husband of Doris Irene Balfour, of Holyhead, Anglesey.
1912 ?
-
02.07.1944
(KIA) [age 32]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 2]
T/S.Lt.
03.01.1940
T/Lt.
01.12.1940
03.01.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Marmion (Algerine class minesweeper)
09.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) (for miscellaneous duties)
08.08.1943
-
02.07.1944
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1019 (motor minesweeper) (killed in action when the ship struck a moored mine off Cherbourg and sunk within a few minutes)
Barber,
Douglas Ralph William
D.R.W. Barber
Son of ... Barber, and ... Grace.
(03?).1920
Brentford, Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt.
28.08.1941
T/A/Lt.
? (reld 1943?, medically unfit?)
22.09.1941
-
(06.1943)
Department of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal] [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Barber,
Raymund
R. Barber
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
14.07.1944
T/S.Lt.
14.01.1945
T/A/Lt.
> 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
(03.1945)


British Naval Liaison Officer, "Miaoulis" (Greek destroyer)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bardner,
Edward Erskine
E.E. Bardner
Son of James and Catherine Erskine Bardner, of Culross, Fife.
1924
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
-
06.04.1945
(MIA) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]
T/A/S.Lt.(A)
19.06.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)
1945?
01.08.1944
-
(10.1944)
pilot, 1849 Squadron FAA
?
-
06.04.1945
pilot, 1850 Squadron FAA [HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)]
[Chance Vought FG-1A Corsair IV (KD 163) had low oil pressure in interception exercise from Hal Far, Malta. Bailed out but not found despite extensive air/sea search.]
Barfield,
James Colin
J.C. Barfield
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
04.03.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
07.10.1944
-
?
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed
Barge,
Ronald Mansfield "Ronnie"
R.M. Barge
10.11.1920
Rawalpindi, India
-

Rhu, Dumbartonshire, Scotland
Prob. Midsh.
02.06.1938
Midsh.
1939, seniority 02.06.1938
A/S.Lt.
10.11.1940
S.Lt.
10.11.1941
Lt.
01.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
01.01.1951 (removed from Active List 12.12.1951)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
13.10.1942
action against R-boats 16.08.42 [investiture 01.12.42]
Mention in Despatches MID
14.07.1942
attack armed raider Dover Straits 13.05.42
Mention in Despatches MID
03.08.1943
action against trawlers & R-boats 28.05.43
Mention in Despatches MID
15.05.1945
action against E-boats 02.-03.45
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
02.08.1951
-
Painter.
06.09.1939
-
(10.)1940
HMS Revenge (battleship)
10.11.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM MASB 63 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)]
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
(05.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM MGB 9 (motor gun boat)
16.03.1942
-
30.05.1943
HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover):
?
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 6 (motor gun boat)
(02.1943)
-
30.05.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 108 (motor gun boat)
02.09.1944
-
(10.)1944
on staff of Captain Coastal Forces, Channel [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
10.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
(05.1945)


HMS Riou (frigate)
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 504 (motor torpedo boat)
Got his aviator's licence (# 24603) 0n 23.06.1948, taken on a D.H.82A at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Aero Club. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Dunbarton, 14.01.1972. Trustee, Royal Bank of Scotland.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Barham,
George Ernest Anley
G.E.A. Barham
Son of ... Barham, and ... Painter.
(03?).1913
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey

-
T/S.Lt.
17.01.1941
T/Lt.
17.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
03.11.1941
-
(02.1943)
HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
(11.1943)
 
 
First Lieutenant, HM ML 106 (motor launch) ??
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
05.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Mariner (Algerine class minesweeper)
Barlow,
Peter Douglas
P.D. Barlow
From Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
?
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977 ?
Prob. T/S.Lt.
28.06.1940
T/S.Lt.
08.1941, seniority 28.06.1940
T/Lt.
01.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt.
25.02.1950, seniority 01.05.1942
Lt.Cdr.
01.05.1950 (retd)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
05.12.1944
Adriatic & Aegean coastal operations [investiture 20.07.45]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
-
Africa Star Afr St
-
-
Italy Star It St
-
-
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
-
-
Mention in Despatches MID
30.05.1944
coastal forces actions Adriatic & Italian coasts 01.44
Mention in Despatches MID
21.11.1944
coastal forces actions West coast of Italy 06.44
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
16.08.1963
-
Croix de Guerre avec Palme (France) CdeG
?
raids of French commandos Tyrrhenian Sea 43-44
19.08.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for special service)
01.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces estalishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
20.01.1944
-
03.03.1945
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 659 (motor gun boat)
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
25.02.1950
 
 
transferred, List II of permanent RNVR
* indexed, but not listed as such
Barnard,
Eric Thomas
C.W.S. Barnes
Son of Frederick George Barnard, and Ethel Morris.
Husband of Yvonne Joan Barnard, of Felixstowe.
(09?).1914
Keynsham district, Gloucestershire / Somerset
-
13.04.1945
(MPK) [age 31]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]
T/S.Lt. (A)
23.07.1944
ARAeS.
13.03.1944
-
(10.1944)
pilot, 753 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
(01.1945)


no appointment listed
01.02.1945
-
13.04.1945
pilot, 849 Squadron FAA [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)] *
[Flying from Royal naval Air Station Bankstown, Sydney Sub Lieutenants ET Barnard and P Selwood failed to pull out of long shallow dive while test firing
guns in Firefly Mk.1 DK440, and crashed into the sea off Malabar Point, Sydney, 13.4.45 both men were killed.]

* Family thinks he was appointed to HMS Nabberley (Mobile Naval Air Base II, Bankstown nr Sydney, NSW) as from 05.04.1945.
Barnard,
Ronald
R. Barnard
?
-
T/Lt. 11.06.1943
War Medal (Norway) NorWM 22.05.1945 services to Norwegian Navy (Glaisdale)
12.11.1942 - 29.09.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Glaisdale" (Norwegian escort destroyer)
07.10.1944 - 02.1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Eglantine" (Norwegian corvette) [invalided home]
23.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Europa (RNPS Central Depot, Lowestoft)
Barnes,
Clifford William Stephen
C.W.S. Barnes
08.08.1908
Hackney district, London / Middlesex
-
09.1995
Norwich district, Norfolk
T/Lt.
15.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
? (reld > 06.1944, < 07.1945)
20.01.1937


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached London Division, RNVR)
01.03.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Badger (minesweeping base, Harwich)
01.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Valesca (minesweeping trawler)
20.07.1942
-
(06.1944)
Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President]
20.07.1942
-
(08.1942)
for duty outside Admiralty
(02.1943)
-
(06.1943)
for duty inside Admiralty
(08.1943)
-
(06.1944)
for duty outside Admiralty
Barnes,
Dennis Arthur Eustace
D.A.E. Barnes
Son of ... Barnes, and ... Smith.
Married Jo ... (predeceased him); ... children.
(03?).1921
Barnet district, Greater London
-
26.03.2008
Willowmead Residential Home, Essex [previously of "Casa Perro", West Hanningfield]
T/A/Lt.
01.09.1943
Lt. (L)
23.10.1947, seniority 01.09.1943
Lt.Cdr. (L)
01.09.1951
Cdr.
31.12.1957 (retd 31.12.1966)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
?
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
31.01.1967
first clasp
Education: CEng; MIERE
...
-
...
...
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
23.10.1947
 
 
transferred to List I of Permanent RNVR
...
-
...
...
Barnes,
Francis John
F.J. Barnes
From Bristol.
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
23.08.1940
T/S.Lt.
1941?, seniority 23.08.1940
T/Lt.
23.08.1941
- -
?
expression of appreciation from Commander-in-Chief South Africa: loss of Hr.Ms. Colombia
Chevalier ("Ridder") of the Order of Oranje-Nassau (The Netherlands) OON
19.01.1943
services to Dutch Navy while serving at Hr.Ms. Z8 & Hr.Ms. Nautilus [decoration posted]
06.09.1940
-
(10.1940)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(12.1941)


HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) *
?
-
27.02.1943
British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. Colombia (Dutch submarine tender) (survived sinking)
25.03.1944
-
1944
British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. Soemba (Dutch gunboat)
01.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for duty with Sea Transport Officers)
Barnes,
Raymond Charles Arthur
R.C.A. Barnes
Son of Charles Frederick Barnes, wire muzzle maker, and Ellen Matilda Black, of Teviotside, Mellow Close, Banstead, originally from East London.
(06?).1921
Romford district, Essex
-
19.08.1942
[age 21]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 1]
[commemorated at Banstead War Memorial]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
?
-
19.08.1942
HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Warsash)
[probably killed in action during the Dieppe raid]
Barnes,
Robert Varley
R.V. Barnes
Son of ... Barnes, and ... Varley.
25.04.1916
Ramsholt, Woodbridge district, Suffolk
-

T/S.Lt. (A)
29.08.1942
T/A/Lt. (A)
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted]
01.03.1943
-
(10.1944)
observer, 842 Squadron FAA
06.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) (for signal duties)
Barney,
Stephen James
S.J. Barney (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Younger son of Edgar William Barney, and Evelyn Mary Rushbrooke, of Horsell, Woking, Surrey.
Married ((09?).1949, Kensington district, Middlesex) Sheila Mary Parry (died 19.11.2009, aged 85), only daughter of Mr & Mrs E. Parry, of Aysgarth, Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire; adopted one son, one daughter.
(12?).1922
Windsor district, Berkshire / Surrey
-
12.2009 still alive at West Byfleet, Weybridge, Surrey
T/Midsh. 10.1942?
T/A/S.Lt. 1943?
T/S.Lt. 04.05.1943
T/Lt. 04.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. 1956?, seniority 29.04.1954
Lt.Cdr. RNR 29.04.1962 (retd 04.11.1982)
RD 12.08.1966 -
RD ? 1st clasp
Education: Charterhouse.
Worked in his father’s advertising agency, joined the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) and later the Home Guard.
01.1942 - 04.1942 HMS Atherstone (destroyer) (as OD and CW Candidate)
04.1942 - 10.1942 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishements, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
14.10.1942 - 10.1943 Correspondence Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
[first a four-week anti-submarine course at Greenock; went to Londonderry to join his ship but it had left and he was seconded to other ships, on coastal convoys and to Iceland, for 3 months; he was then sent to Gibraltar on HMS Rother in the spring of 1943 to rejoin HMS Venomous]
03.12.1943 - (07.)1945 Correspondence Officer, HMS Urania (destroyer) (under construction at Barrow-in-Furness, Normandy (06.1944), from summer 1944 in the Pacific)
autumn 1945     two months at the British Embassy at Tokyo (communications)
late 1945? - 1946? First Lieutenant, HMS Sarawak (frigate)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
1956? - 04.11.1982 Permanent RNVR (London Division, List 2A) [from 1958 RNR]
Barr,
Thomas
T. Barr
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Barr, of Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.
1922
Kilpatrick district, Dunbarton, Scotland
-
10.01.1944
(MPK) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 4]
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/S.Lt. (A)
03.01.1943
T/A/Lt. (A)
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
18.05.1943
torpedo attacks on enemy merchant vessels * [investiture 23.11.43]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
05.10.1943
17 recent operations, bombardment Syracuse ** [decoration presented to next-of-kin]
* For outstanding bravery in operations from Malta against enemy shipping in the Mediterranean.
** For skill and efficiency in many air operations against the enemy while operating from Malta.
22.09.1942
-
(06.)1943
pilot, 828 Squadron FAA (Malta)
26.07.1943
-
10.01.1944
pilot, 785 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)
Barradale-Steel,
George
G. Barradale-Steel
?
-
T/Lt.
10.10.1942
31.08.1942
-
(06.1944)
Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
09.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
15.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs)
Barratt,
Peter Lockwood
P.L. Barratt
Son of ... Barratt, and ... Bridgeman.
17.08.1923
Chelmsford district, Essex
-
09.2000
Waveney district, Suffolk
T/S.Lt.
17.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(06.1944)


took part in Operation Neptune (Normandy)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Barrett,
Maurice Agar
M.A. Barrett
From Pulborough.
?
-
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
28.03.1942, seniority 07.06.1941
T/Lt.
12.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
21.11.1944
actions covering 2 years
12.01.1943
-
(06.1944)
HM MGB 3 (motor gun boat), renamed: HMS Grey Seal [HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Barrow,
Norman MacLehose
N.M. Barrow
Married ((06?).1946, Horsham district) Third Officer Joan Cooper, WRNS; one son, two daughters.
01.11.1913
Maryhill district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
21.12.1979
Tonbridge district, Kent
T/A/S.Lt.
29.04.1943
T/S.Lt.
29.10.1943
T/A/Lt.
29.10.1945
29.04.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
10.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Palomares (fighter direction ship)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Chairman and CEO of BPB Holdings Ltd (British Plaster Board Ltd) 1973-78.
Barry,
Adrian Michael
A.M. Barry
Son of Richard Alan Barry and of Gladys Isabel Barry (née Vander Byl), of Fransch Hoek, Cape Province, South Africa. 
1912 ?
-
01.05.1942
(KIA) [age 30]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 76, column 3]
A/S.Lt.
?
A/T/Sg.Lt.Cdr..
15.02.1940
T/Sg.Lt.
?, seniority 15.09.1939
Education: MB, BCh, double first Pathology (Cantab.), Gold Medallist University College Hospital.
21.11.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Carnarvon Castle (armed merchant cruiser)
28.09.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS King George V (battleship)
?
-
01.05.1942
HMS Punjabi (destroyer)
[killed when battleship HMS King George V crashed into Punjabi's port side just abaft the engine room and went through her "like a butter knife at 25 knots". Punjabi's stern sank almost immediately.]
Barry,
John Campbell
J.C. Barry
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
03.06.1944 (reld 1945/46)



Ordinary Seaman, HMS Howe (battleship) (Sicily, 12.1943)
1944


HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
1944


HM ML 222 (motor launch) (based at HMS Hornet, Gosport) (Channel convoys & working up for minesweeping)
01.05.1944
-
(06.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM ML 246 (motor launch) (navigating & escorting 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade from Southampton to Juno Beach, Normandy)
10.1944
-
01.1945
epic voyage with 20th ML Flotilla to Bombay, India
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
1945


Reserve Fleet MLs, Dartmouth
Barwell,
Terence Edgar
T.E. Barwell
Son of ... Barwell, and ... Whaits.
Married; at least one son.

memoirs (at RN Museum)
31.01.1916
Axbridge district, Somerset
-
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
01.08.1940
T/Sg.Lt.
1941?, seniority 01.08.1940 (reld 11.03.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1946
New Year 46
Education: MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP
01.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
16.09.1941
-
06.11.1942
Medical Officer, HMS Express (destroyer)
06.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Nadder (frigate)
Basnett,
John Edward
J.E. Basnett (Photo courtesy of Mrs Penny Altmann)
Only son of Edward "Teddy" Basnett, and Eveline "Eve" M. Basnett (née Cooper).
Married Helen Ellisdon; two daughters.
14.04.1919
Cardiff district, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire
-
08.05.1995
T/S.Lt.
27.12.1940
T/A/Lt.
27.06.1943 (reld 31.01.1946)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
20.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Pentstemon (corvette)
29.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Malahne (armed yacht)
Bate,
William Bruce Thornton
W.B.T. Bate
30.04.1908
Bristol district, Avon / Gloucestershire
-
02.1987
Torbay district, Devon
T/Lt.
23.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
12.06.1945
offensive sweep Genoa 12.44 [decoration posted]
(1940)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB ... (motor torpedo boat)
(12.1944)


HMS Minuet
Bate,
William Osmund John
W.O.J. Bate
Son of ... Bate, and ... Cobb.
(03?).1913
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
T/Lt.
31.01.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1943
New Year 43
(1942)


First Lieutenant, HM SGB 8 (steam gun boat)



served 29th (Canadian) MTB Flotilla
Bates,
Raymond Arthur
R.A. Bates
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/A/Lt.
12.02.1943
16.03.1942
-
(06.1944)
Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
01.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (for mine disposal)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Bates,
Sidney Edward Mills
S.E.M. Bates (Photo courtesy of Mr Garth Fletcher)
Son of Sidney Frank Bates, and Marion D. Mills, of Aldridge, Staffordshire.
Married (1960) Dr. Thelma Dorothy Johnson, daughter of Mr & Mrs W.C.D. Johnson, of Ringwood, Hampshire.
03.04.1917
Walsall district, Staffordshire
-
05.1996
Hereford district, Herefordshire / Monmouthshire
T/Sg.Lt.
19.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Hereford Cathedral School; Oxford University (BA, 1939); BM, BCh.
15.08.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
30.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Honorary Secretary, Oxford University Medical Society, Brasenose College, Oxford (1939).
Battison,
Douglas Frederick
D.F. Battison
Son of ... Battison, and ... Sykes.
Married; children.
(06?).1920
Sheffield district, Yorkshire
-
02.01.2007
Felpham, West Sussex
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
09.04.1945
Lt. (A) RN
03.07.1946, seniority 09.04.1945
Lt.Cdr. RN
09.04.1953 (retd 29.06.1959)
...
-
...
...
23.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
pilot, 711 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]
03.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
pilot, 778 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)]
03.07.1946


transferred to RN
...
-
...
...
Battson,
Harry
H. Battson
Son of ... Battson, and ... Nock.
From East Barnet.
08.02.1917
East Barnet, Greater London / Hertfodshire / Middlesex
-
03.1992
Kettering distirct, Northamptonshire
T/S.Lt.
29.05.1942
T/Lt.
29.05.1943

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
30.05.1944
action off Dieppe 28.03.44 [investiture 21.09.44]
10.04.1943
-
(11?).1943
[Commanding Officer?], HM MTB 499 (motor torpedo boat) *
01.11.1943
-
(04.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 602 (motor torpedo boat) [from 19.05.1944 at Newhaven)]
(10.1944)

 
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) **
05.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Wellesley (RN training establishment, Liverpool)
* (06.1944) still [erroneously?] listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such
Baxter,
Noel Edward Lindesay
N.E.L. Baxter
Son of Ferdinand and Amelia Aytone Lindesay Baxter (née Hogg), of Chelsea, London.
(03?).1913
Kensington district, Greater London
-
16.07.1942
(KIA) [age 29]
[Aelxandria (Hadria) War Memorial Cemetery, 3.C.26]
Cadet RN
01.05.1930
Midsh. RN
01.01.1931 (reld 1933)
Prob. T/S.Lt.
01.09.1939
T/A/Lt.
01.09.1940
26.04.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.09.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
05.07.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
(05.1933)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.09.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for duty at Inchkeith)
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
?
-
16.07.1942
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (additional; on passage) (killed on the launch Gulf Stream that exploded)
Bayley,
Kenneth Egremont Anson
K.E.A. Bailey
15.09.1903
-
(09?).1975
Chichester district
Prob. T/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
03.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 12.1943, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44 [investiture 12.12.1944]
Mention in Despatches MID
16.09.1940
Dunkirk 05-06.40
1939-1945 War Medal; Africa Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star, 1939-1945 Star
(05/06.1940)


MB Princess Lilly (Dunkirk)
13.08.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Defiance (torpedo school, Devonport) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
13.12.1942
-
24.06.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 648 (motor gun boat) [based at HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
25.06.1943
-
07.09.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 642 (motor gun boat)
08.09.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 659 (motor gun boat)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Baylis,
Robert Goodwin
"Bob"
R.G. Baylis
Son of Harold Goodwin Baylis and Evelyn May Whitworth.
Married (1949)  Joyce Rosemary Churchill (died 1995); two sons, one daughter.
29.11.1925
Luton distict, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
29.05.2009
[Hill Head, Fareham, Hampshire?]
Prob. T/Midsh. (A)
17.09.1944
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)
1945?
T/S.Lt. (A)
10.02.1946
Lt. (L) RN
05.02.1947
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN
05.02.1955
Cdr. (L) RN
31.12.1961
Capt. RN
30.06.1970
R.Adm. RN
07.07.1979 (retd)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1984
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
08.06.1963
HM's birthday 63
Education: Highgate School; Edinburgh University; Loughborough College; RN Engineering College; Trinity College, Cambridge. MA Cantab. MRAeS.
1943
 
 
joined RNVR
(01.1945)


no appointment listed
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
18.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)



various appointments at sea in Far East and Home Fleet and ashore in research and development and training establishments; Staff of Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America, 1958; British Navy Staff, Washington, and Special Projects (Polaris), 1964; Defence Fellow, Southampton University, 1969; Naval ADC to HM the Queen, 07.01.1979-07.07.1979; Staff of Vice Chief of Defence Staff, 1979; President, Ordnance Board, 1981-30.04.1984
CEng; FIEE. Chief Executive, R.G. Baylis & Associates, since 1984; Director, British Maritime Technology Reliability Consultants Ltd, since 1988. Member Steering Group, Solent Maritime, 1994-. Member, Nuffield Theatre Board, 1988- (Chairman, 1989-1993, 1995-1997). Member (Emeritus), Australian Ordnance Council; Member Council, IEE, 1984-1986; Member, Euro­Atlantic Group, 1989-.
Beardmore,
Walter Thomas John
W.T.J. Beardmore
Son of ... Beardmore, and ... Hughes.

his PQ17 story
03.05.1920
Richmond district, Surrey
-
09.2005
Hounslow district, London
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
14.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.05.1943
action with U-boats & Operation Torch
25.03.1942
-
(06.1944)
Navigating Officer, HMS Poppy (corvette)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
18.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Knaresborough Catle (corvette)
Beart,
Eric Henry
E.H. Beart
(09?).1904
St Marylebone district, Greater London / London
-
28.03.1942

(KIA) [age 37]
[Escoublac-la- Baule War Cemetery, 1.D.12]]
T/Lt.
?
(03.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 267 (motor launch) (killed in action, St. Nazaire raid)
Beaumont,
Ronald Walton
R.W. Beaumont
Son of ... Beaumont, and ... Walton.
29.12.1920
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
11.1987

Preston and South Ribble district, Lancashire
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 29.12.1941
T/Lt. 20.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
19.12.1943 - 30.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 260 (motor torpedo boat)
31.08.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 315 (motor torpedo boat)
Beck,
Paul Thomas William
P.T.W. Beck
19.11.1913
-
02.1988
Stafford district, Staffordshire
T/Lt.
05.03.1943
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1945
wind up, Europe 45
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 415 (motor topedo boat)
22.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
Beckerman,
Wilfred
W. Beckerman (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
W. Beckerman, 1944 (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of Morris and Mathilda Beckerman (née Pavilotsky).
Married 1st (1952) Nicole Geneviève Ritter (died 1979); one son, two daughters.
Married 2nd (02.1991, Kensington and chelsea district, London) Joanna Pasek; one daughter.
19.05.1925
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
T/Midsh.
?
T/A/S.Lt.
19.11.1944
T/S.Lt.
19.05.1945 (reld 09/10.1946)
Education: Ealing County School; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD); MA, DPhil Oxon.
1943
-
1946
served RNVR:
1944?
-
02.1945
midshipman, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
02.1945
-
(05.)1945
HMS Oribi (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
1945
-
1945
HMS Burghead Bay (frigate)
(04.1946)


HMS Bulldog (destroyer) *
05.1946
-
09/10.1946
HMS Onslaught (destroyer)
Trinity College, Cambridge, 1946-1950; Lecturer in Economics, University of Nottingham, 1950-1952; OEEC and OECD, Paris, 1952-1961; National Instute of Economic and Social Research, 1962-1963; Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1964-1969; Economic Adviser to Pres. of BoT (leave of absence from Balliol), 1967-1969; Professor of Political Economy, University of London, and Head of Dept of Political Economy, UCL, 1969-1975. Member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-1973. Member: Executive Committee, NIESR, 1973-; Council, Royal Economic Society, 1990-1993. Elie Halévy Visiting Professor Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1977; Resident Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1982. Consultant: World Bank; OECD; ILO. Pres., Section F (Economics), BAAS, 1978. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1975-1992, now Emeritus; Reader in Economics, Oxford University, 1978-1992.
Published: The British Economy in 1975 (with associates), 1965; International Comparisons of Real Incomes, 1966; An Introduction to National Income Analysis, 1968; (ed and contrib.) The Labour Government's Economic Record, 1972; In Defence of Economic Growth, 1974; Measures of Leisure, Equality and Welfare, 1978; (ed and contrib.) Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences, 1979; Poverty and the Impact of Income Maintenance Programmes, 1979; (with S. Clark) Poverty and the Impact of Social Security in Britain since 1961, 1982; (ed and contrib.) Wage Rigidity and Unemployment, 1986; Small is Stupid, 1995; Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes, 1995; articles in Economic Jl, Economica, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, etc.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bedding,
Arthur John
A.J. Bedding
Son of ... Bedding, and ... Partington.
09.07.1923
Fulham district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
06.2004
Chichester, Sussex
T/S.Lt. (A)
12.01.1945
(07.1945)


808 Squadron FAA *
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Beever,
Colin
C. Beever
(12?).1904 ??
district Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire ??
-
T/Lt.
08.08.1943
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
20.02.1945
minesweeping & enemy human torpedo attack [decoration posted]
06.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 304 (motor launch)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Bell,
Edward George Anthony
"Tony"
E.G.A. Bell
Son of ... Bell, and ... Bainbridge.
Married Muriel (predeceased him); two sons, one daughter.
(06?).1914
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
03.05.2008
Galsworthy Home
[age 94]
T/A/Lt.
27.10.1939
T/Lt.
27.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 06.1944, < 01.1945 (reld < 04.1945)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42 [investiture 28.07.42]
Mention in Despatches MID
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1942
New Year 42
01.05.1938
 
 
joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
27.11.1939
-
(10.1940)
HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
15.01.1941
-
(10.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Etruscan (minesweeping trawler)
24.10.1943
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1081 (motor minesweeper)
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
16.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Epping (minesweeping base, Harwich)
Bell,
Gordon Hamilton
G.H. Bell
?
-
12.05.1945
[Plymouth Memorial, panel 95, column 3]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
01.12.1942
T/Lt.
01.12.1944?
04.01.1943
-
04.1944
First Lieutenant, HM MA/SB 36 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)]
10.04.1944
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM MGB 318 (motor gun boat)
?
-
12.05.1945
HM MGB 2002 (motor gun boat) (ship loss)
Bell,
Herbert Henry
H.H. Bell
?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.12.1940 (reld > 06.1944 ?)
26.09.1939
-
(06.1944)
Department of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal] [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Bell,
[Sir] Hugh Francis;
4th Baronet
H.F. Bell
Elder son of Rev. Hugh Lowthian Bell (1878-1926), second son of 2nd Baronet, and Frances Helena Morkill.
Succeeded uncle,17.11.1944.
Married 1st (17.10.1947; divorced 1958) Mary Helen Mathieson, daughter of Archibald Mathieson, of London NW.
Married 2nd (11.08.1959) Dr. Mary Howson, MB, ChB (1924? - 18.02.2000), daughter of George Howson; four sons. She remarried (1991) Dominick Stuart Graham.
07.12.1923
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
-
06.08.1970
Ingleby Cross, Northallerton, Yorkshire
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 03.03.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 03.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset.
      indicated as RNVR Special Branch officer undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore (EX.S)
18.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
(04.1946)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bell,
Peter Roocroft Kenyon
P.R.K. Bell
Son of Guy Kenyon Bell, and Helen Beatrice Roocroft, of Hilldale, Tring.
Brother of Capt. John Mitchell Kenyon Bell, Royal Signals.
Married ((09?).1947, Hendon district, Middlesex) Margaret I. Coulson.
12.06.1925
Wigan district, Lancashire
-
26.03.2000
North Devon district, Devon
T/Midsh.
24.12.1943
T/S.Lt.
12.06.1945
S.Lt.
06.12.1946, seniority 12.06.1945
Lt.
12.06.1947
Lt.Cdr.
12.06.1955 (retd 27.02.1965; own request)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
& clasp France & Germany
Defence Medal Def M
-
-
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
-
-
Naval General Service Medal NavGSM
-
& clasp Minesweeping 45-51
12.09.1944
-
(07.)1945
Third Officer, HM MTB 764 (motor torpedo boat)
08.10.1945
-
(04.)1946
HM MTB 2013 (motor torpedo boat)
06.1946
 
 
HM MTB 2016 (motor torpedo boat)
06.12.1946
 
 
transferred, RN
22.12.1947
-
(05.)105-
HMS Sursay (trawler)
19.06.1950
-
1950
HMS Resource (depot ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
01.07.1950
-
1951
HMS Bellerophon (depot ship)
23.05.1951
-
1951
HMS Reward (fleet tug)
06.09.1951
-
(05.)1953
HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship)
07.12.1953
-
(04.)1955
on staff of Flag Officer Training Squadron Home Fleet [HMS Theseus (light fleet aircraft carrier)]
12.12.1955
-
(01.)1956
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
23.04.1956
-
(01.)1957
HMS Bellerophon (depot ship)
07.1957
-
1958
HMS Acute (Algerine class minesweeper)
13.06.1958
-
19.09.1960
First Lieutenant, HMS Caprice (destroyer)
1960
-
(07.1961)
HMS Royal Arthur (RN Petty Officers' school, Corsham, Wiltshire)
08.02.1963
-
(02.1964)
First Lieutenant, 1st Submarine Squadron [Fort Blockhouse, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
Bellairs,
Frank Alfred
F.A. Bellairs

Son of John and Emma Bellairs; husband of Mildred Ethel Bellairs, of Lee, London.
(06?).1899
St Olave Southwark district. London / Surrey
-

09.06.1942
(KIA) [age 43]
[Beirut War Cemetery, 1.K.7]
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
?
-
09.06.1942
HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
Bellis,
Nigel Leslie
N.L. Bellis

Son of ... Bellis, and ... Leigh.
17.03.1919
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
03.2000

Haverfordwest, Dyfed
T/S.Lt.
04.10.1940
T/Lt.
04.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(08.1942)
 
 
British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship  "Bayonne" (chasseur) [Dieppe operation]
(10.1944)
 
 
British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Malin" *
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS President *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Benbrook,
Alexander George Jameson *
A.G.J. Benbrook
Married (1931?) Isobel Maud (née ...).
Lived at Dulwich, London (1939).
* Used as last name in later life: Jameson-Benbrook.
05.09.1902
-
01.01.1960

Arundel, Worthing district, Sussex
T/Lt. 31.05.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway) Hkn 26.08.1947 liaison in Norwegian ships Draug & Glaisdale
Assistant District Officer, London County Council (1939).
31.05.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber)
(02.1941)     HMS Radiant *
21.09.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa Flow)
      British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Draug" (torpedo boat)
      British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Glaisdale" (escort destroyer)
09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Amzari (RN landing craft base, Vizagatapam, India)
Bookseller.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett,
Anthony Vilat Waters
A.V.W. Bennett
Son of ... Bennett, and ... Waters.
Married ((06?).1943, Kensington district, Middlesex) ... Smith.
(12?).1919
Weymouth district, Wiltshire
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
10.07.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
10.01.1944
20.10.1941
-
(02.)1943
base radar officer, HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
15.04.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
15.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Black Bat ( Coastal Forces base, No. 13 wharf, Devonport)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) **
* initially shown as "for Y Coy. R.M. Aux.Bd."
** indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett,
Gordon
G. Bennett
From Lockerley, Hants.
?
-
T/Lt. (A)
12.07.1942 (reld 1945/46)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
06.1945

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC

05.12.1944

passage convoys JW59 & RA59M [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
20.06.1944
2 attacks on U-boats 04.44
pre-war


metallurgist and representative for an alloy steel firm of Sheffield
1940


training at HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
?


HMS St Vincent (training establishment, Gosport) (initially training for telegraphist/air-gunner, later for pilot)
?


flying training, Elmdon Airport
?


advanced flying training, Kingston, Ont. (Canada)
?


promotion course, RN College, Greenwich
?


torpedo school, Crail
05.01.1942 - (06.1944) pilot, 825 Squadron [18.12.1943 to 07.09.1944 at HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, 768 Squadron FAA [HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus)]
Bennett,
Bayford Donald Patrick
B.D.P. Bennett
?
-

T/S.Lt.
13.12.1940
T/Lt.
13.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID
20.04.1943
HMS Jasper, ship torpedoed and sunk 01.12.1942



qualified for anti-submarine duties
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
04.02.1941
-

(06.1944)

HMS Abelia (corvette)
[apparently aboard HMS Jasper (anti-submarine trawler) when sunk in the English Channel)]
(1944?)
-
(1944/45?)
HMS Loch Killin (frigate)
(1944/45?)
-
(1945?)
HMS Lioness (Algerine class minesweeper)
25.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon) (for miscellaneous duties)
(1945?)


HMS Louis (frigate)
Bennett,
Ernest John
"Jack" / "Wiggy"
E.J. Bennett (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Bennett)
Son of ... Bennett, and ... Lowe.
Married; ... children (one son?).
10.04.1914
St Pancras district, Greater London / London
-
19.02.1970
T/A/S.Lt.
16.06.1944
T/S.Lt.
16.12.1944
T/Lt.
27.01.1947, seniority 16.12.1946
Lt. RN
1946/47?, seniority 16.12.1946 (emgcy 10.03.1952)
Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy)
14.02.1955, seniority 16.12.1954 (reld 08.1955)
Constable, London Metropolitan Police.
late 1943


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
09.09.1944
-
03.1945
HMS Queen of Kent (paddle minesweeper) (as Watchkeeping, CB & Corres Officer)
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Aristocrat (paddle minesweeper) *
?
-
03.1946
HMS Aristocrat (paddle minesweeper) (as Watchkeeping Officer)
05.1946
-
07.1948
First Lieutenant, HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)
1948
-
11.1948
HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship, Reserve Fleet, Harwich) (Assistant to Comanding Officer Extended Reserve Group & OOD HMS Tyne)
20.01.1949
-
05.1949
HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Assistant to Comanding Officer Extended Reserve Group)
05.1949
-
09.1951
HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (as First Lieutenant Dodman T Group)
1951
-
03.1952
Commanding Officer, HM ML 2586 (motor launch)
07.02.1953
-
01.03.1954
First Lieutenant, HMNZS Tui (minesweeper) **
01.03.1954
-
08.1955
Divisional Officer, HMNZS Philomel (RNZN depot, Auckland)
Remained in New Zealand. Organisational/Stewardship assistant to the Bishop of Aotearoa (NZ).
* indexed, but not listed as such
** (05.1953) indexed under HMS Philomel, but not listed as such
Bennett,
Leslie
L. Bennett
?
-
Electrical rating ?
1939?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
31.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
01.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties [worked on fleet radar equipment])
Bennett,
Samuel Brittain
"Tim"
S.B. Bennett (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Erskine) S.B. Bennett (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Erskine)
Son of Samuel Robert and Gertrude Bennett, of Leatherhead, Surrey.
25.05.1918
-

20.04.1942
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery, section 25, grave 506]
Prob. Midsh.
01.07.1936
A/S.Lt.
18.08.1938
S.Lt.
18.08.1939
Lt.
18.02.1941

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
05.05.1942
action against E-boats 15.03.42 [decoration presented to next-of-kin]
Trained as an architect (Scholar of Winchester College). M.R.I.B.A. Editor of Focus.
01.07.1936


joined RNVR, London Division
14.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
First Lieutenant, HMS Cornelian (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
13.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HM MASB 47 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)]
15.05.1941
-
20.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
Bennett,
William Norman
W.N. Bennett
?
-
T/Lt.
17.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 07.1945, < 04.1946
George Medal GM
16.06.1942
mine disposal [investiture 22.09.42]
01.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth)
> 07.1945
-
(04.1946)
Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Bennett de Barnesfold Peters,
Lynn Haydn
see: Peters,
Lynn Haydn
 
Benning,
Albert Henry
A.H. Benning (Photo courtesy of Jamie Benning)
Son of Edward Ernest Benning (1896-...), and Lilian Charlotte Blackman (1893-...).
Married Evelyn Violet Shepherd (born 1920), daughter of Edwin Shepherd and Annie Cecilia Douse; one daughter, two sons.
31.10.1918
Cuxton, Strood district, Kent
-
14.12.2008
T/S.Lt.
02.10.1942
T/Lt.
31.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
(1941?)
-
(1942?)
HMS Harrier (Halcyon class minesweeper)
01.11.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Queenborough (Halcyon class minesweeper)
03.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
Benson,
John Cecil
J.C. Benson (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Clark)
04.05.1908
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
-
12.1990
Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire
Midsh.
04.03.1926
S.Lt.
04.05.1929
Lt.
04.05.1931
Lt.Cdr.
04.05.1939
A/Cdr.
14.10.1943?
Cdr.
31.12.1944 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 31.12.1952)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
06.06.1941
minesweeping operations QZX314 [investiture 18.07.1941]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
03.04.1945
minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.44 [award posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1943
New Year 43 
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
17.09.1943
-
1926?


joined RNVR (Clyde Division, later Mersey Division, List 2, later Humber Division, List 2)
06.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
08.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Darthema (minesweeping trawler)
26.08.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper)
14.10.1943
-
(10.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Lyme Regis (Bangor class minesweeper) & as 2nd Senior Officer, 15th Minesweeping Flotilla
14.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
Executive Officer, HMS Epping (minesweepers base, Harwich)
Berntsen,
Peder James
P.J. Berntsen
Perhaps same as:
Peder James G C P Berntsen
13.02.1906
-
(09?).1973 Brighton district, Sussex
?
-
 
T/A/Lt. 20.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway) Hkn 26.08.1947 liaison in Norwegian ships Sleipner & Draug
      British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Sleipner" (torpedo boat)
      British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Draug" (torpedo boat)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(07.1945)     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
06.06.1945 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Acanthus" (covette)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Berry,
Edward George le Gassick
E.G. le G. Berry (Photo courtesy of Mr Ed Wilson)
Son of ... Berry, and ... Arundel.
Married ((06?).1935, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Constance Elizabeth Finn (04.02.1913 - 11.1994); one daughter.
Residence: (1944) Claygate, Surrey.
30.05.1911
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
08.1991
Worthing district, West Sussex
T/S.Lt.
27.06.1940
T/Lt.
30.05.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
19.12.1951, seniority 30.05.1947 (retd 31.10.1963)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.01.1944
New Year 44 [investiture 23.05.44]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
& clasp France & Germany
Pacific Star Pac St
-
-
Defence Medal Def M
-
-
Britih War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
-
-
Cor M
1953
-
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
1958
-
13.08.1940
-
10.1944
HMS Sapphire (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (from about 1942 as Commanding Officer)
10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Diligence (aircraft depot & repair ship)
19.12.1951
 
 
transferred to List II of Permanent RNVR (later RNR)
Berry,
Edward William Severs
E.W. Berry
Son of Noel William Berry, and Beatrice Mary Francis, of Alverstoke, Hampshire.
(06?).1920
Bridgnorth district, Shropshire
-
08.05.1943
(air crash) [age 23]
[Newport (Island) Cemetery, Rhode Island, NY, USA, Navy Sec. Plots 172-177. Grave 15]
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
01.04.1943
-
08.05.1943
pilot, 738 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, USA)]
Berry,
John William Henry
"Jack"
J.W.H. Berry
Son of John Berry, and ... Southwell, of Southampton.
21.06.1916
Southampton, Hampshire
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
01.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
1994
?
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
& clasp France & Germany
Britih War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
-
-
Conornation Medla 1953 CorM 53
-
-
Franco-British Cross of Honour CoH
-
-
Citizen of Honor of Coleville-Montgomery (France) in 1993.
Civil servant.
31.07.1941


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(1941?)
-
(1945?)
borne on HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) & HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)



HM LCT 2307 (landing craft, tank)
03.08.1943
-
?
First Lieutenant, HM LCT 2037 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)]



HM LCI(S) 505 (landing craft, infantry (small))
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM LCI(S) 523 (landing craft, infantry (small)) (Normandy)
18.09.1944
 
 
Astral Navigation Course, Troon [HMS Dinosaur]
24.10.1944


Commanding Officer, HM LCI(L) 310 (landing craft, infantry (large))
Berry,
William Jack
W.J. Berry
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/A/Lt.
01.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
02.08.1942
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Berthon,
Paul Alfred
P.A. Berthon (© Photo: Peter Scott, "The battle of the narrow seas")
Son of ... Berthon, and ... Black.
(09?).1914
Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
15.03.1941

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
20.01.1942
action with enemy 27.11.41
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1941
sinking of Santos 13.11.40
(11.1940)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 31 (motor torpedo boat)
(11.1941)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 219 (motor torpedo boat)
(1945)


HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
Best,
John Roff Finlay
J.R.F. Best

From Cranleigh.
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
12.07.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
10.09.1944
coastal actions 23.03 & 23.05.44
Mention in Despatches MID
05.05.1942
action E-boats 15.03.42
Mention in Despatches MID
15.09.1942
engagement with convoy & escort 01.07.42
(03.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM MGB 91 (motor gun boat)
(07.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM MGB 83 (motor gun boat)
(03.1944)
-
05.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 698 (motor torpedo boat)
14.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Bee
Bethune-Williams,
Denis Eustace
D.E. Bethune-Williams
?
-
25.01.1942
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 66,1]
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
29.09.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
04.01.1941, seniority 29.12.1940
26.09.1940
-
(02.1941)
Department of Unexploded Bombs [HMS President] (for duty inside Admiralty)
?
-
25.01.1942
HMCS Bytown (RCN HQ, Ottawa, Ont.)
Betts,
Michael William Peto
G.R.C. Berry
(06?).1923
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
31.01.2007
Isle of Wight
T/S.Lt. (A)
03.03.1944
Lt. RN
03.03.1946
Lt.Cdr. RN
03.03.1954 (retd)
(07.1945)


HMS Drake *



transferred to RN
...
-
...
...
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bevan,
Christopher Martin

C.M. Bevan
Son of ... Bevan, and ... MacKenzie.
Married (1948) Patricia C. Bedford; one son, three daughters.
22.01.1923
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
13.04.2008
[London?]
Ord.Sea.
1942
T/S.Lt.
07.11.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.05.1945
Lt. (L)
1946?, seniority 04.07.1944
...
...
R.Adm. RN
07.07.1976 (retd 1978)
1941


Trooper in Canterbury Yeoman Cavalry (NZ Mounted Rifles)
1942


joined RN as Ord. Seaman



served remainder of 1939-1945 war, Mediterranean and N Atlantic
01.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)



transferred to RN
...
-
...
...
Bevan,
Robert Alexander Polhill
"Bobby"
R.A.P. Bevan (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Baty)
Son of late Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925), painter, and late Stanislawa, daughter of Alexander de Karlowski.
Married (1946) Natalie, daughter of Court Denny.
15.03.1901
Cuckfield district, Sussex / West Sussex
-
20.12.1974
Colchester, Essex
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
30.07.1940
T/A/Capt.
1944? (reld < 04.1946)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE
08.06.1963
HM's birthday 63: Chairman S.H. Benson
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
11.03.1941
for enterprise and devotion to duty as Liaison Officer to the French
Education: Westminster (King's Scholar); Christ Church, Oxford (Scholar)
Joined S.H. Benson Ltd (advertising agents), 1923.
1940


Director of General Production, Ministry of Information
1940
-
1945
served RNVR:
(1940/41?)


Liaison Officer to the Free French Ship "Commandant Domine"
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
1944
-
1945
Deputy Chief of Naval Information, Washington *
Chairman, S.H. Benson Ltd, 1954-1964. UK representative on UN Committee on Public Information, 1958. Member: Advisory Council on Middle East Trade, 1958-1963; Export Publicity Council, 1959-1963; National Advisory Council on Art Education, 1960-1964; Advertising Standards Authority, 1962-1966. FIPA (Pres., 1961).

* (07.1945)  indexed as DCNI, but not listed under the Department of the Chief of Naval Information
Beynon,
William
"Bill"
W. Beynon
Married Patricia (née ...) (predeceased him).
?
-
03.12.2007
[Easthampstead Park Crematorium]
T/S.Lt.
18.09.1941
T/Lt.
18.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
29.08.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
20.10.1942
attack on convoy 17.08.42
Mention in Despatches MID
21.12.1943
action 19.10.43
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
27.01.1942
-
(08.1942)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 43 (motor torpedo boat)
11.10.1943
-
(10.)1944
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 682 (motor torpedo boat)
18.10.1944
-
(01.)1945
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 741 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Bibby,
Raymond Austin
R.A. Bibby
(03?).1920 ??
Epsom district, Surrey ??
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
28.08.1942
T/Lt.
07.01.1945
01.10.1944
-
(1945?)
HMS Puffin (sloop)
30.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Rother (frigate)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Bibby,
Robert Edgar
R.E. Bibby
Married Gillian Marigold (widow of Lt. C.W.R. Peever, RN); two daughters.
29.05.1913
-
01.1991
Lancaster district, Lancashire
T/S.Lt. (A)
08.09.1939
T/Lt. (A)
08.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
< 07.1945

Distinguished Service Order

DSO
20.01.1942
Mediterranean flights
Mention in Despatches MID
29.07.1941
Battle of Cape Matapan 03.41
Learned to fly before joining the RNVR.
(04.1940)


Fleet Air Arm [possibly at HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]
?
-
?
pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
24.11.1940
-
(03.1941)
pilot, 819 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean)
06.1941
-
12.1941
830 Squadron [HMS St Angelo (for RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta)]
[(01.1944)


Commanding Officer, 835 Squadron FAA ?]
12.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, 787 Squadron FAA [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton Warrington, Lancs)]
Billany,
Reginald Howard
R.H. Billany
Son of ... Billany, and ... Bowers.
From Hessle near Hull.
(06?).1913
Sculcoates district, Yorkshire - East Riding
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
26.05.1944
T/Lt.
01.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
14.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)
11.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Northmark (ex-German fast fleet attedendant oiler)
Bird,
John Samuel
J.S. Bird
?
-
Midsh. (A)
?
T/S.Lt. (A)
11.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
05.12.1942


flying Hurricane Mk I (Z4702), he collided mid-air with another Hurricane near Godney; both aircraft lost, pilots survived
06.1943
-
08.1944
pilot, 1834 Squadron FAA
31.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
pilot, HMS Garuda (RN aircraft repair yard, Coimbatore, India)
Bird,
Robert
R. Bird
?
-
Prob. S.Lt.
03.10.1938
S.Lt.
03.10.1939
Lt.
01.08.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1949
Cdr.
31.12.1952 (retd late 1950s)
Mention in Despatches MID
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
-
03.10.1938


joined RNVR (Tyne Division)
01.09.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Berwick (cruiser)
(12.1941)


anti-submarine course *
(1942)


HMS Onslow (destroyer)
(1944?)


HMS Musketeer (destroyer)
18.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for miscellaneous duties)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bird,
Robert Alister
R.A. Bird
1924
Bridge of
Weir, Renfrewshire, Scotland

-
1980
Johnstone district, Renfrewshire, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt.
1943?
T/S.Lt.
09.04.1944
11.09.1943
-
(04.1946)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Birkett,
Kenneth Jack
K.J. Birkett
(03?).1913 ??
Mile End Old Town district, London / Middlesex ??
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.09.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.05.1945
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
18.04.1944
mine disposal
29.03.1943
-
(06.1944)
Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
01.12.1944
-
(04.1946)
Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Bisset,
Alexander Hitchon
R.A. Bird
Son of James Milne Bisset, and Hilda Kathleen Baillie (1886-1971).
Married (10.12.1938, St Augustine's, Honor Oak Park, Camberwell district, Surrey) Elizabeth Williamson Park (08.10.1910-05.08.2000), daughter of James Harvey Williamson Park, OBE (1867-1939),
civil engineer for the main Post Office in Singapore, later of London SE23; two sons, one daughter.
21.10.1913
Glasgow, Scotland
-
18.04.2000
Winchester, Hampshire
[ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance at Compton Parish Church, Winchester]
T/S.Lt. 18.12.1941
T/A/Lt. 18.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
      HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
23.02.1942 - (07.1945) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Black,
Allan William
A.W. Black
?
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
05.02.1943
26.10.1942
-
(04.1946)
Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Blackie,
John Stuart
J.S. Blackie (Photo courtesy of Mr Shawn Dymond)
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
27.08.1944
Mention in Despatches MID
20.10.1942
sinking U-boat 04.08.42
27.02.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Tetcott (destroyer)
15.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Caesar (flotilla leader)
03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HM LST 2 (landing ship, tank)
Blackmore,
Cuthbert
"Bert"
C. Blackmore (Source: HOLMROOK HALL  "H.M.S VOLCANO" website) HOLMROOK HALL  "H.M.S VOLCANO" website
C. Blackmore 
Married Mary ...; two sons, two daughters.
01.07.1917
Londonderry, N. Ireland
-
07.08.2008
St Catherine's hopice, Scarborough
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
15.09.1941
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
25.09.1942 (reld 09.1946)
Started work in the branch office of a London company engaged in the manufacture of engineering supplies.
06.1940
-
1940
training, HMS Collingwood
1940
-
1941
Ordinary Seaman, HMS Jersey (destroyer) (Atlantic & Mediterranean)
1941


HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (commissioned)
20.10.1941
-
03.1944
Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty): based at Immingham, Belfast, Tyne & training courses at HMS Volcano (Bomb Disposal Training Establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland) 
03.1944
-
09.1945
HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) (mine disposal duties) (Turkey; BYMS 2075 (British Yard minesweeper); Greece and Dodecanese)
09.1945
-
(04.)1946
HMS Sultan (base, Singapore)
Returned to work for his old employer in Hull , in due course taking over management of the branch. Theological training at The Queens College, Birmingham. Ordained into the Priesthood of the Church of England in York Minster 1959. Vicar St. Martin's, Seamer 1966-1984. Retired from active ministry 1984.
Manuscript
: The explosive years : exploits of a Royal Navy bomb and mine disposal officer, 1940-1946 (1994)
Blair,
James
"Jimmy"
J. Blair
1914 ?
-
02.2006 still alive
T/Lt.
06.11.1942
- Gk
03.04.1945
Medal for Outstanding Acts (Greece): Sicilian operations 09.43
(09.43)


HHMS Kanaris
09.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Blampied,
John Edward de Faye
J.E. de F. Blampied
Son of Harold John Blampied, MB, BS (1893-1949), and Katherine Mary Blampied (née ...).
1924
Jersey
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.05.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.11.1944
Education: Sherborne School, Dorset (1938-1942).
Farmer.
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
27.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
(04.1946)     HMS Scalpay (minesweeping trawler) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bland,
Edwin
E. Bland (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard E. Bland) E. Bland (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard E. Bland)
E. Bland (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard E. Bland) E. Bland (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard E. Bland)
E. Bland (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard E. Bland) E. Bland (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard E. Bland)
Son of ... Bland, and ... Waite.
Married; one son (Col Richard Edwin Bland, Royal Military Police, who served 1960-1990).
20.01.1913
Sutton-in-Craven, near Kildwick, Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
10.05.1981
Walton, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Ord. Coder
04.05.1943 [P/JX 508522]
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
16.12.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
17.06.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Thornes House School, Wakefield
04.05.1943


enlisted & served in the ranks as a Coder
16.12.1943


commissioned in the RNVR as a specially selected rating
06.03.1944


joined Submarine Service
06.03.1944
-
25.05.1944
HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) (additional for submarine BNLO course)
26.05.1944
-
12.08.1944
British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Dzik [Polish submarine] (9th Submarine Flotilla) [HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Holy Loch)]
13.08.1944
-
30.03.1945
British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Dzik [Polish submarine] (9th Submarine Flotilla) [HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee)]
31.03.1945
-
1946?
British Naval Liaison Officer, Attilio Regolo [Italian light cruiser] (Mediterranean) [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *]
Working life, from 14 years old until his death, less war service, spent as a worsted spinner in Yorkshire (A. Haley and Co. Ltd., Managing Director since 1967). Member of the Board, Worsted Spinners' Federation. Chairman, Wakefield and District Master Spinners' Association. Chairman, Wool (& Allied) Textile Employers' Council. President, Leeds Polyglot Society.
* appointment to HMS Fabius dated 31.03.1945 and again 12.04.1945; second date might be actual posting to the Italian cruiser
Blandy,
Walter Frederick
W.F. Blandy
?
-
1984
T/Lt.
16.12.1939
T/A/Cdr.
?
Cdr.
1950s
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
27.03.1945
Operation Dragoon



HMS Byrsa
01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Stag (base, Port Said) (for sea transport duties)
Blaxell,
Lionel Henry
L.H. Blaxell
Son of Henry May Blaxell, and Emily E. Drake.
Married; ... children (one son?).
From Stockton-on-Tees.
01.09.1920
Rochford district, Essex
-
28.12.2007
Stockholm, Sweden
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
01.09.1941
T/Lt.
17.10.1943 (reld 29.06.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE
11.06.1977
HM's birthday & silver jubilee: as Senior Commercial Officer, H.M. Embassy, Stockholm
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
15.09.1942
action 20.07.42 [investiture 03.11.42]
Mention in Despatches MID
03.04.1945
attack enemy convoy Aegean 08.11.44
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
& clasp
Africa Star Afr St
-
& clasp
Italy Star It St
-
-
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
-
-
01.04.1940
-
?
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
28.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; for various services)
(07.1942)


HM MGB 322 (motor gun boat)
29.12.1943
-
20.02.1945
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 307 (motor torpedo boat) (10th MTB Flotilla) *
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
1950
-
1970
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Founder Member and Honorary Member of the the Association of British and Commonwealth Servicemen & Women in Sweden.
Published: Through the hawse pipe 1939-1946 : memoirs of Lionel H. Blaxell, OBE, DSC (privately printed, 1992)
* date of appointment according to family records 20.11.1943
Bleck,
Basil
B. Bleck
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
22.11.1940
T/Lt.
22.02.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944
T/A/Cdr.
< 07.1945
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
20.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS California (armed merchant cruiser)
11.06.1942
-
(02.1943)
on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President]
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Bligh,
[Sir] Timothy James
"Tim"
T.J. Bligh

Elder surviving son of Sir Edward Bligh; married 1945, Ruth Pamela Robertson; two sons, one daughter.
02.09.1918
-
12.03.1969
[Swanley Village, Kent ?]
Prob. T/S.Lt.
08.12.1939
T/S.Lt.
10.1940, seniority 08.12.1939
T/Lt.
08.06.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1944
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
22.10.1963
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
11.09.1945
surrender of German naval forces Adriatic

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 
13.02.1945
attack enemy convoy 11.10.44

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
11.07.1944
E-boat sunk 04.04.44

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
05.12.1944
Adriatic & Aegean coastal operations
Mention in Despatches MID
15.06.1943
attack enemy convoy 15.02.43
Mention in Despatches MID
14.09.1943
action off Kelibia 08.05.43
Mention in Despatches MID
02.05.1944
action 29.01.44
Mention in Despatches MID
21.11.1944
Coastal Forces West coast Italy & Dal... 06.44
Education: Winchester; Balliol College, Oxford (Scholar; BA)
1939
-
1945
twice wounded; served in destroyers (Norway and Western Approaches), in motor launches (Channel Convoys, 1941) and motor torpedo boats and motor gun boats (Mediterranean):
26.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Electra (destroyer)
07.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse)
(02.1943)
-
(05.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 61 (motor torpedo boat)
04.07.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 57th MGB Flotilla
(1945)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 634 (motor torpedo boat)
Assistant Principal, HM Treasury, 1946; Principal, 1947; Secretary to Three Advisers, 1948; Private Secretary to Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Official Head of HM Civil Service, 1949; Assistant Secretary, 1954; Under­Secretary, 1959; Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1959-1964; Deputy Under­Secretary of State (Air) during August 1964. Assistant Managing Director, Thomson Organisation since 1966 (Director, 1964-1966). Alderman, GLC 1967.
Bloor,
Frank
F. Bloor
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt. 11.07.1940
T/S.Lt. 1941?, seniority 11.07.1940
T/Lt. 08.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
17.08.1940 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, "Honningsvåg" (Norwegian patrol craft)
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
10.11.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Mariato (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bloor,
Frank
F. Bloor
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 21.10.1944
08.05.1944 - (06.1944) Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(07.1945)     Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining [HMS President] *
01.02.1946 - (04.1946) Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Blount,
[Sir] Walter Edward Alpin;
12th Baronet
W.E.A. Blount
Son of Sir Edward Robert Blount, 11th Bt (1884-1978), and Violet Ellen Fowler (1884-1969).
Succeeded father, 21.01.1978.
Married (25.06.1954, St Maylebone district, London) Eileen Audrey Carritt, daughter of late Hugh Blasson Carritt and Audrey Browning; one daughter.

DVD interview available at the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust

31.10.1917
Farnham district, Surrey / Kent
-
18.12.2004
Haywards Heath district, West Sussex
T/S.Lt. 22.11.1939
T/Lt. 20.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [investiture 09.03.43]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 13.02.1945 attack enemy convoy 11.10.44 [decoration posted]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 24.07.1945 action Istrian Coast 13.02.45 [decoration posted]
Education: Beaumont College; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (MA).
09.02.1937     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
1939 - 1939 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
22.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Escalonia (motor fishing vessel) (Scapa Flow)
1941 - 1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Foces training establishment, Fort William)
15.09.1941 - 14.09.1942 First Lieutenant, then Commanding Officer, HM MASB 24 (motor anti-submarine boat) (air/sea rescue duties)  [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)] (DSC)
18.03.1943 - 23.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 577 (motor launch)
      spare Commanding Officer, HM MTB 662 (motor torpedo boat)
02.06.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 634 (motor torpedo boat) (Mediteranean) (two bars to DSC)
(04.1946)     HM BYMS 2257 (British yard minesweeper) *
Resumed his career as a solicitor, in the Isle of Wight. He worked in Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from 1951 to 1952. Worked for Underwood & Co of Welbeck Street in London, becoming a senior partner, until succeeding to the baronetcy as 12th baronet in 1978 and taking up farming at Tilkhurst, East Grinstead, Sussex.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Blundell,
Charles Sydenham
C.S. Blundell (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Blundell)
Son of Bt. Col. Charles Wilson Blundell, OBE, TD, and Annie Kate Sydenham.
Brother of F/Lt. Geoffrey Norman Blundell, RAFVR.
Husband of Joan Gladys Blundell, of Fleet, Hampshire.
(03?).1913
Plymouth district, Devon
-
09.10.1943
(KIA) [age 30]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 1]
T/A/Lt.
12.04.1941
T/Lt.
02.1942, seniority 12.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1943?
Education: BSc Cambridge
Wine merchant.
16.12.1940
-
(02.1943)
HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
07.1943
-
09.10.1943
Gunnery Officer, HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (killed in action during a bombing by German aircraft whilst she was providing escort for the support force for the Allied landings in Sicily)
Blyth,
Roy
R. Blyth
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
11.06.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
11.06.1945
10.01.1943
-
(06.1944)
Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed
Blyth,
William Norman
W.N. Blyth
Son of ... Blyth, and ... Grist.
05.06.1924
Swansea, Wales
-
12.1985
Swansea, Wales
T/S.Lt. (A)
05.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) *
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
       


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