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1939-1945

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K.A. Baal  to  R.D. Bazley
Baal,
Keith Alfred
K.A. Baal
Son of Herbert John Baal (1880-1963), and Amy Elizabeth Mollet (1883-1962).
Married Anne Scicluna-Testaferrata (05.12.1920 - 14.08.1994), daughter of Carmel Scicluna (1887-1952), and Elvira Testaferrata (1891-1962); four children.
06.04.1908
St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
-
13.08.1973
Jersey, Channel Islands
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(12.1941)     HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa) *
(10.1944)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
Connetable de St Helier, Jersey, and president of the prison board from 1957-1973.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Babb,
Brian Osborne
"Bob"
B.O. Babb
Brother of Cdr. Dudley Austin Babb, RN (emgcy).
Married ((09?).1926, Hampstead district, London) Mrs Joan Wood (née Rawson).

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31.03.1900
Portsea Island district, Hampshire
-
29.01.1971
Kent
P/O (prob) RAF 15.03.1924 (reld 26.11.1924)
T/Lt. 11.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 12.1941
T/A/Cdr. > 10.1944, < 01.1945 (reld 21.10.1945)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 18.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 16.03.45]
15.01.1914     entered RN
15.03.1924 - 26.11.1924 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
121.10.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
24.04.1940 - (10.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Primrose (corvette)
01.1941 - 07.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Southern Pride (anti-submarine warfare whaler)
03.11.1941 - (08.1943) HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
Cricket secretary for the county of Surrey, 1958-1964.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Babington,
John Herbert
J.H. Babington J.H. Babington

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 21.07.1945)
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
Backlog,
Frederick James
F.J. Backlog (Photo courtesy of Peter Backlog)
Son (with one brother) of Frederick George Backlog (1870-1930), and Eleanor Adelaide Blackton (1880-1937).
Brother of P/O Cyril Peter Backlog, RAFVR.
Married (30.06.1935, Holy Trinity, Stroud Green, Haringey, Essex) Edith Florence Beveridge; one daughter.
05.02.1911
Holborn district, London
-

03.1988
Barnet district, London
T/S.Lt. 03.07.1942
T/Lt. 03.10.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt. 29.07.1965, seniority 26.07.1961
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR 18.04.1966, seniority 26.07.1961
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR 26.07.1969 (removed from active list 05.02.1971)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune 06.1944 (Normandy) [investiture 27.02.1945]
16.08.1942 - 05.1944 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs (landing craft, tank))
05.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base):
(06.1944)     Commanding Officer, HM LCI(S) 506 (landing craft, infantry (small)) (Normandy) (DSC)
(11.1944)     Commanding Officer, HM LCI(S) ... (landing craft, infantry (small)) (Walcheren)
29.07.1965 - 05.02.1971 Permanent RNR
Bacon,
David Edwin Nicholas
D.E.N. Bacon
Son (with one sister) of James Nathaniel Bacon (1870-1959), and Laura Clementina Cook (1871-1953).
Married 1st ((09?).1938, Staines district, Middlesex; divorced) Madge Samways (18.07.1908 - 03.10.1982), daughter of William and Marie Samways; one son.
Married 2nd (12?).1948, Kensington district, London) Sybil Goodhand (05.11.1922 - 27.12.2008), daughter of Sybil Goodhand, and Mabel Miller; one daughter, three sons.
26.03.1912
Ashford, Staines district, Middlesex
-
21.12.1996
Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
T/S.Lt. 12.03.1942
T/Lt. 12.06.1942 (reld 22.06.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 05.11.1943?
Mention in Despatches MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East
Bank cashier.
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
03.05.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs [landing craft, tank])
05.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft)
05.11.1943 - (10.)1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
(1945)     Force W (despatches)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
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."

01.05.1920
Northwich district, Cheshire
-
13.06.2007
Ambleside, Cumberland
T/S.Lt.
01.05.1941
T/A/Lt.
24.10.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 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
-
(10.1945)
HM LST 371 (landing ship, tank) (Java)
Bagg,
Sidney Cecil
S.C. Bagg
Son of John Bagg (1863-1907), and Mary Bealing (1861-1932).
Married 1st (19.04.1921, Langham) Olive Annette Spencer (03.08.1899 - 23.12.1967), daughter of Walter Spencer (?-1922), and Annie Elizabeth Hudson (?-1924); one child. She remarried Francis P. Clarke.
Married 2nd (16.10.1943, Hendon district, Middlesex; marriage dissolved 11.1946) Alda Joy Gear Evans (27.07.1907 - 26.02.2005), daughter of Albert Gear-Evans (1870-), and Edith C. Cayton (1875-1959); one son, one daughter.
27.07.1896
Weymouth, Dorset
-
(12?).1960
Beaminster, Weymouth, 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 (commissioned terminated 30.03.1945; medically unfit)
Commercial traveller engineer's equipment.
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
02.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole)
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,
Arthur
A. Bailey A. Bailey
A. Bailey A. Bailey
Son (with one brother) of Harry Bailey (1885-1950), and Elizabeth Helsby (1885-1950).
Married (24.03.1950, Maghull, Lancashire) Kathleen Joyce Fleming (1926 - 2012), daughter of William R. Fleming (1899-), and Hilda Beatrice Moscrop (1895-1966); one son, one daughter.
19.05.1920
West Derby, Lancashire
-
29.06.1987
Douglas, Middle, Isle of Man
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 26.11.1942 (reld 17.05.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 [decoration posted]
14.01.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Ameer (Ruler class escort carrier)
Bailey,
Arthur Joseph [George]
A.J. Bailey (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Morgan)
07.10.1917
-

07.03.1986
Antony, St Germans district, Cornwall
Ord.Sea. 1939
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 22.01.1945
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 22.07.1945
Lt. (L) RN 25.08.1946, seniority 07.10.1941
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN 07.10.1949
A/Cdr. (L) RN 06.04.1959 (retd 07.10.1962)
Hon. Cdr. RN 07.10.1962
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 01.01.1963 New Year 63
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Naval General Service Medal GenSM - & clasp Palestine

* Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties

1939     HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint, Cornwall)
      went on the work with the fledgling naval radar
1942     HMS Edinburgh (surviving the sinking of the ship and spending the winter of 1942/3 in Murmansk awaiting repatriation to the UK)
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
06.12.1945 - (10.1947) HMS Mauritius (cruiser)
14.07.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
(05.1951)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
03.09.1951 - (05.)1953 HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and experimental establishment, Portsdown)
27.07.1953 - (04.)1955 instructional staff, HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire)
13.06.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Delight
(01.1957) - (01.1959) HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire) *
06.04.1959 - (08.1962) administrative staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo and anti-submarine school, Portsmouth) *
AMBritIRE
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bailey,
Donald Leigh
D.L. Bailey
Son (with two brothers) of Philip Bailey (1889-1971), and Ethel Leigh (1891-1985).
Married (24.04.1954, Parish Church, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire) Jean Mary Cash (05.01.1924 - 18.05.2017); two daughters.

 
26.10.1920
Key West, Monroe, Florida, United States of America
-
13.07.1985
Prestbury, Cheshire
T/A/S.Lt. 26.06.1941
T/S.Lt. 26.10.1941
T/Lt. 26.12.1943 (reld 25.06.1946)
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
10.08.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
02.09.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Pytchley (Hunt class destroyer)
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
22.03.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous services)
05.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for 16th MTB Flotilla)
11.06.1943 - (10.)1944 HMIS Dalhousie (RIN depot, Bombay) (for duty with MTBs)
21.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
07.02.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
05.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS MTB 506 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bailey,
Ernest John Leonard
E.J.L. Bailey
Son of Arthur Bailey, and Margaret Jane Rowlands.
Married ((09?).1937, Crosby district, Merseyside) Ellen Moore (04.04.1914 - 02.01.2003), daughter of James Moore, and Myra Jones; one daughter.
18.11.1912
South Manchester, Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
16.12.1967
Liverpool North district, Lancashire
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 18.11.1941 (reld 12.02.1946)
      temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements:
(02.1942) - (04.1943) HMS Ranchi (armed merchant cruiser)*
12.04.1943 - (06.)1944 HMIS El Hind (landing ship, infantry)
24.07.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
17.06.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Northway (landing ship, dock)
24.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Patroller (escort carrier)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bailey,
George Edward
G.E. Bailey
Son of Charles Frederick Bailey (1871-1943), and Catherine Cormack Sutherland (1870-).
Married (15.06.1940, Wellington Church, Glasgow, Scotland) Lilias Stark Dunn (17.01.1917 - 04.1996), of South Harrow, Middlesex, daughter of David Stark Dunn (1879-1937), and Elizabeth Pearce Bain (1875-1957); two children.
30.07.1912
Dalmuir, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

-

06.07.1944 
(KIA) [age 31]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 88, column 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
14.01.1904
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, Piarco, Trinidad)]
07.1941
-
(06.)1943
HMS Buzzard (RN Air Station, Palisadoes, Kensington, Jamaica) (for some period perhaps as Executive 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,
Joseph William
J.W. Bailey
?
-

?
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 16.10.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 16.04.1945 (reld 25.04.1946)
(01.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
* 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.
Married (17.03.1948, Rangoon, Burma) Gladys Sheppard.
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
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.01.1940
T/El.S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 14.01.1940
T/El.Lt. 01.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE 1982 lifelong service to the British community in Lisbon
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 13.03.1945 assault on Normandy [investiture 01.05.45]
George Medal GM 29.12.1942 mine disposal 07.42 [investiture 15.02.44]
George Medal GM 15.05.1945 invasion Normandy mine search [investiture 27.07.45]
(03.1940) - (06.1940) no appointment listed
14.07.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Tritonia (minesweeping drifter)
09.06.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for various services: as Senior Diving Officer, Render Mines Safe Officer (RMSO)) (GM)
(10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed
07.12.1943 - (04.1946) Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining (renamed late 1945 as Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons), Admiralty [HMS President]
(1944)     Naval Party 1502/C (DSC)
(1944)     Naval Party 1574 (GM)
Bailey,
William John
W.J. Bailey
?
-

?
T/Mid. (A) 19.03.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 04.06.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 04.12.1944 (reld 24.06.1946)
13.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Macaw (FAA training establishment, Wellbank, Cumberland)
08.09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
11.1944 - (01.1945) pilot, 723 Squadron FAA [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)]
28.02.1945 - (07.)1945 pilot, 723 Squadron [HMS Nabberley (Mobile Naval Air Base II, Ludham, Norfolk, from 29.01.1945 Bankstown, nr Sydney, NSW, Australia)]
(10.1945)     HMS Nabberley (Mobile Naval Air Base II, Ludham, Norfolk, from 29.01.1945 Bankstown, nr Sydney, NSW, Australia) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bailey,
William John
W.J. Bailey
?
-

?
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 13.12.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 13.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
01.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Macaw (FAA training establishment, Wellbank, Cumberland)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Bain,
Charles David
C.D. Bain
Married Vera Harboe; two sons.
10.08.1910
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
-
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
Bainbridge,
Richard Edward [Gordonston]
R.E. Bainbridge (Photo courtesy of Mrs Sue Roberts)

Son of Gordon Bainbridge, and Amelia Lloyd.
Married (22.07.1948, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa) Charmian Hindson Acutt; two daughters.
27.03.1915
Transvaal, South Africa
-
20.04.1975
Dartmouth, Newton Abbot district, Devon
T/S.Lt. (E) 22.09.1941
T/Lt. (E) 22.09.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 30.11.1945 sweeping Irrawaddy River & assault Rangoon with HM LCQ 391
10.1941 - 11.1941 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
02.11.1941 - (10.)1942 HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
10.11.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South Africa)
27.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
07.06.1943 - (02.)1944 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
28.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
03.10.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for MLC squadron duties)
Engineer.
Bainsmith,
Bruce Faed
B.F. Bainsmith (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly Lindsay)
Son of Henry Bainsmith (1857-1893), and Sarah Georgina Bucknall (1858-1937).
Married ((03?).1938, Penzance, Cornwall) Annie Louisa Wakefield Day (17.04.1898 - 13.11.1978), daughter of William Cave Day (1862-1924), and Kathleen Georgiana Mcclellan Smales (1868-1953).
20.06.1890
Willesden, London
-
04.01.1981
Penzance, Cornwall
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 29.09.1941
T/Lt. (A) 02.1944, seniority 29.09.1941 (reld 27.10.1945)

* Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, has not received any training of an executive nature, but has undergone a short course at the RN College, Greenwich

12.11.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
16.01.1942 - (02.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1943)     no appointment listed
31.05.1943 - (10.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
27.10.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)
13.03.1944 - (06.)1944) HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)
12.09.1944 - (10.1944) Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
07.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
Baird,
Gilbert Maurice
G.M. Baird

Married ((06?).1947, Worthing district, Sussex) Betty Marion Passmore (1912-2014).
23.03.1919
Burghead district, Scotland
-
27.03.2012
... ...
T/Sg.Lt. 02.04.1943
... ....
Sg.Cdr. RN 02.10.1954 (retd)
Specialty: Psychiatry. MB Edin 1942, MRCP Edin 1953, DPM 1959, FRCPsych 1971, FRCP Edin 1971.
... - ... ...
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
Baird,
Hugh Heriot
H.H. Baird
 
Eldest son of Douglas Heriot Baird (1883-1940), company chairman, of Esher, and his wife Dorothea Frances Prior.
Married (1945) Madeleine Katharen Rose (30.01.1927 - 19.01.1994); four sons.
07.08.1915
Esher, Kingston district, Surrey
-
25.08.1983
Nairn, Highland, Scotland
Prob. S.Lt. 22.07.1939
S.Lt. 28.09.1939, seniority 22.07.1939
Lt. 07.08.1940
A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
22.07.1939     commissioned, RNVR (London Division)
30.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Delhi (D class cruiser)
(04.1941) - (06.1941) no appointment listed
06.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Malaya (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
04.09.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Witch (Thornycroft modified W class destroyer)
06.12.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Hurricane (Havant class destroyer)
(01.1942)     no appointment listed
19.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Sandwich (Bridgewater class sloop) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)
20.03.1943 - (03.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Escapade (E class destroyer)
04.1943 - (07.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Keppel (Shakespeare class destroyer)
24.07.1943 - (02.)1944 Navigating Officer, HMS Towy (River class frigate)
02.04.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
20.04.1944 - (06.)1944 Navigating Officer, HMS Capetown (Carlisle class cruiser)
12.08.1944 - (01.)1945 Navigating Officer, HMS Hawkins (Hawkins class cruiser)
05.02.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties)
Company director.
Baker,
Colin Spencer
C.S. Baker
 
25.08.1925
-
T/Midsh. 04.02.1944
T/A/S.Lt. 25.02.1945
T/S.Lt. 25.08.1945
12.03.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
1946?     HMS Atmah (armed yacht) ?
Baker,
Geoffrey Herbert
G.H. Baker
1918 ? / 1915 ?
-
1996 ? / 1989 ?
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,
James Douglas
J.D. Baker (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Baker)
Son of ... Baker, and ... Nash.
Married Betty ...; two sons, one daughter.
16.05.1926
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
19.01.2010
Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest (formerly of Solva, Pembrokeshire)
T/Midsh. (A) 12.05.1945
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 12.11.1945
S.Lt. (A) RN 02.03.1948, seniority 12.05.1946
... ...
Cdr. RN 31.12.1961 (retd 24.10.1972)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
02.03.1948     transferred to RN
... - ... ...
Baker,
John Arthur
J.A. Baker
?
-
?
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 04.10.1943
T/S.Lt. (E) 01.11.1943
T/Lt. (E) 01.09.1945 (reld 15.05.1946)
25.10.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
31.10.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
21.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lothian)
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,
L J [Lester James?]
L.J. Baker
?
-
?
... ...
T/Lt. 01.03.1945?
Lt. RN ?, seniority 07.05.1944
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
Baker,
Richard Douglas James
R.D.J. Baker R.D.J. Baker
R.D.J. Baker 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 12.06.1976 HM's birthday 76: for services to broadcasting
Reserve Decoration RD 24.10.1978 -
Education: Kilburn Grammar School; Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA)
1943 - 1946 served RN:
(04.1944)     no appointment listed
01.05.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Peacock (sloop)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
27.03.1946 - (07.)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,
Roderick Charles Wheeler
S.F. Baker

Son of ... Baker, and ... Tamlyn.
Known by last name of Wheeler-Baker.
Married ((03?).1951, London City) Joan M. Harris.
23.09.1918
Edmonton district, Buckinghamshire
-
04.04.1991
Norwich district, Norfolk
T/A/S.Lt. 09.07.1943
T/S.Lt. 09.01.1944
T/A/Lt. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld 18.04.1946)
(08.1943)     no appointment listed
(10.1943)     HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) *
(12.1943)     French Ship "Torridge" *
(02.1944) - (07.1945) French Ship "Braid" *
10.1944 - 12.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, French frigate "L’Aventure"
(10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Cripplegate Ward Club (elected 1948, Master 1964, Auditor 1958).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Baker,
Stanley Farmer
S.F. Baker
Son of Alfred Baker, and Eliza Farmer.
Married ((09?).1909, Penzance district, Cornwall) Amelia Laity Rowe.
02.03.1884
Hednesford, Cannock district, Staffordshire
-
27.12.1974
Truro district, Cornwall
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.11.1942
WW I
 
 
served as Petty Officer in the RNVR
(10.1944)
-
(04.1946)
Sea Cadet Corps
Baker,
William Richard
W.R. Baker
?
-
?
Prob. T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 02.08.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 1944, seniority 02.08.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
20.09.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
07.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for duty with Commodore Superintendent, Ceylon)
12.1944 - (04.1946) Chief Fire Officer, HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
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,
Harry Melville
H.M. Balfour (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) H.M. Balfour
Married ((03?).1941, Hampstead district, London) Nancy Isobel Hornell (1917 - 15.12.2012), daughter (with two sisters) of Edward Brooking Cornish Hornell (1880-1960), and Emily Dorothy Dawson (1889-1971); two sons, one daughter.

02.06.1913
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
-
08.02.2000
Sway, Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire
T/Sg.Lt. 17.09.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 02.08.1943? (commission terminated 27.09.1945; medically unfit)
Education: Christ Church College, Oxford (1932-1935); London (1935-1939) (MB, BCh; MRCS, LRCP 06.11.1939).
17.09.1940 - (10.)1940 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
15.10.1940 - (12.1940) Medical Officer, HMS Windsor (destroyer)
07.01.1941 - (10.)1941 Medical Officer, HMS Holderness (destroyer)
(12.1941) - (12.1942) HMS President *
08.01.1943 - (06.)1943 Medical Officer, HMS Middleton (destroyer)
02.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
(02.1944) - (04.1944) no appointment listed
21.04.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
15.05.1945 - (07.1945) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
Occupational physician John Lewis Partnership.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Balfour,
John Valentine
J.V. Balfour
Son (with two sisters) of Archibald Roxburgh Balfour (1883-1958), and Pearl Isabel Alice Price (1882-1950).
Married (02.07.1947, Maidstone district, Kent) Maureen Ethné David Rhodes, widow of Lt. Michael George Ralph Nevill (1917-1943), Scots Guards, and second daughter of Maj. Arthur Tahu Gravenor Rhodes (1894?-1947), MVO, Grenadier Guards, and Hon. Helen Cecil Olive Plunket (1895-1968); three sons.
29.08.1921
-
08.02.2001
Birling, Maidstone, Kent
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 01.07.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 21.11.1944 various actions covering 2 years [investiture 03.07.45]
Education: Eton; University College, Oxford (MA).
31.08.1943 - (10.1944) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 704 (motor torpedo boat)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
02.07.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 790 (motor torpedo boat)
08.10.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5020 (motor torpedo boat)
Solicitor.
Balfour,
Keith Craig
K.C. Balfour
20.04.1910
[Canada?]
-
06.03.1986
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.
24.08.1896
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 (Photo courtesy of Mr Alexander Balfour)
Son of James Murdoch McDonald Balfour (1879-1971), and Isabella Murray Kirkwood (1872-).
Married (1940, Blythswood district, Scotland) Doris Irene Jolliffe (18.01.1916 - 08.07.2013), of Holyhead, Anglesey, daughter of Frederick James Jolliffe (1886-1954), and Fanny Short (1879-1968); ... children (one son?).
14.01.1912
Greenock East, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
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 - (04.)1941 HMS Marmion (Algerine class minesweeper)
(06.1941)     HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) *
09.06.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) (for miscellaneous duties)
05.12.1941 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Darwen (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)
(12.)1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Nazareth (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) *
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)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Balkwill,
Robert Gowan

R.G. Balkwill R.G. Balkwill
Only son of Dr & Mrs Francis Balkwill, of Snaresboork, London E11
Married ((06?).1945, St Marylebone district, London) Betty M. Hopkins, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Morley Hopkins, of Tunbridge Wells..
14.11.1915
Pontypridd, Glamorgan
-
18.05.2009
T/S.Lt. 07.08.1941
T/Lt. 07.08.1942 (reld 28.03.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.10.1944 sunk on 6th war patrol [investiture 20.07.45]
18.09.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Hastings (Hastings class sloop)
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
22.04.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
26.06.1942 - 21.04.1943 HMS P 228 [renamed HMS Splendid] (S class submarine) (ship damaged by German surface craft off Corsica & scuttled)
21.04.1943 - 1945 POW in German captivity
Ballingal,
Niel Cameron
N.C. Ballingal
Son of Alexander Cameron Ballingal (1878-1930), and Beatrice Alice Ballingal (1886-1973), of Batavia and Wimbledon, London SW19.
Married (04.06.1949, English Church, Batavia) Kathleen Mary Thomas; three sons, one daughter.
13.12.1924
-
22.01.1985
Surrey South-Eastern district. Surrey
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 13.06.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc. duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature

Education: Harrow School (Moretons House; 1938.3-1942.1); SOAS.
(10.1944) - (04.1946) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *
According to his son he spent most of the war in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Levant Flotilla in Turkey, Ankara, Istanbul, occupied Greece & Beirut (Lebanon).
Managing director of the Scottish trading firm Maclaine Watson in Indonesia & Rhodesia; Chairman in London. Vice-Consul at Macassar, 02.02.1951. London Advisory Committee, HSBC. Member, British Numismatic Society, 1955-1985.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bankes,
Henry John Ralph
H.J.R. Bankes H.J.R. Bankes
H.J.R. Bankes H.J.R. Bankes
H.J.R. Bankes H.J.R. Bankes
Only son (with two sisters) of Walter Ralph Bankes (1853-1904), and Henriette Jane Fraser (1867-1953), of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy, Wimborne, Dorset.
Married (19.09.1935, Skirlaugh, East Riding of Yorkshire) Hilary Margaret Strickland-Constable ((12?).1908 - 11.09.1966), daughter (with two brothers) of Lt.Col. Frederick Charles Strickland-Constable (1860-1917), and Margaret Elizabeth Packenham (1873-1961); two sons, one daughter.
14.07.1902
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
19.08.1981
Wimborne, Dorset
T/Lt. 04.09.1939 (reld 24.10.1945)
Education: Eton (1916.2-1920.2); Magdalen College, Oxford (BA).
Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1925. Justice of the Peace (JP), Dorset, 1936. High Sheriff, Dorset, 1939.
04.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
15.03.1941 - (10.1942) Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
(12.1942) - (10.1943) HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) *
(12.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon) *
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
09.11.1944 - (07.1945) Staff Officer (Operations) (3) to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Leith [HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Banks,
George Donald
G.D. Banks (© Imperial War Museum (A 27003)) G.D. Banks (© Imperial War Museum (A 27004))
(03?).1919 ?
Birmingham district, Warwickshire ?
-
(09?).1958 ?
Birmingham district, Warwickshire ?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 27.01.1942
... - ... ...
20.02.1943 - (01.1945) on staff of Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Hannibal, later HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)]
... - ... ...
Banks,
Ralph
R. Banks (© Imperial War Museum (A 23052))
?
-
?
T/S.Lt. (A) 08.09.1942
Mention in Despatches MID 20.02.1945 Operations Steak & Handfast
... - ... ...
26.09.1943 - (04.1944) pilot, 896 Squadron FAA [HMS Pursuer (Archer class escort carrier)]
... - ... ...
Banks,
Thomas
T. Banks (Photo courtesy of Mr John Banks)
Married ...; two daughters, one son.
05.11.1919
-
27.02.1990
Eastbourne district, Sussex
Ord.Sea. 08.05.1940 [JX 193657]
T/S.Lt. 20.03.1941
T/Lt. 01.04.1943 (reld 20.05.1946)
      may have served in HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall), HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport), HMS Thirlmere (Lake class trawler) [tender to HMS Mentor (minesweeper base, Stornoway)], HMS Punjabi (Tribal class destroyer)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(06.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Wastwater (anti-submarine warfare whaler) *
(10.1941) - (04.1943) HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) *
21.04.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Conqueror (armed yacht)
06.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Findhorn (River class frigate)
09.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Banning,
William Albert Lambert
R.E. Balfour
Son of William Henry Banning, and Emily Lambert, of Eclles, Lancashire.
(09?).1920
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
17.05.1945
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, Hampshire, bay 6, panel 2]
T/S.Lt. (A) 27.05.1942
T/Lt. (A) 01.06.1944
Education: Eccles Secondary School; University of Manchester (BA (Hons) Geography 1941).
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
12.10.1942 - (12.)1942 pilot, 762 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
14.12.1942 - 17.05.1945 HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (died if injuries as result of a deck crash)
Baptie,
George Alexander
G.A. Baptie
Son of ... Baptie, and ... Geddes.
Married ...Smith; ... children (one son?).
14.07.1921
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
15.01.1985
Brent district, Middlesex
T/A/S.Lt. 21.05.1943
T/S.Lt. 21.11.1943
T/Lt. 21.11.1945
Lt. 19.11.1947, seniority 21.11.1945 (reld 13.09.1951)
Mention in Despatches MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45
(08.1943)     no appointment listed
22.09.1943 - 01.1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 431 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
14.02.1945 - (10.1945) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 499 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
06.1946 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2037 (British yard minesweeper)
11.1947     transferred, Permanent RNVR (Tay Division) (List I)
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Barber,
Douglas Ralph William
D.R.W. Barber
Son of ... Barber, and ... Grace.
04.02.1920
Brentford, Middlesex
-
?
South Africa
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
Barclay,
William
W. Barclay
?
-
T/S.Lt. 03.05.1943
T/Lt. (E) 03.05.1945 (reld 04.05.1946)
03.05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
01.07.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay)
23.02.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
31.10.1944 - (07.)1945 Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
08.08.1945 - (10.1945) an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Department of the Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President]
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
08.02.1912
-
30.12.1971
Surrey South Eastern district, Surrey
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 [Jasper] Mansfield
"Ronnie"
R.M. Barge
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Kenneth Barge (1883-1971), and Debonair Eva Ruth Mansfield (1891-1959).
Married (26.07.1950, Townhead, Glasgow) Elizabeth Ann Lamberton; three sons, three daughters.
10.11.1920
Rawalpindi, Punjab, India
-
16.01.1997
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 -
Education: Cargilfield; Glenalmond; Glasgow School of Art; Durham University; Royal College of Art, London.
Painter.
02.06.1938     joined RNVR (Clyde Division)
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)]
22.03.1941 - (08.)1941 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 62 (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
09.08.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MGB 9 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William), from 27.10.1941 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
12.01.1942 - (02.)1942 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
16.03.1942 - 30.05.1943 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base Gosport), from c. 06/07.1942 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover):
(05.1942)     Commanding Officer, HM MGB 9 (motor gun boat)
(08.1942)     Commanding Officer, HM MGB 6 (motor gun boat)
(02.1943) - 30.05.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 108 (motor gun boat)
24.07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth)
10.11.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 417 (motor torpedo boat)
31.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Javelin (destroyer)
02.09.1944 - (10.)1944 on staff of Captain Coastal Forces, Channel [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
10.1944 - (04.)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) on 23.06.1948, taken on a D.H.82A at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Aero Club. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Dumbarton, 14.01.1972. Chairman, Otter Ferry Salmon Ltd. since 1977. Chairman, Onshore Aquaculture Lts. since 1981. Past Chairman, Bitmac Ltd. Director, William Robertson Shipowners Ltd., Glasgow. Trustee, Royal Bank of Scotland. Farming at Argyll from 1971.Pioneer of salmon farming in Scotland. Director, Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Past Chairman, Glasgow and West of Scotland SPCA.
Barham,
George Ernest Anley
G.E.A. Barham
Son of ... Barham, and ... Painter.
06.12.1912
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)
Barker,
Colin Frank
C.F. Barker (Photo courtesy of Mr C.W. Barker)
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Frank Barker (1889-1945), and Mabel Nicholas (1888-1983).
Married ((06?).1938, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Betty Eileen Roberts (26.05.1911 - 08.1995); one daughter, one son.
19.11.1912
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
16.01.2000
North Somerset district, Somerset
T/S.Lt. 25.12.1941
T/Lt. 19.11.1942 (reld 04.03.1946)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
02.03.1942 - (10.)1944 HMS Safeguard (base for Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships, Calmore, Southampton)
25.11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS President III (accounting base for naval personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
His son writes: "His wartime experience started out with a spell at HMS Safeguard and finished with 12 months in Sydney, Australia looking after Naval service people on R & R. His ship called “The Navarino” was on the convoy around North Cape. It was sunk [04.07.1942] and dad spent some time at Archangel, Russia."
Barker,
John Arthur
J.A. Barker
?
-
?
T/A/S.Lt. 25.02.1944
T/S.Lt. 25.08.1944 (reld 15.06.1946)
(04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
08.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Evenlode (River class frigate)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Barker,
Kenneth
K. Barker
Only child of Albert Edward Barker (1886-1969), and Gertrude Annie Hood (1884-1972).
Married (05.07.1941, Handsworth Parish Church, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Molly Wall, daughter of Mr & Mrs George Wall; two sons.

 
05.07.1917
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
-
21.10.2005
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
T/Sg.Lt. (D) 25.02.1941 (reld 27.04.1946)
LDS.
(04.1941)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
29.04.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
05.1943 - 31.10.1943 HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)
(12.1943)     HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) *
03.01.1944 - (10.1945) RN School of Music, Senior Wing (Norbeck Hotel, Scarborough)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Barker,
Lionel Ernest [Verry]
"John"
L.E. Barker
Son of Alfred Ernest Barker.
Married ((09?).1940, Brighton district, Sussex) Joan A. Grant; ... children (one daughter?).
12.02.1909
Stellenbosch,, Western Cape, South Africa
-
06.12.1975
Prob. T/S.Lt. 26.04.1940
T/Lt. 26.07.1940
T/Lt. SANF(V) 06.03.1944, seniority 26.07.1940 (reld > 04.1946)
28.05.1940 - (08.)1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
19.09.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)
(06.1941)     HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)  *
14.06.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(12.1941) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
(02.1943) - (04.1943) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
26.04.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 515 (motor torpedo boat)
(12.1943)     HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) *
09.01.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 680 (motor torpedo boat)
14.03.1945 - (03.)1945 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches, etc.)
29.03.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 758 (motor torpedo boat)
(10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Barlow,
[Sir] George William
G.W. Barlow
Son of Albert Edward and Annice Barlow.
Married (1948) Elaine Mary Atherton (née Adamson); one son one daughter.
08.06.1924
-
19.05.2012
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
T/El.S.Lt. 29.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Kt 1977; BSc Tech, FEng, FIMechE, FIEE.
Education: Manchester Grammar School; Manchester University (Kitchener Scholar, Louis Atkinson Scholar; BSc Tech. 1st cl. Hons Elec. Engrg, 1944).
... - ... ...
26.03.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa)
President, Royal Academy of Engineering (formerly Fellowship of Engineering), 1991-1996; Chairman, Ericsson Ltd, 1981-1994. Various appointments, The English Electric Co. Ltd (in Spain, 1952-1955, Canada,  1958-1962); General Manager, Liverpool and Netherton, 1964-1967; Managing Director: English Electric Domestic Appliance Co. Ltd, 1965-1967; English Electric Computers Ltd, 1967-1968; Group Chief Executive, 1969-1977, Chairman, 1971-1977, Ransome Hoffman Pollard Ltd; Chairman, Post Office, 1977-1980, organized separation of Post Office and British Telecom, 1980; Chairman: Thorn EMI Engrg Gp, 1980-1984; BICC, 1984-1991 (Director, 1980-1991); SKF (UK), 1990-1992; Barking Power Ltd, 1992-1993; Director: Vodafone Group, 1988-; Waste Management International, 1992-; Chemring Group, 1994-. Chairman, NICG, 1980. Member: Industrial Develt Advisory Board, 1972-1979; Electronics EDC, 1981-1983; Council, IEE, 1969-1972 (Vice-President, 1978-1980, Deputy President, 1983-1984; Honorary Fellow, 1990); Council, IMechE, 1971-1974; National Electronics Council, 1982-1994; President: IWM, 1976-1977; BEAMA, 1986-1987; ORGALIME, 1990-1992; Chairman, Ferrous Foundries Advisory Committee, 1975-1978; Vice President, City and Guilds of London Inst., 1982-1992. Chairman: Design Council, 1980-1986; Engineering Council, 1988-1990. President, Association of Lancastrians in London, 1981 and 1992. Trustee, Brain Res. Trust, 1987-. Governor, London Business School, 1979-1992 (Honorary Fellow, 1991). Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Glaziers; Master, Worshipful Company of Engineers, 1986-1987. CIMgt (CBIM 1971). Hon. FUMIST 1978; Hon. FICE 1991; Hon. FCGI 1996. Hon. DSc: Cranfield, 1979; Bath, 1986; Aston, 1988; City, 1989; Hon. DTech: CNAA, 1988; Loughborough, 1993; Hon DEng UMIST, 1996.
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 establishment, 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.
Married ((12?).1939, Kingswood district, Gloucestershire) Yvonne Joan Jamar ((06?).1919 - ), of Felixstowe.
25.07.1914
Bitton, nr Bristol, Keynsham district, Gloucestershire
-
13.04.1945
(MPK) [age 31]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]
[remembered on his parents' grave in St Annes Church Cemetery, Bristol & at St Mary's Church Bitton Parish War Memorial 1939-1945]
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 27.09.1943
T/S.Lt. (A) 27.03.1944
Aearonautical engineer. ARAeS. Gained civil aviator's certificate (No. 16246) on a Hornet Moth 130 at Ipswich Aero Club, 04.09.1938.
27.09.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
13.03.1944 - (10.1944) pilot, 753 Squadron FAA [HMS Gannet, (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry), later 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
Elder son of Arthur Eustace Barnes, and Marjorie Emily Smith, of Sanderstead.
Married (15.01.1944, Cockington Church, Torquay, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Molly Josephine "Jo" Sibley (07.03.1919 - 08.2002), eldest daughter of Ernest W. Sibley, and Alice E. Oram, of Torquay; three sons, one daughter.
23.12.1920
Hampstead, Barnet district, London
-
26.03.2008
Willowmead Residential Home, Essex [previously of "Casa Perro", West Hanningfield]
T/A/S.Lt. 10.04.1941
T/S.Lt. 23.12.1941
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 1st clasp
Education: CEng; MIERE.
? - 10.04.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
1941?     HMS Phoebe (cruiser) ?
(06.1941)     HMS Pollux *
(08.1941)     HMS Torch (minesweeper & Coastal Forces base, Holyhead) *
11.08.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Valkyrie (RDF training establishment, Regent Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man)
07.03.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Gambia (cruiser)
09.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for miscellaneous duties)
(04.1946)     HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) *
23.10.1947     transferred to List I of Permanent RNVR (London Division)
* indexed, but not listed as such
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,
John Walsh
J.W. Barnes
Son of ... Barnes, and ... Walsh.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
01.09.1921
Wellington district, Shropshire
-
1989
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 01.10.1941
T/S.Lt. (A) 01.10.1942
T/A/Lt. (A) > 12.1943, < 02.1944
T/Lt. (A) 01.04.1944 (reld 31.03.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 1944: as pilot 815 Squadron FAA [investiture 27.07.1945]
(10.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed
12.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) (DSC)
06.09.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
24.10.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) (for full flying duties and training)
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.
05.05.1921
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
-
1981
Melbourne, Australia
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 1945 [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)
b 53. deacon 18.02.1956 and priest 22.12.1956 56 Brisb. C of St Jas Toowoomba 56-57; V of Caboolture 57-62; on leave 62-63; Vice-Warden Newton Th Coll Dogura New Guinea 63-67; Chap St Aid Teacher's Tr Coll Dogurs 64-66; P-in-c of Taupota 67-73; Warden Bible Centre Awaiama Dig Papua from 75.
Barney,
Stephen James
S.J. Barney (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) S.J. Barney (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
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; one son, one daughter.

04.11.1922
"Guardswell", Ascot, Windsor district, Berkshire
-
23.09.2017
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 establishments, 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]
Baron,
Thomas
T. Baron (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Baron)
Son of Thomas George Baron (1877-1948), and Maud Beatrice Walsh (1876-1959).
Married (1946) Isobel Clara MacLaughlin (14.08.1914 - 08.11.1974), daughter of James McLaughlin (1875-1942); one daughter, one son.
20.06.1903
Darwen, Lancashire
-
06.02.1981
Dublin, Ireland
T/A/S.Lt. 22.01.1943
T/S.Lt. 22.07.1943 (reld > 07.1946, < 10.1946)
(04.1943)     minesweeper course
07.05.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Foxglove (Flower class sloop)
17.08.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Corsham Barracks)
His daughter writes: "He volunteered from Ireland and served as an Ordinary Seaman in Operation Jubilee as a gunner on ML 190. He Was then promoted to Acting Sub Lieutenant. He served on corvettes guarding the Liberty Ships. He finished the war in Londonderry on minesweepers and met his wife Isobel McLaughlin here. He returned to Dublin in 1946 to continue his career Managing Director of Walpamur Paints."
Barons,
Douglas Francis
D.F. Barons
Son of Herbert Francis Barons (1895-1995), and Frances Ann Cane (1892?-1946).
Married ((06?).1944, Salisbury district, Wiltshire) Phyllis Edris Kilford (11.05.1918 - 12.2004); two sons (one of whom died in infancy).
16.01.1921
Hackney district, London
-
09.07.2009
Chippenham, Wiltshire
T/A/S.Lt. 1943?
T/S.Lt. 29.04.1944
04.1942     general training, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
1942 - 1942 technical training, HMS President V (accounting base, Highgate School, London)
1942 - 1942 awaiting deployment, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
1942 - 1942? HMS Mentor (minesweeper base, Stornoway) [recommended for commission and returned to RN Barracks, Portsmouth]
1942? - 1943 deck duties, HMS Vanessa (destroyer) [convoys from Liverpool to St Johns, Newfoundland]
1943 - 1943 HMS Sweetbriar (corvette)
1943 - 1943 officer training, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) [including detachments to HMS President (Greenwich) for navigation training, and HMS Nimrod (Campbeltown) for anti-submarine warfare training)
      HMS Tavy (frigate) [to complete practical training and achieve officer of the watch status, operating in escort group between Londonderry and Gibraltar]
02.04.1944 - 06.1944 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
06.1944 - 11.1944 HMS Hannibal & HMS Fabius (RN bases, Taranto) [posted onto a Z Craft 11.1944; sailed from Italy and landed on Poros, Greece]
11.1944 - 06.1945 HMS Gloxinia (corvette) [joined her in Port Said; escorted convoys up east coast of Italy into Bari, Brindisi and Rimini, then to English Channel]
06.1945 - 1946 HM LST 3504 (landing ship, tank) [joined in Devonport, sailed to Far East via India; 1946 compassionate leave & flown to UK]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Barr,
James Steven
J.S. Barr
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 23.09.1942
T/S.Lt. (A) 23.03.1943
T/Lt. (A) 23.03.1945 (reld 19.04.1946)
(12.1942)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
(04.1943)     HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *
08.04.1943 - (06.)1943 pilot, 754 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
07.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Cormorant II (RN Air Station, Gibraltar) (for duty with pool)
27.09.1943 - (06.)1944 pilot, 836 Squadron FAA
(10.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
01.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
* indexed, but not listed as such
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
06.09.1909
-
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,
Alan John
A.J. Barrett
14.11.1912
-
08.04.1961
T/Sg.Lt. 22.10.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 11.08.1941-(08.)1942,
> 01.1945, < 04.1945
Sg.Lt. 29.05.1946, seniority 22.10.1940
Sg.Lt.Cdr. 22.10.1946
Sg.Cdr. 31.12.1955
MRCS, LRCP.
18.10.1940 - 11.1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
30.11.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Dunedin (D class cruiser)
11.08.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Cheshire (armed merchant cruiser)
15.09.1942 - (04.)1943 HM Dockyard Malta [HMS St Angelo]
(06.1943) - (01.1945) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
09.06.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Boxer (fighter direction ship)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
29.05.1946     transferred RN
... - ... ...
Barrett,
Anthony Richard
A.R. Barrett
Son of John Barrett and Sarah [Westlake?], of Bangor Erris, Co. Mayo, Ireland..
Married ((12?).1939, Dublin South district, Ireland) ...
02.05.1915
Ireland
-
19.12.1941
(MPK) [age 26]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, panel 61, column 3]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 12.07.1941
Education: University College, Galway (entered 07.10.1932); MB, BCh, BAO NUI (1938).
Senior House Surgeon Caernarvon & Anglesey Infirmary, Bangor. Temporary Assistant (later Senior Assistant) Medical Officer West Ham Mental Hospital Goodmayes, Essex.
12.07.1941 - 08.08.1941 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
09.08.1941 - 19.12.1941 HMS Stanley (Town class destroyer) [missing, presumed killed when ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-574 in North Atlantic]
Barrett,
Ian Hamilton
I.H. Barrett
Son of James Arthur Samuel Barrett.
Married (22.12.1948) Hilary Mary Crickmay (widow of Sq.Ldr. Paul de Grey Horatio Seymour), daughter of Douglas Ernest Crickmay; one step-son.
25.02.1919
St Andrew district, Dundee, Scotland
-
07.06.1985
Brough, Humberside, Beverley district, Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 18.09.1941
T/Lt. 01.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
18.11.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Sabina (auxiliary patrol trawler)
14.04.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Lewes (Town class destroyer)
01.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Marguerite (Flower class corvette)
12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Barrett,
Maurice Agar
M.A. Barrett (Photo courtesy of Mr John Barrett)
Son of Henry E.L. Barrett, and Jane Barrington Lockyer.
Married ...; four daughters, one son.
Residence: (1944) Pulborough.
28.04.1917
Gunnersbury, Ealing, Brentford district, West London
-
07.03.1979
Nairobi, Kenya (as a result of an accident in Sudan)
[buried at sea off Watamu, Kenya]
A/S.Lt. ?
S.Lt. 28.03.1942, seniority 07.06.1941
T/Lt. 12.03.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 21.11.1944 actions covering 2 years
Education: University of Reading (BSc, dairying, 1937).
12.01.1943 - (01.)1945 HM MGB 3 (motor gun boat), renamed: HMS Grey Seal [HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(1945)     Commanding Officer, HMS Flying Wing (tug)
Emigrated 1946 to Kenya and worked in agricultural education, at Egerton and at Kabete. Later he became a UN adviser and worked in Pakistan, Iraq, Uganda and Sudan.
Barrow,
John
J. Barrow
?
-
T/S.Lt. 27.11.1942
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     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
Barry,
Robert Joseph
R.J. Barry
Married ...; ... children.
01.01.1909
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
12.1975
Birmingham district, West Midlands
T/S.Lt. 24.07.1942
T/Lt. 24.10.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.. > 10.1945, < 04.1946
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45 - -
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
09.11.1942 - (06.)1943 HM MMS 200 (motor minesweeper)
(08.1943)     HM MMS 200 (motor minesweeper) *
26.08.1943 - (01.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 196 (motor minesweeper)
03.03.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Loch Ruthven (frigate)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bartholomew,
Thomas Gilbert
"Jim"
T.G. Bartholomew (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Beamish)
Only son of Archdeacon Graham Topley Bartholomew (1881-), and Florence Clara Foord.
12.05.1912
Bromley, Kent
-
16.05.1950
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (after a short illness)
T/S.Lt. 27.11.1941
T/Lt. 12.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
03.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Othello (minesweeping trawler)
14.04.1945 - (08.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Hawthorn (minesweeping trawler)
Bartlett,
Frederick William George
F.W.G. Bartlett
Residence: (1945) Twickenham, Middlesex.
06.01.1913
-
27.07.2001
Bournemouth, Dorset
... ...
T/El.Lt. 17.07.1940
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945
Pre- & post-war engineering inspector, Post Office Engineering Department (Bristol Area, later possibly London).
      on staff of SDG, Admiralty [HMS President]
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) SDG, Admiralty [HMS President]
Barton,
Alan George
A.G. Barton (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Barton) A.G. Barton (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Barton)
A.G. Barton (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Barton)
23.06.1907
Leyton, West Ham district, Essex
-
25.04.1980
Bristol, Avon
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.04.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(09.1941)     HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
      HMS Anson (battleship)
(03.1944)     HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Barwell,
Terence Edgar
"Terry"
T.E. Barwell (Photo courtesy of Penn Barwell)
Son of William J. Barwell, and Mary E.E. Whaits.
Married ((09?).1940, Greenwich district, Kent) Patricia M. Carr; two sons, four daughters.

31.01.1916
Axbridge district, Somerset
-
04.2012
Falmouth, Cornwall
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 01.08.1940
T/Sg.Lt. 1941?, seniority 01.08.1940 (reld 11.03.1946)
Sg.Lt. 28.07.1950, seniority 24.09.1944
Sg.Lt.Cdr. 24.09.1952
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1946 New Year 46
Education: MB, BS, 1943; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1939; registered 27.10.1939.
01.10.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
16.09.1941 - 06.11.1942 Medical Officer, HMS Express (destroyer)
24.11.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
06.01.1944 - (10.1945) Medical Officer, HMS Nadder (frigate)
28.07.1950     transferred, permanent RNVR (List II)
A daughter writes: "He rejoined the RNVR for the Suez crisis when he was appointed Lt Cmdr."
Bashford,
Robert Frank
R.F. Bashford (Photo courtesy of Alison J. Tierney) R.F. Bashford (Photo courtesy of Alison J. Tierney)
Son of Everett Bashford (1877-1928), and Lily Mitchell (1893-1963).
Married (07.1945, Belfast, Ireland) Doris Elizabeth Lingard; two daughters, one son.
29.12.1921
Greenwich district, London
-
11.04.2004
Edinburgh, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt. 21.08.1942
T/S.Lt. 21.02.1943
T/Lt. 21.02.1945 (reld 31.08.1946)
1941     enlisted, RNVR
1941 - 1941 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
10.1941 - 04.1942 HMS Weston (Falmouth class sloop)
1942 - 1942 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
1942 - 1942 RN College, Greenwich
(10.1942) - (11.1942) no appointment listed
25.11.1942 - 11.10.1943 HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast):
30.12.1942 - 11.10.1943 First Lieutenant, HM ML 274 (motor launch)
12.10.1943 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, then Commanding Officer, HM ML 274 (motor launch)
08.07.1944 - (10.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 619 (motor torpedo boat)
09.10.1944 - (02.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 767 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed *
19.11.1945 - 19.05.1946 Physical and Recreational Training Officer, HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
* His daughter writes: "He had some leave in July-August 1945 to get married and then his first post-war posting was at the naval base in Portsmouth as a Physical and Recreational Training Instructor."
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)
Bassett,
Kenneth Thomas
K.T. Basett
Son (with one brother) of Thomas Bassett (1878-), and Ellen Louisa Richards (1888-1946).
Married ((09?).1937, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire) Kathleen Margaret Sinclair (29.07.1916 - 08.12.2005), daughter of Charles Sinclair (1889-1977); two daughters, one son.
10.10.1910
Devonport, Devon
-
23.05.1989
Brixton, Devon
Prob. T/S.Lt. 26.04.1940
T/Lt. 10.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld 24.02.1946)
28.05.1940 - (02.)1941 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
(04.1941) - (06.1941) no appointment listed
(08.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Puckeridge (Hunt class destroyer) *
12.1941 - (02.)1944 Squadron Gunnery Officer to Rear-Admiral, Minelayers [HMS Southern Prince (temporary HQ ship)]
(04.1944) - (10.1944) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
(01.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) *
Dunlop transport group representative for tyres in the Wolverhampton district. Later stationed in South Africa.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Batchelor,
Grahame Sydney
G.S. Batchelor (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)
02.04.1915
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
05.1999
Ynys Mon, Gwynedd, Wales
Prob. T/S.Lt. 23.08.1940
T/Lt. 23.08.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
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
-
23.06.1952
Exeter district, Devon
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).
Bates,
William James
W.J. Bates
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
25.01.1922
-
16.05.2005
Cheshire East district, Cheshire
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 02.01.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
His daughter writes: "My Dad's resume says that he was a commissioned pilot and states he was in the R.A.F and R.N.V.R. from 1941 to 1945. I only know that he spent some time in the US, I think in Austin Texas."
Bateson,
Eric Osment
E.O. Bateson (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Bateson)
Son of Horace W. Bateson, and Annetta Elsie Osment (1881?-1963).
Married 1st (06.09.1939, Reading district, Berkshire) Dorothy Lisbeth Godden (30.12.1918 - 15.08.1981).
Married 2nd (27.03.1942, Trinidad) Eryl Hampden Holder (24.06.1916 - 07.01.1972); two sons.
Married 3rd ((06?).1973, Petersfield district, Hampshire) Patricia Dorcas E. Thompson (31.08.1923 - 20.02.2003).
09.02.1915
Croydon district, Surrey
-
29.10.1975
Havant, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
Writer (prob) 31.08.1939
Writer 1940?, seniority 31.08.1939
Paym.S.Lt. 12.07.1940
Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 12.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld 15.04.1946)
06.09.1939 - 16.11.1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
16.11.1939 - 22.04.1940 HMS Berwick (Kent class cruiser)
22.04.1940 - 16.05.1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
17.05.1940 - 11.07.1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
02.08.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)
28.06.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
04.12.1944 - (10.1945) Captain's Secretary, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Councillor & 1962 Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Vice-Chairman, Hampshire County Council 1973-75. President, Association of Education Committees 1973-75.
Battenberg,
William Alan
W.A. Battenberg
Son of William A.N. Battenberg, and Ellenor C. Bollingbroke, of Melville Court, London.
Married (1955, Middlesex) Mrs M. Unity Pallot, daughter of J.P. Purvis, and Mrs J.D.C. Curtis, of Wakefield, Jamaica.
26.11.1911
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
15.08.1980
T/S.Lt. 04.03.1940
T/Lt. 12.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 25.10.1943? (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
04.03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Stella Capella (anti-submarine trawler)
(10.1940)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
16.09.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
25.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Battison,
Douglas Frederick
D.F. Battison
Son of ... Battison, and ... Sykes.
Married; children.
22.04.1920
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
Batty,
James
J. Batty
Married ...; two sons, one daughter.
19.07.1910
Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire
-
09.1990
Salford district, Greater Manchester
Writer ?
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 15.02.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 15.08.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer employed on cypher duties

1941     joined RNVR
      training, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
      HMS Suffolk (cruiser)
(04.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed
18.06.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for duty in office of Commander-in-Chief, Levant)
05.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for base cypher duties)
09.07.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for base cypher duties)
(07.1945)     HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *
(10.1945)     HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Batty,
Joseph
J. Batty
Son of ... Batty, and ... Wilkinson.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
09.12.1917
Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
11.1985
Sheffield district, Yorkshire
T/A/S.Lt. 01.04.1943
T/S.Lt. 01.10.1943
T/Lt. 01.10.1945 (reld 04.01.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 06.03.1945 Westkapelle, Walcheren 11.44 [investiture 18.05.45]
01.04.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dartmouth III (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth), renamed 19.07.1943 HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth):
(11.1944)     Commanding Officer, HM LCP(L)153 (landing craft, personnel (large)) (705th LCP(L) Flotilla) (Walcheren) (DSC)
Bawcutt,
Roy Ernest
R.E. Bawcutt
Son (with two sisters and three brothers) of Amos Bawcutt (1879-1940), and Alice May (1879-1965).
Married 1st ((03?).1941, Warwick district, Warwickshire) Joan Ellen Mary Ward (16.02.1920 - 08.01.1987); two children. Joan Bawcutt remarried (1953) Sidney W. Owen.
Married 2nd ((12?).1954, St Pancras district, Middlesex) Olive Irene "Rene" Broad ((06?).1920 - 22.05.2012).
10.02.1920
Crayford, Dartford district, Kent
-
04.06.1981
Westerham, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 17.07.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.01.1945 (reld 12.05.1946)
* Special Branch officer who is employed on cypher duties
Worked on headquarters staff of the Civil Service Clerical Association (CSCA).
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
17.02.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Glenroy (landing ship, infantry)
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Executive officer, CSCA, 1946-1948. Free-lance journalist. Political agent for Mr James Lawrie, the Belper Division liberal candidate, 1950. Advertisement manager & joint managing director, Highways & Road Construction International.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Baxter,
Bernard Albert
B.A. Baxter (Photo courtesy of Paul Trangmar)
Son of ... Baxter, and ... Watson.
28.10.1921
Romford district, Essex
-
23.03.1993
Leeds, Yorkshire
T/A/S.Lt. 30.04.1942
T/S.Lt. 28.10.1942
T/Lt. 28.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. 12.01.1954
Lt.Cdr. 12.01.1962 (retd 28.10.1971)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 22.04.1966 -
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
12.07.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Forte IV (Coastal Forces base, Falmouth) (for motor launches)
(02.1943)     HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
03.1943 - (10.)1943 Third Officer, HM ML 277 (motor launch)
12.10.1943 - (06.)1944 [Commanding Officer?], HM ML 277 (motor launch)
21.08.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for motor launches)
04.10.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 467 (motor launch)
29.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Porcupine (landing craft base, Stokes Bay, Portsmouth)
12.01.1954 - 28.10.1971 Permanent RNVR, later RNR (London Division, List IIA)
* 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.
25.12.1912
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)
Baxter,
William Duncan
W.D. Baxter
Son of William Farrington Baxter, merchant, and Maude Annie Sewell.
Married ((06?).1944, St Pancras district, London) Pamela Gladys Kingsmill, widow of Lt.Cdr. Francis Charles Furlong (1911-1944).

04.08.1901
Islington, London
-
1959/60 ?
South Africa ?
RAF:  
P/O (prob) 15.03.1923
P/O 15.09.1923
F/O 15.10.1924 (reld 15.03.1938)
RNVR:  
T/S.Lt. (A) 09.10.1939
T/Lt. (A) 23.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 12.10.1940 (reld > 04.1946)
15.03.1923     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
15.03.1929     transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (Class A)
15.03.1936     transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (Class C)
(12.1939) - (03.1940) no appointment listed
27.03.1940 - (07.)1940 pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
22.07.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)
12.10.1940 - (06.)1942 Assistant to Commander Flying, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
10.07.1942 - 31.01.1943 Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.02.1943 - 03.02.1946 Naval Air Organization Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.02.1946 - (04.1946) Naval Air Organization and Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Bayley,
Kenneth Egremont Anson
K.E.A. Bailey
15.09.1903
-
02.07.1975
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 district, 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-.
Bazeley,
Bonham Ley
B.L. Bazeley (Photo courtesy of Sally Oldfield)

Son of Oswald Edward Selwyn Bazeley (1895-1979), and Dorothy Burr.
Married (09.09.1944, Colchester, Essex) Phyllis Mary Oliver (15.04.1923 - 14.07.2014); three daughters, one son.
19.07.1922
Haverfordwest district, Wales
-
22.11.2009
Standish, Gloucestershire
T/Midsh. 14.05.1942
T/A/S.Lt. 19.07.1942
T/S.Lt. 19.01.1943
T/Lt. 01.04.1944 (reld 26.06.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC  21.11.1944 Coastal Forces action 26.08.44 [investiture 06.03.45]
Mention in Despatches MID 19.09.1944 Coastal Forces actions 03 & 13.07.44
27.07.1942 - 20.09.1942 HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 7th MGB Flotilla)
21.09.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 7th MGB Flotilla)
(08.1943) - (12.1943) HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat) *
24.01.1944 - 17.06.1945 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 4th MTB Flotilla):
(07.1944) - 02.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 468 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC, despatches)
20.02.1945 - 17.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 470 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)      no appointment listed
24.09.1945 - (10.1945) Torpedo Officer, HMS Woodbridge Haven (submarine depot ship)
(04.1946)     HMS Landlock (Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base (MOLCAB) 2, Singapore) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Bazley,
Royden Douglas
R.D. Bazley
Son of ... Bazley, and ... Crush.
Married ((09?).1938, Brentford district, Middlesex) Betty I. Simmons.
07.07.1913
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 06.11.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.05.1945
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.05.1947 (reld > 05.1947)

* Employed on staff, etc., duties ashore

06.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (for service at Newport)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
       
 
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