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1939-1945

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B.E. Caddick  to  M.G. Clyde
Caddick,
Bernard Ernest
"Doc" / "Tony"
B.E. Caddick (Photo courtesy of Mr David Matthiae) B.E. Caddick (Photo courtesy of Mr David Matthiae)
Son of ... Caddick, and ... Hadley.
Married ((09?).1941, Pwllheli district, Caernorvonshire, Gwynedd) Ida Bagnall
14.10.1917
Dudley district, Staffordshire / Worcestershire
-
09.1996
Glamorgan
T/S.Lt.
03.07.1942
T/Lt.
03.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45
Mention in Despatches MID
25.01.1944
crossing Volturno river 43
Education: medical student, University of Birmingham (27.10.1937-...).
12.06.1942
-
02.08.1942
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment)
(07.1945)


HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (probably for landing craft duty):
(1943)
-
(1945)
HM LCT 330 (landing craft tank) (Italy, NW Europe)
General practitioner, Barry, Wales.
Caffrey,
Nicholas James
N.J. Caffrey

Son of Nicholas Joseph Caffrey (1866-1952), and Ella O'Neill, of Ballydownfine, Ballygomartin, Antrim, Ireland.
Married Margaret Winifred Sergeant (1912 - 1984); two daughters, one son.
25.10.1905
-
1984
T/S.Lt. 05.03.1942
T/Lt. 05.06.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(04.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
09.06.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)
15.02.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
06.03.1945 - (04.1945) HMS Leith (Grimsby class sloop)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(10.1945)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Worked in the family business Ulster Brewery in Belfast.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cahill,
Bernard Patrick
B.P. Cahill
(03?).1919
Bailieborough district, Ireland
-
12.1996
Camden district, London
T/Lt. 31.01.1940
Chevalier, Order of Oranje-Nassau (The Netherlands) OON 28.09.1943 liaison officer "Jan van Gelder" [decoration posted]
10.01.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Albury (Hunt class minesweeper)
(08.1941) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
(09.1941)     British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS "Jan van Gelder" (minesweeper)
(08.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Hatherleigh (destroyer) (1942 to Greek Navy and renamed "Kanaris") *
27.03.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
01.08.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Brigand (tug)
06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Ilex (destroyer)
09.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Myrland (minesweeping trawler)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cahill,
Dennis Richard [Joseph]
D.R. Cahill
1916 ?
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 16.11.1942
T/Lt. (A) 22.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(02.1943)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
12.02.1943 - (06.)1943 pilot, 754 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
28.06.1943 - (10.1944) pilot, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
(01.1945) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
01.04.1945 - (10.1945) pilot, 772 Squadron FAA [HMS Wagtail (RN Air Station, Heathfield, Ayr)]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Calder,
Colin Spark
C.S. Calder
27.12.1918
-
13.09.2009
T/S.Lt. 27.11.1942
T/Lt. 27.12.1943 (reld 17.05.1946)
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
22.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Torch (minesweeper & Coastal Forces base, Holyhead)
08.1943 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 1382 (motor launch), renamed: HDML 1382 (harbour defence motor launch)
05.11.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1486 (harbour defence motor launch)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Caldicott,
Thomas Patrick
T.P. Caldicott (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard) T.P. Caldicott
T.P. Caldicott T.P. Caldicott
T.P. Caldicott T.P. Caldicott
T.P. Caldicott T.P. Caldicott
T.P. Caldicott
Son (with three brothers) of Percy Caldicott, and Minnie Connole.
Married ((09?).1950, Newcastle upon Tyne district) Myra Emmerson; two daughters.
04.06.1924
Cleethorpes, Grimsby district, Lincolnshire
-

18.11.2023

Weobley
Seaman ?  [C/JX 371239
T/Midsh. 20.08.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 04.12.1943
T/S.Lt. 04.06.1944
T/Lt. 04.06.1946 (reld 17.09.1946)
39-45 St ? ?

Atlantic Star

Atl St ? & clasp France & Germany
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
Education: South Shields High School.
Three years banking experience in England.

 

 

 

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

04.12.1943

-

(12.)1943

HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for MTB duties)

30.12.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) (for MTB duties)

15.05.1944

-

(04.)1945

First Lieutenant, HM MTB 673 (motor torpedo boat)

(07.1945)     no appointment listed

09.1945

-

(10.1945)

HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Chat Camp, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal)

09.02.1946

-

05.07.1946

Minesweeping Officer, HMS Rosario (Algerine class minesweeper)

22.07.1946

-

09.1946

HMS Lochinvar (destroyer / minesweeper base, Port Edgar)

Joined Mansfield & Co. Worked in Malaysia.
Cale,
Nabor Keith
N.K. Cale
Son of Albert Edgar Cale, and Annie E. Davis.
Married ((09?).1939, Worthing district, Sussex) Revis Ruth Davis, of Worthing, Sussex.
(12?).1916
Abergavenny district, Herefordshire / Monmouthshire
-

24.08.1942
(KIA) [age 25]
[Dover (St James's) Cemetery, row A, grave 10]
T/S.Lt.
20.03.1941
T/Lt.
20.03.1942?
Mention in Despatches MID
20.10.1942
action with E-boats 24.08.42
19.05.1941
-
(12.1941)
First Lieutenant, HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
02.02.1942
-
24.08.1942
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 9 (motor gun boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
Callaghan,
Leonard James
"Jim";
Baron (Life Peer) Callaghan of Cardiff, of the City of Cardiff in the County of South Glamorgan (cr. 1987)
L.J. Callaghan L.J. Callaghan
L.J. Callaghan L.J. Callaghan  
Son of James Callaghan (1877-1921), Chief Petty Officer, RN, and Charlottey Gertrude Cundy (1879-1961).
Married (1938) Audrey Elizabeth Moulton (28.07.1915 - 15.03.2005); one son, two daughters.

27.03.1912
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
26.03.2005
Ringmer, East Sussex
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.04.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.10.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) < 10.1944 (reld 1945/46)
Knight of the Garter KG 23.04.1987 ?

Hubert H. Humphrey Internat. Award, 1978. Grand Cross, 1st class, Order of Merit of Federal Republic of Germany, 1979.

Education: Elementary and Portsmouth Northern Secondary Schools
Entered Civil Service as a Tax Officer, 1929; Assistant Secretary, Inland Revenue Staff Fed., 1936-1947 (with an interval during the War of 1939-1945, when served in Royal Navy). Joined Labour Party, 1931.
1942     joined RNVR as Ordinary Seaman (East Indies Fleet, Ceylon)
03.08.1944 - (01.)1945 Personal Services Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
MP (Lab): S Cardiff, 1945-1950; SE Cardiff, 1950-1983; Cardiff S and Penarth, 1983-1987. Parliamentary Secretary, Minister of Transport, 1947-1950; Chairman Committee on Road Safety, 1948-1950; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, 1950-1951; Opposition Spokesman: Transport, 1951-1953; Fuel and Power, 1953-1955; Colonial Affairs, 1956-1961; Shadow Chancellor, 1961-1964; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1964-1967; Home Secretary, 1967-1970; Shadow Home Secretary, 1970-1971; Opposition Spokesman on Employment, 1971-1972; Shadow Foreign Secretary, 1972-1974; Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1974-1976; Minister of Overseas Development, 1975-1976; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1976-1979; Leader, Labour Party, 1976-1980; Leader of the Opposition, 1979-1980. Father, House of Commons, 1983-1987. Delegate to Council of Europe, Strasburg, 1948-1950 and 1954. Member, Labour Party NEC, 1957-1980; Treasurer, Labour Party, 1967-1976, Vice-Chairman 1973, Chairman 1974. Consultant to Police Federation of England and Wales and to Scottish Police Federation, 1955-1964. President: Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea, 1963- (Chairman, 1952-1963); United Kingdom Pilots Association, 1963-1976; Joint President, RIIA, 1983-. Hon. President, International Maritime Pilots Association, 1971-1976. President, University of Wales, Swansea (formerly UC Swansea), 1986-1995 (Hon. Fellow, 1993). Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1959-1967, Hon. Life Fellow, 1967; Hon. Fellow: UC Cardiff, 1978; Portsmouth Polytechnic, 1981; Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, 1991. Hon. LLD: Wales, 1976; Sardar Patel University, India, 1978; Birmingham, 1981; Sussex, 1989; Westminster, 1993; Liverpool, 1996; Hon. PhD Meisei University, Tokyo, 1984; DUniv Open, 1996. Hon. Bencher, Inner Temple, 1976. Freeman: City of Portsmouth, 1991; City of Swansea, 1993; Hon. Freeman: City of Cardiff, 1974; City of Sheffield, 1979. Privy Councillor, 1964.
Published: A house divided : the dilemma of Northern Ireland (1973); Time and change (1987; autobiography)
Literature: Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan : a life (1997)
Calley,
Andrew
A. Calley
Married ((12?).1931, West Derby district, Lancashire) Elsie Green; ... children (one daughter?).
18.10.1909
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
07.1991
Enfield district, Middlesex
Tel.
? [D/WRX 983]
T/S.Lt.
27.12.1940
T/Lt.
27.03.1941 (reld 26.11.1945)
British Empire Medal BEM
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40 [investiture 06.11.45]
04.1939


joined Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve as a rating
(1940)
 
 
HMS Aquamarine (trawler; armed boarding vessel)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
16.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Campion (corvette)
(10.1944)


HMS Rajah (escort carrier) *
(01.1945)


HMS Battler (escort carrier) *
02.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Callieu,
Charles Donald
C.D. Callieu
Son of ... Callieu, and ... Hinson.
Married (03.02.1940, Manchester district, Lancashire) Jenat Turner.
19.12.1911
Edmonton district, Essex
-
09.1991
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
T/S.Lt. 12.01.1940
T/Lt. 12.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944
T/A/Cdr. > 10.1944, < 01.1945
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 03.07.1945 minesweeping & mine recovery 08.44-02.45

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 03.11.1942 mine disposal [investiture 23.03.43]
03.1940 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Esmeralda (armed yacht) & from ... as Senior Officer, 182nd Auxiliary Minesweeping Flotilla
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Marketing operations manager, later sales director of Shell Chemicals Ltd.
Callow,
William John
W.J. Callow (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Callow)
Son of ... Callow, and Robins.
Married; two sons.
13.11.1921
South Petherton, Yeovil district, Somerset
-
15.01.1976
Fort Victoria, Rhodesia
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
13.11.1942
T/Lt.
24.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID
05.09.1944
boarded & captured German I-Boat
Mention in Despatches MID
13.02.1945
attack on enemy convoy 11.10.44
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Italy Star It St - -
12.04.1943
-
(06.1944)
First Lieutenant, MGB 661 (motor gun boat)
(10.1944)


HM MTB 637 (motor torpedo boat)
03.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 659 (motor gun boat)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Calvert-Jones,
Ivor
I. Calvert-Jones
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
12.01.1909
Newport district, Monmouthshire
-
25.11.1983
Parkstone, Poole, Dorset
Prob. Midsh. 09.07.1928
A/S.Lt. 04.12.1929
S.Lt. 03.12.1930
Lt. 04.12.1932
Lt.Cdr. 04.12.1940 (demobilized < 04.1946) (retd 08.01.1951)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration VRD 15.10.1943 -
      joined RNVR (Severn Division, List 2)
25.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
04.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
(06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed
18.08.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Fort York (Bangor class minesweeper)
03.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Spurwing (RN Air Station, Hastings, Sierra Leone)
(04.1945)     HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
14.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cambridge,
John Stephen
J.S. Cambridge (Photo courtesy of Mr Gerry Wright)
(12?).1903 ??
Epping district, Essex ??
-
T/Lt.
09.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 02.1941, < 12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
10.11.1942
action against E-boats 10.09.42 [investiture 15.12.42]
05.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS St Loman (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(02.1941)


HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
20.10.1941
-
(02.)1943
HMS Midge (Coastal Force base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches)
(09.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 106 (motor launch)
04.1943
-
(06.1943)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
01.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cameron,
Alexander Lewis
A.L. Cameron
17.12.1914 ??
-
06.1994 ??
Chiltern and South Bucks district, Buckinghamshire ??
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
29.09.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
29.01.1941 (reld 1945/46)
26.09.1940
-
(12.1943)
Unexploded Bomb Disposal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty):



Bomb Safety Officer, Chatham
02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lanka (base, Ceylon) (for passive defence duties, Colombo)
Cameron,
John
J. Cameron
?
-
T/Lt.
?
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune
Mention in Despatches MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk
(06.1940)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 102 (motor torpedo boat)
(06.1944)


Staff Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (ANCXF)
Cameron,
Ronald Ewen
R.E. Cameron (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Hogarth)
1919
Glasgow, Scotland
-
1992 ?
Lanarkshire, Scotland ?
T/S.Lt. 09.04.1942
T/Lt. 09.10.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Education: High School of Glasgow (1932-1936).
17.05.1942 - (10.)1944 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank (LCTs))
09.10.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Campbell,
Alexander McRobie
A.M. Campbell (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Married Barbara Liddell (? - 25.06.2014); one daughter, two sons.
1923
Dalry district, Edinburgh, Scotland
-

Reading, Berkshire, later Edinburgh, Scotland
Ord.Sea. 26.05.1942 [JX 363135]
T/A/S.Lt. 25.05.1943
T/S.Lt. 28.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
09.1942 - 01.1943 HMS Venomous (destroyer)
07.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
01.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for B.A.M. (British-American Minesweeper) 100 Class)
28.10.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Magic (Catherine class minesweeper)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
10.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Coquette (Algerine class minesweeper)
Campbell,
Desmond Moger

D.M. Campbell
Married (20.03.1948, Southsea, Hampshire) Olive B.K. Welsh; two daughters, two sons.
12.05.1922
Rathdown district, Ireland
-
01.2004
Exeter district, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. 21.01.1944
T/S.Lt. 21.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 19.12.1944 escort defence patrols & rescue work (Normandy 06.44)
(04.1944)     no appointment listed
(06.1944) - (10.1944) HM HDML 1412 (harbour defence motor launch) * (despatches)
01.01.1945 - (01.)1945 HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for motor launches)
16.02.1945 - (07.)1945 HM ML 305 (motor launch)
09.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal by Commander-in-Chief, East Indies)
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Campbell,
Donald Charles
D.C. Campbell

Son of Charles Donald Campbell and Elizabeth Campbell, of Hove, Sussex.
(06?).1911
Steyning district, Sussex
-
02.11.1944
off Ostend
(KIA) [age 33]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 2]
T/S.Lt.
14.08.1942
T/Lt.
?
24.02.1944
-
02.11.1944
First Lieutenant, HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)
Campbell,
Edmund Colin Murray

E.C.M. Campbell
?
-

Prob. T/Lt.
29.07.1940
28.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)
Campbell,
Hector Brownlie
H.B. Campbell
Married (1931, Hillhead district, Scotland) ...; ... children (one son?).
16.12.1904
Eastwood district, Scotland
-
08.04.1983
Dalbeattie district, Scotland
Prob. T/S.Lt. 26.04.1940
T/Lt. 26.07.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 28.07.1942]
(06.1940)     no appointment listed
19.06.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)
09.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon)
(06.1941)     no appointment listed
12.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Kingston Agate (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)
(02.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed
20.08.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Cailiff (Isles class trawler)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
20.11.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Campbell,
James

J. Campbell
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt. 02.08.1940
T/Lt. 02.11.1940
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 21.04.1942 Anti-Aircraft Guard Calmore: protection of convoys from air attack [investiture 15.02.44]
09.09.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS President III (accounting base for personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
01.04.1941 - (10.)1941 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 64 (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
14.10.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Gardenia (corvette)
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
19.02.1943 - (12.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Primrose (corvette)
10.12.1943 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Pevensey Castle (corvette)
Campbell,
James Duncan

J.D. Campbell
?
-
T/S.Lt.
18.12.1943
T/Lt.
01.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
05.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Ekins (frigate)
31.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Stevenstone (destroyer)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Campbell,
Leveson Granville Robert
"Boffin"
L.G.R. Campbell
(03?).1907
Penzance district, Cornwall
-
T/Lt.
27.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
10.02.1942
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
10.11.1942
?
Mention in Despatches MID
03.03.1942
?
(11.1941)
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 67 (motor gun boat)
(09.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM MGB 76 (motor gun boat)
05.12.1944
-

Officer-in-Charge, M.L.C. Officers' Training Establishment [HMS Dinosaur]
Campbell,
Malcolm Alexander

M.A. Campbell
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. 28.04.1944
T/S.Lt. 28.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
07.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Cape Portland (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
02.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Campbell,
William Duthie

M.A. Campbell
1921
Drainie district, Morayshire, Scotland
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 30.10.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.04.1945 (reld 24.08.1946)

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

(12.1942) - (02.1943) no appointment listed
01.02.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for miscellaneous services)
(01.1945) - (04.1945) HMS Curlew (anti-submarine fixed defence training establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) *
30.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
01.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Campion,
Leslie Thompson

L.T. Campion (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter R. Campion, via Mr John Pressagh)
Married ((09?).1944, Hendon district, Middlesex) Doreen Gladys Hardwick (10.06.1922 - 05.1998); one son.
07.09.1921
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
12.03.2010

Worthing Hospital (formerly of West Chiltington, West Sussex)
T/A/S.Lt. 13.04.1944
T/S.Lt. 13.10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
S.Lt. 22.05.1957, seniority 11.03.1955
A/Lt. 1958?
Lt. 21.07.1959, seniority 11.03.1958
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 11.03.1966 (retd 07.09.1981)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 14.07.1970 -
13.04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
22.05.1957     Permanent RNVR (from 1959 RNR)
11.03.1966     transferred Special Branch RNR
Cannon,
William Charles
"Bill"
W.C. Cannon (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Cannon) W.C. Cannon (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Cannon)
Son of ... Cannon, and ... Clements.
07.07.1924
Hertford, Hertfordshire
-
09.12.1983
Wrexham district, Clwyd, Wales
Prob. T/Midsh. (A) * 20.12.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 14.07.1945
T/S.Lt. (A) 14.01.1946

* For aeronautical technical duties in the Fleet Air Arm

(01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
(08.1945)     HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
15.10.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (for disposal; for air engineering duties)
23.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Nabstock (Mobile Naval Air Base (MONAB) VI, RAAF Schofields)
Capeling,
William Keith

W.K. Capeling
Son of William Frederick Capeling, and Jessie Alice Chantler, of Ashford, Kent.
(12?).1923
Ashford, Kent
-
30.04.1944

[age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Cemetery, New Hampshire, USA, lot 162]
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
01.03.1943?
T/S.Lt. (A)
01.03.1944
Education: Ashford Grammar School (1934-1939)
30.06.1943
-
30.04.1944
732 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA & as accounting base for British navy personnel in the USA)] [died of injuries after an aircraft accident which occurred at Bar Harbour, Maine]
Cappell,
Alistair James
A.J. Cappell (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor) A.J. Cappell (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor)
Son of James Leitch Cappell (1877?-1918), and Alice Eleanor Pickop (1889-1950).
15.02.1915
King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
04.2006
Ealing, London
Seaman 18.09.1940 [JX 220695]
T/S.Lt. 13.11.1941
T/Lt. 13.11.1942 (reld 31.05.1946)
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
18.09.1940     HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
(11.1941)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
07.04.1942 - 03.12.1943 HMS Rockrose (corvette)
12.1943 - 08.02.1944 passage to UK [for some time at HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayit, Egypt)]
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(05.1945)     HMS Royal James (port party, Boulogne) ?
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
10.07.1945 - 20.04.1946 Duty Operations Officer, HMS Royal Harold (Naval Party 1742 & Flag Officer, Kiel, Germany)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Capper,
Douglas Parodé
D.P. Capper D.P. Capper
Son of Henry Douglas, a naval officer, and Louisa Elizabeth Sarah Mary Parodé.
Married 1st; one daughter.
Married 2nd (16.05.1963) Yolande Marjory Elwell-Smith (an artist).
09.07.1898
Sydney, NSW, Australia
-
24.07.1979
[Clstree/Pot?]
T/Lt.
29.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
07.04.1941
T/A/Cdr.
1945?
Education: attended Scottish and English schools and had private tutor
07.04.1941
-
(07.)1945
Naval and Marine Staff, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (served in Cabinet War Room, 1943-1945)
1945
-
1948
British Naval Representative in Japan [HMS Tamar II, then HMS Commonwealth]
Published: On the pilgrims way (1934); The Vikings of Britain (1937); Famous sailing ships of the world (1957); Famous battleships of the world (1959); Moat defensive : a history of the waters of the Nore Command 55 BC to 1961 (1963).
Other books published under pseudonyms. Contributor to various journals and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, mainly on maritime subjects.
Capper,
Ingram Ord
I.O. Capper
Married; ... children (one daughter?).
17.11.1907
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
-
12.07.1986
Colchester, Essex
T/Lt. 09.10.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
09.10.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
11.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Kilchrenan (patrol vessel)
Competed in shooting (rifle), Olympic Games, Helsinki 1952.
Carbines,
Wilfrid John
W.J. Carbines
Married ((09?).1936, Plymouth district, Devon) Doris L. Perring.
23.12.1909
Devonport district, Devon
-
1981
Plymouth district, Devon
T/A/Paym.S.Lt. ?
T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S) 24.05.1944
T/Lt. (S) 01.04.1945
Temporary postman-messenger, 04.1926. Male sorting clerk and telegraphist (postal), Crewe, 05.1929.
15.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for duty in Admiral's Office [of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches])
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Cardale,
Alfred George
A.G. Cardale
Son of William Henry Cardale (1868-1928), and Mabel Ann Cardale (née ...) (1874?-1959), of 4, Berkeley Gardens, London W8.
Married (25.06.1940, Thornbury, Gloucestershire) Mary Blanche Albinia Bennett (04.05.1914 - 17.04.2005), second daughter of Richard Bennett, and ... Gibbs, of Thornbury Park, near Bristol; two sons, one daughter.
02?.11.1905
Bromley district, London
-
(09?).1967
Kingsclere district, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt. 1944?
T/S.Lt. 18.08.1944
19.07.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Chamois (fleet minesweeper)
03.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Harris (minesweeping trawler)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Carey,
[Rev. Canon] Ronald Clive Adrian
R.C.A. Carey (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy de la Bédoyère)
Son (with one brother [Lt. Hugh F.G. Carey, Rifle Brigade].and later also one step-brother) of Sq.Ldr. Gordon Vero Carey, RAFVR (1886-1969), indexer and headmaster, and Eila Reynolds (died 1932).
Married; three daughters.
12.1921
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
-
Ord.Sea.
01.1942
T/A/S.Lt.
12.1942
T/S.Lt.
09.04.1943
T/Lt.
09.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
05.12.1944
attack on convoy Channel 13.08.44
01.1942
-
06.1942
 
HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (left ship a few days after it was torpedoed on 14.06.1942 off Sardinia)
06.1942
-
12.1942
training course
14.12.1942
-
04.1943
HMS Vanoc (destroyer) [actually joined 06.01.1943]
07.06.1943
-
01.10.1945
HMS Onslaught (destroyer) (mentioned in despatches)
Served in the clergy at Birmingham, at Chichester, and at Keighley before becoming Vicar of Illingworth (1955-1959). Left to work at the Religious Broadcasting Department of the BBC (1959-1968), then served at Claygate, at Emley and at Guildford.
Carlow,
George Symington
G.S. Carlow
Brother of El.Lt. William Dean Carlow, RNVR.
1917
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1996
New Kilpatrick district, Dunbarton, Scotland
T/S.Lt. 01.12.1940
T/Lt. 07.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44
(02.1941)     HMS Worcestershire (armed merchant cruiser) *
24.05.1941 - 31.01.1942 HMS Culver (escort) (torpedoed & sunk by U-105 in East Atlantic)
16.05.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Hesperus (destroyer)
10.01.1945 - (01.)1945 Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
06.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Defender (destroyer)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Carlow,
William Dean
W.D. Carlow
Brother of Lt. George Symington Carlow, RNVR.
1920
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1982
New Kilpatrick district, Dunbarton, Scotland
T/El.S.Lt. ?
T/El.Lt. 01.03.1944
Education: University of Glasgow (electrical engineering).
20.04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Carmichael,
Donald Macaulay
D.M. Carmichael
Son (with three brothers) of Rev. Dugald Carmichael (1874-1944), and Agnes Macmillan MacAulay (1880-1965).
Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. Dugald Lorne Carmichael, RNVR.
Married 1st ((03?).1942, Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire) Esther Mary Vernon-Jones (1912-); one daughter.
Married 2nd (1949) Margaret Parkinson.
22.05.1908
Reay, Caithness, Scotland
-
1996
Thurso, Caithness, Scotland
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 03.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 12.1942, < 02.1943
T/A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 04.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer on scientific duties

Education: Miller Academy, Thurso; Edinburgh University; St John's College, Cambridge (MA; 1st Class Philosophy (Edin)).
Lecturer in philosophy, Edinburgh University, 1931. Carnegie Research Fellow, Cambridge.
03.01.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Iron Duke (depot ship)
(07.1940) - (12.1940) no appointment listed
(02.1941) - (04.)1941 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa, Orkneys) *
06.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick)
21.04.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland) (for miscellaneous duties)
(08.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) *
01.01.1944 - (02.)1944 HMS Mercury (signal school, Haslemere)
24.03.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (for radar school)
08.06.1945 - (10.1945)

HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)

(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Appointed to Ministry of Civil Aviation, Administrative Class, 16.07.1946. Ministry of Works. General Secretary, D.E.R.E. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Caithness, 1977.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Carmichael,
Dugald Lorne
D.L. Carmichael
Son (with three brothers) of Rev. Dugald Carmichael (1874-1944), and Agnes Macmillan MacAulay (1880-1965).
Brother of Cdr. (Sp.Br.) Donald Macaulay Carmichael, RNVR.

Married ...; one daughter, two sons.
02.10.1914
Reay, Caithness, Scotland
-
31.05.1989
Derby district, Derbyshire (car accident)
T/Sg.Lt. 02.09.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld 02.03.1946)
Education: MB, ChB (Edinburgh, 1937); DObstRCOG, 1948.
02.09.1940 - (10.)1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.10.1940 - 24.03.1942 HMS Jason (Halcyon class minesweeper)
14.05.1942 - 11.1942 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
14.11.1942 - 21.12.1943 RN Auxiliary Hospital, Durdham Down, Bristol [HMS Drake] (and for WRNS Sick Quarters, Bristol)
26.12.1943 - 14.05.1945 HMS Campania (escort carrier)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
General practitioner, Castle Donington, nr Derby (Montford & Carmichael). Assistant Medical Officer & Resident Obstetrics Officer, Hope Hospital, Salford.
Carnell,
Herbert Harold
H.H. Carnell
Son of ... Carnell, and ... Shute.
11.01.1915
Honiton district, Devon
-
09.1990
Plymouth district, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. 12.03.1943
T/S.Lt. 12.09.1943
T/A/Lt. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt. RNR 05.01.1962, seniority 24.04.1961 (removed from Active List 11.01.1965)
(04.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed
(08.1943) - (04.1944) British Naval Liaison Officer, French corvette "Commandant Drogou" *
(06.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Fann (RN base, Dakar, Senegal) *
(04.1945)     HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *
(07.1945)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
(10.1945)     Greek destroyer "Navarinon" *
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
05.01.1962 - 11.01.1965 Permanent Royal Naval Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Carnie,
Thomas Young
T.Y. Carnie
One of five brothers from Newhaven, Edinburgh.
1922 ?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
24.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
14.10.1941
-
(08.1942)
Duty Officer, HMS Britannia III (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)
10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dartmouth (RN base, Dartmouth)
Carpenter,
Rupert
R. Carpenter (Photo courtesy of Mr Adrian Carpenter) R. Carpenter (Photo courtesy of Mr Adrian Carpenter)
R. Carpenter (Photo courtesy of Mr Adrian Carpenter) 
Married Marjorie Carpenter (née ...) (died 29.06.2005, aged 92); one son, one daughter.
09.06.1909
Northfield, near Birmingham
-
12.1990
Birmingham, Warwickshire
Tel.
? [C/JX 278998]
T/A/S.Lt.
09.07.1943
T/S.Lt.
09.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
39-45 St ? ?

Atlantic Star

Atl St ? ?
Italy Star It St ? & clasp 'air crew'
France & Germany Star Fr&G St ? ?
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
Education: King's Norton School for Boys
He was a talented violinist as a youngster and, although classically trained, earned his
living during the depressed years of the 1920s and early 30s playing in the silent cinema and dance orchestras He then joined Lloyds Bank, but volunteered for the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war.



a rating at first and served as radio-telegraphist aboard a converted trawler (mainly around Iceland and Northern waters)
?
-
12.1943
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
21.12.1943
-
12.07.1945
Gunnery Officer, HMS Quantock (destroyer) [Watchkeeping Certificate 01.07.1945]
Went back to the bank, becoming a manager in the 1960's. His chief passion was the violin and he played in local orchestras in the Sutton Coldfield area and in chamber music groups. On retiring from the bank he became Bursar of Lichfield Cathedral School.
Carpenter,
Sydney James
S.J. Carpenter
Son of James William Carpenter, and Dorothy Selina Kent, of Sandown, Isle of Wight.
(03?).1918
Isle of Wight
-
20.10.1941
[age 23]
[Arbroath Western Cemetery, Angus, Scotland, compt. D. North border, grave 11]
[commemorated at Lake War Memorial, Isle of Wight]
T/S.Lt. (A) ?
Education: King's College, London (1936-1940; BSc, natural science).
? - 20.10.1941 pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
[He took off in a Fairey Swordfish Mk. I (L2825) from Arbroath to practice deck landings and crashed at Hallom Mill, Frickheim on 17th October, to die later of his wounds.]
Carr,
Francis William
F.W. Carr
?
-
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC





Commanding Officer, HM MTB 622 (motor torpedo boat)
Carr,
Ronald Alastair
"Bussy"
R.A. Carr
Son of ... Carr, and ... Aikman.
23.11.1919
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
03.1992
Westminster district, London
T/S.Lt.
?
Mention in Despatches MID


(08.1942)


HM MGB 80 (motor gun boat)
Carr,
William Edward
"Bill"
W.E. Carr
Son of Frederick Carr, and Florence Race, of Woodley, Cheshire.
(06?).1924
Ashton under Lyne district, Cheshire
-
28.10.1944
(MPK) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 5]
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 29.01.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 29.07.1944
(04.1944)     no appointment listed
05.1944 - (06.)1944 observer, 744 Squadron FAA [HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)]
06.07.1944 - 28.10.1944 observer, 811 Squadron FAA [HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
Carrick,
Thomas Seymour
T.S. Carrick T.S. Carrick
T.S. Carrick
Son (with one brother) of David Robertson Carrick (1878-1963), and Catherine Amy Hill (1896-1959).
Married ((09?).1951, Eastbourne district, Sussex) Winifred J. Philip (1926 - ); ... children (one son?).
26.02.1923
Darlington district, Co. Durham
-
13.04.1988
Orpington, Bromley district, Greater London
T/A/S.Lt. 05.03.1943
T/S.Lt. 05.09.1943
T/Lt. 05.09.1945 (reld 17.04.1946)
(04.1943)     no appointment listed
(06.1943) - (07.1945) HMS Helder (Combined Operations base, Brightlingsea) *
(1944?) - (1945?) 508 LCA Flotilla (landing craft, assault)
05.09.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Carruthers,
Robert
R. Carruthers
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
30.04.1942
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
29.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Saker (British Naval Mission in the US) (for duty in New York)
Carruthers,
William
R. Carruthers
?
-
T/S.Lt. 11.09.1941
T/Lt. 12.03.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
(12.1941)     HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) *
12.01.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith and Granton)
20.03.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for British Yard minesweepers)
14.05.1943 - (10.)1943 HM BYMS 72 (British Yard minesweeper)
15.11.1943 - (10.)1945 HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper base, Granton) (for minesweeper working up and experimental duties)
08.10.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Shillay (Isles class trawler)
Carson,
John
J. Carson (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) J. Carson (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
J. Carson (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
11.1912
Co. Down, Northern Ireland
-
1981
Ord.Sea. 27.05.1942 [D/JX 363149]
T/A/S.Lt. 28.05.1943
T/S.Lt. 28.11.1943
T/Lt. 28.11.1945 (reld 08.1946)
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
27.05.1942 - 17.08.1942 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
18.08.1942 - 30.08.1942 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
31.08.1942 - 10.02.1943 HMS Venomous (destroyer) [tender to HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry), from 01.01.1943 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)]
11.02.1943 - 15.02.1943 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
16.02.1943 - 07.03.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
08.03.1943 - 28.05.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
20.06.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA)
(12.1943) - (10.1945) HMS President V (accounting base, London) *
20.06.1943 - 20.02.1946 HM LSE 1 (landing craft repair ship) *
28.02.1946 - 11.05.1946 HMS Sefton (Empire class infantry landing ship)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Carter,
Alfred Samuel
A.S. Carter
Husband of M. Carter, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
22.03.1920
Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa
-
16.11.1942 *
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 74, column 1]

* date given at CWGC 28.11.1942
T/S.Lt. 23.12.1940
Joined Bank Line, 1936. Served in Seaward Defence Force (personal number 330689).
(06.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
01.07.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
31.12.1941 - (10.1942) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)
? - 16.11.1942 British Naval Liaison Officer, RHS Triton (Greek submarine) [ship sunk in the Aegean Sea east off Kafirea, Euboia Island by the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ-2102]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Carter,
Donald Walter
D.W. Carter
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 16.12.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 16.03.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 10.1943, < 12.1943

* Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties

(02.1941)     no appointment listed
18.03.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Berwick (cruiser)
09.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Norfolk (cruiser)
09.1942 - 06.10.1942 HMS Mercury (signal school, RN Barracks, Portsmouth)
07.10.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield)
02.1944 - 31.07.1944 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal]
01.08.1944 - (07.)1945 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa]
10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (for radar duties)
Carter,
Frank Leslie
F.L. Carter (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Carter) F.L. Carter (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Carter)
Son of Frederick Gordon Carter, and Jessie Lilian Carter (née Grainger).
Husband of Kathleen May Carter, of Wood Green, Middlesex; one son.
26.03.1914
Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
17.06.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Biguglia War Cemetery, 2.B.1]
T/S.Lt.
23.10.1941
T/Lt.
?



HMS President (training)
1940?


HMS Letitia (armed merchant cruiser)
1941/42?


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
1942
-
?
First Lieutenant, HM ML 231 (motor launch) [HMS Iron Duke ?] (Scapa Flow)
01.02.1943 -
17.06.1944
Commanding Officer, HM ML [from early 1944: HDML] 1301 ([harbour defence] motor launch) (killed in action during the invasion of Elba)
Carter,
Harry Anthony

H.A. Carter
13.07.1923?
-
04.2006?
... ...
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 30.12.1944
Lt. (L) RN 20.12.1945
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN 20.12.1953
Cdr. (E) (L) RN 31.12.1961 (retd)

* Special Branch officer for scientific duties

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
? - (10.1945) HMS Collingwood
... - ... ...
Cartwright,
Eric John
E.J. Cartwright (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cartwright) E.J. Cartwright (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cartwright)
E.J. Cartwright (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cartwright) E.J. Cartwright (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cartwright)
Son of James Cartwright, and Rachel Andrews.
Married (04.04.1942, St Mary's Church, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire) A/P/O Constance Catherin "Connie" Parkes, WRNS ((09?).1915 - 05.04.2007), daughter of John Herburt Parkes, and Daisy Love; two sons.

His sons writes: "The story I heard the most was his account of the attack on the “Scharnhorst”, “Gneisenau” and “Prinz Eugen” as they made their dash up the English Channel. He was on board MTB 71 at the time. Two MTB’s had been ordered to go from Felixstowe (HMS Beehive) and rendezvous with other MTB’s at Ramsgate. His main recollection of the attack was when his skipper called him up from the engine room of MTB 71 and “make smoke”."1

"Whilst on deck he saw the ships and planes in the distance and as he was setting up the smoke he noticed large plumes of water rising up around the craft. He realized then that the Germans had their range and they were being shelled. At that instance a shell landed very close to the boat and the wash nearly swept him off the boat. It was this shell that cracked the main beam of MTB 71 which put it out of action for several weeks."2

31.07.1920
Stone, nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire
-
24.09.2010
Roma Hospital, Roma, Queensland, Australia
Mot.Mech. 5th cl. 07.05.1940 [P/MX 66695]
Mot.Mech. P/O 31.07.1941
A/Ch.Mot.Mech. 4th cl. 16.05.1942
Ch.Mot.Mech. 16.05.1943
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 10.07.1943
T/S.Lt. (E) 10.07.1944

Distinguished Service Medal

DSM 28.12.1943 support sinking ship Dutch coast 14.09.43
      apprenticeship as a motor mechanic
      served Coastal Forces at HMS Wasp, HMS Victory, HMS Hornet, HMS Attack, HMS Aggressive, HMS Beehive & HMS Mantis:
07.05.1940     joined RNVR
[during the evacuation of Dunkirk was assigned tasks to repair and service many of the private craft that helped bring the English Forces back to England]
10.01.1942 - 14.06.1943 HM MTB 71 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
1943 - 1945 Engineer Officer, 53rd & 30th MTB Flotillas
01.08.1943 - 25.10.1943 HM MTB 356 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
24.07.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
(07.1945)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
(04.1946)     HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon) *
Worked for the Gray Brothers who owned a marine salvage company based in Felixstowe. Migrated to Australia, Jan. 1952. Set up his own business in Roma, Queensland in 1954 selling and servicing agricultural and farm equipment mainly stationary diesel engines, tractors, lighting plants and water pumping equipment. The business was sold in 2003. Alderman to the Roma Town Council, 1967-1970. Was an active member of the Returned Services League up until he moved into the retirement village where he now lives. He still attended the ANZAC Day ceremonies which he has done for more than 52 years.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cartwright,
Thomas Nelson
"Tom"
T.N. Cartwright
25.04.1905
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
05.1984
Colchester district, Essex
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
13.04.1943
valuable work in secret operations & as force commander [investiture 13.07.43]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
29.08.1944
Operation Hostile [investiture 03.07.45]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
16.01.1945
coastal actions Italy 08.44 [investiture 03.07.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
02.10.1942
Operation Jubilee
Mention in Despatches MID
29.02.1944
Operation Hostile
(1942)


Senior Officer, 14th MGB Flotilla
(1943)


HM MGB 316 (motor gun boat)
(1944)


52nd MTB Flotilla
(1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 673 (motor torpedo boat)
Carus,
John Alexander Leo

J.A.L. Carus  
Son (with three brothers and two sisters) of John Healey Carus (1878-1918), and Clara Constance Walsh (1879-1959).
Married (1922, Blythswood district, Scotland) Huldah Hannah Pickup Walker (? - 27.07.1976); ... children (one son?).
12.05.1900
South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire
-
07.10.1945
[Rennes Eastern Communal Cemetery, France, Sec. 18, Plot 1, Row R, Grave 22]
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 25.01.1941

* Special Branch officer who is employed on mining or Anti-Submarine fixed defence duties

(04.1941) - (08.1942) HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) *
21.08.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for duty at May Island)
26.11.1943 - (10.)1945 HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for anti-submarine duties at Trinidad) **
1945 - 07.10.1945 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (killed in air crash (with 25 others) with Short S.29 Stirling LJ668 while in transit from Cairo to UK)
* indexed, but not listed as such
** indexed in Navy Lists at HMS Benbow up to Apr 1945 list; in July & Oct 1945 lists indexed as HMS Curlew (anti-submarine fixed defence training establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire), but not shown under that establishment and still showing under establishment of HMS Benbow; most likely to have been transferred from HMS Benbow to HMS Nile c. May/June 1945, then killed while on passage from HMS Nile to HMS Curlew.
Cashford,
Noel
N. Cashford N. Cashford, 1945 (Photo from BBC Online)
N. Cashford N. Cashford, aged 80 (Photo from BBC Online)
Son of Albert Cashford, and Hannah Maria Adams.
Married ((09?).1945, Falkenham district, Norfolk) Brenda E. Keeler ((06?).1923 - ), daughter of Walter B. Keeler, and Mabel Youngs; two sons.

01.09.1922
Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
-
15.01.2011
Ord.Sea. 1941
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 18.12.1943
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 14.05.1946 mine disposal
1941     joined RNVR
      HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
11.07.1943 - (04.1946) Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Published: All mine! : memoirs of a naval bomb and mine disposal officer (2002); BANG : stories of bangs from 1917 to the present day plus other events of interest (2002); All theirs! : explosive ordnance disposal : men who risked their lives to render safe bombs and explosive devices (and booby traps) (2004); Ticking clock! : memoirs of a naval bomb and mine disposal officer  (2006).
Cassidy,
John McAdam Fitzgerald

J.M.F. Cassidy J.M.F. Cassidy
J.M.F. Cassidy J.M.F. Cassidy
J.M.F. Cassidy J.M.F. Cassidy

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Francis John Cassidy (1881-1938), and Mabel Ellen McAdam (1884-1973).
Married (17.08.1950, Droitwich, Worcestershire) Pamela Doreen Fullerton (20.03.1916 - 30.08.2003), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Aubrey Lawrence Fullerton (1883-1939), and Hazel Kathleen Munns (1889-); one daughter, one son.
24.11.1910
Grimley, Worcestershire
-
14.04.1972
Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester, Worcestershire
T/S.Lt. 17.07.1941
T/Lt. 17.10.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche (Salerno 09.1943) [investiture 13.02.1945]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 13.02.1945]
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - -

Pacific Star

Pac St - & clasp Burma

Italy Star

It St - -

France & Germany Star

Fr&G St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Naval General Service Medal NGSM - & clasp South East Asia
1940 - 1941 HMS Maori (Tribal class destroyer)
(10.1941) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
11.11.1942 - (10.1945) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary), later HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
(1943) - (06.1944) HMS Prince Leopold (landing ship) (DSC and Bar) [504 LCA Flotilla at Normandy]
(04.1946)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Castle,
Frank

F. Castle  
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
30.06.1912
Lewisham district, London
-
19.02.1975
Peterlee, Co. Durham
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 08.08.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

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

(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Castle,
Peter Stirling
P.S. Castle
Youngest son of Lionel Edgar Victor Castle (1884-1950), and Mrs Castle, of Port Isaac, Cornwall.
Married 1st  ((09?).1946, Chard district, Devon / Dorset / Somerset; divorced 1950s) Section Officer Kathleen Mary Davenport, WAAF (? - 26.07.2011).
Married 2nd (1958/59?) Patricia Isobel Valerie Welch (23.04.1929 - ).
07.09.1920
-
Prob. T/Midsh. 07.12.1939
T/A/S.Lt. 07.09.1940
T/S.Lt. 07.09.1941
T/Lt. 07.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Downing College, Cambridge University (BA 1947, MA 1950).
07.12.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
(07.1940)     no appointment listed
24.07.1940 - (10.1941) HMS Dunnottar Castle (armed merchant cruiser)
(02.1942) - (04.1942) no appointment listed
23.05.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for motor launches)
03.1943 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 281 (motor launch)
(06.1944) - (10.1944) HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) HM RML 520 (rescue motor launch) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Castles,
Henry Gordon
H.G. Castles
Married ((06?).1968, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire) Dorothy E. Bassett.
21.06.1912
India
-
29.12.1977
Madeley Manor, Madeley, Crewe, Staffordshire
T/S.Lt.
06.11.1942
T/A/Lt.
04.1944, seniority 06.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
?
?
Played cricket for Staffordshire (Minor Counties Championship: 1937).
01.02.1943
-
(04.)1944
[First Lieutenant?], HM ML 380 (motor launch)
10.04.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
27.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 309 (motor launch)
(04.1946)


HMS Demetrius (RN Supply & Secretariat School, Witherby, Yorkshire)
Castley,
Gerald
G. Castley
Son (with one sister) of Edmund Castley (1880-1953), and Elsie Mary Pearch (1879-1964).
Married ((03?).1940, Richmond district, Yorkshire) Inger Hostrup (12.07.1915 - (09?).1970); one daughter, two sons.
30.08.1910
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
14.09.1988
Eastbourne, East Sussex
T/S.Lt. 11.12.1941
T/Lt. 11.03.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
12.03.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Marticot (minesweeping trawler)
29.08.1942 - (10.1942) HMS Oderin (minesweeping trawler)
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
(02.1943) - (04.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Catherall,
Douglas Basil
D.B. Catherall
Son (with two brothers) of Henry Millett Catherall and Phoebe Alicia Dyer, of Billericay, nr Chelmsford, Essex.
20.05.1917
West Ham, district, Essex
-
07.12.1945
[age 28]
[Sydney War Cemetery, NSW, Australia, 3A.A.8]
Coder ? [C/JX 197855]
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 31.07.1944
? Grk Medal 17.10.1944 Greek Medal for Outstanding Acts: destruction enemy convoy Mediterranean 01.06.43

* Special Branch officer for cypher duties

Education: Brentwood School, Essex.
Clerk (1939 shown as unemployed).
(06.1943)     HHMS Vasilissa Olga [a.k.a. Queen Olga] (Greek Medal for Outstanding Acts)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
12.03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Flycatcher (for Mobile Naval Air Bases)
01.04.1945 - 07.12.1945 HMS Nabstock (Mobile Naval Air Base VI, Middle Wallop / Maryborough, Queensland / Schofields)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Caudle,
Cyril Arthur
C.A. Caudle
Son of ... Caudle, and ... Ashby.
Married (21.01.1950, St Mary Magdalene Church, Debenham, Suffolk) Lilian Maud Ramsey, of Debenham; one daughter, one son.
(09?).1921
Royston district, Oxfordshire
-
24.08.1957
Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital (Anglesea-road Wing), Ipswich, Suffolk
T/A/S.Lt. 08.10.1943
T/S.Lt. 08.04.1944
T/Lt. 01.02.1946
Lt. RN 18.03.1947, seniority 01.02.1946 (emgcy 18.03.1952)
Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy) 18.03.1952 (reld < 04.1955)
(12.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed
07.02.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 858 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
18.03.1947     transferred to RN
(07.1948)     HMS Redpole *
(05.1949)     HMS Ausonia *
03.1950 - (05.)1950 Commanding Officer, HM SDML 3503
11.1950 - (05.1951) HMS Tamar
25.02.1953 - (05.1953) HMS Warrior
01.02.1954 - (01.)1955 HMS Warrior
* indexed, but not listed as such
Caudle,
Derek Westworth
D.W. Caudle (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) D.W. Caudle (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of Stanley Caudle (1886-1936), and Gertrude Emmeline Westworth (1883-1974).
Unmarried.
28.10.1920
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
27.10.2007
hospital
(formerly of Bupa Care Home, Harts House, Harts Grove, Woodford Green, Essex)
T/S.Lt. 27.11.1942
T/Lt. 01.02.1945 (reld 19.07.1946)
Education: University of London (B.Com.).
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
02.02.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Ambuscade (destroyer)
16.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)
04.07.1944 - (07.)1945 Navigating Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
24.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Havelock (destroyer)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Solicitor. Deputy Chief Clerk, Old Street Magistrates' Court, London, 1980s.
Caunter,
John Francis
J.F. Caunter
Married ((09?).1933, Plymouth district, Devon) Lucy D.L. Smith; ... children.
18.04.1901
-
(12?).1983
Newton Abbot district, Devon
T/S.Lt. (E) 20.10.1941
T/Lt. (E) 20.03.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) > 10.1943, < 12.1943
T/A/Cdr. (E) > 07.1945, < 04.1946
(12.1941) - (04.1942) no appointment listed
07.05.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
01.04.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
14.09.1943 - (07.1945) Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)     HMIS Cheetah *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Causer,
Malcolm Richard
M.R. Causer
1922 ?
Brazil
-
Ord.Sea.
?
T/A/S.Lt.
10.06.1943
T/S.Lt.
11.12.1943
A/T/Lt.
11.12.1945
Distinguished Service Order DSO
28.11.1944
human torpedo, sunk Bolzano [investiture 26.02.46]
Mention in Despatches MID
1942?
not gazetted; for attempt to sink the Tirpitz 10.42



served with the human torpedoes ("Chariots"):
1942


Fishing Vessel "Arthur"
[participated in first Chariot attempt to sink the Tirpitz 50 miles up Trondheim Fjord in Oct 1942; during rough weather, both chariots were lost from beneath their fishing boat 'Arthur' which subsequently sank; all personnel attempted to make their escape across Sweden]
05.07.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)
22.02.1944
-
06.1944
HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
[21.06.1944 successfully attacked an Italian cruiser Bolzano in the port of La Spezia, but was made PoW after evading capture for several weeks]
(04.1946)


HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cavanagh,
William Anthony
W.A. Cavanagh
?
-
10.12.1941
(KIA)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]
T/Sg.Lt.
02.09.1940

LRCS, LRCP

Education: LRCS, LRCP.
30.08.1941
-
10.12.1941
HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) [sunk by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya]
 
Cave,
John Neville
W.A. Cavanagh
Son of Percy Valentine Cave, and Nellie Brown.
07.06.1910
Catford, Lewisham district, London
-
1979
Durban, Natal, South Africa ?
Prob. Sg.Lt. 05.08.1938
Sg.Lt. 20.09.1939, seniority 05.08.1938
A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 12.1939, < 02.1940
Sg.Lt.Cdr. 05.08.1944 (reld 01.04.1946)
Education: Cambridge University & St Thomas's Hospital (BA 1932, MA 1936); MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1935; FFA RCS Eng 1948; DA Eng 1938.
Anaesthetist, St George's Hospital, London.
25.09.1939 - 01.1942 RN Auxiliary Hospital, Kingseat [HMS Cochrane]
31.01.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Dauntless (cruiser)
07.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Roberts (monitor)
21.04.1944 - (10.1945) RN Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory] (anaesthetics specialist)
Cave-Clark,
Gordon Chesney
G.C. Cave-Clark
(03?).1917
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
07.05.1942
26.05.1941
-
(04.1946)
Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal], redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Cavey,
William Thomas
W.T. Cavey
09.05.1915
Exeter district, Devon
-
05.2001
Carlisle district, Cumberland
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
18.09.1943
T/Lt.
01.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
18.03.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
01.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Foliot (accommodation camp for personnel on special service, Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth)
Cavill,
Dennis Walker James
W.T. Cavey
Son of ... Cavill, and ... Walker.
Married 1st ((12?).1942, Manchester district, Lancashire) Dorothy M. Oajes.
Married 2nd ((03?).1949, Todmorden district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Mary Crossley.
(09?).1920
Barrow-in-Furness district, Lancashire
-
18.02.1953
Birch Hill Hospital, Wardle, Lancashire (formerly of Rochdale)
T/S.Lt. 07.08.1942
T/Lt. 07.02.1945 (reld 06.07.1946)
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
09.11.1942 - (08.)1943 First Lieutenant, HM ML 204 (motor launch) (13th ML Flotilla) [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
25.09.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Walpole (W class destroyer)
24.01.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
11.12.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
09.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Chat Camp, Colombo, Ceylon)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Cessford,
George Francis
N. Chamberlain
16.01.1905
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland
-
1980 ?
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 27.09.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 27.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 04.1943, < 06.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
* Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore
05.11.1940 - (07.1945) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
Challis,
Eric William Guy Fawcett
E.W.G.F. Challis
Son (with one brother) of William Guy Fawcett Challis (1891-1916), and Louise Therese Charlotte Schonbeck (1891-1956).
Married ((06?).1956, Maidenhead district, Berkshire) Daphne J. Holland; ... children (two daughters, one son?).
10.08.1916
Willesden district, Oxfordshire
-
06.05.1977
Maidenhead, Windsor district, Berkshire
T/S.Lt. 04.12.1941
T/Lt. 04.12.1942 (reld 29.04.1946)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
17.02.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Landguard (escort)
20.09.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Watchman (destroyer)
(10.1944)     HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea) *
22.12.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) (for Naval Control Service)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chalmers,
Thomas
T. Chalmers
04.1909
Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
-
07.1986
Albany, Western Australia
T/S.Lt. (E)
13.11.1944

 




served in India, UK, Germany (Rhine crossings):
27.11.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
(1946?)
-
(1947?)
HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base & training establishment, Appledore) (decommissioning of landing craft)
When he got out of the Navy he left the UK and went to East Africa, spending some time in what was then Tanganyika then moving to Kenya where he remained until he
left to join his family in Western Australia in 1975.
Chamberlain,
Norman
N. Chamberlain
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
03.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
09.04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
Champion,
Ernest
E. Champion
Married ...; ... children.
05.1908 ?
-
1962 ?
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 05.12.1939 (reld > 04.1946)
      temporary officer serving under T.124 agreements
10.06.1940 - 1942? HMS Mersey (T124X depot, Liverpool)
1942? - 1945 POW in German captivity
22.07.1945 - 08.1945 HMS Misoa (Coastal Forces depot ship)
20.08.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Tracker (Archer class escort carrier)
30.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Mersey (T124X depot, Liverpool)
Chancellor,
David
D. Chancellor
Son of Wilfred George Chancellor (1876-1936), journalist, and Jessie Eliza Bateman (1877-1940).
Married ((09?).1939, Kensington district, London) Kathleen Mary Bourke (later Douglas); two children.
25.06.1913
Paddington district, London
-
16.07.1955
Amesbury, Salisbury district, Wiltshire (car accident) (formerly of Roehampton, Wandsworth, London)
[Quothquan Cemetery
Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland]
T/S.Lt. 17.06.1940
T/Lt. 17.05.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Editorial journalist. Assistant editor, from 1937 editor of Screen Pictorial. Member, Institute of Journalists from 1937.
10.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Goatfell (anti-aircraft ship)
24.03.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)
(06.1941)     no appointment listed
04.06.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Sylvana (danlaying yacht)
07.09.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Fintray (minesweeping trawler)
13.06.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Claverhouse II (minesweeper base, Granton)
08.11.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 86 (motor minesweeper)
12.07.1944 - 05.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 86 (motor minesweeper)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(10.1945)     HMS Foxtrot (Dance class trawler) *
Since 1946 assistant to Sydney E.R. Wynne, chief public relations officer for the J. Arthur Rank Organization.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chancellor,
Robert Wilmot Howarth
R.W.H. Chancellor (Photo courtesy of Dominique Henrard)
Married ((12?).1946, Westminster district, London) Audrey Gubbins (née Winterborn) ((09?).1911 - (06?).1967).
10.04.1909
Staines district, Middlesex
-
13.08.1986
Datchett, Slough, Bracknell district, Berkshire
T/S.Lt. 30.11.1940
T/Lt. 02.03.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1942, < 12.1942

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.1942) [investiture 07.11.1944]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943) [investiture 07.11.1944]
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - & clasp North Africa 1942-43

Burma Star

Bur St - -

Italy Star

It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 03.04.1942 Operation Archery (raid on Vaagso Islands 27.12.1941)
Education: Richmond Hill School, Richmond in Surrey.
At some point after finishing his education, he was working in South Africa in heavy engineering, when war broke out. He worked his passage home as extra 4th Officer in order to join the Naval Service.
(02.1941)     HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) *
03.1941 - 04.1942 HMS Prince Leopold (despatches)
09.04.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (DSC):
07.1943     Landing Craft Squadron Officer (Sicily) (Bar to DSC)
20.04.1944 - (01.)1945 Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
(07.1945)     Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chandler,
Heath Morgan
H.M. Chandler
Son of ... Chandler, and ... Pace.
Married 1st ((06?).1944, Lewes district, Sussex) Alwyn A. Stafford; ... children (one daughter?).
Married 2nd (1954; divorced 1956) Pamela Stewart Welch
(03?).1922
Medway district, Surrey
-

Australia
T/A/S.Lt. 15.01.1943
T/S.Lt. 15.07.1943
T/Lt. 1945? (reld 06.05.1946)
(04.1943) - (10.1945) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chandler,
Robert Povah
R.P. Chandler
Son of ... Chandler, and ... Povah.
(06?).1916
Warrington district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
25.08.1944 (reld 1945/46)
27.03.1944
-
(04.1944)
Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal] [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
13.05.1944
-
(07.1945)
LST 416
Chapman,
Hugh
H. Chapman
?
-
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
28.07.1940
T/El.Lt.
28.01.1943
24.07.1940
-
(02.1941)
Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
02.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Hopetoun (landing craft & minesweeping base, Port Edgar)
18.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath) (for landing craft duties)
Chapman,
Harry George
H.G. Chapman
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
30.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
?
-
(02.1943)
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
28.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames)
Chapman,
Jack Charles
J.C. Chapman
Son of Charles Foyle Chapman (1891-1977), and Edith Mabel Probets (1891-1980).
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
04.12.1919
St Pancras district, London
-
05.10.2011
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 06.03.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.09.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer who is employed on cypher duties

(04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
(10.1944)     HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) *
01.11.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Ludham, Norfolk)
05.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Bermuda (Fiji class cruiser)
* indexed, but not listed as such
A son writes: "HMS Nelson Dec 39, HMS Rodney July 40, HMS King George V 41 /42, HMS Duke of York May-July 42, HMS King George V July 42-April 43, HMS Duke of York, Apr 4-May 43, HMS Pembroke May-Dec 43, March 44. 2 days after D-Day June 44 Meuvaines, nr Arromanches Gold Beach. Communications HMS Duke of York July-Oct 1945 Tokyo Bay, Hong Kong Singapore. Sent message regarding signing Japanese Surrender to Admiralty on behalf of British Government by Sir Bruce Fraser."
Chapman,
Tom Christopher
T.C. Chapman
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
07.02.1916
-
1983
T/S.Lt. (A) 14.08.1942
T/Lt. (A) 14.08.1943 (reld 04.04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 05.10.1943 for skill and efficiency in many air operations against the enemy while operating from Malta
Cattle buyer.
04.1941     enlisted RNVR
(10.1942)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
(02.1943)     HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) *
(04.1943) - (06.1943) 828 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] * [captured 05.06.1943 at Sicily]
(08.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed (while being POW in Italian & German captivity; 10.07.1943-20.09.1943 P.G. 21, Chieti, Italy; 19.11.1943-28.04.1945 Marlag & Milag Nord, Tarnstedt, Germany)
(10.1945)     HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chapman,
Wilfred Treize Rougier
H.G. Chapman
Married (1934) Zelie Agnes Elizabeth Conde McAlpine (29.12.1910 - 04.2001).
(12?).1902
Wandsworth district, London

-
11.08.1981
Prob. Sg.Lt.
29.10.1928
Sg.Lt.
21.11.1929, seniority 29.10.1928
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
28.10.1934
Sg.Cdr.
30.06.1943 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (retd 19.08.1948)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration

VRD
24.09.1943
?
Education: MRCS, LRCP
29.10.1928


joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
23.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
Medical Officer, HMS Aurania (armed merchant cruiser)
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
19.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
Chappell,
the Rev. Henry Pegg
H.P. Chappell
19.06.1909
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
-
06.1997
Hereford district, Herefordshire
[his ashes were scattered at sea]
Chaplain 27.04.1937 (retd 19.06.1964)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 22.12.1942 Tobruk raid 09.42 [investiture 16.02.43]
Mention in Despatches MID 14.10.1941 Bismarck sunk
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration VRD 14.07.1949 -
Education: St Catherines College, Cambridge University (BA 1931, MA 1935); Wells Theological College (1933).
Ordained deacon 1934. Priest 1935. Diocese of London Curate of All Hallows, Barking, London, 1934-1939.
27.04.1937     joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
31.07.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Emerald (cruiser)
01.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cossack (destroyer) (for flotilla duties)
? - (05.)1941 HMS Zulu (destroyer) (DSC & despatches)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
14.01.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
 1948 - 1963 Senior Chaplain at Tynemouth, RNVR, from 1958 RNR
Vicar of Christ Church North Shields directly after the war and rector of Ludlow from '62 till '74. Vicar of Surrey, 1950-1976.
Charles,
Tydwal Rhys
T.R. Charles
Son of ... Charles, and ... Williams.
Married ((12?).1942, Epping district, Essex) Doreen Adelaide Ingleby (06.06.1921 - 06.2006); three sons.
11.01.1919
Pontypridd district, Monmouthshire
-
11.01.1989
Waltham Forest district, London
T/S.Lt. (E) 27.12.1943
T/Lt. (E) 01.03.1945 (reld 07.07.1946)
(02.1944)     no appointment listed
15.02.1944 - (04.)1946 HMS Flint Castle (corvette)
Charles,
Walter Minshall
W.M. Charles
Son (with five brothers and three sisters) of Charles Charles (1864-1946), and Frances Minshall (1865-1935).
Married ((06?).1928, Oswestry district, Shropshire) Eva Gladys Boucher Fulcher (02.10.1900 - 10.02.1976); two sons, one daughter.
31.03.1901
Gobowen, nr Oswestry, Shropshire
-
29.12.1963
Beechbrook Gobowen, nr Oswestry, Shropshire
T/S.Lt. (E) 24.05.1943
T/Lt. (E) 01.09.1944 (reld 16.02.1946)
Garage proprietor.
(06.1943)     no appointment listed
14.06.1943 - (06.)1944 RN Aircraft Repair Yard Wingfield, South Africa [HMS Malagas]
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
04.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
Charlton,
Allan Edward
A.E. Charlton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Cicely Findlay.)
28.11.1908
-
30.10.1973
T/Lt.
02.11.1940 (reld 30.03.1946)
RANVR:

Lt.
31.03.1946, seniority 02.11.1940
Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1950 (retd 28.11.1958)

Mention in Despatches

MID
12.08.1941
destroyed enemy aircraft 08.05.41

Watch Keeping Certificate; confirmed Fighter Directing Officer




optometrist
(1940?)


HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
30.09.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
(05.1941)


HMS Evadne (armed yacht, anti-submarine)
1941/42?


HMS Arran (minesweeping trawler)
20.05.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
(01.1945)
-
(02.1945)
HMS Heron (RNAS Yeovilton)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed



demobilized to Australia
31.03.1946
-
28.11.1958
served RANVR as part-time instructor; enlisted at Port Adelaide; short training courses at HMAS Rushcutter, HMAS Cerberus, HMAS Watson, HMAS Warramunga and HMAS Lonsdale
Charter,
Guy Bransby
G.B. Charter (Photo courtesy of Mr Kenneth Watkins)
Son of Capt. Francis Eglington Charter, MC (1892-1969), and Kathleen Gordon Roberts (1894-1960).
Married ((06?).1952, Bideford district, Devon) Ruth E. Hilton; one son, one daughter.
(09?).1923
Halstead district, Essex / Suffolk
-
03.04.2010
Winchley (formerly of King's Lynn)
[buried at Ottery St Mary, Devon]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) * 01.05.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 1945?, seniority 01.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

* for aeronautical technical duties in the Fleet Air Arm

Education: St Edward's School, Oxford (Christmas term 1936-Christmas term 1941; Macnamara's House). C.Eng., MRAeS.
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
06.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) (for full flying duties and training)
1945? - 1946? served South Afrcica
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Attended de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, 1946-1949. Liaison Engineer, Teddington Controls Ltd. Sales Administration Manager, then Commercial Manager, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd, Hatfield. Senior Executive, Commercial and Export Services Department, Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd.
Charteris,
David Nigel
D.N. Charteris
Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Nigel Keppel Charteris (1878-1967), and Katharine Margaret Buchanan-Riddell (1875-1961).
Married 1st (05.07.1952, Sudbury district, Suffolk) Euphemia Mary Inglis (11.01.1924 - 24.06.1969); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((06?).1982, Marlborough district, Wiltshire) Astrid H.V.A. Henderson-Begg.
13.09.1920
Wirral district, Cheshire
-
21.05.2007
Avebury
T/A/S.Lt. 31.07.1941
T/S.Lt. 13.09.1941
T/Lt. 31.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
30.08.1941 - (10.1944) HMS Totland (escort)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
06.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Hargood (frigate)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Chase,
Robert John
R.J. Chase
?
-
T/S.Lt. (E) 1941
T/Lt. (E) 18.10.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) > 12.1943, < 04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
08.11.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
09.08.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
04.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
Cheesman,
Arthur Barton
A.B. Cheesman
Son (with two brothers) of Thomas Barton Cheesman (1876-1940), and Kathleen Arney Terry (1882-1947)..
Married 1st ((12?).1939, Hastings district, Sussex) Rose L. Rais
Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Ashford district, Kent) Marion Alice Parker (27.06.1925 - 12.1998).
27.05.1917
Cranbrook district, Kent
-
03.1993
Maidstone, Kent
T/A/S.Lt. 08.07.1943
T/S.Lt. 08.01.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
1941?     enlisted, RNVR
? - 08.07.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
08.07.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft)
His son writes: "He claimed to have commanded an LCS(L) Mk 2 [landing craft, support (large)] at Juno Beach and a landing craft at Walcheren in November 44."
Cheesman,
Ralph Leslie
R.L. Cheesman (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Marsden) R.L. Cheesman
R.L. Cheesman
Only son of Leslie H.S. Cheesman,and Ethel Miller.
Married (02.09.1950, Bromley district, Kent) Hilda "Tweelee" Hughes (26.03.1928 - 03.07.2017), daughter of Henry Hughes, of St Lucia, British West Indies; two sons.
19.01.1924
Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
-
27.06.2007
Regina, Saskatchewan
Ord.Sea. 1942
T/A/S.Lt. 17.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 17.03.1944
Lt. 01.12.1945
Lt. RCN(R) 21.08.1954
Lt.Cdr. RCN(R) 1962
Cdr. RCN(R) 1971
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - & clasp North Africa 1942-43

Burma Star

Bur St - -

Defence Medal

Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Coronation Medal 1953 Cor M - -
Malta George Cross Fiftieth Anniversary Medal (Malta Convoy Medal), 1992
The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
Education: Eltham College in Grove Park, London (1935-1941); Imperial College, London (PhD 1955 in geology; MSc 1950). MSc (Geol.), DIC (1951), FGS.
      served, The Royal West Kent Regiment - Home Guard
1942     enlisted, RNVR (service at destroyers [HMS Petard (capturing Enigma)])
04.10.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal by Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet; for MTBs)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
29.01.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Otway (O class submarine)
(06.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Ferret IV (Captain Submarines surrendered U-boats, Londonderry) *
(10.1946)     no appointment listed
Member of the teaching staff, Department of Geology, Imperial College, University of London, 1951-1955 (also serving as librarian for Watt's Library of Geology, 1952-1955). Emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada, 1955. Geologist with the provincial government of Saskatchewan. Became a consulting geologist, Manager of the Saskatchewan Mining Association for 19 years and most recently an adjunct professor at the University of Regina. He continued to pursue his other love by becoming a member of the Canadian Naval Reserve upon immigrating to Canada in 1955. He continued to serve on submarines and was the Commanding Officer of both HMCS Unicorn in Saskatoon (1971-1974) and HMCS Queen in Regina (1975-1976), finally retiring in 1976 as a Commander.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Cherry,
Alex Henry
A.H. Cherry A.H. Cherry
A.H. Cherry
Married Rosilin Holden, daughter of Austrian parents; one son.
11.06.1901 *
New York City, NY, USA
-

03.1987 **
Mount Vernon, Westchester district, New York, USA

* death registration gives as year 1905, but 1930 US Census seems to confirm 1901
** according to "Passport not required"  02.04.1987 in Florida
T/Lt. 19.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944
T/A/Cdr. < 04.1946 (reld 26.01.1947)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
Investments broker from New York.
      HMS Malaya (battleship)
      HMS Nimrod (training establishment, Campbeltown)
27.11.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Reading (destroyer)
      HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
      HMS Caldwell (destroyer)
      HMS Whitehall (destroyer)
10.06.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Evadne (armed yacht, anti-submarine)
17.01.1944 - (04.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Riou (frigate)
28.05.1944 - (10.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Wren (sloop)
      HMS Braithwaite
      Admiralty [HMS President]
      Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(1945?)     HMS Royal Katherine (port party, Wilhelmshaven & base of Flag Officer West Germany) [OBE]
(1945?}     RN Liaison Officer in Task Group 2 under Cdr. Herbert S. Stone Jr. at US Naval Advanced Base in Bremen
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Companion of the New York Commandery Naval Order of the United States and the Order's past Historian General.
Published
: Yankee RN : being the story of a Wall Street Banker who volunteered for active duty in the Royal Navy before America came into the war  (1951).
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
Cheshire,
Nicholas
N. Cheshire
Son of Francis Augustus Cheshire.
Married (29.08.1932) Hon. Isobel Gray Addison (born 1907), daughter of 1st Viscount Sir Christopher Addison.
Lived 1947 at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
c. 1910 ?
-


T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
25.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
1943?
-
1944?
HMS President
(10.1944)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Bellatrix (RN base, Murmansk, Russia) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chesney,
David
D. Chesney (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Chesney)
Married (25.06.1966, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Long Branch, N.J.) Kathleen Hughes (11.09.1939 - 21.02.2012), daughter of Frances and Ellen Hughes; one son, one daughter.
21.08.1924
Govanhall district, Scotland
-
29.11.1973
Glen Falls, New York, USA
T/Midsh. 30.07.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 21.02.1944
T/S.Lt. 21.08.1944 (reld 24.09.1946)
(10.1943)     no appointment listed
04.10.1943 - (11.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for High Speed Target Service)
29.11.1943 - (01.)1944 HM CT 14 (control target boat)
01.1944 - (04.)1945 HM CT 08 (control target boat)
21.04.1945 - (07.1945) HM CT 21 (control target boat)
23.09.1945 - (07.1946) HM CT 37 (control target boat)
Chesney,
Frank
F. Chesney
?
-


T/A/S.Lt. 04.06.1943
T/S.Lt. 04.12.1943
T/Lt. 01.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(08.1943)     no appointment listed
01.08.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, Nova Scotia) (for miscellaneous services)
(12.1943) - (10.1945) HMS Inver (frigate) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chesney,
[Rev.] Peter Sutherland
P.S. Chesney
Married 1st (07.1947) Margaret K.L. Hume; six children.
Married 2nd Janet Chesney.
07.02.1926
Yorkshire
-
10.1984
Hampshire
T/Midsh.
02.03.1945
T/A/S.Lt.
07.11.1945
T/S.Lt.
07.05.1946
Education: MA
09.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Jamaica (cruiser)
03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Mullion Cove (repair ship)
Became a Minister in The United Reform Church (Welwyn Garden City Free Church, 1968-1971?), later Moderator.
Cheswright *,
Frederick Philip
F.P. Cheswright (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Hall)
Only son of Frederick G. Cheeswright, and Elsie W. Weedon.
Married (03.01.1942, Northumberland Central district) Florence Patricia Trevelyan, youngest daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan, of Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland; one son, one daughter.
* Name also found as: Cheeswright.
 
28.05.1917
St Marylebone district, London
-
28.08.1946
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
 
T/S.Lt. 15.03.1940
T/Lt. 26.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
11.06.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
02.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Norfolk (cruiser)
29.02.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Child,
Douglas Walter
"Tiger"
D.W. Child (Photo courtesy of Mr Willem Douglas van Gemert)
Son of Walter Eli Child (1871-1924), and Sarah Louise Spicer (1871-1948).
Married ((03?).1930, Eastry district, Kent) Nora Edith Cranwell (21.01.1905 - 08.1991); one son.
23.12.1902
Deal, Eastry district, Kent
-
09.06.1978

hospital, Hastings and Rother district, Sussex (formerly of Bexhill-on-Sea)
T/Lt. 08.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, <12.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) > 07.1945, < 04.1946, seniority 08.12.1939
T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 04.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 10.06.1948 HM's birthday 48 [decoration presented]
Mention in Despatches MID 05.01.1943 for enterprise and devotion to duty (while in intelligence)
Mention in Despatches MID 10.04.1945 for distinguished service with the 21st Army Group (while in intelligence)
Merchant Navy officer. Developed a highly successful business that offered "Yacht Holidays" on the Dutch canals to tourists.
25.11.1936     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
1939     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
1939 - 1940 navigator aboard an armed trawler
1940 - 05.1940 intelligence officer at Rotterdam, the Netherlands
[The car in which Child and Dutch naval officers travelled on a return trip from Hook of Holland to The Hague was ambushed by German parachutists, during which he was severely wounded, finally resulting in losing a leg. He was hospitalized at The Hague, initially 'hidden' as a Dutchman, but discovered by the Germans by late August 1940. In Nov. 1940 transferred to a Gestapo prison, he was eventually considered to have diplomatic immunity, being released via Spain in May 1941 (?).]
(06.1941) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
14.01.1943 - (04.)1945 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
[In charge of "Anna House" where a new British-Dutch intelligence service [Bureau Inlichtingen] was formed & trained to replace the badly penetrated old organization (Englandspiel).]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946) - (07.1946) Staff Officer (Security) to Commander-in-Chief, Germany [HMS Royal Albert] (Minden)
[In April 1946 he inspected himself Allied POW camp 2226 that held German POWs, concluding that conditions were deplorable there as well]
Managing director of a yachting holiday agency in London (Yacht Holidays Ltd.).
Published
: A pocket pilot to your yacht holiday on the Rhine (1962).
Literature
: J. Lennox Kerr and Wilfred Granville, The R.N.V.R. : a record of achievement (1957), p. 225-228.
Chipchase,
Kenneth Reed
K.R. Chipchase
Son of Robert Stanley Chipchase (1886-1971), and Margaretta Jane Reed (1894-1984).
Married (31.10.1944, Stonehouse, Stroud, Gloucestershire) Josephine S. Skelton ((06?).1920 - ); one daughter, two sons.
12.09.1919
South Shields district, Co. Durham

-
(09?).1974
South Shields district, Co. Durham
T/Sg.Lt. 16.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Durham University (MB, BS 23.12.1942).
16.08.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Magpie (sloop)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
07.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire)
General practitioner, South Shields (1950s in practice Chipchase, Batchellor & Parker, later Chipchase, Batchellor & Main).
Chisholm,
John Kilpatrick
J.K. Chisholm
Married (08.09.1943, London) Marjorie Knight (12.03.1917 - 14.01.2010), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Ronald William Richard Knight (1883-1971), and Sarah Simmons Holder Griffin (1881-1971); one daughter, two sons.
31.12.1914
Glasgow, Scotland
-
13.11.1972
Great Coates, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
T/Sg.Lt. 01.09.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Education: St Bartholomew's Hospital (MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1940).
11.10.1941 - 16.01.1943 HMS Vanoc (V class destroyer)
22.02.1943 - (04.)1943 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
30.04.1943 - (10.)1944 Royal Hospital, Port Edgar [HMS Cochrane]
07.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Chinkara (landing craft base, Cochin, Kerala, India)
03.1945 - (07.)1945 RN Auxiliary Hospital Bombay [HMS Braganza]
(10.1945)     HMS Chinkara (landing craft base, Cochin, Kerala, India) *
General practitioner, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chivers,
Jack Victor
J.V. Chivers (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)
14.10.1912
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
09.1994
Torbay district, Devon
Prob. T/S.Lt. 23.08.1940
T/Lt. 23.08.1941
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
29.08.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Seaborn
... - ... ...
01.12.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS X 216
Christelis,
Constantine
C. Christelis
Son of Christos and Eleni Christelis, of Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa.

1920 ?
-

17.11.1941
[age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]
T/S.Lt. (A)
13.12.1941
?
-
01.08.1942
HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)
Christopher,
Henry Shaw Mordaunt
A.H. Cherry
Son of Charles Mordaunt d'Aquilar Christopher and Corinne O.E. Christopher, of Westminster, London.
1919 ?
-

17.11.1941
(KIA) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]
Seaman
?
T/S.Lt.
04.10.1940
Distinguished Service Medal DSM
06.09.1940
Molde Fjord
(04.1940)


served on a trawler (Norway)
21.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Pytchley (destroyer)



submarine course



British Naval Liaison Officer, [Free] French Ship "Rubis" (submarine)



Dutch submarine
?
-
17.11.1941
HMS P 38 (submarine)
Christopherson,
David Clifford
D.C. Christopherson
Son of ... Christopherson, and ... Valentine.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
19.04.1912
Woolwich district, London
-

04.1994
Colchester district, Essex
T/S.Lt. 05.03.1940
T/Lt. 12.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 25.11.1941 attacks on U-boats 03.08.41 [investiture 30.06.42]
05.03.1940 - (05.)1940 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull)
(06.1940) - (07.1940) no appointment listed
31.07.1940 - (10.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Loch Oskaig (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
13.11.1940 - (02.)1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Hydrangea (corvette) (DSC)
07.02.1942 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Anemone (corvette)
01.11.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Loch Achray (frigate)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Chute,
Donald Turner
D.T. Chute
Son of ... Chute, and ... Turner.
Married (08.1947) Kathleen Rockliffe; ... children (three sons, two daughters?).
05.1921
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
04.09.2010
Alexandra Hospital, Redditch
T/S.Lt. (A) 07.11.1942
T/Lt. (A) 07.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 20.11.1945 operations Far East 07-08.45
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration VRD ? & two clasps
09.09.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, 1836 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)]
[lost at sea 16.05.1945, being rescued by USS Bluefish on her 8th war patrol]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Clackson,
Norman Hursley
N.H. Clackson
Last residence: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
06.12.1903
Edmonton district, Essex / Middlesex
-
04.07.1993
Edmonton district, Essex / Middlesex
T/Lt.
19.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
11.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
17.03.1937


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
19.12.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Rosawa
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *
(10.1944)

(07.1945)
Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
Advertising manager.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Claassen,
Albert Edward
"Ted"
see: Civil Officers' section  
Clapp,
Reginald Stanley
R.S. Clapp (Photo courtesy of Mr David Matthiae)
Son of ... Clapp, and ... Hammett.
30.09.1917
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
18.11.1999
Sturmer, Haverhill, Essex
T/A/Lt.
07.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
08.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon, Argyll):
(1945?)


"D" LCT Squadron staff
Clapperton,
John
J. Clapperton
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of George Clapperton (1875-1964), and Jane Hannah Baldwin (1883-1974).
Married ((06?).1942, Bolton district, Lancashire) Evelyn Margaret J. Eastwood (07.07.1914 - 05.2002); one daughter, one son.
03.06.1916
Bolton district, Lancashire
-
08.1997
Bolton district, Lancashire
T/A/S.Lt. 10.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 10.03.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed
04.01.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Liddesdale (Hunt class destroyer)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clarabut,
David Stewart
D.S. Clarabut
Son of Maj.Gen. Reginald Blaxland Clarabut, CB, Indian Army, and Mary S. Gill.
Brother of Cdr. Guy Stewart Chetwode Clarabut, DSO, DSC, RN.
Married (1950) Deirdre Coleman; four daughters, one son.

12.09.1923
Murree, India
-
06.01.2009
High Halstow
[age 85]
T/S.Lt. (A)
05.02.1944
T/A/Lt. (A)
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
25.07.1944
Operations Veritas & Ridge (air strikes on German shipping off Norway 04.44) [investiture 07.11.44]
Education: Cheltenham College



HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton Barracks, Gosport)



flying training, Kingston, Ont.
(04.1944)


pilot, 830 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
02.08.1944
-
(10.1944)
pilot, 714 Squadron FAA [HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire)]



flying instructor in 714, 736 and 708 squadrons
(01.1945)

 
HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray, Aberdeenshire) *
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Claremont,
Stanley Stopford *
S.S. Claremont (Photo courtesy of Vyvyan Lord)
Only child of Capt. Edward McDougall Stopford Claremont (1847-1935), and Dorothy Griffiths.
Grandson of Gen. Edward Stopford Claremont, CB.
Married (1947, London) Margaret Isabel Young (died 1992), daughter of Sir Cyril Roe muston Young; two sons, one daughter.

* in the Navy Lists just one first name (Stanley) mentioned for the period 1938-1946, so S. Claremont; used a hyphenated last name later in life: S. Stopford-Claremont
29.11.1917
Roehampton, Greater London
-
02.12.1989
Redhill, Surrey
Prob. S.Lt.
01.09.1939
S.Lt.
24.04.1940, seniority 01.09.1939
Lt.
29.11.1941
A/Lt.Cdr.
11.03.1946?
Lt. RN
21.02.1947, seniority 29.11.1941
Lt.Cdr. RN
29.11.1949 (emgcy 27.01.1952) (removed from emgcy list on entry into RCN(R) 27.01.1952)
Lt.Cdr. RCN(R)
27.01.1952, seniority 29.11.1949 (retd < 01.1957)
39-45 St
-
-

Atlantic Star

Atl St
-
-

Africa Star

Afr St
-
-
Burma Star Bur St
-
& Pacific clasp
Italy Star It St
-
-
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
28.09.1938


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (RNVSR) [attached to London Division RNVR]
01.09.1939


mobilized Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) (unattached list) 
06.11.1939
-
(12.1941)
HMS Icarus (destroyer)
28.12.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Rapid (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
11.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM LST 62 (landing ship, tank)
21.02.1947


transferred to the Royal Navy (RN)
12.1947
-
(05.1949)
HMS Barbrook II (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
23.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Resource (repair ship) (for miscellaneous services)
02.1952?


transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)
14.02.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMCS Cornwallis (RCN training establishment, Halifax, NS)
08.02.1954
-
(01.1956)
HMCS Scotian (RCN base & reserve division, Halifax, NS)
Clark,
Alan Reynolds

A.R. Clark (Photo courtesy of Mr William Clark)
Married (1940) Phyllis Maude Calderwood (1912-1994); one daughter, one son.
01.09.1917
-
12.01.1987
T/S.Lt. 08.12.1939
T/Lt. 08.06.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 02.10.1948
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 07.07.1952
Cdr. RNR 01.03.1963
Education: Whitgift School, Croydon (1928-1935); St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (1935-1939).
(02.1940) - (04.1940) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) *
23.04.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
09.09.1941 - (04.)1944 HMS Exmoor (destroyer)
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
25.06.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Cambrian (destroyer)
1940s - 1970s duty with Sea Cadet Corps, later Combined Cadet Force
After leaving the RNVR, he taught for a short time at HMS St. Vincent, before taking up a post at Whitgift Middle School (now Trinity School of John Whitgift) in Croydon, where he remained until he retired in 1977. While there, he was first in charge of the Naval Section in the school’s Combined Cadet Force, until taking over as head of the entire CCF at the school. He was promoted to the rank of Commander while at Trinity.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clark,
Dudley George

D.G. Clark (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony Clark)
Married (1943, Stornoway) Millicent McLeod.
Lived in Bedford Park Chiswick.
14.01.1910
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
11.1998
Ealing district, London
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)
14.01.1940
T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)
< 10.1944
T/A/Cdr. (S)
< 01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46
25.08.1939
-
(12.1941)
HMS Mentor (RN base, Stornoway)



may have served on aircraft carriers
19.04.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore)
01.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lanka III, later HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon)
ACA. Worked as a shipping broker in the Baltic Exchange.
Clark,
Edward Thompson
E.T. Clark (Photo courtesy of David Edward Valerio)
Son (with one brother) of Headm. Lt.Cdr. Edward Sawle Clark, RN (1890-1944), and Olive Emily Thompson (1892-1971).
Twin brother of Lt.Cdr. John Sawle Clark, RN.
21.10.1920
Plymouth, Devon
-
01.05.1944
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 5]
T/S.Lt. (A) 06.06.1942
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
30.11.1942 - (10.)1943 observer, 818 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent), from 04.1943 HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship)]
01.11.1943 - 01.05.1944 observer, 838 Squadron FAA [HMS Gadwall (RN Air Station, Sydenham, Belfast), from 02.1944 HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire), from 01.04.1944 HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire), from 20.04.1944 RAF Station Harrowbeer)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clark,
George William
G.W. Clark
?
-
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 28.05.1942 (reld 07.10.1944)

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

(08.1942) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
Clark,
Gordon

G. Clark, 28 June 1941 (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Clark)
Married (28.06.1941, Cardiff) Dianne G. Duncan; three sons, one daughter.
17.04.1908
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
08.11.1993
Camden, London
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 28.07.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 28.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 15.02.1945 (reld 15.02.1946)
Education: Clare College, Cambridge University (graduated 1931).
27.07.1940 - (07.1945) Bomb Safety Officer, Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs, Admiralty [HMS President],
renamed medio 1941/42:
Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal,
redesignated medio 1944:
Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining
(for duty outside Admiralty)
1940 - 03.1943 Bomb Safety Officer, Cardiff
03.1943 - 03.1945 Bomb Safety Officer, West London (Ace of Spades Garage)
03.1945? - 15.02.1946 Divisional Officer, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
Pre- & post-war Electrical Engineer at BTH (Electrical Power Plant and equipment manufacturers).
Clark,
Harry Christopher

H.C. Clark
?
-

T/S.Lt.
21.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
22.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Puffin (sloop)
01.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Loch Katrine (frigate)
Clark,
[Sir] Robert Anthony
"Bob"
R.A. Clark
Younger son of John Clark, and Gladys Dyer.
Married (1949) Andolyn Marjorie Lewis; two sons, one daughter.
06.01.1924
Finchley, North London
-
03.01.2013
Godalming, Surrey
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.03.1944
Knight Bachelor Kt 1976 ?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 19.12.1944 special operations in enemy occupied territory [investiture 22.06.45]
Education: Highgate School; King's College, Cambridge.
27.05.1943 - (01.)1945 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Partner with Slaughter and May, Solicitors, 1953-1961; Director: Alfred McAlpine plc (formerly Marchwiel plc), 1957-1996; Hill Samuel Bank Ltd,  merchant bankers (formerly Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers Ltd, then Hill Samuel & Co. Ltd), 1961-1991 (Chm., 1974-1987); Bank of England, 1976-1985; Eagle Star Holdings Ltd, 1976-1987; BL, subsequently Rover Gp plc, 1977-1988; Shell Transport and Trading Co., plc, 1982-1994; SmithKline Beecham plc, 1987-1995 (Vice-Chairman); Vodafone Group plc (formerly Racal Telecom PLC), 1988-; Chairman: Hill Samuel Gp plc, 1980-1988 (Chief Exec., 1976-1980); IMI plc, 1981-1989; Marley plc, 1985-1989; Lambert Fenchurch Gp (formerly Lowndes Lambert Group Holdings) plc, 1995- (Dep. Chm., 1992-1995); Dep. Chm., TSB Gp, 1989-1991 (Dir, 1987-1991). Chairman: Industrial Development Adv. Bd, 1973-1980; Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, 1979-1986; Council, Charing Cross and Westminster Med. Sch., 1982-1996; Dir, ENO, 1983-1987. Hon. DSc Cranfield Inst. of Technol., 1982. Chairman, since 1992, and Director, since 1991, Mirror Group plc (formerly Mirror Group Newspapers plc); Chairman, Rauscher Pierce & Clark, since 1992.
Clark,
Sydney Herbert

S.H. Clark
?
-

T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
30.01.1944 (reld 1945/46)
24.02.1944
-
02.11.1944
HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Clarke,
Denis Maurice
R. Clarke
Son of Sam and Amy Clarke.
Married ...; .two sons.
08.10.1916
-
03.11.2003
Eastbourne district, Sussex
Seaman ? [P/JX 212305]
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 19.03.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 19.09.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

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

Furniture salesman.
(09.1940)     HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
? - 27.04.1941 HMS Wryneck (destroyer) (sunk by German aircraft in Gulf of Nauplia)
(01.1942) - 02.1942 HMS Pegasus (catapult trials and maintenance ship)
02.1942 - (10.1942) HMS Gambia (cruiser)
(10.1943) - (02.1943) HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa)
05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq)
23.07.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Adria (base ship, Persian Gulf)
17.03.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq)
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
Director of a watch importing company.

Clarke,
Frederic James
F.J. Clarke (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Eaton)
Son (with four brothers and five sisters) of Harry Elias Clark (1866-1947), and Emily Jane Watts (1867-1947).
Married (05.11.1926, Christchurch Cathedral, Montréal, Canada) Eva Jane Dickson (24.12.1889 - 23.04.1974), daughter (with three sisters and three brothers) of William Edward Dickson (1855-1922), and Emma Jane Kellogg (1858-1945), of Montréal, Québec, Canada; four daughters, two sons.

27.10.1897
Leyton, Essex
-
07.05.1976
Harwich Hospital, Harwich, Essex
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * ?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 09.08.1942

* Special Branch officer 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

(08.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed
14.12.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
15.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Valluru (RN Air Station, Tambaran, Madras, India)
His daughter Mrs Joan Clarke Mansfield provided the following career summary: "When Freddie entered the RNVR in 1942, it was as a Special Branch Officer. He was sent on a short course at the RN college at Greenwich, after which he anticipated liaison duties with the Free French navy, on the basis of his abilities in French. Instead he was sent on a course to HMS VOLCANO, on mines, booby traps and anti-personnel bombs. After station duties at HMS BELFAST and HMS CAROLINE he was assigned in June 1943 as Executive Officer on Naval Party 842A for combined operations with the Sicily landings and was ordered by the Commander to take down his green stripe (Special Branch). By August he was a casualty with a broken leg – he had fallen down a broken sewer in Catania (and had lost his watch at the same time). He was taken to hospital in Alexandria (Egypt) for treatment and recovery. Three months later he was appointed to join HMS WOOLWICH, a destroyer depot ship with the Eastern Fleet, as Executive Officer, in spite of having had no training for seagoing service. In June 1944 he was appointed to HMS SPRINGTIDE, a mine destructor vessel, as an Executive Officer. At this posting, he received a reprimand from the Commodore (D) for failing to obey berthing instructions. A letter from him to his Commanding Officer pointed out that he was in no way qualified to take command of a ship, and he was soon relieved as First Lieutenant. He was now Temporary Lieutenant Clarke. The situation took a toll on him and he was put on brief sick leave. By January 1945 Freddie is posted as to shore duties with HMS TANA at RNAS KATUKURUNDA in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where he acts as Sports Officer, while requesting early release to get back to his family and employment in the UK. He then is reported as at HMS VALLURU, Madras, India. He was finally released from the RNVR on January 4th 1946."

Clarke,
George Puleston
G.P. Clarke
Son of ... Clarke, and ... Andrews.
Married Kathleen "Betty" ....; five sons.

01.02.1918
Devonport, Devon
-
06.12.2006
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 27.01.1941 (reld 02.02.1947)
05.10.1939 - 13.03.1940 HMS Hiniesta (armed patrol yacht) (out of Bristol, Channel patrol)
28.03.1940 - 30.10.1940 HMS Sayonara (armed patrol yacht) (out of Gibraltar, Mediterranean patrol)
      temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements:
27.01.1941 - 19.02.1941 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
20.02.1941 - 27.01.1943 HMS Prince Charles (landing ship, infantry) (Scapa Flow, commando raids Norway & Dieppe)
28.01.1943 - 09.06.1943 no appointment listed
10.06.1943 - 14.06.1943 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
15.06.1943 - 15.02.1944 HMS Aberdonian (Coastal Forces depot ship, Dartmouth)
16.02.1944 - 13.08.1945 HMS Tasajera (landing ship, tank) (took part in Normandy landings 06.1944)
14.08.1945 - 19.12.1945 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
20.12.1945 - 20.05.1946 HMS Princess Iris (landing ship, carrier) (mainly used for supplies for troops, Antwerp)
21.05.1946 - 18.09.1946 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
19.09.1946 - 02.02.1947 foreign service & resettlement leave
Clarke,
John Richard
J.R. Clarke (Photo courtesy of Andrew Elmer)
Married (21.06.1931, Longfleet, Dorset) Edna Selina Forster (08.08.1905 - 13.01.1996); no children.
11.12.1907
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
29.11.1956
Cuckoo Hill, Pinner, Harrow district, Middlesex
Prob. T/S.Lt. 12.07.1940
T/Lt. 12.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 08.01.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 26.12.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 20.07.45]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.07.1945 destruction U-boat 06.04.45 [investiture 20.07.45]
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - & clasp France and Germany

Africa Star

Afr St - & clasp
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
01.10.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
24.10.1940 - (12.)1942 HMS Lancaster (Town class destroyer)
late 1942 - 06.03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Castleton (Town class destroyer)
15.03.1943 - 28.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Lancaster (Town class destroyer)
27.05.1944 - (07.) 1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Watchman (W class destroyer) (DSC and Bar)
02.08.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Pytchley (Hunt class destroyer)
13.11.1945 - 01.1946 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)

Clarke,
Lawrence Hardcastle
L.H. Clarke

17.05.1908
-
13.01.2001
Salisbury district, Wiltshire
T/S.Lt. 25.09.1941
T/Lt. 25.12.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
28.10.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Coronation (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel (coastal))
(04.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) *
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Tiree (minesweeping trawler)
04.06.1943 - 12.1943? Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Hotham (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
02.12.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Ness (frigate)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke,
Noel Arthur
N.A. Clarke
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 15.03.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 15.09.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 15.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Lt. (L) 18.04.1951, seniority 15.09.1945

* Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties

(04.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed
11.09.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Nairana (escort carrier)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Clarke,
Raymond
R. Clarke

Son of Herbert Clarke, and Constance Hilda Mitchell, of Lenton Sands, Nottingham.
(09?).1923
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
30.03.1943
(air crash) [age 19]
[Newport (Island) Cemetery, Rhode Island, NY, USA, Navy Sec. Plots 172-177. Grave 13]
T/Midsh. (A) ?
? - 30.03.1943 pilot, 738 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, USA)]
Clarke,
Richard Henry

R.H. Clarke
Son of ... Clarke, and ... Smith.
29.01.1923
Risbridge district, Cambridgeshire / Essex / Suffolk
-
16.05.1969

West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
(killed by lightning)
T/S.Lt.
29.07.1943
T/Lt.
29.07.1945
29.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Truant (submarine)
(04.1946)


HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon) *
Company Director, John Laing Construction.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke,
Stanley John Lloyd
S.J.L. Clarke (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony Dewey)
Son of Herbert Vincent Clarke, and Emily Dale Lloyd.
07.06.1914
Fulham, London
-
14.12.1978
Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire (formerly of Sudbury, Wimbledon, Middlesex)
T/S.Lt. 06.03.1941
T/A/Lt. 06.03.1942
T/Lt. * 1943?, seniority 06.03.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1945
39-45 St - -

Atlantic Star

Atl St - -

Africa Star

Afr St - -

Africa Star

Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Royal Naval Long Service Good Conduct Medal LSGCM - - [engraved with name and rank of T/Lt.Cdr.]
* Officer who has qualified in Specialist Course in Communications
(08.1941) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
08.06.1942 - (12.)1942 HMS Dundonald II (Combined Operations training establishment, Auchengate)
04.12.1942 - (02.)1943 on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
05.03.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven)
(10.1945)     HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke,
Thomas Graves
"Tommy"

T.G. Clarke
Home town: (1943) New Forest, Hampshire.
19.08.1911
Allerton, Liverpool
-
14.02.1969
Antigua
T/S.Lt.
12.04.1940
T/Lt.
12.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
05.1945? (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
05.10.1943
Operation Retribution (operations in the Mediterranean 04-05.43)
Mention in Despatches MID
03.01.1941
?
24.06.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Harvester (destroyer)
25.05.1942
-
(05.1943)
HMS Tartar (destroyer)
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Bleasdale (destroyer)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Accomplished racing driver, competing at Le Mans pre- & post-war.
Clarkson,
Ronald Henry
R.H. Clarkson
26.05.1894
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
28.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

indicated as SS* = 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

(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Clarkson,
Victor Frank William
V.F.W. Clarkson
Son of ... Clarkson, and ... Sawyer.
(03?).1918
Romford district, Essex
-
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


(1942)
-
(03.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 24 (motor torpedo boat)
Claxton,
Thomas Llewellyn
T.L. Claxton
Married 1st Evelyn Flora Graystone (lived at Lowestoft, Suffolk; divorced twice, finally 1956); two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd ...
24.05.1909
Mutford district, Suffolk
-
06.1995
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
19.08.1943
T/A/Lt.
19.08.1945 (reld 1953)
Working for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Lowestoft, Suffolk in Nov. 1938.



served as a rating on minesweepers out of Lowestoft, then Atlantic convoys out of Liverpool
25.03.1944
-
(04.1946)
Unexploded Bomb Disposal Department, from medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Torpedoes and Mining Department, from 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) *
* was blown up on a mine in 1943, which injured him badly (including being blind for the rest of his life); was treated for some 10 years at the McIndoe Surgical Centre at East Grinstead, before being invalided out in 1953
Clayden,
Anthony Richard
A.R. Clayden
Son of Harold William and Florence Hilda Clayden, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
1919 ?
-

14.12.1942
[age 23]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, 4.F.22]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
21.10.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)
1941, seniority 21.10.1940
13.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
21.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
?
-
14.12.1942
HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
Claydon,
Geoffrey William
G.W. Claydon (© Photo: Peter Scott, "The battle of the narrow seas")
Married; ... children (one daughter?).
17.04.1911
Barnet district, Greater London / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
02.1996
Deben district, Suffolk
T/S.Lt.
28.09.1939
T/Lt.
11.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
29.08.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 22.06.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
30.05.1944
coastal forces action 24.10.43
28.09.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Conqueror (battleship) (under construction)
11.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
19.05.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
25.01.1943
-
(01.)1945
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 652 (motor torpedo boat) [initially at HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Clayton,
Arthur Harold
A.H. Clayton
?
-
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


Mention in Despatches MID


(1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 677 (motor torpedo boat)
Cleaver,
Richard Edward Lionel
R.E.L. Cleaver

Son of William Edward Cleaver, barrister, and Jessie Maud Cleaver, of Penang and Winchester.
Married (17.09.1949, St Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Lois Martin E. Elliott (09.05.1919 - 12.2000), youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs J.R. Elliott, of Long Beach, California, USA.
04.05.1911
West Derby, Lancashire
-
09.2000
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
T/A/S.Lt. 18.12.1942
T/S.Lt. 18.06.1943 (transferred to the reserve 12.02.1945)
T/A/Lt. > 06.1944, < 10.1944
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
(04.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) *
[left UK 15.07.1943]
18.03.1943 - (12.1943) British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek escort destroyer "Themistocles"
08.1944 - (10.1944) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(01.1945)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clegg,
Leo Anthony
L.A. Clegg (Photo courtesy of Mr David Tait)
1920
Anderston district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1980
Tarves district, Aberdeen, Scotland
T/S.Lt. 09.05.1941
T/Lt. 01.03.1943 (reld 30.04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 21.05.1942 St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42 [decoration handed]
(06.1941) - (08.1941) no appointment listed
25.08.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches):
(03.1942)     First Lieutenant, HM ML 307 (motor launch) (DSC)
23.07.1942 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 307 (motor launch)
13.12.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
Tutor, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.
Clelland,
Peter Frank
P.F. Clelland
Son of ... Clelland, and .. Bonham.
(09?).1920
Richmond district, Surrey
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
31.07.1942
T/Lt. (A)
31.01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
01.06.1943
-
(10.1944)
pilot, 819 Squadron FAA
(07.1945)


HMS Battler (escort carrier) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clelland,
Robert
R. Clelland
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
19.06.1943
25.02.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
15.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Spartiate (base depot ship, Glasgow)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Clements,
Frederick George
"Fred"
F.G. Clements (Photo courtesy of Mr Alan Clements)
Married (1948, Wellington, New Zealand) Margaret Lorraine Purdey (25.10.1927 - ), daughter (with one brother) of Roy McIntyre Purdey (1904-1982), and Ivy Weetman (1899-1978); two sons, two daughters.
04.03.1924
Fulham, London
-
26.03.1997
Wellington, New Zealand
T/Midsh. 18.02.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 04.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 03.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
14.03.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate):
      HM LCT 1127 (landing craft, tank)
Clemson,
Clifford Thomas
C.T. Clemson
Son of ... Clemson, and ... Beecraft.
Married ((06?).1949, Croydon district, Surrey) Rosemary H. Clark; ... children (one son?).
10.02.1920
Hackney district, London
-
11.1984
Bullingdon district, Oxfordshire
T/S.Lt. 04.09.1941
T/Lt. 04.03.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
18.11.1941 - (10.)1942 HMS Dorothy Gray (armed trawler)
(12.1942) - (02.1943) specialist signal course
08.02.1943 - (04.)1943 for signal duties on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
21.05.1943 - (05.)1943 for signal duties on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers)]
29.05.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Royal Ulsterman (landing ship, infantry)
12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for signal duties at Maddalena)
01.06.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) (for miscellaneous services)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Clifford-Smith,
Stanley
see: Smith,
Stanley Clifford
 
Clipstone,
William Moxom
R. Clelland
?
-
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
26.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
< 07.1945
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Clively *,
Edward Turner
E.T. Clively (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Haddow) E.T. Clively (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Haddow)
E.T. Clively (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Haddow) 
* In the Navy List incorrectly listed as: E.T. Cliveley
Married ((09?).1931, Hampstead district, Middlesex) Editha G. Bates.
01.06.1886
Taganrog, Russia
-
(03?).1966
Bath district, Somerset
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 07.03.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) > 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
39-45 St ? ?

Italy Star

It St ? ?
Defence Medal Def M ? ?
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
Merchant.
WW I     served in the Middlesex Regiment (Army Number G-100570)
(10.1944) - (04.1946) HMS Bellatrix *
(03.1945)     Assistant Officer-in-Charge of Armament Supply Northern Russia **
* indexed, but not listed as such
** recommended by Senior British Naval Officer, Northern Russia (R.Adm. H.J. Egerton) to serve on an Allied Control Commission
Clode,
Edward St John
see: South African Naval Forces (Voluntary) (SANF(V)) Officers' section  
Close,
James Brooks
R. Clelland
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
27.11.1918
-
26.02.2009
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 03.04.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

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

Education: Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1940, MA 1953).
03.04.1941 - (10.1945) Miscellaneous Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Clough,
Dennis Maskew
D.M. Clough (Photo courtesy of Mrs Alison Salisbury)
Son of Sidney Clough, and May Maskew.
Married (23.02.1935, St Anne, Kew, Surrey) Jacynth Mary Parsons (08.01.1911 - 09.1992), daughter of Carl Bergemann Parsons (1884-1934), and Grace Millicent Simmons (1877-1957); one son, one daughter.
18.03.1912
Chelsea district, London
-
06.1986
Uckfield district, Sussex
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 09.07.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 09.01.1944 (reld 04.06.1946)

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

(08.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed
28.10.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
Clouston,
Harold Thomas Stewart
H.T.S. Clouston
Son of Joseph Storer Clouston (1870-1944), and Winifred Clouston.
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Erlend Richard Storer Clouston, RN.

c. 1907
-
T/Lt. 31.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 10.05.1943?
T/Cdr. 31.01.1945 (reld 1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 23.03.1943 convoy to N Russia 11.42
Education: Wadham College, Oxford University (BA).
30.11.1936     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
(04.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
04.09.1940 - 14.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Stamp (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (ship mined in the Channel & lost)
23.10.1940 - 20.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Mariato (auxiliary anti-submarine warfare trawler)
10.05.1943 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Mallow (corvette)
07.09.1943 - 10.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Campion (corvette)
09.07.1944 - 28.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Newark (destroyer)
31.01.1945 - 06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Newark (destroyer)
15.06.1945 - 12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Carnarvon Bay (frigate)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Clow,
Malcolm Joseph
M.J. Clow
Son of John Percy Clow, chartered accountant, and Eva Mary Chater, of Hale, Cheshire.
(12?).1914
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
11.02.1945
RN Barracks, Warwick Farm Camp, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[age 30]
[Sydney War Cemetery, NSW, Australia, V.C.8]
T/Sg.Lt. 23.10.1940
Albert Medal in gold AM 20.04.1943 Operation Torch: for gallantry in saving life at sea when ship was sunk [investiture 25.05.43] *

* ALBERT MEDALS IN GOLD. Deeds of "Heroic  Daring". A surgeon lieutenant and a sick-berth attendant have won the first Albert Medals in gold "for extreme and heroic daring" when their ship H.M.S. Ibis had been left sinking after an air attack off North Africa. They are Surgeon Lieutenant Malcolm Joseph Clow, of Hale. Cheshire, and George William Beeching, whose bravery cost him his life. Among the wounded men brought to Lieutenant Clow in the sick bay was an engine-room artificer badly burned about one arm. The lieutenant gave him an injection of morphia, and, as the ship was by then sinking, helped him to the upper deck. The injured man had no lifebelt, but Lieutenant Clow put his own on him, helped the man Into the sea, and made sure that he was free of the ship before himself abandoning her. In doing this Lieutenant Clow became entangled in the rigging and was pulled down some way before he could fight his way clear. On the surface he had to swim around for three hours without a lifebelt before being picked up.

Education: University of Cambridge (MD, BCh 1938); medical registration 09.08.1938.
15.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Pelican (Egret class sloop)
15.03.1941 - (04.)1941 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
06.05.1941 - (08.)1941 Department of the Medical Director-General of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President]
13.08.1941 - 10.11.1942 HMS Ibis (Black Swan class sloop) [ship sunk by German aircraft off Algeria] (Albert Medal)
12.01.1943 - 30.11.1944 HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead, Cheshire)
12.1944 - 11.02.1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Clyde,
Maurice Gerrard
M.G. Clyde
Son of William Thomas Clyde (1896-1963), and Phylis Amy Booker (1898-1969).
13.04.1921
Nagpur, India
-
24.09.1942
(MPK) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 1]
T/Midsh. (A) 29.07.1940
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 20.01.1941
T/S.Lt. (A) 13.04.1942
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
14.10.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
(02.1941)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(04.1941)     HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester, Hampshire) *
25.05.1941 - 28.10.1941 pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)]
29.10.1941 - 24.09.1942 pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Sheffield (cruiser)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)
* indexed, but not listed as such
 
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