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Caddick,
Bernard Ernest
"Doc" / "Tony"
Son of ... Caddick, and ... Hadley.
Married Ida (née ...).
|
14.10.1917
Dudley district, Staffordshire / Worcestershire
-
09.1996
Glamorgan
|
T/S.Lt.
|
03.07.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
03.07.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
DSC
|
11.12.1945
|
wind
up Europe 45
|
|
MID
|
25.01.1944
|
crossing
Volturno river 43
|
|
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 practicioner, Barry, Wales.
|
Cale,
Nabor Keith

Son of Albert Edgar and Annie E. Cale;
husband of Revis Ruth Cale, of Worthing, Sussex.
|
?
-
24.08.1942
(KIA)
[Dover (St James's) Cemetery, row A, grave 10]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
20.03.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
20.03.1942?
|
|
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)
Son of James Callaghan, Chief Petty Officer, RN. 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)
|
|
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)
|
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
commissioned
in the RNVR (Admiralty)
|
03.08.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
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 Univ., 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)
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Calley,
Andrew

Married ((12?).1931, West Derby dsitrict,
Lancashire) Elsie Green; ... children (one daughter?).
|
18.10.1909
West Derby dsitrict, 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)
|
|
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
|
Callow,
William John

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)
|
|
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
|
|
Cambridge,
John Stephen
 |
(12?).1903 ??
Epping district, Essex ??
-
|
T/Lt.
|
09.10.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 02.1941,
< 12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
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
 |
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
 |
?
- |
|

|
DSC
|
14.11.1944
|
Operation Neptune
|
|
MID
|
16.08.1940
|
Dunkirk
|
|
(06.1940)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 102
(motor torpedo boat)
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Staff ANCXF
|
|
Campbell,
Donald Charles

Son of Charles Donald Campbell and Elizabeth
Campbell, of Hove, Sussex.
|
(06?).1911
Steynig 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
|
?
-
|
|
28.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS Baldur
(RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)
|
|
Campbell,
James Duncan
|
?
-
|
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"
 |
(03?).1907
Penzance district, Cornwall
-
|
T/Lt.
|
27.01.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
?
|
|

|
DSC
|
10.02.1942
|
?
|
|

|
DSC
|
10.11.1942
|
?
|
|
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]
|
|
Capeling,
William Keith

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]
|
|
Capper,
Douglas Parodé

Son of
Henry Douglas (a naval officer) and Louisa Elizabeth Sarah Mary (Parode)
Capper.
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.
|
Carey,
[Rev. Canon] Ronald Clive Adrian

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)
|
|
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
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.12.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
07.08. 1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|

|
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)
|
06.03.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Defender (destroyer)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Carnie,
Thomas Young

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

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)
|
|
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.
|
Carr,
Francis William
 |
?
- |
|
|
DSC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 622 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Carr,
Ronald Alastair
"Bussy"

Son of ... Carr, and ... Aikman.
|
23.11.1919
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
03.1992
Westminster district, London
|
 |
MID
|
|
|
|
(08.1942)
|
|
|
HM MGB 80
(motor gun boat)
|
|
Carruthers,
Robert
 |
?
-
|
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)
|
|
Carter,
Frank Leslie
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)
|
|
Cartwright,
Eric John

Married; 2 sons.
|
31.08.1920
-
[06.2004 still alive] |
Mot.Mech. 5th cl.
|
? [P/MX 66695]
|
Mot.Mech. P/O
|
?
|
Ch.Mot.Mech. 4th
cl.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
10.07.1944
|
|

|
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:
|
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
|
MTB 71 [HMS
Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
|
01.08.1943
|
-
|
25.10.1943
|
MTB 356
[HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colonbo, 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 attends the ANZAC Day ceremonies which he has done for 52 years.
|
Cartwright,
Thomas
Nelson
"Tom"
 |
25.04.1905
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
05.1984
Colchester district, Essex
|
|
(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)
|
|
Cashford,
Noel
 |
1922 ?
-
|
Ord.Sea.
|
1941
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
18.12.1943
|
T/A/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
< 07.1945
|
|
MBE
|
14.05.1946
|
mine
disposal
|
|
1941
|
|
|
joined RNVR
|
|
|
|
HMS
Pembroke
|
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)
|
Castles,
Henry Gordon

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)
|
|
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)
|
|
Caudle,
Derek Westworth

Son of .. Caudle, and ... Westworth.
|
(12?).1920
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
02.2006 still alive
|
|
04.07.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Navigating
Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
Solicitor.
|
Causer,
Malcolm Richard
 |
1922 ?
Brazil
-
|
Ord.Sea.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
10.06.1943
|
T/S.Lt.
|
11.12.1943
|
A/T/Lt.
|
11.12.1945
|
|
DSO
|
28.11.1944
|
human
torpedo, sunk Bolzano [investiture 26.02.46]
|
|
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
 |
?
-
10.12.1941
(KIA)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]
|
LRCS, LRCP
|
30.08.1941
|
-
|
10.12.1941
|
HMS Repulse
(battlecruiser) [sunk by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya]
|
|
Cave-Clark,
Gordon Chesney
 |
(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
 |
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)
|
|
Chalmers,
Thomas
 |
04.1909
Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
-
07.1986
Albany, Western Australia
|
|
|
|
|
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
 |
?
-
|
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)
|
|
Chandler,
Robert Povah

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
 |
?
-
|
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
 |
?
-
|
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,
Wilfred Treize Rougier

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)
|
|
|
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)
|
|
Charlton,
Allan Edward
 |
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)
|
|

|
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
|
|
Cherry,
Alex Henry
|
11.06.1905
USA
-
03.1987
Westchester district, New York
|
T/Lt.
|
19.07.1941
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 10.1944
|
T/A/Cdr.
|
< 04.1946
|
|
OBE
|
13.06.1946
|
HM's
birthday 46
|
|
Investments broker from New York.
27.11.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Reading
(destroyer)
|
28.05.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Wren (sloop)
|
(01.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(1945?)
|
|
|
HMS Royal
Katherine (port party, Wilhelmshaven) [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)
|
Cheshire,
Nicholas
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,
[Rev.] Peter
Sutherland
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
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
|
(03?).1903
?
Eastry district, Kent ?
-
|
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
|
|
OBE
|
10.06.1948
|
HM's
birthday 48 [decoration presented]
|
|
MID
|
05.01.1943
|
for
enterprise and devotion to duty (while in intelligence)
|
|
MID
|
10.04.1945
|
for
distinguished service with the 21st Army Group (while in intelligence)
|
|
25.11.1936
|
|
|
joined
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
|
1939?
|
-
|
1940?
|
intelligence
officer in the Netherlands
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(02.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
14.01.1943
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
Naval
Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
-
|
(07.1946)
|
Staff
Officer (Security) to Commander-in-Chief, Germany [HMS Royal Albert] (Minden)
[had been a prisoner of war in Poland and
Silesia, during which time he lost a leg from terrible treatment; in April
1946 he inspected himself Allied POW camp 2226 that held German POWs,
concluding that conditions were deplorable there as well]
|
|
Christelis,
Constantine
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]
|
|
?
|
-
|
01.08.1942
|
HMS
Formidable (aircraft carrier)
|
|
Christopher,
Henry Shaw Mordaunt
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
|
|
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)
|
|
Clackson,
Norman Hursley

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 Divison, Admiralty [HMS President] *
|
Advertising manager.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Clapp,
Reginald Stanley
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
|
|
Clarabut,
David Stewart
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)
|
|

|
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 establishmet, 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 *
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)
|
Lt.Cdr.
RCN
|
02.1952?,
seniority 29.11.1949 (retd < 01.1957)
|
|
28.09.1938
|
|
|
joined
Royal Naval Volunteer Suppelementary 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,
Dudley George

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)
|
|
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,
Gordon

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
|
?
-
|
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,
Sydney Herbert
|
?
-
|
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,
Raymond

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]
|
|
?
|
-
|
30.03.1943
|
pilot, 738
Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, USA)]
|
|
Clarke,
Richard Henry

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,
Thomas Graves
"Tommy"

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)
|
|

|
DSC
|
05.10.1943
|
Operation
Retribution (operations in the Mediterranean 04-05.43)
|
|
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
 |
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

Son of ... Clarkson, and ... Sawyer.
|
(03?).1918
Romford district, Essex
-
|
|

|
DSC
|
|
|
|
(1942)
|
-
|
(03.1943)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 24 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Claxton,
Thomas Llewellyn

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
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,
Dekeheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
|
?
|
-
|
14.12.1942
|
HMS Grebe
(RN Air Station, Dekeheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
|
|
Claydon,
Geoffrey William

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)
|
|

|
DSC
|
29.08.1944
|
Operation
Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 22.06.45]
|
 |
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
 |
?
-
|
|

|
DSC
|
|
|
 |
MID
|
|
|
|
(1944)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 677 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Clelland,
Peter Frank

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
 |
?
- |
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
|
|
Clipstone,
William Moxom
 |
?
-
|
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

* 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) |
|
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 |
Clouston,
Harold Thomas Stewart
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) |
 |
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 |
|
Coatalen,
Herve Louis
 |
?
- |
| T/S.Lt. (E) |
17.11.1941 |
| T/Lt. (E) |
17.11.1942 (reld
< 04.1946) |
|
| (12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
| 24.03.1942 |
- |
(08.1942) |
HMS Beehive
(Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for 4th MTB Flotilla) |
| 23.08.1943 |
- |
(10.1944) |
HMS Gregale
(Coastal Forces base, Malta) |
| (07.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
Coates,
Thomas George
 |
?
- |
| T/Lt.Cdr.
(Sp.Br.) |
21.12.1944 (reld
1947?) |
|
| (07.1945) |
- |
(04.1946) |
no
appointment listed (apparently served in India) |
His grandson writes: "He was working in naval aramament supply 'RINAD' and I think he
spent time on Butcher Island. During the time he served he also spent time in Bombay, Madras and his first port of call was Trincomalee in Ceylon - where he spent three
weeks in hospital with Dengue fever." |
Cobb,
Charles David
 |
?
- |
|
|
(06.1944) |
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB
246 (motor torpedo boat) |
|
Cobb,
Henry Patrick
 |
?
- |
|

|
DSC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, MGB 328
(motor gun boat)
|
|
Cochran,
Thomas Patrick Murray
 |
(06?).1901
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
? |
T/Lt.
|
14.12.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 02.1941
(reld > 04.1946)
|
|
CBE
|
31.05.1956
|
HM's birthday 56: for
political and public services in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
|
|
Education: BSc
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
29.05.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Manchester City (controlled mining base ship, Home Waters)
|
02.05.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS
Lochinvar (minesweeping base, Port Edgar)
|
(02.1943)
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
HMS
Lochinvar (minesweeping base, Port Edgar) (for duty at Controlled Mining (C/M)
Base)
|
04.10.1943
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
staff, RN
College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
28.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
deck
officer, HMS Anson (battleship) (Pacific)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
Contested in the Southern Rhodesia general election of 1948 for the Liberal
Party. Worked for Tanganyika Concessions Ltd.
|
Cockrell,
Peter Sabin

Married; at least one daughter.
|
14.06.1907
Rochford, Essex
-
06.1994
Surrey South-Eastern
|
T/Lt.
|
24.10.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. ??
|
??
|
|
09.05.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Campania (escort carrier) (North Atlantic convoy duties)
|
|
Cocks,
Arthur Patrick

Son of Arthur and Trixie Cocks.
Husband of Monica Streaton Cocks, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; one daughter. |
(12?).1910
Colchester, Essex
-
22.06.1941
[age 30]
[Thurso (Mount Vernon) Cemetery, Caithness-shire, section E, joint grave 38] |
| Prob. T/S.Lt. |
26.04.1940 |
| T/S.Lt. |
10.1940,
seniority 26.04.1940 |
| T/Lt. |
11.1940,
seniority 21.08.1940 |
|
Barrister, London.
|
(10.1940) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
(02.1941) |
|
|
HMS Beaver
(RN base, Humber) * |
|
1941 |
- |
22.06.1941 |
HMS Beech
(trawler) (ship sunk in air attack at Scrabster) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Cohen,
Philip Mansell
 |
(03?).1908
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
|
 |
MID
|
|
|
|
(1944)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 725 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Coker,
Edward John Patrick
"Ted"
 |
(03?).1907
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
|
Ord.Sea.
|
1940? [J/X 2754943]
|
Abl.Sea.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
21.06.1943
|
|
1940?
|
|
|
joined RNVR
|
31.07.1942
|
|
|
wounded;
admitted to Great Yarmouth General Hospital
|
late
1942
|
|
|
officer
training, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.)
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
beachmaster,
Sicily invasion
|
29.04.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Stag
(RN base, Port Said) (involved with naval intelligence)
|
|
Coldham,
Geoffrey Austen

Son of ... Coldham, and ... Blackie.
|
13.10.1924
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent /
Surrey
-
05.2004
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
|
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Gadfly
(Coastal Forces base, Felnsburg, Germany)
|
|
Cole,
Melvin Wilfred
 |
?
- |
| T/S.Lt. |
12.06.1941 |
| T/Lt.
|
12.06.1942 (reld
< 04.1946) |
|
|
07.07.1941 |
- |
(10.1944) |
HMS
Kirkella (anti-submarine warfare trawler) |
|
(01.1945) |
- |
(07.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
|
(03.1945) |
|
|
British Naval Liaison Officer, "Lemnos" (Greek
landing ship, tank) |
|
Cole,
Percival Sidney

Son of ... Cole, and ... Sculpher.
Married.
|
(06?).1921
Islington district, Greater London
-
04.10.1951
[age 30]
[buried in Moville, County Donegal, Ireland]
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
?
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
26.01.1944
|
A/Lt. RN
|
1945?, seniority
26.01.1943
|
Lt. RN
|
1946?, seniority
26.01.1943
|
Lt.Cdr. RN
|
26.01.1951
|
|

|
DSC
|
31.10.1944
|
Operation
Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang 25.07.44) [award posted]
|
|
18.11.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
pilot, 1830
Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
Fernie (destroyer) *
|
(07.1948)
|
|
|
HMS
Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex) *
|
06.12.1948
|
-
|
(05.)1949
|
HMS
Implacable (aircraft carrier) (for miscellaneous duties)
|
23.11.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Berkshire) (for miscellaneous duties)
|
?
|
-
|
04.10.1951
|
Commanding
Officer of a Squadron of Firefly aircraft, training at HMS
Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry) [killed in a flying
accident; his plane crashed near Loughermore Hill, Killwool, Eglinton less
than 5 minutes after take-off for a night flying exercise]
|
|
Coleman,
Brian Charles

Son of ... Coleman, and ... Fox.
|
(06?).1918
Steyning district, Sussex
-
|
|
|
Coleman,
Charles Bernard
 |
(09?).1903
Cannock district, Staffordshire
-
07.09.1944
[Greenock Cemetery, O.O. 547]
|
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
|
07.10.1940
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
?
|
|
07.10.1940
|
|
|
commissioned
into the RNVR, holding temporary commission under T.124X agreements
|
17.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
HMS Queen
of Bermuda (armed merchant cruiser)
|
?
|
-
|
07.09.1944
|
HMS Mersey
(T.124X Depot, Liverpool)
|
|
Coles,
Charles Leslie
 |
?
-
|
Prob. Midsh.
|
29.07.1937
|
A/S.Lt.
|
29.07.1938
|
S.Lt.
|
02.09.1939
|
Lt.
|
29.01.1941 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
29.01.1949
|
|
VRD
|
27.01.1952
|
?
|
|
VRD
|
05.02.1963
|
?
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
HMS St
Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 1 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 17 (motor torpedo boat)
|
31.12.1940
|
-
|
(06.1941)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 216 (motor torpedo boat)
[HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
|
(1942?)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 262 (motor torpedo boat)
|
02.1942
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
HMS
Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) (for MTBs)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Collett,
Antony Farquhar Charles Mackinnon
 |
18.10.1924
-
1990 ?
Scotland ? |
| T/Midsh. |
? |
| T/A/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.) |
? |
| T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
18.10.1944 |
| T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
> 07.1945, <
04.1946 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
|
20.09.1943 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services) |
|
(03.1945) |
|
|
British Naval Liaison Officer, "Aetos" (Greek
destroyer) |
|
Collier,
John Henry Campbell
 |
10.12.1908
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
25.11.1985
Eastbourne district, Sussex
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
01.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
01.04.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
? (reld 1945/46)
|
 |
DSC
|
11.12.1945
|
wind
up (Europe 45)
|
 |
MID
|
08.1940
|
rescueing
enemy airman
|
 |
MID
|
29.09.1942
|
minesweeping
operations 07-08.42
|
1939-1945 Star; 1939-1945 Atlantic Star; 1939-1945
War Medal
RSPCA Bronze medal for humanity (1950; at Peacehaven (near Brighton), with the local police officer they jumped into a very rough sea (force 9 - high tide) to rescue a dog, which had been blown off a wall at the approach to the beach)
|
10.01.1940
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS
Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)
|
1940
|
-
|
1940
|
HMT Gunner
(auxiliary trawler)
|
10.12.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMT Pointz Castle (auxiliary trawler)
|
1941?
|
-
|
1941?
|
SS Bantria
|
15.07.1941
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 79
(minesweeper)
|
?
|
|
|
HMT Picton
Castle (auxiliary trawler)
|
?
|
|
|
HM MMS 37
(minesweeper)
|
?
|
|
|
Zebrina
(auxiliary schooner)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
After the war he was in the RN axuillary reserve and stayed
with them until about 1982.
|
Collier,
Thomas Alexander
Mackay
 |
1912 ?
-
28.03.1942
(KIA) [age 30] |
 |
MID
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, ML 457
|
|
Collins,
Edward Arthur

Son of James Edward Collins, MBE, and Nora
Blanche Collins.
|
1917 ?
-
20.01.1942
(MPK) [age 25]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 1]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
18.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
18.05.1941
|
|
26.01.1940
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Deo Volante (trawler?)
|
20.06.1940
|
-
|
11.1941
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Coldsnap (drifter)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
HMS Medway
(submarine depot ship) *
|
?
|
-
|
20.01.1942
|
HMS Triumph
(submarine) [lost in Aegean]
|
|
Collins,
the Rev. Hugh
George

Son of William Collins (1863-1937), and
Alice Jane Sapsford (1865-...).
Married (10.08.1932, Wesleyan Church, Southampton) Lillian Meehan; two sons.
Residence: (1940) Haslemere, Surrey.
|
08.09.1905
Harlow, Epping district, Essex
-
28.04.1974
New Romney, Shepway district, Kent
|
Prob. T/Chapl.
|
01.06.1940
|
T/Chapl.
|
12.1940,
seniority 01.06.1940 (dispersal 20.12.1945) (reld 22.02.1946)
|
|
Education: University of London (1926); Queens College Birmingham
(1938).
Deacon in Hull 1938; Priest (diocese of York)
1939.
01.06.1940
|
-
|
13.06.1940
|
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth; additional)]
|
14.06.1940
|
-
|
10.02.1941
|
HMS Isle of
Jersey (hospital carrier) [based at HMS Prosperine (minesweeper &
anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)]
|
11.02.1941
|
-
|
28.01.1942
|
HMS
Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness; additional) [from 13.02.1941 additional, for
general duties] [from 24.03.1941 additional, for duties with auxiliary vessels
based at Sheerness & general duties]
|
29.01.1942
|
-
|
05.1942
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt; additional) [from 26.05.1942 for disposal]
|
05.1942
|
-
|
13.09.1942
|
HMS Sphinx
(accommodation camp, Alexandria, Egypt)
|
14.09.1942
|
-
|
02.1944
|
HMS
Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
|
23.06.1944
|
-
|
19.10.1944
|
HMS Pyramus
(RN base, Kirkwall) & for duty in HMS Robin
(RN Air Station, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkneys) [till 25.06.1944 additional]
|
20.10.1944
|
-
|
19.12.1945
|
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory; additional]
|
Vicar of Herne, Kent, 1946-1964; Vicar of Sundridge,
Kent, 1964-1973/74.
|
Collins,
John
"Jumper"
 |
1917 ?
-
08.07.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
|
 |
MID
|
05.12.44
|
actions
in Channel
|
|
|
|
|
HM MTB 447
(motor torpedo boat)
|
|
|
|
HM MTB 451
(motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Collins,
Leslie
|
?
-
|
|
13.06.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Rushen
Castle (corvette)
|
|
Collis,
Olaf Vernon Girard

Son of ... Collis, and ... Girard.
|
01.12.1924
Coventry district, Warwickshire
-
16.03.1995
Trowbridge district, Wiltshire
|
T/Midsh.
|
09.1943
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
06.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.12.1944 (reld
late 1947)
|
T/A/Lt.
|
?
|
A/Lt.
|
23.02.1952,
seniority 05.08.1951
|
Lt.
|
02.01.1954,
seniority 05.08.1951
|
A/Lt.Cdr. RNR
|
27.06.1961,
seniority 05.08.1959
|
Cdr. RNR
|
31.12.1968 (retd
01.12.1974)
|
 |
VRD
|
25.04.1963
|
?
|
 |
VRD
|
15.05.1973
|
?
|
|
12.1942
|
|
|
HMS
Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr. Portsmouth) [HO Junior Rate, selected for UY on arrival]
|
02.1943
|
|
|
HMS Chanticleer
(sloop)
|
05.1943
|
-
|
09.1943
|
HMS King Alfred
(training establishment, Hove, Sussex) [passed out as Midshipman RNVR]
|
29.09.1943
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
HMS Philante
(armed yacht)
|
24.02.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS
Retalick (frigate)
|
11.1944
|
|
|
HMS Amzari
(RN landing craft base, Vizagapatam, India) *
|
autumn
1945
|
|
|
HMS Hornet
(Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
|
19.11.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for miscellaneous services)
|
23.02.1952
|
|
|
transferred
to List II of the Permanent RNVR, Humber Division
|
(05.1953)
|
|
|
Sea
Cadet Corps (with rank of T/Lt. (Sp.Br.))
|
(02.1963)
|
|
|
RNR,
Mersey Division, 4 & 11
|
Continued to serve as a volunteer reservist until 1974.
* (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
|
Collins,
Ralph Leslie

Son of ... Collins, and ... King.
|
(03?).1925
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
22.06.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
22.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base,
Felixstowe) *
|
20.11.1944
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base,
Lowestoft) (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
|
23.04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 395 (motor torpedo boat)
|
| (04.1946) |
|
|
HM
MMS 297 (motor minesweeper) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Cond,
Wilfred John

Son of Sydney and Ellen Cond, of Heston, Middlesex.
|
1923 ?
-
28.02.1943
(KIA) [age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1] |
|
?
|
-
|
28.02.1943
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian Ship Uredd (submarine)
|
|
Conde,
Edwin
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
28.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
28.08.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Congreve,
John William

Son of Maj. Claude Vyvian Congreve, Indian
Army, and Mary Hudson Congreve (née Titley), of Carmarthen.
|
(09?).1912
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire / Dyfed
/ Pembrokeshire
-
12.12.1943
(KIA) [age 31]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 1]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
28.09.1939
|
T/Lt.
|
11.09.1940
|
|
22.01.1937
|
|
|
enrolled
in Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division
RNVR)
|
28.09.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS Rhodora
(armed yacht)
|
15.08.1940
|
-
|
12.12.1943
|
HMS
Tynedale (destroyer)
|
|
Connolly,
Gerald Joseph

|
21.05.1921
??
Romford district, Essex ??
-
08.1995 ??
Northallerton, North Yorkshire ??
|
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
17.02.1941
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
21.05.1942
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
17.08.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
DSO
|
01.05.1945
|
Operation
Meridian [investiture 26.02.46]
|
|
MID
|
31.07.1945
|
Operation
Iceberg
|
|
09.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
pilot, 832
Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)]
|
11.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
pilot, 854
Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
|
|
Consitt,
Tom
Son of Edwin Laybourne Consitt and Frances Agnes
Consitt.
Husband of Joan Consitt, of Hull.
|
(03.)1911
Middleton-on-the-Wolds, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
08.02.1942
[age 31]
[Winchester (Magdalen Hill) Cemetery, H.1.110]
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
01.07.1941
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
01.10.1941
|
|
05.10.1941
|
-
|
08.02.1942
|
pilot, 757
Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)]
[killed in an air crash near Highclere Castle, Newbury, Berkshire,
flying a Westland Lysander]
|
|
Cook,
Derek Charles Lindsay

Son of ... Cook, and ... Cooper.
|
(12?).1924
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
07.10.1944 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
|
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
30.08.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Kilmalcolm (escort)
|
|
|
|
also served
at HMS Black Prince (cruiser) & HMS Amaranthus (corvette)
|
|
Cook,
William Walter
|
?
-
|
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
22.03.1945
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
22.09.1945 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(08.1945)
|
|
|
possibly:
pilot, 717 Squadron FAA [HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray,
Aberdeenshire)]
|
19.01.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
pilot, 735 Squadron FAA [HMS
Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire)]
|
|
Cooke,
John Henry Moore
"Jack"
Son of ... Cooke, Superintendent of the Kolar Gold Fields.
Married ((12?).1936, Finsbury district, London)
Margaret Gray; one daughter.
|
02.04.1910
Mysore, India
-
(12?).1973
Hammersmith district, London
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
02.08.1940
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
02.11.1940 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
Education: Haileybury School, Hertfordshire; King's College
(Engineering).
Was in Fleur de Lys, Newfoundland in 1939 where he and two friends were building a 28 ton ketch to sail the
Atlantic; they would have succeeded but had to return to the UK to join the Navy.
02.09.1940
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Department
of the Inspector of Anti-Aircraft Weapons, from 1941 Miscellaneous Weapon
Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
Literature: Gerald
Pawle, The secret war (1956).
|
Coombs,
James Neville

|
1918
India
-
c. 2002 ?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
04.10.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
01.01.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
21.11.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Cotswold (destroyer)
|
23.06.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Otway
(submarine)
|
10.05.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Dolphin
(submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Otus
(submarine) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Cooper,
Dennis Edwin
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
25.12.1943 (reld
1946?)
|
|
09.1943
|
-
|
(04.1944)
|
Officer of
the Watch, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
|
21.10.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Vetch
(corvette)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
Cooper,
James Percival Bowker

Son of ... Cooper, and ... Bowker.
|
14.05.1918
Islington district, Greater London
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
25.12.1941
|
T/A/Lt.
|
14.05.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
MID
|
14.11.1944
|
patrols
04-07.44
|
|
| 07.02.1942 |
-
|
(02.)1943
|
Department
of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President] (for
duty outside Admiralty)
|
16.09.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Unruly
(submarine)
|
22.05.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Tally-Ho (submarine)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Cooper,
John Cecil
 |
?
- |
T/Lt.
|
16.01.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945
(reld 1945/46)
|
|
24.05.1938
|
|
|
enrolled
in Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, attached to London Division
RNVR
|
25.01.1940
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training duties)
|
30.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Quorn (destroyer)
|
(07.1045)
|
|
|
HMS
Newmarket (destroyer) *
|
|
|
|
may have
served HMS Rockingham (destroyer) & HMS Sheffield (cruiser) as well
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Copage,
Edward Reginald
Son of Reginald Edgar Copage (1901-1978), and
Susie Howard (1902-1970).
Married ((03?).1947, Salisbury district, Wiltshire) Pamela J. Hellewell
(1926-2008); four sons. |
03.04.1925
Fulham district, Greater London / London /
Middlesex
-
08.01.2010 |
| T/Midsh. |
05.11.1943 |
| T/A/S.Lt. |
03.10.1944 |
| T/S.Lt.
|
03.04.1945 (reld
1946) |
|
Education: Latymer Upper public school.
| 18.03.1943 |
|
|
joined RNVR as
Ordinary Seaman |
|
|
|
|
HMS Menestheus
(minelayer) |
|
|
|
|
officer
cadet training, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officer training establishment, Hove,
Sussex) |
|
|
|
|
training, HMS
St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) |
| 06.03.1944 |
- |
(04.1944) |
HM MTB 48
(motor torpedo boat) |
|
22.05.1944 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
HMS Cicala
(Coastal Force base, Dartmouth) (for miscellaneous services) [52nd MTB
Flotilla?] |
|
12.10.1944 |
|
(02.)1945 |
HM MTB 791
(motor torpedo boat) (surviving the catastrophe at Ostend,
14.02.1945) |
| 24.04.1945 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
HM MTB 2014
(motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] |
| (07?).1946 |
- |
(07?).1946 |
HM
MTB 2018 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
[sent to Dartmouth (in atrocious weather) to take Royal princesses [Elizabeth and Margaret] for a trip around the
bay; the boat was so badly damaged by the trip that it was paid off on return to Gosport] |
| (07?).1946 |
- |
1946 |
HM
MTB
2014 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] |
Worked in the Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE). |
Corbett,
Edward Howard
|
29.04.1911
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
-
30.03.1973
|
Stoker
|
22.10.1940
|
Ord.Sea.
|
07.02.1941
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.01.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
01.04.1942 (reld
Class A 16.12.1945) (removed from Reserve List 31.01.1962)
|
|
22.10.1940
|
-
|
30.10.1940
|
joined up,
serving in the ranks at HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
|
31.10.1940
|
-
|
26.11.1940
|
HMS
Glendower (seamanship training establishment, Pwllheli)
|
27.11.1940
|
-
|
05.05.1941
|
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
|
06.05.1941
|
-
|
14.09.1941
|
HMS Nigeria
(cruiser)
|
15.09.1941
|
-
|
24.10.1941
|
HMS Victory
I (RN accounting base, Goodings, nr Newbury)
|
25.10.1941
|
-
|
31.12.1941
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) ?
|
01.01.1942
|
-
|
15.02.1942
|
HMS Quebec
(Combined Training Centre, Inverary) (additional for training)
|
16.02.1942
|
-
|
11.04.1942
|
HMS
Northney (training establishment for landing craft, Hayling Island)
|
12.04.1942
|
-
|
05.06.1943
|
boat
officer, HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) (additional;
for landing craft duty)
|
06.06.1943
|
-
|
05.09.1943
|
HMS Quebec
(Combined Training Centre, Inverary) (additional for passage to UK &
foreign shore leave)
|
06.09.1943
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
boat
officer (from 08.09.1943 flotilla officer), HMS Copra
(Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (additional, for landing craft duty)
|
13.09.1943
|
-
|
19.09.1943
|
lent
to HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth) (additional)
|
20.09.1943
|
-
|
04.10.1943
|
RN
Hospital, Haslar (tonsillitis)
|
25.10.1943
|
-
|
17.10.1944
|
flotilla
officer, 506th LC Flotilla
|
18.10.1944
|
-
|
13.05.1945
|
flotilla
officer, HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon) (serving in pool of
officers)
|
14.05.1945
|
-
|
1945
|
flotilla
officer, HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend) (serving in pool
of officers)
|
1945
|
-
|
1945
|
HMS Braganza (RN base,
Bombay, India) (for passage)
|
1945
|
-
|
23.09.1945
|
flotilla
officer, No. 25 Minor LCFU
|
24.09.1945
|
-
|
1945
|
flotilla
officer, 484th Ancilliary Flotilla
|
1945
|
-
|
03.11.1945
|
HMS
Landswell (Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base 1, Cochin) (serving in pool of
officers)
|
04.11.1945
|
-
|
01.1946
|
HMS
Sultan II (accounting base, Singapore) (serving in pool of officers)
|
01.1946
|
-
|
14.10.1946
|
senior
watchkeeping officer, HMS Buchan Ness (landing craft repair ship)
|
15.10.1946
|
|
|
HMS
Roseneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire) (additional;
for release)
|
|
Corke,
Charles Llewellyn

Son of Charles Thomas Corke and Ethel
Corke, of Southgate, Middlesex.
|
22.03.1906
Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
19.08.1942
Dieppe, France
(KIA) [age 36]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 1]
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
19.04.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
11.02.1941,
seniority 19.04.1940
|
A/T/Lt.Cdr.
|
07.04.1942?
|
 |
MID
|
02.10.1942
|
Operation
Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42) [posthumously]
|
|
19.09.1940
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Nemo
(auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)
|
07.04.1942
|
-
|
19.08.1942
|
HMS
Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Warsash)
|
19.08.1942
|
|
|
Flotilla
Officer, 24th LCP Flotilla (aboard LCP(L) 42) (raid on Dieppe; killed in
action)
|
|
Cornelius,
Bernard William

Married (03.07.1943); ... children.
|
16.03.1919
-
07.10.1987
Northamptonshire
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
04.12.1943
|
T/Lt.
|
01.05.1945 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
1943?
|
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
|
|
|
may have
served at some point at: HMS Kittiwake (sloop), HMS Kelly (destroyer), HMS
Halsted (frigate) (when it was torpedoed in the Channel 11.06.1944), HMS
Onslow (destroyer), HMS Kingston Onyx (anti-submarine trawler)
|
16.07.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Burghead Bay (frigate)
|
Qualified as a Chartered Secretary and worked all his life for Northampton and Midlands Building Society
(later Anglia Building Society). He played county cricket for Northants in the 40's.
|
Corney,
Kenneth William Richmond
|
(09?).1911
Islington district, Greater London / London
/ Middlesex
-
20.04.2007
Enfield, London
[age 95]
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
08.05.1941?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
04.09.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
04.12.1941 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
29.09.1941
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
Miscellaneous
Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside
Admiralty]
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Cornish,
Eric Alfred
Edward

Son of ... Cornish, and ... Laver.
|
(09?).1914
Hackney district, Greater London / London /
Middlesex
-
|
 |
MID
|
14.07.1942
|
attack on armed raider 12.05.42
|
|
(02.1942)
|
-
|
13.05.1942
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 220 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Cornish,
Ralph
Son of ... Cornish, and ... Brown.
Married 1st (divorced); two sons.
Married 2nd; four children.
|
05.03.1915
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
09.09.1991
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
|
Ordinary
Telegraphist
|
23.07.1940
[P/JX 208041]
|
Ordinary Seaman
|
06.01.1941
|
Able Seaman
|
10.1941?
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
14.08.1942
|
T/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
14.08.1943
(dispersal 13.02.1946) (reld 21.04.1946)
|
|
Estate agent.
23.07.1940
|
-
|
30.01.1941
|
HMS Ganges
(training establishment, Shotley)
|
31.01.1941
|
-
|
11.02.1941
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth)
|
12.02.1941
|
-
|
02.07.1941
|
HMS
Ambuscade (destroyer) [tender to HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage,
Berkshire), from 01.06.1941 to HMS Hecla
(destroyer depot ship), from 01.07.1941 to
HMS Orlando
(RN base, Greenock)]
|
03.07.1941
|
-
|
08.10.1941
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth)
|
09.10.1941
|
-
|
01.04.1942
|
HMS Arrow
(destroyer)
|
02.04.1942
|
-
|
09.05.1942
|
possibly
HMS Arrow (destroyer)
|
10.05.1942
|
-
|
06.09.1942
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(additional; for training) [lent to HMS Victory 10.05.1942-29.05.1942]
|
07.09.1942
|
-
|
03.12.1942
|
HMS Osprey
(anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (additional; for course in
anti-submarine fixed defences) [contracted conjunctivitis]
|
04.12.1942
|
-
|
12.11.1943
|
HMS Pyramus
(RN base, Kirkwall, Orkneys) (additional; for anti-submarine fixed defences
Houten Head as Asdic watchkeeper) [hospital &
sick leave for some time]
|
13.11.1943
|
-
|
11.01.1944
|
HMS Curlew
(anti-submarine fixed training establishment, Dunoon, Argyll) (for disposal)
|
12.01.1944
|
-
|
24.05.1944
|
HMS Baldur
(RN base, Iceland) (additional; for anti-submarine fixed defences Seydisfjord)
|
25.05.1944
|
-
|
15.10.1944
|
HMS Curlew
(anti-submarine fixed training establishment, Dunoon, Argyll) (additional;
under instruction & awaiting appointment)
|
16.10.1944
|
-
|
01.01.1945
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
|
02.01.1945
|
-
|
30.01.1945
|
HMS Siskin
(RN Air Station, Dounreay, Caithness) (additional; for administrative & divisional
duties)
|
31.01.1945
|
-
|
01.06.1945
|
HMS Robin
(RN Air Station, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkneys) (additional; temporarily)
|
02.06.1945
|
-
|
10.06.1945
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
|
11.06.1945
|
-
|
17.06.1945
|
HMS
President (additional; for training inside Admiralty with Director, Small
Vessels Pool (Eastern Theatre))
|
18.06.1945
|
-
|
17.10.1945
|
on staff of
Commander-in-Chief East Indies Station (with Staff Officer (Harbour Service
Craft) [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
|
18.10.1945
|
-
|
29.11.1945
|
HMS
Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) (additional;
on staff of Maintenance Commander for Harbour Craft duties)
|
30.11.1945
|
-
|
21.04.1946
|
HMS
President I (additional; for Class A release)
|
|
Cornish-Bowden,
John Ambrose
Son of Ambrose Cornish-Bowden (1873-1946)
and Phyllis Maude Carter.
Cousin (their fathers were brothers) of Lt.
E.J. Cornish-Bowden, RN, and of Cdr.
(S) W.K. Cornish-Bowden, RN.
Married Eva-Maria ...; one son, one daughter.
|
01.11.1914
Beckenham, Kent
-
16.06.1971
Roehampton, London
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
01.09.1941
|
T/Lt. (E)
|
01.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
26.01.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Combined
Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside
Admiralty)
|
|
Corrin,
Robert Charles
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
20.11.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
20.11.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
?
|
-
|
?
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations
accounting base) ??
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, HM LCT
467
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Corsar,
Peter McGeoch
 |
26.09.1913
-
01.1998
Portsmouth, Hampshire
|
T/Lt.
|
28.08.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
?
|
|
(12.1940)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB ... (motor torpedo boat)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Vernon
|
|
Cory,
Charles Raymond

Son of Charles and Ethel Cory.
Married 1st (1946) Vivienne Mary Roberts (died 1988), Kelowna, BC, Canada;
three daughters.
Married 2nd (1989) Betty, widow of LtCol Roy Horley.
|
20.10.1922
Peterston-
super-Ely, near Cardiff
-
16.02.2007
|
Ord.Sea.
|
1942
|
T/S.Lt.
|
04.12.1943
|
T/Lt.
|
04.12.1945 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
CBE
|
1982
|
?
|
 |
Comdn
|
06.1944
|
?
|
|
Education: Harrow; Christ Church, Oxford
08.12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Retalick (frigate) (Russian and N Atlantic convoys and Normandy landings)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
Vice-Chairman, A.B. Electronics Products Group
PLC, 1979-1992. Director and Member Executive, Baltic and International Maritime
Conference, Copenhagen, 1957-1967; Member, Lloyd's Register of Shipping,
1963-1967. Chairman: Barry Pilotage Authority, 1963-1974 (Member 1953); Port
Talbot Pilotage Authority, 1970-1974; SE Wales Pilotage Authority, 1974-1980;
Welsh Council Mission to Seamen, 1984-1995; Vice-Chairman, BTDB, 1969-1979 (Member,
1966-1979; Chairman, S Wales Local Bd, 1966); President, Cardiff Chamber of
Commerce, 1959-1960. Chairman, S Glamorgan HA, 1974-1984. Church in Wales:
Member: Governing Body, 1957-1960; Representative Body, 1960-1997 (Deputy Chairman,
1985-1995; Treasurer, 1988-); Finance Committee, 1960-1988 (Vice-Chairman 1971, Chairman
1975-1988); Deputy Chairman, Finance and Resources Committee, 1988-1995. RNLI: Chairman
Cardiff Branch, 1950-1973; Member Committee of Management, 1954-; Vice-President
1969-; Deputy Chairman, 1985-1993; Member, Executive Committee, 1970-1993. Chairman,
Council, University of Wales College of Medicine, 1988-1997 (Member, 1984-).
Chairman: John Cory & Sons Ltd, 1965-1991 (Director 1948-1991); Milford
Haven Port Authority (formerly Conservancy Board), 1982-1994.
Published:
A Century of Family Shipowning, 1954.
|
Cosh,
John Arthur

Son of ... Cosh, and ... Janison.
Married Kate Jackson (predeceased him); two sons, one daughter.
|
17.06.1915
Bristol, Avon / Gloucestershire
-
06.10.2005
South Hams district, Hampshire
|
T/Sg.Lt.
|
10.07.1942 (reld
05.03.1946)
|
|
MID
|
11.09.1945
|
fire
at Bari 09.04.45
|
|
Education: Bristol Grammar School; St John's
College, Cambridge; St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London; MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP
|
|
|
served on destroyers on artic convoys and was involved in the allied landings in Sicily and
Italy
|
01.01.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Fabius
(RN base, Taranto) (for duty at Brindisi)
|
Rheumatologist. Consultant physician, Bath,
1957-1982.
|
Coste,
John Henry
|
?
-
|
T/Lt.
|
29.03.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
?
|
|

|
DSC
|
02.10.1942
|
Op. Jubilee, Dieppe 19.08.42
|
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, MGB 317
(motor gun boat)
|
(07.1944)
|
|
|
SO ... MGB
Flotilla
|
25.10.1944
|
-
|
(1945)
|
Assistant SO Coastal Forces, C-in-C
Nore [HMS Pembroke]
|
|
Cother,
Patrick Corfe



Son of William St John Cother, and Kathleen
Hutton.
Married 1st (21.11.1935, Brighton) Ivy
Gladys Mockford (28.12.1913 - 03.06.1977) (marriage dissolved 1964), daughter of of James Thomas
Mockford and Harriet Smith; two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd (20.12.1965) Mauricette Angelna Pignel.
|
20.06.1913
Furze Coppice, Marlborough, Wiltshire
-
27.07.2005
Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida, USA
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
03.01.1940
|
T/S.Lt.
|
23.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
05.01.1941 (reld
27.01.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
24.03.1942
|
attack
on enemy submarine 19.10.41
|
|
29.05.1937
|
|
|
joined
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to Sussex Division,
RNVR)
|
03.01.1940
|
-
|
22.01.1940
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
23.01.1940
|
-
|
31.01.1941
|
HMS
Aquamarine (trawler; armed boarding vessel)
|
01.02.1941
|
-
|
30.03.1941
|
HMS Lord
Austin (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
|
09.04.1941
|
-
|
22.01.1942
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Mallow
(corvette)
|
12.02.1942
|
-
|
11.03.1942
|
HMS Jonquil
(corvette)
|
18.03.1942
|
-
|
16.10.1942
|
HMS
Nasturtium (corvette)
|
17.10.1942
|
-
|
12.04.1943
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Aubretia (corvette)
|
13.04.1943
|
-
|
25.06.1943
|
sick leave
& RN Auxiliary Hospital Barrow Gurney
|
02.07.1943
|
-
|
24.08.1945
|
HMS Fox (RN
base, Lerwick)
|
25.08.1945
|
-
|
27.01.1946
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth)
|
Served as Captain of actor Errol Flynn's yacht
Zaca,1956-57.
|
Cotton,
George Lennox
 |
?
- |
T/Lt.
|
25.10.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
?
|
|

|
DSC
|
25.08.1942
|
action in Channel 14.06.42
|
|
(03.1942)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, MTB
202
|
(06.1942)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, MTB 201
|
|
Court,
Peter
 |
04.02.1900
??
Bolton district, Greater Manchester /
Lancashire ??
-
(03?).1974 ??
Farnworth district, Lancashire ??
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
03.01.1943
|
T/Lt.
|
03.01.1945
1946?, seniority 03.01.1942
|
Lt.
|
1946?, seniority
03.01.1945
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
03.01.1953
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1958 (retd
29.06.1966)
|
|
|
VRD
|
?
|
?
|
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS Quebec (Combined training cetre,
Inverary)
|
22.02.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Corena (minesweeping trawler)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HM BYMS 2076 (British yard minesweeper)
*
|
1946?
|
|
|
permanent
RNVR (Sussex Division) [later RNR]
|
Post-war a headmaster at the secondary school of Claverham, Battle, Sussex.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Courtauld,
Augustine
"August"

Eldest child of Samuel Augustine Courtauld
(1865–1953), a director of the family textile firm, and his wife, Edith Anne
(Edian) Lister (d. 1951), daughter of Walter Venning Lister.
Married (1932) Mollie, elder daughter of
Frank Douglas Montgomerie, land agent; four sons, two daughters.
|
26.08.1904
Bocking, Braintree district, Essex
-
03.03.1959
hospital, London
[buried at sea]
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
14.10.1939
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
13.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
1940/41?,
seniority 13.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
|
PolM
|
1932
|
?
|
|
Education: Charterhouse; Trinity College, Cambridge
(...-1926; BA)
Traveller & Arctic explorer.
14.10.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services)
|
24.09.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS Wasp
(Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MAC 2 (rescue craft))
|
09.08.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MGB 20 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces
establishment, Fort William)]
|
(08.1942)
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
HMS Hornet
(Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
|
12.07.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Garth (destroyer)
|
?
|
|
|
HMS
Tintagel Castle (corvette)
|
?
|
|
|
HMS
Agamemnon (harbour service amenity ship)
|
After the war he devoted himself to local government
and community service. He served on Essex county council from 1945 to 1955, and
became a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL) in 1946, and High
Sheriff of Essex in 1953. He was a governor of Felsted School, chairman of Essex
Association of Boys' Clubs, and vice-president of the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution (RNLI) (1957), and gave a lifeboat to the institution in memory of
his mother. He served three times on the council of the Royal Geographical
Society and was honorary secretary between 1948 and 1951. He also served on the
committee of management of the Scott Polar Research Institute. In 1956 he set up
the Augustine Courtauld Trust to help causes which ‘wouldn't get much help
otherwise’.
Published: Man the ropes (1957; memoirs); From
the Ends of the Earth (1958; anthology of Polar writings)
* date of appointment given as 11.07.1940; in the
Oct 1944 Navy List still shown under HMS Hornet, but also showing under HMS
Garth
|
Courtis,
Richard Douglas
 |
(12?).1917
Barnstaple district, Devon
-
|
|
03.03.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
First
Lieutenant, MTB 514
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS
Dartmouth (base, Dartmouth)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Spey
(frigate)
|
|
Cowan,
[Prof.] Charles
Donald [Jeremy]

Son of W.C. Cowan and Minnie Ethel (née
Farrow).
Married 1st (1945) Mary Evelyn (marriage dissolved 1960), daughter of Otto Vetter, Perth, WA; two
daughters.
Married 2nd (1962) Daphne Eleanor, daughter of Walter Rishworth Whittam, Rangoon.
|
08.11.1923
London
-
|
T/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
01.03.1944
|
T/A/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
<
07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
|
CBE
|
31.12.1987
|
New
Year 88: as Director of the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London
|
|
Education: Kilburn Grammar School; Peterhouse, Cambridge
University (MA), PhD London; FRAS
1941
|
-
|
1945
|
served Royal Navy:
|
(12.1944)
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. O 19 (Dutch submarine)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Ambrose
(submarine base, Dundee) *
|
Lecturer in History, Raffles College, Singapore,
1947-1948, and University of Malaya, 1948-1950; School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London: Lecturer in the History of SouthEast Asia,
1950-1960; Professor, 1961-1980, Professor of Oriental History, 1980-1989; Director,
1976-1989; London University: Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1985-1986; Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
1988-1990; Chairrman of Convocation, 1990-1994. Visiting Professor of Southeast
Asian History, Cornell University, 1960-1961. Chairman, Committee for SE-Asian
Studies, British Academy, 1990-. Governor: James Allen's Girls School,
1977-1989; Alleyn's School, 1980-; Dulwich College, 1980-; Richmond College,
1988-1992. Trustee, Dulwich Estate, 1985-. Chairman, External System, University of London, since 1993.
Published: Nineteenth Century Malaya, 1961; (ed) The Economic Development
of SouthEast Asia, 1964; (ed) The Economic Development of China and Japan,
1964; (with P. L. Burns) Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan Journals, 1975; (with O.
L. Wolters) Southeast Asian History and Historiography, 1976.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Cowley,
Robert
 |
?
-
|
T/A/S.Lt.
(E)
|
15.06.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
Served in the Merchant Navy till 1937.
|
|
|
temporary
officer serving under T.124X agreements
|
08.02.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Highway
(landing ship, dock)
|
|
Cox,
Dennis
 |
?
- |
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
12.08.1943
|
T/A/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
< 07.1945
|
T/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
12.08.1945
|
|
|
CdeG
|
?
|
for
liaison services French Ship L'Aventure
|
|
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship Curie (submarine)
|
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship L'Aventure (frigate)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) *
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames) *
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Cox,
Dennis George
 |
?
- |
| T/S.Lt. |
16.10.1943 |
| T/A/Lt. |
< 10.1944 (reld <
04.1946) |
 |
Hkn |
26.08.1947 |
liaison duties |
|
|
(10.1944) |
|
|
HMS Eaglet
(RN base, Liverpool) * |
|
(01.1945) |
- |
(07.1945) |
no appointment listed |
|
1944 |
- |
1945 |
British
Naval Liaison Officer, HNorMS Arendal (Norwegian escort destroyer) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Cox,
Vivian Alexander
 |
21.07.1915
Bangalore, India
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
12.06.1941
|
T/A/Lt.
|
12.06.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
01.07.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Operations Division (Home), Admiralty [HMS President]
[possibly serving inWinston Churchill's War Map Room and
later loaned to President Roosevelt for the same duty]
|
15.06.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Howe (battleship) (Flag Ship of Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet) *
|
Producer, screenwriter & short story author.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Coy,
Peter Edward Brazil

Only child of Gilbert and Ella Coy.
Married; two sons, two daughters.
|
20.12.1922
Porto Allegre, Brazil
-
|
Prob. T/A/S.Lt.
|
09.02.1942
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
?, seniority
09.02.1942
|
T/S.Lt.
|
03.1944,
seniority 09.02.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
?, seniority 09.02.1944
|
T/Lt. RM
|
04.12.1944,
seniority 09.02.1942
|
Lt. RM
|
01.09.1947,
seniority 09.02.1942
|
Capt. RM
|
09.06.1950 (retd
09.05.1958)
|
|
1941
|
|
|
cipher clerk to Naval Attaché Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil)
|
12.06.1942
|
-
|
08.1944
|
HMS Narcissus
(corvette) (convoying in North Atlantic)
|
04.12.1944
|
|
|
transferred to the Royal Marines
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
Chatham
Division, Royal Marines
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
Royal
Marines Depot, Deal
|
(07.1948)
|
|
|
Portsmouth
Division, Royal Marines
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
Royal
Marines, Deal
|
(05.1953)
|
|
|
Plymouth
Division, Royal Marines
|
16.09.1953
|
-
|
(04.1955)
|
40
Royal Marine Commando
|
(01.1956)
|
|
|
HMS
President
|
Undergraduate at Newcastle (BA, Dip/Anth),
09.1958-07.1963. Postgraduate at Oxford (M.Litt, D.Phil), 09.1963-12.1966. Lecturer in Anthropology in Australia,
1967-1971. Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in Scotland, 1971-1988. Retired to
France, 1989.
Published: The echo of a fighting flower : the story of HMS Narcissus and B3
Ocean Escort Group in WWII (1997)
|
Crabb,
Lionel Kenneth [Philip] "Buster"

 |
28.01.1909
Streatham, SW London
-
19.04.1956
(missing, declared death 09.06.1957)
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
07.11.1941
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
(Sp.Br.)
|
? (reld 1947)
|
Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
(retd)
|
?
|
|

|
GM
|
25.01.1944
|
removal
of mines
|
|
|
OBE
|
11.12.1945
|
wind
up Europe 45
|
|
10.1942
|
-
|
(08.1943)
|
mine &
disposal officer, HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
|
1945
|
|
|
Mine
Disposal Units:
|
|
|
|
Principal
Diving Officer, Northern Italy
|
05.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Fabius
(RN base, Taranto)
|
08.1945
|
|
|
Palestine
|
1955
|
-
|
1956
|
HMS Vernon
|
|
Cracklen,
George Edward

Married (10.06.1944); at least one son.
Residence: (1944) Frindsbury, Strood, Kent.
|
(03?).1907
Strood district, Kent
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
010.06.1943?
|
T/Lt.
|
01.06.1944 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
16.06.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Lexa
(armed yacht, minesweeping duties)
|
|
Craig,
John Kirke
From Glasgow.
|
?
- |
T/Lt.
|
22.11.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945
(reld < 04.1946)
|
 |
MID
|
11.06.1942
|
HM's
birthday 42
|
 |
MID
|
14.06.1945
|
HM's
birthday 45
|
Watchkeeping Certificate
|
22.11.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
King Alfred (RNVR training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
25.09.1940
|
-
|
07.1943
|
Commanding Officer, HMS St
Zeno (anti-submarine trawler)
|
10.04.1944
|
-
|
12.06.1945
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Oxlip (corvette)
|
25.06.1945
|
-
|
03.11.1945
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Rushen Castle (corvette)
|
|
Craig-Bennett,
[Dr.] Arthur
[Lancelot]
Married ((03?).1930, St Marylebone
district, London) Helen Marjorie Mure; ... children (one daughter?).
|
05.12.1903
-
12.07.1985
Colchester district, Essex
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
13.01.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
13.04.1941
|
A/T/Lt.Cdr.
|
? (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
OBE
|
10.06.1961
|
HM's
birthday 61: as British Council representative, Libya
|
 |
LM
|
17.07.1945
|
as
Naval Liaison Officer South of France
|
|
Education: Cambridge University (MA, PhD)
Lecturer in zoology, University of Edinburgh.
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 06.03.1933. Chief Fisheries Officer,
Palestine, League of Nations, 1936-.... Professor of Zoology, University of
Libya.
(02.1941)
|
|
|
Admiralty
[HMS President] *
|
21.06.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS
Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
|
09.07.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
on staff of Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)]
|
01.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East
Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Craine,
James Wilson
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt.
(E)
|
25.11.1942 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
|
|
|
temporary
officer serving under T.124X agreements
|
(1943)
|
|
|
HMS Thane
(escort carrier)
|
12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Patroller (escort carrier)
|
17.11.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Mersey
(T.124X Depot, Liverpool & Neston Camp, Wirral)
|
Superintendent Marine Engineer for the Isle of Man Steam Packet
Company, 01.04.1968-29.12.1974.
|
Crammond,
Leslie Ernest

Son of Harold Ernest Crammond (died 1942).
|
26.03.1909
Loughbrough district, Leicestershire
-
02.2004
Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
23.02.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
1940, seniority
23.02.1940 (reld 23.12.1940; medically unfit)
|
 |
MID
|
04.02.1941
|
bringing down enemy aircraft 17.11.40
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
26.06.1940
|
-
|
(11.1940)
|
HMS
Southsea (minesweeping drifter)
|
|
Crane,
Vernon Reginald

Son of ... Crane, and ... Vernon.
|
07.03.1920
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
03.06.1984
Bromley district, Kent
|
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
23.09.1940
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
07.03.1941
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
23.03.1943
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
|
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
04.01.1941
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for Special Service)
|
15.10.1941
|
-
|
08.11.1942
|
pilot, 822
Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent), from 07.1942 HMS
Furious (aircraft carrier)]
[his Albacore failed to return during Operation Torch, from
a raid on La Senia airfield, being shot down by a Dewoitine Dw.520, making a force landing
and beibg badly damaged; Crane was slightly injured & probably captured]
|
08.11.1942
|
-
|
?
|
POW in
French captivity ?
|
01.08.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
Commanding
Officer, 714 Squadron FAA [HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire)]
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Craven,
Charles Frederick
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/Lt.
|
11.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
|
 |
MID
|
13.03.1945
|
assault
Normandy 06-12.44
|
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank) *
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, LCI(S) 527 (landing craft, infantry (small)), LCI(S) Squadron
(Normandy)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Crichton,
Charles McVeagh
 |
14.10.1910
-
12.1985
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
|
T/Lt.
|
16.07.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
(06.1944)
|
T/A/Cdr.
|
< 07.1945
(reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
14.11.1944
|
Operation
Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
|
|
17.05.1942
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs)
|
01.11.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, HM LCT 461
(landing craft, tank) & Senior Officer, 14th LCT
Flotilla
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Braganza
(RN base, Bombay, India) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Crichton,
Patrick
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
14.08.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
?
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 326 (motor torpedo boat)
|
06.09.1944
|
-
|
24.04.1945
|
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 511 (motor torpedo boat) [1945 renamed: HM MTB 2004]
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Crichton,
Robert Alan

Son of John Roberts Crichton and Mary
Euphemia Crichton.
Husband of Edith Caroline Crichton, of Bournemouth, Hampshire.
|
1903 ? *
-
19.08.1941
[age 38]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]
* perhaps:
(06?).1904
Christchurch, Hampshire
|
|
23.02.1940
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
|
27.05.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties)
|
08.1941
|
-
|
19.08.1941
|
HMS
Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
[while on passage to Gibraltar the ship that
carried him (the steamer Aguila) was torpedoed & sunk by the German
submarine U-201]
|
|
Crick,
Edward Denton

Married 1st (28.08.1928, Kensington district, London) Frances E. Gale, a
professional singer 1923-1935; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (03.1963, Surrey North Eastern district) Olive M. Dennington. |
30.05.1901
Kensington district, London
-
06.11.1978
Minster, Ramsgate, Thanet district, Kent |
| T/Paym.S.Lt. |
27.05.1942 |
| T/Paym.Lt.
= T/Lt. (S) |
03.1943,
seniority 27.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
1940 |
|
|
enlisted
RNVR |
|
28.10.1943 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS
Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) |
Craftsman (partner of M.E. Crick Ltd.) & antique dealer. |
Crickmar,
Leonard Joseph
"Len"
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
11.03.1943
|
T/A/Lt.
|
< 07.1945
(reld < 04.1946)
|
|
20.09.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base) (for beach duty):
|
(01.1944)
|
|
|
"N"
RN Beach Commando (Anzio)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Critchley,
Macdonald

Son of Arthur Frank and Rosina Matilda
Critchley.
Married 1st, Edna Auldeth Morris (deceased); two sons.
Married 2nd, Eileen Hargreaves.
|
02.02.1900
-
15.10.1997
Sedgemoor, Somerset
|
|
|
CBE
|
1962
|
?
|
|
Education: Christian Brothers College; University of
Bristol (Lady Haberfield Scholarship in Medicine, Markham Skerritt Prize for
Original Research). MD 1925; ChB, MRCS, FRCP
1917
|
-
|
1918
|
served
European War
|
05.10.1939
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Consulting
Neurologist, RN Auxiliary Hospital, Barrow Gurney [HMS Drake]
|
Goulstonian Lectr, RCP, 1930; Hunterian Prof.,
RCS, 1935; Royal Coll. of Physicians: Bradshaw Lectr, 1942; Croonian Lectr,
1945; Harveian Orator, 1966; Pres., World Fedn of
Neurology, 1965-1973; Hon. Consulting Neurologist, King's Coll. Hosp.; Hon.
Consulting Physician, National Hosp., Queen Square; formerly Dean, Inst. of
Neurology; Neurological
Physician, Royal Masonic Hosp.; formerly Neurologist to Royal Hosp. and Home for
Incurables, Putney. Consulting Neurologist to Royal Navy, 1939-1977; Long Fox
Lectr, Univ. of Bristol, 1935; William Withering Lectr, Univ. of Birmingham,
1946; Tisdall Lectr, Univ. of Manitoba, 1951; Semon Lectr, Univ. of London,
1951; Sherrington Lectr, Univ. of Wisconsin; Orator, Medical Soc. of London,
1955. Pres. Harveian Soc., 1947. Hunterian Orator, 1957; Doyne Memorial Lectr,
1961; Wartenberg Lectr, 1961; Victor Horsley Memorial Lectr, 1963; Honyman
Gillespie Lectr, 1963; Schorstein Lectr, 1964; Hughlings
Jackson Lectr and Medallist, RSM, 1964; Gowers Lectr and Medallist, 1965;
Veraguth Gold Medallist, Bern, 1968; Sam T. Orton Award for work on Dyslexia,
1974; Arthur Hall Memorial Lectr, 1969; Rickman Godlee Lectr, 1970; Cavendish
Lectr, 1976; Vis. Prof., WinstonSalem, NC, 1983. Pres. Assoc. of British
Neurologists, 1962-1964; Second VicePres., RCP, 1964; Mem., GMC, 1957-1973;
FounderPres., Migraine Trust. Hon.
FACP; MD Zürich hc; DenM (AixMarseille) hc; MD Madrid hc; Hon. Fellow:
Faculty of History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy; PanAfrican Assoc.
of Neurological Scis; Hon. Mem., RSM; Hon. Corresp. Mem. Académie de Médecine
de France, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Royal Academy of Medicine,
Barcelona, and Neurological Socs of France, Switzerland, Holland, Turkey,
Uruguay, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Argentine, Germany, Chile, Spain,
Roumania, Norway, Czechoslovakia,
Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Peru, Poland and Sweden. Visiting Prof., Univs
of: Istanbul, 1949; California, 1950 and 1964; Hawaii, 1966. Master, Worshipful
Soc. of Apothecaries, 1956-1957.
Published:
Mirror Writing; Neurology of Old Age; Observations on Pain; Language of Gesture;
Shipwrecksurvivors; Sir William Gowers; The Parietal Lobes; The Black Hole;
Developmental Dyslexia; Aphasiology; The Dyslexic Child; Silent Language; (ed
jtly)
Music and the Brain, 1976; (jtly) Dyslexia defined, 1978; The Divine Banquet of
the Brain, 1979; The Citadel of the Senses, 1986; The Ventricle of Memory, 1990;
various articles on
nervous diseases.
|
Croghan,
Edward
 |
?
-
16.12.1941
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 50, 1]
|
|
Education: King Edward VII School, Johannesburg
01.09.1939
|
-
|
16.12.1941
|
Naval
Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
|
Cromack,
Charles

Son of ... Cromack, and ... Richardson.
Married; ... children (one son?).
|
31.01.1915
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
03.1990
Reading and Wokingham district, Berkshire
|
T/A/S.Lt.
(E)
|
11.11.1940 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
HMS St
Briac (Fleet air Arm target ship) *
|
01.07.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Eastway
(landing ship dock)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Cronyn,
Hugh Verschoyle

Son of Verschoyle Francis Cronyn, and Mable
Margaret Philpot.
Married (24.06.1942) Jean Harris, MA (Oxon), daughter of Percy Harris, of
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
|
30.04.1905
Vancouver, BC, Canada
-
25.07.1996
Wandsworth district, London
|
Ord.Sea.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
04.10.1940
|
T/A/Lt.
|
< 02.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
04.01.1941
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 12.1943,
< 04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
GM
|
28.04.1942
|
bomb
disposal * [investiture 07.07.42]
|
* Dealt with unexploded 500 kg bomb in
petrol-filled tank of an oil tanker Bristol Channel Apr 41.
|
Education: Ridley College, St Catharines, Ont.;
Ontario College of Art; Art Students LEague, NY; Académie Lhote, Paris;
American School of Fine Arts, Fontainbleau
Spent three years working in Paris studios & five years as a freelance
artist in London.
19.11.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
Unexploded
Bombs Department, Admiralty (for duty outside Admiralty)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
24.08.1942
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Mallard (patrol vessel)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *
|
(1945)
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, French heavy cruiser "Suffren"
|
Artist, painter. FRSA. Director of Art at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (three years).
Full-time lecturer in painting at North East Essex School of Art, Colchester
(eight years).
|
Crosskell,
Gordon Kenneth

Son of ... Crosskell, and ... Lill.
Married; at least one son.
|
(12?).1924
Louth district, Lincolnshire
-
01.2008 still alive (aged 83)
|
?
|
? [J/X 371118]
|
T/Midsh.
|
31.03.1943
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
29.05.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
|
29.11.1944 (reld
23.08.1946)
|
|
30.06.1942
|
|
|
joined RNVR
& served in the ranks
|
|
|
|
training at
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) & HMS Lochailort (Combined
Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
|
|
|
|
served at a
minesweeper
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) * (probably for landing craft duty)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
1946?
|
-
|
1946?
|
HMS Forth
(submarine depot ship for 3rd Submarine Fotilla, Holy Loch, Scotland)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Crossman,
James
|
?
-
|
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
|
21.10.1940
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
....1941,
seniority 21.10.1940
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
21.04.1943
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
(A)
|
< 07.1945
(reld < 04.1946)
|
|
|
DSO
|
01.05.1945
|
Operation
Meridian (air strikes on Palembang 01.45)
|
|
20.01.1941
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
pilot, 776
Squadron [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
|
03.07.1941
|
-
|
13.05.1942
|
pilot,
804 Squadron [HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)]
|
14.05.1942
|
-
|
26.10.1942
|
pilot, 804
Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton]
|
27.10.1942
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
pilot, 804
Squadron FAA [HMS Dasher (escort carrier)]
|
07.10.1944
|
-
|
09.08.1945
|
Commanding Officer, 894
Squadron FAA [HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) & HMS Implacable
(aircraft carrier)] (after a ramrod operation to Matsushima Japan, his
aircraft was hit by Flak; pilot bailed out; only held briefly just before VJ
Day)
|
|
Crothall,
Allan Charles
 |
c. 1916
-
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
24.01.1941
|
T/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
24.01.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
|
MBE
|
11.12.1945
|
wind
up Europe 45
|
|
13.02.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
Assistant
Salvage Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
?
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
Salvage
Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
10.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Byrsa
(RN base, Naples, Italy) (for miscellaneous services)
|
Managing Director of Risdon Beazley/Ulrich Harms.
Published: Wealth from the sea (1993)
|
Crothers,
[Rev.] John
Ruan [later used as: Jack Ruan]

Son of David Crothers, and Margery Gillian
Michell.
Married Anne ... |
02.01.1912
Dover district, Kent
-
20.10.1976
St Erme Rectory, Truro, Cornwall |
| Cadet RN |
01.05.1929 |
| Midsh. RN |
01.01.1930 |
| A/S.Lt. RN |
01.05.1932 |
| S.Lt. RN |
04.09.1933,
seniority 01.11.1932 |
| Lt. RN |
01.03.1935
(dismissed the service by sentence of a court martial 05.12.1935) |
| T/Lt. |
10.03.1941 (reld
< 04.1946) |
 |
MID |
01.01.1945 |
New Year 45: liaison duties |
|
|
20.04.1929 |
- |
(04.)1930 |
HMS
Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) |
|
07.04.1930 |
- |
(01.)1932 |
HMS
Dauntless (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) |
|
01.05.1932 |
- |
08.01.1933 |
promotion course, RN college, Greenwich [HMS President] |
|
09.01.1933 |
- |
(06.)1933 |
promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
|
26.09.1933 |
- |
(02.)1935 |
HMS
Beagle (destroyer) (Mediterranean) |
|
17.06.1935 |
- |
(07.)1935 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Wakeful (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) |
|
(12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
(10.1944) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
|
26.08.1943 |
- |
01.11.1944 |
British
Naval Liaison Officer, HNorMS Stord (Norwegian destroyer) (despatches) |
|
(01.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
05.04.1945 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Amazon (destroyer) |
Joined the clergy post-war. |
Crouch,
Sidney Travis

Son of ... Crouch, and ... Potts. |
05.03.1920
Sunderland district, Durham
-
19.04.1972
Broom Way, Lee-on-Solent, Gosport district,
Hampshire |
| Prob. T/El.S.Lt. |
21.09.1942 |
| T/El.S.Lt. |
22.05.1943,
seniority 21.09.1942 |
| T/El.Lt. |
01.11.1944 |
| Lt. (L) RN |
15.07.1946,
seniority 01.11.1943 |
| Lt.Cdr. (L) RN |
01.11.1951 |
| Cdr. (EngL) RN |
31.12.1958 (retd
05.03.1970) |
|
|
20.03.1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS
Postillon (Algerine class minesweeper) |
|
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
15.07.1946 |
|
|
transferred, RN |
|
10.1946 |
- |
(07.1948) |
HMS
Sussex |
|
(05.1949) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
17.04.1950 |
- |
(05.1950) |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties) |
|
(05.1953) |
|
|
HMS
Collingwood * |
|
21.03.1954 |
- |
(04.)1955 |
HMS
Wrangler |
|
04.07.1955 |
- |
(01.1957) |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
|
03.11.1958 |
- |
(01.1959) |
HMS
Gambia |
|
27.10.1960 |
- |
26.02.1961 |
courses |
|
27.02.1961 |
- |
(07.1961) |
Naval
Equipment Division, Ship Department, Admiralty [HMS President] |
|
25.06.1962 |
- |
(02.)1963 |
HMS
Bellerophon (Reserve Ships, Portsmouth Division) |
|
04.02.1963 |
- |
(02.1964) |
on
staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
|
25.10.1965 |
- |
(02.1968) |
Fleet
Maintenance Division, Department of Dockyards and Maintenance, Admiralty [HMS
President] |
|
(02.1969) |
|
|
HMS
Collingwood (RN weapon and electrical engineering school, Fareham, Hampshire) * |
|
Crowther,
Charles Henry

Son of ... Crowther, and ... Lock.
|
23.10.1913
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire /
Warwickshire
-
|
Ord.Sea.
|
1939?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
1943
|
T/S.Lt.
|
04.08.1944 (reld
10.05.1946)
|
|
1939?
|
|
|
HMS Ganges
(training establishment, Shotley)
|
|
|
|
HMS Europa
(RN Patrol Service central depot, Lowestoft)
|
|
|
|
HMS Antrim
(trawler base, Belfast)
|
1943
|
-
|
1943
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
|
1943
|
-
|
1944?
|
HMS Nimrod
(anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown)
|
1944?
|
-
|
1944
|
HMS Loring
(frigate)
|
23.09.1944
|
-
|
(07.)1945
|
HMS
Deptford (sloop)
|
24.10.1945
|
-
|
16.04.1946
|
HMS Godwit
(RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)
|
|
Cuff,
Charles Cecil

Son of Levy and Mary Cuff.
Married ((12?).1919, Chard district, Somerset) Florence L. Hunt.
|
1894 ?
-
28.05.1941
(MPK) [age 47]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 4, column 1]
|
|
?
|
-
|
28.05.1941
|
HMS
Registan (armed boarding vessel) [bombed by German aircraft]
|
|
Cuffe,
Alec Guinness
later known as:
Sir Alec Guinness
|
02.04.1914
Marylebone, Greater London
-
05.08.2000
Chichester, West Sussex
|
T/S.Lt.
|
1942
|
T/Lt.
|
30.04.1943 (reld
1945/46)
|
|
CH
|
1994
|
?
|
-
|
Kt
|
1959
|
?
|
|
CBE
|
1955
|
?
|
|
Education: Pembroke Lodge, Southbourne; Roborough,
Eastbourne
|
|
|
Actor.
On
leaving school went into Arks Publicity, Advertising
Agents, as copywriter. First professional appearance walking
on in Libel at King's Theatre, Hammersmith, 1933; played Hamlet
in modern dress, Old Vic, 1938; toured the Continent, 1939
|
1941
|
|
|
joined RN
as a rating; midshipman, HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove,
Sussex)
|
31.05.1942
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs)
|
|
|
|
Rejoined
Old Vic, 1946-1947. Fellow, BAFTA, 1989. Hon. DFA Boston Coll., 1962; Hon.
DLitt Oxon, 1977; Hon. LittD Cantab, 1991. Special Oscar, for contribution to
film, 1979; Olivier Award for Services to the Theatre, SWET, 1989; Evening
Standard Film Award for lifetime achievement, 1995.
|
Films include: Oliver Twist; Kind Hearts
and Coronets; The Bridge on the River Kwai (Oscar for best actor of the year,
1957); Lawrence of Arabia; Star Wars; Little Dorrit; A Handful of Dust.
Plays include: The Cocktail Party (New York); Dylan (New York)
(Antoinette Perry Award); A Voyage Round My Father; Habeas Corpus; The Old
Country, 1977; A Walk in the Woods, 1989.
Television: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1979 (BAFTA Award,
1980); Smiley's People, 1981-1982 (BAFTA Award, 1983); Tales from Hollywood,
1991; A Foreign Field, 1993; Eskimo Day, 1995.
Published:
Blessings in disguise (memoirs), 1985; My name escapes me : the diary of a
retiring actor, 1996.
|
Cullen,
Dennis Patrick

Married; one son, one daughter.
|
28.07.1923
Eastbourne district, Sussex
-
01.1995
Eastbourne district, Sussex
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.02.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
27.02.1946 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
1941
|
-
|
(1946?)
|
served
in the RNVR (Battle of the Atlantic, West Africa campaign):
|
26.10.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding Officer, HDML
1014 (harbour defence motor launch)
|
09.03.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Gannet
(RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
|
?
|
-
|
?
|
HMS Acute
(Algerine minesweeper)
|
(1946?)
|
-
|
1965
|
Royal
Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
|
Centennial Mayor of Eastbourne, Sussex 1983-4.
|
Cullen,
Gerald
|
?
-
|
Ord.Sea.
|
1942 [JX/329270]
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
02.07.1943
|
T/S.Lt.
|
02.01.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
01.10.1945 (reld
09.04.1946)
|
|
1942
|
|
|
HMS
Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
|
18.10.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Prowess (trawler) (probably even in command late 1945/early
1946?)
|
Returned to his employers, Commercial Union Assurance,
at which time he was living at Buckhurst Hill, Essex. It would seem he later became a member of the RNVR Officers' Association and was also in the Rotary Club of Catford.
|
Cumberland,
Peter Ernest

Son of ... Cumberland, and ... Randall.
|
20.04.1922
Richmond district, Surrey
-
12.2005
Ely district, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
?
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
20.10.1944 (reld
1945/46)
|
|

|
DSC
|
05.12.1944
|
passage
convoy JW59 & RA59A
|
|
MID
|
20.06.1944
|
2
attacks on U-boat 04.44
|
|
20.08.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
pilot,
825 Squadron FAA [1944 at HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
|
05.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Golden
Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) (for disposal)
|
|
Cunningham,
Joseph Irwin
"Joe"
Married (1958, Salzburg) Edith Franziska Roma Zdrazil
(04.09.1928-26.11.2008); four sons.
|
1916
Portrush, Northern Ireland
-
11.2008 still alive
|
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
|
27.03.1940
|
T/Sg.Lt.
|
1941, seniority
27.03.1940 (reld 26.04.1946)
|
|
MBE
|
01.01.1946
|
New
Year 46
|
|
Education: MB, BCh, BAO.
27.03.1940
|
-
|
28.09.1940
|
RN
Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
|
29.04.1940
|
-
|
17.04.1941
|
HMS Beagle
(destroyer)
|
17.07.1941
|
-
|
27.03.1942
|
HMS Somali
(destroyer)
|
03.07.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Zest
(destroyer)
|
After marriage in 1958 moved throughout Europe,
from London to Cologne, Helsinki, The Hague, Vienna, and Helensburgh (near
Glasgow), before settling in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1972.
|
Cunningham,
Robert Cocks
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
01.03.1946 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
28.05.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Onslaught (destroyer)
|
14.08.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Lagos
(destroyer) (for dagger duties)
|
|
Curd,
Geoffrey Fowler
|
28.03.1911
-
05.1985
Worthing district, West Sussex
|
T/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/Lt.
|
12.09.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
MID
|
28.11.1944
|
engagement
near Fécamp 08.44
|
|
27.10.1942
|
-
|
02/03.1944
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Middleton (destroyer)
|
02/03.1944
|
-
|
08/09.1944
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Middleton (destroyer)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Curtis,
Arthur James
"Jim"
Married; at least one son.
|
20.12.1913
Roath district, Glamorganshire / Wales
-
09.1993
Macclesfield district, Cheshire
|
Prob. Writer
|
29.01.1941 [Dev
MX/81463]
|
Writer
|
30.04.1941
|
Ldg. Writer
|
03.03.1944
|
T/A/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
25.09.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
25.03.1945
|
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 04.1946
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
01.06.1946
(reld 14.12.1946)
|
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star (Burma);
Defence Medal with Silver laurel leaves; War Medal 39-45
|
29.01.1941
|
-
|
03.03.1941
|
HMS Royal Arthur
(training establishment, Corsham, Wilts)
|
04.03.1941
|
-
|
25.11.1941
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport)
|
26.11.1941
|
-
|
23.12.1941
|
HMS King Alfred
(training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
24.12.1941
|
-
|
23.07.1942
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport)
|
24.07.1942
|
-
|
01.03.1943
|
HMS Illustrious
(aircraft carrier)
|
02.03.1943
|
-
|
25.03.1943
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport)
|
26.03.1943
|
-
|
16.04.1943
|
HMS King Alfred
(training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
17.04.1943
|
-
|
29.04.1943
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport)
|
30.04.1943
|
-
|
04.11.1943
|
HMS Skirmisher
(RN base, Milford Haven)
|
05.11.1943
|
-
|
03.12.1943
|
HMS King Alfred
(training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
04.12.1943
|
-
|
20.12.1943
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport)
|
21.12.1943
|
-
|
28.12.1943
|
HMS Arbiter
(escort carrier)
|
29.12.1943
|
-
|
23.02.1944
|
HMS Asbury
(accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA)
|
24.02.1944
|
-
|
04.03.1944
|
HMS Arbiter
(escort carrier)
|
05.03.1944
|
-
|
05.03.1944
|
HMS Reaper
(escort carrier)
|
06.03.1944
|
-
|
06.03.1944
|
HMS Thane
(escort carrier)
|
07.03.1944
|
-
|
24.09.1944
|
HMS Arbiter
(escort carrier)
|
25.09.1944
|
-
|
06.11.1944
|
HMS Lucifer
(RN base, Swansea)
|
07.11.1944
|
-
|
19.08.1945
|
HMS Orlando
(RN base, Greenock) (for sea transport duties)
|
20.08.1945
|
-
|
18.10.1946
|
HMS
Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for duty at Calcutta)
|
19.10.1946
|
-
|
14.12.1946
|
HMS
President (Admiralty)
|
|
Curtis,
Dunstan Michael
Carr

Only child of Arthur Cecil Curtis, a civil
servant, and his wife, Elizabeth, a teacher and painter, the daughter of
Austin Cooper Carr, of Broxton Lower Hall, Cheshire.
Married 1st (1939) Monica,
daughter of James Grant Forbes, lawyer, of Boston, Massachusetts; one son, one
daughter.
Married
2nd (1950) Patricia (Tony) Elton, sociologist and daughter of George Elton
Mayo, an industrial sociologist at Harvard University.
|
26.08.1910
Chelsea, Greater London
-
09.09.1983
Montgomery
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
02.02.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
26.08.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 10.1944
|
T/A/Cdr.
|
? (reld <
04.1946)
|
|
Education: Eton (1923); Trinity College, Oxford
(1929)
Qualified as a solicitor, 1937. Legal
adviser and business manager to Michel Saint-Denis, the French theatrical
director at the Old Vic drama school.
11.03.1937
|
|
|
joined
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing)
|
14.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
|
25.06.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS St
Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
|
(03.1942)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, MGB 314
(motor gun boat)
|
(1943?)
|
-
|
(1944)
|
in charge
of the naval wing of 30 Commando / 30 Advanced Unit (Africa, Sicily & NW
Europe)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
Combined
Operations HQ *
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
Deputy secretary-general of the European Movement,
1947. Serving on the Council of Europe till 1962. Senior partner in the Paris
office of the law firm Herbert Smith & Co., 1964-1973.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Curtis,
Jeffery William
Son of ... Curtis, and ... Peck.
|
(09?).1912
Epping district, Essex
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
21.02.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
21.02.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
03.05.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Forte
IV (Coastal Forces base, Falmouth) (for motor launches)
|
07.08.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS
Osborne (RN base, Ryde, Isle of Wight) (for duty with Naval Control Service
Office, Cowes)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS
Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Curzon,
Viscount;
Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon;
6th Earl Howe (1821);
Baron Howe (1788);
Baron Curzon (1794);
Viscount Curzon (1802)

A godson of King Edward VII.
Only son of 5th Earl Howe, PC, CBE, VD (1884-1964), and Mary Curzon
(1887-1962).
Succeeded father, 1964.
Married 1st (23.07.1935) Priscilla (whom he divorced, 1942), only child of Lt.Col. Sir Archibald Weigall, 1st Bt,
KCMG; two daughters.
Married 2nd (30.04.1946) Grace Lilian Barker "Gay", eldest daughter of late Stephen Frederick Wakeling, Durban,
South Africa; two daughters.
|
07.08.1908
St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex
-
29.05.1984
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
|
Prob. Midsh.
|
18.09.1928
|
A/S.Lt.
|
21.07.1931
|
S/Lt.
|
07.11.1932,
seniority 21.07.1932 (retd 1936/37?)
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
23.02.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
20.05.1940
|
A/T/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 12.1943,
< 04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
CBE
|
10.06.1961
|
HM's
birthday 61: for political & public services in Buckinghamshire
|
|
Education: Eton; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1928
|
|
|
joined
RNVR (London Division)
|
|
|
|
served
War of 1939-1945 in Atlantic & Pacific:
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
11.06.1940
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Cairo
(cruiser)
|
19.05.1942
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Howe
(battleship)
|
Member (MR) LCC for South Battersea, 1937-46. Commissioner of
Bucks St John Ambulance Brigade, 1953-55; President: South Buckinghamshire Conservative
and Unionist Association, 1965-72; St John Ambulance, Bucks; Trustee, King William IV Naval Asylum. JP 1946, DL 1960, Bucks. Alderman,
Buckinghamshire, 1958, County Councillor, 1973-, Vice Chairman, Bucks County Council, 1976-.
President, Chesham and Amersham Conservative Association, since 1972.
President: Britisith Automobile Racing Club; Inst. of Road Safety Officers; Fiat Motor Club (GB);
RAC Steward; Vice-Chairman, RAC; Director, Automobile Proprietary Ltd; Member: RAC Public Policy Cttee; British Motor Sports Council;
Motoring Services Ltd; RNLI Cttee of Management. Hon. FIRTE. CStJ.
|
Cutteridge,
Ralph Oliver
 |
(09?).1920
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
|
|
15.04.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Blenheim (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)
|
17.12.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
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HMS Osprey
(anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon) (for miscellaneous duties)
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