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1939-1945

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H.L. Coatalen to P.E.B. Coy

Coatalen,
Herve Louis
H.L. Coatalen

?
-

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.G. Coates

?
-

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."

Coates,
William Herbert Heald
W.H.H. Coates

Son of ... Coates, and ... Heald.
Married ((09?).1948, Gosport district, Hampshire) Joan M. Ellicott ((09?).1928 - ), daughter of ... Ellicott, and ... Glasspool.

(06?).1923
Bucklow district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
07.11.2010

T/A/S.Lt.	15.10.1942?
T/S.Lt.	15.10.1943
T/Lt.	15.10.1945
Lt.	12.07.1956, seniority 25.06.1953
Lt.Cdr.	25.06.1961

MID

11.12.1946

wind up Europe 45

			HMS Bluebell (corvette)
14.12.1942	-	(12.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 245 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
04.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 392 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
08.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1011 (motor minesweeper)
06.06.1947			transferred, List I of Permanent RNVR
12.07.1956			transferred, Permanent RNVR

Cobb,
Charles David
C.D. Cobb

?
-

T/Lt.

13.11.1943

(06.1944)

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 246 (motor torpedo boat)

Cobb,
Henry Patrick
H.P. Cobb

?
-

T/Lt.

DSC

Commanding Officer, MGB 328 (motor gun boat)

Cochran,
Thomas Patrick Murray
T.P.M. Cochran

(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.

Cockburn,
Denison
D. Cockburn

Son of George and Mary Cockburn, of South Norwood, London SE.

27.06.1905
Norwood, Croydon district, London
-
08.1994
North Cotswolds district, Gloucestershire

T/Lt. (E)

20.12.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

03.01.1944

(07.1945)

on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

His son writes: "As he was in a reserved occupation in the early years of the war - engineer in a factory turning out tanks - he had to wait to get into uniform but entered the RNVR in 1943(?). He served as a Lieutenant (E) on HMS Adventure, a Cruiser/Minelayer. She spent some time alongside in Mulberry Harbour following the Normandy landings acting as a workshop ship. My father finished his war service in Cuxhaven in 1945 returning to the UK and in time became chief engineer of a steel works in the Black Country."

Cockrell,
Peter Sabin
P.S. Cockrell

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
A.P. Cocks

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

Codrington,
John Ernest Fleetwood

see:

Royal Marine officers section

Cohen,
Philip Mansell
P.M. Cohen

(03?).1908
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-

T/Lt.

MID

(1944)

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 725 (motor torpedo boat)

Coker,
Edward John Patrick
"Ted"
E.J.P. Coker

(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
G.A. Coldham

Son of ... Coldham, and ... Blackie.

13.10.1924
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
05.2004
Oxford district, Oxfordshire

T/S.Lt.

13.10.1944

(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Gadfly (Coastal Forces base, Felnsburg, Germany)

Cole,
Melvin Wilfred
M.W. Cole

?
-

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
B.C. Coleman

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]

Fragment of his headstone at St. Columb's Church of Ireland graveyard, Moville, County Donegal, Ireland (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Dennis)

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]

Cole,
William Alfred
W.A. Cole

From Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

09.05.1918
-
10.1989
Surrey South-Eastern district

T/S.Lt.	24.01.1941
T/Lt.	01.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

	MID	21.08.1945	war patrols Far East 05.44-05.45
	BK	23.06.1942	action against enemy while on board O 24 [decoration presented]

27.02.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Ambrose (base of 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (for submarines)
(02.1942)			HMS Ambrose (base of 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) *
?	-	16.02.1942?	British Naval Liaison Officer, Dutch submarine "O 24" (Dutch Bronze Cross)
(04.1942)			no appointment listed
11.05.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS P 554 (submarine)
23.04.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Clyde (submarine) (despatches)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed

Post-war Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Coleman,
Brian Charles
B.C. Coleman

Son of ... Coleman, and ... Fox.

(06?).1918
Steyning district, Sussex
-

T/Lt.

05.03.1943

DSC	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 45
MID	09.05.1944	Operation Stanley, 5 raiding voyages Med.
MID	05.09.1944	7 operations to Crete

(1944)			LS 8
(1944)	-	(1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 842 (motor launch)
05.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 221 (motor torpedo boat)

Coleman,
Charles Bernard
C.B. Coleman

(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)

Colenso,
Kenneth Arthur
K.A. Colenso

Son of Arthur Herbert Colenso (1883-1955), and Annie Gertrude Anderson (1880-1949).
Married (01.05.1945, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) Doris Irene Macrae (25.05.1919 - 07.1999), only daughter (with one brother) of Maj.Gen. Albert Edward Macrae (1886-1958), and Grace Kaye Billman (?-1953), formerly of Blackheath, London SE3; two daughters, one son.

27.12.1910
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
11.2000
Kingsclere and Whitchurch district, Hampshire

T/Sg.Lt.	04.07.1941
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld 28.02.1946)

Education: University of Liverpool (MB, ChB 04.07.1937).

04.07.1941	-	(08.)1941	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
17.09.1941	-	(08.)1942	HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper)
(10.1942)	-	(12.1942)	HMS Hebe (Halcyon class mnesweeper) *
17.12.1942	-	(02.)1944	HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
14.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS President III (accounting base for personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
(10.1944)	-	(04.1945)	836 Squadron FAA *
18.06.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Dartmouth (RN base, Dartmouth)

General practitioner, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Anaesthesist, Chippenham Hospital. Late House Surgeon, Victoria Central Hospital, Wallasey, Cheshire.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Coles,
Charles Leslie
C.L. Coles

?
-

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

Coles,
Donald Allan
D.A. Coles (Photo courtesy of Mrs Deborah Rand)

Married Greta Beatrice Reffell (06.07.1922 - 03.2013 still alive at Guernsey); two daughters.

05.01.1921
-
25.05.1997
Guernsey

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	16.03.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer on scientific duties

(04.1942)	-	(06.1942)	no appointment listed
31.07.1942	-	(12.1942)	HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
19.01.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy)
01.01.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)
14.03.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
16.07.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South Africa)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Collett,
Antony Farquhar Charles Mackinnon
A.F.C.M. Collett

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
J.H.C. Collier (Photo courtesy of Mrs Phyllis Emery.)

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
T.A.M. Collier

1912 ?
-
28.03.1942
(KIA) [age 30]

Lt.

MID

Commanding Officer, HM ML 457 (motor launch)

Collingwood,
Leslie
L. Collingwood

Son of Albert Collingwood, and Marion Warburton.

31.01.1923
Stockport, Cheshire
-

Ord.Sea.	31.12.1941 [JX306523]
T/A/S.Lt.	05.02.1943?
T/S.Lt.	05.08.1943
T/Lt.	05.08.1945

31.12.1941			enlisted RNVR
(1942)			HMS Derwent (destroyer)
14.10.1942	-	1943?	HMS Good Hope (training establishment, Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
25.07.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Unrivalled (submarine)
19.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Tactician (submarine)
(04.1946)			HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Collins,
Edward Arthur
E.A. Collins

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
H.G. Collins (Photo courtesy of Mr James Collins)

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"
J. Collins (Photo courtesy of Mr Chris Timms)

Adopted son of Charles Erling Collins and Nora Collins, of Bromley, Kent.

1917 ?
-
08.07.1944
(KIA) [age 27]
[Haslar RN Cemetery, G.10.23]

T/S.Lt.	17.07.1941
T/Lt.	17.04.1942

MID

05.12.1944

actions in Channel [posthumously]

10.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 52 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
20.07.1942	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 61 (motor gun boat)
1943?	-	1943?	HM MTB 447 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
20.10.1943	-	20.01.1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 451 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
21.01.1944	-	08.07.1944	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services):
21.01.1944	-	08.07.1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 451 (motor torpedo boat)

Collins,
John Ernest Harley
"Tim"
J.E.H. Collins

Only son of G.W. Collins, of Taynton, Gloucestershire, later of Heatherfield, Rednal, nr Birmingham.
Married 1st (20.11.1946, St George's, Hanover Square, London) Gillian M. Randal Smith, WRNS (28.04.1924 -09.1981), elder daughter of Randal 'Rufus' Smith, 2nd Lord Bicester; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1986) Jennifer Faith, widow of Capt. A.J.A. Cubitt; two stepdaughters.

24.04.1923
South Africa
-
04.09.2012

T/Midsh.	28.08.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	24.04.1943
T/S.Lt.	24.10.1943
T/Lt.	01.07.1945 (reld 1946)

MBE	11.07.1944	air attack Bari 02.12.43 [investiture 16.10.45]
DSC	26.06.1945	attack enemy shipping Istria 07.02.45 [investiture 16.10.45]
DSC	21.08.1945	torpedo attack enemy convoy Gulf of Venice [investiture 16.10.45]

Education: King Edward's School, Birmingham; Birmingham University.

1941			enlisted RNVR
			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
In 1942 appointed to Coastal Forces; joining a motor gun boat then being built in Devon. He took part in army support operations along the North African coast, subsequently joining an MTB as 2iC based initially at Malta and then Sicily. After spending some time in hospital in Tunisia as a result of a slight wound, he rejoined his flotilla based at Bari, the heel of Italy. A surprise night attack on December 2 1943 by 105 Junkers and 88 bombers from Luftflotte 2 sank 28 ships resulting in 1,000 casualties. Petrol from a fractured bulk pipeline flooded into the harbour and explosions of two ammunition ships broke windows seven miles away but the worst effect was caused by the mustard gas bombs carried in the American Liberty ship John Harvey. Mixed with oil, the gas had a devastating effect on anyone swimming in the harbour; Collins was among one of those who leapt in to the water to help survivors and was badly affected with mysterious symptoms; he was appointed MBE for his bravery. 1945 he was able to rejoin the 28th Flotilla and commanding MTB 406 he took part in a series of fierce actions in the Adriatic chalking up a remarkable tally of sinking or immobilising 21 ships and was awarded the DSC and Bar.
30.11.1942	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 642 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
25.06.1943	-	(08.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 243 (motor torpedo boat)
06.09.1943	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 243 (motor torpedo boat) (MBE)
16.06.1944	-	(10.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 84 (motor torpedo boat)
01.11.1944	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 406 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC and Bar)
27.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

Banker. Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd, 1946, Director 1957. Director: Royal Exchange Assurance, 1957; Rank Hovis McDougall Ltd, 1965-1991; Charter Consolidated Ltd, 1966-1983; Hudson's Bay Co., 1957-1974. Chairman United Services Trustee, 1968-1976. Chairman: Morgan Grenfell Holdings Ltd, 1974-1979; Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance, 1974-1988.
Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Oxfordshire, 1975-1996; High Sheriff, Oxfordshire, 1975. KStJ 1983.

Collins,
Leslie
L. Collins

?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)

15.05.1944

13.06.1945

(04.1946)

HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)

Collins,
Percy Sydney
P.S. Collins

Married; five children (daughter Betty Collins married F/O Robert Lionel Ames, RAFVR).

?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)	08.09.1941
T/Lt. (E)	08.02.1942 (reld > 01.1945, < 07.1945)

(12.1941)			HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea) *
02.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea) [VIIth RC Flotilla]
08.07.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

Returned to Wroxham Norfolk to help his family run the original Broads Hire boat fleets at Ernest Collins and Sons, selling up in the 1970's.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Collins,
Ralph Leslie
R.L. Collins

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

Collinson,
Peter Charles
P.C. Collinson

Son of Dr F.C. Collinson, JP, and ... Gummer.

(12?).1913
Rotherham, Yorkshire
-
23.09.2012
Rotherham, Yorkshire

T/Sg.Lt.	10.05.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	> 12.1943, < 04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Sg.Lt.	13.01.1949, seniority 16.12.1942
A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	?
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1951, seniority 16.12.1950 (retd 26.10.1968)

	VRD	?	-
	VRD	12.09.1967	1st clasp

Education: Epsom College (1927-1933; Prefect; Rugby XV; Hodgkin Prize); Sheffield University; Saint Bartholomew's Hospital; MRCS, LRCP (27.10.1939).

13.06.1940	-	(05.)1941	HMS Hurricane (destroyer)
30.05.1941	-	(06.)1942	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
(08.1942)	-	(12.1942)	no appointment listed
(02.1943)	-	(04.1943)	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) *
24.04.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Royal Ulsterman (assault landing craft HQ)
15.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Roseneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire)
13.01.1949			transferred, List II, Permanent RNVR

Collis,
Olaf Vernon Girard
Sub-Lieut. O.V.G. Collis, RNVR, Jan. 1945. (Photo courtesy of Mr Kevin Collis).

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

Collyer,
Geoffrey
G. Collyer

?
-

T/Midsh.	?
T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

12.07.1943	-	(10.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 48 (motor torpedo boat)
15.05.1944	-	(06.)1944	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 729 (motor torpedo boat)
12.06.1944	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 769 (motor torpedo boat)
22.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Cabbala (coding school, Lowton, Warrington, Lancashire)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Colvill,
Cyril Harry
C.H. Colvill

Son (with one brother) of Arthur A. Colvill (1887?-1962), and Nelly Lambert (1887-1953).
Married ((03?).1941, Medway district, Kent) Dorothy E. Robinson; one son.

21.04.1918
Medway district, Kent
-
(09?).1969
Gillingham, Canterbury district, Kent

T/S.Lt. (E)	01.07.1941
T/A/Lt. (E)	21.04.1943
T/Lt. (E)	21.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

11.12.1945

wind up Europe 45

01.07.1941	-	04.1942	HMS Queen of Thanet (paddle minesweeper)
04.1942	-	(10.)1943	HMS Glen Usk (paddle minesweeper)
01.11.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Elissa (Combined Operations base, Messina)
09.1944	-	06.1945	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
15.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) (for service at Ancona) (despatches)

Company director.

Compson,
Alan Henry
A.H. Compson

Son of Ernest Compson, and Ethel Greenfield.
Married ((06?).1941, Brentwood district, Essex) Marjorie Neave.

01.11.1911
Billericay district, Essex
-
(03?).1976
Swindon district, Wiltshire

T/S.Lt.	23.04.1942
T/Lt.	23.07.1942

31.05.1942	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations training centre, Troon) (for landing craft, tank):
(06.1944)			HM LCH 100 (landing craft, headquarters)

Cond,
Wilfred John
W.J. Cond

Son of Sydney and Ellen Cond, of Heston, Middlesex.

1923 ?
-
28.02.1943
(KIA) [age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]

T/A/S.Lt.

1942/43?

28.02.1943

British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian Ship Uredd (submarine)

Conde,
Edwin
E. Conde

?
-

T/S.Lt.	28.08.1941
T/Lt.	28.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Congreve,
John William
J.W. Congreve

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,
George Patchett
G.P. Connolly

Son of Andrew John Connolly (1876-1932), and Catherine Cecilia Patchett (1882-1976).
Married ((06?).1946, Burnley district, Lancashire) Margaret Briggs (14.08.1922 - 20.02.2007).

21.07.1920
Burnley district, Lancashire
-
12.10.2000
Preston and South Ribble district, Lancashire

T/S.Lt.	17.07.1942
T/Lt.	01.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

02.09.1942	-	(12.)1943	HMS Celandine (corvette)
07.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Wear (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Connolly,
Gerald Joseph
G.J. Connolly

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
T. Consitt (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Soanes)

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
D.C.L. Cook (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Cook)

Only child of Harry Cook, and Constance Cooper.
Married (Devon) Jean B. Mackrill; one son, one daughter.

30.09.1924
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 Kilma[l]colm (escort)
			also served at HMS Black Prince (cruiser) & HMS Amaranthus (corvette)

Cook,
Harold Faulkner
H.F. Cook

Son of Herbert Cook, and Edith Millicent Good, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

(03?).1918
Rochford district, Essex
-
02.01.1943
(MPK) [age 24]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]

T/S.Lt.	06.03.1941
T/Lt.	01.12.1942

06.04.1941	-	(04.)1942	HMS Amaranthus (corvette)
22.05.1942	-	(06.)1942	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for motor launches and miscellaneous duties)
12.06.1942	-	02.01.1943	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (missing, presumed killed as Chariot/human torpedo crewman, on passage HMS Trooper, during Chariot attack on Palermo harbour [Operation Principle]) *

* The driver of a third chariot, Lt. H.F. Cook RNVR had ripped his suit on a net and was suffering from severe seasickness. His number 2, Able Seaman H.V. Worthy, drove the craft ashore to leave Cook and carry on alone, but he found the craft too difficult to handle alone and abandoned it in deep water. He swam back to where he had left Cook but failed to find him. Worthy was also taken prisoner.

Cook,
William Walter
W.W. Cook

?
-

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,
Harry
H. Cooke (Photo courtesy of Mrs Susanne Taylor)

?
-

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *

01.03.1943 (reld 07.11.1945)

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

(12.1943)

(07.1945)

Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Sea Cadet Corps)

Cooke,
Harry Burford
H.B. Cooke (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

15.07.1918
-
05.1993
Bristol district, Gloucestershire

Prob. T/S.Lt..	23.08.1940
T/Lt.	23.02.1942

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
?	-	(10.1940)	HMS Cornelian
...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Ferret IV

Cooke,
John Henry Moore
"Jack"
J.H.M. Cooke (Photo courtesy of Mrs Sarita Annesley-Cooke)

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,
Jack Donald Crouch
J.D.C. Coombs (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Coombs)

Son of Donald Way Coombs (1886-1928), and Gladys Maud Skey (1885-).
Married (26.12.1939, Bournemouth district, Dorset / Hampshire) Evelyn Betty Woodrow (09.10.1917 - 05.2002); one son.

12.09.1917
Bournemouth, Christchurch district, Hampshire
-
31.08.1997
Christchurch, East Dorset district, Dorset

T/S.Lt.	05.02.1942
T/Lt.	05.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

02.01.1945

minesweeper & merchant ship sunk 09-10.44 [investiture 03.07.45]

11.1941	-	02.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
25.05.1942	-	(08.1942)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 88 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet]
22.02.1943	-	10.11.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 222 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Mantis (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.):
1944	-	(10.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 83 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC)
21.11.1944	-	(01.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 496 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Solicitor.

Coombs,
James Neville
"Jimmy"
J.N. Coombs

Son (with four siblings) of Frederick Coombs (1887-), and Violet Kathleen Partridge (1892-1969).

24.12.1918
India
-
11.03.1994
[New Zealand ?]

T/S.Lt.	04.10.1940
T/Lt.	01.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

21.11.1940	-	09.02.1941	HMS Cotswold (destroyer)
10.02.1941	-	23.03.1941	training course, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
24.03.1941	-	23.04.1941	HMS H 50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (depot ship 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)]
24.04.1941	-	22.06.1941	spare officer, HMS Titania (depot ship 3rd Submarine Flotilla, Holy Loch)
04.1941	-	06.1941	HMS Tigris (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]
23.06.1941	-	25.02.1942	HMS Otway (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (depot ship 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)]
26.02.1942	-	06.05.1943	HMS P 44, renamed HMS United (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport), from 03.1943 HMS Talbot (depot ship, 10th Submarine Flotilla, Malta)]
07.05.1943	-	07.07.1943	First Lieutenant, HMS H 44 (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (depot ship 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)]
08.07.1943	-	09.05.1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Viking (submarine) [tender to HMS Forth (depot ship, 3rd Submarine Flotilla, Holy Loch)]
10.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	spare officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
05.06.1944	-	07.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Umbra (submarine) (temporarily) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
07.1944	-	1944	Commanding Officers' qualifying course [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
03.01.1945	-	late 1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) [tender to HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship, South Africa)] *
?	-	24.11.1945	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
late 1945			Commanding Officer, HMS Northern Duke (anti-submarine warfare trawler) [based at HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South Africa)]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cooper,
Dennis Edwin
D.E. Cooper

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Edwin Cooper (1890-1952), and Lilian Adelaide Badger (1892-1981).
Married ...; two daughters, four sons.

06.12.1921
Barrow in Furness, Cumbria
-
02.05.2012
London

T/A/S.Lt.	25.06.1943
T/S.Lt.	25.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. RNR	?
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR	30.08.1966, seniority 14.08.1959
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR	14.08.1967 (retd 06.12.1981)

	RD	07.03.1972	-
	RD	04.01.1983	1st clasp

(08.1943)			no appointment listed
09.1943	-	03.1944	Officer of the Watch, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
25.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Burong (RN minesweeping base, Mandapam, India)
21.10.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Vetch (corvette)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Cooper,
James Percival Bowker
J.P.B. Cooper

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
J.C. Cooper

?
-

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
E.R. Copage (Photo courtesy of Mr Russell Copage)

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).

Cope,
Burton Scott Rivers
B.S.R. Cope

1885
Munich, Germany
-
(06?).1952
Willesden district, Middlesex

T/Asst.Paym.	17.02.1917
T/Lt.	25.09.1917
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	12.03.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 02.1941, < 12.1941

OBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

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

WW I			RNVR war service
12.03.1940	-	(01.1945)	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(05.1945)			part of the recce party of Naval Party 1735 which took over the German ships in Wilhelmshaven [HMS Royal Rupert] (OBE)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Corbett,
Edward Howard
E.H. Corbett (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Corbett)

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
C.L. Corke (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Arnold)

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
B.W. Cornelius

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
K.W.R. Corney

(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
E.A.E. Cornish

Son of ... Cornish, and ... Laver.

(09?).1914
Hackney district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-

T/Lt.

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
R. Cornish

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
J.A. Cornish-Bowden (Photo courtesy of Mrs Athel Cornish-Bowden)

Son of Ambrose Cornish-Bowden (1873-1946) and Phyllis Maud Carter (1893-1984).
Cousin (their fathers were brothers) of Lt. E.J. Cornish-Bowden, RN, and of Cdr. (S) W.K. Cornish-Bowden, RN.
Married ((12?).1945, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Eva-Maria Roxborough (née Rosenthal); one son, one daughter. She remarried ((12?).1972, Fulham district, London) ... Wise.

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
R.C. Corrin

?
-

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
P.M. Corsar

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
C.R. Cory

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
J.A. Cosh

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.

?
-

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
P.C. Cother (Photo courtesy of the family, with thanks to Mr Tony Drury)

Son of William St John Cother (1880-1963), and Kathleen Maud Hutton (1883-1974).
Married 1st (21.11.1935, Brighton) Ivy Gladys Mockford (28.12.1913 - 03.06.1977) (marriage dissolved 1964), daughter of of James Thomas Mockford (1884-), 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 [investiture 06.04.43]

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) (DSC)
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.
Literature: Bonny J. Cother, Master of Errol Flynn's Yacht Zaca, Captain Patrick C. Cother (2009).

Cottam,
George Milne
G.M. Cottam

?
-

T/Lt.

22.02.1940 (reld < 12.1941)

22.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
(10.1940)			HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)
(1940)			HMS Venomous (destroyer)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed

Cotton,
George Lennox
G.L. Cotton

?
-

T/Lt.	25.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

DSC

25.08.1942

action in Channel 14.06.42

(03.1942)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 202 (motor torpedo boat)
(06.1942)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 201 (motor torpedo boat)

Court,
Peter
P. Court

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"
A. Courtauld (Photo courtesy of http://www.augustinecourtauldtrust.org)

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
R.D. Courtis

(12?).1917
Barnstaple district, Devon
-

T/Lt.

05.03.1943

03.03.1943	-	(06.1944)	First Lieutenant, MTB 514
(07.1945)			HMS Dartmouth (base, Dartmouth)
(04.1946)			HMS Spey (frigate)

Cousins,
George Edward
G.E. Cousins

?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)	23.10.1941
T/A/Lt. (E)	23.10.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

23.10.1941

(07.1945)

HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)

Cowan,
[Prof.] Charles Donald [Jeremy]
C.D. Cowan

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
R. Cowley (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Lorimer)

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

15.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

39-45 St	?	?
Atl St	?	?
Bur St	?	?

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
D. Cox

?
-

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
D.G. Cox

?
-

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
V.A. Cox

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
P.E.B. Coy (Photo courtesy of Jonquil Coy)

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)

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