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1939-1945

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Fagan,
Brian Edward
B.E. Fagan
Son of ... Fagan, and ... Shephard.
Married ...; two sons.
25.08.1920
Hampstead, London
-
05.11.2008
Canterbury
T/S.Lt.
19.01.1944
T/Lt.
07.08.1945
Lt.
22.02.1955
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
22.02.1963 (retd > 02.1969)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Reserve Decoration RD
24.10.1967
-
Served Merchant Navy (apprentice Silver Line, 1936; later Third Officer).



served in minesweepers, salvage tugs and the cruiser HMS Black Prince, being on this last for Operation Neptune,1944:
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(01.1945) 
 

no appointment listed
25.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Wreck Dispersal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
1955?


permanent RNVR (from 1958 RNR) (London Division, List 2A)
Fahrenholtz,
Paul
P. Fahrenholtz
Born as Poul Fahrenholtz Jensen, son of Jens Olaf Fahrenholtz Jensen and Mary Andrea Jakobine Jensen (née Bense).
1935 naturalized Canadian citizen, From Toronto, Ont., Canada.

20.09.1902
Aarhus, Denmark
-
30.10.1941
(air crash) [age 39]
[Haslar RN Cemetery, G.9.21]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) ?
      A Dane with residence in Toronto, Ont., Canada. Enlisted with the Canadian Army in December 1939, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps. Caused an accident & was invalided home. Despite discharge from the army, he applied for enlistment in the Royal Navy. Accepted and posted to convoy duty with the Fleet Air Arm.
? - 30.10.1941 780 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
[Killed in an aircraft accident while carrying out convoy duties. Flew in a Percival Proctor when in collision with a Blackburn Shark K5650 piloted by S/Lt. J.E. Hampson on approach to RNAS Eastleigh. Hampson was OK, but Fahrenholtz dived in and failed to recover.]
Fahy,
Anthony Michael
A.M. Fahy
Son of Dermot Francis Fahy (1896-1975), and Monica Rosa Murray (1898-), of Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset.
(09?).1925
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
17.02.1945
(KIA) [age 19]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 90, column 2]
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
Education: Queen's College, Cambridge.



RNVR six months' short course at Cambridge University
?
-
17.02.1945
HMS Bluebell (corvette) [ship torpedoed and sunk by U-711 in Barentz Sea]
Fairham,
Eric Gordon
E.G. Fairham
14.06.1915
Canada ?
-
12.05.1981
Erith, Gravesend district, Kent
T/S.Lt. 30.04.1942
T/A/Lt. 30.04.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
06.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
12.02.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for liaison duties at Dakar)
01.11.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Melampus II (RN base, Dakar, Senegal)
07.10.1943 - 09.02.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, French heavy cruiser "Tourville"
(06.1944)     HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan) *
20.05.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, French Ship Gaston Rivière [HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Schoolmaster.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fairlie-Clarke,
George Allan
G.A. Fairlie-Clarke
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Allan Johnston Fairlie-Clarke (1877-1948), general surgeon, and Violet Lyell (1880-1918).
Married (04.01.1941, South Eastern Surrey) Mary Eilleen McCulley (26.01.1918 - 22.07.2013); three sons, two daughters.
31.05.1913
Dover, Kent
-
09.09.2002
Dartmouth, Hampshire
T/Sg.Lt. 20.01.1941 (reld 23.04.1946)
Education: St Bartholomew's Hospital (MB, BS 1938; MRCS 1937, FRCS 1941; LRCP 1937).
20.01.1941 - (02.)1941 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
10.02.1941 - (12.)1942 RN Sick Quarters, Duncraig, Plockton
05.12.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Glengyle (landing ship, infantry)
08.07.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
27.09.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Amarapoora (hospital ship)
After a house surgeon post at Bart's he was resident surgical officer at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells.
Fairman,
Charles Alfred
C.A. Fairman
30.09.1912?
London?
-
18.09.1998?
Bournemouth, Hampshire?
T/A/S.Lt. 15.01.1943
T/S.Lt. 15.07.1943
T/A/Lt. 01.11.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt. RNR 15.01.1955
(04.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Escalonia (auxiliary motor fishing vessel; auxiliary patrol vessel)
(10.1943)     no appointment listed
15.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (for duty at Cardiff)
(04.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Falcon,
Gordon William
G.W. Falcon
Son of ... Falcon, and ... Jonas.
(09?).1920
Llanelly district, Carmarthenshire / Glamorgan
-
02.02.2007
T/Lt. (A)
07.10.1943



801 Squadron FAA
(07.1945)


HMS Dipper *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Falconar,
Henry George Richard
"Dick"
H.G.R. Falconar
Married ((03?).1942, Falmouth district, Cornwall) ... Fowler.
06.05.1910
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
08.10.1981
Horsham district, West Sussex
T/Lt.
06.06.1941
Mention in Despatches MID
22.01.1946
loss at St. Nazaire
(03.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 446 (motor launch)
(1945)


HMS Copra
Fanner,
George Clifford
G.C. Fanner (Photo courtesy of Mr Rae Wills)
Married ((03?).1944, Surrey South Western district) Frances A. Mary England (1912-1989);two daughters.
03.02.1909
Axbridge district, Somerset
-
(12?).1976
Southampton district, Hampshire
[St Mary Churchyard, Warsash, Fareham Borough, Hampshire]
Prob. T/S.Lt. 22.11.1940
T/Lt. 22.02.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 11.06.1942 HM birthday 42 [investiture 22.09.42]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.06.1945 HM birthday 45 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe 11.08.42)
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44
Education: Wycliffe College (Springfield House, 1921-1926; Senior; Vice-President of League; 1st XI Football; Pilot; Maiden Sculls (Gloucester Regatta)).
(12.1940) - (04.1941) no appointment listed
27.03.1941 - (06.1941) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services):
(1941)     Commanding Officer, HM ML 150 (motor launch)
(08.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed
05.01.1942 - 24.05.1942 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches)
25.05.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches, etc.):
25.05.1942 - 08.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 323 (motor gun boat) (DSC, despatches twice)
(10.1943)     HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) *
(12.1943)     HM MTB 27 (motor torpedo boat) *
22.11.1943 - 05.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 708 & Senior Officer, 63rd MTB Fotilla [HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)] (Bar to DSC)
16.05.1944 - 11.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 730 (motor torpedo boat)
25.09.1944 - (07.)1945 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.1945 - (10.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
(04.1946)     HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
After sheep farming in New Zealand and Patagonia, he became a Company Director of Ship Delivery and Towage Contractors in Warsash, Southampton.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fannon,
John Arthur Joseph
J.A.J. Fannon
Residence: (1945) Rathgar, Dublin.
?
-
... ...
T/El.Lt. 23.07.1941
Pre-war employed with Electrical Construction Department, B.T.H. Rugby.
      degaussing duties at Cardiff, Yarmouth & Alexandria
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)
Farmer,
Bernard
B. Farmer
Possibly the same as artist Bernard Farmer (1919-2002).
?
-
T/S.Lt. 23.10.1941
T/Lt. 24.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
02.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for MTBs)
(10.1942) - (12.1943) HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
19.12.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 263 (motor torpedo boat)
27.07.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 398 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Farquharson,
Alexander
A. Farquharson (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Muir)
Son of Malcolm White Farquharson, and Jessie Lindsay.
Married 1st (1932) Mary Craig Telfer; four daughters.
Married 2nd (1946?) Margaret Gardner Marshal Kerr; two daughters, two sons (?).
02.01.1906
-
05.01.1976
Prob. T/S.Lt. 02.02.1940
T/Lt. 04.03.1940 (reld 29.11.1944; medically unfit)
02.02.1940 - 03.04.1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
04.03.1940 - 22.05.1940 HMS Melbourne (armed trawler) [ship sunk by German bombers, Narvik area, Norway; wounded]
05.1940 - 10.1940 no appointment listed
02.10.1940 - 18.09.1942 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith and Granton) (for anti-submarine duties at Granton)
21.09.1942 - 31.08.1944 HMS Northney III (landing craft base, Hayling Island)
31.08.1944 - 29.11.1944 HMS Victory IV (accounting base, Leydene House, nr Petersfield)
Farr,
Sydney Percival
S.P. Farr (Photo courtesy of Sally Oldfield) S.P. Farr
S.P. Farr 
14.01.1925
St Marylebone district, London
-
03.1998
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
... ...
T/A/S.Lt. 24.11.1944
... - ... ...
27.01.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 4th MTB Flotilla)
Farr,
William Ronald
W.R. Farr (Photo courtesy of Mr Gordo Ashcroft)
Son of ... Farr, and ... Ware.
Late of Brook Farm, Yelling, Cambridgeshire.
(03?).1923
Caxton district, Cambridgeshire / Huntingdonshire
-
07.07.2008
[age 85]
nursing home, St Neots, Cambridgeshire
T/S.Lt. (A)
07.12.1943
T/A/Lt. (A)
> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
22.10.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (for air engineering duties)
09.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) (for air engineering duties)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Nabberley (mobile naval air base (MONAB) II, Bankstown, nr Sydney, NSW) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Farrand,
Hubert Jeffrey
D.G. Felce
Son of Hubert Milnes Farrand (1892-1964), and Dorothy Webb.
Married ((06?).1952, Basford district, Nottinghamshire) Rosemary C. Holmes; one son.
08.1924
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
20.07.2006
Shrewsbury Hospital
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 19.02.1945
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 19.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
      employed on cypher duties
      served possibly at HMS Cleopatra (cruiser), HMS Diadem (cruiser) and HMS Attacker (escort carrier); covered Arctic convoys, was present at D-Day and at the liberation of Singapore
16.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal by Commander-in-Chief, East Indies)
(04.1946)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Farrell,
John
J. Farrell
14.07.1910
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 22.09.1939 (appointment terminated 13.07.1946)
      temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
01.05.1941 - (10.)1942 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
03.11.1942 - (01.)1943 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
27.01.1943 - (04.)1946 HMS Chaser (escort carrier) *
* supposedly  19.07.1943-01.09.1944  HMS Speaker (escort carrier)
Farrell,
Michael Joseph
M.J. Farrell (Photo courtesy of Dr. Michael Farrell) M.J. Farrell (Photo courtesy of Dr. Michael Farrell)
Married Mary...; one son, two daughters.
29.05.1918
Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, Ireland
-
23.03.1990
Mohill, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 03.03.1944
T/Sg.Lt. 03.08.1944, seniority 03.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Castleknock College; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. LRCSI & LM 1942. LM Coombe 1942. DPH NUI 1947.
03.03.1944 - 02.04.1944 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
03.04.1944 - 12.11.1944 HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) (additional; for special service in SS Monowai [a former armed merchant cruiser which was converted into a landing craft, infantry (large)])
13.11.1944 - 15.11.1944 HMS Pembroke (additional; for RN Barracks, Chatham)]
16.11.1944 - 1946? HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft, infantry (large) [LCI(L)] duties) *
DTBR **     HMS Victory IV (additional; for passage to UK
07.06.1946 - 1946 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for Stamshaw Camp)
Assistant County Medical Officer, Co, Leitrim. Fellow Society Medical Officers of Health.  Late Casualty Officer, Rochdale Infirmary; Resident Medical Officer, Sully Chest Hospital.
* his service record states: for "A" LCI(L); an appointment to RN Barracks, Devonport, dated 26.03.1945 is struck out in his service record as being cancelled, as is an appointment to HMS Braganza (for duty in pool)
** date to be reported
Farrington,
John
J. Farrington
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
26.02.1921
-
07.2002
Rugby district
T/S.Lt. 07.08.1942
T/A/Lt. 07.02.1945 (reld 10.07.1946)
(10.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
(02.1943) - (01.1945) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
(04.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     HMS Rye (Bangor class minesweeper) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
His daughter writes: "1940 he was in the Navy, he was drafted into landing Crafts and spent three months in Freetown - West Africa. Then he was sent to officer training in Brighton. He passed out as a Sub Lieutenant RNVR (Volunteer Reserve) still in Landing Crafts and spent a year in Scotland training troops in the use of landing crafts. Leading up to the invasion he spent time in Normandy and Southend on Sea. In 1944 he was sent to Edinburgh and was trained in minesweeping. He finished the war in Swansea, sweeping mines out of the Bristol Channel. He was demobbed in 1945."
Fasey,
Anthony Henry
A.H. Fasey
Only son of William Robert Fasey (1872-1960), and Evelyn Ethel West (1901-1990).
Married ((09?).1949, Tonbridge district, Kent) Hazel Winifred Davies; two sons, one daughter.
16.09.1924
Snaresbrook, West Ham district, London
-

Sevenoaks, Kent
Orinary Seaman ? [C/JX 546550]
T/A/S.Lt. 17.03.1944
T/S.Lt. 17.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: University of Cambridge (1942).
(04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
29.12.1944 - (04.1946) HM LST 311 (landing ship, tank)
Fawcett,
Ian Lindsay
I.L. Fawcett
28.04.1909
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
1951
T/Lt.
09.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
(04.1940)
 
 
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
15.04.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Agate (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
08.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM LST 3021 (landing ship, tank)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fayrer,
Sir Joseph Herbert Spens;
3rd Baronet (cr. 1896)
J.H.S. Fayrer (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom P. Jordan)
Son of Sir Joseph Fayrer, 2nd Bt, CBE, and Ella, daughter of late Col W.A.J. Mayhew, Bengal Army.
Succeeded father, 13.04.1937.
Married 1st (1926) Elizabeth (whom he divorced, 1936), daughter of late Capt. William Barker­Mill, Mottisfont Abbey.
Married 2nd (1939) Helen Diana Scott (died 1961), only daughter of late John and Jean Lang; one son, one daughter.
Married 3rd (1964) Noreen, daughter of late Rev. John Yuill Walker.
20.10.1899
-
23.07.1976
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
T/Lt.
01.07.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1942? (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.03.1941
good services Channel convoys [investiture 20.05.41]
Education: Wellington College
01.09.1940
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Acacia (trawler)
10.1942
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Scalpay (minesweeping trawler) [based at HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)]
28.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray, Aberdeenshire)
 
Fear,
Alexander Douglas
"Alec"
A.D. Fear
Son of Amos Reginald Porteous Fear (1885-1966), and Mary Ann Evelyn Cooke (1882-1966).
Married (1945, Morningside district, Scotland) Margaret Isobel Patricia "Paddy" Crawford (27.03.1922 - 09.2000); two daughters, one son.

16.07.1919
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
28.10.2016
Bristol, Gloucestershire
T/S.Lt. 29.11.1940
T/Lt. 01.08.1942 (reld 29.04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42) [investiture 09.03.43]
Education: Clifton College (1928.1-1936.3).
Worked for an insurance company.
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
15.02.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for motor launches and miscellaneous duties)
06.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
17.10.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
01.08.1942 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 346 (motor launch) (DSC)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Made a career with Imperial Tobacco (General Factory Manager, Ashton Containers Ltd.).
Fee,
Walter Moffat
W.M. Fee
Married Rosemary ...; one daughter, one son.
1920
Ireland ?
-
20.01.1986
T/S.Lt. 13.11.1941
T/Lt. 01.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Sg.Lt. 18.02.1953
Sg.Lt. 05.01.1955, seniority 18.02.1954
?, seniority 17.01.1952
Sg.Lt.Cdr. 17.01.1959
Sg.Cdr. ? (retd 17.07.1975)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD 22.10.1963 -
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 08.10.1974 1st clasp
Education: Edinburgh University (medical student, joined 1939, but study was interrupted by the war, finally graduating 18.07.1951); MB, ChB 1951; MFCM 1972; DPH 1956.
(02.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
07.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
03.11.1942 - (10.)1944 HMS Amaranthus (Flower class corvette)
11.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Clematis (Flower class corvette)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
18.02.1953 - 17.07.1975 Permanent RNVR (Medical Branch) in the Mersey, Forth, and finally Tayside divisions
House physician, Haywood Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent. Assistant director of medical research with a pharmaceutical company. He worked in the public health department of Edinburgh Corporation for two years, which was followed by appointments as deputy medical officer of health of Greenock and later of Dundee. Became community medicine specialist with the Tayside Health Board in 1974, retiring 07.1985. Activist against smoking.
Published: Investigation into domestic use of coke fires. In: Health Bulletin (1957).
Felce,
David Gilbert
D.G. Felce
Married ((12?).1942, Westminster district, London) Joan M. Cowden.
(12?).1917
Watford district, Buckinghamshire
-
T/Lt.
23.10.1942



Commanding Officer, MTB ... (motor torpedo boat)
Fenton,
Leslie
L. Fenton
12.03.1902
Liverpool
-
25.03.1978
Montecito, California, USA
Prob. T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
30.07.1942
St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42
(03.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 156 (motor launch)
pre- & post-war actor, director & producer in the film industry
Fenton,
Paul
P.A.D. Fenton
Son of Harold Fenton, and Gladwys Muriel Lamb.
05.1920
Hornsea, Skirlaugh district, Yorkshire
-
01.2021 still alive in London
Prob. T/El.S.Lt. ?
T/El.S.Lt. 09.1942, seniority 23.03.1942
T/El.Lt. 01.08.1943
Lt. (L) RN 27.03.1946, seniority 01.08.1942
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN 01.08.1950
Cdr. (L) RN 31.12.1954 (retd 23.11.1959)
30.08.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Vernon (training establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for minesweeping department)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
(04.1946)     HMS Royal Charlotte (RN base, Cuxhaven, Germany) *
27.03.1946     transferred to RN (Electrical Branch)
01.06.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier)
(05.1950)     no appointment listed
29.10.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
11.01.1954 - (07.1954) HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth)
24.01.1955 - (01.)1956 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies [HMS Gambia]
23.10.1956 - (01.)1957 Naval Electrical Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.02.1957 - (01.)1959 Office of Directorate of Officer Appointments (L), Admiralty [HMS President]
AMIEE.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fenwick,
Bertram Henry Walter
B.H.W. Fenwick B.H.W. Fenwick
Son (with one sister and one brother) of  Bertram Emilius Fenwick (1865-1943), and Gladys Hoadley (1881-1961).
Married ((06?).1929, Kensington district, London) Grace Sylvia White (07.02.1906 - (03?).1978).
22.08.1904
Northolt, Ealing, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
28.08.1973
Milford-on-Sea, New Forest district, Hampshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940
T/Lt. 04.01.1941
1944/45?, seniority 12.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

George Medal

GM 04.03.1941 mine disposal [investiture 17.06.41]
George Medal GM 09.06.1942 mine disposal [investiture 28.07.42]
(11.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
15.11.1940 - (10.1944) Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1945) - (10.1945) Combined Operations HQ *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fernald,
John Bailey
J.B. Fernald
Son of Chester Bailey Fernald and Josephine Harker. Married (1942) Jenny Laird; one daughter.
21.11.1905
California, USA
-
02.04.1985
London
T/Lt.
12.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
? (reld 1945; invalided)
1939-1945 Star; Defence Medal; Atlantic Star; France & Germany Star; War Medal
Education: Marlborough College; Trinity College, Oxford
Actor, director, playwright. President, Oxford Univeristy Dramatic Society, 1927; Dramatic Editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, 1929; first professional production, Arts Theatre, 1929; subsequently produced plays continuously in London till 1936, when became Associate Producer for Associated British Pictures Corporation; returned to theatre, 1938; on teaching staff of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1934-40.
1940
-
1945
joined RNVR, 1940 and served almost continuously at sea until 1945; left service
with rank of Lieutenant­Commander:
(06.1940)


in one of the little ships of Dunkirk
20.11.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, NS)
(1941?)
-
(1942?)
HMS Newmarket (destroyer)
14.02.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(1945)


Senior Officer, 18th LCT Flotilla [HMS Copra?]
Director of Productions, Reunion Theatre, 1946; Director of the Liverpool Playhouse, 1946-49; subsequently produced: The Love of Four Colonels, Wyndham's; The White Sheep of the Family, Piccadilly; The First Born, Winter Garden; Nightmare Abbey and Dial M for Murder, Westminster; Escapade, Strand; The Devil's General, Savoy; Crime and Punishment (Television); Saint Joan, St Martin's; The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker, New; The House by the Lake, Duke of York's; Jubilee Production of Peter Pan; Tea and Sympathy, Comedy; Hedda Gabler, Nye Teater, Oslo; The Love of Four Colonels, Kansanteatteri, Helsinki; Ghosts, Old Vic; The Tchekov Centenary Production of The Seagull, Edinburgh Festival and Old Vic; The Affair, Henry Miller Theatre, New York; The Schoolmistress, Savoy; The Enchanted, Arts Theatre; Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and various plays at Arts Theatre and elsewhere; 1st production in England of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA, Anton Tchekov's The Cherry Orchard at the National Theatre, Pretoria and Johannesburg; Private Lives, Bristol Old Vic.; directed 31st year production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, St Martin's Theatre, 1982. Shute Lectr on the Art of the Theatre, Liverpool Univ., 1948. Principal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1955-65; Dir, John Fernald Co., Meadowbrook Theatre, Rochester, Mich, and Prof. of Dramatic Art, Oakland Univ., Rochester, Mich, 1966-70;
Prof., Dept of Theatre, NY State Univ., 1970-71; returned from USA, 1972, then largely concerned with teaching of acting at drama schools and directing classical revivals at repertory theatres. Member, National Council for Drama Training (Vice­Chairman, Accreditation Committee). Awarded Silver Medal of Royal Society of Arts, 1966.
Published: The play produced : a manual of stage production (1933); Destroyer from America (1942; novel); Sense of direction (1968); contrib. to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1972. 
Ferrall,
James Fergus
J.F. Ferrall
Son of James Ferrall, and Clara Davies.
30.12.1913
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
06.2000
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
T/S.Lt. 05.03.1942
T/Lt. 05.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
08.1943 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1308 (harbour defence motor launch) (Mediterranean)
(07.1945)     HM ML 468 (motor launch) (Mediterranean) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Ferrers-Walker,
Thomas Weaving
"Tom"
T.W. Ferrers-Walker T.W. Ferrers-Walker
T.W. Ferrers-Walker T.W. Ferrers-Walker
T.W. Ferrers-Walker T.W. Ferrers-Walker
Son of Gilbert Thomas Walker (changed by deed poll in 1941 to Thomas Ferrers-Walker) (1887-1970), and Undine Nancy Weaving (1893-1962).
Married twice; three sons, one daughter.
24.09.1925
Birmingham South, Warwickshire
-
08.07.2006
Barnt Green, Birmingham, Worcestershire
T/Midsh. 05.08.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 25.03.1945
T/S.Lt. 24.09.1945 (reld 26.09.1946)
05.08.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft (MLC))
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
02.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (for RN Depot, Brisbane)
01.07.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Woolloomooloo (RN repair base, Sydney, NSW) (for harbour service craft)
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
01.01.1965     transferred Permanent RNR (as Lt.); transferred to Special Branch 12.1966
Inherited in 1970 the estate Baddesley Clinton (Warwickshire) and was able to preserve it for public interest. Amassed a large collection of RN artefacts (figureheads, badges and other items of warship decoration or equipment). CStJ, 1996 (OStJ, 1986).
Ferris,
Edward Mortimer
E.M. Ferris
Married ((12?).1942, Chelsea district, London) Kathleen M. Parry; one daughter.
16.10.1909
Columbus, Ohio, USA
-
17.08.1983
New York, NY, USA
T/Lt. 19.05.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 03.01.1944?
T/A/Cdr. 11.1944? (reld < 04.1946)
Banker from New York.
19.05.1941     joined the RNVR (as an American citizen)
11.10.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Sennen (sloop) [eventually First Lieutenant]
28.09.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, FS "La Melpomene" (escort destroyer)
03.01.1944 - 09.06.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Byard (destroyer) [blinded while serving at Anzio]
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
11.1944 - (07.1945) staff officer, British Admiralty Delegation Representative (Pacific Coast) (Vancouver, BC) [HMS Saker]
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
Fidler,
Harry Charles
H.C. Fidler
Son of Harry Charles and Lydia Elizabeth Fidler.
Married 1st ((06?).1940, East Ham district, London; divorced) Evelyn G. Hubbard; one son. Evelyn Fidler remarried (1950) Anthony J. Mackness.
Married 2nd ((06?).1947, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Henderina Goené (née Vijzelaar) (24.08.1916 - (12?).1975).
04.06.1908
Highgate, Middlesex
-
(09?).1977
New Forest district, Hampshire
Coder ? [C/JX 356832]
T/A/S.Lt. 07.01.1944
T/S.Lt. 07.07.1944
T/Lt. 01.03.1946 (reld 18.07.1946)
(02.1944) - (04.1944) no appointment listed
01.05.1944 - (06.)1944 Third Officer, HM ML 225 (motor launch)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
22.10.1944 - (04.)1946 First Lieutenant, HM MMS 1013 (motor minesweeper)
Field,
George Eric
J.S. Flashman
Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of William George Field (1876-1966), and Rose Adelaide James (1876-1958).
02.06.1914
Wandsworth, London
-
23.08.2009
Torquay, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 30.04.1941
1943?, seniority 30.04.1942 (appointment terminated 03.08.1944)
      temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
06.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Audacity (escort carrier)
23.01.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Royal Scotsman (landing ship, infantry)
(06.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
(02.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
(02.1944)     no appointment listed
03.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Boxer (fighter direction ship)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Field,
John Christopher George
J.C.G. Field
Son of ... Field, and ... Hill.
16.07.1920
Alcester district, Warwickshire / Worcestershire
-
15.09.2002
Truro district, Cornwall
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
03.10.1941
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.03.1943
Lt. (L) RN
1946?, seniority 16.07.1944
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN
16.07.1952
Cdr. (L) RN
30.06.1958
Capt. (E) RN
30.06.1966 (retd 31.07.1972)
Education: MSc (BSc).
(12.1941)


HMS Mercury *
15.02.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(07.1945)


HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) **
1946?
 
 
transferred to RN
28.07.1947
-
(07.1948)
HMS Broadsword
17.03.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Collingwood
14.01.1952
-
(05.)1953
HMS Cochrane (Rosyth Maritime Headquarters) (for miscellaneous duties)
29.06.1953
-
(04.)1955
HMS Mercury II (Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, Portsdown)
10.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS Girdle Ness
(01.1957)
 
 
HMS Girdle Ness **
01.04.1958
-
(01.1959)
Surface Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.12.1960
-
(02.)1963
Surface Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.06.1963
-
(02.1964)
HMS Lion
18.02.1967
-
(02.1969)
Base Services Manager, Dockyard Singapore
(08.1971)
 
 
Defence Intelligence Staff **
MIEE (BMIEE).
* possibly HMS Mercury II (Admiralty Signal Establishment, Haslemere), being involved in developing counter-measures for German radio-controlled glider bombs
** indexed, but not listed as such
Findlay,
James McCall
J.M. Findlay

Youngest son of Mr & Mrs T.S. Findlay, of Inchkeith, North Mount Vernon.
Married (1940, Hillhead) Alice Mary Steuart Anderson, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Steuart Anderson, of Glasgow.
23.11.1913
-
30.04.1988
New Kilpatrick district, Scotland
[Abernethy Churchyard, Inverness, Scotland]
A/S.Lt. 1935?
S.Lt. 28.06.1936
Lt. 28.06.1938
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 28.06.1946
Cdr. ? (retd 31.07.1952)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD 17.09.1947 -
Education: Strathallan School, Perthshire; Glasgow Academy (1923-1926).
1935?     joined, RNVR (Clyde Divion)
      served WW2 in Northern Patrol, Singapore; Indian Ocean; Italian E. Africa; Atlantic, etc.:
04.11.1939 - (02.)1942 HMS Colombo (Carlisle class cruiser)
(04.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
30.06.1942 - (12.1942) qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
19.01.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire) (for torpedo duties)
09.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Pretoria Castle (escort carrier/training aircraft carrier) (for torpedo duties)
MStJ, 1975. OStJ, 1977. CStJ, 1984.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Findlay,
John Alexander Cecil
J.A.C. Findlay
Younger son (with one brother and two sisters) of Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, GBE, KCMG, CB (1861-1932), and Cora Sybil Alexander (1873-1959).
Married Patricia Margaret Mary Crawshay (1911-1988); ... children (one daughter?).
13.11.1909
-
25.02.1972
Westminster district, London
[Moreton (Saint Nicholas) Cemetery, Dorset]
Prob. T/S.Lt. 12.01.1940
T/Lt. 12.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 29.04.1944? (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 13.11.1945 minesweeping Le Havre & rescue work 45
23.02.1940 - (08.1940) HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
(10.1940) - (12.1940) HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) *
08.01.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse, later for motor launches & miscellaneous duties)
23.06.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MASB 25 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
(02.1942) - 09.07.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MASB 27 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
10.07.1942 - 10.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 85 (motor gun boat) (7th MGB Flotilla) [from 13.07.1942 at HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
11.10.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (Training Officer, for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
29.04.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 750 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 66th MTB Flotilla
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fini,
Carlos Douglas
C.D. Fini
Married ((06?).1939, Wandsworth district, London) Shirley Offley Keates (22.02.1914 - 12.1987), daughter of Henry Crewe Keates (1887-1952); two daughters.
22.12.1915
-
12.1990
Isle of Wight
T/S.Lt. 29.11.1940
T/A/Lt. < 04.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 14.07.1944, seniority 29.11.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.12.1951 (retd 22.12.1965)

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD 21.12.1965 -

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

      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove)
18.01.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Defiance (training establishment & base, Devonport) (for minelayers)
(10.1941)     HMS Defiance (training establishment & base, Devonport) *
(12.1941)     HMS Resolution (battleship) *
21.01.1942 - (04.)1942 Assistant Naval Attaché, Lisbon (Portugal) [HMS President]
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
27.06.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Coila (armed yacht)
07.06.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton)
07.09.1943 - (02.)1944 Additional Assistant Naval Attaché, Lisbon (Portugal) [HMS President]
(04.1944) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
17.12.1951 - 22.12.1965 Permanent RNVR [from 1958 RNR] (London Division, List 2A)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Finlayson,
Alexander
"Alistair"
A. Finlayson A. Finlayson
A. Finlayson A. Finlayson
Son of James Finlayson (1891-1946), and Annie Anderson Straiton (1893-1975).
Married (1943, Pollockshields, Glasgow, Scotland) Margaret Isobel Reid (21.01.1918 - 03.01.2009), daughter of William Reid (1889-1918), and Mary Drummond Stuart (1881-1976); three sons.
28.10.1917
Glasgow, Scotland
-
03.11.2009
Henderson General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
1942
T/Sg.Lt.
02.04.1943 (reld 03.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID
29.08.1944
North Russian convoy 30.04.44
MB, ChB
03.1943


joined RNVR (Devonport)
08.05.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Inconstant (destroyer)
25.11.1944
-
07.1945
HMS Cotton (frigate)
18.07.1945
-
03.1945
sick bay, Portsmouth Dockyard [HMS Victory]
Retired psychiatrist.
Finney,
Fred
F. Finney
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
24.03.1944
T/S.Lt.
24.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)

 
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
20.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 390 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, St Budeaux) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Firminger,
Anthony Reginald Joseph
A.R.J. Firminger
Son of Lyle Douglas Firminger (1888-), and of Bessie Louise Firminger, of Bromley, Kent.
1919 ?
-
23.08.1943
(KIA) [age 24]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, col. 1]
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
George Medal GM
22.08.1943
rendering safe German mines, bombs, etc. *
Mention in Despatches MID
08.02.1944
clearing harbour of demolition charges 08.43
* published in London Gazette, dated 30.05.1944
24.01.1943
-
23.08.1943
HMS Cannae (base, Bone, Algeria) (killed clearing Messina Harbour with Naval Party 1500)
Firth,
?
? Firth
?
-
Lt.
?
(10.1941)


Commanding Officer, HMS Gardenia
Fish,
Geoffrey John
G.J. Fish
21.11.1913
-
02.1992
Norwich, Norfolk
T/S.Lt.
04.12.1943 (reld 1945/46)
01.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Cardigan Bay
Fish,
Gordon Noel
G.N. Fish
Son of ... Fish, and ... Bond.
Married ((06?).1951, Heywood district, Lancashire) Elizabeth C. Biskup.
23.08.1921
Haslingden district, Lancashire
-
(03?).1980
Kendal district, Westmorland
T/A/S.Lt.
? (reld 1943/44?)
02.11.1942
-
(02.1943)
Spare Officer, 4th MTB Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(1943)

First Lieutenant, HM MTB 233 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
Fish,
[Sir] Hugh
H. Fish (Photo courtesy of Sally Fish)
Son of Leonard Mark Fish (1897-1967), and Millicent Mead (1896?-1962).
Married (12.04.1943, Wrenthorpe) Nancy Asquith (18.11.1922 - 04.10.2005), only daughter of William Asquith, and Louise Sykes; two sons, one daughter.

06.01.1923
Woodlesford, Hunslet district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
27.05.1999
Wallingford, Oxfordshire
Ord.Sea. 1942
T/A/S.Lt. 12.03.1943
T/S.Lt. 12.09.1943
T/Lt. 01.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Rothwell Grammar School; Leeds University (BSc).
1942     HMS Duke of York (battleship)
(04.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed
17.08.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Marne (destroyer)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Water and environmental manager, and chemist. Chemist, West Riding Rivers Board, 1949-52. Pollution and Fisheries Inspector, Essex River Board 1952-65; River Conservator, Essex River Authority 1965-69; Chief Purification Officer, Thames Conservancy 1969-74; OBE 1971, CBE 1984; Director of Scientific Services, Thames Water Authority 1974-78, Chief Executive 1978-84; Chairman, Natural Environment Research Council 1984- 88; Kt 1989; President, Institute of Fisheries Management 1987-99; Chairman, Water Engineering Ltd 1988-91. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), FIWEM.
Published: Principles of water quality management (1973); contributions to various journals on natural science of water.
Fisher,
Charles Edward
W.F. Fisher
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 15.06.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 15.09.1942 (dismissed from HM Service by sentence of Court Martial 21.01.1944)

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

09.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)
29.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Woolverstone (landing craft base & training establishment, Ipswich)
03.07.1943 - 01.1944 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
Fisher,
Clive Umfreville
C.U. Fisher
Son of Hayden Umfreville Fisher (1887-1967), and Clarice Emily Buxton (1890-1954).
Married ((12?).1941, Chatham district, Kent) Diana E. Johnson; one son, one daughter.
07.04.1915
Leeds, Yorkshire
-
11.1987
Surrey North-Western district, Surrey
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.05.1940
T/El.Lt. 13.09.1940
T/Lt. 1945?, seniority 13.09.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
27.05.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Corfield (mine destructor vessel)
10.12.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Corfield (mine destructor vessel)
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
10.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for Minesweeping Department)
29.12.1941 - (10.)1943 HMS Rodney (battleship)
(12.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) *
20.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (additional; for miscellaneous duties)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Fisher,
Cyril Edmund
W.F. Fisher
Married ((09?).1941, Maidstone district, Kent) Lois Yvonne Hamilton Robey (08.06.1920 - 15.02.2011); two daughters, one son. Lois Fisher remarried (1974) James R. Tombling.
1912 ?
-
12.11.1957
General Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (formerly of 35 Felixstowe Drive, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 05.02.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 08.10.1942 (reld 19.03.1946)

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

26.02.1942 - (02.)1943 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.03.1943 - (10.1945) Staff Officer (Intelligence) (2) on staff of Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
Fisher,
Hon. John Vavasseur;
3rd Baron Fisher
J.V. Fisher J.V. Fisher
Grandson of Adm. Lord Fisher.
Son of Cecil Vavasseur Fisher, 2nd Baron Fisher (1868-1955), and Jane Morgan (died 1955).
Succeeded father, 11.05.1955.
Married 1st (25.07.1949) Elizabeth Anne Penelope Holt (divorced 1969); two daughters, two sons.
Married 2nd (1970) Hon. Rosamund Ann Clifford.

24.07.1921
-
21.10.2012
T/S.Lt. 24.07.1942
T/Lt. 01.04.1944 (reld 06.1945)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 19.09.1944 coastal forces action 06.44 [investiture 12.12.44]
Called up 1941 as a naval rating and after training went to sea in a minelayer operating off the Faroe Islands. Selected for officer training he volunteered for Coastal Forces and was appointed as the junior of three officers in Motor Torpedo Boat 624; based at Yarmouth MTB 624 was repainted in camouflage and in 1943 was protecting a coastal convoy off the Texel River on the Dutch coast. In May he was appointed First Lieutenant and was second-in-command of MTB 687, a Fairmile D class being built at Appledore. After work-up she went to Lerwick and Scapa Flow and was the 58th Flotilla leader’s boat taking part in clandestine trips to Norway; on one occasion picking up 12 refugees from the attentions of the Gestapo and on another making a bold entry up the Skagerrak to land agents. After D-Day MTB 687 and her flotilla took part in numerous night actions against German light forces including their E-Boats; he was awarded the DSC for action off the Dutch coast on June 9. At the end of the war in Europe he was sent to Australia but soon returned, watchkeeping in the carrier Victorious and was demobbed as a Temporary Lieutenant RNVR in June 1945.
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
(12.1942) - (04.1943) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) *
04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches)
14.06.1943 - (10.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 687 (motor torpedo boat)
09.10.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 704 (motor torpedo boat)
03.1945 - 06.1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 5008 (motor torpedo boat)
Fisher,
William Frederick
W.F. Fisher
?
-
T/S.Lt.
30.12.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
09.09.1944
-
?
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Fison,
[Sir] Richard Guy
R.G. Fison (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Fison) R.G. Fison
Elder son of Sir William Guy Fison, 3rd Bt (1890-1964), and Gwladys Rees Davies (1877-1963).
Succeeded father, 1964.
Married (28.02.1952) Elyn Hartmann (1920-1987), daughter of M. Hartmann, Bordeaux, France ; one son, one daughter.

09.01.1917
Bangor district, Anglesey
-
01.10.2008
Chelsea, West London
T/S.Lt. 20.11.1939
T/Lt. 09.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.11.1944 German evacuation Le Havre [investiture 06.03.45]
Education: Eton; New College, Oxford.
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
15.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
19.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services)
18.06.1942 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 237 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
10.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 231 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Dartmouth II (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)]
1943 - 1944 Radar Control Unit at Kingswear
03.07.1944 - (10.)1944 on staff of Captain Coastal Forces, Channel [HMS Hornet (Coastal Foces base, Gosport)]
10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
14.08.1945 - (08.1945) HMS Superb (cruiser)
Entered Wine Trade, 1948; Master of Wine, 1954; Director, Saccone & Speed Ltd, 1952-1982; Chairman: Saccone & Speed Internat., 1979-1982; Percy Fox & Co. Ltd, 1982-1983; Wine Development Board, 1982-1983; Fine Vintage Wines Plc, 1985-1995; President, Wine and Spirit Association, 1977-1978. Honorary Freeman, 1976, Renter Warden, 1981-1982, Upper Warden, 1982-1983, Master, 1983-1984, Vintners' Co.
Flanaghan,
Joseph Brian
J.B. Flanaghan (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Flanaghan) J.B. Flanaghan (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Flanaghan)
J.B. Flanaghan (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Flanaghan)
Son (with three siblings) of John Thomas Flanaghan (1883-1940), and Emily Kate Rollinson (1898-1968).
Married 1st (10.09.1949, Parish Church, Holmesfield, Chesterfield district, Derbyshire) Winifred Atherton Hicks (21.07.1922 - 04.2005); two sons.
Married 2nd ((06?).1974, Chesterfield district, Derbyshire) Carol Muriel Hubbard ((09?).1943 - 30.01.2018).
12.03.1925
Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
02.1997
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
T/Midsh. (A) 02.06.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 12.09.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 12.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
06.07.1944 - (04.)1945) HMS Macaw (FAA training establishment, Wellbank, Cumberland) (pilot under training)
15.05.1945 - (04.1946) communication pilot, 724 Squadron FAA [HMS Nabberley (Mobile Naval Air Base II, Bankstown, nr Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Served post-war as T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNVR for duty with Sea Cadet Corps.
Flanders *,
Michael Henry
M.H. Flanders M.H. Flanders
Only son (with two sisters) of Peter Henry Flanders, and Rosa Laura "Laurie" O'Beirne.
Married (31.12.1959) Claudia Cockburn; two daughters.

* In Navy Lists shown as: Flander.
01.03.1922
Hampstead, London
-
15.04.1975
Betws-y-coed, Wales (while on holiday)
T/A/S.Lt. 26.02.1943
T/S.Lt. 26.08.1943 (commission terminated 07.03.1944; medically unfit)
Education: Westminster School (1936-1940); Christ Church College, Oxford (1940-1942?).
(11.1942)     as CW Candidate serving at HMS Marne (destroyer)
(04.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed
16.08.1943 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, HM ML 236 (motor launch)
(02.1944)     no appointment listed
[contracted poliomyelitis, which resulted in his being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life]
Actor, broadcaster, writer and performer of comic songs. Best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the duo Flanders and Swann.
Flashman,
John Sydney
J.S. Flashman
Residence: (1945) Bristol, Gloucestershire.
1915?
-

Thames Ditton, Surrey
... ...
T/El.Lt. 20.08.1941
Education: BSc (Eng) (London).
Pre-war a graduate apprentice with English Electrical Co., Stafford.
      Base Electrical Officer Mediterranean Ports & Force 60 (2 years Home Waters, 3 years overseas)
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)
Post-war with English Electrical Co.
50th Master of Imperial College Lodge of Freemasons in 1972-73.
Fleming,
Ian Lancaster
I.L. Fleming
Son (with three brothers) of Maj. Valentine Fleming (1882-1917), DSO, barrister & Conservative MP, who was killed in World War I, and Evelyn Beatrice St. Croix Rose (1885-1964).
Brother of Col. Robert Peter Fleming, Grenadier Guards.
Married (24.03.1952, Jamaica) Anne Geraldine, Lady Rothmere, widow of 3rd Baron O'Neill and eldest daughter of Hon. Guy Charteris; one son.

28.05.1908
Mayfair district, London
-
12.08.1964
Kent and Canterbury Hospital
(heart attack at Royal St. George's Sandwich golf course in Kent)
[buried at Sevenhampton, Wiltshire]
Lt. (Sp.Br.) 26.07.1939
?, seniority 27.07.1936
A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 04.1940, < 02.1941
A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 02.1941, < 08.1942 till > 02.1943
A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 06.1943 till > 10.1943
A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 04.1944 till > 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 26.07.1947 (removed from active list 16.08.1952; own request)
Order of Dannebrog (Danmark) Danbr 1945 ? *
King Christian X's Liberty Medal (Denmark) ChrX LM 25.11.1947 services to the Danes
* according to the "Who's who"; not corroborated
Education: Durnford School on the Isle of Purbeck (1916-1921); Eton (1921-1926); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1926-1927); Munich University and Geneva University.
Worked for: Reuters (Moscow correspondent), 1929-1933;
Cull & Co., Merchant Bankers, 1933-1935; Rowe & Pitman, Stockbrokers, 1935-1939.
26.07.1939     joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
03.09.1939 - (07.1945) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence)
[together with his brother Peter Fleming commissioned by Colin Gubbins to help establish the Auxiliary Units]
(01.1956) -   volunteered to be placed on the list of Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Foreign Manager Kemsley, later Thomson, Newspapers, 1945-1959. Publisher, The Book Collector, 1949-1964. Writer, 1953-1964.
Published
: Novels (featuring James Bond), 1953-; Thrilling cities (1963); The man with the golden gun (1965)
Literature: John Pearson, The life of Ian Fleming (1966)
Fletcher,
Alfred Leonard
A.L. Fletcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Garth Fletcher) A.L. Fletcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Garth Fletcher)
A.L. Fletcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Garth Fletcher) 
Son of Harold Leonard Fletcher, and Beatrice James.
His sister Frances Phyllis Fletcher married S.Lt. (E) William Arthur Holmes, RNVR.
Married; ... children.
13.12.1912
Ellesmere Port, Wirral district, Cheshire
-
14.03.1973
Cumberland, BC, Canada
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
15.09.1939 (reld 05.08.1946)
Education: Glasgow.
06.06.1939
-
06.08.1940
Sixth Engineer, from 08.1940 Fifth Engineer, Asturias (passenger ship), from 28.08.1939 HMS Asturias (armed merchant cruiser) (trip from Southampton to Brazil and back 06/07.1939, then Mediterranean 07.08.1939, then Belfast till 08.1940)
15.09.1939


temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
07.08.1940
-
01.04.1943
HMS Asturias (armed merchant cruiser)
02.04.1943
-
06.06.1943
Inter [= Intermediate?] Fifth Engineer, HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, David Lewis Northern Hospital, Liverpool) *
07.06.1943
-
12.10.1945
Fifth Engineer, from 10.07.1943 Fourth Engineer, HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
13.10.1945
-
27.12.1945
Inter [= Intermediate?] Fourth Engineer, HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, David Lewis Northern Hospital, Liverpool, from 03.12.1945 Neston Camp, Wirral)
28.12.1945
-
10.02.1946
Inter [= Intermediate?] Fourth Engineer, HMS Pursuer (escort carrier)
11.02.1946
-
25.03.1946
Inter [= Intermediate?] Fourth Engineer, HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Neston Camp, Wirral)
26.03.1946
-
19.05.1946
Inter [= Intermediate?] Fourth Engineer, HMS Reaper (escort carrier)
20.05.1946
-
05.08.1946
Inter [= Intermediate?] Fourth Engineer, HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) (from 23.05.1946 for Foreign Service resettlement leave)
Emigrated to Canada. Became manager of a fish processing plant (Royal Fisheries Ltd) in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
* Navy List gives as date of appointment 08.05.1943
Fletcher,
Frederick James
F.J. Fletcher
Son of ... Fletcher, and ... Halstead.
01.06.1919
Much Hadham, Bishops Stortford district, Hertfordshire
-
12.2005
Bristol, Gloucestershire

Ord.Sea.
24.10.1939
AB Sea.
27.07.1940
A/Wireman CM
26.12.1941
T/A/S.Lt. (L)
09.06.1942
T/A/Lt.
01.06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44): Naval Party 1603
07.08.1939
 
 
volunteered for naval service
24.10.1939
-
28.11.1939
HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
29.11.1939
-
11.06.1940
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
12.06.1940
-
29.07.1940
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
30.07.1940
-
11.09.1940
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
12.09.1940
-
17.05.1942
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for service at Bouldnor, Isle of Wight)
18.05.1942
-
04.06.1942
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
20.08.1942
-
(08.1943)
HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft)



French Ship Pollux (overseeing naval radar trials)
(06.1944) 
 -
(09.1944)
Naval Party 1603  [HM LCT 968 (landing craft, tank)]
[went ashore at Sword beach (Normandy) on D-Day in charge of a naval Mobile Radar Unit (MONRAD) III, continuing to Calais, Dunkirk, Blankenberge, Oostende]
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fletcher,
Graham Reynell Phillips
G.R.P. Fletcher
Son (with one brother) of Ernest Tertius Decimus Fletcher, MD, FRCP (1890-1961), and Muriel Laver.
(06?).1920
St Marylebone district, London
-
17.12.1941
(KIA)
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 6]
T/S.Lt. (A) 19.03.1941
Mention in Despatches MID
10.03.1942
convoy HG76 attacked 17.12.41
(12.1941)


HMS Audacity
Fletcher,
James Stephen Grant
J.S.G. Fletcher
Married ((03?).1950, Westminster district, London) Patricia M. Ormrod; one daughter, one son.
30.04.1921
-
25.05.2013
hospital
Prob. Midsh. 28.06.1940
T/A/S.Lt. 30.04.1941
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 03.10.1943

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 22.09.1942 Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 06.42) [investiture 03.11.42]
Education: Eton College (cricket team).
28.09.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Rion (armed yacht)
23.05.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Blankney (escort destroyer) (DSC)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
23.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Tuscan (destroyer)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Admitted to the Bar, 01.11.1947.
Fletcher,
John Howard
J.H. Fletcher (Photo courtesy of Elisabeth-Anne Jones)
Son (with one brother [who died aged seven] and one sister) of George Henry Fletcher (1890-1966), and Violet Howell (1891-1980).
Married (31.01.1946, Woolwich district, London) Jean Totten (07.09.1919 - 10.1987); one daughter.
05.07.1921
Birmingham, Warwickshire
-
27.08.2001
North Somerset
T/El.S.Lt. 02.11.1942
T/El.Lt. 02.05.1945 (reld 25.08.1946)
Electrical Engineer Apprentice.
(12.1942)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) *
30.01.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
30.04.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for various services)
12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)
06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
26.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for miscellaneous services)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fletcher,
Ronald
R. Fletcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Graham Fletcher)
Son of ... Fletcher, and ...
Married ...; one son, one daughter.
07.07.1921
-

03.02.1997
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
T/El.S.Lt. 12.10.1942
T/El.Lt. 01.02.1944 (reld 19.08.1946)
25.11.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
16.08.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead, Cheshire)
17.09.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Lochinvar (destroyer / minesweeper base, Port Edgar) (for electrical maintenance duties)
Fletcher,
Tom Manley
T.M. Fletcher
Son of ... Fletcher, and ... Manley.
Married Ethel ...; one daughter, one son.
(12?).1917
Leigh district, Lancashire
-

28.10.2008
Lincoln County Hospital
Seaman ? [JX 444752]
T/S.Lt. 05.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
23.03.1943     enlisted RNVR
05.02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Flint,
John Donald
J.D. Flint (Photo courtesy of Jean Holloway) J.D. Flint (Photo courtesy of Jean Holloway)
Son (with one sister) of John Armstrong Flint (1876-1969), and Lena Muriel McLean Millar (1886-1978).
Married (10.09.1941, Weymouth, Dorset) Joyce Mary Bellew (15.10.1918 - 09.2004), daughter of Reginald Victor Bellew (1882-1957), and Sarah Annie Walker (1887-1980); four daughters, one son.
26.08.1914
Wallasey, Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-

20.08.2000
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Prob. Lt. 01.10.1939
Lt. 10.1940, seniority 09.05.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1944, < 04.1944 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 09.05.1947
30.12.1936     joined, RNVR (Mersey Division)
01.01.1939     commissioned, RNVR (Mersey Division) (List 2)
(12.1939)     no appointment listed
18.01.1940 - (05.)1940 HMS Afridi (Tribal class destroyer)
(06.1940)     HMS Cossack (Tribal class destroyer) *
08.06.1940 - (12.1942) HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; for various services)
01.01.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy):
01.01.1943 - (02.)1944 no exact position specified
1944 - (04.)1944 Minesweeping and Extended Defence Officer, Naples
(06.1944)     HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) *
19.07.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for duty at Leghorn)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
23.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for duty at Lamlash)
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Flory,
Arthur Gordon
A.G. Flory A.G. Flory
Son of Arthur Edwin Flory (1878-1960), and Dorothy Rose Jennie Cooper (1887-1977).
16.05.1915
Colchester district, Essex
-
19.08.1942
(KIA) [age 28]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 2]
T/S.Lt. 14.08.1941
Mention in Despatches MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid) [posthumously]
Education: Colchester Royal Grammar School.
Assistant builders manager, WD Contractors, Colchester.
29.09.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed:
1942 - 19.08.1942 First Lieutenant, HM ML 291 (motor launch)
[severely wounded during the Dieppe raid, and probably taken aboard the destroyer HMS Berkeley, where he died]
Founder & First Scout Master of the 26th Colchester (Sea Scout Troop).
Folkerd,
Philip Robert Samuel
P.R.S. Folkerd
Son of ... Folkerd, and ... Bulmer.
Married ((06?).1946, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) ... Dan.
07.10.1912
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
08.1994
Worthing district, West Sussex
T/S.Lt.
26.03.1942
T/Lt.
07.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
16.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
Navigating Officer, HMS Lochy (frigate)
Fontannaz,
Francis Louis
"Frank"
F.L. Fontannaz (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard)
Son of Antoine Jean Fontannaz (?-1931), and Mathilde Louisa Walker (?-1936).
Married (26.05.1921, Christ Church, Fulwood, Preston district, Lancashire) Alice Gwendoline Sanderson Pickles (26.05.1896 - (03?).1976); one child.
07.09.1894
Great Crosby, West Derby, Lancashire
-
24.05.1977
St Marylebone district, London
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.02.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

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

Education: Merchant Taylors' School (09.1905-04.1910).
Merchant's apprentice.
WW1     T/Capt., 5th Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment (wounded twice)
17.03.1943 - (07.)1945 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Founded the company “Frank Fontannaz and Company Limited” in the City of London. He retired from business in 1970.
Forbes,
George Thomson
G.T. Forbes (Photo courtesy of Mr Sinclair Forbes)
Son of Forbes Stewart Forbes (1867-1941), and Jane Shepherd Thomson (1876-1966).
Married (09.09.1935, Aberdeen, Scotland) Jean Sinclair (28.03.1908-20.01.1999); two sons, one daughter.
25.11.1906
Aberdeen, Scotland
-
03.11.1984
Aberdeen, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
09.01.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Played first-class cricket for Scotland, 1936-1938.
1943


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
02.08.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS President III (accounting base for personnel on Defence Equipped Merchant Ships) (probably serving as gunnery officer on troopships such as the RMS Highland Princess)
Bank manager.
Forbes,
Hugh
H. Forbes
Son (with three siblings) of Donald Forbes (1889-), and Elizabeth Stewart.
Married (01.1947, Dartford, Kent) Sister Lilian McLeod, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (16.06.1912 - 29.07.2005); two children.
16.01.1916
Partick, Glasgow, Scotland
-
14.12.1999
Ditchingham, Waveney district, Suffolk
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 1940?, seniority 01.09.1939 (reld 03.09.1946)
      temporary officer under T.124X agreements
20.10.1940 - (12.1942) HMS Alaunia (heavy repair ship)
29.01.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Gombroon (RN base, Hormuz, Persian Gulf)
06.05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Mersey (T124X depot, Liverpool)
(01.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Sefton (Empire class infantry landing ship) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Forbes,
Ian Gordon
I.G. Forbes
Son (with one sister and one brother) of John Forbes, medical practitioner (1869-1954), and Beatrice Nellie Josephine Renders (1885-).
Married ((06?).1942, Westminster district, London) Dorothy Stanley (1915 - ), of Barnes, Surrey.
(09?).1913
St Martin, London
-
13.09.1945
(illness)
[Tromso Cemetery, Norway]
T/Sg.Lt. 17.10.1941
Education: St Thomas' Hospital, King's College, London (1933-1940); MRCS, LRCP.
12.11.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Ulster Queen (anti-aircraft ship)
(04.)1943 - (10.)1943 No. 1 RM Landing Group, RM Beach Unit [later: RM Beach Group]
1943 - (12.)1943 Support Craft Regiment
17.12.1943 - 13.09.1945 HMS Diadem (improved Dido class cruiser)
Forbes,
J A [?]
J.A. Forbes
?
-
T/Lt.
?



Commanding Officer, HM MGB 3 (motor gun boat)
Ford,
Cecil William
C.W. Ford
Son of ... Ford, and ... Cook.
Residence: (1944) Elstree.

20.04.1913
Elstree, Watford district, Hertfordshire
-
11.07.1994
Wellington, Taunton Deane district, Somerset
T/S.Lt. 20.11.1941
T/Lt. 20.11.1942 (reld 25.04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 29.08.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 10.10.1944 action with enemy forces 04.07.44
Mention in Despatches MID 14.11.1944 actions 04.44 (cumulative)
Mention in Despatches MID 24.07.1945 fire fighting & damage control Ostend 14.02.45
Education: Watford Grammar School.
Played first-class cricket, 1930s-1940s.
(02.1942) - (04.1942) no appointment listed
05.1942 - (08.)1942 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 225 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
25.09.1942 - 07.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 632 (motor torpedo boat) [initially at HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William), from c. 05/06.1943 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)] (DSC and Bar, despatches)
07.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 771 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Ford,
Geoffrey Evan
G.E. Ford
Married; at least one daughter.
05.07.1916
-
10.2004
[age 88]
Kent, Kent
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
07.11.1943 (reld 1945/46)
late 1930s


joined RNVR as a rating ?
1940/41?


officer training at HMS Hood (battlecruiser) ?
?


ML 272
?


served in W Africa
09.08.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch)
(07.1945)
    no appointment listed
Sea Cadet Corps, late 1940s/early 1950s.
Ford,
James Dewar Moncrieff
J.D.M. Ford
Son of ... Ford, and ... Greig.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
11.09.1919
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
08.1975
Birmingham district, West Midlands
T/A/S.Lt. 28.07.1944
T/S.Lt. 28.01.1945 (reld 14.05.1946)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
05.11.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HM HDML 1486 (harbour defence motor launch)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
Ford,
John Frederick
J.F. Ford (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Ford)
Son of Frederick Ford, and Edith H. Flawn.
Married (08.1942, Wandsworth, London) Monica Kelly; one daughter, one son.
10.03.1917
Bromley, Greater London / Kent
-
09.1990
Johannesburg, South Africa
T/S.Lt. 12.02.1942
T/Lt. 12.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.08.1945 relief of Greece [award posted]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Afr St - & clasp N Africa 42-43
It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
      joined the RNVR as a rating and qualified as a telegraphist; served on Motor Launches on secondment to the Free French Forces off the coast of France
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
20.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
08.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria)
06.04.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM ML 1083 (motor launch)
07.10.1943 - 06.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 385 (motor launch) (damaged by an explosion whilst being serviced in Alexandria, killing some of the crew)
04.06.1944 - 28.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 360 (motor launch)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Ford,
Thomas Eugene
T.E. Ford (Photo courtesy of Terry Penton-Ford)
17.04.1902
Alverstoke, Hampsire
-
16.08.1982

Prob. Paym.S.Lt.
18.12.1923
Paym.Lt.
18.12.1925
Paym.Lt.Cdr.
18.12.1933
Paym.Cdr. = 
Cdr. (S)
31.12.1940 (retd 01.02.1951)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD
04.1942
?

King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway)

Hkn
04.03.1947
liberation of Norway
18.12.1923


joined Sussex Division, later Mersey Division RNVR (List 2)
14.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Europa (RN base, Lowestoft)
24.04.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Vernon II (trawler base, Portsmouth)
(12.1941)


HMS Marshal Soult (gunnery training ship) *
12.08.1941
-
(12.1943)
HMS Caradoc (light cruiser)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
19.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Fieldfare (RN Air Station, Evanton, Ross-shire)



may also have served at some point at HMS Fernie (destroyer), HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) and HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishements, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fordham,
Hugh William
H.W. Fordham
?
-
T/S.Lt.
23.10.1942
T/Lt.
23.04.1945
25.01.1943
-
(08.1943)
First Lieutenant, HM ML 108 (motor launch)
18.05.1944
-
(06.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 753 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed
Forman,
Edward Stuart
R. Forman
Son (with one sister [Mabel Lily Forman, who married Lt.Cdr. Ronald Gresham, DSC, RNVR]) of John William Forman (1878-1930), and Amy Lily Wood (1881-1972).
Married ((06?).1940, Buckrose district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Betty Hargreaves Bailey (22.12.1916 - 06.1991), daughter of William James Bailey (1885-1951), and Mary Ann Raper (1887-1955); two daughters.
18.09.1907
Bridlington, Yorkshire
-
11.2000
Bridlington, East Yorkshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 03.05.1940
T/Lt. 03.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld 30.03.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 19.09.1944 coastal forces action 06.44 [investiture 11.05.45]
Ladies hairdresser.
(06.1940)     skippering a small boat in the Dunkirk evacuation
1940 - (08.)1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) *
26.09.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
(02.1941) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
(02.1943) - (04.1943) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
17.05.1943 - 10.06.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 681 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC)
01.09.1944 - 03.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 784 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Forman,
Robert
R. Forman
?
-
T/S.Lt. (E)
14.02.1944
03.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Rushen Castle (corvette) *
20.09.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Leeds Castle (corvette) *
* listed under both ships in the Navy Lists of 07.1945 & 04.1946
Forshaw,
George Beverley
R. Forman
Son of ... Forshaw, and ... Macdonald.
Married ((09?).1942, Wallasey district, Cheshire) Gladys Winifred L. James (30.08.1921 - 09.1987); ... children (two sons, one daughter?).
29.10.1918
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
21.12.1988
York district, Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 19.06.1942
T/Lt. 29.10.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
02.08.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast)
09.1943 - (02.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM ML 285 (motor launch)
(04.1944)     HM ML 285 (motor launch) *
29.05.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1469 (harbour defence motor launch) *
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Forsyth-Forrest,
Aubrey David Noel
"John"
A.D.N. Forsyth-Forrest
Son of Thomas Forsyth-Forrest, and Marion Hilda Goldie.
Married (15.12.1932, St Michael's, Chester Square, London) Mrs Winifred Jessie "Judy" Montague (née Young) (10.10.1897-04.1990), of Childrey, Berkshire; ... children (one daughter?). She remarried (06.1942) William Edward Yeates.
(03?).1904
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire / Wiltshire
-
26.02.1941
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
(died if illness) [age 37]
[Long Newnton (Holy Trinity) Churchyard, Gloucestershire, north of church]
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 27.12.1940
25.11.1940 - 26.02.1941 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Forsyth-Grant,
Michael Osbert Frederick
M.O.F. Forsyth-Grant
From Montrose.
1921
St Cyrus district, Kincardine, Scotland
-
2000
Inverbervie district, Kincardine, Scotland
Prob. Midsh.
17.04.1939
Midsh.
1940?, seniority 17.04.1939
A/S.Lt.
26.01.1941
Lt.
26.07.1943
Lt.Cdr.
26.07.1951 (retd 11.07.1960)
Mention in Despatches MID

21.03.1944

action with enemy forces 23.12.43
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
01.08.1952
-
17.04.1939


joined East Scottish Division RNVR (post-war Tay Division, List 2)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
26.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Tynedale (destroyer)
12.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
06.06.1943
-
(08.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 118 (motor gun boat)
(10.)1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 437 (motor torpedo boat)
16.08.1944
-
(10.1944)
GCO, HMS Musketeer (destroyer)
29.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for RN Barracks, Kissy)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Published: Courage in adversity (1990; memoirs *); A salmon fisher remembers (1995); Deer-stalking in the Scottish Highlands 1940-1990 (1999)
* Summary: In this book the Author entertains and stimulates the reader with his story which succeeds in combining courage, humour, drama and even eccentricity. Born in a Scottish castle with all the traditional values of the upper middle class and of a public school education at Wellington, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a midshipman in 1939. He describes in vivid terms his wartime service. At 20 he was promoted to his first command in Coastal Forces and saw continual service in the English Channel during a particularly perilous period of naval encounter. This he tells with considerable frankness even to a description of his own court martial in 1944. Later he served in the Arctic convoys to Russia where danger and severe conditions were always present. After the war he found himself in many controversial situations including the two salmon poaching wars. He was also a candidate against Jo Grimond in the Orkneys and Shetlands. His appetite for travelling has been insatiable and in the course of his life he has met many national and international figures who are all described.
Forsythe,
Kirk
K. Forsythe
?
-
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
25.09.1936
Sg.Cdr.
31.12.1944 (reld 1946?)
Sg.Capt.
30.06.1953
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1941
Norwegian waters 05.40
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
?

MD, BCh, DPh, BAO

25.09.1930


joined RNVR, Ulster Division [HMS Caroline]
25.08.1939
-
(05.1940)
HMS Cairo (anti-aircraft ship)
27.09.1943
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Shrike
(04.1946)


released from active naval service
1940s
-
1950s
remained in the RNVR, Ulster Division [HMS Caroline]
Forsythe,
William Harrower
W.H. Forsythe
18.12.1916
-
T/S.Lt. 1942?
T/Lt. 07.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
26.11.1942 - 10.09.1944 First Lieutenant, HM ML 157 (motor launch)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
10.12.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 305 (motor launch)
Fortune,
John James Nicholson
J.J.N. Fortune
Married ...; one son.
08.07.1917
-
18.02.2000
T/S.Lt. 11.12.1941
T/Lt. 11.12.1942 (reld 27.05.1946)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
16.02.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Spiraea (corvette)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
03.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Rapid (destroyer)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
His son writes: "He joined up and rose through the ranks, as it were, ending up as Gunnery Lieutenant. He was wounded in Portsmouth Harbour but, despite being offered a "desk job", returned to active service for the rest of the war."
Fortune,
Thomas [Ian Moodie]
see: RNR officers' section  
Foss,
George Lush
J.J.N. Fortune
Son (with four sisters and one brother) of Edwin Vincent Foss (1872-1935), and Mabel Wood (1879-1959).
Married (31.08.1935, Stoke Bishop, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Eileen Isabelle Butler (01.01.1910 - 07.01.1998), daughter (with three sisters) of Joseph Beaumont Butler (1857-1935), and Minnie Sophia Stephens-Butler (1887-1962); one son, two daughters.
16.11.1908
St George, Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
11.02.1985
Clifton, Bristol district, Gloucestershire
Prob. Sg.Lt. 22.10.1934
Sg.Lt. 06.10.1936, seniority 22.10.1934
A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 06.1940, < 08.1940
Sg.Lt.Cdr. 22.10.1940
Sg.Cdr. 31.12.1948
Sg.Capt. 31.12.1956 (retd 31.12.1959)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 54: Severn Division RNVR [investiture 16.11.54]
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 03.03.1948 -
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD ? 1st clasp
Education: Jesus College, Cambridge (MA 1934, BA (Hons) 1930, MD 1940, MB 1938 BCh 1933; medical registration 12.08.1933.
15.08.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Albatross (seaplane carrier)
(10.1940)     HMS Albatross (seaplane carrier) *
29.10.1940 - (04.)1943 Physiological Department, Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton - Ministry of Supply
(06.1943) - (08.1943) Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton - Ministry of Supply *
02.09.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Tracker (Archer class escort carrier)
26.09.1945 - 02.02.1946 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
(04.1946)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
30.06.1959 - 31.12.1959 Honorary Physician to the Queen
* indexed, but not listed as such
Foster,
Alexander Dunlop
A.D. Foster
?
-
died between 08.1977 and 08.1983
T/Lt.
11.01.1943
Lt.
29.04.1947, seniority 11.01.1943
Lt.Cdr.
11.01.1951 (retd 11.01.1963)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
16.06.1945
action against E-boats 06.04.45
Mention in Despatches MID
24.08.1943
Operation Childhood (raid Tripoli harbour 27.01.43)
Mention in Despatches MID
21.12.1943
attack on Italian cruiser 16.07.43
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1945
attack heavily defended enemy convoy 30.09.44
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
-
01.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 501 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet]
03.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 327 (motor torpedo boat)
[ (01.1943)
-
(07.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 313 ? (motor torpedo boat) [according to 2 MIDs]
15.07.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
(09.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 347 (motor torpedo boat)
25.10.1944
-
(04.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 493 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet & HMS Mantis]
29.04.1947
 
 
transferred to List I of the Permanent RNVR
Foster,
Arnold John
A.J. Foster
Son of ... Foster, and ... Eggar.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
24.01.1925
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
09.1992
Plymouth district, Devon
T/S.Lt. 24.01.1945
S.Lt. 1949?, seniority 24.01.1947
Lt. 24.07.1949 (reverted to Temp. RNVR 10.04.1953 in rank of T/S.Lt.)
25.11.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
01.1946     HM LCT 684 (landing craft, tank)
07.1946     Commanding Officer, HM LCT 1224 (landing craft, tank)
13.01.1949     transferred, Permanent RNVR (Severn Division) (List I)
08.1949     Commanding Officer, HM LCT 684 (landing craft, tank)
10.1949     HMS Felixstowe
Foster,
Arthur Ernest
A.E. Foster
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
30.10.1941
T/Lt. 
30.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
10.05.1943
-
27.06.1943
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for 4th MTB Flotilla)
28.06.1943
-
18.10.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 32 (motor torpedo boat)
19.10.1943
-
23.01.1944
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 223 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
01.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 389 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Foster,
David Ramsey
D.R. Foster D.R. Foster
Son of Robert Bagley Foster, company director, and Josephine Ramsey, of London.
Married thrice; two daughters.

24.05.1920
London
-
04.06.2010
Naval Airman 2nd cl. 1940
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 18.11.1940
T/S.Lt. (A) ?
T/Lt. (A) 18.05.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian (air strikes on Palembang 01.45) [investiture 13.11.45]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 17.11.1942 Middle East opeational flying 08-09.42 [investiture 19.10.43]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands 03-05.45) [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 17.11.1942 Middle East opeational flying 04-07.42
Education: Stowe; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (01.10.1938-1939; Econ. Tripos, Part I, Class 3).
1940     HMS St Vincent (air branch training establishment, Gosport)
11.04.1941 - 04.1942 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
04.1942 - (09.)1942 pilot, 821 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] (DSC, despatches)
12.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for Naval Air Squadrons)
05.07.1943 - (12.1943) pilot, 841 Squadron FAA
09.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, 849 Squadron FAA [HMS Rajah (escort carrier), then HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)] (DSO, Bar to DSC) *
Published: 100 Heroes of Golf (1988); Wings Over the Sea (1990).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Foster,
Harold Bertram
H.B. Foster (Photo courtesy of Ann Barrington) H.B. Foster (Photo courtesy of Ann Barrington)
H.B. Foster (Photo courtesy of Ann Barrington)
Son of Bertram Montague Foster (1875-1955), and Eliza Louise Catchpole (1871-1960).
Married ((09?).1939, Luton district, Bedforshire) Erica Lois Aggett (14.04.1904 - 10.1986), daughter of Walter Herbert Aggett (1864-1926), and Ellen Mary Webb (1864-1950); one daughter.
09.04.1903
Seven Kings, nr Ilford, Romford district, Essex
-
30.11.1984
Great Bealings, Woodbridge, Deben district, Suffolk
Prob. T/S.Lt. 21.06.1940
T/Lt. 21.09.1940 (reld 18.11.1946)
21.06.1940 - (10.)1941 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (for Thames Auxiliary Patrol)
20.11.1941 - (10.1945) HMS Alca (base ship for Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) II)
22.03.1946 - (04.)1946 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for miscellaneous duties)
Foster,
Peter Vivian Douglas *
P.V.D. Foster
Son of Alfred Wesley Foster (1895-1961), and Lilian Violet Ethel Hale (1897-1978).
Married ...; ... children.
* Birth registration as: Foster, Vivian Douglas.
06.03.1917
Hastings district, Sussex
-
15.11.1992
Guestling, Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 10.07.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.07.1943 (reld 02.06.1946)

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

(08.1942)     no appointment listed
08.1942 - (04.1945) HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) (for dockyard duties)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Foster,
William Kenneth
W.K. Foster (Photo courtesy of Clementine Singh)
Married (1954, Dundee East district, Scotland) Clementine Lamond Wallace (04.1929 - 23.02.2012); one son, one daughter.
31.12.1917
Shanghai, China
-
30.01.2003
Lewes, Sussex
T/S.Lt. 09.04.1942
T/Lt. 09.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 08.05.1945 action against E-boats 21.12.1944 [investiture 27.11.1945]
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
29.06.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
02.10.1942 - (06.)1943 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 238 (motor torpedo boat)
01.07.1943 - (04.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 683 (motor torpedo boat)
28.04.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 694 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC)
28.05.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5003 (motor torpedo boat)
Foulds,
Basil Henry [Royston]
B.H. Foulds
Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of Dr. Francis Henry Foulds (1868-1927), and Greta Mary Anne Foster.
Married ((06?).1928, Steyning district, Sussex) Kathleen Bertha Anderson Hallett ((09?).1905 - 10.04.1962), of Fowey, daughter of Ernest Benjamin Hallett (1868-1948); two sons
(06?).1904
Droitwich, Worcestershire
-
21.06.1944
Chippenham district, Wiltshire
(died of illness) [age 40]
[Fowey Cemetery, Cornwall, grave WC 5]
T/Paym.S.Lt. 27.05.1942
T/Paym.Lt. 27.08.1942
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
17.08.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Cabbala (coding school, Lowton, Warrington, Lancashire)
(10.1943) - (02.1944) HMS Cabbala (coding school, Lowton, Warrington, Lancashire) *
07.04.1944 - 21.06.1944 HMS Lusitania II (RN base, Fayal/Horta, Azores)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Foulkes,
Noel Frank Roose
N.F.R. Foulkes
Son of Frank Washington Foulkes (1860-1913), and Charlotte Emma Fidlin (1865-1957).
Married ((03?).1945, Kensington district, London) Constance Phyllis Roach (21.11.1921 - 08.2000), daughter of Henry Roach, and Emma Cotton. Constance Foulkes remarried ... Sparrow.
18.02.1901
Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire
-
28.04.1986
Frome, Somerset
Prob. T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 20.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

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

(01.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Fowler,
John Bruce
J.B. Fowler
Son of Robert Fowler, and Mary Young.
Married ((09?).1948, Hampstead district, Middlesex) Second Officer Clarissa Mary Holland, WRNS (02.12.1919 - 10.1994); three daughters, two sons (twins).
16.01.1922
Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
-
07.1996
Wandsworth district, London
T/A/S.Lt. 05.08.1941
T/S.Lt. 01.12.1942
T/Lt. 01.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
15.08.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Walpole (destroyer)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
24.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Obdurate (destroyer)
Fowler,
Leslie Tom
L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler) L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler)
L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler) L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler)
L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler) L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler)
L.T. Fowler (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler)
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Josiah Thomas Fowler (1880-1949), and Edith Annie Hunt (1880-1949).
Married ((03?).1940, St Albans district, Hertfordshire) Gladys Curd (17.06.1919 - 11.1999), daughter (with two sisters) of Norville Curd (1887-1956), and Margaret Eliza Finch (1888-1971); two sons, one daughter.
28.03.1915
St Albans district, Hertfordshire
-
01.1997
New Forest district, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt. 01.04.1943
T/S.Lt. 01.10.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
10.1942 - 12.1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire) (for forecastle & quarterdeck class)
25.04.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate)
(1944/45?)     Commanding Officer, HM LCT 2130 (landing craft, tank)
Fowler,
William Henry
J.B. Fowler
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
03.06.1903
-
20.05.1983
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 21.08.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 10.1941, < 12.1941 (reld 28.03.1946)

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

(10.1941) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
(12.1942) - (04.1945) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
01.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for miscellaneous services)
* indexed, but not listed as such
His daughter writes: "He was in Argentina during the Second World War as a Naval Intelligence Officer and was under the command of Captain McCall, Naval Attaché in the British Embassy in Buenos Aires."
Fox,
Albert Stanley
A.S. Fox
?
-
?
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.02.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.06.1940
T/El.Lt. > 10.1940, < 12.1940, seniority 11.06.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
11.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for Minesweeping Department)
15.04.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)
01.10.1940 - (08.)1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for various services)
13.09.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (additional; for miscellaneous duties)
01.01.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers / Taranto)
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
22.05.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead)
Fox,
Carter
C. Fox
(06?).1918 ?
Tynemouth district, Cumberland ?
-
Midsh. 29.06.1938
S.Lt. 20.12.1939
Lt. 26.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 26.02.1950 (retd 30.08.1957)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD 01.08.1952 -
29.06.1938     joined RNVR (Tyne Division)
26.08.1939 - (04.)1941 HMS Resolution (battleship)
05.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Hartland (escort)
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
14.12.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)
(10.1943) - (04.1944) HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) *
14.04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Vernon (Whitehead Department) (for duty at "Vernon" Trial Base, Arrochar)
Fox,
John Guy
J.G. Fox (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael C. Fox)
Son of ... Fox, and ... Stratton.
Brother of Lt.Cdr. R.C. Fox, RNVR.
Married; two sons.
17.08.1913
Rochford district, Essex
-
31.12.2005
Binstead, Isle of Wight
T/S.Lt.
15.05.1940
T/A/Lt.
05.04.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
07.1942, seniority 05.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
17.03.1937


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to Sussex Division RNVR]
15.05.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa) (patrolling boom defences)
07.1942


transferred to Special Branch
31.08.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (for service at Poole) (also involved in planning the routing of various transports and RN vessels for the Normandy landings)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Fox,
Joseph Bower
J.B. Fox
20.07.1909
Hedmondwike, Dewsbury district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
11.1993
Leeds district, Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940
T/Lt. 04.01.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway)

Hkn 26.08.1947 service to Norwegians
19.10.1940 - (07.)1945 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) [liaison officer at Norwegian Naval Training Center, Skegness for some or most of the time]
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Fox,
Robert Cecil
"Bob"
R.C. Fox
Son of ... Fox, and ... Stratton.
Brother of Lt. (Sp.Br.) J.C. Fox, RNVR.
23.07.1916
-
06.1988
Redbridge district, Essex
T/Lt.
10.05.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
01.02.1937


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
(1940?)


HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa) (patrolling boom defences)
31.12.1940
-
(08.1942)
First Lieutenant, HMS Quiet Waters (Admiralty steel drifter)
(1943?)


on liner "Queen Elizabeth" travelling between UK and USA
06.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS President III (accounting base for DEMS personnel)
Fox,
Thomas Dudson
T.D. Fox
(06?).1921
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
25.01.2014
Wirral
T/S.Lt. 23.02.1942
T/Lt. 06.05.1944
... ...
Capt. (Sp.Br.) RNR 30.06.1966 (retd)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE 30.012.1976 New Year 77: SO NCS Branch RNR [investiture 23.02.77]
Mention in Despatches MID 09.05.1944 for great skill, endurance and devotion to duty in one of these HM Ships Whitehaven, Boston, Romney, Cromer or Cromarty in clearing enemy minefields to enable supply convoys and bombardment forces to operate in support of the Eighth Army in their advance from Egypt to Tunis
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD ? -
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD ? -
... - ... ...
(12.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed
(04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
16.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tiptoe (submarine)
12.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
... - ... ...
Foxton,
John Hirst
J.H. Foxton
Son (with three brothers [one died in infancy] and one sister) of John Alexander Foxton (1887-1954), and Edith Poskitt (1889-1973).
Married (1940, Bridlington district, East Yorkshire) Thora Musk (02.11.1915 - 21.11.2005); three daughters.
17.07.1915
Selby Common, Selby District, North Yorkshire
-
24.09.1983
City of Westminster, Greater London
T/Sg.Lt. 21.05.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. late 1945? (reld 12.03.1946)
MB, ChB Leeds 1939.
21.05.1940 - (06.)1940 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
17.06.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Foresight (F class destroyer)
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
08.09.1941 - (04.)1942 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
19.05.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Verity (modified W class destroyer)
(06.1943)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
03.06.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
28.12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) 836 Squadron FAA *
03.1945 - (04.)1945 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
14.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire)
General practitioner, Brigg, Lincolnshire.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Foxwell,
Victor Randolph Joseph
V.R.J. Foxwell
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Gilbert Joseph Foxwell (1875-1960), and Martha Thirza Louisa Andrews (1874-1949).
Married 1st ((03?).1921, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Queenie Mary Durham (15.06.1897 - 10.1984); two daughters.
Married 2nd ((12?).1939, Barnet district, Middlesex) Gwladys Lucy Graylin (21.11.1907 - 02.1990).
27.04.1901
Camberwell, London
-
04.1994
Exeter district, Devon
T/S.Lt. 25.09.1942
T/Lt. 25.06.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Inspector at the City branch in Cornhill of the United British Insurance Co., 1921.
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
< 02.1943     British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek escort destroyer "Miaoulis"
(02.1943)     HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) *
18.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
06.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Osborne (RN base, Cowes, Isle of Wight) (for duty with Naval Control Service Officer, Cowes)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Foyle,
William Richard
W.R. Foyle
Son (with two sisters) of William Alfred Westrop Foyle (1885-1963), and Christina Tulloch (1881-1976).
Married ((09?).1937, Edmonton district, Essex) Alice Kun (07.06.1914 - 01.10.1998); two sons.
14.08.1912
St Pancras district, London
-
07.03.1957
(died of heart attack at sea, near Tripoli, while on a cruise to North Africa)
(formerly of East Finchley, Middlesex)

[Highgate Cemetery (East)
Highgate, London Borough of Camden, Greater London]
T/S.Lt. 09.04.1942
T/Lt. 14.08.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
Worked in his father's bookshop Foyles at Charing Cross Road, London.
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
20.07.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Forte IV (Coastal Forces base, Falmouth) (for motor launches)
30.06.1943 - (02.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 563 (motor launch)
10.02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Razorbill (Coastal Forces base, Algiers)
Fradgley,
John Reginald
J.R. Fradgley
Son of E.W. Fradgley, and of Edith M. Fradgley, of Yateley, Hampshire.
Married Evelyn A. Mary Sellar, of Yateley.
(09?).1905
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
08.02.1943
(KIA) [age 37]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 11, column 1]
Prob. T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
16.10.1939
T/Lt.
?
Stockbroker.
(04.1940)
-
(02.1941)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
23.04.1942
-
08.02.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Bredon (armed trawler) (sunk by U-boat in north Atlantic)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Frai,
Frank Peter
P.F. Frai
?
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ?
Hon. Lt.
20.01.1927
Prob. Lt.
?
Lt.
03.01.1928
Lt.Cdr.
03.01.1936
Cdr.
30.06.1939 (retd 24.07.1943)
A/Capt. (retd)
17.03.1945?
Capt. (retd)
08.05.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
post-war
?

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD
04.1942
?
Education: Varndean Boys' School, Brighton (c. 1907)
Clerk, Ministry of Pensions, 08.1926-03.1932.
20.01.1927


honorary commission in the RNVR (later attached to the Sussex Division)
11.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
Instructor Commander, HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
13.12.1940
-
(06.1944)
HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) (for duty in the office of the Naval Officer-in-Charge)
17.03.1945
-
05.11.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Nabreekie (mobile naval air base (MONAB) VII, Middle Wallop)
01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Golden Hind II (RN base, Sydney, NSW) (for disposal)
Frame,
Neville
N. Frame
Son (with one brother and one sister) of George Gardner Frame (1889-1963), and Isabella Maud Morrow (1890-1973).
Married (21.12.1940, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Gladys Ashworth (31.03.1918 - 02.09.1999), daughter (with three sisters and one brother) of James Youll Ashworth (1891-1960), and Ethel Oliver (1892-1970); two sons.
11.11.1917
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland
-
23.01.1966
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
Engine Room Artificer ?
T/S.Lt. (E) 24.04.1944 (reld 1946)
      may have served Coastal Forces
17.10.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Francis,
Herbert
H. Francis (Photo courtesy of Mr Graham Francis)
Son (with one brother) of Frank Francis (1888-1918), and Ada Chorley (1896-1969).
Married (28.02.1942, Uckfield district, Sussex) Marjorie J. Cooper (1918? - 06.07.1951); three sons.
19.03.1915
East Orchard, Shaftesbury district, Dorset
-
08.05.1999
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 18.09.1940
T/S.Lt. (E) 04.09.1944
T/A/Lt. (E) (02.1944)-(06.1944)
      temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements:
18.09.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Cathay (armed merchant cruiser)
06.02.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
09.04.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Caduceus (radar training vessel)
(02.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Speaker (escort carrier) *
[possibly from 11.1943-04.1944]
04.09.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Empire Halberd (landing ship, infantry), renamed 1945 HMS Silvio
12.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Neston Camp, Wirral)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Frank,
Hugh Grahame
R.J. Franklin
Son of ... Frank, and ... Flynn.
Married ((09?).1947, Liverpool district, Lancashire) Betty Cecelia Dovener (12.02.1921 - 06.1983); one son.
27.08.1920
Lancaster district, Lancashire
-
10.2005
North Yorkshire district
T/Sg.Lt. 08.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: University of Liverpool (MD, 1952; MB, ChB, 21.12.1942; MRad 1948). FRCR 1975. FFR 1955. DMRT Eng 1948.
15.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Swift (destroyer)
(02.1944)     HMS Renown (battlecruiser) *
03.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
16.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Prins Albert (landing ship infantry (small))
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Franklin,
Arthur Lawrence
A.L. Franklin
Son of Lawrence A. Franklin, and Ethel M. Burton.
Married ((09?).1948, Ealing district, Middlesex) Enid Cunningham.
Residence: (1967) Bathampton, Somerset.
30.01.1920
Westhampnett district, Sussex
-
11.07.1972
Weymouth, Dorset
T/S.Lt. 07.11.1943
T/Lt. 01.10.1945
Lt. 1946?, seniority 30.01.1945
Lt.Cdr. 30.01.1953
Cdr. 31.12.1957
A/Capt. < 02.1963
Capt. 31.12.1963 (retd 30.06.1968)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD 12.11.1957 -
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 26.03.1968 -
11.10.1943 - (07.1945) HM ML 204 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     HMS Jamaica (cruiser) *
1946? - 30.06.1968 permanent commission, Severn Division RNVR (from late 1950s RNR)
Bank manager.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Franklin,
Henry George
H.G. Franklin
Son of Bt.Col. George Denne Franklin (1877-1946), CIE, OBE, JP, Indian Medical Service, and Ethel Janet Carver (1877-1964), of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Brother of S.Lt. (A) Lionel Cooper Franklin, RN.
Nephew of R.Adm. Harold Gordon Cooper Franklin, RN.

Married ((09?).1945, Dorchester district) Thelma C.V. Mitchell, WRNS (born 1924); one son, one daughter.
10.07.1922
Lambeth district, London
-
12.1989
Bodmin district, Cornwall
T/Midsh.
04.09.1941
T/A/S.Lt.
1942
T/S.Lt.
10.01.1943
T/Lt.
01.11.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
28.12.1943
action Dutch coast 14.09.43 [investiture 23.05.44]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
23.01.1945
torpedo attack heavy armed convoy 30.09.44 [investiture 10.07.45]
Education: Uppingham School, Rutland
(12.1941)


HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
10.07.1942
-
(06.1943?)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 241 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
10.03.1943
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 69 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
02.08.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 350 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
14.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 500 (motor torpedo boat)
22.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 508 (motor torpedo boat)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Franklin,
Richard James
R.J. Franklin
?
-
T/S.Lt. 29.01.1942
T/A/Lt. 29.04.1942

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings 09.43) [investiture 10.07.45]
10.05.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
(09.1943)     "D" RN Beach Commando (Salerno landings, Vietri)
Franks,
Peter William George
P.W.G. Franks
05.03.1923
India ?
-
05.2004
Kent
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.03.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.09.1943
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) < 01.1945
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.09.1945 (commission terminated 27.06.1951)
(04.1943)     HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) *
10.05.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)
(02.1944) - (10.1944) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) *
01.04.1944 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS O-23 (Dutch submarine) (Pacific)
? - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS O-24 (Dutch submarine) (Pacific)
08.12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (for submarines)
(07.1945)     HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) *
11.1945? - 1946 British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS Tjerk Hiddes (Dutch destroyer)
(04.1946)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fraser,
Donald Henry
D.H. Fraser (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Galloway)
01.05.1919 ?
-
26.01.1951
Prob. Midsh. 02.06.1939
A/S.Lt. 11.01.1940
S.Lt. 04.05.1940
Lt. 01.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
02.06.1939     joined RNVR (Severn Division)
(02.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (for training)
10.02.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Wellington (sloop)
(04.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
(12.1942) - (04.1943) HMS Icarus (destroyer) *
(06.1943)     no appointment listed
14.06.1943 - (07.1945) staff, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fraser,
James Lovat
"Jamie"
J.L. Fraser
Son of William and Jessie Fraser, of Killearn.
1920 ?
-
18.04.1943 
(KIA) [age 23]
[Killearn Parish Churchyard, south extension grave 12]
Midsh.
18.05.1938
A/S.Lt.
03.12.1939
S.Lt.
03.12.1940
Lt.
03.06.1942
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1943
action Dutch coast 17.04.43
18.05.1938


joined RNVR, Clyde Division
(04.1940)


HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
03.12.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
?
-
18.04.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 233 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Frater,
John Charles
J.C. Frater (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Gibson) J.C. Frater
Son of William Rutherford Frater, and Dora Elsie Gibson, of Shotley Bridge, Co. Durham.
(12?).1920
Lanchester district, Co. Durham
-
16.07.1945
(MPK) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 03.02.1941
T/S.Lt. (A) 16.11.1941
T/Lt. (A) 03.08.1943

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [presented to next-of-kin]
(04.1941) - (06.1941) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
24.07.1941 - (08.)1941 pilot, 818 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
12.08.1941 - (02.)1942 pilot, 802 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]
01.02.1942 - (10.)1942 pilot, 818 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
(12.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) *
(04.1943)     HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Kutukurunda, Ceylon) *
(06.1943) - (10.)1943 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
06.10.1943 - (12.1943) pilot, 753 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
01.1944 - (04.)1945 pilot, 856 Squadron FAA [HMS Premier (escort carrier)] (DSC)
09.06.1945 - 16.07.1945 pilot, 736 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Freathy,
Ivor Webb
K.L. Frost
Son of Herbert Edwin Rundell Freathy (1881-1938), and Ada Gann (1883-1947).
Married ((06?).1937, Barnet district, Middlesex) Eileen M. Skeet; ... children (one son?).
(12?).1909
Hornsey, Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
07.2000
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 21.11.1939
T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 14.09.1943 Operation Torch [investiture 11.05.45]
18.08.1939 - (02.)1942 HMS Sultan II (accounting base for personnel at Singapore)
(04.1942) - (12.1942) still shown at HMS Sultan II, although no longer serving at Singapore
01.01.1943 - (12.1943) Secretary to Principal Sea Transport Officer Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy)] (OBE)
(02.)1944 - (04.)1945 Secretary, Sea Transport Department, Ministry of War Transport (London) [HMS President]
(07.1945)     HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
16.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi, India & Kandy, Ceylon)
(04.1946)     HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) *
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Freemont,
James Howard
J.H. Dreemont
Married ((03?).1933, Willesden district, Middlesex) Dorothy Thomas (29.09.1907 - 17.03.1981).
17.11.1910
-
01.10.1979
Greenford, Brent district, Middlesex
T/S.Lt. 31.07.1942
T/A/Lt. 31.10.1942
T/Lt. 20.04.1944, seniority 31.10.1942 (reld 28.02.1946)
Ex commercial traveller textile sportswear & clothing. Full time service warden Air Raid Precaution, Borough of Ealing.
(10.1942) - (04.1944) no appointment listed
04.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Freeth,
James Edward
J.E. Freeth
Only son of Maj. Francis Arthur Freeth, OBE, FRS, and Ethel Elizabeth Warbrick.
Married (21.12.1940) Elizabeth Jarvis, of Foxgrove, Blue Anchor Bay, Somerset.
Residence: (1945) Parkstone.
01.11.1914
Northwich district, Cheshire
-
01.1984
Northumberland Central district
Prob. S.Lt. 18.11.1935
S.Lt. 18.11.1936
Lt. 11.01.1940
A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 (demobilized < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 11.01.1948 (retd 01.11.1964)
Mention in Despatches MID 06.04.1943 landings in North Africa
Mention in Despatches MID 08.06.1943 for skill in actions against enemy submarines
Mention in Despatches MID 27.03.1945 invasion South of France
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD ? -
18.11.1935     joined RNVR (Sussex Division)
12.07.1937 - 1937 training, HMS Curacoa (gunnery and torpedo school cruiser) (Portsmouth)
16.09.1937 - 1937 training, HMS Verity (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla)
31.07.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Despatch (cruiser)
23.07.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for service at Bermuda)
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
02.06.1942 - (10.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Cadmus (Algerine class minesweeper)
11.1943 - 17.02.1945 First Lieutenant, then Commanding Officer, HMS Stornoway (Bangor class minesweeper)
02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, NS) (for miscellaneous duties)
Honorary naval attaché, Montevideo, 1957-1959.
Frenay,
Philip [Martin]
P. Frenay (Photo courtesy of Mrs Elizabeth de Stermich)
17.12.1905
Luton, Bedfordshire
-
(12?).1971
Surrey Northern district
T/El.Lt. 10.06.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
07.1941 - (02.1943) HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for miscellaneous services, Trinidad)
31.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon) (for Mobile Training Units)
French,
Cassell Arthur James
C.A.J. French
19.05.1924
-
06.1996

Rochdale, Lancashire
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
19.05.1945
Lt. RN
19.05.1947
Lt.Cdr. RN
19.05.1955 (retd 28.05.1960)
16.01.1944

-
28.05.1944
HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
28.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Sandhurst (depot ship)
25.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Trenchant (submarine)
04.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Tudor (submarine)
18.03.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Montclare (depot ship)
13.07.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS Mercury (training establishment, East Meon, nr. Petersfield)
French,
Donald Levick
D.L. French 
Son (with one brother) of Horace Levick French (1884-1925), and Dorothy Evelyn Smith (1888-1928).
Married 1st ((12?).1939, Blaby district, Leicestershire) Betty A. Bailey ((03?).1917 - (09?).1979); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((09?).1946, London) Madeleine Fox (née Thoma) (19.01.1918 - ); one son, one daughter.
19.11.1916
Thrapston district, Northamptonshire
-
04.1991
Surrey South Western dsistrict, Surrey
T/S.Lt. 01.11.1940
T/A/Lt. 17.11.1941
T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 17.11.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
20.11.1940 - (10.)1942 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary)
09.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary)
03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Dartmouth III (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth)
31.07.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft)
Friend,
Esmond George [Delmar]
E.G. Friend 
Married ((12?).1945, St Marylebone district, London) Heather Chennells; two daughters, one son.
23.02.1912
-
06.2002
Exeter district, Devon
T/S.Lt. 27.06.1940
T/A/Lt. 27.06.1941
T/Lt. 10.1941, seniority 27.06.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1945, < 04.1946 (reld 11.10.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 04.03.1947, seniority 23.02.1945 (reld 23.02.1954)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.08.1945 relief of Greece [decoration posted] *
Mention in Despatches MID 11.07.1944 air attack Bari 02.12.1943
* Taffrail (Captain Taprell Dorling), Western Mediterranean 1942-1945 (1947): Though it occurred some time later, another action may conveniently be mentioned here. The little island of Khalkia, steep and mountainous, lies about eight miles west of Rhodes, which was still held by the enemy. As there was a report of enemy craft in the little harbour, two motor launches were sent to investigate. They were M.L. 838, commanded by Lieutenant R.D. Poole, R.N.V.R., and M.L, 359 (Lieutenant E.G. Friend, R.N.V.R.). They sailed from their base in bad weather, with a rough sea and a bustling north-westerly breeze, and at about 1.30 p.m. were off the little harbour of Khalkia. Leaving 359 to keep watch off the entrance, Poole took his boat inside. At about 2 p.m. the enemy started shelling the harbour with a four-gun battery from Rhodes. They were high-velocity guns, and their shooting was unpleasantly accurate. Deciding the harbour was an unhealthy spot, Poole shot out to sea at his best speed. Immediately he cleared the entrance he saw M.L. 359 steering west at high speed with shell splashing and bursting all round her. To avoid closing the range and to draw some of the fire, Poole steered to the northward at full speed, but the weather having worsened he was soon forced to reduce to eight knots. M.L. 359 soon disappeared behind the intervening land; but at 2.35 the two boats were again in company to the north- ward of Khalkia. Friend’s boat had been under fire for about fourteen minutes while proceeding at her best speed against the heavy sea. By great good fortune, she had suffered no direct hit. But there were at least thirty splinter holes in the ship’s side and upperworks, all the wheelhouse windows had been smashed, and the engine-room telegraph controls and telephone severed. The coxswain of 359, Petty Officer H. Maud, though wounded in five places by splinters, stuck to his wheel until the ship was out of range of the guns, while the motor mechanic, S. J. Russel, kept his engines going at maximum speed for a long period in most difficult and trying conditions. In the words of a senior officer, the conduct of both these men was “in the best traditions of the Service."
27.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)
(04.1941)     no appointment listed
14.06.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
11.10.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
16.03.1942 - 30.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 240 (motor launch) [initially at HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow), later HMS Iron Duke (RN base, Scapa Flow)] (despatches)
23.12.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 359 (motor launch) (DSC)
02.10.1945 - (07.)1946 Commanding Officer, HM ML 196 (motor launch) & as Senior Officer, 7th Motor Launch Flotilla
04.03.1947 - 23.02.1954 Permanent RNVR (Sussex Division) (List 1, later List 2)
Friend,
Leslie Edgar
L.E. Friend (Photo: HMS Hood Association) 
Only son of Mr Edgar and Beatrice Friend, of Margate.
Married (1940/41?) Gwendoline.

(09?).1908
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
24.05.1941 
(MPK) [age 32]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
02.11.1940
Education: Dover College
Became a member of the Stock Exchange, 1931, and later joined his father as a partner in the firm C.T. Pulley & Co.
15.09.1940
-
24.05.1941
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
[missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Friend,
Peter Donald

P.D. Friend (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael J Friend) Photo courtesy of Mr Michael J Friend
03.01.1917
Medway, Kent
-
12.10.1976
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
03.01.1942 (reld 1947?)
George Medal GM
27.12.1940
mine disposal

BSc

Education: Gillingham Grammar School, Kent; London University (Physics)
1939


started to train as a school master
16.03.1940
-
13.06.1940
joined British Army, Royal Artillery, but transferred to RNVR
13.06.1940
-
14.06.1944
Unexploded Bomb Disposal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
14.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Volcano (Bomb Disposal Training Establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland) *
(04.1946)


HMS President
1947?
-
1954
Admiralty Scientific service Queen Anne's Mansions
1954
-
1976
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire
* Was actually already attached to HMS Volcano since 10.1943 (according to his son).
Froggatt,
James Harvey

J.H. Froggatt (© Imperial War Museum (A 30331))
22.08.1915
-
(12?).1972
... ...
Lt. 24.08.1940
A/Lt.Cdr. ? (09.1945?)
Lt.Cdr. 24.08.1948 (retd 22.08.1962)
... - ... ...
07.08.1944 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
(09.1945)     Flag Lieutenant[-Commander?] to Flag Officer, Norway
Frost,
Keith Lanning
K.L. Frost (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark Frost)
Son (with one sister) of Percy Lanning Frost (1887-1962), and Ida Dorothy Edwards (1894-1980).
Married (07.05.1949, Wandsworth, London) Bodil Marie Poulsen (17.08.1925 - 19.12.1998), daughter (with three siblings) of Jens Jensen Poulsen (1899-1961), and Helga Marie Holm (1899-1976); five sons, one daughter.
01.10.1922
Cricklewood, London
-
12.08.2006
Worthing, West Sussex
T/A/S.Lt. 18.12.1942
T/S.Lt. 18.06.1943
T/Lt. 18.06.1945 (reld 11.08.1946)
      served as Ordinary Seaman in The Arctic Convoys to Russia, also in Operation Pedestal, the relief of Malta (August 1942) on HMS Ledbury
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(02.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed:
05.1943     First Lieutenant, HM LCI (L) 175  (landing craft infantry (large))
1944?     First Lieutenant, HM LCI (L) 284 (landing craft infantry (large)) (invasion of Italy)
1945?     Commanding Officer, HM LCI (L) 251 (landing craft infantry (large)) (Malta)
(04.1946)     HMS Foliot I (landing craft accounting base, Plymouth) *
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fruin,
Reginald John

R.J. Fruin
Son (with two sisters and two broothers) of Alexander George Fruin (1885-1957), and Ada Sophia Sevant (1871-1979).
Married (11.10.1945, Poole, Dorset) Jean Isobel Hawkins (11.06.1922 - 12.01.2012), daughter of Charles Thomas Hawkins (1883-1968), and Gertrude Annie Lloyd Davies (1885-1955); two daughters, two sons.
08.05.1914
Edmonton, London
-
12.01.1988
Adelaide, South Australia
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 11.12.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.06.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.05.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer who is employed on cypher duties

Civil servant, clerical.
11.12.1943 - 02.1944 HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa)
02.1944 - 06.1944 for disposal by Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
06.1944 - (10.1945) Cypher Officer on staff of Flag Officer, Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
Fry,
John Somerset
J.S. Fry (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Causer) J.S. Fry (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Causer)
J.S. Fry (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Causer)
Son of Sydney Norman Fry (1886-1967), and Muriel Maidlow Marguerite Davis (1887-1968).
Married 1st ((06?).1949, Surrey South Western district) Anne Ker-Gibson (Mrs Robin K. Dane), daughter of Arthur William Gibson (1878-1949), and Marjore Ellen Ker (1891-1946); three daughters.
Married 2nd ((12?).1973, Chelsea district, London) Silvija Helena Maie Belevics, daughter of Valentins Belevics, and Astra Antonova; one daughter.
17.09.1923
Blackheath, Woolwich district, London
-
14.03.2013
T/Midsh. (A) 28.05.1943
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 01.09.1943
T/S.Lt. (A) 01.03.1944
T/Lt. (A) 01.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
(08.)1943)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
02.08.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
23.02.1944 - (10.1945) pilot, 807 Squadron FAA [HMS Hunter (escort carrier)]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fryer,
Stanley Russell
S.R. Fryer
Son of ... Fryer, and ... Edwards.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
04.09.1924
Brentford district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex
-
12.2012 still alive
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 31.03.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

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

(06.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
05.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) (as Naval Air Intelligence Officer)
03.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Pintail (RN Air Station, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co. Antrim)
Fulcher,
Derick Harold

D.H. Fulcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Clive Kidd)
Son of Percy Frederick Fulcher, and Gertrude Lilian Robinson.
Married (1943) Florence Ellen May Anderson (1923 - 20.04.12015); one son, one daughter.
04.11.1917
Mile End district, London
-
27.08.1999
Croydon, London
T/S.Lt. 13.12.1940
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 04.11.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 02.02.1945]

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

Education: St Olave's Grammar School.
Entered Civil Service (War Office), 1936.
(02.1941) - (04.)1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
13.05.1941 - (02.)1944 HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)
(04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
(06.1944)     Force J (Normandy) (DSC)
19.08.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
08.1944 - 01.1945 M.M. Radar Course [at Radar School, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)]
23.10.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)
Assistant Principal, Ministry of National Insurance, 1947; Principal, 1950; Administrator Staff College, Henley, 1952; Assistant Secretary 1959; seconded to HM Treasury, 1957-59; served on an ILO mission in Trinidad and Tobago, 1967-69. Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security, 1969-70. Interviewer for CS Commission, 1971-79. UK Delegate to and Chairman: NATO Management Survey Committee, 1970-71 ; Council of Europe Management Survey Committee, 1971-72. Chairman, Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunals, 1971-75 ; Head of UK res. project in W Europe into social security provision for disablement, 1971-72; Res. Consultant, Office of Manpower Economics, 1972-73; served on technical aid mission to Indonesia, 1973; ILO Res. Consultant on Social Security, 1973-80; Consultant to: EEC Statistical Office, 1974; Government of Thailand on Social Security, 1978-79 and 1981. Fellow, lnst. for European Health Services Research, Leuven Univ., Belgium, 1974.
Published: Medical care systems (1974); Social security for the unemployed (1976).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fullarton,
John Speirs
J.S. Fullarton (Photo courtesy of Mr Donald Fullarton)
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
22.11.1915
Row district, Dunbarton, Scotland
-
11.08.1970
Dunfermline district, Fife, Scotland
Prob. T/S.Lt. 02.02.1940
T/S.Lt. 07.04.1940
T/Lt. 02.02.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 13.03.1945 assault Normandy 06-09.44 [investiture 27.11.45]
(04.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
27.04.1940 - (10.)1941 HMS Aarla (anti-submarine yacht)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
01.02.1942 - (02.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 131 (motor launch) [initially at HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
03.04.1944 - 11.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 131 (motor launch)
25.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fuller,
Frank George
F.G. Fuller (Photo courtesy of Mr David M. Fuller)
Son (with two sisters) of George Fuller (1877-1942), and Emily Annie Bloomfield (1881-1923).
Married (05.08.1939, Leyton) Madeline Isobel Webster (08.05.1913 - 08.04.2005), daughter (with one sister) of Charles Webster (1877-1947), and Nellie Fanny Frank (1879-1969); two sons.
17.08.1914
Leyton, Essex
-
31.01.1999

Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, Waltham Forest
T/S.Lt. 23.04.1942
T/Lt. 23.04.1943 (reld 25.05.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.08.1945 relief of Greece [decoration posted]
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
(08.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire) *
04.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(06.1943)     HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) *
27.07.1943 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 1012 (motor launch), renamed: HDML 1012 (harbour defence motor launch)
18.04.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 864 (motor launch) (DSC)
01.10.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 250 (motor launch) & as Senior Officer, 20th Motor Launch Flotilla
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fuller,
William John Cottam
see: RNR officers' section  
Fulton,
James Robertson
"Jimmy"
J. Fulton
23.10.1912
-
22.10.1978
Leicester, Leicestershire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 19.07.1940
T/Lt. 19.07.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
28.11.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for motor launches)
20.06.1941   (10.)1942 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for ML Flotillas) *
(12.1942)     HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) *
(02.1943)     HMS Mastadonte *
05.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
14.06.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS MGB 327 (motor gun boat)
15.11.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 650 (motor torpedo boat)
07.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 795 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Company director.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fulton,
Robert Kerr
"Rikki"
R.K. Fulton

15.04.1924
Glasgow, Scotland
-
27.01.2004
Glasgow, Scotland
T/Midsh. 08.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 15.10.1943
T/S.Lt. 15.04.1944 (reld 12.06.1945; commission terminated - medically unfit)
1941 - 10.11.1942 HMS Ibis (sloop) [sunk by German aircraft off Algeria]
      officer sea training, HMS Hambledon (destroyer)
? - 15.10.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(12.1943)     no appointment listed
17.12.1943 - 04.1945 First Lieutenant, HM HDML 1421 (harbour defence motor launch)
[serving thoughout D-Day and acting as rescue boat for ships in trouble from air or E-boat attack to or from Arromanches] (invalided out suffering from battle fatigue after blacking out and ramming the flotilla boss' craft in Le Havre in late '44)
Comedian & actor.
Published: Is it that time already? (1999; autobiography).

Fundell,
Frederick George
F.G. Fundell
Residence: (1945) Richmond, Surrey.
(03?).1912
Richmond district, Surrey
-
... ...
T/El.Lt. 28.05.1940
Pre- & post-war employed as designe engineer with B.T.H.
      electrical & degaussing duties in UK, Iceland & Port Said (specializing in fabricated structures, H/V bushings, high rupt. cap. C/B's)
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
Furlong,
Richard Albert
R.A. Furlong (Photo courtesy of G. Blair W. Furlong)
Son of George Albert Furlong, and Elizabeth Williams.
14.02.1915
Cardiff district, Glamorgan
-
T/S.Lt. 24.04.1941
T/A/Lt. 24.04.1942 (reld < 04.19446)
Education: Welsh School of Architecture; The Technical College, Cardiff.
1940 ?     HMS Vansittart (destroyer) ?
19.05.1941 - (07.1945) HMS President III (accounting base for personnel allocated for service in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
Architect.
Fussell,
Edward William Thomas
E.W.T. Fussell
Married ...; ... children.
13.12.1898
Lichfield district, Staffordshire
-
20.02.1980
Abbotsham, Bideford, Exeter district, Devon
Prob. T/Lt. (A) 24.03.1941
T/Lt. (A) 10.1941, seniority 24.03.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.07.1942, seniority 24.03.1941
T/Lt. (A) 18.03.1944, seniority 24.03.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 20.04.1944? (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
WW I     served Naval Air Service (S.Lt.)
01.07.1939 - 10.02.1941 Captain, The Monmouthshire Regiment - Territorial Army [relinquished commission on appointment to a commission in the RNVR]
(04.1941)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(06.1941) - (06.1942) HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester) *
13.07.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
11.03.1944 - (04.)1944 pilot, 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)]
20.04.1944 - (04.)1945 Officer-in-Charge, Naval Air Station, Speke [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)]
(07.1945)     HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire) *
(10.1945)     HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Fyfe,
James David
J.D. Fyfe
?
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
T/S.Lt.
06.02.1944
Lt. RN
18.06.1946
Lt.Cdr. RN
18.06.1954 (retd 1960s)
07.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Meynell (destroyer)
04.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Blazer
1946/47


transferred to RN
26.11.1947
-
(07.)1948
HMS Wolfe
01.12.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Perseus
(1952)


Navigation Officer, HMS Wave (minesweeper)
(05.1953)


no appointment listed
06.12.1954
-
(01.1956)
Executive Officer, HMS St Austell Bay
(01.1957)


HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) *
(07.1961)


HMS Messina *
21.12.1960
-
(02.1964)
Officer-in-Charge FWS Team No. 17 [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
       


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