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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)

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

From Toronto, Ont., Canada.

1902 ?
-
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, and Monica Rosa Murray, 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.)

			RNVR six months' short course at Cambridge University
?	-	17.02.1945	HMS Bluebell (corvette) [ship torpedoed and sunk by U-711 in Barentz Sea]

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
H.G.R. Falconar

Married ((03?).1942, Falmouth district, Cornwall) ... Fowler.

06.05.1910
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
(12?).1981
Horsham district, West Sussex

T/Lt.

06.06.1941

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

Married ((03?).1944, Surrey South Western district) Frances A.M. England.

03.02.1909
Axbridge, Somerset
-
(12?).1976
Southampton district, Hampshire

T/Lt.	22.02.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

DSC	11.06.1942	HM birthday 42
DSC	14.06.1945	HM birthday 45
MID	02.10.1942	Op. Jubilee, Dieppe 11.08.42
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 44

(1941)			Commanding Officer, HM ML 150 (motor launch)
(06.1942)	-	(01.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 323 (motor gun boat)
(06.1944)			Senior Officer, SGB Fotilla
(06.1945)			HMS Attack

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

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

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

22.09.1939

			temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
27.01.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Chaser (escort carrier) *

* supposedly 19.07.1943-01.09.1944 HMS Speaker (escort carrier)

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)

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)

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.

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
-
04.2010 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

Married ((06?).1929, Kensington district, London) ... White.

23.08.1904
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
(09?).1973
New Forest district, Hampshire

Prob. T/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	04.01.1941 1944/45?, seniority 12.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

	GM	04.03.1941	mine disposal [investiture 17.06.41]
	GM	09.06.1942	mine disposal [investiture 28.07.42]

15.11.1940	-	(10.1944)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)			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

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).

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,
John Alexander Cecil
J.A.C. Findlay

13.11.1909
-
(03?).1972
Westminster district, London

Prob. T/S.Lt.	12.01.1940
T/Lt.	12.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	29.04.1944? (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

13.11.1945

minesweeping Le Havre & rescue work 45

23.02.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
08.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
23.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MASB 25 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
?	-	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)]
29.04.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 750 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 66th MTB Flotilla

Finlayson,
Alexander
"Alistair"
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)

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.)

	GM	22.08.1943	rendering safe German mines, bombs, etc. *
	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,
Hon. John Vavasseur;
3rd Baron 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)

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

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)

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.

Flanders *,
Michael Henry
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.

Fleming,
Ian Lancaster
I.L. Fleming

Son of Maj. Valentine Fleming (1882-1917), DSO, a Conservative MP, who was killed in World War I, and Evelyn Beatrice St. Croix Rose (1885-1964).
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)

	Danbr	1945	? *
	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)
(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)

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)

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

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.

30.04.1921
-

Prob. Midsh.	28.06.1940
T/A/S.Lt.	30.04.1941
T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	03.10.1943

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,
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)

Flory,
Arthur Gordon

Son of Arthur E. Flory, and Dorothy R.J. Cooper.

(06?).1915
Colchester district, Essex
-
19.08.1942
(KIA) [age 28]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 2]

T/S.Lt.

14.08.1941

MID

02.10.1942

Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid) [posthumously]

29.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
?	-	19.08.1942	Commanding Officer, 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)

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,
J A [?]
J.A. Forbes

?
-

T/Lt.

Commanding Officer, HM MGB 3 (motor gun boat)

Ford,
Cecil William ["Charles"?]
C.W. Ford

?
-

T/Lt.

20.11.1942

DSC	29.08.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
DSC	10.10.1944	action enemy forces 04.07.44
MID	14.11.1944	actions 04.44
MID	24.07.1945	firefighting & damage control Ostend 14.02.45

(1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 632 (motor torpedo boat)
(02.1945)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 771 (motor torpedo boat)

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,
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)

DSC	14.08.1945	relief of Greece [award posted]
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp N Africa 42-43
It St	-	-
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)

	VRD	04.1942	?
	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

Married ((06?).1940, Buckrose district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Betty H. Bailey.

18.09.1907
Bridlington district, Yorkshire
-
11.2000
Bridlington district, Yorkshire

T/Lt.	03.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

19.09.1944

coastal forces action 06.44 [investiture 11.05.45]

(06.1940)			skippering a small boat in the Dunkirk evacuation
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
17.05.1943	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 681 (motor torpedo boat)
01.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 784 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

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

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)

	MID	21.03.1944	action with enemy forces 23.12.43
	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

	MID	23.01.1941	Norwegian waters 05.40
	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,
Thomas [Ian Moodie]

see:

RNR officers' section

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)

DSC	16.06.1945	action against E-boats 06.04.45
MID	24.08.1943	Operation Childhood (raid Tripoli harbour 27.01.43)
MID	21.12.1943	attack on Italian cruiser 16.07.43
MID	23.01.1945	attack heavily defended enemy convoy 30.09.44
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,
Arthur Ernest
A.E. Foster

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	30.10.1941
T/Lt.	30.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

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

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)

DSO	01.05.1945	Operation Meridian (air strikes on Palembang 01.45) [investiture 13.11.45]
DSC	17.11.1942	Middle East opeational flying 08-09.42 [investiture 19.10.43]
DSC	31.07.1945	Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands 03-05.45) [decoration posted]
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

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)

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)

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 Prosperine (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,
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 Prosperine (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)

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 Prosperine (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

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

	OBE	post-war	?
	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

Married; at least one son.

11.11.1917
-
1966

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

Married (28.02.1942, Uckfield district, Sussex) Marjorie J. Cooper; ... children (one son?).

18.03.1917?
-

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

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)

	VRD	12.11.1957	-
	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

	DSC	28.12.1943	action Dutch coast 14.09.43 [investiture 23.05.44]
	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

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,
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

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)

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

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

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)

MID	06.04.1943	landings in North Africa
MID	08.06.1943	for skill in actions against enemy submarines
MID	27.03.1945	invasion South of France
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)

Friend,
Leslie Edgar

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)

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?)

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).

Frost,
Keith Lanning
K.L. Frost

?
-
01.2007 [?]

T/S.Lt.	18.06.1943
T/Lt.	18.06.1945

			served as First Lieutenant and Commanding Officer on various landing craft in the USA and Mediterranean:
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Foliot I (landing craft accounting base, Plymouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Fry,
John Somerset
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)

Fullarton,
John Speirs
J.S. Fullarton

1915
Row district, Dunbarton, Scotland
-
1970
Dunfermline district, Fife, Scotland

Prob. T/S.Lt.	02.02.1940
T/S.Lt.	07.04.1940
T/Lt.	02.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

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	-	(02.)1941	HMS Aarla (anti-submarine yacht)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
03.04.1944	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 131 (motor launch)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Fuller,
Frank George
F.G. Fuller

From Woodford Green, Essex.

?
-

T/S.Lt.	23.04.1942
T/Lt.	23.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

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)
(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).

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 < 04.1946)

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.

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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