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1939-1945

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Haig,
David Cameron
D.C. Haig

?
-
lives at Bridge of Allan, Stirling

T/Sg.Lt.

02.04.1943

MB, ChB

24.07.1943	-	(06.1944)	Medical Officer, HMS Keppel (destroyer)
31.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Pembroke (parent ship Chatham)

JP District of Stirling

Haigh,
Norman
N. Haigh

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)

22.03.1945

21.05.1945	-	(07.)1945	pilot, 757 Squadron FAA [HMS Rajaliya (RN Air Station, Puttalam, Ceylon)]
22.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)

Haill,
Charles Frederick
C.F. Haill

26.07.1908
Gravesend, Kent
-
13.05.1965
Middlesex Hospital, London

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	02.12.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

1944?	-	1944?	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officer training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *

Worked for Shell-Mex before the war, and rejoined post-war.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Hall,
Douglas Arthur
D.A. Hall

Son of ... Hall, and ... Cannon.

17.04.1921
Hitchin district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
06.2001
Carlisle, Cumbria

T/Lt.

29.07.1944

MID

23.01.1945

topedo attack heavy escorted convoy 30.09.1944

24.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe):
(09.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 360 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)			HMS Marshal Soult (depot ship) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Hall,
Frederick David
F.D. Hall

1920 ?
-

T/S.Lt.	05.06.1942
T/Lt.	05.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

19.04.1944	-	(06.1944)	HMS Supreme (submarine)
(07.1945)			HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancs) *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Hall,
John Spencer Selkirk
J.S.S. Hall

Son of Edward Spencer Hall, and ... Selkirk.
Married (17.04.1943, Newcastle, Staffordshire) Doris Joan Riley (died 30.03.1981 at Egbaston); one son.
Residences: (1943) Hay Hereford, Rottingdean; (1944) Newcastle-under-Lyme.

(09?).1920
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
-

T/El.S.Lt.	25.07.1943
T/A/El.Lt.	< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

10.07.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch)
19.02.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship)

Hall,
Richard Mallock
R.M. Hall

(06?).1909
Staines district, Middlesex
-

T/Lt.	07.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	? (reld 1945?)

	MID	02.10.1942	Operation Jubilee (Dieppe)
	LM	20.03.1945	E-boat patrols Channel 06-07.44

(1943)

(1944)

Commanding Officer, HM SGB 5 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Owl)

Hallett,
Harry Alfred Robert
H.A.R. Hallett

Married Mona ...

08.12.1908
Newport, Wales
-
09.1985
Newport, Wales

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	06.03.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	06.06.1941 (possibly invalided out early 1944)

24.03.1941	-	(08.)1942	HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) [involved in Radio Counter Measures (RCM) in "Y" Section under Lt.Cdr. F.H.G. Allen]
1942	-	06.11.1942	Eastern Fleet RCM Officer [HMS Lanka (?)] (Colombo, Ceylon)
07.11.1942	-	17.03.1943	HMAS Rushcutter (training establishment & reserve depot, Edgecliff, Sydney) (additional)
18.03.1943	-	05.05.1943	HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville) (additional; for Area RCM duties)
06.05.1943	-	14.05.1943	HMAS Basilisk (base staff, Port Moresby & Milne Bay) (for RCM duties)
15.05.1943	-	16.05.1943	HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville)
17.05.1943	-	03.06.1943	HMAS Moreton (base staff, Brisbane)
04.06.1943	-	27.07.1943	HMAS Leeuwin (base staff, West Australia)
28.07.1943	-	08.08.1943	Navy Office, Melbourne
09.08.1943	-	10.08.1943	HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville)
11.08.1943		24.08.1943	HMAS Basilisk (base staff, Port Moresby & Milne Bay)
25.08.1943	-	16.10.1943	HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville)
17.10.1943	-	03.11.1943	HMAS Basilisk (base staff, Port Moresby & Milne Bay) (2/5th AGM)
04.11.1943	-	03.12.1943	HMAS Penguin (Balmoral naval depot) (113 AGM, Concord, NSW)
04.12.1943	-	26.01.1944	HMAS Penguin (Balmoral naval depot)
27.01.1944			embarked "Nieuw Amsterdam" for return passage to UK [while suffering from extensive injury on the right arm, possibly due to a motor vehicle accident in Port Moresby some months earlier]

Halliday,
[Sir] Roy William
"Gus"
R.W. Halliday

27.06.1923
-
23.11.2007
Bank nr Lyndhurst, Hampshire

T/S.Lt. (A)	17.03.1943
T/Lt. (A)	...
Lt. (A)	16.03.1946, seniority 17.03.1945
Lt.Cdr.	17.03.1953
Cdr.	31.12.1958
Capt.	30.06.1966
Cdre.	1971
R.Adm.	?
A/V.Adm.	?
V.Adm.	14.03.1978 (retd)

KBE 14.06.1980 HM's birthday 80 [investiture 23.07.80]
DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Icberg [award posted]
MID 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian

1941			joined RN: served in Fleet Air Arm (fighter pilot) in World War II, in HMS Chaser, HMSs Victorious and Illustrious
13.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, 849 Squadron FAA
16.03.1946			transferred, RN
			test pilot, Boscombe Down, 1947-1948; Commanding Officer 813 Squadron (Wyverns, HMS Eagle), 1954; Army Staff College, Camberley; Executive Officer Coastal Forces Base (HMS Diligence), 1959; Senior Officer 104th Minesweeping Squadron, Far East Fleet, in comd (HMS Houghton), 1961-1962; Naval Assistant to Chief of Naval Information, 1962-1964; comdr (Air) HMS Albion, 1964-1966; Deputy Director Naval Air Warfare, 1966-1970; HMS Euryalus in comd and as Captain D3 Far East Fleet and D6 Western Fleet, 1970-1971; Commodore Amphibious Warfare, 1971-1973; Commodore Intelligence, Defence Intelligence Staff, 1973-1975; Commander British Navy Staff, Washington, Naval Attaché, and UK Nat. Liaison Rep. to SACLANT, 1975-1978; Dep. Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence), 1978-1981. Naval ADC to the Queen, 07.01.1975-07.07.1975.

Hamilton,
George Cecil Hans
G.C.H. Hamilton

Younger son of Henry B.H. Hamilton & Margaret G. Bond-Cabball.
Brother of Sq.Ldr. Benjamin Henry Noel Hans Hamilton, DSO, RAF.
Married (1916) Eva Marjorie Hornby.

(03?).1888
Kensington district, Greater London
-
01.10.1960
Somersby, Lincolnshire

Army:
2nd Lt.	30.12.1913
T/Lt.	?
Lt.	12.06.1915 (reld 14.05.1916; ill-health)
RNVR:
T/Lt.	28.06.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

Education: King's College School, Wimbledo; King's College, Cambridge (studied law)
Called to the bar, 1910, practicing in Manchester.

			late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Inns of Court Officers Training Corps
30.12.1913			commissioned, 7th Battalion The Manchester Regiment
WW I			served as a Lieutenant at Khartoum [Sudan], Egypt and in the Gallipoli landings
Joined Close Brothers banking firm.
1940	-	1945	trained assault troops, advised on the North Africa landings and planned the Normandy landings
01.01.1941	-	(02.1941)	HMS Victory III (accountig section, Portsmouth)
(12.1941)			HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
13.10.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Lawyer & businessman. Chairman and then Director of the Expanded Metal Company until his retirement in 1956. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Lincolnshire, 02.06.1959. Honorary Colonel, 116 Water Transport Group, RASC (Army Emergency Reserve of Officers; 434179), 06.03.1954-27.07.1957.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Hampshire,
Kenneth George
K.G. Hampshire

Son of Robert George Hampshire, and Maud Harriott Hampshire (née Bellis), of South Ockendon, Essex.

(06?).1919
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
28.03.1942
St Nazaire
(KIA) [age 22]
[Escoublac-la- Baule War Cemetery, France, 2.C.16]

T/S.Lt.

15.11.1940

09.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Helvellyn (paddle minesweeper)
11.1941	-	28.03.1942	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches):
?	-	28.03.1942	HM ML 457 (motor launch) [sunk by gunfire from German shore batteries]

Hampson,
John Edward
"Jack"
J.E. Hampson

?
USA
-

[named on memorial in Greenwich]

Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)

06.10.1941

06.10.1941			joined the RNVR (as an American citizen)
06.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 772 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]

Hanbury,
Maurice Arthur
M.A. Hanbury

04.06.1920
-
04.1995
Canterbury, Kent

T/S.Lt.	03.07.1941
T/A/Lt.	03.01.1944
T/Lt.	?, seniority 03.01.1944

	MID	08.04.1942	gallantry under fire 05.42
	KW	22.12.1942	as liaison officer ORP Jastrzab

(12.1941)			HMS Laguna Belle (paddle minesweeper) *
03.04.1942	-	02.05.1942	British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Jastrzab (Polish submarine) (sunk; wounded; transferred to HMS Edinburgh, but again sunk)
01.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi)
(04.1946)			HMS Postillion (minesweeper) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Hanbury,
Peter Francis Gerard
P.F.G. Hanbury

Son of ... Hanbury, and ... Franklin-Adams.

07.08.1923
St Marylebone district, Greater London / London
-
04.08.1987

T/S.Lt.	07.02.1944
Lt.	07.02.1946
Lt.Cdr.	07.02.1954 (retd 1963/64)

11.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Tapir (submarine)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
			transferred to Permanent RNVR (London Division)

Hancock,
Derek Norman Archie

?
-
01.2007 [?]

T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.03.1946

			served in MGBs and MTBs in the Channel
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
30.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Fencer (escort carrier)

Hancock,
John Watson
"Jimmy"

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	29.09.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/Lt. (A)	29.03.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	> 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

06.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
01.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
27.10.1942	-	(02.1943)	pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Dasher (escort carrier)]
12.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Striker (escort carrier)
(04.1946)			HMS President *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Handforth,
Walter Roy
W.R. Handforth

Son of ... Handforth, and ...Lamsdale.
Married; 1 son?

25.05.1920
Stoke upon Trent district, Staffordshire
-
29.04.1980

T/S.Lt.	27.11.1941
T/Lt.	01.12.1943 (reld 08.02.1946)

			served on White Aster (auxiliary armed yacht; his father's) (Anglesey area)
			trained & served at Inverary, Oban, Weymouth
(06.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM LCT ... (landing craft, infantry) (Normandy) [HMS Copra ?]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
			HM LCT 22 (landing craft, tank) [same as on 06.1944 ?]
?	-	08.02.1946	HM LCI (L) 509 (landing craft, infantry (large))

Hannen,
Eric Charles

Married Betty (née ...); two sons, one daughter.

18.06.1919
Lee-on-Solent, Fareham district, Hampshire
-
25.04.2005
Lee-on-Solent, Portsmouth district, Hampshire

T/S.Lt.	04.09.1941
T/Lt.	01.07.1943
Lt. RN	09.01.1947, seniority 01.07.1943
Lt.Cdr. RN	01.07.1951
Cdr. RN	30.06.1954 (retd 18.06.1969)

(12.1941)			HMS Duke of York (battleship) *
(07.1945)			HMS Marlborough (torpedo school, Eastbourne) *
19.09.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
09.01.1947			transferred to RN
14.12.1954	-	(01.1957)	Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
07.01.1960	-	(07.)1961	Admiral Commanding Reserves' Office [HMS President]
1961	-	1966	Superintendent of Diving (SofD), Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit [HMS Vernon] *
20.06.1966	-	(02.1968)	Commanding Work Study Officer and in charge of FWST No. 7 [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
(02.1969)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Hanson,
Norman Stanley
N.S. Hanson

(03?).1914
Keighley district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
before 1979 ?

T/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/Lt. (A)	28.01.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	1944

	DSC	31.10.1944	Operation Crimson [award posted]
	MID	15.08.1944	air strikes Sabang & Surabaya 04-05.44

1940			joined RNVR
			training (UK & USA)
			served Middle East
06.1943	-	(07.1945)	1833 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)] (Indian & Pacific Oceans)
06.1943	-	(06.)1944	Second-in-Command
(10.)1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer

Published: Carrier pilot : an unforgettable true story of wartime flying (1979)

Harbud,
Robin Frederick Andrew
R.F.A. Harbud

From Baling, London.

14.12.1923
-
12.1993
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire

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

01.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

14.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [award posted]

03.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office)
(06.1944)			Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 1

Hardaker,
Alan
A. Hardaker

Son of John Hardaker and Emma Hardaker.
Married (1937) Irene Mundy; four daughters.

29.07.1912
-
04.03.1980

Prob. Paym.Lt.	12.06.1939
Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S)	> 08.1939, seniority 12.06.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	< 07.1945 (reld 23.04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (S)	12.06.1947 (removed from active list RNVR at own request 10.02.1950)

OBE

12.06.1971

HM's birthday 71: for service as Secretary of the Football League

Education: Constable Street Elementary School; Riley High School, Hull
Entered Town Clerk's Department, Hull, 1929; Lord Mayor's Secretary, Hull, 1936-1939.

12.06.1939			joined RNVR, Humber Division
25.09.1939	-	(02.1941)	HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
12.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)

Lord Mayor's Secretary, Portsmouth, 1946-1951. Joined Football League staff, 1951 (General Secretary, 1957-1979; DirectorGeneral, 1979-1980).
Published: (with Bryon Butler) Hardaker of the League (1977)

Hardiman,
Kenneth Walter
"Ken"
K.W. Hardiman

Son of Percy Charles and Martha Hardiman (née Hooper), of Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

(06?).1924
Melksham district, Wiltshire
-
17.05.1945
(KIA) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 4]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	08.05.1944

17.05.1945

HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)

Hardy,
Herbert Ronald
H.R. Hardy

Only son of Guy Charles Hardy (1873-1904), JP of Danehurst, and Eva Kathleen, daughter of Sir Spencer Maryon-Wilson, 11th Bt.
Married (1923) Beryl, daughter of late Col St J. Loftus, 60th Rifles; two sons, one daughter.

22.04.1900
Uckfield, East Sussex
-
12.05.1954
Keysford, Horsted Keynes, Sussex

Prob. T/S.Lt.	08.03.1940
T/Lt.	23.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	11.12.1940? (reld < 04.1946)

Education: HMS Conway; Cheltenham College; Trinity College, Oxford

1917	-	1918	served as Midshipman RNVR, Rhine Flotilla
1921	-	1922	RNVR First expedition to Ivory Coast for Natural History Museum
05.10.1938			joined Royal Naval Voulnteer Supplementary Reserve (attached Sussex Division RNVR)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
11.12.1940	-	(07.)1945	Flag Lieutenant to the Board of Admiralty [HMS President]

Mid-Sussex Boy Scouts Association, 1923-1943 (Medal of Merit, 1952); Chairman, Haywards Heath Housing Society Ltd, 1932-1953; Chariman, Home Counties Area, National Federation of Housing Societies, 1935-1945. High Sheriff of Sussex, 1951; Vice-Chairman Conservators of Ashdown Forest, 1940-1953; LifeMember Royal
Society of St George. General Commissioner of Income Tax, Pevensey Division; Member
East Sussex County Council.

Hare,
Alexis Alfred
A.A. Hare

Married (& divorced); one daughter.

?
-

A/S.Lt.	01.01.1940
S.Lt.	31.03.1940
Lt.	09.10.1941

			served in Straits Settlements RNVR
21.01.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Pahlawan (harbour defence motor launch)
(02.1941)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed [POW in Japanese captivity]

Harmer-Elliott,
Sydney Frederick
S.F. Harmer-Elliott

31.12.1899
-
11.1985
Ashford, Kent

T/Lt.	10.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

MID	25.10.1940	Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk 06.40)
MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
CdeG	?	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

10.10.1939	-	29.05.1940	HMS Waverley (paddle minesweeper) [during the Dunkirk evacuation Commanding Officer & also Senior Officer, ... Minesweeping Flotilla] [ship sunk off Dunkirk]
[ (06.1940)			HMS Verity (destroyer) ?]
22.10.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Spartiate (RN base, Clyde, Glasgow)
18.06.1943	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Beaumaris (minesweeper)
(10.1944)			HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, Canada) *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Harmsworth,
St John Bernard Vyvyan
St.J.B.V. Harmsworth

Eldest son of Vyvyan George Harmsworth and Constance Gwendolen Mary Catt.
Married (1937) Jane Penelope (died 1984), elder daughter of Basil Tanfield Berridge Boothby;
three daughters.

28.12.1912
-
13.06.1995

T/S.Lt.	21.10.1939
T/A/Lt.	06.10.1940
T/Lt.	1942?, seniority 06.10.1940 (reld 02.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	1945?

Education: Harrow; New College, Oxford
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 1937.

21.10.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Iron Duke (depot ship)
05.12.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Campanula (corvette)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
07.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden)

A Metropolitan Magistrate, 1961-85.

Harris,
Horace Daniel Gibson
"Dan"
H.D.G. Harris

(03?).1916
Amersham district, Buckinghamshire
-
2003 still alive at Ottawa

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.02.1940
T/S.Lt.	01.04.1940
T/A/Lt.	< 02.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	25.11.1944, seniority 01.04.1941
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RCN(R)	?, seniority 18.06.1946

30.11.1936			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division, RNVR]
01.04.1940	-	16.11.1941	Assistant to Naval Attaché, Stockholm (Sweden) [HMS President]
17.11.1941 25.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	Assistant Naval Attaché, Stockholm (Sweden) [HMS President] transferred to Special Branch
01.10.1950			commission terminated on transfer to RCN(R)
02.10.1950	-	(05.1953)	HMCS Nonsuch (Edmonton Naval Division)
14.12.1952	-	(01.1956)	HMCS Tecumseh (Calgary Naval Division)

Published: A pierhead jump. In: Soundings / The Ottawa Branch, The Naval Officers Association of Canada (Nov. 2003)

Harris,
John
J. Harris

?
-

T/S.Lt.

Navigating Officer, SGB ...

Harris,
Kenneth Ernest
"Ken"
K.E. Harris

?
-

T/S.Lt.	26.03.1942
T/Lt.	26.09.1944 (reld 1946?)

MID

11.12.1945

wind up Europe 45

09.11.1942	-	(02.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
19.04.1943	-