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1939-1945

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K      
Kadjar,
Hamid
see: Drummond,
David
 
Kauffman,
Draper Laurence
D.L. Kauffman
Married (04.05.1943) Margaret Cary Tuckerman.

04.08.1911
San Diego, California, USA
-
08.1979
Ponte Vedra Beach, Saint Johns, Florida, USA
T/S/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
27.09.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
21.11.1940

Commendation

Cmdn

06.06.1941

disposal bomb Baron Renfrew (for gallantry involving the defusing of unexploded aerial mines, June 6, 1941)
Junior executive with United States Lines. From California.
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed



served unexploded bomb disposal
Literature: Elizabeth Kauffman Bush, America's first frogman : the Draper Kauffman story (2004).
Keay,
William Foggie
W.F. Keay
Son of Thomas Cook Keay (1849-1925) and Williamina Foggie (1856-1930).
Married (27.03.1918, Paddington, London) Frances Ravenscroft (1888?-1968); one son, two daughters.
26.03.1890
Dundee, Angus, Scotland
-
08.05.1968
Broughty Ferry, Angus, Scotland
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
18.03.1911
Lt.
19.11.1915
Lt.Cdr.
19.11.1923
Cdr.
30.06.1928
Capt.
31.12.1930 (retd 1944/45?)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE

02.01.1939
New Year 39
Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
?
King Haakon VII Liberty Cross (Norway) Hkn
26.08.1947
services to Norway
01.11.1939

1939?
?
-

-
-
(07.1945)

1944/45?
(07.1945)
HMS Unicorn II, renamed: HMS Cressy (RN base, Dundee)
Maintenance Captain, Dundee
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dundee 
31.10.1941
-
31.10.1943
also: RNVR ADC to the King
Deputy Lieutenant, Dundee, 04.1943.
Keenan,
Errol William
E.W. Keenan (Photo courtesy of Mr Danny Mercer)
Son of ... Keenan, and ... Hirst.
30.10.1917
Edmonton district, Essex/ Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
05.2005
Enfield district, Middlesex
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
23.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
08.07.1942
-
05.1943
5th MGB Flotilla [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
26.05.1943
-
(10.)1943
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 441 (motor torpedo boat)
(12.)1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 441 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
07.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 794 (motor torpdeo boat)
Kelly,
Douglas Henry
D.H. Kelly
Son of Lt.Cdr. (E) Henry Kelly, RNR, and Katie Kelly, of Douglas, Isle of Man.
1920 ?
-
12.03.1942
(MPK) [age 22]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 4, column 1]
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
?
?
-
12.03.1942
HMS St Briac (Fleet Air Arm target vessel) (hit a mine and sank 20 miles East of Aberdeen)
Kemsley,
Harold Thomas
H.T. Kemsley
?
-
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


(04.1943)
-
(11.1943)
HMS Defiance
(04.1944)


Senior Officer, 10th ML Flotilla
Kendall,
Richard Haddon
"Dick"
R.H. Kendall
Son of Joseph and Winifred Kendall.
Married 1st .... (marriage dissolved); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1961) Maureen ...; two sons.
Lived as Wolfville, NS.

Times obituary
02.03.1923
London
-
18.12.2005
Valley Regional Hospital, Kentville, Canada
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
02.09.1943
A/Lt.
? (reld 1946)
Lt.
31.03.1953, seniority 11.12.1950
Lt.Cdr.
11.12.1958

Distinguished Service Order

DSO
22.02.1944
Operation Source (midget submarine attack on Tirpitz, 22.09.43)
Education: Epsom College (which he left at 16 to work in the City as junior broker at Lloyd's of London); Aberdeen University (1946-1949; B.Sc. in forestry)
1942


joined RNVR as a rating
06.1942
-
1942
went to sea in HMS Puckeridge (destroyer) (convoy duties)
1942
-
12.1942
HMS King Alfred (Temporary RNVR Officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
01.1943
-
05.1943?
diver training, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
09.05.1943
-
22.09.1943
12th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)]:
22.09.1943


diver, HMS X-6 (midget submarine) (Tirpitz action)
22.09.1943
-
05.1945
PoW in German captivity (mostly near Bremen)
1945


went to the Far East to help to bring home PoWs of the Japanese conflict, via Canada
Worked with the Forestry Commission, 1949-1957. Emigrated to Canada, 1957. Worked with the British Columbia Forest Service and with the Federal Forest Service in Ottawa, 1957-1960. Worked with the MacKenzie Forest Service in North West Territories, 1960-1963. Serve the National Park Service Until retirement in 1986 Superintendent of the Prince Edward Island National Park.
Kendall,
Timothy Bingham Dale
T.B.D. Kendall
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
02.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 02.02.1940
T/Lt.
02.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
25.08.1942
attack on U-boat Western Approaches 02.06.41
?
-
20.03.1940
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officer training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
20.03.1940
-
(06.1941)
HMS Periwinkle (corvette)
03.02.1942?
-
?
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
19.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Inver (frigate)
Kennedy,
Alastair Baird
A.B. Kennedy
Son of Alexander Anderson Kennedy and Letitia Kennedy; husband of Gillian Barbara Kennedy, of Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire.

Remembered at the War Memorial at Seaton, Devon (St Gregory's Churchyard).
1905 ?
-
15.11.1942
(KIA) [age 37]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 2]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
?
LMSSA
23.02.1942
-
15.11.1942
Medical Officer, HMS Algerine (minesweeper) (torpedoed and sunk off Bougie by Italian submarine Ascianghi)
Kennedy,
Alexander
A. Kennedy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide) A. Kennedy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide)
A. Kennedy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide)

From Glasgow.

?
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ?
Midsh.
26.08.1937
S.Lt.
27.08.1939
Lt.
27.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
27.02.1949 (retd 10.03.1950)
Mention in Despatches

MID

13.10.1942
withdrawal from Hong Kong
Mention in Despatches MID
11.06.1946
wind up Far East
Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
-
26.08.1937
 
 
joined RNVR (Clyde Division)
19.08.1939
-
(12.1941)
HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong):
10.1939
-
12.1939
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 10 (motor torpedo boat)
12.1939?
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 09 (motor torpedo boat)
29.06.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Beaconsfield (base, Prot Melbourne, Australia)
(1945/46)


staff Commodore Air Training
Published: Hong Kong full circle, 1939-1945 (privately published, 1969)
Kennedy,
John McLeod
"Jock"
J.McL. Kennedy
Son of Norman McLeod Kennedy, and Winifred Hardwick Moss, of Windermere, Westmorland.
(09?).1920
Kendal district, Westmorland
-
11.04.1944
(MPK) [age 23]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 4]
T/A/S.Lt. (A) ?
T/S.Lt. (A) 18.08.1941
T/Lt. (A) 07.10.1943
11.10.1941 - (08.1942) pilot, 827 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)]
19.11.1943 - 11.04.1944 pilot, 848 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston)] (missing, presumed killed during a navigational exercise)
Kennedy,
[Sir] Ludovic Henry Coverley
L.H.C. Kennedy
Son of Capt. Edward Coverley Kennedy, RN, and Rosalind Margaret Innes Grant.
Married (25.02.1950) Moira Shearer King, daughter of Harold Charles King; one son, three daughters.
03.11.1919
Edinburgh,  Scotland
-
18.10.2009

Ashdown, Avebury, Wiltshire
T/A/S.Lt.
11.01.1940
T/S.Lt.
03.11.1940
T/Lt.
11.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

-

Kt
1994
?
Education: Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford University (MA; 1948) .
11.03.1940
-
(<08.)1942
HMS Tartar (destroyer)
1943
-
1944
private secretary & ADC to the Governor of Newfoundland
22.08.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Zebra (destroyer)
01.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Wheatland (destroyer)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Librarian Ashridge (Adult Education) College, 1948-1949. Writer & broadcaster
Published: Sub­Lieutenant, 1942; Nelson's Band of Brothers, 1951; One Man's Meat, 1953; Murder Story (play, with essay on Capital Punishment), 1956; play: Murder Story (Cambridge Theatre), 1954; Ten Rillington Place, 1961; The Trial of Stephen Ward, 1964; Very Lovely People, 1969; Pursuit: the chase and sinking of the Bismarck, 1974; A Presumption of Innocence: the Amazing Case of Patrick Meehan, 1975; Menace: the life and death of the Tirpitz, 1979; The Portland Spy Case, 1979; Wicked Beyond Belief, 1980; (ed) A Book of Railway Journeys, 1980; (ed) A Book of Sea Journeys, 1981; (ed) A Book of Air Journeys, 1982; The Airman and the Carpenter, 1985; On My Way to the Club (autobiog.), 1989; Euthanasia: the good death, 1990; Truth to Tell (collected writings), 1991; In Bed with an Elephant: a journey through Scotland's past and present, 1995; Gen. Editor, The British at War, 1973-1977
Kennedy,
Ninian Glen
N.G. Kennedy
From Edinburgh.
?
-
Prob. T/Midsh.
05.01.1940
T/A/S.Lt.
14.01.1940
T/Lt.
01.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
19.06.1945
Mediterranean & East Coast of England 03-12.43 *
Mention in Despatches MID
13.11.1945
minesweeping Le Havre & rescue work 45 **
* For courage, endurance and skill whilst with Light Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean & in Northern Waters.
** For courage, determination and great devotion to duty whilst engaged in clearing oyster mines by depth charges from the approaches of Le Havre, and the rescue of survivors from a ship mined in the approaches, during bad weather and under particularly dangerous conditions.
(04.1940)


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
09.1940
-
(02.1941)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 67 (motor torpedo boat) (10th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(03.1943)
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 706 (motor torpedo boat)
(1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 750 (motor torpedo boat)
29.04.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 760 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Kennedy,
Stewart William
S.W. Kennedy
?
-
T/S.Lt. (E) 03.07.1941
T/Lt. (E) 16.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
08.11.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Duchess of Fife (paddle minesweeper)
26.05.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
07.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Bullfrog (cable ship)
Kenton
Ernest William
E.W. Kenton

(09?).1909
Brentford, Middlesex
-

T/S.Lt. (A)
12.08.1940
T/Lt. (A)
12.11.1940
T/A/Cdr. (A)
16.10.1944? (reld < 04.1946)
04.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
pilot, 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)]
25.03.1941
-
(02.1943)
pilot, 756 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)]
16.10.1944
-
15.11.1945
HMS Flycatcher (HQ of MONAB organisation, Ludham, Norfolk, then Middle Wallop, Hampshire) (for command of HMS Nabthorpe (mobile naval air base (MONAB) III)) [commissioned 04.12.1944]
Kerr
Arthur Edwin

A.E. Kerr

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (A)
03.11.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)
03.05.1945
Lt. (A)
03.02.1949, seniority 18.01.1949 (commission terminated 20.07.1949)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) *
03.02.1949

 
transferred, Air Branch of Permanent RNVR
(05.1949)
 
 
1832 Squadron (RN Air Station, Culham)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kerr
William Alexander
W.A. Kerr (Photo courtesy of Ellen Steven)

Son of William and Agnes B. Kerr, of Northallerton, Yorkshire.
1924
-
10.03.1945
[age 19 ??]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 93]
T/A/S.Lt.
28.04.1944
T/S.Lt.
?
21.08.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for coastal craft)
?
-
10.03.1945
HM ML 1394 (motor launch) (drowned)
Kershaw,
William Edgar
W.E. Kershaw
Married 1st (1941) Mary Alexa Clayton Cowell, MD (marriage dissolved); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1961) Lois Freeland.

09.02.1911
Blackburn district, Lancashire
-
03.1998
Sefton North district, Merseyside
Prob. Sg.Lt.
31.05.1938
Sg.Lt.
1939?, seniority 31.05.1938
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
31.05.1944 (reld from active service < 04.1946)
Sg.Cdr.
31.12.1951
Sg.Capt. RNR
31.12.1959 (retd 31.12.1962)
Companion of the Order of St George and St Michael CMG
12.06.1971
HM's birthday 71: for services to parasitology
Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
31.03.1952
-
Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
13.03.1963
clasp
Education: Stand Grammar School, Manchester; Manchester University; MB, ChB (1935); MRCS, LRCP (1936); DTM&H Eng. 1946; MD 1949; DSc 1956. FIBiol; FIFM
31.05.1938


joined RNVR (Mersey Division)
28.07.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (Scapa Flow)
23.04.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Harvester (destroyer)
05.04.1941
-
(12.1941)
RM Infirmary, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
02.04.1942
-
(07.1945)
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Diyatalawa, Ceylon (specialist in bacteriology) [HMS Lanka]
Formerly: Demonstrator in Morbid Anatomy, Manchester University; Leverhulme Senior Lecturer in Medical Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool University; Walter Myers and Everett Dutton Professor of Parasitology and Entomology, Liverpool University, 1958-1966. Honorary Lecturer, Department of Bacteriology, University of Manchester, 1977-. Scientific Advisor: Ribble Fisheries Association; Humane Res. Trust; formerly Advisor in Tropical Medicine, Manchester AHA; Hon. MO, Manchester, Salford and Liverpool Universities Naval Units; formerly: Cons. in Parasitology, WHO; Cons. to UN Environment Programme, SE Asia; Chairman, Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Committee, ODM; Member, Tropical Medicine Research Board, MRC (Chairman, Helminthiasis Committee). Vice-President, RSTM&H (Chalmers Memoral Gold Medal, 1955); Honorary Fellow, British Society of Parasitology. Non-executive Chairman, Mayor's Boatyard, Tarlton. Vice-Chairman, W Lancs Victims Support; Mem., Dunkirk Veterans' Association. Honorary Freeman, City of Rangoon, 1961. Professor of Biology, University of Salford, 1966-1976, then Emeritus Professor.
Kidd
Douglas Alexander

D.A. Kidd
?
-

T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
30.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
07.07.1942
-
(10.)1944
HMS Bermuda (cruiser)
12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Pioneer
Kidd,
Frank
F. Kidd
Son of Mary Kidd.
Husband of Hilda Kidd, of Keighley, Yorkshire.
(06?).1918
Durham district, Co. Durham
-
10.11.1942
(MPK) [age 24]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 66, 1]
T/S.Lt.
04.12.1941
Education: BA (Sheffield).
1942
-
10.11.1942
HMS Martin (destroyer) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria)
Kilpatrick,
Charles Alexander
"Charlie"
C.A. Kilpatrick
?
-
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
12.04.1940
T/Sg.Lt.
?, seniority 12.04.1940
A/T/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
< 02.1941
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
< 11.1943 (reld 1945/46)

MB, ChB

31.05.1940
-
(08.1942)
Medical Officer, HMS Southern Prince (motor launch)
15.11.1943
-
(08.1944)
Senior Medical Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
15.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)
Kimble
George Herbert Tinley
G.H.T. Kimble
Son of John Herbert and Minnie Jane (Dickerson) Kimble.
Married (20.07.1936) Dorothy Stevens Berry; one son, one daughter.
02.08.1908
St Marylebone, Greater London
-
2004
Ditchling, East Sussex
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
06.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
< 10.1944
Education: Eastbourne Grammar School; King's College, London (MA); University  of Montreal (PhD)
1939
-
05.09.1940
qualified meteorological officer, HMS President *
06.09.1940
-
(10.)1944
Naval Meteorological Service [HMS President] (London)
Assistant Lecturer in Geography, University of Hull, 1931-1936; Lecturer in Geography, University of Reading, 1936-1939.  Professor of Geography and Chairman Department of Geography, McGill University, 1945-1950; Secretary-Treasurer, International Geographical Union, 1949-1956; Chairman, Commission on Humid Tropics, International Geographical Union, 1956-1961. Director, American Geographical Society, 1950-1953; Director, Survey of Tropical Africa, Twentieth Century Fund, NY, 1953-1960. Chairman, Department of Geography, Indiana University, 1957-1962; Professor of Geography, Indiana University, 1957-1966; Research Director, US Geography Project, Twentieth Century Fund, 1962-1968. Rushton Lecturer, 1952; Borah Lecturer, University of Idaho, 1956; Haynes Foundation Lecturer, University of Redlands, 1966; Visiting Professor, University of California (Berkeley), 1948-1949; Stanford University, 1961; Stockholm School of Economics, 1961. Governor, Eastbourne Sixth Form College, 1980-1981. FRGS 1931. Honorary Member, Institution British Geographers. Editor, Weather Res. Bulletin, 1957-1960.
Publications: Geography in the Middle Ages, 1938; The World's Open Spaces, 1939; The Shepherd of Banbury, 1941; (with Raymond Bush) The Weather, 1943 (Eng.), 1946 (Amer.), (author) 2nd (Eng.) edn, 1951; Military Geography of Canada, 1949; (with Sir Dudley Stamp) An Introduction to Economic Geography, 1949; (with Sir Dudley Stamp) The World: a general geography, 1950; The Way of the World, 1953; Our American Weather, 1955; Le Temps, 1957; Tropical Africa (2 vols), 1960; Ghana, 1960; Tropical Africa (abridged edition), 1962; (with Ronald Steel) Tropical Africa Today, 1966; Hunters and Collectors, 1970; Man and his World, 1972; Herdsmen, 1973; From the Four Winds, 1974; This is our World, 1981; (ed for Hakluyt Soc.) Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, 1937; (ed for American Geographical Soc. with Dorothy Good) Geography of the Northlands, 1955; articles in: Geog. Jl, Magazine, Review; Canadian Geog. Jl; Bulletin Amer. Meteorological Soc.; The Reporter; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times Magazine
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kindell,
Francis Richard
F.R. Kindell
Son of ... Kindell, and ... Stevens.
(09?).1921
Barnet district, Greater London / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
T/A/El.S.Lt.
?
T/El.S.Lt.
09.07.1942
T/El.Lt.
02.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(1943/44?)


HMS Cynthia (minesweeper)
(10.1944)
 
 
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Roedean School, Brighton) *
01.01.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Fairy (minesweeper)
* indexed, but not listed as such
King,
Norman Douglas
N.D. King (Photo courtesy of Mrs Pat Squire)
Married; at least one daughter.
16.07.1921
Hove, Sussex
-
05.1969
Supply Probationer
23.10.1940
Supply Assistant
22.01.1941
T/Leading Supply Assistant
06.11.1941
T/Supply Petty Officer
25.08.1942
T/A/Paym.S.Lt.
22.09.1943
T/Paym.S.Lt. =
T/S.Lt. (S)

22.03.1944
T/Lt. (S)
01.01.1946 (reld 31.07.1946?)
23.10.1940
-
28.11.1940
HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
29.11.1940
-
14.01.1941
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
15.01.1941
-
06.08.1942
HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
07.08.1942
-
13.01.1943
HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) [while under construction; borne on HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)]
14.01.1943
-
25.07.1943
HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship)
13.08.1943
-
22.09.1943
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
01.12.1943
-
28.04.1944
HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus)
04.07.1944
-
16.07.1944
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
17.07.1944
-
07.10.1944
HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, near Winchester)
10.10.1944
-
02.11.1945
HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Ludham, Norfolk) [from 01.11.1944 Captain's Assistant Secretary]
02.11.1945
-
21.01.1946
HMS LST(Q) 2 (landing ship tank) (Assistant Secretary to Senior Officer LST [Snoop?])
(04.1946)


HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
25.03.1946
-
31.07.1946
HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) (Captain's Secretary, Senior Naval Officer, Levant Area)
* indexed, but not listed as such
King,
Peter Galbraith
P.G. King
?
-
T/S.Lt.
27.03.1941
T/Lt.
27.09.1943
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1944
Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings, 09.43)
01.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Safeguard (anti-aircraft guard base, Calmore, Southampton)
12.03.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Delhi (cruiser)
06.09.1944 -
(10.1944)
HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) *
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
* (07.1945) still indexed, but not listed as such
King,
Peter Kenneth
P.K. King
Son of ... King, and ... Bedwell.
(06?).1922
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
30.04.1943
T/S.Lt.
> 10.1944, < 07.1945, seniority 30.04.1943
T/Lt.
30.04.1945
Bronzen Kruis (Bronze Cross) (The Netherlands) BK
27.02.1945
service in Dutch submarines [date of Dutch Royal Decree 11.01.45]
1942/45?
 
 
British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. Dolfijn (Dutch submarine)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
17.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Seraph (submarine)
(04.1946)


HMS Ferret IV (Captain SM surrendered U-boats, Londonderry) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
King,
Philip Geoffrey Colet
P.G.C. King (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Smith)
Third son, and seventh child of The Rev Herbert Alfred King (1870-1947) and Clara Lucy Matilda Young (1879-1962).
Remained unmarried.

In August 1943, he put into Aberdeen and "paid off" HMS Thirlmere, and then went to Saladin. Whilst with Saladin he took part in the rescue of 7 crew members from a Sunderland which had ditched in the Bay of Biscay. He took Saladin in company with HMS Scimitar, on the grounds that two destroyers gave a better chance against German aircraft. He took Command of HMS Seymour in Harwich on October 10th 1944. When on Saladin, he was concerned with the Slapton Sands Affair, when German E-boats got amongst the Americans practising for D-Day. He was responsible for pulling many drowned American troops from the sea, and reported that most of them had not put their "Mae Wests" on correctly. [Information provided by his nephew Mr Patrick Smith.]
14.02.1914
Holt, Norfolk
-
12.01.2001
Kimpton, Hertfordshire
Prob. T/S.Lt.
02.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 02.02.1940
T/Lt.
02.02.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
08.1943? (reld 11.04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43



HMS Greenfly (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
05.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Beaver (depot ship, Humber & RN base, Grimsby)
11.07.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Wastwater (minesweeping trawler)
27.03.1942
-
08.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Thirlmere (minesweeping trawler)
20.09.1943
-
(04.1944)
HMS Saladin (destroyer) *
1944
-
10.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Saladin (destroyer)
10.10.1944
-
(07.1945?)
Commanding Officer, HMS Seymour (destroyer) *
Secretary, Hertfordshire National Farmers Union (Retired).

* May have been in command from 20.09.1943 on, though that's not specifically indicated in the Navy List
** (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
King-Turner,
Eric William
E.W. King-Turner
17.04.1905
-
01.11.2009
T/Sg.Lt. (D) 12.01.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) < 10.1944
       
       
? - (10.1944) RM Infirmary Portsmouth
       
* (07.1945) still indexed, but not listed as such
Kinnear,
Alexander Norman Stewart
"Sandy"
I. Kinross
Three daughters, one son.
?
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977 ??
Prob. T/Midsh.
09.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
14.12.1940
T/A/Lt.
09.08.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
31.07.1947
Lt.Cdr.
09.08.1950 (retd 14.12.1969)
Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
30.05.1957
-
Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
22.04.1966
1st clasp
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
19.11.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (additional; for various services)
01.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Kinross,
Ivone
I. Kinross
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
Mention in Despatches MID


(1943)


Navigating Officer, HM MTB 606 (motor torpedo boat)
Kirk,
Charles Rodger
C.R. Kirk
Son of Henry Kirk (1885-?), and Catherine Seath Rodger (1895-?).
16.02.1919
Dysart, Scotland
-
?
T/S.Lt.
06.11.1942
T/Lt.
06.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
27.06.1943
-
(04.)1944
HM BYMS 236 [from early 1944: BYMS 2236] (British yard minesweeper)
(10.1944)


HMS Burong (RN minesweeping base, Mandapam, India) *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
07.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2034 (British yard minesweeper)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kirkby,
Wilfred
"Wilf"
W. Kirkby (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Wren)
Son of James Kirkby, and Alice Whisker.
Married ((09?).1945, Manchester district, Lancashire) Joan Cox.
(12?).1919
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
(06?).1954
Manchester district, Lancashire
T/S.Lt. 04.09.1942
T/Lt. 10.10.1944
      served in armed trawlers and motor launches in the Mediterranean and South Africa:
      may have served at HM ML 358 (motor launch)
14.05.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Wolborough (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Kirkpatrick
Ross McFaul
R.M. Kirkpatrick
Son of Charles Magill Kirkpatrick, MBE, and Lucy K. Kirkpatrick, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1916 ?
-
22.10.1943

(MPK) [age 27]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 2]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
31.10.1941
T/Sg.Lt.
1942, seniority 31.10.1941

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC

22.12.1942

raid on Tobruk 09.42 [presented to next-of-kin]
Education: MB, BCh
11.1941
-
14.09.1942
Medical Officer, HMS Zulu (destroyer) (ship was sunk by Italian aircraft off Tobruk)
01.1943
-
22.10.1943
Medical Officer, HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (missing, presumed killed when ship was mined east of Kalymnos)
Kitching,
Colin Thomas
C.T. Kitching (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Walker) C.T. Kitching (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Walker)
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
19.08.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(08.1942)
 
 
LCP(L) 192 (landing craft, personnel (large)) (Dieppe raid)
08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Kitson,
John Charles Buller
J.C.B. Kitson
?
-
1988
T/Lt.
?
Mention in Despatches MID


(09.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 105 (motor launch)
Kittredge,
Edmund Webster
E.W. Kittredge
?
USA
-
T/S.Lt.
14.08.1941
T/Lt.
14.08.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?
Banker from Virginia.
      joined RNVR as an American citizen
01.09.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Copra
      participated in invasions of North Africa, Sicily (wounded) & Normandy
Knight,
Geoffrey Frank
G.F. Knight
?
-
T/A/Lt.
04.03.1944
21.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
officer, HMS Beehive (Felixstowe)
Knight,
Richard Egerton
"Dick"
R.E. Knight
26.07.1925
-
07.2005
Isle of Wight
T/Midsh.
07.04.1944
T/A/S.Lt.
26.01.1945
T/S.Lt.
26.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
08.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM MA/SB 36 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)]
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Chinkara
Knowles,
Peter
P. Knowles
?
-
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.01.44

Mention in Despatches MID
19.09.44




Base Maintenance Officer, HMS Mantis (Lowestoft)
Knowlson,
Laurie Wilby *
L.W. Knowlson (Photo courtesy of Mr Adam Knowlson)
* first name also used as: Lauri & Lawrie
Married; at least one son.
Last residence: Mark Cross, Crowborough, East Sussex.
18.06.1918
-
23.08.1990
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
T/S.Lt.
24.07.1942?
T/Lt.
24.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Atlantic Star; Burma Star

Education: King`s College, London
1938


joined RNVR



HMS Cambridgeshire (anti-submarine warfare trawler)



HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)



HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
26.09.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Kale (frigate) [eventually possibly even First Lieutenant]
03.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Chelmer (frigate)
Post-war a company director.
Knox-Little,
Arthur Henry Alban
A.H.A Knox-Little
?
[Chile ?]
-
[08.1973 still alive]
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
23.08.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt. (A) RN
20.02.1946, seniority 23.08.1944
Lt. (E) RN
1948?, seniority 23.08.1944 (emgcy 06.11.1949)
1943?
-
1944?
Fleet Air Arm Mobile Workshop Unit [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail/Dunino), later at HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station Drem, near Edinburgh)
28.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
20.02.1946


transferred to RN (Extended Service)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
(07.1948)


HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Warrington, Lancashire) *
16.08.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire)
* indexed. but not listed as such
Koelges,
Norman Alford
N.A. Koelges
Of South Africa.
?
-

10.01.1941
[Halton (St Michael) Churchyard, 3.B.101]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
?
?
-
10.01.1941
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
Kutcher,
Jack
J. Kutcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeff Kutcher) J. Kutcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeff Kutcher)
J. Kutcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeff Kutcher) J. Kutcher (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeff Kutcher)
Son of Harry and Rosie Kutcher.
Married (15.01.1946) Celia Deborah Smith; four sons, one daughter.
27.03.1920
Stoke Newington, London
-

02.12.2002
Netanya, Israel (buried there)
Ord.Sea.
19.07.1940 [P/JX 210473]
AB Sea.
18.04.1941
T/S.Lt.
26.03.1942
T/Lt.
26.09.1944 (for dispersal 27.04.1946) (reld 29.06.1946)
Commercial photographer & cinema operator.
19.07.1940
-
25.07.1940 
HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham; for boom defence depot)
26.07.1940
-
14.10.1940
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness; for boom defence depot) [qualified wireless telegraphy (Boom Defence Service), 03.10.1940]
15.10.1940
-
14.01.1941
HMS Rooke (boom defence central depot, Rosyth)
25.10.1940
-
23.12.1940
HMS Star of the Realm (boom defence vessel)
15.01.1941
-
06.03.1941
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
07.03.1941
-
28.05.1941
HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth)
29.05.1941
-
12.12.1941
HMS Fishguard (sloop) [based at HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)]
13.12.1941
-
25.03.1942
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex; for training)
26.03.1942
-
22.04.1942
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex; additional)
23.04.1942
-
26.04.1942
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (additional; for motor boat course)
27.04.1942
-
31.05.1942
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for gunnery course)
01.06.1942
-
11.1942
HMS Saker I (accounting base, Washington, DC, USA) (additional; for passage to USA & for HM ML 395 (motor launch))
11.1942
-
11.1942
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for passage to UK on relief)
09.11.1942
-
07.01.1943
HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast) (additional; for passage & as First Lieutenant for motor launches)
08.01.1943
-
30.05.1944
First Lieutenant, HM ML 266 (motor launch) [HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast)]
31.05.1944
-
18.06.1944
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional, not to join; for passage to UK)
19.06.1944
-
26.07.1944
HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (additional; for operational experience in Fairmile "D" class motor torpedo boats) [from 18.06.1944 gunnery course at HMS Excellent, from 25.06.1944 torpedo course at HMS Vernon]
27.07.1944
-
05.04.1945
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 768 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
06.04.1945
-
02.06.1945
HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (additional; temporary; dismissed 16.05.1945 for 28 days of leave)
03.06.1945


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional, not to join; lent to HMS King Alfred for 4 weeks' general service course) (15.08.1945 & 15.11.1945 reported fit for Home (or Abroad) Shore Service with Re-Supply Auxiliary Minesweeper Base; YYNN)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
07.12.1945
 
 
HMS Hopetoun, from 01.03.1946 HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper base, Port Edgar) (additional; for divisional duties)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Kydd,
George Grandison
G.G. Kydd
1924
Pollokshields district, Glasgow City, Scotland
-
1997
Eastwood district, Renfrew, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt.
21.04.1944
T/S.Lt.
21.10.1944
16.06.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Wayland (depot ship)
12.12.1944
-
(07.)1945
HMS Lossie (frigate)
07.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)
Kynoch,
Kenneth George
G.G. Kydd
Son of ... Kynoch, and ... Chetham.
Married ((06?).1937, Bedford district, Bedfordshire) Amy B. Bell.
15.05.1915
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
09.1984
Poole district, Dorset
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 13.11.1942
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.04.1949
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 23.02.1950
01.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tracker (escort carrier)
       


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