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1939-1945

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MacDonald,
John Charles Mackie
J.C.M. MacDonald (Photo courtesy of Kenny MacDonald)

Son of Col. Alistair Cameron MacDonald, MC, RAMC.
Married (27.06.1945, Malta) Irene Robinson, daughter of Edward Victor Robinson.

1919
-
04.2006 still alive

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	16.04.1943
T/Sg.Lt.	08 or 09.1943, seniority 16.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: MB, ChB

03.06.1943	-	(04.1944)	Medical Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer) (Gibraltar Escort Force; Operation Husky)
04.05.1944	-	(07.)1945	HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(06?).1945	-	09.03.1946	Medical Officer, HMS Abercrombie (monitor) (Indian Ocean)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Mace,
Benjamin Edgerton William
"Bill"
B.E.W. Mace

Married; at least two sons.

21.05.1918
-
22.12.1992
Oxfordshire

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	15.05.1942
T/Sg.Lt.	03.1943, seniority 15.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Education: Birmingham University (MB, ChB)

15.06.1942	-	(10.)1943	Medical Officer, HMS Swale (frigate)
02.12.1943	-	(10.1944)	Medical Officer, HMS Shrapnel II (stokers' training establishment, Southampton)
02.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) (for RN Aircraft Ceylonese Training Establishment, Maharagama)

MacFarlane,
Douglas Leonard Wallace
D.L.W. Macfarlane

?
-

T/Lt.

DSC

30.05.1944

attack enemy shipping Nore area 06.03.44

(03.1944)

Commanding Officer, MTB 695

MacFarlane,
Ian Turner
I.T. MacFarlane

1924 ?
-
07.04.1945
(KIA) [age 21]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]

T/S.Lt.

06.12.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Wasp (for MTBs)
?	-	07.04.1945	First Lieutenant MTB 494 [HMS Mantis] (killed in action)

MacFarlane,
James Langford Brownrigg
J.L.B. MacFarlane (Photo courtesy of Mr Jim MacFarlane)

Son of James Erskine MacFarlane and Anna MacFarlane, of Reading, Berkshire.

12.09.1915
Spencers Wood, Reading, Berkshire
-
31.12.1942
(KIA) [age 28]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 66, 1]

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	27.03.1942
T/Sg.Lt.	04.01.1943, seniority 27.03.1942

MID

27.04.1943

convoy JW51B 12.42

Education: studied medicine (MRCS, LRCP); trained as a doctor at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington which was evacuated to Park Prewitt Hospital near Basingstoke

18.04.1942

31.12.1942

Medical Officer, HMS Achates (destroyer)
[ship sunk in action with the German cruiser Admiral Hipper in the Barentz Sea]

MacGinty,
Brian Marius
B.M. MacGinty

?
-

T/S.Lt.	24.04.1942
T/Lt.	04.03.1944

DSC

11.12.1945

wind up, Europe 45

(06.1944)			Commanding Officer, MTB 248
07.06.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, MTB 481

Machin,
Noel Gordon
N.G. Machin

?
-

T/S.Lt.

DSC

30.07.1942

St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42

(03.1942)

First Lieutenant, ML 5

Maciver,
Donald Angus
D.A. Maciver

1920
-
05.2008 still alive

T/Sg.Lt.	02.04.1943
Sg.Lt. RCN	1953?, seniority 21.11.1946
Sg.Lt.Cdr. RCN	22.09.1954
Sg.Cdr. RCN	01.01.1961
Sg.Capt. RCN	08.03.1965
Sg.Cdre. RCN	? (retd 1978)

OMM	23.06.1974	?
CD	?	?
MID	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

Education: MB, ChB (Ed) (1942), LMCC, FCRCS, FACS

24.05.1943	-	(10.)1943	Medical Officer, HMS Bayntun (frigate)
24.11.1943	-	(07.1945)	Medical Officer, French Ship Largs (ocean boarding vessel/HQ ship)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
1953?			transferred to Royal Canadian Navy
29.04.1953	-	(04.)1955	RCN Hospital, Halifax [HMCS Stadacona]
1954?			HMCS Quebec (cruiser)
30.06.1955	-	27.11.1955	University Naval Training Division, Toronto [HMCS York]
28.11.1955	-	1956	RCN Hospital, Halifax [HMCS Stadacona]
1956	-	1957	HMCS Labrador (icebreaker)
1958	-	1962	Chief of Surgery, RCN Hospital, Halifax [HMCS Stadacona]
1962	-	1964	Chief of Surgery, Canadian Air Division Europe
1964	-	1978	Chief of Surgery, National Defence Medical Centre, Ottawa, Ont.

Brother (Officer), Order of the Hospotal of St John of Jerusalem (OStJ), 06.1968.

Mackay,
Edward Bruce
E.B. Mackay

Son of Edward and Agnes Mackay; husband of Sheila Graham Mackay, of Greenock, Renfrewshire.

biography (Dunedin Society)

1913 ?
-
24.11.1941
[age 28]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]

Prob. S.Lt.	02.11.1934
S.Lt.	02.11.1935
Lt.	02.11.1938

02.11.1934			commissioned, RNVR (Clyde Division)
25.08.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; for various services)
18.11.1940	-	24.11.1941	Gunnery Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]

Mackay,
Maurice William Hughes
M.W.H. Mackay

?
-
1986
New Zealand

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	31.03.1944
T/Sg.Lt.	14.08.1944, seniority 31.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: MB, BS

1944?	-	1945?	HMS Peacock (sloop) (Russian convoys)
08.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional, for various services)
(04.1946)			HMS Pembroke I (accounting base, Chatham) *

Emigrated to New Zealand and settled as a radiologist, 1949/50.

* indexed, but not listed as such

Mackelvie,
Alexander Kenneth
A.K. Mackelvie

Son of Alexander Mackelvie.
Married Janet Fraser Gill.

?
-
19.03.1986

Midsh.	12.10.1927
A/S.Lt.	15.08.1930
S.Lt.	15.08.1931
Lt.	15.08.1933
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1941
Cdr.	30.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Capt.	30.06.1949 (retd 31.03.1953; own request)

MBE	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41
MID	06.04.1943	Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 11.42)
VD	?	?

1920s			joined RNVR, East Scottish Division
18.03.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Fernie (destroyer)
28.04.1942	-	(11.1942)	[Executive Officer?], HMS Broke (destroyer)
06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Conn (frigate)
(07.1948)	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, Forth Division RNVR

Mackenzie,
George Wallace
G.W. Mackenzie

?
-
[possibly died 1984]

T/S.Lt.	10.04.1941
T/Lt.	10.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

28.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Vivacious (destroyer)
15.10.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Wensleydale (destroyer)
02.1945	-	(07.1945)	Kilindini Escort Force [HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Mackenzie,
Murdo
M. Mackenzie

?
-

T/S.Lt.

10.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

04.1944

(04.1946)

HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)

Mackereth,
Miles
M. Mackereth

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	17.08.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

17.10.1944

Medal for Outstanding Acts (Greece): destruction enemy convoy Eastern Mediterranean 01.06.43

(02.1941)			no appointment listed
19.05.1941	-	(02.1943)	HMS Croome (destroyer)
(06.1943)			HHMS Queen Olga (destroyer)
06.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
04.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Wolfhound (destroyer)

MacLeod,
William Norman
I.T. MacFarlane

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

22.05.1942

(06.1944)

HMS Palomares (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship, later fighter direction ship) (convoy PQ17, later Mediterranean)

Magnus,
Peter
P. Magnus

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	13.06.1943

	DSC
	DSC

			Commanding Officer, MTB ?
(08.1944)			Commanding Officer, MTB ... & SO ... MTB Flotilla

Makeig-Jones,
David Tofield
D.T. Makeig-Jones

Only child of Capt. William Tofield Makeig-Jones, RN (1890-1939), and Dorothy Maud Faulkner (1895-1979).

08.10.1922
Warblington, Havant, Hampshire
-
13.01.1947
Ceylon

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	08.10.1941
T/S.Lt.	08.10.1942
T/Lt.	10.02.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Mallett,
Thomas Howard
T.H. Mallett (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Mallett)

Married; one daughter, two sons.

04.12.1919
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
-
03.2008 still alive

Prob. T/A/S.Lt.	11.1943
T/A/El.S.Lt.	1944?
T/El.S.Lt.	15.05.1944
T/El.Lt.	15.05.1946 (reld 25.09.1946)

Joined the Post Office Telecommunications Engineering Department as an engineering apprentice in 1937, returning to this job post-war.

11.1943	-	?	divisional course, Portsmouth
?	-	04.1944	training, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
17.04.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for base duties; as Base Electrical Officer to Captain M/L Clyde located at Sandbank, near Dunoon, Scotland)
31.12.1945	-	05.1946	deputy anti-submarine officer, HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship, 1st Submarine Flotilla)
05.1946	-	08.1946	electrical officer supporting two operational "T" class submarines

Mangnall,
Rollo Barratt
R.B. Mangnall

?
-
03.03.1971
Sherborne, Dorset

T/S.Lt.	05.01.1940
T/A/Lt.	01.12.1940
T/Lt.	?, seniority 01.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945

DSC

01.07.1941

HM's birthday 41

02.06.1939			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached Sussex Division RNVR]
05.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; for various services)
(1940)			HMPC Sanderling
(02.1941)	-	(12.1941)	HMS Gleaner (minesweeper) *
			served Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP):
(11.1942)			"Party Inhuman" - pre-operation Torch (North Africa)
(07.1943)			COPP 4 (Naval Party 770) (Sicily)
22.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)

Solicitor.

Maples,
Ernest Mark Cecil
E.M.C. Maples

Son of Capt. John Cecil Maples and Enid May Maples, of Grassgarth, Westmorland.

1925 ?
-
23.05.1944
[age 19]
[St Augustine National Cemetery, USA, section C, grave 2]
[commemorated with memorial window at St Marks Church, Natland, Cumbria & at war memorial, Farndon, Cheshire]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)

09.01.1944

23.05.1944

Officer Training Unit of the USN VF Squadron [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation in the US, Washington, DC)] (killed in an air crash)

Marlow,
Geoffrey Peter
G.P. Marlow

15.12.1915
-
06.1997
Windsor, Berkshire

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	27.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

PolMC

05.12.1944

services to Polish Navy

(12.1944?)			British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Piorun (Polish destroyer)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Marshall,
Arthur Thomas
A.T. Marshall

Married; at least one son.
Residence: (1946) Wolverhampton.

28.12.1913
-

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	01.03.1940
T/Sg.Lt.	?, seniority 01.03.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

Atlantic Star; India Star Medal

Education: MB, ChB

01.03.1940	-	06.04.1940	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
07.04.1940	-	(08.)1942	HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
04.11.1942	-	(02.1943)	HMS Belfast (cruiser)
			served on HMS Wolfhound, and spent time in India, Ceylon, Alexandria - working with blood transfusion - and Scapa Flow
(07.1945)			HMS Yingchow *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Marshall,
John Arthur
J.A. Marshall

?
-

T/Lt.	01.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945

OBE

08.06.1950

HM's birthday 50

(04.1940)	-	(02.1941)	Staff Instructor, Straits Settlements RNVR (Singapore) (ex-RN)
10.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Anderson (RN barracks, Colombo, Ceylon)
08.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Braganza (RN base, bombay, India) (at disposal)
?	-	(05.1950)	Lt.Cdr., Malayan RNVR

Marshall,
Joseph Harry
J.H. Marshall

Son of ... Marshall, and ... Goodfellow.
Married; at least one son.

21.01.1922
Kings Norton district, Warwickshire / Staffordshire
-
06.11.1978

Ord.Sea.	(1942)
T/S.Lt.	02.01.1944
T/Lt.	02.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

(1942)			HMS Middleton (destroyer)
(1943)			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
27.01.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Razorbill (Coastal Forces base, Algiers)
06.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HM ML 449 (motor launch) (Adriatic)
(1945?)			Commanding Officer, HM ML 841 (motor launch)
(04.1946)			HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Marshall,
Robert Michael
R.M. Marshall

?
-

T/Lt.

	DSC
	DSC

(10.1943)			Commanding Officer, MGB 607
(03.1944)			Commanding Officer, MGB 503

Marshall,
Ronald Sidney
R.S. Marshall

?
-

T/El.S.Lt.	?
T/El.Lt.	01.03.1943

01.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Pennywort (corvette)
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)

Marshall,
Stuart David
S.D. Marshall

?
-

T/Lt.	03.05.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

	DSC	29.08.1944	Op. Neptune, Normandy 06.44
	DSC	08.05.1945	action E-boats Nore 21.12.44

(06.1942)			Commanding Officer, MTB 202
(1944)			Commanding Officer, MTB 624
(12.1944)			Commanding Officer, MTB 693

Martin,
Charles Edward Capel
C.E.C. Martin

?
-

T/Lt.

19.04.1941

	DSC	18.01.1944	13 operations enemy coast Plymouth area 42-43
	LM	20.03.1945	Bay of Seine 06.44

(1942)	-	(1943)	MGB 318
(1944)			Commanding Officer, HMS Grey Wolf

Martin,
Henry Fowler
H.F. Martin

15.12.1905
South Shields district, Durham / Tyne and Wear
-
04.1988
Shepway district, Kent

T/Lt.

13.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

31.07.1944

(07.1945)

HM LST 159 (landing ship, tank)

Martin,
John Newman
J.N. Martin

11.04.1907
district Hailsham, Sussex
-
11.1994
Waveney, Suffolk

T/S.Lt.	08.04.1944
T/A/Lt.	< 04.1946

20.07.1944	-	(07.1945)	Watchkeeping Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
09.1945	-	(04.1946)	on Operational Staff of Flag Officer Commanding West Africa [HMS Eland]

Solicitor.
Published: Club law and the law of unregistered friendly societies (6th ed., 1970; 7th ed., 1979); Paterson's licensing acts (1972)

Martino,
Frederick William Richard
F.W.R. Martino

(12?).1897
Kings Norton, Staffordshire
-

T/Lt.

26.02.1940 (reld 1945/46)

23.04.1937			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, Sussex Division (held no rank prior to temporary commission or appointment on or after mobilisation)
(06.1940)			Commanding Officer, Pellag II (yacht) (Dunkirk)
(07.1945)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)

Mason,
Jan Theunis McQuoid-

see:

SANF(V) section (under McQuoid-Mason)

Mason,
Kenneth
"Ken"
K. Mason

?
-

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

31.10.1943

(06.1944)

Air Direction Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)

Mason,
Peter Edward
P.E. Mason

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

	DSC	09.11.1943	action Channel 27.09.43
	MID	14.11.1944	Op. Neptune, Normandy 06.44

(1943)			Commanding Officer, SGB 4 (HMS Grey Fox)
(06.1944)			Force G

Mason,
Richard Albert
R.A. Mason

?
-

T/Lt.	23.11.1940
T/Lt. RNR	22.12.1942, seniority 23.11.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. RNR	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

01.09.1940	-	(12.1941)	[Commanding Officer?], HMS Sheldon
20.03.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Pennywort (corvette)
22.12.1942			transferred from RNVR to RNR
01.04.1944	-	(07.1945)	Executive Officer, HMS Awe (frigate)

Matheson,
James Monteath
J.M. Matheson

?
-

T/Lt.	24.05.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	?

(1943)			staff, HMS Bee (Weymouth)
(1944)			Operations Officer, Captain Coastal Forces (Channel), C-in-C Portsmouth

Matheson,
William James
W.J. Matheson

?
-

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	26.01.1940
T/Sg.Lt.	?, seniority 26.01.1940 (reld 12.02.1946)

Education: MB, ChB

12.02.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Vanessa (destroyer)
26.10.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Vanessa (destroyer)
(12.1944?)			HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)
(07.1945)			Royal Marine Training Group, Devon

Mathias,
Trevor John
T.J. Mathias

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	01.05.1942

DSC	20.06.1944	action Plymouth area 26.02.44
MID	26.05.1942	attack tanker Boulogne 11.04.42
MID	13.10.1942	attack convoy Dover 06.08.42

(04.1942)			Commanding Officer, ML 102
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