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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.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

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

Mention in Despatches

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

Distinguished Service Cross

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.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

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)
Officer, Order of Military Merit (Canada) OMM
23.06.1974
?
Canadian Decoration CD
?
?
Mention in Despatches 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)

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
Mention in Despatches MID
06.04.1943
Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 11.42)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration 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

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


Distinguished Service Cross

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

Distinguished Service Cross

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)

Polish Military Cross

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

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


Distinguished Service Cross

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.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
29.08.1944
Op. Neptune, Normandy 06.44

Distinguished Service Cross

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

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
18.01.1944
13 operations enemy coast Plymouth area 42-43
Legionnaire of the Legion of Merit (USA) 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.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
09.11.1943
action Channel 27.09.43
Mention in Despatches 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

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
20.06.1944
action Plymouth area 26.02.44
Mention in Despatches MID
26.05.1942
attack tanker Boulogne 11.04.42
Mention in Despatches MID
13.10.1942
attack convoy Dover 06.08.42
(04.1942)


Commanding Officer, ML 102
(0