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Naish,
Arthur John Brabant

Son of ... Naish, and ... Brabant.
Married Margaret
Naish, WRNS officer (died 24.01.2007, aged 88).
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21.12.1911
Paddington district, Greater London /
London / Middlesex
-
12.2000
Ditteridge, Wiltshire
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
02.02.1940
|
T/S.Lt.
|
?, seniority
02.02.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
02.02.1941
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945
|
T/A/Cdr.
|
< 04.1946
|
...
|
...
|
Capt. RN
|
30.06.1953 (retd)
|
|

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CBE
|
08.06.1963
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HM's
birthday 63
|
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Education: MA
07.03.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Aberdeen (sloop)
|
28.10.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS Eaglet
(RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties)
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Tara [=
perhaps HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)] *
|
?
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Directorate
of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty *
|
|
|
|
transferred
to RN
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
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FIERE, MIEE
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Naylor,
Ian Rochester

Son of ... Naylor, and ... Asquith.
|
(06?).1926
North Bierley district, Yorkshire - West
Riding
-
07.04.1945
(KIA) [age 18]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]
|
|
?
|
-
|
07.04.1945
|
Third
Officer, HM MTB 494 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base,
Lowestoft)] (killed in action)
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Naylor,
[Prof.] Malcolm Neville

Elder son of late Roland B. Naylor, MBE and
Mabel L. Naylor (née Neville), Walsall, Staffordshire.
Married (1956) Doreen Mary, daughter of late H.E. Jackson, CBE; one son.
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30.01.1926
West Bromwich district, Staffordshire
-
[01.2007 still alive at Aldwick]
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T/Midsh.
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22.09.1944
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T/S.Lt.
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30.01.1946
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
15.03.1947
|
Sg.Lt.
|
02.03.1955
|
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
|
26.08.1962
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Sg.Cdr. (D)
|
31.12.1967
|
Sg.Capt. (D)
|
31.12.1972 (retd
31.12.1976)
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|

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RD
|
1967
|
?
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|
Education: Queen Mary School, Walsall; Universities
of Glasgow, Birmingham & London (studied dentistry) (BSc [1951], BDS (Birmingham)
[1955], FDS RCS (Eng) [1958], LDS RCS (Eng) [194?], PhD Dentistry (London)
[1963])
05.11.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
|
(07.1948)
|
-
|
(05.1950)
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Sea Cadet
Corps
|
02.03.1955
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-
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31.12.1976
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transferred
to & service in Permanent RNVR, from 1958 RNR
|
Hospital appointments, Birmingham and Dundee,
1955-1959; Guy's Hosp. Dental School: Res. Fellow, 1959-1962; Senior Lecturer in
Preventive Dentistry, 1962-1966; Reader in Preventive Dentistry, 1966-1970;
Honorary Consultant Dental Surgeon, Guy's Hospital, 1966-1991, Consultant
Emeritus, 1991. Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Dental Surgery, since
1991; Professor of Preventive Dentistry, University of London, 1970-1991, now
Professor Emeritus; Head of Department of Periodontology and Preventive
Dentistry, Guy's Hospital Dental School, 1980-1991.
William Waldorf Astor Fellow, USA, 1963. President: British Division, IADR,
1990-1992 (Honorary Treasurer, 1975-1990); Odontol Section, RSocMed, 1984-1985;
Member, FDI Commission, 1992-1995; Patron, Society of Cosmetic Scientists,
1995-. Civil Consultant Dental Surgeon, RN, 1974-1991; Honorary Dental Surgeon
to the Queen, 1976; Honorary Colonel, University of London OTC, 1979-1994;
Secretary, 1978-1982, Chairman, 1982-1989, COMEC; Chairman: Military Education
Committee, Universtiy of London, 1979-; Sea Cadet Association, Sports Council,
1975-1994. Governor: Roehampton Institute for Higher Education, 1978-1996;
Whitelands College, 1975-1996; Bacons School, Bermondsey, 1979-1990 (Vice
Chairman, 1981-1990); St Saviour's and St Olave's School, 1980- (Chairman,
1988-); Wye College, University of London, 1992-; Member Ct of Governors, Brunel
University, 1994-. Member, St Saviour's and St Olave's Foundation, 1991-
(Warden, 1997-). Lay Reader, C of E, 1974-. Member, Southwark Diocesan Synod,
1983-1992. Freeman, City of London, 1983; Liveryman, Bakers' Co., 1983-. Hon.
FDSRCPSGlas 1992. Colgate Prize, IADR, 1961; Tomes Medal, BDA, 1987.
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Greater London, 1992 (Repr. DL Lambeth, 1994).
Published: The contribution of dentrifices to oral health. a
colloquium held at Guy's Hospital Dental School on 26th June, 1979 (1980)
edited with J J Pindborg; edited: Diagnosis and treatment of dental caries,
the clinicians' dilemma (Royal Society of Medicine, London 1985); Scientific
basis of caries prevention. Symposium. Papers, (Royal Society of Medicine,
London 1986); Proceedings of the conference on dental care for the
disadvantaged child (World Dental Press, 1998)
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Neale,
Cyril Geoffrey Vaughan
 |
02.11.1905
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent /
Surrey
-
(12?).1976
Brent district
|
T/A/Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
02.05.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
27.03.1946,
seniority 02.05.1941
|
|
Served until August 1940 with the Shanghai Municipal Police, and spoke
several languages, including various dialects of Chinese and Japanese.
(10.1944)
|
|
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HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Hathi
(RN depot, Delhi) *
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Near,
Isaac Elliston |
see: |
RNR officers'
section
|
|
Neill,
James Wright

Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Wright Neill,
of Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
Husband of Elizabeth Hamilton Baxter Neill, of Bellshill.
|
1911
Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
13.02.1944
(KIA) [age 32]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 2]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
21.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
17.02.1942,
seniority 21.11.1941
|
|
Education: Glasgow University (Arts Faculty,
1928-1933).
Licentiate Royal Academy of Music.
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
?
|
-
|
13.02.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Cap d'Antifer (minesweeping trawler) [sunk by a German Motor
Torpedo Boat in the North Sea]
|
|
Neill,
Thomas
"Tom"
|
1920
-
11.2006 still alive
|
Prob. T/Midsh.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
29.07.1940
|
T/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/Lt.
|
29.01.1943 (reld
1945/46)
|
|

|
DSC
|
11.08.1942
|
attack with torpedo boats 06.06.42 off Belgian coast
|
|
Education: Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland
(till 1938)
09.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
RNVR
|
07.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 18 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal
Forces base, Felixstowe)]
|
12.1941
|
-
|
(08.)1942
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 14
(motor torpedo boat)
[HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
|
(06.1942)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 70
(motor torpedo boat)
|
03.08.1942
|
-
|
(10.1943)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 223
(motor torpedo boat)
[HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport), later HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces
base, Felixstowe)]
|
26.02.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 42
(motor torpedo boat)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Nelson,
Hugh
Married; three daughters.
From Holywood, Co. Down.
|
02.06.1916
- |
T/S.Lt.
|
27.02.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
27.02.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
26.04.1941
|
-
|
(10.1943)
|
HMS Barrymore (boom defence vessel)
|
07.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
First Lieutenant, HMS Preventer (boom
defence vessel)
|
(01.1945)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS William Hannam (trawler) *
|
|
|
|
may have
served at HMS Manchester & HMS Birmingham at some point
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Nelson,
Leslie Digby
|
25.06.1904
Sunderland district, Durham / Tyne and Wear
-
12.1994
Carlisle district, Cumberland
|
Prob.Sg.S.Lt.
|
01.03.1926
|
Sg.S.Lt.
|
27.03.1927,
seniority 01.03.1926
|
Sg.Lt.
|
07.07.1927
|
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
|
07.07.1933
|
A/Sg.Cdr.
|
23.08.1939?
|
Sg.Cdr.
|
31.12.1942 (reld
< 04.1946) (retd 16.02.1948)
|
|
VRD
|
15.06.1942
|
-
|
|
Education: MD, BS, LRCP, MRCS.
01.03.1926
|
|
|
joined
RNVR (Tyne Division, List 2)
|
07.1926
|
|
|
RN
Hopsital, Haslar (for 28 days' training)
|
23.08.1939
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS St
Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for Alexandria Military Hospital)
|
1941
|
-
|
09.1941
|
HMS
Formidable (aircraft carrier)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
27.05.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, RM Infirmary Plymouth [HMS Drake]
|
|
Nelson,
Tom John
Son of Ralph and Frances Nelson (née
Donaldson), of
Wallbottle, Northumberland.
|
(03?).1921
Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
22.09.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
|
T/A/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
 |
MID
|
01.09.1944
|
Operation
Source (midget submarine attack on Tirpitz 22.09.43) [posthumously]
|
|
14.05.1943
|
-
|
22.09.1943
|
HMS Varbel
(midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne)
|
?
|
-
|
22.09.1943
|
HMS
X5 (midget submarine) (killed in action during the action against the German
battleship Tirpitz)
|
|
Ness,
James Carmichael
Son of James M. Ness, and Marjorie T. Woolnough.
|
22.04.1916
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
08.05.1977
Churt, nr Farnham, Surrey
|
Prob. S.Lt.
|
10.06.1939
|
S.Lt.
|
14.12.1940
|
A/Lt.
|
22.04.1941
|
Lt.
|
22.12.1942, seniority
22.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
22.04.1949 (retd
09.05.1960)
|
|
VRD
|
31.03.1952
|
-
|
|
10.06.1939
|
|
|
joined RNVR
(London Division, List 2)
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
09.1940
|
-
|
(12.)1943
|
HMS Rodney
(battleship)
|
28.12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Unicorn
(aircraft supply & repair ship, Devonport)
|
Bank director.
|
Neve,
Frank Percival William
Son of Percival Edward and Amy Clara Neve
(née Walford),
of Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
|
(09?).1919
Uckfield district, Sussex / East Sussex
-
08.02.1943
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 11, column 1]
|
|
15.09.1942
|
-
|
08.02.1943
|
HMS Bredon
(armed trawler) (sunk by U-boat in north Atlantic)
|
|
Neville,
Arthur Ray
 |
21.06.1916
-
03.1988
Eastbourne district, Sussex
|
Prob. T/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
28.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
28.08.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
 |
MID
|
22.12.1942
|
hazardous
minesweeping operations Channel 06.42
|
|
26.11.1941
|
-
|
04.10.1943
|
HM MMS 60 (motor minesweeper)
[HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen), from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base,
Newhaven)]
|
26.11.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
First
Lieutenant
|
(10.1942)
|
-
|
04.10.1943
|
Commanding
Officer
|
04.10.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MMS 298 (motor minesweeper)
|
|
Newbigin,
Thomas Leslie
Son of Henry Thornton Newbigin, Chairman of Michell Bearings Ltd, Newcastle upon
Tyne, Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
Married (15.07.1947) Dorothy Parkin;
one son.
|
05.03.1915
Newcastle upon Tyne
-
30.12.1964
Hull, East Yorkshire
|
T/S.Lt.
|
19.10.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
16.08.1941 (reld
30.04.1946)
|
|

|
MBE
|
01.01.1946
|
New
Year 46: salvage service [HMS Odyssey]
|
 |
MID
|
08.01.1942
|
withdrawal
from Crete 05.41 [MTB 216]
|
|
Education: HMS Conway (Officer Training School 1929-1931)
Apprenticeship, Michell Bearings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1931-1936. National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering, Rutherford College of Technology, 1938.
30.11.1936
|
|
|
joined
Royal Naval Supplementary Reserve [attached to Tyne Division RVR]
|
09.12.1940
|
-
|
(06.1941)
|
HMS Hornet
(Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for Motor Torpedo Boats) *:
|
(05.1941)
|
-
|
(06.1941)
|
HM MTB 216
(motor torpedo boat) (10th MTB Flotilla)
|
09.1941
|
-
|
11.1941
|
salvaging the White Star liner “Georgic” at Suez
|
28.01.1942
|
-
|
15.12.1943
|
Salvage
Officer, Fleet Salvage Department, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] **
[salvaged SS City of Pittsburgh at Alexandria
01.1942, Jeddah refloated 02/03.1942]
|
02.02.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Assistant
Salvage Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President] [& HMS
Odyssey?]
|
04.03.1944
|
|
|
Diving
Course Certificate, HMS Tedworth (minesweeper)
|
15.04.1944
|
-
|
14.12.1945
|
Salvage
Officer, NW Europe [HMS Royal Albert]
|
Mechanical engineer.
* (08.1942) - (06.1943) listed under both HMS Hornet and HMS Nile
** Navy List has as starting date 03.02.1941. Given dates taken from two
consecutive release forms.
|
Newcombe,
Edward John
 |
(09?.)1903
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
1997
|
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
|
29.08.1939
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
30.01.1940 (reld
> 07.1945, < 04.1946)
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
(A)
|
09.1942?
|
|
18.09.1939
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS Merlin
(RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (additional for various duties)
|
28.07.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS Grebe
(RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
|
09.1942
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
HMS Korongo
(RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Nairobi, Kenya)
|
?
|
-
|
?
|
served in
Madagascar [probably HMS Ironclad]
|
17.04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Siskin
(RN Air Station, Gosport)
|
1945?
|
|
|
Control
Commission Germany
|
Emigrated to Tasmania, 1963.
|
Newgass,
Harold Reginald

George
Cross Database |
03.08.1896
-
17.11.1984
Dorchester, West Staffords. |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
(Sp.Br.)
|
< 06.1943
|
|

|
GC
|
04.03.1941
|
mine
disposal 28-30.11.40
|
|
1918
|
-
|
1934
|
served
with Royal Artillery in the Territorial Army
|
15.11.1940
|
-
|
(06.1943)
|
Torpedoes
and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
Dorset landowner & active as a councillor in
local government.
|
Newlove,
Harold Godfrey

Son of Godfrey J. Newlove, and Beatrice L.
Joce.
Married; ... children (one son?).
|
07.10.1920
Islington district, Greater London / London
/ Middlesex
-
02.2004
North Somerset district, Somerset
|
T/S.Lt.
|
26.06.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
26.12.1944 ( reld
< 04.1946)
|
Lt.
|
13.12.1956
|
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
06.05.1965,
seniority 13.12.1964 (retd 07.10.1979)
|
|

|
RD
|
01.07.1969
|
?
|
|
(01.1942)
|
|
|
HMS
Hesperus (destroyer)
|
26.12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Quebec
(Combined training centre, Iverary), from late 1944/early HMS Copra (Combined
Operations accounting base)
|
1956?
|
|
|
joined
Permanent RNVR, from 1958 RNR (Unattached (Severn Division) 14)
|
|
Nicholas,
John Harold
"Jack"

Brother of El.Lt. W.A. Nicholas, RNVR.
Married
to Mary.
|
?
-
11.2004 still alive at Malta
|
T/El.Lt.
|
23.07.1941
|
Lt. (L) RN
|
15.07.1946,
seniority 28.06.1939
|
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN
|
28.06.1947 (retd
28.06.1961)
|
AMIEE
|
|
|
|
served at
Holy Loch [HMS Forth ? / HMS Titania ?]
|
04.09.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS St
Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
15.07.1946
|
|
|
transferred
to RN
|
04.01.1950
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
Wakeful
|
02.03.1953
|
-
|
(05.1953)
|
HMS
Kenya
|
01.09.1955
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
HMS
Collingwood
|
|
Nicholas,
Walter Archibald

Brother of El.Lt. J.H. Nicholas, RNVR.
Married;
at least one daughter.
|
11.06.1913
-
11.12.1994
Daventry, Northamptonshire
|
Prob.
A/T/El.S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/El.S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/El.Lt.
|
26.05.1941 (reld
1946?)
|
|
|
|
|
served
at Holy Loch [HMS Forth ? / HMS Titania ?]
|
12.04.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Revlis
(degaussing establishment, Helensburgh)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
posting listed
|
|
Nicholson,
Ian
|
04.06.1925
Edinburgh
-
07.05.2008 Edinburgh
|
|
05.08.1943
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Dinosaur
(Combined Operations base, Troon) (for MLC)
|
Rugby player & administrator.
|
Nicolson,
Peter Trevylyan
Erskine

Son of ... Nicolson, and ... Lopes.
|
(12?).1921
Plympton St Mary district, Cornwall / Devon
-
18.08.1942 (KIA)
[age 20]
|
|

|
DSC
|
03.03.1942
|
attack
enemy shipping Dover 17.01.42
|
 |
MID
|
20.10.1942
|
attack
convoy Dover Straits 17.08.42
|
|
(1942)
|
-
|
18.08.1942
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 38 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Nightingirl,
James
Darrell

Son of Frederick Nightingirl, and Olive
Smith.
|
(03?).1924
Uxbridge district, Middlesex
-
07.2005 still alive
|
T/Midsh.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1944
|
Lt.
|
12.07.1956,
seniority 01.07.1955
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
25.04.1964
|
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
RNR
|
02.12.1966,
seniority 25.04.1964 (retd 18.07.1968)
|
|

|
RD
|
12.09.1967
|
-
|
|
?
|
-
|
spring
1942
|
HMS
Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
|
spring
1942
|
-
|
1942
|
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
|
1942
|
-
|
(09.1942)
|
HMS Scylla
(light cruiser)
|
12.05.1943
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
Third
Officer, HM MTB 520 (motor torpedo boat)
|
(1945?)
|
-
|
1945
|
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 676 (motor torpedo boat)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
03.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Product
(trawler; repair ship)
|
12.07.1956
|
|
|
commissioned,
Permanent RNVR (later: RNR)
|
02.12.1966
|
|
|
transferred,
Special Branch
|
Chartered accountant.
|
Nisbet,
George Lindsay

|
1910 ??
-
|
T/S.Lt. (S)
|
26.11.1943
|
T/Lt. (S)
|
26.11.1945 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
25.07.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Lothian
(landing ship, headquarters (large))
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Nisbet,
Jack Dexter

Son of John Richard Nisbet, and Ethel
Florence Dexter.
|
(03?).1922
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire /
Middlesex
-
|
T/Midsh.
|
21.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
24.08.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
13.09.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS Tormentor (RN base, Warsash)
|
24.08.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Nisbet,
James Alexander

|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
(Sp.Br.) *
|
01.11.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
* for staff, etc. duties ashore
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Sea Cadet Corps
|
|
Nisbet,
James Carrick

|
1919 ??
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
21.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
21.02.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
?
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
"Junon" (French ship?)
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(01.1945)
|
HM MTB 725 (motor torpedo boat) *
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Nisbet,
John Tait

|
20.03.1925
-
08.1997
Rochdale district, Lancashire
|
T/Midsh.
|
19.11.1943
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
20.09.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
|
20.03.1945
|
|
01.09.1944
|
-
|
(01.1945)
|
HMS
Charlock (corvette)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Nisbet,
Robert Archibald

|
23.11.1900
Kensington district, London
-
09.1986
Sutton district, Surrey
|
T/Lt.
|
10.01.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 10.1944
(reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
OBE
|
08.06.1944
|
HM's
birthday 44: Roughs Fort AA [investiture 27.11.45]
|
|
10.01.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS Flora
(RN base, Invergordon) (for miscellaneous services)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
08.01.1942
|
-
|
(01.1945)
|
HMS Badger
(RN base, Harwich)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Nisbet,
William Michael

Son of William Nisbet, and Violet E.
Mountford.
|
26.04.1920
Richmond district, Surrey
-
11.2001
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
13.12.1940
|
T/S.Lt.
|
26.04.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
13.06.1943
|
|
(02.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
06.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Midge
(for motor launches)
|
08.06.1942
|
-
|
(08.)1942
|
HMS Hornet
(Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for motor torpedo boats)
|
12.1942
|
-
|
(06.1943)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 225 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base,
Gosport)]
|
23.04.1944
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
HMS Varne
(submarine)
|
18.01.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Taurus
(submarine)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Niven,
James
"Tiff"

From Dundee, Scotland.
|
05.1908 ?
-
1952
|
T/A/Lt.
|
26.07.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
1941, seniority
26.07.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
28.05.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
|
01.04.1941
|
-
|
(06.1943)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Semita (patrol craft; minesweeping trawler?)
|
08.01.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Lightfoot (Algerine class minesweeper)
|
09.04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM BYMS 2217 (British Yard minesweeper)
|
|
Noble,
Frank William

Married ((06?).1940, Strood district, Kent)
Mabel Isabel Raes; one son. |
1914 ?
-
(12?).1968
Bridport district, Dorset |
| T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
16.10.1941 |
| T/Lt.
(Sp.Br.) |
16.10.1942 (reld
22.04.1946) |
| Lt. |
1950/51? |
| Lt.Cdr. |
19.11.1952, seniority
08.12.1950 (retd 10.03.1966) |
 |
VRD |
11.12.1962
|
- |
|
|
(12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
08.01.1942 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Badger
(RN base, Harwich) (for duties on confidential books) |
|
05.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Byrsa
(RN base, Naples) (for duty at Leghorn) |
|
1950/51? |
- |
10.03.1966 |
London Division RNVR (List II) [from late 1950s
Unattached List RNR] |
|
Nock,
Neville Robert

Son of ... Nook, and ... Early.
|
01.01.1921
St Thomas district, Devon
-
11.1999
New Forest, Hampshire
|
|

|
DSC
|
22.01.46
|
St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42
|
|
(03.1942)
|
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 9 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Noding,
Donald Alan
"Don"

Son of Alan William Noding (1897-), and
Marion B. Smith.
Married 1st ((12?).1951, Paddington, London) Evelyn Mildred Andrews
(11.01.1920 - 01.1995).
Married 2nd ((06?).2001, Stafford, Staffordshire) Susan A. Owen.
|
(09?).1923
West Ham district, Greater London
-
10.2009 still alive
|
T/S.Lt.
|
17.02.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
17.02.1946 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
22.01.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
First
Lieutenant,
HM ML 309 (motor launch)
|
06.02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Gregale
(Coastal Forces base, Malta)
|
|
Noot,
Leonard Alfred

Son of Alfred Henry Noot and Edith Louisa
Parsons.
Married (16.03.1940) Dorothy Ellen Nicholls; three daughters.
|
19.10.1913
Southwark district, Greater London / London
-
(12?).1970
Sutton district
|
L.Sea.
|
27.01.1941 [P/JX
237216]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
21.08.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
21.08.1943 (reld
03.01.1946)
|
Watchkeeping Certificate (04.02.1943; for LCT
and similar craft only)
|
07.1941
|
-
|
02.06.1942
|
HMS
Hydrangea (corvette) (escort duties, Mediterranean)
[03.08.1941 participated in the sinking of
U-401]
|
02.06.1942
|
-
|
21.08.1942
|
HMS
President (additional) (for courses at RN College, Greenwich)
|
21.08.1942
|
-
|
27.09.1942
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officer training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (additional) (for
training)
|
27.09.1942
|
-
|
15.10.1942
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (additional) (for HMS Bronosaurus;
for Landing Craft, Tank training)
|
15.10.1942
|
-
|
06.11.1945
|
HMS
Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll)
(additional) for:
|
15.10.1942
|
-
|
06.02.1943
|
First
Lieutenant, HM LCT 398 (landing craft, tank)
|
06.02.1943
|
-
|
27.04.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 405 (landing craft, tank)
|
27.04.1943
|
-
|
05.08.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 334 (landing craft, tank)
|
05.08.1943
|
-
|
24.09.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 932 (landing craft, tank)
|
24.09.1943
|
-
|
23.06.1945
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 769 (landing craft, tank) (Operation Neptune, Normandy; recovery
of PLUTO after it was redundant)
|
23.06.1945
|
-
|
06.11.1945
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 1127 (landing craft, tank)
|
06.11.1945
|
-
|
03.01.1946
|
HMS
Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for dispresal from Rosneath)
|
|
Norman,
Alan
|
?
-
|
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
?
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
15.11.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
1943
|
|
|
qualified
as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6
|
08.03.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Air
Intelligence Officer, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
|
|
Norton,
John Elliot
"Johnny"
 |
?
- |
T/S.Lt.
|
24.11.1943
|
A/T/Lt.
|
01.08.1945
|
|
26.03.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Torpedoes
and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
|
05.02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Bomb
and Mine Disposal Section, Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS
President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
|
|
Norway,
Nevil Shute



Second child of Arthur Hamilton Norway, CB,
and Mary Louisa Gadsden.
Married (23.11.1931) Frances Mary Heaton; two daughters.
|
17.01.1899
Ealing, London
-
12.01.1960
Melbourne, Australia
|
T/S.Lt.
|
21.06.1940
|
T/A/Lt.
|
< 10.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
21.09.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
03.1941 (reld 1945)
|
|
Education: Dragon School, Oxford; Shrewsbury School;
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Balliol College, Oxford University (BA);
FRAeS.
1918
|
|
|
served
European War as a Private in the Suffolk Regiment
|
|
Aeronautical career: Calculator,
the de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd, 1922-1924; Chief Calculator to Airship
Guarantee Co. Ltd on construction of Rigid Airship R. 100, 1925; Deputy Chief
Engineer, 1928; flew the Atlantic twice in R. 100, representing the
constructors, 1930; Managing Director, Yorkshire Aeroplane Club Ltd,
1927-1930; founded Airspeed Ltd, aeroplane constructors, 1931; Joint Managing
Director, 1931-1938.
|
25.06.1940
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Department
of the Inspector of Anti-Aircraft Weapons, from 1941 Miscellaneous Weapon
Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (took part in the Normandy
landings 06.1944 as a writer for the Ministry of Information, and later as a
correspondent in Burma 1945)
|
Author of mainly novels under the pen name Nevil
Shute.
Published: Marazan, 1926; So Disdained, 1928; Lonely Road, 1932; Ruined
City, 1938; What Happened to the Corbetts, 1939; An Old Captivity, 1940;
Landfall, 1940; Pied Piper, 1942; Pastoral, 1944; Most Secret, 1945; Vinland the
Good, 1946; The Chequer Board, 1947; No Highway, 1948; A Town Like Alice, 1949;
Round The Bend, 1951; The Far Country, 1952; In the Wet, 1953; Slide Rule
(autobiography), 1954; Requiem for a Wren, 1955; Beyond the Black Stump, 1956;
On the Beach, 1957; The Rainbow and the Rose, 1958; Trustee from the Toolroom,
1960 (posthumous); Stephen Morris, 1961 (posthumous).
Literature: Gerald
Pawle, The secret war (1956); Julian Smith, Nevil Shute
(1976); John
Anderson, Nevil Shute and the DMWD (2004).
|
Norwell,
John Luke
"Jack"
 |
?
- |
T/S.Lt.
|
29.10.1939
|
T/Lt.
|
13.10.1940 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
15.12.1936
|
|
|
joined
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached Clyde Division, RNVR]
|
29.10.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS
Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
|
21.01.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM ML 1004 (motor launch) [tender to HMS
Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)] *
|
12.01.1943
|
-
|
(10.1943)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM ML 385 (motor launch)
[picked up survivors of U-97, sunk off
Haifa 17.06.1943]
|
20.05.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Slinger (escort carrier)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Nottingham,
Fred Charles
"Freddie"
Son of a railwayman. Married (1946) Lois
Talbot; four children.
|
15.06.1916
Johannesburg, South Africa
-
17.04.2005
|
Prob. S.Lt. (A)
|
28.02.1939
|
S.Lt. (A)
|
?, seniority
28.02.1939
|
Lt. (A)
|
15.06.1941
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
(A)
|
< 07.1945
|
|

|
DSC
|
20.01.1942
|
Mediterranean
flights
|
 |
MID
|
30.05.1944
|
North
Russian convoy 02.44
|
|
Education: studied aero-engineering in the UK
28.02.1939
|
-
|
(04.1939)
|
HMS
Argus (aircraft carrier) (Portsmouth)
|
1939
|
-
|
1939
|
No.
1 RNVR pilots’ course
|
1939
|
-
|
1940
|
ferried Swordfish torpedo-bombers to
Toulon, where the Royal Navy was conducting intensive flying training
|
1940
|
-
|
1940
|
825
Squadron FAA (UK south coast)
|
|
|
|
short spell
at Machrihanish on Kintyre
|
24.11.1940)
|
-
|
05.1941
|
pilot, 829
Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable] (Mediterranean)
|
05.1941
|
-
|
11.1941
|
830
Squadron FAA [Hal Far, Malta]
|
11.1941
|
-
|
09.04.1942
|
senior
pilot, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Hermes] (Ceylon; ship sunk)
|
(04.1942?)
|
-
|
(<
08.) 1942
|
senior
pilot, 827
Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable] (Colombo, Ceylon & Mediterranean)
|
late
1942
|
-
|
|
flying instructor and test pilot
(Barracuda bombers)
|
12.07.1943
|
-
|
28.03.1944
|
Commanding Officer, 816
Squadron FAA [HMS Tracker & HMS Chaser] (Atlantic)
|
30.01.1945
|
-
|
03.1945
|
Commanding Officer, 854
Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious] (Pacific)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
Got a job with the Johannesburg stock exchange, then bought a fruit farm at Mulders Drift, Krugersdorp.
|
Nowson,
Sidney James Duncan
 |
30.08.1919
-
08.2003
Sutton, Surrey
|
Prob. T/A/S.Lt.
|
15.03.1940
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
03.1941,
seniority 31.08.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
15.09.1942
|
|
|
|
|
HACS
Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser)
|
02.12.1940
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS Queen
Elizabeth (battleship)
|
06.06.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Glasgow
(cruiser)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Nye,
Alfred Robert
Howlett "Bobby"
 |
03.02.1908
Richmond district, Surrey
-
10.1992
Exeter district, Devon
|
T/Lt.
|
29.09.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
?
|
|

|
DSC
|
01.01.43
|
New
Year 43
|
 |
MID
|
02.10.42
|
Operation
Jubilee (Dieppe raid 19.08.42)
|
|
(1942)
|
-
|
(1944)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MGB 312 (motor gun boat)
|
|
|
|
Commanding Officer, .. MTB Flotilla
|
24.04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 2011 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|