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1939-1945

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Packer, J.H.
to
Pyne, E.J.T.

J.H. Packer to E.J.T. Pyne

Packer,
James Horace
J.H. Packer (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

20.12.1908
-
12.2005
East Surrey district

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.08.1940
T/Lt.	23.11.1940

Education: Dulwich College (1920-1925).

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)

Paden,
Richard
C.S. Padley

Son of Richard Paden, and Mary Paden Grant.

(09?).1920
West Derby
-
27.03.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 7]

T/S.Lt. (A)

03.11.1941

05.06.1942

27.03.1943

pilot, 816 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent), from 02.1943 HMS Dasher (escort carrier) (ship destroyed through internal explosion in Firth of Clyde)]

Padley,
Charles Samuel
C.S. Padley

Married Barbara Winifred White-Smith.

(06?).1908
Ecclesall Bierlow district
-
11.11.1971
Malta

T/Lt.	18.03.1940, seniority 20.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

			mainly served in minesweepers in the Mediterranean off North Africa:
(04.1940)			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
15.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper)
07.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Ilfracombe (minesweeper)
18.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (for duty in Action Information Training Centre)

Practised as a lawyer pre- & post-war.
Published: Questions and answers on torts (1936)

Pagan,
Henry
H. Pagan

Married (1943) Annette Green; three daughters.

17.01.1908
Alburgh, Norfolk
-
11.04.2005
Norwich district, Norfolk

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	25.06.1943
T/A/Lt.	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

(10.1944)

(07.1945)

HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *

Born at Alburgh, Norfolk, where his father was rector, came up from Westminster School as a Rustat and a Tew scholar. He read classics and rowed for the college in Cambridge and elsewhere. He was an advertising copywriter with Godbolds Ltd from 1931 to 1939. During the war Pagan served as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He afterwards became a bee farmer in Norfolk and from 1961 to 1968 was chairman of the Bee Farmers’ Association of Great Britain. In the 1970s he was a district councillor for South Norfolk and from 1984 to 1986 president of the South Norfolk Liberal Democrat Association.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Page,
Arthur Horace
A.H. Page

Son of ... Page, and ... Reavell ?
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

20.05.1912 ?
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex ?
-
(03?).1988 ?
Ryedale district, North Yorkshire ?

T/S.Lt.	05.03.1942
T/Lt.	05.06.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

(04.1942)			no appointment listed
15.05.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS President III (accounting base for naval personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS))
(10.1942)			no appointment listed
11.11.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Queenborough (destroyer)
(02.1944)			no appointment listed
03.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Sphinx (accommodation camp, Alexandria, Egypt)
09.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayid, Egypt)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Page,
Brian Henry
F.E. Page

Married ...; ... children (one son?).

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.04.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.10.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.08.1945

(06.1943)	-	(08.1943)	no appointment listed
10.09.1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr Petersfield, Hampshire)
(06.1944)			HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr Petersfield, Hampshire) *
06.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
(04.1946)			HMS Birmingham (cruiser) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Page,
Frank Edward
F.E. Page

?
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

04.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

(10.1944)			HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) *
(03.1945)			British Naval Liaison Officer, "King George II" (Greek patrol craft) **
(07.1945)			HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *

* indexed, but not listed as such
** (01.1945) incorrectly indexed as "HMS King George V"

Page,
Reginald Ellis
R.E. Page (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Page)

12.04.1901
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
05.1984
Bromley district, Kent

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	10.11.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

02.10.1942	-	(07.1945)	on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]
(07.1945)			Security Liaison Officer to US Forces

Paget,
Norman Wilfred
N.W. Paget

Married 1st ((12?).1939, Romford district) Gladys M. Batchelor (died (09?).1962, aged 51); three children (younger two were twins, of which one died in infancy).
Married 2nd ((09?).1963, St Helens district) Barbara Joan Thornton (24.10.1927 - 05.1990).

02.08.1906
Romford district, Essex
-
10.1989
Hereford district, Herefordshire

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	15.04.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

1943?			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
			commissioned minesweepers
05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast)
(04.1946)			HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Paisley,
Charles Stewart
C.S. Paisley

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	24.03.1944
T/S.Lt.	24.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

02.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Mary Rose (Algerine class minesweeper)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Pallister,
Arthur Douglas
"Dougie"
A.D. Pallister

22.09.1901
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
01.1984
Plymouth district, Devon

Prob. T/Lt.	13.11.1939
T/Lt.	?, seniority 13.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

18.03.1937			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
13.11.1939	-	(10.)1940	Naval Control Service, London & Gravesend [HMS Pembroke IV]
14.12.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS St Cathan (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
23.02.1943	-	(07.1945)	Staff of Fourth Sea Lord's Office (Mails) [HMS President]

Pallott,
Percival Francis
P.F. Pallott (Photo courtesy of the PC Cother family, via Mr Tony Drury)

11.04.1918
-
02.2005
Reading district, Berkshire

T/S.Lt.	10.01.1941
T/Lt.	11.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

24.03.1942

attack U-boat Western Approaches 19.10.41

(02.1941)			no appointment listed
17.02.1941	-	(10.1943)	HMS Mallow (corvette) [eventually as First Lieutenant]
28.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	Operational Staff of Flag Officer Commanding West Africa [HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)]

Palmer,
Bertrand Aubrey
B.A. Palmer

24.02.1892
Yokshama, Japan
-
(09?).1958
Westminster district, London

T/Lt.	06.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	10.07.1940 (reld > 04.1946)

WW I			served as a rating [personal number J52483] & commissioned officer
06.10.1939	-	29.10.1939	HMS Hazard (minesweeper) (Scapa Flow)
30.10.1939	-	24.12.1940	Executive Officer, from 10.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Mercury (paddle minesweeper) (mined off Milford Haven & foundered in tow the following day) [court-martialled & found guilty for the loss of the ship; reprimanded]
10.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames)
(10.1944)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Palmer,
James Harold
"Jim"
J.H. Palmer

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	13.12.1941
T/Lt. (A)	13.12.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

MBE

04.04.1944

landing operations 21.09.43

(09.1943)			SS Empire Macalpine
25.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	Assistant to Lt.Cdr. Operations, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)

Palmer,
Reginald Howard
R.H. Palmer

Son of Herbert William Palmer, and Emily Catherine Yates, both of Ross, Herefordshire.

(06?).1887
East Dulwich, Camberwell district, Surrey
-

T/Lt.Cdr.

13.10.1939 (reld < 04.1946)

OBE

16.09.1919

for valuable services in the Auxiliary Patrol

13.10.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
17.07.1940	-	(07.1945)	HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)

Pankhurst,
John Arthur

see:

RNZNVR officers' section

Paremain,
Victor George Paul
"Vic"
V.G.P. Paremain (Signature courtesy of Colyn Brookes)

Son of [George?/Charles?] Thomas Paremain, and Ann Eliza Seamons.
Married ((06?).1937, Surrey North Eastern district) Joan E. Flowers (1915-2007); two sons.

28.05.1911
Kingston, Surrey
-
16.05.2007
Kingston, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	30.08.1940
T/Lt.	28.05.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld 09.1946)

DSC	06.05.1941	sinking U76 07.03.41 [investiture 29.07.41]
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& clasp France & Germany
Afr St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
RsnConv	-	-

05.10.1940	-	(12.1941)	Asdic Officer, HMS Arbutus (corvette) (submarine hunting & convoy duties, North Atlantic; DSC)
10.03.1942	-	(10.)1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Poppy (corvette)
18.12.1944	-	(01.)1945	First Lieutenant, HMS Ascension (frigate)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
14.10.1945	-	09.1946	Commanding Officer, HM LST 365 (landing ship tank)

Parker,
Chester James
C.J. Parker

Son of James Athol Parker and Margaret Ann Parker, of Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.

1916 ?
-
11.08.1942
(MPK) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 1]

Prob. T/S.Lt.	10.11.1939
T/S.Lt.	1940?, seniority 10.11.1939
T/Lt.	29.07.1941

Education: University of Queensland.

04.01.1940	-	27.08.1940	HMS Dunvegan Castle (armed merchant cruiser) (ship torpedoed 26.08.1940 by U-46 and foundered next day)
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
13.11.1940	-	12.1941	Navigating Officer, HMS Peony (corvette)
14.05.1942	-	06.08.1942	HMS Thorn (submarine) (sunk by Italian surface craft off Tobruk; declared overdue 11.08.1942)

Parker,
Henry Francis
H.F. Parker

?
-

Paym.S.Lt.	23.02.1935
Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S)	23.02.1937
A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	> 02.1943, < 06.1943
Lt.Cdr. (S)	23.02.1945

1935			joined RNVR (East Scottish Division, later Clyde Division)
24.08.1939	-	(06.1943)	Secretary to Chief of Staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Glasgow [HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)]
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
01.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Flamborough Head (escort repair ship)
(04.1946)			Admiralty [HMS President] *

ACA.

Parker,
John Stanley
J.S. Parker (Photo courtesy of Mr Eric Dietrich-Berryman)

Son of Francis Stanley Parker and Harriet Amory Anderson Parker, of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Husband of Violet Otis Parker, of Boston.

15.01.1890
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
-
18.10.1941
[age 51]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 2]
[commemmorated at RN College, Greenwich]

T/Lt.

07.06.1941

Education: Harvard (1913).
Businessman and investor.

15.06.1941			joined the RNVR (as an American citizen)
?	-	18.10.1941	HMS Broadwater (destroyer) [torpedoed & sunk by U-101, NW Approaches]

Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).

Parkinson,
Cedric Guy
C.G. Parkinson (Photo courtesy of Mr David Parkinson)

Son of Herbert George Parkinson (1882-1946), and Maud Annie Fowler (1885-1963).
Married 1st ((09?).1937, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Dorothy J. Paine ((12?).1910-).
Married 2nd ((12?).1965, Harlow district, Essex) Lilian R. Stonehewer (née Masters) ((06?).1917 - ).

19.10.1913
St Pancras district, London
-
01.1991
Ashford district, Kent

Ordinary Seaman	26.05.1941
Able Seaman	25.02.1942
T/A/Leading Seaman	25.08.1942
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	08.03.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	15.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

26.05.1941			enlisted RNVR
26.05.1941	-	09.07.1941	HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
10.07.1941	-	26.07.1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
27.07.1941	-	29.08.1941	HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield, Hampshire) [qualified for radio detection finding (RDF) duties 08.08.1941]
30.08.1941	-	01.11.1941	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
02.11.1941	-	23.12.1941	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo)
23.12.1941	-	24.12.1942	HMS Enterprise (cruiser)
25.12.1942	-	29.01.1943	HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield, Hampshire)
30.01.1943	-	07.03.1943	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
08.03.1943			commissioned RNVR as Special Branch officer for cypher duties
01.11.1943	-	30.01.1945	HMS Elissa (Combined Operations base, Messina, Sicily, Italy) (for duty at Augusta)
31.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Messina, Sicily, Italy)

Parkinson,
Charles Frederick Colville
C.F.C. Parkinson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Parkinson)

Son of Maj. Charles Colville Parkinson, MVO.
Residence: (1953) Wheathampstead.

21.07.1910
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
03.05.1973

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	03.04.1942
T/Sg.Lt.	22.05.1943, seniority 03.04.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

27.04.1942	-	19.04.1944	Medical Officer, HMS Atreus (controlled Motor Launch base ship, East Indies)
(10.)1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
(07.1945)			Medical Officer, RM Signal Holding Company

MRCS, LRCP
* indexed, but not listed as such

Parkinson,
William
W. Parkinson

?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)

11.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

10.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Engineer Officer, HMS Lochy (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Parr,
Norman Hillier
N.H. Parr (Photo courtesy of Chris Parr)

Only son of Leslie William Parr (1890-1968), and Doris Kathleen Scrutton (1899-1939).
Married; six sons, one daughter.

01.05.1924
Coventry, Warwickshire
-
12.2009 still alive

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	04.06.1944
T/Lt. (A)	04.06.1946 (reld > 07.1946)

			primary flying training at Pensacola, Florida, USA
			flew Corsairs at Jacksonville, Florida, USA
01.07.1944	-	(07.1945)	training & service as pilot, 1846 Squadron FAA [US Naval Air Station Lewiston, then shipping to UK aboard HMS Ranee (escort carrier), then HMS Gadwell (RN Air Station, Sydenham, Belfast), then HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry), then RAF Ballyhalbert, Co. Down, then HMS Colossus (aircraft carrier) [visiting HMS Grebe, Vellura, RNAS Coimbatore, Trincomalee, Jervis Bay NSW Australia, joining up with the US fleet, the ship then operated at Tananan-Leyte, Shanghai, Korea, Manila, Hong Kong]]
(04.1946)			1846 Squadron FAA *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Parry,
Gordon Carthew
G.C. Parry

26.04.1907
South Stoneham district, Hampshire
-
10.1994
Southampton district, Hampshire

T/S.Lt. (E)

01.11.1943

(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Boom Defence Depot Colombo (Ceylon) [HMS Lanka]

Parsons,
Thomas Maurice
"Tommy"

08.12.1915
-
10.1995
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

Prob. Cadet HKRNVR	19.03.1938
A/S.Lt. HKRNVR	15.11.1938
A/Lt. HKRNVR	01.05.1940
T/Lt. RNVR	17.07.1942, seniority 01.05.1940

19.03.1938			joined Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force (later Hong Kong RNVR)
12.02.1940	-	26.12.1941	HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong):
(02.1941)	-	26.12.1941	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 27 (motor torpedo boat)
17.07.1942			transferred RNVR
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
10.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
(04.1946)			HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Parton,
[Prof.] John Edwin
J.E. Parton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Celia Morgan, née Parton)

Son of Edwin and Elizabeth Parton. Married (07.09.1940, Bolton) Gertrude Brown; one
son, one daughter.

26.12.1912
Kingswinford, Staffordshire
-
31.10.2002
Bramcote Nursing Home, Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	02.10.1939
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	31.01.1940
T/El.Lt.	?, seniority 31.01.1940
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr.	1943 (reld 07.03.1946)

Education: Huntington Church of England School; Cannock Chase Mining College; University of Birmingham (B.Sc. in electrical engineering, 1933 (1st class honours); Ph.D., 1938); Glasgow University (D.Sc., 1971)
Training: Littleton Collieries, 1934; Electrical Construction Co., 1935; (Pobationary) Assistant Engineer, Post Office Engineering Department, Dollis Hill Research Station, 11.04.1938-1939. Part-time lecturer at Cannock Chase Mining College (1931-1938) and at Northampton Polytechnic in London (1938-1939).

02.10.1939	-	?	anti-submarine training, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)
02.10.1939?	-	(04.1940)	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)
14.11.1939?	-	1942?	Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane II]
1942	-	04.1944	Port Anti-Submarine Officer, Colombo, Ceylon [HMS Lanka?]
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	HMS Douglas (destroyer) *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Senior Scientific Officer, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 1946. Appointed lecturer in electrical engineering at the University of Glasgow in 1946. In 1952, he became a member of the Senate of the university, and a senior lecturer in electrical engineering in 1954. In 1955, he joined The University of Nottingham as professor of electrical engineering and head of the Department of Electrical (and later, 'Electronic') Engineering. Parton retired from this post in 30 September 1978.
Senior Visiting Scientist, National Science Foundation at University of Tennessee, 1965-1966; Visiting Professor, University of West Indies, Trinidad, 1979, 1980. Chairman, East Midland Centre Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1961-1962. FIEE 1966; Life MIEEE 1990; FIMechE 1967.
From 1947, Parton was an assessor for the Institutions of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering (IMEEE) for higher national certificate examinations in Scotland, and an external examiner for diplomas for Herriot-Watt College. He gained much experience in light and heavy electrical engineering with the Post Office Research establishment and as senior scientific officer of the British Iron and Steel Research Association. In 1965-66, Parton took a research and lecture sabbatical to the electrical engineering department at the University of Tennessee in the USA. Parton wrote many articles and lectures on a variety of aspects of electrical engineering.
Published: Applied Electromagnetics (jointly), 1975; papers in Proc. IEE, Trans. IEEE, Trans. IES, Instrument Practice, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, etc.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pashley,
Frank Arthur
F.A. Pashley (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian Boon)

Son of Eugene Frank Pashley, and Dorothea Louisa Hilliar.

(03?).1925
St Pancras district, London
-
17.02.1952
Sicily (flying accident)

T/A/S.Lt.	22.06.1944
T/S.Lt.	22.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

14.10.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Passenger on a Hunter Air Travel Vickers 614 Viking 1 aircraft Regn G-AHPI, which flew into the north slope of the La Cinta mountain range of Sicily at a height of 1040 m. It was an International Non Scheduled Pasenger flight from Nice-Côte d'Azur airport Malta-Luqa. All 5 crew and all 26 passengers were killed.

Paterson,
John Clendinning
"Glen"
J.C. Paterson

?
-

T/Lt.

07.04.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

28.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

28.06.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Lady Blanche (armed yacht)
09.09.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Sidmouth (Bangor class minesweeper) *
(07.1945)			HMS Kingston Amber (anti-submarine warfare trawler) **

* (10.1944) & (01.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such

Paton,
Harold William
H.W. Paton

Son of late Clifford James Paton.
Married (1947) Joan Orby, daughter of late Lt.Col. Cecil Gascoigne, DSO, Seaforth Highlanders; one daughter.

06.10.1900
Guildford, Surrey
-
16.03.1986
Heronsbrook, Foulis, Evanton, Rossshire

T/Lt.	01.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	1944 (reld 1945/46)

DSC

01.01.1943

New Year 43 [investiture 11.05.43]

Education: Winchester College; Christ Church, Oxford
Called to the Bar (Inner Temple), 1923 and practised at Common Law Bar.

29.11.1938			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
01.09.1939	-	(04.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Titan (auxiliary minesweeper)
17.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
			HM ML 101 (motor launch)
08.1942	-	(01.1943?)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 510 (motor torpedo boat)
10.01.1943	-	(04.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 613 (motor torpedo boat)
18.05.1944	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 734 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 59th MTB Flotilla
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
05.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Judge of County Courts, Circuit No 54 (Bristol, etc) 1950-71; Chairman, Somerset Quarter Sessions, 1965-71.

Patrick,
Robert
R. Patrick

10.05.1912
Belfast
-

T/Lt. (E)

27.12.1943

Burma Star ? ; North Africa Star ?

			possibly served on: HMS Ajax (cruiser) and HMS Warspite (battleship)
28.02.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
(10.1944)			HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) *
14.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	HM LST 5 (landing ship, tank)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pattinson,
George Harry
G.H. Pattinson

03.08.1918
Kendal district, Westmorland
-
09.1997
Kendal district, Westmorland

T/S.Lt.	31.01.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

21.05.1941	-	31.01.1942	HMS Culver (escort) (torpedoed & sunk by U-105 in East Atlantic)
03.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Baldur III (RN base, Hvitanes, Iceland) (for controlled mining)
(01.1945)			HMS Vernon (training establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) *
15.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pattinson,
Hugh McKenzie
H.M. Pattinson

Son of Thomas and Catherine Pattinson, of Kirkcaldy, Fife.

1918 ?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 22]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 4, column 2]

A/S.Lt. (E)

05.11.1940

HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Patton,
Henry Alexander
"Harry"
H.A. Patton (Photo courtesy of Mr Marcus Patton)

Married (09.1947) Margery Drennan; two sons.

04.03.1917
Belfast, Northern Ireland
-
08.08.2010

T/S.Lt.	08.12.1939
T/Lt.	04.03.1942 (reld 12.03.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& clasp
Bur St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Medals of H.A. Patton (Photo courtesy of Mr Marcus Patton)

27.01.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Marmion (paddle minesweeper)
03.11.1940	-	01.1941	HMS Lorna Doone (paddle minesweeper)
1941?			HMS Duchess of Fife (paddle minesweeper)
?	-	09.05.1941	HMS Queenworth (mine destructor vessel) (sunk by German aircraft in North Sea)
03.06.1941	-	(08.)1943	HMS Hoxa (minesweeping trawler)
22.10.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Kedah (auxiliary patrol vessel / accommodation ship)
18.09.1944	-	24.10.1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Mincarlo (minesweeping trawler)
10.11.1944	-	06.06.1945	First Lieutenant, HMS Imperialist (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
08.08.1945	-	12.03.1946	HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)

Paulsen,
Donald McKechnie
D.McK. Paulsen

Son (with three brothers and three sisters) of Capt. Olaf Paulsen (1879-1961), Merchant Navy, and Janet McKechnie (1876-1954).

1915
Leith district, Edinburgh, Scotland
-
1995
Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.02.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.02.1943
T/A/Lt.	1943?, seniority 19.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) *
(04.1943)	-	(08.1943)	no appointment listed
17.08.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
18.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)
01.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

Customs agent pre- & post-war.

Payne,
Arthur Edward
A.E. Payne

Son of ... Payne, and ... Kelly.
Married Agnes Duncan Payne (née ...); at least two children.

18.02.1925
West Ham district, London
-

T/Lt. (A)	09.10.1943
T/S.Lt. (A)	18.02.1945
Lt. RN	14.05.1951
Lt. RAN	01.01.1955, seniority 18.02.1949
Lt.Cdr. RAN	18.02.1957 (retd 18.02.1970)

03.10.1943	-	28.02.1947	served RNVR:
10.1943	-	09.1944	New Entry Training, Elementary Flying Training School & Service Flying Training School Canada [HMS St Vincent (Forton Barracks, Gosport)] (training to wings standard) *
09.1944	-	05.1945	Advanced Flying Unit, Tealing, Scotland & Operation Training Unit [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (training to operational standard) *
06.1945	-	(07.)1945	756 Squadron FAA [HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)] (awaiting first line appointment)
1945	-	12.1945	HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (awaiting first line appointment)
(04.1946)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) **
04.1946	-	08.1946	HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray) (observer training)
08.1946	-	12.1946	Victoria Barracks, Southsea [HMS Victory ?] (divisional duties)
14.05.1951	-	06.1951	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (divisional course)
06.1951	-	07.1951	771 Squadron FRU [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] (refresher course)
07.1951	-	10.1951	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
10.1951	-	?	Officer Flying School I [HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth, Morayshire)]
?	-	04.1952	Officer Flying School II [HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)]
05.1952	-	06.1952	communications, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
14.06.1952	-	31.12.1954	on loan to RAN
01.01.1955			transferred to RAN (see detailed service record & personal file)

* in the Navy Lists of Apr 44, Jun 44, Oct 44 & Jul 45 under 836 Squadron FAA as from 07.12.1943
** indexed, but not listed as such

Payne,
Cyril Reginald
C.R. Payne

Changed last name to Broomfield-Payne, 01.06.1944.
Married ((03?).1933, Paddington district, London) Marjorie Clarke; two sons, two daughters.

1900
Lisbon, Portugal
-
(03?).1969
Yeovil district, Somerset

Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	13.01.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1941?, seniority 13.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer employed on mining or anti-submarine fixed defence duties

20.02.1941	-	(08.)1941	HMS Beaver II (RN base, Immingham)
(10.1941)	-	(12.1941)	no appointment listed
01.12.1941	-	(08.)1943	Controlled Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
06.09.1943	-	(07.1945)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Peace,
Anthony
A. Peace

Son of Capt. Alfred Geoffrey Peace, DSO, RN (died on active service, 1940), and Maud Scafe.

21.06.1920
Southsea, Hampshire
-
09.04.1942
(MPK) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 1]

Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)	07.10.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)	21.06.1941

22.10.1940	-	(02.)1941	acting observer, 810 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
?	-	09.04.1942	observer, 806 Squadron FAA [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash when observing for 11 Squadron RAF)

Peacock,
Frank Bailey
F.B. Peacock

1914 ?
-

Whangaparaoa, New Zealand

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	23.09.1939
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	23.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 07.1945 (reld 25.02.1946)

23.09.1939	-	02.1946	Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]:
23.09.1939	-	03.01.1941	for duty with Chief Salvage Officer, Southern Area
03.01.1941	-	02.1946	naval staff

Pearce,
Anthony Robert George
A.R.G. Pearce

Son of ... Pearce, and ... Ward.

(06?).1917
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
22.10.1943
(MPK) [age 26]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 1]

S.Lt.	10.06.1939
A/Lt.	19.07.1941

10.06.1939			joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
19.08.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
19.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment) (for instructional duties)
10.1943	-	22.10.1943	Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (missing, presumed killed when ship was mined east of Kalymnos)

Pearce,
Eric John
E.J. Pearce

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	19.07.1941
T/S.Lt. (A)	19.05.1942
T/Lt. (A)	19.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

20.08.1941	-	02.05.1942	observer, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Edinburgh (cruiser)] (ship torpedoed by U-456 and destroyers Z-24 & Z-25 in Barentz Sea and sunk by RN two days later)
(06.1942)	-	(08.1942)	no appointment listed
05.08.1942	-	08.11.1942	observer, 822 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney), then HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] [failed to return in his Albacore from a raid on La Senia airfield, Oran; was attacked and shot down by a Dewoitine Dw.520; captured]
08.11.1942	-	1943?	POW in French captivity
1943?	-	(06.)1944	observer, 822 Squadron FAA (from 02.1944 Ulunderpet, Southern India)
04.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	observer, HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Pearse,
Francis Frederick
F.F. Pearse

?
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

18.05.1942 (reld 1945/46)

MBE

30.04.1946

mine clearance & disposal NW Europe

(1945)			Commanding Officer, Naval Party 1573
(07.1945)			HMS Vernon

Peat,
George Alastair
F.F. Pearse

?
-

T/Lt.

24.11.1940

07.12.1943

(10.1944)

Commanding Officer, HMS Quadrille (Dance class trawler)

Peck,
Leonard William
"Bill"
L.W. Peck (Photo courtesy of Mr & Mrs P.H. Abbott)

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	08.11.1941
T/Lt. (A)	08.05.1944

MID

05.09.1944

Operation Lombard (operations off Norway 44)

01.12.1943	-	(06.)1944	observer, 831 Squadron FAA [Machrihanish, then HMS Victorious (attack of German battleship Tirpitz 04.1944), then Hatston]
(10.1944)			HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire) *
16.04.1945	-	(04.1946)	observer, 815 Squadron FAA

* indexed, but not listed as such

Peer-Groves,
Michael Hepta Christopher *
M.H.C. Peer-Groves

Son of William Peer Groves (born 1878), and Margery Helen Walker.
Married Marion Blanche (née ...).

* birth registered as Christopher Michael Hepta Peer Groves

04.07.1909
Knutsford, Bucklow district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-
03.11.1989
Buntingford, Hitchin district, Hertfordshire

Prob. T/S.Lt.	08.01.1940
T/Lt.	08.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Hkn

26.08.1947

services to Norway *

* He expressed an exceptional understanding and helpfulness during the operation on the Norwegian coast from the beginning of the war until autumn of 1942. Furthermore, he showed real sympathy for the Norwegian Cause, and displayed through knowledge of the conditions in Norway.

24.01.1940	-	03.08.1942	Staff Officer (Intelligence) on staff of Flag Officer Commanidng Orkneys and Shetlands [HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa Flow)]
(10.1944)			HMS President (Admiralty) *
(07.1945)			HMS President (Admiralty) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Peirson,
Joseph Batty
"Joe"

Also known as: Batty-Peirson, Joseph
Son of ... Peirson, and ... Batty.

(03?).1918
Luton district, Bedofrdshire / Hertfordshire
-

Ord.Sea.	1939
T/S.Lt.	09.10.1941
T/A/Lt.	20.02.1943

39\|45 St	?	?
Bur St	?	& Pacific bar
WM 39\|45	?	?

Education: Luton Modern School

1940?	-	1941?	HMS Broadwater (destroyer) (served for 7 months on North Atlantic convoys)
?	-	09.10.1941	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' trianing establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
12.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	air defence officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
(04.1946)			HMS Scylla (cruiser) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Penman,
James
J. Penman

?
-

?	? [NC/JX 337292]
T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	10.12.1943
T/A/Lt.	01.04.1945 (reld 18.09.1946)

			probably served at HMS Glendower (seamanship training establishement, Pwllheli, North Wales) & HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
10.06.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
04.1944	-	10.1944	Boat Officer, HMS Porcupine (landing craft base, Portsmouth)
			HMS Wuchang (submarine depot ship, Trincomalee)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Penniston,
Peter
P. Penniston

Son of William Arthur Penniston (1865-1934), and Angela Adelaide Marshall (1907-2005).
Married (29.06.1949, Pudsey, Wharfedale district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Barbara M. Parker; one son, one daughter.

26.03.1926
Driffield district, North Riding of Yorkshire
-
01.11.2012
Harrogate, Yorkshire

T/Midsh.	30.03.1945
T/A/S.Lt.	29.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: St Peter’s School York (1940-1944); St Catherine’s College, Cambridge reading history on a 1 year degree course (1944-1945).

			HMS Howe (battleship)
04.05.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Middleton (destroyer)
29.03.1946	-	(07.1946)	HMS Glenearn (landing ship, infantry (large))

Perkins,
John Provost
"Polly"
J.P. Perkins

Son of ... Perkins, and .. Briggs.
Married Mary; one daughter, one son.

01.01.1920
Harrow, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
01.06.2008
Shipley, West Yorkshire

Prob. T/Midsh.	07.12.1939
T/A/S.Lt.	11.01.1940
T/S.Lt.	01.01.1941
T/Lt.	11.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC	11.05.1943	actions with the enemy Nore 09.42 & 03.43 [investiture 19.10.43]
DSC	19.09.1944	Coastal Forces action Nore 06.44 [investiture 11.05.45]
MID	02.06.1943	HM's birthday 43

07.12.1939	-	(10.1940)	HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
(02.1941)			HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
25.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
05.1942		07.1942	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 225 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
22.07.1942	-	06.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 230 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
30.06.1943	-	(10.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 683 (motor torpedo boat)
21.11.1944	-	(01.)1945	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 766 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

After the war he qualified as a barrister and became Assistant Company secretary of Rolls Royce, followed by several prominent business appointments which culminated in becoming Managing Director of CIBA-Geigy. On retirement he became Harbourmaster of Brighton Marina and his obvious talents led to becoming its Managing Director.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Perks,
Ronald
R. Perks (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jo Hardman-Mountford)

Son of Bernard William Perks (1882-1947), and Edith Constance Willings (1887-1974).
Married 1st (15.08.1936, Tendring district, Essex) Kitty May; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (03.1968, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Dorothea "Dorothy" Wilson.

23.02.1915
Epping district, Essex
-
12.08.1978
hospital, Chelsea district, London

T/S.Lt.	09.12.1939
T/Lt.	24.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

06.09.1940

Molde Fjord, Norway [investiture 08.04.41]

01.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Cape Siretoko (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
13.08.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
12.1940	-	01.1941	HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
31.01.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Forte IV (Coastal Forces base, Falmouth) (for motor launches)
08.08.1943	-	26.09.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 637 (motor torpedo boat)
26.09.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 655 (motor torpedo boat)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
20.11.1944	-	23.04.1945	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 512 (motor torpedo boat), renamed:
24.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 2012 (motor torpedo boat)

Perrie,
Cyril George
C.G. Perrie

Married ((06?).1927, Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire) Winifred Horsley; two daughters.

(12?).1906
Worksop district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire / West Riding of Yorkshire
-
21.07.1944
(KIA) [age 37]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, France, V.E.5]

T/S.Lt. (E)

29.11.1943

MID

13.03.1945

assault Normandy 06-07.44 [posthumously]

(06.1944)

21.07.1944

No. 1 Landing Craft Recovery Unit [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)] (killed due to mining)

Perry,
Eric Douglas
E.D. Perry

Son of ... Perry, and ... Boddy.

27.07.1920
Romford district, Essex
-
07.1996
Barnstaple district, Devon

T/S.Lt.	20.09.1940
T/Lt.	20.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

17.12.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Montgomery (destroyer) [possibly submarine detecting officer; if so, then lawyer by profession]
(07.1945)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Perry,
Kenneth Herbert
K.H. Perry

?
-

Prob. T/Lt. (E)	09.10.1940
T/Lt. (E)	1941, seniority 09.10.1940 (reld > 04.1946)

(02.1941)			no appointment listed
13.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
07.04.1942	-	(02.1943)	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
06.11.1943	-	(10.)1944	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
11.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(04.1946)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Perry,
Thomas James
T.J. Perry (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Perry)

Married; two sons, one daughter.

1916 ?
-
14.06.1962
King's Lynn, Norfolk
[age 46]

T/S.Lt.	02.11.1941
T/A/Lt.	02.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

03.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	Unexploded Bombs Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Peters,
Lynn Haydn [Bennett de Barnesfold *]
L.H.B. de B. Peters

Son (with one sister) of Haydn Peters, and Violet Mona Bennett, of Swansea, Glamorgan.
* Added "Bennett de Barnesfold" to his surname of Peters by deed poll of 05.11.1942.

(03?).1920
Kings Norton distirct, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
03.05.1943
[age 23]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 7]

T/S.Lt. (A)

31.01.1942

Education: St Michaels College, nr Tenbury.

03.05.1943

pilot, 768 Squadron FAA [HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) *] (killed in an accident flying at sea)

* According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn) at the time of his death.

Petter,
Francis Harold
F.H. Petter

Son of ... Petter, and ... Tullon.
Married ((12?).1939, Durham South Eastern district) Marjorie Fraser; ... children (one son?).

19.11.1917
Tynemouth district, Cumberland
-
10.1986
York district, Yorkshire

T/S.Lt.	19.03.1942
T/Lt.	19.03.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

28.04.1942	-	(04.)1944	French Ship "La Malouine" (corvette)
(06.1944)	-	(10.1944)	French Ship "La Malouine", from .... 1944 HMS La Malouine (corvette) *
12.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Scorpion (destroyer)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pettit,
Norman Roy
N.R. Pettit (Photo courtesy of Mrs Valerie Ray)

Son of Roy Ernest Pettit (1885-1970), and Edith Ethel Kate Raselle (1886-1975).
Married (11.1940, Southwark district, Surrey) Dora Rosa Puttock (24.06.1916 - 03.2005), daughter of Charles Morris Puttock (1886-1960), and Rosa Purcell (1886-1968); one daughter.

09.04.1914
Lewisham district, London
-
05.1995
Isle of Wight

T/S.Lt.	24.01.1941
T/A/Lt.	24.01.1942
T/Lt.	1942?, seniority 24.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1941)	-	(06.1941)	HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) *
(08.1941)	-	(02.1942)	no appointment listed
21.03.1942	-	(08.)1942	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 134 (motor minesweeper) [initially based at HMS Bacchante]
(10.1942)	-	(02.1944)	HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead) *
03.1944	-	(04.)1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 85 (motor minesweeper)
(06.1944)	-	(04.1945)	no appointment listed
10.05.1945	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Invercauld (minesweeping trawler)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Petty-Mayor,
Reginald Llewellyn
R.L. Petty-Mayor (Photo courtesy of Mrs Caroline Graham)

Son of Llewellyn George Petty [from 08.1930 Petty-Mayor] (1878-1942), and Constance Fitzhenry (1881-1959).
Married (22.10.1938, Southend-on-Sea, Rochford district, Essex) Anna Elisabeth Ford, of Southend-on-Sea, Essex; one son.

10.07.1907
Stoke Newington, Hackney district, London
-
01.01.1945
(illness) [age 37]
[Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Prot. Sect. (Officers'), plot E, coll. grave 9]

Prob. T/S.Lt.	21.06.1940
T/Lt.	21.09.1940

MID

18.12.1944

for gallantry in towing the damaged "Abercrombie" through a heavily mined area

(1940)			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
14.08.1940	-	(10.1940)	HMS Lady Madeline (armed trawler)
(02.1941)			HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
05.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS Bengali (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
19.05.1942	-	01.01.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Cava (trawler) [based at HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)]

Philips,
Jacques
J. Philips

Youngest of five sons of Henri Louis Philips (1863-1935), tobacco manufacturer, and Elisabeth Lenshoek (1870-1953).
Married 1st (14.07.1933, London) Dorothy Elisabeth Tovell (divorced; she re-married Nobby Clark); one daughter (died in childhood), one son.
Married 2nd (29.01.1945, Westminster, London) Evelyn Joan Jenkins (born 11.05.1901) (divorced 12.05.1947).
Married 3rd (17.06.1947, Amsterdam) Anna Maria Clasina de Reuver (born 19.02.1917) (divorced 26.05.1955).
Married 4th (27.11.1957, Westminster, London) Johanna Hendrika Graber (born 18.06.1921).

22.09.1907
Zaltbommel, The Netherlands
-
1980

T/S.Lt.	03.07.1941
T/Lt.	03.10.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld 04.1946)

10.1940	-	04.1946	voluntary service as a Dutchman in the RNVR:
01.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
04.02.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Northney (training establishment for landing craft, Hayling Island)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Owner of an advertizing agency at Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Phillips,
Alun Stanley
A.S. Phillips (Photo courtesy of Mr Gareth Boyd Phillips)

Married (1960) ...; two sons, one daughter.

25.02.1921
-
10.1992
Islington district, Greater London

Ord.Sea.	28.10.1940 [JX 226075]
T/A/S.Lt.	04.12.1941
T/S.Lt.	25.02.1942
T/A/Lt.	26.01.1943 (reld 07.08.1946)

MID

05.05.1942

action with E-boats Nore Area (capture of Schnellboot 111) 15.03.42

?	-	04.12.1941	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
05.01.1942	-	08.02.1942	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Whale Island, Portsmouth)
09.02.1942	-	22.12.1942	HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for Motor Gun Boats)
30.09.1942			participated in attack of enemy convoy 348, with sinking of Swedish Ore ship Thule and VP 2003, Weg Rot, North Sea
(03.1942)			First Lieutenant, HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat)
23.11.1942	-	12.12.1942	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
13.12.1942	-	24.01.1942	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
25.01.1943	-	04.04.1945	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
05.04.1945	-	d.t.b.r.	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)[d.t.b.r. = date to be reported]
d.t.b.r.	-	31.12.1945	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
01.01.1946	-	1946	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)

Phillips,
George [Michael]
G. Phillips (Photo courtesy of Mr Bernard Phillips)

Son of Sidney and Mary Phillips, of Overy Staithe, Norfolk.
Brother of Sg.Lt. William Philips, RNVR.
Married (1935) Muriel Miller; two sons, three daughters.

02.07.1908
Tatsfield, Kent
-
(03?).1971 *
hospital, Norwich

* either late 12.1970 or first quarter of 1971

T/S.Lt.	30.11.1940
T/Lt.	02.03.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	03.1943? (reld 08.11.1945)

DSC	02.10.1942	Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe, 19.08.42) [investiture 11.12.45] *
MID	16.03.1943	Operation Torch (landings in N Africa, 08.11.42) [aboard SS Winchester Castle]
MID	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy landings, 06.44)

* He closed the beach under intense fire for the withdrawal and succeeded in filling his boat with soldiers. Unfortunately it received a direct hit and sank almost immediately. He encouraged the survivors to swim away from the beach, and he and a few others were picked up by a destroyer 1 ½ miles off shore. His coolness and cheerfulness throughout were an inspiration to all around him.

Education: several schools, including Mount St Mary’s College and HMS Conway
Joined the Merchant Navy with the Elder Fyffes line of steamers. Gained Second Mate's certificate, but retired c. 1930. Worked in the hotel of his parents at Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk.

			joined Local Defence Volunteers, but soon transferred to RNVR
(02.1941)			HMS Tormentor (RN base, Warsash) *
02.03.1941	-	(02.)1943	HMS Prince Charles (landing ship, infantry (small)) (Dieppe)
27.03.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary), from c. 12.1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounts & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
(06.1944)			Officer Commanding, "Q" RN [Beach] Commando, Group G2, and as such Beachmaster (Le Hamel, Normandy)

Manager of The Moorings Hotel, Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk, 1946-1969.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Phillips,
John William Ernest
J.W.E. Phillips

Son of ... Phillips, and ... Turner.

19.06.1911
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
07.01.2005
Chichester district, West Sussex

T/S.Lt. (E)	27.03.1944
T/Lt. (E)	01.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

10.04.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Phillips,
Richard Barratt
R.B. Phillips

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	01.12.1942
T/Lt. (A)	01.11.1943 (reld < 04.1046)

25.06.1944

(07.1945)

senior pilot, 1850 Squadron FAA

Phillips,
Sidney Arthur
S.A. Phillips

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	05.09.1943
T/Lt.	01.02.1945

28.04.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Pennywort (corvette)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Phillips,
William
"Bill"
W. Phillips

Son of Sidney and Mary Phillips, of Overy Staithe, Norfolk.
Brother of Lt.Cdr. G. Phillips, RNVR.

1912 ?
-
06.07.1942
(KIA) [age 30]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 66, 2]

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	07.05.1940
T/Sg.Lt.	1941, seniority 07.05.1940

Education: MRCS, LRCP

(02.1941)

06.07.1942

Medical Officer, HMS Niger (minesweeper) [mined off Iceland 05.07.1942] *

* (02.1941) & (12.1941) indexed, but not listed as such

Pickard,
Denis Luther
D.L. Pickard

Son of ... Pickard, and ... Doody.

24.01.1913
Mansfield district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire
-
09.2005
Derby district, Derbyshire

T/S.Lt. (E)	?
T/Lt. (E)	21.06.1943

(1943)			Engineer Officer, HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
31.10.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
22.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Wildfire III (Combined Operations base, Sheerness)

Pickering,
Charles William
C.W. Pickering (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Pickering)

04.03.1907
Belfast, Northern Ireland
-

T/S.Lt.	08.03.1940
T/Lt.	22.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 12.1943, < 04.1944 (reld > 07.145, < 04.1947)

(04.1940)	-	(05.1940)	no appointment listed
(06.1940)	-	(07.1940)	HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith) *
20.08.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (Group, Unit and Officers under Training)
04.04.1941	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Maretta (minesweeping trawler)
(01.1945)			HMS Maretta (minesweeping trawler) *
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pickford,
Thomas Henry
"Tom"
T.H. Pickford

?
-

[perhaps:
29.05.1913
-
05.1996
Thanet, Kent]

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	07.08.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 06.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

07.08.1940

(04.1946)

[Personal Assistant to the Director of Salvage ?], Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Post-war researcher for Risdon Beazley.

Pickwell,
Claude James
C.J. Pickwell

Son of James S. Pickwell and Maude A. Pickwell.
Married ((03?).1939, Wirral district, Cheshire) Cecilia Lydia Green, of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

(12?).1906
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
12.10.1944
Military Hospital, Dumfries
(died on active service) [age 38]
[Manchester Crematorium, panel 19]

Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	18.10.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	18.01.1941

Awarded the Cornwall Scout Badge for Gallantry.

* Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

(12.1940)			no appointment listed
18.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
12.03.1941	-	12.10.1944	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)

Piercy,
Malcolm Frederick
M.F. Piercy

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	03.03.1944
T/Lt. (A)	03.03.1946 (reld 1946?)

MID

05.12.1944

passage convoy JW59 & RA59A

17.04.1944	-	(06.1944)	observer, 825 Squadron FAA [for some time at HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
(07.1945)			HMS President *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pike,
Kenneth Joseph
"Ken"
K.J. Pike (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Bennett)

?
-

T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)

25.08.1943

...	-	...	...
15.05.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)

Pilgrim,
Kenneth Arthur William
"Ken"
K.A.W. Pilgrim (Photo courtesy of Christine Pilgrim)

Son (with one brother) of Lt.Col. Arthur William Pilgrim (1897-1974), and Elizabeth Ivy Smalls (1897-1972).
Married (07.10.1944, St Budeaux Church, Plymouth district, Devonshire) Phyllis Joan Scantlebury; one daughter, one son.

24.04.1921
Southend on Sea, Rochford district, Essex
-
13.08.1981
Hillingdon district, London (from coronary occlusion at Heathrow Airport on the tarmac having arrived back from work in Germany)

T/S.Lt.	27.11.1942
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	18.03.1944, seniority 27.11.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.03.1945
Lt. (L)	1946?, seniority 01.03.1944
Lt.Cdr. (L)	01.03.1952
Cdr. (EngL)	30.06.1956
Capt. (E)	30.06.1964 (retd 07.07.1963)

	OBE	01.01.1963	New Year 62 [investiture 13.03.62]
	MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45

(02.1943)	-	(04.1943)	no appointment listed
27.04.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Mendip (destroyer)
01.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Garth (destroyer) (despatches)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...
(1961)			Naval Staff of the British Joint Service Commission, Washington (OBE)
...	-	...	...

FIEE, FIRE.

Pim,
[Sir] Richard Pike
R.P. Pim

Younger son of late Cecil Pim.
Married (14.04.1925) Marjorie Angel (born 28.05.1906, died 1986), 3rd daughter of late John ffolliott Young, Dungiven, Londonderry; two sons.

1900
-
26.06.1987

Capt.

30.06.1941

KBE	1960
Kt	17.08.1945	War Room & Map Room
MID	20.04.1943	Operation Torch
LM	22.08.1946	Washington, Quebec & Yalta conferences
VD	?	?

Order of Crown of Yugoslavia

			Served in RNVR in European War, 1914-18; Royal Irish Constabulary, 1921. Appointed to Civil Service, N Ireland, 1922; Asst Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs (N Ireland), 1935; Staff of Prime Minister, Northern Ireland, 1938
09.09.1939	-	1945	Naval Staff, Operations Division, Admiralty (in charge of Mr Churchill's War Room at Admiralty, and later of Map Room at Downing Street)
(1943)			Staff Allied Naval Commander, Algiers

InspectorGeneral, Royal Ulster Constabulary, 08.1945-01.1961; National Governor for Northern Ireland, BBC, 1962-67; Member of Council, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 1965-69; Member, Ulster Transport Authority, 1962-64, retired. DL City of Belfast 1957.

Pineles,
Edward Henry
E.H. Pineles (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Pineles)

Son of Edward Henry Pineles (1872-1946), and Amy Martha Leaney (1885-1971).
Married (12.10.1943, Westmorland South district) Pamela J. Smith, daughter of Samuel Harold Smith, OBE, MC (1888-1971), and Leonora Smith (1894-1980); two daughters, one son.

19.03.1914
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
21.12.1997
Grasse, France

Prob. S.Lt. (A)	01.05.1939
Prob. T/S.Lt.	05.01.1940
T/S.Lt.	04.1941, seniority 05.01.1940
T/A/Lt.	16.03.1941 (dispersal 07.1945) (reld 18.09.1945)

01.05.1939			joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
(12.1939)			Fleet Air Arm
04.01.1940	-	(03.)1940	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
10.04.1940	-	(12.1940)	HMS Hereward (destroyer)
01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
16.03.1941	-	(04.)1942	HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
(06.1942)			no appointment listed
18.07.1942	-	(12.)1942	HMS Alisdair (armed yacht)
01.12.1942	-	(02.)1944	HMS Dunluce Castle (base/accommodation ship, Scapa)
02.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	HMS Birmingham (cruiser) *
05.02.1945	-	(04.)1945	Assistant Flight Direction Officer, HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)
16.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)

Then employed as a surveyor for the Navy de-requisitioning Navy property taken over during the war, for 9 months.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pinks,
Edwin Dennis Picton
E.D.P. Pinks

Only son of Edwin Charles Pinks (1855-1940), and Annie Selina Culverwell (1855-1933), of New Malden, Surrey, then Lindsell, Essex.
Engaged (1928) Gwladys Caroline Norrington (1902-2001), daughter of Mr & Mrs A.J. Norrington, of West Byfleet. She married (1932) Frank E. Baldock.
Married (10.11.1931, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Nancy Hemsley Broadbent (12.04.1906 - 08.1991), only daughter of Harold Broadbent, of Hampton Court, Middlesex, late of Petersham.

17.11.1888
Brixton, Lambeth district, Surrey
-
05.12.1949
London W1
(nursing home; after a short illness)
[Golders Green Crematorium]

S.Lt.	23.04.1909
Lt.	22.08.1914
T/Lt.Cdr.	07.06.1915 (demobilized 01.06.1919)
Lt.Cdr.	23.04.1920 (retd 31.08.1925; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	17.11.1928 (reverted to retd > 04.1946)

VD	23.07.1924	-
LegH	?	?
14 St	-	-

Education: Westminster School (16.01.1902-07.1906; Ashburnham House); Clare College, Cambridge (matric. Michaelmas 1906; BA 1910; won the Cambridge Univeristy Colquhoun Sculls 1909).
London Sculling Cup 1913. Runner-up, Diamond Sculls at Henley 1913.
Entered service of Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 1921, and became manager of its marketing organisation in Belgium.

WW I			served at Antwerp & Dardanelles (1914-1915) & with Grand Fleet (01.1916-08.1918):
08.01.1915	-	31.10.1915	"A" Company, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division
01.011.1915			HMS Excellent (for gunnery course)
14.01.1941	-	(04.)1941	Naval Intelligence Divsion, Admiralty [HMS President]
(06.)1941	-	(06.)1942	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special or miscellaneous services) [with date of appointment shown as 14.01.1941]
11.06.1942	-	(04.)1945	on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer (PNLO), Admiralty [HMS President] (serving as Naval Liaison Officer with General De Gaulle)
(07.1945)			Admiralty [HMS President] (for special or miscellaneous services) [with date of appointment shown as 14.01.1941]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Pinnell,
Harold Moxley
H.M. Pinnell

Son of Edwin Moxley Pinnell (1878-1958), and Gertrude Krauss.

(06?).1905
West Ham, London
-
(09?).1964
Bromley district, Kent

T/S.Lt.	07.02.1941
T/Lt.	07.05.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

OBE

08.06.1963

HM's birthday 63: Chairman, Billingsgate and Leadenhall Market Committee

(04.1941)	-	(08.1942)	no appointment listed
27.08.1942	-	(10.)1942	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
15.10.1942	-	(04.)1944	HMS Primula (corvette)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
15.08.1944	-	18.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Indian Star (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
25.10.1944	-	11.05.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Wellard (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)			HMS St Loman (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *
23.09.1945	-	12.03.1946	Commanding Officer, HM LST 3509 (landing ship, tank)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pinsent,
Neville James Quintus
N.J.Q. Pinsent

Brother of Lt. (E) P.D. Pinsent, RN. Married; two daughters, one son.

1921
Lomas, Argentina
-

[living in the UK]

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	06.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	15.02.1944
T/Lt. (F)	1945? (reld 1945/46)

Education: Ladycross and Downside schools; Graduate Illuminating Engineer.

1941			joined the RN (as an Ordinary Seaman)
1941	-	1942	HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
1942			officer's training course, HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
1942	-	1943	served on Defense Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS) (Eastern Meditteranean Command: Port Said, Haifa, Beirut and Alexandria)
1943			HMS Foinavon (DEMS training ship)
1943?	-	1944?	fighter direction course, HMS Heron [RN Air Station, Yeovilton]
1944?	-	10.1944	Night Fighter Controller, St Abbs Head, Scotland (attached to the RAF)
30.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Colossus (aircraft Carrier)

Piper,
Dennis William
D.W. Piper

Son of John Richard and Millicent Justina Postlethwaite.
Husband of Eleanor Piper, of Irvine, Ayrshire; two children.

(09?).1917
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
25.06.1944
(MPK) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 88, column 1]

T/S.Lt.

25.06.1944

HM LCH 185 (landing craft, headquarters) (ship mined off Normandy)

Pirie,
Colin Sawyer
C.S. Pirie (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Pirie)

Son of William Sawyer Pirie (1860-1939), and Julia Frances Pearce (1876-1960).
Brother of Maj. John Sawyer Pirie, MC.
Married ((09?).1943, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Enid Margaret Burlington (23.07.1908 - 01.1998), earlier (1933) married to Frank Norrington; two sons.

06.02.1907
Surbiton, Surrey
-
17.09.1956
Thames Ditton, Surrey
[St Nicholas Garden of Rememberance, Parish Church, Thames Ditton, Surrey]

Midsh. RNR	01.09.1923
A/S.Lt. RNR	06.02.1928
S.Lt. RNR	02.09.1929, seniority 19.03.1929 (reld 29.01.1935)
T/Lt.	06.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

25.02.1933			HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for course)
27.04.1937			enrolled Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
25.09.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Virginia (armed anti-submarine yacht)
22.08.1941	-	1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Kingston Andalusite (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
14.11.1941	-	(06.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Hertfordshire (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
20.09.1943	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Berry (frigate)

Estate agent.

Pitt,
Erle Howe
E.H. Pitt

(06?).1900
South Stoneham district, Hampshire
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	09.11.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	? (reld 1945/46)

	DSC	22.02.1944	destruction 2 U-boats Western Approaches 06.43 & 11.43 [decoration posted]
	MID	13.06.1944	6 U-boats sunk on 100 days, 2nd Support Group

(06.1943)	-	(11.1943)	Staff Officer, 2nd Support Group [HMS Starling (sloop)] *
01.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)

* not listed as such in the Navy Lists

Platt,
Edward Knibbs
E. Platt

Son of ... Platt, and ... Knibbs.

(03?).1913
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
1999
Australia

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.01.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1943)			no appointment listed
(06.1943)	-	(10.1943)	HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) *
08.04.1943	-	02.02.1944	British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian patrol craft King Haakon VII
(12.1943)	-	(02.1944)	HMCS Avalon (RCN base, St John's, Newfoundland) *
(04.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Cleveland (destroyer) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Playne,
Edward
E. Playne

?
-

T/Lt.	16.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	07.1943? (reld < 04.1946)

DSC	29.05.1945	destruction U-boat Western Approaches 26.01.45 [decoration posted]
DSC	11.09.1945	anti-U-boat operations Western Approaches 04.45 [decoration posted]
MID	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42

25.11.1940	-	08.04.1941	HMS Angle (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
09.04.1941	-	19.03.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Angle (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
07.1943	-	02.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Sardonyx (destroyer)
02.1944	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Calder (frigate)

Plumpton,
Charles
M.J. Pollard

Son of Sidney Plumpton, and Bertha Preston.
Married ((06?).1948, Wandsworth district, London) Joan Muriel Lee (16.10.1922 - 04.2003); one daughter, one son.

25.01.1920
Louth, Lincolnshire
-
12.1992
Surrey Mid-eastern district

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	16.06.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties

Education: Louth Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge (BA, 1940; MA, 1944); PhD (Lond), 1957.

29.06.1941	-	(08.)1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)
(10.1941)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
27.10.1941	-	(04.)1942	HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for Rosyth Escort Force)
20.04.1942	-	(12.1942)	HMS Anson (battleship)
01.01.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
14.12.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship)
02.1945	-	(04.)1945	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (for radar school)
11.06.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Kenya (cruiser)
25.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Valiant (battleship) (for radar duties)

Senior lecturer of applied mathematics, Queen Mary College, London. FRAS.
Published: Course maths, engineers & scientists (7 vols., 1960-1964); Sixth form pure maths (2 vols.), etc.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Podd,
Alfred Arthur
A.A. Podd (Photo courtesy of Susie Podd)

Son of Charles Samuel Podd (1894-1941), and Harriett Minnie Thomas (1895-1968).
Married ((12?).1942, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Lilian M. Collins; ... children (one daughter?).

14.12.1920
Southwark district, Greater London
-
06.06.1997
Sutton district, Surrey

Ord.Sea.	24.05.1941
T/A/Ldg.Sea.	20.09.1941-26.01.1942
AB Sea.	24.02.1942
T/S.Lt.	25.09.1942
T/Lt.	01.06.1944 (reld 06.07.1946)

24.05.1941	-	17.09.1941	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
18.09.1941	-	10.10.1941	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
11.10.1941	-	15.10.1941	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
16.10.1941	-	16.11.1941	HMS Attack (Coast Forces base, Portland)
17.11.1941	-	23.06.1942	HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
24.06.1942	-	24.09.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
28.12.1942	-	(01.1945)	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (additional; for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
28.12.1942	-	(02.)1943	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat)
12.07.1943	-	(12.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 84 (motor gun boat)
(1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 469 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
03.12.1945	-	06.07.1946	HMS Gosling (training establishment, Risley, near Warrington)

Poels,
Peter John
M.J. Pollard

Son of Albert John Poels, and Eleanor Julia Connolly.
Married ((12?).1942, St Marylebone district, London) Celia Marie Myburgh; two sons, four daughters.

(03?).1918
Steyning district, Sussex
-

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	02.10.1942
T/Sg.Lt.	03.05.1943, seniority 02.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: MRCS, LRCP.

14.12.1942	-	(06.)1944	HMS Ness (frigate)
25.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Sea Serpent (landing craft base, Bracklesham Bay & Birdham, Chichester)
(04.1946)			HMS Fencer (escort carrier) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pollard,
Michael John
M.J. Pollard

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	04.03.1944

?	-	01.01.1943	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 105 (motor torpedo boat) (sunk after being adrift)
25.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Bulolo (Landing Ship Headquarters)

Polmont,
John Ernest
M.J. Pollard

Son of William and Janet Polmont, of Helensburgh.
Husband of Lucretia Jane Polmont.

1908 ?
-
03.10.1942
[age 34]
[Helensburgh Cemetery, R.5B.14]

Prob. T/S.Lt.	08.03.1940
T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	18.04.1940

17.12.1936			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached Clyde Division RNVR)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(02.1941)			HMS Nimrod (training establishment, Campbeltown) *
17.03.1941	-	03.10.1942	HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) [lost overboard]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pomeroy,
Arthur John Cinnamond
A.J.C. Pomeroy

Married (11.01.1962) 3rd Offr. Rowena Mary Vesey Holt, WRNS; .. children.

20.05.1907
-
1995

Midsh.	1926
S.Lt.	1929
Lt.	1930
Lt.Cdr.	19.10.1938
Cdr.	30.06.1942

MID	27.12.1940	rescue crew merchant ships 09.40
MID	01.01.1943	New Year 43
MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45
VRD	24.06.1950	-

1923	-	1934	worked for shipbuilders Harland and Wolff Limited, Belfast and Liverpool
1934	-	1939	worked for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
1939	-	1940	served with anti-submarine groups in North Sea and Norway
17.07.1940	-	05.04.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Gloxinia (corvette) (N Atlantic & Mediterranean)
1942	-	1943	on staff of Flag Officer, Liverpool, HMS Eaglet
24.03.1943	-	1945	Executive Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
1945	-	10.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser)
10.1945	-	1946	resettlement and redeployment duties on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS St. Angelo]
1945			returned to work at Imperial Chemical Industries
1950			moved to Canada and worked as a civil servant
1956			entered Royal Canadian Naval Reserve

Ponder,
Richard Constant
R.C. Ponder (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Martin)

Son of Constant Wells Ponder, and Margaret Heywood Boys.

11.05.1914
Hollingbourne district, Kent
-
01.1990
Dover district, Kent

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	12.12.1940
T/Sg.Lt.	1941?, seniority 12.12.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946

MID

01.07.1941

HM's birthday 41

Education: MRCS, LRCP

12.01.1941	-	08.04.1942	HMS Wolverine (destroyer)
25.05.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Sussex (cruiser)
(03.)1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Odyssee (accounting base for naval parties)
(03.1945)			Naval Party 2402 (Rhine Crossing)
14.08.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Buchan Ness (landing craft repair ship)

Ponting,
Frederick William
F.W. Ponting

Son of Frederick George Ponting, and Emily Sarah Amelia Lockyer (1881-1968).
Married ((09?).1948, Manchester district, Lancashire) Betty Alfreda Muddle ((12?).1924 - ), daughter of James Alfred Muddle (1885-), and Elizabeth Ellen Wiles (1889-1942); four sons.

26.03.1920
Beer, Axminster district, Devon
-

T/A/S.Lt. (A) (prob)	16.12.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)	26.03.1941
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	21.09.1942, seniority 26.03.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	26.09.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

07.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	acting observer, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
11.03.1941	-	(08.)1941	acting observer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
08.09.1941	-	(06.)1942	acting observer, 806 Squadron FAA [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
(08.)1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) *
20.02.1943	-	(02.)1944	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
07.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Poole,
Charles Ronald
"Ronnie"
C.R. Poole

Son of ... Poole, and ... Whiteman.

17.12.1915
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
01.2000
Abingdon district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire

T/Paym.S.Lt.	24.01.1940
T/Paym.Lt.	24.01.1941
T/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	> 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

04.03.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Galatea (cruiser)
12.07.1941	-	(06.1943)	HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)
27.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeolvilton, Somerset)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Pooley,
Robin Krohn
R.K. Pooley

Son of ... Pooley, and ... Krohn.

(12?).1921
Chertsey district, Surrey
-

T/A/S.Lt.	1943?
T/S.Lt.	07.07.1944

01.1944	-	13.06.1944	HMS Birdlip (armed trawler) (torpedoed off Liberia)
(07.1945)			HMS President (Admiralty, London)
(04.1946)			HMS Annet (armed trawler)

Poore,
Reginald Thomas Frank
R.T.F. Poore (Photo courtesy of Mr Chris Poore)

Son of Frank Poore (1892-1962), and Elsie Smith (1895-1977).
Married ((09?).1946, Blandford district, Dorset) Barbara Butson ((12?).1923 - 2008), daughter of William Edward Butson (1888-1965), and Emily Louisa Targett (1885-1963); one son.

24.07.1913
Wimborne, Dorset
-
12.02.1985
Poole, Dorset

Ord.Sea.	?
T/S.Lt.	16.04.1942
T/Lt.	16.04.1943

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& clasp France & Germany
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
Arc St	-	-

01.01.1941	-	04.02.1941	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
04.04.1941	-	02.10.1941	HMS Boreas (destroyer)
03.01.1942	-	24.05.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
25.05.1942	-	04.10.1942	French Ship "La Malouine" (corvette) (Convoys PQ17 06/07.1942 & QP14 09.1942)
16.10.1942	-	21.11.1943	HMS Kingcup (corvette)
05.12.1943	-	31.07.1945	HMS Myosotis (corvette)

Poppitt,
Henry Graham Lambert
H.G.L. Poppitt (Photo courtesy of Mr Ray A. Purton)

Son of ... Poppitt, and .. Lambert.

20.02.1923
Madeley district, Shropshire
-
07.2000
East Devon

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	22.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

1943			qualified as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6
10.1943	-	(04.1944)	observer, 738 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, USA), based at USN Air Station, Lewiston, Maine]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, near Ormskirk, Lancashire) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Porter,
Charles Burnham
C.B. Porter (Photo courtesy of Mr Eric Dietrich-Berryman)

27.07.1906
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA
-
06.09.1995
Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
[commemmorated at RN College, Greenwich]

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

19.06.1941

Estate agent from Massachusetts.

19.06.1941			joined the RNVR (as an American citizen)
26.07.1941	-	(08.1942)	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).

Porter,
Derek Stanley
D.S. Porter

?
-

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	21.11.1941?
T/Sg.Lt.	05.1942, seniority 21.11.1941

27.01.1945

(07.1945)

HMS Brittany (netlayer)

MRCS, LRCP

Poulter,
Benjamin John
B.J. Poulter

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Poulter of 34 Mill Lane, Sawston. Residence at Cambridge (1944).

?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)	01.11.1943
T/Lt. (E)	? (reld 29.01.1946)

MBE

10.10.1944

mined in the Channel 27.07.44, not sunk

09.12.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Pink (corvette) (mined off Normandy 27.06.1944; irreparably damaged)
(07.1945)			HMS Borage (corvette) *

* no date of appointment indicated

Pratchett,
Richard Maurice
R.M. Pratchett (Photo courtesy of Mrs Geraldine Hultkrantz)

Son of ... Pratchett, and ... Seward.
Married (1937) Anne Jane Bowen-Evans (24.05.1916 Wales - 1969 Stockholm, Sweden); one daughter, one son.

02.07.1915
Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
1967
Jersey

T/S.Lt.	21.08.1942
T/A/Lt.	02.07.1943 (reld 31.08.1946)

MBE

06.10.1945

recovery T5 torpedo Toulon 04.45 *

* For courage, resource and devotion to duty displayed when recovering enemy torpedoes under dangerous conditions. The knowledge gained from these weapons subsequently proved of great value.

08.1942?	-	09.1942?	HMS Vernon (torpdeo school and experimental establishment, Brighton)
28.09.1942	-	(06.1944)	bomb disposal officer, Land Incident Section, Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) [followed a course at West Leigh near, Havant; early 1944 fitted out, as demolition expert, the blockships ("Gooseberries") for the Normandy invasion]
1944	-	1946?	30 (Commando) Assault Unit [seconded from the Naval Intelligence Division]
(04.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
(07.1945)			HMS President (Admiralty) *
(04.1946)			HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Preddle,
Frederick Donald
F.D. Preddle

Son of Frederick George Preddle (1885-1975), and Harriet A. Adams (1887?-1963).
Married; ... children.

16.07.1917
Edmonton district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex
-
05.2003
Hounslow district, London

T/S.Lt.	24.04.1941
T/Lt.	16.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

12.08.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)
02.1944	-	(01.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 285 (motor minesweeper)
(07.1945)			HM MMS 285 (motor minesweeper) *
(04.1946)			HM MMS 236 (motor minesweeper) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Prescott,
Richard James
R.J. Prescott

?
-
05?.2012
[buried at sea]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	09.04.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)	09.10.1944

(06.1944)	-	(10.1944)	no appointment listed
16.10.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)
23.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Nabrock (Mobile Naval Air Base (MONAB) IX, Middle Wallop, from 10.1945 Sembawang, Singapore)

Preshaw,
William
W. Preshaw

07.02.1921 ?
Sunderland district, Durham ?
-
(09?).1974 ?
Surrey North Western district ?

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	02.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

06.01.1943	-	(10.)1944	HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
21.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hastings (sloop)

Preston,
Frederick Colin George
"Hippo"
F.C.G. Preston

Son of ... Preston, and ... Hotblack.
Married (10.1940); one son, one daughter.

16.07.1912
Norwich district, Norfolk
-
03.1997
Wayland district, Norfolk

T/S.Lt.	29.10.1939
T/Lt.	06.10.1940 (reld > 04.1946)

(04.1940)			HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) *
(10.1940)			10th MTB Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
04.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	spare officer, 4th MTB Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
21.06.1941	-	(06.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 47 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
(08.1943)	-	03.12.1945	Commanding Officer, HM ML 199 (motor launch) [indicated as from 30.03.1942] (serving at the Clyde)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Preston, *
Kenneth Stewart
K.S. Preston

* The July 1945 Navy List spells the name erroneously as: Prenton

?
-
1984 ?

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	09.03.1945
T/Sg.Lt.	?

Education: Edinburgh Medical School; MB, ChB

WW II			serving on a minesweeper & hospital ship (Singapore; wounded):
16.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Cap St. Jacques (hospital ship)

Price,
Dennis Henry
G.D.A. Price

Married; two daughters, two sons.

25.10.1925
-
06.1994
Hertfordshire

T/Midsh.	04.08.1944
T/A/S.Lt.	25.04.1945
T/S.Lt.	25.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

23.09.1944

(04.1946)

HMS Waveney (frigate)

Price,
George Dennis Anthony
G.D.A. Price

(09?).1915 ??
Ormskirk district, Lancashire ??
-

T/Lt.

MID

15.09.1942

action Dover Straits 21.07.42

(07.1942)

Commanding Officer, MGB 322

Price,
John Scott
J.S. Price

From Blackpool.
Married Olwen ...

25.11.1914
-
12.1995
Fowey, St Austell district, Cornwall

T/S.Lt.	24.04.1941
T/Lt.	24.04.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	11.1943? (reld > 04.1946)

DSC	04.05.1943	action with E-boats Nore Area 07.03.43 [investiture 23.05.44]
DSC	05.09.1944	action with German trawlers Nore Area 24.07.44 [decoration posted]
DSC	21.11.1944	Coastal Forces action Nore Area 26.08.44 [decoration posted]
MID	30.11.1943	action with enemy forces Nore Area 22.07.43

(06.1941)			no appointment listed
28.06.1941	-	(02.)1942	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William):
28.06.1941	-	(12.)1941	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 93 (motor gun boat)
15.12.1941	-	(02.)1942	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 15 (motor gun boat)
(04.1942)			HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) *
24.04.1942	-	(04.)1943	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 5th MGB Flotilla):
(03.1943)			Commanding Officer, HM MGB 21 (motor gun boat)
26.05.1943	-	(10.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 122 (motor gun boat), redesignated: HM MTB 441 (motor torpedo boat)
03.11.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Fleixstowe)
18.02.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft):
(07.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 455 (motor torpedo boat)
(08.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 458 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Ran a sailing school at Fowey, Cornwall.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Prichard,
David Richard Edgar
D.R.E. Prichard (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

Son of the Rev. Richard Edgar Vipan Prichard, MA (1880-1973), and Frances Katharine Lucy Marshall (1883?-1960), of Paston Vicarage, Norwich, Norfolk.

28.04.1919
Colchester district, Essex
-
21.11.1941
died of illness (peritonitis) at Plymouth, Devon
[age 22]
[Paston (St Margaret) Churchyard, Norfolk]

T/S.Lt.

23.08.1940

Education: Haileybury College (1933.2-1937.2).

1940	-	1940	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
10.09.1940	-	(12.1940)	HMS Ruby (trawler)
20.01.1941	-	21.11.1941	HMS Britannia II (trawler base, Dartmouth)

Priddy,
Ivon le Nain
I le N. Priddy (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

(09?).1904
Purley, Croydon district, Surrey
-

New Zealand

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.08.1940
T/Lt.	23.11.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
?	-	(10.1940)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)

Prideaux,
Arthur Guyon
A.G. Prideaux

Married Laura Sabine ... (15.06.1910 - 30.04.1994)
From Kensington, London.

19.01.1904
-
09.03.1994
Longparish, Andover, Hampshire

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.02.1940
T/Lt.	02.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 01.1945 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

MID

04.04.1944

Aegean operations 09-11.43

(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
18.03.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Decoy (destroyer)
17.01.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Beaufort (destroyer)
03.1944	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Lookout (destroyer)
(01.1945)			HMS Lookout (destroyer) *
06.02.1945	-	31.05.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Havelock (destroyer)

Solicitor (initially in the firm Alfred Bright & Sons, later till 27.06.1969 as partner in Waltons, Bright & Co.).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pritchard,
Gwynedd Idris
"Gwyn"
G.I. Pritchard

Son of Cyril Idris Pritchard and Lily Pritchard.
Married (1975) Mary Thérèsa (née Curtin); three sons (by previous marriage).

18.06.1924
-
19.06.2012

T/S.Lt.	02.12.1944
Lt. RN	1946
Lt.Cdr. RN	1954
Cdr. RN	1959
Capt. RN	1967
R.Adm. RN	07.07.1976 (retd 05.04.1981)

1981

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
28.08.1945	-	(04.1946)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Zealous (destroyer)
...	-	...	...
Volunteered 1942 as Hostilities Only Ordinary Seaman he rose to Rear Admiral completing almost 40 years in the RN. As an Ordinary Seaman he served two years aboard Farndale at the invasions into North Africa, Sicily and Italy; then served in the western and northern Atlantic including a Russian convoy and at the end of the war, was Gunnery Officer in Zealous. Transferred to extended service commission in the RN as lieutenant whilst at Londonderry in 1946, his first command was MTB 2017 then two years with the FAA at Gamecock; he then joined Indomitable as aircraft control room officer. In 1952 he commanded Motor Minesweeper 1786 based in Hong Kong during the Korean War. Upon returning to the UK he was executive officer aboard Cockleshell, promoted to lieutenant commander, then as 2iC of Contest; this included time off Iceland during the first ‘fish war’. Promoted 1959 he commanded Cavalier in the Far East, then assistant captain of HMNB Portsmouth and staff of Flag Officer 2iC of the Home Fleet. 1966 he joined Ark Royal as executive officer and 2iC on Beira patrol and in the Far East, and CO of Decoy for post refit trials; selected for captain he then spent two years on the staff of Defence Intelligence (Soviet Navy section). 1969-72 he was Captain Frigate Squadron and in command of Phoebe, then CO of Charybdis. Director Naval Operations and Trade at the Admiralty 1973 he transformed Dryad into the School of Maritime Operations. He became Rear Admiral in 1976 and was Flag Officer Sea Training at Portland for two years. His final appointment was as Flag Officer Gibraltar and NATO Commander Gibraltar Mediterranean, he transferred to the retired list 1981 having been appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath. A popular CO and active member of HMS Cavalier Association; president of the Weymouth Naval Association from 1981 until illness forced him to step down; dedicated president of the Bride Valley branch of the British Legion; chairman and president in turn of the Dorset branch of SSAFA and was also on its National Council; and each year he was a volunteer collector for the Mission to Seamen.

Pritchard,
Reginald Victor
R.V. Pritchard (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Pritchard)

Son of Edgar Pritchard, and Eleanor "Ella" Iredale, of Dissington, Workington, Cumbria.
Married (27.05.1944, Cathedral of St Paul, Valetta, Malta) Nancy Oulton (16.05.1921 - ), daughter of William Francis Bertram Oulton, and Ethel Beatrice Bennett; three sons, one daughter.

08.12.1913
Croydon district, London
-

Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent

T/Paym.S.Lt.	29.05.1941
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)	29.05.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	> 07.1945, < 04.1946

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(08.1941)	-	(10.1942)	no appointment listed
(12.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) *
20.02.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Warspite (battleship)
15.01.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for duty in Admiral's Office, Vice-Admiral Malta and Flag Officer Central Mediterranean)
05.09.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) (additional; for various services)
24.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	Base Supply Officer, Beirut [HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa)]

Director: Abercon Nominees; The British South Africa Co.; The British South Africa Co. Holdings; Cecil Holdings; Cecil Investments; Charter Consolidated Finance; Charter Consolidated Pension Trustees; etc. London Secretary of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, 1964-1969.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pritchard,
Ronald Ernest
R.E. Pritchard (Photo courtesy of Mr Howard R. Gray)

?
-
01.11.1944
[age 23]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 6]

T/S.Lt. (A)

01.07.1942

...	-	...	...
07.12.1943	-	(04.1944)	pilot, 1832 Squadron FAA
...	-	...	...

Probert,
Douglas Gower Ellis
D.G.E. Probert

05.12.1908
Swansea district, Glamorgan
-
01.2004
Swansea district, Glamorgan

Prob. T/S.Lt.	12.01.1940
T/Lt.	26.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

01.01.1945

New Year 45 [investiture 11.05.45]

?	-	(04.1940)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishement, Hove, Sussex)
22.07.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
27.04.1942	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, MGB 610 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
08.1943	-	(07.1944)	Commanding Officer, MGB 323 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 16th MGB Flotilla
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Procter,
Henry
H. Procter (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Procter)

Son of William Eastwood Procter, and Elizabeth Dodgson.

22.08.1914
Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
-
23.04.2004
Wrea Green, Lancashire

T/S.Lt.	07.05.1942
T/Lt.	07.05.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

1942?			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
04.07.1944	-	27.05.1945	Commanding Officer, HM ML 181 (motor launch)
(07.1945)			HMS Cabbala (coding school Lowton, Warrington, Lancashire) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Procter,
William Henry
"Bill"
W.H. Procter

1915 ?
-
06.2010 still alive [aged 95]

T/A/Paym.S.Lt.	1943
T/Paym.S.Lt.	24.05.1944
T/Lt. (S)	01.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

1943			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
15.12.1943	-	(04.)1946	HMS Argonaut (cruiser)

Proes,
Nevil Maurice Ernest
N.M.E. Proes

From Jersey, Channel Islands.

26.12.1919
-
01.1982
London

T/S.Lt.	01.11.1939
T/Lt.	01.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

	MID	07.09.1943	attacks U-boats Western Approaches 03.43
	MID	19.10.1943	attack U-boat Bay of Biscay 07.07.43

Had been in the Navy before the war but was invalided out with an injured arm.

01.01.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Javelin (destroyer)
06.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Walney (escort)
24.03.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Venomous (destroyer)
05.01.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Hurricane (destroyer) (despatches twice)
12.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Aldenham (destroyer)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) *

Employed by Texas Eastern LNG Company.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Prothero,
Arthur Caradoc
A.C. Prothero

Son of a high-ranking policeman in 1930s.

04.09.1905
Hackney district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
03.2005
Greenwich district, London

T/Lt.

21.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

39/45 Star; Atlantic Medal with France and Germany bar; Defence and War medal; Veteran's Normandy Medal

21.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	Thames Auxiliary Patrol [HMS Pembroke IV]
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	Combined Operations HQ *

* indexed, but not listed as such
Solicitor since 1928. Founder member of the Thames Barge Sailing Club & British Motor Yacht Club. Involved in the Conservative Party after the war.

Provan,
Frank Williamson
F.W. Provan

1925
Ayr district, Scotland
-

T/A/S.Lt.	12.08.1944
T/S.Lt.	12.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

07.04.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Leith (sloop)
09.12.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Cyclamen (corvette)
05.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)

Prowse,
Leonard George
L.G. Prowse

Married ((09?).1927, Fulham district, London) Doris Herbert.

01.06.1902
Totnes district, Devon
-
1972
Manchester district, Lancashire

T/Lt.	06.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 12.1943

22.03.1937			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(10.1940)	-	(02.1941)	HMS Mollusc (yacht) *
05.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Leicester City (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
22.11.1943	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rion [renamed 1944: HMS Noir] (armed anti-submarine yacht)
(01.1945)			HMS Noir *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
26.03.1945??	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMIS Sind (corvette)
(04.1946)			HMIS Feroze (RIN officers' demobilization centre, Bombay) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Prudhoe,
Peter Ernest
P.E. Prudhoe

Son of Ernest Joseph Prudhoe (1889-1966), and Florence E. Trodd (1883?-1950?).

(03?).1920
Woolwich district, London
-
09.12.1951
Lewisham district, London

T/Sg.Lt.	05.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Sg.Lt.	19.12.1951, seniority 30.04.1948

39\|45 St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

Education: MB, BS; MCRS, LRCP (1942).

10.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
04.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) (for duty at Naples)
20.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Flowerdown (radio station, Flowerdown, nr Winchester)
19.12.1951			transferred Permanent RNVR (List I) [already deceased by the time this transfer was announced]

Pullen,
Arthur Leon
"Lon"
A.L. Pullen

Twice married, twice divorced; one daughter.

31.07.1919
Strabane, Northern Ireland
-
21.04.2012
Hampton Court Road, London SW

Ordinary Seaman	1939
T/S.Lt.	18.10.1940
T/Lt.	18.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946) (commissioned terminated on transfer to RASC 09.05.1955)
Army:
Lt.	10.05.1955, seniority 26.06.1947 [442449] (reld 12.02.1958)

	MID	16.06.1942	for good services in rescuing men from a torpedoed merchant ship in a lighter, when the weather was rough and the enemy near
	RHS Br	?	rescue survivor "Volo" 12.41

1940			HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
(12.1940)	-	(02.1941)	HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) *
(04.1941)	-	(12.1941)	no appointment listed
(1941)			HM Lighter 17 ("Tobruk ferry")
			HMS Orion (evacuation of Crete)
01.1942	-	(02.)1942	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
02.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
(08.1943)			HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) *
30.09.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) (commanded LCT 7064 at D-Day)
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
10.05.1955	-	12.02.1958	commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps - Army Emergency Reserve of Officers

Wrote a number of cycling books including the Pitman Book of Cycling and authored many articles for Cycling Weekly.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Purches,
Owen
O. Purches

Son of ... Purches, and ... Coats.

(06?).1920
Sheppey district, Kent
-

T/S.Lt. (E)	14.02.1944
T/Lt. (E)	14.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

03.1944	-	(06.)1944	Engineer Officer, HMS Lochy (frigate)
15.11.1944	-	(01.)1945	Engineer Officer, HMS Snowdrop (corvette)
03.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	Engineer Officer, HMS Loch Scavaig (frigate)

Purton,
John Richard
"Jack"
J.R. Purton (Photo courtesy of Mr Ray A. Purton)

Son of John Edward and Florence Elizabeth Purton (née Adams), of Abbey Wood, London.

(12?).1921
Woolwich, Greater London
-
14.03.1944
(MIA) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 6]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	15.11.1943

Education: Shoreditch College

1943			qualified as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6
10.1943	-	(03?).1944	observer, 738 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, USA), based at USN Air Station, Lewiston, Maine]
(03?).1944	-	14.03.1944	observer, 855 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, USA), based at USN Air Station, Squantum] [flying in Grumman Avenger (JZ496), when it failed to return from an anti-submarine bombing exercise off Cape Cod]

Puttock,
Ralph
R. Puttock

?
-

Chief Motor Mechanic	(08.1942) [C/MX 92559]
T/S.Lt. (E)	17.05.1943
T/Lt. (E)	17.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

MID

02.10.1942

Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe, 19.08.42)

20.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty) *
18.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs)

* according to a letter addressed 23.08.1944 at the time actually serving at HMS Braganza II (Bombay, India), care of Resident Naval Officer, Calcutta, India

Pyke,
Kenneth Edward Montagu
K.E.M. Pyke

Married Nelly Julienne Ghislaine Pyke (died 1984); at least one son.

(09?).1906
Kensington district, Greater London
-
10.11.1959
Edwalton, Nottinghamshire

Prob. T.S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	13.10.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	13.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

(12.1941)			HMS Mercury (signal establishments, Haslemere) *
23.02.1942	-	(07.1945)	HMS Mercury II (Admiralty experimental signal estabishment, Haslemere)

Electronic engineer (Pyke & Oxbury, Nottingham).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pyne,
Edwin James Thomas
"Jim(my)"
E.J.T. Pyne

Married ((03?).1941, Brighton district, Sussex) Olive Noble.

02.11.1910
Newton Abbot district, Devon
-
(03?).1974
Torbay district, Devonshire

Prob. T/S.Lt.	31.05.1940
T/Lt.	02.11.1940
TA/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944

(10.1940)			HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
13.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Restrivo (minesweeping trawler)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
08.1944	-	(01.1945)	HMS Hasdrubal (RN base, Salerno / Taranto)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such
May have served at HMS Foulness (trawler) at some point.

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