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1939-1945

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Paden, R.
to
Pyke, K.E.M.

R. Paden to K.E.M. Pyke

Paden,
Richard
C.S. Padley

Son of Richard Paden and Mary Paden (née 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
-
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)
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.

obituary

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

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]
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
14.12.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS St Cathan (ASW 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
-

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)
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 1945/46)

MBE

04.04.1944

landing operations 21.09.43

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

Palmer,
Reginald Howard
R.H. Palmer

?
-

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)

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

Son of ... Paremain, and ... Seamon.

(09?).1911
Kingston district, Surrey
-

T/S.Lt.	30.08.1940
T/Lt.	28.05.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946

DSC

06.05.1941

sinking U76 07.03.41

05.10.1940	-	(06.1941)	HMS Arbutus (corvette) (submarine hunting & convoy duties, North Atlantic)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
14.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	COHM LST 365 (landing ship tank)

Parker,
John Stanley
J.S. Parker

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

T/Lt.

15.06.1941?

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

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)
(07.1945)			Medical Officer, RM Signal Holding Company

MRCS, LRCP

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

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?]
(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.

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) 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 Hldrs; 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

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)
			ML 101
08.1942	-	(01.1943?)	Commanding Officer, MTB 510
10.01.1943	-	(04.1944)	Commanding Officer, MTB 613
18.05.1944	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, MTB 734 & SO 59th MTB Flotilla
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
-

Tt/Lt. (E)

27.12.1943

Burma Star ? ; North Africa Star ?

			possibly served on: HMS Ajax (cruiser) and HMS Warspite (battleship)
14.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	LST 5 (landing ship, tank)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

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)
15.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven)

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)

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	-	1945	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

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

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)

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
BWM 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

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

Son of ... Perkins, and .. Briggs.

01.01.1920
Harrow, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
01.06.2008

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	-	(04.1940)	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)
late 1944	-	(1945?)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 766 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

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,
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

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

25.02.1921
-
10.1992
Islington district, Greater London

T/S.Lt.	25.02.1942
T/A/Lt.	?

MID

05.05.1942

action with E-boats Nore Area 15.03.42

(03.1942)			First Lieutenant, MGB 87
05.04.1945-			Coastal Forces, Mediterranean [HMS Gregale]

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,
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)