| R |
|
|
|
Rae,
Alexander Ronald
|
1924
Hamilton district, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
02.08.1944
|
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(01.1945)
|
HMS Stag
(RN base, Port Said, Egypt) *
|
(03.1945)
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, "Pindos" (Greek escort destroyer)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rae,
Alistair Sutherland Livingston
|
11.02.1912
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
19.04.2006
Dundee, Scotland |
|
T/Sg.Lt.
|
03.09.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
Education: George Watson's; Edinburgh School of Medicine
(...-1935); MB, BCh, DPH.
| 01.1940 |
- |
(04.1940) |
HMS Echo
(destroyer) |
| (02.1941) |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Stag
(RN base, Port Said) * |
| |
|
|
apparently
served on Admiral Cunningham's flagship & the hospital at Valetta, Malta |
|
11.09.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Begum
(escort carrier) |
| 17.01.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Ukussa
(RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) |
Consultant psychiatrist, West Green Hospital
(later: Garvey House Hospital and finally the Liff Hospital), Dundee, 1951-1982.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Raikes,
Robert Martin
Son of ... Raikes, and ... Evans.
Married Gillian (née ...); two sons.
|
(12?).1918
St George Hanover Square district, London /
Middlesex
-
07.05.2009
[aged 90]
Llangasty, near Brecon
|
T/S.Lt.
|
11.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
11.07.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
23.10.1945
|
Operation
Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & captue of Okinawa
03/05.45) [decoration posted]
|
|
11.01.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Campbell (destroyer)
|
01.08.1941
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
HMS
Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
|
12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Staff Radar
Officer, HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
|
|
Ramsay,
Alexander Robert
"Alec"
Eldest son and second child of seven to
Robert Christian Ramsay (1861-1957),
and Olive Zillah Voss (1887-1957).
Married (15.03.1944) 2nd Officer Helen McGregor Shaw,
WRNS (died 2007);
one son, two daughters.
|
12.05.1910
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
-
01.2004
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
20.09.1939
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
23.08.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
|
09.1943?
|
T/A/Cdr. (A)
|
04.1945? (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
08.01.1942
|
withdrawal
from Crete [decoration posted]
|
|

|
DSC
|
01.01.1945
|
New
Year 45 [decoration posted]
|
|
Education: started in Toowoomba, Queensland; secondary school at Harrow; studied agriculture at Cambridge
University.
Sport : Played rugby for Cambridge Univ, London Scottish, and just missed out on playing for Scotland. Played golf off a low handicap.
Aeronautical engineer. Got his flying licence 03.04.1935.
(04.1940)
|
|
|
Fleet Air
Arm
|
06.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
pilot, HMS
Nile II (RN Air Station, Alexandria)
|
21.10.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
pilot, 803
Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria)]
|
09.1943
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
HMS Emperor
(escort carrier)
|
06.09.1944
|
-
|
(01.1944)
|
HMS
Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
|
04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Bambara
(RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon)
|
Bought & ran a plantation with his brother in
Tanganyka, c. 1948/49 to 1957. Went to Rhodesia to farm tobacco, cattle and
Maize at Umvukwes (now Umvurwe), north of Harare. Owned and managed a property portfolio including two blocks of
flats in Harare (essentially lost everything following transition to independence and collapse of
Zimbabwe). Moved back to Australia c. 1987 (Adelaide, then Brisbane, then Toowoomba).
|
Rankin,
John Cooper
|
1924
Hamilton, Scotland
-
|
T/Midsh.
|
1943?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.08.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
1946? (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
Education: University of
Glasgow (1941; MA degree)
late
1943
|
-
|
autumn1944
|
Fifth
Officer, HMS Grey Goose (ex-Steam Gun Boat 9)
|
07.08.1944
|
-
|
14.11.1944
|
Third
Officer, HMS Grey Fox (ex-Steam Gun Boat 4)
[appointed, but never went to sea in it; joined at Milford Haven and went on leave from there]
|
15.11.1944
|
-
|
05.1945
|
Third
Officer, HM MTB 781 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
|
|
training as a Fleet Air Arm Bomb Range Officer at St Merryn in Cornwall
|
30.10.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Educational and Vocational Training duties,
serving in Braintree [HMS Cicero?] and Abbotsinch [HMS Sanderling?])
|
|
Ransome
Wallis,
Ralph Wilson Gray
Married ((03?).1934, Godstone district,
Surrey) Petrusa De B. Clark; two daughters.
|
17.06.1909
Worksop district, Derbyshire /
Nottinghamshire / Yorkshire - West Riding
-
04.2001
Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire /
Huntingdonshire / Lincolnshire / Northamptonshire
|
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
|
12.12.1940
|
T/Sg.Lt.
|
05.1941,
seniority 12.12.1940
|
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
|
early 1944 (reld
14.05.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
25.08.1942
|
Murmansk
convoys 03-05.44 [investiture 09.02.43]
|
|
Education: MD; MB, ChB
12.12.1940
|
-
|
01.1941
|
RN
Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
|
01.1941
|
-
|
16.05.1942
|
HMS London
(cruiser)
|
17.05.1942
|
-
|
06.1942
|
HMS Martin
(destroyer) (temporarily) (DSC)
|
06.1942
|
-
|
02.1943
|
HMS London
(cruiser)
|
18.02.1943
|
-
|
early
1944
|
Naval
Hospital Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire [HMS Spartiate]
|
early
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
Naval Party
[1763?] [HMS Royal Edmund] (based at Hampstead Heath, went to Antwerp 09.1944,
then in charge of Sick Quarters at Ostend)
|
Practising country doctor, Rutland. Factory Doctor
for the Barrowden District, Rutland, 25.07.1951.
Publisjhed: Two red stripes : a naval surgeon at war (1973)
|
Ratcliffe,
Leonard *

Son of John Ratcliffe, waterman, and
Florence Turner, shop assistant.
Married (1922, Liverpool) Mary Mitchell Houston.
* sometimes registered with a second first name "Amarapoora",
derived from one of the ships he served on |
29.05.1895
Runcorn, Cheshire
-
24.12.1960
Liverpool
|
T/Midsh. RNR
|
03.12.1914 (reld 16.01.1916)
|
T/S.Lt.
|
02.03.1916
|
T/Lt.
|
02.03.1917 (reld 05.02.1919)
|
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
22.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
CdeG
|
17.05.1918
|
*
|
|
14|15
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
BWM
14|20
|
?
|
?
|
|
VM
|
?
|
?
|
|
DefM
|
?
|
?
|
|
WM
39|45
|
?
|
?
|
* The Citation à l'Ordre de l'Armée of
20.12.1917 showed him at trawler Brigadier, for having destroyed 100 German
mines in a year
|
Joined Merchant Navy as a Cadet, 1911.
08.12.1914
|
-
|
02.12.1915
|
HMS
Oropesa (armed merchant cruiser)
|
02.03.1916
|
-
|
13.12.1918
|
HMS
Halcyon (base ship, Lowestoft) (additional; for command of a group of
minesweeping trawlers)
|
29.03.1916
|
-
|
(04.1916?)
|
short
gunnery course, HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)
|
14.12.1918
|
-
|
28.01.1919
|
HMS
Zaria (Auxiliary
Patrol base for Orkney and the Shetlands) (for
command of minesweeping trawlers in the 4th
and 5th Fast Sweeping Flotillas)
|
29.01.1919
|
-
|
05.02.1919
|
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for demobilisation)
|
Served
Merchant Navy, 1919-c. 1925. In 1928 listed as a tailor with premises in
Liverpool.
|
29.01.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS
Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for duty at
Inchkeith)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
no
appointment listed
|
Occupation at the time of his death described as
fancy goods dealer.
|
Raven,
John Giles

From Yeovil, Somerset.
|
(06?).1901
Sudbury, Essex
-
18.07.1968
Weymouth, Dorset
|
T/Lt.
|
22.10.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
16.02.1943? (reld > 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
01.09.1942
|
minesweeping
Channel 06.42 [investiture 17.11.42]
|
|
MID
|
28.11.1944
|
Operation
Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
|
|
09.11.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS Hebe (Halcyon
class minesweeper)
|
10.01.1941
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Ilfracombe (Bangor class minesweeper)
|
19.09.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MMS 46 (motor minesweeper)
|
16.02.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Parrsborough (Bangor class minesweeper)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
10.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Antares (Algerine class minesweeper)
|
|
Raven,
John Stanley

Son of Frederick William Raven.
Married (1935) Nancy, daughter of William Harold Murdoch; three sons.
|
05.10.1910
-
15.06.1987
[Coliingham, Yorks. ?]
|
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
01.10.1939
|
T/El.Lt.
|
30.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
30.01.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 08.1942, < 02.1943
|
Cdr. (L) RN
|
02.01.1946
|
Capt. (L) RN
|
31.12.1954
|
R.Adm. RN
|
07.07.1962 (retd 1965)
|
|
|
CB
|
1964
|
?
|
BSc, FIEE
|
Education: Huddersfield College; Leeds University
01.10.1939
|
|
|
joined RNVR
|
14.10.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
Gloucester (cruiser)
|
01.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS
Gloucester (cruiser)
|
30.03.1942
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser)
|
22.06.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
staff, HMS
Vernon (training establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
|
01.1946
|
|
|
transferred
to RN
|
21.01.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Office
of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty
|
?
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
HMS
President (for miscellaneous services)
|
04.01.1960
|
-
|
(07.1961)
|
Director
of Radio Division, Weapons Department (DWR), Admiralty [HMS President]
|
20.08.1962
|
-
|
1965
|
Director
of Engineering and Training Division, Admiralty, and Deputy Chief Naval
Engineering Officer [HMS President]
|
|
Rayner,
Denys Arthur


Only son of Mr. A.B. Rayner, and Mrs. Rayner,
of West Kirby.
Married (11.03.1933, St Andrew's Church, West Kirby, Wirral district, Cheshire)
Isabelle Elizabeth Board, daughter of Mr. A. Vyvan Board and Mrs. Board, of West
Kirby; one daughter,
two sons.
|
09.02.1908
Edmonton, London
-
16.01.1967
West Meon, Winchester district, Hampshire |
|
Prob. Midsh. |
26.10.1925 |
|
A/S.Lt. |
09.02.1928 |
|
S.Lt. |
09.02.1929 |
|
Lt. |
09.02.1931 |
|
Lt.Cdr. |
09.02.1939 |
|
Cdr. |
30.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946) (retd
20.06.1949) |
|

|
DSC |
01.01.1940 |
New
Year 40:"for unfailing courage, endurance and resource in H.M.
Trawler Loch Tulla in its hard and perilous task of sweeping the seas
clear of enemy mines, and combating submarines" [investiture
06.02.40] |
|

|
DSC |
29.05.1945 |
"for
courage, skill and perseverance shown while serving in H.M. Ship Pevensey
Castle in successful operations against enemy submarines" (sinking
U-boat Western Approaches 11.11.44) [decoration posted] |
 |
MID |
30.09.1941 |
"for
good services in action against Enemy Submarines" (sinking
U-boat Western Approaches 21.05.41) |
|

|
VD |
03.1943 |
? |
|
Education: Repton School (1921-1924).
| 26.10.1925 |
|
|
joined
RNVR, Mersey Division |
|
14.05.1930 |
|
|
Pangbourne |
| (02.1936) |
- |
(09.1939) |
HMS
Irwell (RNVR drill ship) (Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead) [HMS Dryad 08.08.1936; HMS
Wishart, 17.07.1937; HMS Osprey 12.03.1939] |
| (1939) |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Loch Tulla (anti-submarine trawler) & Senior Officer, 14th
Anti-Submarine Group |
| (04.1940) |
|
|
HMS
Boscawen (RN base, Portland) * |
|
09.1940 |
- |
05.11.1940 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Violet (corvette) (while under construction) |
|
14.11.1940 |
- |
09.1942 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Verbena (corvette)
** |
| 15.03.1943 |
- |
(10.)1943 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari
(destroyer) |
| 30.10.1943 |
- |
20.02.1944 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Warwick
(destroyer) (sunk) |
| 1944 |
- |
1944 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer) |
| 09.1944 |
- |
12.12.1944 |
Senior Officer, 30th Escort Group
[HMS Pevensey
Castle (corvette)] (11.1944-12.1944
possibly also in command of the corvette) |
| 12.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Irwell
(trawler base, Birkenhead) |
| 28.01.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
staff,
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
Writer, farmer and the designer and manufacturer of
small sailing yachts (Westerly Marine construction Ltd.).
Published: Escort; the battle of the
Atlantic (1955; autobiography), The enemy below (1956; novel), The long fight
(1958; novel), The small spark of courage (1959; American ed. under the
title: Valor); The crippled tanker (1960; novel); Safety in
small craft (1961); Small boat sailing (1962); The long haul (1962;
novel); Starting motor boating (1963); The great yacht race (1966;
with Alan Wykes).
|
* |
Indexed, but not listed as such. |
|
** |
(10.1940), (02.1941) & (12.1941) listed under HMS
Bannaret, which was the ex-drifter Verbena; it must have been assumed
(erroneously) that he served at Bannaret while he actually was in command of the
new corvette Verbena. When that finally was corrected in the Navy List his date of appointment is (erroneously)
given as 09.02.1939. |
|
Read,
Geoffrey Gray
 |
?
- |
T/Mdish.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
16.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|

|
MID
|
23.05.1944
|
Operation
Avalanche (Salerno landings, 09.43)
|
|
(09.1943)
|
|
|
HM LCT 388
(landing craft, tank) [since 03.1944 borne on HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Read,
John Henry Francis
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
30.10.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
30.10.1942
|
|
(1941?)
|
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
02.01.1944
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HM ML 348 (motor launch) & as Senior Officer, 43rd ML Flotilla
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS
Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
09.11.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding Officer, HM ML 114 (motor
launch)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HM ML 114 (motor launch) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Read,
Leslie Gustave

Son of Gustave Philip Read, and Mary Ann E.
Packer.
Married; ... children.
|
04.08.1914
Epping district, Essex
-
11.1995
Southend on Sea district, Essex
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
1943?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
19.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
MID
|
17.10.1944
|
HMCS
Regina sunk by torpedo Plymouth area 08.08.44
|
|
?
|
-
|
13.08.1942
|
HMS
Manchester (cruiser) [ship torpedoed & sunk by Italian motor boats off
Tunisia; captured]
|
08.1942
|
-
|
1943?
|
POW in
Laghouat, Tunisia
|
1943
|
-
|
(08.1944)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 644 (landing craft, tank)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(01.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Reed,
Geoffrey Henry James
|
?
-
|
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
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
|
Rees,
Leslie Norman

|
(03?).1914 ?
Doncaster district ?
-
1987
Leicestershire
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
02.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
02.09.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
|
|
Rees,
Noel
 |
?
- |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
29.08.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
|
OBE
|
14.08.1945
|
Aegean
operations, relief of Greece
|
|
?
|
GkDSM
|
06.11.1945
|
services
to Greece winter 44-45 [decoration posted]
|
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
(1944)
|
-
|
(1945)
|
HQ A Force
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
|
Reindorp,
[Rt. Rev.]
George Edmund

Son of Rev. Hector William Reindorp, and Dora Lucy (née George), Goodmayes,
Essex.
Married (1943) Alix Violet Edington, MB, ChB (died 1987), daughter of Alexander
Edington, MD, and Helen Edington, Durban, Natal; three sons, one daughter (and one daughter
deceased).
Married 2nd (01.1988) Bridget, widow of Sir William Mullens, DSO, TD.
|
19.12.1911
Romford district, Essex
-
20.04.1990
Westminster, Surrey
|
Prob. Chapl.
|
09.11.1938
|
Chapl.
|
11.12.1939, seniority 09.11.1938 (reld
16.06.1946)
|
|
Education: Felsted School; Trinity College, Cambridge; Westcott House,
Cambridge (MA Cantab, 1939)
Deacon, 1937; Priest, 1938; Curate, S Mary Abbots, Kensington,
1937-39.
1938
|
-
|
1946
|
Chaplain,
London Division RNVR:
|
08.05.1940
|
-
|
03.1942
|
HMS
Birmingham (cruiser)
|
03.1942
|
-
|
07.1944
|
HMS
Afrikander IV, 01.11.1942 renamed HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South
Africa) (for duty at Durban)
|
07.1944
|
-
|
31.01.1946
|
Dockyard
Chaplain, HM Dockyard, Simonstown, South Africa & for general duties at
Simonstown [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)]
|
Vicar, St Stephen with St John, Westminster, 1946-57; Provost of Southwark and Rector
of St Saviour with All Hallows, Southwark, 1957-61; Bishop of Guildford, 1961-73; Bishop of Salisbury, 1973-81.
Member, House of Lords, 1970. With BBC Radio Religious Department, arranging and
performing Daily Service and arranging and producing Morning Service and other programmes, 1982-83. Chaplain, RCGP, 1965.
Hon. DD Lambeth, 1961; DUniv Surrey, 1971. An Assistant Bishop, Diocese of London, since 1982.
Published: What about You?, 1956; No Common Task, 1957; Putting it Over: ten points for preachers, 1961; Over to You, 1964; Preaching
Through the Christian Year, 1973.
|
Renouf,
Stanley
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
01.05.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Reynolds,
Harry William
|
?
-
|
| T/S.Lt. |
10.06.1944 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
First
Lieutenant, HM ML 215 (motor launch) * |
|
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Reynolds,
Mark
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
14.02.1944
|
T/Lt. (E)
|
01.11.1945
|
|
03.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Rushen
Castle (corvette)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Knaresborough Castle (corvette) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Richards,
David

Son of Morgan T. Richards and Mary A. Richards, of
Crynant, West Glamorgan, Wales.
|
1912 ?
-
17.09.1942
[age 30]
[Maala Cemetery, Yemen, I.28]
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
20.09.1940
|
A/T/Lt. (E)
|
20.09.1941
|
T/Lt. (E)
|
?, seniority
20.09.1941
|
|
17.12.1940
|
-
|
(02).1941
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
|
01.04.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS
Hiniesta (twin screw steam yacht; anti-submarine, later calibration vessel)
|
?
|
-
|
17.09.1942
|
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
|
|
Richardson,
Claude
|
?
-
|
T/Lt.
|
24.07.1941 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1944)
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, Greek ship "Kanaris" (escort destroyer)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Richardson,
Godfrey Stuart
Son of Capt. James S. Richardson, and Winifred Spence Johnson.
Married 1st (06.05.1943, Brompton Parish Church, Kensington district, London)
Yelva Mary Danielsen ((12?).1919-), of Westgate [she remarried 1953 Charles S.
Willett].
Married 2nd (20.11.1952, Nelson district, Lancashire) Zoe Elizabeth Waddington
(08.02.1928 - 09.1986); two sons, two daughters,
|
24.07.1920
Warrington, Cheshire
-
23.07.1996
Staffordshire
|
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
|
20.04.1941
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
?
|
T/Lt. (E)
|
20.10.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
Education: Uppingham School (09.1934-1938).
(12.1941)
|
|
|
HMS Attack
(Coastal Forces base, Portland) *
|
31.08.1943
|
-
|
(07.)1945
|
HMS
Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
|
08.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Richardson,
John Keith
Son of William Graham Richardson, and Beatrice Muriel Blockley, of Odstone,
Leicestershire.
|
(09?).1921
Odstone, Leicestershire
-
10.08.1943
(KIA) [age 21]
[Tanga European Cemetery, Tanzania, 11.A.3]
|
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
01.11.1941
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
21.08.1942
|
|
Education: Dixie Grammar School
(12.1941)
|
|
|
HMS Heron
(RN Air Station, Yeovilton) *
|
03.02.1943
|
-
|
10.08.1943
|
pilot, 803
Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanganyika)] (killed in an air
crash)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Richardson,
William Antoine
Son of William and Jeanne Richardson, of Waterloo, Crosby, Lancashire.
Married Dolina Rose "Dolly" MacKay (1912? - 17.01.1941), of Waterloo, Liverpool. |
19.01.1908
Maslacq, France
-
17.01.1941
(MPK) [age 32]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 6] |
| Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) |
14.06.1940 |
| T/Lt. (A) |
14.09.1940 |
|
Motor driver. Gained aviator's licence (no. 13848)
on 08.05.1936, taken on an Avian Gipsy II at the Liverpool Aero Club.
|
22.07.1940 |
- |
(10.1940) |
pilot, 755
Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] |
|
? |
- |
17.01.1941 |
HMS Goshawk
(RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) [killed, together with his wife, while on
passage to Trinidad aboard s.s. "Almeda Star", being torpedoed by U-96] |
|
Riches,
Harry Gordon George Greatorex
|
(06?).1905
West Ham, Greater London
-
23.04.1979
Hartley, near Dartford, Kent
|
S.Lt.
|
06.09.1935
|
Lt.
|
01.04.1938
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
14.07.1943 ? (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
06.09.1935
|
|
|
joined
Straits Settlements Royal Naval
Volunteer Reserve
|
21.01.1940
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
Commanding Officer, HMS Malacca
(auxiliary minesweeper)
|
11.12.1940
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding Officer, HMS Panglima
(harbour defence motor launch)
|
1942/43?
|
|
|
transferred
to RNVR [temporary commission]
|
14.07.1943
|
-
|
01.1944
|
Commanding Officer, HMS Verbena
(corvette)
|
21.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LST 173 (landing ship, tank)
|
Company director.
|
Riches,
Trevor Stanley

From Kingston.
|
24.04.1918
-
03.1994
Stroud, Gloucestershire
|
T/S.Lt.
|
17.07.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
17.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
|
MBE
|
14.06.1980
|
region
Director NFBTE
|
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
12.02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Rotherham (destroyer)
|
Director, South Western Region,
National Federation of Building Trades Employers (1970s).
|
Rickards,
Arthur James Hitcheson *
* in naval administration third Christian name
given as Hitcheson, which is in fact Aitcheson
Married The Hon. Patience French; two daughters.
|
16.06.1920
-
05.05.2005
Kendal district, Westmorland
|
T/S.Lt.
|
07.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
07.02.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Lt.Cdr. ?
|
?
|
|

|
MID
|
19.12.1944
|
E-boat
attack on allied convoy Dover Straits
|
|
12.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 14 (motor
torpedo boat) (1st MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base,
Felixstowe)]
|
12.1942
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 31 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base,
Felixstowe)]
|
14.09.1943
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 359 (motor torpedo boat)
|
24.01.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Wasp
(Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTBs & MLs)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS President *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Ridler,
John William

Son of Albert William and Margaret Ridler,
of St. Andrews, Bristol.
|
24.04.1920
-
20.02.1941
(KIA) [age 20]
Winchester (Magdalen Hill) Cemetery, F.1.100]
|
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
23.09.1940
|
|
Education: St Michael's School, Horfield, Bristol and Temple Technical College, Bristol.
King Scout in St Michael's Troop.
?
|
-
|
20.02.1941
|
755
Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, near Winchester)]
[killed together
with Naval Airman E.W.E. Burton when their Shark aircraft crashed near
Bristol
]
|
|
Rigby,
Clifford
_01_s.JPG)
From Lancashire.
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
25.06.1942?
|
T/Lt.
|
25.06.1943
|
|
14.08.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Queen
Charlotte (anti-aircraft range, Ainsdale on Sea, Southport, Lancashire)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rigby,
Colin Elston

Son of Sidney Elston Rigby (1881-1935), and Ann
Metcalf.
Married ((12?).1937, Amounderness district, Lancashire) Gwennie Howard
(11.12.1913 - 02.1995), daughter of Tom Howard, and Mignonette Whitehead; two
sons, two daughters. |
12.02.1913
Preston district, Lancashire
-
07.1994
Preston and South Ribble district, Lancashire |
|
T/S.Lt. |
10.07.1942 |
|
T/Lt . |
12.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS
Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon, Argyll) * |
|
1942? |
- |
1945? |
Commanding Officer, HM LCI(L) 184 (landing craft,
infantry (large)) (Mediterranean) |
|
Rigby,
Duncan
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
15.11.1944
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
15.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
(01.1945)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Saker (British Admiralty
Delegation, Washington, DC) *
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rigby,
Derek Jackson
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
02.06.1944
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
02.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
06.07.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Macaw
(RN Air Station, Bootle Station)
|
(01.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
|
Rigg,
Donald
 |
?
- |
T/S.Lt.
|
18.10.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
01.09.1942
|
|

|
DSC
|
02.11.1943
|
attack
2 trawlers & 2 LCTs Channel [investiture 07.03.44]
|
|
26.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS
Aubrietia
|
(09.1943)
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 254 (motor torpedo boat) &
(09.1943) Senior Officer, 14th MTB Flotilla
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Riley,
Quintin
Theodore Petroc Molesworth

Youngest son of Athelstan Riley (1858-1945),
and Hon. Andalusia Louisa Charlotte Georgina
Molesworth (died 1912).
Married (21.08.1942, Kelvedon Parish Church, Essex) Dorothy Margaret Croft,
eldest daughter of the Rev. R.W. and Mrs Croft, of Kelvedon, Essex; one son.
|
27.10.1905
St Columb, Cornwall
-
25.12.1980
(motor accident)
Chelmsford district |
|
T/Lt. |
05.11.1939 |
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. |
1944 (retd 1947) |
|

|
MID |
26.09.1940 |
Norwegian
Coast |
|
Education: Pembroke College, Cambridge University
(1924).
Polar
explorer, 1931-1937 (British Arctic Air Route Expedition, 1931-1932; Arctic
expedition, led by Gino Watkins, Greenland, 1933; British Graham Land
Expedition, led by John Rymill, Antarctica, 1934-1937 [silver clasp]).
|
1938 |
|
|
joined Royal Naval
Volunteer Reserve |
| 1939 |
- |
1940 |
served
on intelligence missions in Finland and Norway |
| (04.1940) |
|
|
HMS
King Alfred (RNVR training establishment, Hove, Sussex) * |
| 1940 |
- |
1941 |
Instructor,
Independent Companies (forerunners of the Commandos), UK |
| (02.1941) |
|
|
HMS
President * |
| 1941 |
- |
1942 |
Instructor,
Winter Warfare School, Iceland |
| 1943 |
|
|
service
with Combined Operations Command (participated
in Operation Avalanche, the Allied landings at Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943) |
| 1943 |
|
|
Commanding Officer,
30 RN Commando |
| 1943 |
- |
1944 |
Commanding Officer,
30 Assault Unit |
| 1944 |
|
|
served
in Intelligence Division, Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander, South East
Asia (SACSEA), Ceylon |
| 1944 |
- |
1945 |
Staff
Officer, G2 (Intelligence) Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied
Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), France, Germany and the Channel Islands |
| 1945 |
- |
1947 |
service
in Germany |
Served
on Essex County Council and Braintree Rural District Council.
Published: (with Richard Taylor) Discovery of the
poles (1957).
Literature: J.P. Riley, From pole to pole : the life of Quintin Riley
1905-1980 (1989).
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Rimmington,
Alfred Norman Victor

Son of Alfred Norman and Stella Eugene
Rimmington; husband of Rita Decima Rimmington, of Weston-super-Mare.
|
(03?).1907
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
13.03.1946
[age 39]
[Weston-Super-Mare Cemetery, section J, grave 371]
|
Petty Officer
|
(1940)
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
02.12.1942
|
|
DSM
|
01.01.1941
|
New
Year 41 [investiture 18.03.41]
|
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal; Long Service and Good Conduct
|
(1940)
|
|
|
HMS Sealion
(submarine)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
13.03.1946
|
Sea Cadet
Corps
|
|
Ripley,
Henry Fremont
 |
?
-
[commemmorated
at RN College, Greenwich]
|
|
|
|
|
joined RNVR
as an American citizen
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Rippon,
Wilberforce

Married Jean ...; one daughter.
|
?
-
c. 1967/68
Genoa, Italy
|
Prob. T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
18.07.1940
|
T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
06.01.1941, seniority 18.07.1940
|
T/A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 06.1944
|
T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
T/A/Capt. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 07.1945
|
|
OBE
|
08.06.1943
|
Inshore
Squadron with 8th Army advance [decoration presented] *
|
|
CdeG
|
?
|
Operation
Dragoon (invasion of S France 08.44)
|
* For good services in maintaining, the flow of
supplies and reinforcements to the Eighth Army.
|
18.07.1940
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Salvage
Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
15.02.1942
|
-
|
27.07.1943
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria) [for the Inshore Squadron]
|
28.07.1943
|
-
|
09.07.1944
|
Principal
Salvage Officer, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)], renamed:
|
10.07.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Fleet Salvage Officer, Mediterranean
[HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples), later HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
|
After the war he ran a shipping line from Genoa to
Tripoli.
|
Roberts,
Bernard
 |
?
-
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *
|
06.09.1944
|
* employed on scientific duties
|
|
|
|
RNVR six months' short course at Cambridge
University
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Collingwood ([radar] training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Roberts,
Jack
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.01.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
27.01.1946
|
|
MID
|
18.07.1944
|
Operation
FY (N Russian convoy 03-04.44)
|
|
24.07.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Keppel
(destroyer)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Robertson,
John Arthur
 |
?
- |
T/S.Lt.
|
16.10.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
16.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
02.12.1942
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCT (landing craft, tank)
duty)
|
04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India)
|
|
Robertson,
John Malcolm
 |
?
-
|
Prob. T/Midsh. (A)
|
05.08.1940
|
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
27.01.1941
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
27.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
20.01.1942
|
air
attacks [investiture 23.03.43]
|
|
MID
|
14.10.1941
|
air
attack Tripoli 07.07.41
|
|
24.11.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
acting
observer, 829 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
|
1941
|
-
|
17.09.1941
|
observer,
830
Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Hal Far]
[on a secret mission to drop a secret agent in
Tunisia, the aircraft nosed up in a dry salt lake & crew was captured]
|
17.09.1941
|
-
|
1943?
|
POW
in French captivity
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Robertson,
Kenneth James

Son of James Robertson, and Dorothy
Handscomb.
Husband of Morva Robertson.
|
(03?).1919
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
14.01.1944
(MPK) [age 25]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 4]
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
07.10.1939
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
25.02.1941
|
|

|
DSC
|
21.10.1941
|
attack
Kirkenes & Petsamo [decoration presented to next-of-kin]
|
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
Fleet
Air Arm
|
(02.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
05.07.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
pilot,
809 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)]
|
28.01.1942
|
-
|
14.01.1944
|
pilot,
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various
services)
|
?
|
-
|
14.01.1944
|
778
Squadron FAA (missing, presumed killed in an air crash, probably during trials
of the escort carrier Chaser)
|
|
Robertson,
Robert Andrew Antony

Married; .. children (one son?).
|
30.03.1909
-
30.10.1991
Marlborough district, Wiltshire
|
T/Lt.
|
29.08.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
29.08.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS Malabar
(RN base, Bermuda) (for service at Bermuda)
|
06.12.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Star of Deveron (minesweeping trawler)
|
02.04.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Scarron (minesweeping trawler)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS Saker
(British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) *
|
14.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Corbrae (repair ship)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Robertson
[-Justice],
James Norval Harold |
|
see: Justice,
J.N.H.
|
|
Robinson,
Basil Henry
Cuthbert

Son of ... Robinson, and ... Lambourne.
Residence: (1945) Bournemouth.
|
13.10.1913
Erpingham district, Norfolk
-
(12?).1974
Witney district, Oxfordshire
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.07.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
17.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
08.05.1945
|
action
E-boats Nore area 22.12.44 [investiture 03.07.45]
|
|

|
DSC
|
16.01.1945
|
coastal
attacks Plymouth area 07-08.44 [investiture 03.07.45]
|
 |
MID
|
03.10.1944
|
action
with German forces Plymouth area 06.05.44
|
|
Education: Oxford (BA).
01.09.1940
|
-
|
(10.)1940
|
HM MASB 51 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Drake
IV (accounting base, Devonport)]
|
27.12.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HM MASB 43
(motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)]
|
15.09.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MGB 10 (motor gun boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
|
05.01.1942
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
HMS Attack
(Coastal Forces base, Portland) (for small craft)
|
22.11.1943
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 717 (motor torpedo boat)
|
03.07.1944
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 755 (motor torpedo boat)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
07.01.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
staff, RN
College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
Headmaster, Witney Grammar School.
|
Robinson,
James
 |
?
- |
T/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/Lt.
|
23.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
22.01.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Lord Ashfield (minesweeping trawler) [wounded in 1944]
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Robinson,
John Alexander
 |
?
- |
T/Lt.
|
21.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS
Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Messina) *
|
(03.1945)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, Greek corvette Tompazis
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Robinson,
John Dudley
 |
?
- |
T/Lt.
|
27.11.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|

|
DSC
|
30.05.1944
|
action
Dieppe 28.03.44 [investiture 24.10.44]
|
 |
MID
|
01.01.1942
|
New
Year 42
|
|
27.11.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS Lynx
(RN base, Dover)
|
01.01.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Clotilde (minesweeping trawler)
|
11.1943
|
-
|
(04.)1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 602 (motor torpedo boat) [from 19.05.1944 at Newhaven)]
|
04.1944
|
-
|
(10.)1944
|
HMS St
Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
|
01.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Tactical,
Torpedo and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
|
Robinson,
Matthew

Son of John Francis Robinson, and Elizabeth
Ann Hodgson.
Married ((06?).1933, Middlesbrough district, North Riding of Yorkshire)
Beatrice May Crawford; three daughters.
|
06.04.1908
Sunderland district, Co. Durham / Tyne and
Wear
-
23.12.1980
Weymouth district, Dorset
|
T/Lt.
|
30.07.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 10.1944 (reld 08.04.1946)
|
|
31.05.1942
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank)
|
20.01.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
|
(06.1944)
|
|
|
Assault
Group J2 (Normandy)
|
Emigrated to Canada, 1956. Returned to UK, 1960s.
|
Robinson,
Robert John
"Bobbie"


Married (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Cecelia Jane McPeak;
three daughters.
|
23.12.1919
-
1971
|
Ordinary Signalman
|
1939
|
Signalman
|
01.12.1941?
|
T/A/Leading Signalman
|
01.01.1943
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
17.02.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
|
17.08.1944 (reld 06.04.1946)
|
|
39|45
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
Atl
St |
?
|
&
France & Germany clasp
|
|
DefM
|
?
|
?
|
|
WM
39|45
|
?
|
?
|
|
1939
|
|
|
joined RNVR
|
1939
|
-
|
1941
|
HMS Weston
(sloop) (convoy escort East Coast of the UK, then South Africa)
|
01.12.1941
|
-
|
30.06.1943
|
HMS Fritillary (corvette) (from
15.09.1941 Trained Operator) (South Atlantic & Eastern Fleet)
|
01.07.1943
|
-
|
?
|
HMS Gnu
(naval base, Cape Town)
|
?
|
-
|
16.02.1944
|
HMS Lochailort
(Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
|
17.02.1944
|
-
|
06.04.1946
|
HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
|
13.03.1944
|
-
|
30.09.1944
|
HM LCI(L) 382 (landing craft, infantry
(large)) (UK & Normandy) *
|
01.10.1944
|
-
|
31.07.1945
|
HM LCQ 382 (landing craft,
administration) *
|
01.08.1945
|
-
|
30.09.1945
|
HM LCG 340 (landing craft, gun)
(India)
|
01.10.1945
|
-
|
02.12.1945
|
HM LCQ 382 (landing craft,
administration) (India) *
|
03.12.1945
|
-
|
06.04.1946
|
HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base)
|
* for the periods 11-30.06.1944, 13-16.07.1944,
22-31.08.1944, 30.12.1944-08.01.1945, 02-31.03.1945, 08-25.05.1945 &
15-26.10.1945 borne on the books of HMS Copra
|
Robinson,
William
 |
?
- |
|
T/S.Lt. (E) |
04.01.1943 |
|
T/A/Lt. (E) |
> 10.1944, < 01.1945 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
|
18.01.1943 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations accounting base) (for miscellaneous duties) |
|
Robjant,
James Robert
 |
24.04.1913
-
06.03.2004
Buckinghamshire
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
1943?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
12.05.1944
|
1939/45 Star; Atlantic Star with France & Germany
clasp; Africa Star; Defence Medal; War Medal with MID oakleaf; Naval General Service medal with SE Asia 1945-46 clasp
|
|
|
|
training,
HMS Glendower (seamanship training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales)
|
12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Pevensey Castle (corvette)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
President I
|
|
Roche,
Kathleen Angela
 |
?
-
|
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
|
23.07.1943
|
T/Sg.Lt.
|
26.11.1943, seniority 23.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
Education: MB,
BCh
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS Pembroke V *
|
11.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rodger,
William
 |
1910
Glasgow, Scotland
-
1959
Cupar, Fife, Scotland
|
T/Sg.Lt. (D)
|
12.01.1940
|
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D)
|
> 02.1943, < 06.1943 (reld 29.03.1946)
|
|
Education: LDS, RFPS.
02.1940
|
-
|
(10.)1940
|
HMS St
George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)
|
14.12.1940
|
-
|
02.1942
|
HMS
Mauritius (cruiser)
|
19.03.1942
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
HMS Quebec
(combined training centre, Inverary)
|
26.04.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Artifex
(heavy repair ship)
|
|
Rodgers,
Norman John
|
12.09.1922
-
03.2000
Huddersfield, Yorkshire
|
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
?
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
15.11.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
1943
|
|
|
qualified
as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6
|
28.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
854
Squadron FAA
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Rodman,
Jack Sidney Hurlin
 |
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
22.07.1943
|
T/Lt.
|
01.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
25.04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Onslow
(destroyer)
|
|
Rodwell,
Basil Pinder
 |
(12?).1919
Clitheroe, Lancashire
-
|
Tel.
|
04.1940
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
11.05.1944
|
T/S.Lt.
|
11.11.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
|
Army:
|
|
2nd Lt.
|
08.08.1951, seniority 23.10.1949 [417962]
|
Lt.
|
08.08.1951
|
Capt.
|
23.10.1955 (reld 08.08.1960)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
08.08.1960
|
|
04.1940
|
|
|
joined RNVR
|
|
|
|
HMS Royal
Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
|
|
|
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth)
|
|
|
|
HMS
Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
|
|
|
|
HMS Mercury
(signal school, nr Petersfield)
|
|
|
|
HMS
Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
|
11.05.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (probably for LCT service)
|
|
|
|
[HMS ? Hock
Hoi ?]
|
08.08.1951
|
-
|
08.08.1960
|
commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers (Postal Section) [short service commission]
|
|
Roemmele,
Peter Michael
 |
28.07.1920
Osterley, Brentford, Middlesex
-
03.10.2007
Limavady, Northern Ireland
|
|
Education: MB, ChB
(1943/44?)
|
|
|
was in America during the trials of
landing craft [HMS Asbury ?]
|
| (06.1944) |
|
|
his ship was one of the ones
transporting troops to the Normandy landings.
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Ludham, Norfolk; HQ of MONAB organization)
|
General surgeon in Northern Ireland. Founder member of the local Royal Naval Association and one of the characters responsible for developing the United Services club facilities in Limavady, Northern Ireland.
|
Rogers,
Peter Richard
 |
?
- |
T/Midsh.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1944 (reld 1945/46)
|
|
15.03.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Third
Officer, HM MTB 514 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
Rogers,
Victor Reginald Thorne

Son of ... Rogers, and ... Thorne.
|
22.12.1913
Kensington district, Greater London
-
01.1993
Plymouth district, Devon
|
T/S.Lt.
|
20.09.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
20.09.1941
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945
|
Hon. Lt.Cdr.
|
23.10.1947
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
20.09.1949 (retd 01.09.1952)
|
|
MBE
|
01.01.1953
|
New
Year 53 [investiture 10.03.1953]
|
|
(02.1941)
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Victory
III (accounting section, Wantage)
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base) *
|
28.12.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Staff
Officer (Operations) on staff of Flag Officer, Malaya [HMS Sultan]
|
23.10.1947
|
-
|
31.03.1952
|
Honorary
Commission, London District Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve
|
01.04.1952
|
|
|
transferred,
Permanent RNVR
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rogers,
William Henry
 |
?
- |
|
T/S.Lt. (E) |
20.09.1940 |
|
T/A/Lt. (E) |
? |
|
T.Lt. (E) RNZNVR |
15.12.1943 |
|
|
25.09.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
HMS St
Modwen (armed yacht; anti-submarine duties) |
|
14.05.1941 |
- |
(08.1942) |
HMS Cutty
Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel) |
|
08.1944 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
HMS Epping
(minesweeper base, Harwich) |
|
13.12.1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Lucifer
(RN base, Cardiff) |
|
(04.1946) |
|
|
HMS Golden
Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) * |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Rogers-Coltman,
Julian Coltman

Son of Charles Coltman-Rogers, and Muriel
Augusta Gillian Coltman-Rogers, CBE.
Married ((06?).1928, Ludlow district, Shropshire) Mary Malet
"Mollie" Shaw, of Bishop's Castle, Shropshire; ... children (two
sons, one daughter ?).
|
(12?).1898
Knighton district, Shropshire
-
05.07.1944
(died of illness) [age 46]
[Wentnor (St Michael) Churchyard Extension, Shropshire, A.16]
|
T/Lt.
|
01.12.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 10.1940, < 02.1941
|
|
OBE
|
21.10.1941
|
defending
Channel convoy 08.09.41 [investiture 25.11.41]
|
|
09.09.1939
|
-
|
05.07.1944
|
Deputy Staff Officer (Intelligence) on the staff of Flag Officer Commanding Dover
[HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)]
|
|
Ross,
William Alexander
 |
?
-
removed from emergency list (died?) between
08.1973 and 08.1977
|
T/Midsh.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
15.11.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
15.05.1943
|
Lt. RN
|
01.01.1947, seniority 15.05.1943
|
Lt.Cdr. RN
|
15.05.1951 (emgcy 14.12.1951)
|
|
Cadet, Commonwealth & Dominion Line, 1936.
23.12.1940
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
HMS
Dianella (corvette) (Russian convoys)
|
16.09.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Caistor
Castle (corvette)
|
(07.1948)
|
-
|
(05.1949)
|
HMS
Barcroft (boom defence vessel) *
|
11.10.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Barndale (boom defence vessel)
|
Joined Risdon Beazley as second mate 'Twyford', master Topmast 16, 1964-1978 master 'Droxford'.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rouse,
Graham Dobson

Reminiscences at BBC website:
WW2
People's War (1)
WW2
People's War (2)
WW2
People's War (3)
WW2
People's War (4)
|
10.09.1921
Barry, Wales
-
[01.2007 still alive at Poole, Dorset]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
05.08.1943
|
T/Lt.
|
05.08.1945 (reld 29.07.1946)
|
|
MID
|
13.03.1945
|
assault
Normandy 06.44-11.44
|
|
1941
|
|
|
joined RNVR
as a rating
|
|
|
|
HMS
Impregnable (training establishment for communications ratins, St Budeaux,
Plymouth) (for training as Signalman)
|
|
|
|
HMS Vidette
(destroyer)
|
|
|
|
served
Coastal Forces on MLs, HDMLs & RMLs (as rating & officer)
|
?
|
-
|
1942
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
|
|
|
RN Cipher
School, Greenwich (for further training)
|
06.12.1943
|
-
|
(05?.)1945
|
HM ML 197
(motor launch)
[initially as
First Lieutenant, but from a few days after the start of the Normandy landings
(where he was lightly wounded) as Commanding Officer]
The vessel served as Navigational Leader for Sword Beach on D-Day
[06.06.1944], took part in the Walcheren landings [01.11.1944] and served on
until Germany.
|
|
|
|
posted to Far East to be part of Deceptive Warfare Unit preparing for invasion
of Japanese mainland – served based in Ceylon, Java and Singapore after war ended
|
Company director (Barry, Wales – then retired to Poole).
|
Rouson,
John Henry
 |
(09?).1908
Greenwich, Greater London
- |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
30.11.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
|
26.09.1940
|
|
|
Admiralty
|
15.11.1940
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Torpedoes
and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Sultan
(accounting base for personnel at Keppel Harbour)
|
|
Routledge,
Roy Trevor

Married (30.10.1943, Bexhill) Patricia
Bates; one son, one daughter.
|
10.05.1918
Bexhill on Sea
-
28.05.1995
Gloucestershire
|
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
|
02.10.1942
|
T/Sg.Lt.
|
1943?, seniority
02.10.1942
|
Sg.Lt.
|
15.07.1952,
seniority 13.07.1948
|
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
|
13.07.1956
(removed from active list 10.05.1963)
|
|
Education: MB, BS, FRCS (MRCS), LRCP.
06.11.1942
|
-
|
13.03.1944
|
Medical
Officer, HMS Landguard (escort)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
|
|
served on a ship in the
Far East & Africa for the last year of the war (possibly a sister ship to
HMS Landguard)
|
06.11.1944
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Ferret
(RN base, Londonderry) *
|
(09.1945)
|
|
|
possibly at
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
|
02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Medical
Officer, HMS Nith (frigate)
|
15.07.1952
|
-
|
10.05.1963
|
served,
Permanent RNVR (later RNR) (Severn Division) [HMS Flying Fox in Bristol] (also acted as the medical officer for the RMR at Dorset House in Bristol)
|
After leaving the Royal Navy in 1946 he trained as a plastic surgeon and became the President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rowlands,
Cyril
 |
?
-
07.12.1971
|
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
?
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
16.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
|
Instr. Lt. RN
|
20.02.1946, seniority 16.06.1941
|
Instr.Lt.Cdr. RN
|
16.06.1947
|
Instr.Cdr. RN
|
31.12.1956 (retd 17.01.1959)
|
|

|
GM
|
02.09.1941
|
?
[investiture 17.12.46]
|
|
GM
|
17.11.1942
|
bomb
disposal at Malta 04-30.04.42 [investiture 17.12.46]
|
|
Education: BSc
12.1940
|
-
|
12.1943
|
bomb
disposal officer, HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellanoeus duties at
Malta)
|
| 20.12.1943 |
-
|
(04.)1946
|
Department
of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and
Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining,
redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the
Director of Underwater Weapons, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside
Admiralty)
|
20.02.1946
|
|
|
transferred
to RN [permanent commission]
|
10.10.1946
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
RN
College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
|
(05.1949)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
04.02.1950
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
Theseus
|
09.03.1953
|
-
|
(07.)1954
|
TAS
(torpedo & anti-submarine) Staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine
school, Portsmouth)
|
09.08.1954
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
Port
Instructor Officer & Staff Instructor Officer, HMS Cochrane (Rosyth
Maritime HQ)
|
|
Roxby,
Alan
"Twitchie"



Married (31.08.1944, Garstang district,
Lancashire) Barbara J. Williams. |
06.10.1910
Houghton Le Spring district, Durham
-
27.01.1991
Durham Central district, Durham |
|
Ord. Coder |
16.11.1940 [MX
81258] |
|
Writer |
18.01.1941? |
|
T/Paym.S.Lt. |
24.07.1941 |
|
T/Paym.Lt. =
T/Lt. (S) |
24.10.1941 (reld
01?.1946) |
|
|
16.11.1940 |
- |
16.01.1941 |
HMS
Wellesley (training establishment, Liverpool) |
|
18.01.1941 |
- |
22.01.1941 |
HMS Royal
Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) |
|
24.01.1941 |
- |
12.06.1941 |
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) |
|
13.06.1941 |
- |
23.07.1941 |
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove &
Lancing, Sussex) |
|
21.08.1941 |
- |
09.11.1942 |
Cypher
Officer, HMS St
Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties) |
|
late 1942 |
- |
early 1944 |
Government
Code and Cypher School, Mansfield College, Oxford |
|
24.03.1944 |
- |
06.01.1946 |
HMS
Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) (on accounts staff, later
Resettlement Officer) |
|
Rudd,
William
 |
?
- |
|
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
? |
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
28.11.1943 |
|
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
28.11.1945 (reld
09.06.1946) |
|
|
01.11.1943 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Garuda
(RN Aircraft
Repair Yard Coimbatore, India) |
|
Ruegg,
Robert Arthur
"Bob"

Son of the late Trixie Bell of Eastbourne
and latterly husband of Olwen Dowie (née Jones). |
?
-
21.04.2008
St. Anselms Care Home Walmer |
|
T/A/S.Lt. |
? |
|
T/S.Lt. |
03.06.1943 |
|
T/Lt. |
03.06.1945 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
| (10.1944) |
|
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations accounting base) * |
| 14.10.1944 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Loch
Scavaig (frigate) |
After wartime service in the RN and subsequently
service in Malaya, Borneo and Australia he wrote/published on warships and naval
matters.
Published: Convoys to Russia 1941-1945 (1993; with Arnold Hague) |
Russell,
Edwin Fairman
 |
?
-
[commemmorated
at RN College, Greenwich]
|
|
| |
|
|
joined RNVR
as an American citizen |
| (12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
Russell,
Hugh Bernard Langford

Married 1st; no children.
Married 2nd (1973) 2nd Barbara (née ...); two children.
|
09.08.1916
Christchurch, New Zealand
-
12.05.2006
Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Prob. T/Sg.Lt. |
07.11.1941 |
| T/Sg.Lt. |
?, seniority 07.11.1941 (reld
1946) |
|
Education: Pangbourne Nautical College, Berkshire; qualified in medicine at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School
(1941); MRCS, LRCP; diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene at Liverpool University
(1948).
| 07.11.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
RN
Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] |
| |
|
|
junior
medical officer on ships, stationed in Gibraltar |
| 30.09.1944 |
- |
(04.)1946
|
HMS Anson (battleship) (Scapa Flow
& Far East) |
Colonial Medical Service. Public health officer with
the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) of the World Health Organisation (WHO),
1954-1961. Senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, based at the Usher Institute of Public Health,
1961-1981. President of the Scottish branch of the Royal Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene, 1973-1975. |
Russell,
George Lambert
 |
06.1904
Sunderland
-
28.04.1943
off the Sicilian coast
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1] |
| Prob. T/S.Lt. |
07.06.1940 |
| T/Lt.
|
07.09.1940 |
 |
MID |
11.01.1944 |
action
Keliba & Cape Bon 27.04.43 |
|
| 07.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
Commanding Officer, HMS
Rosel |
|
07.07.1941 |
- |
(08.)1942 |
HMS Midge
(Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) |
| 20.10.1942 |
- |
28.04.1943 |
Commanding Officer, HM MTB
639 (motor torpedo boat) [initially based at HMS St Christopher (Coastal
Forces training establishment, Fort William)] |
|
Russell,
Thomas Wetherall
Son of ... Russell, and ... Wetherall. |
(12?).1922
Sunderland district, Co. Durham / Tyne and
Wear
-
|
| T/A/S.Lt. (A) |
? |
| T/S.Lt. (A) |
15.11.1943 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
| 1943 |
|
|
qualified
as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6 |
|
16.09.1944 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
observer, HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway,
Isle of Man) |
|
27.11.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
observer,
822 Squadron FAA |
| (07.1945) |
- |
(04.1946) |
no
appointment listed |
|
Ryan,
William D'Arcy
"Bill"

Son of ... Ryan, and ... D'Arcy.
Married (25.09.1942, Prestwich, Salford
district, Lancashire) Dinah J. Wren. |
08.08.1912
Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire
-
12.1985
Sefton South district, Merseyside |
| Ord.Sea. |
19.03.1941 |
| T/A/S.Lt. |
26.02.1942 |
| T/Lt. |
08.08.1942 (reld
10.02.1946) |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Atl
St |
- |
- |
 |
Afr
St |
- |
- |
 |
It
St |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
 |
MID |
11.12.1945 |
wind
up Europe 45 |
|
Inspector
for the Royal Insurance Company based at Bolton.
| 19.03.1941 |
|
|
enlisted
RNVR (Devonport Port Division) |
| 19.03.1941 |
- |
26.05.1941 |
training,
HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint, nr Cornwall) |
| 27.05.1941 |
- |
12.06.1941 |
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) |
| 13.06.1941 |
- |
15.11.1941 |
HMS
Tynedale (destroyer) (convoy escort) |
| 11.1941 |
- |
26.02.1942 |
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) |
| 03.1942 |
|
|
short
course, RN College, Greenwich |
| 06.04.1942 |
- |
18.04.1942 |
HMS Quebec
(Combined Operations training centre, Inverary) |
19.04.1942
|
- |
03.06.1942 |
First
Lieutenant, HM LCT 24 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Quebec] |
| 04.06.1942 |
- |
21.08.1942 |
First
Lieutenant, HM LCT 353 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Quebec] |
| 22.08.1942 |
- |
23.01.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 357 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Quebec] |
| 24.01.1943 |
- |
03.12.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 616 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Quebec, from 01.05.1943 under
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon), from 30.08.1943 under HMS
Copra (Combined Operations acounting base)] |
| 24.01.1944 |
- |
06.02.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 321 (landing craft, tank) (wounded) [HMS Copra] |
| 07.02.1944 |
- |
17.04.1944 |
HMS
Hamilcar (recovering) [HMS Copra] |
| 18.04.1944 |
- |
11.07.1945 |
Operations
Officer, "B" LCT Squadron (Naples) (12.07.1945 passage to Liverpool
on MV Georgic) [HMS Copra] |
|
| |
|
|
|