Alexander Ronald
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 |
Alistair Sutherland Livingston
|
|
|
|
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
19.04.2006
Dundee, Scotland
| T/Sg.Lt. | 03.09.1939 (reld < 04.1946) |
| 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) |
* indexed, but not listed as such
Robert Martin
Son of ... Raikes, and ... Evans.
Married Gillian (née ...); two sons.
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) |
Graham Russell
Son (with a twin brother) of ... Ralphs, and ... Russell.
Married ((09?).1944, Chelsea, London) Moira Audrey Parry; ... children (two sons?).
Twickenham, Kingston district, Surrey
-
10.11.1985
Putney, Kensington & Chelsea district, London
| T/S.Lt. | 02.10.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 02.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
| (12.1941) | no appointment listed | ||
| (02.1942) | - | (04.1942) | French Ship Largs * |
| 20.04.1942 | - | (12.1943) | HMS Scarab (river gunboat) |
| (02.1944) | - | (04.1944) | HMS Seabelle (RN base, Persian Gulf) * |
| (06.1944) | - | (04.1945) | no appointment listed |
| 18.06.1945 | - | (10.1945) | HMS Flycatcher (for Mobile Naval Air Bases (MONABs)) |
| (04.1946) | no appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such
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.
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] |
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) |
John Cooper
Hamilton, Scotland
-
| T/Midsh. |
1943? |
| T/A/S.Lt. |
? |
| T/S.Lt.
|
27.08.1944 |
| T/Lt. |
1946? (reld >
04.1946) |
|
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?]) |
Patrick Leonard John Cosnett
Eldest son of Dr. Abraham Ransome Wallis (1877-1942), a general practitioner surgeon, and Kate Cosnett Burslem (1872-1929), of Worksop.
Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. Ralph Wilson Gray Ransome Wallis, RNVR.
Married 1st (01.1934, Godstone district, Surrey) Dr Petrusa De Beer "Toosie" Clark, MB, BCh (1904? - 27.12.1980), eldest daughter of Lt.Col. Peter Skinner Clark, DSO, JP, MB, ChM, BSc (1873?-1920), and Mrs Clark, of Cradock, South Africa, and Edinburgh; two daughters.
Married 2nd Muriel Day.
|
|
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
-
14.07.1985
Herne Bay, Kent
| Prob. T/Sg.Lt. | ? |
| T/Sg.Lt. | 06.09.1939 |
| T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. | 08.06.1944? (reld < 04.1946) |
General practicioner in Herne Bay, Kent, from 1933 onwards.
| (04.1940) | no appointment listed | ||
| 05.09.1940 | - | (12.1941) | HMS Dido (cruiser) (Mediterranean [Greece, Crete]) |
| 16.02.1942 | - | (12.1943) | HMS Osprey
(anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) [engaged in acoustic work and formulated the acoustic standards for officers and ratings serving in this branch of the navy] |
| 08.06.1944 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) |
| 17.07.1947 | transferred to List II of permanent RNVR, with seniority as Lt.Cdr. of 10.01.1939 |
from 1948, as medical officer to the audiology departments at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and at the hospitals of Ramsgate, Folkestone, Dover, and Deal.
Published: The last steam locomotives of British Railways (1966) + some 25 other titles on railways & locomotives.
Ralph Wilson Gray
Younger son of Dr. Abraham Ransome Wallis (1877-1942), a general practitioner surgeon, and Kate Cosnett Burslem (1872-1929), of Worksop.
Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. Patrick Leonard John Cosnett Rasnome Wallis, RNVR.
Married (03.03.1934, Godstone district, Surrey) Winifred H.M. Clark, daughter of Lt.Col. Peter Skinner Clark, DSO, JP, MB, ChM, BSc (1873?-1920), and Mrs Clark, of Cradock, South Africa, and Edinburgh; two daughters, one son.
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
-
13.04.2001
Peterborough General Hospital, 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] |
| 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) |
Published: Two red stripes : a naval surgeon at war (1973).
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
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 |
? |
? |
|
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 |
John
Son of John H. Rattenbury, and Alice K. Hockey.
Married (26.01.1963, Lyme Regis, Dorset) Ann Caroline Reed; two sons, one daughter.
Lyme Regis, Axminster district, Dorset
-
15.12.2006
Dorchester Hospital, Dorset
| Ord.Sea. | ? [M/X 65246] |
| T/S.Lt. | 06.03.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 20.04.1943 (reld 1946) |
 |
39|45 St | - | - |
 |
Atl S | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 03.1940 | joined RNVR as Torpedo- & Wireman | ||
| HMS Akita (minesweeping trawler) | |||
| 08.04.1941 | - | (08.)1942 | HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) (helping to plan convoys & the raid on St. Naziare by HMS Campbeltown and the Royal Marines) |
| 08.1942 | - | (08.)1943 | Officer of the Watch, HMS Wastwater (trawler) (served E. Coast USA, S. Atlantic & W. Coast of Africa on convoy and anti-submarine duties, minesweeping in Home Waters) |
| 09.09.1943 | - | 10.1943 | HMS May (cable ship) |
| 10.1943 | - | 07.1945 | HMS Bankville (cable ship) |
| 07.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Retriever (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (Mediterranean) |
| 07?.1945 | - | 10?.1945 | HMS Bullfinch (cable ship) (Mediterranean) |
| 10.1945 | - | 02.1946 | HMS St Margarets (cable ship) |
John Giles
From Yeovil, Somerset.
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) |
John Stanley
Son of Frederick William Raven.
Married (1935) Nancy, daughter of William Harold Murdoch; three sons.
-
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
|
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] |
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.
|
|
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 | - |
| 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) |
| 20.03.1944 | - | 09.1944 | Commanding Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer) |
| 09.1944 | - | 12.12.1944 | Senior Officer, 30th Escort Group [HMS Pevensey Castle (corvette)] (11.1944-12.1944 also in command of the corvette) |
| 12.1944 | - | (01.)1945 | HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead) |
| 28.01.1945 | - | (07.1945) | on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth as Senior Officer of Escorts [HMS Victory] |
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. |
Geoffrey
Son of Joe Raynor (1878?-1939), and Gertrude Helen Killer (1886?-), of Barnsley.
Married ((03?).1938, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Jean McLaughlan, of Tollerton, Nottinghamshire.
Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
17.04.1943
Winchester district, Hampshire
[age 34]
[Barnsley Cemetery, Yorkshire, section B, grave 174]
| Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) | 25.07.1941 |
| T/Lt. (A) | 25.10.1941 |
| 26.08.1941 | - | (12.1941) | HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) |
| (02.1942) | - | (04.1942) | HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) * |
| 10.05.1942 | - | 17.04.1943 | pilot, 756 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] (killed in an air crash) |
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 |
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) * |
Leslie Gustave
Son of Gustave Philip Read, and Mary Ann E. Packer.
Married; ... children.
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 |
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 |
Reed,
Ronald Cambridge Montague
Son of ... Reed, and ... Cambridge.
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
04.1995
South East Hampshire district
| T/A/S.Lt. | 30.07.1943 |
| T/S.Lt. | 30.01.1944 |
| T/Lt. | 30.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946) |
| (12.1943) | - | (02.1944) | no appointment listed |
| 17.02.1944 | - | (04.)1944 | HMS Ubiquity (cable ship depot, Trinity Road, Edinburgh) |
| 15.05.1944 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Bullfrog (cable ship) |
Reekie,
James
-
15.01.1975
[buried at Edinburgh, Scotland]
| T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 28.05.1945 (reld < 04.1946) |
| Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties: | |||
| (07.1945) | no appointment listed |
Rees,
Eric Ivor
Son of ... Rees, and ... Prior.
Wandsworth district, London
-
| T/A/S.Lt. | ? |
| T/S.Lt. | 21.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 27.02.1944 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) |
Rees,
Leslie Norman
Son of Edward Rees, and Catherine J. James.
Married ((06?).1940, Luton district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire) Dorothy
Mabel A. Greenwood (née Munson) (23.09.1918 - 09.1996), daughter of Thomas
E. Munson, and Isabel M. Sharpe; three sons, three daughters.
Troed-y-rhiw, Merthyr Tydfil district, Glamorgan
-
06.1987
Central Leicestershire district, Leicestershire
| Ord.Sea. | 1942 |
| T/A/S.Lt. | 02.09.1943 |
| T/S.Lt. | 02.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
39|45 St | - | - |
|
|
Atl St | - | - |
 |
Bur St | - | - |
|
|
Def M | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 1942 | joined RNVR | ||
| 1942 | - | 1943 | 10th Motor Launch Flotilla [HMS Black Bat (Coastal Forces base, Devonport)] (served on ML 488) |
| 02.09.1943 | - | 06.02.1945 | HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) [at HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness) and HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) ] |
| 15.05.1945 | - | 30.11.1945 | Commanding Officer of an LCT (landing craft, tank) [HMS Amzari (RN landing craft base, Vizagatapam, India)] |
Constable PC 18 Rutland Constabulary before and
after service. Then trained as a teacher at Kesteven College of Education.
Primary School Teacher in Uppingham. Primary School Headmaster at several
village schools in Rutland. Retired 1976. First Mayor of Uppingham.
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) * |
Sir Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu;
2nd Baronet
Only son (with one sister) of Sir John Davis Rees, 1st Bt., KCIE, CVO, MP (1854-1922), and Hon. Mary Catherine Dormer, sister of 14th Lord Dormer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oxford, Headington district, Oxfordshire
-
24.07.1970
Kensington district, London
| T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 26.11.1941 |
| T/A/Lt. | 1943, seniority 26.11.1941 |
| T/A/Lt.Cdr. | 17.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
CdeG | 1945? | for liaison duties aboard "Duguay-Trouin" |
Honorary Attaché, Berlin Embassy, 1922; Assistant Secretary in Cambridge University Press, 1923; Honorary Treasurer and Lecturer, London District, Workers' Educational Association, 1925-1927; Editor of The Adelphi, 1930-1936.
| summer1940 | enlisted
RNVR; trained as a gunner for assignment to merchant ships (Defensively Equipped
Merchants Ships or DEMS) [spent time on three merchant ships in British waters] |
||
| 1941 | HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) [because of his Cambridge degree officer training, which was not of his own free will] |
||
| 06.08.1941 | - | (02.)1943 | Naval
Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] [assigned to some intense task at the Admiralty for two years which he regarded as torture; when he learned that liaison officers were needed for French ships in the Mediterranean, he applied as a means of escaping the Admiralty paperwork] |
| (04.1943) | - | (08.1943) | no appointment listed |
| 06.08.1943 | - | (02.)1944 | HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for various services): |
| 17.09.1943 | British Naval Liaison
Officer, French light cruiser "Jeanne d'Arc" (Algiers) [In his reminiscences he describes tremendous anti-British sentiment among the French officers and blatant harassment which gradually subsided once they realized he did not hate the French Navy.] |
||
| (04.1944) | - | (07.1945) | no appointment listed: |
| (01.1944) | - | summer 1945 | British Naval Liaison Officer, French light cruiser "Duguay-Trouin" (left the ship at Naples) |
| 02.08.1945 | on leave waiting new assignment |
Published: Brave Men, 1958; For Love or Money, 1960; (Ed.) J. Middleton Murry; Selected Criticism, 1960; George Orwell, 1961; (Ed.) Simone Weil: Selected Essays, 1962; A Theory of My Time: An Essay in Didactic Reminiscence[autobiography], 1963; (Ed.) Simone Weil: Seventy Letters, 1965; Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait, 1966; (Ed.) Simone Weil: On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God, 1968; (Ed.) Simone Weil: First and Last Notebooks, 1970; (Ed.) J. Middleton Murry: Poets, Critics, Mystics, 1970.
* indexed, but not listed as such
William George
-
| T/S.Lt. | 22.05.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 22.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946) |
Order of the White Eagle (Yugoslavia), 16.01.1945.
| (08.1941) | - | (06.1942) | no appointment listed |
| (08.1942) | - | (04.1946) | Liaison Officer, Alexandria [HMS Nile] * |
| 05.1942 | - | (01.1945) | British Naval Liaison Officer on Yugoslav MTBs "Durmitor" and "Kajmakcalan" |
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.
|
|
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) |
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)] |
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.
Peter Critchfield
Son of Martyn Fleetwood Rendle (1893-1936), and Florence Ethel Critchfield (1892-).
Married (Sheerness) Helen Moyes, a cypher Wren; three sons.
Truro district, Cornwall
-
16.12.2011
Victoria Manor Nursing Home
| T/S.Lt. | 27.02.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 27.08.1943 (reld 04.1946) |
| 1940 | - | 1941 | HMS Renown (battlecruiser) |
| (04.1941) | no appointment listed | ||
| 26.05.1941 | - | (06.)1943 | HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches) [from 01.08.1941 actually at HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)] |
| 1941 | - | 1943 | First Lieutenant, HM ML 263 (motor launch) (Londonderry, then Gold Coast) (temporarily in command late 1942, during which time they rescued survivors from the sinking of SS New Toronto 05.11.1942) |
| (08.1943) | HMS Pytchley (destroyer) * | ||
| 30.10.1943 | - | (01.)1945 | Commanding Officer, HM MTB 689 (motor torpedo boat) |
| (07.1945) | no appointment listed | ||
| 1945 | - | 1946 | Divisional Officer, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) |
| (04.1946) | no appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such
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 |
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 |
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) * |
David
Son of Morgan T. Richards and Mary A. Richards, of Crynant, West Glamorgan, Wales.
-
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) |
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 |
Godfrey Stuart
Son of Capt. James S. Richardson, and Winifred Spence Johnson (1891-1982).
Married 1st (06.05.1943, Brompton Parish Church, Kensington district, London) Yelva Mary Danielsen (04.11.1919 - (06?).1981), of Westgate, daughter of Lauritz Frederik Lieberoth Danielsen (1885-), and Dora Evelyn Watson (1878-1953); one daughter. Yelva Danielsen remarried (1953) Charles Striddolph Willett & (1965) Henry D.R. Smith.
Married 2nd (20.11.1952, Nelson district, Lancashire) Zoe Elizabeth Waddington (08.02.1928 - 09.1986); two sons, two daughters,
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) |
| (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) |
John Keith
Son of William Graham Richardson, and Beatrice Muriel Blockley, of Odstone, Leicestershire.
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 |
|
(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) |
William Antoine
Son of William and Jeanne Richardson, of Waterloo, Crosby, Lancashire.
Married Dolina Rose "Dolly" MacKay (1912? - 17.01.1941), of Waterloo, Liverpool.
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 |
| 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] |
Harry Gordon George Greatorex
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) |
Trevor Stanley
From Kingston.
-
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) |
Arthur James Hitcheson *
* in naval administration third Christian name given as Hitcheson, which is in fact Aitcheson
Married The Hon. Patience French; two daughters.
-
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 * |
Benjamin
-
| T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 12.02.1942 |
| T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) | < 10.1944 |
| (10.1944) | - | (04.1946) | HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * |
* indexed, but not listed as such
John William
Son of Albert William and Margaret Ridler, of St. Andrews, Bristol.
-
20.02.1941
(KIA) [age 20]
Winchester (Magdalen Hill) Cemetery, F.1.100]
|
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A) |
23.09.1940 |
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 |
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) * |
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.
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) |
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 |
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 |
Donal
Younger son (with one brother) of Arthur Rigg (1886-1968), managing director of Messrs. A. Rigg and Co., Ltd., silk, rayon and cotton manufacturers at Brierfield, and Jessie Nutter (1889-1965), of Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Married 1st (13.10.1944, St Philips, Chorley, Alderley Edge, Cheshire; divorced 17.02.1972) Barbara Birchenall (02.04.1920 - 23.11.2012), daughter (with one brother) of David Birchenall (1882-1967), and Hilda Walker (1896-1984); three sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (27.10.1979) Mrs Violet Ena Hyde (07.07.1913 - 10.1986).
Reedley Hallows, Lancashire
-
20.05.2003
Coventry, Warwickshire
| T/S.Lt. | 18.10.1940 |
| T/Lt. | 01.09.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) |
|
|
DSC | 02.11.1943 | attack 2 armed trawlers & 3 patrol vessels Channel 07/08.09.43 [investiture 07.03.44] |
|
|
39|45 St | - | - |
|
|
Atl S | - | & France & Germany clasp |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
|
|
Entered family textile business at Brierfield.
| deck hand, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) | |||
| 26.10.1940 | - | (08.)1942 | Navigation Officer, HMS Aubrietia (corvette) |
| (10.1942) | no appointment listed | ||
| 09.11.1942 | - | (02.)1943 | First Lieutenant, HM MTB 628 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)] |
| (04.1943) | no appointment listed | ||
| 19.04.1943 | - | (06.)1943 | Commanding Officer, HM MTB 246 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] |
| 05.07.1943 | - | 10.1944 | Commanding Officer, HM MTB 254 (motor torpedo boat) & (09.1943) Senior Officer, 14th MTB Flotilla [HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)] (DSC) |
| 30.10.1944 | - | (04.)1945 | Commanding Officer, HM MTB 778 (motor torpedo boat) |
| (07.1945) | - | (10.1945) | no appointment listed |
Brian Turner
Uckfield district, Sussex
-
10.1988
Uckfield district, Sussex
| T/S.Lt. | 1940? |
| T/Lt. | 20.12.1940 |
| T/A/Lt.Cdr. | < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
GM | 04.03.1941 | mine disposal [investiture 17.06.41] |
 |
Comdn | 09.06.1942 | mine disposal |
| 29.10.1940 | - | (10.1944) | Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs, renamed medio 1941/42: Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) |
| (01.1945) | - | (07.1945) | Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * |
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.
|
|
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 |
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 |
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
Alfred Norman Victor
Son of Alfred Norman and Stella Eugene Rimmington; husband of Rita Decima Rimmington, of Weston-super-Mare.
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] |
|
(1940) |
HMS Sealion
(submarine) |
||
|
(07.1945) |
- |
13.03.1946 |
Sea Cadet
Corps |
Henry Fremont
Camp Keithley, Mindanao, Philippines
-
02.12.1960
San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
[commemmorated at RN College, Greenwich]
| T/Lt. | 08.09.1941 |
| joined RNVR as an American citizen | |||
| (12.1941) | no appointment listed | ||
| 09.12.1941 | - | (08.1942) | HMS Nasturtium (corvette) |
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) |
|
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)] |
Eric
Married (18.08.1951) Roberta Una Bailey (1925 - 2002); two sons.
Glasgow, Scotland
-
03.03.1969
Cape Town, South Africa
| Seaman | ? [272014] |
| T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * | 05.08.1944 (reld 1946) |
|
|
39|45 St | - | - |
|
|
Atl St | - | - |
|
|
Bur St | - | - |
|
|
Def M | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
* employed on cypher duties
| 1941 | joined RNVR as a rating for cypher duties | ||
| 05.1941 | - | 07.1941 | cyphers training, HMS Cabballa (coding school, Tortworth Court, Falfield Gloucester) |
| (09.)1941 | - | (08?.)1942 | HMS Le Tiger (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler) (09.1941 at Belfast, Northern Ireland, 08.1942 in USA (Wilmington, NC & Brooklyn, NY)) |
| late 1942 | - | early 1943 | HMS Foxhound (destroyer) |
| 1943/44 | officer training, HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa) | ||
| 04.1944 | - | (01.)1945 | a Cypher Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] |
| 22.06.1945 | - | (07.)1945 | HMS Boxer (fighter direction ship) |
| (12.)1945 | - | (02.)1946 | HMS Patroller (escort carrier) |
Barrie
-
2009 ?
| T/A/S.Lt. | 26.05.1943 |
| T/S.Lt. | 26.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
|
MID | 11.12.1945 | wind up Europe 45 |
| (08.1943) | no appointment listed | ||
| 08.1943 | - | (04.)1945 | First Lieutenant, HM MGB 128 (motor gun boat), from 27.08.1943 HM MTB 447 (motor torpedo boat) (35th MTB Flotilla) [from 24.01.1944 shown under HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) "for miscellaneous services"] |
| (07.1945) | no appointment listed | ||
| (04.1946) | HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon) * |
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) * |
Cedric Kenelm
"Chico"
Son of Frederick A. Roberts, and Sissey Gill.
Married ((12?).1940, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Audrey Elias ((09?).1918 - ), daughter of Tom Millward Elias, and ... Davis; four sons.
|
|
|
|
Birmingham, King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
Merimbula, NSW, Australia
| Naval Airman 2nd cl. | 1940 |
| T/S.Lt. (A) | 18.11.1940 |
| T/Lt. (A) | 19.04.1943 |
| A/Lt. RN | 1945, seniority 19.04.1942 |
| A/Lt.Cdr. RN | 06.12.1945 |
| Lt.Cdr. RN | 19.04.1950 |
| Cdr. RN | 31.12.1952 |
| A/Capt. RN | 20.05.1958 |
| Capt. RN | 30.06.1958 |
| R.Adm. RN | 07.01.1968 (retd 15.01.1971) |
 |
CB | 01.01.1970 | New Year 70 [investiture 03.02.70] |
 |
DSO | 19.05.1953 | Korea [investiture 19.07.55] |
| 1940 | joined RN | ||
| 09.1941 | - | (12.1941) | pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)] |
| ? | - | 13.08.1942 | survived sinking of HMS Manchester (cruiser) in Malta convoy |
| 08.1942 | - | 11.1942 | interned in Sahara |
| 30.09.1943 | - | (12.1943) | personal pilot to V Adm Sir Lumley Lyster [HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs)] |
| (10.1944) | no appointment listed | ||
| 1944 | HMS Trumpeter (escort carrier) (Russian Convoys) | ||
| (01.1945) | HMS Trumpeter (escort carrier) * | ||
| 25.06.1945 | - | (07.)1945 | HMS Vindex (escort carrier) (Pacific) |
| 06.12.1945 | - | (04.1946) | Lt.Cdr. (Flying), HMS Glory (aircraft carrier) |
| 08.12.1947 | - | (07.1948) | 815 Squadron FAA |
| 1948 | Commanding Officer, 813 Squadron FAA | ||
| 1949 | Naval Staff College | ||
| (05.1950) | HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) * | ||
| 1950 | - | 1951 | Commanding Officer, 767 Squadron FAA (Korea) |
| 1951 | - | 1952 | Commanding Officer, 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Ocean] (Korea; shot down and rescued by US Forces, Korea) |
| 09.02.1953 | - | 18.08.1955 | attached to Royal Australian Navy as Deputy Director of Air Warfare (Navy Office) |
| 30.08.1955 | - | (01.)1956 | HMS Sea Eagle (Joint Anti-Submarine School, Londonderry) |
| 10.12.1956 | - | (01.1957) | Commander (Air), HMS Gannet (RN Air Station Eglinton) |
| 20.05.1958 | - | (01.)1959 | Commanding Officer, HMS Gannet (RN Air Station Eglinton) |
| 1959 | - | (07.)1961 | Chief Staff Officer, Flag Officer Navy Fleet Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovil, Somerset)] |
| 1961 | - | 1962 | Chief Staff Officer, Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers |
| 05.12.1962 | - | (02.)1964 | Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (Naval Air Station and Anti-Submarine School, Portland) & as Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Seat Training |
| 1964 | - | 1965 | Commanding Officer, RN Air Station Culdrose |
| 1966 | - | 1967 | Chief Staff Officer (Operations), Far East Fleet |
| 08.02.1968 | - | 1971 | Flag Officer, Naval Flying Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, RN Fighter School, RN Aircraft Direction School, Yeovilton, Somerset)] |
* indexed, but not listed as such
Eric George
-
| T/S.Lt. | ? |
| T/Lt. | 01.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 01.09.1944 | - | (08.1945) | First Lieutenant, HMS Hawthorn (minesweeping trawler) |
| (04.1946) | no appointment listed |
Harold
Son of J.B. Roberts, and of Elizabeth Roberts, of Withington, Manchester.
-
27.08.1944
(KIA) [age 41]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 92, column 3]
| Prob. T/S.Lt. | 28.07.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 28.10.1941 |
Member of Stayley Masonic Lodge.
| (12.1941) | no appointment listed | ||
| 10.12.1941 | - | (08.)1942 | HMS Westward Ho (minesweeper) |
| 15.08.1942 | - | (10.)1942 | HMS Rhyl (Bangor class minesweeper) |
| 09.10.1942 | - | (02.)1943 | HMS Blyth (Bangor class minesweeper) |
| (04.1943) | - | (08.1943) | no appointment listed |
| 01.09.1943 | - | (06.)1944 | Navigating Officer, HMS Vestal (Algerine class minesweeper) |
| 1944 | - | 27.08.1944 | HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper) (bombed in error off Normandy & sunk) |
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 |
James Jack
Married ...; three daughters.
West Lothian, Scotland
-
26.09.1975
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
| Prob. T/S.Lt. | 03.05.1940 |
| T/S.Lt. | 06.1941, seniority 03.05.1940 |
| T/A/Lt. | 03.05.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 1942?, seniority 03.05.1941 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 10.07.1940 | - | (10.)1940 | HMS Ryde (auxiliary paddle steam minesweeper) |
| 05.12.1940 | - | (02.)1941 | HMS Jeanie Deans (auxiliary paddle steam minesweeper) |
| 31.03.1941 | - | (04.)1942 | HMS Scarron (minesweeping trawler) |
| 28.05.1942 | - | (04.)1943 | HMS Peterhead (Bangor class minesweeper) |
| 10.05.1943 | - | (06.)1944 | HMS Rinaldo (Algerine class minesweeper) |
| (10.1944) | - | (01.1945) | no appointment listed |
| 02.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Rinaldo (Algerine class minesweeper) |
| (04.1946) | no appointment listed |
Norman Lemuel
"Bob"
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
-
(03?).1977
Whitby district, North Yorkshire
| Ord.Sea. | 06.11.1940 |
| Able Sea. | 06.10.1941 |
| T/S.Lt. | 14.08.1942 |
| T/Lt. | 14.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
MID | 11.09.1945 | fire at Bari 09.04.45 |
| 06.11.1940 | - | 14.01.1941 | HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint, Cornwall) |
| 14.01.1941 | - | 26.02.1941 | HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) |
| 26.02.1941 | - | 02.05.1942 | HMS Royal Sovereign |
| 02.05.1942 | - | 13.08.1942 | HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) |
| (10.1942) | - | (06.1944) | no appointment listed: |
| 25.11.1942 | - | 09.1943 | First Lieutenant, HM LCT 416 (landing craft, tank) |
| 11.1943 | - | 12.1943 | First Lieutenant, HM LCT 595 (landing craft, tank) |
| 08.1944 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base): |
| 12.1943 | - | 06.08.1945 | Commanding Officer, HM LCT 595 (landing craft, tank) (despatches) |
Victor George
Son of ... Roberts, and ... Tripp ?
Falmouth district, Cornwall ?
-
03.2004 ?
Horsham district, Sussex ?
| T/A/S.Lt. | ? |
| T/S.Lt. | 06.08.1944 (reld 1946) |
| 13.05.1943 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) |
| trained at Inverailort, ferried LCTs across the Atlantic and was based at HMS Dinosaur in 1945 |
Ian George William
Married Barbara ...; one daughter, one son.
-
22.02.2012
| ... | .... |
| T/Lt. | ? |
| R.Adm. RN | 07.07.1972 (retd) |
|
|
CB | ? | ? |
 |
DSC | ? | ? |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
James Cameron
Eldest son of J.R. Robertson, and R.B. Robertson, of Burdon Lane, Belmont, Surrey.
Engaged (02.1945; broken off 05.1946) Second Officer Elizabeth Suddaby, WRNS, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs J. Suddaby, of Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield.
-
| T/El.S.Lt. | 1943? |
| T/El.Lt. | 01.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 11.10.1943 | - | (01.)1945 | HMS Stopford (Combined Operations training establishment, Bo'ness, West Lothian) |
| 02.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) |
| (04.1946) | HMS Chinkara (landing craft base, Cochin) * |
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) |
John Douglas Davidson
Son (with one sister) of John Sutherland Robertson (1895-1975), and Barbara Ann Johnston (1899-).
Married (16.01.1943, St Peter's Church, Stromness, Orkney) Jean Munro Burnett (? - 2004).
Walls, Orkney, Scotland
-
1968
Orkney, Scotland
| T/S.Lt. (A) | ? |
| T/Lt. (A) | 06.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 15.07.1942 | - | 11.1942 | pilot, 894 Squadron FAA [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)] |
| 17.05.1944 | - | (01.)1945 | HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire) |
| 08.05.1945 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man) |
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) * |
Kenneth James
Son of James Robertson, and Dorothy Handscomb.
Married Mary Morva Dennis Owen Davies (30.06.1919 - 23.02.1962), daughter of John Owen Davies, and Dorothy J. Langdon; two daughters. Morva Robertson remarried (18.06.1949, Nairobi, Kenya) Maxim Ruston.
Great Yarmouth, 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 | ||
| 31.08.1940 | - | (10.1940) | HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for instructional staff) |
| (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) |
Robert Andrew Antony
Married; .. children (one son?).
-
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 |
James Norval Harold
Basil Henry Cuthbert
Son of ... Robinson, and ... Lambourne.
Residence: (1945) Bournemouth.
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 |
|
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] |
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 |
James Harvey
-
02.2001
Barrow in Furness district, Cumbria
| T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 16.06.1941 |
| T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 16.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946) |
| 13.10.1941 | - | (06.)1944 | HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for flotilla duties) |
| (10.1944) | - | (01.1945) | HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) * |
| 23.01.1945 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) |
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 |
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] |
Matthew
Son of John Francis Robinson, and Elizabeth Ann Hodgson.
Married ((06?).1933, Middlesbrough district, North Riding of Yorkshire) Beatrice May Crawford; three daughters.
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) |
|
|
DSC |
14.11.1944 |
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 01.05.45] |
|
|
39|45 St |
- |
- |
|
|
Atl St |
- |
& France & Germany clasp |
|
?
|
Bur St? |
- |
- |
|
|
WM 39|45 |
? |
? |
|
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) |
Robert John
"Bobbie"
Married (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Cecelia Jane McPeak; three daughters.
-
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 S | - | & 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) |
William
-
1976
| 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) |
James Robert
-
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 |
Kathleen Angela
-
|
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. |
23.07.1943 |
|
T/Sg.Lt. |
26.11.1943, seniority 23.07.1943 (reld >
04.1946) |
|
(10.1944) |
HMS
Pembroke V * |
||
|
11.12.1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
RN
Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] |
|
(04.1946) |
no appointment listed |
James Donald Henry
Son of Leonard Henry Rochford (1896-1986), a World War I flying ace, and Elizabeth Maud Moffet (1895-1964).
Married ((06?).1953, Westminster district, London) Elizabeth M.B. Robinson.
Brentford district, Oxfordshire
-
04.1986
Lambeth district, London
| T/A/S.Lt. | 30.04.1942 |
| T/S.Lt. | 08.07.1942 |
| T/A/Lt. | 30.10.1944 |
| 05.1942 | - | (10.)1944 | HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) |
| 30.10.1944 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) |
| (04.1946) | HMS Bern (minesweeping trawler) * |
* indexed, but not listed as such
William
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) |
|
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) |
Norman John
-
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 |
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) |
Basil Pinder
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] |
Rupert
-
| T/S.Lt. (A) | 18.07.1943 |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
| 02.09.1944 | - | (10.1944) | HMS Flycatcher |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
Peter Michael
Osterley, Brentford, Middlesex
-
03.10.2007
Limavady, Northern Ireland
|
T/Sg.Lt. |
03.09.1943 |
|
(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) |
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) |
Victor Reginald Thorne
Son of ... Rogers, and ... Thorne.
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 |
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) * |
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 ?).
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)] |
Noel William
-
| T/S.Lt. (A) | 29.04.1944 |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
| 09.04.1944 | - | (10.1944) | observer, 756 Squadron FAA [HMS Ukussa] |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
John Vincent
-
1994
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
| T/Sg.Lt. | 07.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
|
39|45 St | - | - |
|
|
Atl S | - | & France & Germany clasp |
 |
Afr St | - | & N Africa 42-43 clasp |
 |
It St | - | - |
|
|
WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 06.01.1941 | - | (06.)1941 | HMS Glen Gower (paddle minesweeper) |
| (08.1941) | - | (04.1942) | no appointment listed |
| 02.04.1942 | - | (12.1942) | HMS St Helier (Combined Operations base, Fowey) |
| (02.1943) | HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) * | ||
| 26.03.1943 | - | (08.)1943 | HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for Landing Craft Infantry (Small)) |
| (10.1943) | HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * | ||
| 12.10.1943 | - | (02.)1944 | HMS Kent (cruiser) |
| 03.1944 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Sirius (cruiser) |
* indexed, but not listed as such
Michael David Holmes
Son of George David Rosenthal (1882-1938), and Adelaide Elizabeth Ravenhill (1886-1971).
Married (09.03.1946, St Mary's, Pimlico, Westminster district, London) Marjorie Mary Wilson, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs A.H. Wilson, of Marianglas, Anglesey; two sons.
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
(09?).1981
Hatfield district, Hertfordshire
| T/S.Lt. | 20.11.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 20.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
| 19.12.1941 | - | 29.06.1942 | HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea) (for Naval Control Service, Thames) |
| 29.06.1942 | - | 31.07.1942 | HMS Jamaica (cruiser) |
| 07.09.1942 | - | 13.09.1942 | HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) |
| 20.10.1942 | - | 08.02.1944 | HMS Cilicia (armed merchant cruiser) |
| 19.02.1944 | - | 27.04.1945 | HMS Smiter (escort carrier) |
| HMS Phoebe (cruiser) | |||
| (07.1945) | no appointment listed [probably signal course at HMS Mercury] | ||
| 09.1945 | - | (10.1945) | HMS Pioneer (aircraft maintenance ship) |
Donald Frank
Son of Alfred Frank John Roshier (1892-1942), and Louisa Annie Keates (1893-1978).
Married ((06?).1962, Truro district, Cornwall) Margaret Llilian Edwina Eastcott (29.05.1934 - 11.1992), only daughter of Dr & Mrs E.H. Eastcott, of Probus, Truro, Cornwall; two sons.
Wandsworth district, London
-
01.04.2004
Kent and Sussex Hospital, Kent
| T/A/S.Lt. | 15.04.1943 |
| T/S.Lt. | 15.10.1943 |
| T/Lt. | 15.10.1945 |
| 08.06.1943 | - | (10.1944) | HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing boats) |
| (01.1945) | no appointment listed | ||
| 19.02.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Hannaray (minesweeping trawler) |
| 04.02.1946 | - | (04.1946) | Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1077 (motor minesweeper) |
Charles Edward
-
| Prob. T/S.Lt. | 22.11.1940 |
| T/Lt. | 22.02.1941 |
| T/A/Lt.Cdr. | < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1046) |
| 28.05.1941 | - | (12.1941) | Commanding Officer, HMS Liberia (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) |
| Commanding Officer, HM ML 233 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 2nd ML Flotilla | |||
| (10.1944) | - | (07.1945) | no appointment listed |
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) |
| 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) |
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hon. William Keith;
5th Earl of Stradbroke (cr. 1821); Baronet (1660); Baron Rous (1796); Viscount Dunwich (1821)
Second son (with three brothers and three sisters) of George Edward John Mowbray Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, KCMG, CB, CVO, CBE (1862-1947), and Helena Violet Alice Fraser, DBE (1875-1949), of Henham Hall, Wangford, Suffolk.
Succeeded brother, 14.07.1983.
Married 1st (07.08.1935, St Peters', Babraham, Cambridge; marriage dissolved 1941) Pamela Catherine Mabel Kay-Shuttleworth (17.09.1915 - (09?).1972), only daughter of Capt. Hon. Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth (1890-1917), and Sibell Eleanor Maud Adeane (1890-1980); two sons.
Married 2nd (19.07.1943, Bideford district, Devon) April Mary Asquith (14.04.1919 - 04.2002). elder daughter of Brig.Gen. Hon. Arthur Melland Asquith, DSO (1883-1939), and Hon. Betty Constance Manners (1889-1962); one son, four daughters (and one deceased).
Henham, Blything district, Suffolk
-
18.07.1983
Bideford district, Devon
| Midsh. (E) RN | 15.09.1926 |
| S.Lt. (E) RN | 01.02.1929 |
| Lt. (E) RN | 01.02.1932 (resigned 27.09.1933) |
| Prob. T/S.Lt. | 05.01.1940 |
| T/Lt. | 05.04.1940 |
| 15.09.1926 | - | (01.)1931 | engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] |
| 06.01.1931 | - | (01.)1933 | HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
| (05.1933) | - | (06.1933) | no appointment listed |
| 27.09.1933 | HMS Rodney (battleship) [appointment cancelled] | ||
| WW2 service (wounded twice): | |||
| 05.01.1940 | - | (03.)1940 | HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) |
| 20.03.1940 | - | 07.1940 | First Lieutenant, HMS Amethyst (anti-submarine warfare trawler) |
| 07.1940 | - | 24.11.1940 | Commanding Officer, HMS Amethyst (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (mined and sunk in the Thames estuary) |
| 31.12.1940 | - | 16.03.1941 | Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Lillan (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (sunk by German aircraft about 75 nautical miles west of Erris Head, Ireland) |
| 23.04.1941 | - | (06.)1941 | [Commandng
Officer?], HMS Lobelia (corvette) |
| 03.06.1941 | - | 04.07.1943 | Commanding Officer, HMS Coltsfoot (corvette) |
| (08.1943) | no appointment listed | ||
| 28.09.1943 | - | (02.)1944 | HMS Corinthian (ocean boarding vessel) |
| 17.02.1944 | - | (10.1944) | HMS Bellona (cruiser) |
| (01.1945) | no appointment listed | ||
| 29.01.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) |
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) |
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 |
John Henry
Deptford, Greenwich, Greater London
-
10.03.2000
Staten Island, Richmond, NY, USA
| T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 30.11.1940 |
| T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) | ? |
|
|
OBE | 09.10.1945 | recovery torpedoes sunken U-boat Toulon |
|
|
MBE | 03.10.1944 | disposal first Japanese mine 01.42 |
|
|
GM | 23.01.1941 | mine disposal [investiture 17.06.41] |
| 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) |
Roy Trevor
Married (30.10.1943, Bexhill) Patricia Bates; one son, one daughter.
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) |
| 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) |
* indexed, but not listed as such
Charles Scott
|
|
Eastry district, Kent
-
27.12.1964
Buderim Cemetery
Maroochy Shire, Queensland, Australia
| Midsh. | 28.11.1921 |
| S.Lt. |
17.01.1925 ?, seniority 17.01.1924 (removed 20.03.1928) |
| T/S.Lt. | 08.07.1940 |
| T/Lt. | 05.1941, seniority 08.10.1940 |
| T/A/Lt.Cdr. | < 12.1941 |
| 28.11.1921 | - | 20.03.1928 | commissioned, RNVR (Tyne Division, later London Division, List 2) |
| 07.10.1940 | - | (02.)1941 | HMS Fermoy (Hunt class minesweeper) |
| 03.03.1941 | - | (04.)1944 | HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services: as Fleet Press Liaison Officer) |
| (10.1944) | no appointment listed | ||
| (01.1945) | - | (07.1945) | HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * |
| (04.1946) | HMS Tengra (Combined Operations base, Mandapam, India) * |
* indexed, but not listed as such
Charles Eric
-
08.1987
Northumberland West district
| ... | ... |
| T/S.Lt. | 22.07.1943 |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
| 12.09.1943 | - | (10.1943) | HMS Belfast (cruiser) |
| ... | - | ... | ... |
Harold Willey
Son of Arthur Rowland, and Lilian K. Willey.
Married ((06?).1946, Sheffield district, Yorkshire) Elsie M. Simpson.
Sheffield district, Yorkshire
-
04.2011 still alive
| T/S.Lt. | 26.02.1942 |
| T/Lt. | 26.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
| HMS Liberia (minesweeping trawler) | |||
| ? | - | 05?.1942 | HM ML 269 (motor launch) |
| 29.05.1942 | - | 09.1943 | First Lieutenant, HM ML 233 (motor launch) |
| 13.09.1943 | - | 04.06.1945 | Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1378 (harbour defence motor launch) |
| (07.1945) | no appointment listed | ||
| (04.1946) | HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) * |
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] |
| 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) |
Jack Smith
Son of Herbert Rowson, and Sarah Ellen Smith.
Leek district, Staffordshire
-
17.01.1941
(MPK) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 7]
| Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) | 15.07.1940 |
| T/S.Lt. (A) | 1940?, seniority 15.07.1940 |
| pre-war | served RAF, but was cashiered for performing low level aerobatics over his girlfriend's house | ||
| (07.1940) | HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton) * | ||
| 26.08.1940 | - | (12.)1940 | pilot, 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] |
| 04.12.1940 | - | 17.01.1941 | posted as an instructor to a Training Squadron in Tobago (752 Squadron FAA [HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)]) (on passage aboard MV Almeda Star when she was torpedoed and sunk off Rockall by U96, with the loss of all hands) |
Alan
"Twitchie"
Married (31.08.1944, Garstang district, Lancashire) Barbara J. Williams.
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) |
Eric Vernon
-
| T/S.Lt. | 30.10.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 30.10.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946) |
| (12.1941) | no appointment listed | ||
| 07.01.1942 | - | (12.1943) | HMS Trondra (trawler) |
| (02.1944) | - | (07.1945) | no appointment listed |
| 1947? | - | 1952? | Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve |
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) |
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) |
Published: Convoys to Russia 1941-1945 (1993; with Arnold Hague)
Arthur Douglas
"Bubs"
Son of ... Russell, and ... Pearce.
Married Molly ...; four children.
|
|
Feltham, Staines district, Middlesex
-
21.12.2009
Shipton ?
| T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * | 02.06.1944 |
| T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 02.12.1944 |
|
|
MBE | 15.05.1945 | for gallant and distinguished service in mine-clearing operations in enemy-held ports during the invasion of Normandy and the Low Countries 06-09.44 [investiture 16.10.45] |
* Special Branch officer who qualified for and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore
| HMS Largs (landing ship) | |||
| 17.06.1944 | - | 27.10.1944 | HMS Firework (base for port parties, Naval Parties 1571 to 1574), renamed: |
| 27.10.1944 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Vernon (D) (base for port parties, Naval Parties 1571 to 1574) (Dartmouth) |
| 1944 | - | 1946 | Naval Party 1572 |
Edwin Fairman
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
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22.12.2001
Hobe Sound, Florida, USA
[commemmorated at RN College, Greenwich]
| T/S.Lt. | 01.10.1941 |
| joined RNVR as an American citizen | |||
| (12.1941) | - | (02.1942) | no appointment listed |
| HMS Maloja (armed merchant cruiser) | |||
| 16.03.1942 | - | (02.1943) | HMS Norfolk (cruiser) |
Hugh Bernard Langford
Married 1st; no children.
Married 2nd (1973) 2nd Barbara (née ...); two children.
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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12.05.2006
Edinburgh, Scotland
| Prob. T/Sg.Lt. | 07.11.1941 |
| T/Sg.Lt. | ?, seniority 07.11.1941 (reld 1946) |
| 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) |
George Lambert
Sunderland
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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 |
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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)] |
Rodney Fryer
Son of Charles Augustus W. Russell (1879-), and Felicia Hutchinson, of Bournemouth, Dorset.
Married 1st ((03?).1941, Bromley district, Greater London / Kent) Nancy Elizabeth "Nan" Tapper ((06?).1918 - ), daughter of Dr Kenneth Edwin Tapper, GM, OBE, MB, ChB, DPH (1889-1981), and Ethel Napier Paxton Horsburgh (1894?-1985), of Monington, Keston, Kent.
Married 2nd ((12?).1949, Deben district, Suffolk) Elisabeth Jane Shettle (1925?-1958), second daughter of Lt.Col. Francis Broughton Shettle, OBE, IMS (1879-1958), and Jean Marjorie Chrystall (1896-1990), of Woodbridge, Suffolk; one daughter, two sons.
Married 3rd ((03?).1960, Kensington district, London) Doreen Gildea, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Stanhope Gildea, of Buenos Aires, Argentina; one son.
Married 4th ((12?).1967, Poole district, Dorset) Pamela H. Till.
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Bournemouth, Poole district, Dorset
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09.1995
Poole district, Dorset
[God's Acre Cemetery
Corfe Castle,
Dorset]
| T/S.Lt. | 27.02.1941 |
| T/Lt. | 27.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946) |
Studied art at Bartlett School of Architecture (1936-1939), Central School of Art (1947-1949), and Academie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (1950).
| (04.1941) | no appointment listed | ||
| 28.04.1941 | - | (12.1941) | HMS Tower (auxiliary patrol base, London) |
| (02.1942) | no appointment listed | ||
| 17.03.1942 | - | (06.)1942 | HMS Stella Pegasi (anti-submarine warfare trawler) |
| (08.1942) | - | (10.1942) | no appointment listed |
| (12.1942) | - | (04.1943) | HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) * |
| (08.1943) | no appointment listed | ||
| 09.08.1943 | - | (01.)1945 | Commanding Officer, HM RML 540 (rescue motor launch) |
| 06.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay) (for miscellaneous services) |
Thomas Wetherall
Son of ... Russell, and ... Wetherall.
Sunderland district, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear
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| 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 |
George McCracken
"Mac"
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Blackpool
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23.05.2012
Royal Berkshire Hospital
| T/S.Lt. (A) | ? |
| T/Lt. (A) | 01.02.1944 |
| Lt. (A) | 17.07.1947, seniority 01.02.1944 |
| A/Lt.Cdr. (A) | ? |
| Lt.Cdr. (A) | 01.02.1952 |
| Cdr. | 30.06.1954 (retd 30.06.1962) |
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MBE | 07.06.1951 | HM's birthday 51 [investiture 07.11.51] |
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DSC | 30.11.1943 | successful sorties Dover Command since 10.42 [investiture 09.05.44] |
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VRD | 12.11.1957 | - |
| Joined 1940 as a Naval Airman Second Class starting training at St Vincent and learnt to fly in Canada with operational training in Scotland. 1942 he volunteered to join 841 NAS for special duties flying black-painted Fairey Albacores against enemy shipping under cover of darkness and was awarded the DSC for sinking three E-boats in 1943. He served at Coltishall, Tangmere, Exeter, St Merryn, Malta and Australia where he was demobilised in 1946. He kept up his flying skills by joining 1832 RNVR squadron which he commanded in 1948. The next year he persuaded the Navy that his pilots had sufficient skill to land their Seafires on carriers at sea and 1832 became the first reserve squadron to serve at sea; its 20 aircraft achieving 269 landings on Implacable in seven days of training. In 1956 he became the first reservist to land a Seahawk jet on a carrier Bulwark; he was promoted to Commander and was awarded a military MBE in 1952 and the Volunteer Reserve Decoration in 1955. He chaired the first meeting of the Fleet Air Arm Officers’ Association 1957. | |||
| ... | - | ... | ... |
| 17.08.1942 | - | (04.)1944 | pilot, 841 Squadron FAA (DSC) |
| 26.05.1944 | - | (01.)1945 | pilot, 786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (and for instructional duties) |
| 04.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (for disposal) |
| 17.07.1947 | transferred, Permanent RNVR | ||
| (1951) | 1832 Squadron FAA (MBE) | ||
| ... | - | ... | ... |
John
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| T/Midsh. | 21.05.1943 |
| T/A/S.Lt. | 01.09.1943 |
| T/S.Lt. | 01.03.1944 |
| T/Lt. | 01.02.1945 |
| 14.06.1943 | - | (08.)1943 | HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne) |
| 09.1943 | - | 11.1943 | HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) |
| 23.11.1943 | - | (04.)1945 | HMS Ascension (frigate) |
| 01.07.1945 | - | (07.1945) | HM LST 3507 (landing ship, tank) |
| 03.1946 | - | (04.1946) | HMS Lanka (RN base. Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties; for Rotunda Camp) |
William D'Arcy
"Bill"
Son of ... Ryan, and ... D'Arcy.
Married (25.09.1942, Prestwich, Salford district, Lancashire) Dinah J. Wren.
Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire
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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) |
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Afr St | - | - |
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It St | - | - |
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Def M | - | - |
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MID | 11.12.1945 | wind up Europe 45 |
| 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] |
