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1939-1945

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Sach,
Percy George
P.G. Sach
Son of John and Ada Jessie Sach; husband of Winifred Sach, of Beckenham, Kent.
(03?).1909
Fulham, Greater London, Middlesex
-

06.12.1944 [age 35] (KIA)
[Port Said Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, W.C.11]
T/S.Lt.
13.11.1942
T/Lt.
?
?
-
06.12.1944
HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
Sadler,
Michael Thomas Carey "Tom" / "Tommy"
M.T.C. Sadler
Son of Michael Thomas Harvey Sadleir (1888-1957), author, publisher and bibliographer, and Edith Tupper Carey.

Family papers
1916
-

01.10.1942 [age 26] (KIA)
[Bisley Burial Ground, near east boundary]
T/Lt.
?
Education: Balliol College, University of Oxford (BA)
?
-
01.10.1942
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 86 (motor gun boat)
Sainsbury,
Paul Barling Pomroy
P.B.P. Sainsbury
Son of ... Sainsbury, and ... Thompson.
Married 1st ...; ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd (1984, Straford upon Avon) ... Douglas.
02.02.1918
Horsham district, Sussex / West Sussex
-
01.1985
South Warwickshire district, Warwickshire
T/S.Lt.
13.12.1940
T/Lt.
02.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)



gunnery rating, HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
31.01.1941
-
1943
HMS Spiraea (corvette) (Mediterranean) *
1943
-
1943
pilot training, HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire)
15.10.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
03.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
pilot, 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Orkneys)]
Mayor, Stratford upon Avon, 1972-1973.
* In the Apr 1944 Navy List still listed as such; June 1944 no longer
Salmon,
Walter Gordon Lindsay
W.G.L. Salmon
Son of ... Salmon, and ... Lindsay.
(09?).1921
Bristol district, Avon / Gloucestershire
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
01.07.1944
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 413  (motor torpedo boat)
Sandes,
Denis Lindsay
W.G.L. Salmon
Son of Thomas Lindsay Sandes and Evylin-Bell Sandes, of Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa.
1916 ?
-
20.02.1944
[age 28]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 93, column 1]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
19.03.1943
T/Sg.Lt.
29.07.1943, seniority 19.03.1943
Education: MA (Cantab), MB, BCh
15.06.1943
-
20.02.1944
Medical Officer, HMS Warwick (destroyer) [torpedoed & sunk by U-413 off Trevose Head]
Sandiford,
Norman Edward
N.E. Sandiford
Married Annetta (née ...); at least one daughter.
From Southport.
1894 ?
-

T/Lt.
07.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
07.08.1940? (reld > 04.1946)

Earned a World War I trio (1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal) as Ordinary Seaman/S.Lt. RNR then RNVR.

In 1920 a chauffeur.
(1918)


Commanding Officer of a minesweeper
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
07.08.1940
-
(12.1943)
HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
02.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for extended defence duties)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
British vice-consul at Ostend (Belgium), 1950s.
Sandvid,
Leonard George [Samuelson-]
L.G. Sandvid
Married (20.05.1923) Dorothy Pilbin (died 1984); six daughters, two sons.

His daughter gave additional information, which complements the few data I can derive from the "official" source, the Navy List: "My father Engineer Lieutenant Leonard George Samuelson-Sandvid was at Dorlin House round about 1943 I think. He started the war on HMS Hood; then was on HMS Effingham when we tried to halt the invasion of Norway - when the Effingham sank off the Norwegian coast he then joined a sort of commando group who commandeered a Norwegian vessel The Raven, changed the name to HMS Ranen and used her to sail up the Norwegian coast sabotaging anything of value to the Germans - the group consisted of sailors who had lost their ships; and soldiers who had lost their regiments, including South Africans and French Foreign Legion, and Chasseurs Alpins. It was probably this experience which led to his being posted to HMS Dorlin. He was commissioned and given a Mention In Despatches for his courage on the voyage back from Norway when our forces were withdrawn, when the Ranen was hotly pursued by dive bombers to the full extent of their range. He also did  Atlantic convoys on HMS Broadway (one of the three-funnelled American destroyers we got under Lend/Lease) and was there when the German submarine was captured, on which Code Wheels were found which helped Bletchley Park to decode "Enigma" . He also spent some time on a French destroyer (not sure whether Free French, or captured at Oran) called I think La Melpomene, and ended the war on HMS Rame Head, anchored in Plymouth Sound  - a mother ship for Channel minesweepers and small ships."


  

22.02.1903
South Shields district, Durham
-
11.10.1983
Northumberland Western district, Northumberland
T/Wt.Eng. RNR
?
T/Lt. (E)
14.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
(1939?)


HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
(04.1940?)


HMS Effingham (cruiser)
c. 1943


HMS Dorlin (Combined Operations base, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Gleaner  (minsweeping sloop) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Saul,
John Edward
J.E. Saul (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy de la Bedoyère)
?
-
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
26.11.1943
T/Sg.Lt.
1944?, seniority 26.11.1943 (reld 23.07.1945; medically unfit)
Education: MB, BCh.
11.01.1944
-
10.12.1944
Medical Officer, HMS Onslaught (destroyer)
12.12.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
Saull,
Ronald Henry
R.H. Saull
Son of John Clare Saull, and Annie Saull (née Skeats).
Married (04.09.1940, Melksham, Wilts.) Gladys Marion Petty; one daughter.

07.01.1913
Kilburn, Hampstead district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
12.05.1945
(KIA)
[Rotterdam (Crooswijk) General Cemetery, The Netherlands]
Ord.Sea.
30.10.1940
T/S.Lt.
11.09.1941
T/A/Lt.
?
Commendation for brave conduct Cmnd
03.10.1944
salvage of bombs after air attack at SS Malakand, Liverpool Docks 03.05.41

George Medal

GM
15.05.1945
mine clearance ports France & Low Countries * / **
* "For exceptional gallantry, skill and great devotion to duty, often in close proximity to the enemy, during mine-searching and clearance operations in the ports of Normandy and of the Low Countries."
** A document dated 21.07.1945 states: "Lieutenant Saull went into Ouistreham in advance of the Naval Party with which he was serving, and discovered demolition charges on the lock gates and the bridge which he rendered safe. With another officer he discovered and removed scuttling and demolition charges from craft and strong points in the Port area and rendered safe a controlled minefield in the harbour entrance." As it speaks of a "bar to the George Medal" it is probably a citation for a further decoration following upon Saull's death, which was in the end not substantiated.
Education: Ashford Council School; Richmond Technical Institute (1928-1930)
By 1937 he had been employed for five years by a firm of Electrical Engineers based in St Annes-on-the-Sea, working on wiring contracts.
30.10.1940


joined RNVR



HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint)



HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)



officers' course



volunteered for bomb disposal, got trained at HMS Volcano (bomb disposal training establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland), and served in Rosyth, Oban and in the Orkneys
11.09.1941
-
(1942?)
HMS Cockfosters
18.04.1942
-
12.05.1945
HMS Odyssey [additional for special service for minesweeping/bomb salvage duties with:
Naval Party 1502C (from 18.04.1942)
Naval Party 1747 (from 10.05.1944)]
Saunders,
Francis Kenneth Demain
F.K.D. Saunders
?
-
...
...
T/Lt.
14.08.1943
...
-
...
...
12.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Manitoulin
Saunders,
Frederick George
F.G. Saunders
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
23.04.1941 (reld > 04.1946)



temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
?
-
13.11.1941
probably served at HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) when the ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean off Gibraltar; spent some 6 months in hospital in Florida, USA
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
27.04.1945
-
06.1945
HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
28.06.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Devon City (boom carrier)
Saunders,
John Herbert
"Jack"
J.H. Saunders
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
29.12.1941
T/Lt.
04.06.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
22.06.1943
action Dutch coast 19.04.1943 [investiture 28.09.43]
12.05.1942
-
(08.1942)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
10.12.1942
-
(06.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 70 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
19.07.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 244 (motor torpedo boat)
05.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 385 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)


HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Scarrott,
Deryck John
D.J. Scarrott

Son of Frederick and Elsie Scarrott, of Possilpark, Glasgow.
1922 ?
-
18.02.1945
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 4]
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/S.Lt. (A)
22.06.1944
?
-
18.02.1945
HMS Arbiter (escort carrier)
Member, Pharmaceutical Society.
Scholfield
Leonard Frère
L.F. Scholfield

?
-
22.10.1943

(MPK)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 1]
T/S.Lt.
24.07.1941
T/Lt.
24.07.1942?
18.09.1941
-
22.10.1943
HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (missing, presumed killed when ship was mined east of Kalymnos)
Scott,
Denis Charles
D.C. Scott

Son of Charles Meacher Scott and Amy Mary Scott, of Ashtead, Surrey; husband of June Scott.
1920 ?
-
04.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Castricum Protestant Churchyard,  Netherlands, plot J, joint grave 13]
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
29.02.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
15.12.1942
hits on motorship & tanker 19.10.42 [investiture 16.02.43]
(10.1942)


HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta)

-
04.09.1944
HMS Daedalus
Scott,
[Sir] Peter Markham
P.M. Scott
Son of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN, and Kathleen Bruce (she married 2nd, 1922, Edward Hilton Young, later 1st Baron Kennet, PC, GBE, DSO, DSC, who died 1960; she died 1947); married 1st, 1942, Elizabeth Jane (marr. diss. 1951), daughter of David Howard; one daughter; 2nd, 1951, Philippa, daughter of late Comdr F.W. Talbot­Ponsonby, RN; one son one daughter.

see: Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

14.09.1909
London
-
29.08.1989
Bristol
T/Lt.
02.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
07.1943 ? (reld 1945)
Member of the Order of Companions of Honour CH
13.06.1987
HM's birthday 87; for services to conservation
Knight Kt
01.01.1973
New Year 73; for services to conservation and the environment
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE
01.06.1953
coronation list 53
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42 [investiture 28.09.43]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.06.1943
action Channel 15.04.43 [investiture 28.09.43]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
09.11.1943
actions Channel 04.05.43 & 27.09.43 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
08.07.1941
rescue crew Comorin
Mention in Despatches MID
02.10.1942
Op. Jubilee, Dieppe 19.08.42
Mention in Despatches MID
28.09.1943
action enemy warship Channel 26.07.43
Education: Oundle; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA); Munich State Academy; Royal Academy Schools, London
15.05.1939


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
12.02.1940
-
1942
HMS Broke (destroyer)
(10.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM SGB 9 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Goose) & Senior Officer, 1st SGB Flotilla [from 05.09.1942 at Newhaven]
(04.1943)
&
(07.1943)
temp Commanding Officer, HM SGB 6 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Shark)
(09.1943)


HMS Grey Seal
21.03.1944
-
(autumn
 1944
staff, Captain Coastal Forces (Channel), C-in-C Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1944)
-
(08.1944)
detached as Staff Officer, Coastal Forces, British Assault Area (Courseulles)
(08.1944)


detached as Liaison Officer, PT Boats (Cherbourg)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Artist, ornithologist, and broadcaster, the son of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. An Olympic sportsman (dinghy sailing), he served in the navy in World War 2. He began to exhibit his paintings of bird scenes in 1933, and after the war led several ornithological expeditions (Iceland, 1951, 1953; Australasia and the Pacific, 1956-7). His writing and television programmes helped to popularize natural history. Hon. Chairman of Council, World Wildlife Fund International, since 1985 (Chairman, 1961-82; Chairman of Council, 1983-85); Hon. Director: Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust; Survival Anglia Ltd; FRS 1987.
Published
: The battle of the narrow seas : a history of the light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939-1945 (1945); and several other books on art & nature
Scott,
R C
R.C. Scott
?
-
T/S.Lt.
10.1940, seniority 13.05.1940
T/Lt.
13.01.1941
(02.1941)
-
(12.1941)
HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Scott,
R McK
R.M. Scott
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
09.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
12.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
FCOD, HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
Scott,
Reginald Percy
R.P. Scott
?
-
T/A/Wt. Catering Offr.
19.05.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Scott,
Richard
R. Scott
?
-
T/S.Lt. (E)
19.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
13.05.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Lawson (frigate)
Scott,
Richard Dawson
R.D. Scott
Son of Dr. Gordon Shaw Scott and Winifred Alice Scott, of Bournemouth, Hampshire.
?
-
27.10.1944
(KIA) [age 20]
[Izmir (Bornova) British Protestant Cemetery, Turkey, grave 167]
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
14.09.1943
-
27.10.1944
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)

Scott,
Richard George
R.G. Scott
?
-
T/El.Lt.
01.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
20.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for miscellaneous duties)
26.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India)
Scott,
Ridley
R. Scott
?
-
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
26.01.1940
T/Sg.Lt. ?, seniority 26.01.1940
Education: MB, BS
12.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
Medical Officer, HMS Eclipse (destroyer)
10.06.1940
-
03.07.1941
Medical Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer)
(07.1945)


Medical Officer, 3rd Battalion RM Engineers
Scott,
Robert Edward
R.E. Scott
?
-
T/Lt.
13.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
16.08.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS President III (HQ for all personnel allocated for service in Defensively Equippped Merchant Ships (DEMS))
Scott,
Robert Irwin Maddin
R.I.M. Scott
?
-
10.1967 still alive
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
26.08.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)
?, seniority 26.08.1940
T/Lt. (A)
26.02.1943
Lt. (A)
?, seniority 26.02.1943
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
(1950)
Lt.Cdr. (A)
28.03.1951, senioroty 26.02.1951 (retd 18.11.1965)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
08.06.1950
HM's birthday 50
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
05.07.1957
?
06.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr. Alexandria)
01.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Striker (escort carrier)
(07.1948)
-
(05.1953)
1833 Squadron, FAA [List 2] [HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton)] [(07.1948) Commanding Officer]
(01.1956)


Midland Air Division, RNVR, List 1A
(02.1963)


Unattached List (L) 14
Scott,
Robert John
R.J. Scott
?
-
T/Lt. 21.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
08.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 289 (motor launch)
(04.1946)


HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Scott,
Robin Woodforde
R.W. Scott
12.02.1915
-
05.1989
Yeovil, Somerset
T/Lt.
17.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
10.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Oakham Castle (corvette)
Scott,
Ronald David
R.D. Scott
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
16.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
01.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
794 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn)]
(04.1946)


HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancs) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Scott,
Ronald James
R.J. Scott
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (S)
28.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Chilwa (landing craft base, Calcutta) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Scott,
Russell Kenneth
R.K. Scott
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
20.10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Scott,
William
"Willie"
W. Scott (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Scott) W. Scott (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Scott)
W. Scott (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Scott) W. Scott (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Scott)
Second son of William Scott and Janet Leghorn.
Married (07.08.1945) Annie Davidson; one son, one daughter.
08.05.1917
Waterloo, Lanarkshire
-
02.07.1994 *
Beverley, East Yorkshire

* Death Index gives 05.1995, which was (according to the family) because he died of an industrial disease and his death certificate wasn't issued until after the inquest in 1995.
Petty Officer
?
T/S.Lt. (E)
29.11.1943
T/Lt. (E)
29.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
1939?
-
1942?
engineer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
07.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
Engineering Officer, HMS Violet (corvette)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Worked for a while as an engineer in Duncan's chocolate factory and then in the mid 1950's got a job as a marine engineer. In the 1970's he became a self-employed marine engineer and retired around 1985.
Scrivener,
Harry John
"Jack"
H.J. Scrivener
Married (23.10.1948, Bethnal Green, London) Ruth Patricia Cousins; one daughter.
18.09.1918
Addlestone, Surrey
-
08.03.1982
Smallfield near Horley, Surrey
Prob. T/S.Lt.
28.06.1940
T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 28.06.1940
T/Lt.
01.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Charterhouse Public School; Magdalene College, Cambridge University (studied The Classics; BA Hons, later MA)
1940
-
1940
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
1940
-
09.1940
HMS Spartiate (shore base, Clyde, Glasgow)
17.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Rumba (anti-submarine trawler)
1941
-
10.1941
HMS Pirouette (anti-submarine trawler)
03.10.1941
05.08.1942
-
-
06.02.1944
06.02.1944
HMS Jasmine (corvette)
First Lieutenant
02.1944
-
1944
HMS Tana (RN base Kilindini, Kenya)
1944
-
05.1944
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
05.1944
05.1944
02.01.1946
-
-
-
(04.1946)
02.01.1946
(04.1946)
HMS Lancaster Castle (corvette)
First Lieutenant
Commanding Officer
Banker. Worked for Barclays Bank in various departments; his final appointment was as Administration Manager for Barclays Insurance Services, retiring in 1978.
Searle,
Geoffrey William
G.W. Searle
Married Constantine (née ...) (predeceased him); one son, one daughter.
1914 ?
-
03.07.2006
[Redhill ?], Surrey
[age 92]
?
? [LDX4564]
T/S.Lt.
11.07.1940
T/Lt.
11.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 06.1944, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE
03.06.1972
HM's birthday 72: for services to export

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
04.04.1944
Aegean operations 09-11.43 [decoration posted]
02.1939


joined RNVR (London)
09.1939
-
04.1940
HMS Forfar (armed merchant cruiser) (Nothern Patrol)
09.1940
-
10.1940
HMS Letitia (armed merchant cruiser)
11.1940
-
01.1941
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)
01.1941
-
04.1942
Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1007 (harbour defence motor launch) (27.07.1941 moved to Mediterranean) *
04.1942
-
06.1942
Commanding Officer, HM ML 353 (motor launch)
06.1942
-
03.07.1942
Commanding Officer, HM ML 1007 (motor launch)
04.07.1942
-
10.1943
Commanding Officer, HM ML 355 (motor launch)
10.1943
-
27.12.1943
Commanding Officer, HM ML 349 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 42nd ML Flotilla
27.12.1943
-
04.1944
Commanding Officer, HM ML 351 (motor launch)  & Senior Officer, 11th ML Flotilla (returned to UK 03.1944)
10.04.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 490 (motor launch) & SO 14th ML Flotilla
[ordered to Kristiansand, Norway 07.06.1945; got as far as Copenhagen]
Chairman of the Executive Committee and Director of Finance and Planning, British Petroleum Trading Ltd. 
Published
: At sea level (1994)
* indexed in the Navy List under HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
Seaton,
Derek Henry
D.H. Seaton
Mother's maiden name Seaton.
13.03.1923
Holbeach district, Lincolnshire
-
25.12.2008
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
Sea Cadet Corps
Seddon,
Ronald Franklin
R.F. Seddon
14.12.1917
-
10.1998
Merton, Surrey
T/Lt.
14.12.1942

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
30.11.1943
action with E-boats Nore 24.09.43
(1943)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 145 (motor launch)
20.01.1944
-
(1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 718 (motor torpedo boat)
Selsdon,
the Lord;
2nd Baron Seldson of Croydon;

Mitchell-Thomson, Patrick William Malcolm
Lord Selsdon
Son of 1st Baron and Madeleine (died 1946), youngest daughter of late Sir Malcolm M‘Eacharn of Galloway House.
Succeeded father 1938.
Married 1st (1936) Phoebette (who obtained a divorce, 1944), daughter of Crossley Swithinbank, Donnington Grove, Newbury; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1944) Dorothy Graham, daughter of late Frederick John Greenish,
Honnington Hall, near Grantham, Lincs.; one daughter.
28.05.1913
-
07.02.1963
T/S.Lt.
17.12.1940
T/Lt.
27.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
13.04.1943
operations Abercrombie, Bristle & Biting (coastal forces operations, Channel 43) & operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42) [investiture 03.07.45]
17.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS California (armed merchant cruiser)
07.04.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (for motor launches)
(1943)


HM MGB 316 (motor gun boat)
14.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Black Bat (Coastal Forces base, No. 13 wharf, Devonport)
Won the 1949 24 Hours of Le Mans together with Luigi Chinetti in a Ferrari 166MM.
Selvum-Holley,
John
J. Selvum-Holley
Born as John Selvum Rajah Doraswami Arulanthanathen as son of William Arulanthanathen, and Violet Holley.
Initially registered in the Navy as J.S. Holley, but using as last name from 10.1943 onwards Selvum-Holley
22.02.1915
Fulham district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
05.12.1988
Wandsworth district, London
T/S.Lt.
08.05.1941
T/A/Lt.
08.05.1942
T/Lt.
1944?, seniority 08.05.1942
Lt. (A) RN
22.05.1946, seniority 08.05.1942
Lt.Cdr. RN
08.05.1950
Cdr. RN
30.06.1956 (retd 22.02.1965)
19.05.1941
-
(02.1943)
HMS President III (accounting base for DEMS (Defence Equipped Merchant Ships) personnel)
31.01.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Aurora (cruiser)
18.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Deputy Fighter Direction Officer, HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lohian)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire) *
22.05.1946
 
 
transferred RN
23.06.1947
-
(05.1949)
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
17.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)
(05.1953)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1954)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1955)
 
 
no appointment listed
22.08.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS Harrier (RN school of aircraft direction, Kete, Pembrokeshire)
(01.1957)
 
 
no appointment listed
15.07.1957
-
(01.)1959
Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.04.1959
-
(07.1961)
Radio Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.09.1962
-
(02.1964)
Tactical and Weapons Policy Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Selwood,
Peter
P. Selwood
Son of Hugh Henry John Selwood, and Florence Celia Sparrow, of Herne Hill, London.
(12?).1922
Lambeth district, London
-
13.04.1945
(MPK) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 5]
T/S.Lt. (A)
26.05.1944
08.10.1944
-
13.04.1945
pilot, 849 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)]
[Flying from Royal naval Air Station Bankstown, Sydney Sub Lieutenants ET Barnard and P Selwood failed to pull out of long shallow dive while test firing
guns in Firefly Mk.1 DK440, and crashed into the sea off Malabar Point, Sydney, 13.4.45 both men were killed.]

Selwyn,
James Bertram
J.B. Selwyn
21.03.1910
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
08.1997
West Surrey district, Surrey
Prob. T/S.Lt.
30.08.1940
T/Lt.
30.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(02.1941)
 
 
British Naval Liaison Officer, "La Moqueuse" (French minesweeper)
16.08.1941
-
(10.)1943
HMS Capetown (light cruiser)
22.10.1943
-
(01.)1945
HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
11.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
Senter,
[Sir] John Watt
J.W. Senter (Photo courtesy of Mr Jim Baptie)
Eldest child of John Watt Senter (brother Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire; MB, Ch.B Edin.; killed in France, 1918), and Kate Cockburn Senter (née McIntyre),
Edinburgh.
Married 1st (1928) Frances Knight Brand (marriage
dissolved, 1961); no children.
Married 2nd (1961) Anne Caroline Jarvis.
27.05.1905
Edinburgh
-
14.07.1966
London
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
25.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) *
05.11.1942? (reld 17.08.1945; medically unfit)

Knight

Kt
12.06.1958
HM's birthday: for political services

Recommended for (but not awarded) the American Bonze Star (14.08.1945).

* Although officially released with the rank of T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.), some sources state that he held the rank of Cdr.

Education: George Watson's College, Edinburgh; Edinburgh University (MA, LLB, Dalgety Prizeman in Jurisprudence, Vans Dunlop Law Scholar, President of the Union, etc.)
1938


Member Army Officers' Emergency
Reserve
1940
-
1941
Civilian Assistant attached to General Staff, War Office
05.11.1942
-
1945
Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *



was Director of Security at Special Operations Executive (SOE) at some point
Called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1928; Bencher, 1961. Served with engineering company in Leicester, 1928-1935. In chambers with Valentine Holmes, 1935-1940. Resumed practice at Bar, 1945. Deputy Chairman (London), Northern Assurance Co. Ltd 1951-1953. Member General Council of the Bar, 1954-1958; Honorary Treasurer 1956-1958. Queen's Counsel (QC), 14.04.1953.
* The "Who's who" gives: additional; for duty outside Admiralty; not confirmed in Navy List.
Service,
Robert Gibson
R.G. Service
(12?).1910
Fulham district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt.
28.01.1940
T/A/Lt.
25.11.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
04.04.1944
Aegean operations 09-11.43
Polish Military Cross PolMC
22.12.1942
good services to Polish Navy
(04.1940)


HMS Fury (destroyer)
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
(12.1942?)


British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Krakowiak (Polish destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sewell,
Alfred Jack
"Jackie"
A.J. Sewell (Source: Commonwealth Biplane Fighter Aces website)

20.03.1917
Chertsey
-
03.10.1943
[Portsmouth Naval Cemetery, lot 136]
T/S.Lt. (A)
01.01.1940
T/Lt. (A)
01.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
> 02.1943, < 06.1943
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.12.1941
fighter operations Mediterranean [presented to net-of-kin]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
(04.1940)


Fleet Air Arm
11.08.1940
-
(02.)1941
pilot, 806 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier), from 10.01.1941 from Malta, then HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
03.11.1941
-
(08.)1942
pilot, 759 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton)]
16.10.1942
-
07.1943
pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Dasher (escort carrier)] (initially Second-in-Command, but got command of Squadron after 02.1943, but before 06.1943)
01.08.1943
-
03.10.1943
Commanding Officer, 1837 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Navy Delegation, USA)] (formed in the USA; killed on a mid-air collision while practising formation flying over Yarmouth, Maine, USA)
Shadbolt,
Frederick James Russell
F.J.R. Shadbolt
(06?).1923
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
T/S.Lt.
29.09.1943
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1945
wind up, Europe 45
14.12.1942
-
(07.1945)
HMS Beehive, Felixstowe, serving as:
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 412 (motor torpedo boat)
Shallis,
Marshall Bartlett
M.B. Shallis
16.10.1908
-
02.1990
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
T/S.Lt.
09.01.1944
T/Lt.
01.03.1945
20.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MMS 82 (motor minesweeper) *
* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Sharrock,
Norman Lawrence
N.L. Sharrock

From Bromley, Kent.
?
-
12.1998 still alive
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/S.Lt. (A)
27.09.1942
T/Lt. (A)
07.10.1944
Lt. (A) RN
09.1947, seniority 02.07.1945
Lt. RN
22.09.1949, seniority 02.07.1945
Lt.Cdr. RN
02.07.1953 (retd > 07.1959, < 07.1961)
Education: County Grammar School, Bromley, Kent



electrical testing job at J. Stone's of Deptford
1941


training, HMS St Vincent (training establishment, Gosport)
14.12.1942
-
(06.1944)

pilot, 825 Squadron FAA [18.12.1943 to 07.09.1944 at HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
(07.1945)


HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) *
03.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
811 Squadron FAA
09.1947


transferred to Royal Navy (Air Branch) [extended service commission]
22.09.1949


permanent commission
(05.1950)


no appointment listed
(05.1953)


no appointment listed
(01.1956)


HMS Falcon *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Shaw,
Frederick Oscar John
F.O.J. Shaw
25.10.1917
-
10.06.1998
Thanet district, Kent
T/Sg.Lt.
13.08.1943 (reld 1945/46)
Army service:
Capt.
12.11.1962, seniority 13.12.1952 [472472]
Maj.
12.11.1962, seniority 13.12.1957
Lt.Col.
13.12.1965
Col.
13.12.1975 (retd 12.11.1978)

MRCS, LRCP

20.04.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
(07.1945)


HMS Emperor (escort carrier) *
12.11.1962


commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps [short service commission]
07.01.1964


permanent commission
12.10.1964
-
(02.1967)
Medical Adviser, British Mission, Libya
* indexed, but not listed as such
Shaw,
Robert Johnstone
"Bob"
R.J. Shaw
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
19.09.1943 (reld 1945/46)
04.1944
-
(06.1944)

pilot, 825 Squadron FAA [initially at HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Shaw,
William Cameron
W.C. Shaw
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
23.02.1940
T/Lt. (E)
07.04.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr. (E)
12.1940?
A/T/Cdr. (E)
02.1944? (reld 1944/45?)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
21.12.1943
Operation Husky
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
19.12.1940
-
(02.)1943
HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
04.1943
-
(10.1943)
staff Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (additional, for miscellaneous duties)]
21.02.1944
-
(10.1944)
staff Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
Sheffield,
Ralph Gordon
R.G. Sheffield
(06?).1920
Hackney, Greater London
-
T/Lt.
01.08.1942
Cdr. RNR
31.12.1973 (retd 17.02.1977)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
11.06.1977
HM's birthday 77
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
14.01.1966
-
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
13.05.1975
Clasp
...
-
...
...
25.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Kildwick (escort)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Monck *
1974
-
1977
Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sheldrick,
Harwin Woodthorpe
H.W. Sheldrick
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
11.12.1942
Mention in Despatches MID
21.10.1941
attack Channel convoys 08.09.41
Mention in Despatches MID
24.08.1943
Operation Childhood
(09.1941)


First Lieutenant, HM MTB 35 (motor toepdo boat)
(1943)


HM MTB 264 (motor torpedo boat)
06.1945
-

HMS Caradoc
Shepard,
Graham Howard
G.H. Shepard
Son of Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976), illustrator of "Winnie the Pooh" & "Wind in the willows", and Florence Chaplin (died 1927).
Married Ann Faith Shepard (née ...) (26.08.1907 - 09.1997); one daughter.
From Guildford.
(09?).1907
Hambledon, Surrey
-
20.09.1943
(KIA) [age 36]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
[Commemorated at the Guildford War Memorial]
Prob. S.Lt.
27.09.1940
T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 27.09.1940
T/Lt.
27.12.1940
Commendation Comdn
29.07.1941
air raid Belfast 04.05.41
Education: Marlborough College; Oxford University
17.01.1941
-
(12.1941)
French Ship "La Malouine" (corvette)
29.05.1942
-
20.09.1943
HMS Polyanthus (corvette) (lastly as First Lieutenant) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-942 south of Iceland]
Shiers,
Leslie Gordon Percival
L.G.P. Shiers

reminiscences at BBC's WW2 People's War
(06?).1915
Llandilofawr district, Carmarthenshire
-
A/T/Sg.Lt.
05.01.1940
T/Sg.Lt.
?, seniority 05.01.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
? (reld < 04.1946)
Education: MRCS, LRCP
05.01.1940
-
02.1940
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
02.1940
-
03.1941
Medical Officer, HMS Weston (sloop) (North Atlantic & North Sea)
04.03.1941
-
(12.1941)
RN Sick Quarters, Lowestoft [HMS Europa]
04.02.1942
-
(08.)1943
Medical Officer, HMS Dauntless (light cruiser) (Madagascar)
03.1945
-
(07.1945)
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Brisbane, Australia  [HMS Furneaux]
Shillington,
Courtenay Alexander Rives
C.A.R. Shillington
18.03.1902
Belfast
-
09.12.1983
Groomsport, Bangor, County Down
S.Lt.
01.04.1924
Cdr.
30.06.1938
Capt.
30.06.1943
Cdre. 2nd cl.
22.06.1949 (retd 1954)
Companion ot the Order of the Bath CB
01.06.1953
Coronation List 53 [investiture 30.06.53]
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
1972
?
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VD
1941
?
 
01.04.1924


joined RNVR, Ulster Division
1939


Commander, Auxiliary Patrol, Scapa
1942


Deputy Chief of Staff and Naval Liaison Officer to Field Marshal Lord Gort, Governor of Malta
1942


Chief of Staff to Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf
1943
-
1945
Naval Officer in Charge, Bahrain
ADC to: Duke of Abercorn, Northern Ireland. 1927-45; Earl Granville, Governor of Northern Ireland, 1945-52; Lord Wakehurst, Governor of Northern Ireland, 1952-64; Lord Erskine of Rerrick, Governor of NI, 1964-67; Lord Grey of Naunton, Governor of NI, 1967-73; Deputy Lieutenant, County Down, 1946
Shinkfield,
Thomas Noel
L.J.G. Shoobridge
Son of Thomas Forsyth Shinkfield and Mary Elizabeth Shinkfield, of Darlington, later Finchley, Middlesex.
22.12.1920
Stockton on Tees
-
24.04.1943
[age 23]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 7]
T/S.Lt. (A)
24.04.1942
 
Employee of Barclays Bank, serving in the Northwest of England.



basic pilot training, Canada
08.01.1943
-
24.04.1943
pilot, 808 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture] for service at HMS Battler (escort carrier)
[killed when the engine of his Supermarine Seafire Mk IIc number MB259 stalled at high speed over the Irish Sea; the aircraft went into the sea from a height of 50 ft having gone off the end of HMS Battler's deck and neither aircraft nor pilot, were recovered]
Shippey,
Leslie
L. Shippey

?
-
2002 ?
Durham ?
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
25.12.1943
T/Lt.
25.12.1945 (reld 1947)
08.09.1941


joined RNVR



HMS Northern Gift (anti-submarine warfare trawler)



HMS Angle (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
03.09.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
08.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Mull of Kintyre (motor craft; HQ target trials)
Shippey,
Maurice Robert Humphrey
M.R.H. Shippey

?
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977 ?
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
26.04.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)
26.10.1944
T/Lt. (A)
01.04.1946
Lt.Cdr. (A)
01.04.1954 (retd 06.11.1962)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
23.01.1963
?
26.04.1944
-
09.1944
HMS Saker (British Admiralty delegation, Washington, USA) (for FFD [= full flying duties?] and training)
21.09.1944
-
(04.1946)
pilot, 1851 Squadron FAA
1940s


transferred, Permanent RNVR (later RNR)
Shipton,
Conrad Gregory
C.G. Shipton

(03?).1916
West Bromwich
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
23.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
30.11.1942
-
(07.1945)
Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Shoobridge,
Lionel John George
L.J.G. Shoobridge
Son of Herbert James Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Shoobridge.
Married Doris Mabel Russel Shoobridge, of West Hampstead, London (2006 still alive at Hove); one son (died).
(03?).1905
Hastings, Sussex
-
30.05.1944
(died of aneurysm) [age 39]
[Bristol (Arnos Vale) Crematorium, panel 3]
T/Lt.
21.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?
 
23.09.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Velia
29.11.1943
-
30.05.1944
Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Cardiff [HMS Lucifer]
Shore,
the Hon. Frederick Maxwell Aglionby;
7th Baron Teignmouth, cr. 1797, succ. 1964; Baronet, cr. 1792
F.M.A. Shore
Son of Hugh Aglionby Shore.
02.12.1920
Ireland
-
07.07.1981
[Brownsbarn, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Eire ?]
T/S.Lt.
02.12.1941
T/Lt.
13.09.1943

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
02.05.1944
torpedoed cruiser Dalmatia [investiture 10.10.44]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
28.11.1944
actions Channel 07-08.44 [investiture 27.07.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1945
attack convoy Nore area 01.11.44
Education: Wellington College
19.04.1943
-
(08.1943)
HMS Razorbill (Coastal Forces base, Algiers)
08.1943
-
(04.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 298 (motor torpedo boat)
15.05.1944
-
(11.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 474 (motor torpedo boat) *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President]
* 07.1944-08.1944 (temporary?) Commanding Officer, MTB 475
Sibly,
Thomas Charles Franklin

T.C.F. Sibly
21.08.1924
-
13.05.1999
Caversham, Reading district, Berkshire
Prob. T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.)
17.07.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
05.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
14.02.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere)
Sidebottom,
Derek Chappe "Flatters"
D.C. Sidebottom
23.02.1912
-
09.1996
Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
13.10.1942
attack R-boats Dover 16.08.42 [investiture 15.12.42]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
22.06.1943
action Nore 12.04.43 [investiture 07.11.44]
Mention in Despatches MID
11.10.1940
blocking Zeebrugge Canal or Dieppe
Mention in Despatches MID
13.10.1942
attack convoy Dover 06.08.42
(03.1942)
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 330 (motor gun boat)
(04.1943)


Commanding Officer, HM MGB 112 (motor gun boat)
Silvant,
Jean Charles Maxine
J.C.M. Silvant
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
04.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(01.1945)
HMS Tetcott (destroyer) *
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) *
11.09.1945
-
?
British Naval Liaison Officer, "La Moqueuse" (French minesweeper)
(04.1946)


HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
* indexed, but not lsited as such
Simonds,
William Derek Cobourn
W.D.C. Simonds
07.05.1919
-
03.1994
Reading and Wokingham, Berkshire
Prob. Midsh.
20.10.1938
Midsh.
?, seniority 20.10.1938
A/S.Lt.
11.01.1940
S.Lt.
02.1941, seniority 07.05.1940
Lt.
04.05.1942
Lt.Cdr.
04.05.1950 (retd 07.05.1964)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
27.01.1952
?
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
14.07.1964
?
20.10.1938


joined RNVR, Mersey Division
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
29.08.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Revenge (battleship)
30.01.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Simpson,
David Caldow
D.C. Simpson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Simpson)
D.C. Simpson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Simpson)
Eldest son of David Caldow Simpson (1892-1969, King's Royal Rifles France and Observer in RFC/RAF [Lieutenant]), and ... Muller.
Married (02.10.1943, Bristol (Horfield)) Marjorie; one son.
27.07.1919
Forrest Gate, Essex / Greater London
-
09.11.1985
Colcester, Essex
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. (D)
09.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Queen Mary College and Royal London Hospital: LDS, RCS (Eng.)



served at Devonport, then for a short period at Bristol
29.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed 
(04.1946)


no appointment listed 
Became a dentist, settling in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. He retired from the NHS in 1979 but continued in private practice right up to his death.
Simpson,
Denis Louis
D.L. Simpson
Married Maureen Margaret Simpson.
26.02.1912
-
02.1987
Kingsclere and Whitchurch, Hampshire
T/Lt.
01.03.1945
Lt.Cdr.
?
1942


joined RNVR
1942


served in HMS Birmingham in convoy from Egypt to Malta (Operation Vigorous), June 1942
1942
-
1946
served on anti-submarine trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, Madagascar and South Africa:
10.05.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lady Rosemary
(1946)


HMS Afrikander
Sinclair,
Douglas Neil
D.N. Sinclair

Son of Neil Frederick Sinclair (1885-1950), surgeon, and Chrissie Souter (born 1884).
Married Margaret Legard; one son, two daughters.
03.08.1921
Richmond district, Surrey
-
06.06.2005
St Peter & St James Hospice, Sussex
(died from pancreatic cancer)
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
12.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
17.06.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
09.1944 (reld 09.1946)
Education: Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (1935-1938); studied medicine, King's College, London (1940; study interrupted by the war)
11.1942
-
1943
HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegnes) (training as a rating)
12.1943


commissioned
12.1943?
-
1944?
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (training for midget submarines, but as adequate eyesight failed, transferred to Special Branch)
03.1944
-
07.1944
British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. O-21 (Dutch submarine)
07.1944
-
08.1945
British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship Le Glorieux (submarine)
(07.1945)
 
HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, later Taranto) *
08.1945
-
08.1945
10th Submarine Flotilla (Malta) (as spare officer)
28.08.1945
-
09.1946
British Liaison Officer, French Ship Le Fantasque (destroyer)
Qualified in medicine, The London Hospital, 1952. After qualifying and house jobs and locums he joined a practice in Malmesbury as an assistant. Two years later he moved to Pound Hill, near Crawley, where he established a singlehanded practice. When he retired in 1988 there were six partners and a list of over 14 000. He was a member of the Medical Society of London and the Society of Apothecaries.

* indexed, but not listed as such
Slade,
Allan Douglas
A.D. Slade
?
-

T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
11.06.1943
T/Lt.
01.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
15.03.1943
-
(06.1943)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for motor launch duties)
15.03.1943
-
(10.1943)
First Lieutenant, HM ML 106 (motor launch)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
04.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Rame Head (repair ship)
Slemeck,
Arthur Geoffrey
A.G. Slemeck

Brother of Lt. R.H. Slemeck, RNVR, and of Maj. D.C. Slemeck.
25.11.1917
-
01.1984
Surrey South-Western
Prob. T/S.Lt.
10.11.1939
T/S.Lt.
1940, seniority 10.11.1939
T/Lt.
10.05.1942
?
-
03.1940
HMS Thuringia (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
18.03.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Leicester City (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
04.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Foxhound (destroyer)
07.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Impulsive (destroyer) (eventually First Lieutenant)
(04.1946)


HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Slemeck,
Roland Hugh
R.H. Slemeck
Brother of Lt. A.G. Slemeck, RNVR, and of Maj. D.C. Slemeck.
Married; children.
09.10.1920
Alderholt, Dorset
-
1983
Ord.Sea.
20.10.1940 [FX/84857]
T/S.Lt.
16.04.1942
T/Lt.
16.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1945
coastal actions Genoa 08-09.44
20.10.1940


joined RNVR
1942
-
16.04.1942
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
29.11.1943
-
(09.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 419 (motor torpedo boat)
(27.10.1944)


HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
23.05.1945
-
?
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
14.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
Smart,
John Elliott
"Jack"
J.E. Smart
Married 1st; one son.
Married 2nd; one son.

01.03.1916
Northumberland
-
03.02.2008
Victoria, BC, Canada
Prob. S.Lt.
03.10.1938
S.Lt.
03.10.1939
T/Lt.
01.03.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1949 (retd 08.03.1954)

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE
21.12.1943

for courage and undajunted devotion to duty: Operation Source (midget submarine attack on Tirpitz, 22.09.43) [investiture 26.02.46]

Distinguished Service Order DSO
13.11.1945
Operation Struggle (midget submarine attack Johore Strait, 31.07.45) * [investiture 26.02.46]

Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA)

LM
15.10.1946

for services to the United States of America during the War

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
30.04.1953
?
* Lieutenant Smart was in command of His Majesty's Midget Submarine XE-1 and accompanied XE-3 m the successful attack on a heavy Japanese cruiser [Takeo] in Johore Strait, Singapore. Like XE-3, Lieutenant Smart also left the believed safe channel during his long approach up the Singapore Straits and entered mined waters to avoid suspected hydrophone posts. XE-1's target was a heavy cruiser of the Nachi class berthed about two miles beyond the Atago cruiser which XE-3 was to attack. Unfortunately XE-1 was delayed in her attack owing to several encounters with surface craft and instead of passing the boom ahead of XE-3 as planned, actually passed it go minutes after XE-3. This robbed Lieutenant Smart of the necessary margin of time to reach his target and withdraw before dark and he accordingly decided to attack the Atago class cruiser. Unable to get his craft underneath the target he dropped his main charge close alongside it and withdrew. The passage involved the same great hazards as those faced by XE-3 and Lieutenant Smart displayed great courage throughout this hazardous operation.
03.10.1938


joined RNVR, Tyne Division
19.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Malaya (battleship)
(02.1941)


HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) *
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.02.1943
-
(12.1943)
12th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)]:
(09.1943)


Commanding Officer, HMS X-8 (midget submarine) (Tirpitz action)
01.03.1944
-
(06.1944)
12th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)]:
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HMS X-25 (midget submarine)
07.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Bonaventure (midget submarine depot ship, Loch Striven):
(07.1945)


Commanding Officer, HMS XE-1 (midget submarine) (Takeo action)
Stockbroker with Pemberton Securities, a Vancouver firm. Became a director and an outstanding expert in bond trading before transferring to the firm's Victoria office in the 1980s.
Smellie,
Michael Kennedy
M.K. Smellie

Married Muriel Roberts (died 22.04.2005).
1922
Grange (Edinburgh) district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
1998
Ballater district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt.
04.12.1942
T/S.Lt.
04.06.1943
T/Lt.
04.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
28.03.1943
-
(04.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM ML 100 (motor launch)
01.06.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 110 (motor launch)
04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
20.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for Sea Transport and Naval Control Service)
Smith,
Allen Kent
"Kentie"
A.K. Smith (Photo from website of Royal British Legion of Scotland)

Son of Peter and Betsy M. Smith (née Miller), of Stronsay, Orkney.

memorial entry
22.01.1915
Hunday, Stronsay
-
15.11.1942
(KIA) [age 27]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]
T/A/Lt.
14.11.1940
T/Lt.
10.1941, seniority 14.11.1940
Education: South and Central Schools on Stronsay; Edinburgh University (MA)
After spending a year at Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre to qualify as a teacher, he did not seek a teaching post, but travelled out to Malaya, where he worked in rubber production.
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(06.1942)


attended FAA Fighter School Yeovilton (759 & 760 Squadrons)
[record of a forced landing made by him 17.06.1942 while flying a Sea Hurricane lb]
?
-
15.11.1942
HMS Dasher (escort carrier)
[as a Sea Hurricane pilot he would have been part of either 804 or 891 Squadrons FAA]
[killed while taking passage on the escort carrier HMS Avenger that was torpedoed & sunk near Gibraltar]

* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Arthur Valentine
A.V. Smith

?
-

T/S.Lt.
15.05.1941
T/A/Lt.
15.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
21.07.1941
-
(06.1944)
Gunnery Officer, Instructional Staff, HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (in lieu of specialist Gunnery Officer)
(07.1945)


HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Edmund Kidson
E.K. Smith
From Leeds.
26.02.1917
-
11.1987
Claro, North Yorkshire
T/Lt.
14.08.1942 (reld 1946?)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45
28.10.1942
-
(08.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM RML 520 (rescue motor launch)
(07.1945)


HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) *
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Edward Thomas
E.T. Smith
?
-
Lt. (Sp.Br.)
23.12.1942
18.08.1942
-
(1945)
radar officer, HMS Bee (Holyhead)
Smith,
Eric James Stanley
E.J.S. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt.
11.07.1940
T/Lt.
22.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
? (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43 [investiture 28.09.43]



initially based at Harwich with the new magnetic minesweeping section
15.01.1941
-
(06.1944)
French Ship "Charles Vaillant" (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Nadia (tug; depot ship) *



perhaps: HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Frederick
F. Smith
Son of Albert and Ella Smith, of Knysna, Cape Province, South Africa.
1925 ?
-
17.10.1945
[age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 90, column 2]
T/A/S.Lt.
19.03.1945
21.05.1944
-
17.10.1945
HM LCT 7020 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
Smith,
Frederick Martin
F.M. Smith
Son of William Thomas
Smith, and Gertrude Smith (née Norris), of Cheltenham.
Husband of Margaret Lucy Smith, of Cheltenham.
(09?).1911
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
-
15.12.1943
hospital, Glasgow
(DOW) [age 32]
[Leckhampton (St Peter) Churchyard, block A, vault 13]
T/S.Lt.
31.07.1941
T/Lt.
?
15.10.1941
-
08.1943
HMS Boston (Bangor class minesweeper)
08.1943?
-
15.12.1943
HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)]
Smith,
Geoffrey Francis
G.F. Smith
28.02.1919
-
06.1999
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
T/Lt. (E)
07.12.1944 (reld 1947)



will have served on MTB's at sometime, and went to America, Bermuda, the Mediterranean, North Africa and Ceylon:
18.03.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Dunoon) (for landing craft infantry (LCI))
(12.1945)


HMS Mylodon (Combined Operations base, Lowestoft)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Smith,
Henry Rae
see: RN officers' section  
Smith,
Ivor Ferguson
J.D. Smith
18.02.1914
-
22.03.1999
Swanage, South Dorset district, Dorset
T/El.S.Lt. (prob)
07.10.1940
T/El.Lt.
07.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
21.10.1940
-
06.02.1941
HMS Vernon II (trawler base, Portsmouth)
07.02.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)
23.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
Electrical engineer.
Smith,
Jack
J. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston)
Son of Arnold and Alice Smith.
Husband of Alethea May Smith, of South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire.
1916 ?
-
02.07.1944
(KIA) [age 28]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, II.E.7]
T/S.Lt.
23.10.1941
T/Lt.
23.10.1942?
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
18.07.1942
-
(08.)1943
HMS Middleton (destroyer)
08.08.1943
-
02.07.1944
First Lieutenant, HM MMS 1019 (motor minesweeper) (ship blown up on a mine off Cherbourg harbour; picked up by HM MMS 214, but died on board)
Smith,
John Dennis
J.D. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt.
26.10.1943
T/Lt.
26.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
24.01.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
(02.1944?)
-
(1945?)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 458 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
11.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
Smith,
Richard Routledge "Stinker"
R.R. Smith
?
-
T/Lt.
26.06.1941

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
06.07.43
attack convoy CZebib 01.04.43 &tc [investiture 19.10.43]
Mention in Despatches MID
30.05.44
coastal forces action Nore 09.03.44
Mention in Despatches MID
14.05.46
attack 11.07.43
(04.1943)


HM MTB 266 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1943)


HM MTB 640 (motor torpedo boat)
(1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 629 (motor torpedo boat)
Smith,
William George
W.G. Smith
Married Judi (née ...).
1915 ?
-
21.03.2007
[aged 92]
...
...
Capt.
?

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD
?
?
?
-
?
?
Snelgar,
[Revd.] Douglas John
D.J. Snelgar
Son of John Thomas Snelgar (1887-), and Verona Rebecca Russell (1895-).
(09?).1917
Paddington district, London / Greater London / Middlesex
-
18.06.2008
Petersfield, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
15.07.1943
T/Lt.
06.05.1946, seniority 15.07.1945

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
14.08.1945
relief of Greece [decoration handed]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1945
New Year 45
15.12.1943
-
(01.)1945
HM HDML 1051 (harbour defence motor launch) [HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria)]
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
Vicar of Steep (1957-92); Priest-in-Charge of Froxfield with Privett (1988-92); Hon. Canon of Portsmouth Cathedral (1985-92).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Snelgrove,
Reginald George
R.G. Snelgrove
(12?).1894
Clutton district, Somerset
-
07.11.1966
Instow, Devon
Skpr. RNR
?
Prob. T/Lt.
29.07.1940
T/Lt.
04.1941, seniority 29.07.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
27.08.1940
Belgian, Dutch & French coasts 05.40 [investiture 11.03.41]
(06.1940)


Commanding Officer, HMS Conidaw (yacht) (Dunkirk)
29.07.1940


transferred, RNVR
09.08.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)
07.07.1941
-
(02.1943)
HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)
19.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
Retired foundry superintendent.
Snelle,
William
W. Snelle (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Snelle)
From Swinton, Lancs.
06.06.1914
Salford, Lancs.
-
18.12.1997
Edinburgh
Ord.Sea.
13.08.1940 [PO/JX213252]
A/AB Sea.
19.11.1940-26.02.1941
T/S.Lt.
05.06.1941
T/Lt.
05.06.1942 (reld 31.01.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.12.1943
Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43) [investiture 10.07.45]
1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45
Textile designer & salesman.
13.08.1940
-
17.10.1940
HMS Ganges (new entry training establishment, Shotley)
18.10.1940
-
28.11.1940
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
29.11.1940
-
26.02.1941
HMS President III (accounting base of DEMS personnel)
27.02.1941
-
20.06.1941
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
21.06.1941
-
26.11.1941
HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) ?
27.11.1942
-
29.08.1943
HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary):
30.08.1943
-
31.01.1946
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
21.06.1941
-
10.02.1943
Gunnery Officer, HMS Northney (training centre for landing craft, Hayling Island)
(07.1943)


Flotilla Officer, 128th LCA Flotilla (landing craft, assault) & Senior Naval Officer Landing (S) (Sicily)
31.05.1944
-
31.01.1945
Flotilla Officer, HMS Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Djedjelli [Algeria] & Messina [Italy])
08.04.1945
-
30.11.1945
HMS Mylodon (Combined Operations base, Lowestoft)
05.12.1945
-
31.01.1946
HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire)
Somerset,
Henry Robert Somers Fitzroy de Vere
R.H.F. de V.S. Somerset
known in the Navy as:
Somerset, Robert Henry Fitzroy de Vere Somers
otherwise as:
Somerset, Henry de Vere Fitzroy

Son of late Henry Charles Somers Augustus Somerset (1874-1945), and Lady Katherine de Vere Beauclerk (1877-1958).
Heir­presumptive to 10th Duke of Beaufort, KG, PC, GCVO.
Married (02.12.1922), Bettine Violet, daughter of late Hon. Mrs Sopwith and late Major C.E. Malcolm; one son, one daughter (and elder son, Lt. John Alexander Somerset, killed in action, 15.04.1945).
03.03.1898
Chester Terrace, London
-
27.02.1965
drowned off the Island of Rhodes
British Army:

2nd Lt.
20.10.1915
Lt.
25.10.1915 (reld 27.08.1920)
Capt. RARO
?
RNVR:

T/Lt.
16.11.1940
Distinguished Service Order DSO
18.02.1918
*
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1918
?

World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his men with great dash and determination in an attack, and, having captured the final objective, he organised and led an attack on a strong point, which he captured. He was driven out by heavy shell fire, but at once led another attack and regained and held the position and captured a field gun. He set a magnificent example of courage, initiative, and leadership.

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (...-20.10.1915)



served World War I in the British Army (The Coldstream Guards)



transferred to the Royal Air Force and learned to fly



a noted yachtsman in both British and
American waters and had become a boat builder and joined the RNVR
11.1940
-
(02.1941)
Navigating Officer, HMS Montgomery (destroyer)
Souter,
David Cowley
D.C. Souter
?
-
S.Lt.
13.06.1939
Lt.
01.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
12.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
09.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 68 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
22.02.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 268 (motor torpedo boat)
09.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Arbella (Combined Operations base, Boston, Lincs.)
Southcott,
James Sidney
"Jimmy"
J.S. Southcott
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
09.11.1943
action Channel 04.09.43 [investiture 09.05.44]
Mention in Despatches MID
02.12.1941
air sea rescue
Mention in Despatches MID
28.09.1943
action in enemy waters Channel 26.07.43
Legionnaire of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
20.03.1945
Bay of Seine 06.44
(1941)


HM ML 138 (motor launch)
(1943)


Commanding Officer, HM SGB 3 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Seal)
Sparks,
Geoffrey Oliver
G.O. Sparks (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Sparks) G.O. Sparks (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Sparks)
G.O. Sparks (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Sparks)  
Married 1st Sylvia Frances Lower (died); two sons.
Married 2ns Kathleen Cecilia Costello.
Residence: Mill Hill, NW London (from 1945), later Leicester, later St Albans.
04.09.1911
St Pancras, Greater London
-
08.08.1974
St Albans, Hertfordshire
T/S.Lt.
09.10.1939
T/A/Lt.
14.09.1940?
T/Lt.
10.1941, seniority 11.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
07.07.1943? (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 
12.06.1945
offensive sweep Genoa 12.44
01.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Warrior II (armed yacht)
07.08.1940
-
25.09.1940
HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) (while under construction)
07.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (additional for miscellaneous services)
10.08.1941
-
18.10.1941
HMS Breda (armed yacht; submarine tender)
18.10.1941
-
15.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HM ML196 (motor launch)
15.04.1942
15.04.1942
23.12.1942
-
-
-
(06.1943)
23.12.1942
(06.1943)
HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)]:
Commanding Officer, HM ML 347 (motor launch)
Commanding Officer, HM ML ... (motor launch)
07.07.1943
-
12.10.1944
Commanding Officer, HM ML 176 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 19th ML Flotilla [HMS Iskra (Coastal Forces base, Gibraltar)]
12.10.1944
(12.1944)
-

(07.1945)

HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta):
3rd Minesweeping Motor Launch Flotilla
Spencer,
Percival John BurnettP.J.B. Spencer
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
12.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
28.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
09.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll)
(06.1944)


HM LCT 455 (landing craft, tank)
Spooner,
[Prof.] Frank Clyffurde
F.C. Spooner (Photo courtesy of Mr David Levitt)
F.C. Spooner (Photo courtesy of Mr David Levitt)
Son of Harry Gordon Morrison Spooner.
05.03.1924
-
23.06.2007
Bromley, Kent
T/A/S.Lt. (S)
29.02.1945
T/S.Lt. (S)
28.08.1945 (reld late 1946)
Education: Bromley Grammar School; Christ's College, Cambridge University (Hist. Tripos, 1st cl., Pt I 1947 and Pt II 1948; MA 1949; PhD 1953; LittD 1985)
1943
-
1945
served as a rating in the RNVR
01.1945
-
02.1945
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
28.05.1945
-
(07.)1945
HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)
11.1945
-
(04.)1946
HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)
1946
-
1946
possibly HMS Newfoundland (cruiser)
Bachelor Research Scholar, 1948; Chargé de Recherches, CNRS, Paris, 1949-1950; Allen Scholar, 1951; Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1951-1957; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, 1955-1957 at Chicago, Columbia, New York, and Harvard Univs; Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes, VI Section, Sorbonne, 1957-1961; Lecturer, University of Oxford, 1958-1959; Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Harvard University, 1961-1962; Irving Fisher Research Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1962-1963; University of Durham: Lecturer, 1963; Reader, 1964; Resident Tutor-in-charge, Lumley Castle, 1965-1970; Professor of Economic History, University of Durham, 1966-1985, now Emeritus. Director, Institute of European Studies, 1969-1976; Leverhulme Fellow, 1976-1978; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, 1985-1986. FRHistS 1970; FSA 1983. Prix Limantour de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 1957; West European Award, British Academy, 1979; Ernst Meyer Award, 1983.
Published: L'économie mondiale et les frappes monétaires en France, 1493-1680, 1956, revised edn The International Economy and Monetary Movements in France, 1493-1725, 1972; Risks at Sea: Amsterdam insurance and maritime Europe 1766-1780, 1983;
contributions to joint works and to journals.
Squier,
Francis Harry
F.H. Squier
Son of Charles Westwood Squier and Hilda Mary Squier (née Tuckett), of Newton St. Cyres.
(03?).1922
Romford district, Essex
-
27.10.1942
[age 20]
[Cowley (St Anthony) Churchyard]
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
?
-
27.10.1942
HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton)
Stainton,
Keith Monin
K.M. Stainton
Son of Thomas Stainton, butcher at Kendal, and a Belgian refugee.
Married 1st (1946) Vanessa Ann Heald (born 09.03.1924; marriage dissolved); three sons, three daughters.
Married 2nd (1980) Frances Easton.

08.11.1921
Kendal, Cumbria
-
03.11.2001
Deben, Suffolk
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
15.07.1944
Croix de Guerre avec palmes (France) CdeG 
?
war patrols
Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
?
?
- -
1943
Citation à l'Ordre de l'Armée (France) [French Mention in Despatches]
Education: Kendal School; Manchester University (1946-1949; BA (Com.) Dist. in Economics).
Insurance clerk, 1936-1939.
1940
-
1946
served World War II with submarines and French resistance:
22.02.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, later Taranto):
(1943?)


British Liaison Officer, French Ship Le Glorieux (submarine)
(1943?)


British Liaison Officer, French Ship Casabianca (submarine)
(07.1945)


HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) *
(04.1946)


HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
Conservative politician. Leader Writer, Financial Times, 1949-1952; Industrial Consultant, 1952-1957; joined Burton, Son & Sanders, Ltd, 1957, Managing Director 1961-1969, Chairman 1962-1969; Chairman Scotia Investments Ltd, 1969-1972. MP (C) Sudbury and Woodbridge, Dec. 1963-1983; Member, House of Commons Select Committees on Expenditure and Science and Technology. Member Council of Europe and WEU, 1979-1983.

* indexed, but not listed as such
Standley,
Alfred George Leslie
A.G.L. Standley
Son of ... Standley, and ... Newman.
Married Bon Standley (née ...); two children.
(03?).1917
Uxbridge district, Middlesex
-
10.02.2007
T/Lt. (A)
31.08.1942
Lt.Cdr. (A)
?
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Gadwall
FRAeS, CEng
Standley,
Frederick Peter
F.P. Standley
Mother's maiden name: Standley.
21.12.1913
Forehoe district, Norfolk
-
02.2000
Norwich, Norfolk
T/S.Lt.
21.08.1941
T/Lt.
21.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 
16.01.1945
coastal actions assault area 07-08.44 [investiture 27.07.45]
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) *
23.11.1942
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 629 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
21.04.1943
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 233 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
08.07.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 354 (motor torpedo boat)
28.04.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 471 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Commodore, Norfolk Punt Club, 1951 & 1956.
Stanley,
Henry James
H.J. Stanley
?
-
S.Lt.
15.06.1942



served Merchant Navy (British India Line)



volunteered for the Tanganyika Royal Navy Reserve in Dar-es-Salaam
1942?


joined Kenya RNVR
25.10.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1105 (harbour defence motor launch)
(04.1946)


HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) *



served Ceylon & Singapore
* indexed, but not listed as such
Steel,
Albert Frederick
"Bert"
A.F. Steel (Photo courtesy of Mr Bernie Steel)
09.10.1917
West Ham, Greater London
-
20.11.1990
Doddinghurst, Brentwood, Essex
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
20.11.1942 (reld 1945)



served in Scapa Flow [HMS Prosperine?], and was a liaison officer with Fighter Command [HMS President?]; also served in Egypt [HMS Nile?]
16.10.1942
-
(07.)1945
on staff of Vice-Admiral Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
Stephens,
Cyril James
C.J. Stephens (Photo courtesy of Mrs Linda Lee)
Son of ... Stephens, and ... Whitaker.
05.07.1915
Plymouth district, Devon
-
02.2002
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
T/A/Lt.
13.11.1942 (reld < 07.1945)
21.07.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for miscellaneous services) [possibly for Thames Estuary Special Defences]
Stephens,
William Lawson
"Billie"
W.L. Stephens
09.08.1911
Holywood, Northern Ireland
-

03.08.1997
Châteauneuf de Grasse, France
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
20.09.1933
Lt.
20.09.1935
Lt.Cdr.
20.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
A/Cdr.
< 07.1945

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.05.1942
attack St Nazaire 28.03.42 [investiture 18.07.45]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
16.03.1943
special services [investiture 18.07.45]
Education: Shrewsbury
1932/33?


joined RNVR, Ulster Division
14.02.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
?
-
28.03.1942
Commanding Officer, HM ML 192 (motor launch) (captured at St Nazaire)
28.03.1942
-
14.10.1942
in German captivity (Oflag IVC Colditz from 03.09.1942; made successful escape)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Consul of Sweden at Belfast, 05.09.1962.
Stephenson,
Kenneth Mazzini George
"Ken"
K.M.G. Stephenson
31.03.1922
-
01.2008 still alive
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
12.06.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
12.12.1944
A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
31.07.1952, seniority 24.05.1952
Lt. (Sp.Br.)
25.06.1953, seniority 24.05.1952
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
31.03.1960
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE

30.12.1978

New Year 79: Archivist, British High Commission, Nicosia
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
23.07.1965
-
(10.1944)
 
 
HMS Royalist (cruiser) *
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Cypher Staff of the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)]
02.1946
-
(04.1946)
on staff of Vice-Admiral (Q) British Pacific Fleet [HMS Golden Hind II (RN deport, Sydney, NSW)]
31.07.1952
 
 
transferred, Permanent RNVR
Post-war Diplomatic Service/Foreign Office.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stevens,
Horace
H. Stevens
?
-
T/S.Lt.
27.06.1940
T/Lt.
27.06.1941
A/T/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID

28.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
(02.1941)


HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) *
(07.1941)
 
 
HMS Staunch (minesweeping trawler)
06.10.1941
-
25.01.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Amroth Castle (auxiliary minsweeping trawler)
22.03.1943
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Qualicum (Bangor class minesweeper)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stevens,
Henry Leslie Harvey
H.L.H. Stevens
09.04.1917
-
09.1989
Chichester, Sussex
T/S.Lt.
23.04.1942
T/A/Lt.
23.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID

24.10.1944

escaping from enemy hands
06.07.1942
-
01.1943
human torpedo (chariot) rider [HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)] *
[Operation Welcome (attack on Tripoli 01.1943, sinking merchantman Guilio) [POW, escaped & evaded]]
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)


HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) **
* (02.1943) - (06.1943) still borne on HMS Titania
** indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart,
Gervase Leslie
J.G. Stewart
Son of James Stewart, and Mary Brigham, of Monkseaton, Tyne and Wear.
(03?).1920
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
25.08.1941
(KIA) [age 21]
[Port of Spain (St James) Military Cemetery, Trinidad and Tobago, western portion, grave 36]
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)
30.12.1940
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
?
Education: Tyneside Academy; St. Catherine's College, Cambridge (1939-40; read theology)
(02.1941)


HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
?
-
25.08.1941
instructor, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) [killed in a mid-air explosion in his aircraft]
Poet.
Published (posthumously): No weed death (1942)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart,
[Prof.] Gordon Thallon
G.T. Stewart
Son of John Stewart and Mary L. Thallon. Married 1st (1946) Joan Kego; two sons, two daughters. Married 2nd (1975), Neena Walker.
From Elderslie.
05.02.1919
Paisley, Scotland
-
2002 still alive
Bristol
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
?
T/Sg.Lt.
22.10.1943, seniority 18.06.1943
Education: Paisley Grammar School; University of Glasgow and University of Liverpool. BSc 1939; MB, ChB 1942; DTM&H 1947; MD (High Commendation) 1949; FRCPath 1964; FFCM 1972; MRCPGlas 1972; FRCPGlas 1975.

House physician & house surgeon, 1942-1943.
09.08.1943
-
(06.1944)
Medical Officer, HMS Wild Goose (sloop)
29.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Newton Abbot [HMS Drake] (specialism: bacteriology)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Research Fellow (MRC), University of Liverpool, 1946-1948; Senior Registrar and Tutor, Wright-Fleming Institute, St Mary's Hospital, London, 1948-1952; Consultant Pathologist, SW Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, 1954-1963; Research Worker at MRC Labs Carshalton, 1955-1963; Professor of Epidemiology and Pathology, University of N Carolina, 1964-1968; Watkins Professor of Epidemiology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1968-1972. Visiting Professor, Dow Medical College, Karachi, 1952-1953 and Cornell University Medical College, 1970-1971; Mechan Professor of Public Health, University of Glasgow, 1972-1984, now Emeritus Professor; Honorary Consultant in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Glasgow Area Health Board. Consultant to WHO, and to NYC Department of Health; Visiting Lecturer and Examiner, various universities in UK and overseas. Senior Fellow, Natural Science Foundation, Washington, 1964; Delta omega, 1969.
Published: (ed.) Trends in Epidemiology, 1972; (ed. jtly) Penicillin Allergy, 1970; Penicillin Group of Drugs, 1965; papers on chemotherapy of infectious diseases, drug allergy and epidemiology in various medical and science journals.
Stewart,
James Jolly
J.J. Stewart
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
05.08.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)
05.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)


HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
11.11.1944
-
(01.)1945
observer, HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
19.06.1945
-
(04.1946)
observer, 822 Squadron FAA
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart,
John Geoffrey
J.G. Stewart
?
-
T/S.Lt.
24.06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)



possibly serving as an armaments officer on minesweepers
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Stewart,
Samuel
J.G. Stewart
1914
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
1975
Ottawa, Ont, Canada
T/S.Lt.
30.10.1941
T/Lt.
30.10.1942



possibly at HMS Ark Royal, then Coastal Forces (MLs & MGBs)
10.07.1944
-
(01.)1945
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 723 (motor torpedo boat)
01.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5009 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Stirling,
Darling
"Darrell"
D. Stirling
(03?).1921
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
T/S.Lt.
16.10.1942
T/Lt.
16.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
18.01.1943
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM ML 143 (motor launch)
07.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 274 (motor launch)
(04.1946)


HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Music teacher at a secondary school in Farnham, Surrey, late 1950s.
Stocks
Alfred Edward
A.E. Stocks
Son of Alfred Edward Stocks, and of Olive Beryl Stocks (née Crosbey-Spratt), of Ealing, Middlesex.
(03?).1923
Plymouth district, Devon
-
22.10.1943

(MPK) [age 20]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 2]
T/S.Lt.
?
?
-
22.10.1943
HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (missing, presumed killed when ship was mined east of Kalymnos)
Stogdon,
Edgar David
E.D. Stogdon
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
11.03.1942
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
?
RNLI service ?
Mention in Despatches MID
04.10.1940
repelling enemy attacks
Mention in Despatches MID
21.05.1942
attack sumarine en route to St. Nazaire
(1940)


HMS Brazen (destroyer)
19.08.1940
-
(02.1943)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Tynedale (destroyer)
(04.1946)


Gunnery School, Portsmouth (HMS Excellent)
Joined the RNLI after the war (becoming a Cdr.), designed the Atlantic 21 ILB that is still a backbone of the fleet; in retirement he acted as Design Consultant to the Dutch Lifeboat service.
Stoney,
Robert Vesey
R.V. Stoney
(09?).1896
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
14.05.1944
Sierra Leone
(illness)

[Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra Leone, 5.C.3]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
18.10.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
20.05.1941
04.12.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
22.03.1943
-
14.05.1944
HMS President III (accounting base for DEMS [= Defence Equipped Merchant Ships] personnel)
Stopford-Claremont,
Stanley  
see: Claremont,
Stanley Stopford
 
Stott,
John Philip
J.P. Stott
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
04.06.1943
T/Lt. (A)
04.06.1945
Mention in Despatches MID
31.07.1945
Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture of Okinawa 03/05.45)
10.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
1770 Squadron FAA [in 1945 at HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)]
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Strang,
Samuel Ronald Howie
S.R.H. Strang
?
-
Prob. S.Lt.
08.03.1940
T/Lt.
?, seniority 23.04.1940
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS St Sunniva
19.02.1943
-
(06.1943)
HMS Pennywort (corvette)
Strang,
Walter Symington "Biscuits"
W.S. Strang
?
-
T/Lt.
29.11.1939
Mention in Despatches MID
30.05.1944
Coastal Forces action Nore 09.03.44
03.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 668 (motor torpedo boat)
Strong,
Laurence Vezey *
L.V. Strong
Elder son of Harold Vezey Strong (member of the Artists’ Rifles, serving in France in WW1, printer & publisher) (c. 1894-1955), and Katherine Strong (née Dyer). 
Married (26.10.1940) Honor Mary Stewart; two daughters, one son. 

* first name in naval administration incorrectly spelled: Lawrence

21.01.1918
-
01.2008 still alive
Signalman
1940
T/S.Lt.
13.12.1940
T/Lt.
01.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
21.12.1943
Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43) [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
11.07.1944
rescue activity in the harbour during the Bari Raid 02.12.43
Education: Tonbridge School
1940


joined RNVR
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
10.02.1942
- (08.1942) Navigating Officer, HMS Boadicea (destroyer) (including PQ-15 Murmansk Convoy)
04.01.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 81 (motor torpedo boat)
31.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
Sullivan,
Edward
E. Sullivan
05.1921
Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
-
T/S.Lt.
19.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon, Argyll) *
Worked for the Foreign Officer pre- & post-war.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sulman,
John Henry Lloyd
J.H.L. Sulman
Son of James Hugh and Lilian Elsie Sulman. Married Zillah Sulman, of Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire.
(09?).1909
Wandsworth, London
-
02.11.1944
off Ostend
(KIA) [age 35]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 3]
Convoy Signalman
(1940) [C/JX 172593]
T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 27.12.1940
T/Lt.
06.1941, seniority 27.03.1941
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
05.12.1944
air attacks [investiture next-of-kin]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
05.10.1943
minesweeping Mediterranean 11.42-07.43
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
?
Mention in Despatches MID
26.12.1944
Operation Neptune 06.44
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
18.03.1943 -
(10.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 171 (motor minesweeper)
25.02.1944
-
02.11.1944
Commanding Officer, HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)
Sumption,
Anthony James [Chadwick]
A.J. Sumption
Married Hedy ...; two sons, two daughters.

15.05.1919
Bishop's Stortford
-
08.01.2008
hospital
[Greenwich?]
[age 88]
Lt.
?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
22.02.1944
50+ patrols Norway, Mediterranean, Eastern Fleet [investiture 07.11.44]



HMS Trident
Surtees,
Gordon Villiers
"Gus"
G.V. Surtees
Son of the Rev. Charles Henry Surtees, and Dorothy Alexina Sale. 
27.04.1923
-
09.1990
Kings Lynn, Norfolk
T/S.Lt.
27.10.1943
T/Lt.
27.10.1945
Mention in Despatches MID
13.02.1945
attack enemy convoy Mediterranean 11.10.44
Mention in Despatches MID
24.07.1945
action Istrian coast
27.04.1943
-
(06.1944)
HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat)
02.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 634 (motor torpedo boat)
20.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1060 (motor minesweeper)
Headmaster, John Lyon School (1960s).
Sutherland,
John McKay
J.McK. Sutherland
?
-
1998 ?
Australia
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
09.06.1944
T/Sg.Lt.
1945?, seniority 09.06.1944
Education: MB, ChB
08.1944
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
In 1959 the first visiting neurologist to be appointed by the Royal Brisbane Hospital and The Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland. He retired as Honorary Consultant Neurologist to both hospitals in 1975 after a most distinguished career in this field. He published several books either in his own name or jointly.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sutherland,
Rattray Pirie
R.P. Sutherland
Married Anne Rita Parkinson (14.06.1929 - 14.07.1996), who served in the WRNS; one son, one daughter.
07.02.1925
Aberdeen ?
-
09.11.1973
Sutton, Surrey
T/S.Lt. (A)
25.03.1945
S.Lt. (A) RN
22.05.1946, seniority 25.03.1945
Lt. (A) RN
25.03.1947 (withdrawal from  Extended Service Commission; placed on Emergency List 25.03.1950)



served initially in the ranks



812 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)]
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) *
(1946)


flew Seafires from HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth, Morayshire)
22.05.1946


transferred, RN (Air Branch) [extended service commission]
29.04.1948
-
(05.1949)
Assistant Air Traffic Control Officer, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus)
25.03.1950
-
03.03.1960
Emergency List
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sutherland,
Reginald Bruce
R.B. Sutherland

Son of David P. and Christine F. Sutherland. Of "Sunflowers", Heswall, Chester.
1914 ?
-
06.03.1941
(KIA) [age 27]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, col. 2]
Prob. T/S.Lt.
23.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
03.1941, seniority 23.02.1940
T/Lt.
???
(04.1940)


no appointment listed
13.10.1940 -
06.03.1941
HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmoth) (killed at Falmouth harbour by a mine)
Sutton,
Richard John

R.J. Sutton
Son of Joseph Hayward Sutton and Elizabeth Blower, of Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Husband of Rowena Mary Sutton, of Bollington, Macdesfield.
(09?).1916
Macclesfield district, Cheshire
-
18.04.1943
(MPK) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
T/S.Lt.
13.03.1941
T/Lt.
13.03.1942
24.08.1941
-
(12.1941)
First Lieutenant, HMS Ben Torc (minesweeping trawler)
(> 02.)1943
-
18.04.1943
HMS Regent (submarine) (sank off the coast of Bisceglie (Barletta) after a collision with a mine; complete crew missing, presumed killed)
Swan,
Gerald Finlay Primrose
G.F.P. Swan (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish Marshall)
From Glasgow.
Married; at least one daughter.
1907/08 ?
-
19.07.1948
(died suddenly following a Coronary Thrombosis)
T/Lt.
31.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 02.1943, < 06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44 [investiture 27.11.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
13.02.1945
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
Education: The High School of Glasgow (1916-1922)
24.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)
13.02.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Banshee (minesweeping trawler)
01.06.1942
-
(08.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 165 (motor minesweeper)
16.08.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1003 (motor minesweeper) (205th Minesweeping Flotilla)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Syfret,
Edward Herbert Vyvyan
E.H.V. Syfret
Son of Adm. Sir Edward Neville Syfret (1889-1972), and Hildegarde Warner.
Married Anne ...; one daughter, two sons.
(09?).1918
Tendring district, Essex
-
09.04.2008
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
[age 89]
T/S.Lt.
16.10.1939
T/Lt.
16.04.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 
03.01.1941
sinking U-boat [investiture 18.02.41]
28.03.1940
-
(02.)1941
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer)
09.10.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for instructional duties)
07.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA) (for anti-submarine warfare)
06.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
flotilla staff, 25th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Grenville]
Sykes,
Rodney Tatton
R.T. Sykes
30.12.1919
-
03.1996
Winchester, Hampshire
T/Lt.
13.06.1943
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 
21.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 06.03.45]