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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
Sales,
Brian Denyer
B.D. Sales
Son of Jack Eric D. Sales (1901-1996), and Edith Turner.
Married ((03?).1947, Liverpool district, Lancashire) Winifred Swarbrick; one son, one daughter.
29.09.1924
Erpingham district, Norfolk
-
09.1989
Stoke on Trent district, Staffordshire
T/A/S.Lt. 21.04.1944
T/S.Lt. 21.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(1943)     HMS Matchless (destroyer) (Arctic convoys, sinking of the Scharnhorst)
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
09.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS St Clement (Combined Operations base, Coal House Fort, Tilbury, Essex) (for landing craft duties)
01.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife, Scotland)
Salmon,
Boyd
B. Salmon
Son of ... Salmon, and ... Fordham.
Married ((09?).1950, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Jacqueline E.V. Barnard.
(06?).1924
Epping district, Essex / Suffolk
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 21.04.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 21.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
22.05.1944 - (06.)1944 Unexploded Bomb Disposal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.06.1944 - (04.1946) Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton, from 06.1945 Portsmouth)
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)
Sander,
Ronald Victor
R.V. Sander

12.01.1911
West Ham district, Greater London
-
01.12.1982
Penarth, South Glamorgan
T/A/Paym.S.Lt.
1943?
T.Paym.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S)
10.03.1944
T/Lt. (S)
01.05.1945
12.1943
-
(01.)1945
HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
1945?
 
 
HMS Royal Rupert (Naval Party 1735, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) ?
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Sanders,
Robert Edward
R.E. Sanders
Son of James Joseph, and Catherine Sanders.
Husband of Patricia Frances Sanders, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
1911 ?
-
17.06.1944
(MPK) [age 33]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 79, column 2]
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 16.07.1943
      HMS Dinosaur ? / HMS Copra ? (for landing craft duty)
? - 17.06.1944 HM LCF 15 (landing craft, flak) (ex-LCT 406) [ship was mined off Elba]
Sanderson,
Stewart Forson
S.F. Sanderson
Son of the C. Forson Sanderson of Blantyre, Malawi.
Married (08.08.1953) Alison Mary Cameron; two sons, one daughter.

23.11.1924
Blantyre, Malawi
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 14.07.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer for general duties of an executive nature on shore

Education: George Watson's College, Edinburgh, Scotland; Edinburgh University (English language and literature; MA 1951); Hon. Harold Orton Fellow, Leeds University, since 1983.
12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
(04.1946)     HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
University director and chairman. Sec.-Archivist (1952-1957), then Senior Research Fellow (1957-1960), School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh; Lecturer, Folk Life Studies, University of Leeds, 1960-1964; Director, Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, School of English, University of Leeds, 1964-1983; appointed to the Linguistic Atlas of England (LAE) Editorial Committee, 1968; Member, Scottish Arts Council, 1983-88 (Chairman, Literature Committee).
Published: Hemingway (1961); (ed.) The linguistic atlas of England (1977); Ernest Hemingway, For whom the bell tolls : notes (1980).
* indexed, but not listed as such
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
Sarginson,
William
"Bill"
W. Sarginson
1922 ?
-
18.06.2012
Le Buisson, Dordogne, France
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.12.1944
... - ... ...
23.10.1944 - (07.1945) Group Radar Officer B7 Escort Group [HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)]
... - ... ...
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
Saxby,
Brian David
B.D. Saxby

Son of ... Saxby, and ... Clark.
(12?).1923
West Ham district, London
-
18.04.2012
T/S.Lt. (A) 24.09.1944
Served 1942-46. Completed basic training Air Mech(L) at Duke, Gosling, Vincent and RAF Melksham; passing top of course he was recommended for flight training at Waxwing, Daedalus and Vincent. Travelling by troopship Aquitania to New York he arrived in Ontario 1943 for flying, bombing and gunnery training; he returned to Macaw on board RMS Empress of India in 1944 to continue Multi-engine training and received his Commission. Posted to Godwit (758 NAS), Goldcrest (762 NAS) and back to Godwit for advanced instrument flying before joining Khedive. 1945 he flew from Vairi (742 NAS) Coimbatore (Sular) Southern India then returned in 1946 to Merlin (782 NAS) and Daedalus when 782 NAS was on detachment forming a ferry service to Oberpfaffenhofen Air depot, Munich to return ‘lease’ aircraft to the USA. He flew the Oxford, Beaufort, Beaufighter, Wellington, Expeditor UC45F and Stinson Reliant, Dominie DH 89 and after retirement joined the Friends of RNAS Yeovilton, Daedalus branch Fleet Air Arm Association and TAG Association.
... - ... ...
07.02.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, 742 Squadron FAA [HMS Vairi]
... - ... ...
Scarland,
William Grenville
W.G. Scarland (Photo courtesy of Mrs Deirdre Alderton)

Son (with one brother and one sister) of John William Scarland (1892-1966), and Bertha Ditchfield (1891-1978).
Married (07.1945, Isle of Wight) Doreen Mary Stephens (13.08.1925 - 14.07.2006), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Guy Ernest Stephens (1885-1954), and Winifred Dora Mabel Foster (1892-1928); three daughters, one son.
(09?).1920
Orsmkirk district, Lancashire
-

Wembley Downs, Western Australia
T/S.Lt. 17.07.1942
T/Lt. 17.01.1945 (reld > 07.145, < 04.1946)
Assigned to clerical class, Ministry of Health, 03.1938.
17.09.1942 - (04.)1945 HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
11.07.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Contest (destroyer)
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)
Scotchbrook,
Leonard Ernest
L.E. Scotchbrook (Photo courtesy of Mr Godfrey Scotchbrook) L.E. Scotchbrook (Photo courtesy of Mr Godfrey Scotchbrook)
Son of Ernest Charles Scotchbrook (1890-1942),  and Winifred Maud Pearson (1889-1961).
Married (1945) Concepta ...; one son.
1915
Melbourne, Australia
-
08.03.1947
[age 31]
[Naples War Cemetery, Italy, IV.S.3]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 08.04.1940
T/El.Lt. 08.08.1940
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. > 12.1943, < 02.1944
Sound engineer.
08.04.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for fitting-out duties)
01.06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
01.10.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
01.04.1942 - 08.03.1947 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
[Killed aboard KK122, Dakota C4, 216 Squadron, at Ischia, Italy. The aircraft flew into the side of a mountain at a height of 2400 ft in poor visibility, whilst a significant distance off track and below its safety height.]
Scott,
Denis Charles
D.C. Scott

Son of Charles Meacher Scott and Amy Mary Wood, of Ashtead, Surrey.
Married ((06?).1942, Hendon district, London) June Hillyer; ... children (one daughter?).
(09?).1920
St Marylebone district, London
-
04.09.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Castricum Protestant Churchyard,  Netherlands, plot J, joint grave 13]
T/S.Lt. (A) 30.08.1941
T/Lt. (A) 29.02.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 15.12.1942 hits on motorship & tanker 19.10.42 [investiture 16.02.43]
(10.1941) - (02.1942) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
02.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties)
30.04.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for Naval Air Squadrons)
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
21.12.1942 - (12.)1943 pilot, 786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]
12.1943
-
04.09.1944
pilot, 855 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
[Attached to RAF Coastal Command at RAF Thorney Island, On Monday September 4th 1944 Lt. DC Scott, Lt. CH Jeffery & P/O GAS Stephenson took off in Grumman Avenger Mk II, JZ490, on an anti-shipping patrol off the enemy coast between IJmuiden in Holland & Gravelines in northern France. They failed to return to Thorney Island after attacking 3 destroyers, Lt. Scott’s body later washed ashore in the Netherlands, the other two crew members were never found.]
* indexed, but not listed as such
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 Howard (marriage dissolved 1951), daughter of David Howard; one daughter.
Married 2nd (1951) Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, daughter of late Cdr. F.W. Talbot­Ponsonby, RN; one son, one daughter.

see: Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
14.09.1909
London
-
29.08.1989
Bristol
Prob. T/S.Lt. 27.10.1939
T/Lt. 02.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 07.1945)
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 (Military Division) 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 Operation 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]
(12.1939) - (02.1940) no appointment listed
12.02.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Broke (destroyer)
09.02.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Victory V, from 09.06.1942 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton)
13.03.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM SGB 9 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Goose) & Senior Officer, 1st SGB Flotilla [from 05.09.1942 at HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)]
(04.1943) & (07.1943) temporary Commanding Officer, HM SGB 6 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Shark)
12.12.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth)
21.03.1944 - (10.)1944 staff of Captain Coastal Forces (Channel) on staff of Commander-in-Chief 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)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
20.03.1945 - 07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cardigan Bay (frigate)
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. Stood (unsuccessfully) for Parliament, 07.1945. 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 (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Scott)
Son of Capt. William Maddin Scott, and Mary Tennyson Winckley (1894-).
Married (23.07.1947) Margaret Sylvia Daphne Alexander (04.09.1925-) *, daughter of Maj. Charles Adam Murray Alexander and Gladys Sylvia MacGregor Greer, of Pomeroy House, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland; three sons.

* She remarried (27.10.1972) Clifford Anthony Weston.
29.01.1919
Bournemouth, Christchurch district, Hampshire
-
25.03.1968
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, seniority 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 -
Education: Elm Park preparatory school (-1932); Wellington.
Gained his aviator's licence (17949) at a Taylor cub Continental 40, taken at the County Flying Club at 04.05.1939.
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
Solicitor.
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.
Seally,
Walter John
W.J. Seally
Son of Walter Henry Seally (1898-1926), an Ordinary, then Able Seaman RN 1914-1922, and Constance May Nelson.
Brother of P.O.El. Reginald Henry Seally.
Lived at Feltham, Middlesex.
Married Aloise ...; two daughters, one son.
03.07.1925
Guildford, Sussex
-
05?.02.1997
Ottawa, Ont., Canada
T/Midsh.
14.01.1944
T/A/S.Lt.
03.01.1945
T/S.Lt.
03.07.1945
S.Lt. RN
01.01.1947, seniority 03.07.1945
Lt. RN
03.07.1947 (reld 18.02.1950; medically unfit)



joined RN from Sea Cadets, did advanced navigation course at Greenwich; may have served on MTBs at Harwich
15.05.1944
-
(01.1945)
HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
01.01.1947
-
18.02.1950
extended service commission RN
20.05.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Loch Tralaig (frigate)
(05.1949)
 
 
no appointment listed
Post-war member of MTB ex-servicemen’s association.
* indexed, but not listed as such
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
Married ((06?).1943, Surrey North Eastern district) Second Officer Beryl Robinson, WRNS.
25.11.1916
Rhu, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
-
1997
Vale of Leven district, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
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
(02.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) *
(03.1940)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
(04.1940) - (10.1940) HMS Fury (destroyer) *
(02.1941) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
(12.1942?)     British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Krakowiak (Polish destroyer)
Returned to Scotland after demobilisation working as a marine insurance broker (partner in Cuthbert, Service and Jackson) in Glasgow for many years. He was a member of the Carrick the RNVR/RNR club in Glasgow.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Seshold,
Maxwell
M. Seshold
Son of Samuel Seshold, and Lottie Harris.
Married ((09?).1947, Hendon district, Middlesex) Elise Lazarus.

24.08.1923
Paddington district, London
-
01.1998
Hendon district, Middlesex
Seaman ? [JX 392512]
T/S.Lt. 24.02.1944
01.11.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (for motor launch duties)
(04.1946)     HMS Spey (frigate) *
Published: Errors in postage stamp design (with D.E.G. Irvine) (1978).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Seton,
[Sir] Robert James;
11th Baronet of Pitmedden
R.J. Seton
Son (with one sister) of Capt. Sir John Hastings Seton, 10th Bt (1888-1956), Gordon Highlanders, and Group Officer Alice Ida Hodge (1904-1995), WRAF.
Succeeded father, 1956.
Unmarried.
20.04.1926
Cushnie district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
-
29.10.1993

Wandsworth, London
T/Midsh. 01.09.1944 (invalided 1945)
Education: HMS Worcester (Thames Nautical Training College).
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
25.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Loch Gorm (frigate)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Banker, with Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1946-1961 (retired).
Seward,
William Renell
W.R. Seward (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Seward)
Son of William Thomas R. Seward (1880-1928), of Teddington, and Florence Grace Edwards (1885-1978), of Kingston Hill, Surrey.
Married (1942) Maureen Cecil Clarendon (16.10.1915 - 10.10.2000), elder daughter of Victor Frederick Clarendon, and Nina Virginia Gregory Jones, of Belfast; three sons, one daughter.
25.04.1912
Teddington, Brentford district, Middlesex
-
11.01.1966
Kingston-upon-Thames, Greater London
Prob. T/S.Lt. 12.09.1939
T/S.Lt. 1940, seniority 12.09.1939
T/Lt. 12.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Blundells School, Tiverton, Devon; Premium Pupil, John I. Thornycroft Ltd.
(04.1940)     HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness) *
24.04.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Ullswater (minesweeping trawler)
01.10.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Saltarelo (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
03.07.1944 - 13.01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Loosestrife (corvette)
03.02.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Inver (frigate)
Commercial and Technical Executive, John I. Thornycroft Ltd Head Office, responsible for: the company’s shipbuilding and repair organisation at Southampton, and its boatyards at Hampton-on-Thames and Singapore; for export sales, and contract negotiations with Admiralty, Crown Agents, overseas governments (including Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kuwait), large oil companies, commercial agents, etc.; and organisation of UK and overseas exhibition displays for the company. Director of Hampton-on-Thames subsidiary company. Member, Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Member, Institute of Marine Engineers.
* 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)
Sewell,
Ronald Albert
R.A. Sewell
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. 08.10.1943
T/S.Lt. 08.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
1943     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officer training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(12.1943) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
01.10.1944 - (04.1946) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
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 (Coastal Forces base, 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
Shankland,
Horace Victor
H.V. Shankland
(06?).1922
Epsom district, Surrey
-
T/El.S.Lt.
15.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Queen's Service Medal QSM

06.2006

HM's birthday 2006: for community service
28.12.1943
-
(01.1945)
HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead)
?
-
02.07.1944
Flotilla Electrical Officer, 206th Minesweeping Flotilla
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Emigrated to Warkworth, New Zealand.
Sharpe,
Adrian Leslie
A.L. Sharpe
Son of Eng.R.Adm. Alfred Vernon Sharpe (1880-), and Mary R. Williams, of London.
Married (30.09.1941, Naval Base Church, Singapore) Elsie Nira [Francis] "Cesca" Blyth (24.05.1921 - 29.07.1999), daughter of Cdr. (E) Geoffrey Frytche Blyth, RN (1900-1985), and
Euphemia McCorkindale (1883-1936), of Trebethesrick, Cornwall; one son, four daughters.
21.08.1914
Lexden district, Essex
-
14.08.1999
late of Torquil Cottage, Daymer Lane, Trebetherick, Wadebridge
T/Paym.S.Lt. 04.06.1940
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 04.06.1941
04.06.1940 - 02.1942 HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (for duty in Admiral's Office of Commander-in-Chief, China)
02.1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity at Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia
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,
Anthony Ian Rawlinson
"Tony"
A.I.R. Shaw

05.09.1923
Balfour, British Columbia, Canada
-
21.11.2012
T/S.Lt. (A) 15.09.1943
T/A/Lt. (A) < 02.1945

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE 19.12.1944

escaped POW

Volunteered for the FAA and following basic training conducted a basic flying course with the US Navy in Florida then returning to the UK he continued with training in the Hurricane with deck-landings. Whilst serving on board Attacker with his first operational squadron flying Seafires the ship was torpedoed by German aircraft in Gibraltar harbour. Later he was shot down supporting the Allied landings in the South of France, narrowly escaping death when he was trapped in his cockpit until he finally got clear but was captured by a German unit. His war ended in the Far East and he demobbed at age 22, however, when the RN started recruiting once again he re-joined to fly. Whilst flying a Firebrand during his 152nd deck landing he became tangled in a web of cables. He completed the Empire Test Pilots Course at Boscombe Down and amongst many aircraft he test flew the Meteor, Sea Hawk and prototype helicopters including the Wasp. He commanded 700 NAS with the task of evaluating and developing helicopter operations on the back of small ships and was Lt Cdr Flying onboard Hermes.
... - ... ...
12.07.1943 - (10.1944) pilot, 879 Squadron FAA
09.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Chaser (escort carrier)
... - ... ...
Published: The upside of trouble (2005).
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
Son of William Shaw, butcher, and Grace Morrison.
06.08.1907
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
1954
Pollok, Glasgow, Scotland
Prob. T/S.Lt. 23.02.1940
T/Lt. 07.04.1940
T/Lt. (E) 28.10.1940, seniority 07.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 12.1940?
T/A/Cdr. (E) 21.02.1944? (commission terminated 16.04.1945; medically unfit)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43)
17.12.1936     enrolled Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to Clyde Division RNVR)
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
16.04.1940 - 05.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Comorin (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1940)     no appointment listed
31.07.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (for anti-submarine trawlers)
28.10.1940     transferred to Engineering Branch
(12.1940)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
19.12.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
(04.1943)     Combined Operations HQ *
04.1943 - (10.)1943 staff Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (additional, for miscellaneous duties)]
06.10.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
01.12.1943 - (02.)1944 Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.02.1944 - (01.)1945 staff Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
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
Shellard,
Patrick Philip
G.H. Shepard
Son of Edward Josiah Shellard (1871-1951), and Alice Shellard (1869?-1952), of Bushey.
Married (21.01.1947, Singapore) Angela M. Bailey (21.01.1917 - ), daughter of ... Bailey, and ... Mortimore, of Exeter; ... children (one daughter?).
21.01.1911
Weston Super Mare, Axbridge district, Somerset
-
17.04.1981
Worthing district, West Sussex
Prob. Midsh. 14.11.1930
A/S.Lt. 20.04.1932
S.Lt. 24.09.1933
Lt. 20.10.1934
Lt.Cdr. 20.10.1943
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 27.04.1946 -
      joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
19.08.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Fareham (Hunt class minesweeper)
22.10.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Scarab (river gunboat)
16.07.1941 - 02.1942 HMS Dragonfly (river gunboat) [captured at the fall of Singapore]
1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity
Merchant.
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]
Sheppard,
Herbert Charles
H.C. Sheppard
Son of ... Sheppard, and ... West.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
19.11.1916
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
13.12.2001
T/S.Lt. 19.02.1944
T/Lt. 19.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
03.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Serving police officer in the Metropolitan Police.
Sherlock,
Thomas Richard Douglas
T.R.D. Sherlock
Married ((09?).1945, Bucklow district, Cheshire) Veronica Neville; ... children (one son?).
08.06.1913
-
(06?).1970
Barton district, Lancashire
T/S.Lt. 08.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) (accommodated in HMS Jaguar) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
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 (Imperial War Museum © IWM (A 29830))
18.03.1902
Belfast
-
09.12.1983
Groomsport, Bangor, County Down
S.Lt. 01.04.1924
Lt. 04.04.1927
Lt.Cdr. 04.04.1935
Cdr. 30.06.1938
Capt. 30.06.1943 (retd 15.09.1954)
Cdre. 2nd cl. 22.06.1949
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
Son of ... Shippey, and ... Mackay.
Married (Middlesex) ... Brattle.
(09?).1922
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
07.08.2011
Brendoncare Nursing Home, Alton, Hampshire
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 full flying duties and training)
21.09.1944 - (04.1946) pilot, 1851 Squadron FAA
1940s     transferred, Permanent RNVR (later RNR)
      SSO Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough
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)
Sills,
Lewis Edward Leeds
L.E.L. Sills
Younger son Henry Sills (1867-1914), and Edith Dorothy Dewar (1890-1957), of Lessos, Kenya.
Married (08.08.1942, Heslemere, Surrey South Western district) Stella Margery Rainford, elder daughter of Lt.Cdr. A.W. Rainford, RNR; one daughter, three sons.
29.08.1908
Horncastle district, Lincolnshire
-
20.09.1971
Keose, Isle of Lewes
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 16.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
18.01.1943 - (10.1944) HMS William Cale (minesweeping trawler)
(01.1945)     HMS Almandine (minesweeping trawler) *
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
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 listed as such
Silvester,
William Patrick
W.P. Silvester
?
-
T/S.Lt. 28.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
24.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Kempthorne (frigate)
Simmons,
John Byard
J.B. Simmons
Son of ... Simmons, and ... Boden.
(03?).1913
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
T/S.Lt. (E)
07.10.1940
T/A/Lt. (E)
07.10.1941
T/Lt. (E)
13.03.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
23.10.1940
-
(10.)1943
HMS Carina (ocean boarding vessel)
15.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS St Mathew (Combined Operations training base, Burnham on Crouch)
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
Simons,
Cecil John Parry *
C.J.P. Simons (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Simons) C.J.P. Simons (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Simons)
C.J.P. Simons (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Simons) C.J.P. Simons (Photo courtesy of Mr Keith Simons)
* In Navy List incorrectly shown as Cecil Percy John.
Married ((06?).1923, Swansea district, Glamorgan) Beatrice M. Brooks; ... children.

(06.).1898
Ammauford, Llandilofawr district, Carmarthenshire
-
T/Lt. 04.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 19.04.1941?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 13.04.1943 minesweeping operations Nore 08.42 (aboard trawler HMS Dhoon) [investiture 22.06.43]
Mention in Despatches MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 (aboard HMS Freelance)
11.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Emperor of India (minesweeper)
01.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Bunting (auxiliary patrol base, Harwich) (despatches)
19.04.1941 - (08.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Martello (auxiliary patrol base, Lowestoft) (DSC)
18.10.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
(06.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)
03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lothian)
Simpson,
David Caldow
D.C. Simpson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Simpson) D.C. Simpson (Photo courtesy of Mr John Simpson)
Eldest son (with one sister and one brother) of David Caldow Simpson (1892-1969), King's Royal Rifles France and Observer in RFC/RAF [Lieutenant], and Dorothy Helen Muller (1899-1982).
Married (02.10.1943, Bristol (Horfield)) Marjorie Lincoln (24.06.1921 - 31.10.2012), daughter (with one sister and two brothers) of John Lincoln (1891-1970), and Jane Stokoe (1893-1964); one son.
27.07.1919
Forest Gate, London
-
09.11.1985
Thorpe-le-Soken, Colchester, Essex
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. (D) 09.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Mercers' School, London; Queen Mary College and Royal London Hospital: LDS, RCS (Eng.) (10.03.1943).
09.07.1943 - (08.)1943 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
19.08.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Bristol (training establishment, Mullars Orphanage, Bristol)
29.12.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft)
14.11.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Dragonfly (Combined Operations base, South Hayling Island) (for Naval Party 2400)
(07.1945) - (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.
* According to the index to the Navy Lists. In the ships' listings in volumes up to (04.1946) showing under HMS Europa.
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
Simpson,
Miles Turney Thornton
M.T.T. Simpson
Only son (with one sister) of George Thornton Simpson (1875-1958), and Maud Turney (1885-1932), of Papplewick Lodge, Nottinghamshire.
Married 1st (12.1943, Algiers, Algeria; divorced 11.1957) Sister Joan Beryl Maber, QAIMNS(R), BNAF (02.09.1914 - 01.1976), youngest daughter of the late A.E. Maber, of Bombay, and of Mrs Hopper, of Bowes Park, London N22; one daughter, one son.
Married 2nd (05.1961, North Walsingham district, Norfolk; divorced 02.1969) Marcelle Marie G. Standring-Smith (23.12.1920 - 08.2005).
20.05.1916
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
-

01.2001
North Walsingham district, Norfolk
T/S.Lt. 05.11.1939
T/Lt. 20.05.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
18.10.1938     enrolled, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached London Division RNVR)
05.11.1939 - (04.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Ferean (auxiliary trawler?)
01.05.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship, 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)
18.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties)
(10.1942) - (04.1943) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) *
05.04.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary):
      Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 5 [Naval Party 730] (Sicily, Italy, Salerno reconnaissances)
01.09.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto)
(01.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Klo (anti-submarine warfare whaler) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sims,
Edward
"Ted"
E. Sims (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Sims)
Son of Francis William Sims, and Alice Avant.
Married ((06?)>1935, Camberwell district, London) Vera May Gregory, of Eltham, London.
1911 ?
-
17.06.1944
(MPK) [age 33]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 79, column 2]
T/S.Lt. 21.05.1942
T/Lt. 1943?
ACIS.
      HMS Dinosaur ? / HMS Copra ? (for landing craft duty)
? - 17.06.1944 HM LCF 15 (landing craft, flak) (ex-LCT 406) [ship was mined off Elba]
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
Sinclair,
Jack Temple
J.T. Sinclair
Married ((09?).1935, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Mabel E. Fellows.
(12?).1909
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-

(09?).1956
Brighton district, Sussex
T/A/Paym.S.Lt. ?
T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S) 26.11.1943
T/Lt. (S) 01.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
19.06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA)
(04.1946)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo Ceylon) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Skerten,
Richard
"Dick"
E.J.S. Smith
Son of Richard Skerten, and May Richmond.
Married Jeannette ...; four children.
08.11.1921
Hampstead district, London
-
06.03.2003
[Torquay?], Teignbridge district, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. 04.12.1942
T/S.Lt. 04.06.1943
T/Lt. 04.06.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy) [decoration posted]
(02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed
(08.1943) - (07.1945) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) *
(06.1944) - (11.1944) 550th LCA Flotilla (Normandy [DSC] & Walcheren)
04.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
1952? - (05.)1953 recalled for an 18-month posting to Hong Kong [T/Lt. with seniority 25.12.1950]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Skrine,
Godfrey Higginson
G.H. Skrine
1909 ?
-

09.1995
T/S.Lt. 19.02.1942
T/Lt. 19.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Oxford University.
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Inver (frigate) *
10.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Borage (corvette)
Solicitor, Dublin, Ireland.
* 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)
Slate,
Wilfred Sidney
W.S. Slate
Son of ... Slate, and ... Loydall.
Married ((03?).1940, Taunton district, Somerset) Joan M. De Salis Kelly.
(09?).1916
Edmonton district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex
-

T/S.Lt. 1942?
T/Lt. 12.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Officer of Customs and Excise, customs and Excise Department, 08.1936.
24.08.1942 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 1238 (motor launch) / HDML 1238 (harbour defence motor launch)
26.03.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 215 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
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.
Smeaton,
Ian Alistair Menzies
I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) 
03.12.1924
Calcutta, India
-
18.05.2004

Hellingly, Eastbourne district, East Sussex
Ord.Sea. 13.09.1943 [P/JX 625744]
T/Midsh. 02.06.1944
T/A/S.Lt. 1944, seniority 03.06.1944
T/S.Lt. 03.12.1944 (reld 01.10.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - & clasp France & Germany
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
40th Anniversary Comvoy Medal (Russia) RsnConv 1985 -
13.09.1943     enlisted RNVR (Port Division Portsmouth)
02.03.1944 - 01.06.1944 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1944) - (04.1946)  no appointment listed
[may have served at HMS Petard (destroyer) at some point, as a photo of this ship was found in his personal papers]
Chartered accountant.
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,
Charles Eric
C.E. Smith

Son of William and Amelia Smith.
Husband of Kathleen Smith, of Putney Hill; one daughter.
18.11.1893
Fulham district, London
-
13.01.1944

(died of illness) [age 50]
[Wandsworth (Putney Vale) Cemetery and Crematorium; cremated; screen wall panel 3]
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 02.1941
Kinght, Order of St Olav 1st class (Norway) StOlav 11.08.1942 ?

War Medal (Norway)

NorWM 11.08.1942

?

(10.1940) - (02.1941) Assistant to Naval Attaché, Oslo [HMS President] *
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
      British ADC to exiled King Haakon VII of Norway
? - 13.01.1944 Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Donald Hector Tresham
D.H.T. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Smith) D.H.T. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Smith)
Son of Robert Fergus Smith and Anna Dora Amy Smith, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
18.07.1919
Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
-
09.01.1944
(died from illness) [age 24]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, 6.A.10]
Midsh. (A) RN
01.05.1939
T/A/S.Lt.
31.05.1940
T/S.Lt.
18.07.1940
T/Lt.
30.11.1942
18.04.1939
-
09.08.1939
HMS President (additional; for training at RN College, Greenwich)
10.08.1939
-
08.1939
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
08.1939
-
26.10.1939
No. 23 Elementary Flying Training School (Belfast)
27.10.1939
-
30.05.1940
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for No. 1 Flying Training School, 11.1939-03.1940)
31.05.1940
-
16.06.1940
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) [volunteered for service at the Dunkirk evacuation]
17.06.1940
-
20.08.1940
Admiralty [HMS President] (lent for special service)
21.08.1940
-
27.08.1940
course, HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown)
28.08.1940
-
01.09.1940
course, HMS Defiance (torpedo school, Plymouth)
02.09.1940
-
18.11.1940
HMS Forester (destroyer) (Dakar assault)
19.11.1940
-
02.12.1941
HMS Foresight (destroyer) (Malta convoys)
03.12.1941
-
06.01.1942
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
07.01.1942
-
09.01.1944
HMS Penn (destroyer) [tender to HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)] (as gunnery officer in the transmitting station) (landings in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno and supporting operations in the
Aegean late 1943)
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 Ian
E.I. Smith
Son of John Smith, second master at Hyndland Secondary School, and Jessie Smith (née Smith), of Sutton, Surrey.
14.05.1909
Glasgow, Scotland
-
04.07.1940
(MPK) [age 31]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 05.01.1940
Education: University of Glasgow (MB, ChB 1934).
Gained experience as a house surgeon and a house physician at hospitals in England. After a period in the Merchant Navy he took a private practice in Lancashire.
05.01.1940 - (02.)1940 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
19.02.1940 - (04.)1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
24.04.1940 - 04.07.1940 Medical Officer, HMS Foylebank (anti-aircraft ship) [sunk by German bombing at Portland]
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,
Gordon Henry
G.H. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 10.09.1944
... - ... ...
10.1944 - (01.)1945 pilot, 757 Squadron FAA [HMS Rajaliya (RN Air Station, Puttalam, Ceylon)]
... - ... ...
Smith,
Henry Rae
see: RN officers' section  
Smith,
Howard MacLaughlin
J.D. Smith
Son of Claude Smith, and Sibyl MacLaughlin Wilcockson (1894-).
10.02.1924
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
-
Prob. T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.) 13.03.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 18.10.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.03.1945
      Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties:
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
02.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Campania (escort carrier) (for radar duties)
1945 - 1945 HMS Vindex (escort carrier) (for radar duties)
25.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Patroller (escort carrier) (for radar duties)
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,
Leonard Walter
L.W. Smith
?
-
 
T/S.Lt. 09.06.1944
T/A/Lt. < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
09.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for beach duty)
Smith,
Leonard William
L.W. Smith

?
-
 
T/S.Lt. 01.07.1943
T/A/Lt. 01.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
15.08.1943 - late 1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Samos" (Greek landing ship, tank)
(04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
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,
Ronald Sydney
R.S. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ivy MacMahon)
Son of William Robert Smith (1870-), and Ellen Rosa Munt.
30.01.1909
Islington district, London
-
24.07.1991
Westbury, Isle of Wight
Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 17.11.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 17.11.1947 (retd 30.01.1954)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 30.10.1953 -

* Special Branch officer employed on meteorological duties

Education: BSc.
02.11.1939 - (10.)1942 HMS Afrikander IV (RN Air Station, Durban) (for meteorological staff at Pretoria)
(12.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) *
13.04.1943 - (06.)1944 a Naval Assistant, Naval Meteorological Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.08.1944 - (07.1945) a Naval Assistant, Naval Meteorological Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.11.1947 - 30.01.1954 Permanent RNVR (Solent Division, List 2)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Shirley Carr
L.W. Smith
Originally: Shirley Charles Smith, but due to clerical error upon joining the Navy his second Christian name became Carr, which in later life he even used as part of his surname as Carr-Smith.
Son of ... Smith, and ... Bright.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
03.12.1918
Wandsworth district, London
-
10.1996
Pool district, Dorset
T/S.Lt. 10.01.1941
T/Lt. 10.07.1943
Lt. RN 1947?, seniority 10.07.1943
Lt.Cdr. RN 10.07.1951 (emgcy 09.12.1951) (reverted to emgcy 1957)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
16.07.1941 - 05.1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
(1942) - (1943) HM LCT 302 (landing craft, tank) (Dieppe, Salerno, Anzio)
05.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for motor landing craft)
(1944)     HM LCT 856 (landing craft, tank) (Normandy)
05.02.1948 - (07.)1948 HMS Protector (training ship, Reserve Fleet)
13.12.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
18.02.1950 - (05.)1953 HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford)
21.07.1953 - (07.1954) HMS Glory (aircraft carrier)
28.02.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Bellerophon (Reserve Fleet base, Portsmouth)
Smith,
William Ezra
"Bill"
W.E. Smith
Son of ... Smith, and ... Brake.
Married ((03?).1942, Plymouth district, Devon) Cynthia Desirée "Cinders" Oliver, a VAD nurse/radiographer; one daughter, one son.

05.06.1920
New Barnet, Greater London
-
14.05.1992
Alderney
Ordinary Seaman 1939?
T/S.Lt. 28.08.1941
T/Lt. 28.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Pacific Star Pac St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: King Edward VI Grammar School, Bury St Edmunds; Bristol University (MB, ChB, 1954).
(1939)     HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer)
(1940/41?)     HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
(1941)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
04.11.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Susannah Jane (harbour defence patrol craft) [tender to HMS Paris (small craft base, Plymouth)]
10.06.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Lauderdale (escort destroyer)
28.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Ledbury (escort destroyer)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(07.1945)     Signal Officer, HMS Beaconsfield (RN base, Seaman's Mission, Port Melbourne, Australia) *
Assistant and then partner in a general practitioner's practice in Chew Magna, Somerset, mid 1950s-mid 1960s, then 6 years with the Oil Industry Medical Society in Libya, and finally accepting a partnership in Bashaw, Alberta, Canada, later moving to a hospital based practice, where he did the surgery and obstetrics. Retired 1982 to Alderney.
* indexed, but not listed as such
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)
Snow,
Ronald Leonard
R.L. Snow
Son of ... Snow, and ... Lambert.

A relative writes: "According to family history, he trained at HMS King Alfred and he rose to the rank of 2nd Lt and commanded an LCT in Malaya and was in Singapore at the time of the Japanese surrender. He also thought to have served on frigates in the Mediterranean hunting submarines."

(12?).1925
West Hams district, Essex / Suffolk
-
 
T/A/S.Lt. 08.03.1945
T/S.Lt. 08.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(07.1945)     HMS Gorleston (sloop escort) *
12.01.1946 - (04.1946) HM LST 3001 (landing ship, tank)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Solomon,
Martin Herbert Bernard
M.H.B. Solomon
Only son (with four sisters) of Col. Robert Bernard Solomon, MC (1889-1948), attorney, and Mrs Ethel Julia Cohen (1888-1922).
Married (25.08.1949, London) Mrs Joan Calder (née Vrint), of London W2, daughter of Mr & Mrs P.J.J. Vrint, of London SW3.
Residences: (1945) Beaulieu, Hampshire; (1949) London SW10.

10.1915
Kensington district, London
-
19.05.1956
Madrid, Spain (lately of Chelsea, London)
Prob.S.Lt. 05.08.1939
S.Lt. 29.04.1940, seniority 05.08.1939
A/Lt. 10.10.1940?
Lt. 06.1941, seniority 10.10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 14.08.1945 Aegean operations, relief of Greece [decoration handed]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 [investiture 11.03.41]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.11.1942 rescue from Tobruk autumn 42 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations 09-11.43
Education: Rugby; Christ's College, Cambridge.
19.10.1938     enrolled, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
06.1940     in command of the Cockle Bawley boats participating in the Dunkirk evacuation (aboard "Fossa") (DSC)
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
(02.1941)     HMS Vulcan *
(1941)     Commanding Officer, HM MTB 218 (motor torpedo boat) (6th MTB Flotilla)
(12.1941)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *
(1942)     HM MTB 260 (motor torpedo boat) (Bar to DSC)
      concerned with taking supplies to the besieged garrison of Tobruk
12.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (additional; for various services [possibly for service on staff of Staff Officer (Intelligence), Eastern Mediterranean]) (MBE & despatches)
      re-engaged for active service in the Korean campaign
Company director. Contested (unsuccessfully) as Conservative cadidate for Parliament for the borough of Stepney, 1950/51.
* indexed, but not listed as such
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)
Sowden-Schrier,
George William
G.W. Sowden-Schrier
Son of William Arthur Schrier, and Charlotte Emily Sowden, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Married ((03?).1932, Rochford district, Essex) Evelyn Blanche Webb, of Pinner, London; one daughter.
Evelyn Sowden-Schrier remarried (1943) Lt. (A) Robert Trovan Hargreaves, RNVR.
27.04.1909
Rochford district, Essex
-
24.02.1942
[age 32]
[Port of Spain (St. James) Military Cemetery, Trinidad, Western portion, grave 41]
T/S.Lt. (A) 31.03.1941
T/Lt. (A) 30.06.1941
31.03.1941 - 08.06.1941 pilot, 708  Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] (for full flying duties & conversion course)
09.06.1941 - 26.07.1941 pilot, 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] (for full flying duties)
27.07.1941 - 18.08.1941 HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) (additional)
19.08.1941 - 24.02.1942 pilot, 752 Squadron FAA [HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)] (for full flying duties)
[piloting a Grumman Goose Amphibian, accompanied by his United States Navy Instructor; a collision occurred whilst coming in to land, killing them both]
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
Sparshott,
William Harold
W.H. Sparshott
Son (with one sister) of William Thomas Henry Sparshott (1872-1931), and Hannah Mary Moring (1871-1941).
Married Dorothy Alice Colgate (1914 - 2005), daughter of Ernest Colgate (1881-), and Augusta Brown (1891-); one son.
26.11.1909
Newhaven, Sussex
-
27.01.1987
East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, Surrey
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 10.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature

Shipping broker.
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
10.01.1944 - (02.)1944 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (for service at Newport)
18.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast)
30.08.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
(04.1946)     HMS Victory III (accounting section, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Speedy,
Gordon Maxwell Edward
G.M.E. Speedy
Married ((09?).1938, Surrey South Eastern district) Enid Muriel Hearn (29.06.1913 - 01.1998).
31.10.1908
Croydon district, London
-
27.01.2002
Hitchin and Stevenage district, Hertfordshire
P/O (prob) RAFO 16.03.1931 (terminated on cessation of duty 23.05.1931)
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 04.04.1940, seniority 13.02.1940
T/El.Lt. 13.02.1940
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. < 12.1941
T/El.Cdr. 1946?
Cdr. (L) RN 02.02.1946, seniority 31.07.1945 (retd 31.10.1958)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
16.03.1931 - 23.05.1931 commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class AA (ii))
24.06.1941 - 23.06.1941 staff, Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.06.1941 - 06.09.1942 Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) [06.1942 travelling from Cairo to Aden for HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)]
07.09.1942 - (07.1945) staff, Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.02.1946 - (04.1946) Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (OBE)
02.02.1946     transferred to RN
24.05.1948 - (05.1950) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
22.09.1952 - (01.)1956 Officer of Admiral Commanding Reserves (Westminster, London) [HMS President]
05.03.1956 - (01.1957) Staff Electrical Officer, Reserve Fleet, Plymouth [HMS Orion]
24.07.1958     HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire)
MIEE.
Speirs,
William
W. Speirs
?
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.12.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) (04.1944)-(06.1944)
(02.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
07.1942 - (04.)1943 RN Barracks, Simonstown [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)]
04.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Ironclad (RN base, Diego Suarez, Madagascar)
(10.1943)     HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) *
(12.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) *
28.11.1943 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, French light cruiser Gloire
(10.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
16.06.1945 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
Spence,
Arnold Kinnoul Routledge
A.K.R. Spence
Son of Arnold K.R. Spence (1887?-1959), and Maud Lilian Amey (1895-1987).
Married ((06?).1949, Ilford district, Essex) Beryl C. White; ... children (one daughter?).
(09?).1924
Romford district, Essex
-
T/A/S.Lt. 11.02.1944
T/S.Lt. 11.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
1941     joined RNVR
1941 - 1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
      HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (as Control Rating 3rd Class)
      HMS Alynbank (North Russian convoys)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
26.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
      HM LCT(R) 167 (landing craft, tank (rocket))
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
His son-in-law Martin D. Jeffes writes: "When my father-in-law was doing his basic training he was selected as potential officer material, and told that he would be commissioned after a six-month basic training period. This is what he served aboard the Alynbank, which, after having its bomb removed at Portsmouth, after PQ18, was sent to rendezvous with the Queen Mary off Dakar, to provide a link in the escort of this vessel, which was en-route from Cape Town to Britain with troops. The Alynbank then went to Gibraltar to work with the Malta convoys, he thinks, and he left the ship about this time, at Alexandria, and was flown home in a Dakota, to begin his officer training at King Alfred. From there he went to a two week navigation course at Greenwich, before going to Troon to join a group being organised by Lord Mountbatten, which he calls the Inshore Squadron, consisting of landing craft and MTB's, and which is where he joined LCT(R)167, and went in it to the Mediterranean."
Spencer,
Percival John Burnett
P.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.
Sprunt,
William Deans
W.D. Sprunt
Son of Arthur Sprunt (1877-1944), and Jeanie D. Sprunt (1872-1965).
Married (04.1943, Ilford, Essex) Cecilia H.O. Trainer (1906-1980), daughter of George Christie Trainer and Cecilia Templeton; one child.
1900
Monifieth district, Angus, Scotland
-
1975
Eastwood district, Renfrewshire, Scotland
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
03.11.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
03.11.1945
WW I
 
 
served in the RAF
07.06.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
Came back to Glasgow and was involved in the founding of HMS Carrick (19th Century tea clipper and sister ship to the Cutty Sark) being moved from RNR Greenock to the River Clyde in Glasgow which subsequently became the a RNVR members club until it closed in the early 1980s.
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)
Squire,
George Henry Noble
G.H.N. Squire
Son of ... Squire, and ... Noble.
Married ((09?).1947, Sheffield district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Mary Burrows.
(06?).1924
Ecclesall Bierlow district, Yorkshire
-
11?.2007
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 23.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Lt. 23.03.1946
Lt. 18.01.1956, seniority 11.02.1955
Lt.Cdr. RNR 11.02.1963 (retd 01.07.1981)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 10.10.1967 -
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
29.09.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
10.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Hastings (sloop)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
18.01.1956     transferred to Permanent RNVR (from late 1950s RNR)
02.12.1966     transferred, RNR (Special Branch)
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.
Staniforth,
Thomas Henry
T.H. Staniforth
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 12.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
08.10.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, 857 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)]
[lost at sea 12.05.1945, being rescued by USS Bluefish on her 8th war patrol]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
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
Staples,
Albert Henry
A.H. Staples
Married Kate Julia Parks (born 1912); one child.
14.12.1912
Hackney district, London
-
10.1997
Sudbury district, Essex / Suffolk
T/Sg.Lt.
02.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: MRCS, LRCP.
02.03.1942
-
28.07.1942
HMS Martin (destroyer)
26.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
Naval Hospital, Simonstown (South Africa) [HMS Afrikander]
Starkey,
William Ewart
"Podge"
W.E. Starkey
Married Dorothy Jane ...
22.02.1911
Knaresborough district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
28.05.1983
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
T/Sg.Lt. (D) 05.12.1939
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) > 10.1944, < 01.1945
T/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) 25.02.1946, seniority 05.12.1945
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) RN 03.07.1946, seniority 05.06.1945
Sg.Cdr. (D) RN 31.12.1952
Sg.Capt. (D) RN 31.12.1964 (retd 22.02.1968)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1964 New Year 64
Education: LDS, RCS (admitted 15.12.1933).
08.01.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
23.04.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
(06.1943)     no appointment listed
25.06.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon)
25.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)
... - ... ...
Stedman,
George James
G.J. Stedman (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Stedman) G.J. Stedman (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Stedman)
G.J. Stedman (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Stedman)
Son of James Stedman, and Alice R. Wadham.
Married ((12?).1948, Wallasey district, Cheshire / Merseyside) Edna Stanford, née Salmon (02.05.1916 - 28.08.1991); one daughter, one son.
26.08.1915
Woodford Green, Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
16.01.1990
Prob. T/El.S.Lt. 02.03.1942
T/El.Lt. 02.07.1942
13.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
26.08.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad, British West Indies) (for miscellaneous services)
(04.1946)     HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) *
Chartered Electrical & Mechanical engineer. Worked in power stations at Battersea, in Kano, Falkirk, Lagos, Bulawayo, Blantyre, Redcliff.
* 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)]
Steele,
Phillip Levi
P.L. Steele
?
-
07.08.1945
(air crash) [Haddington Roman Catholic Churchyard, East Lothian, Scotland, sec. M, grave 19]
T/Midsh. (A) 13.01.1945
T/A/S.Lt. (A) ?
12.05.1945 - (07.)1945 observer, 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)]
? - 07.08.1945 HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lothian) [according to CWGC] / 784 Squadron FAA, HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) [according to www.naval-history.net]
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 *,
James
J. Stephens (Photo courtesy of Mr Jean-Pierre Vieuxbled) J. Stephens (Photo courtesy of Mr Jean-Pierre Vieuxbled)
* Name of choice for service with the RNVR.
Original name:
Vieuxbled,
Jacques.
12.11.1921
St Maur des Fossés, France
-
25.06.1959
Tuléar, Madagascar
T/A/S.Lt. 18.06.1943
T/S.Lt. 18.12.1943
T/A/Lt. 01.02.1945 (reld 01.01.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Italy Star It St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
15.07.1940 - 15.07.1942 training at HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) & service at HMS Fidelity (special service vessel)
15.07.1942 - 15.01.1943 5th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
15.01.1943 - 18.07.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
20.07.1943 - 17.01.1945 12th (Midget) Submarine Flotilla [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne)]
18.01.1945 - 14.06.1945 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport, Hampshire) (for midget submarines: XT6, XT2 & XE2)
14.06.1945 - 01.01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Present Help (drifter; tender to HMS Varbel & midget submarines)
Harbour Master, Tuléar, Madagascar.
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,
George Vaughan
G.V. Stephenson G.V. Stephenson
G.V. Stephenson
Son (with four siblings) of Rev. George A. Stephenson, LL.D., and Gertie E. Paddon, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Brother of Lt.Col. Thomas Godfrey Vaughan Stephenson, OBE, Royal Signals, and Lt.Cdr. Harry William Vaughan Stephenson, RN.
Married (1933) Mary Fraser, daughter of J.C. Fraser.

22.12.1901
Dromore, Co.Down, Northern Ireland
-
06.08.1970
St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth district, London
T/Sg.Lt. 28.11.1939 *
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945
T/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 28.11.1945
T/A/Sg.Cdr. 19.07.1945

*Neuro-psychiatry Specialist

Education: Haileybury (1916.3-1919.2; Bartle Frere House; Prefect, XV 1918, XI 1919); Queens's University, Belfast & London Hospital; MB, BCh 1924 (Hons.), DPM 1932.
Played rugby for Queen's University, Belfast, and London Hospitals. Between 1920 and 1930 he won forty-two rugby international caps with Ireland (Captain 13 times).
30.11.1939 - (06.)1943 RN Hospital Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
06.1943 - (01.)1945 RN Auxiliary Hospital Colombo [HMS Lanka]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
19.07.1945 - (04.1946) in charge of RN Auxiliary Hospital Knowle [HMS Victory]
Consultant psychiatrist, Hill End Hospital, St Albans.
Stephenson,
Kenneth Mazzini George
"Ken"
K.M.G. Stephenson (Photo courtesy of Mrs P.K. Stephenson) K.M.G. Stephenson (Photo courtesy of Mrs P.K. Stephenson)
Son of Herbert Stephenson, and Violet M.H. Tafft.
Married 1st ((12?).1947, Birmingham district, Warwickshire) Patricia Mary Decalmer (09.07.1924 - 08.1996); one daughter.
Married 2nd (2004) Patricia K. "Kate" Dixon; one step-son, one step-daughter.
31.03.1922
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
19.01.2011
Eltham, Greenwich, Greater London
Seaman ?
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) - (01.1945) 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 depot, Sydney, NSW)]
31.07.1952     transferred, Permanent RNVR
Returned to work for a clothing firm. Joined the Diplomatic Wireless Service (1954), serving for 6 months in Tunisia, later (1967) transferring to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His first long posting was to Athens (11.1960) where he soon became fluent in Greek, he already spoke fluent French. He embraced Embassy life. As a Diplomat from 12.09.1960 (Grade 6 Officer in Branch B of the Foreign Service) he moved to postings abroad Singapore (07.1963), Zambia (1972), Vietnam (1974), Hong Kong, Cyprus (01.1976) and Washington (11.1978). The fall of Saigon was unexpected and very rapid; most embassy staff were airlifted out, but Ken was one of 5 embassy staff left to tidy up, his last days there spent on the flat roof of the Embassy burning secret documents while Viet Cong rockets flew overhead. He was airlifted out by the Americans.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Steptoe,
Patrick Christopher
P.C. Steptoe

09.06.1913
Oxford
-
21.03.1988
Canterbury
T/Sg.Lt. 22.12.1939
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: MRCS, LRCP.
11.01.1940 - 29.05.1941 Medical Officer, HMS Hereward (destroyer) (ship sunk by Italian aircraft off Crete; captured)
05.1941 - 03.1943 POW in Italian captivity (c. 1942/43 Campo 5 at Gavi); exchanged & repatriated 03.1943
(08.1943) - (01.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] *
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. FRS, 03.1987.
* 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,
Alistair Inches
A.I. Stewart (Photo courtesy of Mr Ronald Stewart)
Son (with one brother?) of Thomas Inches Stewart, and Alice Stewart (née ...), of Broughty Ferry.
His brother A/Leading Airman Douglas Campbell Stewart, RN, was killed in an air crash, 27.08.1941 (aged 20).

Married Eva ...; ... children (one son?).
1924
Scotland
-
03.11.1965
The Wantage Hospital, Wantage, Berkshire
T/A/S.Lt. 05.06.1944
T/S.Lt. 05.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
05.06.1944 - (01.)1945 Third Hand, HM ML 902 (motor launch)
01.1945 - 03.1945 HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
24.03.1945 - (10.1945) First Lieutenant, HM ML 348 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
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
Stilwell,
John Albert
J.A. Stilwell
?
USA
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 12.09.1942
T/Lt. (A) 12.09.1943
      joined RNVR as an American citizen
      HMS Asbury (accomodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey)
24.02.1943 - (08.1943) observer, 845 Squadron FAA
      HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney) *
(12.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed
(04.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Gadwall (RN Air Station, Sydenham, Belfast) *
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
* indexed, but not listed as such
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.
Stone,
Douglas Edward

D.E. Stone
Son (with at least one brother) of Albert Edward Stone, brick works labourer, and Ada Kathleen Bishop.
Married ((03?).1944, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Monica O. Bowden; ... children (three daughters?).
01.10.1922
Torre, Torquay, Newton Abbot district, Devon
-
28.03
.1974
Freedom Fields Hospital, Plymouth, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. 21.05.1943
T/S.Lt. 21.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington DC, USA)
13.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Braithwaite (frigate)
05.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Furneaux (RN depot, Brisbane)
03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Aorangi (accommodation ship)
Schoolmaster.
Stoney,
Robert Vesey
R.V. Stoney (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Pegum)
Son (with one brother) of Robert Vesey Stoney (1841-1924), and his second wife Phoebe Editha Truell (?-1948).
Married (04.11.1927, St Peter's, Eton Square, St George Hanover Square district, London) Marian Catherine Theffania Nugent, elder daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Maj.Gen. Sir Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent, KCB, DSO, JP, DL (1860-1926), and Catherine Percy Lees (1875-1970); four sons, two daughters,
24.09.1903
Rosturk, Co. Mayo, Ireland
-
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
Education: Harrow School (Elmfield House; 1917.2-1922.2; Monitor 1921; Football XI 1921; Roundell Scholar 1922); Oriel College, Oxford (History Scholar).
04.12.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
22.03.1943 - 14.05.1944 HMS President III (accounting base for DEMS [= Defensively 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)
Street,
William Arthur Jevons
W.A.J. Street

Residence: (1944) Cheswerdine, Shropshire.
?
-
04?.2000
South Africa
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 26.08.1940
T/Lt. (A) 07.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) > 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 24.10.44]
12.09.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)
07.01.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
06.08.1942 - 06.1943 HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
06.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)
18.07.1945 - (10.1945) Naval Air Organisation Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Strong,
Alan Noel
A.N. Strong
Son of Eric Noel Strong, and Florence Rosalie M. Flew, of Bayford Lodge, Hatch End, Middlesex.
Married ((12?).1943, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Annis Bowman Armitage, only daughter of Mr & Mrs N.H. Armitage, of West Riding Hotel, Bournemouth.
(06?).1922
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
16.07.1945
(illness, following an operation) [age 23]
[Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece, 20.A.7]
T/S.Lt. 19.05.1944
T/A/Lt. < 10.1944
Education: Oxford University (1941).
26.03.1944 - 08.06.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, RHelN Tompazis (Greek corvette)
(10.1944)     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
(01.1945) - 16.07.1945 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) * | **
(03.1945) - 16.07.1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, RHelN Salamis (Greek fleet destroyer)
* indexed, but not listed as such
** according to Commonwealth War Graves Commission borne on HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) at the time of his death
Strong,
Laurence Vezey *
L.V. Strong (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Strong)
Elder son (with one brother and one sister) of Harold Vezey Strong, member of the Artists’ Rifles, serving in France in WW1, printer & publisher (c. 1894-1955), and Katherine "Kitty" Dyer (?-1950). 
Married (26.10.1940, Medway district, Kent) Honor Mary B. Stewart (25.12.1918 - 09.2003), daughter of .... Stewart, and ... Smith; two daughters, one son. 

* first name in naval administration incorrectly spelled: Lawrence

21.01.1918
Westhampnett district, Sussex
-
08.2010 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)
Strutt,
Stephen Alistair
S.A. Strutt
Son of Capt. Geoffrey John Strutt, CBE (1888-1971), and Sybil Eyre Greenwell (died 1975).
Brother of W/Cdr. Anthony Geoffrey Strutt, OBE, RAF (1913-1999), and of Sq.Ldr. Ivan Conwallis Strutt, RAFVR (1916-1943).
Married (17.06.1941) Felicity Anne MacDonnell, daughter of Mervyn Sorley MacDonnell, OBE; one daughter, two sons.
26.07.1918
Godstone district, Surrey
-
27.01.1949
Geneva, Switzerland
Prob. T/S.Lt.
09.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
1941, seniority 09.02.1940
T/A/Lt.
09.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
28.04.1940
-
(10.1940)
HMS Verdun (destroyer)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
12.04.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Fernie (destroyer)
26.05.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stuart,
William
W. Stuart
From Co. Armagh.
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 30.12.1940
T/Lt. (A) 30.06.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) < 10.1944
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 0.02.1943 attacks submarines & Flak boats Mediterranean summer 42 [investiture 13.07.43]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 13.03.1945 Operation Lentil (air strike Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra 12.44-01.45) [decoration posted]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian (ai strikes on Palembang 01.45) [decoration posted]
(02.1941)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
29.08.1941 - (08.1942) pilot, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
summer 42     HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (DSC)
09.09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Rajah (escort carrier)
27.11.1944 - 11.1945 Commanding Officer, 857 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)] (Bar to DSC, 2nd Bar to DSC)
[crashed with a Grumman TBM Avenger at sea 31.03.1945, being rescued by USS Kingfish on her 11th war patrol]
(04.1946)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sugden,
Henry Plummer
H.P. Sugden (Photo courtesy of Mr Stuart Sugden)
Married Agnes Currie ... (14.11.1909 - 02.06.1976); three sons, one daughter.
13.12.1910
Halifax district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
12.1993
Halifax district, West Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 27.03.1941
T/Lt. 27.06.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
19.05.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Myosotis (corvette)
01.02.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Balsam (corvette)
(04.1944)     HMS Balsam (corvette) *
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
05.07.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Alnwick Castle (corvette)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Suggitt,
Robert William Leslie
R.W.L. Suggitt (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Suggitt)

Son of Robert Suggitt (1868-1946), and Sarah Adelaide Benjamin (1873-1951).
Married ((03?).1941, Cleethorpes district, Lincolnshire) Beatrice Mabel Blackburn (1907-); one son.
30.10.1905
Cleethorpes, Grimsby district, Lincolnshire
-
02.1984
Spalding district, Lincolnshire
T/A/S.Lt. 30.04.1943
T/S.Lt. 30.10.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Education: Humberstone Foundation Grammar School, Cleethorpes.
      HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich)
1942     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Lancing, Sussex)
(06.1943) - (10.1945) HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) *
Railway clerk. Shop owner (florist/greengrocer) 1953 until time of death ( killed in collision with a lorry driving to Spalding produce auction).

* indexed, but not listed as such
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
Son of late John Chadwick Sumption and late Winifred Fanny Sumption.
Married (1946) Second Officer Hilda 'Hedy' Hedigan, WRNS (marriage dissolved 1979), youngest daughters of Mr & Mrs C.C. Hedigan, of Mallow, County Cork, Ireland; two sons, two daughters.

15.05.1919
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
-
08.01.2008
hospital
[Greenwich?]
[age 88]
A/S.Lt.
03.07.1939
S.Lt.
15.05.1940
Lt.
04.05.1942, seniority 03.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
03.01.1950 (retd 21.06.1955)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
22.02.1944
50+ patrols Norway, Mediterranean, Eastern Fleet [investiture 07.11.44]
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
17.02.1953
-
Education: Cheltenham College; London School of Economics.
1939


joined RNVR (Sussex Division, later London Division)
12.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith and Granton)
30.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (group, unit and officers under training)
22.03.1941
-
1941
submarine training, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
1941
-
09.06.1941
HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (Halifax, NS) (for submarines)
10.06.1941
-
02.01.1942
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (Alexandria, Egypt) (for submarines)
03.01.1942
-
08.05.1942
Navigating Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) (Alexandria, Egypt)
09.05.1942
-
25.06.1942
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
26.06.1942
-
21.08.1942
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Rothesay) (for submarines)



HMS L 26 (submarine)
22.08.1942
-
14.02.1943
First Lieutenant, HMS P 552 (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (Rothesay)]
15.02.1943
-
18.05.1943
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Algiers) (for submarines)



HMS P 555 (submarine)
19.05.1943
-
(12.1943)
First Lieutenant (later Commanding Officer?), HMS Trident (submarine) [tender to HMS Maidstone (Mediterranean, later HMS Forth (UK)]
1944


submarine Commanding Officers' course
17.08.1944
-
26.06.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Varangian (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops (Rothesay)]
(07.1945)


HMS Varangian (submarine) *
1945
-
1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Upright (submarine)
1945
-
1946
Flag Lieutenant to the Flag Officer, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant]
Solicitor, 1946; called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1971; a Recorder of the Crown Court, 1980-1984. Member (C): LCC, 1949-1952; Westminster City Council, 1953-1956. Contested (C): Hayes and Harlington, March 1953; Middlesbrough W, 1964.
Published:Taxation of Overseas Income and Gains, 1973, 4th edn 1982; Tax Planning, (with Philip Lawton) 6th edn 1973-8th edn 1979, (with Giles Clarke) 9th edn 1981-10th edn 1982; Capital Gains Tax, 1981.
* indexed, but not listed as such
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,
Frederick Martin
F.M. Sutherland
06.06.1921
Inverness, Scotland
-
13.03.2010
Harrow, NW London
T/S.Lt. 23.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     HMS Ceylon (cruiser) *
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Chief Librarian of the British Medical Association, 1960-1980.
Published
History of the British Medical Association Volume II 1932-1981 (with E Grey-Turner; 1982)
* indexed, but not listed as such
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,
George Lawrence

R.J. Sutton
?
-
?

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 18.02.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 18.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

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

(04.1944)     no appointment listed
23.05.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services)
Sutton,
Henry Fort
"Harry"

H.F. Sutton
?
-
?
Birmingham
T/A/S.Lt. 14.01.1944
T/S.Lt. 14.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
      may have served at HMS Griffin (destroyer) & HMS Neave (trawler)
(02.1944) - (04.1944) no appointment listed
(06.1944)     HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) *
18.09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown) (for motor launches)
18.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1160 (harbour defence motor launch)
(04.1946)     Wreck Dispersal Department, Admiralty *
* indexed, but not listed as such
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
Sweetman,
Claude Ernest
E.H.V. Syfret
Son of Ernest T. Sweetman, and Mary E. Ainsworth.
01.11.1916
Hastings district, Sussex
-
28.04.2012
T/A/S.Lt. 11.05.1944
T/S.Lt. 11.11.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
(1943?)     HMS Onslow (destroyer)
11.05.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Syfret,
Edward Herbert Vyvyan
E.H.V. Syfret
Son of Adm. Sir Edward Neville Syfret (1889-1972), and Hildegarde Warner.
Married ((09?).1947, Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire) Anne Bredin; 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]
Education: Downing College, Cambridge (BA 1947, MA 1950).
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)
08.01.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA) (for anti-submarine duties)
(10.)1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for anti-submarine warfare)
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
Son of Cyril Sykes, and Ellen E. Dawes.
Married ((09?).1942, Westminster district, London) Mary Clifford-Turner.
30.12.1919
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
03.1996
Winchester, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt. 13.12.1940
T/S.Lt. 30.12.1940
T/Lt. 13.06.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC  21.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 06.03.45]
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
03.1941 - (04.)1941 HM MGB 20 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
14.05.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
(04.1942)     HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
13.04.1942 - (12.)1942 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 67 (motor gun boat) (6th MGB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
12.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 74 (motor gun boat) (6th MGB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(08.1943)     HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
20.08.1943 - 09.1943 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
20.09.1943 - 11.06.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 129 (motor gun boat), from 23.09.1943 HM MTB 448 (motor torpedo boat) (35th MTB Flotilla) [from 24.01.1944 shown under HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) "for miscellaneous services"] (boat bombed in error by Allied aircraft off the Normandy coast & sunk)
05.07.1944 - (07.1945) Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sykes,
William Alan Flowerdew
W.A.F. Sykes (Photo courtesy of Mr Will Sykes)
Son (with one sister and one brother who died in infancy) of Brig. John Henry Sykes, Indian Army (1896-1975), and Leila Flowerdew Macphee (1894-1970), of Bombay, India.
22.02.1924
Broompark, Helensburgh, Scotland
-
23.06.1944
(KIA) [age 20]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, France, X.C.18]
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944
01.04.1943 - 23.06.1944 HMS Dartmouth III, from 19.07.1943 HMS Effingham (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth) (lost overboard while on passage aboard SS Empire Cutlass)


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