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1939-1945

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Taggart,
Redmond Thibeaudeau
"Bodo"

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01.10.1903
-
1987
[age 84]

Prob. S.Lt.	26.08.1927
S.Lt.	20.09.1928
Lt.	03.10.1931
Lt.Cdr.	03.10.1939
Cdr.	31.12.1943 (reld early 1946)

VRD

13.02.1945

ASI, BA, BAE

26.08.1927	-		joined RNVR; Ulster Division [HMS Caroline, Belfast]; qualified in navigation & pilotage, later in gunnery
19.02.1940	-	04.07.1940	Gunnery Officer (?), HMS Foylebank (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship)
25.11.1940	-	(08.1942)	Assistant Gunnery Officer, later Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
late 1942	-	08.1943	merchant ship contraband inspector, Swansea
08.1943	-	04.1944	HMS Saker (RN establishment in the USA)
07.04.1944	-	early 1946	HMS Excellent (at first for gunnery duties, later for bookwriting duties [wrote the Admiralty manual on 15" guns])

Family firm WDR & RT Taggart (Architects & Civil Engineers), 1946 till late 1960s.

Tait,
David Gregory
D.G. Tait

?
-

T/S.Lt.	13.12.1939
T/Lt.	24.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

13.12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)
07.05.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Sharpshooter (Halcyon class minesweeper)
10.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (additional; for various services)
(09.1942)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed [probably captured & POW in Japanese captivity]

Talbot,
George Richard
G.R. Talbot

?
-

T/S.Lt.	14.02.1941
T/A/Lt.	?
T/Lt.	14.02.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

05.12.1944

Adriatic & Aegean coastal operations [award posted]

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
28.04.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inveraray), from late 1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for TLC)
04.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer & as CO Personnel)
			staff COPP 10

Tandy,
Frank Ernest
F.E. Tandy (Photo courtesy of Mr David Tandy)

Married; two sons.

03.10.1908
Warwick district, Warwickshire
-
07.1966
Lewes district, East Sussex

Ord. Signalman	12.1941 [JX 295330]
T/A/S.Lt.	11.12.1942
T/S.Lt.	11.06.1943
T/Lt.	01.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Teacher.

15.09.1942			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
01.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Yarta (armed yacht)
(07.1945)			HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *

Post-war an Inspector of Schools.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tanner,
Harold Thomas
H.T. Tanner

Son of Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Tanner, of Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.

?
-
15.06.1942
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 76, column 3]

Prob. Lt.	01.05.1939
Lt.	1940?, seniority 01.05.1939

01.05.1939			joined RNVR (Unattached List)
16.10.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Fortune (destroyer)
04.08.1941	-	15.06.1942	HMS Aldenham (destroyer)

Tapper,
Vernon Horace
V.H. Tapper

Son of John Edmund and Gertrude Ethel Tapper, of Horsell, Woking, Surrey.

(09?).1924
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
24.01.1945
(MPK, air crash) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 5]
[commemorated at Horsell Village Memorial & Woking Grammar School Memorial & Woking Book of Remembrance]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)

05.08.1944

(10.1944)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
?	-	24.01.1945	786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tate,
David George
D.G. Tate

?
-

T/S.Lt.	23.04.1940
T/Lt.	12.05.1941

04.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for motor torpedo boats) *
09.1940	-	(02.)1941	HM MTB 17 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] *
(09.1941)			[acting?] Commanding Officer, 6th MTB Flotilla
24.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 72 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
03.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
20.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 201 (motor launch)

* (02.1941) listed under both HMS Hornet and HMS Beehive

Tattersall,
Michael Dent
M.D. Tattersall

Son of ... Tattersall, and ... Dent.
From St. Anne's on Sea.

22.11.1919
Fylde district, Lancashire
-
29.05.2004
[age 84]
Kendal, Westmorland

Prob. Midsh.	11.12.1939
T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	22.11.1940
T/Lt.	01.02.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	? (reld 1945/46)

DSC

19.06.1945

war patrols Mediterranean 03-10.44

11.12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
30.09.1940			joined submarine service
19.11.1940	-	10?.1941	HMS Tuna (submarine)
10?.1941	-	04.1942?	British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNorS Uredd (P. 41) (Norwegian submarine) [HMS Dolphin]
04.1942	-	02.1943	HMS P 43 (submarine)
14.02.1943	-	05.1943	submarine Commanding Officers' qualifying course
07.05.1943	-	07.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Ursula (submarine)
21.07.1943	-	05.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Unswerving (submarine)
21.05.1945	-	06.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (submarine)
30.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Trespasser (submarine)

Taylor,
George Godfrey
G.G. Taylor

21.03.1915
-
03.1996
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

T/S.Lt.	18.09.1941
T/Lt.	18.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

	MID	11.07.1944	successful patrols Mediterranean
	KW	08.12.1942	as liasion officer ORP Sokol

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
(1942)	-	(1944)	British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Sokol (Polish submarine)
20.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship)

Taylor,
Jack
J.B. Taylor

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	02.07.1943
T/Lt. (A)	02.01.1944

01.12.1943	-	(01.)1945	observer, 853 Squadron FAA
16.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Nightjar (for compass duties)
(04.1946)			HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man) / HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Jack
J.B. Taylor

?
-

T/Lt. (A)

15.11.1942 (reld 13.05.1946)

(10.1944)

(07.1945)

Admiralty [HMS President] *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
John Barnard
J.B. Taylor

01.04.1923
-

T/S.Lt.	01.10.1943
A/T/Lt.	01.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC

14.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 16.03.45]

(06.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
(06.1944)			Landing Craft Obstacle Clearance Unit No. 4
09.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Myrmidon (Algerine class minesweeper)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
John Gibson
J.G. Taylor

?
-

T/Sg.Lt.

02.10.1942

MRCS, LRCP, MB, BS

15.11.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Neil William Gilchrist
N.W.G. Taylor

?
-

T/Lt.

17.08.1943

	DSC	14.06.45	HM birthday 45
	MID	21.11.44	series of actions, Channel

			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 700 (motor torpedo boat)
(06.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 211 (motor torpedo boat)
18.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 703 (motor torpedo boat)

Taylor,
William Erwin Gibson
"Bill"
W.E.G. Taylor

Son of a US Army officer.

04.07.1905
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
-
09.06.1991
Pinellas County, Florida, USA

T/S.Lt. (A)	10.09.1939
T/Lt. (A)	22.12.1939 (reld 02.10.1940)
RAFVR:
F/Lt.	03.10.1940 [86597] (reld 18.07.1941)

Taylor enrolled at the Guggenheim College of Aeronautical Engineering at New York University, but left to join the Naval Reserves in 1925. He received his Naval pilot's license in 1927 and was assigned to Fighting Squadron Five, Scouting Fleet. He resigned in 1928 when his squadron was ordered to inactive status and he then joined the US Marine Corps Reserve, where he was an aviator from 1928-1933. In 1933, he was again ordered to inactive status. At this point Taylor left the Armed Services and became a pilot for United Airlines and later owned a New York City based travel agency.

14.09.1939			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for refresher course in flight training)
			training, Fighter School
			fighter pilot, 769 Squadron FAA [HMS Argus (Mediterranean)]
(04?).1940	-	(06?).1940	fighter pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS ... (RN Air Station Hatston, Orkney Islands), from 04.1940 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier); the Squadron had disembarked before the ship was lost on 08.06.1940, then HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
07.09.1940	-	(10.1940)	Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
01.1941	-	06.1941	first Commanding Officer of 71 (Eagle) Squadron, Royal Air Force

In June 1941, Taylor left the Eagle Squadron and rejoined the United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1951 where he served on the following vessels: Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger. After the war, Taylor was, among other posts, the commanding officer of Project Afirm and the commanding officer for the Night Attack and Training Unit, Atlantic (NACTU). In 1951 Taylor resigned from the Navy Reserves and worked first for Braniff Airlines in Panama, and then as a Vice President for Scandinavian Airlines System.
Literature: An Eagle with Wings of Gold : The Remarkable Career of Bill Taylor. In: Air Power History, Vol. 48, 2001

Taylor,
William Horace
W.H. Taylor

George Cross Database

23.10.1908
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
16.01.1999
[Banchory, Kincardineshire ?]

Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	06.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	? 08.1942, < 02.1943

GC	14.01.1941	mine disposal RAF depot Uxbridge 09-10.40
MBE	1973	services to scouting
Comm	27.06.1941	mine disposal

Education: Manchester Grammar School

1929	-	1939?	junior partner and then (1937) managing director of a firm promoting stands for exhibitions
	-	1939	staff of Manchester Central Docks
15.11.1940	-	(06.1944)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty
1944			Founder Member, Naval Clearance Divers, HMS Vernon (D)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
1946	-	1951	Travelling Commissioner for the Sea Scouts
1952	-	1974	Field Commissioner for South-West England, Scout Association
1975	-	1984	managed an estate at Blanefield, near Glasgow

Teal,
Roy Harry George
R.H.G. Teal (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony R. Teal)

08.11.1910
Peckham, South London
-
26.01.1972
Guildford, Surrey

Ord.Sea.	28.08.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	21.05.1943
T/S.Lt.	21.11.1943
T/Lt.	21.11.1945 (reld 01.07.1946)

Education: St Dunstan’s College, Catford, South London (17.01.1922-26.07.1927)
Joined Boots, the Chemists, 1928. Qualified as a Pharmaceutical Chemist (M.P.S.), 26.07.1934. Manager of Thornton Heath branch of Boots, the Chemists, 1939-1942.

28.08.1942	-	11.11.1942	basic training, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth) [Certificate of Progress of Ordinary Seaman achieved 12.12.1943]
12.11.1942	-	11.12.1942	CW Candidate, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [Dockyard duties awaiting draft to a ship]
12.12.1942	-	23.02.1943	HMS Campanula (corvette) (escort duties convoy SC 118) [based at HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
24.02.1943	-	20.06.1943	officer training, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
21.06.1943	-	27.06.1943	minesweeper gunnery course, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Charham)
28.06.1943	-	15.08.1943	minesweeper course No. 39/43, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeping base, Port Edgar) [including three weeks on trawlers]
16.08.1943	-	31.08.1943	minesweeper training, HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith)
01.09.1943	-	09.09.1943	spare minesweeper First Lieutenant, HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness) [based at HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)] [Probably served on M.M.S 51 but re-assigned after this.]
10.09.1943	-	05.1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 57 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness)] *
05.1944	-	10.09.1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 181 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness)] [Operation Neptune (Normandy landings)] *
11.09.1944	-	16.12.1945	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 81 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minsweeper depot ship, Sheerness)] [Operation Calendar (Scheldt sweeping)]
17.12.1945	-	03.02.1946	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 69 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minsweeper depot ship, Sheerness)]
04.02.1946	-	05.05.1946	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 69 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS Eskimo (accommodation ship, Chatham)]
06.05.1946	-	01.07.1946	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for release from naval service)

Manager of the following pharmacy branches of Boots, the Chemists: West Hendon, Greater London (1946-1948), Southampton Row, London (1948-1954), Chelsea, London (1954-1959), Guildford, Surrey (1959-1971). Retired 03.04.1971.
Freeman of City of London (by Patrimony) and Clothworker, 06.02.1935.
* personnel records seem to suggest that appointment to HM MMS 57 was intended, but cancelled, and replaced by appointment to HM MMS 181; the Navy List seems to suggest otherwise

Templeton,
John Atrill
[later:Templeton-Cotill]
J.A. Templeton

Son of late Captain Jack Lionel Cottle, Tank Corps.

04.06.1920
-

Laudun, France

T/A/S.Lt.	28.06.1940
T/S.Lt.	04.06.1941
T/A/Lt.	< 12.1941
Lt.	?, seniority 02.08.1943
Lt.Cdr.	02.08.1951
Cdr.	30.06.1955
Capt.	31.06.1961
R.Adm.	07.01.1970 (retd 07.10.1973)

1972

Education: Canford School; New College, Oxford

1939			joined RNVR
1940	-	1941	HMS Crocus
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
1941	-	1942	British Naval Liaison Officer, French warship Chevreuil
1942			staff, General Officer Commanding New Caledonia (US)
1943			US Embassy, London
1943?	-	1944?	Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
01.12.1944	-	(07.)1945	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 421 (motor torpedo boat)
1945	-	1946	ADC to Governor of Victoria
1947	-	1955	served in HMS London, Loch Quoich, Whirlwind, Jutland, Barrosa and Sparrow
19.05.1947	-	(10.)1947	HMS London
10.1947	-	(07.1948)	HMS Loch Quoich
(05.1949)			HMS Loch Quoich *
20.06.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Whirlwind
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
(07.1954)			no appointment listed
(04.1955)			HMS Sparrow *
18.07.1955	-	(01.)1956	Commanding Officer, HMS Sefton & Senior Officer, 108th Minesweeping Squadron
1956			jssc
(01.1957)			HMS President *
1957	-	1959	Commander-in-Charge, RN School of Work Study
1959	-	1961	Commanding Officer, HMS Tiger
(07.1961)			HMS President *
18.05.1962	-	1964	British Naval Attaché, Moscow [HMS President]
1964	-	1966	Commanding Officer, HMS Rhyl and Captain (D), 23rd Escort Squadron
1966	-	1968	Senior Naval Member, Defence Operational Analysis Establishment
01.05.1968	-	(02.)1969	Commanding Officer, HMS Bulwark
1970	-	1971	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet
1971	-	1973	Flag Officer, Malta, and NATO Commader, SE Area Mediterranean
1972	-	1973	Commander, British Forces Malta

Director: Sotheby Parke Bernet (France), 1974-1981; Sotheby Parke Bernet (Monaco), 1975-1981.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tenquist,
Victor Magnus Tunstall
V.M.T. Tenquist (Photo courtesy of Mr John Tenquist)

Born with a twin sister (Ada).
Married Louise Roper; two sons (one of which died as an infant), one daughter.

09.02.1900
Crossmyloof, Scotland
-
14.08.1956
Bricket Wood, St Albans, Hertfordshire

T/Midsh.	17.05.1918
T/S.Lt.	1919?
T/Lt.	25.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

St Stan	WW I	for actions at Archangelsk
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
Def M	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?

Education: Hillside College

(1917?)	-	(1918?)	HMS Hermoine (went to Archangelsk; spoke Russian & Arabic fluently)
(01.1919)			no appointment listed
Civil service [such as night telephonist and call office attendant (Post Office, London), from 17.03.1938].
(04.1940)			HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) *
11.09.1940	-	(08.1943)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (additional; for various ervices)
19.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (for Naval Control Service duties)
06.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)

Civil servant.

* indexed, but not listed as such

Terretta,
Frederick
"Fred"
F. Terretta (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son (with one brother and three sisters) of Capt. Joseph Frederick Terretta (1900-1990), Merchant Navy, and Edith Cudlip (1901-1988).
Married ((06?).1950, Fylde district, Lancashire) Gertrude A. "Trudie" Barnes.

18.09.1922
Runcorn district, Cheshire
-
06.2010 still alive

T/A/S/Lt.	02.06.1944
T/S.Lt.	02.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Bur St	-	& clasp Pacific
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

			special telegraphist at Gibralter, one of twelve "Y Stations" receiving coded signals morse signals from German shore stations, surface ships and U-boats; signals sent to "X station" (Bletchley) for decoding and pinpointing position of German forces
			CW candidate on HMS Starling (sloop)
			sent to Lancing for commissioning
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
11.1944?			HMS Cooke (frigate)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
17.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Termagent (destroyer)

Terry,
Cecil Henry
C.H. Terry (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor)

Son of Henry George Terry (1858-1932), surgeon, and Florence Terry.
Married (1949/50?) Mrs Jones, a doctor's widow (died 1967).

14.03.1892
Bath, Somerset
-
01.02.1971
Bath, Somerset

T/Sg.Lt. RN	21.10.1916
T/Sg.Lt.	21.09.1939
A/T/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	01.07.1940
T/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	31.07.1944
T/A/Sg.Cdr.	1946? (reld 15.11.1946)

BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Atl St	?	?
It St	?	possibly
WM 39\|45	?	?

Education: Oundle School (1906-1911); Balliol College, Oxford (1911-1914)
MRCS (1916, Eng), LRCP (1916, Lond), MA (1921), MB (1921), BCh (1921, Oxon), FRCS (1925, Ed)
House surgeon, St Bart's Hospital, 1914.

21.10.1916	-	05.1919	HMS Lupin (sloop)
20.05.1919	-	06.1919	Admiralty [HMS President]
19.06.1919	-	1919	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Bath, 1921. Assistant surgeon (1922), then senior surgeon (1925-1945), Royal United Hospital, Bath. Visiting surgeon to several cottage hospitals in the area.
21.09.1939	-	11.1941	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
30.11.1941	-	(04.)1944	HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship)
22.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	Royal Marine Infirmary, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Victory IV (accounting base) (known to have served as Senior Medical Officer, RM Barracks, Eastney)

Thirlaway,
William
"Billy"
W. Thirlaway

Only son of ...

1922 ?
-
22.10.1943
Garstang district, Lancashire
(air crash) [age 21]
[Blackpool (Carleton) Crematorium, Poulton-Le-Fylde, panel 5]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	05.11.1943, seniority 02.10.1943

20.09.1943

22.10.1943

pilot, 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)]

Thomas,
Bryan William Rylands
B.W.R. Thomas

(09?).1902
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
20.06.1942
(KIA)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 76, col. 3]

T/Lt.

08.07.1940

12.01.1937			enrolled RN Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (London Division RNVR)
?	-	20.06.1942	First Lieutenant, HM ML 1039 (motor launch)

Thomas,
Cecil Goring
C.G. Thomas

11.10.1908
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
(09?).1974
South Glamorgan district, Wales

T/Lt.	07.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 06.1944, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
07.12.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Pollux (radar training ship)
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomas,
Dennis Harold
D.H. Thomas

09.09.1922
-
23.02.1986

T/Lt.

09.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

			served HMS Paladin (destroyer)
			served MTBs (English Channel)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Thomas,
Frank William
F.W. Thomas

?
-
06.2009 still alive

T/A/S.Lt.	02.03.1945
T/S.Lt.	02.09.1945 (reld 1947)

04.1945	-	06.1945	HMS Excalibur (New entry seaman training establishment, Alsager, Stoke on Trent)
06.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Tengra (Combined Operations base, Mandapam, India)
10.1945	-	09.1947	HM BYMS 2006 (British Yard minesweeper)

Thomas,
Ivor Morgan
I.M. Thomas

Son of Albert William Thomas and of Sarah Dora Thomas (nee Harries); husband of Josephine Thomas.

(09?).1920
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire / Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-
11.12.1942
(KIA)
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 2]

T/S.Lt.

06.11.1941

11.12.1942

HMS X. 4 (midget submarine)

Thomas,
James Owen
"Jim"
J.O. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Ellis)

30.06.1916
-
11.05.1997
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	17.07.1941
T/Lt.	17.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC	30.11.1943	action E-boats North Sea 24.09.43 [investiture 01.02.44]
DSC	26.06.1945	minesweeping northern coast of France 09-12.44 [award posted]
MID	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

01.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
08.04.1942	-	(10.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM ML 150 (motor launch)
11.10.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 202 (motor launch)
04.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 222 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 1st ML Flotilla
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Thomas,
Percival Reginald
P.R. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Jan Simmonds)

Son of William G. Thomas, and Ellen Ada Chesson.
Married Doreen ...; two daughters, one son.

22.06.1923
Eastbourne district, Sussex / East Sussex
-
01.11.1987
Chichester, Sussex

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.03.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	< 01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

NorWM

20.03.1945

sinking enemy shipping winter 43-44

12.11.1943	-	(1944)	British Naval Liaison Officer, HNorMS Ula (submarine)
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thompson,
Charles Arthur
C.A. Thompson

Married Molly Kight; at least one daughter.

?
-

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.09.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.09.1942 (reld 10.04.1946)

Education: BSc

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
10.12.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) (for meteorological duties)
21.01.1944	-	(10.1944)	Meteorological Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
18.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Meteorological Officer, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)

Thompson,
Frank Gordon
F.G. Thompson

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	04.08.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	04.02.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
(03.1945)			British Naval Liaison Officer, "Kanaris" (Greek destroyer)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thompson,
Henry Lorimer Frew
"Harry"
H.L.F. Thompson

From Atherton, Lancashire.

14.02.1919
-
09.10.1998

Ord.Sea.	(09?).1939
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	04.12.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.12.1943

MBE

09.11.1943

mine disposal Eastern Mediterranean 05-07.43

Bank clerk.

(11?.)1939			joined the RNVR and served in the ranks
11.1940			HMS Laurentic (armed merchant cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk 300 miles off the North coast of Ireland - picked up after 10 hours in the water by HMS Hesperus]
			attached to the Staff Officer Hydrographics on a Motor Launch (mined off Plymouth)
			leading torpedo operator & recommmended for a commision: trained at HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
			appointed Rendering Mines Safe Officer (UK, Suez, Beirut, Cyprus):
23.02.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
01.10.1943	-	(04.1944)	HMS Medway II (submarine base, Beirut, Lebanon)
25.03.1945	-	(04.1946)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty (for duty outside Admiralty)

Literature: Chapter 8 (Seventeen seconds to stay alive) in: Paul Lund & Harry Ludlam, Out sweeps! : the story of the minesweepers in World War II (1978)

Thompson,
Llewelyn Edmund
L.E. Thompson

?
-

T/S.Lt.	26.06.1941
T/Lt.	01.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

	DSC	13.06.44	action 6 trawlers Dover 15.03.44
	MID	28.12.43	action convoy Dover 26.09.43

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
16.07.1943	-	(03.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 418 (motor torpedo boat)
06.05.1944	-	(06.1944)	Comanding Officer, HM MTB 66 (motor torpedo boat)
18.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)

Thompson,
Richard
R. Thompson

Son of Albert Victor and Elizabeth Thompson, of Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire, England.

1921 ?
-
26.10.1942
(air crash) [age 21]
[Simon's Town (Dido Valley) Cemetery, South Africa, Naval Allotment, row D, grave 10]

T/S.Lt. (A)

10.01.1942

30.05.1942

26.10.1942

pilot, FAA Pool (789 Squadron?), RN Air Station Wingfield [HMS Afrikander, later HMS Malagas]

Thomson,
David Alexander
D.A. Thomson

17.09.1914
Rutherglen, Glasgow
-
07.02.2005

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	07.05.1940
T/Sg.Lt.	04.1941, seniority 07.05.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	? (reld 1945/46)

OBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

MB, ChB

07.05.1940			joined RNVR at Port Edgar
04.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	Medical Officer, HMS Sabre (destroyer)
01.09.1941	-	(02.1943)	HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
			involved with clearing the mines in the approaches to Sword Beach (Normandy) and particularly concerned with developing the means to dive to the depths necessary to deal with the deep munitions
			HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) ?
01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Medical Officer, HMS Vernon (D) (base for Port Parties, Dartmouth/Brixham)

Thomson,
Francis Ninian
F.N. Thomson

Son of ... Thomson, and ... Sievwright.

(12?).1919
Islington, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
22.07.2007

T/S.Lt.	31.01.1941
T/Lt.	01.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

19.12.1944

Coastal Forces action Nore 18.09.44 [investiture 06.03.45]

18.04.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (for anti-submarine striking force convoy duties)
28.05.1942	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 89 [HMS Minos II, from 07.1942 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
24.11.1943	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 728 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Thomson,
John Edward Burrell
J.E.B. Thomson

Son of Lt.Col. Wilfred Burrell Thomson, RAMC, MRCS.

25.02.1906
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
18.08.1972
Truro, Cornwall
[buried at Feock Church, Feock, Cornwall]

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	04.01.1943, seniority 10.11.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Education: Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset.

17.07.1944	-	(01.1945)	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for Thames Local Defence Flotilla)
(07.1945)			HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) *

Banker who joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in England. He first worked in London and was then sent to France (Lyons and Tours), then to Bombay, India (he was living in Bombay in 1933), then to Penang in Malaya, then Singapore, then to Shanghai, China and finally finished as Chief Manager for Thailand (Bangkok). He retired at roughly 55 years of age and then lived in North Devon and Cornwall.

Thomson,
Roy William
R.W. Thomson

(09?).1906 ?
Holborn district, London / Middlesex ?
-

T/Lt.

29.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

29.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate)
06.1940			skipper of little ship "Dab II" during the Dunkirk evacuation
25.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Racer (RN base, Larne)
09.06.1941	-	(06.)1944	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
09.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)

Thornber,
Harold Holden
H.H. Thornber

Married Barbara ... (predeceased him).

08.05.1921
Blackburn, Lancashire
-
28.07.2008
Beardwood Hospital
[age 87]

T/S.Lt. (A)	11.07.1942
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	14.07.1944, seniority 22.05.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.05.1946
Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.08.1955
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	22.08.1963 (retd 08.05.1979)

	VRD	08.07.1966	?
	VRD	06.06.1978	1st clasp

Education: BSc

16.06.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hasdrubal (RN base, Salerno/Taranto)
?	-	(04.1946)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
22.08.1955			joined Permanent RNVR (Mersey Division), later RNR

Former warden of Blackburn Cathedral.

Thornton,
Charles Clifford
C.C. Thornton

Son of Charles Richard Thornton, and Emily Woodford.
Married; ... children.

(09?).1916
Lewisham district, London
-
17.08.2010

Prob. S.Lt. (A)	28.02.1939
S.Lt. (A)	1940?, seniority 28.02.1939
Lt. (A)	29.07.1941
Lt. (A) RN	04.03.1946, seniority 29.07.1941
Lt.Cdr. RN	29.07.1949 (retd 29.03.1958)

MID

11.05.1943

attempted escape from the French

28.02.1939			joined RNVR (London Division) - List 2
08.1940	-	08.02.1941	pilot, 830 Squadron [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] [failed to return after a bombing trip to Tripoli Harbour; crashed near Garzi; captured]
08.11.1942	-	1943	POW in French captivity
29.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Ajax (cruiser)
19.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Fighter Direction Officer, HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lothian)
04.03.1946			transferred, RN (Air Branch) [extended service commission]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
17.02.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry)
22.09.1949			permanent commission, RN (Executive Branch)
19.10.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (for miscellaneous duties)
(05.1953)			HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire) *
07.07.1953	-	(07.)1954	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry)
10.11.1954	-	(01.1956)	HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta)
(01.1957)			HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thornton,
Francis Anthony
F.A. Thornton (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston)

?
-

T/S.Lt.	23.10.1941
T/Lt.	27.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
22.12.1941	-	(12.1943)	HMS Middleton (destroyer)
19.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Stork (sloop)
(04.1946)			HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thornton,
George Arthur
G.A. Thornton

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	1943?
T/S.Lt.	25.12.1943
T/Lt.	25.12.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

15.11.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lochy (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Thornton,
Hugh Douglas
H.D. Thornton

?
-
1995

T/Lt.	28.10.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	1945? (reld 1945/46)

MBE

11.12.1945

wind up (Europe 45)

		joined RNVR
		trained at Greenwich and after a brief period as a gunner, became a Hydrographic Surveyor
		served originally in W Africa out of Freetown and then went to Greek islands etc in command of a 72' ML
1944		lent to the 8th Army in Italy
05.1945	-	Commanding Officer, ML1005 (Adriatic), working behind German lines at times, Venice

Civilian career in banking.

Thorp,
David Sugden
D.S. Thorp

?
-
06.2003

T/Lt.

01.03.1942

	DSC	08.09.42	Malta convoy 22.03.42
	MID	26.05.42	action Italian cruisers 12.12.41

(12.1941)

(03.1942)

HMS Legion

Thorp,
Thomas Blundell
T.B. Thorp, 1944 (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

30.09.1903
-
11.1986
Banbury, Oxfordshire

T/S.Lt.

11.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Bank manager.

25.07.1944

(07.1945)

Gunnery Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)

Thorpe,
Harold Arthur
H.A. Thorpe

Son of Otto Fred Thorpe (1885-?), invalided from the Royal Field Artillery
(Territorial Force) in 1916-17, and Nellie Ellen Ancell.

19.11.1917
Brighton, Sussex
-
11.1995
Brighton, Sussex

T/S.Lt.	11.11.1944
T/Lt. ?	1946? (reld > 04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

11.05.1944

(04.1946)

HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)

Thorpe,
James Athole *
I.A. Thorpe

* first names in the Navy List initially given as: Innes Athole

?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt.	03.05.1940
T/Lt.	03.05.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

MBE

19.05.1942

salvage Lucellum 19.12.41 [investiture 07.07.42]

29.06.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Coila (armed yacht)
(12.1941)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Senateur Duhamel"
(08.1942)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Le Lavandou" (chasseur)
05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Kilham (escort)

Thurland,
Arthur William George
A.W.G. Thurland

Son of Harry Crozier Thurland, and Frances E. Wheeler.

19.09.1912
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
01.1991
Ealing district, London

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR	27.12.1951
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR	27.12.1959 (retd 19.09.1972)

VRD

20.05.1966

01.04.1942	-	(01.)1945	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
(07.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *

President, Brentham Cricket Club, 1961-1970 (Honorary Secretary, 1948-1950; Life Vice-President, 1971).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tillie,
Arnold Bertram Kingsley
A.B.K. Tillie

Son of ... Tillie, and ... Royle.

03.03.1918
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
10.1997
Hastings and Rother, East Sussex

T/Lt.

MID

22.01.1946

St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42

(03.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM ML 268 (motor launch)

Timms,
Roderick James Weston
R.J.W. Timms

Youngest of six children of Ernest Tom Timms, a local chemist in Sandgate, and Florence May Vincent.
Married; ... children.

22.03.1921
Elham district, Kent
-
07.2003
Lewes, Sussex

Ord.Sig.	11.09.1941
Ord.Sea.	02.10.1941
Ldg.Sea. (Coxsw.)	20.02.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	23.03.1943
T/S.Lt.	26.09.1943
T/Lt.	29.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt.	15.12.1961, seniority 18.09.1959
Lt. (Sp.Br.)	02.12.1966, seniority 18.09.1959
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	18.09.1967 (retd 22.03.1983)

MID	19.06.1945	action E-boats Nore 07.04.45
RD	07.03.1972	-
RD	27.09.1983	1st clasp

Worked as junior draughtsman for the Folkestone Electricity Supply Company, meanwhile serving in the Home Guard.

11.09.1941	-	09.10.1941	training, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
10.10.1941	-	04.12.1941	training, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
05.12.1941	-	07.01.1942	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
08.01.1942	-	15.01.1942	training, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Faeham, Hampshire)
16.01.1942	-	21.02.1942	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) [served at motor launches HM ML 133, ML 136, ML 276 & ML 369]
22.02.1942	-	12?.1942	HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)
09.03.1942	-	12.1942	HM ML 345 (motor launch) [8th ML Flotilla] (Brightlingsea, from 15.05.1942 Yarmouth, from 04.06.1942 Stornoway & Tobermory)
12.1942	-	29.01.1943	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
30.01.1943	-	10.04.1943	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Lancing & Hove, Sussex)
11.04.1943	-	02.05.1943	RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
03.05.1943	-	05.1943	gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.1943	-	21.05.1943	torpedo course, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton)
22.05.1943	-	04.07.1943	MTB & MGB courses, HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) [sailing in HM MTB 51, MTB 152 & MTB 165, and HM MGB 93]
05.07.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover), from 24.01.1944 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] (for miscellaneous services)
07.07.1943	-	19.09.1943	Spare Officer, HM MGB 118 (motor gun boat) (Ramsgate) [9th MGB Flotilla]
20.09.1943	-	10.06.1944	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 448 (motor torpedo boat) [35th MTB Flotilla]
18.06.1944			First Lieutenant, HM MTB 450 (motor torpedo boat) [35th MTB Flotilla]
05.12.1944	-	28.05.1945	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 482 (motor torpedo boat) [35th MTB Flotilla]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Walrus (aircraft transporter) *
15.12.1961	-	22.03.1983	Permanent RNR

* indexed, but not listed as such

Titcombe,
Douglas Harold
D.H. Titcombe

Son of William Edwin Titcombe, and Clara Bessie Mallett.
Married Doreen (née ...); three sons.

(09?).1916
Crediton district, Devon
-
03.10.2007
Southampton General Hospital
[age 91]

T/S.Lt.	10.07.1941
T/Lt.	10.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC

14.06.1945

HM's birthday 45 [decoration posted]

04.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
20.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 198 (motor launch)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Titterington,
David William Michael
D.W.M. Titterington

1924 ?
-

T/S.Lt.

02.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

1944?			HMS Pennywort (corvette)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
08.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Woolloomooloo (RN repair base, Sydney, NSW) (for duty with MFVs and tugs)

Todd,
Alexander
A. Todd (Photo courtesy of Mr John Robertson)

23.10.1900
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
16.02.1954
Liverpool, Lancashire

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	05.01.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.09.1944? (reld < 04.1946)

01.09.1944

(07.1945)

HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (for sea transport duties, Algiers)

Tomlinson,
Wilfred
W. Tomlinson

?
-

T/Lt.

DSC

30.07.42

attacked by 6 Me 109's 04.06.42

(07.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM ML 3 (motor launch)

Tompkins,
Sidney Alfred
S.A. Tompkins

(03?).1895 ?
Marylebone district, London / Middlesex ?
-

T/Capt. (Sp.Br.)

17.01.1945

MBE

01.01.1948

New Year 48: for services as Deputy Controller, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Western Europe

(07.1945)

(04.1946)

VD ? *

* indexed as "VD", without explanation what it is; "Victualling Department", perhaps?; he was associated with the NAAFI

Toner,
John Stannard
J.S. Toner

Son of ... Toner, and ... Stannard.
From Saffron Walden.

30.03.1918
Bishops Stortford district, Essex / Hertfordshire
-
06.1988
Chelmsford district, Essex

T/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/Lt. (A)	24.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. (A) RN	1946?, seniority 24.09.1943 (emgcy 26.10.1949) (removed from emcgy 18.02.1950)

	DSC	18.07.1944	Operation FY (North Russian convoy 03-04.44) [investiture 13.11.45]
	DSC	07.08.1945	Operation Judgement (air strike in U-boat base at Kilbotn, Norway 04.05.45) [investiture 13.11.45]

01.04.1943	-	(05.1945)	pilot, 846 Squadron FAA [HMS Tracker (escort carrier), later HMS Trumpeter (escort carrier)]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) *
1946?			transferred to RN (air Branch)
01.01.1947	-	(07.1948)	pilot, 703 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
14.01.1949	-	(05.1949)	HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth)

Post-war a medical practitioner in Essex.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tonge,
Harold
H. Tonge

Son of ... Tonge, and ... Morris.

22.03.1920
Bolton district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire
-
01.1999
Whitehaven district, Cumberland

?	? [JX 206892]
T/S.Lt.	27.11.1942
T/Lt.	22.03.1945

MID

01.01.1946

New Year 46

			served as a rating
15.10.1943	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Harlech Castle (minesweeping trawler)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(1945)			HMS Arkwright (minesweeping trawler) [based at HMS Helicon (RN base, Aultbea) ?]
02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for disposal)

Tonkin,
Raymond Philip
R.P. Tonkin

Son of ... Tonkin, and ... Woodall.

23.04.1920
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
11.2005
Poynings, Horsham district, Sussex

T/Lt.	12.08.1944
Lt.Cdr.	12.08.1952 (retd)

DSC

21.08.1945

attack enemy convoy [G?] Venice 04.45

11.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 408 (motor torpedo boat)
10.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)

Post-war he was a member of the RNVR Newhaven Detachment of HMS Sussex for several years.

Toogood,
Lawrence Edson
L.E. Toogood

Son of ... Toogood, and ... Johnson.

(03?).1918
Knaresborough district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
24.04.1944 (KIA) [age 26]

T/Lt.

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 671 (motor torpedo boat)

Towndrow,
Thomas Austin
"Tom"
T.A. Towndrow

Second of seven sons of Austin Mears Towndrow (1884-1953), and Octavia Green (1891-1980).
Married (07.08.1948, Bexley, Kent) Violet Edith Lindley (11.11.1911-08.06.1975); two daughters, one step-son.

06.10.1914
Barnes
-
04.09.2006
Lymington, Hampshire

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

07.08.1942

CdeG

Education: East Sheen County School
Joined the Town Clerk's Department of Barnes Borough Council in 1933, at the same time joining Mortlake Sea Scout Group.

(06.1940)			captained small ship "Minotaur" (sea scout training craft) (Dunkirk)
19.03.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
			British Naval Liaison Officer, French battleship "Paris"
(05.1944)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French submarine "La Sultane"
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Middle Wallop, Hampshire) *

Solicitor. Local council official and enthusiastic leader of a sea scout troop on the Thames.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Townsend,
[Sir] Leslie William

Son of Seaman Gunner William Bligh Townsend and Ellen (née Alford).
Married (1947) Ethel Marjorie Bennett (died 29.11.2007); one son, three daughters.

22.02.1924
-
13.01.1999
Portsmouth, Hampshire

T/A/Paym.S.Lt.	1943
T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S)	19.05.1944
T/A/Lt. (S)	< 07.1945
Lt. (S) RN	22.02.1948 ?, seniority 19.02.1947
A/Lt.Cdr. (S) RN	19.02.1955
Lt.Cdr. (S) RN	25.09.1956, seniority 19.02.1955
Cdr. (S) RN	31.12.1962
A/Capt. (S) RN	20.07.1967?
Capt. RN	30.06.1971
R.Adm. RN	07.01.1979 (retd 02.04.1982)

	KCVO	18.12.1981	?
	CBE	02.06.1973	HM's birthday 73

Education: Regent's Park School, Southampton

1942			joined RNVR
1942	-	1943	HMS Durban (cruiser)
01.03.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Spurwing (RN Air Station, Hastings, Sierra Leone)
?	-	(07.1945)	Captain's Secretary, HMS Astraea (RN base, Lagos, Nigeria)
03.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)
1946			permanent commission RN
30.10.1947	-	(07.1948)	Captain's Secretary, HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
(1948/49?)	or	(1950/51?)	HMS Duke of York (battleship)
10.05.1949	-	(05.1950)	RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] (for duty in Commodore's office)
10.07.1951	-	(05.)1953	HMS Ceres (Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire)
29.12.1953	-	(04.1955)	for duty in office of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
(01.1956)			no appointment listed
26.04.1956	-	1958	HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
(01.1959)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
27.11.1959	-	(07.1961)	Secretary to Assistant Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President]
10.06.1962	-	(02.1964)	Secretary to Commander-in-Chief Alled Forces Mediterranean (NATO)
20.07.1967	-	1970	Secretary to Vice-Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty Board
1970	-	1971	Secretary to First Sea Lord
1971	-	1973	Military Assistant to Chief of Defence Staff
1974	-	1977	Military Assistant to Chairman of NATO Military Committee
1977			Director, Naval and WRNS Officers' Appointments
1979	-	1982	Defence Services Secretary

Member: Lord Chancellor's Panel of Independent Inspectors, 1982-1994; Lord Chancellor's Services Pensions Appeals Tribunal, 1985-1996.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tozer,
George Clark
G.C. Tozer

From Bedford.

09.09.1907
-
(03?).1974
Ealing district, Middlesex

Prob. T/S.Lt.	19.01.1940
T/Lt.	19.04.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr.	< 08.1942

MID

07.11.1944

Operations Avalanche, Husky & Shingle

(04.1940)			HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex) *
04.01.1941	-	(04.1941)	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
(07.1941)	-	(08.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 45 (motor torpedo boat)
02.02.1942	-	(02.1943)	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
15.05.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Ulster Queen (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship)
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Heron *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tracy,
Leslie Walter William
L.W.W. Tracy (Photo courtsey of Mr William Tracy)

Son of William Henry Tracy (1880-), and Viola Elizabeth Bryant.
Married (07.05.1948, Southampton, Hampshire) Margaret Louisa Keene; one son, one daughter.

30.07.1916
Madehurst, Westhampnett district, Sussex
-
20.10.2003
Southampton, Hampshire

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

02.10.1939 (dispersal 29.03.1946) (reld 29.05.1946)

Trained as a cabinet maker, working at aircraft factories in Wembley, and then Hamble (Follands), as a jig maker. Served Cunard Line as a junior engineering officer for about 2 years (probably "Franconia", for certain "Aquitania" during a world cruise in early 1939).

			temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
09/10.1939?	-	28.05.1940	HMS Sona (armed yacht) (served on it as 4th Engineer for 8 months)
05/06.1940	-	21.11.1940	HMS Beauly (special service vessel) *
22.11.1940	-	17.12.1940	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
18.12.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Corsair (armed yacht)
21.01.1942	-	29.07.1944	HMS Prince Leopold (landing ship, infantry) (as Watchkeeping Engineer Officer & Senior Fourth Engineer) (ship sunk) **
30.07.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
20.11.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Sainfoin (landing ship, infantry)
19.02.1945	-	24.01.1946	HMS Arbiter (escort carrier) (as Junior Third Engineer Officer) [except for 22.10.1945-15.11.1945]

Went into business and built up a chain of about 20 furniture stores across central southern England between 1946 and 1968, when he sold that business and semi-retired. He retained a small finance company that he had set up in the 1950's, which he oversaw until his son took it over in 1984, and he also owned the majority of a property development company in Australia.
* His "flimsy" suggests date of appointment as being 10.05.1939.
** His "flimsies" also suggest date of appointment as being 23.01.1941 & 06.03.1941. His son writes: "He was definitely aboard HMS Prince Leopold for the Vaagso raid, and the lead-up thereto, in/prior to December 1941."

Trafford,
Richard Randolph William Rawson
R.R.W.R. Trafford (Photo courtesy of Mr James Baxendale)

Son of Henry Randolph Trafford, J.P. and Bettina Maud Trafford, of Michaelchurch.

29.03.1907
Hereford, Herefordshire
-
18.01.1943
(KIA) [age 35]
[Michaelchurch Escley (St Michael) Churchyard, north of church]

T/S.Lt. (A)	1939
T/Lt. (A)	16.02.1940

12.1939	-	?	HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
1940/41			injured when he had to jump out of the third story of a burning building (probably from a hotel in Ayr, where he was stationed at the time), after which he was confined to training pilots
15.09.1940	-	(02.)1941	pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
17.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
13.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services)
?	-	18.01.1943	killed when his plane caught fire and crashed near Oakhampton in Devon [returning from RNAS St Merryn (HMS Vulture) to RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron),the Naval Air Fighter School, he was flying a Fairey Fulmar II, serial number X8812 (coded 6F from its time on board HMS Victorious); in low visibility, the plane crashed into high ground on Dartmoor and burnt out a quarter of a mile west of Okehampton at Yelland Farm, Tanner Hill, Holdsworth Road]

Travis,
Kenneth Hibbert
K.H. Travis (Photo courtesy of Mrs Rita Kecskes)

From Southport.
Married; two children.

30.12.1913
Ashton-under-
Lyne, Lancashire
-
23.11.1993
British Columbia, Canada

Ord.Sea.	1940
T/S.Lt.	1941
T/Lt.	18.12.1942

	MID	26.12.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
	CdeG	-	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

1940			joined RNVR
(1940)			trained at HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Suffolk)
(1941)			HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
(1942)			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
01.04.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional for various services)
15.08.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Agnes Wickfield (minesweeping trawler)
10.07.1943	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 288 (motor minesweeper)

Emigrated to Canada, 1949.

Trelawny,
Ian Clarence
I.C. Trelawny

Eldest son (with two brothers & two sisters) of Capt. Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawny, RN, and Barbara Cecil Carus-Wilson (died 1976).
Married 1st (23.09.1939) Mary Ethel Eyles (b. 1914/15), the daughter of Edgar Frank Eyles, theatrical manager (divorced).
Married 2nd (12.10.1946) WREN Angela June Wilkinson (b. 1923/4), the daughter of Dr James Howard Wilkinson, medical practitioner; one son, three daughters.

17.01.1917
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
22.04.1998
St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich, Suffolk

T/S.Lt.	01.11.1940
T/Lt.	17.01.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	24.01.1944? (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. RN	22.01.1947, seniortiy 17.01.1942
A/Lt.Cdr. RN	< 07.1948
Lt.Cdr. RN	17.01.1950 (emgcy < 05.1953)

OBE	10.06.1967	HM's birthday 67: port manager Felixstowe
DSC	22.06.1943	action Dutch coast 17.04.43 [investiture 28.09.43]
DSC	22.02.1944	action Dutch coast 09.12.43 [investiture 23.05.44]
MID	20.02.1945	minesweeping & torpedo attacks Normandy

Education: St Erbyn's School, Penzance, and King's College, Taunton.
After working as a clerk for a cold storage firm, in 1938 he started a boat-building and yacht-broking business in London.

09.1939			joined RNVR, serving in the ranks
1939	-	1940	served in minesweepers
17.12.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS California (armed merchant cruiser)
02.08.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for motor torpedo boats)
02.04.1942	-	19.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 232 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] [received severe wounds in action 08. 1942]
05.1943	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive]
21.06.1943	-	11.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 356 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 11th MTB Flotilla
11.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 355 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 11th MTB Flotilla
24.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	Staff Officer (Operations), HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
(1945)			HMS Odyssey (Naval Parties accounting base, London)
(04.1946)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
22.01.1947			transferred to RN
20.02.1948	-	(05.1950)	Wreck Dispersal Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke]
			Commanding Officer of a salvage ship (Hong Kong harbour)

Docks manager and port consultant. Director & General Manager of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company, 1955-1972, then head of the consultancy side of the company, and he travelled worldwide, advising on the improvement of port facilities, 1972-1987.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Trew,
Gordon Stanley

Son of ... Trew, and Eva Trew (née Butcher), of Burton-upon-Trent.

(03?).1921
Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
25.10.1943
[age 22]
[Burton-upon-Trent Cemetery, general section, grave 5732]

T/S.Lt.

20.07.1942	-	(06.)1943	5th MGB Flotilla [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
17.06.1943	-	25.10.1943	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 442 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]

Troughton,
Harry
H. Troughton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Elspeth Kelly)

Married; ... children (one daughter?).

22.12.1906
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
10.1987
Waltham Forest district, London

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

07.06.1943 (dispersal 01.07.1946) (reld 06.10.1946)

07.06.1943			joined RNVR
1943	-	07.1945	spent most of the time in the Mediterranean
10.07.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, later Taranto) (for sea transport duties, Algiers)
07.07.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for sea transport duties)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
09.1945	-	03.1946	HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for disposal)

Troughton,
Patrick George
P.G. Troughton

Son of ... Troughton, and ... Offord.

25.03.1920
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
28.03.1987
Columbus, Ga.
(heart attack)

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	01.10.1943 (reld 1945/46)

MID

30.05.1944

Coastal Forces action Nore 24.10.43

Education: Embassy School of Acting, London; Leighton Rollin's Studio for Actors, Long Island, New York

22.06.1942	-	(10.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 603 (motor gun boat)
(10.1943)	-	(06.1944)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 500 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			HMS RML 514

Actor; joined Bristol Old Vic, concentrating on Shakespeare productions, 1946; made film and television debuts, 1948; achieved fame as central character in television's Doctor Who, 1966

Truman,
Edgar Dean
E.D. Truman

Son of ... Truman, and ... Dean.

31.01.1914
Epsom district, Surrey
-
08.1993
Sutton district, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	29.10.1939
T/Lt.	13.10.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

29.10.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
11.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
18.08.1941	-	(06.1943)	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
08.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	Executive Officer, HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Trussell,
Dennis George
D.G. Trussell

?
-

[1920 - 1984
or
1921 - 2004]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	29.11.1942
T/Lt. (A)	27.09.1944 (reld 1946?)

28.12.1942	-	(04.1944)	pilot, 825 Squadron FAA [1944 HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
06.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for various services)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Tuchet-Jesson *,
John Guy
M.W. Tunnicliffe

Son of George Arthur [Touchet Tucket-]Jesson (died 25.02.1969), mechanical engineer, and Gwladys B. Hunter.
From Wersley, Lancashire.

* Also found as:
Tucket-Jesson

(06?).1913
Salford district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire
-
1946

T/S.Lt. (E)	14.07.1941
T/Lt. (E)	14.07.1942 (reld 22.04.1946)

01.10.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous service)
23.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) (for MLs, MTBs, &tc.)

Tunnicliffe,
Michael Wheldale
M.W. Tunnicliffe

?
-

T/A/Lt.	?
T/Lt.	29.03.1945

(06.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 207 (motor torpedo boat)
01.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Loch Quoich

Tuck,
Leonard Charles
L.C. Tuck

Son of ... Tuck, and ... Hughes.

(06?).1922
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
-
03.1955
Malta

T/S.Lt. (A)	19.12.1942
T/Lt. (A)	19.12.1944
Lt. (A)	24.02.1950

MID

11.06.1946

wind up Far East

1941			joined RNVR
			training, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
15.02.1943	-	09.03.1943	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
09.03.1943	-	(12.1943)	pilot, 728 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
03.10.1944	-	(10.1944)	pilot, Ferry Pool, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
19.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, 1701 Squadron FAA
(04.1946)			HMS Nabcatcher (mobile naval air base VII, Kai Tak, Hong Kong) *
(1946)			HMS Pioneer (aircraft maintenance ship)
24.02.1950	-	03.1955	joined Permanent RNVR (Southern Air Division, List 2) [died when the Sea Hornet fighter plane he was piloting crashed; though rescued his injuries were severe and he died later in hospital at Malta]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tuppen,
Laurence
L. Tuppen

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	30.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.02.1945

MBE

14.06.1945

HM's birthday 45

(1945?)			HMS Gold Bell (cable carrier)
01.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Glenmoriston (cable ship)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Turnbull,
James Adams
J.A. Turnbull

Living in Brazil (married to Helen Woodbury Turnbull, nee Latham).

02.01.1911
Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland
-
11.1984
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

T/A/S.Lt.	03.1944?
T/S.Lt.	16.09.1944 (reld 1946?)

18.11.1943			joined RNVR
18.11.1943	-	04.02.1944	Ordinary Seaman, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
05.02.1944	-	16.03.1944	HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
16.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
26.03.1944	-	22.04.1944	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
22.04.1944	-	06.05.1944	HMS St Barbara (anti-aircraft range, Bognor Regis)
07.05.1944	-	20.05.1944	HMS Stopford (Combined Operations training establishment, Bo'ness, West Lothian)
21.05.1944	-	31.05.1944	HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)
01.06.1944	-	14.08.1944	HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole) (served at Normandy)
14.08.1944	-	31.08.1944	HM LCT 948 (4) (landing craft, tank)
01.09.1944	-	01.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HM LCI (A) 115 (landing craft, infantry)
16.11.1944	-	06.11.1945	First Lieutenant, HM LCT 2440 (5) (landing craft, tank)
09.12.1945	-	31.12.1945	First Lieutenant, HM LCT 2338 (5) (landing craft, tank)
01.01.1946	-	?	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 917 (4) (landing craft, tank)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Turner,
Alan Vincent
A.V. Turner

Residence: (1956) "Glengar", Willaston, Wirral.

?
-
2006 ?

Prob. Lt.	01.10.1939
Lt.	?, seniority 09.05.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.	09.05.1947
Cdr.	31.12.1951
A/Capt.	< 04.1955
Capt.	31.12.1955 (retd 09.11.1957)

DSC	19.12.1944	Coastal Forces action Nore 18.09.44
MID	02.12.1941	Torpedo Control Officer, Mediterranean
VRD	1956?	?

28.09.1938			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to Mersey Division RNVR]
27.11.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Gurkha (destroyer)
(02.1941)			HMS Janus (destroyer) *
(08.1942)			HMS Janus (destroyer) *
01.10.1942	-	(08.1943)	HMS Janus (destroyer)
?	-	(09.1944)	HMS Stayner (frigate) **
1946	-	1954	Mersey Division, RNVR [HMS Eaglet] (Liverpool)
1954	-	1957	Commanding Officer, Mersey Division, RNVR [HMS Eaglet] (Liverpool)

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County Palatine of Lancaster, 07.04.1956.

* indexed. but not listed as such
** (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Turner,
Geoffrey Gledhill
G.G. Turner

George Cross Database

10.09.1903
Sheffield, Yorkshire
-
09.02.1959
Stambourne, Halstead, Essex

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	04.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	? 02.1943, < 06.1943
T/A/Cdr.	?

GC	27.06.1941	mine disposal Great Howard Street Liverpool 21.12.40
GM	18.05.1943	mine disposal Fairlight, near Hastings, Sussex 04-05.01.43
Comm	03.11.1942	mine disposal 12.41-03.42

Education: King Edward VII School, Sheffield
Director of Alec Parsons, manufaturing chemists of Manchester.

1939			tried to join the Army, but was discharged on medical grounds and joined the RNVR
(1941)	-	(1943)	bomb disposal:
(12.1941)	-	(03.1942)	Mining Department, HMS Vernon
22.06.1942	-	(08.1943)	Royal Marines Staff Officer, HMS Lynx
			later in the War he took charge of a Marine Commando unit in the invasion of Normandy, took part in the capture of Brest and fought with the Commandos in Germany
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Turner,
John Francis
J.F. Turner in civil life. Photo courtesy of Charles and Janet Flawn.

Brother of Lt. P.E. Turner, RNVR.
Married Enid (1946); two sons.

14.12.1917
Ealing, London
-
1983

T/Paym.S.Lt.	04.10.1940
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)	04.10.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	> 06.1944, < 07.1945

Education: Radley Public School

04.10.1940			joined RNVR
17.10.1940	-	(03.1941)	HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (Battle of Cape Matapan, 27-29.03.1941)
01.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
(03.1943)			endured the sinking of the troopship MS Empress of Canada off the west coast of Africa, 13/14.03.1943
20.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Garuda (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Coimbatore, India)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Lived in Durban (South Africa) & Lusaka (Northern Rhodesia), before retiring to Spain in 1969 (Minorca, later Altea).

Turner,
Peter Ernest
P.E. Turner in 1940. Photo courtesy of Charles and Janet Flawn.

Brother of Lt.Cdr. J.F. Turner, RNVR.

16.04.1916
Ealing, London
-
1994

T/Lt.

07.02.1942

Education: Radley Public School

07.02.1942			joined RNVR
02.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Ceres (cruiser)
			transferred to RINVR
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Turner,
Robert
R. Turner

?
-

T/Lt.	15.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

02.06.1943

HM's birthday 43 [decoration posted]

27.01.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Paragon (RN base, Hartlepool)
12.12.1940	-	06.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Olive (minesweeping trawler) (DSC)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Turner,
Stanley Charles
S.C. Turner

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	12.10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Hkn

26.08.1947

services to Norwegians

19.09.1940

(07.1945)

Naval Control Service [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

Turner,
Stanley Charles
S.C. Turner

Remembered at the War Memorial at Seaton, Devon (St Gregory's Churchyard).

?
-
15.01.1946
[Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, France, 10.A.10]

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	13.11.1942

02.09.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for MLC, mechanized landing craft)
?	-	15.01.1946	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)

Turner,
Stanley James
S.J. Turner (Photo courtesy of Mr Bryan Turner)

Son of William E. Turner, and Edith A. Weavers.
Married (12?).1949, Chichester district, Sussex) Florence ...; one son, one daughter.

08.02.1924
Merton, Farnham district, Surrey
-
20.08.2008
hospital, Eastbourne

T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

	MID	13.02.1944	attack of enemy convoy Mediterranean 11.10.44
	MID	21.08.1945	torpedo attack GLtrs GVen 09.04.1945

29.07.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
02.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat) (despatches twice)
19.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HM MMS 1090 (motor minesweeper)

Turner,
Trevor John
T.J. Turner (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ria Stoddart)

Son of Ernest John Turner, and Olive Kate Siebert, of Richmond, Surrey.

(12?).1920
Richmond, Surrey
-
08.06.1945
[age 24]
[Haslar RN Cemetery, G.11.8]

T/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/Lt. (A)	12.05.1943

07.08.1944	-	(10.)1944	pilot, 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Twat, Orkney)]
20.10.1944	-	(01.)1945	pilot, 748 Squadron FAA [HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Angle, Pembrokeshire)]
1945	-	08.06.1945	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) [committed suicide due to a disciplinary action that was brought against him]

Turpin,
Eric William
E.W. Turpin

?
-

SANF(V), seconded to RNVR:

T/Lt.	21.06.1942 (retd 1945)
T/Lt.Cdr.	1950s?

Watch Keeping Certificate

			Klava, Simonstown, S. Africa
(12.1940)			HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
			Italian hospital ships
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
[ (04.1946)			HMS Afrikander (base, Simonstown, S. Africa) ?]

Turton,
Thomas James
T.J. Turton (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Seaton)

06.10.1906
Hackney district, Greater London
-
26.11.1954

T/S.Lt.	19.06.1942
T/Lt.	19.09.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

21.12.1943

Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43)

(08.1942)			no appointment listed
(07.1943)			staff of Senior Naval Officer Landings (SNOL) (R) (Sicily)
26.04.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for Beach Duty)
05.1945	-	06.1945	Principal Beach Master, "N" RN Beach Commando (Adriatic)

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