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1939-1945

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Taggart,
Redmond Thibeaudeau "Bodo"
R.T. Taggart (Photo courtesy of Mr Redmond Taggart)
click photo
to enlarge
 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)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration 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.
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)

Distinguished Service Cross

 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
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)
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)
(09.1941)

[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)
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)

Distinguished Service Cross

 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)

Mention in Despatches

 MID
 11.07.1944
 successful patrols Mediterranean
Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of the Valorous) (Poland) 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,
John Barnard
J.B. Taylor 		01.04.1923
-
T/S.Lt.
 		01.10.1943
A/T/Lt.
 		01.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

 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

Distinguished Service Cross

 DSC
 14.06.45
 HM birthday 45
Mention in Despatches 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 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

George Cross

 GC
 14.01.1941
 mine disposal RAF depot Uxbridge 09-10.40
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
 1973
 services to scouting
Commendation 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)

Companion of the Order of the Bath

 CB
 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)
Order of St Stanislaus 3rd class (Russia) St Stan
 WW I
 for actions at Archangelsk
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
 ?
 ?
Victory Medal VM
 ?
 ?
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St
 ?
 ?
Africa Star Afr St
 ?
 ?
Defence Medal Def M
 ?
 ?
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 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
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)
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
 ?
 ?
Victory Medal VM
 ?
 ?
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St
 ?
 ?
Atlantic Star Atl St
 ?
 ?
It St
 ?
 possibly
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 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)
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

 

 (12?).1908
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
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,
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
J.O. Thomas		 ?
-
T/Lt.
 		17.07.1942

Distinguished Service Cross

 DSC
 30.11.1943
 action E-boats North Sea 24.09.43

Distinguished Service Cross

 DSC
 26.06.1945
 minesweeping northern coast of France 09-12.44
Mention in Despatches MID
 14.11.1944
 Op. Neptune, Normandy 06.44
(09.1943)

Commanding Officer, HM ML 150 (motor launch)
(06.1944)

Commanding Officer, HM ML 202 (motor launch)
04.09.1944
 -
 		(1945)
 		Commanding Officer, HM ML 222 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 1st ML Flotilla
Thomas,
Percival Reginald
P.R. Thomas		 22.06.1922 [or: 1923]
-
11.1987
Chichester, Sussex
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 		1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 		24.03.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
 		< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Norwegian War Medal NorWM
 20.03.1945
 sinking enemy shipping winter 43-44
12.11.1943
 -
 		(1944)
 		British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNorMS Ula
(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,
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

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE
 09.11.1943
 mine disposal Eastern Mediterranean 05-07.43
Bank clerk.
(11?.)1939

joined the RNVR and served in the ranks