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1939-1945

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Vallely,
John
J. Vallely

03.02.1921
Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
23.10.1984
Stirling, Scotland

T/S.Lt. (A)	11.07.1942
T/Lt. (A)	11.01.1945
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	1945? (reld < 04.1946)

MID

10.09.1944

destruction U765, Western Approaches, 06.05.44

01.09.1942	-	(04.)1944	observer, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Belfast]
13.04.1944	-	(10.1944)	observer, 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Vindex]
1944?	-	1945?	HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
02.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) [trained Sir George Martin, the future Beatles producer, as navigator]

Van Oosterwyk- Bruyn,
William Adolf David
[originally:
Van Oosterwijk Bruijn,
Willem Adolf David]
W.A.D. Van Oosterwyk-Bruyn (Photo courtesy of Mrs F. Blackburn)

Son of Willem Lodewijk Albert and Helen Ada (Ward) Van Oosterwijk Bruijn.
Mmarried (1935) Hannah Mary Alice Livingstone (Craig-Martin) Van Oosterwyk-Bruyn, of Great Totham, Essex.

19.04.1904
Walton-on- Thames
-
13.06.1940
(KIA) [age 36]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]

T/Lt.

04.03.1940

Education: B.A. (Cantab.).

01.06.1937			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached London Division RNVR]
04.03.1940	-	(04.1940)	First Lieutenant, HMS Grimsby Town (auxiliary arni-submarine trawler)
?	-	13.06.1940	HMS Scotstoun (armed merchant cruiser)

Varley,
Michael George Oliver
"Mike"

Son of Harold F.F. and Grace A. Varley, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex.

1921 ?
-
19.03.1944
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 4]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	11.12.1942
T/Lt. (A)	?

23.02.1942

19.03.1944

pilot, 825 Squadron FAA [1944 HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]

Varvill,
Robert
R. Varvill

Times obituary

31.03.1920
-
22.02.2003
Sussex

T/S.Lt.	31.03.1941
T/Lt.	01.06.1942

	DSC	15.08.1944	offensive sweeps West Coast Italy 05.44 [award posted]
	MID	07.11.1944	[cmtlv ?] services 05.44
-	QC	05.06.1951	Queen's Commendation (Civil): District Officer Calabar Nigeria

04.08.1941	-	(12.1941)	4th MTB Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
08.01.1944	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 421 (motor torpedo boat)
23.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 309 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 10th MTB Flotilla

Vaughan,
Islwyn

Son of Samuel Rees Vaughan (1896-1984), head teacher, and Eiluned Thomas (1899-1974).
Married (23.05.1943, Totness, Devon) Dilys Evans (30.01.1924-01.06.2002); eight daughters, one son.

09.07.1920
Llandebie, Blaenau, Brynderw
-
17.09.1989
Porthcawl
[Porthcawl Cemetery]

T/S.Lt.	05.03.1942
T/Lt.	05.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
RAF:
F/Lt.	14.06.1949 [500756]

39\|45 St	?	?
Atl St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
Def Med	?	?
39\|45 BWM	?	?

Education: Blaenau Junior School; Ammanford Grammar School (1935-1939); University Aberystwyth (BA Geography, 1947)

1941			served as a rating, HMS Gurkha (destroyer) (Russian convoys)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
(08.1943)			5th LCP Flotilla (Dieppe raid)
12.1943	-	09.1944	Divisional Officer, 520th LCA Flotilla (Normandy; Omaha beach)
05.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base):
10.1944	-	20.05.1945	Boat Officer, 509th LCA Flotilla (South Beveland/Eastern Scheldt, Holland)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
13.06.1949			temporary commission RNVR terminated on transfer to RAF - Education Branch (shoirt service commission)
14.06.1955			transferred to reserve

RAF St Athan, 1949?-1955?. School teacher & headmaster, Newton Nottage School, 1955?-1984 (retirement).

Vellacott,
John Harding
J.H. Vellacott

?
-
2001
Hertfordshire

T/S.Lt.	12.06.1942
T/Lt.	12.06.1943 (reld < 07.1945)

(08.1942)			Commanding Officer, HM LCP 28 (landing craft, personnel) (Dieppe raid)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed

Verity,
Reginald George Arthur
R.G.A. Verity

(09?).1908
Richmond, Surrey
-

T/Lt.	13.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

(03.1942)

Naval Beach Master, St. Nazaire raid

Vernon,
Herbert
H. Vernon

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	09.07.1943 (reld 01.1946)

(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Vernon,
Roger Foley
R.F. Vernon

Married (04.05.1957, Betchworth, Surrey) Daphne Alison Ainslie (1931-2000); two daughters, one son.

?
-
1989
Devon

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR	01.1964, seniority 01.03.1963

05.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for Motor Landing Craft)
(04.1946)			no posting listed
01.1964			transferred to permanent RNR (Special Branch)

Vicars,
Richard Archdall
R.A. Vicars (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Hutchinson)

?
-
1997
London

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	27.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

MID

14.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

13.06.1941	-	(01.1942)	Commanding Officer, HMS Noss Head (cable ship) (Freetown)
07.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Violet (corvette)
01.05.1943	-	08.1943	HM LST 75 (landing ship, tank)
08.1943	-	11.1944	Navigating Officer, HM LST 214 (landing ship, tank) (Anzio & Normandy)
11.1944	-	(07.1945)	HM LST 361 (landing ship, tank) *

* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Vigrass,
Bert Walwyn
B.W. Vigrass

?
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1989 ??

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	28.03.1942, seniority 11.01.1942
T/Lt. (A)	09.02.1944
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt. (A)	01.03.1949, seniority 16.12.1946 19.01.1951, seniority 10.01.1946
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	< 05.1953
Lt.Cdr. (A)	1953/54?
Cdr. (A)	31.12.1954 (retd 08.10.1966)

	OBE	31.05.1956	HM's birthday 56
	VRD	11.02.1958	?

05.1945	-	08.1945	Commanding Officer, 818 Squadron FAA (Rattray)
01.03.1949			transferred to Air Branch of Permanent RNVR
(05.1950)			1833 Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwickshire]
(05.1953)			Commanding Officer, 1833 Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwickshire]
(01.1956)			Commanding Officer, Midland Air Division RNVR
			served RNR (when RNVR was disbanded)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Villiers,
Alan John
A.J. Villiers

Son of Leon Joseph Villiers and Anastasia Hayes.
Married 1st (1924) Daphne Kaye Harris (marriage dissolved 1936), Hobart; no children.
Married 2nd (1940) Nancie, only daughter of Alban Henry and Mabel Wills, Melbourne; two sons, one daughter.

23.09.1903
Melbourne, Australia
-
03.03.1982
Oxford

Prob. T/Lt.	30.05.1940
T/Lt.	?, seniority 30.05.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	1943
T/A/Cdr.	1944

DSC

14.11.1944

Operation Neptune

Commendador of Portuguese Order of St James of the Sword.

Education: State Schools, Essendon High School, Melbourne

1919	-	1924	went to sea in sail, whaling in Antarctic with Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen's first Ross Sea Expedition in whaler Sir James Clark Ross, 1923-24
1931			joined Captain De Cloux in purchase of four masted barque Parma
06.1934	-	1936	bought Danish schoolship Georg Stage, renamed her Joseph Conrad and sailed 58,000 miles round world
1938	-	1939	sailing in Kuweit dhows in Persian Gulf-Zanzibar trade
(02.1941)			HMS Aberdonian (Coastal Forces depot ship, Fort William) *
11.04.1941	-	(02.)1943	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
07.04.1943	-	06.09.1943	HMS Dinosaur (for LCI(L)s)
07.09.1943	-	(04.1946)	Commanded "A" Squadron of Landing Craft (Infantry) (L) in the invasions of Italy and Normandy (DSC) and at the occupation of Rangoon, Malaya, and East Indies [HMS Copra]

Master, training ship Warspite, Outward Bound Sea School, Aberdovey, N Wales, 1949; sailed with Portuguese Arctic codfishing fleet in schooner Argus, 1950. Volunteered as Master of Mayflower replica, 1956, and sailed the vessel across the N Atlantic without power, except sails. In command of squarerigged ships for films: Moby Dick, 1955; John Paul Jones, 1958; Billy Budd, 1961; Hawaii, 1965. Past President, Society for Nautical Research; Trustee of National Maritime Museum, 1948-74; Governor Cutty Sark Preservation Society; Member: HMS Victory Technical Advisory Committee; Ships Committee, Maritime Trust.
Published: Whaling in the Frozen South; Falmouth for Orders; By Way of Cape Horn; The Sea in Ships; Sea Dogs of Today; Voyage of the Parma; Vanished Fleets; The Last of the Windships; Cruise of the Conrad; Stormalong; The Making of a Sailor, 1938; Sons of Sinbad, 1940; The Set of the Sails, 1949; The Coral Sea, 1950; The Quest of the Schooner Argus, 1951 (Camoes Prize, Portugal); The Indian Ocean, 1952; The Way of a Ship, 1954; Posted Missing, 1956; Pioneers of the Seven Seas, 1956; The Western Ocean, 1957; Give Me a Ship to Sail, 1958; The New Mayflower, 1959; The Oceans, 1963; The Battle of Trafalgar, 1965; Captain Cook, the Seamen's Seaman, 1967; The War with Cape Horn, 1971; (with H. Picard) The Bounty Ships of France, 1972.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Von Mehren,
Edward Carl Frederick
E.C.F. Von Mehren

Brother of Lt. Paul Christian von Mehren, RNVR.

?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt.	18.10.1940
T/S.Lt.	?, seniority 18.10.1940
T/Lt.	18.10.1941 (reld 1945/46?)

(02.1941)			HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
28.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Von Mehren,
Paul Christian
P.C. Von Mehren

Brother of Lt. Edward Carl Frederick von Mehren, RNVR.

?
-
1994
Greater London

Prob. T/S.Lt.	09.02.1940
T/S.Lt.	10.1940, seniority 09.02.1940
T/Lt.	17.07.1942, seniority 05.11.1941 (reld 1946?)

(04.1940)			no posting listed
10.07.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Sandown (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel)
19.03.1943	-	(04.1944)	HMS Boston (minesweeper)
13.07.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Coquette (minesweeper)

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