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1939-1945

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Waddell,
John Main

J.M. Waddell
?
-
T/Lt. (A)
01.07.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
< 12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
09.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
783 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
(12.1941)


HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
01.02.1944
-
02.1945
Commanding Officer, 775 Squadron FAA [HMS Cormorant II (RN Air Station, Gibraltar), then HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
(07.1945)


HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wade,
Richard George
"Dicky"

R.G. Wade
(03?).1918 ?
Reigate district, Surrey ?
-
T/S.Lt.
03.04.1941
T/Lt.
22.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID
05.06.1945
4 war patrols Far East 07.44-01.45
07.05.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Scawfell (minesweeper)
13.07.1943
-
(10.1944)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Storm (submarine)
30.04.1945
-
11.07.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Unbending (submarine)
Waghorn,
Geoffrey Charles Seymour

G.C.S. Waghorn
Son of ... Waghorn, and ... Marsh.
Married; at least one son.
(12?).1925
Orsett district, Essex
-
Prob. Midsh. (Sp.Br.)
06.08.1945
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
13.04.1946
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
13.10.1946
S.Lt. (L)
29.06.1950
Lt. (L)
01.05.1952 (reld 02.11.1954)
Education: Leeds University (BSc, PhD).
?
-
?
?
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
(1946?)


HMS Glory (aircraft carrier)
19.01.1951


transferred to the Permanent List RNVR (Mersey Division)
Published: Evaporation characteristics of hydrocarbons and fluorocarbons (1950, thesis)
Wakefield-Gush,
Edward Gibbon

E.G. Wakefield-Gush
Son of ... Gush, and ... Wakefield.
05.01.1914
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
c. 1980
Jersey
A/S.Lt. SSRNVR
30.10.1939
S.Lt. SSRNVR
30.01.1940
Lt. SSRNVR
01.11.1940
T/Lt.
07.1942, seniority 01.11.1940
Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1948 (retd 31.12.1971)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
02.12.1966, seniority 01.11.1948
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
12.10.1954
-
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
24.01.1966
-
08.1937


commissioned S. Lt .Straits Settlements RNVR [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)]
(04.1940)
 
 
HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) *
(02.1941)
 

 
no appointment listed
10.11.1941
-
(06.)1943
HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for motor launches; 108th ML Flotilla)
07.1942
 
 
transferred, RNVR
13.08.1943
-
(04.)1944
HMS Duke of York (battleship) [Scharnhorst action]
09.08.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Recruit (Algerine class minesweeper)
[engaged U300 and capture of crew off Cadiz 22.02.1945, Operation Broom 24.04.1945, Operation Zipper 07.1945]
(07.1945)


HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi) *
20.04.1948
 
 
transferred, Malayan RNVR
19.09.1961
 
 
transferred, Permanent RNR
02.12.1966
 
 
transferred to Special Branch, RNR
On retirement from Dunlops (Rubber Plantation Manager) in Malaya returned to Jersey 1960.
Walbaum,
Paul Arey
P.A. Walbaum
Brother of Sg.Lt. Philip R. Walbaum, RNVR.
Married; four children.
16.12.1923
Valparaiso, Chile
-

Santiago, Chile
T/A/S.Lt.
1943?
T/S.Lt.
03.03.1944
T/Lt.
03.03.1946 (reld 06.1946)
13.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
Third Officer, HM MTB 728 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
?
-
06.1946
Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2142 (British yard mineweeper) *
* (04.1946) indexed as HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon), but actually never served as such
Walbaum,
Philip Raby
P.R. Walbaum
Brother of Lt. Paul A. Walbaum, RNVR.
Married; three children.
03.12.1920
Valparaiso, Chile
-
30.09.2007
Edinburgh, Scotland
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
18.08.1944
T/Sg.Lt.
1945?, seniorty 18.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: MB, ChB
20.09.1944
-
(10.1944)
Medical Officer, HMS Tavy (frigate)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) *
Worked in Edinburgh hospitals post-war.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walker,
Francis Norman
"Frank"
F.N. Walker

Son of Norman Duguid Walker (1880-1961), solicitor, and Ada Russell (1879-1977), of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Brother of:
Lt.Cdr. J.R.D. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. R.F. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. G.H. Walker, RNVR,
3/O E.F. Wilkinson, WRNS,
Lt. R.J. Walker, RNVR.
Married (08.04.1947) Sheila Mary Hart (22.05.1923 - 09.06.2008); two daughters, two sons.
08.06.1920
Newcastle, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
12.2008 still alive
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)
16.12.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)
08.06.1941
T/Lt. (A)
16.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Malvern College, Worcestershire
07.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
acting observer, 827 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron]
22.04.1941
-
(02.1943)
acting observer, then observer, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
18.07.1944
-
(07.1945)
observer, HMS Gadwall
Walker,
Geoffrey Herbert
G.H. Walker

Son of Norman Duguid Walker (1880-1961), solicitor, and Ada Russell (1879-1977), of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Brother of:
Lt.Cdr. J.R.D. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. R.F. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. (A) F.N. Walker, RNVR,
3/O E.F. Wilkinson, WRNS,
Lt. R.J. Walker, RNVR.
Unmarried.
22.01.1915
Newcastle, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
17.02.1945
(KIA) [age 30]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 90, column 2]
Prob. S.Lt.
08.10.1937
S.Lt.
08.10.1938
Lt.
23.04.1940

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.01.1944
New Year 44 [award presented to next-of-kin]
Education: Malvern College, Worcestershire; BA (Cantab.)
08.10.1937


joined RNVR, Tyne Division (HMS Satellite, RNVR drill ship, South Shields)
05.02.1940
-
03.05.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Gaul (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler) (bombed & sunk)
26.06.1940
-
(12.1941)
First Lieutenant, HMS Bluebell (corvette)
07.05.1942 -
17.02.1945
HMS Bluebell (corvette) (torpedoed) (First Lieutenant and finally became Commanding Officer, between 12.1943 and 04.1944)
Walker,
Harold Russell
H.R. Walker (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Clark)


?
-
T/Lt.
03.07.1941
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
13.03.1945
assault Normandy 06-11.44 [investiture 27.11.45]
King's Commendation Cmdn
08.12.1942
mine disposal 42
12.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
(08.1942)
 
 
HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) *
(1942)
 
 
DTD [= office of the Director of Trade Division; more likely to be Torpedoes and Mining Department]
15.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2079 (British yard minesweeper)
(04.1946)


Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2141 (British yard minesweeper) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walker,
John Russell Duguid
J.R.D. Walker

Son of Norman Duguid Walker (1880-1961), solicitor, and Ada Russell (1879-1977), of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Brother of:
Lt. R.F. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. G.H. Walker, RNVR,
3/O E.F. Wilkinson, WRNS,
Lt. (A) F.N. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. R.J. Walker, RNVR.
Married (29.06.1939) Joyce Mary Newton; one daughter, three sons.
25.01.1911
Gosforth, Northumberland
-
15.01.1990
Littlehampton, Sussex
Prob. Midsh.
30.09.1930
A/S.Lt.
07.08.1932
S.Lt.
28.08.1933
Lt.
30.08.1935
A/Lt.Cdr.
?
Lt.Cdr.
30.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 25.01.1953)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
-
Education: Ascham House School, Gosforth (1918-12.1923); Royal Grammar
School, Newcastle (01.1924-07.1924); Malvern College, Worcestershire (09.1924-07. 1930); Trinity College, Cambridge (1931-1933; BA (Hons)).
Worked for Messrs Walker Brothers (Wigan) limited [heavy engneering, mining machinery] as technical assistant to one of the Directors, 1933-1939.
09.1930


joined RNVR, Tyne Division (later Mersey Division)
06.1931
-
07.1931
training, HMS Rodney
09.1932
-
10.1932
training, HMS Warspite (battleship)
08.1933
-
08.1933
training, HMS Valiant
03.1935
-
03.1935
training, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
08.1935
-
08.1935
training, HMS Vinn
1937
 
 
training, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (Part I course in Navigation and Pilotage, 03.1937 & Part II, 11.1937)
06.11.1939
-
1939
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
1939
-
21.01.1940
Navigating Officer, HMS Pintail (patrol vessel)
22.01.1940
-
18.02.1940
anti-aircraft course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
26.02.1940
-
21.04.1940
HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
1940
-
1945
worked as Anti-Aircraft Experimental Officer at HMS Excellent, where he organised and developed a research team which achieved much practical success in the improving of Anti-Aircraft gunnery; the work included the development of recording and analysing methods; the staff he administered grew gradually to some fifty various grades, comprising: 5 qualified physicists + 20 WRNS Experimental Assistants + 10 Laboratory Assistants + 10 Industrial Staff as well as various sailors.
22.04.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 
(12.1941)
-
(02.1943)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
31.05.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walker,
John Thomas
J.T. Walker
02.05.1914
Aberdare, Wales
-
01.1995
Swindon district, Wiltshire
T/Chapl.
07.01.1944 (reld 02.1947)
Chapl. RNR
1959?, seniority 17.04.1955 (retd 02.05.1969)

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Reserve Decoration

RD
22.09.1970
-
Education: BA
07.01.1944
-
02.1944
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
29.02.1944
-
14.09.1944
HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) (for service at Maddalena)
15.09.1944
-
(07.)1945
HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) (for duty in the office of the Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naples)
11.1945
-
(04.)1946
HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) (for disposal)
1946
-
1946
HMS Sirius (cruiser)
1946
-
1947
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
1959?
 -
1969
served RNR (Severn Division) [HMS Flying Fox (Bristol)]
Walker,
Reginald Frederick
R.F. Walker


?
-
T/S.Lt.
12.02.1942
T/Lt.
12.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
18.05.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
(10.1944)


HM LCT 157 (landing craft, tank) *
18.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walker,
Richard Edwin
"Johnnie"
R.E. Walker (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Crockett)
29.02.1920
Newent district, Gloucestershire / Herefordshire / Worcestershire
-
27.07.1980
Brent district
Motor Mechanic
? [C/MX 71457]
T/S.Lt. (E)
05.04.1943
T/Lt. (E)
05.04.1945 (reld 1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1942
New Year 42
09.1940


enlisted RNVR (served in the ranks)
03.09.1940
-
24.11.1940
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
25.11.1940
-
28.01.1942
HM ML 142 (motor launch) [based at HMS Forward II (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)]
01.1942


passed engineering course
01.03.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Lochy (frigate) **
* in the Apr 44 Navy List not under HMS Fervent yet; the June 44 List has him listed from 01.03.44 onwards; a detailed engine trials report of HMS Wedgeport (minesweeper) at Liverpool Bay in Apr 44 amongst his papers suggests he might be associated with that ship as well, though he's not under HMS Wedgeport in the Apr 44 Navy List
** indexed, but not listed as such; another, perhaps more reliable source, has him at HMS Loch Achray (frigate) "additional for E.R. training"; he was "repair on board" at Tobermory on the 27th March 1945
Walker,
Richard Frank
R.F. Walker


?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
01.01.1940
T/Lt. (A)
27.08.1941
(04.1940)
 
 
Fleet Air Arm
15.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
pilot, 807 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy down, nr Winchester)
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
28.04.1942
-
(08.1942)
pilot, 760 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
Walker,
Richard Joyce
R.F. Walker

Son of Norman Duguid Walker (1880-1961), solicitor, and Ada Russell (1879-1977), of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Brother of:
Lt.Cdr. J.R.D. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. R.F. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. G.H. Walker, RNVR,
3/O E.F. Wilkinson, WRNS,
Lt. (A) F.N. Walker, RNVR.
Married (02.07.1946) Josephine Mary Stockton (born 17.09.123); two daughters, two sons.
21.02.1922
All Saints, Newcastle, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
12.07.2008
Fontwell, West Sussex
T/A/S.Lt.
1942
T/S.Lt.
11.03.1943
T/Lt.
11.03.1945 (reld 06.1946)
Education: Malvern College, Worcestershire & Woodstock, Oxfordshire (1935-1940); Trinity College, Cambridge University (1940-1941; reading mathematics).
Worked for father's solicitor's office & joined Ryton Home Guard, summer 1940.
08.1941
-
10.1941
training, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
11.1941
-
12.1941
training, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training at South Rochester, London)
1942
-
1942
HMS Boadicea (destroyer) (Southampton)
[Western Approaches Convoys including Russian convoys for 6 months]
1942
-
1942
training, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
1942
-
1942
training, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
27.12.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Tritelia (auxiliary patrol trawler) (Iceland)
1943
-
1943
HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (for Fighter Direction Officer training)
14.07.1943
-
(08.)1943
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Whale Island, Portsmouth) (for High Speed Target Service)
19.08.1943
-
(10.)1943
First Lieutenant, HM CT 07 (target/towing boat)
11.1943
-
(04.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM CT 25 (target/towing boat)
16.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM CT 15 (target/towing boat) (smokelaying Poole-Dover route, messenger service Portsmouth-Normandy)
01.1945
-
06.1946
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walker,
Robert Fulton
"Robin"
R.F. Walker

Son of Norman Duguid Walker (1880-1961), solicitor, and Ada Russell (1879-1977), of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Brother of:
Lt.Cdr. J.R.D. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. G.H. Walker, RNVR,
3/O E.F. Wilkinson, WRNS,
Lt. (A) F.N. Walker, RNVR,
Lt. R.J. Walker, RNVR.
Married 1st (1940) Phyllis Mary Greenfield (27.04.1912 - 30.04.1982); three sons.
Married 2nd (04.01.1983) Margaret Hilary Crick.
18.10.1912
Newcastle, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
03.11.1999
Newcastle, Castle Ward district, Northumberland
T/S.Lt.
16.12.1939
T/A/Lt.
24.11.1940
T/Lt.
1942/43?, seniority 24.11.1940
Education: Malvern College, Worcestershire
16.12.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
(02.1941)


HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) *
26.03.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Duke (RN training establishment, Great Malvern, Worcestershire)
(06/07.1942)


may have served as Navigating Officer, HMS Lord Austin (armed trawler) (PQ17 convoy)
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
(10.1944)


no appointment listed
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walker,
St George Paulin
St.G.P. Walker (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Walker)
Son of Adeline Mary and Reginald Phelps Walker, Fleet Paymaster, HMS Warrior.
Married; at least one son.

From West Meon area, Hampshire.
17.11.1914
Malta
-
12.1994
Droxford, Hampshire
AB Sea.
1940
T/S.Lt.
12.02.1942
T/Lt.
12.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)



HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)



HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)



HMS Ramsey (destroyer)



HMS Winchester (destroyer)
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
21.05.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Copra (Combined Operatons accounting base)
(08.1942)


LCP(L) 175 (landing craft, personnel (large)) (Dieppe raid)
21.05.1943 -
(10.1944)
for landing craft duty (06.1944 at Normandy)
04.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Tormentor (RN base, Warsash)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
School master.
Walker,
Victor Paul
V.P. Walker
Son of John Walker, and Emily Walker (née Goldby), of Whitton, Middlesex.
(09?).1923
Stratford Upon Avon district, Gloucestershire / Warwickshire / Worcestershire
-
18.06.1944
(KIA) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 88, column 1]
T/A/S.Lt.
15.10.1941
T/S.Lt.
?
T/A/Lt.
15.04.1944

Bronzen Kruis (Bronze Cross) (The Netherlands)

BK

11.07.1944
BNLO on successful patrols Mediterranean [date Dutch decree 06.06.1944]
29.08.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Whitsed (destroyer)
(08.1942)


HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) *
1942
-
1944
British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. O-21 (Dutch submarine)
?
-
18.06.1944
HMS Sickle (submarine) [ship lost in Aegean]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walkinshaw,
Herbert Aubrey
H.A. Walkinshaw


obituary
19.03.1919
Glasgow
-
18.02. 2004
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
Prob. Midsh.
18.05.1938
Midsh.
?, seniority 18.05.1938
A/S.Lt.
17.09.1939
S.Lt.
12.1940, seniority 19.03.1940
Lt.
17.03.1942
Lt.Cdr.
17.03.1950
Cdr.
31.12.1955
Capt. RNR
31.12.1962 (commission terminated 08.12.1964)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE
01.01.1958
New Year 58 [investiture 04.03.58]
Mention in Despatches MID
04.04.1944
Aegean operations, mined 22.10.43
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
17.02.1953
?
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
08.10.1963
?
- -
02.11.1948
Medal for Outstanding Acts (Greece): attacked by E-boats Eastern Mediterranean 20.07.43 (wounded)
Education: Hillhead High School
Joined the Glasgow shipping company Glen & Company.
18.05.1938


joined RNVR, Clyde Division
09.10.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Vivien (destroyer) (Atlantic & Mediterranean)
27.11.1941
-
(06.)1943
HMS Javelin (destroyer)
(07.)1943
-
(10.1943)
British Naval Liaison Officer, HHMS Adrias (Greek destroyer)
(10.1944)
 
 
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
17.04.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Chaplet (destroyer)
(05.1950)


Temporary Lieutenant (Special Branch), Sea Cadet Corps
Rejoined Glen & Company, transferring in 1954 to Lyle Shipping Company Ltd., later merged into Scottish Ship Management Limited (1960 director, 1974 managing director, chairman 1977).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wallace,
Alan Duncan
A.D. Wallace
04.02.1925
-
03.2004
Deben district, Suffolk
T/A/S.Lt.
04.08.1944
T/S.Lt.
04.02.1945
06.03.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Undaunted (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


no appointment lsited
Wallace,
Alan Frank
A.F. Wallace
09.08.1910
-
02.1992
Great Yarmouth district, Norfolk
Paym.Lt.
09.03.1940
T/A/Pay.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)
< 10.1944
27.02.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Colombo (cruiser)
(10.1944)


HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) *
(07.1945)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
(04.1946)


HMS Fife Ness (repair ship) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wallace,
Allan Herbert David
A.H.D. Wallace
04.08.1922
-
03.1989
Plymouth district, Devon
T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
22.05.1945
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Wallace,
Alexander
A. Wallace (Photo courtesy of the PC Cother family, via Mr Tony Drury) A. Wallace (Photo courtesy of the PC Cother family, via Mr Tony Drury)

A. Wallace (Photo courtesy of the PC Cother family, via Mr Tony Drury) 
?
-
T/Lt.
11.10.1939 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
10.11.1942
withdrawal from Tobruk summer 42
14.10.1939
-
01.1941
HMS Aquamarine (trawler; armed boarding vessel)
13.01.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
(mid-1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 1048 (motor launch)
(08.1942)


HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *
06.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 118 (motor launch)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wallace,
Anthony Charles Lionel
A.C.L. Wallace
23.08.1924
-
10.2002
North Yorkshire district, Yorkshire
T/S.Lt.
23.08.1944
09.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
11.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
Stockheath Camp [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
Wallace,
Henry Patterson
H.P. Wallace (Photo courtesy of Mr Barry Wallace)
23.11.1908
Tynemouth district, Northumberland
-
11.1989
Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 20.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

1939-1945 Star

39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - & France & Germany clasp
Africa Star Afr St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1945 New Year 45
      HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)
      HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
05.03.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Llandudno (Bangor class minesweeper) [took command on D-Day 06.06.1944 when the Commanding Officer was taken off sick]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Waller,
Allan Lansley
A.L. Waller (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Clark)


03.1921 ??
-
06.2006 still alive
T/Midsh.
23.08.1940
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
19.11.1941
T/Lt.
19.05.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
24.12.1947, seniority 16.07.1947
Lt.
02.06.1958, seniority 13.04.1954
Lt.Cdr.
13.04.1962 (retd 19.11.1980)
Mention in Despatches MID
06.05.1941
sinking E-boat 23.01.41
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
> 02.1963
< 02.1968
?
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
18.02.1975
?
03.1939


joined RNVR (London Division)
(1940?)


HMS Lady Shirley (anti-submarine trawler)
01.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
HMS Tourmaline (trawler)
10.11.1941
-
(12.1943)
HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional, for various services)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
22.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HM LST 2 (landing ship, tank) (Far East)
24.12.1947


re-entered RNVR (Special Branch)
02.06.1958


re-entered Permanent RNVR
ACIS, ACMA
Published
: Dawn will always break : (ex tenebris lux) : a personal story (1997)
Walsh,
David Latham
D.L. Walsh
(12?).1912 ?
Wigan, Lancashire ?
-
28.10.1944
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 4]
T/S.Lt. (A)
28.02.1942
T/Lt. (A)
07.10.1942
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
22.05.1943
-
28.10.1944
pilot, 811 Squadron FAA [HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
[crashed into the sea whilst landing a Swordfish while the ship was part of the 21st Escort Group with Convoy JW 61 to North Russia]
Walsh,
James Christopher
J.C. Walsh

Lived at Glasgow, Scotland.
?
Dublin, Ireland
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
15.05.1945 (reld 1946 ?)



temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) Agreement
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walster,
David Leslie
D.L. Walster
Son of William Walster, and Sarah Kate Arnold.
Married ((03?).1946, Halifax district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Constance H. Stokes.
10.03.1915
Thorne district, Lincolnshire / West Riding of Yorkshire
-
07.1988
Scunthorpe and Barton-Upon-Humber district, Lincolnshire
T/S.Lt.
04.12.1941
T/A/Lt.
04.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *
(03.1945)
 
 
British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek torpedo boat "Ierax"
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Walton,
Eric Philip Patrick D'Arcy
E.P.P.D'A. Walton
(03?).1914
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt.
04.10.1940
T/Lt.
04.10.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Croix de Guerre (France)

CdeG
01.12.1942
liaison officer Chasseur 8
15.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Centurion (target ship)
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
01.10.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Osborne (RN base, Isle of Wight) (for chasseurs)
(1942)


British Naval Liaison Officer, Chasseur 8 (French patrol vessel)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Walton,
Frank Edward
F.E. Walton
?
-
T/Lt. 
05.02.1940
T/El.Lt.
04.1941, seniority 05.02.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
25.06.1937


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division, RNVR]
05.1940
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
04.1941


transferred to Electrical Branch
Walton,
Francis Edward
F.E. Walton
?
-
T/S.Lt.
02.10.1941
T/Lt. 
02.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal

RHSBr
?
rescue service Lucellum 12.41
(12.1941)


HM ML 217 (motor launch)
03.12.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Torch II (Coastal Forces base, Holyhead)
17.07.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 164 (motor launch)
(07.1945)


HMS Beaconsfield (base, Port Melbourne, Australia) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wancke,
Harold Abbott
H.A. Wancke
Brother of Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) S.W. Wancke, RNVR.
09.05.1909
Finland
-
09.1993
Camden, London
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
1943?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
30.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
29.04.1943
-
(08.1943)
on staff of Admiral Superintendent Orkney [HMS Prosperine (minesweeping and anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)]
(10.1944)
 

 
Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
01.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty (for duty outside Admiralty) [HMS President]
Wancke,
Sven Widing
S.W. Wancke
Brother of Lt. (Sp.Br.) H.A. Wancke, RNVR.
Lived in London & Kent, Surrey.
16.06.1911
Finland
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
1940?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
19.09.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway)

Hkn
04.03.1947
?
09.04.1942
-
(02.1943)
on staff of Admiral Superintendent Orkney [HMS Prosperine (minesweeping and anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)]
08.1944
-
(07.1945)
on staff (for intelligence duties) of Commander-in-Chief Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
Ward,
Douglas Arthur Lloyd
D.A.L. Ward
(06?).1917
Edmonton district, Hertfordshire
-
T/S.Lt.
22.05.1941
T/A/Lt.
22.05.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

-

GkWC
29.06.1943
Greek War Cross 3rd class: liaison officer HHMS Nereus
- GkMC
03.08.1943
Greek Military Cross 3rd class: successful action against enemy
07.07.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)



British Naval Liaison Officer, HHMS Nereus



British Naval Liaison Officer, HHMS Katsonis
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) *
(04.1946)


HMS Golden Hind II (RN repair base, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Warden,
Arthur Ross
A.R. Warden
Son of Mr & Mrs Arthur Warden, of Glasgow, Scotland.
Married (07.06.1958, Montreal West Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Que., Canada) Evelyn Louise McLaughlin (02.10.1927-), daughter of Herbert Alexander McLaughlin, and Gertrude Grace Bradley, of Lennoxville, Que.
21.06.1921
Glasgow, Scotland
-
30.09.1981
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Midsh. 17.02.1939
A/S.Lt. 21.06.1941
S.Lt. 21.06.1942
Lt. 01.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946) (removed from Active List 20.08.1951) (commissioned terminated on transfer to RCN(R) 20.01.1953)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD ? ?
17.02.1939     joined RNVR (Clyde Division)
(04.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) *
10.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
22.02.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Fair Weather (auxiliary patrol drifter)
(08.1942)     HMS Elm (minesweeping trawler) *
06.1943 - (08.1943) HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Riou (frigate)
02.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Balfour (firgate)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Warington-Smyth,
Nigel [Clive S.]
N. Warington-Smyth
Son of Herbert Warington-Smyth, CMG, LLM, FGS, FRGS (1867-1943), and Annabelle Sutton.
28.11.1906
-
05.1992
Helston, Truro district, Cornwall
T/Lt. 07.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE 27.03.1945 special operations 06-08.44
11.12.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
01.06.1942 - (02.)1943 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
28.06.1943 - (01.)1945 Senior Officer Inshore Patrol Flotilla [HMS Sunbeam (accommodation ship, Inshore Flotilla, Helford)] (serving under Deputy Director Operations Division (Irregular)) (OBE)
09.04.1945 - (07.1945) Miscellaneous Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Yachtsman of the Year.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Warner,
Kenneth John
D.A.L. Ward
?
-
T/S.Lt. 1942?
T/A/Lt. 04.06.1943
T/Lt. 07.10.1946, seniority 04.06.1943 (reld > 10.1946)
10.10.1942 - (01.)1945 HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)
(07.1945)     HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Warren,
Wilfred
W. Warren

(06?).1910
Winchester, Hampshire
-
01.1991
T/Sg.Lt.
03.09.1939
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Sherborne School; Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge & St Bartholomew's Hospital; MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP
(04.1940)
-
(08.1942)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
13.02.1943
-
27.03.1944
Medical Officer, HMS Princess Josephine Charlotte (landing ship infantry (small))
23.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Waterman,
Dennis Stanton
D.S. Waterman
(03?).1908
Brentford, Middlesex
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
27.09.1940
T/Lt.
27.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42
01.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Solon (minesweeping trawler)
10.09.1941
-
1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hortensia (trawler)
25.05.1942
-
(08.1943)
HMS Elgin (Hunt class minesweeper)
15.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Gozo (Algerine class minesweeper)
Waters,
Benjamin Weston
"Ben"
B.W. Waters

1907 ?
-
(03?).1964
Cranctonbury district
[age 57]
T/Lt.
07.09.1940 (reld 12.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
03.06.1941
in charge of "A" lighters, evacuation of Greece [investiture 27.11.45]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
08.01.1942
withdrawal from Crete [investiture 27.11.45]



HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
Waters,
Gordon Edmund
G.E. Waters (Photo courtesy of Mr Gordon E. Waters)
Son of Arthur Alexander Waters, and ... Elliott.
Married.
07.01.1917
Uxbridge district, Middlesex
-

Brockville, Ont., Canada
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
02.10.1939
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 
23.01.1940, seniority 02.10.1939
T/El.S.Lt.
01.10.1940, seniority 02.10.1939
T/El.Lt.
07.01.1942
A/T/El.Lt.Cdr.
12.09.1944 (reld 26.03.1946)
Worked at BBC Television Station at Alexandra Palace.
02.10.1939
-
26.10.1939
anti-submarine training [HMS Osprey (RN base, Portland)]
26.10.1939
-
15.11.1939
trawler base, Sheerness [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
15.11.1939
-
15.01.1940
anti-submarine duties, HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
15.01.1940
-
01.03.1940
anti-submarine maintenance duties at trawler base, Invergordon [HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon)]
01.03.1940
-
02.04.1940
anti-submarine maintenance duties at trawler base, Aberdeen [HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)]
02.04.1940
-
01.10.1940
anti-submarine trawler base staff, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
01.10.1940


transferred to the Electrical Branch, RNVR
01.10.1940
-
24.06.1941
Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth)]
24.06.1941
-
08.12.1941
Port Anti-Submarine Officer, Swansea [HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)]
08.12.1941
-
15.03.1942
anti-submarine maintenance duties at Cardiff [HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)]
15.03.1942
-
01.01.1944
Commanding Officer, Mobile Anti-Submarine Training Unit 30 [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)]
01.01.1944
-
24.01.1944
refresher course [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)]
24.01.1944
-
16.04.1944
additional at HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
16.04.1944
-
12.12.1945
Port Anti-Submarine Officer, Colombo, Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
12.12.1945
-
26.03.1946
Spare Parts Distributing Centre (Ships), Ceylon [HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon)]
Emigrated in 1952 to Canada, and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in their engineering division, eventually becoming the Chief Studio System Engineer, retiring in 1977.
Watson,
Alasdair Macdonald
A.M. Watson (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin MacMillan) A.M. Watson
Eldest of five children of Alexander Pirie Watson, a surgeon in the First World War, and Ann (née) Macdonald, a nursing sister, who served in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service in Salonika.
Married (1960) Elizabeth "Elsie" Crawford of Comrie (died 1994).
24.02.1920
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
25.03.2007
Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland
[buried at Cille Choirill, Roy Bridge]
Ord.Sea.
02.08.1940
T/S.Lt.
21.08.1941
T/Lt.
01.12.1943
Lt.
12.06.1951, seniority 16.10.1948
Lt.Cdr.
16.10.1956
A/Cdr.
25.06.1958
Cdr.
30.06.1959
Capt.
31.12.1963 (retd 27.12.1970)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45 [award posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
06.07.1943
Combined Operations raid
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
27.12.1960
[gazetted 15.05.1961]
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
27.12.1970
clasp [gazetted 09.03.1971]
Education: Edinburgh Academy; Fort Augustus Abbey School; medical student, Edinburgh University (1939)
02.08.1940


joined RNVR at Rosyth
07.1941
-
21.08.1941
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing)



HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
04.02.1942
-
(02.1943)
HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth):
01.1942
-
(08.1942)
First Lieutenant, HM MGB 326 (motor gun boat) (Bruneval raid [Operation Biting] 02.1942 & Dieppe raid 08.1942)
1943?

or 1944?
HM MGB 505 (motor gun boat)
31.05.1943
-
(10.)1943
First Lieutenant, HM MGB 317 (motor gun boat)
11.10.1943
-
(04.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM MGB 312 (motor gun boat)
10.04.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 330 (motor gun boat) (Normandy)
(04.1945)
-
07.04.1945
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5001 (motor torpdo boat) [boat sunk by German gunfire]
21.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 764 (motor torpedo boat)
1945


senior officer German E-Boats, based at HMS Hornet, Portsmouth
1945?


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 2012 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 2017 (motor torpedo boat) *
12.06.1951


transferred to List I of Permanent RNVR [late 1950s amalgamated into RNR], Forth Division [HMS Claverhouse]
1958
-
15.11.1966
Commanding Officer, HMS Scotia (Maritime Headquarters RNR, Rosyth, Fife)
01.01.1967
-
01.01.1968
RNR ADC to the Queen
19.04.1968
-
(02.)1969
Commanding Officer, Forth Division RNR [HMS Claverhouse]
Teacher math and science and coach of rugby and athletics at Dalhousie Castle, Melville House, Ladybank and Clifton Hall schools from 1946 on. President of the Combined Operations Association based near Furnace.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Watson,
the Rev. Arthur Reginald Anderson
A.R.A. Watson
Lived in Kastrup, Denmark (1965/66).
04.02.1889
Glasgow, Scotland
-
31.03.1967
T/A/Chaplain RN
19.01.1917
Chaplain RAF
01.05.1930-01.05.1936
T/Chaplain
10.07.1940 (reld 1948?)
Education: Exeter College, Oxford (MA)
?
-
?
HMS Conqueror (battleship)
16.09.1918
-
(01.1919)
HMS China (hospital ship)
1923
-
1924
Chaplain, Misson to Seaman, Port of London (civilian)
1924
-
1925
Chaplain, Misson to Seaman, Dunkirk (civilian)
13.07.1925
-
09.1928
Chaplain, Greenwich Hospital Living of Alston-with-Garrigall [civilian appointment, but under the Admiralty]
09.1928
-
01.1929
housemaster at Shawnigan Lake School, Vancouver Island (civilian)
1929
-
1930
housemaster at Repton School (civilian)
1930
-
1930
housemaster at West Buckland School (civilian)
01.05.1930
-
01.05.1936
Chaplain (Church of England), RAF (Chaplains Branch) [short service commission] (with the relative rank of Squadron Leader) (RAF Cranwell, 1930-1931; RAF Calafrana, Malta, 1931-1935; Sealand, 1935-1936)
1936
-
1940
Chaplain at Copenhagen, Denmark (civilian)
01.08.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
01.01.1942
-
(06.)1944
HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)
22.09.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
?
-
(04.1946)
HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) *
Ministre Desservant at St John Jersey, 1948-51. Rector of Fornham St. Martin (with Timworth from 1958), 1951-1962. Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, c. 1920/25.

* indexed, but not listed as such
Watson,
the Rev. Basil Alderson
B.A. Watson

21.08.1916
Nova Soctia
-
27.10.2004
Lewisham, London
Prob. T/Chaplain
07.01.1944
T/Chaplain
06.1944, seniority 07.01.1944
Chaplain RN
21.02.1947, seniority 07.01.1944 (retd 29.04.1970; own request)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
12.06.1965
HM's birthday 65
Education: MA (BA)
05.02.1944
-
12.1945
HMS Attacker (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic, Mediterranean, Allied landings in southern France, liberation of Greece, and the Far East)
14.12.1945
-
(07.1948)
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) [21.02.1947 transferred from RNVR to RN]
1949?
-
1950?
HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth)
13.04.1950
-
(05.1950)
Chaplain, HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose, Cornwall)
22.09.1952
-
(04.)1955
Chaplain, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
05.08.1955
-
1958
Chaplain, 1st Submarine Squadron (Malta) [HMS Forth]



Chaplain, HMS Devonshire (training cruiser)
25.07.1960
-
1962
Chaplain, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
14.04.1962
-
(01.1964)
Chaplain, Royal Marines Barracks, Eastney (and for Pay and Records Office, Royal Marines)
03.09.1965
-
(01.)1968
Chaplain, The Britannia RN College, Dartmouth
29.07.1968
-
(01.1969)
Chaplain, RN College, Greenwich
Chaplain to the Corporation of the City of London, 1970-1986.
Watson,
Eric Edmeston
E.E. Watson

?
-
Prob. T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
02.12.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
31.03.1941, seniority 02.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
29.021944 (reld < 07.1945)
02.12.1940
-
(10.1944)
HMS President III (accounting base for personnel serving at Defence Equipped Merchant Ships)
Watson,
John Gordon
J.G. Watson
?
-

T/S.Lt.
13.03.1941
T/Lt.
13.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
06.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
13.03.1942
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 451 (motor launch)
25.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 451 (motor launch)
Watson,
John Mortimer
J.M. Watson

Son of Henry Allan Watson and Kathleen Alice Watson, of Worcester.
1914 ?
-
27.04.1941
(KIA) [age 27]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
21.02.1940
MRCS, LRCP
01.03.1940
- 27.04.1941
Medical Officer, HMS Diamond (destroyer) (sunk by German & Italian aircraft, Gulf of Nauplia)
Watson,
[Sir] Philip Alexander
P.A. Watson
Younger son of A.H.St.C. Watson.
Married (1948) Jennifer Beatrice Tanner; one son, two daughters.
07.10.1919
-

Banbury, Oxfordshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
10.03.1940
T/El.S.Lt.
?, seniority 10.03.1940
T/Lt.
10.09.1942
Lt. (L) RN
01.1946, seniority 10.09.1941
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN
10.09.1949
Cdr. RN
31.12.1955
Capt. RN
30.06.1963
R.Adm. RN
07.01.1971
V.Adm. RN
13.05.1974 (retd 31.03.1977)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
12.06.1976
HM's birthday 76
Lieutenant, Royal Victorian Order LVO
01.01.1960
New Year 60
Education: St Albans School
10.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for Minesweeping Department) 
29.08.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Seagull (minesweeper)
01.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Hebe (minesweeper)
04.05.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
1943


qualified as Torpedo Specialist
1943?/44?


Assistant Torpedo Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship)
20.07.1944
-
(07.1945)
Torpdeo Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser)
01.1946


transferred, Royal Navy
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
1946?


Naval Assistant to Adm. Bateson



long radio course, HMS Collingwood
29.03.1947
-
(10.)1947
HMS Solebay (destroyer)
1947?


HMS Gabbard (destroyer)
05.11.1947
-
(07.1948)
Naval Electrical Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(05.1949)


no appointment listed
17.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
Assistant to the Training Commander, HMS Collingwood (for miscellaneous duties)
1951?
-
1953?
radio section, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St angelo]
(05.1953)


no appointment listed
26.04.1954
-
(01.1956)
Electrical Officer, HMS Decoy (destroyer)
05.03.1956
-
(01.)1957
Naval Electrical Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
29.04.1957
-
(01.)1959
Electrical Officer, HM Yacht Britannia
27.09.1959
-
1962
Electrical Engineer, HM Dockyard Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (in charge of the electrical shops and the weapon section)
05.10.1962
-
(02.)1963
Weapon Electrical Engineer Officer, HMS Lion (cruiser)
15.07.1963
-
(02.1964)
Electrical Engineering Division, Ship Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (borne in lieu)
1966


Senior Officers' War Course
10.05.1967
-
(02.)1969
Commanding Officer, HMS Collingwood (RN weapon and electrical engineering school, Fareham, Hampshire)
1969


Deputy Director of Engineering (Ship Department), Ministry of Defence
11.1970
-
1977
Director General Weapons (Naval), Ministry of Defence
1974
-
1977
Chief Naval Engineer Officer
* indexed, but not listed as such

FIEE 1963; CIMgt (CBIM 1973). Director: Marconi International Marine Co. Ltd, 1977-1986; Marconi Radar Systems Ltd, 1981-1986 (Chm., 1981-1985); Consultant, GEC-Marconi Ltd, 1986-1987. Mem. Council, IEE, 1975-1978, 1982-1991, Chm. South East Centre, 1982-1983. Adm. Pres., Midland Naval Officers Assoc., 1979-1985, Vice Pres., 1985-.
Watson,
William Brown
W.B. Watson
?
-
died between 1964 and 08.1973 ??
Prob. Lt.
24.05.1939
Lt.
1940?, seniority 24.05.1939 (reld from active service < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
24.05.1947 (retd 30.05.1963)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
16.05.1957
-
Mention in Despatches MID
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
15.12.1936
 
 
joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached Clyde Division RNVR)
24.05.1939


joined RNVR, Clyde Division (List 2)
07.11.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Medina (training establishment, Puckpool Camp near Ryde, Isle of Wight)
07.04.1941
-
07.1942
HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
04.07.1942
-
(08.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM ML 110 (motor launch)
07.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Bahamas (frigate)
Watt,
[Sir] James
J. Watt
J. Watt
Son of Thomas Watt, master confectioner, and Sarah Alice Clarkson.
Unmarried.
19.08.1914
Morpeth, Northumberland
-
28.12.2009
Wimbledon, London
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 09.01.1941
T/Sg.Lt. 1942?, seniority 09.01.1941
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944
Sg.Lt. RN ?, seniority 30.03.1942
Sg.Lt.Cdr. RN 30.03.1950
Sg.Cdr. RN 30.06.1956
Sg.Capt. RN 30.06.1965
Sg.R.Adm. RN 22.09.1969
Sg.V.Adm. RN 01.08.1972
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE 01.01.1975 New Year 75 [investiture 04.03.75]
Mention in Despatches MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East
Education: King Edward VI School, Morpeth; University of Durham. MB, BS 1938; MS 1949. FRCS 1955. MD 1972. FRCP 1975.
09.01.1941 - 29.01.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
30.01.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Emerald (cruiser) (Indian Ocean)
23.10.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Roxborough (destroyer) (North Atlantic convoys)
07.03.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Arbiter (escort carrier) (despatches)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
      transferred, RN
1947     Surgical Registrar, Royal Vic. Infirmimary, Newcastle upon Tyne
1949     Surgical Specialist: Northern Ireland
1954     RN Hosp., Hong Kong
1956     Consultant in Surgery, RN Hospital Plymouth
1959     Consultant in Surgery, RN Hospital Haslar
1961     Consultant in Surgery, RN Hospital Malta
1963     Consultant in Surgery, RN Hospital Haslar
1965 - 1969 Jt Prof. of Naval Surgery, RCS and RN Hospital., Haslar
1969 - 1972 Dean of Naval Medicine and Medical Officer-in-Charge Inst. of Naval Medicine
1972 - 1977 Medical Director­General (Navy) (KBE)
Chairman, RN Clinical Research Working Party, 1969-1977; Chairman Board of Trustees, Naval Christian Fellowship, 1968-1975; President: Royal Naval Lay Readers Society, 1973-1983; Institute of Religion and Medicine, 1989-1991. QHS 1969-1977. Member, Environmental Medicine Res. Policy Committee, MRC, 1974-1977. Thomas Vicary
Lecturer, RCS, 1974; University House Visiting Fellow, ANU, 1986. FICS 1964; Fellow: Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; Medical Society of London (Mem. Council, 1976; Lettsomian Lecturer, 1979; President, 1980-1981; Vice-President, 1981-1983); FRSocMed (President, 1982-1984); FSA 1991; Hon. FRCSE; Member: British Society for Surgery of the Hand; International Society for Burns Injuries; Corr. Member, Surgical Research Society, 1966-1977; Member Editorial Board, British Journal of Surgery, 1966-1977. FRGS 1982; Mem. Council, RGS, 1985-1988. Pres., ECHO, 1989-; Vice-President, Churches' Council for Health and Healing, 1987-. Trustee: Marylebone Centre Trust, 1989-1993; Medical Society of London, 1986-. Governor, Epsom College, 1990-. President, Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, 1996 (Hon. Mem., 1978-). Hon. Freeman, Co. of Barbers, 1978. Hon. DCh Newcastle, 1978. Errol­Eldridge Prize, 1968; Gilbert Blane Medal, 1971. CStJ 1972.
Published: Edited: Starving Sailors, 1981; Talking Health, 1988; What  is Wrong with Christian Healing?, 1993; The Church, Medicine and the New Age, 1995; papers on: burns, cancer chemotherapy,  peptic ulceration, hyberbaric oxygen therapy, naval medical history.
Waylen,
Donald Campbell
D.C. Waylen (Photo courtesy of Mrs Lucille Neustroski) D.C. Waylen (Photo courtesy of Mrs Lucille Neustroski)
Son of Frank Arthur Waylen (1864-c. 1940), and Jessie Gertrude Campbell.
Married (26.11.1912) Lucille Maude Turpin (01.07.1895 - 30.01.1978), both living in France in 1954; one son (Lt. Malcolm Campbell Waylen, DSC, RNZNVR).
10.11.1893
Kensington, Greater London
-
01.11.1967
T/Lt.
31.07.1915
T/Prob. Flight S/Lt. RNAS
?
T/Flight S.Lt. RNAS
22.11.1915 (reld 1918?)
T/Lt.
11.11.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
03.06.1919
HM's birthday 19
11.01.1941
-
(01.)1941
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse)
11.01.1941
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM [HD]ML 1001 ([harbour defence] motor launch)
06.05.1944
-
(04.1946)
French Ship "Courbet"
Webb,
Frank Sydney
F.S. Webb
Married; one daughter.
07.10.1905
King's Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire / Worcestershire
-
(03.)1982
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
T/Lt. 20.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
14.01.1942 - (07.1945) HMS President III (accounting base for personnel serving on Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
Webb,
George Frank
G.F. Webb
09.10.1910
Carshalton, Epsom district, Surrey
-
20.04.2009
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Prob. T/S.Lt.
11.07.1940
T/Lt.
11.10.1940 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
05.10.1940
-
(02.)1943
HMS Versatile (destroyer)
01.05.1944
-
(07.)1945
HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional for various services; in lieu of specialist Anti-Submarine Officer)
09.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Montclare (submarine depot ship) (in lieu of specialist Anti-Submarine Officer)
Webb,
Robert Maurice Glanville
R.M.G. Webb
03.06.1907
Woolwich, Greater London, Kent
-
08.2002
Hastings and Rother, East Sussex
T/Lt.
20.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
05.11.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)
01.02.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
06.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 81 (motor minesweeper)
Webb,
William Percival
W.P. Webb
19.09.1914 ?
-
05.1998 ?
Canterbury district, Kent ?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
10.07.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
10.07.1942

1939-1945 Star

39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
-
Italy Star It St
-
-
Defence Medal Def M
-
-
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
?
?

Greek War Cross 3rd class

GrkWC

01.02.1949
liaison services 43-45
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) *
1943
-
1945
British Naval Liaison Officer, "Pipinos" (Greek submarine)
(04.1946)


HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Weeden *,
John
J. Weeden
Son of ... Weeden, and ... Coten.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

* in several sources also found (incorrectly) as: Weedon
25.12.1917
Westcliffe on Sea, Rochford district, Essex
-
19.08.1950
at sea on passage
from Calais to
England
[buried on the Island of Texel, The Netherlands*]

* He and a number of Sea Scouts were
buried on the island after the accident in which 10 Scouts were drowned while returning from France to England in August 1950. More details here. Official Board of Trade wreck report for "Wangle III" here.

T/S.Lt.
05.11.1939
T/Lt.
01.03.1942 (reld 17.03.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.04.1942
attack convoy Dover Command 03.03.42 [investiture 14.07.42]
Mention in Despatches MID
13.04.1943
action Dutch coast 18.01.43
19.01.1937


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached London Division RNVR]
05.11.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Floreat III (harbour defence patrol craft)
15.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
Spare Officer, 1st MTB Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
01.07.1941
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 31 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
09.12.1942
-
03.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] & Senior Offier, 4th MTB Flotilla
05.1943
-
12.1943
commissioning officer for MTBs built
under license in the USA [HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, NJ)]
(1943?)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 70 (motor torpedo boat)
29.02.1944
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HMS Musketeer (destroyer)
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
1945


Assistant to the Chief of Staff (Capt C W Brock RN) of Flag Officer, Schleswig Holstein (FOSH), Germany
Weekes,
Noel Robert
N.R. Weekes
(03?).1911
Hendon, Greater London, Middlesex
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
03.05.1940
T/Lt.
25.12.1940
16.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
(08.1942)
 
 
HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) *
(1942)


Commanding Officer, MGB ...
04.1943
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 260 (motor launch)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Weeks,
Alfred Clifford
A.C. Weeks
? *
-

[* perhaps:
(09?).1906 Edmonton, Essex]
T/Lt.
04.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. RNR
< 12.1941

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40 (Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk) [investiture 23.09.1941]
04.11.1939
-
30.05.1940
HMS Gracie Fields (paddle minesweeper) [ship sunk off Dunkirk]



transferred RNR
14.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
Navigating Officer, HMS Dunluce Castle (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)
Weighill,
Francis Herbert
F.H. Weighill (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Lidington) F.H. Weighill (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Lidington)
F.H. Weighill (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Lidington) F.H. Weighill (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Lidington)
Married; ... children.
15.07.1915 ??
Birkenhead, Cheshire ??
-
12.1993 ??
Chester, Cheshire ??
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
12.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Worked at Camel Lairds shipbuilders.



joined RNVR probably pre-war
?
-
17.03.1941
mobilized & sent to Devonport to train as a gun layer – to be posted to HMS Mollusc (armed yacht) (bombed by German aircraft off Blyth)



HMS Tarantella (trawler)



HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)



HMS Sister Anne (armed yacht)
12.03.1943
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS St. Silio (examination service vessel)
Weir,
William James Alexander
A.C. Weeks
?
-
c. 2004/05 ?
T/S.Lt.
01.05.1941
T/Lt.
01.05.1942 (reld 1945)

Mention in Despatches

MID
11.09.1945
action Seine 18.06.42
22.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
?
-
19.06.1942
First Lieutenant, HM SGB 7 (steam gun boat)
[responsible for the scuttling of the ship because of its new design and set charges and blew it up; spent 1 hour in the water]
06.1942
-
1945
prisoner of war in German captivity (Marlag prison camp)
Wenyon,
Louis Morley
A.C. Weeks
Only son (with three sisters) of Lt.Col. Herbert John Wenyon, DSO (1888-1944), and Jessie Clark Forrester, of Montigny, Felpham, Sussex.
(12?).1919
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
17.07.1945
[age 25]
[Yeovilton Churchyard RNAS Extension, F.3]
T/S.Lt. (A) 28.10.1942
T/Lt. (A) 15.11.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.08.1945 Aegean operations, relief of Greece [presented to next-of-kin]
Education: Old Merchants' School; BSc.
12.06.1944 - (01.)1945 pilot, 800 Squadron FAA [HMS Emperor (escort carrier)]
04.01.1945 - 17.07.1945 pilot, 759 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] (killed in a flying accident in Somerset)
Wesby,
Bernard Geoffrey
B.G. Wesby
Son of David C. Wesby, and Florence H. Watling.
Married ((06?).1951, Norwich district, Norfolk) Anne D. Rodger.
27.09.1922
Norwich district, Norfolk
-
01.08.1994
T/A/S.Lt. (S)
29.11.1944
T/S.Lt. (S)
29.05.1945
T/Lt. (S)
01.11.1946 (dispersal 01.1947) (reld 12.05.1947)
01.07.1942
 
 
mobilized at Skegness
12.1942
 
 
HMS Quadrant (destroyer)
05.1943
 
 
transferred, Supply Branch
1943
-
1944
HMS Bull (RN base, Massawa, Eritrea)
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
28.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Vernon (training establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for duties at Portsmouth)



posted to Ceylon (passage on MS Nieuw Amsterdam)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
1946
-
1947
HMS Derby Haven (Coastal Forces depot ship, Singapore)
West,
Lindsay Brewis
L.B. West
?
-
T/S.Lt.
01.03.1944

Mention in Despatches

MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45



served on a destroyer
28.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Grey Owl (steam gun boat)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Lioness (Algerine class minesweeper) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
West,
Michael Walter
M.W. West
?
-
Prog. T/Sg.Lt.
21.01.1944
T/Sg.Lt.
14.07.1944, seniority 21.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: MRCS, LRCP
(10.1944)
-
(01.1945)
HMS Kent (cruiser) *
17.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Weston,
Edward [Charles]
E. Weston
30.03.1920
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E)
29.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
 
 
 
temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
16.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Trouncer (escort carrier)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Ravager (escort carrier) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Weston,
Raymond Vincent Rouen
E. Weston
?
-
T/S.Lt.
12.06.1942
T/Lt.
12.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
14.07.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous services)
06.04.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Tobago (frigate)
25.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HM LST 323 (landing ship, tank)
Weston,
Roy Osmond
E. Weston
Son of ... Weston, and ... Reece.
(12?).1920
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt.
29.05.1942
T/Lt.
01.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
17.07.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Spiteful (submarine)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed *
15.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Gorleston (escort)
* indexed as HM LST 323, but that's mixed-up with R.V.R. Weston
Wheatley,
Oscar Frank
O.F. Wheatley

Son of Oscar Wheatley, and Dora Carr.
Husband of Hilda Rose Wheatley, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
(03?).1918
Coventry district, Warwickshire / West Midlands
-
20.06.1945
(KIA) [age 27]
[Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia, 2.F.5]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
29.07.1940
T/Lt. (A)
29.01.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
20.05.1945?
Mention in Despatches MID
22.05.1945
Operation Stacey (photo reconniassance Far East 22.02-07.03.45)
03.01.1941
-
27.03.1941
pilot, 807 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester), then HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
[failed to return in a Fulmar after being unable to locate ship on return from reconnaissance; landed at Dakar and was captured] 
27.03.1941
-
1943?
POW in French captvity
07.1944
-
(10.1944)
pilot, 804 Squadron FAA
20.05.1945
-
20.06.1945
Commanding Officer, 808 Squadron FAA [HMS Ameer (escort carrier)]
Whiddon,
John
J. Whiddon
Son of Henry Whiddon, and Lilian May Berner.
Married Audrey May Bennett (she re-married and now carries last name Martin); two sons.
(06?).1925
Edmonton district, Essex
-
28.07.1954
Malta
[age 29]
T/Midsh.
11.11.1943
T/S.Lt.
22.04.1945
T/S.Lt. RN
22.04.1945
A/Lt. RN
1947?
Lt. RN
29.10.1947, seniority 22.04.1947 (emgcy 09.12.1951)
11.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
31.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Stamshaw Camp)
22.01.1947


transferred to RN
14.06.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Constance (destroyer)
(05.1953)


HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry)
23.04.1952


short service commission
27.10.1953
-
28.07.1954
observer, 728 Squadron FAA [HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halfar, Malta)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Whitby,
John Arthur Humphrey
J.A.H. Whitby
?
-
T/Lt.
31.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, MTB 621
02.07.1945
-
(1945)
staff Reserve Fleet [HMS Scarborough]
White,
Harry Ernest
H.E. White
Son of Harry Ernest William White and Alice White, of Broadstairs, Kent.
19.11.1917
-
01.06.1990
Canterbury, Kent
Ord.Sea.
21.06.1940 [JX/209381]
AB Sea.
21.09.1940
A/Ldg.Sea.
11.07.1941
T/S.Lt.
20.05.1942?
T/Lt.
21.08.1943
Lt. RN
16.04.1947, seniority 21.08.1943
Lt.Cdr.
21.08.1951 (emgcy 29.03.1952)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
23.05.1944
Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings, 09.43)
21.06.1940


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 
03.07.1940
-
11.07.1940
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheernes) (for boom defence duties)
12.07.1940
-
14.10.1940
HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon)
15.10.1940
-
09.11.1940
HMS Rooke (boom defence central depot, Rosyth)
10.11.1940
-
16.12.1940
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
17.12.1940
-
13.02.1941
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
14.02.1941
-
31.07.1941
HMS Rooke (boom defence central depot, Rosyth)
01.08.1941
-
01.08.1941
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
02.08.1941
-
14.08.1941
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
15.08.1941
-
15.10.1941
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
16.10.1941
-
18.05.1942
HMS Holderness (destroyer)
19.05.1942
-
19.05.1942
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
20.05.1942
-
21.08.1942
HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
01.1943
-
09.1943
LCT 391 [HMS Dinosaur]
08.1943
-
(04.1946)
HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll)
16.04.1947


transferred to RN
16.10.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Duke of York (battleship)
14.11.1950
-
(05.1953)
HMS Neptune (Reserve Fleet, Chatham) (for miscellaneous duties)
White-Smith,
Ian Kirkpatrick

I.K. White-Smith
Eldest & twin son of Sir Henry White-Smith (1878-1943), aircraft industrialist, and Lady White-Smith (Winifred Agnes, née Kirkpatrick) (1886-1947).
Unmarried.
19.11.1917
Winterbourne, Gloucestershire
-
05.04.1942
(MIA) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 2]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)
30.12.1940
(02.1941)


HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton) *
11.03.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
?
-
05.04.1942
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (missing in action)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Whitney,
John Desmond
J.D. Whitney
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
21.07.1944
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed
Wicker,
Frank Albert
F.A. Wicker
Son of Frank Albert Wicker (1885-1968), and Marie Elizabeth Gilling (1888-1942).
Married ((12?).1940, Gravesend district, Kent) Kathleen Louvain Watkins, daughter of Charles Ernest Oliver Watkins; one son, one daughter.
24.05.1914
Gravesend, Kent
-
12.02.1992
Memorial Hospital, Teddington, Middlesex
Prob. T/S/Lt. 05.01.1940
T/S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 05.01.1940
T/Lt. 05.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 21.10.1949, seniority 19.08.1949
A/Lt.Cdr. 17.10.1955
Lt.Cdr. RNR 22.01.1959 (commission terminated 19.08.1963)
Mention in Despatches MID 24.07.1945 2 patrols Far East
17.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Lady Blanche (armed yacht)
29.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS PC 74 (patrol boat)
22.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS H 43 (submarine)
23.02.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Ursula (submarine)
27.12.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine)
05.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship, Trincomalee)
04.02.1945 - 19.12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Sturdy (submarine) (despatches)
21.10.1949 - 19.08.1963 recommissioned, RNVR (from 1959 RNR)
Architect.
Wickes,
Ian Goodson
I.G. Wickes (Photo courtesy of Mr Edward Goodson-Wickes)
Son of Melbourne Frederick Wickes, and Clara Bax.
Married Monica; ... children (one son?).
07.04.1917
Greenwich district, London
-
(03?).1973
Southend district
Prob. T/Sg.Lt.
28.08.1942
T/Sg.Lt.
05.11.1943, seniority 28.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Letter of Praise

LoP
1943
for photographing a glider bomb when his ship, HMS Bideford was under air attack
Education: MB, BCh
03.10.1942
-
(10.1943)
HMS Bideford (sloop)
(10.1944)
-
(01.1945)
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
16.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Loch Tarbert (frigate)



may also have served at HMS Exe (frigate) at some point
FRCP. Consultant Paediatrician and farmer, of Stock Harvard, Essex.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Widdup,
Harold Paine
H.P. Widdup
Son of John Roberts Widdup (born 1870), and Emily France (born 1865).
Married (1921, Liverpool) Kathleen Gilligan.
15.03.1899
Sherbrooke Quebec, Canada
-
01.11.1962
Kensington, London
Sg.Lt.
19.01.1927
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
19.01.1933
A/Sg.Cdr.
< 02.1941
Sg.Cdr.
31.12.1942 (retd 15.03.1949)

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD
?
?
Education: Qualified Liverpool University (04.1919-07.1923; MB; ChB)
Registered in the Medical Register [as Harold Percival Widdup], 10.11.1924.
19.01.1927


joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
09.1935


RN Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
31.03.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
01.04.1941
-
(12.1941)
RN Hospital Minterne Magna [HMS Boscawen]
19.05.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden) *
04.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
Medical practicioner, 1924-1928 Beckenham, Kent, 1929-1934 Birkdale, Lancs, 1935-1957 Birkdale, Lancs, 1958-1962 London. Also worked for the Cunard line and other lines as a ships surgeon from 1926.
* (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Wilcoxon,
Robert Owen
R.O. Wilcoxon
Lived at: 18, Markham Square, Chelsea, London.
1903 ?
-
29.05.1940
(KIA) [age 37]
Dover (St. James's) Cemetery, row C, joint grave 12]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
?
-
29.05.1944
Dunkirk evacuation (killed in action)
Wild,
Peter Grenville
P.G. Wild P.G. Wild
P.G. Wild 
?
-
02.1995
T/S.Lt.
03.07.1941
T/Lt.
03.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
07.12.1943
special reconnaissance landings Sicily & Italy [investiture 23.05.44]
Mention in Despatches MID
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
Mention in Despatches MID
10.07.1945
operations Arakan coast 11-44-03.45
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
27.03.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inveraray), from late 1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP)) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer):
(06.1944)


COPP 6 [HMS X.23 (midget submarine)] (Normandy)
05.11.1944
-
06.1945
Officer Commanding, COPP 1 [Naval Party 750] (Arakan)
06.1945
-
?
Senior Officer, COPP Far East
High Sheriff, Staffordshire, 1972.
Wildey,
Ernest Edward
E.E. Wildey
01.08.1913
-
07.1996
Southend on Sea, Essex
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
10.07.1943 (reld 1945/46)
22.07.1942
-
(07.1945)
FS (French Ship) Paris (independent base for small craft, Plymouth) (for duty with Auxiliary Vessels Gunnery Officer)
Wilkes,
Daniel Jack
D.J. Wilkes (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Parks Young)  
Son of ... Wilkes, and ... Dale.
Husband of P. Wilkes, of Birmingham, Warwickshire.
(06?).1913
Birmingham district, Warwickshire
-
17.07.1943

(KIA) [age 30] (buried at sea)
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
T/Sg.Lt.
03.09.1939
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
> 02.1943, < 06.1943
Mention in Despatches MID
11.03.1941
removal of an unexploded bomb 18.10.40
Education: Old Edgbaston School; Birmingham University; MRCS, LRCP (1936).
House surgeon, General Hospital, Birmingham. Joined his brother-in-law Dr. Dennis Allin in general practice in Birmingham.
03.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (despatches)
31.12.1940
-
17.07.1943
HMS Queen Emma (troop ship) (took part in the raids on Lofoten, Dieppe, Algiers and finally Sicily) (killed by a bomb splinter while the ship was bombed *)
* One tribute was from the Commander-in-Chief of the station in the Mediterranean, who wrote to his captain: "It was a most unfortunate and sad thing that you should have lost Wilkes at a time when he was badly needed, and the more so when he had given such good service and his relief was on the way. A man of such sterling character and so many excellent qualities will be greatly missed. We cannot afford to lose such as he."
Wilkie,
David
D. Wilkie
?
-
T/Lt.
?
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


Mention in Despatches MID


(1940)


HMT Kingston Beryl
(1944)


Commanding Officer, MTB 738 & SO 64th MTB Flotilla
Wilkinson,
Edward Plantagenet
E.P. Wilkinson
06.10.1910
Rochford district, Essex
-
08.1988
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
T/S.Lt. (E) 25.02.1941
T/A/Lt. (E) ?
T/Lt. (E) 03.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
25.02.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
(07.1945)     HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) *
Wilkinson,
Peter Charles

P.C. Wilkinson
From Gerrards Cross.
?
-

[perhaps:
05.09.1916
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
-
04.2003
Surrey Northern district, Surrey]
T/S.Lt.
22.05.1941
T/Lt.
22.05.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
late 1944?
Mention in Despatches MID
30.05.1944
coastal forces action Nore 24.10.43 [MGB 327]
Mention in Despatches MID
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1945
New Year 45
14.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
04.04.1943
-
06.1944
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 509 (motor torpedo boat)
06.1944
-
09.1944
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 612 (motor torpedo boat)
01.09.1944
-
(01.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 751 (motor torpedo boat) & [from late 1944?] as Senior Officer, 63rd MTB Flotilla
Wilks,
Thomas Moreton
T.M. Wilks
03.10.1922
-
01.1998
Chorley, Lancashire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
30.04.1943
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
? (reld > 04.1946)
Bronzen Kruis (Bronze Cross) (The Netherlands) BK
04.03.1947
liaison officer Java Sea 10.44 [Dutch Royal decree of 12.10.46]
23.11.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) (for submarines)
(10.1944)


British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. Zwaardvisch (Dutch submarine)
(07.1945)


HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Willliams,
Dennis
D. Williams
Married 1st Anne Galbraith Martin; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd Florence (née ...); one step-son, one step-daughter.
?
-
05.04.2007
Prob. Midsh.
07.12.1938
A/S.Lt.
07.12.1939
S.Lt.
01.05.1940
Lt.
27.04.1942 (reld 30.05.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
27.07.1943
action with 2 Italian destroyers 15.04.43 [investiture 22.09.44]
07.12.1938
 
 
joined RNVR (Clyde Division)
10.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Bittern (escort vessel)
02.07.1940
-
(12.)1941
HMS Worcester (destroyer)
06.12.1941
-
16.04.1943
HMS Pakenham (destroyer) (ship sunk by Italian MTBs off Sicily)
17.04.1943
-
22.10.1943
HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (ship mined east of Kalymnos)
10.10.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Scarborough (sloop)
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Willliams,
Eric Maddox *
E.M. Williams
* Navy List has as second Christian name: Maddon
?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
28.10.1940
T/Lt.
28.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
? (reld < 04.1946)
28.10.1940


commissioned from the ranks (Petty Officer)
07.01.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton)
(1942/43?)
 
 
possibly at HMS Dorlin (Combined Operations base, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll)
28.02.1944
-
(06.)1944
HMS Lizard (Combined Operations (landing craft) base, Shoreham)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal)
Willliams,
John David Prosser
J.D.P. Williams
(09?).1918
Haverfordwest district, Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-
29.04.1975
Wimbledon, London
T/Paym.S.Lt.
09.08.1940
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)
09.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
22.08.1940
-
(12.1941)
for duty in Admiral's office of Flag Officer Commanding Orkneys and shetlands [HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)]
01.01.1942
-
(10.1943)
HMS Onslow (destroyer)
> 10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Secretary to Director of Combined Operations (Naval), Combined Operations HQ
Company director.
Williams,
Peter Alexander
P.A. Williams
Son of a merchant navy officer.
Married Joe Roe, daughter of aviation pioneer A.V. Roe; one son, one daughter.

21.03.1912
-
16.01.2004
Uckfield, Sussex
T/S.Lt.
29.11.1939
T/Lt.
03.11.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 12.1943, < 06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
15.08.1944
special operations at sea [investiture 24.10.44]
Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH
06.06.1994
special operations
Education: Malvern and Worcester College, Oxford
S
olicitor; member of Chelsea Council. Unpaid constituency secretary to Sir Samuel Hoare, 1936-1937.
29.12.1936


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
1939


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove)
14.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
First Lieutenant, HMS Tourmaline (armed trawler) (Scapa Flow)
05.1940
-
(06.)1940
HM MA/SB 10 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey?]
17.06.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Dolphin (for Fort Blockhouse, Gosport)
25.07.1941
- (12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 118 (motor launch) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)] (Channel convoys)
1942?
-
1942
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 325 (motor gun boat) (at Looe, Great Yarmouth and Felixstowe) (clandestine operations off Dutch coast)
11.05.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 612 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)] (at Brixham, Great Yarmouth; expedition to Gothenburg aborted in severe weather)
05.04.1943
-
(10.)1944
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 502 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 15th MGB Flotilla (Dartmouth) (running agents & stores between France and Britain)
30.10.1944

-

(07.1945)

Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)

Solicitor; Chairman, East Grinstead Conservative Party; Clerk, Conservators of Ashdown Forest; President, Sussex Law Society.
Williams,
Valentine Osborne
V.O. Williams

Son of Frederick Thomas Charles and Florence Elizabeth Williams.
Married Margaret Dora Jane Williams, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
(03?).1908
Uxbridge, Middlesex
-
02.11.1944
off Ostend
(KIA)
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 3]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
19.05.1944
24.02.1944
-
02.11.1944
HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)
Willing,
David
D. Willing
Eldest son of Leonard Furness Willing (1889-1958), and Kathleen Lewtas (1895-1939), of Olton, Birmingham.
Married (1948?, Nairobi) Pamela Mary Constance Gregory, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Charles Gregory, of London W1; two sons.
(06?).1922
King's Norton, Warwickshire
-
Ord. Coder 22.08.1940
Coder 22.05.1941
Ldg. Coder 26.11.1941
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 3010.1942
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.04.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.04.1945 (dispersal 14.11.1946) (reld 08.01.1947)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE 01.01.1999 New Year 99: for services to local community, Scotland
Minesweeping Anti-Submarine Silver Badge, 05.1941.
Education: Solihull School.
12.06.1940     joined RNVR
10.1940 - 12.1942 coder, HMS Northern Dawn (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (North Atlantic convoy escort duties)
21.12.1942 - 01.1944 HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland) (for cypher duties in Admiral's Office)
01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India) (for landing craft duties)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
11.1944 - 03.1946 HMS Chilwa (landing craft base, Calcutta)
05.03.1946 - 06.1946 HMS Tengra (Combined Operations base, Mandapam, India) & as First Lieutenant, Medway Barracks, Colombo, Ceylon
04.06.1946 - 11.1946 HMS Boscawen (minesweeper base, Portland) (for base duties)
14.11.1946 - 1965 Royal Naval Supplementary Volunteer Reserve (Special Branch) [attached Severn Division RNVR]
East & West Africa, active in Supplies & Shipping including Port Manager Niger River Transport, Burutu. The United Africa Co., 1947-1973.
Willsmer,
Ralph John
R.J. Willsmer (Photo courtesy of Mrs Caroline Graham) R.J. Willsmer (Photo courtesy of Mrs Caroline Graham)
Married (04.1941, Wandsworth district, London) Daphne G. Dewar; one son, one daughter.
29.05.1907
Hackney district, Greater London
-
1992
Prob. T/S.Lt. 21.06.1940
T/Lt. 21.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS St Albans (destroyer)
02.12.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
15.06.1943 - (07.)1945 Torpedo Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser)
1945 - 1946? HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship)
Wilmot,
William John
W.J. Wilmot
?
-
T/S.Lt.
17.01.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
17.01.1945



joined RNVR 1939, was in destroyers, spent time off west Africa, also Atlantic convoys
30.12.1943
-
(04.)1944
HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser)
22.05.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla) (Rothesay)
Wilson,
Allistair Tennant
A.T. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish C. Wilson) A.T. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish C. Wilson)
A.T. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish C. Wilson) A.T. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish C. Wilson)
A.T. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish C. Wilson) 
Married (15.04.1939, Finchley) Jean Christine Stewart (29.10.1908 - 23.08.1983); one son, one daughter.
08.07.1908
Streatham Hill, Wandsworth district, London
-
04.01.1964
Musgrave Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset
Prob. Midsh.
01.11.1926
Midsh.
1927, seniority 01.11.1926
A/S.Lt.
04.10.1928
S.Lt.
04.10.1929
Lt.
04.10.1931
Lt.Cdr.
04.10.1939
Cdr.
31.12.1949 (retd 08.1954; medically unfit)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

OBE
01.01.1954
New Year 54 [investiture 02.03.54]

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD
11.1941
as Transporting & Senior Staff Officer

 

Education: King's School, Bruton, Somerset (09.1917-04.1924)
Worked from 1925 on as clerk, later conservative agent.
01.11.1926


joined, London Division RNVR [HMS President]
21.03.1927
-
17.04.1927
sea training, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.1928
-
03.1928
sea training, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.07.1929
-
26.07.1929
sea training, HMS Comus (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
02.06.1930
-
14.06.1930
sea training, HMS Vortigern (destroyer) (Rosyth)
05.1931
-
05.1931
course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.1931
-
05.1931
course, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
04.09.1931
-
18.09.1931
sea training, HMS Restless (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
08.05.1932
-
19.06.1932
sea training, HMS Dundalk (twin screw minesweeper) (North Sea)
1930s


Executive Officer, RNVR Singapore Division [HMS Laburnum (sloop) (New Zealand)]  [went to Singapore 11.1932, from 18.04.1934-08.1935 at Kuching, Serawak]
23.05.1937
-
12.06.1937
sea training, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
11.1938
-
11.1938
sea training, HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper)
(03?).1939


transferred, Tyne Division RNVR (List 2) [HMS Calliope]
07.1939
-
07.1939
sea training, HMS Acheron (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
23.08.1939
-
26.08.1939
passage to Malta [SS Brighton]
01.09.1939
-
08.11.1939
HMS Dunoon (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean)
09.11.1939
-
20.11.1943
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties: initially at Fort St Elmo, from 14.07.1941 on Assistant King's Harbour Master's staff at Malta Dockyard)
13.03.1944
-
(04.)1945
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon, Scotland) (for Naval Party 1500 [HMS Royal Anne]) (from 06.1944 as Assistant King's Harbour Master, Mulberry B, Arromanches, Normandy)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
09.1946


transferred, Severn Division RNVR (List 2) [HMS Flying Fox]
(05.1953)
-
(07.)1954
Executive Officer, Severn Division RNVR [HMS Flying Fox]
Conservative agent, then from 1956 poultry farmer at Steart, nr Bridgwater, Somerset.
Wilson,
Frederick William
F.W. Wilson
Son of ... Wilson, and ... Rose.
30.07.1915
West Ham district, London
-
12.06.2009
T/Lt. (S) 29.01.1943
T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
     

training at HMS President (Admiralty), HMS King Alfred (RNVR office'rs' traning establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) and HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton); served on HMS Nelson (battleship) and HMS Maine (hospital ship); base supply officer in Venice and Southampton

17.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton)
(10.1944)     HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) *
10.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (initially for service at Bari)
(04.1946)     HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wilson,
George Caldwell
G.A. Wilson
?
Glasgow, Scotland
-
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 27.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
      temporary officer serving under T.124T (rescue tugs) agreement
31.03.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) (for rescue tugs)
01.05.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs)
Wilson,
Graham Alexander
G.A. Wilson
?
-
T/S.Lt.
23.05.1943
T/Lt.
01.11.1944
01.02.1944
-
(04.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 604 (motor torpedo boat)
18.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
Third Officer, HM MTB 751 (motor torpedo boat)
02.07.1945
-
(07.1945)
[Commanding Officer?], HM MTB 490 (motor torpedo boat)
07.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 520 (motor torpedo boat)
Wilson,
Henry Elcock
H.E. Wilson
16.10.1909
-
10.1985
Taunton Deane, Somerset
Midsh.
23.11.1928
A/S.Lt.
15.05.1931
S.Lt.
02.06.1933
Lt.
30.06.1935
Lt.Cdr.
30.06.1943 (reld 1946)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
28.09.1945
?
1928?


joined RNVR (Mersey Division, List II)



probably served at some period at HMS Ashanti (destroyer) & HMS Rodney (battleship)
08.03.1940
-
(08.)1942
HMS Caledon (cruiser)
26.10.1942
-
(04.)1944
HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
13.07.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Sandhurst (depot ship)
Wilson,
Richard John McMoran;

2nd Baron Moran (cr. 1943)
R.J.M. Wilson
Elder son of 1st Baron Moran, MC, MD, FRCP, and Dorothy (died 1983), MBE, daughter of late Samuel
Felix Dufton, DSc.
Succeeded father, 1977.
Married (1948) Shirley Rowntree Harris; two sons, one daughter.

22.09.1924
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
14.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George KCMG
1981
?
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George CMG
1970
?
Grand Cross, Order of the Infante (Portugal), 1978.
Education: Eton; King's College, Cambridge
1943


Ordinary Seaman, HMS Belfast
1944
-
1944
served in Motor Torpedo Boats
19.08.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Oribi (destroyer)
Foreign Office, 1945; Third Secretary, Ankara, 1948; Tel­Aviv, 1950; Second Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, 1953; First Secretary, Foreign Office, 1956; Washington, 1959; Foreign Office 1961; Counsellor, British Embassy in S Africa, 1965; Head of W African Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1973, concurrently Ambassador to Chad (non­resident), 1970-1973; Ambassador to Hungary, 1973-1976, to Portugal, 1976-1981; High Commissioner in Canada, 1981-1984. Cross Bencher, House of Lords, 1984.
Member, Industry sub Committee, 1984-1986, Envmt sub Committee, 1986-1991, Agric. sub Committee, 1991-1995, 1997-, EC Committee; sub Committee on the 1996 Inter­governmental Conf., 1995-; Mem. Science and Technol. Committee sub Committees on scientific base of Nature Conservancy Council, 1990, on fish stocks, 1995; Chairman, All Party Parly Conservation Gp, 1992- (Vice­Chairman, 1989-1992). Vice­Chairman, Atlantic Salmon Trust, 1988-1995 (Mem. Management Committee, 1984-); Chairman, Fisheries Adv. Committee for Welsh Region, Nat. Rivers Authy, 1989-1994; Mem., Regl Fisheries Adv. Committee, Welsh Water Authority, 1987-1989; Pres., Welsh Salmon and Trout Angling Assoc., 1988-1995; Chairman, Salmon and Trout Assoc., 1997-. Chairman, Wildlife and Countryside Link, 1992-1995; Pres., Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, 1994-; Mem., Council, RSPB, 1989-1994 (Vice Pres., 1997-).
Published: (as John Wilson): C. B. : a life of Sir Henry Campbell­Bannerman, 1973 (Whitbread Award, 1973); Fairfax, 1985.
Wilson,
Roi Edgerton
"Tug"
R.E. Wilson

01.06.1921
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
-
17.03.2009
T/S.Lt. (A)
14.08.1942
T/Lt. (A)
14.02.1945
Lt. (A) RN
1946?, seniority 14.02.1945
Lt.Cdr. RN
14.02.1953
Cdr. RN
31.12.1959
Capt. RN
30.06.1968 (retd 31.03.1976)

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

CBE
01.01.1974
New Year 74 [Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Malta] [investiture 19.03.74]
Distinguished Flying Cross DFC
03.12.1957
Malaya [848 Sqn FAA (Helos)] [decoration presented]
Mention in Despatches MID
23.12.1952
Korea (5th List) [HMS Glory]
26.04.1944
-
(07.1945)
pilot, 742 Squadron FAA [HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon), from 08.09.1944 HMS Vairi (RN Air Station, Sullur, India)]
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
...
-
...
...
 
Wilson,
Thomas Montgomery
T.M. Wilson (Photo courtesy of Mr Kenneth Scott Wilson)
Son of William M.W. Wilson and Adelina Jane Brown, Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland.
Married Elizabeth Allan Scott; two sons, one daughter.
04.11.1915
-
02.1990
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. ?
T/Sg.Lt. 09.1941, seniority 01.05.1941
Education: University of Edinburgh (MB, ChB; 1940).
22.05.1941 - 13.02.1943 Medical Officer, HMS Princess Josephine Charlotte (depot ship, Falmouth)
General Medical Practitioner, Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland 1944-1981. Appointed factory doctor. Medical Officer, Bury Infirmary.
Winn,
[Rt. Hon. Sir] Charles Rodger Noel
C.R.N. Winn
Son of Ernest Winn and Joan Winn (later Martino).
Married (1930) Helen Joyce, daughter of late Col. E.V. Sydenham, DSO, TD, DL; one daughter.

22.12.1903
Barnt Green, Worcestershire
-
04.06.1972
London
T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
01.02.1941
T/A/Capt. (Sp.Br.)
1944 (reld > 04.1946)
- PC
1965
Privy Councillor
Knight Kt
1959
?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
12.06.1947
HM's birthday 47
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1943
New Year 43
Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA)
LM
17.07.1945
intelligence on enemy submarines
1939
-
02.1941
civilian assistant to head of submarine tracking room, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty
01.02.1941
-
(10.1944)
head of submarine tracking room, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed
Called to Bar (Cert. Hon.), Inner Temple, 1928; Bencher, 1953; formerly Counsel to GPO (common law); Junior Counsel to the Treasury (Common Law), 1954-1959; Judge of High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Div., 1959-1965; 1965-1971 A Lord Justice of Appeal. Lord Chancellor's Law Reform Committee, 1963-; Criminal Law Revision Committee, 1964-; Chairman: Permanent Security Commn, 1964-1971; Committee on Personal Injury Litigation, 1966-1968 (Cmnd 3691). Governor of St Thomas' Hospital and Chairman of Council of Medical School, 1965-1970.
Wingrove,
Arthur George
A.G. Wingrove
?
-
T/S.Lt.
29.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
06.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Romney (minesweeper)
?
-
?
Commanding Officer, HMS Tanganyika (minesweeper) ?
Winterburn,
Archibald George Henry
A.G.H. Winterburn [Courtesy of Donald Seiffert]
(06?).1908
Uxbridge, Middlesex
-

11.1975
T/A/Paym.S.Lt.
25.05.1944
T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S)
24.11.1944
T/Lt. (S)
01.03.1946

Engraving on a souvenir diver's knife presented to Winterburn. It reads in full: "Souvenir of "P" Parties (The Human Minesweepers) 1942-1946 Lieutenant (S) A.G.H. Winterburn R.N.V.R. Supply Officer  [Courtesy of Donald Seiffert]

(1943)


Supply Officer, HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
(10.1944)


Supply Officer, HMS Firework (base for port parties, London/Dartmouth) *
27.10.1944
-
(1946)
Supply Officer, HMS Vernon, Minesweeping Department, Northern Ireland [RN base at Portsmouth]
Skilled chess player: won the BCCA (British Correspondence Champion Association) championship in 1936.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wintle,
Kyrle Thomas Moore Allan
K.T.M.A. Wintle
Son of ... Wintle, and ... Wade.
(06?).1913
Devonport district, Devon
-
2006
T/S.Lt.
04.09.1941
T/Lt.
04.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Headteacher, Aylsham High School, 1958-.... Member for the Aylsham Ward, 1973-1991 & Chairman of the Council, 1988-1989.
Wise,
Douglas Arthur
D.A. Wise
Son of Gordon Andrew and May Wise, of Worcester Park, Surrey.
1919 ?
-
25.07.1941
(MIA) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 7]
Prob. Midsh. (A)
01.04.1939
A/S.Lt. (A)
19.12.1939
S.Lt. (A)
14.03.1940

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
06.01.1942
good service in Mediterranean
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41
(04.1940)


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
27.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
 
819 Squadron, FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
1941
-
25.07.1941
815 Squadron, FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria)]
[torpedoed the Vichy French Destroyer Chevalier Paul on 16.06.1941; missing  in action in the attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wise,
John Nelson
J.N. Wise
?
-
T/Lt.
20.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1944? (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
16.01.1945
coastal actions Plymouth area 07-08.44 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
11.09.1945
coastal actions Arakan 10.44-04.45
20.12.1939
-
(08.1942)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
28.02.1944
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 672 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1944)
-
(08.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 720 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC)
30.09.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 594 (motor launch) & as Senior Officer, 13th ML Flotilla (despatches)
(01.1945)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Witts,
Vincent William
V.W. Witts
Son of William Witts, and Alice Smith.
Married ((12?).1941, Stroud, Gloucestershire) Kathleen May Guy; one daughter.
14.09.1920
Stroud, Gloucestershire
-
12.05.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 7]
T/S.Lt. (A)
25.10.1941
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
05.1942
-
(08.)1942
830 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
12.12.1942
-
12.05.1943
811 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys), from 03.1943 HMS Biter (escort carrier)]
[while flying a patrol in a Swordfish Mk.II escorting convoy HX 237 shot down by gunfire from the German submarine U230, the aircraft exploded on hitting the water killing all on board]
Wolfe,
John Alfred
J.A. Wolfe

?
-
Prob. T/S.Lt.
23.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
11.05.1940
T/Lt.
23.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.08.1944
40 minelaying operations Nore Command [investiture 07.11.44]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.01.1945
attacks Nore 14.09 & 08.10.44 [investiture 10.07.45]
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
19.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 107 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) *
15.02.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) (for MTBs)
19.09.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 232 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felistowe) (for miscellaneous services)
20.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 387 (motor torpedo boat)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wolfe-Murray,
Christopher Charles
C.C. Wolfe-Murray
Son of Cdr. Philip Charles Knightly Murray (1856-1932), and Ellie Blanch de Winton (died 1938).
Married (26.10.1933) Hester Mary Ogle (born 30.07.1904), daughter of Newton Charles Ogle and Beatrice Anne Cradock-Hartopp; two daughters.
25.04.1903
Crediton district, Devon
-
(12?).1980
Spilsby district
Prob. S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
26.10.1922 (reld 1925/26?)
T/Lt.
08.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Loretto
08.01.1940
-
(02.)1941
Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
05.05.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)
(08.1942)


HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
22.03.1943
-
(10.1943)
on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President]
(10.1944)


HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) *
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wolfson,
Vladimir
V. Wolfson
Married Dorothy Mary Wolfson (1890 Pietermaritzburg - 1983 Sparrows Nest, Thorley).
c. 1890 ?
-
1954
near Elba
[buried at Porto Azzurro]
Lt. (Sp.Br.)
12.01.1926
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
12.01.1934 (mobilized 08.09.1939)
Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
30.06.1943 (appointment terminated 26.05.1945)
Capt. (Sp.Br.)
30.06.1951

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

OBE
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VD
?
?
? GkDSM
06.11.1945
services to Greece winter 44-45 [award posted]



joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
01.11.1939
-
04.1940
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
26.04.1940
-
(06.1944)
Assistant Naval Attaché Istanbul, Turkey  [HMS President]
(10.1944)


HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
* indexed, but not lsited as such
Wood,
Christopher Russell
C.R. Wood
07.12.1912
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland
-
04.1987
Northumberland West
Prob. S.Lt.
02.08.1934
S.Lt.
16.07.1936
Lt.
16.07.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944 (reld from active service 05. 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
16.07.1947 (retd 28.07.1951)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
?
-
02.08.1934
 
 
joined RNVR (Tyne Division)
(04.1940)
 
 
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
22.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Port Quebec (minelayer)
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
27.01.1942
-
(08.)1942
HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) (for gunnery duties)
01.09.1942
-
(12.1943)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Holyhead)
05.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)
* indexed, but not lsited as such
Wood,
Ernest Norman
E.N. Wood
?
-
died between 07.1959 and 07.1962 ??
Prob. S.Lt.
08.06.1931
S.Lt.
06.07.1932
Lt.
06.07.1935
A/Lt.Cdr.
< 02.1943
Lt.Cdr.
06.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Cdr.
31.12.1946
Capt.
30.06.1950 (retd 25.07.1954)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.01.1942
New Year 42
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
14.08.1945
relief of Greece
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
12.06.1945
?
Education: BA
08.06.1931


joined RNVR - Mersey Division
20.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
Third Hand, HMS Vega (destroyer)
02.12.1940
-
03.1944
HMS Atherstone (destroyer)
[initially as Third Hand, then as First Lieutenant, and latterly as Commanding Officer [from 04.1942]]
03.1944
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Tuscan
19.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
an Assistant to Naval Assistants to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
Wood,
John Edward
J.E. Wood
?
-
T/S.Lt.
22.05.1941
T/A/Lt.
> 12.1941, < 08.1942
T/Lt.
1944/45?, seniority 22.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
21.07.1941
-
(10.1944)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (in lieu of specialist Gunnery Officer)
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Woodhams,
Kenneth James Frederick
"Ken"
K.J.F. Woodhams
Lived at Malta, Hampshire & Devon.
Married; two sons.
29.01.1923
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
-
12.07.1973
Basingstoke, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
29.07.1943
T/Lt.
27.03.1946, seniority 29.07.1945
Lt. RN
22.01.1947, seniority 29.07.1945 (emgcy 07.01.1952)
Lt. RNR
04.03.1960, seniority 18.12.1951
Lt.Cdr. RNR
21.11.1960, seniority 18.12.1959 (retd 19.11.1964)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
02.03.1965
?
13.01.1942


joined RNVR
08.1942


HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (Operation Pedestal, convoy to relieve Malta)
1942/43


HM MTB ...  [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
30.10.1943
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 309 (motor torpedo boat) (Malta & Alexandria)
?
-
11.02.1946
HM MMS 182 (motor minesweeper) [based at Sheerness ?]
22.01.1947


transferred to RN
?
-
(07.1948)
Office of the Senior Psychologist, Admiralty [HMS President]
(05.1949)


HMS President (Admiralty) *
?
-
(05.1950)
HMS President (Admiralty) (for miscellaneous services)
07.01.1952


placed on emergency list
04.03.1960


transferred to Permanent RNR
Trained as a school teacher. Teacher, RN School, Verdala (Malta), 1960s.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Woodrow,
James Kerr
J.K, Woodrow
From Bridge O'Weir.
?
-
T/S.Lt. 18.10.1940
A/T/Lt. < 02.1941
T/Lt. 18.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

George Medal

GM 15.08.1944 mine disposal Hull docks
George Medal GM 26.06.1945 disposing ammunition torpedoed "Thane" 23.03.45 *
* For gallantry, skill and inspiring devotion to duty in disposing of damaged ammunition in the magazines of one of H.M. Ships after she had been torpedoed. Lieutenant-Commander Woodrow handled the first batch of damaged ammunition by himself in order to give confidence to his party.
19.11.1940 - (07.1945) Bomb Safety Officer, Department of Unexploded Bombs [renamed: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty] [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Woods,
Alan Thomas de Lima
A.T. de L. Woods
19.10.1924
-
03.1989
Westminster, London
T/S.Lt. 25.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
25.05.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Woods,
Ronald Geoffrey
"Ron"
R.G. Woods
Son of ... Woods, and ... Klaiber.
Married Pam (née ...); one son, one daughter.
(06?).1923
Romford district, Essex
-
21.05.2009
Longacre Nursing Home, High Salvington, West Sussex
T/S.Lt. 15.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 11.12.1945 wind up Europe [decoration posted]
27.03.1944 - (07.1945) HM ML 903 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Woodward,
Edmund Owen John
E.O.J. Woodward (Photo courtesy of Lt.Cdr. P.W. Sochall, RN)
(09?).1911
Romford, Essex
-

Victoria, BC, Canada
Prob. Paym.S.Lt.
13.03.1933
Paym.S.Lt.
23.06.1934, seniority 13.03.1933
Paym.Lt.
13.03.1935
A/Paym.Lt.Cdr.
?
Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S)
13.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD
27.01.1952
?
13.03.1933


joined RNVR, London Division (initially List 2)
1933


HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
1934


HMS Neptune (cruiser)
1935


HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
1937


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
1938


HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet)
1939


HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
26.08.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station)
1941
-
1942
HMS President (Admiralty)
(08.1942)


HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) *
01.10.1942
-
(06.)1944
HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for misceallaneous services)
(09?.)1944
-
1944
HMS Wagtail (RN Air Station, Heathfield, Ayr)
1944
-
1944
HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)
1944
-
1945
HMS Demetrius (training establishment, Wetherby)
19.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Adventure (beach repair ship)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Worsfold,
Geoffrey Herbert Arthur
G.H.A. Worsfold

Married; at least one son.
1910
Egham, Surrey
-
1982
Tankerton, Kent
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
29.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

MBE
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45



served in the ranks on Defence Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS)



HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)



gunnery course, Lancing
27.04.1944
-
1946
HMS Oystermouth Castle (minesweeping trawler) (based in Blythe)
Worth,
Stanley Raymond
S.R. Worth

Married the sister of a Surgeon Lieutenant based at Portsmouth.
(12?).1915 ?
Wandsworth, Greater London ?
-
2006
New Zealand
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
04.12.1942
Lt. RN
09.01.1947, seniority 04.12.1942
Lt.Cdr. RN
04.12.1950 (emgcy 09.12.1951)
22.06.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
09.01.1947
 
 
transferred from RNVR to RN
05.1948
-
(05.)1949
HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)
11.08.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Mull of Galloway (repair ship)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wortham,
George Lawrence Joseph
G.L.J. Wortham
Son of Frederick George Wortham, and Marguerite C. Delalande.
Brother of Lt. Wilfred A. Wortham, RNVR.
(06?).1921
Lewisham district, Greater London / Kent / London
-
01.2009 still alive
T/S.Lt.
14.05.1942
T/Lt.
14.11.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
15.01.1943
-
(10.)1944
HMS Emerald (light cruiser)
23.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Royalist (light cruiser)
Wortham,
Wilfred Arthur
W.A. Wortham
Son of Frederick George Wortham, and Marguerite C. Delalande.
Brother of Lt. George L.J. Wortham, RNVR.
Married; ... children (one daughter?).
19.09.1919
Lewisham district, Greater London / Kent / London
-
25.12.2008

T/S.Lt.
08.05.1941
T/Lt.
08.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45
1939?
-
1940?
HMS Cairo (anti-aircraft cruiser) (North Sea patrol)
1941


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
11.07.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Cape Palliser (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
01.07.1943
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Grassholm (minesweeping trawler)
Chartered insurance practitioner.
Worthington,
Douglas William
D.W. Worthington (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Worthington)

Married (1943) Betty Dudley Elwell; one son (Lt.Col. Nicholas Richard Worthington, 10th Gurkha Rifles).
12.10.1909
Mutford district, Suffolk
-
05.1986
Harkstead, Suffolk
Prob. T/S/Lt. 27.06.1940
T/S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 27.06.1940
T/Lt. 27.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID 03.11.1942 attack 4 trawlers Nore area 24.08.42
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
(02.1941)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
23.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces base, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(08.1942)     HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
01.09.1942 - ? HM MGB 58 (motor gun boat)
? - ? HM MGB 61 (motor gun boat)
13.05.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Shemara (armed yacht; anti-submarine duties)
15.07.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Cuckmere (frigate)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Worthington,
John Francis
J.F. Worthington
08.01.1905
Lewisham, Greater London, Kent
-
08.2000
West Surrey
T/S.Lt. ?
T/Lt. 05.07.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40
(06.1940)     HMS Halcyon (minesweeper)
20.01.1941 - (02.1941) HMS Blackpool (minesweeper)
30.03.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Mauritius (light cruiser)
(07.1945)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wright,
Bernard Henry 

B.H. Wright (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Hutchinson)
21.07.1924 ??
-
04.1990 ??
Grimsby, Lincolnshire ??
T/S.Lt. (E) ?
T/Lt. (E) 29.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
02.06.1944 - (10.1944) Engineer Officer, HM LST 214 (landing ship, tank) (Normandy)
22.01.1945 - (04.1946) Engineer Officer, HM LST 199 (landing ship, tank) (and for flotilla duties, 4th LST Flotilla)
Wright,
Cecil John Greenway
C.J.G. Wright (Photo: Dunedin Society)
Son of Cecil Middleton Wright and Agnes Murtaugh Wright; husband of Elizabeth Greig Wright, of Pembroke, Bermuda.

1899 ?
India
-
24.11.1941
[age 42]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 1]
T/Paym.S.Lt. ?
T/Paym.Lt. 04.10.1940
03.08.1940 - 24.11.1941 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Wright,
Derek George Harbroe
"Jake"

D.G.H. Wright D.G.H. Wright
Son of ... Wright, and ... Smith.
Married 1st Mary Elspeth Robinson (died 1990); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd Jacquemine Charrott Lodwige, television scriptwiter & director.
DVD interview available at the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust



29.09.1915
Mortlake, Richmond, Surrey
-
10.05.2008
hospital, Taunton, Somerset (after a fall at home in Langport, Somerset)
T/S.Lt. 27.06.1940
T/Lt. 27.06.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 07.08.1944
T/A/Cdr. 01.11.1945?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 29.09.1942 attack supply ships & E-boats Nore 29.07.42 [investiture 15.12.42]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture 09.05.44]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 19.09.1944 Coastal Forces action Nore 07.44 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 21.11.1944 Coastal Forces action Nore 24.08.44
Education: Framlingham College.
Joined Brooke Bond in 1932 to learn the tea trade, later followed by SAP Smith (Tea Brokers).
(06.1940)     served at the Dunkirk evacuation in a tug
? - 27.06.1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishement, Hove, Sussex)
(10.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
(12.1940)     First Lieutenant, HM MTB ... (motor torpedo boat)
13.10.1941 - (01.)1942 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 331 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
07.03.1942 - 08.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 32 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] (river Scheldt operations)
08.1942 - 01.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 238 (motor torpedo boat) & from mid-1943 Senior Officer, 22nd MTB Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
24.01.1944 - (07.)1944 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MTBs):
(07.1944)     Commanding Officer, HM MTB 458 (motor torpedo boat)
07.08.1944 - 01.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 687 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 58th MTB Flotilla
01.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5008 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 58th MTB Flotilla
01.11.1945 - (04.1946) Senior Officer MTBs, HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
He had been with the Brooke-Bond tea company before the war, to which he returned in 1946. He served in Calcutta, Ceylon and East Africa, rising to a place on the board, controlling the company’s global tea-buying and planting activities. He served on several governing bodies dealing with tea production and by 1971 he was President of the Tea Buyers Association.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Wright,
George Alexander
see: RCNVR officers' section  
Wright,
George Murdoch

G.M. Wright (Photo courtesy of Mr Stanley Summerhill)
From Monkseaton, Northumberland.
13.09.1908
Tynemouth, Northumberland
-
03.1995
North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear
T/S.Lt. (E) RNR 31.05.1940
T/Lt. (E) 19.07.1943 (reld 16.01.1946)

Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

MBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44 (for services aboard HMS Port Quebec) [investiture 23.05.1944]
31.05.1940     temporary RNR officer serving under T.124 agreements
31.05.1940 - 08.01.1941 HMS Port Quebec (minelayer)
08.01.1941     temporary RNVR officer serving under T.124X agreements
08.01.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Port Quebec (minelayer)
25.08.1943 - 16.01.1946 HMS Khedive (escort carrier)
Returned to the Merchant Navy (Port Line) until he retired on 20.03.1971.
Wyatt,
Christopher Marcus
C.M. Wyatt (Photo courtesy of Mr Stuart Wyatt)
Son of ... Wyatt, and ... Watts.
07.05.1920
Milton, Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire
-
13.03.1982
Salisbury
T/A/S.Lt. (S) 16.05.1945
T/S.Lt. (S) 16.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

1939-1945 Star

39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - & clasp
Burma Star Bur St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? ?
11.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)
Wynn,
Robert Charles Michael Vaughan
"Mickey"
from 1965: 7th Baron Newboroough
R.C.M.V. Wynn
Son of Sir Robert Vaughan Wynn, 6th Baron Newborough (1877-1965), and Ruby Irene Severne (died 1960).
Married (01.12.1945) Roseamund Lavington Barbour, daughter of Major Robert Barbour; one son, two daughters.

24.04.1917
-
11.10.1998
Istanbul
T/S.Lt. 13.06.1940
T/A/Lt. 24.04.1942

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 21.05.1942 attack St Nazaire 28.03.42 [investiture 06.03.45]
05.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
? - 28.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 74 (motor torpedo boat) (captured)
28.03.1942 - 01.1945 POW in German captivity (Colditz) (repatriated on medical grounds)


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