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Waddell, John Main	? -	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"	(03?).1918 ? Reigate district, Surrey ? -	T/S.Lt. 03.04.1941 T/Lt. 22.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946) 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 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 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 VRD 12.10.1954 - 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 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 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" 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 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 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	? -	T/Lt. 03.07.1941 DSC 13.03.1945 assault Normandy 06-11.44 [investiture 27.11.45] 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 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) 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	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) 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	? -	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"	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) 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	? -	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 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" 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 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 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 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 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) OBE 01.01.1958 New Year 58 [investiture 04.03.58] MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations, mined 22.10.43 VRD 17.02.1953 ? 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	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	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	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	? -	T/Lt. 11.10.1939 (reld > 04.1946) 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	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	23.11.1908 Tynemouth district, Northumberland - 11.1989 Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 20.02.1942 (reld > 04.1946) 39|45 St - - Atl St - & France & Germany clasp Afr St - - WM 39|45 - - 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	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) MID 06.05.1941 sinking E-boat 23.01.41 VRD > 02.1963 < 02.1968 ? 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	(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 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 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	(03?).1914 Hendon district, Middlesex -	T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940 T/Lt. 04.10.1941 (reld < 04.1946) 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	? -	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	? -	T/S.Lt. 02.10.1941 T/Lt.  02.10.1942 (reld < 04.1946) 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 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 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) 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	(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 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) 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.] 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) 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	? -	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	(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	(03?).1908 Brentford, Middlesex -	Prob. T/S.Lt. 27.09.1940 T/Lt. 27.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946) 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"	1907 ? - (03?).1964 Cranctonbury district [age 57]	T/Lt. 07.09.1940 (reld 12.1946) DSC 03.06.1941 in charge of "A" lighters, evacuation of Greece [investiture 27.11.45] DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 27.11.45]	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
Waters, Gordon Edmund 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 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) DSC 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [award posted] MID 06.07.1943 Combined Operations raid VRD 27.12.1960 [gazetted 15.05.1961] 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 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	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) 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	? -	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	? -	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 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 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) KBE 12.06.1976 HM's birthday 76 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	? - 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) VRD 16.05.1957 - 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 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 KBE 01.01.1975 New Year 75 [investiture 04.03.75] 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 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) 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 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	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	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	19.09.1914 ? - 05.1998 ? Canterbury district, Kent ?	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.07.1941 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.07.1942 39|45 St - - Atl St - - It St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 ? ? 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 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) DSC 21.04.1942 attack convoy Dover Command 03.03.42 [investiture 14.07.42] 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	(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	? * - [* perhaps: (09?).1906 Edmonton, Essex]	T/Lt. 04.10.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. RNR < 12.1941 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 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	? - c. 2004/05 ?	T/S.Lt. 01.05.1941 T/Lt. 01.05.1942 (reld 1945) 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 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 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 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	? -	T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944 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	? -	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]	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	? -	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 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 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? 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 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	? -	T/Lt. 31.08.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? 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 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) 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 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	? -	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 21.07.1944	(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Wicker, Frank Albert 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) 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 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) 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 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) 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 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	? - 02.1995	T/S.Lt. 03.07.1941 T/Lt. 03.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 07.12.1943 special reconnaissance landings Sicily & Italy [investiture 23.05.44] MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) 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	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   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 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	? -	T/Lt. ? T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? DSC MID	(1940) HMT Kingston Beryl (1944) Commanding Officer, MTB 738 & SO 64th MTB Flotilla
Wilkinson, Edward Plantagenet	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 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? MID 30.05.1944 coastal forces action Nore 24.10.43 [MGB 327] MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 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	03.10.1922 - 01.1998 Chorley, Lancashire	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.04.1943 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? (reld > 04.1946) 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 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) 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 * * 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	(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 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) DSC 15.08.1944 special operations at sea [investiture 24.10.44] LegH 06.06.1994 special operations	Education: Malvern and Worcester College, Oxford Solicitor; 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 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 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) 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 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	? -	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   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) OBE 01.01.1954 New Year 54 [investiture 02.03.54] 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 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	? 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	? -	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	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) 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) 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) KCMG 1981 ? 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"	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) CBE 01.01.1974 New Year 74 [Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Malta] [investiture 19.03.74] DFC 03.12.1957 Malaya [848 Sqn FAA (Helos)] [decoration presented] 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 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 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 Kt 1959 ? CB 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 47 OBE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 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	? -	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	(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	(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 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 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 DSC 06.01.1942 good service in Mediterranean 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	? -	T/Lt. 20.12.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 1944? (reld < 04.1946) DSC 16.01.1945 coastal actions Plymouth area 07-08.44 [decoration posted] 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 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	? -	Prob. T/S.Lt. 23.02.1940 T/S.Lt. 11.05.1940 T/Lt. 23.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 01.08.1944 40 minelaying operations Nore Command [investiture 07.11.44] 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 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 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 OBE 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 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	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) 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	? - 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) DSC 01.01.1942 New Year 42 DSC 14.08.1945 relief of Greece 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	? -	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" 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) 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 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) GM 15.08.1944 mine disposal Hull docks 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	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" 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) 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	(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) 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 Married; at least one son.	1910 Egham, Surrey - 1982 Tankerton, Kent	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 29.04.1944 (reld < 04.1946) 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 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 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 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) 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 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) 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	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 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	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 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" Son of ... Wright, and ... Smith. Married 1st Mary Elspeth Robinson (died 1990); one son, one daughter. Married 2nd Jacquemine Charrott Lodwige, television scriptwiter & director.	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? DSC 29.09.1942 attack supply ships & E-boats Nore 29.07.42 [investiture 15.12.42] DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture 09.05.44] DSC 19.09.1944 Coastal Forces action Nore 07.44 [decoration posted] 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 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) 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 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) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - & clasp Bur St - - It St - - 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 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 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)