Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNZNVR) Officers 1940-1945

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Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve (RNZNR) Officers
1940-1945

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Bourke,
Leo Patrick
L.P. Bourke
Married; two sons (Cdr. Geoffrey John Bourke, MBE, Dip Mgt, AFNZIM, RNZN & Denis Hamilton Bourke, university tutor).
05.04.1905
Amyton, South Australia
-
26.05.1992
Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

Prob. S.Lt.
23.02.1928

S.Lt.
?, seniority 23.02.1928

Lt.
18.07.1932

Lt.Cdr.
18.07.1940

Cdr.
30.06.1945

Capt. RNZN
30.06.1950 (retd [05.04?].1960)

Cdre.
1959

OBE
09.06.1949
HM's birthday 49

DSC
19.12.1944
probably sinking U-boat Western Approaches 08.01.44 [award presented]

DSC
15.05.1945
action with U-boats North Sea 02.45 [award presented]

RD
1930s?
?

01.01.1919
-
31.12.1921
Cadet Midshipman, Permanent Naval Forces of Australia (RAN College)

Made redundant through the cuts in public expenditure ("Geddes axe"), he joined the Merchant Navy (eventually becoming a Master Mariner), and in the late 1920s joined the Royal Navy Reserve (New Zealand Division).

20.11.1939
-
(06.)1943
Gunnery Officer, HMNZS Monowai (armed merchant cruiser)

07.08.1943
-
12.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Dacres (frigate) [based at HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

15.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Bayntun (frigate)

03.1946

transferred to RNZN

(04.1946)

HMS Ausonia (repair ship) *

25.03.1946
-
(07.)1948
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Tamaki (RNZN training establishment, Motuihe Island, Auckland) **

18.08.1948
-
(05.1949)
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Taupo (frigate) **

11.08.1949
-
(05.1950)
[Commanding Officer?], HMS Philomel II (Navy Office, Wellington)

?
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(05.1950)
also: Naval ADC to the Governor-General

30.11.1951
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(05.)1953
HMNZS Philomel (additional; as Naval Attaché, Melbourne)

1953
-
1955
attended Imperial Defence College (London) [HMS President]

24.01.1955
-
(01.)1957
Naval Director, Senior Officers' War Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

25.02.1957
-
(01.)1959
Commanding Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) & as Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (Suez crisis)

1959
-
1960
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland

Head of Northern Zone, Civil Defence of New Zealand, 1960-1970.

* indexed, but not listed as such
** After leaving HMNZS Tamaki in 1948 he first took the Flower Class corvette squadron HMNZS Arabis (in Command) and HMNZS Arbutus back to the UK, and brought out the Loch Class frigates (11th Frigate Squadron) as Cdr F11 in HMNZS Taupo, with HMNZ Ships Hawea, Kaniere, Pukaki, Rotoiti and Tutira in company - or he may have brought out four, with the last two arriving later.

Bradley,
Samuel Clive
S.C. Bradley (12?).1905
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire / Worcestershire
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T/Lt. RNVR
09.11.1940

T/Lt.
06.1942, seniority 09.11.1940

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

09.11.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Reading (destroyer)

06.1942

transferred, RNR

15.06.1942
-
(06.)1943
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services, later for motor launch duties)

> 02.1943

< 06.943
transferred, RNZNR

07.08.1943
-
04.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Caicos (frigate)

(10.1944)

HMS Caicos (frigate) *

?
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Cayman (frigate) [date of appointment given as 22.01.1944]

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

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Holden,
Andrew Douglas
A.D. Holden
?
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died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ??

Lt.
01.03.1925

Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1934

A/Cdr.
> 04.1940, < 02.1941

Cdr.
30.06.1940

Capt.
31.12.1945 (retd > 01.1956, < 07.1959))

OBE
01.01.1943
New Year 43

DSC
01.01.1946
New Year 46

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?
?

04.03.1940
-
(02.1941)
CO HMNZS Wakakura (trawler)

01.04.1941
-
21.08.1944
CO HMNZS Matai (minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 25th Minesweeping Flotilla

12.1944
-
(07.1945)
CO HMS Hound (minesweeper)

(04.1946)

HMS Fraserburgh (minesweeper) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

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MacMillan,
W
W. MacMillan ?
-

T/A/Lt.Cdr.
?

29.07.1941
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler)
[perhaps only till 04.1942]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Morse,
Evan Roger
W. MacMillan
Son of George Francis Morse (1857-1917), and Isabella Maud Davidson (1865-1933).
Married Maggie Preston (1897-1989); two sons.
21.12.1899
Fordell, Wanganui, New Zealand
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30.11.1968
Auckland, New Zealand

T/Lt. (E)
26.04.1942

T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)
< 07.1946

1940

enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Army as a sergeant in early 1940, after changing his age from 40 years old back to 39 having been rejected by the RNZN as too old

(1944)

HMS Resource (fleet repair ship)

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

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Roberts,
James Gilmour
J.G. Roberts ?
-

T/Lt.
28.12.1942 (reld ? 04.1946)

16.01.1944
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(07.1945)
CO HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) *

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

* starting date indicated as 16.01.1943, but not listed under the ship in 1943, so possibly 1944 in stead of 1943

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Tattersfield,
Felix Maxwell

Brother of J.W. Tattersfield, RNZNVR.
13.04.1914
-
06.10.1942
(KIA) [age 28]
[New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, Auckland]

Ord.Sea. RNZNR
1940?

T/S.Lt. RNZNR
14.08.1941

T/S.Lt. RNZNVR
01.06.1942

Education: Mount Albert Grammar School; diploma in banking

?
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1940
bank officer before joining the RNZNR

(12.1941)

HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *

01.06.1942

changed to RNZNVR

29.06.1942
-
06.10.1942
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 29 (motor torpedo boat) (4th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive] (missing in action, reclassified 30.01.1945 as missing, presumed killed)

* indexed, but not listed as such

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Vickers,
Thomas Andrew
T.A. Vickers (Photo courtesy of Mr Todd Skilton)
Son of Thomas Vickers.
08.05.1897
Durham
-
15.03.1961
Eastbourne, Sussex

T/Midsh. RNR
(1915?)

T/S.Lt. RNR
16.07.1917 (demobilised 10.01.1919?)

Lt.
01.03.1925

Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1933

Cdr.
01.03.1936

Capt.
08.05.1947

OBE
01.01.1957
New Year 57

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1940
?

14|15 St
?
?

BWM 14|20
?
?

VM
?
?

39|45 St
?
?

Atl St
?
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Pac St
?
?

It St
?
?

BWM 39|45
?
?

JubM 35
?
?

CorM 53
?
?

28.12.1914

joined RNR (possibly at RN College Keyham)

20.04.1915
-
10.01.1919
HMS Orcoma

Went on to a career in the Mercantile Marine, firstly on 4 Apr - 27 Sep 1919 joining SS Laurel as second officer before joining the New Zealand Shipping Company, served on various ships as Navigating Officer, before leaving the NZSC because of the indifferent health of his wife. Joined Pacific Cable Board, 1925. Transferred to the Cable and Wireless Ltd in 1929, and over his career (till 1956/57) would serve on Cable Ships - Recorder, Cable Enterprise, Retriever, Pacific, Lady Denison-Pender, Noreseman and Mirror.

12.09.1926
-
09.10.1926
training, HMS Diomede (cruiser)

06.01.1927
-
10.05.1927
HMS Iris (cable ship)

18.09.1939

placed at the disposal of the Admiralty, but Officers of Cable Ships were exempted from active war service because of the specialist nature of their work, hence:

(04.1940)
-
(12.1941)
no appointment listed

during WW2 he served on Cable Ships in West Indies, Singapore and Mediterranean, including the CS Mirror, which laid submarine telegraph cables to support the communication systems after the Allied landings in North Africa

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