Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945

Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Adams,
Samuel Jackson
10.07.1914
-
06.1984
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

Schoolmaster Candidate 05.09.1944

Prob. Schoolmaster ?, seniority 05.09.1944 (reld 1946?)

Education: Trinity College, Dublin (MA, 1938).

(10.1944) no appointment listed

08.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS St George (boys' training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)

01.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)

Adams,
Sydney Edward
S.E. Adams
Son of Sydney Edward Adams (1859-1922), and Frances Catherine Coulton Gidley (1866-1951).
Married (26.02.1924) Effie Georgina Sargent (04.03.1893 - 08.01.1984), daughter of Job Sargent (1853-1935), and Georgina Walters (1862-1930); one son (Lt.Cdr. (E) Sydney Edward Adams, RN)

17.06.1898
Crediton, Devon
-
11.10.1971
Honiton, Devon

Seaman ? [M7919]

A/Wt.Eng. 01.07.1930

Wt.Eng. ?, seniority 01.07.1930

Cd.Eng. 01.04.1940 (retd 17.06.1948)

A/Lt. (E) >10.1943, < 12.1943

Lt. (E) (retd) 17.06.1948

(08.1930) short course of instruction

23.09.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

01.10.1931 - (06.1933) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)

(01.1934) - (03.1934) no appointment listed

10.05.1934 - (08.)1934 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for mechanical training establishment; temporarily)

31.08.1934 - (01.)1937 HMS Valorous (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)

05.01.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Endeavour (surveying vessel)

(07.1939) - (08.)1939 no appointment listed

20.11.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Carlisle (cruiser)

20.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Warwick (destroyer)

08.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Guysborough (minesweeper)

30.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Barle (frigate)

07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Canada (base, Halifax, NS)

11.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Douglas (destroyer)

(01.1945) no appointment listed

05.05.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Crescent (destroyer) (in charge while under construction)

Adams,
Sydney Edward
S.E. Adams
Son of Lt. (E) Sydney Edward Adams, RN (1898-1971), and Effie Georgina Sargent (1893-1984). 10.04.1925
Honiton district, Devon
-
11.2004
East Dorset district

Midsh. (E) 01.05.1943

A/S.Lt. (E) 01.01.1945

S.Lt. (E) 01.12.1945

Lt. (E) 01.11.1945

Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.11.1953 (retd 10.04.1970)

(08.1943) - (04.1944) no appointment listed

30.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Howe (battleship)

06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS King George V (battleship)

(01.1945) no appointment listed

(07.1945) no appointment listed

07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Opportune (destroyer)

(07.1948) no appointment listed

(05.1949) no appointment listed

(05.1950) no appointment listed

03.06.1952 - (07.)1954 RN Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth

08.11.1954 - (04.)1955 898 Squadron FAA

24.09.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)

(01.1957) HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland) *

(01.1959) HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth) *

(07.1961) Department of the Director-General, Aircraft, Admiralty *

(02.1963) Naval Security Department, Admiralty *

(02.1964) HMS Ariel (air electrical school & RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

(02.1968) Aircraft Department (Naval), Navy Department *

(03.1969) Naval Manpower Department, Navy Department *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Adams,
Sydney William
S.W. Adams
Son of George Henry Adams, and Elizabeth Adams (née ...).

11.02.1905
Hastings, Lewes district, Sussex
-
12.12.1986
Bracknell district

? ? [J102274]

T/Wt. Telegr. = T/Cd.Telegr. 21.10.1943 (retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

14.11.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Mercury II (experimental signal establishment, Haslemere)

Adams,
Thomas Congdon
T.C. Adams

06.05.1885
Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland
-
01.05.1959
Devonport, Devon

Seaman ? [214060]

A/Wt.Tel. 01.07.1916

Wt.Tel. 03.07.1917, seniority 01.07.1916

Cd.Tel. 01.07.1926 (retd 07.12.1926; own request)

Tel.Lt. (retd) 11.03.1942 (dispersed 11.08.1945) (reld 06.10.1945) (reverted to retd 07.10.1945)

MBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46

(01.1919) HMS Vampire (torpedo-boat destroyer)

15.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Conquest (light cruiser) (and for duty with submarines)

31.12.1924 - 16.08.1925 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (on re-commissioning) (Atlantic Fleet)

17.08.1925 - 07.12.1926 HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)

03.07.1939 - 13.08.1939 HMS Drake (additional; for refresher course)

01.09.1939 - 11.08.1945 HMS Drake (additional; for Fort Staddon W/T Station)

Adams,
Wilfred Herbert
W.H. Adams
Son of Richard Adams, and Eleanor B. Slack. 16.10.1916
Sheffield district, Yorkshire
-
04.1986
Sheffield district, Yorkshire

A/T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng. 07.07.1944 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

29.11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Rodney (battleship)

Adams,
William Leslie Graham
W.L.G. Adams
Son of Leonard Graham Adams (1876-), and Harriett Hughes.
Married (20.10.1928, Christ Church, Mentone, Southern France) Erica Margaret Hawkins, only daughter of Mr & Mrs E.A. Hawkins, of Weston Super Mare, Somerset; no children.

diary (1920-1922)

20.04.1901
Bath, Somerset
-
28.03.1963
Crondall, Aldershot district, Hampshire

Cadet ?

Midsh. ?

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1921

S.Lt. ?, seniority 15.09.1921

Lt. 15.10.1922

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1930

Cdr. 31.12.1935

A/Capt. 1941?

Capt. 30.06.1943

R.Adm. 08.07.1952 (retd 15.03.1955)

CB 01.01.1955 New Year 55 [investiture 08.02.55]

OBE 10.03.1942 Operation Countenance [investiture 22.06.43]

MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42

MID 01.01.1949 New Year 49

OON 07.01.1947 ?

Education: Christ's Hospital.

11.04.1919 special entry into the Royal Navy

(1922) - 08.1922 HMS Raleigh (cruiser)

03.01.1923 - (08.1923) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

15.12.1924 - (05.)1926 HMS Seawolf (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)

31.12.1926 - (06.1928) First Lieutenant, HMS Vendetta (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(08.1929) no appointment listed

02.12.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Codrington (flotilla leader) (and for duty with Captain Superintendent, Contract-Built Ships)

14.08.1930 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Sepoy (destoyer) (China)

08.02.1932 - (09.1932) Staff Course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

(01.1933) no appointment listed

(05.1933) no appointment listed

04.05.1933 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

05.1935 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Foxhound (destroyer)

(02.1936) no appointment listed

10.09.1936 - (08.)1938 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

04.10.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty) (Naval Intelligence Division)

29.06.1939 - 03.02.1941 Executive Officer, HMAS Perth (cruiser)

04.02.1941 - 24.03.1941 passage to UK

25.03.1941 - 02.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Kanimbla (armed merchant cruiser)

03.02.1943 - 08.04.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (departed Australia by air 07.02.1943)

09.04.1943 - 22.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Wasp & in command of Coastal Forces Base, Dover

22.11.1944 - 14.01.1946 Director, Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

14.01.1946 - 27.10.1946 Director, Craft and Amphibious Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

01.08.1947 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Fierce & as Captain 2nd Minesweeper Flotilla

24.12.1948 - (05.1950) Naval Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President]

(05.1953) no appointment listed

05.08.1953 - (07.)1954 Flag Officer, (Training Squadron) Home Fleet [HMS Implacable]

Director of Civil Defence, Southern Region (Reading), 1955-1963. Younger Brother of Trinity House 1951.

Adams,
Woodrow Gregory
W.G. Adams
Son of Sydney Adams, and Martha Adams Mathias, of Paddington. (09?).1918
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
05.10.1940
(KIA) [age 22]
[Liverpool (Anfield) Crematorium, panel 1]

Midsh. (A) 04.07.1938

A/S.Lt. (A) 12.08.1939

S.Lt. (A) 14.03.1940

04.07.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)

06.10.1938 - (08.1939) pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon

23.02.1940 - 05.10.1940 pilot, 810 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (killed in action)

Adamson,
Ian Ronald Atherton
I.R.A. Adamson
Only son (with one sister) of William and Florence Adamson, of Greenmount, Lancashire, England. 1919 ?
-
05.02.1944
Charleston Naval Hospital, USA [age 25]
[Beaufort National Cemetery, South Carolina, USA, PA61 0 55]

T/S.Lt. (E) 1941?, seniority 23.10.1939

T/Lt. (E) 23.04.1942

Education: BA Hons. (Cantab.).

(12.1941) HMS Revenge (battleship) *

05.05.1942 - 05.02.1944 HMS Uganda (cruiser) (died after an incorrect dose of medication being administered by a nurse in a U.S. hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, being hospitalised after being taken ill)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Adcock,
Douglas John
D.J. Adcock
Son of Albert Edward Adcock, and Florence Annie Notley. (12?).1916
Lewisham, London
-
19.10.1940
(KIA) [age 23]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]

Prob. S.Lt. 03.04.1939

S.Lt. ?, seniority 16.02.1939

(05.1939) no appointment listed

(07.1939) HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) *

(08.1939) - (04.1940) no appointment listed

15.06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)

? - 19.10.1940 HMS Rainbow (submarine) [ship sunk off Calabria]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Adcock,
Francis William
F.W. Adcock
Son of Rowland Henry Adcock (1878-1943), and Teresa Jane Parish (1881-1951).
Married (03?).1937, Petersfield district, Hampshire) Ellen Jane Palmer; ... children.

18.07.1912
Norwich, Norfolk
-
02.12.1967
Bath district, Somerset

A/T/Wt. Stores Offr. 08.06.1944

Lt. (S) 03.02.1946

Lt.Cdr. (S) 03.02.1954 (retd > 01.1959, < 07.1961)

Education: St Joseph's College (RC), Beulah Hill, London.

(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) *

11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Artifex (heavy repair ship)

06.1948 - 31.12.1948 HMS Commonwealth

01.01.1949 - 06.1950 HMAS Commonwealth [on loan to RAN]

06.04.1951 - (05.)1951 HMS Warrior

03.07.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Battleaxe

17.02.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Mercury

(01.1957) HMS Bulwark *

30.09.1957 - (01.1959) HMS Royal Arthur (RN petty officers' school, Corsham, Wiltshire)

Civil Defence Officer.
Published: HMS Dauntless - South America and the Straits 1932-1935 (1935; ed. by Lt.Cdr. F.M. Beasley, drawing on material collated by Ordinary Seaman A.E. Charman and Supply Asisstant F.W. Adcock).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Adcock,
Harry
H. Adcock
Son (with five sisters and three brothers) of John Adcock (1858-), and Lavinia Catherine Ellen Brown (1856-1910).

26.08.1899
Redlynch, Salisbury district, Wiltshire
-
(12?).1974
Weymouth district, Dorset

Seaman ? [M27552]

T/Wt.Electr. = Cd.Electr.Offr. 29.12.1941

T/A/Cd. Electr. = T/A/Sen.Cd. Electr. Offr. 29.12.1945 (retd 14.07.1950)

A/Lt. (L) > 05.1950

08.01.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)

(02.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed

24.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship)

18.05..1945 - (10.1947) HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth/Brighton) [initially "for duties at Portsmouth", later HMS Vernon II (accommodation ship, Portsmouth)]

12.06.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Vernon (TAS School, Portsmouth) (borne for duty in HMS Royalist)

20.04.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Collingwood (for miscellaneous duties)

(05.1950) no appointment listed

Addick,
William George
W.G. Addick ?
-

A/T/Wt. Stores Offr. 24.10.1944 (reld/retd? 1940s)

BEM ? ?

(01.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed

Addington,
[the Hon.] Hiley William Dever
H.W.D. Addington
Second son of Maj. the Hon. Raymond Anthony Addington (1887-1976), and Gladys Mary Dever Hughes (1886-1983), of Calne, Wiltshire.
Married 1st (15.12.1942, Kingston, Canada) Brenda Swanney Wallace (?-1990), second daughter of principal Robert Charles Wallace, of Queen's University; two sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1993) Rita Cousins, widow of Alec T. Cousins. 31.10.1917
-
29.01.2001
Petrolia, Ont., Canada

Cadet 01.01.1935

Midsh. (E) 01.09.1935

A/S.Lt. (E) ?

S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1938

Lt. (E) 01.11.1939
?, seniority 16.05.1939

A/Lt.Cdr. (E) ?

Lt.Cdr. (E) 16.05.1947 (retd 09.05.1949)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1935 - (04.)1939 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]

25.04.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)

26.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Penelope (cruiser)

(08.1942) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

25.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)

(06.1943) - (04.)1944 no appointment listed

16.05.1944 - (10.1944) 730 Squadron FAA (for RN Air Section, Abbotsinch) [HMS Sanderling]

(01.1945) - (04.)1946 HMS Pioneer (maintenance carrier) *

10.10.1946 - (07.1948) Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Mechanical engineer; worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Llandarcy 1950.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Addington,
Leonard George
L.G. Addington
Son of Maj. William Leonard Addington (1856-1919), Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, and Augusta Jemima Hayter Hames (1860-1942).
Married (11.07.1939) Sheena Forbes (30.05.1910 - 05.01.1990), daughter of Hector Culloden Forbes (1883-1962), and Beatrice Maud Bearup (1885-1975).

18.08.1892
Wonersh, nr Guildford, Hambledon district, Surrey
-
24.01.1984
[Chapel Yard Cemetery, Inverness]

Midsh. 15.05.1910

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1912

S.Lt. 30.06.1913

Lt. 30.03.1915

Lt.Cdr. 30.03.1923 (retd 18.08.1937)

Cdr. (retd) 18.08.1937 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

DSC 14.03.1916 Gaba Tepe 04.05.15

15.05.1905 entered RN

(05.1915) Commanding Officer, HMS Usk

(01.1919) HMS Campbell (flotilla leader)

09.03.1923 - (08.1923) Navigating Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader)

22.11.1924 - (05.1926) Navigating Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China)

(02.1927) no appointment listed

05.04.1927 - (06.1928) Navigating Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (initially also for duty with the Captain Superintendent of Contract-Built Ships)

01.02.1929 - (01.1934) HM Dockyard Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]

(03.1934) no appointment listed

(07.1934) no appointment listed

15.08.1934 - (11.1934) Navigating Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth)

29.01.1935 - (08.1939) King's Harbour Master, Dockyard Port of Cromarty, later: Dockyard Cromarty and Invergordon (later also: King's Harbour Master, Invergordon, and Officer Commanding Naval Establishments at Invergordon] [HMS Greenwich, later HMS Cochrane]

(04.1940) HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) *

04.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)

10.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS President (for misecellaneous services at Admiralty)

06.03.1942 - (01.)1945 Assistant King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

(07.1945) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Addis,
Charles Thorburn

Third in a family of six sons and seven daughters of Sir Charles Stewart Addis, KCMG (1861-1945), late Director Bank of England, and Elisabeth Jane "Eba" McIsaac (1871-1952).
Married (08.12.1933, Hong Kong) Pamela Poland (16.10.1913 - 01.1996), daughter of R.Adm. Allan Poland, CBE, DSO, RN; two sons, three daughters.

02.07.1898
Shanghai
-
21.12.1962
Streatley-on-Thames, Berkshire

Cadet 04.05.1911

Midsh. 03.06.1915

S/Lt. 15.09.1917

Lt. 15.08.1919

Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1927

Cdr. 31.12.1932

Capt. 30.06.1940 (retd 08.07.1949)

DSO 05.01.1944 sinking of German battlecruiser Scharnhorst 26.12.43 [investiture 12.12.44]

MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth; Staff Course, RN College Greenwich (psc).

04.05.1911 - 16.04.1913 RN College, Osborne [HMS Racer]

08.05.1914 - 01.08.1914 RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]

03.08.1914 - 04.06.1915 HMS Venus (2nd class cruiser)

08.06.1915 - 08.03.1917 HMS New Zealand (battlecruiser) (Battle of Jutland 31.05.1916)

19.03.1917 - 14.01.1919 Torpedo Control Officer, HMS Carysfort (light cruiser)

31.01.1919 - 20.10.1919 Cambridge Course for Naval Officers (1919 Lent & Easter Terms)

23.10.1919 - 27.11.1919 First Lieutenant, HMS Holderness (minesweeper)

12.09.1920 - 25.07.1922 HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley)

25.07.1922 - 14.11.1924 HMS Petersfield (sloop)

(01.1925) no appointment listed

19.02.1925 - 29.03.1927 HMS Benbow (battleship) (Atlantic)

07.07.1927 - 24.06.1929 HMAS Cerberus (RAN trainnig establishment, Victoria) [lent to Royal Australian Navy]

25.11.1929 - 29.12.1930 Executive Officer, HMS Pangbourne (minesweeper)

20.01.1931 - 17.01.1933 First Lieutenant, HM Yacht Victoria and Albert

05.05.1933 - 20.10.1934 Executive Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China)
[Navy List dates appointment as 17.03.1933

15.01.1935 - 20.12.1935 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

09.01.1936 - 12.06.1937 Executive Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China)

12.06.1937 - 30.08.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport )

14.12.1937 - 31.01.1940 Executive Officer, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Drake]

16.02.1940 - 28.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Scarborough (sloop)

17.07.1940 - 1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine school, Campbeltown)

02.06.1942 - 02.1943 Commanding Officer, Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

12.02.1943 - 05.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser)
[Navy List dates appointment as 01.1943]

15.09.1944 - 21.11.1946 Director Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

15.05.1947 - 14.02.1949 Commanding Officer, HMS London (cruiser) & Flag Captain while it served as Flagship British Pacific Fleet

08.01.1949 - 08.07.1949 also: Naval ADC to the King

Co-author of the first three of the five volume official history of "The war against Japan" (London : HMSO, 1957-1969).

Addis,
Eric Elrington
E.E. Addis
Son (with three brothers and two sisters) of David Foulis Addis (1850-1924), Indian Civil Service, and Emily Malcolm (1861-1941).
Married (28.04.1926, Thorpe, Norfolk) Hazel Iris Wilson (30.05.1900 - 10.1990), only daughter of Mr & Mrs Cecil Wilson, of Thorpe, Norwich; one son, one daughter.

19.05.1899
St George district, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
-
31.08.1941
[age 42]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery]

Midsh. 01.09.1917

A/Lt. ?

Lt. 15.10.1920

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1928 (retd 04.04.1930; own request)

Cdr. (retd) 19.05.1939

15.02.1917 entered RN

(01.1919) HMS Marlborough (battleship)

30.11.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Iroquois (surveying vessel)

(01.1925) no appointment listed

25.11.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth)

22.12.1926 - (08.1929) HMNZS Philomel (cruiser) [lent to Royal New Zealand Navy]

Barrister-at-law.

19.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Warspite (battleship)

15.07.1940 - 31.08.1941 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (killed at a bombing)

Published: detective novels under the pseudonym of Peter Drax (He shot to kill, 1936; Death by two hands, 1937; etc.)

Addison,
Sir Albert Percy
A.P. Addison
Son (with four sisters and four brothers) of Albert Addison (1850-), solicitor, and Annie Kate Bramsdon (1850-1933), of Portsmouth. Married 1st (15.08.1908, Ulverston district, Cumbria / Lancashire) Mary Harriet Kellett ((06?).1886 - 04.06.1947), daughter of W. Kellett, Southport; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (28.07.1948, St Peter's, Eaton Square, London) Vera Louise Wilson Hughes.

08.11.1875
Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
13.11.1952
New Forest district, Hampshire

Cadet 15.07.1889

Lt. 14.06.1897

Cdr. 31.12.1907

Capt. 30.06.1913

R.Adm. 02.11.1923

V.Adm. 28.02.1929 (retd 01.03.1929)

Adm. (retd) 31.12.1932

KBE 03.06.1931 HM's birthday 31

CB 03.06.1924 HM's birthday 24

CMG 29.08.1917 Straits of Otranto 15.05.17

Bronze [14.04.1897] and Silver [17.01.1894] Humane Society Medals

15.07.1889 joined RN

(1894) Midshipman, HMS Garne

(1901) HMS Victorious

01.01.1913 War Staff Officer (without qualifying course)

1914 - 1919 served European War (CMG, Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre, Order of Savoy, Italy; Order of Rising Sun, Japan)

(05.1917) Commanding Officer, HMS Dartmouth

01.03.1922 - 17.03.1922 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]

18.03.1922 - 06.05.1924 Commodore and Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Fleet [HMAS Melbourne] [lent to RAN]

07.05.1924 - 23.08.1924 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]

01.09.1924 - 01.08.1926 Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)]

10.01.1927 - (02.)1927 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

14.03.1927 - (07.1927) Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]

01.03.1928 - 01.05.1937 Director of Dockyards, Admiralty [HMS President]

(09.1939) - (04.1946) no appointment listed

Addy,
Ernest
E. Addy 12.08.1892 ?
-
(03?).1976 ?
Leeds district ?
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977

A/T/Wt.Eng. 02.07.1943 (retd 21.03.1950)

09.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Teme (frigate) *

(04.1946) no appointment listed

16.09.1946 - (07.1948) HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down)

* 07.1945 still indexed but not longer listed as such

Adlam,
Ernest Maxted
E.M. Adlam
Son of Ernest Thomas Adlam (1880-1936), and Nora Maxted (1886-).
Married Violet Frances Campbell (1915-); two sons. 19.04.1915
Barieli, Uttar Pradesh, India
-
04.06.1990
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

A/Gnr. (T) 25.02.1940 (retd 06.03.1941; medically unfit)

22.03.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Vidette (destroyer)

(10.1940) no appointment listed

(02.1941) no appointment listed

24.02.1941 - 06.03.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services)

Adlam,
George Albert
G.A. Adlam
Son of William George Adlam (1874-1946), and Sarah Louise Parsons (1876-1956).
Married ((12?).1935, Westminster district, London) Irene Maud Darer Kelley (30.07.1905 - 03.2004); one daughter. 01.11.1909
Lambeth, London
-
19.05.2000
Taunton, Devon, Somerset

Gnr. (T) 26.09.1942

Sen.Cd.Gnr. 01.10.1950 (retd > 01.1956)

Lt. (retd) 01.01.1957 (Special Duties)

01.09.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Hotspur (destroyer)

22.07.1946 - (07.1948) Port TAS Officer, Chatham, and Officer-in-Charge Mobile Anti-Submarine Training Unit No. 40 [HMS Pembroke]

04.12.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Gabbard

22.01.1953 - (05.1953) HMS Wakeful

22.08.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Vernon

Adlard,
Gwynne Addison
G.A. Adlard
Elder son of 2nd Lt. Frank Addison Adlard (1883-), Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and Hilda Frances Williams, of Whynbank, Hayling Island, Hampshire & Madras, India. 29.06.1921
-
23.10.1942
(MPK) [age 21]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]

Cadet 01.09.1938

Midsh. 01.05.1939

A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941

S.Lt. 01.03.1941

Lt. 01.09.1942

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Admiralty No. 1466; Hawke House; 1st term 01.01.1935-11th term 02.08.1938).

01.09.1938 - 30.04.1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)

01.05.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Rodney (battleship)

17.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Bedouin (destroyer)

02.07.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Berwick (cruiser)

06.01.1941 - (02.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth

06.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

(08.1942) no appointment listed

? - 23.10.1942 HMS Unique (submarine) (ship missing in Atlantic)

Adshead,
George Edward Roland
G.E.R. Adshead
Married ((06?).1949, Gosport district, Hampshire) Violet M. Harman (née Clapp). 23.03.1916
-
11.12.1999
Portsmouth, Hampshire

A/Gnr. (T) = Cd.Gnr. (T) 03.03.1945 (retd 24.03.1956)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

04.09.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Orwell (destroyer)

01.04.1947 - 05.1948 HMS Scorpion

24.05.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Vernon

(05.1953) no appointment listed

(01.1956) HMS Vernon *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Affleck-Graves,
Gerald
G. Affleck-Graves
Son (with one brother) of Capt. Dermot Affleck-Graves, RE (1879-1912), and Agnes Maria Anne Douglas [later Lady Moens] (1875-1956).
Married (22.07.1939, All Saints' Church, Warwick, Warwickshire) Mary Moorhouse Bailey (16.11.1915 - 01.1997), only daughter of A.E. Bailey, and Janet Evelyn Bailey (?-1968), of Leamington Spa; two sons, two daughters.

28.10.1910
Abbottabad, North West Frontier Province, India
-
27.05.1966
Petersfield, Hampshire

Midsh. 01.09.1928

A/S.Lt. 01.01.1931

S.Lt. 01.05.1931

Lt. 01.10.1932

Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1940

Cdr. 30.06.1944 (retd > 05.1953, < 01.1956)

15.05.1924 entered RN

14.01.1928 - (04.1930) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)

(02.1931) no appointment listed

17.08.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, Portsmouth

02.04.1932 - (01.)1933 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)

06.06.1933 - (03.)1934 HMS Colombo (cruiser) (East Indies)

03.12.1934 - (07.)1935 signal course, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

06.12.1935 - (02.)1936 Flag Lieutenant, HMS Resource (repair ship)

28.09.1936 - (10.)1936 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)

23.12.1936 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Stoke (minesweeper)

10.04.1937 - (10.1938) Signals Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (and for flotilla duties)

(02.1939) - (04.)1939 no appointment listed

22.05.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Pembroke (RN Barracks, Chatham) (for Signal School)

07.11.1939 - (04.)1940 Signals Officer, HMS Badger (minesweeping base, Harwich) (and for W/T duties)

10.09.1940 - (02.1941) Flag Lieutenant, HMS Kenya (cruiser) (and as Squadron Signals and W/T Officer)

01.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, RN Barracks, Portsmouth)

24.10.1942 - (06.1944) Flag Lieutenant-Commander, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (and for signal & W/T duties)

01.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMCS St Hyacinthe (RCN signal school, St Hyancynthe, Quebec) [on loan to RCN]

30.12.1945 - (04.1946) Staff Communications Officer, Staff of Naval Representative, United Nations [HMS Saker]

19.04.1947 - (07.1948) Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (and for duty with Naval Intelligence Division)

27.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS President

(05.1953) no appointment listed

Agar,
Augustus Willington Shelton
"Gus"
A.W.S. Agar

Son (youngest of thirteen children) of John Shelton Agar (1842-1902), and Emily Cruwell (?-1891), of Ceylon and Woodmount, Co. Kerry.
Married 1st (20.07.1920; divorced 1931) Mary Frances Katherine Petre (Baroness Furnivall) (27.05.1900 - 24.12.1968) [remarried (1932) William Herbert Shelley Dent].
Married 2nd (1932, Bermuda) Ina Margaret C.M. Lindner (23.12.1896 - 12.1992), daughter of late Robert Lindner, and granddaughter of late Francis LogiePirie of Tottingworth Park, Heathfield, Sussex.

04.01.1890
Kandy, Ceylon
-
30.12.1968
Alton, Hampshire
[Alton Cemetery]

A/S.Lt. ?

S.Lt. 15.01.1910

Lt. 30.06.1912

Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1920

A/Cdr. < 08.1923

Cdr. 31.12.1925

Capt. 31.12.1933 (retd 12.01.1943)

Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 11/12?.1943

VC 22.08.1919 attack Russian cruiser Kronstadt 17.06.19 *

DSO 11.11.1919 spy missions to Russia **

MID 08.09.1942 Japanese air attack

Cl&B 24.06.1947 training Chinese

* On 17 June 1919 at Kronstadt, Russia, Lieutenant Agar took HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 into the bay, penetrated a destroyer screen and was closing a larger warship further inshore when CMB4, whose hull had been damaged by gunfire, broke down. She had to be taken alongside a breakwater to do repairs and for 20 minutes was in full view of the enemy. The attack was then resumed and a Russian cruiser was sunk, after which Lieutenant Agar retired to the safety of the open bay under heavy fire.
** For distinguished services in command of H.M. Coastal Motor Boat No. 7 in the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919. He piloted £wo other boats into the harbour through the forts under a heavy fire and then patrolled the mouth of the harbour to cover their withdrawal. Education: Framlingham College, Suffolk (1902-03); Eastman's naval academy, Southsea, Hampshire (1904-05).

15.05.1905 entered Royal Navy (HMS Britannia)

1914 - 1919 served European War (despatches, VC, DSO)

03.05.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Osea (Coastal Motor Boat base, Osea Island, Clacton on Sea)

(08.1923) no appointment listed

01.01.1924 - (01.1925) HM Yacht Victoria and Albert (Portsmouth)

22.04.1926 - (07.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

04.10.1927 - (06.1928) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

21.01.1929 - (08.1929) course at Staff College, Camberley

06.01.1930 - (04.)1930 Plans Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] (temporary)

30.09.1930 - (05.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Scarborough (sloop) (America and West Indies)

(06.1933) no appointment listed

16.10.1933 - (01.)1934 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]

(03.1934) no appointment listed

14.05.1934 - (07.1934) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

15.01.1935 - (07.1935) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College, London [HMS President]

09.01.1936 - (10.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)

15.01.1937 - (04.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies & Reserve Fleet)

1939 - 1939 Captain, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

31.07.1939 - 01.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (Home Fleet, Northern patrol)

25.06.1940 - 12.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (destroyer)

25.11.1940 - (02.)1941 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Coastal Forces [HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)]

08.08.1941 - 05.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (sunk)

(08.1942) no appointment listed

16.12.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)

05.05.1943 - (04.)1946 Captain and President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich [HMS President]

Younger Brother of Trinity House 1936; Contested (C) Greenwich 1945; VicePresident Sailors' Home and Red Ensign Club 1957.
Published: Footprints in the sea (1959; autobiography); Showing the flag (1962; autobiographical, interbellum); Baltic episode : a classic of secret service in Russian waters (1963).

Agard-Butler,
Guy Davenport
G.D. Agard-Butler
Son of the Revd. Alfred James Agard-Butler, MA (1876-1936), Chaplain of Epsom College, and May Denbirgh. 05.07.1921
-
10.02.1945
(KIA) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 7]

Cadet 01.09.1938

Midsh. 01.05.1939

A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941

S.Lt. 01.06.1941

Lt. 01.01.1943

MID 31.03.1942 attack on battlecruiser

Education: Merton Court Preparatory School; RN College, Dartmouth (Admiralty No. 1467; Exmouth House; 1st term 01.01.1935-11th term 02.08.1938).

01.09.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)

10.07.1939 - (10.1940) HMS York (cruiser) (North America and West Indies Station)

06.01.1941 - (02.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth

26.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Worcester (destroyer) (despatches)

(08.1942) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

(02.1943) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *

(06.1943) no appointment listed

05.07.1943 - 10.02.1945 894 Squadron FAA [HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)] [His Seafire III [NN155] collided with NN642 in formation into sea.]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Agate,
Jeffery Stanford
J.S. Agate
Married ((03?).1940, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland / Tyne and Wear) Alice Vera G. Dand (11.08.1917 - 02.1994), daughter of Harry J. Dand, and Isabella Healer; no children. 1919
-
02.02.1977
Northern Ireland
[aged 58 shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) outside his home at Talbot Park, Londonderry]

T/S.Lt. (E) 17.12.1939

T/Lt. (E) 01.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

OBE 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 68: work at Du Pont

Education: BSc, CEng, AMIMechE, FIPlantE, MBIM.

28.08.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Devonshire (cruiser)

(06.1943) no appointment listed

07.06.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Myngs (destroyer)

14.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Tuscan (destroyer)

(04.1946) no appointment listed

1960s Works General Manager, Du Pont Company (U.K.) Ltd., Maydown, County Londonderry.

Ager,
Walter Henry
W.H. Ager
Son (with one sister) of Walter Henry Ager (1877-1952), and Emily Louisa Johnson (1879-1965).
Married Margaret Elizabeth Greene (1900-1991); one daughter.

07.05.1904
Hanwell, Brentford district, Middlesex
-
02.1996
Ipswich district, Suffolk

Seaman ? [J96024]

T/Gnr. (T) = T/Cd. Gnr. (T) 23.02.1944 (retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

21.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)

(04.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) *

(10.1945) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Agger,
Paul
P. Agger
Son (with four brothers) of Francis Agger (1855-1926), and Elizabeth Scamaton (1857-1941).
Married ((06?).1921, Sheppey district, Kent) Myra Fergusson.

01.05.1891
Armore, Waterford, Ireland
-
02.07.1954
Henlow, Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire
[age 62]

Seaman ? [238653]

Mate 15.02.1916

A/Lt. ?

Lt. 15.02.1919
24.07.1922, seniority 15.02.1918

Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926 (retd 01.05.1935)

Cdr. (retd) 01.05.1935 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 10.1945)

07.06.1916 - (01.1919) Mate (T), HMS Shannon (light cruiser)

25.03.1924 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS Rocket (destroyer) (Portland)

(07.1927) - (01.1934) no appointment listed

15.12.1939 - (03.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Stella Capella (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

06.03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber)

15.04.1940 - (10.1944) HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)

02.01.1945 - (01.)1945 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Mining Department)

27.03.1945 - (04.1945) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Mining and Minesweeping Equipment Duties, Aberdeen Area)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

Aggett,
Reginald
R. Aggett
Son of Richard Charles and Ellen Aggett. 23.07.1901
Devonport, Devon
-
23.07.1973
Plymouth, Hampshire

A/T/Wt.Shipwr. =
T/Cd.Shipwr. 30.10.1944 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

(01.1945) no appointment listed

05.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for flotilla duties)

11.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)

Agnew,
Hugh Ladas
H.L. Agnew
Son of Charles Morland Agnew and Evelyn Mary Naylor.
Married 1st (06.07.1920) Mary Violet Maud Davies (died 1932); one son (S.Lt. M.H. Agnew, killed in action), two daughters.
Married 2nd (28.04.1934) Gwendolen Ford Low Smith.

06.06.1894
Marylebone, London
-
20.12.1975
Westminster district, Greater London

Lt. 15.05.1916 (emgcy 10.03.1920)

Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 15.12.1923 (reverted to emgcy 1945/46)

Cdr. (emgcy) 08.05.1946

15.05.1907 entered RN

(01.1919) no appointment listed

Managing director of Thos. Agnew & Sons, 1931-1939.

23.08.1939 - (07.1945) staff, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (later Eaton, Chester) [HMS Britannia]

Chairman of Governors of Bloxham School, 1948-1960. Chairman of Thos. Agnew & Sons, 1955-1965.

Agnew,
John Andrew
J.A. Agnew
Son of Colonel Quentin Charles Graham Kinnaird Agnew, and Evelyn Mary Alexander (1866-1913).
Married (07.04.1934) Ysabel August Aurelia Larios (07.1907 - 1979); one son.

26.09.1903
-
03.05.1977
Monte de la Torre, Los Barrios, Spain

A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924

S.Lt. 15.10.1924

Lt. 15.02.1927

Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1935 (retd 26.09.1948)

A/Cdr. early 1943

Cdr. (retd) 26.09.1948

15.05.1917 entered RN

10.04.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

03.04.1926 - (07.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS Moorhen (shallow draught steamer for river service) (China)

17.12.1928 - (02.)1931 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)

02.10.1931 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Somme (destroyer) (China)

18.03.1932 - (01.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS Searcher (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

15.05.1933 - (03.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Shamrock (destroyer) (Gibraltar)

17.12.1934 - (08.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Wild Swan (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(10.1936) no appointment listed

04.01.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

(02.1938) no appointment listed

08.02.1938 - (10.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Cricket (river gunboat) (China)

25.12.1938 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Cockchafer (river gunboat)

30.04.1940 - (10.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Scarab (river gunboat)

12.1940 - 10.11.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Ripley (destroyer)

09.01.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Biter (escort carrier)

(06.1943) - (04.)1944 HMS Beagle (destroyer) *

06.04.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser)

07.07.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties)

(07.1948) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Agnew,
Michael Hugh
M.H. Agnew
Son of Lt.Cdr. Hugh Ladas Agnew, RN, and Mary Violet Maud Davies, of Hough Green, Chester. 11.07.1923
Kensington district, London
-
13.11.1943
(KIA) [age 20]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 78, column 1]

Midsh. 01.09.1940

A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942

S/Lt. 10.10.1942, seniority 01.04.1942

01.09.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

26.10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Berwick (cruiser)

18.03.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Exeter (cruiser)

(04.1942) no appointment listed

(06.)1942 - (08.)1943 promotion course, Portsmouth

09.1943 - 13.11.1943 HMS Dulverton (destroyer) (killed in action)

Agnew,
[Sir] Peter Garnett;
1st Baronet (cr. 01.01.1957)
P.G. Agnew
Son (with three brothers) of Charles Leonard Agnew (1868-1928), and Alice Rowley Nelson (1870-1950).
Married 1st (26.03.1928, Westminster district, London) Enid Frances Boan (17.06.1898 - 01.12.1982), daughter of late Henry Boan, Perth, Western Australia, and widow of Lt Col O. Marescaux; one son.
Married 2nd (1984; divorced 1987) Mrs Julie Marie Watson.

09.07.1900
Bucklow, Cheshire
-
26.08.1990
[Grove House, Grove Mount, Ramsey, Isle of Man ?]

A/S.Lt. ?

S.Lt. 15.05.1921

Lt. 15.04.1923

Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1931 (retd 29.05.1931; own request)

Cdr. (retd) 09.07.1940 (reverted to retd 1944/45)

MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41

Order of Homayoun (Iran), 1973; Kt Grand Cross, Order of Civil Merit (Spain), 1977.
Education: Repton; RN College, Dartmouth.

25.10.1918 entered Royal Navy

15.08.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Bluebell (sloop) (in lieu of a S/Lt.) (China)

03.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Renown (battlecruiser)

1927 - 1928 ADC to Governor of Jamaica

06.08.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)

05.05.1930 - (02.1931) HM Yacht Victoria and Albert

08.1939 returned to service at sea

01.03.1940 - (10.1940) Executive Officer, HMS Bedouin (destroyer)

26.11.1940 - 04.03.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Ramsey (destroyer) *

12.05.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Kent (cruiser)

25.01.1943 - (06.1944) staff, Royal Naval College, Greenwich [HMS President]

Member of Parliament (MP) (C) Camborne Div. of Cornwall, 1931-50; PPS to Rt Hon. Walter Runciman, President of Board of Trade, 1935-37, and to Rt Hon. Sir Philip Sassoon, First Commissioner of Works, 1937-39; an Assistant Government Whip, May-July, 1945; a Conservative Whip, August 1945-February 1950; contested (C) Falmouth and Camborne Div., February 1950; MP (C) South Worcs, 1955-66. Member of House of Laity, Church Assembly, 1935-65; a Church Comr for England, 1948-68; Trustee, Historic Churches Preservation Trust, 1968-. Chm., Iran Society, 1966-73; Internat. Pres., European Centre of Documentation and Information, 1974-76.
* (02.1941) indexed, but not listed as such

Agnew,
[Sir] William Gladstone
"Bill"
W.G. Agnew

Youngest son of Charles Morland Agnew, OBE (1855-1931), and Evelyn Mary Naylor (1860-1932), of Croxley Green, Hertfordshire
Married (24.04.1930, Christ Church, Gosport, Alverstoke district, Hampshire) Patricia Caroline Bewley (04.09.1907 - 23.08.1977), younger daughter of late Col. Alfred William Bewley, CMG (1866-1939), and Jean Knox Woods, of Somerton, Gosport; no children.

02.12.1898
Paddington, London
-
12.07.1960
Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire

S.Lt. 15.10.1917

Lt. 15.08.1919

Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1927

Cdr. 31.12.1932

Capt. 31.12.1937

Cdre. 2nd cl. 28.05.1943

R.Adm. 08.01.1947 (retd 11.01.1950; own request)

V.Adm. (retd) 04.10.1950

KCVO 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 47 [investiture 25.06.47]

CVO 1943 Royal visit to Malta 06.43 [investiture 18.04.44]

CB 11.11.1941 destruction Italian convoy [investiture 12.05.42]

DSO 06.04.1943 operations against Italian convoy [investiture 18.04.44]

DSO 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche [investiture 13.02.45]

OON 25.11.1947 ?

Education: RN College Dartmouth; Cambridge University.

08.1914 joined RN

1914
-
1918
served European War (HMS Glory, North American Station 1914 ; Gallipoli 1915 ; HMS Royal Oak; HMS Victor; HMS Skilful)

1920 - 1922 Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert; HMS Rob Roy (destroyer); HMS Alexandra

11.08.1922 - (08.)1923 Watchkeeping Officer, HMS Delhi (light cruiser)

27.09.1923 - (01.)1925 gunnery course, HMS Excellent

06.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

02.11.1926 - 1929 Gunnery Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (China Station)

27.02.1929 - (02.)1931 Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent]

02.06.1931 - (01.)1933 Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)

21.03.1933 - (02.)1935 Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

07.05.1935 - (07.)1935 Tactical Course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

21.10.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty)

20.04.1936 - 09.061937 Executive Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)

28.06.1937 - 11.01.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Deptford (sloop)

(02.)1938 - (08.)1938 no appointment listed

08.08.1938 - (10.)1938 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth

31.10.1938 - (09.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (seaplane carrier)

18.09.1939 - 10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser)

02.10.1940 - 11.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Aurora (cruiser), also:

autumn 1941 Spitzbergen Island expedition

(1941) Commanding Officer, Force K (Mediterranean)

29.11.1942 - 28.05.1943 Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 12th Cruiser Squadron

28.05.1943 - (10.1943) Commodore Commanding 12th Cruiser Squadron

11.11.1943 - 11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Dido (cruiser) (as Cdre 2nd cl.)

23.02.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Portsmouth)

15.10.1945 - 29.03.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanguard (battleship) (during royal tour of South Africa)

08.1947 - 10.1949 Director of Personal Services and Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel, Admiralty [HMS President]

General Secretary of the National Playing Fields Association, 1950-1953.
Literature: Kenneth Edwards, Seven sailors (1945)

Agutter,
Frederick Gardon
F.G. Agutter
Married ((06?).1943, Plymouth district, Devon) Dorothy O. Westcott. 14.03.1908
Steyning, Sussex
-
02.07.1994
Torbay, Devon

A/T/Gnr. (T) = T/Cd.Gnr. (T) 16.03.1945 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Euroclydon (RN barracks, Verdala, Malta)

Agutter,
Geoffrey Forster
G,F, Agutter
will be added at a later date

19.09.1901
-
1960

Lt. 15.04.1923

Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1931

A/Cdr. ?

15.05.1915 entered RN

.... - .... ....

08.1939 - 15.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Stoke (Hunt class minesweeper)

.... - .... ....

Aguzzi,
Ernest Alfred
E.A. Aguzzi
Son of Herbert Frederick Aguzzi (1874-1952), and Mary Anne Duke (1878-1918).
Married ((06?).1930, Richmond district, Surrey) Florence Kate Francis (29.10.1908 - 01.1995), daughter of Jonah Francis (1869-1920), and Elizabeth Lizzie Sanders (1873-); one daughter.

29.05.1904
Battersea, Wandsworth district, London
-
31.12.1980
Chatham district, Kent

Seaman ? [J100513]

Gnr. 01.10.1934

Cd.Gnr. = Sen.Cd.Gnr. 01.04.1944

Lt. 31.08.1950 (retd 29.05.1954)

DSC 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 [investiture 11.05.43]

MID 03.03.1942 abandoned, boarded & towed

18.06.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Codrington (destroyer, flotilla leader)

(07.1937) no appointment listed

08.07.1937 - (04.1939) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

(07.1939) short course

27.07.1939 - (1942) HMS Widgeon (patrol vessel)

09.01.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Renown (battlecruiser)

(04.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed

03.12.1946 - (07.1948) HMS Tamar

(05.1950) no appointment listed

04.03.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Pembroke

Ahern,
Clive George
C.G. Ahern
Son of Michael J. and Esther A. Ahern.
Married ((09?).1936, Wandsworth district, London) Freda Mary Smith (12.07.1901 - 09.1996).

11.12.1884
Lanaport, Portsea Island district, Hampshire
-
15.12.1963
All Saints Hospital, Chatham, Kent (formerly of Rainham, Kent)

Seaman ? [272488]

Eng.Lt. 15.07.1917

Eng.Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1925 (retd 11.12.1929)

Eng.Cdr. (retd) 11.12.1929 (reverted to retd > 04.1945, < 07.1945)

12.11.1923 - (01.)1925 Mechanical Repair Establishment, HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for instructional and repair duties)

11.09.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

09.07.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (and for HMS Ambrose (depot ship))

02.09.1939 - (01.1945) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty (Gun Mounting Overseers and Staffs)

Ahern,
Daniel
D. Ahern

04.09.1891
Timoleague, Cork
-
28.02.1976

Seaman ? [M1932]

A/Wt.Supply Offr. 19.09.1928

Wt.Supply Offr. ?, seniority 19.09.1928

Cd. Supply Offr. 16.06.1936

Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 13.01.1939 (retd 04.09.1941)

A/Lt.Cdr. (S) 1940s

? MBE? ? ?

07.11.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Rodney (battleship)

08.11.1930 - (01.)1933 HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)

25.07.1933 - (07.)1935 HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship)

01.10.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

24.05.1937 - (02.)1939 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)

29.03.1939 - (04.1946) HMS Victory (RN Barracks, Portsmouth)

Ahern,
James John
J.J. Ahern ?
-

T/Paym.Lt. 16.09.1940

T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. 31.03.1944 (reld > 10.1944, < 01.1945)

16.09.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)

02.1942 - (08.)1942 RN Barracks, Bermuda [HMS Malabar]

12.12.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Glenearn (landing ship infantry)

Aherne,
David Christopher
D.C. Aherne

18.12.1888
Aghada, Down
-
05.11.1960
Ealing, London

Seaman ? [346775]

A/Wt. Writer 19.08.1928

Wt. Writer ?, seniority 19.08.1928

Cd. Writer 10.01.1935

Paym. Lt. = Lt. (S) 08.12.1936 (retd 18.12.1938)

Lt.Cdr. (S) (retd) 08.12.1944 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

Cdr. (S) (retd) ?

MBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 [decoration posted]

18.02.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier)

01.03.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Egmont II (for Mediterranean destroyer flotillas)

(09.1932) no appointment listed

22.11.1932 - (10.1938) HMS Drake (RN barracks, Devonport)

04.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Caroline (RN base, Ulster)

04.1941 - (07.1945) HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)

Aikman,
George Lewens
G.L. Aikman

18.03.1892
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
-
14.10.1966
St Andrew district, Edinburgh, Scotland

Seaman ? [K30316]

A/Wt.Mech. 01.01.1938

Wt.Mech. = A/Sen.Cd.Mech. ?, seniority 01.01.1938 (retd > 02.1941, < 08.1942) (reverted to retd 11.12.1949)

A/Lt. (E) (retd) ?

01.03.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Suffolk (cruiser)

07.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Curacoa (cruiser)

(08.1942) no appointment listed

18.08.1942 - (07.)1945 HMS Claverhouse (base, Leith & Granton) (for duty with Base Maintenance Engineer Officer)

15.08.1945 - (07.1948) HMS Lochinvar (minesweeping base, Granton) (for duty with Squadron Engineer Officer)

Ailwyn,
the Lord;
3rd Baron, cr. 1921, succ. 1936;
Fellowes,
the Hon. Eric William Edward
Lord Ailwyn (E.W.E. Fellowes)
Second son (with three brothers) of Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn (1855-1924), and Hon. Agatha Eleanor Augusta Jolliffe (1863-1938).
Succeeded brother, 30.08.1936.
Married (05.06.1935, Westminster district, London) Cecil Lorna "Dooney" Barclay (02.02.1891 - 12.07.1976), daughter of late Hugh Gurney Barclay (1851-1936), and Evelyn Louisa Hogg (1862?-1899), of Colney Hall, Norwich, and widow of Col. Malise Graham, DSO (1884-1929); no children.

24.11.1887
Mayfair, St George Hanover Square district, London
-
23.03.1976
Ipswich district, Suffolk

A/S.Lt. 15.06.1907?

S.Lt. 22.05.1908, seniority 15.06.1907

Lt. 31.08.1909

Lt.Cdr. 31.08.1917

Cdr. 30.06.1923 (retd 15.01.1934)

Capt. (retd) 15.01.1934 (reverted to retd > 08.1942, < 02.1943)

CBE 01.01.1962 New Year 62: work in House of Lords

Order of Brilliant Star of China.
Education: Stubbington House School; HMS Britannia.

15.09.1902 entered RN

1914 - 1918 served throughout European War in North Sea

01.05.1924 - (01.1925) Commander [= Executive Officer] to Captain (Submarines), HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Portsmouth) (for Fort Blockhouse)

18.03.1927 - (07.1927) Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)

14.01.1929 - (08.1929) Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Cumberland (cruiser)

(04.1930) no appointment listed

05.01.1931 - (02.1931) tactical course [HMS Victory]

16.03.1931 - (06.1933) Drafting Commander, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

(01.1934) no appointment listed

19.08.1939 - (02.)1940 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)

06.02.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)

10.12.1941 - (08.)1942 Assistant Director of Personal Services (D), Personal Services Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

1942 Member of British Parliamentary Mission to China

President of China Association, 1943-1948. A deputy chairman of committees and deputy Speaker House of Lords. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) 1949 and Justice of the Peace (JP) 1946, Suffolk. Honorary Colonel 419 Coast Regiment RA (Suffolk TA), 1947-1954.

Ainger,
John Delamain
"Jack"
J.D. Ainger
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Stewart Delamain Ainger (1861-1911), and Katharina Louisa Boyd (1872-1941).
Married (28.01.1936, Portsmouth, Hampshire) Eva Bailey (21.03.1906 - 06.1975); one son, two daughters.

28.12.1901
Kingston, Middlesex, Surrey
-
11.08.1970
Harare, Rhodesia

A/S.Lt. ?

S.Lt. 15.05.1922

Lt. (E) 15.09.1923

Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.09.1931

Cdr. (E) 30.06.1936 (retd 28.12.1949)

15.12.1915 entered RN

04.09.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

13.04.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Danae (cruiser) (China)

29.03.1929 - (02.1931) Assistant to Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Hong Kong (and for torpedo depot)

(01.1932) no appointment listed

21.04.1932 - (03.)1934 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)

10.12.1934 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, Mechanical Training Establishment, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)

20.07.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Durban (cruiser)

21.05.1937 - (02.)1939 Engineer Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser)

(04.1939) - (08.1939) no appointment listed

05.10.1939 - (02.)1941 Torpedo Engineer Officer-in-Charge, Torpedo Depot Malta [HMS St. Angelo]

08.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)

(06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed

19.01.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Scylla (cruiser)

18.09.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Wayland (depot ship)

21.04.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)

Ainger,
John Dawson
J.D. Ainger
Son of William Dawson Ainger, and Annie Slade.

22.06.1902
Croydon, Sussex
-
04.02.1987
West Super Mare district, Somerset

A/S.Lt. 30.07.1922?

S.Lt. 15.08.1923, seniority 30.07.1922

Lt. 29.02.1924

Lt.Cdr. 29.02.1932 (retd 11.11.1932; own request)

Cdr. (retd) ? (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

RAF:

F/O 16.06.1924

15.01.1916 entered RN

16.06.1924 - (01.1925) pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon, Wilts.

18.09.1926 - (07.1927) pilot, No. 402 Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean)

07.09.1928 returned to naval duty

01.07.1929? - (01.)1932 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (and as Acting Observer) *

16.07.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)

06.09.1939 - (02.1941) HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)

(08.1942) no appointment listed

31.12.1942 - (07.1945) HMS St Vincent (air training and torpedo training establishment, Gosport) (for air training)

* starting date given as: 01.07.1919; misprint?

Ainley,
John Francis
J.F. Ainley
Son of Annie Ainley. (09?).1888
Belfast, Northern Ireland
-
13.09.1965

T/Sg.Lt. 28.08.1917

Sg.Lt. 05.02.1920, seniority 28.08.1917

Sg.Lt.Cdr. 28.08.1923

Sg.Cdr. 28.08.1929 (retd 17.01.1933; own request)

Sg.Capt. (retd) 07.08.1933 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [investiture 04.11.47]

Education: MB, BCh, BAO (Belfast, 1917).

14.11.1922 - (01.1925) RN Hospital, South Queensferry [HMS Columbine]

25.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (and as speciliast in ophtalmology)

21.06.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Maine (hospital ship) (and as ophtalmic specialist)

11.1929 - (04.1930) Royal Hospital, Malta (and as speciliast in ophtalmology) [HMS Egmont]

27.11.1930 - (02.1931) Royal Hospital, Haslar (and as speciliast in ophtalmology) [HMS Victory]

03.04.1931 - (01.)1933 HMS Nelson (battleship) (and as ophtalmic specialist) [accommodated in HMS Rodney]

29.02.1940 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Isle of Jersey (hospital ship)

10.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Cap St Jacques (hospital ship)

Ainslie,
Henry Harvey Clement
H.H.C. Ainslie
Son (with one sister) of Brig.Gen. Clement Ainslie, RE (1867-1941), and Eliza Mary Royse (1871-).
Married (19.10.1928, St James's Church, Jersey) Irene May Obbard (26.09.1905 - 18.03.1986), daughter of Lt.Col. Owen James Obbard (?-1928), I.A. and Burma Commission, and Maud Ellen Hawkins (?-1952); two sons, one daughter.

12.09.1898
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
-
08.11.1982
Grouville, Jersey, Channel Islands

A/Lt. ?

Lt. 26.10.1920, seniority 15.09.1919

Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1927 (retd 12.09.1943)

Cdr. (retd) 12.09.1943 (reverted to retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

DSC 16.03.1918
for services in action with enemy submarines

07.08.1914 entered RN

27.09.1923 - (01.1925) torpedo course, HMS Vernon

02.11.1926 - (07.1927) Torpedo Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)

02.11.1928 - (02.1931) Torpedo Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) (and as Fleet Torpedo Officer, America and West Indies Station)

03.09.1931 - (01.1934) Torpedo Officer, HMS York (cruiser)

(03.1934) no appointment listed

21.04.1934 - (02.1936) Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]

27.08.1936 - (04.)1942 RN base, Singapore (and for duty with Commodore Malaya) [HMS Terror II, later HMS Sultan]

13.06.1942 - (06.)1944 Officer-in-Charge, Controlled Mining Base, Auckland [HMNZS Philomel]

(10.1944) no appointment listed

01.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon (training establishment, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)

Ainslie,
Michael Frederic Roberts
M.F.R. Ainslie (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jennifer Shelton)
Son (with one sister and two brothers)of Lt.Col. Charles Marshall Ainslie, DSO (1878-1940), and Sophie Margaret Hogan (1877-).
Married (11.05.1949, Malta) Margaret Caruana Galizia.
From Ash Vale, Surrey. 20.06.1913
Tempe, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
-
14.01.1987
Clifton, Bristol

Prob. S.Lt. 01.06.1937

S.Lt. 04.08.1938, seniority 01.06.1937

Lt. 12.07.1939, seniority 20.06.1937

Lt.Cdr. 20.06.1944

Cdr. 31.12.1950 (retd 20.06.1963)

DSO 23.11.1943 successful submarine patrols [investiture 09.05.44]

DSC 17.06.1941 successful submarine patrols [investiture 25.11.41]

DSC 20.11.1945 patrols Far East 01-08.45 [decoration posted]

MID 06.09.1940 successful submarine patrols

LM 24.10.1944 attack on Sicily

(07.1937) - (02.)1938 no appointment listed

05.04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet)

05.09.1938 - (10.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]

16.12.1938 - 01.1939 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship for 6th Submarine Flotilla, Portland) (for submarines)

28.01.1939 - (08.)1939 Third Hand, HMS H 32 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]

12.12.1939 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Tetrarch (submarine)

06.10.1941 - (12.1941) submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]

10.04.1942 - 01.03.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS P 221 (submarine), renamed 1943: HMS Shakespeare (submarine)

01.03.1944 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Trusty (submarine)

15.04.1944 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Thrasher (submarine)

06.12.1945 - (10.1947) staff, Royal Naval College, Eaton, Chester [redesignated RN College, Dartmouth] [HMS Britannia]

08.02.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Malta)

15.08.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

10.09.1951 - (05.)1953 Admiralty [HMS President]

21.10.1953 - (04.1955) Executive Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser)

(01.1956) no appointment listed

14.02.1956 - (01.1957) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

28.07.1958 - (01.1959) Administration Section, HQ Allied Forces Mediterranean, NATO (Malta)

(07.1961) NATO *

(02.1963) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Ainslie,
Wallace St John
W.St.J. Ainslie
Son (with seven sisters and one brother) of Ralph St John Ainslie (1861-1908), and Annie Wallace Rooke (1861-1940).
Married; two sons.
From Fife.

11.05.1900
Liverpool, Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
10.02.1990
Poole, Dorset

A/S.Lt. ?

S.Lt. 15.09.1919

Lt. 31.08.1921

Lt.Cdr. 31.08.1929 (retd 11.05.1945)

A/Cdr. 1945?

Cdr. (retd) 11.05.1945

OBE 01.01.1938 New Year 38

MID 17.04.1945 catering services Normandy

07.05.1917 entered RN

21.05.1924 - (01.1925) HMS King George V (battleship) (turret drill ship, Devonport)

(07.1927) no appointment listed

(08.1929) no appointment listed

01.08.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)

05.01.1931 - (01.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Bryony (sloop)

(03.1934) no appointment listed

03.05.1934 - (02.1936) HMS Renown (battlecruiser)

01.09.1936 - (02.1937) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

23.04.1937 - (08.1938) HMS Caledonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth)

19.09.1938 - (04.)1940 Flag Lieutenant-Commander, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

17.10.1940 - (08.)1943 Officer Instructor, RNVR (South African Division) [HMS Afrikander II (SANS HQ, Simonstown)]

08.1943 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser)

15.05.1946 - (05.1953) Training Commander, Sea Cadet Corps

Ainsworth,
Michael Lionel Yeoward
M.L.Y. Ainsworth
Eldest son of Maj. Bertrand Lionel Ainsworth (1892-1972), and Gwendoline Katherine Yeoward (1894-1987), of Heswall, Cheshire.
Married (24.11.1954, Petersfield district, Hampshire) Patricia Mary St Clair-Ford (née Bedford), widow of Cdr. Vernon John St. Clair-Ford, RN, and daughter of Mr & Mrs F.G.H. Bedford, of Bovey Tracey, Devon; ... children (son Peter Michael Ainsworth, MP).

13.05.1922
Hooton, Wirral district, Cheshire
-
28.08.1978
Hillingdon, Middlesex

T/A/S.Lt. RNVR 19.02.1943

T/S.Lt. RNVR 19.08.1943

Lt. 01.08.1945, seniority 07.11.1944

Lt.Cdr. 07.11.1952 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd 27.12.1958)

26.03.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Bulldog (destroyer)

04.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Bleasdale (destroyer)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

01.08.1945 transferred from RNVR to RN

09.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Kenya (cruiser)

18.05.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Resource (borne for ships in the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth)

17.01.1949 - (05.1950) staff, RN College, Greenwich

(05.1953) no appointment listed

(01.1956) HMS Gannet *

Played cricket (1946-1964).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Airey,
Richard Ryder
R.R. Airey
Son of Richard Airey, and Louisa Mary Ryder, of Bromley, Kent.
Married 1st ((09?).1928, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Amy Sheila Palmer, only daughter of Capt. A.R. Palmer, RN, of Alverstoke, Hampshire & Derreen, Queen's County.
Married 2nd (10.10.1938, Kenilworth, South Africa) Kathleen Yvonne Simpson, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Rex Simpson, of Cliveden, Kenilworth, Cape Province, South Africa.
Late of the White Cottage, Bowsden Lane, Shorne, near Gravesend in the county of Kent formerly of Marelands, Southwater, in the county of Sussex.

17.12.1901
Bromley, Kent
-
05.04.1941
(KIA)
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1921

S.Lt. 15.05.1922

Lt. 15.08.1923

Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1931

Cdr. 30.06.1939

15.09.1915 entered RN

08.04.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Walrus (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

22.11.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (China)

23.05.1929 - (08.1929) Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

27.01.1930 - (04.)1930 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (and for gunnery duties in Reserve Fleet)

14.08.1930 - (02.1931) Gunnery Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser)

14.08.1931 - (06.)1933 Gunnery Officer, HMNZS Diomede (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer [lent to Royal New Zealand Navy]

30.11.1933 - (03.)1934 Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

18.07.1934 - (02.)1936 Gunnery Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser)

(08.1936) no appointment listed

20.08.1936 - (01.)1937 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)

22.01.1937 - (04.1939) Gunnery Officer, HMS Amphion (cruiser) (and as Fleet Gunnery Officer)

(07.1939) no appointment listed

31.07.1939 - 05.04.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Dauntless (cruiser)

Aitchison,
John Gordon
J.G. Aitchison
Son of Sir Stephen Harry Aitchison, 1st Bt. and Alice Mary Willson.
Married (31.10.1919) Eveline Betty Sutherland, daughter of William Tudor Sutherland; two sons.

05.08.1893
Castle Ward, Northumberland
-
15.08.1964
Surrey South-Western district, Surrey

Lt.
30.01.1916

Lt.Cdr.
30.01.1924 (retd 01.11.1935; own request)

Cdr. (retd)
01.11.1935 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

OBE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44 [investiture 21.11.44]

15.05.1906

entered RN

(01.1925)

no appointment listed

17.08.1925
-
(07.1927)
HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

16.12.1927
-
(08.1929)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties)

(04.1930)

no appointment listed

09.01.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Anti-Gas School)

(01.1933) no appointment listed

05.03.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Effingham (cruiser)

(03.1934) no appointment listed

25.05.1934
-
(02.1941)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties)

01.02.1942
-
(07.1945)
HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)

Aitken,
Andrew
A. Aitken ?
-
21.09.1987

A/S.Lt. (A)
25.11.1938

S.Lt. (A)
25.11.1939

Lt. (A)
25.05.1941
?, seniority 25.11.1940

A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
> 12.1943, < 04.1944

Lt.Cdr.
25.11.1947

Cdr.
30.06.1954 (retd 28.08.1959)

10.10.1938
-
(07.1939)
observers' course [HMS Excellent]

(08.1939)
-
(04.1940)
Fleet Air Arm

04.03.1940
-
(02.1941)
Acting Observer, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Warspite (battleship)]

15.06.1942
-
(10.1943)
HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)

03.11.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)

02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)

(04.1946)

HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)

31.10.1947
-
(07.1948)
Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Ausonia]

01.02.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Gambia

03.10.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Harrier

04.10.1954
-
(01.1956)
HMS President

Aitken,
Alexander Braid
A.B. Aitken

04.01.1903
Glasgow, Scotland
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1991 ?

Seaman
? [J92372]

[A/]T/Boatsw. = T/Cd.Boatsw.
13.02.1943 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

03.1943
-
(08.1943)
French Ship Courbet

(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

12.1943
-
(04.1946)
Boom Defence Depot, Malta [HMS St Angelo]

Aitken,
Charles Alfred John
C.A.J. Aitken

08.09.1896
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
(12?).1964
Paddington district

Seaman
? [M35220]

T/Wt.Electr. = T/A/Sen.Cd.Electr.Offr.
24.06.1940 (retd > 07.1948, < 05.1950)

A/Electr.Lt. =
T/Lt. (L)
> 06.1944, < 07.1945

01.11.1940
-
(07.1942)
HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)

21.07.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)

03.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)

08.01.1946
-
(07.1948)
Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Aitken,
John
J. Aitken ?
-
21.11.1999

Cadet
01.09.1935

Midsh.
01.09.1936

A/S.Lt.
01.09.1938

S.Lt.
?, seniority 01.07.1938

Lt.
16.01.1940

Lt.Cdr.
16.01.1948 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd > 01.1957)

DSC
25.08.1942
Murmansk convoys 42 [investiture 09.02.43]

MID
05.08.1941
sinking U 110

(02.1936)
-
(08.1936)
no appointment listed

01.09.1936
-
(08.1938)
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)

05.09.1938
-
(04.1939)
promotion course, Portsmouth

20.05.1939
-
(08.1939)
HMS Gipsy (destroyer)

07.12.1939
-
(02.1941)
HMS Arrow (destroyer)

02.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Bulldog (destroyer)

13.09.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Raider (destroyer)

01.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Cardigan Bay (frigate)

(04.1946)

HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) *

08.06.1948
-
(07.1948)
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

(05.1950)

HMS Tamar *

08.10.1951
-
(04.1953)
HMS President

30.04.1953
-
(01.1956)
HMS Diana

* indexed, but not listed as such

Aitken,
James Hill
J.H. Aitken
Married Constance Mary Aitken, of Bayswater, London.

15.04.1878
-
10.11.1944
[age 66]
[Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, G.11.4]

S.Lt.
?

Lt.
31.12.1900

Lt.Cdr.
? (retd)

Cdr. (retd)
11.11.1918 [in recognition of services rendered during the war]

15.07.1892

entered RN

served Great War

30.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

Aitken,
Richard
R. Aitken ?
-
13.03.2000

[T/A/]Signal Boatsw.
15.09.1939

A/Cd. Signal Boatsw.
18.06.1945

Cd.Comm.Offr. = Sen.Cd.Comm.Offr.
01.10.1946

Comm.Lt.
22.09.1952

Lt.Cdr. (Special Duties)
01.01.1957 (retd 02.03.1958)

01.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Rodney (battleship)

31.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)

01.04.1942
-
(08.1943)
HMS Saker II [later: HMS Saker] (accounting base, Washington, USA)

22.09.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Bulolo (landing ship headquarters)

31.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr. Petersfield)

04.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley)

01.02.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Forth

17.04.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Mercury

(05.1953)
-
(01.1956)
no appointment listed

Aitken,
Robert Angus
R.A. Aitken

10.03.1895
Aberdeen, Scotland
-
18.08.1951
Ferrier

Seaman
? [M20912]

[A/]Wt.Eng.
01.07.1942

T/Cd.Eng.
(1950) (retd 15.06.1950)

MBE
08.06.1950
HM's birthday 50

(02.1943)

HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) *

(06.1943)

no appointment listed

07.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Torridge (frigate)

(04.1944)
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed

(07.1945)

HMS Loch Quoich (frigate) *

24.07.1945
-
(07.1948)
HMS Mounts Bay (landing ship)

* indexed but not listed as such

Aitken,
Robert Craigmile
R.C. Aitken 28.03.1920
-
11.2003
Kendal, Westmorland

T/Lt. (E)
29.06.1944 (reld > 07.1948, < 05.1950)

11.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Arethusa (cruiser)

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

(07.1948)

no appointment listed

Aitkenhead,
Thomas Elliott
"Tom"
T.E. Aitkenhead
Married (1912, Portsmouth) Margaret 'Madge' Horsey (died 08.1968, aged 85); no children.

06.09.1879
Gateshead, Durham
-
13.07.1955
Spring Woods, Virginia Water, Surrey

T/Eng.S.Lt.
?

Eng.Lt.
01.04.1908

A/Eng.Lt.Cdr.
?

Eng.Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1916

Eng.Cdr.
01.07.1919

Eng.Capt.
30.06.1928 (retd 06.09.1934)

Eng.R.Adm. (retd)
04.12.1934 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

CBE
01.01.1944
New Year 44 [investiture 15.02.44]

1901
-
1902
HMS Fire Queen

1902
-
1902
HMS Australia

1902
-
1904
HMS Bulwark

1904
-
1904
HMS Berwick

1904
-
1906
HMS Good Hope

1906
-
1907
HMS Grafton

1907
-
1909
HMS Isis

1909
-
1911
HMS Fisgard

1911
-
1916
HMS Fox

1916
-
1916
HMS Prosperine

1916
-
1917
HMS Minos

1917
-
1917
HMS Mansfield

24.08.1917
-
(01.)1919
HMS Vanity (torpedo-boat destroyer)

1919
-
1919
HMS Hecla (special torpedo vessel (depot ship))

1919
-
1920
4th Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Flotilla

1921
-
1922
HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)

01.05.1922
-
(08.)1923
Engineer Officer, HMS Curacoa (light cruiser) (and as Squadron Engineer Officer, 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron)

30.08.1923
-
1926
HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices) (for instructional and repair duties)

31.03.1926
-
(06.)1928
HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

26.12.1928
-
1931
Fleet Engineer Officer, 5th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Kent (cruiser)]

(02.1931)

no appointment listed

01.10.1931
-
(03.)1934
Fleet Engineer Officer, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (for a while accommodated in HMS Royal Oak)

1934
-
06.09.1934
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)

23.05.1934
-
06.09.1934
also: Naval ADC to the King

28.08.1939
-
(07.1945)
HMS President:

28.08.1939
-
(02.)1941
for duty with Director of Dockyards

(12.)1941
-
(07.1945)
Engineering Officer, Tyne Area (Department of the Director of Dockyards)

Active member of the Wentworth golf club.

Aizlewood,
Herbert William
H.W. Aizlewood 18.02.1912
-
10.1994
Sheffield, Yorkshire

T/Schoolm.
30.06.1941

T/Schoolm. (CWO)
30.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

28.09.1941
-
(06.1943)
Mechanical Training Establishment, Devonport [HMS Drake]

23.06.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Ceylon (cruiser)

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

Akehurst,
Arthur Maurice
A.M. Akehurst
Son of Arthur Gerald Akehurst, and Alice Mabel Akehurst (née Gosling), of Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
(09?).1919
Brighton, Sussex
-
30.06.1945
(KIA) [age 25]
[Kiel War Cemetery, 6.C.2]

Cadet
01.01.1937

Midsh.
01.01.1938

A/S.Lt.
01.01.1940

S.Lt.
14.06.1940, seniority 01.06.1939

Lt.
16.10.1940

MID
14.05.1946
attacks on U-boat 27.03.42

(02.1937)
-
(07.1937)
no appointment listed

01.01.1938
-
(08.1939)
HMS Southampton (cruiser)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

16.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Fitzroy (minesweeper)

(1942)

HMS Leamington (destroyer)

(08.1942)

no appointment listed

(02.1943)

anti-submarine course

22.02.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Grenville (destroyer)

03.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)

?
-
30.06.1945
HMS Royal Albert (RN base, Berlin)

Akerman,
Anthony Charles
A.C. Akerman

24.01.1908
Lewisham
-
28.11.1993
New Forest, Hampshire

Midsh.
15.01.1926

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
01.11.1928

Lt.
01.06.1930

Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1938 (retd 24.01.1953)

A/Cdr.
< 07.1948

Cdr. (retd)
24.01.1953

OBE
21.12.1943
Operation Husky

DSC
01.01.1940
New Year 40 [investiture 06.08.40]

MID
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43

15.09.1921 entered RN

15.05.1925
-
(07.1927)
HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)

(08.1929)

no appointment listed

03.08.1929
-
(01.1932)
HMS Waterhen (destroyer)

(09.1932)

HMS Tiverton (minesweeper) *

28.09.1932
-
(11.1934)
Navigating Officer, HMS Bideford (sloop) (Persian Gulf)

(02.1935) no appointment listed

14.06.1935
-
(07.1935)
Navigating Officer, HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier)

21.11.1935
-
(02.1937)
Navigating Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser)

(07.1937)
-
(02.1938)
no appointment listed

11.04.1938
-
(06.1938)
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)

06.06.1938
-
(08.1938)
HMS Iron Duke (training ship)

18.08.1938
-
(1940)
Navigating Officer, HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader) (and for flotilla duties, 8th Destroyer Flotilla)

(04.1940)

HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) *

18.10.1940
-
(08.1942)
Navigating Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)

(02.1943)
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed:

(1943)

Force A (Operation Husky, Sicily)

23.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Navigation Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

10.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Naval Assistant, Navigation Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

01.03.1947
-
(07.1948)
Master Attendant, King's Harbur Master and Deputy Superintndent, HM Dockyard Bermuda [HMS Malabar]

01.11.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Dryad

(05.1953)

no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Akeroyd,
Richard Hewson
R.H. Akeroyd
Son of ... Akeroyd, and ... Burgess.
Married Patricia ... (30.07.1924- ).
From Bakewell.
07.05.1921
Bakewell, Derbyshire
-
15.02.1998
Lyndon / Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA
[Floydsburg Cemetery, Oldham County]

Cadet
01.09.1939

Midsh.
01.05.1940

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
06.1942, seniority 01.04.1941

Lt.
01.09.1942 (emgcy > 04.1946) (removed from emgcy 16.01.1952)

DSC
14.11.1944
patrols 06.43-07.44 [investiture 15.02.45]

01.05.1940
-
(04.1941)
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)

15.07.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Cyclops (depot ship)

13.09.1942
-
(02.1943)
HMS P 55 (submarine)

13.09.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Unsparing (submarine)

(07.1945)

submarine commanding officer's course, Portsmouth

03.08.1945
-
(10.)1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Varne (submarine)

18.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Scotsman (submarine)

Akers,
William Hall
W.H. Akers

07.04.1906 Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
12.12.1978
Portsmouth distirct, Hampshire

Ch.Ordn.Art.
? [D/M 36688]

[A/]T/Wt.Ordn.Offr. = T/Lt. (E)
12.04.1943

T/A/Sen.Cd.Air Eng.
12.04.1946 (retd 05.05.1956)

DSM
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42 [investiture 10.11.42]

(1942)

HMS Carlisle (cruiser)

18.05.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Resource (fleet repair ship)

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

25.02.1947
-
(07.1948)
RN Aircraft Maintenance Yard, Belfast [HMS Gannet]

15.09.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Gannet

12.06.1951
-
(05.1953)
HMS Gannet

Akhurst,
Algernon Frederic
A.F. Akhurst
Son of late Herbert Akhurst, Civil Servant, and late Florence Akhurst. Unmarried.
13.11.1893
Croydon, Surrey
-
28.03.1972
Seaford, Sussex

A/T/Naval Instr.
(1915)

T/Naval Instr. = T/Instr.Lt.
01.09.1915

Instr.Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1922

Instr.Cdr.
01.06.1930

Instr.Capt.
16.03.1940 (retd 13.11.1948)

CBE
01.01.1944
New Year 44 [investiture 23.05.44]

CrCl&Ban
24.06.1947
training Chinese seamen

Education: Merchant Taylors' School, London; Jesus College, Cambridge, Math. Tripos, Wrangler (MA)

1915

joined RN

01.01.1916
-
(01.)1919
HMS Minotaur

1919

HMS Cornwall

1920
-
1922
HMS Barham (battleship)

18.07.1922
-
1926
RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]

1926
-
1926
RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

06.04.1926
-
1928
HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)

05.04.1928
-
(02.)1931
Instructor in Navigation, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

30.09.1931
-
(06.)1933
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

31.07.1933
-
(02.)1936
Fleet Education Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship), accommodated in HMS Rodney (battleship)]

20.04.1936
-
1939
RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]

23.01.1939
-
(08.1939)
Education Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

11.03.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)

17.06.1940
-
(08.)1942
HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)

21.08.1942
-
1947
Professor of Navigation, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (and as Dean of College)

16.01.1947
-
(07.)1948
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate)

Alan-Williams,
Kenneth
"Ken"
K. Alan-Williams 18.08.1921
-
01.07.1999
Drosford, Hampshire

Cadet 01.01.1939

Midsh. 01.09.1939

S.Lt. 16.08.1941

Lt. 16.11.1942

Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1950

Cdr. 30.06.1959 (retd 18.08.1974)

MID 03.11.1942 Operation Harpoon

MID 13.06.1957 Suez operations

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Admiralty No. 1517; Blake House; 1st term 01.05.1935-11th term 20.12.1938).

01.01.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)

01.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Manchester (cruiser)

23.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Fury (destroyer)

09.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Wallace (destroyer)

05.02.1942 - (10.1943) HMS Matchless (destroyer)

(12.1943) no appointment listed

14.12.1943 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Chiddingfold (destroyer)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

01.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Saintes

01.03.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate)

12.04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Gabbard

(05.1953) - (07.1954) HMS Terror *

20.07.1954 - (01.1956) Commanding Officer, HMS Volage

08.1956 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Portcullis

(01.1959) no appointment listed

(01.1960) Admiralty [HMS President] *

28.03.1960 - (07.1961) RNO Aden, Commanding Officer, HMS Sheba & SORF Aden

02.07.1962 - (02.1964) staff, Commodore, Naval Drafting [HMS President]

02.10.1967 - (02.1969) Staff Security Officer, HMS Daedalus (HQ Flag Officer, Naval Air Command, Lee-on-Solent)

(10.1971) DGNR

(1972) Officer-in-Charge, Joint Services Sailing Centre

* indexed, but not listed as such

Albert,
Richard James
R.J. Albert

23.12.1896
Chatham, Kent
-
(09?).1953
Maidstone dstrict

Seaman
? [M4829]

A/T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng.
12.02.1943 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

(06.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

12.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto)

(07.1945)

HMCS Ingonish (minesweeper) *

(04.1946)

HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Albery,
Horace Stanleigh
H.S. Albery (12?).1898
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
18.10.1968
North End, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Schoolmaster
27.07.1920

Schoolmaster (CWO)
21.02.1935

A/Sen.Master
> 02.1943, < 06.1943

Instr.Lt.
15.10.1946, seniority 01.07.1939

Instr.Lt.Cdr.
01.07.1951 (retd 29.10.1953)

Education: BSc

04.04.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Barham (battleship)

28.04.1924
-
(01.)1925
HMS Velox (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

30.05.1925
-
(07.1927)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

(04.1928)
-
(06.1928)
no appointment listed

29.04.1929
-
(04.)1930
HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)

21.04.1930
-
(08.)1930
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland)

31.12.1930
-
(02.)1931
advanced course for schoolmasters, RN College, Greenwich

24.07.1931
-
(01.)1933
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

02.01.1933
-
(03.)1934
HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

08.06.1934
-
(10.1936)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

04.01.1937
-
(07.1937)
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)

11.01.1938
-
(08.1939)
HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)

26.03.1940
-
(12.1943)
Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (training establishment, Brighton)

14.03.1944
-
(06.)1944
HMS Rodney (battleship)

16.10.1944
-
(04.)1946
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

18.10.1946
-
(06.1950)
HMS Collingwood (radar and electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire) *

Lecturer, HM Dockyard Technical College.
* (05.1953) still indexed, but not longer listed as such

Albrecht,
August William
A.W. Albrecht

26.01.1901
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977 ?

Midsh.
15.08.1917

S.Lt.
?

Lt.
15.01.1923 (emgcy 26.05.1925)

Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)
15.01.1931 (reverted to emgcy < 04.1946)

Cdr. (emgcy)
08.05.1946

15.09.1914 entered RN

(01.1919)

HMS Colossus (battleship)

27.02.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Dee (fishery protection trawler)

28.07.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Dublin (cruiser) (Africa)

26.05.1925

transferred to the Emergency List

25.11.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)

22.07.1940
-
(12.1941)
Assistant Staff Officer (Operations), HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)

(08.1942)
-
(07.1945)
HM Dockyard Simonstown, South Africa [HMS Afrikander]:

(08.1942)
-
(06.1944)
indexed, but not listed as such

11.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
Assistant King's Harbour Master (and for passive defence duties)

Albrow,
Ernest Arthur
E.A. Albrow

19.03.1906
Kingston, Surrey
-

Seaman
? [M36646]

Wt.Eng. = Cd.Eng.
01.04.1943

Sen.Cd.Eng.
01.10.1950 (reld? > 01.1956, < 07.1961)

12.05.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Danae (cruiser)

11.12.1944
-
(10.1947)
HMS Cumberland (cruiser)

(07.1948)

HMS Widemouth Bay (anti-aircraft frigate) *

11.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Mermaid (sloop)

26.06.1952
-
(01.1956)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Alcock,
Brian Ussher
B.U. Alcock (Photo courtesy of Mrs Angela W. Palmer)

Only child of George Herbert Alcock, surgeon.
Married (04.08.1938, Wellington, New Zealand) Lorna Godkin Brodie; two sons (born in NZ), three daughters (born in the UK).
14.07.1908
Walthamstow, West Ham district, London
-
07.08.1995
Harare, Zimbabwe

Midsh. (E)
01.01.1928

S.Lt. (E)
01.06.1930

Lt. (E)
01.10.1932

Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.10.1940

A/Cdr. (E)
> 02.1943, < 06.1943

Cdr. (E)
30.06.1945 (retd 10.06.1957)

MID
21.03.1944
torpedoed by Japanese 13.07.43

12.01.1928
-
(01.)1932
engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]

12.05.1932
-
(09.)1932
HMS Concord (cruiser; signal school cruiser) (Portsmouth)

12.10.1932
-
(08.)1934
HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)

(11.1934)

no appointment listed

08.01.1935
-
(02.)1937
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (shot for the RN Rifle Team in 1935 & 1936 at the Interservices XX Match)

24.03.1937
-
(08.1942)
HMNZS Leander (cruiser)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

1943
-
13.07.1943
HMNZS Leander (cruiser)

(08.1943)
-
(07.1945)
no appointment listed: returned to the UK 10.1943

(04.1946)

HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *

14.07.1946
-
(10.1947)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)

03.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier)

09.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
Admiralty [HMS President]

25.10.1951
-
(05.)1953
Admiralty [HMS President]

1953
-
(04.)1955
Chief Engineer, HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *

1955
-
?
stationed at Harland & Wolff (Belfast)

(01.1956)
-
(01.1957)
HMS Perseus (aircraft carrier) *

AMIMechE
* indexed, but not listed as such

Alcock,
Gilbert St Aubyn
G.St.A. Alcock

04.07.1896
Paddington, London
-
15.12.1979

Lt.
15.03.1918

Lt.Cdr.
15.03.1926 (retd 04.07.1941)

A/Cdr.
> 08.1939, < 04.1940

Cdr. (retd)
04.07.1941 (reverted to retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

LM
28.05.1946
?

15.05.1909

entered RN

30.06.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Colombo (cruiser) (East Indies)

28.09.1926
-
(07.1927)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

19.06.1929
-
(02.1931)
HMS Curlew (cruiser)

(01.1932)

no appointment listed

03.02.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Canterbury (cruiser)

(01.1933) no appointment listed

10.02.1933
-
07.1935
HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser)

(02.1936)

no appointment listed

31.03.1936
-
(02.)1938
HMS St. Angleo (RN base, Malta)

(06.1938)
-
(10.1938)
no appointment listed

07.11.1938
-
(08.1939)
HMS Colombo (cruiser)

11.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
Staff Officer (Operations), HMS Gloucester II (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)

06.04.1940
-
(02.1941)
Staff Officer (Operations), HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)

(08.1942)

no appointment listed

(02.1943)

Naval Operational Planner, Combined Operations HQ

03.1943
-
(04.1946)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

Alcock,
Guy Wemyss
G.W. Alcock 05.11.1908
Wolverhampton
-
18.05.1990
New Forest, Hampshire

Midsh. (E)
01.01.1928

S.Lt. (E)
01.04.1930

Lt. (E)
01.06.1932
?, seniority 01.04.1932

Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.03.1940

Cdr. (E)
30.06.1944 (retd 05.11.1958)

A/Capt. (E)
< 05.1953

OBE
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46

MIMechE

12.01.1928
-
(01.1932)
course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham

(09.1932)
-
(01.)1934
no appointment listed

09.01.1934 - (11.1934) RN Barracks Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]

22.01.1935
-
(10.1936)
HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

(01.1937)
-
(02.1937)
no appointment listed

18.03.1937
-
(04.)1939
HMS Centurion (target vessel)

26.06.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Hero (destroyer)

11.1940
-
(08.)1943
HMS Valiant (battleship)

(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

15.02.1944
-
(04.)1944
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)

18.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Nabberley (mobile naval air base, Ludham/Bankstown)

11.03.1946
-
(04.)1946
Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department [HMS President] (and for duty with D of S)

12.1946
-
(07.1948)
Officer-in-Charge, Technical Training, HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Brancote, Nuneaton)

19.07.1949
-
(05.1950)
Superintendent, RN Aircraft Maintenance Yard, Belfast & Officer-in-Charge RN Air Station Belfast [HMS Gannet]

14.02.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Redjacket

26.03.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS President

Alden,
Harold Bussey
H.B. alden

26.04.1904
Yarmouth, Norfolk
-
10.03.1996
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Seaman
? [J96559]

Gnr. (T)
01.10.1938

A/Cd.Gnr. (T)
18.06.1945

Cd.Electr.Offr. (L) = Sen.Cd.Electr.Offr. (L)
01.10.1947

Lt. (L)
01.10.1951 (retd 26.04.1954)

A/El.Lt.Cdr.
?

MID
01.01.1943
New Year 43

23.02.1939
-
(04.1939)
HMS Boreas (destroyer) (Portsmouth)

08.06.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Velox (destroyer)

(02.1941)

no appointment listed

03.02.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Laforey (destroyer)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

31.03.1943
-
(04.1946)
HMS Ceylon (cruiser)

?

transferred to Electrical Branch

(07.1948)

no appointment listed

14.09.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Kenya

27.02.1952
-
(01.1956)
HMS Collingwood

Alder,
George Frederick
G.F. Alder

09.11.1881
Gibraltar
-
(09?).1950
Newton Abbott district

Seaman
? [196629]

Cd.Sign.Boatsw.
05.07.1922 (retd < 01.1925)

Sign.Lt. (retd)
04.08.1942 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

25.06.1912

commissioned RN

01.10.1939
-
(02.1941)
Port War Signal Station, St. Anthony

(08.1942)
-
(06.1943)
Port War Signal Station, ... [the same as above?]

29.07.1943
-
(07.1945)
Port War Signal Station, Dartmouth

Alder,
William
W. Alder 10.02.1909
-
09.02.2000
West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire

A/Wt.Tel.
29.12.1936?

Wt.Tel.
?, seniority 29.12.1936

A/Lt.
01.09.1940

Lt.
07.1941, seniority 15.08.1938

Lt.Cdr. (L)
11.04.1947, seniority 15.08.1946 (retd 10.02.1954)

AMBritIRE

14.01.1937
-
(04.)1939
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)

(07.1939)
-
(08.)1939
no appointment listed

20.10.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS St. Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)

27.09.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

01.02.1943
-
(08.)1943
HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr. Petersfield)

18.09.1943
-
(06.1944)
Signals Officer, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (in lieu of specialist signals officer)

21.05.1945
-
(04.1946)
Communications Officer, HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)

11.04.1947

transferred to Electrical Branch

27.10.1947
-
(07.1948)
HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr. Petersfield)

(05.1950)

HMS Collingwood *

24.09.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS President

* indexed, but not listed as such

Alderson,
Basil Roxby
B.R. Alderson
Son of Wilfred Ernest Alderson and Ida May Brewis.
Married (23.12.1939) Margaret Edith Cross; one son, one daughter. 08.10.1909
Jesmond, Northumberland
-
26.04.1980
Ruddington, Rushcliffe district

Prob. Sg.S.Lt. RNVR 07.03.1931

Sg.Lt. 02.04.1935

Sg.Lt.Cdr. 02.04.1941

A/Interim Sg.Cdr. 02.04.1947

Sg.Cdr. 31.12.1949

Sg.Capt. 31.12.1958 (retd 30.04.1965)

Education: LRCP&S, LRFPS.

07.03.1931 - 02.04.1935 served with Tyne Division, RNVR [HMS Calliope, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland]

02.04.1935 - (07.)1935 Royal (Naval) Hospital, Haslar

10.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

1937 - 01.01.1938 HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper) (Devonport)

01.01.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Hebe (minesweeper) (Devonport) *

15.08.1938 - (07.)1939 Assistant Medical Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship & school) (for Fort Blockhouse)

(08.1939) no appointment listed

08.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Kelly (flotilla leader) (and for flotilla duties) (Home Fleet)

1940 - 1941 RN Hospital, Haslar, Portsmouth

27.01.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Sandhurst (depot ship)

(02.1943) Medical Department, Admiralty **

(06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed

09.08.1943 - (07.)1945 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

18.10.1945 - (04.)1947 Royal (Naval) Hospital Malta

29.10.1947 - (05.)1949 Instructor, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire)

30.11.1949 - 1952 RN Sick Quarters, Singapore [HMS Terror]

15.10.1952 - 1955 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

17.02.1955 - 1958 RN Barracks, RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus]

15.09.1958 - 1961 RN Hospital, Haslar, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

23.06.1961 - 1965 HMS Ganges (Royal Naval Junior Training Establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk)

* listed since 01.01.1937, but as of 07.1937 still at HMS Glorious, so probably a misprint
** indexed, but not listed as such
Published: The parish register of Bowes, 1670-1837. Bishop's transcripts, 1615-1700, transcribed by the Reverend William Oliver and edited by Alderson (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 1964); The parish register of Rokeby, Yorkshire, Vols I-VII, 1598-1837, transcribed by the Reverend William Oliver and edited by Alderson (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 1965).

Alderson,
Ernest Claude William
E.C.W. Alderson
Son (with five sisters) of Claude Henry Hubert Alderson (1872-), and Lilly Mockridge (1876-).
Married ((06?).1919, Teesdale district, Durham) Annie Mary Porter (1899 - ), daughter of Henry Porter (1874-), and Edith Mary Beadle (1876-).

23.12.1898
Bow, London, Lancashire
-
04.08.1954
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Seaman ? [SS123797 & K40616]

[A/]T/Wt.Mech. = T/A/Sen.Cd.Mech. 22.07.1940 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

A/T/Cd.Mech. = Sen.Cd.Mech. 18.06.1945

05.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS James Barrie (auxiliary boom defence vessel)

06.02.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Dunnet (boom working vessel)

(02.1943) HMS Rooke (boom defence depot) *

05.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Barcombe (boom defence vessel)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Alderson,
Frank Harold
F.H. alderson
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Edward Philip Standly Alderson (1865-1906), and Evelyn Caroline Sturt (1873-1901).
Married ((09?).1918, Tavistock district, Devon) Marjorie A. Ward

22.09.1896
Brentford, Middlesex
-
19.09.1987
Cardigan, Dyfed, Wales

Lt. 30.04.1918
22.03.1922, seniority 30.01.1918

Lt.Cdr. 30.01.1926 (retd 22.09.1941)

Cdr. (retd) 22.09.1941 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 07.1948)

A/Capt. (retd) > 10.1943, < 12.1943

MID 05.10.1918 ?

15.09.1909 enterd RN

14.12.1918 - (01.1919) First Lieutenant, HMS Restless (destroyer)

15.02.1923 - (01.1925) Navigating Officer, HMS Wistaria (sloop) (North America and West Indies)

23.11.1926 - (07.1927) Navigating Officer, HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (Africa)

05.07.1929 - (04.)1930 Navigating Officer, HMS Canterbury (cruiser)

24.06.1930 - (02.)1931 Navigating Officer, HMS Caldeon (cruiser)

21.07.1931 - (09.1932) Navigating Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser)

(01.1933) no appointment listed

15.02.1933 - (02.)1936 Dockyard Sheerness [HMS Pembroke]

18.10.1936 - (08.)1938 Assistant King's Harbour Master, Dockyard Malta [HMS St. Angelo]

? - (10.1938) course, RN College, Greenwich

03.01.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet)

(07.1939) - (08.1939) no appointment listed

05.09.1939 - (02.1941) Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake]

(08.1942) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *

01.09.1942 - (10.1943) HMS Prosperine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Scapa Flow) **

* indexed, but not listed as such
** (12.1943) - (07.1945) still indexed, but not longer listed as such

Alderson,
Thomas Richard
T.R. Alderson
Son of Robert and Gertrude Maud Alderson.

23.03.1906
Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire
-
12.03.1988
Harlow, Essex, Middlesex

Petty Offr. ? [D/J 105998]

Chief Petty Offr. ?

A/T/Gnr. = T/Cd.Gnr. 16.09.1944 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)

DSM 23.01.1943 covering force Russian convoy [investiture 20.07.43]

MID 02.12.1941 services in Mediterranean

(1941) HMS Defender (destroyer)

12.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tengra (Combined Operations base, Mandapam, India)

(04.1946) no appointment listed

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