| S.J. Adams
to T.R. Alderson |
Adams,
Samuel Jackson
 |
10.07.1914
-
06.1984
Surrey Northern,
Surrey
|
Prob.
Schoolmaster
|
05.09.1944 (reld
1946?)
|
|
Education: BA
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
 |
17.01.1898
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
11.10.1971
Honiton, Devon
|
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
|
|
23.09.1930
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
HMS Tiger (battle cruiser)
|
01.10.1931
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
|
(01.1934)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
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
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Douglas
(destroyer)
|
05.05.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Crescent (destroyer) (in charge while under construction)
|
|
Adams,
Sydney Edward
 |
?
-
12.2004 still alive |
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)
|
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
07.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Opportune (destroyer)
|
(07.1948)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
03.06.1952
|
-
|
(05.1953)
|
RN
Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth
|
24.09.1955
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
HMS
Ark Royal
|
(07.1961)
|
|
|
Department
of the Director-General, Aircraft, Admiralty *
|
(02.1963)
|
|
|
Naval
Security Department, Admiralty *
|
(03.1969)
|
|
|
Naval
Manpower Department, Admiralty *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Adams,
Sydney William
 |
11.02.1905
Lewes, Sussex
-
died between 08.1983 and 08.1989
|
T/Wt.
Telegr.
= T/Cd.Telegr.
|
21.10.1943 (retd
> 07.1945, < 04.1946)
|
|
|
Adams,
Thomas Congdon
 |
06.05.1885
Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland
-
01.05.1959
Plymouth
[age 73]
|
Wt.Tel.
|
01.07.1916
|
Cd.Tel.
|
01.07.1926 (retd
07.12.1926; own request)
|
Tel.Lt.
(retd)
|
11.03.1942 (reverted to retd
1945/46)
|
|
MBE
|
01.01.1946
|
New
Year 46
|
|
31.12.1924
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
HMS
Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
01.09.1939
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Drake
(for Fort Staddon W/T Station)
|
|
Adams,
Wilfred Herbert
 |
?
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
|
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

Son of Leonard Graham Adams.
Married (1928)
Erica Margaret Hawkins.
Lived ad Weston Super Mare, Somerset.
diary
(1920-1922)
|
20.04.1901
Bath, Somerset
-
28.03.1963
[Greensleeves, Crondall, 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
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]
|
(05.1933)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
04.05.1933
|
-
|
(07.1934)
|
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
|
-
|
08.09.1943
|
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
|
-
|
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
|
1953
|
-
|
1954
|
Flag Officer,
Home Fleet Training Squadron
|
Director of Civil
Defence, Southern Region (Reading), 1955-1963. Younger Brother of
Trinity House 1951.
|
Adams,
Woodrow Gregory

Son of Sydney and Martha Adams (née Mathias), of Paddington.
|
(09?).1918
Willesden, London
-
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)
|
?
|
|
04.07.1938
|
-
|
(10.1938)
|
HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
|
06.10.1938
|
-
|
(08.1939)
|
pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School,
Netheravon
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
Fleet Air
Arm
|
?
|
-
|
05.10.1940
|
HMS Ark
Royal (aircraft carrier) (killed in action)
|
|
Adamson,
Ian Ronald Atherton

Son 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]
|
|
Education: BA Hons. (Cantab.)
05.05.1942
|
-
|
05.02.1944
|
HMS Uganda (cruiser)
|
|
Adcock,
Douglas John

Son of Albert Edward and Florence Annie Adcock.
|
1916
Lewisham, London
-
19.10.1940
(KIA) [age 23]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]
|
Prob. S.Lt.
|
03.04.1939
|
S.Lt.
|
?, backdated
16.02.1939
|
|
(07.1939)
|
|
|
HMS Ark
Royal (aircraft carrier) *
|
(08.1939)
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
no appointment
listed
|
?
|
-
|
19.10.1940
|
HMS Rainbow
(submarine)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Adcock,
Francis William
 |
(03?).1901
Oakham, Rutland
-
02.12.1967
Bradford-on- Avon, Wiltshire
|
A/T/Wt. Stores
Offr.
|
08.06.1944
|
Lt. (S)
|
03.02.1946
|
Lt.Cdr. (S)
|
03.02.1954 (retd
> 01.1956, < 07.1961)
|
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Forte
(RN base, Falmouth) *
|
11.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Artifex
(heavy repair ship)
|
06.1948
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
HMS
Commonwealth
|
01.01.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMAS
Commonwealth
|
03.07.1951
|
-
|
(05.1953)
|
HMS
Battleaxe
|
17.02.1954
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
HMS
Mercury
|
Civil Defence Officer.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Adcock,
Harry
 |
26.08.1899
Salisbury, Wiltshire
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
|
T/Wt.Electr.
= Cd.Electr.Offr.
|
29.12.1941
|
T/A/Cd. Electr. =
T/A/Sen.Cd. Electr. Offr.
|
29.12.1945
(retd > 05.1950, < 07.1952)
|
A/Lt. (L)
|
> 05.1950
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks [personal number M27552]
|
08.01.1942
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS Lynx
(RN base, Dover)
|
(02.1943)
|
-
|
(10.1943)
|
no appointment
listed
|
24.11.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Unicorn
(aircraft maintenance ship)
|
18.05..1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
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)
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
Addick,
William George
 |
?
-
|
A/T/Wt. Stores
Offr.
|
24.10.1944
(reld/retd? 1940s)
|
|
BEM
|
?
|
?
|
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
Addington,
[the Hon.]
Hiley William Dever
 |
1917
-
29.01.2001
London
|
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)
|
|
01.09.1935
|
-
|
(04.1939)
|
engineering
course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
|
25.04.1939
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS Ark
Royal (aircraft carrier)
|
(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
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
730
Squadron FAA (for RN Air Section, Abbotsinch) [HMS Sanderling]
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Pioneer
(maintenance carrier) *
|
10.10.1946
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
Aircraft
Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Addington,
Leonard George
 |
?
-
died between 08.1983 and 08.1989
|
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 1945/46)
|
|
DSC
|
14.03.1916
|
Gaba
Tepe 04.05.15
|
|
| (05.1915) |
|
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Usk
|
22.11.1924
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
Navigating
Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China)
|
05.04.1927
|
-
|
(07.1927)
|
Navigating
Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (and for duty with the Captain Superintendent
of Contract-Built Ships)
|
01.02.1929
|
-
|
(01.1934)
|
HM
Dockyard Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]
|
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)
|
06.03.1942
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
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
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also:
Naval ADC to the King
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Co-author of the first three
of the five volume official history of "The war against Japan" (London : HMSO, 1957-1969).
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Addis,
Eric Elrington

Son of David and Emily Addis.
Married ((06?).1926) Hazel
I. Wilson, of Bacton, Suffolk.
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1899 ?
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31.08.1941
[age 42]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery]
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A/Lt.
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?
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Lt.
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15.10.1920
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Lt.Cdr.
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15.10.1928 (retd
04.04.1930; own request)
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Cdr. (retd)
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19.05.1939
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(01.1925)
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no appointment
listed
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22.12.1926
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-
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(08.1929)
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HMNZS
Philomel (cruiser) [lent to Royal New Zealand Navy]
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barrister-at-law
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19.08.1939
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-
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(04.1940)
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HMS
Warspite (battleship)
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15.07.1940
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-
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31.08.1941
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HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria)
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Addison,
Sir Albert Percy

Son of Albert Addison, Solicitor, Portsmouth. Married
(1908) Mary Harriet (died 1947), daughter of W. Kellett, Southport; one
son one daughter; 1948, Vera
Louise Wilson Hughes.
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08.11.1875
Portsea Island, Hampshire
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13.11.1952
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Capt.
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30.06.1913
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R.Adm.
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02.11.1923
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V.Adm.
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28.02.1929 (retd
01.03.1929)
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Adm. (retd)
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31.12.1932
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KBE
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03.06.1931
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HM's
birthday 31
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CB
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03.06.1924
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HM's
birthday 24
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CMG
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29.08.1917
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Straits
of Otranto 15.05.17
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(1894)
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Midshipman,
HMS Garne
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01.01.1913
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War
Staff Officer (without qualifying course)
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1914
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-
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1919
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served
European War (CMG, Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre, Order of Savoy, Italy;
Order of Rising Sun, Japan; Bronze [14.04.1897] and Silver [17.01.1894] Humane
Society Medals)
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(05.1917)
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Commanding Officer,
HMS Dartmouth
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1923
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-
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1924
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Commodore
and Rear-Admiral commanding Australian Fleet
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01.09.1924
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-
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1926
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Rear-Admiral
(D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry
(cruiser)]
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14.03.1927
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-
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(07.1927)
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Senior
Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich
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01.03.1928
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-
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01.05.1937
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Director
of Dockyards, Admiralty
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(09.1939)
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-
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(04.1946)
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no appointment
listed
|
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Addy,
Ernest
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?
-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1977
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A/T/Wt.Eng.
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02.07.1943 (retd
21.03.1950)
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09.1943
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-
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(06.1944)
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HMS Teme
(frigate) *
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(04.1946)
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no appointment
listed
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16.09.1946
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-
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(07.1948)
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HMS
Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down)
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* 07.1945 still indexed but not longer listed as such
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Adlam,
Ernest Maxted
 |
?
Uttar Pradesh, India
-
1990
Ontario, Canada
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A/Gnr. (T)
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25.02.1940 (retd
> 02.1941, < 08.1942)
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22.03.1940
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-
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(04.1940)
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HMS Vidette
(destroyer)
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(02.1941)
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no appointment
listed
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Adlam,
George Albert
 |
01.11.1909
Lambeth, London
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19.05.2000
Taunton, Devon, Somerset
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Gnr. (T)
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26.09.1942
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Sen.Cd.Gnr.
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