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S.H. Beattie  to  R.L. Blake
Beattie, Stephen Halden "Sam" Son of Rev. Prebendary Ernest Halden Beattie, MC. Married (1933) Philippa Mary Blanchflower; four sons.	29.03.1908 Leighton, Montgomery - 24.04.1975 Mullion, Cornwall [Ruan Minor Churchyard]	Midsh. 01.01.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1929 S.Lt. 12.08.1930, seniority 01.04.1929 Lt. 10.04.1931, seniority 01.11.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1938 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 07.07.1960) VC 21.05.1942 attack St. Nazaire 28.03.42 [investiture 22.06.45] MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41 MID 19.02.1946 escape & internment as POW LegH 1947 St. Nazaire 28.03.42 [investiture 14.07.50] CdeG 1947 St. Nazaire 28.03.42 ? Men 1969 ?	Education: Abberley Hall; Rugby 1926 joined Royal Navy 10.01.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.01.1930 - (04.)1930 promotion course, Portsmouth 14.08.1930 - (05.)1933 HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 05.05.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Ganges (naval base Harwich) 17.06.1935 - (07.)1935 [Commanding Officer?], HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 23.07.1935 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Arrow (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 28.07.1937 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Zulu (destroyer) 06.07.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Vivien (destroyer) 03.1942 - 28.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbeltown (destroyer) (St. Nazaire raid) 28.03.1942 - (04?).1945 prisoner of war in German captivity (04.1946) no appointment listed 08.03.1948 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Hawke (Upper Yardmen's College, Exbury House, Exbury, Southampton) 20.07.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Whirlwind 24.03.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMAS Shoalhaven (frigate) & Senior Officer, 1st Australian Frigate Squadron 03.05.1954 - (01.)1956 Naval Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] 17.04.1956 - 1958 Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf [HMS Jufair] 14.07.1958 - (01.1959) Commanding Officer, HMS Birmingham [Flag Captain to Flag Officer Flotillas, Home Fleet] Naval Adviser to Ethiopian Government, 1965.
Beckett, Roger Caton Son of George Ignatius Beckett, teacher, and Ellen Caton. Married Ethel Winifred (née ...); ... children (one son?).	19.03.1901 South Africa - 28.08.1973 Maenporth, Falmouth district, Cornwall	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1921 S.Lt. 1923? Lt. 25.10.1924, seniority 15.10.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1930 (retd 19.03.1946) A/Cdr. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 Cdr. (retd) 19.03.1946 MID 08.12.1942 administration & defence of Malta summer 42	03.01.1923 - (08.1923) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [GHMS President] 31.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean) (05.1926)     no appointment listed 01.1927 - (02.)1927 First Lieutenant, HMS Torrid (destroyer) 05.1927 - (07.)1927 First Lieutenant, HMS Violent (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (and on recommissioning) 26.08.1927 - (06.1928) First Lieutenant, HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 05.1929 - (05.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Whitley (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 13.11.1931 - (10.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Sardonyx (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 10.03.1933 - (11.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (destroyer) (China) 14.12.1934 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Defender (destroyer) (China) 25.02.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Grenade (destroyer) (and on commissioning) [while being built at Govan] 07.03.1936 - (06.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Gallant (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (08.1938)     no appointment listed 19.09.1938 - (08.)1939 Officer Instructor, Mersey Division RNVR [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 01.11.1939 - 12.02.1940 HMS Brazen (destroyer) 03.1940 - 05.1940 HMS Garland (destroyer) 30.05.1940 - (02.1943) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (06.1943) - (06.1944) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * 17.10.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Squid (Combined Operations base, Southampton) 05.03.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) * indexed, but not listed as such
Beckett, Walter Napier Thomason "Joe" Son of Brig.Gen. William Thomas Clifford Beckett, CBE, DSO (1862-1956), and Bessie Drummond, daughter of General C.S. Thomason, RE, Benga. Brother of Maj.Gen. C.T. Beckett, CB, CBE, MC. Married (1928) Gladys Hemery (died 1964), daughter of late E.B. Lindon; one daughter.	25.03.1893 Bilasput, Central Provinces, India - 10.03.1941 Saltash Hospital, nr Devonport Dockyard [Havant and Waterloo (Warblington) Cemetery, sec. 2, old ground, grave 105] [commemorated at the Grantown on Spey war memorial in Scotland]	Midsh. 1910 A/S.Lt. 1913 S.Lt. 15.01.1914 Lt. 15.11.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1929 Capt. 30.06.1936 MVO 22.04.1925 personal escort to Their Majesties during the cruise of the Royal Yacht in Italian Waters 03-04.25 DSC 12.05.1917 CMB No. 4 * MID 1917 * * December 1916. Proceeded to Dunkerque in command of 3rd C.M.B. Division (Coastal Motor Boats) to operate on the Belgian Coast. Organised tempory base and established liaison with French Naval Authorities and with the Air Force. In Command of divisional C.M.B. attack on German destroyers at Zeebrugge, April 7th, 1917 and as a result one enemy was sunk and another seriously damaged.	Education: Park House School, Kent; RN College, Osborne 15.01.1906 entered RN 1914 - 1919 HMS Legion (Harwich Force & Dover Patrol, 1914-1916; Heligoland, Dogger Bank, Terschelling, Belgian Coast, Coastal Motor Boats, 1916 (DSC) 09.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, CMB 86c (Northern Russia, 1919 (Dwina river)) 01.11.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Ramillies (battleship) 30.09.1924 - (05.1926) Commanding Officer, HMS Vendetta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 14.04.1927 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Velox (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 25.06.1929 - (10.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Vendetta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) HMS Fisgard (training depot) * 11.02.1931 - (09.1932) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1933) no appointment listed 01.05.1933 - (06.1933) Commanding Officer, HMS Amazon (destroyer) (Irish Waters) (01.1934) no appointment listed 05.01.1934 - (07.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester (destroyer) & Senior Officer "Vernon" Flotilla [sunk the first Royal Yacht Britannia at St Catherines Deep off the Isle of Wight 09.07.1936 as the dying wish of King George V] (02.1937) no appointment listed 20.04.1937 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel) (Home Fleet) 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.03.1938 - (06.)1938 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 08.01.1939 - (04.)1940 Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master of Devonport Dockyard [HMS Drake] 12.12.1940 - 10.03.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (died from complications resulting from surgery on the day he was meant to have commissioned HMS Exeter after her refit) Heavy-weight boxing champion for the navy for some time, what earned him his nickname (after the British boxer Joe Beckett). Received the thanks of the Admiralty for devices he had designed (e.g. a balloon indicating device for locating fired practice torpedos [dated 14.08.1924], a device submitted concerning a sprocket wheel for mine moorings [dated 15.11.1926]), books he published (e.g. for The boatwain's call [dated May 1923], later incorporated in the Official Seamanship Manual [dated 10.03.1927]). Published: The boatswain's call: how it is used, and some facts about it  (1922); Questions in Dutch and German for Boarding Officers (pamphlet); A few naval customs, expressions, traditions and superstitions (1930) Literature: G.L. Lowis, Fabulous Admirals, and some naval fragments ... (1957; one chapter on Beckett) * indexed, but not listed as such
Beckley, Denis John Son of ... Beckley, a farmer, and ... Buttler. Married 1st Eileen Blanche Beckley (née ...) (divorced 01.12.1955). Married 2nd Andrea Margaret (née ...).	29.04.1914 Islip, Bicester district, Oxfordshire - 26.08.1978 Canberra, Australia	Boy 2nd class 24.09.1929 (rose to PO Boy) Boy 1st class 09.10.1930 Ord.Sea. 28.10.1931 AB Sea. 20.10.1932 Ldg.Sea. 05.01.1933 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 01.01.1937 Lt. 23.11.1938, seniority 16.04.1938 ?, seniority 16.03.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 29.05.1946, seniority 16.03.1946 Cdr. 31.12.1950 (retd 29.04.1964) DSO 17.11.1942 sinking U-boat on Russian convoy PQ17 20.09.42 [investiture 19.11.46] DSC 18.04.1944 4 patrols, 2 U-boats sunk, 2 special operations [investiture 19.11.46] MID 29.07.1941 5 minelaying patrols, sunk armoured tug Atl St - with clasp Afr St - - It St - - Bur St - with clasp BWM 39|45 - - Medals are on display at RN Submarine Museum at Gosport	19.01.1928 - 23.09.1929 Training Ship Arethusa off Greenhithe, Kent 24.09.1929 - 08.10.1930 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) [rose to PO Boy of Advance Class No. 116 and became Instructor Boy when the class went  to sea 07.1930] 09.10.1930 - 15.03.1931 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) (Portland) (as Boy 1st class) 16.03.1931 - 16.07.1934 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (1st Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean) 17.07.1934 - 15.08.1934 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 16.08.1934 - 24.07.1935 HMS Valiant (battleship) (2nd Battle Squadron, Home Fleet) [passed educationally for Sub-Lieutenant 24.01.1935, having previously  passed  for Warrant Officer and held H.E.T. Certificate; rated Leading seaman on normal Port Roster, 01.05.1935] 25.07.1935 - 20.02.1936 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean) [passed professional examination for Sub-Lieutenant 22.08.1935] 21.02.1936 - 03.1936 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] [passed Selection Board for Sub-Lieutenant] 03.1936 - 07.06.1936 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean) 08.06.1936 - 23.09.1936 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [for a Scrutiny Course with 7 other Candidates before Final Selection; rated Acting Petty Officer; passed Final Selection Board with 3 others 07.1936] 24.09.1936 - 04.01.1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1937 - 03.1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 25.04.1938 - 05.08.1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 06.08.1938 - 06.10.1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Portsmouth) (for submarines: HMS Osiris) 07.10.1938 - 02.03.1939 HMS Dwarf (particular service vessel) (for Reserve Group "B" of Submarines) [Watch Keeping Certificate] 03.03.1939 - 28.08.1939 Navigating Officer, HMS Triton (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 01.09.1939 - 20.09.1939 Third Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) & HMS H 49 (submarine) 21.09.1939 - 21.01.1940 Third Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) 26.01.1940 - 11.02.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS H 31 (submarine) 12.02.1940 - 06.1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines: HMS Pandora) 06.1940 - 26.12.1940 HMS Pandora (submarine) 27.12.1940 - 15.08.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Rorqual (submarine) 22.08.1941 - 30.09.1941 HMS Taku (submarine) (additional; for passage to UK) 06.10.1941 - 19.01.1942 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 20.01.1942 - 29.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS P 614 (submarine) (North Russia convoys PQ16, PQ17, PQ18) 07.11.1942 - 19.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) (North Africa landings, Mediterranean) 01.01.1943 - 12.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS P 316 (submarine), renamed 1943: HMS Templar (submarine) (launching at Barrow, sea trials, Norway, Mediterranean, Far East, Malaya) 13.04.1944 - 24.06.1944 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (additional; for passage to UK) 25.06.1944 - 09.07.1944 short course of instruction, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) 31.07.1944 - 04.08.1944 damage control course, Damage Control School 14.08.1944 - 01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Cowdray (destroyer) (North Sea & Channel, Far East & Australia, return to Chatham) 28.01.1946 - 21.10.1947 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) 11.1947 - 11.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Whelp (destroyer) (passage to South Africa) 11.1947 - 09.12.1949 HMS Nigeria (for duty in office of the Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic) 13.03.1950 - 12.03.1951 HMS Woolwich (Reserve Fleet, Harwich) (from 01.02.1951 staff appointment operations) 27.03.1951 - 23.08.1951 Commanders' staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.1951 - 22.12.1953 HMS Terror (for miscellaneous duties) (as Liaison Officer at Navy Office, Melbourne, Australia) 26.04.1954 - 18.01.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Gorregan & as Senior Officer, 51st Minesweeping Flotilla (Port Edgar, Scotland) 19.01.1955 - 18.07.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Dalswinton & as Senior Officer, 51st Minesweeping Squadron (Port Edgar, Scotland) 14.09.1955 - 27.09.1955 HMS President (additional; for passage by air via Singapore to Australia) 28.09.1955 - 13.02.1958 HMAS Lonsdale (naval depot, Port Melbourne) (additional; as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, RAN Navy Office, Melbourne) 14.02.1958 - 06.04.1958 HMAS Lonsdale (additional; for reversion to RN) 07.07.1958 - 04.11.1960 Admiralty Liaison Officer for the Merchant Navy, Liverpool [HMS President] 14.02.1961 - 31.03.1964 HMS Terror (for duty with Naval Liaison Officer, Australia) 22.09.1966 - 28.04.1974 served RAN as Cdr. on the Emergency List: 22.09.1966 - 10.10.1966 HMS Harman (additional) 11.10.1966 - 16.10.1966 HMAS Penguin (additional) 17.10.1966 - 21.10.1966 HMAS Watson (Naval Direction and Torpdeo Anti-Submarine School, Sydney) (additional) 22.10.1966 - 22.12.1968 Executive Officer, HMAS Watson (Naval Direction and Torpdeo Anti-Submarine School, Sydney) & as Senior Officer (Reserves) to Flag Officer-in-Charge Eastern Australia [temporarily in command 24.10.1968-14.11.1968] 20.01.1969 - 30.01.969 HMAS Harman (for Navy Office as Deputy Director of Reserves) 31.01.1969 - 06.01.1970 HMAS Harman (for Navy Office as Director of Reserves) (temporarily) 07.01.1970 - 28.04.1974 HMAS Harman (for Navy Office as Deputy Director of Reserves)
Beet, Trevor Agar	02.07.1916 - 17.10.1971 Gosport	Cadet 01.09.1933 Midsh. 01.05.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 16.03.1937 Lt. 01.10.1938 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1954 Capt. 30.06.1962 (retd 27.08.1971; medically unfit) OBE 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 61 MID 29.01.1946 attempted escapes as a POW	03.05.1934 - (08.1934) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 17.04.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 24.09.1936 - (02.1937) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1937 - (07.1937) promotion course, Portsmouth 11.12.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 17.12.1938 - 05.05.1940 Third Officer, HMS Seal (submarine) (ship commissioned 28.01.1939) (mined & surrendered ship) [acquitted with honour after a court-martial in 04.1946] 05.1940 - 1945 POW (04.1946) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 17.01.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Trondra 07.01.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Indefatigable (01.1956) HMS President * (1960) Naval Attaché, Lisbon (Portugal) 20.12.1960 - (07.1961) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.02.1963 - (02.1963) NATO Defence College 28.05.1968 - (02.1969) NCSO(I) to Commander Far East Fleet [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)] 07.01.1971 - 07.07.1971 Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Begg, Robin Alastair	06.08.1917 - 31.03.2002 West Surrey district, Surrey	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.01.1938 Lt. 16.01.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1947 Cdr. 30.06.1951 Capt. 31.12.1957 (retd 13.03.1967) MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche MID 27.06.1944 services Adriatic 10.43	01.01.1935 - (07.1935) special entry Cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 25.08.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Danae (cruiser) (China) 01.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 02.05.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 02.06.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 12.01.1942 - (08.)1942 qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)] 21.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 04.02.1943 - (06.1944) Gunnery Officer, HMS Troubridge (destroyer) 05.07.1945 - (04.1946) gunnery school, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (07.1948) no appointment listed 03.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 18.09.1951 -