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S.H. Beattie  to  G.F. Blaxland
Beattie, Stephen Halden "Sam" Son of Rev. Prebendary Ernest Halden Beattie, MC (1874?-1960), and Ethel Knowles.. Married ((06?).1933, Gosport district, Hampshire) Philippa Mary Blanchflower ((09?).1911 - ), daughter of Paym.R.Adm. Edward Charles Blanchflower (1881-1949); four sons.	29.03.1908 Leighton, Montgomeryshire, Wales - 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. 1925     special entry cadet 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 20.03.1952 - 09.02.1954 on loan to RAN (Exchange Officer): 24.03.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMAS Shoalhaven (frigate), from 09.06.1953 HMAS Quadrant & 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] (01.1960)     HMS Birmingham * Naval Adviser to Ethiopian Government, 1965. * indexed, but not listed as such
Beauchamp, Lawrence King	? -	Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1929	11.12.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) ... - ... ...
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 WM 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 Fourth Hand, 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)
Bedford, Denham Maurice Turner Son of Adm. Sir Frederick Bedford, GCB, GCMG.	19.09.1886 Totnes district, Devon - 17.10.1974 Dorset	... ... Capt. 30.06.1927 R.Adm. 10.08.1938 (retd 11.08.1938) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 24.07.1942?	15.05.1901     entered RN ... - ... ... 14.11.1939 - (12.1941) Officer-in-Charge, Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 24.07.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties) 05.07.1943 - (01.)1945 Deputy Superintendent, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 19.06.1945 - (07.)1945 Commodore Superintendent Taranto [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)] 07.1945 - 31.12.1945 Flag Officer, Taranto & Adriatic and Liaison Italy
Beet, Trevor Agar	02.07.1916 - 17.10.1971 Gosport, Hampshire	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 Married ((06?).1945, Surrey South Western district) ... Brown.	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 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 27.11.1954 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Corunna (destroyer) (01.1956) no appointment listed 1957? - 1959? Executive Officer, HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier) [Operation "Grapple" - H-bomb tests at Christmas Island] 09.02.1960 - (07.1961) Commanding Officer, HMS Lynx (frigate) 14.03.1962 - (02.1963) Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia] 07.07.1966 - 07.01.1967 also: Naval ADC to the Queen
Begg, [Sir] Varyl Cargill Son of Francis Cargill Begg and Muriel Clare Robinson. Married (07.08.1943) Rosemary Cowan, CStJ; two sons.	01.10.1908 Kensington district, Greater London - 13.07.1995 Dower House Nursing Home, Headbourne Worthy, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.09.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930 S.Lt. ? Lt. 01.12.193 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 30.06.1947 R.Adm. 07.01.1957 V.Adm. 21.05.1960 Adm. 08.03.1963 Adm. of the Fleet 12.08.1968 (remained on the active list, but actually retd 1973)  GCB 12.06.1965 HM's birthday [investiture 07.07.65] KCB 01.01.1962 New Year 62 [investiture 13.02.62] CB 01.01.1959 New Year 59 [decoration presented] DSO 03.10.1952 Korea (4th list) [investiture 03.03.53] DSC 29.07.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan [investiture 19.10.43] MID 29.06.1951 Korean waters	Education: St Andrews School, Eastbourne; Malvern College. 1926     special entry cadet ... - ... ... 28.09.1933 - (08.1934) qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] 23.06.1939 - (10.)1940 Gunnery Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser) 01.1941 - 12.1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 06.05.1943 - (07.1945) Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1946)     no appointment listed 15.04.1948 - 1950 Commanded HM Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 1950 - 1952 Captain (D), 8th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Cossack] 1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 1954 - 1954 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 1955 - 1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph 1957 - 1958 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth 1958 - 1960 Flag Officer Commanding Fifth Cruiser Squadron and Flag Officer Second­in­Command, Far East Station 1961 - 1963 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice­Chief of Naval Staff 1963 - 1965 Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in the Far East, and UK Military Adviser to SEATO 1965 - 1966 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel 1966 - 1968 Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord 1969 - 1973 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar KStJ 1969. PMN 1966.
Belben, George Devereux Son of George Belben and of Lucy Belben (née Dickinson); husband of Joyce P.M. Belben, of Verwood, Dorsetshire.	14.05.1897 Bark Hart, Seldown, Poole - 18.02.1944 (KIA) [age 46] [Naples War Cemetery, Italy, II.0.9]	... ... Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 30.06.1939 DSO 04.04.1944 Aegean operations [AntShpStk ?] 06.10.43 DSC ? ? AM ? ? MID 01.08.1944 Operation Shingle (posthumously)	01.1910     entered RN 14.05.1934 - (08.1934) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth ... - ... ... 26.09.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Canton (armed merchant cruiser) (02.1941) no appointment listed 01.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Saker II 10.08.1942 - 18.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Penelope (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-410 off Anzio]
Belfield, Joseph Thomas Son (with two sisters) of Joseph Belfield, boiler maker, and Clara Twigger, of Wanstead. Married ((09?).1928, Devonport district, Devonshire) Jessica "Jessie" May Hoskins (30.05.1903 - 02.2000).	27.08.1887 Leytonstone, West Ham district, London - 12.09.1975 Worthing district, West Sussex	A/Engine Room Artificer 4th cl. 27.09.1909 [M1337] Engine Room Artificer 4th cl. 15.03.1911 Engine Room Artificer 3rd cl. 26.09.1912 Engine Room Artificer 2nd cl. 25.09.1916 Mate (E) 06.08.1917 A/Eng.Lt. 06.08.1919 Eng.Lt. 1921?, seniority 06.08.1919 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 06.08.1927 (retd 27.08.1932) Eng.Cdr. (retd) 27.08.1932 (reverted to retd 11.10.1945) OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 [investiture 29.07.41] 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	Fitter & turner. 27.09.1909     enlisted RN on a 12 year engagement, HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 27.01.1910     HMS Hecla (depot ship) 31.05.1910     HMS Blenheim (cruiser; depot ship) 15.08.1910     HMS Blake (cruiser; depot ship) 04.03.1911     HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 19.03.1911     HMS Thetis (cruiser; minelayer) 12.08.1911     HMS Aboukir (armoured cruiser) 16.12.1911     HMS Terrible (cruiser) 17.04.1912     HMS Achilles (armoured cruiser) 18.09.1913     HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 19.09.1913     HMS Fisgard (boy artificers' training establishment, Portsmouth) 17.10.1913     HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 19.03.1915     HMS Royalist (light cruiser) 29.08.1917 - 19.12.1918 HMS Collingwood (battleship) (02.1919) - (03.1919) no appointment listed 20.03.1919 - 01.1920 HMS Cyclops (fleet repair ship) 01.1920 - 07.1920 HMS Hussar (torpedo gun-boat) (Genoa) 10.07.1920 - 08.1920 HMS Seraph (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Blenheim] (09.1920) - (01.1921) no appointment listed 17.02.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Conquest (light cruiser; parent ship 1st Submarine Flotilla) 11.1924 - 15.08.1926 HMS Centaur (cruiser; flag ship Commodore Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas) 18.10.1926 - 21.08.1928 HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 18.12.1928 - 08.02.1930 HMS Active (destroyer) (and for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract Built Ships) (while under construction at Newcastle-on-Tyne) 09.02.1930 - 03.1932 HMS Active (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (05.1932) - (09.1932) no appointment listed Driving & supervising examiner, Ministry of Transport. 28.08.1939 - 31.10.1939 HMS Mackay (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties) 01.11.1939 - (12.)1943 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties with Captain (D), Liverpool) (OBE) 01.01.1944 - (08.)1945 HMS Defender (ocean escort base, Liverpool) Member, Pax Humana Lodge of Freemasons, London. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, Charles Courtenay Son of William Atkinson Bell (1844-1920), and Charlotte Frances ("Fanny") Nevinson (1851-1927). Married (21.11.1917, Ulverston, Lancashire) Margaret (Peggy) Pattinson (born c. 1895); two daughters.	15.07.1883 Mansfield, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire - 12.08.1966 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland	Cadet 09.05.1899 Midsh. 26.03.1900 A/S.Lt. 1903? S.Lt. 26.10.1903 Lt. 01.04.1905 Cdr. 30.06.1917 (retd 01.01.1923) Capt. (retd) 15.07.1928 (recalled 1939/40) (reverted to retd > 06.1944, < 10.1944) DSO 17.10.1919 Mineclearing Force 01-06.19	15.01.1898     entered RN 05.10.1903     HMS Royal Oak 26.11.1903     HMS Mercury (for instruction in navigation) 19.04.1904     HMS Hannibal 16.11.1905     HMS Hussar 13.08.1906     HMS Prosperine 19.09.1908     HMS Dryad (for pilotage course) 24.12.1908     HMS Hawke (for voyage out & home) 22.07.1909     HMS Juno 24.03.1911     Navigating Officer, HMS Aboukir 03.01.1912     Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Cornwall 26.09.1920 - 14.10.1921 Commanding Officer, HMS Sherborne (twin-screw minesweeper) & Senior Officer, ... Minesweeping Flotilla & Mine Clearance Officer, Galloper Shoal Area 15.10.1921 - 1922? Local Defence Division, Admiralty Chicken-farmer in Sussex, 1923-1939. (04.1940) no appointment listed 05.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Moreton Bay (armed merchant cruiser) 12.09.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Derbyshire (armed merchant cruiser) 01.06.1942 - 12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge Brightlingsea 15.01.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
Bell, Charles Stuart	25.02.1890 Abergavenny, Monmouthshire - 11.06.1956	Seaman ? [237883] A/Mate 22.06.1918 Lt. 22.07.1920 Lt.Cdr. 22.07.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1934 (retd 25.02.1940) A/Capt. (retd) > 06.1944, < 07.1945	31.12.1915     commissioned 14.10.1918 - (07.1919) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 04.04.1923 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS Badminton (minesweeper) 03.06.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) 07.01.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) (01.1932) no appointment listed 01.03.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (08.1934)     no appointment listed 19.09.1934 - (07.1937) Executive Officer, HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean) 07.1937 - (02.1941) HMS Durban (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 25.08.1941 - (06.1944) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.) 10.1944 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Ariel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
Bell, Frederick Secker   Youngest son of Col F.B. Bell, HAC. Married Dulcie, daughter of Nahun Barnet, FRIBA, Melbourne, Aust.	17.08.1897 Westminster, London - 23.11.1973 Richmond upon Thames district, Surrey	Lt. 15.09.1918 16.09.1920, seniority 15.06.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1931 Capt. 31.12.1938 (retd 08.01.1948) CB 23.12.1939 action Admiral Graf Spee 13.12.39	Education: Matfield Grange, Kent; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (05.1910-...) 1914 - 1915 served in HMS Cumberland in Cameroons campaign (HMS Canada (Grand Fleet and Jutland)) 1916 - 1923 submarines (01.1919 no appointment listed) 07.10.1923 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS Scythe (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 07.12.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) 12.03.1928 - (08.1929) for training duties, HMS Victory (Portsmouth) 1930 - 1932 lent to RAN: 07.04.1930 - (02.1931) HMAS Australia (cruiser) 21.07.1931 - (09.1932) for duty at Naval Office, HMAS Cerberus 1933 RN Staff College 01.01.1934 - (07.1935) Staff Officer (Operations) & (Intelligence) to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.10.1935 - 25.10.1938 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Repulse (battle cruiser) (02.1939) - (08.1939) no appointment listed 25.08.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Battle of the River Plate 13 Dec 39) 24.05.1940 - (02.1941) Flag Captain, HMS Sultan & Chief Staff Officer to Commodore, Malaya 13.02.1942 - (12.1943) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Trincomalee, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] 15.02.1944 - 21.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS St. George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 21.11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) 08.07.1947 - 08.01.1948 Naval ADC to the King
Bell, Harold Peter George Married (1955) Patricia Ann O'Callaghan (03.06.1929 - ), daughter of Maj. Cernelius Edward Alexander O'Callaghan and Dorothy Edith Preston; ... children.	10.10.1922 - 21.01.1992 Yeovil district, Somerset	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1940 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/Paym.S.Lt. 01.09.1942 Paym.S.Lt. 14.06.1943, seniority 01.06.1942 T/Paym.Lt. < 02.1943 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.02.1944 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.02.1952 (retd 31.07.1962)	01.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Resolution (battleship) 20.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS King George V (battleship) (for duty in Admiral's office of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 22.10.1942 - 01.01.1943 Secretary to Commodore for Flotilla Duties, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)] * 01.01.1943 - (12.1943) for duty in office of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Algiers [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers)] (04.1944)     no appointment listed (06.1944)      no appointment listed (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed (07.1948)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) ** 11.05.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 19.05.1954 - (04.)1955 HMS Saintes (destroyer) 08.09.1955 - (01.1957) on staff of Flag Officer Flying Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] (01.1959)     Admiralty [HMS President] ** 12.09.1960 - (07.1961) Squadron Supply Officer, 17th Frigate Squadron [HMS Wizard] * survived sinking of HMS Martin (destroyer) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria 10.11.1942) ** indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, Joseph Charles Sydney Married ((12?).1944, Durham North Eastern district) Jean P. Griffin.	29.11.1907 Devonport, Devon - 27.01.1953 Malta (died) [age 45] [Kalkara Naval Cemetery, Malta]	Seaman ? [J107309] A/Gnr. (T) 26.09.1942 Gnr. (T) 1943?, seniority 26.09.1942 Cd.El.Offr. 1946?, seniority 26.09.1942 A/Sen.Cd.El.Offr. < 05.1949 Sen.Cd.El.Offr. 01.04.1951	(12.1942)     no appointment listed 01.12.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Richmond (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Speaker (escort carrier) * 30.09.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Sluys (destroyer) 13.12.1949 - (05.1951) HMS Defiance (training establishment, Devonport) ? - 27.01.1953 HMS Cheviot (destroyer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bellars, Edward Gerald Hyslop Son of Rev. William and Charlotte Agatha Bellars. Married 1st ((06?).1916, St Marylebone district, Greater London) Ethel Marion Hollins (marriage dissolved, 1945); two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd, Beatrice Maude Watson (died 1949).	10.07.1894 - 04.10.1955 Wandsworth district, London	Cadet 15.05.1907 Midsh. 1912 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 09.12.1914, seniority 15.11.1914 Lt. 15.05.1916 02.10.1920, seniority 15.12.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1928 Capt. 30.06.1935 (retd [< 07.]1945) Cdre. 2nd cl. 16.02. 1944? A/R.Adm. (retd) 1945 R.Adm. (retd) 01.03.1946 (invalided 1946) CB  28.11.1944 Operation Neptune, Normandy 06.44	Education: King's School, Canterbury; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 1914 1914 1915 22.07.1916 - - 1919 (01.)1919 European War: HMS Britannia HMS Albemarle HMS Barham (battleship) (Jutland, 1916) 1919 - 1921 qualified in Gunnery 1922 - 1923 Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) 05.11.1923 - 1926 Experimental Department, Gunnery School, Whale Island [HMS Excellent] 01.03.1926 - 1928 Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (1st commission) 07.01.1929 - (08.1929) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich 31.12.1929 - 1932 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.07.1932 - 1933 Fleet Gunnery Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 19.12.1933 - (07.)1935 Executive Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 18.05.1936 - (02.)1938 Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.06.1938 - 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.04.1940 - 1942 Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.03.1942 - (06.)1943 Flag Captain (CO) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. L.H.K. Hamilton (08.1943) - (12.1943) unknown [no appointment listed in the Navy List] 16.02.1944 - 01.03.1945 Chief of Staff, Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.03.1945 - early 1946 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President]
Bellers, Lionel Hugh William Married ((09?).1934, Paddingston district, London) ... Smart.	01.01.1900 - (09?).1966 Bodmin district, Cornwall	Lt. 15.05.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1928 (retd) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	09.1912     entered RN ... - ... ... 23.08.1939 - (04.)1940 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] (09.1939?) British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Burza (Polish destroyer) 05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Bristol) 03.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 13.04.1943 - (06.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Weterhby, Yorkshire) 15.09.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn)
Bence-Trower, Peter Alexander Only son of Capt. Richard Alexander Bence-Trower (1882-1950), City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), and Violet Elizabeth Mabel "Betty" Weatherall (1895-1969). Married (09.06.1951, St George's Church, Hanover Square, Westminster district, London) Sheena Margaret Grant, elder daughter of Lewis R.H. Grant, of Langside, Peebles; two sons, two daughters.	10.01.1925 Cadogan Square, Chelsea, Greater London SW - 28.03.2008 West Meon, Petersfield, Hampshire	Cadet 01.05.1943 Midsh. 01.01.1944 S.Lt. 1946, seniority 01.12.1944 Lt. 16.01.1946 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1954 Cdr. 31.12.1961 Capt. 30.06.1967 (retd 01.09.1973)	Education: Winchester College (Fearon's (Culver House); 1938.3-1943.2; VIII (Pres.), VI, Assoc. XI). 01.05.1943     special entry cadet RN (King's Sword) 01.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Channel) 12.07.1944 - 10.1944 HMS Malaya (battleship) 10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS King George V (battleship) (Pacific) 03.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Jasper 29.12.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Liverpool 01.01.1950 - (10.1950) Flag Lieutenant to First Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 13.04.1951 - (05.1951) HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) 07.01.1952 - (05.)1953 HMS Actaeon 18.06.1953 - (07.1954) Navigating Officer, HMS Vanguard (01.1955)     HMS Wrangler * 12.02.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Battleaxe (01.1957)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 05.01.1958 - (01.1959) HMS Newfoundland (01.1960)     HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) * 11.08.1960 - (07.1961) Commanding Officer, HMS Carron 19.04.1962 - (03.)1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Surprise 1966 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Gurkha 10.07.1967 - (03.)1968 Commanding Officer, HMS Protector (Antarctic expedition) (08.1968)     HMS Protector * 03.1969 - (03.1969) Naval Attaché, Paris [HMS President] ? - ? Captain of the Fleet 31.01.1972 - ? Controller, Defence Operations Centre, Ministry of Defence Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire, 1982. High Sheriff, Hampshire, 1983. Master, Worshipful Company of Drapers, 1983. * indexed, but not listed as such
Benn, William Gordon	31.01.1889 Brazil - 23.02.1962	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 03.04.1909, seniority 30.08.1908 Lt. 20.06.1910, seniority 28.02.1910 Lt.Cdr. 28.02.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1923 Capt. 30.06.1931 R.Adm. 08.07.1941 (retd 05.03.1946) MID 17.05.1918 ?	15.01.1904     entered RN 14.09.1917 - (01.1919) Navigating Officer, HMS Dartmouth (light cruiser) 13.08.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 16.09.1924 - (01.)1925 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.09.1925 - (07.1927) Navigating Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (and as Fleet Navigating Officer and Staff Officer (Operations), North America and West Indies Station) 08.06.1929 - (02.)1931 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Renown (battlecruiser) & Squadron Navigating Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet) 19.10.1931 - (01.)1932 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 16.09.1932 - (08.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (gunboat) & SO West River (China) 07.05.1935 - (07.)1935 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth 18.09.1935 - (06.)1938 Director of Navigation, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.07.1938 - (07.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Portsmouth) 07.07.1939 - 14.10.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (torpedoed & sunk at Scapa Flow) 28.12.1939 - 10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Fiji (cruiser) 08.10.1940 - (02.1941) Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane] 09.06.1942 - (07.)1945 Director of Navigation, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Bennett, Alfred John Stevens	15.02.1906 Gillingham, Kent - 15.02.1989 Cornwall	Seaman ? [M36624] Wt.Eng. 01.10.1935 Cd.Eng. [renamed Sen.Cd.Eng.] 01.10.1943 A/Lt. (E) < 04.1946 Lt. (E) 25.04.1951 (retd > 05.1953, < 04.1955) MBE 24.03.1942 1st & 6th Minesweeping Flotillas, Northern Waters [investiture 27.07.43] MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44	30.01.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean Fleet) (06.1938) - (08.1938) no appointment listed 10.08.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) * 08.1940 - (02.1943) HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper) * 07.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Modeste (12.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) no appointment listed 12.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Cavendish (destroyer) 07.11.1946 - (07.)1948 HMS Cambrian (destroyer) 13.09.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Highflyer (for miscellaneous duties) 25.04.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) AMIMechE Published: Ship fire prevention (1964) * (04.1940) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** (06.1943) & (08.1943) still indexed as HMS Hussar, but not listed as such
Bennett, John William Huyshe Son of Maj. William Pyt Bennett, RA (1881-1916), and Katherine Cuthburga Huyshe (1886-1962) (re-married 1924: Mrs Arthur R. Ash). Married 1st ((03?).1938, Exeter district, Devon) Joan Margaret Harris, only daughter of the late Capt. A.E. Harris, RN, and Mrs B.A. Taylor, of Spindrift, Bishopsteignton, Devon; one daughter. Married 2nd (17.06.1950) Dinah Nugent (1922-), daughter of Sir George Guy Bulwer Nugent, 4th Bt (1892-1970), and May Esther Bigsby (?-1992), of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath, Somerset; two sons.	16.12.1912 Fareham district, Hampshire - 02.02.1997 Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset	Cadet 01.05.1930 Midsh. 01.01.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1933 S.Lt. 01.11.1933 Lt. 01.06.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1948 Capt. 30.06.1955 (retd 07.07.1964) DSC 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 [decoration posted]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1926-). 26.04.1930 - (08.1930) HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (02.1931)     HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) * 01.02.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 04.05.1933 - 07.01.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.01.1934 - (08.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 31.08.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Viceroy (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 08?.1935 - 1935 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 11.10.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS Viceroy (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 11.12.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 12.04.1937 - (07.)1937 long navigation course [HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)] 04.11.1937 - (08.)1938 Navigating Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser; boys' seagoing training ship and T/B target ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 03.09.1938 - (04.)1939 Navigating Officer, HMS Rochester (escort vessel) (Africa) 31.07.1939 - (02.)1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 10.01.1942 - (02.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Biter (escort carrier) 01.05.1943 - (07.)1945 Navigating Officer, HMS Phoebe (cruiser) 05.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 10.04.1947 - (07.1948) Navigating Officer, HMS Ocean 10.01.1949 - (05.1950) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 07.1953 - (04.)1955 Fleet Navigating Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 21.12.1955 - (01.)1957 Commanding Officer, HMS Tyne 19.06.1957 - (01.)1959 Assistant Director of Plans (LD), Admiralty [HMS President] 01.10.1959 - (07.1961) for duty with the Ministry of Defence [HMS President] 05.03.1962 - (02.)1964 Director of Navigation and Direction Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.01.1964 - 07.07.1964 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennington, Leslie William Abel	20.02.1912 Weymouth, Dorset - (06?).1981 Hastings/R district	A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933 S.Lt. 01.01.1934 Lt. 01.01.1936 Lt.Cdr. 1943, seniority 01.01.1942 Cdr. 30.06.1944 A/Capt. < 07.1948 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 07.07.1960) DSO 29.12.1942 war patrols Mediterranean, 7 ships sunk [investiture 09.02.43] DSO 11.04.1944 sunk Japanese cruiser Panang 11.01.44 [investiture 20.07.45] DSC 13.11.1940 recent patrols [investiture 11.03.41] DSC 06.06.1944 sunk Japanese submarine 02.44 [investiture 20.07.45] DSC 20.02.1945 sinking Japanese ships 06-11.44 [investiture 20.07.45] Naval General Service Medal, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star, Burma Star, Italy Star, War Medal, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal 1953	28.09.1933 - (01.)1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.04.1934 - (08.1934) promotion course, Portsmouth 29.04.1935 - (07.)1935 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 27.11.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Severn (submarine) (Mediterranean) 07.10.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Starfish (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) 21.05.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 25.10.1938 - (08.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Swordfish (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 27.01.1940 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Tigris (submarine) 01.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS H 28 (submarine) 07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 11.05.1942 - 01.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Porpoise (submarine) 25.01.1943 - (11.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Tally-Ho (submarine) 04.1945 - (04.1946) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.08.1947 - (10.1947) in command & as Executive Officer, HMS Aurora * 20.12.1948 - (05.1949) Executive Officer, HMS Vengeance 23.01.1950 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Seahawk (05.1953) HMS Montclare ** 28.12.1953 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Nuneaton) 28.12.1955 - (01.1957) Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and Queen's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] * (07.1948) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Benson, John Frederick Son (with one sister) of Capt. Richard Stoddart Benson, DSO, RN (1892-1940), and  Cicely Katherine Beauchamp (1894-?). Married (30.04.1946, St Mildred's Church, Nurstead, Meopham, Kent) Judith Mildred Edmeades, only daughter of Maj. & Mrs. Henry Edmeades, of Nurstead, Meopham, Kent.	17.09.1918 Amersham district, Buckinghamshire - 20.07.2003 Kent	Cadet 01.01.1936 Midsh. 01.09.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 16.05.1939 1940?, seniority 01.03.1939 Lt. 01.09.1940 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1948 (retd 17.07.1959) MBE 01.01.1960 New Year 60	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.01.1936 - 01.09.1936 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1936 - (06.)1938 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (08.1938)     no appointment listed 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 05.06.1939 - 19.06.1939 course, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) 20.06.1939 - 1939 HMS Curacoa (gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) (08.1939)     no appointment listed 12.03.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Fiji (cruiser) 18.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, NS) 22.09.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Nelson (battleship) (02.1943) HMS Carlisle (cruiser) * 11.05.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Dido (cruiser) 08.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Glendower (training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales) 11.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (05.1949)     HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) * 05.09.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 13.11.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) (07.1954) - (04.1955) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * (01.1956) Admiralty [HMS President] * (01.1957) - (01.)1959 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * * indexed, but not listed as such
Benson, Richard Stoddart Only son of Harry Wallington Benson, and Clarinda Maud Stoddart, sometime of Pretoria, South Africa. Married ((12?).1917, Chelsea district, London) Cicely Katherine Beauchamp (born (03?).1894, Kensington district, London), younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Sydney Beauchamp; one daughter, one son (Lt.Cdr. John Frederick Benson, MBE, RN). Residences: Meopham, Kent, later Ash, Sevenoaks.	08.09.1892 Brondesbury, Hampstead district, London - 21.01.1940 (KIA) [age 47] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 04.1910 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1912 S.Lt. 15.06.1913 Lt. 15.07.1914 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1922 Cdr. 31.12.1927 Capt. 31.12.1932 DSO 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines [presented to next-of-kin]	Education: RN College, Osborne (09.1905). Played rugby football for the Navy. 15.05.1905     entered RN (1910)     HMS Cumberland (training cruiser) 09.08.1910 - ? HMS Indomitable 15.05.1911 - ? HMS Exmouth (for disposal) HMS Lizard (torpedo-boat detroyer) 1914 - 1917 HMS Superb (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.1918 - 1918? HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) 16.11.1918 - (01.1919) 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS Erin (battleship) 1920? - 1922? Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Carnarvon (seagoing cadet training cruiser) 12.04.1922 - (08.1923) Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for experimental duties) 01.01.1924 - (01.1925) Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.04.1926 - (07.1927) Gunnery Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (and as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Cruiser Squadron) (Mediterranean & China) 06.03.1928 - (06.)1928 HMS Excellent (gunery school, Portsmouth) (temporarily) 30.07.1928 - 01.1930 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.01.1930 - (08.1930) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.01.1931 - (02.)1931 tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.07.1931     Executive Officer, HMS Iron Duke (seagoing gunnery firing ship) 26.11.1931 - (09.1932) Executive Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.05.1933 - (06.1933) course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] 16.01.1934 - 08.1935 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 24.08.1935 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Duncan (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 8th Destroyer Flotilla (China) 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] 23.07.1938 - (07.)1939 staff, Royal Naval War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.07.1939 - 21.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Exmouth (destroyer) & Captain (D) 12th Destroyer Flotilla (ship mined & sunk in North Sea)
Bent, David James "Dan" Son of ... Bent, and ... Hill. Married 1st ((09?).1950, Gosport district, Hampshire) Patricia M. "Pat" Claridge; one son. Married 2nd Ailsa ...	09.11.1924 Alverstoke district, Hampshire - 16.05.2011 Lenham, Kent	Midsh. 01.01.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943 S.Lt. 01.10.1943 Lt. 01.03.1945 ... ... Capt. 31.12.1965 (retd) DSC 29.08.1944 action with German destroyers 08.06.44 [investiture 02.02.45] MID 14.11.1944 3 vessels sunk 14.07.44	(08.1942)     no appointment listed 23.10.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Orion (cruiser) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 20.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tartar (destroyer) (DSC, despatches) (04.1946)     HMS Battleaxe * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Bentley-Buckle, Anthony William Son (with one sister) of Lt.Cdr. Noel William Bentley-Buckle, RNVR (1899-1974), and Mary Josephine Rankin (1885-1938). Married (30.06.1961, Mombasa, Kenya) Margaret Lucy Lady Stamer (née Belben); one son, one daughter.	13.08.1921 Knokke, West Flanders, Belgium - 24.05.2010 Brockenhurst, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1941 S.Lt. 10.1941, seniority 01.08.1940 Lt. 01.05.1942 MID 27.06.1944 rescue of POWs  West Coast of Italy	26.08.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) 19.10.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) 05.05.1941 - (06.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 08.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Revenge (battleship) 01.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa) 18.03.1943 - 09.1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Iverary): served with G RN Commando [captured by the Germans]       Beachmaster, G3 RN Commando (Italy) (04.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed: POW in German captivity
Beresford, Lord Hugh Tristram de la Poer Son of Henry de la Poer Beresford, 6th Marquis of Waterford, KP, DL, and of Beatrix Frances, Marchioness of Waterford, GBE (afterwards Duchess of St. Albans), of Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Irish Republic.	01.10.1908 - 23.05.1941 off Crete (KIA) [age 32] [El Alamein War Cemetery, XVII.E.3]	Midsh. 15.09.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1929 S.Lt. 16.10.1929 Lt. 01.02.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1940	15.01.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Warspite (battleship) Mediterranean) 03.01.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 03.10.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 01.05.1933 - (01.)1934 HM Yacht Victoria and Albert (08.)1934 - (07.)1935 ADC to the Governor-General of South Africa 02.12.1935 - (02.1936) Executive Officer, HMS Thanet (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 18.03.1936 - (07.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Hostile (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 24.07.1939 - (04.1940) Executive Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer) 22.08.1940 - 23.05.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (sunk)
Bernard, Hanbury Faulder	13.07.1900 Landower, India - 12.11.1971 Navaisha, Kenya	... ... S.Lt. 15.05.1918 Lt. 15.06.1920 (retd 06.07.1922; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.06.1928 (reverted to retd c. 08.1945)	05.1913     entered RN ... - ... ... 02.09.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 31.03.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services) (06.1943)     no appointment listed (08.1943) - (02.1944) HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) * 03.1944 - c. 08.1945 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) (for duty at RN Barracks, Liwatoni) * indexed, but not listed as such
Berry, George Robert Campbell	13.10.1894 Saint Margarets, Dover district, Kent - (09?).1982 Ashford district, Kent	Seaman ? [M2219] T/A/Wt.Eng. 27.10.1941 T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng. = T/A/Sen.Cd.Eng. [> 08.1942, < 02.1943], seniority 27.10.1941 (retd < 04.1946) DSC 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 [investiture 24.10.1944]	17.11.1941 - (10.1944) Engineer Officer, HMS Montgomery (destroyer) (07.1945) HMS Sakara (submarine depot ship) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Berry, Ronald John	11.02.1900 Bromley district, London - 13.12.1966 Baydon, Marlborough, Swindon district, Wiltshire	S.Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.04.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1928 (retd 11.02.1943) A/Cdr. > 04.1939, < 08.1939 Cdr. (retd) 11.02.1943 (reverted to retd > 01.1957, < 01.1959)	28.01.1916     entered RN ? - (01.1919) HMS Malaya (battleship) 28.09.1922 - (08.1923) qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.06.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 17.11.1925 - (07.)1927 No. 461 Flight FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) (for pilot & torpedo duties) 01.09.1927 - (06.1928) No. 463 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) (for pilot & torpedo duties) 05.02.1929 - (02.1931) Torpedo Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1932 - (01.)1934 Torpedo Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.03.1934 - (02.)1935 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 05.1935 - (07.1945) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 05.1935 - (08.)1936 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich 24.08.1936 - (10.)1938 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance under the Inspector of Torpedoes and Mines (2, Fitzmaurice Place, W.1) 17.10.1938 - (04.)1939 Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, RN Armament Depot Portsmouth 05.06.1939 - (08.1939) Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Manchester 01.03.1940 - (06.)1943 an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance 15.06.1943 - (01.)1945 Inspecting Torpedo Officer, Weymouth Area 1945 - (07.)1945 an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance 15.08.1945 - (05.1950) an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance (05.1953)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 01.07.1954 - (01.1957) Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich * indexed, but not listed as such
Berthon, Charles Pierre Elder son of Claude Tinné Berthon, and Annie Hayes. Brother of Capt. Edward Lyon Berthon, DSO, DSC, RN. Married ((06?).1920, Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey) Ruth Euphemia Meldrum Ferrier (06.08.1899 - (09?).1978), second daughter of John Ferrier (1840-1917), and Gertrude Grace Scott (1869-1929), of Woodhaves, Wimbledon; one son (V.Adm. Sir Stephen Ferrier Berthon, KCB, RN), three daughters (Pamela Ruth Berthon married V.Adm. Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le Bailly, KBE,CB).	15.02.1893 - 11.03.1965 [Deddington, Oxford ?]	... ... Capt. (E) 30.06.1939 R.Adm. (E) 02.10.1945 (retd 22.02.1949) CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [investiture 09.07.46] MID 01.01.1942 New York 41	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.01.1906     joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War, Home Fleet ... - ... ... 29.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Orion (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 1941 - 1941 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (despatches) 31.10.1941 - 03.01.1945 Staff Engineer Officer on staff of Admiral (Air), Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] (CBE) 07.05.1945 - 05.11.1947 Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.01.1948 - (07.1948) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Berthon, Edward Lyon Son of Claude Tinné Berthon, and Annie Hayes. Brother of R.Adm. (E) Charles Pierre Berthon, CBE, RN. Married Doris Marjorie (?).	15.09.1894 Demerera, British Guiana - 23.10.1941 (KIA) [age 47] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial]	A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.09.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1924 Cdr. 31.12.1929 Capt. 30.06.1937 DSO 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance, Mediterranean DSC 22.06.1917 ? DSC 23.07.1918 * MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 * This officer accompanied Lieut.-Cdr. Hardy to look for an Engineer Lieut, and some men who, it was thought, had been left behind. This was done under heavy and accurate fire from 4.1-inch and machine guns.	15.09.1907     entered RN (1917) HMS Sirius (destroyer) (1918) HMS Vindictive (light cruiser) 01.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Thunderer (battleship) (additional) 27.05.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Thunderer (battleship) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (additional) 28.03.1925 - (05.1926) Commanding Officer, HMS Vicreoy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (07.1927) no appointment listed 01.07.1927 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Wivern (destroyer) (China) 12.09.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Wild Swan (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (04.1930) no appointment listed 11.08.1930 - (10.1930) senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 02.01.1931 - (06.1933) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland [HMNZS Philomel (cruiser)] (01.1934) no appointment listed (08.1934)     no appointment listed 31.08.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Crusader (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 21.09.1936 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth) & in command of 'Vernon' Flotilla 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) no appointment listed 24.09.1938 - (04.)1940 Captain-in-Charge, Ceylon [HMS Norfolk II, later HMS Gloucester II (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] 1940 - 01.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Keith (destroyer) (sunk by German aircraft off Dunkirk) (02.1941) no appointment listed 1941 - 23.10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Cossack (destroyer) [torpedoed by U-563 in North Atlantic [killed in action]]
Berthon, [Sir] Stephen Ferrier Son of late R.Adm. Charles Pierre Berthon, CBE, RN, and Ruth Euphemia Meldrum Ferrier. Married (1948) Elizabeth Anne Leigh­Bennett (died 19.04.2009), daughter of Henry Wolley Leigh-Bennett and elma Rose Price; two sons, two daughters.	24.08.1922 Plymouth district, Devon - 31.01.2007 Urchfont, Wiltshire	Cadet 01.01.1940 Midsh. 01.05.1940 S.Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt. 16.11.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1950 ... ... V.Adm. 02.09.1977 (retd 03.04.1981) KCB 01.01.1980 New Year 80	Education: Old Malthouse, Swanage; RN College, Dartmouth; jssc (1959) served War of 1939-1945 at sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Russia: 01.01.1940 - 30.04.1940 cadet training, RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Orion (cruiser) 05.01.1942 - (01.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 25.05.1942 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Offa (destroyer) 09.09.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Blankney (destroyer) (07.)1945 - (04.1946) specialist course in communications 1946 - 1948 Flag Lieutenant, Singapore 1949 - 1951 submarines 1951 - 1952 East Indies Flagship 1952 - 1954 HMS Mercury 1954 - 1956 Staff of Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers 1957 - 1959 Fleet Communications Officer Mediterranean 1959 - 1961 Comdr HMS Mercury 1961 - 1964 Joint Planning Staff 1964 - 1966 Naval Attaché, Australia 1968 - 1971 Director of Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence 1971 - 1973 Cdre HMS Drake 1074 - 1976 Flag Officer Medway and Port Adm. Chatham 1976 - 1978 Asst Chief of Naval Staff (Op. Req.) 1978 - 1981 Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) Jt MFH, Avon Vale Hunt, 1981-1984.
Bethell, Jocelyn Slingsby Son of Slingsby Westbury Bethell (1861-1936), and Sophia Isabella Hobhouse.	08.03.1897 Brackley district, Buckinghamshire/ Northamptonshire/ Oxfordshire - 1975 Inverness district, Inverness, Scotland	... ... Lt. ? Cdr. 30.06.1932 Capt. 31.12.1939 (retd 10.08.1946) CBE 04.05.1943 Operation Torch [investiture 18.04.44] MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky LM 16.07.1946 for services with the British Admiralty Delegation, Washington	01.1910     entered RN ? - (08.1934) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty ... - ... ... 26.04.1938 - 28.04.1940 Commander (S) [later: Captain (S)] 6th Submarine flotilla [HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)] (04.1940) HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) * 01.06.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser) 01.04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Saker II (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington DC, USA) 13.01.1943 -  (02.1943) Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Combined Operations [Bases Western Approaches (and Rosyth Commands)] [HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs)] (06.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed: HMS Largs (HQ, Bizerta, Tunisia) (for Operation Torch), Force A (for Operation Husky) 11.02.1944 - 10.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Bermuda (cruiser) 11.09.1944 - 09.11.1944 HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services) 10.11.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Bermuda (cruiser) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Betts, Walter Ernest	15.01.1910 Bromley district, Greater London - 20.03.1982 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	A/Gnr. 01.10.1939 Gnr. 1940?, seniority 01.10.1939 A/Lt. 19.12.1943 Lt. 06.10.1944, seniority 01.07.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1949 (retd 15.01.1955) MID 26.05.1942 air attacks 20 & 28.03.42	01.12.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 31.12.1940 - (08.)1942 HMS Brocklesby (destroyer) (despatches) 12.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Pozarica (anti-aircraft ship) (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed (10.)1943 - (12.1943) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 05.02.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Atheling (escort carrier) 01.12.1945 - (10.1947) HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 16.02.1948 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Rotherham (destroyer) (05.1949)     HMS Rotherham (destroyer) * 19.04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire) 25.02.1952 - (05.1953) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 15.01.1954 - (07.1954) HMS Bellerophon (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bevan, [Sir] Richard Hugh Loraine Son of late Capt. Eustace B.L. Bevan, Royal West Kent Regt, and Mary, daughter of late Rev. Dr G.W. Hill, for many years Vicar of Halifax, NS, and grandson of late Richard Lee Bevan, Brixworth Hall, Northampton. Married (1934) Frances Anne Beckford, only surv. daughter of late Algernon Beckford Bevan, JP, Bury St Edmunds.	10.07.1885 France - 10.05.1976 [Minchinhampton, Glos. ?]	A/S.Lt. 30.07.1904? S.Lt. 25.07.1905, seniority 30.07.1904 Lt. 31.12.1906 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1914 Cdr. 31.12.1917 Capt. 31.08.1923 R.Adm. 25.08.1935 (retd 26.08.1935) KBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 CB 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 DSO 14.03.1916 ? MVO 13.08.1923 ? LegH 25.01.1918 ? LM 16.07.1946 ? MID 22.04.1919 for services in action with enemy submarines, Adriatic Order of the Nile, 4th Class, 21.06.1919; Medal of Merit of the Swedish Red Cross	Education: Foster's, Stubbington House; HMS Britannia (1501.1900-...) 1901 - 1904 Midshipman in HMS Implacable 1905 - 1906 Sub­Lieutenant in HMS Drake 1907 - 1909 Lieutenant in HMS Aboukhir 1911 Signal School, and in command of TBD Express 1912 - 1913 Lieutenant of HMS Medina when their Majesties went to Bombay for Durbar; Flag­Lieutenant to V.Adm. Sir Rosslyn Wemyss in HMS Orion 1914 - 1918 staff of V.Adm. Sir Rosslyn Wemyss in HMS Orion (landed at Cape Helles in charge of signal stations during occupation of Gallipoli; present at evacuation of Suvla and Anzac (DSO)) 09.03.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Whitby Abbey (armed merchant cruiser) (and for war staff duties) 1921 - 1923 Cdr HM Yacht Victoria and Albert 24.12.1924 - 1926 Flag Captain, Africa Station (and as Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station) [HMS Birmingham (cruiser)] (07.1927) no appointment listed 28.04.1928 - (02.)1931 Naval Attaché to HM Missions in Italy, Greece, etc. (Rome) 01.12.1931 - 03.01.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS York (cruiser) 01.1934 - (07.)1935 Commanding Officer, HM Signal School, Portsmouth 03.03.1935 - 25.08.1935 Naval ADC to the King 1939 rejoined RN 15.02.1940 - 06.1940 Naval Attaché, Rome [HMS President] 1941 - 1942 Senior British Naval Officer, North Russia [HMS President] 22.10.1942 - (07.)1945 Flag Officer-in-Charge Belfast [later: Northern Ireland] DL Glos 1946; County Councillor, Glos, 1949; County Alderman, 1952.
Bevan, Robert Hesketh Son of the Rev. Richard Audrey Chichester Bevan (1860-1925), and Emily Marian Aldridge (died 1897). Married (27.12.1917) Margaret Frances Luard (born 1898); two sons, two daughters.	26.05.1892 Alton, Hampshire - 28.10.1964 Yeovil district, Somerset	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.10.1913 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1921 Cdr. 30.06.1927 Capt. 30.06.1935 (retd > 07.1944)	15.01.1905     entered RN ... - ... ... 20.05.1929 - (02.)1931 British Naval Mission to Greece 10.12.1931 - (09.1932) Executive Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 22.03.1933 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Penzance (sloop) (Red Sea) (07.1935)     no appointment listed (02.1936)     no appointment listed 02.08.1936 - (10.1938) Naval Attaché, Rome [HMS President] (02.1939)     no appointment listed 13.03.1939 - (04.)1939 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1939)     no appointment listed 21.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Director of Operations (Foreign), Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.09.1940 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Leander (cruiser) [lent to RNZN] (assumed actual command 27.11.1940) (06.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 18.12.1943 - (06.)1944 Captain-in-Charge, Anti-Submarine Training School, Dunoon [HMS Osprey] 31.08.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (07.1945) no appointment listed also: Naval ADC to the King
Beveridge, Richard Scott	1915 ? Scotland ? - 24.11.2000 Edinburgh, Scotland	Prob. A/S.Lt. RNR 01.03.1936 Prob. S.Lt. (Suppl. List) 01.06.1937 S.Lt. 04.08.1938, seniority 01.06.1937 Lt. 04.06.1939 1940?, seniority 19.01.1939 Lt.Cdr. 19.01.1947 (retd > 01.1959, < 07.1961) MID 01.01.1942 New Year 42	(07.1937) - (02.1938) no appointment listed 05.04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 03.09.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Alresford (twin screw minesweeper) (Portsmouth) 06.10.1938 - (08.)1939 pilots' course, No. 10 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Yatesbury (09.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 09.08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 27.01.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Buxton (destroyer) 10.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for miscellaneous services) 30.12.1943 - 09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Inglis (frigate) (10.1944)     HMS Inglis (frigate) * (01.1945)     no appointment listed 01.1945 - 02.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Rutherford (frigate) 12.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Dacres (frigate) 15.02.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) (for artificers' training establishment) 03.1948 - (05.1949) on staff of Flag Officer Commanding British Naval Forces, Germany [HMS Royal Albert] (05.1950)     HMS Royal Albert * 16.03.1953 - (07.1954) Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.03.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Glory (01.1957)     HMS Lochinvar (minesweeping trials and experimental establishment, Port Edgar) * (01.1959)     HMS Cochrane (RN barracks, Donibristle)
Bevir, Oliver Son of late Ernest Bevir, Downhurst, Hendon, Middlesex, and Dyer Street, Cirencester. Married (1924) L.K.C. Raikes, Cefncoed, nr Newport, Mon.; one son.	16.02.1891 Downhurst, Hendon, Middlesex - 04.11.1967 [Holcombe, nr Bath ?]	Midsh. 1908 S.Lt. 30.05.1911 Lt. 15.02.1912 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1920 Cdr. 30.06.1925 Capt. 31.12.1932 R.Adm. 28.07.1942 (retd 20.12.1945) V.Adm. (retd) 20.12.1945 CB 0101.1945 New Year 45 CBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday	Education: Heddon Court; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (15.09.1903-...); RN Staff Course (1925-26) 1908 joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War 17.12.1917 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMS Parker (flotilla leader) (and for Flotilla gunnery duties) (01.1925) no appointment listed 20.07.1926 - 1928 Staff, Tactical School [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 21.06.1928 - 1930 Executive Officer [?], HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (04.1930) no appointment listed 13.12.1930 - (09.)1932 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (01.1934) no appointment listed 25.05.1934 - 1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Leith (sloop) (New Zealand Station) (02.1937) no appointment listed 25.05.1937 - (07.)1939 Staff, RN War College [HMS President] (08.1939) no appointment listed 11.1939 - (04.)1940 Flag Captain, HMS Resolution (battleship) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron 28.11.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Portsmouth) 01.08.1941 - 13.03.1944 Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1944) no appointment listed 06.1944 - (07.)1945 Senior Officer, Royal Naval Establishments, India [HMS Braganza] Secretary of the National Trust, 1946-1949.
Bickerton, Richard Samuel Son of ... Bickerton, and ... Shaw.	16.09.1912 Stockport district, Cheshire / Lancashire - (09?).1978 Trafford district, Cheshire	Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR 19.11.1939 T/Lt. (E) 10.06.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 30.11.1942 (reld 1945/46?) T/A/Cdr. (E) < 07.1945	24.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 10.06.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 11.06.1942 - 22.03.1943 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) 22.03.1943 - 20.09.1943 Engineer Officer, HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) 20.09.1943 - (12.1943) Coastal Forces Material Department [HMS President] 16.03.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (1944) Engineer Officer, Captain Coastal Forces (Channel), Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth (07.1945) HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bickford, Edward Oscar "Brubs" Son of Oscar L. Bickford. Married (13.05.1940, All Saints' Church, Dovercourt, Harwich) Valerie Courtney, daughter of Air Marshal Sir Christopher and Lady Courtney, of Knightsbridge.	27.07.1909 Purton Court, Purton, Cricklade, Wiltshire - 14.07.1940 (KIA) [age 30] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 01.05.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1929 S.Lt. 01.03.1930 Lt. 01.06.1931 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1939 Cdr. 19.12.1939 DSO 23.12.1939 sinking a U-boat & torpedoing a cruiser, North Sea 13 Dec 39 Citation: "Lieutenant-Commander Bickford was in command of H.M. S/M. Salmon during a brilliant war patrol in which she totally destroyed an enemy submarine, and torpedoed at least one enemy cruiser."	15.09.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) 20.03.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 26.09.1929 - (04.1930) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.01.1931 - (02.1931) submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 24.04.1931 - (01.1932) HMS L 27 (submarine) 28.05.1932 - (01.)1934 Navigating Officer, HMS Thames (submarine) 03.04.1934 - (08.1934) First Lieutenant, HMS H 34 (submarine) 01.05.1935 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Severn (submarine) 28.02.1936 - (07.1937) First Lieutenant, HMS Odin (submarine) (02.1938)     no appointment listed 25.04.1938 - (06.1938) submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 06.08.1938 - 14.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Salmon (submarine) (mined off the coast of Norway)
Bickford, Jack Grant Married Bunty.	(09?).1897 St Germans, Cornwall - 10.09.1940 (KIA) [age 43] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Lt. 15.05.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1932 DSO 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 DSC 23.12.1939 succesful actions against enemy submarines	01.09.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Wild Swan (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 15.08.1928 - (04.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 10.10.1930 - (10.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Arrow (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 08.12.1933 - (01.1934) Executive Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 13.07.1934 - (07.1935) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.1936 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Hotspur (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed 28.06.1939 - (08.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Acasta (destroyer) & SO Vernon Flotilla 25.08.1939 - 10.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Express (destroyer)
Bickley, Henry Ellis	07.04.1880 - 01.08.1971 Surrey SE district, Surrey	A/S.Lt. RNR 11.09.1905 S.Lt. RNR 29.07.1909, seniority 11.09.1905 Lt. RNR 21.01.1911 Lt. (Supplementary List) 01.09.1913 (retd 02.07.1920) Cdr. (retd) 07.04.1921 (reverted to retd 1943/44?)	06.12.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Pansy (sloop) 29.08.1939 - (10.1943) HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 09.11.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Archer (escort carrier)
Biggs, Reginald Charles Son (with three sisters and one brother) of Walter John Briggs (1869-1924), and Jane Maria Dodd (1871-1944). Married 1st (13.08.1927, Parish Church, Acton, Middlesex) Florence Ada Lee (28.08.1905 - 09.02.1947). Married 2nd ((03?).1952, Bournemouth) Winifred May Darey. Married 3rd ((03?).1958, Barnstaple) Elsie Mary Gilday (02.04.1901 - 19.11.1999); one daughter.	27.07.1904 Mile end, Portsmouth, Hampshire - 08.10.1978 Weymouth, Dorset	Gnr. 01.07.1930 A/Lt. 24.08.1940 Lt. 02.1941, seniority 17.05.1935 Lt.Cdr. 17.08.1942 Cdr. 31.12.1944 (retd 27.07.1954) DSO 30.07.1942 Murmansk convoys [investiture 27.07.43] DSC 23.02.1940 Battle of the River Plate [investiture 23.02.40] DSC 07.12.1943 Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia 05.43) [decoration posted] MID 26.12.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) CorM 1937 coronation King George VI	Education: Royal Hospital School, Greenwich. 1920     joined RN as a Boy Seaman ... - ... ... 08.12.1933 - (05.)1936 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 12.05.1936 - (08.)1936 HMS St Cyrus (tug) (Home Fleet) 15.09.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for direction finding duties) 21.02.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Ajax (cruiser) (DSC) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 17.10.1940 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Gossamer (Halcyon class minesweeper) 13.01.1942 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper) (DSO, Bar to DSC, despatches) 15.08.1944 - 08.01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Offa (destroyer) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Bines, Neville Son of ... Bines, and ... Grant. Married Renee ...	18.04.1922 Medway district, Kent - 10.2003 Wandsworth district, London	Paym.Cadet 01.09.1939 Paym.Midsh. 01.05.1940 A/Paym.S.Lt. 01.05.1942 Paym.S.Lt. 1943?, seniority 01.01.1942 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.09.1943 A/Lt.Cdr. (S) ? Lt.Cdr. (S) 09.03.1953, seniority 01.09.1951 Cdr. (S) 31.12.1959 (retd 18.08.1972)	01.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Rodney (battleship) 05.09.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS London (cruiser) (10.1943) - (10.1944)  no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus) * 16.05.1947 - (07.1948) Captain's Secretary, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (05.1949) - (05.1950) HMS President (Admiralty) * 12.01.1953 - (07.1954) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (04.1955)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * 09.11.1955 - (01.1956) Captain's Secretary, HMS Jufair (RN base, Bahrein, Persian Gulf) (01.1957)     Supply and Secretariat Branch, Admiralty * 01.01.1958 - (01.1959) Secretary to Deputy Chief of Supplies and Transport, Board of Admiralty 17.05.1960 - (07.1961) Supply and Maintenance, Navy Section, Logistics Division, Supreme HQ Allied Powers Europe 13.08.1962 - (02.1964) HMS Tiger (cruiser) (02.1968) - (02.1969) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 29.03.1971 - (08.1971) Base Supply Officer & Staff Supply Officer on staff of Flag Officer, Malta [HMS St Angelo] * indexed, but not listed as such
Bingeman, Alfred Mervyn Youngest son of Alfred Edward Bingemann (1858-1921), of Sutton, Surrey. Married (27.09.1930, Epsom district, Surrey) Marjorie Lanchester, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Frank Lanchester, of Newstead, Belmont, Surrey; one daughter, one son.	08.11.1900 Hampstead district, Greater London - 07.06.1988 Compton, nr Chichester, West Sussex	Midsh. 01.05.1917 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.12.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1929 Cdr. 31.12.1935 (retd 07.11.1950) A/Capt. 11.11.1943 MID 01.01.1942 New Year 42 ChrX 04.03.1947 services to Denmark	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (07.05.1914-17.12.1915) & Dartmouth (13.01.1916-18.04.1917). 07.05.1917     entered RN 08.05.1917 - 10.02.1919 HMS Glorious (cruiser) (Grand Fleet) 11.02.1919 - 29.11.1919 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 16.12.1919 - 06.10.1921 HMS Vendetta (torpedo-boat destroyer) 07.10.1921 - 14.03.1922 St John's, Cambridge University 23.04.1922 - 28.07.1922 courses, HMS Excellent, HMS Dryad & HMS Vernon 15.08.1922 - 23.04.1924 HMS Montrose (flotilla leader, 8th Destroyer Flotilla) 10.07.1924 - 21.08.1924 HMS Relentless (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 25.09.1924 - 01.07.1925 qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon] 23.08.1925 - 24.06.1926 qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 25.06.1926 - 31.08.1927 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 01.09.1927 - 25.09.1929 Torpedo Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies) 10.12.1929 - 23.10.1931 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 24.10.1931 - 06.01.1933 Torpedo Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 07.01.1933 - 29.01.1933 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 30.01.1933 - 13.02.1933 course, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 14.02.1933 - 15.01.1934 Torpedo Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser) [while under construction & in dockyard control in Devonport] [tender to HMS Vivid] 16.01.1934 - 07.02.1936 Torpedo Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Home Fleet) 26.02.1936 - 13.12.1937 Department of the Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] 11.01.1938 - 16.12.1938 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.01.1939 - 10.06.1939 Staff Officer (Operations) & Squadron Torpedo Officer, 1st Battle Squadron (Mediterranean) [HMS Barham (battleship)] 11.06.1939 - 03.07.1939 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 06.07.1939 - 15.02.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 01.04.1940 - 22.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Southern Prince (auxiliary minelayer) [tender to HMS Vernon] 23.04.1940 - 27.10.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Menestheus (minelayer) [tender to HMS Vernon to 21.06.1940] 28.10.1941 - 13.06.1942 Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.1942 - 05.10.1943 HMS Resolution (battleship) [in command for passage home] 11.11.1943 - 09.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper training base, Granton) & as Captain Minesweeping (M/S) & in charge of Minesweeper Instruction 01.11.1946 - 09.01.1947 Admiralty [HMS President] 10.01.1947 - 19.05.1950 Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons, Admiralty [HMS President]
Bingley, [Sir] Alexander Noel Campbell Son of R.N.G. Bingley. Married (1948) Juliet Martin, daughter of late R.M. Vick, OBE; one son, two daughters.	15.02.1905 - 28.09.1972 [Hoddesdon, Herts. ?]	Cadet 1918 Midsh. 15.01.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1925 S.Lt. 19.11.1926, seniority 15.11.1925 Lt. 15.04.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1935 Cdr. 30.06.1939 A/Capt. 06.1943 Capt. 30.06.1944 R.Adm. 07.01.1954 V.Adm. 10.01.1957 A/Adm. 1959 Adm. 17.08.1960 (retd 1963) GCB 02.06.1962 HM's birthday 62 KCB 01.01.1959 New Year 59 CB 02.01.1956 New Year 56 OBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 Grand Cross, Star of Africa (state visit president of Liberia, 07.1962)	Education: RN Colleges Osborne, Dartmouth and Greenwich; Imperial Defence College (1949) 15.01.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 12.04.1926 - (05.1926) promotion course, Portsmouth 20.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Vampire (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 29.04.1929 - (08.)1929 observers' course [HMS Excellent] 27.12.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (and as acting observer) (Atlantic Fleet) 13.06.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) 05.04.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Shropshire (cruiser) 21.01.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 26.03.1938 - (09.1939) Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear- / Vice-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet, R.Adm. / V.Adm. J.C. Tovey [HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship), later HMS Galatea (cruiser)] 08.02.1940 - (04.1940) Staff Officer (Operations) to V.Adm. J.C. Tovey [HMS Delhi (cruiser)] (02.1941) no appointment listed 28.04.1941 - (06.)1943 Staff Officer (Operations) and Staff Officer (Plans), on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS King George V (battleship)] 06.1943 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Slinger (escort carrier) 05.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Biter (escort carrier) 01.01.1945 - 04.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Nabaron (mobile naval air base (MONAB) IV, Ludham, Norfolk, from 02.04.1945 Ponam Island, Manus, Admiralty Islands) [went sick 04.07.1945 and as he made no improvement he was discharged to RN Hospital, Herne Bay, Sydney] 12.1945 - 04.02.1946 Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 04.02.1946 - 1948 Deputy Director Air Warfare, Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1948) no appointment listed (05.1949) HMS President * 19.12.1949 - (05.1950) Chief of Staff to Flag Officer (Air), Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 09.11.1952 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle 04.1954 - (01.)1957 Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air) 1958 - 1959 Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers 02.02.1959 - 30.06.1961 Commander­in­Chief, Allied Forces Mediterranean 10.1961 - 02.1963 Commander­in­Chief, Portsmouth, and Commander­in­Chief, Allied Command Channel [HMS Victory] President Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, 1963-1970; Secretary, SEMBAL Trust, 1964-.... Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom, 11.03.1966-... * indexed, but not listed as such
Binney, David Son of Capt. Ralph Douglas Binney, CBE, RN, and Ruth Frances Livingstone Learmonth..	(06?).1923 Christchurch district, Hampshire - 12.12.1943 (KIA) [age 20] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 78, column 1]	... ... S.Lt. 01.10.1942	... - ... ... 24.10.1942 - 12.12.1943 HMS Tynedale (destroyer)
Binney, Ralph Douglas 4th son of T.G. Binney, late of Guisnes Court, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. Married ((12?).1918, Kensington district, Greater London) Ruth Frances Livingstone Learmonth; (one son Lt. David Binney killed in action, 1943), one daughter.	14.10.1888 Cookham, Berkshire - 08.12.1944 (killed whilst attempting to apprehend 2 armed robbers) [age 56] [Golders Green Crematorium, panel 1]	A/S.Lt. 15.11.1907? S.Lt. 17.09.1908, seniority 15.11.1907 Lt. 28.10.1909, seniority 15.11.1908 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1916 Cdr. 31.12.1920 (retd 21.10.1934) Capt. (retd) 21.10.1934 CBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday The Binney Memorial Medal for British citizens who display greatest courage in support of law and order within the areas under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan and City of London Police is named after Capt. Binney	Education: Cordwalles, Maidenhead 15.05.1903 joined RN (HMS Britannia) 1914 - 1918 served European War 05.04.1917 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMS Collingwood (battleship) 14.08.1923 - (01.1925) HMAS Cerberus (for duty at Navy Office) [lent to RAN] 05.04.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 15.03.1928 - (08.1929) for duty with Commodore Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] (04.1930) no appointment listed 26.09.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Marshal Soult (monitor) 17.11.1931 - (01.1934) Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty 1934 - 1939 served in navy of Columbia, South America 1939? in charge of harbour defences, Gallipoli (04.1940) no appointment listed 09.06.1940 - 11.06.1942 Flag Captain, HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (08.1942) no appointment listed  30.01.1943 - 08.12.1944 Chief of Staff to Flag Officer-in-Charge, London [HMS Yeoman]
Binney, Sir Thomas Hugh Eldest son of T.G. Binney, late of Guisnes Court, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. Married (31.10.1942, St Martin in the Fields) Elizabeth Bride, CStJ, eldest daughter of late Lt.Col. H.F. Blair­Imrie, CMG, OBE.	09.12.1883 Douglas, Isle of Man - 08.01.1953 Colchester	Cadet 15.09.1897 Midsh. 15.01.1899 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1902? S.Lt. 29.12.1903, seniority 15.09.1902 Lt. 15.09.1904 Cdr. 31.12.1916 Capt. 30.06.1922 R.Adm. 04.08.1934 V.Adm. 22.01.1938 Adm. 06.04.1942 (retd 12.1943) KCMG 01.01.1951 New Year 51 KCB 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [investiture 06.08.40] CB 01.01.1936 New Year 36 DSO 16.09.1919 for distinguished services during the war LoP 1944? Operation Neptune	Education: HMS Britannia (15.09.1897-...) 1914 - 1918 Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 12.09.1918 - (01.1919) Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet 12.1922 - 1925 Flag Captain, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (01.1925)     no appointment listed 01.04.1925 - (07.)1927 Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.04.1928 - (06.)1928 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 15.12.1928 - (04.)1930 Flag Captain, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 05.01.1931 - (02.)1931 tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.03.1931 - (01.)1932 Director Tactical School, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 15.08.1932 - (06.)1933 Flag Captain HMS Hood & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron 08.1933 - 1935 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth & Maintenance Captain [HMS Drake] 01.03.1934 - 04.08.1934 also: Naval ADC to the King 02.06.1935 - (02.)1936 for miscellaneous service at Admiralty [HMS President] 25.07.1936 - (06.)1938 Rear­Admiral / Vice-Admiral, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham, later HMS Malaya] (08.1938) no appointment listed 20.09.1938 - (10.1938) HMS President (for miscellaneous or special service) 01.01.1939 - (08.)1939 Commandant Imperial Defence College 20.12.1939 - 01.1942 Flag Officer Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands [HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)] 20.01.1942 - (12.1943) HMS President (for miscellaneous services at the Admiralty) 08.02.1944 (10.1944) Flag Officer-in-Charge, Cardiff [HMS Lucifer] Governor of Tasmania, 24.12.1945-08.05.1951. KGStJ, 1946
Birch, John Travis Beaufoy Elder son (with one brother) of Cdr. John Kenneth Beaufoy Birch (1880-1940), and Janet Elizabeth Clay (1877-1929). Married (24.07.1939, St Mark's, North Audley Street, Westminster district, London) Pamela Kempthorne Godsell ((09?).1915 - ), daughter of Thomas Kempthorne Godsell, and Marjorie Anne Gibbs, of Painswick, Gloucestershire; one son.	14.07.1910 Filey, Yorkshire - 08.12.1991 Gloucester district, Gloucestershire	Midsh. 01.09.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1932 S.Lt. 1933?, seniority 01.11.1931 Lt. 01.11.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1941 (retd 02.08.1954; own request) DSO 08.09.1942 Malta convoy [investiture 29.06.43] DSC 29.09.1942 destruction of U-boat 27.05.42 [investiture 29.06.43] MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 14.09.1943 destruction of U-559 Mediterranean 30.10.42	01.09.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 31.12.1931 - 21.08.1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 22.08.1932 - (01.)1933 promotion course, Portsmouth 12.04.1933 - (11.1934) HMS Wren (destroyer) (China) (02.1935)     no appointment listed 17.06.1935 - (07.)1935 HMS Sabre (destroyer) 23.07.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS Achates (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 09.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Achates (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 27.04.1937 - (02.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 04.04.1938 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Firedrake (destroyer) 18.08.1941 - 24.03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Hurworth (destroyer) * 24.03.1943 - 08.08.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Kelvin (destroyer) 09.08.1943 - 04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Urchin (destroyer) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 06.07.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Corinthian (ocean boarding vessel) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 31.07.1945 - (04.)1947 Commanding Officer, HMS St Kitts (destroyer) 15.08.1947 - (05.)1949 Executive Officer, RN Petty Officers' School, Kingsmoor [HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire)] 08.11.1949 - (05.1951) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 28.11.1952 - (07.)1954 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for miscellaneous duties) * date of appointment according to Febr 1943 Navy List 18.08.1942; the Dec 1941 List even shows him (presumably erroneously) under HMS Hursley (destroyer)
Birch, Roger Son of Walter de Hoghton Lea Birch and Margaret Maud Birch.	(09?.)1905 Preston district, Lancashire - 23.02.1943 [age 37] [Oxford Crematorium, left hand column]	Midsh. 15.05.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1925 S.Lt. 15.06.1926 Lt. 15.06.1928 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1936 Cdr. 31.12.1942	15.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Ajax (battleship) 14.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1926 - (05.1926) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.05.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.09.1928 - (08.1929) First Lieutenant, HMS Moth (gunboat) (China) (04.1930) no appointment listed 01.08.1930 - (10.)1930 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.12.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Flinders (surveying ship) 02.11.1931 - (07.)1935 HMS Endeavour (surveying vessel) 10.12.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Flinders (surveying ship) 19.09.1936 - (07.1937) Navigating Officer, HMS Flinders (surveying ship) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) (02.1938) no appointment listed 30.03.1938 - (04.)1939 First Lieutenant & Navigating Officer, HMS Gleaner (minesweeper; for surveying service) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) 17.04.1939 - (08.1939) meteorological course [HMS President] (09.1939) no appointment listed 13.11.1939 - (02.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) (2) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies [HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)] 01.1942 - 23.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Valesca (minesweeping trawler)
Birrell, Maurice Andrew	23.04.1921 - 10.1990 Yeovil district, Somerset	A/S.Lt. (A) 25.11.1940 S.Lt. (A) 23.04.1942 Lt. (A) 25.05.1943 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) < 07.1945 Lt.Cdr. 25.05.1951 Cdr. 31.12.1956 (retd 23.04.1971) DSC 03.10.1952 Korea (4th List) [investiture 03.03.53]	21.11.1940 - (02.)1941 pilot, 802 Squadron FAA [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)] 25.04.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)] (08.1942) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * ... - ... ... 31.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Bisset, Arthur William La Touche   Son of Col. Sir William Sinclair Smith Bisset, KCIE (1843-1916), and Henrietta Mary La Touche (1869-1943), of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. Married (17.07.1918, St John's, Edinburgh, Scotland) Margaret Frances McNeil "Bev" Grant (? - 07.05.1968), only daughter (with five brothers) of Hon. MacCallum Grant (1845-1928), Lieutenant-Governor Province of Nova Scotia, and Laura McNeil Parker; four daughters (daughter Mary Elizabeth Grant Bisset married Maj. Oliver William Lough, Indian Army).	06.04.1892 - 23.06.1956 Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire	S.Lt. 15.09.1912 Lt. 15.08.1913 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1921 Cdr. 31.12.1926 Capt. 31.12.1932 R.Adm. 28.07.1942 (invalided from active service 1945) V.Adm. (retd) 01.02.1946 CB 01.01.1945 New Year 45 CBE 18.07.1944 for distinguished service in command of operations against enemy shipping in Northern Waters successfully carried out by Carrier borne aircraft (Operation Potluck, Norway, 12-16.05.44) MID 03.02.1942 Battle of Cape Matapan MID 18.01.1944 dissolution of 'Force H'	Education: Fonthill, East Grinstead; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.01.1905     entered RN       spcialized in gunnery       HMS King George V (battleship)       Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Devonshire (cruiser)       Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Iron Duke (battleship) 1922     RN Staff College 07.07.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services; temporarily) 11.07.1924 - (05.1926) Gunnery Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 04.01.1927 - 10.01.1927 Admiralty [HMS President] 11.01.1927 - (06.1928) Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.04.1929 - (02.)1931 Squadron Gunnery Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Renown (battlecruiser)] (Atlantic Fleet) 01.07.1931 - 01.1933 Executive Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 11.02.1933 - (06.)1933 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous or special service) 18.09.1933 - 24.11.1933 senior officers' tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 15.01.1934 - 16.03.1934 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 28.03.1934 - 28.03.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal, renamed: HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier, catapult training ship) (Reserve Fleet) 29.03.1935 - (07.)1935 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.09.1935 - 09.10.1937 Director of Physical Training and Sports, School of Physical and Recreational Training, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 16.10.1937 - 14.03.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Shropshire (heavy cruiser) 1940 - 1940 British Naval Liaison Officer at Brest (later at Casablanca) 1940 - 08.1940 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 07.08.1940 - 08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (despatches) 06.02.1942 - 28.07.1942 also: Naval ADC to the King 07.1942 - (10.)1943 Rear Admiral, Naval Air Stations, Indian Ocean 13.10.1943 - 10.1943 Rear Admiral Commanding 'Force H' (despatches) 28.10.1943 - (06.)1944 Rear Admiral, Escort Carriers [HMS Searcher (escort carrier), later HMS Royalist (cruiser)] (CB, CBE) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     no appointment listed
Bitmead, Jack Married Anne Therese O'Keefe.	28.01.1919 Cholsey, Berkshire - 21.12.2010 Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland	... ... A/S.Lt. 01.05.1939 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.01.1939 Lt. 1940, seniority 01.10.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1947 Cdr. 30.06.1952 Capt. 31.12.1958 (retd 07.01.1969) DSO 30.07.1942 Murmansk convoys surviving submarine attakcs [investiture 07.03.44] KW 21.10.1941 withdrawal of Polish forces from France 40 [decoration posted]	... - ... ... (1940)     HMS Broke (Polish Military Cross) 02.05.1942 - 20.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer) (DSO) 1942 - 04.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer) (DSO) 04.08.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Meynell (escort destroyer) ... - ... ...
Blackburn, James Alexander Pollard Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Charles Henry Blackburn (1859-1946), and Sarah Elizabeth Browne (1857-1935). Married 1st (08.09.1910, Fulham, London) Amalie Clara Ruby Brousson ((06?).1880 - (03?).1957); three daughters. Married 2nd (10.10.1921, Beccles, Wangford district, Suffolk) Hilda Kate Stanford (13.03.1891 - 04.1988); two sons.	12.08.1889 Murree, West Bengal, India - 11.11.1979 Eastbourne, East Sussex	T/S.Lt. RNR ? T/Lt. RNR 22.04.1917 Lt. 05.06.1918, seniority 20.07.1915 Lt.Cdr. 20.07.1923 (retd 20.08.1933; own request) Cdr. (retd) 20.08.1933 A/Capt. (retd) < 02.1941 (reverted to retd 1945?) DSC 12.05.1917 ?	joined RNR 05.06.1918     transferred to RN (for gallantry in action) 03.07.1918 - (04.)1919 HMS Dolphin (Gosport dockyard) (for command of submarines) 04.04.1919 - (08.)1919 HMS Lucia (for command of submarines) 27.08.1919 - (11.)1919 HMS Vulcan (special torpedo vessel; depot ship) (for command of submarines) 11.11.1919 - (04.)1920 HMS Dolphin (Gosport dockyard) (for command of submarines) 19.04.1920 - (01.)1921 Commanding Officer, HMS E 33 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 19.11.1921 - (08.)1923 Commanding Officer, HMS L 56 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 20.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean) 25.11.1925   (02.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Carstairs (twin screw minesweeper) (07.1927)     Naval Ordnance Department * (12.1927) - (05.1928) no appointment listed 21.05.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties) 08.09.1930 - 1930 HMS Cairo (cruiser) 12.1930 - (01.)1932 Executive Officer, HMS Constance (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (05.1932)     no appointment listed 25.06.1932 - (08.)1932 HMS Vindictive (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 17.10.1932 - (01.)1933 HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) (for Maintenance Reserve Destroyers) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed 27.11.1939 - 09.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser) ** 09.1940 - 04.04.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Voltaire (armed merchant cruiser) (ship sunk by German raider "Thor" in the Central Atlantc) 04.04.1941 - 1945 POW in German captivity * indexed, but not listed as such ** Blackburn was probably already Master of Jervis Bay before being requisitioned by the Navy. He is seen wearing a RNR uniform, although being listed as a retired RN officer.
Blackledge, Rev. Alexander Roden Son (with one brother and one sister)of Rev. Canon George Robert Blackledge (1868-1935), and Dorothy Ida Helen Scott. Married ((03?).1944, Wharfedale district, West Yorkshire) Alice B. Greenhalgh; one son, one daughter.	28.04.1906 Worthing, East Preston district, Sussex - 28.03.1974 Halifax	Chaplain 02.05.1935 (retd 01.01.1947; own request)	Education: King's School, Canterbury; Cambridge University (MA). 02.05.1935 - (07.)1935 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.08.1935 - (02.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 05.1938 - (08.)1938 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 04.10.1938 - (09.)1939 RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 06.09.1939 - (10.1940) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 16.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS London (cruiser) 27.11.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for miscellaneous services) (04.1944)     no appointment listed 26.04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Warspite (battleship) 1945 - (07.1945) RM Barracks, Plymouth 22.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) Vicar of Oakenshaw before becoming Vicar of Saint Jude's Church, Savile Park [1950]. Vicar, All Saints, Hove, 1964-1972. Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral, 1965.
Blackler, George	11.02.1910 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 12.12.1989 St Albans district, Hertfordshire	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 01.10.1935 S.Lt. RNR 16.08.1937, seniority 01.10.1935 Prob. S.Lt. 28.02.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 28.02.1938 Lt. ?, seniority 11.02.1934 Lt.Cdr. 11.02.1942 (retd > 07.1954, < 04.1955) OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coast 05.40	01.11.1938 - (02.1939) HMS Fearless (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 27.03.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Garland (destroyer) 28.11.1939 - (02.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Wolsey (destroyer) 12.11.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Ludlow (destroyer) 25.08.1942 - 01.09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Brocklesby (destroyer) 01.09.1943 - 03.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Amazon (destroyer) 03.01.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed 09.09.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Victory (for miscellaneous duties) (05.1953) no appointment listed
Blackmore, Lesley Edney   Son of ... Blackmore, and ... Bendall.	15.04.1914 Axbridge district, Somerset - (09?).1983 Weston-super-Mare district, Avon	Prob. S.Lt. 28.02.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 28.02.1938 Lt. 1939?, seniority 15.03.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1946 (retd) MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45	His career started at the age of 12 in the Merchant Navy and he spent his early years on the T.S. Mercury. (10.1938) no appointment listed 02.01.1939 - (04.1939) HMS Whitley (escort vessel) (Home Fleet) 05.06.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Grafton (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 28.11.1939 - 29.05.1940 HMS Grafton (destroyer) (ship damaged by U-62 off Dunkirk and sunk by RN) 26.06.1940 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Whaddon (destroyer) 30.03.1942 - (08.)1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Impulsive (destroyer) 12.03.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Vivien (destroyer) 10.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Mendip (destroyer) 25.01.1946 - (10.1947) Commanding Officer, HMS Bleasdale (destroyer) 12.01.1948 - (07.1948) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 12.04.1949 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Cockade 26.10.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Ulster (destroyer) 30.04.1951 - (05.1953) First Lieutenant, HMS Vanguard 25.01.1954 - (01.1957) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
Blagrove, Henry Evelyn Charles "Shorty"   Son of Col. Henry John Blagrove (1854-1925), 13th Hussars, and Alice Evelyn (Boothby) Blagrove, of Barton Fields, Canterbury. Married (06.04.1921) (later Superintendent WRNS) Edith Gordon Lowe (05.11.1895 - 14.02.1979), daughter of William Duncan Lowe, writer to the signet, of Edinburgh (who later remarried Adm. Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, RN); two daughters (one of whom, Mary A. Blagrove, married Lt. Sir Anthony R.D. Twysden, Bt., and later Capt. Peter G.C. Dickens, RN). article RN Flag Officers 1904-45	26.04.1887 Harbledown, Kent - 14.10.1939 Scapa Flow, Ornkey Isles (KIA) [age 52] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 33, column 1]	Cadet 15.05.1902 Midsh. 15.10.1903 A/S.Lt. 15.12.1906? S.Lt. 26.07.1907, seniority 15.12.1906 Lt. 30.06.1909 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1917 Cdr. 31.12.1919 Capt. 30.06.1927 R.Adm. 10.01.1939 Italian silver medal for military valour (17.11.1917)	15.09.1901     entered RN 15.05.1902 - 15.09.1903 HMS Britannia (training ship) 15.09.1903 - 14.01.1907 course, HMS Good Hope (Cruiser Squadron) 25.07.1907     HMS Fairy (temporary) 16.04.1908 - 24.08.1908 HMS Good Hope (1st Cruiser Squadron) 24.08.1908 - 30.03.1909 HMS Sapphire (for HMS Flirl? to 21.09.1908, then for HMS Arab) (Channel) 30.03.1909 - 01.1911? HMS Invincible (additional) 15.01.1911 - 06.04.1912 HMS Highflyer (flagship East Indies) 06.04.1912 - 04.1913 HMS Fox (for armed launch) 15.07.1913 - 1913? HMS Vengeance 08.1913 - 10.08.1914 Dartmouth College 10.08.1914 - 22.08.1914 HMS Vivid (additional; for HMS Majestic, for training reserves) 22.08.1914 - 11.1917? Lieutenant, HMS Tiger, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet (Battle of Jutland 1916) 24.11.1917 - 01.01.1920 First Lieutenant, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship & Flag Ship, Grand Fleet) 13.03.1920 - 01.01.1922 HMS President (for special service outside Admiralty at Cambridge University) 01.01.1922 - 12.1922 HMS President (additional; for service in 2nd Sea Lord's Office) 13.01.1923 - 20.01.1923 gas course [HMS Excellent] 20.01.1923 - 10.02.1924 Executive Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 10.02.1924 - 03.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres (light cruiser) (temporary) 03.1924 - 01.1925 Executive Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 30.04.1925 - 18.05.1925 HMS Victory (additional; for training) 18.05.1925 - 10.07.1925 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 11.07.1925 - 17.07.1927 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 10.11.1927 - 12.1927 HMS Pembroke (additional; for command of HMS Constance during trials) 09.01.1928 - 09.03.1928 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.03.1928 - 20.07.1928 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich 08.10.1928 - 07.12.1928 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.1929 - 04.1931 Flag Captain, HMS Cardiff (cruiser), from 10.1929 HMS Curacoa (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron (Chatham) 17.08.1931 - 19.05.1932 Commanding Officer, School of Physical and Recreational Training [HMS Victory] 19.05.1932 - 08.07.1932 Tactical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 08.08.1932 - 05.09.1932 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 06.09.1932 - (07.)1934 Flag Captain, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station 31.12.1934 - 11.04.1937 Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.04.1937 - 15.12.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) [assumed command 29.06.1937; left 08.01.1939] 10.08.1938 - 10.01.1939 also: Naval ADC to the King 28.02.1939 - 25.09.1939 no appointment listed: HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 26.09.1939 - 14.10.1939 Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron (aboard HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (sunk)) [had been appointed Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Chatham on 02.10.1939, but never made it to his new position as he was lost in the Royal Oak]
Blake, Charles James	? - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	Mate 01.12.1924 Lt. 01.08.1927 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1935 Cdr. 30.06.1939 Capt. 30.06.1945 (retd 15.09.1950)	22.03.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (additional) 03.09.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS L 14 (submarine) (for duty with Group "M" submarnies in reserve at Portsmouth) 28.07.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS H 33 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 08.05.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) (09.1932) no appointment listed 14.11.1933 - (01.1934) First Lieutenant, HMS Oberon (submarine) (Mediterranean) 03.05.1935 - (07.)1935 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto] 10.08.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS H 32 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 11.12.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet) 02.06.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet) 17.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines) 19.06.1938 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Orpheus (submarine) (China) 13.06.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (08.1942) no appointment listed 18.08.1942 - (06.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 21.07.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) (and for duty with submarines) * 31.08.1945 - 10.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Nabaron (mobile naval air base (MONAB) IV), Manus, Admiralty Islands) 11.12.1945 - (04.1946) Captain Superintendent, HM Dockyard Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] 26.06.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Tyne & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet Harwich * (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Blake, Sir Geoffrey Son of Thomas Naish Blake, Bramley House, Alverstoke. Married (1911) Jean St John (died 1963), daughter of Sir W.St.J. Carr; two daughters.	16.09.1882 Alverstoke, Hampshire - 18.07.1968 London	Naval Cadet 15.05.1897 Midsh. 15.10.1898 S.Lt. 15.04.1902 Lt. 15.10.1903 Cdr. 30.06.1914 Capt. 31.12.1918 Cdre. 2nd cl. 15.12.1927? R.Adm. 02.04.1931 V.Adm. 17.09.1935 (retd 15.01.1938; ill-health) KCB 11.05.1937 HM's coronation CB 01.03.1929 ? DSO 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland LM 06.11.1945 Naval Liaison Officer US Forces Europe & 12th Fleet	Education: Winchester College 15.05.1897 entered RN 1914 - 1917 Gunnery & Principal Control Officer, HMS Iron Duke (despatches, DSO, Order of St Anne, Russia); Battle of Jutland, 1916 1917 - 1919 HMS Queen Elizabeth 1919 - 1921 Naval Attaché to USA 1921 - 1923 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth, Fleet Flagship of Atlantic Fleet (08.1923) no appointment listed 12.03.1924 - (01.)1925 served on Staff of RN War College, Greenwich 1925 - 1926 Deputy Director, Royal Naval Staff College 04.01.1926 - (07.)1927 Director, Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.12.1927 - 1929 Chief of Staff, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 19.07.1929 - (01.)1932 Commodore in command of New Zealand Station and First Naval Member, New Zealand Naval Board [HMS Dunedin (cruiser)] 23.08.1932 - (09.)1932 HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) 20.09.1932 - 1935 Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport 07.05.1935 - (07.1935) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.01.1936 - (02.)1936 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 22.07.1936 - 1938 Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron, and Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Hood, later HMS ...] 14.12.1940 - (07.1945) HMS President: 1940 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and additional Assistant Chief of Naval Staff  1942 - 1945 Flag Officer Liaison United States Navy in Europe (US Naval HQ, London) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, 01.1945-18.01.1949.
Blake, John Priestley Son of William Harvey Blake, and Gweneth Margaret Evans, of South Petherton, Somerset.	07.05.1920 South Petherton, Yeovil district, Somerset - 23.03.1943 (MPK) [age 22] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Cadet 01.01.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 1941?, seniority 01.10.1940 A/Lt. 16.05.1942 Lt. 1942/43?, seniority 16.05.1942 DSC 25.05.1943 sinking enemy supply ships [presented to next-of-kin]	17.01.1939 - (08.1939) special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 15.02.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 02.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Newcastle (cruiser) 05.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 01.09.1942 - 23.03.1943 HMS Turbulent (submarine) (declared lost after failing to return after a patrol off Sardinia ; probably being mined)
Blake, Richard Locke Son of ... Blake, and ... Chesshire.	14.08.1921 Chard district, Devon / Dorset / Somerset - 08.2000 North Dorset	Cadet 01.09.1939 Midsh. 01.05.1940 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 01.06.1942 Lt. 01.03.1943 (retd 01.07.1949) MID 05.06.1945 4 war patrols Far East 06.44-01.45	01.09.1939 - 30.04.1940 special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Berwick (cruiser) 05.01.1942 - (01.1942) promotion course, Portsmouth (08.1942) - (02.)1943 HMS Argonaut (cruiser) * (06.1943) - (08.)1943 submarine course 20.09.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 22.12.1943 - (07.1945) Navigator & Gunnery Officer, HMS Storm (submarine) (04.1946) no appointment listed 07.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Triumph (escort depot ship) (for navigation and/or direction duties) (05.1949)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Blaxland, George Fellowes Son of John 'Edric' Blaxland and Alison Johnstone Roffey.	(09?).1907 St Albans district, Hertfordshire - 24.03.2004	... ... .Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1937 Cdr. 30.06.1944 (retd > 01.1957, < 01.1959) OBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 10.07.45] MID 06.03.1943 Operation Torch	... - ... ... 01.07.1937 - (04.)1940 Gunnery Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser) (10.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941)     no appointment listed (12.1941)     no appointment listed 02.1942 - (06.)1944 Gunnery Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) 15.07.1944 - 09.02.1945 Executive Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) 09.02.1945 - 14.03.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...