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Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Best,
John Philip

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of the Hon. Samuel John Best (later 7th Baron Wynford) (1874-1943), and the Hon. Mrs. Best (Edith Anne Marsh) (1847-1924), of Putney Hill, London.
Partner of Bettie Laurie Tree (later Mrs William Henry M. Campbell) (01.04.1920 - 11.1989), daughter of Herbert James Tree (1896-1939), and Annie Georgina Tottle (1894-1972); one son.

14.03.1919
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
-
02.08.1940
(MPK) [age 21]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]

Cadet	01.05.1936
Midsh.	01.01.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1939
S.Lt.	16.04.1939

MID

09.05.1940

successful submarine operations against enemy

(06.)1936	-	(08.)1936	no appointment listed
01.09.1936	-	(01.)1937	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1937	-	(10.)1938	HMS Exeter (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
(12.1938)			no appointment listed
02.01.1939	-	(07.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
31.07.1939	-	(12.1939)	HMS Whitehall (modified W class destroyer)
08.01.1940	-	(02.)1940	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
02.1940	-	02.08.1940	HMS Spearfish (S class submarine) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-34 off Norway]

Literature: Bobby Wynford Best, In memoriam Sub Lieutenant John Philip Best 15th March 1919 to 1st August 1940 (privately published 1985).

Bethell,
Jocelyn Slingsby
J.S. Bethell

Son of Slingsby Westbury Bethell (1861-1936), and Sophia Isabella Hobhouse.

08.03.1897
Brackley district, Buckinghamshire/ Northamptonshire/ Oxfordshire
-
20.02.1975
Inverness district, Inverness, Scotland

...	...
Lt.	?
Cdr.	30.06.1932
Capt.	31.12.1939 (retd 10.08.1946)

CBE	04.05.1943	Operation Torch [investiture 18.04.1944]
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

Bethell,
Peter

06.09.1904
-
21.09.1973

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1935 (retd)
A/Cdr.	?
Capt. (retd)	?

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (detached for special duties)
...	-	...	...

Bett,
Richard Torre
R.T. Bett

Married Rosemary ... (predeceased him); one son, two step-daughters, one step-son.

(03?).1919
East Stonehouse district, Devonshire
-
26.01.2014

...	...
Lt.	01.12.1940
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1948 (retd 04.04.1955)

...	-	...	...
29.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMNZS Gambia (cruiser)
...	-	...	...

Betts,
Walter Ernest
W.E. Betts (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Parks Young)

15.01.1910
Bromley district, Greater London
-
20.03.1982
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Boy II	? [J 113502]
...	...
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 & 28.03.1942

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 1946
CB	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942
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	Sub-Lieutenant 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 (1864-1897).
Married (27.12.1917) Margaret Frances Luard (11.02.1898 - 29.07.1973); 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 07.07.1944) (reverted to retd 20.04.1946)

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	-	(08.)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)
(04.1943)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed
18.12.1943	-	(06.)1944	Captain-in-Charge, Anti-Submarine Training School, Dunoon [HMS Osprey]
08.01.1944	-	07.07.1944	also: Naval ADC to the King
31.08.1944	-	(04.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Beveridge,
Richard Scott
R.S. Beveridge

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 1942

(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
O. Bevir

Son of late Ernest Bevir, Downhurst, Hendon, Middlesex, and Dyer Street, Cirencester. Married (10.04.1924) Lilian Kathleen Cochrane Raikes, of Cefncoed, nr Newport, Mon.; one son.

16.02.1891
Downhurst, Hendon, Middlesex
-
04.11.1967
[Holcombe, nr Bath ?]

Midsh.	15.05.1908
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 (dispersed 29.03.1946) (reverted to retd 17.06.1946)

	CB	01.01.1945	New Year 1945
	CBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946

Education: Heddon Court; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (15.09.1903-...); RN Staff Course (1925-26).

15.09.1903			entered service
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]
31.08.1939	-	10.11.1939	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth as Chief of Staff Donibristle)
11.11.1939	-	10.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) & from 11.11.1939-31.12.1939 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron
28.11.1940	-	14.06.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Portsmouth) & in charge of Gunnery School Portsmouth
01.07.1941	-	31.07.1941	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)
01.08.1941	-	13.03.1944	Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
06.02.1942	-	28.07.1942	also: Naval ADC to the King
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
06.1944	-	(10.1945)	Senior Officer, Royal Naval Establishments, India [HMS Braganza]
1946	-	29.03.1946	HMS President (additional; for release)

Secretary of the National Trust, 1946-1949.

Bickerton,
Richard Samuel
R.S. Bickerton

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"
E.O. Bickford

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 1939

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
J.G. Bickford

Married Bunty.

12.06.1897
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
Capt.	31.12.1939

	DSO	16.08.1940	Dunkirk 06.1940
	DSC	23.12.1939	successful 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
H.E. Bickley

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)

Bickford-Smith,
Hilary John
H.J. Bickford-Smith (Photo courtesy of C. Bickford-Smith)

Son (with two sisters) of Capt. John Allan Bickford-Smith, RN (1895-1970), and Joan Angel Allsebrook Simon (1901-1991).
Married 1st (21.03.1951) Anne-Marie Kawe (05.09.1928 - 28.11.1990), daughter of T.O. Kawe, of Nasby, Sweden; two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd ((12?).1974, Petersfield district, Hampshire) Mrs Susan G. Marshall, of Petersfield, Hampshire; two sons.

08.02.1926
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
25.05.1988
Hillbrow, Liss, Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Midsh.	01.05.1943
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1945
S.Lt.	16.04.1945
Lt.	01.03.1947
Lt.Cdr.	01.03.1955 (retd 31.07.1963)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.09.1939-03.1943; Admiralty No. 130).

24.05.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship)
(01.1945)	-	(07.)1945	no appointment listed
22.09.1945	-	(10.)1946)	HMS Sea Devil (S class submarine)
11.12.1946	-	(04.1947)	HMS Sturdy (S class submarine)
(10.1947)			HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
05.1948	-	(10.)1948	HMS Statesman (S class submarine)
11.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Tantivity (T class submarine)
16.01.1950	-	(05.1951)	HMS Sidon (S class submarine)
...	-	...	...
23.05.1959	-	06.11.1961	Commanding Officer, HMS Auriga (submarine)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bickmore,
Douglas Askew

27.12.1895
-
07.1974

...	...
Lt.	15.08.1918 (retd)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.08.1926
Cdr. (retd)	?

...

Biddulph,
Michael Anthony Ormus

Eldest son (with two sisters and three brothers) of Lt.Col. Harold Mavromichali Biddulph (1869-), and Ethel Mary Edwards (1872-), of Chelsea.
Married 1st (10.11.1926, St Margaret's, Westminster, London) Betty Sherwood (1904? - (03?).1950), eldest daughter of Lt.Col. O.C. Sherwood, DSO, and Mrs Sherwood, of Chelsea; two sons.
Married 2nd ((06?).1952, Wincanton district, Somerset) Mary Sherwood (née Holt).

30.01.1902
Kensington district, London
-
27.05.1966
at B.3153 Road between Alford and Castle Cary, Wincanton district, Somerset (formerly of High Barton, Lovington, Castle Cary)

...	...
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1921
S.Lt.	15.05.1922
Lt.	15.03.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1932 (retd 30.01.1947)
A/Cdr.	10.1939?
Cdr. (retd)	30.01.1947

OBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946
DSC	16.08.1940	Dunkirk [investiture 08.04.1941]
MID	23.01.1945	minesweeping at Le Havre

Education: St Ronan's, West Worthing; RN College, Dartmouth.

15.09.1915			entered RN
...	-	...	...
08.11.1938	-	05.10.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Niger (Halcyon class minesweeper)
04.10.1939	-	(08.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Glen Gower (paddle minesweeper) (DSC)
(10.1940)	-	(02.1941)	HMS Glen Gower (paddle minesweeper) *
29.01.1941	-	(08.)1942	Experimental Commander, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper training base, Port Edgar)
29.09.1942	-	01.11.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Exe (frigate)
01.11.1943	-	25.07.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Aries (Algerine class minesweeper)
05.09.1944	-	12.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Florizel (Auk class minesweeper) (OBE, despatches)c

Biggs,
Hilary Worthington

15.01.1905
-
02.01.1976

...	...
Lt.	30.04.1927
Lt.Cdr.	30.04.1935
Cdr.	31.12.1938
Capt.	30.06.1943
R.Adm.	08.01.1953
V.Adm.	30.06.1956

KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, despatches

...	-	...	...
1939	-	1940	Executive Officer, HMS Revenge
1940	-	1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Hero (Norwegian Campaign and Mediterranean)
16.12.1942			HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty in 2nd Sea Lord's Office)
08.10.1943			HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Deputy to Naval Assistant to 2nd Sea Lord)
1944	-	1945	Captain (D) 11th Destroyer Flotilla (Eastern Fleet)
...	-	...	...

Biggs,
Reginald Charles
R.C. Biggs

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

Boy II	27.01.1920
Boy I	01.05.1920
Ord.Sea.	27.01.1922
Able Sea.	29.07.1922
Ldg.Sea.	24.09.1925
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 27.07.1943]
DSC	23.02.1940	Battle of the River Plate [investiture 23.02.1940]
DSC	07.12.1943	Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia 05.1943) [decoration posted]
MID	26.12.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
CorM	1937	coronation King George VI

Education: Royal Hospital School, Greenwich.

1920			joined RN as a Boy Seaman
...	-	...	...
08.12.1933	-	11.05.1936	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)
12.05.1936	-	14.09.1936	HMS St Cyrus (tug) (Home Fleet)
15.09.1936	-	20.02.1938	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for direction finding duties)
21.02.1938	-	19.05.1940	HMS Ajax (cruiser) (DSC)
20.05.1940	-	30.09.1940	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)]
01.10.1940	-	16.10.1940	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
17.10.1940	-	12.01.1942	First Lieutenant, HMS Gossamer (Halcyon class minesweeper)
13.01.1942	-	16.07.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper) (DSO, Bar to DSC, despatches)
17.07.1944	-	30.07.1944	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)
01.08.1944	-	14.08.1944	HMS President (Admiralty) (additional)
15.08.1944	-	08.01.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Offa (destroyer)
24.01.1945	-	12.01.1947	HMS Montclare (destroyer/submarine depot ship) [from 16.05.1946-06.06.1946 & 01.11.1946-10.01.1947 temporarily in command]
13.01.1947	-	07.04.1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Newfoundland
19.05.1947	-	11.06.1949	Commanding Officer, HMS Ricasoli (RN barracks, Ft Ricasoli, Malta)
16.08.1949	-	13.09.1949	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)
...	-	...	...

Bines,
Neville
N. Bines

Son of ... Bines, and ... Grant.
Married Renee ...

18.04.1922
Medway district, Kent
-
29.09.2003
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
A.M. Bingeman

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 1942
	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]

Bingham,
John Goodwin Wordsworth
H.M. Clark

27.12.1921
-
10.03.2002

...	...
Lt. (E)	01.12.1942
...	...
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1953 (retd)

OBE

1968

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Frobisher
...	-	...	...

Bingley,
[Sir] Alexander Noel Campbell
A.N.C. Bingley

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 1962
KCB	01.01.1959	New Year 1959
CB	02.01.1956	New Year 1956
OBE	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942

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
D. Binney

Son of Capt. Ralph Douglas Binney, CBE, RN, and Ruth Frances Livingstone Learmonth..

28.04.1923
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
R.D. Binney

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 1942

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 09.12.1943; own request) (dispersed 04.07.1945) (reverted to retd 30.08.1945)

KCMG	01.01.1951	New Year 1951
KCB	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 06.08.1940]
CB	01.01.1936	New Year 1936
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	Rear-Admiral / 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	-	19.07.1940	Flag Officer Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands [HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa)]
20.07.1940	-	09.11.1940	Flag Officer Commanding Orkneys [HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa)]
10.11.1940	-	06.01.1942	Flag Officer Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands [HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa)]
20.01.1942	-	26.04.1943	HMS President (additional; for special duty inside Admiralty)
27.04.1943	-	22.01.1944	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Chairman of the Manpower Enquiry)
23.01.1944	-	07.02.1944	HMS President (additional; for disposal)
08.02.1944		04.07.1945	Flag Officer-in-Charge, Cardiff [HMS Lucifer] (to serve in the rank of R.Adm.)

Governor of Tasmania, 24.12.1945-08.05.1951. KGStJ, 1946

Birch,
Edmund John
D. Binney

Son of Edmond John Birch, and Catherine E. ....
Married (15.10.1921, St Mary's Church, Hendon, Barnet, London) Edith Winifred Hall (1897? - 10.1989), daughter (with one sister) of Tom Harper Hall (1868-), and Edith Maxwell (1873-); one son, one daughter.

17.01.1883
Ilfracombe, Barnstaple district, Devonshire
-
31.08.1953
Combe Florey, Taunton district, Somersetshire

Midsh.	15.06.1899
A/S.Lt.	15.06.1902
S.Lt.	1903, seniority 15.06.1902
Lt.	31.12.1904
Lt.Cdr.	31.12.1912 (retd 24.01.1924; own request)
A/Cdr.	07.12.1917
Cdr. (retd)	24.01.1924 (dispersal 22.10.1945) (reld 17.12.1945) (reverted to retd 18.12.1945)

Africa General Service Medal & clasp Somaliland 1908-10
Italian Bronze Medal (17.11.1917; for military valour)

15.09.1897	-	14.01.1899	HMS Britannia (training ship)
15.01.1899	-	22.12.1901	HMS Dido (Mediterranean Fleet)
23.12.1901	-	30.01.1902	HMS Pembroke
31.01.1902	-	24.04.1902	HMS Mars (Channel)
25.04.1902	-	14.06.1902	HMS Impregnable (Home Fleet)
30.09.1902	-	19.07.1903	promotion courses [RN College, etc. ]
20.07.1903	-	25.11.1903	HMS Mercury (additional; for instruction in navigating duties)
25.11.1903	-	31.12.1904	Navigating Officer, HMS Apollo [tender to HMS Hebe] [under Admiral Commanding Reserves]
31.12.1904	-	01.05.1905	Navigating Officer, HMS Brilliant [tender to HMS Hebe] [under Admiral Commanding Reserves]
02.05.1905	-	03.02.1908	Navigating Officer, HMS Attentive [tender to HMS Pembroke] (Home Fleet)
04.02.1908	-	14.08.1908	Navigating Officer, HMS Sapphire (Channel)
15.08.1908	-	24.09.1908	HMS Dryad (additional; for 1st class ships' pilotage course)
17.11.1908	-	03.02.1911	Navigating Officer, HMS Diana (Mediterranean Fleet)
04.03.1911	-	12.04.1912	Navigating Officer, HMS Essex (4th Cruiser Squadron)
12.04.1912	-	31.05.1916	Navigating Officer, HMS Warrior (Home Fleet) (ship lost)
20.07.1916	-	13.01.1918	Navigating Officer, HMS Glory [initially to 01.08.1916 tender to HMS Vivid] (invalided; disease of nervous system)
13.03.1918	-	03.1918	HMS Saxifrage [tender to HMS Pembroke] & for duty on staff of Admiral Superintendent Clyde
03.1918	-	24.03.1919	Commanding Officer, HMS Saxifrage
25.03.1919	-	31.03.1921	HMS Victory (additional; for navigating duties at Portsmouth Dockyard)
15.04.1921	-	16.06.1921	HMS Victory (additional; for unemployed time not exceeding 6 months)
17.06.1921	-	17.09.1923	HMS Wildfire (for navigating duties at Sheerness Dockyard)
01.10.1923	-	24.01.1924	HMS Pembroke (additional; for unemployed time not exceeding 6 months)
30.09.1938	-	04.10.1938	appointed by Commander-in-Chief America & West Indies for duty with Naval Control Service Newport
(02.1940)	-	(10.1945)	in Navy List no appointments listed as his appointments mostly show "not to be borne on ships' books":
29.08.1939	-	05.06.1944	Consular Shipping Adviser (CSA) (for Naval Control Service (NCS) duties), Norfolk, Virginia (position renamed British Routing Liaison Officer (BRLO) Norfolk, Virginia)
06.06.1944	-	09.1945?	Consular Shipping Adviser (CSA) for special Naval Control Service (NCS) duties with Naval Service Headquarters (NSHQ), Ottawa [from 01.10.1944 borne on the books of HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS, Canada)]
09.1945?	-	15.09.1945	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for passage to UK) [date to be reported]
16.09.1945	-	21.10.1945	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)

Birch,
John Travis Beaufoy
J.T.B. Birch

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 29.06.1943]
DSC	29.09.1942	destruction of U-boat 27.05.1942 [investiture 29.06.1943]
MID	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 1941
MID	14.09.1943	destruction of U-559 Mediterranean 30.10.1942

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
R. Birch

Son of Walter de Hoghton Lea Birch and Margaret Maud Birch.

21.06.1905
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
M.A. Birrell

Son of Andrew Thomas Birrell (1895-1967), and Florence Heddon (1897-1960).
Married ((03?).1975, North Dorset) Cornelia Vyvyan Donnithorne (07.04.1940 - 12.06.1985), daughter of Vyvyan Oliver Nicholas Donnithorne (1908-1977), and Phyllis Mabel Garward (1914-1987).

23.04.1921
Border, Cumberland
-
26.10.1990
Yeovil district, Somerset

Midsh. (A)	01.07.1939
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 03.03.1953]

1939	-	(05.1940)	Fleet Air Arm [not specified]
15.06.1940	-	(08.)1940	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for special service)
30.08.1940	-	(11.)1940	pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)]
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)]
15.01.1942	-	(02.)1942	pilot, 888 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
28.02.1942	-	(04.)1942	pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(06.1942)			no appointment listed
(08.1942)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(10.1942)	-	(04.1943)	no appointment listed
14.05.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
11.10.1943	-	(01.)1944	pilot, 798 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
31.01.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bishop,
Frank Hallam
F.H. Bishop

Son (with one sister and two half-siblings) of Alfred Bishop (1858-), and Katharine Louisa Adams (1864-1888), of Sunnyhill, Wimbledon.

12.10.1886
Islington district, London
-
25.02.1960
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Lt.	15.09.1908
Lt.Cdr.	15.09.1916 (retd 17.06.1927; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	17.06.1927 (reactivated 29.08.1939) (reverted to retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Education: Lancing College (01.1900).

31.03.1903			entered RN
...	-	...	...
29.08.1939	-	(04.)1942	a Naval Assistant to the Director of Compass Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.04.1942	-	(10.1945)	HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) (for miscellaneous services)

Bishop,
Harold Lewis
H.L. Bishop

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Harry Howard Bishop (1862-), and Louisa Mayne (1862-1915).
Married ((09?).1923, Tisbury district, Wiltshire) Bessie Vera Mitchem (24.06.1901 - 01.09.1971); ... children (two sons?).

02.09.1901 *
Weymouth, Dorset
-
16.02.1974
Alton, Hampshire

* Date of birth in naval records 10.03.1901

A/Wt.Elect.	20.05.1929
Wt.Elect.	1930?, seniority 20.05.1929
Cd.Elect.	09.12.1937
El.Lt.	01.12.1938
A/El.Lt.Cdr.	03.06.1944
El.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (L)	22.05.1946 (retd 10.03.1951; age) (reverted to retd 10.09.1952)

MBE

01.01.1951

New Year 1951 [investiture 28.02.1951]

...	-	...	...
07.12.1938	-	31.05.1939	HMS Valiant (battleship) (at Dockyard Control, Devonport)
07.06.1939	-	02.07.1939	HMS Effingham (additional; for duty with Reserve Fleet Portsmouth)
03.07.1939	-	25.09.1939	HMS Victory IV (additional; or duty in Reserve Fleet Portsmouth)
26.09.1939	-	29.07.1941	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional)
30.07.1941	-	(10.1946)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (on staff; for depot duty with Staff Engineer Officer on staff Vice Admiral Naval Air Stations)
03.03.1947	-	(10.1947)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
09.02.1948	-	(05.1952)	HMS President (for duty at Ministry of Supply)(MBE)

Bisset,
Arthur William La Touche
A.W. La T. Bisset

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 (retd 17.01.1945; ill-health)
V.Adm. (retd)	01.02.1946

CB	01.01.1945	New Year 1945
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, 12-16.05.1944)
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
			specialized 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	-	14.05.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Shropshire (heavy cruiser) & from ... 1938 Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron
25.05.1940	-	06.1940	HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (additional; temporary; on staff of V.Adm. Dover, as British Naval Liaison Officer at Brest)
14.06.1940	-	31.06.1940	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for special service)
01.07.1940	-	06.08.1940	imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
07.08.1940	-	08.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) & from 10.03.1941 as Flag Captain & chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers & from 12.02.1942 Flag Captain to Senior Officer Force V (despatches)
06.02.1942	-	28.07.1942	also: Naval ADC to the King
23.08.1942	-	22.09.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (temporary) (as Capt.)
22.09.1942	-	20.03.1943	Rear Admiral, Naval Air Stations, Indian Ocean
21.03.1943	-	14.04.1943	HMS President (additional; for passage & whilst unemployed)
15.04.1943	-	30.04.1943	HMS President (additional; for temporary duty outside Admiralty, visiting air stations in Canada on request of 5th Sea Lord)
01.05.1943	-	12.10.1943	Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command Force H
13.10.1943	-	28.10.1943	Rear Admiral Commanding Force H (despatches)
28.10.1943	-	10.1944	Rear Admiral, Escort Carriers, Eastern Fleet [HMS Searcher (escort carrier), later HMS Royalist (cruiser)] (CB, CBE)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed

Bitmead,
Jack
J. Bitmead (Photo courtesy of Mr Alastair Letty)

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 attacks [investiture 07.03.1944]
	KW	21.10.1941	withdrawal of Polish forces from France 1940 [decoration posted]

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
04.09.1939	-	(11.1940)	HMS Broke (Shakespeare class destroyer) (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)
...	-	...	...

Black,
Peter Claud Shipton

08.05.1914
-
19.08.1989

...	...
Lt.	16.02.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945
Lt.Cdr.	16.02.1946 (retd 08.05.1959)

DSC

14.08.1945

destruction of U-boat 30.03.1945 [decoration posted]

...	-	...	...
24.12.1943	-	(04.)1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Rupert (Captain class frigate) (DSC)
04.1946	-	(10.)1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Fada (Loch class frigate)
18.12.1947	-	(05.1949)	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
05.04.1951	-	(05.1951)	RN Barracks, Singapore [HMS Terror]
...	-	...	...

Blackburn,
James Alexander Pollard
J.A.P. Blackburn

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
A.R. Blackledge

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

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Capt, George Blackler (1870-1923), Merchant Navy, and Ann Barker (1870-1957).
Married 1st (14.02.1940, St Germans district, Cornwall) Gwendoline Alison Lee ((12?).1905 - 16.06.1943); one son.
Married 2nd (26.02.1947, Elstree, Barnet district, Hertfordshire) Dorothy Joan Gardner; one son.

11.02.1910
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
12.12.1989
Wheathampstead, 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.	16.12.1939, seniority 11.02.1934
Lt.Cdr.	11.02.1942 (retd 11.02.1955; age)

	OBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946
	MID	27.08.1940	Dutch, Belgian & French coast 05.1940

Served Merchant Navy.

01.11.1938	-	(02.)1939	HMS Fearless (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
27.03.1939	-	11.1939	HMS Garland (destroyer)
28.11.1939	-	14.10.1941	First Lieutenant, HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (despatches)
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.)
(10.1944)	-	(10.1946)	no appointment listed; served within this period as Senior Officer, Naval Party 1734 (Kiel) [HMS Royal Alfred] (OBE)
10.03.1947	-	(07.)1948	HMS Sirius (Dido class cruiser)
09.09.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS Victory (for miscellaneous duties) [10.1948 shown as for Victoria Barracks]
17.02.1951	-	02.1953	Commanding Officer, HMS Uva (RN rest camp, Diyatalawa, Ceylon)
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
05.11.1953	-	(07.1954)	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

Became a publican (the Black Hat at Wilstead near Bedford). Moved to Wheathampstead in 1961.

Blacklock,
John Hateley
J.H. Blacklock (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son of John Blacklock, and Mary I. Hateley.
Married ...; ... children.

21.10.1923
Carlisle district, Cumberland
-
16.11.1971
Whitley Bay, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland

A/Able Seaman	(1942) [D/JX.I637I4]
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1944
S.Lt.	01.08.1945, seniority 01.09.1944
A/Lt.	1946?, seniority 01.03.1945
Lt.	16.10.1946, seniority 01.03.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.03.1953
Cdr. [unpaid rank]	1970?
A/Cdr.	1971?

	OBE	01.01.1968	New Year 1968 [investiture 13.02.1968]
	MID	13.10.1942	Operation Vigorous (Port Said-Malta convoy 06.1942)

(06.1942)			HMS Hermione (cruiser) (mentioned in despatches)
?	-	23.08.1944	Cochrane course, Final Selection Board, Upper Yardmen & Upper Yardmen (Air), HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed
1945	-	(04.)1945	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
06.06.1945	-	(09.)1945	HMS Ferret IV (Captain Submarines surrendered U-boats, Londonderry)
06.09.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Affray (A class submarine)
...	-	...	...

Blackman,
Charles Maurice

Married (14.02.1917) ...; two daughters.

07.03.1890
-
13.06.1981

Midsh.	15.01.1906
S.Lt.	30.03.1909
Lt.	30.12.1910
Lt.Cdr.	30.12.1918
Cdr.	30.06.1924
Capt.	31.12.1931 (retd 09.07.1941) (dispersed 20.09.1945) (reverted to retd 22.11.1945)
R.Adm. (retd)	01.03.1946

DSO

16.09.1919

15.09.1904			entered service
...	-	...	...
15.07.1938	-	21.07.1938	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)
22.07.1938	-	27.08.1939	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Director of Operations Division)
28.08.1938	-	20.09.1939	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Director of Operations Division (F))
21.09.1939	-	16.12.1939	HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
17.12.1939	-	19.06.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh (improved Southampton class cruiser) & as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Vice Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron
20.06.1940	-	04.07.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Belfast (improved Southampton class cruiser) (temporary)
05.07.1940	-	06.01.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh (improved Southampton class cruiser) & as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Vice Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron
07.01.1941	-	06.04.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh (improved Southampton class cruiser) & as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Vice Admiral Commanding 18th Cruiser Squadron
07.05.1941	-	19.06.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh (improved Southampton class cruiser) & as Commodore 2nd class Commanding 18th Cruiser Squadron (temporary)
20.06.1941	-	08.07.1941	full pay service leave
09.07.1941	-	28.07.1941	HMS Victory (additional; for full pay service leave)
29.07.1941	-	10.08.1941	HMS Victory (additional; for disposal)
11.08.1941	-	15.10.1941	HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan) (additional; as Senior Officer Western Patrol)
16.10.1941	-	19.03.1942	HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)(additional; as Senior Officer Western Patrol)
20.03.1942	-	25.03.1942	HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship) (additional)
26.03.1942	-	08.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship) & from 02.12.1943 as Captain (F) Levant Flotillas

Blackmore,
Lesley Edney

Son of ... Blackmore, and ... Bendall.

15.04.1914
Axbridge district, Somerset
-
23.09.1983
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 1945

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"
H.E.C. Blagrove

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)
10.02.192	-	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
C.J. Blake

02.07.1899
-
18.12.1964
Bridport district, Dorset

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] Cuthbert Patrick;
Baronet

02.01.1885
-
27.06.1975

...	...
Lt.	01.04.1907
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	01.04.1915 (retd 03.01.1928)
Cdr. (retd)	03.01.1928 (mobilised 28.09.1938) (reverted to retd 10.02.1944)

DSO 15.09.1916 (Battle of Jutland)

...	-	...	...
26.08.1939	-	01.01.1940	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; as Senior Equipment Officer on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool)
01.01.1940	-	08.08.1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; as Service Equipment Officer, Southern Area)
08.08.1940	-	01.11.1942	HMS Vernon (additional; as SNEO (T) HMS Vernon)
01.11.1942	-	07.06.1943	HMS Vernon (L) (for duty as SVEO (M) HMS Vernon)
07.06.1943	-	11.11.1943	HMS Vernon (staff, as SEO for duty at Roedean School, Brighton)
11.11.1943	-	10.02.1944	HMS Pembroke (additional; not to join)

Blake,
Sir Geoffrey
G. Blake

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

25.03.1881
-
01.04.1952

...	...
Cd.Gnr.	?
Lt.	02.01.1930 (retd 25.03.1931)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	02.01.1938

...	-	...	...
01.12.1931	-	09.02.1941	Instructional Officer, Woolwich Area, under Naval Ordnance (Inspection) Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.02.1941	-	(04.1946)	an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich Area, under Naval Ordnance (Inspection) Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Blake,
John

Son (with one sibling) of Ewart Spurgeon Blake (1892-1985), and Beatrice Kate Wort (1888-1974).
Married (19.09.1943, Thanet, Dover district, Kent) Elizabeth Mary Dredge (28.12.1918 - 11.02.1996), of Walmer, Kent; two sons.

23.11.1917
West Meon, Hampshire
-
05.08.1985
Deal, Dover district, Kent

Cadet	01.01.1935
Midsh.	01.01.1936
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1938
S.Lt.	1938?, seniority 01.03.1938
Lt.	01.04.1939
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1947 (retd 14.02.1958)

Education: Brighton College, Sussex.

01.01.1935	-	31.12.1935	HMS Frobisher (Hawkins class cruiser; cadet training ship)
01.01.1936	-	26.06.1936	HMS Renown (Repulse class battlecruiser) (Mediterranean)
27.06.1936	-	1938	HMS Amphion (cruiser) (Africa)
1938	-	1938	promotion courses
21.01.1939	-	28.08.1939	HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies Station)
21.08.1939	-	08.02.1940	HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean & Northern Patrol)
09.02.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Arethusa (cruiser) (Norway campaign, Dunkirk, Mediterranean [Battle of Oran, Malta convoys])
(12.1940)	-	(02.1941)	HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, Nova Scotia) *
02.1941	-	(04.)1941	First Lieutenant, HMS Newport (destroyer) (USA)
(06.1941)			no appointment listed
06.1941	-	(08.)1942	First Lieutenant, HMS Walney (escort) (USA; Atlantic convoy escorts)
(10.1942)	-	(04.1943)	no appointment listed **
(06.)1943	-	(10.)1943	specialist navigation course [HMS Dryad]
02.11.1943	-	12.1944	Navigating Officer, HMS Garth (destroyer) (21st Destroyer Flotilla, East Coast anti-E-boat patrols, D-Day, Walcheren, etc.) ***
(01.1945)	-	(10.1945)	no appointment listed ****
(04.1946)			HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) * \| *****
08.1946	-	01.1947	qualifying first-class ship navigation course [HMS Dryad]
20.01.1947	-	09.1947	Passage Navigating Officer, HMS London (cruiser), HMS Belfast (cruiser) & HMS Abercrombie (monitor)
08.01.1948	-	09.1948	Navigating Officer, HMS Balawayo (fast fleet tanker) (special trials and freighting passages from West Indies)
16.11.1948	-	01.1950	Staff Officer (Plans) to Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland [HMS Cochrane]
03.1950	-	04.1952	Navigating Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser) & Staff Navigating Officer to Vice-Admiral, First Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean & Canal Zone)
17.07.1952	-	08.1953	HMS Dryad (HM Navigation School, Southwick, Hampshire) (in charge of Navigation Section)
17.08.1953	-	01.1955	Navigating Officer, HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean, Far East and Korea, South Africa, etc.)
07.02.1955	-	03.1957	Staff Officer (Operations) to Captain-in-Charge, HM Naval Base, Portland [HMS Osprey]
04.1957	-	07.1957	Commanding Officer, HMS Annet (special duties)
07.1957	-	12.1957	Commanding Officer. HMS Gossamer (tender to UWDE Portland)

Mayor of Deal, Kent.
* indexed, but not listed as such
** according to his own career statement: 09.1942 Combined Operations (landing craft, invasion of North Africa), 11.1942-04.1943 Staff Officer (Operations) to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Bougie, Algeria [HMS Byrsa], 05.1943-07.1943 Ocean Passage Group Leader for American-built landing craft, Norfolk, Va., to Gibraltar
*** his own career statement shows course at HMS Dryad from 08.1943-02.1944 and posting to HMS Garth from 02.1944
**** his own career statement shows Navigating Officer to Assault Group W1 (Force W, Arakan, Burma) 01.1945-09.1945
***** his own career statement shows King's Harbour Master, Tanjong-Priok, Batavia, Java (Netherlands East-Indies) 09.1945-08.1946

Blake,
John Priestley
C.J. Blake

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
R.L. Blake

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 06.1944-01.1945

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

Blake,
Thomas Michael

Only son of Jack Blake (1881-1955), and Eleanor Andrews, of Monckton House, Alverstoke, Hampshire.
Married (20.06.1947, Preshaw Chapel, Upham, Southampton) Carol Patricia Benita Pelly (09.04.1928 - ), only daughter (with four brothers) of Maj. Sir Harold Alwyne Pelly, 5th Bt. (1893-1981), and Caroline Earle Heywood Jones (?-1976), of Preshaw House, Upham, Southampton; three daughters.

29.09.1912
Alverstoke district, Hampshire
-
09.01.1984
West Meon, Petersfield, Hampshire

Cadet	01.01.1931?
Midsh.	01.09.1931
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1934
S.Lt.	15.03.1935, seniority 01.11.1933
Lt.	01.04.1935
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1942 (retd 01.09.1948)

	MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
	CdeG	1945?	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

(01?).1931	-	08.1931	HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship and turret drill ship, Devonport) [awarded Eardley Howard-Crockett prize]
05.09.1931	-	(09.)1932	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
01.10.1932	-	(06.1933)	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
04.01.1934	-	(08.)1934	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
13.08.1934	-	(03.)1935	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
15.04.1935	-	(11.)1936	HMS York (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
23.11.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
12.04.1937	-	(09.)1937	long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
02.09.1937	-	(06.)1939	Navigating Officer, HMS Falmouth (escort vessel) (China)
(07.1939)	-	(12.1939)	no appointment listed
?	-	(02.)1940	Navigating Officer, HMS Scarborough (sloop)
15.02.1940	-	21.05.1940	Navigating Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (wrecked in Norwegian campaign & destroyed by RN)
10.06.1940	-	(08.)1940	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
16.08.1940	-	08.02.1942	Navigating Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser)
(04.1942)			HMS Despatch (cruiser) *
19.05.1942	-	22.01.1945	Navigating Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship)
02.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) (for miscellaneous services)
04.03.1946	-	(04.)1947	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
28.07.1947	-	(10.1947)	a Naval Assistant, Navigation and Direction Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
05.01.1948	-	(07.)1948	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Blathwayt,
Arthur Antony Wynter
A.A.W. Blathwayt

29.07.1925
-
09.06.1994

Midsh.	01.05.1943
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1945
S.Lt.	16.05.1945
Lt.	01.07.1947
Lt.Cdr.	01.07.1955 (retd 28.07.1965)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.05.1939-03.1943; Admiralty No. 44).

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	?
...	-	...	...

Blaxland,
George Fellowes
G.F. Blaxland

Son of John 'Edric' Blaxland and Alison Johnstone Roffey.

07.06.1907
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 1944 [investiture 10.07.1945]
	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
...	-	...	...

Bligh,
Noel Edward
N.E. Bligh

02.04.1926
-
09.02.2013
Taunton, Somerset

Midsh.	01.09.1943
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1945
S.Lt.	01.09.1945
Lt.	01.11.1947 (retd 16.02.1955; medically unfit)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 171).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Caradoc (Caledon class cruiser) *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Blight,
John Anthony Forster
J.A.F. Blight

20.04.1926
-
07.1990
St Germans district, Cornwall

Midsh.	01.09.1943
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1945 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 172).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Wessex (W class destroyer) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

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