Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945

Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Babb, D.A.
to
Bankes, E.W.J.

Banks, W.E.
to
Beasley, F.M.

Beattie, S.H.
to
Blaxland, G.F.

Bloodworth, W.S.
to
Bristowe, R.H.

Brock, C. de S.
to
Brownrigg, T.M.

Bruen, J.M.
to
Byrne, E.F.

W.S. Bloodworth to R.H. Bristowe

Bloodworth,
William Snow
W.S. Bloodworth

Married 1st (25.12.1902, Wandsworth district, London) Mary Ann Elizabeth Page (1883? - (09?).1943).
Married 2nd ((09?).1944) Phyllis Wrangham (01.03.1894 - ), daughter of Joseph Crickmore Wrangham (1861-1943), and Edith Annie Hughes.

22.01.1881
Northampton
-
31.12.1952
Thanet district, Kent

Wt.Tel.	27.03.1912
Cd.Tel.	27.03.1922
Tel.Lt.	24.11.1929 (retd 22.01.1931)
Tel.Lt.Cdr. (retd)	24.11.1937

MBE

17.07.1919

for valuable services in the Flagship of the 1st Battle Squadron

24.04.1912			entered RN
16.06.1914			HMS Marlborough
?	-	(01.1919)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
16.04.1922	-	(08.1923)	Assistant to Fleet W/T Officer, Atlantic Fleet (for experimental work) [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
15.08.1924	-	(05.)1926	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)
30.08.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.08.1927	-	(08.)1929	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
11.12.1929	-	(08.1930)	HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties; Port W/T Officer and for instruction of W/T ratings)
23.03.1939	-	14.01.1945	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
15.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Blundell,
George Collett
G.C. Blundell (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Frost)

25.05.1904
Kensington, Greater London
-
19.10.1997
Banbury, Oxfordshire

Midsh.	15.05.1922
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1924
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	30.06.1926
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1934
A/Cdr.	< 02.1941
Cdr.	30.06.1942
Capt.	31.12.1947 (retd 07.01.1957)

CBE	01.01.1957	New Year 57 [investiture 26.02.57]
OBE	08.04.1941	HMS Kent torpedoed 17.09.40 [investiture 14.04.42]
MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45

15.01.1918			entered RN
15.05.1922	-	1924	HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
01.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.03.1926	-	(06.1928)	HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) (additional)
03.01.1929	-	(04.)1930	qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
(08.1930)	-	(02.1931)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) *
22.09.1931	-	(07.)1934	Torpedo Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
(08.1934)	-	(11.1934)	no appointment listed
18.12.1934	-	(08.)1936	Torpedo Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) (and for duty with submarines)
21.10.1936	-	(07.)1937	Torpedo Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (while under construction also for duty with Commander-Superintendent of Contract-built Ships)
01.12.1937	-	01.1941	Torpedo Officer & First Lieutenant, HMS Kent (cruiser) & 1938-1939 also Fleet Torpedo Officer, China Station (China, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean & UK)
04.02.1941	-	11.1943	Torpedo Officer & First Lieutenant, from 10.07.1942 Executive Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet & Mediterranean)
13.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.02.1946	-	(10.1947)	Executive Officer, HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Brighton, then Portsmouth)
06.1948	-	(05.1949)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rifleman
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
24.06.1952	-	(01.1956)	Director of Naval Recruiting, Admiralty [HMS President]

Executive in industry, 1957-1969. President of Leamington Spa Branch, Royal Navy Association, 1970-1984 (Life Vice-President 1984).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Blunt,
Richard Mark
R.M. Blunt

Son of Hugh Roper Blunt (1874-1931),and Agnes Sara Gray (?-1948).
Married 1st (23.08.1952; divorced 1963) Adrien Seldon Truss, daughter of Leslie Seldon Truss; one daughter.
Married 2nd (18.09.1965) Patricia Eileen Lee, daughter of Walter Stanley Lee; one son, one daughter.

25.04.1924
New Zealand
-
2009
Karrinyup, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Cadet	01.09.1942
Midsh.	01.05.1943
A/S.Lt.	1944?
S.Lt.	06.02.1946, seniority 01.04.1944
Lt.	01.01.1947, seniority 16.11.1945 (reld 29.03.1949)

Education: Wanganui Collegiate (1938-1942).

01.09.1942			special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme)
			saw action during invasions of Sicily, Italy & Normandy and in the Atlantic & submarines:
01.05.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Rodney (battleship)
(10.1944)			HMS Nubian (destroyer) *
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
21.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
27.01.1948	-	(07.1948)	HMS Affray (submarine)

Buyer, Hawker Aircraft UK. Navigation Instructor, London School of Air Navigation. Flight Planner, Freddie Laker's Hunting Clan Aviation, London Airport. Writer of Teach Yourself Books on their 1900 series of computers, ICT London. Training Manager, ICT London. Training Manager, ICT Sydney. District Supervisor Golden Fleece Petroleum Perth, W.A.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Blyth,
Geoffrey Frytche
G.F. Blyth

Son (with two sisters) of Herbert Russell Blyth (1862-1918), and Evelyn Anburey Fraser Parker (1870-1944).
Married 1st ((12?).1933, Sheppey district, Kent) Euphemia Margaret McCorkindale (1887 - 30.04.1935), widow of Frederick Vasey Adams, and daughter of Dougald McCorkindale (1830-1903), and Mary Elizabeth Busby (1850-1909); one daughter (Elsie Nira [Francis] "Cesca" Blyth, who married Lt. (S) Adrian Leslie Sharpe, RNVR).
Married 2nd (04.1937, English Martyrs, Streatham Hill, Wandsworth district, London) Margaret Adela Verne (05.10.1904 - 02.07.2004), daughter of John Lewis Wurm (1867-1936), and Ethel Maude Hackney (1872-1948); five children, of which one son and one daughter survived infancy.
Married 3rd Josephine Doris Hickey (1906 - 25.12.1982), widow of Capt. William Wylie (1881-1950).

31.05.1900
Barrackpore, India
-
02.09.1985
St Austell, Cornwall

Midsh.	01.05.1917
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1919
S.Lt.	15.09.1919
Lt. (E)	15.03.1921
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.03.1929
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1936 (retd 31.05.1950)
A/Capt. (E)	13.10.1941

15.01.1914			entered RN

30.06.1939	-	12.10.1941	a First Assistant to the Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Singapore [HMS Sultan]
13.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Singapore [HMS Sultan]
03.01.1942	-	(10.)1944	Chief Engineer, HMS Warspite (battleship)
01.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	Deputy Principal Production Officer
(04.1946)			an Engineer Inspector under Chief Inspector of Gun Mountings
...	-	...	...

Bockett-Pugh,
Ian Hamilton
I.H. Bockett-Pugh (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Bockett-Pugh)

Son of Edward Harding Bockett-Pugh (1872-1945), and Irene Paul (1872-...).
Married (17.09.1929) Nancy Lucas (1910-1972); three daughters, one son.
Residence: (1944) Yelverton.

30.08.1900
Harwich
-
03.07.1982
Torbay district

A/S.Lt.	15.05.1921
S.Lt.	15.08.1923, seniority 15.05.1921
Lt.	28.02.1924, seniority 15.04.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1931
Cdr.	30.06.1938 (retd 30.07.1949; medically unfit)
A/Capt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944

DSO	14.04.1942	convoy escort & destruction of U-boat 01-02.42 [investiture 08.12.42]
DSO	13.04.1943	Operation Torch & destruction U-boat [investiture 11.05.43]
DSO	29.08.1944	Operation Neptune [investiture 27.11.45]
MID	01.09.1942	Operation Harpoon

1920			ADC to Capt. Best [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
(08.1923)			short course of instruction
15.08.1923	-	(01.1925)	HMS Venetia (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(05.1926)			no appointment listed
10.09.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China)
19.12.1927	-	(08.)1929	HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
20.10.1929	-	(02.)1931	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
17.12.1931	-	(01.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) (China)
25.07.1934	-	(02.)1936	Executive Officer, HMS Guardian (net layer)
11.05.1936	-	(06.)1938	HMS Iron Duke (training ship, Portsmouth)
29.08.1938	-	(10.)1938	Executive Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
20.12.1938	-	(02.)1939	in charge, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) (reduced to special complement)
(04.1939)			HMS Adventure (large minelayer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) *
19.04.1939	-	(08.1939)	Staff Officer (1) to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station & Residential Naval Officer, Freetown [HMS Neptune (cruiser)]
12.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	Executive Officer, HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
26.10.1940	-	02.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Wellington (sloop)
02.1941	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer)
03.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
(12.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed: Senior Officer, Ferry Service (Operation Neptune, Normandy)
15.08.1944	-	(10.)1944	Captain, Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
10.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Philoctetes (depot ship, Freetown) & as Captain (D) Freetown
(04.1946)			HMS Foliot IV *
08.10.1947	-	(07.1948)	Commanding Officer, HMS Camperdown (destroyer)
(05.1949)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boddam-Whetham,
Edye Kington
E.K. Boddam-Whetham

Son of late John Whetham and Adelaide Harriett Matilda BoddamWhetham of Kirklington Hall, Notts. Married (1915) Elizabeth Margaret, widow of Gordon Ayers.

04.02.1887
Kirklington Hall, Nottinghamshire
-
27.03.1944
[age 57]
[Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, 1.D.5]

A/S.Lt.	15.04.1906?
S.Lt.	22.04.1907, seniority 15.04.1906
Lt.	15.07.1908
Lt.Cdr.	15.07.1914
Cdr.	31.12.1920
Capt.	30.06.1928
R.Adm.	01.08.1939 (retd 02.08.1939)
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	07.09.1939

CBE	08.12.1942	Russian convoy PQ18 09.42
DSO	14.09.1917	*
MID	22.06.1917	?
MID	17.11.1942	**

* For his services in command of a destroyer in the action with .enemy destroyers off the Belgian coa,st on the 5th June, 1917. He handled his ship well in the face of superior forces and under the fire of the shore batteries.
** For outstanding devotion to duty during three years arduous service as Commodore of Ocean Convoy.

Education: Sandroyd; HMS Britannia

15.09.1901			entered RN
1914	-	1919	served European War (DSO for services in command of a destroyer off the Belgian coast, June 1917)
01.09.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Swallow (destroyer)
(01.1925)			Air Ministry
15.01.1926	-	(07.1927)	Commanding Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer) (China)
27.07.1929	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (gunboat) & Senior Officer, West River (China)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
07.06.1932	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet)
06.10.1934	-	(02.1936)	Commanding Officer, HMS Malabar (RN Barracks, Bermuda) (and in charge of HM Naval Establishments, Bermuda)
(02.1937)			no appointment listed
17.05.1937	-	(07.1939)	Captain of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
10.01.1939	-	01.08.1939	Naval ADC to the King
07.09.1939	-	27.03.1944	Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

Boddie,
Alfred Charles
A.C. Boddie

27.01.1891
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
10.12.1958

Seaman	? [237523]
Gnr.	01.10.1917
Cd.Gnr.	22.06.1927
Lt.	22.06.1939 (retd 27.01.1941)

30.08.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Stag (destroyer)
24.10.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Benbow (battleship) (for instructional duties) (Mediterranean)
06.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices)
18.06.1929	-	(02.1931)	HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta)
15.09.1931	-	(01.1932)	HMS Lupin (sloop)
29.04.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Mist (drifter)
18.02.1933	-	(07.1935)	HMS Danae (cruiser) *
16.03.1936	-	(02.1937)	HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
08.03.1937	-	(02.1938)	HMS Dauntless (cruiser)
24.05.1938	-	(06.1938)	HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
(06.1938)	-	(02.1939)	HMS Cochrane (depot ship) & for HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
24.02.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Syringa (trawler)
05.01.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon)
08.04.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
12.1941	-	(10.1943)	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
23.11.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Manatee (landing craft base, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight)
11.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Glendower (training establishment Pwllheli, North Wales)

* (02.1936) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Boddie,
George Hugh
G.H. Boddie

28.11.1886
Portsmouth, Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
1964
Hampshire

Seaman	? [218693]
A/Mate	15.02.1915
Mate	27.03.1916, seniority 15.02.1915
A/Lt.	15.01.1918
Lt.	07.03.1919, seniority 15.01.1918 02.08.1921, seniority 15.11.1917 (retd 01.12.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.11.1925 (reverted to retd 1941/42)

DSC

05.10.1918

* For extreme efficiency in extinguishing fires and reorganising ship after the action. He rendered great assistance in bringing the ship safely into harbour when the comdg. officer was wounded (22-23.04.1918, Adriatic)

(01.1919)			HMS Hercules (battleship) *
15.02.1940	-	(02.1941)	Assistant Boom Officer, Portland [HMS Boscawen]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boddie,
Ronald Gowan
R.G. Boddie

Son of R.Adm. (E) Ronald Charles Boddie, CVO, DSO, RN, and Janet F.M. Gowan.

30.10.1922
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland / Tyne and Wear
-
12.2004 still alive

Cadet	01.01.1939
Midsh. (E)	01.05.1940
S.Lt. (E)	16.04.1942
A/Lt. (E)	?
Lt. (E)	16.10.1943
Lt.Cdr. (E)	16.10.1951
Cdr. (EngM)	31.12.1957 (retd 01.11.1969; own request)

08.05.1940	-	(08.1943)	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham
31.08.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Spartan (cruiser)
20.03.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) (lent to RNZN)
19.09.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vanguard
15.01.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
22.10.1955	-	(01.1956)	HMS Chevron
12.1960	-	(02.1963)	Department of the Director-General, Aircraft, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.10.1966	-	(02.1969)	Project Planning Officer, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

Boddie,
Sydney Leonard Cecil
S.L.C. Boddie

09.09.1896
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
14.05.1979
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Seaman	? [M4789]
Wt.Eng.	01.07.1927
Cd.Eng.	01.07.1937 (retd 09.09.1946)
A/Lt. (E)	< 04.1944, still 04.1946
Lt. (E) (retd)	09.09.1946

OON

12.05.1942

withdrawal from Holland 40

20.09.1927	-	(08.1929)	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
05.11.1929	-	(09.1932)	HMS Dragon (cruiser)
16.11.1932	-	(01.1934)	HMS Sardonyx (destroyer)
26.06.1934	-	(02.1936)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
13.07.1936	-	(06.1938)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1938)			no appointment listed
14.09.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (for minesweepers in reserve)
12.12.1938	-	(10.1943)	HMS Verity (destroyer)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
01.03.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Escapade (destroyer)

Boddy,
John Gouldthorpe
J.G. Boddy (Photo courtesy of Rory Hammond)

Younger son of Eng.Cdr. Robert Henry Gouldthorpe Boddy, RN (1880-1930), and Elizabeth Grace R. Hill (1888-1969) (remarried 1935 John Russell Cooper), of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeenshire.
Brother of Capt. (E) Robert Rowland-Hill Boddy, CBE, RN.
Married (12.07.1941, St Peter's, Meavy, Tavistorck district, Devon) Dorothy Patricia Maxwell ((06?).1920 -), eldest daughter (with one sister and two brothers) of Sg.R.Adm. Joseph Archibald Maxwell, CB, CVO, CBE, FRCS (1890-1980), and Dorothy Anna Perkin (1891-1979). Patricia Boddy remarried (1947) Lt.Cdr. Edward Henry Graham Stokes, RN.

17.06.1919
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
14.05.1942
(MPK) [age 22]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 63, column 1]

Cadet (E)	01.09.1936
Midsh. (E)	01.01.1937
A/S.Lt. (E)	01.01.1939
S.Lt. (E)	14.11.1939, seniority 16.09.1939
A/Lt. (E)	> 02.1941, < 12.1941
Lt. (E)	02.1942, seniority 01.03.1941

AM
GC

20.10.1942
1972

Murmansk convoys 03-05.42 *[posthumously; presented to next-of-kin]

* Lieutenant (E) John Gouldthorpe Boddy, Royal Navy, whose ship was heavily attacked by enemy aircraft. Lieutenant Boddy was within a few feet of one bomb when it fell: he was badly shaken by the explosion. About ten minutes later he was seen to raise himself on his hands and knees. There were fires now burning round him, and the way was blocked by debris. Cries were heard from the Stokers' mess-deck below, and Lieutenant Boddy asked a rating to help him rescue the men below. He was last seen crawling towards the hatch to try to save them. This devotion cost him his life.

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1936	-	31.12.1936	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1937	-	(02.)1937	HMS Ramillies (battleship)
01.05.1937	-	(10.1940)	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
?	-	14.05.1942	HMS Trinidad (cruiser) [ship mortally damaged by German aircraft in Barentsz Sea]

Boddy,
Robert Rowland Hill
R.R.H. Boddy

Eldest son of Eng.Cdr. Robert Henry Gouldthorpe Boddy, RN (1880-1930), and Elizabeth Grace R. Hill (1888-1969) (remarried 1935 John Russell Cooper), of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeenshire.
Brother of Lt. (E) John Goldthourpe Boddy, AM, RN.
Married (04.05.1940, St Mary Abbot's, Kensington, London) Marcia Joan Heywood, elder daughter of Capt. & Mrs. Marcus Beresford Heywood, DSO, MVO, of Prior's Gate, Longframlington, Northumberland; ... children (two sons?).

20.09.1913
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
15.09.2002
Gloucester district, Gloucestershire

Cadet (E)	?
Midsh. (E)	?
A/S.Lt. (E)	?
S.Lt. (E)	?
A/Lt. (E)	?
Lt. (E)	16.11.1936
Lt.Cdr. (E)	16.11.1944
Cdr. (E)	?
Capt. (E)	30.06.1958 (retd)

CBE

11.06.1966

HM's birthday 66

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.



30.05.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Rodney (battleship)
12.06.1942	-	(06.)1944	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	Resident Assistant at Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Crayford to Gun Mounting Overseer at Woolwich under the Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Boddy,
Roland Lindsay
R.L. Boddy

Married; one son, four daughters.

23.08.1913
Richmond, Surrey
-
01.10.1995
Lochailort,
Inverness-shire

Cadet	01.01.1931
Midsh.	01.09.1931
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1934
S.Lt.	01.11.1934
Lt.	01.11.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1945 (retd 24.08.1955; own request)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (c. 1926-1930)

01.01.1931	-	02.10.1931	naval cadet
03.10.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS York (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
05.04.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Leander (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
02.05.1934	-	06.01.1935	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.01.1935	-	(07.)1935	promotion course, Portsmouth
17.09.1935	-	(07.)1937	HMS Londonderry (escort vessel) (East Indies)
01.11.1937	-	(06.)1938	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for motor torpedo boats)
27.06.1938	-	(08.)1939	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 8 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
(09.1939)			no appointment listed
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
01.10.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 28 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
06.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS Ambuscade (destroyer)
30.06.1942	-	18.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
04.1943	-	10.1943	no appointment listed
02.10.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer)
14.02.1944	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer)
12.06.1945	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer)
23.10.1945	-	(10.1947)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services, later for RN Barracks, Devonport)
02.02.1948	-	(07.)1948	HMS London (cruiser)
01.11.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) (for miscellaneous duties)
20.03.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall)
19.05.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS Osprey (RN base, Portland)
?	-	(04.)1955	staff officer, Tay Division RNVR (Dundee)

After his retirement from the navy he had a forestry business for a few years, skippered some pretty smart luxury yachts around the Mediterranean and Adriatic, his old wartime stamping grounds, before developing a small landscaping business in Kinlochmoidart for many years.

Bodell,
George Williams
G.W. Bodell

Married (09.1925, Cannes, France) June Rankine McCance (died 05.05.1933 whilst on passage from Jamaica to the UK).

23.07.1878
-
02.12.1971
Turramurra, Warramee, NSW, Australia

Asst.Eng.	01.07.1901
Eng.Cdr.	01.11.1918
Eng.Capt.	31.12.1927 (retd 23.07.1933)
Eng.R.Adm. (retd)	22.05.1934

BSM

15.10.1946

20.06.1901			entered RN
03.1907			HMS Research
04.02.1908			HMS Dreadnought
24.03.1909			HMS Dreadnought
01.09.1913			Engineer Officer, HMS Tartar (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Hecla]
			Engineer Officer, HMS Mandate (torpedo-boat destroyer)
06.1917	-	(01.1919)	Assistant to the Chief Engineer for Gun Mountings, HM Dockyard Malta
10.1921	-	(08.1923)	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (temporarily)
07.02.1924	-	1926	Chief Engineer, HMS Benbow (battleship) (Meditteranean)
(05.1926)			no appointment listed
24.06.1926	-	(08.)1929	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.09.1929	-	01.1932	Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Bermuda & for general duties [HMS Malabar]
21.04.1932	-	23.07.1933	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1941)	-	(07.1946)	Director of Naval Engineering, Navy Office, Wellington, New Zealand (Bronze Star Medal)

Boiston,
William Rochester
W.R. Boiston (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carolyn Boiston Wheeler)

Son of John Anthony Boiston (1861-1890), and Annie Wright (1862-1918).
Married (26.12.1912, Parish Church, Killingworth, Northumberland) Edith Bradford (22.09.1884 - 08.06.1969), daughter of William Bradford (1850-1921), and Elizabeth Tait (1849-1927), of Gillingham, Kent, England; one son [P/O John Rochester Boston, RAFVR], two daughters.

30.10.1887
Boosbeck, Skelton, Guisborough, York district, Yorkshire
-
24.10.1945
[age 57]
[Halifax (Fort Massey) Cemetery, section E, grave 93]

A/ERA IV	18.11.1909 [M1369]
ERA IV	24.01.1911
ERA III	17.11.1912
Art.Eng.	18.11.1915
Cd.Eng.	18.11.1925
Lt. (E)	21.01.1932 (retd 30.10.1937)
Lt.Cdr. (E) (retd)	07.1941, seniority 22.02.1940
A/Cdr. (E) (retd)	> 06.1944, < 07.1945

MBE	11.05.1937	HM's Coronation 37
DSM	21.10.1914	engagement off Heliogland 28.08.14 *
MID	06.09.1914	Heligoland

* Engine Room Artificer, 3rd class, O.N. M.1369, who showed great ability and coolness in taking charge of the after boiler room during the action, when an explosion blew in the after funnel and a shell carried away pipes and seriously damaged the main steam pipe.

18.11.1909	-	28.01.1910	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
29.01.1910	-	14.03.1910	HMS Tyne (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)
15.03.1910	-	28.02.1911	HMS St George (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)
01.03.1911	-	25.04.1911	HMS Actaeon (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)
26.04.1911	-	16.05.1911	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
17.05.1911	-	08.09.1913	HMS Blonde (cruiser)
09.09.1913	-	26.09.1913	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
27.09.1913	-	31.12.1913	HMS Afridi (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Hecla (depot ship, Chatham)]
01.01.1914	-	16.01.1914	HMS Afridi (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Dido (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)]
17.01.1914	-	14.04.1914	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
15.04.1914	-	09.03.1915	HMS Laurel (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Dido (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)]
10.03.1915	-	22.06.1915	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
23.06.1915	-	18.11.1915	HMS Laurel (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Dido (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)]
03.1916			HMS Cleopatra (corvette, harbour service, Devonport)
06.02.1918	-	12.1918	HMS Beagle (destroyer)
12.1919	-	04.1921	HMS Centurian
04.1921	-	12.1921	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
21.11.1921	-	22.10.1922	HMS Royal Oak (battleship)
22.10.1922	-	07.04.1926	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) [officially from 03.10.1922]
08.1926	-	01.1927	HMNZS Diomede (cruiser)
01.1927	-	05.1928	HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) [officially from 07.04.1926]
28.10.1928	-	30.10.1930	HMS Tempest (destroyer) (Nore Command) [officially from 22.10.1928]
11.1930	-	08.1931	HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Mediterranean) [officially from 10.1930]
08.1931	-	10.1931	HMS Veteran (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
15.02.1932	-	10.1934	HMS Anthony (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
23.11.1934	-	08.1935	Mechanical Training Establishment, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
10.08.1935	-	10.1937	HMS Marshal Soult (monitor; turret drill ship) (Reserve Fleet)
10.12.1937	-	06.1940	HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet)
06.1940	-	10.1943	Mechanical Training Establishment, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
01.10.1943	-	24.10.1945	Commanding Officer, Mechanical Training Establishment, RCN Barracks, Halifax, NS [HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS)]

Boldero,
John Christian
J.C. Boldero (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Ammundsen)

Married Emily (née ...) (1906-02.1990).

27.12.1899
-
13.03.1984
Weymouth, Dorset

S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.04.1920 (retd 01.10.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.04.1928
Cdr. (retd)	08.05.1946

	DSC	19.11.1919	Kronstadt 18.08.19 *
	DSC	02.07.1946	POW after fall of Hong Kong

* For distinguished services as second-in-command of HM Coastal Motor Boat No. 31 in the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919, when the Bolshevik battleship "Andrei Pervozanni" was torpedoed by the boat in which he was serving under a very heavy fire.

09.1912			entered RN
(08.1919)			First Lieutenant, HM Coastal Motor Boat No. 31
(04.1940)			HMS Scorpion (river gunboat) *
12.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 10 (motor torpedo boat) [based at HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
24.06.1941	-	12.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) (ship sunk by Japanese aircraft at Hong Kong [captured])
12.1941	-	1945	prisoner of war in Japanese captivity

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bolitho,
William Archibald Alverne
W.A.A. Bolitho

Fourth son of Capt. Edward Alverne Bolitho, RN (1842-1908), and Catherine Johns Bolitho (1858?-1922).
Brother of Maj. Richard John Bedford Bolitho, Royal Corps of Signals.
Married (23.09.1924, Plympton, Devon) Mary Louisa "May" Coryton (07.10.1893 - 05.03.1970), daughter of Capt. WIlliam Coryton, JP. DL (1847-1919), and Evelyn Annie Parker (1858-1948); one son, three daughters.

11.03.1892
Penzance, Cornwall
-
11.12.1966
Axminster Hospital, Devon

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1922 (retd 0.10.1928)
Cdr. (retd)	11.03.1932

15.09.1904			entered RN
...	-	...	....
01.03.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS President III (accounting base for personnel serving of Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS))
23.02.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
01.10.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Tana II (transit camp, English Port, Kilindini, Kenya)
01.02.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)
11.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			HMS Prosperine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bolster,
John Lander
J.L. Bolster

Son (with two brothers) of Capt. Thomas Charles Carpenter Bolster, DSO, RN (1885-1955), and Marguerita Maud Elizabeth Dick-Lauder (1883-1949), of Crouchers, Apuldram, Chichester.
Brother of T/Lt. David Charles Bolster, RNVR, and Maj. George Richard Stair Bolster, RA.

10.06.1919
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
11.04.1943
(MPK) [age 23]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

Cadet	01.09.1936
Midsh.	01.01.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1939
S.Lt.	01.03.1939
Lt.	16.01.1941

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.1933-07.1936; Admiralty No. 1259).

01.09.1936	-	31.12.1936	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1937	-	31.05.1937	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.06.1937	-	(12.1938)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet)
02.01.1939	-	(07.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
31.07.1939	-	(12.1940)	HMS Witch (destroyer)
16.01.1941	-	(08.)1941	HMS Witch (destroyer)
(10.1941)			HMS Witch (destroyer) *
(02.1942)	-	(04.1942)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(06.1942)	-	(12.1942)	no appointment listed
(1942?)			British Naval Liaison Officer on Greek destroyer "Vasilissa Olga"
29.11.1942	-	11.04.1943	HMS Beverley (destroyer) (torpedoed and sunk by U-188 in western Atlantic)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bolster,
Thomas Charles Carpenter
T.C.C. Bolster

Son (with one brother and one sister)of Thomas Bolster (1843-1910), Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, Royal Navy, and Charlotte H. Laura C. Carpenter.
Married (06.01.1914) Marguerita Maud Elizabeth Dick-Lauder (01.03.1883 - 11.02.1949), daughter of John Edward Arthur Dick-Lauder (1848-1913), and Rosa Caldecott (?-1932); three sons: T/Lt. David Charles Bolster, RNVR, Maj. George Richard Stair Bolster, RA, and Lt. John Lander Bolster, RN.

17.08.1885
Stoke Damerel district, Devon
-
19.08.1955
near Chichester

...	...
Cdr.	31.12.1919
Capt. (retd)	01.10.1931 (reverted to retd > 01.1945, < 07.1945)

	DSO	23.05.1917	for taking his destroyer into a mined area to rescue survivors from a hospital ship and a patrol boat
	MID	WW I	?

15.01.1901			entered RN
04.1910			qualified as German interpreter
WW I			served in destroyers (despatches)
			commanded 7th Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean)
1926			Senior Officer of the flotilla employed in Irish Waters
			Staff Officer (Operations and Intelligence), Chatham
1930			Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester & Senior Officer of the flotilla attached to Portsmouth Torpedo School
14.12.1939	-	(08.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Oracle (armed yacht)
(10.1941)			no appointment listed
01.12.1941	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (catapult ship)
(02.1944)			no appointment listed
29.03.1944	-	(01.)1945	Resident Naval Officer, Littlehampton [HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)]

Bolt,
Arthur Seymour

Son of Charles W. Bolt, Alverstoke, Hants.
Married (1933) Evelyn Mary June, daughter of Robert Ellis, Wakefield, Yorks; four daughters.

26.11.1907
Devonport district, Devon
-
25.03.1994
Dartmouth, Kingsbridge district, Devon

Midsh.	15.09.1925
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1928
S.Lt.	01.07.1928
Lt.	01.08.1929
Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1937
Cdr.	31.12.1941
A/Capt.	1944?
Capt.	30.06.1947
R.Adm.	07.07.1956 (retd 10.08.1960)

CB	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58 [investiture 15.07.58]
DSO	29.06.1951	Korea [investiture 07.11.51]
DSC	08.03.1940	hazardous air operations [investiture 02.04.40]
DSC	29.07.1941	Battle of Cape Matapan [investiture 07.07.42]

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne; RN College, Dartmouth.

15.05.1921			joined Royal Navy
15.01.1925	-	(02.)1927	HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)
15.04.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)
05.01.1928	-	(06.1928)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
19.03.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Durban (cruiser)
10.10.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Curlew (cruiser)
1931			qualified as an aircrew observer
05.12.1931	-	(01.)1934	HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
02.09.1934	-	(11.)1934	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) (for 823 Squadron FAA)
15.12.1934	-	(02.)1935	observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
12.07.1935	-	(07.1937)	School of Naval Co-Operation, Lee-on-Solent [lent to RAF]
1937?	-	1938	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
10.01.1938	-	(04.1939)	observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
06.1939	-	04.1940	Commanding Officer, 812 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
1940	-	1941	service with No 1 ‘General Reconnaissance Unit’ RAF, magnetic minesweeping with Vickers Wellington bombers, UK and Egypt:
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
22.07.1940	-	1942	observer, 700 Squadron, FAA [= staff observer to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean], HMS Warspite (battleship) (Battle of Cape Matapan, 1941)
07.04.1942	-	(04.1944)	staff, Naval Air Division [01.02.1943 renamed: Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division], Admiralty [HMS President]
28.06.1944	-	01.10.1944	Admiralty [HMS President]
01.10.1944	-	(1946)	Deputy Director of Naval Air Radio, Admiralty [HMS President] *
1946	-	1947	Second-in-Command of HMS Belfast
1947	-	1949	Commanding Officer, HMS Vulture, Royal Naval Air Station, St Merryn, Cornwall
17.10.1949	-	1951	Commanding Officer, HMS Theseus (Korean War)
13.06.1951	-	(05.)1953	Director of Naval Air Warfare, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.05.1954	-	(01.)1956	Chief of Staff to Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
1956			Member of Maritime Air Committee
1957	-	1960	Deputy Controller of Military Aircraft, Ministry of Supply

* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Bolt,
Charles Roy William
E.E. Gibson

(12?).1903
Thanet district, Kent
-
24.11.1941
[age 37/38?]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]

Midsh. (E)	15.09.1922
S.Lt. (E)	15.12.1924
Lt. (E)	15.06.1927
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.06.1935
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1939

15.09.1922	-	(05.)1926	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
01.09.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (additional)
06.07.1927	-	(06.1928)	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.03.1929	-	(02.)1931	HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.04.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
21.06.1932	-	(05).1933	HMS Vimiera (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(06.1933)			no appointment listed
07.11.1933	-	(02.)1936	HMS Esk (destroyer) (Home Fleet) [ship 02.10.1934 commissioned]
15.04.1936	-	(07.1937)	HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
03.01.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for mechanical training establishment)
20.01.1940	-	24.11.1941	HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]

Bolt,
Geoffrey Peter Langston
G.P.L. Bolt

Eldest son of Lt.Col. Richard Bolt, late 14th Hussars, and Mrs R.A. Bolt.
Married 1st (08.03.1941, Dalmeny Church; marriage dissolved) Margaret Elmslie Brebner, daughter of Maj. & Mrs R.F. Brebner, of The Leuchold, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh; two sons. Margaret Bolt remarried (16.10.1953) Richard Ashley Hall.
Married 2nd (31.07.1950, Surrey) Daphne Moira Howard, daughter of Maj. S.W. Howard, DSO, and Mrs Howard, of Norney Wood Cottage, Eashing, Godalming; two daughters, one son.

31.10.1916
-
03.11.1995
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

Midsh. (A)	04.07.1938
A/S.Lt. (A)	31.10.1938
S.Lt. (A)	31.10.1939 (reld 1940)
T/S.Lt. (A) RNVR	31.03.1941
Lt. (A)	19.01.1942
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	> 01.1945, < 07.1945
Lt.Cdr.	19.01.1950 (retd 14.07.1958)

04.07.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport)
10.10.1938	-	(05.)1939	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
10.07.1939			HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)
(08.1939)	-	(09.1939)	Fleet Air Arm
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
04.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
20.05.1942	-	(08.1942)	instructional staff, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
20.03.1943	-	(12.)1943	HMS Battler (escort carrier)
12.1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS Battler (escort carrier)
30.04.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.1945	-	(04.1946)	Squadron Air Gunnery Officer, 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier)]
01.07.1947	-	(05.1949)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
11.03.1950	-	(05.)1951	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
10.12.1951	-	(05.)1953	HMS Triumph (light fleet carrier)
(1953)			Lt.Cdr. Operations, HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)
12.10.1953	-	(04.)1955	RN Tactical School, Woolwich [HMS President]
19.12.1955	-	(01.1957)	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Bond,
George Alexander
G.A. Bond

16.02.1904
Cranbrook, Kent
-
23.01.1997
Barnstaple district, Devon

Seaman	? [J98148]
A/Gnr.	01.10.1933
Gnr.	1934?, seniority 01.10.1933
Cd.Gnr.	01.04.1942
Lt.	06.09.1947 (retd 16.02.1954; age)

(01.1934)	-	(03.1934)	short course of instruction
12.03.1934	-	(10.1935)	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
27.01.1936	-	(02.)1938	HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
(06.1938)			no appointment listed
13.06.1938	-	(04.)1940	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
29.05.1940	-	(08.1942)	HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
02.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
30.10.1944	-	(04.)1946	HMS Nelson (battleship)
01.07.1946	-	(04.)1947	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
24.09.1947	-	(07.1948)	an Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.02.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
14.10.1949	-	(05.)1950	Commanding Officer, HM LCT (8) 4041
15.06.1950	-	(05.1953)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

Bone,
Howard Francis
H.F. Bone

Son of late Eng.R.Adm. Howard Bone, CB, and Annie Stewart Wyatt.
Married (02.04.1932, Southsea) Heather Maud Marion Fletcher (born 12.10.1906, London); one daughter.

20.10.1908
Chatham, Kent
-
12.08.1981
[Combe Hay, nr. Bath, Avon ?]

Midsh.	15.09.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1929
S.Lt.	01.07.1929
Lt.	01.12.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1938
Cdr.	30.06.1941
Capt.	30.06.1947 (retd 17.05.1957)

CBE	13.06.1957	HM's birthday 57
DSO	13.11.1940	good service in recent patrols
DSO	23.09.1941	patrols 06-07.41
DSC	20.12.1940	sinking Italian submarine
DSC	17.01.1942	patrols 08-11.41

Education: Felsted; RN College, Dartmouth

15.05.1922			entered RN
15.01.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (China)
03.01.1929	-	(08.)1929	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
12.08.1929	-	(04.)1930	promotion course, Portsmouth
30.08.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS L 20 (submarine) (for duty with Group "D" submarines (in reserve at Portsmouth)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
20.01.1932	-	(09.1932)	First Lieutenant, HMS H 24 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
03.04.1933	-	(01.1934)	First Lieutenant, HMS H 48 (submarine) (Portland)
26.04.1935	-	(07.)1935	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines)
15.09.1935	-	(02.1936)	First Lieutenant, HMS Regent (submarine) (China)
04.01.1937	-	(02.)1937	submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
17.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (6th Submarine Flotilla) (for submarines)
25.07.1937	-	(08.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Sealion (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla)
15.10.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
06.03.1940	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tigris (submarine)
19.01.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) *
20.04.1944	-	(06.)1944	Executive Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
19.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	Executive Officer, HMS Wolfe (destroyer depot ship)
30.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	Executive Officer, HMS Howe (battleship)
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
16.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Montclare (depot ship)
18.08.1952	-	1954	Deputy Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.09.1954	-	1957	Captain-in-Charge, Simonstown & Captain Superintendent Simonstown Dockyard [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)]
07.01.1956	-	17.05.1957	Naval ADC to the Queen

* (04.1944) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Bonham-Carter,
Sir Stuart Sumner
S.S. Bonham-Carter

Younger son of late Lothian George BonhamCarter, Buriton House, Petersfield, and Emily Maud, daughter of Rev. J.M. Sumner; married 1933, Eve, widow of Brig. C.R. Lloyd, Indian Army, and daughter of late Donald Shaw; one daughter.

09.07.1889
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
05.09.1972
Petersfield, Hampshire

A/S.Lt.	30.09.1908?
S.Lt.	14.04.1909, seniority 30.09.1908
Lt.	01.04.1911
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1919
Cdr.	30.06.1921
Capt.	31.12.1927
Cdre. 2nd cl.	01.07.1937
R.Adm.	10.01.1939
V.Adm.	15.06.1942 (retd 1944)
Capt. RNR (retd)	1944?
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	01.05.1944

KCB	01.01.1943	New Year 43
CB	01.01.1941	New Year 41
CVO	21.11.1934	visit HRH the Duke of Gloucester to Austr & Nw Zld
DSO	23.07.1918	Zeebrugge raid

15.01.1904			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War (despatches, DSO, Legion of Honour (08.1918), French Croix de Guerre, with Palm, Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour (17.01.1919), Belgian Croix de Guerre (02.09.1921)); commanded HMS Intrepid at Zeebrugge; 16.05.1918 noted for early promotion
06.02.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Shark (destroyer)
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
06.01.1925	-	(07.1927)	staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
27.12.1928	-	(02.1931)	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station & Flag Captain, HMS Calcutta (cruiser)
12.10.1931	-	(01.1932)	Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
14.03.1932	-	(01.)1934	Assistant Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.07.1934	-	(02.1937)	Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron & Flag Captain, HMS Sussex (cruiser)
01.07.1937	-	(02.)1939	Commodore Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(04.1939)			no appointment listed
01.05.1939	-	(08.1939)	Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty [HMS President]
01.01.1940	-	(02.1941)	Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Seaborn]
13.01.1942	-	(08.1942)	Rear-Admiral Commanding 18th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Manchester (cruiser), later HMS Edinburgh (cruiser)]
01.12.1942	-	07.05.1943	Flag Officer-in-Charge, Malta [HMS St Angelo]
(08.1943)	-	(04.1944)	no appointment listed
01.05.1944	-	(07.)1945	Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

Played cricket (First Class) for the Royal Navy, 1925-1926.

Booker,
Alfred Maurice
A.M. Booker

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Alfred William Albert Booker (1883-1929), and Emily Skingsley (1886-1974).

21.12.1906
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
(09?).1968
Liverpool North district, Lancashire

Gnr.	01.04.1937
Lt.	04.09.1943
Lt.Cdr.	01.01.1948 (retd 21.12.1951)

MBE

06.10.1942

Operation MG1 (Italian attack on Malta convoy 23.03.42)

30.06.1937	-	(02.)1941	HMS Weston (escort vessel)
07.09.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Aurora (light cruiser)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
(06.)1943	-	(08.)1943	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
22.09.1943	-	(01.)1945	First Lieutenant, HMS Leith (sloop)
01.05.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Solebay (destroyer)
06.01.1947	-	(07.)1948	RN Camp, Belmont Park [HMS Victory]
20.10.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS Bluejacket (RN Nominal Depot Ship, Bombay, India)

Boothby,
John Oswald
J.T. Borrett

Son of John Willie Boothby, and Alice Drury.
Married 1st (16.05.1925, Portsmouth) Elsie May Elmes
Married 2nd (c. 1931/33, New York) Mary Helen Kelly.
Married 3rd (28.03.1945) Florence Margaret Loan.

20.12.1903
Sleaford, Lincolnshire
-

RN:
A/Mate	01.12.1924 [J102611]
Mate	22.02.1926, seniority 01.12.1925 (removed from list 05.1928)
RCN [?]:
T/Lt.	1940?, seniority 15.09.1939
RAF:
(A) P/O (prob)	24.06.1942 [123342]
P/O (prob)	27.09.1942 (reld 13.05.1943; ill-health)

01.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	Mates courses for rank of Lieutenant
(02.1927)	-	(07.1927)	no appointment listed
05.09.1927	-	05.1928	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
Lived in New York and California in the US, then Montreal & Halifax in Canada., returning to the UK c. 1942.
09.1939	-	06.1940	based in Halifax
(02.1941)	-	(12.1941)	no appointment listed *
24.06.1942	-	13.05.1943	commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

Chief Officer, Merchant Navy (1945, residing in Glasgow).
* indexed as RN, but shown in the seniority list under RCN; retained in the name index after Dec 41 (without appointment), but no longer shown in the seniority lists

Borrett,
Jack Tuthill
J.T. Borrett

21.07.1894
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
15.10.1969
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	30.12.1914
Lt.	30.06.1916
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1924
Cdr.	31.12.1930
Capt.	30.06.1938 (retd 08.07.1947)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	23.10.1945

OBE

11.06.1919

for valuable services in Torpedo Boat Destroyers throughout the War

15.05.1907			entered RN
...	-	...	...
09.11.1938	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Auckland (escort vessel) (Africa)
05.12.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
18.04.1941	-	23.12.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser)
(02.1943)			Combined Operations HQ *
17.06.1943	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Caroline II (trawler base, Belfast)
23.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commodore-in-Charge, Sheerness & as Commodore Superintendent of HM Dockyard, Sheerness [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)]
08.01.1947	-	08.07.1947	also: Naval ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boswell,
Frederick Thomas
F.T. Boswell

13.08.1898
Portsmouth, Hamsphire
-
02.09.1981
Oxford district, Oxfordshire

Clerk	15.01.1916
Midsh.	01.09.1917
S.Lt.	15.01.1919
Lt.	15.08.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1928 (retd 13.08.1941)
A/Cdr.	> 02.1937, < 07.1937
Cdr. (retd)	12.08.1941
A/Capt. (retd)	30.11.1940?

15.01.1916			entered RN
...	-	...	...
04.10.1939	-	29.11.1940	an Assistant to Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President])
30.11.1940	-	06.11.1944	Inspector of Naval Ordnance, South Wales Area (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President])
06.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (detached for special duties)

Boswell,
Lennox Albert Knox
L.A.K. Boswell

3rd son of William Albert Boswell and Florence Helen Rotch; married 1942, Diana de Lacy Bacon; three sons (and one daughter deceased).

18.05.1898
Billericay, Essex
-
19.04.1975
[Holts, Bosham, Chichester, W. Sussex ?]

Cadet	08.1914
Midsh.	?
S.Lt.	15.09.1917
Lt.	15.10.1918
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1926
Cdr.	30.06.1933
Capt.	31.12.1940 (retd 07.01.1950)

	DSO	01.01.1940	New Year 40
	MID	25.06.1940	Norwegian coast

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

08.1914	-	1915	Cadet and Midshipman, HMS Irresistible (Belgian Coast and Dardanelles)
1915	-	1919	Midshipman and Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Flagship of Admiral Sir D. Beatty; surrender of High Sea Fleet, November 1918)
15.01.1919	-	?	HMS President (for study at Trinity College, Cambridge (First Trinity VIII Henley))
1923			qualified in Gunnery
25.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	advanced gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.1926	-	(07.1927)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)
07.12.1928	-	(04.1930)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) (for Gunnery duties with 1st Submarine Flotilla)
16.09.1930	-	(09.1932)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (and as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron)
07.08.1933	-	01.1935	Commander (G), HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
15.01.1935	-	(07.1935)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.01.1936	-	(07.)1937	Fleet Gunnery Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship), later: HMS Rodney (battleship)]
24.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	course, Air Force Staff College, Andover [HMS President]
20.01.1939	-	01.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Pelican (escort vessel)
01.1941	-	(02.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Valorous (destroyer)
1941	-	1941	Ordnance Board
11.07.1941	-	1943	Deputy Director, Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (Hedgehog and VT Fuse Trials)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
10.03.1943	-	07.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Dasher (aircraft carrier)
07.1943	-	05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Biter (aircraft carrier)
15.07.1944	-	1945	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Western Mediterranean and British Naval Liaison Officer, Algiers [HMS Hannibal]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
1945	-	1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station Halesworth)
02.04.1946	-	1948	Commanding Officer, HMS Kenya (America and West Indies Station)
1948	-	1949	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
08.07.1949	-	07.01.1950	Naval ADC to the King

Fruit farmer since 1950.

Botley,
Thomas William
T.W. Botley

03.07.1901
Biggleswade district, Bedhordshire / Hertfordshire
-
1974
Shropshire

Midsh.	01.05.1918
S.Lt.	15.05.1922
Lt.	15.12.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1931
A/Cdr.	23.08.1939?

OBE	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 45 [investiture 27.11.45]
LoP	1944?	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
LM	28.05.1946	for distinguished service to the Allied Cause throughout the war

15.01.1915			entered RN
(1919)			HMS Venomous (torpdeo-boat destroyer)
...	-	...	...
23.08.1939	-	15.04.1943	Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
16.04.1943	-	(10.)1943	Assistant Director of Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (OBE)
(12.1943?)	-	(06.)1944	Staff Officer Minesweeping on staff of Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force (letter of praise, Legion d'Honneur)
07.08.1944	-	(01.1945)	Training Commander, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper base, Granton)

Boucher,
Maitland Walter Sabine
M.W.S. Boucher

Son of late Walter E. and Mary L.S. Boucher, Belgrave Road, SW1.
Married (1912) Vera H., daughter of Commander E.C.H. Helby, RN, Alverstoke, Hants; one son (Capt. J. Boucher, RA, killed on active service, 19 October 1945), one daughter.

19.12.1888
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
-
10.05.1963
[Berkshire ? / Cornwall ?]

Midsh.	?
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	?
Lt.Cdr.	?
Cdr.	1923
Capt.	31.12.1930
Cdre. 2nd cl.	02.05.1939-04.12.1940
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	22.09.1943-1945
R.Adm.	15.01.1941 (retd 16.01.1941)

DSO

1919

Education: Stubbington House School

15.01.1904			entered RN as a Cadet
			served European War (wounded), North Sea, Eastern Mediterranean and N. Atlantic; Minesweeping, 1919 (DSO, despatches)
1923	-	1924	Operations Division of Admiralty
1925			qualified as Air Pilot (flying till 1943)
1929	-	(02.)1931	Directorate of Training, Air Ministry
31.12.1931	-	(09.)1932	Commanding Officer, HMS Champion (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser) (Portsmouth)
06.12.1932	-	(01.)1934	Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.05.1935	-	(07.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Aircraft Carriers (Home Fleet)
01.01.1938	-	15.01.1939	Director of Air Matériel, Admiralty [HMS President]
23.01.1939	-	(02.)1939	Tactical Investigation, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
03.03.1939	-	16.03.1939	London Depot RAN [on loan to RAN]
17.03.1939	-	23.04.1939	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per "Comorin")
02.05.1939	-	04.12.1940	Second Naval Member of Australian Naval Board [on loan to RAN] [HMAS Cerberus (additional; for duty at Navy Office)]
28.08.1939	-	02.10.1939	acting First Naval Member of the Australian Naval Board (= Chief of Australian Naval Staff during outbreak of war)
05.12.1940	-	09.02.1941	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per "Sydney Star")
1940			also: Naval ADC to the King
10.02.1941	-	?	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)
05.04.1941	-	05.05.1941	lent to RAN for Foreign Shore Leave
(12.1941)	-	09.1943	no appointment listed: joined Air Transport Auxiliary as a ferry pilot
22.09.1943	-	(07.)1945	served as Commodore RNR in command of convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] (commanded many Arctic and other Convoys including that which led to the sinking of the German Battle Cruiser Scharnhorst)

Younger Brother of Trinity House; AFRAeS. Nautical Assessor to Court of Appeal, House of Lords, 1947-1953, and to Admiralty Court of Appeal, 1949-1958; Managing Director of Trenean Estates Ltd.

Boucher,
Sidney
"Sam"
S. Boucher

Second son of Mr & Mrs F.C. Boucher, The Vines, Rochester.
Married (1923) Phyllis Ellershaw, eldest daughter of Brig.Gen. & Mrs. W. Ellershaw, of Wymering, Cosham, Hampshire.

17.09.1899
Rochester, Kent
-
04.08.1963
Wadhurst, Sussex

Midsh.	04.1915?
S.Lt.	15.06.1918
Lt.	15.06.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1934
Capt.	30.06.1942 (retd 07.07.1951)

	CBE	11.06.1946	wind up Far East [investiture 28.10.46]
	MID	01.01.1943	New Year 43

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (09.1912-09.1914) & Dartmouth (09.1914-04.1915).
Played First Class Cricket for Kent & Royal Navy, 1922-1929. Navy Cricket Captain and former Secretary & Team Selector of the RN and RM Football Association.

09.1912			entered RN
04.1915	-	(01.1919)	HMS Colossus (Grand Fleet; Battle of Jutland)
12.06.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS Champion (light cruiser) (temporarily)
23.08.1924	-	(01.1925)	qualified for physical & recreational training duties, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
09.03.1926	-	(05.)1926	HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for Physical and Recreational Training duties)
10.08.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for Physical and Recreational Training duties)
01.07.1927	-	1929	on staff of RN College, Dartmouth (and for Physical and Recreational Training duties) [HMS Britannia]
29.04.1929	-	30.12.1929	HMS Vindictive (cruiser) & as Squadron Physical and Recreational Training Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet)
31.12.1929	-	(04.)1930	HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & as Squadron Physical and Recreational Training Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet)
07.04.1930	-	(09.1932)	Fleet Physical and Recreational Training Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
16.01.1933	-	(07.)1934	First Lieutenant-Commander, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid, later HMS Drake]
(08.1934)			no appointment listed
27.08.1934	-	(08.)1936	Maintenance Commander & Physical & Recreational Training Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
30.08.1936	-	15.08.1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Lowestoft (escort vessel) (China)
(10.1938)			no appointment listed
10.01.1939	-	(09.1939)	Assistant Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1940)			Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
10.06.1940	-	(10.1940)	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous duties)
14.01.1941	-	31.07.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer) (despatches)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
01.09.1942	-	(10.)1944	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for flotilla duties)
10.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Tyne] (CBE)
?	-	(04.1946)	Flag Captain, HMS Tyne & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, British Pacific Fleet
01.1947	-	(05.1950)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties) (as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Portsmouth till 14.01.1948)
1950?	-	1951	Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.01.1951	-	07.07.1951	also: Naval ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bourne,
Geoffrey
"Geoff"
G. Bourne (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Bourne)

Son of Ray Bourne, and Emily Marion Davidson
Married (04.07.1945) Betty Helen Bourne, of Fremantle, Western Australia; two sons, one daughter.

18.05.1923
Headington district, Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire
-
28.08.1990
Fremantle, Western Australia

Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	01.06.1942
Lt.	16.12.1943
Lt.Cdr.	16.12.1951 (retd 20.07.1959)

MID

03.04.1945

actions against enemy shipping 12.44/01.45

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Malaya (battleship)
07.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Malaya (battleship)
01.05.1942	-	(08.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
12.11.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Windsor (destroyer)
(06.1943)	-	(08.)1943	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
27.08.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS H 33 (submarine)
02.10.1943	-	(07.)1945	HMS Terrapin (submarine) (despatches)
189.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Thorough (submarine)
25.08.1947	-	(07.)1948	HMS Truncheon (submarine)
11.10.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Alderney (submarine)
24.04.1950	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Scorcher (submarine)
01.02.1953	-	(01.)1955	Commanding Officer, HMS Anchorite (submarine)
21.01.1955	-	(01.1957)	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire)
1957	-	?	Commanding Officer, HMS Tiptoe (submarine)
(01.1959)			no appointment listed

Emigrated to Australia, 09.1959.

Boutwood,
John Wilfrid
J.W. Boutwood

Married (05.09.1935, Westminster district, Middlesex) Lavender Dickinson, of Hawksfold, Fernhurst, Sussex; ... children (one son, one daughter?).

31.03.1899
Hastings district, Sussex
-
08.1993
Chichester district, Sussex

Midsh.	01.09.1917
S.Lt.	15.01.1919
Lt.	15.02.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.02.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1934
A/Capt.	10.02.1941?
Capt.	31.12.1941 (retd 08.01.1951)

	DSO	07.12.1943	Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia 05.43) [investiture 03.07.45]
	MID	23.05.1944	Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings 09.43)

15.02.1917			special entry cadet, RN College, Keyham
1917			Midshipman, HMS Inflexible (battlecruiser)
08.02.1919			HMS Monarch (battleship)
17.04.1921			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for gunnery course for rank of Lt.)
30.09.1921			HMS Campbell (flotilla leader)
04.1922	-	(08.)1923	HMS Campbell (flotilla leader)
23.09.1923	-	(01.)1925	qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
06.1925	-	(05.)1926	Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
11.08.1926	-	(02.)1927	Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.1927	-	(07.)1927	Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
19.08.1927	-	(08.1929)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Cambrian (cruiser)
12.02.1930	-	(01.)1932	Flotilla Gunnery Officer, 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Keith (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean)
07.06.1932	-	(09.)1932	Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
01.10.1932	-	(08.)1934	senior & gunnery Lt.Cdr., HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)
(11.1934)			no appointment listed
15.01.1935	-	20.01.1937	an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1937)			no appointment listed
08.04.1937	-	(08.)1938	Executive Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies & Nore)
10.1938	-	(04.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Whitley (escort vessel) (Home Fleet)
26.06.1939	-	(10.1940)	Executive Officer, HMS Iron Duke (training ship, Portsmouth)
10.02.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commandant, Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
13.06.1942	-	02.10.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (light cruiser) [ship sunk in accident when the liner "Queen Mary" rammed this escorting cruiser 20 miles NW of Bloody Foreland, off the coast of Donegal]
12.12.1942	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Fantome (Algerine class minesweeper) (DSO)
05.07.1943	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Fly (Algerine class minesweeper) (despatches)
09.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria / Taranto, Italy) (additional; for miscellaneous duties)
01.07.1944	-	01.1945	Captain (Minesweepers), Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)]
16.04.1945	-	18.03.1947	Deputy Director of Manning, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.04.1947	-	(05.1949)	on staff of Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland [HMS Cochrane]
(05.1950)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
07.03.1950			senior officers' war course
?	-	08.01.1951	also: Naval ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bovell,
Henry Cecil
H.C. Bovell

Son of Sir Henry A. Bovell, KC. Married (1923) Beatrice Gertrude Laila Springman (died 27.01.1952); one daughter.

04.01.1893
West Indies, Barbados
-
31.03.1963
[Warminster, Wilts. ?]

Midsh.	1910
S.Lt.	1913
Lt.	30.09.1914
Lt.Cdr.	30.09.1922
Cdr.	30.06.1928
Capt.	31.12.1934
Cdre. 1st cl.	14.05.1943?
R.Adm.	08.01.1944 (retd 1947)
V.Adm. (retd)	13.07.1948

CB	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46
CBE	14.10.1941	Bismarck action
DSO	10.11.1942	Operation Pedestal

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

15.09.1905			entered RN
1910			Midshipman, HMS Lord Nelson
1917			specialized in gunnery
03.05.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Vampire (destroyer) (for flotilla duties)
01.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Douglas (flotilla leader) (and as Squadron Gunnery Officer and Staff Officer (Operations) on Staff of Commodore (D) Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas) (Atlantic Fleet)
20.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
09.07.1928	-	24.12.1928	Admiralty [HMS President]
24.12.1928	-	(04.1930)	Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.01.1931	-	(02.1931)	course at Staff College, Camberley [HMS President]
31.12.1931	-	(01.1934)	Commander, HMS Norfolk (cruiser)
08.04.1935	-	(07.1935)	Imperial Defence Course
02.03.1936	-	(02.1938)	Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.05.1938	-	(06.1938)	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1938)	-	(10.1938)	no appointment listed
17.12.1938	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vindictive (cruiser)
07.10.1939	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
15.10.1940	-	(08.1942)	Commanding Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
14.05.1943	-	(12.1943)	Second-in-Command Naval Air Stations & Commodore, Naval Air Stations (North) [HMS Merlin]
15.04.1944	-	1947	Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Rosyth

Bowerman,
Harold Godfrey
H.G. Bowerman

10.06.1904
Hitchin, Bedfordshire
-
(03?).1971
Battle district, Sussex

A/S.Lt.	15.09.1924
S.Lt.	02.03.1925, seniority 30.04.1925
Lt.	30.01.1927
Lt.Cdr.	30.01.1935 (retd 10.06.1949; age)
A/Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946
Cdr. (retd)	10.06.1949

DSC	27.01.1942	destruction enemy submarine 11.09.41
MID	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 40
MID	13.07.1943	action with E-boats 14.04.43

15.01.1918			entered RN
01.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
17.02.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS K 26 (submarine) (Mediterranean)
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
02.12.1929	-	(04.1930)	HMS Ardent (destroyer) (and for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract-Built Ships)
09.06.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (China)
(01.1932)	-	(09.1932)	no appointment listed
17.07.1933	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine)
03.01.1935	-	(02.1936)	HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
02.10.1936	-	(02.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rover (submarine) (China)
(04.1939)	-	(08.1939)	no appointment listed
(09.1939)	-	10.09.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Oxley (submarine) (sunk SW of Stavanger, Norway)
21.11.1939	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Walpole (destroyer)
20.11.1940	-	(02.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Douglas (destroyer)
			Commanding Officer, HMS Leamington (destroyer)
08.1942	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Westminster (destroyer)
05.03.1945	-	(04.1946)	NPM Sydney [HMS Golden Hind]

Bowers,
Charles Philip
M.M. Bright

Elder son of Charles Chorlton Bowers (1886-), and Phillis Mary Newey (1888-), of Solihull, Warwickshire.
Married ((06?).1945, Chatham district, Kent) Mary Keogh West ((03?).1924 - ), daughter of Cdr. Harold West, RN, and Mary Kathleen Keogh; ... children (one son?).

04.08.1921
King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
26.12.1994
Isle of Wight

Cadet	01.09.1939
Midsh.	01.05.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1942
S.Lt.	1942?, seniority 01.04.1941
Lt.	01.09.1942
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1950 (retd 04.08.1966)

	MBE	01.01.1963	New Year 63 [investiture 19.02.63]
	MID	29.08.1944	war patrols

01.09.1939	-	30.04.1940	special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth
01.05.1940	-	(10.1941)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
05.01.1942	-	(04.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(06.1942)			promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] *
15.07.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
01.09.1942	-	30.09.1944	HMS P 314, renamed: HMS Tactician (submarine) (despatches)
01.10.1944	-	15.11.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Tactician (submarine)
(01.1945)			HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, 3rd Submarine Flotilla, Holy Loch) *
01.02.1945	-	(07.)1945	[First Lieutenant?], HMS Tuna (submarine)
14.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Satyr (submarine)
...	-	...	...
(1963)			HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (MBE)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bowers,
Henry William Sell
H.W.S. Bowers (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Parks Young)

?
-

Lt.	30.06.1936 (retd)

01.12.1939	-	(10.1940)	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
...	-	...	...

Bowes-Lyon,
Ronald George
R.G. Bowes-Lyon

Youngest son of late Hon. Francis BowesLyon, JP, DL, and Lady Anne Lindsay, daughter of 25th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Married 1st (1925) Mary Claire Russell (marriage dissolved); no children. Married 2nd, (1947) Mrs Cecilia French.

22.06.1893
Haltwhistle, Northumberland
-
17.04.1960
[London ?]

Lt.	15.03.1916
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1924
Cdr.	30.06.1929
Capt.	30.06.1936 (retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946) (left service 1947)

	MVO	1925	?
	MID	01.01.1944	New Year 44

Education: Summerfields, Oxford; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth

15.05.1906			entered RN
1914	-	1919	served European War (despatches)
01.08.1918	-	(01.1919)	Navigating Officer, HMS Talisman (destroyer) (Killingholm?)
1923	-	1925	Equerry to Prince George
22.08.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (temporary)
04.04.1927	-	(08.1929)	Navigating Officer, HMS Centaur (Cruiser) & Squadron Navigating Officer, Atantic. Fleet Destroyer Flotillas
15.08.1929	-	(09.1932)	Navigating Officer, HM Yacht Victoria and Albert
21.09.1932	-	(01.1934)	Navigating Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & Fleet Navigating Officer, East Indies Station
30.04.1935	-	(02.1936)	Commander, HMS Leander (cruiser)
20.11.1936	-	(02.1939)	Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Malta [HMS St. Angelo]
(04.1939)	-	(07.1939)	no appointment listed
31.07.1939	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser)
15.10.1940	-	(02.1941)	Director of Navigation, Navigation Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
12.08.1942	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Adventure (minelayer)
12.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding, West Africa [HMS Eland]
06.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Director of Welfare Services Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Bowyer-Smyth,
Sir Philip Weyland;
14th Baronet, of Hill Hall, Co. Essex (cr. 1661) (since 1927)

Son of late Clement Weyland BowyerSmijth (1851-1910), brother of 13th Bt, and Edith Maude Gray (died 1938), daughter of W. Gray, Sydney, NSW.
Succeeded uncle, 04.08.1927.
Married 1st (22.06.1922) Margaret Joan (died 1976), OBE 1952, TD (marriage dissolved 1951), only daughter of late S.
McCallMcCowan, Sydney; no children.
Married 2nd (1951) Veronica Mary, 2nd daughter of Capt. C. W. Bower, DSC, RN retd, Fordwich, Kent; one son, one daughter.

04.02.1894
Moss Vale, NSW, Australia
-
29.11.1978
London

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	09.12.1914, seniority 15.07.1914
Lt.	15.08.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1923
Cdr.	30.06.1929
Capt.	30.06.1937 (retd 05.07.1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	25.11.1944?

MID

03.02.1942

Battle of Cape Matapan

15.01.1907			entered RN
1914	-	1915	HMS Superb
1915	-	1917	HMS Marlborough
28.08.1917	-	(01.1919)	HMS King George V (battleship) (Grand Fleet)
14.02.1919			enlisted RAN
01.05.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental))
14.11.1923	-	(01.1925)	Squadron W/T Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)] (Atlantic Fleet)
14.04.1926	-	(07.1927)	Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
01.03.1930	-	(01.1932)	Executive Officer, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
21.05.1932	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Fowey (sloop) (East Indies Station)
15.11.1934	-	(02.1937)	staff, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
10.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (seaplane carrier) (Portsmouth)
1934	-	1945	served World War II (wounded, despatches):
23.01.1939	-	1940	Naval Attaché, Rome & Durazzo [HMS President]
12.04.1940	-	25.04.1940	London Depot RAN
26.04.1940	-	05.06.1940	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per "Strathmore") [lent to RAN]
06.06.1940	-	31.08.1941	Flag Captain, HMAS Perth (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron
01.09.1941	-	03.11.1941	HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage to UK per "Empire Star") & London Depot RAN (additional; for reversion to RN)
04.11.1941	-	26.04.1942	Deputy Director Signal Department (M), Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
04.08.1942	-	(10.1943)	Deputy Director Signal Department (M), Admiralty & for duty with Deputy Controller, Bath [HMS President]
29.10.1943	-	(04.1944)	Director of Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commodore East Africa [HMS Tana]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
02.01.1946	-	05.07.1946	Naval ADC to the King

Boyall,
Anthony John
"Tony"
A.J. Boyall

Son of ... Boyall, and ... Nelson.
Married Midge (née ...); two sons, one daughter.

16.04.1921
Williton district, Somerset
-
13.11.2006

Cadet	01.09.1938
Midsh.	01.05.1939
S.Lt.	16.02.1941
Lt.	01.09.1942
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1950
Cdr.	31.12.1957 (retd 16.04.1971)

	OBE	12.06.1971	HM's birthday 71 [investiture 20.07.71]
	DSC	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1938	-	30.04.1939	HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.05.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
08.08.1940	-	(10.1940)	HMS Arrow (destroyer)
06.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	promotion course, Portsmouth
01.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Talbot (submainre depot ship, Malta)
08.07.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS L 23 (submarine)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
(06.1943)	-	(12.1943)	HMS Ullswater (minesweeping trawler) * [ship was lost 19.11.1942 !!]
(04.1944)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) *
1944	-	(10.)1944	submarine Commanding Officer's course
03.12.1944	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Upshot (submarine)
14.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines)
...	-	...	...

Boyd,
Sir Denis William
D.W. Boyd

Son of William John and Emily Eva Charlotte Boyd, Manchester.
Married (1915) Audrey Edoline, daughter of
LtCol A.B. Shakespear, RM Artillery; one son, two daughters (and one son deceased).

06.03.1891
Manchester
-
21.01.1965
[Southsea Terrace, Southsea, Hants ?]

Midsh.	1906
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	07.04.1911, seniority 15.07.1910
Lt.	13.08.1912, seniority 15.10.1911
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1919
Cdr.	31.12.1924
Capt.	31.12.1931
R.Adm.	08.07.1941
V.Adm.	30.06.1944
Adm.	21.01.1948 (retd 22.06.1949)

KCB	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 45
CB	02.06.1943	HM's birthday 43
CBE	01.01.1941	New Year 41
DSC	17.04.1918	submarine service
MID	17.06.1941	attack by enemy aircraft 10.01.41

Education: RN College Dartmouth

1914	-	1918	served European War
09.09.1916	-	(01.1919)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Fearless (light cruiser) (and for duty with submarines)
02.01.1923	-	(01.)1925	First Lieutenant, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (on her world cruise)
1926	-	1928	lent to Royal Australian Navy:
11.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMAS Sydney (cruiser)
03.08.1928	-	(08.1929)	Fleet Torpedo Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
12.01.1931	-	(01.1932)	Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.07.1932	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Valentine (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
21.08.1933	-	(01.1934)	naval staff, Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
23.05.1934	-	(07.1935)	Director of Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
13.01.1936	-	(02.1936)	Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth
07.10.1936	-	(02.1937)	Commanding Officer, HMS Hardy (destroyer) & Captain (D) 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (Malta and in the Mediterranean during Spanish Civil War)
(07.1937)	-	(02.1938)	no appointment listed
21.04.1938	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vernon (Torpedo School and Experimental Establishment, Portsmouth)
29.01.1940	-	(02.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) and Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral, Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers
1941			RearAdmiral commanding Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers
24.02.1942	-	(08.1942)	RearAdmiral, Eastern Fleet Aircraft Carriers [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)]
14.01.1943	-	1945	A Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty & Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Equipment
01.06.1945	-	1946	Admiral (Air) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
1946	-	1948	Commander-in-Chief British Pacific Fleet
1948	-	1949	Commander-in-Chief Far East Station

Principal of Ashridge College, 1950-1957.

Boyd,
Robert
R. Boyd

10.06.1904 ?
-
11.02.1985

Prob. S.Lt. RNR	02.08.1938
Prob. S.Lt.	10.06.1939
S.Lt.	06.07.1940, seniority 01.03.1939
Lt.	03.1941, seniority 23.05.1937
Lt.Cdr.	23.11.1944
Cdr.	31.12.1949
Capt.	31.12.1956 (retd 10.06.1959)

DSO	11.07.1944	operations in Mediterranean "mlyr 4 cst dst"
DSC	12.05.1942	patrols 04-09.41
MID	05.05.1942	2 supply ships sunk, 5 landings

10.06.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet)
19.02.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Walker (destroyer)
25.10.1940	-	(08.1942)	HMS Utmost (submarine)
27.11.1942	-	(02.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS H 43 (submarine)
07.02.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Untiring (submarine)
13.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine)
20.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Frobisher (cruiser)
(05.1950)			HMNZS Philomel *
03.1953	-	(05.1953)	HMS Forth
29.07.1955	-	(01.1956)	Executive Officer, HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose)

Boyer,
Francis Louis
F.L. Boyer

19.01.1911 ??
-
31.10.1997 ??
[Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach California, USA ??]

A/S.Lt. RNR	06.12.1937
Prob. S.Lt.	02.05.1938
S.Lt.	1939, seniority 02.05.1938
Lt.	25.06.1939 (retd 20.04.1946; medically unfit)

(06.1938)	-	(10.1938)	no appointment listed
16.01.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
24.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS H 50 (submarine)
18.10.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Undaunted (submarine)
17.04.1941	-	?	British Naval Liaison Officer, "Surcouf" (French submarine)
09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
09.1942	-	(02.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS P 554 (submarine)
15.04.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Kite (sloop)
09.1943	-	27.12.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Roxborough (destroyer)
17.03.1944	-	11.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Riou (frigate)
03.12.1944	-	01.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Bentley (frigate)
24.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Naval Liaison Officer, HMS Saker [British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA]

Boyes,
Hector
H. Boyes

Son of late V.Adm. Sir George Henry Thomas Boyes.
Married (29.12.1919, St Matthias Church, London SW5) Eleanora de Bille, daughter of ConsulGeneral H. Falsen, Oslo; one son.

20.02.1881
Plymouth, Devon
-
23.10.1960
Bognor Regis, Chichester district, Sussex

Midsh.	15.06.1897
A/S.Lt.	15.12.1900
S.Lt.	23.01.1902, seniority 15.12.1900
Lt.	15.09.1902
Cdr.	31.12.1915
Capt.	31.12.1922
R.Adm.	23.11.1934 (retd 24.11.1934) (dispersed 01.12.1946) (reverted to retd 31.03.1947)

CMG	03.06.1918	valuable services rendered during the war
CIE	01.01.1931	New Year 31
OCwn	15.04.1912	valuable services rendered at the time of the earthquake in Southern Italy in the year 1908

15.01.1895			entered RN
1900			Midshipman, HMS Centurion (Boxer Campaign, China)
1901			RN College, Greenwich
1904	-	1905	Lieutenant, HM Signal School, Portsmouth
1905			Flag Lieutenant to R.Adm. Robert Leonard Groome [HMS Albemarle] (Channel Fleet)
1914	-	1919	served European War (despatches, CMG, 2nd Class Order of Aviz of Portugal)
1914			Flag Lieutenant-Commander and Signals Officer on staff of V.Adm. Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram [HMS Minotaur]
(1916)			Commanding Officer, HMS Thistle (gunboat)
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
20.05.1924	-	1926	lent to Australian Government as Captain of Flinders Naval Depôt & Captain Superintendent of Training [HMAS Cerberus]
(07.1927)			no appointment listed
28.01.1928	-	(04.)1930	Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf [HMS Triad (special service vessel)] (East Indies)
05.01.1931	-	(02.)1931	tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
14.05.1931	-	1933	Captain-in-Charge, Simonstown & Captain-in-Charge of Naval Establishments, Cape of Good Hope Dockyard [HMS Fora (gunboat; depot ship, Simonstown)]
11.08.1933	-	(01.)1934	Chief of Staff and Maintenance Captain to Commander-in-Chief The Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
1934	-	23.11.1934	also: Naval ADC to the King
09.08.1939	-	23.08.1939	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division)
24.08.1939	-	09.06.1940	Naval Attaché, Oslo (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden) [HMS President]
10.06.1940	-	02.07.1940	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty)
03.07.1940	-	04.05.1941	Naval Attaché to to British Minister to Norwegian Government in England & as Liaison Officer to Royal Norwegian Navy [HMS President]
05.05.1941	-	20.05.1941	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division)
21.05.1941	-	06.12.1941	Naval Attaché, Tokyo (Japan) [HMS President]
07.12.1941	-	09.10.1942	no appointment listed
10.10.1942	-	14.12.1942	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division)
15.12.1942	-	18.11.1946	Naval Attaché, Bogota (for Venezuela & Colombia, from 02.07.1943 also for Ecuador, and from 14.12.1943 also for Haiti & the Dominican Republic) [HMS President (additional)]
19.11.1946	-	30.11.1946	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division)

Boyle,
Edward Courtney
E.C. Boyle

Son of Lt.Col. Edward Boyle.

23.03.1883
Carlisle, Cumberland
-
16.12.1967
Ascot, Berkshire
(road accident)
[Woking Crematorium, Surrey]

...	...
Lt.	15.12.1904
Cdr.	30.06.1915
Capt.	30.06.1920
R.Adm.	18.10.1932 (retd 19.10.1932) (reverted to retd > 06.1943, < 08.1943)

1915

operations in sea off Marmora *

Officer Legion of Honour and St Maurice and St Lazarus, 1915.
* For most conspicuous bravery, in command of Submarine E. 14, when he dived his vessel under the enemy minefields and entered the Sea of Marmora on the 27th April, 1915. In spite of great navigational difficulties from strong currents, of the continual neighbourhood of hostile patrols, and of the hourly danger of attack from the enemy, he continued to operate in the narrow waters of the Straits and succeeded in sinking two Turkish gunboats and one large military transport.

Education: Cheltenham College; HMS Britannia (1897).

(1915)			Commanding Officer, HMS E 14 (submarine) (VC)
...	-	...	...
27.03.1926	-	31.03.1928	Captain of the Dockyard & Deputy Superintendent & King's Harbour Master, Devonport and Berehaven [HMS Vivid]
...	-	...	...
24.08.1939	-	03.02.1942	Flag Officer-in-Charge, London [HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames)]
(02.1943)	-	(06.1943)	Admiralty [HMS President] *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boyle,
Richard Courtenay
R.C. Boyle

Son of Lionel Richard Boyle.
Married Guen Boyle.

20.05.1902
-
01.1987
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

A/S.Lt.	15.10.1922?
S.Lt.	15.08.1923, seniority 15.10.1922
Lt.	15.05.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.05.1932
Cdr.	30.06.1938
Capt.	30.06.1945 (retd 26.06.1954)

DSC

05.07.1940

loss French Torpedo Boat Destroyer Bison

15.01.1916			entered RN
15.08.1923	-	(01.1925)	HMS Durban (cruiser) (China)
28.04.1926	-	(05.1926)	HMS Newark (twin screw minesweeper)
01.1927	-	(07.)1927	qualifying as Torpedo Officer, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]
15.08.1927	-	(06.1928)	qualifying for torpedo duties [HMS Vernon]
14.03.1929	-	(04.)1930	Torpedo Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
(10.1930)			no appointment listed
01.12.1930	-	(06.)1933	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
10.10.1933	-	(02.1936)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
12.01.1937	-	(06.)1938	staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (and for instructional duties)
26.07.1938	-	29.05.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Grenade (destroyer) [ship sunk at Dunkirk after dive bomber attacks]
08.07.1940	-	(08.)1942	Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.10.1942	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Havelock (destroyer)
28.04.1943	-	(06.1944)	Senior Officer, Escort Group B5 [HMS Swale (frigate)] *
20.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	an Assistant Director of the Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			HMS President **
11.1947	-	(07.1948)	Commanding Officer, HMS Black Swan (sloop)
(05.1949)			no appointment listed
18.07.1949	-	(05.1950)	Director of Boom Defences Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
07.01.1954	-	07.07.1954	also: Naval ADC to the Queen

* Highest in rank aboard, which usually indicates the post of Commanding Officer. But as Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR, got major awards for actions of HMS Swale it might be assumed that he was actually in command. Boyle was definitely in command of an Escort Group, with HMS Swale as command vessel.
** indexed, but not listed as such

Boys,
Frank Cecil

21.06.1918
Kensington district, London
-
27.03.2003
West Surrey district

...	...
Lt.	01.03.1940
Lt.Cdr.	01.03.1948
Cdr.	31.12.1953 (retd 27.05.1957)

	MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
	MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45

...	-	...	...
28.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Sirius (cruiser) (despatches twice)
...	-	...	...

Bracken,
Hugo Hastings
M.M. Bright

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Sir Geoffrey Thomas Hirst Bracken, KCIE, CSI (1879-1951), and Beatrice Hastings Farrington (1877?-1964).
Married Marion Doreen Knightly (17.04.1918 - predeceased him); one daughter.

1912
Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills, Madras Presidency, India
-
24.06.2008
[age 95]

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	16.10.1942
...	...
Capt.	31.12.1954 (retd)

	CBE	10.06.1961	HM's birthday 61 [investiture 13.07.61]
	MID	26.09.1940	Norwegian coast 04-06.40

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Victorious *
(1961)			HMS Duncan

Bradbury,
John Roger
J.R. Bradbury (Photo courtesy of Mr David Bradbury)

Son of Arthur Rodgers Bradbury, and Alice Lunn.
Married (08.08.1941, Hailsham district, Sussex) Barbara Jean Bridgen (20.12.1921 - 06.1987), daughter of Sydney R. Bridgen, and Helen Perkins; three sons, three daughters.

17.09.1916
Marsden, Huddersfield district, West Yorkshire
-
18.01.2011
Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire

T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR	23.10.1939
T/S.Lt. (E)	1940?, seniority 23.10.1939
T/Lt. (E)	17.09.1941

23.11.1939	-	(02.)1940	HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)
14.02.1940	-	(05.)1941	HMS Malaya (battleship)
06.06.1941	-	(06.)1944	HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
09.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Assistance (aircraft depot and repair ship)

Retired as Technical Director, John Edward Crowther, Marsden, West Yorkshire.

Bradford,
George Francis Norton
G.F.N. Bradford

Son (with one sister) of Maj. William Hamilton Bradford (1867-), and Georgiana Edith Longman (1875-1942), of Bursted Manor, Upper Hardres, Canterbury.
Married (01.12.1936, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai) Ethelwynne Anne Spence (25.07.1911 - 11.1997), only child of Mr & Mrs Herbert Marshall Spence, of Shanghai; one son, one daughter. Ethelwynne Bradford remarried (1961) Col. Ronald James Frier McAlister, OBE, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

22.07.1900
Whyteleafe, Godstone district, Surrey
-
25.11.1941
(MPK) [age 41]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

Midsh.	?
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1918
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.12.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1935

Education: RN College, Osborne (05.1913-...).

05.1913			entered RN
...	-	...	...
11.01.1938	-	(02.)1940	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.1940	-	(05.)1940	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(06.1940)			no appointment listed
06.07.1940	-	25.11.1941	Executive Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) (torpedoed & sunk by U-331 in eastern Mediterranean)

Bradley,
Charles Robert
C.R. Bradley

Son of Arnold Bradley, and ... Matthews, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and Kenya.
Engaged (1945) Third Officer Dorothy Kirker Hanna, WRNS, younger daughter of Capt. & Mrs. Robert G. Hanna, of Belfast.
Married (23.04.1949, Weymouth) Mrs Helga Lucia Appleton (née Collins).

13.05.1923
Tunbridge Welss, Tonbridge district, Kent
-
?

Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	01.09.1942
Lt.	01.11.1944 (retd 1951/52?)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; Admiralty No. 1729a; 01.01.1937-08.1940).

01.09.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
01.05.1942	-	(08.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
14.12.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Medway II (1st Submarine Flotilla base, Beirut)
26.07.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Trident (submarine)
13.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Surf (submarine)
11.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship)
25.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
30.04.1947	-	(07.)1948	HMS Ambush (submarine)
09.08.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Thorough (submarine)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
11.12.1950	-	(05.1951)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ambush (submarine)

Bradley,
Frederic Cyril
F.C. Bradley

Son of Frederick Livingstone Bradley, merchant, and Florence Bradley, Cardiff.
Married (21.09.1912) Phyllis Ethel, daughter of the late William Wood, manufacturer at Highgate; no children.

20.09.1888
Wimbledon, Surrey
-
09.04.1957
[Bournemouth, Hampshire ?]

...	...
Cdr.	31.12.1923
Capt.	31.12.1930
R.Adm.	15.01.1941 (retd 16.01.1941)

Education: private; Littlejohns.

15.01.1904			Naval cadet, HMS Britannia
1914	-	1918	Destroyer service
...	-	...	...
07.08.1931	-	21.08.1934	on loan to RAN:
07.08.1931	-	20.08.1931	London Depot RAN
21.08.1931	-	26.09.1931	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage per RMS Narkunda from UK to Sydney)
27.09.1931	-	31.05.1933	Commanding Officer, HMAS Australia
01.06.1933	-	18.04.1934	Commanding Officer, HMAS Canberra & as Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. Commanding HM Australian Squadron
19.04.1934	-	21.08.1934	London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to UK per Wanganella & Rangitata, and for foreign shore leave)
19.06.1935	-	(02.)1938	Naval Attaché, Washington (USA) [HMS President]
(06.1938)	-	(08.1938)	no appointment listed
26.09.1938	-	(10.1938)	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
15.02.1939	-	14.12.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
(04.1940)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
05.1940	-	(08.)1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Ashley Down, Bristol)
18.09.1942	-	(12.1943)	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]
(04.1944)			Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty *
29.03.1944	-	(04.)1946	Naval Attaché, Lisbon (Portugal)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bradshaw,
Alan Rousseau
A.R. Bradshaw (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Robinson)

Younger son of Mr. and Mrs. James Moore Bradshaw, of Myrtlefield Park, Belfast.
Married 1st ((03?).1925, Barnet district, Middlesex; marriage dissolved 1941) Madeline Davies, daughter of Edgar Owen Davies; two sons, two daughters.
Married 2nd (23.01.1941, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire) Daphne Mary Sercombe (1912-), younger daughter of Athelstan Cornforth Sercombe and Mrs. O.H.d'A. Steward, of Sheringham.

21.12.1898
Belfast, Northern Ireland
-
24.11.1987
Baily, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Paym.Midsh.	15.07.1917
Paym.Lt.	15.07.1920
Paym.Lt.Cdr.	15.07.1928
Paym.Cdr.	31.12.1936 (retd 21.12.1938; own request) (recalled 03.09.1939)
A/Paym.Capt. (retd)	1944 (demobilized 03.05.1945)

CBE

01.01.1945

New Year 45: employed in a department of the Foreign Office [investiture 02.02.45]

Education: Ecole Moyenne, Brussels (Belgium); Dungannon Royal School.

15.07.1916			entered RN
1916	-	1916	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
1916	-	1917	on staff of Adm. Sir Charles E. Madden [HMS Revenge & HMS Marlborough]
1917	-	1920	HMS Galatea (Baltic)
1920	-	1921	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
1921	-	1922	on staff of R.Adm. Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt [HMS Cardiff (light cruiser)] (evacuation of Smyrna)
08.04.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS Calliope (light cruiser) (for duty with Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet)
1923?	-	1924	HMS Ajax (battleship)
22.09.1924	-	(01.)1925	Admiralty [HMS President] (for 4 months' study in France)
09.02.1925	-	(05.)1926	HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport)
01.11.1926	-	(06.)1928	Secretary to Chieff Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)]
1928	-	01.1929	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
03.01.1929	-	(04.)1930	Secretary to Captain of the Fleet, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)]
(08.1930)			no appointment listed
09.08.1930	-	(07.)1932	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1938)			no appointment listed
05.08.1932	-	(05.)1934	Assistant Secretary to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
23.08.1934	-	(08.)1938	Admiralty [HMS President] (for Naval Intelligence Division)
(10.1938)	-	(12.1938)	no appointment listed
Secretary of the radio company Pye (Ireland), 1939, later Director of Aberdare Electric Ltd.
11.1939	-	1945	in charge of administration at Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, initially with title as General Administrative Officer, then as Assistant Director (Administration), and finally as Deputy Director (Administration):
03.09.1939	-	(02.)1941	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1941)			Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
1942	-	1945	lent to Foreign Office

Chairman, Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Co., Machinery Services Ltd., Thomas Pearson and Co. Ltd., and other companies. Director, Pye (Ireland) Ltd., Wire Ropes Ltd., Wright Machinery Co. Ltd., and other companies. Depurt chariman, Unidare Ltd.
Published: English-French naval terms (1932).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Branson,
Cecil Robert Peter Charles
C.R.P.C. Branson

Son of Cecil Branson and Marcelle Branson.
Mrried (1946) Sonia Moss; one daughter.

30.03.1924
St Malo, France
-
01.01.2011
Hull

Midsh.	01.05.1941
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1943
S.Lt.	1943, seniority 16.12.1942
Lt.	01.10.1944
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1952
Cdr.	31.12.1957
Capt.	31.12.1965
R.Adm.	07.01.1975 (retd 31.03.1977)

CBE

01.01.1975

New Year 75

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Admiralty No. 1832; Exmouth House; 01.09.1937-...).

			served, HMS Dragon, W Africa, S Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Far East (present during time of fall of Singapore and Java), 1941-1942; SubLieut's Courses, 1942-1943; qualified as submarine specialist
(12.1941)	-	(08.)1943	no appointment listed
01.10.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
14.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Sea Rover (submarine) (Far East)
13.06.1945	-	08.09.1945	[Commanding Officer?], HMS Unsparing (submarine)
			various appointments in submarines, 1945-1953; First Lieut, HMS Defender, 1953-1955; jssc; CO, HMS Roebuck, Dartmouth Trng Sqdn, 1957; Staff, Flag Officer Flotillas Mediterranean, 1959-1960; Jt Planning Staff, MoD, 1960-1962; Exec. Officer, HMS Victorious, Far East, 1962-1964; CO, HMS Rooke, Gibraltar, 1965; NATO Def. Coll., 1965; Defence Planning Staff, MoD, 1966-1968; CO, HMS Phoebe, and Captain (D) Londonderry Sqdn, 1968-1970; Naval Attaché, Paris, 1970-1973; CO, HMS Hermes, 1973-1974 (Hermes headed RN task force evacuating Brit. and foreign subjects from Cyprus beaches after Turkish invasion, 1973); Asst Chief of Naval Staff (Ops), MoD, 1975-1977

Managing Director, UK Trawlers Mutual Insurance Association, 1977-1985.

Branson,
Cyril Montague Chimms
C.M.C. Branson

Youngest son of Maj. & Mrs. Branson, of Chimmo, Winchester.
Married (29.10.1943, Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, London) Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Blunt, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Leslie Blunt, of Hackington Haven, Canterbury.

24.02.1919
-
died between 08.1989 and 08.1991 ?

Cadet	01.05.1936
Midsh.	01.01.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1939
S.Lt.	16.09.1939 (retd 03.10.1940)
A/Lt. (retd)	< 08.1942

Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of the Valorous) (Poland)

21.10.1941

as liaison officer ORP Wilk

01.09.1936	-	31.12.1936	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1937	-	(10.1938)	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) [ship 25.05.1937 commissioned]
02.01.1939	-	(04.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth
31.07.1939	-	(09.1939)	HMS Witch (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
03.02.1940	-	?	British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Wilk (Polish submarine)
24.02.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Rosyth) (for submarines)
(08.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS President *
(06.1943)	-	(08.1943)	Naval Tactics, Training and Staff Duties, Combined Operations HQ **
(12.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such
** (10.1943) still indexed, nut no longer listed as such

Brayne,
John Goble
J.G. Brayne

Second son (with three brothers and two sisters) of Col. Frank Lugard Brayne, CSI, CIE, MC (1882-1952), and Iris Goodeve Goble (1891?-1961), of Ashill, Norfolk.
Married (23.08.1947, St Peter and Paul's Church, Swaffham, Wayland district, Norfolk) Mary Elizabeth Townend, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs O. Townend, of Swaffham, Norfolk.

29.07.1923
India
-
27.05.1982
Leicestershire Central district, Leicestershire

Cadet	?
Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	01.07.1942
Lt.	01.05.1944 (retd 24.12.1948)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1937-...; Admiralty No. 1730; St Vincent House).

01.09.1940	-	(04.)1942	HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)
01.05.1942	-	(10.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(12.1942)			HMS Westminster (destroyer) *
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
22.02.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
07.07.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Sportsman (submarine)
01.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Medway II (base for 1st Submarine Flotilla, Malta)
23.08.1944			British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek escort destroyer "Kriti"
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
20.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Sabre (destroyer)
(04.1946)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
15.07.1948	-	(07.)1948	HMS Flint Castle

* indexed, but not listed as such

Breese,
John Edward
"Ben"
J.E. Breese

Son of ... Breese, a gardener, and ... Cotton.
Married (1939) Doris Freeland (predeceased him); one son, three daughters.

23.07.1914
Chislehurst, Bromley district, Kent
-
26.06.2009
Sedlescombe, East Sussex

Boy 2nd class	1930
Leading Seaman	(1938)
Chief Petty Officer	?
S.Lt. (A)	01.09.1944
Lt. (A)	01.09.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1953 (retd 23.07.1959)

DFC

04.05.1954

operations in Malaya [investiture 20.07.54]

Education: grammar school, Bromley; training ship "Mercury" on the Hamble (2 years).

1930			joined RN
1938			No 1 Flying Training School at Leuchars, Fife
(04.1940)	-	(07.1940)	HMS Valiant (battleship) (as Swordfish pilot) (Norway & Mediterranean)
			spent much of the later war years training squadrons
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
1947?	-	1951?	instructor and examiner in instrument flying for four years
30.10.1947	-	(07.1948)	HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall)
07.02.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose)
16.11.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for miscellaneous duties)
1952			848 (Helo) Squadron FAA (Malaya)
29.10.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Simbang (for miscellaneous services)
03.05.1954	-	(07.1954)	HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton) (for duty at RAF Valley)
(04.1955)	-	(01.1956)	HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton) *
(1956)			HMS Ocean (carrier) (during the Suez invasion he flew Whirlwind helicopters)
(01.1957)	-	(01.1959)	Admiralty [HMS President] (writing pilots' notes for various aircraft at the Ministry of Aviation) *

Served in civilian duty with the Ministry of Aviation, 1959-1978.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Bremner,
Eric Gordon Nelson
E.G.N. Bremner

Married Rosamund Daphne Brock; two daughters, one son.

11.05.1917
St Columb, Cornwall
-
09.1985
Hong Kong (while helping with the Boat People)

Cadet	01.09.1934
Midsh.	01.05.1935
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1937
S.Lt.	01.03.1938
Lt.	16.05.1939 ?, seniority 16.11.1938
Lt.Cdr.	16.11.1946 (retd 27.06.1948)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1934	-	30.04.1935	cadet, HMS Frobischer (cadet training cruiser)
01.05.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
13.04.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China)
15.05.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet)
30.08.1937	-	(02.)1938	promotion course, Portsmouth
14.05.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Hasty (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
10.07.1939	-	(08.)1939	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for motor torpedo boats)
12.08.1939	-	(09.1939)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 8 (motor toepdo boat) [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
(04.1940)			HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
10.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 42 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
01.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Mercury]
11.04.1942	-	(08.)1942	Signals Officer, HMS Mackay (destroyer)
24.08.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Dundonald II (Combined Operations training establishment, Auchengate)
31.01.1944	-	(06.1944)	Signals Officer, HMS Vigilant (destroyer)
(06.1944)			[Signals Officer?], HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer) (Normandy)
09.07.1944	-	(10.1944)	[Signals Officer?], HMS Myngs (destroyer)
26.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Braganza III (Combined Signal Centre, Bombay, India)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Brent,
Charles Roy
C.R. Brent

06.03.1893
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
(09?).1981
Greenwich

Midsh.	15.01.1911
A/S.Lt.	15.03.1913
S.Lt.	15.03.1914
Lt.	29.02.1916
Lt.Cdr.	29.02.1924 (retd 16.04.1936; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	16.04.1936 (reverted to retd 03.04.1946)

14\|15 St	?	?
14\|20 BWM	?	?
VM	?	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
Def Med	?	?
39\|45 WM	?	?

15.01.1906			entered RN
06.02.1914	-	1916	HMS Gossamer (torpedo boat destroyer)
16.06.1917	-	1920	HMS Caradoc (light cruiser) (Baltic)
(03.1920)			HMS Vendetta (torpedo boat destroyer)
30.11.1922	-	(01.1925)	HMS Iroquois (surveying vessel)
11.1925	-	(07.1927)	First Lieutenant, HMS Beaufort (surveying vessel)
04.01.1928	-	(02.1936)	a Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.09.1938	-	(08.)1942	a Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.09.1942	-	(07.1945)	Superintendent, Chart Depot, HM Dockyard, Alexandria (Egypt) [HMS Nile]

Brereton,
William Hector
W.H. Brereton

Son of Col. Cyprian Bridge Brereton (1876-1962), and Margaret Irene Guy.
Married (22.03.1952, Malta) Elaine Reynolds Hampton (born c. 1921; predeceased him), daughter of Arthur Charles Hampton; two daughters.

1919 ?
New Zealand
-
21.09.2009
Auckland Hospital

Cadet	01.09.1936
Midsh.	01.05.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1939
S.Lt.	1940?, seniority 01.03.1939
Lt.	01.09.1940
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1948 (retd 20.07.1959)

MBE

13.06.1959

HM's birthday 59 [investiture 20.10.59]

01.09.1936	-	(02.)1937	special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
24.04.1937	-	(04.)1939	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.05.1939	-	(08.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
23.08.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Valorous (destroyer)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
21.07.1942	-	(08.1943)	First Lieutenant, HMS Obdurate (destroyer)
(10.1943)	-	(01.)1945	no appointment listed
10.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Speaker (escort carrier)
(07.1948)			lent to RAN
04.02.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMNZS Taupo [lent to RNZN]
12.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMNZS Tamaki [lent to RNZN]
(1952)			HMS Dieppe
07.07.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Orion (for service with Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Plymouth)
14.05.1954	-	(01.)1956	HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous duties)
05.11.1956	-	(01.)1959	Staff Movements Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (MBE)

Brewer,
Arthur Leslie
"Bill" / "Jub"
A.L. Brewer

Son of ... Brewer, and Edith M. Lewis.
Married ((06?).1936, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Maggie Driver (14.10.1913-01.1985); twin daughters, one son.

05.09.1911
West Ham district, Greater London
-
16.12.2009
Hayling Island, Hampshire

ERA 2	? [C/MX 45995]
A/Wt.Eng.	01.10.1941
Wt.Eng.	1942?, seniority 01.10.1941
Lt. (E)	17.07.1944, seniority 01.01.1943
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.01.1951 (retd 05.09.1956)

	DSM	28.06.1940	submarine actions against the enemy [decoration posted]
	MID	05.09.1944	4 supply ships sunk & 2 special operations

1930s			HMS Cumberland (cruiser) & HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
(1940?)			HMS Thames (submarine)
(1940)			HMS Narwhal (minelaying submarine) (DSM)
(12.1941)			submarine course *
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
14.10.1942	-	(04.)1944	HMS Sceptre (submarine)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
25.07.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Trespasser (submarine) (despatches)
10.01.1946	-	(04.)1947	HMS Alderney (submarine)
05.05.194	-	(07.1948)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
25.02.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
03.09.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS Savage (destroyer)
14.06.1954	-	(07.)1954	HMS Bellerophon (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
07.1954	-	(01.)1956	HMS Cavalier (destroyer)

Worked for Goulandris Shipping, Foster Wheelers, and the predecessor to Portsmouth University.

Brewer,
Godfrey Noel
G.N. Brewer

From Bromborough, Cheshire (1943).

17.03.1901
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
-
05.04.1988
Oxted, Surrey

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	15.01.1921
Lt.	15.06.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1930
Cdr.	30.06.1935
Capt.	30.06.1943 (retd 08.07.1952)

DSO	19.10.1943	attacks on U-boats 05-06.43
MID	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 40
MID	06.04.1943	Operation Torch (landing North Africa 12.42)
Hkn	26.08.1947	services to Norway

Education: Glyngarth Preparatory School in Cheltenham.

15.09.1914			entered RN
01.09.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Wallace (flotilla leader)
29.08.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth)
02.10.1926	-	(08.1929)	First Lieutenant, HMS Vanessa (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
02.01.1930	-	(02.)1931	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties)
22.09.1931	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Wrestler (destroyer)
03.02.1933	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (China)
(07.1935)			no appointment listed
11.10.1935	-	(02.1936)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
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]
06.04.1938	-	(08.)1938	HMS Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
15.10.1938	-	(04.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Maori (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
26.08.1940	-	(02.1941)	Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.08.1942	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Stork (escort sloop)
02.04.1943	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Pelican (escort sloop) & SO 1st Support Group (Atlantic Fleet)
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
11.1943	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Defender (ocean escort base, Liverpool) & Captain (D), Liverpool
14.10.1944	-	(04.)1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Caesar (destroyer) & Captain (D) 6th Destroyer Flotilla
25.11.1946	-	(07.)1948	Commanding Officer, HMS Gamecock (RN Air Sation, Bramcote, Nuneaton)
28.10.1948	-	(05.1950)	Director of Naval Recruiting, Admiralty [HMS President]
23.10.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) (for miscellaneous duties)

Brewerton,
Howard Cuthbert
J.M. Brigstocke

Son of John R. Brewerton, woodworker, and Catherine M. Howard.
Married ((09?).1943, Keighley district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Alma Kathleen Smith (04.01.1917 - (03?).1981); one daughter, one son.
Residence: (1945) Bierley, Bradford, Yorkshire.

09.03.1912
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
-
2000
Brougham Village, Christchurch, New Zealand

Sg.Lt. (D)	16.11.1936 09.03.1937, seniority 16.05.1936
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D)	16.05.1942 (emgcy 16.11.1942)

Education: University of Leeds (LDS, 27.03.1936).

29.12.1936	-	(02.)1937	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
22.06.1937	-	(07.)1937	RM Infirmary, Deal [HMS Pembroke]
10.11.1937	-	(06.)1940	HMS Shropshire (cruiser)
(07.1940)			no appointment listed
16.08.1940	-	(12.1942)	HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich)
28.01.1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
29.07.1944	-	(10.)1944	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
14.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)

Emigrated to New Zealand in 1952 and practiced as a dentist in Geraldine before moving to Christchurch in 1970. Retired to Brougham Village.

Bridge,
[Sir] Arthur Robin Moore
A.R.M. Bridge

Son of late Robert Moore and Mary Frances Bridge. Married (1933) Ida Nancy, eldest daughter of George Tulk Shepherdson, of Santiago, Chile; one son, one daughter.

15.02.1894
Weymouth, Dorset
-
19.02.1971
Emsworth, Hampshire

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	30.08.1914
Lt.	30.11.1915
Lt.Cdr.	30.11.1923
Cdr.	31.12.1928
Capt.	30.06.1936
Cdre. 1st cl.	17.03.1944
R.Adm.	05.07.1945
V.Adm.	26.09.1948 (retd 15.08.1951)
Adm. (retd)	10.04.1952

KBE	08.06.1950	HM's birthday 50 [investiture 04.07.50]
CB	01.01.1948	New Year 48 [investiture 02.11.48]
CBE	01.01.1941	New Year 41 [investiture 25.11.41]

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.01.1907			joined Royal Navy
1914	-	1918	World War I: Lt, HMS Marlborough (battleship), Grand Fleet 1916
1917	-	1918	Navigating Officer, HMS Lupin (fleet sweeping sloop)
08.07.1918	-	(01.1919)	Navigating Officer, HMS Royalist (light cruiser)
20.05.1920	-	25.10.1922	lent to RAN:
20.05.1920	-	27.05.1920	London Depot RAN
28.05.1920	-	25.10.1921	HMAS Sydney (light cruiser)
26.10.1921	-	12.07.1922	HMAS Platypus (fleet repair ship)
13.07.1922	-	28.07.1922	HMAS Penguin (depot ship, Sydney, NSW)
29.07.1922	-	25.10.1922	London Depot RAN
09.04.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
05.03.1925	-	(05.1926)	Navigating Officer, HMS Lowestoft (cruiser)
03.01.1927	-	(06.1928)	Navigating Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)
07.01.1929	-	(08.)1929	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
20.12.1929	-	(02.)1931	Navigating Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) & Fleet Navigating Officer / Staff Officer (Operations), America and West Indies Station
16.05.1931	-	(01.)1932	Navigating Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (and as Fleet Navigating Officer and Staff Officer (Operations), America and West Indies Station)
27.06.1932	-	(01.)1934	staff, RN Staff College [HMS President]
20.11.1934	-	(02.1936)	Commanding Officer, HMS Lowestoft (sloop) (China)
(02.1937)			no appointment listed
03.05.1937	-	(04.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Dryad (HM Navigation School, Portsmouth)
16.06.1939	-	24.04.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
02.09.1941	-	(02.)1943	Director, Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.05.1943	-	1944	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer, Carrier Training and Administration [HMS Monck (HQ combined training, Largs)]
17.03.1944	-	(07.)1945	Second-in-Command Naval Air Stations and Commodore Naval Air Stations (North) [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
12.1945	-	(04.)1946	Flag Officer Commanding Aircraft Carriers and Naval Air Stations, East Indies [HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)]
1946	-	1947	Flag Officer (Air) British Pacific Fleet and East Indies
1947	-	1948	Senior Naval Representative, British Element of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Australia
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
31.08.1948	-	(05.)1950	Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Duke of York]

Briggs,
Hugh Francis
M.M. Bright

One of four sons of Harry Beecham Briggs (MRCS in 1875, Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries 1875 and MB London 1876) (died 1914).
Married (21.12.1938, Worthing) Mary E.R. Heard [or Tozer or Carling].

08.11.1884
Satara, south of Bombay and Poona, India
-
18.10.1957
Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey

Sg.	14.05.1909
Staff Sg. = Sg.Lt.Cdr.	14.05.1917 ?, seniority 05.1915
Sg.Cdr.	14.05.1921
Sg.Capt.	01.05.1934 (retd 18.11.1941; age) (reverted to retd 27.05.1946)

14\|15 St	?	?
14\|20 BWM	?	?
VM	?	?
Jub M 35	?	?
Cor M 37	?	?
Def Med	?	?
39\|45 BWM	?	?

Education: Dollar Academy, Scotland (1894-1901); Edinburgh University (from 10.1901; MB, ChB Ed 1907); FRCS Ed 1923

14.05.1909			RN Hospital, Haslar
04.12.1909			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [lent temporarily to HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)]
30.03.1910			HMS Leander (depot ship, Devonport)
20.04.1910			HMS Tyne (iron steam storeship, then depot ship for 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Malta)
12.04.1911			HMS Forte (2nd class cruiser) (The Cape) [travelled on HMS Vindictive, leaving on 04.03.1911]
12.07.1913			HMS Prince of Wales (battleship) (5th Battle Squadron)
31.01.1914			HMS President (for a five-month promotion course)
01.07.1914			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
01.08.1914			HMS Glory (battleship) (8th Battle Squadron) (The Channe, Halifax, NS, North America, Atlantic, Dardanelles, Suex Canal, East Indies, Egypt, North Russia)
11.04.1916			HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
05.1916			HMHS Rewa (hospital ship) (torpedoed & sunk 04.01.1918) [recommended for a DSO]
06.01.1918			HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)
05.03.1918			RN Hospital, Granton (Firth of Forth)
26.05.1919			RN Hospital, Invergordon [HMS Thalia; also listed under HMS Mars (depot ship, Invergordon)]
15.01.1920			HMHS Berbice (hospital ship)
19.01.1922			RN Sick Quarters, South Queensferry (Firth of Forth)
13.09.1922			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding six months)
12.03.1923	-	31.03.1923	HMS Pembroke IV (for RN Hospital Yarmouth, for survey of stores)
01.04.1923			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
01.06.1923			HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)
02.11.1923			HMS Dauntless (light cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (Empire Cruise from 29.11.1923-28.09.1924)
15.02.1926			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time; not exceeding six months)
01.07.1926			RN Hospital, Haslar (Gosport) [HMS Victory]
25.06.1928			Senior Medical Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) & as Fleet Medical Officer (Chna)
27.07.1931			HMS President (for PG course)
27.11.1931			RN Hospital, Haslar (Gosport) [HMS Victory]
18.01.1932			RN Hospital, Portland [HMS Victory XI, later HMS Boscawen] [Jan 1932 Navy List: 'short course of instruction']
10.10.1934			RN Hospital, Cape of Good Hope [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)] (left UK in Dunluce Castle 25.10.1934)
05.02.1938			three-month Medical Officers’ Post-Graduate course at Cape Hospital [HMS President]
07.07.1938			Professor of Surgery, RN Hospital, Haslar (Gosport) [HMS Victory]
04.09.1939	-	02.1942	specialist in surgery, RN Auxiliary Hospital, Barrow Gurney [HMS Drake]
23.02.1942	-	12.1943	Medical Officer, HMS Glendower (seamanship training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales)
18.12.1943	-	28.03.1946	Commanding Officer, RN Hospital, Port Edgar [HMS Cochrane]

Member of a pensions appeal tribunal and was later made chairman till early 1957.

Bright,
Morris Moss
"Morry"
M.M. Bright (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Silver)

Married ((03?).1918, London) Golda Gertrude "Gertie" Wisberg (09.08.1890 - (06?).1977); two daughters, two sons.

06.08.1889
Bethnal Green, Hackney, London
-
24.12.1965
Hammersmith Hospital, London
[Western Jewish Cemetery, Edmonton]

Boy 2nd cl.	22.06.1905 [233960]
Boy 1st cl.	22.01.1906
Ord.Sea.	06.08.1907
AB Sea.	07.10.1908
Ldg. Sea.	29.11.1910
Petty Offr.	01.11.1913
A/Wt.Offr.	14.06.1914
A/Mate	12.02.1915
Mate	08.03.1916, seniority 12.02.1915
A/Lt.	1918
Lt.	10.09.1918, seniority 15.06.1917 (retd 1920)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.06.1925 (reverted to retd 13.03.1945; invalided)
A/Cdr. (retd)	16.10.1943?

DSC	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41 [investiture 15.07.41]
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Def Med	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

22.06.1905	-	25.09.1905	HMS Boscawen I (training ship)
26.09.1905	-	17.05.1906	HMS Ganges (training ship)
18.05.1906	-	09.09.1906	HMS Euryalus (armoured cruiser)
10.09.1906	-	14.12.1908	HMS Repulse (battleship)
15.12.1908	-	02.06.1909	HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
03.06.1909	-	18.11.1910	HMS Blenheim (armoured cruiser)
19.11.1910	-	27.01.1911	HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
28.01.1911	-	31.07.1911	HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth)
01.08.1911	-	04.09.1911	HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
05.11.1911	-	06.03.1914	HMS Falmouth (cruiser)
07.03.1914	-	02.08.1914	HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham) [from 15.06.1914 lent to HMS Excellent & HMS Vernon for courses to qualify for A/Mate]
03.08.1914	-	31.12.1917	HMS Minerva (light cruiser) (bombardment of Akaba, Suez Canal & Dardanelles)
27.10.1918	-	06.11.1918	HMS Marlborough (battleship)
06.02.1919	-	30.06.1919	RN College
07.07.1919	-	06.09.1919	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
06.09.1919	-	26.04.1920	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
03.09.1939	-	11?.1939	rejoined RN at Harwich [HMS Badger?]
16.11.1939	-	03.06.1940	Staff Officer, Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
20.08.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (for minesweeping duties)
16.10.1940	-	24.04.1941	First Lieutenant, HMS Miranda (minesweeping base, Great Yarmouth)
(12.1941)			HMS Pembroke IV (base supply organization, Chatham) *
14.03.1942	-	05.04.1942	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; for 'time only')
06.04.1942	-	(08.)1942	staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
30.09.1942	-	10.10.1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
16.10.1943	-	(06.)1944	Executive Officer, HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Wetherby, Yorks.)
29.07.1944	-	13.03.1945	Executive Officer, HMS Mylodon (Combined Operations base, Lowestoft)

President, East London Branch & National Vice-President, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Brightman,
Ernest Edward
E.E. Brightman

13.05.1894
-
31.08.1961

...	...
Paym.Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1924
Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S)	31.12.1932 (retd 1944?)
A/Paym.Capt. = A/Capt. (S) (retd)	< 02.1943

15.07.1911			entered RN
...	-	...	...
01.11.1926	-	(06.1928)	Division II, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
04.07.1929	-	(02.)1931	Admiral's Secretary to Rear-Admiral & Commanding Officer Coast of Scotland [HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)]
02.11.1931	-	(01.1932)	Commodore's Secretary to Commodore RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
...	-	...	...
22.11.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
23.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
(12.1941)			RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2) (MNBDO(2))
15.01.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
05.11.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties)
(12.).1943	-	(06.1944)	Royal Indian Navy
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
07.1945	-	(04.1946)	on staff of Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, S Africa)]

Brigstocke,
John Michael
J.M. Brigstocke

Son of ... Brigstocke, and ... Craig.

11.1917
Rugby district, Leicestershire / Northamptonshire / Warwickshire
-
(09?).1970
Hendon district, Middlesex

Prob. Midsh. RNR	31.12.1935
Midsh. RNR	?, seniority 31.12.1935
Prob. S.Lt.	10.06.1939
S.Lt.	?, seniority 01.03.1939
Lt.	03.1941, seniority 26.05.1940
Lt.Cdr.	26.05.1948 (retd 18.03.1953)

29.05.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (to complete 4 months' training) (Home Fleet)
10.06.1939	-	(07.1939)	HMS Eskimo (destroyer)
(08.1939)			short course
20.01.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Penelope (cruiser)
04.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Vanquisher (destroyer)
15.10.1942	-	(02.1943)	First Lieutenant, HMS Whimbrel (sloop)
23.03.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
07.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, ML 461 & SO 24th ML Flotilla
10.01.1949	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Stormcloud

Brind,
[Sir] Eric James Patrick
"Daddy"
E.J.P. Brind

Third son of Col. Edward Agincourt Brind (1877-1919), 88th Connaught Rangers, and Florence Lund.
Married 1st (23.01.1918, Kensington) Eileen Margaret Apperly (1895-1940), daughter of Rev. Josiah Marling Apperly, rector of Tonge, Sittingbourne, Kent; one daughter.
Married 2nd (21.01.1948, Chapel of RN College, Greenwich) Superintendent Edith Gordon Lowe, WRNS (05.11.1895 - 14.02.1979), widow of R.Adm. Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove (1887-1939) & daughter of William Duncan Lowe, writer to the signet.
Lived at The Forge, Lye Green, near Crowborough.

12.05.1892
Paignton, Devon
-
04.10.1963
Lye Green, near Crowborough, Sussex
[memorial in Withyham church]

Cadet	15.01.1905
Midsh.	15.09.1909
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1912
S.Lt.	30.12.1912
Lt.	30.09.1914
Lt.Cdr.	30.09.1922
Cdr.	30.06.1927
Capt.	31.12.1933
Cdre. 1st cl.	02.12.1940?
R.Adm.	06.02.1942
V.Adm.	16.10.1945
Adm.	20.03.1949 (retd 22.06.1953)

GBE	01.01.1951	New Year 51 [investiture 08.05.51]
CBE	14.10.1941	Bismarck sunk [investiture 30.06.42]
KCB	13.06.1946	HM's birthday [investiture 09.07.46]
CB	25.07.1944	planning & executing landings Normandy [investiture 10.10.44]
LM	03.12.1946	?

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth.

1914	-	1915	HMS Excellent (gunboat)
1916	-	1918	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Battle of Jutland 05.1916)
08.10.1918	-	(01.1919)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Sir John Moore (monitor)
15.12.1921	-	1924	Gunnery Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean)
10.08.1924	-	(05.)1926	Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
12.07.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Portsmouth)
(04.1928)	-	(06.1928)	no appointment listed
05.02.1929	-	(10.1930)	HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
13.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich
27.07.1932	-	(01.)1934	Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Portsmouth)
16.05.1934	-	1936	Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.03.1936	-	(02.)1937	Flag Captain, HMS Orion (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
01.06.1937	-	(07.1937)	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Nore & Maintenance Captain [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
03.01.1938	-	04.03.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (China)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
02.12.1940	-	07.04.1942	Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship), from 01.04.1941 HMS King George V (battleship)]
28.05.1942	-	08.1944	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Home), Admiralty [HMS President]
10.1944	-	01.1946	Rear-Admiral Commanding 4th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)] (British Pacific Fleet)
(04.1946)			HMS President *
03.10.1946	-	09.1948	President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich [HMS President]
11.01.1949	-	1951	Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror]
1951	-	1953	Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Northern Europe

* indexed, but not listed as such

Brind,
Maurice Arthur
M.A. Brind

Married Olive ...

01.01.1894
-
14.07.1960
Leamington Spa

Lt.	15.03.1916 (retd 15.02.1924)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.03.1924
Cdr. (retd)	10.03.1934, seniority 01.01.1934 (reverted to retd 1945?)

MID

11.07.1940

HM's Birthday 40

Recommended for commendation for service in the Battle of Jutland (15.09.1916).

15.09.1906			entered RN
14.12.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Iris (sloop)
09.10.1939	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Melfort (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)
(02.1941)			HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) *
15.11.1941	-	04.05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)
07.1944	-	(1945?)	Commanding Officer, Coastal Forces Mobile Unit 1 (CFMU1), Arromanches
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bristowe,
Robert Henry
"Bobbie"
R.H. Bristowe (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Sayer)

Married Margaret "Margy" Inglis (1911-1994); no children.

10.01.1906
Epsom district, Surrey
-
07.08.1978
Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Crawley district, Sussex

Midsh.	15.05.1924
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1926
S.Lt.	30.04.1927
Lt.	16.06.1929 (emgcy 06.04.1933)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)	16.06.1937 (mobilized 28.08.1939)
Cdr. (emgcy)	03.09.1945 (demobilized < 04.1946) (resigned commission 12.11.1968)

DSO

06.09.1940

attack on French battleship Richelieu, Dakar 08.07.40

15.09.1919			entered RN
15.05.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Dublin (cruiser) (Africa)
(05.1926)			no appointment listed
30.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.03.1928	-	(04.)1928	HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar) (for emergency destroyers) (temporary)
16.04.1928	-	(06.)1928	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
10.11.1928	-	(04.)1930	HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
28.07.1930	-	(01.)1932	First Lieutenant, HMS Gannet (river gunboat) (China)
(09.1932)			no appointment lsited
28.08.1939	-	(12.1941)	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
31.01.1942	-	(08.1942)	Commanding Officer, HMS Castleton (destroyer)
12.01.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Chanticleer (sloop)
21.01.1944	-	06.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Waveney (frigate) (badly injured; taken ffo the ship at Normandy)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

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