| J.M.
Bruen to C.W. Byas |
Bruen,
John Martin
"Bill"
Only son of Arthur and Lily Bruen.
|
10.12.1910
Dublin, Ireland
-
20.04.1967
|
Midsh.
|
01.01.1929
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.05.1931
|
S.Lt.
|
1932?, seniority 16.01.1932
|
Lt.
|
16.04.1934
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.03.1942 (retd 20.12.1955; age)
|
A/Cdr.
|
14.08.1943?
|
|
DSO
|
06.07.1943
|
Operation
Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.42) [investiture 06.04.43]
|
|
DSC
|
29.07.1941
|
Battle
of Cape Matapan [investiture 25.11.41]
|
|
MID
|
04.05.1943
|
Operation
Torch
|
|
20.03.1929
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
HMS
Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
04.01.1930
|
-
|
(02.)1931
|
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
30.04.1931
|
-
|
03.01.1932
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
04.01.1932
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
|
07.01.1933
|
-
|
(06.)1933
|
HMS
Comet (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
|
02.09.1933
|
-
|
(02.)1935
|
HMS
Colombo (cruiser) (East Indies)
|
(07.1935)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed [attached to RAF]
|
(02.1936)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed [attached to RAF]
|
14.06.1936
|
-
|
(06.)1938
|
pilot,
Fighter Squadron 802 [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean)
[attached to RAF]
|
(08.1938)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed [attached to RAF]
|
17.08.1938
|
-
|
(10.)1938
|
pilot,
TSR Squadron 822 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached
to RAF]
|
10.1938
|
-
|
(04.)1939
|
pilot,
Fighter Squadron 801 FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet)
[attached to RAF]
|
(08.)1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
Fleet Air
Arm
|
06.1940
|
-
|
10.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark
Royal (aircraft carrier)]
|
24.11.1940
|
-
|
07.1941
|
Commanding
Officer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
|
16.10.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
pilot, 778
Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
|
1942
|
-
|
1942
|
HMS
Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
|
16.03.1942
|
-
|
12.1942
|
Commanding
Officer, 800 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier), later HMS Biter
(escort carrier)]
|
02.12.1942
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
Commanding
Officer, 759 Squadron FAA & as Chief Instructor in Fighter School [HMS
Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
|
24.05.1943
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
[Executive
Officer ?], HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)
|
14.08.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Shrike
(RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) *
|
14.11.1947
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire)
|
(05.1953)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
?
|
-
|
(04.1955)
|
Air
Equipment and Naval Photography Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
Air Ace with 4 destroyed enemy aircraft, 4 shared
destroyed, 2 damaged, 2 shared damaged, 1 shared damaged on ground.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Bryant,
Benajmin
"Ben"
Son of J.F. Bryant, MA, FRGS, ICS (retd).
Married
1st (1929) Marjorie Dagmar Mynors (née Symonds)
(died 1965); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1966) Heather Elizabeth Williams
(née Hance) (died 1989).
|
16.09.1905
-
23.11.1994
Worthing, West Sussex
|
Midsh.
|
15.09.1923
|
A/S.Lt.
|
15.01.1926
|
Lt.
|
15.12.1927
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.12.1935
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1940
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1944
|
Cdre. 2nd cl.
|
1948
|
R.Adm.
|
07.07.1954 (retd 01.04.1957)
|
|
CB
|
31.05.1956
|
HM's
birthday 56 [investiture 10.07.56]
|
|
DSO
|
23.03.1943
|
sinking
9 enemy ships 07-10.42 [investiture 27.07.43]
|
|
DSO
|
11.05.1943
|
sinking
enemy ships 11-12.42 [investiture 27.07.43]
|
|
DSO
|
06.07.1943
|
6
war patrols [investiture 27.07.43]
|
|
DSC
|
09.05.1940
|
successful
submarine operations against the enemy [investiture 03.09.40]
|
|
MID
|
12.05.1942
|
special
service
|
|
Education: Oundle; RN Colleges Osborne &
Dartmouth
(01.1925)
|
|
|
no
posting listed
|
08.04.1926
|
-
|
15.01.1927
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
16.01.1927
|
-
|
(07.)1927
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
|
1927
|
|
|
entered
submarine branch of RN
|
21.11.1927
|
-
|
(06.)1928
|
HMS
L 52 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
|
04.12.1928
|
-
|
(04.)1930
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS R 4 (submarine)
|
01.08.1930
|
-
|
(02.)1931
|
HMS
Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
01.12.1931
|
-
|
(01.)1932
|
HMS
Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (China)
|
05.09.1932
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Perseus (submarine) (China)
|
27.08.1934
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS H 49 (submarine)
|
29.01.1936
|
-
|
(07.1937)
|
HMAS
Australia (cruiser)
|
(02.1938)
|
|
|
no
posting listed
|
11.05.1938
|
-
|
(06.)1938
|
submarine
Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
|
01.07.1938
|
-
|
(08.)1938
|
HMS
Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean)
|
03.09.1938
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
Commanding Officer, HMS Sealion (submarine)
|
14.10.1941
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
Commanding Officer, HMS P
211 [1943 renamed: HMS Safari] (submarine)
|
(08.1943)
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Captain
(S), 7th
and 3rd Submarine Flotillas [HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)] *
|
26.06.1945
|
-
|
04.06.1947
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Adamant (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 4th
Submarine Flotilla (British Pacific Fleet)
|
21.10.1947
|
-
|
(05.)1949
|
Commanding
Officer, Submarine School (Fort Blockhouse) & as Captain (S) 5th Submarine Flotilla,
and from (07).1948-22.08.1948 Commodore Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine
depot, Gosport)]
|
1950
|
|
|
idc
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
1951
|
-
|
1953
|
Commodore,
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
|
04.1953
|
-
|
(05.1953)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Glasgow
|
1953
|
-
|
1954
|
Flag
Captain to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean
|
12.07.1954
|
-
|
(01.)1957
|
Deputy
Chief of Naval Personnel (Training
and Manning), Admiralty [HMS President]
|
Staff Personnel Manager, Rolls Royce Scottish
Factories, 1957-68.
Published: One man band : the memoirs of a submarine C.O. (1958;
republished as: Submarine command, 1975)
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Buchanan-Dunlop,
David Kennedy

Son of Col. Archibald BuchananDunlop, OBE and
Mary (née Kennedy). Married (1945) Marguerite, daughter of William
Macfarlane; no children.
|
30.06.1911
-
15.09.1985
[Paris, France ?]
|
Midsh.
|
01.05.1929
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.09.1931
|
S.Lt.
|
24.11.1932, seniority 16.03.1932
|
Lt.
|
16.03.1934
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.03.1942
|
A/Cdr.
|
04.08.1943
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1948
|
Capt.
|
30.06.1955 (retd 25.08.1964)
|
|
DSC
|
11.06.1946
|
wind
up Far East
|
|
MID
|
25.08.1942
|
Operation
Ironclad
|
|
Education: Loretto; RN College, Dartmouth
|
|
|
served
as young officer in submarines in Mediterranean and Far East, then Specialist
in Fleet Air Arm:
|
20.03.1929
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
HMS
Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
24.08.1929
|
-
|
(04.1930)
|
HMS
Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
08.04.1930
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
HMS
Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
|
24.09.1931
|
-
|
(01.1932)
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
04.04.1932
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
|
19.08.1933
|
-
|
(01.1934)
|
HMS
Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)
|
15.04.1935
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
HMS
Regent (surmarine) (China)
|
12.10.1936
|
-
|
(02.1937)
|
observers'
course [HMS Excellent]
|
28.06.1937
|
-
|
(04.)1939
|
observer,
HMS
Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
|
(07.1939)
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
Fleet Air
Arm
|
29.11.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
observer, 812
Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
|
?
|
-
|
1941
|
observer, 831
Squadron FAA
|
11.10.1941
|
-
|
07.09.1942
|
HMS
Indomitable (aircraft carrier) & from 15.05.1942 Commanding Officer, 827
Naval Air Squadron
|
11.09.1942
|
-
|
(08.1943)
|
instructional
staff, HMS Condor
|
04.08.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Staff
Officer (Air), HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
|
29.10.1945
|
-
|
04.02.1946
|
Admiralty
|
04.02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Naval
Air Organisation and Training Division, Admiralty
|
03.05.1949
|
-
|
1952
|
Assistant
Naval Attaché (Air), Paris
|
| (05.1953) |
|
|
no
posting listed
|
1954
|
-
|
1956
|
Deputy
Director Naval Air Organisation, Naval Staff [HMS President since 28.02.1955]
|
1957
|
-
|
1959
|
Staff
of NATO Defence College, Paris
|
20.05.1960
|
-
|
1962
|
Naval
and Military Attaché, Chile (Santiago, Lima, Quito,
Bogotá and Panama)
|
17.07.1962
|
-
|
1964
|
Captain
of College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
07.01.1964
|
-
|
07.07.1964
|
Naval
ADC to the Queen
|
1964
|
|
|
Commodore
President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
|
|
Buckley,
Frederick Arthur

Son
of J.W. Buckley, MICE, Civil Engineer.
Married (1913) Eva Godskesen of Copenhagen; one son,
three daughters.
|
04.09.1887
-
31.05.1952
Southwick, nr Fareham, Hampshire
|
...
|
...
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1920
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1927
|
R.Adm.
|
10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939)
|
Cdre. 2nd cl.
|
18.09.1939
|
|
CB
|
01.01.1941
|
New
Year 41
|
|
LoP
|
1944?
|
Operation
Neptune
|
|
LegH
|
?
|
?
|
|
Hkn
|
26.08.1947
|
services
to Norway
|
|
LeoII
|
01.02.1949
|
services
to Belgium
|
|
Education: Stubbington House; HMS Britannia
15.01.1903
|
|
|
entered
RN
|
|
|
|
served
as Gunnery Officer European War, in HMS Venerable, Belgian Coast and
Dardanelles: HMS Emperor of India, Grand Fleet and Black Sea
|
01.1926
|
-
|
(07.)1927
|
Commander
(Executive Officer), HMS Warspite (battleship; Fleet Flagship, Mediterranean)
|
13.04.1928
|
-
|
1930
|
Assistant
Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
11.08.1931
|
-
|
1933
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
|
09.10.1933
|
-
|
14.03.1934
|
Deputy
Director of Training on Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
14.03.1934
|
-
|
11.05.1936
|
Director
of Training on Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
10.10.1936
|
-
|
16.12.1938
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
18.09.1939
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
|
04.10.1943
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Commodore
Commanding Combined Operational Bases, Portsmouth Command [HMS Victory (RN
base, Portsmouth)]
|
02.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Porcupine (landing craft base, Portsmuth) & as Commodore
Commanding Landing Craft Bases, Portsmouth Command
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment lsited
|
|
Buckley,
James Brian
"Jimmy"

Son of William Geoffrey and Norah Buckley;
husband of Phyllis Annette Ariel Buckley.
|
(06?).1905
Salford, Greater Manchester, Lancashire
-
21.03.1943
(killed while escaping as POW) [age 38]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 3]
|
Royal Navy:
|
|
Midsh.
|
15.05.1923
|
A/S.Lt.
|
15.09.1925
|
S.Lt.
|
15.06.1926
|
Lt.
|
01.12.1928
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.12.1936
|
Royal Air Force:
|
|
F/O
|
02.08.1927 [20160] |
Fl.Lt.
|
01.01.1934
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1938
|
|
DSC
|
05.07.1940
|
FAA
France & Channel
|
|
MID
|
04.06.1946
|
services
as POW
|
|
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
15.05.1923
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Revenge (battleship)
|
20.09.1924
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
HMS
Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
01.01.1926
|
-
|
(05.1926)
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
03.02.1927
|
-
|
(07.1927)
|
HMS
Harebell (fishery protection cruiser, sloop)
|
02.08.1927
|
-
|
13.09.1932
|
temporary
commission as Flying Officer on attachment for 4 years duty with the RAF:
|
01.07.1928
|
-
|
(04.1930)
|
No.
463 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
|
01.07.1930
|
-
|
13.09.1932
|
No.
463 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
|
21.09.1932
|
-
|
(01.1934)
|
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser) (East Indies)
|
27.05.1935
|
-
|
(04.1939)
|
reattached
to RAF:
|
27.05.1935
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Fleet Air Arm)
|
08.1935
|
-
|
(07.1937)
|
802
Fighter Squadron FAA [HMS Glorious] [attached to RAF]
|
(02.1938)
|
|
|
no
posting listed [attached to RAF]
|
21.04.1938
|
-
|
(06.1938)
|
Squadron
Commander, TSR Squadron 822 [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) [attached to RAF]
|
28.07.1938
|
-
|
(10.1938)
|
Training
Squadron, RAF Station, Gosport [HMS Victory] [attached to RAF]
|
17.10.1938
|
-
|
(04.1939)
|
Squadron
Leader Flying, HQ FAA, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
|
(07.1939)
|
-
|
(08.1939)
|
Fleet Air Arm
|
01.1940
|
-
|
29.05.1940
|
Commanding Officer,
825 Squadron FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft
carrier)]
[crash-landed 29.05.1940 near Dunkirk in his Fairey
Swordfish Vb; captured]
|
29.05.1940
|
-
|
21.03.1943
|
prisoner of war Stalag Luft III; escaped from
Schubin Camp (Poland) to Denmark via Danzig; together with Joergen Thalbitzer
Buckley attempted to escape to Sweden, the 2 pilots drowned when their boat sank
in the sound between Denmark and Sweden
|
|
Buckley,
Peter Noel

Married (03.07.1945) Norah Elizabeth Astley
Maberly; one daughter.
|
26.12.1909
-
21.02.1988
|
Lt.
|
01.04.1932
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.04.1940
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1945
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1952
|
R.Adm.
|
07.07.1962 (retd 05.01.1965)
|
|
CB
|
01.01.1964
|
New
Year 64
|
|
DSO
|
21.08.1945
|
sunk
by enemy after 3 hour-fight 06.07.40
|
|
MID
|
19.02.1946
|
services
as POW
|
|
1927
|
|
|
HMS
Tiger
|
1928
|
-
|
1930
|
HMS
Cornwall
|
1931
|
-
|
1938
|
submarine
service
|
16.01.1939
|
-
|
06.07.1940
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Shark (submarine) [ship damaged by German aircraft off Skudesnes and sunk by
surface craft; captured]
|
06.07.1940
|
-
|
(04?).1945
|
prisoner of
war in German captivity
|
1946
|
|
|
HMS
Ralph
|
05.02.1947
|
-
|
(04.)1947
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS
Formidable (aircraft carrier)
|
15.09.1947
|
-
|
(10.1947)
|
Executive
Officer, HMS
Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire)
|
1949
|
|
|
HMS
Glory
|
1951
|
|
|
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
|
1953
|
|
|
Captain, Destoyers,
Plymouth
|
1954
|
|
|
Captain of Dockyard,
Rosyth
|
1957
|
|
|
Chief Staff Officer
to Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet
|
21.07.1959
|
-
|
(07.1961)
|
Captain of the Fleet,
Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Phoenicia]
|
11.07.1962
|
-
|
1964
|
Director
General of Manpower, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
Head of Naval History Branch, Ministry of Defence
1968-1975.
|
Buist,
Malcom

Son of Col. Frederick
Braid Buist.
Married (08.12.1939) Elizabeth
Jean
'Eppie' Brooke
(10.04.1910-24.09.2008), daughter of Sir Robert
Weston Brooke, 2nd Bt.
and Margery Jean Geddes; two
daughters.
|
01.04.1913
Roy Bridge, Scotland
-
20.04.1965
|
...
|
...
|
Lt.
|
01.06.1936
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.06.1944 (retd 25.11.1953; invalided)
|
|
MID
|
02.10.1942
|
Operation
Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42)
|
|
LegH
|
?
|
Dieppe
raid [decoration posted]
|
|
CdeG
|
?
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Dieppe
raid [decoration posted]
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...
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-
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...
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...
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10.07.1939
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-
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(08.1939)
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physical
and recreational training course, Portsmouth
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(04.1940)
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|
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no
appointment lsited
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(02.1941)
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|
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no
appointment listed
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(12.1941)
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|
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no
appointment listed
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(08.1942)
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no
appointment listed
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08.1942
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commanded
Anglo-French chasseurs flotilla (Dieppe raid)
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(02.1943)
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no
appointment listed
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16.03.1943
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-
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(10.)1943
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Commanding
Officer, HMS Rattler, 09.1943 renamed HMS Loyalty (Algerine class minesweeper)
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(12.1943)
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no
appointment listed
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09.01.1944
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-
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(06.)1944
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HMS
Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
|
06.1944
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-
|
(07.1945)
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Commanding
Officer, HMS Squirrel (Algerine class minesweeper)
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11.02.1946
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-
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(04.1946)
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Commanding
Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Algerine class minesweeper)
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...
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-
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...
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....
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Burch,
Ronald James
|
1907 ?
-
01.08.1940
(KIA) [age 33]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]
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Midsh.
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15.09.1926
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.01.1929
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S.Lt.
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?, seniority 01.11.1928
|
Lt.
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01.02.1930
|
Lt.Cdr.
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01.02.1938
|
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DSO
|
28.06.1940
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*
|
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KW
|
21.10.1941
|
as
liaison officer ORP Wilk
|
* In recognition of daring, endurance and
resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His
Majesty's Submarines against the enemy.
|
15.09.1926
|
-
|
(07.)1927
|
HMS
Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
11.12.1927
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
HMS
Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
03.01.1929
|
-
|
(08.)1929
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
12.08.1929
|
-
|
(04.)1930
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
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01.11.1930
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-
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(02.)1931
|
HMS
Regulus (submarine) (initially: and on commissiong, and for duty with
submarines, and for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract Built
Ships)
|
30.12.1931
|
-
|
(06.)1933
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS H 34 (submarine)
|
01.09.1933
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
HMS
Pigmy (special service vessel; for reserve group of submarines) (Portsmouth)
(temporary)
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