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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	15.09.1924     entered RN 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
Brunton, Thomas Bennett "[Old] Joe" Married 1st (1922).... (died 1978); one son. Married 2nd ((09?).1979, Maidstone district, Kent) Elizabeth Lucia Brunton (26.03.1909 - (06?).1982). Residences: Lee-on-Solent (1944),  Moulsford, nr. Wallingford.	27.08.1896 Barnsley district, West Riding of Yorkshire  - 26.06.1987 Wallingford district, Oxfordshire	Midsh. RNR 1915 A/S.Lt. 27.08.1916 A/Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 27.11.1918 Lt.Cdr. 27.11.1926 (retd 27.08.1941) A/Cdr. < 04.1940 Cdr. (retd) 27.08.1941 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) A/Capt. (retd) 28.08.1944 DSC 04.05.1943 Operation Torch (landings in North Africa 11.42) [investiture 13.02.45] DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.44) [investiture 13.02.45] MID 12.08.1941 Lofoten raid	Went to sea aged 16 (apprentice in barque "Dumfriesshire", which was sunk 28.06.1915 off the Smalls by a U-boat). 02.10.1915 - 1916 served in RNR in destroyers HMS Matchless & HMS Melpone (Harwich Force) 27.08.1916     transferred, RN 1916      HMS Centurion (battleship) (01.1919)     HMS President (for study at Cambridge University) ? - 28.07.1920 gunnery, torpedo & navigation courses 29.07.1920     submarine training (06.1922)     HMS L 22 (submarine) (07.1922)     HMS H 28 (submarine) 19.04.1923 - (08.1923) First Lieutenant, HMS L 22 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia] (03.1924)     HMS H 28 (submarine) (pension for wounds) (12.1924)     spare crew (12.1924) - (01.)1925 periscope school (short course of instruction) 10.07.1925 - 31.08.1926 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 01.09.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (in charge of an A gun turret) 16.01.1928 - (06.1928) in command of Group "M" of submarines in reserve at Portland [HMS L 14 & HMS L 17] 05.06.1929 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] 14.01.1932 - (05.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Swordfish (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] (and for duty with submarines) (06.1933)     no appointment listed 15.12.1933 - (11.1934) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties) 22.01.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services: for command of the ketch Tai-Mo-Shan) [from 10.1935 als Secretary of the Royal Naval Sailing Association] 01.10.1937 - (08.)1939 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse; for command of the ketch Tai-Mo-Shan) [member of the successful RN Sailing Association crew at the Kiel Regatta 07.1939] 14.09.1939 - (10.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Botlea (Q ship) 19.11.1940 - 26.08.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Princess Beatrix (landing ship infantry (medium)) (Lofoten, Dieppe, Operation Torch (N Africa) [DSC], Sicily) [taken seriously ill; invalided home] 17.01.1944 - 17.01.1944 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (additional) 18.01.1944 - (2/3?).1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (06.1944)     Principal Ferry Control Officer, Force J (Normandy [Bar to DSC]) 28.08.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Mount Stewart (Mobile flotation Unit Base, Teignmouth) & Commanding Officer Designate of Special service establishment to assume control of units engaged on unorthodox offensive warfare Skippered Hitler's steam yacht "Grille" for a year. Worked for MI6, 1949-1954. Ship's chanler, Gosport. Trials captain for Thornycroft's, Samuel White's and Camper and Nicholson's. Retired to live in Guernsey and finally Spain. Literature: obituary in: The Daily Telegraph book of naval obituaries (2004, p. 28-30).
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 Madras, India - 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 A/Capt. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 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 15.05.1919     entered RN (10.1923)     HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (01.1925) no appointment listed (07.1925)     HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.)1927 promotion course, Portsmouth 25.07.1927 entered submarine branch of RN 21.11.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS L 52 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia] 04.12.1928 - (04.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS R 4 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 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) (06.1934)     submarine Commanding Officer's qualifying course 27.08.1934 - 14.12.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 15.12.1935 - 17.01.1936 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional) 18.01.1936 - 28.01.1936 passage to Australia per "Orion" 29.01.1936 - 26.01.1938 Intelligence Officer, HMAS Australia (cruiser) [on loan to RAN as Exchange Officer] 27.01.1938 - 02.1938 passage to UK per "Ormonde" (02.1938) no appointment listed 11.05.1938 - 30.06.1938 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 01.07.1938 - 02.09.1938 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 03.09.1938 - 10.10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Sealion (submarine) [tender to HMS Medway, from 11.10.1939 to HMS Dolphin, from 18.11.1939 to HMS Cyclops, from 27.05.1940 to HMS Maidstone, from 10.09.1940 to HMS Titania, from 10.11.1940 to HMS Elphin, from 01.05.1941 to HMS Dolphin] 14.10.1941 - 26.04.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS P 211 [1943 renamed: HMS Safari] (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 27.04.1943 - 22.05.1943 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (additional; for passage to UK) 23.05.1943 - 13.07.1943 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 14.07.1943 - 15.06.1944 Commander (S), 3rd Submarine Flotilla [HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)] * 16.06.1944 - 10.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Montclare (submarine depot ship) 11.10.1944 - 29.10.1944 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (additional) 30.10.1944 - 04.02.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 7th Submarine Flotilla 05.02.1945 - 25.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 3rd Submarine Flotilla 26.06.1945 - 04.06.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla (British Pacific Fleet) 07.06.1947 - 20.10.1947 HMS Victory II (additional; for passage & foreign service leave) 21.10.1947 - 14.12.1949 Commanding Officer, Submarine School (Fort Blockhouse) & as Captain (S) 5th Submarine Flotilla, and from 08.04.1948-22.08.1948 Commodore Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 15.12.1949 - 09.01.1950 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (05.1950)     no appointment listed 1950 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 1951 - 1953 Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 04.1953 - 20.05.1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow & 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 appointment 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
Buckel, Kenneth William Seaman Son (with one sister) of William Seaman Buckel (1873-1915), and Mary Emily "Minnie" Jackson (1880-1965). Married (16.12.1936, Aldershot district, Hampshire) Beatrice G. "Trixie" Bell; one son, two daughters.	20.05.1909 - 18.01.2007	... ... S.Lt. 01.01.1934 Lt. 01.01.1936 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1944 (retd 20.05.1954)	... - ... ... 06.12.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 30.09.1938 - 27.10.1938 HMS Venomous (destroyer) (for sea trials) 28.11.1938 - (02.)1939 Physical and Recreational Training course, Portsmouth 27.02.1939 - (03.)1940 HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness) 21.03.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Resolution (battleship) 29.07.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Malaya (battleship) (and as Squadron P & RT Officer, Force H) (02.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed 06.12.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 30.03.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS City of Edinburgh (landing ship, headquarters ?) (10.1944)     HMS City of Edinburgh * (01.1945) - (04.1946) Royal Indian Navy ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
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.	23.04.1905 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 15.01.1919     entered RN 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 appointment 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 Son of Frank Buckley. Married (03.07.1945, Hooton, West Cheshire) Norah Elizabeth Astley Maberly (28.02.1911 - 12.1999), , only daughter of Capt. Charles James Astley Maberly (1881-1955), and Lilian Edith Millican (1879-1932), and widow of Lt.Cdr. Drummond St Clair-Ford (1907-1942); one daughter.	26.12.1909 West Derby district, Lancashire - 21.02.1988 New Forest district, Hampshire	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 01.09.1930 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 [investiture 25.02.64] DSO 21.08.1945 sunk by enemy after 3 hour-fight 06.07.40 [investiture 28.10.47] MID 19.02.1946 services as POW	15.09.1923     entered RN 30.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) 03.05.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.12.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines) 12.04.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Perseus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (07.1934) - (11.1934) no appointment listed 27.12.1934 - (07.)1035 HMS H 32 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 02.10.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Seawolf (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 24.05.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS L 26 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 25.04.1938 - (06.)1938 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 06.08.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 16.01.1939 - 06.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Shark (submarine) [ship damaged by German aircraft off Skudesnes and sunk by surface craft; captured] (DSO) 06.07.1940 - (04?).1945 prisoner of war in German captivity (despatches) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 1946     HMS Ralph 05.02.1947 - (04.)1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) 15.09.1947 - (05.)1949 Executive Officer, HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire) 08.10.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Glory 1951     RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (05.1953)     no appointment listed 26.08.1953 - (07.)1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Orwell (destroyer) & as Captain (Destroyers), Plymouth 18.11.1954  - (01.)1957 Captain of the Dockyard, Queen's Harbour Master and Deputy Superintendent, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane] 24.04.1957 - (01.)1959 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Vanguard] 21.07.1959  - (07.1961) Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Phoenicia] 11.07.1962 - (02.)1964 Director General of Manpower, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB) Head of Naval History Branch, Ministry of Defence 1968-1975.
Buckley, Robin Cecil Burton Son (with one sister) of Arthur Burton Buckley (1877-1964), and Steuarta Francis Weyerman (1877-1951). Married ((12?).1942, Hampstead, London) Pauline Enid Lewis Renwick (07.09.1922 - 22.03.1988), second daughter of Mr W.L. Renwick, of St Leonard's House Farm, Nazeing, Essex, and of the late Mrs Renwick, formerly of Southsea; two sons, two daughters.	10.09.1911 Genoa, Italy - 23.05.1977 Richmond upon Thames district, Greater London	Cadet 01.01.1929 Midsh. 01.09.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1932 S.Lt. 01.05.1932 Lt. 01.12.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1941 (retd 12.1941) GM 27.01.1942 dismantling Italian explosive torpedoboat Suda Bay, Crete 27.05.41 [investiture 14.04.42]	05.01.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.01.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 31.12.1931 - 21.08.1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (shared Ryder Memorial Prize for 1932 for first place in examinations in French) 22.08.1932 - (01.)1933 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 18.04.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 28.05.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Mackay (flotilla leader, 19th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) (08.1936) - (10.1936) no appointment listed 12.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Echo (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 04.1937     qualified as acting interpreter French 29.04.1937 - 01.08.1937 qualifying for torpedo duties (long torpedo course), RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon] 02.08.1937 - (06.)1938 qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon 04.06.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 09.11.1938 - 27.05.1941 Torpedo Officer, HMS York (cruiser) [wounded (completely blinded) when dismantling an Italian torpedoboat in Suda Bay] (12.1941)     no appointment listed 01.1942     brief stay at St Dunstan's, the charity providing support, rehabilitation and respite care to blind (ex-)service personnel 14.04.1942 - (04.)1947 Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Bristol, then Portsmouth) Remained at HMS Vernon, in civil capacity, as Schools Liaison Officer until 1954. Then became appeals officer, later public relations officer at St Dunstan's. President of the European War-Blinded Association.
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 ? Dieppe raid [decoration posted]	... - ... ... 10.07.1939 - (08.1939) physical and recreational training course, Portsmouth (04.1940)     no appointment lsited (02.1941)     no appointment listed (12.1941)     no appointment listed (08.1942)     no appointment listed 08.1942     commanded Anglo-French chasseurs flotilla (Dieppe raid) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 16.03.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rattler, 09.1943 renamed HMS Loyalty (Algerine class minesweeper) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 09.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) 06.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Squirrel (Algerine class minesweeper) 11.02.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Algerine class minesweeper) ... - ... ....
Bull, Leonard Hanson   Son (with six brothers) of Thomas Bull (1859-1923), and Eleanor Martin (1868-1952). Brother of Lt. (E) Victor Edward Bull, RN. Married 1st (01.06.1932, Moullin Memorial Wesleyan Church, Northfields Avenue, London W13) Dorothy Blanche Read (20.03.1910 - 19.03.1968), daughter of Edward Richard Read (1875-1948), and Mary Elizabeth Smith (1873-1948), and sister of Lt. (E) Everard Robert Read, RN; two daughters, one son. Married 2nd (11.1968, St. Paul's Methodist Church, Gillingham, Kent) Grace Beatrice M. Pemberton (12.05.1902 - 11.1982).	03.08.1903 Folkestone, Elham district, Kent - 12.03.1981 Bourne district, Lincolnshire	Boy Artificer 09.01.1919 [M34465] ... ... T/A/Wt.Eng. 27.09.1943 T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng. 1944?, seniority 27.09.1943 (reld 1947?) LSGCM 09.10.1936 -	09.01.1919     entered RN ... - ... ... 1941 - 1943 HMS Burnham (destroyer) 1943 - 1943 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 05.01.1944 - 19.09.1945 HMS Philoctetes (destroyer depot ship, Freetown Sierra Leone) 20.09.1945 - 15.01.1946 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (in hospital recovering from some kind of infection or bug that left him temporarily with only peripheral vision)
Bull, Victor Edward   Son (with six brothers) of Thomas Bull (1859-1923), and Eleanor Martin (1868-1952). Brother of Wt.Eng. Leonard Hanson Bull, RN. Married (25.03.1932, St Mary's Church, Gillingham, Kent) Katherine Belinda Flanagan (18.09.1908 -15.02.1984); two daughters.	02.07.1901 Folkestone, Elham district, Kent - 29.01.1984 Bognor Regis, Chichester district, Sussex	Boy Artificer 03.01.1917 [M24931] ... ... A/Wt.Eng. 01.04.1933 Wt.Eng. 1933?, seniority 01.04.1933 Cd.Eng. = Sen.Cd.Eng. 01.04.1943 (retd 02.07.1951) Lt. (E) 02.07.1951 DSC 21.03.1944 torpedoed by Japanese forces 07.43 [investiture 18.04.44]	03.01.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 14.06.1933 - (03.)1935 HMS Terror (base ship, Singapore) (07.1935) - (02.1936) no appointment listed 27.04.1936 - (08.)1936 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] (10.1936)     no appointment listed (01.1937) - (02.1937) short course of instruction 30.04.1937 - 03.1944 HMNZS Leander (cruiser) (DSC) (06.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed 06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Kalugu (RN Air Station, Cochin, India) 22.01.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Franklin (Halcyon class minesweeper; survey ship) 20.09.1949 - (05.)1950 HMS Berry Head (repair ship) 01.07.1950 - (05.)1951 HMS Minerva (Reserve Fleet, Sheerness)
Bulteel, Tom Oliver Son (with one brother and one sister) of John George Bulteel (1856-), and Mary Sophia Strickland-Constable, of Old Windsor, Berkshire.	01.02.1899 * Old Windsor, Berkshire - 26.02.1943 (illness) [age 44] [Lyness RN Cemetery, Orkney, plot H, north border, grave 1] * other source gives 30.01.1899	... ... S.Lt. 15.03.1918 Lt. 15.03.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1933 Capt. 30.06.1938 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - & clasp North Africa 42-43 Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MID 04.05.1943 Operation Torch [posthumously] Cor M - -	01.1912     entered RN ... - ... ... 24.05.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 12.04.1941 - 29.10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 15.11.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 20.01.1942 - 26.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (despatches) * indexed, but not listed as such
Burch, Ronald James	09.06.1907 - 01.08.1940 (KIA) [age 33] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 15.09.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1929 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.11.1928 Lt. 01.02.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1938 DSO 28.06.1940 * 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.	15.09.1925     entered RN 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 01.11.1930 - (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) 13.02.1934 - (07.1934) First Lieutenant, HMS Torrid (destroyer) (Portland) 02.04.1935 - (02.1936) First Lieutenant, HMS Parthian (submarine) (China) 04.01.1937 - (02.)1937 Submarine Commanding Officers' Course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 17.04.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 16.07.1937 - (08.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Salmon (submarine) (Mediterranean) (10.1938) no appointment listed 12.1938 - (09.)1939 HMS President (for 9 months study in Esthonia) 23.11.1939 - 03.02.1940? British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Wilk (Polish submarine) (04.1940) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Rosyth) * (06.1940) - 01.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Narwhal (submarine) [ship lost off Norway] ** * indexed, but not listed as such ** possibly already from Apr 1940 on [or earlier]; the Apr 1940 Navy List is showing Lt. C.S. Green as senior officer, but he was probably (as shown earlier) the First Lieutenant
Burges, Richard Ynyr   Middle son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Ynyr Richard Patrick Burges (1866-1905), and Frederica Florence Elizabeth Gillett (?-1957). Married 1st (27.07.1940) Beryl Joan Wells (14.05.1907 - 29.01.1962), daughter of Cdr. Harry Lionel Wells, RN; two daughters. Married 2nd (08.06.1967) Margaret Valerie Alethe Lyon-Burke (30.03.1915 - 04.04.1984), daughter of Capt. Alfred Herbert Lyon.	21.08.1901 Kensington district, London - 17.04.1979 West Sussex	... ... S.Lt. 15.09.1921 Lt. 15.09.1923 (retd 17.12.1930) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.09.1931 Cdr. (retd) 21.08.1941 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 15.05.1915     entered RN (1918)     HMS Warspite (battleship) 19.04.1922 - 1922 HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer) 15.08.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Resolution (battleship) ... - ... ... 23.08.1939 - (02.)1941 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (12.1941) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 31.07.1944 - (10.1944) [Commanding Officer?], HMS Safeguard (base for defensively equipped merchant ships, Calmore, Southampton) (01.1945)     HMS Safeguard (base for defensively equipped merchant ships, Calmore, Southampton) * 04.1945 - (07.1945) [Commanding Officer?], HMS Safeguard (base for defensively equipped merchant ships, Calmore, Southampton) FCIA, FSVA. * indexed, but not listed as such
Burgess, Peter Geoffrey   Youngest son (with four brothers and one sister) of Prof. Arthur Henry Burgess, DL, FRCS (1874-1948), and Elspeth Robinson (died 1941), of Ashlea, Cheadle, Cheshire. Married (15.04.1944, Bovey Tracey) Third Officer Phyllis "Phil" Walker Hewitt *, WRNS, younger daughter of Sg.R.Adm. David Walker Hewitt, CB, CMG, MD, BCh, FRCS. * She remarried (1977) Lt.Col. Archibald John Murray, Black Watch.	14.04.1909 Chorlton district, Lancashire - 25.02.1972 London City	Prob. Sg.Lt. RNVR 01.03.1934 Sg.Lt. RNVR 03.04.1935, seniority 01.03.1934 Sg.Lt. 16.10.1936 24.03.1937, seniority 16.10.1935 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1941 A/Sg.Cdr. 16.10.1947 Sg.Cdr. 30.06.1950 Sg.Capt. 30.06.1959 (retd 14.01.1966) MVO 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 57 [investiture 23.07.57]	Education: Oxford University; Manchester University; BM, BCh, MRCS, LRCP. Assistant director of the David Lewis Epileptic Colony. 01.03.1934     joined RNVR (Mersey Division) 16.10.1936     transferred, RN 02.01.1937 - (02.)1937 HMS Abingdon (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean) 04.04.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Lowestoft (escort vessel) (China) 01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Tarantula (river gunboat) (China) 12.05.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Tarantula (river gunboat) (China) (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 15.12.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 09.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Diomede (training ship) 07.09.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Tracker (escort carrier) 02.09.1943 - (10.)1943 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 04.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Duke (training establishment, Great Malvern, Worcestershire) 29.04.1945 - (10.1947) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 30.08.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine establishment, Portsmouth) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 18.05.1953 - (01.)1957 HMS Britannia (Royal yacht) 30.03.1957 - (01.1959) staff, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth] 12.06.1961 - (07.)1961 Fleet Medical Officer to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet [HMS President] & as Medical Adviser to Commander-in-Chief EASTLANT (NATO) 16.10.1961 - (02.1964) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Burghard, Geoffrey Frederic * Son of Alfred Williams Burghard, commercial treveller, and Edith Elsie Burghard. Married (1931) Constance Louise Sheppard (died 1981); one son, two daughters (of which one died aged 5 in 1935). * During his naval service registered in the Navy List as "Geoffrey Frederick"	15.10.1900 Bexley Heath, Dartford, Kent - 07.05.1981 Limpsfield, Surrey	Cadet 1913? Midsh. 1917 A/S.Lt. 15.11.1918 S/Lt. 1919 A/Lt. 1921 Lt. 14.01.1922, seniority 15.08.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1935 Capt. 31.12.1942 Cdre. 2nd cl. 08.1948 R.Adm. 08.01.1952 (retd 15.02.1955) CB 01.01.1954 New Year 54 DSO 11.06.1946 wind up Far East MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (Chief Cadet Captain) 09.01.1917     entered RN 17.12.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Canada (battleship) HMS President (for study at Cambridge University; electrical science course) 01.10.1924 - (01.1925) qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 16.08.1926 - (07.1927) Assistant Fleet W/T Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 27.06.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental)) 07.07.1931 - (01.1932) Signal Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) (09.1932) no appointment listed 01.12.1932 - (01.1934) Fleet W/T Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 16.04.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental)) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.12.1937 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Fury (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 11.07.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental)), renamed: (08.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) Executive Officer since (08.1942?) 29.04.1943 - 20.01.1944 Deputy Director (R) Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 21.01.1944 - (06.1944) Deputy Director (R) Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 30.09.1944 - (08.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Troubridge (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 24th Destroyer Flotilla (04.1946) HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) * 1947? - 1948? Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser; experimental ship) (07.1948) no appointment listed 08.1948 - (05.1950) Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror] 07.07.1951 - 08.01.1952 Naval ADC to the King 01.01.1952 - 1955 Deputy Controller, Electronics, Ministry of Supply [HMS President (for miscellaneous services)] MIEE, 1956-1961. Joined International Computers and Tabulators Ltd (ICT). Retired (1961?) to grow black currants. Chairman, Committee for Common Standards for Electronic Parts, 1963-1965 (resulting in the Burghard report, 1967) * indexed, but not listed as such
Burmester, Sir Rudolf Miles 3rd son of F.G. Burmester, MA. Married (20.03.1907, Portsmouth) Margery Gladys (died 1952), daughter of Admiral Rodney Lloyd, CB; one son, one daughter.	11.11.1875 Kingston, Surrey - 27.12.1956 [London ?]	Midsh. 15.08.1890 S.Lt. 14.09.1894 Lt. 01.04.1897 Cdr. 30.06.1907 Capt. 30.06.1914 Cdre. 2nd cl. 1917? till 1919 R.Adm. 26.09.1924 V.Adm. 02.08.1929 Adm. 30.09.1933 (retd 10.10.1933; own request in order to facilitate the promotion of younger officers) KBE 01.01.1934 New year 34 CB 01.04.1919 services during the war CMG 01.01.1916 Gallipoli 04.15-01.16 Comdn 14.03.1916 Gallipoli 04.15-01.16	15.07.1888     entered RN 1902 - 1903 served HMS Highfyer (medal and Somaliland clasp) 01.07.1913 War Staff Officer 1915 - 1916 HMS Euryalus, Dardanelles 12.08.1917 - (01.)1919 Chief of Staff, Mediterranean [HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta)] 1919 Director of Naval Signals, Admiralty 01.11.1920 - 01.04.1922  Chief of Staff, Portsmouth Command & Commanding Officer, HMS Victory 04.04.1923 - 02.09.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) 1923 - 1924 ADC to the King (01.1925) no appointment listed 18.12.1926 - 1928 Director of Mobilisation Department, Admiralty 27.12.1928 - 02.1931 Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station [HMS Calcutta] [saaumed command 14.02.1929] (09.1932) no appointment listed 1940 recalled to active service 04.07.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) 03.02.1942 - 08.02.1944 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Cardiff [HMS Lucifer]
Burnell-Nugent, Anthony Frank Son of Brig. Frank Henry [Burnell-]Nugent (1880-1942), and Ellen Mary Coke Burnell. Married Jean (?) Mary Alexander; at least one son (James Michael Burnell-Nugent, whose son became Adm. Sir James Burnell-Nugent).	09.07.1906 Winchester, Hampshire - 21.08.1976	Midsh. 15.05.1924 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1926 S.Lt. 30.04.1927 Lt. 30.01.1929 Lt.Cdr. 30.01.1937 Cdr. 30.06.1942 (retd 16.08.1945) DSC 23.12.1939 succesful actions against enemy submarines MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk MHb 03.10.1931 rescue of survivors of the Dutch schooner Hedwig near Hong Kong 02.12.30 * * for Lt. A.F. Burnell-Nugent + 12 other ranks	15.01.1920     entered RN 15.05.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Mediterranean) 09.03.1926 - (05.)1926 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.12.1926 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 23.07.1930 - (06.)1933 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) 30.10.1933 - (01.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Stronghold (destroyer) 28.09.1934 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Fortune (destroyer) (Home Fleet) [ship commissioned 08.05.1935] (in charge while under construction; and for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-built Ships) 16.03.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 29.04.1938 - (08.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 08.09.1938 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Kingfisher (patrol vessel, fishery protection) 09.01.1939 - 11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Walpole (destroyer) 21.11.1939 - 01.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Havant (destroyer) (sunk by German aircraft off Dunkirk) 08.01.1941 - 02.05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Jersey (destroyer) (mined & sunk off La Valletta, Malta) 01.07.1941 - 09.1942 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.09.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Racehorse (destroyer) 05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, S Afr) 07.1943 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Racehorse (destroyer) 29.02.1944 - (06.1944) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Burnett, Alan Colquhoun Married 1st ((06?).1930, Kensington district, London; marriage dissolved 06.12.1937) Joanna Law-Smith (1912? - 2002) [she re-married four times: (1938) Lt.Cdr. Archibald Boyd Russell, RN, (1954) Frederick Charles John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar (1908-1962) [Capt. KOSB], (1967) Charles John Halswell Kemeys-Tynte, 9th Baron Wharton (1908-1969) [F/Lt. RAFVR], and (1971) Bruce Yorke], only daughter of Walter Henry Law-Smith, and Joanna Pauline Lydia Nitschke (1874-1952), of Adelaide, South Australia; one daughter. Married 2nd ((12?).1938, Fulham district, London) Malvine Turkel (02.09.1910 - 11.1998); ... children (one son?).	12.08.1903 Romford district, Essex - 03.01.1996 Kensington and Chelsea district, London	Paym.Midsh. 15.01.1922 Paym.S.Lt. 15.10.1923 Paym.Lt. 15.10.1925 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1933 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1940 (retd 12.08.1953) (reverted to retd 10.02.1954) A/Capt. (S) 15.09.1951 OBE 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 52 [investiture 22.07.52]	... - ... ... 26.08.1937 - (09.)1939 Divisional Officer for Accountant Branch ratings, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 26.10.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Hawkins (cruiser) 10.04.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 02.02.1944 - (07.1945) Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.03.1946 - 06.1947 HMS Nigeria (cruiser) & from ... also Fleet (S) Officer, South Atlantic 13.10.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) 19.01.1950 - (05.)1951 HMS Vanguard (battleship) 15.09.1951 - (05.1953) HMA Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint)
Burnett, James Arbouin	16.10.1909 - 11.2005 Hitchin and Stevenage district, Hertfordshire	... ... S.Lt. 16.07.1930 Lt. 01.02.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1940 (retd 16.10.1954) DSC 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik [investiture 06.08.40] DSC 15.08.1944 destruction U845 03.44 [investiture 18.07.45] MID 21.10.1941 ship damaged by enemy aircraft 03.09.41	15.05.1923     entered RN ... - ... ... 28.10.1937 - (04.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Eskimo (destroyer) (DSC) 04.07.1940 - (10.)1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 01.10.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, French Ship "La Flore" 21.07.1941 - (09.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (despatches) 30.09.1941 - (12.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Rear-Admiral Commanding, Seventh Cruiser Squadron [HMS Ajax (cruiser)] (08.1942)     no appointment listed 04.08.1942 - 21.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer) (Bar to DSC) 26.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 18.06.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Erne (sloop) (04.1946)     HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Burnett, Montague Keith	06.03.1911 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 18.03.1983 Blyth district, Suffolk	A/Gnr. 01.10.1937 Gnr. 1938?, seniority 01.10.1937 A/Lt. 18.05.1941 Lt. 12.1941, seniority 02.04.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 [acting rank] A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 [appointed rank] Lt.Cdr. 02.04.1947 (retd 15.08.1955) MBE 09.05.1955 HM's birthday 55 [investiture 08.11.55] MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44	(02.1938)     no appointment listed 14.03.1938 - (05.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 13.06.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Sheldrake (sloop) 12.06.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper) 14.04.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Jamaica (cruiser) (despatches) (06.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 18.07.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) 01.01.1945 - (01.)1945 HMS Campania (escort carrier) 04.1945 - (04.1946) EDO [= Engineering Duty Officer?], HMS Ocean (aircarft carrier) 23.06.1947 - (07.)1948 a Naval Assistant to the Director of Navigation and Direction, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.08.1948 - (05.)1950 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Implacable] 20.09.1950 - (05.1951) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 08.12.1952 - 08.1955 on staff of Flag Officer Air (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] (MBE)
Burnett, Philip Whitworth "Egg" Son of Henry Ridley Burnett. Married (1947) Molly, daughter of H.M. Trouncer, and widow of Brig. H.C. Partridge, DSO; one son, two daughters.	10.09.1908 Barrow-in- Furness, Cumbria, Lancashire - 10.06.1996 Camborne- Redruth, Cornwall	Midsh. 15.09.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1929 S.Lt. 22.03.1930, seniority 16.07.1929 Lt. 16.12.1930 Lt.Cdr. 16.12.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1940 Capt. 30.06.1945 R.Adm. 07.01.1955 (retd 07.01.1958) CB 01.01.1957 New Year 57 DSO 15.05.1945 3 actions against U-boats 02.45 DSC 09.05.1944 en fst use acc tpdo 09.43 DSC 18.07.1944 sinking U744 06.03.44 MID 09.08.1940 attack on enemy light forces 18.05.40 MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41	Education: Preparatory School, Seascale; RN College, Dartmouth 15.05.1922     entered RN 01.11.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies, temp. attached to China Station) 03.01.1929 - 12.08.1929 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 12.08.1929 - 04.1930 promotion course, Portsmouth 23.04.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 06.1931 - (01.1932) HMS Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 1932 - 1933 Specialist anti-submarine course, RN College, Greenwich 25.08.1933 - (01.)1934 staff, Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey] 23.10.1934 - (07.1935) anti-submarine duties, HMS Decoy (destroyer), 8th Flotilla, China 09.10.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for anti-submarine school) 09.01.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for anti-submarine school) 12.01.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (and for anti-submarine duties) (02.1941) no appointment listed 27.06.1942 - (08.1942) British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker II] 15.09.1942 - (02.)1943 Commander [= Executive Officer], Anti- Submarine Establishment, Dunoon HMS Osprey] 1943 - 1945 Western Approaches Escort Groups (HMCS Gatineau, HMCS St Catherines, HMS Braithwaite, HMS Helmsdale): 03.06.1943 - (06.1944) Escort Group Commander, C.2 Group [HMCS Avalon III (base Argentia, Newfoundland)] 03.1945 - (07.1945) Anti-U-Boat Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.09.1945 - 1947 Assistant Director of Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Mine Warfare Division (A/S) [HMS President] 1947 - 1949 Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Singapore (05.1950) no appointment listed 26.01.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Saker (British joint services mission, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous services) 03.05.1955 - 1957 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
Burnett, Sir Robert Lindsay "Bob"   Fourth son of J.A. Burnett, of Kemnay, Aberdeenshire. Married (12.07.1915) Ethel Constance Shaw, daughter of R.H. Shaw.	22.07.1887 Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - 02.07.1959 Craigweil, Bognor Regis, Sussex	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1907? S.Lt. 11.04.1908, seniority 15.09.1907 Lt. 01.04.1910 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1918 Cdr. 31.12.1923 Capt. 31.12.1930 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.03.1939? A/R.Adm. 1940 R.Adm. 15.01.1941 V.Adm. 09.12.1943 Adm. 15.09.1946 (retd 01.05.1950; own request to facilitate the promotion of junior officers) GBE 02.01.1950 New Year 50 [investiture 14.03.50] KCB 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 [investiture 15.10.46] CB 01.12.1942 Operation EV convoy PQ18 [investiture 22.06.43] KBE 05.01.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst [investiture 19.04.44] OBE 03.06.1925 HM's birthday DSO 16.03.1943 N Russian convoy action 31.12.42 [investiture 22.06.43] Suv 11.04.1944 services to USSR [award posted] Geo I 15.04.1947 ? OON 31.01.1950 services to the Netherlands Marine establ. S Atlantic  LLD (Aberdeen Univ.), 1944; CStJ 1945.	Education: Bedford School; Eastmans, Southsea. 15.01.1903     entered RN 1904 - 1907 China Station 1908 - 1910 Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleet 1910     cruiser HMS Essex on voyage to South America to mark centenary of Argentine Republic 1911 - 1914 specialised in Physical Training & Instructor, Physical Training Schools, Harwich, Shotley and Plymouth 1914 - 1918 commanded Destroyers in Grand Fleet 01.06.1918 - (01.1919) Assistant to Superintendant of School of Physical Training, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 08.08.1922 - 17.07.1923 Admiralty [HMS President] 17.07.1923 - (01.)1925 Assistant Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.07.1925 - (07.1927) Commanding Officer, HMS Wallflower (sloop) (Africa) (04.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 28.12.1928 - (08.1930) Commander, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 12.01.1931 - (02.)1931 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.03.1931 - 04.1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Keppel (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 8th Destroyer Flotilla (China) 04.1933 - (06.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser) )on detached service) 14.08.1933 - (07.)1935 Director of Physical Training and Sports, RN [HMS Victory] 07.12.1935 - (02.)1939 Flag Captain, HMS Amphion (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Africa Station 01.03.1939 - 14.11.1940 Commodore, RN Barracks Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 25.06.1940 - 15.01.1941 also: Naval ADC to the King 30.11.1940 - (12.1941) Rear-Admiral (Minelayers) Port ZA [HMS Southern Prince (auxiliary minelayer), later HMS Menestheus (auxiliary minelayer)] (Loch Alsh) 05.03.1942 - (08.1942) Rear­Admiral (D) Commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Tyne] 12.01.1943 - (12.1943) Rear-Admiral/Vice-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Belfast] 01.05.1944 - 19.07.1946 Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic [HMS Afrikander] 01.12.1947 - 16.03.1950 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] Chairman, White Fish Authority, 1950-1954.
Burns, William	? - 15.11.1965	A/S.Lt. 22.07.1940 S.Lt. > 02.1941 Lt. 01.06.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1949 (retd 16.11.1952; medically unfit)	(02.1941) - submarine course * 10.05.1942 - (08.1942) HMS P 615 (submarine) 01.12.1942 - (10.1943) HMS Templar (submarine 29.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Diomede (cruiser) 14.05.1944 - (06.1944) Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (07.1945) torpedo course 28.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Defiance III (training ship, Devonport) 05.12.1949 - (05.1950) HMAS Kuttabul (depot, Garden Island, Sydney, NSW) (for miscellaneous services) * indexed, but not listed as such
Burrough, Sir Harold Martin Son of Rev. Charles Burrough, MA. Married (1914) Nellie Wills Outhit (died 1972), Halifax, Nova Scotia; two sons, three daughters.	04.07.1888 Easton Bishop, Herefordshire - 22.10.1977 Moorhouse Nursing Home, Hindhead, Surrey	Midsh. 1904 S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.10.1909, seniority 30.05.1909 Lt.Cdr. 30.05.1917 Cdr. 31.12.1921 Capt. 30.06.1928 R.Adm. 01.08.1939 V.Adm. 30.10.1942 A/Adm. ? Adm. 25.09.1945 (retd 03.02.1949) GCB 01.01.1949 New Year 49 KCB 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 CB 08.06.1939 HM's birthday 39 KBE 08.09.1942 Operation Pedestal DSO 03.04.1942 Operation Archery DSO 20.04.1943 Operation Torch DSM 19.01.1943 N African campaign LM 15.10.1946 01-07.45 OON 20.05.1947 for services to Holland, and in particular for work connected with the clearance of ports and water-ways LegH 1949 services to French navy	Education: St Edward's Oxford; HMS Britannia 15.05.1903     entered RN 1904 went to sea as a Midshipman Gunnery Officer, HMS Southampton (Battle of Jutland) 21.11.1918 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMAS Australia [under Australian Government] (01.1925) no appointment listed 22.09.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 09.07.1928 - 24.12.1928 Admiralty 24.12.1928 - (08.1929) Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.03.1930 - (04.1930) Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 24.10.1930 - (01.)1932 Flag Captain HMS London (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) 21.07.1932 - (01.1934) staff, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.04.1935 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 5th Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet) 17.06.1937 - (07.1937) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 20.09.1937 - (10.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 10.01.1939 - (04.)1940 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 22.02.1939 - (08.)1939 Naval ADC to the King 10.09.1940 - (08.)1942 Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Kenya, from 01.01.1942: HMS Nigeria] (commanded the naval element of the Vaagso raid, 1941; Malta convoy operation "Pedestal", 08.1942) 18.08.1942 - (06.1943) HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services): 1942 commanding Eastern Task Force (Operation Torch) 1942 commanding Naval Forces, Algiers (08.1943) HMS Excellent II 10.09.1943 - 1945 Flag Officer Commanding, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant] 19.01.1945 - (07.1945) Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force [HMS Royal Henry] 1945 - 1946 British Naval Commander-in-Chief, Germany 24.04.1946 - 1948 Commander-in-Chief, The Nore [HMS Pembroke]
Burrows, George Reginald Bertram	07.05.1903 East Stonehouse district, Devon - 14.05.1977 Wisbech district, Norfolk	T/A/Wt. Writer Offr. = T/Cd. Writer Offr. 31.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	10.07.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) 10.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
Burrows, Henry Montagu Elder son of Rev. Montagu John Burrows (1853-1927), sometime of Ceylon, and Lydia de Vos (1859-1927), and nephew of the Bishop of Chichester (Rt Rev Winfrid Oldfield Burrows (1858-1929)). Married (04.01.1939, St Clement Danes, Westminster district, London) Harriet Elizabeth Vaizey (06.09.1906 - 20.05.1984), of 18, Seymour Street, London W, only daughter of Ker George Russell Vaizey (1867-1936), and Frederica Baines (1873-1909), of Star Stile, Halstead, Essex; one son, one daughter. Residence: (1939) Bindons, Lewes, Sussex.	24.03.1899 Ceylon - 16.08.1979 Long Crendon, nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire	Midsh. 15.10.1914 ?, seniority 02.08.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1917 S.Lt. 15.03.1918 A/Lt. 15.03.1920 Lt. 15.03.1925 (retd 10.11.1922; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 14.03.1928 (reactivated 23.08.1939) (reverted to retd 01.05.1944) Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946 RAF:   F/O 14.07.1923 (Hon) F/Lt. 23.06.1924 (reld 28.09.1925) CB 01.01.1964 New Year 64 CBE 02.01.1956 New Year 56 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - BWM 39|45 - - MID 04.05.1943 for bravery in action against enemy aircraft & under fire Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 08.11.42) RHSBr 1920 Constantinople, Bosphorus 02.07.20 [case No. 45576]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (01.1912-08.1914). 08.1914 - 07.10.1914 sick (24.09.1914 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke], 21.11.1914-29.01.1915 admitted Haulbowline Hospital with acute rheumatism) 07.10.1914 - 05.12.1917 HMS Benbow (battleship) (Battle of Jutland 05/06.1916) 05.12.1917 - 16.08.1918 HMS Verbena (sloop) 16.08.1918 - 01.09.1918 HMS Gloucester (light cruiser) 01.09.1918 - 31.01.1919 HMS Weymouth (light cruiser) 31.01.1919 - 27.08.1919 Admiralty [HMS President] (for courses at Cambridge University) 27.08.1919 - 12.09.1920 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 12.09.1920 - 27.12.1920 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for gunnery course for rank of Lt. & from 10.01.1921-22.01.1921 for Torpedo Countermeasures Course in HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)) 27.12.1920 - 10.01.1921 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 10.01.1921 - 22.01.1921 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for Torpedo Countermeasures Course in HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)) 22.01.1921 - 06.03.1921 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 06.03.1921 - 23.08.1922 HMS Watchman (torpedo-boat destroyer) 26.08.1922 - 10.11.1922 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 14.07.1923 - 28.09.1925 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 14.07.1923 - 06.1924 No. 2 Flying Training School (Duxford) 14.07.1924 - 09.1924 No. 19 Squadron RAF (Duxford) 09.1924 - 10.1924 Armament and Gunnery School, RAF Eastchurch 01.1925 - 08.1925 No 1 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (Iraq) 28.09.1938 - 29.09.1938 mobilised for a day during the Munich crisis (RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]) 23.08.1939 - 29.12.1941 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke](commanded motor boat "Golden Lily" at the Dunkirk evacuation 06.1940) 29.12.1941 - 19.04.1942 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 19.04.1942 - 29.04.1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (despatches) Appointed a Clerk in the House of Lords, 16.11.1925 (interrupted by war service 1939-1944). Principal Clerk of Public Bills, 1950-1959 (CBE). Reading­Clerk and Clerk of the Journals, 1959-1961. Clerk-Assistant of the Parliaments, House of Lords, 1961-1963, retired (CB). Trustee, Attlee Memorial Foundation, 1969.
Burton, Arthur	19.05.1889 Atherstone, Warwickshire - 26.10.1976	Seaman ? [234040] ... ... Cd.Gnr. 13.07.1927 (retd 19.05.1939) Lt. (retd) 19.05.1939 (reactivated 15.08.1939) (for dispersal 18.07.1945) (reverted to retd 12.09.1945) DSM 17.05.1918 Mediterranean 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - DefM - - BWM 39|45 - -	12.01.1918     commissioned RN ... - ... ... 15.08.1939 - 25.08.1939 HMS President (additional; for duty with the Admiral Superintendent Contract-Built Ships at Sunderland) 26.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) 20.08.1941 - 09.1943 HMS Iron Duke (RN base ship, Scapa Flow) 06.09.1943     HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for 'island duties') (10.1943)     no appointment listed 09.11.1943 - 07.07.1945 HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon) (as armament stores depot officer)
Bush, Eric Wheler Younger son of late Rev. Herbert Wheler Bush (1861-1927), Chaplain to the Forces, and Edith Cornelia Cardew (1865?-1934). Married (20.05.1938, Holy Trinity Church, Cannes) Mollie Noël Watts (25.12.1905 - 09.2000), only child of Col. Brian Watts, DSO, RAMC (1872-1948), and Lily Thomassen; two sons.	12.08.1899 Simla, India - 17.06.1985 Tunbridge Wells, Kent	Midsh. 1914 S.Lt. 15.03.1918 Lt. 15.03.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1933 Capt. 30.06.1939 (retd 10.07.1948) DSO 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 [investiture 01.04.41] DSO 08.09.1942 Malta convoy 22.03.42 [investiture 26.03.46] DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 16.03.46] DSC 14.03.1916 Gallipoli 04.15 Comdn 16.08.1915 Gallipoli 04.15 Comdn 14.03.1916 Gallipoli 04.15 MID 10.07.1945 operations Arakan coast 11.44-03.45 MID 20.11.1945 assault Rangoon 05.45 LoA 1940? air attacks Aux. Patrol Dover * For services performed under shell fire on the beaches and in steamboats off the beaches.	Education: Stoke House, Stoke Poges; RN Colleges, Osborne (10.05.1912-...) & Dartmouth (...-01.08.1914). 05.1912     entered RN 01.08.1914 - 03.1916 Midshipman, HMS Bacchante (present at Battle of Heligoland Bight, 28 August 1914; took part in defence of Suez Canal Jan-Mar 1915; served at Gallipoli, 1915) 03.1916     Midshipman, HMS Revenge (served in North Sea, present at Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916) 15.01.1919 - (01.1919) HMS President (for Cambridge University) 1921 - 1924 served in East Indies and East Africa: 27.01.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Colombo (light cruiser) [01.1924 qualified as interpreter in Hindustani] (01.1925)     no appointment listed 05.01.1925 - 31.08.1926 HMS Thunderer (battleship, Reserve Fleet) (additional; for duty with special entry cadets) 01.09.1926 - 1926 HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship) (additional; for duty with special entry cadets) 17.12.1926 - (06.)1928 First Lieutenant, HMS Veteran (destroyer) (China) 11.12.1928 - (08.)1929 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 21.10.1929 - (10.1930) HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties) 13.01.1931 - (01.)1932 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.02.1932 - (06.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Ladybird (river gunboat) (China) 07.10.1933 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Cornflower (sloop) (China) (07.1934) - (08.1934) no appointment listed 13.08.1934 - 12.10.1934 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 15.10.1934 - 10.09.1936 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 27.10.1936 - (04.)1939 Executive Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 10.05.1939 - (07.)1939 Executive Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies) (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 29.01.1940 - (04.)1940 Chief of Staff and afterwards Captain, Auxiliary Patrol, Dover Command [HMS Lynx] 31.08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) 31.03.1941 - 15.08.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Euryalus (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (took part in Malta Convoys, 1942, and Battle of Sirte, 1942) (10.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed: (06.)1944     Senior Officer, Assault Group S3 [HMS Goathland] (Normandy, France)       Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) 1945     Chief of Staff, Naval Force 'W', South East Asia Command 11.1945 - 17.04.1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley, Suffolk) Secretary Sea Cadet Council, 1948-59. Gen. Manager, Red Ensign Club, Stepney, 1959-64. School Liaison British­India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, 1965-71. Publiished: How to become a Naval Officer (Special Entry) (1935); Bless our ship (1958); The flowers of the sea (editor) (1962); How to become a Naval Officer (Cadet Entry) (1963); Salute the soldier (editor) (1966); Gallipoli (1975).
Bush, John Edward Scott Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bush. Husband of Patricia Mary Bush, of Rugby, Warwickshire.	02.04.1909 Bristol, Gloucestershire - 23.05.1941 (KIA) [age 32] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 41, 1]	Midsh. 01.09.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1931 S.Lt. 13.04.1932, seniority 01.12.1930 Lt. 01.04.1933 A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1941 MID 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete	1928 - 1929 Midshipman, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 17.05.1929 - (08.1929) Midshipman, HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.03.1930 - (04.1930) Midshipman, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) no appointment listed 17.08.1931 - (01.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth 07.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Walker (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 18.10.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Brazen (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (07.1935) - (02.1937) no appointment listed 10.05.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Aurora (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (02.1939) no appointment listed 15.03.1939 - 23.05.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Kipling (destroyer)
Bush, [Sir] John Fitzroy Duyland Son of late Fitzroy Bush, Beach, Glos. Married (1938) Ruth Kennedy Horsey; three sons, two daughters.	01.11.1914 - Colemore, nr. Alton, Hants.	Cadet 01.01.1933 Midsh. 01.01.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1936 S.Lt. 04.10.1937, seniority 01.03.1936 Lt. 01.04.1937 > 02.1941, seniority 01.04.1936 A/Lt.Cdr. 1942/43? Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1944 Cdr. 31.12.1946 A/Capt. ? Capt. 30.06.1952 R.Adm. 07.01.1961 V.Adm. 26.11.1963 Adm. 20.08.1968 (retd 04.04.1970) GCB 01.01.1970 New Year 70 KCB 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 65 CB 01.01.1963 New Year 63 DSC 05.08.1941 sinking Italian convoy escorts 16.01.41 DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete DSC 04.04.1944 Aegean operations 09-11.43 MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44	Education: Clifton College 01.01.1933 joined RN 27.11.1934 - (02.1936) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 11.08.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Stronghold (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 07.09.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 06.12.1938 - (02.1941) HMS Nubian (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 02.02.1942 - 1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Belvoir (destroyer) 02.03.1944 - (06.)1944 Gunnery & Torpedo Officer, HMS Excalibur 1944 - (01.1945?) Commanding Officer, HMS Zephyr (destroyer) 19.01.1945 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Chevron (destroyer) 02.06.1947 - (07.)1948 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1949 Armed Forces Staff College, USA 22.04.1950 - (05.)1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Sluys 1950 - 1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Cadiz (05.1953) no appointment listed 11.05.1953 - (04.)1955 Secretary to the Joint Planning Staff 08.11.1955 - (01.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Undine (frigate) & Captain (F) 6th Frigate Squadron 1957 - 1959 Commodore, RN Barracks, Chatham 1959 - 1960 Director of Plans, Admiralty 05.04.1961 - 1962 Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia] & Commander, South-Eastern Mediterranean, NATO 31.01.1963 - 1965 Commander, British Navy Staff and Naval Attache, Washington DC, USA & UK National Liaison Representative to SACLANT [HMS Saker] 1965 - 1967 Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Ministry of Defence 10.1967 - 27.02.1970 Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet, and Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)) Rear-Admiral of the UK, 1976-1979. Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Lieutenant of the Admiralty, 1979-1984. Director, Gordon A. Friesen International Inc., Washington, DC, 1970-1973. Admiral, Texas (USA) Navy. Governor, Clifton College, 1973- (Chairman Council, 1978-1981; President, 1982-1987). President, Old Cliftonians Society, 1967-1969; Vice-President, Eighth Army Veterans Association, 1984-. Member, East Hants District Council, 1974-1976.
Buss, Stuart Austen Son of George and Clare Evelyn Buss. Husband of Sylvia Storrs Buss, of Baslow, Derbyshire; ... children (one son?).	26.03.1900 Littlebourne, Bridge district, Kent - 13.11.1943 (KIA) [age 43] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 78, column 1]	Lt. 15.08.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1930 Cdr. 31.12.1940 MVO 11.08.1935 ? DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture next-of-kin 13.06.44] MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations bombed & sunk 13.11.43	Education: Hailebury College (Bartle Frere, 1914-1918) 14.06.1918     entered RN 29.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS K 22 (submarine) 30.12.1924 - (05.)1926 HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic) 31.12.1926 - (06.1928) First Lieutenant, HMS Vimiera (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 19.06.1929 - (08.)1929 HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Chatham) 15.08.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Wallace (flotilla leader 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Atlantic Fleet) 15.09.1931 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Skate (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 03.02.1933 - (11.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Verity (destroyer) (China) (02.1935) - (07.1935) no appointment listed 09.01.1936 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Foxhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Ambrose (depot ship; accommodation ship) (Rosyth) 15.03.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training duties) 31.07.1939 - 28.01.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Electra (destroyer) 28.02.1941 - 14.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Punjabi (destroyer) 28.02.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) 01.1943 - 13.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Dulverton (destroyer) (killed in action when sunk by German aircraft in Aegean)
Butler-Bowdon, Maurice Erdeswick Married Anne Butler-Bowdon (1914-1999).	04.07.1910 - 06.1984 Chichester, Sussex	Midsh. 01.05.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1930 S.Lt. 16.05.1931 Lt. 16.07.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1941 Cdr. 30.06.1944 Capt. 31.12.1948 (retd 17.01.1958) OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41 MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44	15.01.1924     entered RN 20.03.1929 - (04.1930) Midshipman, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 25.09.1930 - (02.1931) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 29.12.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 04.05.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 19.11.1934 - (07.1937) Navigating Officer, HMS Wellington (sloop) (New Zealand) 17.01.1938 - (02.1938) First Class Ship Course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 19.03.1938 - (04.1939) HMS Dryad (HM Navigation School, Portsmouth) 05.06.1939 - 23.05.1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (sunk) 01.09.1941 - (12.1943) Navigating Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 01.07.1944 - (04.1946) staff, Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 30.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) (05.1953) no appointment listed 15.01.1954 - (01.1956) Director of Navigation and Direction, Admiralty [HMS President]
Butt, Ronald Day Only son of Cdr. Francis Day Butt, RN, and Beryl Nicholas "Pippa" England, of Godalming. Married (10.05.1947, Surrey South Western district) Joan Margaret St Clair-Morford, daughter of Maj.Gen. & Mrs A.C. St Clair-Morford, CBE, MC, RM, of Worplesdon.	03.08.1923 - 04.1995 Chichester district, Sussex	Midsh. 01.01.1941 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1942 S.Lt. 1943?, seniority 01.08.1942 Lt. 16.01.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1952 Cdr. 31.12.1957 Capt. 31.12.1964 (retd 21.04.1975) CBE 01.01.1951 New Year 51 MID 08.12.1942 loss of ship 04.42	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1937-12.1940). 01.01.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Neptune (cruiser) 24.08.1942 - (12.1943) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Javelin (destroyer) 23.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Corinthian (ocean boarding vessel) (07.1945)     HMS Armada (destroyer) * (04.1946)     HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Haverfordwest) * 05.1947 - (07.1948) Navigating/Directing Officer, HMS Nereide 21.02.1949 - (05.)1950 HMS Mounts Bay (05.1950)     HMS Dryad * 02.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Birmingham (07.1954)     no appointment listed 14.12.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Gambia (01.1957)     HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and radar establishment, Portsdown) * (01?).1958 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Chichester (01.1959)     no appointment listed 14.03.1960 - (07.1961) Seaman Section, Personnel Panel, Manpower Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.08.1962 - (02.1964) Executive Officer, HMS Drake (parent ship, Devonport) 1965 - 1967 Commanding Officer, HMS Arethusa (frigate) 15.09.1967 - (02.1969) Commanding Officer, HMS Dryad (RN naval navigation and direction school, Southwick, nr Fareham, Hampshire) 27.04.1970 - (08.1971) Commanding Officer, HMS Blake (guided missile cruiser) 07.07.1973? - 07.01.1974 also: RN ADC to the Queen FBIM. * indexed, but not listed as such
Butter, Patrick Son of A. Butter, banker. Married (02.04.1921, Chapel Royal, Brighton) Svana Bull.	04.10.1889 Boatland, Perth, N.B., Canada - 24.01.1949 Hammersmith district (stomach cancer)	Cadet 15.05.1904 Midsh. 15.09.1905 S.Lt. 30.12.1908 Lt. 22.06.1911 Lt.Cdr. 22.06.1919 Cdr. 31.12.1924 (retd 14.10.1935) Capt. (retd) 14.10.1935 (re-activated 17.05.1941) (dispersed 05.12.1945) (reld 30.01.1946) (reverted to red 31.01.1946) 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - JubM 1935 -	15.05.1904 - 15.09.1905 HMS Britannia (training ship) 15.09.1905 - 20.08.1907 HMS Hindustan (battleship) 20.08.1907 - 18.09.1907 HMS Hampshire (cruiser) (1st Cruiser Squadron) 18.09.1907 - 27.12.1918 HMS Glory (battleship) (Mediterranean) 17.06.1909 - 10.04.1910 HMS Express (torpedo-boat destroyer) (manoeuvres) 11.04.1910 - 01.05.1912 HMS Foam (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Orestes] 05.1912 - 20.04.1914 HMS Black Prince (cruiser) (3rd Cruiser Squadron) 05.05.1914 - 1915? HMS Louis (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport), later HMS Dido (light cruiser)]  05.12.1915 - 30.01.1916 First Lieutenant, HMS Chelmer (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender at HMS Blenheim (cruiser)] 30.01.1916 - 14.03.1916 First Lieutenant, HMS Foxhound (torpedo-boat destroyer) 14.03.1916 - 15.08.1917 Commanding Officer, HMS TB 18 (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Blenheim (cruiser)] 15.11.1917 - 1917 HMS Violent (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship)] 1917 - 07.01.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Norseman (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship)] 27.01.1919 - 28.11.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Ursa (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship), from 01.10.1919 HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)] 28.11.1919 - 1919/20? HMS Tyrian (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] (for duty with Captain Superintendent TBDS [7?]) 1919/20? - 1921? Commanding Officer, HMS Tyrian (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)] 05.08.1921 - 13.11.1921 Commanding Officer, HMS Tourmaline (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender HMS Dido (light cruiser)] & for charge of group of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers in Reserve 13.11.1921 - 1922? HMS Excellent (trawler & training esblishment, Portsmouth) (additional; fot observers' course) 10.07.1922 - 18.07.1922 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding 6 months) 18.07.1922 - 01.12.1922 probationary obverser, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 01.12.1922 - 15.12.1923 [probationary] observer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (additional) [qualified as Observer 15.12.1922] 15.12.1923 - 22.02.1924 observer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (additional) 22.02.1924 - 20.01.1925 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (and for observer duties) 02.02.1925 - 01.09.1925 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (for observer duties) (temporary) 23.03.1925 - 01.09.1925 lent to HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) for HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (for observer duties during period of trials) 01.09.1925 - 01.09.1926 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) (for observer duties) (on re-commissioning) 19.01.1926 - 20.04.1926 lent on pilotage course at Calshot 01.09.1926 - 01.03.1927 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding 6 months) 18.10.1926 - 24.12.1926 Senior Officers' Technical Course (part 2) [HMS Victory] 01.03.1927 - 12.11.1927 Executive Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) 12.11.1927 - 25.06.1928 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding 6 months) ?? 25.06.1928 - 30.08.1928 Senior Officers' Technical Course (part 2) [HMS Victory] 30.08.1928 - 09.1928 Executive Officer, HMS Calliope (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 09.1928 - 01.1929 Executive Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 01.1929 - 14.05.1929 Executive Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 14.05.1929 - 12.1929 Executive Officer, HMS Shakespeare (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 12.1929 - 19.03.1930 Executive Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 12.04.1930 - 10.1931 HMS Magnolia (cloop) (China) (initially additional, then in command ) 10.1931? - 10.1932? for unemployed time ? 17.10.1932 - 01.1933 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for technical course) 20.01.1933 - 01.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Canterbury (cruiser) [tender to HMS Cambrian (cruiser)] (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 15.01.1934 - 08.04.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) [tender to HMS Cardiff (cruiser)] (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 02.02.1939 - 05.1939? Assistant Commandant, RAFVR Town [Centre?] (as Honoray Flight Lieutenant RAFVR, dated 23.02.1939) late 1939 at liberty to engage in some kind of National Service as there was no suitable naval appointment available 1940 - 1941 employment with Fairmile Marine (boat builders) 17.05.1941 - 31.01.1946 no appointment listed: 17.05.1941 - ? HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty on Selection Board for "Y" Entry) ([Crowe??] Naval Centre) ? - 1946? HMS President (additional; NTT)
Butterworth, William Shorrocks "Peter" Married Janet Brown, actress.	04.02.1919 Bramhall, Cheshire - 16.01.1979 Coventry, Warwickshire (heart attack)	A/S.Lt. (A) 04.07.1938 S.Lt. (A) 04.11.1939 Lt. (A) 28.03.1942, seniority 04.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946) MID 19.03.1946 for good services while prisoner of war	04.07.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) 10.10.1938 - (02.)1939 observers' course [HMS Excellent] 13.03.1939 - (08.1939) pilots' course at No. 23 Flying Training School, Rochester (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 01.04.1940 - 21.06.1940 pilot, 826 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)] * [attack on De Kooy air base, Den Helder, The Netherlands; shot down over Texel; captured] 21.06.1940 - 1945 prisoner of war (thee escape attempts) * (02.1941) still listed as such Post-war career as an actor, mainly known for his parts in the "Carry On" films.
Buttle, Walter Edward Alexander "Alec" Married Emily Kathleen Bell; one daughter.	29.07.1903 Southwark, London - 01.03.1984 Haywards Heath, West Sussex	Seaman ? [J93808] T/A/Boatsw. 21.08.1943 T/Boatsw. = T/Cd.Boatsw. * 1945/46?, seniority 21.08.1943 (retd 29.07.1953) * change in title 05.04.1949	Able Seaman, HMS Cairo 27.09.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Duke of Wellington (landing ship infantry (hand-hoisting)) * (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Brigand (tug) ** 14.02.1948 - 25.11.1954 on loan to RAN: 14.02.1948 - 24.02.1948 HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage to Australia by RAF plane) 25.02.1948 - 28.07.1949 HMA LST 3017 (landing ship, tank), 10.12.1948 renamed: HMAS Tarakan 07.1949 - 08.01.1951 HMAS Lonsdale (naval depot, Port Melbourne) (for duty as Naval Provost Marshal) 09.01.1951 - 23.09.1951 HMAS Labuan (temporarily) 24.09.1951 - 09.04.1952 HMAS Leeuwin (on paying off HMAS Labuan) 10.04.1952 - 07.1952 HMAS Koala (temporarily) 07.1952 - 01.1953 HMAS Leeuwin (naval depot, Freemantle) 01.1953 - 06.1953 HMAS Karangi (lent; for passage) 06.1953 - 04.01.1954 HMAS Lonsdale 05.01.1954 - 07.1954 HMAS Platypus 03.07.1954 - 25.11.1954 HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage to UK & foreign service leave) * RAN service record has rather different details: *** 09.1943-04.1944 HMS Valkyrie II (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) as Training Officer (Gunnery) for New Entry signalmen & telegraphists 04.1944-03.1945 HMS Royal Harold (Naval Officer-in-Charge, Kiel) for duty in German dockyards Kiel for repairs etc. to ships 04.1945-02.1947 hospital (17 months, following fractured leg in Germany) ?-? HMS Ariel (electrical training establishment) as Lieutenant of Camp, general duties, discipline, maintenance, etc. ** indexed, but not listed as such *** as HMS Royal Harold was not commissioned before May 1945 and service at HMS Duke of Wellington is left out, we must assume these details are incorrectly dated; not shown under HMS Ariel in Navy Lists of Apr 1947 & Oct 1947; his daughter doesn't recall any of these postings, however
Button, Herbert James Brown Mother's maiden name: Button. Married ((03?).1940, Hastings district, Sussex) Florence Mary Nunn (died c. 2006 Australia), of Hastings, Sussex; no children. She remarried ((03?).1948, Hastings district, Sussex) Thomas Wilson (which marriage produced two children).	(06?).1915 Blything district, Suffolk - 27.11.1942 (died of illness) [age 27] [Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria, 3.C.2]	A/Petty Officer ? [P/JX 135049] A/Boatsw. (A/S) 17.03.1941 DSM 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [investiture 07.10.41] MID 13.04.1943 Operation Torch (North African landings 11.42) [posthumously]	(1940)     HMS Antelope (destroyer) (DSM) 17.03.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)       HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) 01.04.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 1942 - 27.11.1942 HMS Venomous (destroyer) (saved many survivors of the sinking of HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship), only to die himself a few weeks later from exertion) (despatches)
Button, Maurice Jack Son of ... Button, and ... Davis. Married ...; ... children.	(06?).1924 Ecclesall Bierlow district, Derbyshire / West Riding of Yorkshire - 10.01.2012 Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent	Cadet 01.01.1942 Midsh. (E) 01.09.1942 A/S/Lt. (E) 01.05.1944 S/Lt. (E) 23.10.1944, seniority 01.10.1943 A/Lt. (E) 01.02.1945 Lt. (E) 25.06.1946, seniority 01.04.1945 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.04.1953 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1957 Capt. (E) 31.12.1965 (retd 07.01.1975)	(02.1942) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 31.12.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Kent (cruiser) (06.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed 01.01.1946 - (04.)1947 HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) ... - ... .... 27.02.1967 - (02.)1969 Officer-in-Charge, Naval Air Technical Evaluation Centre [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 27.11.1969 - (08.1971) Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (RN Junior Training Establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) ... - ... ....
Buzzard, [Sir] Anthony Wass; 2nd Baronet (1929) Elder son of Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Bt, KCVO (1871-1945), and May Bliss (1875-1951). Succeeded father, 17.12.1945. Married (02.04.1932) Margaret Elfreda Knapp (16.04.1905 - 07.1989), only daughter of late Sir Arthur Rowland Knapp, KCIE, CSI, CBE (1870-1954), and Florence Annie Moore (1872-1964); two sons, one daughter.	28.04.1902 Derbyshire - 10.03.1972 West Clandon, Surrey	Midsh. 1916? S.Lt. 30.08.1922 Lt. 30.09.1923 Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1931 Cdr. 30.06.1935 Capt. 31.12.1941 R.Adm. 08.01.1951 (retd 1954) CB 01.01.1953 New Year 53 [investiture 10.02.53] DSO 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [investiture 12.05.42] OBE 14.10.1941 sinking of the Bismarck [investiture 12.05.42] MID 29.04.1941 Operation Grog (bombardment of Genoa 06.02.41) (good services directing)	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.01.1916     joined RN 1919     HMS Iron Duke ... - ... ... 10.01.1940 - 09.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Gurkha (destroyer) (sunk) (DSO) 29.06.1940 - (02.)1941 Staff Officer (Plans), Force H [HMS Renown] (OBE, despatches) 07.1941 - (12.1941) Executive Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) 03.02.1942 - (06.)1944 Assistant Director, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] and member of Joint Planning Committee, War Cabinet 01.11.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Glory (aircraft carrier) (British Pacific Fleet operations against Japanese) (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... 03.01.1948 - (05.1949) Chief of Staff to Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 04.01.1950 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Superb 31.08.1951 - 01.07.1954 Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB) With International Department, British Council of Churches. Founder member of Institute of Strategic Studies; founder member of Council of Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament; Chairman of British Council of Churches Committee on Middle East 1967. * indexed, but not listed as such
Byas, Cyril William	23.06.1902 Richmond, Surrey - 19.06.1958	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1922 S.Lt. 15.08.1923, seniority 15.09.1922 Lt. 15.04.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1936 A/Capt. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 Capt. 30.06.1943 (retd 31.12.1950) RAF: (T) F/O 27.04.1925 (T) F/Lt. 01.01.1933 (T) Sq.Ldr. 09.08.1937, seniority 01.07.1935 (T) W/Cdr. 01.09.1938 CBE 01.01.1951 New Year 51 MID 08.12.1942 loss of ship 04.42	15.01.1916     entered RN 29.07.1923 - (08.1923) submarine course, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (01.1925) no appointment listed 27.04.1925 - 16.11.1925 ? [attached to RAF] 16.11.1925 - (05.)1926 pilot's course, RAF Base, Leuchars  [attached to RAF] 1926 - 13.12.1926 ? [attached to RAF] 13.12.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Victory (for Fleet Air Arm; miscellaneous flights) [attached to RAF] 08.04.1929 - (08.)1929 Flight Commander, No. 402 Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 16.08.1929 - 14.08.1931 Flight Commander, No. 402 Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 24.11.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 21.06.1933 - (01.)1934 Squadron Commander, Fighter Squadron 802, FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 12.1934 - 04.05.1937 Squadron Commander, Fighter Squadron 803, FAA [HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)] (China) [attached to RAF] (07.1937) no appointment listed 09.08.1937 - (04.)1939 Air Staff Duties at HQ Coastal Command [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] [attached to RAF] 24.05.1939 - (04.1940) Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] (02.1941) no appointment listed ? - 05.04.1942 Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (sunk by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon; wounded in action) (08.1942) no appointment listed 29.09.1942 - 08.05.1943 Assistant Director of Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.05.1943 - (07.1945) Director of Naval Air Organisation Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.02.1946 - 10.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen (escort carrier) 07.1947 - (08.)1948 HMS President 15.12.1948 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services): DCNR(A) & DQDP [= Deputy Chief of Naval Recruiting (Air) ?? & ... ??]
Byrne, Edward Francis Son of George Edward C.  Byrne, and Alice Werring. Married; ... children (one son?).	11.02.1920 Tavistock district, Conrwall / Devon - 03.02.1980 Plymouth district, Hampshire	Gnr. 01.07.1942 A/Cd.Gnr. 18.06.1945 Sen.Cd.Gnr. 01.04.1949 Lt. 24.03.1947 Lt.Cdr. 24.03.1955 (retd 1959/60?)	(1942)     Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (MNBDO) 24.05.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Cotswold (destroyer) (07.1945) HMS Cotswold (destroyer) * 01.12.1945 - (04.)1947 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 08.08.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 28.03.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Glory (aircraft carrier) 16.06.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Venus (frigate) (07.1954)     no appointment listed 10.08.1954 - (04.)1955 First Lieutenant, HMS Samsonia (rescue tug) 17.10.1955 - (01.)1957 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 13.11.1957 - (01.1959) First Lieutenant, HMS Chaser (ex-LST 3029; landing ship, tank) * indexed, but not listed as such