Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945

Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Crean,
Thomas Francis
T.F. Crean

1900 ?
-
23.05.1951
[age 51]
Liverpool North

Sg.Lt.	05.08.1925
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	05.08.1931
Sg.Cdr.	05.08.1937 (retd 04.02.1950)

OBE

01.01.1945

New Year 45 [investiture 18.05.45]

Education: LRCP&S

...	-	...	...
17.07.1928	-	(08.)1929	RM Infirmary, Plymouth [HMS Vivid]
02.09.1929	-	(04.1930)	Medical Officer, 6th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Campbell (destroyer; flotilla leader)] (Atlantic Fleet) [accommodated in HMS Valhalla]
?	-	(02.)1931	Medical Officer, 6th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Montrose (destroyer; flotilla leader)] (Atlantic Fleet) [accommodated in HMS Valhalla]
05.09.1931	-	(06.)1933	Naval Hospital, Malta [HMS Egmont]
23.12.1933	-	(07.)1935	Medical Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
21.10.1935	-	(02.1936)	RM Infirmary, Deal [HMS Pembroke]
02.01.1937	-	(04.)1939	Naval Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
30.04.1939	-	(02.)1943	HMS Maine (hospital ship)
24.03.1943	-	(06.)1944	RN Auxiliary Hospital, Seaforth [HMS Eaglet] (OBE)
28.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	RN Sick Quarters, Shotley [HMS Ganges]
11.09.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, RN Auxiliary Hospital, Invergordon [HMS Owl]
21.01.1948	-	(07.1948)	Naval Hospital Haslar [HMS Victory]
(05.1949)			no appointment listed

Creasy,
[Sir] George Elvey
G.E. Creasy

Son of late Leonard and late Ellen Maud Creasy. Married (1924) Monica Frances Ullathorne; one son.

13.10.1895
-
31.10.1972
[Great Horkesley, nr Colchester, Essex ?]

S.Lt.	1915
Lt.	15.05.1917 ?, seniority 15.06.1916
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1924
Cdr.	30.06.1930
Capt.	31.12.1935
R.Adm.	08.07.1943
V.Adm.	04.01.1948
Adm.	15.01.1951
Adm. of the Fleet	22.04.1955 (retd 1957)

GCB	01.06.1953	Coronation List
KCB	01.01.1949	New Year 49
CB	25.07.1944	planning landings Normandy 06.44
CBE	01.01.1943	New Year 43
DSO	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 40
MVO	21.11.1934	?
OON	12.05.1942	withdrawal from Holland
PolRest	22.12.1942	services to Polish navy
LM	28.05.1946	?
Men	-	state visit emperor of Ethiopia 10.54

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

15.09.1908			joined RN
1914	-	1918	served European War (Heligoland Bight 1917)
04.11.1918	-	(01.1919)	qualifying for Torpedo duties [HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)]
16.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
10.1926	-	(07.1927)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
15.06.1928	-	(08.1929)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.07.1930	-	(01.1932)	Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
20.07.1932	-	(09.1932)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
18.07.1934	-	(07.1935)	Executive Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Australia)
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
30.06.1936	-	(02.)1938	Assistant Director of Plans Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
11.06.1938	-	19.01.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Grenville (destroyer) & Captain (D) 1st Destroyer Flotilla (sunk)
19.01.1940	-	(06.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Codrington (destroyer) & Captain (D) 1st Destroyer Flotilla (Dunkirk)
23.09.1940	-	(08.)1942	Director of AntiSubmarine Warfare Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
29.09.1942	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Duke of York (battleship)
(06.1943)			HMS Nelson (battleship)
(08.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed:
1943	-	1944	Chief of Staff to the Allied Naval CommanderinChief
12.09.1944	-	01.11.1946	Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin]
1947			Flag Officer (Air), Far East
1948	-	1949	Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air)
1949	-	1951	Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
03.01.1952	-	01.1954	Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Vanguard] (and also Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic, under NATO)
22.09.1954	-	17.07.1957	Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (also Commander-in-Chief, Home Station, Designate, and Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel Command, under NATO)

DL Essex, 1959

Creighton,
Sir Kenelm Everard Lane
K.E.L. Creighton

2nd son of Major R. Fitzgerald Creighton.
Married (19.04.1911, Pitlochrie, Perthshire) Gladys Esther Mary Warren, eldest daughter of G.P. Warren, Pitlochry, Perthshire; one son, one daughter.

10.01.1883
Sliema, Malta
-
27.02.1963
[Emsworth, Hants. ?]

Midsh.	15.09.1898
A/S.Lt.	15.03.1902
S.Lt.	26.02.1903, seniority 15.03.1902
Lt.	31.03.1904
Cdr.	31.12.1915
Capt.	31.12.1921 (retd 11.02.1934)
R.Adm. (retd)	11.02.1934

KBE	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44
MVO	03.06.1922	HM's birthday 22
MID	17.11.1942	ocean convoys 39-42
CdeG	30.11.1917	for distinguished services rendered during the War

Education: Fermoy College, Ireland; HMS Britannia.

15.04.1897			entered RN
1904	-	1906	served in HM ships Venus, Jupiter; HMS Rambler, and assisted in Survey of British North Borneo
1908	-	1910	Navigator of HM Ships Patrol, Talbot
1910			Staff of Navigation School
1911	-	1914	Navigator of Cumberland Cadet Training Cruiser
1914	-	1918	Navigator of HM Battle Cruiser, New Zealand (took part in actions of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank, and Jutland (Croix de Guerre, promoted to Commander))
1918			Navigating Officer, HMAS Australia
16.10.1918	-	(01.1919)	[Navigating Officerr? &] Master of the Fleet, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship), Flagship of Sir David Beatty (surrender of the German Fleet, 21 November 1918)
1919			Commander for Navigating duties of the Royal Yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert
09.10.1924	-	(01.1925)	Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
12.06.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
17.09.1928	-	(08.)1929	Captain of RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.01.1930	-	(01.1932)	Director of Navigation, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
11.01.1932	-	1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
23.01.1933	-	11.02.1934	Naval ADC to the King
11.1939	-	(08.)1942	Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
19.10.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
1943	-	1946	DirectorGeneral of Ports and Lights Administration, Egypt

Younger Brother of Trinity House; Member of Hants County Council
Published: Convoy Commodore (1957)

Creswell,
George Hector
G.H. Creswell

Son of late F.S. Creswell, Wimbledon. Married (1916) Katharine, daughter of Major John Stuart, OBE, The Black Watch; three sons, three daughters.

17.06.1889
Wimbledon
-
20.04.1967
[Waldringfield, Woodbridge, Suffolk ?]

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	15.09.1908
Lt.	01.04.1911
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1919
Cdr.	31.12.1924
Capt.	31.12.1931 (retd > 02.1941, < 08.1942)
A/R.Adm.	(07.1941), still 01.1943
Cdre. 2nd cl.	15.03.1943
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	12.11.1943
R.Adm. (retd)	01.03.1946 (reverted to retd 1946)

CB	01.01.1943	New Year 43
DSO	23.12.1939	succesful actions against enemy submarines
DSC	11.04.1919	?
MID	23.05.1917	?
MID	30.06.1942	for gallant and distinguished service in the Middle East
MID	17.11.1942	operations in Middle East July-Oct 41
GrkWC	18.04.1944	services to Hellenic fleet

Commander, Order of Al Merito (Chile) (01.11.1928; in recognition of valuable services rendered by them as members of the British Naval Mission to Chile)

Eucation: Sedbergh; Littlejohns, Blackheath; HMS Britannia

15.01.1904			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War:
21.06.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Liberty (destroyer)
06.06.1923	-	(01.1925)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(07.1927)			on loan to Chilean Navy
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
31.10.1929	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
30.06.1932	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (destroyer) & Captain (D), Reserve Fleet, Nore
25.07.1933	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship)
24.06.1935	-	(07.1937)	Deputy Director, Royal Naval Staff College [HMS President]
11.12.1937	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Afridi (destroyer) & Capt. (D) 4th Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean)
08.01.1940	-	(04.1940)	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer in Charge of Glasgow and District [HMS Spartiate]
03.06.1940	-	(08.1942)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria):
03.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral Alexandria
05.02.1941	-	(08.1942)	Rear-Admiral Alexandria
08.07.1941	-	06.02.1942	Naval ADC to the King
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
15.03.1943	-	(10.1943)	Chief of Staff, Commander-in-Chief Nore [HMS Pembroke]
12.11.1943	-	(07.1945)	convoy duties [HMS Eaglet]

Crews,
James Francis Reginald
J.F.R. Crews

Son of ... Crews and ... Wise.

20.12.1911
Plympton St Mary district, Cornwall / Devon
-
11.1993
Exeter district, Devon

...	...
Lt.	16.05.1935
Lt.Cdr.	16.05.1943
A/Cdr.	< 04.1946
Cdr.	31.12.1947 (retd 20.12.1961)

23.02.1943

air raid Devonport saved 2 people 21.05.41 [investiture 06.04.43]

Gold Cross of Merit with Swords (Poland) (22.12.1942) (for good services to Polish Navy); Commander, Royal Order of the Sword (Sweden) (state visit King of Sweden 06.54)

...	-	...	...
20.01.1940	-	(04.)1946	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
17.10.1946	-	(04.1947)	HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
...	-	...	...
(1950)			HMS Veryan Bay
(1952)			Naval Attaché, Stockholm
...	-	...	...

Crombie,
John Harvey Forbes
J.H.F. Crombie

Only son of late James Forbes Crombie (1867-?), and Charlotte Evans Dixon (1874/75-?), of Woodside, Aberdeenshire.
Married (1934) Rosamond Style (died 16.01.2009, aged 96), eldest daughter
of late Brig.Gen. Rodney Style, Wierton Grange, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent; one son, three daughters. She remarried Antony Allen.

16.02.1900
St George district, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
-
31.08.1972
St Andrew district, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

...	...
Lt.	15.09.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.09.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1934
Capt.	30.06.1941
R.Adm.	07.07.1950 (retd 22.10.1953)

	CB	01.01.1952	New Year 52 [investiture 05.03.52]
	DSO	26.05.1942	minesweeping winter 41-42 [investiture 01.12.42]
	MID	01.01.1941	New Year 41
?	ANev	11.11.1944	Order of Alexander Nevsky (USSR): services to USSR [decoration posted]
	LM	16.07.1946	as Director of Minesweeping
	OON	25.11.1947	? [Dutch Royal decree of 13.02.47]
	ChrX	?	as Director of Minesweeping

Education: St Aubyn's, Rottingdean; RN Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth

01.01.1916			entered RN
1916	-	1918	served European War, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Oak
1924			qualified in Signals
			later served on staffs of Adm. Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, Adm. Sir Frederic Dreyer, Adm. Sir Howard Kelly, Adm. Sir William Fisher
...	-	...	...
07.1934	-	08.1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Thruster
...	-	...	...
12.01.1938	-	(08.1939)	Executive Officer, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
16.01.1940	-	03.07.1941	Executive Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (despatches)
22.07.1941	-	16.11.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper) & Senior Officer Minesweepers, Northern Russia
10.12.1942	-	01.08.1943	Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
02.08.1943	-	15.04.1946	Director of Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
20.08.1946	-	1948	Commanding Officer, HMS Vengeance
1948	-	1950	Commanding Officer, HMS Mercury
1950	-	1950	also: Naval ADC to the King
1951	-	1953	Flag Officer, Scotland, and Admiral Superintendent, Rosyth

Member, Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (The Royal Company of Archers).

Cronyn,
St John
St.J. Cronyn

Younger son of Dr J.G. Cronyn, Dublin.
Married (1937) Lilias Marion, elder daughter of late P.W.
Wake; no children.

20.05.1901
Dublin, Ireland
-
16.03.1973
Mellieha, Malta GC

...	...
Cdr.	30.06.1937
A/Capt.	30.09.1940 to (12.1941)
Capt.	30.07.1943 (retd 08.01.1953)

CBE	20.11.1951	Bedenham explosion 17.04.51 [decoration presented]
DSO	01.01.1941	New Year 41 [investiture 25.02.41]
MID	16.08.1940	Dunkirk

King Gustav's 90th birthday medal (Sweden) (visit to Stockholm 48)

Education: Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; Gonville and Caius Colleges, Cambridge.

1917			Midshipman, HMS Orion
			served Yangtsze gunboat flotilla, Mediterranean station and Training Establishments
1934			RN Staff College
...	-	...	...
12.10.1939	-	08.04.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Halcyon (Halcyon class minesweeper)
08.04.1940	-	24.09.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Niger (Halcyon class minesweeper) (DSO, despatches)
30.09.1940	-	01.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)
10.04.1942	-	30.07.1943	Executive Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship)
30.07.1943	-	08.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship)
(10.1943)			HMS Ramillies (battleship) *
10.1943	-	(12.1943)	Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral, Alexandria [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
18.04.1944	-	05.11.1945	a Deputy Director Training and Staff Duties Division [later: Tactical, Torpedo and Staff Duties Division], Admiralty [HMS President]
10.11.1945	-	02.1948	Director RN Tactical School (Woolwich) [HMS President]
03.05.1948	-	10.12.1949	Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
1951	-	1952	Chief Staff Officer, Gibraltar (CBE)
08.07.1952	-	08.01.1953	also: Naval ADC to the Queen

* indexed, but not listed as such

Crooke,
Sir Henry Ralph
J.H.F. Crombie

Eldest son of Frederick James Crooke, and Louisa Maud Rich, of Southsea.
Married (19.08.1916) Lilian Ethel Harman, widow of late Col E.P. Smith, RHA, and daughter of late Col. C.E. Harman; no children.

07.12.1875
Calcutta, India
-
11.02.1952
Natal, South Africa

Midsh.	1890
A/S.Lt.	14.09.1894
S.Lt.	24.04.1896, seniority 14.09.1894
Lt.	15.09.1895 *
Cdr.	31.12.1905
Capt.	30.06.1912
R.Adm.	25.07.1922
V.Adm.	14.01.1928 (retd 15.01.1928)
Adm. (retd)	01.07.1932
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	03.09.1939-01.1942

KBE	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 40: service as Commodore [investiture 06.08.40]
CB	11.06.1919	for valuable services as Director of Naval Ordnance
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
Cmdn	15.09.1916	Battle of Jutland
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Def M	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-

1911 Coronation Medal.
2nd Cruiser Squadron Medal (South Africa, South America) 1908.
Order of St Anne of 2nd class, crossed swords 05.06.1917.

* Five firsts in examinations

Education: Fosters, Stubbington House, Hampshire

15.07.1888			entered RN (HMS Britannia)
			served as Midshipman in HMS Camperdown (battleship), HMS Raleigh (frigate), and HMS Active (corvette)
1896	-	1897	Watchkeeper Lieutenant, HMS Calypso (corvette)
1897	-	1899	specialised in Gunnery
1899	-	1900	junior staff officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
1900	-	1903	Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Repulse (battleship)
1903	-	1905	Experimental Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
03.1905	-	04.1907	Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
1907	-	1909	Commander, HMS Good Hope (cruiser)
1910	-	1912	Commander, HMS Black Prince (cruiser)
10.1912	-	12.1912	Boom Defence Committee and Director Committee
03.1913	-	08.1914	Assistant Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.1914	-	?	Commanding Officer, HMS Undaunted (light cruiser) (commissioned ship)
?	-	04.1917	fitted out HMS Caroline (light cruiser), served in her in 1st and 4th Light Cruiser Squadrons (Battle of Jutland (despatches, Order of St Anne))
04.1917	-	06.1918	Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
1918	-	1920	Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.1921	-	04.1921	Commanding Offcer, HMS Benbow (battleship)
04.1921	-	10.1921	Commanding Officer, HMS Emperor of India (battleship)
10.1921	-	03.1922	Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (battleship)
03.1922	-	09.1922	Commanding Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship)
1922	-	1922	Naval ADC to the King
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
02.01.1924	-	(07.)1927	Vice-President of the Ordnance Committee, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [HMS President]
1927	-	02.01.1928	President of the Ordnance Committee, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [HMS President]
03.09.1939	-	01.1942	Commodore of Convoys (24 convoys in Channel & Atlantic):
10.11.1939	-	04.07.1940	HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
05.07.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for various services)
07.06.1942	-	(10.)1944	Naval Officer-in-Charge, Barry (as Captain) [HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)]

Cross,
Anthony Leonard
A.L. Cross

Son of Captain A.I. Cross, and ... Cox.

(03?).1918
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
24.09.1940
(KIA) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 1, panel 3]

Midsh. (A)	01.05.1939
A/S.Lt. (A)	20.01.1940

01.05.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training)
(04.1940			Fleet Air Arm
?	-	24.09.1940	810 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [failed to return when shot down by shore batteries on Cap Manuel on approach to attack warships in Dakar harbour; Cross was seriously injured, baled out, but parachute failed to open]

Crossman,
John Danvers
J.D. Crossman

26.09.1902
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
04.12.1958
Oxford, Oxfordshire

...	...
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1922
S.Lt.	30.03.1923
Lt.	28.02.1925
Lt.Cdr.	28.02.1933
Cdr.	30.06.1938
Capt. (L)	31.12.1946 (retd 07.05.1956)

CBE

01.01.1954

New Year 54 [investiture 23.02.54]

15.05.1916			entered RN
...	-	...	...
03.01.1923	-	(08.1923)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
10.03.1924	-	(01.)1925	HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
04.11.1925	-	(03.1926)	HMS Vivien (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
...	-	...	...
01.10.1938	-	(04.)1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for experimental signal school)
(10.1940)	-	(10.1943)	Admiralty [HMS President] *
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
20.01.1944	-	(01.)1945	Executive Officer, HMS London (London)
02.05.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere)
...	-	...	...
(1953)			NLD Admiralty (CBE)
...	-	...	...

Crouch,
Cecil Bernard
C.B. Crouch

(12?).1909
Malling, Kent
-
28.03.1943
[age 33]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

Midsh.	01.09.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1931
S.Lt.	01.06.1931
Lt.	01.06.1933
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1941

DSO	04.02.1941	sinking Italian submarine 15.12.40 [investiture 30.06.42]
DSO	28.04.1942	patrols 08.41-01.42 [investiture 30.06.42]
DSO	29.06.1943	Operations Principal & Welcome [presented to next of kin]

01.09.1928	-	(04.1930)	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
17.08.1931	-	(01.)1932	promotion course, Portsmouth
19.08.1932	-	(02.)1935	HMS Parthian (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla) (China)
30.05.1935	-	(07.)1935	HMS Sturgeon (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
14.10.1935	-	(07.)1937	First Lieutenant, HMS Seahorse (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
20.09.1937	-	(04.)1939	First Lieutenant, HMS Cachalot (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
24.07.1939	-	10.02.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Swordfish (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
(04.1940)			no apointment listed
(06.1940)			HMS Oberon (submarine) (for training at Portsmouth)
16.09.1940	-	28.03.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Thunderbolt (submarine) [sunk by Italian surface craft near Sicily, 13.03.1943]

Crousaz,
Augustus George
A.G. Crousaz

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of William de Prelaz Crousaz (1852?-1945), and Emma Crousaz, of Guernsey.
Married ((12?).1911, Strand district, London / Middlesex) Dorothy Constance Skerry, daughter of John Skerry, of Richmond, Surrey; one daughter.

13.04.1884
-
25.08.1977
Epsom, Surrey

Midsh.	01.07.1904
...	...
Eng.Lt.Cdr.	01.02.1914
Eng.Cdr.	01.05.1919
Eng.Capt.	30.06.1928
Eng.R.Adm.	26.09.1934 (retd 11.09.1939; own request) (reverted to retd 14.11.1945)

11.05.1937

HM's coronation

Education: Elizabeth College, Guernsey.

01.06.1900			entered RN
1900	-	1904	engineer cadet, Training College, Devonport
1905	-	1906	RN College, Greenwich
06.1915	-	07.1917	Admiralty [HMS President]
07.1917			HMS Nepean (torpedo-boat destroyer)
22.02.1918			a Second Assistant Manager, HM Dockyard Chatham
11.07.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Danae (light cruiser)
01.11.1924	-	(04.)1928	a First Assistant to Engineer Manager, HM Dockyard Malta [HMS Egmont]
(05.1928)	-	(06.1928)	no appointment listed
15.01.1929	-	()8.)1929	Engineer Overseer, Sheffield and Leeds Districts (under Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President])
26.11.1929	0	30.11.1932	an Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.12.1932	-	11.09.1936	an Assistant Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.09.1936	-	14.11.1945	a Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet, Admiralty [HMS President]

Crowther,
William Reginald Denys
W.R.D. Crowther

09.10.1883
Strand, London, Middlesex
-
21.05.1974
South Petherton, Yeovil district, Somerset

A/S.Lt.	15.12.1902?
S.Lt.	25.04.1904, seniority 15.12.1902
Lt.	03.11.1904, seniority 15.12.1903
Cdr.	30.06.1916 (retd 06.09.1920; own request)
Capt. (retd)	09.10.1928
A/Cdre. 2nd cl.	10.1944?

OBE	11.06.1919	for valuable services in command of submarine establishments and at sea during the war
MoF	07.01.1947	SBLO Marseilles 10.44-01.46
Dann	15.04.1947	?
LegH	?	SBLO Marseilles
MID	17.04.1918	?

15.05.1898			entered RN
01.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Fearless (light cruiser) (for command of submarines)
25.08.1939	-	04.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Mentor (RN base, Stornoway)
16.04.1940	-	(02.1941)	Naval Officer-in-Charge, Faeroes [HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall)]
31.12.1941	-	(08.1942)	Chief of Staff to Flag Officer-in-Charge, London [HMS Yeoman]
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
(06.1943)	-	(08.1943)	HMS Monck ?
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
(12.1943)			HMS President
03.1944	-	(04.1944)	HMS St. Angelo (parent ship, Malta)
01.04.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples):
10.1944	-	01.1946	Senior British Liaison Officer with US Navy, Marseilles

Crutchley,
[Sir] Victor Alexander Charles
V.A.C. Crutchley

Son of late Percy Edward Crutchley and late Hon. Frederica Louisa, 2nd daughter of 3rd Baron Southampton. Married (1930) Joan Elizabeth Loveday (died 1980), youngest daughter of late William Coryton, Pentillie Castle, Cornwall, and late Mrs William Coryton; one son, one daughter.

02.11.1893
Chelsea, London
-
24.01.1986
Mappercombe Manor, Nettlecombe
[St Mary's Churchyard, Powerstock]

Lt.	30.09.1915
Lt.Cdr.	30.09.1923
Cdr.	30.06.1928
Capt.	31.12.1932
Cdre. 2nd cl.	15.05.1940
R.Adm.	06.02.1942
V.Adm.	15.08.1945 (retd 1947)
Adm.	03.02.1949

VC	28.08.1918	blocking Ostend, 05.18 *
KCB	13.06.1946	HM birthday 46
CB	01.01.1945	New Year 45
DSC	23.07.1918	blocking Ostend, 04.18 **
MID	28.06.1940	2nd Battle of Narvik, 04.1940

CdeG	1918	blocking Ostend, 09/10.05.18
LM	02.01.1945	services in Far East ***
Pol Rest	22.12.1942	services to Polish Navy

* This officer was in "Brilliant" in the unsuccessful attempt to block Ostend on the night of 22nd/23rd April, and at once volunteered for a further effort. He acted as 1st Lieut, of "Vindictive", and worked with untiring energy fitting out that ship for further service. On the night of 9th/10th May, after his commanding officer had been killed and the second in command severely wounded, Lieut. Crutchley took command of "Vindictive" and did his utmost by manoeuvring the engines to place that ship in an effective position. He displayed great bravery both in the "Vindictive" and in M.L. 254, which rescued the crew after the charges, had been blown and the former vessel sunk between the piers of Ostend harbour, and did not himself leave the "Vindictive" until he had made a thorough search with an electric torch for survivors under a very heavy fire. Lieut, Crutchley took command of M.L. 254 when the commanding officer sank exhausted from his wounds, the second in command having been killed. The vessel was full of wounded and very seriously damaged by shell fire, the fore part being flooded. With indomitable energy and by dint of baling with buckets and shifting weight aft, Lieut. Crutchley and the unwounded kept her afloat, but the leaks could not be kept under, and she was in a sinking condition, with her forecastle nearly awash when picked up by H.M.S. "Warwick". The bearing of this very gallant officer and fine seaman throughout these operations off the Belgian coast was altogether admirable and an inspiring example to all thrown in contact with him."
** "Showed great coolness under heavy fire, and sell a fine example to his men. He at once volunteered on hearing tshat another operation was in contemplation."
*** gazetted in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
on 30.05.1946

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

15.09.1906			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War in HMS Centurion, Battle of Jutland; in HMS Brilliant & HMS Vindictive
28.05.1918	-	(01.1919)	First Lieutenant, HMS Sikh (destroyer)
28.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
08.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	Executive Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
07.01.1929	-	(04.1930)	Training Commander, Devonport [HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)]
27.08.1930	-	(09.1932)	[CO?] HMNZS Diomede (cruiser) (Flag Ship of Commodore Commanding New Zealand Station)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
13.05.1935	-	(07.1935)	course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President]
31.07.1935	-	(02.)1936	Senior Officer, 1st Minesweeping Flotilla [HMS Halcyon (sloop minesweeper)]
09.05.1936	-	(02.)1937	Captain Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla [HMS Harebell]
01.05.1937	-	27.04.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)
15.05.1940	-	1942	Commodore RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
30.03.1942	-	04.09.1944	Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Australia]
14.01.1945	-	1947	Flag Officer, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant]

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Dorset 1957.

Cubison,
Arthur Jelfs
A.J. Cubison

Only son of Arthur Edward Cubison (1860-1948), and Helen Louisa Cubison (1864-1936), of Wilton, Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Married ((09?).1928, Portsmouth district) Arminta Pollie Phelips (died 12.05.1959), of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire.

30.03.1896
Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
06.07.1942
(MPK) [age 46]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 51,1]

Midsh.	09.1913
S.Lt.	1915
A/Lt.	?
Lt.	15.11.1917
Lt.Cdr.	15.11.1925 (retd 23.02.1934; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	30.03.1936

DSC	14.09.1918	action with the "Goeben" and "Breslau" 20.01.18 *
DSC	07.06.1940	Dunkirk [presented to next-of-kin]
NGSM	05.1924	& clasp Iraq 20

* He showed marked ability as gunnery officer of the ship; straddled quickly and hit an enemy destroyer.

Education: RN College, Osborne (15.01.1909-...).

09.1913	-	autumn 1915	Midshipman, HMS Thunderer
autumn 1915	-	?	HMS Buttercup (sloop)
			HMS Leda (torpedo gunboat)
(1918)	-	(01.1919)	HMS Tigress (torpedo-boat destroyer)
04.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Witherington (torpedo-boat destroyer)
28.08.1924	-	(01.)1925	HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet)
12.1925	-	(05.)1926	Executive Officer, HMS Telemachus (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
30.09.1926	-	(02.)1927	Commanding Officer, HMS Abdiel (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet)
10.03.1927	-	(07.)1927	HMS Spenser (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) & for command of group
18.11.1927	-	(06.)1928	HMS Ambrose (submarine depot ship) (China)
12.11.1928	-	(04.)1930	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China)
04.06.1930	-	1930	HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
(08.1930)			no appointment listed
31.10.1930	-	(09.1932)	HMS Ark Royal (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
(05.1933)	-	(06.1933)	no appointment listed
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
04.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for mine recovery flotillas)
14.06.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Bunting (auxiliary patrol base, Harwich) & as Senior Officer Auxiliary Patrol
15.04.1941	-	(12.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Martello (auxiliary patrol base, Lowestoft)
29.12.1941	-	06.07.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Niger (Halcyon class minesweeper) [mined off Iceland while on convoy QP13]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Culham,
James Willmott Samuel
J.W.S. Culham

Son of William James Culham, and Winifred Clara Willmott, of Lolworth, Cambridgeshire.

(09?).1918
Tendring district, Essex
-
18.04.1943
(MPK) [age 24]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

A/S.Lt.	01.09.1939
S.Lt.	1940?, seniority 01.09.1939
Lt.	01.02.1941

(09.1939)			short course of instruction
01.01.1940	-	(04.1940)	promotion course, Portsmouth
(06.1940)			skippered little ship "Glitter II [Coode]" at the Dunkirk evacuation
(02.1941)			HMS Otway (submarine) *
04.1941	-	18.04.1943	HMS Regent (submarine) (sank off the coast of Bisceglie (Barletta) after a collision with a mine; complete crew missing, presumed killed)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cullen,
Richard
R. Cullen

Son of ... Cullen, and ... Graham.

(06?).1919
Cockermouth district, Cumberland
-
04.02.1973
Cumberland

A/S.Lt.	22.07.1940
S.Lt.	1941, seniority 01.09.1940
Lt.	01.11.1941
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946
Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1949 (retd 01.12.1951)

DSC

11.12.1945

wind up Europe [decoration posted]

01.09.1940	-	(10.1940)	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
09.01.1941	-	(08.1942)	First Lieutenant, HMS Vansittart (destroyer)
12.01.1943	-	(12.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Britomart (Halcyon class minesweeper)
15.12.1943	-	(06.)1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Pelorus (Algerine class minesweeper)
28.08.1944	-	(07.)1945	First Lieutenant, HMS Cheerful (Algerine class minesweeper) (DSC)
20.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Fierce (Algerine class minesweeper)
20.03.1947	-	(07.)1948	HMS Resource (borne for ships in the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth)
17.09.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Creole
16.01.1950	-	(05.1951)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties)

Cully,
Michael Lanyon
M.L. Cully

?
-
31.12.1942
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 63, column 1]

Paym.Cadet	01.01.1938
Paym.Midsh.	01.01.1939
A/Paym.S.Lt.	01.01.1941
Paym.Lt.	01.07.1942

Education: Imperial Service College, Haileybury

01.09.1938	-	(02.)1941	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
24.02.1942	-	31.12.1942	HMS Bramble (minesweeper) [sunk in Barentz Sea]

Culmer,
Arthur Philip
A.P. Culmer

Youngest of three sons of Alban Russell Culmer (1882-), and Gwladis M. Barnes.
Married (19.02.1940, Christ Church, Cockfosters, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Sybil Heitland, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs P.A. Heitland; one son, two daughters.
From Barnet.

22.03.1917
Rochford district, Essex / Suffolk
-
24.11.1999
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Cadet	01.05.1934
Midsh.	01.01.1935
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1937
S.Lt.	01.09.1937
Lt.	01.03.1939 ?, seniority 16.11.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.	16.11.1946
Cdr.	30.06.1950
Capt.	31.12.1954 (retd 22.03.1958)

	DSC	02.12.1941	HMS Auckland sunk [investiture 10.02.42]
	DSC	27.03.1945	Operation Dragoon (invasion of Southern France 08.44) [decoration posted]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.05.1934	-	31.12.1934	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1935	-	(02.)1935	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
18.06.1935	-	(07.)1935	HMS Enchantress (convoy sloop) (Home Fleet) (temporarily)
03.09.1935	-	(02.)1937	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
29.04.1937	-	29.08.1937	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
30.08.1937	-	(02.)1938	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
04.04.1938	-	(08.)1939	HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (Portsmouth)
26.08.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
29.07.1940	-	(10.)1940	long navigation course, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
09.11.1940	-	24.06.1941	Navigating Officer, HMS Auckland (sloop) (DSC) [ship bombed & sunk by Italian/German aircraft off Bardia]
25.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
17.03.1942	-	27.03.1943	Navigating Officer, HMS Dasher (escort carrier) (ship destroyed through internal explosion in Firth of Clyde)
31.05.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
14.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	Navigating Officer, HMS Aurora (cruiser) (Bar to DSC)
10.10.1945	-	(04.)1947	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
06.08.1947	-	(07.1948)	Navigating Officer, HMS Devonshire
(05.1949)			no appointment listed
05.1949	-	(05.)1950	on staff of Flag Officer Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Forth]
13.12.1950	-	(05.)1953	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
18.12.1953	-	(07.1954)	Commanding Officer, HMS Corunna
01.1955	-	1955	senior officers' technical course [HMS Vernon]
?	-	08.05.1955	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.05.1955	-	(01.1957)	Assistant Director of Plans (A), Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Cumberbatch,
Henry Carlton
H.C. Cumberbatch (Photo: Cumberbatch.org)

Youngest sn of Mr Henry Alfred Cumberbatch (1858-1918), CMG, Consul General, and Helene Gertrude Rees (1869-1928).
Married (26.04.1934, Kensington, London) Pauline Ellen Laing Congdon, daughter of T.E. Congdon.

detailed biography at: Cumberbatch.org

08.12.1900
Smyrna [now Izmir], Turkey
-
27.01.1966
Wadhurst, Sussex

Midsh.	15.08.1917
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1920
S.Lt.	15.01.1921
Lt.	01.02.1923, seniority 15.12.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1930 (retd 08.12.1945)
A/Cdr.	02.04.1940
Cdr. (retd)	08.12.1945

BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
It St	?	?
DefM	?	?
BWM 39\|45	?	?

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (05.1914-08.1917)

08.1917	-	01.1919	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Grand Fleet)
22.01.1919	-	01.1919	HMS Marlborough (battleship)
31.01.1919	-	05.1919	HMS Woolwich (destoyer depot ship) (for destroyers)
01.06.1919	-	06.1920	HMS King George V (battleship)
06.1920	-	07.1920	HMS Abdiel (destroyer minelayer)
22.07.1920	-	04.1922	HMS Montrose (destroyer; flotilla leader)
19.04.1922	-	12.1922	attends RN College course, including time at Cambridge
01.01.1923	-	12.04.1923	submarine course, HMS Dolphin
13.04.1923	-	04.03.1924	HMS M 1 (submarine) [tender to HMS Conquest (cruiser)] (for navigating duties in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)
05.03.1924	-	20.03.1926	First Lieutenant, HMS H 23 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] (temporarily in command while refitting)
21.03.1926	-	02.01.1927	HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic)
03.01.1927	-	22.04.1928	First Lieutenant, HMS L 52 (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla, Devonport, but attached temporarily to 5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)]
23.04.1928	-	30.04.1928	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
01.05.1928	-	31.08.1928	submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto]
01.09.1928	-	25.08.1929	Commanding Officer, H 28 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship)]
26.08.1929	-	(02.)1931	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
30.12.1931	-	03.01.1933	HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.01.1933	-	11.04.1934	Commanding Officer, HMS L 21 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)]
04.05.1934	-	04.10.1934	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (4th Submarine Flotilla, China)
05.10.1934	-	13.04.1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Osiris (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla, China) [tender to HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)]
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
30.08.1937	-	24.09.1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
25.09.1937	-	25.09.1938	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) (for command of "A" Group of Submarines in Immediate Reserve)
26.09.1938	-	06.10.1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
07.10.1938	-	01.08.1939	Commanding Officer, Reserve Group "A" of Submarines [HMS Dwarf (particular service vessel)]
02.08.1939	-	20.11.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Oberon (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin (Gosport), then HMS Forth (Dundee), then HMS Dolphin (Gosport) again]
21.11.1939	-	(04.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship)
26.06.1940	-	17.03.1942	HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
17.03.1942	-	10.02.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship) *
(02.1943)	-	(10.1943)	HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs) **
11.1943	-	31.12.1943	Chief Staff Officer to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naples [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto)]
01.01.1944	-	(06.1944)	Chief Staff Officer to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naples [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples)]
22.05.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Valkyrie (RDF training establishment, Regent Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man)

* (07.1945) still indexed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such

Cummins,
George Harold
G.H. Cummins (Photo courtesy of Mr Mike Cummins)

Son of George Cummins.

17.09.1892
Southampton, Hampshire
-
11.12.1955
Hampshire

Boy Artificer	08.08.1908 [ON M546]
Engine Room Artificer 5th class	01.07.1912
A/Engine Room Artificer 4th class	01.06.1913
Engine Room Artificer 4th class	05.01.1914
Engine Room Artificer 3rd class	01.01.1916
Engine Room Artificer 2nd class	31.12.1919
A/Wt.Eng.	01.10.1921
Wt.Eng.	01.10.1922, seniority 01.10.1921
Cd.Eng.	01.10.1931
Lt.. (E)	07.04.1936 (retd 17.09.1942)
Lt.Cdr. (E) (retd)	07.04.1944 (reverted to retd 1948)

DSM	08.03.1918	for salvage of SS Margrete
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
Jub M	-	-

08.08.1908	-	22.07.1912	HMS Fisgard (boy artificer training establishment)
23.07.1912	-	14.08.1912	HMS Victory II (training depot for RN divisions, Crystal Palace)
15.08.1912	-	25.11.1915	HMS Dreadnought (battleship)
26.11.1915	-	17.01.1916	HMS Victory II (training depot for RN divisions, Crystal Palace)
18.01.1916	-	27.05.1919	HMS Munster (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyer depot ship), from 23.02.1919 to HMS Victory X (accounting section, Portsmouth), from 01.04.1919 to HMS Dido (torpedo-boat destroyer depot ship)] (DSM)
28.05.1919	-	12.06.1919	HMS Victory II (training depot for RN divisions, Crystal Palace)
13.06.1919	-	30.09.1921	HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices)
29.08.1922	-	(01.)1925	HMS Centaur (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
06.1925	-	(07.)1927	HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices) (for instructional duties and to assist Engineer Lieutenants in charge of Divisions)
17.08.1927	-	(06.)1928	HMS Rosemary (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
17.07.1928	-	(08.)1929	HMNZS Diomede (cruiser)
25.09.1929	-	(03.)1931	HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser)
07.08.1931	-	(06.)1933	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) (for charge of machinery and tenders)
07.11.1933	-	(02.)1936	HMS Harrier (sloop minesweeper) (while under construction at Southampton [and for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-bult Ships], then commissioned 09.11.1934)
30.06.1936	-	12.01.1938	HMS Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean, from 16.06.1937 Reserve Fleet, Nore at Chatham)
17.01.1938	-	(02.)1939	HMS Erebus (monitor; turret drill ship, Portsmouth)
28.02.1939	-	(09.)1939	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for mechanical training establishment)
25.11.1939	-	(10.1947)	Boom Defences Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Cunard,
Anthony Gordon
A.G. Cunard

Second of three sons of Sir Gordon Cunard, 4th Bt. (1857-1933), and Edith Mary Howard (died 1927).

19.10.1893
Thorpe Labenham, Market Harborough, Leicestershire
-
06.03.1950
Pertenhale, Bedfordshire

Lt.	15.05.1916 (retd 07.07.1920; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.05.1924
Cdr. (retd)	19.10.1933 (reactivated 01.09.1939) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

LegH

15.09.1906			entered RN
1917	-	1918	Commanding Officer, HMS C 19 (submarine)
01.09.1939	-	(04.)1940	Assistant Naval Attaché, Paris (France)
09.12.1940	-	(10.1944)	on staff of Naval Assistant (Foreign) to Second Sea Lord (NA(F)2SL), medio 1941/42 renamed: Principal British Naval Liaison Officer (PNLO), Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Cunliffe,
Robert Lionel Brooke
R.L.B. Cunliffe

Son of Col. Foster Cunliffe and Mrs Cunliffe (née Lyon). Married 1st (1926) Barbara Eleanor Cooper (died 1970); three daughters. Married 2nd (1971) Christina Cooper (died 1989). From Windlesham.

15.03.1895
Woolwich, London
-
29.11.1990
[Pakenham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk ?]

S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.01.1917
Lt.Cdr.	15.01.1925
Cdr.	31.12.1930
Capt.	31.12.1936 (retd 1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	31.08.1944

CBE	15.08.1944	Operations Cockpit & Transom *
MID	23.05.1944	Operation Avalanche
Leo II	01.02.1949	liberation of Belgium

* For outstanding leadership and skill in command of an aircraft carrier during successful air strikes against the Japanese at Sabang and Soerabaja.

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

15.01.1908			entered RN
23.08.1918	-	(01.1919)	First Lieutenant, HMS Scotsman (destroyer)
19.06.1924	-	(01.1925)	First Lieutenant, HMS Bryony (sloop) (Mediterranean)
31.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.08.1929	-	(02.1931)	HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (Africa)
26.10.1931	-	(09.1932)	Executive Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor) (cadet training ship and turret drill ship, Devonport)
15.11.1932	-	(01.1934)	Executive Officer, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
09.04.1935	-	(02.1937)	Assistant to Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
12.1937	-	(08.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Milford (escort vessel) (Africa)
19.12.1939	-	1942	Commanding Officer, RN College Dartmouth & for command of HMS Britannia
1942			Commodore Dover
08.1942	-	(08.1942)	Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)
22.08.1942	-	1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) & Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral Commanding Mediterranean (later: Home Fleet) Aircraft Carriers
(04.1944)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed
31.08.1944	-	(04.)1946	Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

Naval Assistant to UK High Commissioner, Canada, 1946-48.

Cunningham,
Sir Andrew Browne;
1st Viscount of Hyndhope, cr. 1946;
1st Baron of Kirkhope, cr. 1945;
1st Baronet, cr. 1942
A.B. Cunningham

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Daniel John Cunningham (1850-1909), professor of anatomy, of Dublin and Edinburgh universities, and his wife, Elizabeth Cumming Browne (1853?-1926).
Brother of General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham.
Married (21.12.1929) Nona Christine Byatt (31.10.1889 - 02.04.1978), daughter of late Horace Byatt, MA, Midhurst, Sussex; no children.

07.01.1883
Dublin
-
12.06.1963
London
[buried at sea off Portsmouth]

Midsh.	1899?
A/S.Lt.	07.01.1902?
S.Lt.	27.03.1903, seniority 07.01.1902
Lt.	31.03.1904
Cdr.	30.06.1915
Capt.	31.12.1919
Cdre. 2nd cl.	06.07.1931
R.Adm.	24.09.1932
V.Adm.	22.07.1936
A/Adm.	?
Adm.	03.01.1941
Adm. of the Fleet	21.01.1943 (retd 1946)

	KT	01.01.1945	New Year 45
	GCB	11.03.1941	Middle East operations
	KCB	02.011939	New Year 39
	CB	04.06.1934	HM's birthday 34
	OM	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 46
-	Viscounty	01.01.1946	New Year 46
-	Barony	17.08.1945	Churchill's Resignation Honours List
	Baronetcy	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42
	DSO	14.03.1916	Dardanelles
	DSO	20.02.1919	HMS Termagant, Dover Patrol
	DSO	08.03.1920	HMS Seafire, Baltic
	MID	17.11.1942	Middle East operations 07-10.41
	MID	20.04.1943	Operation Torch
	Comdn	16.08.1915	Dardanelles 15
	Comdn	14.03.1916	Gallipoli 15/16
	MilMer	11.11.1941	?
	LM	25.09.1943	?
	LegH	?	N African campaign
	NicIft	?	?
	OuiAla	?	?
	DSM	02.07.1946	?
	Geo l	15.04.1947	?
	Cl&Ban	24.06.1947	?
	NethLion	25.11.1947	?

DCL Oxford; LLD Edinburgh, Birmingham, Cambridge, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, St Andrews.

Education: Edinburgh Academy; Stubbington House, Fareham; HMS Britannia.

15.01.1897			entered RN [HMS Britannia]
1899	-	1902	Midshipman, HMS Doris (1900 served with the Naval Brigade in the Boer War)
1908			Commanding Officer, HM Torpedo Boat No. 14
1911	-	1918	Commanding Officer, HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (Mediterranean, Dardanelles)
29.03.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Termagant (destroyer) (Dover Patrol; raids on Zeebrugge)
1920			President, SubCommission C, Naval Interallied Commission of Control
1922	-	1923	Captain (D), 6th Destroyer Flotilla
1923	-	1924	Captain (D), 1st Destroyer Flotilla
15.10.1924	-	(01.1925)	Commanding Officer, HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)
09.05.1926	-	(07.1927)	Flag Captain, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station
14.01.1929	-	(08.1929)	Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College, London [HMS President]
15.12.1929	-	(04.1930)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
06.07.1931	-	(09.1932)	Commodore, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
13.02.1932	-	24.09.1932	Naval ADC to the King
01.01.1934	-	03.1936	RearAdmiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser), later: HMS Galatea (cruiser)]
11.01.1937	-	(02.1937)	Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
03.07.1937	-	22.08.1938	Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command, Mediterranean [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)]
17.10.1938	-	23.05.1939	Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty & Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff
01.06.1939	-	03.1942	Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station: HMS Warspite (battleship), later: HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta), later: HMS Warspite (battleship) [assumed command 06.06.1939]
04.1942			Head of British Admiralty Delegation, Washington DC, USA [HMS Saker II]
01.11.1942	-	20.02.1943	Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (NCXF) North Africa and Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal]
20.02.1943	-	15.10.1943	Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station [HMS Hannibal]
15.10.1943	-	05.1946	First Sea Lord (a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty) & Chief of Naval Staff

Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly of Church of Scotland, 1950 and 1952; Hon. Freeman: Fishmongers' Company, Company of Shipwrights; Borough of Hove, City of Edinburgh, City of Manchester, City of London, City of Lincoln. Hon. Member the Company of Merchants of Edinburgh; Hon. Bencher Lincoln's Inn; Hon. FRCSE; Hon. Member Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Published: A sailor's odyssey (1951)
Literature: Oliver Warner, Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet : a memoir (1967); Stanley Pack, Cunningham the commander (1974); John Winton, Cunningham: the greatest Admiral since Nelson (1998); Michael Simpson, A life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: a twentieth-century naval life (2004)

Cunningham,
Cyril John
"Jock"
R.L. Cunningham

Son of an Indian Army officer, and Mrs T.C. Cunningham, of Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
Married (1952) Mary Guthrie, a wartime ferry pilot; two daughters.

13.07.1920
India
-
19.02.2002
hospital, Yeovil district, Somerset

Cadet	01.01.1939
Midsh.	01.09.1939
S.Lt.	01.10.1940
Lt.	16.05.1942
A/Lt.Cdr.	23.07.1949
Lt.Cdr.	16.05.1950
Cdr.	30.06.1955
Capt.	30.06.1963

DSC	23.06.1942	attack by enemy aircraft on approaching Malta 02.42 [award posted]
MID	08.09.1942	Malta convoy during battle of Sirte 22.03.42
Comdn	06.606.1941	fire fighting benzine ligther alongside a tanker in Alexandria harbour 12.12.40 *

* shortly afterwards, on 28.12.1940, he displayed outstanding bravery and leadership in the water by rescuing a merchant seaman who had fallen in and then a naval naval rating who had jumped in to help but could not swim

Education: Pangbourne (1934-1938)

01.01.1939	-	1939	direct entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser, Portsmouth)
1939	-	16.02.1940	HMS Vindictive (cadet trainng cruiser)
17.02.1940	-	01.11.1941	HMS Warspite (battleship)
01.11.1941	-	10.1943	HMS Cleopatra (light cruiser)
10.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Quilliam (destroyer) (Salerno landings)
(10.1944)			HMS Savage *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
			trained as a pilot to fly Seafires
(01.1947)			HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth)
19.02.1947	-	(04.)1947	718 Squadron FAA [HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton)]
05.1947	-	23.10.1950	Senior Pilot, from 23.07.1949 Commanding Officer, 805 Squadron FAA [HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton), from 28.08.1948 lent to RAN at HMAS Sydney & HMAS Albatross (RAN Air Station, Nowra)]
08.12.1950	-	07.02.1951	HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage to UK per "Strathnaver")
08.02.1951			HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty)
(05.1951)	-	(05.1953)	exchange service, US Navy [HMS Saker]
07.01.1954	-	(04.1955)	First Lieutenant, HMS Britannia (Royal yacht)
(01.1956)			no appointment listed
19.03.1956	-	(01.)1957	Commander (Air), HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth)
13.09.1957			Commander (Air), HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)
09.10.1958	-	(01.1959)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ulysses
18.02.1960	-	(07.1961)	FAVO & as SAVO to Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic Area (Northwood, Middlesex) [HMS President & NATO]
13.08.1962	-	(02.1963)	Commanding Officer, HMS Trowbridge
(02.1964)	-	(02.1965)	Naval Adviser to the British High Commission, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
?	-	06.12.1967	Commanding Officer, HMS Puma (frigate) & as Captain (F), 7th Frigate Squadron
03.05.1968	-	(02.1969)	Commanding Officer, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton) & Flag Captain to Flag Officer, Naval Flying Training
12.11.1970	-	(08.1971)	Commodore and Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer Naval Air Command [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
			also: Naval ADC to the Queen

Spent his retirement with house renovation, sailing and cruising Europe in his Dutch barge. Justice of the Peace (JP).

Cunningham,
Sir John Henry Dacres
J.H.D. Cunningham

Son of Henry Hutt Cunningham, QC (born 1851), and Elizabeth Harriet "Bessie" Park (born 1855).
Married (08.03.1910, St Matthew's, Bayswater) Dorothy May (died 1959), daughter of late G.K. Hannay, Ulverston, Lancs.; one son (and one son killed, 1941, in Subm. P 33).
Lived at Westminster (1962).

13.04.1885
Demerara, Brit. Guyana
-
13.12.1962
Middlesex Hospital, London

Cadet	14.01.1900
Midsh.	30.05.1901
A/S.Lt.	30.07.1904?
S.Lt.	20.10.1905, seniority 30.07.1904
Lt.	12.05.1906, seniority 30.10.1905
Cdr.	30.06.1917
Capt.	30.06.1924
R.Adm.	01.01.1936
V.Adm.	30.06.1939
Adm.	04.08.1943
Adm. of the Fleet	21.01.1948 (retd 09.1948)

GCB	01.01.1946	New Year 46
KCB	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41
CB	11.05.1937	HM's Coronation
MVO	26.07.1924	?
MID	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 40
StOlav	13.10.1942	Norwegian campaign 40
LegH	1945	invasion S France
CdeG	1945	invasion S France
Geo I	22.05.1945	services to Greece
LM	17.07.1945	?
WC	19.03.1946	services to Greek Navy
StOlav	22.07.1947	services to Norway after 40

South African War Medal

MIEE (Hon.)

Education: Stubbington House; HMS Britannia

15.01.1900			entered RN
06.1901	-	1904?	Midshipman, HMS Gibraltar (cruiser) (Cape of Good Hope Station)
			Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Illustrious
			Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Hebe (gunboat)
			Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Indefatigable (cruiser) (West Indies)
			HMS Iphigenia (minelayer) (Home Fleet)
WW I			navigator in HMS Berwick, HMS Russel & HMS Renown
05.07.1918	-	(01.1919)	Navigating Officer, HMS Lion (battlecruiser)
1920	-	1921	Navigating Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) & Squadron Navigating Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron
20.04.1921	-	(08.)1923	Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) & in command of Tender No. 1
1923	-	1924	Master of the Fleet, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
27.10.1924	-	(01.)1925	Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
28.02.1925	-	(07.1927)	RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
21.01.1928	-	23.09.1929	Commanding Officer, HMS Adventure (minelayer) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.12.1929	-	15.12.1930	Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
15.12.1930	-	(10.)1932	Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.04.1933	-	(06.)1933	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
07.09.1933	-	(07.1935)	Commanding Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)
1935			ADC to the King
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
02.10.1936	-	(06.)1938	a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty:
02.10.1936	-	10.08.1937	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
11.08.1937	-	(06.)1938	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Air) [later indicated as: Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services]
19.08.1938	-	1941	Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Devonshire (cruiser)] [assumed command 19.09.1938]
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
01.04.1941	-	11.1942	a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty: Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport
05.06.1943	-	14.10.1943	Commander-in-Chief, Levant [HMS Nile]
15.10.1943	-	02.1946	Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station & Allied Naval Commander Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal]
01.03.1946	-	09.1948	First Sea Lord & Chief of Naval Staff

Chairman Iraq Petroleum Co., 1948-1958. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Bedford, ...-23.04.1959.

Cunningham,
Richard Louis
R.L. Cunningham

Son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, GCB, MVO, and Lady Cunningham, of Ampthill, Bedfordshire.

1919 ?
-
20.08.1941
[age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

Cadet	01.09.1937
Midsh.	01.09.1938
S.Lt.	01.10.1939
Lt.	?

01.09.1938	-	(04.1940)	HMS Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
(02.1941)			submarine course
?	-	20.08.1941	HMS P 33 (submarine)

Cunninghame Graham,
[Sir] Angus Edward Malise Bontine *;
Cunninghame Grahame of Gartmore, 16th of
A.E.M.B. Cunnighame Graham (Photo courtesy of Mr W.R.B. Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore)

Son of Cdr. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Cunninghame Graham, MVO, RN (1854-1917), and Mildred Emily Barbara Bagot (1856-1935).
Married (08.10.1924, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Mary Patricia Hanbury (09.07.1901-27.05.1998), only daughter of late Col. Lionel Henry Hanbury, CMG (1864-1954) and Margaret Colmore "Maisie" Allhusen (1868-1949); one son, one daughter.
* Birth registered under the name: Angus Malise Graham.

16.02.1893 *
Chelsea, London
-
14.02.1981
Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
[buried at Inchomme Priory, Lake of Menteith, Scotland]

* Naval service record shows (incorrectly) 1892.

Midsh.	15.05.1910
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1912
S.Lt.	30.08.1913
Lt.	10.08.1914
Lt.Cdr.	10.08.1922
Cdr.	31.12.1927
Capt.	31.12.1935
Cdre. 2nd cl.	04.08.1943
R.Adm.	02.01.1945
V.Adm.	02.09.1948 (retd 15.10.1951)
Adm. (retd)	15.03.1952

KBE	01.01.1951	New Year 51 [investiture 14.02.51]
CBE	01.01.1944	New Year 44 [investiture 07.03.44]
CB	12.06.1947	HM's birthday 47 [investiture 11.11.47]

Education: RN Colleges Osborne (15.09.1905) & Dartmouth.

05.1910	-	?	HMS St Vincent (battleship)
?	-	?	HMS Cochrane (cruiser)
?	-	1913	HMS Achilles (cruiser)
1913	-	1914	HMS Sandfly (torpedo-boat destroyer)
1914	-	1914	HMS Victoria and Albert (Royal yacht)
1914	-	1916	HMS Agincourt (Grand Fleet)
1917	-	1917	qualifying for signal duties
22.09.1917	-	(01.1919)	Flag Lieutenant to R.Adm. Douglas Nicholson, 4th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet [HMS Colossus (battleship)] (and for Signal duties)
15.05.1922	-	1924	Fleet Signal Officer, Mediterranean [HMS Iron Duke (battleship)]
03.12.1924	-	(01.)1925	Tactical Section, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.02.1925	-	(05.)1926	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
06.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	First Lieutenant Commander, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
10.04.1928	-	(06.1928)	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
07.1928	-	?	Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (temporarily)
07.01.1929	-	(08.)1929	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
21.01.1930	-	(10.)1930	course at Staff College, Camberley [HMS President]
19.01.1931	-	14.07.1933	Executive Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Africa)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
22.01.1934	-	(11.1934)	air force staff course, Andover [HMS President]
15.01.1935	-	(02.)1936	Staff Officer (Operations and Intelligence), Nore Command [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
(08.1936)			no appointment listed
20.11.1936	-	(02.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (river gunboat) & Senior Officer, West River, China
(06.1938)	-	(02.1939)	no appointment listed
03.03.1939	-	(02.)1941	Captain of HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
15.05.1941	-	07.07.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) (convoy escort duties, North Russia) (CBE)
04.08.1943	-	04.1945	Commodore Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
1945?			Naval ADC to the King
08.04.1945	-	(04.)1946	Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron, and Second-in-Command Home Fleet [HMS Diadem, later HMS Birmingham] (CB)
1946	-	16.10.1946	Flag Officer Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Birmingham, from 09.1946 HMS Superb]
14.04.1947	-	08.1951	Admiral Superintendent, Rosyth Dockyard [HMS Cochrane] & from 07.1950 also Flag Officer, Scotland (KBE)

A Captain in Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Body Guard for Scotland), 1969-. Hon. Sheriff 1959. VicePresident: RNLI; Earl Haig Fund, Scotland; Trustee for National Library of Scotland; Commissioner of Queen Victoria Sch. A VicePres. National Trust for Scotland. JP Dunbartonshire, 1955 Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire, 05.01.1955-14.05.1968; Keeper of Dumbarton Castle, since 1955. FRGS.
Published: Random naval recollections, 1905-1951 (1979)

Cunninghame Graham,
Robert Elphinstone
R.E. Cunninghame Graham (Photo courtesy of Mr W.R.B. Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore)

Son of Adm. Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame Graham, KBE, CB, and Mary Patricia Hanbury.
Married (1957) Sheila Gilbert, of Stamford, Conn., USA; two sons, two daughters.

25.09.1925
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
16.04.1996
Borders General Hospital, Galashiels, Scotland

A/S.Lt.

01.09.1944 (reld 1946?; invalided out)

23.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Zephyr (destroyer)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Member of the Royal Company of Archers.

Curgenven,
Leonard Barrington
L.B. Curgenven

Son of Eng.Capt. Leonard Woods Curgenven, RN (1877-1949), and Daisy Curgenven (née Hooper).
Husband of F. Elaine Curgenven (née Dicikinson), of Southbourne, Bournemouth, Hampshire; one son.

19.11.1910
-
11.04.1940
(KIA) [age 29]
[Lerwick New Cemetery, Shetland Islands, terrace 11, grave 7]
[commemorated at World War II Memorial, Birkenhead, Cheshire]

Midsh. (E)	01.01.1930
S.Lt. (E)	01.01.1932
Lt. (E)	01.04.1933

16.01.1930	-	(01.)1934	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
04.05.1934	-	(07.)1935	HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
10.08.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS Adventure (minelayer) (China)
01.09.1936	-	(02.)1938	HMS Iron Duke (training ship, Portsmouth)
11.02.1938	-	(09.1939)	HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (to assist Squadron Engineer Officer, Destroyer Flotillas Mediterranean Fleet) (accomoadated in HMS Woolwich)
03.01.1940	-	11.04.1940	HMS Eclipse (destroyer) (killed during a bombing of the ship)

Currey,
Charles Norman Ebden
C.N.E. Currey

Married ((06?).1915, Kensington, London) ... Harding.

13.02.1890
-
10.01.1973
Chichester, Sussex

A/S.Lt.	15.01.1910?
S.Lt.	09.09.1910, seniority 15.01.1910
Lt.	19.11.1912, seniority 15.04.1911
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1919
Cdr.	30.06.1925 (retd 18.02.1940)
Capt. (retd)	18.02.1940 (reverted to retd 1945/46)

CBE

28.11.1944

Operation Neptune

15.05.1905			entered RN
03.08.1918	-	(01.1919)	Assistant Torpedo Officer, HMS Titania (depot ship) (and for duty with submarines)
04.11.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
05.04.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland)
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
10.10.1929	-	(04.1930)	Executive Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies)
(02.1931)			short course
(01.1932)	-	(09.1932)	no appointment listed
23.08.1933	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet)
16.05.1934	-	(04.1940)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth):
(02.1937)	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, Electrical Department
(04.1940)			Commanding Officer, Actaeon Net Defence Department
25.09.1940	-	(02.1941)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.1942	-	(08.1943)	HMS Saker (RN base, USA)
14.09.1943	-	(06.1944)	Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, Admiralty [HMS President]:
(06.1944)			Senior Naval Officer, Bombardons [part of Force Mulberry] [embarked in HMS Fratton]
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Staff, British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker]

Currey,
Edmund Neville Vincent
E.N.V. Currey

Son of Dr Edmund Francis Neville Currey (died 1953), of Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Married (19.02.1941, Liverpool) Rosemary Knight (died 1992), elder daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of William Lowry Craig Knight, CMG (1889-1955), Foreign Service, and May Tristram; one daughter.

01.10.1906
-
02.05.1998
Bath, Avon

Cadet	?
Midsh.	15.09.1924
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1927
S.Lt.	16.07.1927
Lt.	16.07.1929
Lt.Cdr.	16.06.1937
Cdr.	30.06.1942
Capt.	30.06.1949
R.Adm.	07.07.1958 (retd 25.05.1961)

CB	11.06.1960	HM's birthday 60 [investiture 05.07.60]
DSO	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 27.02.45]
DSC	03.12.1940	operations against submarines Durbo & Lafole [investiture 15.02.41]
MID	26.09.1940	Norway, Harstad
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 44
KW	01.08.1944	rescue "Orkan" when torpedoed 08.10.43 [decoration posted]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (15.05.1920-...) & Dartmouth.

15.09.1924	-	(05.)1926	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
30.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
16.04.1928	-	(06.)1928	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
11.1928	-	(08.)1930	HMS K 26 (submarine) (Mediterranean)
28.12.1930	-	(03.)1931	HMS H 32 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]
24.04.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.09.1932	-	(01.)1933	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines)
27.04.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Orpheus (submarine) (China)
24.04.1934	-	(02.)1935	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
28.03.1935	-	(07.)1935	HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
19.09.1935	-	(07.1937)	First Lieutenant, HMS Garland (destroyer) (1st Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean)
08.01.1938	-	(02.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Worcester (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla)
28.02.1938	-	01.05.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Arrow (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla)
08.05.1939	-	(08.)1939	tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
22.08.1939	-	(09.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Havock (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (and on commissioning) [obviously soon changed to HMS Wrestler as his appointment to that ship is (pre?-)dated by one day]
21.08.1939	-	28.09.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Wrestler (destroyer) (DSC, despatches)
03.01.1941	-	02.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Bulldog (destroyer)
02.1941	-	(08.)1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Escapade (destroyer)
11.08.1942	-	09.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Somali (destroyer)
12.1942	-	05.10.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Musketeer (destroyer) (despatches, Polish Cross of Merit)
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
(12.1943)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs) * [actually serving in Assault Force S at LCH 185 (landing craft, headquarters) (preparations & landings Normandy)] (DSO)
08.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	Plans Division (Q), Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			HMS Pelican *
09.12.1947	-	(05.)1949	Commander, RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus]
08.10.1949	-	(05.)1951	Chief of Staff to Head of British Naval Mission to Greece [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
10.03.1952	-	03.05.1954	Naval Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President]
(07.1954)			Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves *
07.08.1954	-	1954	tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
05.11.1954	-	(04.)1955	Flag Captain commanding HMS Bermuda
20.12.1955	-	(01.)1957	Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
1957	-	1958	Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Officers), and Head of Directorate of Officer Appointments
09.1958	-	17.05.1961	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] (CB)
07.01.1958	-	07.07.1958	also: Naval ADC to HM the Queen

* indexed, but not listed as such

Currie,
Frederick Basil
F.B. Currie

Younger son of Col. Oswald James Currie, M.B. (Lond.), South African Medical Corps, and Sarah Gough Gubbins, of Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa.

23.08.1908
Mowbray, Cape Town, South Africa
-
06.12.1940
(KIA) [age 32]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]

Cadet	15.01.1926
Midsh.	15.09.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1929
S.Lt.	16.09.1929
Lt.	01.12.1931
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1939

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.1922-12.1925).

15.01.1926	-	(06.1928)	HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)
03.01.1929	-	11.08.1929	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
12.08.1929	-	(04.)1930	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
05.05.1930	-	(08.)1930	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
12.1930	-	(09.1932)	HMS Otus (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
(05.1933)	-	(06.1933)	no appointment listed
26.09.1933	-	(07.)1934	First Lieutenant, HMS Restless (destroyer) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Excellent]
01.08.1934	-	(02.)1935	First Lieutenant, HMS L 54 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
19.03.1935	-	(07.)1935	First Lieutenant, HMS Snapper (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
06.12.1935	-	(02.)1937	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
26.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
20.08.1937	-	(06.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Seahorse (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia]
08.07.1938	-	(09.1939)	HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
02.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
31.07.1940	-	06.12.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Regulus (submarine) (left Alexandria, Egypt, on the 23 November 1940, for the purpose of patrolling the southern Adriatic, and unfortunately were lost, and it is believed that the ship may have fallen prey to mines, off Taranto, Italy)

Currie,
Robert Alexander
R.A. Currie

5th son of John Currie, Glasgow, and Rachel Thomson, Dundee.
Married (28.08.1944) Lady (Edith Margaret) Beevor (died 1985), daughter of Frank Agnew, Eccles, Norfolk,
and widow of Sir Thomas Beevor, 6th Bt; one step son (Sir Thomas Beevor, 7th Bt), three step daughters.

29.04.1905
Glasgow, Scotland
-
07.02.1995
Lavenham, Suffolk

Midsh.	15.05.1923
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1925
S.Lt.	15.03.1926
Lt.	15.04.1927
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1935
Cdr.	30.06.1939
Capt.	30.06.1945
R.Adm.	07.07.1954 (retd 1957)

CB	01.01.1957	New Year 57 [investiture 26.02.57]
DSC	17.10.1944	destruction U767 18.06.44 [decoration posted]
DSC	11.09.1945	destruction U-boat 30.04.44 & one probable [decoration posted]
MID	28.06.1940	2nd Battle of Narvik
MID	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 41
Hkn	26.08.1947	services to Norway [awarded 45]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth; Imperial Defence College (1950; idc)

15.05.1923

(08.1923)

HMS Revenge (battleship)

20.09.1924

(01.1925)

HMS Westminster (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

01.01.1926

04.07.1926

promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

05.07.1926

(02.)1927

promotion course, Portsmouth

01.02.1927

(06.1928)

HMS Bee (gunboat) (China)

(08.1929)

no appointment listed

24.09.1929

(08.)1930

HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

25.09.1930

(02.)1931

specialised in Gunnery, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

31.12.1931

(09.)1932

advanced gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

29.12.1932

(06.)1933

Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet)

(01.1934)

no appointment listed

14.01.1934

(08.)1934

HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

29.10.1934

(07.)1937

Gunnery Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)

18.10.1937

(04.)1939

HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

26.05.1939

09.04.1941

Squadron Gunnery Officer and Staff Officer (Operations), Battle Cruiser Squadron, aboard:

HMS Hood	01.06.1939	-	11.03.1940
HMS Renown	11.03.1940	-	13.04.1940
HMS Warspite	13.04.1940	-	??.04.1940
HMS Renown	??.04.1940	-	10.08.1940
HMS Hood	10.08.1940	-	12.05.1941

(2nd Battle of Narvik)

12.04.1941

(02.)1943

Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

26.05.1943

(06.)1943

Staff Officer (Anti-Submarine), Western Approaches Command [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

14.07.1943

11.06.1945

Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer) & Convoy Escort Commander

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

1945

1946

Assault Group Commander, Far East [HMS Hesperus (destroyer)]

01.03.1946

1948

Deputy Director (G), Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(07.1948)

no appointment listed

16.08.1948

(05.)1949

Commanding Officer, HMS Solebay (destroyer) & Captain (D) 5th Destroyer Flotilla

(05.1950)

no appointment listed

1951

1952

Director, Royal Naval Staff College

11.03.1953

(05.1953)

Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland

(07.1954)

HMS President *

31.12.1954

(01.)1957

Chief of Staff to Chairman, British Joint Service Mission, Washington, DC [HMS Saker]

Member: Committee of Enquiry into the Fishing Industry, 1958-60; W Suffolk County Council, 1962-74. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Suffolk, 1968.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Curteis,
Sir Alban Thomas Buckley
A.T.B. Curteis

2nd son of late Rev. Thomas Samuel Curteis, Sevenoaks. Married 1st (1915) Essex Helen (died 1940), daughter of late Cyrus Morrall, Plas Yolyn, Ellesmere, Shropshire; one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1941) Freda, daughter of late Cyrus Morrall.

13.01.1887
Sevenoaks, Kent
-
27.11.1961
[Plas Yolyn, Ellesmere, Shropshire?]

A/S.Lt.	30.10.1906
S.Lt.	09.11.1907, seniority 30.10.1906
Lt.	?
Lt.Cdr.	?
Cdr.	31.12.1921
Capt.	31.12.1926
R.Adm.	10.08.1938
V.Adm.	31.12.1941 (retd 12.1944)
Adm. (retd)	08.05.1945

	KCB	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 42
	CB	11.07.1940	?

15.01.1902			entered RN
30.05.1922	-	(01.1925)	Commanding Officer, HMS Verity (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(07.1927)			no appointment listed
21.06.1928	-	(04.1930)	Flag Captain, HMS Despatch (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
16.12.1931	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) & Flag Captain, Home Fleet
15.09.1933	-	(07.1935)	Captain of College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
16.08.1935	-	(02.1938)	Captain of the Fleet, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)]
11.01.1938	-	10.08.1938	Naval ADC to the King
14.04.1938	-	1940	Commodore RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
30.05.1940	-	(02.)1941	Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Galatea (cruiser)]
1941	-	1942	Vice-Admiral Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, Home Fleet
(06.1942)			Senior Officer, Force T [HMS Kenya]
05.08.1942	-	(06.)1944	Senior British Naval Officer Western Atlantic [HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)]

Custance,
Wilfred Neville
W.N. Custance

Eldest son of late Henry Neville Custance, South Kensington, and Alice Georgina Custance. Married (1911) Winifred Olive, 3rd daughter of late Charles C. Cave, Cranley Gardens, SW; two sons, one daughter.

25.06.1884
South Kensington, London
-
13.12.1939
[age 55]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 33, column 1]

A/S.Lt.	15.07.1903?
S.Lt.	13.12.1904, seniority 15.07.1903
Lt.	06.06.1905, seniority 15.01.1905
Cdr.	30.06.1917
Capt.	30.06.1925
R.Adm.	17.02.1936

01.01.1938

New Year 38

Education: St Neot's, Eversley; HMS Britannia

15.01.1899			entered RN
1900			Midshipman, HMS Ocean
			specialized in Gunnery
1904	-	1905	S.Lt., HMS Foam (torpedo boat destroyer) (Mediterranean)
1905			Lt., HMS Venerable (Mediterranean)
1913	-	1917	Gunnery Officer, HMS Vanguard (Battle of Jutland)
19.07.1917	-	(01.1919)	Commander (G), HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.11.1923	-	(01.1925)	Executive Officer, HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth)
20.11.1926	-	(07.1927)	Commanding Officer, HMS Yarmouth (cruiser)
1928			Commanding Officer, HMS Castor (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
14.12.1929	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS York (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) [ship commissioned 06.05.1930]
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
30.06.1932	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, Devonport Gunnery School [HMS Vivid, later HMS Drake]
31.08.1934	-	(07.1935)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1936	-	?	Naval ADC to the King
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
14.01.1937	-	(02.1937)	tactical course, Portsmouth
15.04.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS President (for miscellaneous or special service)
1937			commanded Naval Brigade in London at Coronation
26.02.1938			lent to RAN
22.04.1938	-	13.12.1939	Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Canberra]

Cuthbert,
[Sir] John Wilson
J.W. Cuthbert

Son of William Cuthbert, Glasgow.
Married (29.09.1928, All Saints', Highweek, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Betty Wake Shorrock, CBE, chief Woman Fire officer NFS 1941-1946, daughter of Guy Shorrock, of Sandford Orleigh, Devon; no children.

09.04.1902
Partick district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
07.12.1987
Hurstborne Tarrant, nr Andover, Hampshire

...	...
S.Lt.	15.07.1922
Lt.	15.08.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1931
Cdr.	31.12.1936
Capt.	31.12.1941
R.Adm.	08.01.1951
V.Adm.	08.09.1954 (retd 29.08.1958)

KBE	01.01.1957	New Year 57 [investiture 12.02.57]
CBE	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45 [investiture 17.12.46]
CB	01.01.1953	New Year 53 [investiture 10.02.53]

Education: Kelvinside Academy; RN Colleges.

15.01.1916			entered RN
...	-	...	...
27.07.1939	-	12.1940	Executive Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
12.1940	-	02.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(04.1941)	-	(12.1941)	no appointment listed
27.12.1941	-	(04.)1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(06.1942)			no appointment listed
15.06.1942	-	(06.)1944	an Assistant Director of Plans, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] & on Joint Planning Staff, London
08.09.1944	-	19.03.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser)
...	-	...	...
1949	-	1950	Commanding Officer, HMS Vengeance
1951	-	1953	Deputy Controller, Admiralty
1953	-	1954	Flag Officer Flotillas, Home Fleet
1955	-	1956	Admiral Commanding Reserves
1956	-	1958	Flag Officer, Scotland

Member Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Body Guard for Scotland); JP Hants 1959; DL Hants 1977.

Cuthbert,
Sydney Alexander
S.A. Cuthbert

19.05.1904
-
01.1984
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

...	...
Lt.	15.01.1928
Lt.Cdr.	15.01.1936
Cdr.	31.12.1943 (retd 1956?)

...	-	...	...
01.01.1938	-	(02.)1938	Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Barham (battleship)
(06.)1938	-	(04.1940)	Anti-Submarine Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean & as Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Warspite (battleship), later HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for miscellaneous duties)
24.11.1941	-	(06.)1943	Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)] (for anti-submarine duties)
07.1943	-	(12.1943)	[Commanding/Executive Officer ?,] HMS Wolsey (destroyer)
05.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
17.06.1946	-	(10.1947)	Commanding Officer, HMS Actaeon (sloop)
...	-	...	...

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