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Crean, Thomas Francis	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)	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]  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 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 posting listed 18.07.1934 - (07.1935) Executive Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Australia) (02.1936) no posting 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 posting 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 2nd son of Major Fitzgerald Creighton. Married Gladys, eldest daughter of G.P. Warren, Pitlochry, Perthshire; one son, one daughter.	10.01.1883 Malta - 27.02.1963 [Emsworth, Hants. ?]	Midsh. 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 JP	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 posting 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 posting 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 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 posting listed 31.10.1929 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (01.1932) no posting 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 posting 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 Son of ... Crews and ... Wise.	(03?).1912 Plympton St Mary district, Cornwall / Devon - 1993 Devon	... ... Lt. 16.05.1935 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1943 A/Cdr. < 04.1946 Cdr. 31.12.1947 (retd 20.12.1961) GM 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 ... - ... ...
Crouch, Cecil Bernard	(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]
Crowther, William Reginald Denys	09.10.1883 Strand, London, Middlesex - 1974 Yeovil, 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 posting listed (06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Monck ? (10.1943) no posting 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 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 posting 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.
Cully, Michael Lanyon	? - 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