| T.F.
Crean
to S.A. Cuthbert |
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
|
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)
|
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?
|
|
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
|
* 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)
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(01.1934)
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no
posting listed
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13.05.1935
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-
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(07.1935)
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course
at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President]
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31.07.1935
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-
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(02.)1936
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Senior Officer,
1st Minesweeping
Flotilla [HMS Halcyon (sloop minesweeper)]
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09.05.1936
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-
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(02.)1937
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Captain Fishery Protection and Minesweeping
Flotilla [HMS Harebell]
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01.05.1937
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-
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27.04.1940
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Commanding Officer,
HMS
Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)
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15.05.1940
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-
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1942
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Commodore RN Barracks,
Devonport [HMS Drake]
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30.03.1942
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-
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04.09.1944
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Rear-Admiral
Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Australia]
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14.01.1945
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-
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1947
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Flag Officer, Gibraltar
and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant]
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Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Dorset 1957.
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Cully,
Michael Lanyon
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?
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31.12.1942
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 63, column 1]
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Paym.Cadet
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01.01.1938
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Paym.Midsh.
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01.01.1939
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A/Paym.S.Lt.
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01.01.1941
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Paym.Lt.
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01.07.1942
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