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D'Aeth, J.R.H.
to
Dight, S.R.

Don, R.W.D.
to
Dyer, J.E.

 

J.R.H. D'Aeth   to   S.R. Dight
D'Aeth,
John Reginald Hughes
J.R.H. D'Aeth

Son of Captain Reginald Hughes-D'Aeth, RN, and Lady Nina Hughes-D'Aeth. Married Mary Winifred Hughes-D'Aeth, of St. Arm's Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies.
(03?.)1899
Cranbrook, Kent
-
08.07.1940
(KIA) [age 41]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 1]
Lt.
15.10.1919
Lt.Cdr.
15.10.1927
Cdr.
30.06.1934
12.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
14.06.1924
-
(05.)1926
Commanding Officer, HMS H 52 (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla)
18.11.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
15.04.1929
-
(08.1929)
Commanding Officer, HMS L 56 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
14.01.1930
-
(04.1930)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(10.1931)


no appointment listed
06.01.1931
-
(01.)1932
Staff Officer (Operations) to Captain A/S [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland)]
19.02.1932
-
(01.)1934
Commanding Officer, HMS Regent (submarine) (Mediterranean)
10.12.1934
-
(02.1936)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral (S) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] (and for duty with submarines)
09.01.1937
-
(06.)1938
RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
11.07.1938
-
08.07.1940
Executive Officer, HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (East Indies)
Dagg,
Joseph Henry
J.H. Dagg
Son of George Walter Dagg and Sarah H. Sagler.
(03?).1891
St Saviour Southwark, London, Surrey
-
(03?).1963
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Cd.Gnr.
14.12.1926
Lt. (retd)
02.06.1931
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
30.10.1942



...
?
-
(04.1940)
HMS St Angelo
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lochinvar
Daintry,
George Michael
G.M. Daintry
?
-

died between 08.1973 and 08.1989
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)
?
A/Cdr. (emgcy)
?
Cdr. (emgcy)
?
Letter of Praise LoP
1944?
Operation Neptune



...
?
-
(04.1940)
HMS Valiant
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Dakeyne,
Richard Herbert Rooper
R.H.R. Dakeyne
?
-

died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Paym.Lt.
01.11.1935
A/Lt.Cdr. (S)
01.11.1943
Cdr. (S)
30.06.1949 (retd 13.12.1962)



...
?
-
(04.1940)
HMS Cochrane
15.09.1944
-
(04.1946)
Secretary to Commodore RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
Dalby,
Robert
R. Dalby
?
-

died between 08.1973 and 08.1989
Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1930 (retd)
A/Cdr.
< 07.1945
Cdr. (retd)
?



...
?
-
(04.1940)
HMS Pembroke
?
-
(07.1945)
Combined Operations Materiel Department, Admiralty
Dale,
James George
J.G. Dale
?
-

died between 08.1973 and 08.1989
Eng.Lt.
01.07.1920
Eng.Lt.Cdr.
01.07.1928 (retd)
Eng.Cdr. (retd)
19.01.1932



...
(04.1940)
-
(07.1945)
Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty
Dale,
Jack Hillen
J.H. Dale
29.10.1901
Northampton
-
28.04.1965

Battle, Sussex
Lt.Cdr.
15.03.1932 (retd 29.12.1946)
A/Cdr.
< 07.1945



...
?
-
(04.1940)
HMS Cumberland
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Vulture
Played first-class cricket, 1922-1928.
Dale,
Richard Hugh
R.H. Dale (Photo: www.hmshood.com)
Son of M and Mrs James Dale of Mawnan Smith, Falmouth.
?
-
24.05.1941

[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]
S.Lt. (E)
06.09.1937
Lt. (E)
07.11.1938, seniority 06.02.1938
Education: New House (09.1928-07.1932); Cambridge University (specialised in Mechanical Sciences)
Was with Metropolitan Vickers until 1933.
06.09.1937
-
10.1937
training, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
30.10.1937
-
(02.)1939
HMS London (cruiser) (Nore)
23.03.1939
-
09.1939
HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
28.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich
15.08.1940
-
24.05.1941
HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (sunk by Bismarck, North Atlantic)
Dale,
William Robert
W.R. Dale
?
-

died between 07.1959 and 07.1962
Lt.Cdr.
29.03.1937 (retd)



...
(04.1940)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lucifer
Dalglish,
James Stephen
"Fish"
J.S. Dalglish (Photo courtesy of Mr Edward J.C. Corry)
J.S. Dalglish (Photo courtesy of Mr Edward J.C. Corry)
J.S. Dalglish (Photo courtesy of Mr Edward J.C. Corry)  
Eldest son (of 3 sons & 4 daughters) of late R.Adm. Robin Campsie Dalglish, CB (1880-1934), and Dulcie Gertrude F. Stephen (born 1886).
Married (1939) Evelyn Mary, eldest daughter of late Rev. A.Ll. Meyricke, Vicar of Aislaby, near Whitby; one son, one daughter.
01.10.1913
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-

06.10.1995
Scarborough district, Yorkshire
Cadet
01.01.1931
Midsh.
01.09.1931
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1934
S.Lt.
01.05.1934
Lt.
01.06.1935
Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1943
Cdr.
30.06.1948
Capt.
30.06.1954 (retd 31.08.1963)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
08.06.1963
HM's birthday 63 [investiture 24.07.63]
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
01.01.1955
New Year 55 [investiture 15.02.55]
Mention in Despatches MID
11.06.1946
wind up Far East
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1927-1931); jssc 1950; idc 1957
06.01.1931
-
(02.)1931
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.10.1931
-
(06.1933)
HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
04.01.1934
-
12.08.1934
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
13.08.1934
-
(02.)1935
promotion course, Portsmouth
25.04.1935
-
(07.)1935
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet))
15.11.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
08.09.1936
-
(07.)1937
HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
30.09.1937
-
(08.)1938
gunnery course [HMS Excellent]
(10.1938)
 
 
no appointment listed
14.10.1938
-
(09.1939)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
06.03.1940
-
(12.1941)
Gunnery Officer on Flotilla Staff [HMS Faulknor (destroyer)]
03.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)
01.04.1943
-
(08.)1943
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
27.09.1943
-
(07.1945)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Swiftsure (cruiser) & from (1945?) also as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 4th Cruiser Squadron
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.1948
-
(07.)1948
Executive Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser)
15.09.1948
-
(05.1949)
on staff of Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command Far Eastern Station [HMS Belfast (cruiser)]
(05.1950)
 
 
HMS President (Admiralty) *
1952
-
1953
Commanding Officer, HMS Aisne (destroyer)
08.04.1953
-
(07.)1954
Executive Officer, HMY Britannia (Royal yacht)
?
-
(04.1955)
Member, Ordnance Board
(01.1956)
 
 
HMS President (Admiralty) *
(01.1957)
 
 
no appointment listed
31.03.1958
-
16.08.1959
Commanding Officer, HMS Woodbridge Haven (Coastal Forces depot ship) & as Captain Inshore Flotilla Mediterranean
07.09.1959
-
(07.)1961
Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
1961
-
17.02.1963
Commanding Officer, HMS Bulwark (light fleet carrier)
Welfare Officer, Metropolitan Police, 1963-73.
Published: Life story of a fish (1992; autobiography)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dalrymple-Hamilton,
Sir Frederick Hew George


Son of late Col Hon. North de Coigny Dalrymple­Hamilton, MVO, of Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire. Mmarried (1918) Gwendolen (died 1974), daughter of Sir Cuthbert Peek, 2nd Bt; one son, two daughters.
27.03.1890
Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire
-
26.12.1974
[
Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire ?]
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1909?
S.Lt.
08.04.1910, seniority 15.09.1909
Lt.
04.10.1911, seniority 31.08.1911
Lt.Cdr.
31.08.1919
Cdr.
31.12.1924
Capt.
31.12.1931
R.Adm.
08.07.1941
V.Adm.
15.06.1944
Adm.
04.01.1948 (retd 04.10.1950)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1945
New Year 45
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
14.10.1941
Bismarck action
Mention in Despatches MID
13.02.1945
Operation Neptune
Education: HMS Britannia
1905


entered Royal Navy



served European War, 1914-1918
15.12.1922
-
(01.1925)
HM Yacht Victoria and Albert (Portsmouth)
25.08.1926
-
01.09.1926
Admiralty
01.09.1926
-
(07.1927)
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.09.1928
-
(08.1929)
HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
(04.1930)


no appointment listed
26.06.1930
-
(01.1932)
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
(09.1932)


no appointment listed
18.10.1933
-
(02.1936)
Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Floitlla [HMS Keith (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean)
29.12.1936
-
(08.)1939
Captain, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
21.11.1939
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (present at destruction of German battleship Bismarck)
05.09.1941
-
(08.)1942
Admiral Commanding Iceland [HMS Baldur]
31.10.1942
-
(12.1943)
Naval Secretary to First Lord of Admiralty [HMS President]
03.03.1944
-
04.1945
R.Adm./V.Adm. Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command, Home Fleet [HMS Belfast]
01.04.1945
-
(04.)1946
Vice-Admiral Malta and Flag Officer Central Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo]
1946
-
1948
Flag Officer Commanding Scotland and Northern Ireland
08.09.1948
-
(05.)1950
Admiral, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, USA [HMS Saker]
Member, Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers, 1947-1973. JP and DL for Wigtownshire, 27.03.1951.
Damant,
Guybon Chesney Castell

Son of late Harry Castell Damant and Mary, daughter of David Wilson of Ballymoney. Married (1913) Eleanor May Brook; one
son, two daughters.
1882 ?
Cowes, Isle of Wight
-
29.06.1963
[East Cowes, Isle of Wight ?]
A/S.Lt.
15.04.1901?
S.Lt.
29.03.1902, seniority 15.04.1901
Lt.
15.04.1903 (retd 05.10.1911; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
?
A/Cdr. (retd)
?
Cdr. (retd)
11.11.1918 *
Capt. (retd)
07.11.1924 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
03.06.1924
HM's birthday 24
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
11.06.1919
for valuable services as Salvage Officer
* special promotion in recognition of war services
1895


entered RN
1906


experimental officer to Admiralty Committee on Deep Water Diving



later Inspector of Diving
1914
-
1918

served European War at sea and as an Admiralty Salvage Officer



later in charge of successful operations for recovery of bullion to the value of £5,000,000 from the wreck of the Laurentic
1939
-
1945
served in Admiralty Salvage Department and Overseas:
01.09.1939
-
(02.1941)
Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)
-
27.07.1943
Superintendent of Salvage, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] *
(10.1943)


no appointment listed
28.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Published: various papers on diving, the natural history of under­water life, compressed air illness, etc.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Dampier,
Denis John
D.J. Dampier
1920
Blackheath
-
25.12.1999
Surrey
Cadet
01.01.1939
Midsh.
01.09.1939
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
01.12.1940
Lt.
01.10.1942
Lt.Cdr.
01.10.1950 (retd > 07.1959, < 07.1961)
01.01.1939
-
01.1940
entered RN, HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training ship, Portsmouth)
23.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Warspite (battleship)
04.1940
-

HMS Fiji (cruiser)
21.10.1940
-
03.1941
HMS Berkeley (destroyer)
03.1941
-

HMS Prince of Wales (battleship)
(01.1942)


HMS Trinidad (cruiser)
19.06.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Brocklesby (destroyer)
1942
-
12.1942
HMS Firedrake (destroyer)
11.02.1943
-
(06.1943)
HMS Collingwood (training establishment Fareham, Hants.)
07.07.1943
-
(10.1943)
HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
(12.1943)
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed
17.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
staff, Royal Naval College, Greenwich



he later trained as an Aircraft Direction Officer (Navigator) and got his pilots license whilst learning to fly a Tiger Moth
18.01.1950
-
(05.1950) HMS Dryad (training establishment, Southwick Park)
24.03.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
(01.1956)


HMS President *
1960s
-
1980s
Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [in a civil capacity ??]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Danby,
Sir Clinton Francis Samuel
"Peter"
C.F.S. Danby
Son of late Rev. Clement Edward Danby, MA, and late Susanna Ellis Baddeley. Married 1st (1914) late Phyllis Antill­Pockley, Sydney, NSW; two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd (1942) Alice Beatrice, widow of Capt. F.M. Johnson, RN.
09.05.1882
Witham, Lincolnshire
-
30.06.1945

[East Sutton, Kent ?]
[St Anthony-in-Meneage Churchyard, NE of Church]
A/S.Lt.
15.05.1902?
S.Lt.
02.05.1903, seniority 15.05.1902
Lt.
30.09.1904
Cdr.
1915
Capt.
31.12.1921
R.Adm.
13.02.1934 (supernumerary 01.10.1935)
V.Adm.
04.11.1937 (retd 05.11.1937) (reverted to retd 1942)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
03.06.1935
HM's birthday 35
Education: Littlejohn's School, Greenwich; HMS Britannia
1912
-
1914
served as Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Richard Porre, Bart, Commander-in-Chief The Nore
1914
-
1918
HMS Cleopatra and HM Ships Chatham and Courageous, Flagship of Adm. Sir Trevylyan
Napier
1919
-
1921
Commander of RN Barracks, Chatham
01.08.1922
-
02.10.1922
HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia)
03.10.1922
-
23.05.1924
Flag Captain to Adm. Sir Percy Addison, Commanding Australian Squadron [HMAS Melbourne] [lent to RAN]
24.05.1924
-
21.089.1924
Flag Captain to Adm. Sir Percy Addison, Commanding Australian Squadron [HMAS Brisbane] [lent to RAN]
22.08.1924
-
28.09.1924
Flag Captain to Adm. Sir Percy Addison, Commanding Australian Squadron [HMAS Melbourne] [lent to RAN]
29.09.1924
-
25.04.1925
Flag Captain, HMAS Sydney (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Commodore Commanding HM Australian Fleet [lent to RAN]
25.04.1925
-
28.04.1925
HMAS Penguin (additional) [lent to RAN]
29.04.1925
-
23.06.1925
HMAS Penguin (additional; for Foreign Service Leave) [lent to RAN]
24.06.1925
-
10.09.1925
HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per Diogenes) [lent to RAN]
08.03.1926
-
(05.)1926
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
02.07.1926
-
(06.)1928
Admiralty [HMS President] (in charge of Naval Personnel Committee)
28.12.1928
-
1931
Flag Captain, HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta) & Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral in Charge, Malta
(02.1931)


no appointment listed
14.10.1931
-
(06.)1933
Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
16.10.1933
-
(01.1934)
Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.05.1935
-
(07.1935)
tactical course, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.10.1935
-
15.10.1942
Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
Danckwerts,
Victor Hilary
V.H. Danckwerts (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Danckwerts)
Son of William Otto Adolph Julius Danckwerts, KC (1853-1914), lawyer, and Mary Caroline, daughter of Maj.Gen. Lowther.
Married (1915) Joyce Middleton; two daughters, three sons:
¤ Lt. (Sp.Br.) Peter Victor Danckwerts, RNVR

¤ Lt. (A) Michael John Danckwerts, RNVR
¤ Capt. Richard Evelyn Danckwerts, RAMC
Last residence: Emsworth, Hampshire.

Some background information on the dismissal of Capt. V.H. Danckwerts as Director of Plans, taken from Stephen Roskill's "Churchill and the Admirals" (1978), pages 93-94: "There can be no question that Churchill's return to the Admiralty in September 1939 was warmly welcomed throughout the navy, though doubts soon began to arise regarding the soundness of same of his strategic and technical ideas. That he invigorated the whole administrative machinery of the department and made his personality feIt far and wide is beyond doubt; but he also diverted to fruitless schemes manpower and materials which were sorely needed for more conventional purposes - sometimes on the advice of Professor Lindemann who was convinced that his rocket weapons could provide better A-A defence than conventional guns. As in World War I Churchill regarded the Baltic as the best theatre for launching the 'naval offensive' which he was always seeking. Since he himself has given a full account of the preparations for operation 'Catherine' there is no need to repeat them here in detail; but some of the exchanges it produced, which have not been published before, are relevant to this study. On 18 September the first of a series of meetings taak place in Churchill's room to discuss War Plans in general and a paper which two very senior admirals, Sir Reginald Drax and Sir Gerald Dickens, had produced. Their conclusion was that we could not be ready to take the offensive at sea for six months - which was highly distasteful to Churchill. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cork and Orrery, who had last served at sea in command of the Home Fleet 1933-5 and was sixty-seven years old, was brought in to prepare for 'Catherine', the object of which was defmed as being 'a force a passage into the Baltic and maintain there a naval force'. Churchill proceeded cautiously, and on 20 September stated that 'At present the decision is only for exploration and no question of action arises. But the search for a naval offensive must be incessant.' 1
Though Cork repeatedly pressed for a decision on whether the operation was to be launched, and was obviously ready and anxious to lead it, at the end of the year Churchill told him that 'the political situation in the theatre has considerably changed', doubtless due to the Russo-Finnish war, and he should therefore review his plan. Neither the Admiralty nor the Govemment was, he stated, committed to action. The position was that 'the gun is to be loaded ready for firing. This and no more'. Meanwhile Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord, and the naval staff had developed and expressed strong doubts about the feasibility of the undertaking; and Cork himself described it as 'very hazardous'. On 10 January 1940 Pound told Churchill that he and Cork had discussed the plan thoroughly, and he was 'of the opinion that a strong force of submarines could achieve the object we desire while a surface force could not'. He was anxious that 'we should if possible end the war with our sea supremacy unchallenged' - a somewhat long-term hope. If we lost all the submarines sent to the Baltic 'it would not really matter' he wrote; but 'if we lost a considerable part of our surface fleet the story would be a very different one'; which shows how wedded Pound was to the 'battle fleet concept' and how little aware of the growing influence of air and underwater weapons. The outcome was that on 23 January 1940 the order was given that preparations to carry out the operation that year were to cease. In retrospect the decision was a wise one, since no surface force could possibly have survived for long against the air, submarine and mine counter measures which the Germans would certainly have brought to bear against it. It does therefore seem very unfair that the able Director of Plans, Captain V.H. Danckwerts, should have been sacked for criticizing the plan too vigorously; but his departure was an ominous warning to staff officers of the fate which awaited them if they opposed Churchill's ideas." 2
11.01.1890
Kensington, London
-
01.03.1944
(died of natural causes, New Zealand & was buried at sea) [age 54]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 81, column 1]
A/S.Lt.
15.03.1909
S.Lt.
13.01.1910, seniority 15.03.1909
Lt.
15.03.1910
Lt.Cdr.
15.03.1918
Cdr.
31.12.1922
Capt.
30.06.1930
R.Adm.
> 04.1940 (retd 08.12.1940; medically unfit)
A/V.Adm. (retd)
27.05.1942
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George CMG
23.06.1936

HM's birthday 36: for services in connection with the London Naval Conference 12.35

Mention in Despatches MID
17.07.1919
?
Education: Winchester College; HMS Britannia; Imperial Defece College (idc)
1904


joined RN
1914


HMS Kent (Falkland Island action)
1915


sinking of German cruiser Dresden
08.12.1918
-
(01.1919)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
01.08.1923
-
(01.1925)
RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.04.1926