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Dawnay, [Sir] Peter Son of Maj. Hon. Hugh Dawnay and Lady Susan de la Poer Beresford. Married (28.04.1936) Lady Angela Christine Rose Montagu-Douglas-Scott, daughter of 7th Duke of Buccleuch; one son, one daughter.	14.08.1904 St Marylebone district, Greater London / London - 01.07.1989 Wield, Alresford, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 30.09.1925 Lt. 30.06.1927 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1935 Cdr. 31.12.1940 Capt. 31.12.1946 R.Adm. 07.01.1956 V.Adm. 07.01.1959 (retd 01.02.1962) KCVO 02.12.1961 Royal tour of Ghana [investiture 02.12.61] CB 01.01.1958 New Year 58 [investiture 11.02.58] MVO 22.06.1939 ? DSC 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst [investiture 22.06.45] LM 28.05.1946 services in Far East	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth 15.09.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Centurion (battleship) 03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1926 - (05.)1926 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] 03.12.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Renown (battlecruiser)  15.08.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.12.1928 - (08.1929) qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 04.01.1930 - (10.1930) Signals Officer, HMS Effingham II (RN base, Ceylon) & for charge of Aden W/T Station 20.01.1931 - (09.1932) Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station & as Flees Signals and W/T Officer [HMS Cardiff (cruiser)]  (05.1933)     no appointment listed (06.1933)     short course of instruction 09.06.1933 - (07.)1935 Flag Lieutenant to Vice Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron & as Sqaudron Signals and W/T Officer [HMS London (cruiser)] (Mediterranean) 12.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 05.01.1937 - (02.)1939 Signals Officer, HMS Leander (cruiser) & as Squadron Signals Officer, New Zealand Squadron (04.1939)     no appointment listed 10.07.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 20.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services) 01.04.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA) 18.10.1943 - (10.1944) Fleet Wireless Officer, HMS Duke of York (battleship) (07.1945) - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser)* 15.03.1948 - (05.1949) Deputy Director of Signal Division (V/S and W/T), Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1950)     no appointment listed 1950 - 1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Saintes and 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 06.10.1951 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Mercury (HM Signal School) 20.05.1954 - 10.11.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow 20.02.1956 - 01.1958 Deputy Controller of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] 30.01.1958 - 25.01.1962 Flag Officer, Royal Yachts [HMS Britannia] An Extra Equerry to the Queen since 1958. President, London Association for the Blind, 1968-. High Sheriff, Hampshire, 29.03.1973; Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire 21.11.1975. * indexed, but not listed as such
Dawson, Miles Delwaide Son of ... Dawson, and ... Angier.	19.01.1922 Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey - 15.10.1987 Southampton, Hampshire	Cadet 01.05.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 16.06.1941 Lt. 01.02.1943 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1951 (retd 29.09.1963) OON 24.06.1955 rescue work Dutch floods 02.53	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1939 - 25.08.1939 Cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 26.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) 03.07.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Echo (destroyer) 10.1941 - 01.1945 HMS Tetcott (destroyer) [from early 1944 as First Lieutenant] 12.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Frobisher (cruiser) 02.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) 12.04.1949 - (05.1950) First Lieutenant, HMS Armada (destroyer) 24.07.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Royal Prince (RN base, Krefeld, Germany) 03.01.1955 - (01.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Venus 22.11.1956 - (01.1957) Staff Officer (P), HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) 24.10.1960 - (07.1961) BIO Gibraltar & NA Rabot [HMS Rooke (RN base, Gibraltar)] ? - (02.1963) HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hants.) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dawson, Sir Oswald Henry Son of W.H. Dawson, MD, Malvern, Worcs. Married (1922) Grace Swannell, daughter of J.T. Lefeaux, Cheltenham; one son, two daughters.	09.03.1882 Malvern, Worcestershire - 11.05.1950 [Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire ?]	A/S.Lt. 15.04.1902? S.Lt. 27.03.1903, seniority 15.04.1902 Lt. 30.06.1904 Cdr. 1916 Capt. 30.06.1923 R.Adm. 21.07.1935 (retd 22.07.1935) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 11.1939 (reverted to retd 1945) KBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44 MID 17.11.1942 ocean convoys 39-42	15.09.1898 entered RN 15.12.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Diligence (destroyer depot ship) (Atlantic Fleet) 15.05.1926 - (07.1927) Commanding Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) (North America and West Indies) 15.11.1927 - 1930 Director of Navigation, Admiralty [HMS President] 26.04.1930 - (02.)1931 Flag Captain, HMS Warspite (battleship) and Chief Staff Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron (Atlantic Fleet) 12.10.1931 - (01.1932) Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 20.06.1932 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Dryad (Navigation School, Portsmouth) 02.03.1935 - 21.07.1935 Naval ADC to the King 11.1939 - (08.1942) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Day, [Sir] Archibald Son of late Donald D. Day, FRCS, and Henrietta S. Blaxland. Married (1929) Eunice Cassellah Pitt; one son, two daughters.	19.07.1899 Norwich - 17.07.1970 [Wye, Ashford, Kent ?]	Lt. 15.08.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1927 Cdr. 30.06.1934 Capt. 30.06.1940 R.Adm. 08.07.1949 V.Adm. 27.01.1953 (retd 13.06.1955) KBE 01.01.1954 New Year 54 CBE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 CB 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 51 DSO 20.11.1945 minesweeping Rangoon Approaches & planning assault	Education: HMS Comway; RN College, Dartmouth 05.1914     entered RN 1914 - 1918 HMS Lowestoft, HMS Britannia, and HMS Courageous as cadet and midshipman, and in the destroyer HMS Welland in Mediterranean as a sub­lieut at the end of the war and on completion of courses which included two terms at Cambridge University specialised in Hydrographic surveying 23.06.1922 - (01.1925) HMS Fitzroy (surveying vessel) (for navigating duties in lieu of specialist Lieut.) 30.01.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Iroquois (surveying vessel) (for navigating duties in lieu of specialist Lieut.) (China) 10.09.1928 - (08.1929) Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 28.10.1929 - (02.1931) First Lieutenant, HMS Endeavour (surveying vessel) 08.12.1931 - (01.1932) Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.06.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Fitzroy (surveying vessel) Commanding Officer, HMS Iroquois (surveying vessel) 21.08.1933 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Ormonde (surveying vessel) 01.1936 - (02.1936) HMS Resource (repair ship) (for charge of survey) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1937 - (02.1939) Superintendent of Chart Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.02.1939 - (04.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Scott (surveying ship) 10.07.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Victory (Portsmouth), for charge of South Coast of England Survey 31.08.1939 - 1943 staff, Flag Officer Commanding Dover (later: Vice-Admiral Dover), since ... (02.1942) Chief Staff Officer 02.02.1943 - (06.1944) Assistant Hydrographer, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.06.1945 - (07.)1945 Fleet Hydrographic Officer, East Indies [HMS Lanka] 20.08.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS White Bear (surveying ship) Assistant Hydrographer, Admiralty, Whitehall, and in command of HMS Dalrymple 1949 - 1950 Flag Officer Commanding British Naval Forces in Germany and Chief British Naval Representative in the Allied Control Commission 05.1950 - 1955 Hydrographer of the Navy, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] Hydrographic Survey, Lake Nyasa, 1955-1956; Co­ordinator of Operations for International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958; Acting Conservator, River Mersey, 1961-1970; Chairman, Dover Harbour Board, 1965. Hereditary Freeman of City of Norwich, 1920. Published: The Admiralty Hydrographic Service, 1795-1919 (1967)
Day, Peter Alexander Coryton Son of ... Day, and ... Betley. Married Betty; two sons.	(03?).1920 Brentford district, Middlesex - 21.02.2007 [Winchester ?] [age 87]	Cadet 01.05.1938 Midsh. 01.05.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941 S.Lt. 01.06.1940 A/Lt. ? Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1949 (retd > 02.1963, < 02.1969)	01.05.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 06.01.1941 - (02.1941) promotion course, Portsmouth (12.1941) no appointment listed (08.1942) HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) * 09.10.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Taku (submarine) 01.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Nigeria (cruiser) 09.04.1946 - (04.1946) First Lieutenant, HMS Romola (minesweeper) 26.02.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Collingwood 18.12.1950 - (05.1953) HMS Glory (01.1956) HMS Bellerophon * 08.06.1960 - (07.1961) First Lieutenant, HMS Bellerophon 26.01.1962 - (02.1963) S.Mor.O., Staff, Commander-in-Chief Plymouth [HMS Drake] * indexed, but not listed as such
de Candole, Reverend Charles Patrick   Middle son of the Rev. James Alexander de Candole and Mary née Paterson. Married (07.1946, Toft, Cambridge) Audrey Imogen Nicholson (WRNS) from  Liverpool (died Sept 1996); two sons, three daughters.	27.01.1907 Holton St. Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk - 23.09.1992 Canford Magna, Dorset	Chapl. 21.09.1937 (retd 27.01.1962)	01.01.1938 - (09.)1939 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 15.12.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) 27.02.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Morgan (RN base, Kingston, Jamaica) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 24.04.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Gosling (training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire) 29.11.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Good Hope (training establishment, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) 28.02.1946 - (04.)1946 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 27.12.1946 - (07.)1948) HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth) (12.1948) RN Hospital Haslar [HMS Victory] 17.03.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Caledonia (RN apprentice training establishment, Rosyth) 11.05.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties) ? - (04.1955) Naval Hospital Haslar [HMS Victory] 25.11.1955 - (01.1957) Naval Hospital Malta [HMS St Angelo] 28.07.1958 - (01.1959) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) 19.04.1961 - (07.1961) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] ? - 1962 HMS Tyne (accomodation ship for the Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Devonport) Rector of Witchampton, Dorset, for 22 years, before he retired from that, to live in Wimborne.
de Chair, Henry Graham Dudley	10.09.1905 Winchester, Hants. - 01.1995 Gravesend, Kent	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 S.Lt. ? Lt. 16.10.1928 Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1936 Cdr. 31.12.1943 (retd 10.09.1955; age) DSC 22.12.1942 action with U162 03.09.42 DSC 18.09.1945 Japanese heavy cruiser sunk 16.05.45	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 15.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Mediterranean) HMS Wivern (destroyer) HMS Laburnum (sloop) 16.01.1927 - (07.1927) promotion course, Portsmouth (08.1929) - (04.1930) no appointment listed 04.11.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 07.12.1931 - (09.1932) signal course, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 26.09.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Achates (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 31.08.1934 - (02.1936) First Lieutenant, HMS Venetia (destroyer) (Mediterranean, Abyssinia) 11.1936 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Wrestler (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla) 02.12.1937 - (02.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Scout (destroyer) (The Nore) [court- martialled, dismissed his ship and reprimanded after HMS Scout ran aground in the Thames Estuary] 08.02.1938 - (08.1938) gas and ventilation officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet) 18.08.1938 - 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Thracian (destroyer) (Hong Kong Local Defence Flotilla) (02.1941) no appointment listed 20.05.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Vimy (destroyer) (02.1943) no appointment listed 28.04.1943 - (04.1944) HMS King Aflred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 05.1944 - (06.1944) Chief Naval Instructor, CTC, Royal Naval Establishments India (Bombay) [HMS Braganza] 16.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Venus (destroyer) 29.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath) 15.07.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall) 22.10.1951 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Montclare (depot ship)
de Courcy-Ireland, Stanley Brian Son of the Rev. E.S. & Mrs de Courcy-Ireland, of Homemead, Northam, North Devon. Married (01.12.1927, St Mary's Church, Alverstoke , Hampshire) Ruth Rhys Jones (died 03.2007, aged 74), only daughter of Capt. Harry Jones, RN, of Clonkeen, Alverstoke; one son, two daughters.	05.05.1900 Aldwick-le-Street, Doncaster, Yorkshire - 11.11.2001 Badgeworth. Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire	Midsh. 01.01.1916 S.Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.08.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1928 Cdr. 30.05.1935 Capt. 30.06.1942 (retd 1951)	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (01.1913-1914) & Dartmouth (1914-1915). 01.01.1916     entered RN 01.01.1916 - 1918 HMS Bellerophon (Grand Fleet; Scapa Flow & Battle of Jutland) 1918 - 1919 HMS Westcott (torpedo-boat destroyer) (witnessed scuttling of captured German Fleet, Scapa Flow) 1919 - 1920 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1920 - 1921 HMS Venomous (destroyer) 31.01.1922 - 28.02.1922 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN] 01.03.1922 - 25.04.1924 Gunnery Instructor, HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Sydney, NSW) [lent to RAN] 26.04.1944 - 08.08.1924 London Depot RAN (for passage to UK & foreign service leave) [lent to RAN] 22.09.1924 - 1926 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean & Balkans) 14.03.1926 - (05.)1926 observers' course [HMS Excellent] 22.11.1926 - 1928 observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 03.01.1928 - (04.)1928 observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (05.)1928 - 1929 formed a squadron at Leuchars in Scotland before becoming a ground instructor [lent to RAF] 20.06.1929 - (08.)1929 observer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 12.12.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) (invalided home after a heart attack) 12.1931 - (01.)1934 observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 01.05.1934 - 29.08.1935 senior observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 30.08.1935 - 18.02.1936 Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiaral Aircraft Carriers [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (home Fleet) 19.02.1936 - 07.12.1936 Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral Aircraft Carriers [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) 14.12.1936 - (10.)1938 attached officer in the Directorate of Operations (Naval Cooperation), Air Ministry [HMS President] 10.01.1939 - 17.01.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (02.1941)      no appointment listed 05.06.1941 - (08.)1942 Air Ministry [HMS President] 22.09.1942 - 02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn) 02.1944 - (07.)1945 Deputy Director of Combined Operations (Naval), Combined Operations HQ 19.03.1946 - 1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 01.08.1948 - 1951 Deputy Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] also: Naval ADC to the King Published: A naval life (1990).
de Halpert, Michael Francis Son of Roger V. de Halpert, and Chloris J. Streatfeild. Married Anne ...; two sons, one daughter.	(03?).1919 St Marylebone district, Greater London / London - 12.02.2008 [age 89]	... .... S.Lt. 01.03.1939 Lt. 01.06.1940 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1948 (retd 24.03.1958) DSC 11.06.1946 wind up Far East [decoration posted]	... - .... ... 06.10.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Seagull (Halcyon class minesweeper) (02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Polruan (Bangor class minesweeper) * (08.1942)     HMS Afrikander V (RN base, Diego Suarez) * 16.12.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) 19.02.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Terpischore (destroyer) .... - ... ....
de LabalmondiÈre, Arthur Victor Married (28.04.1927) Geraldine St. Maur Ingham, daughter of Brig.-Gen. Charles George St. Maur Ingham and Phyllis Geraldine Betton-Betton-Foster.	21.05.1900 Isle of Wight - 14.08.1969 Mere	A/Lt. ? Lt. 14.02.1921, seniority 15.08.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1928 (retd 21.05.1945) A/Cdr. 01.1943 Cdr. (retd) ? LoP ? Operation Neptune	15.07.1916     entered RN 27.09.1923 - (01.1925) torpedo course, HMS Vernon 12.05.1927 - (07.1927) Torpedo Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) 16.04.1928 - (08.1929) Torpedo Officer, flotilla staff, 1st Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Mackay (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) 10.01.1930 - (04.1930) Torpedo Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer (temporary), 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet) 12.04.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 28.07.1932 - (01.1934) Torpedo Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Offcer, Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas (Home Fleet) 20.07.1934 - (02.1936) Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.04.1936 - (08.1942) Torpedo Officer, for duty at Portland, later Weymouth [HMS Vernon] 02.01.1943 - (04.1944) Tactical Commander, Coastal Forces [HMS Bee] (Holyhead) 08.05.1944 - (06.1944) staff, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Portland [HMS Boscawen] 12.1944 - (07.1945) Torpedo Maintenance Duties, HMS Golden Hind (Australia)
de Labilliere, Claud Denis Delacour Son of the Revd. C.E.D. de Labilliere and Mrs. de Labilliere. Husband of Frances Christine Wright de Labilliere. Father of Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere.	1904 ? - 23.05.1941 (KIA) [age 37] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 3]	Sg.Lt. 01.10.1930 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1936 MRCS, LRCP	01.01.1931 - (01.1932) Medical Officer, HMS Tern (river gunboat) (China) 10.04.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) 05.08.1933 - (01.1934) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] (temporary) 10.07.1934 - (02.1936) Medical Officer, HMS Leith (patrol sloop) (New Zealand) (02.1937) no appointment listed 17.05.1937 - (07.1937) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 15.12.1937 - (04.1939) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 10.05.1939 - (08.1939) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 05.03.1940 - 23.05.1941 HMS Fiji (cruiser) (sunk off Crete)
de St. Croix, Bernard Jasper Son of Frederick Alexander de St. Croix (1862-1921) and Lucy Elizabeth Tuck (1877-1914). Married (29.06.1925) Helenora Margaret Stehn; one son, one daughter. De St. Croix family website	28.08.1903 - 20.02.1965 [buried at St Andrew's Church, Bishopstone nr Seaford]	Midsh. 15.09.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924 S.Lt. 30.08.1924 Lt. 30.08.1926 Lt.Cdr. 30.08.1934 Cdr. 31.12.1939 (retd 22.10.1952; medically unfit) DSC 19.12.1944 successful action with enemy light forces 44 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	09.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Hawkins (light cruiser) 10.04.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 21.07.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Leamington (twin-screw minesweeper) (07.1927) no appointment listed 01.08.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 07.01.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 17.08.1932 - (09.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Wolsey (destroyer) 01.12.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training cruiser) 20.11.1934 - (02.1936) First Lieutenant, HMS Lowestoft (patrol sloop) (China) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1938 - (08.)1939 Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station [HMS Amphion (cruiser), later HMS Neptune (cruiser)] 02.09.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Afrikander V (RN base, Greetown, Sierra Leone) (02.1941) no appointment listed 05.11.1941 - 11.08.1942 Executive Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) [torpedoed & sunk in the Mediterranean] 01.1943 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Salisbury (destroyer) (10.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * 21.12.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Tanatside (destroyer) 01.05.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 28.02.1948 - (05.1950) Boom Defence Officer, Nore [HMS Pembroke]
de Ste. Croix *, David Austin * also found as: de St. Croix	? - died between 08.1989 and 12.1998	Midsh. 01.01.1945 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 01.09.1946  Lt. 01.04.1948 (retd 24.01.1950; medically unfit)	(07.1945) HMS Berwick (cruiser) * (04.1946) HMS Veryan Bay (frigate) * 07.07.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Aurochs (submarine) 08.11.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Astute (submarine)
de Ste. Croix, John Arthur Married; five children (one of which is Lt. Ronald Arthur de Ste. Croix, RN).	18.08.1890 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 25.05.1963 Portsmouth, Hampshire	Seaman ? [237065] A/Gnr. ? Gnr. 13.07.1917 Cd.Gnr. 13.07.1927 Lt. 01.12.1938 (retd 18.08.1940) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 01.12.1946 CdeG 17.01.1919 for distinguished services rendered during the war	06.02.1918     commissioned RN 27.08.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) (for DF & I duties) 27.04.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for DF & I duties) (02.1927)     no appointment listed 15.03.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (building at Portsmouth Dockyard) (for DF & I duties) (and on commissioning) 07.02.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) (for DF & I duties) (08.1930) - (10.1930) no appointment listed 19.11.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Restless (destroyer) (Portsmouth) (for direction finding duties) 04.01.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 12.03.1934 - (02.)1935 HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (for direction finding duties) 24.06.1935 - (07.)1935 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.10.1935 - (06.)1938 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (UK & Mediterranean) (for direction finding duties) (08.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 13.10.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 27.02.1939 - (04.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.05.1939 - (09.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Shearwater (patrol vessel) [while under construction at Cowes, Isle of Wight, also for duty with Admiral-Superintendent Contract-built Ships] 21.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) [in charge while being refitted at Portsmouth] 27.05.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Pegasus (catapult trials and maintenance ship) 13.01.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 24.02.1944 - (04.)1944 Gunnery Maintenance Officer, HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) 23.05.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
de Ste. Croix, Ronald Arthur Son of Lt.Cdr. John Arthur de Ste. Croix, RN.	23.12.1918 London - 02.1996 Sidcup, Bexley, Kent	Gnr. 01.04.1940 A/Cd.Gnr. 18.06.1945 Sen.Cd.Gnr. 01.04.1949 Lt. (Special Duties List) 01.01.1957 (retd 1957/58?)	09.08.1940 - 14.09.1942 HMS Coventry (cruiser) (and for direction finding duties) (ship sunk by German & Italian aircraft off Tobruk) 14.09.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Glenroy (landing ship infantry) 11.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 07.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Scylla (cruiser) 01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Sirius (cruiser) 07.03.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 17.01.1949 - (05.1953) HMS Redjacket (RN nominal depot ship, Bombay) 24.08.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Duchess (destroyer) (01.1957) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
de Salis, Rodolph Henry Fane Married Madelaine Marion Catherine Heath, daughter of Adm. Sir Herbert Leopold Heath; no children.	25.05.1890 Windsor, Berkshire - 01.06.1972	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 1910? Lt. 17.05.1911, seniority 15.07.1910 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1923 (retd 24.05.1936?) Capt. (retd) 25.05.1936 Cdre. 2nd cl. < 07.1945 OBE 03.06.1935 HM's birthday 35 DSC 25.10.1916 ? DSC 01.10.1917 ? MID 01.01.1943 New Year 43 MID 13.03.1945 assault Normandy 06-09.44	15.01.1905     entered RN 02.01.1923 - (08.)1923 HMS Vernon (topedo school ship) (additional; for miscellaneous duties) 02.10.1923 - (01.)1925 Torpedo Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.09.1925 - (05.)1926 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.10.1926 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Veronica (sloop) (New Zealand) 31.12.1928 - (04.1930) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1931) no appointment listed 21.10.1931 - (07.1934) on staff (for anti-gas duties) of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 26.01.1935 - (02.1936) Superintendent of Mine Design [HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)] 02.10.1939 - (12.1941) Deputy Director of Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty [HMS President] 15.01.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Menestheus (minelayer) 22.11.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Southern Prince (auxiliary minelayer) (07.1945) - (04.1946) Principal Sea Transport Officer, South East Asia Command, Sea Transport Department
De Winton, Francis Stephen Walter	07.05.1896 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - 04.1985 Chichester, West Sussex	Midsh. 1913 S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.11.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1925 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 31.12.1938 (retd 08.01.1948)	15.01.1909     entered RN 1915 served in the North Sea 1915 - 1916 served in the English Channel 1917 - 1918 served off the west coast of Ireland 1922 served in Turkey 29.08.1924 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS Valentine (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 09.03.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Somme (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet & China) (08.1929) no appointment listed 02.12.1929 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (01.1932) no appointment listed 04.07.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (temporary) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 06.04.1933 - (01.1934) Executive Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel) 02.11.1934 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Basilisk (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 18.01.1937 - (04.1939) [Executive Officer?,] RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 31.05.1939 - 01.12.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Keppel (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 17th Destroyer Flotilla (Reserve Fleet, The Nore & Mediterranean) 01.12.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional for various services) 1941 - 1942 served in the North Sea: 18.01.1941 - (02.1941) SO Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane II] 1942 - 1944 served in the Indian Ocean: 23.06.1942 - 03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rotherham (destroyer) (06.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed (04.1944) - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Rotherham (destroyer) 09.10.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Defender (destroyer base) & Captain (D) Liverpool 1945 - 1946 Captain-in-Charge, West Africa (04.1946) no appointment listed 1946 - 1947 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Hamburg 08.07.1947 - 7.1.1948? Naval ADC to the King 1950 - (1966??) Commodore of Convoys
Dearden, Lionel Humphrey Lucas Son of Cdr. R.L. Dearden, RN, and Hilda Marjory Ward-Humphrey, of Winterbourne Houghton, Blandford, Dorsetshire. Husband of Phyllis Gordon Dearden.	(09?).1917 Knaresborough district, West Riding of Yorkshire - 27.10.1940 (KIA) [age 23] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]	Prob. S.Lt. 29.07.1939	(09.1939)     short course of instruction 1939 - 1940 HMS Campbell (destroyer) * 19.08.1940 - 23.09.1940 submarine course [HMS Dolphin] 24.09.1940 - 27.10.1940 HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin] (killed when ship was sunk by German surface force near Terschelling, the Netherlands, 18.10.1940) * (04.1940) indexed, but not listed as such
Dearden, Richard Lionel Married ((06?).1914, Knaresborough district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Hilda Marjory Ward-Humphrey; three sons, one daughter (son S.Lt. Lionel Humphrey Lucas Dearden, RN).	(09?).1883 Medway district, Kent - 01.02.1955	Prob. S.Lt. 01.07.1911 S.Lt. 13.01.1913, seniority 01.07.1911 Lt. 01.09.1913 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1921 (retd 16.07.1923; own request) Cdr. (retd) 16.07.1923 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	(01.1919)     HMS Castor (light cruiser) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 29.04.1940 - (07.1945) HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) (initially for miscellaneous duties, later for duty at Grimsby base) Published: The autobiography of a crook (1925); Christopher Parkins, RN (1925); Jim of the "Valfreya" (1925); Ships that pass ... (1930); Watch on deck (1934; memoirs); A seafarer's harvest (1935); Maiden voyage (1938); Care of the Commander (1939); Great cricle trek (1939)
Delamore, Adrian Rhodes Son of A.W. Delamore. Married (1950) Joan Louise Mizen, daughter of Edward Ernest Mizen and Daisy Cochrane; three sons. Once of Waiheke Island.	? - 1987	Cadet 01.05.1942 Midsh. 01.01.1943 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1944 S.Lt. 01.08.1945, seniority 01.04.1944 Lt. 15.04.1946, seniority 01.12.1945 (retd 1950)	Education: Wanganui Collegiate School (1937-1941).       served Far East, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Russian convoys, later Palestine: 01.05.1942     special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 05.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Mauritius (cruiser) 06.05.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Meteor (destroyer) (10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Battler (escort carrier) (04.1946)     HMS President III (accounting base) * 03.04.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Chaplet (05.1949)     HMNZS Philomel * 06.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMNZS Tamaki Farmer. * indexed, but not listed as such
Deneys, James Godfrey Wood Son of late J.P. Deneys and Mrs Myburgh. Married ((09?).1920, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Nora Winifred Mackenzie (died 04.03.1967); two sons.	30.07.1897 - 25.10.1962 [Hayling Island, Hampshire ?]	S.Lt. 15.09.1917 A/Lt. ? Lt. 14.01.1922, seniority 15.02.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1927 (retd 30.07.1942) A/Cdr. ? Cdr. (retd) 30.07.1942 DSO 06.05.1941 sinking of U100, U99? & U29 OBE 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 Geo I 15.12.1942 escorting King to UK	Education: Haileybury. 01.02.1916 joined RN 1916 - 1917 HMS Shannon 1918 HMS Tormentor 1918 - 1931 served in submarines: ? - (01.1919) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 02.02.1923 - (08.1923) First Lieutenant, HMS L 18 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia] 15.10.1924 - (05.)1926 Commanding Officer, HMS R 10 (submarine) (Portland) 20.07.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.11.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS Champion (cruiser) (Portsmouth) 11.08.1928 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS L 52 (submarine) 01.04.1930 - (08.)1930 in command of Group "M" Submarines in Reserve at Portsmouth [HMS L 14 (submarine)] (10.1930)    no appointment listed 11.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS L 23 (submarine) (Mediterranean) (01.1932) no appointment listed 30.07.1932 - (06.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (01.1934) no appointment listed 05.04.1934 - (11.)1934 HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 19.12.1934 - (02.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Tyrant (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth & Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla) 08.05.1938 - (02.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 09.02.1939 - 15.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanoc (destroyer) 30.12.1941 - (07.1945) Assistant to Naval Assistants to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1946) no appointment listed
Denham, Henry Mangles Son of Henry Mangles Denham and Helen Clara Lowndes. Married (1924) Estelle Margaret Sibbald Currie; one son, two daughters.	09.09.1897 Harrow - 15.07.1993 London	Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1932 (retd 09.09.1947) A/Capt.  28.12.1939? CMG 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 OON 13.08.1946 services to the Netherlands * ChrX ? services to Denmark Hkn 26.08.1947 services to Norway * same award gazetted at 02.11.1948	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1910-...) 10.1910     entered RN 1914 - 1915 Midshipman, HMS Agamemnon (battleship) (Dardanelles) 1915? - 1917? HMS Racoon (destroyer) occupation of the Rhine in HM Rhine Flotilla 1919 on a year's course at Magdalene College, Cambridge [HMS President] 1921 HMS Renown (cruiser) (round the world cruise with the Prince of Wales) HMS Centurion (battleship) (Mediterranean) spent a brief period in Austria in order to learn German 01.09.1924 - 1926 Divisional Officer, HMS Impregnable (boys' training ship at Devonport) 28.04.1926 - (07.)1927 Flag Lieutenant[-Commander] to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 20.09.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.11.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 27.05.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) (09.1932) no appointment listed 19.04.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for Fort Blockhouse) 15.01.1935 - (07.1935) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich 16.01.1936 - (04.)1939 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Penelope (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 1939 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (08.1939) no appointment listed 28.12.1939 - (04.)1940 Naval Attaché, Scandinavian Countries (Copenhagen, Denmark) [HMS President] 21.05.1940 - 1947 Naval Attaché, Stockholm (Sweden) [HMS President] Published: The Aegean, 1963, 5th edn 1983; Eastern Mediterranean, 1964; The Adriatic, 1967; The Tyrrhenian Sea, 1969; The Ionian Islands to Rhodes, 1972; Southern Turkey, the Levant and Cyprus, 1973; Ionian Islands to Anatolian Coast, 1982; Dardanelles : a Midshipman's Diary, 1915-16 (1981); Inside the Nazi Ring : a Naval Attaché in Sweden 1940-1945, 1984
Denison, Edward Conyngham Only son of late Captain Hon. Henry Denison, and grandson of 1st Lord Londesborough; cousin and heir­presumptive to 6th Baron Londesborough. Mrried (1919) Betty, youngest daughter of late Sir Charles Heaton Ellis, CBE; (one son killed in action, 1945), one daughter.	06.09.1888 - 13.11.1960 [London ?}	Lt. 01.10.1910 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1918 Cdr. 31.12.1924 Capt.  31.12.1931 (retd > 02.1941) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 12.08.1941 MVO 1931 ? MID 03.10.1944 3 years ocean convoys	Education: HMS Britannia 15.05.1903     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served European War 21.12.1922 - (01.1925) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 15.06.1925 - (07.1927) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty 26.08.1927 - (08.1929) Executive Officer, HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (Africa) 15.01.1930 - (01.1932) Executive Officer, HM Yacht Victoria and Albert 25.03.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Bideford (sloop) (Persian Gulf) 01.10.1934 - (02.1936) Deputy Director of Personal Services (Manning), Admiralty [HMS President] 21.10.1936 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Malabar (steam pinnace; for RN Barracks) & in charge of HM Naval Establishments, Bermuda (02.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 16.12.1938 - (02.1939) HMS President I (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty) 10.02.1939 - (02.1941) Flag Captain, HMS St Angelo (parent ship, Malta) & [till 07.1940] Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral-in-Charge, Malta 12.08.1941 - 1944 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

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