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B.W.M. Fairbairn   to   H. Fitzherbert
Fairbairn, Bernard William Murray Eldest son of late Rev. William Murray Fairbairn (died 16.05.1929). Married (1905) Alice Mary, daughter of late Wm Phillipps; two sons, two daughters.	18.04.1880 Alderbury, Wiltshire - 05.04.1960 [Steeple Claydon, Bletchley, Bucks. ?]	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1900? S.Lt. 28.03.1901, seniority 15.01.1900 Lt. 04.11.1901, seniority 15.07.1901 Cdr. 1914 Capt. 30.06.1919 R.Adm. 20.04.1931 V.Adm. 01.01.1936 (retd 02.01.1936) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 03.09.1939 CBE 1934 ? OBE 1919 ? LM 28.05.1946 ? LoP 1944? Operation Neptune	Education: HMS Britannia (1923) - (1924) Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (cruise of the Special Service Squadron) 27.10.1924 - (01.1925) Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.07.1925 - (05.1926) in charge of Gunnery School, HMS Vivid (RN Barracks, Devonport) 16.04.1927 - 22.04.1927 Admiralty 22.04.1927 - (06.1928) Director of Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.04.1929 - (10.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 13.01.1931 - (01.1932) Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College 02.01.1932 - 01.08.1934 Vice­President of the Ordnance Committee, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [HMS President] 01.08.1934 - 02.01.1936 President of the Ordnance Committee, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [HMS President] 03.09.1939 - 05.07.1940 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Pembroke IV] 05.07.1940 - 1942 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet II] 12.05.1942 - (07.)1945 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Milford Haven [HMS Skirmisher]
Falcon-Steward, Hugh William	04.06.1907 Chertsey, Surrey - 08.1987 Whitehaven, Cumberland	Cadet 15.01.1921 Midsh. 15.05.1925 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1927 S.Lt. 25.10.1928, seniority 01.04.1928 Lt. 01.11.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1939 (retd 04.06.1957) A/Capt. < 04.1946 till 1947? OBE 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 57 MID 13.04.1943 Operation Torch	06.09.1924 - (05.1926) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1927) HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Mediterranean) * 29.09.1927 - 11.04.1928 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.04.1928 - (06.)1928 promotion course, Portsmouth 08.11.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 12.04.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 31.12.1931 - (01.)1932 qualifying for anti-submarine duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Osprey] (09.1932) no appointment listed 12.01.1933 - (01.)1934 Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey] 25.10.1934 - (02.)1935 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Escapade (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) 30.04.1935 - (07.)1935 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Echo (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) 30.10.1935 - (02.)1936 Anti-Submarine Officer, 19th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Douglas (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) (accomodated in HMS Viceroy) 22.09.1936 - (06.)1938 Anti-Submarine Officer, 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Campbell (flotilla leader), later: HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) (and for flotilla duties) 15.08.1938 - (09.1939) Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey] (02.1940) no appointment listed 28.11.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional, for various services) 03.07.1941 - 18.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) [except for 02.1942-04.1942] 30.12.1942 - (06.1944) Staff Officer (Tactics) on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 03.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Helmsdale (frigate) ? - (04.1946) Combined Operations Joint Planning Staff, Combined Operations HQ 08.09.1947 - (05.1950) Officer-in-Charge, HDTC, Devonport [HMS Defiance] 01.09.1952 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 30.08.1954 - (01.1957) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Falkner, Robert Ian Tardrew "Pip" Son of late Robert Tardrew Falkner and Mary Ethel Nicholls. Married (01.06.1946) Stella Beatrice Simons; two sons.	06.04.1916 Taplow, Buckinghamshire - 08.05.1975 Kensington, London	Cadet 01.09.1933 Midsh. 01.05.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 04.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1937 Lt. 27.09.1938, seniority 01.08.1938 > 08.1939, seniority 01.06.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1946 (retd 29.06.1948)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville Term) 01.09.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 03.05.1934 - (07.1934) HMS Achilles (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 12.01.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies) 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 10.08.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) 05.04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 22.09.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for MTBs) 04.1939 - 21.10.1940 Commanding Officer, MTB No. 17 [HMS Vulcan (Coastal Forces depot ship)] (sunk in mining off Ostend) (02.1941) no appointment listed 08.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (08.1942) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) * 04.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Pakenham (destroyer) (for Signal & W/T duties) 17.04.1943 - (12.1943) Fleet Wireless Assistant, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] 02.1944 - (07.1945) Communications and Radio Equipment, British Army Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker] 01.02.1946 - (07.1946) Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] Company director. * indexed, but not listed as such
Fallowfield, Walter Herman Gordon Married; (at least) one son.	? - died between 07.1952 and 07.1959	A/S.Lt. 15.11.1907? S.Lt. 17.09.1908, seniority 15.11.1907 Lt. 30.06.1910 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1918 Cdr. 312.12.1924 Capt. 31.12.1931 (retd > 02.1941, < 08.1942) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean Fleet) (01.1925) no appointment listed 07.04.1925 - (05.1926) Executive Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (China) (07.1927) no appointment listed 03.10.1927 - (08.1929) Mobilisation Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.01.1930 - (01.)1932 Executive Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.08.1932 - (09.1932) Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth 23.03.1933 - (07.1935) HMS Dundee (sloop) (America & West Indies) (02.1936) no appointment listed 18.09.1936 - (08.)1938 Captain-in-Charge, Ceylon [HMS Norfolk II (RN base & dockyard, Ceylon)] (10.1938) no appointment listed (02.1939) no appointment listed 15.02.1939 - (12.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (Home Fleet & Battle of River Plate) (04.1940) no appointment listed 22.05.1940 - 1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (New Entry training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) (04.1944) no appointment listed 17.05.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Imperieuse I & Naval Officer-in-Charge Gairloch & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Clyde 01.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) & Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Clyde
Faning, Michael Roger Eaton Son of Roger Emmanuel Faning and Mary Louise Johnston. Married to Evelyn Mary Teviotdale.	27.08.1908 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 03.1991 Gipping and Hartismere, Suffolk	Midsh. RNR 01.01.1926 A/S.Lt. RNR 27.08.1929 S.Lt. RNR 01.08.1931 Lt. RNR 15.07.1933 Lt. (Supplementary List) 13.03.1937, seniority 27.08.1932 Lt. 1938?, seniority 27.08.1932 Lt.Cdr. 27.08.1940 (retd 27.08.1953) A/Cdr. 20.07.1945?, till > 04.1946 & < 05.1953 Cdr. Royal Malayan Navy < 1958 OBE 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 58 DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete	10.1936 - (02.1937) HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (07.1937) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 01.12.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness) 04.04.1938 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Walpole (destroyer) ? - (02.1941) Boat Unit, Royal Marines (RM) Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (MNBDO) (1) 03.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, St Joseph's Barracks, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] (10.1943) no appointment listed 04.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey) (for miscellaneous duties) (04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Fitzroy (frigate) * 20.07.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Queen (escort carrier) 16.01.1947 - (10.1947) HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hants.) ** 14.11.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 23.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Terror (monitor) * indexed, but not listed as such ** (07.1948) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Fanning, Antony Edward "Tony" Son of Lt.Cdr. Edward James Fanning, RN. Brought up in South Africa. Married Mary Fanning; one son, three daughters.	15.11.1918 Blyth - 29.12.2005 [Windsor ?]	Cadet 01.01.1936 Midsh. 01.09.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 01.01.1939 Lt. 01.01.1940 > 06.1944, seniority 01.06.1938 * A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1946 (retd 17.11.1958) Hon. Cdr. 17.11.1978 MBE 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 58 DSC 31.03.1942 attack on battle cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau & Prinz Eugen 12.02.42 MID 31.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43) Malta GC Commemoration Medal; three USSR commemoration medals; Naval General Service Medal (SE Asia) * Got a seniority adjustment of 19 months as an award for his part in the Normandy landings.	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1932-01.1936) 01.01.1936 - 01.09.1936 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.06.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet) 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 12.06.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Milford (escort vessel) (Africa) [As the Anti-Submarine Control Officer and Gunnery Control Officer he was responsible for the sinking or capture of the French Subm. Pontcelet, a large s/m. He dropped the depth charges and when it surfaced he was GCO and they hit the Conning Tower first shot. No decorations were given for this attack on a hostile French submarine.] 1941 - 1941 qualified as Navigating Officer [HMS Dryad] 15.09.1941 - (12.)1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Eglinton (destroyer) 1941 - 01.1942 Navigating Officer, 50th ML Flotllla (mining the coast of France and Belgium) 01.1942 - (08.)1942 Navigating Officer, HMS Campbell (destroyer) 16.09.1942 - (10.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Mendip (destroyer) (12.1943) - (06.)1944 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) * (06.)1944 - 08.1944 Staff Officer (Operations) & Staff Navigating Officer, Assault Group L2 [HMS Woolverstone] (Normandy landings, and later on the staff of the Turn Round Control Organisation at Southampton) 14.08.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Caesar (destroyer) (and for navigation duties) (4 North Russian convoys) (04.1946) no appointment listed took part in the intervention landings in Indonesia       Navigation and Direction (ND+) Specialist & Navigating Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 15.03.1948 - (05.1949) Navigating Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (05.1950) no appointment listed       Head of the Action Information Training Centre, HMS Dryad (navigation training establishment, Portsmouth) (05.1953) no appointment listed 30.12.1953 - 1958 HMS Dryad (navigation training establishment, Portsmouth) (dealing with Navigating Officers' appointments) * indexed, but not listed as such Lecturer, London Planetarium. Joined the Admiralty Compass Observatory (ACO) at Slough in 1960, and was Naval Deputy Director, Navigation Directorate, Navy Department from 09.03.1962, becoming (after the amalgamation with the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment) the Senior Naval Officer & Application Commander, retiring finally on 17.11.1978. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (F.R.I.N) and a Gold Medalist of that Institute. Also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Britsh Interplanetary Society. Published: Astronomy explained (1963; republished as: Planets, stars and galaxies : descriptive astronomy for beginners, 1966); Steady as she goes : a history of the Compass Department of the Admiralty (1986); wrote many other items such as the 'History of the Action Information Organisation (AIO)' for the Naval Radar History Book (Vol 1.); also contributed to the RIN's latest book 'The History of Air Navigation' just published.
Fanshawe, Peter Evelyn Son of Capt. Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe, RN (1882-1962), and Louisa Crichton. Married (10.12.1936) Helen Mary Trafford (born 27.02.1915); one son, one daughter.	13.09.1911 - 02.1994 Wandsworth, London	Cadet 01.01.1929 Midsh. 01.09.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1932 S.Lt. 16.05.1932 Lt. 16.05.1934 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1942 Cdr. 30.06.1947 Capt. 31.12.1953 (retd 1966) CBE 01.01.1966 New Year 66 OBE 19.03.1946 good services as prisoner of war DSC 03.10.1952 Korea (4th list) MID 23.05.1952 Korea (to 09.07.51)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 05.01.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.01.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 31.12.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 22.08.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth 12.04.1933 - (07.)1935 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.10.1935 - (02.)1936 observers' course 29.06.1936 - (07.)1937 acting observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 01.12.1937 - (04.1939) observer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (China) (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 23.05.1940 - 13.06.1940 senior observer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [aircraft L2991, piloted by J. Casson, made an emergency landing on an operation to Trondheim; captured] 1940 - 1945 prisoner of war (Stalag Luft III; chief organiser ('dispersal chief') of the 'great escape') (07.1945) HM Dockyard, Colombo * 03.1946 - (04.1946) observer, HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier) 29.09.1947 - (07.1948) observer, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Amethyst (sloop) (Korea) * 19.05.1952 - (05.1953) Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 21.12.1954 - 1957 Commanding Officer, HMAS Albatross (RAN Air Station, Nowra) & Resident Naval Officer, Jervis Bay  10.07.1959 - (07.1961) Director of Naval Air Organisation and Training (DAOT), Admiralty [HMS President] 1962 - 1963 Vice-President, Admiralty Interview Board 16.02.1963 - 1966 Naval Assistant to Naval Secretrary [HMS President] Served on the West African Committee in Ghana until 1975 and then was secretary of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 and 1785. * indexed, but not listed as such
Farnfield, Gilbert Lescombe	(12?).1907 Thanet, Kent - 11.11.1961 Bridge of Weir, Renfrew	A/S.Lt. RNR 15.11.1928 S.Lt. RNR 01.10.1932 Lt. RNR 18.09.1934 Lt. (Supplementary List) 30.03.1937, seniority 15.11.1931 Lt. 1938?, seniority 15.11.1931 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1939 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. 30.06.1950 (retd 07.07.1959) DSO 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.41 DSC 31.10.1944 Operation Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang, 25.07.45)	27.12.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Orion (cruiser) (Home Fleet) * 19.04.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Curacoa (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) 04.04.1938 - (04.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Electra (destroyer), later HMS Keith (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 20.06.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Hereward (destroyer) 30.10.1940 - 11.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Defender (destroyer) (sunk) 15.06.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Quality (destroyer) 11.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs) 10.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for staff duties) (05.1950) - (01.1956) no appointment listed * (02.1937) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Farquhar, John Wentworth	? - 1985	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.02.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 31.12.1939 (retd 08.01.1949) Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.09.1945? DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy, 06.44)	(08.1923) College 20.10.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Rocket (destroyer) (Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 15.12.1925 - (05.1926) Signal School (Experimental) [HMS Victory] 31.05.1927 - (08.)1929 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) 28.08.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for anti-submarine school) 22.07.1930 - (01.)1932 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (and as Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer, Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932) no appointment listed (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed 03.08.1933 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) (New Zealand Division) 14.12.1936 - (02.)1939 Commanding Officer, Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey] 02.03.1939 - (09.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser; boys' seagoing training ship and T/B target ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)