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1939-1945

 

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Gabb,
John Desmond
J.D. Gabb mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer J.D. Gabb
Son of James Desmond Gabb (1892-1951), and Constance Margaret Davids (1893-1975).
Married Charity Edith Tyrrell ..., of Amport. She remarried ((09?).1950) Douglas F. Beanland.
(12?).1920
Guildford district, Surrey
-
11.06.1946
Aberdeen, Scotland
[age 25]
[Guildford Cemetery, Surrey, block H, grave 372]
Cadet (E) 01.05.1939
Midsh. (E) 01.01.1940
S.Lt. (E) 01.04.1941
Lt. (E) 01.04.1943
Commendation Cmdn 16.09.1941 Plymouth air raid 20.03.1941
... - ... ...
09.01.1940 - (04.)1943 course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
01.05.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship)
(01.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
(04.1946) - 11.06.1946 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)] (killed in an air crash)
Gairdner,
John Oswald Hugh
J.O.H. Gairdner

Married ((12?).1937, Sevenoaks district, Kent) Margaret Joyce Matthews (died 14.12.2013, aged 100); ... children.
22.05.1905
-
10.08.1997
North Somerset district, Somerset
... ...
Cdr. (E) 31.12.1940
Capt. (E) 31.12.1949 (retd)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE ? ?
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
... - ... ...
Gallaway,
Oswald Tennyson
O.T. Gallaway mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer O.T. Galaway
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of James Henry Gallaway (1874-1931), and Mary Galloway (1884-1919).
Married ((12?).1943, Wandsworth district, London) Doris Marshall (09.05.1921 - 08.1995), daughter (with one sister) of Sydney Herbert Marshall (1884-1979), and Ethel Louise Cannon (1895-1980); one daughter, two sons.

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06.08.1908
Newport, Isle of Wight
-
19.05.1996
Wandsworth district, London
Boatsw. 01.07.1937
A/Lt. 17.12.1944
Lt. 11.02.1946, seniority 15.11.1940
Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1948 (retd 06.08.1953)
... - ... ...
13.04.1939 - (09.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
12.10.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Malaya (battleship)
(06.1942) - (04.1943) no appointment listed
07.04.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Sea Serpent (landing craft base, Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, Chichester)
(10.)1944 - (01.)1945 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
22.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Black Prince (cruiser)
... - ... ...
Galletly,
William Frederick
J.D. Gabb mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer W.F. Galletly
Son (with one brother) of Thomas William Galletly (1882-1944). and Edith Crisp Myers (1879-).
Married ((12?).1933, Southampton district, Hampshire) Eva Mary Tiller (03.12.1911 - 05.03.2009); two daughters, one son.

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27.05.1909
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
05.06.1990
Chichester district, Sussex
Wt.Eng. 01.10.1939
Lt. (E) 01.10.1941
Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.10.1949 (retd 27.05.1954)
Mention in Despatches MID 08.05.1945 defence of convoy against E-boats 21.02.45
Commendation Cmdn 31.03.1953 for courage and leadership in an attempt to save the life of a rating who had been overcome by fumes in an empty ballast tank 02.10.52
08.11.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Diomede (cruiser)
28.09.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Ajax (cruiser)
(12.1943)     no appointment listed
19.01.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Valorous (destroyer) (despatches)
25.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Caprice (destroyer)
... - ... ...
(10.1952)     HMS Mull of Galloway (commendation)
... - ... ...
Gambier,
Robert Michael Gore
"Robin"
R.M.G. Gambier
Son (with one brother) of Michael Seymour Gore Gambier (1861-1929), and Irene Marion Bentley (1882-1968) [from 1932 Mrs Malcolm Barclay Bovill], of Suddon House, Wincanton, Somerset.
Married (1931?) Rosemary Caroline James (15.07.1909 - 1986), daughter of Capt. Arthur Parkinson James, RN, of Woodhayes, Henstridge, Somerset; ... children (two sons?).

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01.11.1904
New Forest, Hampshire
-
26.06.1981
RN Hospital, Haslar, South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
Midsh.
15.09.1922
A/S.Lt.
15.01.1925
S.Lt.
08.09.1926, seniority 30.08.1925
Lt.
30.05.1927
Lt.Cdr.
30.05.1935
Cdr.
31.12.1938 (retd > 07.1954, < 04.1955)
A/Capt.
> 02.1943, < 06.1943 till 1948?
Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) OON
25.11.1947
services to the Netherlands
King Haakon VII's Liberation Medal (Norway) Hkn
26.08.1947
services to Norway
15.09.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Malaya (battleship)
10.05.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
11.01.1926
-
(05.)1926
promotion course, Portsmouth
11.10.1926
-
(02.)1927
submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
21.03.1927
-
(06.)1928
HMS X 1 (submarine) (Mediterranean)
10.10.1928
-
(08.)1929
First Lieutenant, H 43 (submarine) (Portsmouth)
12.08.1929
-
(04.)1930
First Lieutenant, HMS Salmon (destroyer) (Portland)
01.07.1930
-
(01.)1932
First Lieutenant, HMS Regent (submarine) [20.09.1930 ship commissioned]
26.08.1932
-
(06.)1933
First Lieutenant, HMS L 23 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]
16.12.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
17.01.1934
-
(02.)1935
Commanding Officer, HMS Seahorse (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
25.04.1935
-
(02.)1937
HMS Cairo (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
07.05.1937
-
(04.)1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) (China)
(08.1939)
-
(09.1939)
no appointment listed
03.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship, Harwich/Rothesay) (for submarines)
11.07.1940
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship)
17.03.1942
-
(02.)1943
Executive Officer & Signal Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)
25.02.1943
-
(05.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla
29.05.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Wuchang (submarine depot ship, Trincomalee, Ceylon)
31.01.1944
-
10.05.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Ambrose  (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) & Captain (S) 9th Submarine Flotilla



HMS Ferret IV (captain surrendered submarines, Londonderry) ??
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
01.01.1946
-
(04.)1946
staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
25.06.1946
-
(04.)1947
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naples & Naval Liaison Officer to Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
17.11.1947
-
(05.1949)
Commanding Officer, HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
02.1950
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
08.10.1951
-
(07.1954)
Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty with Captain Superintendent of Contract-built Ships)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Gamble,
Louis John Hilary
L.J.H. Gamble
17.04.1914
-
08.09.1988

Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London
Cadet
01.09.1931
Midsh.
01.05.1932
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1934
S.Lt.
10.09.1936, seniority 01.10.1935
Lt.
16.08.1938
?, seniority 16.06.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.
16.06.1946 (retd 15.12.1949)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
21.04.1942
attack on convoy 01.03.42
Mention in Despatches MID
11.10.1940
blocking Zeebrugge
Mention in Despatches MID
31.03.1942
attack on battle cruisers 12.02.42
05.09.1931
-
(01.1932)
HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
02.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
27.09.1934
-
(07.1935)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
02.09.1935
-
(02.1936)
promotion course, Portsmouth
10.1936
-
(06.1938)
HMS Viscount (destroyer)
01.07.1938
-
(10.1938)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (miscellaneous duties)
03.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, MTB No. 15 [HMS Vulcan]
(02.1941)


HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
19.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, MTB 45 & SO 5th MTB Flotilla [HMS Wasp]
10.08.1942
-
(02.1943)
HMS Saker (RN base in the USA)
25.05.1943
-
(08.1943)
Commanding Officer, MTB 621 & SO 31st MTB Flotilla
10.1943
-
08.1944
HMS Rotherham (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
18.10.1945
-
(07.1946)
Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
06.01.1947
-
(07.1948)
HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Gandell,
Wilfrid Pearse
W.P. Gandell (© Imperial War Musem HU 114859) W.P. Gandell
mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer W.F. Galletly
Son of Thomas Pearse Gandell (?-1926), Chairman of Oxford and Cambridge Club.
Married (12.04.1923) Lilian Amabel Marion Campbell (?- 1982), daughter of Maj.Gen. Maxwell Campbell, RE; one daughter, one son deceased.

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01.11.1886
Baywater W.
-
09.06.1986
Slinfold, Horsham, West Sussex
Midsh. 15.07.1902
S.Lt. 15.11.1905
Lt. 15.05.1906
Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1914
Cdr. 30.06.1919 (retd 08.04.1929; war service)
Capt. (retd) 01.11.1931 (reverted to retd 04.1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl. 04.09.1939
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 04.10.1940 directing Sea Transport [investiture 08.04.1941]
Name brought to notice Nte 20.12.1940 operations in the field 03-06.1940
Letter of Prause LoP 1944? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
Officer, Legion of Merit (USA) LM 28.05.1946 ?

RHS Bronze Life Saving Medal, 10.05.1918
Italian Commemorative Medal 1908 (
Eartquake in Southern Italy, 12.1908)

Education: Stoke House; HMS Britannia.

15.05.1901

    entered RN
1908 - 24.07.1909 HMS Lancaster
28.10.1912 - 09.07.1915 HMS Zealandia (for torpedo duties)
09.07.1915 - 29.08.1917 HMS St Vincent (for torpedo duties)
29.08.1917 - 17.12.1917 HMS Vernon (for torpedo duties)
17.12.1917 - 27.09.1920 HMS Victory (for wireless telegraphy duties and war staff duties)
27.09.1920 - 08.1921 HMS President (for Staff course at Greenwich)
11.08.1924 - 11.08.1926 HMS Emperor of India
... - ... ...
04.09.1939 - 28.09.1940 Principal Sea Transport Officer, French Ports GHQ [HMS President (additional), from 01.01.1940 HMS Victory (additional)] [Dunkirk evacuation] (CBE, name brought to notice)
01.01.1941 - 25.03.1941 Principal Sea Transport Officer, Clyde [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]
25.03.1941 - 11.04.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; not to join)
12.04.1941 - 16.05.1941 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth [HMS Watchful (anti-submarine & minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)]
17.05.1941 - 15.09.1944 Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (US Legion of Merit)
16.03.1943 - 05.04.1943 HMS President (additional; for disposal)
(10.1944)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
(01.1945)     HMS Enterprise (E class cruiser) *
09.03.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Emerald (E class cruiser)
Member: West Sussex County Council, 1958-1964; Horsham RDC, 1952-1964; Asst Chief Warden  CD, Horsham Area, 1952-1965.
* indexed, but not listed as such [Who's Who mentions: Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Forth Area, 1944-1946]
Gandy,
Gerard Horace
G.H. Gandy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide) G.H. Gandy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide)
G.H. Gandy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide) G.H. Gandy (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Hide)
mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer G.H. Gandy
Married (03?).1920, Sheppey district, Kent) ... Noordamus.

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29.04.1896
Bristol, Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
16.01.1987
Torbay district, Devon
Lt.
15.09.1917 (retd 05.05.1920; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
15.09.1925
A/Cdr. (retd)
03.1945? (reld 06.10.1945)
Cdr. (retd)
08.05.1946
Mention in Despatches MID
13.10.1942
withdrawal from Hong Kong
15.01.1909
 
 
entered RN
...
-
...
...
12.09.1939


Naval Provost Marshal Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]
13.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) [based at HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
12.1941


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 10 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 2nd MTB Flotilla (Hong Kong)
[Escaping as ordered after capitulation with remainder of Flotilla on 25th December. Then scuttling in Mirs Bay and bringing MTB party of 45 across China to Rangoon.]
02.1942
-
08.03.1942
served under Commodore Burma Coast until evacuation by sea
04.1942
-
05.1942
Lt-Commander in charge of Naval draft guarding 657 Italian POW's onboard HMT Narkuna on passage to UK
22.06.1942
-
1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Kingfisher (sloop) [based at HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon)]
[experimental work and submarine escort duties at Clyde and Western Approaches]
21.02.1944


Squadron Commander, Major Landing Craft [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
03.1945
-
07.1945
Squadron Commander "L" LCT Squadron in Antwerp and Holland [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
07.1945
-
10.1945
Squadron Commander "P" LCT Squadron [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
Garbett,
Leonard Gillilan
L.G. Garbett

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01.03.1879
-
05.06.1974
... ...
Lt. 01.01.1909 (retd)
Lt.Cdr. (retd) 01.01.1917
Capt. (retd) 04.04.1938
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE ? ?
... - ... ...
01.08.1937 - (07.1945) Director of Naval Meteorological Service, Admiralty [HMS President]
Garden,
Archibald
A. Garden (Photo courtesy of Mr Ross Miller) A. Garden

Son of Norman M. Garden, and Jessie A. Garden.

Service record AVALABLE upon request.

Service record AVAILABLE upon request.

07.12.1894
Petty, Inverness-Shire
-
(06?).1983
Torbay district, Devon
Seaman
? [J11838]
A/Gnr.
01.07.1923
Gnr.
?, seniority 01.07.1923
Cd.Gnr.
01.07.1933
Lt.
17.05.1941 (retd 07.12.1944; age; remained on active duty) (dispersal 28.08.1945) (reld 23.10.1945) (reverted to retd 24.10.1945)
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) MBE
08.06.1963
HM's birthday 63
Mention in Despatches MID
16.03.1943
Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 08.11.42)
(01.1925)


HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) *
01.12.1925
-
(07.1927)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
12.11.1928
-
(10.)1930
Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)]
15.12.1930
-
(09.1932)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
12.1933
-
16.05.1935
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) **
(02.1937)


no appointment listed
21.06.1937
-
(07.)1937
HMS Birmingham (cruiser) [under construction]
01.09.1937
-
(10.1938)
HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
(02.1939)
-
(04.)1939
no appointment listed
01.08.1939 - 27.08.1939 staff, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
28.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Neptune (cruiser)
10.05.1941 - 01.09.1943 HMS Rodney (battleship)
31.10.1943 - (07.)1945 Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Naval Proof Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley, Lancashire (1960s).

* indexed, but not listed as such
** (02.1936) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Gardner,
Herbert
H. Gardner
Son of Herbert and Constance Gladys Gardner.
Married (1946) Catherine Mary Roe, Perth, WA (predeceased him).
23.10.1921
-
21.03.2006

[cremated in Perth, Western Australia; ashes scattered in the ocean]
Cadet (E)
01.01.1940
Midsh. (E)
01.09.1940
A/S.Lt. (E)
01.05.1942
S.Lt. (E)
16.04.1943
A/Lt. (E)
> 10.1943, < 12.1943
Lt. (E)
16.03.1943
Lt.Cdr. (E)
16.03.1951
Cdr. (E)
31.12.1955
Capt. (E)
30.06.1964
Cdre.
06.1971
R.Adm.
07.07.1973 (retd 31.03.1977)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
1976
?
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
?
-
Burma Star Bur St
?
& clasp Pacific
Defence Medal DefM
?
-
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
?
-
Education: Taunton School; Weymouth College.
01.01.1940
-
10.09.1940
special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth
11.09.1940
-
(1944?)
engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
04.01.1944
-
(06.)1944
HMS Nigeria (cruiser)
1944
-
1944
HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
11.1944
-
(07.)1945
HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (from 04.1945 4th Submarine Flotilla, Fremantle)
31.07.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Totem (submarine)
18.03.1947
-
(05.)1949
Department of the Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President]
29.09.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Telemachus (submarine)
01.09.1952
-
(07.)1954
Admiralty Development Establishment (at Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness) [HMS President]
11.10.1954
-
(01.)1956
HMS Eagle
21.05.1956
-
(01.1957)
HMS Caledonia
07.10.1958
-
(01.1959)
Staff Engineer Officer & Staff Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical Defence Officer, 6th Frigate Squadron [HMS Blackpool]
26.04.1960
-
(07.1961)
Assistant (Production) to Manager Engineering Department, Rosyth Dockyard [HMS Cochrane]
16.11.1963
-
(02.)1964
HMS Maidstone
1964


Deputy Manager, Engineering Department, Devonport Dockyard
27.10.1967
-
(02.)1968
Chief Engineer and Production Manager, Singapore Dockyard
20.11.1968
-
(02.1969)
Chief Staff Officer (Technical) to Commander Far East Fleet [HMS Terror]
1970


course at Imperial Defence College
06.1971
-
1973
Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
1974
-
1976
Vice President, Ordnance Board
1976
-
1977
President, Ordnance Board
Chartered engineer.
Gardner,
Lewes George
L.G. Gardner mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer L.G. Gardner
Second son of Mr & Mrs George Gardner, of Beer, Devon.
Married ((06?).1920, St Marylebone district, London) Violet Amy Calero Hale (née Hope), second daughter of Dr J.W. Hope, and Mrs Hope, of Perth, Western Australia.

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20.11.1886
Sandy, Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire
-
22.04.1957
Home of Peace, Subiaco, Western Australia
Lt.
30.06.1909
Lt.Cdr.
30.06.1917 (retd 04.11.1929; own request)
Cdr. (retd)
04.11.1929 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk
15.05.1902
 
 
entered RN
14.07.1921
-
09.1923
Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
...
-
...
...
24.08.1939
-
(02.)1941
Staff Officer (Administration) on staff of Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)]
22.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
Resident Naval Officer, Scarborough [HMS Paragon (RN base, Hartlepool)]
03.1942
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Stopford (Combined Operations training establishment, Bo'ness, West Lothian)
Gardner,
Lycett
L. Gardner mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer L. Gardner
Son of Harry Gardner (1843-1925), and Mary Beatrice Hall (1861-1952).
Married (27.08.1927, Kandy, Ceylon) Theophila Mary Ruthven-Smith (17.11.1902 - 21.12.1982), daughter of Ruthven Frederic Ruthven-Smith (1864-1955), and Laura Olivia Colomb (1866-1944); two sons.

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02.04.1897
Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
-
10.09.1974
Bramcote, Bramdean, Hampshire
... ...
Lt. 15.07.1918 (retd 16.09.1919)
Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.07.1926
Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
01.1910     entered RN
... - ... ...
29.07.1937 - (07.1945) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (OBE)
(03.1942)     liaison officer to Royal Hellenic Navy training detachment in UK
Garner,
Charles Henry
C.H. Garner
Lived at Littleborne, nr Canterbury, Kent.
Married ((09?).1912, Bridge district, Kent) Daisy Rye; ... children (two? sons, one? daughter, one of whom is Lt.Cdr. Robert William Garner, RN).

Service record avaialable.

Service record available

15.06.1883
Edmonton, Middlesex
-
27.01.1959

Portsmouth district, Hampshire
Boy 2nd cl.
26.09.1898 [201246]
Boy 1st cl.
16.06.1903
Ord.Sea.
15.06.1901
AB Sea.
26.04.1902
Ldg.Sea.
17.07.1905
Petty Offr. 2nd cl.
11.01.1906
Petty Offr. 1st cl.
01.01.1907 (1), 24.04.1910 (2)
Petty Offr. (NS)
27.07.1911
A/Gnr.
18.09.1912
Gnr.
27.09.1913, seniority 18.09.1912 (retd 19.11.1920; own request)
Cd.Gnr. (retd)
01.05.1941
Lt. (retd)
01.05.1944 (dispersal 08.04.1946) (reld 03.06.1946)
Errand boy.
26.08.1898
-
31.01.1900
HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport)
01.02.1900
-
26.02.1900
HMS Agincourt (frigate)
27.02.1900
-
02.02.1903
HMS Furious (cruiser)
03.02.1903
-
24.02.1903
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
25.02.1903
-
06.01.1904
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
07.01.1904
-
17.01.1905
HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
18.01.1905
-
14.09.1905
HMS ... [Ellestrower??]
15.09.1905
-
10.01.1906
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
11.01.1906
-
16.03.1906
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
17.03.1906
-
30.11.1906
HMS Aboukir (armoured cruiser)
01.12.1906
-
30.03.1908
HMS Leviathan (armoured cruiser)
31.03.1908
-
23.04.1910
HMS Black Prince (cruiser)
24.04.1910
-
30.11.1911
HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
01.12.1911
-
04.01.1912
HMS Lord Nelson (battleship)
05.01.1912
-
31.05.1912
HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
01.06.1912
-
06.09.1912
HMS Vernon (torpedo school ship, Portsmouth)
07.09.1912
-
17.09.1912
HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham)
19.10.1912
 -
16.09.1913
HMS St Vincent (battleship) (FDD [?; = fire direction duties ?], from 07.11.1912 Instructional duties)
16.09.1913
-
13.04.1915
HMS Tyne (depot ship for 8th TBD Flotilla, Chatham) (for torpedo boat destroyers)
13.04.1915
-
06.1915
HMS Violent (torpedo boat destroyer) (for firing course) [based at HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)]
(06?).1915
-
1915?
HMS Thunderer (battleship) (for course)
1915?
-
12.03.1919
HMS Colossus (battleship) (for Director Firing duties)
12.03.1919
-
14.07.1919
HMS Norseman (torpedo boat destroyer) [based at HMS Apollo (destroyer depot ship, Devonport)]
14.07.1919
-
06.01.1920
HMS Prince George (battleship) (for Squadron Director duties with Chatham Torpedo Boat Destroyer Defence Flotilla)
06.01.1920
-
20.11.1920
HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (for Director Firing duties)
28.09.1938
-
03.10.1938
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for new entries)
20.07.1939
-
08.04.1946
on the Active List, but no appointment listed; service record suggests HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for depot duties *)
* An evaluation in his service record rates him as 'satisfactory, above average while in sole charge of a large and important Department in the Depot'
Garner,
Robert William
R.W. Garner (Photo courtesy of www.hmstecott.com)
Son of Lt. Charles Henry Garner, RN, and Daisy Rye.
27.12.1919
Bridge district, Kent
-
25.01.2001

South Dorset
T/A/L.Sea.
? [C/JX 144554]
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1943
S.Lt.
?, seniority 01.05.1943
Lt.
04.05.1944, seniority 16.06.1943
Lt.Cdr.
16.06.1951 (retd 27.12.1964)
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41
(1940)
-
(10.1942)
HMS Curacoa (cruiser)
(06.1943)
-
(08.1943)
no appointment listed
14.09.1943
-
(06.1944)
Third Hand, HMS Chiddingfold (destroyer)
01.1945
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HMS Tetcott (destroyer) 
15.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(07.1948)


no appointment listed
05.12.1948
-
(05.)1949
HMS Bruce (boys' training establishment, Crail, Fife)
28.09.1949
-
(05.1950)
First Lieutenant, HMS Loch Veyatie (frigate)
11.12.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
(04.1955)


HMS Chameleon (minesweeper) *
02.05.1955
-
(01.1956)
Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (minesweeper)
(01.1957)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
28.09.1959
-
(07.1961)
First Lieutenant & NPM on staff of Flag Officer, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke (RN base, Gibraltar)]
05.11.1962
-
(02.1964)
Staff Officer, Severn Division RNR & in command HMS Venturer
* indexed, but not listed as such
Garnett,
Edward Thomasson
E.T. Garnett

Son of William Garnett (1864-1947), and Jean Russell Harvey (1870-).
Married 1st (01.07.1937, Saint Thomas Church, District of Columbia, USA; divorced, Las Vegas, Nev., USA) Frances Virginia Wells, of Washington, DC.
Married 2nd (04.10.1948, Criminal Division, Municipal Court, District of Columbia, USA) Elizabeth Strickland; one daughter.

Service record available

21.02.1910
Bristol, Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
03.05.1984
Wilson, North Carolina, USA
[burial Gray Crematorium, Raleigh, North Carolina]
Cadet
01.05.1927
Midsh.
01.01.1928
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1930
S.Lt.
16.01.1931
Lt.
16.03.1933 (retd 1938)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
27.08.1942 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
30.04.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; sea going gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth)
01.1928
-
(04.)1930
HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
01.05.1930
-
(02.)1931
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
1931
-
1931
promotion course, Portsmouth (23.07.1931 aviators' certificate #9982 taken on D.H. 60 X Cirrus II 30/80 h.p. at Hampshire Aeroplane Club)
31.12.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Tempest (destroyer) (Nore)
19.07.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Worcester (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
03.02.1933
-
(02.)1935
HMS Tarantula (gunboat) (China)
(07.1935)


no appointment listed
15.08.1935
-
(07.)1937
HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
23.07.1937
-
(02.)1938
HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
24.09.1940
-
(10.)1940
HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, NS)
10.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Broadway (destroyer)
(12.1941)
 
 
Admiralty [HMS President] *
01.12.1941
-
(07.1945)
on staff of British Admiralty Maintenance and Supply Representative [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA)]
Garnett,
Ian Graham Hartt
I.G.H. Garnett
I.G.H. Garnett (Photo courtesy of Mr Brian Peabody)
Son of Dr ... Garnett, and ... Crawford.
Married (06.11.1943, Westminster district, London) Barbara Anne Langrishe Hackett, WRNS, only daughter of Lt.Col. H.M.M. Hackett, MC; ... children (son: V.Adm. Ian David Graham Garnett).
29.11.1914
Greenwich district, London
-
19.07.1996

Poole, Dorset
Cadet
01.01.1932
Midsh.
01.09.1932
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1935
S.Lt.
07.04.1936, seniority 01.07.1935
Lt.
01.10.1936
?, seniority 01.04.1936
Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1944
Cdr.
30.06.1949
Capt.
30.06.1957 (retd 09.07.1966)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
28.06.1940
2nd Battle of Narvik
16.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)
03.02.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
03.01.1935
-
(07.1935)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
25.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
09.07.1936
-
(07.)1937
HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China)
12.1937
-
(08.)1938
HMS Delight (destroyer) (China)
29.09.1938
-
(04.)1939
gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
24.07.1939
-
(09.1939)
First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
26.02.1940
-
(02.1941)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Bedouin (destroyer)
04.1942
-
(08.)1942
gunnery school, Devonport [HMS Drake]
14.09.1942
-
(10.)1943
Gunnery Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship)
16.11.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
01.12.1944
-
(04.)1946
Gunnery Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)
06.1946
-
(10.1947)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
12.01.1948
-
(07.1948)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
08.10.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
(05.1953)


Admiralty [HMS President] *
08.03.1954
-
26.04.1955
Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Alvie (anti-submarine frigate)
19.07.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties)
(01.1957)


no appointment listed
15.07.1959
-
(07.)1961
Commanding Officer, HMS Cambridge (HM gunnery school, Wembury, nr Plymouth)
18.09.1961
-
(02.1964)
Representative at Bangkok & UK Military Adviser to SEATO [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)]
07.01.1966
-
07.07.1966
Naval ADC to the Queen
* indexed, but not listed as such
Garnons-Williams,
Gerald Aylmer

G.A. Garnons-Williams mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer G.A. Garnons-Williams
Elder son (with three brothers and two sisters) of Gerald Garnons-Williams, JP (1859-1942), and Minnie Lilian Court (1868-), of Aberclydach, Talybont-on-Usk, Breconshire.
Married (04.08.1917, All Saints' Church, Llanelly) Enid Eileen Towranna "Towy" Mansel-Lewis, third daughter of Charles William Mansel-Lewis, DL, JP, of Stradley Catle, Llanelly, Canmarthenshire; one son.

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24.01.1893
Brecon, Breconshire
-
03.11.1977
Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire
A/S.Lt. 15.05.1913
S.Lt. 15.03.1914
Lt. 30.06.1915
Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1923
Cdr. 30.06.1927 (retd 24.01.1943)
A/Capt. 1941?
Capt. (retd) 24.01.1943
Distinguished Service Order DSO 25.08.1942 Operation Ironclad (assault & capture of Diego Suarez 05.42) [investiture 07.12.43]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 18.02.1919 service in minelaying submarines 01.07-11.11.18
Mention in Despatches MID 11.10.1940 blocking ports of either Zeebrugge, or Dieppe, or Calais
Mention in Despatches MID 23.02.1943 Operation Streamline Jane (operations at Majunga & Tanarive, Madagascar 09.42)
Officer, Legion of Merit (USA) LM 13.08.1946 South East Asia Command 01.44-10.45
Education: Copthorne School, Crawley; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.
15.01.1906     entered RN
1914 - 1918 served Great War
... - ... ...
(1920)     HMS Excellent
09.08.1920     Commanding Officer, HMS L 71 (submarine)
... - ... ...
(1937)     HMS Cormorant
... - ... ...
26.09.1939 - (05.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Florentino (special service vessel; sunk as blockship)
13.05.1940 - (06.)1940 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
11.06.1940 - (10.)1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
(12.1940) - (06.1941) no appointment listed
03.07.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary)
18.08.1941 - (12.)1941 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.12.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Hollywood Hotel, Largs)
05.1942     Senior Naval Officer, Landing (SNOL) on Operation Ironclad  [HMS Keren] (DSO) [after-action report] [battle summary]
(06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed
09.1942     Joint Assault Commander on Operation Streamline Jane (despatches)
(10.1942) - (06.1943) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
1942 - 1943 Director of Combined Operations (India)
(08.1943)     Naval Planning Staff, Combined Operations Headquarters
(10.1943) - (10.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] *
1943 - 1945 on staff of Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Cardiganshire, 01.03.1959.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Garnons-Williams,
Nevill Glennie

N.G. Garnons-Williams (Photo courtesy of Mrs Bronwen Cook) mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer N.G. Garnons-Williams
Son of Rev. Arthur Garnons-Williams (?-1935), and Anna Jane Glennie, of Abercamlais, Brecon.
Married (08.12.1928, St Michael's Church, Chester Square, St George Hanover Square district, London) Violet Tours (1899 - (06?).1979), daughter of B.G. Tours, CMG; one daughter.

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02.10.1899
New Radnor, Kington district, Radnorshire
-
27.02.1983
Pontypool district, Gwent, Wales
S.Lt. 15.05.1918
Lt. 15.06.1919
Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1927
Cdr. 30.06.1933 (retd 06.10.1946)
A/Capt. 05.05.1941
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 1919 ?
Education: Tredennicke School, Worcester; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth; Caius College, Cambridge (01.10.1919-...).
09.1912     entered RN
... - ... ...
11.08.1927 - (04.1928) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for Experimental Department)
... - ... ...
03.08.1937 - (02.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)
(03.1940) - (04.1940) no appointment listed
15.04.1940 - (04.)1941 an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
05.05.1941 - (06.)1941 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
(10.)1941 - (07.1945) Naval Assistant to the Controller of Projectile Development & Associate Member (Ex-Officio), Ordnance Board
(04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
Deputy Lieutenant (1948) & Justice of the Peace (1953), Breconshire. Vice-Lieutenant, 1959-1964, then Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 20.01.1964-31.03.1974.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Garrett,
Charles Richard
C.R. Garrett

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13.03.1901
Puri, Orissa, India
-
16.02.1968
Kenya
Cadet
?
Midsh.
?
S.Lt.
?
Lt.
15.12.1922
Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1930 (retd < 07.1935)
A/Cdr.
(06.1944)
Cdr. (retd)
?, seniority 13.03.1941 (reactivated 19.08.1939) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
Education: RN College, Osborne
He played rugby for the RN against the All Blacks and commanded the Devonport Gun Crew at the Royal tournament in 1929. Played First Class cricket for the RN, 1926-1929.
15.09.1914     entered RN



served World War I (apparently on a battleship during the Battle for Jutland)
1920s ?


ADC to the Prince of Wales (Caribbean tour?)
1920s ?


Flag Lieutenant to the Earl of Cork and Orrery
24.06.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Dauntless (light cruiser) (temporary)
27.05.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Thunderer (battlesip) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (temporary)
17.12.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Frobisher (cruiser) & as Squadron Physical & Recreational Training Officer, First Cruiser Squadron) (China)
13.03.1929
-
(08.)1929
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for School of Physical and Recreational Training)
14.11.1929
-
(02.1931)
HMS Despatch (cruiser) & as Fleet Physical & Recreational Training Officer, America and West Indies Station
(01.1932)


no appointment listed
17.03.1932
-
(01.1934)
staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
19.08.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
02.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
Executive Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor)
10.11.1941
-
(08.)1943
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(10.1943)
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed
[quite common for personnel especially intended to take part in Operation Neptune]
?
-
(06.1944)
Naval Party 1658 [HMS Ascanius (depot ship, Normandy)] (under Eastern Task Force, allocated to Gooseberry 4 [part of Mulberry B harbours])
[also indicated as serving at HMS Matador (nominal depot ship for ferry service personnel in Red Ensign ships)]
04.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser)
Post-war a stockbroker (partner in Hichens, Harrison, Co., 1947-1957).
Garrett,
Horatio Morey
H.M. Garrett (© Imperial War Museum (A 579))

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07.01.1884
Salford, Lancashire
-
23.05.1954
Addington Hospital, Durban, South Africa
Lt. 01.10.1906
Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1914 (retd 02.02.1927; own request)
Cdr. (retd) 02.02.1927
A/Capt. (retd) < 10.1940
24.08.1939 - (02.1943) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
Garside,
Frederick Rodney
F.R. Garside

Only son of William Frederick Garside, and Alice Prudence Garside, of Bexhill-on-Sea.
Married (1931) Margaret Ada Beatrice Ramsay; one son, one daughter.
Lived at Kensington, London.

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07.03.1897
Morden, Greater London, Surrey
-
08.07.1940
(KIA) [age 43]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]
Cadet
?
Midsh.
31.07.1914
A/S.Lt.
15.05.1916
S.Lt.
15.11.1916
Lt.
15.12.1917
Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1925
Cdr.
31.12.1930
Capt.
31.12.1935
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 02.01.1939 New Year 39
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth
01.1910


joined RN
1919
-
1918
served throughout European War in HMS Orion
25.10.1922
-
(08.1923)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Castor (light cruiser)
08.04.1924
-
(01.1925)
for gunnery duties at Shoeburyness [HMS President]
04.06.1925
-
17.06.1925
London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]
18.06.1925
-
02.08.1925
HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per SS ['Themis Rodeo'?])
03.08.1925
-
06.04.1926
HMAS Adelaide (cruiser) [lent to RAN]
07.04.1926
-
14.10.1927
HMAS Sydney (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer [lent to RAN]
15.10.1927
-
07.02.1928
HMAS Cerberus & London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to UK per SS Orsova) [lent to RAN]
08.02.1928
-
(06.1928)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
22.07.1929
-
(02.)1931
First Lieutenant, HMS Excellent (gunnery school,  Whale Island, Portsmouth)
12.11.1931
-
(06.1933)
Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
03.03.1934
-
(07.1934)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(02.1935)


no appointment listed
02.04.1935
-
(07.1935)
Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China)
(02.1936)


no appointment listed
16.10.1936
-
(10.)1938
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.01.1939
-
08.07.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (01.1939 Devonport, 04.1939 East Indies, 09.1939 Simonstown, 05.1940 Mediterranean) [killed in action during an attack by Italian aircraft]
04.1939
-
09.1939
Flag Captain & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station
Garside,
Richard Murray
R.M. Garside(© Imperial War Museum (A 23718))
Married (29.11.1946, Bermuda) Jane Phillida York.
(09?).1914
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
12.04.1988
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire and Worcestershire
... ...
Paym.Lt. 01.12.1935
Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1943
A/Cdr. (S) ?
Cdr. (S) ? (retd 26.04.1958)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1949 New Year 1949
Mention in Despatches MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
... - ... ...
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
(06.1944)     on staff of Rear-Admiral Mulberry/Pluto on staff of ANCXF (Invasion of Normandy, 1944) [HMS Odyssey] (despatches)
... - ... ...
(1948)     HMS Sheffield (OBE)
Garson,
Robin William
"Bob"
R.W. Garson (Imperial War Museum © Crown copyright. IWM (A 35278))
Second son of Peter Garson, and Ada Frances Newton (she re-married 1943 Alfred H. Paice).
Married (04.02.1946, Rothesay, Isle of Bute) Joy Ligertwood Hickman, widow of W/Cdr. A.M. Taylor, DFC, of Tydd, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire; one son, one daughter.
13.11.1921
Richmond district, Surrey
-
26.01.2006

Old Hunstanton, Norfolk
S.Lt. 01.01.1942
Lt. 01.02.1943, seniority 01.04.1942
Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1950
Cdr. 31.12.1956
Capt. 30.06.1966 (retd 28.07.1975)
Cdre. 1973-1975
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 14.06.1975 HM's birthday 75
Education: School of Oriental and African Studies. Qualified as interpreter 2nd class in Japanese, 02.1951.
1937     entered RN
      HMS Resolution (battleship)
      HMS Nigeria (cruiser)
15.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
10.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Seawolf (submarine)
1944?     HMS H 33 (submarine)
(04.1944) - (01.)1945 HMS Spark (submarine) *
04.06.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Universal (submarine)
12.07.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Uther (submarine)
18.12.1945 - 03.05.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Seraph (submarine)
      Commanding Officer, HMS Saga
01.02.1947 - (04.1947) Executive Officer, HMS Sanguine
(07.1948)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
15.09.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous duties)
      Commanding Officer, HMS Springer
      Commanding Officer, HMS Thule
06.12.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Astute
(07.1954) - (01.1956) HMS Astute *
17.11.1956 - (1958) Commanding Officer, HMS Chaser (submarine support ship) & Senior Officer, Submarines, Portland
(01.1959)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
30.12.1959 - (07.1961) SSMO on staff of British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC [HMS Saker]
25.06.1962 - (02.)1963 Commander Submarines, 1st Submarine Squadron [HMS Dolphin]
07.10.1963 - (02.1964) Executive Officer, HMS Ariel (air electrical school and RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
13.04.1965     HMS President (for duty at CINCEASTLANT)
15.09.1966 - (02.)1968 HMS Terror (for duty on staff of Commander, Far East Fleet as Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence))
(02.1969)     RN College, Greenwich *
05.03.1969 - 1971 staff of Commander British Naval Staff, Washington [HMS Saker] (for duty as Senior Polaris UK Representative)
1971 - 1973 Captain, 1st Submarine Squadron
05.10.1973 - 1975 Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
07.07.1974 - 07.01.1975 also: Naval ADC to the Queen
Director of Leisure Services, London Borough of Hillingdon, 1975-1986. Adviser to AMA on Arts and Recreation, 1976-1986; Adviser to Sports Council, 1985-1986; Member, Library Advisory Council (England), 1977-1983. Patron, RN Submarine Museum, 1990-.
Gartside-Tippinge,
Hugh
H. Gartside-Tippinge
Son of Ernest Alfred and Jane Gartside-Tippinge.
Married ((09?).1938, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Edna Waters (28.11.1907 - 22.07.1988).

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23.04.1896
Oxton, Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
15.07.1969
Prob. Flt. S/Lt. RNAS
?
Flt. S/Lt. RNAS
20.08.1917, seniority 04.06.1917
Lt.
15.11.1917
Lt.Cdr.
15.11.1925 (retd 23.04.1941)
Cdr. (retd)
23.04.1941 (reverted to retd 1946?)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 09.06.1949 HM's birthday 49
Mention in Despatches MID 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines
15.01.1909     entered RN
08.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Valhalla (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet)
28.07.1927
-
(08.1929)
Commanding Officer, HMS Watchman (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
18.09.1929
-
(02.1931)
Commanding Officer, HMS Cricket (gunboat) (China)
(01.1932)
-
(09.1932)
no appointment listed
20.01.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
14.02.1935
-
(02.1936)
HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) (for Maintenance Reserve destroyers)
06.01.1937
-
(02.1937)
Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (Maintenance Reserve, Rosyth)
28.02.1937
-
(04.1939)
HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) (for destroyers in reserve)
31.07.1939
-
(09.1939)
Commanding Officer, HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
19.02.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
04.02.1943
-
(06.1944)
Resident Naval Officer, Lossiemouth [HMS Bacchante]
04.12.1944
-
(04.1946)
Royal Naval Barracks, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
Garwood,
Trevor Henry
T.H. Garwood
Son (with two sisters) of Eng.R.Adm. Hugh Sydney Garwood, CB, OBE (1872-1948), and Edna Mary Coachafer, of Abbey Leys, Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire.
Married (1940) Margaret Albert Harvey, of North Berwick, East Lothian, second daughter of Mr & Mrs Wilson Harvey, of Mount Hamilton, Auchincruive, Ayrshire.

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07.10.1910
St Thomas, Devon
-
26.09.1942
(MPK) [age 31]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 51,1]
Cadet 01.01.1928
Midsh. 01.09.1928
A/S.Lt. 01.01.1931
S.Lt. 16.11.1931
Lt. 16.08.1934
Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1942
Mention in Despatches MID 02.12.1941 air attack, mining of Icemaid
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1924-12.1927).
15.05.1924     entered RN
14.01.1928 - 01.1931 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
01.01.1931 - 12.1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
04.01.1932 - (09.)1932 promotion courses, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
05.09.1932 - (01.)1933 HMS Woolston (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
09.02.1933 - (03.)1934 HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
15.05.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Guardian (netlaying and target towing vessel)
(02.1935)     short course of instruction
15.03.1935 - (02.)1937 HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand)
08.06.1937 - (07.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
30.07.1937 - (09.)1939 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
22.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Vivien (destroyer)
29.07.1941 - 15.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Shearwater (patrol vessel) (despatches)
19.08.1942 - 26.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Veteran (destroyer) (ship Sunk on 26 Sep 1942 by U-404 in North Atlantic)
Garwood,
Robert Cecil Somers
R.C.S. Garwood
Married; ... children (one daughter?).

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13.07.1901
Somerset Island, Bermuda
-
27.08.1987

RN Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire (formerly of Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire)
Midsh.
15.09.1917
S.Lt.
15.05.1921
Lt.
15.02.1923
Lt.Cdr.
15.02.1931
Cdr.
30.06.1938 (retd 16.09.1948)
A/Capt.
24.08.1942 till (04.1944?)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
12.11.1946
? [investiture 20.05.47]

Distinguished Service Order

DSO
11.09.1945
anti U-boat operations 20.04.45 [investiture 09.07.46]
15.01.1915     entered RN
(01.1919)
 
 
HMS Lion (battlecruiser)
01.01.1923


submarine course, HMS Dolphin
13.04.1923


HMS Conqueror (as spare officer)
19.04.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS K 12 (submarine) (for navigating duties in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) [tender to HMS Conquest]
01.01.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (China) (as spare 3rd officer)
06.05.1926
 
 
HMS Victory (for special service)
24.06.1926
-
(02.)1927
HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) (additional)
15.04.1927
-
30.04.1927
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (as spare First Lieutenant for submarines)
01.05.1927
-
(07.1927)
First Lieutenant, HMS L 21 (submarine) [tender to HMS Conquest]
03.1928
-
(06.)1928
submarine Commanding Officers' course [HMS Alecto]
01.09.1928
-
28.09.1928
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines)
29.09.1928
-
08.11.1929
Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan]
14.01.1930
-
25.06.1930
HMS President (for study of Russian at King's College)
26.06.1930
-
04.1931
HMS President (for 9 months' study of Russian in Estonia) [qualified as interpreter in Russian 04.1931]
20.04.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
27.06.1932


HMS Ross (twin-screw minesweeper)
23.08.1932
 -
(09.1932)
Commanding Officer, HMS H 48 (submarine) (temporarily) [tender to HMS Alecto]
10.01.1933
-
31.05.1933
in command of Group "D" Submarines [HMS L 16 & HMS L 20] in reserve at Portsmouth [tenders to HMS Pigmy]
01.06.1933
-
(01.)1934
Commanding Officer, HMS L 22 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
11.06.1934
-
01.1937
Commanding Officer, HMS Regulus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
(02.1937)
 
 
no appointment listed
26.07.1937
 -
16.09.1937
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
17.09.1937
-
(06.)1938
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
(08.1938)
 
 
no appointment listed
30.09.1938
-
31.12.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Tarpon (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
01.01.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Seaborn (accounting base, Halifax, NS) & as Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear Admiral Commanding Third Battle Squadron
08.1941
-
23.01.1942
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
24.01.1942
-
06.1942
HMS Saker II (accounting base, Washington, USA)
06.1942
-
23.08.1942
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
24.08.1942
-
(12.1943)
Naval Liaison Officer to Soviet Black Fleet [HMS President]



Naval Liaison Officer to 14th Army, Burma
(04.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
10.05.1944
-
09.07.1944
HMS Towy (frigate)
10.07.1944
-
02.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Bentinck (frigate)
24.09.1945
-
(04.1946)
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Surabaya [HMS Sultan]
(07.1948)
 
 
no appointment listed
Gascoigne,
John Cleland
"Jack"
J.C. Gascoigne J.C. Gascoigne
Married ((09?).1946, Stafford district, Staffordshire) Mary Lois Mountford, WRNS (26.02.1917 - 09.2000).
25.08.1913
Bilbao, Spain
-
10.02.1978
Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
A/T/Instr.Lt. 25.09.1935
T/Instr.Lt. 16.04.1936, seniority 25.09.1935
Instr.Lt. 01.1941, seniority 25.09.1935
Instr.Lt.Cdr. 25.09.1941
Instr.Cdr, 31.12.1948 (retd 01.09.1961)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St ? -
Atlantic Star Atl St ? -
Defence Medal Def M ? -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 ? -
Mention in Despatches MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943
Coronation Medal 1953 Cor M ? -
Education: Peter Symonds' School, Winchester; Imperial College, London University (BSc 1934).
... - ... ...
28.08.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Revenge (Royal Sovereign class battleship)
05.09.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove)
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
18.09.1941 - (02.)1944 HMS Kent (Kent class cruiser)
28.02.1944 - (04.1946) Education Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
... - ... ...
MRAeS. Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1969. Spent one year with the Careers Service of Birmingham University, three years lecturing on applied mathematics at Goldsmith's College, London University, and then returned to his old job at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, as a civilian. When the Mechanical Engineering Department there was closed in 1968 he transferred to the Inspectorate of Armaments at Woolwich Arsenal where he remained until his death.
Published
: (with H. Levy) On the combination of observational data. In: Proceedings of the Physical Society (Volume 48, 1936).
Gatehouse,
Richard

R. Gatehouse (© Imperial War Museum (A 14405)) R. Gatehouse
R. Gatehouse (© Imperial War Museum (A 16829)) R. Gatehouse
 
Son (with three siblings) of Hugh Gatehouse (1872-1949), and Aileen Dorothy Vesey-Fitzgerald (1888-1940).
Married (09.10.1944, Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, Westminster district, London) Hazel Evelyn Rosemary Rumbold (née Hampshire) (18.12.1919 - 16.11.2007), eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs J.P. Hampshire, of Wimbledon; four children.
16.03.1916
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
19.01.1998
Swindon district, Wiltshire
Midsh. 01.01.1934
A/S.Lt. 01.05.1936
S.Lt. ...
Lt. 16.08.1938
A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1946
Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 29.01.1958)
A/Capt. (01.1958)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 20.01.1942 5 war patrols Mediterranean 02-07.1941 [investiture 14.04.1942]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 15.08.1944 10 war patrols Mediterranean [investiture 13.02.1945]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.11.1953 Korea (7th List) [investiture 16.03.1954]
01.01.1934 - (10.1935) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
04.01.1937 - (07.1937) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
... - ... ...
17.12.1938 - (06.)1940 HMS Trident (T class submarine)
15.07.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines)
08.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
10.1940 - (07.)1941 HMS Triumph (T class submarine) (DSC)
17.07.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
06.10.1941 - (12.)1941 submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
11.12.1941 - 16.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (T class submarine)
18.01.1942 - 16.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS H 34 (H class submarine)
18.04.1942 - 21.06.1942 Commanding Officer. HMS Unshaken (U class submarine)
06.1942 - (09.)1942 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
23.09.1942 - 30.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Sportsman (S class submarine) (Bar to DSC)
09.09.1944 - 30.01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (O class submarine)
30.01.1945 - 13.11.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Astute (A class submarine)
... - ... ...
(10.1947)     HMS Appledore *
10.12.1947 - (10.1948) Executive Officer, HMS Hawke (Upper Yardmen's College, Exbury House, Exbury, Southampton)
16.05.1949 - (05.1951) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
(1953)     HMS Charity (2nd Bar to DSC)
05.10.1953 - (01.1954) Commanding Officer, HMS Tenacious
01.11.1954 - (04.1956) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1958)     no appointment listed
Gay,
George Wilsmore
G.W. Gay (Photo courtesy of Mrs Lyn Lord)
Son of late Eng.Cdr. George Murch Gay (1875-1933), and Olive T. Allen.
Cousin of Lt. Cedric Charles Fielding Scarlett, RN.
Married ((03?).1941, Plymouth district, Devon) Nancy Agnes Clark ((12?).1916 - ), daughter of Robert J.H. Clark, and Mary W. Crocker; two sons, one daughter.

02.10.1913
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
15.11.2001

Plymouth district, Devon
Cadet (E) 1930?
Midsh. (E) 01.01.1932
A/S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1934
S.Lt. (E) 01.12.1934
Lt. (E) 01.12.1936
A/Lt.Cdr. (E) < 10.1943
Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.06.1944
Cdr. (E) 30.06.1947
Capt. (E) 31.12.1958
R.Adm. (E) 07.01.1967 (retd 14.04.1969)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1969 New Year 69
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 29.06.1943 successful submarine patrols [investiture 18.04.44]
Education: Eastman's School, Southsea; Nautical College, Pangbourne.
1930     entered RN
1930 - 1932 cadet training
14.01.1932 - (07.)1935 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham
20.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
03.01.1938 - (02.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
15.04.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
09.01.1939 - 11.1940 Engineering Officer, HMS Porpoise (minelaying submarine) (North Sea)
(02.1941)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
28.06.1941 - 26.10.1943 Engineering Officer, HMS Clyde (submarine) (Gibraltar) (DSC)
26.10.1943 - 1946 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) (responsible for engineering support to Motor Torpedo Boats and submarines) (MBE)
01.04.1946 - 1947 a Second Assistant to the Manager, Engineering Department, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.10.1947 - (07.)1948 Engineering Officer, HMS Euryalus (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
11.1948 - (05.)1950 Squadron Engineer Officer, 1st Submarine Squadron, HMS Forth
12.02.1951 - (05.)1953 Training Commander, HMS Raleigh (new entry training establishment, Torpoint, Cornwall)
16.11.1953 - (04.)1955 Admiralty Engineer Overseer, Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness [Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty, HMS President] (and for duty with submarines)
20.09.1955     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
03.01.1956 - 1958 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse and 5th Submarine Squadron)
05.03.1958     Senior Officer's  War Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(01.1959)     no appointment listed
1959 - 1960 HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo]
07.12.1960 - 29.01.1963 Commanding Officer, HMS Sultan (marine propulsion machinery school, Gosport)
05.03.1963 - 1966 Chief Staff Officer. Material to Flag Officer Submarines [HMS Dolphin]
22.04.1966     Admiralty Interview Board [HMS Sultan]
10.01.1967 - 17.02.1969 Director-General of Naval Training, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB)
FIMechE (MIMechE 1958). Justice of the Peace (JP), Plymouth, 1970.

Gay,
Gerald John Sandeman
G.J.S. Gay
Only son (with two sisters) of Bt.Col. Levi John Albert Gay, TD (1881-1940), and Isobel Maud Sandeman (1880-1952), of Four Oaks, Warwickshire.
Married (18.03.1933, Plymouth, Devonport district, Devonshire) Mary Herma Picton (born (06?).1910), younger daughter of J. Sidney Picton, and Mrs Picton, of Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire; one son, one daughter.
(09?).1909
Epsom district, Surrey
-
17.01.1942

(MPK) [age 32]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 63, column 1]
[commemorated at Saundersfoot (St Issell's) War Memorial, Pembroke]
Cadet (E)
01.01.1928
Midsh. (E)
01.01.1929
S.Lt. (E)
01.03.1931
A/Lt. (E)
29.06.1933, seniority 01.03.1933
Lt. (E)
01.03.1933
Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.03.1941
Education: Bishop Vesey's School, Warwickshire.
01.01.1928
-
09.01.1929
special entry cadet, HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship, Devonport)
10.01.1929
-
(09.1932)
engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
07.01.1933
-
(11.1934)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(02.1935)
 
 
no appointment listed
25.03.1935
-
(02.)!937
HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean)
27.05.1937
-
(02.)1938
HMS Greyhound (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
04.05.1938
-
(04.)1939
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
13.06.1939
-
(09.)1939
HMS Centurion (target vessel) (Home Fleet)
10.10.1939
-
02.1941
HMS Larne (destroyer) [while under construction], renamed:
02.1941
-
17.01.1942
HMS Gurkha (destroyer) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-133 off the Libyan coast]
Was one of the representatives of the Royal Navy upon several occasions for bayonet fencing (individual combats) at the Royal Tournament and he also was a runner of some repute while at Keyham.
Gee,
Edward
E. Gee (Photo courtsey of Mr Richard Taylor)
Son of Robert Gee, of Fulham.
Married ((06?).1925, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Winifred May Hickson (02.06.1895, London - ).

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06.04.1899
Fulham, Greater London
-
16.02.1984
Boy 2nd class
09.10.1914 [J32617]
Boy 1st class
06.04.1915
Ord.Sea.
06.10.1916
Ldg.Sea.
01.04.1919
Petty Officer
01.06.1921
A/Gnr. (T)
01.01.1925
Gnr. (T)
?, seniority 01.01.1925
Cd.Gnr. (T)
01.01.1935
Lt.
29.03.1942 (retd 01.05.1948; own request)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.01.1941
good service in minelayers
Mention in Despatches MID
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St
?
?
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20
?
?
Victory Medal VM
?
?
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
?
?
Atlantic Star Atl St
?
?
Defence Medal DefM
?
possibly (& possibly others)
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
?
?

 

09.10.1914


HMS Powerful (training ship)
21.04.1915


HMS Andes (armed merchant cruiser) (North Sea)
13.10.1916


HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth)
20.03.1917


HMS Greenwich (depot ship) (Scapa Flow) [Seaman Torpedoman 19.10.1917-31.05.1921; Leading Torpedo Operator 08.03.1918-04.08.1921]
24.03.1918


HMS M 17 (coastal monitor) [based at HMS Europa II (headquarters ship), from 01.01.1919 HMS Caesar (depot ship)] (Mediterranean & Black Sea)
01.10.1919


HMS Vernon (torpedo training school, Portsmouth) [Torpedo Gunner's Mate 05.08.1921]
04.01.1923


HMS Barham (battleship)
21.09.1923


HMS Vernon (torpedo training school, Portsmouth)
01.09.1925
-
(06.1928)
HMCS Patriot (destroyer) [lent to RCN]
01.1929
-
04.1929
RN College, Greenwich
08.04.1929
-
06.1930
HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron)
02.07.1930
-
(01.)1932
HMCS Champlain (destroyer) [lent to RCN from 30.06.1930]
26.07.1932
-
(07.1935)
HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
29.11.1935
-
12.12.1935
London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]
13.12.1935
-
22.01.1936
HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Williamstown, Victoria) (additional; for passage to Australia per SS Narkunda)  [lent to RAN]
23.01.1936
-
13.01.1938
HMAS Vendetta (destroyer) [lent to RAN]
14.01.1938
-
21.01.1938
HMAS Vendetta (destroyer) (additional) [lent to RAN]
22.01.1938
-
16.02.1938
HMAS Penguin (depot ship) (Sydney, NSW) (additional) [lent to RAN]
17.02.1938 -
23.05.1938
London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to New York per SS Niagara & per SS Alaunia to UK, followed by FS leave) [lent to RAN]
02.06.1938
-
(12.1941)
HMS Plover (coastal minelayer)
03.06.1942
-
(08.1942)
Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton)
(02.1943)
-
(06.1943)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton) *
(08.1943)


no appointment listed
1943?


HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto)
(10.1943)


HMS President (Admiralty) *
(12.1943)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
06.12.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
06.1944


aboard SS Troilus (presumably in transit to Australia)
04.12.1944


HMAS Penguin
15.12.1944


HMS Nabbington (RAAF Station, Nowra, NSW)
03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Nabbington (Mobile Naval Air Base I, Nowra, NSW)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
07.1946


HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
Geekie,
Bernard John
B.J. Geekie (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim King)
Son of William Bernard and Nellie Geekie.
Married ((06?).1919, St Giles district, London / Middlesex) Mrs Norah Kathleen Howell (née Megone) (23.09.1887 - 02.1985), widow of Colin Ellis Howell; one daughter.
Residence: (1940) Cosham, Portsmouth.

11.06.1888
Oxford, Oxfordshire
-
03.11.1940
RN Hospital, Haslar
(died after three days' illness) [age 52]
[Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, M.7.3]
T/Dent.Surg. RNVR = 
T/Sg.Lt. (D) RNVR
07.09.1917
Sg.Lt. (D)
11.03.1920, seniority 05.08.1914
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D)
05.08.1920 (retd 11.06.1933)
Sg.Cdr. (D) (retd)
11.06.1933
Education: Magdalene College School, Oxford; LDS, RCS (1911).



also served in the 1914-18 War in the RNVR
11.03.1920
 
 
transferred to Permanent List RN
26.01.1923
-
(05.)1926
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
29.05.1926
-
(02.)1927
Royal Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
(07.1927)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1928)
-
(06.1928)
no appointment listed
17.08.1928
-
(02.)1931
Royal Hospital, Bermuda [HMS Malabar]
01.10.1931
-
(01.)1932
Medical Officers' post-graduate course [HMS President]
19.01.1932
-
11.06.1933
RM Infirmary, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
26.08.1939
-
03.11.1940
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
George VI,
King
HRH George VI
the then Prince Albert in 1915

see for full names & titles:
www.regiments.org

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14.12.1895
York Cottage, Sandringham
-
06.02.1952
Sandringham House, Norfolk
Cadet
14.01.1909
Midsh.
15.09.1913
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1915
S.Lt.
15.05.1916
A/Lt.
30.08.1916
Lt.
1918, seniority 15.06.1916
Cdr.
31.12.1920
Capt.
30.06.1925
R.Adm.
03.06.1932
V.Adm.
01.01.1936
Adm.
21.01.1936
Adm. of the Fleet
11.12.1936
see for full list of awards & decorations:
www.regiments.org
Education: RN Colleges Osborne (14.01.1909-13.12.1910) & Dartmouth (14.01.1911-18.12.1912)
14.01.1909
 
 
entered RN
17.01.1913
-
08.07.1913
HMS Cumberland (training cruiser) (Devonport, Atlantic)
15.09.1913
-
1916
HMS Collingwood (battleship) [actually joining the ship 29.09.1913]
served in the Great War (present at Battle of Jutland, MID, received: 1914 star with clasp, British War and Allied Victory medals, Knt. Military Order of Savoy of Italy, Knt. 4th class with swords of the Order of St Vladimir of Russia)
20.11.1916
-
1917
served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
11.1917


transferred to RN Air Service
10.12.1936
-
06.02.1952
King of Great Britain, Ireland, etc.
Gerard,
Oswald John
O.J. Gerard
Third son of Mr & Mrs G. Gerard, of Fendalton, Chirstchurch, New Zealand.
Married 1st (07.04.1923, Bisham Church, Maidenhead district, Berkshire) Evelyn Marjorie Reid, only daughter of Mrs Winton Reid, of Merlindale, Marlow, formerly of Nether Cormiston, Biggar, Lanakrshire.
Married 2nd ((06?).1935, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Hilda Kitty "Bobby" Wonnall, divorced wife of Paym.Lt. John Hugh Peterson Clover, and daughter of Staff Paym. T.G.B. Wonnall, RN, and Mrs F.S. Wales-Edward, of RN Hospital, Bigni, Malta; ... children (two sons, one daughter?).

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20.03.1902
[Christchurch?], New Zealand
-
27.04.1983
[Levin?], New Zealand
Midsh. 01.05.1918
A/S.Lt. ?
S.Lt. 15.05.1922
Lt. (E) 15.03.1924
Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.03.1932 (retd 1946?)
A/Cdr. (E) 15.12.1942 to 02.1945?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE

12.01.1943

when ship was mined brought to safety 15.05.42
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (09.1915-) & Dartmouth.
15.09.1915     entered RN
11.04.1922 - ? HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
(08.1923)     no appointment listed
08.05.1924 - (01.)1925 qualifying for engineering duties, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
08.09.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic)
03.11.1926     HMS Dunedin
(02.1927)     New Zealand Division
05.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand Division)
(08.1929)     no appointment listed
20.09.1929 - (02.1931) staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
(01.1932)     no appointment listed
06.01.1932 - 08.11.1932 HMS Defender (destroyer) [building at Barrow-in-Furness]
08.11.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Defender (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
14.11.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Amazon (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
04.04.1934 - 1934 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for HPE course)
(07.1934)     no appointment listed
27.07.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Amphion (cruiser) [building at Portsmouth]
31.03.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Esk (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
(02.1938)     no appointment listed
08.02.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Hotspur (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
12.03.1940 - 12.11.1942 HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-515 off Morocco)
15.12.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Woolwich
(01.1945)     HMS Woolwich *
02.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)
01.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Woolloomooloo (for duty at Fleet Repair Base, Sydney, NSW)
Gethin-Jones,
Huw Gerald
H.G. Gethin-Jones H.G. Gethin-Jones

24.01.1926
-
19.05.2017
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Midsh. 01.05.1943
A/S.Lt. 01.01.1945
S.Lt. 1945?, seniority 01.12.1944
Lt. 01.09.1946
Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1954 (retd 10.12.1955)
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.09.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 134).
01.05.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship)
14.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Devonshire (London class cruiser)
09.1944?     HMS Verulam (V class destroyer)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
(10.1945)     HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) *
04.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Tally-Ho (T class submarine)
... - ... ...
Gibbs,
Charles Bernard
C.B. Gibbs (Photo courtesy of Robin Gibbs) C.B. Gibbs (Photo courtesy of Robin Gibbs)
Son of Charles Gibbs (1882-1954), and Ethel Mary Osman (1885-1925).
Married Gladys Annie Barnes (1910 - 1993), daughter of George Edward Barnes (1873-1917), and Fanny Ellen Dyer; one son.
14.10.1908
Harborne, Warwickshire
-
26.10.1968
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Wt.Ordn.Offr. 19.07.1940
A/Cd.Ordn.Offr. 18.06.1945
Cd.Ordn.Offr. 01.04.1946 (reld 26.10.1948)
28.04.1930     joined RN (for a 12-year period)
      served HMS Nelson, HMS Revenge, HMS Impulsive
28.08.1940 - (12.)1943 HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
08.12.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
06.05.1946 - (07.)1948 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
Gibbs,
Edward Albert
E.A. Gibbs
Married; ... children.
Residence: (1970s) Barton House, East Anstey, Tiverton, Devon.

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21.04.1903
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
22.07.1982
Taunton Deane district, Somerset
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1923
S.Lt.
19.03.1925, seniority 30.04.1924
Lt.
30.04.1926
Lt.Cdr.
30.04.1934
Cdr.
30.06.1939
A/Capt.
1944
Capt.
31.12.1946 (retd 11.02.1949)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
23.12.1939
successful actions against enemy submarines
Distinguished Service Order DSO
21.03.1941
Operation Menace (sinking submarine)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
22.12.1942
action with U162, 02.09.42
Distinguished Service Order DSO
06.07.1943
destruction U-boat, 25.04.43
Mention in Despatches MID
10.11.1942
Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.42)
Mention in Despatches MID
13.04.1943
rescue Strathallan 11.12.42
18.08.1924
-
(01.1925)
promotion course, Portsmouth
03.01.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
27.07.1929
-
(07.1929)
HMS Vivien (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
27.07.1929
-
(04.1930)
HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
20.01.1931
-
(09.1932)
First Lieutenant, HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
01.05.1934
-
(07.1935)
HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (for emergency destroyers) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
13.01.1936
-
(02.1936)
Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
11.1936
-
(04.1939)
Commanding Officer, HMS Hasty (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
15.07.1939
-
(09.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Fortune (destroyer)
07.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
06.01.1942
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Pathfinder (destroyer)
17.03.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Cochrane (depot ship Rosyth)
26.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
Captain (D) Newfoundland [on loan to RCN] [HMS Avalon]
08.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr. Winchester)
Gibbs,
Eric Arthur Walter
F.B. Gibbs mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer E.A.W. Gibbs
Eldest son (with four sisters and four brothers) of Arthur Walter Gibbs (1882-1948), and Emily R. Hill (1881-1966), of London NW7.
Married ((12?).1943, Hendon district, Middlesex) Marjorie Beatrice Hoar, eldest daughter of Mrs Hoar, of Plymstock, Devon; ... children.

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25.10.1909
Wealdstone, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
12.04.2007
Torridge, Devon
A/S.Lt. 01.12.1931
S.Lt. 14.11.1932, seniority 01.12.1931
Lt. 01.02.1935
Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1943
Cdr. 30.06.1950 (retd 01.06.1958)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE 01.01.1963 New Year 63: HM East African Ship Mvita [decoration presented]
Mention in Despatches MID 30.01.1945 Operation Millet
... - ... ...
21.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Arrow (destroyer)
(10.1940)     no appointment listed
30.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
08.1941 - (12.1941) Gunnery Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
24.01.1942 - 11.08.1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (ship torpedoed and sunk by U-73 in Mediterranean)
28.09.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
07.07.1943 - (07.)1945 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (despatches)
27.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk)
... - ... ...
Gibbs,
Frank Bridger
F.B. Gibbs
Son of Frank William and Margarette Annie Gibbs (née Bridger).
Husband of Eileen Josephine Gibbs.
(06?).1914
Petworth district, Sussex
-
24.12.1941
(KIA) [age 27]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]
[commemorated on the Haslemere High Street War memorial]
Midsh.
01.09.1932
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1935
S.Lt.
01.08.1935
Lt.
01.12.1937
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41 (for service aboard HMS H 44)
03.09.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
03.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
03.01.1935
-
01.09.1935
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
02.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
promotion course, Portsmouth
30.10.1936
-
(04.)1940
HMS Rorqual (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla)
1940
-
1940
HMS H 44 (submarine)
12.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Unbeaten (submarine)
?
-
24.12.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) (lost in Bay of Biscay)
Gibbs,
George Louis Downall
G.L.D. Gibbs (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Cross)
Son (with four brothers and one sister) of Rev. William Cobham Gibbs (1845-1918), and Annie Katharina Downall (?-1924).
Married (21.09.1926) Susan Fayth Harding-Newman (11.08.1900-05.02.1942), daughter of Francis Robert Harding-Newman, and Florence Susan Willes; two daughters.

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30.07.1882
Abingdon district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire
-
31.10.1956
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
A/S.Lt.
15.04.1902
S.Lt.
21.05.1903, seniority 15.04.1902
Lt.
?
Lt.Cdr.
?
Cdr.
30.06.1915 (retd 22.03.1923; own request)
Capt. (retd)
30.07.1927
Distinguished Service Order DSO
25.07.1916
Commanded a division of destroyers of Dover Patrol with marked ability and dash in action against the enemy 12.15-05.1916
Distinguished Service Order DSO
04.05.1943
HM's birthday 43: Operation Torch [investiture 18.04.44]
Mention in Despatches MID
02.10.1942
Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 08.42)
Mention in Despatches MID
13.04.1915
operations of Dover Patrol off the Belgian coast 10-11.14 [HMS Crusader]
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
07.06.1918
action with enemy submarines
15.05.1897


entered RN
(01.1919)
 
 
RN College, Dartmouth
04.09.1939
-
?
HM's Consul at Narvik
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
18.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for special service)
06.09.1941
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Queen Emma (troopship)
25.04.1944
-
11.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Gibson,
Alexander Pollock
A.P. Gibson
Son of Henry Wilkes Gibson and Jane Grant Gibson.
Husband of Margaret Annis Gibson, of Frampton, Dorsetshire.

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11.11.1902
Hampstead, Greater London, Middlesex
-
23.08.1940
[age 37]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 36. column 1]
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1922
S.Lt.
30.05.1923
Lt.
30.06.1925
Lt.Cdr.
30.06.1933
Cdr.
30.06.1937
Mention in Despatches MID
18.02.1941
Danube expedition 04-06.40
(08.1923)


short course of instruction
20.03.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Hollyhock (sloop) (China)
(05.1926)


no appointment listed
20.04.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Vampire (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
03.01.1929
-
(04.)1930
advanced qualifying course for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich  [HMS President]
14.06.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
23.07.1931
-
(09.1932)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet)
23.08.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
29.04.1935
-
(07.)1937
Torpedo Officer, HMS Apollo (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
15.11.1937
-
02.03.1940
Squadron Torpedo Officer, Destroyer Flotillas Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean)]
(04.1940)


HMS Delhi (cruiser) *
1940
-
23.08.1940
HMS Hostile (destroyer) (ship mined in central Mediterranean)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Gibson,
[Sir] Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes
D.C.E.F. Gibson D.C.E.F. Gibson
D.C.E.F. Gibson D.C.E.F. Gibson
Son of Capt. William London Douglas Gibson (1885-1949), a ranker officer of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and Elizabeth Carrie "Peggy" Pratt (1889-1975).
Married (09.1939, Salisbury, Wiltshire) Marjorie Alice Harding (28.02.1920 - 11.07.1996), daughter of Herbert Charles Harding (1889-1963), and Ethel Florence King (1890-1975), of Horley, Surrey; one son.

17.03.1916
Woodbridge, Plomesgate district, Suffolk
-
22.11.2000
Chulmleigh, Exeter, Devon
Midsh. RNR 01.06.1934
A/S.Lt.. RNR 17.03.1937
S.Lt. RNR 05?.1937
Prob. S.Lt. (Supplementary List) 01.06.1937
S.Lt. (Supplementary List) 24.03.1938, seniority 01.06.1937
Lt. 24.04.1939, seniority 30.03.1939
05.1940?, seniority 01.12.1938
A/Lt.Cdr. [acting rank] 15.04.1943
A/Lt.Cdr. [appointed rank] 01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr. 04.03.1946, seniority 01.12.1945
Cdr. 31.12.1949
Capt. 30.06.1954
R.Adm. 08.07.1963
A/V.Adm. 10.1965
V.Adm. 29.09.1967 (retd 10.1968)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 1968
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1965 New Year 1965
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 19.07.1940 operations over Norwegian coast [investiture 07.07.1942]
Education: Woodbridge School, Suffolk.
Cadet, British India Steam Navigation Company, 1933-1937 (apprentice ss Madura, 01.1933).
09.1934 - 12.1934 HMS Nelson (for 4 month's training)
1937     HMS Drake (for courses)
1937     HMS Wanderer
1937     transferred to Royal Navy
(07.1937) - (03.1938) no appointment listed
05.04.1938 - (12.1938) HMS Nelson (battleship)
(02.1939) - (03.1939) no appointment listed
06.03.1939 - (05.)1939 pilots' course (No. 3 Air Course), No. 20 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Gravesend
08.05.1939 - (08.)1939 pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School (Netheravon)
11.1939 - 01.1940 RNAS Donibristle then RNAS Eastleigh (for fighter training)
01.1940 - (06.)1940 pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys), from 01.02.1940 HMS Glorious (Courageous class aircraft carrier)] (DSC)
(08.1940)     no appointment listed
08.1940 - 11.1941 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal, from 24.11.1940 HMS Formidable, from 01.06.1941 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
11.1941 - (04.)1942 Commanding Officer, 802 Squadron FAA [HMS Audacity, from 01.02.1942 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
05?.1942 - 07?.1942 instructor's course at Empire Central Flying School, RAF Hullavington
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
15.07.1942 - 14.04.1943 HMS Saker II, later HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)
15.04.1943 - (04.)1944 Senior British Naval Officer US
Naval Air Station Opa Locka, Florida, from 10.1943 at Jacksonville, Florida [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)]
(06.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
10.1944 - (04.) 1945 returned to UK, served on the Goulden Committee regarding the future of British Naval Aviation [HMS President]
spring 1945     course at RNAS St Merryn, followed by another at the School of Instrument Flying at RNAS Hinstock (780 Naval Air Squadron)
09.06.1945 - (07.)1945 715 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)]
05.08.1945 - (10.1945) 709 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)]
04.04.1946 - 14.04.1946 Commanding Officer, 758 (A) Squadron FAA & Chief Flying Instructor, Advanced Flying School [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station Hinstock, Shropshire)
15.04.1946 - 1947 Commanding Officer, 780 Squadron FAA & Chief Flying Instructor, Advanced Flying School [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station Hinstock, Shropshire)
17.04.1947 - 09.1947 head Air Department, HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station Culdrose)
09.1947 - 04.1948 Lt.Cdr. (Flying), HMS Illustrious
20.08.1948 - 10.1949 Air Group Commander No. 17 Carrier Air Group[HMS Theseus]
10.1949 - ? Lt.Cdr. (Flying), HMS Illustrious
06.03.1950 - 1952 Comdr (Air), HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station Culdrose)
1952 - 1953 RN Staff Course
1953 - 1953 Comdr (Air) HMS Indomitable
11.08.1953 - (01.)1954 Comdr (Air) HMS Glory
1954 - 1954 Naval Air Interview Board
23.07.1954 - (04.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station Brawdy)
04.10.1956 - (01.)1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Dainty
12.05.1958 - (01.)1960 Deputy Director Air Warfare (DDAW(A)), Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
1960 - 1961 Canadian National Defence College
14.08.1961 - 1963 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal
[early 1962 Court-Martialled for hazarding his ship through negligence after the Ark's rudder touched ground while entering Devonport. Found guilty of most charges but the sentence was quashed after it was found that the marker buoys of the channel were out of place.]
01.1963 - 1964 Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers
1964 - 1965 Flag Officer, Naval Flying Training (CB)
28.10.1965 - (03.)1968 Flag Officer, Naval Air Command [HMS Daedalus] (KCB)
Director, HMS Belfast Trust, 1971-1972; Member General Committee, Devon Community Housing Society Ltd, 1983-. Justice of the Peace (JP),  Barnstaple, 1973.
Published: Haul taut and belay : the memoirs of a flying sailor (1992); A celebration of God's creation (1997).
Gibson,
Hugh Desmond Campbell

H.D.C. Gibson mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer H.D.C. Gibson
Also used as last name: Campbell-Gibson.
Younger son of R.Adm. (E) Cuthbert Walter Sumner Gibson, CB (1890-1971), and Grace Campbell Baldwin (?-1968), of Pyrford, Surrey.
Married (05.03.1949, St Peter's, Yately, Surrey) Deirdre M.P. Wilson, only daughter of the late Lt.Col. W.M.C. Wilson, and Mrs B. Campbell Wilson, of Yately, Camberley, Surrey; one daughter, two sons.
18.08.1924
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
22.06.2008
[age 83]
S.Lt.
16.10.1943
Lt.
16.10.1945
Lt.Cdr.
16.10.1953 (retd)
...
-
...
...
?
-
(10.1944)
HMS Windsor
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Hornet
?
-
(04.1946)
HMS Sussex
... - ... ...
Gibson,
Ian Graeme
I.G. Gibson
Married ((06?).1940, Westminster district, London) Monica M. Alleyn, daughter of Mrs Mary Alleyn, of Button Juggs, Henley-on-Thames.

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02.06.1906
Bromley district, London
-
08.06.2001
Henley district, Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
Midsh. 15.05.1924
A/S.Lt. 12.09.1926
S.Lt. 30.04.1927
Lt. 30.01.1929 (emgcy 13.04.1930)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 30.10.1937
Cdr. (retd) ?
A/Capt. (retd) > 01.1956, < 01.1957
Capt. (retd) > 01.1957, < 07.1961 (reverted to retd late 1960s?)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 58 (on loan to Government of India)
15.05.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Dublin (cruiser) (Africa)
22.05.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Lowestoft (cruiser)
30.12.1926 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.03.1928 - (05.)1928 HMS Carysfort (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (for emergency destroyers)
01.05.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
10.01.1930 - (04.)1930 HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
21.08.1939 - (02.1964) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.08.1939 - (02.)1941 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield Area
15.09.1941 - (08.1942) Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Liverpool (Home Fleet)
04.01.1943 - (02.1943) Naval Ordnance Inspecting Officer, Algiers (Mediterranean Station)
(08.1943) - (12.1943) Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Gibraltar (Western Mediterranean)
(04.1944) - (06.)1944 Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Malta (Western Mediterranean)
07.1944 - (01.)1945 Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Eastern Mediterranean
(07.)1945 - (04.1946) Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Mediterranean
30.03.1948 - (05.1950) HMS President
01.01.1952 - (07.1954) Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Birmingham
20.01.1956 - (01.1957) Director of Naval Armament Inspection, Bombay (on loan to Government of India)
14.03.1958 - (02.1964) Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield (under Naval Ordnance Inspection Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty)
Gibson,
Isham Worsley
I.W. Gibson
3rd son of late Dr J.E. Gibson of Cowes. Married (1914, Devonport) Phyllis, daughter of late Captain Morrish, RN; one son, one daughter.

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12.06.1882
Cowes, Isle of Wight
-
30.11.1950
[East Boldre, Hants ?]
A/S.Lt.
15.07.1901?
S.Lt.
24.11.1902, seniority 15.07.1901
Lt.
03.06.1903, seniority 15.01.1902
[Lt.Cdr.]
15.01.1910
Cdr.
31.12.1914
Capt.
30.06.1920
R.Adm.
14.10.1932 (retd 15.10.1932)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
16.09.1919
for valuable services during the war
Member of the Royal Victorian Order MVO
1901
?
15.07.1896


entered RN



Midshipman of Windsor, RN Guard of Honour, Queen Victoria's Funeral (MVO)
1914
-
1918
served European War: Gunnery Officer, HMS Albion (battleship), Dardanelles, 1915; beachmaster, Suvla Bay, Gallipoli (despatches, OBE)
1922
-
1924
Naval War College
14.10.1924
-
1926
Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
22.06.1927
-
(04.)1930
Director of Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
16.09.1930
-
(02.)1931
Commanding Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
13.08.1931
-
03.08.1932
Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.07.1932
-
14.10.1932
Naval ADC to the King
(08.1942)
-
(02.1943)
no appointment listed
(06.1943)


HMS President *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Gibson,
James Geoffrey Clemons
J.G.C. Gibson

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09.10.1898
-
15.01.1982
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
S.Lt.
15.11.1917
Lt.
15.11.1919
Lt.Cdr.
15.11.1927 (retd 22.01.1934; own request)
Cdr. (retd)
01.09.1940 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41
08.1914
 
 
entered RN
15.01.1919
-
(1919)
HMS President (for course at Cambridge University)
01.05.1923
-
(01.1925)
First Lieutenant, HMS P 38 (patrol boat) (Portland)
(07.1927)


no appointment listed
07.02.1928
-
(04.)1930
HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
(10.1930)


no appointment listed
27.11.1930
-
(01.)1932
First Lieutenant, HMS Hastings (sloop) (Persian Gulf)
15.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
First Lieutenant, HMS Bideford (sloop) (Persian Gulf)
(05.1933)
-
(06.1933)
no appointment listed
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
02.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Huddersfield Town (anti-submarine trawler)
(1940)


HMS Skirmisher (base, Milford Haven)
15.10.1940
- (04.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Heather (corvette)
19.06.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Folkestone (sloop)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Gibson,
Paul Georges Lawrence

[name of choice for service with the RN]
P.G.L. Gibson
?
-
T/Lt.
03.07.1940 (reld 1944)
Frenchman, who joined the Royal Navy after the fall of France
07.10.1940
-
(02.1941)
First Lieutenant, MTB 70 [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
(02.1942)


Commanding Officer, MTB 221
23.04.1942
-
09.1943
HMS Dinosaur
07.09.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Copra (for LCT duty)
Gibson,
Peter Rawstorne Johnstone

P.R.J. Gibson
Son of William Johnstone Gibson, and Olive Artherson Rawstorne.
20.08.1920
Umtata, South Africa
-
18.04.1943
(MPK) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]
Cadet
01.05.1938
Midsh.
01.09.1939
S.Lt.
01.12.1940
Lt.
16.05.1942
Education: Umtata High School; South African Training Ship "General Botha", Cadet Draft 1936-7.
01.05.1938
-
03.08.1939
special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
04.08.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Durban (cruiser)
29.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines)
21.07.1942
-
18.04.1943
HMS Regent (submarine) (sank off the coast of Bisceglie (Barletta) after a collision with a mine; complete crew missing, presumed killed)
Gick,
Philip David

"Percy"
P.D. Gick (© Imperial War Museum (A 21266)) P.D. Gick
P.D. Gick P.D. Gick
P.D. Gick 
P.D. Gick
Son of late Sir William John Gick, CB, CBE.
Married (1938) Aylmer Rowntree (died 1993); one son, three daughters.

22.02.1913
Portland, Weymouth district, Devon
-
16.01.2002
[Bosham Hoe, West Sussex ?]
Midsh. 01.09.1932
A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935
S.Lt. 07.04.1936, seniority 01.11.1934
Lt. 18.09.1936, seniority 01.08.1936
A/Lt.Cdr. 25.08.1943?
Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1944
> 06.1944, < 07.1945, seniority 01.02.1943
A/Cdr. > 06.1944, < 07.1945
Cdr. 30.06.1946
Capt. 30.06.1952
R.Adm. 07.07.1961 (retd 25.08.1964)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 16.09.1941 sinking of Bismarck [investiture 25.05.43]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 06.10.1942 attack on enemy submarine [investiture 25.05.43]
Mention in Despatches MID 20.01.1942 HMS Ark Royal sunk 14.11.41
Mention in Despatches MID 05.12.1944 passage convoy JW59 & RA59A
Education: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; RN College, Dartmouth.
1931     joined RN
03.09.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Nelson (battleship) (2nd Battle Squadron, Home Fleet)
03.01.1935 - 02.09.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich
02.09.1935 - (02.1936) promotion course, Portsmouth
1936 - 1936 HMS Godetia (patrol sloop)
1936 - 1936 HMS Lupin (fishery protection patrol sloop)
13.09.1936 - (07.)1937 pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars; qualified as Pilot [attached to RAF]
24.08.1937 - (02.)1938 Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance (TSR) Squadron 822 [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]  [attached to RAF]
25.05.1938 - 1940? Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance (TSR) Squadron 810 [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier), later [1939?] HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
04.11.1940 - (02.1941) 785 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (and for instructional duties)
1941 - 14.11.1941 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious, later HMS Ark Royal]
11.1941 - 09.1942 Commanding Officer, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria)] (Western Desert)
25.09.1942 - (02.)1943 staff, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
08.04.1943 - (08.)1943 Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.08.1943 - 10.1944 Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
02.10.1944 - 05.1945? Commanding Officer, Training Squadron [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
05.1945 - (07.)1945 Squadron Air Co-ordinator, HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier)
30.08.1945 - (04.)1946 staff, Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] (landing-party and anti-piracy duties)
04.11.1946 - (10.)1947 directing staff of the RN Tactical School (Woolwich) [HMS President]
19.07.1948 - (05.)1949 on staff of Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Theseus] [= air group commander with a carrier task force in the Far East]
08.09.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer on staff, Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Vengeance]
10.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Daring
13.07.1954 - (01.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station Lossiemouth)
14.01.1957 - 1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Bulwark (commando carrier)
(01.1959)     no appointment listed
30.01.1960 - (07.)1961 President, Second Admiralty Interview Board [HMS Sultan]
16.10.1961 - 1964 Flag Officer, Flying Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
Chairman, Emsworth Shipyard Group, 1965-1990.
Giddy,
Osman Cyril Horton
O.C.H. Giddy mailto:j.n.houterman@wxs.nl?subject=inquiry RN officer O.C.H. Giddy

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24.04.1900
Kingston
-
07.01.1980
Worthing, West Sussex
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
15.02.1922, seniority 15.09.1920 (retd 25.11.1921)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
15.09.1928
A/Cdr. (retd)
mid 1943
Cdr. (retd)
08.05.1946 (reverted to retd 1946?)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
04.05.1920

for distinguished services as second in command of H.M. Coastal Motor Boat 24A in, the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919

01.01.1916
 
 
entered RN
27.06.1942
-
05.04.1943
First Lieutenant, HMS Beehive (Felixstowe)
05.04.1943
-
(07.1945)
staff, Deputy Director of Operations Division (Coastal Force), Admiralty [HMS President]
Estate agent.
 
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