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Green, Allen Thomas "Jimmy"	? -	S.Lt. (A) 01.05.1942 Lt. (A) 01.11.1943 (reld, retd or died > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	(02.1943) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) * 22.02.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Heron (RN Air Sation, Yeovilton) 10.06.1943 - (08.1943) 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air  Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] 08.09.1943 - (06.1944) fighter leader, 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Vindex (escort carrier)] (07.1945) HMS Heron (RN Air Sation, Yeovilton) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Greene, John Dennis Son of ... Greene, and ... Grundy.	21.01.1914 Leeds district, Yorkshire - West Riding - 29.09.1998 Sudbury, Suffolk	Cadet 01.05.1931 Midsh. 01.01.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1934 S.Lt. 01.02.1935 Lt. 01.06.1937 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1945 (retd 01.03.1956) DSC 01.01.1940 New Year 40 [investiture 06.02.40]	25.04.1931 - (01.)1934 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1934 - 06.01.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.01.1935 - (07.1935) promotion course, Portsmouth 15.12.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines) 24.05.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Parthian (submarine) (China) (02.1938) no appointment listed 20.05.1938 - (04.1939) HMS Unity (submarine) (and for duty with submarines, 5th Submarine Flotilla) 07.07.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Ursula (submarine) 10.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) 1940 - 1941 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Surcouf" (French submarine) 12.09.1941 - 31.03.1942 HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Largs) 01.04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs) (02.1943) no appointment listed (06.1943) - (04.)1944 HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs) * 29.04.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 26.12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Dido (cruiser) 16.06.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Onslaught (destroyer) 03.01.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 30.12.1952 - (01.1956) HMS Neptune (Reserve Fleet, Chatham) * indexed, but not listed as such
Greening, Charles Woollven Married Molly K. Flowers; ... children (son R.Adm. Sir Paul Woollven Greening).	13.07.1903 Steyning district, Sussex - 12.09.1958	... ... Lt.Cdr. 30.05.1934 Cdr. 31.12.1940 Capt. 30.06.1946 (retd 07.07.1955) DSO 10.11.1953 Korea (7th list) [investiture 13.07.54] DSC 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 13.02.45] DSC 26.06.1944 services Adriatic 10.43 [investiture 13.02.45] MID 15.12.1942 fall of Singapore OON 09.06.1942 withdrawal from Holland [decoration posted]	15.01.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 22.07.1938 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Hereward (destroyer) 02.1941 - (12.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) to Sea Transport Officer Singapore [HMS Sultan II (accounting base, Singapore)] 21.02.1942 - (08.)1942 staff Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) 30.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 15.02.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Tyrian (destroyer) (04.1944) -  (06.1944)  no appointment listed 13.07.1944 - (04.1946) Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] ... - ... ... 01.1953 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Korea)
Greenwood, Arthur Hugh Son of ... Greenwood, and ... Bebb.	09.02.1923 Guildford district, Surrey - 02.2002 Oxford district, Oxfordshire	Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S/Lt.  01.09.1942 Lt. 01.03.1944 (retd < 04.1946)	01.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Malaya (battleship) 28.04.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 01.05.1942 - (08.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 21.09.1942 - 22.03.1943 served submarine service 14.12.1943 - 22.03.1943 HMS Maidstone )submarine depot ship) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 20.07.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Nigeria (cruiser) 30.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Belfast (cruiser) 01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) 17.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 05.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Warspite (battleship)
Gregory, Brian O'Farrell Son of Cdr. Joseph E. Gregory, RN.	20.11.1896 - 03.05.1978 Hampshire	Asst. Clerk 15.07.1914 Clerk 07.1915 Asst. Paym. 09.1917 Paym.S.Lt. 09.1919 ... ... Paym.Cdr. 30.06.1935 A/Paym.Capt. 11.11.1943? Capt. (S) 30.06.1945 (retd 29.09.1947) MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41 MID 01.01.1942 New Year 42 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937	Entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in July 1914, joined the battleship Prince of Wales shortly before the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, in which ship he served in the Dardanelles in the following year - one of her first duties was to demolish the light house at Cape Helles, from which the Turks had been signalling, and her guns lent good service in bombarding other enemy batteries and positions in in the landings on 25 April 1915. Advanced to Clerk, Gregory remained in the Prince of Wales on the Adriatic Station until August 1916, latterly coming ashore to an appointment in Gibraltar. Between the Wars he served in Hong Kong in the early 1920s, was on the staff of Rear-Admiral Dunbar Nasmith, V.C. in Dolphin, and served as Secretary to the Chief of Naval Air Services in the late 1930s. ... - ... ... 04.12.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Norway 04-05.1940, Red Sea, Port Suez from 02.1941) (despatches twice) 24.06.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayid, Egypt) (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 14.06.1943 - 10.11.1943 RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 11.11.1943 - (04.1946) Staff Accountant [later: Supply] Officer on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] ... - ... ...
Gregory, [Sir] George David Archibald Son of late Lt­Col George Monro Allan Gregory, RA (retd), Tayfletts House, Perth. Married (1933) Florence Eve Patricia, younger daughter of late James Hill, Lambourne House, Bagshot; two sons.	08.10.1909 Tayfletts House, Perth - 21.03.1975 [Alyth, Perthshire ?]	Cadet 01.01.1927 Midsh. 01.09.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930 S.Lt. 16.10.1930 Lt. 16.10.1932 Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1940 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 30.06.1951 R.Adm. 07.01.1960 V.Adm. 08.03.1963 (retd 24.08.1966) KBE 13.06.1964 HM's birthday 64 CB 01.01.1962 New Year 62 DSO 23.12.1939 succesful actions against enemy submarines DSO 12.11.1940 good services on patrol MID 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst	Education: RN College Dartmouth (15.05.1923-). 15.01.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 03.01.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 02.01.1930 - (04.)1930 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 11.08.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, Portsmouth 29.12.1931 - (09.1932) HMS L 16 (submarine) (Reserve, Portsmouth) 25.04.1933 - (07.)1935 HMS Odin (submarine) (China) 19.11.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS H 31 (submarine) (Portland) 05.09.1936 - (08.)1938 HMS Sunfish (submarine) (and for duty with submarines) 05.09.1938 - (10.)1938 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth 16.12.1938 - 10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) * 10.1940 - (02.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) to Senior Officer, Submarines [HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth)] (12.1941) HMS Oberon (submarine) ** 06.05.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 16.02.1943 - (06.1944) Staff Officer (M) to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet [HMS Duke of York (battleship)] 07.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Constance (destroyer) 25.03.1948 - (05.1950) Directing Staff, RN Tactical School, Woolwich [HMS President] 14.01.1952 - (05.1953) Deputy Director Naval Training Department [HMS President] 14.09.1954 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship, Portland) & Captain (S/M) 2nd Submarine Flotilla 25.10.1955 - (01.1957) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) ? - 1957 Captain (S/M) 5th Submarine Squadron 1957 - 1960 Commodore, Hong Kong 29.09.1960 - 1964 Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Devonport [HMS Drake] 1964 - 1966 Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland Member, Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers). * obviously still in command on the patrol of 26.10-08.11.1940 ** indexed, but not listed as such
Gregory, Samuel Cooper Married ((09?).1930, Kinsgston district, Surrey) Doris Constance Elizabeth Wingrove; ... children (one son?).	22.03.1897 Bromley by Bow, Poplar district, London - 16.01.1973 Hampshire	Seaman ? [J29531] Gnr. (T) 01.07.1926 Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.07.1936 Lt. 17.07.1943 (retd 22.03.1947)	... - ... ... 26.04.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 25.06.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 20.01.1930 - (04.1930) HMS Westminster (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) ... - ... ... 08.09.1938 - (12.1941) HMS Dido (cruiser) (08.1942)     no appointment listed (02.1943)     no appointment listed 19.04.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Roedean School, Brighton) (for duties at Portsmouth)
Gregory-Smith, William Frank Niemann   Changed surname officially from Smith to Gregory-Smith by deed poll of 10.04.1974. Married (10.1940) Jean Chalmers Sime (died 04.2006); one daughter, one son. photos	24.01.1910 Ashton-under-Lyne, Bucklow district, Cheshire - 04.05.2009 Lynde House, Richmond	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 01.11.1930 Lt. 01.08.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1940 Cdr. 30.06.1944 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 12.06.1961) DSO 08.09.1942 Malta convoy 22.03.42 [investiture 11.05.43] DSO 29.09.1942 destruction of U-boat [investiture 11.05.43] DSC 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance [investiture 11.05.43] DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted] MID 19.01.1943 brought ship to port when torpedoed 08.42	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (15.09.1923-...). 30.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship) (Portsmouth) 04.01.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 03.09.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.09.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 26.10.1932 - (02.)1935 First Lieutenant, HMS Cricket (gunboat) (China) (07.1935)     no appointment listed 09.09.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Sable (destroyer) (Portland) 03.1936 - (02.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Foresight (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 22.04.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 31.10.1938 - (10.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Jaguar (destroyer) (Norway, Dunkirk) 14.11.1940 - 08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Eridge (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (ship torpedoed) 30.09.1942 - 12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Javelin (destroyer) 12.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Janus (destroyer) 04.1943 - (06.)1944 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 06.1944     Principal Beach Master, Assault Group G2 (Gold Beach, Normandy) (10.)1944 - (04.1946) Amphibious Warfare Branch [renamed: Assault Warfare Staff], Combined Operations HQ 06.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Constance (destroyer) 24.01.1949 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 07.04.1953 - (04.1955) Naval Attaché, Ankara [HMS President] (01.1956)     no appointment listed 15.03.1956 - (01.1957) Chief Staff Officer to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President I] 30.09.1958 - (01.1959) Chief Staff Officer (1) on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia] 07.01.1961 - 07.07.1961 also: Naval ADC to the Queen Warden of Wilson House Hall of Residence, St Mary’s Medical School. Church warden at St Mary and All Saints, Ellingham, in the New Forest. Published: Red Tobruk : memoirs of a World War II destroyer commander (2009) * indexed, but not listed as such
Gregson, Edward Hilleary Gelson "Tiny" Son of Lt.Col. E.G. Gregson, CMG, CIE, and Mrs Gregson (née Hilleary) of Rake, Hampshire. Married (10.1931) Mabel MacGregor, daughter of Major and Mrs A.C.H. MacGregor; ... children (one son?).	22.12.1903 Peshawar, India - 24.05.1941 (MPK) [age 37] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]	Midsh. 15.01.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1924 S.Lt. 31.10.1925, seniority 15.02.1925 Lt. 15.02.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1935 Cdr. 15.02.1941?	Education: RN College, Osborne (15.09.1917-...). 15.01.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Lowestoft (light cruiser) 25.09.1924 - (01.)1925 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 03.11.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Centaur (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.01.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.04.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS Iron Duke (battleship; sea-going gunnery firing ship) 25.09.1930 - (02.)1931 gunnery course [HMS Excellent] 03.10.1931 - (09.)1932 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmout) 12.12.1932 - (06.1933) 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) (01.1934) no appointment listed 22.01.1934 - (08.)1934 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) 05.09.1934 - (11.1934) Gunnery Officer, HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Africa) (02.1935)     no appointment listed 23.05.1935 - (07.)1935 Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 29.07.1935 - (02.)1936 Gunnery Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) 10.1936 - (07.1937) First Lieutenant & Gunnery Officer, HMS Douglas (flotilla leader, 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1938 - (10.)1938 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.12.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 04.07.1939 - 24.05.1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (lastly also as Staff Gunnery Officer and Staff Officer (Operations), Battle Cruiser Squadron) [missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Greig, Alexander Boyd Married (04.02.1919, Portsea, Portsmouth) Eileen Ethel Reynolds.	02.12.1888 Willesden, Hendon district, Middlesex - 31.05.1943 Weymouth	Lt. 22.06.1911 Lt.Cdr. 22.06.1919 Cdr. 30.06.1925 (retd 16.09.1935) Capt. (retd) 16.09.1935 (reld, retd  > 08.1942, < 02.1943) OBE 01.01.1936 New Year 36 DSC 22.06.1916 submarine service in the Baltic Sea * Fourth Class of the Order of St. Vladimir (07.07.1916) * * For sinking the German armoured cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert on the 23-10-1915 off Libau.	15.01.1904     entered RN 06.1914 - 02.12.1916 HMS E 8 (submarine) (Baltic Sea) 1916? - 16.08.1917 Commanding Officer, HMS V 2 (submarine) [tender to HMS Alecto] 16.08.1917 - 09.09.1918 Commanding Officer, HMS E 53 [tender to HMS Maidstone (9th Submarine Flotilla's depot ship)] (Harwich) 09.09.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS L 3 (submarine) [tender to HMS Ambrose (submarine depot ship)] (Berehaven, Ireland) 24.04.1923 - (08.)1923 HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (and for suty with submarines) 14.09.1924 - (01.)1925 Commanding Officer, HMS K 6 (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) [tender to HMS Conquest] 13.11.1925 - (05.)1926 Commanding Officer, HMS K 26 (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) [tender to HMS Conquest] 11.08.1926 - (07.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Fermoy (twin-screw minesweeper) (and for duty with submarines) (Portland) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 15.09.1927 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Fermoy (twin-screw minesweeper) (and for duty with submarines) (Portland) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 20.12.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 04.09.1929 - (08.1930) HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) no appointment listed 14.04.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for Fort Blockhouse) 24.04.1933 - (06.)1933 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.07.1933 - (07.)1935 Drafting Commander, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 02.11.1939 - (02.)1941 Naval Attaché on Staff of U.K. Representative to Eire, Dublin 12.09.1941 - (08.1942) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Weymouth [HMS Boscawen]
Grenfell, Victor Cyril	26.09.1909 - 21.12.1985 Stemster, Halkirk	... ... Lt. 16.02.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1941 Cdr. 30.06.1947 (retd 25.09.1957) DSO 16.12.1941 Operation EF [investiture 10.02.42] MID 14.08.1945 Aegean operations relief of Greece	15.05.1923     entered RN ... - ... ... 23.06.1940 - (10.1940) pilot, 826 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)] 13.01.1941 - 26.06.1941 Commanding Officer, 768 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] (07.1941)     HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 23.07.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 02.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Searcher (escort carrier) 08.01.1945 - (04.1946) Airfield and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Greswell, Brian Ernest "Ian" Son of Mr & Mrs E.A. Greswell, of Oxford.	1918 ? - 21.06.1940 (KIA) [age 22] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 01.05.1938 Lt. 01.04.1939	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1931). 01.01.1935 - (07.)1935 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.05.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth (10.1938)     no appointment listed       HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) 02.01.1939 - (04.)1939 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 05.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 27.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Cachalot (minelaying submarine) ? - 21.06.1940 British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. O13 (Dutch submarine) [ship lost 06.1940]
Gretton, [Sir] Peter William Son of Maj. George Foster Gretton (died 05.08.1950). Married (1943) Dorothy N.G. ('Judy') Du Vivier; three sons (one of them is V.Adm. Michael P. Gretton), one daughter. Main residences: Farnham, Surrey (1912-1943), Wimbledon (1944-1964) and Oxford (1964-1992).	27.08.1912 Farnham, Surrey - 11.11.1992 Oxford, Oxfordshire	Cadet 01.01.1930 Midsh. 01.09.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1933 S.Lt. 16.03.1934, seniority 01.05.1933 Lt. 01.06.1934 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1942 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 30.06.1948 Cdre. 2nd cl. (01.1956) R.Adm. 07.07.1958 V.Adm. 10.03.1961 (retd 30.05.1963; medically unfit) KCB 01.01.1963 New Year 63 CB 01.01.1960 New Year 60 OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 DSO 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar- Malta convoy 11/16.08.42 DSO 19.10.1943 defended convoy against U-boat attacks 05.05.43 DSO 18.04.1944 operations against U-boats 10-11.1943 DSC 05.11.1936 Arab rebellion in Palestine 36 MID 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik 04.40	Education: Roper's Preparatory School; RN College, Dartmouth (1926-1930; Prize for five First Class Certificates as S/Lt.); MA 07.01.1930 - (02.)1931 Midshipman, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean & Atlantic Fleet) 15.04.1931 - (09.1932) Midshipman, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 21.08.1933 - (01.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth summer 1934 HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 09.11.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Durban (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (Abyssinian crisis & Spanish Civil War) 11.12.1936 - (07.)1937 seamanship & sports officer, HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, St. Budeaux) 14.12.1937 - 09.1939 house officer, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] (at Easter 1939 a one-week anti-submarine course, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)) 22.09.1939 - 04.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Vega (destroyer) 04.1940 - 01.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Cossack (destroyer) 11.01.1941 - 03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Sabre (destroyer) 03.03.1942 - 11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (destroyer) 19.11.1942 - 04.1943 SO Escort Group B7 [HMS Tay (frigate)] 12.04.1943 - 11.1943 SO Escort Group B7 & Commanding Officer, HMS Duncan (destroyer) 06.11.1943 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Vidette (destroyer) 01.12.1943 - 05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Chelmer (frigate) 05.1944 - 08.1944 Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] (as author of the Admiralty Convoy Instructions) 09.09.1944 - 05.06.1946 Joint Planning Staff to the Chiefs of Staff, based in the Cabinet Office (borne on Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]) 01.07.1946 - 08.07.1948 Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 25.10.1948 - 14.04.1949 Joint Services Staff Course, Latimer 01.08.1949 - 26.06.1950 US National War College, Washington, as observer (indicated as "duties with British Naval Staff, Washington") [HMS Saker (Joint Services Mission, Washington)] 19.09.1950 - 07.1952 Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord [HMS President] 15.09.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Gambia (cruiser) 16.06.1954 - 12.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, DC), Chief of Staff to the Admiral, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC and as Titular Naval Attaché, Washington, DC 01.1956 - 01.1957 Commodore commanding the task group for Operation Grapple (British atomic bomb tests near Christmas Island) [HMS Saker] 08.07.1957 - 07.07.1958 also: Naval ADC to the Queen 04.1958 - 26.07.1960 Senior Naval Member of Directing Staff of Imperial Defence College 29.08.1960 - 12.1961 Flag Officer, Sea Training and in command Portland Naval Base [HMS Osprey] 01.1962 - 01.1963 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff and Fifth Sea Lord Domestic Bursar, University College, Oxford, 1965-71, Senior Research Fellow, 1971-79. Vice-President, Royal Humane Society (Testimonial of Royal Humane Society, 1940) Published: Convoy escort commander (1964; memoirs); Maritime strategy : a study of British defence problems (1965); Former Naval Person : Churchill and the navy (1968); Crisis convoy : the story of HX231 (1974)
Grieve, Kenneth Campbell	22.08.1911 Emsworth, Hampshire - 04.1980 Canterbury district, Kent	... ... Lt. 01.06.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1943 A/Cdr. 07.1945 Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 22.08.1961) MID 14.01.1941 attack on Maritya 04.09.40 MID 20.05.1941 attack on Taranto 11.11.40	... - ... ... 22.06.1938 - (02.)1941 observer, 813 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (despatches twice) 29.05.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) (on instructional staff) 12.1942 - (12.)1943 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta) 01.12.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Monck (Combined Trianing HQ, Largs) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 07.1945 - (04.1946) Operations Officer, HMS Warrior ... - ... ...
Griffin, [James] Cecil Ruddick Son of ... and Mary (Ruddick) Griffin.	28.12.1919 Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester - 02.1994 Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire	Cadet 01.05.1938 Midsh. (E) 01.05.1939 S.Lt. (E) 01.04.1942 A/Lt. (E) < 08.1942 Lt. (E) 26.04.1943, seniority 01.05.1942 (retd > 04.1946, < 05.1950)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.05.1939 - (08.1939) engineering course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.09.1939 - (08.1942) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 03.09.1942 - (06.1944) HMS Kent (cruiser) (07.1945) no appointment listed 10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines, 4th Submarine Flotilla)
Griffin, Michael Harold Son of late Henry William Griffin, and Blanche Celia Griffin (née Michael). Married (1947) Barbara Mary Brewer (died 12.03.2008, aged 87); two daughters.	28.01.1921 Devonport district, Devon - 14.07.1995 Plymouth district, Devon	A/S.Lt. (E) 01.07.1942 Lt. (E) 28.01.1944, seniority 01.02.1943 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.02.1951 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1954 Capt. (E) 31.12.1962 R.Adm. 07.01.1972 (retd 30.07.1977)	Education: Plymouth Junior Technical College. CEng, FIMechE, FIMarE. MBHI. 1941     commissioned RN (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 10.07.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Kent (10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) * 1944 - ? HMS Trusty (submarine) ? - 1945 HMS Tactician (submarine) 06.07.1945 - (04.)1947 HMS Tally-Ho (submarine) 04.05.1947 - 1950 HMS Alderney (submarine) 1950 - 1952 Admiralty [HMS President] 1952 - 1954 HMS Eagle 1954 - 1957 staff Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth 1957 - 1960 HM Dockyard, Rosyth 1960 - 1962 Third Submarine Squadron 1963 - 1965 HM Dockyard, Chatham 1966 - 1969 HMS St Vincent 1969 - 1971 Commodore Superintendent, Singapore 1972 - 1977 Director of Dockyard Production and Support, Ministry of Defence Antiquarian horologist. Naval Adviser to Vosper Shiprepairers Ltd, 1977-81.
Griffiths, Ian Raymond "Griff" Married; two daughters, one son.	1917 ? - 01.1949 (died of poliomyelitis) [age 32] Eastbourne district	Prob. S.Lt. 31.07.1939 S.Lt. ?, seniority 16.03.1939 Lt. 21.10.1941, seniority 01.03.1940 ?, seniority 01.03.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 08.08.1947, seniority 01.03.1947 DSC 08.09.1942 attack on R-boats Boulogne DSC 15.05.1945 action against E-boats 02-03.45 MID 11.10.1940 blocking Zeebrugge Canal or Dieppe MID 25.08.1942 action Cap Barfleur 18.06.42 MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee	Joined the Merchant Navy straight from school at the age of 17, and became an officer on ships of the B.I. Line. (04.1940) no appointment listed 01.09.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, MASB 43 [HMS Drake IV]  12.12.1941 - (02.1943) HMS Spartiate (parent ship, Glasgow) (06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven): (07.1942? ) - (1943) Commanding Officer, SGB 8 (HMS Grey Wolf) 07.09.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) 02.03.1944 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Brissenden (destroyer) 11.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Riou (frigate) 23.12.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Easton (destroyer) Commanding Officer, HMS Opportune 28.01.1947 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Amethyst (Malaya)
Grogan, Robert Terence Son of Capt. John Hubert Grogan, and of Alice Evelyn Manners Grogan, of Lower Walmer, Kent.	20.09.1899 Ireland - 24.05.1941 (MPK) [age 41] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]	Midsh. 01.02.1918 Lt. (E) 15.07.1921 Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.07.1929 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1933 MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41	Education: Haileybury School (1913-1915) 07.09.1917     entered RN 01.10.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Warspite (battleship) (additional; for ER duties) 08.05.1924 - (01.)1925 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 08.09.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 03.05.1927 - (04.)1928 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 05.1928 - (06.)1928 HMS Castor (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 13.09.1928 - (08.)1929 staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham 23.09.1929 - (02.1931) 2nd Engineer Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) (01.1932)     no appointment listed 17.03.1932 - (06.)1933 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 17.12.1933 - (07.1935) HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies) (02.1936)     no appointment listed 01.04.1936 - (10.)1938 Engineer Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) 06.12.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS President (for Air Matériel Department, Admiralty) 05.05.1939 - 24.05.1941 Engineer Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) [missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Grout, Henry James "Jimmy"	? [(03?).1888 Portsea Island, Hampshire ??] -	Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR ? T/Lt. (E) 12.1941, seniority 24.11.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 30.09.1945 (reld 05.03.1946)	28.11.1941 - (10.1943) Engineer Officer, 1st SGB Flotilla [HMS Aggressive] * 22.11.1943 - (07.1945) Assistant Engineer Inspector, Department of the Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President] * Navy List of June 1943: 28.11.1941, Navy List of August 1943 and later: 01.01.1943
Gueritz, Edward Findlay "Teddy" Son of Elton Lawrence Gueritz (1884-1931), officer of the Colonial Service, and Eleanor Dixon Valentine Findlay (1881-1960). Married (1947) Pamela Britton; one son, one daughter.	08.09.1919 Newport M district, Glamorgan / Gwent / Monmouthshire - 21.12.2008 Salisbury	Midsh. 01.05.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1940 S.Lt. 1940, seniority 01.08.1939 Lt. 16.04.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1949 Cdr. 31.12.1953 Capt. 30.06.1959 Cdre. ? R.Adm. 07.01.1969 (retd 15.01.1973) CB 12.06.1971 HM's birthday 71 [investiture 20.07.71] OBE 13.06.1957 Suez operations [investiture 12.11.57] DSC 25.08.1942 Operation Ironclad (assault & capture of Diego Suarez 05-07.05.42) [decoration posted] DSC 29.08.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted]	Education: Cheltenham College. 01.05.1937 - 13.04.1938  special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 13.04.1938 - 01.05.1938 HMS Ramillies (battleship) 01.05.1938 - 01.05.1939 HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 01.05.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 04.09.1940 - 02.05.1941 HMS Jersey (destroyer) (ship mined & lost in Malta harbour) 12.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Largs) 05.1942 - (08.1942) on staff of NACOI [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (05.1942)     Principal Beachmaster at capture of Diego Suarez aboard HMS Keren (Madagascar) (02.1943)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * 01.04.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Monck (Combined Training HQ, Largs) (12.1943) - (06.1944)  no appointment listed (06.1944)  - 26.06.1944  Principal Beachmaster, Sword Area, Quwwn Sector, "F" RN Beach Commando (Normandy [passage in HM LCI 185]; wounded) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 22.10.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 18.12.1945 - 22.10.1946 Executive Officer, HMS Saumarez (destroyer) (Corfu Channel incident) 01.1948 - (007.1948) Army Staff College, Camberley [HMS President] 03.01.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Devonshire (05.1953)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 07.04.1954 - (01.)1956 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, and Junior Naval Liaison Officer to UK High Commissioner, South Africa [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)] 04.08.1956 - (01.1957) on staff of Flag Officer (Air) Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 1957?     staff CTF 345 08.04.1958 - (01.)1959 Executive Officer, HMS St vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport) 1959 - 1961 Deputy Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich 05.06.1961 - (02.)1963 Deputy Director, Tactical and Weapons Policy Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1964     Imperial Defence College (02.1964)   HMS President * 1965 - 1966 Captain of Fleet, Far East Fleet 1967 - (02.)1968 Director of Defence Plans (Navy) 1968 - 1968 Director, Joint Warfare Staff, Ministry of Defence 03.09.1968 - 1970 Admiral-President, Royal Naval College, concurrently first President, Royal Naval War College 12.1970 - 1972 Commandant, Joint Warfare Establishment Director and Editor-in-Chief, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, 1979–81; Specialist Adviser, House of Commons Select Committee on Defence, 1975–95; Chief Honorary Steward, Westminster Abbey, 1975–85; President, Society for Nautical Research, 1974–90, Honorary Vice President, 1990. Published: contributor to The third world war (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978); joint editor, Ten years of terrorism (Royal United Services Institute, London, 1979); joint editor, Nuclear attack: civil defence: aspects of civil defence in the nuclear age, a symposium (Brassey, Oxford, 1982); editor, RUSI and Brassey's defence year book (Brassey's, London, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1980, 1981)
Gulvin, Arthur Lewis Son of Alfred Charles Gulvin (1860-1928), and Emily Jane Martin (1863-1937). Married (1935, Orsett) Ethel Muriel Farrington (born 1909); one son.	02.02.1909 Rainham, Kent - (03?).1980 Chatham district, Kent	A.Boatsw. 01.03.1938 Lt. 17.03.1939 Lt.Cdr. 17.03.1947 (retd 02.02.1954)	... - ... ... 23.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Westcott (destroyer) 03.12.1940 - 22.11.1943 HMS Hebe (minesweeper) [ship mined in Adriatic] * (12.1943)     no appointment listed (06.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Algerine ** 08.1944 - 04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Mary Rose (minesweeper) 02.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) ... - ... ... * although the ship was mined 11.1943, the ship remained to be borne on the Navy List at least till 07.1945, giving Lt. Gulvin as "in command" ** indexed, but not listed as such (minesweeper HMS Algerine had been sunk 15.11.1942 ...)
Gwinner, Clive Younger son of Harry Ernest Gwinner (1866-1918), and Mrs Gwinner. Married ((09?).1933, Gosport district, Hampshire) Betty Doreen Hartman (14.01.1912 - 06.1998), elder daughter of Frederick William Hartmann, and Dorothy Rose Nye (from 1922 Mrs Horace Nettleship Soper), of Nepcroft, Findon, Sussex.	15.10.1908 - 09.03.1998 British Columbia, Canada	Cadet 15.01.1926 Midsh. 15.09.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1929 S.Lt. 22.03.1930, seniority 16.09.1929 Lt. 16.06.1931 (emgcy 18.09.1933) Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 16.06.1939 (active list > 02.1943, <06.1943) A/Cdr. 31.01.1944? Cdr. 30.06.1944 A/Capt. 1946? (reverted to retd 1945/46) (General List 01.01.1957) DSO 20.10.1942 sinking of U-boat 07.42 [investiture 01.12.42] DSO 06.06.1944 destruction U91 25.02.44 [investiture 24.10.44] DSC 22.02.1944 destruction 2 U-boats 06.11.43 [investiture 24.10.44] MID 13.10.1942 protection convoy SL109 05.42 MID 15.08.1944 attack on U-boat 16.03.44 MID 10.10.1944 probable sinking U-boat 25.06.44	15.05.1922     entered RN 15.01.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (China & Mediterranean) 03.01.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.03.1930 - (10.1930) HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 05.01.1931 - (02.)1931 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 20.04.1931 - (06.)1933 HMS L 53 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 23.08.1936     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for course) 30.08.1937     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for course) 01.03.1939 - 22.12.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Alresford (minesweeper) 02.1940 - 12.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Duncan (destroyer) 26.08.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, NS) 10.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Clare (destroyer) 06.1941 - 24.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Lulworth (escort) (DSO & despatches) 10.03.1943 - 01.04.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Duncan (destroyer) 27.04.1943 - 31.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Woodcock (sloop) (DSC) 31.01.1944 - 01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Affleck (frigate) & Senior Officer, 1st Escort Group (Bar to DSO, despatches twice) 10.01.1945 - 06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Balfour (frigate) & Senior Officer, 1st Escort Group (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) * * indexed, but not listed as such

 

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