| A.T.
Green
to C. Gwinner |
Green,
Allen Thomas
"Jimmy"
_01_s.JPG) |
?
-
|
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
|
Green,
Philip Percival Mancha
Youngest son of Mr & Mrs Charles Green, of Mavis Bank, Epping.
Married (1940, Auckland, NZ) Gabrielle Mary Wilson (1918-),
daughter of Joseph McCartney Wilson, and Mary Louisa Elmbranch, of Remura, New
Zealand; one son, one
daughter.
|
20.12.1909
Hove, Steyning district, Sussex
-
16.06.1999
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire /
Wiltshire |
|
Cadet |
01.05.1927 |
|
Midsh. |
01.01.1928 |
|
A/S.Lt. |
01.05.1930 |
|
S.Lt. |
16.11.1930 |
|
Lt. |
16.06.132 |
|
Lt.Cdr. |
16.06.1940 |
|
Cdr. (L) |
31.12.1946 |
|
Capt. |
30.06.1956 (retd 2012.1964) |
 |
MID |
23.02.1940 |
Battle of the River Plate |
Ogilvy Gold Medal |
Education: RN Staff College (psc), Imperial Defence
College (idc).
|
15.09.1923 |
|
|
entered RN |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
|
|
|
specialized in torpedo duties |
|
27.01.1939 |
- |
(10.)1941 |
Squadron
Torpedo Officer, New Zealand Squadron [HMNZS Achilles (cruiser)] (despatches) |
|
(12.1941) |
- |
(02.1942) |
no
appointment listed |
|
08.02.1942 |
- |
(12.1943) |
Staff
Officer (Torpedo and Mining), Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Philomel II] |
|
11.01.1944 |
- |
(04.)1944 |
HMS Vernon
(torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for
Mining Department) |
|
17.04.1944 |
- |
09.09.1945 |
Tactical,
Torpedo and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
|
10.09.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Mine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
CEng, FIEE (AMIEE), AMBritIRE. Civil Defence
Officer to the Emergency Water Committee for the London Region, Metropolitan Water
Board, 1964. |
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)
|
|
Greening,
Robert Joseph

Married (1921) Ellen Beatrice "Nellie" Wallace.
|
15.08.1890
Woodville, New Zealand
-
1974
Auckland, New Zealand |
|
Gnr. (T) |
12.12.1917 |
|
Cd.Gnr. (T) |
12.12.1927 |
|
Lt. |
03.03.1939 (retd
15.08.1940) |
 |
MBE |
01.01.1941 |
New Year 41 [decoration posted] |
Coronation Medal 1911. |
|
1907 |
|
|
enlisted, Australasian Naval Forces (RN) [ANF 679] |
|
28.03.1911 |
- |
05.06.1912 |
HMS
Vernon (torpedo training establishment, Portsmouth) |
|
WW I |
|
|
served in submarines |
|
12.12.1917 |
|
|
commissioned, RN |
|
07.06.1918 |
- |
(06.)1920 |
HMS
Talbot (light cruiser) |
|
26.06.1920 |
- |
(08.)1920 |
HMS
Saladin |
|
23.08.1920 |
- |
(01.1921) |
HMNZS
Philomel (light cruiser) |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
06.09.1932 |
|
|
HMS
Kate Lewis (trawler) [tender to HMS Vernon] |
|
05.12.1932 |
- |
(02.)1935 |
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) |
|
08.03.1935 |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMNZS
Philomel (RNZN depot, Auckland) |
|
22.01.1942 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMNZS
Philomel (RNZN depot, Auckland) (from c. 1943 showing as for DEMS duties) |
|
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,
Leslie

Son of Walter Gregory (1853-1939), and Jessie Lewis
(1849-1944).
Married (10.07.1919, Gosport, Hampshire) Lois Adele Mogg (24.08.1889 -
27.07.1988); three daughters.
|
13.01.1885
Wellington, Somerset
-
08.11.1963
Bristol, Somerset |
|
... |
... |
|
Eng.Lt.Cdr. |
01.10.1916 |
|
Eng.Cdr. |
31.12.1922 |
|
Eng.Capt. (retd) |
12.01.1930 (dispersed 12.09.1945) (reld
07.11.1945) (reverted to retd 08.11.1945) |
 |
OBE |
? |
? |
|
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
|
23.11.1939 |
- |
(02.)1940 |
HMS
Resource (repair ship) |
|
26.02.1940 |
- |
(08.)1941 |
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) |
|
(10.1941) |
- |
(06.1942) |
no
appointment listed |
|
(08.1942) |
|
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) * |
|
02.09.1942 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
HMS
Prosperine (minesweeper and anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) |
|
23.02.1943 |
- |
(10.)1943 |
Department
of the Director of Armamament Supply, Admiralty [HMS Predient] (for temporary
service) |
|
06.10.1943 |
- |
12.09.1945 |
Torpedo
Engineer Officer, Torpedo Depot, Antrim, Northern Ireland [HMS Caroline
(additional)] (in rank of Eng.Cdr.) |
* 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.
|
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]
|
|
Greig,
Morice Gordon
 |
20.03.1914
-
13.01.1980 |
|
Cadet |
01.05.1931 |
|
Midsh. |
01.01.1932 |
|
A/S.Lt. |
01.05.1934 |
|
S.Lt. |
01.09.1934 |
|
Lt. |
01.10.1935 |
|
Lt.Cdr. |
01.04.1943 |
|
Cdr. |
30.06.1947 |
|
Capt. |
31.12.1952 |
|
R.Adm. |
08.01.1962 (retd 16.01.1965) |
 |
CB |
08.06.1963 |
HM's birthday 63: Chief of Staff and Deputy to
Chairman, British Defence Staffs, Washington [decoration presented] |
 |
DSC |
23.05.1944 |
Operation Avalanche [investiture 20.07.45] |
|
|
01.05.1931 |
|
|
entered RN |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
22.11.1939 |
- |
(04.)1940 |
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) |
|
31.07.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Keppel (destroyer) (and for flotilla gunnery duties) |
|
13.10.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
HMS Orlando
(RN base, Greenock) |
|
13.10.1941 |
- |
(08.)1943 |
Gunnery
Officer. HMS Orion (cruiser) (DSC) |
|
09.1943 |
- |
(10.)1943 |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
|
29.10.1943 |
- |
(12.1943) |
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) |
|
(04.1944) |
- |
(06.1944) |
no
appointment listed |
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
Amphibious
Warfare Branch, Combined Operations HQ |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
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 [investiture 26.03.63] |
 |
CB |
01.01.1960 |
New
Year 60 [investiture 09.02.60] |
 |
OBE |
01.07.1941 |
HM's
birthday 41 [investiture 29.07.41] |
 |
DSO |
10.11.1942 |
Operation
Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 11/16.08.42 [investiture 09.03.43] |
 |
DSO |
19.10.1943 |
defended
convoy against U-boat attacks 05.05.43 [investiture 23.05.44] |
 |
DSO |
18.04.1944 |
operations
against U-boats 10-11.1943 [investiture 23.05.44] |
 |
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
|
Senior Officer, Escort Group B7
[HMS Tay
(frigate)]
|
12.04.1943
|
-
|
11.1943
|
Senior Officer, 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
|
|
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)
|
|
Grindle,
John Annesley

Son of George Annesley Grindle (1859-1904), and Eveleen Ferrar
(1866-1956), of London and Manchester.
Married (25.09.1925, St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London) Joyce Lilian Alton Batchelor
(16.02.1903 - 05.1997), daughter of J.W. Alton Batchelor,
of Blackheath, London SE3; two sons (one being Capt. John
Robin Grindle, RN).
|
17.09.1900
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
20.02.1991
South East Hampshire district |
|
... |
... |
|
Lt. |
15.10.1920 |
|
Lt.Cdr. |
15.10.1928 |
|
Cdr. |
31.12.1934 |
|
Capt. |
30.06.1941 (retd 07.07.1950) |
|
Cdre. 2nd cl. |
< 07.1948 |
 |
CBE |
21.12.1943 |
for distinguished services in the planning and
execution of operations which led to the capture of Sicily by Allied Forces
(Operation Husky) [investiture 28.10.47] |
 |
MID |
26.07.1940 |
preventing war materials to fall into enemy
hands |
 |
MID |
20.03.1945 |
minelaying French coast 04-05.44 |
 |
MID |
21.08.1945 |
minelaying Western Approaches Command 01-04.45 |
|
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth;
Pembroke College, Cambridge.
|
15.09.1913 |
|
|
entered RN |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
16.01.1939 |
- |
(04.)1940 |
Executive
Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) |
|
19.04.1940 |
- |
(06.)1940 |
Operations
Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (despatches) |
|
06.07.1940 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
Executive
Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) |
|
(08.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
22.08.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
an
Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
|
16.01.1942 |
- |
(04.)1942 |
Admiralty
[HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) |
|
01.04.1942 |
- |
(10.)1942 |
HMS Saker
II (accounting base, Washington, DC, USA) |
|
(12.1942) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
(02.1943) |
|
|
HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) * |
|
03.1943 |
- |
(10.)1943 |
Captain
(Landing Craft) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station [HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Algiers)] (CBE) |
|
11.1943 |
- |
(12.1943) |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Apollo (minelayer) |
|
31.01.1944 |
- |
(04.)1945 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Apollo (minelayer) (despatches twice) |
|
(07.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
01.1946 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Glenearn
(landing ship, infantry (large)) |
|
1946 |
- |
1946 |
Commander, Force C [HMS Commonwealth (RN base, Kure, Japan)] |
|
1946 |
- |
(07.)1948 |
Director of Combined Operations (Naval), Combined Operations Headquarters [HMS
President] |
|
(05.1949) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
|
24.03.1950 |
- |
(05.)1950 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) |
Justice of the Peace (JP), Hampshire, 1952.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Grindle,
John Robin

Son of Capt. John Annesley Grindle, CBE, RN, and
Joyce Lilian Alton Batchelor.
Married Margaret ... (predeceased him); two daughters. |
(09?).1926
St Marylebone district, London
-
17.02.2012
hospital (formerly of Portchester,
Dockenfield and Winchester) |
|
Midsh. |
01.09.1943 |
|
A/S.Lt. |
01.05.1945 |
|
S.Lt. |
1946?, seniority 16.04.1945 |
|
... |
... |
|
Capt. |
30.06.1970 (retd 27.04.1979) |
|
|
01.09.1943 |
- |
(10.)1943 |
HMS King
George V (battleship) |
|
22.11.1943 |
- |
(10.1944) |
HMS
Cumberland (cruiser) |
|
(01.1945) |
|
|
HMS
Racehorse (destroyer) * |
|
(07.1945) |
|
|
HMS Wessex
(destroyer) * |
|
10.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Anson
(battleship) |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
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)
|
Guernsey,
Hugh Crawford

Son of Harriet Mary Guernsey (?-1949).
|
29.08.1900
Eastry district, Kent
-
01.05.1995 |
|
Midsh. |
01.05.1917 |
|
S.Lt. |
15.05.1920 |
|
Lt. |
15.05.1922 |
|
Lt.Cdr. |
15.05.1930 (retd 29.08.1945) |
|
A/Cdr. |
> 12.1943, < 04.1944 |
|
Cdr. (retd) |
29.08.1945 |
 |
MID |
11.06.1942 |
HM's birthday 42 |
 |
MID |
01.01.1944 |
New
Year 44 |
|
|
15.05.1914 |
|
|
entered RN |
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
|
01.06.1937 |
- |
(08.)1943 |
on staff of
Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Rodney,
HMS Nelson 1938? - 01.01.1940, HMS Rodney 01.01.1940 - 24.07.1940, HMS Nelson
24.07.1940 - 01.04.1941, HMS King George V 01.04.1941 - 05.05.1942, HMS Duke of
York 05.05.1942 - 08.07.1942, HMS King George V 08.07.1942 - 14.05.1943, HMS
Duke of York 14.05.1943 - 14.06.1944] |
|
(10.1943) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
|
11.1943 |
- |
(02.)1944 |
on staff of
Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] |
|
10.02.1944 |
- |
24.11.1944 |
HMAS
Cerberus (for Navy Office (Monterey), as interpreter French) |
|
11.1944 |
|
|
returned to
Colombo by air |
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(01.1945) |
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * |
|
(07.1945) |
|
|
Royal
Australian Navy * |
|
01.1946 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS
Sultan |
Joined the clergy (deacon 1950, priest 1951).
Westcott Ho, Cambridgeshire. Kilmallock, 1955-1971 (retired).
Published: A naval career (1992).
* indexed, but not listed as such |
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 ...) |
Gunn,
Philip Leonard

Son of Chief Gunner James Gunn.
Married 1st (13.04.1919, Richmond upon Thames, Middlesex, London; 20.10.1930
divorced) Bertha Lucy Kemp
(25.12.1894 - (09?).1975), daughter of Cornelius Kemp (1856-1905), and Emma
Lawrence (1857-1915); one son.
Married 2nd (16.12.1930, Paddington, London) Majorie Florence Pearce
(1907-1998), daughter of Capt. Edwin John Pearce, RA (1880-1938), and Florence
Mary Brown (1882-1959); one son. |
05.04.1895
Southsea, Portsea Island district,
Hampshire
-
27.02.1983
Sudbury district, Suffolk |
|
Boy Seaman |
16.01.1911 |
|
Ordinary Seaman |
05.04.1913 |
|
Able Seaman |
11.09.1913 |
|
Leading Seaman |
11.09.1915 |
|
Petty Officer |
19.04.1917 |
|
A/Mate |
22.06.1918 |
|
A/Lt. |
22.06.1921 |
|
Lt. |
02.11.1922, seniority 22.10.1920 |
|
Lt.Cdr. |
22.10.1928 |
|
Cdr. |
30.06.1933 (retd 05.04.1945; granted war
service rank of Capt.) |
|
A/Capt. |
20.08.1940 |
 |
DSM |
12.01.1916 |
action against Turks, Kut-el-Amarah, River Tigris 27.09.15 |
|
|
16.01.1911 |
- |
16.12.1911 |
HMS
Impregnable (battleship; boys' training ship) |
|
17.12.1911 |
- |
16.10.1912 |
training & passage |
|
17.10.1912 |
- |
17.01.1916 |
HMS
Clio (sloop) (China & Mesopotamia) |
|
10.08.1916 |
- |
08.01.1918 |
HMS
Centaur (cruiser) (Harwich Naval Force) |
|
10.04.1919 |
- |
04.04.1921 |
HMS
Danae (light cruiser) (raid on Kronstadt) |
|
05.04.1921 |
- |
23.10.1922 |
courses |
|
23.10.1922 |
- |
07.09.1924 |
HMS
Diligence (destroyer depot ship) |
|
07.09.1924 |
- |
09.12.1924 |
HMS
Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) |
|
20.04.1925 |
- |
31.03.1926 |
HMS
Princess Margaret (mine-laying vessel) (Atlantic Fleet) |
|
01.04.1926 |
- |
10.08.1928 |
First
Lieutenant, HMS Wren (destroyer) (Mediterranean) |
|
01.12.1928 |
- |
13.02.1930 |
First
Lieutenant, HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth) |
|
14.02.1930 |
- |
02.01.1933 |
HMS
Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (flagship Mediterranean Fleet) |
|
02.05.1933 |
- |
10.07.1933 |
HMS
Iron Duke (battleship; training ship) (temporarily) |
|
06.01.1934 |
- |
31.08.1935 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Dunoon (twin screw minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping
Flotilla) |
|
09.09.1935 |
- |
04.09.1936 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Speedwell (sloop minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping
Flotilla) |
|
12.10.1936 |
- |
19.02.1937 |
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
|
08.03.1937 |
- |
04.07.1939 |
Maintenance Commander, The Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (and for
physical & recreational training duties) |
|
08.07.1939 |
- |
21.08.1941 |
Naval
Officer-in-Charge, Aden [HMS Gloucester III, from 01.04.1940 HMS Sheba (RN base,
Aden, Arabia)] |
|
(10.1941) |
- |
(12.1941) |
no
appointment listed |
|
30.12.1941 |
- |
16.03.1942 |
HMS Howe
(battleship) |
|
23.03.1942 |
- |
09.04.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) |
|
19.05.1943 |
- |
13.09.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) |
|
24.09.1943 |
- |
23.10.1945 |
Operations
Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty as Duty Captain) |
On retirement became Secretary of Association of
Royal Navy Officers, then a landscape painter for his last thirty years. 34 of
his oil paintings of life aboard ship before the First World War are owned by
the R.N. Museum, Portsmouth. |
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) |
|
|
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 |