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Haddon, Henry Rogers	(09?).1898 Hunslet, Yorkshire - 01.08.1955	A/Wt.Eng. 01.01.1927 Wt.Eng. ?, seniority 01.01.1927 Cd.Eng. 01.01.1937 (retd) Lt. (E) (retd) 09.04.1943 (reverted to retd 1943?) DSC 07.04.1942 protection of convoy Western Approaches	(07.1927) short course 16.08.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Despatch (cruiser) (America and West Indies) (01.1932) no appointment listed 28.03.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) (for minesweepers in reserve) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) (01.1934) no appointment listed 03.1935 - (06.)1935 HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies) 04.06.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies) 05.06.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet) 05.05.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Fitzroy (surveying ship) (in charge while reduced to Winter complement at Chatham, 07.12.1938) 23.10.1939 - (08.1942) Engineer Officer, HMS Stork (sloop) (02.1943) no appointment listed
Hadow, Philip Henry	(03?).1903 Paddington, London - 25.11.1942 (KIA) (Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 3]	Midsh. 15.05.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 S.Lt. 19.03.1925, seniority 15.07.1924 Lt. 15.11.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1934 Cdr. 31.12.1939 MID 23.12.1939 succesful actions against enemy submarines MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40	28.12.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Malaya (battleship) 18.08.1924 - (01.)1925 promotion course, Portsmouth 10.04.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Sesame (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 05.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Viscount (destroyer) (Mediterranan) 01.01.1930 - (02.1931) First Lieutenant, HMS Tetrarch (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 13.04.1931 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 31.05.1933 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Scarborough (sloop) (America and West Indies Station) 31.01.1936 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Stronghold (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 30.12.1936 - (02.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Crusader (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 10.05.1937 - (07.1937) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.12.1937 - (08.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Foxhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 30.01.1940 - 01.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Ivanhoe (destroyer) (sunk) 08.10.1940 - (02.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Glasgow [HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)] 27.02.1942 - 25.11.1942 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
Haines, Reginald Gregory Charman	(03?).1897 Berkhampstead, Buckinghamshire - died between 08.1973 and 08.1989	Cadet 01.09.1930 Midsh. 01.05.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933 S.Lt. 01.01.1934 Lt. 01.06.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1943 (retd 13.09.1948; medically unfit) A/Cdr. ?	01.09.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) (01.1932) no appointment listed (09.1932) no appointment listed 28.09.1933 - (01.)1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.11.1934 - (02.)1937 HMS Escapade (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 02.04.1937 - (02.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Gnat (river gunboat) (China) (04.1939) - (07.)1939 no appointment listed 24.07.1939 - (08.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Wivern (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Rosyth) 17.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Vansittart (destroyer) (02.1941) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * ? - 08.1942 HMS Walker (destroyer) 06.08.1942 - (06.)1943 Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty 07.1943 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Hurricane (destroyer) (and for anti-submarine duties) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * 19.11.1945 - (04.1946) British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker II] * indexed, but not listed as such
Halfhide, Arthur Robert	(03?).1891 Kingston - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 30.07.1911? Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1919 Cdr. 30.06.1925 Capt. 30.06.1933 (retd 01.08.1942?) Cdre. 2nd cl. 1942? (reverted to retd 1945) CBE 01.01.1940 New Year 40	01.11.1921 - (08.1923) Executive Officer, HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier) 19.01.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 09.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for Fort Blockhouse) 21.01.1929 - (10.1930) Training Commander, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional) 26.01.1931 - (01.1932) Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) (09.1932) no appointment listed 16.10.1933 - (01.)1934 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 14.09.1934 - (02.1936) Senior Officer, West River & Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (river gunboat) (China) 03.02.1937 - (07.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 09.10.1937 - (02.)1938 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.05.1938 - (06.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.07.1938 - (04.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (China) 31.07.1939 - (09.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Adventure (large minelayer) 02.01.1940 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Vindictive (fleet repair ship) 10.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) 06.02.1942 - 01.08.1942 Naval ADC to the King (08.1942) no appointment listed 19.09.1942 - 16.05.1944 lent to Royal Australian Navy (London Depot) (06.1944) no appointment listed 01.09.1944 - 28.08.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Valkyrie (shore base) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Isle of Man
Hall, Geoffrey Penrose Dickinson Elder son of late Major A.K.D. Hall and late Mrs Phyllis Mary Hall. Married (1945) Mary Ogilvie Carlisle (WRNS officer); two sons, one daughter. Times obituary (on page 78 of the The Haileyburian Magazine 2005)	19.07.1916 - 18.01.2005 Manby, Louth, Lincolnshire	Cadet 01.09.1934 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 20.10.1938, seniority 01.09.1937 Lt. 01.12.1938 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1953 Capt. 31.12.1961 R.Adm. 07.01.1971 (retd 15.11.1975) CB 01.01.1973 New Year 73 [investiture 13.03.73] DSC 01.02.1944 reconnaissance party enemy coast Far East 10.43 [investiture 18.05.45] MID 23.01.1945 canoe to enemy beach Southern Mediterranean 08.44	Education: Haileybury 01.09.1934 - 31.08.1935 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 08.06.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Southampton (cruiser) (served on Nyon Patrol during Spanish Civil War) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 17.09.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Franklin (surveying ship) (Indian Ocean) 14.03.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Scarborough (escort vessel) (minesweeping in Far East) 03.01.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Challenger (surveying vessel) (hydrographic duties, home waters, Iceland, W Africa) 04.04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Fraserburgh (Bangor class minesweeper) (on staff of a minesweeping squadron, in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) (navigational and minesweeping duties, Icelandic waters) 1943 - 1944 Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), SE Asia: 31.01.1943 - 15.08.1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inveraray, Scotland) 16.08.1943 - 31.03.1944 HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India) 01.04.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (Naval Party 735 08.1943) 04.1945 - 04.01.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Bigbury Bay (frigate) (British Pacific Fleet) 1947 - 1975 hydrographic work: 26.06.1947 - (05.)1949 Assistant Surveyor 2nd class and in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer, HMS Seagull 09.1949 - 1951 Executive Officer, HMNZS Lachlan [lent to RNZN] 1951 - 1957 subsequently five commands in charge of surveys at home and abroad (HMS Franklin, HMS Scott, HMS Owen) 09.02.1953 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Scott 28.12.1953 - (04.1955) Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.07.1956 - (11.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Owen & as Hydrographer-in-Charge (served in Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Antarctic waters (Cuthbert Peek Grant, RGS, for work in furtherance of oceanographical exploration)) 08.09.1958 - (01.)1959 Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.05.1959 - (05.)1962 Commanding Officer, HMS Owen & as Hydrographer-in-Charge (02.1963) RN College * 04.03.1963 - (02.)1964 Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] 1965 - 1967 HMS Hecla (surveyed between South Africa and Iceland) 12.02.1968 - (02.1969) Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy, Navy Department [HMS President] 07.01.1970 - 07.07.1970 also: Naval ADC to the Queen 1970 Assistant Director (Naval), Hydrographic Department, Taunton 02.1971 - 1975 Hydrographer of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] President, Hydrographic Society, 1975. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Lincolnshire, 1982. Published: Sailor's luck (1999; autobiography); contributions to Nature, Deep Sea Research, International Hydrographic Review, Navy International. * indexed, but not listed as such
Hall, Sidney James	? - 30.12.1971	Prob. S.Lt. 15.05.1939 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.03.1939 Lt. 15.02.1941 A/Lt.Cdr. 07.07.1943? Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1949 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd < 07.1959) DSO 03.10.1952 Korea (4th list) DSC 30.05.1944 attack on Tirpitz 03.04.44 MID 18.07.1944 Operation Potluck (air operations Norway 12-16.05.44)	(08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 20.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Berwick (cruiser) (02.1941) HMS Vortigern (destroyer) * ? - (12.1941) Fleet Air Arm course 04.1942 - (08.1942) pilot, 806 Squadron [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (02.1943) no appointment listed 07.07.1943 - 09.1944 Commanding Officer, 800 Squadron FAA [HMS Emperor (escort carrier)] (Wing Leader 3rd Naval Fighter Wing, 10.1943-03.1944) 26.11.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, 718 Squadron [HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)] (04.1946) HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglington, County Londonderry) * 11.06.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Heron (RN Air Sation, Yeovilton, Somerset) (1951) 14th Carrier Air Group Commander [HMS Glory (aircraft carrier)] (1952) Executive Officer, HMS Wave (destroyer) 23.03.1953 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 07.02.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Heron (RN Air Sation, Yeovilton, Somerset) (01.1957) Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves * * indexed, but not listed as such
Hall-Wright, * Denis Guy Douglas * initially: Hallwright, D.G.D. Son of Dr. Francis Hallwright.	? - 12.2004 still alive	Cadet 01.01.1930 Midsh. 01.09.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1933 S.Lt. 16.09.1933 Lt. 16.06.1936 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1944 Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 10.10.1962) MID 23.12.1939 attacked by enemy aircraft 10.39 MID 29.07.1941 sunk 20.02.41 MID 03.11.1942 Operation Harpoon 06.42	11.01.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 21.08.1933 - (01.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth 10.04.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Shoreham (sloop) (East Indies) (02.1936) no appointment listed 21.03.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Encounter (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 25.04.1938 - (06.)1938 HMS Whitehall (destroyer) 08.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Mohawk (destroyer) [ship commissioned 09.09.1938] 06.12.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Dainty (destroyer) 27.11.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Matchless (destroyer) 11.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Versatile (destroyer) 16.02.1943 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Wallace (destroyer) (08.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * 10.04.1944 - (07)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Duncan (destroyer) 15.12.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Virago (destroyer) 09.1947 - 01.06.1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Widemouth Bay 29.08.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Tyne 20.07.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Snipe 09.02.1954 - (01.1956) Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (07.1961) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Hallifax, Ronald Hamilton Curzon 2nd son of late R.Adm. John Salwey Hallifax (1846-1904), and Charlotte Annie Hamilton (1859-1943), Old Alresford, Hants. Married (1923) Joanne Mary, 3rd daughter of R.H. Hughes, Yelverton, Devon; one son (Adm. Sir David John Hallifax), two daughters (Diana & Elizabeth Ann). Lived at Red House, Shedfield, nr Bodley, Hants.	24.07.1885 Stonerham, Hants. - 05.11.1943 (died in an air crash at Sollum, returning to the UK) [Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, coll. grave 5.A.1-8]	Cadet 01.1901 Midsh. 30.05.1902 A/S.Lt. 30.07.1905? S.Lt. 13.06.1906, seniority 30.07.1905 Lt. 31.12.1907 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1915 Cdr. 30.06.1919 Capt. 30.06.1927 R.Adm. 10.08.1938 V.Adm. 15.02.1942 CB 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 CBE 31.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43)	Education: Stubbington House; HMS Britannia (01.1901-05.1902) 09.04.1923 - (08.1923) senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.10.1923 - (01.1925) Executive Officer, HMS Chatham (cruiser) (East Indies) 06.01.1926 - 20.01.1926 Admiralty 20.01.1926 - (07.1927) Plans Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.08.1929 - (02.)1931 Captain (D) 5th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Wallace (flotilla leader)] (Atlantic Fleet) 05.10.1931 - (01.)1932 course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] 19.01.1932 - (09.1932) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 01.07.1933 - 1936 Naval Attaché, South America (Buenos Ayres) (02.1936) no appointment listed 25.07.1936 - (08.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 11.01.1938 - 10.08.1938 Naval ADC to the King (10.1938) no appointment listed 03.03.1939 - (04.)1939 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 19.05.1939 - (02.)1941 Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Aurora, then HMS Woolwich, then HMS Maidstone] 01.04.1941 - 06.11.1943 Flag Officer Commanding Red Sea and Canal Area [HMS Stag] (Aden, since 18.05.1942 Port Tewfik, Suez)
Halsey, [Sir] Thomas Edgar; 3rd Baronet, cr. 1920 (since 1950) Elder son of Sir Walter Johnston Halsey, 2nd Bt, OBE, and late Agnes Marion, daughter of William Macalpine Leny. Succeeded father, 1950. Married (1926) Jean Margaret Palmer, eldest daughter of Captain Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (Tuan Muda of Sarawak); one son, one daughter. Lived at Hemel Hempstead (1948).	28.11.1898 South Mimms, Herts. - 30.08.1970 Hemel Hempstead, Herts.	S.Lt. 1916 Lt. 15.02.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1928 Cdr. 31.12.1933 Capt. 30.06.1939 (retd 1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 DSO 07.06.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coasts 05.40 39-45, Atlantic, and Europe stars, Defence & War medals	Education: Eton; RN College, Dartmouth 1916 joined Royal Navy 1916 - 1919 served European War 15.02.1923 - (08.1923) staff, RN College, Dartmouth (01.1925) no appointment listed 30.04.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (China) 31.01.1927 - (07.1927) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.02.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies) 20.01.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) 03.08.1934 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Boadicea (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 12.10.1936 - (02.)1937 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.03.1937 - (04.)1939 an Assistant to Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord [HMS President] 31.07.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) & Captain (D), 16th Destroyer Flotilla 23.10.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) 04.02.1942 - 15.02.1943 Naval Officer-in-Charge Isle of Man & Commanding Officer, HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)