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Hood,
Alexander Hugo Evelyn
A.H.E. Hood
Son of ... Hood, and ... Ellwood.
Married Angela (née ...); three daughters, one son.
(03?).1920
Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
02.09.2007
London Clinic
[aged 87]
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1939
S.Lt.
01.07.1939
Lt.
16.05.1941
Lt.Cdr.
16.05.1949 (retd 08.09.1958)
...
-
...
...
11.09.1939
-
(08.)1942
HMS Woolston (destroyer)
08.11.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Totland (escort)



HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
(06.1944)
-
(10.1944)
qualifying for navigation duties
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Rotherham (destroyer)
29.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Caesar (destroyer)
09.03.1947
-
13.12.1947
HMAS Hobart (from 18.08.1947 also as Squadron Navigating Officer)
14.12.1947
-
08.07.1948
HMAS Cerberus (for navigating or directing duties)
09.07.1948
-
06.1949
HMAS Warramunga & and as Flotilla Navigating Officer
06.1949
-
22.07.1949
HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage home, 23.07.1949)
14.11.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry)



HMS Ocean



HMS Dryad



HMS Cochrane
Hood,
Basil Frederick
B.F. Hood
Second son of the Rev. John Fulton Hood, BA, and Maria Christina du Plat Hood (née Richardson Griffiths), of Craigweil-on-Sea, Bognor Regis, Sussex.
Brother of Chaplain to the Forces the Rev. Canon John Charles Fulton Hood.

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20.09.1886
Stockport
-
10.01.1941
[age 55]
[Haslar RN Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire, H.18.3]
Clerk
?
Assistant Paym.
20.09.1907
A/Paym.
1911
Paym.Lt.Cdr.
1917, seniority 27.08.1915 *
Paym.Cdr.
27.08.1923
T/Paym.Capt.
15.08.1922?
Paym.Capt.
30.06.1934
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
11.05.1937
HM's coronation 37
Distinguished Service Order DSO
14.03.1916
evacuation Gallipoli **
Mention in Despatches MID
16.08.1915
Gallipoli
Mention in Despatches MID
1915/16?
Gallipoli

* Special promotion.
** "Has carried out very heavy duties under arduous conditions."

Education: St John's School, Leatherhead, Surrey (till 1904).
15.07.1904


entered RN
1912
-
1914
Secretary to Admiral of Patrols
1915
-
1916
Secretary to Vice-Admiral Commanding Eastern Mediterranean Squadron (V.Adm. De Robeck) (served at Gallipoli)
15.08.1922
-
(08.1923)
Secretary, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
14.10.1924
-
(01.1925)
Admiral's Secretary, Rear-Admiral 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
09.02.1926
-
(05.1926)
secretaries' course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.04.1927
-
(04.)1930
Secretary to Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.09.1930
-
(01.)1932
Admiral's Secretary, Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron  & Second-in-Command, Mediterranean [HMS Revenge (battleship)]
(09.1932)


no appointment listed
12.10.1932
-
(02.)1936
Admiral's Secretary, Commander-in-Chief,  Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
13.07.1936
-
(07.)1937
Admiral's Secretary, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
20.07.1937
-
(06.)1938
for supply duties, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
01.06.1938
-
10.01.1941
Port Accountant Officer & Port Librarian, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
Hooker,
John Joseph Symonds
J.J.S. Hooker
Only son of the late Lt.Col. J.S. Hooker, and Mrs Hooker, of Pendock, Worcestershire.
Married (16.09.1941, Sandbanks) Pamela Bowring Toms, WAAF, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs E. Bowring Toms; ... children (one son, one daughter ?).
24.03.1915
-
08.1993
Bullingdon district, Oxfordshire
Cadet
01.05.1932
Midsh.
01.01.1933
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1935
S.Lt.
01.09.1935
Lt.
01.02.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1945 (retd 1946?)
Mention in Despatches MID
25.08.1942
Murmansk convoys 03-05.42
Mention in Despatches MID
14.11.1944
3 vessels destroyed Plymouth area 12.08.44
Education: RN College, Dartmouth.
23.04.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
(05.1933)
-
(06.1933)
no appointment listed
23.11.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
03.05.1934
-
(08.)1934
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.09.1934
-
01.05.1935
HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean)
02.05.1935
-
05.01.1936
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
06.01.1936
-
(08.)1936
promotion course, Portsmouth
31.08.1936
-
(02.)1939
HMS Duchess (destroyer) (China)
(04.1939)
 
 
no appointment listed
13.07.1939
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Foxhound (destroyer)
11.11.1941
-
(08.)1942
First Lieutenant, HMS Martin (destroyer) (despatches)
06.10.1942
-
(08.)1943
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for suty outside Admiralty)
20.09.1943
-
(07.)1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Albrighton (destroyer) (despatches)
27.09.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Falmouth (sloop)
Hope,
Frank Stanley
F.S. Hope
Married; .. children (two daughters?).
(12?).1921
Romford district, Essex / Suffolk

-
(05?).2008
Cadet 01.01.1939
Midsh. 01.09.1939
S.Lt. 01.08.1940
Lt. 16.02.1942
Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1950
Cdr. 31.12.1956
Capt. 30.06.1963 (retd)
Mention in Despatches MID 03.07.1945 Operation Acumen (anti-U-boat operation, Norway 12.44) (damage control)
02.05.1939 - (08.1939) special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Suffolk (cruiser)
16.02.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Suffolk (cruiser)
28.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Byrsa (RN base, Bougie [Algeria] & Castellamare / Naples [Italy])
(04.1944)     HMS Cassandra (destroyer) *
08.05.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Cassandra (destroyer) (despatches)
1945 - (07.1945) specialist navigation course [HMS Dryad]
19.03.1946 - (04.)1947 Navigating Officer, HMS Welfare (Algerine class minesweeper)
01.09.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
24.03.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Harrier (RN School of Aircraft Direction, Kete, Pembrokeshire)
24.11.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Harrier (RN School of Aircraft Direction, Kete, Pembrokeshire)
      HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
11.01.1954 - (04.1955) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
(01.1956) - (01.1957) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) *
18.03.1957 - (01.1959) Commander (ND), HMS Mercury II (Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, Portsdown)
      HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC, USA)
      HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS, Canada)
(07.1961)     no appointment listed
03.09.1962 - (02.1963) Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.07.1963     Admiralty [HMS President] (for language study)
(02.1964)     Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.07.1966 - (02.1968) Deputy Director, Naval Plans, Admiralty [HMS President]
07.01.1969 - (02.1969) Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
23.01.1970 - (08.1971) Director of Naval Manpower Structure Planning, Ministry of Defence [HMS President]
17.07.1972 - ? Director General of Naval Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hopper,
Robert Sydney
R.S. Hopper
20.12.1908
West Derby, Lancashire
-
23.03.1972
Prob. S.Lt. RNR
03.03.1933
S.Lt. RNR
14.10.1933, seniority 03.03.1933
Lt. RNR
03.03.1936
07.12.1937, seniority 19.02.1936
Lt.
1938, seniority 20.12.1932
Lt.Cdr.
20.12.1940 (retd 20.12.1953)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
26.05.1942
minelaying 02.42
Mention in Despatches MID
11.06.1942
HM's birthday
early 1938


transferred from RNR to RN
11.04.1938
-
(06.)1938
First Lieutenant, HMS Anthony (destroyer) (The More)
28.07.1938
-
(10.)1938
HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
01.11.1938
-
(08.1939)
HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
23.01.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Atreus (minelayer)
10.09.1940
-
(02.)1943
HMS Manxman (minelayer) (lastly as Executive Officer)
(06.1943)
-
(08.1943)
no appointment listed
28.09.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Gardiner (frigate)
20.01.1944
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Wallace (destroyer)
24.04.1945
-
(07.)1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Oribi (destroyer)
01.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Romola (destroyer)
29.09.1947
-
(07.1948)
for duty on staff of Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
(05.1950)


HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) *
14.04.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Jamaica (light cruiser)
* indexed, but not lsited as such
Hordern,
Michael
M. Hordern (Photo: www.hms-vengeance.co.uk) M. Hordern (Photo: www.hms-vengeance.co.uk)
Married Elizabeth (née ...); at least two daughters, one son.
Residence: (1949) Southsea, Hampshire.
15.09.1919
Maidstone, Kent
-
02.2006 still alive
Cadet
01.01.1937
Midsh.
01.05.1937
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1939
S.Lt.
16.06.1939
Lt.
16.04.1941
A/Lt.Cdr.
08.12.1943?
Lt.Cdr.
16.04.1949 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd)
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (joined 05.1933).
01.01.1937
-
(02.)1937
cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
27.04.1937
-
(02.)1938
HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
09.05.1938
-
(04.)1939
HMS Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
01.05.1939
-
(08.)1939
promotion course, Portsmouth
09.1939
-
09.1941
under training:
23.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Foxglove (sloop)
(02.1941)


HMS Walpole (destroyer) *
03.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
pilot, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)



pilot, 803 Squadron FAA
? **
-
(08.)1942
pilot, 806 Squadron FAA [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
13.08.1942
-
(12.)1943
pilot, 888 Squadron FAA
(12.1943?)


pilot, 893 Squadron FAA
08.12.1943
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, 1832 Squadron FAA
01.08.1944
-
01.12.1945
Commanding Officer, 1850 Squadron FAA ***
01.1946?
-
02.1946?
762 Squadron FAA
02.1946
-
07.1946
Twin & SNAW Course
07.1946?
-
09.1946?
736 Squadron FAA
09.1946
-
03.1947
OFS (Senior Instructor), 741 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn)]
18.04.1947
-
12.1947
Commanding Officer, 802 Squadron FAA [HMS Vengeance & at Malta]
02.1948
-
03.1948
Commanding Officer, 800 Squadron FAA [HMS Triumph] (temporary)
01.1949


course, School of Land/Air Warfare
02.1949


course, School of Combined Operations
19.03.1949
-
(05.)1949
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for miscellaneous duties)
07.06.1949
-
15.12.1951
on loan to RAN:
21.06.1949
-
20.07.1949
HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage per SS Orcades from Tilbury (21.06.1949) to Sydney (20.07.1949))
21.07.1949
-
13.09.1951
HMAS Penguin (RAN base, Sydney, NSW) (additional; for School of Land/Air Warfare, RAAF Williamstown) & HMAS Albatross (RAN Air Station, Nowra)
14.09.1951
-
15.12.1951
HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage to UK per SS Strathaird; disembarked 20.10.1951, followed by 56 days foreign shore leave)
16.12.1951


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional)
10.01.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
(04.1954)


HMS President *
(01.1956)


no appointment listed
(01.1957)


HMS Droxford *
* indexed, but not listed as such
** starting date given as 03.11.1941, which conflicts with earlier appointment
*** (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Hordern,
Philip
P. Hordern

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22.10.1885
Rangoon, Burma
-
(06?).1950
Isle of Wight, Hampshire
A/S.Lt.
15.03.1905
S.Lt.
28.09.1906, seniority 15.03.1905
Lt.
30.04.1907, seniority 15.06.1906
Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1914
Cdr.
30.06.1919 (retd 02.11.1931)
Capt. (retd)
02.11.1931
15.09.1900
 
 
entered RN
04.1918
-
(01.1919)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Inflexible (battlecruiser)
01.09.1924
-
(01.1925)
Commanding Officer, HMS Veronica (sloop) (New Zealand)
(07.1927)


no appointment listed
01.02.1929
-
(02.1931)
Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
(04.1940)
-
(02.1941)
no appointment listed
29.06.1942
-
(08.1942)
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Weymouth [HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)]
01.09.1942
-
(02.1943)
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Weymouth & Commanding Officer, HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth)
22.02.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Lizard (Combined Operations landing craft base, Shoreham)
Horne,
John Bremner Richards
J.B.R. Horne
(03?).1918
Barnsley district, West Riding of Yorkshire 

-
died between 08.1973 and 08.1989
S.Lt.
01.02.1939
Lt.
01.04.1940, backdated 01.10.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1945
Lt.Cdr.
01.10.1947
Cdr.
30.06.1951 (retd 21.01.1968)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
05.05.1942
action against E-boats Nore 15.03.42
Mention in Despatches MID
05.07.1940
loss French TBD Bison
21.01.1939
-
(1940)
HMS Grenade (destroyer)
(03.1942) 


Commanding Officer, MGB 88 & Senior Officer, 7th MGB Flotilla
(08.1942)


HMS St. Christopher
(02.1943)
-
(06.1943)
no appointment listed
07.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Troubridge (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
11.1945
-
(04.1946)
Staff Communications Officer, HMS Sultan
Hornell,
Denis Arthur Hawker
R.A. Hornell
Son of V.Adm. Robert Arthur Hornell, RN, and May Augusta Emmerson Sheean.
Marired (24.08.1940) Heather Veronica Hornell (née Kincaid Lennox), of Campsie Glen, Stirlingshire; one son.
(06?).1907
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
23.05.1941

(KIA) [age 34]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]
RN:

Cadet
15.01.1924
Midsh.
15.05.1925
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
01.04.1928
Lt.
01.11.1929
Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1937
RAF:

(T) F/O
08.09.1929
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th Class MVO
29.01.1936
?
Mention in Despatches MID
20.01.1942
withdrawal from Crete
09.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean)
18.03.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (Africa)
06.12.1928
-
(08.)1929
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
08.09.1929
-
(04.)1930
pliot's course, RAF Base, Leuchars [attached to RAF]
11.09.1930
-
(02.)1931
pilot, No. 404 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Atlantic Fleet) [attached to RAF]
03.06.1931
-
(09.1932)
pilot, HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) [attached to RAF]
?
-
28.09.1933
... [attached to RAF]
28.09.1933
-
(01.)1934
qualifying for gunnery duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Excellent]
03.12.1934
-
(07.)1935
Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
12.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
28.05.1936
-
(02.)1938
Flotilla Gunnery Officer, 8th Destroyer Floitlla [HMS Duncan (flotilla leader)] (China)
(06.1938)


no appointment listed
08.07.1938
-
(08.)1939
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
21.08.1939
-
(04.)1940
Gunnery Officer, HMS Fiji (cruiser)
11.1940
-
23.05.1941
Gunnery Officer, HMS Fiji (cruiser) (destroyed by enemy aircraft off Crete [killed in action])
Hornell,
Sir Robert Arthur
R.A. Hornell (Photo courtesy of Mrs Eileen Marcil)
Eldest son of late Robert Hornell, barrister­at­law, and Elizabeth Brooking Cornish.
Married (1902) May Augusta Emmerson Sheean (c. 1880-...); one son (Lt.Cdr. Denis Arthur Hawker Hornell, RN), one daughter.

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23.10.1877
Larkhall Rise, Clapham, SW
-

04.05.1949
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
A/S.Lt.
15.10.1897
S.Lt.
19.07.1898, seniority 15.10.1897
Lt.
30.06.1900
Cdr.
30.06.1912
Capt.
31.12.1917
R.Adm.
19.05.1929 (retd 20.05.1929)
V.Adm. (retd)
11.02.1934 (reactivated 11.1939) (reverted to retd 1944)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41 [investiture 08.07.41]
Distinguished Service Order DSO
08.03.1918
for services in destroyer and torpedo boat flotillas 17
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
1918?
?
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1917

for service in destroyer patrol flotillas, armed boarding steamers, &c

Education: Cheam School; HMS Britannia.
15.01.1892


entered RN
1894
-
1928
served continuously at sea:
1907/08


HMS Arrogant (?)
(1917?)


Commanding Officer, HMS Patrol (light cruiser)
1918
-
1919
Commanding Officer, HMS Orion
06.03.1923
-
(01.1925)
Commanding Officer, HMS Princess Margaret (minelaying vessel) (Atlantic Fleet)
21.04.1925
-
(02.)1927
Chief of Staff and Maintenance Captain on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Impregnable (training establishment for boys, Devonport)]
(07.1927)


no appointment listed
10.03.1928
-
(06.1928)
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich
28.02.1929
-
19.05.1929
also: Naval ADC to the King
11.1939
-
02.06.1942
Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet II] (as Commodore 2nd class RNR)
23.07.1940
-
07.08.1940
HX 60 (Halifax - Liverpool) [in Manchester Citizen]
23.09.1940
-
25.09.1940
Commodore-in-Charge of 12 merchant ships in Operation Menace (attack on Dakar) [in Ocean Coast]
23.02.1941
-
27.02.1941
OB 290 (Liverpool - Halifax) [in Samuel Bakke] [convoy dispersed]
27.03.1941
-
15.04.1941
HX 117 (Halifax - Liverpool) [in Sicilian Prince]
02.06.1942
-
(04.)1944
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Avonmouth [HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)]
(06.1944)
-
(10.1944)
no appointment listed
Vice-Chairman NB Apostleship of the sea.
Hornsby,
Frederick William
F.W. Hornsby

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19.05.1901
Devonport, Devon
-
06.1994
Petersfield, Hampshire
Seaman
? [M24891]
...
...
Lt. (E)
01.07.1927
Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.07.1935 (retd 19.05.1945)
A/Cdr. (E)
< 12.1941
Cdr. (E) (retd)
19.05.1945
...
-
...
...
(04.1930)


no appointment listed
22.07.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Concord (cruiser; signal school cruiser, Portsmouth)
11.1931
-
(01.1932)
HMS Westminster (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
...
-
...
...
09.01.1939
-
(04.1940)
an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Birmingham Area, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty
04.01.1941
-
(06.1944)
Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Birmingham Area, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
Inspecting Torpedo Officer, Weymouth Area, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty
AMICE, FIMechE, FRSA.
Hornyold-Strickland,
Thomas Henry;
7th Count della Catena
T.H. Hornyold-Strickland
Son of Henry Albert Hornyold (1890-1975), and Hon. Mary Constance Elizabeth Christina Strickland (1896-1970).
Succeeded to title 1940.
Married (20.01.1951) Angela Mary Engleheart (born 31.05.1928); four sons, two daughters.
26.04.1921
Chelsea district, Greater London
-
07.04.1983
[Kendal, Cumbria ?]
Cadet
01.05.1938
Midsh.
01.05.1939
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1941
S.Lt.
1941, seniority 01.04.1940
Lt.
16.07.1941
Lt.Cdr.
16.07.1949 (retd 31.07.1963)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.06.1946
wind up Far East [award posted]
Recommended for an MBE, but due to early retirement (for family reasons) the recommendation was withdrawn.
01.05.1938
-
30.04.1939
special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.05.1939
-
(09.1939)
HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)
17.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Forester (destroyer)
02.07.1940
-
1940
HMS Ajax (cruiser)
03.09.1940
-
1940
HMS Manchester (cruiser)
?
-
?
served in the period 1939/41 also at HMS Erebus (monitor) & HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
06.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
promotion course, Portsmouth
17.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Lamerton (destroyer)
23.06.1942
-
(12.1943)
First Lieutenant, HMS Wolsey (destroyer)
02.1944
-
1944
short course of instruction
(04.)1944
-
(10.)1944
signals course [HMS Mercury (signal school, nr. Petersfield)]
20.12.1944
-
(04.)1946
Communications Officer, 24th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Troubridge (flotilla leader)]
?
-
?
served in the period 1942/46 also at HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) & HMS Vernon (anti-submarine establishment, Roedan School, Brighton)
12.07.1946
-
(07.)1948
HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halfar, Malta) *
16.08.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS Montclare (submarine depot ship)
27.03.1950
-
(05.1950)
Signals Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.1952
-
1953
HMS Euryalus (cruiser)
24.03.1953
-
(05.1953)
HMS Bermuda (cruiser)
03.05.1954
-
(01.1956)
HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth)
?
-
(01.1957)
HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
(01.1959)
-
(02.1963)
Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
?
-
?
served in the period 1946/63 also at HMS Condor, HMS Boscawen, HMS Woodbridgehaven, HMS Newcastle, HMS Superb & HMS Ceylon
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of Westmorland, 04.05.1964. High Sheriff of Westmorland for 1973 (29.03. 1973; was nominated 1971 & 1972).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Horrigan,
John Frederick
J.F. Horrigan
Son of ... Horrigan, and ... Keogan.
(06?).1921
West Derby district, Lancashire
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
Ch.Mech. 2nd cl.
? [D/K 87465]
T/Wt.Mech.
18.06.1940
A/T/Cd.Mech. = A/Lt. (E)
18.06.1945 (retd 1940/50s)
Mention in Despatches MID
05.07.1940
for good service when one of HM's ships was sunk by a mine
?
-
(08.1942)
Boom Defence Depot Aden [HMS Sheba] *
(02.1943)
-
(06.1943)
no appointment listed
07.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Barrhead (boom defence vessel)
(04.1944)
-
(06.1944)
HMS Baldur III (RN base, Hvitanes, Iceland) *
15.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Boom Defence Depot Clyde [HMS Orlando]
01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Moorpout (mooring vessel)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Horswell,
Claude Henry
C.H. Horswell
Married Lilian; ... children (one daughter?).

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26.03.1886
Devonport, Devon
-
10.12.1966
Newton Abbot district, Devon
Seaman
? [M1150]
Wt.Eng.
15.07.1925
Cd.Eng.
15.07.1935 (retd 26.03.1936)
Lt. (E) (retd)
20.10.1941 (reverted to retd 28.08.1945)
29.09.1925
-
(02.1927)
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
14.02.1928
-
(08.1930)
HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) [ship 19.03.1929 commissioned]
12.01.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean)
(09.1932)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.05.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Snapdragon (sloop) (Home Fleet)
03.05.1934
-
(07.)1934
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for mechanical training establishment)
10.07.1934
-
(07.1935)
HMS Dunoon (twin screw minesweeper)
(02.1936)
 
 
no appointment listed
03.07.1939
-
(09.1939)
HMS Speedwell (minesweeper) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
21.03.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
14.01.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
Horton,
Sir Max Kennedy
M.K. Horton






Son of R.J. Horton, of Minster, Thanet.

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29.11.1883
Rosneigr (Insel Anglesey, Wales)
-
30.07.1951
London
Naval Cadet
15.09.1898
Midsh.
15.02.1900
S.Lt.
15.02.1903
Lt.
15.02.1905
Lt.Cdr.
15.02.1913
Cdr.
31.12.1914
Capt.
30.06.1920
R.Adm.
17.10.1932
V.Adm.
19.08.1936
Adm.
09.01.1941 (retd 16.10.1945; own request, to facilitate the promotion of younger officers)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
02.01.1939
New Year 39
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
04.06.1934
HM's birthday 34
Distinguished Service Order DSO
21.10.1914
highly successful attacks on German men-of-war
Distinguished Service Order DSO
02.11.1917
for long and arduous services in command of overseas submarines
Distinguished Service Order DSO
08.03.1920
distinguished service in command of the Baltic submarine flotilla
Mention in Despatches MID
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40
Russian Order of St George, 4th Class (LG 15.11.1915); silver medal for saving life on occasion of loss of the Delhi off Cape Spartel, 1911; Grand Officer Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre (with Palmes) (?); 4th Class Order of St Vladimir with swords; 2nd Class St Anne with swords and diamonds; 2nd Class St Stanislaus of Greece; Grand Cross of Orange Nassau (12.05.1942); Chief Commander of Legion of Merit (28.05.1946) (USA); Grand Cross of the Order of St Olaf (Norway) (13.01.1948; services to Norway)
15.09.1898
-
14.01.1900
HMS Britannia
15.01.1900
-
31.01.1900
HMS Duke of Wellington
01.02.1900
-
01.01.1901
HMS Majestic
02.01.1901
-
11.03.1901
HMS Blenheim
12.03.1901
-
30.06.1901
HMS Hermione
01.07.1901
-
14.02.1903
HMS Eclipse
15.02.1903
-
27.02.1903
HMS Goliath
28.02.1903
-
30.04.1903
HMS Duke of Wellington
01.05.1903
-
21.02.1904
HMS Excellent
22.02.1904
-
27.05.1904
HMS Cambridge
28.04.1904
-
30.09.1904
HMS Vivid
01.10.1904
-
14.02.1905
HMS Thames (for submarine training)
15.02.1905
-
15.06.1907
HMS Thames (for submarine boats & HMS Mercury)
16.06.1907
-
17.01.1910
HMS Bonaventure and HMS Mercury (for HMS A 1 (submarine) & HMS C 8 (submarine))
18.01.1910
-
07.01.1912
HMS Duke of Edinburgh
08.01.1912
-
14.10.1912
HMS Arrogant & HMS Bonaventure (for submarines: HMS D 6)
15.10.1912
-
15.03.1914
HMS Maidstone (for submarines: HMS D6)
16.03.1914
-
30.06.1914
HMS Dolphin (for submarines: HMS E 9)
1914
-
1918
served European War, 1914-1918 ; when in command of Submarine E9 torpedoed light cruiser Hela at Heligoland, September 1914, and German cruiser Prinz Adalbert in Baltic, July 1915; also sunk 3 German destroyers besides 2 transports and several merchant ships
01.07.1914
-
30.12.1914
HMS Maidstone (for HMS E 9)
31.12.1914
-
24.01.1916
HMS Maidstone
25.01.1916
-
15.08.1916
HMS Dolphin (for HMS J 6)
16.08.1916
-
03.12.1917
HMS Titania (for HMS J 6)
04.12.1917
-
15.09.1918
HMS Dolphin (for HMS K 18, then HMS M 1)
16.09.1918
-
17.10.1918
HMS Titania (for HMS M 1)
18.10.1918
-
13.08.1919
HMS Vulcan
14.08.1919
-
30.07.1920
HMS Maidstone
31.07.1920
-
21.07.1921
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines and as assistant to Rear-Admiral (Submarines))
22.07.1921
-
13.03.1922
Chief Staff Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
14.03.1922
-
14.04.1924
Commanding Officer, HMS Conquest (light cruiser) & as Captain (S) 1st Submarine Flotilla
15.04.1924
-
03.08.1925
Captain (Submarines), HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) [for Fort Blockhouse] & in command of Submarine Flotilla
04.08.1925
-
07.08.1925
HMS Victory (additional; for leave)
17.08.1925
-
16.10.1925
HMS Victory (additional; for course)
17.10.1925
-
26.02.1926
HMS President (additional; for war course)
27.02.1926
-
14.03.1926
HMS Victory (additional; for leave)
26.03.1926
-
04.04.1926
HMS President (for duty insde Admiralty)
05.04.1926
-
03.04.1928
Assistant Director of Mobilisation, Admiralty [HMS President]
20.04.1928
-
18.04.1930
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, and Maintenance Captain [HMS Victory]
05.05.1930
-
04.07.1930
tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
30.11.1930
-
25.10.1932
Commanding Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship)
12.12.1933
-
17.07.1935
Rear-Admiral 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Malaya, from 17.03.1934 HMS Barham]
18.07.1935
-
01.11.1936
Vice-Admiral Commanding First Cruiser Squadron [HMS London (cruiser)]
(01.1937)
-
(07.1937)
no appointment listed
26.07.1937
-
17.09.1939
Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Hawkins, from 24.06.1938 HMS Effingham]
18.09.1939
-
19.12.1939
Vice-Admiral Commanding Northern Patrol
29.12.1939
-
03.01.1940
HMS President (unemployed)
04.01.1940
-
09.11.1942
Flag Officer Submarines [HMS Dolphin]
19.11.1942
-
15.08.1945
Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet]
15.08.1945
-
15.10.1945
HMS President (additional)
1945 Bath King of Arms; 1946 Hon. Freeman of City of Liverpool; 1947 Hon. LLD of Queen's University, Belfast.
Literature: W.S. Chalmers, Max Horton and the Western Approaches (1954).
Hotham,
the Hon. John David
J.D. Hotham
Married Aileen Coates (died 01.11.2009, aged 93); one son. She remarried Lt.Cdr. Colin Edward Hugh Smith, RN (1897-1975).
(06?).1911
Teesdale district, Co. Durham / Yorkshire
-
24.03.1962
Chester district, Cheshire
... ...
Lt. 16.04.1935
Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1943 (retd 19.04.1956)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 02.02.45]
... - ... ...
20.08.1937 - (04.)1940 HMS Neptune (cruiser)
17.07.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Gloucester (cruiser)
(02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Icarus (destroyer) *
15.04.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
01.05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Vectis (RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight)
02.06.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Dinosaur (combined training establishment, Troon)
(06.1944)     Senior Officer, 1st Support Squadron Force J (Normandy)
20.11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Sussex (cruiser)
... - ... ...
* indexed, but not listed as such
Howard,
Alan Frederic William
A.F.W. Howard  
Son of late William Howard.
Married (1921) Kathleen Jocelyn, daughter of Charles Campbell Riley; two sons.

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11.04.1883
Colchester, Essex
-
19.11.1971
Hazelgrove, Slindon, nr Arundel, Sussex
A/S.Lt.
15.06.1902
S.Lt.
25.06.1903, seniority 15.06.1902
Lt.
31.12.1904
Cdr.
30.06.1916 (retd 19.05.1929)
Capt. (retd)
19.05.1929 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO

04.10.1940

for good services in directing Sea Transport
Mention in Despatches MID
22.06.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
08.03.1918
?
Croix de Guerre with palm (France) CdeG
17.05.1918
?
Education: Late Mr C. Luton, Farnborough Park, Hants; HMS Britannia.
15.09.1897
 
 
entered RN
(01.1919)
 
 
HMS Stork (torpedo-boat destroyer)
06.11.1919
-
02.12.1919
London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]
03.12.1919
-
30.01.1920
HMAS Cerberus [lent to RAN]
31.01.1920
-
26.04.1920
Commander (D), HMAS Swan (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMAS Australia, from 01.04.1920 to HMS Anzac] [lent to RAN]
27.04.1920
-
12.03.1922
Commanding Officer, HMAS Anzac (flotilla leader) [lent to RAN]
13.03.1922
-
23.11.1922
Commanding Officer, HMAS Tingira (boys' training ship) [lent to RAN]
24.11.1922
- 15.12.1922 HMAS Penguin (RAN depot, Sydney) (additional; awaiting passge to UK) [lent to RAN]
16.12.1922 - 13.05.1923 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]
(08.1923)     no appointment listed
(01.1925)     no appointment listed
(05.1926) - (07.1927) Commander for RNR and Merchant Marine duties, Liverpool Area [HMS President]
10.04.1928 - (06.1928) senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth
01.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
16.09.194   (07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Ramsgate
Howard,
Francis
"Frank"
F. Howard
Married twice; ... children (daughter Eve married Lt.Cdr. George Hugo Digby Legard, MBE).

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31.12.1889
London
-
(09?).1966
Tonbridge district, Kent
... ...
Lt. 01.04.1912
Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1920
Cdr. 31.12.1925 (retd 10.04.1935; own request)
Capt. (retd) 10.04.1935 (reverted to retd > 01.1945, < 07.1945)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC WW I? ?
? - (01.1919) HMS Restless (torpedo-boat destroyer)
02.07.1923 - (01.1925) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(05.1926)     no appointment listed
26.07.1926 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Amazon (destroyer)
05.11.1928 - (08.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Sandwich (sloop) (China)
(02.1931)     no appointment listed
19.10.1931 - (01.)1932 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS President]
27.02.1932 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth) & in command of "Vernon" Flotilla
28.07.1934 - 09.04.1935 Assistant to Captain of the dockyard and Assistant King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
22.08.1939 - 08.08.1940 Chief of Staff to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
22.08.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Hector (armed merchant cruiser)
03.04.1942 - (10.)1943 Captain Superintendent Colombo [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
22.11.1943 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Abatos (training establishment & Senior Naval Officer, PLUTO [Pipeline under the Ocean], Norfolk House, Woolston)
Raised the Ward of the then Lady Harlech in Wales.
Howard,
Henry Edmund
H.E. Howard
Son of Cdr. Henry Mowbray Howard (1873-1953), and Norah Florence Annie Dunlop-Watson (died 1974).
Married (06.01.1945, Glasgow) Sheila Brown (died 14.08.2007), daughter of Colin McNab Brown and Gladys Elsey Reynolds; one son, one daughter.
03.03.1923
Kensington district, London
-
11.06.1999
Basingstoke district, Hampshire
Midsh.
01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1942
S.Lt.
01.09.1942
Lt.
01.03.1944
Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1952
Cdr.
30.06.1959
Capt.
31.12.1967 (retd 07.01.1977)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

23.05.1944

Operation Avalanche [investiture 21.09.44]
01.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Valiant (battleship)
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Valiant (battleship) *
01.05.1942
-
(08.)1942
promotion course, Portsmouth
03.10.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Loyal (destroyer)
(04.1944)
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed
10.06.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for minor landing craft)
19.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Trumpeter (escort carrier)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
...
-
...
...
07.07.1976
-
07.01.1977
also: Naval ADC to the Queen
* indexed, but not listed as such
Howard,
Sydney Michael
S.M. Howard
Married Elizabeth (née ...) (pedeceased him); three daughters, one son.
1920 ?
-
17.12.2008
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
[age 88]
...
...
Lt.
16.10.1941
A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945
Lt.Cdr.
?
Cdr.
31.12.1953 (retd)
...
-
...
...
19.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Smiter (escort carrier)
...
-
...
...
Howard-Johnston,
Clarence Dinsmore
"Johnny"
C.D. Howard-Johnston (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of John Howard Johnston (1850-1913), an American engineer & miner, and Dorothy Florence Baird (1881-?), remarried as Comtesse Pierre Marie Jules Moreau du Breuil, de St Germain.
Married 1st (28.06.1928, St John's, Southwick Crescent, Paddington district, London; marriage dissolved 1940) Esmé Muriel Fitz-Gibbon (31.05.1904 - 11.1994), youngest daughter of Philip John Fitz-Gibbon (1859-1928), and Ruth Mary Hearn, late of Crohana, County Cork; one son deceased. She remarried (15.02.1943) then Lt., later Cdr. Michael Gustavus Fowke, RN (1919-1977).
Married 2nd (10.06.1941, St Saviour's, Walton Street, Chelsea district, London SW; marriage dissolved 1954) Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig (09.03.1907 - 15.08.1997), daughter of 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), and Hon. Dorothy Maud Vivian (1879-1939); two sons, one daughter. She remarried (04.10.1954) Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1914-2003).
Married 3rd (03.06.1955, Paris, France) Paulette Helleu (08.1904 - 12.06.2009), daughter of Paul César Helleu (1859-1927), and Alice Louis-Guerin (1870-1933).

13.10.1903
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
26.01.1996
France
Midsh. 1921
S.Lt. 30.09.1924
Lt. 30.12.1925
Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1933
Cdr. 30.06.1937
Capt. 30.06.1943
R.Adm. 08.01.1953 (retd 01.07.1955)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1955 New Year 55 [investiture 12.07.55]
Distinguished Service Order DSO 06.01.1942 sinking U-651 Western Approaches [investiture 03.11.42]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 16.08.1940 Romsdal Fjords [investiture 25.11.41]
Mention in Despatches MID 26.07.1940 preventing of war material falling into enemy hands
Mention in Despatches MID 07.10.1941 action against enemy submarines

Order of Phœnix (Greece), 1940; Officer, Legion of Merit (USA), 28.05.1946.

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.
... - ... ...
1938 - 02.1940 Director of Studies, Greek Naval War College, Athens (Order of the Phoenix)
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
05.05.1940 - (10.)1940 Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
1940 - 1940 detached to set up anti-submarine training, Quiberon (France)
1940 - 1940 in charge of operations for destruction port facilities St Malo, evacuation British troops St Malo and Jersey (despatches)
1940 - 1940 anti-submarine operations, Norwegian fjords, evacuation troops and wounded, Molde and Andalsnes (DSC)
28.12.1940 - 23.06.1942 in command Anti-Submarine Escort Group, North Atlantic [HMS Malcolm (destroyer), from 15.02.1942 HMS Hurricane (destroyer)] (escorted 1,229 ships (DSO for sinking U-651))
23.06.1942 - 23.02.1943 Staff Officer (A/S), Western Approaches Command [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
24.02.1943 - (06.)1943 Administrative Staff, Western Approaches Command [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
(08.1943)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
27.10.1943 - (07.)1945 Director, Anti-U-boat Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (anti-submarine specialist, PM's Cabinet U­boat meetings)
10.12.1945 - 1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Bermuda (cruiser) (British Pacific Fleet and occupation of Japan forces)
1947 - 1950 Naval Attaché, Paris
1952     Naval ADC to the Queen
1953 - 1955 Chief of Staff to Flag Officer, Central Europe
Inventor of simple hydraulic mechanisms; commended by Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for invention and development of anti­submarine training devices including Johnston Mobile A/S target, 1937.
Participated in and prepared maritime historical programmes on French TV, 1967-1981.
Howes,
Peter Norris
P.N. Howes
01.07.1916
St Marylebone district, London
-
09.09.1983
Heytesbury, Wiltshire
Lt. 01.11.1938, seniority 16.08.1938
A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945
Lt,Cdr, 16.05.1946
Cdr. 31.12.1949
Capt. 30.06.1955
R.Adm. 07.07.1964 (retd 11.12.1966)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 11.06.1966 HM's birthday 66
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 19.08.1941 action with E-boats Apr & June 41
Mention in Despatches MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee
Officer of the Military Order of St. Benedict of Aviz (Portugal) Aviz - funeral president of Portugal 51
Education: St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs; RN College, Dartmouth.
      served in HM Ships Hood, Furious, Fortune, Albury, Westminster, Newcastle, Liverpool; Chaplet; Mercury; Dartmouth Training Sqdn; HMS Devonshire
08.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Aberdeen (escort vessel)
12.1940 - 08.1941 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 61 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 6th MGB Flotilla
1942     specialised as Communications Officer
12.04.1942 - (08.)1942 Signals Officer, HMS Dundonald II
12.10.1942 - (06.)1944 Signals Officer, HMS Vectis
18.07.1944 - (04.1946) Signals Officer, HMS Admant (submarine depot ship)
1947     Senior Aide-de-Camp to Viceroy of India
1955 - 1958 Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord
1962 - 1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire
1964 - 1966 Flag Officer, Middle East Station
1968 - 1972 Private Secretary to Lord Mayor of London
Published:The Viceregal Establishments in India (1948).
Howlett,
Ronald Stanley
R.S. Howlett
Son of Horace John Howlett (1881-1973), and Edith Maria Hughes (1881-1952).
Husband of Catherine Jean Howlett, of Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
09.05.1907
Ashley, Bristol, Avon

-
15.03.1942
(KIA) [age 34]
[Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery, section 25, grave 511]
Prob. S.Lt. RNR
23.05.1930
Lt. RNR
30.01.1935
Lt.
30.03.1937, seniority 09.05.1931
Lt.Cdr.
09.05.1939
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42 [decoration presented to next-of-kin]
26.11.1936
-
(02.)1937
HMS Codrington (destroyer; flotilla leader 3rd Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean)
25.03.1937
-
(10.)1938
HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean & Portsmouth)
25.11.1938
-
(09.1939)
Executive Officer, HMS Douglas (destroyer; flotilla leader 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediteranean)
02.01.1940
-
15.03.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Vortigern (destroyer) [killed in action when ship was torpedoed and sunk off Cromer by the German motor torpedo boat (E-boat) S-104)]
Howson,
John Montagu
J.M. Howson (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony Whitaker)
Son of Edmund Whytehead Howson and Agnes Isobel, daughter of Dr H.M. Butler.
Married (1922) Betty Frances Clare Luard; one son, two daughters (Jennifer Luard Howson married Capt. Trevor Arthur Anthony Whitaker, The Rifle Brigade).

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01.06.1893
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
19.03.1959
Lyme Regis, Dorset
...
...
Lt.
15.12.1915
Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1923
Cdr.
31.12.1928
Capt.
31.12.1936 (retd 1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl.
01.01.1944
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.01.1944
New Year 44 [investiture 09.07.46]
Mention in Despatches MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk 06.40
Mention in Despatches MID
25.08.1942
Operation Ironclad (assault and capture of Diego Suarez 05-07.05.42)
Mention in Despatches MID
18.01.1944
dissolution Force H
Education: Stonehouse, Broadstairs; St Aubyns, Rottingdean; Royal Naval
Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; Imperial Defence College (1938).
15.05.1906
 
 
entered RN
1914


Grand Fleet
1914
-
1917
Harwich Striking Force
1918
-
1920
Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee
01.05.1923
-
(08.1923)
Squadron Wireless Telegraphy Officer, 1st Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Barham (battleship)]
15.08.1924
-
(05.)1926
Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.08.1926
-
(07.)1927
HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
08.08.1927
-
(04.)1928
Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
09.04.1928
-
(06.1928)
Squadron Wireless Telegraphy Officer, 1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)]
03.06.1929
-
(02.1931)
Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
03.05.1933
-
(07.1934)
Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer) (China)
(02.1935)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1935)
 
 
no appointment listed
23.09.1935
-
19.01.1937
Staff Officer (Operations) and (Intelligence) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
(02.1937)
 
 
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
17.06.1937
-
(07.1937)
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
18.01.1938
-
(10.1938)
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
23.01.1939
-
(02.)1939
tactical investigation, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
17.04.1939
-
18.05.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) & Chief of Staff, Reserve Fleet
10.06.1940
-
16.02.1941
on staff of Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
17.02.1941
-
1942
Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
15.02.1942
-
(12.)1943
Chief Staff Officer to Admiral Commanding Force "H" (Madagascar, N. Africa and Italian Campaigns) [HMS Malaya (battleship), from 27.08.1942 HMS Nelson (battleship)]
01.01.1944
-
(06.)1944
Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf [HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq]
09.1944
-
(07.)1945
Senior Officer, East Indies Fleet at Delhi
[HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi)]
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed [Naval ADC to the King ?]
Hubback,
[Sir] Arthur Gordon Voules
A.G.V. Hubback
Son of late Brig.Gen. A.B. Hubback, CMG, DSO and of late Mrs M. Hubback, daughter of late Sir Gordon Voules.
Married 1st (1930) Elizabeth Pearson Rogers (died 1949); one son.
Married 2nd (1949) Sheila Mary Roberton (died 07.04.2008).
11.09.1902
-
25.08.1970
[Burley, Ringwood, Hampshire ?]
...
...
Cdr.
31.12.1936
Capt.
30.06.1942
R.Adm.
07.07.1951
V.Adm.
16.12.1954 (General List) (retd 03.11.1958)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
13.06.1957
HM's birthday 57 [investiture 16.07.57]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.06.1953
Coronation List 53 [investiture 30.06.53]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 18.05.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
26.09.1940
Norway 04-06.40
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
1940
capture of Narvik
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth.
...
-
...
...
21.11.1938
-
(04.)1940
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.1940
-
06.1940
co-ordinated Norway operations in conjunction with French staff (Croix de Guerre, despatches)
29.06.1940
-
(10.1940)
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
02.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
Executive Officer, HMS Galatea (cruiser)
04.04.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
07.01.1943
-
(02.)1943
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Matla) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
05.03.1943
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) & as Captain Commanding Coastal Forces Mediterranean
07.1943
-
(10.)1943
Captain Coastal Forces Eastern Theatre on staff of Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
(12.1943)
 
 
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
1944
-
(06.)1944
Chief Staff Officer to Naval Commander, Force J (Normandy)
24.07.1944
-
(07.)1945
Assistant Director of Plans (SPS), Admiralty [HMS President] (also indicated as: Joint Planning Staff, Cabinet Offices)
22.11.1945
-
1947
Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
1947
-
1950
Commodore Superintendent, Malta
1950
-
1951
Commodore RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus]
1951
-
1954
Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
1954
-
1957
Director of Dockyards, Admiralty
1958
-
1958
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Fourth Sea Lord, Admiralty
1958
-
1959
Managing Director, Dockyard, Malta
OStJ 1949.
Hudson,
Roland Keith
R.K. Hudson
04.11.1909
Penzance district, Cornwall
-
04.01.1998
Kensington and Chelsea district, London
.. ...
Lt. 01.12.1931
Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1939 (retd 04.11.1954)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 08.03.1940 exp work with enemy mines [investiture 27.02.40]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 22.01.1946 ship lost Sourabaya 01.03.42 [decoration posted]
... - ... ...
28.11.1939 - 27.01.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Borde (minesweeper)
01.02.1941 - 01.03.1942 Navigating Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (sunk by Japanese forces in the Battle of the Java Sea; captured)
1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity
Hughes,
Albert William
"Bill"
A.W. Hughes (Photo: Dunedin Society) A.W. Hughes (Photo: Dunedin Society)
A.W. Hughes (Photo: Dunedin Society) 
Husband of Alice Hughes, of Glan Conway, Denbighshire; one son, one daughter.

13.09.1902
Liskard, Wallasey
-
27.11.1941
[age 39]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR
23.10.1939
T/Lt. (E)
02.05.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr. (E)
< 11.1941
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
25.06.1940
capturing enemy ships
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1942
New Year 42
Apprenticeship at Cammell Lairds shipyard and sailed as Engineer with the Bibby Line until enlisting in the RNVR in 1939, after which he transferred to RN.
23.10.1939
-
22.11.1939
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
23.11.1939
-
24.11.1941
HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Hughes,
Arnold Rowland
A.R. Hughes
Son of Oswald Hughes and Florence Hughes (née Wagstaff), of Kiveton Park, Yorkshire.
(12?).1912
Sheffield district, South Yorkshire / Yorkshire - West Riding
-
26.11.1941
[age 29]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 46, column 1]
Schoolm. Candidate
24.04.1938
Schoolm.
1938?, seniority 24.04.1938
Education: BSc.
(06.1938)


no appointment listed
(08.1938)


short course of instruction
05.08.1938
-
(04.)1940
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)
15.11.1940
-
24.11.1941
HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Hughes,
Edward Glyn de Styrap Jukes-
see:
Jukes-Hughes,
Edward Glyn de Styrap
 
Hughes-Hallett,
John
J. Hughes-Hallett
J. Hughes-Hallett
Son of late Col. Wyndham Hughes­Hallett.
Unmarried.
01.12.1901
-
05.04.1972
[Slindon, Arundel, Sussex]
...
...
Cdr.
31.12.1934
Capt.
30.06.1940
Cdre. 1st cl.
08.05.1943?
V.Adm.
02.02.1953 (retd 09.1954)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
04.09.1945
Operation Overlord
Distinguished Service Order DSO
02.10.1942
Operation Jubilee (Dieppe)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.03.1941
goods services since the outbreak of war
Mention in Despatches MID
06.01.1944
sinking of the Scharnhorst
Letter of Praise LoP
1944
Operation Neptune
Education: Bedford School; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
05.1918


midshipman, HMS Lion
...
-
...
...
08.9.1933
-
(02.)1935
Torpedo Officer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer on staff of Rear-Admiral Aircraft Carriers
01.05.1935
-
29.10.1935
HMS President (for Plans Division, Admiralty)
30.10.1935
-
(07.)1937
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.09.1937
-
(04.)1940
Executive Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Norwegian campaign)
20.05.1940
-
22.09.1940
Admiralty [HMS President]
23.09.1940
-
(12.)1941
Deputy Director of Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 
15.12.1941
-
(08.1942)
Naval Adviser on Combined Operations, Combined Operations Headquarters, Admiralty
08.1942


Naval Force Commander at Dieppe Raid
12.10.1942
-
(04.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Vectis (RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight)
08.05.1943
-
(08.)1943
on staff of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
16.08.1943
-
(10.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Vectis (RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight) & Senior Officer, Force "J" [Commodore Commanding Channel Assault Force and Naval Chief of Staff (X)]
07.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Jamaica (cruiser)
01.1946
-
1948
Commanding Officer, HMS Vernon (Torpedo School, Brighton)
1948
-
1949
Commanding Officer, HMS Illustrious
1950
-
1952
Vice-Controller of the Navy
1952
-
1953
Flag Officer, Heavy Squadron, Home Fleet
Conservative candidate. MP (C) East Croydon, 1954-1955, North­East (constituency altered), 1955-1964; British Representative at the Council of Europe, 1958-1960; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport for Shipping and Shipbuilding, 1961-1964. Governor Westminster Hospital, 1957-1960. Consultant Director, British Shippers' Council, 1964-1969. W. Sussex CC, 1969-1970.
Hugonin,
Rowland Etienne Sinclair
R.E.S. Hugonin
Married ((06?).1923, St Maylebone distriict, Greater London / London) ... Carter.

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14.11.1900
-
05.10.1963
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.05.1920
Lt.
15.06.1922 (emgcy 27.11.1929)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)
15.06.1930
A/Cdr. (emgcy)
19.10.1943 (reverted to emgcy 1944/45)
Cdr. (emgcy)
?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
13.10.1942
protection convoy SL109 Western Approaches 05.42
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
23.11.1943
sinking 2 U-boats Western Approaches 07.43
Mention in Despatches MID
14.09.1943
destruction U202 Western Approaches 02.06.43
07.05.1917
 
 
entered RN



qualified in submarine duties
01.01.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS K 6 (submarine)
05.01.1924
-
(01.)1925
First Lieutenant, HMS H 44 (submarine) (Portland)
01.10.1925
-
(05.)1926
HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic)
21.11.1926
-
(07.1927)
First Lieutenant, HMS M 2 (submarine) (Reserve, Portsmouth)
(08.1929)


no appointment listed
25.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
02.1942
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Landguard (escort) *
11.1942
-
(10.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Woodpecker (sloop)
19.10.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
* (12.1941) already indexed, but not listed as such
Hull,
Francis Albert
F.A. Hull
?
-
Lt.
01.08.1917
Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1925 (retd 28.06.1927?)
Cdr. (retd)
28.06.1927
Capt. RNZNVR
?, seniority 01.07.1936
06.04.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
15.08.1924
-
(05.1926)
First Lieutenant, HMS Laburnum (sloop) (New Zealand)
(02.1941)


HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental department, Portsmouth) *
19.03.1941
-
(06.1944)
Assistant Director, Wreck Dispersal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
Wreck Dispersal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
 
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