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Kay, D.G.
to
Knowles, G.H.

 
D.G. Kay  to  G.H. Knowles
Kay,
David Glassford
D.G. Kay
1922 ?
-
30.12.2006
[age 84]
Cadet
01.01.1940
Midsh.
01.05.1940
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
01.01.1942
Lt.
01.09.1943
Lt.Cdr.
01.09.1951 (retd 05.01.1962)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

14.12.1943

U-boat destroyed Western Approaches 08.43
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
01.01.1940
-
30.04.1940
Cadet, undergoing training at RN College, Dartmouth
01.05.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Nelson (battleship)
05.01.1942
-
(01.)1942
promotion course, Portsmouth
05.07.1942
-
(08.)1942
HMS Rotherham (destroyer)
24.10.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Duke of York (battleship)
29.04.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Stork (sloop)
(04.1944)


no appointment lsited
1944
-
05.1944
navigation course
29.05.1944
-
(10.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting base) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP))



Officer Commanding, COPP6(1) (left UK for Mediterranean & South East Asia Command 12.02.1945; was, however, too late to be operational; returned 30.10.1945)
(04.1946)


HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
01.08.1948
-
(08.1948)
HMS Resource (repair ship, Senior Officer Reserve Fleet)
03.11.1948
-
(05.1949)
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
04.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Onslaught (destroyer)
06.10.1952
-
(05.1953)
Executive Officer, HMS Wrangler (destroyer(
(04.1955)


no appointment listed
12.01.1956
-
(01.)1956
Commanding Officer, HMS Loch More (frigate)
02.03.1956
-
(01.)1957
Commanding Officer, HMS Launceston Castle (crovette)
20.05.1957
-
(01.1959)
Commanding Officer, HMS Blackwood
(07.1961)


HMS Cochrane (RN Barracks, Donibristle) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kealy,
John David Farquharson
J.D.F. Kealy
Son of ... Kealy, and ... Matthews.
(09?).1920
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
Cadet
01.01.1938
Midsh.
01.05.1938
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1940
S.Lt.
01.04.1940
Lt.
01.08.1942
Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1950 (retd 07.09.1950)
01.05.1938
-
(08.1939)
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1940
-
(04.)1940
promotion course, Portsmouth
13.10.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Adventure (minelayer)
10.03.1942
-
(10.)1943
HMS Bideford (sloop)
12.10.1943
-
(10.)1944
First Lieutenant, French Ship Mistral
29.10.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Queen (escort carrier)
01.03.1948
-
(07.)1948
HMS Diadem (cruiser)
18.10.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Nuthatch (RN Air Station, Anthorn, Cumberland)
Published: (with E.C. Russell) A history of Canadian naval aviation, 1918-1962 (1965)
Keble-White,
Geoffrey Meredyth Keble
G.M.K. Keble-White (Photo courtesy of Mr A.J. Keble-White.)
Son of Revd. Arthur Keble White (1862-1926) of Chevington, Suffolk, and Helen Maude Nutter (1867-1950).
Married (19.04.1922) Violet Gertrude Alice Preston (1894-1963), daughter of Francis William Preston; two daughters, one son.

Changed name from G.M.K. White to G.M.K. Keble-White by deed poll of 05.01.1923.
07.04.1895
Great Saxham, Suffolk
-
02.06.1961
S.Lt.
?
Lt.
15.09.1916
?, seniority 15.04.1916
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1924
Cdr.
31.12.1928
Capt.
30.06.1936 (retd 12.02.1946)
Polonia Restituta, 3rd Class (Poland) PolRest
22.12.1942
services to Polish navy
Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) OON
25.11.1947

in recognition of services rendered to the Royal Netherlands Navy during the war

Education: RN Colleges Osborne (01.1908) & Dartmouth (01.1910)
01.1912
-
09.1912
HMS Cornwall (boys' training ship)
09.1912
-
08.1914
HMS Britannia (training establishment)
08.1914
-
04.1915
HMS Drake
04.1915
-
10.1915
HMS TB 34 (torpedo boat)
10.1915
-
11.1915
HMS Mystic
11.1915
-
04.1916
HMS Martin
04.1916
-
06.1916
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)
06.1916
-
09.1916
HMS C 10 (submarine)  [HMS Bonaventure (submarine depot ship)]
09.1916
-
04.1918
HMS E 23 (submarine) [HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship), from 03.1917 HMS Vulcan (submarine depot ship), from 12.1917 HMS Ambrose (submarine depot ship)]
04.1918
-
07.1918
HMS G 11 (submarine) [HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)]
07.1918
-
10.1918
HMS C 28 (submarine) [HMS Thames (submarine depot ship)]
11.10.1918
-
01.1919
HMS H 8 (submarine) [HMS Vulcan (submarine depot ship)]
01.1919
-
02.1919
UB 28 (captured German submarine)
02.1919
-
12.1920
HMS H 30 (submarine) [HMS Vulcan (submarine depot ship), from 09.1919 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)]
12.1920
-
10.1921
HMS L 25 (submarine) [HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)]
05.10.1921
-
08.1923
HMS Warspite (battleship)
08.1923
-
05.1924
HMS L 71 (submarine) [HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)]
05.1924
-
09.1924
Group "E" Submarines in reserve at Portsmouth (HMS L 71, L 21, L 11)
08.09.1924
-
09.1925
Commanding Officer, HMS H 22 (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) [HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)]
15.09.1925
-
08.1926
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
19.08.1926
-
07.1928
Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport)] (and for duty with submarines)
01.07.1928
-
11.1929
Commanding Officer, HMS L 21 (submarine) [HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship), from 05.1929 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)] (Mediterreanean)
01.11.1929
-
08.1930
Commanding Officer, HMS Pigmy (special service vessel) & for command of Reserve Half Floitlla (and for duty with submarines) (Portsmouth)
05.08.1930
-
01.1933
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
22.01.1933
-
05.1933
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)
04.05.1933
-
07.1935
Commanding Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet)
23.07.1935
-
02.1937
Commanding Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) & Commander (S) 3rd Submarine Flotilla
08.02.1937
-
02.1939
Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)]
24.02.1939
-
09.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla (China)
09.1939
-
01.02.1940
Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla [various HMS's] (Singapore)
01.02.1940
-
08.08.1940
Captain (S) 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Medway] (Malta & Alexandria)
20.11.1940
-
01.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment) & in charge of A/S Training School (Dunoon)
01.1943
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) [appointment cut short due to illness]
(06.1943)
-
(11.1943)
no appointment listed [illness]
11.1943
-
02.1944
Admiralty [HMS President]
18.02.1944
-
11.1945
Captain Radar Training & from ... [after 06.1944] Commanding Officer, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants)
Kekewich,
Piers Keane
P.K. Kekewich
Son of Charles Granville Kekewich and Mary Marion Mackintosh.
Married 1st (1916) Esmé Alexandra Benedicta Scott, daughter of the late Lt.Col. George John Scott, DSO (marriage dissolved 1939); one son, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1940) Gertrude Lomax, daughter of Frederick George Lomax.

23.01.1889
Barnet, Greater London
-
05.10.1967
London
A/S.Lt.
15.04.1908?
S.Lt.
17.12.1908, seniority 15.04.1908
Lt.
11.02.1910, seniority 15.10.1909
Lt.Cdr.
15.10.1917
Cdr.
31.12.1922
Capt.
31.12.1928
R.Adm.
06.01.1940 (retd 07.01.1940) (reverted to retd > 04.1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl.
20.11.1943?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1946
New Year 46
Education: Cheame, Surrey



served European War, 1914-1918, Battle Cruiser Fleet (HMS Galatea and Cardiff)
04.01.1923
-
(08.1923)
Navigating Officer, HMS Barham (battleship)
08.12.1924
-
(05.1926)
Executive Officer, HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment)
(07.1927)


no appointment listed
01.08.1927
-
(06.1928)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
23.08.1929
-
(02.1931)
Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral & SNO Yangtse, HMS Bee (gunboat) (China)
(01.1932)


no appointment listed
12.04.1932
-
(01.)1934
Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral in Charge, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)]
18.12.1934
-
(02.)1936
Commanding Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training cruiser)
19.12.1936
-
(10.1938)
Captain of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Devonport, Berehaven and Pembroke [HMS Drake]
09.01.1939
-
11.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Cochrane (depot ship) & SO, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master, Rosyth
01.08.1939
-
05.01.1940
Naval ADC to the King
18.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commodore, Northern Patrol [HMS Spartiate (base depot ship, Glasgow)]
31.10.1940
-
02.1943
Rear-Admiral, Coastal Forces [HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)]
(06.1943)
-
(08.1943)
lent to Royal Canadian Navy
10.1943
20.11.1943
-
-
(10.1943)
(07.1945)
Naval Superintendent, HM Dockyard Malta
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Citizen and Merchant Taylor. EStJ (13.07.1916), KStJ (03.06.1924).
Kelly
James William
J.W. Kelly

Son of ... Kelly, and ... Pinnock.
13.07.1921
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
10.08.1998
South Dorset district, Dorset
Midsh.
01.05.1939
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1941
S.Lt.
16.02.1941
Lt.
16.05.1942
A/Lt.Cdr.
< 04.1946
Lt.Cdr.
16.05.1950
Cdr.
31.12.1957
Capt.
31.12.1966 (retd 07.01.1976)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1965
New Year 65 [investiture 09.03.65]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
18.12.1945
war patrols Far East 12.44-08.45 [award posted]
(04.1940)


HMS Rodney (battleship) *
06.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
promotion course, Portsmouth
01.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS H 50 (submarine)
07.01.1942
-
(08.)1942
HMS Trident (submarine)
11.09.1942
-
(06.)1943
First Lieutenant, HMS Taurus (submarine)
(08.)1943
-
(10.)1943
submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
04.10.1943
-
(04.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS H 28 (submarine)
15.04.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Scout (submarine)
02.03.1946
-
(04.1947)
HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
...
-
...
...
(1964)


HMS Heron
...
-
...
...
07.07.1975
-
07.01.1976
also: Naval ADC to the Queen
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kendall
Bernard Edward
B.E. Kendall
Married (07.01.1927, Kensington, London) Margaret Hamilton Mortlock Culver (born 05.12.1900), daughter of William Robert Richard Culver and Edith Bruce Mortlock OBE.
1902 ?
-
02.03.1969
Cobham, Chatham district, Kent
[age 67]
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.09.1921
A/Lt.
15.04.1923
Lt.
15.06.1923
Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1931 (retd 02.09.1946)
A/Cdr.
01.05.1942?
Cdr. (retd)
02.09.1946
15.06.1923
-
(08.)1923
HMS Caledon (light cruiser)
22.09.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
24.09.1925
-
(05.)1926
qualifying as anti-submarine officer, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Osprey]
17.07.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for Anti-Submarine School)
31.08.1928
-
(04.1930)
HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)
01.05.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for Anti-Submarine School)
27.07.1931
-
(01.)1932
Executive Officer, HMS Thruster (destroyer) (Portland) & for flotilla duties, 1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla
02.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet)
05.05.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland)
25.10.1934
-
(02.)1937
Anti-Submarine Officer, Flotilla Staff, 8th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Duncan (flotilla leader)] (China)
(07.1937)


no appointment listed
04.08.1937
-
(04.)1939
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for Anti-Submarine School)
08.06.1939
-
(02.1941)
HMS Terror II, later HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (initially for anit-submarine duties, later for duty with Rear-Admiral, Malaya)
01.05.1942
-
(10.)1943
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties)
(12.1943)
-
(06.1944)
HMS Machlimar (RIN torpedo & anti-submarine school, Venduruthi/Bombay) *
(07.1945)


HMS Jasper (minesweeper) *
08.1945
-
(04.1946)
Superintendent, Anti-Gas School, Devonport [HMS Drake]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kennedy
Edward Coverley
"Bulldog"
E.C. Kennedy
Son of Edward Briggs Kennedy (1842-1914) and Caroline Edith Jackson died 1935).
Married (21.09.1918) Rosalind Margaret Innes Grant (1893-1977), daughter of Sir Ludovic James Grant, 11th Bt
.; one son (Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy), two daughters.
31.08.1879
Ringwood, Hampshire
-
23.11.1939
(KIA) [age 60]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 33, column 1]

Remembered on a wooden panel in Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace & an altar rail at All Saints Church, Farringdon.
Lt.
09.11.1900 *
Cdr.
31.12.1912
Capt.
31.12.1917 (retd 01.03.1923)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.07.1940
loss of ship 23.11.39
Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
15.09.1916
?
* Special promotion for services in China



served China



served World War I (despatches, Legion d'Honneur):
1913


HMS Antrim
1918


HMS Angora
1918


HMS Cassandra
1919


HMS Constance



court-martialled and found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the good order of naval discipline 1921 and denied flag captaincy of HMS Courageous, but later reinstated
09.1939
-
23.11.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Rawalpindi (armed merchant cruiser) (sunk southeast of Iceland) (despatches)
Kennedy-Purvis
Sir Charles Edward
C.E. Kennedy-Purvis
Married (1910) May, daughter of George Conquest, of Newport, Isle of Wight.
(06?).1884
district Barton Regis, Glos.
-
26.05.1946
A/S.Lt.
15.07.1903?
S.Lt.
11.01.1905, seniority 15.07.1903
Lt.
01.07.1905, seniority 15.01.1904
Capt.
31.12.1921
R.Adm.
30.09.1933
V.Adm.
28.06.1937
Adm.
15.02.1942
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire GBE
01.01.1946
New Year 46
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
08.06.1939
HM's birthday 39
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1935
New Year 35
Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
16.07.1946
services 02.42-10.45
Education: imperial defence course
(08.1923)
-
(01.1925)
Naval Member, Main Committee, Wireless Telegraphy Board & from 05.03.1920 Naval Member, Experimental Sub-Commitee, Wireless Telegraphy Board
22.02.1927
-
(08.1929)
Director of Signal Department, Admiralty
17.03.1930
-
(04.1930)
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
12.01.1931
-
(02.)1931
senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
14.03.1931
-
(10.1932)
Commanding Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
05.01.1933
-
30.09.1933
also: Naval ADC to the King
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
02.07.1934
-
(02.)1936
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
02.10.1936
-
(08.)1938
Rear-Admiral / Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Sussex (cruiser), later HMS London (cruiser)] (Mediterranean Fleet)
07.10.1938
-
1940
President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Vice-Admiral Commanding RN War College
03.04.1940
-
1942
Commander-in-Chief, America and West-Indies Station [HMS Malabar]
29.07.1942
-
26.05.1946
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy First Sea Lord
Kerans
John Simon
J.S. Kerans
Married (1946) Stephanie Campbell Shires; two daughters.
30.06.1915
-
12.09.1985
Oxted, Surrey
Cadet
01.09.1932
Midsh.
01.05.1933
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1935
S.Lt.
01.06.1936
Lt.
16.06.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1945
Lt.Cdr.
16.06.1946
Cdr.
31.12.1949 (retd 28.01.1958)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
05.08.1949
escape Yangtze River 30.07.49
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
27.08.1932
-
1933
Cadet and Midshipman, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
29.11.1933
-
1935
Midshipman, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
06.1935
-
(07.1935)
Midshipman, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
26.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
23.12.1936
-
(02.1937)
HMS Aberdare (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean)
04.04.1937
-
(04.)1939
HMS Lowestoft (escort vessel) (China Station)
1939


Staff, Chief of Intelligence Staff, Far East (Hong Kong and Singapore)
(08.1939)
-
(04.1940)
no appointment listed
01.05.1940
-
1942
HMS Naiad (cruiser) (Home and Mediterranean Stations)
12.03.1942
-
20.02.1943
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (for various services)
20.02.1943
-
(06.)1943
Staff Officer (Intelligence), Staff Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean and Levant [HMS Nile]
17.10.1943
-
1944
First Lieutenant, HMS Icarus (destroyer) (N Atlantic)
1944


Staff, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
(04.1944)


no appointment listed
(06.1944)


anti-submarine course
06.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Blackmore (destroyer)
18.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Bermuda
1947


Security Intelligence, Hong Kong
1948


on loan to Malayan Police, Kuala Lumpur
06.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Sussex (cruiser)
1949


Assistant Naval Attaché, Nanking
1949


joined HMS Amethyst (frigate) after her attack by Communist forces (DSO)
1950


RN Staff Course, Greenwich
(05.1950)


HMS President *
1950
-
1952
Head Far East Section, Naval Intelligence Admiralty
16.01.1953
-
1954
Commanding Officer, HMS Rinaldo
1954
-
(04.)1955
British Naval Attaché, Bangkok (& Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Saigon and Rangoon)
(01.1956)


no appointment listed
1957


Senior Officers' Technical Course Portsmouth
MP (C) The Hartlepools, 1959-64; Civil Servant, Pensions Appeal Tribunals, 1969-80.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Kerr,
Ralph
R. Kerr
Source: www.hmshood.com
Only son of Lt.Col. Sir Russell James Kerr, Kt., DL, JP (1863-1952), and Lady Kerr (Miriam Matilda Pine-Coffin) (died 1931) of Newnham on Severn, Glos.
Married Margaret Augusta Kerr; one son (Capt. Russell Kerr, RA; killed in action 24.03.1945), one daughter.

Residence: St. John's Wood, London.
16.08.1891
Chel