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D.G. Kay  to  G.H. Knowles
Kay, David Glassford	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) 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 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 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) PolRest 22.12.1942 services to Polish navy 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 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? 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 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) OBE 01.01.1965 New Year 65 [investiture 09.03.65] 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 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" 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) MID 11.07.1940 loss of ship 23.11.39 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 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 GBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 KCB 08.06.1939 HM's birthday 39 CB 01.01.1935 New Year 35 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 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) 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 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