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Laing, M.B.
to
Lewis,R.C.

Linton, J.W.
to
Lyver, G.D.D'E.

 
M.B. Laing  to  R.C. Lewis
Laing,
Michael Bryan
M.B. Laing
Son of Bryan Laing (1875-1941), iron shipbuilder, and Eleanor Leather (c. 1870-c. 1946).
Residence (1947): Therfield, Royston, Hertfordshire.
(12?).1901
Sunderland, Durham
-
03.01.1978
Therfield, Royston, Hertfordshire
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.09.1921
A/Lt.
15.04.1923
Lt.
03.10.1923, seniority 15.04.1923
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1931
Cdr.
30.06.1936
Capt.
30.06.1943 (retd 08.07.1952)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1942
New Year 42
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1945
planning amphibious operations Sicily & Southern France
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
?
landings south coast of France 08.44
1917
-
1919
served European War
15.04.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Wolfhound (torpedo-boat destroyer)
15.04.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(05.1926)


no appointment listed
30.12.1926
-
(07.1927)
qualifying for gunnery duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Excellent]
05.07.1929
-
(04.)1930
Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.08.1930
-
(01.)1932
Flotilla Gunnery Officer, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Stuart (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean)
01.07.1932
-
(01.)1934
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
24.07.1934
-
(02.1936)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer, East Indies
21.01.1937
-
(08.)1938
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
(10.1938)


no appointment listed
10.01.1939
-
17.07.1939
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
18.07.1939
-
(09.)1939
Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Effingham (cruiser)] (Portsmouth)
18.09.1939
-
(04.)1940
on staff of Vice-Admiral Commanding Northern Patrol [HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall)]
17.07.1940
-
(02.1941)
Executive Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
01.04.1942
-
(08.)1943
HMS Saker (British Naval Mission to Washington, DC):
RN Liasion Officer aboard the US carrier Yorktown (Battle of Midway)
(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed
31.12.1943
-
(06.)1944
Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal]
01.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa]
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
(07.1948)


no appointment listed
13.09.1948
-
(05.1949)
Commanding Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship)
(05.1950)


no appointment listed
Lake,
Sir Atwell Henry
9th Baronet, cr. 1711, succ. 1924
A.H. Lake (Photo courtesy of Pat Fielding) A.H. Lake
One of three sons oflate Admiral Atwell Peregrine Macleod Lake (1842-1915), and Constance Mary Lake (née Turner).
Succeeded cousin, 1924. Married (1922) Kathleen
Marion, daughter of late Alfred Morrison Turner, Broughton, West Derby, Liverpool; three sons.
13.02.1891
Greenwich district, Greater London / London / Kent
-
27.11.1972
Rudgwick, Sussex
Midsh.
?
S.Lt.
30.12.1911
Lt.
30.12.1913
Lt.Cdr.
30.12.1921
Cdr.
30.06.1927
Capt.
31.05.1932
Cdre. 2nd cl.
> 08.1939, < 08.1942 (retd < 07.1944)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1945
New Year 45 [investiture 26.03.46]
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
16.09.1919

for valuable services in HMS Lion, Battle Cruiser Force

Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
19.03.1946
CNS NZ 05.42-04.45
1914
-
1918
served European War [HMS Lion, Battle of Jutland)
22.08.1921
-
(08.1923)
HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment) (in lieu of Gunnery Lieutenant)
04.01.1924
-
(02.)1927
HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(07.1927)
 
 
no appointment listed
05.04.1928
-
(04.)1930
HMS Victory (for training duties)
25.07.1930
-
(01.)1932
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
(09.1932)


no appointment listed
13.03.1933
-
(06.1933)
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
07.05.1934
-
(08.1934)
course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President]
(11.1934)
-
(02.1935)
no appointment listed
05.1935
-
(02.)1936
Commanding Officer, HMS Milford (sloop) (Africa)
15.10.1936
-
(02.)1937
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
23.04.1937
-
(02.)1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Caledonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth)
20.03.1939
-
(04.)1939
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
18.05.1939
-
1942
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief,
Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
05.1942
-
10.04.1945
Chief of Naval Staff, New Zealand, and First Member of Naval Board
Formerly ADC to King George VI.
Lakin,
Richard Barklie
R.B. Lakin R.B. Lakin
Son of ... Lakin, and ... McCalmont.
From Bampton, Oxfordshire.
Married; at least one son.
08.10.1914
Warwick district, Warwickshire
-
08.2007 still alive
Cadet
01.01.1932
Midsh.
01.09.1932
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1935
S.Lt. 
01.09.1935
Lt.
01.11.1937
?, seniority 01.11.1936
A/Lt.Cdr.
09.04.1944?
Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944 (retd 13.11.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
09.03.1943
[FolbtsMsn?] & Operation Torch
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
09.07.1941
patrols torpedoed 4 transports 02-03.41
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
12.10.1943
4 war patrols Mediterranean
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1940
New Year 40
Officer of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
24.10.1944
attack on Sicily
21.01.1932
-
(01.1934)
HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
03.01.1935
-
(07.)1935
promotion course, RN College, Greewnich [HMS President]
02.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
promotion course, Portsmouth
28.09.1936
-
(02.)1938
HMS Narwhal (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
23.05.1938
-
(08.)1939
HMS Ursula (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
09.1939
-
(04.)1940
First Lieutenant, HMS H 32 (submarine)



HMS Unrest (submarine)
07.11.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Utmost (submarine)
11.08.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
06.03.1942
-
(02.)1943
Navigating Officer [later CO?], HMS Ursula (submarine)
27.04.1943
-
(10.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Safari (submarine)
11.11.1943
-
(04.)1944
HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship) (Clyde)
09.04.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, DC, USA)
01.1946
-
(04.)1946
Assistant Naval Liaison Officer in the US Pacific Fleet [HMS Golden Hind (RN base, Sydney)]
Lamb,
Charles Bentall
C.B. Lamb
Son of Arthur Lamb and Violet Aubrey Bentall.
Married (20.09.1939) Josephine Frances Elgar; two sons.
11.04.1914
Bolton, Lancashire
-
28.05.1981
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Prob. Midsh. RNR
31.03.1933
Midsh. RNR
?, seniority 31.03.1933
Act. P/O (prob.) RAF
23.12.1935
S.Lt. (A)
13.06.1938, seniority 28.10.1936
Lt. (A)
28.10.1938
?, seniority 28.06.1938
?, seniority 28.06.1937

A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
06.02.1944?
Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1945, seniority 28.06.1944
Cdr.
31.12.1949 (retd 29.07.1958)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
20.01.1942
for operations from Malta
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.12.1941
attacks on Albania
Mention in Despatches MID
20.05.1941
attack on Taranto 11.11.40
Apprentice sailor, Clan Line Steamers, 1930-1934.
31.03.1933


joined RNR
09.12.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet /  West Indies) (for 4 months' training)
23.12.1935


commissioned, Royal Air Force [short service commission]
23.05.1938


transferred to the Air Branch of the Royal Navy
(08.1938)
-
(10.1938)
short course of instruction
(02.1939)


short course of instruction
27.02.1939
-
(04.)1939
TSR Squadron 822 [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)]
(08.1939)
-
(09.1939)
Fleet Air Arm
24.11.1939
-
(02.)1941
pilot, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)] (took part in Taranto attack, 11.1940)
(1941)


830 Squadron FAA
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
(02.1943)


no appointment listed
03.1943
-
04.1943
[CO?] 842 Squadron FAA
24.04.1943
-
(12.1943)
pilot, 781 Suadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
06.02.1944
-
(04.)1944
Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
13.05.1944
-
(06.1944)
Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
08.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
01.08.1945


transferred to the Executive Branch, RN
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
15.03.1948
-
(07.1948)
staff, Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
25.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth)
07.03.1952
-
(05.)1953
Commanding Officer, HMS Welcome (fishery protection vessel)
23.10.1953
-
(04.)1955
Commander (General Training) and Staff Officer (Flying) to Flag Officer Ground Training [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
26.09.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS President (miscellaneous duties)
Assistant Commandant, Joint School of Warfare (Old Sarum),1956-1958. Lecturer in finance, RN College, 1958-1973. Founded & managed the White Ensign Association, 1958-1973.
Published
: War in a stringbag (1977; wartime memoirs)
Lambe,
[Sir] Charles Edward
C.E. Lambe (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Randall)
C.E. Lambe
Only son of late Henry Edward Lambe and late Lady Lambe of Grove House, Semley, Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Married (1940) Lesbia Rachel, daughter of late Sir
Walter Corbet, Bt, formerly wife of Victor I.H. Mylius, RN; one son, one daughter.
20.12.1900
Camberwell, London
-
29.08.1960
[Newport, Fife / London ?]
Cadet
1914
Midsh.
17.08.1917
A/Lt.
15.01.1923
Lt.
?, seniority 15.02.1922
Lt.Cdr.
15.02.1930
Cdr.
30.06.1933
Capt.
31.12.1937
A/R.Adm.
29.08.1945?
R.Adm.
08.07.1947
V.Adm.
01.12.1950
Adm.
30.03.1954
Adm. of the Fleet
10.05.1960
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
13.06.1957
HM's birthday 57
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1953
New Year 53
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1944
New Year 44
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO
28.09.1938
?
Mention in Despatches MID
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40
Mention in Despatches MID
01.05.1945
Operation Meridian (air strikes on Palembang, 24/29.01.45)
Mention in Despatches MID
23.10.1945
Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture of Okinawa, 03-05.45)
Officer of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
23.07.1946
services to US government
Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) Dann
-
state visit Denmark 05.57
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth
1917
-
1919
Midshipman, HMS Emperor of India (battleship)
(08.1923)


short course of instruction
07.08.1923
-
(01.)1925
HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean)
24.09.1925
-
(05.1926)
qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]
10.10.1927
-
(08.1929)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Stuart (destroyer, flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)
14.01.1930
-
(04.1930)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(02.1931)


no appointment listed
16.03.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
15.07.1932
-
(06.)1933
Torpedo Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (East Indies)
01.12.1933
-
(07.)1935
Squadron Torpedo Officer, Destroyer Flotillas Mediterranean [HMS Coventry (cruiser)]
19.08.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
01.09.1936
-
(10.1938)
HMS President (for miscellaneous or special service)
01.09.1936
-
1938
also: Equerry to the King (Edward VIII & George VI)
02.01.1939
-
04.09.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet)
02.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
12.03.1942
-
(10.)1943
Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1943)


no appointment listed
31.05.1944
-
(07.1945)
Flag Captain, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
1945


Flag Officer Commanding Carriers British Pacific Fleet [HMS Illustrious)
29.08.1945
-
(04.)1946
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Air) [HMS President]
17.09.1947
-
1948
Flag Officer Flying Training [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
05.12.1948
-
(05.)1949
HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
08.09.1949
-
1951
Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)]
1951
-
1953
Flag Officer, Air (Home) [Flag Officer Royal Yacht for TRH Visit to Australia and New Zealand, 1952]
20.03.1953
-
1954
Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror]
(04.1955)


no appointment listed
11.10.1955
-
(01.)1957
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Personnel (Second Sea Lord)
1957
-
1959
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, and NATO Comdr­in­Chief, Allied Forces, Mediterranean
1959
-
1960
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff
Extra Equerry to the Queen 1952-1960 (to King George VI, 02.01.1939-1952).
Lambton,
Hedworth
H. Lambton
From Dunstable.
Son of Hon. Claud Lambton (1865-1945), and Lettice Wormald (1875?-1945).
Married 1st (14.02.1935), Iris Wynnfred Violet Halpin,
daughter of William Law Halpin (divorced in 1963); one daughter.
Married 2nd (1963), Olivia Monckton.
20.03.1904
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
(09?).1983
Blyth district
Midsh.
15.01.1922
A/S.Lt.
15.05.1924
S.Lt.
15.01.1925
Lt.
15.10.1926 (retd 22.09.1934; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
15.10.1934
Cdr. (retd)
20.03.1944
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
19.06.1945
Operation Hotbed (North Russian convoy 02.45) [investiture 16.10.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1945
New Year 45
02.06.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Despatch (light cruiser)
25.09.1924
-
(01.)1925
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.12.1925
-
(05.)1926
submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
21.11.1926
-
(07.)1927
HMS K 26 (submarine) (Mediterranean)
(04.1928)


short course of instruction
05.1928
-
(08.1929)
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) [ship commissioned 24.07.1928]
01.02.1930
-
(04.)1930
HMS Verity (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
19.09.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Marlborough (battleship)
12.04.1931
-
(01.)1932
First Lieutenant, HMS Tetrarch (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
12.09.1932
-
(06.1933)
First Lieutenant, HMS Acheron (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
(01.1934)
-
(07.1934)
no appointment listed
31.07.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Danae (cruiser)
02.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Scout (destroyer)
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
(02.1943)


HMS Reading (destroyer) *
03.03.1943
-
05.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Valorous (destroyer)
05.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer)
?
-
17.02.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Lark (sloop) (torpedoed by U-boat & beached at Murmansk)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
10.09.1945
-
(04.1946)
Executive Officer, HMS Fieldfare (RN Air Station, Evanton, Ross-shire)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Lancaster,
Owen Felton
O.F. Lancaster

Son of Hugh Felton Lancaster and Gertrude Molly Lancaster; husband of Violet Marion Lancaster, of Sidcup, Kent.
(03?).1909
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
17.10.1943
(KIA) [age 33]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 73, column 1]

Wt.Eng.
01.10.1936
Lt. (E)
01.07.1938
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
23.12.1939
destruction U-boat etc.
29.12.1936
-
(02.1938)
HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
25.04.1938
-
(06.1938)
submarine course, Portsmouth
06.08.1938
-
(10.1938)
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines)
02.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Salmon (submarine)
30.09.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines)
04.1941
-
17.10.1943
HMS Trooper (submarine)
Landon,
John Palmer
J.P. Landon
Son of Charles Palmer Landon, and Caroline Manders.
06.08.1883
Calcutta, India
-
died between 07.1952 and 07.1959
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1903?
S.Lt.
26.01.1905, seniority 15.09.1903
Lt.
01.04.1906
Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1914
Cdr.
30.06.1918 (retd 31.08.1922; own request)
Capt. (retd)
06.08.1928 (reactivated 1940) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
13.11.1940
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser)
12.1942
-
05.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge Brightlingsea & Resident Naval Officer Frinton & (from 11.1943) Captain M/L Brightlingsea
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Langford-Holt,
[Sir] John Anthony *
J.L. Holt [later: J.A. Langford-Holt]
Son of late Ernest Langford­Holt.
Married 1st (1944) Elisabeth Charlotte Marie (marriage dissolved 1950), daughter
of late Ernst Neustadtl, Vienna.
Married 2nd (1953), Flora Evelyn Innes (marriage dissolved 1969), daughter of late Ian St Clair Stuart; one son, one daughter.
Married 3rd (1971) Betty Ann (marriage dissolved 1981), daughter of H. Maxworthy.
Married 4th (04.1984) Irene Attwooll, daughter of late David Alexander Kerr.

* initially known in the Navy as: Holt, John Langford
30.06.1916
-
23.07.1993
Wandsworth, London
Army:

2nd Lt.
22.07.1936
RN:

A/S.Lt. (A)
01.07.1939
S.Lt. (A)
14.03.1940
Lt. (A)
01.01.1942
Lt.Cdr. (A)
1945 ?
Knight Bachelor Kt
01.101.1962
New Year 62: for political and public service

Grand Decoration of Honour, in Silver with Star (Austria), 1980.

Education: Shrewsbury School



late Cadet Serjeant, Shrewsbury School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
22.07.1936
-
07.1939
commissioned, 7th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers - Territorial Army
24.08.1939


mobilized TA
1939