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A.D. Lacy  to  W.F.H. Lewis
Lacy, Alexander Dacre Elder son of Capt. Saumarez Dacre Lacy, RN, and Mrs Lacy, of Wayside, Bagshot. Married (06.10.1927, St John's, Old Coulsdon, Croydon district, Surrey) Katherine Margaret Anne Goodenough, elder daughter of Adm. Sir William Edmund Goodenough, and Hon. Henrietta Margaret Stanley; three daughters.	06.05.1894 Weymouth district, Dorset - 03.07.1969 Farningham, Kent	Midsh. 15.09.1911 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1914 S.Lt. 15.11.1914 A/Lt. 15.05.1916 Lt. 15.06.1916 ?, seniority 15.05.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1924 (retd 06.05.1937; own request) Cdr. (retd) 06.05.1937 (dispersed 01.09.1945) (reverted to retd 10.12.1945) LegH ? ?	15.01.1907     entered RN ... - ... ... 27.09.1939 - 23.07.1940 HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) (additional; for fitting out duties) 26.07.1940 - 19.01.1941 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)] (for liaison duties with French mission) 20.01.1941 - 12.02.1942 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)] (on staff of General Spears for liaison duties with Free French Forces) 13.02.1942 - 20.04.1942 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; not to join) 21.04.1942 - 31.08.1945 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) (for Naval Ordnance)
Laing, Michael Bryan Son of Bryan Laing (1875-1941), iron shipbuilder, and Eleanor Leather (c. 1870-c. 1946).	(12?).1901 Sunderland, Durham - 03.01.1978 Therfield, Royston, Hertfordshire	Midsh. 15.09.1917 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) CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [investiture 02.11.48] OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 42 [investiture 07.12.43] MID 23.01.1945 planning amphibious operations Sicily & Southern France LegH ? landings south coast of France 08.44	Education: RN College, Osborne (05.1915). 09.1917 - 05.1919 HMS Lord Nelson (battleship) 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] 15.08.1927 - (05.)1928 qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] (06.1928)     no appointment listed 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 - (07.)1934 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 24.07.1934 - (08.1936) Gunnery Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer, East Indies 21.01.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 26.09.1938 - 1938 tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (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 01.07.1946 - 02.1948 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Bellona (light cruiser) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 13.09.1948 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) 01.1950 - 1950 senior officers' technical course (05.1950)     no appointment listed
Lake, Sir Atwell Henry 9th Baronet, cr. 1711 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 - 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) CB 01.01.1945 New Year 45 [investiture 26.03.46] OBE 16.09.1919 for valuable services in HMS Lion, Battle Cruiser Force LM 19.03.1946 CNS NZ 05.42-04.45	15.01.1904     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served European War ? - (01.1919) HMS Lion (battlecruiser) (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) (08.1936)     no appointment listed 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.
Lake, Henry Neville	20.02.1893 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 13.12.1979 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire	... ... Lt. 15.04.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1927 (retd 08.04.1937) Capt. (retd) 20.02.1938 DSO 15.02.1919 ? DSC 19.12.1917 ?	15.01.1906     entered RN ... - ... ... 13.11.1939 - 31.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Forfar (armed merchant cruiser) ... - ... ... 17.02.1941 - (10.1944) Duty Captain on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] (OBE)
Lakin, Richard Barklie Son of ... Lakin, and ... McCalmont. From Bampton, Oxfordshire. Married 1st (1936) Pamela "Pam" Jackson-Taylor (died 1981); three sons, three daughters. Married 2nd Pansy Phillips (predeceased him).	08.10.1914 Warwick district, Warwickshire - 01.03.2011	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) DSO 09.03.1943 [Folboats Msn?] & Operation Torch DSC 09.07.1941 patrols torpedoed 4 transports 02-03.41 DSC 12.10.1943 4 war patrols Mediterranean MID 01.01.1940 New Year 40 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 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	RNR:   Prob. Midsh. 31.03.1933 Midsh. ?, seniority 31.03.1933 (reld 23.12.1935) RAF:   Act. P/O (prob.) 23.12.1935 (reld 23.05.1938) RN:   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) DSO 20.01.1942 for operations from Malta DSC 02.12.1941 attacks on Albania 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 - 17.09.1941 pilot, 830 Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Hal Far [HMS St Angelo]] [on a secret mission to drop a secret agent in Tunisia, the aircraft nosed up in a dry salt lake & crew was captured] 17.09.1941 - 1943? POW in French capitvity 03.1943 - 04.1943 [CO?] 842 Squadron FAA 24.04.1943 - (12.1943) pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 06.02.1944 - (04.)1944 Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 13.05.1944 - (10.1944) 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)] 15.11.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 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) 22.05.1956 - (01.1957) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) 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)
Lamb, Lawrence	(03?).1920 Wandsworth district, London - 05.04.2008 St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth [aged 88]	Sea. ? [D/JX 145980] A/Ldg.Sea. (1941) A/S.Lt. 01.01.1944 S.Lt. 06.1944, seniority 01.01.1944 Lt. 20.03.1945, seniority 01.09.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1952 (retd 19.02.1970) MBE 01.01.1967 New Year 67 [investiture 12.11.68] DSM 03.06.1941 withdrawal from Greece in connection with landing craft movements [investiture 18.05.43]	(1941)     HMS Glenearn (troop ship) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 11.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Bellona (light cruiser) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Lanka II (accounting base, Ceylon) * ... - ... ... (1966)     on loan to Royal Mayasian Navy (MBE)
Lamb, Thomas Walter Son of Thomas S. Lamb, and Beatrice Isabella Watts (1892-). Married (05.11.1942, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Joice Thompson ((03?).1922 - ), daughter of Capt. Frank Thompson, Merchant Navy, and Beatrice Mary Graham; one daughter.	22.03.1915 Tynemouth district, Northumberland - 08.10.1996	RAF:   (A) P/O (prob) 04.05.1936 P/O 12.03.1937 (A) F/O 20.05.1938 F/O 12.09.1938 (reld 19.09.1938) RN:   S.Lt. (A) 06.08.1938, seniority 12.03.1937 Lt. (A) ?, seniority 12.09.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) > 10.1944, < 01.1945 [acting rank] A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 01.11.1945 [appointed rank] Lt.Cdr. (A) 12.09.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1949 (retd 30.06.1965) A/Capt. 15.10.1959 Hon. Capt. 30.06.1965 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp France and Germany Afr St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - Cor M - -	04.05.1936     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 04.05.1936     RAF Depot Uxbridge 25.12.1936     139 (Bomber) Squadron RAF (Wyton) 08.03.1937     44 (Bomber) Squadron RAF (Wyton) 06.08.1938     transferred, Royal Navy (Air Branch) (10.1938)     short course of instruction 28.11.1938 - (04.)1939 Fleet Air Arm, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Portsmouth) (08.1939) - (09.1939) Fleet Air Arm 18.03.1940 - (04.)1940 Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (for pilot duties, and for armament duties) 17.11.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) (for pilot duties, and for armament duties) 02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 28.06.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) 14.05.1945 - (10.1947) Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty at Ministry of Aircraft Production, later Ministry of Supply) (07.1948)     HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) * (05.1949)     no appointment listed 15.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Illustrious 26.02.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Curlew (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall) (07.1954) - (01.1957) Admiralty [HMS President] * 29.05.1957 - (01.1959) Staff Officer (Plans) to Commander Gibraltar, Mediterranean, NATO 15.10.1959 - (02.1964) Assistant Director (Air Armament), Department of the Director-General, Aircraft, Admiralty [HMS President]
Lambe, [Sir] Charles Edward 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 GCB 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 57 KCB 01.01.1953 New Year 53 CB 01.01.1944 New Year 44 CVO 28.09.1938 ? MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 MID 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian (air strikes on Palembang, 24/29.01.45) MID 23.10.1945 Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture of Okinawa, 03-05.45) LM 23.07.1946 services to US government 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).
Lambert, Geoffrey Thornton Son of Sir George Bancroft Lambert, KCSI (1873-1945), and Ann Spooner, of Lucknow, India. Married (26.07.1930, Wesley Church, Ecclesall Bierlow district, Derbyshire / West Riding of Yorkshire) Jean Margaret Fawcett Osborn, second daughter of Mr & Mrs Fred M. Osborn, of Sheffield; one son (killed in an air accident 1956), one daughter.	04.10.1903 - 18.08.1983 Liss, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 1926?, seniority 15.12.1924 Lt. 15.12.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1934 Cdr. 30.06.1941 Capt. 30.06.1948 (retd 08.07.1957) DSC 13.11.1945 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 19.08.42) & as POW * 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 Cor M - -	15.09.1921     special entry cadet, HMS Thunderer (cadet training cruiser) 15.09.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Centurion (battleship) 03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1926 - (05.)1926 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 24.07.1926 - (06.)1928 HMS Verity (destroyer) (China) 24.11.1928 - (08.)1930 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atalntic Fleet) 18.12.1930 - (09.)1932 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 12.09.1932 - (07.)1935 Executive Officer, HMS Active (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 19.08.1935 - (01.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Searcher (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 27.01.1937 - (02.)1937 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.05.1937 - (07.)1937 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 1937     Commanding Officer, HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper) 05.01.1938 - 14.01.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Foresight (destroyer) (despatches) early 1941 - early 1942 no appointment listed while on a Staff appointment on attachment to No. 2 Group, Bomber Command at High Wycombe early 1942 - 19.08.1942 Combined Operations HQ [HMS President] 19.08.1942     Principal Beach Master, Dieppe [embarked in HMS Prince Charles] (08.1942) - (09.1945) no appointment listed while being a POW in German captivity (Marlag und Milag Nord) 25.10.1945 - 06.1946 Assistant Director (Eastern Theatre), Small Vessels Pool, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.1946 - 01.1947 Deputy Director of Movements for Naval Servicing Craft 02.01.1947 - (10.1947) Executive Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser)       course at RN College, Greenwich (07.1948)     no appointment listed 15.04.1949 - 04.1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Veryan Bay (frigate) & as Captain (F), 2nd Firgate Flotilla (05.1950)     no appointment listed 01.07.1950 - (05.1951) Commandng Officer, HMS Mull of Galloway [soon changed to: HMS Jupiter (Reserve Fleet, Gareloch)] & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet Clyde Area & as Resident Naval Officer, Faslane 11.1952 - 08.09.1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) 08.12.1954 - 22.01.1957 Naval Attaché, Paris (France) [HMS President] 07.01.1957 - 07.07.1957 also: Naval ADC to the Queen
* "Commander Lambert was Principal Beach Master on the main beach (Red-White); this beach was under heavy and continually increasing observed fire throughout the operation. The troops who landed on this beach were pinned down, having been repulsed with heavy casualties, which placed the Naval Beach Party in a position of the utmost hazard. It then became the main duty of the Naval Beach Party to evacuate the troops, which, regardless of his own safety, Commander Lambert did everything possible to organise. That this very gallant effort was largely frustrated was owing to the fact that few L.C.A.s succeeded in reaching Red-White Beach and of those that did, the majority were afterwards sunk by enemy fire. Subsequently, when the troops on the beach were surrendering, Commander Lambert made a spirited attempt to avoid falling into enemy hands by swimming out to a sunken L.C.T., but he was eventually forced to surrender." Having been embarked in H.M.S. Prince Charles, Cdr. G.T. Lambert transferred to a landing craft at about 0320 hours on the 19th for the final run-in to Dieppe’s seafront – he takes up the story in the official report he delivered to the Admiralty on his return to the U.K. in May 1945: ‘The enemy’s fire increased considerably as we stepped on to the beach. My party landed on White Beach near the centre of the town’s front. We had not had time to scatter nor take what cover there was under the steeper banks of shingle, before a shell or mortar bomb fell amongst us, killing or severely wounding all except four, who were liberally spattered with flying stones. Several more shells landed in quick succession; the effect of this fire then and throughout the operation was multiplied considerably by the beach being composed of large shingle … ’ Setting off down the beach, Lambert decided to establish his H.Q. in the shelter of a groyne dividing Red and White Beaches, and was joined by his two runners and the badly wounded Sub. Lieutenant Thomson, R.N.V.R. Next striking out along the beach to make contact with the Naval Signal Section, his wrist-watch already shattered, Lambert came upon Sub. Lieutenant Haslett, R.N.V.R., and was just giving him some instructions when the latter was shot through the head: ‘The crack of single bullets passing near seemed to indicate we were being sniped. A search through binoculars revealed the culprit on the breakwater (which, I was surprised to find, had not yet been captured), and he was dealt with.’ Desperate to make contact with H.M.S. Calpe, the raid’s H.Q. ship, Lambert impounded a passing scout car and from it commenced to send a series of signals by handset to the Force Commander, even though ‘the Germans were breaking into the conversation in English.’ In fact, the overall picture was bleak in the extreme, and until orders were received to commence the evacuation, all that could be done was to grab a Sten and ‘try and counter the heavy small arms fire which was being directed from the cliffs and buildings along the front.’ Eventually, as related by Lambert, he ‘was informed that the code word had been passed for the withdrawal to begin.’ But the landing craft making for White Beach were heavily attacked by enemy aircraft, and those that reached Red Beach subsequently struck by mortar and shell fire while casting off – the troops had to be brought on shore again through a murderous fire. The situation was now hopeless, Lambert describing events leading up to his capture: ‘After this incident, which left us busy for some time [the loss of landing craft off White and Red Beaches], it was noticed that the horizon was clear of shipping, and Brigadier W. Southam was informed it was unlikely that anymore would be sent. He was rallying his men to further efforts but they were too exhausted for much more exertion. Casualties were getting heavy and, although we kept up small arms fire as individuals, we could not reduce the increasing fire directed at us from the cliff tops. I then set out to return to the beach H.Q., about a furlong to the eastward, to talk things over with the P.M.L.O., but a heavy barrage was put down and it was necessary to lie very flat until it ceased. When it suddenly stopped, Germans could be seen attacking from the promenade and our troops had begun to surrender. I returned to the strong point, being met by Lieutenant Bibby, R.N.V.R., who told me that the soldiers had had enough and had run out of ammunition. We decided to try and escape by swimming out to a sunken L.C.T. with its bows afloat and lie up until dark. The Germans had no compunction about firing at us all the way out, but we got on board. However, the rising tide engulfed the bows and, as we were too exhausted to swim, the current took us close in to the breakwater where we were picked up by the enemy.’
Lambton, Hedworth 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 DSC 19.06.1945 Operation Hotbed (North Russian convoy 02.45) [investiture 16.10.45] 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
Lampen, Ambrose Maynard Dudley "Michael"	29.06.1911 - 08.02.2010 San Francisco, USA	... ... Lt. 01.05.1934 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1942 (retd 29.06.1956) DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted]	... - ... ... 12.06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Haslemere (Mulberry Control Ship, Normandy) (DSC) ... - ... ...
Lancaster, Owen Felton Son of Hugh Felton Lancaster and Gertrude Kate Morris. Marrie ((09?).1930, Alverstoke district, Hampshire) Violet Marion Cpx, of Sidcup, Kent.	(03?).1909 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 17.10.1943 (MPK) [age 33] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 73, column 1]	Wt.Eng. 01.10.1936 Lt. (E) 01.07.1938 DSC 23.12.1939 destruction U-boat etc. [investiture 08.02.40]	29.12.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 25.04.1938 - (06.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 06.08.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 02.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Salmon (submarine) (DSC) 30.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) 04.1941 - 17.10.1943 HMS Trooper (submarine) (ship missing in Mediterranean)
Landon, John Palmer Son of Charles Palmer Landon, and Caroline Manders.	06.08.1883 Calcutta, India - (03?).1953 Chichester district, Sussex	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)	15.09.1898     entered RN 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 * 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 ? 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 joined RN and Air Branch (FAA) (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 14.01.1941 - (02.1941) pilot, 754 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] 25.05.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Berwick (cruiser)] (08.1942) - (02.1943) no appointment listed 06.05.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) (07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Landrail * Member of Parliament (MP) (C) Shrewsbury, 1945-83. Secretary of Conservative Parly Labour Committee, 1945-50; Member: CPA, 1945-83; IPU, 1945-83, and other International Bodies; Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 1945-83; Estimates Committee, 1964-68; Expenditure Committee, 1977-79; Chairman, Select Committee on Defence, 1979-81. Chancellor, Primrose League, 1989-92. Chairman, Anglo­Austrian Society, 1960-63, 1971-82. Freeman and Liveryman of City of London. * indexed, but not listed as such
Langley, Gerald Maxwell Bradshaw Son of Admiral Gerald Charles Langley, and Juanita Maxwell.	14.12.1895 - 17.04.1971 Midhurst district	Cadet (Special Entry) 01.09.1914 Midsh. 01.01.1915 S.Lt. 15.03.1917 Lt. 15.10.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1926 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 31.12.1936 Cdre. 1st cl. 27.09.1943? R.Adm. 02.01.1946 (retd 22.06.1949) V.Adm. (retd) 22.06.1949 CB 10.06.1948 HM's birthday 48 OBE 12.12.1919 for valuable services during the war * MID 01.01.1940 New Year 40 * In fact for the invention of the Langley Inclinometer, a visual fire control instrument which helped to give the inclination of the surface targets.	Education: Wellington College 01.09.1914 - 15.12.1914 Special Entry Cadet (2nd Entry) RN College Keyham 1915 - 1919 served European War: 01.01.1915 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Dardanelles (or Gallipoli) campaign) 07.03.1917 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) 1923 - 1939 Fleet Air Arm (Observer): 22.02.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (and for observer duties) 21.04.1927 - (07.1927) observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 21.10.1928 - (08.1929) Staff Officer (Operations), 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 06.01.1930 - (04.1930) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (temporary) 01.10.1930 - (02.1931) Naval Air Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.07.1931 - (01.1932) observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 03.04.1932 - (09.1932) Naval Air Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.12.1932 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Diana (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 30.12.1934 - 01.01.1937 Naval Air Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.01.1937 - 18.02.1938 Assistant Director Naval Air Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.02.1938 - (08.1939) Deputy Director Naval Air Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 21.11.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (02.1941) no appointment listed 11.07.1941 - (09.)1943 Director Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 27.09.1943 - (06.)1944 Chief Naval Staff Officer, Supreme Allied Command, South-East Asia [HMS Braganza] 11.01.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 28.02.1946 - 1949 Ministry of Defence [HMS President]
Langley, Michael Armitage Son of Cyril Owen Langley, DL (1880-), and Mary Armitage, of Brewood, Staffordshire.	(09?).1911 Wolverhampton district, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands - 16.11.1940 (MPK) [age 28] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3] [commemorated at War Memorial in the grounds of St. Mary and St. Chad Church, Brewood]	Cadet 1928 Midsh. 01.05.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1931 S.Lt. 01.04.1932 Lt. 01.08.1934 DSC 03.12.1940 successful patrol & attack convoy 16.09.40 [posthumously; presented to next-of-kin]	25.08.1928 - (08.)1930 HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.12.1930 - (03.)1931 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 24.09.1931 - 03.04.1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.04.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (01.1933)     no appointment listed 24.04.1933 - (06.)1933 HMS L 16 (submarine) (for duty with Group "D" Submarines) [tender to HMS Pigmy] 17.12.1933 - 10.1934 HMS Rainbow (submarine) (China) 15.10.1934 - ? HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) 16.01.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Osiris (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Cyclops] 17.07.1936 - 1936 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) 28.07.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS H 34 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania] 29.09.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (and for duty with submarines) 04.1938 - 04.1940 First Lieutenant, then (> 10.1938, < 02.1939)Commanding Officer, HMS Pandora (submarine) (China) 15.04.1940 - 09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) (DSC) 09.1940 - 10.1940 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (for submarines) 14.10.1940 - 16.11.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Swordfish (submarine) * indexed, but not listed as such
Langton, Charles Arthur Son of ... Langton, and ... Hignett.	30.07.1914 Chippenham district, Wiltshire - (03?).1971 Alton district, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.05.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1934 S.Lt. 16.03.1935 Lt. 16.05.1937 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1945 (retd 1940/50s) MID 01.01.1940 New Year 40 MID 08.12.1942 Russian convoy PQ18 09.42 OPW1 11.04.1944 services to USSR	09.06.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Renown (battle cruiser) 05.04.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Leander (cruiser) 01.04.1935 - (07.1935) promotion course, Portsmouth 29.06.1936 - (02.1937) HMS Grenville (destroyer, flotilla leader) 05.09.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Firedrake (destroyer) 25.07.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Western Isles (work-up base, Tobermory) (anti-submarine duties) 12.08.1942 - (08.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Malcolm (destroyer) 31.08.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for instructional duties) 15.10.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Caesar (destroyer) (anti-submarine duties)
La Niece, Peter George Elder son of George David Nelson La Niece (1894-1985), and Gwynneth Mary Morgan (1896-1978), of East Croydon, Surrey. Married (13.03.1948, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Second Officer Evelyn Mary Wrixon "Eve" Babington, WRNS (28.06.1918 - (12?).1982), younger daughter of Oscar John Gilmore Babington, MAI, AMInstCE (1879-1930), and Annie Honor Wrixon (1878-1975), of London SW5; two sons, one daughter.	23.07.1920 Fulham district, London - 04.04.2003 Wadhurst, Uckfield district, East Sussex	Cadet 01.09.1937 Midsh. 01.09.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1940 S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 01.10.1939 Lt. 16.02.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1949 Cdr. 30.06.1953 Capt. 31.12.1961 R.Adm. 07.01.1971 (retd 06.08.1973) CB 02.06.1973 HM's birthday 73 CBE 01.01.1967 New Year 67	Education: Whitgift School, Croydon. 01.09.1937 - 31.08.1938 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training ship) 01.09.1938 - (12.1939) HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 23.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 06.05.1940 - (06.)1940 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (07.1940)     no appointment listed 24.09.1940 - (12.)1940 HMS Lydd (Hunt class minesweeper) 07.12.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (12.1942)     HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) * (02.1943) - (04.)1943 British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS "Heemskerck" (light cruiser) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 14.07.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Viscount (destroyer) 28.06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (01.1945) - (07.1945) specialist gunnery course (04.1946)     Naval Meteorological Branch, Admiralty [HMS President] * ... - ... ... 1962     Commanding Officer, HMS Rame Head 1963 - 1966 Senior UK Polaris Representative, Washington, USA 1966 - 1968 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph 1969 - 1971 Commodore Clyde in Command Clyde Submarine Base 1971 - 1973 Flag Officer Spithead and Port Admiral, Portsmouth Director in Exco Group of Companies, 1976-1985. Published: Not a nine to five job (1992; memoirs). * indexed, but not listed as such
Lansdown, Charles Savage Ewbank	12.10.1904 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - 11.1992 Basingstoke, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 08.09.1926, seniority 15.10.1925 Lt. 15.10.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1935 (retd 12.10.1949) Cdr. (retd) 12.10.1949 OBE 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	15.09.1922 - (08.1823) HMS Ajax (battleship) 03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1926 - (05.)1926 promotion course, Portsmouth 23.08.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Endeavour (surveying vessel) 18.05.1929 - (08.)1929 HMS Rosemary (Fishery Protection Flotilla) 16.12.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Fitzroy (surveying vessel) 09.04.1930 - (10.)1930 HMS Flinders (surveying vessel) 01.12.1930 - (06.1933) HMS Herald (surveying vessel) (China) (01.1934) no appointment listed 19.03.1934 - (07.)1935 Navigating Officer, HMS Kellett (surveying vessel) (in lieu of a specialist) 02.12.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (additional) (for Mining Department) 09.09.1936 - (02.1939) HMS Stork (escort vessel) (surveying service) (for navigating duties in lieu of a specialist) (04.1939) no appointment listed 22.05.1939 - (08.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Gleaner (minesweeper) (for surveying service) 01.02.1940 - (06.1943) Executive Officer & Navigating Officer, HMS Atreus (controlled minelaying base ship) (08.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed: (06.1944) HMS Royal Anne (Naval Party 1500, Arromanches (Mulberry B)) [surveying operation in order to position Phoenix caissons off the coast of Arromanches, led from HMS Fernmoor in conjunction with HDML 1001 to do the actual soundings] 15.05.1945 - (07.1948) Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Lanyon, Norman	09.03.1908 - 01.01.1982 Winchester district	S.Lt. 16.01.1929 Lt. 16.05.1931 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1939 Cdr. 31.12.1944 (retd 1940/50s) DSC 27.06.1944 services Adriatic 10.43 DSC 07.11.1944 sinking U223 Mediterranean MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche Phnx 15.12.1942 escorting Greek king to UK	27.07.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Effingham (cruiser) 20.05.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Delhi (cruiser) 03.01.1935 - (07.1935) HMS Nelson (battleship) 13.01.1937 - (02.1937) First Lieutenant, HMS Viscount (destroyer) 03.01.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Ganges (naval base, Harwich) (1941?) Commanding Officer, HMS Volunteer (destroyer) 17.02.1942 - (02.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Echo (destroyer) 23.02.1943 - 12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Tumult (destroyer) (07.1945) Combined Operations HQ 14.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Surprise
Lapthorn, Charles George	10.08.1899 Plymouth, Devon - 1979 Hampshire	Seaman ? [M14535] T/A/Wt.Eng. 16.03.1943 T/Wt.Eng. 1944?, seniority 16.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	06.04.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Venomous (destroyer) (04.1944)     HMS Venomous (destroyer) * (06.1944)     no appointment listed (10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Brixham (Bangor class minesweeper) * (07.1945)     HMS Orestes (Algerine class minesweeper) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Larking, Dennis Augustus Hugo Son of late Col. Cuthbert Larking, JP (1842-1910), and Lady Adela Maria Hare (1845-1912), daughter of 2nd Earl of Listowel, of Uckfield, Sussex. Married 1st (25.01.1902; divorced 1924) Muriel Campbell Rankine (1878? - 28.09.1957), daughter of the late William Macbean Rankine, of Dudhope, Forfarshire; two daughters, one son. Married 2nd (08.07.1925) Nina Bianca Allatini (? - 12.07.1983), daughter of late Charles Allatini, of Salonica & Italy; one son.	20.01.1876 East Grinstead, Sussex - 20.04.1970 Juan les Pins, France	Cadet 15.01.1890 Midsh. 15.06.1892 A/S.Lt. 18.02.1896 S.Lt. 02.11.1896, seniority 15.12.1895 Lt. 30.06.1898 (reld 01.06.1905) (retd 03.10.1906; unfit [defective vision]) (re-employed 03.08.1914) A/Cdr. (retd) 23.02.1915 Cdr. (retd) 20.01.1916 A/Capt. (retd) 17.01.1917 Capt. (retd) 11.11.1918 * (reverted to retd 17.08.1919) (re-employed 17.10.1939) (reverted to retd 18.11.1939) (re-employed 19.02.1940) (dispersed 02.04.1946) (reld 30.06.1946) (reverted to retd 01.07.1946) CMG 03.06.1916 valuable services rendered in connection with the war LegH 25.11.1921 ? ? Hkn 03.08.1943 King Haakon's Commendation Medal (Norway) StOlav 04.03.1947 for services as British Naval Liaison Officer with the Royal Norwegian Navy during the war Order of White Eagle, 4th class with swords (Serbia; 02.11.1917); Commander, Order of SS Maurice and Lazarus (Italy; 10.07.1919); Commander, Order of the Crown of Italy (Italy; 07.06.1918); War Cross (Italy; 17.03.1919) * in recognition of services rendered during the war	Education: Stubbington House, Fareham; HMS Britannia. 15.01.1890     entered RN (served in Mediterannean, West Indian, and China Stations): 15.01.1890 - 14.01.1892 HMS Britannia (training ship) 15.01.1892 - 04.02.1892 HMS Victory 05.02.1892 - 15.07.1894 HMS Dreadnought (additional) (Mediteranean) 16.07.1894 - 13.08.1894 HMS Warspite 14.08.1894 - 13.09.1894 HMS Victory 14.09.1894 - 04.10.1895 HMS Volage (Training Squadron) 05.10.1895 - 11.12.1895 HMS Royal Sovereign ([Africa?] Squadron) 12.12.1895 - 15.12.1895 HMS Inflexible 18.02.1896 - 17.10.1896 RN College [HMS Vernon, HMS Excellent, HMS Victory] 02.11.1896 - 03.02.1897 HMS Hasty [tender to HMS Victory] (Home Fleet) 04.02.1897 - 10.07.1900 HMS Rattler ([Africa?]) 10.07.1900 - 09.1900 HMS [Aconies?] (manoeuvres) 09.1900 - 01.12.1900 HMS Colossus (coast guard) 01.02.1901 - 1901 HMS Empress of India (Mediterranean) 1901 - 09.06.1903 HMS Caesar 10.06.1903 - 01.06.1905 in command of Mediterranean torpedo-boat destroyers (HMS Crane (tender to HMS Orion), from 15.02.1904 HMS Earnest (tender to HMS Leander)] 03.08.1914 - 08.11.1915 2nd Sea Lord's Office, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.11.1915 - 07.1919 Naval Attaché, Rome 16.07.1919 - 16.08.1919 Admiralty [HMS  President] (additional; for duty in Intelligence Division) 17.10.1939 - 18.11.1939 HMS President (additional; as Naval Representative on University Selection Board, University College Nottingham) 19.02.1940 - 06.05.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Director of Naval Intelligence) 07.05.1940 - 24.02.1941 Naval Attaché, Budapest (Balkans) [HMS President (additional)] 25.02.1941 - 18.06.1941 Naval Attaché, Belgrade & Budapest [HMS President (additional)] 19.06.1941 - 07.09.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (not to join) 08.09.1941 - 10.06.1942 Liaison Officer, Royal Norwegian Navy Headquarters, London [HMS President] 11.06.1942 - 01.04.1946 on staff of Principal Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies, Admiralty as Liaison Officer with Royal Norwegian Naval HQ London [HMS President] Member of Lloyd's.
Launders, James Stuart "Jimmy" Married ((03?).1943, South Shields district, Durham) Olive Johnston (died 13.04.2010, aged 89); ... children (one son?).	1919 - 1988	Cadet 01.01.1938 Midsh. 01.01.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1940 S.Lt. ? Lt. 01.04.1941 A/Lt.Cdr. < 04.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1949 Cdr. 30.06.1957 Capt. 30.06.1966 (retd 29.11.1974; medically unfit) DSO 30.01.1945 2 patrols & support operations, Northern waters [investiture 27.07.45] DSO 24.04.1945 patrols Norwegian waters since 02.45 [investiture 27.07.45] DSC 22.12.1942 gallantry on war patrols in the Mediterranean [investiture 13.07.43] DSC 18.07.1944 Norwegian patrols, 2 supply ships sunk [investiture 27.07.45]	01.01.1938 - 31.12.1938 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1939 - (02.)1939 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 21.03.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) 01.09.1940 - (10.)1940 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.12.1940 - (02.)1941 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 01.09.1941 - (12.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS H 28 (submarine) 07.12.1941 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS P 35 (submarine) ? - (02.)1943 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 18.05.1943 - (03.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Venturer (submarine) (04.1946) no appointment listed 01.1947? HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) ? 01.07.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Meteorite (submarine) 28.03.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Dolphin (submarine dpot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties) 05.07.1951 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Alcide (submarine) 1953     HMS President (Admiralty) 22.03.1954 - (04.)1955 HMS Wakeful (anti-submarine frigate) 02.06.1955 - (01.1957) on staff of Flag Officer, Malaya [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)] 19.05.1958 - (01.1959) on staff of Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Vanguard (Reserve Fleet HQ, Portsmouth)] (as Command Work Study Officer and as Officer-in-Charge No. 4 Fleet Work Study Team) 29.08.1960 - 1960 long tactical course 12.1960 - (07.1961) Staff Officer (Operations), Naval Forces Northern Europe (NATO) (02.1963) no appointment listed 20.05.1963 - (02.1964) for duty with Chief Polaris Executive, Admiralty [HMS President] 30.03.1966 - ? for duty with Director General Weapons (Naval), Bath [HMS President] (02.1968) HM Dockyard, Rosyth ** 18.11.1968 - (08?).1970 Commanding Officer, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Singapore) & as Captain (S/M) 7th Submarine Squadron (08.1971) Weapons Department (Naval) ** 05.1972 - ? Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland 07.07.1974 - 01.01.1975 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Laurence, Sir Noel Frank Son of Frederic Laurence, of Maidstone. Married (1917) Esme Joan Coghlan White; two sons, one daughter.	27.12.1882 Maidstone - 26.01.1970 Surrey Northern district, Surrey	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1903? S.Lt. 13.06.1904, seniority 15.01.1903 Lt. 03.12.1904, seniority 15.01.1904 Capt. 31.12.1919 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.01.1930 R.Adm. 23.09.1932 V.Adm. 12.07.1936 Adm. 01.08.1940 (retd > 12.1941, < 08.1942) (reverted to retd < 02.1943) KCB 09.06.1938 HM's birthday 38 CB 04.06.1934 HM's birthday 34 DSO 24.02.1916 for his services in charge of British submarines operating in the Baltic Sea DSO 01.01.1917 in recognition of the skill and determination which he showed in making a successful submarine attack on an enemy Battle Squadron on the 5th November, 1916 Russian Order of St George, 4th cl.; Chevalier Légion d'Honneur (France) (15.04.1916); Russian Order of St Vladimir, 4th cl.; Spanish Order of Naval Merit, 3rd cl. (06.11.1929)	15.09.1899 entered RN Commanding Officer, HMS E 1 (submarine) (torpedoed 2 German battleships Jutland, 1915 (despatches, DSO, bar)); Senior Officer British Submarines, Baltic 01.10.1921 - (08.)1923 RN War College, Greenwich 03.10.1923 - (01.1925) Flag Captain, HMS Chatham (cruiser) & as Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief East Indies 12.04.1926 - (05.)1926 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 01.07.1926 - 01.07.1927 Assistant Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.07.1927 - (04.)1928 Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.04.1928 - (06.)1928 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 01.06.1928 - (08.)1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1930 - 15.01.1932 Commodore of the RN Barracks Devonport [HMS Vivid] 12.02.1932 - 1932 also: Naval ADC to the King 19.01.1932 - (09.)1932 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 10.12.1932 - (07.)1934 Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 14.01.1935 - (02.)1935 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.05.1935 - (07.1935) tactical course, Portsmouth 16.02.1936 - (07.)1937 Vice-Admiral Aircraft Carriers [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (02.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 21.11.1938 - 01.1941 Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President I] 13.01.1941 - (01?.)1943 Chief Naval Representative at Ministry of Aircraft Production [HMS President]
Lavers, Harold Charles	12.09.1894 Plymouth, Devon - 06.04.1972	Seaman ? [M2455] Lt. (E) 14.11.1937 Lt.Cdr. (E) 14.11.1945 (retd)	01.10.1923     commissioned RN ... - ... ... 28.06.1937 - (12.1939) HMS Hebe (minesweeper) 26.03.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Whaddon (destroyer) (12.1941) no appointment listed (08.1942) no appointment listed 16.09.1942 - (04.)1944 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 14.06.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for flotilla duties) 10.05.1945 - (07.1945) French Ship Paris (for trawler maintenance duties) ... - ... ...
Law, [Sir] Horace Rochfort   Son of Horace Samuel Law (1873-1940), MD, FRCSI, and Sybil Mary Clay (1878-1952). Brother of Lt. Ronald Pakenham Law, RNVR. Cousin ot S.Lt. Thomas Pakenham Law, RNVR (their fathers were brothers). Married (13.12.1941) Heather Valerie Coryton (16.03.1917 - 10.1996); two sons, two daughters.	23.06.1911 Dublin, Ireland - 30.01.2005 Petersfield, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.09.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1933 S.Lt. 1934, seniority 01.09.1932 Lt. 01.10.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1941 Cdr. 30.06.1946 Capt. 30.06.1952 R.Adm. 07.07.1961 V.Adm. 05.06.1965 Adm. 17.09.1968 (retd 01.08.1972) GCB 01.01.1972 New Year 72 KCB 01.01.1967 New Year 67 CB 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 OBE 01.01.1951 New Year 51 DSC 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.41 MID 23.01.1941 courageous action Norwegian waters 05.40 Grand Cross, Order of the Crown (Netherlands), 1972.	Education: Sherborne School 1929 entered RN 06.09.1930 - (10.)1930 HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.12.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.05.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies) 05.01.1933 - (06).1933 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 21.08.1933 - (01.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth 08.05.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 01.07.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent 01.11.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 20.04.1938 - (08.)1938 Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.09.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 05.01.1939 - (08.)1939 advanced gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 24.08.1939 - (04.)1940 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cairo (anti-aircraft ship) 27.06.1940 - (02.)1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Coventry (anti-aircraft ship) 06.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 22.11.1942 - (06.)1944 Gunnery Officer, HMS Nigeria (cruiser) 09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 21.01.1946 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Modeste 25.07.1946 - (07.1948) Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Divisiob, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1949) no appointment listed 06.1949 - (05.1950) on staff of Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command Far Eastern Station [HMS Belfast] 01.09.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Duchess 23.04.1954 - (01.)1956 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 29.08.1956 - (01.1957) Director, RN Tactical School (Woolwich) [HMS President] 1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Centaur 26.08.1960 - (07.)1961 Commanding Officer, Britannia RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth] 06.12.1961 - (02.)1963 Flag Officer Sea Training & in command Portland Naval Base [HMS Osprey] 28.05.1963 - 1965 Flag Officer, Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] & COMSUBEASTLANT (NATO) 30.07.1965 - 1970 Controller of the Navy 28.02.1970 - 28.02.1972 Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command, and Flag Officer, Portsmouth Area [HMS Victory] 21.04.1970 - 1972 also: First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen Chairman, R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co., 1973-1981. Member, Security Commission, 1973-1982. President: RINA, 1975-1977; Officers' Christian Union, 1976-1986; Chairman, Church Army Board, 1980-1987.
Lawrey, Martin Married (Bermuda) Elizabeth Gosling, daughter of the Hon. Ambrose Gosling; two sons, one daughter.	16.08.1897 Falmouth district, Cornwall - 17.09.1939 [St Gluvias Church Cemetery, Cornwall, section 1, row 11, grave 11]	Asst. Clerk 15.01.1915 Paym.S.Lt. 15.11.1917 Paym.Lt. 15.09.1919 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1927 Paym.Cdr. 30.06.1935	Barrister-at-law, called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1932. 15.01.1915     entered RN 01.1915 - 04.1915 HMS Drake (cruiser) (Northern Patrol) 05.1915 - 1919 on the staffs of the Commodore and Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st & 6th Light Cruiser Squadrons [HMS Galatea (cruiser) & HMS Cardiff (cruiser)] (Battle of Jutland, the Heligoland action 11.1917, operations in the Baltic 1918-1919)]       on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches 27.09.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Ramillies (battleship) 26.05.1924 - (05.)1926 Assistant Secretary on staff of Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station [HMS Calcutta (cruiser)] 01.11.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport) 01.08.1929 - (03.)1931 Admiralty [HMS President] (for Naval Intelligence Division) 01.08.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for accountant officers' technical course) 10.05.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 19.08.1933 - (07.)1935 Secretary of Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 03.09.1935 - 1935 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (temporarily) 06.12.1935 - 09.09.1938 Secretary to Commodore, Malaya [HMS Terror II (RN base, Singapore)] (10.1938)     no appointment listed (02.1939)     no appointment listed 06.03.1939     HMS President (for course at HMS Victory) (04.1939) - (05.1939) short course of instruction 01.07.1939 - 17.09.1939 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (torpedoed & sunk by U-29 west of Ireland)
Laws, Arthur Ernest Leonard Son of ... Laws, and ... Winzar.	25.05.1913 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 01.1996 Wantage, Berkshire	A/Gnr. 10.02.1945 Cd.Gnr. ?, seniority 10.02.1945 Sen.Cd.Gnr. 01.10.1952 Lt. (Special Duties List) (G) 01.01.1957 (retd 07.09.1958)	(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed 13.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Cygnet 30.04.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Collingwood 18.07.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Excellent
Lawson, Cecil Graham Son of Captain Bennet Lawson and Minnie Elizabeth Lawson; husband of Edith Mary Connor Lawson, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.	(12?).1907 Greenwich - 10.12.1941 (KIA) [age 34] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 20.07.1931 S.Lt. RNR 08.10.1935, seniority 20.07.1931 Lt. RNR 19.10.1935 Prob. Lt. (Supplementary List) ?, seniority 25.11.1931 A/Lt. ? Lt. 18.05.1938, seniority 25.11.1931 Lt.Cdr. 25.11.1939	21.09.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Neptune (cruiser) (07.1937) no appointment listed 16.12.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Revenge (battleship) 04.04.1938 - (08.1938) First Lieutenant, HMS Hazard (minesweeper) 12.09.1938 - (08.1939) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 06.09.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) 15.01.1941 - 10.12.1941 HMS Prince of Wales (battleship)
Lawson, Frederick Charles William "Derick" Son of M.L. Lawson, formerly of Public Works Department, Punjab, India. Married ((06?).1945, Eastbourne district, Sussex) Dorothy Mary Norman (07.01.1914-02.1986), Eastbourne; one son, three daughters.	20.04.1917 Simla, India - 25.01.2010 Avon Park, Limpley Stoke	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. (E) 01.01.1936 S.Lt. (E) 01.01.1938 Lt. (E) 01.01.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.01.1947 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1949 Capt. (E) 30.06.1960 R.Adm. 07.01.1969 (retd 03.01.1972) CB 12.06.1971 HM's birthday 71 [investiture 30.11.71] DSC 22.09.1942 Operation Harpoon [investiture 23.03.43] DSC 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 [decoration posted]	Education: Bishop Cotton School, Simla; Eastbourne College; RN Engineering College, Keyham. 01.01.1935     special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1936 - (08.1939) course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 12.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Berwick (cruiser) 29.08.1940 - (02.)1941 course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.08.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (DSC) 21.09.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Duke of York (battleship) 16.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Aurora (cruiser) (Bar to DSC) 04.07.1944 - (04.)1947 an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 02.10.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties) (05.1950)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 14.01.1953 - (05.)1953 staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 09.11.1953 - (01.)1956 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous duties) 05.11.1956 - (01.1957) HMS Albion 01.09.1958 - (01.1959) Deputy Manager Engineering Department (Production), HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 25.04.1960 - (07.1961) Deputy Manager Engineering Department (Administration), HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.07.1962 - (02.1964) Chief Staff Officer (Tech.) to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth & as Chief Staff Officer (Tech.) to COMCENTLANT and COMPLYMCHAN, and for duty with Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet as Captain Fleet Maintenance [HMS Drake] 06.11.1965 - (02.)1969 Commodore Superintendent, HM Dockyard Singapore 1969 - 10.1971 Flag Officer, Medway & Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (CB) Chief Executive, Royal Dockyards, Ministry of Defence, 1972-1975. MIMechE.
Lawson, John Monteith Son (with two sisters) of Cdr. Noel John Cecil Lawson, MBE, RNR (1887-1964), and Edith Mathews Monteith, of Horsham, Sussex. Brother of actresses Sarah E. Lawson and Anne Lawson.	20.03.1922 47 Earl's Court Square, Kensington, London - 23.03.1943 (MPK) [age 21] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 73, column 1]	Midsh. 01.01.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1941 S.Lt. 01.01.1942	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.09.1935-04.04.1939; Admiralty No. 1569a; Hawke House). 01.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Rodney (battleship) 01.09.1941 - 12.1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 05.01.1942 - 08.03.1942 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (for submarine course) 09.03.1942 - 17.03.1942 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (as spare officer) 18.03.1942 - 13.05.1942 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (additional, then as spare officer) 14.05.1942 - 24.08.1942 HMS Taku (submarine) [11-23.07.1942 sick on the books of HMS Medway] 25.08.1942 - ? HMS Thrasher (submarine) [04.12.1942-... sick on the books of HMS Maidstone] (02.1943)     HMS Thrasher (submarine) * ? - 23.03.1943 HMS Turbulent (submarine) (ship lost off Sardinia) * indexed, but not listed as such
Layard, Arthur Frank Capel	28.11.1899 Steyning, Sussex - 25.11.1999 Chichester, Sussex	Lt. 15.02.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1928 A/Cdr. 08.1943? A/Cdr. ? ? Cdr. 28.11.1944 (retd 1940/50s) DSO 16.03.1943 Operation Torch, assault Algiers DSC 03.07.1945 probable destruction of U-boat North Sea 06.02.45 MID 27.02.1945 saved ship damaged in air attack 20.07.44	09.1912     entered RN       specialized in Gunnery (10.1932)     Commanding Officer, HMS Vivacious (destroyer) 17.08.1937 - (08.1939) Experimental Department, Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] [12.01.1939 - 17.08.1939 Commanding Officer, HMCS Gaspe (minesweeper) ?]   - 31.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Firedrake (destroyer) (probably never actually assumed command) 04.1942 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Broke (destroyer) 29.12.1942 - (06.1943) HMS President: (02.1943)     Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, Admiralty (06.1943)     for duty with Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons), Admiralty 08.1943 - (04.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Salisbury (destroyer) 06.04.1944 - 02.07.1945 lent to RCN: 06.04.1944 - 26.07.1944 Commanding Officer, HMCS Matane (frigate) 30.07.1944 - 04.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HCMS Swansea (frigate) (02.1945) - 22.02.1945 Commanding Officer, HMCS St. John (frigate) 23.02.1945 -   Commanding Officer, HMCS Loch Alvie (frigate) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed Literature: Michael Whitby (ed), Commanding Canadians : the Second World War diaries of A.F.C. Layard (2005).
Layman, Herbert Francis Hope Son of Maj. F.H. Layman, 11th Hussars. Married ([12?}.1934, Portsmouth), Elizabeth, only daughter of Rear-Admiral A.P. Hughes; one son, one daughter. Last residence: Blewbury, Didcot, Oxfordshire.	23.03.1899 - 21.12.1989 Wallingford, Berkshire	A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.07.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1929 Cdr. 30.06.1936 A/Capt. < 02.1943 Capt. 31.12.1943 (retd 08.01.1953) DSO 07.06.1940 1st Battle of Narvik DSO 03.12.1940 sinking of Italian submarines Durbo & Lafole 10.40	Education: Haileybury 1918 Grand Fleet 24.11.1922 - (01.1925) HMS Curlew (cruiser) (North America & West Indies) 05.10.1925 - (05.)1926 qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 23.10.1926 - (07.1927) Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 20.12.1928 - (04.)1930 Signal Officer, HMS Keppel (flotilla leader) & for Signal and W/T duties in 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean) 16.06.1930 - (01.)1932 Signal Officer, HMS Ganges (RN base, Harwich, Essex & training establishment, Shotley) 18.07.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School) 14.09.1933 - (02.)1936 Fleet Signal Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 05.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental)) 11.01.1938 - (10.1938) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 03.01.1939 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Hotspur (destroyer) 25.05.1942 - (08.)1942 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 04.09.1942 - (12.1943) HMS President (for service with Signal Department, Admiralty) 15.02.1944 - (07.)1945 Deputy Director Signal Division (Y), Admiralty, and for duty with Director of Naval Intelligence [HMS President] 20.11.1945 - 03.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Rajah (escort carrier) 24.03.1946 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Berkshire) 10.01.1949 - 1951 Director of Radio Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] 1951 - 1953 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, The Nore Vice­President, Tennis and Rackets Association. Published: articles on rackets. * indexed, but not listed as such
Layton, Sir Geoffrey	20.04.1884 West Derby, Lancashire - 04.09.1964 Portsmouth, Hampshire	S.Lt. 1903 Lt. 1905 Cdr. 1916 Capt. 31.12.1922 R.Adm. 24.01.1935 V.Adm. 22.10.1938 Adm. 15.09.1942 (retd 1947) GBE 01.01.1947 New Year 47 KCB  11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 CB 1936 ? KCMG 01.01.1945 New Year 45 CMG ? ? DSO 1918 ? DSO ? ? OON 19.01.1943 services to Dutch navy LegH ? ?	Education: Eastman's, Winchester; HMS Britannia; Imperial Defence College 15.05.1899 joined the Royal Navy 1905 - mid 1920s submarine service 1931 - 1933 Chief of Staff, China Station 1933 - 1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) 1934 - 1936 Commodore of Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth 1936 - 1938 Director of Personal Services, Admiralty 08.1938 - 08.1939 Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood] 10.01.1939 - 1940 Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron and [already since 19.09.1938] Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Barham] 09.1940 - 1941 Commander-in-Chief, China Station 1941 - 1942 Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet 01.01.1942 - 05.03.1942 HMS Lanka 05.03.1942 - 1945 Commander-in-Chief, East Indies (Ceylon) [HMS Lanka] 01.03.1945 - 1947 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
Leach, [Sir] Henry Conyers Third son of Captain John Catterall Leach, MVO, DSO, RN and Evelyn Burrell Lee, of Yarner, Bovey Tracey, Devon. Married (1958) Mary Jean McCall (died 28.06.1991), younger daughter of Adm. Sir Henry McCall, KCVO, KBE, CB, DSO; two daughters.	18.11.1923 Bovey Tracey, Devon - 26.04.2011 Wonston, Winchester district, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.01.1941 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1942 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.10.1942 Lt. 01.02.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1952 Cdr. 30.06.1955 Capt. 31.12.1961 R.Adm. 07.07.1971 V.Adm. 06.07.1974 Adm. 30.03.1977 Adm. of the Fleet 01.12.1982 (remained on the active list, but actually retd [02.12?.]1982) GCB 03.06.1978 HM's birthday 78 KCB 01.01.1977 New Year 77	Education: St Peter's Court, Broadstairs; RN College Dartmouth (Grenville House; Admiralty No. 1805; 01.05.1937-...); psc 1952; jssc 1961.       HMS Rodney (battleship) (02.1941)     HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) * 1941 - 1942 HMS Mauritius (cruiser) (S Atlantic and Indian Ocean) [originally appointed to the HMS Prince of Wales, but as his father became Commanding Officer, there, he shifted to HMS Mauritius]       HMS Sardonyx (destroyer) 24.08.1942 - (08.1942) promotion course, Portsmouth 01.02.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Duke of York (battleship) (incl. Scharnhorst action) 22.11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Javelin (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 1947     specialized in Gunnery, RN College, Greenwich 19.12.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 1948 - 1951 various gunnery appointments: (05.1950)     no appointment listed 06.10.1952 - (05.)1953 HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 1953 - 1955 Gunnery Officer, Newcastle (cruiser) (Far East) 1955 - 1959 staff appointments: 26.09.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Mercury II 1959 - 1961 Commanding Officer, HMS Dunkirk (destroyer) 14.06.1962 - (02.1964) Chief Staff Officer (Plans and Operations) to Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Far East Fleet [HMS Terror] 1965 - 1967 Commanding Officer, HMS Galatea (frigate) & Captain (D) 27th Squadron and Mediterranean 15.02.1968 - 1970 Director of Naval Plans, Navy Department [HMS President] 1970     Commanding Officer, HMS Albion (commando ship) 04.1971 - 1973 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy) 1974 - 1975 Flag Officer First Flotilla 1976 - 1977 Vice-Chief of Defence Staff 1977 - 1979 Commander-in-Chief, Fleet, and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel and Eastern Atlantic 1979 - 1982 Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord 06.07.1979 - 01.12.1982 also: First and Principal Naval ADC to the Queen Chairman, St Dunstan's, since 1983. President: RN Benevolent Society, 1983-1995; Sea Cadet Association, 1984-1993; Royal Bath and West of England Society, 1993 (Vice-Pres., 1994-); Patron: Meridian Trust Association., 1993-; Hampshire RBL, 1994-. Chairman Council, King Edward VII Hospital, 1987-. Governor, Cranleigh School, 1983-1993. Freeman: City of London; Shipwrights' Co.; Honorary Freeman, Merchant Taylors' Co. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire, 23.06.1992. * indexed, but not lsited as such
Leach, John Catterall Son of Charles Rothwell Leach. Married (1916) Evelyn Burrell, only daughter of R.H. Lee; three sons (one of which is Adm. Sir Henry C. Leach, RN).	01.09.1894 - 10.12.1941 (KIA) [age 47] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 30.12.1914 Lt. 15.12.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1928 Capt. 31.12.1933 DSO 14.10.1941 Bismarck action MVO 27.06.1927 visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand and Australia	15.05.1907     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served European war 14.03.1923 - (08.)1923 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 28.09.1923 - (01.)1925 Gunnery Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) & Fleet Gunnery Officer, North America and West Indies Station 15.09.1925 - (05.)1926 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 13.07.1926 - (06.1928) Gunnery Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (during the Duke and Duchess of York's tour in Australia and New Zealand (MVO)) 21.01.1929 - (08.1929) course at Staff College, Camberley 14.04.1930 - (01.)1932 staff, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.05.1932 - (01.)1934 Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.03.1934 - (02.)1936 a Deputy Director, Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 04.05.1936 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed 01.05.1939 - (04.1940) Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1941) no appointment listed 15.02.1941 - 10.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Prince of Wales (battleship) & as Chief Staff Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron [ship sunk by Japanese aircraft off the East coast of Malaya]
Leatham, Sir Ralph Youngest son of Samuel Gurney Leatham and Annie Gertrude La Trobe-Bateman; five brothers, six sisters. Married (19.12.1910) Enid May, daughter of H.W. Birks; one son, one daughter.	03.03.1886 Wakefield, Yorkshire - 10.03.1954 [Lymington, Hampshire ?]	A/S.Lt. 30.03.1905 S.Lt. 23.08.1906, seniority 30.03.1905 Lt. 28.02.1907, seniority 30.06.1906 Cdr. 31.12.1917 Capt. 31.12.1924 R.Adm. 05.01.1936 V.Adm. 01.08.1939 Adm. 09.12.1943 (retd (< 04.)1946) KCB 01.01.1942 New Year 42 CB 1938 ? LM 28.05.1946 ? LegH ? ? CdeG ? ?	Education: HMS Britannia (1900); Imperial Defence College 15.09.1900     entered RN 06.1923 - (01.)1925 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 10.01.1925 - (05.1926) Naval Air Section, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.01.1927 - (07.1927) Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 10.01.1928 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Yarmouth (cruiser) 26.11.1928 - (04.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 05.01.1931 - (02.)1931 tactical course [HMS Victory] 04.08.1931 - (06.1933) staff, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (01.1934) no appointment listed 01.05.1934 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) Commanding Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) 12.01.1936 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS President IV (Base Defences, Mediterranean) (02.1937) - (07.)1937 no appointment listed 06.09.1937 - (02.)1938 Chief of Staff & Maintenance Captain, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base. Portsmouth)] 16.05.1938 - (06.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.06.1938 - 1939 Rear-Admiral 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham (cruiser)] (Home Fleet) (02.1939) no appointment listed 12.04.1939 - 04.1941 Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Gloucester (08.1939), later HMS Gloucester II (04.1940), later HMS Lanka (02.1941)] (12.1941)     no appointment listed 01.01.1942 - 01.12.1942 Flag Officer in Charge, Malta [HMS St. Angelo] (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 1943 Deputy Governor, Malta 1943 Commander-in-Chief, Levant (temporary) 24.08.1943 - (07.)1945 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake] Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 07.02.1946-1949. KStJ, 24.06.1946.
Le Bailly, [Sir] Louis Edward Stewart Holland Son of Robert Francis Le Bailly (1866-1945), and Ida Gaskell Holland, of Oakridge Lynch, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Married (03.10.1946, Holy Trinity, Brompton Parish Church, Kensington district, London) Pamela Ruth Berthon ((09?).1924 - ), eldest daughter of R.Adm. (E) Charles Pierre Berthon, CBE (1893-1965), and Ruth Euphemia Meldrum Ferrier (1899-1978), of Crapstone House, Buckland Monachorum, South Devon; three daughters.	18.07.1915 Chelsea district, London - 03.10.2010 Kilkhampton, near Bude, Cornwall	.... ... Lt. (E) 16.10.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. (E) 16.10.1945 Cdr. 31.12.1948 Capt. 30.06.1958 R.Adm. 07.01.1967 V.Adm. 21.04.1970 (retd 02.09.1972) KBE 03.06.1972 HM's birthday 72 [investiture 18.07.72] CB 01.01.1969 New Year 69 [decoration presented] OBE 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 52 [decoration presented]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 1929     joined RN 1932     HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 1933 - 1937 RN Engineering College, Keyham 03.05.1937 - (09.)1939 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 05.12.1939 - 11.03.1942 HMS Naiad (cruiser) (torpedoed and sunk by U-565 in Mediterranean) 12.07.1942 - (10.)1944 RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] (01.1945)     no appointment listed 10.02.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Duke of York (battleship) 1946 - 1950 Admiralty [HMS President]: 21.07.1948 - (07.1948) Staff of Engineer Overseer, Sheffield and Leeds District [serving under Department of Engineer-in-Chief] 20.01.1949 - (05.)1950 for miscellaneous services 1950 - 1952 HMS Bermuda 1955 - 1958 RN Engineering College, Keyham 1958     Staff Officer to Dartmouth Review Committee, Admiralty 1958 - 1960 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty 1960 - 1963 Naval Assistant to Controller of the Navy 1963     Imperial Defence College 1963 - 1967 Deputy Director of Marine Engineering 04.1967 - 1969 Naval Attaché, Washington, DC, & Commander, British Navy Staff & UK National Liaison Representative to SACLANT [HMS Saker] 1970 - 1972 Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence), Ministry of Defence Director­General of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, 1972-1975. CSSBs, 1976-1982. Member Council, Research Inst. for Study of Conflict and Terrorism, 1976-. Chairman of Governors, Rendcomb College, 1979-1985. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Cornwall, 1982. FIMechE; FInstPet; FIMarE. Hon DSc Plymouth, 1994. Published: The man around the engine, 1990; From Fisher to the Falklands, 1991; Old loves return, 1993.
Lee, Herbert Jack Son of Hubert S. Lee, and Eleanor Tapping.	05.01.1918 Eastry district, Kent - 22.05.1971 Headcorn, Canterbury district, Kent	Cadet 01.01.1936 Midsh. 01.01.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1939 S.Lt. 1939/40?, seniority 01.11.1938 Lt. 01.04.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1948 Cdr. 30.06.1951 Capt. 31.12.1955 (retd 20.09.1965) Cdre. 22.03.1963 CBE 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 65 [investiture 21.10.65] DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [investiture 27.07.43] DSC 18.05.1943 North Russian convoy [investiture 27.07.43] DSC 02.02.1951 Korea (since 09.07.50) [investiture 14.11.51]	01.01.1936 - 31.12.1936 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1937 - (02.)1937 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 06.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.01.1939 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.07.1939 - 12.06.1940 HMS Calypso  (cruiser) (sunk by Italian submarine Bagnolini in Mediterranean) (02.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed (1942?) HMS Avon Vale (destroyer) (08.1942) - (02.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Orwell (destroyer) * 08.05.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 22.02.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Mackay (destroyer) 03.1945 - 09.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS St Austell Bay (frigate) 01.04.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 28.03.1949 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Comet 04.07.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Cockade 24.03.1952 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 01.05.1954 - (01.)1956 Executive Officer, HMS Gambia 23.10.1956 - (01.1957) Liaison with Commander-in-Chief Southern Pacific under Allied Forces Mediterranean, NATO 25.11.1958 - (01.1959) Commanding Officer, HMS Solebay & as Captain (D) 1st Destroyer Squadron 03.10.1960 - (07.1961) HMS President (for duty with the Ministry of Defence)  (02.1963)     HMS President * 22.03.1963 - (02.1964) Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean & Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia, later HMS St Angelo] * indexed, but not listed as such
Lee-Barber, John Son (with two sisters) of Richard "Dick" Lee Barber (1872-1960), of Herringfleet, near Great Yarmouth. Married (1939) Suzanne Claude Le Gallais (died 1976), daughter  of Col. Albert Le Gallais, ADC, MC, of La Moye, Jersey, Channel Islands; two daughters.	16.04.1905 Mutford district, Norfolk / Suffolk - 14.11.1995 Wivenhoe, Alton district, Hampshire	S.Lt. 30.03.1926 Lt. 30.12.1927 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1935 Cdr. 30.06.1941 A/Capt. < 04.1946 Capt. 31.12.1947 R.Adm. 07.01.1957 (retd 25.05.1959) CB  01.01.1959 New Year 59 [investiture 10.02.59] DSO 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [investiture 10.03.42] DSO 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.41 [investiture 10.03.42] MID 19.07.1940 withdrawal of troops from Namsos MID 06.01.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst KW 21.10.1941 withdrawal of Polish forces from France 40 [decoration posted]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth.       service in destroyers and in Yangtze gunboat until 1937 1937 - 1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Witch 10.01.1939 - 19.11.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Griffin (destroyer) (DSO and Bar, despatches, Polish Cross of Valour) 05.03.1942 - (08.)1942 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 26.09.1942 - 14.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Opportune (destroyer) (despatches) 30.08.1944 - 05.06.1945 Commander-in-Charge, Hove [HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)] 06.06.1945 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (04.1946)     HMS St James * 1946 - 15.01.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS St James 1948 - 1949 Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Harwich 1950 - 1952 Naval Attaché, Chile 1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Agincourt & Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Squadron 1954 - 1956 Commodore, Inshore Flotilla 1957 - 1959 Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo] * indexed, but not listed as such
Lees, Dennis Marescaux Son of Capt. J. Lees, Royal West Kent Regiment, and Gemma Marescaux, of Brenchley, Kent. Married ((06?).1934, Kensington district, London) Daphne May Burnett, daughter of J. Burnett, of Kincardineshire; three sons.	28.01.1900 Chesterton, Cambridgeshire - 04.08.1973 Southsea, Hampshire	S.Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.04.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1928 Cdr. 31.12.1933 Capt. 31.12.1939 Cdre. 1st cl. ? R.Adm. 08.01.1949 (retd 14.02.1953) CB  01.01.1951 New Year 51 [investiture 14.02.51] DSO 19.07.1940 action off Norway [investiture 29.09.42] GrWC 11.08.1942 services beligerent Greece LM 17.07.1945 Operation Neptune MID 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.41 MID 11.07.1944 action Plymouth aere 25.04.44 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune CdeG 1948 South of France LegH 1948 South of France	Education: Ludgrove Preparatory School; RN Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth (1912-1916). 01.01.1916     entered RN ... - ... ... 27.07.1934 - 19.12.1936 Fleet Gunnery Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (01.1937) - (02.1937) no appointment listed 05.04.1937 - (02.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) 18.03.1940 - 01.06.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) 15.07.1941 - 16.07.1943 Deputy Director of Operations Division (Coastal Force), Admiralty [HMS President] 21.08.1943 - 29.04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Black Prince (cruiser) 06.1945 - 15.01.1946 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Renown (battlecruiser) & HMS Nelson (battleship)] 12.02.1946 - 1949 Director of Naval Ordnance 1949 - 1951 Chief of Staff, Portsmouth 1951 - 1953 Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (personal services)
Le Fanu, [Sir] Michael "Dry Ginger" Son of Captain Hugh Barrington Le Fanu, RN (1872-1929), and Georgiana Harriott Kingscote (1879-1965). Married (18.12.1943, Droxford district, Hampshire) Prudence Grace "Prue" Morgan (20.12.1921-(12?).1980), daughter of Admiral Sir Vaughan Morgan, KBE, CB, MVO, DSC, DL, and Mary Julia Lowe; two sons, one daughter.	02.08.1913 Lindfield, Cuckfield district, Sussex - 28.11.1970 St Marylebone district, London	Cadet 01.01.1931 Midsh. 01.09.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1934 S.Lt. 14.03.1935, seniority 01.05.1934 Lt. 21.10.1935, seniority 01.06.1935 Lt.Cdr. 02.12.1942, seniority 01.06.1942 Cdr. 31.12.1944 Capt. 30.06.1949 R.Adm. 07.07.1958 V.Adm. 25.10.1961 Adm. 29.09.1965 Adm. of the Fleet 03.07.1970 (half-pay 04.11.1970) GCB  01.01.1968 New Year 68 [investiture 23.02.68] KCB 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 [investiture 16.07.63] CB 11.06.1960 HM's birthday 60 [investiture 05.07.60] DSC 24.02.1942 destruction Italian convoy Mediterranean 09.11.41 [investiture 12.05.42] 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Pac St - & clasp Burma WM 39|45 - - MID 26.09.1940 Norwegian coast 04-06.40 MID 01.01.1946 New Year 46 LM 03.12.1946 for service as British Pacific Fleet Liaison Officer on the staffs of Commander, United States Fifth Fleet and Commander, United States Third Fleet from February to September, 1945 BSM 02.12.1946 ?	Education: Bedford School; RN College, Dartmouth (1926-). 06.01.1931 - (06.)1933 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 06.06.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS York (cruiser) 04.01.1934 - 12.08.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 13.08.1934 - (02.)1935 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 25.03.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 21.09.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS Bulldog (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 30.09.1937 - (08.)1938 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (10.1938)     no appointment listed 11.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 15.06.1939 - (09.)1939 Assistant to Fleet Gunnery Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] 18.12.1939 - 26.01.1942 First Lieutenant & Gunnery Officer, HMS Aurora (cruiser) (Norway, Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean) (DSC, despatches) 01.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 25.01.1943 - (12.1943) Assistant Fleet Gunnery Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Duke of York (battleship)] 14.01.1944 - (01.)1945 Gunnery Officer, HMS Howe (battleship) (Far Eastern Fleet) 23.01.1945 - (09.1945) Naval Liaison Officer to US Pacific Fleet (US 3rd & 5th Fleets) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Golden Hind(RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)] (despatches, BSM) [tasked with the arrangements for the Japanese surrender onboard the USS Missouri on 02.09.1945] 06.02.1946 - (10.1947) Experimental Commander, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.03.1948 - (05.)1949 Executive Officer, HMS Superb (cruiser) 19.09.1949 - (05.1950) Naval Assistant to Third Sea Lord and Controller, Admiralty [HMS President] 1951     Senior Officer, 3rd Training Squadron (Londonderry; undertaking anti-submarine activities) 29.12.1952 - (05.)1953 on special duties in the Admiralty, under the Chief Scientist, to investigate the problems of atomic warfare [HMS President] 1953     Imperial Defence College (07.1954)     no appointment listed 31.12.1954 - 07.01.1957 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley) 1957 - 15.02.1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 15.07.1958 - 09.02.1960 Director General, Weapons, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB) 1960 - 1961 Flag Officer, Second-in-Command, Far East Station 01.1.1961 - 1965 Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] (KCB) 25.11.1965 - (02.)1968 Commander-in-Chief, Middle East (GCB) 08.1968 - 1970 Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.1970     about to take over as Chief of the Defence Staff, when serious illness prevented this Vice-President of the Inland Waterways Association, 1970. Literature: Dry Ginger : the biography of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu (1977).
Legard, George Hugo Digby Son of Rev. Charles Legard, MC (1887-1976), and Ethel Gertrude Marriott (1889-1973), of Burghclere Rectory, Newbury. Married (30.03.1944, Church of the Ascension, Burghclere, Hampshire) Eve Lilian Howard, WRNS (1923 - ), daughter of Capt. Francis Howard, DSC, RN; one son, two daughters. Eve Legard remarried (10.09.1973) Lt. (S) Guy Alexander Hughes, RNVR.	26.02.1920 Malton district, Yorkshire - 17.06.1966 Marske, Middlesborough district, North Riding of Yorkshire	Cadet 01.05.1937 Midsh. 01.09.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 16.12.1939 Lt. 16.05.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1949 (retd 12.12.1953) MBE 04.04.1944 for undaunting courage in saving the life of a wounded officer when HMS Dulverton was lost and he was himself wounded	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1933-13.04.1937; Admiralty No. 1346; Greynvile Term). 01.05.1937 - 31.08.1937 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean) 04.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 28.08.1939 - (02.)1940 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 05.02.1940 - (03.)1940 HMS Fitzroy (Hunt class minesweeper) 02.03.1940 - (12.)1941 HMS Veteran (destroyer) 16.12.1941 - 07.02.1942 HMS Ledbury (destroyer) (04.1942) - (06.1942) HMS Ledbury (destroyer) * 01.07.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (04.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed (12.1943) - (04.1944) HMS Dulverton (destroyer) (MBE) [ship had been sunk in the Aegean 13.11.1943] * 28.04.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations training centre, Troon) (for motorized landing craft) (01.1945) - (04.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations training centre, Troon) * (07.1945)     no appointment listed 30.03.1946 - (04.)1946 HMS Gravelines (destroyer) 30.11.1946 - (07.1948) HMS Venus (destroyer) 01.1949 - (05.1949) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 03.04.1950 - (05.)1951 HMS Phoenix (training establishment, Portsmouth) 1951 - 1952 Commanding Officer, HMS Zambesi 03.1953 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Termagant (destroyer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Leggatt, William Ronald Christopher	27.09.1900 Thanet district, Kent - 10.1985 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	... ... Cdr. 31.12.1935 Capt. 30.06.1941 (retd 07.07.1950) DSO 29.08.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 02.02.45] MID 05.03.1942 service with the army	07.05.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 19.12.1938 - (04.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) 09.09.1940 - (02.)1941 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] (12.1941)     HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) * (1942)     Trade Convoy Plotting Room, Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (routeing & convoy plans of defensively armed merchant ships) 23.06.1942 - 04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) (06.1944)     Naval Officer-in-Charge, Sword Beach 31.08.1944 - (04.1946) Naval Assistant to Third Sea Lord and Controller [HMS President] 06.05.1948 - 21.11.1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier) ... - ... ...
Leigh, Samuel Henry	27.12.1904 Newport, Isle of Wight, Hampshire - 16.02.1967	Seaman ? [J96923 & M37194] A/Wt. Supply Offr. 31.07.1939 Wt. Supply Offr. = Wt. Stores Offr. 1940?, seniority 31.07.1939 A/Cd. Stores Offr. 18.06.1945 Cd. Stores Offr. 01.10.1946 Lt. (S) 22.03.1949 (retd 27.12.1954) MBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46	(09.1939)     no appointment listed 07.10.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 23.06.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield, Hampshire) 29.03.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) 13.02.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 04.02.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Berkshire) 08.01.1951 - (07.1954) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
Leighton, Evelyn Ivor Robert Son (with one sister) of Robert Leighton (1859-1934), author, and Marie Connor, of Bishop's Stortford, Hampshire. Married (24.06.1930, Sydney, NSW, Australia) Marjory Cecilia Shakerley (? - 08.03.2012), only daughter of Lt.Col. G.C. Shakerley, DSO, 60th Rifles, and Mrs Shakerley, of Whittington Lodge, Worcester.	31.05.1901 St Marylebone district, London - 21.10.1969 Watlington, Oxford	Midsh. 15.09.1917 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 05.01.1923, seniority 15.06.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1930 Cdr. 30.06.1936 (retd 10.11.1947) A/Capt. ? OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 42 [investiture 10.03.42]	? - (01.1919) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 03.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Constance (light cruiser) 25.09.1924 - (05.)1926 qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] 17.05.1926 - (02.)1927 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 09.06.1927 - (07.1927) Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 28.03.1928 - (08.1929) Gunnery Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 21.02.1930 - 30.03.1930 passage to Australia per SS Cathay 31.03.1930 - 15.03.1932 on loan to RAN (Exchange Officer): 31.03.1930 - 28.05.1931 Gunnery Officer, HMAS Canberra (cruiser) 29.05.1931 - 15.03.1932 Gunnery Officer, HMAS Canberra (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer, HM Australian Squadron 16.03.1932 - 04?.1932 passage to UK per SS Orsova 26.06.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Pembroke (R base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 17.01.1933 - (06.1933) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (01.1934)     no appointment listed 06.04.1934 - (02.)1936 Staff Officer (Opeations) to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron, later Gunnery Officer, HMS London (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer and Staff Officer (Opeations) to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) (08.1936)     no appointment listed (01.1937)     no appointment listed 26.01.1937 - (10.1938) an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.01.1939 - 31.12.1939 Staff Officer (Operations) & Squadron Gunnery Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Resolution (battleship)] 01.01.1940 - (02.)1941 Chief Staff Officer, Staff Officer (Operations) & Squadron Gunnery Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Resolution (battleship), from ... 1940 HMS Seaborn (accounting base, Halifax, NS)] (12.1941)     no appointment listed 13.05.1942 - (08.)1942 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] 29.12.1942 - (12.1943) an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1944) - (04.1946) Deputy Superintendent, Scientific and Technical Staff at Gunnery Establishment, Teddington (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) [HMS President]
Leiper, John Victor	? - 23.09.1965	... ... Gnr. (T) 01.08.1940 Lt. (Special Duties List) 01.01.1957 (retd 07.07.1959)	03.09.1940 - 01.03.1942 Torpedo Officer, HMS Encounter (destroyer) (ship sunk by Japanese forces in Java Sea; captured) 03.1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity ... - ... ...
Leir, Ernest William	26.02.1883 Wincanton, Somerset - 02.08.1971 Wells district	Lt. 1903 Cdr. 1914 Capt. 30.06.1919 (retd) R.Adm. (retd) 08.10.1931 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 10.11.1939 DSO 1916 ? LegH 1917 ? MID 17.11.1942 ocean convoys 39-42	Education: King's School, Bruton 15.09.1897 entered RN 1899 - 1902 served as midshipman on China Station (took part in the relief of the Legations in Pekin, 1900) attached to the Submarine Service; Commanding Officer, HMS C.13 (1908) 1914 specially promoted to Commander, for services in the Bight of Heligoland action, August 1914 (DSO for services rendered in overseas submarine work, despatches) 1923 - 1924 Captain of the Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour-Master at Chatham 1924 - 1926 Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf 1926 - 1927 Captain, Reserve Flotilla, Portsmouth 23.04.1929 - (02.)1931 Captain-in-Charge and King's Harbour-Master, Portland [HMS Victory XI] 1931 Naval ADC to the King 10.11.1939 - (07.1945) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Leonard, Barry Warsop Cooper Youngest son of Paymaster-in-Chief William Vancouver Theodore Leonard, RN, and Georgina Maud Leonard. Married ((09?).1937, Meriden district, Warwickshire / West Midlands) Patricia Beatrice Eden Neate (17.09.1916 - 09.2002), oldest daughter of Cdr. Charles Eden Neate, RN (1887-1965), and Dorothy Tucker (1889-1971); one daughter. Patricia Leonard remarrried (1945) Lt.Cdr. (A) William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, DSC and Bar, RNVR.	(03?).1911 - 30.04.1944 (MPK) [age 33] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 85, column 1]	... ... Lt. (E) 16.04.1933 Lt.Cdr. (E) 16.04.1941 A/Cdr. (E) 15.04.1944?	... - ... ... 26.12.1939 - (12.1942) an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1943)     Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * 15.03.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 15.04.1944 - 30.04.1944 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (and for flotilla duties) [drowned as a result of a sailing accident] * indexed, but not listed as such
Leslie, George Cunningham Fourth son of Col A.S. Leslie, CMG, WS, Kininvie, and Mrs M.I. Leslie (née Horne). Married (1953), Margaret Rose Leslie; one son, three daughters.	27.10.1920 - 14.11.1988 Oxford, Oxfordshire	A/S.Lt. 01.09.1940 Lt. 01.05.1941 ?, seniority 01.11.1940 ... ... R.Adm. 07.01.1968 (retd 17.11.1970) CB 01.01.1970 New Year 70 [investiture 10.02.70] OBE 03.07.1945 Operation Acumen; damage control OON 1950? visit of the Queen of the Netherlands to London 11.50 StOlav 1962? state visit of the King of Norway to Edinburgh 10.62	Education: Uppingham; MA 1938     entered RN 10.07.1939 - (10.1940) HMS York (cruiser) (02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Harvester (destroyer) * (08.1942)     no appointment listed 08.09.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Volunteer (destroyer) 01.03.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Cassandra (destroyer) 12.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Cassandra (destroyer) 20.03.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Chevron (destroyer) 1950 - 1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Wrangler 1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Wilton 1954 - 1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Surprise 1960 - 1962 Captain, Fishery Protection Squadron 1964 - 1965 Commodore RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 1966 - 1967 Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire 1967 - 1968 Flag Officer, Admiralty Interview Board 1968 - 1970 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Headquarters, Brussels Domestic Bursar and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford 1970-1988. FBIM.
Lethbridge, Ernest Edward	03.06.1906 Bristol, Gloucestershire - 31.10.1973 Chichester, West Sussex	Boy 2nd class 07.10.1921 [P/J 104458] Boy 1st class 04.06.1922 Ordinary Seaman 02.12.1923 Able Bodied Seaman 11.07.1925 Acting Leading Seaman 06.04.1932 Leading Seaman 06.04.1933 Acting Petty Officer 17.01.1935 Petty Officer 17.01.1936 Chief Petty Officer 07.10.1940 T/A/Gnr. (T) 15.02.1943 T/Gnr. (T) 04.08.1946 (reld 04.08.1946) MID 23.12.1939 attacked by enemy aircraft MID 05.08.1941 sinking Italian convoy & escorts 16.04.41 39|45 St - - Atl St - & France and Germany clasp Afr St - - WM 39|45 - - LSGCM 25.06.1939 - Arct Emb - -	07.10.1921 - 24.09.1922 HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley) 25.09.1922 - 06.10.1922 HMS Courageous (cruiser) 07.10.1922 - 19.01.1923 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 20.01.1923 - 05.05.1923 HMS Courageous (cruiser) 06.05.1923 - 31.08.1924 HMS Conquest (cruiser) 01.09.1924 - 02.09.1924 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 03.09.1924 - 02.12.1924 HMS Yarmouth (cruiser) 03.12.1924 - 04.12.1924 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 05.12.1924 - 16.01.1925 HMS Centurion (battleship) (Reserve Fleet) 17.01.1925 - 02.11.1925 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 03.11.1925 - 20.04.1926 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 21.04.1926 - 24.01.1927 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 25.01.1927 - 10.06.1929 HMS Vendetta (destroyer) [based at HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta), from 01.04.1929 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 11.06.1929 - 04.10.1929 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 05.10.1929 - 25.11.1929 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 26.11.1929 - 16.05.1930 HMS Concord (cruiser; signal school cruiser, Portsmouth) 17.05.1930 - 20.10.1930 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 21.10.1930 - 11.07.1932 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.07.1932 - 11.01.1934 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth)  12.01.1934 - 25.04.1935 HMS Cairo (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 26.04.1935 - 03.01.1936 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth)   04.01.1936 - 17.05.1936 HMS Ambuscade (destoyer) [tender to HMS Winchester (destroyer)] (Portsmouth) 18.05.1936 - 13.02.1938 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 14.02.1938 14.02.1938 01.10.1938 01.09.1939 01.11.1939 01.06.1940 - - - - - - 16.04.1941 30.09.1938 31.08.1939 31.10.1939 31.05.1940 16.04.1941 HMS Mohawk (destroyer), based at: HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) HMS Maidstone II (accounting base, Alexandria) HMS Cochrane II (accounting base tenders, Rosyth) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] 17.04.1941 - 18.08.1941 HMS Canopus (RN base/training establishment, Ras El Tin School, Alexandria, Egypt) 19.08.1941 - 06.12.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 07.12.1941 - 14.02.1943 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) 21.03.1943 - 23.03.1945 HMS Belfast (cruiser) (Scharnhorst & Tirpitz actions) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 23.07.1945 - 04.08.1946 Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
Levett, Roland Miles Elder son of Ernest Christopher Levett, and Grace Virginia Miley, of Kingston Hill. Married (16.01.1943, St Nicholas's Church, Chiswick Mall, Brentford district, Middlesex) Joan Hamilton "Bunty" Freeman (1918 - 14.05.2009); two sons.	12.02.1917 Whitchurch district, Hampshire - 21.10.1967 RN Hospital, Haslar, Gosport district, Hampshire (formerly of Zephon House, Crookham Village, near Aldershot) [Crondall Village Church Cemetery, Crondall, Hampshire]	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1935 Paym.Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/Paym.S.Lt. 01.01.1938 Paym.S.Lt. 01.03.1938 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.03.1940 1944?, seniority 01.12.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. (S) ? Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.12.1947 Cdr. (S) 30.06.1953 A/Capt. (S) 01.09.1957-....1960 Capt. (S) 31.12.1962	Education: Winchester College (1931.1-1934.2; Sergeant's House (Culver Lea)). 01.01.1935 - 31.08.1935 special entry cadet (training) 01.09.1935 - (10.1936) HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 07.01.1937 - (02.)1937 HMS Cairo (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (for duty in office of Commodore Commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas) 14.04.1937 - (09.1939) HMS Orion (cruiser) (The Nore & America and West Indies) 01.03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Orion (cruiser) 02.04.1940 - (08.)1942 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Rodney (battleship), from 24.07.1940 HMS Nelson, (battleship), from 01.04.1941 HMS King George V (battleship), from 05.05.1942 HMS Duke of York (battleship), from 08.07.1942 HMS King George V (battleship)] 20.08.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Anson (battleship) 05.11.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft) (01.1945)     HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft) * 1945 - (07.)1945 Depot Royal Marines, Deal 26.09.1945 - 09.03.1947 secretary to Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean (on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean) [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 08.01.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Nuthatch (RN Air Station, Anthorn, Cumberland) 1949     on staff of Rear Admiral Reserve Aircraft 01.03.1950 - (05.1951) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (05.1953)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 10.1953 - (01.)1955 secretary to Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command Far East Station [HMS Birmingham] 04?.1955     secretary to Commander, Allied Naval Forces, Northern Europe (01.1956) - (01.1957) Admiralty [HMS President] * 01.09.1957 - (01.)1960 secretary to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror (additional)] 03.08.1960 - (08.1962) HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose) 16.01.1963 - (02.1964) UK Secretary, International Planning Team, Standing Group, NATO (Pentagon, Washington, DC) 12.04.1966     Assistant Chief of Staff (Plans) to Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel [HMS Warrior (Fleet HQ, Northwood, Middlesex)]
Lewes, John Hext Son of Col. John Lewes, of Llanllyr, nr Lampeter. Married (14.12.1929, St Peter's, Eaton Square, London) Nesta Cecil Talbot (06.04.1905 - 06.1994), only daughter of Capt. H. FitzRoy Talbot, DSO, RN; two daughters, one son.	16.06.1903 Devonport district, Devon - 14.03.1992 Cardiganshire North, Dyfed	Midsh. 15.05.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 Lt. 15.04.1925 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1933 Cdr. 30.06.1939 (retd 01.09.1947) A/Capt. 09.07.1944? Hon. Capt. 01.09.1947 OBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture 30.10.45] MID 17.03.1942 raid Norwegian coast, sinking of supply ships MID 01.01.1946 New Year 46	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.01.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 07.07.1939 - 27.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) 16.09.1942 - 05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Intrepid (destroyer) (despatches) 05.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (12.1942) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (OBE) 07.1943 - 01.10.1943 Staff Torpedo Officer to Rear Admiral, Naval Air Stations Indian Ocean [HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)] 01.10.1943 - (06.)1944 Staff Torpedo Officer to Rear Admiral, Naval Air Stations Indian Ocean [HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)] 09.07.1944 - 05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ameer (escort carrier) (despatches) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... Deputy Lieutenant & Justice of the Peace, Cardiganshire, 1950. Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 09.05.1956-31.03.1974. KStJ.
Lewes, John Hugh Eldest son of John Herbert Lewes, and Constance Sutherland, of Calcutta and Folkestone. Engaged (02.1924; engagement broken off 05.1924) Lettice Garnons-Williams, only daughter of Capt. Aylmer H. Garnons-Williams, of Twineham. Married (27.07.1927) Lilla Muriel Moss King (13.05.1903 -25.01.1978), widow of Lt. Ean Charles Colville Greenlees (1901?-1925) [with one son of this 1st marriage], and daughter of Robert Curzon Henry Moss King; two sons.	30.06.1900 - 03.05.1961 Bittescombe Manor, Wiveliscombe, Somerset	Midsh. 09.1916? A/S.Lt. 15.05.1918 Lt. 15.04.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1928 (retd 30.06.1945) A/Cdr. 16.12.1940? Cdr. (retd) 30.06.1945 A/Capt. 27.06.1942? CBE 04.09.1945 Operation Overlord to the end of the war [investiture 09.07.46] DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk [investiture 03.09.40] MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) LM 15.10.1946 for services as Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) to the Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force and later as Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) to the British Naval Commander-in-Chief, Germany ChrX LM 25.11.1947 services to the Danes Leo ? training Belgian officers in intelligence	Education: Hillerest School, Folkestone; RN College, Osborne (05.1913-...). 04.09.1916     commissioned RN ? - (01.1919) HMS Resolution (battleship) 17.04.1922 - (08.)1923 HMS H 32 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 01.10.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS X 1 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Pembroke] 31.08.1925 - (05.1926) HMS L 56 (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Lucia] (02.1927)     short course of instruction 03.03.1927 - (04.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS R 4 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] (05.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 04.06.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 11.11.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 10.11.1930 - 25.11.1930 HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 26.11.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader, 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 15.08.1932 - (06.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS L 26 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia] 26.10.1933 - (11.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS L 26 (submarine) [tender to HMS Mackay] (02.1935)     no appointment listed 24.04.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 14.04.1936 - (10.)1936 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 10.12.1936 - (02.)1937 HM Dockyard, Devonport [HMS Drake] 23.03.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 04.11.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 01.04.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 27.06.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 03?.1940 - (06.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (sloop) (Dunkirk) (DSC) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 16.12.1940 - 26.06.1942 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 27.06.1942 - 08.03.1944 Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence (S), Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (Danish Liberty Medal, Belgian Order of Leopold) 1944 - 1945 Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) to Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force [HMS Odyssee] (CBE, despatches, Legion of Merit) 1945 - 1945 Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) to the British Naval Commander-in-Chief, Germany (07.1945)     Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Lewin, Edgar Duncan Goodenough Son of Captain George Edgar Lewin, RN, and ... Clarke. Married (1943) Nancy Emily Hallett, Tintinhull, Somerset; one son, one daughter.	09.08.1912 Farnham district, Hampshire / Surrey / Sussex - 24.11.1983 [Harpenden, Herts. ?]	Midsh. 01.09.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1933 S.Lt. 01.09.1933 Lt. 01.09.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1943 A/Cdr. < 12.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. 30.06.1949 (retd 1957) CB 01.01.1958 New Year 58 CBE 10.11.1953 Korea DSO 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance 25.11.41 DSC 23.02.1940 Battle of the River Plate DSC 23.10.1945 capture of Okinawa - Silver Medal Concp ? earthquake Concepcion, Chile 24.01.39	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 07.1931 - (09.1932) Midshipman, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) (01.1934) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) * 20.01.1935 - (07.1935) pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars 01.02.1936 - (07.1937) pilot, TSR Squadron 823, FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 28.01.1938 - (12.1939) pilot HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) (Battle of the River Plate) (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 20.01.1941 - (02.1941) pilot, 880 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] 05.1941 - 11.1941 Commanding Officer, 808 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] 01.12.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton) [from 12.1941-02.1942 Commanding Officer, 885 Squadron FAA] (02.1943) no appointment listed 07.06.1943 - (08.1943) HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) ** 22.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Monck (carrier training & administration, Port Glasgow) 15.12.1943 - (06.1944) SNO [Senior Naval Officer?] to Rear-Admiral Escort Carriers [R.Adm. A.W. La T. Bisset] [HMS Royalist] (Mediterranean) 09.06.1945 - (07.1945) Squadron Fighter Direction Officer, First Aircraft Carrier Squadron, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)] 01.11.1945 - 04.02.1946 Admiralty [HMS President] 04.02.1946 - (04.1946) Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.10.1949 - (05.1950) Deputy Director of Navigation and Direction Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.12.1952 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Glory (Korea) 1953 - 1954 Director of Air Warfare, Admiralty [HMS President] 1955 - 01.1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 16.01.1956 - 1957 Director of Plans, Admiralty [HMS President] Joined Board of Blackburn's, 1957; Sales Director, Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, 1968-71; Managing Director, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, 1971-77, Chairman, 1977. Deputy Chairman, British Aerospace Dynamics Group, 1977-78. * indexed, but not listed as such ** (10.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Lewin, Terence Thornton; Baron created 1982 (Life Peer), of Greenwich in Greater London Son of ... Lewin, and ... Falconer. Married (1944) Jane Branch­Evans; two sons, one daughter. From North Harrow, Middlesex.	19.11.1920 Dover, Kent - 23.01.1999 Woodbridge, Suffolk	Cadet 01.01.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.08.1940 Lt. 01.07.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1949 Cdr. 31.12.1952 Capt. 30.06.1958 R.Adm. 07.01.1968 V.Adm. 07.10.1970 Adm. 01.12.1973 Adm. of the Fleet 06.07.1979 (retd 04.12.1982) KG 26.04.1983 - - Life Peerage 19.11.1982 Operation Corporate GCB 12.06.1976 HM's birthday 76 KCB 01.01.1973 New Year 73 MVO 01.01.1959 New Year 59 DSC 01.12.1942 Operation EV (Nort Russian convoy PQ18 / QP14 09.42) * MID 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.42 MID 29.08.1944 action with minesweepers Plymouth area 14.06.44 MID 14.11.1944 action Plymouth area 05.08.44 * For gallantry, skill and resolution . . .[when involved in] escorting an important convoy to North Russia in face of relentless attacks by enemy aircraft and submarines.	Education: The Judd School, Tonbridge. 01.01.1939 - (09.)1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)       war service in Home and Mediterranean Fleets in Malta Convoys, N Russian Convoys, invasion N Africa and Channel (despatches): 1939     HMS Belfast (cruiser) 24.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Valiant (battleship) 04.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Highlander (destroyer) 14.01.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Ashanti (destroyer) (First Lieutenant since mid-1943) (01.1945) - (07.1945) gunnery course (04.1946) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) * 18.07.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Chequers (05.1953) HMS President * 29.10.1955 - (01.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Corunna 1957 - 1958 Commanding Officer, HM Yacht Britannia (07.1961) HMS President * 18.12.1961 - (02.)1963 Captain (F) 17th Frigate [= Dartmouth Training] Squadron and HM Ships Urchin and Tenby [HMS Urchin] 1964 - 1965 Director, Naval Tactical and Weapons Policy Division, Ministry of Defence 1966 - 1967 Commanding Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) 08.01.1968 - (02.)1969 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy), Admiralty 1969 - 1970 Flag Officer, Second-in-Command, Far East Fleet 01.1971 - 1973 Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiralty 1973 - 1975 Commander-in-Chief Fleet 1975 - 1977 Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command 1977 - 1979 Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, Admiralty 01.09.1979 - 01.10.1982 Chief of the Defence Staff (Falklands War) Naval ADC to the Queen, 07.07.1967-07.01.1968. Flag ADC to the Queen, 24.11.1975-01.03.1977; First and Principal ADC to the Queen, 01.03.1977-06.07.1979. Life Col Comdt, RM, 1995. Mem. Council, White Ensign Assoc. Ltd, 1982- (Chm. Council and Assoc., 1983-1987); Chm., Trustees, National Maritime Museum, 1987-1995 (Trustee, 1981-1995; Dep. Chm., 1986-1987); Mem., Museums and Galleries Commn, 1983-1987; President: Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Soc., 1984-1995; British Schools Exploring Soc., 1985-; George Cross Island Assoc., 1988-; Soc. for Nautical Res., 1989-. Elder Brother of Trinity House, 1975. Freeman and Liveryman, Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Co., 1996; Hon. Freeman: Skinners' Co., 1976; Shipwrights' Co., 1978. Hon. DSc City, 1977; Hon. DLitt Greenwich, 1993. Literature: Richard Hill, Lewin of Greenwich : the authorised biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin (2001) * indexed, but not listed as such
Lewis, [Sir] Andrew Mackenzie Son of late Rev. Cyril Lewis. Married 1st (09.01.1943) Rachel Elizabeth Leatham (06.08.1918-1983); two sons. Married 2nd (1989) Primrose Robinson (née Sadler­Phillips).	24.01.1918 - 08.11.1993	... ... Lt. 01.09.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 ... ... Adm. 21.08.1971 (retd 1974) KCB 1971 (CB 1967)	Education: Haileybury. ... - ... ... 20.06.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Ashanti (destroyer) 03.01.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Castleton (destroyer) 30.12.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Boadicea (destroyer) ? - (02.)1943 gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed 10.09.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 15.02.1944 - (01.)1945 Gunnery Officer, HMS Howe (battleship) 05.1945 - (07.1945) Fleet Anti-Aircraft Officer [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)] 27.12.1945 - (04.1946) an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ... Director of Plans, Admiralty, 1961-63; in command of HMS Kent, 1964-65; Director-General, Weapons (Naval), 1965-68; Flag Officer, Flotillas, Western Fleet, 1968-69; Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel, 1970-71. Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command, 1972-74; Flag Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, 1972-74. DL Essex, 1975. DU Essex, 1990. KStJ 1978.Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Essex, 1978-92.
Lewis, Edward Percival Sealy Married (18.01.1941, Greenock) Sheila Manwaring Dunlop. Residence: (1941) Wallasey, Chester.	(09?).1909 West Derby district, Lancashire - 24.05.1941 (MPK) [age 31] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]	Lt. RNR 01.03.1937 Prob. Lt. 04.04.1938 Lt. 1939?, seniority 29.07.1933	Education: HMS Conway (1923-1925) (06.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 11.01.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Keith (flotilla leader, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) 23.05.1939 - 24.05.1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) [missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Lewis, Henry Edward	24.09.1889 Plymouth, Devon - 16.07.1979 Chichester district, West Sussex	Seaman ? [271840] Engine Room Artificer (1918) Eng.Lt. 01.07.1920 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1928 Eng.Cdr. 31.12.1933 (retd 24.09.1939; age) A/Eng.Capt.  (retd) > 08.1939, < 04.1940 CBE 16.02.1942 action against enemy at Malta [investiture 30.10.45]	04.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Sea Bear (torpedo-boat destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 02.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Sesame (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 25.02.1925 - (05.1926) Assistant to Mining Engineer Officer, Mining Depot, Wrabness, Manningtree, Essex [HMS Ganges] 07.01.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Sirdar (destroyer) (China) 24.06.1929 - (03.)1931 on staff of Engineer Overseer, Scotland District (Glasgow) under Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.08.1931 - (06.)1933 HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean) 12.12.1933 - (03.)1934 HMS Capetown (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 06.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader, 6th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) [initially building at Scotstoun, ship 27.05.1935 commissioned] (02.1936)     no appointment listed 07.04.1936 - (10.1936) HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 04.01.1937 - (07.1945) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 04.01.1937 - (08.1942) Engineer Officer on staff of Vice Admiral-in-Charge, Malta & for Captain of Dockyard's Department & for duties with ships and vessels under order of Vice Admiral Malta (02.1943) - (07.1945) Engineer Officer, Malta
Lewis, John Edward	? - 11.2007 still alive at Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks	Cadet 01.01.1940 Midsh. 01.05.1940 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt. 16.03.1943 Lt.Cdr. 16.03.1951 Cdr. 30.06.1955 (retd 19.10.1963) MID 03.02.1942 Battle of Cape Matapan	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.940 - 30.04.1940 cadet training, RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (03.1941)     HMS Orion (cruiser) 05.01.1942 - (01.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 09.06.1942 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Opportune (destroyer) 23.03.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer) 31.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser, Portsmouth) 14.01.1948 - (07.1948) instructional staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth) 14.01.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Solebay (destroyer) 28.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 07.10.1954 - (04.1955) HMS Undine (frigate) (01.1956)     no appointment listed 06.02.1956 - (01.1957) Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 27.02.1958 - (01.1959) Fleet Operations Officer and Fleet Torpedo and Anti-Submarine Officer, South Atlantic and South America Station, and as Junior Naval Liaison Officer on Staff of UK High Commissioner in South Africa [HMS Afrikander] 21.11.1960 - (02.)1963 Underwater Weapons Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Lewis, Owen Temple   Married Sally "Susette" Macgregor; five children.	16.03.1920 Carluke, Lanarkshire - 18.08.2009	Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR 26.07.1941 T/S.Lt. (E) 24.11.1942, seniority 26.07.1941 T/Lt. (E) 28.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	Education: Charterhouse; Trinity College, Cambridge. (12.1941)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 07.03.1942 - (01.)1945 HMS Norfolk (cruiser) [24.11.1942 transferred from RNVR to RN] 30.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Solebay (destroyer) Became a design engineer, taking jobs at Daniels, the Stroud chainsaw manufacturers, and at Miniature Electronic Components in Woking. * indexed, but not listed as such
Lewis, Peter Barthrop North * Son of ... Lewis, and ... King. From Binford. * initially known as: North Lewis, P.B.	27.10.1913 Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 03.1996 Oxford, Oxfordshire	Midsh. 01.09.1931 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 14.03.1935, seniority 16.05.1934 Lt. 16.12.1935 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1943 Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 15.04.1956) DSC 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.42) MID 29.08.1944 action with German destroyers Plymouth area 08.06.44	10.01.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 08.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (01.1934) no appointment listed 29.03.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Folkestone (patrol sloop) (China) (07.1937) no appointment listed 29.08.1937 - (10.)1938 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 13.10.1938 - 04.03.1940 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (minesweeping trawler; RNZNVR training ship) [lent to New Zealand government] 15.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Escapade (destroyer) 12.1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Bleasdale (destroyer) 23.02.1943 - (10.)1943 [First Lieutenant?], HMS Stevenstone (destroyer) 23.11.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Javelin (destroyer) 22.01.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Tuscan (destroyer) (07.1948) no appointment listed 10.10.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) 06.04.1953 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Roebuck 09.04.1954 - (01.1956) Executive Officer, HMS Hornet
Lewis, Pughe Davies Son of ... Lewis, and ... Davies. Married ((12?).1936, Paddington district, London) Joan Murray.	07.08.1912 Aberayon district, Cardiganshire - 06.03.1997 Cardiganshire South, Dyfed / Wales	Midsh. (E) 01.01.1932 S.Lt. (E) 01.03.1934 Lt. (E) 01.07.1936 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.07.1944 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1947 (retd 26.09.1957) DSC 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.42 [investiture 07.12.43]	... - ... ... (08.1939)     no appointment listed 03.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier) 13.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cardiff (cruiser) 12.11.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Foresight (destroyer) (DSC) 10.09.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Ajax (cruiser) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     no appointment listed 20.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) 17.04.1946 - (04.1946) Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Lewis, Roger Curzon Second son of Francis William Lewis, and Kathleen Mary Annesley, of Loughton, Essex. Married (12.02.1944, Algiers) Marguerite Christiane Cherry (12.10.1916 - (12?).1971), eldest daughter of Capt. Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry, RN (1876-1955), and Kathleen Macan, of El Tampha, Blida, Algeria; two sons.	19.07.1909 Epping, Essex - 08.08.1994 [Huntly, Bishopsteignton, Teignmouth, Devon ?]	Cadet 15.09.1926 Midsh. 01.05.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1929 S.Lt. 01.03.1930 Lt. 01.04.1931 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1939 Cdr. 30.06.1942 Capt. 31.12.1949 (retd 07.01.1959) DSO 23.12.1939 securing & stripping live enemy mines [investiture 19.12.39] OBE 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings 09.43) MID 14.10.1941 sinking of the Bismarck	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (15.01.1923-). 03.12.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Benbow (battleship) (Atlantic) 26.08.1927 - (08.)1929 HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (Africa) 31.03.1930 - (08.1930) promotion course, Portsmouth 03.12.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Valhalla (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.1931 - (03.)1931 HMS Warwick (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 27.04.1931 - (07.)1932 HMS Vivien (Atlantic Fleet) 08.07.1932 - (01.)1933 HMS Valentine (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (05.1933)     no appointment listed 04.05.1933 - (05.)1934 qualifying for torpdeo duties, HMS Vernon (07.1934)     no appointment listed 30.07.1934 - (08.)1934 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 14.08.1934 - (10.)1935 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 11.10.1935 - (02.)1938 Torpedo Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies Station) 16.05.1938 - (08.)1939 staff, Torpedo School and Experimental Establishment, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon] 12.08.1939 - (09.)1939 Torpedo Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) 20.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services): HMS Florentino (06.1940)     Torpedo School and Experimental Establishment, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon] * 11.06.1940 - 06.1942 Torpedo Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (08.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed 01.01.1943 - (10.1944) Fleet Torpedo Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto), from 09.07.1944 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples)] (01.1945)     no appointment listed 01.04.1945 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Lioness (minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 11th Minesweeping Flotilla 12.11.1946 - (07.)1948 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.02.1949 - (05.)1949 HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose) 14.07.1950 - 1952 superintendent of Torpedo Experimental Establishment, Greenock [HMS President] 01.12.1952 - 1955 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer, Middle East [HMS Osiris] (01.1955) - (04.1955) no appointment listed 29.10.1955 - 25.07.1958 Captain of the Dockyard and Queen's Harbourmaster, Chatham 07.07.1958 - 07.01.1959 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Lewis, William Frederick Horace	06.05.1896 Chesterfield, Derbyshire - 1980 Humberside	Seaman ? [J16041] ... ... Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.07.1937 Lt. 04.05.1945 (retd 06.05.1946)	... - ... ... 21.10.1936 - (05.)1939 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 24.07.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Venomous (destroyer) 03.03.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (02.1941) - (02.1943) HMS Philoctetes (destroyer depot ship) * (06.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 18.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such

 

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