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M.B. Laing  to  R.C. Lewis
Laing, Michael Bryan Son of Bryan Laing (1875-1941), iron shipbuilder, and Eleanor Leather (c. 1870-c. 1946). Residence (1947): Therfield, Royston, Hertfordshire.	(12?).1901 Sunderland, Durham - 03.01.1978 Therfield, Royston, Hertfordshire	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.09.1921 A/Lt. 15.04.1923 Lt. 03.10.1923, seniority 15.04.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1931 Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 30.06.1943 (retd 08.07.1952) CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 42 MID 23.01.1945 planning amphibious operations Sicily & Southern France LegH ? landings south coast of France 08.44	1917 - 1919 served European War 15.04.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Wolfhound (torpedo-boat destroyer) 15.04.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (05.1926) no appointment listed 30.12.1926 - (07.1927) qualifying for gunnery duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Excellent] 05.07.1929 - (04.)1930 Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.08.1930 - (01.)1932 Flotilla Gunnery Officer, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Stuart (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) 01.07.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 24.07.1934 - (02.1936) Gunnery Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer, East Indies 21.01.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (10.1938) no appointment listed 10.01.1939 - 17.07.1939 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 18.07.1939 - (09.)1939 Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Effingham (cruiser)] (Portsmouth) 18.09.1939 - (04.)1940 on staff of Vice-Admiral Commanding Northern Patrol [HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall)] 17.07.1940 - (02.1941) Executive Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 01.04.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Saker (British Naval Mission to Washington, DC): RN Liasion Officer aboard the US carrier Yorktown (Battle of Midway) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 31.12.1943 - (06.)1944 Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal] 01.08.1944 - (07.1945) Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa] (04.1946) no appointment listed (07.1948) no appointment listed 13.09.1948 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) (05.1950) no appointment listed
Lake, Sir Atwell Henry 9th Baronet, cr. 1711, succ. 1924 One of three sons oflate Admiral Atwell Peregrine Macleod Lake (1842-1915), and Constance Mary Lake (née Turner). Succeeded cousin, 1924. Married (1922) Kathleen Marion, daughter of late Alfred Morrison Turner, Broughton, West Derby, Liverpool; three sons.	13.02.1891 Greenwich district, Greater London / London / Kent - 27.11.1972 Rudgwick, Sussex	Midsh. ? S.Lt. 30.12.1911 Lt. 30.12.1913 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1921 Cdr. 30.06.1927 Capt. 31.05.1932 Cdre. 2nd cl. > 08.1939, < 08.1942 (retd < 07.1944) 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	1914 - 1918 served European War [HMS Lion, Battle of Jutland) 22.08.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment) (in lieu of Gunnery Lieutenant) 04.01.1924 - (02.)1927 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1927)     no appointment listed 05.04.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Victory (for training duties) 25.07.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932) no appointment listed 13.03.1933 - (06.1933) senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (01.1934) no appointment listed 07.05.1934 - (08.1934) course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] (11.1934) - (02.1935) no appointment listed 05.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Milford (sloop) (Africa) 15.10.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) 23.04.1937 - (02.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Caledonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth) 20.03.1939 - (04.)1939 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 18.05.1939 - 1942 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 05.1942 - 10.04.1945 Chief of Naval Staff, New Zealand, and First Member of Naval Board Formerly ADC to King George VI.
Lakin, Richard Barklie Son of ... Lakin, and ... McCalmont. From Bampton, Oxfordshire. Married; at least one son.	08.10.1914 Warwick district, Warwickshire - 08.2007 still alive	Cadet 01.01.1932 Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt.  01.09.1935 Lt. 01.11.1937 ?, seniority 01.11.1936 A/Lt.Cdr. 09.04.1944? Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 (retd 13.11.1946) DSO 09.03.1943 [FolbtsMsn?] & 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	Prob. Midsh. RNR 31.03.1933 Midsh. RNR ?, seniority 31.03.1933 Act. P/O (prob.) RAF 23.12.1935 S.Lt. (A) 13.06.1938, seniority 28.10.1936 Lt. (A) 28.10.1938 ?, seniority 28.06.1938 ?, seniority 28.06.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 06.02.1944? Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1945, seniority 28.06.1944 Cdr. 31.12.1949 (retd 29.07.1958) 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) 830 Squadron FAA (08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) no appointment listed 03.1943 - 04.1943 [CO?] 842 Squadron FAA 24.04.1943 - (12.1943) pilot, 781 Suadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 06.02.1944 - (04.)1944 Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 13.05.1944 - (06.1944) Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) 08.01.1945 - (07.1945) Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 01.08.1945 transferred to the Executive Branch, RN (04.1946) no appointment listed 15.03.1948 - (07.1948) staff, Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 25.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth) 07.03.1952 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Welcome (fishery protection vessel) 23.10.1953 - (04.)1955 Commander (General Training) and Staff Officer (Flying) to Flag Officer Ground Training [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 26.09.1955 - (01.1956) HMS President (miscellaneous duties) Assistant Commandant, Joint School of Warfare (Old Sarum),1956-1958. Lecturer in finance, RN College, 1958-1973. Founded & managed the White Ensign Association, 1958-1973. Published: War in a stringbag (1977; wartime memoirs)
Lambe, [Sir] Charles Edward 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).
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
Lancaster, Owen Felton Son of Hugh Felton Lancaster and Gertrude Molly Lancaster; husband of Violet Marion Lancaster, of Sidcup, Kent.	(03?).1909 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 17.10.1943 (KIA) [age 33] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 73, column 1]	Wt.Eng. 01.10.1936 Lt. (E) 01.07.1938 DSC 23.12.1939 destruction U-boat etc.	29.12.1936 - (02.1938) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 25.04.1938 - (06.1938) submarine course, Portsmouth 06.08.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 02.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Salmon (submarine) 30.09.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) 04.1941 - 17.10.1943 HMS Trooper (submarine)
Landon, John Palmer Son of Charles Palmer Landon, and Caroline Manders.	06.08.1883 Calcutta, India - died between 07.1952 and 07.1959	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1903? S.Lt. 26.01.1905, seniority 15.09.1903 Lt. 01.04.1906 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1914 Cdr. 30.06.1918 (retd 31.08.1922; own request) Capt. (retd) 06.08.1928 (reactivated 1940) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	13.11.1940 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser) 12.1942 - 05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge Brightlingsea & Resident Naval Officer Frinton & (from 11.1943) Captain M/L Brightlingsea (07.1945) no appointment listed
Langford-Holt, [Sir] John Anthony * 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