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H.R. Lillicrap  to  G.D.D'E. Lyver
Lillicrap, Herbert Richard Son of Richard J. Lillicrap, and Amertio L. Lillicrap. Married ((12?).1906, Devonport district, Devon).	21.09.1880 Chatham, Medway district, Kent - 14.12.1962	Seaman ? [344796] Cd.Shipwr. 13.09.1918 Shipwr.Lt. 13.03.1928 (retd 21.09.1930) Shipwr.Lt.Cdr. (retd) 13.03.1936 (reactivated 1939/40?) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) MBE ? ?	19.09.1908 commissioned RN 12.07.1922 - (01.)1925 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.06.1925 - (06.1928) HMS Rodney (battleship) (while being built & Atlantic Fleet) 02.07.1929 - (08.).1929 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (paid off into dockyard control, Chatham) 02.12.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS Ceres (cruiser) (paid off into dockyard control, Chatham) 15.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS St Tudno (accommodation ship) 11.02.1941 - (07.1945) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
Linton, John Wallace "Tubby" Son of Edward Maples Linton and Margaret Gertrude Linton. Husband of Nancy Kate Linton; ... children (son S.Lt. William Lonton was lost in HMS Affray in 1951).	15.10.1905 Malpas, near Newport, Monmouthshire - 23.03.1943 Maddalina Harbour, Italy (KIA) [age 37] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 S.Lt. 15.07.1926 Lt. 01.07.1928 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1936 Cdr. 31.12.1941 VC 25.05.1943 sinking enemy supply ships Mediterranean 42 * [presented to next-of-kin] DSO 15.09.1942 4 Mediterranean war patrols [presented to next-of-kin] DSC 06.05.1941 sinking 2 Italian supply ships [investiture 21.10.41] * Commander John Wallace Linton DSO, DSC, RN who, from the outbreak of war in 1939 to 23rd March 1943 was in command of HM Submarines. During this time his ship, HM Submarine Turbulent, inflicted great losses on the enemy. He sank one Cruiser, one U-boat and 28 supply ships, making a total of 100,000 tons in all. He also destroyed three trains by gunfire. He spent 254 days at sea, spending half of that time submerged. His ship had been hunted 13 times having 250 depth charges dropped around her.	15.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.)1927 promotion course, Portsmouth 25.07.1927 - 20.11.1927 training & service, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 21.11.1927 - (04.)1928 HMS L 22 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Ross (twin screw minesweeper)] 15.04.1928 - 08.1929 HMS Oberon (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 12.08.1929 - 11.1930 HMS H 43 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Ross (twin screw mineseeper] [accounts carried out in HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 11.1930? - 01.1932 HMS Ross [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 16.01.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Oswald (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla, later 4th Submarine Flotilla, China) [tender to HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)] (07.1934) - (11.1934) no appointment listed 31.12.1934 - (02.)1935 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 03.05.1935 - 15.08.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS L 21 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 15.08.1935 - 04.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Snapper (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) (Malta?) [tender to HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 11.05.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (Portsmouth) 25.04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship, 4th Submarine Flotilla) (China) (for submarines) (10.1938) - (04.1940) no appointment listed 05.1940 - 05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Pandora (submarine) (China, Mediterranean) 08.1941 - 23.03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Turbulent (submarine) (Mediterranean)
Linzee, Robert Gordon Hood	26.01.1900 Steyning, Sussex - 03.11.1973	Cdr. 30.06.1933 (retd) A/Capt. (retd) 08.1939?, at least < 08.1942 Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) ? Capt. (retd) ? CB 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune CBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44 OBE 16.08.1940 Dunkirk	Education: West Downs, Winchester; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 20.01.1916 entered RN 25.08.1939 - (04.1946) staff, Nore Command [HMS Pembroke]: (02.1941) - (08.1942) Staff Officer (Convoys), Nore Command (02.1943) - (10.1943) Deputy Chief of Staff, Nore Command 15.10.1943 - (04.1946) Chief of Staff, Nore Command
Lithgow, Michael John "Mike" Son of ... Lithgow, and ... Balfour. Married (1946); two sons, one daughter. Last residence: Abinger Hammer, Surrey.	30.08.1920 Tetbury, Gloucestershire - 22.10.1963	Midsh. (A) 13.03.1939 A/S.Lt. (A) 13.07.1940 S.Lt. (A) 30.08.1941 Lt. (A) 13.01.1943 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 01.05.1945 ? (reld 11.1945) OBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 54: Chief test pilot	Education: Cheltenham College 13.03.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training ship, Portsmouth) (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 09.1940 - (02.)1941 pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carier)] 26.09.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] 01.02.1942 - (08.)1942 pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]  10.10.1942 - 10.1943 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services; pilot) 10.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) (04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed 01.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous services; pilot) Joined Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., 11.1945, becoming Deputy Chief Test Pilot. Holder of the world air speed record (737.3 m.p.h.), September-December 1953. Died in a test-flight crash, with six other top British flyers and engineers, of the prototype BAG One-Eleven, the free world's first short-haul jetliner; near Chicklade, Wiltshire. Published: Mach One, 1955; (Editor) Vapour Trails, 1956
Little, Sir Charles James Colebrooke Son of Louis Stromeyer Little, FRCS, BA, FRAS. Married 1st (1908) Rothes Beatrix (died 1939), daughter of Colonel Sir Charles Leslie, 7th Bt; one daughter. Married 2nd (1940) cousin Mary Elizabeth (Bessy), JP Sussex, daughter of late Ernest Muirhead Little, FRCS.	14.06.1882 Shanghai - 20.06.1973 [Ashurst, nr Steyning, Sussex ?]	Capt. 30.06.1917 R.Adm. 27.02.1929 V.Adm. 01.09.1933 Adm. 25.06.1937 (retd 15.04.1945) GCB 27.02.1945 on hauling down flag KCB 1935 ? CB 1918 ? CB 1919 ? GBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday LM 28.05.1946 ? OON 13.01.1948 ? StOlav 13.01.1948 ? LegH ? Operation Overlord RHSBr ? ?	Education: HMS Britannia; RN College Dartmouth (1897) 15.01.1897     entered RN 1903 specialised in Submarine Branch commanded: H4, A7, B7, C5, C10, D1 1907 Hibernia 1910 St. Vincent 1916 - 1918 HMS Fearless and Grand Fleet Submarine Flotilla 1919 in command of HMS Cleopatra in the Baltic 1920 - 1922 Director of Trade Div. Naval Staff 1921 Member of British Delegation to the Washington Naval Conference 1922 - 1924 Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean Station 1924 - 1926 SSO, RN War College 1926 - 1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Iron Duke 1927 - 1930 Director Royal Naval Staff College 1930 - 1931 Rear­Admiral Second Battle Squadron 02.09.1931 - (09.)1932 Rear­Admiral Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] 09.01.1933 - (07.)1935 a Lord Commissioner of Admiralty and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff 08.11.1935 - 1938 Commander­in­Chief, China Station [HMS Kent (cruiser), later: HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (02.1938) - (08.1938) no appointment listed 30.09.1938 - (02.)1941 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Personnel (Second Sea Lord) 01.04.1942 - (08.)1942 Head of British Joint Staff Mission in Washington [HMS Saker II] 01.10.1942 - 27.02.1945 Commander­in­Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] Ex-Trustee of the National Maritime Museum; Ex-President, British Legion S. Area; Vice-President, Royal United Service Institution; Vice-President, Navy Records Society.
Llewellyn, Llewellyn Evan Hugh Eldest son of late Walter J. Llewellyn, Southwood, Tiverton, Devon. Married (1907) Aileen (died 1969), youngest daughter of late Admiral Sir Digby Morant, KCB; one son, one daughter.	14.12.1879 Exeter, Devon - 04.02.1970 [Glenwood, Ravenglass, Cumberland ?]	Midsh. 1896? A/S.Lt. 15.02.1899 S.Lt. 08.03.1900, seniority 15.02.1899 Lt. 15.08.1900 (retd 20.03.1908) Lt.Cdr. (retd) ?, seniority 15.08.1908 A/Cdr. (retd) WW I Cdr. (retd) 14.12.1919 Capt. (retd) 01.11.1927  (reverted to retd 1929?) (reverted to retd 1944) CB 02.01.1928 New Year 28 OBE 11.06.1919 acting Inspector of Steel	Education: privately 15.07.1893 entered RN (served E. Africa, 1896; W. Africa, 1895-1897; Benin Expedition, 1897 (medal and clasp); China, 1900 (medal)) 1900 specially promoted to Lieutenant, for meritorious examinations ? - 20.03.1908 gunnery officer, being invalided out of the service due to a gunnery accident 05.08.1909 - ? Admiralty WW I acting Inspector of Steel, Admiralty 09.04.1919 - (07.)1927 Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 11.05.1940 - (06.)1944 Director of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal], Admiralty [HMS President] DL, Cumberland, 11.03.1959.
Lloyd, Hardress Llewellyn "Harpy" Son of ... Lloyd, and ... Craig.	10.10.1917 St Marylebone district, Greater London / London - 01.2001 Yeovil, Somerset	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 16.07.1938 Lt. 01.09.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1947 Cdr. 30.06.1951 Capt. 30.06.1956 (retd 29.08.1966) Cdre. ? CBE 01.01.1967 New Year 67 DSC 11.08.1942 action T & E Boats North Sea MID 21.04.1942 attack on convoy S Dover 03.03.42	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.1935 - 31.08.1935 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.05.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 19.09.1938 - (10.)1938 qualifying for anti-submarine duties [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)] 15.10.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Encounter (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 08.07.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, MTB No. 6 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Vulcan (Coastal Forces depot ship, Malta / Felixstowe)] 14.08.1940 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] (08.1942) Commanding Officer, MTB 30 (motor torpedo boat) (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 02.08.1943 - (12.1943) Assistant Torpedo Officer, HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) 23.02.1944 - (04.)1946 Torpedo Officer, HMS Colossus (aircraft carrier) 14.10.1946 - (07.1948) Torpedo Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (05.1949) no appointment listed 19.04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Myngs 01.10.1951 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous duties) 24.11.1954 - (01.1956) Commanding Officer, HMS Barrosa (01.1957) no appointment listed 02.01.1961 - (02.)1963 Commanding Officer, HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth) 24.04.1963 - 19.03.1965 Commanding Officer, HMS Tiger (cruiser) 07.07.1965 - 07.07.1966 also: Naval ADC to the Queen ? - 1966 Commodore Amphibious Forces FEF
Loasby, Peter George Youngest of two sons and two daughters of Harry Clement Loasby (1873-1957), and Brenda Olive Yorke (1887-1972). Married (26.07.1949, St Peter's, Brampton, Suffolk) Rosemary Margaret Randall Gardiner; one daughter.	25.07.1919 Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India - 25.04.1986 Redbridge, Essex	Midsh. 01.01.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1939 S.Lt. 16.05.1939 Lt. 16.10.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1948 Cdr. 31.12.1953 A/Capt. < 07.1961 Capt. 31.12.1961 (retd 07.01.1971) DSC 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 [investiture 10.03.42]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 02.01.1939 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.07.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Vanessa (destroyer) 1940 - (11.)1940 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) 03.12.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) (1941?) HM ML 113 (motor launch) 28.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches) 02.1942 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS Bridgewater (sloop) (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 26.06.1943 - (10.)1943 Signals Officer, HMS Eskimo (destroyer) 10.1943 - (12.1943) flotilla staff (for signal duties), HMS Jervis (destroyer) 28.01.1944 - (10.)1944 flotilla staff (for signal duties), HMS Grenville (destroyer) 14.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) (for communication duties) (04.1946) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) * 18.01.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr Petersfield) (05.1950)     HMS President * (05.1953)     no appointment listed 10.05.1954 - (07.)1954 Joint Services Staff Course [HMS President] 21.10.1954 - 19.11.1956 Staff Communications Officer, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC [HMS Saker] ** 15.09.1958 - (01.1959) Staff Communications Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 17.07.1961 - (02.1963) on Staff of Commander-in-Chief Middle East as Chairman JCC (ME) Aden and SO(C) [HMS Sheba] (02.1964)     HMS Cassandra * 02.01.1967 - (02.1968) Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (02.1969)     HMS President * 07.07.1970 - 07.01.1971 also: Naval ADC to the Queen MBIM * indexed, but not listed as such ** (01.1957) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Lockyer, Edmund Lawrence Braithwaite	26.04.1879 East Indies / Madras - died between 07.1944 and 07.1952	Lt. 30.06.1901 (retd) Lt.Cdr. (retd) ? Cdr. (retd) 26.04.1919 Capt. (retd) 26.04.1924 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR ? DSO 01.01.1915 sinking German armed merchant cruiser Cap Trafalgar, S America, 14.09.14 DSO WW I Commanding Officer, Q-ship	15.07.1893     entered RN (09.1914) First & Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Carmania (armed merchant cruiser) ? - 14.05.1916 Commanding Officer, HMS M 30 (monitor) (destroyed by artillery fire) (02.1917) RN Barracks, Chatham 15.08.1940 - (08.1942) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] Naval Officer-in-Charge, Fleetwood 25.08.1942 - (06.1944) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Aultbea, Scotland [HMS Helicon]
Lombard Hobson, Samuel Richard Le Hunte "Sam" Son of ... Hobson, and ... Daubeney.	24.02.1913 Freebridge Lynn district, Norfolk - 14.12.1999 Salisbury, Wiltshire	A/S.Lt. 01.05.1933 S.Lt. 16.01.1934 Lt. 16.07.1936 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1944 Cdr. 30.06.1949 Capt. 31.12.1953 (retd 28.11.1963) CVO 30.05.1961 Queen's state visite to Rome [investiture 04.05.61] OBE 01.06.1953 Korea [investiture 27.10.53] MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coast 05.40 MID 14.07.1942 escort duty action E-boats, Nore MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations, towing Carlisle	04.05.1933 - 07.01.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.01.1934 - (07.1934) promotion course, Portsmouth 14.04.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) 13.05.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Isis (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 12.1937 - (09.1939) ADC to the Governor-General of New Zealand (04.1940) - (05.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Whitshed (destroyer) 25.08.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Southdown (destroyer) 11.07.1941 - 07.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Guillemot (corvette) (North Atlantic) 11.08.1942 - (04.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Rockwood (destroyer) 02.05.1944 -