Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945

Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Mabatt, F.G.
to
Marchesi, V.A.J.B.

Marigold, J.R.
to
McClure, J.A.

McCoy, J.A.
to
Meyrick, T.C.

Michell, K.
to
Moir, D.F.

Money, J.M.
to
Musters, J.D.A.

J.R. Marigold to J.A. McClure

Marigold,
James Richard
J.R. Marigold

Son of ... Marigold, and ... Matthey.

(06?).1920
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
12.2004 still alive

Midsh.	01.01.1938
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1940
S.Lt.	16.02.1940
Lt.	01.06.1941
Lt.Cdr. (L)	01.06.1949
Cdr. (L)	31.12.1954
Capt. [EngL]	30.06.1962

MID

22.09.1942

Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar - Malta convoy 11/15.06.42)

FIEE (AMIEE)

01.01.1938	-	(06.1938)	HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet)
22.07.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
01.05.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Calcutta (cruiser)
(06.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Marne (destroyer) *
19.04.1943	-	(06.1943)	[CO?] HMS Scourge (destroyer)
(08.1943)	-	(12.1943)	HMS Teazer (destroyer) *
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
(06.1944)			specialist torpedo course [HMS Vernon ?]
16.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Marlborough (training establishment, Eastbourne)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
(05.1953)			HMS President *
22.08.1955	-	(01.1956)	HMS President (for miscellaneous duties)
31.03.1958	-	(07.1961)	HMS Girdle Ness (depot ship, Rosyth)
(02.1963)			Weapons Department, Admiralty *
19.12.1968	-	(08.1961)	Director of Naval Officer Appointments (Engineer Officers), Naval Secretary's Department, Navy Department

* indexed, but not listed as such

Marrack,
Hugh Richard
H.R. Marrack

Son of late John Reed Marrack, Tiverton, N. Devon.
Married (1917) Christine (died 1969), widow of Lt
George Pilkington, RN, and daughter of late A.M. Hallett; no children.

05.07.1888
Tiverton, N. Devon
-
12.02.1972
[Southsea, Hants ?]

A/S.Lt.	15.10.1907
S.Lt.	20.05.1908, seniority 15.10.1907
Lt.	30.06.1910
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1918
Cdr.	30.06.1923
Capt.	31.12.1930
Cdre. 2nd cl.	05.05.1933-03.06.1933, 12.12.1939-14.01.1941
R.Adm.	15.01.1941 (retd 16.01.1941) (reverted to retd 1945?)

	CBE	02.06.1943	HM's birthday 43
	DSC	17.04.1918	?

Education: Blundell's School, Tiverton; HMS Britannia (1903)

15.01.1903			joined RN
1908			Sub-Lieutenant, Submarine Branch of Navy
1911	-	1912	Commanding Officer, HMS A 10 (submarine)
1912	-	1919	Commanding Officer, HMS C 19 (submarine) & E 51 (minelayer)
1919?	-	1923?	Commanding Officer, HMS L 71, K 8, M 3 (submarines)
14.04.1923	-	(08.1923)	Commanding Officer, HMS Fermoy (twin screw minesweeper)
01.09.1924	-	15.08.1924	Admiralty [HMS President]
15.08.1924	-	(05.)1926	Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
26.08.1926	-	01.10.1928	London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]:
26.08.1926	-	31.03.1927	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (additional; for submarine building)
01.04.1927	-	05.09.1928	Commanding Officer, HMAS Oxley (submarine)
26.03.1929	-	02.1931	Commanding Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) & as Captain (S) 6th Submarine Flotilla (Portland)
02.02.1931	-	1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) & as Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla (China)
(05.1933)			no appointment listed
05.05.1933	-	03.06.1933	Commodore-in-Charge of Naval Establishments at Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]
16.10.1933	-	(01.)1934	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
14.05.1934	-	(07.)1934	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
05.09.1934	-	(02.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Africa)
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
16.12.1937	-	09.07.1943	Captain Superintendent, HM Dockyard Sheerness [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] & since 12.12.1939 also Commodore-in-Charge, Sheerness [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)]
07.1943	-	(07.)1945	Commodore Superintendent, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant]
1940			also: ADC to the King

Marrack,
John Alexander
J.A. Marrack

Son of ... Marrack, and ... Bulter.
Married; at least one son.

(03?).1921
Barnet district, Greater London / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
[10.2007 still alive]

Cadet	01.09.1938
Midsh.	01.09.1939
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	01.08.1940
Lt.	01.11.1941
Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1949
Cdr.	31.12.1953
Capt.	31.12.1962 (retd 17.04.1972)

01.09.1938	-	02.08.1939	special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
03.08.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Nelson (battleship)
(02.1941)			HMS Duncan (destroyer) *
08.09.1941	-	(06.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Walpole (destroyer)
19.07.1943	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Vigilant (destroyer)
?	-	(07.1945)	gunnery course
11.1945	-	(04.1946)	Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Duke of York (battleship)
05.01.1948	-	(07.1948)	for duty at Ministry of Supply [HMS President]
04.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
18.08.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Newfoundland (cruiser)
?	-	(04.1955)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.04.1955	-	(01.1957)	HMS President (miscellaneous duties)
05.1958	-	(01.1959)	Staff Officer (Malta) [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(07.1961)			HMS President *
12.06.1962	-	(02.1963)	Deputy Director, Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
27.05.1963	-	(02.1964)	Deputy Superintendent, Captain of the Dockyard, and Queen's Harbour Master, Portsmouth Dockyard [HMS Victory]
17.05.1967	-	(02.1969)	Naval Attaché, Bonn (West Germany) [HMS President]
?	-	(08.1971)	Naval Manpower Department
07.07.1971	-	07.01.1972	also: Naval ADC to the Queen

* indexed, but not listed as such

Marriott,
Norman
N. Marriott

Son of Herbert Edward and Mary Marriott; husband of Moira Margaret Marriott.

03.04.1912
-
08.05.1942
(KIA) [age 30]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 1]

[Prob.] Midsh. RNR	?, antedated 31.12.1922
A/S.Lt. RNR	03.04.1933
S.Lt. RNR	06.12.1936
Lt. RNR	03.01.1937
Lt. (Supplementary List)	12.10.1937, seniority 03.04.1936
Lt.	1938?, seniority 03.04.1936

DSC

01.01.1941

New Year 41

19.04.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Rodney (battleship)
30.01.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS H 32 (submarine)
20.01.1938	-	(02.1938)	HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)
15.04.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Seahorse (submarine)
10.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS H 44 (submarine)
06.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Rorqual (minelaying submarine)
?	-	08.05.1942	HMS P 39 (submarine)

Marriott,
Peter Barnsley
"Sam"
P.B. Marriott (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Marriott)

Son of George Montague Marriott, and Madge Irene Vickery.
Married (1948) Francis Jill Davis, a retired Leading WREN (died 08.05.2009); two sons (Maj. (Retd) Simon Montague Marriott WB, late 17th/21st Lancers & Brig. Patrick Claude Marriott CBE, late The Queen's Royal Lancers).

21.03.1915
Edgbaston, nr Birmingham, Tamworth district
-
01.1989
Norwich district, Norfolk

Cadet	01.05.1932
Midsh.	01.09.1933
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1936
S.Lt.	01.08.1936
Lt.	16.04.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.	16.04.1946
Cdr.	30.06.1950
Capt.	31.12.1955 (retd 28.11.1964)

	DSO	05.01.1943	successful attack U-boat 21.10.42 [investiture 02.02.43]
	DSC	03.04.1945	submarine warfare Far East 07-12.44 [decoration posted]

01.05.1932	-	(06.)1933	direct entry cadet, HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship, Devonport) & HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
1933	-	1933	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)
10.08.1933	-	(07.)1934	HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
1934	-	1934	HMS Acasta (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
29.12.1934	-	(07.1935)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
01.01.1936	-	30.08.1936	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
31.08.1936	-	(02.)1937	promotion course, Portsmouth
26.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
12.09.1937	-	(08.)1938	HMS Starfish (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
08.08.1938	-	(09.1939)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
1939	-	1940	HMS L 26 (submarine)
(04.1940)			HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) *
1940	-	1940	British Naval Liaison Officer on two foreign ships: French submarine Achille, Dutch submarine O-22
1940	-	1940	HMS H 54 (submarine)
24.09.1940	-	(02.)1941	First Lieutenant, HMS Urge (submarine)
10.10.1941	-	31.05.1942	First Lieutenant, HMS Graph (submarine)
01.06.1942	-	01.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Graph (ex-German submarine U-570) **
05.05.1943	-	(01.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Stoic (submarine)
(07.1945)			HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
31.12.1945	-	(04.)1946	HMS Ferret IV (Captain Submarines surrendered U-boats, Londonderry)
01.10.1946	-	(07.)1948	HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
1948			Staff Officer (Operations), Malta [HMS St Angelo]
26.11.1948	-	(05.)1949	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
10.1949	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tabard
1951			DNE, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.03.1953	-	(05.1953)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
25.10.1954	-	(04.)1955	Executive Officer, HMS Centaur
04.08.1955	-	(01.)1957	Naval Assistant to Director of Naval Construction [HMS President] (nuclear submarines design)
1957			Senior Officers' War Course, Greenwich [HMS President]
1957	-	1958	Captain Grapple Squadron (in command of the Naval element of the thermo-nuclear trials at Christmas Island)
(01.1959)			HMS Phoenicia *
12.05.1960	-	(07.1961)	Commanding Officer, HMS Afrikander & Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic and South America Station
11.02.1963	-	(02.)1964	Captain of the Dockyard, Rosyth & Queen's Harbour Master [HMS Cochrane]

* indexed, but not listed as such
** for the period 05.1942-(02.1943) also (incorrectly?) shown as First Lieutenant, HMS P 51 (submarine)

Mars,
Alastair Campbell Gillespie
A.C.G. Mars

Married Bunty Colquhoun Mars.

01.01.1915
-
12.03.1985
Ipswich, Suffolk

Cadet	01.05.1932
Midsh.	01.01.1933
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1935
S.Lt.	16.01.1936
Lt.	16.10.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.	?
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1945 (court martial & dismissal from service 06.1952 *)

DSO	22.12.1942	war patrols Mediterranean 08.42
DSC	27.07.1943	10 submarine patrols Mediterranean since 08.42
DSC	06.11.1945	war patrols Far East 11.44-08.45

* openly critical of certain aspects of naval bureaucracy and wished to leave the Navy, was arrested on a relatively minor charge and court martialled

23.04.1932	-	(01.1934)	HMS Norfolk (cruiser)
02.05.1935	-	(07.1935)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
06.01.1936	-	(02.)1936	promotion course, Portsmouth
12.12.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Grampus (submarine)
18.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Swordfish (submarine)
23.10.1937	-	(02.)1938	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China)
04.1938	-	(08.)1938	HMS Regulus (submarine) (China)
28.08.1938	-	(04.1940)	HMS Regulus (submarine) (China)
(02.1941)			submarine course
			H 44 (submarine) ?
18.11.1941	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS P 42, renamed HMS Unbroken (submarine)
04.08.1943	-	(12.)1943	Staff Officer (Operations) 2 to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot)]
15.12.1943	-	(10/11.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Thule (submarine)
(04.1946)			HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) *
29.03.1950	-	(05.1950)	staff Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Sheerness [HMS Berry Head]

* indexed, but not listed as such
Published: Unbroken, the story of a submarine (1953); Court martial (1954); Arctic submarine (1955); H.M.S. Thule intercepts (1956); Submarine at bay (1956); Atomic submarine : a story of tomorrow (1957); Fire in anger : a novel (1958); Mediterranean wolfpack (1960); Deep escape (1962); British submarines at war, 1939-1945 (1971)

Marsh,
Grahame Roy
G.R. Marsh (Photo courtesy of Capt. David Barnes MM)

Son of Frank Bertram Marsh, and Eveline M. Bird.
Married (27.12.1939, Malta) Joyce Evelyn Knott (aged 26), daughter of Charles Henry Alfred Knott.

31.08.1913
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
05.1987
Reading & Wokingham district, Berkshire

Prob. S.Lt. RNR	31.12.1936
S.Lt. RNR	1937?, seniority 31.12.1936
S.Lt.	22.07.1938, seniority 15.02.1938
Lt.	05.08.1939, seniority 31.08.1937
Lt.Cdr.	11.02.1946, seniority 31.08.1945 (dismissed the service by a court-martial 17.04.1946 *)

* Found guilty on two of the three charges regarding his conduct during the loss of HMS Oswald, being: that he failed to ensure that the order to abandon ship was carried out, that he failed to assist in rallying the crew after the sinking and failed to assist in ensuring that men inside the submarine got out.

22.07.1938			transferred RN
28.09.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines)
21.01.1939	-	(08.)1939	HMS Thames (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Maidstone]
12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for submarines)
1940	-	01.08.1940	First Lieutenant, HMS Oswald (submarine) (ship rammed & taken POW) [background story]
1940	-	1945?	prisoner of war
(04.1946)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Marshall-A'Deane,
Walter Roger
W.R. Marshall-A'Deane (Photo courtesy of Pheasant Riordan)

Son of Richard Marshall and of Gertrude Ellen Marshall (née Temple).
Husband of Margaret Hamilton Marshall-A'Deane, of Takapau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

14.05.1902
[Entrobus?? Parkington??], Yorkshire]
-
22.05.1941
(KIA) [age 38]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

Lt.	15.08.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1932
Cdr.	30.06.1939

DSO	08.07.1941	sinking Italian submarine 06.03.41 [presented to next-of-kin]
DSC	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 40 [presented to next-of-kin]
AM	04.11.1941	loss at attempted rescue survivors HMS Fiji [posthumously; presented to next-of-kin] *
MID	16.08.1940	Dunkirk 06.40
MID	29.07.1941	Battle of Cape Matapan

* When his ship, HMS Greyhound, was bombed and sunk, Commander Marshall-A'Deane was among the survivors picked up by HMS Kandahar. Later in the day HMS Fiji was sunk and HMS Kandahar again went to the rescue. Commander Marshall-A'Deane, despite the ordeal he had already been through that day, dived overboard in the gathering darkness to rescue the men in the water. He was not seen again. This was the last proof of. his great gallantry. Commander Marshall-A'Deane had already in this war been appointed Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, won the Distinguished Service Cross, and twice been mentioned in Despatches.

05.05.1925	-	(07.1927)	HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand)
29.03.1928	-	(08.1929)	First Lieutenant, HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
02.01.1930	-	(01.)1932	First Lieutenant, HMS Vega (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
23.04.1932	-	13.06.1932	HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Westernport) [on loan to Permanent Naval Forces, Australia]
14.06.1932	-	18.04.1934	Flag Lieutenant[-Commander] to Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Canberra (cruiser)] [on loan to Permanent Naval Forces, Australia]
19.04.1934	-	20.04.1934	HMAS Penguin [on loan to Permanent Naval Forces, Australia]
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
30.08.1934	-	(07.)1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Sardonyx (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
12.1935	-	(02.)1936	Commanding Officer, HMS Acheron (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
13.06.1936	-	(02.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Worcester (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
10.05.1937	-	(07.)1937	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
02.08.1937	-	(04.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Escort (estroyer) (Home Fleet)
05.07.1939	-	22.05.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Greyhound (destroyer) [sunk by German aircraft off Crete]

Martell,
Colin Colenso
H.C. Martell

Son of late Engineer Capt. Albert Arthur Greer Martell, DSO, RN (Retd) (1884-1951) and late Mrs Susan (Colenso) Martell (1885-1978).
Brother of V.Adm. Hugh Colenso Martell.
Married (1939) Marguerite Walton-Wilson (born 1917); four sons.

22.04.1909
Plymouth district, Devon
-
06.1985
York district, Yorkshire

...	...
Lt.	01.04.1931
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1939
Cdr.	31.12.1943
Capt.	31.12.1949 (retd 07.01.1959)

DSC

08.06.1944

HM's birthday 44 [investiture 16.03.45]

...	-	...	...
06.05.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
26.11.1940	-	(12.1941)	Assistant Naval Attaché, Washington [HMS President] [04.1941 British observer, USS Boise]
21.01.1942	-	(10.)1943	Gunnery Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship)
07.12.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
10.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...
(1953)			Commanding Officer, HMS Venus (anti-submarine frigate)
...	-	...	...

Farmer & forester.

Martell,
[Sir] Hugh Colenso
H.C. Martell

Son of late Engineer Capt. Albert Arthur Greer Martell, DSO, RN (Retd) (1884-1951) and late Mrs Susan (Colenso) Martell (1885-1978).
Brother of Capt. Colin Colenso Martell, RN.
Married 1st Marguerite, the daughter of Sir Dymoke White Bt; they had five sons and a daughter before the marriage was dissolved.
Married 2nd Margaret, daughter of late Major A.R. Glover; two sons, six daughters.

obituary

06.05.1912
-
25.12.1998
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Cadet	01.09.1929
Midsh.	01.05.1930
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1932
S.Lt.	20.12.1933, seniority 01.03.1933
Lt.	01.10.1934
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1942
Cdr.	30.06.1945
Capt.	30.06.1952
Cdre. 2nd cl.	29.11.1955?
R.Adm.	08.01.1962
V.Adm.	16.07.1965 (retd 14.12.1967)

KBE	11.06.1966	HM's birthday 66
CBE	01.01.1957	New Year 57, Operation Mosaic
CB	08.06.1963	HM's birthday 63
MID	23.10.1945	Operation Iceberg

Education: Edinburgh Academy; RN College Dartmouth (1927-1929)

12.08.1930	-	(01.)1932	HMS Danae (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
28.06.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet)
09.12.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Dundalk (twin screw minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla)
11.1934	-	(07.)1937	HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies & Devonport)
30.09.1937	-	(08.)1938	qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent
28.09.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
27.04.1939	-	(04.1940)	Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
20.01.1941	-	1942	Gunnery Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (Home Fleet, Russian convoys)
16.07.1942	-	01.10.1943	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
01.10.1943	-	(07.1945)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) (East Indies Fleet & British Pacific Fleet)
27.08.1945	-	(10.)1947	an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.11.1947	-	(07.1948)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sluys
01.1950	-	(05.1950)	staff, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
03.04.1952	-	1954	Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance (Air), Admiralty [HMS President] & Naval Adviser to Director of Air Armament Research and Development, Ministry of Supply
04.02.1954	-	(04.)1955	Captain (F) 7 & Commanding Officer, HMS Bigbury Bay
29.11.1955	-	(01.1956)	Commanding Officer, HMS Narvik & Overall Operational Commander, Task Force 308 (Nuclear Tests, in Monte Bello Island as Commodore)
1957			Imperial Defence College
1958			Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
07.01.1961	-	07.01.1962	Naval ADC to the Queen
23.09.1959	-	1962	Director of Tactical and Weapons Policy Division, Admiralty [HMS President] and Naval Member Defence Research Policy Staff, Ministry of Defence
02.08.1962	-	1965	Admiral Commanding Reserves and Inspector of Recruiting [HMS President]
1965	-	1967	Chief of Allied Staff, Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Sea

Life Member, RNSA.

Martin,
[Sir] Benjamin Charles Stanley
B.C.S. Martin

18.07.1891
Ryde, Isle of Wight
-
03.06.1957
Natal, S Africa

Mate	13.10.1916 [238008]
A/Lt.	?
Lt.	13.05.1919 [19.05.1922 seniority adjusted to 13.10.1918]
Lt.Cdr.	13.10.1926
Cdr.	30.06.1931
Capt.	30.06.1935
Cdre. 2nd cl.	14.02.1942?
R.Adm.	07.07.1944 (retd)
V.Adm. (retd)	02.10.1948

KBE	11.06.1946	HM birthday 46
CBE	01.01.1944	New Year 44
DSO	14.10.1941	Bismarck action 05.41
MID	01.01.1941	New Year 41
MID	03.07.1945	Arakan assault Rangoon

Education: RN Hospital School, Greenwich

1908			served Somali campaign
1910			served Persian Gulf
1914	-	1918	served European War
23.03.1918	-	(1919)	Mate (T), HMS Leviathan (cruiser)
05.04.1928	-	(08.1929)	Commanding Officer, HMS Venetia (destroyer)
26.07.1930	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vortigern (destroyer)
10.09.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS Voyager (destroyer)
(04.1933)			no appointment listed
08.05.1933	-	(06.1933)	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
02.08.1933	-	(07.)1935	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (Maintenance Commander and for P & RT duties)
20.12.1935	-	(02.1936)	Commanding Officer, HMS Folkestone (patrol sloop)
(02.1937)			no appointment listed
24.05.1937	-	(07.)1937	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
09.10.1937	-	(04.)1939	Director of Physical Training and Sports, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
31.07.1939	-	(05.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)
09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)]
14.04.1942	-	(12.1943)	Commodore in Charge of Naval Establishments, Durban [HMS Afrikander IV, from ... (early 1943?) HMS Kongoni]
(04.1944)	-		no appointment listed
(01.1945)	-	(09.1945)	Senior Officer, Advanced Force "W" [HMS Bulolo] (Ramree Island)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Martin,
Desmond Samuel Royst
D.S.R. Martin

23.09.1912
-

[Prob.] Midsh. RNR	25.06.1931
A/S.Lt. RNR	23.09.1933
S.Lt. RNR	04.01.1936
Lt. RNR	08.07.1936
Lt. (Supplementary List)	1937?, seniority 23.09.1936
Lt.	1938?, seniority 23.09.1936
Lt.Cdr.	23.03.1944 (reld, retd or died > 05.1950, < 07.1959)

DSO	15.06.1943	submarine patrol 04.43
DSO	27.07.1943	sinking U-boat 30.05.43
DSO	02.11.1943	sinking U-boat 22.08.43

22.05.1937	-	(10.1938)	HMS Rainbow (submarine)
29.03.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
02.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS H 34 (submarine)
(02.1941)			submarine course *
1941	-	1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Una (submarine)
(08.1942)			HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) *
04.12.1942	-	(02.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS P 216 (submarine)
17.03.1943	-	(10.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tuna (submarine)
10.10.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Terrapin (submarine)
(07.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) **
12.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
(05.1950)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such
** indexed, but not found under the ship's listing

Martin,
John Cecil Gilbert
J.C.G. Martin (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Martin)

17.08.1908
Eastry district, Kent
-
16.07.1973
Stratton, Southwark district, Cornwall

Cadet	15.01.1926
Midsh.	15.09.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1929
S.Lt.	1930?, seniority 16.08.1929
Lt.	16.01.1931
Lt.Cdr.	16.01.1939
Cdr.	30.06.1944 (retd 17.08.1958)
A/Capt.	< 05.1953

	OBE	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 58 [investiture 14.11.58]
	MID	23.02.1943	Operation Streamline Jane (operations at Majunga & Tanarive, Madagascar 09.42)

06.01.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
31.12.1927	-	(06.1928)	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
03.01.1929	-	(08.1929)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
08.03.1930	-	(10.1930)	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
13.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	First Lieutenant, HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
30.01.1932	-	(06.)1933	First Lieutenant, HMS Gnat (gunboat) (China)
04.12.1933	-	(07.)1934	qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
15.12.1934	-	(07.)1935	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)
16.09.1935	-	(02.)1937	Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet & as Signal and Wireless Telegraphy Officer [HMS Hawkins (cruiser)] (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
14.04.1937	-	(04.)1939	HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) (for signal and wireless telegraphy duties)
27.04.1939	-	(08.1939)	Signal Officer, HMS Caledonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth)
03.1940	-	(04.)1940	Signal Officer, HMS Keith (destroyer)
29.06.1940	-	(02.)1941	Flag Lieutenant to Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)]
10.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Flag Officer Commanding Force H & Squadron Signal and Wireless Telegraphy Officer [HMS Rodney (battleship)]
09.02.1942	-	(08.)1942	Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Rear-Admiral Eastern Fleet Aircraft Carriers & Squadron Signal and Wireless Telegraphy Officer [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)]
21.12.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)
08.09.1943	-	(12.1943)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
06.04.1944	-	(06.)1944	Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
09.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.1947	-	(07.1948)	Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (sloop)
01.03.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
10.10.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
10.02.1954	-	(01.1957)	Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Martin,
William Hynd Norrie
W.H.N. Martin

14.10.1908
-
10.12.1988

Prob. 2nd Lt. RM	01.09.1927
Prob. Lt. RM	01.09.1930
Lt. RM	17.03.1931, seniority 01.09.1930
Capt. RM	01.04.1937
T/Maj. RM	06.02.1941-16.07.1944
Lt.Cdr. (A)	17.07.1944, seniority 01.09.1939
Cdr. (A)	30.06.1945 (retd 14.10.1958)
RAF:
F/O	17.01.1932
F/Lt.	01.01.1936

(08.1929)	-	(04.)1930	Portsmouth Division, RM
15.09.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
?	-	(01.)1932	Portsmouth Division, RM
17.01.1932	-	21.06.1937	employed under the Air Ministry [attached to RAF]
17.01.1932	-	(09.1932)	pilot's course, RAF Base, Leuchars [attached to RAF]
01.1933	-	(01.)1934	pilot, T/B Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
10.12.1934	-	(07.)1935	pilot, S/R Squadron 822 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
18.10.1935	-	01.1936	pilot, B Squadron 822 FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
01.1936	-	(02.1937)	pilot, S/R Squadron 824 FAA [HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)] (China) [attached to RAF]
(02.1938)	-	(08.1939)	Portsmouth Division, RM
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
01.1941	-	(02.)1941	Second-in-Command, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Hermes]
(12.)1941	-	09.04.1942	Commanding Officer, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Hermes]
10.04.1942	-	(08.)1942	Commanding Officer, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Lanka (for RN Air Station, Trincomalee)]
09.1942	-	(02.)1943	Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Striker
21.02.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Asbury (as SBNONAS [= Senior British Naval Officer, Naval Air Stations?])
17.07.1944			transferred from Royal Marines to Royal Navy (Air Branch)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
24.08.1945	-	(04.1946)	on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
09.11.1946	-	01.04.1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Nabcatcher (mobile naval air base (MONAB) VIII)
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
15.03.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vengeance
24.09.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
20.09.1953	-	(01.1956)	Commanding Officer, HMS Simbang (RN Air Station, Sembawang, Singapore) & as Fleet Aviation Officer on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station

Mason,
Arthur Edward
A.E. Mason

Married; at least one son.

26.01.1901
Bath, Somerset
-
26.12.1991
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire

Seaman	? [M34836]
Wt. El.	08.06.1928
Cd. El.	11.01.1937
El.Lt.	01.07.1938
A/El.Lt.Cdr.	23.04.1945?
El.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (L)	15.05.1946 (retd 26.01.1951)

15.08.1928			commissioned RN
15.09.1928	-	(04.1930)	HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
07.04.1931	-	(01.)1934	HMS York (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
23.01.1934	-	(02.)1936	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
14.04.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
24.08.1937	-	(12.1941)	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
28.04.1942	-	(02.)1943	RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fleetlands (Hampshire)
11.03.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Daedalus II (RN Aircraft Training Establishment, Lee-on-Solent)
23.05.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Crimond/Rattray, Aberdeenshire)
19.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
02.03.1948	-	(05.1950)	RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus]

Joined Civil Service until retirement in 1961. MIEE.

Mason,
[Sir] Frank Trowbridge
F.T. Mason

Son of late F.J. Mason, MBE, JP.
Married (1924) Dora Margaret Brand; one son, two daughters.

25.04.1900
Ipswich
-
29.08.1988
Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex

...	...
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1934
Capt. (E)	31.12.1943
R.Adm. (E)	05.03.1950
V.Adm. (E)	28.04.1953 (retd 1957)

	KCB	01.01.1955	New Year 55 [investiture 08.02.55]
	CB	01.01.1953	New Year 53 [investiture 10.02.53]

Education: Ipswich School; RN College, Keyham, 1918.

			HMS Collingwood, 1918; HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1919-21; HMS Tiger, 1921; RN Coll., Greenwich, 1921-22; RN Engineering College, Keyham, 1922-23; HMS Malaya, 1923-25; HM Dockyard, Malta, 1925-28; HMS Rodney, 1929 and 1933-34; HMS Galatea, 1937-39
02.11.1939	-	(06.)1943	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for ordnance and instructional duties)
29.06.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Prosperine (RN base, Orkneys) (for Fleet Gunmounting duties, Home Fleet)
08.03.1944	-	(04.1946)	an Engineer Inspector of Gun Mountings, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
1947	-	1948	Chief Gunnery Engineer Officer and Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
1949			Imperial Defence College (idc)
1950	-	1952	Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of The Fleet
1952	-	1953	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1953	-	1957	Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet

FEng. Hon. FIMechE; FIMarE; retired; Member of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1958-63 (ViceChairman, 1962). Parsons Memorial Lecturer, 1956. Chairman Steering Committee, National Engineering Laboratory, 1958-69, Chairman Advisory Board, 1969, Chairman Advisory Committee, 1973-75; Member Steering Committee, National Physical Laboratory, 1966-68; Chairman, Froude Committee, 1966. Member Council, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1953-57, and 1961 (Vice-President, 1962, President, 1964); Institute of Marine Engineers: Chairman, Panel of Joint Nuclear Marine Propulsion, 1957; Member Council, 1958-60; Vice-Chairman, 1961; Chairman, 1962; President, 1967. Deputy Chairman, Schools Science and Technology Committee, 1968; Member Governing Body: National Council for Technological Awards, 1960-64; Royal Naval School, Haslemere, 1953-83; Ipswich School, 1961-72; Further Education Staff College, 1964-74; Navy League, 1967-75; Hurstpierpoint College, 1966-80; Brighton Polytechnic, 1969-73; Member Council and Executive Committee, City and Guilds of London Institution, 1968-77, Vice-Chairman, 1970-77, Honorary FCGI 1977. Chairman, Standing Conference on Schools Science and Technology, 1971-75, Vice-President, 1975. Founder Fellow, Fellowship of Engineering, 1976. Assistant to Court, Worshipful Co. of Shipwrights. Member Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers (President, 1977); Honorary MIPlantE. High Steward of Ipswich, 1967 (life appointment).

Massy-Dawson,
Dennis Staunton
D.S. Massy-Dawson

Only son of Charles Godfrey Massy-Dawson (1873-1936), and Wilhelmina Geraldine Haughton, of Lindfield, Sussex.
Married (15.07.1939, Plymouth, Devon) Jean Mary Hamilton-Campbell (05.07.1909-10.1988), daughter of Lt.Col. William Kentigern Hamilton-Campbell (1865-1917). She remarried (29.09.1941) Cdr. (S) Alan Melville Ackery, OBE, RN.

06.12.1909
-
07.01.1940
(MPK) [age 30]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]

...	...
Lt.	01.08.1932

Passed Civil Service examination for special entry into RN, 06.1927.

09.1927			HMS Erebus
...	-	...	...
15.04.1939	-	07.01.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Seahorse (submarine)

Matheson,
Roderick Lees
R.L. Matheson

14.04.1907
Devonport district, Devon
-
20.04.1989
George Square district, Edinburgh / Lothian region, Scotland

A/S.Lt. RNR	03.12.1928
S.Lt. RNR	05.12.1931
Lt. RNR	18.09.1934
Lt. (Supplementary List)	13.03.1937, seniority 14.04.1931
Lt.	1938?, seniority 14.04.1931
Lt.Cdr.	14.04.1939 (retd 14.04.1952)

DSC

25.11.1941

Operations Style & Substance

13.05.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS L 21 (submarine)
31.03.1937	-	(07.1937)	First Lieutenant, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer)
(02.1938)			no appointment listed
10.02.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Duchess (destroyer)
03.04.1939	-	(02.1941)	HMS Manchester (cruiser)
27.07.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Penelope (cruiser)
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
01.05.1944	-	(06.1944)	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.)
08.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	Executive Officer, HMS Vanguard *
(05.1950)			no appointment listed

* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Maund,
Loben Edward Harold
L.E.H. Maund

Son of the late Edward Arthur Maund.
Married 1st Mary Edith Collins; at least one son (Lt. Michael Richard Maund, RN).
Married 2nd (1933) Constance Alice Macartney Iredell.

26.09.1892
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
-
18.06.1957
[Fittleworth, Sussex ?]

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	30.07.1913
Lt.	30.12.1914
Lt.Cdr.	30.12.1922
Cdr.	31.12.1927
Capt.	30.06.1934 (retd 08.07.1943)
A/R.Adm.	17.05.1942?
R.Adm. (retd)	01.03.1946

CBE	14.10.1941	Bismarck action
MID	26.09.1940	Norway 04-06.40
MID	06.01.1942	Operation Halberd (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 24-28.09.41)
MID	21.12.1943	Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily, 07.43)

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (Gold Medal and Dirk)

15.09.1905			entered RN
1914	-	1918	Served European War: Dover Patrol, Grand Fleet and Atlantic convoys (battle of Jutland)
01.03.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Scorpion (destroyer)
23.07.1923	-	(08.)1923	HMS President (for Wireless Signal duties with Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty) (temporary)
01.09.1923	-	(01.1925)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies [HMS Chatham (cruiser)]
02.1926	-	(05.1926)	HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
06.1927	-	(07.1927)	Executive Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
31.01.1928	-	(10.1930)	Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence [HMS President]
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
15.09.1931	-	(06.)1933	Executive Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
16.10.1933	-	(01.)1934	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
30.06.1934	-	(02.)1935	HMS President (for duty at Training and Staff Duties Division)
30.06.1935	-	(02.1936)	Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.08.1936	-	(07.1937)	Commanding Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) (China)
(02.1938)			no appointment listed
14.03.1938	-	(06.)1938	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.07.1938	-	(09.1939)	Commandant, Inter-Service Training and Development Centre [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)]
31.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(04.)1940	-	(06.)1940	Naval Chief of Staff to Flag Officer, Narvik (Norway operations)
(02.1941)			Operations Division, Admiralty *
19.04.1941	-	13.11.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (operation against Bismarck, and three convoys to Malta)
17.05.1942	-	(08.)1943	Director of Combined Operations, Middle East [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] (for special service on Staff of Commander-in- Chief, Mediterranean)
12.01.1943	-	08.07.1943	also: Naval ADC to the King
25.08.1943	-	(06.)1944	Director of Combined Operations, India [HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay)] [arrived in India 16.10.1943]
01.10.1944	-	(07.)1945	Rear-Admiral Landing Ships and Craft (Unallocated)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Director of A. Kershaw & Sons, Ltd.
Published: Assault from the sea (1949)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Maund,
Michael Richard
M.R. Maund

Son of R.Adm. Loben Edward Harold Maund, CBE, and Edith Mary Collins, of Marylebone, London.

(03?).1915
Windsor district, Surrey
-
11.01.1943
(KIA) [age 28]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 3]

Cadet	01.05.1932
Midsh.	01.01.1933
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1935
S.Lt.	16.01.1936
A/Lt.	16.05.1938
Lt.	13.02.1939, seniority 16.05.1938
RAF:
(T) F/O	05.01.1937

DSC	04.05.1943	operations from Malta 08.42-01.43 [presented to next-of-kin]
MID	11.09.1940	courage in recent engagements
MID	20.05.1941	attack Taranto 11.11.40

(09.1932)	-	(01.1934)	HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) *
15.06.1934	-	(02.)1935	HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
02.05.1935	-	05.01.1936	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
06.01.1936	-	(02.1936)	promotion course, Portsmouth
05.01.1937	-	(07.1937)	pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars [attached to RAF]
(02.1938)			no appointment listed [attached to RAF]
30.04.1938	-	(08.)1938	pilot, TSR Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
01.09.1938	-	(04.)1939	pilot, TSR Squadron 824 FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (China) [attached to RAF]
(08.1939)	-	(04.1940)	Fleet Air Arm (not specified)
09.1940	-	(02.)1941	pilot, 813 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)]
29.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]
07.03.1942	-	(08.1942)	pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
?	-	11.01.1943	pilot, 821 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Maurice,
Frank Heathcote Powys
F.H.P. Maurice

Son of Frank Lyttleton Maurice.

06.04.1895
Brighton, Sussex
-
(09?).1967
Gosport district, Hampshire

Cdr.	30.06.1930
A/Capt.	01.09.1941? (reverted to retd 1944/45?)
Capt. (retd)	?

CBE

01.01.1947

New Year 47

15.01.1908			entered RN
16.01.1939	-	(08.1939)	MTB Officer, HMS Vernon
01.09.1941	-	(02.1943)	Maintenance Captain, Rear-Admiral Coastal Forces [HMS Attack]
12.02.1943	-	22.11.1944	Director of Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty
(1947)			Director of Temporary Housing, Ministry of Works

Maurice-Jones,
Charles Alun
C.A. Maurice-Jones

Elder son of the Rev. Maurice Jones (1863-1957), and Emily Sabine (1874-1906), daughter of Col. C.M. Longmore and Ada (née Stockwell), of Gosport.
Married Winifred Maurice-Jones (née ...), of Felixstowe; one (?) daughter.

03.10.1895
-
31.07.1944
[age 48]
[Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Kent, Naval Reservation, 1560]

Asst.Clerk	15.07.1913
Clerk	15.07.1914
A/Asst.Paym.	15.01.1917
Asst.Paym.	01.12.1917, seniority 15.10.1916
A/Paym.	24.04.1918
Paym.Lt.	15.10.1918
Paym.Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1926
Paym.Cdr.	31.12.1933
A/Paym.Capt.	29.07.1942

CBE	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 44 [investiture next-of-kin 05.12.44]
14\|15 St	?	?
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
DefM	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?
CorM	?	?

15.07.1913			joins Royal Navy
09.08.1913	-	07.1914	HMS Berwick (cruiser)
15.07.1914	-	11.1915	HMS Berwick (cruiser) (additional)
27.11.1915	-	03.1918?	Captain's clerk's duties, HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
04.03.1918	-	12.1918	in charge of the Captain’s Offices, HM Destroyer base at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth
04.12.1918	-	02.1919	Clerk to the Admiral's Secretary of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
15.02.1919	-	08.1919	HMS Iron Duke (battleship)
18.08.1919	-	08.1922	Clerk to the Admiral's Secretary of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Iron Duke (battleship)]
14.08.1922	-	11.1923	HMS Delhi (cruiser)
08.11.1923	-	04.1924	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)
01.05.1924	-	01.1925	Captain's Secretary to Commanding Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Flotilla
01.1925	-	04.1927	HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta)
20.04.1927	-	02.1928	Captain's Secretary to Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Nore
14.02.1928	-	09.1928	secretaries' course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.10.1928	-	08.1929	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.09.1929	-	02.1933	HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) *
14.02.1933	-	06.1934	HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley)
04.06.1934	-	07.1934	HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty)
02.07.1934	-	10.1936	Secretary to Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty (R.Adm. C.E. Kennedy-Purvis) [HMS President]
09.10.1936	-	(08.)1938	Admiral's Secretary to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron (R.Adm., from 28.06.1937 V.Adm. C.E. Kennedy-Purvis) [HMS Sussex (cruiser), from early 1937 HMS London (cruiser)] (Mediterranean) **
(10.1938)			no appointment listed
(02.1939)			short course of instruction
03.02.1939	-	07.1939	HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
31.07.1939	-	04.1940	HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)
04.04.1940	-	07.1942	Admiral's Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station (V.Adm., from 15.02.1942 Adm. Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis) [HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)]
29.07.1942	-	31.07.1944	Secretary to Deputy First Sea Lord, Admiralty (Adm. Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis) [HMS President]

* from 14.03.1931 commanded by Capt. C.E. Kennedy-Purvis, with whom Maurice-Jones remained associated for the rest of his career
** changed flag after February and before July 1937

Maxted,
Anthony Cecil
A.C. Maxted

Son of ... Maxted, and ... Bremner.

(03?).1920
Bridge district, Kent
-
30.11.1963

Lt.	16.08.1943
Lt.Cdr.	?

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Patroller
...	-	...	...

Maxwell,
Alexander
A. Maxwell

21.03.1906
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
-

Chief Petty Officer	(1941) [D/J 105801]
T/Gnr. (T)	17.10.1942

BEM

01.01.1942

New Year 42

02.03.1922			joined RN (served in the ranks)
(1941)			HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)
17.10.1942			commissioned as an officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
12.1942	-	(06.)1944	HMS Chelsea (destroyer)
07.09.1944	-	(07.)1945	French Ship Mistral (torpedo boat)
15.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Inconstant (destroyer)

Maxwell-Hyslop,
Alexander Henry
[originally: A.H.M. Hyslop; name change by deed poll of 15.07.1925]
A.H. Maxwell-Hyslop

25.05.1895
Woolwich, London
-
28.08.1978
Par, Cornwall

Midsh.	1913
Lt.	? 02.10.1920, seniority 15.03.1917 27.11.1920, seniority 15.06.1917
Lt.Cdr.	15.01.1925
Cdr.	31.12.1930
Capt.	30.06.1937 (retd 05.07.1946; invalided)

MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune
Ntce	20.12.1940	operations in Norway 40
AM (GC)	11.11.1929	explosion aboard HMS Devonshire 07.1929 *

* HMS Devonshire was carrying out full calibre firing on 26th July 1929 when, at the first salvo there was a heavy explosion which blew off the roof of one of the turrets. Lieutenant-Commander Maxwell Hyslop was in the fore control when the explosion occurred, and immediately proceeded to the turret and climbed inside. He made a general examination of the turret, and descended the gun well through most dangerous conditions of fumes and smoke, necessitating the use of a life line, remaining in the turret until the emergency was over, directing arrangements for the safety of the magazine, and supervising the evacuation of the wounded. He was fully aware of the danger to himself from the results of cordite fumes, and the grave risk of further explosions. At the time this officer entered the turret the fire produced by the explosion was still burning and it was impossible to estimate the real state of affairs due to the heavy smoke. He was fully aware that there were other cordite charges in the hoist and handling room below which might ignite at any moment with almost certain fatal results to himself, and he deliberately endangered his own life to save the lives of others.

Education: Rottingdean nr Brighton; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

15.05.1908			joined RN as a cadet
1914	-	1918	served European War (HMS Centurion; Royal Naval Air Station, Polegate, Sussex; HMS Africa; HMS Repulse; HMS Revenge)
			specialized in Gunnery
			HMS Ceres
(07.1925)			HMS Furious
19.03.1929	-	(08.1929)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
01.06.1931	-	(09.1932)	Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
10.08.1933	-	1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Laburnum (sloop) (New Zealand Station)
(07.1935)			no appointment listed
14.12.1935	-	(02.1936)	Maintenance Commander, HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean)
14.09.1936	-	(07.1937)	Commanding Officer, HMS Impregnable (Boys' Training Establishment, St Budeaux)
(02.1938)	-	(08.1938)	no appointment listed
08.08.1938	-	(10.1938)	Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
31.07.1939	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser)
15.03.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
04.06.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, Destroyer Office, Flagstaff Steps, Devonport [HMS Drake IV]
13.04.1942	-	12.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (Arctic duties)
03.12.1943	-	11.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship)
31.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Raleigh (Naval Officers Selection station at Torpoint, Cornwall)
02.01.1946	-	05.07.1946	Naval ADC to the King
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

May,
Hugh Seaburne
H.S. May

Son of Archibald Seaburne May, and ... Price.
Married 1st (01.01.1949) The Hon. Diana Maria Faith Crofton, only daugther of The Hon. Edward Charles Crofton and his wife Cecilia Mabel, widow of Alexander Francis Macdonald of Glenaladale and daughter of John T. Day of Hayeswood, Streatham Park (marriage dissolved); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (29.03.1962), Joan Betty Corlett (née Allison), daughter of Hubert
Allison, Official Jockey Club Starter, and his wife Mildred Clarke (née Thompson).
Of Dunworth House, Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire.

23.08.1920
Staines district, Middlesex
-
12.01.2002

Cadet	01.01.1939
Midsh.	01.09.1939
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	01.10.1941
Lt.	01.09.1942
A/Lt.Cdr.	19.12.1945?
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1950
Cdr.	31.12.1955 (retd 17.03.1959)

Education: Ampleforth

01.01.1939			naval cadet (special entry; having been entered for engineering duties), undergoing training in HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
08.02.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
10.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
12.03.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Taku (submarine)
09.10.1942	-	(02.1943)	[Commanding Officer, ?] HMS Osiris (submarine)
27.04.1943	-	(10.1943)	First Lieutenant, HMS Trooper (submarine)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
(04.1944)	-	(06.1944)	HMS L.23 (submarine) *
23.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HMS Sea Rover (submarine)
19.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sturdy (destroyer)
17.05.1948	-	(07.1948)	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
(05.1953)			HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
(01.1956)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Maycock,
Ernest Robert
E.R. Maycock

(09?).1882
Newton Abbot, Devon
-
02.05.1952

Lt.	01.04.1913
Cdr. (retd)	23.08.1922 (reverted to retd 1946?)

OBE

11.06.1942

HM's birthday 42

10.10.1917	-	(1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Marigold (sloop)
(08.1942)	-	(02.1943)	no appointment listed
01.04.1943	-	08.12.1943	Executive Officer, HMS Foliot (accommodation camp, Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth)
08.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Foliot III (landing craft base, Bickleigh, Plymouth)

Maydon,
Stephen Lynch Conway
S.L.C. Maydon

Youngest son of J.G. Maydon, one time MLA, and Min. of Railways and Harbours, Natal, S. Africa, and Dorothy Isabel Cope; married 1938, Joan Mary Doligny Baker, daughter of C.V. Baker, Betchworth, Surrey; three sons.

15.12.1913
-
02.03.1971
[Wraxall, nr Bristol ?]

Cadet	01.05.1931
Midsh.	01.01.1932
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1934
S.Lt.	01.11.1934
Lt.	01.08.1936
Lt.Cdr.	01.02.1943 (retd 01.03.1949)

DSO	22.12.1942	war patrols Mediterranean 06.42
DSO	04.05.1943	7 supply ships sunk Eastern Mediterranean, 4 Cqs beached
DSC	27.02.1945	war patrols Far East 06-11.44

Education: Twyford School, near Winchester; RN College, Dartmouth

25.04.1931	-	(01.1934)	HMS Resolution (battleship)
07.01.1935	-	(07.1935)	promotion course, Portsmouth
15.12.1935	-	(02.1936)	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
18.06.1936	-	(07.1937)	HMS Orpheus (submarine)
(02.1938)			no appointment listed
20.05.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
28.07.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Porpoise
29.12.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Ambrose (for submarines)
07.07.1941	-	(02.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS P 35 [1943 renamed HMS Umbra] (submarine)
19.05.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tradewind (submarine)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Contested (C) Bristol South, 1950; MP (C) Wells Division of Somerset, 1951-1970; Joint Parlementary Secretary, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, 1962-1964.

Mayne,
Richard Clinton
"Dickie"
R.C. Mayne

1924 ?
-
27.08.2007
Sainte Severe, France
[aged 83]

...	...
Lt.	01.06.1945
...	...
Cdr.	? (retd)
Hon. Capt.	?

...	-	...	....
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Cavalier
...	-	...	....

Mayo,
Robert William
"Robin"
R.W. Mayo

Son of late Frank Mayo, farmer at Charminster.
Married 1st (1942) Sheila Colvill (died 1974), daughter of late John Colvill, JP, of Campbeltown, and widow of Paym.Lt.Cdr. Herbert John Reeder who was lost in HMS Kelly 23.05.1941; one son, one step-son.
Married 2nd (1980) Mrs Betty Washbrook (née Hosier).

09.02.1909
Charminster, Dorchester district, Dorset
-
06.07.2007
Marlborough
[funeral at St George's Church, Preshute, Wiltshire; buried at Campbeltown, Scotland]

Midsh. RNR	01.05.1925
A/S.Lt. RNR	09.02.1930
S.Lt. RNR	16.06.1931
Lt. RNR	18.09.1934
Lt. (Supplementary List)	09.04.1937, seniority 09.02.1933
Lt.	1938?, seniority 09.02.1933
Lt.Cdr.	09.02.1941
Cdr.	30.06.1948
Capt.	31.12.1953
R.Adm.	07.01.1964 (retd 20.09.1966)

	CB	12.06.1965	HM's birthday 65
	CBE	01.01.1962	New Year 62

Education: Weymouth College; HMS Conway
Served with Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (Master's Ticket, 1936), 1925-1937.

			training, HMS Ramillies (battleship)
			training, HMS Venturous (destroyer)
02.11.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS H 43 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania]
1937			transferred to Royal Navy
10.04.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
04.01.1938	-	(08.)1938	anti-submarine course [HMS Osprey]
19.08.1938	-	(04.)1940	Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (and for flotilla duties) (Hong Kong) [laying submarine detection equipment]
05.1940	-	(10.1940)	Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)
(02.1941)			HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) *
24.10.1941	-	(08.)1942	Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Nemesis (accommodation ship, Iceland)
04.09.1942	-	(12.1943)	Squadron Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)
31.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Aberdeen (sloop) (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
(04.1946)			HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment) *
14.01.1947	-	(07.)1948	Commanding Officer, HMS Chevron (destroyer) (Palestinian Patrol)
06.12.1948	-	(05.1950)	on staff of Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin] (submarine depot, Gosport)
(1952)			Executive Officer, HMS Theseus (carrier) (Korea)
28.08.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth)
11.02.1954	-	(01.)1956	Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
12.09.1956	-	(01.1957)	Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine training establishment, Portland)
(01.1959)			no appointment listed
20.07.1959	-	(07.1961)	Superintendent TEE, Greenock & as Captain-in-Charge, Clyde [HMS Cochrane]
04.04.1962	-	(02.1963)	Commanding Officer, HMS St Angelo (RN base, Matla) & as Flag Captain to Flag Officer Malta & as SORS, Malta
09.01.1964	-	(02.1964)	Naval Deputy to Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe, NATO (Norway)

In Scotland he was made an Honorary Sheriff's Substitute, a member of the judiciary, and served as a magistrate. He was also president of the Sea Cadets.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Mays,
[Anthony] Henry George
H.G. Mays

Son of George W. Mays, and Elizabeth J. Chitty.
Married ((09?).1945, Bromley district, Kent) Winifred D. Bewick.

(06?).1919
Lewisham district, London
-
(03?).1965
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

Midsh. (A)	16.01.1939
A/S.Lt. (A)	04.11.1939
S.Lt. (A)	17.04.1940
Lt. (A)	04.05.1942
Lt.	1948/49?, seniority 04.05.1942
Lt.Cdr.	04.05.1950 (retd 09.06.1958)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& clasp Aircrew Europe
Afr St	-	-
DefM	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
NavGSM	-	& clasp Palestine 45-48

Medals of Lt.Cdr. [A.]H.G. Mays, RN (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark Sellar)

16.01.1939	-	(04.)1939	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training)
15.05.1939	-	(08.1939)	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
23.02.1940	-	(05.)1941	acting observer, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (Bismarck action)
29.10.1941	-	09.08.1942	observer, 811 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] [Failed to return after minelaying south of Den Helder. Thought to have collided with Swordfish DK751. Captured.]
09.08.1942	-	1945	POW in German captivity
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
29.05.1948	-	(07.)1948	HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose) (for FFD and training)
01.09.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Ocean
(05.1950)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
31.03.1953	-	(05.1953)	HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
(07.1954)			no appointment listed
(04.1955)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
18.07.1955	-	(01.1957)	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

McBean,
Russell Hamilton
R.H. McBean

03.03.1894
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
30.10.1963

...	...
Lt.	15.05.1916
Lt.Cdr.	15.05.1924 (retd 12.08.1937)
Cdr. (retd)	12.08.1937
A/Capt. (retd)	01.1945

	DSO	11.11.1919	Kronstadt Harbour 18.08.19 *
	DSC	28.08.1918	Ostend 09/10.05.18 **

* For distinguished services in command of H.M. Coastal Motor Boat No. 31 in the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919. Under a very heavy fire he entered the harbour, torpedoed the Bolshevik battleship "Andrei Pervozanni" and returned through the fire of the forts and batteries to the open sea.
** In command of a coastal motor boat. He escorted "Vindictive" close up to the entrance at Ostend, covering her with smokescreen and then assisting her with guiding lights. He torpedoed the eastern and western piers, and finally engaged the machine gunsthere with his own machine guns at pointblank range with apparently good effect. He most skilfully handled his vessel under a. heavy fire until he was wounded.

15.01.1907			entered RN
...	-	...	....
16.09.1935	-	(02.1936)	Commanding Officer, HMS Chrysanthemum (patrol sloop) (Mediterranean)
(08.1936)			no appointment listed
(01.1937)	-	(02.1937)	no appointment listed
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
01.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
17.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
15.02.1942	-	(08.)1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt)
12.1942	-	(06.)1944	Executive Officer, HMS Bull (RN base, Massawa, Eritrea)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
01.1945	-	(04.1946)	Assistant Director General, Ship Repairs [HMS Braganza (for duty at Calcutta)]

McBeath,
John Edwin Home
J.E.H. McBeath

Elder son of late Mr and Mrs J.H. McBeath, Natal, South Africa.
Married (06.06.1952, St George Hanover Square) Hon. Janet Mary Blades, youngest daughter of 1st Baron Ebbisham, GBE; one son, one daughter.

27.09.1907
Transvaal, South Africa
-
28.03.1982
Farnham, Surrey

Able Seaman	(1923)
A/Mate	01.12.1928
Mate	04.12.1929, seniority 01.12.1928
S.Lt.	?, seniority 01.12.1928
Lt.	01.12.1931 07.03.1932, seniority 01.10.1931
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1939
Cdr.	31.12.1941
Capt.	31.12.1945
Cdre. 2nd cl.	27.01.1953
R.Adm.	07.07.1955 (retd 07.07.1958)

CB	01.01.1957	New Year 57 [decoration presented]
DSO	27.08.1940	Dutch, Belgian & French coasts 05.40 [investiture 09.08.41]
DSC	06.01.1942	Operation Archery (raid on Vaagso Islands, 27.12.41) [decoration posted]
MID	16.08.1940	Dunkirk 06.40
OMM	12.03.1940	*

* In recognition of valuable services rendered by him in connection with the rescue of survivors from the French steamer "Yolande" when wrecked on the coast of Shantung (China) on the 6th March, 1938.

Education: Massachusetts, USA; Hilton College, Natal, South Africa

1923			entered Royal Navy
(1923)			HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
03.01.1929	-	(08.)1929	Mates' course for rank of Lieutenant [RN College, Greenwich]
04.12.1929	-	(01.)1932	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
06.09.1932	-	(11.1934)	HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
(02.1935)			no appointment listed
13.04.1935	-	(02.)1936	First Lieutenant, HMS Sturdy (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
24.06.1936	-	(06.)1938	Gunnery Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China)
18.07.1938	-	(09.1939)	First Lieutenant, HMS Garland (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
1939	-	1945	commanded destroyers in North Sea, Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean:
08.01.1940	-	23.12.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Dunkirk evacuation; DSO, despatches)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
01.05.1941	-	23.02.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Oribi (destroyer) (DSC)
17.03.1943	-	(01.)1945	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
02.10.1945	-	11.1947	Captain of the Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM's Dockyard, Singapore [HMS Terror]
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
10.1948	-	1950	Commanding Officer, HMS Chequers (destroyer) & Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean Fleet)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
05.06.1950	-	1952	Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Duke of York, from 12.07.1950 HMS King George V]
27.01.1953	-	02.12.1954	Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
02.12.1954	-	?	senior officers' technical course
(04.1955)			no appointment listed
05.1955	-	02.1958	Chief of Naval Staff and First Member Naval Board, RNZN (CB) [lent to RNZN]
07.01.1955	-	07.07.1955	also: Naval ADC to the Queen

Honorary Commodore, Sea Cadet Corps, 01.11.1958-75. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) Surrey, 07.10.1968, Sheriff, 1970-1972, High Sheriff, 1973-1974.

McBride,
[Sir] William
W. McBride (Photo courtesy of Mr John Lucey)

Elder son of Mr & Mrs John S. McBride, of Fermoy, co. Cork.
Brother of Sqd.Ldr. J.T. McBride, RAFVR.
Married (1928) Juanita Marie Franco, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs J.J. Franco, of Belize (British Honduras) and Kensington, London; one son.

20.02.1895
Cork, Ireland
-
09.09.1959
Hurlingham, Greater London

Paym.Lt.	15.01.1918
Paym.Lt.Cdr.	15.01.1926
Paym.Cdr.	31.12.1933
T/Paym.Capt.	01.01.1938?
Paym.Capt. = Capt. (S)	31.12.1943
A/R.Adm. (S)	< 05.1950
V.Adm. (S)	04.08.1950 (retd 07.08.1954)

KCB	01.01.1953	New Year 53 [investiture 10.03.53]
CB	01.01.1951	New Year 53 [investiture 14.02.51]
CBE	12.06.1947	HM's birthday 47 [investiture 28.10.47]
OBE	01.01.1942	New Year 42 [investiture 10.02.42]

Education: Cork Grammar School.

1912			joined RN
1914	-	1918	HMS Weymouth, HMS Monarch and HMS Barham
1918	-	1920	staff of Flag Officer Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron
1920	-	1922	staff of Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet
10.09.1922	-	1924	Captain's Secretary, HMS Hawkins (light cruiser) & as Secretary to Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, China Station
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
23.06.1925	-	01.05.1927	Captain's Secretary, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Harwich)
02.05.1927	-	(04.)1928	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
21.04.1928	-	(04.)1930	HMS Bee (gunboat) (China Station)
(08.1930)	-	(10.1930)	no appointment listed
03.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
08.03.1932	-	(09.)1932	Divisional Officer for Accountant Branch ratings, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
15.12.1932	-	(11.)1934	Secretary to Flag Officer Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser), later HMS Leander (cruiser)] (Home Fleet)
18.01.1935	-	(07.)1937	Secretary to Fourth Sea Lord [HMS President]
01.01.1938	-	(10.)1940	Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
17.02.1941	-	(08.)1942	Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
20.11.1942	-	(10.)1944	Secretary to Head of British Admiralty Delegation, USA [HMS Saker]
03.12.1944	-	(04.)1946	Deputy Director-General, Supply and Secretariat Branch [HMS President]
09.12.1946	-	1949	Command Supply Officer (Air) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
19.04.1949	-	1951	Command Supply Officer (Nore) [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
04.08.1951	-	(07.)1954	Director-General Supply and Secretariat Branch, Admiralty [HMS President]

McCall,
[Sir] Henry William Urquhart
H.W.U. McCall

Son of Henry John McCall, Largs, Ayrshire, and Isobel Alston McCall (née Dykes).
Married (1926) Helen Mary Leycester; two daughters.

11.06.1895
Largs, Ayrshire
-
23.03.1980
Wonston, nr Winchester, Hampshire

Midsh.	1913
Lt.	15.04.1917
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1925
Cdr.	30.06.1931
Capt.	30.06.1937
Cdre. 1st cl.	15.02.1943?
R.Adm.	05.07.1946
V.Adm.	01.05.1950
Adm.	15.09.1953 (retd 09.1953)

KCVO	16.07.1953	Coronation naval review [investiture 21.07.53]
KBE	07.06.1951	HM's birthday 51 [investiture 31.07.51]
CB	01.01.1949	New Year 49 [investiture 14.02.51]
DSO	08.09.1942	Malta convoy 22.03.42 [investiture 12.03.46]
MID	05.05.1942	battle of Crete 29.04.41
LM	16.07.1946	?

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (1908-1913)

15.05.1908			joined RN as a cadet
1913	-	1915	Midshipman, HMS Hyacinth, flagship at the Cape, South Africa
1915	-	1916	Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Daffodil
1916			Lieutenant & Executive Officer, HMS Nepean (destroyer), Grand Fleet
1918			First Lieutenant, HMS Westcott, Grand Fleet
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
(01.1925)			no appointment lsited
06.03.1926	-	(07.1927)	staff, RN College, Dartmouth
(04.1928)	-	(06.1928)	no appointment listed
03.08.1928	-	(08.)1929	Executive Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
05.11.1929	-	(08.)1930	Executive Officer, HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
30.10.1931	-	(09.)1932	HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship, Rosyth) (for Maintenance Reserve destroyers)
18.10.1932	-	(08.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Achates (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(11.1934)			no appointment listed
(02.1935)			no appointment listed
11.07.1935	-	(07.1937)	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
10.01.1938	-	(02.)1938	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(06.1938)	-	(10.1938)	no appointment listed
12.11.1938	-	04.05.1940	Naval Attaché, Buenos Aires (Argentine) [HMS President]
22.09.1940	-	01.10.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Dido (cruiser)
(02.1943)			HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) *
15.02.1943	-	(12.1943)	Chief of Staff to Head of British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker]
02.03.1944	-	13.02.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Howe (battleship)
(04.1946)			HMS President *
11.08.1946	-	04.09.1948	Senior British Naval Officer & Flag Officer Liaison, Middle East [HMS Stag]
15.02.1949	-	(05.)1950	Flag Officer Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Forth]
04.01.1951	-	31.07.1953	Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Jamaica]

* indexed, but not listed as such

McCartan,
Patrick Hugh
P.H. McCartan

21.09.1889
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973

Seaman	? [271879]
...	...
Eng.Cdr.	31.12.1929 (retd 21.09.1939)
Eng.Capt. (retd)	21.09.1939

...	-	...	...
12.1927	-	(04.)1930	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines)
23.09.1930	-	(01.)1932	staff, 5th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Montrose (destroyer; flotilla leader)] (Atlantic Fleet)
03.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for charge of stores and for fleet duties at Hong Kong)
...	-	...	...
(04.1940)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
09.12.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
01.05.1942	-	(06.1944)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for various services)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	Signal Division [?], Admiralty [HMS President]

* indexed, but not listed as such

McCarthy,
[Sir] Edward Desmond Bewley
E.D.B. McCarthy

15.11.1893
St Giles, London, Middlesex
-
08.06.1966
[Sturminster Marshall, nr Wimborne, Dorset ?]

Capt.	30.06.1935
R.Adm.	07.07.1944
V.Adm.	02.09.1948 (retd 1950)
Adm. (retd)	15.03.1952

KCB	02.01.1950	New Year 50
CB	18.12.1945	wind up Europe 45
DSO	27.06.1941	action Italian destroyers 12.10.40
DSO	11.11.1941	Greek withdrawal 04.41
MID	03.02.1942	Battle of Cape Matapan
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 44

Education: RN Colleges Dartmouth & Osborne

15.09.1906			entered RN
09.05.1938	-	(08.1939)	Deputy Director, Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty
22.04.1940	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser) [Flag Captain & as Chief Staff Officer]
08.01.1942	-	(02.1943)	Captain of the Fleet, Home Fleet [HMS King George V (battleship)]
04.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) [and Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to V.Adm. Sir Henry Moore, Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron, Home Fleet] *
22.08.1944	-	1946	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Home), Admiralty
1946	-	1947	RearAdmiral Destroyers, Mediterranean
1948	-	1950	Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic

* The 08.1943 Navy List indicates HMS Duke of York, while shortly afterwards again HMS Anson from 06.1943 and then from 29.07.1943. This might mean a short period on the HMS Duke of York in mid-1943.

McCarthy,
William Henry Debonnaire

George Cross database

02.04.1911
Kensington, Greater London
-

Boatsw.	?
A/Cd. Boatsw.	18.06.1945
Cd. Boatsw. = Sen.Cd. Boatsw.	01.10.1946
Lt.	01.10.1951
Lt.Cdr. (Special Duties List)	01.01.1957 (retd 02.04.1961)

AM

GC

27.07.1943

saving life Benghazi harbour 03.01.43 *

* Mr. McCarthy dived into a tempestuous sea from the Mole at Benghazi to save some Indian seamen who had been thrown into the sea from a raft. When a line was thrown he swam with it to the Indians, caught hold of one of them and successfully brought him ashore. He then returned to the rescue of another. There was grave danger that Mr. McCarthy would be dashed against the rocks by the gale and the high sea.

(01.1943)			HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
(07.1948)			Pembroke Dock (naval store and fuel depot) [HMS Drake] *
15.08.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Bulawayo (supply ship)
07.01.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
15.01.1954	-	(01.1956)	HMS Rooke (RN base, Gibraltar) (for miscellaneous duties)
(01.1957)			HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

McCausland,
Eric Marcus
E.M. McCausland

From Wheatley, Oxfordshire (1927); later North Somercote, Lincoln (1933).

(03?).1896
Wareham, Dorset
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973

Lt.	15.09.1918 (retd 30.05.1919)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.09.1926
A/Cdr. (retd)	09.1943 (reverted to retd 1945/46)
Cdr. (retd)	08.05.1946

22.08.1940	-	(08.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Conqueror (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel (coastal))
09.1943	-	(12.1943)	Executive Officer, HMS Premier (escort carrier)
11.12.1943	-	(04.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Thane (escort carrier)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Executive Officer, HMS Wayland (depot ship)

McClintock,
Hubert Victor Perry
H.V.P. McClintock

?
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1991

...	...
Lt.	15.05.1925
Lt.Cdr.	15.05.1933
Cdr.	31.12.1936
A/Capt.	23.10.1939?
Capt.	31.12.1943 (retd 02.09.1953)

	DSO	02.10.1942	Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 19.08.42)
	MID	30.05.1944	North Russian convoy 02.44

...	-	...	...
08.01.1935	-	(02.)1937	HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht)
05.02.1937	-	(08.)1939	Executive Officer, HMNZS Leander (cruiser)
23.10.1939	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMNZS Monowai (survey ship)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
01.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
(08.1942)			Combined Operations (Dieppe raid)
01.02.1943	-	06.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Chaser (escort carrier)
12.1944	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Nabstock (mobile naval air base (MONAB) VI)
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
06.08.1948	-	(05.1950)	Captain Superintendent of HM Dockyard Sheerness & Captain-in-Charge, Sheerness [HMS Pembroke]
20.12.1950	-	(05.)1953	Commanding Officer, HMS Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Berkshire)

McClure,
John Aylmer
J.A. McClure (Photo courtesy of Mr David Allen)

26.05.1914
-
09.2001
South Hams, Hampshire

Cadet	01.09.1931
Midsh.	01.05.1932
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1934
S.Lt.	16.03.1935
Lt.	16.03.1937
Lt.Cdr.	16.03.1945 (retd 12.08.1957)

LoA	?	bombing railway building Indo-China 01.02.40
Camb	?	bombing Yunnan railway 01.02.40
DSC	23.06.1942	convoy escort, action with enemy
MBE	01.01.1958	New Year 58

05.09.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet)
22.02.1933	-	(01.1934)	HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China)
01.04.1935	-	(07.)1935	promotion course, Portsmouth
14.09.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
10.1936	-	(07.1937)	HMS Greyhound (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
10.02.1938	-	(09.1939)	HMS Falcon (river gunboat) (China)
02.04.1940	-	(08.)1942	First Lieutenant, HMS Eclipse (destroyer)
22.09.1942	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Wensleydale (destroyer)
28.07.1943	-	(06.)1944	Operations Division, Admiralty (for duty outside Admiralty) [HMS President]
11.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Active (destroyer)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
17.07.1946	-	(07.)1948	Staff Officer (Operations) to Captain-in-Charge, Ceylon [HMS Highflyer]
07.12.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
03.02.1953 (04.1955)	-	(01.1956)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services) Office of the Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord
(1957)			DOA

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