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Marigold, James Richard 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 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 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 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" Married (1948) Francis Jill Davis, a retired Leading WREN; 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 [award 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 - (10.1944) 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   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)
Marshall-A'Deane, Walter Roger 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 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 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 -