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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

Mention in Despatches

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.

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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?)
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (civil division) CBE
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43

Distinguished Service Cross

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

Distinguished Service Cross

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) P.B. Marriott (Photo courtesy of Mr Patrick Marriott)
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).

His son remembers: "As the only allied officer to 'command a U Boat' he was in 1945 much in demand and served out of ROTHESAY in Scotland dealing with OP DEADLIGHT, the surrender of the German U Boats. He commanded U776 on a mission to London to show the people of London a U Boat. She spent a few weeks tied up near the Houses of Parliament and was visited by VIPs and the public in vast numbers - an event designed to boost morale. It was very well covered by the media."
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)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
05.01.1943
successful attack U-boat 21.10.42 [investiture 02.02.43]

Distinguished Service Cross

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

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 *)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
22.12.1942
war patrols Mediterranean 08.42

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
27.07.1943
10 submarine patrols Mediterranean since 08.42
Distinguished Service Cross 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
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
Distinguished Service Order DSO
08.07.1941
sinking Italian submarine 06.03.41 [presented to next-of-kin]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40 [presented to next-of-kin]
Albert Medal AM
04.11.1941
loss at attempted rescue survivors HMS Fiji [posthumously; presented to next-of-kin] *
Mention in Despatches MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk 06.40
Mention in Despatches 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)
Distinguished Service Cross 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)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
11.06.1966
HM's birthday 66
Companion of the Order of the British Empire (civil division) CBE
01.01.1957
New Year 57, Operation Mosaic
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 
08.06.1963
HM's birthday 63
Mention in Despatches 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
-