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J.A. McCoy  to  T.C. Meyrick
McCoy, James Abernethy Son of James Abernethy McCoy and Ethel Elizabeth Peet. Married (1936) Oretta, elder daughter of Count Antonio Ghezzi-Morgalanti, Rome; three sons.	17.06.1900 Ireland ? - 09.03.1955	... ... Lt. 15.10.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1935 Capt. 30.06.1941 (retd 07.07.1950) DSO 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik [investiture 29.07.41] MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 MID 26.09.1940 Norway 04-06.40 MID 12.08.1941 Lofoten raid MID 14.09.1943 destruction U-boat Western Approaches 05.43 & one probably destroyed StOlav 13.01.1948 services to Norway	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth; Christ's College, Cambridge University 1913 entered RN 1916 - 1918 HMS Lion ... - ... ... 21.08.1936 - (08.)1938 Maintenance Commander, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (and for Physical and Recreational Training duties) 16.08.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS President (for 4 months' study of Italian in Italy) 01.03.1939 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Bedouin (destroyer) & Senior Officer, Destroyers (2nd Battle of Narvik) 31.07.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties) [= Captain (D) Western Approaches ?] 20.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (for flotilla duties) 12.03.1943 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Offa (destroyer) 03.06.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Onslow (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 17th Destroyer Flotilla 25.09.1944 - (10.1944) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta) 03.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Fareham (minesweeper) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 10.1948 - (05.1949) Captain-in-Charge, Bermuda & Captain Superintenden HM Dockyards, Bermuda [HMS Malabar] (05.1950)     no appointment listed British Vice-Consul, Kristiansand, South  Norway, 1951-1955.
McCoy, John Wentworth	? - died between 08.1973 and 08.1989	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 18.12.1924, seniority 30.01.1924 Lt. 30.12.1925 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1933 (retd 27.02.1948) A/Cdr. 04.08.1943? Cdr. (retd) 27.02.1948 DSC 24.04.1940 HMS Triumph mined 26.12.39, Skagerrak	05.01.1925 - (01.1925) submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 01.04.1927 - (08.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS L 71 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) 04.12.1928 - (04.1930) HMS M2 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 25.07.1930 - (02.1931) HMS M2 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 17.08.1931 - (01.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS R 4 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 15.08.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS H 34 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 30.12.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 31.12.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 27.11.1935 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Phoenix (submarine) (China) 09.02.1938 - (12.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph (submarine) 19.03.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) 22.07.1941 - (08.1942) Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.09.1942 - (06.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Oberon (submarine) 04.08.1943 - 01.01.1945 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) 06.02.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
McDonald, Alexander Smith	1923 ? - 19.03.2007 [aged 84] [Solihull?]	.... .... Lt. 01.04.1944 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1952 (retd) Hon. Cdr. ? OBE ? ?	... - ... ... 14.09.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Thrasher (submarine) 21.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Satyr (submarine) ... - ... ...
McGeoch, [Sir] Ian Lachlan Mackay 3rd son of L.A. McGeoch. Married (1937) Eleanor Somers, daughter of Rev. Canon Hugh Farrie; two sons, two daughters. Lived at Ixworth, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.	26.03.1914 Helensburgh, Scotland - 12.08.2007 Norwich	Midsh. 01.01.1933 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1935 S.Lt. 01.12.1935 Lt. 01.05.1937 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1944 Cdr. 30.06.1947 Capt. 30.06.1955 R.Adm. 07.07.1964 V.Adm. 14.12.1967 (retd 10.06.1970) KCB 14.06.1969 HM's birthday 69 CB 01.01.1966 New Year 66 DSO 06.04.1943 sunk 2 enemy destroyers & 3 supply ships DSC 10.10.1944 6th war patrol (sunk) MID 29.08.1944 escaping from enemy	Education: Pangbourne College 1932 joined RN 12.01.1933 - (01.)1934 Midshipman, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 1934 - 1934 Midshipman, HMS Boadicea (destroyer) 08.03.1934 - (02.)1935 Midshipman, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1935 - (07.1935) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.01.1936 - (02.)1936 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.08.1936 - 12.1936 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 12.1936 - 18.05.1937 no appointment listed (injured) 19.05.1937 - 08.1937 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 07.08.1937 - 01.1940 Navigating Officer & 3rd Hand, HMS Clyde (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean, South Atlantic & UK) 06.03.1940 - (04).1940 First Lieutenant, HMS H 43 (submarine) 1940 - 1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Triumph (submarine) 1940 - 16.12.1940 submarine Commanding Officer's  qualifying course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 17.12.1940 - 04.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS H 43 (submarine) 04.1941 - 08.06.1941 spare Commanding Officer, 10th Submarine Flotilla (Malta) [HMS St Angelo?] [taking passage in HMS Urge (Lt. E P Tompkinson) when she sank the Italian blockade-runner Franco Martelli in the Bay of Biscay; in May he commanded HMS Ursula for a patrol] 09.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for special and miscellaneous duties at Malta) [in hospital for some time] 1942? - 1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Ursula (submarine) (UK) 1942 - 1942 in hospital for some time (UK) 19.05.1942 - 21.04.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS P 228 [renamed 01.1943: HMS Splendid] (submarine) (based at HMS Maidstone, (submarine depot ship), Gibraltar & Algiers; damaged off Corsica & scuttled) 21.04.1943 - (10.1944) no appointment listed while being a POW (escaped, but was recaptured; after Italian surrender made his way home via Switzerland, occupied France, Spain and Gibraltar) ? - 07.01.1945 Naval Staff course 08.01.1945 - (09.)1945 Staff Officer (Operations), 4th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Swiftsure] (Pacific Fleet) 1946 - 1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Fernie (frigate) 10.1948 - (05.)1950 Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror] 1950 - 1951 Captain (S/M), 4th Submarine Squadron  (Sydney, NSW) (05.1953) no appointment listed 22.07.1953 - (04.)1955 Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 19.09.1955 - (01.)1957 Naval Liaison Officer, Coastal and Bomber Commands RAF [HMS President] 1957 - 1957 Captain (S/M), 3rd Submarine Squadron 29.09.1958 - (01.1959) Deputy Director of Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1959 Director of Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1961 Imperial Defence College (07.1961) HMS Saker * 25.04.1962 - (02.)1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Lion (cruiser) 07.01.1964 - 07.07.1964 also: Naval ADC to the Queen 1964 - 1965 Admiral President, RN College, Greenwich 27.05.1965 - 28.12.1967 Flag Officer Submarines (NATO Commander Submarines East Atlantic) 18.06.1968 - 1970 Flag Offcer Scotland and Northern Ireland & NATO Commander Northern Atlantic Area, COMNORECHAN & COMNORLANT) Director, Midar Systems Ltd, since 1986. Trustee, Imperial War Museum, 1977-1987. Member, The Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers, 1969-. MPhil Edinburgh, 1975. FNI 1986. Editor, The Naval Review, 1972-1980. Published: (jointly) The Third World War : a future history (1978); The Third World War : the untold story (1982); An affair of chances : a submariner's odyssee, 1939-1944 (1991; memoirs); The princely sailor : Mountbatten of Burma (1996) * indexed, but not listed as such
McGrath, Donal Scott no typing error: Donal Son of George McGrath and Nelly Scott. Married Marie Josephine Hermine Kelly (1887-1966).	± 1894 ? Jamaica - 29.11.1978 Bishop's Waltham, Southampton, Hampshire	Midsh. ? S.Lt. 15.12.1911 Lt. 15.12.1913 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1921 Cdr. 30.06.1927 (retd 27.08.1941) A/Capt. < 02.1941 Capt. (retd) 27.08.1941 (reverted to retd 1945/46) MID 17.04.1918 ? MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune	09.1923 - 13.12.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) ... - ... ... 04.06.1929 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 27.11.1930 - 25.11.1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Hastings (sloop) (Persian Gulf) 25.11.1931 - (01.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (sloop) (Persian Gulf) (09.1932) no appointment listed (01.1934) no appointment listed 12.11.1934 - (02.1936) HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (02.1937) no appointment listed 25.02.1937 - (10.1938) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (08.1939) no appointment listed 08.1939 - 04.01.1941 Naval Attaché, Rio de Janeiro [HMS President] 29.06.1942 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Glengyle (landing ship infantry) (02.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed 16.08.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Tracker (escort carrier) (04.1944) no appointment listed 03.05.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Albatross (repair ship) 27.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Adventure (minelayer)
McGrigor, Sir Rhoderick Robert Son of late Major­General C.R.R. McGrigor, CB, CMG, 60th Rifles. Married (1931) Gwendoline, daughter of late Col. Geoffrey Glyn, CMG, DSO, and widow of Major Charles Greville, DSO, Grenadier Guards; twin sons (adopted).	12.04.1893 York - 03.12.1959 [Tarland, Aberdeenshire ?]	... ... Capt. 31.12.1933 Cdre. 2nd cl. 26.08.1938 R.Adm. 08.07.1941 V.Adm. 15.04.1945 Adm. 02.09.1948 Adm. of the Fleet 01.05.1953 GCB 01.01.1951 New Year 51 KCB 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 CB 01.01.1944 New Year 44 DSO 21.12.1943 Operation Husky MID 30.01.1945 Operation Counterblast (enemy convoy S Norway 12-13.11.44) StOlav - taking the King to Norway 07.06.45	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 1914 - 1918 served European War, Mediterranean destroyers (Dardanelles campaign) and Grand Fleet (Jutland) ... - ... ... 22.09.1936 - (06.)1938 Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer; flotilla leader)] (Home Fleet) 26.08.1938 - (04.1940) Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief China Station [HMS Kent, later HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] 01.1941 - (02.)1941 Flag Captain, HMS Renown (Malta convoys and operations in Mediterranean and Atlantic, 1941) 09.09.1941 - (02.)1943 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Weapons) (06.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed: 1943 - 1943 Naval Force Commander (Force B) at capture of Pantellaria and Invasion of Sicily; Flag Officer Sicily during Sicilian and Calabrian Campaigns (wounded) 15.11.1943 - (12.1943) Flag Officer, Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Nile] 1944 - 1944 Commanding Home Fleet aircraft carriers 27.03.1944 - (07.1945) Rear-Admiral/Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron and Second-in-Command Home Fleet [HMS Kent, from 08.04.1945 HMS Norfolk] (operations off Norwegian coast and convoys to North Russia) 01.10.1945 - 1947 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice­Chief of Naval Staff 1948 - 1950 Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet 1950 - 1951 Commander­in­Chief, Plymouth 20.12.1951 - 1955 First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff 1952 - 1953 First and Principal Naval ADC to HM the Queen Hon. LLD St Andrews, 1953, Hon. LLD Aberdeen, 1955; Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, 1954-1957.
McHarg, Neville Townley	(06?).1913 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 05.11.2001 Isle of Wight	... ... Lt. 16.05.1936 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1944 Cdr. 31.12.1950 (retd 24.04.1963) DSO 04.05.1943 special operations Mediterranean [investiture 09.11.43] OBE 09.06.1955 HM's birthday 55 [award presented] MID 13.10.1942 service Mediterranean from 04.41 MID 04.05.1943 Party Inhuman (Operation Torch) MID 15.05.1945 Operation Halfback	... - ... ... 12.10.1938 - 31.12.1940 Navigating Officer, HMS Egret (sloop) (02.1941) - (08.1942)  HMS Garth (destroyer) * (1942?)     HMS Abdiel (minelayer) ? 21.12.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary, Sotland) (for miscellaneous services) (1943) Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 4 (Sicily) 01.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 10.1943 - 16.12.1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Diadem (cruiser) 17.12.1943 - (07.1945) Squadron Navigating Officer, 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Diadem (cruiser)] ... - ... ... (1955) Royal Pakistan Navy * indexed, but not listed as such
McKee, Harold Alfred	(06?).1908 Devonport, Devon - 1991 Devon	Gnr. (T) 18.12.1939 A/Cd.Gnr. (T) 18.06.1945 Wt.El.Offr. (L) ?, seniority 18.12.1939 A/Cd.El.Offr. (L) < 07.1948 Sen.Cd.El.Offr. 01.10.1948 El.Lt. (Special Duties List) 01.01.1957 (retd 21.03.1958)	11.01.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Isis (destroyer) (02.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed 01.09.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Marlborough (training establishment, Eastbourne) 03.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Sluys (destroyer) 31.05.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Unicorn 14.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Gravelines 16.07.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Defiance 19.01.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire) ? - (01.1957)  HMS Orion * * indexed, but not listed as such
McLaughlin, Patrick Vivian Son of Vivian Guy Ousley McLaughlin, JP, and Edith Martineau. Married 1st (1935) Anne Marguerite Broadley (marriage dissolved 1940; died 1949). Married 2nd (1956) Eglantine Marie Elizabeth Christie, daughter of William Lorenzo Christie.	07.04.1901 Maidenhead, Berks. - 08.06.1969 [Sandwich, Kent ?]	Midsh. 1917 S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.06.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1930 Cdr. 30.06.1935 Capt. 31.12.1939 R.Adm. 08.07.1949 (retd 24.02.1953) CB 01.01.1951 New Year 51 DSO 11.06.1946 wind up Far East MID 23.01.1941 Norwegian waters 05.40 LoP ? Operation Neptune Coronation Medal 1937	Education: Brightlands Preparatory School, Gloucestershire; Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth World War I 1917-1918 03.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Dublin (light cruiser) 25.09.1924 - (05.1926) qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 30.06.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 11.04.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Centaur (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 23.04.1930 - (10.1930) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.01.1931 - (09.1932) Gunnery Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies) (01.1934) no appointment listed 05.03.1934 - (07.1935) Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 21.01.1936 - (02.)1936 course at Staff College, Camberley [HMS President] 19.12.1936 - (10.1938) Fleet Gunnery Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship), later HMS Warspite (battleship)] (02.1939) no appointment listed