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Mabatt, F.G.
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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.M. Money  to  J.D.A. Musters
Money,
John Marston
J.M. Money
Married; ... children (one daughter?).

(09?).1900
Croydon district, Greater London
-
c. 1979 ?
Lt.
15.04.1923
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1931
Cdr.
31.12.1938 (retd 30.08.1950)
A/Capt.
11.1943
...
-
...
...
29.04.1929
-
(08.)1929
Submarine Commanding Offcier's Course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto]
26.08.1929
-
(04.)1930
Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
29.12.1930
-
(09.1932)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
27.01.1933
-
(06.)1933
Executive Officer, HMS Fermoy (twin screw minesweeper) (Portland)
14.11.1933
-
(08.)1934
Commanding Officer, HMS L 71 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth)
05.09.1934
-
04.01.1935
in charge, HMS Salmon (submarine) while under construction & for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-built Ships & for duty with submarines
05.01.1935
-
(02.)1936
Commanding Officer, HMS Salmon (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean)
27.11.1936
-
(10.1938)
Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
15.01.1939
-
31.07.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Regulus (submarine)
08.1940
-
(08.)1942
HMS Malaya (battleship)
21.12.1942
-
05.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (destroyer)
06.1943
-
09.10.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (destroyer)
11.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Philoctetes (destroyer depot ship) & Captain (D) Freetown Escort Force
(04.1944)
-
(10.1944)
no appointment listed
16.01.1945
-
(04.1946)
Deputy Director Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.02.1948
-
(05.)1950
Commanding Officer, HMS President & Commanding Officer, WRNS Training Establishment Burghfield and Naval Establishments in the London Area
Money,
Norman Angell Kyrle
N.A.K. Money
Mother: Alice G. Money.
Married ((03?).1910, Plymouth district, Hampshire) Gladys Granshore.

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05.03.1884
Slough, Eton district, Buckinghamshire
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(12?).1967
Totnes district
Lt.
30.09.1905
Lt.Cdr.
30.09.1913 (retd)
Cdr. (retd)
04.04.1925
A/Capt. (retd)
> 12.1943, < 04.1944 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
pre-WW II
?
Grand Cross of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) OON
28.09.1943
excellent service commanding Dutch minesweeping groups
05.09.1898
 
 
joined RN
...
-
...
...
19.08.1940
-
05.1943
HMS Skirmisher (base, Milford Haven)
12.05.1943
-
(10.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Celebrity (trawler base, Milford Haven)
23.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)
Montague,
Hugh Monthermer
H.M. Montague

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15.09.1888
India
-
...
...
Cdr. (retd)
?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1942
New Year 42
Mention in Despatches MID
30.07.1942
withdrawal from Hong Kong
15.05.1903


joined NR
...
-
...
...



BDO Hong Kong
(1942)


HMS Robin
Montgomery,
Clive Alexander Craig
C.A.C. Montgomery
Son of Robert and Bertha Montgomery.
Husband of Joan Stephanie M. Montgomery, of Poundsgate, Devon.
03.05.1908
Exeter, Devon
-
20.11.1941
Indian Ocean
[age 33]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]
Cadet
15.09.1925
Midsh.
15.05.1926
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1928
S.Lt.
01.03.1929
Lt.
01.04.1930
Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1938
Mention in Despatches MID
27.12.1940
destruction Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni 19.07.40
15.09.1925
-
(05.)1926
HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
06.10.1926
-
(07.)1927
HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)
15.08.1927
-
(06.1928)
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.1929
-
(08.)1929
promotion course, Portsmouth
01.11.1929
-
(04.)1930
HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)
06.08.1930
-
(09.1932)
HMS Danae (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
13.03.1933
-
(06.)1933
long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
02.10.1933
-
(01.)1934
Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
28.05.1934
-
(02.)1937
Navigating Officer, HMS Leith (patrol sloop) (New Zealand)
01.05.1937
-
(07.)1937
Navigating Officer, HMS Harrier (minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla)
30.11.1937
-
(04.)1939
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
21.05.1939
-
27.06.1939
London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to Australia per 'Orontes')
28.06.1939
-
20.11.1941
Navigating Officer, HMAS Sydney (light cruiser) [on loan to RAN]
Moody,
[Sir] Clement
C. Moody  

Son of Rev. W.H. Moody, Vicar of Frensham.
Married (1924) Rosalind Ley, daughter of R.E. Mitcheson, of Board of Education; one son, one daughter.

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31.05.1891
Frensham, Surrey
-
06.07.1960
[Fleet, Hampshire ?]
Midsh.
?
S.Lt.
15.09.1911
Lt.
15.12.1912
Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1920
Cdr.
31.12.1925
Capt.
30.06.1933
R.Adm.
08.07.1941
V.Adm.
13.12.1944
Adm.
02.09.1948 (retd 28.09.1948; at own request to facilitate the promotion of junior officers)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1946
New Year 46 [investiture 10.05.1946]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1944
New Year 44 [investiture overtaken]
Mention in Despatches MID
18.01.1944
dissolution Force H 11.43
Mention in Despatches MID
15.08.1944
air strikes at Sabang & Surabaya 05.44
Mention in Despatches MID
31.10.1944
Operation Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang 25.07.44)
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (15.01.1904-...); Imperial Defence College (1936)



served European War 1914-1919
15.12.1918
-
(01.1919)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Chester (light cruiser)
01.05.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
25.10.1924
-
(01.1925)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
01.03.1926
-
(07.)1927
Commander, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.04.1928
-
(06.1928)
Executive Officer, HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Chatham)
26.02.1929
-
(02.)1931
Executive Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
11.07.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS President (for duty with Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty)
05.07.1932
-
(06.1933)
Executive Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
17.03.1934
-
(07.)1934
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
31.12.1934
-
(07.1935)
Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser; gunnery & torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth)
14.01.1936
-
(02.1936)
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College
01.01.1937
-
15.06.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport, then China)
(08.1939)
-
(09.1939)
no appointment listed
21.11.1939
-
02.09.1941
Director of Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.09.1941
-
(02.)1943
Rear-Admiral, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
21.05.1943
-
11.1943
Rear-Admiral, Home Fleet Aircraft Carriers [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier), from 10.1943? HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
01.12.1943
-
(06.)1944
Rear-Admiral, Eastern Fleet Aircraft Carriers [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
13.12.1944
-
12.1945
Flag Officer (Air) East Indies Station [HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)]
15.12.1945
-
08.03.1946
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet [HM Lanka? / HMS Highflyer?]
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
19.07.1946
-
05.06.1948
Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic [HMS Nigeria (cruiser)] [assumed command 27.07.1946]
(07.1948)


no appointment listed
Moore,
Sir Henry Ruthven
H.R. Moore
H.R. Moore
H.R. Moore
H.R. Moore
Eldest son of late Col Henry Moore, JP, late King's Own Royal Regiment.
Married 1st (1908) Katherine Henley Joan (died 1945), daughter of late H.J. Gillespie, barrister-at-law, The Gables, Windsor; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1948) Catherine Harlow Wilkinson, widow of Vice-Adm. T.S. Wilkinson, USN, and daughter of late Richard Austin Harlow, Hockley, Arlington, Virginia.

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29.08.1886
-
12.03.1978
[Wateringbury, Kent ?]
Lt.
1908
Lt.Cdr.
1916
Cdr.
31.12.1919
Capt.
31.12.1926
Cdre. 1st cl.
1936?
R.Adm.
11.01.1938
V.Adm.
09.01.1941
Adm.
15.04.1945 (retd 15.01.1951)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
01.01.1946
New Year 46
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
08.06.1939
HM's birthday 39
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

CVO

20.05.1937
?
Distinguished Service Order

DSO

1916
?
Mention in Despatches MID
30.05.1944
attack on Tirpitz 03.04.44
Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
28.05.1946
?
Education: Sherborne; Imperial Defence College (1927)
15.01.1902


entered HMS Britannia as Naval Cadet
1914
-
1918
served in Grand Fleet (despatches, DSO)
1919
-
1921
staff, Royal Naval Staff College
01.11.1921
-
1924
Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence [HMS President] (Assistant Secretary to British Delegation to Conference for Limitation of Armament, Washington, 1921-1922, and at Geneva, 1927)
18.11.1924
-
(01.1925)
Executive Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
06.06.1927
-
(07.)1927
HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty)
10.08.1927
-
(05.)1928
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
(06.1928)
 
 
no appointment listed
11.09.1928
-
(08.1929)
Commanding Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
25.02.1930
-
(04.)1930
Commanding Officer, HMS Dauntless (cruiser)
08.12.1930
-
14.12.1932
Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
15.12.1932
-
(06.)1933
Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.11.1933
-
(07.)1935
Commanding Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [ship commissioned 24.02.1934]
06.01.1936
-
(02.)1938
Commodore 1st Class and Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)
1937
-
1938
also: Naval ADC to the King
16.05.1938
-
(02.)1939
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
31.03.1939
-
(04.)1940
Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Arethusa (cruiser), from 28.12.1939 HMS Capetown (cruiser)]
25.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Trade), Admiralty
21.10.1941
-
(02.)1943
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
23.06.1943
-
06.1944
Vice-Admiral Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, Home Fleet [HMS Anson]
14.06.1944
-
(07.)1945
Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Duke of York, later HMS Rodney]
12.1945
-
09.1948
Head of British Naval Mission, Washington, DC [HMS Saker]
1946
-
1948
Naval Representative of British Chiefs of Staff on
Military Staff Cttee of Security Council, UN
1948
-
1950
Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1948
-
1951
First and Principal Naval ADC to the King
DL Kent, 1957; High Sheriff of Kent, 1959-1960. OStJ.
Moore,
John Douglas David
J.D.D. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mr Brodnax Moore) J.D.D. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mr Brodnax Moore)
J.D.D. Moore (Photo courtesy of Mr Brodnax Moore)
J.D.D. Moore's medals (Photo courtesy of Mr Brodnax Moore)
Son of ... Moore, and ... Stevenson.
Married Jeanne; three sons.

BBC WW2 People's War
05.03.1917
Uckfield district, Sussex
-
20.01.2001
Winchester district, Hampshire
Cadet
01.05.1934
Midsh.
01.01.1935
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1937
S.Lt.
16.09.1937
Lt.
01.12.1938
Lt.Cdr.
01.12.1946 (retd 03.02.1958)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.06.1942

HM's birthday 42 [award posted]: for aiding in the rescue of HMS Edinburgh's stricken crew in the Arctic

Mention in Despatches MID
04.10.1940
minesweeping
Mention in Despatches MID
25.08.1942
Murmansk convoys 03-05.42
Medal for Valour (USSR) Val
11.04.1944
for services to the USSR) [award posted]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
1945
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
1945
& France and Germany clasp
Burma Star Bur St
1945
& Pacific clasp
Italy Satr It St
1945
-
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
1945
-
Arctic emblem (2006; for Russian convoys)
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
01.05.1934
-
31.12.1934
cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1935
-
(02.)1935
HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
05.1935
-
(02.)1937
HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
29.04.1937
-
29.08.1937
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
30.08.1937
-
(02.)1938
promotion course, Portsmouth
26.04.1938
-
(04.)1939
HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) (5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet)
06.1939
-
(09.1939)
First Lieutenant, HMS Acheron (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
28.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
long navigation course, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
1940
-
1940
Navigating Officer, HMS Halcyon (Halcyon class minesweeper)
17.12.1940
-
(12.1941)
Flotilla Navigating Officer, HMS Harrier (Halcyon class minesweeper)
(03.)1942
-
(05.)1942
Navigating Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer)
06.1942
-
(08.)1942
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
26.08.1942
-
(08.)1943
Navigating Officer, HMS Port Quebec (minelayer)
30.09.1943
-
(07.1945)
Navigating Officer, HMS Argonaut (cruiser)
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) *
10.1947
-
(05.)1949
Navigating Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
05.12.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
26.03.1953
-
(05.1953)
HMS Albion (light fleet carrier)
03.05.1954
-
(01.1957)
HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth)
Writer & editor of the HMSO Seamanship Manuals. Prolific & gifted amateur artist.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Moore,
John Evelyn
J.E. Moore
Son of William John Moore and Evelyn Elizabeth (née Hooper).
Married 1st (1945) Joan Pardoe; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd Barbara Kerry.

01.11.1921
St Illario, Italy
-

Rickney, Hailsham, Sussex
Cadet
01.09.1939
Midsh.
01.05.1940
S.Lt.
01.04.1941
Lt.
01.01.1943
Lt.Cdr.
01.01.1951
Cdr.
31.12.1957
Capt.
30.06.1967 (retd 26.02.1972; own request)
Education: Sherborne School, Dorset (1936-1939)
01.09.1939


special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth (specialised in hydrographic surveying, then submarines)
01.05.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Rodney (battleship)
05.01.1942
-
(01.1942)
promotion course, Portsmouth
01.05.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Challenger (survey ship)
11.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Rover (submarine)
13.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Trenchant



Commanding Officer, HMS Alaric (submarine)
02.05.1947
-
(07.1948)
Commanding Officer, HMS Tradewind (submarine)
(05.1949)
 
 
no appointment lsited
29.08.1949
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Totem (submarine)
1950
-
1951
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(05.1953)
 
 
HMS Dainty *
28.12.1954
-
(04.)1955
HMS Terror (for miscellaneous duties)
23.06.1955
-
(01.1956)
Commanding Officer, HMS Tacitian (submarine)
(01.1957)
 
 
HMS Terror *



Commanding Officer, HMS Telemachus (submarine)
1958
-
1960
attached to Turkish Naval Staff
20.06.1960
-
(02.)1963
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]



1st Submarine Squadron, then 7th Submarine Squadron in command
24.07.1967
-
(02.1969)
Chief of Staff, Naval Home Command [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]



Captain DI3 (Navy), Defence Intelligence Staff
Editor of "Jane's Fighting Ships", 1972-1987, and "Jane's Naval Review", 1982-1987. FRGS 1942. Hon. Professor: Aberdeen University, 1987-1990; St Andrews University, 1990-1992.
Published: "The Soviet Navy Today" (1975); "Submarine Development" (1976); "Warships of the Royal Navy" (1979); "Seapower and Politics from the Norman Conquest to the Present Day" (1979); "Warships of the Soviet Navy" (1981); (with Richard Compton-Hall) "Submarine Warfare: Today and Tomorrow" (1986); and "The Impact of Polaris" (1999)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Moore,
Richard Bateman
R.B. Moore
Son of ... Moore, and ... Clay.
From Oxford.
(06?).1924
Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
-
12.2004 still alive
Midsh.
01.09.1942
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1944
S.Lt.
01.04.1944
Lt.
01.11.1945
Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1953 (retd 27.07.1970)
21.10.1942
-
(10.1943)
HMS Revenge (battleship)
12.10.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
07.01.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Wild Goose (sloop)
30.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Anson (battleship)
02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Comet (destroyer)
06.03.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Vernon (miscellaneous duties)
(05.1953)


HMS Drake *
16.11.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS Chieftain
10.08.1960
-
(07.1961)
FTASO to Flag Officer Flotillas, Home Fleet [HMS Bermuda]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Morgan,
[Sir] Charles Eric
C.E. Morgan

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19.05.1889
Stafford