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Oak, R.G.A.
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R.G.A. Oak  to  C.B. Oxley
Oak,
Robert George Allen

R.G.A. Oak

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23.04.1911
Hambledon district, Surrey / Sussex
-
17.01.1966
Havant, Gosport district, Hampshire
Gnr.
01.01.1940
A/Cd.Gnr.
18.06.1945
Lt.Cdr. (SD)
29.11.1951 (retd)
...
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...
...
(10.1944)
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(07.1945)
HMS Ajax
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...
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Oakford,
Aubrey McGregor

A.M. Oakford

Son of James Oakford.

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11.03.1908
Westbury on Trym, Bristol district, Avon / Gloucestershire
-
06.06.1988

Chichester district, Sussex
A/Wt. Writer Offr.
22.03.1945
Supply Lt.Cdr.
01.01.1957 (retd)

BEM

...
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...
?
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(07.1945)
no appointment listed
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...
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Oakley,
John

J. Oakley

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21.07.1899
Cork, Ireland
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09.05.1954
Plymouth district, Devon
T/Wt. Shipwr.
01.05.1941
T/Shipwr.Lt. ?
...
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...
...
?
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(07.1945)
no appointment listed
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Oakley,
John Philip Holroyde

J.P.H. Oakley (Photo courtesy of Mr David Lott)

Only child of Dr Philip Douglas Oakley, CBE, MRCS, LRCP, DTM (1883-1958) *, and Beatrice Hilda Josephine Kirk (1887-1972), of Walton-on-Thames.
Married 1st ((12?).1939, Surrey North Western district) Elisabeth Langley Kemp (29.12.1916-12.1988), daughter of the late Thomas Langley Kemp, of Wallington, and Mrs Robert M. Thomson, of Walton-on-Thames; ... children (one son, one daughter?).
Married 2nd ...

* Medical Transport Officer and Medical Officer in Charge, Casualty Evacuation Trains, Emergency Medical Service, Ministry of Health, 1939-1946.
05.12.1917
Chelsea district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
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11.2003

Horsham district, Sussex
Cadet 01.09.1935
Midsh. 01.09.1936
A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938
S.Lt. 1939, seniority 01.07.1938
Lt. 01.01.1940
Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1948
Cdr. 31.12.1951 (General List) (retd 13.04.1959)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 21.07.1942 attack 3 Italian cruisers 29.11.1941; supply ship sunk [investiture 01.12.1942]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 17.08.1945 war patrols Far East 01-05.1945 [decoration posted]
01.09.1935 - 31.08.1936 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.09.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
10.04.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
02.06.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
20.04.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous services)
10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cachalot (minelaying submarine)
24.09.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS P 31 (submarine) (DSC)
08.06.1942 - (08.)1942 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
24.08.1942 - 10.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS H 34 (submarine)
11.11.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS P 214 (submarine)
23.03.1943 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine)
03.06.1943 - 03.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Nymph (submarine)
03.1944 - 28.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Rorqual (submarine) (Bar to DSC)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
09.10.1947 - (10.1947) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
04.12.1947 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Andrew (submarine)
01.02.1950 - (05.1950) HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire)
(05.1951)     no appointment listed
23.01.1952 - (05.1953) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
(07.1954)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
(04.1955) - (01.1957) HMS Stalker *
25.03.1957 - (01.)1959 Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Eastern Atlantic Command, NATO
* indexed, but not listed as such
Oakley,
Willie Inglis

W.I. Oakley

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19.02.1900
-
(09?).1977

South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
T/Wt. Air Offr. (AG) = T/A/Sen.Cd.Air Offr. (AG)
16.11.1940 (retd)
...
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...
...
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Condor
...
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...
...
Oakshott,
Alfred

A. Oakshott

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03.09.1888
Portsmouth, Hampshire
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13.01.1955

Portsmouth, Hampshire
T/Wt. Supply Offr.
06.03.1942 (retd)
...
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...
...
?
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(07.1945)
no appointment listed
...
-
...
...
Oates,
Donald

D. Oates
20.11.1914
-
25.09.1999
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
T/Schoolm.
15.12.1942
Instr.Lt.Cdr. ? (retd 20.11.1962)
...
-
...
...
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Collingwood
...
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...
...
Oatley,
Eric Stanley

E.S. Oatley (Photo courtesy of Mr John Bunker)

Married ((09?).1923, Plymouth, Devon) Poppy Rosa H. Cann (18.11.1899 - 10.1996), daughter of William James Cann (1867-1930), and Laura Bunker (1867-1942); one daughter.
Brother-in-law of Maj. Cyril William Roy Cann, Royal Artillery, and F/Lt. Gilbert Howard Cann, RAF.

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06.04.1899
East Farleigh, Maidstone district, Kent
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09.03.1985

Salisbury district, Wiltshire
Midsh. 01.09.1917
S.Lt. 15.01.1919
Lt. 15.04.1920
Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1928 (retd 16.01.1943; medically unfit)
Cdr. (retd) 16.01.1943 (reverted to retd > 04.1946)
15.02.1917     entered RN
... - ... ...
24.06.1939 - (06.)1941 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for Instructional Department)
21.07.1941 - 16.01.1943 Torpedo Officer on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]
09.07.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for book production department)
Obbard,
Edward Owen
E.O. Obbard

Married (1943) Lady Elizabeth Knott.

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19.08.1901
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
10.03.1951
A/Lt.
15.04.1923
Lt.
03.10.1923, seniority 15.04.1923
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1931 (retd 19.08.1946)
A/Cdr.
13.02.1940
Cdr. (retd)
19.08.1946
George Medal GM
27.12.1940
mine disposal [investiture 27.05.1941]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
24.04.1940
mine disposal [investiture 07.05.1940] *

* For his part in an expedition to salvage a German magnetic mine from oyster beds at Whitstable, Kent in February 1940.

15.04.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Revenge (battleship)
(01.1925)


no appointment listed
03.01.1925
-
(05.)1926
HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
30.12.1926
-
(07.)1927
qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]
17.08.1927
-
(06.1928)
qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon
12.04.1929
-
(08.)1929
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
29.10.1929
-
(01.)1932
Torpedo Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)
07.06.1932
-
(01.)1934
Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]
19.07.1934
-
(02.)1936
Torpedo Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer, Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas (Home Fleet)
15.12.1936
-
(08.)1938
Torpedo Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
25.08.1938
-
(04.)1939
Instructional Department, Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]
04.07.1939
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30.07.1939
Torpedo Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser)
31.07.1939
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(09.1939)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (& for Squadron duties, Reserve Fleet Destroyer Flotillas)
13.02.1940
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, Torpedo School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
01.10.1944
-
(04.)1946
in charge of Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining; redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons
1950 Jurat, Jersey.
O'Brien,
Bartholomew
B. O'Brien

Married (30.07.1932, St Joseph's, Copnor. Portsmouth) Kathleen "Kitty" Hart (23.10.1909 - 08.2005), daughter (with four brothers and two sisters) of Edward Hart (1868-1915), and Mary Ann Bryan (1870-1967); two sons.

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28.12.1906
Haulbowline Island, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
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14.05.1976
in hospital, Salisbury district, Wiltshire
[buried St Joseph's, West Street, Havant, Hampshire]
A/Wt. Writer 14.03.1942
Wt. Writer = Wt.Writer Offr. 1943?, seniority 14.03.1942
A/Cd. Writer Offr. 10.12.1945
Lt. (S) 1946?, seniority 15.07.1944
Lt.Cdr. (S) 15.07.1952 (retd 28.12.1956; age)
31.03.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)
04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
20.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)
... - ... ...
O'Brien,
Philip Dennis
P.D. O'Brien (Imperial War Museum © IWM (A 25957))

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14.03.1906
Cardiff, Glamorgan
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24.05.1981
Weymouth district, Dorset
Seaman ? [J103730]
A/Gnr. 01.01.1936
Lt. 15.05.1937
A/Lt.Cdr. 24.07.1944?
Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1945
Cdr. 31.12.1947 (retd 14.03.1956)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 31.05.1956 HM's birthday 1956 [investiture 23.10.1956]
... - ... ...
24.07.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Foudrayant (training ship, together with former HMS Implacable)
... - ... ...
O'Brien,
[Sir] William Donough
W.D. O'Brien W.D. O'Brien
W.D. O'Brien W.D. O'Brien
W.D. O'Brien (© Crown copyright. Imperial War Museum (A 35114A)) W.D. O'Brien
W.D. O'Brien (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x176332) W.D. O'Brien (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x176333)
W.D. O'Brien (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x176336) W.D. O'Brien (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x176334)
W.D. O'Brien (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x176335) W.D. O'Brien (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x176337)
W.D. O'Brien W.D. O'Brien (© Crown copyright. Imperial War Museum (A 35114A))
W.D. O'Brien (© Crown copyright. Imperial War Museum (A 35114A)) W.D. O'Brien (© Crown copyright. Imperial War Museum (A 35114A))
W.D. O'Brien W.D. O'Brien

Son of Maj. William Donough O'Brien (1880-1916), and Inez Rose Parnis (1887-1982).
Married (15.06.1943, Brompton Oratory, Kensington district, London) Rita Maria Dolores Rosario Elena Micallef (1913 - 09.10.2012, widow of Lt. Stephen Frank Hebblethwaite (1904? - 08.06.1940), and daughter of Lt.Col. A.E. Micallef, DSO (?-1966), of Malta; one son, two daughters.

13.11.1916
Faversham district, Kent
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19.02.2016
Cadet 01.01.1934
Midsh. 01.09.1934
A/S.Lt. 01.01.1937
S.Lt. 16.10.1937, seniority 01.05.1937
Lt. 16.04.1938
A/Lt.Cdr. 11.1943 [acting rank]
A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 [appointed rank]
Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1946
Cdr. 30.06.1949
Capt. 30.06.1955
R.Adm. 07.07.1964
A/V.Adm. 24.05.1967
V.Adm. 14.12.1967
Adm. 04.04.1970 (retd 29.11.1971)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 14.06.1969 HM's birthday 1969 [investiture 29.10.1969]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1966 New Year 1966 [investiture 15.02.1966]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.12.1942 Operation EV (North Russian convoy PQ 18 & QP 14 09.1942) [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944
Mention in Despatches MID 20.11.1945 assault Rangoon 05.1945
Education: RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] (01.05.1930-31.12.1933).
01.01.1934 - 18.08.1934 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
19.08.1934 - 27.04.1936 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
28.04.1936 - 30.12.1936 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)
31.12.1936 - 04.04.1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
05.04.1937 - 30.11.1937 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory & HMS Excellent]
01.12.1937 - 25.02.1938 HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
26.02.1938 - 12.1939 HMS Garland (G class destroyer) (Mediterranean) (from 26.08.1938 as Navigating Officer & for divisional duties)
12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Wolsey (Thornycroft W class destroyer) (for watchkeeping & divisional duties)
(05.1940)     no appointment listed
(06.1940)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
[Employed ashore in France, on Operation Royal Marine, a Churchillian plan to launch floating mines into the Rhine to strangle German movements on the river. Political considerations prevented the plan being put into operation until 10 May, by which time it was too late. Although, to a very limited extent, the plan achieved its aims, the party had to withdraw, and managed to escape via St. Malo.]
30.06.1940 - (04.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Witherington (modified W class destroyer)
24.04.1941 - (06.1941) HMS Offa (O class destroyer)
(08.1941) - (12.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS Offa (O class destroyer) * (Russian convoys, North African landings) (DSC)
28.01.1943 - 14.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Cottesmore (Hunt class destroyer) (North Sea & English Channel convoys, Normandy landings) (despatches)
(01.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Cottesmore (Hunt class destroyer) * [in fact serving in South-East Asia, on the planning staff for operations in the Arakan and Malaya, the so-called Force W]
(04.1946)     HMS Norfolk (cruiser) *
01.04.1946 - 09.1946 HMS Sultan (accounting base for personnel at Keppel Harbour, Singapore)
16.09.1946 - 05.1948 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire)
05.05.1948 - 07.1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Venus (destroyer)
30.07.1949 - (05.1950) Staff Officer (Intelligence) on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo]
(05.1951)     no appointment listed
14.01.1952 - 01.1953 HMS President (additional; for RAF Staff Course at RAF Bracknall)
02.1953 - 11.1953 Executive Officer, HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
11.11.1953 - 11.1955 an Assistant to the Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord [HMS President]
30.11.1955 - 03.1957 Commanding Officer, HMS Manxman & as Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Flotillas Mediterranean
01.03.1957 - 04.1958 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Malta [HMS St Angelo]
30.04.1958 - 24.10.1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Cheviot & as Captain (D) 8th Destroyer Squadron (Far East Station)
29.02.1960 - 11.1961 Deputy Director of Plans (Joint), Admiralty [HMS President]
28.11.1961 - 07.1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Hermes & as Flag Captain to Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers
18.07.1964 - 01.1966 Naval Secretary, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB)
02.1966 - 04.1967 Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers [HMS Eagle]
24.05.1967 - 09.1969 Commander, Far East Fleet (COMFEF) [HMS Terror] (KCB)
27.02.1970 - 16.09.1971 Commander-in-Chief, Western Fleet, Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel (CINCCHAN) and Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Eastern Atlantic (CINCEASTATLANT) [HMS Warrior]
Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom , 01.08.1979-31.10.1984. Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Lieutenant of the Admiralty, 01.11.1984-13.11.1986. Chairman of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, 1974-91, and also of King George’s Fund for Sailors (the premier
maritime charitable trust (now known as Seafarers UK), 1974-86.

* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Conor,
Rory Chambers
R.C. O'Connor (Source: http://www.hmsneptune.com/rollentry.php?id=3)

Son of Sir John O'Conor, KBE, MA, MD, BCh (1863-1927), and Grace Beatrice Richmond Oxley, of Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.

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23.09.1898
Buenos Aires, Argentina
-
23.12.1941
(KIA) [age 42]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]
S.Lt.
?
Lt.
31.08.1919
25.10.1920, seniority 15.04.1919
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1927
Cdr.
31.12.1931
Capt.
30.06.1936
Education: Imperial Defence College
08.1914
 
 
entered RN
06.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Excellent (trawler) (Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
14.06.1924
-
(01.)1925
Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.08.1925
-
(02.)1927
Gunnery Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies)
(07.1927)


no appointment listed
24.11.1927
-
(06.1928)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
10.06.1929
-
(08.)1930
Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
13.10.1930
-
(06.)1933
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
30.08.1933
-
(02.1936)
HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
12.01.1937
-
(07.)1937
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College
29.12.1937
-
(09.1939)
an Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
(04.1940)


Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] **
04.05.1940
-
19.12.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser) (sunk by mines in Libyan waters)
* (04.1940) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such

Published
: Running a big ship on 'ten commandments' (1937)
Oddie,
Eric Roland John
E.R.J. Oddie

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10.04.1903
Dummurry, Northern Ireland
-
02.12.1980
Australia
Lt.
1928/29?, seniority 30.01.1926
Lt.Cdr.
30.01.1934
Cdr.
30.06.1940 (retd 01.08.1947; own request)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
28.06.1940
submarine actions against the enemy [investiture 03.09.1940]
17.07.1929
-
(08.)1930
HMS Thruster (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) [tender to HMS Heather]
14.08.1930
-
(01.)1932
First Lieutenant, HMS Olympus (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
(09.1932)
 
 
no appointment listed
21.04.1933
-
(06.)1933
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport) (for submarines) [earned aviators' certificate # 11098 from Hampshire Aeroplane Club 16.05.1933]
12.08.1933
-
27.08.1934
Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania]
23.10.1934
-
(02.)1937
HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
12.05.1937
-
15.06.1937
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
15.06.1937
-
03.07.1937
submarine Commanding Officer's requalifying course [HMS Dolphin]
03.07.1937
-
28.07.1937
HMS Oberon (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
28.07.1937
-
18.07.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Undine (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin] (until commissioning 23.04.1938 also for duty with Admiral Superintendent of Contract-built Ships & for duty with submarines)
18.07.1939
-
26.02.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Narwhal (submarine) [tender to HMS Forth, from 13.11.1939 to HMS Dolphin]
27.02.1940
-
15.08.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Triad (submarine) [tender to HMS Forth]
16.08.1940
-
12.09.1940
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
12.09.1940
-
13.08.1941
Executive Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)
13.08.1941
-
01.10.1942
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for duty with Class 1 submarines)
01.10.1942
-
04.04.1943
Senior Officer, Submarines [HMS Elfin (submarine depot ship)]
04.04.1943
-
06.09.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Ambrose II (submarine base, Lerwick) (and for duty with submarines)
06.09.1943
-
13.09.1943
Admiralty [HMS President]
13.09.1943
-
23.10.1943
Executive Officer, HMS Charybdis (cruiser) (torpedoed and sunk by German torpedo boats off North France)



HMS Nabthorpe (mobile naval air base III, Schofields, NSW)
18.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
26.02.1946
-
(04.)1947
Commanding Officer, HMS Queensferry (Reserve Fleet Forth Area parent ship, Rosyth)
1948 owner/skipper of the fishing boat Rain Goose (at Newry).
O'Dell *,
Harry Lloyd
H.L. O'Dell  
* officially Odell, but in naval records registered as O'Dell.
Married Vera ...; one daughter.
Lived at Gosport, Hampshire.
16.01.1910
Medway district, Kent
-
05.01.1979
T/A/Wt.Eng.
26.02.1945
T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng.
1946?, seniority 26.02.1945
T/Sen.Cd.Eng. = T/Eng.Lt.
01.04.1952 (reld c. 1957)



went to China before the war



served Mediterranean
17.04.1945
-
(04.)1946
HMS Seneschal (submarine)
14.10.1946
-
03.10.1947
Torpedo Officer on staff of Commodore Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 
04.10.1947
-
(05.1949)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties)
20.03.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Sea Eagle (joint anti-submarine school)
06.05.1952
-
(05.)1953
HMS Trespasser (submarine)
11.09.1953
-
(04.1955)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
(01.1956)
-
(01.1957)
HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship) *
Emigrated to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Odell,
Percy James Marriott
P.J.M. Odell  

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12.11.1900
Leytonstone, West Ham district, Essex
-
12.05.1983
Ipswich district, Suffolk
Seaman
? [J52339]
A/Gnr. (T)
01.01.1933
Gnr. (T)
1934?, seniority 01.01.1933
Cd.Gnr. (T)
01.04.1941
Lt.
14.05.1946
Lt.Cdr.
14.05.1954 (retd 12.11.1950)
27.04.1933
-
(06.)1933
HMS Adventure (minelayer) (Home Fleet)
18.10.1933
-
(02.1936)
HMS Bulldog (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(01.1937)
-
(08.1938)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) *
15.12.1938
-
(04.)1940
HMS Vulcan (trawler; motor torpedo boat tender) (Mediterranean)
01.07.1940
-
(08.)1942
Y Company RM Aux.Bd., HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
18.11.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Anson (battleship)
07.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Vanguard (battlecruiser)
15.12.1947
-
(07.1948)
HMS Tyne
(05.1949)
 
 
HMS Tyne *
(05.1950)
 
 
HMS Woolwich *
* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Donnell,
George Eric Maxia
G.E.M. O'Donnell (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Sayer)
Married ((03?).1919, Kensington, London) ... Turner.

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31.08.1893
Bombay, India
-
18.01.1953
[ashes scattered from HMS Bermuda in the English Channel, approaching Plymouth Sound]
Midsh. 15.05.1911
A/S.Lt. 15.09.1913
S.Lt. 15.04.1914
Lt. 15.07.1915
Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1923
Cdr. 30.06.1929
Capt. 31.12.1936 (retd 02.01.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 02.12.1938 gallantry during a bombing attack on British shipping at Wuhu on 05.12.1937 when he was wounded *
Mention in Despatches MID 30.01.1945 for leadership and skill in damage control (FltgOkClps?) 08.1944
Distinguished Service Medal (Navy) (US) DSM 06.07.1938 USS Panay incident ** [permission from HM the King to accept the award 11.10.1938] 
Coronation Medal (12.05.1937)

* This Officer was present in HMS Ladybird during a bombing attack on British shipping at Wuhu on the 5th December, 1937. Though painfully wounded in the right hand [#] he placed himself under the orders of the Commanding Officer when the helmsman of HMS Ladybird was hit, and took the wheel himself. Shortly afterwards, and with no regard for his own safety or his injury, he landed among hostile soldiery and proceeded to the shore Headquarters to protest, and was in time to prevent more than one round being fired at H.M.S. Bee.
** In recognition of his initiative and courageous action in proceeding immediately with unselfish disregard of his own safety to render assistance in recovering the survivors of the United States Ship Panay in the face of threatened force and armed opposition.

[#] 'Certificate for Wounds and Hurt' (01.03.1938). The citation states that Captain O'Donnell 'belonging to HMS Bee, being then actually upon HMS Ladybird while that ship was under fire by artillery ashore was Wounded on 12th December by being struck in the right hand by a piece of shrapnel sustaining a comminated fracture of the base of the prenimal? phalanx of the little finger'
Countersigned by H T Armstrong Commander , H D Barlow Lt Cdr and the acting Admiralty Surgeon.
Education: RN College (The Royal Life Saving Certificate; 07.1910)
15.05.1906     entered RN
(09.1913)     HMS Vanguard (battleship)
(04.1917)     HMS New Zealand (battlecruiser)
['Hurt Certificate' on the 18th April 1917 having
sustained a fractured leg whilst playing football on the 16th April]
21.10.1918 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMS Southampton (light cruiser)
(08.1923)     no appointment listed
01.11.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment)
01.01.1926 - (05.1926) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.01.1927 - (06.1928) Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
29.08.1929 - (02.)1931 Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.11.1931 - (06.)1933 Executive Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies)
22.11.1933 - (11.1934) Executive Officer, Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake]
08.01.1935 - (01.)1937 Executive Officer, Submarine Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] (for Fort Blockhouse)
(02.1937) - (07.1937) no appointment listed [arrived 06.04.1937 at Southampton from Batavia on passage aboard "Jan Pieterszoon Coen"]
30.07.1937 - 04.1938 Flag Captain, HMS Bee & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral and Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse [HMS Bee (river gunboat)]
[USS Panay incident, 12.1937]
13.04.1938 - (08.)1938 Naval Liaison Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Cumberland (cruiser)]
(10.1938)     no appointment listed [arrived 09.09.1938 at London from Kobe, Japan on passage aboard "Rawalpindi"]
(02.1939)     no appointment listed
13.03.1939 - (04.)1939 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
22.05.1939 - 18.06.1939 HMS President (additional; for duty in Naval Intelligence Division) [appointed 15.05.1939]
06.07.1939
-
(08.)1939 Naval Attaché, Athens (to Greece, Turkey & Yugoslavia)
26.08.1939 - (12.1941) Naval Attaché, Ankara (to Turkey)
02.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser)
22.07.1943 - 15.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship)
15.10.1943 - 04.04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship)
30.04.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, Damage Control School [HMS President]
05.07.1945 - 02.01.1946 also: Naval ADC to the King
O'Driscoll,
John Christopher
J.H. O'Neill
Married ((03?).1940, Plymouth district, Devon) Mary H. Sloane; ... children (one daughter?).

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30.05.1902
Kilmakkedar, Dingle district, Co. Kerry, Ireland
-
05.05.1966
Plymouth district, Devon
CPO Wr. (1939) [M.38206]
A/Wt.Wr.Offr. 24.10.1942
Wt.Wr.Offr. 1943?, seniority 24.10.1942
Sen.Cd.Wr.Offr. 01.04.1949 (retd 01.05.1952)
Long Service Good Conduct Medal LSGCM 23.06.1939 -
(1939)     HMS Wellington (escort vessel) (New Zealand)
      HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
21.12.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (additional; for various services)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
21.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services)
29.10.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Sea Eagle (joint anti-submarine school, Londonderry)
(05.1950)     no appointment listed
18.01.1951 - (05.1951) HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)
Ogilvy,
John Augustine
J.A. Ogilvy (Photo courtesy of Mr Alastair Lack)
Son of Gilbert Francis Molyneux Ogilvy (1868-1953), and Marjory Katharine Clive (1882-1961).
Married (31.01.1942) Margaret Vivienne Lyndell Gregg (24.07.1920 - 13.08.2001), daughter of Col. William Thornton Huband Gregg; one son, one daughter.
28.08.1915
Cupar Angus, Angus, Scotland
-
04.04.1993
East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
Cadet
01.01.1933
Midsh.
01.09.1933
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1936
S.Lt.
16.05.1936
Lt.
01.09.1937
Lt.Cdr.
01.09.1945 (retd 20.07.1959)
Mention in Despatches MID
25.08.1942
Murmansk convoys 03-05.1942
Education: RN College, Dartmouth.
01.01.1933
-
01.09.1933
HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
02.09.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)
18.04.1934
-
(02).1935
HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (East Indies)
26.04.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS Orion (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1936
-
(02.)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]
07.08.1937
-
(09.1939)
HMS Severn (submarine) (Mediterranean)
16.03.1940
-
(05.1942)
HMS Volunteer (destroyer) *
22.09.1942
-
(06.)1943
HMS Campbell (destroyer)
26.07.1943
-
(12.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Leamington (destroyer)
22.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HMS Loring (frigate)
27.06.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray, Aberdeenshire)
[earned aviators' certificate 07.01.1946 from No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Panshanger, Hertfordshire]
01.10.1947
-
(05.)1949
HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
08.1949
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Chameleon (minesweeper)
(05.1953)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) **
24.07.1953
-
(01.1957)
Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord's Office, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1959)
 
 
Directorate of Officer Appointments, Admiralty **
* (08.1942) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such
Ogilvy-Wedderburn,
[Sir] John Peter;
12th and 6th Bt. (cr. 1704 and 1803)
J.P. Oglilvy-Wedderburn
Only son (with three sisters) of Sir John Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 11lth and 5th Bt, (1866-1956), and Aileen Meta Odette Grogan (1881-1952).
Succeeded father 1956.
Married (16.03.1946) Elizabeth Katharine Cox (02.12.1912 - 11.2003), eldest daughter (with one brother and two sisters) of John Arthur Cox (1878-1937), and Katherine Brown Aitken (1885-1964), of Drumkilbo; one son, three daughters.
29.09.1917
Perthshire, Scotland
-
13.08.1977
Ruthven, Angus, Scotland
Midsh. 01.09.1936
A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938
S.Lt. 21.06.1939, seniority 01.09.1938
Lt. 16.05.1940
Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1948
Cdr. 30.06.1955 (retd 01.03.1961)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1931-1935); RN Staff College (psc, 1956)..
... - ... ...
10.07.1939 - (06.)1941 HMS York (cruiser)
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
07.10.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship)
(12.1941) - (10.1942) HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship) *
14.10.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Hotspur (H class destroyer)
04.10.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Urania (U class destroyer)
(04.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Urania (U class destroyer) *
... - ... ...
1956     Executive Officer, Woolwich
1958     Boom Defence and Marine Salvage Officer, Clyde
... - ... ...
* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Hara,
John Joseph
J.H. O'Neill
Married ...; three sons, two daughters.

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17.11.1891
Chicago, USA
-
?
T/A/Gnr. 15.09.1941
T/Gnr. * 1942?, seniority 15.09.1941
T/A/Cd.Gnr. 15.09.1945 (reld > 07.1946, < 04.1947)

* Granted War Service Rank of Lt.

(10.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Rooke (Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth) *
12.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Ringwood (auxiliary netlayer)
06.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Baldur III (RN base, Hvitanes, Iceland) (for boom defences)
(10.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
(07.1945)     HMS Baldur III (RN base, Hvitanes, Iceland) *
02.08.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Rooke (Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth)
08.05.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Safeguard (Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth)
O'Leary,
Patrick Albert
"Pat"

nom de guerre of:
Guérisse, Albert-Marie Edmond
P.A. O'Leary

05.04.1911
Brussels, Belgium
-
26.03.1989
Waterloo, Belgium
T/Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1940 (retd 1945?)
George Cross GC
05.11.1946
escape organization allied personnel [investiture 19.11.1946]
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
(Hon.)
1979
?
Distinguished Service Order DSO
1942
secret operations [investiture 30.10.1945]
Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
1947
?
Medal of Freedom with golden plam (USA) MoF
1947
?
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
1945
?
Officier Ordre Léopold, 1946, Grand Officier, 1970; Polish Croix de Guerre, 1944. Hereditary Nobility with personal title of Count granted by King of the Belgians, 1986
Education: Louvain; Brussels University
05.1940


-


06.1940


Medical Officer (Lieutenant), Belgian Army; after Belgian capitulation embarked at Dunkirk
09.1940


first officer of "Q" ship, HMS Fidelity *
04.1941


-


03.1943


engaged on secret work in France until arrest by Gestapo (chief of an escape
organisation)
1943

-

1945

after 2 years in Concentration Camps returned to England



after demobilisation from RN rejoined Belgian Army (1st Lancers)
1951


joined Belgian Volunteer Battalion as Chief of Medical Service in Korea

-

1970

Major-General in the Belgian Army; Director-General, Medical Service, Belgian Forces
* for the duration of the war indexed in the Navy List under HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
Oliphant,
Laurence Hugh

L.H. Oliphant
Son of R.Adm. Laurence Richard Oliphant (1877-1950), and Hon. Adelaide Daphne Hermione Willoughby (1883-1954), of Thonton-le-Dale.
Married (07.02.1953, St Michael's, Malton) Meriel Fynn (07.12.1919 - 03.2002), daughter of Mr Arthur Fynn and Mrs G.R. Fynn, of North Grimston, Yorkshire; two daughters.
04.04.1922
Kensington district, London
-
15.10.1998

Cadet
01.09.1940
Midsh.
01.01.1941
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1942
S.Lt.
1943, seniority 01.02.1942
Lt.
16.08.1943
Lt.Cdr.
16.08.1951
Cdr.
31.12.1959
Capt.
31.12.1968 (retd 31.03.1977)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
31.12.1976
New Year 1977 [investiture 15.02.1977]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
19.06.1945
patrols Far East 1944-1945 [decoration posted]
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
01.09.1940
 
 
direct entry cadet
(02.1941)
-
(12.1941)
HMS Manchester (cruiser) *
24.08.1942
-
(02.)1943
promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
1943
-
02.05.1943
submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
03.05.1943
-
06.1945
First Lieutenant, HMS Tantalus (submarine)
06.1945
-
15.08.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Tantalus (submarine) (DSC)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
05.07.1948
-
(05.)1949
Commanding Officer, HMS Aurochs
12.12.1949
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Tiptoe
(05.1953)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1954)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1955)
 
 
no appointment listed
(01.1956)
-
(01.1957)
Admiralty [HMS President] *
28.04.1958
-
(01.1959)
First Lieutenant, HMS Trafalgar
28.03.1960
-
(07.1961)
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.05.1962
-
(02.1964)
Commander 4th Submarine Squadron, HM Submarine Base, Sydney, Australia [HMS Terror]
03.07.1967
-
(02.1968)
Executive Officer, RN Base Singapore [HMS Terror]
?
-
(02.1969)
HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) *
05.1971
-
(08.1971)
Senior UK Polaris Representative in USA [HMS Saker]
(1976)


HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (CBE)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Olive,
John Roland

J.R. Olive (Photo coutesy of Mrs Frances Macneil) J.R. Olive (Photo coutesy of Mrs Frances Macneil)
Son (with one brother) of Eng.Capt. William Edgar Olive, RN (1879-1959), and Lilian Constance Briant (1880-1972).
Married ((12?).1937, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Sibyl Margrett Hambleton Buckmaster (02.01.1913 - 06.2005), younger daughter of Eng.Capt. Frederick Henry Buckmaster, RN (1883-1947), and Margaret Davies Murray (1878-1954), of Southsea; one daughter.

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31.01.1911
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-

21.01.1940
(MPK) [age 28]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]
Cadet 01.05.1928
Midsh. 01.01.1929
A/S.Lt. 01.05.1931
S.Lt. 01.09.1931
Lt. 01.09.1933
Education: Weymouth College (09.1919-...); RN College, Dartmouth.
15.09.1924     joined RN
01.05.1928 - (07.1928) HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
29.11.1928 - ? HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
20.03.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
04.01.1930 - (03.)1931 HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
30.04.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
04.01.1932 - (08.)1932 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
17.09.1932 - (06.1933) HMS Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(01.1934) - (03.1934) no appointment listed
05.04.1934 - (10.)1936 HMS Vega (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
30.11.1936 - (07.)1937 qualifying for signal duties [HM Signal School, HMS Victory]
13.12.1937 - (06.)1938 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)
10.06.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for signal school)
23.08.1938 - (12.)1938 HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet) (and for flotilla duties)
20.12.1938 - (05.)1939 Signals Officer, HMS Hardy (flotilla leader, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean) (and for flotilla duties)
21.07.1939 - 21.01.1940 Signals Officer, HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) [ship mined & sunk in North Sea]
Oliver,
[Sir] Geoffrey Nigel
G.N. Oliver (Photo courtesy of Mr J. van den Arend)
G.N. Oliver (© Imperial War Museum A 23725) 

G.N. Oliver G.N. Oliver (© Imperial War Museum (A 10082))
Elder son (of three children) of late Prof. Francis Wall Oliver (1864-1951), palaeobotanist & ecologist, and Mildred Alice (1875-1932), daughter of Charles Robert Thompson, surgeon.
Married (1933) Barbara, only daughter of late Sir Francis Adolphus Jones, KBE, CB; one son (and one son, one daughter deceased).

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22.01.1898
Chelsea, London
-
26.05.1980

Batts, Henfield, West Sussex
Cadet (Special Entry) 09.1915
Midsh. 01.02.1916
S.Lt. 15.09.1917
Lt. 15.10.1918
Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1926
Cdr. 30.06.1932
Capt. 30.06.1937
Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.10.1942
Cdre. 1st cl. 02.1944
R.Adm. 05.07.1945
V.Adm. 03.02.1949
Adm. 15.05.1952 (retd 01.12.1955)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire GBE 01.01.1955 New Year 1955 [investiture 08.02.1955]
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 01.01.1951 New Year 1951 [investiture 10.02.1953]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche [investiture 21.11.1944]
Distinguished Service Order DSO 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance [investiture 22.09.1942]
Distinguished Service Order DSO 14.09.1943 N African campaign 10.1942-05.1943 [investiture 21.11.1944]
Distinguished Service Order DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 21.11.1944]
Mention in Despatches MID 06.01.1942 Operation Halbert
Mention in Despatches MID 14.08.1945 relief of Greece
Officer of the Legion of Merit (US) LM 07.09.1943 N African campaign
Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) LM 10.10.1944 Salerno landings 09.09.1943
Commander Grand Cross, Order of the Sword (Sweden) OSw - state visit king & queen of Sweden 28.06.1954
Education: Durnford Preparatory School, Langton Maltravers; Rugby School; Queen's College, Cambridge University (1920?; two terms, no degree).
09.1915     joined RN as a special entry cadet (Keyham College)
1916 - 1917 Midshipman and Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Dreadnought (battleship)
08.05.1917 - 1920 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) [saw no actual fighting in World War I]
      HMS Resolution (battleship)
1920? - 1921? promotion courses (obtained first class certificates in all five subjects and won the Goodenough Medal for best results in gunnery examination)
1921?


06.1923
 -


-
1924
 

(08.1923)
specialised in gunnery & advanced course in gunnery (first in his class: Commander Egerton Prize)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (miscellaneous)
28.03.1924 - (01.)1925 junior member, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.08.1925 - (02.)1927 Gunnery Officer, HMS Carlisle (light cruiser) (China Station)
(07.1927)     no appointment listed
14.01.1928 - (08.1929) second senior member, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (and in command of trawler 'Excellent')
02.01.1930 - (01.)1932 Gunnery Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
07.03.1932 - (07.)1934 head [= Experimental Commander], Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
10.1934 - 12.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Diana (destroyer) (1st Destroyer Flotilla, China)
12.1934 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Veteran (destroyer) (1st Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean)
05.08.1936 - (07.1937) Executive Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
19.04.1938 - 23.05.1939 naval staff, Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
23.05.1939
-
15.10.1940
Deputy Director, Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.10.1940

-

16.06.1942

Commanding Officer, HMS Hermione (light cruiser) (Western Mediterranean, Malta, Madagascar, Eastern Mediterranean) (sunk south of Crete)
1942 - 1942 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
1942 - 1942 Naval Liaison Officer with the Nile Delta Army (temporary) [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
24.09.1942 - 30.09.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty, on the staff of Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet)
01.10.1942
-
08.12.1942
HMS Cormorant (parent ship Gibraltar) (on the staff of Flag Officer Commanding North Atlantic, for flotilla duties)
[to organise and train the vast armada of small ships and craft which was assembling there for the invasion of Algeria]
09.12.1942
-
03.07.1943
Senior Officer Inshore Squadron, North Africa [HMS Excellent II (for HMS Evolution), from 01.01.1943 HMS Cannae (RN base, Bone, Algeria)]
04.07.1943 - 08.10.1943 Commodore, Force "N" [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy)]
(invasion of Sicily 07.1943, British Assault Force Commander, Salerno [HMS Hilary] 09.1943)
09.10.1943 - 21.11.1943 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy) (additional; and for passage to UK)
22.11.1943 - 21.01.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, with Director of Naval Ordnance, as Chairman of the 'Accuracy of Gunnery Committee' (produced final report))
22.01.1944
-
22.07.1944
Naval Force Commander, Force "J" (Assault Force, Normandy) [HMS Odyssey; based at HMS Hilary]
23.07.1944 - 03.09.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; whilst unemployed)
04.09.1944 - 05.10.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty (temporary))
06.10.1944 - 22.02.1945 Commodore Commanding 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Royalist] (clearing the Aegean of mines and obstructions and bringing relief to the starving people of Greece)
23.02.1945
-
20.12.1945 Commodore/Rear-Admiral Commanding 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Royalist] (Eastern Fleet)
early 1946 - 04.1946 President, Aircraft Maintenance Committee
04.1946 - 12.1946 Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [= Admiral (Air)] [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
02.12.1946 - (07.)1948 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President]
09.1948 - 02.03.1950 President, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
04.1950 - 20.08.1952 Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Mauritius]
(05.1953)     no appointment listed
15.05.1953 - (04.)1955 Commander-in-Chief, the Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
Bought a farm in Sussex and settled down to the country life.
Oliver,
Sir Henry Francis
H.F. Oliver

Uncle of R.Adm. R.D. Oliver.
Married (10.06.1914, St John, Clerkenwell) Beryl Carnegie Joseph (20.08.1882 - (09?).1972); no children.

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22.01.1865
Lochside, Kelso, Scotland
-
15.10.1965
20, South Eaton Place, London SW1
Midsh. 21.01.1881
A/S.Lt. 21.01.1885
S.Lt. 1886?, seniority 21.01.1885
Lt. 30.06.1888
Cdr. 31.12.1899
Capt. 30.06.1903
R.Adm. 08.12.1913
A/V.Adm. 05.11.1914
V.Adm. 01.01.1919
Adm. 01.11.1923
Adm. of the Fleet 21.01.1928 (retd 21.01.1933) (restored to active list 06.02.1940)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB 04.06.1928 HM's Birthday 1928
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 01.01.1916 New Year 1916
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 03.06.1913 HM's birthday 1913
Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George KCMG 18.01.1918 Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
Member of the Royal Victorian Order MVO 11.08.1905 King Edward's visit to Portsmouth
Jubilee Medal, 1935; Coronation Medals, 1937 and 1953. American Distinguished Service Medal; Commander Legion of Honour; Orders of St Anne of Russia (06.1908), Swords of Sweden; Hon. LLD (Edin.), 1920
      entered Navy, 15.07.1878; Captain of Navigation School Portsmouth, 1905-1907; Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord, 12.1908-12.1911; ADC to the King, 02.03.1913; Director of Intelligence, Admiralty War Staff, 01.11.1913-1914; Chief of Admiralty War Staff, 05.11.1914-1917; on Admiralty reorganisation in 1917 became a member of the Board and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff; Rear-Admiral Commanding First Battle Cruiser Squadron, 1918
1919     Vice-Admiral Commanding Home Fleet
1919 - 1920 Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet
1920 - 1924 Second Sea Lord
1924 - 1927 Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet
1940 - 1945 no active appointment listed
[Admirals of the Fleet were borne on the Active List of the Royal Navy for life]
Literature: Adm. Sir William James, A Great Seaman : The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver, G.C.B, K.C.M.G., M.V.O., L.L.D. (1956).
Oliver,
Henry Lewis

H.L. Oliver

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18.06.1902
-
24.08.1989
Taunton Deane district, Somerset
A/S.Lt.
15.01.1922
S.Lt.
?
Lt.
15.09.1924
Lt.Cdr.
15.09.1932 (retd 18.06.1947)
A/Cdr.
04.05.1939 ?
Cdr. (retd)
18.06.1947
(08.1923)
 
 
short course of instruction
03.01.1924
-
(01.)1925
HMS Valentine (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
22.05.1925
-
(02.)1927
HMS Keppel (flotilla leader, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla) (China)
(07.1927)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1928)
 
 
no appointment listed
16.04.1928
-
(05.)1928
HMS Kent (cruiser)
15.05.1928
-
(08.)1930
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
15.11.1930
-
(05.)1933
Executive Officer, HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
(06.1933)
 
 
no appointment listed
19.07.1933
-
(08.)1934
Executive Officer, HMS Crescent (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
20.10.1934
-
(07.1935)
Commanding Officer, HMS Searcher (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
09.01.1936
-
(07.1937)
Commanding Officer, HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
18.01.1938
-
(02.)1938
Commanding Officer, HMS Tenedos (destroyer) (China)
04.1938
-
(06.)1938
Executive Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China)
10.07.1938
-
(04.)1939
Executive Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (China)
04.05.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
09.12.1941
-
(02.)1943
Executive Officer, HMS Glendower (RN training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales)
20.05.1943
-
(10.1944)
Executive Officer, HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
1944?
-
10.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
06.11.1945
-
(04.)1947
Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Oliver,
Robert Don

R.D. Oliver (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x27458) R.D. Oliver (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x83894)
R.D. Oliver (© Imperial War Museum (A 16229)) R.D. Oliver (© Imperial War Museum (A 16227))
R.D. Oliver (© Imperial War Museum (A 16228)) R.D. Oliver (© Imperial War Museum (A 16230))
Elder son of Col. William James Oliver, CBE, and Margaret Christie Don.
Nephew of Adm. of the Fleet H.F. Oliver.
Married 1st (09.04.1928, Cannes, France) Torfrida Lois Acantha Swann (née Huddart) (30.09.1886 - 1961), daughter of James Huddart, of Melbourne & London; no children.
Married 2nd (16.09.1965, Kensington, London) Mrs Marion Joyce Glendinning van der Velde, of The Hague, the Netherlands, daughter of H.A. Glendinning, of Balmacarra, Charleville, Queensland, Australia.
Residence: (1901) Stirling, Stirlingshire, (1938) Whitley, Lancashire, (1950s) London, (1970s) Cardiff, Glamorgan.

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17.03.1895
Linton, Roxburghhire, Scotland
-
06.10.1980
Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Midsh. 15.09.1912
A/S.Lt. 15.09.1914
S.Lt. 15.03.1915
Lt. 15.04.1916
Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1924
Cdr. 31.12.1929
Capt. 31.12.1935
Cdre. 2nd cl. 03.05.1940-(06.1940)
R.Adm. 02.01.1945 (retd 26.09.1948)
V.Adm. (retd) 26.09.1948
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1948 New Year 1948 [investiture 26.07.1949]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 23.03.1943]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.04.1918 for services in Destroyer and Torpedo Boat Flotillas during the period ending 31st December 1917
1914-1915 Star 14|15 St - -
British War Medal 1914-1920 BWM 14|20 - -
Victory Medal VM - -
Mention in Despatches MID 13.08.1915 in recognition of services during the operations in the vicinity of the Dardanelles prior to 25th-26th April.
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Pacific Star Pac St - -
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 25.08.1942 Operation Ironclad
Coronation Medal 1937 Cor M 37 - -
Swedish Medal Sw M - -
15.09.1912     entered RN
26.11.1912 - ... HMS Inflexible (battlecruiser)
... - ... ...
      Battle of Falkland Islands 1914 & Gallipoli 1915
(1916?)     HMS Murray (M class torpedo-boat destroyer)
02.06.1917 - ... HMS Telemachus (R class torpedo-boat destroyer)
24.04.1931 - (09.1932) Squadron Gunnery Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)] (Home Fleet)
24.04.1933 - (06.)1933 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
07.09.1933 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer [from 12.1935 Commanding Officer], HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean & Portsmouth)
08.08.1936 - (10.1938) Second Naval Member of the Naval Board, Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) (additional)] [lent to RNZN]
23.01.1939 - (09.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Iron Duke (gunnery training ship)
(02.1940) - (05.1940) no appointment listed
03.05.1940 - 02.07.1940 HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)
(08.1940) - (10.1940) no appointment listed
23.10.1940 - 01.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
15.01.1943 - 01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
01.1944 - 12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
02.1945 - (04.)1946 Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Weapons), Admiralty
15.04.1946 - (04.)1947 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
10.09.1947 - 09.1948 Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Sussex]
DL Roxburghshire, 1962.
Ollerhead,
John Gordon
J.G. Ollerhead

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29.07.1895
Williton district, Somerset
-
27.08.1958
Lt. 15.07.1917 (retd 01.09.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.07.1925 (reverted to retd c. 08.1945)
15.05.1908     entered RN
... - ... ...
25.01.1940 - (08?).1945 HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (additional; as Assistant to Captain of Fleet for main duties at Simonstown & as drafting officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, South Africa)
Ollivant,
Martin Spencer

M.S. Ollivant (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy de la Bedoyère) M.S. Ollivant
M.S. Ollivant M.S. Ollivant
M.S. Ollivant
Son of Edward Ollivant (1882-1945), and Olive Caroline Powell (1881-1959).
Married; two sons, one daughter.
10.07.1922
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
-
31.07.2001
Wallingford district, Oxfordshire
Cadet
01.01.1941
Midsh.
01.09.1941
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1943
S.Lt.
1943, seniortiy 01.08.1942
Lt.
16.09.1943
Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1951
Cdr.
31.12.1953
Capt.
31.12.1960 (retd 24.04.1970)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
23.12.1952
Korea (5th List) [investiture 07.07.1953]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
19.06.1945
Operation Hotbed [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
03.10.1952
Korea (4th List)
01.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.1943
-
(08.)1943
HMS Melbreak (destroyer)
15.09.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Onslaught (destroyer)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
...
-
...
....
(1952)
 
 
Commanding Officer, HMS Cossack
...
-
...
...
06.06.1963
-
(02.1964)
Commanding Officer, HMS Protector
...
-
...
...
Olliver,
Alwyne Gervase

A.G. Olliver

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23.10.1893
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
10.04.1974
Lt.
15.04.1915
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1923 (retd 01.04.1931; own request)
Cdr. (retd)
23.10.1933 (reactivated 01.09.1939) (reverted to retd > 06.1944, < 07.1945)
A/Capt. (retd)
> 02.1941, < 08.1942
15.09.1906
 
 
entered RN
09.1922
-
(08.1923)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
01.10.1924
-
(05.1926)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
22.01.1927
-
(07.)1927
Gunnery Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
20.09.1927
-
(06.1928)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship)
(08.1929)
-
(02.1931)
no appointment listed
01.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield Area
05.02.1941
-
(06.1944)
Assistant Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President]
Ommanney,
John Laurence Nelson

J.L.N. Ommanney
08.04.1924
-
20.12.1977
... ...
Lt. 01.06.1944
... ...
Capt. 31.12.1968
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
? - (10.1945) HMS Sussex
... - ... ...
Ommanney,
Lawrence Frederick Nelson

L.F.N. Ommanney (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

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04.02.1891
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
22.02.1963
Lt. 15.08.1913
Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1921
Cdr. 31.12.1926 (retd 04.02.1941)
Capt. (retd) 04.02.1941
15.09.1903     entered RN
20.07.1922 - (08.1923) Commanding Officer, HMS Walker (torpedo-boat destroyer)
13.12.1924 - 11.12.1926 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(02.1927)     no appointment listed
(07.1927)     no appointment listed
(04.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed
09.01.1929 - (02.)1931 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.02.1931 - (01.)1932 Commandng Officer, HMS Serapis (destroyer) (China)
14.02.1932 - (01.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer) (China)
(05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed
(01.1934)     no appointment listed
19.03.1934 - (07.)1934 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
28.07.1934 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Constance (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
25.02.1935 - (02.)1938 Admiralty Liaison Officer for Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy Duties, St Abb's to North Foreland (London) [HMS President]
02.03.1938 - (08.1942) Captain of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] *
(06.1943) - (01.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) **
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
30.10.1945 - (04.1946) Captain of the Dockyard and King's Harbour Master, Devonport, and as Deputy Superintendent [HMS Drake]
* (02.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such
Ommanney-Davis,
Carew
"Bertie"

C. Ommanney-Davis (Photos: http://www.tai-mo-shan.co.uk) C. Ommanney-Davis (Photos: http://www.tai-mo-shan.co.uk)
C. Ommanney-Davis (Photos: http://www.tai-mo-shan.co.uk) C. Ommanney-Davis (Photos: http://www.tai-mo-shan.co.uk)
20.04.1905
St Pancras, Greater London
-
28.08.1974
Harlow district
Sg.Lt.
19.05.1930
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
19.05.1936 (retd 13.01.1937; own request)
A/Sg.Cdr. (retd)
< 08.1942 (reinstated on the active list 1945?)
Sg.Cdr.
03.09.1945, seniority 27.12.1944 (retd 14.10.1958)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 1945
Education: LRCP&S
02.09.1930
-
(02.1931)
Assistant Medical Officer, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
05.10.1931
-
(09.1932)
Medical Officer, HMS Bridgewater (sloop) (China)
(04.1933)


no appointment listed
05.1933
-
05.1934
on half-pay: together with four other officers commissioned, financed and had privately built the yacht Tai Mo Shan & sailed it from Hong Kong to the UK (Dartmouth) for a year (05.1933-05.1934)
11.06.1934
-
(08.)1934
Assistant Medical Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
01.10.1934
-
(11.1934)
medical officers' post-graduate course [HMS President]
08.01.1935
-
13.01.1937
Naval Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
General Medical Practitioner, Boscastle & Tintagel
(04.1940)
-
(02.1941)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
?
-
(12.1941)
RN Sick Quarters, Bootle *
17.11.1941
-
(02.)1943
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Seaforth
30.03.1943
-
1945
HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
27.06.1945
-
(10.1947)
Naval Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
18.03.1948
-
(05.1950)
Naval Hospital, Malta [HMS St Angelo]
24.07.1952
-
(07.1954)
HMS Victory (for Portsmouth Group RM)
21.01.1955
-
(01.)1956
HMS Collingwood (training establishment for radar and electrical ratings, Fareham, near Portsmouth)
12.07.1956
-
(01.1957)
RN Barracks, Portsmouth & for duty at RN Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Neill,
John Henry
J.H. O'Neill
?
-
T/Lt.
16.09.1940
16.09.1940
-
(04.1942)
HMS Lucifer (parent ship Swansea)
29.04.1942
-
01.01.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 105 (motor torpedo boat) (sunk by own fire after being adrift)
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Abercrombie (monitor)
(04.1946)


HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Neill-Roe,
Richard John Owen
"Siano"
R.J.O. O'Neill-Roe (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian O'Neill Roe)
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Lt.Col. Charles Douglas Roe, DSO, OBE (1882-1960), Indian Army, and Daisy Blanche Marion Mackenzie-Kennedy (1883-1951).
Brother of Capt. Robert Gordon Brabazon O'Neil Roe, OBE, RN.

Married (24.06.1939, All Saints Church, Ascot, Windsor district, Berkshire) Nancy Letitia Whitaker Bovill (08.09.1914 - 18.01.2011), of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire; one son (Richard), one daughter. Nancy O'Neill-Roe remarried Alan Charles Jenkins (1912-1996).
03.01.1918
Lahore, India
-
26.06.1942
[age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 1]
RAF:  
(A) P/O (prob) 25.01.1937
RN:  
S.Lt. (A) 16.11.1937
Lt. (A) 16.11.1939
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
25.01.1937     commissioned, Royal Air Force [short service commission]
04.09.1937     226 (Bomber) Squadron RAF (Harwell)
18.07.1938     transferred from RAF to RN (Air Branch) 
18.07.1938 - (08.)1938 short course of instruction
24.08.1938 - (10.1938) 712 Flight FAA, HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
14.01.1939 - (04.)1939 Training Squadron FAA, RAF Station, Gosport [HMS Victory]
(05.1939)     Fleet Air Arm Pool, RAF Station, Worthy Down [HMS Victory]
(08.1939) - (09.1939) Fleet Air Arm
16.11.1939 - (06.)1941 pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Sussex  (cruiser), from 01.1941 HMS London (cruiser)]
(08.1941)     HMS London (London class cruiser) **
1941 - (10.)1941 Fleet Air Arm course
01.11.1941
-
26.06.1942
pilot, 884 Squadron FAA [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station Donibristle, Fife)] *
* Killed on active service over Strangford Loch, N Ireland, while doing running up trials before joining the HMS Illustrious. His body was never recovered. A fellow pilot collided with him, while the observer was also killed but the body was recovered off the coast of Scotland. More recently the wreckage of the plane (A Fairey ?) was discovered but the widow did not want it disturbed and it is now a designated war grave.
** indexed, but not listed as such
Onslow,
Richard Francis John
R.F.J. Onslow
Eldest son of the Revd. Matthew Richard Septimus Onslow, MA (1856-1932), Chaplain RN, and Fanny Harriet Onslow (née Green) (died 1940).
Married 1st (1920) Sylvia Rachel Green-Price (died 1933); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1939) Jessie Violet Betty Gillam (died 1993), of Tenbury, Worcestershire.

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29.03.1896
Woolston, Hampshire
-
09.04.1942
(KIA) [age 46]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 3]
...
...
Lt.
15.11.1917
Lt.Cdr.
15.11.1925
Cdr.
30.06.1931
Capt.
31.12.1937
Member of the Royal Victorian Order MVO
29.07.1937
command of HM's Yacht
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
20.09.1918
Dover Patrol
Mention in Despatches MID
10.11.1942
loss of HMS Hermes by enemy air attack 04.1942 [posthumously]
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (15.01.1909-...)
1914
-
1918
served European war: North Sea, Dover Patrol and Belgian Coast
1919


Caspian Naval Force
1920


Naval Mission to Persia
02.01.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Resolution (battleship)
(01.1925)
 
 
no appointment listed
24.02.1925
-
(05.)1926
staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
31.12.1926
-
(06.1928)
HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
03.07.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Colombo (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
31.01.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
17.12.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
17.01.1933
-
(06.1933)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
16.01.1934
-
(07.)1935
Commander on staff of RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
02.1936
-
(02.)1938
Commanding Officer, HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht)
(06.1938)
-
(08.1938)
no appointment listed
18.08.1938
-
22.04.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser & anti-aircraft ship)
07.05.1940
-
09.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) [ship sunk by Japanese aircraft south of Ceylon]
Onslow,
[Sir] Richard George

Eldest son of Major G.A. Onslow, and the late Mrs Onslow.
Married (1932) Kathleen Meriel Taylor, elder daughter of late E.C. Taylor, JP; two sons.
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15.04.1904
Atcham, Montgomeryshire
-
16.12.1975
[Dorrington, Shrewsbury ?]
Midsh.
15.05.1922
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1924
Lt.
15.04.1926
Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1934
Cdr.
31.12.1938
Capt.
31.12.1942
R.Adm.
08.07.1952
V.Adm.
01.12.1955
Adm.
31.01.1959 (retd 1960)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1958
New Year 1958 [investiture 11.02.1958]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
10.06.1954
HM's birthday 1954 [investiture 06.07.1954]

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 
30.06.1942
convoy QP12 & PQ16 05.1942 [investiture 06.04.1943]

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 
10.11.1942
Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy, 11-16.08.1942 [investiture 06.04.1943]

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 
01.12.1942
North Russian convoy PQ18 09.1942 [investiture 06.04.1943]

Distinguished Service Order

DSO 
31.10.1944
Operation Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang 25.07.1945) [investiture 12.03.1946]
Mention in Despatches MID
09.08.1940
for good services when specially employed
Order of the Red Banner (USSR) RB
17.11.1942
Russian convoys 1941-1942 [order presented]
Knight Commander of the Order of the Sword (Sweden) OSw
1954
visit King & Queen to Sweden 28.07.1954
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth; Staff College (1935); Imperial Defence College (1946)
1918


entered RN
15.05.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Warspite (battleship)
01.01.1925
-
(01.1925)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
1926
- 1945 served in destroyers almost continuously:
20.03.1926
-
(05.)1928
HMS Witch (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(06.1928)
 
 
no appointment listed
11.09.1928
-
(08.1929)
HMS Caradoc (cruiser)
15.04.1930
-
(01.)1932
First Lieutenant, HMS Searcher (destroyer)
14.06.1932
-
(08.)1934
First Lieutenant, HMS Daring (destroyer)
(11.1934)
 
 
no appointment listed
15.01.1935
-
(07.1935)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
13.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for emergency destroyers)
31.12.1936
-
(02.)1937
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
14.06.1937
-
(10.1938)
Commanding Officer, HMS Gipsy (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(02.1939)
-
(04.1939)
no appointment listed
01.05.1939
-
(02.1941)
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.06.1941
-
13.12.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Ashanti (destroyer)
01.1943

11.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment) & for co-ordination of all anti-submarine training establishments
11.1943
-
(07.1945)
Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Flotilla & Commanding Officer, HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
27.02.1947
-
(07.)1948
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Londonderry [HMS Sea Eagle]
08.11.1948
-
(05.1950)
Director of Tactical and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
1951


HMS Devonshire
05.1952
-
(07.)1954
Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty [HMS President]
04.01.1955
-
(01.)1956
Flag Officer (Flotillas), Home Fleet [HMS Glasgow]
12.1956
-
(01.)1957
Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Vanguard]
25.02.1958
-
11.1960
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
1962 Deputy Lieutenant, Salop; Officer, Order of St. John, 01.1963.
Onyon,
Wilfrid Mowbray
W.M. Onyon
Son of Eng.Capt. William Onyon, MVO, RN.
1905
Cathcart district, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
28.02.1958
Midsh.
15.05.1923
A/S.Lt. (E)
15.09.1925
S.Lt. (E)
30.04.1926
Lt. (E)
30.06.1928 (retd 27.01.1934)
Lt.Cdr. (E) (retd)
30.06.1936
A/Cdr. (E) (retd)
16.08.1940?
Cdr. (E) (retd)
? (reverted to retd > 05.1950, < 05.1953)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday [investiture 26.09.1945]
15.05.1923
-
(02.)1927
engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
04.05.1927
-
(06.1928)
HMS Nelson (battleship)
18.02.1929
-
(02.)1931
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.1931
-
(05.)1933
HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
(06.1933)
 
 
no appointment listed
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
12.1936
-
(02.)1937
an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (on probation)
08.03.1937
-
(07.)1937
Inspecting Torpedo Officer, RN Torpedo Factory, Greenock  under the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (on probation)
24.08.1937
-
(04.)1940
Naval Ordnance Inspecting Officer [renamed: Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance], Peterborough Area [under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty]
16.08.1940
-
(10.1944)
detached for special duties under the Chief of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
15.06.1945
-
(07.1948)
Inspecting Torpedo Officer [later renamed: Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance], Greenock Area (RN Torpedo Factory) under the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
(05.1949)
-
(05.1950)
HMS President *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Oram,
Harry Percy Kendall
"Joe"
H.P.K. Oram
Married ((03?).1921, Peterborough district) Kathleen Boltby; at least one son (Lt.Cdr. John Somerville Kendall Oram, RN).
Of Turk's Row, London.

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23.10.1894
Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
29.05.1986
South Newton, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Lt. 04.08.1917
Lt.Cdr. 04.08.1925
Cdr. 31.12.1930
Capt. 30.06.1936 (retd 1945)
1911     joined merchant navy
1913     joined RN
... - ... ...
20.04.1933 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Pigmy (special service vessel) (for reserve group of submarines) (Portsmouth)
08.02.1934 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Bruce (flotilla leader, 4th Submarine Flotilla) (China)
31.08.1936 - (02.)1938 Captain (S) 2nd Submarine Flotilla [HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)] (Home Fleet)
15.02.1938 - (04.)1939 Captain (S) 5th Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] (for Fort Blockhouse)
1939 - 01.06.1939 observer, HMS Thetis (submarine) (sunk) (one of four survivors)
(08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed
23.08.1939 - 31.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser)
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
06.05.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
03.03.1942 - (08.)1942 Admiralty [HMS President]
04.09.1942 - (10.1944) Director Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.01.1945 - 05.07.1945 also: Naval ADC to the King
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Published: Ready for sea (1974); The rogue's yarn (1993).
Oram,
John Somerville Kendall
J.S.K. Oram
Son of Capt. Harry Percy Kendall Oram, RN, and Kathleen Boltby.
Married 1st (1948) Juliet Hermione Abbey (born 1925); one daughter.
Married 2nd Olivia; three daughters, one step-daughter.

10.03.1923
Southsea, Portsmouth , Hampshire
-
05.05.2008
[age 85]
Barford St Martin, Somerset
Midsh.
01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1942
S.Lt.
01.09.1942
Lt.
01.03.1944
Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1952 (retd 01.07.1956; own request)
Mention in Despatches MID
10.07.1945
attack enemy convoy Norway 03.04.1945
01.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS King George V (battleship)
01.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS King George V (battleship)
01.05.1942
-
(08.)1942
promotion course, Portsmouth
09.1942
-
(06.)1943
HMS Obedient (destroyer)
25.07.1943
-
(04.1945)
HMS Zealous (destroyer)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Catterick *
...
-
...
...
* indexed, but not listed as such
Orchard,
Richard William
H.D. Owen

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13.11.1889
Plymouth, Devon
-
09.08.1976
Devonshire
Seaman ? [M3107]
Wt.Eng. 01.09.1920
Cd.Eng. [regraded as Sen.Cd.Eng.] 01.09.1930 (retd 07.02.1935; own request)
... - ... ...
04.11.1924 - (03.)1926 HMS Broke (flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean)
09.03.1926 - 1926? HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (temporarily)
(02.1927)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
(10.1940)     HMS Robin (boom defence depot ship, Hong Kong) *
27.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa)
12.03.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)
* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Reilly,
Patrick Joseph
P.J. O'Reilly
?
-
Sg.Lt.
30.09.1938
1939, seniority 01.05.1938 (emgcy 30.09.1943)
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)
01.05.1944 (reverted to emgcy 1945)
Education: MB, BCh
01.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
(12.)1941


HMS Cornwall (cruiser) *
10.02.1942
-
(10.)1943
RN Sick Quarters Grimsby
(12.1943)


no appointment listed
17.02.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)
(07.1945)


HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
O'Riordan,
Arthur Colin
A.C. O'Riordan (Photo courtesy of Mr Alastair O'Riordan) A.C. O'Riordan (Photo courtesy of Mr Alastair O'Riordan)
Son of Kevin Moran O'Riordan, OBE (1887-1977), Indian Police, and Constance Hilda Kirby (1885-1963), of Lymington, Hampshire.
Married (05.04.1950, North Queensferry Church) Ruth Mathewson (1924? - ), younger daughter of Mr & Mrs W. Galbraith Mathewson, of North Queensferry, Fife; three sons.
12.08.1921
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
14.09.2007
Adamson Hospital, Cupar (from Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland)
Cadet 01.01.1939
Midsh. 01.09.1939
A/S.Lt. 01.05.1941
S.Lt. 16.06.1941
Lt. 16.04.1942
Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1950
Cdr. 30.06.1957 (retd 12.08.1971)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 22.02.1944 attack U-boat Western Approaches 22.09.1943
Mention in Despatches MID 20.06.1944 escort convoy JW57 & RA57
Education: Taverham Hall School, Norfolk; RN College, Dartmouth (01.05.1935-20.12.1938; Grenville House; Cadet Captain & House Cadet Captain; Admiralty No. 1540; awarded King's Dirk & Eardley-Howard-Crockett Prize, 12.1938).
01.01.1939 - 03.08.1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
04.08.1939 - (04.)1941 HMS Danae (cruiser) (South Atlantic & China)
05.05.1941 - (06.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
09.09.1941 - (10.)1942 HMS Malaya (battleship) (with Force H, Malta convoys)
05.12.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Keppel (destroyer) (convoys Atlantic, Gibraltar, West Africa, Russia)
28.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Volage (destroyer) (Home Fleet & Far East)
1946? - 1947 long signals course [HMS Mercury]
31.03.1947 - 1948 HMS Chequers (Mediterranean Fleet)
 01.03.1948 - 1951 Flag Lieutenant to Flag Officer Flying Training [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle)] (Home Air Command)
11.01.1951 - 1952 staff, HMS Mercury (Signal School, nr Petersfield, Hampshire)
26.01.1953 - (07.)1954 Fleet Communications Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic [HMS Euryalus]]
03.01.1955 - (01.)1956 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.02.1956 - (01.)1957 on staff of Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Manxman]
1957 - 1957 staff course, RN College, Greenwich
04.03.1958 - (01.)1959 Training Commander, HMS Mercury (Signal School, nr Petersfield, Hampshire)
08.12.1959 - (01.)1960 Commanding Officer, HMS Temeraire (Upper Yardmen Training Establishment, Port Edgar)
1960 - 1960 Staff Officer Operations on staff of Flag Officer Second-in-Command Far East Station [HMS Albion, from 22.09.1960 HMS Bulwark, HMS Vampire, HMS Belfast]
03.07.1961 - (02.)1964 Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
1965 - 1967 Ministry of Defence, Defence Operations Centre
1968? - 1968? Woolwich (for 3 months; editor of fighting instructions)
24.04.1967 - 1971 Naval Liaison Officer for Merchant Navy, Southampton [HMS Victory] (and for Merchant Navy and Royal Naval Reserve Liaison Duties)
Ormsby,
Gerald Anthony Gore
"Tony"
G.A.G. Ormsby G.A.G. Ormsby

Son of Col. Gilbert John Anthony Ormsby (1876-1965), and Alice Pirie (1880-1965), of Dublin, Ireland.
Married (30.08.1948, Westminster district, London) Nancy Mary "Susan" King-Clark (née Williams) (31.05.1918 - 30.11.1974); one son, one daughter.

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28.09.1909
Fyzabad, India
-
30.09.1992
Stoke Row, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire
Cadet 01.01.1927
Midsh. 01.09.1927
A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930
S.Lt. 01.07.1930
Lt. 01.08.1931
Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1939
Cdr. 31.12.1943
Capt. 28.09.1959 (retd 28.09.1959)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 06.06.1944 2 U-boats sunk Western Approaches 18.03.1944 [investiture 12.03.1946]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.01.1940 New Year 1940 [investiture 02.07.1940]
Naval General Service Medal NavGSM - & clasp Palestine 1933-39
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Burma Star Bur St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 13.02.1945 sinking of U-boat East Indies 08.1944
Coronation Medal 1953 CorM 53 - -
Royal Humane Society Medal in bronze RHSM(Br) 1940? for the rescue of prisoners from the Altmark in Feb 1940 with HMS Cossack

Royal Life Saving Society Medal of Merit, silver, 1924.

... - ... ...
1927 - 1928 HMS Iron Duke
... - ... ...
03.05.1938 - (12.1939) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Afridi (Tribal class destroyer) (and for flotilla duties) (DSC)
18.01.1940 - (04.)1940 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Cossack (Tribal class destroyer) (for anti-submarine flotilla duties) (Royal Humane Society Medal in bronze)
14.04.1940 - (06.)1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
24.06.1940 - (08.)1940 Staff Section, Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
27.08.1940 - (10.)1940 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
11.11.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport) (for duty in Destroyer Office, Flagstaff Steps, Devonport)
12.01.1941 - (06.)1941 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
(08.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
08.02.1942 - (12.1942) Staff Section, Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
15.02.1943 - 15.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (V class destroyer)
30.11.1943 - 20.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Pheasant (modified Black Swan class sloop)
(02.1944) - (04.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Spey (River class frigate) * & from 03.02.1944-24.02.1944 as Senior Officer, 10th Support Group (DSO)
23.05.1944 - 09.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Taff (River class frigate) & as Senior Officer, 60th Escort Group
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
08.10.1945 - (04.1946) Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Mine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
... - ... ...
... - ... NATO Staff (Paris, France)
... - ... ...
* indexed, but not listed as such
Captain Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby, D.S.O., D.S.C., born Dublin, 1909; entered the Royal Navy as Cadet at Dartmouth, 1923; appointed Midshipman H.M.S. Kent (Cruiser), on the China station before being posted to the cruiser Carlisle, ´for service on the African station, where he was involved in an affair which caused something of a stir. Tshekedi Khama, the Regent of the Bamangwato tribe of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana), was an African chieftain of rather too independent views to suit the British colonial authorities. In September 1933 he broke the law of the Territory by ordering a white man to be flogged after a dispute concerning a native woman with whom the white man had been living. The High Commissioner was on leave, and the Acting High Commissioner, the C-in-C Africa station, Adm. Sir Edward Evans (Evans of the Broke) dispatched what amounted to a Naval Brigade on the Victorian Navy pattern. Nine officers, including Ormsby, and 150 sailors and marines from Carlisle, with three howitzers, six Lewis guns, 100 rifles and supplies for three weeks, travelled 1,100 miles up country by train, lorry and finally on foot. Evans himself arrived in state to hold a formal hearing under a fig tree, attended by a contingent of tribesmen, who were over-awed by the regal trappings of the Royal Marines. The tribesmen had been relieved of their guns by Carlisle´s sailors, who gave them all a cloakroom ticket so that they could reclaim their firearms later. Khama was deposed, but later reinstated´ (Obituary included in lot refers); served at H.M.S. Osprey (Anti-Submarine Training Establishment), Portland, from 1937; qualified as Anti-Submarine Officer, and with the outbreak of the Second War was posted to H.M.S. Afridi (Destroyer); the latter formed part of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla and was assigned for service with the Humber Force in the North Sea; Ormsby was quickly into action in October, and was involved in attacks on three U-boats over the course of five days, one of which is believed to have been sunk (D.S.C.); Ormsby was appointed Lieutenant-Commander and Anti-Submarine Officer to the Afridi´s sister ship H.M.S. Cossack, January 1940. Ormsby´s first action in his new ship was on the night of 16.2.1940; commanded by Captain Philip Vian, R.N. she intercepted the tanker Altmark en route for Germany carrying 300 prisoners of war who had been picked up from ships sunk by the Graf Spee; travelling through the neutral waters of Norway the Altmark sought refuge in Josing Fjord; Cossack followed her in, however the Norwegian naval escorts positioned themselves to block any attempt to board the German ship; given the sensitivity of the neutrality aspect Vian had to wait for Admiralty orders before deciding upon a course of action; he received the following from the then First Sea Lord Winston Churchill: ´Unless Norwegian torpedo-boat undertakes to convoy Altmark to Bergen with a joint Anglo-Norwegian guard on board, and a joint escort, you should board Altmark, liberate the prisoners, and take possession of the ship pending further instructions. If Norwegian torpedo-boat interferes, you should warn her to stand off. If she fires upon you, you should not reply unless attack is serious, in which case you should defend yourself, using no more force than is necessary, and ceasing fire when she desists.´ Armed with these instructions Vian acted decisively, as his account of the action shows: 'Having placed Cossack in a position from which our pom-poms could play upon Norwegian decks, whilst their torpedo tubes were no instant menace to us, I said we could parley no longer, and must board and search the Altmark forthwith, whether we fought them or not. Kjell´s captain decided that honour was served by submitting to superior force, and withdrew. On rounding the bend in the fjord, Altmark at last came into view. She lay bows inshore, encased in ice, her great bulk standing black against the snow-clad mountains. Thoughts of the six-inch guns with which the Altmark was said to be armed were naturally in our minds. Though our own guns were manned we were obviously an easy target, and the enemy´s first shots might well immobilise us at once. There was nothing for it, however, but to go ahead and get to grips as quickly as possible. The Altmark Captain was determined to resist being boarded. On sighting Cossack, he trained his searchlight on our bridge to blind the command, and came astern at full power through the channel which his entry into the ice had made. His idea was to ram us. Unless something was done very quickly the great mass of the tanker´s counter was going to crash heavily into Cossack´s port bow. There followed a period of manoeuvring in which disaster, as serious collision must have entailed, was avoided by the skill of my imperturable navigator, McLean, and by the speed with which the main engine manoeuvring valves were operated by their artificers. Lieutenant Bradwell Turner, the leader of the boarding party, anticipated Cossack´s arrival alongside Altmark with a leap which became famous. Petty Officer Atkins, who followed him, fell short, and hung by his hands until Turner heaved him on deck. The two quickly made fast a hemp hawser from Cossack´s fo´c´s´le, and the rest of the party scrambled across. When Turner arrived on Altmark´s bridge he found the engine telegraphs set to full speed in an endeavour to force Cossack ashore. On Turner´s appearance, the captain and others surrendered, except the third officer, who interfered with the telegraphs, which Turner had set to stop. Turner forbore to shoot him. It was now clear that as a result of her manoeuvres Altmark would ground by the stern, which she did, but not before Cossack, the boarding party all being transferred, had cast off, to avoid the same fate. It was expected, with the surrender of the German captain, that the release of our prisoners would be a drawing-room affair. That this was not so was due to the action of a member of the armed guard which Graf Spee had put aboard. He gratuitously shot Gunner Smith, of the boarding party, in an alleyway. This invoked retaliation, upon which the armed guard decamped; they fled across the ice, and began to snipe the boarding party from an eminence on shore. Silhouetted against the snow they made easy targets, and their fire was quickly silenced by Turner and his men. In the end German casualties were few, six killed and six badly wounded. The boarding party had none, save unlucky Gunner Smith, and even he was not fatally wounded. Resistance overcome, Turner was able to turn to the business of the day. The prisoners were under locked hatches in the holds; when these had been broken open Turner hailed the men below with the words: “Any British down there?" He was greeted with a tremendous yell of “Yes! We´re all British!” “Come on up then,” said Turner, “The Navy´s here!” While the boarding party were in the process of securing the Altmark Ormsby was involved in an incident himself, ´While Vian watched and wondered a lamp on the Altmark began to flash a message. Among the boarding party was a young signalman named Donald Davies, lent for the raid by H.M.S. Afridi. Davies had fitted up his lamp and had already signalled that the operation was going well. But now he had a serious, frightening message. "Altmark captured and now in our charge," the officers on Cossack´s bridge read from the flashes. "Reported due to blow up at midnight." The officers looked at each other with dismay. The message bore the hallmark of truth. "Just the sort of thing Jerry would do," said Hector MacLean. "And if he blows her up, trust him to do it at precisely midnight." It was clear to Vian that the whole action must be speeded up. Even without a hitch, it was doubtful whether the boarding party could liberate the prisoners by midnight, but they would have to try. He looked around at the Norwegian gun-boats, but could see no sign of activity. Of the ships in the fjord, only they were quiet. It was improbable that they would interfere now that the boarding had taken place. Vian gave the order: "Back to the Altmark." The tanker loomed large and black against the white snowy background and Vian was almost alongside when a shout went up. "Man overboard." "Who on earth is it?" demanded Vian. Now that every minute counted, a mishap of this sort could jeopardize his own ship and all the prisoners. "Man from 14 Mess, sir," a petty officer caller back. "How can you tell that?" snapped Vian. "Officers have recognized him, sir." Get him with grappling irons!" Vian shouted instantly. "Nobody is to go over the side after him." His order was too late. Already Tony Ormsby, Lieutenant-Commander and Anti-Submarine Officer, and Lieutenant Burkett, had dived into the icy water and were swimming strongly towards the unfortunate seaman. Each took a hold on the man and propelled him back towards the Cossack. Ratings threw down lines and hauled the three men up; the sailor was unconscious, the officers shivering. "Blimey," a petty officer called out as he bent over the rescued man. He examined the identity disc which said: A. Berndsen, Altmark. "This isn´t one of our blokes. It´s one of theirs." It was a German sailor who had jumped overboard from the German ship. Berndsen was dead´ (The Navy´s Here, The Story of the ´Altmark´ Affair and the Battle of the River Plate, Frischauer & Jackson, refers). Both Ormsby and Burkett were awarded the Royal Humane Society´s bronze medal for their heroic efforts in the freezing water. Ormsby joined the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division in the Admiralty, before being appointed Anti-Submarine Officer to H.M.S. Warspite (battleship), Mediterranean station,1941; appointed to the command of H.M.S. Pheasant (Sloop - converted into a specialised convoy defence vessel, with anti-aircraft and anti-submarine capability), and ´then served three extremely hard years as an escort captain in the Atlantic. During that time he had no leave and, when at sea, never a complete night´s sleep, snatching an hour when he could in a hammock in the chart-house´ (Obituary refers); appointed to the command of H.M.S. Spey (Frigate) and in her led the 10th Support Group on anti-submarine operations in the Western Approaches; his expertise on submarines came to the fore when leading his group in the defence of the outward bound Atlantic convoy ONS29, on the evening of the 18/19th February 1944; Roskill offers the following in The War at Sea, ´Late on the 15th [February] another outward bound convoy, actually OS68 though the enemy believed it to be ON224, was reported by aircraft off north-west Ireland. No less than twenty U-boats were ordered to close towards it; but, as had happened so often before, the Luftwaffe found it impossible to keep in constant touch with their quarry. The first two Ju.290s to be sent out on the 16th were shot down by Fleet Air Arm fighters and Coastal Command´s interception patrols, and the result was that the convoy was not reported again until late in the afternoon. The enemy thereupon decided to attack during the night of the 17th-18th and concentrated a score of U-boats in lines three deep across its path. As, however, their night air reconnaissance failed, the U-boats did not receive the expected homing signals. In fact there were two convoys approaching the enemy concentration, for ONS29 was about 150 miles south-west of ON224, and the latter was overtaking the former. The threat to them both had not gone unobserved in London; strong air cover was being continuously provided by Coastal Command, and three escort group had been diverted.... the 2nd and 7th Escort Groups, with Walker in command, were sent to reinforce ON224, while the 10th Group joined up with ONS29. The former convoy was also diverted further to the south during the night of the 17th-18th; but all this remained hidden from the enemy until late on the 18th, because his air searches had once again failed. When the German wireless-interception revealed ON224´s diversion on the afternoon of the 18th, they sent the U-boats in pursuit. At 3.20 the 10th Escort Group obtained contact near ONS29, and the frigate Spey sank U406. Among the forty-five survivors was a party of scientists embarked to investigate radar counter-measures, and from them we gained valuable information on enemy progress in that technique. By the small hours of the 19th the two convoys ON224 and ONS29 were not far apart, and the U-boats were still pursuing them. Liberators forced several of them down that night. At daylight Walker decided to sweep back along the convoy track to seek enemies whose presence had been detected earlier. At 10am the Woodpecker obtained a contact, and after a seven-hour hunt she and the Starling forced U264 to surface and abandon ship...That same afternoon the 10th Escort Group, which was on its way to join ON224, added to the score by sinking U386.´ Ormsby initially engaged U386 with depth charges, forcing her to the surface about 800 yards from his frigate, ´As H.M.S. Spey altered course to close and opened fire with all guns, the U-boat started to proceed ahead. At the same time the enemy returned the frigate´s fire, until a shallow pattern of depth charges, fired by H.M.S. Spey, straddled the U-boat. Soon afterwards, several members of the crew were seen abandoning ship. Meanwhile, the enemy, which was down by the stern and badly damaged by the frigate´s gunfire, continued to go ahead. H.M.S. Spey obtained many more hits with her 4in. guns and close-range armament. A few minutes later another party of men emerged from the conning-tower hatch of the U-boat and jumped into the sea. Shortly afterwards the bows of the U-boat reared out of the water and the enemy sank stern first. Commander Ormsby commented that the crew of the second U-boat "showed considerable courage in attempting to man their guns in the face of a hail of Oerlikon and pom-pom fire and several 4in. hits" (Newspaper cutting included in lot refers); Admiral Sir Max Horton, the C-in-C Western Approaches wrote on Ormsby´s report of proceedings: "This is how things should be done", and Ormsby was awarded the D.S.O. Ormsby was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Taff (frigate), May 1944; from her he commanded the 60th Escort Group as part of the East Indies Fleet; the latter was involved in the sinking of U198, off the Seychelles,12.8.1944; Ormsby was Mentioned in Despatches for this before taking part in the rescue of the crew of the merchantman Troilus, 10.9.1944; the day before the Troilus had been torpedoed and sunk by U859 300 miles north-east of Socotra Island; working in conjunction with H.M.S. Nadder 95 survivors of the attack were rescued; Ormsby relinquished his command of the Taff in June 1945, and qualified as a Torpedo Anti-Submarine (TAS) Officer; he served at the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division of the Admiralty before commanding H.M.S. St. Kitts (Destroyer), 1950-1951; in 1954 ´he joined the NATO Staff at Fontainebleu, near Paris. His final appointment before his retirement in 1959 was as employment development officer, with the task of finding suitable jobs in commerce and industry for the numerous officers who were leaving the Navy under the "Golden Bowler" scheme. Ormsby then became Director of Studies at Greenlands Administrative Staff College, at Henley on Thames. In 1977 he was a member of the working party which set up the Sue Ryder home in the house at Nettlebed, Oxon, formerly owned by Peter Fleming and Celia Johnson. In 1979 he became its first Administrator and Chairman of the house committee.
Orpen,
Arthur Frederick St George
"Willie"

A.F.St.G. Orpen (© Imperial War Museum (A 29197))
Son (with four sisters) of Charles St George Orpen (1865-1939), and Maria Cerise "Cherry" Darley (1874-1950).
Married ((06?).1940, Midhurst district, Sussex) Augusta Dorothy Josephine Grace Morris (07.07.1905 - 02.1999); ... children (one daughter?).

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19.03.1903
Rathdown district, Ireland
-
23.05.1992
Liphook, Petersfield district, Hampshire
[St Luke's Churchyard, Milland, Chichester district, West Sussex]
Midsh. 15.01.1921
A/S.Lt. 15.05.1923
S.Lt. 30.01.1924
Lt. 30.10.1925
Lt.Cdr. 30.10.1933
Cdr. 31.12.1937
Capt. 30.06.1942 (retd 08.01.1952)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 [investiture 10.03.1942]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 25.11.1941 attacks U-boats Western Approaches 03.08.1941 [investiture 10.03.1942]

Letter of Appreciation (for bombing of Yunnan railway 01.02.1940)
Chevalier of the Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annan (for bombing of Yunnan railway 01.02.1940)

15.09.1916     commissioned, RN
... - ... ...
15.02.1938 - (10.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Gannet (river gunboat)
14.11.1940 - 10.02.1942 HMS Wanderer (modified W class destroyer) (OBE, DSC)
15.02.1942 - 07.1942 HMS Hesperus (Havant class destroyer)
29.09.1942 - (04.)1943 an Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.05.1943 - (07.)1945 Assistant Chief Staff Officer & Chief Staff Officer (Local Operations and Material), Western Approaches Command [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
01.04.1946 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
(07.1946)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
Orr Ewing,
David
D. Orr Ewing (Photo courtesy of Mr C.D. Orr Ewing)
Son of Charles Lindsay Orr Ewing (1860-1903), and Augusta Helen Elizabeth Boyle (1876-1967).
Married (15.03.1930, London) Mary Helen Stuart 'Molly' Noaks (1903-1994), daughter of the late Benjamin Noaks of Bloemfontein, South Africa; two sons.

Service record available

Service record available

Service record available

24.03.1900
Marylebone district, London
-
18.06.1964
Dunksey, Portpatrick district, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Midsh.
01.01.1916
A/S.Lt.
15.01.1918
S.Lt.
15.09.1918
Lt.
31.08.1920
14.02.1921, seniority 15.06.1920
Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1928
Cdr.
31.12.1933
Capt.
31.12.1940 (retd 07.01.1950)
Cdre. 2nd cl.
02.01.1946-14.12.1947
Distinguished Service Order DSO
04.05.1943
minelaying Mediterranean [investiture 18.04.1944]
King Haakon VII Liberty Medal Hkn
26.08.1947
services to Norway
01.1913
-
01.01.1916
training establishment
01.01.1916
 
 
entered RN
01.01.1916
-
01.04.1918
HMS Princess Royal (battlecruiser)
01.04.1918
-
28.04.1918
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for torpedo boat destroyers gunnery course)
29.04.1918
-
11.05.1918
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for TCC in HMS Vernon]
11.05.1918
-
05.1919
HMS Murray (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Attentive (RN base, Dover)]
15.05.1919
-
10.10.1919
HMS Whitshed (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship)]
10.10.1919
-
20.03.1920
HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; for courses at Cambridge University)
26.04.1920
-
13.06.1920
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (additional; for navigation course for rank of Lt.)
14.06.1920
-
31.10.1920
HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht)
01.11.1920
-
20.12.1920
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for gunnery course for rank of Lt.)
21.12.1920
-
31.12.1920
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for leave)
01.01.1921
-
26?.06.1921
HMS Dido (light cruiser)
09.06.1921
-
06.1921
HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for unemployed time)
06.1921
-
18.09.1922
HMS Raleigh (heavy cruiser) (additional; on commissioning)
19.09.1922
-
20.09.1922
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
21.09.1922
-
15.08.1923
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
17.08.1923
-
26.09.1923
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
27.09.1923
-
26.06.1925
long gunnery course, HMS Excellent (additional; to be lent to RN College, Greenwich) [10.07.1924 lent to HMS Hecla (special torpedo vessel) as additional for HMS Sarpedon (destroyer) as temporary for Reserve Fleet exercises]
27.06.1925
-
29.08.1926
HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for gunnery school)
30.08.1926
-
06.1927
2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(07.1927)
 
 
no appointment listed
25.08.1927
-
17.09.1928
Gunnery Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Africa)
18.09.1928
-
08.1929
Gunnery Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer, Africa Station
21.12.1929
-
15.12.1930
Gunnery Officer, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
13.01.1931
-
11.01.1932
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
12.01.1932
-
08.01.1934
Gunnery Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)
08.02.1934
-
01.04.1934
HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (additional)
02.04.1934
-
1936
Staff Officer (Operations) to Commodore in charge of Naval Establishments at Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]
(02.1936)
 
 
no appointment listed
15.07.1936
-
29.01.1939
Executive Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean)
(02.1939)
-
(04.1939)
no appointment listed
05.04.1939
-
17.01.1941
Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
18.01.1941
-
05?.1941
Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)]
His son writes: "I remember him saying that he left the Hood because there was not a proper job for him. I assume that he must have left the ship at Scapa Flow, just before she sailed on her last trip."
01.06.1941
-
19.08.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (light cruiser) (till 16.06.1941 additional)
19.08.1942
-
29.09.1942
HMS President (additional; for duty on staff of Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force)
10.10.1942
-
10.09.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Abdiel (minelayer) (mined & sunk in Taranto harbour)
(10.1943)
 
 
no appointment listed
08.12.1943
-
12.12.1945
Captain Gunnery (in charge of Gunnery School), Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
12.12.1945
-
01.01.1946
HMS Victory (additional; for leave)
05.01.1946
-
14.12.1947
Commodore Superintendent, HM Dockyard Malta [HMS St Angelo] (from 02.01.1946 as additional)
15.12.1947
-
01.03.1948
HMS Victory I (additional; for passage, leave & whilst unemployed)
02.03.1948
-
18.03.1948
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; fon No. 19 Senior Course at School of Land/Air Warfare, Old Sarum)
19.03.1948
-
13.04.1948
HMS Victory I (additional; whilst unemployed)
14.04.1948
-
10.11.1949
Commanding Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) & as Flag Captain to Flag Officer Training Squadrons
10.11.1949
-
07.01.1950
HMS Victory I (additional; whilst unemployed)
Lieutenant [413365], Wigtownshire Contingent, Army Cadet Force, 01.11.1950-31.12.1955. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Wigtown, 09.01.1950. Laird of Portpatrick.
O'Sullivan,
Maurice John Alfred
H.D. Owen
14.11.1911
-
15.02.1985
Ringwood and Fordingbridge district, Hampshire
...
...
Lt.
01.04.1935
Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1943
Cdr.
31.12.1949 (retd 13.09.1958)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.05.1946
POW
...
-
...
...
(08.1939)
-
(04.1940)
Fleet Air Arm
29.08.1940
-
02.02.1941
pilot, 810 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (Swordfish shot down & crew captured)
02.02.1941
-
1945
POW in German captivity
...
-
...
...
11.05.1954
-
(01.)1956
on staff of SLAW, RAF, Old Sarum & as Assistant Commandant (Navy), HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
[in that capacity also Commanding Officer, Mobile Naval Air Base (MONAB) 10 (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Dorset) ?]
18.06.1956
-
(01.1957)
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Oswald,
George Hamilton
G.H. Oswald G.H. Oswald

Second son (with one brother and two sisters) of Maj. Julian Oswald, JP (1860-1943), and Ethel Maud Sterling, of Auchincruive, Ayrshire.
Married (06.08.1932, Edinburgh, Scotland) Margaret Elliot Robertson (1907 - 1949), daughter (with one sister) of John Cameron Robertson (1875-1920), and Mary Morton Elliot (1882-1954), of Newmore; two sons (one being Adm. of the Fleet Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald, GCB).

Service record AVAILABLE upon request

Service record AVAILABLE upon request

11.11.1903
Cannobie, Scotland
-
30.05.1971
Newmore, Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland
Midsh. 15.09.1921
A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924
S.Lt. 15.07.1924
Lt. 15.08.1925
Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1933
Cdr. 30.06.1938
Capt. 31.12.1943 (retd 08.07.1953)
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH ? Mulberry harbours Arromanches
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.
15.05.1917     entered RN
... - ... ...
10.08.1938 - (07.)1940 an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.07.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick, Shetlands) (on staff of Flag Officer Shetlands, Adm. of the Fleet The Earl of Cork and Orrery)
(12.1940) - (04.1941) no appointment listed
26.05.1941 - (06.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser)
(08.1943)     no appointment listed
20.08.1943 - (07.)1945 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services: for duty in War Cabinet Office)
      Secretary to a number of sub-committees, such as Inter-Service Sub-Committee on Biological Warfare
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
15.01.1946 - (04.1946)

Commanding Officer, HMS London (cruiser)

... - ... ...
Ottaway,
Gilbert William
G.W. Ottaway
Married 1st ((06?).1924, Newbury district, Berkshire) Edith E. Read.
Married 2nd ((12?).1947, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Emily New (née Courtney).

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11.11.1902
Reading, Bradfield district, Berkshire
-
20.02.1987
Bath district, Somerset
Seaman ? [J93049]
Gnr. 01.04.1931
Cd.Gnr. 01.10.1941 (retd 12.11.1946)
Lt. (retd) 12.11.1946
... - ... ...
27.09.1938 - (06.)1940 HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
(07.1940) - (10.1940) no appointment listed
13.11.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
22.03.1943 - (06.)1943 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
28.06.1943 - 27.07.1944 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
28.07.1944 - (04.)1946 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for bookwriting duties)
Otway-Ruthven,
Robert Jocelyn Oliver
R.J.O. Otway-Ruthven

Son of Robert Mervyn Bermingham Otway-Ruthven, and Margaret Casement.
Married (14.08.1926) Vera Beryl Martin Cooke; one son, one daughter.

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12.03.1901
Rathdrum, Ireland
-
17.05.1974
... ...
Lt. 03.06.1922
Lt.Cdr. 03.06.1930
Cdr. 31.12.1935
Capt. 30.06.1943 (retd 29.07.1952)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 02.02.1945]
Mention in Despatches MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk
15.09.1914     entered RN
... - ... ...
24.05.1938 - (02.)1940 an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
01.03.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Prince of Wales (King George V class battleship)
03.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Flamingo (Black Swan class sloop)
16.01.1942 - 11.07.1943 Executive Officer, HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser)
24.07.1943 - 31.08.1943 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
01.09.1943 - (06.1944) Senior Officer Assault Group (SOAG) J2 [HMS Victory (additional), from 01.11.1943 HMS Odyssey (additional)] (Normandy invasion) (DSO)
24.02.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Leander (cruiser)
... - ... ...
Ouvry,
Aymé Arthur Carrington
A.A.C. Ouvry (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
A.A.C. Ouvry (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
A.A.C. Ouvry (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster) A.A.C. Ouvry (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Eldest son (with three brothers and one sister) of Ernest Carrington Ouvry (1866-1951), and Elinor Southwood Lewes (1877-1974), of Crockham Hill, Kent.
Married (11.08.1934, St Peter's, Southsea, Hampshire) Susan Phyllis Alderson (23.05.1912 - 04.2002), younger daughter of Sg.Capt. Percy Francis Alderson, RN (1876-1954), and Kathleen Ellen Key Swindale (1877-1966), of Southsea, Hampshire; one son, one daughter.

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13.03.1904
Paddington, London
-
11.03.1989
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
... ...
A/S.Lt. 15.05.1924
S.Lt. 15.01.1925
Lt. 15.10.1926
Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1934 (retd 15.05.1946)
Cdr. (retd) 15.05.1946?
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.02.1942 E-boat action Convoy FN 31 19.11.1941 [decoration presented]
Mention in Despatches MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coasts 05.1940
15.09.1917     commissioned RN
... - ... ...
08.1939 - 20.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Mastiff (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
20.12.1939 - (04.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Westminster (W class destroyer)
02.05.1942 - 10.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Westminster (W class destroyer)
(12.)1942 - (04.)1946 Staff Officer Seconded Personnel, Directorate of the South African Naval Forces, Defence Headquarters [lent from RN]
Ouvry,
John Garnault Delahaize

J.G.D. Ouvry J.G.D. Ouvry
J.G.D. Ouvry J.G.D. Ouvry



Younger son of Rev. John Delahaize Ouvry (1862?-1948), honorary Chaplain to the Forces, and Mary Frances Henrietta Hill (1867-1945), of Sherborne, Dorset.
Married (18.08.1928, St Peter's Church, Melbourne) Lorna Evison (16.01.1908 - (06?).1978), daughter of Ernest Edward Evison, of Old Coulsdon, Surrey; four sons.

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19.09.1896
Lymington, Hampshire
-
19.02.1993
Sway, New Forest district, Hampshire
A/S.Lt. ?
S.Lt. 15.03.1917
Lt. 15.09.1918
16.06.1923, seniority 15.06.1918
Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1926 (retd 19.09.1941)
Cdr. (retd) 19.09.1941 (reverted to retd 1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO 23.12.1939 securing & stripping live enemy mines at Shoeburyness 24.11.1939 [investiture 19.12.1939]
Education: Bradfield College; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.
09.1909     entered RN
28.09.1921 - (04.1922) HMS Vernon (torpedo school ship) (additional; qualifying for torpedo duties)
01.06.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Vernon (torpedo school ship)
16.07.1924 - (05.)1926 Torpedo Officer, HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean)
03.08.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Defiance IV (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
26.03.1928 - 20.03.1930 Torpedo Officer, HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot) (and for charge of Torpedo School) [on loan to RAN]
(04.1930)     no appointment listed
23.07.1930 - (09.)1932 Torpedo Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
08.11.1932 - (10.)1936 Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]
05.12.1936 - 05.1937 HMS Terror II (RN base, Singapore)
07.05.1937 - (04.)1946 Mining Department, Torpedo School and Experimental Establishment, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]
Justice of the Peace (JP), Hampshire, 1950.
Owen,
Charles Alexander Headon
C.A.H. Owen
Married (1950) Felicity Heygate; one son, one daughter.

14.11.1915
Brighton
-
02.05.2001
London
Cadet
01.01.1933
Midsh.
01.09.1933
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1936
S.Lt.
01.10.1936
Lt.
16.09.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1946 (retd 07.12.1947)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
18.05.1943
North Russian convoy (battle of the Barents Sea 31.12.1942) [investiture 29.06.1943]
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
01.01.1933
-
09.08.1933
HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
10.08.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
11.01.1934
-
(07.1935)
HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1936
-
30.08.1936
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
31.08.1936
-
(02.)1937
promotion course, Portsmouth
(07.1937)
 
 
no appointment listed
15.08.1937
-
(04.)1940
Executive Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer) (China & Home Fleet)
(10.1940)
 
 
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) *
1940?
-
1942?
training staff, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] **
27.10.1942
-
(02.1943)
Executive Officer, HMS Obdurate (destroyer)
22.03.1943
-
(06.)1944
Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
29.08.1944
-
(10.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Burnham (destroyer)
18.11.1944
-
(01.)1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Wells (destroyer)
03.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Stevenstone (destroyer)
Education officer for United Steel in Workington. Government adviser to the Treasury and the Board of Trade on productivity. Had opened, in Reading, one of the first Wimpy hamburger bars in the country (1958). Founded one of the earliest firms of head hunters in Britain (EAL). Writer & journalist.
Published: No more heroes (1956); Independent Traveller (1966); Britons Abroad (968); The Maltese Islands (1969); Grand Days of Travel (1979); Just Across the Channel (1983); Plain yarns from the fleet (1997).
* indexed, but not listed as such
* (02.1941), (12.1941) & (08.1942) indexed as HMS Victory, but lost listed as such
Owen,
Charles Edward Ansell

C.E.A. Owen
14.10.1908
-
08.10.2001
... ...
Cdr. 30.06.1944 (retd 14.10.1958)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC ? ?
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Victorious
... - ... ...
Owen,
Hilary Dorsett
H.D. Owen

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25.08.1894
Plas­yn­Grove,
Ellesmere, Shropshire

-
18.04.1980
Midsh.
1912
Lt.
15.05.1916
Lt.Cdr.
15.05.1924
Cdr.
31.12.1930 (retd 25.08.1944)
A/Capt.
> 08.1939, < 08.1942
Capt. (retd)
25.08.1944
Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George CMG
01.01.1944
Naval Attaché Lisbon
Education: Belvedere, Brighton; RN Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth
15.05.1907
 
 
entered RN



served at sea in European War, and later commanded HMS Aphis in China and HMS Rochester on the Africa Station
...
-
...
...
08.10.1938
-
1944
Naval Attaché Lisbon
1944
-
1945
SHAEF
Owen,
Richard Arthur James
R.A.J. Owen
Son of late Captain Leonard E. Owen, OBE, JP.
Married (1941) Jean Sophia (née Bluett); one son, two daughters.

Lived at Fordingbridge, Hants.
26.08.1910
Gravesend district, Kent
-
10.10.1997
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Paym.Cadet
1927
Paym.Midsh.
01.09.1928
Paym.S.Lt.
01.06.1930
Paym.Lt.
01.06.1932
Paym.Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1940
?, seniority 01.12.1939
A/Paym.Cdr.
< 06.1943
Cdr. (S)
30.06.1945
A/Capt. (S)
?
Capt. (S)
30.06.1954
R.Adm.
07.07.1961 (retd 04.04.1964)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
08.06.1963
HM's birthday 1963
Education: Sevenoaks School
1927


joined RN
26.04.1928
-
(08.1929)
for duty in the office of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
01.10.1929
-
(02.1931)
HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
26.05.1931
-
(01.1932)
HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
19.07.1932
-
(09.1932)
Secretary to Captain (D), Reserve Fleet [HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader)] (Nore)
26.04.1933
-
(07.1935)
for duty in the office of the Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Kent (cruiser)] *
20.05.1936
-
(02.1938)
HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
26.04.1938
-
(10.1938)
HMS Vindictive (cruiser; cadet training cruiser)
12.01.1939
-
(04.1939)
HMS Victory (for duty with Naval Air Stations)
24.05.1939
-
(04.1940)
Secretary of the Chief Staff Officer to the Rear-Admiral Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
01.11.1941
-
(10.1943)
HMS President V (accountant ratings training establishment, Highgate School, London)
(12.1943)


no appointment listed
19.01.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
08.02.1947
-
(07.1948)
Assistant Drafting Officer, RN Barracks Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(05.1950)


HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) **
(05.1953)


HMS President ***
20.07.1953
-
(31.03.1955)
Third Naval Member, New Zealand Naval Board
(01.1956)


no appointment listed
28.06.1960
-
(07.1961)
Commanding Officer, HMS Phoenicia (RN base, Manoel Island, Malta) & Base Supply Officer, Malta
19.01.1962
-
1964
Director-General of Personal Services and Officer Appointments (DGPS), Admiralty [HMS President]
* (02.1936) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** still indexed as such, but not liited, while the base had already been paid off
*** indexed, but not listed as such
Owens,
George Edward Mills
G.E.M. Owens (Photo courtesy of HMS Hood Association)
Son of George Henry Owens, and Sarah Jessie Mills.

(09?).1908
St Asaph district, Denbighshire / Flintshire
-
24.05.1941
(MPK) [age 32]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

Prob. S.Lt. RNR
09.02.1933
S.Lt. RNR
08.06.1937, seniority 09.02.1933
Lt. RNR
07.12.1937, seniority 07.02.1937
Prob. Lt.
29.08.1938
A/Lt.
29.05.1939
Lt.
09.1940, seniority 22.08.1932
Lt.Cdr.
03.1941, seniority 22.08.1940
(10.1938)
-
(08.1939)
no appointment listed
12.08.1939
-
24.05.1941
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
[missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Owens,
Harry Leslie
H.L. Owens

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18.07.1905
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
03.01.1987
Southampton district, Hampshire
Seaman ? [J100717]
Petty Officer (1938)
T/A/Gnr. (T) 23.02.1944
T/Gnr. (T) 1945?, seniority 23.02.1944 (reld 30.03.1946)
Long Service Good Conduct Medal LSGCM 08.1938 ?
(1938)     HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
24.06.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Despatch (cruiser)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Resource (fleet repair ship)
Oxborrow,
Charles Ernest
C.E. Oxborrow

Son of William Oxborrow (1885-1918), and Eliza Dewhirst (1888-1977).
Married  (23.09.1939, Staines district, Middlesex) [later Third Officer WRNS] Hazel Elaine Bowser (24.07.1912 - 10.09.1985), daughter of of Idris John Bowser (1888-1961), and Mary Eliza Marks (1889-1970); one son [died in infancy].
17.10.1916
Woodbridge district, Suffolk
-
25.11.1942
(MPK) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 1]
... ...
S.Lt. 01.01.1938
Lt. 16.05.1939
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 05.05.1942 8 war patrols Mediterranean 04-09.1941 [presented to next-of-kin]
... - ... ...
21.06.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Vanquisher (V class destroyer)
07.10.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS H 43 (H class submarine)
07.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Utmost (U class submarine)
07.11.1940 - (04.)1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Utmost (U class submarine) (DSC)
21.05.1942 - 25.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Unshaken (U class submarine)
Oxley,
Christopher Bernard
C.B. Oxley

Son (with one brother and five sisters) of Adm. Charles Lister Oxley (1841-1920), and Emily Kearsley (1847-1898).
Married (26.04.1922, St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ardrossan) Kathleen Maude Eginton Grant (1895 - ), only child of Charles Edward Grant, DL, of Monkcastle; ... children (daughter Mary Elizabeth Darley Oxley married S.Lt. (A) John Campbell Arbuthnott, RNVR)

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21.01.1894
Mests Horn, Ripon district, Yorkshire
-
11.01.1953
Morley House, Ware, Hertfordshire
Lt. 15.05.1916 (emgcy 22.05.1923)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 15.05.1924
A/Cdr. (emgcy) 03.02.1944
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 06.09.1916 ?
15.01.1907     entered RN
... - ... ...
02.09.1939 - (04.1946) Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
       
 
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