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Packer, H.A.
to
Pizey, E.F.
Place, B.C.G.
to
Puxley, W.L.


 
H.A. Packer  to  E.F. Pizey
Packer,
[Sir] Herbert Annesley
H.A. Packer
Only son of W.H. Packer, MD, Cressage, Shropshire.
Married (1925) Joy, daughter of late Dr Julius Petersen, Cape Town, South Africa; one son.
09.10.1894
Cressage, Shropshire
-
23.09.1962
[Claremont, Cape Province, S. Africa ?]
Lt.
15.12.1916
Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1923
Cdr.
30.06.1929
Capt.
31.12.1935
Cdre. 2nd cl.
10.1943
Cdre. 1st cl.
25.08.1944?
R.Adm.
02.01.1945
V.Adm.
02.09.1948
Adm.
15.03.1952 (retd 18.03.1953)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
08.06.1950
HM's birthday 50
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
04.09.1945
services esp. Italian campaign
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
23.01.1945
planning amphibious operations Sicily & S France
Mention in Despatches MID
18.01.1944
dissolution Force H 11.43
Officer of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
11.12.1945
services Mediterranean 43-44
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
1947
S France
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
1947
S France
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth
1907


entered RN
1914
-
1918
served European War Pacific (HMAS Australia) and Grand Fleet (HMS Warspite) (despatches)
15.08.1920
-
(08.1923)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Dublin (light cruiser)
14.05.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
09.05.1927 - (07.1927) HMS President (for 2 months' study of German in Germany)
07.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS President (for 4 months' study of French in France)
(04.1930)


no appointment listed
13.01.1931
-
(02.)1931
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich
19.12.1931
-
(09.1932)
Fleet Gunnery Officer, China Station [HMS Kent (cruiser)]
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
25.05.1934
-
(02.1936)
HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
21.01.1937
-
07.1939
Naval Attaché Athens, Ankara and Belgrade [HMS President]
(08.1939)


no appointment listed
1939
-
1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Calcutta (anti-aircraft ship)
13.04.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Manchester (cruiser)
15.06.1941
-
01.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Whale Island, Portsmouth)
23.01.1943
-
12.10.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship)
10.1943
-
(06.)1944
Commodore (Administration) to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal]
25.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa]
(04.1946)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
16.10.1946
-
1948
Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Superb]
29.03.1948
-
(05.)1950
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Supplies and Transport
1950
-
1952
Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station
Literature: Joy Packer (widow), Deep as the sea (1976)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Page,
John Allison
J.A. Page
1908
-
1989
Hampshire
Sg.Lt.
11.05.1933
26.04.1935, seniority 11.05.1932
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
11.05.1938
Sg.Cdr.
1947?, seniority 11.05.1944
Sg.Capt.
30.06.1957 (retd 02.05.1965)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.01.1965
New Year 65 [investiture 02.03.65]
Mention in Despatches MID
04.06.1946
services as POW
Education: MB, BCh
11.05.1933


joined RN
11.05.1933
-
(06.)1933
course of instruction for medical officers, RN Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
09.08.1933
-
(02.)1935
HMS Laburnum (sloop) (New Zealand)
(07.1935)
 
 
no appointment listed
13.09.1935
-
(02.1936)
HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean)
01.01.1937
-
(10.1938)
RM Infirmary, Plymouth [HMS Drake] (10.09.1937 transferred to Permanent List)
(02.1939)
 
 
short course of instruction
28.02.1939
-
12.1941
Royal Hospital, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]
12.1941
-
1945
POW in Japanese captivity in Hong Kong & Japan
06.04.1948
-
(07.)1948
Royal Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
09.08.1948
-
(05.)1949
HMS Devonshire
24.08.1949
-
(05.1950)
Royal Hospital, Portland [HMS Osprey]
16.12.1952
-
(05.)1953
Royal Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
06.1953
-
(04.1955)
RN Hospital, Malta [HMS St Angelo]
16.07.1956
-
(01.)1957
RN Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
28.10.1957
-
(01.)1959
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
18.11.1959
-
(07.1961)
Fleet Medical Officer, Far East Station [HMS Terror]
05.06.1962
-
(02.1964)
HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire)
27.03.1964
-
02.05.1965
also: Honorary Physician to the Queen
Page,
John Birley
J.B. Page

Son of William Holmes Page (1862-?), seaman/sailor, and Elizabeth Peart Birley (1872-1950s?).
Married (24.05.1926, Plymouth St Luke, Devon) Ivy B. Tyson (1907-2004); one daughter, two sons.
02.11.1905
Battersea, Greater London, Surrey
-
10.12.1941
(KIA) [age 36]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]
?
? [J104991]
A/Gnr.
01.07.1934 
Gnr.
1935?, seniority 01.07.1934
Mention in Despatches MID
13.10.1942
sinking of HMS Repulse [posthumously]
?
-
(02.)1935
short course of instruction
12.06.1935
-
(07.)1935
HMS Deptford (sloop) (building at HM Dockyard, Chatham) (and on commissioning)
16.11.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Lupin (patrol sloop) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
09.04.1936
-
(02.)1937
HMS Delhi (cruiser) (for direction finding duties) (Mediterranean)
26.04.1937
-
(10.)1938
gunnery school, Devonport (for direction finding duties) [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
29.11.1938
-
10.12.1941
HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (for direction finding duties)
[ship sunk by Japanese aircraft off east coast of Malaya]
Pakenham,
Thomas Arthur Charles
T.A.C. Pakenham
Son of William Law Pakenham (1869-1937), and Ada Mary Phillips (died 1940).
Married (19.12.1925) Clara Talbot Middleton (died 07.07.1985); two sons.
04.09.1900
Essex
-
1981

...
...
Cdr.
31.12.1935
Capt.
31.12.1942 (retd 08.01.1952)
...
-
...
...
03.01.1939
-
24.09.1940
Squadron Gunnery Officer & Staff Officer (Operations), Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Woolwich]
25.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
Squadron Gunnery Officer, Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Maidstone]
26.04.1941
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Black Swan (sloop)
07.03.1943
-
(10.)1943
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties, Western Approaches)
15.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Malta and Flaf Officer Central Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
...
-
...
...
Post-war a reverend.
Palliser,
Sir Arthur Francis Eric
A.F.E. Palliser
A.F.E. Palliser
Son of Arthur Palliser and Hester Brenda Boord.
Married (1921) Margaret Eva, daughter of J.J. King Salter; one son, one daughter.
(09?).1890
Richmond area, Surrey
-
22.02.1956
Kensington, London
Midsh.
1907
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
28.12.1910, seniority 15.03.1910
Lt.
15.03.1911
Lt.Cdr.
15.03.1919
Cdr.
31.12.1924
Capt.
30.06.1931
Cdre. 2nd cl.
20.11.1936?
R.Adm.
08.07.1941
V.Adm.
07.02.1944
Adm.
16.05.1947 (retd 02.09.1948; at own request to facilitate the promotion of junior officers)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
01.01.1945
New Year 45
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
23.03.1917
?
Mention in Despatches MID
02.02.1943
good services in SW Pacific
Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) OON
19.01.1943
services to Dutch navy

Croix de Guerre avec Palme (France) CdeG
23.03.1917
?
Education: Bradfield College; RN Colleges, Dartmouth and Greenwich
1905


entered RN
26.02.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
28.09.1926
-
(07.1927)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich
18.05.1928
-
(04.1930)
Fleet Gunnery Officer, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
02.07.1930
-
(02.1931)
Executive Officer, HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.08.1931
-
(01.1932)
Commanding Officer, HMS Blanche (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(09.1932)


no appointment listed
20.01.1933
-
(01.1934)
RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
30.04.1935
-
(02.1936)
Flag Captain, HMS Leander (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
20.11.1936
-
(08.)1938
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Cumberland (cruiser)]
19.12.1938
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
20.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
Flag Captain HMS Malaya (battleship) (and as Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron)
1940
-
1941
ADC to the King
1941
-
1942
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet
26.03.1942
-
(02.1943)
Flag Officer-in-Charge, Trincomalee & Fortress Commander [HMS Lanka?]
(06.1943)
-
(08.1943)
Royal Indian Navy
29.08.1943
-
1944
Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS London]
20.03.1944
-
1946
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Supplies and Transport (Fourth Sea Lord)
09.03.1946
-
1948
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Highflyer]
Palmer,
Edwin Mansergh
E.M. Palmer

Son of Joseph Mansergh Palmer (1850-1924), and Georgina Berlinda (Hartford) Palmer (1846-1940).
18XX ?
-
1963
A/S.Lt.
15.05.1902?
S.Lt.
04.05.1903, seniority 15.05.1902
Lt.
30.09.1904
Cdr.
30.06.1917 (retd 01.01.1923; own request)
Capt. (retd)
23.06.1927 (reverted to retd 1945/46)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1919
New Year 19
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1918
for services in cruisers employed on escort, convoy & patrol duties 17-18
(1914)


Commanding Officer, HMS Dalhousie
22.12.1941
-
(06.1944)
Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber & Commanding Officer, HM Naval Base, Immingham [HMS Beaver]
15.07.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Demetrius (RN Supply & Secretariat School, Wetherby, Yorks.)
Palmer,
Joseph Mansergh
J.M. Palmer
?
-
12.2002 still alive

Cadet
01.09.1929
Midsh.
01.05.1930
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1932
Lt.
01.04.1934
Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1942
Cdr.
31.12.1946 (retd 26.04.1962)
Mention in Despatches MID
20.06.1944
action with E-boats Nore area 24.02.44
12.09.1929
-
(04.1930)
HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
16.09.1930
-
(09.1932)
HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
28.12.1933
-
(01.1934)
HMS Witch (destroyer) (China)
03.04.1935
-
(02.1936)
HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
16.12.1936
-
(02.1937)
First Lieutenant, HMS Colne (fishery protection gunboat, trawler)
12.04.1937
-
(07.1937)
long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
02.09.1937
-
(02.1938)
HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
02.05.1938
-
(08.1939)
Navigation Officer, HMS Dundee (escort vessel)
16.05.1942
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Eglinton (destroyer)
04.04.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
10.03.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Zambesi (destroyer)
(05.1950)


no appointment listed
(1950)


Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
19.10.1951

-

(05.1953)
staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
01.03.1954
-
(01.1956)
staff, HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)
(07.1961)


HMS President *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Palmer,
Ralph Murch
R.M. Palmer
Married Olive Mary Wetmore.
1909
-
1983
Midsh. (E)
01.09.1928
S.Lt. (E)
01.01.1931
Lt. (E)
01.03.1933
Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.03.1941 (retd 04.04.1954)
A/Cdr. (E)
09.02.1944?

AMIMechE, MIMarE

13.09.1928
-
(01.1932)
course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
26.08.1932
-
(09.1932)
engineer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)
21.07.1933
-
(07.1935)
engineer, HMS Resolution (battleship)
(02.1936)


short course
1936


engineer, HMS Victory
17.04.1936
-
(04.1939)
engineer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
1939


engineer, HMS Drake
26.06.1939
-
(08.1939)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Mechanical Training Establishment)
12.09.1939
-
(02.1941)
Engineer Officer, HMS Harvester (destroyer)
10.1941
-
(12.1943)
Engineering Officer, HMS Uganda (cruiser)
09.02.1944
-
(04.1946)
Engineering Officer, HMS Ariadne (minelayer)
1946


HMS Tyne
1947


HMS Berryhead
25.08.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Howe
01.07.1950
-
(05.1953)
HMS Orion (for duty with SORF, Plymouth)
Pankhurst,
Richard Dickon Herbert Stephen
R.D.H.S. Pankhurst
?
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1929
S.Lt.
?, seniority 01.06.1929
Lt.
01.10.1931
Lt.Cdr.
01.10.1939 (retd 03.12.1952)
A/Cdr.
< 04.1946
Cdr. (retd)
03.12.1952
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
24.07.1945
interception enemy torpedo boats Mediterranean 17.03.45
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
?
action enemy torpedo boats Mediterranean 17.03.45
      ...
10.05.1936
-
(07.1937)
HMS Ajax (cruiser) (American and West Indies Station)
14.09.1937
-
(08.1938)
First Lieutenant, HMS Saltburn (minesweeper) (signal and navigation schools ship)
29.08.1938
-
(04.1940)
First Lieutenant, HMS Diana (destroyer)
10.1940
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Chelsea (destroyer)
07.10.1941
-
(02.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Fortune (destroyer)
29.04.1943
-
(12.1943)
staff, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(04.1944)


no appointment listed
04.05.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames)
20.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Meteor (destroyer)
12.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Sultan (for miscellaneous duties)
05.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)
Parham,
[Sir] Frederick Robertson
F.R. Parham
Son of late Frederick James Parham, CE, Bath, and Jessie Esther Brooks Parham (née Robertson), Cheltenham. Married 1st (1926) Kathleen Dobrée (1902-1973), daughter of Eugene Edward Carey, Guernsey; one son. Married 2nd (1978)
Mrs Joan Saunders (née Charig).
09.01.1901
Bath
-
20.03.1991
Chichester, Sussex
Cadet
1913
Midsh.
1917
A/S.Lt.
15.11.1918
Lt.
15.10.1920
Lt.Cdr.
15.10.1928
Cdr.
30.06.1934
Capt.
31.12.1939
R.Adm.
08.07.1949
V.Adm.
15.05.1952
Adm.
08.05.1956, seniority 29.02.1956 (retd 31.01.1959)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire GBE
01.01.1959
New Year 59
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
09.06.1949
HM's birthday 49
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
09.06.1955
HM's birthday 55
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1951
New Year 51
Distinguished Service Order DSO
05.01.1944
sinking of Scharnhorst
Mention in Despatches MID
28.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy, 06.44)
Grand Cross of Military Order of Aviz (Portugal), 1955; Order of Al Rafidain (Class II, Mil., conferred by the King of Iraq), 1956; Ordine al merito della Repubblica, Grande Ufficiale (Italy), 1958.
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth
17.01.1917
-
(01.1919)
Midshipman, HMS Malaya (battleship)
27.09.1923
-
(01.1925)
specialised in gunnery, HMS Excellent
17.01.1927
-
(07.1927)
2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship)
11.04.1928
-
(08.1929)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Canterbury (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.01.1930
-
(01.1932)
Experimental Department, Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] (and in command of trawler 'Excellent')
15.07.1932
-
(01.)1934
Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.04.1935
-
(02.1937)
Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.05.1937
-
(07.1937)
Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
10.01.1938
-
(02.1938)
tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
06.04.1938
-
(08.1938)
HMS Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
14.09.1938
-
1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Gurkha (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
01.03.1940
-
30.01.1941
Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
29.09.1942
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Belfast (cruiser) [& Chief Staff Officer, 10th Cruiser Squadron]
28.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
Director of Operations Division (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President]
?
-
(04.1946)
Director of Operations, Admiralty [HMS President]
29.03.1947
-
28.07.1949
Commanding Officer, HMS Vanguard
21.10.1949
-
1951
Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel and Director of Personal Services [HMS President]
1951
-
1952
Flag Officer (Flotillas) and 2nd in command, Mediterranean
(05.1953)


no appointment listed
1954
-
1955
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport
11.10.1955
-
1958