Packer,
[Sir] Herbert Annesley

Only son of W.H. Packer, MD, Cressage,
Shropshire.
Married (1925) Joy, daughter of late Dr Julius Petersen, Cape Town, South
Africa; one son.
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09.10.1894
Cressage, Shropshire
-
23.09.1962
[Claremont, Cape Province, S. Africa ?] |
Lt.
|
15.12.1916
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Lt.Cdr.
|
15.12.1923
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Cdr.
|
30.06.1929
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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)
|
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KCB
|
08.06.1950
|
HM's
birthday 50
|
|
CB
|
04.09.1945
|
services
esp. Italian campaign
|
|
CBE
|
23.01.1945
|
planning
amphibious operations Sicily & S France
|
 |
MID
|
18.01.1944
|
dissolution
Force H 11.43
|
|
LM
|
11.12.1945
|
services
Mediterranean 43-44
|
|
LegH
|
1947
|
S
France
|
|
CdeG
|
1947
|
S
France
|
|
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth
1907
|
|
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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
|
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)
|
|
CBE
|
01.01.1965
|
New
Year 65 [investiture 02.03.65]
|
 |
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

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
|
 |
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

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
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)
|
 |
KCB
|
01.01.1945
|
New
Year 45
|
|
CB
|
02.06.1943
|
HM's
birthday 43
|
 |
DSC
|
23.03.1917
|
?
|
 |
MID
|
02.02.1943
|
good
services in SW Pacific
|
|
OON
|
19.01.1943
|
services
to Dutch navy
|
|
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

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)
|
 |
OBE
|
01.01.1919
|
New
Year 19
|
 |
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
 |
?
-
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)
|
 |
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
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
|
?
-
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
|
 |
DSC
|
24.07.1945
|
interception
enemy torpedo boats Mediterranean 17.03.45
|
 |
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
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.
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08.07.1949
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V.Adm.
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15.05.1952
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Adm.
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08.05.1956, seniority 29.02.1956 (retd 31.01.1959)
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GBE
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01.01.1959
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New
Year 59
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CBE
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09.06.1949
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HM's
birthday 49
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KCB
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09.06.1955
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HM's
birthday 55
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CB
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01.01.1951
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New
Year 51
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DSO
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05.01.1944
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sinking
of Scharnhorst
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MID
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28.11.1944
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Operation
Neptune (Normandy, 06.44)
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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.
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Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth
17.01.1917
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-
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(01.1919)
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Midshipman, HMS
Malaya (battleship)
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27.09.1923
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-
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(01.1925)
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specialised
in gunnery, HMS Excellent
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17.01.1927
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-
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(07.1927)
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2nd
Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship)
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11.04.1928
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-
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(08.1929)
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Gunnery
Officer, HMS Canterbury (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
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04.01.1930
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-
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(01.1932)
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Experimental
Department, Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] (and in command of
trawler 'Excellent')
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15.07.1932
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-
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(01.)1934
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Gunnery
Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
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01.04.1935
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-
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(02.1937)
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Training
and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
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04.05.1937
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-
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(07.1937)
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Commanding Officer,
HMS Shikari
(destroyer) (Home Fleet)
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10.01.1938
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-
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(02.1938)
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tactical
course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
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06.04.1938
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-
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(08.1938)
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HMS
Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
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14.09.1938
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-
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1940
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Commanding Officer,
HMS Gurkha
(destroyer) (Mediterranean)
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01.03.1940
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-
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30.01.1941
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Assistant
Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
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30.01.1941
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-
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(02.1941)
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Deputy
Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
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(08.1942)
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no
appointment listed
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29.09.1942
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-
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(06.)1944
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Commanding Officer,
HMS Belfast (cruiser)
[& Chief Staff Officer, 10th Cruiser Squadron]
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28.08.1944
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-
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(07.1945)
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Director of
Operations Division (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President]
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?
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-
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(04.1946)
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Director of
Operations, Admiralty [HMS President]
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29.03.1947
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-
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28.07.1949
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Commanding Officer,
HMS Vanguard
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21.10.1949
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-
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1951
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Deputy
Chief of Naval Personnel and Director of Personal Services [HMS President]
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1951
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-
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1952
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Flag
Officer (Flotillas) and 2nd in command, Mediterranean
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(05.1953)
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no
appointment listed
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1954
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-
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1955
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a
Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and
Transport
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11.10.1955
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-
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1958
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